1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:04,120 Speaker 1: He's the host of his self titled radio program heard nationwide. 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:07,840 Speaker 1: Here's Michael Barry in for Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. 3 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:15,920 Speaker 1: If you loved Rush Limball, you know he loved James 4 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:20,840 Speaker 1: Golden known to the world as Bo Snardley call screener, 5 00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:28,760 Speaker 1: official Obama criticizer, official program observer, and dear dear friend 6 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:33,880 Speaker 1: and confidant to Rush Limball. James Golden bow Snardly, Welcome 7 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:37,559 Speaker 1: to the show, sir, welcome back. Oh my pleasure to 8 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 1: be here. Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas to you. I want 9 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:45,240 Speaker 1: to talk about the book, the podcast, your health, your life, 10 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:48,440 Speaker 1: all of those things. But first I know this has 11 00:00:48,479 --> 00:00:50,199 Speaker 1: to be a tough day for you, as it is 12 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:53,000 Speaker 1: for Catherine, as it is for the entire team. For David. 13 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:57,440 Speaker 1: What are the emotions today, a year after that special 14 00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:00,240 Speaker 1: broadcast by Rush and this the first Christmas Eve he's 15 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:04,880 Speaker 1: not with us. Well, it's a mixture of things. It's sad, 16 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:07,880 Speaker 1: it's gratitude for the all the years that he did 17 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:11,480 Speaker 1: give us, and the sadness I don't think ever will 18 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:14,040 Speaker 1: go away. But you know, there are other things now 19 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:16,399 Speaker 1: that helped layer it. Like I said, with gratitude, the 20 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:21,160 Speaker 1: tremendous gratitude for Russia's life and um and what he 21 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:25,000 Speaker 1: was about. There was an opinion piece written by Diana 22 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:29,319 Speaker 1: a Loco that was Fox News Today about Rush and 23 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:31,320 Speaker 1: how much we all miss him at Christmas. I know 24 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:35,160 Speaker 1: you're carrying on and doing a great show for all 25 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:38,000 Speaker 1: of us who have similar emotions. I mean, this time 26 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:42,839 Speaker 1: last year, after listening to the last broadcast that Rush 27 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:46,200 Speaker 1: did of the of the year, the way he ended it, 28 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:49,640 Speaker 1: he obviously knew that he wasn't going to be with 29 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 1: us this Christmas. I remember last year, I couldn't even 30 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:55,320 Speaker 1: leave the house. I was just so despondent. But um, 31 00:01:56,320 --> 00:02:00,360 Speaker 1: you know it is now now, almost a year later, 32 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 1: a lot of gratitude who who Rush was, what he represented, 33 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:14,760 Speaker 1: and that comes with obviously the deepest missing of him. 34 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:17,359 Speaker 1: That Diana Loco piece is beautiful and I'm going to 35 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:21,040 Speaker 1: be quoting from that in our last segment today as 36 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 1: as we sign off and go to Silent Night. And 37 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:25,800 Speaker 1: for folks who want to get that, it's at Foxnews 38 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:30,160 Speaker 1: dot com. James Golden boats nerdly, I want to talk 39 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:33,320 Speaker 1: about the book you've just written. Rush on the radio 40 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 1: attribute from his sidekick for thirty years. You did the 41 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:39,160 Speaker 1: podcast earlier today, Rush Limball the Man earlier this year, 42 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:42,520 Speaker 1: Rush Limball, the Man behind the Golden EIB microphone. Your 43 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:44,880 Speaker 1: book dropped November twenty three. It's already in the top 44 00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:47,360 Speaker 1: twenty and after today we're going to drive it to 45 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:50,560 Speaker 1: number one. Rush on the radio attribute from his sidekick 46 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:53,920 Speaker 1: for thirty years. You did a very interesting interview with 47 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:56,600 Speaker 1: Dean kerry Annis, who was who was part of the 48 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:59,240 Speaker 1: TV program has been around a long time, and you 49 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 1: talked about the reason you wrote this book is the 50 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:05,280 Speaker 1: history needs to be told to kind of quote Winston 51 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:08,000 Speaker 1: Churchill when he was asked, will history be kind to you? 52 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:10,200 Speaker 1: And he said yes, because I will write it. It's 53 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:13,760 Speaker 1: important to you to tell Russia's story and not let 54 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 1: his haters do so whine, because Russia should not be 55 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:23,480 Speaker 1: defined by people who never listened to him, never understood 56 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:28,639 Speaker 1: who he was, and who have a political act to grinding. 57 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 1: The only reason that they would bother the comments at 58 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:35,119 Speaker 1: all is to advance their own political ideology, or their 59 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 1: own or some other reason which I wouldn't understand. But 60 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 1: russ should his legacy should be defined by those of 61 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:47,280 Speaker 1: us who listened to him. Who loved him, who you know, 62 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:49,480 Speaker 1: one of the things that we're not trying to do. 63 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:51,680 Speaker 1: We're not trying to deify Russian and make him into 64 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:55,760 Speaker 1: a god. But Russ was an extraordinary human being, and 65 00:03:55,800 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 1: he was extraordinary in many ways. And he was very generous, 66 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:06,040 Speaker 1: not just to us personally, but Rush and this audience, 67 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:10,120 Speaker 1: this audience, to talk radio audience, And there would be 68 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:13,720 Speaker 1: no quote unquote talk radio audience if it were not 69 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 1: for Russ. These are extremely generous people. You look at 70 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:21,360 Speaker 1: the tens and tens of millions of dollars raised for 71 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:26,640 Speaker 1: leukemia research. Lukemia doesn't have a political ideology or agenda. 