1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,800 Speaker 1: He's the host of his self titled radio program heard nationwide. 2 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: Here's Michael Barry in for Clay Travis, said Buck Sexton, 3 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:14,239 Speaker 1: thank you Clay Travis, and thank you Buck Sexton for 4 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:17,400 Speaker 1: carrying on the proud tradition. Thank you for the opportunity 5 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:19,720 Speaker 1: to be here today and ford to hosting those two 6 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:23,200 Speaker 1: gentlemen along with my friend Jesse Kelly in Houston on 7 00:00:23,239 --> 00:00:26,799 Speaker 1: March fourth, We're gonna have a great Texas cookout blowout. 8 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:28,880 Speaker 1: It's going to be a great time and a lot 9 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:32,680 Speaker 1: of Russia limball fans will be there. There is a 10 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:34,800 Speaker 1: wonderful tradition. If you're looking to start a new one, 11 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:37,879 Speaker 1: I'm a big one for traditions. There's a wonderful tradition 12 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:42,920 Speaker 1: that started in Iceland and continues to this day. During 13 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:48,760 Speaker 1: World War Two, Iceland was technically neutral. They were affiliated 14 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:53,840 Speaker 1: with Denmark, I believe, but everything was rationed. You couldn't 15 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:55,920 Speaker 1: get anything, obviously, being an island nation was hard to 16 00:00:55,960 --> 00:01:00,400 Speaker 1: get to things except for paper. The Icelandic government believed 17 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:03,600 Speaker 1: in books and knowledge and wisdom and sharing that, and 18 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:06,800 Speaker 1: so the printing presses kept printing, and so you couldn't 19 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:09,199 Speaker 1: buy the gifts that were made from around the world, 20 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:12,959 Speaker 1: not much as made in Iceland. So books were given 21 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:17,080 Speaker 1: and at Christmas. Sandy Peterson, my research director, told me 22 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:18,800 Speaker 1: this story and I loved it, and we're doing it 23 00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:23,000 Speaker 1: at Christmas. They would on Christmas Eve everyone would give 24 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:27,240 Speaker 1: a book to someone else in the family. And her 25 00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:30,080 Speaker 1: idea this year for her family, they're all in Alabama, 26 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:33,080 Speaker 1: was they would give a book. Each person would bring 27 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:36,319 Speaker 1: a book that at twelve years old you wished you 28 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:38,320 Speaker 1: would have read. And for me, that was how to 29 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:41,560 Speaker 1: win friends and influence people. It might be for you 30 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 1: some of the great Patriot books that Rush wrote. It 31 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:48,200 Speaker 1: might be well, it could be most anything, but it 32 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:50,559 Speaker 1: seemed like a great tradition. And I'm a big believer 33 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 1: in reading. My mom, who's always been a big reader, 34 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 1: taught me that you can travel the world if you 35 00:01:56,720 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 1: can read without ever needing a passport, and it is 36 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:03,000 Speaker 1: so true. We're going to go to your calls one 37 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:06,560 Speaker 1: eight hundred two eight two twenty eight eighty two, but 38 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 1: before we do that, I want you to remember back. 39 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:12,919 Speaker 1: I believe it was February fourth of twenty twenty. It 40 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:14,680 Speaker 1: wasn't on the usual day that it is. It had 41 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 1: been pushed back. A little bit later, President Trump surprised 42 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:21,320 Speaker 1: us all he had brought Rush Limball as his honored guest, 43 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 1: but Rush did not know, and Rush didn't have clothes. 44 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:27,440 Speaker 1: They had clothes waiting for him. Trump sent him a jet. 45 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:30,320 Speaker 1: Catherine is sitting beside Rush and he's up there and 46 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:33,080 Speaker 1: he's sitting next to Milania, and he does not realize 47 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:36,120 Speaker 1: what's about to happen. And I want you to transport 48 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:39,600 Speaker 1: yourself back in time to that moment. I'm literally watching 49 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:42,720 Speaker 1: the television and tears were streaming down. And what made 50 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:47,000 Speaker 1: it even better was when everyone stood up to applaud 51 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:51,840 Speaker 1: Rush Limball. He pumps. He does a pump several times 52 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:54,880 Speaker 1: before he starts crying because at first he's just being praised, 53 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:56,640 Speaker 1: and then he realizes that he's about to get the 54 00:02:56,639 --> 00:03:00,960 Speaker 1: Medal of Honor. Without missing a beat, he spin proper 55 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:04,120 Speaker 1: protocol and has Milannia put it around his neck. I 56 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:07,000 Speaker 1: wouldn't have known to do that. Rush was meant for 57 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:12,240 Speaker 1: this moment. And Nancy Pelosi is pouting. She's sitting at 58 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:15,240 Speaker 1: her desk. Now you can't tell she's pouting because her 59 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:17,560 Speaker 1: face is pulled just stretched all the way back. But 60 00:03:17,919 --> 00:03:20,880 Speaker 1: she can't pout actually physically expressed that she's pouting, but 61 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 1: she's saying that she refuses to get up, which to 62 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:25,600 Speaker 1: me made it so much better because you don't want 63 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:27,520 Speaker 1: her to pretend. You want to know she's miserable at 64 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:29,800 Speaker 1: this moment. That that was the time when she tore 65 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:33,960 Speaker 1: the speech at the end, if you remember, but nobody 66 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:36,480 Speaker 1: cared about her little gesture because it was Rush's moment. 67 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:39,240 Speaker 1: I want you to take yourself back to that moment. 