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Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us for episode two of Rush

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Speaker 1: Limbaugh The Man Behind the Golden E I B Microphone.

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Speaker 1: I'm James Golden, also known as boast Nerdly today special

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Speaker 1: for me the two people that sat with me for

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Speaker 1: twenty years, the Inner Family. If you will, Dawn Patchynsky

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Speaker 1: Brian Johnson join me today reminiscing about our beloved Rush.

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Speaker 1: the door is opened and a giant cake is being

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Speaker 1: brought in here. But I accidentally saw when I went

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Speaker 1: back there to get a cookie. I saw the cake

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Speaker 1: and I didn't say a word about it, and I

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Speaker 1: saw you snuck they anniversary balloon in here. That is

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Speaker 1: a that is a gorgeous cake. I have to say

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Speaker 1: that I see it's this twenty eight I saw that

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Speaker 1: when I saw a cake back there in the kitchen.

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Speaker 1: It's a gorgeous, gorgeous care and well I don't mean

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Speaker 1: the anniversary. I'm talking about this gook in the news.

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about, which I will get. You know,

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Speaker 1: this is so easily avoided. Not the cake, the gunk.

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Speaker 1: I knew you'd do a cake, even though I've told

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Speaker 1: you twenty eight years not to do it. They do

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Speaker 1: it every year anyway, telephone number. So for the last

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Speaker 1: twenty years, the three of us, there three of us,

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Speaker 1: we became well we we call each other family because

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Speaker 1: that's what we are. And we were all there before

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Speaker 1: any before Dawn and I showed up on the scene.

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Speaker 1: There was Brian. That's that's yeah, Brian Johnson. Now, Brian, you,

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Speaker 1: between all of us, you probably have the most radio

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Speaker 1: experience of anybody here. And there's a reason for that. Well. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I was born in a radio station, right, Yes, Yes,

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Speaker 1: My mother and my father they met working in radio.

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Speaker 1: My dad was the engineer, my mom was the receptionist

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Speaker 1: and my mom got pregnant and they moved to Florida

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Speaker 1: in that order pretty much. Yeah, and so the rest

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Speaker 1: is history. Yeah. So, so how did you how did

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Speaker 1: you get the call to to deal to come and

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Speaker 1: work with Rush. That's a good question. My father has

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Speaker 1: And I was working with him at the time. And

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Speaker 1: Clear Channel was the name of the company at the time.

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Speaker 1: They were looking for an engineer that could engineer facility

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Speaker 1: So UM, I guess they thought of me because they

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Speaker 1: father in the engineering business. So they called and my

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Speaker 1: dad told me, you know, and I said, sure, I'll

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Speaker 1: UM I never saw him again for a year and

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Speaker 1: a half. Wait a minute, So they hired you to

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Speaker 1: zephyrs all stacked up there, and he had switches. If

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Speaker 1: didn't see Rush. And then what happened. Then they called

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Speaker 1: his music. Yeah, so he was doing that sort of

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Speaker 1: year of uh September eleven and two thousand one. Near

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Speaker 1: the beginning of the year, Rush himself started reaching out

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Speaker 1: to me. Was having problems with his hearing and asked

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Speaker 1: me if, um we could get some different headsets and

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Speaker 1: gotta go do it. So I said, all right. So

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Speaker 1: eventually about a week into that, I'm all right, this

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Speaker 1: least come inside and listen and watch. And um, that's

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Speaker 1: So of course I jumped and did everything and met Dawn.

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Speaker 1: So when did you get the call, Dawn? And what

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Speaker 1: But in the court system since uh, because I asked

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Speaker 1: you so you got a call from John Exton too.

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Speaker 1: So I got a call from John Xon and I

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Speaker 1: was to come over for this person named Rush Limbaugh,

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Speaker 1: You know? What did I agree to come to? And so,

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Speaker 1: I'm Craig Kitchen and he said, listen, I'm just going

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Speaker 1: to have a conversation with Rush and if you could

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Speaker 1: just write it down. And I thought, this is the

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Speaker 1: But okay, sure, uh, and so he they just started

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Speaker 1: and I started writing it, and then they could they

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Speaker 1: in and Craig said, well, you know, we would like

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Speaker 1: he even if he was looking the other direction, if

430
00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:26,640
Speaker 1: we looked back, he would know the color. I don't

431
00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:28,399
Speaker 1: remember all the colors, but if it was blue, it

432
00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:30,399
Speaker 1: might have been crying, because you have to remember this

433
00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:32,760
Speaker 1: is after nine eleven, and a lot of the callers

434
00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:35,280
Speaker 1: were crying, and we had so many people from Rockaway

435
00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:38,000
Speaker 1: and all these towns around New York City that we

436
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,639
Speaker 1: were fielding all these calls, and so we were all crying.