72 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:30,240 Speaker 1: It constrict anybody. And that research has paid off, and 73 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:33,599 Speaker 1: that research began paying off while Rush was living and 74 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:36,719 Speaker 1: we saw advances. And then you look at what Russian 75 00:04:36,839 --> 00:04:42,640 Speaker 1: Catherine did with the charity to help the families of 76 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:48,279 Speaker 1: fallen first responders. Now, imagine the horror of losing your 77 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:51,760 Speaker 1: parents in the line of duty or your spouse, and 78 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:54,800 Speaker 1: then that's compounded by the worry of your security. Well, 79 00:04:54,839 --> 00:04:57,679 Speaker 1: I have a house to live in now, Well, Russian 80 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:00,839 Speaker 1: Katherine stepped in and raised no years of dollars in 81 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:05,120 Speaker 1: cooperation with power of the tunnels to make sure that 82 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:09,039 Speaker 1: the families of first responders could have a secure place 83 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:12,600 Speaker 1: to live again. These things aren't political. These things are 84 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:16,160 Speaker 1: about humanity. They're about love of your fellow human being, 85 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:21,600 Speaker 1: love of this country. And that's primarily what Russia's legacy 86 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:24,480 Speaker 1: was about. It was about love. He loved this country, 87 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:28,960 Speaker 1: He loved doing what he did. He was passionate about it, 88 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:31,240 Speaker 1: and he was great at it. He was the goat, 89 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:38,320 Speaker 1: and he also loved human beings and he loved people, 90 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:42,160 Speaker 1: and his legacy has to be about that, and it 91 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:45,600 Speaker 1: has to be written and told by all of us, 92 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:50,160 Speaker 1: by the people who loved Rustling Ball. James Golden boss 93 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:52,760 Speaker 1: nerdly is our guest. In your interview with Dean, you 94 00:05:52,839 --> 00:05:55,920 Speaker 1: made the statement I took detailed notes because it's so good. 95 00:05:55,960 --> 00:05:58,160 Speaker 1: You said you were taught out working with him, and 96 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 1: when you started all those years ago, and you said, 97 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:03,760 Speaker 1: somewhere during that first year, I realized I really loved 98 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:07,520 Speaker 1: this man, and this man really loved me. This kind 99 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 1: of fellowship, this kind of brotherly love, this deep abiding love, 100 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:13,600 Speaker 1: seems to be something that was shared by this team. 101 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:17,160 Speaker 1: But talk a little more about how that manifested itself 102 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 1: because I heard you tell some stories that I've never 103 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:20,839 Speaker 1: heard before, and I'm hoping those are all in the 104 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:23,480 Speaker 1: book Rush on the Radio, a tribute from his sidekick 105 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:26,880 Speaker 1: for thirty years. They well, one of them, and some 106 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 1: of them are in the book. Some of them may 107 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:31,680 Speaker 1: not be because they were just so many over the 108 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:37,920 Speaker 1: years and it's hard to encapsulate thirty years of history 109 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:41,679 Speaker 1: with somebody and get it all. But you know, first 110 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 1: of all, everyone, there are two things I want to 111 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:50,159 Speaker 1: say about that. Everyone that heard Rush from the very 112 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:54,680 Speaker 1: beginning knew that he was a unique talent. And those 113 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:56,400 Speaker 1: of us and you know what this is like. You're 114 00:06:56,400 --> 00:06:58,719 Speaker 1: in this business. We all come to this business and 115 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:01,479 Speaker 1: we all want to do well and succeed, but we 116 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:05,480 Speaker 1: also all are passionate about radio because if you're not, 117 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:08,600 Speaker 1: you're not really in this business, I mean not long 118 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:12,760 Speaker 1: term anyway. And so all of us at w ABC 119 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:16,720 Speaker 1: in those days recognized that Russ was something unique in 120 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:20,600 Speaker 1: terms of his on the air of the show. It 121 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:25,000 Speaker 1: was unique. There was no other show like it now. 122 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:28,680 Speaker 1: In addition to that, it was easy to love Russian 123 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:34,040 Speaker 1: Number because he was to a fault generous with everyone. 124 00:07:34,640 --> 00:07:37,320 Speaker 1: He believed in sharing the things that he liked, that 125 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:42,520 Speaker 1: he loved, He was approachable, and he was a good, 126 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:46,560 Speaker 1: decent guy. What's not to love about that? And I 127 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:51,240 Speaker 1: think that all of us that saw the rise of 128 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:55,080 Speaker 1: Rush from not from from when he came to New 129 00:07:55,160 --> 00:08:01,200 Speaker 1: York to becoming a household name, we're so pleased with 130 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:05,240 Speaker 1: his success because he earned every bit of it. And 131 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:09,920 Speaker 1: along the way he put together a staff that stayed 132 00:08:09,960 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 1: with him for decades and decades. And how does that 133 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:17,600 Speaker 1: happen in this business. It happens because you treat people properly. 134 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:21,320 Speaker 1: It happens because you respect people. And he is a 135 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:26,040 Speaker 1: case study in good management and great management. He's a 136 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:31,000 Speaker 1: case study in good business practices, the best business practices, 137 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:33,880 Speaker 1: as they call today best practices. That was Rush Limbaugh, 138 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:38,720 Speaker 1: you know. And on top of all of that, he 139 00:08:38,920 --> 00:08:41,760 Speaker 1: engendered the kind of loyalty that he got because he 140 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:46,040 Speaker 1: was loyal to the people that were loyal to him. 141 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:50,360 Speaker 1: James Golden Boston, Early, you were only committed to one segment, 142 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:51,960 Speaker 1: But I know I want to hear more from you. 143 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:55,000 Speaker 1: I know your friends in Limball Nation want to hear 144 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:57,360 Speaker 1: more from you. Can you stay around for one more segment? 