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Speaker 1: Welcome to a very special edition of After Hours with.

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Speaker 2: Producer Alli and producer Greg.

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Speaker 1: We wanted to put this podcast together to commemorate the

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Speaker 1: five year passing of our l Rushbo.

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Speaker 2: How has it been five years? I know, you can

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Speaker 2: knock me over with a feather just at the thought

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Speaker 2: of it. It seems like yesterday.

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Speaker 1: We do want to acknowledge this anniversary because it is

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Speaker 1: kind of a milestone at five years and put something

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Speaker 1: together for the audience who still misses Rush, still yearns

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Speaker 1: to hear from Rush and just our way of honoring him.

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Speaker 2: Really absolutely for someone for people like us who work

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Speaker 2: on the Claim Buck Show today and are thrilled to

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Speaker 2: be there. We're really having a great time and you

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Speaker 2: know it's going a lot very well, and yet we

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Speaker 2: were also with Russia's show back in the day. This

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Speaker 2: is it's bittersweet. The only way that I can I

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Speaker 2: can really say it. It's because it's just so many

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Speaker 2: conflicting emotions.

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Speaker 1: There's moments where I'll hear something in the news, or

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Speaker 1: Clay and Buck will say something and I'll have these

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Speaker 1: little glimpses and memories, almost like losing anyone in your life,

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Speaker 1: there's a memory not far behind.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely. I encounter it quite frequently with callers who will

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Speaker 2: say call and say, oh, Rush used to talk about it.

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Speaker 2: It just happened this week. As a matter of fact,

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Speaker 2: Rush talked about this, and Rush talked about that, and

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Speaker 2: oh you got to remind Clay and Buck about what

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Speaker 2: Rush said about X, Y or Z, and so it's

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Speaker 2: still fresh in all of your memory.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's like when you lose a family member and

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Speaker 1: you often refer to them in the same way. Oh

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Speaker 1: my gosh, my uncle used to always say this, or

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Speaker 1: oh my god, this really reminds me of mom. Right,

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Speaker 1: So that's that's how we feel. I mean, I was

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Speaker 1: with Rush since I started in April of two thousand

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Speaker 1: and one, and you came on the scene.

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Speaker 2: Two thousand and seven.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so we've been with him a long time and

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Speaker 1: there is so much content. So, Greg, we were thinking

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Speaker 1: about putting this podcast together and what clips we would choose,

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Speaker 1: and we could go on for hours and hours, so

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Speaker 1: we're like, we got to limit it. Yeah, so let's

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Speaker 1: let's have a goal of one hour okay, okay, Well,

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Speaker 1: you know when your wife tells you. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if Lisa does this. Your wife tells you, Okay, I

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Speaker 1: need you to do a clean up project at home,

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Speaker 1: and it involves anything having to do with old videos

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Speaker 1: or photos. My husband is away for a couple months

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Speaker 1: doing a play. He's an actor. So I had the

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Speaker 1: task of going through all of our photo albums in

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Speaker 1: old VA just taped so many bins in our apartment.

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Speaker 1: We live in a small apartment, so I had to organize,

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Speaker 1: and I promised him I would clear out. This is

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Speaker 1: not an ad for legacy box. I got sitting on

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Speaker 1: the floor. It's now month into my project, and I

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Speaker 1: just got so caught up looking at all the photos

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Speaker 1: and just went down that rabbit hole of memories. And

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Speaker 1: that's kind of how I feel and putting together this podcast.

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Speaker 1: You and I were going through the archives and I

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Speaker 1: had the same thing happened. I ended up down a

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Speaker 1: rabbit hole. Two hours later. What are we going to

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Speaker 1: choose and highlight? There's just so many rich, wonderful, funny memories.

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Speaker 2: Just before we came in here to sit down and

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Speaker 2: start this recording, I was back in the war room

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Speaker 2: just pulling up old clips from the Rush Show, things

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Speaker 2: that we highlighted on the anniversaries, the twentieth, twenty fifth,

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Speaker 2: thirtieth anniversaries, and other things from out throughout the years.

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Speaker 2: Laughing my head off just talking about going down a

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Speaker 2: rabbit hole. First it was this one, then it was

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Speaker 2: that one Gravitas, and then this other montage. And we're

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Speaker 2: in the process of pulling some really great stuff for

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Speaker 2: you that's meaningful and yet funny.

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Speaker 1: We hope we're going to time travel together.

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Speaker 2: This podcast is going to be a little bit of

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Speaker 2: everything for you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we decided to put it into.

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Speaker 2: Categories, encapsulate and just give a tip of the hat

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Speaker 2: to what Rush meant to all of us. That's right,

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Speaker 2: and where we are today.

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Speaker 1: And speaking of categories, cat Egoris, it wouldn't be Rush

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Speaker 1: without his love of animals, specifically cats and then later

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Speaker 1: years dogs, but let's face its, cats came first, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: and his love affair with Pumpkin and then Ali the

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Speaker 1: One of the clips I wanted to revisit, Actually there

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Speaker 1: Rush's struggles in getting the cat in the cat carrier.

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Speaker 3: Oh gosh, okay, we're going to go to the phones.

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Speaker 4: We had a bunch of people want to help me

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Speaker 4: learn how to put my cat in a travel carrier,

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Speaker 4: like I don't know, but we sent the sign of

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Speaker 4: these down to one call. Many of them have the

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Speaker 4: same helpful suggestions. This is Noreen in Downey, California. Glad

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Speaker 4: you called, Noreen.

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Speaker 3: How are you.

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Speaker 5: I'm very good, Rush, good morning to you.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 5: I'm calling because I think I have a great solution

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Speaker 5: for you and your pet. I know that you're upset

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Speaker 5: and your cat's upset. But they make these nice soft

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Speaker 5: sided carriers that unzip on the top so that when

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Speaker 5: you're picking up your kitty, you just hold it like

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Speaker 5: you're petting it, and you have it calm, and you

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Speaker 5: set it down inside the carrier and have somebody else

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Speaker 5: help you zip it up really quick instead of trying

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Speaker 5: where she can fight you. Also, it helps if you

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Speaker 5: sing to your cat when you're picking her up, so

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Speaker 5: that she's calm in there, you.

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Speaker 4: Mean, instead of saying, little bitch, get in the damn carrier.

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Speaker 3: I'm supposed to sing.

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Speaker 5: To it, yeah, brother, and she'll calm down, and then

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Speaker 4: I don't say that, by the way, to the cat folks.

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Speaker 4: I just want you to know I'm being. I'm being.

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Speaker 3: I'm loaded for bear today. I can launch on anything, Noreen.

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Speaker 4: I appreciate the call, Thank you so much. I have

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Speaker 4: a cat carrier with both a top opening and a

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Speaker 4: front or back opening. No, I've not tried singing. I

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Speaker 4: honestly haven't. But the last time this was necessitated, we

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Speaker 4: for ginger vibis. I didn't think animals got that kind

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Speaker 4: of stuff. Animals can't brush their teeth. I thought God

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Speaker 3: What'll we feed the cat hard cat food? Anyway?

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Speaker 4: I got cats scratch fever the last time trying to

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Speaker 4: Something the last time the cat went in order to

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Speaker 4: And you know, property manager had no problem getting the

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Speaker 4: course those won't work when the cat is going to

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Speaker 4: be put under with anesthesia, because you can't eat for

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Speaker 4: not get tricked into it, not get sung into it,

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Speaker 3: So anyway, project failed. Af to do a redo. Next

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Speaker 4: But I guarantee you there's going to be scratches all

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Speaker 4: over my arms and face because the property manager said, look,

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Speaker 3: You are going to have to do it. That fine

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Speaker 3: in Dandy. I'll try singing. I'll try I'll try wrestling Alfie.

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Speaker 1: Also, I came across how someone described Trump as the

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Speaker 1: rereading this transcript and I just laughing out loud because

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Speaker 4: Wow, okay, and we have we have time here at

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Speaker 4: the phones. Now, this is an interesting little analogy here

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Speaker 4: coming up. This is Sharon in Dalton, Massachusetts. I'm glad

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Speaker 6: How are you hey, Rush Mega dido is. It's a joy,

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Speaker 6: thank you. I just get to my little comment here,

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Speaker 6: their little bloom is off the roads and he is

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Speaker 6: So I'm really glad that we have a fighter, you know,

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Speaker 6: because it's about time. I'm just I just can't believe

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Speaker 4: So well, I'm with you, I'm close to that age

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Speaker 4: in the eighties I was. I was in my so

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Speaker 4: remember the same thing, you know, And I much of

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Speaker 3: I was working for.

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Speaker 4: A baseball team, the Kansiity Royals. And when you work there,

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Speaker 4: everything was sports. You occasionally go to launch and talk about,

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Speaker 3: And is it was sports, sports, sport.

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Speaker 4: There's anything in matter at sports with the controversies of

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Speaker 4: your players. And I too was struck by by just

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Speaker 4: how how wrote the belief in whatever was in the news,

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Speaker 4: And this is there's only CNN at this point in time.

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Speaker 3: My radio program didn't start at eighty eight.

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Speaker 4: I mean, there's nothing but the three networks and CNN,

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Speaker 4: and I would like you. I was stunned by how

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Speaker 4: many people just believe it without even questioning it. Whatever

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Speaker 4: it was in the news, network, newspaper, what have you.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 4: I love your analogy that Trump is the cat that

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Speaker 4: won't go in the carrier. He will not go along

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Speaker 4: with the other and Trump is part of the guy

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Speaker 4: who defies every supposed tip or how to or suggestioned

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Speaker 3: Him in the carrier. I like you're thinking on that.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 7: Hello, thank you Russia.

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Speaker 7: I'm I just want to get some off my chest.

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Speaker 8: Hello, Hi Rush, hey on. We homeschool and we belong

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Speaker 3: Well, there are actually so many things what age of

441
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Speaker 3: group are we talking about here?

442
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Speaker 8: It will be all the way from kindergarten to twelfth grade.

443
00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:54,840
Speaker 8: We're going to break it up into two groups, so yeah,

444
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Speaker 8: it'll be two classes.

445
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Speaker 3: Okay.

446
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Speaker 4: Now, I may want to revive some of my answer

447
00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:03,800
Speaker 4: here as I think about things later today after the

448
00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:06,040
Speaker 4: because I will be thinking about this all through the weekend,

449
00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:10,359
Speaker 4: because I take a question like this very seriously, in

450
00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:15,520
Speaker 4: no particular order. The thing I would focus on first,

451
00:23:16,359 --> 00:23:19,320
Speaker 4: I would do every and this is something that I

452
00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:25,000
Speaker 4: have just in recent days thought of if I were

453
00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:29,679
Speaker 4: in your position, if I were taking somebody from square

454
00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:32,680
Speaker 4: one who doesn't know much of anything and getting.

