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Speaker 1: All right, welcome to the Ben Ferguson Podcast. And many

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Speaker 1: of you may have noticed we haven't had a show

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Speaker 1: There are two ways I could do the show today,

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Speaker 1: and one would be to read for you all the

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Speaker 1: evil and mean tweets of the left and the things

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Speaker 1: that they've said about Rush Limbaugh and talk about how

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Speaker 1: disgusting about they are. And that was the easy route,

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Speaker 1: right You could just show them for who they are.

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Speaker 1: The other would be to talk about the legacy and

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Speaker 1: the man that is Rush Limbaugh, and I've decided to

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Speaker 1: should focus on. I wouldn't be doing this right now

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Speaker 1: if it wasn't for Rush Limbaugh. I met rustling Ball

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Speaker 1: when I was very young. In fact, I was listening

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Speaker 1: and I was listening to Rush Limbaugh, and I loved

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Speaker 1: social media. That's one of the good things that's come

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Speaker 1: out of social media, I would argue. But when I

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Speaker 1: Limbaugh looked at me and he said, Ben, figure out

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Speaker 1: We weren't out there waiting on Limbo. We were outside

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Speaker 1: Without Russelamball, we wouldn't have talk radios as a day.

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Speaker 1: Mark Levin, there wouldn't be Glenn Beck, there wouldn't be

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Speaker 1: the Ben Ferguson's of the world. So no one is

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Speaker 1: going to take his place. Anyone that keeps asking that

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Speaker 1: question you haven't paid attention to who Russelamball was. Russell

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Speaker 1: Lombaud changed the hearts and minds of Americans. Russell Limballs

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Speaker 1: rallied people to stand up for what they believe in

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Speaker 1: Knowing what I've been through with Russell, like what I've

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Speaker 1: been through in my career, knowing what he's been through

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Speaker 1: in his career, I'm telling you right now, without him

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Speaker 1: being a pioneer for all of us, we would not

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Speaker 1: be here today. We would not be doing to say.

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Speaker 1: You would not be listening to me today. I would

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Speaker 1: have a totally different career than what I have right now,

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Speaker 1: doing today. Will you survive? Yeah? You want to know why?

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Speaker 1: Because he trained us well. We'll talk radio survive. Yes,

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Speaker 1: you want to know why, because he trained us well.

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Speaker 1: Russia Lamba made sure that there were thousands of conservatives

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Speaker 1: in this industry that would survive. Russa Lamba made sure

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Speaker 1: that radio stations that surrounded his show were surrounded with

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Speaker 1: people that would continue the message and fight on. That's

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Speaker 1: his legacy, folks, The fact that you I mean that

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Speaker 1: rarely in life do you have people that can create

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Speaker 1: personal computers. Another example Russia. Lamba changed this country. Gave

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Speaker 1: conservatives a place to talk, gave conservatives a place to

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Speaker 1: fight back, gave conservatives a place to not be silenced

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Speaker 1: as the liberal media, and he'd been warning us about

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Speaker 1: the liberal media for thirty years. He gave us a

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Speaker 1: about for thirty years. Russ Lamball is a gift that

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Speaker 1: I will always, always be thankful for. Wrestling Ball is

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Speaker 1: a gift that everyone will remember. Rustling Bay. I would

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Speaker 1: argue his shows will live on forever like sermons, because

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Speaker 1: there are so many things that he said, so many

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Speaker 1: things that he said that will apply for decades. I

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Speaker 1: would argue that Rustling Ball is like the Ronald Reagan

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Speaker 1: speeches that's still applied to today. I still listen to

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Speaker 1: lot Ronald Reagan speeches. It's a reminder, it's a compass.

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Speaker 1: Limbaugh will be the same. We will continue to fight

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Speaker 1: and we will continue on his legacy. I talked to

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Speaker 1: said the same thing. We will keep the torch alive.

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Speaker 1: None of us will be able to do it by ourselves,

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Speaker 1: but as a group, we're gonna be able to keep

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Speaker 1: this alive. We're gonna be able to fight. We are

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Speaker 1: be able to do everything we can to make sure

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Speaker 1: that we keep fighting on behalf of what Rush Limboughs started.

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Speaker 1: So for that, I say thank you. I want to

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Speaker 1: leave you with the last words that Wimball had to

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Speaker 1: his audience. Many of you may not have heard this,

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Speaker 1: and I think it's important that you hear what he

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Speaker 1: show that he did in twenty twenty. I wasn't expected

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Speaker 1: to be alive today. I wasn't expected to make it

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Speaker 1: to October, and then to November, and then to December.

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Speaker 1: And yet here I am. My point in all of this,

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Speaker 1: today's gratitude, my point in everything today that I share

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Speaker 1: with you about this is to say thanks and to

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Speaker 1: tell everybody involved how much I love you from the

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Speaker 1: bottom of a sizeable and growing and still beating heart.

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Speaker 1: That is the last thing that Limbaugh said to his

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Speaker 1: audience right before Christmas. My thoughts and prayers are with

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Speaker 1: Rush Limbaugh's family and his dear friends, and I say

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Speaker 1: personally to Limbaugh, thank you for creating an industry that

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Speaker 1: I am so privileged to be a part of today.

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Speaker 1: I would not be doing what I'm doing today without you,

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Speaker 1: and I'll leave it at that