WEBVTT - EIB Southern Command Family 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:03.920 Thank you for joining us for episode two of Rush 0:00:04.040 --> 0:00:07.360 Limbaugh The Man Behind the Golden E I B Microphone. 0:00:07.760 --> 0:00:12.640 I'm James Golden, also known as boast Nerdly today special 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:15.360 for me the two people that sat with me for 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:21.000 twenty years, the Inner Family. If you will, Dawn Patchynsky 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:28.560 Brian Johnson join me today reminiscing about our beloved Rush. 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:31.120 Whether you listened every day you are at the E 0:00:31.200 --> 0:00:33.960 I B Network and the Russia Limbaugh program heard on 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:37.040 over six hundred great radio stations where every now and 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:40.960 then nation's leading radio talk show, the most eagerly intersepedient programmer. 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:44.000 Are the stories you've never heard from the people behind 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:46.840 the scenes who knew him best and loved him most. 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:50.159 Rushman Ball having more fundly human being it could be 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:53.280 allowed to hear Rush Limbaugh, The Man behind the Golden 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:57.880 e IP Microphone, hosted by James Golden. 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I have to say 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:26.040 that I see it's this twenty eight I saw that 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:27.720 when I saw a cake back there in the kitchen. 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:32.880 It's a gorgeous, gorgeous care and well I don't mean 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:35.320 the anniversary. I'm talking about this gook in the news. 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:39.080 That's what I'm talking about, which I will get. You know, 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:42.840 this is so easily avoided. Not the cake, the gunk. 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:45.839 I knew you'd do a cake, even though I've told 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:47.600 you twenty eight years not to do it. They do 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:51.480 it every year anyway, telephone number. So for the last 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:54.520 twenty years, the three of us, there three of us, 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:59.800 we became well we we call each other family because 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:02.640 that's what we are. And we were all there before 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:05.000 any before Dawn and I showed up on the scene. 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:09.520 There was Brian. That's that's yeah, Brian Johnson. Now, Brian, you, 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:12.959 between all of us, you probably have the most radio 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:17.639 experience of anybody here. And there's a reason for that. Well. Yes, 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:21.040 I was born in a radio station, right, Yes, Yes, 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:24.359 My mother and my father they met working in radio. 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:26.799 My dad was the engineer, my mom was the receptionist 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:31.280 at a radio station in Iowa. And they got married 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:34.680 and my mom got pregnant and they moved to Florida 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:41.360 in that order pretty much. Yeah, and so the rest 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:44.920 is history. Yeah. So, so how did you how did 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:48.080 you get the call to to deal to come and 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:51.119 work with Rush. That's a good question. My father has 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:55.280 his own engineering consulting firm in radio and um he 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:57.840 owns a bunch of radio stations down here in South Florida. 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:01.080 And I was working with him at the time. And 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:03.640 Clear Channel was the name of the company at the time. 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:07.480 They were looking for an engineer that could engineer facility 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:11.280 that was kind of secret and they wanted somebody different 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:13.200 to come over there and take care of it that 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:17.159 wasn't really associated with anybody that could be really discreet. 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:19.680 So UM, I guess they thought of me because they 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:22.039 knew I worked with my father, and everybody knows my 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:25.880 father in the engineering business. So they called and my 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:28.560 dad told me, you know, and I said, sure, I'll 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:31.279 go over and I'll meet them and check it out 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:32.720 and that sort of thing. And I was young. It 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:36.440 was twenty five or something like that, so I basically 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:40.240 went over there and UM met them and I said, okay, 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:41.880 I'll do it. You know, it was just an hourly 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:45.800 type of deal and this is back in n and 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:50.320 UM so I did it and met Rush and then 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:52.440 UM I never saw him again for a year and 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:57.839 a half. Wait a minute, So they hired you to 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:00.640 work with Rush. You met him and you what, you 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:02.680 set up his studio or something. What you do know, 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:05.920 they actually had the studios built for him in Palm Beach. 