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Speaker 1: On this episode of Russia Number the man behind the
Speaker 1: Golden E I B microphone, we are pleased to have
Speaker 1: Mike Mamone broadcast engineer, the longest serving broadcast engineer with
Speaker 1: the Russian Lumba program, and welcome Mr. A. Maimon. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you for having me. Yes, now you have the distinction,
Speaker 1: Mike Mamone, of being the only engineer in America that
Speaker 1: is responsible for a billion dollar business that you have
Speaker 1: no part of. I want to kind of go through
Speaker 1: that story for a minute, and that would be the
Speaker 1: story of Snapple. Tell us about Mike Mamone, Snapple and
Speaker 1: the Russia Lumba program. Well, all right downstair. I used
Speaker 1: to take the Long Island Railroad into into the studio
Speaker 1: because at that time the Network studio was at Twopen
Speaker 1: Plaza and pen Plaza is you know, is always just
Speaker 1: it's a hole, it's a pit, it's a horrible, horrible
Speaker 1: place to be. But at that time, they sold the
Speaker 1: most amazing, you know, the deli's in there sold the
Speaker 1: most amazing assortment of beverages. So I found Snapple one
Speaker 1: day and it's like, oh, raspberry iced tea, this looks good,
Speaker 1: and they sold cups of ice. So I started, you know,
Speaker 1: I would buy one and you know, bring it to
Speaker 1: work and drink it. And then you know, after like
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks, rush he says, he says, what
Speaker 1: is that? He says, that looks that looks really good.
Speaker 1: And I said, I said, it's Snapple. I said it's
Speaker 1: iced tea. I'll bring you one tomorrow. So I brought him,
Speaker 1: you know, so the next day I brought him one
Speaker 1: and it's like he's like, wow, this is fantastic. So
Speaker 1: he goes down the air and he starts, you know,
Speaker 1: expounding on how wonderful it is. And then so every
Speaker 1: day then I would bring him, you know, I would
Speaker 1: get one and bring one for him. So after, you know,
Speaker 1: after a while, after one of these long spiels about
Speaker 1: how wonderful it was, and he would always make the
Speaker 1: the uh, the big show of sipping it. And it's like,
Speaker 1: oh m, this is what such wonderful stuff. So I
Speaker 1: made it. I taped it one day and I gave
Speaker 1: it to one of the salespeople. I said, why don't
Speaker 1: you go do something with dicks and he did so,
Speaker 1: and that's what happened, and then it went through the roof.
Speaker 1: It went through the roof exactly right now. At the time,
Speaker 1: Snapple was a local beverage. This was a company that
Speaker 1: was a quote, a local company. I don't know whether
Speaker 1: they would New York, New Jersey or Connecticut, but it was.
Speaker 1: They were making Snapple. It did not have a national
Speaker 1: presence at all. And so Rush was talking about this
Speaker 1: amazing iced tea on a national show even though it
Speaker 1: was local. Their phones started ringing. It's like, where can
Speaker 1: we get this? Where can we get this? So then
Speaker 1: it suddenly it was everywhere. And then you know, they
Speaker 1: got they took Wendy the snapp a lady. I mean,
Speaker 1: but the thing that made Snapple different was that it
Speaker 1: also had they had a different that of distributing the product. Um.
Speaker 1: So it's like everything seemed to be very local. And
Speaker 1: then uh, they took the company public. And I know
Speaker 1: that Russia. I know that Russia got stuck in and
Speaker 1: I was thinking, it's like damn and Snapple road rode
Speaker 1: the way for you know, for a good long time
Speaker 1: until they sold out to Quaker Oats. So, Mike mamone,
Speaker 1: you are in a way responsible for the iced T
Speaker 1: craze that has taken America by storm. Okay, so you're
Speaker 1: the broadcast engineer for Russilan Bars program. You are the
Speaker 1: broadcast engineer, the longest serving engineer on the most listen
Speaker 1: to radio program in American history. Tell us what your
Speaker 1: day is like? What do you do? Okay? Um, basically,
Speaker 1: I every element that you hear that is not Russia's
Speaker 1: voice gets mixed in by me. So everything everything that was,
Speaker 1: as you said, that was not Russia's voice in some
Speaker 1: way or another, you touched on that show. You as
Speaker 1: I said, you you're the longest serving broadcast engineer that
Speaker 1: we have had on the staff. What do you think
Speaker 1: Russia's legacy is going to be, Well, the legacy of
Speaker 1: you know, of the man who basically saved, saved a
Speaker 1: M radio and recreated talk radio into a you know,
Speaker 1: into a major political force. I mean, that's that's a
Speaker 1: pretty big one. You know. He will oh well, I
Speaker 1: mean we will remember him as being the kind of
Speaker 1: giving things which you know, not enough people will ever
Speaker 1: know about, you know, his charitable gift giving and the
Speaker 1: organizations that that he is that he is supported throughout
Speaker 1: the years, like you know, likely Leukemian Foma Society, m
Speaker 1: cleff and you know all the other things. It's like
Speaker 1: nobody would ever you know, it's like I know, and
Speaker 1: you've you've told the stories about the you know, the
Speaker 1: things that he has done for people on the condition
Speaker 1: you know, of total anonymity. So you know, I would
Speaker 1: like to see you know, more of that on side.
Speaker 1: But you know the legacy of having you know, saved
Speaker 1: the business, recreated the business, and been responsible for um, well,
Speaker 1: you know an answer answering the mainstream media. I mean
Speaker 1: it's like that, you know, that's enough for anybody. Well, Mike,
Speaker 1: what what do you think? You look back over it
Speaker 1: all and you've had an amazing career. Well, I don't
Speaker 1: don't don't downplay the thing because people have alluded to
Speaker 1: this before. But let's face it, if we had a
Speaker 1: buck for every time someone said there's a real good
Speaker 1: show going on in here, uh, we both have a
Speaker 1: lot of money. I mean that was you know, another
Speaker 1: thing that made it, you know, that made it fun
Speaker 1: because there was a whole another show going on inside
Speaker 1: and you know, mostly you know, being with being with
Speaker 1: you Kit Brett. I've kind of felt like, all right,
Speaker 1: when when he moved to Florida, it was like there
Speaker 1: was still you know, there was still a show still
Speaker 1: going on, you know at my end, because there were
Speaker 1: still you know, there were still people here. But then
Speaker 1: it's like as things went on, it's like you are
Speaker 1: at the screening. Moved to Florida, so you were screening there.
Speaker 1: So then it was just me and Kit. Then Kit died,
Speaker 1: which still you know, still just I still tear up
Speaker 1: thinking about. But then so now I'm in the room
Speaker 1: all by myself, so you know, and I've made the
Speaker 1: illusion before, it's like, um, I feel like Michael Collins,
Speaker 1: you know from Apollo eleven. You guys are down there
Speaker 1: having fun on the moon and I'm you know, it's like,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm major Tom here, you know, a circling here.
Speaker 1: So no, I have I have an entire studio full
Speaker 1: of people again, and I'm actually having to sell people.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, stop screaming in the phone, because
Speaker 1: it's like you don't. You don't have to scream at
Speaker 1: the callers, you know, So, I mean, who would do
Speaker 1: such a thing? I don't know. It's like you said,
Speaker 1: a very bad example for those people, not because they
Speaker 1: looked at you and it's like, James, stop screat What
Speaker 1: is he screaming at those people for? And that? And
Speaker 1: that you got suspended for doing that? Yes, I did.
Speaker 1: I got you were not the only ones to spend it.
Speaker 1: I got suspended to, yes, But yeah, but they taped
Speaker 1: your phone calls. Yeah they did that. We want to
Speaker 1: find out what's really going on back you're just letting
Speaker 1: out all the secrets. Yes, they did. They wanted to
Speaker 1: find out exactly what was happening on the other end
Speaker 1: of those phone calls. And you know what, they taped
Speaker 1: them when they came back and listened to them and said,
Speaker 1: my god, I'd scream at them too, exactly, And after
Speaker 1: they heard what I had to deal with every day,
Speaker 1: it was kind of like that went away. The The
Speaker 1: one regret that I have is that, you know, there
Speaker 1: was never really anything of us doing anything in there.
Speaker 1: So yeah, but it's probably just as well because there
Speaker 1: was a lot of cursing. Yeah that was. Yes, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we were a little naughty with the language. Well, Mike,
Speaker 1: this has just been a real pleasure, real treat to
Speaker 1: have you here. Um, I'm glad you did this interview. Michael. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was, you know, I wasn't. I wasn't going to
Speaker 1: but after listening to the listening to the Lunar Crew
Speaker 1: do their show, it's like, all right, that changed my mind?
Speaker 1: What about that changed your mind? I really can't can't
Speaker 1: put my finger on it, you know, because well, first
Speaker 1: of all, it's like, having been around all this time,
Speaker 1: I thought I knew all the stories, but some of
Speaker 1: the things that you know that Brian and Dawn were
Speaker 1: and it's like I really didn't know that. I remember
Speaker 1: that when he moved down to that when he moved
Speaker 1: down and he was in a room all by himself
Speaker 1: with the you know, with the box that was things
Speaker 1: just like I want to do this from Florida. How
Speaker 1: would do this? I said, We'll build you a box, So,
Speaker 1: you know, I came up with the you know, with
Speaker 1: the you know basically with the box, and there was
Speaker 1: a signaling device that we used which nobody else used.