68 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:43,520 Speaker 1: Almost every American family knows the pain when a loved 69 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:48,080 Speaker 1: one is diagnosed with a serious illness. Here tonight is 70 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 1: a special man, be loved by millions of Americans who 71 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:59,640 Speaker 1: just received a Stage four advanced cancer diagnosis. This is 72 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:03,600 Speaker 1: not good news, but what is good news is that 73 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:06,640 Speaker 1: he is the greatest fighter and winner that you will 74 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:11,720 Speaker 1: ever meet. Rush Limbaugh, thank you for your decades of 75 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:20,000 Speaker 1: powerless devotion to our country. And Rush, in recognition of 76 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:23,520 Speaker 1: all that you have done for our nation, the millions 77 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:26,839 Speaker 1: of people a day that you speak to and that 78 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 1: you inspire, and all of the incredible work that you 79 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:34,840 Speaker 1: have done for charity, I am proud to announce tonight 80 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:39,360 Speaker 1: that you will be receiving our country's highest civilian honor, 81 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:52,120 Speaker 1: the Presidential Medal of Freedom. I will now ask the 82 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:55,800 Speaker 1: First Lady of the United States to present you with 83 00:04:55,839 --> 00:05:07,159 Speaker 1: the honor. Please. Winston Churchill famously said, you have enemies, good. 84 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:11,200 Speaker 1: That means you stood up for something some time in 85 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 1: your life. Rush Limbaugh had a lot of enemies, and 86 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:19,360 Speaker 1: they were in that room, and that's why we love him. 87 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:22,880 Speaker 1: He didn't pander to them. He didn't give Hitler the 88 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:26,640 Speaker 1: Sudaton land and claim there would be peace in our time. 89 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 1: Like Neville Chamberlain. He stood up for something every single 90 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:33,359 Speaker 1: day for three hours, and he taught the rest of 91 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:37,440 Speaker 1: us the language, the inspiration, the motivation to do the same. 92 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:41,600 Speaker 1: It's a movement. William F. Buckley was a big part 93 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:45,720 Speaker 1: of the conservative movement in this country, and he made 94 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:52,279 Speaker 1: an indelible impression. Ronald Reagan carried that torch. But for influence, 95 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:55,760 Speaker 1: I don't think you can top Rush Limball. And you 96 00:05:55,880 --> 00:05:58,479 Speaker 1: add Donald Trump to that legacy, because there would have 97 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:02,599 Speaker 1: been no Trump presidency but for Rush Limbaugh tilling the 98 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 1: ground to make it fertile to receive. It's a beautiful, 99 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:08,960 Speaker 1: beautiful time, and we're lucky to have witnessed it. I've 100 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 1: got about two minutes left in this segment for Bill 101 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:16,840 Speaker 1: in Southeast Missouri. You're up, Sir Michael. I am truly 102 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:19,400 Speaker 1: humbled to be on the show. Finally after this amount 103 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:21,840 Speaker 1: of time. I say finally because although I am from 104 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:25,040 Speaker 1: Southeast Missouri, I moved to Florida and a practiced there 105 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:32,039 Speaker 1: for thirty years. I've got fond memories of a bitter 106 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:35,880 Speaker 1: suite story my son, who died in an accident at 107 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:39,760 Speaker 1: age nineteen. I was picking him up from school at 108 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:43,040 Speaker 1: age eight, and he had gotten into quite a controversy 109 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:49,039 Speaker 1: with his classmates. My son knew that Rush Limbaugh was 110 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 1: my favorite show to listen to, but he also knew 111 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:54,080 Speaker 1: MY favorite rock band to listen to was Rush, and 112 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:57,919 Speaker 1: so the argument included him arguing with the rest of 113 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:00,960 Speaker 1: his classmates that Rush Limbaugh indeed was the lead singer 114 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:05,039 Speaker 1: for the band Rush. And so that continues to be 115 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:06,960 Speaker 1: told as one of the funniest stories and one of 116 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:10,880 Speaker 1: my fondest memories of my son. Neil would probably consider 117 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:14,040 Speaker 1: that a great honor. I'm sure he would, and I 118 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:17,120 Speaker 1: think we can we can summarize this story a thing. 119 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:19,440 Speaker 1: Don't put off until tomorrow what you should do today, 120 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:23,640 Speaker 1: because I intended to call Rush probably a hundred times 121 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:25,520 Speaker 1: with that call because I knew he would think it 122 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:29,960 Speaker 1: was so funny. Yeah, well, we can't call Getty Lee 123 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:34,040 Speaker 1: or I can't. We can't call Rush Limbaugh. But thank 124 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:37,800 Speaker 1: you for saying that, because that's a takeaway for today, 125 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:41,120 Speaker 1: not just our love of Rush Limbaugh and taking a 126 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:46,000 Speaker 1: moment to walk down memory lane. You can't call Russia 127 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:48,840 Speaker 1: Limball today and tell him how much he's meant to 128 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:51,000 Speaker 1: you and how he's changed your life. But there is 129 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:54,480 Speaker 1: somebody out there that you can. Maybe it's your mom 130 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:58,200 Speaker 1: mins Loretta Marzella Berry and Norman Lee Berry, and I'm 131 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:00,280 Speaker 1: lucky at seventy six and eighty one to will have 132 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:03,600 Speaker 1: them because they've made me the man I am today, 133 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:06,560 Speaker 1: my wife, my father in law who passed last year. 134 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:08,920 Speaker 1: But it may be a coach for you, and may 135 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:12,440 Speaker 1: be a teacher, a superintendent, a mentor, a big brother, 136 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:17,280 Speaker 1: an uncle, a grandfather, a grandmother. It could be somebody 137 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:21,200 Speaker 1: who in some way made you the man or woman, 138 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:26,320 Speaker 1: the father or mother, the business owner, the pastor, the athlete, 139 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:33,359 Speaker 1: the leader, somebody the warrior made you who you are today. 