455
00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:34,480
Speaker 3: Them prepared to be an American, what would I do?

456
00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:38,000
Speaker 4: Because I think it's crucial, just like you say, and

457
00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:42,840
Speaker 4: I think starting with the founding documents. You have got

458
00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:45,760
Speaker 4: to start with a declaration of independence, and you have

459
00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:48,800
Speaker 4: got to explain who the people were that signed it

460
00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:50,000
Speaker 4: and what happened to them.

461
00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:51,800
Speaker 3: And you have to explain.

462
00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:56,520
Speaker 4: The uniqueness, the never had it been done before in

463
00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:59,960
Speaker 4: human history, this kind of a revolution to set up

464
00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:03,320
Speaker 4: this kind of government. In other words, I would teach

465
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:11,480
Speaker 4: how blessedly special, blessedly unique, the United States of America

466
00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:16,399
Speaker 4: is how there has never been a better system for

467
00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:21,000
Speaker 4: managing the day to day affairs of life to maximize

468
00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:24,520
Speaker 4: human potential than the United States of America. And then

469
00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:27,960
Speaker 4: I would start in ways that I think would relate

470
00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:30,359
Speaker 4: to whatever age group you're talking about, how to get

471
00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:33,439
Speaker 4: that related to them, how to get them to appreciate it.

472
00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:35,320
Speaker 3: And I would.

473
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Speaker 4: Start with the with the Declaration, and maybe even a

474
00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:43,879
Speaker 4: little pre declaration history. I would start with a history

475
00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:47,040
Speaker 4: of the world. And I would also I would make

476
00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:52,080
Speaker 4: sure that at some stage of this, Jennifer, that these

477
00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:58,000
Speaker 4: kids understand exactly what left wing politics is.

478
00:24:58,560 --> 00:24:59,920
Speaker 3: I would make sure they have.

479
00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:05,080
Speaker 4: No mistakes about what communism is, what socialism is, what

480
00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:08,880
Speaker 4: liberalism is. I would teach them how to recognize them.

481
00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:13,960
Speaker 4: I would want them to be able to automatically reject

482
00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:18,200
Speaker 4: it rather than be seduced by it. I would want

483
00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:21,920
Speaker 4: them to be able to understand immediately when they see

484
00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:27,000
Speaker 4: it or see a liberal, and be prepared to reject

485
00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:32,240
Speaker 4: it on both an emotional and intellectual basis. Now, kindergarten

486
00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:36,920
Speaker 4: were way above that grade here, but when the time

487
00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:41,320
Speaker 4: you start getting into the sixth grade, fifth grade so forth,

488
00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:45,639
Speaker 4: I'd get serious about this. It's not too young to

489
00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:51,280
Speaker 4: teach the uniqueness and how special this country is. And

490
00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:54,439
Speaker 4: I would teach things like the way most people in

491
00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:56,880
Speaker 4: the history of the world have been forced to live

492
00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:01,080
Speaker 4: and contrast it with life in the United States. And

493
00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:04,639
Speaker 4: I would honestly tackle American history. You cannot do this

494
00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:10,720
Speaker 4: without focusing on American history, not from the standpoint of

495
00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:14,879
Speaker 4: teaching our flaws, not from the standpoint of teaching what

496
00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:21,280
Speaker 4: was wrong, but showing how this country was established. Knowing

497
00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:25,760
Speaker 4: these flaws and how it overcoming them and triumphing over

498
00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:27,080
Speaker 4: them was built in.

499
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Speaker 3: And that's where you get to the Constitution.

500
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Speaker 4: But I'd do the declaration first, and I would really

501
00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:35,840
Speaker 4: explain the preamble. I'd spend a lot of time on

502
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:40,280
Speaker 4: we are all endowed by our Creator, I eat God

503
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:43,679
Speaker 4: with certain inalienable and I would spend a lot of

504
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:48,000
Speaker 4: time making sure they understood the word inalienable rights, among

505
00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:51,600
Speaker 4: them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

506
00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:55,040
Speaker 3: That is what our founders believe.

507
00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:59,680
Speaker 4: The natural state of every human being, the natural existence,

508
00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:04,080
Speaker 4: were created yearning to be free and to enjoy the

509
00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:08,080
Speaker 4: God give an opportunity to live, and that the United

510
00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:11,200
Speaker 4: States of America is the best place on the planet

511
00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:16,720
Speaker 4: where a person can pursue that with the least obstacles

512
00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:22,399
Speaker 4: and shackles in his way. And that's what makes it unique,

513
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:26,040
Speaker 4: the American exceptionalism. The exceptionalism not that we're better people.

514
00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:29,280
Speaker 4: It's that there's no other place ever in the world

515
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:33,560
Speaker 4: where the way we do things has been tried. It's

516
00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:37,000
Speaker 4: such a great story. The history of America is a

517
00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:40,719
Speaker 4: unique story, and it is so special, and it can

518
00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:43,359
Speaker 4: be one of the most wonderful stories to tell if

519
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:46,840
Speaker 4: you yourself know it, and if you yourself believe in it,

520
00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:50,200
Speaker 4: and if you yourself love it. And it doesn't need

521
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:52,679
Speaker 4: to be an indoctrination. You need to teach these kids

522
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:56,959
Speaker 4: with the full acceptance that they're smart enough to get it,

523
00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:01,120
Speaker 4: because it isn't that complicated. You need to prepare them

524
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:05,200
Speaker 4: for whatever objections they're going to get. But more than anything,

525
00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:09,600
Speaker 4: in addition to doing all this or at the same time,

526
00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:13,520
Speaker 4: you're teaching them to think about it themselves, to realize

527
00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:17,880
Speaker 4: some things themselves. Critical thinking rather than having everything indoctrinated

528
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:24,240
Speaker 4: or propagandized is going to be so crucial and and

529
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:29,280
Speaker 4: important for them. And it sounds like a lot and

530
00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:30,800
Speaker 4: it is if you try to do it all in

531
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:33,320
Speaker 4: six months or one school year, but it's got to

532
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:37,520
Speaker 4: be an ongoing project from the from the earliest days

533
00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:41,560
Speaker 4: that the kids you think are old enough to actually

534
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:44,400
Speaker 4: comprehend what you're telling them. As they get older, they're

535
00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:48,600
Speaker 4: able to comprehend even more. And there are any number

536
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:50,360
Speaker 4: of ways you can relate it to events in their

537
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:55,160
Speaker 4: lives to make it real to them. But I think

538
00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:56,920
Speaker 4: it's I think it's great what you're doing.

539
00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 3: I get say.

540
00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:01,680
Speaker 4: Golden opportunity that you have, and I wish there were

541
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:02,600
Speaker 4: more people like you do.

542
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:04,240
Speaker 3: I know, the homeschooling.

543
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:09,560
Speaker 4: Community, if it will, is huge and it's growing, and

544
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:13,120
Speaker 4: they're doing the Lord's work in my estimation, they really are.

545
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:15,920
Speaker 3: So does that help ors that overly complicate things?

546
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:16,400
Speaker 7: Oh?

547
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:18,880
Speaker 8: Rush, that is so great. You just about brought me

548
00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:22,800
Speaker 8: to cheers. That's awesome, yeap, that it's helped so much.

549
00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:23,400
Speaker 8: Thank you.

550
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:24,360
Speaker 2: Well.

551
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:27,680
Speaker 4: It's such a special place and that there's every reason

552
00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:30,400
Speaker 4: in the world to love it at the same time

553
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:35,880
Speaker 4: understanding nobody and nothing is perfect, but it's so great,

554
00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 4: so unique, so special, and there's no other place like

555
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:42,480
Speaker 4: it where human beings can maximize and.

556
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:45,719
Speaker 3: Realize their dreams. There are other places where there's freedom.

557
00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 4: There's Great Britain, there's parts of Europe, Australia and so forth,

558
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:54,560
Speaker 4: but there's no place that does it all in one pack.

559
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:58,400
Speaker 4: And make sure you teach that all of this is

560
00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:05,120
Speaker 4: constantly under attack, that this way of life for human beings,

561
00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 4: that this way of government is constantly being attacked by

562
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:13,120
Speaker 4: people who oppose people being freedom. And if I were

563
00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:16,880
Speaker 4: one of your kids, that'd be the biggest.

564
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:18,520
Speaker 3: Why would somebody not want us to be free?

565
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:21,120
Speaker 4: That would be the first that it was when I

566
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:23,920
Speaker 4: first heard about enemies of the United States and why

567
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:25,440
Speaker 4: they hate it is, I could.

568
00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:29,400
Speaker 3: Didn't comprehend why would anybody hate freedom? What in the world.

569
00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:32,480
Speaker 4: That's where you've got to know liberalism, and that's where

570
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 4: you got to know communism. And that's where you have

571
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:40,440
Speaker 4: to be able to explain who these kids need to

572
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 4: be aware of, who want to take all that they

573
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:46,480
Speaker 4: are blessed to have as Americans away from them and

574
00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:47,200
Speaker 4: everybody else.

575
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:48,080
Speaker 3: That's a toughie.

576
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Speaker 1: Something that always I always marveled at when it came

577
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:55,240
Speaker 1: to Rush was all of the things he overcame in life.

578
00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:59,040
Speaker 1: A lot of people experience at least one of the

579
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 1: list of he experienced all of them. He lost his hearing,

580
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 1: I mean, had a disability, had issues, he struggled with

581
00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:10,920
Speaker 1: weight weight control, he was very open about that. He

582
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:14,720
Speaker 1: experienced divorce, He experienced addiction.

583
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:15,120
Speaker 2: Yes he did.

584
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:19,160
Speaker 1: He experienced so many things that would just take like

585
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:22,120
Speaker 1: one of those things would take someone down. And he

586
00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:24,360
Speaker 1: he was like the phoenix. He would always rise up

587
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:26,920
Speaker 1: after every one of those. And by the way, all

588
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:31,120
Speaker 1: of this in public, public, very public, rise up and

589
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:36,760
Speaker 1: just still approach life with such optimism and positivity. And

590
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:40,240
Speaker 1: I just I always marveled at that because a lot

591
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 1: of us, you know, would be inclined to be like,

592
00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 1: oh woe is me, Oh this happened, that happened. Life

593
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:49,240
Speaker 1: is against me. Nope, not him.

594
00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:49,760
Speaker 3: No.

