{"id":386218,"date":"2021-03-12T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=386218"},"modified":"2021-03-15T15:59:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T19:59:58","slug":"rio-linda-caller-recalls-safe-talk-in-sacramento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/03\/12\/rio-linda-caller-recalls-safe-talk-in-sacramento\/","title":{"rendered":"Rio Linda Caller Recalls &#8220;Safe Talk&#8221; in Sacramento"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TODD: It is Open Line Friday. We are talking to people about how Rush illustrated absurdity in ways that they remember. And there\u2019s a famous Open Line Friday call right here, not only is the caller a lifetime Limbaugh listener, he\u2019s from a town made famous by El Rushbo, Rio Linda, California.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-321989\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/APP-011218-Open-Line-Friday.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/APP-011218-Open-Line-Friday.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/APP-011218-Open-Line-Friday-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Branson, Missouri. Jack, welcome, sir. You\u2019re next on Open Line Friday. Hi.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hey, Rush. Thanks for taking my call.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You bet, sir. Welcome to the program.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah. Hey, so, I\u2019ve been listening to you for 34 years. Back in Sacramento in 1984.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Holy smokes!<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: (chuckling) I go way back.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You are a real lifer. Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I\u2019ve been with you the whole time, and I can remember the day, the first time you did safe talk.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: (chuckling)<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I lived in the suburb of Rio Linda, and I was driving down Highway 80 &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Wait a minute.<\/p>\n<div id=\"zype_5ec680d984eaa80001566ccc\"><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.zype.com\/embed\/5ec680d984eaa80001566ccc.js?api_key=6yUf3WZePk78GtpC3BXdZSqZ5ma_gYmV_rEJ8OYJZ0wq3AlDKM2RFnOcBN0xiMco&amp;controls=true\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>CALLER: &#8212; and I laughed so hard, I had to pull over.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You lived in Rio Linda?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I mean, I died laughing. I was laughing so hard, I had to pull over.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You lived in Rio Linda?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: A suburb of Rio Linda.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: &#8220;A suburb of Rio Linda.&#8221; I was gonna say, &#8220;Nobody admits it.&#8221; (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah. (laughing) Sacramento.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: (laughing) Safe talk. So you were laughing so hard you had to pull off the road?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I had to pull off, Rush, and I\u2019ve been laughing ever since. I really appreciate what you\u2019re doing, and really appreciate the opportunity to tell you.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: But you got any thoughts&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: That was way back. Sacramento is where you started and to get (garbled) &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Oh, I know.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: (laughing) It was real good.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I owe a lot to Sacramento. It was the first place in my entire radio career where I had any meaningful success at all, and I thoroughly&#8230; I lived there 3-1\/2 years, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I did. (interruption) What? (interruption) Safe talk? Safe talk? &#8220;What was safe talk?&#8221; Well, it was my way of illustrating absurdity by being absurd. That occurred back in 1984, \u201985, and back then safe sex was all the rage for a number of reasons, not spreading STDs and not getting pregnant and therefore not needing abortions.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-386231\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ZZ-APP-Rush-CLASSIC-R.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ZZ-APP-Rush-CLASSIC-R.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ZZ-APP-Rush-CLASSIC-R-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ZZ-APP-Rush-CLASSIC-R-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Abstinence, which works every time it\u2019s tried, was being laughed at and pooh-poohed as unrealistic. You can\u2019t say, &#8220;Just don\u2019t do it.&#8221; That\u2019s not&#8230; Do something. So safe sex came up and it basically meant use a condom. So I thought that I would demonstrate the folly of this belief by demonstrating safe talk. And what I did was, over a series of days &#8212; I didn\u2019t just do it once. First I grabbed a condom and I stretched it tight and I placed it on the microphone.<\/p>\n<p>We had photos of this being taken to prove it. This is before there were Dittocams or any of that. But the sound effect of the condom being placed on the microphone was unmistakable. And then after the condom was in place to demonstrate safe talk, I\u2019d ask people, &#8220;Do you think now if I say anything that offends you, that this condom will protect you? If I utter profanity, if I start engaging in activity that you don\u2019t want to hear, will this condom protect you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-386234\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/APP-20201-031221-Rush-Sacramento-Condom-Safe-Talk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/APP-20201-031221-Rush-Sacramento-Condom-Safe-Talk.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/APP-20201-031221-Rush-Sacramento-Condom-Safe-Talk-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/APP-20201-031221-Rush-Sacramento-Condom-Safe-Talk-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I said, &#8220;Of course it will because I\u2019m engaging in safe talk just like they are encouraging us to do safe sex,&#8221; and that\u2019s what he was talking about. Of course there were additions and additional aspects to it as it happened. It wasn\u2019t just a one-time bit. It had a point to make, so it was ongoing. And then that was followed by shortly after moving to New York the famous caller abortions, which is its own story. I doubt I could get away with that even today. I barely got away with that back in 1988.<\/p>\n<p>TODD: Those who joined Rush early in Rush\u2019s stellar career remember moments like that, and it\u2019s one of the things that drew people to him. Then they got the depth sizzled in the steak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TODD: It is Open Line Friday. 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