WEBVTT - The Cookie & Koko Show 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:02.720 If you missed any episodes of Russia Limbaugh The Man 0:00:02.800 --> 0:00:06.120 behind the Golden E I B Microphone, you've missed more 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.400 great stories from some of Russia's closest friends, family, and colleagues. 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:14.720 All previous episodes are available now on I Heart Radio 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:21.400 or wherever you listen to your podcast. On this episode 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:23.799 of Russia Limbaugh The Man behind the Golden E I 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:28.480 B Microphone, we take you further behind the scenes of 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:31.440 the radio program. So on today's show, you're gonna hear 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:34.800 from two people that are connected with Rush almost for 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:38.320 the entire length of the radio show, but they were 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:44.440 also very involved in Russia Lamba the television show. Both 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:48.720 are very dear friends, both a very dear co workers 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:52.519 of mine. Today you're going to find out who Coco 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:57.600 and Cookie really are. Whether you listened every day you 0:00:57.680 --> 0:00:59.840 are at the E I B Network and the Russia 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:03.360 Bot program heard on over six hundred great radio stations 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:05.920 where every now and then nation's leading radio talk show, 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:09.080 the most eagerly anticipated program in Americans are the stories 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:11.840 you've never heard from the people behind the scenes who 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:15.360 knew him best and loved him most. Brushwood Ball having 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:17.800 more fundily human being, it could be allowed to have 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:21.400 Rush Limbaugh, the man behind the Golden E I D microphone, 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:26.280 hosted by James Golden. Hey, James Golden here. 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They're incredible slippers. There is a 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:12.760 level of comfort from my Pillow products that you simply 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:16.919 have to experience. Loging to my pillow dot com, click 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:20.560 on the new radio listener specials. Use the promo code 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:24.800 icon that's I C O N. You'll find lots of 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:29.640 incredible offers there right now. That's my pillow dot Com 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:39.160 promo code icon. Well, here we are Rush Limbaugh, the 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:41.440 man behind the Golden e. I B Mike, I'm James 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:49.600 Golden and today it's the Cookie and Coco Show. So yes, Now, 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:52.040 over the years, all of you who have listened to 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:56.040 the Russia Lambus showed have heard him refer endlessly to 0:02:56.240 --> 0:03:03.520 both Cookie and Coco. And we have the and this 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:07.320 isn't cocoa like hot Coco. This is cocoa like Ko 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:14.520 Ko Coco. Yeah, GURUO Coco's right? Yeah, Okay, I can 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:17.040 hear media matters right now trying to make something racist 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:25.480 out of that. Oh well, let's explain to everybody Cookie, 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:30.120 how you got the name Cookie? How did that happen? Okay, Well, 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:33.800 when I was working on the Rush TV show, there 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:37.480 was a story in the Washington Post about ABC News 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:40.560 reporter COKEI Roberts that she had to go to a 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:46.240 gala um immediately after her report that evening. So she 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:50.560 put on she had her evening gown under her raincoat, 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:52.760 and they put her in front of a green screen 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:56.480 with the Capital behind her, and she pretended to do 0:03:56.520 --> 0:04:00.120 a stand up live from the Capital in front of 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:04.040 you know, the green screen. Well, the story got out 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:06.400 and So on the Rush TV show, we did a 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:11.160 skit where I was the E I B reporter, Cookie Gleason. Uh, 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:15.000 and I did a report for E I B News, 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:21.400 and the green screen behind me kept changing locations. It 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:25.720 went from the Capital to like the NBC News News 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:28.600 car crash too. It just kept they kept changing it. 