595
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:52,840
Speaker 2: And it's a good lesson. It's I've heard it embodied

596
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:55,040
Speaker 2: in the in the kind of the expression it's not

597
00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:58,640
Speaker 2: that you got that knocked down, it's how you get up. Yes,

598
00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:00,600
Speaker 2: it's you know that you that you it up and

599
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:03,480
Speaker 2: that you you know how you gather yourself and get

600
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:05,960
Speaker 2: going again. And he did that. A lot of people

601
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,960
Speaker 2: get knocked down and they stay down and or they

602
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:11,360
Speaker 2: get up once and they got knocked down again and

603
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:14,040
Speaker 2: then they call it quits, and you know, it's it's hard.

604
00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:14,680
Speaker 2: It's hard.

605
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 1: I mean, he talks about he very openly talked about

606
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:21,040
Speaker 1: getting fired seven times and just all the things he

607
00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:23,440
Speaker 1: had to do in his career to get to where

608
00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:27,360
Speaker 1: he got that was not handed to him by no means.

609
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:30,640
Speaker 1: There were so many mountains he had to climb.

610
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:32,960
Speaker 2: And people still held it against him that he never

611
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:36,360
Speaker 2: graduated college, you know, that that sort of thing, and

612
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 2: he made no bones about the fact that he had

613
00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:43,440
Speaker 2: a hard time with dancing, you know, in room ballroom

614
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 2: dancing in college. And you know what, because as we're

615
00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:50,800
Speaker 2: finding out today it's becoming much more prevalent, is that

616
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:54,720
Speaker 2: college is not for everybody. It's not, you know. And

617
00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:58,120
Speaker 2: for the longest time, it was this whole mantra is

618
00:32:58,120 --> 00:32:59,920
Speaker 2: that you had to go to college to get it,

619
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:03,080
Speaker 2: you have to go to college. And now we're recognizing

620
00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:05,200
Speaker 2: that there's so many people out there who in the

621
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:09,600
Speaker 2: trades are able to go and make a great living

622
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:14,120
Speaker 2: early in their careers and that they don't need college,

623
00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 2: and that they're able to go and retire, maybe even

624
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:21,240
Speaker 2: retire earlier than they might otherwise have and so it's

625
00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:23,560
Speaker 2: a good lesson that it's you know, just because the

626
00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:27,040
Speaker 2: prevailing opinion of everybody is, oh, yeah, you have to

627
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:31,520
Speaker 2: go to Harvard or Yale or you know, having forbid Columbia.

628
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:34,360
Speaker 2: You know, you don't have to. It's really not necessary.

629
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Speaker 1: I remember him telling stories about even his childhood and

630
00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:40,480
Speaker 1: wanting more than anything to be on the football team

631
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:43,400
Speaker 1: and not making it on the football team, being cut,

632
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:46,760
Speaker 1: and what that was like and how that felt. And

633
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:50,320
Speaker 1: so from a young age he still still pursued the

634
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:52,760
Speaker 1: things he loved and still went out. Everyone in his

635
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:56,480
Speaker 1: family followed law. They went into law, and he was

636
00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:59,239
Speaker 1: very open about His father was nervous and disappointed, like

637
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 1: what do you do being a DJ on the radio?

638
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:04,680
Speaker 1: What are you doing with your life? And he's like

639
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 1: a lot of other people would cave, they might feel

640
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:10,560
Speaker 1: they might give into those pressures. I remember him specifically

641
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:14,000
Speaker 1: telling a story about how he had like no money

642
00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:15,640
Speaker 1: and he had to use his credit card at the

643
00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:19,360
Speaker 1: gas station to buy chips for dinner in addition to

644
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:22,399
Speaker 1: the gas, because that's that's the ally he could use.

645
00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:27,040
Speaker 1: And he's still it's like that book The Little Engine

646
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:27,480
Speaker 1: that Could.

647
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, he had to leave broadcasting, which he loved, and

648
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:34,120
Speaker 2: he got a job with the Royals, the Kansas City Royals.

649
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:36,279
Speaker 2: He did that for I don't even know how many

650
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:38,319
Speaker 2: years he was there for a while, like five years.

651
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:41,800
Speaker 1: I think we actually played our last after hours episode

652
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:44,720
Speaker 1: that we did. I pulled that audio of him talking

653
00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:48,080
Speaker 1: about his that's right, the time at the Kansas City Royals.

654
00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:50,440
Speaker 2: I just couldn't remember exactly how long it was. And

655
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:54,080
Speaker 2: then yeah, he ended up getting back into radio because

656
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:57,759
Speaker 2: he realized that working you know, for the Royals, and

657
00:34:57,800 --> 00:34:59,719
Speaker 2: he wasn't making a lot of money then either. I

658
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:02,720
Speaker 2: mean people think, oh he had this house in Florida

659
00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:05,200
Speaker 2: and Palm Beach and all this money and all he

660
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Speaker 2: was twenty three thousand dollars a year working for the

661
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Speaker 2: Royals something like that back in the day. So it was.

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Speaker 1: He always also talked about how when he was younger

663
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Speaker 1: and he really wanted to aspire to something, he would

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Speaker 1: drive around neighborhoods with really nice houses and just marvel at, Hey,

665
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Speaker 1: that's my goal. I want to go there someday, not

666
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Speaker 1: drive around and be like, oh that person has more

667
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Speaker 1: than I do, and oh I need you know. His

668
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Speaker 1: mentality was all he was very ambitious.

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Speaker 2: He was not jealous in a way I'm going to

670
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Speaker 2: take that from them or they don't deserve that, and

671
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Speaker 2: I do and therefore, yeah, no, absolutely, it was very

672
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Speaker 2: ambitious and very hopeful and positive.

673
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Speaker 1: And truly understood and appreciated the opportunities this country has

674
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Speaker 1: and capitalism.

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Speaker 2: Emphasis exactly, and the warmth of individualism and be rugged

676
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Speaker 2: individualism and being able to pick yourself up by your

677
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Speaker 2: bootstraps and set out and carve the path that you

678
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Speaker 2: want to carve, and not you know, be part of

679
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Speaker 2: the collective just because you know it's easy or convenient

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Speaker 2: or course.

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Speaker 1: Our last after Ours podcast, Greg and I revisited the

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Speaker 1: Rush Individualism Versus Collectivism archives because we have just come

683
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Speaker 1: off the New Year with mom Donnie's speech in New

684
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Speaker 1: York and praising that, and we were both we were

685
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Speaker 1: both sick, but we were like, we are recording this

686
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Speaker 1: after ours and we are going to play Rush. We

687
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Speaker 1: need to remind everyone of the things.

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Speaker 2: So if you if you missed it, head back there

689
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Speaker 2: and check it out.

690
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Speaker 1: Yeah, just go into the Clay and Book podcast network.

691
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Speaker 1: You'll find us.

692
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Speaker 4: Yeah, way down in the hole. This is uh season

693
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Speaker 4: five of The Wire. The theme song is by Steve Earle.

694
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Speaker 4: Here's Steven and Murray.

695
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Speaker 3: Utah.

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Speaker 4: So you're reading Steve Young's book and the challenges he

697
00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:03,759
Speaker 4: faced coming up reminded him of the quote you heard

698
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Speaker 4: me say about.

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Speaker 9: Not quite Rush. It reminded me of your quote. It

700
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Speaker 9: reminded me of your quote where you said, most of

701
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Speaker 9: the reasons people think they can't do something the reasons

702
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:17,000
Speaker 9: they've invented. Right, Everything you do in life is up

703
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:18,919
Speaker 9: to you. Part of life is realizing you have much

704
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:21,799
Speaker 9: more potential and ability than you'd ever know. But it's

705
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:23,759
Speaker 9: up to you to face the fears and unleash that

706
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Speaker 9: which really drives you. Now, as I read this book

707
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Speaker 9: by Steve Young, his path to the NFL wasn't easy.

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Speaker 9: At BYU he was number eight on this team depth chart,

709
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Speaker 9: and he said, well, I could have thrown a pity

710
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Speaker 9: party and just given up and gone home. Or I

711
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:44,160
Speaker 9: could have chosen to have a positive perspective on life

712
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:49,040
Speaker 9: and let my play prove people wrong. People told Steve

713
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Speaker 9: Young he'd never make it as a left handed quarterback.

714
00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:56,319
Speaker 9: His accuracy wasn't there. Well, he worked on his accuracy,

715
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Speaker 9: and I mean, look at the way his career turned out.

716
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Speaker 9: In the Hall of Fame and his Super Bowl rings.

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Speaker 9: So that just reminded me of that quote from you.

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Speaker 9: And I've noticed that quote to be true in my

719
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Speaker 9: own minds. You see, I was born premature and I

720
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Speaker 9: have some challenges, and I use this quote of yours

721
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Speaker 9: in some college essays or during some lectures in journalism classes,

722
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Speaker 9: and my professors are pretty impressed. And I've noticed that

723
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Speaker 9: quote of yours to feature in my own life, and

724
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Speaker 9: so I wanted to thank you for that.

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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 4: I appreciate that, I really do. I love having this

727
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:42,440
Speaker 4: come back like this because that's it's always great to

728
00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 4: have affirmation like that, you know. Speaking of Steve Young,

729
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Speaker 4: I mean, he's overcome a lot, there's no question he

730
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Speaker 4: had and he's.

731
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Speaker 3: Achieved a lot.

732
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Speaker 4: But I think one of the things he probably would

733
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Speaker 4: admit this if he were here, And I think people

734
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Speaker 4: in the sports media people follow NFL are pretty much

735
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Speaker 4: aware of this. But he was second string to Joe

736
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Speaker 4: Montana for a number of years.

737
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Speaker 3: It's like being second string to Babe Ruth.

738
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Speaker 4: It doesn't matter who's next, there's no way they can

739
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Speaker 4: measure up. I mean, Joe Montana was mythologically huge. In fact,

740
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Speaker 4: Joe Montana. That was one name. I mean, Joe Montana

741
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Speaker 4: was such a big deal in San Francisco. It wasn't

742
00:39:29,239 --> 00:39:34,720
Speaker 4: Joe Montana. Joe Montana. He just owned everything. And Young

743
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Speaker 4: was on the bench. I can remember I was at

744
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Speaker 4: a game the Fort Unrews and the New Orleans Saints

745
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Speaker 4: at the Superdome and Montana was hurt and Young was

746
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Speaker 4: the starting quarterback and it was it was not yet

747
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Speaker 4: his job because Montana was going to come back and

748
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Speaker 4: reclaim the job, but soon thereafter would be traded or

749
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Speaker 4: released and go to the Kansaity Chiefs. But during the pregame,

750
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Speaker 4: Joe Montana was granting interviews on the sideline to anybody

751
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Speaker 4: that had a camera, even though he wasn't playing. He

752
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Speaker 4: was a bigger deal than Steve Young, who was going

753
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Speaker 4: to be starting that day.

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Speaker 3: Now, I don't know, I know Steve Young.

