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Speaker 1: Greetings, my friends, and welcome to the one and only

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Speaker 1: I I V Network and a Russia Limbaugh program. On

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Speaker 1: the first of August two thousand eighteen. This is our

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Speaker 1: thirtieth anniversary of this program, and I have to tell

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Speaker 1: you I have been so conflicted all day about how to,

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Speaker 1: how to how to deal with this. My heart rate

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Speaker 1: monitor on my watch, my heart rate has been elevated

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Speaker 1: about ten to fifty and beats above normal because of

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Speaker 1: the all the excitement and everything about about this day

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Speaker 1: and the reason I'm waiting for the door to open

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Speaker 1: because nobody's on the other side of the glass, which

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Speaker 1: means here it comes. They're gonna be coming in with

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Speaker 1: the celebratory cake and the bottle of champagne. It's a

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Speaker 1: four bunch of people that have showed up here today.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's no matter. I've been through this. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's a gorgeous cake. It's a gorgeous cake, and there's

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Speaker 1: only one candle on it, so it's impossible not to

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Speaker 1: blow the out and it's done a shame. We can

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Speaker 1: get everybody from the highly overrated staff here. You want

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Speaker 1: to pop it, Go ahead, Popp and he's gonna pop

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Speaker 1: the champagne. Make it here we go. Oh, you're actually

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Speaker 1: going to pour a glass. See, this is what I've

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Speaker 1: been conflicted about, whether or not WHET or not the thedden.

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Speaker 1: You see, it's totally out of my control here. Enjoy anyway,

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Speaker 1: thank you all very much. I um uh, and tell

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Speaker 1: what we're gonna do here today. We we haven't prepared

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Speaker 1: a whole lot of audio clips from years gone by,

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Speaker 1: because we've done that on anniversaries and anniversary programs previously.

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Speaker 1: We've got some and we even have some audio of

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Speaker 1: my days as a disc jockey back in Pittsburgh that

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Speaker 1: I don't think we've aired before. Cookie thinks that we

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Speaker 1: have an exclusive little montage of me doing a morning

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Speaker 1: show I think back in n But there is a

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Speaker 1: program to do here today with news of the day,

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Speaker 1: and I always like to keep looking forward. But people

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Speaker 1: tell me, you know, thirty years doing anything at at

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Speaker 1: at at a high degree of quality is worth commemorating.

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Speaker 1: And if you don't do it, nobody else will. And

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Speaker 1: you have to do it, and you have to do

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Speaker 1: it for yourself, and you have to do it for

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Speaker 1: the staff. There have been people are working with you

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Speaker 1: here for all of these years who have helped you

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Speaker 1: make it possible, and all of that is profoundly true.

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Speaker 1: And I am going to reflect on some aspects of

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Speaker 1: this as the as the program goes on. But rather

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Speaker 1: than do wall to wall one thing, I'm just gonna

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Speaker 1: try to mix and match various elements of the program

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Speaker 1: as we combine things that we do here, because that's

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Speaker 1: what the program is. It's improv and it combines a

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Speaker 1: whole bunch of different elements seriousness, irreverent humor, uh, political commentary,

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Speaker 1: all with credibility on whatever we tackle and so forth.

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Speaker 1: And of course then there is you, I mean, and

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Speaker 1: you with without you being out there, none of us

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Speaker 1: are in here, and so it's ultimately all about you.

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Speaker 1: And I remain blown away every day we go to

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Speaker 1: the phones and I get calls from people who tell

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Speaker 1: me how long they've been listening. Since nineteen, since nineteen ninety,

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Speaker 1: since nine. It's a stunning and amazing thing, and it

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Speaker 1: is deeply, deeply gratifying. And I'm going to try during

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Speaker 1: the course of the program to express all the various

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Speaker 1: things that I'm feeling and the expressions of gratitude. But

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Speaker 1: I don't want to try to pack it all in

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Speaker 1: here in the in the first segment. So we'll just

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Speaker 1: do the program and let it happen. See what happens

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Speaker 1: as it happens, because every day and I maintain and

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Speaker 1: I'm going to do this program like any other. That's

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Speaker 1: why you're there, and so we'll just do it as

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Speaker 1: it happens. It happens. So I've had a lot of

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Speaker 1: emails from a lot of people in the past couple

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Speaker 1: of days, and one of them I received last night

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Speaker 1: that started me thinking. And I love things that make

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Speaker 1: me think, I'll be honest with you, and this one did.

