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March 10, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
31:49
March 10, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #3
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All right, so Hillary was supposed to make her Claire Underwood speech in the United Nations at 1.30.
And instead, and it's an audience of women, it's a speech about women, two women, four women, by women, straight, gay, by trends, whatever.
And then after that, she's going to do the email press conference.
Now, keep in mind, the UN requires 24-hour notice to get credentialed for a press conference of the UN.
So American reporters theoretically could not be there.
Only the UN beat should be able to be here.
They're asking her questions.
Now, the UN may make an adjustment in that.
I don't know.
I really have no idea about that.
But I do know that the requirement normally to get a credential for any press event at the UN is 24 hours advanced, so they can scope you out.
So Mrs. Clinton, she didn't miss a beat here.
She knows she's going to be at the UN making this speech to women.
You know what?
I'll go ahead.
I'll answer email questions, knowing full well that nobody not covering the UN already can't get in there.
And it's going to depend on how many of these beat reporters with the UN as their assignment are up to speed on the emails in terms of the questions.
I wonder if it's too late for her to slip and have a concussion during this speech that she's making here.
Well, you know, anything can happen.
Now, see, I have just been asked over the IFB by a staff member if it looks like she's had a facelift.
On Fox, yes.
They're using soft focus.
They're treating her politely.
On CNN, no way, babe.
It's incredible.
You've got two entirely different, I mean, same camera, but Fox is using a soft focus like they, like, like, well, I don't want to mention it, aging female infobabes require.
And CNN was bare bones, literally and figuratively.
And it looked like it's, I mean, CNN, she looked 20 years older than she does on Fox.
Go figure.
But anyway, the point was this was all supposed to start at 1.30 and then the press conference regarding emails at 2 o'clock.
And it looks like she moved back the UN speech to 2 o'clock.
So the email press conference will be at 2.30 if all of that plays out.
Now the Apple Watch, this is fast.
Folks, this is literally fascinating.
I'm not talking about the watch.
I don't know anything about the watch.
I don't know any more than anybody else does.
But I am stunned at the way they're marketing this.
Now, they're marketing it in many ways, but a particular way that has taken one of the leads in this absolutely baffles me.
And you know what it is?
You can keep your iPhone in your pocket.
Or you will not have to use your iPhone nearly as much.
Or you won't have to constantly be pulling your iPhone out of your bag or your pocket every time you get an alert or a notification or a message or an email.
And this dumbfounds me.
I love my iPhone.
I do not mind looking at it.
I love looking at it.
I love the iPhone so much I have three of them so that I have one in every color.
And I bought two 4.7 inches and a 5.5 inch because 4 inches were too small.
And now they're telling me, hey, get this one and a half inch watch because you'll never have to use your iPhone as much.
I want to use my iPhone.
The iPhone is being presented as an annoyance.
Whoever thought of this?
The iPhone is their number one selling product.
The product that accounts for over half of their revenue is being positioned as an annoyance, as a hassle, and the watch is the answer.
Yeah, if you get a notification, just look on your watch, not to pull the phone out.
If you get a phone call, just look on the watch, decide whether you want to answer it, don't have to pull the phone out.
I get an email, want to read it, fine.
Just check the watch, don't have to pull out non-email.
You have to get the phone out.
You can't reply to an email on the watch.
You can send a message or a text.
No, not a text, not without the phone.
It's not cellular.
So you can send an iMessage with it and receive, but you can't do an actual SMS text without the phone.
Anyway, I'm just, I'm blown away by that.
My phone's not an annoyance to me.
What is an annoyance is when I go places and they tell me I can't bring the phone in.
Yep, see, Rush, that's what we're talking about.
You take your watch in.
They can't stop you.
Like a lot of golf courses do not permit cell phones because they don't want people constantly slow down play, being on the phone all the time and checking it or ringing and so forth.
They don't allow them.
But it's going to be tough for them to ban the watch.
But you can get it.
I can see places where the watch would have an advantage.
I'm not opposed to the watch.
Don't misunderstand.
I'm not craving one, but I'm not opposed to it.
I just, from a marketing standpoint, I do not understand consciously portraying the iPhone as an annoyance or as a problem or as a hassle or as an obstacle, which is what they're doing right here.
One of the big, and this is being highlighted by all the blogs, you can keep your iPhone in your pocket.
Selling point.
Sorry.
I don't want to be required to see everything on a freaking little inch and a half screen.
Three of them.
You still can't put them together.
You just get three different things on them.
I don't know.
I'm just, I'm sure somebody hit.
No, no, that's a double.
