And that speaks volumes about his character, doesn't it?
Yup, and I'll tell you more: Know why he lived in el cheapo, run-down Rio Linda? Cuz at the time he couldn't AFFORD to live in any other part of Sacramento..!
Think about that --I mean...this is a guy who came from a family of lawyer after lawyer. That's how "real" he was. And is. And he didn't complain.
When he finally made a little extra money, he drove up to Lake Tahoe (about 2 hours away) in a beat-up, smoking Monte Carlo, and had to pull over about 5 times on those mountain roads, cuz his beater boat was over-heating. Keeping it real? Yup....
One time some local radio liberal exec big-shot invited Rush to dinner with some important people. Rush was still trying to make it, and unassumingly went to the dinner. But they were all super nice to him, right? NOPE: the guy devoted the entire dinner to telling Rush --this guy's dinner guest-- how STUPID he was, and how his show (which was booming) would never make it. He literally pushed everything aside and read Rush the riot act the whole time, with all these rich libs looking on, giggling.
And Rush just showed his class, and took it unflinchingly, like a good guest, and didn't make a scene.
And they drove from hundreds of miles from around Sacramento, to peak over the fence behind the dome theaters, just to see that fat guy walking into work for 5 seconds.
That was Rush.