145 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:02,640 Speaker 1: I'd be delighted to thank you. A detail about Bosnrdley 146 00:09:02,920 --> 00:09:05,960 Speaker 1: you did not know it came out in the book, 147 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:08,040 Speaker 1: which you haven't read yet. What you're going to buy today, 148 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 1: I'll tell you that in just a moment. I'm Michael 149 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:12,400 Speaker 1: Berry in for Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. James Golden 150 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:16,320 Speaker 1: bows Nerdy coming up, Clay Travis and Buck Sexton, a 151 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:20,480 Speaker 1: new form of broadcast excellence inspired by Rush on the 152 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:32,839 Speaker 1: EIB Network. I'm Michael Berry and for Clay Travis and 153 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:36,960 Speaker 1: Buck Sexton. We are paying tribute to Rush Limbaugh this 154 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:40,240 Speaker 1: Christmas Eve. Christmas Eve was his favorite show of the year, 155 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:43,240 Speaker 1: he said so many times. And it wouldn't be a 156 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:47,280 Speaker 1: proper Rush Limball tribute if we weren't joined by James 157 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:50,840 Speaker 1: Golden bo Snrdley, and we are honored to be so. 158 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:53,760 Speaker 1: He's just written a book called Rush on the Radio, 159 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:58,080 Speaker 1: a tribute from his sidekick for thirty years. And I 160 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:00,280 Speaker 1: hope you will buy it and not wait a minute 161 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:02,400 Speaker 1: more to buy it. Let's send it to number one. 162 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:06,960 Speaker 1: James Golden boast Nerdly in the book, you reveal it's 163 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:11,160 Speaker 1: been a tough year. Rush passed on February seventeenth. Your 164 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:15,000 Speaker 1: mom passed and you had cancer this year, something most 165 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:19,280 Speaker 1: folks did not know. Yeah, well I've had cancer. I 166 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:22,480 Speaker 1: had cancer before this year. And you know, here's a thing. 167 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:26,600 Speaker 1: I've been monitoring my situation for years and then it 168 00:10:26,679 --> 00:10:32,440 Speaker 1: flared up into an aggressive nature. And the folks here 169 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:35,360 Speaker 1: at the EIB network, all of them. Wasn't just Rush, 170 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:40,199 Speaker 1: it was Julie Childhood, Craig Kitchen, the engineering crew, everybody 171 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:46,800 Speaker 1: during the Chinsky Brian everybody just really did an amazing 172 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:49,920 Speaker 1: thing for me. They I had to get treated up 173 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:52,320 Speaker 1: in Maryland and I was treated for I had to 174 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:54,960 Speaker 1: move there for half a year while I was being treated, 175 00:10:55,520 --> 00:11:00,480 Speaker 1: but I still worked almost every single day, and they 176 00:11:00,559 --> 00:11:02,959 Speaker 1: made it so easy for me to work. They found 177 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:08,640 Speaker 1: me an office space that was within within a fifteen 178 00:11:08,679 --> 00:11:13,760 Speaker 1: minutes of where I was being treated, and the gifts 179 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:17,720 Speaker 1: and everything. And there was one weekend in particular where 180 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:20,720 Speaker 1: I had a break in treatment. I was so homesick 181 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:23,640 Speaker 1: and I didn't want to really say anything, but Rush 182 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:25,800 Speaker 1: just brought me a first class take it to come 183 00:11:25,880 --> 00:11:31,440 Speaker 1: home and so I could be with them, be with 184 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:33,880 Speaker 1: the staff, and be with these guys down here for 185 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:37,360 Speaker 1: a few days. It was things like that and so 186 00:11:37,679 --> 00:11:42,120 Speaker 1: when Rush made his announcement, which incidentally, he made his 187 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:45,400 Speaker 1: announcement five years to the day that our beloved chief 188 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:48,800 Speaker 1: of staff Kid Carson left us with cancer, it's just 189 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:51,920 Speaker 1: sort of surreal some of the things that have happened 190 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:56,920 Speaker 1: during this experience. I felt so confident that Russ was 191 00:11:56,960 --> 00:12:00,320 Speaker 1: going to just be able to beat this, like everything help, 192 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:06,400 Speaker 1: you know, and I never gave up hope, even though 193 00:12:06,440 --> 00:12:09,880 Speaker 1: I knew, and I knew last Christmas Eve the message 194 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:13,800 Speaker 1: that he gave us, he knew that he wasn't going 195 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:15,840 Speaker 1: to be with us this Christmas. And like I said, 196 00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:19,560 Speaker 1: last Christmas was just really depressing for me because that 197 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:25,360 Speaker 1: message kind of sunk in his sign off. He knew. 198 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:29,720 Speaker 1: But I'll tell you what, he was such a trooper, 199 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:35,800 Speaker 1: you know. I think about what Russian went through, and 200 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:38,200 Speaker 1: he did the show every day that he was not 201 00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:44,320 Speaker 1: in treatment or suffering from the results of a treatment. 202 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:49,440 Speaker 1: His bucket list was this audience. He who left nothing 203 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:53,440 Speaker 1: on the table every single day he could. He came 204 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:56,559 Speaker 1: to work because he loved what he was doing. And 205 00:12:56,600 --> 00:12:59,240 Speaker 1: when that on air light went on, you couldn't tell 206 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:02,920 Speaker 1: that there was anything wrong with Rush. It was only 207 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:07,000 Speaker 1: afterwards that those of us that were and looking across 208 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:09,600 Speaker 1: into the control room could from the control room into 209 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:12,320 Speaker 1: the studio, could see how much had it taken out 210 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:16,120 Speaker 1: of him in terms of energy to do those shows. 