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Speaker 1: the Russian Lumba program, and welcome Mr. A. Maimon. Well,

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Speaker 1: thank you for having me. Yes, now you have the distinction,

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Speaker 1: have you here. Um, I'm glad you did this interview. Michael. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: would then tell the story of the people. So he

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Speaker 1: was curious about everyone and how they how they got

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Speaker 1: to Palm Beach, how they made their money, what they

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Speaker 1: did that was successful, what they did that they were

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Speaker 1: most proud of. He loved those stories. He really loved

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Speaker 1: American stories, success to American success story. What do you

433
00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:05,840
Speaker 1: think the biggest misunderstanding is about Rush, particularly among people

434
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Speaker 1: on the left. What do people not understand about Rush Limbaugh?

435
00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:13,159
Speaker 1: They think he's an evil person. They think he is

436
00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:20,200
Speaker 1: so right wing and so unwilling to bend his train

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00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:26,959
Speaker 1: of thought, that he's the enemy. And we saw that firsthand,

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Speaker 1: especially in Connecticut, which is not necessarily a bastion of

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Speaker 1: of right wing Republican views. And he would come up

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Speaker 1: to this golf tournament with they did it for like

441
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Speaker 1: twelve years. It was a three day tournament, and he

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00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:43,560
Speaker 1: would meet a lot of people who were Democrats, and

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Speaker 1: they all approached him with a little wariness. But once

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Speaker 1: the ice was broken, whether it was the first t

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Speaker 1: shot or the first joke, or he'd hand them a

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00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:57,840
Speaker 1: cigar or anything like that, all of a sudden they

447
00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:00,240
Speaker 1: opened up and they found out he was jed New

448
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:03,959
Speaker 1: only a nice man. He was a teddy bearer. He

449
00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:07,280
Speaker 1: loved everyone. He didn't have a hurtful thing to say

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Speaker 1: about anyone, and I think that's the most misunderstood thing

451
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:14,720
Speaker 1: about him. We were proud to introduce him to my brother,

452
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:19,040
Speaker 1: for example, who is very left wing, and his wife.

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Speaker 1: We had a dinner party and they were both very,

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Speaker 1: very nervous about having dinner with Russia Limball because they'd

455
00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:30,120
Speaker 1: heard all these stories, and he just wiled them over.

456
00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:36,639
Speaker 1: They ended up exchanging gifts. They just could not believe

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Speaker 1: how nice a man he was. So that that was

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00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:45,600
Speaker 1: the mystery. The man and the myth. Rush could walk

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00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:49,920
Speaker 1: into a room and people would that's Rush Limball, and

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00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:53,439
Speaker 1: they were. They gravitated to him. I mean, it's just

461
00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:58,960
Speaker 1: it's bigger than life. Now you also got both of you.

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00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:00,760
Speaker 1: Of course, been a lot of time with the miss

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Speaker 1: As you said today, what do you think is the

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Speaker 1: thing that you most want people to know about him

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Speaker 1: that maybe they don't know, including those of us who

466
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Speaker 1: love him. His heart said it all. He looked at

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00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:23,080
Speaker 1: you with sincerity, with understanding. He wanted to talk to you.

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00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:27,639
Speaker 1: He wanted to find out all about you. And it

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00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:33,080
Speaker 1: wasn't just at a at a dinner party. He didn't

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Speaker 1: talk much. He asked the questions and wanted to hear

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Speaker 1: other people talk about themselves Russian speak about himself. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think that's fair. I think you know there, we

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Speaker 1: have a lot of Democrat friends, were not solely Republican,

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Speaker 1: and we have Democrat friends here in Palm Beach. A

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Speaker 1: couple of them come to mind who we played golf with,

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Speaker 1: and he knew that they were Democrats, and they knew

477
00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:05,760
Speaker 1: he was Russia. Limbaugh the lead Republican, the leader of

478
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Speaker 1: the Republican Party and all that sort of stuff. But

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00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:11,440
Speaker 1: they loved playing golf with him. They loved having lunch

480
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Speaker 1: with him. We'd have breakfast together on Saturday mornings. They

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Speaker 1: loved having breakfast with him because he wouldn't talk politics

482
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Speaker 1: all the time. You talk about life, you talk about

483
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:24,880
Speaker 1: football games. He talked about golf, he talked about golfers,

484
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:28,280
Speaker 1: He talked about all sorts of things other than politics.

485
00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:32,480
Speaker 1: If somebody brought up politics, he would be grudgingly asked

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Speaker 1: answer the question. But you knew he didn't want to

487
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:38,520
Speaker 1: be involved in politics. In some of his free time

488
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Speaker 1: that he did that fifteen hours a week on the

489
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:46,200
Speaker 1: air and another fifty hours a week in preparation. So

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00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:50,520
Speaker 1: this was downtime for him. He appreciated it, and everyone

491
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Speaker 1: who met him really loved and respected him. Another great

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Speaker 1: story of Russian. He gave the best super Bowl parties

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Speaker 1: and Masters parties you could ever imagine. Everybody wanted an

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Speaker 1: invitation because he served great wine, and he served it.

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Speaker 1: You didn't go, and he went around, poured the wine.

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Speaker 1: He went around and gave everybody that something to eat.

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Speaker 1: He went on this one woman who was ninety years old,

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Speaker 1: the mother of somebody, was there. He doated on her

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00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:21,040
Speaker 1: to make certain she was comfortable, she had a good seat,

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Speaker 1: she could see the tournament, whatever, and he would just

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Speaker 1: do it. So this one Super Bowl weekend, it's a

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Speaker 1: Saturday morning and I was arranging some of the golf games.

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Speaker 1: And he gets to the club and he sees that

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Speaker 1: I don't have my golf shoes on. He said, when

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00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:40,320
Speaker 1: are you gonna put on your shoes. I said, I'm

506
00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:42,600
Speaker 1: not playing. He said, what do you mean you're not playing?

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Speaker 1: But this I said, I'm going back to Connecticut today.

508
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:48,360
Speaker 1: I gotta call at two o'clock this morning our grand

509
00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:50,840
Speaker 1: We had a granddaughter born this morning at too. So

510
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:54,520
Speaker 1: we're flying up there. And he said, you can't fly

511
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:57,080
Speaker 1: up there I said why. He said, because I've got

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl party. And I said, I'm sorry, going

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00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:03,800
Speaker 1: up to see my new granddaughter. And he said so.

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00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:05,960
Speaker 1: He walks out of the locker room. He comes back

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Speaker 1: about two minutes later. He said, at the time, we

516
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:10,800
Speaker 1: had our own plane. He said, wait a minute, your

517
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:13,320
Speaker 1: plane is in for maintenance. How are you going? I

518
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 1: said commercial, No, you're not. He went to the phone booth,

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00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 1: called up Mike, and he said, can you be at

520
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 1: the airport at ten o'clock. He's going to take you up.

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00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:28,680
Speaker 1: So Brush flew Jeanie and I up to Bridgeport, Connecticut.

522
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:31,560
Speaker 1: We've rented a car. We went from there to the hospital.

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00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:34,800
Speaker 1: We saw our granddaughter before she was twenty four hours old.

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00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:38,760
Speaker 1: And that's the way he was. He just his generosity,

525
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 1: knew no bounds. Well, let me close by saying this

526
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:45,680
Speaker 1: and thank you for spending so much time with me

527
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 1: and with us. We're glad. I'm glad that Rush had

528
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:55,320
Speaker 1: friends like you, David and Eugenie in his life and

529
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:58,520
Speaker 1: his other close friends. Because he had to endorse so

530
00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:04,680
Speaker 1: much bullshit from people that didn't know him, from people

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00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:09,560
Speaker 1: that lied about him, from a media that was filled

532
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:14,360
Speaker 1: with people that were jealous of his success and knew

533
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:17,720
Speaker 1: that some of the things that were reporting about him

534
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 1: we're not true, and so I am glad that he

535
00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:30,479
Speaker 1: You guys were able to help Rush have a normal

536
00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:33,680
Speaker 1: life as he could, especially on the weekends and with

537
00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:37,240
Speaker 1: family and with friends, and to take away from some

538
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:41,120
Speaker 1: of that madness that he had to put up with. Well,

539
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:43,960
Speaker 1: thank you. It was our You know, I feel more

540
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 1: rewarded than anyone Jeanie and I do. We just getting

541
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 1: to know him and be with him and enjoy his company.

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00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:55,800
Speaker 1: It was a blessing. It was nice to be able

543
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 1: to say to our friends, he's just as normal as you,

544
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 1: as you with you. You know, he gets up in

545
00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:06,840
Speaker 1: the morning, he does what he does, does what you do.

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00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:10,480
Speaker 1: You know, he's a human being, but he's a human

547
00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:15,800
Speaker 1: being with a huge heart. Yeah, I know you miss him. Well,

548
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 1: I will say this, the last year and a half

549
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:22,720
Speaker 1: Rush was playing the best golf I've ever seen him play.

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00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 1: He was amazing. I used, I'll drive him. All of

551
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:32,240
Speaker 1: a sudden, he's twenty to fifty yards ahead of me. Um.

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00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:35,880
Speaker 1: He had an albatross on a par five, which means

553
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:40,840
Speaker 1: he sank his second shot on a par five Yeah,

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00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:45,240
Speaker 1: he was just beside himself. He was so excited. He

555
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 1: just loved the competition. He was If he hit a

556
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:52,080
Speaker 1: bad shot, he didn't care about the score, he dropped

557
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 1: another ball and hit it again. He just he was

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00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:59,200
Speaker 1: fun to be with. We just had We had so

559
00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:03,000
Speaker 1: much fun to go there and all. Now we have

560
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:08,080
Speaker 1: a lot of great memories. Now, yeah, don't say he

561
00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:10,800
Speaker 1: never made his bed anywhere when he came to visit.

