Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us for episode two of Rush
Speaker 1: Limbaugh The Man Behind the Golden E I B Microphone.
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Speaker 1: for me the two people that sat with me for
Speaker 1: twenty years, the Inner Family. If you will, Dawn Patchynsky
Speaker 1: Brian Johnson join me today reminiscing about our beloved Rush.
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Speaker 1: the door is opened and a giant cake is being
Speaker 1: brought in here. But I accidentally saw when I went
Speaker 1: back there to get a cookie. I saw the cake
Speaker 1: and I didn't say a word about it, and I
Speaker 1: saw you snuck they anniversary balloon in here. That is
Speaker 1: a that is a gorgeous cake. I have to say
Speaker 1: that I see it's this twenty eight I saw that
Speaker 1: when I saw a cake back there in the kitchen.
Speaker 1: It's a gorgeous, gorgeous care and well I don't mean
Speaker 1: the anniversary. I'm talking about this gook in the news.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about, which I will get. You know,
Speaker 1: this is so easily avoided. Not the cake, the gunk.
Speaker 1: I knew you'd do a cake, even though I've told
Speaker 1: you twenty eight years not to do it. They do
Speaker 1: it every year anyway, telephone number. So for the last
Speaker 1: twenty years, the three of us, there three of us,
Speaker 1: we became well we we call each other family because
Speaker 1: that's what we are. And we were all there before
Speaker 1: any before Dawn and I showed up on the scene.
Speaker 1: There was Brian. That's that's yeah, Brian Johnson. Now, Brian, you,
Speaker 1: between all of us, you probably have the most radio
Speaker 1: experience of anybody here. And there's a reason for that. Well. Yes,
Speaker 1: I was born in a radio station, right, Yes, Yes,
Speaker 1: My mother and my father they met working in radio.
Speaker 1: My dad was the engineer, my mom was the receptionist
Speaker 1: at a radio station in Iowa. And they got married
Speaker 1: and my mom got pregnant and they moved to Florida
Speaker 1: in that order pretty much. Yeah, and so the rest
Speaker 1: is history. Yeah. So, so how did you how did
Speaker 1: you get the call to to deal to come and
Speaker 1: work with Rush. That's a good question. My father has
Speaker 1: his own engineering consulting firm in radio and um he
Speaker 1: owns a bunch of radio stations down here in South Florida.
Speaker 1: And I was working with him at the time. And
Speaker 1: Clear Channel was the name of the company at the time.
Speaker 1: They were looking for an engineer that could engineer facility
Speaker 1: that was kind of secret and they wanted somebody different
Speaker 1: to come over there and take care of it that
Speaker 1: wasn't really associated with anybody that could be really discreet.
Speaker 1: So UM, I guess they thought of me because they
Speaker 1: knew I worked with my father, and everybody knows my
Speaker 1: father in the engineering business. So they called and my
Speaker 1: dad told me, you know, and I said, sure, I'll
Speaker 1: go over and I'll meet them and check it out
Speaker 1: and that sort of thing. And I was young. It
Speaker 1: was twenty five or something like that, so I basically
Speaker 1: went over there and UM met them and I said, okay,
Speaker 1: I'll do it. You know, it was just an hourly
Speaker 1: type of deal and this is back in n and
Speaker 1: UM so I did it and met Rush and then
Speaker 1: UM I never saw him again for a year and
Speaker 1: a half. Wait a minute, So they hired you to
Speaker 1: work with Rush. You met him and you what, you
Speaker 1: set up his studio or something. What you do know,
Speaker 1: they actually had the studios built for him in Palm Beach.
Speaker 1: You remember the whole thing where they wouldn't let him
Speaker 1: do it in his house, and that's right. So the
Speaker 1: premier built him studios in the financial district of Palm
Speaker 1: Beach and they needed an engineer, and that's that's when
Speaker 1: they called me. And basically Russia was sitting there doing
Speaker 1: it all by himself. They had all the equipment, the
Speaker 1: zephyrs all stacked up there, and he had switches. If
Speaker 1: one didn't work, he could throw a switch and would
Speaker 1: throw it to the second group of zephyrs and all
Speaker 1: that sort of stuff and he could get on the
Speaker 1: air that way. And that's what he did all by
Speaker 1: himself until we all came on the scene in two
Speaker 1: thousand one. So for a year and a half you
Speaker 1: didn't see Rush. And then what happened. Then they called
Speaker 1: and said Rush got this new piece of equipment that
Speaker 1: he wanted me to install that allowed him to record
Speaker 1: his CDs. You know how he liked to record all
Speaker 1: his music. Yeah, so he was doing that sort of
Speaker 1: stuff and they wanted me to come and install this
Speaker 1: piece of equipment. So I said, sure, I'll come over
Speaker 1: and do it. So I went over and did it,
Speaker 1: and I didn't hear from him again for a year
Speaker 1: and a half. You know, I figured out he just
Speaker 1: doesn't like me, you know. So and then um the
Speaker 1: year of uh September eleven and two thousand one. Near
Speaker 1: the beginning of the year, Rush himself started reaching out
Speaker 1: to me. Was having problems with his hearing and asked
Speaker 1: me if, um we could get some different headsets and
Speaker 1: things like that for him to try, like the ones
Speaker 1: that I just had, remember that hung down and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. We tried all different ones over that period
Speaker 1: that year. Um, and people were complaining about his voice
Speaker 1: changing and stuff like that. Well, I think it was
Speaker 1: because of him losing his hearing, um, you know, gradually,
Speaker 1: so his voice kind of changed a little bit during
Speaker 1: that time. Anyway, September eleven happened and Premiere Radio called
Speaker 1: me and said, listen, we don't know what's going on
Speaker 1: in the world. Could you be there every day at
Speaker 1: this point? So my father said, well, it's Rush, you
Speaker 1: gotta go do it. So I said, all right. So
Speaker 1: I basically dropped everything I was doing with my dad
Speaker 1: and the engineering and all the radio stations and just
Speaker 1: sat in the parking lot for the next two weeks,
Speaker 1: you know, because there was no way for me to
Speaker 1: listen because none of the equipment in the studio was
Speaker 1: hooked up, you know, it was all self contained in
Speaker 1: a box right next to him on his desk. And
Speaker 1: eventually about a week into that, I'm all right, this
Speaker 1: is crazy, So I went in and wired it all
Speaker 1: into the rest of the studio so I could at
Speaker 1: least come inside and listen and watch. And um, that's
Speaker 1: when he came in and said that he lost all
Speaker 1: his hearing in one ear and he needed to talk
Speaker 1: to Premier and see what was going to happen going forward.
