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RUSH: Now, I want to try to be as brief with this as I can. I mentioned this at the beginning of the program. I have, all throughout the history of this program starting in 1988, loved to share my passions, and I have shared with the audience, because we have a connection, you and I. I\u2019m not just here pontificating and you\u2019re out listening. This is not a classroom where you\u2019re students and you just sit there and listen. There was an interactivity here, and not just based on the phone calls. We work well together. We have a connection. Part of that is that within the limits I\u2019ve set for myself that make sense, I divulge some of the things I do in my personal life because those are things I try to do that I enjoy. I\u2019ve gotten to a very, very rare place in life, and I wish everybody could get there. It is something that, sadly, very few people ever achieve or have happen to them, and that is that for all intents and purposes, I don\u2019t have to do anything I don\u2019t want to do — professionally, personally, you name it. There are occasionally things that we all have obligations to do and so forth, but I mean I don\u2019t have to take on something I really despise because I have no choice. So I\u2019ve reached a point where I enjoy life. I enjoy being an American. I enjoy the opportunities. I enjoy being able to go places and see things and meet people. When I do this, I enjoy coming back here to the Golden EIB Microphone and sharing it with you. <\/p>\n

Now, something came up yesterday after the program, because I spent some time on yesterday\u2019s program talking about those things and not as much time devoted to, quote, unquote, ‘the issues\u2019 — and there\u2019s been this nagging little group of people, probably Ron Paul supporters, that every time I do this, say, ‘Stick to the issues!\u2019 It\u2019s a small group of people, but they\u2019re vocal and they\u2019re out there each and every time. I\u2019ve mentioned this to you on previous occasions. Yesterday, some people said, ‘You didn\u2019t spend as much time on the issues. You talked about going to Oakmont.\u2019 Other people wrote, ‘Well, how did you play? Tell us more about it. How about 281-yard par 3?\u2019 They do have a 281-yard par 3 at Oakmont for the US Open, from the tips. I didn\u2019t play the tips. We played the blues, which are two sets of tees up. We played about 6800 yards, I think the whole course was 72 or 74, don\u2019t remember. But it\u2019s the hardest golf course I\u2019ve ever played. It made me appreciate the talent and skills of professional golfers more than any other course that I\u2019ve ever played. I had a great time, and I met the membership — so I come back and tell people this, a couple other personal things, plus the story about running into Bill Clinton last night, and it got me thinking, got me wondering. <\/p>\n

We hear all the talk about the angst that permeates our culture; that there\u2019s a general malaise or unhappiness. People are on edge; the war has people uneasy, for whatever reason. We\u2019re not winning it fast enough; we\u2019re losing it. We\u2019ve got all of this talk about this food is going to kill us, that\u2019s going to kill us, so a lot of people are on edge. A lot of people are — this is the theory anyway — tense out there, nervous. Here I come on the radio, happy-go-lucky, holly-jolly and all this and just having as a good time with my life as much as I can, sharing that with you, and somebody said to me, ‘You know, that\u2019s one of the problems. People want to be comfortable in their misery. And when you don\u2019t sound miserable, they know you\u2019re not in touch. They think that you may not really understand what their lives are like every day.\u2019 It\u2019s sort of a repeat of the argument that I\u2019ve lost touch. That comes up now and then, too. I\u2019ve always looked at this in a little different way. I\u2019ve had periods of time in my life where I go through angst and I have days where I go through it, but I don\u2019t want to live that way. I don\u2019t want it to be what defines my attitude, and I don\u2019t want to have to go through the news every day and have to come in here — by the way, I\u2019ve never tried to relate to you. I\u2019ve never tried to understand what it is you want to hear and say it. I do have empathy when it comes to the kind of subjects, issue-wise, but I don\u2019t moisten the finger, stick it in the air and figure out what you want. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m not a politician. I don\u2019t do polls to find out what I should say or what I should wear or any of that. But it got me to thinking. Is it really that bad out there among us? I know that liberals and the Democrats are in a constant state of agitation, a constant state of misery. That\u2019s their natural existence. They\u2019re born that way, and they do seek out people who are suffering. They want to suffer. They want to be made to feel like they are suffering and life is just impossible and they blame everybody but themselves for their plight. I\u2019ve always tried to be optimistic — within reason, not falsely so. I\u2019ve always tried to be of good cheer and laugh and have fun because I think that that is in itself inspirational and motivational. We only get one life. We\u2019re all raised in different ways as to how we should live it. Some of us have been raised deeply religious. There\u2019s virtue in suffering. There\u2019s virtue in a hard life because it\u2019s conditioning. It trains, prepares. It\u2019s real, and there are rewards for it later in life. My grandfather, who was a great, great, great man, loved his work, and his family time was his enjoyment of lifetime. Work, work, work, work, home, office, day, night, traveled on business and this sort of thing. He was always at home, though, for Christmas, Thanksgiving, holidays, Easter. His view was that there\u2019s plenty of time to have fun after you have completed the serious part of your life, which is your work, that combining those two things would lead to a loss of focus on one\u2019s work because obviously people like fun more than work, unless your work is your fun. In my case, that\u2019s what happened. That\u2019s another very fortunate thing for me. <\/p>\n

