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RUSH: I tell you, Kathryn and I had so much fun last night when it was time to call the winner of our latest Two If By Tea sweepstakes, which is the cruise, the big cruise. We always have fun calling these winners.<\/a> We do it ourselves. So the winner of the seven-day cruise from the most recent sweepstakes is a guy in Parker, Colorado, named Dan. So we go to the desk and Kathryn turns on the call blocking and we dial. Half the time we get voice mail and leave them a message telling them they won, but sometimes they pick up. Last night, Dan answered the phone.<\/p>\n

I said, “Hey, Dan! It\u2019s Rush Limbaugh and my wife Kathryn here from Two If By Tea, and we are bearers of great news for you. You\u2019ve just won the great prize, a week-long cruise. You board in Ft. Lauderdale and sail the eastern Caribbean,” blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.<\/p>\n

Silence. For what seemed like 20 seconds.<\/p>\n

Kathryn said, “Hello? Are you there?”<\/p>\n

He said, “It can\u2019t be you. It can\u2019t be you.”<\/p>\n

“No, it really is.” I started talking about environmentalist wackos.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

He asked me, “Can we smoke on the cruise?”<\/p>\n

I said, “Yeah. Not only can you smoke on the cruise, you can throw the cigar in the ocean and hope some environmentalist wacko sees you do it,” and that\u2019s when he knew it was me.<\/p>\n

Then he said, “I don\u2019t believe it. I can\u2019t believe it! I can\u2019t believe it!”<\/p>\n

“Well, it\u2019s us. It really is.”<\/p>\n

Folks, I can\u2019t tell you how much fun this is to call these winners because we luck out; they\u2019re all great people. This guy is 50 years old. Do you know what this guy did? This guy told his wife that he was gonna enter this contest and buy some tea to win her this cruise for her 50th birthday. That\u2019s what he told us. And she wasn\u2019t at home so he asked us if we would call her because he didn\u2019t think that she would believe it.<\/p>\n

So we said, “Sure, we\u2019ll call her.”<\/p>\n

Her name is Jane. So we called, and it rang and rang and rang.<\/p>\n

I said, “You know what? He\u2019s on the phone with her telling her not to answer so it will go to voice mail, so that they\u2019ll be able to prove to people it\u2019s really us; that we called \u2019em.” And that\u2019s what happened. Our call went to voice mail and we left the message. So they\u2019re the winners of the big Two If By Tea sweepstakes, the big seven-day cruise. He told his wife he bought some tea and was gonna win her a cruise for her birthday. She didn\u2019t think he was serious. I tell you, it\u2019s just so much fun with people like this. They\u2019re so appreciative and there\u2019s an almost magical component to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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