Speaker 1: So he flew off to California. And then I got
Speaker 1: a call a few days later from a guy who said, uh,
Speaker 1: John Acton, And he called and said, basically, Rush filled
Speaker 1: us all in and everything, and we have this lady
Speaker 1: Dawn that we'd like you to meet with, and uh,
Speaker 1: we want to try doing the show on the Inner
Speaker 1: Net on Sunday. Could you set up all this equipment
Speaker 1: and screens and all this stuff, and we want to
Speaker 1: try stenography and see if this will work for us.
Speaker 1: So of course I jumped and did everything and met Dawn.
Speaker 1: So when did you get the call, Dawn? And what
Speaker 1: was the call? Like it was right after nine eleven,
Speaker 1: it was that month, and so you have to take
Speaker 1: yourself back in time to that period, and it was,
Speaker 1: you know, and I was I'm a core reporter, a
Speaker 1: stenographer and had been for many years in how many years?
Speaker 1: But in the court system since uh, because I asked
Speaker 1: that because when when I first met you, you were
Speaker 1: like really young and you came in like this, really, James,
Speaker 1: we were all really have a picture of all of us.
Speaker 1: We were all young. We were all just babies. So
Speaker 1: you so you got a call from John Exton too.
Speaker 1: So I got a call from John Xon and I
Speaker 1: just thought it was a job for the day. It
Speaker 1: was a real time job. And so they said it
Speaker 1: was to come over for this person named Rush Limbaugh,
Speaker 1: who I had never heard of. I'm in the court system,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm always doing stuff. I didn't know who
Speaker 1: the senator was in Iowa, and I really didn't care,
Speaker 1: you know, but was, well, yes I did that who
Speaker 1: I knew a lot about the law, but not a
Speaker 1: lot about nothing about Russia actually, and so um I
Speaker 1: came over that day, and of course the day kick
Speaker 1: Carson was there, like it was full of of people.
Speaker 1: I didn't know which one of those people happened to
Speaker 1: be Rush or not, you know who the person was
Speaker 1: that I was there working for. And I also didn't
Speaker 1: know that he had lost his hearing. This was a
Speaker 1: big secret, a huge secret. I had to sign a
Speaker 1: confidentiality agreement before I came in, you know, because it
Speaker 1: hadn't been disclosed yet, you know, at that point he
Speaker 1: hadn't disclosed it. So and then I came in and uh,
Speaker 1: they proceeded to tell me that they tried out all
Speaker 1: these stenographers from California and from all these other places
Speaker 1: and they all didn't work. And this is about Baba,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, what am I getting myself into here today?
Speaker 1: You know? What did I agree to come to? And so,
Speaker 1: uh it was we were in our old studio, which
Speaker 1: is kind of like I always tell people, it's like
Speaker 1: the show Fraser when you looked through the glass and
Speaker 1: you would see it like that. And so Rush was
Speaker 1: on the other side and Craig was in the other
Speaker 1: side with Rush. That day too, and Craig said, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm Craig Kitchen and he said, listen, I'm just going
Speaker 1: to have a conversation with Rush and if you could
Speaker 1: just write it down. And I thought, this is the
Speaker 1: craziest job that I've ever had, Like what is you know?
Speaker 1: But okay, sure, uh, and so he they just started
Speaker 1: talking and it was very basic, like hi, Rush, how
Speaker 1: are you today? You know? And of course Rush couldn't hear,
Speaker 1: so he's looking at him like, okay, Craig, you know,
Speaker 1: because he was completely deaf, he hadn't had his cochlear
Speaker 1: implant yet, so you know, he wrote him a little
Speaker 1: note to start talking. And so then Rush started talk talking,
Speaker 1: and I started writing it, and then they could they
Speaker 1: were reading it, so as as I came up, they
Speaker 1: were reading what was being said. And so that went
Speaker 1: on for quite I mean for about thirty minutes where
Speaker 1: they were trying to make up some kind of conversation
Speaker 1: to be able to read. So then I still thought
Speaker 1: I was just there for the day. They came back
Speaker 1: in and Craig said, well, you know, we would like
Speaker 1: you to come here back here again tomorrow, and so
Speaker 1: I said okay, and still not really realizing the gravity
Speaker 1: of what was going on. Um. And so anyway, that
Speaker 1: day when I was leaving, before I left, you know,
Speaker 1: and Rush couldn't couldn't um really hear anything at that time.
Speaker 1: So he had written me a note and it said,
Speaker 1: I can't thank you enough. I know I can do
Speaker 1: this now. And he had tears in his eyes, you know.
Speaker 1: And so you know, anyway, that's how it all started.
Speaker 1: At that point, did you begin to suspect that this
Speaker 1: was a little bit more than you had Well, I
Speaker 1: still really we we still were not kept completely in
Speaker 1: the loop with with what was going on. But now,
Speaker 1: you know, I, like I said, you know, my daughter
Speaker 1: was like three, and so I wasn't planning on being
Speaker 1: full time. But I saw what this man, the passion
Speaker 1: that he had for what he was doing and what
Speaker 1: he was going through, and how he had completely lost
Speaker 1: his hearing, and it really wasn't even I didn't really
Speaker 1: even have to think much about it. I knew this
Speaker 1: is what I was gonna do. I was going to
Speaker 1: make sure that, no matter what, I was going to
Speaker 1: be there every day. I think we all did that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we all did. We all were thrown into the fire
Speaker 1: and we just went with it, you know. I mean
Speaker 1: the next thing, you know, we're jetting off to New
Speaker 1: York on private jets and traveling all around and I'm
Speaker 1: just like, this is crazy. I was just in Okeechovie,
Speaker 1: Florida two months ago. You know, we're doing this program
Speaker 1: in a very different way that it's been done in
Speaker 1: the past. And while those of you watching of Ditto
Speaker 1: Cam only see me. I couldn't do this without the
Speaker 1: people that have broomed all of their priorities and made
Speaker 1: me their top priority. If if so many wonderful people
Speaker 1: had not made this program and meet the top prior,
Speaker 1: we couldn't be pulling this off the way it is.
