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RUSH: Jeff in Vacaville, California, you\u2019re next on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hey.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019d like to say California military spouse dittos to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: So my wife is in Afghanistan right now. I\u2019m waiting for her to come back. But my comment for you is earlier you mentioned about exercise, and I know why you dislike exercise.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Tell me.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, go back to your childhood junior high or high school —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, no, no, no, no. Psychoanalysis here? Are you a psychologist?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I am not. I am an exercise specialist, but at some point in your phys ed —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute. You\u2019re an exercise specialist?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And at sometime in your life, as I mentioned, either on a sports team or phys ed class, exercise was used as a punishment, that would be my guess. And because of that, every time exercise is mentioned, you subconsciously think that, boom, exercise is a negative thing. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, since you have called to — you should call CNN, by the way, because they use people who are not psychologists to psychoanalyze people.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And they use psychologists who have never treated people to analyze those people they have never treated. They might put you on cause they\u2019re going to lose Sanjay Gupta. Sanjay Gupta is going to be Obama\u2019s surgeon general. Some guy at Slate.com wrote — and I\u2019m going to have to paraphrase this, you know, one of the previous surgeon generals was Joycelyn Elders, and Joycelyn Elders — we have the sound bites from way back when — Joycelyn Elders, surgeon general, was promoting self-love, masturbation, as a prevention for AIDS and sexually transmitted disease, said this needs to be taught. This guy at Slate recalls that and says, ‘But Sanjay Gupta drips, just oozes self-love. He doesn\u2019t have to say it, he is it.\u2019 I thought, man, man, they\u2019re taking a shot at him. Sanjay Gupta, People magazine named him one of the 50 sexiest men in the country. He is a practicing neurosurgeon. He also does stories on global warming, even though he\u2019s a doctor, for CNN. But he\u2019s going to take the big pay cut and move the family out of Atlanta up to Washington to be surgeon general for The Messiah. Now, back to you, exercise specialist. I never heard of one of those. I guess they\u2019re called coaches.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I have coached. I have been a fitness director, manager of a fitness center. I\u2019ve done a lot of different things in that area.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. Well, my distaste for exercise, I did play Little League baseball, loved it. I played Babe Ruth league baseball up to age 15, loved it. I played one year of high school football, didn\u2019t really like it. I remember one instance, and I was an offensive tackle, and the two-a-days in August, they were just brutal, and one day after practice, the tackles and guards ran sprints and the linebackers with their group and the offensive, defensive linemen and so forth, the quarterbacks and the wide receivers, different weight groups, and I was in the offensive line group, and the coaches had a tendency after 10 or 12 60-yard sprints or gassers they\u2019d all of a sudden say, ‘Okay, first four tackles take it in.\u2019 So I would pace myself during the first 8 or 10, making sure I never finished first and I would save myself up for when the coaches said ‘first four tackles take it in\u2019 I always won and after two times the coach came to me, said, ‘Son, we\u2019ve been noticing here that you\u2019re finishing in the middle of the pack until we say ‘first four tackles take it in, then you\u2019re always blowing by everybody. What\u2019s happening here?\u2019 And I said, ‘I\u2019m pacing myself, coach.\u2019 His name was Norm Dawkins. He said, ‘Son, we don\u2019t pace ourselves in football, and we don\u2019t pace ourselves in life. We go all out, all the time.\u2019 And I had to spend 30 minutes running more gassers and so forth after everybody else went in.<\/p>\n

CALLER: See, that\u2019s the punishment aspect.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well —<\/p>\n

CALLER: If you were punished in a different way you would have, I think, a better attitude about exercise, you know, whether you do push-ups or extra laps —<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, see, I liked the football stuff because there was a purpose. I was playing a game, I was getting better at something. There were other people out there. When I worked for the Kansas City Royals in the late seventies, early eighties, every Thursday afternoon after the baseball season ended we always played a touch football game with the front office of the Kansas City Chiefs and I couldn\u2019t wait. We played on Saturdays, too, once we got to December, and rain, shine, mud, snow, didn\u2019t matter, I loved that, I loved playing football. I loved doing all that stuff. What I hate is exercise for the sake of it. ‘Okay, people, you need to go for a walk.\u2019 ‘Where?\u2019 ‘Well, you\u2019ll end up back at home.\u2019 Well, I say, ‘Why leave?\u2019 If I\u2019m going to end up where I started, why leave? I\u2019d rather just stay here, because I frankly hate things that have no purpose. ‘But it\u2019s good for you.\u2019 No, it\u2019s not. From the first step when I start exercising for no purpose, from the first step my mind is preoccupied with, ‘When is this gonna end?\u2019 ‘Why don\u2019t you go walking on the beach?\u2019 Sometimes I do. That can be fun. But get on a treadmill? Treadmill\u2019s even worse \u2019cause you never end up going anywhere. You start and stop at the same place, and then you still have to walk to get back to the house. It\u2019s just a pain. I don\u2019t like it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s go to College Station, Texas. Brian, great to have you on the program. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, it\u2019s Counsel in Bryan-College Station, Texas.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, that\u2019s what it said, but it didn\u2019t make any sense, and I know Snerdley is having a bad day in there.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, no, no, no.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Counsel is your name?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yep.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Bryan-College —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Bryan-College Station. You know, it\u2019s where Texas A&amp;M is.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It makes total sense to me now.<\/p>\n

CALLER: All right. Well, I just called to tell you that as a physician, I recommend to all my patients they exercise four to five times a week because you live longer and you stay out of the hospital. I just wanted to let you know that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I have not disputed the benefits of exercise except I dispute the notion that you can lose weight doing exercise, but I read the health benefits of exercise earlier in the program today. I\u2019m not trying to advise people against it. I just hate it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I understand that. I hate it, too, and I walk three miles a day.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, see, that, to me, is suffering, and I am totally opposed to self-imposed suffering. I just don\u2019t do it. I used to do it, but I don\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, no. While I\u2019m walking, I\u2019m thinking about what I\u2019m planning to do, I\u2019m working in that hour. It takes me an hour to walk three miles.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See, that\u2019s my problem.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m thinking about what I\u2019m going to do. I\u2019m accomplishing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I can\u2019t overcome that. When I\u2019m walking all I\u2019m thinking about is, ‘When is this going to end?\u2019 I\u2019ve even tried getting on a treadmill and watching \u201924.\u2019 \u201924\u2019 is the fastest paced TV show I watch. I don\u2019t get past the first commercial before I want to get off the treadmill.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I cannot get past how unhappy, how miserable, how much I detest what I\u2019m doing is.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, Rush, we want you to be happy, \u2019cause we love you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I appreciate that, and, Doctor, I want you to understand here, I know full well that you\u2019re right about the things you\u2019re talking about regarding the benefits of exercise. I\u2019m not trying to talk anybody out of it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: There you go.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Have a good day.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, Counsel. I\u2019ve wanted to stave off some of you home-school parents, too, because I know you\u2019re going to think your kids are going to stop exercising because they\u2019re listening to me because you home-school \u2019em, and that\u2019s, ladies and gentlemen, something that you — what\u2019s the old Charles Barkley line, ‘I\u2019m not a role model.\u2019 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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