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

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

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

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Speaker 1: you know the story. I hated school. It was prison.

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

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Speaker 1: want to begin my day in drudgery and something I

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: He entered this world in January of n right in

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Speaker 1: the heartland of America, Cape Girardo, Missouri. He was born

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Speaker 1: His paternal grandfather, Rush Hudson Limbaugh the First served as

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Speaker 1: a United States ambassador. His father, Rush Hudson Limbaugh the Second,

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Speaker 1: was a lawyer, as was his uncle, and even his

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Speaker 1: younger brother David was also since gone on to becoming

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Speaker 1: As you can imagine, a deviation from the family business

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Speaker 1: there's no way my dad could have anticipated that Rush

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Speaker 1: my my dreams. As time passed, Rush came to believe

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Speaker 1: seven decades in his relentless pursuit of broadcast excellent, and

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Speaker 1: by Mark Stein. Rush Hudson Limbo the Third Land as

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Speaker 1: for Russia's last charitable effort while Rush was still with us,

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Speaker 1: through the Stand Up for Betsy Ross campaign. Your generosity

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

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: I'm the mayor of real film. This has happened, and

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Speaker 1: my intention is to come here every day I can.

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Speaker 1: But what else would you expect. This is a man

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

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Speaker 1: taught us that no matter how many times you get

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Speaker 1: knocked down or in his case, even fired seven times,

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Speaker 1: you keep getting up and pushing forward until you reach greatness.

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Speaker 1: Be humble, grateful, and share your success with others, helping others,

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Speaker 1: even if you don't expect or want credit publicly for it.

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Speaker 1: The legacy of Russia Limball and its surface, might be

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Speaker 1: that he was a groundbreaking broadcaster who had a m

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Speaker 1: radio or a savvy intellectual who knew politics had started out,

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Speaker 1: both things true he surely was, But his bigger legacy

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Speaker 1: will live on even brighter behind the scenes, with the

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Speaker 1: people who knew him best and loved him most. Checking

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Speaker 1: with a mother on his staff before asking her to

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Speaker 1: travel to make sure her daughter didn't have any events

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Speaker 1: at school she wouldn't want to miss. Quietly helping an

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Speaker 1: employee pay off some debt or replace a broken down vehicle,

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Speaker 1: sending ten, twenty or fifty thousand dollars to someone he'd

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Speaker 1: never met, whose stories he found and touched his heart.

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Speaker 1: You know, I have a philosophy. There's good that happens

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Speaker 1: and everything that may not reveal itself immediately, and even

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Speaker 1: in the most dire circumstances, if you just wait, you

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Speaker 1: just remain open to things, the good in it we'll

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Speaker 1: reveal itself. And that has happened to me as well.

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Speaker 1: These are the lesser known measures of the man behind

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Speaker 1: the Golden e I B microphone. On air, it was

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Speaker 1: character resolved and warm, loving heart. That was all Rush

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Speaker 1: Hudson Limbaugh the third with integrity on loan from Nobody,