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RUSH: Okay, back to the phones we go, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, Rush Limbaugh, serving humanity by being here. <\/p>\n

James, Statesville, North Carolina, great to have you. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thanks for taking my call. How are you today?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m well. Thank you for asking.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m glad to hear it. Well, I wanted to talk about the transitional people. And you discussed transgender and transable, but there are a couple things that haven\u2019t been touched on. And one of those is that many people believe in reincarnation, and there are cases of people who believe that they have been reincarnated in a human body with the soul of an animal. And that\u2019s something —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Give me an example of someone I might know, say a public figure or celebrity, who thinks that they\u2019ve been reincarnated as an animal in a human body.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I cannot.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But you know that this is happening, some people have the soul of an animal, and nobody\u2019s talking about this, we\u2019re all focused on transgenders and transables, but a whole group that we\u2019re ignoring?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, we\u2019re not necessarily ignoring. It\u2019s just not particularly common. And I bring it up because there was a period in my own life when I was in college —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — and I had gone through a somewhat traumatic breakup, and I played a lot of Ultimate Frisbee. And are you familiar with Ultimate Frisbee?<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Am I familiar with Ultimate Frisbee? Well —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know what Frisbees are. Is Ultimate Frisbee a game? <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. One of the main rules is that if you catch the Frisbee you must throw it before you can move, so you can\u2019t run with the Frisbee. Other than that the rules are basically like football. And I got very involved in that game and it just incensed me that I couldn\u2019t run with the Frisbee. So while I was in school I began seeing a counselor, at the school, and complaining to him that the only thing that I wanted, after becoming so involved, was to be able to run with the Frisbee. And I sarcastically said, “Maybe I\u2019m like a dog or something or –“<\/p>\n

RUSH: You say this happened to you after a traumatic breakup of a relationship, traumatic breakup?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. It was just very ugly. Nothing actually terrible happened other than breakup which resulted in —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. I\u2019m having trouble hearing you, and —<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m sorry.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — I\u2019m having trouble following you. And you said “dog.” I\u2019ve watched dogs chase Frisbee at halftime at football games. Is that what you\u2019re talking about, Ultimate Frisbee?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, it\u2019s its own sport that humans play. But one way or the other I became convinced for a month or so that my actual spirit being was that of a dog —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — in a human.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So transspecies in other words?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I got it. I got it. Yeah. But only for a month, only for a month?<\/p>\n

CALLER: A couple of months, but less than a year. And it was while I was going to — I continued to see this counselor —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ve gotta hold on. I\u2019ve got a break coming up here, and if you can hold on —<\/p>\n

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

RUSH: — we\u2019ll continue this. We will, yeah, after the break.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, we\u2019re back here now to James in Statesville, North Carolina. Let me see if I understand this, because the last thing I want to do is make a mistake here in understanding. You have had times in your life where you\u2019ve felt like you had the soul of a dog following a traumatic breakup with a woman who mistreated you profoundly. And in that time of when you had the soul of a dog, you enjoyed playing Ultimate Frisbee. <\/p>\n

And your point is that while everybody\u2019s focusing on transgendered, male-to-female, female-to-male, and transabled, like the guy in Canada who really didn\u2019t want his left arm so he cut it off, you think that people who are transspecies like you are not receiving the full attention and awareness that you deserve or should have. That your cause or your circumstances are being overwhelmed and dwarfed by this Jenner business. Is that somewhat close?<\/p>\n

