Speaker 1: Yeah, come to see his information on breaking news and
Speaker 1: more bold inspired solutions for America. Our too, Sean Hannity
Speaker 1: Show from Florida. You don't want to miss our town
Speaker 1: hall tonight Ronda Santis, Senator Marco Rubio, Senator Rick Scott.
Speaker 1: Should be a lot of fun as we continue our
Speaker 1: lead up to the election, which is now only twelve
Speaker 1: days away. That's it, twelve days from now. We'll be
Speaker 1: going over the results, I'm sure twelve days from now,
Speaker 1: but um, you know this time in two weeks. But
Speaker 1: hopefully it'll work out the way we want. Look, we're
Speaker 1: following very very closely a lot of Senate races all
Speaker 1: around the country, and to the surprise of the mob
Speaker 1: and the media, to the surprise of the day Democratic Party,
Speaker 1: there are states now that are in play that they
Speaker 1: never thought they'd have to worry about. One of them
Speaker 1: is in the great state, the live, free or die
Speaker 1: state of New Hampshire, where it's now between one pole
Speaker 1: of one point race, another pole, three point race, all
Speaker 1: within the margin of era are all achievable. And that's
Speaker 1: with General Bullduck versus his opponent, Senator Hassan. Now, Senator
Speaker 1: Hassan had to admit recently that in fact, Joe Biden's
Speaker 1: energy policies now not exactly working for the people in
Speaker 1: New Hampshire. Now, last week, you may recall I told
Speaker 1: you about the story that there is a real fear
Speaker 1: of blackouts, meaning no heat for people in all of
Speaker 1: New England because of the lack of supply of natural gas.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a real problem. Never mind the
Speaker 1: fact that or the early indication as the prices are
Speaker 1: going to go up anywhere between thirty and forty percent
Speaker 1: all throughout New England to heat your homes, whether you
Speaker 1: heat it with oil or gas or electricity, it's going
Speaker 1: through the roof and it's going to have an even
Speaker 1: greater impact this winner because the average family is now
Speaker 1: paying seventy two hundred dollars more than they were paying
Speaker 1: for the same items when Donald Trump was president. Anyway,
Speaker 1: here's what Senator hasn't said in this interview. The President
Speaker 1: over the weekend said the economy is quote strong as hell.
Speaker 1: Do you agree with that? I think there is much
Speaker 1: more the administration needs to do, especially around energy costs.
Speaker 1: She didn't really want to answer the question. Now, so far,
Speaker 1: the mob of the media in every single state they've
Speaker 1: given all of these Democratic Senate candidates a pass why,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Anyway, her opponent in this race is
Speaker 1: making great inroads into winning. He's been campaigning all over
Speaker 1: the Granite State and doing very very well. General Don
Speaker 1: Bullduck is back with us. So you're now within the
Speaker 1: margin of error. You're in striking distance here. And we
Speaker 1: now see polls that show Governor SONOONU who's you know,
Speaker 1: the sonon new name is synonymous with New Hampshire. Uh.
Speaker 1: He is now on the ticket running for governor again.
Speaker 1: He's been on the show supporting you and supporting your
Speaker 1: candidacy and you really can win this phrase. But my
Speaker 1: fear is that Republicans on the national level and Mitch
Speaker 1: McConnell and company, they're not putting enough money behind your campaign.
Speaker 1: Is that true? Well, you know, Mitch McConnell did remove
Speaker 1: about a little over five million dollars. Why he did this,
Speaker 1: I'm not exactly sure, but he went ahead and did it.