140 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:36,720 Speaker 1: I want you during this next few moments while I 141 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:38,800 Speaker 1: run down the hall. I want you to make a call. 142 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:41,040 Speaker 1: If you're lucky enough that that person is still alive, 143 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:43,360 Speaker 1: I want you to call and thank them as you 144 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:45,240 Speaker 1: can't do for Rush, but you can't do for them 145 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:47,679 Speaker 1: because they too will be taken from us. At one 146 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:51,840 Speaker 1: point one eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two, 147 00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:54,720 Speaker 1: I'm Michael Berry in for Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. 148 00:08:55,679 --> 00:08:58,040 Speaker 1: What happens when you crossed the lawyer with an ex 149 00:08:58,120 --> 00:09:04,080 Speaker 1: CIA officer Travis and Buck Sexton show on the EIB Network. 150 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:16,560 Speaker 1: I'm Michael Barry with the honor to fill in for 151 00:09:16,679 --> 00:09:22,800 Speaker 1: Clay Travis and Buck Sexton and with the request and 152 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:27,560 Speaker 1: full participation of the folks who've been with Russia lumbaf 153 00:09:27,559 --> 00:09:31,400 Speaker 1: for many of them over twenty years. Today we remember 154 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:33,720 Speaker 1: one year after one of his most special broadcasts of 155 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:35,960 Speaker 1: all time, very special to him and very special to 156 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:39,200 Speaker 1: us as listeners. We pay tribute to him on Christmas Eve. 157 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:43,440 Speaker 1: You know, if you have to leave us for a moment, 158 00:09:43,559 --> 00:09:45,600 Speaker 1: I hope you won't, but make sure you come back 159 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:48,640 Speaker 1: for our last segment because we will close with Rush 160 00:09:48,679 --> 00:09:52,640 Speaker 1: doing what he did last year, and it'll be a 161 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:56,440 Speaker 1: great send off to your family. But there's a story 162 00:09:56,520 --> 00:10:01,800 Speaker 1: by Diana Aloco, Diana Aloco, former managing editor of the 163 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:05,200 Speaker 1: Limball Letter. It's posted at Clay and Buck dot com. 164 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:08,079 Speaker 1: But she tells in there the story I won't read 165 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:12,600 Speaker 1: it all about how Rush used to get melancholy at 166 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:16,440 Speaker 1: Christmas and that the staff would go, you know, what's wrong? 167 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:18,520 Speaker 1: Why is it? Why is he down? Why? Why of 168 00:10:18,559 --> 00:10:21,800 Speaker 1: this sadness? And they say, oh, yeah, it's Christmas. And 169 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:26,559 Speaker 1: somewhere along the way, after his father passed, the music 170 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:32,520 Speaker 1: of Mannheim Steamroller lifted his spirits and changed his entire disposition. 171 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:37,920 Speaker 1: And that's why the team plays from from Thanksgiving to 172 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:43,000 Speaker 1: New Year's they play Mannheim Steamroller as they did on 173 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:48,280 Speaker 1: his show up until he passed. I will be with 174 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:50,600 Speaker 1: you all of next week for Clay and Buck, and 175 00:10:50,679 --> 00:10:53,600 Speaker 1: thankful for the honor to do so. On Monday, we 176 00:10:53,679 --> 00:10:57,560 Speaker 1: will talk about what happened on January sixth, what really happened, 177 00:10:58,080 --> 00:11:00,120 Speaker 1: not what they tell you happened. We'll talk later in 178 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:03,320 Speaker 1: the week with Peter McCullough, who had a big splash 179 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:05,960 Speaker 1: with Joe Rogan a week or so ago, talking about 180 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:08,640 Speaker 1: COVID and what all happened a few more folks for 181 00:11:08,679 --> 00:11:11,760 Speaker 1: you to hear from. But I want you to think 182 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:13,920 Speaker 1: about something and you can send me an email through 183 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:16,600 Speaker 1: my website at Michael berryshow dot com. Over the weekend, 184 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:21,320 Speaker 1: I'm going to start Monday Mornings show with so much 185 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:24,959 Speaker 1: of the news as negative. And there's a new documentary 186 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:28,640 Speaker 1: out on Netflix called The Darkest Hour about Winston Churchill 187 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:33,560 Speaker 1: coming in and saving the British Empire. John F. Kennedy 188 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:37,240 Speaker 1: famously said that he mobilized the English language and sent 189 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:40,680 Speaker 1: it into war. Well, he sent the English language into 190 00:11:40,679 --> 00:11:44,280 Speaker 1: war when he mobilized it. But it wasn't until Americans 191 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:48,360 Speaker 1: from small towns across this great country mobilized and got 192 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:50,440 Speaker 1: a crew cut and went and went and fought the 193 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:53,480 Speaker 1: Germans at Normandy, and many of them didn't come home. 194 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:57,640 Speaker 1: And I want to talk on Monday morning to start 195 00:11:57,679 --> 00:12:00,600 Speaker 1: the show and then hear from you about folks that 196 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:03,160 Speaker 1: are everyday heroes, and there are a lot of them. 197 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:05,840 Speaker 1: Alex Barnson was on with Clay Travis yesterday. That's an 198 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:08,360 Speaker 1: everyday hero that I didn't know about before all that 199 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:12,280 Speaker 1: there's a guy of Nigerian descent by way of England 200 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:15,720 Speaker 1: who now lives in the US. Named Zubi who just 201 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:20,320 Speaker 1: offers nuggets of good common sense every single day and 202 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:25,640 Speaker 1: he's built this massive following. But there are coaches. There's 203 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:28,400 Speaker 1: a fellow named Stuart Sheller who you've probably never heard of. 204 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:32,680 Speaker 1: He's the only person to be fired by the botched 205 00:12:33,160 --> 00:12:37,920 Speaker 1: Afghanistan withdrawal. Why was he fired for criticizing the withdrawal? 