I grew up, even going on vacation, feeling guilty. ‘I really should be enjoying myself. This is not right.\u2019 I felt little tinges of it. I still did it, still went on vacations. I still took them and so forth. There\u2019s something that still happens now. On Tuesday when I was at Oakmont, I thought, ‘The audience is not going to like this.\u2019 I\u2019ve taken a lot of single days, so I know. I\u2019m very sensitive to this, but at the same time we only get one life and it needs to be as diverse and well-rounded as you can make it because I don\u2019t believe life is to be suffered. I don\u2019t believe that\u2019s the intention of life. I don\u2019t believe that\u2019s the intention of creation. It\u2019s a sad reality for all too many people, but it isn\u2019t necessary. It\u2019s like a certain economic circumstance is not permanent, doesn\u2019t have to be permanent. People have more power over their lives than they know. They\u2019re not raised with the notion they have power. We\u2019re raised with the notion that we go to school, and we\u2019re in prison because the teacher is the boss, the principal is the boss. At home the parents are the boss, and our younger years are raised with a whole notion of we don\u2019t have any choices. We\u2019re kids. We can\u2019t do anything. We can\u2019t even get answers to questions. It\u2019s just yes or no and do what I say.<\/emphasize> That conditions or trains you. <\/p>\n

You grow up, then you work for the boss. Everybody has a boss. There\u2019s always an authority. See a cop car, ‘Uh oh, slow down. I forgot my driver\u2019s license,\u2019 all of these things. People end up very easily feeling trapped and thinking that they\u2019re in tight confines and boundaries that trap them. They\u2019re stuck in things they don\u2019t want to do, but you have more power than you know. You have all kinds of ability to change your life and take control of it. That\u2019s change. Change is new, change is difficult, and taking control is assuming responsibility. It\u2019s always easy to fall back on, ‘Well, I couldn\u2019t get that done because the boss wouldn\u2019t let me off,\u2019 or, ‘I couldn\u2019t get that done because it rained, so the yard is growing,\u2019 whatever. It\u2019s tough to take full responsibility. Talk to people who have been an employee then gone out and owned their own business, and you ask them how much their — even if they didn\u2019t make as much money at first — life improved because the feeling of being in control, of having the power over your future. Nobody\u2019s totally scot-free in this way, but there\u2019s a lot more power that more people have. I\u2019m simply trying to take advantage of the opportunities that have been presented to me or that I have created. I\u2019m not trying to laud it over anybody. I\u2019m genuinely trying to share it. If it\u2019s a problem because there\u2019s so much angst and so much misery and I\u2019m losing my ability to relate to and understand the audience, that\u2019s tough, because wherever you are in life, there\u2019s always somebody who\u2019s done more, who goes more places, who has more money than you.<\/p>\n

Always. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always been inspired by that. I\u2019ve always been like, ‘Boy, that would be fun to do, fun to be able to do.\u2019 It\u2019s one of the things I\u2019ve been working for. I\u2019ve been in this business for 40 years, minus five years at the Kansas City Royals. (They still haven\u2019t, by the way, found any decent National Anthem singers since I left, and that was 1983.) So I wanted to just put this out on the table. Because some people, it is easy to relate to, if a host comes on and is mad, in foul humor, ‘Yeah, that\u2019s how I feel! I\u2019m mad as hell.\u2019 If I am that way on a particular day, I tell you. Maybe I should say I\u2019m sorry for enjoying life. No. That\u2019s not me. I\u2019m not going to do that. And who knows? I may not be enjoying it tomorrow. You never know what\u2019s going to happen, folks. There\u2019s hope that I will be miserable tomorrow; hope that I\u2019ll be miserable next week; hope that I\u2019ll be miserable in November of \u201908. There\u2019s hope that I will lose this perch of joy and joviality and rejoin you later on down the road. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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