Don't go there yet.
There's no diamonds on it.
You have to do that yourself.
Now that text me, that's a whole nother aspect of the watch.
This has been fun to watch the tech bloggers lose their cookies over the most expensive watch.
This has been, you wait to hear this.
Apple's watch has the, no matter which one you buy, has the same innards.
It is the same watch.
Every Apple watch, no matter what it costs, does the same thing every other watch does.
If you spend $1,000 on your watch instead of $400,000, doesn't matter.
The watch at $400 does the same thing the $17,000 watch does.
There's no difference.
Get this.
There are now people saying, there are now people saying that Apple is doing more for income inequality than anybody in government.
Precisely because the people, the most expensive Apple watch with the watch in the band is $17,000.
No diamonds on it.
You have to do that after the fact if you want to.
And by the way, you can't take the chip out and put a new one in.
After a year, that watch, whenever the new watch comes out, the one you spend 17 grand on is obsolete.
And you can't upgrade it.
You've got to go out and buy a brand new $17,000 watch if you want to stay current with it.
Not kidding.
They've done some masterful technology advancement in this thing.
The whole system is on one chip.
They're calling it an SIP system in a package.
But you can't take it out and replace it with a new one.
Understandably, they want to turn watches over.
And every year there's a new iPhone, and we figure every year, year and a half, there's going to be a new watch because the tech is constantly advancing.
You know that the first version of the watch is going to be outclassed to the second and third iterations.
But the funny thing about the most expensive one, these bloggers are saying, yeah, yeah, the rich, those rich guys, and they're written about with venom, by the way.
Those rich guys, they're going to go out and they're going to spend $17,000 on their watch, and it's no better than yours.
It's no better than yours.
And this is why there's a guy Writes at Reason, which is a libertarian publication, that thinks this represents Apple doing more for income inequality than any politician is.
Because the rich guy, his watch isn't any better than yours.
It's just more expensive, but he's not getting any more for it.
All it is is gold.
While yours is aluminum, as Johnny Ives says, he can't say aluminum.
He says aluminum or aluminium.
So you've got aluminum, you have steel, stainless steel, polished steel, and you have gold and rose gold.
You know, Apple even invented a new gold.
Yeah, because gold, no, no, rose, gold, different shade, like rose champagne.
It's like a little red in there, not just the straight gold.
Just a different shade, different color.
What they've done, they found a way to make the gold harder so it doesn't scratch, patented, and so forth.
And they'll end up using less gold.
So they won't deplete the world's gold supply.
You could call Apple Goldfinger here because they were going to deplete the world's gold supply, making that watch for the 1%.
But anyway, all these people are writing about how, yeah, the rich guy, he may go out and blow 17 grand in his watch, but it's no better than yours.
So the rich guy isn't any better than you.
And this is Apple equalizing things.
Now, the rich guy, the people that can drop 17 grand on a watch will probably drop 17 grand next year, too.
Another way the watch is being marketed is this is fascinating to me.
The watch with the various different price ranges is being marketed as, since it's no different, I mean, the cheapest watch is the same damn thing the most expensive is.
They're saying that the watch will be purchased based on how it makes you feel about yourself.
So if you want to show off, if you want to show people how much money you have, if you want to show people that you're better and different than them, if you want to show people money doesn't matter to you because you have so much of it, then you'll buy the gold.
And so people that read these blogs are being told that people that buy the gold watch are just a bunch of phonies and show-offs.
And that the real people are going to be buying the aluminum or the stainless steel.
But I'm just, I've just, the reaction to this is Over the top for me, particularly in a marketing fashion, the idea of obsoleting the phone and now the idea that Apple is addressing income inequality by making sure that the people who spend the most money are not getting anything that's any better than anybody else.
And they're playing off of this.
They're playing off class envy.
They're playing up.
Well, Apple may not be, but some of the analysts think Apple is, and they're writing that Apple is, and they're applauding Apple.
Some of them are very mad.
Some of my little tech blogger buddies are very mad that Apple is selling something that costs $10,000 because that's not what Jobs set up.
Jobs set up democracy company.
Jobs built a company that whatever they made was for everybody.
And now they're selling something that's not for everybody, but it is because it's no different.
The tech in the cheapest and the most expensive is identical.
So now it's going to come down to somebody going to buy a $17,000 watch just because it's gold just to show off.
Are they going to do it because they really like the design of it?
But they're covering all the bases.
That's fine.
I can understand that.
I mean, you're going to get into the watch business and you want to take them on.
You've got to sell something in that range.
You've got to have something.