Speaker 1: During the course of this podcast series, you'll be hearing
Speaker 1: from Russia's friends, family members, and influential leaders from the
Speaker 1: political and media worlds. On today's podcast, you'll be hearing
Speaker 1: from a man whose voice the Russia Umball audience knows
Speaker 1: and the doors He's America's undocumented anchor, man whose dose
Speaker 1: a voice was heard for almost two decades when Rush
Speaker 1: was away, best selling author, original thinker. Most important to me,
Speaker 1: a true friend who's one of the smartest and kindest
Speaker 1: gentleman on planet Earth. Mark Stein, or maybe I'll say
Speaker 1: walk stared. Quite brilliant, isn't he? The Life of Rush Limbaugh,
Speaker 1: Chapter two, narrated by Mark Stein. Rush Hudson Limbough the
Speaker 1: Third Lands his first job when he was just thirteen
Speaker 1: shining shoes at a Cape Gerardo barbershop. And I'll Betty
Speaker 1: was a pretty good shoe shine boy. But what he
Speaker 1: really wanted to be was that guy on the radio.
Speaker 1: For Rush, being a disc jockey represented more fun than
Speaker 1: a junior human beings should be allowed to have. My
Speaker 1: wildest dreams when I was a young kid pretending to
Speaker 1: be a DJ on the radio. When I was eight
Speaker 1: years old, he fell in love with a toy radio
Speaker 1: transmitter that allowed him to broadcast inside the house two
Speaker 1: members of his family. Any kid who's wanted to be
Speaker 1: on the radio will know the thrill of making your
Speaker 1: own cassette tapes of you doing voiceovers over Frankie Avalon
Speaker 1: and the Maguire Sisters or whoever's sing goals it was
Speaker 1: back then. But as one of those gazillions, it would
Speaker 1: be boss jocks. I certainly envy rushed that transmitted gizmo.
Speaker 1: Some kids have to make do with bringing an old
Speaker 1: baby monitor down from the attic was the most amazing thing.
Speaker 1: It's plastic. It was about three ft long and two
Speaker 1: feet high, and it transmitted over a m within the
Speaker 1: confines of a I don't know, a small house. The
Speaker 1: quality was horrible, but it worked. At sixteen Rush, with
Speaker 1: a little help from his dad, advanced from the toy
Speaker 1: transmitter to the real thing. He got an internship at
Speaker 1: KGMO fIF fifty a m. And then the intern realized
Speaker 1: his childhood dream and got on the s spinning classes
Speaker 1: under the name Rusty Sharp. That's a fabulous radio Monika,
Speaker 1: but only half true. In this case, Brush was always
Speaker 1: sharp and never rust keep Ja was very Steve. It's
Speaker 1: my hometown. How are you, sir? Good greetings from the
Speaker 1: city of Roses. Thank you, Thank you sir very much.
Speaker 1: I was six years behind you in school, but I
Speaker 1: used to listen to you on KGMO. I was the
Speaker 1: one that called every day and say, man play in
Speaker 1: and got a davida will you. Once he was on
Speaker 1: the radio, he never looked back, working mornings and afternoons
Speaker 1: at KGMO. And then it happened, Rusty Sharp got fired
Speaker 1: and kicked off the air. The first too many firings
Speaker 1: for USh over the years, all of which setbacks he
Speaker 1: overcame and learned from on his way up to the
Speaker 1: one gig, the third of a century engagement that ultimately
Speaker 1: only God could terminate him from. He wasn't your typical
Speaker 1: nineteen sixties teen ag didn't need and never sought the
Speaker 1: approval of the high school in crowd. He preferred to
Speaker 1: socialize with older, more mature friends. Although he won the
Speaker 1: admiration of his school's upper classman with his quick wit
Speaker 1: and sharp mind, the fearlessness in debate. He wasn't afraid
Speaker 1: to stand out to be contravian. He refused, for example,
Speaker 1: ever to wear blue jeans. Come on, let's face it,
Speaker 1: it's looks like a barbarous sob. It's it's it's a
Speaker 1: it's a prius, it's it's a liberal status symbol. Jeans
Speaker 1: are liberal status symbols. At least they were. I know
Speaker 1: everybody wears them. Now it's another battle we've lost. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: They used to be a status symbol or carmelized our
Speaker 1: startorial splendor. That we run around looking like a bunch
Speaker 1: of hippies, and I'm not gonna do it. He had
Speaker 1: yet to finish high school, but already there was a
Speaker 1: Rush Limbo style and a Rush Limbo brand. After graduating
Speaker 1: from Cape Gerado Central in nineteen s nine, Rush was
Speaker 1: expected by his father to go to college, so he
Speaker 1: enrolled at nearby Southeast Missouri State University. But after only
Speaker 1: two semesters, Rush dropped out for good. Radio was calling,
Speaker 1: and Rush chose to pursue his dream, confident that it
Speaker 1: amount to become reality unforgettable. That's the impression that you,
Speaker 1: the Russia Limbaugh audience made with your support for Russia's
Speaker 1: last charitable effort while Rush was still with us, through
Speaker 1: the Stand Up for Betsy Ross campaign. Your generosity resulted
Speaker 1: in a five million dollar donation to the Tunnel to
Speaker 1: Towers Foundation. Rush said it best. We chose Tunnel to
Speaker 1: Towers to be the beneficiary of the campaign because we
Speaker 1: love the work they do and the story about how
Speaker 1: they started. When a family experiences significant loss the mother
Speaker 1: or father passes while serving our country, Tunnel to Towers
Speaker 1: steps in freeze that family of a major worry during
Speaker 1: their time of crisis. Tunnel to Towers pays off mortgages
Speaker 1: in full for these families and provides them with the
Speaker 1: comfort of a home when their world has literally been
Speaker 1: turned upside down. The foundation does the same for first
Speaker 1: responders and also build smart homes for our most catastrophically
Speaker 1: injured veterans and first responders. More heroes need your help
Speaker 1: do good by donating eleven dollars a month to Tunnel
Speaker 1: to Towers at T two T dot org. That's the
Speaker 1: letter T, the number two the letter T dot org.
