Speaker 1: Julie in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Welcome to the E I
Speaker 1: B Network. Great to have you with us. Hello, how
Speaker 1: are you fine? Thank you? I just wanted to tell
Speaker 1: you a funny story. Um in two. I've listened to
Speaker 1: you since two thousands and in two thousand four, I
Speaker 1: decided to go back to college after being out of
Speaker 1: high school for ten years. UM much because of what
Speaker 1: I've heard on your show about how you can do anything,
Speaker 1: you should do anything, you should not be okay with mediocre,
Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera. You're the only one that's ever
Speaker 1: put that idea in my head? Is that right? Your
Speaker 1: whole life it's been yeah, it's been next life. But yes,
Speaker 1: that's correct, And it was drilled in my head over
Speaker 1: and over again from listening to your show. You know,
Speaker 1: go out and do it, just do it, you know,
Speaker 1: make something better of yourself. You have opportunity. So I
Speaker 1: went back to school in two thousand four, and I
Speaker 1: had a professor who had a master's working on his
Speaker 1: second master's, who was so book smart, you know, thought
Speaker 1: he knew everything. And he would bring up arguments in
Speaker 1: class over the economy and then laws, different things. And
Speaker 1: I am telling you what. The only thing I've done
Speaker 1: since high school was work. And then I started listening
Speaker 1: to your show. I could go toe to toe with
Speaker 1: that guy and argue with him about anything and make
Speaker 1: him look stupid in front of the class just by
Speaker 1: listening to your show. Did he know that he looked stupid?
Speaker 1: Or did he give you a problem? Did you think
Speaker 1: you're being insolent and disrespectful? He no, he was baffled.
Speaker 1: He looked at my profile and he said, Now, you've
Speaker 1: been at a school ten years, He said, you won't.
Speaker 1: This is your first year. He said, how in the
Speaker 1: world do you know all this stuff? And I said,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest. I said, all I listen to Rush.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I knew that was coming in. Then he
Speaker 1: said he said no, he said that's just hate speech.
Speaker 1: And I said, no, no, it's not. And I said,
Speaker 1: you know what, I didn't even know how and informed
Speaker 1: and smart I was till I had got into class.
Speaker 1: And I said, and realizing everything I've heard from that show,
Speaker 1: how informed and smart and capable I really am. And
Speaker 1: I said, you know, I couldn't believe it, you know,
Speaker 1: And he said, well, doesn't he just talk bad about people?
Speaker 1: Doesn't he just make fun of Democrats And I said, no,
Speaker 1: it's actually very educational, and he said, well, I just
Speaker 1: I just can't believe it. So I said, we'll give
Speaker 1: it a listen sometime and he ended up listening. And
Speaker 1: he doesn't listen every day because of classes, but he
Speaker 1: ended up listening and said he rather enjoys the show,
Speaker 1: even if I hope he's I hope he was listening today.
Speaker 1: Was your college in Oklahoma City? Yes it is. Yeah, Julie,
Speaker 1: I have to run because of the time, but that well, no,
Speaker 1: in fact, hang on, I need to ask you a
Speaker 1: couple more things, or at least do a couple more
Speaker 1: hang on through the break. Now back to Julian, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Julie,
Speaker 1: You're You're. I couldn't let you go without thanking you
Speaker 1: from the bottom of my sizeable beating heart. Thank you
Speaker 1: for opening up my eyes, because really there was no
Speaker 1: one else around to do it. And the only reason
Speaker 1: I started listening to you was the election of two thousands.
Speaker 1: I just felt I cann't believe what I was seeing
Speaker 1: on ABC NBC, and I said, what would Rush Limbaugh
Speaker 1: have to say about this? Let's get a different point
Speaker 1: of view. And ever since then I've been listening. It
Speaker 1: sounds almost like divine intervention, right, what would Rush do? Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: no matter all people you can think of. Uh, and
Speaker 1: you haven't listened before. My sister has listened since you,
Speaker 1: since you had your TV program. Yeah, she's listened, and
Speaker 1: she's always talked about you. And I almost felt guilty
Speaker 1: listening to you, but because I thought all right, I said, well,
Speaker 1: my sister would love this. I think she would love this.
