1 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:08,520 Speaker 1: Hey, Welcome to a new year, a new edition of 2 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:10,639 Speaker 1: After Hours with producer Ali. 3 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:12,319 Speaker 2: Happy new year on producer Greg. 4 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 1: How are you a good How was your holiday? 5 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:16,239 Speaker 2: I had a great time, Thank you? 6 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:16,800 Speaker 3: How about you? 7 00:00:17,079 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 1: I had a good time as well. And Clay and 8 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:22,960 Speaker 1: Buck got my gifts that I wrapped with eight layers 9 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:26,239 Speaker 1: of wrapping paper, so they opened them like Russian dolls. 10 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:30,040 Speaker 2: Really, what we're using Christmas paper, we're using birthday paper. 11 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:31,640 Speaker 2: We're using just brown paper. 12 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:34,360 Speaker 1: I stuck to the Christmas wrapping paper themed? 13 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:35,040 Speaker 3: Okay, oh? 14 00:00:35,159 --> 00:00:39,400 Speaker 2: Themed? Oh impressive? Did Buck say anything about it? Because 15 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:40,519 Speaker 2: I know he's you. 16 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:42,760 Speaker 1: Know, he said it took ten minutes to open his gift. 17 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:44,560 Speaker 3: Really good for you? 18 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:47,599 Speaker 2: Now was it just wrapping paper or is it like 19 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:49,000 Speaker 2: nesting doll boxes? 20 00:00:49,040 --> 00:00:51,960 Speaker 1: And no, no, just wrapping paper because I really wanted 21 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:54,840 Speaker 1: to lean into the wrapping paper. After he dissed it, yes, 22 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:56,680 Speaker 1: for those of you who have no idea what we're 23 00:00:56,680 --> 00:00:59,720 Speaker 1: talking about, Buck went on a whole thing about how 24 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:04,080 Speaker 1: he does not like wrapping paper, much to my chagrin, 25 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:07,120 Speaker 1: since I love wrapping paper and I love wrapping presents 26 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:07,840 Speaker 1: and giving them. 27 00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:08,880 Speaker 2: Was it so much? 28 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:09,160 Speaker 3: Okay? 29 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:11,200 Speaker 2: Now I'm gonna step up for bulk here just a minute. Here, 30 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:13,640 Speaker 2: was it so much that he doesn't like wrapping paper 31 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:17,759 Speaker 2: or he just doesn't really see the need Now Carry's 32 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:20,200 Speaker 2: born on Christmas Day, Christmas. 33 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:21,839 Speaker 1: Even No, he was born on December twenty eighth. 34 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:25,399 Speaker 2: Carrie birthday is Christmas Day, so he doesn't see the 35 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:28,480 Speaker 2: need of having to have individual gifts, one for birthday, 36 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:30,800 Speaker 2: one for Christmas and then wrapped in separate paper. He 37 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:33,760 Speaker 2: just didn't get it. Yes, so it was less. It 38 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:36,240 Speaker 2: was more about that than it was about just not 39 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:37,279 Speaker 2: liking wrapping paper. 40 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 1: No, he didn't like wrapping paper either. He threw wrapping 41 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:41,800 Speaker 1: paper under the bus and I had to I had 42 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:42,880 Speaker 1: to step in in defense. 43 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:46,080 Speaker 2: Big wrapping paper had to come out birap. Yeah, gotcha. 44 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:49,840 Speaker 1: But anyway, if you can hear our voices, both Greg 45 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:51,919 Speaker 1: and I have a bit of a cult. 46 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:53,120 Speaker 2: Oh, it's January. 47 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:55,640 Speaker 1: It's January. We're dropping like flies over here. 48 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:59,120 Speaker 2: You know, on the end of the holidays January there's 49 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:02,440 Speaker 2: a transition. People are up late, partying and doing things, 50 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:04,440 Speaker 2: and especially with I don't know if you did anything 51 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:07,200 Speaker 2: major on New York, but people do get ten to 52 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:07,800 Speaker 2: get sick. 53 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:10,240 Speaker 1: And Greg I was in bed by ten pm on 54 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:10,919 Speaker 1: New Year's Eve. 55 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:12,920 Speaker 2: I was in bed, definitely. 56 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:13,760 Speaker 1: And that's a late night for me. 57 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:15,880 Speaker 2: By the way, Yes, I was definitely in bed at 58 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:18,600 Speaker 2: midnight on New Year's Eve. I watched I was awake, 59 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:20,960 Speaker 2: I watched the clock turn, but I was well. 60 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 1: We wanted to hop on and get right to it 61 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:27,480 Speaker 1: because over the holiday, Greg and I are from the 62 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:29,960 Speaker 1: great state of New York and I actually live in 63 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:35,560 Speaker 1: the city of Manhattan. And Zorah, Mom, Donnie, that speech 64 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:39,720 Speaker 1: and the SoundBite that was heard around the world. 65 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:43,040 Speaker 4: We will draw this city closer together. We will replace 66 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:47,399 Speaker 4: the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism. 67 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:52,280 Speaker 4: If our campaign demonstrated that the people of New York 68 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:56,520 Speaker 4: yearn for solidarity, then let this government foster it. Because 69 00:02:56,560 --> 00:03:00,600 Speaker 4: no matter what you eat, how you pray, or where 70 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:03,920 Speaker 4: you come from, the words that most define us are 71 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 4: the two we all share. New Yorkers, all. 72 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:10,399 Speaker 1: Of you at home, especially those of you who used 73 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 1: to listen to Rush. Right away jumped right out at 74 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:18,960 Speaker 1: me when he said that line about rugged individualism versus collectivism. 75 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:23,720 Speaker 2: Oh, the warmth of collectivism, the cold the rugged individualism. 76 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:27,720 Speaker 2: I just it was just my jaw hit the phone. 77 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:29,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, and Buck actually sent us that clip. He's like, 78 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:31,600 Speaker 1: we are hitting this right when we get back in 79 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 1: the new year. And it reminded me of so many 80 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:36,880 Speaker 1: things that Rush used to say, in particular when he 81 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:40,000 Speaker 1: wrote his Rush Revere books. The very first book, his 82 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:44,280 Speaker 1: whole introduction was all about what makes this country stand 83 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:48,080 Speaker 1: apart from every nation in the world one word freedom. 84 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:50,640 Speaker 1: Something else Rush used to always say is what is 85 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 1: the number one minority group in the entire world? And 86 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:56,839 Speaker 1: used to stump people because they'd be like, number one 87 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:59,880 Speaker 1: minority group and they'd be thinking, thinking, and he said, 88 00:03:59,880 --> 00:04:01,880 Speaker 1: it is the individual. 89 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:05,240 Speaker 2: The individual, right exactly. And that's what you're always faced 90 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 2: in this country. The pressure, the push me pull you 91 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:15,640 Speaker 2: between the people who want to have everybody represented by 92 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:18,479 Speaker 2: one thing or one group or whatever, and then the 93 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:21,480 Speaker 2: people who are like, no, I'm myself. I'm going to 94 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 2: do my own thing. And it's really funny too, because 95 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:27,440 Speaker 2: on the one hand, you're very creative types that are 96 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:33,880 Speaker 2: in Hollywood. They're very in particular about their individuality and individualism. 97 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:36,479 Speaker 2: And I have the self expression and don't make me 98 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:38,400 Speaker 2: like the herd, and I don't want to look and 99 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:41,839 Speaker 2: be and yet at the same time when it comes 100 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:47,040 Speaker 2: to say property rights, then all of a sudden they 101 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:54,080 Speaker 2: become less individualistic and much more collective. And I'm fascinated 102 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:56,960 Speaker 2: by that dichotomy. Personally, I don't understand it. 103 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,040 Speaker 1: If you listen to our After Hours that we did 104 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:03,200 Speaker 1: right before thanks Giving, producer Greg and I replayed Rush 105 00:05:03,279 --> 00:05:06,800 Speaker 1: talking about the first Thanksgiving and William Bradford learned this 106 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 1: the hard way, the whole collectivism and why that doesn't 107 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:14,520 Speaker 1: work and it's really just another word for socialism or communism, 108 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:15,640 Speaker 1: communism exactly. 