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:32.040 So from that day on, I was always Cookie, and 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:34.960 you know, Rush always called me Cookie. So that's how 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:38.280 I got the name Cookie. All right, Now, what's your 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:43.440 real name? No, my real name is Kathleen Gleason Priyas. 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:51.000 And so there's gonna be a reveal here soon the second. 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:56.279 So now let's turn to Coco and Coco. How did 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:59.600 you come about the name Coco? And and and and 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:03.320 again that is not cocoa, like hot cocoa. That's like 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:09.000 gorilla cocoa. Okay, okay. Oh. I came to the Rush 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:13.240 TV show in and I was a production assistant and 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:15.279 I was the low man on the totem pole, as 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:18.080 they say, and uh, they were going to do a 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:22.479 skit about Coco the sign language speaking gorilla, and Rush 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:24.960 thought this was hilarious that they people thought a guerrilla 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:28.719 could speak sign language. So the bit was that Russia 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:30.440 was going to do the story on the gorilla and 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:32.679 I was gonna be in the little box in the corner, 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:37.920 signing for other gorillas who were watching. And so they 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:39.800 were looking for somebody to put on the gorilla suite. 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:41.680 It turned out to be me. That'll be a chapter 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:43.920 in my life story and never be afraid to put 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:48.040 on the guerrilla suit. So I put it on, and 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:50.480 I had no idea what was going to happen, And 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:53.880 so we just started the skit and Rush got one 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:56.119 look at me in that guerrilla suit in the corner 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:58.200 of the screen and he just cracked up. He could 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:01.960 not stop laughing. And we did the skit and people 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:04.040 loved it, and he just kept laughing. It was like 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:06.120 one of the few times that Rushed, you know, kind 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:08.480 of lost it, you know, because he always was the 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:11.000 king of cool, you know when he was performing, and 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:13.440 and we just went did this skit and he was 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:15.600 having the greatest time, and he laughed and laughed and laughed. 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:19.200 And then from that point on, I was Coco. He 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:21.360 would see me, and he didn't know my name before that, 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:23.359 he didn't know who I was before that. I was 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:25.960 just another guy on the TV show. But after that, 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:28.800 every day I'd see him, Coco, how are you? And 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:30.919 that was it. We were we were friends from that 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:34.320 point on. He just we just clicked and we always 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:37.680 had that memory and I was always Coco. And your 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:41.960 real name is It's George Pryas and there's no Gleam 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:47.880 but yeah, sorry, wait, wait a minute, and let me 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:50.800 go backwards. And Kathleen, you said your real name is 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:58.800 what Karl clean PRIs? I mean Glee in there? But 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:03.360 you know, so there's a story here. So when did 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:07.919 that happen? Well you know how these things happened, Jane, No, 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:14.480 I don't. That's why I oh, my goodness is so personal. Yeah, 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:17.200 you know, we met on the TV show and you know, 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:20.840 became friends. In the beginning. She didn't like me, but 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:24.400 you know, I guess, I you know, was it the 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:27.680 gerrilla suit? It might have been. It might have been 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:29.280 that might have been the turning point. I don't know, 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:32.360 but we became friends and then at some point, you know, 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:35.120 we started, uh you know dating at the very end 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:39.360 when that TV show ended in ninety and then um, 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:44.680 we were together everything one Yeah, it was only fifty 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:53.360 six short months of dating. Yeah, yeah, we always we 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:58.400 hear a lot about that fifty six months and so 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:00.640 so you are you are the E. I B. S 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:07.800 married couple right now? Okay, before TV so the TV show. 