RUSH: I do want to tell you a short little story. Over the weekend I made tracks to the Bahamas to escape the winter-like temperatures here. It was rainy and 65 degrees and I had to get outta here. I was also invited over there. And, interestingly, even though the Bahamas is really not that far away, 30 minutes, 45 minutes away by jet, because of the water temperatures being so much warmer, cold fronts weaken considerably before reaching the Bahamas, and so it was 10 to 15 degrees warmer over there with negligible rain, particularly on Saturday afternoon and Sunday.<\/p>\n
But where I went you fly to a place, and then you have to take a boat ride to your ultimate destination of about 30 minutes. So on the boat ride over, I sat up front with the captain, who is a young native of the Bahamas, and he\u2019s communicating with the harbor people and whoever all he\u2019s talking to via iPhone, looks like a 6 or 6s. So I struck up a conversation. \u201cOh, you like the iPhone?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, this is the company iPhone. I don\u2019t got a iPhone of my own.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cOh, what do you use?\u201d And he pulls out this ancient flip phone. (interruption) \u201cWhat are you saying in there, Dawn? What are you saying?\u201d Yeah, so he pulls out this ancient flip phone and he\u2019s looking at my iPhone XS Max like it\u2019s the biggest Christmas present he\u2019s ever seen. He\u2019s looking at it, he\u2019s eyeing it, he asks if he could hold it, see what it feels like. I said, \u201cSure, here, want to read the internet?\u201d<\/p>\n
I pulled up the Drudge Report, let him read it, pinch it, make it bigger. He\u2019s just marveling at it. I said, \u201cWould you like one? You guys have always been so helpful when I come over.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cReally? Yeah, absolutely. You kidding?\u201d<\/p>\n
I said, \u201cNo.\u201d One of his buddies was standing right there next to him, so I couldn\u2019t leave him out. I said, \u201cYeah, I\u2019ll send you guys each one when I get back on Monday, you\u2019ll have it Tuesday,\u201d meaning yesterday.<\/p>\n
\u201cGreat! Great!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo what\u2019s your address?\u201d Well, that got tricky \u2019cause he didn\u2019t know. This man had never received a FedEx package in the Bahamas. So he didn\u2019t know what address to use. So I said, \u201cWhy don\u2019t you just use the address of the place you work?\u201d<\/p>\n
He said, \u201cOkay.\u201d So he called to get the correct address. And he gave me that address and a phone number, and he told the people that he wanted the address to receive a FedEx. That\u2019s what they gave him. I made a note of it, came back, we put together the package — this is Wednesday; right? We put the package together Monday morning, and we sent it out. It has been in Nassau for 48 hours undelivered. You would not believe what they are calling here demanding.<\/p>\n
They want proof of purchase by me, they want proof of data, they want serial numbers, they want Social Security numbers. This guy in the Bahamas has to have a personal ID number, a national ID number to receive a FedEx from international delivery. It\u2019s just two iPhones and a fast charger and two cables! And they\u2019re doing everything they can not to deliver these things. Every time they call we have to come up with — it\u2019s kind of like dealing with the New York tax authorities. I have to prove another way of where I was on any given day. These people are demanding more proof of purchase, more proof of this. Even got some confusion over, did I send 512 gigabyte versions or 256 gigabyte.<\/p>\n
I said, \u201cWhat difference does it make?\u201d<\/p>\n
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They said, \u201cThe price.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s the price matter to the recipient?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, there\u2019s a tax on this, sir.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWho\u2019s paying the tax?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe recipient pays the tax. Duty. There\u2019s a duty on this, sir.\u201d<\/p>\n
I said, \u201cSend me the bill!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, it doesn\u2019t work that way, sir.\u201d<\/p>\n
So we are no closer to getting these phones to him. We called the guy that I was gonna give the phones to, and it turns out he has this national ID number. He\u2019s just sitting there waiting. But now they\u2019re demanding receipts to prove I bought these things. So I don\u2019t know why any of this matters. I don\u2019t know that this poor guy\u2019s gonna ever get his phones. And now he knows they\u2019re there because we called him to make sure he\u2019s got this national ID number. And I don\u2019t know if we\u2019re gonna get \u2019em back.<\/p>\n
But the point of this is look at how hard the Bahamas is working to keep a couple of iPhones out of their country versus what we\u2019re doing letting illegal human beings into ours! It is the most incredible juxtaposition of things. The iPhone is not agricultural. It\u2019s not a spy device. I can\u2019t imagine what the obstacles are here. But the point is, it is being made so difficult that I\u2019m never gonna try this again. Which is, I think, what they want.<\/p>\n
But then you come to the United States and look at the ease with which illegal aliens and drug experts, cartel members, potential terrorists can just walk across the border. It is a striking difference, and it\u2019s kind of mind-boggling in its own way.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: Here\u2019s Chris in Miami as we head back to the phones. Welcome, sir. Great to have you with us.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: Yes, sir. Longtime listener. Rush, you called it about the two iPhones having so much trouble getting them in there. I live in south Florida, go to the Bahamas all the time in our boat, and they started charging $300 just to dock your boat up and clear customs when there was never, ever a charge. It depends on how big your boat is how much they charge. God forbid if you break down there and need a part over there what they will charge you and the red tape to get it. And they come here all the time to Miami for nothing and back and forth. And one more comment I had — if you\u2019ll have a second — about these kids. They want free education in the United States all of the time. These crazy left-wing radical kids want free. Well, they can get free education listening to Rush Limbaugh for three hours every day and they\u2019ll learn more than they\u2019ll ever learn.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Exactly right. Exactly right. That\u2019s what… In fact, I often say that the Limbaugh Institute is the largest free education institution known to exist in the free or oppressed worlds. You\u2019re exactly right about that. Now, I want to clarify. This often happens. You tell a story and people think something similar has happened. They call and tell you they want to share the details. You know… Here. I\u2019m gonna step in it. I took some iPhones with me as gifts to my host.<\/p>\n
You land… I\u2019m not gonna tell you where. I don\u2019t want people tracing the route. This happens. I tell people where I go and there\u2019s a band of people that start following to try it. It\u2019s about privacy, security. But you land in a place, but the ultimate destination requires a boat ride. The boat is owned by the island and the company that did the developments. It\u2019s not my boat. It\u2019s a boat owned in the Bahamas operated by people that do business in the Bahamas. It\u2019s not my personal boat. I\u2019ve never had any problem with Bahamian Customs.<\/p>\n
At the airports, they have been awesome. They\u2019ve fabulous, arriving or leaving, and there was no demand to know what I was bringing with me. It was just standard luggage. But in the luggage, I took my hosts a couple of gifts, and it wasn\u2019t a hassle in any way, shape, manner, or form. But when they\u2019re in a FedEx box… I guess it\u2019s the same with UPS, whatever. But when they\u2019re in an international shipment box, the brakes are applied. I don\u2019t have a problem with companies having duty charges on things coming in. That\u2019s not it. It\u2019s that the proof here that all this is on the up-and-up is practically impossible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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