Speaker 1: And but you know, the National Republican Senate Committee, Rick
Speaker 1: Scott and uh, the RNC under Rona McDaniel and others
Speaker 1: came in to, uh, you know, fill the gap. We've
Speaker 1: been working hard to do that, and we're getting pretty
Speaker 1: close to making up the deficit that was caused by
Speaker 1: the you know, unplanned, unscheduled reversal of Mitch McConnell's funds.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to understand why would take away money from
Speaker 1: you and this is a race that's winnable and give
Speaker 1: it to Lisa Murkowski. He's given now over ten million
Speaker 1: dollars to Lisa Murkowski and she's battling a Republican and
Speaker 1: Kelly Chewbacca is in the lead, and it seems like
Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell is afraid of Kelly Chebacca maybe winning because
Speaker 1: if she wins, that would mean that probably she's not
Speaker 1: going to vote for Mitch McConnell, especially after this. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, I'm on the record in the primary.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna give it to you straight here. I'm
Speaker 1: on the record in the primary and in the general
Speaker 1: election as a no vote for Mitch McConnell as a leader.
Speaker 1: That's just a fact, and that's exactly what I am
Speaker 1: sticking to and what I will do in the United
Speaker 1: States Senate. But you know, Maggie Hasson's not going to
Speaker 1: vote for a month, So you know, you want a
Speaker 1: Republican down there, a conservative Republican, someone who's going to
Speaker 1: work to improve this economy, stop out of control spending,
Speaker 1: secure this country, make our foreign policy stronger than you
Speaker 1: should be investing in me. I have come up eleven
Speaker 1: points since the primary. We're neck and neck right now,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna be bold and audacious here, Shana. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you I think the next poll was going
Speaker 1: to have us ahead. I don't know by how much,
Speaker 1: but I think we're going to do it. And that
Speaker 1: is going to really shake the timbers across this nation,
Speaker 1: particularly in Washington, DC with all the pundits who sit
Speaker 1: behind their desk and think they know what's going on
Speaker 1: in New Hampshire. When I've been doing this for two years,
Speaker 1: every town in city, talking to granted status, and you know,
Speaker 1: Maggie asked. We just finished an NHPR debate and the
Speaker 1: place was loaded with you know, her supporters, My supporters
Speaker 1: couldn't even get in, and you know, all the questions were,
Speaker 1: you know, favored for her. It was a lions den,
Speaker 1: but hey, I went in there and I slaughtered. I
Speaker 1: slaughtered the lions Den, right it was. And she denies.
Speaker 1: You know, continues Ton't I the energy is the problem.
Speaker 1: She continues, deny that granted status are hurting. She thinks
Speaker 1: that depleting our strategic or reserve is a good idea.
Speaker 1: Suspending the gas tax is going to be a good idea.
Speaker 1: You know, she's got a scooby Doo band aid and
Speaker 1: she's trying to put it on a compound fracture. The
Speaker 1: bone is through the skin up here. People are not
Speaker 1: going to be able to afford food. It is a
Speaker 1: choice between heating and eating. They're not going to be
Speaker 1: able to pay their bills. We're going to have blackouts.
Speaker 1: And that is what is happening up here. So I
Speaker 1: need people's help at Don Baldock dot com. We can
Speaker 1: win this, John, and this will be a victory for
Speaker 1: granted status and the American people. Let me tell you
Speaker 1: about an article on the Bloomberg News today and it
Speaker 1: talks about, you know, the impact that Joe Biden's war
Speaker 1: on domestic energy production, and they say, with two weeks
Speaker 1: to go until the midterm elections, the US is now
Speaker 1: facing the prospect of higher fuel prices amid the escalating
Speaker 1: supply crunch. And then it goes on to say beyond
Speaker 1: the gas inventories are at an eight year seasonal low.