Speaker 1: And I was telling somebody about it. It's like, my god,
Speaker 1: that's brilliant. It's like, but nobody, as far as I know,
Speaker 1: did stuff like that. So I didn't know that Brian
Speaker 1: was sitting out in the parking lot for half of
Speaker 1: that and I thought, okay, you know, so I was like,
Speaker 1: all right, well, let's give this a go. Did it
Speaker 1: seem did it seem that it all went Yes, it
Speaker 1: went went by incredibly fast, and it was like the
Speaker 1: I mean, even you know, judging by all right, like
Speaker 1: doing the Christmas shows when I said, it's like, you
Speaker 1: know what, nobody's gonna listen to our show on Christmas?
Speaker 1: Why don't we just play Christmas music? So and then
Speaker 1: it's like I'm listening back then I said, my god,
Speaker 1: I've done like twenty five of these and it was like, wow, Mike,
Speaker 1: what a treat I'm glad you decided to do the
Speaker 1: interview with us, me too. I guess the best illustration
Speaker 1: that I can give of this is Snapple. I'd never
Speaker 1: heard of Snapple until I got to New York, and
Speaker 1: I last thing I thought it was was a nice
Speaker 1: tea when I heard the brand name. The broadcast engineer
Speaker 1: one day, who was the same broadcast engineer than his today,
Speaker 1: was in his studio and his broadcast engineer studio complex
Speaker 1: and he was pouring a bottle of this stuff over
Speaker 1: a cup with cracked ice in it. It was the
Speaker 1: hottest heck day in New York. And so what is that?
Speaker 1: Is it? Snapple? It was like raspberry flavor. And I
Speaker 1: tasted it and they said, whoa that was? It was delicious.
Speaker 1: Mine now is better, by the way, but it was
Speaker 1: the time. It was the best I've ever tasted. Over
Speaker 1: the course of this series, we've taken you on the
Speaker 1: biographical journey of Russia's life, narrated by his friends and colleagues.
Speaker 1: As this is our final episode, we could think of
Speaker 1: none better to narrate this final piece than the two
Speaker 1: men who now occupy the sacred noon to three pm
Speaker 1: Eastern time slot across America for Premier Networks Clay Travis
Speaker 1: and Buck Sexton. The Life of Russia Limbaugh, Chapter twelve,
Speaker 1: narrated by Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. I have to
Speaker 1: tell you something today that I wish I didn't have
Speaker 1: to tell you. That's how Rush began to break the
Speaker 1: news to you, to us on February that he had
Speaker 1: been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, and for the first
Speaker 1: time in more than thirty years, we had to confront
Speaker 1: the reality that he wouldn't be there in the middle
Speaker 1: of our day forever. Most people might have walked away
Speaker 1: from their professional life for good at that point, especially
Speaker 1: somewhat of his means, but not Rush Limbaugh determined as ever,
Speaker 1: he dug in for the long haul, no matter how
Speaker 1: painful or difficult it would get. I thought about trying
Speaker 1: to do this without anybody knowing, because I don't like
Speaker 1: making things about me. But there are going to be
Speaker 1: days that I'm not going to be able to be here.
Speaker 1: And you know me, I'm the mayor of real film.
Speaker 1: This has happened, and my intention is to come here
Speaker 1: every day I can. But what else would you expect.
Speaker 1: This is a man whose passion for his craft was unparalleled,
Speaker 1: a man who taught us that no matter how many
Speaker 1: times you get knocked down or in his case, even
Speaker 1: fired seven times, you keep getting up and pushing forward
Speaker 1: until you reach greatness. Be humble, grateful, and share your
Speaker 1: success with others, helping others, even if you don't expect
Speaker 1: or want credit publicly for it. The legacy of Russian Limbaugh,
Speaker 1: and its surface, might be that he was a groundbreaking
Speaker 1: broadcaster who saved a m radio, or a savvy intellectual
Speaker 1: who knew politics had sided out, both things true he
Speaker 1: surely was, but his bigger legacy will live on even
Speaker 1: brighter behind the scenes with the people who knew him
Speaker 1: best and loved him most. Checking with a mother on
Speaker 1: his staff before asking her to travel to make sure
Speaker 1: her daughter didn't have any events at school she wouldn't
Speaker 1: want to miss. Quietly helping an employee pay off some
Speaker 1: debt or replace a broken down vehicle, sending ten, twenty
Speaker 1: or fifty thousand dollars to someone he'd never met whose
Speaker 1: story he found and touched his heart. You know, I
Speaker 1: have a philosophy there's good that happens and everything that
Speaker 1: may not reveal itself immediately, and even in the most
Speaker 1: dire circumstances. If you had just wait, you just remain
Speaker 1: open to things, the good in it, we'll reveal itself.
Speaker 1: And that has happened to me as well. These are
Speaker 1: the lesser known measures of the man behind the golden
Speaker 1: E I B microphone. On the air, it was talent
Speaker 1: on loan from God. But off the air, his character,
Speaker 1: resolve and warm, loving heart. That was all Rush Hudson Limbaugh,
Speaker 1: the third with integrity on loan from nobody, born from
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Speaker 1: and our freedom. That's shocking, that's disorienting, that's life changing enough,
Speaker 1: But the prospect of losing a home and losing everything
Speaker 1: else and not knowing where to go next. Helping to
Speaker 1: maintain the nest, to maintain the home is one of
Speaker 1: the great offers of security that people in these circumstances need,
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Speaker 1: dot org. Throughout this episode, you're gonna hear from a
Speaker 1: lot of different people. Some of them you probably know,
Speaker 1: some of them you may not. All of these people
Speaker 1: have some kind of connection to Russ with personal stories
Speaker 1: of times they spent with him, or even better, some
Speaker 1: of the things they've learned from him. Among those, you
Speaker 1: will hear from of some of Russia's former co workers
Speaker 1: and friends, plus the many guest host of the Russiland
Speaker 1: Ball Show over the years, like this guy, one of
Speaker 1: our favorite guest host of all time from K T
Speaker 1: T H N. C Ittle. You have often struggled with
Speaker 1: how to explain to people sufficiently the honor it was
Speaker 1: to fill in for Rush for all those years and
Speaker 1: to be a guide host um after Rush died. And
Speaker 1: the best he can come up with this is this,
Speaker 1: if if you were a if you're an animator and
Speaker 1: You've got to fill in for Walt Disney or your
Speaker 1: favorite animator. What what would that be like? Are the
Speaker 1: people who invented your medium, not even your favorite, but
Speaker 1: who invented your medium. That's that's what this is like. Uh.
Speaker 1: If you are a software designer and you got called
Speaker 1: in to fill in on a day at work for
Speaker 1: Steve Jobs, what's that like? I mean, that's the level
Speaker 1: we're talking about here. And in terms of Russia's legacy,
Speaker 1: any time you turn on a radio station and you
Speaker 1: hear an opinion based show, you will be hearing the
Speaker 1: legacy of Rush Limbaugh. Opinion radio wouldn't have survived without Rush.
Speaker 1: It simply wouldn't have. So anytime you hear opinion on radio,
Speaker 1: you're listening to the legacy. America had an extra thirty
Speaker 1: years to try to save itself. That's Russia's legacy, and
Speaker 1: that continues. There are people who understand their country now,
Speaker 1: children who will read Russia's books. That's his legacy. And
Speaker 1: in the last few months of his life he shared
Speaker 1: with us his faith, his status as a Christ follower,
Speaker 1: and of course that's his enduring legacy. Hey, everybody, this
Speaker 1: is Mark Davis. Currently The Morning host at six sixty
Speaker 1: Am The Answer in Dallas Fort Worth, but for almost
Speaker 1: twenty years from the mid nineties until I hosted a
Speaker 1: morning show on w b a P, the proud Rush
Speaker 1: Limbaugh affiliate for North Texas. Now, that alone was an honor.
Speaker 1: But when the opportunity arose in two thousand eight to
Speaker 1: begin to fill in for Rush, well that's an easy yes.
Speaker 1: So I slid into my version of the substitute host chair,
Speaker 1: which in my case was right in my own studio
Speaker 1: in Texas, except for the times when I flew up
Speaker 1: to New York to see the first E I B microphone.
Speaker 1: To sit in the actual genuine chair, it was like
Speaker 1: visiting the Radio Smithsonian. Wherever I did it, the joy
Speaker 1: of filling in for Rush was amplified by the pure
Speaker 1: pleasure of spending time in person with James Golden, a
Speaker 1: k A. Bo Snordly, Mike Mamone, the late Kit Carson.
Speaker 1: He was the guy who would always call and and
Speaker 1: then make the ask whenever there was a Rush absence
Speaker 1: that needed filling and I filled that role so gladly
Speaker 1: and so gratefully from two thousand eight to two thousand twelve.