Speaker 1: Shortly after the number three came in. So how did
Speaker 1: that happen? I call Rush and um because I asked him.
Speaker 1: I was listening and because I was at the time,
Speaker 1: I was in Maryland and I was still doing things
Speaker 1: for the show. I was still doing a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff for the show, but I had moved to Maryland.
Speaker 1: I noticed though that something was up with Russia's voice
Speaker 1: and something was going on. I called him, like, Rush,
Speaker 1: what's what is everything? Are you okay? Is everything good?
Speaker 1: And he told me at the time, he said, you know,
Speaker 1: I he said, if I told you what was going on,
Speaker 1: you might not believe it, or you he said something else.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember what it was because it kind
Speaker 1: of scared me. He said, if I told you what
Speaker 1: it was, if I told you how bad things really were,
Speaker 1: it was something to that effect. You wouldn't believe it.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what could possibly be this bad? And then
Speaker 1: I got a call from John Acton shortly afterwards, and
Speaker 1: he told me that Rush was losing his hearing. And
Speaker 1: I told him to book a flight for me, please,
Speaker 1: for the next day. And and and I remember getting this.
Speaker 1: I hadn't been to Palm Beach before. And I've always
Speaker 1: read about Palm Beach, heard about Palm Beach. When when
Speaker 1: Rush moved to Palm Beach, I was in the New
Speaker 1: York studios and I asked him about the weather every
Speaker 1: day in the winter, I'd be like, oh man, it's
Speaker 1: eighty degrees down there, and it sucks here and and
Speaker 1: all the rest of that. I'd go through um every day.
Speaker 1: I would walk through Penn Station. They'd be announcing the
Speaker 1: train that was running from New York to Miami, and
Speaker 1: I'd always hear Palm Beach as like three or four
Speaker 1: stops before Miami. Said, Oh man, I wonder what it's
Speaker 1: like in Palm Beach. Wouldn't it be nice to work
Speaker 1: in Palm Beach? But I never thought I wouldn't ever
Speaker 1: be in Palm Beach. I was in New York. I'm
Speaker 1: a New Yorker, so we remember, right do. We took
Speaker 1: us a while, and we had to work on you
Speaker 1: to turn you into a Floridian, you know. And so
Speaker 1: what happened was I got there that night and when
Speaker 1: I walked in, Rush was in the parking lot. Kit
Speaker 1: was in the parking lot, and and John Acton and
Speaker 1: so I walked over and I gave Russia hug and
Speaker 1: we but I didn't the gravity of it was really
Speaker 1: weird because I didn't, you know, I didn't you know,
Speaker 1: he had kept it really well that he was completely death.
Speaker 1: So that was really a little bit weird and that, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that really knew he was losing his hearing. So the
Speaker 1: next day I come into this little studio and there
Speaker 1: you are there, and then Dawn is there, and like,
Speaker 1: Dawn is this hottie Potati? Right, yeah, you were on
Speaker 1: no offense, I mean, but I was. Yeah, Well that
Speaker 1: was thirty years ago. Brian was Superman, and that's what
Speaker 1: we're saying. We used to call him Superman. Yes, you're
Speaker 1: still Superman. You have gray hair. Now Superman didn't have
Speaker 1: gray hair, right, And wait a minute, and Brian, it
Speaker 1: was in the days when you used to be single. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right, so what it used to come to work
Speaker 1: and sometimes used to sleep under the cons sometimes yea, yeah.
Speaker 1: But I had no idea then that twenty years later
Speaker 1: we'd all be be here now. Yeah. Back in the beginning,
Speaker 1: he couldn't hear at all. So I don't know if
Speaker 1: you guys remember this, but we would hold up cards
Speaker 1: for the breaks, for there was ten seconds after third,
Speaker 1: so we were trying to make it fun for him
Speaker 1: because he was totally deaf and just trying everything, and
Speaker 1: he had so much passion for this, so we would
Speaker 1: hold up the card so I would pretend like I
Speaker 1: was in a boxing ring and I was the girl
Speaker 1: going back and forth with the thirty seconds, you know,
Speaker 1: when he would start laughing. Anything we could. We had
Speaker 1: to think like we were deaf and how could you
Speaker 1: do the show? And I mean I put led lights,
Speaker 1: that yellow light, the red light, and I was trying
Speaker 1: different vibrating devices to put on the chair. We had those.
Speaker 1: You were trying different vibrators to hook onto his chair
Speaker 1: so he could feel the audio in his chair well,
Speaker 1: and then I was doing that. I'm sorry, this sounds freaky.
Speaker 1: I'm just sorry. He could only feel stuff or see stuff,
Speaker 1: so you had two options, you know, so I had
Speaker 1: to rove. Remember the duo meters, we had those in
Speaker 1: front of them, so those big led v. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: had a O L instant messaging. That's really what really
Speaker 1: helped us a lot back then. That's how we communicated
Speaker 1: with him, was a L instant message. And we used
Speaker 1: to because when he completely couldn't hear. Uh, if a
Speaker 1: caller was screaming, we would turn the screen red, so
Speaker 1: he even if he was looking the other direction, if
Speaker 1: we looked back, he would know the color. I don't
Speaker 1: remember all the colors, but if it was blue, it
Speaker 1: might have been crying, because you have to remember this
Speaker 1: is after nine eleven, and a lot of the callers
Speaker 1: were crying, and we had so many people from Rockaway
Speaker 1: and all these towns around New York City that we
Speaker 1: were fielding all these calls, and so we were all crying.
Speaker 1: But but we would if it was a seminar collar,
Speaker 1: it would be yellow. You know. We had all these
Speaker 1: colors that would just flash up on the screen for him.