109 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:17,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, we wanted. 110 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:20,360 Speaker 1: To go back into the archives, the Rush archives, because 111 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:23,200 Speaker 1: we know if he were with us today, he would 112 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:26,960 Speaker 1: have been firing on all cylinders after that speech. Actually, 113 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:29,360 Speaker 1: one of our guest hosts, Brian Mudd, I was talking 114 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:32,200 Speaker 1: to him about that, and I gave him a SoundBite 115 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:36,080 Speaker 1: of Rush talking about individualism went all the way back 116 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:39,719 Speaker 1: to two thousand and seven May of two thousand and seven, 117 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:42,480 Speaker 1: and he only played forty seconds of it for the show. 118 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:44,960 Speaker 1: But Greg and I thought we would bring you the whole, 119 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:46,360 Speaker 1: the whole shebang. 120 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:49,240 Speaker 2: It's worth it because if you sit there and listen 121 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:52,120 Speaker 2: and it's just first of all, cheering Rush again and 122 00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:55,800 Speaker 2: that's awesome. But then you get to hear the wisdom 123 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:59,760 Speaker 2: about the difference between collectivism and versus individualism. 124 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:03,080 Speaker 1: Yes, why And the title of that segment that Rush 125 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:05,719 Speaker 1: did that day on May thirty first, two thousand and seven, 126 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:11,400 Speaker 1: was freedom and optimism, not collectivism, made America great. 127 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:14,400 Speaker 2: He wasn't wrong. Why don't we listen to it? 128 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:17,360 Speaker 3: Most people never blame themselves for their own shortcomings or problems. 129 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:21,200 Speaker 3: It's always somebody else's fault. It's always some other anentities problem. 130 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:26,360 Speaker 3: It's the neighbor's fault, that's the whoever. Most people, very rarely, 131 00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:30,920 Speaker 3: when trying to assess their problems, start with themselves. They're 132 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:34,839 Speaker 3: not honest about it. And so it's it's Bush's fault 133 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:37,640 Speaker 3: that I'm miserable, or it's Limbaw's fault, it's conservatives wry. 134 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:39,920 Speaker 3: Whatever they come up with, it's inand but they come 135 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:44,560 Speaker 3: up with these things. Some of them have forgotten what 136 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:48,239 Speaker 3: built this country, what allows this country to lead the world. 137 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:51,720 Speaker 3: Some of them know and resent that we lead the world. 138 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:55,280 Speaker 3: They resent how the country was built because it's led 139 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:58,600 Speaker 3: to their misery. They don't think that they're factors. They 140 00:06:58,640 --> 00:07:02,000 Speaker 3: don't think they're that important. They think that, you know, 141 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:05,360 Speaker 3: life's an excrement sandwich and some days all day gets 142 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:08,160 Speaker 3: mayonnaise on it. So they're out there and they say 143 00:07:08,200 --> 00:07:11,559 Speaker 3: they want everybody else to be miserable. We are all 144 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:16,280 Speaker 3: in this together. How else can somebody entertain the thought 145 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:21,280 Speaker 3: that we all ought to be miserable if they have 146 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:23,680 Speaker 3: forgotten or if they have never been taught what it 147 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:28,920 Speaker 3: was that built the country. We've got growing wages across 148 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:33,800 Speaker 3: the board despite this illegal immigration stuff that's going on, prosperity, GDP, 149 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:37,280 Speaker 3: stock market, whatever measure. I know the first quarter growth 150 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:41,000 Speaker 3: rate of the economy was. It was stagnant, and you 151 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:46,240 Speaker 3: have spikes like that. But my gosh, folks, this my 152 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:49,200 Speaker 3: parents would not anymore understand my life. You know what 153 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:51,320 Speaker 3: my dad, my dad was. When I got out of 154 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:55,000 Speaker 3: radio when I was twenty nine, I figured that was 155 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:57,280 Speaker 3: about the fifth time i'd been fires. Well, if I 156 00:07:57,320 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 3: haven't made it playing top forty records when I'm twenty 157 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:02,120 Speaker 3: eight or twenty and I better get out of it 158 00:08:02,160 --> 00:08:04,560 Speaker 3: because it's, you know, it's a teenage market. So I 159 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:07,760 Speaker 3: went to work for the UH I got when I 160 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:09,720 Speaker 3: lost my last radio job was making I think something 161 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:12,560 Speaker 3: twenty two or twenty three thousand dollars a year. I 162 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:14,560 Speaker 3: was out of work for three months. I decided what 163 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:16,880 Speaker 3: I wanted to do, and I was. I was in 164 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 3: Kansas City and I like living there. So a friend 165 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:21,360 Speaker 3: of mine, the Kansiti Royal, said, why don't I, Why 166 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:24,240 Speaker 3: don't come work for us? We need a group sales directors. Okay, 167 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:27,640 Speaker 3: twelve thousand dollars a year to start at age twenty nine, 168 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:30,760 Speaker 3: called my dad. My dad could not have been happier, 169 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 3: God bless him. He thought radio was a waste of time. 170 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:37,000 Speaker 3: He never forced me out of it because I had 171 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:39,680 Speaker 3: quit everything else prior to that. I was a boy scout. 172 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:41,439 Speaker 3: I was a tenderfoot for a year, and the boys 173 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:43,440 Speaker 3: got all you gotta do is joined to be a tenderfoot. 174 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:45,840 Speaker 3: I got nothing done my first camp out. I got 175 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:48,040 Speaker 3: the Gold Brick Award because I was just a bump 176 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:50,920 Speaker 3: on a log. Didn't do Diddley Squad. I quit everything 177 00:08:51,160 --> 00:08:55,920 Speaker 3: except baseball, Little League, in minor league baseball. But that 178 00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:59,520 Speaker 3: that that was just vo advocational stuff. Uh So he 179 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:02,440 Speaker 3: never pulled me out of radio. But they were constantly worried, 180 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:04,880 Speaker 3: where is playing Donnie Osmond Records going to lead our 181 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:09,160 Speaker 3: son nowhere, what's the social relevance, what's the So when 182 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:12,160 Speaker 3: I called and told him that I was joining Kansaity Royals, ah, 183 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 3: he was ecstatic. Twelve thousand dollars a year and this 184 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:20,200 Speaker 3: is nineteen seventy nine, and he said, son, if you 185 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:23,480 Speaker 3: play your cards right and be there thirty years, you 186 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:26,120 Speaker 3: may make fifty thousand dollars and get a car company car. 187 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:29,000 Speaker 3: I mean that his formative experience was a great depression 188 00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:34,120 Speaker 3: in World War Two, and you didn't get a college degree, 189 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:36,040 Speaker 3: which I don't have. You didn't have a chance. That 190 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:38,080 Speaker 3: was just his world. He was trying to be a 191 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:42,199 Speaker 3: good father. He was ecstatic. After five years, I left 192 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:45,120 Speaker 3: the Royals, making seventeen thousand a year, got a thousand 193 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:49,760 Speaker 3: dollars a year raise every year, and went back into radio. 