562
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:16,480
Speaker 1: But a friend of mine, Lord Rosso of Cross Harbor,

563
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:20,440
Speaker 1: has got this friend is it's a shaft manufacturer. I

564
00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:22,120
Speaker 1: don't know a few people who don't play golf. The

565
00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:28,760
Speaker 1: shaft is particularly in um long shafted clubs like the Driver,

566
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:31,600
Speaker 1: Fairway medals and so forth, and longer. Well in every

567
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 1: club back the shaft is the engine. Anyway, Lord Rosso

568
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:37,279
Speaker 1: had this new shaft in his driver on Sunday, and

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00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:40,480
Speaker 1: I'm not kidding. He was hitting the ball ten twelve

570
00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:44,359
Speaker 1: yards farther than he normally does. And I was kind

571
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:48,360
Speaker 1: of in disbelief because to get that kind of a

572
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:54,320
Speaker 1: differentiation you need more swing speed. But a shaft can

573
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Speaker 1: compensate for a slower swing speed if it's good. So

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00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:02,759
Speaker 1: I got this new shaft and I was gonna go

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00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:04,600
Speaker 1: try it yesterday to see if I could get an

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00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 1: inditional tent tralve large yards like Lord Russo of Cross

577
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:13,319
Speaker 1: Harbor was, and I got. I got rained out to

578
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:15,480
Speaker 1: say that if you knew Rush Limbaugh, you were left

579
00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:19,040
Speaker 1: with an unforgettable impression of the man. That's an understatement.

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00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:24,040
Speaker 1: Everybody who knew him remembers how when where they met Rush,

581
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:28,600
Speaker 1: and also what they've learned from Rush, how he impacted them,

582
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:31,839
Speaker 1: just like he impacted all the rest of us who

583
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:34,680
Speaker 1: worked at the E I B Network. There's so many stories,

584
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:36,520
Speaker 1: and here's more of them from a couple of the

585
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:39,239
Speaker 1: guests host that sat in and a good friend of

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00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:43,719
Speaker 1: mine and Russia's Congressman Louie gomer but first from w

587
00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:48,640
Speaker 1: HP in Harrisburg and w p HT in Philadelphia, Ken Matthews.

588
00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:52,320
Speaker 1: So I started guest hoasting for Rush in the summer

589
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:57,880
Speaker 1: of and then I did my final show as a

590
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:04,000
Speaker 1: guide host. It was also the final Rush show. And

591
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:06,800
Speaker 1: the thing that sticks out to me, there's so many

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00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:11,840
Speaker 1: things and we we don't have twenty six hours for

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00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:15,600
Speaker 1: me to explain it. But um I started out as

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00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:18,440
Speaker 1: a listener, like millions of other people that I ended

595
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 1: up as a guest toast, and Rush made me a

596
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:26,800
Speaker 1: better guest toast. But he also made me a smarter

597
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:31,080
Speaker 1: person and a better thinker, and a lot of that

598
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:36,200
Speaker 1: came from being a Rush listener because Rush was an

599
00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:42,239
Speaker 1: intellectual giant, but he wasn't a snob about it, and

600
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:44,160
Speaker 1: he had fun and he liked to laugh, and he

601
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:46,759
Speaker 1: was a smart alec and I think a lot of

602
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:51,920
Speaker 1: those characteristics appeal to the American people. So we always

603
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:54,120
Speaker 1: have to bring our a game when we're guest toasting

604
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:57,600
Speaker 1: for him. But the nice thing about it is the

605
00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:01,880
Speaker 1: entire team is at the level. Everybody brings their a

606
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:08,760
Speaker 1: game because their patriots, they love America, and they love Rush.

607
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:12,479
Speaker 1: So it was a wonderful environment to work in. And

608
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:17,919
Speaker 1: the listeners are outstanding, and why wouldn't they be. Rush

609
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:22,080
Speaker 1: loved the listeners, So it was a blessing and a

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00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:26,800
Speaker 1: wonderful opportunity. My name is Brett winter Ball. I was

611
00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 1: a member of the E. I. B Family from until

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00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:34,440
Speaker 1: two thousand six and then brought back again in the

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Speaker 1: year that fateful year. I had such great, amazing memories

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00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:44,840
Speaker 1: of my time with the folks here at the IB Network,

615
00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:47,920
Speaker 1: But most importantly of Rush Limbaugh. I came into the

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Speaker 1: IB network as a as a kid, really five years old,

617
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:53,800
Speaker 1: kind of a wise guy. I thought I knew it

618
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 1: all until I ran at a kid Carson and James Golden,

619
00:37:57,040 --> 00:38:00,239
Speaker 1: Mike Maimon, and of course the Boss Rush Limbaugh. Then

620
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:03,120
Speaker 1: I realized I didn't know anything. But over the course

621
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:06,279
Speaker 1: of my years on the program, I learned so much.

622
00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:09,879
Speaker 1: I learned about generosity, I learned about humor. I learned

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00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:14,880
Speaker 1: about the brilliance of a broadcaster performing day after day

624
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:20,439
Speaker 1: against all sorts of adversaries, both professional and sometimes even

625
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:23,880
Speaker 1: on a personal level. You know, Rush Limbaugh is a

626
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:28,160
Speaker 1: once in a millennium talent, really is. When you consider

627
00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:31,239
Speaker 1: the amazing work he did in the different parts of

628
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:33,840
Speaker 1: his life and over the course of thirty three years,

629
00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 1: you have to be struck by the genius. But it

630
00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:40,359
Speaker 1: was also due in large part to the amazing team

631
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:47,040
Speaker 1: behind the scenes. My friend James, Kid, Carson, Cookie Coco, Joe,

632
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 1: Ali Mayman, you go down the list, it goes on

633
00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:53,440
Speaker 1: and on, including the people who helped run the Limbaugh

634
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:56,960
Speaker 1: Letter as well. This was truly a family, and a

635
00:38:57,080 --> 00:39:00,520
Speaker 1: family it remains to this day. I'm still in touch

636
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:02,959
Speaker 1: with everybody on the program, and everybody's still in touch

637
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:06,279
Speaker 1: with me. It's a profound mark that was left in

638
00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:10,080
Speaker 1: my life. You can't ever forget where you were when

639
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:13,799
Speaker 1: you heard your wedding, your birth of your first or

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Speaker 1: second child announced on a radio program by a guy

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00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:20,200
Speaker 1: who genuinely cared about you as a person. And to

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00:39:20,239 --> 00:39:23,960
Speaker 1: this day, I remain indebted to the experiences I had

643
00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:27,759
Speaker 1: for the better part of a decade. Those memories will

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00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:31,440
Speaker 1: live on forever in my heart, and I look forward

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00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:36,440
Speaker 1: to sitting with Rush one day show prepping together up

646
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Speaker 1: there in the big, beautiful broadcast studio in the sky.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Rush Limbaugh for all you did, and thank

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Speaker 1: you to the listeners who made this all possible. May

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00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:52,399
Speaker 1: God bless and keep all of us that will one

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00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:59,560
Speaker 1: day be reunited. This is Louis Gobert, a dear friend,

651
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:03,040
Speaker 1: and each Texas asked have you heard Rush Limbaugh? And

652
00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:05,840
Speaker 1: I said, I've heard off him, but I had not

653
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:08,799
Speaker 1: heard him. He said, his sense of humor is a

654
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:12,640
Speaker 1: bit like yours, and I think you'd really like him. Well,

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00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:15,279
Speaker 1: I didn't just like him. I loved him. During the

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00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:17,839
Speaker 1: rest of nineteen ninety one, and from then on. I

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00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:21,680
Speaker 1: was listening to Rush all I could. After being elected

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Speaker 1: to be a judge in one of our highest trial

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00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:26,840
Speaker 1: courts in Texas, I had to allow the jury to

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00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:29,200
Speaker 1: take a lunch break so I would go to my

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00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:32,839
Speaker 1: office and work while I was listening to Rush. By

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00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:36,640
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety four, he had so many Americans listening to

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00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:41,279
Speaker 1: him it was no wonder that the freshman Republicans in

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Speaker 1: Congress named Rush as an honorary member of their class.

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00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 1: He really did make that much difference. Then, over the years,

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Speaker 1: his amazing dissection and explanation of our country's problems had

667
00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:59,200
Speaker 1: many of us saying, yeah, he's right. But as Rush said,

668
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:04,320
Speaker 1: it wasn't he was brainwashing anyone. He was just expressing

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00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:07,680
Speaker 1: so well what we all were feeling. So after I

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00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:10,840
Speaker 1: got elected to Congress, I met became dear friends with

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Speaker 1: James Golden a ka bo Snerdley, who became a virtual

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00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:20,200
Speaker 1: brother from another mother. Also getting to know David Limbaugh

673
00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:24,279
Speaker 1: because of Rush was another huge benefit. Yet, getting to

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00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:27,799
Speaker 1: watch Rush and James and their other two staff in

675
00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 1: the studio Palm Beach was like seeing a finely honed

676
00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:37,200
Speaker 1: machine that was poetry, emotion, looking back, just being able

677
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:40,880
Speaker 1: to email and hear back from Rush, usually during the

678
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:44,160
Speaker 1: show while he was talking. Was such an honor. He

679
00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:48,720
Speaker 1: was an anomaly among men who took what God loaned

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00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:51,720
Speaker 1: him and made the most of it for the benefit

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Speaker 1: of all the people of this country. That's why my

682
00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:58,200
Speaker 1: last time to see him was an emotional moment. The

683
00:41:58,320 --> 00:42:02,920
Speaker 1: night he had President Trump announced the Presidential Medal of

684
00:42:03,080 --> 00:42:07,080
Speaker 1: Freedom in the House Chamber, we knew Russia was dying

685
00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:10,200
Speaker 1: of cancer, might not have too much longer to live.

686
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Speaker 1: Outside the gallery of the House Chamber upstairs, I rushed

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00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:18,640
Speaker 1: up there to see him, and I saw others come

688
00:42:18,719 --> 00:42:21,600
Speaker 1: by and shake his hand while I was walking toward him.

689
00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:25,480
Speaker 1: But it was too emotional moment. A handshake would not

690
00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:28,880
Speaker 1: do for the person who had been in my car,

691
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:34,280
Speaker 1: but in my home, been in my heart. I opened

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00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:39,080
Speaker 1: my arms and said Rush, and he smiled, and he

693
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 1: opened his arms and said Louis. Then we hugged. As

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00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:49,520
Speaker 1: I said in the last email, sitting before he left

695
00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:54,320
Speaker 1: the air for the last time, Russia, Beetles were wrong.