Speaker 1: When I changed radio stations here in Texas, but the
Speaker 1: memories and the friendships live on. His absence is a
Speaker 1: void in my life and an empty space in American
Speaker 1: radio that cannot be filled. But those of us who listened,
Speaker 1: those of us who love him, can continue to be
Speaker 1: in inspired by him. I know I will, So as
Speaker 1: a page turns in radio history, I want all of
Speaker 1: you to know that Rush was the kind of man
Speaker 1: you would want him to be. Kind, devoted to his family,
Speaker 1: devoted to the radio family of people around him, and
Speaker 1: devoted to this great nation which he served so well
Speaker 1: in this chosen calling of talk radio. God bless you Rush,
Speaker 1: and blessings to all of you who listened to him.
Speaker 1: His love for you was obvious every day, and our
Speaker 1: love for him will last forever. It's Kitty O'Neil here
Speaker 1: and back in the eighties at kf b K, my
Speaker 1: job was to screen calls for one of the talk shows,
Speaker 1: and Rush Limbaugh moved into that slot, so I screened
Speaker 1: calls for him. He did a show that was comedic
Speaker 1: in nature, although he expressed a lot of political views
Speaker 1: and different views on society and things that were happening,
Speaker 1: but he did it in a way that was more
Speaker 1: like a an f M radio jock. I think that's
Speaker 1: what set him apart, is that he was conservative in view,
Speaker 1: but very shall we say, irreverent in the way that
Speaker 1: he executed his show. It was full of humorous bits
Speaker 1: and jokes and certainly had a conservative bent, but was
Speaker 1: highly entertaining, so people from both sides of the aisle
Speaker 1: would listen. I remember him as being extremely confident, but
Speaker 1: also very insecure at the same time. Rush was very
Speaker 1: complex and often an enigma to me. He was extremely generous, though,
Speaker 1: and as he became more wealthy and famous, his generosity
Speaker 1: only increased. People often asked me what he was like
Speaker 1: off the air, and he was not one to monopolize
Speaker 1: a conversation or be overbearing with his views. He was
Speaker 1: a very balanced conversationalist and would would listen to all
Speaker 1: sides of an argument. I don't think he ever set
Speaker 1: out to be the voice of the Republican Party, but
Speaker 1: he really became elevated to that position, and I suppose
Speaker 1: felt an obligation to fulfill that. But as famous as
Speaker 1: he became, he never did forget his friends or where
Speaker 1: he started. As we've been recording this series and we've
Speaker 1: talked to so many people in Russia's life, professionally and personally.
Speaker 1: We've had a chance to hear stories that even I
Speaker 1: hadn't heard before. I had the chance to sit down
Speaker 1: and talk with some of Russia's closest personal friends. People
Speaker 1: he spent a lot of time with on the golf
Speaker 1: course and out and about a normal everyday life. And
Speaker 1: they couldn't have been nicer, more generous with their time.
Speaker 1: David and Jennie Rassau. Now Rush came for the middle
Speaker 1: class family in Cape Gerardo, Missouri. You guys came from
Speaker 1: a middle class background as well, But here you are
Speaker 1: friends with russilan Ball, living in one of the most
Speaker 1: exclusive communities in the United States. You played golf together,
Speaker 1: you dined together. How did you become friends with Rush?
Speaker 1: Rush had a great curiosity about everybody he met. He
Speaker 1: he would give dinner parties and we were fortunate enough
Speaker 1: to be invited, and he would go around the table.
Speaker 1: It maybe fifteen sixteen people around the table, to go
Speaker 1: around and have everybody tell their story how they got
Speaker 1: to Palm Beach, and if he knew their story, he
Speaker 1: would then tell the story of the people. So he
Speaker 1: was curious about everyone and how they how they got
Speaker 1: to Palm Beach, how they made their money, what they
Speaker 1: did that was successful, what they did that they were
Speaker 1: most proud of. He loved those stories. He really loved
Speaker 1: American stories, success to American success story. What do you
Speaker 1: think the biggest misunderstanding is about Rush, particularly among people
Speaker 1: on the left. What do people not understand about Rush Limbaugh?
Speaker 1: They think he's an evil person. They think he is
Speaker 1: so right wing and so unwilling to bend his train
Speaker 1: of thought, that he's the enemy. And we saw that firsthand,
Speaker 1: especially in Connecticut, which is not necessarily a bastion of
Speaker 1: of right wing Republican views. And he would come up
Speaker 1: to this golf tournament with they did it for like
Speaker 1: twelve years. It was a three day tournament, and he
Speaker 1: would meet a lot of people who were Democrats, and
Speaker 1: they all approached him with a little wariness. But once
Speaker 1: the ice was broken, whether it was the first t
Speaker 1: shot or the first joke, or he'd hand them a
Speaker 1: cigar or anything like that, all of a sudden they
Speaker 1: opened up and they found out he was jed New
Speaker 1: only a nice man. He was a teddy bearer. He
Speaker 1: loved everyone. He didn't have a hurtful thing to say
Speaker 1: about anyone, and I think that's the most misunderstood thing
Speaker 1: about him. We were proud to introduce him to my brother,
Speaker 1: for example, who is very left wing, and his wife.
Speaker 1: We had a dinner party and they were both very,
Speaker 1: very nervous about having dinner with Russia Limball because they'd
Speaker 1: heard all these stories, and he just wiled them over.
Speaker 1: They ended up exchanging gifts. They just could not believe
Speaker 1: how nice a man he was. So that that was
Speaker 1: the mystery. The man and the myth. Rush could walk
Speaker 1: into a room and people would that's Rush Limball, and
Speaker 1: they were. They gravitated to him. I mean, it's just
Speaker 1: it's bigger than life. Now you also got both of you.
Speaker 1: Of course, been a lot of time with the miss
Speaker 1: As you said today, what do you think is the
Speaker 1: thing that you most want people to know about him
Speaker 1: that maybe they don't know, including those of us who
Speaker 1: love him. His heart said it all. He looked at
Speaker 1: you with sincerity, with understanding. He wanted to talk to you.
Speaker 1: He wanted to find out all about you. And it
Speaker 1: wasn't just at a at a dinner party. He didn't
Speaker 1: talk much. He asked the questions and wanted to hear
Speaker 1: other people talk about themselves Russian speak about himself. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's fair. I think you know there, we
Speaker 1: have a lot of Democrat friends, were not solely Republican,
Speaker 1: and we have Democrat friends here in Palm Beach. A
Speaker 1: couple of them come to mind who we played golf with,
Speaker 1: and he knew that they were Democrats, and they knew
Speaker 1: he was Russia. Limbaugh the lead Republican, the leader of
Speaker 1: the Republican Party and all that sort of stuff. But
Speaker 1: they loved playing golf with him. They loved having lunch
Speaker 1: with him. We'd have breakfast together on Saturday mornings. They
Speaker 1: loved having breakfast with him because he wouldn't talk politics
Speaker 1: all the time. You talk about life, you talk about
Speaker 1: football games. He talked about golf, he talked about golfers,
Speaker 1: He talked about all sorts of things other than politics.
Speaker 1: If somebody brought up politics, he would be grudgingly asked
Speaker 1: answer the question. But you knew he didn't want to
Speaker 1: be involved in politics. In some of his free time
Speaker 1: that he did that fifteen hours a week on the
Speaker 1: air and another fifty hours a week in preparation. So
Speaker 1: this was downtime for him. He appreciated it, and everyone
Speaker 1: who met him really loved and respected him. Another great
Speaker 1: story of Russian. He gave the best super Bowl parties
Speaker 1: and Masters parties you could ever imagine. Everybody wanted an
Speaker 1: invitation because he served great wine, and he served it.
Speaker 1: You didn't go, and he went around, poured the wine.
Speaker 1: He went around and gave everybody that something to eat.
Speaker 1: He went on this one woman who was ninety years old,
Speaker 1: the mother of somebody, was there. He doated on her
Speaker 1: to make certain she was comfortable, she had a good seat,
Speaker 1: she could see the tournament, whatever, and he would just
Speaker 1: do it. So this one Super Bowl weekend, it's a
Speaker 1: Saturday morning and I was arranging some of the golf games.
Speaker 1: And he gets to the club and he sees that
Speaker 1: I don't have my golf shoes on. He said, when
Speaker 1: are you gonna put on your shoes. I said, I'm
Speaker 1: not playing. He said, what do you mean you're not playing?
Speaker 1: But this I said, I'm going back to Connecticut today.
Speaker 1: I gotta call at two o'clock this morning our grand
Speaker 1: We had a granddaughter born this morning at too. So
Speaker 1: we're flying up there. And he said, you can't fly
Speaker 1: up there I said why. He said, because I've got
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl party. And I said, I'm sorry, going
Speaker 1: up to see my new granddaughter. And he said so.
Speaker 1: He walks out of the locker room. He comes back
Speaker 1: about two minutes later. He said, at the time, we
Speaker 1: had our own plane. He said, wait a minute, your
Speaker 1: plane is in for maintenance. How are you going? I
Speaker 1: said commercial, No, you're not. He went to the phone booth,
Speaker 1: called up Mike, and he said, can you be at
Speaker 1: the airport at ten o'clock. He's going to take you up.
Speaker 1: So Brush flew Jeanie and I up to Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Speaker 1: We've rented a car. We went from there to the hospital.
Speaker 1: We saw our granddaughter before she was twenty four hours old.