194 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:52,760 Speaker 3: And they started getting worried all over again. But I 195 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:58,120 Speaker 3: was just pursuing my passion. The point is my father 196 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:02,079 Speaker 3: would no more relate to my life today. He'd be 197 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:05,800 Speaker 3: thrilled by it. Don't misunderstand. And I think, you know, 198 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:10,040 Speaker 3: we've always had arguments in this society, but well, is 199 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:12,000 Speaker 3: this the generation it's not going to do as well 200 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:14,480 Speaker 3: as its parents? We are nowhere near that yet. But 201 00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:17,400 Speaker 3: the misery indexed crowd would love for you to believe 202 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:21,280 Speaker 3: that that's the case. You know, people have, over the 203 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:22,520 Speaker 3: course of my career, have come up to me and 204 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:27,560 Speaker 3: sought advice on getting into radio. I said, well, the 205 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:29,160 Speaker 3: worst thing you can do is go talk to people 206 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:31,040 Speaker 3: who failed at it, because they'll tell you that you 207 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:33,560 Speaker 3: shouldn't do it, that the business will eat you up, 208 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:36,560 Speaker 3: spit you out. Make sure you talk to people who've 209 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:39,520 Speaker 3: succeeded at it. It's easy to run into people tell 210 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:41,240 Speaker 3: you won't be able to do something. You can find 211 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:43,440 Speaker 3: people who tell you can't do something, and they because 212 00:10:43,640 --> 00:10:45,280 Speaker 3: many of them don't want you to if they failed 213 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:50,160 Speaker 3: at it make them feel bad. You can always find negativism, 214 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:53,160 Speaker 3: you can always find pessimism. You can always find these things. 215 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:59,600 Speaker 3: But the opportunities in this country today are they're profoundly better, 216 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:03,800 Speaker 3: and yet people do not grasp it. They don't grasp it, 217 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:07,920 Speaker 3: they don't understand that. In fact, people wondered why the 218 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:10,080 Speaker 3: news of the economy was not a factor in the 219 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:13,160 Speaker 3: six election. I think one of the reasons for that 220 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:16,520 Speaker 3: is people now just demand and expect a roaring economy 221 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:20,480 Speaker 3: there's no appreciation for it. There is an expectation of it. 222 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:23,160 Speaker 3: And when we have a downturn, that's when there's hell 223 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:26,760 Speaker 3: to pay. But no more will there be any laudatory 224 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:32,880 Speaker 3: congratulations for a perceived politician who's brought well. Mad Democrat 225 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:35,920 Speaker 3: does it, the media will trumpet back up again and 226 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:38,520 Speaker 3: then try to create it. There's this expectation. Our expectations 227 00:11:38,559 --> 00:11:41,280 Speaker 3: have risen, which is fine, but coupled with that is 228 00:11:41,280 --> 00:11:45,400 Speaker 3: the fact that people just have lost touch with how 229 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:49,400 Speaker 3: this country was built. We've got growing wages across the board. 230 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:53,520 Speaker 3: We we've blown records out of the water in employment, 231 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:58,880 Speaker 3: life expectancy is growing every year. And we didn't just 232 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:01,480 Speaker 3: get here by accident. That we got here by virtue 233 00:12:01,559 --> 00:12:04,679 Speaker 3: of a distinct American culture. And all of this is 234 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:09,040 Speaker 3: happening while the drive by media and some liberal Democrats 235 00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:11,079 Speaker 3: are out there telling everybody how miserable they are and 236 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:14,160 Speaker 3: it's time for a change. We can't continue to go 237 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:16,320 Speaker 3: on this way. And it burns me up when I 238 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:20,000 Speaker 3: hear this. It burns me up. Not for political reasons, 239 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:22,679 Speaker 3: I mean that's a given. It burns me up because 240 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:27,640 Speaker 3: I'm into inspiring people. I'm into motivating people. I'm into 241 00:12:28,559 --> 00:12:33,480 Speaker 3: almost a cheerleader for this country. We all conservatives are. 242 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:35,199 Speaker 3: All we want is the greatest country we can have it. 243 00:12:35,280 --> 00:12:36,840 Speaker 3: We know how we got here, and we know how 244 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:38,560 Speaker 3: we are going to stay here and how we're going 245 00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:40,760 Speaker 3: to grow. And it didn't run it around talking about 246 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:44,120 Speaker 3: collectivism and having the public get veto rights over CEO 247 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:49,040 Speaker 3: pay while missus Clinton hitches rides on a corrupt business 248 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:52,800 Speaker 3: owner's jet while hoarding her own millions that she admits 249 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:56,959 Speaker 3: to having. That isn't what made the country great. And 250 00:12:57,320 --> 00:13:00,480 Speaker 3: I'll the you know Edwards and whoever it was, the 251 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:02,320 Speaker 3: middle class made the country who I've had this quote 252 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:08,000 Speaker 3: earlier today, I forget that is Hillary said the middle 253 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:12,079 Speaker 3: class made the country great. I don't disagree with that, 254 00:13:12,120 --> 00:13:16,200 Speaker 3: but I disagree with the tone and the implication of 255 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:19,920 Speaker 3: her statement. It's an attack on achievers, it's an attack 256 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:23,440 Speaker 3: on attack on the wealthy. I'll tell you what made 257 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:27,839 Speaker 3: the country great. It's the people who make this country work. 258 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:30,560 Speaker 3: I don't kind of at a rich middle class third 259 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:33,200 Speaker 3: or fourth quintile. It's the people that make this country great, 260 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:38,640 Speaker 3: not government, and not government policies and not government regulations. 261 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:41,840 Speaker 3: It is the freedom that we all acknowledge we have 262 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:45,640 Speaker 3: that allows us to pursue whatever our dreams and ambitions 263 00:13:45,679 --> 00:13:49,160 Speaker 3: are as unfettered as any people in the history of 264 00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:53,280 Speaker 3: civilization have ever been. That's what sets us apart from 265 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:57,040 Speaker 3: all other countries and the history of human civilization. And 266 00:13:57,080 --> 00:13:58,880 Speaker 3: it's the liberals who are trying to look at this 267 00:13:59,040 --> 00:14:01,920 Speaker 3: prosperity right in the eye, which is right out in 268 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:05,719 Speaker 3: front of our faces every day, and tell us we 269 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:09,320 Speaker 3: should be miserable, that it's unfair, that it's not right, 270 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:11,520 Speaker 3: that is not going to last, and this all needs 271 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:13,560 Speaker 3: to be torn down. And the fact that there are 272 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:17,000 Speaker 3: people who are running around panting with their tongues out 273 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:21,200 Speaker 3: lapping all that up is a testament to the fact 274 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:25,000 Speaker 3: that if you browbeat people long enough and consistently enough 275 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:28,240 Speaker 3: with how miserable they are, and you blame other people 276 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:30,600 Speaker 3: for their misery, and you get them thinking that a 277 00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:33,640 Speaker 3: magical government programmer, a singular politician is going to come 278 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:36,720 Speaker 3: along and make them happy, you can sell it. And 279 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:39,280 Speaker 3: that's exactly what they've done. And it flies in the 280 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:42,160 Speaker 3: face of what is right in front of everybody's eyes. 281 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:46,560 Speaker 3: To see something else I've noticed out there and I 282 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:51,600 Speaker 3: don't know if you have. But all of a sudden, 283 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:55,760 Speaker 3: we got Barack Obama now entering the polos the arena. 284 00:14:55,840 --> 00:14:59,840 Speaker 3: He's not just uttering platitudes and bro minds. Now he's 285 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:03,920 Speaker 3: got this universal health care plan or this health care plan. 286 00:15:03,960 --> 00:15:06,200 Speaker 3: And I say, Obama getting serious now. And his health 287 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:09,480 Speaker 3: care plan basically is raised taxes on the rich. 288 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:11,400 Speaker 5: Uh. 289 00:15:11,440 --> 00:15:15,280 Speaker 3: And you've got Hillary out there with her collectivism, and 290 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:18,760 Speaker 3: you've got uh. That's basically it. One of the other 291 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:21,400 Speaker 3: Democrats saying, I don't know what Biden said about anything, 292 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:22,960 Speaker 3: not that it matters, but I mean, I don't know 293 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:24,600 Speaker 3: what he's saying. I know what Chris Dodd's saying. I 294 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:27,840 Speaker 3: don't know what Bill Richardson's saying. But if those guys 295 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:30,720 Speaker 3: want to get noticed, they better start talking socialism because 296 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:32,680 Speaker 3: that's what the drive by media is going to promote. 297 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:38,120 Speaker 3: Because that's fair. It's fair and if equitable Mith R. Limbaugh, 298 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:40,600 Speaker 3: if equitable, if the only way we could survive her 299 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:44,920 Speaker 3: the Nathan with pure happiness and fairness is thothalithm collectivism. 300 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:47,000 Speaker 3: We don't like those terms, but that's what it is. 301 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:49,240 Speaker 3: That's the voice of the new Castrati. 