696
00:42:55,520 --> 00:43:01,560
Speaker 1: You've multiplied exponentially the love you make Rush, my friend,

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00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:09,200
Speaker 1: You're missed. A few episodes ago, we played a vignette

698
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:11,560
Speaker 1: that was voiced by Scott Bayo. You might have thought

699
00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:14,480
Speaker 1: when you heard it, wait a minute, Scott Bale. Well,

700
00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:16,879
Speaker 1: after the episode was released, we got a note from

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00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:20,520
Speaker 1: one of our executive producers, Craig Kitchen. He reminded us

702
00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:25,120
Speaker 1: of how Scott Bayo actually came to know Rush, and

703
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:26,839
Speaker 1: we thought it might be nice to put it in

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00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:31,399
Speaker 1: context for you. Back in two thousand seventeen, I got

705
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:35,080
Speaker 1: a call. It was Scott. He was calling in from California.

706
00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:39,080
Speaker 1: Put up the call and Scott, just like everybody else,

707
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:43,960
Speaker 1: called into our number one eight to two. I screened

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00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:47,480
Speaker 1: him the way I would screen any other caller. What

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00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:50,520
Speaker 1: he was saying made sense. Well, he got on the

710
00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:54,680
Speaker 1: air with Rush and lo and behold it was revealed.

711
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:58,400
Speaker 1: It wasn't a Scott from California. He was a Scott

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00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:02,600
Speaker 1: that most Americans. Here's a portion of that telephone. Okay,

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00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:05,520
Speaker 1: here we go to the phones. We're starting in Los Angeles, Hig, Scott.

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00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:07,360
Speaker 1: Great to have you with us in the EIB network.

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00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:10,239
Speaker 1: IM out, Thanks, Rush. You know I'm a hardcore conservative.

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00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:12,960
Speaker 1: Tomp gave them power by winning and by and by

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00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:17,239
Speaker 1: implementing his agenda. Or you think they should be grateful, Absolutely,

718
00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:23,640
Speaker 1: they'll win more. Isn't Washington, d C? Great? Alright, Sorry,

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Speaker 1: I'm in Hollywood, so it's the same thing. Sorry, Benda,

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Speaker 1: you're in Hollywood. Okay, let me see the Scots that

721
00:44:31,360 --> 00:44:33,640
Speaker 1: I know in Hollywood. It's not tom My Hand Scott,

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Speaker 1: Scott Scots. No, I don't. I don't know you. I

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00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:37,520
Speaker 1: know people you know I know, but I'm trying to

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Speaker 1: do names. You are, Scott Bayo. I am Well, it's

725
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:45,319
Speaker 1: an honor to meet you. I'm happy that you're in

726
00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:47,879
Speaker 1: the audience. It's great that you've been the audience every day.

727
00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:49,920
Speaker 1: I'm a huge fan and I'm dying to play golf

728
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:52,879
Speaker 1: with your Rush. Well, look, when we finish here, if

729
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:55,040
Speaker 1: you'll stay online, if you can give an email address

730
00:44:55,080 --> 00:44:59,200
Speaker 1: to Mr Snirtley the next time I'm out there, will play. Absolutely.

731
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:02,000
Speaker 1: I absolutely love the So there you go. That's how

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00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:05,399
Speaker 1: Scott Bayo and Rush Limbaugh are connected. And we thank

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00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 1: Scott and the many others we've had over the course

734
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Speaker 1: of this series that narrated the life of Rush Limbobb

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00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:14,400
Speaker 1: and yets that you've heard in each episode. So in

736
00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:19,280
Speaker 1: addition to Scott, our thanks also to Rudy Giuliani, Mark Stein,

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Speaker 1: Sean Hannity, Mark Levine, Megan Kelly, Glenn Beck, Neil Boortz,

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Speaker 1: Mary Madlin, George Nori, Nick Sercy, who you will hear

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00:45:29,680 --> 00:45:32,000
Speaker 1: from again in his own words in a few minutes,

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00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:38,040
Speaker 1: and of course Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. Now the

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00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:40,480
Speaker 1: thoughts of a couple of more guests, host and longtime

742
00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:43,759
Speaker 1: friends of Russia's first from w i s N in Milwaukee,

743
00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:49,799
Speaker 1: guest host Mark Belling. Rush didn't invent talk radio. I

744
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:51,839
Speaker 1: mean it was there and a lot of people were

745
00:45:51,880 --> 00:45:54,480
Speaker 1: doing doing it. What he did was he was the

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00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:59,640
Speaker 1: first to really tap it's potential, and all of us

747
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:03,080
Speaker 1: who do talk radio will be forever grateful for the

748
00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:04,799
Speaker 1: fact that he was able to tap it to the

749
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:07,600
Speaker 1: extent that he did, because it put all of these

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00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:11,160
Speaker 1: stations all over America on the map. And here they

751
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:12,880
Speaker 1: had this show or the Rush Show, that was getting

752
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:15,399
Speaker 1: great ratings, but it's on for three hours a day

753
00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 1: and they had to program the rest of the day.

754
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:20,720
Speaker 1: And it gave opportunity for all sorts of other people

755
00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:24,160
Speaker 1: to not only get jobs, but beyond stations that had

756
00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:27,840
Speaker 1: huge listenerships, so we could all be exposed to the

757
00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:31,840
Speaker 1: same audiences in our local communities that you know Rush

758
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:35,680
Speaker 1: was being exposed to the greatest talk show host of

759
00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:38,480
Speaker 1: all time. It's obviously Rush Limbaugh. But here's the thing.

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00:46:38,560 --> 00:46:40,880
Speaker 1: He will always be the greatest talk show host of

761
00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:44,200
Speaker 1: all time. It's impossible for anybody to be greater than

762
00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:47,520
Speaker 1: him because he invented the art form and he'll always

763
00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:51,080
Speaker 1: be the standard by which everybody has measured, kind of

764
00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:53,400
Speaker 1: like Babe Ruth and baseball. He will always be the

765
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:56,000
Speaker 1: greatest baseball player who ever played the game, and Rush

766
00:46:56,040 --> 00:46:59,680
Speaker 1: will always be the greatest talk show host ever. I

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00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:03,279
Speaker 1: get hosted the program for I don't even know. It's

768
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:06,239
Speaker 1: over twenty years, a long time. I still remember the

769
00:47:06,320 --> 00:47:09,520
Speaker 1: first time. It's late nineties, I think that I did

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00:47:09,600 --> 00:47:11,840
Speaker 1: the program. And the day before I was to go

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00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:15,640
Speaker 1: to New York in Milwaukee, I was unbelievably sick. I

772
00:47:15,680 --> 00:47:18,400
Speaker 1: was deathly ill. In fact, I was so sick I

773
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:20,880
Speaker 1: couldn't even drive myself to the airport. I had to

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00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:23,120
Speaker 1: have a friend drive me there. But I had to go.

775
00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:24,960
Speaker 1: This was the first time I was going to do

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00:47:25,040 --> 00:47:27,520
Speaker 1: the program. And if you if I would have said

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00:47:28,239 --> 00:47:30,719
Speaker 1: I'm sick, I can't do the show, everybody would have

778
00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:32,520
Speaker 1: assumed that I chickened out, I would have been the

779
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:35,840
Speaker 1: biggest laughing stock on radio. So I dragged myself in

780
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:39,480
Speaker 1: to do the program, filled myself with as many your

781
00:47:39,520 --> 00:47:42,239
Speaker 1: preference as I possibly could, and survived the whole thing.

782
00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:45,040
Speaker 1: People thought it was really good. In retrospect, it was terrible,

783
00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:48,200
Speaker 1: probably the worst one that I did, but I survived it.

784
00:47:48,280 --> 00:47:51,000
Speaker 1: I had to do it. The opportunity to do the

785
00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:53,160
Speaker 1: Rush program, your first chance to do it. To turn

786
00:47:53,200 --> 00:47:57,040
Speaker 1: it down would have been suicidal. Such a platform. Over

787
00:47:57,080 --> 00:47:58,799
Speaker 1: the years that I did the show, I'd hear from

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00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:01,399
Speaker 1: people that I hadn't heard him in decade, somebody living

789
00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:04,799
Speaker 1: in New Mexico, somebody living in Nebraska, people even in

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00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:07,120
Speaker 1: my own state of Wisconsin who weren't familiar with me

791
00:48:07,280 --> 00:48:10,600
Speaker 1: from Milwaukee. The reach of the show was incredible. One

792
00:48:10,640 --> 00:48:13,520
Speaker 1: other thing I want to talk about is the staff.

793
00:48:14,160 --> 00:48:16,279
Speaker 1: When I come in to do the program. Of course

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00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:18,960
Speaker 1: I wouldn't see Rush. I'm doing the program on days

795
00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:21,120
Speaker 1: that he's off. I dealt with the staff, and the

796
00:48:21,120 --> 00:48:23,480
Speaker 1: thing that I noticed over the years was the incredible

797
00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:26,759
Speaker 1: loyalty that the staff had to Rush. I mean, many

798
00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:30,000
Speaker 1: people were with him for decades. I think of people

799
00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:33,880
Speaker 1: like James Golden Bulls post nearly, Mike Mamona's broadcast engineer,

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00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:37,160
Speaker 1: The Lake Kick Carson, who like me, is from Milwaukee.

801
00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:43,120
Speaker 1: These people were there forever and they always had Rushes back. Now,

802
00:48:43,160 --> 00:48:45,400
Speaker 1: part of it is who wants to leave a winner?

803
00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:48,960
Speaker 1: Nobody wants to leave a program that's it's phenomenally successful.

804
00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:51,719
Speaker 1: Is this? But it was beyond this. There was clearly

805
00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:54,279
Speaker 1: a deep pride that the people who worked on the

806
00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:58,000
Speaker 1: Rushes Brush program had in the show. They knew that

807
00:48:58,040 --> 00:49:03,279
Speaker 1: what they were doing was changing communication forever. From WSB

808
00:49:03,560 --> 00:49:07,640
Speaker 1: in Atlanta, guest host Eric Ericsson the very first time

809
00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:09,560
Speaker 1: I ever filled in for Rush Limball, they flew me

810
00:49:09,600 --> 00:49:11,719
Speaker 1: up to New York City. I'm in there and I mean,

811
00:49:11,800 --> 00:49:14,920
Speaker 1: it is it's maman, it is Carson, it is both

812
00:49:14,920 --> 00:49:17,680
Speaker 1: Snrdly himself. I'm looking at all that. The light goes

813
00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:20,440
Speaker 1: on and I'm like, what on earth have I just done?