Speaker 1: And that's the way he was. He just his generosity,
Speaker 1: knew no bounds. Well, let me close by saying this
Speaker 1: and thank you for spending so much time with me
Speaker 1: and with us. We're glad. I'm glad that Rush had
Speaker 1: friends like you, David and Eugenie in his life and
Speaker 1: his other close friends. Because he had to endorse so
Speaker 1: much bullshit from people that didn't know him, from people
Speaker 1: that lied about him, from a media that was filled
Speaker 1: with people that were jealous of his success and knew
Speaker 1: that some of the things that were reporting about him
Speaker 1: we're not true, and so I am glad that he
Speaker 1: You guys were able to help Rush have a normal
Speaker 1: life as he could, especially on the weekends and with
Speaker 1: family and with friends, and to take away from some
Speaker 1: of that madness that he had to put up with. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you. It was our You know, I feel more
Speaker 1: rewarded than anyone Jeanie and I do. We just getting
Speaker 1: to know him and be with him and enjoy his company.
Speaker 1: It was a blessing. It was nice to be able
Speaker 1: to say to our friends, he's just as normal as you,
Speaker 1: as you with you. You know, he gets up in
Speaker 1: the morning, he does what he does, does what you do.
Speaker 1: You know, he's a human being, but he's a human
Speaker 1: being with a huge heart. Yeah, I know you miss him. Well,
Speaker 1: I will say this, the last year and a half
Speaker 1: Rush was playing the best golf I've ever seen him play.
Speaker 1: He was amazing. I used, I'll drive him. All of
Speaker 1: a sudden, he's twenty to fifty yards ahead of me. Um.
Speaker 1: He had an albatross on a par five, which means
Speaker 1: he sank his second shot on a par five Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was just beside himself. He was so excited. He
Speaker 1: just loved the competition. He was If he hit a
Speaker 1: bad shot, he didn't care about the score, he dropped
Speaker 1: another ball and hit it again. He just he was
Speaker 1: fun to be with. We just had We had so
Speaker 1: much fun to go there and all. Now we have
Speaker 1: a lot of great memories. Now, yeah, don't say he
Speaker 1: never made his bed anywhere when he came to visit.
Speaker 1: But a friend of mine, Lord Rosso of Cross Harbor,
Speaker 1: has got this friend is it's a shaft manufacturer. I
Speaker 1: don't know a few people who don't play golf. The
Speaker 1: shaft is particularly in um long shafted clubs like the Driver,
Speaker 1: Fairway medals and so forth, and longer. Well in every
Speaker 1: club back the shaft is the engine. Anyway, Lord Rosso
Speaker 1: had this new shaft in his driver on Sunday, and
Speaker 1: I'm not kidding. He was hitting the ball ten twelve
Speaker 1: yards farther than he normally does. And I was kind
Speaker 1: of in disbelief because to get that kind of a
Speaker 1: differentiation you need more swing speed. But a shaft can
Speaker 1: compensate for a slower swing speed if it's good. So
Speaker 1: I got this new shaft and I was gonna go
Speaker 1: try it yesterday to see if I could get an
Speaker 1: inditional tent tralve large yards like Lord Russo of Cross
Speaker 1: Harbor was, and I got. I got rained out to
Speaker 1: say that if you knew Rush Limbaugh, you were left
Speaker 1: with an unforgettable impression of the man. That's an understatement.
Speaker 1: Everybody who knew him remembers how when where they met Rush,
Speaker 1: and also what they've learned from Rush, how he impacted them,
Speaker 1: just like he impacted all the rest of us who
Speaker 1: worked at the E I B Network. There's so many stories,
Speaker 1: and here's more of them from a couple of the
Speaker 1: guests host that sat in and a good friend of
Speaker 1: mine and Russia's Congressman Louie gomer but first from w
Speaker 1: HP in Harrisburg and w p HT in Philadelphia, Ken Matthews.
Speaker 1: So I started guest hoasting for Rush in the summer
Speaker 1: of and then I did my final show as a
Speaker 1: guide host. It was also the final Rush show. And
Speaker 1: the thing that sticks out to me, there's so many
Speaker 1: things and we we don't have twenty six hours for
Speaker 1: me to explain it. But um I started out as
Speaker 1: a listener, like millions of other people that I ended
Speaker 1: up as a guest toast, and Rush made me a
Speaker 1: better guest toast. But he also made me a smarter
Speaker 1: person and a better thinker, and a lot of that
Speaker 1: came from being a Rush listener because Rush was an
Speaker 1: intellectual giant, but he wasn't a snob about it, and
Speaker 1: he had fun and he liked to laugh, and he
Speaker 1: was a smart alec and I think a lot of
Speaker 1: those characteristics appeal to the American people. So we always
Speaker 1: have to bring our a game when we're guest toasting
Speaker 1: for him. But the nice thing about it is the
Speaker 1: entire team is at the level. Everybody brings their a
Speaker 1: game because their patriots, they love America, and they love Rush.
Speaker 1: So it was a wonderful environment to work in. And
Speaker 1: the listeners are outstanding, and why wouldn't they be. Rush
Speaker 1: loved the listeners, So it was a blessing and a
Speaker 1: wonderful opportunity. My name is Brett winter Ball. I was
Speaker 1: a member of the E. I. B Family from until
Speaker 1: two thousand six and then brought back again in the
Speaker 1: year that fateful year. I had such great, amazing memories
Speaker 1: of my time with the folks here at the IB Network,
Speaker 1: But most importantly of Rush Limbaugh. I came into the
Speaker 1: IB network as a as a kid, really five years old,
Speaker 1: kind of a wise guy. I thought I knew it
Speaker 1: all until I ran at a kid Carson and James Golden,
Speaker 1: Mike Maimon, and of course the Boss Rush Limbaugh. Then
Speaker 1: I realized I didn't know anything. But over the course
Speaker 1: of my years on the program, I learned so much.
Speaker 1: I learned about generosity, I learned about humor. I learned
Speaker 1: about the brilliance of a broadcaster performing day after day
Speaker 1: against all sorts of adversaries, both professional and sometimes even
Speaker 1: on a personal level. You know, Rush Limbaugh is a
Speaker 1: once in a millennium talent, really is. When you consider
Speaker 1: the amazing work he did in the different parts of
Speaker 1: his life and over the course of thirty three years,
Speaker 1: you have to be struck by the genius. But it
Speaker 1: was also due in large part to the amazing team
Speaker 1: behind the scenes. My friend James, Kid, Carson, Cookie Coco, Joe,
Speaker 1: Ali Mayman, you go down the list, it goes on
Speaker 1: and on, including the people who helped run the Limbaugh
Speaker 1: Letter as well. This was truly a family, and a
Speaker 1: family it remains to this day. I'm still in touch
Speaker 1: with everybody on the program, and everybody's still in touch
Speaker 1: with me. It's a profound mark that was left in
Speaker 1: my life. You can't ever forget where you were when
Speaker 1: you heard your wedding, your birth of your first or
Speaker 1: second child announced on a radio program by a guy
Speaker 1: who genuinely cared about you as a person. And to
Speaker 1: this day, I remain indebted to the experiences I had
Speaker 1: for the better part of a decade. Those memories will
Speaker 1: live on forever in my heart, and I look forward
Speaker 1: to sitting with Rush one day show prepping together up
Speaker 1: there in the big, beautiful broadcast studio in the sky.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Rush Limbaugh for all you did, and thank
Speaker 1: you to the listeners who made this all possible. May
Speaker 1: God bless and keep all of us that will one
Speaker 1: day be reunited. This is Louis Gobert, a dear friend,
Speaker 1: and each Texas asked have you heard Rush Limbaugh? And
Speaker 1: I said, I've heard off him, but I had not
Speaker 1: heard him. He said, his sense of humor is a
Speaker 1: bit like yours, and I think you'd really like him. Well,
Speaker 1: I didn't just like him. I loved him. During the
Speaker 1: rest of nineteen ninety one, and from then on. I
Speaker 1: was listening to Rush all I could. After being elected
Speaker 1: to be a judge in one of our highest trial
Speaker 1: courts in Texas, I had to allow the jury to
Speaker 1: take a lunch break so I would go to my
Speaker 1: office and work while I was listening to Rush. By
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety four, he had so many Americans listening to
Speaker 1: him it was no wonder that the freshman Republicans in
Speaker 1: Congress named Rush as an honorary member of their class.
Speaker 1: He really did make that much difference. Then, over the years,
Speaker 1: his amazing dissection and explanation of our country's problems had
Speaker 1: many of us saying, yeah, he's right. But as Rush said,
Speaker 1: it wasn't he was brainwashing anyone. He was just expressing
Speaker 1: so well what we all were feeling. So after I
Speaker 1: got elected to Congress, I met became dear friends with
Speaker 1: James Golden a ka bo Snerdley, who became a virtual
Speaker 1: brother from another mother. Also getting to know David Limbaugh
Speaker 1: because of Rush was another huge benefit. Yet, getting to
Speaker 1: watch Rush and James and their other two staff in
Speaker 1: the studio Palm Beach was like seeing a finely honed
Speaker 1: machine that was poetry, emotion, looking back, just being able
Speaker 1: to email and hear back from Rush, usually during the
Speaker 1: show while he was talking. Was such an honor. He
Speaker 1: was an anomaly among men who took what God loaned
Speaker 1: him and made the most of it for the benefit
Speaker 1: of all the people of this country. That's why my
Speaker 1: last time to see him was an emotional moment. The
Speaker 1: night he had President Trump announced the Presidential Medal of
Speaker 1: Freedom in the House Chamber, we knew Russia was dying
Speaker 1: of cancer, might not have too much longer to live.