Speaker 1: And then he got the implant and then life kind
Speaker 1: of got back to normal, except you know, he could
Speaker 1: he always said, we could hear like FM radio. He
Speaker 1: could hear like a M radio. And that was kind
Speaker 1: of how he you know. So that's why Dawn still
Speaker 1: needed to be there because the problem you would have
Speaker 1: are the phone call phone calls where the audio isn't
Speaker 1: so clear all the time. Now, he was fine with
Speaker 1: us in the studio environment because the walls were ten
Speaker 1: feet thick and it was dead silent in those rooms.
Speaker 1: It was really easy for him to hear us with
Speaker 1: the implant. But if he ever went out into a
Speaker 1: room where there was a group of people and stuff
Speaker 1: like that, he could not hear. It was just all
Speaker 1: noise to him. Um. So we had the advantage for
Speaker 1: the twenty years to actually have real conversations with Rush
Speaker 1: in the studio. Outside of it, it was just a
Speaker 1: crapshoot for him. So if you had to pick out
Speaker 1: one of your favorite stories, I know you just do
Speaker 1: you want me to give mine? Okay? Here it this?
Speaker 1: Uh one day, you know. I used to come into
Speaker 1: the studio probably around o'clock most days. Rush would get
Speaker 1: there at about um. He would sit in his room
Speaker 1: and I always sat at the console which was directly
Speaker 1: in front of Rush. On the other side of the glass,
Speaker 1: and I just kind of used that as my desk
Speaker 1: and that way, if he ever needed anything, he would
Speaker 1: just hit the talk bath button on his desk and
Speaker 1: it would just come right into my room and I
Speaker 1: would respond to him. Um, So I always sat right there.
Speaker 1: And there was only the four of us, us three
Speaker 1: in Rush at the studio most of the time, so
Speaker 1: there was nobody to answer phones or get the doors
Speaker 1: or that was us, you know, so most of the
Speaker 1: time I took on the answering the phone so that
Speaker 1: you could do show prep with you know, for Rush
Speaker 1: and so yeah, so that was kind of our routine. Well,
Speaker 1: one day I got in their tent, I sat down
Speaker 1: there and I answered the phone. And we always said
Speaker 1: studio when we answered the phone because we didn't want
Speaker 1: to say Rush Limbaugh Show or anything like that. We
Speaker 1: were trying to be hidden. So I said studio and
Speaker 1: this guy on the other end says, yes, this is
Speaker 1: Elton John. I'm calling for Rush. Well I immediately said
Speaker 1: to him, yeah, sure, it is, just really and he's like, no, really,
Speaker 1: it's Ellen John. And I'm like, this isn't Elton John.
Speaker 1: You're not calling you know, You're not Ellen John. And
Speaker 1: he's like, no, really, let me sing to you. I'm like, seriously,
Speaker 1: all right, listen. Well he was. He was starting to sing,
Speaker 1: yes and hold on, let me let me go in there,
Speaker 1: and I'll tell him it's Elton John. I did not
Speaker 1: believe him, so I put the guy on hold and
Speaker 1: I walked around and I went into Russia's studio and
Speaker 1: I said, hey, Rush, I got some guy on line
Speaker 1: one claiming he's Elton John. And he Rush looks at me,
Speaker 1: like the stone cold right at me and says, well,
Speaker 1: it probably is Elton John. Brian, and I just my
Speaker 1: heart just thank and I'm like and I just walked
Speaker 1: out of the room, and uh, I didn't know what
Speaker 1: to think at that point. So after that call, he
Speaker 1: was on the phone with him for like an hour,
Speaker 1: you know, and I'm figuring out that was Elton John.
Speaker 1: So later after that was done, he I think he
Speaker 1: sent us all an email or called us all on
Speaker 1: the p A system and said, no, matter what you do,
Speaker 1: you don't tell anybody that Ellen John just called here today.
Speaker 1: So we're like moms, and you know, we're like okay,
Speaker 1: d right. So we were later we were at the
Speaker 1: wedding and I'm sitting next I think I was sitting
Speaker 1: next to Tom Watson, the golfer, and a couple of
Speaker 1: other people, and they're sitting there talking about, Oh, I
Speaker 1: hear there's somebody famous gonna be singing and stuff at
Speaker 1: the wedding, you know, and we're all like not saying
Speaker 1: a word, and um, they're saying they think it's Tim
Speaker 1: McGraw and stuff. So you know, they were all it
Speaker 1: was the talk of the wedding, you know. And I
Speaker 1: think it leaked out from Yeah, yeah, they they found
Speaker 1: out that it was Ellen John but it wasn't us.
Speaker 1: It was never us, never us. Once again, my highly
Speaker 1: overrated staff was let me down. He I mean, Network
Speaker 1: now has an official Obama criticizer. He is Bo Sturdy
Speaker 1: Cookie working on the sound bite. Even now you might
Speaker 1: be confusing Cookie with Coco. Coco is married to Cookie.
Speaker 1: Coco runs the website. The video is actually taken from
Speaker 1: the control room. What you see the back of the
Speaker 1: broadcast engineer's head Brian Johnson, which is as close to
Speaker 1: fame as Brian says he wants to get. That was
Speaker 1: Greg Chapin's idea back in the cave there where these
Speaker 1: guys put these bites together sure denise that the Limball
Speaker 1: Letter could come up with a great graphic after Cookie
Speaker 1: cracks the whip and tells him what to do. So
Speaker 1: what we've done. Joe Muny is on our staff, has
Speaker 1: recorded all of what I said in Espanol mamal and
Speaker 1: the broadcast engineer had a different idea. I just sent
Speaker 1: a picture up to Coco Jr. Who's whose actual name
Speaker 1: is Dean Craig Kitchen from our staff kit Carson, former
Speaker 1: irreplaceable chief of staff and trusted right hand. Diana Schneider,
Speaker 1: editrix of the Limball Letter, Daughter, you irritated by this?
Speaker 1: You don't like this. I I detected a facial expression
Speaker 1: sitting in there and her face getting contorted and so forth,
Speaker 1: and I knew it. I knew it. I wanted to
Speaker 1: issue a special thanks to me. I call them highly
Speaker 1: over rained staff. They may be even they're incredibly valuable,
Speaker 1: They're incredibly loyal, they are incredibly committed, and they are
Speaker 1: exceptionally exceptionally devoted and none of this could happen without them.
