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Speaker 1: was a believer. And God speed, Rush Lambaugh, and thank

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Speaker 1: you for all you've done for this country, for this industry,

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Speaker 1: for me personally. And you're missed and loved by millions.

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Speaker 1: Remembering the great legacy of Russ Lambaugh passed away early

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Speaker 1: this morning. Mark Leavin will join us so play the

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Speaker 1: You'll save an additional twenty five percent, remembering Rush. We'll

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Speaker 1: have time for your calls today. We'll have the President

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Speaker 1: speaking earlier. Mark Levin will join us next, the great One,

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Speaker 1: and much much more. Also, more of our tribute to Rush.

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Speaker 1: On this sad day we lost in American icon. We'll continue.

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Speaker 1: We don't realize what a great achievement thirty years is

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Speaker 1: and that cutthroat business that you happen to be in.

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Speaker 1: You know, you might not find that because you so

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Speaker 1: good at what you do, but there's a cutthroat business

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Speaker 1: and for you to do this for thirty years is

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Speaker 1: truly an amazing accomplishment. And there's no voice like it

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Speaker 1: then you. Even your friend Hannity agrees with that. He said,

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Speaker 1: there's nobody like this man. So I said, no, gee,

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Speaker 1: I guess I thought you two would be competitive. He said, nope,

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Speaker 1: he's the dean. Where I told you the dean, A

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Speaker 1: guest tosted. He guest toasted for me when we first started.

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Speaker 1: He's great, and he's a big he's a tremendous fan

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Speaker 1: of years that they all are. Everybody is. So I

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Speaker 1: just want to congratulate you thirty years of and just

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Speaker 1: do it for another thirty years after that, you can

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Speaker 1: take it easy. Okay, I will do that. Just then,

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Speaker 1: I'm stay around as long as you do. Okay, you

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Speaker 1: have a deal our two Sean Hannity Show eight hundred

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Speaker 1: and nine for one Sean. We will get to your

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Speaker 1: calls and we'll also be having our tribute to Rush

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Speaker 1: the President's comments from earlier and the President by the way,

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Speaker 1: we'll be on Hannity tonight. Mark Levin will be on

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Speaker 1: Hannity And speaking of the great one Mark Levin, he

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Speaker 1: joins us. Now I'm going to be joining him on

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Speaker 1: his shows in the next days too. Just you know, Mark, Um,

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Speaker 1: we lost a defining voice for now over thirty years

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Speaker 1: of the movement. We love you know, heartmind, body, and soul.

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Speaker 1: And we've had the honor both of us of benefiting

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Speaker 1: from the path that he forged for all of us

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Speaker 1: in broadcasting single handedly, and have been the beneficiaries of

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Speaker 1: all the slings and arrows this guy has taken. And

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Speaker 1: I know you had a very special relationship with him,

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Speaker 1: and he, you know, early on was calling you Flee Levine,

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Speaker 1: which used to crack us both up. And we both

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Speaker 1: loved this man and appreciated him and understood him, and uh,

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Speaker 1: this is a this is a loss you can't replaced, Babe,

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Speaker 1: Ruth Lou Garrig, Mickey Mantle, all in one. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's really quite devastating, isn't it. I think back all

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Speaker 1: the memories I had with this man over twenty five years,

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Speaker 1: about of personal and confidential things, and that I can

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to discuss, not that there's anything wrong

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Speaker 1: with them, but it's personal. And having been to his

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Speaker 1: house and how he treated with such grace, and how

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Speaker 1: he was always you know, Seannie would ask me about

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Speaker 1: my kids and later it had asked me about my grandkids.

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Speaker 1: He's always curious, wasn't it. And he was very humble man.

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Speaker 1: He was nothing like the Left tried to portray him.

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Speaker 1: And from a more public or legacy perspective, I guess

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Speaker 1: you think of Reagan, you think of Buckley, you think

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Speaker 1: of Milton Friedman, and Rush is in that genre. And

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Speaker 1: he had an enormous capacity to communicate. And you know,

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Speaker 1: you substitute hosted form. I substitute hosted form really against

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Speaker 1: my own will. He said, no, no, no no, astutely you

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Speaker 1: can do this, and I don't know what I'm doing.

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Speaker 1: No, no no, don't worry about He threw you in the

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Speaker 1: water and you had to swim. By the way. There's

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Speaker 1: a lot of stories about forcing Mark to do radio

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Speaker 1: and TV, but we won't go there. But I know,

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Speaker 1: I remember, I'm laughing because it was very funny, and

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00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:42,960
Speaker 1: that's exactly what he did. He threw your right in

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Speaker 1: the water, and he did it for your own goods.

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Speaker 1: He gave me a lot of good advice. He gave

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Speaker 1: us both a lot of good advice. I remember saying

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Speaker 1: to him one Sean, Rush, there's you, then there's Hannity.

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Speaker 1: What am I going to say when you guys are done?

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Speaker 1: And he said, I'll tell you what you're going to say.

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Speaker 1: You're going to say what Mark thinks. Because nobody's heard

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Speaker 1: what Mark has to say yet. I have never forgotten

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Speaker 1: that that's what he said. But all radio asside, it's

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Speaker 1: just the the humanity of the man, the compassion of

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Speaker 1: the man. He so loved his audience, He so loved radio,

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Speaker 1: really incredibly. His beautiful wonderful wife who were both at

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Speaker 1: his wedding, you know that was only ten and a

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Speaker 1: half years ago, and his wonderful brother David and his

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Speaker 1: family and so forth. This is a close family. It's

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Speaker 1: a big family, and it's a family. A lot of

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Speaker 1: them are lawyers, not all of them, and a lot

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Speaker 1: of them are really outstanding lawyers. And you know, Ell

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Speaker 1: in his life Russia would have told you he was

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Speaker 1: fired from this job, that job, another job. Some people

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Speaker 1: wondered if he ever accomplished anything, and then look what

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Speaker 1: he accomplished. I don't think even the dire situation we're

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Speaker 1: in today, I think we would have been here much

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Speaker 1: faster without Rush. And we're gonna have to fight on

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Speaker 1: without Rush, and he's gonna want us to fight on

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Speaker 1: and fight on the heart. But everybody listening should know

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Speaker 1: how he adored them, how he adored his audience. And

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Speaker 1: you know he used to always say, be respectful to

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Speaker 1: your audience. Your audience is number one when you're under attack,

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Speaker 1: as your audience who will defend you. It's your audience

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Speaker 1: that we'll stand behind you. There's no more on loyal

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Speaker 1: audience for the audience Rush had and has. And it's

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Speaker 1: very important that we carry on his battle for freedom

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Speaker 1: and for the Constitution now more than ever. I know

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Speaker 1: that's what he would want. But I also want everybody

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Speaker 1: to know that the Rush you heard on the radio.

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Speaker 1: Was the fantastic kind of renaissance man. He was extremely

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Speaker 1: well read. He had a huge library. He was reading

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Speaker 1: all the time. I mean heavy books too. And Sean,

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Speaker 1: I had a book come out called Rescuing Sprite. You

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Speaker 1: remember that book. I remember it well. And that was

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Speaker 1: my second book ever, and I wrote it and I

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Speaker 1: sent it to him and he always wanted to see

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Speaker 1: the books. And he said, absolutely, you come on the show.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you about this for a

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Speaker 1: full hour. You come on the you come down here

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Speaker 1: to Florida. We'll do this in person. We'll have the

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Speaker 1: ditto camp. I said, Rush, you want to talk about

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Speaker 1: Rescuing Sprite. He said yes. I want the American people

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Speaker 1: to know who you are and what a human being

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Speaker 1: you are. I want you to talk about your dogs

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Speaker 1: on my show. That's the way he was. And I

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Speaker 1: can tell a story behind the scenes. You might kill me,

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Speaker 1: but I'll start it. If you want me to stop,

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Speaker 1: I'll stop. Go ahead in that book because I know

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Speaker 1: I read it and I remember crying reading it. You

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Speaker 1: tell the story when you had a heart attack, right,

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Speaker 1: and I mean you get I had a heart attack. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And you also my best friend and he best friend.

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Speaker 1: You were very upset. I remember you're always checking up

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Speaker 1: on me. Was so did he. And then it got complicated.

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Speaker 1: One of the grass failed and still having chest pains,

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Speaker 1: and and so my doctors wanted me to go to

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Speaker 1: the Cleveland Clinic, the best hard place, and back then

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Speaker 1: I just couldn't afford the flight and all the rest

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Speaker 1: of it. And so I told him, I don't think

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Speaker 1: I'm going to go. It's kind of expensive. Definitely, yes, sir,

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Speaker 1: you're going to go. At whatever it costs, I will

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Speaker 1: cover it. Just go. You've got to survive. You've got

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Speaker 1: to take care of yourself. Go. He got to do

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Speaker 1: the nice things. I'm was the one telling you to

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Speaker 1: stop eating ordering McDonald's when you would pull up to

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Speaker 1: the McDonald's. But I but the story was a little

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Speaker 1: more complicated than that, and I want people to understand

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Speaker 1: the details of this. And when you pulled into you

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Speaker 1: drove yourself to the hospital, and you knew you were

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Speaker 1: in trouble, and you're you described the seating, I mean,

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Speaker 1: you're you're literally you feel like I'm a Volkswagen on

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Speaker 1: your chest. Some stranger sees what's going on, comes right

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Speaker 1: over and says, let me park the car for you,

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Speaker 1: runs inside, gets the hospital staff to run out to

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Speaker 1: the parking lot to help you. And you had had

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Speaker 1: a number of failed stints. I mean, things weren't working,

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Speaker 1: and it was touch and go at that moment, and

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Speaker 1: he stepped down. He stepped in and said, we're doing

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Speaker 1: it my way now, and that's listening to your doctor's way.

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Speaker 1: We're not going to let money get in the way.

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Speaker 1: But it's not just your story. He did it for strangers.

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Speaker 1: He did it for people. Yeah, all the time. I

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Speaker 1: do want to say, I do want to add to this.

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Speaker 1: Turns out that all that fifteen hundred dollars have been

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Speaker 1: paid by insurance and me and so forth. So I

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Speaker 1: come home and we're all done. And he said, I

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Speaker 1: don't think I've ever said And he says, okay, what

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Speaker 1: do I owe you? I said, don't owe me anything.

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Speaker 1: They paid everything, but fifteen hundred. I took care of

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Speaker 1: that athlete. I should pay the fifteen hundred. I said, no,

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Speaker 1: it's not a big deal. I got that. I can

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Speaker 1: handle it. And anyway, it's it's hard to know. You

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Speaker 1: wake up in the morning. RUSSI lymb was not there anymore.

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Speaker 1: It's just very, very difficult. I could tell the last

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Speaker 1: several weeks, I would send him a short email and

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Speaker 1: he wasn't able to answer, and so I stopped. I

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00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:59,279
Speaker 1: could tell it was it was getting dire. Could tell

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Speaker 1: from David, his brother was getting dire. David his brother

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Speaker 1: who works with us, but he's like a brother of

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Speaker 1: us too. He couldn't be a better brother to Russian lumball.

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Speaker 1: Catherine couldn't be a better wife. And I just I

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Speaker 1: think the audience needs to know that Rush lived for

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Speaker 1: his family, friends and his audience. And even at the end,

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Speaker 1: he struggled to get through these treatments because he wanted

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Speaker 1: to go on the air, He wanted to go in

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Speaker 1: the air, he wanted to talk to He fought for

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Speaker 1: the country right to the bitter end, right to the

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Speaker 1: bitter end. And he's a more loyal human being you'll

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Speaker 1: never find. And you said it, and I just want

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Speaker 1: to reiterate him. All the attacks on Rush just constant, unremitting,

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Speaker 1: unrelenting attacks on Rush utterly undeserved because they tried to

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Speaker 1: take him out and he was targeted. He was the

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Speaker 1: big guy. You and I, even though we get attacked,

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Speaker 1: nothing like that because he took the attacks for us.

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Speaker 1: I guess that'll change, but that's what happened. And he

639
00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:07,920
Speaker 1: had very broad shoulders. Even one staff might screw up

640
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:11,920
Speaker 1: now and then he took the responsibility for that. He

641
00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:16,520
Speaker 1: was a gregarious but he was relatively quiet. He was

642
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:19,920
Speaker 1: very fun you know, a bit of a trickster, and

643
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:23,840
Speaker 1: always very gracious to everybody, always very very gracious. He

644
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:29,279
Speaker 1: was a real renaissance man. And history will remember him well.

