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Speaker 1: This episode of Russ Lumbaugh, The Man behind the Golden

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Speaker 1: recorded just three weeks ago in preparation for this release.

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Speaker 1: It's with great sorrow we share that Chad Elliot passed

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Speaker 1: away in June twelfth, just prior to this episode's release.

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Speaker 1: Our prayers and thoughts with Chad's family, friends, co workers,

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Speaker 1: and other loved ones at this very sad time. Um

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Speaker 1: Rush Lumba used to refer to himself as just the

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Speaker 1: a guy. Over the years, as many of you know,

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Speaker 1: Rush raised a lot of money for various non profit

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Speaker 1: and charitable organizations, from relief to families of fallen heroes,

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Speaker 1: to Leakemia research and more. But those are things you've

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Speaker 1: heard about on the air. Those are the things that

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Speaker 1: Rush talked about. What you don't know, because Rush never

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Speaker 1: he never wanted credit. He always would tell people or

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Speaker 1: tell those that he gave so generously too. Don't tell

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Speaker 1: anybody he didn't want people to know because it was

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Speaker 1: from his heart. Today, we're going to explore that generosity

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Speaker 1: that was so prevalent in Russia's character, and I'd like

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Speaker 1: to start this episode by telling you my own story

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Speaker 1: when Rush first came to w A b C. Before

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Speaker 1: the Russia Limbas Show became the mega success that it was,

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Speaker 1: when it was just the radio show with fifty six

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Speaker 1: stations and most people didn't know who Russia Limba was.

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Speaker 1: Yet Russia's spirit was still the same. I know this

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Speaker 1: because I'm one of the people that was affected by it.

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Speaker 1: I was a young guy in my third piece. For

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Speaker 1: those of you operating under the illusion that radio is

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Speaker 1: a high paying industry, well, when you're successful, it can

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Speaker 1: be very rewarding. But like a lot of media jobs,

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Speaker 1: you love it. Well, I was one of those kids.

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Speaker 1: I loved what I did. I was in the media

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Speaker 1: And one of those others that did hear me was Rush.

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Speaker 1: I get a call over the intercom, James, can you

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Speaker 1: come back to my office? It's Rush. So I go

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Speaker 1: back to his office and he asked me to shut

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Speaker 1: intrude in your personal life. But I couldn't help. But

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Speaker 1: over here parts of your phone call, and I just

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Speaker 1: want to ask you, is everything okay? Are you? Are

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Speaker 1: you okay? Of course I'm embarrassed. You know who wouldn't be,

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Speaker 1: But I fessed up, you know, you know Russia. Look,

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Speaker 1: money problems here and there. And he persisted, well, how

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Speaker 1: Now it's a lot of money. He said, Look, I

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Speaker 1: want to tell you, Look, don't panic over it. Things

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Speaker 1: sweat it. Okay, so that little embarrassing session was over.

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Speaker 1: Go back to work, and let me just make it clear.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't working for Russia at this point. I hadn't

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Speaker 1: in a calm, James, can you come back to my office.

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Speaker 1: It's Rush. I go back to his office. Russ has

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Speaker 1: shut the door. I shut the door, and he hands

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Speaker 1: me an envelope. Is He says, this is for you.

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Speaker 1: This is uh, this is not alone. This is a gift.

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Speaker 1: Please don't tell anybody, but I did this for you.