Speaker 1: Outside the gallery of the House Chamber upstairs, I rushed
Speaker 1: up there to see him, and I saw others come
Speaker 1: by and shake his hand while I was walking toward him.
Speaker 1: But it was too emotional moment. A handshake would not
Speaker 1: do for the person who had been in my car,
Speaker 1: but in my home, been in my heart. I opened
Speaker 1: my arms and said Rush, and he smiled, and he
Speaker 1: opened his arms and said Louis. Then we hugged. As
Speaker 1: I said in the last email, sitting before he left
Speaker 1: the air for the last time, Russia, Beetles were wrong.
Speaker 1: You've multiplied exponentially the love you make Rush, my friend,
Speaker 1: You're missed. A few episodes ago, we played a vignette
Speaker 1: that was voiced by Scott Bayo. You might have thought
Speaker 1: when you heard it, wait a minute, Scott Bale. Well,
Speaker 1: after the episode was released, we got a note from
Speaker 1: one of our executive producers, Craig Kitchen. He reminded us
Speaker 1: of how Scott Bayo actually came to know Rush, and
Speaker 1: we thought it might be nice to put it in
Speaker 1: context for you. Back in two thousand seventeen, I got
Speaker 1: a call. It was Scott. He was calling in from California.
Speaker 1: Put up the call and Scott, just like everybody else,
Speaker 1: called into our number one eight to two. I screened
Speaker 1: him the way I would screen any other caller. What
Speaker 1: he was saying made sense. Well, he got on the
Speaker 1: air with Rush and lo and behold it was revealed.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a Scott from California. He was a Scott
Speaker 1: that most Americans. Here's a portion of that telephone. Okay,
Speaker 1: here we go to the phones. We're starting in Los Angeles, Hig, Scott.
Speaker 1: Great to have you with us in the EIB network.
Speaker 1: IM out, Thanks, Rush. You know I'm a hardcore conservative.
Speaker 1: Tomp gave them power by winning and by and by
Speaker 1: implementing his agenda. Or you think they should be grateful, Absolutely,
Speaker 1: they'll win more. Isn't Washington, d C? Great? Alright, Sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm in Hollywood, so it's the same thing. Sorry, Benda,
Speaker 1: you're in Hollywood. Okay, let me see the Scots that
Speaker 1: I know in Hollywood. It's not tom My Hand Scott,
Speaker 1: Scott Scots. No, I don't. I don't know you. I
Speaker 1: know people you know I know, but I'm trying to
Speaker 1: do names. You are, Scott Bayo. I am Well, it's
Speaker 1: an honor to meet you. I'm happy that you're in
Speaker 1: the audience. It's great that you've been the audience every day.
Speaker 1: I'm a huge fan and I'm dying to play golf
Speaker 1: with your Rush. Well, look, when we finish here, if
Speaker 1: you'll stay online, if you can give an email address
Speaker 1: to Mr Snirtley the next time I'm out there, will play. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: I absolutely love the So there you go. That's how
Speaker 1: Scott Bayo and Rush Limbaugh are connected. And we thank
Speaker 1: Scott and the many others we've had over the course
Speaker 1: of this series that narrated the life of Rush Limbobb
Speaker 1: and yets that you've heard in each episode. So in
Speaker 1: addition to Scott, our thanks also to Rudy Giuliani, Mark Stein,
Speaker 1: Sean Hannity, Mark Levine, Megan Kelly, Glenn Beck, Neil Boortz,
Speaker 1: Mary Madlin, George Nori, Nick Sercy, who you will hear
Speaker 1: from again in his own words in a few minutes,
Speaker 1: and of course Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. Now the
Speaker 1: thoughts of a couple of more guests, host and longtime
Speaker 1: friends of Russia's first from w i s N in Milwaukee,
Speaker 1: guest host Mark Belling. Rush didn't invent talk radio. I
Speaker 1: mean it was there and a lot of people were
Speaker 1: doing doing it. What he did was he was the
Speaker 1: first to really tap it's potential, and all of us
Speaker 1: who do talk radio will be forever grateful for the
Speaker 1: fact that he was able to tap it to the
Speaker 1: extent that he did, because it put all of these
Speaker 1: stations all over America on the map. And here they
Speaker 1: had this show or the Rush Show, that was getting
Speaker 1: great ratings, but it's on for three hours a day
Speaker 1: and they had to program the rest of the day.
Speaker 1: And it gave opportunity for all sorts of other people
Speaker 1: to not only get jobs, but beyond stations that had
Speaker 1: huge listenerships, so we could all be exposed to the
Speaker 1: same audiences in our local communities that you know Rush
Speaker 1: was being exposed to the greatest talk show host of
Speaker 1: all time. It's obviously Rush Limbaugh. But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: He will always be the greatest talk show host of
Speaker 1: all time. It's impossible for anybody to be greater than
Speaker 1: him because he invented the art form and he'll always
Speaker 1: be the standard by which everybody has measured, kind of
Speaker 1: like Babe Ruth and baseball. He will always be the
Speaker 1: greatest baseball player who ever played the game, and Rush
Speaker 1: will always be the greatest talk show host ever. I
Speaker 1: get hosted the program for I don't even know. It's
Speaker 1: over twenty years, a long time. I still remember the
Speaker 1: first time. It's late nineties, I think that I did
Speaker 1: the program. And the day before I was to go
Speaker 1: to New York in Milwaukee, I was unbelievably sick. I
Speaker 1: was deathly ill. In fact, I was so sick I
Speaker 1: couldn't even drive myself to the airport. I had to
Speaker 1: have a friend drive me there. But I had to go.
Speaker 1: This was the first time I was going to do
Speaker 1: the program. And if you if I would have said
Speaker 1: I'm sick, I can't do the show, everybody would have
Speaker 1: assumed that I chickened out, I would have been the
Speaker 1: biggest laughing stock on radio. So I dragged myself in
Speaker 1: to do the program, filled myself with as many your
Speaker 1: preference as I possibly could, and survived the whole thing.
Speaker 1: People thought it was really good. In retrospect, it was terrible,
Speaker 1: probably the worst one that I did, but I survived it.
Speaker 1: I had to do it. The opportunity to do the
Speaker 1: Rush program, your first chance to do it. To turn
Speaker 1: it down would have been suicidal. Such a platform. Over
Speaker 1: the years that I did the show, I'd hear from
Speaker 1: people that I hadn't heard him in decade, somebody living
Speaker 1: in New Mexico, somebody living in Nebraska, people even in
Speaker 1: my own state of Wisconsin who weren't familiar with me
Speaker 1: from Milwaukee. The reach of the show was incredible. One
Speaker 1: other thing I want to talk about is the staff.
Speaker 1: When I come in to do the program. Of course
Speaker 1: I wouldn't see Rush. I'm doing the program on days
Speaker 1: that he's off. I dealt with the staff, and the
Speaker 1: thing that I noticed over the years was the incredible
Speaker 1: loyalty that the staff had to Rush. I mean, many
Speaker 1: people were with him for decades. I think of people
Speaker 1: like James Golden Bulls post nearly, Mike Mamona's broadcast engineer,
Speaker 1: The Lake Kick Carson, who like me, is from Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: These people were there forever and they always had Rushes back. Now,
Speaker 1: part of it is who wants to leave a winner?
Speaker 1: Nobody wants to leave a program that's it's phenomenally successful.
Speaker 1: Is this? But it was beyond this. There was clearly
Speaker 1: a deep pride that the people who worked on the
Speaker 1: Rushes Brush program had in the show. They knew that
Speaker 1: what they were doing was changing communication forever. From WSB
Speaker 1: in Atlanta, guest host Eric Ericsson the very first time
Speaker 1: I ever filled in for Rush Limball, they flew me
Speaker 1: up to New York City. I'm in there and I mean,
Speaker 1: it is it's maman, it is Carson, it is both
Speaker 1: Snrdly himself. I'm looking at all that. The light goes
Speaker 1: on and I'm like, what on earth have I just done?
Speaker 1: And I freak out, uh And there's silence there for
Speaker 1: just a second, and then I start and it gets
Speaker 1: a little natural until halfway through the show and I
Speaker 1: look and they're Snurdly flailing his arms pointing towards me,
Speaker 1: pounding his fist on the desk. I'm like, I've just
Speaker 1: lost the opportunity to ever do this year. I had
Speaker 1: no idea what I had done, and I run in
Speaker 1: very apologetically during breaking I'm very sorry what did I do?
Speaker 1: And kick Carson looks at me and says, what do
Speaker 1: you mean? I said, well, I mean Snurdley. He's in there.
