WEBVTT - Prayers For A Legend 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:03.160 All right, glad you with us. Welcome aboard eight one 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:05.160 hundred and ninety four one Sean, if you want to 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:09.920 be a part of this extravaganza. You know's a song 0:00:10.000 --> 0:00:13.640 by Tim McGraw and it's called Live Like You're Dying. 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:16.600 Such a great song, and it's like, we have all 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:19.000 these great plans in life and then something just hits 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:25.000 you so hard, it just it makes us all pause. 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:29.160 And honestly, I had an entirely different show book for 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:32.159 the whole day, and I was listening to the end 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:37.080 of Russia's show and he made this announcement, and it's 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:41.839 that moment it just hits you on a dime. I 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:44.479 don't think talk radio would ever be anything like it is, 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:47.760 or I'd be here if it wasn't for all that 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:49.680 Russia is done now. I want to be very clear. 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:53.680 Rushi announced at the end of his program today that 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:58.400 he has stage four lung cancer. It's being treated. Just said, 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:01.880 I just need to be honest with your audience, so 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:09.520 incredibly stoic and courageous because just you know, like everything 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:11.880 else he's ever done in his career inspiring, and he's 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:15.800 always forged a path. He said, good news that he 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:19.400 didn't have any symptoms, which is good, just something that 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:22.600 he noticed and they picked up on it. I know 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:27.040 every single one of us now taking and absorbing this. 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:32.040 We've all lived through this. Probably everyone listening. And if 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:34.440 you haven't, thank god you haven't. I hope you never 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:38.080 have it. When you get a call at three o'clock, 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:41.119 three thirty in the morning and the phone rings, and 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:45.440 you know, it's never gonna be good unless it's a 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:47.720 you know, unless it's a call that you you know 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:53.600 wasn't for you, it's never gonna be good. I find 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:57.920 sickness and all of it associated with it. And my 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:01.800 three sisters were nurses and brother in law's doctor. I 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:04.480 know more. I have two of my best best three 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:06.680 of my best best friends in the world are doctors, 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:11.120 two brain surgeons literally and uh, you know, my own 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:13.680 personal doctor. I can call him at four o'clock in 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:17.440 the morning. You'll come over my house. And doctors are 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:22.120 amazing people. And but it is it just hit me 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:24.200 like a dime, like a ton of bricks, like a 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:27.240 Matt truck. I don't whatever cliche you want to use, 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:32.520 that's it. I just as he said, let me, let 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:34.720 me just let rush say it. In his own words. 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:39.280 The one thing that I know about Rush, his brother David, 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:44.360 has been my agent from my entire career now going 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:49.519 back thirty years. I know his family, I know him. 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:54.280 His niece is one of the best workers we have 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:59.839 on our team. I love this family. They are incredibly 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:05.840 brave people individually. But let me just let Rush satan 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:09.440 his words just announcing him moments ago. I have been 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:18.640 diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, diagnosis confirmed by two medical 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:24.960 institutions back on January twentieth. First realized something was wrong 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:29.880 on my birthday weekend January twelfth, and I wish I 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:32.120 didn't have to tell you this, and I thought about 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:36.920 not telling anybody. I thought about trying to do this 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:42.120 without anybody knowing, because I don't like making things about me. 