814
00:49:20,880 --> 00:49:23,759
Speaker 1: And I freak out, uh And there's silence there for

815
00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:26,120
Speaker 1: just a second, and then I start and it gets

816
00:49:26,160 --> 00:49:28,160
Speaker 1: a little natural until halfway through the show and I

817
00:49:28,239 --> 00:49:32,600
Speaker 1: look and they're Snurdly flailing his arms pointing towards me,

818
00:49:33,200 --> 00:49:37,080
Speaker 1: pounding his fist on the desk. I'm like, I've just

819
00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:39,960
Speaker 1: lost the opportunity to ever do this year. I had

820
00:49:39,960 --> 00:49:41,839
Speaker 1: no idea what I had done, and I run in

821
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:44,879
Speaker 1: very apologetically during breaking I'm very sorry what did I do?

822
00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:46,719
Speaker 1: And kick Carson looks at me and says, what do

823
00:49:46,800 --> 00:49:49,440
Speaker 1: you mean? I said, well, I mean Snurdley. He's in there.

824
00:49:49,640 --> 00:49:51,760
Speaker 1: And this is before I even really connected both Sturdy

825
00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:55,200
Speaker 1: James Golden, same person, and he's how that's just James

826
00:49:55,280 --> 00:50:02,080
Speaker 1: talking to a caller. I was fine. I learned more

827
00:50:02,160 --> 00:50:04,160
Speaker 1: from Rush though, by not being able to fill in

828
00:50:04,239 --> 00:50:06,640
Speaker 1: for him when I didn't support Trump in twenty sixteen,

829
00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:10,640
Speaker 1: very deviated from where the audience was, and Rush reached

830
00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:14,440
Speaker 1: out regularly to see how I was doing. He called me,

831
00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:16,120
Speaker 1: it's like, look, you got to build a relationship with

832
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Speaker 1: your audience. And I started very mindfully, deliberately, maybe over

833
00:50:21,400 --> 00:50:24,080
Speaker 1: sharing my life with him, connecting to them on on

834
00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:27,040
Speaker 1: faith and culture and not just the raw politics of

835
00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:29,759
Speaker 1: the day, finding areas of conversation we could agree on

836
00:50:29,840 --> 00:50:32,319
Speaker 1: and talk about and laugh at. In particular, that was

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00:50:32,320 --> 00:50:34,520
Speaker 1: one thing Russia always told me, is find stuff you

838
00:50:34,520 --> 00:50:37,800
Speaker 1: can laugh at with your audience. And it worked, and

839
00:50:38,080 --> 00:50:40,560
Speaker 1: my audience is now bigger than it ever was. Even

840
00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:43,600
Speaker 1: before jumping into syndication, it was one of the largest

841
00:50:43,600 --> 00:50:46,080
Speaker 1: local talk shows in the country, in large part because

842
00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:48,160
Speaker 1: Rush was a great mentor and gave great advice. And

843
00:50:48,200 --> 00:50:53,360
Speaker 1: I listened around October of last year before Rush passed away.

844
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:56,440
Speaker 1: He reached out to me, and usually it was me

845
00:50:56,520 --> 00:50:58,800
Speaker 1: reaching out to him, and if it was him reaching

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00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:01,960
Speaker 1: out to me first, I always paid attention and just

847
00:51:01,960 --> 00:51:03,719
Speaker 1: want to know how radio was going. I was doing

848
00:51:04,520 --> 00:51:09,120
Speaker 1: two shows at the time, and he knows he knew

849
00:51:09,239 --> 00:51:12,920
Speaker 1: I was not good at with business and wanted to

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00:51:13,239 --> 00:51:16,000
Speaker 1: give me some advice on the radio business and how

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Speaker 1: it works. And then he just told me, I said,

852
00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:22,680
Speaker 1: you need to get up every day and make sure

853
00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:25,160
Speaker 1: that behind the microphone is where you want to be,

854
00:51:25,680 --> 00:51:27,520
Speaker 1: and if it is, you need to keep doing it.

855
00:51:27,719 --> 00:51:31,400
Speaker 1: Don't ever not do it. And I would never have

856
00:51:31,600 --> 00:51:34,480
Speaker 1: gotten behind the microphone had he not told me that

857
00:51:34,520 --> 00:51:37,839
Speaker 1: I needed to do it. I genuinely, truly. I mean,

858
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Speaker 1: everybody in radio talk radio is their career to Rush,

859
00:51:40,239 --> 00:51:42,160
Speaker 1: but I really do owe my career to Rush. I

860
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:44,799
Speaker 1: would have said no to a job he told me

861
00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:47,239
Speaker 1: I needed to say yes to. And a decade later.

862
00:51:47,760 --> 00:51:51,160
Speaker 1: Now I'm suddenly finding myself in syndication and continuing to

863
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Speaker 1: grow my show. Thanks Rush. My name is Larry Iron.

864
00:51:54,160 --> 00:52:00,200
Speaker 1: I'm the president of Hillsdale College. I met Russland eighty eight,

865
00:52:00,239 --> 00:52:01,920
Speaker 1: I think was the year in which he became a

866
00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:05,520
Speaker 1: sort of national figure and moved from Sacramento, California, to

867
00:52:05,640 --> 00:52:08,440
Speaker 1: New York and launched this mighty radio show that then

868
00:52:08,520 --> 00:52:12,560
Speaker 1: went on from nine until his death this year. He's

869
00:52:12,560 --> 00:52:15,719
Speaker 1: a galvanizing man. He came to my notice because I'd

870
00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:18,719
Speaker 1: be in taxi cabs in Sacramento, California, and if it

871
00:52:18,840 --> 00:52:22,520
Speaker 1: was in the morning, Russia Lim Boss show was always on,

872
00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:24,719
Speaker 1: and every time there was a break, the cab driver

873
00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:26,919
Speaker 1: turned around and say to me, this guy is great.

874
00:52:27,200 --> 00:52:28,960
Speaker 1: And I listened to him, and I thought, boy, this

875
00:52:29,040 --> 00:52:32,839
Speaker 1: guy's something, you know, because that mixture of an analyst

876
00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:38,440
Speaker 1: and an entertainer was deliberate in him, and he took

877
00:52:38,480 --> 00:52:40,800
Speaker 1: it to the highest state. I met him in a

878
00:52:40,880 --> 00:52:43,200
Speaker 1: hotel somebody pointing about to me, and I went and

879
00:52:43,280 --> 00:52:45,560
Speaker 1: I said, love your show, which you know, everybody ever

880
00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:47,920
Speaker 1: made him and probably said that time. Then later he

881
00:52:48,120 --> 00:52:51,160
Speaker 1: became a big national figure and I would have contact

882
00:52:51,239 --> 00:52:53,520
Speaker 1: with him from time to time he got the idea

883
00:52:53,560 --> 00:52:57,160
Speaker 1: that we should advertise on his show, and he had

884
00:52:57,200 --> 00:53:00,359
Speaker 1: a backlog people wanted to advertise, so I I, yeah,

885
00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:02,439
Speaker 1: we'll give it a whirl. And then the point about

886
00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:07,200
Speaker 1: the world is he was great. He uh understood what

887
00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:10,600
Speaker 1: our college was about. He wanted me to explain it

888
00:53:10,760 --> 00:53:13,560
Speaker 1: to him, and I did many times, and uh, he

889
00:53:13,719 --> 00:53:17,200
Speaker 1: just turned it into gold. So I admired him. I

890
00:53:17,320 --> 00:53:19,160
Speaker 1: liked him a lot. You know, he was on the

891
00:53:19,280 --> 00:53:22,520
Speaker 1: radio three hours a day, five days a week for

892
00:53:22,760 --> 00:53:25,840
Speaker 1: thirty some years. It was essential to the success of

893
00:53:25,920 --> 00:53:28,480
Speaker 1: Russia Limbaugh that he was an entertainer. He was funny,

894
00:53:28,760 --> 00:53:31,359
Speaker 1: he would just make you laugh. But more essential than

895
00:53:31,440 --> 00:53:34,319
Speaker 1: that is that he represented some big things that are

896
00:53:34,360 --> 00:53:37,960
Speaker 1: rooted deeply in America, and he defended those things consistently

897
00:53:38,040 --> 00:53:41,160
Speaker 1: for his whole career. And of course those things cannot die.

898
00:53:41,640 --> 00:53:44,759
Speaker 1: They are eternal, and he has helped to sustain them

899
00:53:44,840 --> 00:53:50,560
Speaker 1: so far, and we should carry on. Trump doesn't care. Uh,

900
00:53:51,160 --> 00:53:55,120
Speaker 1: he's not politically corrective. He's fearless. He's not afraid to

901
00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:59,000
Speaker 1: tell people what he actually thinks about other people or things,

902
00:53:59,520 --> 00:54:03,080
Speaker 1: and he's not worried about the reaction that people have

903
00:54:03,320 --> 00:54:05,279
Speaker 1: to it. He's just gonna go ahead and be who

904
00:54:05,320 --> 00:54:09,200
Speaker 1: he is. He's one of these people that really he

905
00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:13,720
Speaker 1: embodies the idea that you attract the kind of people

906
00:54:13,920 --> 00:54:16,800
Speaker 1: you are, and that you should not be a phony

907
00:54:17,160 --> 00:54:19,000
Speaker 1: to try to attract certain people, trying to be like

908
00:54:19,239 --> 00:54:21,239
Speaker 1: the people you want to attract. It never works. He

909
00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:24,000
Speaker 1: just is who he is, and whoever doesn't like him

910
00:54:24,120 --> 00:54:27,520
Speaker 1: their problem. Whoever does find there in the inner circle,

911
00:54:28,480 --> 00:54:30,640
Speaker 1: We're so glad to have with us, if only for

912
00:54:30,719 --> 00:54:33,480
Speaker 1: a few moments, one of the busiest men in America

913
00:54:33,760 --> 00:54:38,840
Speaker 1: to share his thoughts about Russia. Lim Law President Donald J. Trump, Mr? President,

914
00:54:39,160 --> 00:54:41,600
Speaker 1: What do you think Russia? Limbaugh's legacy will be across

915
00:54:41,640 --> 00:54:45,759
Speaker 1: America and the world more than anything else. Freedom encourage.