302 00:15:49,480 --> 00:15:53,880 Speaker 5: No truer words, you know again, It's great to hear 303 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:58,080 Speaker 5: Rush's voice, but hear what he's saying, and that's really 304 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:00,720 Speaker 5: the most important thing, because the young people who are 305 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:04,280 Speaker 5: supporting Mamdanni and the mom Donni's of the world, AOC 306 00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:10,880 Speaker 5: and others are not hearing what Rush was saying eighteen 307 00:16:11,080 --> 00:16:14,600 Speaker 5: years ago, nineteen years ago now because we're in twenty 308 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:15,400 Speaker 5: twenty six. 309 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:17,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, how old was mom Donni in two thousand and seven, 310 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:19,840 Speaker 1: He's only like, what thirty three years? 311 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:23,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, he was much younger. Yeah, I mean nineteen years 312 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:26,160 Speaker 2: he was a kid. He was a very young kid. 313 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:30,120 Speaker 2: So I think unfortunately, and this is why, you know, 314 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:32,880 Speaker 2: what do they say that, you know, vigilance is the 315 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:37,320 Speaker 2: cost Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom because it's 316 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:44,720 Speaker 2: continually those forces against freedom and against liberty and against individualism, 317 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:47,080 Speaker 2: they never stop and they never give up, and you 318 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:49,240 Speaker 2: have to continue to defend it, and you need to 319 00:16:49,240 --> 00:16:50,680 Speaker 2: continue explaining why. 320 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:54,680 Speaker 1: And speaking of continuing to defend it, Rush did that 321 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:57,200 Speaker 1: very thing throughout the years. When I went back in 322 00:16:57,240 --> 00:16:59,680 Speaker 1: the archives and I was looking for all the things 323 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:04,800 Speaker 1: he's say about rugged individualism versus collectivism, So many segments 324 00:17:04,840 --> 00:17:07,480 Speaker 1: came up throughout the years. I just happened to pick 325 00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:11,280 Speaker 1: two for today's podcast because I could have played hours 326 00:17:11,320 --> 00:17:14,280 Speaker 1: and hours and hours. I showed you the other one 327 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:15,640 Speaker 1: from what year was that. 328 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:18,200 Speaker 2: Two thousand and nine, March of two thousand and nine, 329 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:20,640 Speaker 2: in defense of individualism. 330 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:21,280 Speaker 3: So this is. 331 00:17:23,119 --> 00:17:28,840 Speaker 2: Almost two years later, twenty two months later. And it's 332 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:31,840 Speaker 2: great because you know, I'm sitting here reading because I 333 00:17:31,920 --> 00:17:34,080 Speaker 2: have a copy of it here, and you just get 334 00:17:34,119 --> 00:17:38,320 Speaker 2: to read. I can hear Rush talking, Mike snartly says, 335 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:41,199 Speaker 2: and this depresses me, et cetera, et cetera. It's so 336 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:43,760 Speaker 2: on and so forth. It's just great. It was really 337 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:44,440 Speaker 2: important that he. 338 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:48,760 Speaker 1: Repeated himself on this topic frequently and often. 339 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:54,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, that was part of the genius of Rush. Then 340 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:56,520 Speaker 2: I think, actually, Clay, I have to say claim bucket 341 00:17:56,560 --> 00:18:01,560 Speaker 2: picked up on. We have to revisit these topics again 342 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:05,800 Speaker 2: because eternal vigilance is the cost of freedom. You have 343 00:18:05,840 --> 00:18:08,159 Speaker 2: to revisit them over and over and over again. And 344 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:10,560 Speaker 2: some people go, oh, you talked about this last week 345 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:14,000 Speaker 2: or last month or last year. Yeah, but there's always 346 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:17,480 Speaker 2: a new audience and there's always a new threat pushing 347 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:18,080 Speaker 2: against it. 348 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:20,879 Speaker 1: And I also feel that the younger generations and I 349 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:23,160 Speaker 1: don't mean to sound like a fuddy duddy like, oh 350 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:24,720 Speaker 1: back in my day when I had to walk to 351 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:27,440 Speaker 1: school barefoot in the snow. I don't mean to sound 352 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:30,400 Speaker 1: like that. But at the risk of sounding like that, 353 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:36,360 Speaker 1: I think younger generations have no idea how privileged they are. 354 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:41,000 Speaker 1: They just have everything. Clay actually said something I thought 355 00:18:41,119 --> 00:18:44,040 Speaker 1: was really astute, where he said, we have nothing more 356 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:47,240 Speaker 1: to gain. We just we have everything that we need. 357 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:51,840 Speaker 1: I mean beyond with the tech going like driverless planes 358 00:18:52,119 --> 00:18:54,919 Speaker 1: and the tech going to a whole other level. But 359 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:59,600 Speaker 1: his point being, we've kind of achieved so much that 360 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:03,160 Speaker 1: the generation that don't really want for anything like everything 361 00:19:03,359 --> 00:19:05,440 Speaker 1: they have. Like when you and I Greg were growing 362 00:19:05,480 --> 00:19:07,879 Speaker 1: up and going to school and we had to study something, 363 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:11,080 Speaker 1: we had to go to the library, use the cards 364 00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:14,200 Speaker 1: to get the books out, and look up things in encyclopedia. 365 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:17,399 Speaker 1: We had no Internet. We had to go to the 366 00:19:17,440 --> 00:19:20,119 Speaker 1: physical library to get him to do the work. 367 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:23,159 Speaker 2: Yes, we actually had to work to get it done. 368 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:26,600 Speaker 1: And you couldn't just throw everything into AI and write 369 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:27,480 Speaker 1: this essay for me. 370 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:28,120 Speaker 3: Right. 371 00:19:28,280 --> 00:19:30,760 Speaker 2: We didn't have these computers walking around in our pockets, 372 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:33,159 Speaker 2: so we could just pull up at at a moment's notice. 373 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:35,960 Speaker 2: And I think it's interesting too, in light of what's 374 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:41,480 Speaker 2: gone on with Maduro and Venezuela and what President Trump 375 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:45,760 Speaker 2: has done there, that there's so many people who are 376 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:49,720 Speaker 2: opposed to that, okay, who have come out on the 377 00:19:49,760 --> 00:19:51,960 Speaker 2: left and oh, this is a terrible thing and he's 378 00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:54,600 Speaker 2: a dictator and all this stuff. And yet you hear 379 00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:57,840 Speaker 2: the people from Venezuela who have for the last fifteen 380 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:01,200 Speaker 2: twenty twenty five years or more or back to Hugo 381 00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:05,560 Speaker 2: Chavez and before, who are saying thank you to President 382 00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:09,560 Speaker 2: Trump for doing that. And Hey, if you think it's 383 00:20:09,560 --> 00:20:12,119 Speaker 2: so bad what President Trump did, you go live in 384 00:20:12,119 --> 00:20:14,520 Speaker 2: Cuba for a while, or you go live in Venezuela 385 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:17,719 Speaker 2: for a while and one day and you'll change your tune. 386 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:22,080 Speaker 2: Because these kids they have just everything and they've never 387 00:20:22,119 --> 00:20:25,520 Speaker 2: really experienced want or anything like that. 388 00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:28,159 Speaker 1: No, that's a very good point, and it also speaks 389 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:31,320 Speaker 1: to mom Donnie's new housing pick. 390 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:34,680 Speaker 2: So she's the director. So Seal Weaver is the director 391 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:37,960 Speaker 2: of the Mayor's office to direct tenants, and she's a 392 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:41,720 Speaker 2: housing activist. She's the former I'm saying for me because 393 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:44,600 Speaker 2: I'm assuming she gave up the office executive director of 394 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:46,040 Speaker 2: Housing Justice for All. 395 00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:47,919 Speaker 1: Okay, I have to do a deep dive on her 396 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:50,720 Speaker 1: because I admit I don't know a lot about her background, 397 00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:54,920 Speaker 1: but little bits and pieces that I read she actually 398 00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:58,600 Speaker 1: comes from a pretty well to do background. 399 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:00,600 Speaker 2: Why am I not surprised? 400 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:02,879 Speaker 1: Again that word privilege? 