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<\/p>\nRUSH: Oh, oh, Ali? I need a guinea pig caller. I mean, it could be a real caller. I need one of you people on the phones to conduct a test, and we can only do this test live on the air. You know how I have complained loudly for years that when you are on the phone — particularly if you\u2019re using a cell phone — that if you\u2019re talking to me and I want to converse with you while you\u2019re speaking, you can\u2019t hear me?<\/p>\n
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Either that or all of you are rude and you just filibuster and keep talking. But I don\u2019t think that\u2019s it. You can\u2019t hear me. It\u2019s kind of like if you have a speakerphone in your house and whoever\u2019s talking on the speaker, you try to talk to them, they can\u2019t hear you. It\u2019s all because of noise cancellation. It\u2019s because of mix-minus and a number of other dazzling electronic theories that I need not mention here.<\/p>\n
The bottom line is, callers can\u2019t hear me, particularly when they\u2019re on cell calls talking to me. So we are trying to fix that with some of our high-state equipment here. We need to test it. I tell you, it gets frustrating. You call here, you expect to have conversations, and people say things that inspire questions or comments from me and they can\u2019t hear me unless I start yelling — and even then! Even then, they can\u2019t. So we want to test it. We made some adjustments. We need to find out if that\u2019s worked.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: El Rushbo behind the Golden EIB Microphone. Okay, we\u2019re going to do this phone test here. We have Heather here from Rock Hill, South Carolina. She has agreed to participate in the test. Heather, how are you doing?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Home-school dittos, Rush. Just calling to let you know that we really appreciate your insight into President Trump\u2019s administration, and we just appreciate, you know, all that you\u2019ve done to combat the negative media that he\u2019s getting as he\u2019s trying to do the best for our country.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, I appreciate that. You are very shrewd to recognize… In fact, after the president\u2019s appearance on the program on Wednesday, I had an interesting note from… I don\u2019t want to drop any names because people expect privacy when they get a hold of me. But somebody you would all know who is in the news business, said, “You know, it was a great interview you did with Trump, but you know why? It\u2019s amazing to me…”<\/p>\n
He\u2019s talking to me. He\u2019s sending a note. “It\u2019s amazing to me the difference of people that talk to Trump who get him and understand him and the people who don\u2019t, and he\u2019s a completely different person when he\u2019s talking with somebody he knows, understands what he\u2019s about, who he is and what he\u2019s talking about. He\u2019s less prone to be provocative and that kind of thing.” You\u2019re very shrewd to pick up on that.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: Yes, well, you said once that liberals take him literally and his supporters don\u2019t, and I think that\u2019s one of the first times that I really realized why voters understand him and the media doesn\u2019t. Because we understand what he\u2019s getting at and we\u2019re not concerned with every little verbal mistake that he makes. So my husband and I were actually at the rally October 14th when he flipped the teleprompter away and said he wasn\u2019t going to pay for it. We thought that was hysterical. But then, you know, the next day the media just went nuts. It\u2019s just the way he is.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, the media goes nuts all the time. Look, can you participate in a test with me? I thought you had been told about this but you weren\u2019t, so I\u2019m going to tell you now. Did you hear me before you called that I\u2019m having trouble conversing with people that are talking with me on the air when they\u2019re speaking that I can\u2019t hear them — and when I talk to them, they can\u2019t hear me or you can\u2019t hear me? We tried to make some adjustments. So what I need you to do is start talking. I don\u2019t care about what. You can count to 10, count to 20. Just keep talking and, at some point, I\u2019m going to interrupt you and I need to find out if you can hear me when I do. Are you willing to participate in this test?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay. Start. Just start talking. You can praise me. You can praise Trump. You can count to 10, it doesn\u2019t matter — and, at some point, I\u2019m going to interrupt you and I need to know if you can hear me or not. No more complicated than that. Are you ready? Three… 2, 1, go!<\/p>\n
RUSH: Can you hear me interrupt you now?<\/p>\n CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n RUSH: You did. Did you hear everything that I said? Did you hear me say, “Can you hear me interrupt you now?”<\/p>\n CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n RUSH: All right! Well, I appreciate that, and I\u2019m going to offer you a little prize for helping me work through this problem. Do you have…? Would you like a new iPhone?<\/p>\n CALLER: I would love one! (chuckles)<\/p>\n RUSH: What kind of iPhone do you have?<\/p>\n CALLER: I have an 8, but I have a teenager who has an older phone. So that might be a nice little upgrade for them.<\/p>\n RUSH: Oh cool. I\u2019ll send you an iPhone X and I\u2019m going to send you a 29-watt charger brick and a special cable. Do not use the charger and the cable in the box. The one I\u2019m gonna send you will charge it twice as fast. It\u2019s unlocked doesn\u2019t have a SIM card in it. It will work on any carrier you\u2019ve got. So if you can hang on and give Ali the address we should send this thing to you at, you might even have it tomorrow depending how fast we can get it out.<\/p>\n RUSH: Why, you\u2019re more than welcome.<\/p>\n CALLER: You\u2019re great.<\/p>\n RUSH: I appreciate that and I appreciate you participating in the test. This is just one. We may have to do it again later in the program. But it\u2019s been a big bugaboo to not be able to have the callers be able to hear me when they were speaking. Clearly, she was able to hear me. So whatever adjustments we made in there, at least in this instance, have been successful.<\/p>\n But, of course, testing must be thorough, and it must try to incorporate all the possibilities, characteristics, circumstances. So we\u2019ll continue to conduct the test. But every further test will be one that I do not tell the caller I may be conducting a test. We\u2019ll just actually do it in real-world conditions and see how things work out.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: It is Open Line Friday. So here is Tom. He\u2019s calling from Canada. Where are you in Canada, Tom?<\/p>\n CALLER: I\u2019m in Kingston, Ontario, sir, just north of Watertown, New York.<\/p>\n CALLER: I just wanted to say I\u2019ve not been to a movie theater in almost 20 years —<\/p>\n RUSH: Wow.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/05Rushrevere650.jpg\")
<\/a>CALLER: Okay, we\u2019re also a home-schooling family and I wanted to let you know how much we appreciate your Rush Revere book series<\/a> —<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/OLED.jpg\")
CALLER: Thank you so much, Rush.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Canada-Caller-b.jpg\")
RUSH: Ontario. Well, great to have you here. What\u2019s up? What\u2019s shaking?<\/p>\n
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CALLER: It was very good.<\/p>\n