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:45.200 But there are going to be days that I'm not 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:49.200 going to be able to be here because I'm undergoing 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:56.200 treatment or I'm reacting to treatment, and I know that 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:59.920 that would inspire all kinds of curiosity with people wondering 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:02.920 what's going on. And the worst thing that can happen 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:04.880 is when there is something going on and you try 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:07.880 to hide it and cover it up, it's eventually going 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:09.760 to leak, and then people are going to why didn't 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:11.960 you just say it? Why just why do you try 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:14.560 to fool everybody? And it's not that I want to 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:17.040 fool anybody. It's just that I don't want to burden 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:23.920 anybody with it, and I haven't wanted to, but it 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:26.039 is what it is. And you know me, I'm the 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:32.320 mayor of Realville. So this has happened, and my intention 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:37.680 is to come here every day I can and to 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:42.120 do this program as normally and as competently and as 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:45.640 expertly as I do each and every day, because that 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:55.440 is the source of my greatest satisfaction professionally. Personally, I've 0:04:55.480 --> 0:05:01.440 had so much support from family and friends doing this 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:06.200 that it's it's just it's been tremendous. And I told 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:11.880 the staff today that I have a deeply personal relationship 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:17.920 with God that I do not proselytize about, but I do, 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:25.839 and I have been working that relationship tremendously, which I 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:29.320 do regularly anyway, but I've been focused on it intensely 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:32.080 for the past couple of weeks. I know there are 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:35.080 many of you in this audience who have experienced this, 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:40.800 who are going through it yourselves at the same time, 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:46.479 I am at the moment experiencing zero symptoms other than 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:48.760 I don't look. I don't want to get too detailed 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:51.240 in this. What led to shortness of breath that I 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:55.440 thought might have been asthma or you know, I'm sixteen, 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:58.120 I could have been my heart. My heart's in great shape, 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:02.080 ticking away, fine, squeezing and pumping great. It was not 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:10.400 that it was a pulimentary problem involving malignancy. So I'm 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:12.360 going to be gone the next couple of days as 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:19.640 we figure out the treatment course of action and have 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:24.880 further testing done. But as I said, I'm I'm going 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:29.160 to be here as often as I can. And as 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:32.400 is the case with everybody who finds themselves in a circumstance, 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:34.480 you just want to You want to push your head 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:37.240 and try to keep everything as normal as you can, 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:40.640 which is something that I'm going to try to do. 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:46.159 But I felt that I had to tell you because 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:48.880 that's the kind of relationship I feel like I have 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:51.760 with those of you in this audience. I say it 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:56.200 every Christmas, which is when I feel more thankful than 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:59.960 at Thanksgiving. And I feel thankful at Thanksgiving, but Christmas 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.800 it really gets to me but over the years, a 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:05.960 lot of people have been very nice telling me how 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:10.080 much this program is meant to them. But whatever that is, 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:13.680 it pales in comparison to what you all have meant 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:15.960 to me. And I can't. I can't describe this. But 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:17.840 you know, I know you're there. Every day, I can 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:21.400 see you. It's it's strange, how but I know you're there. 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:25.480 I know you're there in great numbers, and I know 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:28.240 that you understand everything I say. The rest of the 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:31.440 world may not when they hear it express a different way, 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:32.880 but I know that you do. You've been one of 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:39.280 the greatest sources of confidence that I've had in my life. 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:43.880 So I hope I will be talking about this as 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:49.960 little as necessary in the coming days. But we've got 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:53.320 a great bunch of doctors, a great team assembled. We're 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:56.520 at full speed ahead on this and it's just now 0:07:56.560 --> 0:08:00.960 a matter of implementing what we are going to be 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:03.000 told later this week. So I'll be back here. I'll 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:05.480 hope to be back on Thursday. If not, it'll be 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:09.040 as soon as I can. And know that every day 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:11.000 I'm not here, be thinking about you and missing you. 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:15.880 Thank you very much. All Right, that was Russia's moments ago. 