645
00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:32,040
Speaker 1: I hope they remember anything about any of us. I

646
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 1: think they'll remember him very very well. Even his later

647
00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:38,719
Speaker 1: books where he's trying to reach out to children, he

648
00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:41,920
Speaker 1: and Catherine trying to make sure they understand what a

649
00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:47,000
Speaker 1: magnificent country this is, and Paul Revere and others, and

650
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:50,680
Speaker 1: the horse Liberty. He was trying to figure out ways

651
00:44:50,719 --> 00:44:54,080
Speaker 1: to save the republic. He understood it was a battle

652
00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:59,440
Speaker 1: over the culture, and you know, we've lost a leader.

653
00:45:00,280 --> 00:45:05,279
Speaker 1: He's lost a leader. So uh, you know, it takes

654
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:07,680
Speaker 1: time to digest this really as a friend, it just

655
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:10,319
Speaker 1: takes a lot of time. Anyway. That's that's about it.

656
00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:14,120
Speaker 1: You know, you said something that I it's said earlier

657
00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:17,440
Speaker 1: in the program, and I think it needs to be

658
00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:23,279
Speaker 1: restated he was where he was. I know, I'm unfortunately.

659
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:27,360
Speaker 1: My sisters all became nurses and I knew more about

660
00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:30,839
Speaker 1: medicine than you could ever imagine, and had too many

661
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:35,440
Speaker 1: friends that have had serious cancer scare some survived, some didn't.

662
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:39,680
Speaker 1: Both my parents had it. And you know, you watch

663
00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:42,080
Speaker 1: these treatments and they have kill you to try and

664
00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:45,360
Speaker 1: save you or extend your life, and they, it seems

665
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:51,080
Speaker 1: like they did, extended his life quite successfully. And he

666
00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:56,560
Speaker 1: didn't have to expend the energy during this treatment time

667
00:45:57,520 --> 00:46:00,680
Speaker 1: on the air. He could have just looked at his

668
00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:03,960
Speaker 1: diagnosis and it was dire from the beginning. We all

669
00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:10,279
Speaker 1: knew that, and he made a decision to take the

670
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Speaker 1: treatment and fight like hell because where he wanted to

671
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Speaker 1: be with his audience. Every day you get the final

672
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Speaker 1: thirty seconds, Well, Rustam will always be with us. The

673
00:46:28,239 --> 00:46:30,760
Speaker 1: things that he did and said, he was a trailblazer,

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Speaker 1: and I just want to tell, particularly young people out there,

675
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:42,960
Speaker 1: you can follow his example. Love your country, love your family,

676
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:49,480
Speaker 1: love your faith, be outspoken, be supportive of those who

677
00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:56,520
Speaker 1: are patriotic, are military, are police officers. And he would

678
00:46:56,560 --> 00:46:58,360
Speaker 1: be filled if he knew there were a thousand or

679
00:46:58,400 --> 00:47:02,880
Speaker 1: two thousand little Russia Limballs behind him, all wanting to

680
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:08,440
Speaker 1: do something spectacular for their country. This is a man,

681
00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:11,840
Speaker 1: Russia Limbaugh, who I don't think I ever imagined that

682
00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:14,759
Speaker 1: he would become as big and popular as he did,

683
00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:18,600
Speaker 1: but he wanted to make sure that the message cut

684
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Speaker 1: out to as many people as possible. He was a

685
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:27,400
Speaker 1: trailblazer in broadcasting, he was a trailblazer in thinking. He

686
00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:32,279
Speaker 1: was a trailblazer in activism. And you know, one of

687
00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:35,719
Speaker 1: those come along once in a lifetime. But I'm just

688
00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:38,160
Speaker 1: hoping young people will aspire to do the sorts of

689
00:47:38,239 --> 00:47:40,160
Speaker 1: things that Russia Limball did. And we're going to be

690
00:47:40,239 --> 00:47:43,200
Speaker 1: defending him and all the great things he did, I'm

691
00:47:43,239 --> 00:47:47,480
Speaker 1: sure Sean for the days and weeks ahead. And it's

692
00:47:47,480 --> 00:47:52,239
Speaker 1: an honor to defend the honor and the graciousness of

693
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Speaker 1: our dear friend Mark. I couldn't say it any better.

694
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Speaker 1: You'll join us more with more on this on TV tonight.

695
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:01,759
Speaker 1: We'll see then the president also President Trump. All right,

696
00:48:02,080 --> 00:48:04,680
Speaker 1: glad you with us. A sad day for all of

697
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:08,200
Speaker 1: us and broadcasting and all of us in talk radio

698
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:13,160
Speaker 1: and losing Rush Limbaugh lost his battle with lung cancer

699
00:48:13,200 --> 00:48:16,319
Speaker 1: as I know everybody knows now I you know, we

700
00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:18,480
Speaker 1: live in this information age. I don't think I ever

701
00:48:18,520 --> 00:48:22,520
Speaker 1: got information faster than I got today. And a lot

702
00:48:22,520 --> 00:48:27,160
Speaker 1: of really, really kind notes from people knowing knowing that

703
00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:30,759
Speaker 1: I was, how fond of Rush I was, and my

704
00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:37,000
Speaker 1: closeness to his family for over thirty years now, and uh,

705
00:48:37,040 --> 00:48:40,880
Speaker 1: the Actually the President's going to be calling into Hannity

706
00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:44,719
Speaker 1: tonight nine Eastern. We'll talk about this and he'll join us.

707
00:48:45,120 --> 00:48:48,239
Speaker 1: He called into Harris Faulkner and Bill Hammer was on

708
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:51,319
Speaker 1: the air with Harris earlier. Just it happened to be

709
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Speaker 1: right after I was on. They had called me to

710
00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:58,960
Speaker 1: comment about his passing. And I want to play the

711
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:01,600
Speaker 1: President's I'm gonna play him in full. I don't want

712
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:05,080
Speaker 1: to edit it. I want you to hear it. If

713
00:49:05,080 --> 00:49:08,280
Speaker 1: you think back in Russia's life and career. I remember

714
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Speaker 1: the media had made such a big deal when he

715
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Speaker 1: was in George Herbert Walker Bush's box at the Republican

716
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:20,279
Speaker 1: National Convention one night, but his impact starting with his

717
00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:23,759
Speaker 1: syndicated program with the presidency of Ronald Reagan, and then

718
00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:26,480
Speaker 1: he was there through Bush forty one and all the

719
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Speaker 1: Clinton years. As Mary Matlin said, how would we have

720
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Speaker 1: survived them without Russia every day leading the way. But

721
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Speaker 1: here's the president commenting earlier today, former President Trump on

722
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Speaker 1: Russia's passing. When we gave the Medal of Freedom, it

723
00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:44,000
Speaker 1: was something special. It was an incredible night, and we

724
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Speaker 1: gave it during the State of the Union address, and

725
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Speaker 1: it was especially half the room. Half the room went crazy.

726
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Speaker 1: At the other half the room they knew he should

727
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Speaker 1: get it. But it was special and he was special.

728
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Speaker 1: Mister President, you know, thank you for joining us. What

729
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Speaker 1: was the last time you spoke with Rush Limbaugh? Three

730
00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:06,719
Speaker 1: or four days ago? I'd call him just to find out.

731
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Speaker 1: You know, his fight was very, very courageous, and he

732
00:50:10,719 --> 00:50:13,920
Speaker 1: was very, very sick, and you know, from diagnosis on

733
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Speaker 1: it was just something that was not going to be beaten.

734
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Speaker 1: But you wouldn't know it. And he is married to

735
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Speaker 1: an incredible woman, Catherine, who really every time I spoke

736
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Speaker 1: to him, he would tell me how great she was.

737
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Speaker 1: She took such great care. He was very brave. I mean, he,

738
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Speaker 1: in theory could have been gone four months ago. Really,

739
00:50:33,640 --> 00:50:36,600
Speaker 1: he just he was fighting till the very end. He

740
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Speaker 1: was a fighter. You were a great general while you

741
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Speaker 1: were in the White House. How did you view how

742
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Speaker 1: he either carried on your message or I chose to

743
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Speaker 1: agree or disagree with the policies you had as commander

744
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Speaker 1: in chief. Well, first of all, you know, you just

745
00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:56,280
Speaker 1: had sewn on Johan Hannity. He was incredible, and Sean

746
00:50:56,480 --> 00:50:59,800
Speaker 1: would say, there is nobody like Rush. Sean was the

747
00:51:00,239 --> 00:51:02,920
Speaker 1: to say that. He I used to say, well, what

748
00:51:03,080 --> 00:51:06,920
Speaker 1: do you think someday and he'd say, He's irreplaceable. Russia

749
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:12,200
Speaker 1: is irreplaceable. Unique. He had an audience that was massive,

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Speaker 1: and you know, he could do something Bill and he would.

751
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Speaker 1: He would get up in the show and would just talk.

752
00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:21,200
Speaker 1: He wouldn't take phone calls where you know, people would

753
00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:23,800
Speaker 1: call in every two minutes and that's sort of easy

754
00:51:23,840 --> 00:51:27,080
Speaker 1: to do. He would just talk for two hours and

755
00:51:27,239 --> 00:51:30,640
Speaker 1: three hours, just talk, and that's not an easy thing

756
00:51:30,680 --> 00:51:32,960
Speaker 1: to do. And I want to ask him, I said,

757
00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:35,480
Speaker 1: you study for the show, and he said, actually I

758
00:51:35,520 --> 00:51:38,480
Speaker 1: studied very hard, which which a little bit Harris had

759
00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:42,120
Speaker 1: a little bit surprised me. But he was a fantastic man,

760
00:51:42,239 --> 00:51:46,799
Speaker 1: a fantastic talent, and people, whether they loved him or not,

761
00:51:46,880 --> 00:51:49,799
Speaker 1: they respected him. They really did. President Trump. I have

762
00:51:49,880 --> 00:51:53,560
Speaker 1: always wondered just seeing the look of surprise on Russia's face,

763
00:51:53,680 --> 00:51:57,240
Speaker 1: what he knew about that moment and what you learned

764
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Speaker 1: that he was going through in that moment after he

765
00:52:00,520 --> 00:52:03,600
Speaker 1: is succumbed to tears, and I was curious, what did

766
00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:08,200
Speaker 1: he know was coming? So I did tell him beforehand

767
00:52:08,239 --> 00:52:13,759
Speaker 1: because we didn't have the really the power of not

768
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Speaker 1: doing it. You know, Rush was very sick at the time.

769
00:52:16,719 --> 00:52:19,640
Speaker 1: He was at a hospital in Boston, and I didn't

770
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Speaker 1: want to do the surprise thing. I wish, I wish

771
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Speaker 1: I could have done that, but we really didn't have

772
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Speaker 1: that that that power of doing it. Because he had

773
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Speaker 1: it was a very difficult thing for him to come

774
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Speaker 1: into Washington from where he was, and he did it,

775
00:52:36,640 --> 00:52:38,520
Speaker 1: and there was questions as to whether or not he

776
00:52:38,560 --> 00:52:41,600
Speaker 1: was just a very brave guy. He's amazing and he

777
00:52:41,680 --> 00:52:44,279
Speaker 1: came in and it was, as he told me, it

778
00:52:44,320 --> 00:52:46,719
Speaker 1: was the greatest honor of his life. And everybody in

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00:52:46,800 --> 00:52:50,200
Speaker 1: the room, you know, you're talking about the Republicans and

780
00:52:50,320 --> 00:52:53,040
Speaker 1: the DEMOCRATY had half of that room went crazy. You

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00:52:53,080 --> 00:52:55,200
Speaker 1: remember the evening, well, I'm sure it's a very unique

782
00:52:55,280 --> 00:52:58,560
Speaker 1: moment in our country's history. In a sense because of

783
00:52:58,600 --> 00:53:02,320
Speaker 1: who rushes, but what just absolutely crazy. The other half

784
00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:06,440
Speaker 1: sat totally dead, silent, But one hundred percent of that

785
00:53:06,560 --> 00:53:10,200
Speaker 1: room respected Rush. It was a unique guy, and he

786
00:53:11,520 --> 00:53:13,160
Speaker 1: became a friend of mine. You know, I didn't know

787
00:53:13,239 --> 00:53:16,600
Speaker 1: Rush at all. I had essentially never met Rush. And

788
00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:19,920
Speaker 1: then when we came down the escalator, he liked my

789
00:53:20,040 --> 00:53:22,520
Speaker 1: rather controversial speech. I made that speech that was a

790
00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:24,920
Speaker 1: little bit on the controversial side, and he loved it.