Speaker 1: All supplies a diesel, we're at like twenty four days
Speaker 1: worth of supply. That's all we have. That is an
Speaker 1: unmitigated danger and disaster. That's a clear and present danger
Speaker 1: to me. And on the East Coast, the situation is
Speaker 1: getting more dire with infrastructure constraints limiting fuel shipments and
Speaker 1: prompting suppliers to start rationing fuel. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: the United States of America. Now we're going to ration
Speaker 1: fuel and they're talking about the entire power grid having
Speaker 1: the possibility of going out all throughout New England. Now,
Speaker 1: my understanding is is that the usual amount or supply
Speaker 1: of natural gas is down by it's ten percent of
Speaker 1: what it's normal levels should be. Have you looked into
Speaker 1: that eighteen billion cubic feet is what we normally get
Speaker 1: of natural gas, we're only getting two And you know,
Speaker 1: as you say, we're at a national crisis with our
Speaker 1: fossil fuel energy and people are you going to pay
Speaker 1: the price for this? And they just sit there and
Speaker 1: dismiss it, you know, out of hand over some green
Speaker 1: new deal that requires you know, fossil fuel to make
Speaker 1: possibility anyways. The country's not ready for it infrastructure wise,
Speaker 1: we know that. But Sean, you know, we're doing our
Speaker 1: enemy's job for us. You know, one of the things
Speaker 1: that you want to do is take out critical infrastructure.
Speaker 1: If you're the enemy, well, geez, you don't have to
Speaker 1: spend any time on that because Biden and Hassan are
Speaker 1: doing it for you. You know, they're depleting our energy.
Speaker 1: I wish the election we're in the middle of January,
Speaker 1: because then you'd win by fifteen points easily. Here this
Speaker 1: article goes on to say that home heating oil suppliers
Speaker 1: are now rationing deliveries to cope with the Biden oil
Speaker 1: shortage that he's created. Here. I mean that means we're
Speaker 1: going to have many American homes, by every indication, not
Speaker 1: being able to heat their homes at the level that
Speaker 1: they would like to heat it the comfort level that
Speaker 1: they prefer and desire. And on top of that, there's
Speaker 1: not going to be enough supply to do so. And
Speaker 1: then add to you know, insult to injury here, we
Speaker 1: may have literally people freezing to death this winter. That's
Speaker 1: absolutely right, We're going to have We're gonna have our
Speaker 1: elderly who are who are going to be uh, you know,
Speaker 1: freezing cold. We're gonna have children that are cold. We're
Speaker 1: going to have school closures because they don't have any power.
Speaker 1: They can't keep properly. Children are going to be sitting
Speaker 1: in classrooms with you know, gloves, hats and jackets on
Speaker 1: and and you know, uh, you know layering. It's it's
Speaker 1: just going to be unbelievable. And it's completely unnecessary because
Speaker 1: we have the resources here to be able to provide
Speaker 1: Americans with the necessities that they need at a very
Speaker 1: affordable price. But they're not allowing that to happen. And
Speaker 1: I got to tell you they need to be held
Speaker 1: accountable at the polls on eighth November. And I could
Speaker 1: sure use people's help at don Baldi dot com. Well,
Speaker 1: we'll watching this race very closely. You are now neck
Speaker 1: and neck with Maggie Hassan. You can win this race,
Speaker 1: and I hope you. I hope you do. I hope
Speaker 1: people remember your service to your country. Two purple Hearts,
Speaker 1: five bronze stars, many with valor, and so many other
Speaker 1: military decorations. I can't even begin to list them. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we really appreciate you being with us. We're not going
Speaker 1: to give up on your campaign. I think you can
Speaker 1: win this race, and it would be a huge victory
Speaker 1: for Republicans to have this pickup. She is one of
Speaker 1: the most vulnerable Democrats out there, not particularly well liked
Speaker 1: in the by the people in New Hampshire. She's done
Speaker 1: nothing except for your rubber stamp for everything Biden and
Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer and all the problems we're having in part
Speaker 1: because she's going along with her party on every radical
Speaker 1: position they've now taken. But anyway, Bull Duck, thank you.
Speaker 1: We'll continue to stay in touch with you. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much. God bless you, and God bless you listeners.
Speaker 1: I really appreciate it, John, God bless you. All Right,
Speaker 1: general appreciate it. Quick break. We'll hit the phones when
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Speaker 1: go to Tina, great state of Ohio, the Buckeye State.