401 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:05,360 Speaker 5: Yeah, she grew up. 402 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:09,960 Speaker 1: With all the nice things. It sounds like. And you know, 403 00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:12,439 Speaker 1: when you don't to what you were saying, Greg, if 404 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:16,120 Speaker 1: you don't live somewhere and you're not in that survival 405 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:19,119 Speaker 1: mode where hey, we just need to get food every day, 406 00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:23,760 Speaker 1: keep the lights on, you're not going to really understand 407 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:25,760 Speaker 1: fully what struggle really is. 408 00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:29,720 Speaker 2: Absolutely, and just going back to irony and things for 409 00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:32,440 Speaker 2: a second, why is it that all the best communists 410 00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:37,119 Speaker 2: now seem to come from privileged families? I mean, seriously, 411 00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:39,560 Speaker 2: they don't you know that all their parents have money 412 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:41,679 Speaker 2: and they live in these nice houses in the in 413 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:43,840 Speaker 2: the suburbs, literally white suburbs. 414 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:46,640 Speaker 1: Quite honestly, that's Ivy League educations. 415 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:49,280 Speaker 2: With Ivy League educations, and they come out and now 416 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:55,720 Speaker 2: the collectivist communists, socialists. It's unbelievable. I don't understand how 417 00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:58,920 Speaker 2: that happens. You know, they're willing to just burn you know. Look, 418 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:02,359 Speaker 2: rebellion and getting away from their parents or whatever, maybe 419 00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:04,399 Speaker 2: that has something to do with it. But they just 420 00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:06,520 Speaker 2: want to burn it all down. And I don't understand, 421 00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:11,760 Speaker 2: you know, they they've never had a chance to experience. 422 00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:13,440 Speaker 1: Well, they lack the perspective. 423 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:14,560 Speaker 2: They don't have the perspective. 424 00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:15,480 Speaker 3: I remember. 425 00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:18,840 Speaker 2: Look, I'm not old enough to have lived through the depression, 426 00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:23,760 Speaker 2: but my grandparents did. And I remember the stories that 427 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:27,639 Speaker 2: they told, and my grandmother having a compost heap and 428 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:30,560 Speaker 2: her own garden and all these things. And she saved 429 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:33,160 Speaker 2: all of this stuff because she went through the depression 430 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:36,119 Speaker 2: and they didn't. And she never bought She had like 431 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:40,080 Speaker 2: three pairs of socks and she continually darned them and 432 00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:43,879 Speaker 2: she continually repaired things over it because they didn't have 433 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:46,240 Speaker 2: the money to go and get those things. These these 434 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:48,680 Speaker 2: kids don't know. These kids are door dashing coffee. 435 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:51,479 Speaker 1: Oh, I know for the house. No. Well, my father's family, 436 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:55,520 Speaker 1: I mean, my father's family fled Warsaw Poland and went 437 00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:58,600 Speaker 1: to England. They always thought they were going to return 438 00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:00,720 Speaker 1: to Poland after the war, but there was nothing to 439 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:04,199 Speaker 1: return to, so they stayed in England. They didn't know 440 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:06,879 Speaker 1: the language they learned the language. My father was born 441 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:10,560 Speaker 1: in England but raised learning Polish. It wasn't until he 442 00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:13,960 Speaker 1: went to first grade that he had to sink or 443 00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:17,199 Speaker 1: swim and quickly learn English in order to survive. But 444 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:20,200 Speaker 1: they lost everything and they went from living a middle 445 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:24,800 Speaker 1: class life in Warsaw to living on a farm in England. 446 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:29,320 Speaker 1: My grandfather became a potato farmer, sharing a farmhouse with 447 00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:33,200 Speaker 1: other refugees and an outhouse in the backyard. Every day 448 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:37,440 Speaker 1: was just to survive. So I feel like a lot 449 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:40,880 Speaker 1: of these kids that are out there with their signs 450 00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:44,760 Speaker 1: and they're protesting, and they're no kings and all that, 451 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:49,840 Speaker 1: they just lack perspective and they're easily manipulated by what 452 00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:53,760 Speaker 1: I feel is larger, more powerful, sinister forces that would 453 00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:55,160 Speaker 1: like to take down the West. 454 00:23:55,080 --> 00:24:00,000 Speaker 2: Very easily, very easily manipulated, and they are being unfortunately 455 00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:05,040 Speaker 2: taken advantage of. And I don't think that a majority 456 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:10,080 Speaker 2: of the young people necessarily are coming from a position 457 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:14,320 Speaker 2: of malevolence. I don't think that they're doing it because 458 00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:18,280 Speaker 2: they're bad. I think that they're uninformed. I think they're naive, 459 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:21,480 Speaker 2: and I think you know, they think, hey, this looks 460 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:23,280 Speaker 2: great this on paper, this sounds great. 461 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:25,359 Speaker 1: They're idealistic, Let's face it. 462 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:28,480 Speaker 2: Yes, yes they are. And it's nice. You can afford and. 463 00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:30,880 Speaker 1: You get a home, and you get a home, and 464 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:31,720 Speaker 1: you get a home. 465 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:35,480 Speaker 2: You can afford to be idealistic when you're young. When 466 00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:37,760 Speaker 2: you get older, now it doesn't work that way. 467 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,480 Speaker 1: That's right. Well, why don't we dive into one of 468 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:41,480 Speaker 1: these other Rush clips? 469 00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:43,119 Speaker 2: That'd be great. Why don't we do this one? This 470 00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:45,040 Speaker 2: in defense of individualism. 471 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:48,480 Speaker 3: The Democrat Party and the Obama administration are conducting it 472 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:52,320 Speaker 3: all out of sart assault on the individual and liberty 473 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:55,960 Speaker 3: and freedom. And that's exactly what it stly says. You 474 00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:59,040 Speaker 3: better explain why the individual is so important? You know 475 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:00,600 Speaker 3: a lot of people you I had a whole brand 476 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:02,520 Speaker 3: new bunch of tuner inns out there Rush and a 477 00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:04,760 Speaker 3: lot of these people think the individual is is the 478 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:07,919 Speaker 3: greedy soob in the individual bunch of individuals or what 479 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:10,119 Speaker 3: got the country in trouble? And I said this neardly 480 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:11,720 Speaker 3: during the top of the hour break. If I have 481 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:14,080 Speaker 3: to explain this, it's over. I mean, I'm just that 482 00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:16,360 Speaker 3: depresses me and I have to try to explain this. 483 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:19,800 Speaker 3: Why is the individual important? If you have to explain 484 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:22,639 Speaker 3: why the individual is important in the United States of America, 485 00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:24,520 Speaker 3: then you have to explain freedom. And if you have 486 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:32,800 Speaker 3: to explain that, I'm at a loss. I guess I'll 487 00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:35,159 Speaker 3: just ask you a question. To those of you in 488 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:39,159 Speaker 3: this audience who kind of have a fit when you 489 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:42,160 Speaker 3: hear me say that this administration is targeting and making 490 00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:45,800 Speaker 3: all lot of assault on the individual, which is an 491 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:53,040 Speaker 3: assault on freedom, individual freedom and liberty. Where and how 492 00:25:54,480 --> 00:26:01,520 Speaker 3: do you think your freedom comes from? Why is it 493 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:07,880 Speaker 3: you are free? To me? That answers it? I mean, 494 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:12,560 Speaker 3: are you free because you are a member of a 495 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:18,359 Speaker 3: group or are you free because you are your own 496 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:26,240 Speaker 3: soul endowed by your creator God? Certainly in alienable rights, life, liberty, 497 00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:29,520 Speaker 3: pursuit of happiness from. Where does your freedom come Do 498 00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:32,240 Speaker 3: you not have freedom until you join a club? Do 499 00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:34,119 Speaker 3: you not have freedom until you join a union? Do 500 00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:36,680 Speaker 3: you not have freedom until you are part of the disabled? 501 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:40,240 Speaker 3: Do you not have freedom until you are a minority? Where? 