791
00:53:25,120 --> 00:53:27,960
Speaker 1: And he was without ever having met him or talked

792
00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:29,840
Speaker 1: to him, or you know, had lunch with him and

793
00:53:30,040 --> 00:53:33,040
Speaker 1: asked him. He was with me right from the beginning,

794
00:53:33,360 --> 00:53:36,040
Speaker 1: and he liked what I said, and he agreed with

795
00:53:36,080 --> 00:53:38,680
Speaker 1: what I said, and he was just a great gentleman,

796
00:53:38,760 --> 00:53:43,280
Speaker 1: great great man, mister President. That is such fascinating detail

797
00:53:43,400 --> 00:53:47,080
Speaker 1: that you're giving, mister President, about how you didn't really

798
00:53:47,120 --> 00:53:50,319
Speaker 1: know him all that. Well, yeah, he became someone who

799
00:53:50,560 --> 00:53:55,319
Speaker 1: carried your message. You know, I'm curious to know what

800
00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:57,560
Speaker 1: you wanted him to know. And maybe you got to

801
00:53:57,560 --> 00:53:59,319
Speaker 1: tell him in the last three or four days that

802
00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:03,239
Speaker 1: she spoke about the difference that he made for you. Well,

803
00:54:03,280 --> 00:54:05,239
Speaker 1: I think he did. And I've heard as many as

804
00:54:05,320 --> 00:54:08,000
Speaker 1: thirty nine million people, you know, that's an audience that

805
00:54:08,040 --> 00:54:11,279
Speaker 1: you don't hear about anymore. And I heard thirty nine

806
00:54:11,320 --> 00:54:15,160
Speaker 1: million people. And I don't know if you remember, maybe

807
00:54:15,239 --> 00:54:17,560
Speaker 1: three or four months ago I did his show and

808
00:54:17,640 --> 00:54:20,560
Speaker 1: I heard they had a tremendous audience. And it lasted

809
00:54:20,600 --> 00:54:23,879
Speaker 1: for like a long time. The interview was like an

810
00:54:23,880 --> 00:54:27,640
Speaker 1: hour and it just went right through, and it was

811
00:54:28,239 --> 00:54:31,680
Speaker 1: his questions were fascinating. I think the show was fascinating.

812
00:54:31,840 --> 00:54:35,400
Speaker 1: He had a way of he had an insight that

813
00:54:35,600 --> 00:54:38,800
Speaker 1: few people have, just a few people have, even really

814
00:54:38,840 --> 00:54:41,759
Speaker 1: good ones, really pros in your business. And by the way,

815
00:54:41,800 --> 00:54:44,760
Speaker 1: you two are some great combination you and build together, Harris,

816
00:54:44,800 --> 00:54:48,880
Speaker 1: that's a great combination that does incredibly well. And we

817
00:54:49,080 --> 00:54:51,239
Speaker 1: thank you for it. We really thank you both for it.

818
00:54:51,520 --> 00:54:55,080
Speaker 1: But he was a very unique guy and he had

819
00:54:55,160 --> 00:54:57,880
Speaker 1: tremendous insight. He got it, He really got it. He

820
00:54:57,960 --> 00:55:01,960
Speaker 1: was very street smart in a sense, and a lot

821
00:55:01,960 --> 00:55:04,160
Speaker 1: of people would know, but he was very, very speaceable.

822
00:55:04,280 --> 00:55:06,960
Speaker 1: He really got it. Mister President. We probably have a

823
00:55:07,080 --> 00:55:09,040
Speaker 1: hundred questions for you, but so many of them are

824
00:55:09,080 --> 00:55:11,160
Speaker 1: not appropriate for this venue. So we'll keep it on

825
00:55:11,200 --> 00:55:14,480
Speaker 1: this topic for now, and we'll appreciate your time today.

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00:55:15,440 --> 00:55:18,600
Speaker 1: Perhaps that street smarts came from growing up in the

827
00:55:18,640 --> 00:55:23,160
Speaker 1: Midwest Cape Girardo and Missouri along the Mississippi River. Later

828
00:55:23,160 --> 00:55:25,080
Speaker 1: he went on to work for the Kansas City Royals

829
00:55:25,080 --> 00:55:27,880
Speaker 1: and the Pittsburgh Pirates before he turned to his attention

830
00:55:27,960 --> 00:55:31,160
Speaker 1: full time to radio in Sacramento, California. But you just

831
00:55:31,239 --> 00:55:33,719
Speaker 1: said something a moment ago, and Harris picked up on it.

832
00:55:33,840 --> 00:55:37,160
Speaker 1: Just tell us more about how you two got to

833
00:55:37,200 --> 00:55:40,680
Speaker 1: know each other. I'm thinking of twenty fifteen, the summer

834
00:55:41,280 --> 00:55:45,240
Speaker 1: seventeen candidates on a stage in Cleveland. At what point

835
00:55:45,239 --> 00:55:47,359
Speaker 1: did he conceive that you were the guy? And how

836
00:55:47,360 --> 00:55:50,120
Speaker 1: did that come about? Well, I got a call from

837
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Speaker 1: a friend of mine who was a big Rush fan,

838
00:55:53,080 --> 00:55:56,680
Speaker 1: and he said, Rush loves you. I said, now, I

839
00:55:56,680 --> 00:55:59,840
Speaker 1: don't see that. You know, I hadn't heard. I'm not

840
00:56:00,160 --> 00:56:02,759
Speaker 1: able to listen to the radio during the afternoon too much.

841
00:56:02,760 --> 00:56:05,440
Speaker 1: You're on the trail and you're making speeches or doing

842
00:56:05,480 --> 00:56:08,880
Speaker 1: whatever you're doing. I was actually making speeches and running

843
00:56:08,920 --> 00:56:11,759
Speaker 1: a business. I was doing both of them simultaneously, right,

844
00:56:12,440 --> 00:56:15,360
Speaker 1: And he just told me that, And then all of

845
00:56:15,400 --> 00:56:17,680
Speaker 1: a sudden I started getting little transcript stuff. I would

846
00:56:17,680 --> 00:56:20,000
Speaker 1: try to listen everyone out. He was there right from

847
00:56:20,040 --> 00:56:23,800
Speaker 1: the beginning, and it was incredible. And then I guess

848
00:56:23,800 --> 00:56:27,360
Speaker 1: I called him just to thank him, and we developed

849
00:56:27,520 --> 00:56:31,200
Speaker 1: just some very good friendship. We played golf together a

850
00:56:31,200 --> 00:56:34,239
Speaker 1: little bit. He was a very strong guy, physically, very strong,

851
00:56:34,320 --> 00:56:38,840
Speaker 1: hit the ball a long way, he was. I guess

852
00:56:38,840 --> 00:56:41,640
Speaker 1: the reason I asked that question. You think about about

853
00:56:41,719 --> 00:56:45,359
Speaker 1: five years ago. You don't strike me as his kind

854
00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:48,880
Speaker 1: of guy back then. What changed? Well, I don't know.

855
00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:51,040
Speaker 1: You know, you never know about people. I like some

856
00:56:51,160 --> 00:56:53,920
Speaker 1: people that nobody would think I like, and I dislike

857
00:56:54,000 --> 00:56:56,880
Speaker 1: some people that everybody would say, Oh, that's that's a natural.

858
00:56:56,960 --> 00:57:00,200
Speaker 1: We know, we all know about that, right And you

859
00:57:00,239 --> 00:57:01,920
Speaker 1: never know who you like and who you don't like,

860
00:57:02,200 --> 00:57:05,359
Speaker 1: or you know where it all ends up. But right

861
00:57:05,440 --> 00:57:08,680
Speaker 1: from the beginning he was so great. And you know,

862
00:57:08,800 --> 00:57:12,680
Speaker 1: and I have a very beautiful weakness. I always seem

863
00:57:12,719 --> 00:57:15,399
Speaker 1: to like people that like me. Okay, you know, it's

864
00:57:15,480 --> 00:57:18,360
Speaker 1: much easier when they don't like me. I cannot go

865
00:57:18,480 --> 00:57:22,080
Speaker 1: for them so much, so call they're called that a weekness.

866
00:57:22,160 --> 00:57:24,560
Speaker 1: But but that's the way. That's but Russia, we're so

867
00:57:24,600 --> 00:57:26,640
Speaker 1: gracious and so great, so that over a period of

868
00:57:26,680 --> 00:57:30,360
Speaker 1: time I got to know. And he loved his country.

869
00:57:30,440 --> 00:57:32,920
Speaker 1: He loved the country. He loved his wife and his family,

870
00:57:33,720 --> 00:57:37,120
Speaker 1: and he loved his fans, his audience, which was I

871
00:57:37,160 --> 00:57:40,320
Speaker 1: think maybe the biggest ever. There's never been anything like it.

872
00:57:40,720 --> 00:57:43,400
Speaker 1: You know, when Sean says irreplaceable, he really means it too.

873
00:57:43,440 --> 00:57:47,280
Speaker 1: He's irreplaceable. You know, I'm curious, mister president, what did

874
00:57:47,400 --> 00:57:50,040
Speaker 1: you talk about with Russia? Limbaugh if you had the

875
00:57:50,080 --> 00:57:54,520
Speaker 1: opportunity before he was too ill to do so, about

876
00:57:54,560 --> 00:57:57,560
Speaker 1: what might be next for you? He seemed and I

877
00:57:57,600 --> 00:57:59,800
Speaker 1: know because I've I've talked with him. He is a

878
00:57:59,840 --> 00:58:02,880
Speaker 1: man and a vision but he also likes the art

879
00:58:02,960 --> 00:58:05,920
Speaker 1: of what is coming next that you can't predict. True,

880
00:58:06,200 --> 00:58:09,120
Speaker 1: But did you talk about that? Yeah? He was truly

881
00:58:09,160 --> 00:58:12,240
Speaker 1: a man of the future. He loved this country so much.

882
00:58:12,240 --> 00:58:15,000
Speaker 1: He loved the people of this country so much. He

883
00:58:15,160 --> 00:58:17,680
Speaker 1: was so happy with what we did. We rebuilt the military,

884
00:58:17,680 --> 00:58:20,480
Speaker 1: you know, all things that he liked. We cut taxes

885
00:58:20,560 --> 00:58:23,880
Speaker 1: that we cut regulations, which maybe is even more important

886
00:58:23,880 --> 00:58:26,000
Speaker 1: at the tax cuts. Frankly, that's why we built that

887
00:58:26,040 --> 00:58:30,480
Speaker 1: foundation that can propel us if it's not messed up.

888
00:58:31,040 --> 00:58:34,720
Speaker 1: But Rush was just somebody that he loved talking about

889
00:58:34,720 --> 00:58:36,960
Speaker 1: the country in the future. He was very much a

890
00:58:37,000 --> 00:58:40,080
Speaker 1: future person, and he was very proud of the country.

891
00:58:40,120 --> 00:58:43,000
Speaker 1: He was very disappointed by certain things that happened in

892
00:58:43,040 --> 00:58:45,880
Speaker 1: the country and that you know, just have been happening

893
00:58:45,880 --> 00:58:50,000
Speaker 1: in the country, very very disappointed, but he thinks that

894
00:58:50,400 --> 00:58:52,920
Speaker 1: it'll all work out. It'll all work out very well.

895
00:58:52,960 --> 00:58:55,760
Speaker 1: He was just something special and he would express it

896
00:58:55,880 --> 00:58:57,640
Speaker 1: very well in the show. I mean he was He

897
00:58:57,720 --> 00:58:59,400
Speaker 1: was very open. I think that's why you show did

898
00:58:59,480 --> 00:59:04,360
Speaker 1: so well. Was very open to his listeners, to his fans,

899
00:59:04,400 --> 00:59:07,800
Speaker 1: of which there were record numbers. Did he say to

900
00:59:07,880 --> 00:59:11,160
Speaker 1: you what role he would like to see you play next? Well,

901
00:59:11,520 --> 00:59:14,800
Speaker 1: we didn't talk too much about that. I didn't want

902
00:59:14,840 --> 00:59:18,160
Speaker 1: to talk about that too much either, because I was

903
00:59:19,640 --> 00:59:24,440
Speaker 1: disappointed by voter tabulation. I think it's disgraceful what happened.

