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Speaker 1: The Life of Rush Limbaugh, Chapter one, narrated by America's

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Speaker 1: Mayor Rudy Giuliani. I knew what I wanted to do

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Speaker 1: when I was eight years old. How did I know? Well,

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Speaker 1: That's how I want my day to be. I don't

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Speaker 1: don't want to do. But I had no choice. You

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Speaker 1: have to go to school. If ever a man was

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Speaker 1: born for radio, it was Rush Hudson Limbaugh, the third.

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Speaker 1: He entered this world in January of nineteen fifty one,

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Speaker 1: be the same. His paternal grandfather, Rush Hudson Limbaugh the

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Speaker 1: First served as a United States ambassador. His father, Rush

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Speaker 1: on to becoming a bestselling author. But no, Rush had

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Speaker 1: Thankfully for the rest of us, my friend Rush Hudson

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Speaker 1: Limbaugh the Third spent the next seven decades in his

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Speaker 1: that will be very, very hard to meet. The Life

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Speaker 1: The Life of Rush Limbaugh, Chapter four, narrated by Mark Levine.

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Speaker 1: other way. And no trick, Detective. Here's the President of

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Speaker 1: It's no coincidence that the Rush Limbaugh program is une

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Speaker 1: actually began during the Reagan administration, and though the Clinton

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Speaker 1: number of people who believe that this program arose to

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Speaker 1: narrated by George Nor The nineties drew new lines in

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Speaker 1: the decline. And then on a clear Tuesday morning, everything changed.

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Speaker 1: Debris is just falling off the building. I mean, looking

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Speaker 1: it together. September eleven, two thousand and one, profoundly impacted America,

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the program. The Vice President, Dick Cheney,

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Speaker 1: early in his administration, President Bush left Washington with waning

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Speaker 1: and his stewardship of the American presidents. Bush has been rehabilitated.

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Speaker 1: In the eyes of the drive by media, Bush is gracious. Now.

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Speaker 1: What's missing in this transformation, of course, Bush the evil

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Speaker 1: He considered Bush a strong leader who was unfairly defined

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Speaker 1: as an indomitable spirit with a big heart like his

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Speaker 1: father forty one before him. Perhaps the same could be

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Speaker 1: said about number forty three. The Life of Rush Limbaugh,

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Speaker 1: Chapter ten. They're rated by Scott Bao. In November fourth,

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Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, America made history by electing its

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Speaker 1: analysis and insight Russia. Limbau was quick to explain how

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Speaker 1: do away with that notion, that idea. I firmly believe

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Speaker 1: that hope. After eight years of conservative leadership by the

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Speaker 1: President George W. Bush, Rush was eager, willing, and ready

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Speaker 1: to resume his role as chief concern critic in opposition

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Speaker 1: fits what the hell else is it? But not a regime.

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Speaker 1: It didn't take long for Rush to start making waves

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Speaker 1: with only four little words just before inauguration Day, I

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Speaker 1: my country would not. I wanted Obama's liberal agenda, his

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Speaker 1: never have and never will want America to fail. Never,

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Speaker 1: no way. I wanted America to be saved. Rush soon

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Speaker 1: found plenty more to criticize and what became the signatures

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Speaker 1: much more for Russia. Limbaugh the Obama years were chocked

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Speaker 1: full of policies and bad politics to dissect for tens

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Speaker 1: in office, Rush to great pride in telling his listeners

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Speaker 1: that he had no doubt the president was one of them.

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Speaker 1: As he often explained on air, not only was Obama

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Speaker 1: what Rush Limbaugh is saying, and Democrats are looking at

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Speaker 1: the New York Times or a Huffington Post. So Obama

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Speaker 1: comes into office telling Republicans that they can't listen to

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Speaker 1: Rush Limbaugh anymore and get things done. That's just not

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Speaker 1: his head, and I'm still there. It could be said

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Speaker 1: today that during the Obama administration, Rush Limbaugh was at

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Speaker 1: his best, staunchly defending conservative principles and standing up for

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Speaker 1: America and its exceptionalism. But in the end, whether at

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Speaker 1: could touch Rush Limbaugh. The Obama Chapter was but just

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Speaker 1: The Life of Russia Limbaugh Chapter eleven, narrated by Nick Searcy.

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Speaker 1: After the election of Barack Obama in two thousand and eight, Russia,

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Speaker 1: outsider started gaining steam In a long shot bid for

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Speaker 1: Whatever you think I'm advocating, it's not because I care

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Speaker 1: But it's not going to be the America you and

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Speaker 1: I know. As then candidate Donald J. Trump took off

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Speaker 1: parties afraid of are baseless. They don't need to be afraid.

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Speaker 1: With his signature insight, Limbaugh told his listeners why the

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Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton. For his part, Rush became one of President

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Speaker 1: out trying to get as many people in this country

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Speaker 1: of victory. And what's the slogan, make America great again?

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Speaker 1: America first. Everything he's talking about is real. The outcome

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Speaker 1: the results for which he had hoped. And if the

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Speaker 1: more than ever. But if you listen close, even though

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Speaker 1: The voices offering their opinion on the radio now may

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Speaker 1: belong to Rush Limbaugh. The Life of Rush Limbaugh, Chapter twelve,

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Speaker 1: narrated by Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. I have to

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Speaker 1: to tell you. That's how Rush began to break the

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Speaker 1: matter how painful or difficult it would get. I thought

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Speaker 1: about trying to do this without anybody knowing, because I

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Speaker 1: don't like making things about me. But there are going

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Speaker 1: to be days that I'm not going to be able

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Speaker 1: to be here. You know me. I'm the mayor of Realville.

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Speaker 1: This has happened and My intention is to come here

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Speaker 1: every day I can. But what else would you expect?

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Speaker 1: This is a man whose passion for his craft was unparalleled,

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Speaker 1: a man who taught us that no matter how many

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Speaker 1: times you get knocked down or in his case, even

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Speaker 1: fired seven times, you keep getting up and pushing forward

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Speaker 1: until you reach greatness. Be humble, grateful, and share your

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Speaker 1: success with others, helping others, even if you don't expect

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Speaker 1: or want credit publicly for it. The legacy of Russia

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Speaker 1: Limball and its surface might be that he was a

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Speaker 1: groundbreaking broadcaster who heaved AM radio, or a savvy intellectual

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Speaker 1: who knew politics had sided out. Both things true he

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Speaker 1: surely was, But his bigger legacy will live on even

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Speaker 1: brighter behind the scenes with the people who knew him best,

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Speaker 1: had loved him most. Checking with a mother on his

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Speaker 1: staff before asking her to travel to make sure her

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Speaker 1: daughter didn't have any events at school she wouldn't want

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Speaker 1: to miss. Quietly helping an employee pay off some debt

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Speaker 1: or replace a broken down vehicle, sending ten, twenty or

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Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars to someone he'd never met whose stories

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Speaker 1: he found and touched his heart. You know I have

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Speaker 1: a philosophy. There's good that happens and everything that may

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Speaker 1: not reveal itself immediately, and even in the most dire circumstances,

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Speaker 1: if you'd just wait, you remain open to things, the

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Speaker 1: good in it will reveal itself. And that has happened

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Speaker 1: to me as well. These are the lesser known measures

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Speaker 1: of the man behind the golden EIB microphone. On the air,

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Speaker 1: it was talent on loan from God. But off the

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Speaker 1: air his character resolved and warm, loving heart. That was

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Speaker 1: all Rush Hudson Limbaugh, the third, with integrity on loan

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Speaker 1: from nobody,