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Speaker 1: Do you know how few people can say that they've

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Speaker 1: had the same ethics, the same conscience, the same core beliefs,

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Speaker 1: the same morality, and the same connectivity with themselves in

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Speaker 1: their twenties, through their forties and into the sixties and

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Speaker 1: beyond the best years. Do you realize how few people

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Speaker 1: are as consistent and reliable as you are? And no,

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Speaker 1: I don't ever stop to think of anything like that.

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Speaker 1: I don't think. See this is why I don't think

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Speaker 1: it's unusual that things I believed in my heart when

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Speaker 1: I was in my twenties would not survive my getting

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Speaker 1: to my sixties core believes who I am. I can't.

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Speaker 1: I can't believe. I can't. I can totally believe that

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't change in those things. But this person said,

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Speaker 1: you don't know how rare it is. And what inspired

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Speaker 1: her to write this? I think she said was a

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Speaker 1: caller that appeared on the program yesterday's saying basically the

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Speaker 1: same thing. Russia Limbaugh thirtieth Anniversary Day, August one program began.

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Speaker 1: When that program again, the Republican Convention just ended. It

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Speaker 1: was close to have George W. Bush or George H. W.

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Speaker 1: Bush was to be UH nominated to complete his mission,

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Speaker 1: meaning take on his World War two mission, where he

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Speaker 1: had been shut down UH and vice president for Reagan

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Speaker 1: for for eight years, and now it was his turn,

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Speaker 1: and he ended up facing the loser, and it was

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Speaker 1: the name we gave to Michael decocously Democrat nominee. The

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Speaker 1: program launched right in the thick and the middle of

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Speaker 1: that of that presidential campaign, and I've been thinking about,

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Speaker 1: you know, people asked me, are you aware of the

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Speaker 1: thirty years? Yeah, you know, I did. Some of it

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Speaker 1: seems like it happened yesterday. A lot of it does.

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Speaker 1: There's none of it that seems like it's thirty years old.

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Speaker 1: I don't. I'm not able even though I've done this. Actually,

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Speaker 1: if you count the three and half years in Sacramento,

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Speaker 1: which were exactly like this show would just a cold station,

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Speaker 1: that's that's thirty three and a half years. I even

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Speaker 1: though I've done it, I don't have a cognizance of

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Speaker 1: the passage of time of thirty years. I know thirty

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Speaker 1: years have gone by, but so much of it seems

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Speaker 1: like it was yesterday. And I think there's a reason

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Speaker 1: for that. I think I always everything that I do,

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Speaker 1: or that everything that happens to me, I always try

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Speaker 1: to learn from it, and I'm very analytical and philosophical,

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Speaker 1: and I do get introspective in so far as it

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Speaker 1: can help me improve. I don't relive the past and

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Speaker 1: and uh sort of just try to surround myself with

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Speaker 1: a glow. I'd always try to use what happened in

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Speaker 1: the past two continue to grow, get better and to

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Speaker 1: learn and so forth. So in that sense, i'm I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm introspective. And people saying the show is, you know,

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Speaker 1: it used to be better back in the eighties, used

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Speaker 1: to be better back in the nineties, and I stopped

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Speaker 1: and think, is that really true? No two shows are

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Speaker 1: the same. So I think it's never been better, And

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Speaker 1: there are reasons why I think it's never been better,

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Speaker 1: and I don't think. I don't think a radio show

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Speaker 1: that even I did when I was forty could compete

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Speaker 1: with the show that I do today. I didn't know

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Speaker 1: back in you know, nineteen ninety what I know today.

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Speaker 1: I couldn't possibly have done today's show back in nineteen ninety.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know enough. I hadn't lived enough