904
00:59:24,480 --> 00:59:27,360
Speaker 1: We were like a third world country on election night

905
00:59:27,680 --> 00:59:29,960
Speaker 1: with the closing down of the centers and all of

906
00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:31,960
Speaker 1: the things that happened late in the evening. And he

907
00:59:32,080 --> 00:59:34,760
Speaker 1: was furious at it, and many people are furious. You

908
00:59:34,760 --> 00:59:38,080
Speaker 1: don't know how angry this country is. And people were furious,

909
00:59:38,120 --> 00:59:42,760
Speaker 1: but he was somebody at the same time, you know,

910
00:59:42,840 --> 00:59:46,800
Speaker 1: he thinks about the past, but he projects out to

911
00:59:46,840 --> 00:59:49,520
Speaker 1: the future. That was rush. I mean, he wants to

912
00:59:49,600 --> 00:59:53,080
Speaker 1: learn from the past and get things fixed. But he

913
00:59:53,320 --> 00:59:56,960
Speaker 1: was he was somebody that really felt that was a

914
00:59:57,080 --> 00:59:59,920
Speaker 1: very important victory for us. We should have we should

915
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:02,680
Speaker 1: have had it. That we did have it. But he

916
01:00:02,800 --> 01:00:05,920
Speaker 1: was somebody that felt that was a very important election.

917
01:00:05,920 --> 01:00:07,600
Speaker 1: And I did too. I mean I could too. You

918
01:00:07,640 --> 01:00:11,920
Speaker 1: see what's happening now and so, you know, but maybe

919
01:00:11,920 --> 01:00:14,440
Speaker 1: more than anything else, we just became very friendly. And

920
01:00:15,040 --> 01:00:18,560
Speaker 1: he could talk about any subject, whether it's politics or sports.

921
01:00:18,800 --> 01:00:22,280
Speaker 1: As you know, met for sure his sports career. I mean,

922
01:00:22,320 --> 01:00:25,400
Speaker 1: he loved sports. He loved any sport, it didn't matter

923
01:00:25,480 --> 01:00:27,800
Speaker 1: any sport. He could talk about any sport. He was

924
01:00:27,840 --> 01:00:30,880
Speaker 1: a conversationalist. He was a brilliant guy. Didn't get enough

925
01:00:30,920 --> 01:00:34,600
Speaker 1: credit for that. Totally brilliant. And he was a conversationalist.

926
01:00:34,600 --> 01:00:37,240
Speaker 1: And he was unique. He was unique. He had a way.

927
01:00:37,480 --> 01:00:39,560
Speaker 1: Maybe it was the voice. You know, you never know,

928
01:00:39,600 --> 01:00:42,360
Speaker 1: why does somebody have more viewers? Why why do you

929
01:00:42,400 --> 01:00:44,760
Speaker 1: have more viewers than other people that compete against you

930
01:00:44,840 --> 01:00:48,040
Speaker 1: two You never know, you know, it's something, it's something,

931
01:00:48,120 --> 01:00:50,080
Speaker 1: there's something in the air. There's the voice, or the

932
01:00:50,720 --> 01:00:53,640
Speaker 1: or the brain power, whatever it is. He had something

933
01:00:53,720 --> 01:00:56,880
Speaker 1: very special in a political sense, mister President, either during

934
01:00:56,920 --> 01:00:59,800
Speaker 1: the primary fight of two thousand and sixteen leading up

935
01:00:59,800 --> 01:01:02,240
Speaker 1: to the election or the four years you were in

936
01:01:02,280 --> 01:01:06,000
Speaker 1: the White House, did you feel a political need to

937
01:01:06,160 --> 01:01:09,600
Speaker 1: go to Rush Limbaugh knowing that he is you know,

938
01:01:09,720 --> 01:01:12,640
Speaker 1: he is a kingmaker in so many conservative circles. Did

939
01:01:12,640 --> 01:01:15,720
Speaker 1: you ever get that sense that Limbaugh could help you

940
01:01:15,880 --> 01:01:19,120
Speaker 1: on set issue? Well, because it happened so early, Bill,

941
01:01:19,640 --> 01:01:22,320
Speaker 1: you know his support. You know, it wasn't like, wow,

942
01:01:22,440 --> 01:01:25,440
Speaker 1: let's now start to get people on board, says. You know.

943
01:01:25,440 --> 01:01:27,040
Speaker 1: When I ran, a lot of people didn't think I

944
01:01:27,160 --> 01:01:29,720
Speaker 1: would win because I had never done it before. They

945
01:01:29,720 --> 01:01:32,200
Speaker 1: said you needed experience, and you needed all of those things.

946
01:01:32,240 --> 01:01:35,040
Speaker 1: And I understand that. But Rush felt very early that

947
01:01:35,240 --> 01:01:37,080
Speaker 1: you know we're going to win. He felt from the

948
01:01:37,200 --> 01:01:39,960
Speaker 1: escalator ride down. I mean, I think, before the speech,

949
01:01:39,960 --> 01:01:43,160
Speaker 1: if you want another trip, But no, I never had

950
01:01:43,200 --> 01:01:45,480
Speaker 1: to think about it because he was there so early.

951
01:01:45,520 --> 01:01:47,480
Speaker 1: The only thing I did do is I got to

952
01:01:47,480 --> 01:01:49,720
Speaker 1: know him, and I got to know him because he

953
01:01:49,760 --> 01:01:52,360
Speaker 1: was so gracious. He was so good to me, so gracious,

954
01:01:52,520 --> 01:01:55,880
Speaker 1: and he loved Catherine. He was. He was telling me

955
01:01:56,080 --> 01:01:59,000
Speaker 1: so many I mean, story after story, how she put up.

956
01:01:59,000 --> 01:02:01,960
Speaker 1: You know, it's a very tough period. This period was

957
01:02:02,400 --> 01:02:05,400
Speaker 1: he was going through hell, and he said that this

958
01:02:05,520 --> 01:02:07,960
Speaker 1: was he was married. He told me he was married

959
01:02:08,000 --> 01:02:12,440
Speaker 1: to an angel and the help and the devotion. And

960
01:02:12,480 --> 01:02:13,920
Speaker 1: I could see it too. I could see it. You

961
01:02:13,960 --> 01:02:15,480
Speaker 1: could see it when I gave him the award. Hell

962
01:02:15,520 --> 01:02:19,480
Speaker 1: proud he was. He was just, you know, something incredible.

963
01:02:19,520 --> 01:02:22,440
Speaker 1: But he really loved his family, He loved Catherine. He

964
01:02:22,560 --> 01:02:24,760
Speaker 1: was a great man and he deserves it. All Right.

965
01:02:24,800 --> 01:02:27,560
Speaker 1: That was the President commenting on Rush Limbaut and Fox

966
01:02:27,640 --> 01:02:30,920
Speaker 1: News earlier today. We'll get to your calls coming up

967
01:02:30,920 --> 01:02:33,760
Speaker 1: in the next half hour. The President will also be

968
01:02:33,800 --> 01:02:36,280
Speaker 1: on Hannity tonight nine Eastern. The great one Mark Levin

969
01:02:36,320 --> 01:02:42,800
Speaker 1: will be there and a tribute show to Rush. I mean, Babe,

970
01:02:42,840 --> 01:02:50,360
Speaker 1: Ruth Hank, Aaron Mickey Mantel, Lou garrigum As, Jim Gray,

971
01:02:50,400 --> 01:02:53,160
Speaker 1: my sports friend says, just the goat the greatest of

972
01:02:53,200 --> 01:02:57,400
Speaker 1: all time in this industry. We all benefited from the

973
01:02:57,440 --> 01:02:59,600
Speaker 1: path that he forged. All Right, News Round Up and

974
01:02:59,840 --> 01:03:03,240
Speaker 1: Formation Overload hour. Thank you, Scott Shannon Scott Shannon writing

975
01:03:03,280 --> 01:03:06,080
Speaker 1: me earlier today. You know we had talked about Rush

976
01:03:06,160 --> 01:03:09,800
Speaker 1: so many times, Scott and I. Scott is is just

977
01:03:10,640 --> 01:03:14,120
Speaker 1: you know, see wrote me, It's just a sad day

978
01:03:14,480 --> 01:03:19,200
Speaker 1: for America. He wrote me, goes he changed everything in

979
01:03:19,240 --> 01:03:22,000
Speaker 1: so many different ways. And that's how we're going to

980
01:03:22,040 --> 01:03:25,480
Speaker 1: spend this half hour in this special tribute that all

981
01:03:25,480 --> 01:03:28,400
Speaker 1: my team has put together to Rush. In the final

982
01:03:28,440 --> 01:03:30,880
Speaker 1: half hour, we'll get to your calls. We'll have a

983
01:03:30,920 --> 01:03:34,560
Speaker 1: full show tonight. Rush will honor Rush. The President will

984
01:03:34,600 --> 01:03:37,640
Speaker 1: be calling in a former President Trump or President in

985
01:03:37,640 --> 01:03:41,040
Speaker 1: the exile, Donald Trump, Mark Levin, and others. But here's

986
01:03:41,040 --> 01:03:45,760
Speaker 1: our tribute to Rush. Been with the charitable efforts that

987
01:03:45,800 --> 01:03:48,000
Speaker 1: we have engaged in, and all of it has been

988
01:03:48,000 --> 01:03:50,200
Speaker 1: to my benefit. All of it has been for the

989
01:03:51,880 --> 01:03:54,840
Speaker 1: h and yours. It's the benefit of people who are

990
01:03:54,920 --> 01:04:01,560
Speaker 1: the recipients of our efforts. So many people have put

991
01:04:01,600 --> 01:04:05,600
Speaker 1: me first in all of this, and I understand now

992
01:04:06,920 --> 01:04:11,120
Speaker 1: what lou Garrick meant, because I certainly feel like that.

993
01:04:12,360 --> 01:04:16,360
Speaker 1: I feel extremely fortunate and lucky. I said, well, what

994
01:04:16,400 --> 01:04:18,960
Speaker 1: are you best at? And I said, probably being on

995
01:04:19,000 --> 01:04:21,480
Speaker 1: the radio. Well there's your answer. Do what you're best

996
01:04:21,520 --> 01:04:25,920
Speaker 1: at and you'll at least be happy regardless how well

997
01:04:25,960 --> 01:04:28,000
Speaker 1: you do it. So I decided to give radio one

998
01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:31,720
Speaker 1: more chance. I'm sure you've all felt like you aren't

999
01:04:31,760 --> 01:04:33,560
Speaker 1: going to ever amount to anything, even though you knew

1000
01:04:33,560 --> 01:04:35,600
Speaker 1: you were capable of it. I felt that way. The

1001
01:04:35,680 --> 01:04:38,640
Speaker 1: only difference between you and me is that I'm up

1002
01:04:38,680 --> 01:04:42,840
Speaker 1: here and you're out there. And the only reason I'm

1003
01:04:42,920 --> 01:04:46,240
Speaker 1: up here is because you're out there. You have rejuvenated

1004
01:04:46,320 --> 01:04:48,960
Speaker 1: my life, and you have made me something I never

1005
01:04:49,000 --> 01:04:51,960
Speaker 1: even thought I could be. And I have just one

1006
01:04:52,000 --> 01:04:55,200
Speaker 1: thing to say to you, A sincere and heartfelt thank you.

1007
01:04:55,720 --> 01:04:59,320
Speaker 1: What a Hilary had one in twenty sixteen. Stop and

1008
01:04:59,400 --> 01:05:02,720
Speaker 1: think of that. There wouldn't be a roaring economy EI.