CALLER: That is certainly part of it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, what am I, in all of that, what, pray tell, am I missing?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, let me briefly finish my story. I quit playing Ultimate Frisbee and I began running very often.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, you quit playing Ultimate Frisbee and started running. Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. After I was unable to deal with the fact that I couldn\u2019t run with the Frisbee.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. You caught the Frisbee and you were paralyzed.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. It\u2019s very aggravating. It\u2019s very aggravating for most players of the game. It\u2019s part of the challenge.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. I understand that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But I\u2019d gone for a run very late one night and I\u2019d just seen my counselor, and he had been encouraging me to consider the fact that I may have the soul of something other than a human in my human body.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Which would explain why you couldn\u2019t run with the Frisbee?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Something like that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. Well, I\u2019m just trying to understand. I\u2019m not putting words in your mouth, but I\u2019m trying to understand this. I\u2019m trying to associate the Frisbee paralysis with the Frisbee, traumatic breakup with the woman, and the counselor saying that you might have the soul of an animal.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. Well, the traumatic breakup really only served to make me somewhat unstable for a period of time. That\u2019s why I brought it up.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ah. And it was during that period of instability that —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I see. I see.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And I\u2019d gone on a run, and I found late at night that I had to use the restroom.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, you\u2019re not gonna tell me that you stopped at a fire hydrant, please.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, no, no. I\u2019m not. But I stopped in the woods. I was running on a trail, and it was late at night, there weren\u2019t many other people, and so I was very close to the edge of the trail and another runner came by —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Uh-oh.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — with a dog, and began telling me that I was too close to the trail. I responded by saying, “I\u2019m not really close to the trail.” There weren\u2019t a lot of people, and she said, “No, you\u2019re entirely too close to the trail.” (beeping) I\u2019m sorry.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think you need to put your seat belt on there, yeah, seat belt chime, be a bad thing in your shape. Okay. Well, we are more aware. I think your call has served the purpose of raising our consciousness. I still don\u2019t know what\u2019s the point about being too close to the trail. Why? The trail is just as much yours as anybody else\u2019s, even if you thought you were a dog. In fact, even more so if you thought you were an animal.<\/p>\n

Anyway, we practice great sensitivity here at the EIB Network, and we are not for the discrimination or the suppression of any species or gender or orientation or what have you. I appreciate the call out there, James, very much. <\/p>\n

Susan in central New York. Great to have you here. Hello.<\/p>\n

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

RUSH: Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you so much. I\u2019m calling because I\u2019ve been so surprised that for the last six or seven weeks no one at all has mentioned the Chastity-Chas Bono transition. And, to me, there\u2019s a big difference in the way it\u2019s played out. I thought that Cher handled the whole transition female to male very classy. There was no big rollout. There was no big show coming up or —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — anything like that. There was really a ring of sincerity about it. And a couple of years ago it seems to me I saw him, Chas, show up in the Ellen show, announcing his engagement to a very lovely girl, who he had with him. And I was, up until that point, very kind of, you know, very uncomfortable —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m just thinking what the Stick-to-the-Issues Crowd must be thinking right now.<\/p>\n

CALLER: He was so lovely. And I don\u2019t want to say “lovely” in a female sense. He was so charming —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — so sincere —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Chas Bono, you mean.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — so much in love, and somehow that fell through, and I felt very bad about it. But it\u2019s so different from —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — the Jenner —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, you know, that\u2019s a great point. Now that you say it, now that you mention it, I, too, am shocked that no one has mentioned Chas Bono. I didn\u2019t even think of Chas Bono during all of this. I can\u2019t understand why. I didn\u2019t see the Ellen show that you talked about. (interruption) No, I\u2019ve never seen the Ellen show, but that doesn\u2019t mean anything. I\u2019ve seen Ellen\u2019s wife, or husband, hell, I don\u2019t know which is which. Portia. She\u2019s on Scandal, Portia de Rossi or whatever. But I\u2019ve never seen the Ellen show. Chas Bono. Yeah, that was Chas Bono. Susan, thanks for the call. I\u2019m sitting here with all this, I\u2019m wondering what the Stick-to-the-Issues Crowd\u2019s saying about now. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Bob in Vale, Oregon. It\u2019s great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Mr. Limbaugh. It\u2019s a pleasure to talk to you, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019ll trying to make it quick. Classic case of American trans-ethnicity. Do you remember some public information spots on TV years ago: A river littered with garbage and on the bank a noble Indian with a tear in his eye —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yeah.<\/p>\n