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<\/p>\nRUSH: Jerome in Traverse City, Michigan. You\u2019re next on Open Line Friday. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: How\u2019s it going, Rush?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Hey! We\u2019re doing great today. Thank you.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, I\u2019m just calling in to say that, you know, you saved my life, man. You changed my life completely around. You saved me from a bad place. I made a mistake when was 18 years old and got sentenced to 18 years in city in Texas, right? I\u2019m from Traverse City, though, up here in Michigan. And four years into my eight year sentence I got segged up [put in Administrative Segregation, a form of solitary] because I had got into a fight with a guard. Well, whenever I got segged up, they took away all my TV privilege. All I had was my radio and they play the same songs over and over.<\/p>\n
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So I was like, “You know what? AM talk shows! That right there could be like TV or whatever,” and I switched over to AM, and I discovered 1470 KYYW, in Abilene, Texas. And listening over… I started listening about 4-1\/2 years ago, give or take, and it just completely changed my whole shape of view in life. And now I\u2019m out. I\u2019ve got me a good phone, I\u2019ve got me a good job, I\u2019ve got…<\/p>\n
I\u2019m out of my parents\u2019 house and stuff. I immediately just hit streets, and I\u2019m a 26-year-old Millennial. So this is coming from a Millennial and stuff. I just am constantly getting in debates in the streets with people who don\u2019t really know what they\u2019re talking about and also trying to teach people what conservatism really is and try to teach people how our government\u2019s really supposed to run.<\/p>\n
RUSH: This is incredible. This… I\u2019ve got goosebumps listening to you.<\/p>\n
CALLER: (chuckles)<\/p>\n
RUSH: I really do. The way you described it, you are a hell of a storyteller.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I mean, like, four years into my sentence, I was still talking about jumping it up from burglaries of houses to armed robbery, and then I discovered your show.<\/p>\n
RUSH: And you discovered it because they took your TV privileges away.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Because I was screwing up that bad.<\/p>\n
RUSH: And you got sick and tired of the same playlists over and over and all the music stations, so you —<\/p>\n
CALLER: And then I completely discovered, like, how I all my life as far as in schools, how I\u2019ve been lied to all my life by the media. Like —<\/p>\n
RUSH: When you…? Can —<\/p>\n
CALLER: When I went into seg, I thought Barack Obama was the best thing ever. And then once I started actually, like, learning and stuff like that and seeing how he\u2019s actually screwed up our country, you\u2019ll never catch me saying that ever.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Can I ask you a question about when you got sent to prison?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019m not gonna ask you why, what for, but when you look back on it… Where you are in your life now, you think that a lot of people told you things that weren\u2019t true?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: They had you set up for different thing. Do you think that any of that contributed to the life you were living that got you thrown in jail, or was that nothing to do with it; you were just doing stuff you shouldn\u2019t have been doing?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, I wouldn\u2019t say… I mean, well, actually there was a lot of stuff, though, as far as like how I would see all in the media about like, how bad the police are and stuff like that. And that gave me no respect for authority and stuff because I felt like everybody… They were all out to get me and stuff like that, because I was brainwashed into thinking, “Okay, well, you\u2019re in the streets. You don\u2019t have, like, a lot of… You know, you don\u2019t come from like a lot of money and stuff like that.” You know, my mom worked as a waitress and stuff —<\/p>\n
RUSH: So they talked you into or they influenced you —<\/p>\n
CALLER: — and that talked me into believing that I didn\u2019t get a chance.<\/p>\n
RUSH: — into an adversarial relationship with law enforcement?<\/p>\n
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CALLER: Exactly. They taught me that I had no chance really, and try to preach to people every single day that you do have a chance. You do have a chance to become an elitist. I was talking to my stepdad one day and, you know, I told him that I wanted to open up rehab and I also wanted to open up a string of businesses. And he told me, “Well, you know, you should just focus on your factory job.” I\u2019ve already signed up for college.<\/p>\n
I know what I\u2019m gonna do, and he\u2019d say, “Because all those dreams just might not come true. They might just not come like that. There\u2019s a lot more…” And I told him, I said, “You know, that I say the difference between me and you. You\u2019re an average citizen. Me, I\u2019m an elitist. I know I can make it to the top. Nobody can tell me I can\u2019t. You know, and that\u2019s the thing, though. There\u2019s so many success stories. Look at Dr. Ben Carson.”<\/p>\n