1009
01:05:02,760 --> 01:05:04,800
Speaker 1: There wouldn't have been any tax cuts, There wouldn't have

1010
01:05:04,800 --> 01:05:07,400
Speaker 1: been any rollback of regulations. There wouldn't have been any

1011
01:05:07,400 --> 01:05:09,480
Speaker 1: squaring of the deal with NATO. There wouldn't have been

1012
01:05:09,520 --> 01:05:13,600
Speaker 1: any read on trade deals. The Obama administration told American people,

1013
01:05:13,640 --> 01:05:16,760
Speaker 1: get used to it. There's a new American economy and

1014
01:05:16,800 --> 01:05:19,840
Speaker 1: its flat line or in decline. America's passed. We didn't

1015
01:05:19,840 --> 01:05:24,600
Speaker 1: really deserve that. America was founded by a white patriarchy

1016
01:05:24,680 --> 01:05:28,080
Speaker 1: set itself up for itself. People discriminated against. But those

1017
01:05:28,160 --> 01:05:32,440
Speaker 1: days are over, so now days behind us. They wouldn't

1018
01:05:32,480 --> 01:05:35,160
Speaker 1: deserve those anyway. We don't deserve to be a superpower.

1019
01:05:35,200 --> 01:05:38,120
Speaker 1: So we had a flat line economy. We were told

1020
01:05:38,120 --> 01:05:41,439
Speaker 1: Obama's out there in Indiana telling these people their jobs

1021
01:05:41,440 --> 01:05:44,439
Speaker 1: are never coming back. And somebody in the orders mister

1022
01:05:44,480 --> 01:05:46,920
Speaker 1: Trump says he can bring up Obama says, what's he

1023
01:05:47,000 --> 01:05:50,200
Speaker 1: going to do? Wave the magic won't. Look what happened,

1024
01:05:50,240 --> 01:05:52,560
Speaker 1: We got the jobs back. It can be done. They

1025
01:05:52,600 --> 01:05:55,280
Speaker 1: don't even want to make America great. They resent the

1026
01:05:55,320 --> 01:05:57,840
Speaker 1: whole idea of America becoming great. They resent the idea

1027
01:05:57,840 --> 01:06:01,000
Speaker 1: of America as a superpower run in the world for good.

1028
01:06:01,160 --> 01:06:05,440
Speaker 1: We're a good guy, Rush. I just wanted to congratulate

1029
01:06:05,600 --> 01:06:09,280
Speaker 1: you on thirty years. This is your favorite president and

1030
01:06:09,360 --> 01:06:12,960
Speaker 1: I think you are fantastic and I heard about it,

1031
01:06:13,000 --> 01:06:15,360
Speaker 1: and today is the big day thirty years. I wanted

1032
01:06:15,400 --> 01:06:19,480
Speaker 1: to call personally and congratulate you. I am florid. I

1033
01:06:20,840 --> 01:06:23,520
Speaker 1: thought there was nothing anybody could do to surprise me today.

1034
01:06:23,560 --> 01:06:28,320
Speaker 1: I've been preparing for anything. Mister President, A very special man, Rush,

1035
01:06:28,400 --> 01:06:30,880
Speaker 1: and you have people that love you. I'm one of them,

1036
01:06:31,200 --> 01:06:33,360
Speaker 1: but you're a very very special guy. Would you do

1037
01:06:33,440 --> 01:06:36,080
Speaker 1: for this country? People have no idea how important your

1038
01:06:36,160 --> 01:06:39,280
Speaker 1: voice is. So I just wanted to personally make this

1039
01:06:39,320 --> 01:06:41,920
Speaker 1: one and I said, I'll even dial the number myself

1040
01:06:41,960 --> 01:06:45,080
Speaker 1: if I have to. But I just want to congratulate you.

1041
01:06:45,160 --> 01:06:48,280
Speaker 1: Thirty years and that tough business is incredible and you're

1042
01:06:48,280 --> 01:06:52,560
Speaker 1: stronger now than ever before. Well, I thank you so much.

1043
01:06:52,640 --> 01:06:55,040
Speaker 1: It's such a thrill to hear from you. You know,

1044
01:06:55,120 --> 01:06:57,720
Speaker 1: people don't realize what a great achievement thirty years is

1045
01:06:57,760 --> 01:07:00,240
Speaker 1: and that cutthroat business that you happen to be, and

1046
01:07:00,280 --> 01:07:02,120
Speaker 1: you know you might not find that because you're so

1047
01:07:02,200 --> 01:07:04,600
Speaker 1: good at what you do, but as a cutthroat business,

1048
01:07:04,640 --> 01:07:07,160
Speaker 1: and for you to do this for thirty years is

1049
01:07:07,520 --> 01:07:11,400
Speaker 1: truly an amazing accomplishment. And there's no voice like it

1050
01:07:11,680 --> 01:07:14,880
Speaker 1: then you. Even your friend Hannity agrees with that. He said,

1051
01:07:14,920 --> 01:07:18,439
Speaker 1: there's nobody like this man. So I said, no, gee,

1052
01:07:18,480 --> 01:07:20,880
Speaker 1: I guess I thought you two would be competitive. He said, nope,

1053
01:07:20,920 --> 01:07:23,200
Speaker 1: he's the Dean. No where I told you. The Dean

1054
01:07:23,760 --> 01:07:26,400
Speaker 1: was a guest hosted. He guest hosted for me when

1055
01:07:26,440 --> 01:07:29,240
Speaker 1: we first started. No he's great, and he's a big

1056
01:07:29,240 --> 01:07:31,400
Speaker 1: he's a tremendous fan of yours. That they all are,

1057
01:07:31,480 --> 01:07:34,840
Speaker 1: everybody is. So I just want to congratulate you thirty

1058
01:07:34,920 --> 01:07:37,880
Speaker 1: years of and just do it for another thirty years

1059
01:07:37,920 --> 01:07:40,560
Speaker 1: after that. You can take it easy, Okay, I will

1060
01:07:40,600 --> 01:07:43,640
Speaker 1: do that. Just stay around as long as you do. Okay,

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Speaker 1: you have a deal. Today, Americans had few options for

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Speaker 1: political commentary. The news of the day. Journalism was decidedly

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Speaker 1: one sided. Network news along with the print media, they

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Speaker 1: were the kings of all information in America. That all

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01:08:01,400 --> 01:08:04,960
Speaker 1: changed thirty years ago this day, nineteen eighty eight, it

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Speaker 1: changed forever. A man from a small town called Cape Gerardo, Missouri,

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Speaker 1: kicked off a brand new national radio program. It gave

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Speaker 1: a voice to the millions of conservative in this country

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Speaker 1: that have been ignored, impugned, their values diminished for so long.

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Speaker 1: In doing so, he started what would now become a

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Speaker 1: new media revolution in this country, one that radically would

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Speaker 1: permanently alter the media landscape in America and by the way,

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Speaker 1: paved the way for people like me, the great one,

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Speaker 1: Mark Levin, Laura Ingram, and so many others. Well, tonight,

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Speaker 1: we're celebrating thirty years of the Rush Limbaugh Show, the

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Speaker 1: pioneer of conservative talk radio. That's Tonight's many monolog thirty

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Speaker 1: years ago today, August first, nineteen eighty eight, the Rush

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Speaker 1: Limbaugh Show kicked off nationally on fifty six radio stations

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Speaker 1: around the country. The show was radically different from anything

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Speaker 1: else on the airwaves at the time. Now, for decades,

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Speaker 1: all Americans look, we were force fed. We got our information, commentary,

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Speaker 1: news from the decidedly one sided, left wing leaning traditional

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Speaker 1: mainstream media, but with a very clear, funny, fun refreshing,

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01:09:18,560 --> 01:09:22,840
Speaker 1: informative conservative perspective. Or Rush filled what was a desperately

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Speaker 1: needed void in the country, and he gave voice two

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Speaker 1: millions of US now Russia, Syndicated nationally on more than

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Speaker 1: six hundred of America's best radio stations, heard by more

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Speaker 1: than twenty seven million people every week. And as it

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01:09:36,520 --> 01:09:39,360
Speaker 1: turns out, well, time flies when you're kind of like

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01:09:39,479 --> 01:09:44,080
Speaker 1: spearheading an entired movement and an entire new genre of media.

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Speaker 1: Take a look, I said, Well, what are you best at?

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01:09:47,880 --> 01:09:50,439
Speaker 1: I said, probably being on the radio. Well there's your answer.

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01:09:50,560 --> 01:09:54,200
Speaker 1: Do what you're best at, and you'll at least be happy,

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01:09:54,960 --> 01:09:57,120
Speaker 1: regardless how well you do it, so I decided to

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01:09:57,120 --> 01:09:59,839
Speaker 1: give radio one more chance. I'm sure you've all felt

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01:10:00,400 --> 01:10:02,960
Speaker 1: like you aren't going to ever amount to anything, even

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01:10:03,000 --> 01:10:04,519
Speaker 1: though you knew you were capable of it it. I felt

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01:10:04,520 --> 01:10:08,080
Speaker 1: that way. The only difference between you and me is

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01:10:08,080 --> 01:10:11,240
Speaker 1: that I'm up here and you're out there. And the

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Speaker 1: only reason I'm up here is because you're out there.

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01:10:15,200 --> 01:10:17,800
Speaker 1: You have rejuvenated my life and you have made me

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Speaker 1: something I never even thought I could be. And I

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Speaker 1: have just one thing to say to you, a sincere

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01:10:24,120 --> 01:10:28,599
Speaker 1: and heartfelt thank you. And media was forever changed. Here's

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Speaker 1: the question I want to throw out tonight. What would

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Speaker 1: America be like without Rush? Without talk radio? But without

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Speaker 1: Rush on the air for the last thirty years, without

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01:10:40,479 --> 01:10:44,559
Speaker 1: a doubt, he has now had a massive impact decade

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01:10:44,800 --> 01:10:48,600
Speaker 1: after decade, year in and year out. The Doctor Democracy

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01:10:49,200 --> 01:10:52,959
Speaker 1: is the single most influential voice in the early nineties,

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01:10:53,240 --> 01:10:57,160
Speaker 1: holding the corrupt Clinton's accountable, playing a vital role in

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Speaker 1: the historic Republican midterm surgeons new king Ridge come into

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01:11:01,439 --> 01:11:05,120
Speaker 1: power nineteen ninety four. Now he pushed for America's tough

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Speaker 1: response after three thousand of our fellow Americans were slaughtered

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Speaker 1: on nine to eleven two thousand and one, he was

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01:11:11,479 --> 01:11:14,519
Speaker 1: a leading voice for the Tea Party movement. In twenty ten,

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01:11:14,920 --> 01:11:17,599
Speaker 1: he was one of the only people that were warning

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01:11:17,640 --> 01:11:22,280
Speaker 1: against Obama's radical left wing ideology an agenda, rightly predicting

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01:11:22,320 --> 01:11:25,880
Speaker 1: that those policies would fail. And recently he has been

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Speaker 1: a steadfast, powerful voice for what is the working Trump agenda,

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01:11:31,479 --> 01:11:35,200
Speaker 1: the conservative agenda. And you see the dividends every day.

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Speaker 1: Take a look. Donald Trump is like anybody else would be.

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01:11:38,800 --> 01:11:42,720
Speaker 1: He won the presidency. He won the presidency against all odds.

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01:11:42,760 --> 01:11:47,080
Speaker 1: He resents deeply this idea that anybody helped him, particularly

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Speaker 1: the Russians. You people in the media are nuts if

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01:11:50,760 --> 01:11:52,920
Speaker 1: you think Donald Trump is going to go along with this,

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01:11:53,040 --> 01:11:55,479
Speaker 1: that's not who he is, or Republicans and Democrats, but

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Speaker 1: it's basically people who are pro government, pro washings and

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01:11:59,600 --> 01:12:02,720
Speaker 1: new things government. Washington's the center of the world. They'll

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01:12:03,680 --> 01:12:06,839
Speaker 1: they'll give occasional mentions of these things that you mentioned,

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01:12:06,840 --> 01:12:11,479
Speaker 1: these policies to placate voters. But going back to an

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01:12:11,479 --> 01:12:15,240
Speaker 1: original question you had here, they don't want Trump to succeed.

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Speaker 1: On today, the thirtieth anniversary of a syndication, Well, I

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Speaker 1: got a call from a pretty special surprise guest. Let's

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Speaker 1: listen it. Rush. I just wanted to congratulate you on

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01:12:26,479 --> 01:12:30,080
Speaker 1: thirty years. This is your favorite president and I think

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01:12:30,160 --> 01:12:33,759
Speaker 1: you are fantastic and I heard about it and today

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01:12:33,880 --> 01:12:35,920
Speaker 1: is the big day, thirty years. I wanted to call

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01:12:36,080 --> 01:12:41,479
Speaker 1: personally and congratulate you. I am florid. I thought there

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01:12:41,560 --> 01:12:43,960
Speaker 1: was nothing anybody could do to surprise me today. I've

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01:12:44,000 --> 01:12:48,559
Speaker 1: been preparing for anything. Mister President, A very special man, Rush,

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01:12:48,640 --> 01:12:51,120
Speaker 1: and you have people that love you. I'm one of them.

