It’s Amazing What Makes News Here
Apr 3, 2019
RUSH: You know, it amazes me what makes news that happens on this program. You know, yesterday Mr. Snerdley and I were talking about Mick Jagger and his heart valve surgery that he’s gonna get done in the U.S. instead of the U.K. national health system, whatever it is. That’s its own little interesting point.
But here is Mick Jagger, who is, I have to say, he’s a health nut. He’s a vegan, he did everything right after his initial flirtation as a young rock guy with all of the temptations out there. He is rail thin. He is well known as a physical fitness aficionado. I don’t even think the guy consumes adult beverages anymore. And he’s got a heart valve replacement operation slated in a couple of days, on Friday, gonna have it done in New York.
On the other side, here you got Keith Richards, who I think has sampled every recreational and pharmaceutical drug there is that alters the mind. He has spent his life doing this. He has spent his life smoking cigarettes like a chimney. He has consumed, and continues to consume, adult beverages in quantities people can’t keep up with. And the guy doesn’t have a single health problem. He looks like he does, but he doesn’t.
So I made mention of this on the program the other day and just refreshed your memory of that discussion. So let’s go to CNN International newsroom last night. Anchor John Vause speaking to the Emory Structural Heart and Valve Center co-director, Dr. Vasilis Babaliaros, about Mick Jagger’s heart surgery. To set things up they played a clip of me.
VAUSE: Talk show host Rush Limbaugh seemed to put into words what many were thinking. Listen to this.
RUSH ARCHIVE: This boggles my mind. Take a look at Keith Richards, the guy has defied everything. The guy has done so much coke, the guy has done so much heroin. He still gets up, drinks a bottle of beer first thing out of bed. He smokes cigarettes like he owns the tobacco company.
RUSH: And they used me to say, “Hey, hey, Limbaugh’s saying here what a lot of people are thinking.†And so they now go to the heart specialist at the Emory Structural Heart and Valve Center to have all of this explained to us.
BABALIAROS: Some of it’s luck. A lot of it’s genetics, and certainly diet doesn’t seem to affect valve disease that we’re aware of. So though I think the vegan lifestyle or the vegan diet did help Mick do all his touring for years and years, I’m not sure it had any effect on his valve disease.
VAUSE: And Keith? (laughing)
BABALIAROS: Keith is an enigma and will remain so, a medical mystery. So we’re rooting for both of them.
RUSH: Yeah, but when you got guys like Keith out there, don’t they defy all the conventional wisdom? “No, no, no, Keith is an outlier. You shouldn’t follow in Keith –†Why not? Why not? I mean, Keith Richards has virtually challenged every medical requirement and then some, and he has survived, and, by the way, triumphed over all of them.
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RUSH: For those of you on the Dittocam, we’re gonna throw a couple of pictures up, and they’ll be at RushLimbaugh.com as well for those of you who are not members of Rush 24/7 and therefore do not have access to the Dittocam. Okay. Make the switch.
Which of these two guys looks like he’s having a heart problem that might need to be dealt with fairly soon? The guy on the left is Mick Jagger. The guy on the right is Keith Richards from this week, taken from a pool area I think at a hotel balcony. He’s outside his hotel room and that’s a little beer. This is early in the morning. By the way, that’s how his hair looks all the time. That’s not just pillow hair.
Which of those two guys looks to you like — the guy on the left is 75. The guy on the right is, I think, 73 or 74. The guy on the right is Keith Richards. He’s the lead guitarist and he’s half of the writing duo. By the way, he’s got an album, 30 years ago his first solo album and this is the anniversary week of it, that’s why he’s drinking a beer and hanging out at the hotel. He’s celebrating the remaster of his first solo album 30 years ago. Well, he’s probably drinking a beer ’cause it’s Wednesday, but I think the photo’s actually from Tuesday.
My favorite Stones record? Happy. Which is not a Mick Jagger lead vocal. In fact, I think it’s a Keith Richards lead vocal. Anyway, also Honky Tonk Woman. Well, yeah, Under My Thumb. Under My Thumb’s in my top five all-time favorite Stones tunes, yeah.
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