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:10.080 Let me just go back Russia Num by the TV 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:14.320 show which is where I met both of you. Was 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:19.080 we were taping at Unitel Studios on Street and Russia's 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:24.400 work day was really amazing during that time as and 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:26.480 and correct me if I'm if I'm losing any of 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:29.960 the details here, Rush would get a normal time. You 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:33.920 you guys were already at the TV show location and 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:36.719 we were at the radio shop, those of us who 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:38.959 were working just on the radio. While working on the 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:44.160 radio show and would later come over to TV with him, 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:48.080 but he would do his show prep for the radio show, 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:51.520 and then there would be a telephone meeting. Is that 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:56.960 how it happened to figure out what was called meet up? 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:02.200 And how long did that meeting run? Usually? Um, well, 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:05.559 I would say about ten minutes because he knew wanted 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:08.400 to do. Yeah, it was all him. He was the 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:11.040 man with the ideas, he was the you know, it 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:14.680 was all him. I mean James, you know, the greatest entertainer, 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:18.920 the greatest performer, you know, the greatest radio showever, Rush 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:22.199 did it all. Yeah, And he would tell us and 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:26.640 which is not regular for producers were supposed to produce. 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:30.520 But with Rush, he you know, he would say I 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:34.320 want to do this this. Yeah, he really was. I mean, 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:37.000 you know, God bless Roger Als and Dick Menser. They 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:40.480 were they were wonderful, and you know, they gave a 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:45.120 lot of great ideas. And but Rush Brush was the man. 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:48.560 It was him, And there were no writers. Rush was 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:54.160 the writer. There were no writers. Rush did it all. 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:57.240 Some of the things that Rush wanted and that you 0:09:57.280 --> 0:10:01.760 guys were able to implement and make happen have later 0:10:01.960 --> 0:10:05.080 showed up on other TV shows long after Rush decided 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:07.520 he didn't want to do TV anymore. Some of the 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:11.200 concepts that would develop doing Russland while the TV show 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:14.120 went on, and you saw them in various places. I 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:16.480 saw something one day on The Daily Show, which I 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:19.880 rarely watched, and I'm like, wait a minute, first, did 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:23.280 that all that stuff used to do? The thing with 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:28.000 the picture with the changed the lips, remember that that changed? 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:31.160 Then that became like a standard on late nights we 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:34.880 take a picture of Bill Clinton and put somebody else's 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:37.800 mouth there. But it still looked like Bill Clinton talking, 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:41.920 but the mouth would move and say thanks, that wasn't open. 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:43.960 And then we used to put Rush in a box 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:48.360 to react to audio clips that we would play. He 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:52.680 would he would be looking up at those, and then 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:55.240 we would look up at the you know, Clinton or 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:57.559 whoever was saying something stupid, and he'd been making faces 0:10:57.600 --> 0:11:00.400 and reacting. It was so funny and the studio audience 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:04.240 loved it. And then remember Robert Reich, whenever we did 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:06.720 a story about him, he had a box. We had 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:09.520 a picture of him and he could barely see over 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:17.160 the bottom of the pure and most of that stuff 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:20.079 James that would come up in the production meeting at 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:23.880 four fifteen. Roger