You've got to sell one in gold and it costs what it costs.
But the idea that the phone is now an annoyance, that I'm not sure they want to go there, but it's too late.
They already have.
Jonathan Carl, ABC News, just recently tweeted that Clinton still hasn't told us where in the UN complex her press conference is taking place.
I don't know how old the tweet is, but it's fairly recent.
Now, the UN closes for lunch.
The UN press office closes for lunch at 1 o'clock.
They take an hour.
So the Hillary couldn't do it at 1:30.
So she's doing her speech now.
Everybody's lined up waiting.
I mean, there's a camera trained on a microphone and podium, so somebody knows where it is.
But Jonathan Carl, ABC, tweeted that he still hasn't been told where in the whole UN complex her press conference is going to be.
The watch does have a microphone.
The watch has Siri.
You can't type on it.
You have to use dictation.
You can answer phone calls on it.
It's a Dick Tracy watch.
You can make phone calls on it.
But they urge you, if it's going to be a long phone call, get it and hand it off to your iPhone so as not to deplete the watch battery.
But wait a minute, what happened to you don't have to take the watch out of your pocket or the iPhone out of your pocket?
See, this is what I mean.
It's so great, you'll never have to use your iPhone again.
What?
I love my iPhone.
I would rather use the iPhone.
I want that big, beautiful screen.
Well, you won't have to use it anymore, except if you get a phone call that's going to last a while.
You do need to hand it off to the phone because you won't want to eat up your watch batteries.
It's got a microphone.
It's got a speaker.
You can listen to music on it.
You're going to have room for about 100 songs on there.
Maybe 200 songs.
And it'll have Bluetooth.
If you want to put on a Bluetooth headset, you can listen to it.
But you won't have to pull your iPhone out for that.
And it has room, it's got eight gigabytes of storage, but they're limiting to what how much you can use for music and how much you can use for photos.
The maximum number of photos will be 100.
Now, if a four-inch iPhone screen was too small and they had to build bigger, who in the hell wants to look at a picture on a one and a half-inch screen?
I don't know.
I mean, unless you're just showing it to somebody.
There's a lot of the marketing here to this guy.
And I know they're trying to sell the thing.
And you have to have an iPhone to make it work right.
So it's a sales technique as well.
I understand all that.
Breaking news, ladies and gentlemen.
Faced with strong opposition in both houses of Congress, the ATF has decided not to issue a ban on the AR-15 ammunition.
The ban on AR-15 bullets has been withdrawn.
The ATF's decided not to issue a ban on the AR-15 because of opposition in both houses of Congress, both houses of Congress, my foot, the opposition from all over this country is what led to that.
By the way, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives press release saying that they will not seek a ban on the AR-15 says at this time.
They received more than 80,000 comments on their proposal, the vast majority of which were negative.
Now, at this time is what's crucial.
They will do it next time without any announcement.
Or if they do it when they announcement, it'll be when other things are going on at the same time, and their announcement will be dwarfed so that you don't know about it.
The left never gives up, folks.
They're going to ban the AR-15 one way or the other.
And if it takes doing it while you're unaware, then so be it.
Here's Billy in Indianapolis.
Hey, Billy, I'm glad you called.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Yeah, thanks, Rush.
I love the eye watch and the idea of it.
And for this reason, I was telling Snerdley, I have to buy my wife a new iPhone about every year, sometimes twice a year, because she leaves them places, leaves them in cabs.
We'll go out.
She'll be trying to pull it out while she's doing something else and drop it and break it.
So I'd a lot rather have her leave it in her pocket.
You got to be kidding me.
I wish I was.
You are making this up.
No, sir.
The last one broke because it fell off the bedstand and landed on top of the humidifier in the bedroom.
Okay.
All right, all right.
So your thinking is the fewer times she needs to actually touch the iPhone, the better off you will be not having to replace it.
Absolutely.
Well, just I mean, that's how I see it.
I'll go pay $300 to have one that she doesn't have to pull out and leave.
All right.
All right.
Well, you're going to be paying minimum by the time you get a ban, you'll be paying probably $370.
Perfect.
I'm saving $700 a year.
Plus, I'm sure they're going to have some app to make it a, where you can change the face.
So if she wants a Rolex one day, she can have one.
Well, it has nine different faces, and it's unknown whether you can add more.
But it's not got a Rolex.
They can't infringe on others.
There's a Mickey Mouse face.
There's digital faces.
There are different hands, different faces, sweet pants.
But wait, before we get sidetracked on that, you do understand that for this first version of the watch, you're going to need the iPhone for it to work.