437
00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:43,080
Speaker 1: But but we would if it was a seminar collar,

438
00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:45,080
Speaker 1: it would be yellow. You know. We had all these

439
00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:48,000
Speaker 1: colors that would just flash up on the screen for him.

440
00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:50,160
Speaker 1: And then he got the implant and then life kind

441
00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:53,320
Speaker 1: of got back to normal, except you know, he could

442
00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:56,720
Speaker 1: he always said, we could hear like FM radio. He

443
00:24:56,760 --> 00:24:58,760
Speaker 1: could hear like a M radio. And that was kind

444
00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:02,280
Speaker 1: of how he you know. So that's why Dawn still

445
00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:04,119
Speaker 1: needed to be there because the problem you would have

446
00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:07,960
Speaker 1: are the phone call phone calls where the audio isn't

447
00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:10,960
Speaker 1: so clear all the time. Now, he was fine with

448
00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:14,080
Speaker 1: us in the studio environment because the walls were ten

449
00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:17,000
Speaker 1: feet thick and it was dead silent in those rooms.

450
00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:18,879
Speaker 1: It was really easy for him to hear us with

451
00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:21,480
Speaker 1: the implant. But if he ever went out into a

452
00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:23,520
Speaker 1: room where there was a group of people and stuff

453
00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:26,000
Speaker 1: like that, he could not hear. It was just all

454
00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:29,800
Speaker 1: noise to him. Um. So we had the advantage for

455
00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:33,200
Speaker 1: the twenty years to actually have real conversations with Rush

456
00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:36,280
Speaker 1: in the studio. Outside of it, it was just a

457
00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:39,640
Speaker 1: crapshoot for him. So if you had to pick out

458
00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:44,240
Speaker 1: one of your favorite stories, I know you just do

459
00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:46,960
Speaker 1: you want me to give mine? Okay? Here it this?

460
00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:49,760
Speaker 1: Uh one day, you know. I used to come into

461
00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:54,239
Speaker 1: the studio probably around o'clock most days. Rush would get

462
00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:57,920
Speaker 1: there at about um. He would sit in his room

463
00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:01,160
Speaker 1: and I always sat at the console which was directly

464
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:03,159
Speaker 1: in front of Rush. On the other side of the glass,

465
00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:05,040
Speaker 1: and I just kind of used that as my desk

466
00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:07,359
Speaker 1: and that way, if he ever needed anything, he would

467
00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:10,040
Speaker 1: just hit the talk bath button on his desk and

468
00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:11,960
Speaker 1: it would just come right into my room and I

469
00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:15,480
Speaker 1: would respond to him. Um, So I always sat right there.

470
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,920
Speaker 1: And there was only the four of us, us three

471
00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:22,000
Speaker 1: in Rush at the studio most of the time, so

472
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:25,240
Speaker 1: there was nobody to answer phones or get the doors

473
00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:27,600
Speaker 1: or that was us, you know, so most of the

474
00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:30,080
Speaker 1: time I took on the answering the phone so that

475
00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:32,240
Speaker 1: you could do show prep with you know, for Rush

476
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:35,760
Speaker 1: and so yeah, so that was kind of our routine. Well,

477
00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:37,760
Speaker 1: one day I got in their tent, I sat down

478
00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:39,800
Speaker 1: there and I answered the phone. And we always said

479
00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:42,560
Speaker 1: studio when we answered the phone because we didn't want

480
00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:45,520
Speaker 1: to say Rush Limbaugh Show or anything like that. We

481
00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:49,119
Speaker 1: were trying to be hidden. So I said studio and

482
00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:52,359
Speaker 1: this guy on the other end says, yes, this is

483
00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:56,560
Speaker 1: Elton John. I'm calling for Rush. Well I immediately said

484
00:26:56,560 --> 00:27:00,919
Speaker 1: to him, yeah, sure, it is, just really and he's like, no, really,

485
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:04,080
Speaker 1: it's Ellen John. And I'm like, this isn't Elton John.

486
00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:06,760
Speaker 1: You're not calling you know, You're not Ellen John. And

487
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:11,600
Speaker 1: he's like, no, really, let me sing to you. I'm like, seriously,

488
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:17,320
Speaker 1: all right, listen. Well he was. He was starting to sing,

489
00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:20,400
Speaker 1: yes and hold on, let me let me go in there,

490
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:24,280
Speaker 1: and I'll tell him it's Elton John. I did not

491
00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:27,600
Speaker 1: believe him, so I put the guy on hold and

492
00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:30,240
Speaker 1: I walked around and I went into Russia's studio and

493
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:32,840
Speaker 1: I said, hey, Rush, I got some guy on line

494
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:36,399
Speaker 1: one claiming he's Elton John. And he Rush looks at me,

495
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:40,520
Speaker 1: like the stone cold right at me and says, well,

496
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:43,919
Speaker 1: it probably is Elton John. Brian, and I just my

497
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:48,720
Speaker 1: heart just thank and I'm like and I just walked

498
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:51,639
Speaker 1: out of the room, and uh, I didn't know what

499
00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:54,479
Speaker 1: to think at that point. So after that call, he

500
00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:56,399
Speaker 1: was on the phone with him for like an hour,

501
00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:59,720
Speaker 1: you know, and I'm figuring out that was Elton John.