916
00:54:45,880 --> 00:54:48,800
Speaker 1: You know, he had guts. Rush would talk about anything

917
00:54:48,920 --> 00:54:53,440
Speaker 1: that was appropriate to talk about. These other people, even

918
00:54:53,520 --> 00:54:55,480
Speaker 1: the good ones. They're good people, but they want to

919
00:54:55,520 --> 00:54:58,919
Speaker 1: be politically correct. They don't want to say anything that's

920
00:54:59,040 --> 00:55:02,920
Speaker 1: too controversial. And that's what made him successful. Bow. You

921
00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:05,520
Speaker 1: know that you don't other than anybody. You may be

922
00:55:06,080 --> 00:55:09,720
Speaker 1: one guy that does it better than I do. Rush

923
00:55:10,239 --> 00:55:14,520
Speaker 1: was a He was a man who had tremendous courage,

924
00:55:14,840 --> 00:55:18,360
Speaker 1: and he had tremendous principle and if he believed in something,

925
00:55:18,440 --> 00:55:20,680
Speaker 1: he talked about it. And who had an audience like him?

926
00:55:21,080 --> 00:55:23,479
Speaker 1: You know, Sean Hannity is great and he's a great

927
00:55:23,560 --> 00:55:27,560
Speaker 1: guy and a great person in every way. And Sean said,

928
00:55:27,840 --> 00:55:31,320
Speaker 1: it's a voice that can never ever be replaced. And

929
00:55:31,640 --> 00:55:33,839
Speaker 1: you know, for Sean to say that, who's so big

930
00:55:33,920 --> 00:55:36,200
Speaker 1: in his own right and he's a massive audience. But

931
00:55:36,520 --> 00:55:40,120
Speaker 1: and Sean openly says, Nope, Rush was the voice. It

932
00:55:40,239 --> 00:55:43,239
Speaker 1: can never be replaced. You cannot because I used to say, well,

933
00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:47,759
Speaker 1: who can replace Rush? And the fact is nobody will

934
00:55:47,800 --> 00:55:51,640
Speaker 1: ever replace him. He was a courageous person and he

935
00:55:51,760 --> 00:55:54,920
Speaker 1: loved our country. Well, Mr President, on behalf of all

936
00:55:55,040 --> 00:55:58,000
Speaker 1: of us who worked with Rush and his millions of fans,

937
00:55:58,080 --> 00:56:01,279
Speaker 1: we want to thank you will bestowing the Medal of

938
00:56:01,360 --> 00:56:04,320
Speaker 1: Freedom upon him at that time, only you could do

939
00:56:04,480 --> 00:56:07,960
Speaker 1: that and make all of the elected Democrats in Washington

940
00:56:08,080 --> 00:56:10,680
Speaker 1: show up for the ceremony. Thank you for that. It

941
00:56:10,840 --> 00:56:13,919
Speaker 1: was such a beautiful night. One will never forget. Thank

942
00:56:13,960 --> 00:56:16,560
Speaker 1: you for doing that, Mr President. That was a great

943
00:56:16,640 --> 00:56:19,160
Speaker 1: evening and I've never seen anything like it. One side

944
00:56:19,320 --> 00:56:21,799
Speaker 1: was going crazy in a positive way, and the other

945
00:56:21,880 --> 00:56:24,920
Speaker 1: side was dead and silent. But you know what, you

946
00:56:25,040 --> 00:56:27,680
Speaker 1: looked at the eyes of the other side. They knew

947
00:56:27,760 --> 00:56:31,719
Speaker 1: he deserved it. They knew it, they respected They respected

948
00:56:31,840 --> 00:56:34,480
Speaker 1: him as much as they may be disliked him. And

949
00:56:35,040 --> 00:56:37,759
Speaker 1: I don't know disagreed with him for whatever reason. I

950
00:56:37,800 --> 00:56:40,040
Speaker 1: don't know why you would. He wants a strong military

951
00:56:40,160 --> 00:56:43,439
Speaker 1: once slow texts, you know, all of the common sense things.

952
00:56:43,520 --> 00:56:46,359
Speaker 1: But but they got it and giving it to him

953
00:56:46,480 --> 00:56:49,480
Speaker 1: was his greatest honor. And giving it there and I

954
00:56:49,640 --> 00:56:51,640
Speaker 1: was just an idea that I had and I said,

955
00:56:51,760 --> 00:56:54,960
Speaker 1: let's go for it. And uh, that was quite a night.

956
00:56:55,320 --> 00:56:57,399
Speaker 1: That was quite a night. Thank you for your time,

957
00:56:57,480 --> 00:57:00,680
Speaker 1: Mr President. We so love you. Thank you for joining

958
00:57:00,719 --> 00:57:04,360
Speaker 1: Thanks keep up the work very much. He is the

959
00:57:04,440 --> 00:57:09,280
Speaker 1: greatest fighter and winner that you will ever meet. Rush Limball,

960
00:57:09,880 --> 00:57:14,680
Speaker 1: thank you for your decades tireless devotion to our us.

961
00:57:28,920 --> 00:57:32,800
Speaker 1: In recognition of all that you have done for our nation,

962
00:57:33,600 --> 00:57:37,240
Speaker 1: the millions of people a day that you speak to

963
00:57:37,400 --> 00:57:40,800
Speaker 1: and that you inspire, and all of the incredible work

964
00:57:41,640 --> 00:57:44,720
Speaker 1: that you have done for charity, I am proud to

965
00:57:44,800 --> 00:57:48,320
Speaker 1: announce tonight that you will be receiving our country's highest

966
00:57:49,240 --> 00:58:04,760
Speaker 1: civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. So this is

967
00:58:04,800 --> 00:58:07,320
Speaker 1: our last episode of Russilan by the man behind the

968
00:58:07,400 --> 00:58:09,919
Speaker 1: Golden the IB microphone. We've heard from a lot of people,

969
00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:13,360
Speaker 1: but I wanted you, ladies and gentlemen to hear from

970
00:58:13,400 --> 00:58:16,800
Speaker 1: the two men that helped me produce this podcast series.

971
00:58:17,240 --> 00:58:21,120
Speaker 1: Phil Tower Chris Kelly. Welcome to your podcast of Whom

972
00:58:21,160 --> 00:58:25,680
Speaker 1: with Me? Hello James, Well, Chris, let's start with you.

973
00:58:25,800 --> 00:58:29,040
Speaker 1: What have you learned? You came into this, as I

974
00:58:29,240 --> 00:58:31,320
Speaker 1: understand that, correct me if I'm wrong. You came into

975
00:58:31,400 --> 00:58:34,160
Speaker 1: this not so much a political guy. Tell me what

976
00:58:34,240 --> 00:58:37,160
Speaker 1: you've learned from this series. You know, listen, I'm I am.

977
00:58:37,720 --> 00:58:41,680
Speaker 1: I'm a radio guy, right, so having been around radio

978
00:58:41,800 --> 00:58:45,320
Speaker 1: for a long time and having worked for radio stations

979
00:58:45,400 --> 00:58:48,960
Speaker 1: that were rush lingall affiliates for a long time. Um,

980
00:58:49,400 --> 00:58:53,080
Speaker 1: obviously you know you you revere somebody of his stature,

981
00:58:53,920 --> 00:58:57,680
Speaker 1: uh and his success level politically speaking. No, I'm not

982
00:58:58,000 --> 00:59:01,400
Speaker 1: overly interested in a lot of politics in general, right,

983
00:59:02,280 --> 00:59:04,800
Speaker 1: but I am interested in somebody that knows how to

984
00:59:04,880 --> 00:59:08,200
Speaker 1: communicate and somebody who does it at the level that

985
00:59:08,320 --> 00:59:10,960
Speaker 1: he did it for so long. And I gotta tell

986
00:59:11,040 --> 00:59:15,400
Speaker 1: you Honestly, the stories that I've been privy to behind

987
00:59:15,560 --> 00:59:18,720
Speaker 1: the scenes, is we've recorded this thing, it's kind of

988
00:59:18,760 --> 00:59:20,440
Speaker 1: blown me away. He reminds me a lot of a

989
00:59:20,480 --> 00:59:23,640
Speaker 1: guy that I used to work for for a long time. Uh.

990
00:59:23,720 --> 00:59:26,280
Speaker 1: And hearing hearing people like Brian say he was like

991
00:59:26,360 --> 00:59:30,240
Speaker 1: another father to me, or hearing just your emotion in

992
00:59:30,360 --> 00:59:32,920
Speaker 1: talking about him, and getting the chance to know some

993
00:59:33,080 --> 00:59:35,880
Speaker 1: of these other people that have interacted with and and

994
00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:38,400
Speaker 1: been part of Russia's life for so long has been really,

995
00:59:38,480 --> 00:59:41,880
Speaker 1: really special, and I'm really really proud to have been

996
00:59:41,960 --> 00:59:46,600
Speaker 1: part of this project. This podcast has been about, you know,

997
00:59:46,680 --> 00:59:49,040
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, no matter what you

998
00:59:49,120 --> 00:59:51,280
Speaker 1: watch on TV, no matter what you listen to on

999
00:59:51,320 --> 00:59:54,479
Speaker 1: the radio, no matter what you read online, there's another

1000
00:59:54,600 --> 00:59:57,520
Speaker 1: human being on the other end of that content. And

1001
00:59:58,560 --> 01:00:00,920
Speaker 1: what I have been really sted in over the course

1002
01:00:00,960 --> 01:00:03,040
Speaker 1: of this series, and I hope others have paid attention to,

1003
01:00:03,920 --> 01:00:07,640
Speaker 1: is laying down all political ideology and laying down all

1004
01:00:07,880 --> 01:00:11,440
Speaker 1: what you read in the newspaper, online or whatever, is

1005
01:00:11,520 --> 01:00:15,640
Speaker 1: that there's this guy and there was so many more

1006
01:00:15,880 --> 01:00:20,040
Speaker 1: layers to him than you ever really got to hear

1007
01:00:20,080 --> 01:00:23,240
Speaker 1: on the radio, or that anybody ever really knew that

1008
01:00:23,480 --> 01:00:26,200
Speaker 1: to me is the whole purpose of why we've been

1009
01:00:26,240 --> 01:00:30,920
Speaker 1: doing this podcast. It's been an absolute pleasure to produce

1010
01:00:31,160 --> 01:00:34,280
Speaker 1: this and and especially I have to say James, to

1011
01:00:34,480 --> 01:00:36,920
Speaker 1: get to know you and work with you. You are

1012
01:00:37,200 --> 01:00:39,760
Speaker 1: a prose pro and I know just in reading some

1013
01:00:39,840 --> 01:00:43,920
Speaker 1: of the comments from um people that have left reviews

1014
01:00:44,000 --> 01:00:48,000
Speaker 1: on the podcast, and uh, just getting feedback from people

1015
01:00:48,240 --> 01:00:51,680
Speaker 1: in my own orbit, the level at which people speak

1016
01:00:51,760 --> 01:00:55,040
Speaker 1: of you, Uh, they couldn't be couldn't be more right.