RUSH: Let me tell you, what you just said there is so important, and I have often thought that many people end up in life where they end up because family members or parents or other people who were influential with them basically said, “Don\u2019t start dreaming. You\u2019re just gonna get disappointed. Just stick with the way the family\u2019s operating now. Just stick with it. Take the safe route. Be this. Don\u2019t take any risks. Don\u2019t take any chances. You\u2019re not gonna succeed \u2019cause they\u2019re not gonna let you,” that kind of stuff. And you finally decided to stop listening to them.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Exactly. And the thing is, too, like, I\u2019m considered the black sheep of the family, probably. Me and my sister. I mean, my grandparents are conservative. My mom doesn\u2019t really get into politics. But any time she does, though, it\u2019s always leaning conservative. My aunt, my uncle? Die-hard conservatives. They\u2019re actually listening right now, because I texted everybody because I was so excited because I\u2019ve had this dream since I was in prison of talking to you on the radio.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Wow. This is boggling my mind. What —<\/p>\n
CALLER: I can remember pacing in my cell back and forth listening to your show on Open Line Friday just thinking, like, “You know what? One day I\u2019m gonna be out of here and one day I\u2019m gonna call and tell him how you saved my life.”<\/p>\n
RUSH: And here you are.<\/p>\n
CALLER: And like —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Here you are. And you\u2019re back home, you\u2019re Traverse City.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes, I\u2019m back home in Traverse City. And one… Like, I\u2019ve got, like, two quick things to say. One, I wanted to tell you very conservative political joke that\u2019s really funny. And then two, I wanted to tell you something by my niece who\u2019s two years old.<\/p>\n
RUSH: About your niece? Okay. Let\u2019s go with the conservative joke. People don\u2019t think conservatives are funny until they hear me. But I have it a shot.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Okay, Mr. Limbaugh. Check this out. How many liberals does it take to screw in a lightbulb.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Uh, let\u2019s see. None. They would refuse to do it.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Actually, it takes about 30 million. One to change the lightbulb. The rest are there just to make the other lightbulbs feel better about themselves for not working.<\/p>\n
RUSH: (laughing) I like it.<\/p>\n
CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, what about your niece?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Okay, my niece Ava, right, she\u2019s three years old. The other day I was sitting in the car, and this right here has actually driven me to want to get your books about Liberty<\/a>. We\u2019re in the car, she\u2019s three years old, mind you. She\u2019s very, very smart for her age. She\u2019s been tested at like five-year-old level at the age of two, two and a half. One day she was spinning a fidget spinner and she said it\u2019s spinning like rotators on a helicopter. So it shows you how smart she is.<\/p>\n RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n CALLER: But she pointed at a car, at a muffler, and said, “That causes pollution.” Where are three-year-olds learning stuff like this?<\/p>\n RUSH: What do you think?<\/p>\n CALLER: Well, I mean, I know she watches a lot of these little shows and stuff like that, which teach her a lot of good things, but then I also started seeing that they\u2019re indoctrinating our kids —<\/p>\n RUSH: They are.<\/p>\n CALLER: — at a very young age, three years old.<\/p>\n RUSH: Absolutely. You\u2019re so right. When I was growing up — well, little bit beyond after I was growing up, a TV show called Captain Planet was about how —<\/p>\n CALLER: Yeah. I remember that show.<\/p>\n RUSH: — a superhero fighting a Big Business, destroying the planet. You could watch something like Animal Planet, and they would do a feature on how pollution, and they might show a car muffler destroying a giraffe over here. Some such thing.<\/p>\n CALLER: It\u2019s like you said many times, who\u2019s to say that this right here is the normal temperature for the earth?<\/p>\n CALLER: She\u2019ll love that.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/05RevereRush.jpg\")
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<\/a>RUSH: Exactly! What kind of vanity is it that right now is what\u2019s normal, exactly right. Well, I\u2019ll tell you what, look, this is an amazing story. I want you to hang on so that we can get a shipping address because I want to send you all of the Rush Revere books and the Liberty doll for your niece<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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