{"id":14210,"date":"2012-10-19T18:45:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T18:45:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-10-19T18:45:19","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T18:45:19","slug":"an_ex_lib_stumbles_across_the_truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/10\/19\/an_ex_lib_stumbles_across_the_truth\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ex-Lib Stumbles Across the Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: John in Gainesville, Florida. I\u2019m glad you called, sir. Great to have you on Open Line Friday.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. Just wanted to tell you an hour\u2019s worth of story in 30 seconds here. I could write a book on this, how I basically came from just being a default liberal like I like to say to people, to just being awakened to the truth.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You were a default liberal.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. It\u2019s just something that you don\u2019t set out and say you\u2019re a liberal, just literally you have three out of four networks that are liberal.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And you don\u2019t know better than a child. I mean literally all they talk about is Rush Limbaugh\u2019s racist, he\u2019s sexist, he\u2019s this, I mean, you get all this, you\u2019re literally taught from day one from these networks, Republicans are bad.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: They\u2019re all greedy old white men.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But you don\u2019t even think of yourself as liberal, you\u2019re just what\u2019s normal. Everybody else, these conservatives are a bunch of extremists.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But you\u2019re automatically lumped into the liberal category because they\u2019re gonna grab anybody they want to.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Just by default. I equate a liberal to being colorblind and one day you wake up and you\u2019re not colorblind, you realize that you\u2019re really conservative, you just didn\u2019t know it. I was working in a union for a sheet metalworker for five years, went through the whole program, and this union that was supposed to be protecting me, and this is how it all came about, was supposed to be protecting me, they\u2019re supposed to be there for your rights, literally a $20-an-hour package is what they call it, I\u2019m supposed to be paid $20 an hour for each hour that I work for each job. I literally never made a check working 40 hours over $400. You can do the math on that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So you got paid $10 an hour instead of the 20.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. The union was getting everything. They\u2019re a small form of government. I got laid off three times.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You mean you were paid the $20, but they deducted ten?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ho. And then the government took their share out of the —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, that\u2019s gross now. They get their share first and then the government gets their share.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wow.<\/p>\n

CALLER: So the synopsis of my whole story is, I literally was forced out of the union because of lack of work, and they\u2019re all government jobs, mind you. Every job we ever worked on was schools, military.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

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CALLER: Stuff I\u2019m realizing now that I\u2019m out in my own business. I literally, after being laid off the third time, told my wife, “I\u2019m sick of it. I don\u2019t want to be one of the statistics. I\u2019ll just start my own business. I\u2019ll even cut grass. That\u2019s what I did in high school.” I literally had to get… I\u2019m in Gainesville, Florida. I had to get six licenses to cut grass. We literally sold our TVs, our computers, everything.<\/p>\n

She literally hocked off her ring so I could buy $3,000 worth of equipment, so I wouldn\u2019t be push-mowing a 20-acre lot, and here we are. That\u2019s how I started listening to talk radio, started listening to you. I didn\u2019t search you out. You literally just happened to be the only station that would come in clear here on 97.3 The Sky in Gainesville. And that\u2019s how I started listening.<\/p>\n

I started listening, and I was literally listening with the aspect of, “I\u2019m gonna catch how racist you are, how sexist you are, how this you are.” I started realizing (chuckling) that you weren\u2019t saying anything that wasn\u2019t true. I wasn\u2019t even a fan of yours. I was… I like to call myself just an average American that\u2019s not stupid, \u2019cause a lot of people write off liberals as stupid. I don\u2019t consider myself to be stupid. I just consider myself to be colorblind, and all of a sudden I wake up one day and you see the whole picture because you\u2019re not colorblind anymore.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: So that\u2019s where we\u2019re at. Now, we\u2019re seven months into starting my own business and let me make one other point here real quickly. Poor people aren\u2019t paying to get their grass cut. These greedy old white men that own their own business?<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing)<\/p>\n

CALLER: They\u2019ve been the biggest encouragement for me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing)<\/p>\n