Speaker 1: And this is before I even really connected both Sturdy
Speaker 1: James Golden, same person, and he's how that's just James
Speaker 1: talking to a caller. I was fine. I learned more
Speaker 1: from Rush though, by not being able to fill in
Speaker 1: for him when I didn't support Trump in twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: very deviated from where the audience was, and Rush reached
Speaker 1: out regularly to see how I was doing. He called me,
Speaker 1: it's like, look, you got to build a relationship with
Speaker 1: your audience. And I started very mindfully, deliberately, maybe over
Speaker 1: sharing my life with him, connecting to them on on
Speaker 1: faith and culture and not just the raw politics of
Speaker 1: the day, finding areas of conversation we could agree on
Speaker 1: and talk about and laugh at. In particular, that was
Speaker 1: one thing Russia always told me, is find stuff you
Speaker 1: can laugh at with your audience. And it worked, and
Speaker 1: my audience is now bigger than it ever was. Even
Speaker 1: before jumping into syndication, it was one of the largest
Speaker 1: local talk shows in the country, in large part because
Speaker 1: Rush was a great mentor and gave great advice. And
Speaker 1: I listened around October of last year before Rush passed away.
Speaker 1: He reached out to me, and usually it was me
Speaker 1: reaching out to him, and if it was him reaching
Speaker 1: out to me first, I always paid attention and just
Speaker 1: want to know how radio was going. I was doing
Speaker 1: two shows at the time, and he knows he knew
Speaker 1: I was not good at with business and wanted to
Speaker 1: give me some advice on the radio business and how
Speaker 1: it works. And then he just told me, I said,
Speaker 1: you need to get up every day and make sure
Speaker 1: that behind the microphone is where you want to be,
Speaker 1: and if it is, you need to keep doing it.
Speaker 1: Don't ever not do it. And I would never have
Speaker 1: gotten behind the microphone had he not told me that
Speaker 1: I needed to do it. I genuinely, truly. I mean,
Speaker 1: everybody in radio talk radio is their career to Rush,
Speaker 1: but I really do owe my career to Rush. I
Speaker 1: would have said no to a job he told me
Speaker 1: I needed to say yes to. And a decade later.
Speaker 1: Now I'm suddenly finding myself in syndication and continuing to
Speaker 1: grow my show. Thanks Rush. My name is Larry Iron.
Speaker 1: I'm the president of Hillsdale College. I met Russland eighty eight,
Speaker 1: I think was the year in which he became a
Speaker 1: sort of national figure and moved from Sacramento, California, to
Speaker 1: New York and launched this mighty radio show that then
Speaker 1: went on from nine until his death this year. He's
Speaker 1: a galvanizing man. He came to my notice because I'd
Speaker 1: be in taxi cabs in Sacramento, California, and if it
Speaker 1: was in the morning, Russia Lim Boss show was always on,
Speaker 1: and every time there was a break, the cab driver
Speaker 1: turned around and say to me, this guy is great.
Speaker 1: And I listened to him, and I thought, boy, this
Speaker 1: guy's something, you know, because that mixture of an analyst
Speaker 1: and an entertainer was deliberate in him, and he took
Speaker 1: it to the highest state. I met him in a
Speaker 1: hotel somebody pointing about to me, and I went and
Speaker 1: I said, love your show, which you know, everybody ever
Speaker 1: made him and probably said that time. Then later he
Speaker 1: became a big national figure and I would have contact
Speaker 1: with him from time to time he got the idea
Speaker 1: that we should advertise on his show, and he had
Speaker 1: a backlog people wanted to advertise, so I I, yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll give it a whirl. And then the point about
Speaker 1: the world is he was great. He uh understood what
Speaker 1: our college was about. He wanted me to explain it
Speaker 1: to him, and I did many times, and uh, he
Speaker 1: just turned it into gold. So I admired him. I
Speaker 1: liked him a lot. You know, he was on the
Speaker 1: radio three hours a day, five days a week for
Speaker 1: thirty some years. It was essential to the success of
Speaker 1: Russia Limbaugh that he was an entertainer. He was funny,
Speaker 1: he would just make you laugh. But more essential than
Speaker 1: that is that he represented some big things that are
Speaker 1: rooted deeply in America, and he defended those things consistently
Speaker 1: for his whole career. And of course those things cannot die.
Speaker 1: They are eternal, and he has helped to sustain them
Speaker 1: so far, and we should carry on. Trump doesn't care. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's not politically corrective. He's fearless. He's not afraid to
Speaker 1: tell people what he actually thinks about other people or things,
Speaker 1: and he's not worried about the reaction that people have
Speaker 1: to it. He's just gonna go ahead and be who
Speaker 1: he is. He's one of these people that really he
Speaker 1: embodies the idea that you attract the kind of people
Speaker 1: you are, and that you should not be a phony
Speaker 1: to try to attract certain people, trying to be like
Speaker 1: the people you want to attract. It never works. He
Speaker 1: just is who he is, and whoever doesn't like him
Speaker 1: their problem. Whoever does find there in the inner circle,
Speaker 1: We're so glad to have with us, if only for
Speaker 1: a few moments, one of the busiest men in America
Speaker 1: to share his thoughts about Russia. Lim Law President Donald J. Trump, Mr? President,
Speaker 1: What do you think Russia? Limbaugh's legacy will be across
Speaker 1: America and the world more than anything else. Freedom encourage.
Speaker 1: You know, he had guts. Rush would talk about anything
Speaker 1: that was appropriate to talk about. These other people, even
Speaker 1: the good ones. They're good people, but they want to
Speaker 1: be politically correct. They don't want to say anything that's
Speaker 1: too controversial. And that's what made him successful. Bow. You
Speaker 1: know that you don't other than anybody. You may be
Speaker 1: one guy that does it better than I do. Rush
Speaker 1: was a He was a man who had tremendous courage,
Speaker 1: and he had tremendous principle and if he believed in something,
Speaker 1: he talked about it. And who had an audience like him?
Speaker 1: You know, Sean Hannity is great and he's a great
Speaker 1: guy and a great person in every way. And Sean said,
Speaker 1: it's a voice that can never ever be replaced. And
Speaker 1: you know, for Sean to say that, who's so big
Speaker 1: in his own right and he's a massive audience. But
Speaker 1: and Sean openly says, Nope, Rush was the voice. It
Speaker 1: can never be replaced. You cannot because I used to say, well,
Speaker 1: who can replace Rush? And the fact is nobody will
Speaker 1: ever replace him. He was a courageous person and he
Speaker 1: loved our country. Well, Mr President, on behalf of all
Speaker 1: of us who worked with Rush and his millions of fans,
Speaker 1: we want to thank you will bestowing the Medal of
Speaker 1: Freedom upon him at that time, only you could do
Speaker 1: that and make all of the elected Democrats in Washington
Speaker 1: show up for the ceremony. Thank you for that. It
Speaker 1: was such a beautiful night. One will never forget. Thank
Speaker 1: you for doing that, Mr President. That was a great
Speaker 1: evening and I've never seen anything like it. One side
Speaker 1: was going crazy in a positive way, and the other
Speaker 1: side was dead and silent. But you know what, you
Speaker 1: looked at the eyes of the other side. They knew
Speaker 1: he deserved it. They knew it, they respected They respected
Speaker 1: him as much as they may be disliked him. And
Speaker 1: I don't know disagreed with him for whatever reason. I
Speaker 1: don't know why you would. He wants a strong military
Speaker 1: once slow texts, you know, all of the common sense things.
Speaker 1: But but they got it and giving it to him
Speaker 1: was his greatest honor. And giving it there and I
Speaker 1: was just an idea that I had and I said,
Speaker 1: let's go for it. And uh, that was quite a night.
Speaker 1: That was quite a night. Thank you for your time,
Speaker 1: Mr President. We so love you. Thank you for joining
Speaker 1: Thanks keep up the work very much. He is the
Speaker 1: greatest fighter and winner that you will ever meet. Rush Limball,
Speaker 1: thank you for your decades tireless devotion to our us.
Speaker 1: In recognition of all that you have done for our nation,
Speaker 1: the millions of people a day that you speak to
Speaker 1: and that you inspire, and all of the incredible work
Speaker 1: that you have done for charity, I am proud to
Speaker 1: announce tonight that you will be receiving our country's highest
Speaker 1: civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. So this is
Speaker 1: our last episode of Russilan by the man behind the
Speaker 1: Golden the IB microphone. We've heard from a lot of people,
Speaker 1: but I wanted you, ladies and gentlemen to hear from
Speaker 1: the two men that helped me produce this podcast series.
Speaker 1: Phil Tower Chris Kelly. Welcome to your podcast of Whom
Speaker 1: with Me? Hello James, Well, Chris, let's start with you.
Speaker 1: What have you learned? You came into this, as I
Speaker 1: understand that, correct me if I'm wrong. You came into
Speaker 1: this not so much a political guy. Tell me what
Speaker 1: you've learned from this series. You know, listen, I'm I am.
Speaker 1: I'm a radio guy, right, so having been around radio
Speaker 1: for a long time and having worked for radio stations
Speaker 1: that were rush lingall affiliates for a long time. Um,
Speaker 1: obviously you know you you revere somebody of his stature,
Speaker 1: uh and his success level politically speaking. No, I'm not
Speaker 1: overly interested in a lot of politics in general, right,
Speaker 1: but I am interested in somebody that knows how to
Speaker 1: communicate and somebody who does it at the level that
Speaker 1: he did it for so long. And I gotta tell
Speaker 1: you Honestly, the stories that I've been privy to behind
Speaker 1: the scenes, is we've recorded this thing, it's kind of
Speaker 1: blown me away. He reminds me a lot of a
Speaker 1: guy that I used to work for for a long time. Uh.
