{"id":9099,"date":"2014-06-20T18:06:39","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T18:06:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-06-20T18:06:39","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T18:06:39","slug":"what_would_i_do_if_i_didn_t_do_this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/06\/20\/what_would_i_do_if_i_didn_t_do_this\/","title":{"rendered":"What Would I Do If I Didn\u2019t Do This?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/60632\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: The Official Program Observer has a question.  What is it? (interruption) Mmm-hmm. (interruption) Oh, wow.  If I&#8230;? (interruption) El Snerdbo has asked me what I would be passionate about if I, what, retired, or just was not doing this at all? (interruption) If I was not doing radio, what would I have done? Well, that was the problem. <\/p>\n<p>You know, when I got fired for the fifth time and left radio, I was 28 and went to work for the Kansas City Royals. I thought I was finished in radio. I\u2019d given it my best shot.  Being a DJ didn\u2019t work out, and I was not passionate about working for a baseball team.  It\u2019s just what was available.  I tried to make the most of it, but I found out that I wasn\u2019t cut out for corporate conformity.<\/p>\n<p>(interruption) No,  I never wanted to be a pilot.  I didn\u2019t want to do anything else.  Well, I always said that I would run an airport if I weren\u2019t doing this.  I\u2019m fascinated by how that all works.  But this has been my one passion. I don\u2019t know. (interruption) Oh. Snerdley has said he can see me running a tech company.  No, no, I like being a customer too much. <\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_92436\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushRealvilleSignSmokinRush.jpg\"\/><BR\/>One thing I learned about working for the baseball team: Once something that is a hobby or a vocational passion becomes your job, it totally changes.  I got to the point where in year five, I was hoping the team didn\u2019t make the playoffs because I was ready for 18-hour days to end.  Well, I couldn\u2019t tell anybody that.  Making the playoffs, going on the World Series (chuckles), that\u2019s what it\u2019s all about. <\/line><\/p>\n<p>But that had happened in the first year.  Well, second year for me.  So it was grueling, and it wasn\u2019t a whole lot of money, either.  But this has been the only real passion that I\u2019ve had. One of those times I got fired, I thought about going into radio sales, until I had an interview with a sales manager at a station in Kansas City and the guy was a genuine lunatic. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m interviewing for the job and he\u2019s yelling and screaming at me about what his demands will be and what they are. I\u2019m saying, &#8220;Geez, I have to face this every day?&#8221; He was a genuine shouting, maniacal guy.  It\u2019s like sometimes I think people behave in front of me just to see what I will do or how I will react to, say, what they think is outrageous.  When I met Shimon Peres in his office in Israel&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>On my famed trip to Israel in the Summer of 1993, Rabbi Nate Siegel was one of my hosts along with Malcolm Hoenlein of the American Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.  It was five days that was worth a college semester.  It was five jam-packed days.  By the way, Nate Siegel just had a birthday.  I sent a video.  Did you ever get an acknowledgment on that video? (interruption)<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t either so I don\u2019t know if he got it, but I sent him a Dittocam birthday greeting. Anyway, we had meetings with Yitzhak Rabin and with Shimon Peres in his office, and in the meeting with Peres, he kept undoing his belt.  He\u2019s sitting there and he kept undoing his belt and then rebuckling it. He\u2019d look at the holes in his belt while we\u2019re talking.<\/p>\n<p>His first topic of conversation with me was the importance of trees and greenery to everything.  It\u2019s like somebody had given him a briefing and he thought that I was some extreme, wacko right-winger walking in there and he was trying to taunt me.  So this sales manager, who knows what this guy thought.  The guy was shouting and screaming and throwing things off of his desk, and showing me what he was going to be demanding every day in terms of sales.<\/p>\n<p>This guy every day in a sales meeting? No way. <\/p>\n<p>This is the long version here of telling you that this is why I\u2019m so fortunate.  I was able to end up doing what I think I was born to do.  I\u2019ve never had passion for anything else &#8212; I mean, career-wise &#8212; like I\u2019ve got for this. (interruption) Thought about being an actor?  I\u2019ve never thought about being an actor. By the way, you have to temper all of these thoughts with: If I ever did, what are the odds?<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no way, unless I became a liberal first.<\/p>\n<p>You know, folks, let me tell you. I\u2019m watching some things happen in the media.  There are a lot of&#8230; I shouldn\u2019t say &#8220;a lot.&#8221;  There are some noteworthy supposed conservatives in the media who are all of a sudden gaining a lot of praise from the Drive-By Media.  I\u2019m going to tell you, that is highly seductive. When you start getting universal accolades and praise from those people, it\u2019s tough to resist. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Big Clique wants you,&#8221; is the way it works, and I\u2019m starting to sense that happen to some in the media that you have always thought to be conservative.  I can\u2019t ever imagine something like that happening to me.  So being an actor? No way.  I\u2019ve never wanted to be.  I mean, that\u2019s not actually true.  To be honest, there\u2019s a whole lot of stuff I would like to try.  Just tons of it.  But in terms of making careers out of them? No.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: The Official Program Observer has a question. What is it? (interruption) Mmm-hmm. (interruption) Oh, wow. If I&#8230;? (interruption) El Snerdbo has asked me what I would be passionate about if I, what, retired, or just was not doing this at all? (interruption) If I was not doing radio, what would I have done? 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