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:19.520 As he closed out of his show today, it's sort 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:21.480 of like what I was saying is, you know, I 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:24.760 have a very different show planned. And there's the Tim 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:29.840 McGraw song. We've all experienced this where you know, a 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:34.560 moment comes and stops me on a dime. This is 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:38.439 one of those moments, and all of us have gone 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:41.800 through this. And as I sit here and as I think, 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:44.719 and I kind of absorb it, and you know, I 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:48.840 know that when he allowed me to fill in for him, 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:50.559 it paved the way for me one day to get 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:54.480 my own show. It's deeply personal and his brother, who 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:57.120 I love, and his whole family that I know and love, 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:00.600 and obviously I know and love you is his wife. 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:04.800 And it's just very very hard to know that somebody's 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:09.440 gonna go through a hard time. But I think that 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:13.800 there's a message in there for all of us. Number One, Okay, 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:19.320 Rush as stoic as he always is, and as you know, 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:21.680 he wants this to be as normal, talk about it 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:27.199 as little as possible, you know, of course, right he 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:32.400 now he talked about he has a deeply personal relationship 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:38.480 with God. I do, most of America does, and that's 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:40.000 where I like to put my hope, and I want 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:41.800 to make sure that we're very clear on one thing. 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:46.439 I know that it's never good when you hear that 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:51.080 C word. I know when don Imus described when he 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:53.600 had it at the time, it's like your knees buckle 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:56.800 at the word, and it does. I lost my father 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:02.000 from the week he was diagnosed create of cancer one 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:06.720 week later is gone. And all of us know when 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:10.720 those moments come and stop us on a dime, and 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:15.320 that kind of how it was today. But I want 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:20.160 to just ask everybody that knows how much this guy 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:22.679 has done. You know, everyone says, well, National Review, will 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:27.520 William F. Buckley, Okay, all credit due. But Mary Matlin 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:29.600 once said, I don't know how I would have survived 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:33.800 the Clinton years without Rush on the radio. You know, 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:36.880 how would we have survived all these years? As he 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:41.000 has educated us, entertained us, advanced the cause with a 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:44.320 love of country and family and patriotism and all the 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:52.439 things that we value and life too, so that deeply 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:56.560 personal relationship in God. I would just say, Rush, we 0:10:56.600 --> 0:11:02.400 are praying for you. Everybody, everybody that knows what you've done, 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:06.280 how you've taken a lot of hits, over the years 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:13.720 standing up for this country, our constitution, your belief in God, 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:20.959 your belief in life. You fighting fights every single solitary 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:24.400 day to make this a more perfect union, a better country. 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:28.440 And we just as you go through this, we're all 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:31.560 praying for you. We are praying for a speedy recovery 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:39.040 and for years more of excellence in broadcasting. First day 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:41.120 I filled in from of course I dropped the It 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:44.680 was a golden mic and it actually fell anyway, Sean 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:52.360 Hennedy broke my microphone. You know, unbelievable, all of us 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:56.040 in this business talk radio. I always talk about the 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:59.160 pioneers because I admire them so much, because I wouldn't 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:00.839 be doing what I do I love to do every 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:06.480 day but for the Barry Farber's, the Barry Grace, you know, 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:10.400 the Gene Burns, the David Brodnoy's, the Jerry Williams, the 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:15.360 Bob Grants, you know, a serbic talk radio, hard hitting. 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:21.320 I'm as stern. All pioneers and they made this thing 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:26.120 called freedom of speech possible and rush for conservative talk radio. 