Speaker 1: You know, one thing I have to ask you, because
Speaker 1: this is that you said earlier in your call, that
Speaker 1: nobody in your life had ever spoken to you about
Speaker 1: the positive aspects of you, the potential that you, as
Speaker 1: an American citizen have, that you can be better than
Speaker 1: you think you are are, you can do more than
Speaker 1: you think you can. Nobody ever talked to you that
Speaker 1: way at any time in your life. Let me tell
Speaker 1: you why. Because when I was seventeen and when I
Speaker 1: was eighteen, I had a baby, so everyone said, well,
Speaker 1: just go get a job, just go pay your bills,
Speaker 1: just make it the best you can. You know, because
Speaker 1: I had a baby at a young age, people were thinking, well,
Speaker 1: you know, you just would be doing good to be
Speaker 1: making more than even before that. I just I sometimes
Speaker 1: I make the mistake because I had a very normal
Speaker 1: childhood and I had I had, you know, this typical
Speaker 1: middle class Middle America upraising, upbringing, and and uh it
Speaker 1: was it was via my my whole family that that
Speaker 1: I first and I didn't put it in these words,
Speaker 1: but that's where I first became cognizant and aware of
Speaker 1: what I now call American exceptionalism. And my dad and
Speaker 1: my SM teachers were constantly pushing me to do better
Speaker 1: than I was doing because they all knew that I could.
Speaker 1: But you know, I was not interested in what they
Speaker 1: wanted me to do well in at time. But still
Speaker 1: the concept that there's a great land of opportunity out there, uh,
Speaker 1: and all you have to go to do, all I
Speaker 1: have to do is is is go attack. It was
Speaker 1: not something foreign to me, and so it's why I'm
Speaker 1: I'm I'm one of the few members of my family
Speaker 1: left home. I mean I left home when I was
Speaker 1: twenty uh and you know, struck out on just following
Speaker 1: my dream. And I've told the story countless thousands of times.
Speaker 1: What what I'm amazed at is that And I wonder
Speaker 1: how commonness is that up until the time you had
Speaker 1: your baby when you were seventeen, that the whole concept
Speaker 1: that there's greatness for you out there, that you are
Speaker 1: a special person, that you're better than average, that all
Speaker 1: it takes is a little hard work, that there's far
Speaker 1: more out there than what you think. It was something
Speaker 1: that never occurred to you or was never talked to you. Well, no,
Speaker 1: it was because I wanted to be a police officer.
Speaker 1: I wanted to be an FBI agent. And everyone that said, oh, Julie,
Speaker 1: you know you can't do that. You could never do that.
Speaker 1: That's man's work, you know, just put that idea out
Speaker 1: of your head. And so I would start to think, well,
Speaker 1: maybe I you know, maybe I can't. And that's where
Speaker 1: really see, that's that's distressing to hear, because I think
Speaker 1: there's probably a lot of that out there in general. Now,
Speaker 1: you can't do that. I mean, I've I've been told
Speaker 1: that too. I was not told that by my family,
Speaker 1: but I've been told that by people that fired me.
Speaker 1: I've I've been told that by by friends when I
Speaker 1: told him what I wanted to do, I can't. I mean,
Speaker 1: we all hear it's easy to be negative. You know,
Speaker 1: you'll you'll never go to the library and find a
Speaker 1: book on how to fail, because we all do it
Speaker 1: and it doesn't take any special insight. But these people
Speaker 1: that write books on how to succeed and how to
Speaker 1: think positively make millions because it's something that doesn't occur naturally,
Speaker 1: apparently even in this country where I think it ought
Speaker 1: to be occurring. But then you look at the political
Speaker 1: drivel that suffices as new as most of the day
Speaker 1: for most people, and the country sucks. It's going to
Speaker 1: hell in a hand basket. In fact, there's a shortage
Speaker 1: of hand baskets because the economy is doing so pat poorly. Uh, bushes, lying,
Speaker 1: people are dying, all the things. That's a constant negative drumbeat.