1017
01:00:55,200 --> 01:00:58,680
Speaker 1: You are truly a gentleman and a professional, and it's

1018
01:00:58,720 --> 01:01:01,400
Speaker 1: been an absolute pleasure to work with you. I'm blushing

1019
01:01:01,640 --> 01:01:04,080
Speaker 1: and that's hard to see, by the way. Thank you,

1020
01:01:08,680 --> 01:01:13,760
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Chris Kelly our other producer, Phil Tower. Phil,

1021
01:01:13,800 --> 01:01:15,880
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you the same question, well in a

1022
01:01:15,880 --> 01:01:17,880
Speaker 1: different kind of way, what have you learned from from

1023
01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:21,520
Speaker 1: from producing this podcast series about the life of Russian Lumball,

1024
01:01:21,600 --> 01:01:25,200
Speaker 1: the guy behind the Golden IBY microphone. Well, I'm going

1025
01:01:25,240 --> 01:01:27,000
Speaker 1: to give you a quick, simple answer, and that is

1026
01:01:27,480 --> 01:01:33,520
Speaker 1: have a dream, never give up on it. Rush decided

1027
01:01:33,600 --> 01:01:36,520
Speaker 1: that radio was his calling. We knew that as a

1028
01:01:36,600 --> 01:01:39,800
Speaker 1: young kid he hated going to school and that was

1029
01:01:39,920 --> 01:01:42,920
Speaker 1: his vision. He was fired from his first seven jobs,

1030
01:01:43,800 --> 01:01:46,000
Speaker 1: and in the end he was successful because he had

1031
01:01:46,040 --> 01:01:48,560
Speaker 1: a dream. He had a vision, and he kept to it.

1032
01:01:49,360 --> 01:01:51,280
Speaker 1: And along the way he met some great people and

1033
01:01:51,360 --> 01:01:54,840
Speaker 1: he stayed humble and grateful until the end. And what

1034
01:01:55,000 --> 01:01:58,360
Speaker 1: in a great American success story that is James and

1035
01:01:58,520 --> 01:02:02,200
Speaker 1: you were You had an inside seat to the whole thing,

1036
01:02:02,440 --> 01:02:06,280
Speaker 1: So I mean, what an incredible honor um. In the end,

1037
01:02:06,360 --> 01:02:08,520
Speaker 1: he was just a guy who loved what he did.

1038
01:02:09,000 --> 01:02:12,600
Speaker 1: And we've heard that from our parents and mentors along

1039
01:02:12,640 --> 01:02:14,520
Speaker 1: the way. You gotta love what you do in life.

1040
01:02:14,600 --> 01:02:18,400
Speaker 1: And Rush loved radio and he loved his show. He

1041
01:02:18,600 --> 01:02:21,040
Speaker 1: loved being with his audience. He was there until the end.

1042
01:02:22,040 --> 01:02:25,920
Speaker 1: And I need to make Chris and you blush because Chris,

1043
01:02:26,480 --> 01:02:30,120
Speaker 1: when I received a call from Craig Kitchen, the godfather

1044
01:02:30,240 --> 01:02:33,480
Speaker 1: of this whole project, if you will, I told him,

1045
01:02:33,520 --> 01:02:38,600
Speaker 1: I said, we need a masterful audio guy, and introduced

1046
01:02:38,680 --> 01:02:42,240
Speaker 1: Chris Kelly, my co producer who makes these podcasts. Sing

1047
01:02:42,440 --> 01:02:44,959
Speaker 1: James and you know that the way the music has mixed,

1048
01:02:45,000 --> 01:02:49,520
Speaker 1: everything's together. And you, James, a storyteller who gave each

1049
01:02:49,560 --> 01:02:51,520
Speaker 1: of us chills as we heard some of these stories.

1050
01:02:52,080 --> 01:02:54,280
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Well, I'm gonna say this. You know,

1051
01:02:54,280 --> 01:02:56,680
Speaker 1: I've been in radio all my life, almost as I

1052
01:02:56,760 --> 01:02:59,360
Speaker 1: look back on it now, almost all of my life,

1053
01:02:59,400 --> 01:03:02,840
Speaker 1: I've been in this radio business, and of course we're work.

1054
01:03:02,920 --> 01:03:07,560
Speaker 1: Working with Rush Limbaugh was an amazing blessing. It was

1055
01:03:09,280 --> 01:03:13,840
Speaker 1: a chance of a lifetime that has made my life.

1056
01:03:14,840 --> 01:03:18,520
Speaker 1: And working with both you Phil and you Chris has

1057
01:03:18,640 --> 01:03:22,600
Speaker 1: been such a delight. You Rush used to say, you know,

1058
01:03:22,680 --> 01:03:25,600
Speaker 1: the job of Colors was to make make the host

1059
01:03:25,720 --> 01:03:28,200
Speaker 1: look good, not to suck up or anything, but but

1060
01:03:28,320 --> 01:03:31,120
Speaker 1: to bring out the best. And working with two people

1061
01:03:31,480 --> 01:03:35,800
Speaker 1: who are the very best at what they do makes

1062
01:03:35,840 --> 01:03:37,800
Speaker 1: you up your game. And that's what both of you

1063
01:03:37,880 --> 01:03:40,120
Speaker 1: have done for me. You've made this a pleasure. You've

1064
01:03:40,240 --> 01:03:44,080
Speaker 1: made this a remarkable experience that I'll never forget. And

1065
01:03:44,320 --> 01:03:47,560
Speaker 1: I cannot thank you enough for the hard work and

1066
01:03:47,720 --> 01:03:49,400
Speaker 1: energy you put in. People that are not in this

1067
01:03:49,560 --> 01:03:52,920
Speaker 1: business don't understand the time that it takes just to

1068
01:03:53,040 --> 01:03:58,040
Speaker 1: produce one episode, and you guys have now both of

1069
01:03:58,120 --> 01:04:02,000
Speaker 1: you have spent so many hours going through this podcast

1070
01:04:02,120 --> 01:04:05,440
Speaker 1: with me and going through Russia Llanbaw's life with me,

1071
01:04:06,040 --> 01:04:10,960
Speaker 1: and the way that you produced this we hope brings

1072
01:04:11,040 --> 01:04:15,280
Speaker 1: all of us hope. Those that listen to Rush, those

1073
01:04:15,400 --> 01:04:18,080
Speaker 1: that knew Rush, and those that didn't know Rush will

1074
01:04:18,560 --> 01:04:24,440
Speaker 1: find appreciation for what an incredible man he was based

1075
01:04:24,480 --> 01:04:27,800
Speaker 1: on the production skills that you guys brought to the table,

1076
01:04:27,840 --> 01:04:31,560
Speaker 1: and I just can't thank you enough. So just this week,

1077
01:04:31,720 --> 01:04:34,120
Speaker 1: you know, in one of the previous episodes, I mentioned

1078
01:04:34,160 --> 01:04:35,640
Speaker 1: the dream that I had of Russia. I was trying

1079
01:04:35,640 --> 01:04:37,320
Speaker 1: to figure it out. So just this week I had

1080
01:04:37,360 --> 01:04:41,040
Speaker 1: another dream. Um, as we sit here with the final

1081
01:04:41,080 --> 01:04:43,320
Speaker 1: episode of RUSSI Lana the Man behind the Golden Knee,

1082
01:04:43,320 --> 01:04:46,400
Speaker 1: I'd be microphone and in this dream, Dawn, Brian and

1083
01:04:46,440 --> 01:04:48,320
Speaker 1: I were sitting in the control room and Rush was

1084
01:04:48,400 --> 01:04:50,040
Speaker 1: doing the show. And let me tell you, this was

1085
01:04:50,160 --> 01:04:54,480
Speaker 1: so vivid. It was such a vivid dream that at

1086
01:04:54,640 --> 01:04:59,360
Speaker 1: some point I looked at Dawn and said, how is

1087
01:04:59,400 --> 01:05:03,080
Speaker 1: this possible? Bowl, How are we here listening to Rush

1088
01:05:03,600 --> 01:05:06,440
Speaker 1: in the studio with us? This has to be a dream.

1089
01:05:07,520 --> 01:05:11,760
Speaker 1: And then I woke up. Well, my life with Rush

1090
01:05:11,880 --> 01:05:16,040
Speaker 1: was kind of like a dream. It happened all so quickly.

1091
01:05:16,440 --> 01:05:19,000
Speaker 1: Now when I look back on it, when you look

1092
01:05:19,080 --> 01:05:22,000
Speaker 1: back over three decades of your life, and and and

1093
01:05:22,160 --> 01:05:25,040
Speaker 1: you've spent three decades with someone who's had an amazing

1094
01:05:25,120 --> 01:05:28,040
Speaker 1: impact on your life. What can you say. It's hard

1095
01:05:28,080 --> 01:05:30,600
Speaker 1: to believe that we're at the stage now where where

1096
01:05:30,840 --> 01:05:33,520
Speaker 1: we're talking about it in the past tense. But here's

1097
01:05:33,560 --> 01:05:40,080
Speaker 1: the thing. Rush will never be past tense. For three decades,

1098
01:05:40,720 --> 01:05:45,800
Speaker 1: he connected with millions of people. He didn't just connect

1099
01:05:46,000 --> 01:05:50,800
Speaker 1: with their brains with ideas, he connected with their hearts.