211 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:20,679 Speaker 1: But what a wonderful example he was of courage, of 212 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:24,360 Speaker 1: how to be cheerful and of good cheer. I go 213 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:28,320 Speaker 1: back to even his announcement. You know, he apologized to 214 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:31,960 Speaker 1: us when he told us he says he felt like 215 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:35,280 Speaker 1: he was letting all of us down. And that still 216 00:13:35,559 --> 00:13:39,120 Speaker 1: bothers me so much because this had to be the 217 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:43,040 Speaker 1: singular worst day of his life, one of them worst 218 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:46,080 Speaker 1: days of his life, and he was concerned about us. 219 00:13:46,760 --> 00:13:49,720 Speaker 1: That's this man. And so when people said why are 220 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:52,760 Speaker 1: you his legacy? Because those of us who knew him 221 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:56,880 Speaker 1: have to tell the story of what a wonderful human being, 222 00:13:57,320 --> 00:14:04,000 Speaker 1: an incredibly incredible man that Russia Limbaugh was. You said 223 00:14:04,040 --> 00:14:06,440 Speaker 1: in your interview with Dean, all of us who knew 224 00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:10,000 Speaker 1: Rush and loved Rush, we have an obligation to tell 225 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:12,760 Speaker 1: our story. And you have led the way, first with 226 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:15,760 Speaker 1: the podcast earlier this year Rush Limbaugh, the Man behind 227 00:14:15,760 --> 00:14:19,280 Speaker 1: the Golden Eibing Microphone, and now with the book Rush 228 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:24,720 Speaker 1: on the Radio, a tribute from his sidekick four thirty years. 229 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:27,560 Speaker 1: I want you to you know our clock better than 230 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:30,440 Speaker 1: I do. It's your show. I want you to take 231 00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:32,720 Speaker 1: the last minute and a half two minutes, and I 232 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:36,160 Speaker 1: want you to share, if you would, James Golden bos nerdly, 233 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:39,680 Speaker 1: how much those calls, how much those listeners meant to him, 234 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:41,640 Speaker 1: because I know we're going to play some of them 235 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:44,520 Speaker 1: as the show goes on. But you were the call screener. 236 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:47,480 Speaker 1: You you were the gatekeeper, and that was important to 237 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:49,320 Speaker 1: you to get the right calls on. What did those 238 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:54,200 Speaker 1: calls mean to him? You know, I think, and I 239 00:14:54,280 --> 00:14:56,320 Speaker 1: want to thank you for saying that. I want to 240 00:14:56,360 --> 00:15:01,720 Speaker 1: thank the callers to this show. And during the last 241 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:04,640 Speaker 1: year of Russia's life, most of us never get a 242 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:08,240 Speaker 1: chance to hear what we mean to people. And during 243 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:11,160 Speaker 1: the last year of Russia's life, over and over again, 244 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:17,520 Speaker 1: the callers to this show, in eloquence that is unsurpassed, 245 00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:22,280 Speaker 1: told Russi how much he meant to them, how much 246 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:27,640 Speaker 1: they loved him. Now, this is really unique for someone 247 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:32,960 Speaker 1: in media because this relationship that Russia had with this 248 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:39,680 Speaker 1: audience transcended what most hosts will ever experience. There was 249 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:44,400 Speaker 1: a genuine love people that did not ever meet him 250 00:15:44,560 --> 00:15:48,440 Speaker 1: in persons loved him as they loved a family member, 251 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:52,520 Speaker 1: and he had become a family member. He had become 252 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:57,280 Speaker 1: someone trusted in all of our lives. He was our friend. 253 00:15:57,880 --> 00:16:00,280 Speaker 1: We could count on him to tell us the group, 254 00:16:00,840 --> 00:16:05,600 Speaker 1: We could count on him for optimism and the audience. 255 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:08,040 Speaker 1: Let Rush know that. And that was just one of 256 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:13,600 Speaker 1: the most beautiful things of this entire experience. James Golden, 257 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:16,880 Speaker 1: bos Nerdly, thank you for sharing your time as you 258 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:21,320 Speaker 1: shared your love, passion and many many God given talents 259 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:23,880 Speaker 1: with Russia Limbaugh and all of us over all these years. 260 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:27,400 Speaker 1: We loved Russia Limbaugh and we love you, brother, Thank you, 261 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:32,720 Speaker 1: Thank you, Michael, much love to you, God, bless Mary, Christmas, everybody. 262 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:38,840 Speaker 1: I cannot put into words what it is like to 263 00:16:38,920 --> 00:16:43,840 Speaker 1: be on the phone with James Golden, known to us 264 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:48,280 Speaker 1: as bos Nerdly talking to Limbaugh Nation about Russia. Limball 265 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:53,080 Speaker 1: Chills doesn't begin to tell you. I'm Michael Berry and 266 00:16:53,200 --> 00:17:02,440 Speaker 1: for Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. You're listening to Clay 267 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:15,680 Speaker 1: Travis and Buck Sexton on the EIB network. Proud Eustonian. 268 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:20,320 Speaker 1: Here's Michael Berry from news Radio seven forty ktrh on 269 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:32,120 Speaker 1: the EIB network. Both Nerdly in real life is James Golden. 270 00:17:32,280 --> 00:17:34,679 Speaker 1: His book is Rush on the Radio, a tribute from 271 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:39,320 Speaker 1: his sidekick for thirty years. Buy it today and read it. 272 00:17:40,119 --> 00:17:44,879 Speaker 1: It's wonderful. Rush won five Marconi Awards from the industry, 273 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:50,200 Speaker 1: but he won our hearts. And today we share stories 274 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:54,879 Speaker 1: of how Rush Limbaugh affected us, guided US, counseled us, 275 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:58,040 Speaker 1: inspired us. And so we go to your calls one 276 00:17:58,080 --> 00:18:02,400 Speaker 1: eight hundred two eight to two eight two. We'll start 277 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:05,399 Speaker 1: with Penny in Georgetown, Texas. And I want to be 278 00:18:05,480 --> 00:18:08,800 Speaker 1: very clear, Ali is picking the calls. I'm nuts, so 279 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:12,879 Speaker 1: I'm not showing favoritism to my fellow Texans. Go ahead, Penny, 280 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:19,040 Speaker 1: Oh sure, Michael Marry Christmas. So back in nineteen ninety one, 281 00:18:19,119 --> 00:18:22,240 Speaker 1: I was a teenager with a brain full of mush. 282 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:26,159 Speaker 1: Happened a long Rush on the radio, had no idea 283 00:18:26,480 --> 00:18:29,040 Speaker 1: what he was talking about, didn't understand it. But I 284 00:18:29,080 --> 00:18:30,440 Speaker 1: was like, you know what, I'm going to start coming 285 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:34,159 Speaker 1: back here at lunch every day and listening listen to 286 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:37,320 Speaker 1: him until I can possibly understand what he's talking about. 