Speaker 1: And hearing hearing people like Brian say he was like
Speaker 1: another father to me, or hearing just your emotion in
Speaker 1: talking about him, and getting the chance to know some
Speaker 1: of these other people that have interacted with and and
Speaker 1: been part of Russia's life for so long has been really,
Speaker 1: really special, and I'm really really proud to have been
Speaker 1: part of this project. This podcast has been about, you know,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, no matter what you
Speaker 1: watch on TV, no matter what you listen to on
Speaker 1: the radio, no matter what you read online, there's another
Speaker 1: human being on the other end of that content. And
Speaker 1: what I have been really sted in over the course
Speaker 1: of this series, and I hope others have paid attention to,
Speaker 1: is laying down all political ideology and laying down all
Speaker 1: what you read in the newspaper, online or whatever, is
Speaker 1: that there's this guy and there was so many more
Speaker 1: layers to him than you ever really got to hear
Speaker 1: on the radio, or that anybody ever really knew that
Speaker 1: to me is the whole purpose of why we've been
Speaker 1: doing this podcast. It's been an absolute pleasure to produce
Speaker 1: this and and especially I have to say James, to
Speaker 1: get to know you and work with you. You are
Speaker 1: a prose pro and I know just in reading some
Speaker 1: of the comments from um people that have left reviews
Speaker 1: on the podcast, and uh, just getting feedback from people
Speaker 1: in my own orbit, the level at which people speak
Speaker 1: of you, Uh, they couldn't be couldn't be more right.
Speaker 1: You are truly a gentleman and a professional, and it's
Speaker 1: been an absolute pleasure to work with you. I'm blushing
Speaker 1: and that's hard to see, by the way. Thank you,
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Chris Kelly our other producer, Phil Tower. Phil,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you the same question, well in a
Speaker 1: different kind of way, what have you learned from from
Speaker 1: from producing this podcast series about the life of Russian Lumball,
Speaker 1: the guy behind the Golden IBY microphone. Well, I'm going
Speaker 1: to give you a quick, simple answer, and that is
Speaker 1: have a dream, never give up on it. Rush decided
Speaker 1: that radio was his calling. We knew that as a
Speaker 1: young kid he hated going to school and that was
Speaker 1: his vision. He was fired from his first seven jobs,
Speaker 1: and in the end he was successful because he had
Speaker 1: a dream. He had a vision, and he kept to it.
Speaker 1: And along the way he met some great people and
Speaker 1: he stayed humble and grateful until the end. And what
Speaker 1: in a great American success story that is James and
Speaker 1: you were You had an inside seat to the whole thing,
Speaker 1: So I mean, what an incredible honor um. In the end,
Speaker 1: he was just a guy who loved what he did.
Speaker 1: And we've heard that from our parents and mentors along
Speaker 1: the way. You gotta love what you do in life.
Speaker 1: And Rush loved radio and he loved his show. He
Speaker 1: loved being with his audience. He was there until the end.
Speaker 1: And I need to make Chris and you blush because Chris,
Speaker 1: when I received a call from Craig Kitchen, the godfather
Speaker 1: of this whole project, if you will, I told him,
Speaker 1: I said, we need a masterful audio guy, and introduced
Speaker 1: Chris Kelly, my co producer who makes these podcasts. Sing
Speaker 1: James and you know that the way the music has mixed,
Speaker 1: everything's together. And you, James, a storyteller who gave each
Speaker 1: of us chills as we heard some of these stories.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Well, I'm gonna say this. You know,
Speaker 1: I've been in radio all my life, almost as I
Speaker 1: look back on it now, almost all of my life,
Speaker 1: I've been in this radio business, and of course we're work.
Speaker 1: Working with Rush Limbaugh was an amazing blessing. It was
Speaker 1: a chance of a lifetime that has made my life.
Speaker 1: And working with both you Phil and you Chris has
Speaker 1: been such a delight. You Rush used to say, you know,
Speaker 1: the job of Colors was to make make the host
Speaker 1: look good, not to suck up or anything, but but
Speaker 1: to bring out the best. And working with two people
Speaker 1: who are the very best at what they do makes
Speaker 1: you up your game. And that's what both of you
Speaker 1: have done for me. You've made this a pleasure. You've
Speaker 1: made this a remarkable experience that I'll never forget. And
Speaker 1: I cannot thank you enough for the hard work and
Speaker 1: energy you put in. People that are not in this
Speaker 1: business don't understand the time that it takes just to
Speaker 1: produce one episode, and you guys have now both of
Speaker 1: you have spent so many hours going through this podcast
Speaker 1: with me and going through Russia Llanbaw's life with me,
Speaker 1: and the way that you produced this we hope brings
Speaker 1: all of us hope. Those that listen to Rush, those
Speaker 1: that knew Rush, and those that didn't know Rush will
Speaker 1: find appreciation for what an incredible man he was based
Speaker 1: on the production skills that you guys brought to the table,
Speaker 1: and I just can't thank you enough. So just this week,
Speaker 1: you know, in one of the previous episodes, I mentioned
Speaker 1: the dream that I had of Russia. I was trying
Speaker 1: to figure it out. So just this week I had
Speaker 1: another dream. Um, as we sit here with the final
Speaker 1: episode of RUSSI Lana the Man behind the Golden Knee,
Speaker 1: I'd be microphone and in this dream, Dawn, Brian and
Speaker 1: I were sitting in the control room and Rush was
Speaker 1: doing the show. And let me tell you, this was
Speaker 1: so vivid. It was such a vivid dream that at
Speaker 1: some point I looked at Dawn and said, how is
Speaker 1: this possible? Bowl, How are we here listening to Rush
Speaker 1: in the studio with us? This has to be a dream.
Speaker 1: And then I woke up. Well, my life with Rush
Speaker 1: was kind of like a dream. It happened all so quickly.
Speaker 1: Now when I look back on it, when you look
Speaker 1: back over three decades of your life, and and and
Speaker 1: you've spent three decades with someone who's had an amazing
Speaker 1: impact on your life. What can you say. It's hard
Speaker 1: to believe that we're at the stage now where where
Speaker 1: we're talking about it in the past tense. But here's
Speaker 1: the thing. Rush will never be past tense. For three decades,
Speaker 1: he connected with millions of people. He didn't just connect
Speaker 1: with their brains with ideas, he connected with their hearts.
Speaker 1: He connected with people in a way that no other
Speaker 1: media personality in our history has connected with people. And
Speaker 1: that is evidenced by the stories that people tell among themselves,
Speaker 1: some of the stories that you'll see in some of
Speaker 1: the reviews of this podcast, and and if you're fortunate
Speaker 1: enough to read in some of the emails or other
Speaker 1: communications that people send with each other. Rush impacted people
Speaker 1: in a way that most broadcasters could only dream of.
Speaker 1: He loved what he did. He loved this country, he
Speaker 1: loved his family, He loved what he did. Russell Lambas
Speaker 1: said he was born to talk and we were born
Speaker 1: to listen. He was so right. He was born to
Speaker 1: do what he did, and he did it well. That
Speaker 1: talent has been returned to God, but thank God we
Speaker 1: had that talent. For thirty years. More than thirty years, Rush,
Speaker 1: We love you, we miss you, and will never ever
Speaker 1: forget you. One final guest host we haven't heard from yet,
Speaker 1: or at least not in his own words, He narrated
Speaker 1: a life of Russi Lymbob and Yet for us in
Speaker 1: our last episode, but also sent us a little bit
Speaker 1: more of his own story and insight on how Rush
Speaker 1: impacted him and inspired his life. In liberal Hollywood, of
Speaker 1: all places, actor Nick Sarcy was a fan of Russia Limbaugh,
Speaker 1: but what he didn't know was that Rush was also
Speaker 1: a fan of his work until one day he mentioned
Speaker 1: him on the air and the rest was history. So
Speaker 1: now here's Nick Sercy, one time guest host of the
Speaker 1: Russi lan Bar Program, but more importantly, a long time
Speaker 1: listener just like you and me. And this is nick story.
Speaker 1: I was living in North Carolina with my wife and
Speaker 1: newborn daughter and driving long distances for auditions trying to
Speaker 1: get my acting career started. Many of my trips were
Speaker 1: from western North Carolina to Wilmington, North Carolina, at four
Speaker 1: hundred miles six and a half hour drive one way.
Speaker 1: There was nothing but the radio to keep you awake
Speaker 1: and alive. And then one day, flipping through I came
Speaker 1: upon this voice, this warm, jocular, joyful, sonorous, pleasant voice,
Speaker 1: bragging about his talent on loan from God and tying
Speaker 1: half his brain behind his back to make it fair
Speaker 1: to the callers, talking about politics, the news of the day,
Speaker 1: playing funny song parodies, and he was making fun of Democrats.
Speaker 1: And at that time this simply was not done, And
Speaker 1: I thought, who the hell is this guy? For you
Speaker 1: young whipper snappers out there, it is hard to understand
Speaker 1: what life was like before Rush. There was no one,
Speaker 1: and I mean no one like him. There was no
Speaker 1: Fox News, no Sean Hannity, not really even a talk
Speaker 1: radio format, not on a national level. Rush started it all.
