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RUSH: David in Denver, Colorado. Great to have you with us. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good afternoon, Rush. I just wanted to take the opportunity to really thank you for making any life easier in two respects. One, we\u2019ve got this constant inflow of information that\u2019s coming into us all the time, from all sides. It used to be that, you know, we only had the three networks. Now we\u2019ve got all of this, internet and all this other information, and it\u2019s so nice for me to be able to skim through that information in the morning and then catch your show in the afternoon or when I\u2019m done with work, listen to the podcast, and be able to understand what all that means. The second thank-you is helping me… I can\u2019t share this with anybody, but helping me in getting a gift for my wife. Without much research, I went out and purchased Boll & Branch sheets<\/a> for her, and I didn\u2019t tell her that they were recommended by you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Why not?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Um, because she\u2019s kind of like a Rush widow, you know, like with football.<\/p>\n

RUSH: She\u2019s like a Rush widow? Ohhhh, I get it. I get it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She kind of gets mad that you spend so much time here.<\/p>\n

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CALLER: Yeah. I married up. So I\u2019ve got to, you know, constantly be… (chuckles) You know, I\u2019ve gotta be earning that. So, yeah. But they came in the beautiful box and everything. I don\u2019t want to get off my original topic but they came in original box; she was ecstatic. I didn\u2019t worry about anything in terms of the quality. She pulled them out; she loved them. We put them on the bed that night and she was just in heaven. So thank you for that as well.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you\u2019re more than welcome. Look, I appreciate your comments here on being able to understand things here. One of the things that I\u2019ve always strived to do is make the complex understandable. I have an operational theory about something. If I cannot explain it to myself, then I don\u2019t try explaining it to anybody else, and there\u2019s a whole lot of stuff out there that\u2019s complicated. And there\u2019s different kinds of people. There are people who communicate by writing, and they are verbose.<\/p>\n

They use many more words than are necessary when compared to the spoken word. The more words you use, the more complexity you are including. So I have to take a lot of things and strip \u2019em down. You can take… What I try to do is take a 10-paragraph news story, and if I can make it into one paragraph, then I can explain it to you. If I can\u2019t take those 10 paragraphs and boil \u2019em down to one paragraph, then I set \u2019em aside until I can.<\/p>\n

Everybody can be edited. No matter how much you think you\u2019ve taken out, there\u2019s still a lot more to take out. A great artist will tell you — be it a painter, a photographer, a great artist, a wordsmith like me — will tell you that when you\u2019re putting the final touches on something, it\u2019s what you take out, not what you add. Attention spans being what they are, they\u2019re dwindling. If the oven is to communicate, to make a connection and then hopefully be persuasive, you have to boil everything down to its essence as best you can.<\/p>\n

And even I, once I start going on something, the more I understand it, the more verbosity I tend to use. So I\u2019m trying to always pare things down. But it\u2019s been an objective of mine. And I\u2019ll tell you, it\u2019s getting harder and harder. Journalism… I don\u2019t know what they\u2019re being taught, but the degree or the level of skill and talent in writing today, in professional journalism, is lacking considerably. When you have to read a sentence three times to understand what whoever wrote it meant, that makes me mad.<\/p>\n

It makes me mad that I\u2019m being forced to waste my time here, and I\u2019m not talking about technical things like science or specialized medical terminology. Just basic sentence structure — you know, with commas in the right places, the right kind of punctuation. So I appreciate you noting taking the complexity and making it understandable, because it\u2019s something that I\u2019ve had to work on for myself to be able to make complex things understandable to me and then find a way to pass \u2019em on. So I\u2019m very, very flattered that you noticed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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