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<\/p>\nTODD: Uri in Sparta, New Jersey. Uri, a quick minute. I thank you for calling Rush\u2019s show. Hi, Uri.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi! Hi. So, you want me to tell my story and you want me to say something Rush Limbaugh in the sky.<\/p>\n
TODD: Yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Look, I was born and lived in the Soviet Union 33 years. His day… Okay. Fast back. I was born in a 10-room communal apartment, a family per room.<\/p>\n
TODD: Mmm.<\/p>\n
CALLER: One toilet, one sink, one kitchen for everybody. Almost like 40 people there. So I learned quite early to hate what I had.<\/p>\n
TODD: Yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I started dreaming of the United States.<\/p>\n
TODD: Yes.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I love everything about it.<\/p>\n
TODD: How did you —<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes?<\/p>\n
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TODD: How did you learn English? Only because I — the clock just beats us up, Uri. How did you learn English?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, I tried to learn in the Soviet Union. I went to the —<\/p>\n
TODD: Yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: — college of foreign languages. But the way they teach it is exactly not to talk.<\/p>\n
TODD: (laughs)<\/p>\n
CALLER: It\u2019s because they want you to become a spy. So I didn\u2019t learn much. What happened when I came here, I started — not immediately, but probably 15 years ago I started — listening to Rush.<\/p>\n
TODD: Wow.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I learned my English from him.<\/p>\n
TODD: Wow.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I learned America. I learned about America.<\/p>\n
TODD: (clapping)<\/p>\n
CALLER: But what I was going to tell you is that I loved America in the first place.<\/p>\n
TODD: Yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I treasured a button-down back in the Soviet Union, an American button-down shirt.<\/p>\n
TODD: Yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: American chewing gum, American anything, any piece of information. And naturally, quite quickly, I got arrested. Me and my future wife, we got arrested when we were 19 years old. We got arrested, questioned by secret police, KGB.<\/p>\n
TODD: Yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: We were let go. When I was 21, we had a son. I ended up in communist labor camp. I was released, and it took me 10 years, but I left Russia, and I came to America. And I don\u2019t know… I don\u2019t know how, but we ended up in California. And it was so beautiful! It was —<\/p>\n
TODD: Yeah. I hate… I am killing… I\u2019d just die having to cut you off. I want to hear your whole story. I wonder if we could call you back some time and get the whole story just because we\u2019re short on time. I want people to hear what our friend, Uri, said. He loved America, learned English from Rush. I gotta hear the rest of this story sometime, Uri. A beautiful phone call. Please stay on hold, and let\u2019s reconnect with you. It\u2019s just a phenomenal story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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