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Speaker 1: But I'm doing this because you're a good guy, and

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Speaker 1: I wasn't working for Rush. Rush wasn't trying to buy

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Speaker 1: And one of the things that particularly has upset me

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Speaker 1: over the years as a black guy, as an African American,

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Speaker 1: called a racist. This is a man who didn't have

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Speaker 1: Didn't matter as long as you were good at what

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Speaker 1: Queens we met just months before. This is before Rush

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Speaker 1: struggling to make it up the chain himself. Rush Limbaugh

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Speaker 1: almost ten years ago to the date, there was a

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Speaker 1: It's an otter to be here. Thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for having me today. Well, Chad, let me, let me.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about what happened. You were working at the

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Speaker 1: story that I had heard. And see this is what

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Speaker 1: I mean. Every day we're learning more and more about

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Speaker 1: Rush and some of the things that he did, and

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00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:39,200
Speaker 1: his legacy is just going to be filled with people

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Speaker 1: that come out and revel the nature of his humble

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Speaker 1: but very generous personality. Thank you for being so generous

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Speaker 1: with your time, Scott, and for telling us that incredible story.

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Speaker 1: Well that's easy to do. And I tell you he

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Speaker 1: is uh holds a special place in us our Heartedy

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00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:04,000
Speaker 1: well forever both nerd like folks. There he is. James Golden.

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Speaker 1: Thanks James, appreciate you. We'll talk to you. So the

439
00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:09,160
Speaker 1: guy he was talking about was a liberal, and that's

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00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:12,560
Speaker 1: where Russia's heart was it. You know, we're all Americans.

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00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:16,280
Speaker 1: We go through natural disasters, we go through the ups

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00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:21,280
Speaker 1: and the downs of life without our political affiliations tied

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00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:26,720
Speaker 1: to us. Rush Catherine have given so much. They've given

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Speaker 1: so much of their time, they've given so much of

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Speaker 1: their energy, and they've helped raise money for those in need,

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Speaker 1: and that is part of his legacy that will never

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Speaker 1: be a raised. I also want to say a quick

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Speaker 1: note to all of you in the Russian Limball audience

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Speaker 1: and beyond to those of you who listened to talk radio,

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Speaker 1: to those of you involved this audience, the Russian Limbaugh audience,

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00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:56,920
Speaker 1: the audiences of many, so many talk radio hosts around

452
00:29:56,960 --> 00:30:00,520
Speaker 1: the nation have proven to be the most generous souls

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Speaker 1: in America. You give, you give to help people, you

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00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:08,960
Speaker 1: give to change people's lives. You earn and you give,

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00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:13,960
Speaker 1: and very often without anyone saying thank you. So from

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Speaker 1: all of us who are working on this series, Rush Limbaugh,

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00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:22,440
Speaker 1: the man behind the Golden eib Mike, we'd like to

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Speaker 1: say thank you. I thought it would be helpful to

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Speaker 1: define conservatism for people because nobody else was. Everybody has

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00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:39,160
Speaker 1: assumed conservatisms this or that, small government, less taxes and

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00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:42,800
Speaker 1: all this stuff. But it's really about people. It's about

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Speaker 1: our understanding of people. It's about our faith trust in people.

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00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:51,000
Speaker 1: It's about the knowledge that it is people that make

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Speaker 1: a great nation. It's ordinary people pursuing an accomplishing extraordinary

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Speaker 1: things with the freedom the ambition to do so. And

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Speaker 1: I just thought it needs to be pointed out. The

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00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:04,960
Speaker 1: reason I wanted to relive it is because we put

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Speaker 1: together a montage that will demonstrate the love and compassion

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00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:16,400
Speaker 1: that you in this audience have shown consistently for thirty

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Speaker 1: one years. Despite all the attempts to impugne you and me,

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00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 1: to criticize us, to label us improperly as racist, sexist,

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00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:33,040
Speaker 1: or bigots, for thirty one years, you have proven and

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Speaker 1: demonstrated time and time again my explanation of who we

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Speaker 1: as conservatives are. The Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation that

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Speaker 1: is now of Fisher is going to get in excess

476
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Speaker 1: of four point two million dollars because I am matching

477
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:52,800
Speaker 1: Betty Casey's bid on eBay four point two million dollars

478
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:56,600
Speaker 1: because of you too. If By Tea has donated over

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Speaker 1: a million dollars in product and monitor Harry donations to

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Speaker 1: incredible causes, including the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation. Folks,

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Speaker 1: you have done it again. You exceeded one million dollars

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Speaker 1: in charitable donations to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of America.

