{"id":387145,"date":"2021-03-17T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T18:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=387145"},"modified":"2021-03-18T15:59:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T19:59:54","slug":"limbaugh-lexicon-the-disgronificator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/03\/17\/limbaugh-lexicon-the-disgronificator\/","title":{"rendered":"The Disgronificator and Rio Linda"},"content":{"rendered":"

BRETT: Now, it\u2019s no secret I\u2019m a huge fan of what Rush did across all the years, and one of my favorite things is Rush\u2019s sense of humor. It was absolutely top-notch, and there were certain things he would do that were just so special, including inventing terms — terms that people would find themselves scratching their heads, wondering what he was talking about. One of my favorites was “the disgronificator.”<\/a> That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: My first car was a Pontiac. I wanted to get a GTO, 1969, but I couldn\u2019t afford it. I had to get a LeMans. It had the same body, a little bit different grille. Not as snazzy an interior and certainly not as big an engine. The GTO was awesome. Beach Boys sang about it. “Little GTO-oooo” Well, the Beach Boys sang all kinds of cars, car crashes, death, flames, crashes.<\/p>\n

\"\"Still, they sang about GTO. So I had a LeMans. I did have the money to order a walnut shift knob. It was a four-speed. That was the one liberty I took. (interruption) No, that car that I was told needed a new disgronificator was a Pontiac Bonneville. (laughing) My first car was a Pontiac. My second car was a Buick and my third car was a Pontiac. Now there aren\u2019t any Pontiacs anymore.<\/p>\n

(laughing) Kansas City, making no money, 1979, old Pontiac Bonneville on its last legs, air-conditioner is not working, and then the engine just goes nuts. I\u2019m out near the Kansas City Royals stadium at the time, Royals\u2019 stadium, so I pull into this mechanic, this auto repair shop, the mechanic had a plastic Jesus on the cash register, I said, “This is the place for me.”<\/p>\n

So I took it in there, and the guy looked at it and said, “You need a new disgronificator.” I said, “I never heard of that, what do you mean?” “Well, you can\u2019t drive without it. You can leave here and you might get a couple, three miles but you\u2019re going to be back here.” “How much it cost?” “Eight hundred bucks.” Eight hundred bucks for a disgronificator.<\/p>\n

\"\"I didn\u2019t have another car to use. I\u2019m in a jam here. So I said, “Okay, go ahead and put it in.” So we\u2019ve all had our experiences here. Somebody tells you something is wrong with your car, you can\u2019t fix it yourself, you just gotta get it done. And if it drives, maybe you\u2019ll get a second opinion someplace.<\/p>\n

BRETT: The disgronificator. The world famous, infamous disgronificator. Great stuff, man, great stuff.<\/p>\n

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BRETT: Last hour we talked about and we played the disgronificator, the source of the disgronificator story. Well, Rush had a great sense of humor. He always loved to have fun and laugh. Rio Linda was the butt of many jokes, especially when it came to explaining things. He\u2019d cite a word or a phrase and then give the Rio Linda version. It was always in good fun and came to be a staple of the program with Rush behind the microphone. There was even a time when Rio Linda tried to clean up their image after years of Rush\u2019s jabs<\/a>. Let\u2019s go back.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Why do I dump on Rio Linda? Well, because when I moved to Sacramento in \u201984, I was driving around. I needed to get familiar with the area \u2019cause I\u2019m gonna be doing a radio show there. So I need to get to know the area. I\u2019m driving through this town. The population sign didn\u2019t have a number on it. Nobody will admit to living there, and then I\u2019m driving around. They\u2019ve got cars with no tires on the porch, on the front porch, and you got washers and dryers on the front.<\/p>\n

\"\"I said, “What is this place?” and I offered to move. I offered to move there if they would rename it “Limbaugh, California.” I offered to move there to rename it to raise property values, and they rejected me. So that\u2019s that. That\u2019s the backstory of Rio Linda. If they woulda just renamed it “Limbaugh,” I would have moved there, and there would have never been any jokes about it.<\/p>\n

Anyway, they\u2019re not happy with me there, and I think they should love me. I have put Rio Linda on the map. I have no doubt been instrumental in elevating, raising property values and a nationwide awareness of the place. But I have here a report in KCRA-TV 3, the NBC affiliate in Sacramento, and it\u2019s from Thursday night, and they reported about folk art in Rio Linda.<\/p>\n

Apparently, they\u2019ve got a new project out there to make barn quilts. They\u2019re putting folk art barn quilts around town to combat stereotypes spread by me. So we go to the sound bite here. This is KCRA-TV 3 Sacramento. This is the anchor Lisa Gonzales: “New American folk art is popping up all over Rio Linda. It\u2019s quality Barn Quilts, courtesy of a group of women in town. And this is the report.”<\/p>\n

BRIAN HEAP: As KCRA 3\u2019s Leticia Ordaz reports, the brightly painted blocks on barns, homes, businesses, and landmarks are hoping to erase stereotypes and spread community pride.<\/p>\n

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