Speaker 1: What's going on, Tina? How are you good? How are you? Sean? Well,
Speaker 1: I'm in sunny Florida and I'm I'm sitting here looking
Speaker 1: at a beautiful site. You go outside in a T
Speaker 1: shirt and it feels pretty good, pretty good down here.
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, I'm sitting out on my porch
Speaker 1: right now, and the sun is shining and the trees
Speaker 1: are turning. So getting ready for that election day. But
Speaker 1: I love to hear a little more shout out for
Speaker 1: JD out here, because UM kind of feeling Tim's quite
Speaker 1: a bit. So I called. I called Bill Cunningham. I mean,
Speaker 1: the guru, the political guru of all gurus when it
Speaker 1: comes to the great state of Ohio, is Billy Cunningham.
Speaker 1: Sean Hannity, you're a great American. I know you call
Speaker 1: for a full report on JD. Vance I did, and
Speaker 1: I've now reached out to him three times in the
Speaker 1: last week. And I said j D. I said, Billy Willie,
Speaker 1: tell me if I need to go there, would it
Speaker 1: help if I went there? He said, No, JD is
Speaker 1: gonna win by a lion slide. He's confident, he says,
Speaker 1: Tim Ryan is imploading. He's lying, He's getting exposed as lying.
Speaker 1: He's pretending. But I don't know if the exposure is
Speaker 1: really kind of coming through. It's uh, you know. And
Speaker 1: then then Oz gets touted for drinking a glass of wine.
Speaker 1: It is a football game, and there's Tim on TV
Speaker 1: with his wife talking about every time we agree seven
Speaker 1: out of ten times open a bottle of wine to
Speaker 1: the wait who was getting in trouble for drinking? Wind
Speaker 1: Oz wasn't he on at a football game? And the
Speaker 1: Dems were all, um, I didn't see that, but him
Speaker 1: for drinking Okay, I like to have a glass of
Speaker 1: wine occasionally. I prefer beer usually, to be honest. But
Speaker 1: you know what, so what you know exactly? I mean,
Speaker 1: you got a candidate in the in the Commonwealth of
Speaker 1: Pennsylvania that wants to moratorium on fracking, wants to open
Speaker 1: up Pennsylvania's prisons and let half the people out. He
Speaker 1: wants convicted. He fights for convicted murderers to get out.
Speaker 1: He wants taxpayers to pay for heroin safe injection sites.
Speaker 1: He wants it to be a sanctuary state. And anyone
Speaker 1: you're going to care about what doctor Oz is drinking
Speaker 1: at a football game. Yeah, But there here is Tim
Speaker 1: Ryan talking about opening a bottle of wine with his wife,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, either they're really cocktailing a lot because
Speaker 1: they agree a lot, or you know, they're teetollers, one
Speaker 1: of the two. But he's just what you call an
Speaker 1: alter schmoozer. He's really good at schmoozing people. And he
Speaker 1: looks good. Right, he's got presents about him, but like
Speaker 1: everything coming out of his mouth doesn't sound one hundred
Speaker 1: percent like he said. He one of his commercials says
Speaker 1: he voted with Trump on workers, and I've what, I
Speaker 1: just can't believe that. So Portman lives in my neighborhood.
Speaker 1: He was well loved, and it just seems like every
Speaker 1: sign I see as Ryan when I'm driving around. Well,
Speaker 1: i'll tell you listen, we're fully supporting JD. We'll put
Speaker 1: him on radio and TV as much as he wants.
Speaker 1: He's always welcome on these airwaves. I'm enthusiastically supporting him.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna win. But if you are nervous
Speaker 1: about it, we'll put him on. What day is today?
Speaker 1: Today's Thursday. If we don't put him on tomorrow, we'll
Speaker 1: put him on next week. Okay, that'd be great. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just think he needs a little more pressed time.