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:28.880 I remember when I was in a radio studio, just 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:31.560 starting out on a college station in nineteen eighty seven, 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:34.280 and he syndicated in eighty eight. When some guy goes, 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:37.120 you gotta listen to this guy Rush, I remember where 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:39.120 I was. You gotta hear he does these homeless updates. 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:45.040 They're hilarious and they were, and he paved the way 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:47.520 for all of us. Me and Mark talked about it, 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:50.439 Levin the great One all the time. He's going to 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:53.400 call in at the bottom of the hour. And but 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:58.680 I just want to make sure everybody understands here we 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:03.839 are so lucky in this country that we have the greatest, 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:09.560 the best scientific minds with the greatest medical advancements. I 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:12.040 know Russia has raised money for leukemia all of these 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:16.280 years and donated millions. By the way, if everyone knew 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:19.840 the Rush, I knew that gives away millions, you know. 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:23.920 And I mom putting my faith, my hope, and all 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:28.880 of my prayers into his speedy recovery and taking his 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:33.600 lead on this, because you know, it's just hard when 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:38.640 you when you when you hear somebody you know and 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:42.320 admire that also helped you in life. Rush helped me 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:48.840 his brother's family to me. You know, his niece is 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:51.960 one of the nicest and best people that's ever worked 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:58.160 for me, and always gracious to me, and I know 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:02.320 he's been that way with everybody else. And there's nobody better. 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:06.880 Neil Boorts once called them the Babe ruth of talk radio. 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:11.720 Wow Sports nailed it. He's it. There's only one Babe Ruth. 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:17.360 Nobody else, nobody else comes close. Rush. We love you. 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:21.640 We are praying for your speedy recovery. We're praying for 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:27.320 God's blessings upon you and your health and your entire 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:33.760 family Catherine, David, Lisa, christ and all the kids, everybody, 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:36.240 and for what you've done so far and will continue 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:39.240 to do for your country. Thank you for what you've 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:42.880 done for me personally. Thank you, And I'm just praying 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:45.920 for your quick recovery. We love you. We're sorry you 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:49.960 have to go through this time. We'll be here waiting 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:53.480 for the next broadcast. We'll continue, all right, as we 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:57.760 roll along our prayers today with Russia Lambaugh as he 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:00.440 made this announcement and he begins a treatment, of course, 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:04.680 a treatment for his cancer. Uh. I do know that 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:10.200 we have the most amazing people ever that work diligently 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:14.560 every single day to make to find the cures for 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:17.240 all of this. You know, I'm really convinced, having lost, 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:21.840 especially I lost my father, well you know, six months 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:26.520 after I started at Fox, and you know, the advancements 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:31.880 are dramatic and I and and that's where we all 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:34.960 put our hope. When you when you have family members, 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:39.480 we all know somebody that was able to overcome a 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:44.880 bad diagnosis. But it does hit you like a dome. 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:48.920 It stops you on a dime. And I guess that's 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:52.560 what makes us special, isn't it, as human beings, because 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:56.000 we care, we love life. We know life is precious. 0:15:56.920 --> 0:16:01.560 We as a country or founding documented is God get 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:06.360 given rights, endowed by a creator. And we only have 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:11.480 a short time on this earth, very short time. You know. 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:15.520 If somebody in your family is sick, we're just for 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:17.360 the hell of it, tell everyone you love him tonight, 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:19.960 all right, twenty five till the top of the hour, 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:21.800 eight hundred and nine four one Sean if you want 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:24.240 to be a part of the program, just really hard 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:27.120 hitting news for this industry, for what we do and 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:31.080 talk radio. And Rush Limbaugh's announcement that he announced he 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:34.400 has a stage four lung cancer or at the end 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:37.480 of his show today so kind of took all of 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:41.840 us by shock. I want to listen. I know him. 