502 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:43,320 Speaker 3: Where does your freedom come from? In the United States 503 00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:47,720 Speaker 3: of America, what our revolutionary was fought over and we 504 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:52,200 Speaker 3: just barely made it. The whole concept of individual freedom 505 00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:56,320 Speaker 3: and liberty was the reason we sought independence from the 506 00:26:56,359 --> 00:27:02,719 Speaker 3: tyranny of King George, not Bush Georgia, third of Britain. 507 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:07,680 Speaker 3: I know that, Missus Clinton, I writ we're trying to 508 00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:10,040 Speaker 3: remember this. I said back in the nineties when the 509 00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:13,600 Speaker 3: Clintons were running this show, I said that, you know, 510 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:16,920 Speaker 3: rugged individualism is what built this country. And Missus Clinton 511 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:19,280 Speaker 3: went out there and took me on and ripped me. 512 00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:24,239 Speaker 3: And we forget what she said, but she had a 513 00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:29,600 Speaker 3: very critical comment about rugged individualism. Rugged individualism, rugged individuals 514 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:32,120 Speaker 3: don't care about anybody else, and they leave everybody else behind. 515 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:34,320 Speaker 3: And it takes people like missus Clinton to care about 516 00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:37,600 Speaker 3: the people who get left behind when rugged individuals take over. 517 00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:43,560 Speaker 3: Missus Clinton had a book says it takes a village 518 00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:45,199 Speaker 3: to raise a child. I said, no, it doesn't. It 519 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:50,080 Speaker 3: takes individuals to raise a child. Doesn't take a village, 520 00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:55,120 Speaker 3: the town doesn't raise a child villager, what have you? 521 00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:57,080 Speaker 3: You know? That was just that was just code word 522 00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:01,040 Speaker 3: for the parents don't really matter. It's the school, it's 523 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:04,760 Speaker 3: government enterprises that are responsible for raising the child. Right, 524 00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:09,880 Speaker 3: And nothing could be further from the truth. This country 525 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:13,439 Speaker 3: was not built on group politics. The country was not 526 00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:22,480 Speaker 3: built on group identities. The country was built on rugged individualism. 527 00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:31,919 Speaker 3: Rugged individualism is portrayed, unfortunately as selfishness, but it is 528 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:36,440 Speaker 3: not selfishness. Rugged individualism is self interest, and self interest 529 00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:40,800 Speaker 3: is good. If we were all acting in our own 530 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:44,120 Speaker 3: self interest. What are your self interest? Let's say you're 531 00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:49,720 Speaker 3: a father, what a husband, what is your self interest? Well, 532 00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:52,400 Speaker 3: if you take it responsibly, the responsibility of being a 533 00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:57,400 Speaker 3: husband and father, your self interest is improving the life 534 00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:03,120 Speaker 3: that your family lives. You want economic opportunity for them, 535 00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:06,120 Speaker 3: you want social stability for them. You want a relatively 536 00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:10,320 Speaker 3: crime free existence. You want some security. You want to 537 00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:13,840 Speaker 3: see to it that your kids don't go off the 538 00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:17,360 Speaker 3: wrong path. All of these things are the things that 539 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:21,280 Speaker 3: you work for and you rely on yourself to provide them. 540 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:24,479 Speaker 3: Of course, you have support groups the church and friends 541 00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:28,960 Speaker 3: and so forth. It doesn't mean that you are solitary, 542 00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:32,600 Speaker 3: doesn't mean that you're isolated, but it means that you 543 00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:37,800 Speaker 3: accept responsibility for your life. Now, what happens to you 544 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:41,040 Speaker 3: is your responsibility, and that you have in this country 545 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:43,400 Speaker 3: all of the ability and opportunity in the world to 546 00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:46,720 Speaker 3: make the most of it, or you can slough it 547 00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:50,920 Speaker 3: off and you cannot make the most of yourself. But 548 00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:53,440 Speaker 3: then you're not acting in your own self interest. Then 549 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:56,720 Speaker 3: you're letting everybody down. When you don't seek your best, 550 00:29:57,040 --> 00:29:58,440 Speaker 3: when you don't try to be the best you can be, 551 00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:01,800 Speaker 3: you're letting everybody down. You'reletting the comt tad down. Obama 552 00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:04,800 Speaker 3: even said this, he hadn't said it it since when 553 00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:07,160 Speaker 3: talking about the dropout right, he said, you people drop 554 00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:10,120 Speaker 3: it out. You're not helping your country, you're harming your country. 555 00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:14,320 Speaker 3: It's the same thing self interest. He won't ever say 556 00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:19,320 Speaker 3: that again. It sounds too Reaganesque, and it sounds too conservative. 557 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:27,560 Speaker 3: But individuals, rugged individuals have great and high expectations of themselves. 558 00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:30,920 Speaker 3: It was rugged individualists that built the railroads. It was 559 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:33,960 Speaker 3: rugged individualists that discovered the New World. It was rugged 560 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:37,800 Speaker 3: individualists that dreamed about getting to the moon. It was 561 00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:42,040 Speaker 3: rugged individualists that invented the automobile and the airplane, the bullet, 562 00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:49,760 Speaker 3: the gun. It was rugged individualists who invented medicines, improvements 563 00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:57,440 Speaker 3: in healthcare. It wasn't a bunch of groups but rush, 564 00:30:57,560 --> 00:31:00,880 Speaker 3: but rush the pharmaceutical There's a bunch of people in 565 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:04,360 Speaker 3: the laboratories were, yeah, they do. There's somebody that runs them. 566 00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:09,240 Speaker 3: But they're all working to try to be the best 567 00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:11,560 Speaker 3: they can be and come out in Thomas Edison light bulb, 568 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:16,560 Speaker 3: Benjamin Franklin, electricity, Alexander Graham, bell A telephone, Marconi the radio, 569 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:22,160 Speaker 3: Henry Ford automobile, mass production, the assembly line, Carl Ben's 570 00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:28,400 Speaker 3: the Automobile. I'll never forget a story. Reagan was governor 571 00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:32,680 Speaker 3: of California in the seventies, and this is in one 572 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:35,160 Speaker 3: of the books about Reagan. I heard William Rusher, who 573 00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:37,640 Speaker 3: was the former publisher of National Review, tell the story, 574 00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:40,440 Speaker 3: and I may I'm paraphrasing this. There may be others 575 00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:43,800 Speaker 3: who know it better about the students at Berkeley were 576 00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:46,600 Speaker 3: all bent out of shape one day, as they always 577 00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:48,720 Speaker 3: were during the free speech movement, and the didn't like 578 00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:51,040 Speaker 3: what Reagan was doing with the national regard to the 579 00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:54,360 Speaker 3: National Guard. They didn't like Reagan's policies. They thought Reagan 580 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:56,920 Speaker 3: back in the seventies, was this an old man out 581 00:31:56,960 --> 00:32:01,040 Speaker 3: of touch. He had no clue about their lives, and 582 00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:03,200 Speaker 3: who was he to sit there and make policies about 583 00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:06,920 Speaker 3: their future. So they demanded they had to sit in 584 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:10,120 Speaker 3: state capitol in California, somewhere outside his office they got 585 00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:12,280 Speaker 3: in the building, they were let in. They demanded to 586 00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:15,840 Speaker 3: see him, and at some point Reagan let a couple 587 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:18,080 Speaker 3: of these student leaders in and they went in there, cocky, 588 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:22,080 Speaker 3: young little kids, and they essentially said, who are you, 589 00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:27,080 Speaker 3: old man? You don't know anything about our lives. You 590 00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:28,800 Speaker 3: don't know how we function, You don't know how we 591 00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:31,200 Speaker 3: get along. You don't knowing about telephone, You don't thing 592 00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:34,240 Speaker 3: about computers, televisions, or you don't know anthing about that. 593 00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:37,400 Speaker 3: You have to These things are all foreign to you. Look, 594 00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:40,640 