755
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Speaker 4: I got to know Steve Young during my stint at

756
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Speaker 4: the pre politicized days at ESPN and the Sunday NFL

757
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Speaker 4: pregame show. I've only met Montana once. But Folks, the

758
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Speaker 4: reason that I have all these things about such philosophies

759
00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:39,640
Speaker 4: is the only limitations we have in life.

760
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Speaker 3: For the most of them are the ones we place

761
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Speaker 3: in ourselves.

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Speaker 4: When you get to the rarefied air that people like

763
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Speaker 4: Montana and Steve Young, another NFL quarterbacks are breathing, you

764
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Speaker 4: can't believe the competitive, the cutthroat, competitive nature of things.

765
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Speaker 4: And make no mistake, and this is not a cut

766
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Speaker 4: I don't want anybody calling Montana and telling him that

767
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Speaker 4: I was, because it's not. But Joe Montana on a

768
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Speaker 4: day that Steve Young is going to start because Montana's

769
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Speaker 4: hurt and Montana is still trying to soak up all

770
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Speaker 4: the oxygen with all the pregame interviews now not I mean,

771
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Speaker 4: he could turn them down, but it's not going to happen.

772
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Speaker 4: And the press wanting to talk to Montana was quite natural.

773
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Speaker 4: He wasn't seeking them out, but it was a way

774
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Speaker 4: to keep the light shining on him. He wanted the

775
00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:33,439
Speaker 4: job back. It's just the way it is. It wasn't mean,

776
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:37,920
Speaker 4: it wasn't cruel. It's just the nature of competition. And

777
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Speaker 4: my fear is we're not teaching competition. We're shielding people

778
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Speaker 4: from it. For the longest time, children nobody's allowed to

779
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:49,879
Speaker 4: win anything, to participation in trophies. But when you get

780
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Speaker 4: to real life and if you really want to amount

781
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:55,680
Speaker 4: to something, if you when you get whatever line of

782
00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:59,200
Speaker 4: work you're in, as you get to the top of

783
00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:02,000
Speaker 4: that line of work, there are very few people there.

784
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:10,160
Speaker 4: That's why the phrase rarefied air and it is cutthroat.

785
00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:15,480
Speaker 4: The competition is cutthroat, even among best friends, and you

786
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:19,880
Speaker 4: have to be able by virtue of experience to be

787
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Speaker 4: able to deal with it.

788
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Speaker 3: You're not gonna win every outing. I don't mean game.

789
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 4: You're not gonna beat everybody out for the top job.

790
00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:32,239
Speaker 4: And there's sometimes you're gonna be the best, but you're

791
00:42:32,239 --> 00:42:34,680
Speaker 4: not gonna get the gig because there are other factors.

792
00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:37,600
Speaker 4: People make a decision, might like somebody more than they

793
00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:38,000
Speaker 4: like you.

794
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Speaker 3: It's vicious and you have to be totally singularly focused

795
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Speaker 3: on yourself, not in a bad way. You have to

796
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Speaker 3: believe in yourself.

797
00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:50,880
Speaker 4: You have to believe there's a reason you're trying to

798
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Speaker 4: pursue the highest levels you can go. That's because you

799
00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:56,440
Speaker 4: can do it, and you can do it well, and

800
00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:57,640
Speaker 4: you can do it better.

801
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Speaker 3: Than anybody else.

802
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:04,080
Speaker 4: The minute you carve that life for yourself, you are

803
00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:07,600
Speaker 4: making enemies because a lot of people are gonna be

804
00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:09,439
Speaker 4: fighting for the same thing, and they're going to try

805
00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:12,839
Speaker 4: to be beating you out and denying you what you want.

806
00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:14,920
Speaker 3: You're going to be doing the same thing to them.

807
00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:17,600
Speaker 4: They are gonna be others who just resent you for

808
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Speaker 4: thinking you're that good.

809
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:20,000
Speaker 3: They're gonna resent.

810
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:22,960
Speaker 4: You for even having the audacity to try to climb

811
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Speaker 4: that high I meet, folks, it is vicious out there.

812
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Speaker 3: It's also very healthy.

813
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:32,359
Speaker 4: All of these things are things that successful people have

814
00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:36,440
Speaker 4: to go through in order not just to reach the pinnacle,

815
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 4: but then to stay there. Because I'm gonna tell you,

816
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:45,720
Speaker 4: getting there, while fraught with stress and competition and never

817
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 4: ending assaults, getting there is not even half as hard

818
00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:53,000
Speaker 4: as staying because once you get there or close to it,

819
00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:56,919
Speaker 4: everybody wants what you have, and there's really it's much

820
00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:59,640
Speaker 4: easier to go south than north when you're at the top.

821
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:04,600
Speaker 4: And so that's why I have this philosophy about limitations.

822
00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:06,320
Speaker 2: It's easy to be a victim.

823
00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:09,959
Speaker 4: Look how easy the Democrat Party has made almost half

824
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:11,600
Speaker 4: this country think they're victims of something.

825
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:13,840
Speaker 3: And what happens to you when you're a.

826
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Speaker 4: Victim, Well, when you're a victim, you automatically have a

827
00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:22,520
Speaker 4: built in excuse for failure. When you are a victim,

828
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:28,240
Speaker 4: it's always somebody else's fault. When you're a victim, success

829
00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:31,840
Speaker 4: is not possible. When you are a victim of something,

830
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:35,680
Speaker 4: you are acknowledging that you are as far as you're

831
00:44:35,680 --> 00:44:38,320
Speaker 4: going to get, and you can't get any further because

832
00:44:38,320 --> 00:44:41,319
Speaker 4: they are more powerful forces arrayed against you than the

833
00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:45,120
Speaker 4: force of yourself against it. And the Democrat Party does

834
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:47,839
Speaker 4: this on purpose. The Democrat Party makes as many people

835
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:51,040
Speaker 4: victims as possible because it freezes them right where they are,

836
00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:54,440
Speaker 4: and that's usually in lower middle class or abject poverty.

837
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:57,760
Speaker 4: It makes them resentful. If you're a victim, you're not happy.

838
00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:01,000
Speaker 4: You can't be happy. It's impossible to be happy. It's

839
00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:03,399
Speaker 4: even difficult to be content. If you're a victim. You're

840
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:06,800
Speaker 4: always mad, but never at yourself. You're mad at somebody else.

841
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:10,320
Speaker 4: The Democrats have parleyed this into one of the biggest

842
00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:15,000
Speaker 4: political movements in human history, and that would be of

843
00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:19,080
Speaker 4: the victimized. Look at how many victim groups there are,

844
00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:22,640
Speaker 4: and they all happen to be Democrat constituency groups.

845
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:25,640
Speaker 3: They all are on the protest march. They're all angry,

846
00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:26,600
Speaker 3: they're all enraged.

847
00:45:26,960 --> 00:45:29,000
Speaker 4: Some of them are women, some of them are minorities,

848
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:31,480
Speaker 4: some of them are illegal immigrants, you name it. But

849
00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:34,600
Speaker 4: they all have one thing in common. They have given

850
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:37,759
Speaker 4: up on the notion that they could be somebody and

851
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:43,320
Speaker 4: instead have descended into full fledged victimhood and the comfort

852
00:45:43,960 --> 00:45:46,959
Speaker 4: of being in a group of like minded failures. Why

853
00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:49,919
Speaker 4: isn't everybody a victim? It'd be easy if anybody could

854
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:52,680
Speaker 4: choose that if they wanted to. Being a victim is

855
00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:54,400
Speaker 4: almost as easy as being a liberal. It's one of

856
00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:57,160
Speaker 4: the most gutless choices you could make, doesn't take much.

857
00:45:57,360 --> 00:46:00,520
Speaker 4: Built in excuses for failure, built in excuse uses for

858
00:46:00,719 --> 00:46:04,000
Speaker 4: being miserable, built in excuses for being angry all the time,

859
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:06,240
Speaker 4: no reason to try to be happy. It's not possible.

860
00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:09,440
Speaker 4: You're a victim, victim of what. Well, you're a victim

861
00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:12,040
Speaker 4: of discrimination. Well, you're a victim of America. You're a

862
00:46:12,120 --> 00:46:13,400
Speaker 4: victim of America's past.

863
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:14,640
Speaker 3: You're a victim of.

864
00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:19,400
Speaker 4: Religion, You're a victim of bigotry, of homophobia, whatever, You're

865
00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:22,239
Speaker 4: a victim of something. The Democrats got one for you.

866
00:46:22,239 --> 00:46:23,799
Speaker 4: If you want to be a victim, call them up,

867
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:26,400
Speaker 4: you know, call Schumer, Tell him, hey, I want to

868
00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:27,800
Speaker 4: join you. I want to be a victim. You have

869
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:29,759
Speaker 4: a group for me, He'll have one. He'll ask you

870
00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:31,600
Speaker 4: what color you are, You'll ask you what your sexual

871
00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:32,440
Speaker 4: orientation is.

872
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:36,080
Speaker 3: He'll ask you what your gender is. He'll ask you

873
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:37,600
Speaker 3: any umber.

874
00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:40,319
Speaker 4: Questions, and he'll give you your choice of victim groups that

875
00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:42,719
Speaker 4: you can join. And then he'll show you where you

876
00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:45,640
Speaker 4: go to get a food stamp allocation here this or

877
00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:48,040
Speaker 4: that there, how you get emergency health care if you

878
00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:50,319
Speaker 4: need it. All on the Democrats, and it can keep

879
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:53,920
Speaker 4: it flowing if you just do two things, stay victim

880
00:46:54,440 --> 00:46:57,120
Speaker 4: and vote Democrat. But the people that don't choose that

881
00:46:57,880 --> 00:46:59,560
Speaker 4: end up being the ones victims hate.

882
00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:01,720
Speaker 3: The people that choose.

883
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:06,399
Speaker 4: To face life, the people that choose to embrace it,

884
00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:11,000
Speaker 4: the people that choose to just soak it up, the

885
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:12,759
Speaker 4: people that choose to.

886
00:47:12,920 --> 00:47:17,759
Speaker 10: Dive right in and test their limits and find out

887
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:20,279
Speaker 10: what they're capable of and how good they can be,

888
00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:22,840
Speaker 10: And if that's really what they do want to do,

889
00:47:23,120 --> 00:47:25,320
Speaker 10: victims are going to hate them because they.

890
00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:29,880
Speaker 3: Are showing what anybody could do if they just had

891
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:30,960
Speaker 3: an attitude adjustment.