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:43.720 He does not want us talking about it all day. 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:46.960 I know him, and I want to honor his wishes. 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:49.960 More importantly, he's going to be getting a treatment, and 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:53.000 he says as often as he can. He's back on 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:55.000 the air and he's gonna be out there fighting every day. 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:57.320 I'm just you know, it's moments like this that you 0:16:57.400 --> 0:17:01.360 really remember. You know, hey, what what does his life about? 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:05.800 We appreciate our friends, our family. You appreciate gifted, talented 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:08.840 people that give their all for what that what their passion, 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:12.280 their heart, their soul tells them. The great one. Mark 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:16.439 Levin is with me. Uh we would you know, to 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:19.760 be honest, texting and bawling before you know as well 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:21.880 hearing it because we know what he's done for both 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:26.159 of us prior to coming on air, and uh, you know, 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:28.679 it hits you like a dime. And but I you know, 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:34.240 this is quintessential rush stoic and he didn't even heat. 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:37.080 You know, he wants this to be normal. He's going 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:39.680 to get his treatment, and you know, I just put 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:42.400 my faith in my hope, in God and in medicine 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:45.080 and in science that has advanced Mark. And uh, and 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:47.480 I'm going to follow his lead. That's where he wants 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:49.159 us to go. And he's asked people to pray for him, 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:53.600 and I'm praying for him. Yeah, that's that's exactly right. 0:17:54.440 --> 0:18:00.600 And uh, you know, Sean, I think about Rush. I 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:04.639 just uh what he's done. He's done for all of us. 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:08.320 But even more than that, you know, this country do 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:12.280 without him? What we would we what would we do 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:16.160 without him? So we must pray and the best science possible. 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:23.520 And um he uh, I had to be honest with you. 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:26.119 I pulled over the side of the road. You know, 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:28.960 we knew a little bit earlier than most people. And 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:35.320 it's a it's and you're right, there is there's all 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:38.000 kinds of breakthroughs in science and so forth. We know 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:41.840 Russia ill I fight like hell and in what a 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:45.160 class act this man is um And he so loves 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:49.240 his audience. That's not a joke. And he talks about 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:52.719 it all the time. And I want people to know 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:55.720 talk writer is a very small circle of us who 0:18:55.800 --> 0:19:01.680 speak to each other, very small circle. But Rush, in 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:04.080 terms of his audience, in many ways, it overlaps with 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:07.639 all the audiences because it's so big as a special 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:11.320 relationship with people who listen to He's loved, he's liked, 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:16.360 his words a meaning. He's a man of great compassion 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:20.440 and humanity. All the people who've attacked him, he never, 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:24.359 he rarely ever strikes back. He's got you know in 0:19:24.800 --> 0:19:28.679 that sense that's like you never strike back either, you know, 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:31.360 you never throw a punch. He's got a lot more 0:19:31.400 --> 0:19:35.800 self control than I do. But I'll tell you now 0:19:35.880 --> 0:19:38.879 is the time to be positive and strong in the 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:42.760 fine ways where we can help each of us in 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:46.760 our own way. Prayer U the best doctors in the world, 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:52.240 excuse me. And that's the way we have to think. 0:19:52.280 --> 0:19:56.400 And that has to be our focus and more much 0:19:56.440 --> 0:19:58.520 care with the left or anybody else, has to say, 0:19:58.520 --> 0:20:02.760 this is our man. Love him, the nation so much, 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:09.600 the nation loves him and his impact on our lives 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:14.760 and when the country has been so important and so positive, 0:20:15.280 --> 0:20:17.720 and so that is what we will do. He will fight, 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:21.840 We will fight with him, we will pray and if 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:25.159 and if anyone gets through this, he can you agree 0:20:25.200 --> 0:20:29.720 with me? True? Yeah, that's so true. That's so true. Well, 0:20:30.520 --> 0:20:33.320 both of us personally, I would dead to gratitue to him, 0:20:33.359 --> 0:20:36.320 gratitude to him, and are you kidding let's be honest. 0:20:36.720 --> 0:20:39.640 I mean, around this whole damn ministry would be dead. 