CALLER: They\u2019re the ones. As a matter of fact, Rush, I\u2019m telling you this. The really bad customers —<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) How long did it take you to figure that out, John, that poor people don\u2019t pay to get their grass cut?<\/p>\n

CALLER: One month.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing)<\/p>\n

CALLER: The people who do manage to get somebody else to pay for their lawn for \u2019em who are on government assistance, they\u2019re the hardest customers. You can\u2019t please them. Liberals don\u2019t even get along with each other. Half the liberals you talk to, they don\u2019t agree with homosexuality or they don\u2019t agree with abortion. They\u2019re just all self-interest. And what you realize is conservatism is about America\u2019s interests.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m just… I\u2019m sorry. I\u2019m in my thirties now and I\u2019m like a kid in a candy store. I\u2019m realizing I\u2019ve been asleep at the wheel all my life and I\u2019m probably saying stuff that\u2019s redundant to you all, but it\u2019s just amazing how many people are just asleep at the wheel. Literally, if they didn\u2019t have the media on their side, these elections wouldn\u2019t even be close.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me tell you something: This is not redundant. We love hearing these kinds of stories of self-realization. We love hearing it. And your magic word there was “truth.” That\u2019s what you stumbled across.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm-hmm!<\/p>\n

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RUSH: It\u2019s opened a whole new world for you, it sounds like. You sound like —<\/p>\n

CALLER: The government has been doing nothing. It\u2019s been in spite of the government. The government is unfair.<\/p>\n

RUSH: How is your landscaping business doing? How old is it? How long have you been doing it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Seven months, and I literally… I\u2019m not joking. We literally had to scrape up $75. We sold everything. Like I said, we sold everything we could sell and literally scratched up enough money to buy an ad in the newspaper. Which you have to do, by the way, to get a license here. (chuckles) And for 75 bucks I just literally put an ad: “Average lawn $25” and that got the phone ringing.<\/p>\n

People, all they see is you\u2019re willing to work. You show up on time. You do what you say you\u2019re gonna do. You\u2019re not coming there with piercings all in your body. You just look like a trustworthy person, and, let me tell you: In spite of the government, in spite of everything I had to go through, literally within two months I was making more than I was ever was when I was working and busting my tail.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know as well as I do it\u2019s a 24\/7 business, everybody just thinks you get to go in there and make your own hours.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Everybody who loves their job, it\u2019s basically 24\/7 \u2019cause it\u2019s not really work. I mean, it is, it is — and you need a break from it now and then. But if it\u2019s something you love or something you\u2019re committed to, you don\u2019t look at it as 24\/7.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: It\u2019s just what it is. You know, I would love to be able to help you here. I\u2019ve got, you know, the usual stash here of iPads and computers. I don\u2019t know how that would help you, or if you\u2019d just like to have one. I would love to give you a signature-engraved iPad.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely. (garbled) an iPhone. (chuckles)<\/p>\n

RUSH: You could sell that for a couple hundred bucks. (laughing)<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, actually one of the investments I made my third month in business was an iPhone to help my business out. We literally got rid of our Internet at home and chose to do this \u2019cause we literally sold everything. My wife literally had to get that back out of hock because that\u2019s where it was.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ll tell you what: People love hearing this because that\u2019s what you do.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You did what was necessary.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The government wasn\u2019t there. (laughs)<\/p>\n

RUSH: You did what was necessary. So, look, John, hang on here a minute. Mr. Snerdley will get the address and we\u2019ll send you an iPad. He\u2019ll get the color you want and all that kind of stuff from you, but I\u2019m really honored to have you in this audience. You\u2019re a great way to close the end of the day here, and we wish you all the best. Stick with it, man. The country needs people like you.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think John built his business, right? He built that. He built his landscaping business. He called it “cutting grass,” but it\u2019s gonna be “landscaping” before he knows it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: My friends, that\u2019s it. By the way, if you\u2019re in Gainesville, Florida, look for a guy\u2019s ad in the newspaper to cut your grass. His name is John. I neglected to get the name of his company but I\u2019m pretty sure it will be discovered fairly soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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