502
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 1: So later after that was done, he I think he

503
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:07,240
Speaker 1: sent us all an email or called us all on

504
00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:09,840
Speaker 1: the p A system and said, no, matter what you do,

505
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:14,480
Speaker 1: you don't tell anybody that Ellen John just called here today.

506
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:18,040
Speaker 1: So we're like moms, and you know, we're like okay,

507
00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:21,200
Speaker 1: d right. So we were later we were at the

508
00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 1: wedding and I'm sitting next I think I was sitting

509
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:27,639
Speaker 1: next to Tom Watson, the golfer, and a couple of

510
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:30,480
Speaker 1: other people, and they're sitting there talking about, Oh, I

511
00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:33,359
Speaker 1: hear there's somebody famous gonna be singing and stuff at

512
00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:35,400
Speaker 1: the wedding, you know, and we're all like not saying

513
00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:38,680
Speaker 1: a word, and um, they're saying they think it's Tim

514
00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:42,480
Speaker 1: McGraw and stuff. So you know, they were all it

515
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:45,160
Speaker 1: was the talk of the wedding, you know. And I

516
00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:51,320
Speaker 1: think it leaked out from Yeah, yeah, they they found

517
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:53,080
Speaker 1: out that it was Ellen John but it wasn't us.

518
00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:58,560
Speaker 1: It was never us, never us. Once again, my highly

519
00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:01,120
Speaker 1: overrated staff was let me down. He I mean, Network

520
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:04,840
Speaker 1: now has an official Obama criticizer. He is Bo Sturdy

521
00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:08,120
Speaker 1: Cookie working on the sound bite. Even now you might

522
00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:11,440
Speaker 1: be confusing Cookie with Coco. Coco is married to Cookie.

523
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:14,479
Speaker 1: Coco runs the website. The video is actually taken from

524
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:17,800
Speaker 1: the control room. What you see the back of the

525
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:21,640
Speaker 1: broadcast engineer's head Brian Johnson, which is as close to

526
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:23,720
Speaker 1: fame as Brian says he wants to get. That was

527
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:26,560
Speaker 1: Greg Chapin's idea back in the cave there where these

528
00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:29,000
Speaker 1: guys put these bites together sure denise that the Limball

529
00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:31,640
Speaker 1: Letter could come up with a great graphic after Cookie

530
00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:33,560
Speaker 1: cracks the whip and tells him what to do. So

531
00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 1: what we've done. Joe Muny is on our staff, has

532
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 1: recorded all of what I said in Espanol mamal and

533
00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:42,640
Speaker 1: the broadcast engineer had a different idea. I just sent

534
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:45,640
Speaker 1: a picture up to Coco Jr. Who's whose actual name

535
00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:49,240
Speaker 1: is Dean Craig Kitchen from our staff kit Carson, former

536
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:54,600
Speaker 1: irreplaceable chief of staff and trusted right hand. Diana Schneider,

537
00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:58,240
Speaker 1: editrix of the Limball Letter, Daughter, you irritated by this?

538
00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:02,880
Speaker 1: You don't like this. I I detected a facial expression

539
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:06,000
Speaker 1: sitting in there and her face getting contorted and so forth,

540
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:07,920
Speaker 1: and I knew it. I knew it. I wanted to

541
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:10,880
Speaker 1: issue a special thanks to me. I call them highly

542
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:14,280
Speaker 1: over rained staff. They may be even they're incredibly valuable,

543
00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:18,120
Speaker 1: They're incredibly loyal, they are incredibly committed, and they are

544
00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:27,840
Speaker 1: exceptionally exceptionally devoted and none of this could happen without them.

545
00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:30,959
Speaker 1: So we're we're all sitting here, Dawn, Brian and myself,

546
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:36,040
Speaker 1: Brian Johnson down Bynsky. What is it that you most

547
00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:39,200
Speaker 1: would want the world to know about the Russilan Wall,

548
00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:43,560
Speaker 1: that you knew Don you're the boss, go first. Well,

549
00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:46,440
Speaker 1: that's funny that you say I'm the boss, because very

550
00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:49,480
Speaker 1: very early on, it was just the four of us there.