Speaker 1: So we're we're all sitting here, Dawn, Brian and myself,
Speaker 1: Brian Johnson down Bynsky. What is it that you most
Speaker 1: would want the world to know about the Russilan Wall,
Speaker 1: that you knew Don you're the boss, go first. Well,
Speaker 1: that's funny that you say I'm the boss, because very
Speaker 1: very early on, it was just the four of us there.
Speaker 1: It was just you know, Rush and Brian and James
Speaker 1: and me, and so stuff would go on or things
Speaker 1: would be happening and everybody's kind of not paying attention,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, well, what is going on here? This
Speaker 1: is a big mess, you know, And so I would
Speaker 1: start directing people, you know, if somebody was there that
Speaker 1: day to fix it, because it had to be done correctly,
Speaker 1: you know. So then throughout the years, whenever we would
Speaker 1: have people come for any reason and they were asking questions,
Speaker 1: Rush would just say, asked on, She's the boss, you know,
Speaker 1: and they kind of looked like ha ha, it's a joke,
Speaker 1: and He's like, no, asked on. So it was kind
Speaker 1: of funny, you know, I I said earlier, And I
Speaker 1: know that if people haven't listened to the show, they
Speaker 1: have one idea of what who Rushes, you know, other
Speaker 1: people that listen to the show, they might love him,
Speaker 1: and they have this idea of of who he is too,
Speaker 1: and we know those people too, but we also know
Speaker 1: the person that wasn't on the radio show, and he
Speaker 1: is just just one of the best men that you
Speaker 1: could ever know. Very humble bowl which people don't believe
Speaker 1: that when you say that, but so humble, just so
Speaker 1: grateful for where he was and still wanting to pinch
Speaker 1: himself for where he was, and still always thinking, you know,
Speaker 1: I think my parents would be proud of me for this,
Speaker 1: you know, or when he would just do an award
Speaker 1: or just do anything, or anything he would do, like
Speaker 1: people just I don't think they saw that side of
Speaker 1: him enough, and he was not one to tout it
Speaker 1: when he would give so generously to so many organizations
Speaker 1: and so many people, and would do so many things anonymously,
Speaker 1: you know, and do so much that people will never
Speaker 1: know the amount of stuff that he's done throughout out
Speaker 1: his life. Because he was not about look at me,
Speaker 1: you know, even though he would say on the radio,
Speaker 1: look at me, because and not a lot of times
Speaker 1: that was for us. He might not think we were
Speaker 1: paying a judgit enough, look at me. What did I
Speaker 1: just talk about? I'm like, don't know. I wrote every word,
Speaker 1: But she bangs on the desk, just like San would
Speaker 1: you want people to know about Rush? Well, I mean
Speaker 1: she's right. I mean he's very generous, has been for
Speaker 1: all of us. He really is a very down to
Speaker 1: earth person. I mean I got to spend some time
Speaker 1: with his family last month, you know, we all did,
Speaker 1: and they really are a really down to earth, nice family,
Speaker 1: and I was really sad that we didn't see more
Speaker 1: of them and spend more time with him. I see
Speaker 1: where he comes from, though, and I get it. I see,
Speaker 1: you know, they were all so nice, and they all
Speaker 1: loved us to death, and um, they wanted to hear
Speaker 1: more and know more about Rush because they really weren't
Speaker 1: around us much, you know, the last ten years. And um,
Speaker 1: I just it was it was nice to see. I
Speaker 1: felt really nice to go see his family and know,
Speaker 1: you know that there was people that seemed to really
Speaker 1: love him and care about him, and because he seemed
Speaker 1: to really love and care about us. I mean, we
Speaker 1: all had our we you know, we all argued there.
Speaker 1: It's not like you know, you argue with your parents,
Speaker 1: you are. We've all argued, you know, and we never
Speaker 1: held anything. I mean it's like you argue to get
Speaker 1: it out of your system, whatever it is. And then
Speaker 1: and we always the thing about the four of us,
Speaker 1: there's no doubt ever for what what solitary. Second, how
Speaker 1: much we love each other and how much we love
Speaker 1: each other, there's just no doubt. Another. We called it
Speaker 1: our work family. And so many times people would ask
Speaker 1: me when I found out what I did, they would
Speaker 1: ask me, wow, what is Rush like? I mean, it
Speaker 1: was like, how can you work for him? What is
Speaker 1: he like? You know? And but there were others, you know,
Speaker 1: I would run across the occasional liberal who be like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, that must be so amazing and wow,
Speaker 1: you know, they were just infatuated with the celebrity and
Speaker 1: that sort of thing. But most people would ask me
Speaker 1: what is it like? And I said, trust me, I
Speaker 1: don't have to work there. I don't have to. I
Speaker 1: could go work for my father and do that stuff.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't work there if he wasn't a great person.
Speaker 1: And that's generally what I tell everybody, because it's true.
Speaker 1: You know, he was awesome. He he cared about us,
Speaker 1: and um, most people don't have bosses like that. Well,
Speaker 1: one of the things early on about him not being
Speaker 1: what you would typically think of as a celebrity, and
Speaker 1: he was never a celebrity to the three of us.
Speaker 1: He may have been to all these people who would
Speaker 1: come and visit us, but he never was to us.
Speaker 1: And I just remember this one time when Justice Thomas
Speaker 1: came to visit, you know, and we were all like,
Speaker 1: this was the first time he came to visit, and
Speaker 1: we were all very excited to say, how loaded Justice
Speaker 1: Thomas and get our picture taken with Justice Thomas. You know,
Speaker 1: Rush came in the room and we did this almost
Speaker 1: with every person that came to visit us. We would
Speaker 1: hand Rush the camera and say, pleasing our nature, and
Speaker 1: you know, sure he would do it. But I just
Speaker 1: remember Justice Thomas cracking up that he cannot believe Rush
Speaker 1: was not going to be in the picture and he
Speaker 1: was the photographer, Like, yeah, he was definitely, And I
Speaker 1: think that's another thing that he loved. He was so
Speaker 1: comfortable with all of us. You know, we've all gone
Speaker 1: through so many things in our lives together. We shared
Speaker 1: everything together. We all know everything about each other. You know,
Speaker 1: literally we were there every single day together for twenty years.
