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RUSH: Here\u2019s David, Tampa, Florida. Dave, welcome to the EIB Network. Great to have you with us.<\/line>CALLER: Hey, Rush! It\u2019s an honor and a pleasure to speak to you. First-time caller.<\/line>RUSH: Thank you, sir. Thank you very much. I appreciate it.<\/line>CALLER: Yeah, I just wanted to talk about the grumpy grams you\u2019re getting about the Allen Brothers<\/a> gift you gave away, and first of all I think that you use every product that you promote on your program, and I have tried several of them, and they\u2019re always good, like you say they are. But in the case with Allen Brothers, it\u2019s a product that\u2019s probably a little pricey. I haven\u2019t ordered any yet, but even if it is, you have a certain percentage of your audience that can afford that and will buy it at will, and possibly you have somebody else in the audience that will use it on a special occasion. But I thought it was a good point to give it to someone who may be couldn\u2019t afford it, and once they try it, and really enjoy the product, if it\u2019s at all anything like you say it is —<\/line>RUSH: It is.<\/line><\/a><\/line>CALLER: — then they\u2019ll get the point. I\u2019m sure it is, and I\u2019ll be trying some. But I think that maybe he\u2019ll get together with four or five buds and say, “Hey, we need to get some of this stuff one week or one month you\u2019ll get the steaks, I\u2019ll get the hot dogs and next month we\u2019ll split it up,” and maybe you\u2019ll reach another market share.<\/line>RUSH: Well, I appreciate your thought. I really do. Let me comment on a couple things that you said. You said that it\u2019s pricey and that some people in this audience wouldn\u2019t be able to afford it or would make the decision not to pay for it even if they can afford it simply because it seems a little excessive, when you can save money up for other reasons and so forth. I totally understand that. By the way, this is just information. Do not interpret this as whining or moaning or complaining, because I don\u2019t do that. But I\u2019ve gotten e-mails from people who have taken my advice and gone to the Allen Brothers website, which is ABSteaks.com<\/a>, and they\u2019ve said, “My God, Rush, who do you think we are? We can\u2019t afford this, blah, blah, blah, blah?” and I\u2019m sitting there saying, “What am I supposed to do? Am I not supposed to advertise something because some people can\u2019t afford it?” These people have come to me; they have a rare product. The reason it\u2019s expensive is because there\u2019s not much of this quality of beef made available to the whole country. It\u2019s just because most of the beef from your average steer or cow is not the best quality, and that\u2019s true in any product. There\u2019s always an element of it that\u2019s going to be better than something else, and a commodity especially. You\u2019ve got different size eggs, you\u2019ve got all kinds of things. At any rate, the people who have tried it, feedback has been wonderful. <\/line>The guy that I gave the gift pack to on Friday<\/a>, what irritated people was that they thought he was a seminar caller setting me up. They thought I got fooled and duped by the guy, and they don\u2019t like it, especially if they think the guy is a seminar caller. It means they think he\u2019s a liberal. They don\u2019t like me giving stuff away to liberals when they, the audience, views themselves as the ones who are staunchly supporting the program and the sponsors. As I said, there\u2019s a marketing component to it, too, but it\u2019s something that — gee, this is tough to say about myself. As you people know, I don\u2019t like talking about myself, and it\u2019s also tough to say because I know the kind of reactions that I\u2019m going to get to this. But for me, you got a call like that, and the guy is whining and moaning about his mother, and rather than give him a lecture, “Stand up to your mother,” it\u2019s fun to share this stuff. It\u2019s fun to be generous. It just is. I don\u2019t give this stuff away for any <\/emphasize>reason other than it\u2019s fun to do it. I\u2019m not looking for feedback. I\u2019m not expecting something in return for it — at least not personally. I just enjoy doing it. It was really no more complicated than that. I thought the guy was setting me up, and I thought the guy might have been a seminar caller and so forth, but still, it\u2019s like I always say. The fun, when you become an adult, is giving, and if whoever you give it to you is playing a trick on you and you get snookered, fine. It doesn\u2019t rob me of the fun I\u2019ve had in doing it.<\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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