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RUSH: Ray in Howell, Michigan. Glad you waited, sir. You\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi. First-time caller. Thank you for this rare opportunity.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, you talked about it earlier. I\u2019m 56 years old, and when we were growing up we all knew that anybody could become a millionaire in this country, through hard work, dedication, taking risks, and more often than not, a good education. Obviously not in your case. However, you went the hard route. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Are you saying, sir, that I\u2019m not educated? (laughing)<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I\u2019m talking about college education.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know what you\u2019re saying, I know what you\u2019re saying. I know.<\/p>\n

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CALLER: But today I sense that many people, and I could be wrong, but I sense that many people, especially our youth, are not being taught, shown, or they just don\u2019t care about the hard-work portion of becoming a millionaire. And I sense that they\u2019re levitating towards lottery winnings, Hollywood actors, actresses, sports figures, entertainers, singers.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think you\u2019re right. I think you\u2019re right on the money.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And what is just not talked about often enough is, like the lottery, these people, for the most part, got to where they are by luck, by chance. When you look at their education level, for instance, like I said, I could be wrong, but for the most part, maybe, maybe they got a high school education, maybe. And what did they do? They practiced their sports, maybe they went to trade school, learned how to talk, how to act, and the luck of the draw put them in the right place at the right time to get somewhere. But the hard work, the real world experiences of somebody who started a business, becomes a real millionaire, it wasn\u2019t fair.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, it\u2019s impugned. In fact, it\u2019s criticized.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It is. And what\u2019s even scarier, though, is these people are idolized, and it\u2019s just not talked about often enough that they just don\u2019t have the hard work, the dedication, and they\u2019re idolized. And they actually have a voice in our political system, without hard work, experience, or education. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, look, let me say one thing. I know theoretically what you mean, talking about actors and athletes. The one thing that I have learned — I used to think what you think. I used to think that one of the reasons actors and actresses were filled with so much guilt was that they knew they didn\u2019t have to work very hard. They got to pretend being people they aren\u2019t, and after a while, they got tired of that, and they wanted people to know them for themselves. So they go out and they get political and get involved in issues, and they feel guilty over earning so much money for so little work. <\/p>\n

I have had to revise one aspect of that, and that is, it is extremely hard work. It\u2019s not easy to be a great actor. Now, what other characteristics you want to attach to it, feel free, but it\u2019s incredibly long hours, it is constant rehearsal, and it is very hard. In fact, it involves a talent more so than a skill. But even the talent has to be worked at and developed. Same thing with athletes. They\u2019re very rare. Gifted, great athletes are very rare, but they still, the ones that reach the top are the ones that work the hardest at developing their God-given talent or skill. <\/p>\n

Now, acting is a strange thing. It\u2019s a tough psychological thing. Your whole life is spent being other people. But to make my point, if you see a movie or a television show with an amateur trying to act, you can spot the amateur like that. You can spot somebody who\u2019s not good at acting instantly. Now, in some cases it\u2019s charming. There\u2019s an example, the movie Act of Valor<\/a>. One of the best military movies I have ever seen. As a powerful, influential member of the media, I benefited from seeing a media screener of this. It was Relativity Media. They even captioned it for me so I could follow the dialogue. And real SEALs, real Navy SEALs occurred in all of the starring roles. <\/p>\n

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It was obvious throughout the whole movie that they were not professional actors. In this case, it didn\u2019t take away from it. It added to the realism of it. You could say there was charm to the movie. My only point is, it is very hard, and it\u2019s long hours. A movie, they\u2019re lucky working 14 hours a day if they end up with two minutes of usable film. It\u2019s take after take. It\u2019s sitting there, making sure the lighting is correct. It\u2019s tedious. I could not do it. I\u2019ve done guest appearances on sitcoms and it\u2019s driven me nuts. I couldn\u2019t make a living doing it. I don\u2019t have the patience. I\u2019m a one-take guy. It\u2019s over and done with. I practically went nuts doing the Hank Haney golf show. That show, which is a 22-minute show, took two days, minimum, to shoot. It\u2019s a reality show, and it still took two days to shoot 22 minutes. And that was a TV show. There\u2019s no way 22 minutes of a major motion picture is shot in two days. <\/p>\n

So it\u2019s a different kind of work. You talk about education. They have to have some in order to effect the talent and use talent that they\u2019ve got. I\u2019m not discounting at all what you say. Nobody sees any of that. They see the end result. They see Entertainment Tonight. They see the red carpet, the parties. That\u2019s for me. I\u2019m telling you that my philosophy really hasn\u2019t changed. I don\u2019t care what it is, other than inheritance, there is hard work attached to practically every level of success in every line of work. Now, the hard work may be not laborious, physical. It may not be physically challenging, although sometimes in acting it is, but there nevertheless is a lot of hard work attached to it. I don\u2019t mean that to excuse their idiot politics. That\u2019s a whole other matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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