206 00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:41,600 Speaker 1: What a man forty one years old, seventeen year veteran, 207 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:44,240 Speaker 1: three years from his pension. But you know what his 208 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:49,559 Speaker 1: grandfather served at Normandy. So in the Sheller family, you storm, 209 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:54,600 Speaker 1: You storm the other side, you storm the beach, no 210 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:58,000 Speaker 1: matter what the consequences. I'm going to profile on Monday 211 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:02,800 Speaker 1: Morning folks who are every day heroes today, who deserve 212 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:05,640 Speaker 1: to be called out, who deserved to be promoted. We've 213 00:13:05,679 --> 00:13:08,080 Speaker 1: got to be sure that we don't just criticize the 214 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:10,480 Speaker 1: bad that's going on in this country, but that we 215 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:13,400 Speaker 1: look to the Rush Limbaughs, that we look to the 216 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:16,439 Speaker 1: Stuart Shellers, that we look to these people, the Barry 217 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:21,240 Speaker 1: Weiss and Corey D'Angelis and Chris Ruffo and Carol Markowitz 218 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:23,680 Speaker 1: and all these folks that are leading the charge, and 219 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:26,679 Speaker 1: give them some of their credit. Let's go. It's one 220 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:29,079 Speaker 1: eight hundred two eight two twenty eight eighty two one 221 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:32,640 Speaker 1: eight hundred two eight two eight eight two Jason in 222 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:35,520 Speaker 1: New Braunfels, Texas. And folks, I promise, y'all, Ali is 223 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:38,440 Speaker 1: screening the calls. I'm not all these great Texans calling in. 224 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:40,800 Speaker 1: I'm not giving them favoritism. But I'm glad they're calling 225 00:13:41,040 --> 00:13:43,800 Speaker 1: Jason go ahead. But hey, I'm glad she has given 226 00:13:43,880 --> 00:13:45,960 Speaker 1: us some favoritism. And listen. I wanted to use the 227 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:49,840 Speaker 1: opportunity on the show today by the power invested in 228 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:52,880 Speaker 1: me by nobody, in particular, to declare Rush Limbaugh an 229 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:56,320 Speaker 1: honorary Desert Storm veteran. And I want to tell you 230 00:13:56,360 --> 00:13:58,400 Speaker 1: why there are a lot of young people hearing that 231 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:01,360 Speaker 1: tournament have no idea what that me. In nineteen ninety 232 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:03,280 Speaker 1: one was the last time in the United States one 233 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:06,800 Speaker 1: of war outright. It was done beautifully, it was done perfectly, 234 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:09,480 Speaker 1: all but the victory. And I came home in the 235 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:12,120 Speaker 1: mid semester. It was nineteen ninety one. It was six 236 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:14,400 Speaker 1: years after I graduated from high school. All of my 237 00:14:14,440 --> 00:14:16,400 Speaker 1: friends from high school and in church in Little League 238 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:18,720 Speaker 1: had graduated from college. I felt like I was behind 239 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:21,360 Speaker 1: I felt I was old. I was twenty three years old, 240 00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:24,720 Speaker 1: and one day my best friend, Scott Cooley, and attorney 241 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:26,400 Speaker 1: up in Lampass was called and said, you gotta listen 242 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:28,640 Speaker 1: to this guy named Rush Limbaugh. And so I turned 243 00:14:28,680 --> 00:14:31,040 Speaker 1: it on and I started listening every day, and those 244 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:33,680 Speaker 1: days he was on a KTSA here in San Antonio 245 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:36,240 Speaker 1: from I think twelve to two and then from twelve 246 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:38,760 Speaker 1: to three. And I would do all these crazy things. 247 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:40,280 Speaker 1: When I had to go to work, I would put 248 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:43,080 Speaker 1: a cassette recorder by the radio. I would find all 249 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:45,960 Speaker 1: these ways to listen to as much show as possible. 250 00:14:46,280 --> 00:14:49,960 Speaker 1: And I can tell you categorically that it was a very, 251 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:52,560 Speaker 1: very big transition coming back from the war back to 252 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:54,720 Speaker 1: civilian life. I'd already been in the army for three 253 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:57,640 Speaker 1: years before my first year in college, and I will 254 00:14:57,680 --> 00:15:00,960 Speaker 1: tell you absolutely, and it's in controver be true that 255 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:03,960 Speaker 1: I learned more that summer, spring and summer listening to 256 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:06,560 Speaker 1: Rush and the callers and the folks that called the 257 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:11,160 Speaker 1: show than I did when I ultimately graduated from college. 258 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:14,040 Speaker 1: I learned about the media, and I learned about journalism, 259 00:15:14,040 --> 00:15:16,280 Speaker 1: and I learned about the things that we were hearing 260 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:19,480 Speaker 1: on the news, and those soundbites were never the full story. 261 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:22,160 Speaker 1: And I just got to say, I know, I speak 262 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:24,280 Speaker 1: for a lot of desert storm vetterans who came back 263 00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:27,840 Speaker 1: and we're having that time transitioning back into civilian life. 264 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:30,080 Speaker 1: It gave me something to do at twelve o'clock. It 265 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:33,120 Speaker 1: gave me a routine, and I just I will never 266 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:36,920 Speaker 1: ever forget that spring and summer listening to Rush and 267 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:40,040 Speaker 1: just thinking, like a lot of people, where has this 268 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:43,920 Speaker 1: guy been all my life? Because young people today don't understand. 