892
00:47:32,239 --> 00:47:36,560
Speaker 4: So if you think, for example, that well, let's say

893
00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:39,560
Speaker 4: you want to do a job and you want to

894
00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:42,520
Speaker 4: be really you want to rise really high in that career,

895
00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:48,840
Speaker 4: but where you live, that job doesn't exist. Your town's

896
00:47:48,880 --> 00:47:51,680
Speaker 4: too small, or maybe the business is in your town,

897
00:47:51,719 --> 00:47:54,040
Speaker 4: but even if you reach the pinnacle there, it's not

898
00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:57,040
Speaker 4: because it's a small town, it's not nearly as high

899
00:47:57,040 --> 00:48:01,560
Speaker 4: as you can go. If you're unwilling to move, well,

900
00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:05,359
Speaker 4: that's all on you. That's a limitation you're placing on yourself. Now,

901
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:07,799
Speaker 4: that's fine if that's what makes you happy. I'm not

902
00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:12,840
Speaker 4: criticizing things. I'm just pointing out that it's not usually

903
00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:14,960
Speaker 4: anybody else's fault when you don't.

904
00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:17,839
Speaker 3: Get me you want. Sometimes it is.

905
00:48:18,239 --> 00:48:23,200
Speaker 4: There's exceptions to everything, but usually the self limitations that

906
00:48:23,280 --> 00:48:25,920
Speaker 4: we attach to ourselves.

907
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:27,840
Speaker 3: I wanted to be a success in radio.

908
00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:30,960
Speaker 4: There was no way it was ever going to happen

909
00:48:31,320 --> 00:48:32,840
Speaker 4: if I stayed where I was born.

910
00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:34,600
Speaker 3: It was not possible.

911
00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:38,359
Speaker 4: Nothing against where I was born, nothing against the people there,

912
00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:43,640
Speaker 4: it just wasn't possible. I knew when I was fifteen

913
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:45,839
Speaker 4: that I was going to have to leave if I

914
00:48:45,920 --> 00:48:49,200
Speaker 4: was serious in what I was doing. And back then

915
00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:52,840
Speaker 4: I knew that that every climb, every rung up the

916
00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:58,680
Speaker 4: ladder was going to involve another move, and it did,

917
00:48:59,320 --> 00:49:00,040
Speaker 4: and it.

918
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:03,600
Speaker 3: I wanted it badly.

919
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:08,080
Speaker 4: I remained dedicated to my desires and it's what enabled

920
00:49:08,120 --> 00:49:10,920
Speaker 4: me to come back after being fired seven or eight

921
00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:16,640
Speaker 4: times whatever it was, only twice for legitimate insubordination.

922
00:49:16,880 --> 00:49:20,080
Speaker 1: Greg, what are some of your personal favorite Rush memories

923
00:49:20,360 --> 00:49:22,400
Speaker 1: working on this show, Things that really stood out to

924
00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:23,680
Speaker 1: you that you wanted to highlight today.

925
00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:26,320
Speaker 2: Well, some of the things that when I think of Rush,

926
00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:31,320
Speaker 2: Rush to me was the ultimate jokester. He was a prankstra.

927
00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:34,440
Speaker 2: He was like, you know, the Loki, the god of

928
00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:39,760
Speaker 2: the Norse, god of trickster, the trickster god. That was Rush.

929
00:49:39,840 --> 00:49:42,960
Speaker 2: He had a wicked sense of humor and he loved

930
00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:47,759
Speaker 2: playing jokes on the listeners. And this went back to

931
00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:51,680
Speaker 2: his early days of being a DJ as well. And

932
00:49:51,960 --> 00:49:54,600
Speaker 2: some of the things when he taught would talk about

933
00:49:55,320 --> 00:49:58,719
Speaker 2: seeing women farting in their cars when they you know,

934
00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:01,160
Speaker 2: and people were calling up and going, you can't see

935
00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:03,759
Speaker 2: people farting in the of course I saw the fart

936
00:50:04,160 --> 00:50:07,279
Speaker 2: women farting and only women doing it, and of course

937
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:10,520
Speaker 2: you was referring to putting on your makeup faar d

938
00:50:11,160 --> 00:50:14,280
Speaker 2: and people getting really worked up about that. Sort of stuff.

939
00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:18,920
Speaker 2: One of the classics that I think that anybody slipps

940
00:50:19,120 --> 00:50:22,520
Speaker 2: thinks about that one is a good one, is when

941
00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:27,840
Speaker 2: Rush endorsed Bill Clinton. Yes, that one has to be

942
00:50:27,960 --> 00:50:32,760
Speaker 2: up there in the pantheon of great Rush moments.

943
00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:34,560
Speaker 1: When well, that was a prank with a twist and

944
00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:35,080
Speaker 1: a lesson.

945
00:50:35,480 --> 00:50:40,400
Speaker 2: It absolutely was, and you know the whole thing, and

946
00:50:40,440 --> 00:50:44,360
Speaker 2: I was just listening to it, that whole segment. He

947
00:50:44,440 --> 00:50:47,440
Speaker 2: goes on and he talks about why he said, and

948
00:50:47,520 --> 00:50:50,880
Speaker 2: he's really not happy about what's happening, and he's depressed,

949
00:50:50,920 --> 00:50:52,760
Speaker 2: he doesn't want to be there. And then he gets

950
00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:58,480
Speaker 2: to the nut says I'm endorsing Bill Clinton for president,

951
00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:02,480
Speaker 2: and I'm I mean, scratch your needle, scratch on the record.

952
00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:08,799
Speaker 2: What And then the poor woman who called in not

953
00:51:08,880 --> 00:51:13,839
Speaker 2: long after that, Phyllis. It makes your heart break and

954
00:51:14,160 --> 00:51:16,719
Speaker 2: you're laughing at the same time because I feel so

955
00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:20,080
Speaker 2: bad for Phyllis. I mean, I think it's it's it's

956
00:51:20,120 --> 00:51:23,279
Speaker 2: such a great epic moment. And of course Rush wasn't

957
00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:24,160
Speaker 2: doing it again.

958
00:51:24,239 --> 00:51:27,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was a motl.

959
00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:29,239
Speaker 2: There was a reason that he was doing that exactly,

960
00:51:29,920 --> 00:51:33,400
Speaker 2: but he loved being able to do that and to

961
00:51:33,560 --> 00:51:36,839
Speaker 2: use his sense of humor to to bring forth all

962
00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:39,400
Speaker 2: of these things. And you know, I never said that,

963
00:51:39,520 --> 00:51:42,239
Speaker 2: I ma'am. You're talking about something twenty five minutes ago

964
00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:44,239
Speaker 2: that we should we should move on.

965
00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:46,720
Speaker 3: That's the past. It's just great.

966
00:51:47,200 --> 00:51:50,520
Speaker 2: It's just you know, it's wonderful stuff. So let's go

967
00:51:50,560 --> 00:51:53,040
Speaker 2: ahead and maybe listen to that. What do you think, Yeah,

968
00:51:53,120 --> 00:51:53,560
Speaker 2: let's do it.

969
00:51:53,680 --> 00:51:59,319
Speaker 4: I ladies and gentlemen, here at twelve minutes after the hour,

970
00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:03,799
Speaker 4: on the twenty second of October, I am here to

971
00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:08,560
Speaker 4: tell you that I have decided to endorse the candidacy

972
00:52:08,600 --> 00:52:09,080
Speaker 4: of Bill.

973
00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:13,799
Speaker 3: Clinton for president. Phyllis in the Bronx in New York.

974
00:52:13,840 --> 00:52:17,040
Speaker 11: Hello, Hello, Hello, My name is Phillis.

975
00:52:17,160 --> 00:52:18,400
Speaker 3: Yes, ma'am, I am.

976
00:52:18,239 --> 00:52:23,560
Speaker 11: A conservative and I backed my president one. I work

977
00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:26,359
Speaker 11: for the Border Ed. I am home sick today, but

978
00:52:26,640 --> 00:52:30,680
Speaker 11: now I'm really sick. Rush. What are you doing to us?

979
00:52:31,040 --> 00:52:34,040
Speaker 11: I'm sick and tired of the liberals in this country.

980
00:52:34,080 --> 00:52:35,680
Speaker 11: You are at one.

981
00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:36,840
Speaker 3: What are you talking about?

982
00:52:37,320 --> 00:52:42,280
Speaker 11: I mean, you're backing mister, You're backing Bill Clinton.

983
00:52:42,360 --> 00:52:45,920
Speaker 3: I am not, I am, I'm not said. I never

984
00:52:46,120 --> 00:52:46,680
Speaker 3: said that.

985
00:52:47,200 --> 00:52:49,680
Speaker 11: You said you are going to change your vote. You're

986
00:52:49,680 --> 00:52:51,440
Speaker 11: not voting for the president, you're going to have to

987
00:52:51,520 --> 00:52:52,600
Speaker 11: vote for Bill Clinton?

988
00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:54,680
Speaker 3: That I did not say that.

989
00:52:54,840 --> 00:52:57,640
Speaker 4: I did not say that I was going to Did

990
00:52:57,680 --> 00:53:01,120
Speaker 4: you say I did not say that I was going

991
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:06,080
Speaker 4: to vote for Bill Clinton? No, no, no, no, this

992
00:53:06,160 --> 00:53:08,520
Speaker 4: is you're just trying to twist my words and turn

993
00:53:08,560 --> 00:53:09,000
Speaker 4: them around.

994
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:09,839
Speaker 3: I never said it.

995
00:53:11,600 --> 00:53:14,160
Speaker 11: What did you say? Could could you just tell me

996
00:53:14,239 --> 00:53:16,919
Speaker 11: you said you couldn't you know? I can't even talk.

997
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:21,400
Speaker 11: I'm so upset, I'm practically ready for tears.

998
00:53:22,239 --> 00:53:23,359
Speaker 2: Look, I don't know.

999
00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:24,840
Speaker 3: You keep wanting to look at it.

1000
00:53:24,880 --> 00:53:25,440
Speaker 2: Look look, look.

1001
00:53:25,480 --> 00:53:27,480
Speaker 4: All I can tell you is I'm tired of everybody

1002
00:53:27,520 --> 00:53:28,680
Speaker 4: wants to look into my past.

1003
00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:31,360
Speaker 1: No, no, no, all anybody pass.

1004
00:53:31,280 --> 00:53:34,560
Speaker 4: It was twenty three minutes ago. You keep talking about

1005
00:53:34,560 --> 00:53:38,120
Speaker 4: something that happened twenty three minutes ago. It's irrelevant. Can't

1006
00:53:38,120 --> 00:53:39,959
Speaker 4: we move on with things that matter?

1007
00:53:40,600 --> 00:53:45,279
Speaker 3: Can't can't we talk? Can't we talk about the things

1008
00:53:45,280 --> 00:53:45,560
Speaker 3: that mean?