287 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:38,840 Speaker 1: And I just remember the day I sat there and 288 00:18:38,880 --> 00:18:42,399 Speaker 1: I was listening to his show, and I realized I 289 00:18:42,560 --> 00:18:47,200 Speaker 1: get it. And he taught me so much about politics 290 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:52,560 Speaker 1: and economics and history, and he became my first committed relationship. 291 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:54,840 Speaker 1: Every day I was in my car listening to him 292 00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:58,800 Speaker 1: at lunch and just over time, listening to him for 293 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:04,200 Speaker 1: thirty years. How can you possibly thank someone for how 294 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:07,919 Speaker 1: much they have taught you? And you know, he had 295 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:10,200 Speaker 1: the ability to see s or culture, to see through 296 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:13,400 Speaker 1: what other people were saying in politics, and to help 297 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:17,080 Speaker 1: everyone else see the truth. And I am just so 298 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:21,320 Speaker 1: thankful to him for that. And you know, again, how 299 00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:23,560 Speaker 1: can you pay for someone for so much they have 300 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:26,199 Speaker 1: taught you, except just to say thank you for changing 301 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:30,440 Speaker 1: me and make you better? How old were you said? 302 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:37,280 Speaker 1: Nineteen nineteen and ninety one, So you're about forty nine now, yes, 303 00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:40,720 Speaker 1: Well it's amazing. You know, we grow up and we 304 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:43,760 Speaker 1: look at things so differently. And say, read Huckleberry Finn 305 00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:45,960 Speaker 1: at three different times in your life and you'll you'll 306 00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:50,560 Speaker 1: recognize three different characters. Clay was talking about a book yesterday. 307 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:52,159 Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember what it was, but he was 308 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:54,679 Speaker 1: talking about when you read it at different points in 309 00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:57,440 Speaker 1: your life, or when you watch movies at different points 310 00:19:57,440 --> 00:20:00,679 Speaker 1: in your life how you view them differently. But you 311 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:03,800 Speaker 1: were nineteen in ninety one. You know, there's the old 312 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:06,440 Speaker 1: quote attributed to Churchill that he may not have ever said, 313 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:08,480 Speaker 1: if you're twenty five and not a liberal, you have 314 00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:10,400 Speaker 1: no heart. If you're thirty five and not a conservative, 315 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:12,800 Speaker 1: you had no head. It's actually a Frenchman who first 316 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:15,800 Speaker 1: wrote that. But why quibble? But the point is Rush 317 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:22,400 Speaker 1: was the alternative to the entire educational establishment for most 318 00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:24,480 Speaker 1: of us. That why he called him scruels. And you know, 319 00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:26,960 Speaker 1: we look at schools now and what's been revealed that 320 00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:29,600 Speaker 1: he was warning us of thirty years ago that these 321 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:33,320 Speaker 1: are indoctrination camps in many cases. And you were nineteen, 322 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:35,840 Speaker 1: I was a couple of years older, but that we 323 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:39,480 Speaker 1: had someone who was saying things that we'd never heard before. 324 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:44,920 Speaker 1: We were experiencing, you know, thoughts that we never thought before, 325 00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:48,600 Speaker 1: and that was coming through free. It was our free education. 326 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:50,119 Speaker 1: There was no student loan to take, and it was 327 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:53,200 Speaker 1: coming through every day. And so eventually we set appointments 328 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:56,919 Speaker 1: for that. And it's a really really powerful connection, that 329 00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:59,800 Speaker 1: connection we have, and it makes us I think that's 330 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:02,919 Speaker 1: why there's such strong emotions today, Penny, thank you for calling. 331 00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:06,920 Speaker 1: Alexis in Huntsville, Texas, home of one of the greatest 332 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:12,320 Speaker 1: fried chicken franchises of all time, Tinsley, and it's also 333 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:14,040 Speaker 1: the home of the state prison. For those of you 334 00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:17,040 Speaker 1: outside of Texas that don't know Alexis, go ahead, dear, 335 00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:20,840 Speaker 1: yes sah well. I'm twenty six. The first time I 336 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:25,159 Speaker 1: ever listener, uh, mister Rush was June twenty fifteen, when 337 00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:27,800 Speaker 1: President Trump came down the later announced the presidency. My 338 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:29,640 Speaker 1: mom was before the end and I just wasn't really 339 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:32,560 Speaker 1: into I just thought it was nothing, nothing much. I'll 340 00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:35,440 Speaker 1: take you back to two thousanleven of September. My little 341 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:38,919 Speaker 1: sister Mary, I was in the delivery my mom and 342 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:42,840 Speaker 1: I was lost, a young teenager, young dum just living 343 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:45,840 Speaker 1: to live. And I remember my mom telling the lady 344 00:21:45,920 --> 00:21:47,560 Speaker 1: she was going to name her when they asked the 345 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:50,840 Speaker 1: name Mary Elizabeth Rush Ortiz, and I looked at her 346 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:53,359 Speaker 1: and I started fighting with her, arguing, Mom, why would 347 00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:55,320 Speaker 1: you do that? They're gonna pick on her, Mom, why 348 00:21:55,359 --> 00:21:56,840 Speaker 1: would you just name him? After that, and my mom 349 00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:59,000 Speaker 1: s took by her story and she's email rushed about 350 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:01,760 Speaker 1: her testimony and she named her, And here we are 351 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:05,760 Speaker 1: eleven years later, and mister Barry and my sister, my siblings, 352 00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:08,560 Speaker 1: but my sister especially knows how much I'm into politics, 353 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:11,080 Speaker 1: and I remind her every single day when we talk 354 00:22:11,119 --> 00:22:13,600 Speaker 1: about this or every chance I get that she is 355 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:17,880 Speaker 1: named that after the greatest man ever. And I can't 356 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:22,080 Speaker 1: think enough for that, mister Rush. He truly changed my wife. 357 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:25,120 Speaker 1: When I first started the politics, I used to think 358 00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:28,119 Speaker 1: there was nothing worth living for this country. America's this, 359 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:31,560 Speaker 1: America is that, And after listening to all these years, 360 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:35,639 Speaker 1: America's everything and more to live for. And even in 361 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:38,439 Speaker 1: the time that we're in right now, I remember just 362 00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:40,119 Speaker 1: him saying over the years when they would just go 363 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:43,840 Speaker 1: so art on President Trump and attack in America, folks, 364 00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:45,840 Speaker 1: it's not time to panic. It's not time to panic. 