would come into the production meeting and 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:25.800 he could get Rush go on a little bit, you know, 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:28.360 like Rush would say something to him about, you know, 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:31.559 he wanted to do a story and Roger will, it'll 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:34.160 be funny if we did this, you know, like Roger 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:37.040 was outside of the box thinker. I mean, he brought 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:40.360 the Fat Lady in to sing on the fifth day 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:44.679 of the television show because everybody said Russia's show will 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:48.120 never make it. So Roger had this grand scheme and 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:51.040 on the fifth day, we would call our anniversary show. 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:53.760 We made it five days, and we would have a tremendous, 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:56.520 huge anniversary party. And we brought a fat lady in 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:59.960 who was gonna sing or not saying if we made 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:05.360 was Roger's idea. We have gotten our own gorilla, and 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:11.760 we will have this gorilla sign language. There it is. 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:22.920 Could you get a eight, jill all just a second? 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:28.600 The gorillas signing and I'm not even saying anything. Okay, Now, this, 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:32.080 Ladies and Gentleman, this is an actual newspaper story, Ladies 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:36.320 and Gentleman, from the Northwest Herald in Crystal Lake, Illinois. 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:39.640 It's a story about a third grade class and a 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:47.440 third grade stop laughing over there, pleaser disjects the section 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:53.040 that failed a drug test. Over there was that's why 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:57.880 we haven't a little in the dark. Okay. Now, the 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:01.400 teacher of this third grade classes a and named Mike Pincover, 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:05.000 and it is we should take the picture out of 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:14.079 the cameras and there thanks. You know. The sad thing 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:16.320 is that the liberals are understanding this. You know that 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:21.240 liberals are saying it's limball guy makes sense for the 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:32.080 first time. And I've been watching okay on each episode 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:35.040 of Russia Lumba the Man behind the Golden EI B Microphone, 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:39.600 we follow Russia Lymball's biographical journey with the help of 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:44.240 some of his friends, family co workers. Today is a 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:48.679 real treat. We're gonna look at the very impactful, influential 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:53.120 Clinton years. When you hear Russia Lamball in history, in 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:56.920 history books, there's always going to be a link with 0:13:57.200 --> 0:14:01.880 President Bill Clinton. Who to walk us through those years 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:06.600 than Mary Mattlin. The Life of Russia Limbaugh, Chapter eight, 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:12.840 narrated by Mary Madaline. You wouldn't note at the time, 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:17.000 but in the election, a battle for the ages is born, 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:20.880 and not between incumbent President George H. W. Bush and 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:25.239 its challenger, a young, smooth talking Democratic governor from Arkansas. 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:28.960 That election was over. Now at this point a political 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:32.840 chess match for the ages began between that very governor, 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:36.960 now President elect Clinton and the hero of this story, 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:42.080 talk radio icon Brush Limbaugh. It is it's fundamental to 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:45.240 remember that here are the Clinton's admitting their paranoia because 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:48.840 they didn't know how to deal with a non supportive media, 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:51.000 and all it was was just me on the radio 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:52.640 and some other local talk show guys in the wall 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:54.680 spreet journal at a Trump age, and they're acting like 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:58.480 it is the biggest threat to their existence ever. In 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:02.600 the process, Rush became the number one voice of Conservativism, 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:06.440 a mantle literally passed on by none other than President 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:11.360 Ronald Reagan himself in a treasured written letter. Russia's political savvy, 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:15.480 combined with an uncanny reality based ability to make the 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:19.800 complex understandable, helped the Party of Reagan get back on track. 