Speaker 1: I know what many of your Rush, are you really
Speaker 1: telling us that you don't know what the audio shund
Speaker 1: bites are going to be until five five minutes. Yes, folks,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you that we have a smooth oiled machine.
Speaker 1: They've been doing this long enough. They know what I
Speaker 1: like don't like. They know what I say I want
Speaker 1: up there things I don't same people that were here
Speaker 1: on day one, and they know exactly what I want
Speaker 1: and don't want. I don't have to tell them, which
Speaker 1: is the way it should be, the land should be.
Speaker 1: So don how did you get started? What? What's what's
Speaker 1: your story? I'm gonna tell a story about when I
Speaker 1: first started, and going back to when you have young
Speaker 1: kids and a lot of people think of celebrities and
Speaker 1: people like this that there diva's. I don't know what
Speaker 1: the word is when you're a man, but but Rush
Speaker 1: was was not that. And from the very beginning, when
Speaker 1: we had to travel or we had to do anything,
Speaker 1: he would ask me, well, is Jessica in a play
Speaker 1: this week? Or is there anything going on with the kids? Uh?
Speaker 1: And so, And that's how we would plan if we
Speaker 1: had to go away for a week or if we
Speaker 1: had to do something. He would make sure that it
Speaker 1: didn't interfere with anything. And you don't usually your stories
Speaker 1: like that. I'm sure I don't know if um Premiere
Speaker 1: Radio would have liked that he was checking with me,
Speaker 1: But that's who he was, you know. And he didn't
Speaker 1: want to inconvenience anyone ever for anything, you know, that's
Speaker 1: for sure, that's for sure. I mean sometimes he would say, hey,
Speaker 1: are you going anywhere near publics where you think he
Speaker 1: might be able to pick up a turkey stop on
Speaker 1: your way in? But but but really he was just
Speaker 1: such a genuine, humble guy. And that's what I want
Speaker 1: people to take away from this. Yeah, well you talked
Speaker 1: about I mean, he every single time that that anybody
Speaker 1: would do anything for him. You always thank you, sir,
Speaker 1: thank you, ma'am. It was always the epitome of of
Speaker 1: of good manners. And and I think sometimes he was
Speaker 1: shocked at what was going on the other side of
Speaker 1: the glass because we used to have some knockdown dragouts
Speaker 1: in that room. Ye've had a few in this room.
Speaker 1: Of course. Well we weren't trapped, but it was you know,
Speaker 1: it was still was still fun and yeah, but I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was our own thing, you know. I mean Rush
Speaker 1: had his thing, but we had our own little thing too. Well,
Speaker 1: that was we were doing something in there. I don't know,
Speaker 1: you might have been put on probation with a caller
Speaker 1: like he used to have fun to doing that. But
Speaker 1: we installed in the new studios that shade that comes
Speaker 1: down from the new studios, and it really was installed
Speaker 1: in case he was, you know, gonna change for an
Speaker 1: event that he was going to or something, just to
Speaker 1: have a little extra privacy. But one day we were
Speaker 1: during the show and he was getting annoyed with all
Speaker 1: with all of us because whatever we were doing, we
Speaker 1: were interrupting him or telling him whatever. He's like, that's it, folks,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna close this new shade that I have. And
Speaker 1: so he closed the shade and so then he waited
Speaker 1: a little while on on the air. So I told
Speaker 1: James and Brian come on, because he's like, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let them out in about another few minutes.
Speaker 1: And I said, we are not going to be here
Speaker 1: when he opens up that shade. And they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: we can't do that. We have to stay year. We
Speaker 1: can't be out of here. I'm like, oh, yes we are.
Speaker 1: We're going out, And so we were not there. So
Speaker 1: he lifted the shade and he's telling the audience and
Speaker 1: he could barely keep his composure. He was laughing. So
Speaker 1: and he's like the insubordinates here. But I mean, but
Speaker 1: that's the kind of fun that that we had. And
Speaker 1: we had that kind of fun every day, just like
Speaker 1: the birthday cakes. You know, we did it anyway exactly anyway, Um, Dawn,
Speaker 1: let's I want to get serious with you guys for
Speaker 1: a minute, because this is um what was the last
Speaker 1: year like for you? Um, Brian, I'm gonna start with you.
Speaker 1: What was the last year? Like? Wow, it's you're gonna
Speaker 1: make this hard. I don't think you can do it.
Speaker 1: When I received this diagnosis and I was shocked, I
Speaker 1: was stunned, and I was in denial. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: rush Limbough, I'm i Mr Big, the vast right wing conspiracy.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm I'm indestructible. It's been the worst year
Speaker 1: in my life, even in the most dire circumstances. If
Speaker 1: you had just wait, if you just remain open to things,
Speaker 1: the good in it, we'll reveal itself. It's not that
Speaker 1: I don't have a future. I do, but we had
Speaker 1: such such a thing going on there for so many
Speaker 1: years and I haven't lost anybody in my family since
Speaker 1: was my grandfather, so I haven't dealt with this so
Speaker 1: long time. And um, I've always been the kid. Well,
Speaker 1: Rush was like a second father for me because I
Speaker 1: probably spent more time with him than anybody in the
Speaker 1: last twenty years, um, face to face, So he was
Speaker 1: like a second father. I mean, my father is my
Speaker 1: hero and the greatest person I know, but Russia's right
Speaker 1: there behind him, you know. I just I Hey, I
Speaker 1: think we had like a father son relationship. And so
Speaker 1: it's been hard. I mean, we're all gonna be fine,
Speaker 1: but and I think the world is gonna miss him
Speaker 1: a lot. There's a lot of people that from noon
Speaker 1: to three counted on him, including us, and he steered
Speaker 1: the world and I think in a positive direction. And
Speaker 1: there just isn't somebody out there doing that now. And um,
Speaker 1: it will always be a big part of our lives.