Speaker 1: Got it? Your wishes our command. We take requests on
Speaker 1: this show, all right, So don't worry about thank you,
Speaker 1: quick break right back HI twenty five so the top
Speaker 1: of the hour. Things, So being with us toll free
Speaker 1: eight hundred and nine four one, Sean, if you want
Speaker 1: to be a part of the program. There is a
Speaker 1: conservative cartoonist out there, and it may be hard to
Speaker 1: believe for some people, and it's Rush. At the Pearly Gates.
Speaker 1: Saint Peter is there and he has a golden EIB
Speaker 1: microphone and he's holding it out and he says, Rush
Speaker 1: Limbaugh here to return the talent on loan from God,
Speaker 1: and without exception, the crowd's reaction to it is amazing
Speaker 1: because he was the voice of conservatism for generations. Now
Speaker 1: Rush's wife Catherine has come out with a new book
Speaker 1: along with David Limbaugh as well has been a help
Speaker 1: with this project. David well known to this audience, and
Speaker 1: it's called rad is Greatest of All Time and it's
Speaker 1: all about Rush. I was very honored. As I went
Speaker 1: through the book. I saw a picture of me and
Speaker 1: Rush from some years ago when we played golf together.
Speaker 1: I was never the good golfer that he was, but
Speaker 1: I was a good cigar smoker and Rush always had
Speaker 1: great cigars. And they actually had a caption of what
Speaker 1: I had said at the time, and I stand by
Speaker 1: today and I said it many times when he was alive,
Speaker 1: and that is you can never replace Babe Ruth, and
Speaker 1: I'd take it a step further. Rush was Babe Ruth,
Speaker 1: Lou Garrick, Hank, Aaron, Derek Jeter, and everyone in between.
Speaker 1: And if you want to talk about the greatest in
Speaker 1: radio of all time, the goat, it was Rush. It
Speaker 1: ends up being the title of this book, Radio's Greatest
Speaker 1: of All Time. And Catherine Adams Limbaugh joins us. Catherine,
Speaker 1: great to have you on the program. Great to talk
Speaker 1: to you. I know this has not been an easy
Speaker 1: period in your life. Thank you so much. Sean. It's
Speaker 1: great to talk to you as well. You know, I
Speaker 1: think of all of the time, and I was right
Speaker 1: at the time. I knew that nobody could ever replace him,
Speaker 1: and my answer to everybody was we all just have
Speaker 1: to do a little bit more to try to try
Speaker 1: and fill the gap. And you don't realize Mary Matlin
Speaker 1: once said, during the Clinton years or after the Clinton years,
Speaker 1: I don't know how we would have survived if Russia's
Speaker 1: voice wasn't out there for us encouraging us every single day.
Speaker 1: And it's still hard for me to believe that he's
Speaker 1: not there for those three hours every day. That's exactly right.
Speaker 1: He really is a founding father in many respects, a
Speaker 1: modern day founding father. I believe he's the George Washington
Speaker 1: of radio. He said the standard, he was the pioneer,
Speaker 1: and in many ways he's still with us today. He's
Speaker 1: working through people like you who are out there every
Speaker 1: single day talking to the American people and saying how
Speaker 1: important in our country is, how important selection is. And
Speaker 1: I know that through this book that we put out,
Speaker 1: it is his words directly, It is inspirational. It is
Speaker 1: very much Rush talking to Americans saying our country is
Speaker 1: that special, it is worth fighting for. This election is
Speaker 1: very important. We can never give up. It is never
Speaker 1: time to panic, as he would always say. And I
Speaker 1: think through this book people will very much hear him.
Speaker 1: It is his words, it's his inspiration, and I think
Speaker 1: people will be happy at a time when we need
Speaker 1: to hear from Rush again. He was the leader and
Speaker 1: he still is in many ways. He very much is
Speaker 1: radio's greatest of all time. Let's talk about your life.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is the love of your life. From
Speaker 1: every indication I saw you guys had such a great relationship.