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:41.440 Do you know how many do you know how many 0:20:41.960 --> 0:20:45.919 talk stations the war when he started two hundred, there's thousands, 0:20:46.200 --> 0:20:48.920 thousands at the time when he saved the AM band, 0:20:48.960 --> 0:20:51.119 Now he's saving the FM band. I mean it's you know, 0:20:51.359 --> 0:20:54.119 we played such a big part of it, all right, 0:20:54.560 --> 0:20:57.359 how many national how many national talk shows? Did you 0:20:57.440 --> 0:21:00.640 love us? Rush? I never listened to War. I'd listen 0:21:00.680 --> 0:21:05.120 to local hosts. He was the first, Yeah, Larry King 0:21:05.200 --> 0:21:08.600 live at midnight going it's like lassion. That was about 0:21:08.640 --> 0:21:11.640 it exactly. But he transformed the radio. But it's more important, 0:21:11.680 --> 0:21:14.080 you know, um, and I love what Mary Mattlin had 0:21:14.119 --> 0:21:17.840 said about the time he this. You know, we talk 0:21:17.920 --> 0:21:20.800 about the impact of National Review. You know, you and 0:21:20.840 --> 0:21:24.760 I talk about how we all have our You were 0:21:24.880 --> 0:21:27.919 very different in many ways. We all have our unique gifts. 0:21:28.000 --> 0:21:31.920 You have your you know, acerbic side, your your keen 0:21:32.240 --> 0:21:36.520 constitutional intellect. You know. I always felt Russia's one of 0:21:36.520 --> 0:21:39.360 his greatest gifts was a monologue and the fact that 0:21:39.359 --> 0:21:43.320 he he'd see things and say things on another level, 0:21:43.359 --> 0:21:47.320 another dimension, and have the ability to communicate it to 0:21:48.520 --> 0:21:51.680 people and it dazzles me. And you know, we all 0:21:51.720 --> 0:21:54.879 have different gifts from God, and he brought us to 0:21:54.920 --> 0:21:56.840 a fruition. I'm just going to say this. I don't 0:21:56.840 --> 0:21:59.600 want to belabor this because I know he's He's probably 0:21:59.680 --> 0:22:01.600 going who kill you and me both for saying all this, 0:22:01.760 --> 0:22:05.080 But we wouldn't be here without him, and we are. 0:22:05.320 --> 0:22:09.080 We're just we're just taking a pause and we're just saying, Okay, 0:22:09.440 --> 0:22:12.520 our friend is sick. He's gonna get the right treatment 0:22:12.840 --> 0:22:15.000 and he's going to be in all of our prayers 0:22:16.119 --> 0:22:19.480 every single day. And you know what, if we can 0:22:19.520 --> 0:22:21.440 only hear him for a while two days a week, 0:22:21.800 --> 0:22:24.200 I'll be thankful for the two days and then until 0:22:24.200 --> 0:22:26.760 he gets back to five days a week. And you know, 0:22:26.920 --> 0:22:32.120 John's he's the energizer rush. He always the energy, He's 0:22:32.160 --> 0:22:37.280 always there, he's always fighting and I and I'm serious 0:22:37.320 --> 0:22:41.720 about this. I think if anyone can get through this, 0:22:42.240 --> 0:22:44.879 he can get through this. There are tens of millions 0:22:44.880 --> 0:22:47.760 of us. We're gonna be praying and rooting for him, 0:22:48.000 --> 0:22:50.520 and there's going to be wonderful doctors who are going 0:22:50.600 --> 0:22:52.399 to be trying, who are going to be taking care 0:22:52.440 --> 0:22:55.840 of him and you're right. He's got an enormously close, 0:22:56.080 --> 0:23:00.800 special family. It's huge family, enormously close, special Family's brother 0:23:00.880 --> 0:23:03.640 David is dear friends of ours, as are so many 0:23:03.680 --> 0:23:06.240 other members of his family. And people need to know. 0:23:06.320 --> 0:23:09.040 This is a family man. This is a down to 0:23:09.160 --> 0:23:13.119 earth man, This is a happy man. This is a 0:23:13.280 --> 0:23:16.359 humanitarian despite what his enemies have said about him and 0:23:16.400 --> 0:23:21.399 everybody else. And and I really think he'll fight his 0:23:21.480 --> 0:23:23.840 way through this because he fights his way through so much. 0:23:24.320 --> 0:23:27.479 Do you know what's amazing home? Because when you think 0:23:27.520 --> 0:23:30.040 about it, look at it like a forest, and it's 0:23:30.080 --> 0:23:35.160 there's no opening. He single handily, for syndicated conservative talk 0:23:35.240 --> 0:23:39.760 radio chopped down every tree and by doing that, he's 0:23:39.800 --> 0:23:43.320 taken every hit. And then all of us that come 0:23:43.359 --> 0:23:46.800 behind him, and we all owe under gratitude that path 0:23:46.920 --> 0:23:51.760 exists because he opened it for us, and that's why 0:23:51.800 --> 0:23:55.359 we love and appreciate him. And he took a lot more. 0:23:55.600 --> 0:23:57.679 You know, I take a lot of crap every day. 0:23:57.920 --> 0:24:00.200 I get the crappy anatomy, you get the crappy what 0:24:00.280 --> 0:24:03.119 I mean. But really, when you think about it, he 0:24:03.280 --> 0:24:06.160 took the crap. You know, he took the hits early, 0:24:06.240 --> 0:24:09.080 so it was easier for us because we knew it 0:24:09.119 --> 0:24:11.280 was coming, and we knew how to deal with it 0:24:11.280 --> 0:24:14.119 because we watched him deal with it. And but anyway, 0:24:14.119 --> 0:24:18.200 I love you, brother. We're praying for our friend. You're 0:24:18.280 --> 0:24:22.000 damn right. And I'll just say one other thing. There's 0:24:22.200 --> 0:24:25.600 really a handful of people during your lifetime who affect 0:24:25.640 --> 0:24:29.520 the world. And I'm not overstating this. A handful of 0:24:29.600 --> 0:24:32.800 everybody thinks they changed the world. There's really a handful, 0:24:33.760 --> 0:24:35.920 and he's one of the handful. And that is a 0:24:36.000 --> 0:24:40.920 remarkable thing. So we'll get the best doctors, we will 0:24:40.960 --> 0:24:45.680 pray for him, and with God's speed, he'll get through this. Amen, 0:24:46.119 --> 0:24:48.399 all right, my brother, God bless you, God bless you. 0:24:49.560 --> 0:24:52.280 Eight hundred nine one Sean. Somebody just sent me this 0:24:52.359 --> 0:24:55.040 And I'm not going to get into all analysis of 0:24:55.080 --> 0:24:57.480 all this, but there is one thing from Science Daily 0:24:57.520 --> 0:25:00.680 that did catch my attention that a friend's hun that 0:25:01.040 --> 0:25:04.159 lung cancer in particular. There you know, the rates have 0:25:04.280 --> 0:25:09.439 dropped fifty one percent since nineteen ninety alone, in the 0:25:09.520 --> 0:25:12.200 years I know when Rush does his radio thon is 0:25:12.240 --> 0:25:16.280 Lukemi radio thon? I mean I lost. I remember a 0:25:16.280 --> 0:25:19.720 cousin of mine many years ago to Hodgkins disease, and 0:25:19.800 --> 0:25:25.120 nobody ever dies from Hodgkins disease, hardly anymore. Somebody very 0:25:25.119 --> 0:25:27.040 close to me in my life has had lymphoma for 0:25:27.119 --> 0:25:31.000 twenty two years and the medicine state ahead of it. 0:25:31.560 --> 0:25:33.600 And look at Dick Cheney had a heart attack in 0:25:33.680 --> 0:25:37.399 his thirties, eventually culminating in a heart transplant. I remember 0:25:37.440 --> 0:25:40.560 interviewing him when he had the machine to hold him 0:25:40.600 --> 0:25:44.159