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01:12:51,439 --> 01:12:53,599
Speaker 1: But you're a very very special guy. Would you do

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01:12:53,680 --> 01:12:56,320
Speaker 1: for this country? People have no idea how important your

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01:12:56,400 --> 01:12:59,760
Speaker 1: voice is. So I just wanted to personally make this one.

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01:12:59,800 --> 01:13:02,360
Speaker 1: And I said, I'll even dial the number myself if

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Speaker 1: I have to. But I just want to congratulate you

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01:13:05,439 --> 01:13:08,519
Speaker 1: thirty years and that tough business is incredible and you're

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01:13:08,560 --> 01:13:12,800
Speaker 1: stronger now than ever before. Well, I thank you so much.

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01:13:12,880 --> 01:13:16,040
Speaker 1: It's such a thrill to hear from you. My friend

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01:13:16,080 --> 01:13:18,000
Speaker 1: Neil Boort's also a talk shows once we're fer to

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01:13:18,080 --> 01:13:21,240
Speaker 1: Russia is the Babe Ruth of talk radio. He was right,

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01:13:21,680 --> 01:13:24,160
Speaker 1: and Ris called with Rushi today. The President also brought

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01:13:24,240 --> 01:13:28,000
Speaker 1: up how often I call him the Dean of talk radio.

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Speaker 1: What's this? You know, people don't realize what a great

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01:13:31,360 --> 01:13:34,240
Speaker 1: achievement thirty years is and that cutthroat business that you

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01:13:34,320 --> 01:13:36,360
Speaker 1: happen to be in. You know, you might not find

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01:13:36,400 --> 01:13:37,920
Speaker 1: that because you're so good at what you do. But

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01:13:37,960 --> 01:13:40,760
Speaker 1: there's a cutthroat business and for you to do this

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01:13:40,800 --> 01:13:45,200
Speaker 1: for thirty years is truly an amazing accomplishment and there's

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01:13:45,280 --> 01:13:48,719
Speaker 1: no voice like it. And you. Even your friend Hannity

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01:13:48,760 --> 01:13:51,439
Speaker 1: agrees with that. He said, there's nobody like this man.

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01:13:52,120 --> 01:13:54,080
Speaker 1: So I said, no, gee, I guess I thought you

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01:13:54,120 --> 01:13:56,479
Speaker 1: two would be competitive. He said, nope, he's the Dean

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01:13:56,960 --> 01:13:59,360
Speaker 1: where I told you the Dean was a guest toast

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Speaker 1: that he guess tasted for me when we first started. No,

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01:14:02,840 --> 01:14:05,080
Speaker 1: he's great, and he's a big he's a tremendous fan

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01:14:05,120 --> 01:14:07,920
Speaker 1: of yours. That they all are. Everybody is. So I

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01:14:08,000 --> 01:14:11,599
Speaker 1: just want to congratulate you thirty years and just do

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Speaker 1: it for another thirty years after that. You can take

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Speaker 1: it easy, Okay, I will do that. Just I'll stay

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01:14:16,800 --> 01:14:19,200
Speaker 1: around as long as you do. Okay, you have a deal.

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01:14:20,360 --> 01:14:22,680
Speaker 1: That's a pretty good deal. But you know what, it

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01:14:22,800 --> 01:14:25,960
Speaker 1: is a competitive business. But people like myself, the great one,

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01:14:26,000 --> 01:14:29,760
Speaker 1: Mark Levin, Laura Ingram, and most people that work and

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01:14:29,840 --> 01:14:33,439
Speaker 1: talk radio. We all understand that he forged a path

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Speaker 1: for all of us. Here's the big question, though, I personally,

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01:14:37,080 --> 01:14:40,600
Speaker 1: you think back in the last thirty years, think about

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01:14:40,640 --> 01:14:46,519
Speaker 1: America today without Russia's voice, that booming conservative voice for

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01:14:46,720 --> 01:14:53,040
Speaker 1: thirty years, his unwavering commitment to conservative ideology, philosophy. Frankly,

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01:14:53,080 --> 01:14:56,680
Speaker 1: his wonderful, warm sense of humor is outrages humor, his

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01:14:56,880 --> 01:15:01,480
Speaker 1: steadfast love of country. He's literally given the country insightful

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01:15:01,680 --> 01:15:05,960
Speaker 1: commentary decade after decade, and it has changed the media

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01:15:06,080 --> 01:15:10,240
Speaker 1: landscape in this country forever. As he led the way

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01:15:10,320 --> 01:15:13,760
Speaker 1: forging a path, like earlier pioneers like Jerry Williams and

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01:15:14,600 --> 01:15:19,080
Speaker 1: Barry Farber, Bob Grant, all these guys, some outrageous, controversial,

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01:15:19,120 --> 01:15:21,759
Speaker 1: some knot, we get to do what we do today

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01:15:22,160 --> 01:15:25,160
Speaker 1: because he single handedly opened up a whole new marketplace.

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01:15:25,560 --> 01:15:27,880
Speaker 1: He had the courage of his convictions. He paved the

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01:15:27,960 --> 01:15:31,640
Speaker 1: way for a new media and a political revolution. And

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01:15:31,680 --> 01:15:34,280
Speaker 1: the fact, for example, you're watching me right now is

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01:15:34,360 --> 01:15:39,639
Speaker 1: in part because of these great pioneers courageously forging that path.

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01:15:40,000 --> 01:15:43,479
Speaker 1: He had the audacity to stand up versus the status quo.

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01:15:43,560 --> 01:15:46,720
Speaker 1: He took a lot of heat. He stood for honest, conservative,

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01:15:46,760 --> 01:15:49,559
Speaker 1: great American values. They have tried again and again to

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01:15:49,680 --> 01:15:52,240
Speaker 1: take him down, and they take it just like they

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01:15:52,240 --> 01:15:54,800
Speaker 1: try to take Mark Laura Me down whenever they can.

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Speaker 1: But here we are, We're blessed, and we're better off

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01:15:59,000 --> 01:16:03,080
Speaker 1: as a country. The media has some diversity because of

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01:16:03,120 --> 01:16:07,360
Speaker 1: his life's work, So Russia on behalf of me, Mark Laura,

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Speaker 1: Conservatives everywhere, millions of us, thank you. Hey, Look, before

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01:16:11,600 --> 01:16:13,880
Speaker 1: we wrap up today, I have to take just a

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01:16:13,920 --> 01:16:17,479
Speaker 1: brief moment here to extend sincere thanks to Sean Hannity.

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01:16:17,640 --> 01:16:20,760
Speaker 1: I was, I was told you're gonna want to watch

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01:16:20,800 --> 01:16:25,960
Speaker 1: Sean's monologue tonight. Got a note from somebody working on

1206
01:16:26,000 --> 01:16:28,400
Speaker 1: the staff, You're gonna want to watch this tonight. So

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01:16:28,560 --> 01:16:31,760
Speaker 1: I turned it and I was floored. I was, did

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01:16:31,840 --> 01:16:36,960
Speaker 1: you all see it last night? I honestly, it was

1209
01:16:37,040 --> 01:16:40,439
Speaker 1: so strange. I've I've never I don't want to make

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01:16:40,439 --> 01:16:45,720
Speaker 1: too big, but I've never had any well, I've never

1211
01:16:45,760 --> 01:16:50,480
Speaker 1: had all that stuff ever said about me or this program,

1212
01:16:51,360 --> 01:16:56,920
Speaker 1: and it just was over the top, exceptionally well done.

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01:16:57,080 --> 01:17:01,680
Speaker 1: I was while I was dabbing at my eyes when

1214
01:17:01,760 --> 01:17:04,680
Speaker 1: this was going on, because it was so heartfelt the

1215
01:17:04,680 --> 01:17:09,160
Speaker 1: way Sean spoke of this program and of me and

1216
01:17:09,240 --> 01:17:13,920
Speaker 1: our friendship, and I will always remember it. It was well,

1217
01:17:13,960 --> 01:17:15,320
Speaker 1: I don't know house to say it was. It was

1218
01:17:15,439 --> 01:17:19,720
Speaker 1: unlike anything that has ever been said in ways of

1219
01:17:19,800 --> 01:17:24,920
Speaker 1: describing this program and me, And when you're not accustomed.

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01:17:24,960 --> 01:17:28,680
Speaker 1: I imagine that people on the left are accustomed to

1221
01:17:28,720 --> 01:17:30,799
Speaker 1: that kind of treatment all the time and it becomes

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01:17:31,680 --> 01:17:34,080
Speaker 1: something that they expected don't appreciate it. But man, for me,

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01:17:34,280 --> 01:17:37,519
Speaker 1: people on our side day, I'll never get anything like that,

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01:17:38,000 --> 01:17:42,439
Speaker 1: and I just have to And I sent Sean a

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01:17:42,520 --> 01:17:45,040
Speaker 1: note privately thank them, but I wanted to acknowledge it

1226
01:17:45,200 --> 01:17:47,920
Speaker 1: here on the program of day too, because it was

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01:17:47,960 --> 01:17:55,080
Speaker 1: just it was just great and deeply meaningful. All I

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01:17:55,160 --> 01:17:58,360
Speaker 1: will take a quick break, final half hour your calls.

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01:17:58,840 --> 01:18:02,559
Speaker 1: When did you first hear your thoughts on? Is passing? Next?

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01:18:02,880 --> 01:18:04,519
Speaker 1: All right? Twenty five to the top of the hour,

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01:18:04,600 --> 01:18:06,639
Speaker 1: eight hundred and nine four one, Sean, if you want

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01:18:06,640 --> 01:18:08,360
Speaker 1: to be a part of the program, you know, I

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01:18:09,280 --> 01:18:13,519
Speaker 1: purposely stayed off social media. I always do. I don't

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01:18:13,560 --> 01:18:17,280
Speaker 1: have email anymore, and I just asked my team, my

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01:18:17,320 --> 01:18:21,559
Speaker 1: staff here. UM, let me guess the media is vicious

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01:18:21,680 --> 01:18:27,479
Speaker 1: as always, and the answer was yes. And this is

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01:18:27,600 --> 01:18:31,479
Speaker 1: just this is who they are. At the end of

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01:18:31,479 --> 01:18:36,879
Speaker 1: the day, we know who Rush is. They don't define

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01:18:37,080 --> 01:18:43,960
Speaker 1: Rush Limbaugh's career. They don't need They never understood conservatism ever,

1240
01:18:44,080 --> 01:18:54,400
Speaker 1: they don't want to. All they know is smear, lie, slander, besmirchment, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack.

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01:18:55,560 --> 01:19:00,400
Speaker 1: And we know the real Rush Limbaugh, the pay treat

1242
01:19:01,000 --> 01:19:05,120
Speaker 1: a person that loved God, family and country. Why did

1243
01:19:05,360 --> 01:19:09,280
Speaker 1: so many millions, tens of millions of Americans if you

1244
01:19:09,320 --> 01:19:14,160
Speaker 1: add over the generations that grew up and then became

1245
01:19:14,400 --> 01:19:18,599
Speaker 1: prominent conservatives in part, in large part, in many cases,

1246
01:19:18,640 --> 01:19:23,960
Speaker 1: because of Rush. So I'm ignoring that noise. I want

1247
01:19:24,000 --> 01:19:26,200
Speaker 1: to take a lot of your calls, UM, I know

1248
01:19:26,280 --> 01:19:33,040
Speaker 1: how so many of you feel about today, and I

1249
01:19:33,160 --> 01:19:35,679
Speaker 1: just wanted to give you all a chance to talk

1250
01:19:35,720 --> 01:19:41,960
Speaker 1: about this incredible, most talented, greatest of all time broadcasting legend.

1251
01:19:42,400 --> 01:19:44,200
Speaker 1: We're going to start with our dear friend Don and

1252
01:19:44,280 --> 01:19:48,160
Speaker 1: Lake Ronkonkoma, who I know love Rush all these years

1253
01:19:48,200 --> 01:19:52,200
Speaker 1: and we've been friends for many years too, very much so.