Speaker 1: He showed us all that the left did not define
Speaker 1: him and by extension us, and he talked to us
Speaker 1: like every single one of us was a dear friend,
Speaker 1: and in our hearts we made friends with Rush. It
Speaker 1: is nearly impossible for me to put into words how
Speaker 1: much Rush has meant to me over the years working
Speaker 1: in Hollywood amongst the leftists in power, Rush was the
Speaker 1: thing I organized my day around. I even bought a
Speaker 1: short wave radio from Radio Shack Google that kids, so
Speaker 1: I could hear Rush from anywhere on earth, even if
Speaker 1: he was preempted by current events. Because as a small
Speaker 1: town kid pursuing the seemingly impossible goal of making a
Speaker 1: living as an actor, I saw myself in Rush when
Speaker 1: he talked about wanting to be on the radio from
Speaker 1: a very young age and knowing that radio was what
Speaker 1: he wanted to do with his life. When he talked
Speaker 1: about the jobs that he had been fired from and
Speaker 1: all the setbacks he had encountered along the way, and
Speaker 1: how he had still persevered, he gave me hope. He
Speaker 1: made me believe, perhaps more than any other single person
Speaker 1: in my life besides my mom, that I could do
Speaker 1: it if I just kept going. He sustained me through
Speaker 1: all the disappointments and the triumphs, and most of all,
Speaker 1: he let me know that I was not alone in
Speaker 1: being a conservative, even while I was in the thick
Speaker 1: den of leftist thieves, bullies and vipers that he is
Speaker 1: Hollywood in I was cast his art Mullen and the
Speaker 1: TV show justified a role that perhaps came the signature
Speaker 1: role of my career. And Rush said repeatedly on the
Speaker 1: air how much he liked to show which thrilled me
Speaker 1: to no end. I was so proud that my friend Rush,
Speaker 1: who had never met at that time. Like some of
Speaker 1: my work, nothing makes me feel like I had made
Speaker 1: it more than that fact. And then one day it
Speaker 1: happened Rush mentioned me by name on the air. My
Speaker 1: phone blew up with my friends calling me to tell me.
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe it. And by then Twitter had arrived
Speaker 1: on the scene, and I was already friends with Russia's
Speaker 1: brother David, and I tweeted him and one thing led
Speaker 1: to another, and then the next day I got a
Speaker 1: call from Bo Snerdley himself asking me if I would
Speaker 1: like to come on the show and be interviewed by
Speaker 1: the Maha Rushi himself. And since then I've had the
Speaker 1: privilege of meeting Russian person, of introducing him at a
Speaker 1: speech he gave to that top secret Hollywood conservative group
Speaker 1: that had no name and in fact never existed. And
Speaker 1: towards the end of Russia's life, when he talked about
Speaker 1: how blessed he was to live the life he had,
Speaker 1: I saw myself and him again. There's no question that
Speaker 1: I have been a very fortunate I've been able to
Speaker 1: forge a living for myself and my beautiful family by acting,
Speaker 1: which is a miracle in and of itself, but still
Speaker 1: perhaps the most incredible, preposterous thing that has ever happened
Speaker 1: to me occurred on December when I had the honor
Speaker 1: of guest hosting the Rush Limball Program. It was a
Speaker 1: gift to me in so many ways. I'm not a
Speaker 1: radio guy. I was dragged across the finish line that
Speaker 1: day by the great boats Nerdly and the amazing Mike Mammone,
Speaker 1: and it remains to me the single most surreal event
Speaker 1: in my life. It's an honor that I still can't
Speaker 1: believe I received when Craig Kitchen passed along a message
Speaker 1: to me from Rush the day before I guest hosted.
Speaker 1: Rush had said to ask me why I wanted to
Speaker 1: get into radio, and I told Craig to tell Rush
Speaker 1: that I wasn't really sure if I did, but I
Speaker 1: knew that I just wanted to know what it felt
Speaker 1: like to be Rush for one day, and it gave
Speaker 1: me even more of an appreciation of how great Rush
Speaker 1: was when I experienced exactly how hard it is to
Speaker 1: be on the radio for three hours just once, let
Speaker 1: alone fifteen hours a week. Fifty weeks a year for
Speaker 1: thirty years at the very top of the mountain, with
Speaker 1: no one else ever even cloaks. Over those years, I
Speaker 1: have so many memories laughing with him at his song parodies,
Speaker 1: crying with him when he had his pain killer issues,
Speaker 1: praying for him when his hearing went, and of course
Speaker 1: sobbing when he announced that he had the cancer that
Speaker 1: would ultimately end his life. And when that sad day came.
Speaker 1: I was just like everybody else that was in Russia's
Speaker 1: thirty million plus audience. We grieved not just because we
Speaker 1: agreed with his politics, not for the validation and courage
Speaker 1: he modeled for us, not just because we would miss
Speaker 1: hearing his inimitable take on the day's events. We grieved
Speaker 1: like he was part of our family and we were.
Speaker 1: We grieved because we loved him, and we knew he
Speaker 1: loved us. If it can ever be said about someone
Speaker 1: that he did not live in vain, then his life
Speaker 1: made a difference that someone is rush. He showed us
Speaker 1: the way. May we have the same courage that he
Speaker 1: had to laugh in the face of hatred, to defend
Speaker 1: this country and what it stands for, and to do
Speaker 1: so with intelligence and humor and love. God bless Rush Limbaugh,
Speaker 1: and God bless the United States of America, and God
Speaker 1: bless the United States. I'm never going to be able
Speaker 1: to adequately think the people who are responsible for one
Speaker 1: of the greatest lives anybody could have had. Anybody. Mega
Speaker 1: dittos megal prayer, Mega love for Rush. That man is
Speaker 1: in heaven and he's being right there by the throne,
Speaker 1: and I thank God for them. You will be remembered
Speaker 1: as a man who on air changed the course of
Speaker 1: conversation in America. The more you can be your real,
Speaker 1: authentic self, the better you're going to be. And that's Rush.
Speaker 1: Rush encouraged so many of us to think for ourselves,
Speaker 1: to learn and to lead. He often said it did
Speaker 1: not matter where you started or what you look like.
Speaker 1: As Americans, we all have endless opportunities like nowhere else
Speaker 1: in the world. I have met the goals I set
Speaker 1: for myself, and I have been able to do it
Speaker 1: all for the most part on my terms. I just
Speaker 1: cannot get any better. And to be able to share
Speaker 1: all of this with you and tell you how grateful
Speaker 1: I am makes me happy. You didn't have to know
Speaker 1: Rush to love him all. You had to do was
Speaker 1: listen to him. He was a historian, he was a comedian.
Speaker 1: He was a brilliant, brilliant man, and he will be
Speaker 1: greatly missed, and there'll not be another Russian law in
Speaker 1: this world. People try to figure out why he was
Speaker 1: so successful you did, You just can't put it in
Speaker 1: in an easy define herble box. His love of his audience,
Speaker 1: his love or what he did, his intelligence, his wit.
Speaker 1: Rush was like a second father for me because I
Speaker 1: probably spent more time with him than anybody in the
Speaker 1: last twenty years. I know now that God needs him
Speaker 1: for something up there. Now he's got a new job,
Speaker 1: and he did his part here and now we all
Speaker 1: have to, you know, continue his legacy anyway we care.
Speaker 1: There was nobody that ever was in the presence of
Speaker 1: the man, liberals or conservatives or a political people who
Speaker 1: didn't think he was the most gentlemanly, humble person they've
Speaker 1: ever met. Here's the all knowing, all seeing, all caring
Speaker 1: Maha Rushing, and it was America's anchor man and truth detective.
Speaker 1: And he was also a brother and an uncle, and
Speaker 1: his son and a grandson. I'm just trying to give
Speaker 1: thanks every day for all of the blessings. I have
Speaker 1: had a blessed life I have. I have had so
Speaker 1: many great friends I had and still do. Um that
Speaker 1: it's it's uh, there's nothing negative for me. There's there's nothing,
Speaker 1: nothing that i have deep regrets about because I've been
Speaker 1: too blessed, because I've been to He would give so
Speaker 1: generously to taste so many organizations and so many people,
Speaker 1: and would do so many things anonymously, so much that
Speaker 1: people will never know the amount of stuff that he's done.
Speaker 1: Russia's voice isn't going anywhere, so you need not have
Speaker 1: any care of that. On behalf of the Limbaugh family,
Speaker 1: I would personally like to thank each and every one
Speaker 1: of you who prayed for Rush and inspired him to
Speaker 1: keep going. He loved you, and he loved this radio
Speaker 1: program with every part of his being. You have to
Speaker 1: give every day, you know. I've love to point out
Speaker 1: we all only get one life. We don't get to
Speaker 1: do over againness, Well we do. Actually we gotta do
Speaker 1: over every day if we choose to look at it
Speaker 1: that way. Once we're old enough on the tour enough
Speaker 1: to understand what life is and that there is only one,
Speaker 1: then you do get do overs. Far more optimistic than pessimistic,
Speaker 1: focusing on the goodness that exists each day, and there
Speaker 1: is goodness and everything that happens. It may not be
Speaker 1: immediately a parent, but it's there and it will eventually
Speaker 1: reveal itself. It always does reveal itself. It always does.
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Speaker 1: two of the most brilliant producers in America. Folks production
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