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Speaker 1: We ended up a total take of two million, five

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Speaker 1: d nineteen thousand, six hundred and forty three dollars with

485
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Speaker 1: Leukemia Lymphoma Society Radio thon last week. Yes, my friends,

486
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Speaker 1: it was a record Leukemia Lymphoma Society Radio than excess

487
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Speaker 1: of three million dollars. It was another record amount donated,

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Speaker 1: and folks, it is phenomenal. The final number is gonna

489
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Speaker 1: come somewhere north of three million dollars. We sent a truck.

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Speaker 1: Laude was about three thousand cases of two of five

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Speaker 1: teen to the Joplin Fourth of July celebrations, Items of

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Speaker 1: interest to American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, Unchael Milken

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Speaker 1: and the Prostate Cancer Foundation, the Boys and Girls Clubs

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Speaker 1: of America, the Elves for Autism charity golf outing. All

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Speaker 1: the proceeds went to the Fisher Houses. The Adventure of

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Speaker 1: Rush Revere series is a proud sponsor of the Navy

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Speaker 1: Seals Museums. Liberty delivered a whole bunch of books so

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Speaker 1: the Toys for Touch program. Today we have thousands upon

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Speaker 1: thousands of donors here in the Adopted Soldier program. We

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Speaker 1: have zoomed past one hundred thousand t shirts and there

501
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:39,720
Speaker 1: were fourteen thousand new orders today. The amount of money

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Speaker 1: that we were able to donate to Tunnel the Towers

503
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:46,240
Speaker 1: is one point five million dollars. We had so many

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Speaker 1: more sales over the weekend. That we have upped the

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Speaker 1: donation to tunnel the towers from one and a half

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00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:55,960
Speaker 1: million two million dollars today, a monumental achievement. We have

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Speaker 1: now raised three million dollars for the Tunnel of Towers

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Speaker 1: found Foundation. You know, today we've been talking a lot

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Speaker 1: about and you've been hearing a lot about Russia's charity work,

510
00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:15,240
Speaker 1: Russia's philanthropy, the work of Katherine and Rush in helping people.

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Speaker 1: There was another giver on our E. I. B Staff

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Speaker 1: and one that all of us miss terribly and will

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00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:26,560
Speaker 1: never forget. And the Russia Limbus Show would not have

514
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 1: been the Russia Limbus Show that you know without him.

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Speaker 1: He was our chief of staff. His name was Kit Carson,

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Speaker 1: and Kit was very involved every year with the Lukmia

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Speaker 1: than That's just one of the things that he did.

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Speaker 1: Kit was a friend to everybody on the staff. He

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00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:53,920
Speaker 1: always brought humor with him, He always brought honesty with him,

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Speaker 1: and Kit and I would have the most credible time.

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00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:04,320
Speaker 1: Some people compared our relationship if you've ever seen the

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00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:10,040
Speaker 1: the movie with the Trivolta and uh Sam Jackson pulp fiction,

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00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:13,880
Speaker 1: they would compare the relationship that that that Kit and

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00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:18,279
Speaker 1: I had to Uh to pulp fiction because he would

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00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:21,919
Speaker 1: just go at it with each other in the control room.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you a secret, this Kit had a nickname

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Speaker 1: from me and Uh and I had a nickname for him.