269 00:15:44,120 --> 00:15:46,920 Speaker 1: There is no social media, there is no computer, there 270 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:49,800 Speaker 1: is no email, there is no Fox News. The news 271 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:53,960 Speaker 1: is whatever ABCCBS and NPR and those guys say it is. 272 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:58,080 Speaker 1: And one guy, one guy, changed all of that. He 273 00:15:58,160 --> 00:16:00,600 Speaker 1: was the first guy I ever heard use the term email. 274 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:02,880 Speaker 1: He was ahead of the game. The only thing I 275 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:06,040 Speaker 1: didn't like about Russie was dig on Apple computers before 276 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:09,120 Speaker 1: anybody else was. And I never understood that. Jason, I 277 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:11,760 Speaker 1: got about thirty seconds. Tell me something real quick. What 278 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:14,680 Speaker 1: unit did you serve with which branch? I was attached 279 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:17,200 Speaker 1: to Patton's own third Army. I served in the Battle 280 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:19,800 Speaker 1: of Coffee and on the big leftop out into the desert. 281 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:23,160 Speaker 1: Thank you for your service. Brother. I think about how 282 00:16:23,160 --> 00:16:29,800 Speaker 1: many folks come home suffering PTSD and disconnected from the 283 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:32,880 Speaker 1: whole world, but you can turn it on free in 284 00:16:32,920 --> 00:16:35,840 Speaker 1: your car, on your radio wherever else and have the 285 00:16:35,880 --> 00:16:39,800 Speaker 1: comfort of his wisdom. How many people have found sucker 286 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:45,680 Speaker 1: in that voice, in that wisdom over all those years 287 00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:49,560 Speaker 1: one eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two. 288 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:53,800 Speaker 1: I'm Michael Berry, proud to be in for Clay Travis 289 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:57,600 Speaker 1: and Buck Sexton as we pay tribute to Rustling Wall. 290 00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:06,399 Speaker 1: You're listening to Clay Travis send Buck Sexton on the 291 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:19,359 Speaker 1: EIB Network. Clay Travis said Buck Sexton Show sitting in 292 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:23,320 Speaker 1: for Clay and Buck Today syndicated radio personality Michael Barry 293 00:17:23,600 --> 00:17:30,199 Speaker 1: on the EIB Network. I feel I've learned over the 294 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:33,560 Speaker 1: years that when I know something deep is coming, I 295 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:36,200 Speaker 1: have to warn the ladies and I guess any of 296 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:40,280 Speaker 1: you other men who wear makeup, that our last segment 297 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:42,600 Speaker 1: of the hour, which will be our last segment of 298 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:45,480 Speaker 1: the day, will be coming up, not this one, but 299 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:48,640 Speaker 1: the next. And you're going to hear what Rush said 300 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:51,400 Speaker 1: on Christmas Eve last year, and you're going to hear 301 00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:54,800 Speaker 1: it over the bed of the song that he liked 302 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:58,520 Speaker 1: to close with, which was Silent Night, And It's going 303 00:17:58,560 --> 00:18:03,560 Speaker 1: to hit you, full preparation. It's it's going to hit you. 304 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:08,479 Speaker 1: And if if you're you're probably gonna need to reapply 305 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:12,000 Speaker 1: your makeup. Just full warning. It's it's it's coming. I've 306 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:14,320 Speaker 1: I've listened to it. I've listened to a lot of 307 00:18:14,359 --> 00:18:16,960 Speaker 1: rush in the last few weeks to get ready for this, 308 00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:22,240 Speaker 1: and I've listened to that particular moment. We've put it 309 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:25,520 Speaker 1: all together to prepare it to present it to you, 310 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:28,800 Speaker 1: and we listened to it again one more time, one 311 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:33,880 Speaker 1: final run through before the show this morning. They did 312 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:38,280 Speaker 1: it out of New York and Ali Murrachkovsky see I 313 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:40,240 Speaker 1: can pronounce her last name. I want her parents to 314 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:43,159 Speaker 1: know I can do that. Ali Marachkovsky sent me a 315 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:47,160 Speaker 1: message and she said, Mike Karagliano and her were about 316 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:48,760 Speaker 1: to play it. Don't worry, We're going to test it 317 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:52,320 Speaker 1: one more time. And knowing that it was coming, and 318 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:55,800 Speaker 1: knowing that it was just a dry run again your 319 00:18:55,840 --> 00:19:00,640 Speaker 1: throat Titans, because it's it's just such. It's a lot 320 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:03,400 Speaker 1: of emotion, there, a lot of shared memories, a lot 321 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:07,280 Speaker 1: of inspiration of a lot of a lot, and that's 322 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:09,480 Speaker 1: how we will close the show today. I will be 323 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:12,240 Speaker 1: with you all of next week and we'll be doing 324 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:16,399 Speaker 1: a more traditional Clay and Russia Limball show. We'll be 325 00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:20,680 Speaker 1: talking about the issues of today, COVID in January sixth, 326 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:23,520 Speaker 1: and crime rates and Biden and all of those things 327 00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:26,600 Speaker 1: that will be next week. Today was special because it's 328 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:29,520 Speaker 1: the first Christmas Eve that Russia Limball did not get 329 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:31,359 Speaker 1: to do the show. He loved the most, and it 330 00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:34,280 Speaker 1: seemed right that we do this, and I hope you agree. 331 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:40,520 Speaker 1: Let's go to James in Palm Beach, Florida. Your answer. Hey, Michael, 332 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:44,000 Speaker 1: Mary Christmas, Merry Christmas tea. I just want to share 333 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:47,040 Speaker 1: a quick story about when I was able to meet Rush. 334 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:49,600 Speaker 1: Was not too long after he was diagnosed, and I 335 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:52,560 Speaker 1: was at a coffee shop in Palm Beach. Nary was 336 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:56,680 Speaker 1: sinning with his MacBook computer and I caught his eye 337 00:19:56,720 --> 00:19:59,560 Speaker 1: and he kind of looked up from his computer and 338 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:01,600 Speaker 1: you things I wanted to say to the man, but 339 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:03,760 Speaker 1: the only thing I could muster was God bless you, sir, 340 00:20:04,119 --> 00:20:06,360 Speaker 1: And he looked up and probably gave me the warmest 341 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:09,320 Speaker 1: smile that anyone's ever given me. So that's that's how 342 00:20:09,359 --> 00:20:12,560 Speaker 1: I'm going to remember Rosh Always have a great holiday. 