1009
00:53:45,600 --> 00:53:47,879
Speaker 4: You keep want to say what I said twenty three

1010
00:53:47,920 --> 00:53:48,439
Speaker 4: minutes ago.

1011
00:53:48,760 --> 00:53:50,200
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter.

1012
00:53:50,120 --> 00:53:52,680
Speaker 11: It does, it does not. The country.

1013
00:53:53,160 --> 00:53:55,400
Speaker 2: I didn't say it, Everybody, I didn't say it.

1014
00:53:55,440 --> 00:53:55,840
Speaker 11: Country.

1015
00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:59,759
Speaker 3: I was younger twenty three minutes ago. Cut me some slack. No,

1016
00:53:59,800 --> 00:54:02,080
Speaker 3: I did you know. This is the this is the

1017
00:54:02,160 --> 00:54:03,680
Speaker 3: kind of we're trying to move forward.

1018
00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:06,000
Speaker 4: We've got some things that are important that we've got

1019
00:54:06,040 --> 00:54:07,759
Speaker 4: to do on this radio show. And you want to

1020
00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:09,720
Speaker 4: talk about something to happen twenty three minutes ago.

1021
00:54:10,080 --> 00:54:12,560
Speaker 11: That's right, Well, of course it's very relevant.

1022
00:54:12,640 --> 00:54:13,080
Speaker 1: It is not.

1023
00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:16,200
Speaker 11: We are two weeks away from the election. You are

1024
00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:19,920
Speaker 11: talking to the entire country, and the entire country is

1025
00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:23,440
Speaker 11: listening to you. Who has been our our leader, the

1026
00:54:23,520 --> 00:54:27,320
Speaker 11: one we looked up to for everything. Now you're telling

1027
00:54:27,400 --> 00:54:31,120
Speaker 11: us I can't go with mister Bush. I never said that.

1028
00:54:31,360 --> 00:54:34,080
Speaker 4: I did not say that you can't go with mister Bush.

1029
00:54:34,160 --> 00:54:35,320
Speaker 4: You can go with mister Bush.

1030
00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:35,880
Speaker 3: I hope we do.

1031
00:54:36,239 --> 00:54:38,120
Speaker 11: Am going with mister Bush.

1032
00:54:38,160 --> 00:54:39,440
Speaker 2: I think everybody should.

1033
00:54:39,760 --> 00:54:43,319
Speaker 11: And just at this moment when the industrial production in

1034
00:54:43,360 --> 00:54:46,439
Speaker 11: the country is on the upswing lay the figures are up.

1035
00:54:46,800 --> 00:54:49,399
Speaker 11: I mean, people are really starting to get it back

1036
00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:53,759
Speaker 11: together again. We need to vote for mister Bush. He

1037
00:54:53,880 --> 00:54:57,520
Speaker 11: needs us now, he needs our support more than ever.

1038
00:54:58,120 --> 00:55:01,760
Speaker 4: Let me tell you something. I couldn't agree with you more.

1039
00:55:01,880 --> 00:55:05,400
Speaker 4: Where have you been? That's exactly the point that I

1040
00:55:05,480 --> 00:55:08,160
Speaker 4: have been making you think that stuff. You know that

1041
00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:11,480
Speaker 4: stuff because of me, because of this show, because I'm

1042
00:55:11,520 --> 00:55:14,359
Speaker 4: the one that has told you how good things are.

1043
00:55:14,640 --> 00:55:17,279
Speaker 4: I've told you how things aren't bad. I've told you

1044
00:55:17,280 --> 00:55:19,759
Speaker 4: how there's reason to be optimistic. Because you live in

1045
00:55:19,760 --> 00:55:22,120
Speaker 4: the United States of America and you call here and

1046
00:55:22,160 --> 00:55:24,239
Speaker 4: you give me grief about something I never even said.

1047
00:55:25,960 --> 00:55:29,200
Speaker 11: You know, Russ, I know what I heard. I'm sitting

1048
00:55:29,239 --> 00:55:31,520
Speaker 11: here and I'm listening to you. I listened to every

1049
00:55:31,640 --> 00:55:32,439
Speaker 11: chance I get.

1050
00:55:32,719 --> 00:55:37,080
Speaker 2: Well, you're gonna have to go through the conservative You're.

1051
00:55:36,920 --> 00:55:39,040
Speaker 4: Going to have to listen a little bit more closely, Phillips,

1052
00:55:39,080 --> 00:55:40,400
Speaker 4: and you're gonna have to think about the future.

1053
00:55:40,440 --> 00:55:42,320
Speaker 3: This what happens in the past is irrelevant.

1054
00:55:42,560 --> 00:55:45,520
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter. You mean you're talking about you're talking

1055
00:55:45,560 --> 00:55:49,640
Speaker 4: about my character when you are challenging something I've said

1056
00:55:49,960 --> 00:55:52,160
Speaker 4: twenty three, twenty five minutes ago, you were talking about

1057
00:55:52,200 --> 00:55:56,600
Speaker 4: my character. My character doesn't matter to anything. What matters

1058
00:55:56,680 --> 00:55:58,799
Speaker 4: is this country and how we've got to get it

1059
00:55:58,880 --> 00:55:59,839
Speaker 4: fixed and do it right.

1060
00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:00,799
Speaker 2: And then so just.

1061
00:56:02,640 --> 00:56:05,520
Speaker 4: Appreciate your concern, but you got to get focused on

1062
00:56:05,560 --> 00:56:06,600
Speaker 4: the things that are important.

1063
00:56:06,960 --> 00:56:09,800
Speaker 2: I don't know about you, but for me, for my money,

1064
00:56:10,120 --> 00:56:15,759
Speaker 2: right there, that that the pain in her voice, poor Phyllis,

1065
00:56:15,960 --> 00:56:18,440
Speaker 2: and I don't know whatever happened to Phyllis, but you

1066
00:56:18,480 --> 00:56:22,080
Speaker 2: can hear she's Rush, you're our leader, and where you know,

1067
00:56:22,160 --> 00:56:25,000
Speaker 2: you're telling us not to vote for President Bush and

1068
00:56:25,040 --> 00:56:27,200
Speaker 2: we're going to vote for President. But I never told

1069
00:56:27,239 --> 00:56:29,200
Speaker 2: you not to vote for President Bush. I just told

1070
00:56:29,239 --> 00:56:32,959
Speaker 2: you what I'm going to do. Just and I feel

1071
00:56:33,040 --> 00:56:35,919
Speaker 2: so bad for her and yet laughing at the same time.

1072
00:56:35,960 --> 00:56:41,680
Speaker 2: It was wonderful. It's funny. Actually, similarly a comedian one

1073
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:44,440
Speaker 2: that I that I like Dennis Leary did. It had

1074
00:56:44,480 --> 00:56:48,239
Speaker 2: a bit again same kind of time frame back in

1075
00:56:48,280 --> 00:56:51,120
Speaker 2: the early nineties where he was. He would go, you

1076
00:56:51,280 --> 00:56:54,440
Speaker 2: talk about how these celebrities would go out and they

1077
00:56:54,480 --> 00:56:57,640
Speaker 2: would trash a car and they would do drugs and

1078
00:56:57,640 --> 00:56:59,600
Speaker 2: they would get caught and all this stuff, and then

1079
00:56:59,680 --> 00:57:02,880
Speaker 2: they go, well, I screwed up. I'm going to rehab,

1080
00:57:03,320 --> 00:57:05,280
Speaker 2: and they would you know, kind of get a pass

1081
00:57:05,360 --> 00:57:08,640
Speaker 2: on that. And Rush was kind of illustrating to illustrate

1082
00:57:08,880 --> 00:57:11,560
Speaker 2: the absurdity of that sort of thing. How can you

1083
00:57:11,600 --> 00:57:14,840
Speaker 2: know I'm gonna you should be giving me a pass.

1084
00:57:14,920 --> 00:57:16,800
Speaker 2: Why are you giving me a hard time about this?

1085
00:57:17,560 --> 00:57:22,600
Speaker 2: I'm just you know, So that's really kind of The

1086
00:57:22,640 --> 00:57:24,760
Speaker 2: way I see it is that he was really trying

1087
00:57:24,760 --> 00:57:28,919
Speaker 2: to illustrate the absurdity of these n income poops who

1088
00:57:28,920 --> 00:57:31,200
Speaker 2: were trying to get away with everything and not be

1089
00:57:31,280 --> 00:57:34,760
Speaker 2: held accountable, especially the liberals and depocrats on the left.

1090
00:57:35,200 --> 00:57:39,439
Speaker 1: So that was classic Rush, illustrating absurdity by being absurd, and.

1091
00:57:39,360 --> 00:57:42,560
Speaker 2: That's what he loved to do more than anything. Thank you, Yes,

1092
00:57:43,080 --> 00:57:44,080
Speaker 2: that's a good way to put it.

1093
00:57:44,160 --> 00:57:47,040
Speaker 1: Yet he had a way of something things out and as.

1094
00:57:46,880 --> 00:57:50,760
Speaker 2: You just did, you took my seven minutes of verbal

1095
00:57:50,800 --> 00:57:54,720
Speaker 2: diarrhea and boiled it down to you know, seven words.

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Speaker 2: So thank you.

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Speaker 1: Another funny thing that he would do every time we

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00:57:59,160 --> 00:58:03,680
Speaker 1: had female callers, Collin, he would often, I would say,

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00:58:03,960 --> 00:58:08,320
Speaker 1: eight times out of ten, tell the woman Mary Lee

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00:58:08,400 --> 00:58:12,320
Speaker 1: that is my top ten female name. Julia, that is

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00:58:12,400 --> 00:58:14,080
Speaker 1: my top ten female.

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00:58:13,720 --> 00:58:16,440
Speaker 2: He did it from Manhattan. Ali is one of my

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00:58:16,560 --> 00:58:18,560
Speaker 2: top ten all time female names.

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00:58:18,600 --> 00:58:21,680
Speaker 1: Well he did name his cat after me, so so

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00:58:21,760 --> 00:58:24,560
Speaker 1: you say, yeah, he could tell people it's a su

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00:58:24,720 --> 00:58:25,280
Speaker 1: urban myth.

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00:58:25,360 --> 00:58:28,520
Speaker 2: We don't know the truth, so yes, and I have

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00:58:28,560 --> 00:58:30,960
Speaker 2: to give it a tip of the hat to you know.

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00:58:31,320 --> 00:58:34,320
Speaker 2: I had the fortune, good fortune of working with Cookie

1110
00:58:34,680 --> 00:58:37,680
Speaker 2: back in the day and when we were putting together

1111
00:58:38,040 --> 00:58:41,520
Speaker 2: some of the retrospective for the twenty five and thirty

1112
00:58:41,600 --> 00:58:47,240
Speaker 2: year anniversaries, we put together the amontage of Rush talking

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00:58:47,280 --> 00:58:50,280
Speaker 2: about all the top ten female.