551
00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:52,720
Speaker 1: It was just you know, Rush and Brian and James

552
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:55,960
Speaker 1: and me, and so stuff would go on or things

553
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:59,320
Speaker 1: would be happening and everybody's kind of not paying attention,

554
00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:01,640
Speaker 1: and I'm like, well, what is going on here? This

555
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:04,200
Speaker 1: is a big mess, you know, And so I would

556
00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:07,160
Speaker 1: start directing people, you know, if somebody was there that

557
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:10,480
Speaker 1: day to fix it, because it had to be done correctly,

558
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:14,240
Speaker 1: you know. So then throughout the years, whenever we would

559
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:18,200
Speaker 1: have people come for any reason and they were asking questions,

560
00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:21,280
Speaker 1: Rush would just say, asked on, She's the boss, you know,

561
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:23,160
Speaker 1: and they kind of looked like ha ha, it's a joke,

562
00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 1: and He's like, no, asked on. So it was kind

563
00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:32,719
Speaker 1: of funny, you know, I I said earlier, And I

564
00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:36,240
Speaker 1: know that if people haven't listened to the show, they

565
00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 1: have one idea of what who Rushes, you know, other

566
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:42,880
Speaker 1: people that listen to the show, they might love him,

567
00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 1: and they have this idea of of who he is too,

568
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:49,400
Speaker 1: and we know those people too, but we also know

569
00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:53,720
Speaker 1: the person that wasn't on the radio show, and he

570
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:57,800
Speaker 1: is just just one of the best men that you

571
00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:01,479
Speaker 1: could ever know. Very humble bowl which people don't believe

572
00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 1: that when you say that, but so humble, just so

573
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 1: grateful for where he was and still wanting to pinch

574
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:13,320
Speaker 1: himself for where he was, and still always thinking, you know,

575
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 1: I think my parents would be proud of me for this,

576
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:18,160
Speaker 1: you know, or when he would just do an award

577
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:21,320
Speaker 1: or just do anything, or anything he would do, like

578
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:25,120
Speaker 1: people just I don't think they saw that side of

579
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:27,960
Speaker 1: him enough, and he was not one to tout it

580
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:32,320
Speaker 1: when he would give so generously to so many organizations

581
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 1: and so many people, and would do so many things anonymously,

582
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:38,800
Speaker 1: you know, and do so much that people will never

583
00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 1: know the amount of stuff that he's done throughout out

584
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:43,760
Speaker 1: his life. Because he was not about look at me,

585
00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:46,080
Speaker 1: you know, even though he would say on the radio,

586
00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:49,680
Speaker 1: look at me, because and not a lot of times

587
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:54,520
Speaker 1: that was for us. He might not think we were

588
00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:58,560
Speaker 1: paying a judgit enough, look at me. What did I

589
00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:01,200
Speaker 1: just talk about? I'm like, don't know. I wrote every word,

590
00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:09,760
Speaker 1: But she bangs on the desk, just like San would

591
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:12,200
Speaker 1: you want people to know about Rush? Well, I mean

592
00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:15,880
Speaker 1: she's right. I mean he's very generous, has been for

593
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 1: all of us. He really is a very down to

594
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:21,040
Speaker 1: earth person. I mean I got to spend some time

595
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:23,880
Speaker 1: with his family last month, you know, we all did,

596
00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:29,120
Speaker 1: and they really are a really down to earth, nice family,

597
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 1: and I was really sad that we didn't see more

598
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:34,320
Speaker 1: of them and spend more time with him. I see

599
00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:37,320
Speaker 1: where he comes from, though, and I get it. I see,

600
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:40,480
Speaker 1: you know, they were all so nice, and they all

601
00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:43,960
Speaker 1: loved us to death, and um, they wanted to hear

602
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:46,480
Speaker 1: more and know more about Rush because they really weren't

603
00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:49,560
Speaker 1: around us much, you know, the last ten years. And um,

604
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 1: I just it was it was nice to see. I

605
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:56,040
Speaker 1: felt really nice to go see his family and know,

606
00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:59,360
Speaker 1: you know that there was people that seemed to really

607
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:02,360
Speaker 1: love him and care about him, and because he seemed

608
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 1: to really love and care about us. I mean, we

609
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:08,279
Speaker 1: all had our we you know, we all argued there.