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:22.760 In fact, with Russia at the helm, the GOP one 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:27.080 long shot landslide victories across the fooded plane, up and 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:30.400 down the ballot, plus the House majority for the first 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:33.840 time in over a half a century, now known as 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:39.600 a Republican revelutionation in it was the peak. It was huge. 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:41.960 I'll tell you what shocked me, and it really did. 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:45.840 Clinton was flying into St. Louis in on the Air 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:49.000 Force one. He's doing an interview before he arrives with 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:51.560 the morning crew at camel X, our affiliate St. Louisi, 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:55.000 starts complaining about me. You got Russia, Lindball coming up here. 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:56.880 When you guys finished, you get come up at news. 0:15:56.920 --> 0:16:01.560 You a three hour three hours everyone and nobody's gonna 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:04.680 say anything other way. No trick detective. Here's the President 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:07.360 of the United States, for the biggest bully pulpit in 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:09.960 the world, complaining about some guy in the radio for 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:13.240 three hours. It's no coincidence that the Rush Limbough program, 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:16.920 as you note, actually began during the Reagan administration, and 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:19.800 though the Clinton years were filled to the brim with 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:22.760 easy fodder for Rush to feast on, he spent the 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:27.360 years after battling a misperception that the show's success was 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:31.600 primarily built on the daily melodrama dished up by the Clintons. 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:36.000 In reality, the show's popularity exploded long before the presidency 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:38.720 was even a twinkle in Bill Clinton's eye. I can't 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:41.560 tell the number of people who believe that this program 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:45.760 arose to its current heights because Bill Clinton won the election. 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:48.520 This program got off the ground and became the most 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:52.000 listened to radio talk show in three years before Bill 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:54.880 Clinton ever fought about running for rof. In the end, 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:58.520 Rush reminded his listeners that his program never depended on 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:01.080 the party that was in power. I've often had a phrase, 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:04.720 my success doesn't depend on who wins elections. I can't 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:07.639 control who's gonna win elections anyway, Regardless who's in the 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:10.320 White House or not. 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Would you 0:19:28.240 --> 0:19:31.840 be interested in work in doing that on the radio show? 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:36.160 And I was like, okay, um, yeah, I would love 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:38.760 to do that. You know, I was grateful to be 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:41.720 able to continue to work with Rush. Uh and now 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:43.679 on the radio show, I got to learn radio. It 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:48.080 was great, you know, great opportunity for me. So I 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:51.280 joined the radio show and I was in my little 0:19:51.320 --> 0:19:55.159 cubicle doing my Francis Bronson work, which was like making 0:19:55.240 --> 0:20:02.040 calendars and typing things up and getting coffee. And after 0:20:02.119 --> 0:20:06.640 about five days I made a list of some other 0:20:06.720 --> 0:20:10.720 things that I wanted in my cubicle. It was TV, 0:20:10.880 --> 0:20:15.160 cable boxes, VCRs. And I went into him and I said, 0:20:15.359 --> 0:20:18.840 do you is there any way you would consider getting 0:20:18.840 --> 0:20:21.960 me this list of items for my cubicle. And he 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:24.600 looked at it and he said, well, my business partner, 0:20:24.680 --> 0:20:27.639 John Accident is coming over this afternoon. I'll discuss it 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:30.480 with him, uh and and we'll get back to you. 