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00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:34,040
Speaker 1: So Kid used to call me Shoka Zulu, and and

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Speaker 1: he did it with Hey, Shokazulu. And what he would

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Speaker 1: do is just I'd call Kit Casper the friendly ghost

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Speaker 1: because Kit was pale with this beautiful red hair, this

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00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:49,520
Speaker 1: this full head of red hair. Kid was like a

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Speaker 1: brother to me. We were like brothers. And Kit and

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00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:55,400
Speaker 1: his lovely wife Teresa, and his two kids, Jesse and

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00:35:55,520 --> 00:36:00,239
Speaker 1: Jack were just, I mean, just the perfect family. And

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Speaker 1: one of the things that that happened in our show was,

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Speaker 1: I guess now when I look back on it on

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00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:10,200
Speaker 1: kind of a preparation for loss, is that Kit had

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00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:13,040
Speaker 1: a difficult bout with cancer and we lost Kid and

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00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:15,919
Speaker 1: and Rush the whole staff was just and we still

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Speaker 1: are in mourning for Kid, even as we mourn Rush.

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Speaker 1: And I'd like for you to listen to a few

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Speaker 1: things that that Rush said about our dear friend, our

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Speaker 1: chief of staff, our beloved Kit Carson. I speak for

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Speaker 1: everybody here at the e IB Network when I say

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00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:43,640
Speaker 1: that there's just we. We we feel a an overwhelming absence.

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Speaker 1: We feel an overwhelming m whole in the in the

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Speaker 1: normal ebb and flow of of energy and presence in

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Speaker 1: our network because of the passing yesterday morning of Chief

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Speaker 1: of Staff Christopher kit Carson, and it's going to take

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Speaker 1: a while. He was relevant member of the staff. Chief

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00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:14,840
Speaker 1: of staff chiefs of staff are been with me longer

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00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 1: than anybody the twenty seven years. I can't possibly personally

554
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:27,920
Speaker 1: respond to everyone who is sending me email condolences, but

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00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 1: they are. They're beautiful. And the people who are writing

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00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:34,520
Speaker 1: me who knew Kit are telling me stories that I

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Speaker 1: didn't know, things that had happened with with when they

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Speaker 1: had interacted with Kitty. Funny funny stories. They were descriptions

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Speaker 1: of his magnanimous and gracious and hilarious personality. It's not

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00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:55,920
Speaker 1: I don't misunderstand it's it's it's not that I didn't

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00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:58,800
Speaker 1: know of the aspects of his personality. I didn't know

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00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:02,239
Speaker 1: the specific details of these particular stories. We never told me. Yeah,

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00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:04,200
Speaker 1: I went out last night, I was such and such

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Speaker 1: and here's what I told him, and here's what they

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Speaker 1: said back that that only happened when I wanted to

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Speaker 1: know what happened with certain things. And most of these

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Speaker 1: stories they're just they're just fabulous and they're great. You know,

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Speaker 1: Mark Stein had a great comment. He had a he

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Speaker 1: had a great piece by the way, I'm kid at

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Speaker 1: his website. It was really sweet. It was really, really

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Speaker 1: really good. Mark sneine and he said, pointed, this is

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Speaker 1: people joining IB and they never leave. And that's one

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Speaker 1: of the reasons why this show works so well. It's

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00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:38,680
Speaker 1: because it's it's we've been a team here by twenty

575
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:43,720
Speaker 1: seven years, folks, that we've either completed or we just started.

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00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:46,360
Speaker 1: I get these anniversaries all screwed up in the in

577
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:50,920
Speaker 1: the odd years, but it's a lot of years, and

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00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:57,960
Speaker 1: everybody on the staff contributes in their own way. But

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Speaker 1: you know, I, I just have decided that based on

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00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:09,000
Speaker 1: the things I've learned um on my little success track here,

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00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:13,600
Speaker 1: they don't need to go home and have their families

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Speaker 1: scream at them about why are they staying in about

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00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:20,600
Speaker 1: you one of the rush portugular I just it's it's

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00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:24,719
Speaker 1: it's just better and safer for them if if they

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00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:29,000
Speaker 1: remain out in a line of fire, pure and simple

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00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:32,920
Speaker 1: That's that's why you haven't heard a whole bunch of

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Speaker 1: names mentioned all the time. Kit Carson's family's wife Teresa,

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Speaker 1: and his kids. I have have asked if there are

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Speaker 1: any remembrances, that they be donations to one of two places,

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Speaker 1: Leukemia Lymphoma Society of America or Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer

591
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Speaker 1: Center in New York, which is where kid was treated.

