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RUSH: Jacksonville, Florida, Patrick, I\u2019m glad you waited, sir. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, how you doing, Rush?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Very good. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I just came off from a great day of golfing at the beach this morning, was driving down A1A when that teacher called in and I nearly bit the end of my cigar off.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Which teacher was it? We\u2019ve had a couple here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The one from Wisconsin who said he\u2019d be glad to take a cut and they\u2019re doing great things in Wisconsin and you\u2019re denigrating all teachers with your statement.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember the guy, right.<\/p>\nCALLER: Can I ask you a quick question about your golf game before I tee off on the teacher?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, by all means, it\u2019s Open Line Friday.<\/p>\n

CALLER: When you were on the Haney show one day they were talking about you hit your drive 300 yards, and everybody I play golf with I talk to, “Ah, I hit my drive 300 yards.” I\u2019m just curious, what is the basic yardages on your club like your 8-iron, your 5-iron, your driver.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I hit the 8-iron 155. I hit my 5-iron about 190. Wedge all the way up to 125 or 130.<\/p>\n

CALLER: What\u2019s your driver?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, 280. It depends. The longest drive I\u2019ve ever hit un-wind aided was on the eighth hole of Bel-Air Country Club in Los Angeles, easily 340.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Wow.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s only one guy — and this is testimony from Al Michaels. I played with him that day. There\u2019s only one guy he\u2019s ever seen hit it farther on that hole in similar circumstances and that was Pete Sampras. Now, admittedly, I hit it over a hill and there was some downhill roll to it, but —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Still.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I still creamed that baby.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I was impressed with your improvement on that show. That was remarkable to watch.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you. My average drive is probably — average drive of 14 holes, I use a driver, 13 holes in a round, probably 275, 270, something like that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You\u2019re longer than Jim Furyk.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, but I\u2019m not telling you where mine end up. (laughing)<\/p>\n

CALLER: Back to that teacher. You know, I live in Jacksonville. We have one of the top prep schools in the nation here, Bolles, and you could actually, for what they\u2019re paying to educate or not educate a kid in Wisconsin and most other districts around here, you could send a child to that prep school and when they come out they\u2019re ready for college. I mean they\u2019re not kids when they come out, they\u2019re young adults, and this guy saying he\u2019d take less to go into the private sector. The difference is there isn\u2019t a private school around that pays a hundred thousand dollars a year to teachers. They can\u2019t do it. In the private sector, you have to live within what your budget brings in.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You can\u2019t sell a product for more than it\u2019s worth. And yet this guy in the public sector going, “Oh, I\u2019d go in the private sector in a minute if I could get more money.” The thing is he knows he can\u2019t get more money in the private sector. It\u2019s just not gonna happen.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Private sectors pay about half what public schools make.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And yet they\u2019re educating the kids. But the other thing is they have discipline in the schools. You know, they\u2019re teaching kids to do chants up there and not to read. I mean I would think those teachers would be better served if they taught the kids how to —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me tell you something. This notion that they\u2019re doing all this for the kids, even the NEA outgoing general counsel said we don\u2019t have power because we\u2019re doing it for the kids. We have power because we have 3.2 million dues paying members to the Democrat Party. That\u2019s what he was saying. We have power because the Democrat Party loves us because we have 3.2 million people that pay dues, which go right to the Democrat Party. His name is Bob Chanin. We\u2019ve aired the audio once before. We\u2019ll get it again. Now, one thing in this teacher\u2019s defense when I was talking to him, I wasn\u2019t totally convinced that he was talking specifically teachers\u2019 jobs in the private sector, that he might go do anything else in the private sector, not just teach, if he wanted to. And I don\u2019t think private schools pay benefits. If they do, it\u2019s not nearly the benefits that these union guys are getting. Patrick, thanks for the call. Did you say you\u2019re on your way to play or you just —<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I played this morning down at the beach.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What course?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Ponte Vedra.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You played Ponte Vedra?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, it\u2019s great course. They have actually two out there, the ocean and the lagoon.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Did you play the TPC, you played the Players Championship course?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, we played Ponte Vedra Inn & Club. It\u2019s a five star resort down here.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yeah, yeah, I\u2019ve never been but —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh you need to come up and stay there. Two courses and it\u2019s —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I can\u2019t tell you as a powerful, influential member of the media the number of invitations I\u2019ve gotten. It\u2019s just never worked out time-wise.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, come up, the TPC, and go watch the tournament and go out and play some golf there.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I appreciate that. Thanks, Patrick.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Enjoy your day.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You have a good weekend. <\/p>\n

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