343 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:17,640 Speaker 1: Thank you, sir. What a treat you know. I think 344 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:22,000 Speaker 1: we all, we all in our minds wonder what we're 345 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:24,640 Speaker 1: going to do when we meet you know, our hero, 346 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:27,560 Speaker 1: when we meet this person in you know, in the 347 00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:32,040 Speaker 1: oddest of places at a coffee shop. Michael Jordan would 348 00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:35,920 Speaker 1: famously say to people who were hanging out with him, 349 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:38,240 Speaker 1: if they would say, hey, you know, we're having a 350 00:20:38,280 --> 00:20:40,840 Speaker 1: good time here, if you wouldn't mind, would you mind 351 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:46,280 Speaker 1: signing something for my nephew, And Michael Jordan's supposedly would say, 352 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:48,480 Speaker 1: do you want to be my fan or do you 353 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:51,119 Speaker 1: want to be my friend? In other words, don't interrupt 354 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:54,320 Speaker 1: my space. There have been other people, Sinatra among them, 355 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:57,639 Speaker 1: who were supposedly difficult to deal with. Robert Redford the 356 00:20:57,680 --> 00:20:59,280 Speaker 1: worst I've heard if you went up and asked for 357 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:01,680 Speaker 1: an autograph, or you interrupted him while he was having 358 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:05,360 Speaker 1: dinner or reading. But everything I've ever heard of Rush 359 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:10,480 Speaker 1: is that he reveled in the human interaction in the exchange. Now, 360 00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:14,640 Speaker 1: he struggled later in life because he was effectively deaf 361 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:17,600 Speaker 1: and the cochlear implant helped that, but he struggled with that, 362 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:20,960 Speaker 1: but that he enjoyed that interaction and not everybody does, 363 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:26,280 Speaker 1: but he certainly did. Let's go to Frank in Glendora, California. 364 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:28,720 Speaker 1: I'm Michael Berry, sitting in for Clay and Buck. You're up, 365 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:36,720 Speaker 1: Michael Berry, I just wanted to U. I met Rush 366 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:40,280 Speaker 1: at his Rush to Excellent tour when he first started 367 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:42,680 Speaker 1: the show. I met him, had passed at Into California, 368 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:46,840 Speaker 1: talked to him for ten minutes. I had I had 369 00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:52,679 Speaker 1: gotten hurt on my computer technician job and I wasn't working, 370 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:57,840 Speaker 1: And in talking to Rush, he gave me the courage 371 00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:02,520 Speaker 1: to go to med school medical school at forty four, 372 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:08,080 Speaker 1: and when I was forty eight, I became a PhD psychotherapist. 373 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:12,440 Speaker 1: I just retired from that four years ago. And I 374 00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:18,160 Speaker 1: literally owe what happened to me, the infiration to do 375 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:23,920 Speaker 1: that at a late age, to talk in the Rush 376 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:27,040 Speaker 1: in person when he did his Rush to Excellent tour 377 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:34,000 Speaker 1: here in La California. Thank you for sharing that perspective. Excellence. 378 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:40,480 Speaker 1: That's what we need. More of excellence, the pursuit of excellence. 379 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:43,240 Speaker 1: Everyone doesn't win a trophy, that trophy is so much 380 00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:47,760 Speaker 1: more meaningful when for three, four or five tries you 381 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:51,480 Speaker 1: don't get it and then you finally do. I want 382 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:56,440 Speaker 1: to share a call that came in when Ken Matthews 383 00:22:56,840 --> 00:23:01,000 Speaker 1: was guest hosting, and it came in from in Brooklyn, 384 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:04,600 Speaker 1: and he shared some things that I thought were really special. 385 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:08,960 Speaker 1: It's clip number seven. Ramon share that. Here's Fred, Brooklyn, 386 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:12,560 Speaker 1: New York. Fred, you are the final caller on the 387 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:18,000 Speaker 1: final open Line Friday. Welcome, blessed, Good afternoon, ten and 388 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:24,040 Speaker 1: forever dittos to you and all the listeners. Thirty years ago, 389 00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:27,440 Speaker 1: I was an orphan. I was raised by the state 390 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:30,439 Speaker 1: in New York, with no direction, no positive mails in 391 00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:34,919 Speaker 1: my life, and I tuned into Rush because I was 392 00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:39,119 Speaker 1: hoping for a traffic report one afternoon, and I was 393 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:44,240 Speaker 1: hooked immediately, the first positive mail influence I ever had 394 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:48,600 Speaker 1: in my life. And every day I turned it, I 395 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:52,639 Speaker 1: turned to that show, and over the years I decided 396 00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:55,240 Speaker 1: let me open my own business. He's been convincing me 397 00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:57,560 Speaker 1: that'd be the best I could. No one else said 398 00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:02,119 Speaker 1: has well. Thirty years into my business and both my 399 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:06,680 Speaker 1: boys and our own homes and living in New York, 400 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:09,760 Speaker 1: I just can't believe that this is coming to an end. 401 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:14,240 Speaker 1: I will listen to ever fill this spot because this 402 00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:19,200 Speaker 1: spot has changed my life. It's made me a proud man. 403 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:23,680 Speaker 1: It took me on adventures. I never thought it would 404 00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:27,600 Speaker 1: just by positive thought every day, just having someplace to 405 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:30,840 Speaker 1: listen to something positive, no matter what was going on 406 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:33,680 Speaker 1: in my life. The guy would just make me smile, 407 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:37,760 Speaker 1: has made me laugh, and I would wake up the 408 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:42,639 Speaker 1: next day looking forward to it rather than just wabbling 409 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:47,320 Speaker 1: from a state run institution that was just taught me negativity. 