Speaker 1: I mean, he really shaped our lives as much as
Speaker 1: he did everybody else's, and um, it was a big
Speaker 1: part of our of us. And um, he had tremendous
Speaker 1: confidence in in me and that helped give me tremendous confidence.
Speaker 1: And I told him that before he died. He always
Speaker 1: told me that, um, I'm not worried about you, Brian,
Speaker 1: I know you you can do it, you know, so
Speaker 1: that gave me tremendous pride. Um. The one thing, you know,
Speaker 1: I always tell everybody that I part of me working
Speaker 1: here with Rush, and the beginning was to prove to
Speaker 1: myself that I could do it, because I always lived
Speaker 1: under my father's shadow. And um it, when I did it,
Speaker 1: it made my parents really proud of me. I know
Speaker 1: it did, because you know my father, I'm sure he
Speaker 1: loved traveling around into all his engineering buddies asking him
Speaker 1: about me and how's it going with Rush and all.
Speaker 1: I mean, Rush was the king of radio. You know.
Speaker 1: Doesn't get any bigger than that. I'm doing the super
Speaker 1: Bowl for twenty years every day at work, you know, basically,
Speaker 1: that's what we're doing, you know, the greatest show on Earth.
Speaker 1: It's um for twenty years. It's quite the thing. And
Speaker 1: I don't think I'll ever do anything like this again,
Speaker 1: you know, And that's fine. You know, this is its
Speaker 1: own thing and that's fine. And I'll just always appreciative
Speaker 1: of everything he did for us, because he did a
Speaker 1: lot for us. He was generous, he was generous, and
Speaker 1: you're right, you talked about it. He really didn't ask
Speaker 1: much of us, you know. He um many times I
Speaker 1: would get frustrated with him because he wouldn't tell me
Speaker 1: there was a problem, you know, until it was. It
Speaker 1: just festered so long for months. He wouldn't tell me
Speaker 1: something was broken in the studio because he didn't want
Speaker 1: to bother me, you know, And I just floored me,
Speaker 1: you know. And it wasn't just me. He did that
Speaker 1: with he did with everybody. Yes, Yes, So I will
Speaker 1: always cherish every moment I had with him. I'm sure
Speaker 1: one day it's going to hit me even harder. I mean,
Speaker 1: we didn't really get a full closure on it because
Speaker 1: of this whole COVID and all this kind of stuff,
Speaker 1: and it just it's such a weird time right now,
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, the last year. Yeah, I don't really
Speaker 1: think you can put that last year into words. I
Speaker 1: think it was definitely the hardest year I've ever gone through.
Speaker 1: And I think we've all the three of us have,
Speaker 1: you know, definitely leaned on each other more this year
Speaker 1: than ever. You know, we came in and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: if one of us was losing it, because it was
Speaker 1: really hard to see Rush suffering with the pain that
Speaker 1: he was suffering in and still coming in to do
Speaker 1: the show. And you know, so he can see us
Speaker 1: right through the glass, and he was always very cognizant
Speaker 1: of what our reactions were and what we thought, you know,
Speaker 1: whether we were telling him don't go there, stop right there,
Speaker 1: you know, or whatever it was. So if we were
Speaker 1: really crying, you know, that would affect him. So we
Speaker 1: had to really try to still remain positive and engaged
Speaker 1: and you know, to be fun loving with him and
Speaker 1: you know, think of funny things for him, because this
Speaker 1: was his outlet that he loved. And so you know,
Speaker 1: we would do it and then you'd noticed one of
Speaker 1: us where the three of us would be missing because
Speaker 1: we'd be in the other room, you know, and trying
Speaker 1: to keep our composure to come back in and put
Speaker 1: a smile on for Rush, you know, and do it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, this year has been rough. He wanted that show.
Speaker 1: He wanted it was about him, and we were there
Speaker 1: to make sure that, you know, and he knew, he knew,
Speaker 1: he knew some you know, someone had asked about you know,
Speaker 1: made mention of the bucket list. You know, people that
Speaker 1: know that they're facing there the last days. Often have
Speaker 1: a bucket listenings that they want to do before they died.
Speaker 1: And Rusha's bucket list was his audience. Russia's bucket list
Speaker 1: was his show. He loved doing what he did. He
Speaker 1: loved it. And the thing about it is, though, you know,
Speaker 1: each of us has a different had a different relationship
Speaker 1: with Rush. Yes we did. Don your relationship, you could
Speaker 1: tell him things and say things to Rush and I
Speaker 1: would never ever dream of saying right ever. And because
Speaker 1: that's the relationship that you had with him, Brian, he
Speaker 1: leaned on you in ways that that for things. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was as good a done guy. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you would yet, Brian, take care of this. I need
Speaker 1: just to get done. He would ask me to do
Speaker 1: certain things and then certain things. You know, Um, you're
Speaker 1: more his political outlet. I was more sports, you know.
Speaker 1: And Don brought that whole woman aspect into Yeah. Because
Speaker 1: if if Don wasn't there and it was just us
Speaker 1: three guys, can you have been very quiet around there?
Speaker 1: I realized at that point that I just need to
Speaker 1: hear your voice. I listened to you because you remind
Speaker 1: me of my dad. You all dad to me that's
Speaker 1: how much I look upon you, sir. Like I said that,
Speaker 1: it was a really surprising honor that I wasn't able
Speaker 1: to just pick up the phone and get through, but
Speaker 1: I just wanted to make me know that I honestly
Speaker 1: am speechless here. I cannot thank you anywhere near appropriately
Speaker 1: for that. I can especially relate to it. Um. I
Speaker 1: know how important it was for me to be reminded
Speaker 1: of my dad, uh and many people and things over
Speaker 1: the course of my life have and the same thing
Speaker 1: with my mother as um as well. Thank you for
Speaker 1: joining us. Episode two special one for me the people
Speaker 1: that I spent the last twenty years with my family,
Speaker 1: Russia's radio family, Dawn and Brian. Next tweek we have
Speaker 1: a special treat for you. The executive not only behind Rush,
Speaker 1: but behind most of the big names in radio that
Speaker 1: you know, Craig Kitchen joins us next episode. Rush Limbaugh,
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