Speaker 1: Um that is by the Democratic Party, echoed by the media.
Speaker 1: So I'm not surprised that that stuff is easy to
Speaker 1: be caught up in. But uh, what did your parents do? What?
Speaker 1: What did your dad do? Um? He was an accountant,
Speaker 1: he was an account Well that's not hard, I mean
Speaker 1: it's not I mean that's not easy, and that that's
Speaker 1: that's that requires a lot of hard work and a
Speaker 1: specific talent. Uh maybe it was he wasn't around, so
Speaker 1: it was just my mother. So I guess the idea
Speaker 1: of her having a pope daughter who wanted to be
Speaker 1: a police officer or FBI agent or whatever was just
Speaker 1: far fetched. Just no, not my daughter. You know, don't
Speaker 1: you want to be a hairdresser or a waitress, a secretary,
Speaker 1: you know? And I said no, I would, you know,
Speaker 1: this is what I want to do. And then came
Speaker 1: into the whole, Well, you've got a baby now, so
Speaker 1: you know you're going to do good just to make it.
Speaker 1: And I believe that for so many years I'm doing
Speaker 1: good just to make it. And I thought, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: I can do way more than that. Well you know
Speaker 1: that that that it takes all kinds I and the not.
Speaker 1: Not everybody is is going to reach their potential, and
Speaker 1: not everybody is going to tap their full ambition. It
Speaker 1: just doesn't for a lot of reasons, some of them
Speaker 1: you just mentioned um and other people will settle. I
Speaker 1: mean you had had you not happened upon this program,
Speaker 1: probably because what your mother had said enough times, you
Speaker 1: would have just said, Okay, this is this is my
Speaker 1: lot in life, and you would have tried to make
Speaker 1: the most of it and be happy. Uh, and so forth.
Speaker 1: And I think that probably happens more often than not.
Speaker 1: But yet somehow you swerved and stumbled into this program.
Speaker 1: And now you've gone back to college ten years after
Speaker 1: you got it. When did you start college again? Two
Speaker 1: thousand four? And this professor, this professor of yours and
Speaker 1: of two thousand four. I had been on the air
Speaker 1: sixteen years, and this guy had no clue what actually
Speaker 1: happened on this program. Even though you don't need a
Speaker 1: secret radio or password to listen to it, Well, I
Speaker 1: gotta just turn on. And here's a guy teaching college
Speaker 1: had no clue. He just believed it was all hate speech,
Speaker 1: bashing Democrats every day and so forth. Uh. And you
Speaker 1: were able to educate him. How did that make you feel?
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm telling you what. It was not until
Speaker 1: I walked in that class and he would start lecturing
Speaker 1: on certain things, and I could argue with him and
Speaker 1: I could make him look really dumb. But I was like, whoa,
Speaker 1: you know, I haven't just been listening, I've been learning.
Speaker 1: I mean it was I mean, it just made me
Speaker 1: feel wonderful. And he was one of those guys that
Speaker 1: he believes everything he sees on TV. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: Dan Rather said it, it must be true. If the
Speaker 1: book says, we must be true. He never questioned anything.