Speaker 1: You will kind enough both of you to invite me
Speaker 1: to your very special wedding. Elton John performed at that wedding.
Speaker 1: That was an incredible experience for everybody that was there.
Speaker 1: How are you doing? You know now it's over a year,
Speaker 1: that's past. I'm doing well as much as possibly can be.
Speaker 1: Of course, there's a tremendous void every single day, as
Speaker 1: there is for so many people who listen to Rush
Speaker 1: and his family and everyone who loved Rush. He was
Speaker 1: deeply loved by so many. He was a friend on
Speaker 1: the radio, He was a family member on the radio,
Speaker 1: He was a brother, He was so much to so
Speaker 1: many that I am absolutely hurting on a daily basis.
Speaker 1: But I am taking what he taught all of us,
Speaker 1: which is we must go forward. Our best days must
Speaker 1: be ahead. And if he was here, he would still
Speaker 1: be fighting the good fight. And that's what we're supposed
Speaker 1: to be doing, and we're supposed to be appreciating every
Speaker 1: single day that we have here, and that's what I'm
Speaker 1: trying to do. I don't know, did you ever see
Speaker 1: the cartoon that I referred to a moment ago. Did
Speaker 1: you see it? Because I actually he sent me a
Speaker 1: copy of this and I was blown away by it
Speaker 1: and he signed it Gary Varvel Dot com as his website.
Speaker 1: You know, rush limbought the pearly gates here to return
Speaker 1: talent on loan from God, and he's holding out the
Speaker 1: golden EIB microphone. And you know, I just believe there
Speaker 1: is a special place for people like rush. You talk
Speaker 1: about the goat, he is the goat. He's the greatest
Speaker 1: of all time. And I think everybody in radio is
Speaker 1: very grateful. I know I am personally because when he
Speaker 1: started out in syndication, nobody thought it was possible that
Speaker 1: daytime syndicated radio would actually work. And he had to
Speaker 1: face he was staring at a forest of trees. There
Speaker 1: was no path forged, and he had to knock down
Speaker 1: every one of those trees. And he took a lot
Speaker 1: of heat from a lot of people all throughout his career.
Speaker 1: I can name a lot of examples that I'd rather
Speaker 1: not remind you of of, you know, that were very
Speaker 1: difficult times for him that I do remember. Well, that
Speaker 1: is right, And I did see the cartoon. I absolutely
Speaker 1: love it, and that is so true. Russia is so
Speaker 1: incredibly brilliant. He was fearless, He was the tip of
Speaker 1: the spear. He came out on the horizon before there
Speaker 1: really was a Russia limbo of talk radio. He took
Speaker 1: so many arrows throughout his career, but you know, he
Speaker 1: loved it, and everything that he said on the radio
Speaker 1: was so true. He lived and breathed his radio careers.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you do as well. He absolutely loved getting
Speaker 1: behind the mic every day and talking to the American people.
Speaker 1: He loved our country with all of his heart. So
Speaker 1: I think that although he's not with us, he is
Speaker 1: in so many ways because he has taught so many
Speaker 1: people to think for themselves, to never give up, to
Speaker 1: be passionate, to care about our country, to believe in
Speaker 1: the American dream, American exceptionalism. Just like you, Sean. He
Speaker 1: came from humble beginnings, or at least not what he
Speaker 1: achieved in life, and he worked so incredibly hard. He
Speaker 1: wanted every American to have that opportunity. He wanted every
Speaker 1: American said believe in the American dream because he lived
Speaker 1: it as you have and so many people have. And
Speaker 1: he never wanted a flu side of that, never ever
Speaker 1: give in, never downgrade our country, which is unfortunately happening
Speaker 1: every single day around us. But that's right. He was
Speaker 1: so capable of talking in a very easy to understand
Speaker 1: way he made the most complex issues of our day
Speaker 1: very funny. That was one thing about Rush. You know.