1254
01:19:52,320 --> 01:19:54,120
Speaker 1: I had been to a couple of his fundraisers in

1255
01:19:54,200 --> 01:19:56,280
Speaker 1: the city you've been doing. When I heard his what

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01:19:56,479 --> 01:19:59,759
Speaker 1: Catherine's boys come over the radio and announce his passing,

1257
01:20:00,080 --> 01:20:02,439
Speaker 1: I was numb and I'm still numb, and I'm gonna

1258
01:20:02,439 --> 01:20:04,920
Speaker 1: be number over a while, you know, but I will

1259
01:20:04,960 --> 01:20:09,040
Speaker 1: miss his strength and his optimism, Sean, his driving to

1260
01:20:09,120 --> 01:20:12,679
Speaker 1: keep pushing forward. I remember in October eighth, on two

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01:20:12,680 --> 01:20:15,400
Speaker 1: thousand and one, he announced he was going deaf. Didn't

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01:20:15,400 --> 01:20:19,440
Speaker 1: stop him. He pushed forward. He had addiction to painkillers,

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01:20:20,080 --> 01:20:23,040
Speaker 1: didn't stop him. He beat it. He took a time

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01:20:23,080 --> 01:20:25,840
Speaker 1: off the radio, he beat it, and he pushed forward.

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01:20:26,680 --> 01:20:28,960
Speaker 1: You know how many the many times at the Left

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Speaker 1: tried to go up to his advertisers, having kicked off

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01:20:32,280 --> 01:20:36,599
Speaker 1: the radio his whole career. Ye tried to do that

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01:20:36,720 --> 01:20:41,200
Speaker 1: his entire career. They've tried to silence him and they failed. Yep.

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01:20:41,640 --> 01:20:45,040
Speaker 1: And then he had to love Uh Dance Bake Sale

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01:20:45,400 --> 01:20:50,439
Speaker 1: during the nineties. That to see that thing grow and

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01:20:50,560 --> 01:20:54,320
Speaker 1: grow and grow, and that his charities. He was the

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01:20:54,320 --> 01:21:00,559
Speaker 1: biggest staunch the supporter of the Leukemia Lymphoma Society. This morning,

1273
01:21:00,600 --> 01:21:03,439
Speaker 1: I was moving to shirts around my class. I found

1274
01:21:03,920 --> 01:21:07,400
Speaker 1: this Betsy Raw shirt that I had bought also his

1275
01:21:07,560 --> 01:21:12,120
Speaker 1: Green Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, his Towers Tunnels of Towers Foundation,

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01:21:12,640 --> 01:21:16,800
Speaker 1: all these things. I'll just say, Rush Limbaugh, you know,

1277
01:21:17,280 --> 01:21:21,160
Speaker 1: and I'm listen. I know for a fact he's donated

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01:21:21,640 --> 01:21:25,680
Speaker 1: millions and millions of dollars. Yeah, I know of individual

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01:21:25,800 --> 01:21:31,200
Speaker 1: cases of his his incredible generosity. Yeah, Um, I know,

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01:21:31,760 --> 01:21:37,040
Speaker 1: the same guy you're describing, um Don And you know

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01:21:37,280 --> 01:21:40,719
Speaker 1: it's um You know, you just don't get the great

1282
01:21:40,760 --> 01:21:44,559
Speaker 1: talent that just comes along every day. Yeah. It was

1283
01:21:44,600 --> 01:21:49,720
Speaker 1: so heartfelt, it was so from the heart. He was

1284
01:21:49,800 --> 01:21:51,720
Speaker 1: just you had to tune in to hear what Rush

1285
01:21:51,840 --> 01:21:55,000
Speaker 1: had to say. He was talking of both snardly today

1286
01:21:55,000 --> 01:21:57,120
Speaker 1: and I said, I don't when he went when he

1287
01:21:57,200 --> 01:22:00,559
Speaker 1: lost his hearing, and we all have hearing on radio

1288
01:22:00,600 --> 01:22:02,200
Speaker 1: if you've been at it any length of time, but

1289
01:22:02,560 --> 01:22:06,120
Speaker 1: when he went completely deaf, Yeah, and how he was

1290
01:22:06,160 --> 01:22:08,680
Speaker 1: able I could tell you right now I would not

1291
01:22:08,720 --> 01:22:11,160
Speaker 1: be able to accomplish that. It is all at his

1292
01:22:11,400 --> 01:22:18,960
Speaker 1: task impossible as a broadcaster, hearing is instrumental, and and

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01:22:19,040 --> 01:22:24,240
Speaker 1: he did it. Um yeah, Well, I was in his

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01:22:24,320 --> 01:22:27,479
Speaker 1: presence in New York when he demonstrated how that Cochley

1295
01:22:27,600 --> 01:22:32,759
Speaker 1: implant work. It was just an amazing, amazing medical breakthrough

1296
01:22:32,840 --> 01:22:36,640
Speaker 1: for him and for us well, and and and it

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01:22:36,720 --> 01:22:39,880
Speaker 1: worked for him and he and you know what, Like

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01:22:40,560 --> 01:22:43,280
Speaker 1: I've often said this, nobody gets through this life without

1299
01:22:43,320 --> 01:22:48,200
Speaker 1: facing challenges, difficulties, problems. You know, we're all gonna get hit.

1300
01:22:48,320 --> 01:22:52,040
Speaker 1: Nothing's gonna nothing's gonna hit as hard as life itself,

1301
01:22:52,080 --> 01:22:54,840
Speaker 1: as Rocky says to his son, right, but it ain't

1302
01:22:54,840 --> 01:22:56,960
Speaker 1: a matter of how hard you can get that you

1303
01:22:57,080 --> 01:22:59,519
Speaker 1: get hit. It's a matter of how hard you can

1304
01:22:59,560 --> 01:23:02,920
Speaker 1: get hit and keep moving forward and keep moving forward.

1305
01:23:03,520 --> 01:23:06,599
Speaker 1: And we owe it to Rush. This was his life's work.

1306
01:23:07,439 --> 01:23:10,720
Speaker 1: We will do will never match his talent, will never

1307
01:23:10,800 --> 01:23:16,599
Speaker 1: match his voice. It'll forever be sorely missed. And but

1308
01:23:16,680 --> 01:23:19,840
Speaker 1: we'll do our best because that's what he'd want us

1309
01:23:19,880 --> 01:23:22,280
Speaker 1: to do. He didn't he didn't have to stay on

1310
01:23:22,320 --> 01:23:25,479
Speaker 1: the radio for the last year. That's where he wanted

1311
01:23:25,520 --> 01:23:29,679
Speaker 1: to be. He wanted to be with us, He wanted

1312
01:23:29,720 --> 01:23:34,519
Speaker 1: to be with his incredible audience, all all many in

1313
01:23:34,560 --> 01:23:38,799
Speaker 1: this audience, the people that really make the country great.

1314
01:23:39,160 --> 01:23:42,519
Speaker 1: I guess he could have, you know, flown off to Europe,

1315
01:23:42,680 --> 01:23:46,080
Speaker 1: other countries, had a bucket list. No, his bucket list

1316
01:23:46,200 --> 01:23:48,840
Speaker 1: was what he did every day and that's where he

1317
01:23:48,920 --> 01:23:52,040
Speaker 1: chose to be. And if he could have been there today,

1318
01:23:52,160 --> 01:23:55,040
Speaker 1: he would have been there, and he wanted to be there.

1319
01:23:55,280 --> 01:23:57,519
Speaker 1: I'm sure in these these final weeks as he was

1320
01:23:57,560 --> 01:23:59,519
Speaker 1: struggled and I was getting nervous because he had been

1321
01:23:59,520 --> 01:24:03,040
Speaker 1: off the air for a while. Don thank you, my friend,

1322
01:24:03,080 --> 01:24:07,200
Speaker 1: Thanks for sharing all that. Appreciate it. M J Florida,

1323
01:24:07,280 --> 01:24:12,120
Speaker 1: thank you for checking in. Hey, well simplify Sean. I

1324
01:24:12,520 --> 01:24:16,960
Speaker 1: thought of you immediately, you and Mark the great one immediately,

1325
01:24:16,960 --> 01:24:20,360
Speaker 1: and I happen to catch you earlier on the television

1326
01:24:20,479 --> 01:24:24,679
Speaker 1: and it's the three of you, such great, big men,

1327
01:24:25,479 --> 01:24:29,360
Speaker 1: but with such powerful, wonderful voices, but the softest and

1328
01:24:29,439 --> 01:24:32,760
Speaker 1: kindest hearts. And you say your step noticed on media,

1329
01:24:32,880 --> 01:24:35,479
Speaker 1: social media. I don't have social media, but for the

1330
01:24:35,560 --> 01:24:39,519
Speaker 1: left to become unhinged and you know, awful and terrible,

1331
01:24:39,760 --> 01:24:43,040
Speaker 1: it just shows what a great and wonderful person Rush

1332
01:24:43,200 --> 01:24:46,120
Speaker 1: was and what a huge difference he made because he

1333
01:24:46,200 --> 01:24:50,280
Speaker 1: was so funny and so humorous. It killed them, It

1334
01:24:50,520 --> 01:24:54,160
Speaker 1: killed him them, and he will just always be remembered.

1335
01:24:54,160 --> 01:24:57,000
Speaker 1: And I just I have a straight cat outside and

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01:24:57,040 --> 01:24:59,000
Speaker 1: I didn't have a name for him, and I just

1337
01:24:59,080 --> 01:25:03,599
Speaker 1: named them l R L. Little Rush Limbaugh and that's

1338
01:25:03,640 --> 01:25:05,519
Speaker 1: the name of my cat because I was such a big,

1339
01:25:05,560 --> 01:25:09,599
Speaker 1: tough man like Rush had such a heart for cats

1340
01:25:09,680 --> 01:25:12,640
Speaker 1: and his little you know, pumpkin who passed away. And

1341
01:25:13,280 --> 01:25:16,240
Speaker 1: your other guests Don mentioned about the United States Marine

1342
01:25:16,240 --> 01:25:18,080
Speaker 1: Corps and law enforcement. You know, those are the two

1343
01:25:18,080 --> 01:25:20,519
Speaker 1: big things in my life, Marine Corps and law enforcement

1344
01:25:20,880 --> 01:25:24,000
Speaker 1: and everything. And just the giving that he did and

1345
01:25:24,080 --> 01:25:27,920
Speaker 1: the quiet giving and most people aren't very quiet about giving,

1346
01:25:28,360 --> 01:25:31,840
Speaker 1: but such a quiet giver, but allowed force to be

1347
01:25:31,880 --> 01:25:34,040
Speaker 1: reckoned with and he will just be so missed. And

1348
01:25:34,080 --> 01:25:37,360
Speaker 1: it was so wonderful hearing your voice and Mark Levin's

1349
01:25:37,439 --> 01:25:41,880
Speaker 1: voice and others today and just you know, just keep

1350
01:25:41,960 --> 01:25:44,040
Speaker 1: up the good fight. And you you know what, Sean,

1351
01:25:44,360 --> 01:25:47,240
Speaker 1: you are such a bold and tough guy. You don't

1352
01:25:47,280 --> 01:25:49,320
Speaker 1: take any crap. But one thing is when you were

1353
01:25:49,680 --> 01:25:52,920
Speaker 1: when you speak about Rush and even Mark, you're so humble.

1354
01:25:53,200 --> 01:25:55,920
Speaker 1: And people say, Sean hannay humble when it comes to

1355
01:25:56,560 --> 01:25:59,640
Speaker 1: admiring greatness and knowing that where you got, you know,

1356
01:26:00,320 --> 01:26:03,360
Speaker 1: your start, and how you just gave him compliments and stuff.

1357
01:26:03,560 --> 01:26:05,479
Speaker 1: That is so humble of you, Sean, And I just

1358
01:26:05,560 --> 01:26:08,880
Speaker 1: thank you, and I know there's for continuing on the site,

1359
01:26:09,880 --> 01:26:14,040
Speaker 1: Am jay I am. I am truly grateful. You know,

1360
01:26:14,200 --> 01:26:18,719
Speaker 1: That's how I feel all of us in this industry.