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00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:51,920
Speaker 1: Names, how many tens? Ten times over?

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00:58:52,120 --> 00:58:52,360
Speaker 2: Wasn't it?

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00:58:52,520 --> 00:58:52,680
Speaker 4: Yeah?

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00:58:52,760 --> 00:58:55,240
Speaker 2: It was. It was in the sixties or seventies, I think,

1118
00:58:55,360 --> 00:58:58,360
Speaker 2: is what it finally came down to and when we

1119
00:58:58,360 --> 00:59:01,680
Speaker 2: were we finally But let's you know, here's a little

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00:59:01,760 --> 00:59:03,919
Speaker 2: snippet of that montage for you right now.

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00:59:04,040 --> 00:59:07,640
Speaker 4: Kathy one of my all time top ten favorite female names.

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00:59:07,720 --> 00:59:09,280
Speaker 3: Kristen's in a top ten list of names.

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00:59:09,400 --> 00:59:11,600
Speaker 4: Kim is one of those names in my all time

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00:59:11,840 --> 00:59:13,720
Speaker 4: top ten favorite female names.

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00:59:13,800 --> 00:59:15,240
Speaker 3: What a great name. Caitlin one of.

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00:59:15,200 --> 00:59:18,560
Speaker 4: My all time favorite top ten female names. Ellen one

1127
00:59:18,600 --> 00:59:21,520
Speaker 4: of my all time favorite top ten female names. Elizabeth

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00:59:21,600 --> 00:59:24,320
Speaker 4: is one of my all time top ten favorite female names.

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00:59:24,400 --> 00:59:27,600
Speaker 4: Erin's one of my all time top ten favorite female names.

1130
00:59:27,680 --> 00:59:29,840
Speaker 4: And yes, Valerie is one of my all time top

1131
00:59:29,880 --> 00:59:33,360
Speaker 4: ten favorite female names. Vinceenza one of my all time

1132
00:59:33,520 --> 00:59:37,320
Speaker 4: top ten favorite female names. This Isabella one of my

1133
00:59:37,400 --> 00:59:40,280
Speaker 4: all time top ten favorite female names.

1134
00:59:40,320 --> 00:59:44,080
Speaker 3: Here's Laurie also in my top ten favorite girl names.

1135
00:59:44,160 --> 00:59:46,680
Speaker 4: Leslie, that's one of my top ten all time favorite

1136
00:59:46,680 --> 00:59:49,040
Speaker 4: female names, too, Lyla now one of my all time

1137
00:59:49,240 --> 00:59:52,880
Speaker 4: top ten favorite female names. Lauren one of my all

1138
00:59:52,920 --> 00:59:57,240
Speaker 4: time top ten favorite female names. Laura one of my

1139
00:59:57,280 --> 00:59:59,880
Speaker 4: all time top ten favorite female names, too. Nancy's in

1140
01:00:00,080 --> 01:00:03,160
Speaker 4: my top ten favorite female names list. This is Nina,

1141
01:00:03,240 --> 01:00:05,440
Speaker 4: one of my all time favorite top ten female names.

1142
01:00:05,480 --> 01:00:08,760
Speaker 4: Tina one of my all time top ten favorite female names.

1143
01:00:08,760 --> 01:00:11,720
Speaker 4: Tanisho one of my all time top ten favorite female names.

1144
01:00:11,840 --> 01:00:14,400
Speaker 4: Tracy is one of my top ten all time favorite

1145
01:00:14,400 --> 01:00:17,160
Speaker 4: female names. Denise one of my all time top ten

1146
01:00:17,240 --> 01:00:20,040
Speaker 4: favorite female names. Prissy is one of my all time

1147
01:00:20,120 --> 01:00:23,680
Speaker 4: top ten favorite female names. This is Polly, one of

1148
01:00:23,680 --> 01:00:27,640
Speaker 4: my all time favorite top ten female names. Sarah's though

1149
01:00:27,680 --> 01:00:29,880
Speaker 4: one of my all time top ten female names. Sissy

1150
01:00:30,160 --> 01:00:32,760
Speaker 4: is one of my all time top ten favorite female names.

1151
01:00:32,800 --> 01:00:35,439
Speaker 4: Susan one of my all time top ten favorite female names.

1152
01:00:35,480 --> 01:00:37,080
Speaker 4: Top ten favorite female names.

1153
01:00:37,080 --> 01:00:37,400
Speaker 3: Sheila.

1154
01:00:37,440 --> 01:00:40,640
Speaker 4: Barber's in my all time top ten list of female names.

1155
01:00:40,760 --> 01:00:42,920
Speaker 4: I've never had a caller name Barbie, even though it's

1156
01:00:42,920 --> 01:00:45,760
Speaker 4: in my top ten all time favorite female names. Bruna

1157
01:00:45,840 --> 01:00:48,840
Speaker 4: is one of my all time top ten female names.

1158
01:00:49,080 --> 01:00:51,520
Speaker 4: Marjorie That's one of my all time top ten favorite

1159
01:00:51,520 --> 01:00:53,720
Speaker 4: female names. Melanie is one of my all time top

1160
01:00:53,760 --> 01:00:56,680
Speaker 4: ten favorite female names. Martha, I love that name. Martha

1161
01:00:56,680 --> 01:00:59,040
Speaker 4: one of my top favorite female names. Marsha's one of

1162
01:00:59,040 --> 01:01:02,120
Speaker 4: my all time favorite top ten female names. Megan is

1163
01:01:02,120 --> 01:01:04,960
Speaker 4: one of my all time top ten favorite female names, too.

1164
01:01:05,120 --> 01:01:07,440
Speaker 4: Michelle is one of my all time top ten favorite

1165
01:01:07,480 --> 01:01:10,360
Speaker 4: female names. Morgan one of my all time top ten

1166
01:01:10,560 --> 01:01:13,640
Speaker 4: female names. This is one of my all time top

1167
01:01:13,800 --> 01:01:16,760
Speaker 4: ten favorite female names. Cheryl is one of my all

1168
01:01:16,800 --> 01:01:19,960
Speaker 4: time top ten female names. Candy one of my all

1169
01:01:19,960 --> 01:01:22,400
Speaker 4: time top ten favorite female names. Rachel is one of

1170
01:01:22,400 --> 01:01:25,240
Speaker 4: my all time top ten favorite female names. Allison one

1171
01:01:25,320 --> 01:01:29,360
Speaker 4: of my all time top ten favorite female names. Oh

1172
01:01:29,560 --> 01:01:32,720
Speaker 4: Amy one of my top ten all time favorite female names.

1173
01:01:32,760 --> 01:01:35,800
Speaker 4: Angelique one of my all time top ten favorite female names.

1174
01:01:35,840 --> 01:01:39,480
Speaker 4: Ashley one of my all time top ten favorite female names.

1175
01:01:39,520 --> 01:01:42,439
Speaker 4: Ambers You Know one of my all time top ten

1176
01:01:42,560 --> 01:01:43,680
Speaker 4: favorite female names.

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01:01:43,760 --> 01:01:43,880
Speaker 3: Hi.

1178
01:01:43,920 --> 01:01:46,160
Speaker 4: Janette is one of my all time favorite top ten

1179
01:01:46,200 --> 01:01:48,200
Speaker 4: female names. Jenna is one of my all time top

1180
01:01:48,240 --> 01:01:50,880
Speaker 4: ten favorite female names. Jenny one of my all time

1181
01:01:50,960 --> 01:01:54,000
Speaker 4: top ten favorite female names. Jennifer one of the top

1182
01:01:54,080 --> 01:01:56,960
Speaker 4: ten all time favorite female names. Jenny one of my

1183
01:01:57,040 --> 01:02:01,120
Speaker 4: all time top ten favorite female. Jill is one of

1184
01:02:01,120 --> 01:02:04,320
Speaker 4: my old time top ten female names. Jane's and my

1185
01:02:04,360 --> 01:02:07,200
Speaker 4: all time top ten favorite female lie Catherine. I'm glad

1186
01:02:07,240 --> 01:02:10,000
Speaker 4: you called this one of my all time top ten

1187
01:02:10,160 --> 01:02:10,920
Speaker 4: favorite names.

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01:02:11,160 --> 01:02:14,240
Speaker 1: He had a way of disarming people right away when

1189
01:02:14,240 --> 01:02:16,320
Speaker 1: they called in, because it is a little scary you're

1190
01:02:16,320 --> 01:02:19,400
Speaker 1: calling into a national radio show, you're speaking to Rush Limbaugh.

1191
01:02:19,760 --> 01:02:23,640
Speaker 1: So that was one of his techniques to calm the

1192
01:02:23,680 --> 01:02:26,680
Speaker 1: person down on the other end, especially women. And I

1193
01:02:26,720 --> 01:02:28,680
Speaker 1: thought it was an excellent tactic.

1194
01:02:28,840 --> 01:02:31,920
Speaker 2: It was very good and we understand, you know, I

1195
01:02:31,960 --> 01:02:33,720
Speaker 2: talk to again. One of the things that I get

1196
01:02:33,760 --> 01:02:36,600
Speaker 2: to do is talk to the listeners every day, and

1197
01:02:36,880 --> 01:02:38,760
Speaker 2: a lot of them call and they just want to

1198
01:02:38,800 --> 01:02:41,560
Speaker 2: say something to me. They you know, hey tell Clay

1199
01:02:41,600 --> 01:02:44,360
Speaker 2: and Buck this, so hey tell, and hey don't you

1200
01:02:44,360 --> 01:02:45,800
Speaker 2: want to go on the air. I'll say to them,

1201
01:02:46,040 --> 01:02:47,960
Speaker 2: Oh no, I'm not good on the phone, you know,

1202
01:02:48,000 --> 01:02:51,000
Speaker 2: I'd be too nervous. And I always say, you're just

1203
01:02:51,040 --> 01:02:52,640
Speaker 2: talking on the phone, just like you are to me

1204
01:02:52,760 --> 01:02:57,440
Speaker 2: right now. But people, you know, understandably, you know, they

1205
01:02:57,480 --> 01:03:01,560
Speaker 2: get caught up because yeah, you're you are in a

1206
01:03:01,600 --> 01:03:05,040
Speaker 2: position where you know a lot of people potentially could

1207
01:03:05,040 --> 01:03:07,640
Speaker 2: be hearing your voice, and that could be a daunting

1208
01:03:07,720 --> 01:03:12,640
Speaker 2: kind of a task. So I understand the feeling of

1209
01:03:13,800 --> 01:03:17,120
Speaker 2: anxiety that some people have. And yes, he was very

1210
01:03:17,120 --> 01:03:19,400
Speaker 2: good at doing that, and I think Clay and Buck

1211
01:03:19,480 --> 01:03:22,400
Speaker 2: do a great job of that as well. Quite honestly, yes, all.

