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\"Listen<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Matt, Netcong, New Jersey. It\u2019s great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, thanks. I wanted to try to tie this into the story you spoke about yesterday about the professor<\/a> who says basically the American dream is not possible. I wanted to give the example that you give from time to time about not being afraid to ask for something \u2019cause you just might get it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think too many people my age and younger — I\u2019m 39, so I think this would apply a little bit to the people that are younger than me — think that it\u2019s guaranteed that they\u2019re going to achieve or they don\u2019t have to work for it. The example I give, I just had a book come out last month. One of the things you have to do when you\u2019re an author who\u2019s an unknown is ask for help. Very rarely do you become a Stephen King overnight. What you have to do is ask other authors for help. In my case you have to ask for blurbs, and I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve been asked tons of times for that, and rarely, you know, sometimes they\u2019re gonna say no, but the yeses that you get absolutely matter. And I\u2019ve asked probably a hundred or more authors to read over my work and to see if they would blurb it. I got 10. Four from New York Times best-selling authors, four from other award-winning authors. That\u2019s like a 6% success rate, but that 6% matters —<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: 10%\u2019s enough, right? I mean, 10 blurbs is plenty for what you need.<\/p>\n

CALLER: For someone who\u2019s just starting out to get four, you know, New York Times bestsellers, four Bram Stoker winners — that\u2019s a horror award — backing you, it\u2019s pretty big. And you have to do it professionally. And I think people don\u2019t put thought into how to ask, and you have to tailor it to the specific author you\u2019re asking why it would be a good fit for them. And I just wanted to let you know that\u2019s something I\u2019ve always kept any back of my mind listening to you for years, about applying yourself. <\/p>\n

And, you know, this took a while for me to get done. I mean, I\u2019ve had a book deal before that fell apart because the publisher went bankrupt, but you have to soldier on. You keep writing and you keep trying. And, you know, whatever happens from there, I guess I\u2019ve achieved personal success, whether or not the financial success follows. You know, it\u2019s up to my writing, it\u2019s up to whether or not people like the book. But I guess what I want your listeners to know is that, for God\u2019s sake, try, just try and don\u2019t be afraid.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See, this is what the guy was saying, the professor at UC Davis was defining the American dream, which he says doesn\u2019t exist, as hard work pays off. His point was, how did this become something distinctly American? This has been the rule all over the world. It\u2019s no different here than it is in Sweden, work hard you succeed. But his point was, it doesn\u2019t mean that. His statistical analysis, he says, has shown that people\u2019s ending station in life can be predicted by where they begin. What status are they born with is more important than whatever hard work they apply, engage in, or what have you.<\/p>\n

He knew when he was releasing his data that a lot of people were gonna disagree, but his point was there\u2019s no American dream. He was saying that what you are saying is exactly wrong. (interruption) Well, look, you can give real world examples of the professor being wrong left and right. I\u2019m one. And there are countless others. My parents, you know, you talk about you end life where you begin, my parents wouldn\u2019t understand my life. They wouldn\u2019t believe it. They didn\u2019t believe something like this was possible. And not because they didn\u2019t believe in hard work or any of that. They just had no experience with this kind of whatever it is. I don\u2019t want to characterize it myself. <\/p>\n

They would be profoundly — they were proud and happy and all that, but they never thought it possible. I remember my father, when I quit radio, was the happiest he ever was. I quit radio at age 28 \u2019cause I figured I\u2019d burned out, \u2019cause to him it was never a real job. “Playing records, son, what does that mean? I mean, where is that gonna take you? So you\u2019re playing records on the radio, big whoop.” When I got that job with the Kansas City Royals making — I started at $13,000 a year, he was happier than he had ever been, and he said, “If you play your cards right, you\u2019ll be there 40 years. You\u2019ll become a vice president, and you\u2019ll have a company car,” that was the route. <\/p>\n

His formative event was the Great Depression. That\u2019s what he grew up in. That\u2019s why he was so insistent that I get a college degree. If you didn\u2019t have that back then, you didn\u2019t have a prayer. So he wouldn\u2019t understand it. What I did was not possible to him. No greater patriot, no greater belief in the American dream. I\u2019m not saying that. But there\u2019s evidence all over the country that this is the most prosperous country on earth. <\/p>\n

America was a poor country, but we were ordained I think by virtue of our founding that given the way our freedoms were documented to exist and from where they came, and the whole notion of free market capitalism, I don\u2019t want say superpower status was preordained, but America is exceptional for a whole host of reasons. There have been countries that have been around thousands of years that can\u2019t touch us, and we\u2019ve been around not even 250, and they can\u2019t touch us. <\/p>\n