1361
01:26:18,760 --> 01:26:23,439
Speaker 1: Ohe him adet of gratitude, all of us. And you know,

1362
01:26:23,479 --> 01:26:25,720
Speaker 1: I remember scared to death filling in for him. I

1363
01:26:25,760 --> 01:26:28,160
Speaker 1: was talking about it earlier, the first time I filled

1364
01:26:28,200 --> 01:26:31,439
Speaker 1: in for him, and then the golden EIB microphone dropped.

1365
01:26:31,439 --> 01:26:33,240
Speaker 1: That was not the best moment of my life, because

1366
01:26:33,240 --> 01:26:38,400
Speaker 1: it really is gold and your Alec Baldwin moment. It was.

1367
01:26:38,520 --> 01:26:42,160
Speaker 1: It was it was rough. Literally the microphone fell off

1368
01:26:42,160 --> 01:26:43,960
Speaker 1: to stand and I'm like, I have my head down

1369
01:26:44,000 --> 01:26:46,840
Speaker 1: on the desk trying to finish the opening monologue. I'm

1370
01:26:46,880 --> 01:26:50,919
Speaker 1: sweating profusely, about to have a fold on panic attack,

1371
01:26:51,840 --> 01:26:57,160
Speaker 1: and Rush in in just rush fashion, comes back from

1372
01:26:57,200 --> 01:26:59,760
Speaker 1: the day off of vacation. I don't remember exactly when,

1373
01:27:00,400 --> 01:27:04,280
Speaker 1: and it goes Sean Hannity dented the golden the IB

1374
01:27:04,520 --> 01:27:11,400
Speaker 1: mic and I'm like, oh, I'm doomed. I am so doomed. No,

1375
01:27:11,920 --> 01:27:14,400
Speaker 1: you know, but it was it was just rush. It

1376
01:27:14,479 --> 01:27:19,200
Speaker 1: was his humor, I mean, and multiple layers of it,

1377
01:27:19,280 --> 01:27:23,360
Speaker 1: and it's it was so funny you know, people would

1378
01:27:23,360 --> 01:27:25,479
Speaker 1: come to New York he would tell this story and

1379
01:27:25,520 --> 01:27:28,640
Speaker 1: they'd be, you know, looking for the EIB building in

1380
01:27:28,720 --> 01:27:33,240
Speaker 1: Midtown Manhattan. And you know, MJ, there never was an

1381
01:27:33,240 --> 01:27:37,759
Speaker 1: EIB building in Midtown Manhattan. The building was whatever building

1382
01:27:37,880 --> 01:27:40,960
Speaker 1: he was broadcasting from, which I think at the time

1383
01:27:41,040 --> 01:27:44,080
Speaker 1: was Twopenn Plaza, where where where I had worked for

1384
01:27:44,120 --> 01:27:47,720
Speaker 1: many years myself, and and and I remember when I

1385
01:27:47,720 --> 01:27:50,160
Speaker 1: would fill in form MJ. And I just and it

1386
01:27:50,240 --> 01:27:52,720
Speaker 1: was such an opportunity that he gave me. And he

1387
01:27:52,760 --> 01:27:57,320
Speaker 1: was generous about everything, and because and I loved all

1388
01:27:57,360 --> 01:27:59,760
Speaker 1: the people that would fill in from Walter Williams, Jim

1389
01:28:00,240 --> 01:28:03,400
Speaker 1: back in the early days, Tony Snow filled in for him. Um,

1390
01:28:03,600 --> 01:28:05,639
Speaker 1: I all the great I don't want to miss some

1391
01:28:05,680 --> 01:28:08,080
Speaker 1: people's names here. I'll forget some. And there's so many

1392
01:28:08,080 --> 01:28:11,280
Speaker 1: good ones, Mark Belling recently and others. And I'm not

1393
01:28:11,439 --> 01:28:15,080
Speaker 1: I'm not purposely excluding anybody. But I always knew when

1394
01:28:15,080 --> 01:28:17,040
Speaker 1: there was a fill in, and I wanted to listen

1395
01:28:17,040 --> 01:28:20,680
Speaker 1: to me, where's Rush? Why is he on vacation? Um?

1396
01:28:21,360 --> 01:28:24,120
Speaker 1: And I knew when I would fill in that the

1397
01:28:24,160 --> 01:28:28,360
Speaker 1: audience was gone, Where's Rush. I don't want I want

1398
01:28:28,400 --> 01:28:31,960
Speaker 1: to hear him, and so I always took it as

1399
01:28:32,040 --> 01:28:36,719
Speaker 1: a huge responsibility and just to just not to chase

1400
01:28:36,760 --> 01:28:40,760
Speaker 1: everybody away in the meantime. But you know, God bless him.

1401
01:28:40,800 --> 01:28:44,960
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I believe in an afterlife. I

1402
01:28:45,040 --> 01:28:49,000
Speaker 1: believe in a heavenly Father. I believe in heaven, and

1403
01:28:49,320 --> 01:28:51,640
Speaker 1: I believe that's where Rush is. I know he was

1404
01:28:51,760 --> 01:28:55,879
Speaker 1: a strong Christian, and I know his faith got stronger

1405
01:28:55,960 --> 01:28:57,920
Speaker 1: later in his life, and he was even talking about

1406
01:28:57,920 --> 01:29:01,200
Speaker 1: it on the air. And you know, none of us

1407
01:29:01,200 --> 01:29:04,599
Speaker 1: are going to live forever. And and he lived his

1408
01:29:04,640 --> 01:29:08,040
Speaker 1: life to the fullest, and he lived it the way

1409
01:29:08,080 --> 01:29:10,639
Speaker 1: he wanted to live it. And and when he got

1410
01:29:10,720 --> 01:29:14,800
Speaker 1: this diagnosis, he stayed where he wanted to be on

1411
01:29:14,840 --> 01:29:18,160
Speaker 1: the air with us, and we're blessed because of it.

1412
01:29:20,560 --> 01:29:25,479
Speaker 1: Absolutely retired, but he stayed in there for us, stayed

1413
01:29:25,520 --> 01:29:28,200
Speaker 1: in it. And let me tell you, those chemo treatments

1414
01:29:28,280 --> 01:29:31,400
Speaker 1: knock you on your ass, and then some they have

1415
01:29:31,640 --> 01:29:34,360
Speaker 1: kill you to try and save you. And and they

1416
01:29:34,439 --> 01:29:36,760
Speaker 1: were able to keep him alive longer than he than

1417
01:29:37,240 --> 01:29:40,479
Speaker 1: than the original diagnosis. That part he's already disclosed. That's

1418
01:29:40,479 --> 01:29:45,760
Speaker 1: all true. Um, thank you, MJ. Don and IOWA Hey,

1419
01:29:45,840 --> 01:29:50,240
Speaker 1: Don how are you. Hi? Hi Sean, thank you for

1420
01:29:50,320 --> 01:29:54,800
Speaker 1: taking my call. Thank you for calling now. It's kind

1421
01:29:54,800 --> 01:29:58,720
Speaker 1: of tough. I've been listening to you since you were

1422
01:29:58,760 --> 01:30:02,040
Speaker 1: a guest host on the on the Rush Limball Show.

1423
01:30:02,040 --> 01:30:04,679
Speaker 1: I've been listening to Rush since I don't know, eighty

1424
01:30:04,720 --> 01:30:07,479
Speaker 1: nine ninety when I didn't even like him because he

1425
01:30:07,520 --> 01:30:10,719
Speaker 1: was boastful and braggadocious and loud and in your faith.

1426
01:30:11,040 --> 01:30:14,240
Speaker 1: And it turned out that he was just always sure

1427
01:30:14,320 --> 01:30:18,639
Speaker 1: of what he was saying, and you know, confidences from

1428
01:30:18,640 --> 01:30:21,200
Speaker 1: the Latin. That's a good point, you know, with deity,

1429
01:30:21,280 --> 01:30:25,639
Speaker 1: but go ahead, No, when I heard his wife come

1430
01:30:25,640 --> 01:30:31,519
Speaker 1: on the radio, my eyes immediately welled up because, you know,

1431
01:30:31,800 --> 01:30:34,479
Speaker 1: it was just so tough and simplified to m J

1432
01:30:34,840 --> 01:30:39,479
Speaker 1: yourself and to Catherine and Rush because you know, always

1433
01:30:39,520 --> 01:30:45,120
Speaker 1: faithful and it's just so important. I started listening to

1434
01:30:45,120 --> 01:30:49,519
Speaker 1: Sean Hannity because of Rush, watching Hannity and Combs because

1435
01:30:49,560 --> 01:30:53,320
Speaker 1: of Rush. And uh, I'll tell you it's it's it's

1436
01:30:53,320 --> 01:30:55,800
Speaker 1: gonna be tough without Rush. You you're gonna carry on

1437
01:30:56,320 --> 01:30:59,519
Speaker 1: and you're gonna do a great job. But it's not

1438
01:30:59,560 --> 01:31:03,800
Speaker 1: you know, Look, he's irreplaceable. Nobody can replace him. He

1439
01:31:03,920 --> 01:31:07,160
Speaker 1: can't replace Babe Ruth Lou Garrig and Mickey Mantle and

1440
01:31:07,240 --> 01:31:10,920
Speaker 1: Derek Jeter. You just can't. But we'll all well, you know,

1441
01:31:11,479 --> 01:31:15,040
Speaker 1: but I know, I know this. I know he'd want

1442
01:31:15,120 --> 01:31:18,599
Speaker 1: us to fight for everything he fought for in his life,

1443
01:31:19,280 --> 01:31:22,240
Speaker 1: and that is this great country and the cause of

1444
01:31:22,280 --> 01:31:25,160
Speaker 1: liberty and the cause of freedom. It was his passion.

1445
01:31:25,920 --> 01:31:29,960
Speaker 1: This country was his passion, and he was he was

1446
01:31:30,080 --> 01:31:33,680
Speaker 1: always optimistic about our future, and we recently had some

1447
01:31:33,720 --> 01:31:36,840
Speaker 1: discussions about it. But Don and Iowa, God, bless you,

1448
01:31:36,880 --> 01:31:38,640
Speaker 1: my friend. Thank you so much for listening to us

1449
01:31:38,680 --> 01:31:41,720
Speaker 1: and being with us every day. We all have, you know,

1450
01:31:41,840 --> 01:31:44,320
Speaker 1: a lot of work to do, all of us combined.

1451
01:31:44,840 --> 01:31:47,840
Speaker 1: We've got a big void here. Eight hundred and nine

1452
01:31:47,880 --> 01:31:51,160
Speaker 1: for one, Shawn our number. The President Mark Levin on

1453
01:31:51,200 --> 01:31:56,120
Speaker 1: Hannity tonight, been with the charitable efforts that we have

1454
01:31:56,200 --> 01:31:58,879
Speaker 1: engaged in, and all of it has been to my benefit.

1455
01:31:58,960 --> 01:32:04,120
Speaker 1: All of it has been or yours. It's the benefit

1456
01:32:04,160 --> 01:32:10,680
Speaker 1: of people who are the recipients of our efforts. So

1457
01:32:10,800 --> 01:32:13,880
Speaker 1: many people have put me first in all of this.

1458
01:32:14,200 --> 01:32:19,240
Speaker 1: I understand now what Luke Garrick meant, because I certainly

1459
01:32:19,280 --> 01:32:25,240
Speaker 1: feel like that I feel extremely fortunate and lucky. All right,

1460
01:32:25,240 --> 01:32:29,280
Speaker 1: that's going to wrap things up for today. I believe

1461
01:32:29,320 --> 01:32:33,400
Speaker 1: in our afterlife. I believe that we're created by one God,

1462
01:32:34,400 --> 01:32:38,840
Speaker 1: and one of his good and faithful servants has returned home.

1463
01:32:39,600 --> 01:32:44,880
Speaker 1: Rush godspeed. Will miss you always, never forget you, appreciate

1464
01:32:44,960 --> 01:32:48,160
Speaker 1: all you've done for us. Former President Trump. Mark Levin

1465
01:32:48,200 --> 01:32:52,479
Speaker 1: tonight at nine Hannity, Fox News Channel, and to all

1466
01:32:52,520 --> 01:32:56,160
Speaker 1: of his audience, our love prayers are with you always

1467
01:32:56,320 --> 01:32:57,960
Speaker 1: as well. We'll see you tonight