Speaker 1: He was so institutionalized. R and so this is what
Speaker 1: the book says, this is what it is. He never
Speaker 1: questioned anything. And you know, that's one thing I've got
Speaker 1: from your program. Don't just listen you got a question,
Speaker 1: go out, explore, get knowledge. Learned to read the stitches
Speaker 1: on the fastball exactly. And that's what I've do And
Speaker 1: I just didn't, Like I said, I was just amazed
Speaker 1: that I could go up against the guy who had
Speaker 1: a master's for crying out loud. I don't see that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's another thing to learn you and you said at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the phone call there are there are
Speaker 1: countless book smart people who have lots of education, but
Speaker 1: it doesn't mean they have a lot of knowledge. And yeah,
Speaker 1: and so I mean it was just a little bit surreal,
Speaker 1: you know, not surreal. But you know what, are you
Speaker 1: studying police science police or Polly police science police? So
Speaker 1: you're following your original dream. That's that's fabulous. Yes, I
Speaker 1: am fabulous And I am almost there too, terrific. Well,
Speaker 1: damn it, I'm proud of you. Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that is just awesome. You you you
Speaker 1: held onto the dream for ten years and now you're
Speaker 1: doing it and you're and you're doing it at the
Speaker 1: university level. That's that's just great. And I hope and
Speaker 1: I've made the President's list every semester while I've got
Speaker 1: two kids, while I'm working full time. That is just incredible. See,
Speaker 1: you are living proof to anybody and by the see
Speaker 1: the great thing here, not only what it's doing for you,
Speaker 1: uh and and the way you feel about yourself and
Speaker 1: your future, but anybody else who comes in contact with
Speaker 1: your story. Uh, You're going to influence in a in
Speaker 1: a positive way. Uh And and so your life experiences
Speaker 1: are gonna transfer to others, are gonna make them better
Speaker 1: because you're gonna make them think it's also possible for them.
Speaker 1: This is just terrific. You have. You gave me the
Speaker 1: big push that I needed. Well, I understand that, I
Speaker 1: understand somebody had to. I'm glad we were there when
Speaker 1: when you tuned in this propitious moment you happen to
Speaker 1: be listening. We weren't bashing democrats. Uh. Do you have
Speaker 1: a computer? Are you are you subscriber to my website?
Speaker 1: No I'm not. I'm sorry, Well you are. Now I'm
Speaker 1: gonna make it compliment, yes, right you because you're one
Speaker 1: of the you are you are? You will not believe
Speaker 1: what all is there? You think that you're in formed
Speaker 1: and educated? Now way will you tap into the resources
Speaker 1: that are on my website. And I'm also going to
Speaker 1: throw in a year subscription of the Limbull letter, that's
Speaker 1: the newsletter, and give you a couple of items from
Speaker 1: the E. I. B Store that you can pick out. So, Julie,
Speaker 1: hang on a nice man who will not ask you
Speaker 1: the name of your kids. We'll be on the phone
Speaker 1: to type now. Thank you. You've you've made our day here.
Speaker 1: You've you've made a big difference to me. So I think,
Speaker 1: thank you. Thanks Julie. We'll talk to you again soon
Speaker 1: and be back here in just a second. Julie, don't
Speaker 1: hang up, stay on hold Hey Julie in Oklahoma City.
Speaker 1: I know you're still out there. I'm gonna add a
Speaker 1: couple of things to the surprise package and recall this
Speaker 1: mean I'm just gonna give her the house. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: throw in a select comfort bed. Let her choose what
Speaker 1: country wants. Uh and a rush pack from Alan Brothers.
Speaker 1: So Hr get her back on the phone after the
Speaker 1: program and uh, well, we gotta to organize all that
Speaker 1: we have. We have people in the prize clause. That's
Speaker 1: all they do is handle of freebees in the giveaways.
Speaker 1: Most of them we never talked about because we're not
Speaker 1: into this for that reason. But that I just I
Speaker 1: am so impressed that after ten years, when she went
Speaker 1: back to school, it was to follow her original passion
Speaker 1: and want to be in law enforcement. And that nobody
Speaker 1: was able ultimately to talk her out of it because
Speaker 1: she couldn't do it. That that that makes our day here.
Speaker 1: Even Snardili is smiling first time today. He's forgotten about
Speaker 1: the Folly story.