610
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:11,000
Speaker 1: It's not like you know, you argue with your parents,

611
00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:16,480
Speaker 1: you are. We've all argued, you know, and we never

612
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:18,359
Speaker 1: held anything. I mean it's like you argue to get

613
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 1: it out of your system, whatever it is. And then

614
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:24,239
Speaker 1: and we always the thing about the four of us,

615
00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:30,799
Speaker 1: there's no doubt ever for what what solitary. Second, how

616
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:33,160
Speaker 1: much we love each other and how much we love

617
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:39,440
Speaker 1: each other, there's just no doubt. Another. We called it

618
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 1: our work family. And so many times people would ask

619
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:47,680
Speaker 1: me when I found out what I did, they would

620
00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:51,480
Speaker 1: ask me, wow, what is Rush like? I mean, it

621
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 1: was like, how can you work for him? What is

622
00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:57,080
Speaker 1: he like? You know? And but there were others, you know,

623
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Speaker 1: I would run across the occasional liberal who be like,

624
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:03,600
Speaker 1: oh my god, that must be so amazing and wow,

625
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:07,200
Speaker 1: you know, they were just infatuated with the celebrity and

626
00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 1: that sort of thing. But most people would ask me

627
00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:11,680
Speaker 1: what is it like? And I said, trust me, I

628
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 1: don't have to work there. I don't have to. I

629
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:17,040
Speaker 1: could go work for my father and do that stuff.

630
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:19,560
Speaker 1: I wouldn't work there if he wasn't a great person.

631
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:22,640
Speaker 1: And that's generally what I tell everybody, because it's true.

632
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:26,040
Speaker 1: You know, he was awesome. He he cared about us,

633
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:31,399
Speaker 1: and um, most people don't have bosses like that. Well,

634
00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:34,560
Speaker 1: one of the things early on about him not being

635
00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:38,040
Speaker 1: what you would typically think of as a celebrity, and

636
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:43,239
Speaker 1: he was never a celebrity to the three of us.

637
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:45,799
Speaker 1: He may have been to all these people who would

638
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,319
Speaker 1: come and visit us, but he never was to us.

639
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:52,440
Speaker 1: And I just remember this one time when Justice Thomas

640
00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 1: came to visit, you know, and we were all like,

641
00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:57,719
Speaker 1: this was the first time he came to visit, and

642
00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:00,720
Speaker 1: we were all very excited to say, how loaded Justice

643
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:03,759
Speaker 1: Thomas and get our picture taken with Justice Thomas. You know,

644
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:06,760
Speaker 1: Rush came in the room and we did this almost

645
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:10,000
Speaker 1: with every person that came to visit us. We would

646
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:16,360
Speaker 1: hand Rush the camera and say, pleasing our nature, and

647
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:19,359
Speaker 1: you know, sure he would do it. But I just

648
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:23,800
Speaker 1: remember Justice Thomas cracking up that he cannot believe Rush

649
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:25,560
Speaker 1: was not going to be in the picture and he

650
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:30,840
Speaker 1: was the photographer, Like, yeah, he was definitely, And I

651
00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:33,879
Speaker 1: think that's another thing that he loved. He was so

652
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:37,040
Speaker 1: comfortable with all of us. You know, we've all gone

653
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:39,920
Speaker 1: through so many things in our lives together. We shared

654
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:48,560
Speaker 1: everything together. We all know everything about each other. You know,

655
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:52,520
Speaker 1: literally we were there every single day together for twenty years.

656
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:54,719
Speaker 1: I know what many of your Rush, are you really

657
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:58,080
Speaker 1: telling us that you don't know what the audio shund

658
00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:02,200
Speaker 1: bites are going to be until five five minutes. Yes, folks,

659
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:05,200
Speaker 1: I'm telling you that we have a smooth oiled machine.

660
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:07,080
Speaker 1: They've been doing this long enough. They know what I

661
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:09,000
Speaker 1: like don't like. They know what I say I want

662
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:11,239
Speaker 1: up there things I don't same people that were here

663
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:13,600
Speaker 1: on day one, and they know exactly what I want

664
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:15,759
Speaker 1: and don't want. I don't have to tell them, which

665
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:17,480
Speaker 1: is the way it should be, the land should be.

666
00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:21,080
Speaker 1: So don how did you get started? What? What's what's

667
00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:24,239
Speaker 1: your story? I'm gonna tell a story about when I

668
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:27,359
Speaker 1: first started, and going back to when you have young

669
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:30,080
Speaker 1: kids and a lot of people think of celebrities and

670
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 1: people like this that there diva's. I don't know what

671
00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:36,960
Speaker 1: the word is when you're a man, but but Rush

672
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:40,480
Speaker 1: was was not that. And from the very beginning, when

673
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:42,760
Speaker 1: we had to travel or we had to do anything,

674
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:46,320
Speaker 1: he would ask me, well, is Jessica in a play

675
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 1: this week? Or is there anything going on with the kids? Uh?