Speaker 1: I referred to him as the George Washington of radio.
Speaker 1: And there's actually a part in this book where someone
Speaker 1: had called in and was saying to him, you're the
Speaker 1: George Washington of radio, and Rush was very, very humble,
Speaker 1: and he said, thank you very much. I really appreciate that.
Speaker 1: And at the end of the call, he said, you
Speaker 1: know the difference between me and George Washington. If someone
Speaker 1: offered me to be king, I'd take it. That is
Speaker 1: a great story. He was always so funny, you know.
Speaker 1: That was the one thing about him. Even if he
Speaker 1: thought that the country was headed for total tim he
Speaker 1: inspired us. He made us laugh, He made our daze better.
Speaker 1: And I believe that's what this book does as well.
Speaker 1: I remember when I first heard him. I was in
Speaker 1: a radio studio out in Santa Barbara, California, where I
Speaker 1: started my radio career. And I don't know what it was, Catherine,
Speaker 1: but the first time that light went on, my life changed.
Speaker 1: That was all I ever wanted to do. And I
Speaker 1: remember I was in the studio because I kind of
Speaker 1: lived there, because it was my passion. I didn't last
Speaker 1: very long. I wasn't very good. I deserved to get fired.
Speaker 1: But once they took the mic away from me, it
Speaker 1: was something that I knew I wanted to pursue. And
Speaker 1: I remember that somebody comes up to me and says,
Speaker 1: you gotta listen to this guy, Rush Limbaugh and he's
Speaker 1: on KTMS in Santa Barbara. And I said, who's Rush Limbaugh?
Speaker 1: And he said, you got This guy's hilarious. He does
Speaker 1: this homeless update and homelessness was huge in Santa Barbara
Speaker 1: even at that time. And you're gonna love him when
Speaker 1: you hear him. And I remember hearing him for the
Speaker 1: first time and it was like instant. You could just
Speaker 1: tell that this, you know, this booming voice came out
Speaker 1: of the speaker and just a phenomenal talent, and you know,
Speaker 1: and then he paved the way for so many of us.
Speaker 1: When he started in nineteen eighty eight his syndication, there
Speaker 1: were only about two hundred talk or news talk radio
Speaker 1: stations in the country. Now we're close to five thousand,
Speaker 1: on top of all the podcasting and all of us
Speaker 1: that have benefited from the path that he forged. And
Speaker 1: it wasn't an easy path. I remember those moments, I
Speaker 1: remember the attacks. They were unrelenting at times for him
Speaker 1: and he and I don't think he was somebody that
Speaker 1: really liked to be criticized attack the way he was,
Speaker 1: and I don't think ever expected it, but he had
Speaker 1: to deal with it. That's right. You know, he really
Speaker 1: did what he was born to do. He knew what
Speaker 1: he wanted to do at eight years old. Like you,
Speaker 1: he hung around a radio station. He was interning Cape Girardo,
Speaker 1: Missouri and ended up becoming the greatest of all time.
Speaker 1: But he did take incredible attacks and at his core,
Speaker 1: Rush was very, very humble. He was fearless, but he
Speaker 1: was humble. And nobody really liked those attacks at all,
Speaker 1: and they were they were very difficult, very challenging for him,
Speaker 1: but he took it as a measure of success, as
Speaker 1: I'm sure you do. He said. You know, the more
Speaker 1: they talk about me, the more they slander me, much
Speaker 1: like President Trump and others, that means that I'm effective.
Speaker 1: And so he continued, he said, I really don't care
Speaker 1: what they say about me, because it just means that
Speaker 1: I'm making a dents. I'm irritating them. He often said,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm show prep for the so well well, by
Speaker 1: the way, there was a lot of truth that for
Speaker 1: a lot of people, there's no doubt about it. I
Speaker 1: remember the day that he announced that he had advanced.