1212
01:03:22,280 --> 01:03:26,040
Speaker 1: Three of them embody genuine curiosity with the caller. They

1213
01:03:26,120 --> 01:03:29,960
Speaker 1: want to know what point of view they're coming from. Absolutely,

1214
01:03:30,160 --> 01:03:31,320
Speaker 1: they want to engage.

1215
01:03:31,440 --> 01:03:33,880
Speaker 2: And that's why we love it when you know you

1216
01:03:34,040 --> 01:03:36,360
Speaker 2: call and you get right out of the gate, you

1217
01:03:36,360 --> 01:03:39,240
Speaker 2: know you hey, you know, okay, hey Ali in Manhattan,

1218
01:03:39,240 --> 01:03:42,440
Speaker 2: what's on your mind? Boom boom boom, and you make

1219
01:03:42,480 --> 01:03:46,080
Speaker 2: your points and because you know, hey, that's great, that's oh,

1220
01:03:46,160 --> 01:03:48,200
Speaker 2: thanks for the call, Clay will say and move you on,

1221
01:03:48,880 --> 01:03:53,160
Speaker 2: and it's it really is helpful when you know this

1222
01:03:53,280 --> 01:03:54,920
Speaker 2: is a little bit of a clinic for you right now.

1223
01:03:54,960 --> 01:03:57,760
Speaker 2: If you just and it's hard, you get distracted, you're

1224
01:03:57,800 --> 01:03:59,640
Speaker 2: on hold for a long time, and that sort of thing.

1225
01:04:00,120 --> 01:04:03,680
Speaker 2: But being able to do that and make it do

1226
01:04:03,760 --> 01:04:06,560
Speaker 2: a call, be a caller on one of these shows

1227
01:04:06,600 --> 01:04:10,360
Speaker 2: is a skill and not everybody can is suited for

1228
01:04:10,400 --> 01:04:12,160
Speaker 2: that either, and that's part of my job too, is

1229
01:04:12,200 --> 01:04:14,720
Speaker 2: as the call screener, is to kind of, you know,

1230
01:04:14,800 --> 01:04:17,560
Speaker 2: help people get there and weave through the ones who

1231
01:04:17,680 --> 01:04:20,320
Speaker 2: who are aren't quite there yet.

1232
01:04:20,480 --> 01:04:24,439
Speaker 1: As Rush would say, get in, get it, and get out.

1233
01:04:24,520 --> 01:04:27,400
Speaker 2: That's right exactly. So those are some of the other

1234
01:04:27,480 --> 01:04:29,680
Speaker 2: some of the things. And I think, you know, one

1235
01:04:29,720 --> 01:04:32,480
Speaker 2: of the other things that I think that that we

1236
01:04:32,920 --> 01:04:35,280
Speaker 2: had the opportunity to look back on and that I

1237
01:04:35,360 --> 01:04:39,080
Speaker 2: really enjoyed was some of the the updates, some of

1238
01:04:39,120 --> 01:04:42,800
Speaker 2: the oh the Barney Frank update and the Homeless update

1239
01:04:42,920 --> 01:04:46,440
Speaker 2: and some of the other updates, the global warming updates

1240
01:04:46,480 --> 01:04:48,760
Speaker 2: and that sort of thing. We've the homeless one always

1241
01:04:48,760 --> 01:04:55,720
Speaker 2: gets me. Ain't Got No Home, Curtis, Frog Band, Taylor Yeah,

1242
01:04:55,760 --> 01:04:59,320
Speaker 2: the Frog Band, Yeah, great stuff. I don't know about you,

1243
01:04:59,360 --> 01:05:00,720
Speaker 2: but I.

1244
01:05:00,600 --> 01:05:02,720
Speaker 1: Think we've played a lot of great clips.

1245
01:05:02,920 --> 01:05:07,160
Speaker 2: We've done some made a nice dent and did a

1246
01:05:07,280 --> 01:05:10,160
Speaker 2: nice little tribute to Rush. And I hope that I

1247
01:05:10,200 --> 01:05:12,680
Speaker 2: hope that you enjoyed it as well. You know, it

1248
01:05:12,720 --> 01:05:14,240
Speaker 2: brought up some memories for you.

1249
01:05:14,320 --> 01:05:16,000
Speaker 1: And if you'd like to share any of your own

1250
01:05:16,040 --> 01:05:18,880
Speaker 1: memories with us, feel free to send Greg a talkback

1251
01:05:19,040 --> 01:05:22,840
Speaker 1: or shoot us an email. If you're a VIP and

1252
01:05:23,440 --> 01:05:24,920
Speaker 1: we really do want to hear from you.

1253
01:05:24,960 --> 01:05:27,240
Speaker 2: Do the talkbacks is really easy, just do it through

1254
01:05:27,240 --> 01:05:29,760
Speaker 2: the app. You can do it either listening to your

1255
01:05:29,800 --> 01:05:32,960
Speaker 2: local station, listening to the show through your local station,

1256
01:05:33,160 --> 01:05:35,920
Speaker 2: or you can find Clay and Bucks picture in the

1257
01:05:35,960 --> 01:05:38,800
Speaker 2: podcast side and just send it to the podcast.

1258
01:05:38,880 --> 01:05:40,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a little microphone. All you have to do

1259
01:05:40,680 --> 01:05:42,800
Speaker 1: is click on it and you get thirty seconds to

1260
01:05:42,880 --> 01:05:45,080
Speaker 1: leave your message and then it goes right to Greg.

1261
01:05:45,160 --> 01:05:47,920
Speaker 2: Yep, you see, you hit send and it's all fun

1262
01:05:48,200 --> 01:05:51,480
Speaker 2: on its way and we get them all and so

1263
01:05:51,840 --> 01:05:54,960
Speaker 2: you know, one of us always sees them.

1264
01:05:54,880 --> 01:05:58,320
Speaker 1: So well, Greg, thank you for taking this walk down

1265
01:05:58,320 --> 01:05:59,280
Speaker 1: memory lane with me.

1266
01:05:59,480 --> 01:06:02,040
Speaker 2: This has been a lot of fun. Thank you until

1267
01:06:02,080 --> 01:06:05,000
Speaker 2: next time. By the way, you should do Legacy Box

1268
01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:06,760
Speaker 2: if you have the opportunity. Here's just a you know,

1269
01:06:06,880 --> 01:06:10,120
Speaker 2: shameless plug for Legacy Box. Ali was talking about all

1270
01:06:10,120 --> 01:06:13,520
Speaker 2: those photos she was going through earlier. So Legacy Box

1271
01:06:13,600 --> 01:06:16,760
Speaker 2: is something that I've taken advantage of, advantage of you've

1272
01:06:16,800 --> 01:06:20,840
Speaker 2: taken the advantage of. They're right down there in Tennessee. It's

1273
01:06:20,880 --> 01:06:24,960
Speaker 2: all American, you know. You you send your stuff down

1274
01:06:24,960 --> 01:06:28,240
Speaker 2: to them, they do what they have to do to

1275
01:06:28,480 --> 01:06:30,560
Speaker 2: give you a digital file, and they can. You can

1276
01:06:30,600 --> 01:06:33,640
Speaker 2: either access it online or they'll send you a thumb drive.

1277
01:06:33,920 --> 01:06:36,000
Speaker 1: The great thing about them is they can put things

1278
01:06:36,040 --> 01:06:39,520
Speaker 1: in the cloud. And why that's important. I have some good,

1279
01:06:39,600 --> 01:06:42,600
Speaker 1: really close friends from college that their family lived in

1280
01:06:42,640 --> 01:06:46,640
Speaker 1: the Pacific Palisades and they lost everything on the fires. Everything,

1281
01:06:46,760 --> 01:06:51,000
Speaker 1: every photo, every video, and if they had used a

1282
01:06:51,040 --> 01:06:53,240
Speaker 1: service like Legacy Box, they would have at least had

1283
01:06:53,280 --> 01:06:57,760
Speaker 1: that preserved somewhere. Sure, those memories are irreplaceable that old media.

1284
01:06:57,920 --> 01:07:01,240
Speaker 1: Legacy Box can easily digitize it for you. It's a

1285
01:07:01,520 --> 01:07:04,800
Speaker 1: very simple process. Just go to legacy box dot com,

1286
01:07:04,800 --> 01:07:07,440
Speaker 1: put in Clay or Buck's name, either one, and you'll

1287
01:07:07,440 --> 01:07:10,560
Speaker 1: get a discount. Highly highly recommend this. You don't want

1288
01:07:10,560 --> 01:07:12,320
Speaker 1: to wait until it's too late.

1289
01:07:12,600 --> 01:07:15,919
Speaker 2: No, definitely do it today if you have the opportunity,

1290
01:07:16,240 --> 01:07:18,320
Speaker 2: especially if you're sitting on the floor in the midst

1291
01:07:18,320 --> 01:07:21,640
Speaker 2: a pile of old photos of your husband and other things. Well,

1292
01:07:21,640 --> 01:07:24,040
Speaker 2: he's not there. Oh, now you have to clear up

1293
01:07:24,080 --> 01:07:25,000
Speaker 2: and get it out of the way.

1294
01:07:25,440 --> 01:07:28,080
Speaker 1: Greg, I have one month left to finish this project.

1295
01:07:28,200 --> 01:07:30,640
Speaker 1: And I don't know about you, but whenever you've had

1296
01:07:30,640 --> 01:07:32,560
Speaker 1: to do a project for your wife, and then you

1297
01:07:32,680 --> 01:07:36,000
Speaker 1: end up you made the mess ten times bigger than

1298
01:07:36,040 --> 01:07:36,840
Speaker 1: the original mess.

1299
01:07:36,920 --> 01:07:39,680
Speaker 2: Uh huh oh uh huh. And then now you have,

1300
01:07:39,960 --> 01:07:42,000
Speaker 2: you know, half the time to do twice the work

1301
01:07:42,000 --> 01:07:44,520
Speaker 2: because now you have to go through everything else. It's crazy.

1302
01:07:44,680 --> 01:07:48,120
Speaker 1: Yes, all right everyone, thank you for tuning in, and

1303
01:07:48,880 --> 01:07:52,840
Speaker 1: we hope this anniversary brings happy memories.

1304
01:07:52,960 --> 01:07:55,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, until next time. I'm producer Greg and I'm Preducer

1305
01:07:55,560 --> 01:07:55,800
Speaker 2: Ali