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RUSH: It actually is great to be back with all of you. I spent an amazing week, and I\u2019m going to be very honest about this. I needed to recharge. I needed to chill out, and, by the way, folks, I want to let you know, I have canceled both of my scheduled appearances in the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic<\/a> scheduled for this month and in the AT&amp;T National Pro-Am<\/a> in February because of the presidential primaries and the election season. It\u2019s too important. I\u2019m not going to be gone during those periods. February 5th is the huge Super Tuesday. That is the week that the AT&amp;T starts, it\u2019s actually the following weekend. The Super Bowl is on February 3rd. The Bob Hope is January 15th. I had committed to both and I canceled over the weekend, over the Christmas break. I canceled them both simply because of the importance of this year. <\/p>\n

Now, I went Missouri for Christmas. I left on Christmas Eve morning; I got back on Christmas night, on the 25th. So that\u2019s a week ago yesterday. I did not leave the house from Christmas night — other than a couple of golf games — I did not leave the house from Christmas night until yesterday morning for another golf game. I didn\u2019t speak to anybody, I e-mailed, iChatted, that sort of stuff. Just me and Punkin. I had some people call and invite themselves over for New Year\u2019s Eve dinner, so I set one of those up. So I take it back. It was Monday night. Monday night\u2019s New Year\u2019s Eve, right? But it was so blissful. I figured out something while I was gone. I\u2019ve been in radio — and by the way, this is not unique to me, I think a lot of people\u2019s lives are lived under the pressure of the precision of time — I\u2019ve been doing broadcasting since I was 16, and I didn\u2019t even figure this out until I e-mailed somebody. ‘What are you doing?\u2019 ‘I\u2019m just sitting here vegging.\u2019 I didn\u2019t worry about what time I went to bed. I didn\u2019t go to bed \u2019til I got tired, couple days it was five o\u2019clock in the morning. I didn\u2019t worry about what time I got up, and that was what was bliss, no schedule, no obligations, no having to be on, no having to even shave, no having to even get dressed if I didn\u2019t want to, because what does Punkin care? So it was just blissful. <\/p>\n

But since I was 16 (that\u2019s 40 years, in radio) everything is precision timing: Commercial breaks, gotta be here at the precise time, there\u2019s no such thing as even being seconds late. And television, when I did that, it was even more so, and all other aspects of life. I\u2019m sure you have to be at work at a certain time, but unlike me you can probably get away with staying at Starbucks for five or six minutes and lingering and walk in and blame it on the traffic. I can\u2019t. You can blame it on the vet, you can blame it on the kid — I can\u2019t. And so my ideal, if I really want to recharge, if I really want to get real focused, I don\u2019t do anything until I feel like doing it. And if I feel like doing nothing, I do nothing. And so I\u2019m back, folks. I am ready. I am rested. And so that\u2019s what I did. Normally when I go on vacation somewhere, there are still time pressures and time constraints, if you\u2019re playing golf early in the morning. I\u2019m not complaining, the golf was fun and all that sort of stuff, but it\u2019s not really relaxing in the sense that I don\u2019t get a break from the things that really stress me. And yes, even I, ladies and gentlemen, encounter stress. And most of my stress is oriented around time. And so when I can get rid of any time constraints or requirements in my life, then I do it. And I did it. And I couldn\u2019t have done it were I married. See, that\u2019s the key. Are you going to sit in here for three days in a row and not come out? Dawn, don\u2019t give me that smirk. I\u2019m not criticizing anybody. I\u2019m just telling you who I am. And so there you have it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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