365 00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:48,440 Speaker 1: And I just would think if he was here now, 366 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:51,159 Speaker 1: would he tell us, folks, it is time to panic. 367 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:54,800 Speaker 1: But something just tells me that even in the time 368 00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:58,320 Speaker 1: we're in, in the direction we're going, even now, he 369 00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:02,000 Speaker 1: would tell us, folks, it's time to panic. We have 370 00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:05,960 Speaker 1: a country to save. And I just gonna think, mister 371 00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:08,760 Speaker 1: Lindbau enough. I can't thank mister bo enough for the 372 00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:12,560 Speaker 1: book for the podcast ears he did, And thank you, 373 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:14,640 Speaker 1: mister Barry. I know this, You've been waiting on this, 374 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:16,879 Speaker 1: and I'm so glad you got this opportunity to do this. 375 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:19,320 Speaker 1: And thank you every day for people like you and 376 00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:22,640 Speaker 1: mister Jesse Kelly for stepping up and fighting a fight. 377 00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:26,760 Speaker 1: And I just hope y'all all have a merry Christmas. Well, 378 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:29,600 Speaker 1: thank you very much. My dear friend Jesse Kelly makes 379 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:31,119 Speaker 1: an appearance on the show. He was going to on 380 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:35,399 Speaker 1: Monday anyway. But let me ask you something, alexis, do 381 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:37,639 Speaker 1: you have any idea why you went to the front 382 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:39,760 Speaker 1: of all the costs? Do you know why Ali moved 383 00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:44,119 Speaker 1: you to the front of the line? Well, I believe, 384 00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:45,960 Speaker 1: she said, because she was kind of happy, because Russia 385 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:49,000 Speaker 1: love mill carriers. Aby, I am on Christmas Eve trying 386 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:51,160 Speaker 1: to bring out Christmas beer and I hold my head up, yes, sir, 387 00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:54,680 Speaker 1: are you delivering? Are you delivering packages as we speak? 388 00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:57,280 Speaker 1: I had to go on the side of the road 389 00:23:57,280 --> 00:23:59,600 Speaker 1: to pull over so I can take this make this car. Yes. No, no, 390 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:01,919 Speaker 1: but I mean you're you're in your adorable little uniform 391 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:05,600 Speaker 1: out delivering and hiding from the dogs. And I actually 392 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:08,680 Speaker 1: have an elf onesion right now, delivering jeff Bees those 393 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:11,199 Speaker 1: amazing ammis on packages, hoping to make somebody's Christmas. When 394 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:12,640 Speaker 1: I pull up to the the door and say yere ago, 395 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:15,119 Speaker 1: and they're just I've already delivered in one lady and 396 00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:16,679 Speaker 1: she was like, oh my gosh, I didn't think this 397 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:19,399 Speaker 1: was gonna make it. And now just that's that's the 398 00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:22,080 Speaker 1: most rewarding thing right there. How long have you been 399 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:26,359 Speaker 1: a mail carrier? I started in twenty fourteen of February, 400 00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:29,480 Speaker 1: so about seven and a half years. How much do 401 00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:33,520 Speaker 1: they start mail carriers at. Oh, when I first started, 402 00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:39,400 Speaker 1: it was about seventeen fifty around is M and then 403 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:41,920 Speaker 1: but now I really couldn't tell you. It's maybe a 404 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:45,000 Speaker 1: little bit more about the same. When I first started, 405 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:46,679 Speaker 1: it was about seventeen. I don't need to know how 406 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:49,919 Speaker 1: much you make Alexis as a US Mail postal mail carrier, 407 00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:52,520 Speaker 1: but how much would a person that had, say seven 408 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:56,880 Speaker 1: years on, Well, I could tell you my grandmother who's 409 00:24:56,880 --> 00:24:59,199 Speaker 1: been doing this for twenty years, she makes about seventy thousand, 410 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:02,560 Speaker 1: who's been doing this for about sixteen twenty years, she 411 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:08,359 Speaker 1: makes about mid sixteen. How sixteen seventy thousand. Yes, sir, 412 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:12,760 Speaker 1: they've been doing this about twenty years. Both. Wait a minute, 413 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:17,680 Speaker 1: it's good money. Did you come visit the RCC one time? Yes, sir, 414 00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:19,080 Speaker 1: I did, and off aft there and I told you 415 00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:22,320 Speaker 1: my story. I remember it was a Friday afternoon. You 416 00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:25,679 Speaker 1: and your mother drove over. We were given away books 417 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:28,640 Speaker 1: or something in you drove. I just recognized your accent 418 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:31,080 Speaker 1: and your story. And at the time, I remember, I 419 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:35,000 Speaker 1: don't know why I remember this crazy story. Y'all were 420 00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:39,560 Speaker 1: delivering for Amazon because you had a rural route in Amazon, 421 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:42,160 Speaker 1: it didn't make sense for Amazon to deliver, and y'all 422 00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:45,240 Speaker 1: were delivered your number one source, and you were angry 423 00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:49,679 Speaker 1: because are miffed because y'all had to put Amazon in 424 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:52,800 Speaker 1: front of regular postage because they were such a big 425 00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:56,119 Speaker 1: account to the to the US Postal Service still to 426 00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:59,280 Speaker 1: this day, sir. And it's probably, I would say, just 427 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:01,600 Speaker 1: as much as a party is anything else. Yes, sir, 428 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:04,879 Speaker 1: And your is it your sister who named her child? 