Speaker 3: you're just using all these old fashioned things around here. 595 00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:46,600 Speaker 3: And Reagan looked at him and said, you know, you're 596 00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:50,640 Speaker 3: right about that. We had to invent these for you 597 00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:57,040 Speaker 3: to use them. We had to invent them for you. 598 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:04,640 Speaker 3: Take your favorite actor or actress, take your favorite television personality, 599 00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:12,280 Speaker 3: and ask me, or ask yourselves, what government, what protective 600 00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:13,480 Speaker 3: agency got them their job? 601 00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:13,680 Speaker 1: What? 602 00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:16,600 Speaker 3: Or was it rugged individualism, we're sleeping on the couch 603 00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:17,840 Speaker 3: or whatever they had to do, but they did it. 604 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:22,680 Speaker 3: They also get twenty million dollars a movie because they 605 00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:25,000 Speaker 3: put people in the theater seats. What are the movies 606 00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:26,880 Speaker 3: any good or not? People go except for Tom Cruise 607 00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:31,040 Speaker 3: is in trouble right now. But well, Valkyrie just wasn't 608 00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:36,880 Speaker 3: quite it. But the point here, ladies and gentlemen, is 609 00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:45,560 Speaker 3: that anything that beats you down, anything that says to 610 00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:50,520 Speaker 3: you that you're no more than anybody else, that you're 611 00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:53,120 Speaker 3: no better, no different, no worse, that you're the same 612 00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:56,760 Speaker 3: as anybody else, is lying to you, and they're seeking 613 00:33:56,840 --> 00:34:00,000 Speaker 3: to control you, and they're seeking to limit your own 614 00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:05,280 Speaker 3: own ability and your own desire because we're not the same. 615 00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:08,560 Speaker 3: There are no two things. The whole premise of equality, 616 00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:12,360 Speaker 3: it's a great thing to strive for, like equality before 617 00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:16,920 Speaker 3: the law, equality in job opportunity, and so forth, But 618 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:18,880 Speaker 3: there are no two things that are equal, certainly not 619 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:26,399 Speaker 3: outcomes other than identical twins. No two human beings look 620 00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:29,320 Speaker 3: exactly alike. Do you realize that as many human beings 621 00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:32,799 Speaker 3: as will be created in the history of the earth, 622 00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:36,240 Speaker 3: no two of them will look alike. It's not possible 623 00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:42,439 Speaker 3: other than the rare cases of identical twins. But even 624 00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:46,080 Speaker 3: those people are not the same. We have the same shell, 625 00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:48,960 Speaker 3: the same look with they're not the same inside. No 626 00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:53,120 Speaker 3: two people the same. No, everybody's got different level of ambition, desire, 627 00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:58,040 Speaker 3: everybody has a different IQ Everybody has different intelligence. Everybody 628 00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:02,480 Speaker 3: has a different metabolism, everybody has a different hairline, everybody's 629 00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:06,479 Speaker 3: got No two people are the same, and it's not fair. 630 00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:10,120 Speaker 3: They just didn't. Some people are smarter than others. Some 631 00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:13,719 Speaker 3: people are more creative than others. Some people can walk 632 00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:16,080 Speaker 3: down the street and just have people throw money at them. 633 00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:19,120 Speaker 3: Other people can toil their whole lives and never make 634 00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:26,719 Speaker 3: more minimum wage. Why who knows, But it is our 635 00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:30,600 Speaker 3: contention that the people who never make more minimum wage 636 00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:35,960 Speaker 3: can do far better if they're just invested in themselves, 637 00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:39,360 Speaker 3: not in a government, not in a president, not a congress, 638 00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:44,399 Speaker 3: not a program. How many people in those people's lives 639 00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:47,239 Speaker 3: tell them that they're special versus how many of them 640 00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:50,480 Speaker 3: tell you don't have a chance, You don't have a prayer. 641 00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:56,520 Speaker 3: This country's racist, it's homophobic, it's bigoted. You don't have 642 00:35:56,640 --> 00:36:00,480 Speaker 3: a chance. You need to vote for us even I. 643 00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:07,160 Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen. You listen to me, and you look 644 00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:08,840 Speaker 3: at me, and you see whatever you see, but you 645 00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:12,759 Speaker 3: see me as successful. It may make you mad, it 646 00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:16,000 Speaker 3: may make you furious, but nevertheless you see me successful. 647 00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:19,120 Speaker 3: But you don't know the thirty five, thirty seven years 648 00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:22,720 Speaker 3: that I've spent in this business since I was sixteen 649 00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:25,359 Speaker 3: minus five and I worked for the Kansady Royals baseball team. 650 00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:27,600 Speaker 3: You don't know the seven times I got fired, And 651 00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:33,520 Speaker 3: you don't know how many people in this business told 652 00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:36,120 Speaker 3: me to quit and told me to give it up. 653 00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:40,080 Speaker 3: That it's not a fair business. Even if you're good. 654 00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:43,640 Speaker 3: There are too many idiots above you, too many jealous 655 00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:45,480 Speaker 3: people above you that don't want you to get anywhere 656 00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:47,560 Speaker 3: because you're better than them. Hey, hello, that's the world. 657 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:51,440 Speaker 3: There are a lot of professors don't want you to 658 00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:55,600 Speaker 3: be smarter than they are. There are a lot of 659 00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:59,560 Speaker 3: people working at banks who are tellers that probably could 660 00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:02,759 Speaker 3: be in the end investment side, but somebody threatened by them. 661 00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:09,840 Speaker 3: Everybody's trying to hold everybody back. It's this human nature, 662 00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:15,120 Speaker 3: and it's only the belief in yourself that propels you 663 00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:21,920 Speaker 3: through all those things, and yourself is the individual. I 664 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:26,600 Speaker 3: got fired seven times. One time was it probably justified. 665 00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:28,960 Speaker 3: The other times due to vagaries of the broadcast business. 666 00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:32,600 Speaker 3: But each time I got fired, the person that fired 667 00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:34,880 Speaker 3: me said, you know, you really don't have what it 668 00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:36,800 Speaker 3: takes to succeed here. If you want to stay in 669 00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:38,680 Speaker 3: this business. You need to go into sales or something else, 670 00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:40,840 Speaker 3: because you just you really don't have that much talent. 671 00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:43,439 Speaker 3: And I'm saying to myself, how would you know? You've 672 00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:48,400 Speaker 3: never let me exhibit it. You and your brilliant management 673 00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:51,000 Speaker 3: have come up with ways that I can only say 674 00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:53,440 Speaker 3: this here or that there, and I can only take 675 00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:55,560 Speaker 3: that much time. How do you know what my talent is? 676 00:37:57,120 --> 00:37:58,879 Speaker 3: And when was the last time you cared to really 677 00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:04,640 Speaker 3: find outum my talent? Without believing in yourself, You're going 678 00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:08,760 Speaker 3: nowhere and you won't believe in yourself if somebody beats 679 00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:12,880 Speaker 3: the individual out of you, if somebody convinces you that 680 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:15,000 Speaker 3: you don't deserve to do any better than anybody else, 681 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,719 Speaker 3: because that's not fair. And they are teaching you that 682 00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:22,440 Speaker 3: in school about your grades, and they're teaching you that 683 00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:24,600 Speaker 3: about economics. It's not fair that you might have a 684 00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:26,840 Speaker 3: nicer car than the shlub down the streets. It is 685 00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:31,600 Speaker 3: not fair. It's humiliating the people who have less. So 686 00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:34,640 Speaker 3: they're trying to beat the individual out of you, and 687 00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:37,800 Speaker 3: the individual in you. The belief in yourself is the 688 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:41,799 Speaker 3: only thing you've got to compete