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RUSH: Looky here. Here is Fox News now playing Ashton Kutcher\u2019s comments when he was receiving the Teen Choice Awards Sunday night. Now, let me go back to that because it fits right in here. Here\u2019s Ashton Kutcher who said a number of things <\/a>in his acceptance for his award on Sunday night, Teen Choice Awards, and among the things he said was that there was never a job he had that he was better than. I spent an hour analyzing and really hyping and supporting the comments that he made. <\/p>\n

Now it\u2019s all over the place. Fox is doing it with guest analysts and so forth. The Hollywood Reporter (Paul Bond) did a story on it. A number of people are trying to figure out why I said it. They think I would hate Ashton Kutcher. They can\u2019t believe that I said good things about an actor. It\u2019s amazing. Ashton Kutcher is not a Millennial, but he\u2019s close to it. Apparently, he never believed that he didn\u2019t have any choices. <\/p>\n

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There\u2019s a fascinating story, ladies and gentlemen, in the Wall Street Journal today<\/a> that dovetails with precisely what I\u2019m talking about. “Troubled teens make more successful entrepreneurs.” And let me just give you this, in a nutshell. It\u2019s a study from the National Bureau of Economic Research. These are the people who decide when we are in a recession or not. That\u2019s who they are. The National Bureau of Economic Research. <\/p>\n

They have found, through exhaustive research and study, that kids who engage in risky behavior, even if it\u2019s illegal, go on to become entrepreneurs even more often than kids who play by the rules. Now, this story is ripe for being misunderstood. The story is not urging destructive behavior. This story is talking about kids who do not accept that they have no choices. This story\u2019s talking about kids who don\u2019t accept that their lot in life is predetermined. <\/p>\n

These are kids that get in trouble because they behave outside the norms of the formulas of today that have been set up. This story goes on to show that those teenagers end up, more often than not, becoming successful entrepreneurs. Here\u2019s an excerpt from the piece: “Of course, you have to be smart. But it\u00c2\u2019s a unique combination of breaking rules and being smart that helps you become an entrepreneur.” That\u2019s precisely what Steve Jobs was talking about.<\/p>\n

I am convinced that portraying Jobs in this movie Jobs, that opens today, had a profound impact on Ashton Kutcher. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any question that it did, because that describes Jobs. By the way, they sent me a closed-caption copy of this movie. Kathryn is not around. She\u2019s out of town. She said, “Wait. I want to watch that with you.” So I just watched enough of it to be able to tell you that, in my estimation, it covers not the full life of Steve Jobs. <\/p>\n

It starts from the founding days of Apple up through being fired by John Sculley, who Jobs brought in from Pepsi to run the place. I think it does a pretty good job in the way it tries depicting Jobs. If you don\u2019t know anything about Jobs, or if you\u2019re confused about him, this might be a good movie for you to watch and start getting a basic understanding of it. Clearly, Ashton Kutcher was affected by it, by playing Jobs, by learning about the guy in order to play him in this movie, which opens today. <\/p>\n

Now, if you are a student of Jobs? I think this movie has an impossible task, with certain members of the audience. Steve Jobs is a hero to so many people, and they\u2019re people that know more about Steve Jobs than he knew about himself. There are people that are so devoted to Jobs that they know more about him than he does. He\u2019s forgotten things, or he forgot about things, and I don\u2019t think any movie can satisfy these people, \u2019cause you can\u2019t cram into two hours or whatever this is, the Steve Jobs story. <\/p>\n

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So there are gonna be some people who just have devoted every waking moment to learning everything they can about Steve Jobs who are gonna think that the movie doesn\u2019t tell what they want people to know about him. But if you have a peripheral knowledge and a curiosity, this would be great flick for you to get a flavor of the guy. Critics and people who know say that you could read all kinds of opinions, but basically that Kutcher did a good job in capturing a number of the mannerisms and speech patterns and personality of Steve Jobs. <\/p>\n

But I find it fascinating now. A couple of days ago we spent an hour on this, and Snerdley said, “Oh, yeah, it\u2019s viral now. Everybody is analyzing Ashton Kutcher\u2019s remarks.” (interruption) The audio of what do we have? (interruption) Oh. Well, we\u2019ve already played the audio of Kutcher. I thought there was new audio. Thanks very much, but we played the audio earlier. See, this is what I mean, folks, when I tell you I\u2019m on the cutting edge of societal evolution. <\/p>\n

The Hollywood Reporter piece on me is viral, too. But, see, I read the Hollywood Reporter piece, and they were having trouble. They think I hate everybody in Hollywood. They couldn\u2019t believe I was praising Ashton Kutcher. You just read that, and you see they were flummoxed. That\u2019s why I said, “It\u2019s amazing, the people who do not listen to this program who think they know who I am, what I am, and what happens here.” I know how it happens.<\/p>\n