There is not a nation on earth that\u2019s ever gotten close to the economic output, the prosperity, the power, the ability to project power, no nation has ever gotten close. And don\u2019t throw the Soviet Union up at me. They might have had a First World military, but they were a Third World empire. And nobody has ever gotten close. By the way, this is one of the reasons why I have such a tough time understanding why people hate this place. It\u2019s there if you want it. <\/p>\n

But regardless, he\u2019s out there saying that the American dream is really a myth, that there\u2019s no hard work formula. Now, you can take any number of people and disprove it. Now, the caller\u2019s other point about asking for help, he\u2019s exactly right about that. But sometimes you have to ask for what you want. The idea that it\u2019s just going to happen or that it\u2019s going to be given to you is a stretch. Sometimes you do have to ask. And sometimes asking for what you want is no more than a job interview. I mean, asking, he\u2019s not asking for charity. Asking for what you want does not mean ask for charity. <\/p>\n

<\/a>What it really means is don\u2019t be ashamed of your desires. Be dedicated to them. Be dedicated to your desires. If you really want something, go for it, and don\u2019t be afraid to ask for help along the way. That\u2019s been one of the biggest things for me. I just don\u2019t. I never have. I have been embarrassed to. I get embarrassed when it\u2019s offered. I never have. For whatever reason, it\u2019s a psychological bugaboo I have. Even though I know better. But he\u2019s exactly right about it, but you have to really specify. It does not mean ask for charity. <\/p>\n

A lot of reasons people don\u2019t ask for help is because they\u2019re afraid they\u2019re going to be seen as asking for a handout, and that\u2019s not what asking for help means. I\u2019ve gotta take a break. If I had more time I could give you real world examples of what I\u2019m talking about. And you could probably supply some yourself, too, just in your own life experience, but now I have to take an obscene profit time-out. See? Need help here. I have to have somebody push the buttons that will play the obscene profit commercials. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: By the way, our author that called, he did not mention his books. He was very, I thought, restrained and respectful in not seeking to use… (interruption) Well, let me tell you who he is. He\u2019s Matt Manochio. This is the guy Matt from Netcong, New Jersey. He is Matt Manochio, and he writes what are described as “supernatural thrillers.” At least that\u2019s the genre of his latest book, which is called Dark Servant<\/a>. <\/p>\n

I looked it up. (interruption) Because I know how to search the Internet, that\u2019s how! I had an author, Matt from New Jersey. All you gotta do is Google it; you\u2019ll get the answer. That\u2019s what I did. His name Matt Manochio, and his book is called Dark Servant. Looks like it\u2019s… The genre is called supernatural thriller, whatever that is. (interruption) Well, I don\u2019t. No, I don\u2019t like vampire, Walking Dead stuff. No, I don\u2019t. I don\u2019t. <\/p>\n

But that doesn\u2019t matter. No, I try… (interruption) No, I never saw True Blood. I did watch The Walking Dead. You know, I watched The Walking Dead once just to find out what this is about, because it was killing everything. It had the highest ratings, and I couldn\u2019t believe it. A, I came in the middle of it. B, I don\u2019t get zombies. I just don\u2019t get \u2019em. (interruption) Yeah, it\u2019s kind of like a Dorito. “You can\u2019t just have one.” I know.<\/p>\n

But it just puked me out. Just the whole thing puked me out. I said, “What the hell? This thing\u2019s the highest rated show?” I understood the basic premise that zombies are trying to get everybody and bite \u2019em and turn everybody into zombies. Big whoop. But I\u2019ve had about the same reaction to vampires. I just don\u2019t get it. I just don\u2019t get it. But, anyway, that\u2019s who the author is, and if you\u2019re buying books… (interruption) What show? <\/p>\n

Oh, Wire in the Blood. Wire in the Blood. You can find it on Amazon Prime. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s anywhere else. I have different sources for these things. You can\u2019t get it the way I did. Well, if you want to mess around with torrent sites you can, but I don\u2019t even want to tell you how to do that. I don\u2019t personally do it. Stuff just shows up in my inbox and I say, “Whoa, what\u2019s this?” <\/p>\n

But if you\u2019re out there looking, don\u2019t forget Al Michaels\u2019 book. Don\u2019t forget You Can\u2019t Make This Up<\/a>. Al Michaels\u2019 sports insider book is awesome, and don\u2019t forget the Rush Revere books. This latest one, Rush Revere and the American Revolution… Look, I don\u2019t like talking about my own stuff, but I don\u2019t go anywhere else to do it, folks, so you\u2019ll have to put up with it. I don\u2019t do signings; I don\u2019t do book tours; I don\u2019t go on Good Morning America and do this kind of stuff. Never have. I would be embarrassed to do it. <\/p>\n

But I can tell you about it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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