676
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 1: And so, And that's how we would plan if we

677
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:55,000
Speaker 1: had to go away for a week or if we

678
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:56,880
Speaker 1: had to do something. He would make sure that it

679
00:37:56,920 --> 00:38:00,680
Speaker 1: didn't interfere with anything. And you don't usually your stories

680
00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:04,760
Speaker 1: like that. I'm sure I don't know if um Premiere

681
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:07,799
Speaker 1: Radio would have liked that he was checking with me,

682
00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:11,840
Speaker 1: But that's who he was, you know. And he didn't

683
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 1: want to inconvenience anyone ever for anything, you know, that's

684
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:19,320
Speaker 1: for sure, that's for sure. I mean sometimes he would say, hey,

685
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:21,840
Speaker 1: are you going anywhere near publics where you think he

686
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:23,680
Speaker 1: might be able to pick up a turkey stop on

687
00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:28,520
Speaker 1: your way in? But but but really he was just

688
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:31,560
Speaker 1: such a genuine, humble guy. And that's what I want

689
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:35,600
Speaker 1: people to take away from this. Yeah, well you talked

690
00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:39,240
Speaker 1: about I mean, he every single time that that anybody

691
00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:41,359
Speaker 1: would do anything for him. You always thank you, sir,

692
00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:45,160
Speaker 1: thank you, ma'am. It was always the epitome of of

693
00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:49,160
Speaker 1: of good manners. And and I think sometimes he was

694
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 1: shocked at what was going on the other side of

695
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:53,440
Speaker 1: the glass because we used to have some knockdown dragouts

696
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:58,080
Speaker 1: in that room. Ye've had a few in this room.

697
00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:01,000
Speaker 1: Of course. Well we weren't trapped, but it was you know,

698
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:05,959
Speaker 1: it was still was still fun and yeah, but I mean, yeah,

699
00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:08,359
Speaker 1: it was our own thing, you know. I mean Rush

700
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:12,080
Speaker 1: had his thing, but we had our own little thing too. Well,

701
00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:14,440
Speaker 1: that was we were doing something in there. I don't know,

702
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:16,480
Speaker 1: you might have been put on probation with a caller

703
00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:18,759
Speaker 1: like he used to have fun to doing that. But

704
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:22,360
Speaker 1: we installed in the new studios that shade that comes

705
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:25,320
Speaker 1: down from the new studios, and it really was installed

706
00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:28,120
Speaker 1: in case he was, you know, gonna change for an

707
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:30,040
Speaker 1: event that he was going to or something, just to

708
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:32,799
Speaker 1: have a little extra privacy. But one day we were

709
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:35,440
Speaker 1: during the show and he was getting annoyed with all

710
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:38,120
Speaker 1: with all of us because whatever we were doing, we

711
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:41,400
Speaker 1: were interrupting him or telling him whatever. He's like, that's it, folks,

712
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:43,759
Speaker 1: I'm gonna close this new shade that I have. And

713
00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:46,920
Speaker 1: so he closed the shade and so then he waited

714
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:49,399
Speaker 1: a little while on on the air. So I told

715
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:51,480
Speaker 1: James and Brian come on, because he's like, all right,

716
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:53,760
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let them out in about another few minutes.

717
00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:55,359
Speaker 1: And I said, we are not going to be here

718
00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:57,919
Speaker 1: when he opens up that shade. And they're like, oh,

719
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,319
Speaker 1: we can't do that. We have to stay year. We

720
00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:02,759
Speaker 1: can't be out of here. I'm like, oh, yes we are.

721
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 1: We're going out, And so we were not there. So

722
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:07,440
Speaker 1: he lifted the shade and he's telling the audience and

723
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:10,319
Speaker 1: he could barely keep his composure. He was laughing. So

724
00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:14,160
Speaker 1: and he's like the insubordinates here. But I mean, but

725
00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:16,759
Speaker 1: that's the kind of fun that that we had. And

726
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:18,960
Speaker 1: we had that kind of fun every day, just like

727
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:25,160
Speaker 1: the birthday cakes. You know, we did it anyway exactly anyway, Um, Dawn,

728
00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:26,799
Speaker 1: let's I want to get serious with you guys for

729
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:29,160
Speaker 1: a minute, because this is um what was the last

730
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:32,759
Speaker 1: year like for you? Um, Brian, I'm gonna start with you.

731
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:39,760
Speaker 1: What was the last year? Like? Wow, it's you're gonna

732
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:45,839
Speaker 1: make this hard. I don't think you can do it.

733
00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:52,000
Speaker 1: When I received this diagnosis and I was shocked, I

734
00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:56,600
Speaker 1: was stunned, and I was in denial. I mean, I'm

735
00:40:56,920 --> 00:41:01,560
Speaker 1: rush Limbough, I'm i Mr Big, the vast right wing conspiracy.