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:08.200 You remember the whole thing where they wouldn't let him 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:11.000 do it in his house, and that's right. So the 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:14.840 premier built him studios in the financial district of Palm 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:17.640 Beach and they needed an engineer, and that's that's when 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:20.840 they called me. And basically Russia was sitting there doing 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:23.880 it all by himself. They had all the equipment, the 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:26.560 zephyrs all stacked up there, and he had switches. If 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:28.560 one didn't work, he could throw a switch and would 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:30.520 throw it to the second group of zephyrs and all 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:32.000 that sort of stuff and he could get on the 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:34.000 air that way. And that's what he did all by 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:37.279 himself until we all came on the scene in two 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:39.440 thousand one. So for a year and a half you 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:42.480 didn't see Rush. And then what happened. Then they called 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:45.080 and said Rush got this new piece of equipment that 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:48.200 he wanted me to install that allowed him to record 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:50.120 his CDs. You know how he liked to record all 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:54.080 his music. Yeah, so he was doing that sort of 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:57.080 stuff and they wanted me to come and install this 0:05:57.120 --> 0:06:00.400 piece of equipment. So I said, sure, I'll come over 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:01.720 and do it. So I went over and did it, 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:03.320 and I didn't hear from him again for a year 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:05.000 and a half. You know, I figured out he just 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:10.760 doesn't like me, you know. So and then um the 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:14.719 year of uh September eleven and two thousand one. Near 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:17.360 the beginning of the year, Rush himself started reaching out 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:20.640 to me. Was having problems with his hearing and asked 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:23.400 me if, um we could get some different headsets and 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:25.839 things like that for him to try, like the ones 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:28.480 that I just had, remember that hung down and stuff 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:31.880 like that. We tried all different ones over that period 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:35.440 that year. Um, and people were complaining about his voice 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:37.400 changing and stuff like that. Well, I think it was 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:40.680 because of him losing his hearing, um, you know, gradually, 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:42.880 so his voice kind of changed a little bit during 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:47.960 that time. Anyway, September eleven happened and Premiere Radio called 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:49.719 me and said, listen, we don't know what's going on 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:51.600 in the world. Could you be there every day at 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:53.960 this point? So my father said, well, it's Rush, you 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:56.720 gotta go do it. So I said, all right. So 0:06:56.760 --> 0:06:59.720 I basically dropped everything I was doing with my dad 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:03.080 and the engineering and all the radio stations and just 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:05.160 sat in the parking lot for the next two weeks, 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:06.960 you know, because there was no way for me to 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:09.440 listen because none of the equipment in the studio was 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:12.520 hooked up, you know, it was all self contained in 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:15.600 a box right next to him on his desk. And 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:19.000 eventually about a week into that, I'm all right, this 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:20.800 is crazy, So I went in and wired it all 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:22.480 into the rest of the studio so I could at 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:25.960 least come inside and listen and watch. And um, that's 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:28.560 when he came in and said that he lost all 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:31.200 his hearing in one ear and he needed to talk 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:34.440 to Premier and see what was going to happen going forward. 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:38.520 So he flew off to California. And then I got 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:43.200 a call a few days later from a guy who said, uh, 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:49.600 John Acton, And he called and said, basically, Rush filled 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:52.960 us all in and everything, and we have this lady 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:56.520 Dawn that we'd like you to meet with, and uh, 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:59.920 we want to try doing the show on the Inner 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:02.880 Net on Sunday. Could you set up all this equipment 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:04.600 and screens and all this stuff, and we want to 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:07.520 try stenography and see if this will work for us. 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:11.840 So of course I jumped and did everything and met Dawn. 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:14.400 So when did you get the call, Dawn? And what 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:17.040 was the call? Like it was right after nine eleven, 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:19.920 it was that month, and so you have to take 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:22.560 yourself back in time to that period, and it was, 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:26.200 you know, and I was I'm a core reporter, a 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:29.640 stenographer and had been for many years in how many years? 