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:32.920 And I was so grateful. I was like, okay, great, 0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:36.280 thanks because James, as a as a person working in TV, 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:38.320 I was not used to have a job without TV 0:20:38.840 --> 0:20:42.120 like I was always you know, listening watching hear in TV. 0:20:42.840 --> 0:20:48.840 So sure enough, after their meeting that day, Russian John 0:20:48.920 --> 0:20:52.040 came out of his office and Rush had my list 0:20:52.119 --> 0:20:56.160 in his hand and he said, cookie, good news. We've 0:20:56.200 --> 0:20:59.800 improved approved the entire list. And I was like yes. 0:21:01.480 --> 0:21:05.440 So I got my good friend Frank Jeliah to come down, 0:21:05.600 --> 0:21:08.520 use of course, the great engineer bath Hacker to come 0:21:08.560 --> 0:21:12.120 down and hook me up. And boy did he hook 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:15.320 me up? Are you putting there as many VCRs as 0:21:15.320 --> 0:21:18.080 we could and as many cable boxes, and I got 0:21:18.119 --> 0:21:21.480 to record my heart out. So that's how I started 0:21:21.800 --> 0:21:24.679 pulling audio for the show. I would try to find 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:28.360 things that were outrageous and that I knew would make 0:21:28.440 --> 0:21:32.000 Rush crazy, you know, and that meant recording them on 0:21:32.040 --> 0:21:35.560 a VCR tape giving the tape to either. At the time, 0:21:35.560 --> 0:21:38.600 it was Marie Wallisburg, who was just a wonderful person 0:21:38.800 --> 0:21:41.880 who's at CNN now that she would you know, edit 0:21:41.960 --> 0:21:44.880 the tape for me, and we would do a little 0:21:44.960 --> 0:21:47.920 cue sheet for Rush, telling him who what went him wear, 0:21:48.080 --> 0:21:51.439 and you know, transcribe the sound, and we'd give it 0:21:51.480 --> 0:21:53.399 to him. And it was like a little buffet, you know. 0:21:53.440 --> 0:21:55.840 It was like he would pick maybe cut one or 0:21:55.880 --> 0:21:58.720 cut five or nothing, or all of them, and he 0:21:58.760 --> 0:22:01.040 would bounce off of them, you know. And that's how 0:22:01.080 --> 0:22:05.680 it started. And then, uh, as as we got going, 0:22:05.760 --> 0:22:11.040 there was the famous Gravitas montage, and I'm sure you 0:22:11.119 --> 0:22:15.160 remember that. That's when Vice President Dick Cheney appointed himself 0:22:15.280 --> 0:22:18.879 to be the running mate for Bush, and the media 0:22:18.960 --> 0:22:23.159 all said he brings gravitas, right, George, he brings gravatas. 0:22:23.960 --> 0:22:26.959 And so I heard like a few of them, like 0:22:27.080 --> 0:22:30.119 four of them, so I strung them together, maybe Sam 0:22:30.160 --> 0:22:33.800 Donaldson and you know, Wolf Blitzer and four people saying it, 0:22:34.160 --> 0:22:36.520 and then I kept hearing it and hearing it so 0:22:36.680 --> 0:22:40.280 that I just continued to make this huge montage. Then 0:22:40.320 --> 0:22:43.040 they brought Joe in to do some of the you know, 0:22:43.240 --> 0:22:45.399 the editing for me, to do all the editing for 0:22:45.440 --> 0:22:49.320 me actually, So yeah, that's where the gravitas, the famous gravitas. 0:22:49.640 --> 0:22:52.639 I gotta brag about her a little bit. I mean, now, 0:22:52.760 --> 0:22:55.040 you know, when people do montages, there's all kinds of 0:22:55.119 --> 0:22:57.800 services out there that you can search keywords and stuff 0:22:57.840 --> 0:23:00.400 on the internet. There was no none of the She 0:23:00.640 --> 0:23:03.000 used to watch these shows and record them on a 0:23:03.080 --> 0:23:05.800 VCR tape and then right down the time, like we'd 0:23:05.880 --> 0:23:08.760 be you know, you know, at night at home or whatever, 0:23:08.960 --> 0:23:11.240 and and you know, we'd be watching you know, Larry 0:23:11.320 --> 0:23:13.400 King Live, and somebody would say something and she'd write 0:23:13.400 --> 0:23:15.359 it down and then she, you know, Joe would have 0:23:15.440 --> 0:23:18.359 to go rewind that tape eight hours and find that 0:23:18.440 --> 0:23:21.360 one word. There's no transcripts or anything. You know. That's 0:23:21.359 --> 0:23:24.200 how that all started. And this whole industry now does this, 0:23:24.400 --> 0:23:28.720 and there's whole businesses that are devoted to providing these things. 0:23:29.359 --> 0:23:31.040 You know, she started it at her desk there with 0:23:31.080 --> 0:23:34.760 the VCR. So that's right, Kathleen. I mean those momtages 0:23:34.920 --> 0:23:37.160 not only changed the trajectory of the show, they changed 0:23:37.160 --> 0:23:40.919 the trajectory of what people on radio started doing. You 0:23:41.040 --> 0:23:45.200 had another one. What my favorite? And I love the Gravitas, 0:23:45.280 --> 0:23:54.480 but my favorite is the Taurus sell Kathleen, and so 0:23:54.680 --> 0:23:57.320 loved it. He loved it. You can see it when 0:23:57.359 --> 0:24:00.359 he whenever he played it, it would just light him up. 0:24:00.400 --> 0:24:04.480 He'd smile. It was explained the Tauris Selly bit to people, 0:24:04.960 --> 0:24:08.080 Oh my gosh, that is so funny. Well, John Booty 0:24:08.320 --> 0:24:10.800 helped me with that, I have to say, and we 0:24:10.920 --> 0:24:12.960 talked about what I wanted to do, and that was 0:24:13.040 --> 0:24:17.720 taking the prosecutor right, George listing the charges against Torres 0:24:17.800 --> 0:24:22.920 Sally Sally then Senator Torres Sally from New Jersey correct, 0:24:23.240 --> 0:24:27.000 and he had given a very passionate speech on the 0:24:27.000 --> 0:24:30.199 Senate floor denying it all. And you know when I 0:24:30.280 --> 0:24:33.600 was crying, Yeah, I go crying about his childhood. And 0:24:34.840 --> 0:24:39.520 we interspersed the prosecutor listening all the things that he did, 0:24:40.480 --> 0:24:44.560 you know, watch of cash gold watches. And then you 0:24:44.640 --> 0:24:48.000 have Touris Sally saying something like when I was a boy. 0:24:48.000 --> 0:24:51.320 This goes back a eighteen two thousand one. This is 0:24:51.400 --> 0:24:54.480 a This is a montage of Senator Toura Sally, the 0:24:54.520 --> 0:24:57.600 guy you had just heard a press conference where he 0:24:57.840 --> 0:25:04.080 denied corruption charges. What we did after every denial, we 0:25:04.920 --> 0:25:09.920 we inserted cut ins of a lawyer for the guy 0:25:10.040 --> 0:25:14.600 who had corrupted trus Eli brand Simon, who was listing 0:25:14.680 --> 0:25:17.840 this is not ts Eli's lawyer, it's the guy who 0:25:17.880 --> 0:25:21.520 tried to buy trs Eli. It's his lawyer documenting what 0:25:21.560 --> 0:25:26.200 trus Eli did while torris Elli is denying it, all 0:25:27.080 --> 0:25:31.080