Absolutely.
Well, it stays in the phone or in her purse long enough that it doesn't have to get pulled out.
That means it's not going to be left in cabs and it won't be left on the table anywhere.
All right.
Let's talk about how many times actually has she left the phone in a cab about in the last three years.
That's happened once in New Jersey and once in Indianapolis.
So yeah, 26% of the time.
What do you do?
I mean, you've got a phone out there.
Does she have it password protected?
Yeah, we well, and we started doing that insurance, but by the time you pay $10 a month, and then they still charge you $200 for the new phone, I'm still paying close to $500 each time I'm going to do it.
No, my question is, you've got a phone with all that information.
How do you do you know how to wipe the data from that phone so that it's useless to a thief?
No, I don't.
Well, you need to investigate, find my iPhone.
You turn it on in the iCloud system settings of the phone, and you've got to make sure location services are on.
And then if that phone is stolen or left in a cab, you go to your computer and you log into findmy iPhone at iCloud.com and you wipe it.
You can erase it so that nobody can get to the data on it.
This should be the first thing that you do.
You can also send a message so that when somebody turns the phone on, it'll say, hi, you got my phone.
I'm such and such.
Here's my number.
Please return it.
You can do that with Find My iPhone.
Well, I got a Sliflock account to try to help with that.
So yeah, I'll do that on this next one that I just got.
Well, that'll help if somebody actually tries to engage in the use of fraud, but this will help you wipe it, just erase everything so that it's useless.
Because if you're losing this many iPhones, do you realize how many potential hacks of all of her information being created?
Oh, yeah.
No, that's bad news.
And I drive, I'm in outside sales.
So for me, it'd be a hands-free device that I'd actually be able to take calls while I'm driving.
And depending on what state I'm in, I'll be in compliance with no phone laws.
Well, you'll be able to dick tracy it.
I mean, it will do that.
If your phone's your body.
It does not have the guts inside to take a phone.
Your iPhone has to receive the phone.
The phone hands it off to the watch.
And then you answer it on the watch if you want to.
And if you're going to be on it a long time, you have to hand it off, pick it up back on the iPhone, so you save your watch battery.
So for $400, I think it's a bargain.
Yeah, but she's still going to have the iPhone with her.
But it stays in the purse, Rush.
And she never leaves her purse in the cab.
She never leaves the purse.
She never drops the purse on the floor or anything.
Nope, because that's what people do.
You get in the cab and you want to see if people are calling.
So you leave your iPhone on your lap.
So if it lights up, you know, you're getting a call.
And while you're driving around, it'll slide off and then you're laughing or whatever.
And then it gets left in the cab.
This happens all the time.
Wow.
Okay.
Well, if this will save you some money, look, I'm not trying to talk anybody out.
Don't misunderstand this now.
I'm not trying to talk anybody out.
I'm just, I'm a student of things, and I'm just, quite frankly, a little curious that they're selling the watch by telling people the phone is an annoyance in many cases, and you don't need to pull it out of your pocket anymore with our watch.
I realize that the watch doesn't replace the phone, so it's not, it's an accessory to the phone.
And it you think I'm going to have one?
I don't know that I'm going to have one.
I got to thinking, when is the only time I would use the watch?
My phone, maybe on the golf course, but definitely on the golf course.
Definitely on the golf course.
What, once a week that I might use it then?
Snardley's telling me I've got to be the first with the $17,000 version of the thing.
No, what I want to be the first is the $17,000 who throws it away to get the second one.
Which you're going to have to do.
Okay.
Please don't anybody misunderstand me.
I'm not urging people.
Buy what you want.
You know me.
I'm not the guy that tells you you shouldn't have that or this and you shouldn't say this or that and you shouldn't want this.
That's not me.
You want this thing?
Go for it.
No.
I don't have, I'm not, no.
They asked me if I had a beta version to watch.
No, no, no, no.
I don't rate like that with Apple.
But I'm not clamoring for one.
I think by the time they get to the fourth or fifth version of this thing, it's going to be smoking.
I think when this is no longer an accessory, when it's self-contained, that's going to take a lot more tech development.
But this thing at some point, I think, is going to be must-have, can't do without, kick, butt.
Yeah, well, it's a treadmill.
You know, last time I was on a treadmill, I'd have to go to a calendar and count years.
But yeah, if you do use a treadmill, that's fine.
Yeah, you could listen to music while you're working out.
See, none of this applies to me.
Here's Sonny in Macon, Georgia.
