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

RUSH: Angela in Murray, Utah. Glad you called, and welcome to Open Line Friday. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thanks for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, you bet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I long wanted to call and tell you what my most favorite part of your children\u2019s books <\/a>are and I finally had a day off, so I got through. I\u2019m very excited.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m glad you made it through.<\/p>\n

<\/a>CALLER: I\u2019m an avid reader, and my book club will often pick children\u2019s books, and we often talk about the qualities of children\u2019s books. Some these days are mindless and kind of things of little worth, but it\u2019s amazing there are some great children\u2019s books out there that, in short form, you know, they\u2019re not very many pages, can express such meaningful things. And people keep talking about Liberty and how much they like her, or him. Sorry. <\/p>\n

But the quality that I like has never really been brought up, so I wanted to do that today. I think that it\u2019s her goodness — or his goodness. Sorry. I keep calling him “her” because I have a friend named Liberty. Anyway, what I valued most was the character of the character, not just the character. Does that makes sense? He\u2019s kind, has good humor, very dependable, even though he\u2019s kind of silly and acting funny and hungry a lot. Never a shallow personality, very caring and trustworthy and loyal. And I really appreciate having that goodness offered to the kids along with —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You are very perceptive and shrewd, Angela. Would you pardon me if I inquired as to your age?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I am 47.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re 47. And yet you have a robust interest in children\u2019s books, and you apparently read them and study them for content for whatever reasons that interest you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: All books, but, yes, that is a genre. I have four kids and I can\u2019t ever throw anything away \u2019cause I\u2019m hoping for the grandkids to read, too, so —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, let me just answer your question as to Liberty. Liberty, folks, is the vehicle that we\u2019ve created to make the time travel possible. Liberty is a time-traveling, talking horse. We modeled Liberty after some people and other things in our lives. I don\u2019t want to give it all way, but I will tell you this. You are very shrewd and perceptive to realize that about Liberty. He is the favorite character that we hear about from kids who read the books because they think he\u2019s funny<\/a>. He\u2019s a little irreverent. He\u2019s stream of consciousness, whatever he\u2019s thinking about he just keeps talking until Rush Revere has to shut him up. You know what an Easter egg is, in a published work? Do you know what an Easter egg is?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Like a treat that\u2019s not found at first. You have to dig for, I guess, or hunt for?<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s exactly right, and it may never be found. I\u2019ll give you an example of an Easter egg, folks. In the latest version of Apple\u2019s word processes program Pages, there is a hidden file that if you find it, will replay for you Steve Jobs\u2019 commencement speech to Stanford in 2005. There\u2019s another Easter egg in Pages, it\u2019s another Jobs greatest hit, if you will, but it\u2019s the text. It\u2019s not a video, although there is the video, it\u2019s YouTube, but there\u2019s the text of the Steve Jobs commencement speech, which is considered to be one of his best. <\/p>\n

Now, there\u2019s none of those. There are actually no hidden things that you have to find because you can\u2019t hide things in a printed page in actual hardcover book. Electronic version, maybe. But when I talk about Easter eggs here, you\u2019re right, there\u2019s all kinds of philosophy in what Liberty says.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, and I like how you build the characters. From book one to two, I can see them evolving and you learn more about each one, and their personalities and then how they grow, and so I kind of look forward to that in the following books, which I am counting on you doing.<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: Well —<\/p>\n

CALLER: And I see, you know, all those qualities more open, I guess, because you kind of wonder sometimes at the beginning of reading the books, is Liberty gonna flake out and not be on time? But certainly not, I mean, very dependable. And not to have a spoiler, so I\u2019ll be careful, but he does something to protect or save Elizabeth from something. Do you know which I mean?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, of course, and Elizabeth — well, see, I don\u2019t want to give too much away, but Elizabeth is a character people wouldn\u2019t mind Liberty not saving, but that\u2019s as much as I\u2019m gonna say. I just want to thank you. You\u2019re extremely perceptive. The Liberty character is central to this in so many ways, and I am so happy you\u2019ve spotted it. It\u2019s not that it\u2019s something to spot. It\u2019s just that it\u2019s there and I\u2019m just glad you did. It\u2019s very flattering that you\u2019ve taken the time to get into it and see to it to that extent, and I really appreciate it. <\/p>\n

I have to take a brief time-out. I want to send her the audios, Mr. Snerdley. If you hang on out there, Angela, so I get your address, \u2019cause I want to send you the audio versions, read by me, of both books<\/a>. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: A couple other things about Liberty, the time-traveling, talking horse, since Angela in Murray, Utah, commented about it. There are two things about Liberty that you need to know. Liberty is a hero in our books. Liberty is of unallied moral goodness. Liberty is a character in the book constantly dependable, always dependable. You can count on Liberty, is always gonna be there. It\u2019s such a great reinforcement, we think, for young kids, for a character like this. So I\u2019m thrilled that she picked this up, and I thank her again. We\u2019re gonna send her the audio versions of both books. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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