Speaker 1: I'll never forget the words that he used because I
Speaker 1: paid very close attention. M David Limbaugh called me just
Speaker 1: minutes before he was to make the announcement and said,
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna need to listen to Rush. And
Speaker 1: that's all he told me because he had promised his
Speaker 1: brother he wouldn't tell anybody. And David's been my agent,
Speaker 1: as you know, for all my career. And anyway, I
Speaker 1: listened in and Rush used the words advanced stage four
Speaker 1: lung cancer, and I remember it took my breath away,
Speaker 1: and I remember I called Levin right away. I talked
Speaker 1: to him, and then I remember I listened to every
Speaker 1: word he said. And then I looked up at the
Speaker 1: clock and it's three oh five, and I'm like, I
Speaker 1: have to I have to address this in one minute.
Speaker 1: And you know, I had tears coming down my eyes.
Speaker 1: I don't mind admitting it. And then, oh my god,
Speaker 1: how do I deal with this? And then I was
Speaker 1: just thinking what Rush had to deal with himself and
Speaker 1: how stoic he was. And he said something that really
Speaker 1: struck me too, that he didn't want this to be
Speaker 1: a cancer show or a show about sick people. And
Speaker 1: he did that for the entire year. And it was
Speaker 1: a painful year, wasn't it. Oh? It was? And he
Speaker 1: loved ya, Sean, and I know he's so happy that
Speaker 1: you're still here today. But yes, it was very very
Speaker 1: hard for him, and of course for David to know this,
Speaker 1: but he wanted to deliver it to the American people
Speaker 1: and all of his listeners, who he considered to be
Speaker 1: extended family in the most personal way. He found out
Speaker 1: about the cancer. We found out about it just a
Speaker 1: little while prior to that, and we thought about, how
Speaker 1: can this be announced? People are going to stop that
Speaker 1: day and their lives will be changed forever. That's how
Speaker 1: much Rush mattered to them. And he knew that. He
Speaker 1: knew this was their fearless leader, their friends, who essentially
Speaker 1: was being diagnosed with a terminal illness, and he didn't
Speaker 1: want that to be the memory that they had of him.
Speaker 1: He wanted to carry on right through the very end,
Speaker 1: and that's what he did. He was on the radio
Speaker 1: just days prior to us having to go up to
Speaker 1: Boston where where he heard things We're going for the worst.
Speaker 1: So it was a very difficult time. But I think
Speaker 1: keeping normalcy, talking to his fans, talking to listeners was
Speaker 1: what kept him going. That was so important to him. Well,
Speaker 1: the book is a great honor to him. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: grateful that you put it together. I'm grateful that you
Speaker 1: even included me, and that surprised me. I was very
Speaker 1: touched by that. The book is already a huge bestseller.
Speaker 1: It's called Radio's greatest of all time, and you're going
Speaker 1: to really want to grab this book. This if if
Speaker 1: you're a Russia Limbaugh fan like I've been for all
Speaker 1: the years he was on radio, you're going to love
Speaker 1: the book. Catherine Limbaugh, thank you for sharing your memories.
Speaker 1: Thank you for putting this together so people can never
Speaker 1: forget all of his contributions to the cause of liberty
Speaker 1: and freedom, which was his life's passion and his life's
Speaker 1: work and its son. He should say. One one hundred
Speaker 1: thing is that proceeds from this book will benefit the
Speaker 1: children of fallen military heroes. It's very much about getting
Speaker 1: Russia's inspiration in his words, directly to his fans and
Speaker 1: to people who loved and admired him. It's not about
Speaker 1: selling books, it's getting his inspirational message in their hands
Speaker 1: leading up to a very very important election in just
Speaker 1: twelve days. Twelve days, Catherine Limbaugh, You're always welcome on
Speaker 1: these airways. Thank you for putting this great collection of together.
Speaker 1: It's called the Greatest of all time. Radio's greatest of
Speaker 1: all time, Catherine Limbaugh. Hopefully we'll catch up soon. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much for being with us, Amazon dot com,
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