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:32.880 But in the court system since uh, because I asked 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:35.120 that because when when I first met you, you were 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:39.640 like really young and you came in like this, really, James, 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:43.600 we were all really have a picture of all of us. 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:46.920 We were all young. We were all just babies. So 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:49.000 you so you got a call from John Exton too. 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:51.480 So I got a call from John Xon and I 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:53.520 just thought it was a job for the day. It 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:56.600 was a real time job. And so they said it 0:08:56.720 --> 0:09:00.000 was to come over for this person named Rush Limbaugh, 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:02.800 who I had never heard of. I'm in the court system, 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:05.000 you know, I'm always doing stuff. I didn't know who 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:07.360 the senator was in Iowa, and I really didn't care, 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:12.040 you know, but was, well, yes I did that who 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:16.360 I knew a lot about the law, but not a 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:20.360 lot about nothing about Russia actually, and so um I 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:24.040 came over that day, and of course the day kick 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:27.920 Carson was there, like it was full of of people. 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:31.040 I didn't know which one of those people happened to 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:35.880 be Rush or not, you know who the person was 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:38.080 that I was there working for. And I also didn't 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:40.000 know that he had lost his hearing. This was a 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:42.480 big secret, a huge secret. I had to sign a 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:45.720 confidentiality agreement before I came in, you know, because it 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:49.679 hadn't been disclosed yet, you know, at that point he 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:54.000 hadn't disclosed it. So and then I came in and uh, 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:56.440 they proceeded to tell me that they tried out all 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:59.760 these stenographers from California and from all these other places 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:02.240 and they all didn't work. And this is about Baba, 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:04.880 I'm thinking, what am I getting myself into here today? 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:09.680 You know? What did I agree to come to? And so, 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:12.760 uh it was we were in our old studio, which 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:14.720 is kind of like I always tell people, it's like 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:17.400 the show Fraser when you looked through the glass and 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:20.000 you would see it like that. And so Rush was 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:22.280 on the other side and Craig was in the other 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:24.680 side with Rush. That day too, and Craig said, listen, 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:27.600 I'm Craig Kitchen and he said, listen, I'm just going 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:30.959 to have a conversation with Rush and if you could 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:33.720 just write it down. And I thought, this is the 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:38.320 craziest job that I've ever had, Like what is you know? 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:42.199 But okay, sure, uh, and so he they just started 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:45.320 talking and it was very basic, like hi, Rush, how 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:47.920 are you today? You know? And of course Rush couldn't hear, 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:50.840 so he's looking at him like, okay, Craig, you know, 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:54.880 because he was completely deaf, he hadn't had his cochlear 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:58.000 implant yet, so you know, he wrote him a little 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:00.240 note to start talking. And so then Rush started talk talking, 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:03.040 and I started writing it, and then they could they 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:05.839 were reading it, so as as I came up, they 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:08.720 were reading what was being said. And so that went 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:11.480 on for quite I mean for about thirty minutes where 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:14.280 they were trying to make up some kind of conversation 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.840 to be able to read. So then I still thought 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:20.320 I was just there for the day. They came back 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:22.880 in and Craig said, well, you know, we would like 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:26.960 you to come here back here again tomorrow, and so 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:31.920 I said okay, and still not really realizing the gravity 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:35.920 of what was going on. Um. And so anyway, that 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:39.920 day when I was leaving, before I left, you know, 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:44.800 and Rush couldn't couldn't um really hear anything at that time. 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:48.079 So he had written me a note and it said, 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:51.160 I can't thank you enough. I know I can do 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:54.120 this now. And he had tears in his eyes, you know. 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:59.960 And so you know, anyway, that's how it all started. 