410 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:50,880 Speaker 1: I went from from an orphan to go a criminal 411 00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:54,720 Speaker 1: to a businessman, and I never had any positive mail 412 00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:57,560 Speaker 1: influence in my life other than Russia. So I thank him. 413 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:03,679 Speaker 1: I thank the entire organization and forever Dittos. Thank you 414 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:06,560 Speaker 1: Fred and God bless you. We'll be right back. A 415 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:11,720 Speaker 1: life changed, a life changed. What a powerful, powerful thing. 416 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:16,000 Speaker 1: We'll only have one more segment together today and then 417 00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:19,280 Speaker 1: I'll be with you next week. I'm excited about the 418 00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:23,639 Speaker 1: show we have for you next week. But this was 419 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:28,000 Speaker 1: the highlight, the opportunity to talk to Limball Nation about 420 00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:30,879 Speaker 1: what Russia Limballs meant to me and to you, and 421 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:34,400 Speaker 1: to share that moment with his team. It's a once 422 00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:36,840 Speaker 1: in a lifetime for me. It's it's a it's a 423 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:40,000 Speaker 1: career highlight and always will be. A lot of what 424 00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:43,679 Speaker 1: we've talked about is posted at Clay and Buck dot com. 425 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:47,000 Speaker 1: You can reach me directly through my wife's my website, 426 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:50,480 Speaker 1: Michael Berryshow dot com. The phone number is one eight 427 00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:53,320 Speaker 1: hundred two eight two two eight eight two. We will 428 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:56,560 Speaker 1: we will do that last segment coming up in just 429 00:25:56,760 --> 00:26:00,080 Speaker 1: a moment. I'm Michael Berry in for Clay Travis and 430 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:03,560 Speaker 1: Buck Sexton. Humbled to walk in the footsteps of a 431 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:07,920 Speaker 1: legend that Clay Travis, said Buck Sexton on the EIB Network. 432 00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:20,399 Speaker 1: Diana Aluco a Loco was the former managing editor of 433 00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:25,680 Speaker 1: the Limball Letter very close to Rush, and she wrote 434 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:30,080 Speaker 1: a piece that is posted to Clay and Buck dot com. 435 00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:36,479 Speaker 1: You can read it there for yourself. In it, she says, now, 436 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:41,280 Speaker 1: during what may be the last shared American tradition Christmas, 437 00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:46,320 Speaker 1: an absent rush is a palpably missing presence, a missing 438 00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:50,520 Speaker 1: voice amidst the celebrations. I almost couldn't do it, but 439 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:55,320 Speaker 1: finally I put on Mannheim steamrollers still knocked. The achingly beautiful, 440 00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:59,040 Speaker 1: silent night that rush broadcast every year, as he signed 441 00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:03,600 Speaker 1: off before Christmas, he would deliver his heartfelt year end 442 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:07,159 Speaker 1: well wishes, and then let the music speak the holy 443 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:12,800 Speaker 1: season for him, the impossibly sweet violin and swelling orchestra 444 00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:16,639 Speaker 1: subsiding into an echo of distant sleigh bells against a 445 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:20,280 Speaker 1: rushing wind. I last heard it a year ago, as 446 00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:25,840 Speaker 1: Rush spoke over the opening melody in an obvious goodbye Uncharacteristically, 447 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:29,560 Speaker 1: his voice briefly trembled with emotion, but then with the 448 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:33,760 Speaker 1: exquisite timing of a consummate broadcast professional. To the very end, 449 00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:39,640 Speaker 1: Rush used the musical backdrop to convey what he distilled 450 00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:44,840 Speaker 1: into his most important message, gratitude to his family, to us, 451 00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:49,680 Speaker 1: his beloved audience, and to his creator. God is with 452 00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:53,680 Speaker 1: me today, he said, I won't read the rest of that, 453 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:56,760 Speaker 1: because you're going to hear it in just a moment. 454 00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:02,720 Speaker 1: That's the way Rush's show team wanted us to end today. 455 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:07,360 Speaker 1: That's what they wanted you to take with you away 456 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:14,480 Speaker 1: from this remembrance of Rush Limbaugh. To sit in Rush 457 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:18,320 Speaker 1: Limbaugh's chair and speak into the golden microphone on Christmas 458 00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:22,439 Speaker 1: Eve the first time after he could not do it 459 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:28,680 Speaker 1: himself is an honor beyond all hopes and dreams. As 460 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:32,119 Speaker 1: someone who loves the medium, and I know everyone who 461 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:36,520 Speaker 1: speaks into a microphone understands that, and every single one 462 00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:39,920 Speaker 1: of us is derivative of him. There would be no 463 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:43,400 Speaker 1: am band, there would be no talk radio had he 464 00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:46,720 Speaker 1: not paved the way, had he not created that moment. 