429 00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:08,360 Speaker 1: You said Mary Elizabeth rush or Teams. My mother did, Yes, 430 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:11,280 Speaker 1: my mother did. She's a um. She's the second youngest, 431 00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:14,000 Speaker 1: and that's my mom. My mom. What kind of self 432 00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:19,440 Speaker 1: respecting Hispanics only have four names. Well I mixed, mister Barry, 433 00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:23,520 Speaker 1: my mom is my dad is Hispanic, because there should 434 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:27,560 Speaker 1: have been about five more names. Mom's maiden name, grandma's 435 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:30,520 Speaker 1: maiden name has three names. Mary's the only one that 436 00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:33,840 Speaker 1: has this long name. It's only because Mary came from 437 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:38,119 Speaker 1: UM pass because Mary, you know, Jesus mother. And then 438 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:40,280 Speaker 1: also Mary Ellen, which is my mom's best friend who 439 00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:44,080 Speaker 1: passed UM but Southern Baptist. But I know who. I 440 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:46,439 Speaker 1: know that Mary is Jesus's mother. You don't have to 441 00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:49,719 Speaker 1: be Catholic to know that. Yes, yes, yes, I know. 442 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:53,280 Speaker 1: So did she let Rush know who he was named after? 443 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:57,080 Speaker 1: Or who who this child's named? Now? Oh she would 444 00:26:57,080 --> 00:27:00,280 Speaker 1: have loved come up against a brake, sweetheart, Thank you 445 00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:02,879 Speaker 1: for calling in. You're wonderful God deliver the mail and 446 00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:07,440 Speaker 1: make people's dreams come true. Thank you. I'm Michael Berry. 447 00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:10,280 Speaker 1: In for Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. More coming up 448 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:14,200 Speaker 1: Clay Travis and Buck Sexton a new form of broadcast 449 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:27,720 Speaker 1: excellence inspired by Rush on the EIB network. No politics today, 450 00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:31,400 Speaker 1: just shared memories of a man who meant so much 451 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:36,640 Speaker 1: to us personally into the movement. I submit there would 452 00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:41,480 Speaker 1: have been no Donald Trump presidency had the groundwork not 453 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:44,760 Speaker 1: been laid day in and day out, in the middle 454 00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:50,720 Speaker 1: of every day by Rush Limbaugh. And Donald Trump would 455 00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:56,400 Speaker 1: say the same because it's true. It's true he tilled 456 00:27:56,600 --> 00:28:01,000 Speaker 1: the ground to make it ready to receive the Trump presidency. 457 00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:06,440 Speaker 1: To react to the Clinton name, I don't think anybody 458 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:10,760 Speaker 1: laid bare the Clinton's the way Russia Limbaugh did. And 459 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:13,800 Speaker 1: we're not doing politics today, but next week we will 460 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:16,679 Speaker 1: be and we will discuss the fact that Kamala Harris 461 00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:20,719 Speaker 1: hosted Hillary Clinton last month for a quiet, private meeting. 462 00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:23,520 Speaker 1: Lots to get to next week. I would give you 463 00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:27,439 Speaker 1: one homework assignment, and that is capital with an OL 464 00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:31,879 Speaker 1: like the US capital Capital Punishment. The movie dot Com 465 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:34,760 Speaker 1: watched that this weekend. You can find it online. Nick 466 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:37,919 Speaker 1: Sercy did it. He'll be our guest Monday, and it 467 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:41,280 Speaker 1: is very enlightening and you will love it. That discussion 468 00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:45,440 Speaker 1: we had with James Golden post nerdly referenced a piece 469 00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:48,440 Speaker 1: that was written this morning. It's posted at Clay and 470 00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:51,440 Speaker 1: Buck dot com. It's about Russia Limball and her feelings 471 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:56,200 Speaker 1: by Diana Loco. Her feelings on Christmas this year without 472 00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:59,440 Speaker 1: Christmas Eve without Russia Limbaugh. It's really really well written. 473 00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:00,760 Speaker 1: I'm going to quot from it at the end of 474 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:02,600 Speaker 1: the show, but you can get it now at Clay 475 00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:05,040 Speaker 1: and Buck dot com and you can send me an 476 00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:08,239 Speaker 1: email directly at Michael Barryshow dot com that comes to 477 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:09,680 Speaker 1: our team. They put them out, I read them, and 478 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:12,000 Speaker 1: I try to respond to as many as possible. But 479 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:15,080 Speaker 1: Rush Limball Nations a bigger audience than anybody's ever had 480 00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:16,840 Speaker 1: in radio history. I may not get back to every 481 00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:19,240 Speaker 1: one of you, but I will read every single one 482 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:20,640 Speaker 1: of them. I hope you'll be with us till the 483 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:22,800 Speaker 1: end of the show. But if for some reason you 484 00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:25,520 Speaker 1: can't and you have to leave and do something, come 485 00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:27,920 Speaker 1: back in an hour and hear our last segment because 486 00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:30,160 Speaker 1: it's not me, it's Rush Limball. It's how he closed 487 00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:33,320 Speaker 1: last year, and it is special. And have yourself some tissues, 488 00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:36,239 Speaker 1: whether you are a crier or not, because it's going 489 00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:38,400 Speaker 1: to hit you. It's gonna hit you, but it's going 490 00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:41,280 Speaker 1: to be it's gonna send you off to your family 491 00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:44,479 Speaker 1: in the right frame of mood to receive all the 492 00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:49,320 Speaker 1: blessings of fellowship and family on this Christmas Eve. Let's go. 493 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:52,000 Speaker 1: It's one eight hundred two eight two two eight eight 494 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:56,640 Speaker 1: two to Steve in Cookeville, Tennessee, Clay Travis's home state. 