736
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:06,080
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm I'm indestructible. It's been the worst year

737
00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:11,399
Speaker 1: in my life, even in the most dire circumstances. If

738
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:14,880
Speaker 1: you had just wait, if you just remain open to things,

739
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:19,799
Speaker 1: the good in it, we'll reveal itself. It's not that

740
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:22,520
Speaker 1: I don't have a future. I do, but we had

741
00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:26,319
Speaker 1: such such a thing going on there for so many

742
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:30,759
Speaker 1: years and I haven't lost anybody in my family since

743
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:37,239
Speaker 1: was my grandfather, so I haven't dealt with this so

744
00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:43,879
Speaker 1: long time. And um, I've always been the kid. Well,

745
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:46,680
Speaker 1: Rush was like a second father for me because I

746
00:41:46,719 --> 00:41:48,840
Speaker 1: probably spent more time with him than anybody in the

747
00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:53,360
Speaker 1: last twenty years, um, face to face, So he was

748
00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:55,200
Speaker 1: like a second father. I mean, my father is my

749
00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:58,160
Speaker 1: hero and the greatest person I know, but Russia's right

750
00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:01,080
Speaker 1: there behind him, you know. I just I Hey, I

751
00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:05,080
Speaker 1: think we had like a father son relationship. And so

752
00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:07,960
Speaker 1: it's been hard. I mean, we're all gonna be fine,

753
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:10,520
Speaker 1: but and I think the world is gonna miss him

754
00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:13,640
Speaker 1: a lot. There's a lot of people that from noon

755
00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:17,200
Speaker 1: to three counted on him, including us, and he steered

756
00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:21,080
Speaker 1: the world and I think in a positive direction. And

757
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:25,319
Speaker 1: there just isn't somebody out there doing that now. And um,

758
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:27,400
Speaker 1: it will always be a big part of our lives.

759
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:30,719
Speaker 1: I mean, he really shaped our lives as much as

760
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:34,160
Speaker 1: he did everybody else's, and um, it was a big

761
00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:39,839
Speaker 1: part of our of us. And um, he had tremendous

762
00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:44,880
Speaker 1: confidence in in me and that helped give me tremendous confidence.

763
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:48,760
Speaker 1: And I told him that before he died. He always

764
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:52,080
Speaker 1: told me that, um, I'm not worried about you, Brian,

765
00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 1: I know you you can do it, you know, so

766
00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:59,799
Speaker 1: that gave me tremendous pride. Um. The one thing, you know,

767
00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:04,320
Speaker 1: I always tell everybody that I part of me working

768
00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:09,600
Speaker 1: here with Rush, and the beginning was to prove to

769
00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:12,480
Speaker 1: myself that I could do it, because I always lived

770
00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:21,080
Speaker 1: under my father's shadow. And um it, when I did it,

771
00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:23,960
Speaker 1: it made my parents really proud of me. I know

772
00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:27,920
Speaker 1: it did, because you know my father, I'm sure he

773
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:31,000
Speaker 1: loved traveling around into all his engineering buddies asking him

774
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:32,799
Speaker 1: about me and how's it going with Rush and all.

775
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:35,480
Speaker 1: I mean, Rush was the king of radio. You know.

776
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:38,560
Speaker 1: Doesn't get any bigger than that. I'm doing the super

777
00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:42,400
Speaker 1: Bowl for twenty years every day at work, you know, basically,

778
00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:45,360
Speaker 1: that's what we're doing, you know, the greatest show on Earth.

779
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:50,080
Speaker 1: It's um for twenty years. It's quite the thing. And

780
00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:53,160
Speaker 1: I don't think I'll ever do anything like this again,

781
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:57,080
Speaker 1: you know, And that's fine. You know, this is its

782
00:43:57,160 --> 00:44:02,000
Speaker 1: own thing and that's fine. And I'll just always appreciative

783
00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:04,000
Speaker 1: of everything he did for us, because he did a

784
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:07,359
Speaker 1: lot for us. He was generous, he was generous, and

785
00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:10,040
Speaker 1: you're right, you talked about it. He really didn't ask

786
00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:14,279
Speaker 1: much of us, you know. He um many times I

787
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:16,960
Speaker 1: would get frustrated with him because he wouldn't tell me

788
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:20,680
Speaker 1: there was a problem, you know, until it was. It

789
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:23,799
Speaker 1: just festered so long for months. He wouldn't tell me

790
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:25,839
Speaker 1: something was broken in the studio because he didn't want

791
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:29,360
Speaker 1: to bother me, you know, And I just floored me,

792
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:31,040
Speaker 1: you know. And it wasn't just me. He did that

793
00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:35,000
Speaker 1: with he did with everybody. Yes, Yes, So I will

794
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:38,920
Speaker 1: always cherish every moment I had with him. I'm sure

795
00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:41,439
Speaker 1: one day it's going to hit me even harder. I mean,

796
00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:46,680
Speaker 1: we didn't really get a full closure on it because

797
00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:49,280
Speaker 1: of this whole COVID and all this kind of stuff,

798
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:51,919
Speaker 1: and it just it's such a weird time right now,

799
00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, the last year. Yeah, I don't really

800
00:44:57,560 --> 00:45:00,480
Speaker 1: think you can put that last year into words. I

801
00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:06,000
Speaker 1: think it was definitely the hardest year I've ever gone through.