1100
01:05:51,920 --> 01:05:56,160
Speaker 1: He connected with people in a way that no other

1101
01:05:56,360 --> 01:06:02,440
Speaker 1: media personality in our history has connected with people. And

1102
01:06:02,560 --> 01:06:07,800
Speaker 1: that is evidenced by the stories that people tell among themselves,

1103
01:06:07,960 --> 01:06:09,960
Speaker 1: some of the stories that you'll see in some of

1104
01:06:10,000 --> 01:06:13,280
Speaker 1: the reviews of this podcast, and and if you're fortunate

1105
01:06:13,400 --> 01:06:15,560
Speaker 1: enough to read in some of the emails or other

1106
01:06:15,640 --> 01:06:19,160
Speaker 1: communications that people send with each other. Rush impacted people

1107
01:06:19,320 --> 01:06:22,600
Speaker 1: in a way that most broadcasters could only dream of.

1108
01:06:23,600 --> 01:06:27,440
Speaker 1: He loved what he did. He loved this country, he

1109
01:06:27,600 --> 01:06:33,480
Speaker 1: loved his family, He loved what he did. Russell Lambas

1110
01:06:33,600 --> 01:06:35,720
Speaker 1: said he was born to talk and we were born

1111
01:06:35,800 --> 01:06:38,200
Speaker 1: to listen. He was so right. He was born to

1112
01:06:38,320 --> 01:06:41,640
Speaker 1: do what he did, and he did it well. That

1113
01:06:41,920 --> 01:06:44,960
Speaker 1: talent has been returned to God, but thank God we

1114
01:06:45,120 --> 01:06:49,760
Speaker 1: had that talent. For thirty years. More than thirty years, Rush,

1115
01:06:50,080 --> 01:06:54,640
Speaker 1: We love you, we miss you, and will never ever

1116
01:06:55,280 --> 01:06:59,480
Speaker 1: forget you. One final guest host we haven't heard from yet,

1117
01:07:00,160 --> 01:07:02,680
Speaker 1: or at least not in his own words, He narrated

1118
01:07:02,840 --> 01:07:04,760
Speaker 1: a life of Russi Lymbob and Yet for us in

1119
01:07:04,800 --> 01:07:07,720
Speaker 1: our last episode, but also sent us a little bit

1120
01:07:07,760 --> 01:07:11,000
Speaker 1: more of his own story and insight on how Rush

1121
01:07:11,120 --> 01:07:15,560
Speaker 1: impacted him and inspired his life. In liberal Hollywood, of

1122
01:07:15,640 --> 01:07:19,440
Speaker 1: all places, actor Nick Sarcy was a fan of Russia Limbaugh,

1123
01:07:19,760 --> 01:07:22,440
Speaker 1: but what he didn't know was that Rush was also

1124
01:07:22,560 --> 01:07:26,120
Speaker 1: a fan of his work until one day he mentioned

1125
01:07:26,200 --> 01:07:28,360
Speaker 1: him on the air and the rest was history. So

1126
01:07:28,560 --> 01:07:32,040
Speaker 1: now here's Nick Sercy, one time guest host of the

1127
01:07:32,080 --> 01:07:35,439
Speaker 1: Russi lan Bar Program, but more importantly, a long time

1128
01:07:35,520 --> 01:07:40,120
Speaker 1: listener just like you and me. And this is nick story.

1129
01:07:44,680 --> 01:07:46,960
Speaker 1: I was living in North Carolina with my wife and

1130
01:07:47,040 --> 01:07:51,280
Speaker 1: newborn daughter and driving long distances for auditions trying to

1131
01:07:51,360 --> 01:07:54,800
Speaker 1: get my acting career started. Many of my trips were

1132
01:07:54,840 --> 01:07:58,640
Speaker 1: from western North Carolina to Wilmington, North Carolina, at four

1133
01:07:58,720 --> 01:08:01,720
Speaker 1: hundred miles six and a half hour drive one way.

1134
01:08:02,440 --> 01:08:05,240
Speaker 1: There was nothing but the radio to keep you awake

1135
01:08:05,560 --> 01:08:09,560
Speaker 1: and alive. And then one day, flipping through I came

1136
01:08:09,640 --> 01:08:15,960
Speaker 1: upon this voice, this warm, jocular, joyful, sonorous, pleasant voice,

1137
01:08:16,960 --> 01:08:22,599
Speaker 1: bragging about his talent on loan from God and tying

1138
01:08:22,680 --> 01:08:24,720
Speaker 1: half his brain behind his back to make it fair

1139
01:08:24,800 --> 01:08:28,280
Speaker 1: to the callers, talking about politics, the news of the day,

1140
01:08:29,000 --> 01:08:32,880
Speaker 1: playing funny song parodies, and he was making fun of Democrats.

1141
01:08:33,560 --> 01:08:36,880
Speaker 1: And at that time this simply was not done, And

1142
01:08:37,040 --> 01:08:40,120
Speaker 1: I thought, who the hell is this guy? For you

1143
01:08:40,280 --> 01:08:43,640
Speaker 1: young whipper snappers out there, it is hard to understand

1144
01:08:43,840 --> 01:08:48,000
Speaker 1: what life was like before Rush. There was no one,

1145
01:08:48,200 --> 01:08:51,479
Speaker 1: and I mean no one like him. There was no

1146
01:08:51,680 --> 01:08:55,280
Speaker 1: Fox News, no Sean Hannity, not really even a talk

1147
01:08:55,439 --> 01:09:00,200
Speaker 1: radio format, not on a national level. Rush started it all.

1148
01:09:01,520 --> 01:09:04,519
Speaker 1: He showed us all that the left did not define

1149
01:09:04,600 --> 01:09:09,479
Speaker 1: him and by extension us, and he talked to us

1150
01:09:09,960 --> 01:09:13,040
Speaker 1: like every single one of us was a dear friend,

1151
01:09:14,240 --> 01:09:20,240
Speaker 1: and in our hearts we made friends with Rush. It

1152
01:09:20,400 --> 01:09:22,680
Speaker 1: is nearly impossible for me to put into words how

1153
01:09:22,760 --> 01:09:26,519
Speaker 1: much Rush has meant to me over the years working

1154
01:09:26,560 --> 01:09:29,560
Speaker 1: in Hollywood amongst the leftists in power, Rush was the

1155
01:09:29,720 --> 01:09:33,360
Speaker 1: thing I organized my day around. I even bought a

1156
01:09:33,400 --> 01:09:37,439
Speaker 1: short wave radio from Radio Shack Google that kids, so

1157
01:09:37,680 --> 01:09:40,960
Speaker 1: I could hear Rush from anywhere on earth, even if

1158
01:09:41,000 --> 01:09:45,000
Speaker 1: he was preempted by current events. Because as a small

1159
01:09:45,080 --> 01:09:48,680
Speaker 1: town kid pursuing the seemingly impossible goal of making a

1160
01:09:48,760 --> 01:09:53,320
Speaker 1: living as an actor, I saw myself in Rush when

1161
01:09:53,400 --> 01:09:55,559
Speaker 1: he talked about wanting to be on the radio from

1162
01:09:55,600 --> 01:09:58,479
Speaker 1: a very young age and knowing that radio was what

1163
01:09:58,600 --> 01:10:01,120
Speaker 1: he wanted to do with his life. When he talked

1164
01:10:01,160 --> 01:10:03,439
Speaker 1: about the jobs that he had been fired from and

1165
01:10:03,479 --> 01:10:06,720
Speaker 1: all the setbacks he had encountered along the way, and

1166
01:10:06,840 --> 01:10:11,200
Speaker 1: how he had still persevered, he gave me hope. He

1167
01:10:11,320 --> 01:10:14,840
Speaker 1: made me believe, perhaps more than any other single person

1168
01:10:14,920 --> 01:10:17,640
Speaker 1: in my life besides my mom, that I could do

1169
01:10:17,800 --> 01:10:21,200
Speaker 1: it if I just kept going. He sustained me through

1170
01:10:21,240 --> 01:10:24,960
Speaker 1: all the disappointments and the triumphs, and most of all,

1171
01:10:25,360 --> 01:10:27,400
Speaker 1: he let me know that I was not alone in

1172
01:10:27,520 --> 01:10:30,960
Speaker 1: being a conservative, even while I was in the thick

1173
01:10:31,080 --> 01:10:35,120
Speaker 1: den of leftist thieves, bullies and vipers that he is

1174
01:10:35,200 --> 01:10:39,360
Speaker 1: Hollywood in I was cast his art Mullen and the

1175
01:10:39,439 --> 01:10:43,160
Speaker 1: TV show justified a role that perhaps came the signature

1176
01:10:43,240 --> 01:10:46,800
Speaker 1: role of my career. And Rush said repeatedly on the

1177
01:10:46,880 --> 01:10:49,800
Speaker 1: air how much he liked to show which thrilled me

1178
01:10:49,920 --> 01:10:53,320
Speaker 1: to no end. I was so proud that my friend Rush,

1179
01:10:53,960 --> 01:10:56,840
Speaker 1: who had never met at that time. Like some of

1180
01:10:57,000 --> 01:11:01,280
Speaker 1: my work, nothing makes me feel like I had made

1181
01:11:01,360 --> 01:11:05,240
Speaker 1: it more than that fact. And then one day it

1182
01:11:05,400 --> 01:11:10,240
Speaker 1: happened Rush mentioned me by name on the air. My

1183
01:11:10,400 --> 01:11:13,120
Speaker 1: phone blew up with my friends calling me to tell me.

