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RUSH: Here is Genevieve. She\u2019s 15 years old in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Great to have you, Genevieve. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Mr. Limbaugh. I first wanted to tell you what an honor it is to be able to speak to you today and that my family and I are praying for you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I appreciate that. And you know what? You know, what, I\u2019m praying for you too. I prayed for 30 minutes in bed last night for this to end because of what it\u2019s doing to everybody.<\/p>\n

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CALLER: Thank you, sir. And I\u2019m a Rush grandbaby, and I wanted to tell you how much I love listening to your show and reading your books. And the other week I was sitting in my room thinking about how you\u2019ve inspired me. And I realized that you reminded me of the prophet John the Baptist, who was sent before Jesus to prepare the world for his coming. And he inspired and educated the people for their own benefit, not for his own glorification. And because of this, the Pharisees, who I equated to today\u2019s leftists and elites, hated him for this. But he persevered through the hardships just as you do today. And I thank you for that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Genevieve, that\u2019s a mouthful for a 15-year-old. You\u2019re claiming that I taught you how to critically think? When do you have — don\u2019t misunderstand, but when have you had a chance to listen to the program? You\u2019re in school. Are you homeschooled, by any chance?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, I am.<\/p>\n

RUSH: A-ha. I knew it. I knew it had to be the answer. Well, aren\u2019t you sweet. That is a special compliment because it\u2019s one of the many things that I actually hope happens as a result of people listening to the program like this, is they end up thinking for themselves rather than just accepting.<\/p>\n

So many people are sheep, Genevieve. The experts, wherever they are, say something and you believe it, and conventional wisdom forms and that\u2019s groupthink and everybody goes along with it. And, if you question it, it takes guts to question conventional wisdom. It takes guts not to be a conformist. I could have never made it if I were a conformist. I\u2019m not a conformist. It\u2019s why I couldn\u2019t make it in corporate America. But you\u2019re ahead of the game. That\u2019s very, very flattering. I appreciate it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you. You\u2019ve certainly helped me with different debates and reports, and, that in itself, thank you for that. In eighth grade we had —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m sure your parents have had a lot to do with this, too, now. You can\u2019t give me all the credit \u2019cause I would take it. So you have to make sure you give your parents some of the credit too.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, they introduced me to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, see, there you go.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I had a speech meet, and I chose to do climate change for my debate, and all your facts definitely helped because —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, man. That is even better, that I helped you to see clear through the fog of deceit that is climate change, man-made climate change.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, that was my whole prompt.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, this call gets even better.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And it went pretty well. Again, it definitely helped. I could have gone on and on with the report, but unfortunately we only had a page, so I couldn\u2019t go too much.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, how are you whiling away the time now? Are you in fact at home with your parents?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yep.<\/p>\n

RUSH: How are you keeping busy?<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: Well, I do help my parents homeschool the others. My siblings and helping around the house, cleaning up and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, you get bored I\u2019m sure. You\u2019re 15. You\u2019ve got energy, you can run rings around your parents energy-wise. How are you personally dealing with any boredom? ‘Cause your answer here could help people, \u2019cause I guarantee you there are a lot of people going stir-crazy inside trying to figure out, you know, how to keep themselves engaged, busy. You can only read so many hours a day, you can only watch television so many hours a day, you can only talk to so many people. So how do you do it? How do you deal with — maybe I should ask, have you gotten bored yet?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I have three younger siblings, so that definitely helps with the boredom. So far we\u2019ve planted a garden and I\u2019ve taken the chance to learn new things, such as crocheting or — I\u2019m definitely reading a lot as my mom fondly calls me a bookaholic.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, you just said something. I think you said something that\u2019s a key, for me, anyway. I strive every day to learn something. I strive every day to learn something I didn\u2019t know. I try to learn something new about something I do know. I don\u2019t think there is anything that can keep a person more engaged than learning. The learning never stops. It\u2019s impossible for any human being to know everything that humanity knows now. You know when that was? When was the last time in world history when it was possible to know everything that was known?<\/p>\n

William F. Buckley Jr. tackled this, in of all places, a Playboy article which was entitled, “Redefining Smart.”<\/a> And I can\u2019t remember it. I\u2019ll have to look up the article, if I\u2019ve kept it, but he calculated when it was that the most educated human being on earth was capable of knowing everything that was known, all of the knowledge that had been charted. That\u2019s impossible today. It\u2019s impossible for any one person to know everything that\u2019s known, because what is known now is massive. But that means there is a heck of a lot to learn.<\/p>\n

I try to learn something new, for example, about my iPhone every day and then use it. I try to learn something new about my iPad every day. I try to learn something about news items, stories that I\u2019m interested in, be they political or scientific or whatever. Learning something every day and then being able to explain it to somebody else is one of the things I\u2019ve always thought would keep my mind young. Not my body, but my mind young, keep me engaged. And that\u2019s what you\u2019re doing. And you can\u2019t help at your age, at 15, you\u2019re gonna be learning simply by getting out of bed every day and absorbing what happens to you. And that will go a long way to keep you from getting bored.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I agree.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And you can learn anywhere. You can even learn from watching Tiger King<\/a>. It may be insufferably painful — (interruption) Yes, you can. You can learn what not to do. You can learn things not to say. Learning opportunities are virtually everywhere out there. At any rate, Genevieve, great to have you in the audience. I\u2019m so glad you called. Thank you so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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