802
00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:09,560
Speaker 1: And I think we've all the three of us have,

803
00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:13,839
Speaker 1: you know, definitely leaned on each other more this year

804
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:18,319
Speaker 1: than ever. You know, we came in and uh, you know,

805
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:20,920
Speaker 1: if one of us was losing it, because it was

806
00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:25,440
Speaker 1: really hard to see Rush suffering with the pain that

807
00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:28,799
Speaker 1: he was suffering in and still coming in to do

808
00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:32,040
Speaker 1: the show. And you know, so he can see us

809
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:35,560
Speaker 1: right through the glass, and he was always very cognizant

810
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:38,759
Speaker 1: of what our reactions were and what we thought, you know,

811
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:41,919
Speaker 1: whether we were telling him don't go there, stop right there,

812
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:46,520
Speaker 1: you know, or whatever it was. So if we were

813
00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:50,399
Speaker 1: really crying, you know, that would affect him. So we

814
00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:54,920
Speaker 1: had to really try to still remain positive and engaged

815
00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:59,040
Speaker 1: and you know, to be fun loving with him and

816
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:02,000
Speaker 1: you know, think of funny things for him, because this

817
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:05,160
Speaker 1: was his outlet that he loved. And so you know,

818
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:07,520
Speaker 1: we would do it and then you'd noticed one of

819
00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:09,760
Speaker 1: us where the three of us would be missing because

820
00:46:09,760 --> 00:46:13,280
Speaker 1: we'd be in the other room, you know, and trying

821
00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:16,919
Speaker 1: to keep our composure to come back in and put

822
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:20,200
Speaker 1: a smile on for Rush, you know, and do it.

823
00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:25,840
Speaker 1: But yeah, this year has been rough. He wanted that show.

824
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:29,200
Speaker 1: He wanted it was about him, and we were there

825
00:46:29,239 --> 00:46:33,400
Speaker 1: to make sure that, you know, and he knew, he knew,

826
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:37,960
Speaker 1: he knew some you know, someone had asked about you know,

827
00:46:38,239 --> 00:46:40,960
Speaker 1: made mention of the bucket list. You know, people that

828
00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:45,279
Speaker 1: know that they're facing there the last days. Often have

829
00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:47,480
Speaker 1: a bucket listenings that they want to do before they died.

830
00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:50,640
Speaker 1: And Rusha's bucket list was his audience. Russia's bucket list

831
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:53,440
Speaker 1: was his show. He loved doing what he did. He

832
00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:56,680
Speaker 1: loved it. And the thing about it is, though, you know,

833
00:46:57,320 --> 00:46:59,799
Speaker 1: each of us has a different had a different relationship

834
00:46:59,880 --> 00:47:02,920
Speaker 1: with Rush. Yes we did. Don your relationship, you could

835
00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:05,239
Speaker 1: tell him things and say things to Rush and I

836
00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:11,720
Speaker 1: would never ever dream of saying right ever. And because

837
00:47:11,719 --> 00:47:14,279
Speaker 1: that's the relationship that you had with him, Brian, he

838
00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:18,359
Speaker 1: leaned on you in ways that that for things. Yeah,

839
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:20,919
Speaker 1: I was as good a done guy. Yeah yeah, yeah,

840
00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:23,120
Speaker 1: you would yet, Brian, take care of this. I need

841
00:47:23,120 --> 00:47:25,279
Speaker 1: just to get done. He would ask me to do

842
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:28,919
Speaker 1: certain things and then certain things. You know, Um, you're

843
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:33,080
Speaker 1: more his political outlet. I was more sports, you know.

844
00:47:33,440 --> 00:47:37,120
Speaker 1: And Don brought that whole woman aspect into Yeah. Because

845
00:47:37,120 --> 00:47:39,000
Speaker 1: if if Don wasn't there and it was just us

846
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:42,120
Speaker 1: three guys, can you have been very quiet around there?

847
00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:47,759
Speaker 1: I realized at that point that I just need to

848
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:51,880
Speaker 1: hear your voice. I listened to you because you remind

849
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:57,359
Speaker 1: me of my dad. You all dad to me that's

850
00:47:57,440 --> 00:48:00,560
Speaker 1: how much I look upon you, sir. Like I said that,

851
00:48:00,600 --> 00:48:03,680
Speaker 1: it was a really surprising honor that I wasn't able

852
00:48:03,719 --> 00:48:07,920
Speaker 1: to just pick up the phone and get through, but

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