1184
01:11:13,680 --> 01:11:17,160
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe it. And by then Twitter had arrived

1185
01:11:17,200 --> 01:11:19,559
Speaker 1: on the scene, and I was already friends with Russia's

1186
01:11:19,640 --> 01:11:22,760
Speaker 1: brother David, and I tweeted him and one thing led

1187
01:11:22,800 --> 01:11:26,519
Speaker 1: to another, and then the next day I got a

1188
01:11:26,640 --> 01:11:30,800
Speaker 1: call from Bo Snerdley himself asking me if I would

1189
01:11:30,840 --> 01:11:33,720
Speaker 1: like to come on the show and be interviewed by

1190
01:11:33,760 --> 01:11:37,600
Speaker 1: the Maha Rushi himself. And since then I've had the

1191
01:11:37,680 --> 01:11:41,560
Speaker 1: privilege of meeting Russian person, of introducing him at a

1192
01:11:41,600 --> 01:11:45,599
Speaker 1: speech he gave to that top secret Hollywood conservative group

1193
01:11:45,720 --> 01:11:49,360
Speaker 1: that had no name and in fact never existed. And

1194
01:11:49,479 --> 01:11:51,679
Speaker 1: towards the end of Russia's life, when he talked about

1195
01:11:51,720 --> 01:11:54,160
Speaker 1: how blessed he was to live the life he had,

1196
01:11:55,040 --> 01:11:58,280
Speaker 1: I saw myself and him again. There's no question that

1197
01:11:58,320 --> 01:12:01,320
Speaker 1: I have been a very fortunate I've been able to

1198
01:12:01,400 --> 01:12:04,479
Speaker 1: forge a living for myself and my beautiful family by acting,

1199
01:12:05,080 --> 01:12:08,360
Speaker 1: which is a miracle in and of itself, but still

1200
01:12:08,960 --> 01:12:14,360
Speaker 1: perhaps the most incredible, preposterous thing that has ever happened

1201
01:12:14,360 --> 01:12:19,599
Speaker 1: to me occurred on December when I had the honor

1202
01:12:19,840 --> 01:12:24,280
Speaker 1: of guest hosting the Rush Limball Program. It was a

1203
01:12:24,400 --> 01:12:26,960
Speaker 1: gift to me in so many ways. I'm not a

1204
01:12:27,120 --> 01:12:30,240
Speaker 1: radio guy. I was dragged across the finish line that

1205
01:12:30,360 --> 01:12:33,879
Speaker 1: day by the great boats Nerdly and the amazing Mike Mammone,

1206
01:12:34,439 --> 01:12:38,200
Speaker 1: and it remains to me the single most surreal event

1207
01:12:38,560 --> 01:12:42,160
Speaker 1: in my life. It's an honor that I still can't

1208
01:12:42,200 --> 01:12:45,839
Speaker 1: believe I received when Craig Kitchen passed along a message

1209
01:12:45,880 --> 01:12:48,759
Speaker 1: to me from Rush the day before I guest hosted.

1210
01:12:49,520 --> 01:12:52,880
Speaker 1: Rush had said to ask me why I wanted to

1211
01:12:52,920 --> 01:12:57,759
Speaker 1: get into radio, and I told Craig to tell Rush

1212
01:12:57,840 --> 01:13:00,640
Speaker 1: that I wasn't really sure if I did, but I

1213
01:13:00,960 --> 01:13:03,639
Speaker 1: knew that I just wanted to know what it felt

1214
01:13:03,720 --> 01:13:08,960
Speaker 1: like to be Rush for one day, and it gave

1215
01:13:09,040 --> 01:13:11,559
Speaker 1: me even more of an appreciation of how great Rush

1216
01:13:11,800 --> 01:13:15,439
Speaker 1: was when I experienced exactly how hard it is to

1217
01:13:15,479 --> 01:13:19,960
Speaker 1: be on the radio for three hours just once, let

1218
01:13:20,040 --> 01:13:23,360
Speaker 1: alone fifteen hours a week. Fifty weeks a year for

1219
01:13:23,560 --> 01:13:26,840
Speaker 1: thirty years at the very top of the mountain, with

1220
01:13:27,120 --> 01:13:32,560
Speaker 1: no one else ever even cloaks. Over those years, I

1221
01:13:32,680 --> 01:13:36,600
Speaker 1: have so many memories laughing with him at his song parodies,

1222
01:13:37,280 --> 01:13:39,879
Speaker 1: crying with him when he had his pain killer issues,

1223
01:13:40,439 --> 01:13:43,880
Speaker 1: praying for him when his hearing went, and of course

1224
01:13:44,680 --> 01:13:48,880
Speaker 1: sobbing when he announced that he had the cancer that

1225
01:13:48,920 --> 01:13:53,800
Speaker 1: would ultimately end his life. And when that sad day came.

1226
01:13:55,080 --> 01:13:57,679
Speaker 1: I was just like everybody else that was in Russia's

1227
01:13:57,720 --> 01:14:03,160
Speaker 1: thirty million plus audience. We grieved not just because we

1228
01:14:03,240 --> 01:14:07,320
Speaker 1: agreed with his politics, not for the validation and courage

1229
01:14:07,360 --> 01:14:10,640
Speaker 1: he modeled for us, not just because we would miss

1230
01:14:10,800 --> 01:14:15,360
Speaker 1: hearing his inimitable take on the day's events. We grieved

1231
01:14:16,280 --> 01:14:19,400
Speaker 1: like he was part of our family and we were.

1232
01:14:21,000 --> 01:14:24,800
Speaker 1: We grieved because we loved him, and we knew he

1233
01:14:24,920 --> 01:14:29,960
Speaker 1: loved us. If it can ever be said about someone

1234
01:14:30,120 --> 01:14:33,160
Speaker 1: that he did not live in vain, then his life

1235
01:14:33,280 --> 01:14:38,200
Speaker 1: made a difference that someone is rush. He showed us

1236
01:14:38,240 --> 01:14:42,479
Speaker 1: the way. May we have the same courage that he

1237
01:14:42,600 --> 01:14:46,479
Speaker 1: had to laugh in the face of hatred, to defend

1238
01:14:46,560 --> 01:14:49,479
Speaker 1: this country and what it stands for, and to do

1239
01:14:49,680 --> 01:14:58,360
Speaker 1: so with intelligence and humor and love. God bless Rush Limbaugh,

1240
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:02,800
Speaker 1: and God bless the United States of America, and God

1241
01:15:02,880 --> 01:15:06,120
Speaker 1: bless the United States. I'm never going to be able

1242
01:15:06,240 --> 01:15:11,559
Speaker 1: to adequately think the people who are responsible for one

1243
01:15:11,640 --> 01:15:15,360
Speaker 1: of the greatest lives anybody could have had. Anybody. Mega

1244
01:15:15,439 --> 01:15:18,600
Speaker 1: dittos megal prayer, Mega love for Rush. That man is

1245
01:15:18,640 --> 01:15:21,840
Speaker 1: in heaven and he's being right there by the throne,

1246
01:15:22,040 --> 01:15:24,840
Speaker 1: and I thank God for them. You will be remembered

1247
01:15:24,880 --> 01:15:28,439
Speaker 1: as a man who on air changed the course of

1248
01:15:28,520 --> 01:15:31,960
Speaker 1: conversation in America. The more you can be your real,

1249
01:15:32,240 --> 01:15:35,800
Speaker 1: authentic self, the better you're going to be. And that's Rush.

1250
01:15:37,920 --> 01:15:41,800
Speaker 1: Rush encouraged so many of us to think for ourselves,

1251
01:15:42,320 --> 01:15:46,280
Speaker 1: to learn and to lead. He often said it did

1252
01:15:46,360 --> 01:15:49,240
Speaker 1: not matter where you started or what you look like.

1253
01:15:49,640 --> 01:15:54,960
Speaker 1: As Americans, we all have endless opportunities like nowhere else

1254
01:15:55,040 --> 01:15:58,960
Speaker 1: in the world. I have met the goals I set

1255
01:15:59,040 --> 01:16:02,160
Speaker 1: for myself, and I have been able to do it

1256
01:16:02,320 --> 01:16:04,519
Speaker 1: all for the most part on my terms. I just

1257
01:16:04,920 --> 01:16:08,719
Speaker 1: cannot get any better. And to be able to share

1258
01:16:08,800 --> 01:16:11,479
Speaker 1: all of this with you and tell you how grateful

1259
01:16:11,520 --> 01:16:15,040
Speaker 1: I am makes me happy. You didn't have to know

1260
01:16:15,280 --> 01:16:17,040
Speaker 1: Rush to love him all. You had to do was

1261
01:16:17,160 --> 01:16:20,120
Speaker 1: listen to him. He was a historian, he was a comedian.

1262
01:16:20,720 --> 01:16:23,560
Speaker 1: He was a brilliant, brilliant man, and he will be

1263
01:16:23,680 --> 01:16:26,720
Speaker 1: greatly missed, and there'll not be another Russian law in

1264
01:16:26,760 --> 01:16:28,960
Speaker 1: this world. People try to figure out why he was

1265
01:16:29,040 --> 01:16:31,439
Speaker 1: so successful you did, You just can't put it in

1266
01:16:31,720 --> 01:16:35,439
Speaker 1: in an easy define herble box. His love of his audience,

1267
01:16:35,520 --> 01:16:38,360
Speaker 1: his love or what he did, his intelligence, his wit.

1268
01:16:38,560 --> 01:16:41,200
Speaker 1: Rush was like a second father for me because I

1269
01:16:41,280 --> 01:16:43,439
Speaker 1: probably spent more time with him than anybody in the

1270
01:16:43,520 --> 01:16:46,000
Speaker 1: last twenty years. I know now that God needs him

1271
01:16:46,040 --> 01:16:48,120
Speaker 1: for something up there. Now he's got a new job,

1272
01:16:48,280 --> 01:16:50,599
Speaker 1: and he did his part here and now we all

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Speaker 1: have to, you know, continue his legacy anyway we care.

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Speaker 1: There was nobody that ever was in the presence of

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Speaker 1: And he was also a brother and an uncle, and

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Speaker 1: many great friends I had and still do. Um that

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Speaker 1: it's it's uh, there's nothing negative for me. There's there's nothing,

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Speaker 1: too blessed, because I've been to He would give so

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Speaker 1: generously to taste so many organizations and so many people,

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Speaker 1: and would do so many things anonymously, so much that

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Speaker 1: people will never know the amount of stuff that he's done.

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Speaker 1: Russia's voice isn't going anywhere, so you need not have

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Speaker 1: any care of that. On behalf of the Limbaugh family,

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Speaker 1: keep going. He loved you, and he loved this radio

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Speaker 1: we all only get one life. We don't get to

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Speaker 1: then you do get do overs. Far more optimistic than pessimistic,

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Speaker 1: focusing on the goodness that exists each day, and there

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Speaker 1: immediately a parent, but it's there and it will eventually

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Speaker 1: reveal itself. It always does reveal itself. It always does.

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