465 00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:50,320 Speaker 1: And I want to challenge you if you didn't make 466 00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:54,880 Speaker 1: a call earlier, or you weren't listening. As my friend 467 00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:57,880 Speaker 1: Eddie Martini, who got me into radio, often says, if 468 00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:00,640 Speaker 1: it is to be, it's up to me. I want 469 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:03,800 Speaker 1: you to ask yourself. As important as Rush Lambaugh has 470 00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,960 Speaker 1: been to you, coming into your radio, into your car, 471 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:11,360 Speaker 1: into your office, into your home, if you while you're cooking, 472 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:15,080 Speaker 1: you would stir the sauce while listening to the wisdom 473 00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:17,920 Speaker 1: of Rush and share that with your husband when he 474 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:21,640 Speaker 1: came home in the evening. If you shared that with 475 00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:24,240 Speaker 1: your spouse because you were driving around, if on the 476 00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:26,240 Speaker 1: way back to the office, you would listen to his 477 00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:29,600 Speaker 1: wise words and make notes because you wanted to be 478 00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:31,760 Speaker 1: able to repeat exactly what he had said, or go 479 00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:34,600 Speaker 1: to whatever source he said. I want to ask you, 480 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:40,200 Speaker 1: does the wisdom of Rush die out with his passing 481 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:44,640 Speaker 1: on February seventeenth, or is the torch carried on through you. 482 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:51,760 Speaker 1: Do you take his guidance and save this country or 483 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:57,200 Speaker 1: have you given up? Are our nation's finest hours ahead 484 00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,920 Speaker 1: of us or behind us? There have been darker days 485 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:03,800 Speaker 1: then this in American history, trust me, including our founding. 486 00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:07,960 Speaker 1: Go back and study how difficult it was. Go back 487 00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:14,080 Speaker 1: and study the circumstances under which Washington's troops actually crossed 488 00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:19,440 Speaker 1: the frigid Delaware. And we will get through this if 489 00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:25,000 Speaker 1: we rise to that occasion. Using the inspiration of Rush Limbo, 490 00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:32,640 Speaker 1: using the words we heard him say every single day, 491 00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:38,000 Speaker 1: go forward, make it happen. I want you to love 492 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:40,000 Speaker 1: on your family tonight. I want you to thank the 493 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:43,920 Speaker 1: people who've been special to you, and then I want 494 00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:47,000 Speaker 1: you to set about saving this nation because it's up 495 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:52,040 Speaker 1: to us now. Rush has laid down his burden. It 496 00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:55,080 Speaker 1: is up to us now to carry on his tradition. 497 00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:02,360 Speaker 1: Let's hear from him a yearly tradition. We wrap up 498 00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:06,960 Speaker 1: with Mannheim steam Roller and a silent night, and my 499 00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:12,560 Speaker 1: ongoing attempts to thank everybody in the audience, all of 500 00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:16,080 Speaker 1: you for everything you mean to me. That last call 501 00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:26,360 Speaker 1: that's it reminds me how much I love all of you, 502 00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:32,240 Speaker 1: how much I so appreciate everything you've meant to me 503 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:35,320 Speaker 1: and my family. You don't have any idea how I 504 00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:39,080 Speaker 1: know so many people think this program has changed their 505 00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:42,240 Speaker 1: lives for the better. You have no idea what you 506 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:46,080 Speaker 1: all have meant to me and my family. The day 507 00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:47,960 Speaker 1: is going to come, folks, where I'm not going to 508 00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:50,800 Speaker 1: be able to do this. I don't know when that is. 509 00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:55,960 Speaker 1: I want to be able to do it for as 510 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:57,440 Speaker 1: long as I want to do it. I want to, 511 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:03,280 Speaker 1: but the day will come where I'm not going to 512 00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:07,160 Speaker 1: be able to And I want you to understand that 513 00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:13,480 Speaker 1: even when the day comes, I'd like to be here 514 00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:22,440 Speaker 1: as I have this sense of needing to constantly show 515 00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:26,640 Speaker 1: my appreciation for all that you have done and meant 516 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:34,080 Speaker 1: to me. So I hope you all have a great Christmas, 517 00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:38,760 Speaker 1: a great new Year, and I hope that the things 518 00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:42,480 Speaker 1: that are in store for all of us in the 519 00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:46,440 Speaker 1: coming year are certainly better than what we have endured 520 00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:51,400 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty. I don't know too many people have 521 00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:54,880 Speaker 1: enjoyed twenty twenty. Probably some sickos out there who have, 522 00:32:55,200 --> 00:33:01,080 Speaker 1: But twenty twenty one has to be better. We're gonna 523 00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:03,800 Speaker 1: try to make it that way here at the EIB 524 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:10,440 Speaker 1: Network Again, folks, thank you so much. I wish there 525 00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:14,680 Speaker 1: were a way to say it other than thank you. 526 00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:18,080 Speaker 1: You're just the best. My family is just the best. 527 00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:28,760 Speaker 1: Thank you. Merry Christmas, everybody, from all of us to 528 00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:38,760 Speaker 1: all of you. Make it happen, to make it happen, 529 00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:44,840 Speaker 1: let's roll. If it is to be, it's up to me. 530 00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:50,240 Speaker 1: God bless the Rush Limball team who helped us put 531 00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:57,000 Speaker 1: today together. Gosh, they love that man. God Bless Catherine David. 532 00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:00,280 Speaker 1: God Bless America. Let's carry on the torch and the 533 00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:14,560 Speaker 1: way for America's renewal. Merry Christmas to each of you. 534 00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:17,880 Speaker 1: You're listening to Clay Travis and Buck Sexton on the 535 00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:19,480 Speaker 1: e I V Network