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RUSH: Here\u2019s Ray in Burlington, Connecticut. Welcome, Ray, great to have you with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s a pleasure, Rush. I\u2019m going to ruin everyone\u2019s day by calling that guy that had the mercury poisoning a fruitcake.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a second, wait a second, the fruitcake from Rockwall, Texas?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Why are you calling him a fruitcake?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, really what he did was collect on his employer\u2019s time, his insurance and wasted a lot of time from other people. Mercury poisoning, we use to play with mercury as kids. We used to make lead coins, cover them with mercury, and pass it. Illegal but we did it, just for fun.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Was this elemental mercury?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Could have.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It is elemental mercury that provides the fumes here that then provides or causes the damage.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, if you would have been dealing with elemental mercury and you\u2019re putting it on nickels or whatever you said, lead coins, you, too, would have been made uncomfortable by the fumes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I hate to tell you, I\u2019m 76, and I was about 14 when I did this. And I survived.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, now that you say that, I understand. Frankly, I can understand in a fashion, although I don\u2019t agree with you that the guy from Rockwall, Texas, was a fruitcake about this. I mean the Centers for Disease Control is warning everybody about these fumes and there are hazmat teams that have to fumigate houses where one of these bulbs breaks. But I understand, we\u2019re a bunch of babies. I\u2019ve seen the thing that floats around on the Internet that we played with lead toys back when we were growing up, kept the front doors open, we\u2019d go out and play all day, never see our parents for six or seven hours. They didn\u2019t worry about what was going to happen. We rode bicycles and crossed the streets and so forth, and now everybody\u2019s babied and nannied and assumed that virtually every breath you take is a life-threatening event, every step you take is a life-threatening event. And every step and breath that you take has to be regulated by some government agency and that nobody has responsibility for what they do anymore. It\u2019s always somebody else\u2019s fault when something goes wrong. <\/p>\n

I can understand that you at 76 years old would look at succeeding generations as a bunch of wimps and a bunch of weaklings and in many ways, in many ways out there, Ray, I could agree with you. I mean they\u2019ve had to invent their own traumas out there in order to make themselves believe that life was tough. But look at you, playing with mercury. Metal coins, nickel coins, puts mercury on and passed it around. I\u2019m like you. I\u2019m one of the most, the practical jokes that I played back when I played \u2019em, they were over the top. They were over the line. Today, they\u2019re nothing. But they, when I did some of the stuff that I did — and I announced it shortly after this program began back in 1988, much of it my mother was learning for the first time. (laughing) Dawn\u2019s saying, ‘He still has no remorse over what he did.\u2019 No, it was fun. Some of the most fun times of my life. I certainly didn\u2019t like school in my childhood, so many of my practical jokes were aimed at the school. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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