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RUSH: Cleveland and Jerry, I\u2019m glad you called. Welcome to the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, thanks for taking my call. How you doing, sir?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. <\/p>\n

CALLER: I have a question. Last hour you had a story that a woman could tell a future good father by his face or something like that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, just look at the guy\u2019s face and know instantly that he\u2019d be a good father.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly, and then your comment is what sparked my call because your comment was, you know, you get it all the time [that] you\u2019d make a great father and everything like that. I get that too, and I do take that as a compliment. I\u2019m 39 years old now. I\u2019ve never been married, because I don\u2019t want kids. It\u2019s literally come down to the ultimatum: ‘If you want me, you gotta have kids,\u2019 and I\u2019ve said no.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And even to take it farther to take the issue off the table, I got a vasectomy. So now when they meet me, they know it\u2019s not going to happen. My question is to you, most women that I say this to, they can\u2019t accept this. They have a lot of trouble accepting that I\u2019m so certain that I don\u2019t want kids and everything, and I know you feel the same way because I\u2019ve listened to you for years. I was wondering: Why do you think that women have such a hard time dealing with the fact that a lot of men don\u2019t want kids at any cost?<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s not hard at all. I think it\u2019s nature. I\u2019m not trying to describe this scientifically, because when I do that, scientists call and tell me I\u2019m an idiot. But why is there the phenomenon of the biological time bomb? Why do you think it is — (interruption) — okay, ‘time clock,\u2019 time bomb to me, whatever. Why do you think it is? Let\u2019s take a look. Let\u2019s give this thing a little historical perspective here. You have the feminist movement. It started in the late sixties or seventies. They told women to go out and will it and be like men. Be in a career. Rise to the top. Don\u2019t let your sisterhood down by just having a relationship to find your happiness in your life. You don\u2019t want a man to be the sole reason for that. Go out there and find your full potential — and so a lot of them bought into that. ‘Yeah! Yeah! I\u2019m going to do that.\u2019 They get out there, they start climbing the corporate ladder, they work hard, and they start getting heart disease like men do and all this, and then the biological time bomb starts ticking, and in the late thirties, ‘I want a baby. I want a baby!\u2019 It\u2019s quite natural to me. Women are the only ones that can do it. Until we get the artificial womb, we\u2019re stuck with the way things are, and then what\u2019s happening — and this is to the great disgust of feminists — a lot of these women after the birth of the child and their maternity leave say, ‘You know what, I kind of like this,\u2019 and a lot of them are choosing to just punt the career and stay home and raise the child. I think nature is a big factor in that, too. As long as the economics make it possible, nature is a big factor there. Now, if I were Snerdley answering this question for you, it would be real simple. From his perspective, your being hassled to be a father is nothing more than a woman trying to control you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I — yeah, I was — yeah. I — I\u2019m — let\u2019s put it this way. <\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) <\/p>\n

CALLER: Put both of you reasons together.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Do you think Snerdley got it right? (laughing)<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think both of you are right, because when you were talking, I\u2019m thinking, ‘Well, maybe I\u2019m looking more deeply or sinister into this.\u2019 So I think my answer —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Jerry, look. You gotta allow for this possibility, too. I don\u2019t know these women that have been trying to pressure you, that forced you to go get your vasectomy. It could also be that they just love you and that they really want to marry, and they really want to have a family, and they really think you\u2019d be a great dad. It could be no more complicated than that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m going to — I\u2019m going to — this is — this may be a little personal, nothing… But, I\u2019ll tell you what. You know, I\u2019ve listened to you a long time and everything, and I look at it this way, and I know nothing is perfect, but I go, ‘Damn, if Rush has trouble making marriages work, I think I would have even more trouble because of your situation and everything.\u2019 What do you think about that?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you shouldn\u2019t do that. Don\u2019t make the mistake of that. Don\u2019t just compare yourself to me. Don\u2019t compare yourself to anybody. <\/emphasize>(interruption) Yeah, especially Snerdley. Don\u2019t start comparing yourself to people. That\u2019s the recipe for disaster in anything. I don\u2019t care whether it\u2019s economics, jobs, anything. Don\u2019t start doing that. In my case, I think I\u2019ve just concluded that…um… How best to say this? There are some of us, and I even had a caller once. In fact, we had a woman call me and say, ‘Don\u2019t ever get married. Your work is too important to be distracted from,\u2019 and I think there are some of us to whom that applies. I don\u2019t know what you do to the country, Jer, but I\u2019m out there saving America and so forth, and that\u2019s a full-time job.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Understood. Hey, thank you, sir. I appreciate it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, Jer, appreciate it. (interruption) Well, okay, well that\u2019s what I (interruption) that — that. Well, that\u2019s what (interruption). Okay. Snerdley is reminding me about George Gilder. George Gilder got thrown off the Oprah show for saying what I\u2019m about to tell you. George Gilder is a genius. He is brilliant. His big mistake was tying this in with the destruction of welfare families. He says, George Gilder, in a societal sense, that he\u2019s looking not at individuals here. He\u2019s looking at human civilization over time, and he says that women are the civilizing force in our culture. <\/p>\n

A woman, by agreeing to marry man X and then give birth to his children, is a powerful statement of trust, because he says that the vast majority of people, regardless of their socioeconomic circumstances, the vast majority of people having children, raising children is — whether they\u2019re aware of it or not — an instinctive, most important thing they do in their life, and the woman is the one who says ‘yes,\u2019 in normal circumstances. I mean, I guess there\u2019s some women that propose these days, but it\u2019s the woman that has the power to say ‘no,\u2019 and when she has that power and exercises it to say yes, it is quite a statement, and so Gilder said look at what\u2019s happened when families have been busted up by the welfare state.<\/p>\n

It is the women, the grandmothers and so forth that keep those kids who are fatherless as best they can on the right track. They don\u2019t always succeed, but they\u2019re the orienting factor. So he says this on Oprah, and Oprah just got livid and literally threw him off the show before it was over. That\u2019s when I knew I had to meet George Gilder. So when I say ‘nature,\u2019 that\u2019s really what I meant was the Gilders. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s anything wrong. I hope nobody misunderstood this. There\u2019s nothing wrong with Woman A wanting to get married and have a kid, or three, just not with me. But I don\u2019t think there\u2019s anything wrong with it. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m 55. Let\u2019s say I got seduced <\/emphasize>into changing my mind about this. All right, and let\u2019s say it happened tomorrow. Well, by the time Rush the Fourth is born, Rush the Third is 56. So by the time Rush the Third is 70, the 14-year-old kid has a grandfather for a father, not a father, and I\u2019ve just (interruption). I know. (interruption) I\u2019ve talked (interruption). You remember…? (interruption) I — I — (interruption). When I first moved to New York, not long after starting work at WABC, Robert Vaughan, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., a big talk radio fan, lived up in Connecticut. He came down to say hello to a bunch of us that were there. He was 56 and his wife had just given birth. It was the greatest thing that ever happened to him. It was the greatest thing that ever happened to him. I have another friend who didn\u2019t have his first kid \u2019til he was 60. He plays basketball with the kid. The kid\u2019s three years old; he plays basketball with the kid in the backyard. It\u2019s the greatest thing that ever happened to him. Fine! <\/emphasize>That is absolutely wonderful. I\u2019m not China. I\u2019m not out there trying to establish a no-child policy for the country, or even a one-child-per-family policy for the country.<\/p>\n

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