495 00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:59,560 Speaker 1: You're up, Steve, Hey, thank you so much. I'm not 496 00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:03,239 Speaker 1: going to be very long because I've got a lump him. 497 00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:06,480 Speaker 1: I've throwed about the size of a basketball. There's two 498 00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:10,400 Speaker 1: words I want to use, and that's dittos and love 499 00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:15,600 Speaker 1: and Bud George. He loved us, but we loved him. 500 00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:19,600 Speaker 1: And I want to say, rest in peace. Rush H. 501 00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:26,840 Speaker 1: Limbaugh will never forget you. And I remember one thing 502 00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:32,520 Speaker 1: about a week after after he died in February, there 503 00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:37,800 Speaker 1: was a political cartoon that came out. It showed Rush 504 00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:43,360 Speaker 1: at the Pearly Gates returning the book Talent on Loan 505 00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:46,960 Speaker 1: from God, and that said it old right there, and 506 00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:50,640 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I can't go on anymore. I've I've gone 507 00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:54,560 Speaker 1: through a box of clean X already. Well, well said Steve. 508 00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:58,600 Speaker 1: I think you have. I've said, I think you've said 509 00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:01,480 Speaker 1: more than you realize. And I suspect there are a 510 00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:06,680 Speaker 1: lot of dittos out there, of dittoheads bobbing in agreement 511 00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:11,640 Speaker 1: with your comments, seconding your emotion. Kin in Kent, Delaware. 512 00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:15,560 Speaker 1: Eure up, sir, Yeah you're doing Just call and tell 513 00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:18,600 Speaker 1: you how. I became a dittohead back in two thousand 514 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:20,120 Speaker 1: and two thousand and one, I bought a nineteen eighty 515 00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:24,200 Speaker 1: six pickup, had a radio only I had gospel of Rush. 516 00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:26,960 Speaker 1: Growing up in North Jersey, all they heard about was 517 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:30,560 Speaker 1: Russia was a big at homophobe, all the slander. But 518 00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:32,760 Speaker 1: I didn't want to ride around in silence, so I 519 00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:37,120 Speaker 1: tuned into Rush, and about two weeks of listening consecutively, 520 00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:40,400 Speaker 1: I became an official dittohead. And I have never looked back. 521 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:52,080 Speaker 1: Are you a police officer, I'm in that line of work. Yes, okay, 522 00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:55,680 Speaker 1: all right, I thought I heard the scanner in the background. 523 00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:58,880 Speaker 1: A lot of a lot of police officer listeners over 524 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:04,360 Speaker 1: the years, and I can imagine that with the defund 525 00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:12,800 Speaker 1: the police movement after the George Floyd debacle, I can't 526 00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:17,239 Speaker 1: imagine that police officers. Police officers probably needed more than 527 00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:19,680 Speaker 1: anyone else to hear the wisdom of the fact that 528 00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:23,000 Speaker 1: the nation is behind you, we support you. This is 529 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:24,920 Speaker 1: a ministry. You're doing what we've asked you to do. 530 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:28,520 Speaker 1: You're enforcing the laws that are duly elected officials enacted. 531 00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:31,040 Speaker 1: We may not always like it, but but you know, 532 00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:33,040 Speaker 1: we have your back at a time when it didn't 533 00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:36,840 Speaker 1: feel like that was necessarily the case. I suspect you 534 00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:38,880 Speaker 1: speak for a lot of police officers. My brother's a 535 00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:41,280 Speaker 1: police officer. I know a lot of police officers, and 536 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:44,400 Speaker 1: just like truck drivers, you're out there, you're on the roads, 537 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:46,480 Speaker 1: you're on the front lines. You're dealing with the democrats. 538 00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:49,440 Speaker 1: I mean, not every Democrat is a criminal, but every 539 00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:51,960 Speaker 1: criminal is a Democrat, and you're confronting them on a 540 00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:55,480 Speaker 1: daily basis. And I know that the words of rush 541 00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:57,320 Speaker 1: had to mean a lot to you. You'd be safe 542 00:32:57,320 --> 00:32:59,200 Speaker 1: out there. You go home to your family today, you 543 00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:02,280 Speaker 1: hug them tight, and they hug you. I know that 544 00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:06,720 Speaker 1: my brother's been an officer for I don't know, thirty years, 545 00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:09,480 Speaker 1: and any time I get a call from my mother, 546 00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:14,280 Speaker 1: my father, or my brother's wife, I worry that this 547 00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:17,640 Speaker 1: might be bad news. And that's what the families of 548 00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:22,600 Speaker 1: police officers live with every single day, just like when 549 00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:25,320 Speaker 1: you have a service member serving abroad, and every one 550 00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:27,040 Speaker 1: of you out there, every one of you wives and 551 00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:29,280 Speaker 1: husbands and moms and dads and sons and daughters, who 552 00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:33,560 Speaker 1: have someone in the line of duty, whether domestic or abroad. 553 00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:37,040 Speaker 1: When that you live in fear of that knock on 554 00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:40,200 Speaker 1: the door, and it eats at you, it gnaws at you, 555 00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:42,480 Speaker 1: and you appreciate at a time like this if they're 556 00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:46,160 Speaker 1: home with you as a family. And so to every 557 00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:48,600 Speaker 1: one of you, our thoughts and prayers. Some of you 558 00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:52,719 Speaker 1: sacrifice more than the rest of us. Your calls coming up. 559 00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:56,360 Speaker 1: One eight hundred two eight two eight eight two one 560 00:33:56,360 --> 00:34:00,320 Speaker 1: eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two Michael 561 00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:13,200 Speaker 1: Barry in for Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. You're listening 562 00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:17,400 Speaker 1: to Clay Travis and Buck Sexton on the EIB Network.