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Speaker 1: They loved him there. I've never seen this before. Doctor

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00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:06,520
Speaker 1: cried when he was released to go home on I

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00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:12,279
Speaker 1: guess it was Tuesdays last week, doctor right. She had

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Speaker 1: really grown attached to it. One of the reasons why, well,

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00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:20,359
Speaker 1: it was I am an engaging personality, was how courageously

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00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:25,879
Speaker 1: and good naturedly he fought it. None of us ever saw.

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00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:30,720
Speaker 1: I'm sure he in his private moments was mad cursing

599
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:32,960
Speaker 1: himself for whatever rotten luck. But as far as we

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Speaker 1: were concerned, it was just he was always in a

601
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:45,160
Speaker 1: in an upbeat, engaging mood. He was very infectious, uplifting personality.

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00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:52,800
Speaker 1: And every day or every other day, whenever, however, he

603
00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:54,680
Speaker 1: often he had to go get a treatment. Was like

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00:40:54,920 --> 00:40:57,520
Speaker 1: you have got to go doctor, just got a doctor appointment.

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Speaker 1: There was no attempt to garner any sympathy. It was

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Speaker 1: the other way around. It was it was too not

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Speaker 1: cause the distraction. It was just the most amazing thing, folks.

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Speaker 1: Kit Carson. He took all kinds of pressure off of

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Speaker 1: me so I could stay focused on this and he

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Speaker 1: was able to do this getting to know me and

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00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 1: studying program. It was he could do it to sleep

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Speaker 1: after a while. That's why this isn't going to be

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Speaker 1: such a big void. And he knew when when the

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Speaker 1: program is over. This is tough to explain. When the

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00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:35,800
Speaker 1: program's over, it's solved. I don't want to do anything

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00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:38,560
Speaker 1: related to the program for at least three hours. I

617
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:44,000
Speaker 1: am wrung out, but I'm not allowed. I've often said

618
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:45,800
Speaker 1: other things, I've gotten a point where I don't have

619
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Speaker 1: to do what I don't want to do. That's not true.

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00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:51,120
Speaker 1: Where Kid was involved, program would end every day three

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Speaker 1: o'clock and I would record the morning update for both

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Speaker 1: audio in the video version of it. So what he

623
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Speaker 1: would routine we do. I would do the two updates,

624
00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:05,120
Speaker 1: usually can get them both done in one take. What

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00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:09,879
Speaker 1: are you and video at the same time, and Kit

626
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:13,960
Speaker 1: would routinely say, well, that's it, that's it. I got

627
00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 1: nothing here, and I'd say, fine, that's cool, except and

628
00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:23,600
Speaker 1: then he'd launched into ten things or five or whatever

629
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Speaker 1: it was. But he always prefaced it by saying, look,

630
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Speaker 1: I got nothing's nothing here, I'm free and queered. Oh wait.

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Speaker 1: It always softened my reaction. He had it down to

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Speaker 1: a science. That's why all of that stuff us And

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00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:44,200
Speaker 1: that's as much inside Baseball as we need to bore

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00:42:44,239 --> 00:42:48,800
Speaker 1: you with. We just we feel like a giant that

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00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:51,200
Speaker 1: we just miss him. There's a there's a void and

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00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:55,880
Speaker 1: emptiness here. It's gonna be a long time uh to

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00:42:55,960 --> 00:43:02,120
Speaker 1: get used to, but we uh we hope God bless

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00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:12,560
Speaker 1: us kidneys family. After Rush passed, a lot of us

639
00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:15,680
Speaker 1: are talking now and we're sharing stories among ourselves, people

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Speaker 1: that worked within the organization, and there are a lot

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