Hey, Sonny, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
Rush, I was watching Saturday Night Live the other night, and the opening skit was pretty amazing.
It was Kate McKinnon, and she was portraying.
You know, I got a note about this from a guy.
Tell me if this is right.
I got a note.
A guy said that this woman on SNL who did the Hillary thing just destroyed her.
Yes, she did.
And she did a great job portraying her, but I had to call my wife into the living room to replay it.
And then I told her what we had just seen.
A lot of times when you're watching Saturday Night Live, the low-information audience will embrace or applaud whatever the subject matter is.
A lot of times, political subject.
There were crickets in the room when this woman portraying Hillary was saying that she was going to run for, you know, trying to say she wanted to run for president.
Right.
And no reaction from the audience whatsoever.
None.
Well, I think it's probably because of the content of the skit.
What I heard about this was that this comedian just destroyed Hillary the way Republicans.
Well, people laugh.
People laugh.
They were laughing.
But I really think that might have been an indication of people's appetite for Hillary.
Yeah, well, I wouldn't be surprised if that's one of the reasons she's out there.
Look, we may lament this.
It may be sad commentary on our culture.
But what happens on comedy shows has profound political impact.
A Saturday Night Light skit, Saturday Night Live scene.
Look what they did to Gerald Ford.
Gerald Ford was actually a good athlete.
Chevy Chase made him the biggest bumbling idiot on earth.
And that's what people ended up thinking of him.
And they've done that to any number of people, but mostly they do it to Republicans.
They destroyed Sarah Palin.
Look at Sarah Palin, this email.
Sarah Palin released every email that she ever wrote or received when she was governor of Alaska.
And the media went through it, and they found that there wasn't anything in there but dull, mundane, day-after-day state business.
There was nothing exciting.
There was no scandal.
There was no bribery.
There was nothing.
It's exactly what you would expect to find from a government official's email.
It's not what Hillary's is going to be.
And yet, Tina Faye, how many of you think that Sarah Palin said, oh, yeah, I'm qualified for foreign policy because I can see Russia from my front yard or whatever.
Sarah Palin never said it.
Tina Faye, portraying Sarah Palin, said, now everybody thinks Sarah Palin said it.
And Hillary got that kind of treatment Saturday Night Live.
Unprecedented.
And you're the second guy that has mentioned this to me.
Ladies and gentlemen, before we go to the break here, I meant to mention this last Thursday or Friday, but I didn't get a chance.
And I want to do it before too much time goes on.
One of Catherine's closest and dearest friends passed away last week from cancer.
She was barely 50 years old.
Her name was Diana DiPetro.
And there are a lot of people out there in this audience, a lot of people facing cancer, facing various kinds of illnesses, or family members or friends are.
And the pain that families and loved ones go through during the treatment of this disease and the aftermath of the treatment reminds us of the importance of each day and to try to get the most out of it.
It's a very hard thing to do because nobody thinks in terms of their mortality, particularly when they're not sick.
And so it's not an active thing to go through each day making it, I'm going to make the most of this because I don't know if I'm going to have tomorrow.
But you do do that.
And family and friends do do that when you contract one of these fatal or could be fatal illnesses.
And Diana was diagnosed and she did not get anywhere near what the diagnosed longevity was going to be.
And it was just, it was really tragic.
So many members of her family and friends were just devastated by it.
And Catherine was as well.
Diana was one of her closest friends.
And I know that there are people going through the same thing in hospitals right now or at home.
And if that's you and if you're in that circumstance, I want you to know everybody here has got you in their thoughts and prayers because it's just devastating.
It's a horrible, unfair, inexplicable thing.
It happened to Vince Flynn.
He was barely in his 50s.
Just came up out of, prostate cancer came up out of nowhere.
So if you know anybody in this circumstance, reach out to them and tell them you love them and make up for as much lost time as you can because you just never know.
And it's such a final, devastating thing when it happens.
And everybody in Diana's family is just wrecked here because they loved her so much and it was so rapid, much more rapid than anybody hoped for or thought.
And it just reminded me that there kept countless other people in this audience going through the same thing.
And it's well worth the time to get the most out of it that you can when this kind of thing strikes.
I've got to take a quick time out a little long.
Don't mean to end this abruptly, but I have to be right back after this.
It has.
It's been a tough four months at our house.
At Kit, HR, passed away, cancer, lymphoma, Diana DiPetro, Catherine's closest friend, young people.
You got to get the most out of every day, folks.
You just have to.
I knew Hillary wasn't going to do this email press conference before this program ended.
I just knew it.
Now it's going to start right after we finish here, which is now.
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