against. Everybody that's trying 689 00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:43,440 Speaker 3: to hold you back, and they all are. It's the 690 00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:46,640 Speaker 3: way of the world. You look at things from afar, 691 00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:49,440 Speaker 3: you look at pop culture, you look at movie stars, 692 00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:52,280 Speaker 3: and you think that's a community. And they all decided 693 00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:55,840 Speaker 3: one day, they all decided that Cameron Diaz is great, 694 00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:58,560 Speaker 3: and they all got together and they all love Cameron 695 00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:01,160 Speaker 3: Daz and they've all made her a big star. That's 696 00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:03,480 Speaker 3: the image they project because they want you to think 697 00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:06,160 Speaker 3: it's all like. Cameron Diaz is like everybody else. She 698 00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:08,759 Speaker 3: had to fight for everything she has and she's they're 699 00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:10,960 Speaker 3: nipping at her heels now as she gets older, sending 700 00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:13,520 Speaker 3: with Julia Roberts, it doesn't change no matter where you are, 701 00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:16,680 Speaker 3: no matter what kind of glamor. You take a look 702 00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:20,359 Speaker 3: around you. The genuinely successful people that you see who 703 00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:24,719 Speaker 3: you want to be, did not check their individualism at 704 00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:27,759 Speaker 3: the door when they started their work. They didn't check 705 00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:29,879 Speaker 3: their self interest at the door, and they didn't check 706 00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:34,680 Speaker 3: their self respect, and they didn't turn over the belief 707 00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:36,839 Speaker 3: in themselves to somebody else. That's all I'm talking about, 708 00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:39,320 Speaker 3: and that's under assault by this administration which wants to 709 00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:43,520 Speaker 3: control and limit freedom because the only way Obama can 710 00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:46,600 Speaker 3: get the power he wants, and the Democrats can get 711 00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:49,000 Speaker 3: the power they want is if you willingly turn it 712 00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:52,440 Speaker 3: over to them by getting rid of your self interest, 713 00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:56,279 Speaker 3: your self respect, and holding your best interests at heart. 714 00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:59,400 Speaker 3: Your best interests do not coincide with your governments. 715 00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:03,000 Speaker 1: Now it's always so good to hear his voice again in. 716 00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:06,040 Speaker 2: The United States of America. What our revolution was fought over, 717 00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:09,520 Speaker 2: the whole concept individual freedom and liberty was the reason 718 00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:14,239 Speaker 2: we saw independence from the tyranny of King George. I mean, 719 00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:17,440 Speaker 2: that's what it's all about. You know, it's not about 720 00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:21,400 Speaker 2: what sixteen nineteen projects says, what's your name says about 721 00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:25,920 Speaker 2: why this country was starting. No, we were the pilgrims 722 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:30,400 Speaker 2: came here for religious freedom. The founders of this country, 723 00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:35,000 Speaker 2: founding fathers fought off the yoke of George the Third, 724 00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:38,960 Speaker 2: and then the framers of the Constitution continue to put 725 00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:46,320 Speaker 2: and enumerate those rights about liberty and freedom on the 726 00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:48,800 Speaker 2: papers and the documents that we hold most sacred in 727 00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:51,440 Speaker 2: this country. And that's what it's all about. It's not 728 00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:53,719 Speaker 2: very difficult to understand, but. 729 00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:57,600 Speaker 1: Yet here we are, and which is why the Clay 730 00:40:57,640 --> 00:41:01,440 Speaker 1: and Buck show is so massively important and and for 731 00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:05,000 Speaker 1: all you folks out there that have crumb crunchers. As 732 00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:07,880 Speaker 1: Rush would say, please please just take the time to 733 00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:11,000 Speaker 1: educate them. Go get He had those five great books. 734 00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:14,960 Speaker 1: Those were great entree into really understanding this country and 735 00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:16,800 Speaker 1: why we need to protect and preserve it. 736 00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:19,000 Speaker 2: Absolutely, and make sure that you tune into the Clay 737 00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:22,799 Speaker 2: and Buck Show because, especially for young people listening, these 738 00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:26,239 Speaker 2: guys are really, you know, relatable. You know, they're young, 739 00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:28,600 Speaker 2: they can that you can they're younger than we are, 740 00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:31,080 Speaker 2: that you can relate to them. They're talking about stuff 741 00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:35,879 Speaker 2: that people can relate to. And I think and yet 742 00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:39,879 Speaker 2: it makes sense, so you know, keep listening, keep doing 743 00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:44,160 Speaker 2: everything that you can to pass these values onto the 744 00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:46,360 Speaker 2: next group of people coming up, the young people. 745 00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:49,919 Speaker 1: That is so true, said and Greg and I, even 746 00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:52,640 Speaker 1: though we're sick, we both really wanted to do this 747 00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:57,440 Speaker 1: after Hours and replay these Rush segments in full because 748 00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:00,960 Speaker 1: it is that important. So we hope you enjoyed this 749 00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:04,160 Speaker 1: after Hours and hearing Rush again speak to these things. 750 00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:06,320 Speaker 1: We hope you continue to tune into The Clay and 751 00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:09,239 Speaker 1: Buck Show and always feel free to send send us 752 00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:11,320 Speaker 1: a talk back. Greg listens to all of them. The 753 00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:14,160 Speaker 1: After Hours podcast is sort of like an easter egg 754 00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:16,600 Speaker 1: that we pop into the Clay and Buck podcast network 755 00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:20,520 Speaker 1: feed from time to time. And speaking of easter eggs, Greg, 756 00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:21,919 Speaker 1: what were the guys talking about today? 757 00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:25,840 Speaker 2: Well, Clay dropped the reference and honestly, it kind of 758 00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:28,320 Speaker 2: blew by me, but some of you caught it. 759 00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:29,400 Speaker 1: It blew by me too. 760 00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:34,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, a reference to office space. And it just just 761 00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:37,040 Speaker 2: casually dropped it in there, and then we taught we 762 00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:39,400 Speaker 2: played the sound body or the talk back about it, 763 00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:43,960 Speaker 2: and then Buck dropped one in rather obviously. He actually 764 00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:45,840 Speaker 2: made a big deal of pointing out that this is 765 00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:48,960 Speaker 2: this is an easter egg I'm dropping in. So it's 766 00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:52,120 Speaker 2: the idea that maybe that this is going to become 767 00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:55,440 Speaker 2: a thing a bit a bit that couple times a 768 00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:58,440 Speaker 2: week they'll just make a reference to something I'll be 769 00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:01,359 Speaker 2: back or whatever it is and see if you can 770 00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:04,680 Speaker 2: pick up on it. And yes, and I don't know, 771 00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:07,399 Speaker 2: maybe maybe we could talk them into having some sort 772 00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:09,680 Speaker 2: of prize, I don't know, an autograph. 773 00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:12,440 Speaker 1: Book or you know, some swag, some Clay and Buck swag. 774 00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:15,480 Speaker 2: You get a picture of producer Alley or you know, 775 00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:17,840 Speaker 2: maybe a picture of Ginger Spice. 776 00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:20,320 Speaker 1: I don't know, Ginger spice, ginger spice. 777 00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:23,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, but it could be a lot of fun. I'm 778 00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:24,080 Speaker 2: looking forward to this. 779 00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:27,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, so maybe keep keep an ear out for those 780 00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:29,439 Speaker 1: Easter eggs on the Klay and Bucks show. 781 00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:32,520 Speaker 2: And you never know, we've gotten requests for more episodes 782 00:43:32,680 --> 00:43:35,200 Speaker 2: of After Hours, so maybe we'll be doing them a 783 00:43:35,239 --> 00:43:37,080 Speaker 2: little more frequently in the future too. 784 00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:37,640 Speaker 3: You never know.