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:03.120 At that point, did you begin to suspect that this 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:05.319 was a little bit more than you had Well, I 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:09.400 still really we we still were not kept completely in 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:12.800 the loop with with what was going on. But now, 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:18.199 you know, I, like I said, you know, my daughter 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:20.840 was like three, and so I wasn't planning on being 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:24.040 full time. But I saw what this man, the passion 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:26.440 that he had for what he was doing and what 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:29.840 he was going through, and how he had completely lost 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:33.080 his hearing, and it really wasn't even I didn't really 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:35.559 even have to think much about it. I knew this 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:37.199 is what I was gonna do. I was going to 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:39.120 make sure that, no matter what, I was going to 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:41.840 be there every day. I think we all did that, Yeah, 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:44.080 we all did. We all were thrown into the fire 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:46.960 and we just went with it, you know. I mean 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:49.120 the next thing, you know, we're jetting off to New 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:52.360 York on private jets and traveling all around and I'm 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:54.920 just like, this is crazy. I was just in Okeechovie, 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:59.920 Florida two months ago. You know, we're doing this program 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:03.600 in a very different way that it's been done in 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:06.679 the past. And while those of you watching of Ditto 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:11.640 Cam only see me. I couldn't do this without the 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:15.040 people that have broomed all of their priorities and made 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:19.160 me their top priority. If if so many wonderful people 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:21.800 had not made this program and meet the top prior, 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:23.400 we couldn't be pulling this off the way it is. 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:29.120 During the course of this podcast series, you'll be hearing 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:33.240 from Russia's friends, family members, and influential leaders from the 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:37.360 political and media worlds. On today's podcast, you'll be hearing 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:40.880 from a man whose voice the Russia Umball audience knows 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:45.600 and the doors He's America's undocumented anchor, man whose dose 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:48.440 a voice was heard for almost two decades when Rush 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:53.280 was away, best selling author, original thinker. Most important to me, 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:56.560 a true friend who's one of the smartest and kindest 0:13:56.600 --> 0:14:01.839 gentleman on planet Earth. Mark Stein, or maybe I'll say 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:06.240 walk stared. Quite brilliant, isn't he? The Life of Rush Limbaugh, 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:12.640 Chapter two, narrated by Mark Stein. Rush Hudson Limbough the 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:16.000 Third Lands his first job when he was just thirteen 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:19.840 shining shoes at a Cape Gerardo barbershop. And I'll Betty 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:22.360 was a pretty good shoe shine boy. But what he 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:25.360 really wanted to be was that guy on the radio. 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:29.480 For Rush, being a disc jockey represented more fun than 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:32.160 a junior human beings should be allowed to have. My 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:35.800 wildest dreams when I was a young kid pretending to 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:38.640 be a DJ on the radio. When I was eight 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:42.560 years old, he fell in love with a toy radio 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:46.920 transmitter that allowed him to broadcast inside the house two 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:49.800 members of his family. Any kid who's wanted to be 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:52.320 on the radio will know the thrill of making your 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:57.000 own cassette tapes of you doing voiceovers over Frankie Avalon 0:14:57.120 --> 0:15:00.680 and the Maguire Sisters or whoever's sing goals it was 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:03.480 back then. But as one of those gazillions, it would 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:07.200 be boss jocks. I certainly envy rushed that transmitted gizmo. 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:09.920 Some kids have to make do with bringing an old 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:13.520 baby monitor down from the attic was the most amazing thing. 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:18.160 It's plastic. It was about three ft long and two 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:23.000 feet high, and it transmitted over a m within the 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:26.880 confines of a I don't know, a small house. The 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:31.440 quality was horrible, but it worked. At sixteen Rush, with 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:34.440 a little help from his dad, advanced from the toy 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:38.320 transmitter to the real thing. He got an internship at 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:43.800 KGMO fIF fifty a m. And then the intern realized 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:48.080 his childhood dream and got on the s spinning classes 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:53.640 under the name Rusty Sharp. That's a fabulous radio Monika, 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:57.600 but only half true. In this case, Brush was always 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:01.800 sharp and never rust keep Ja was very Steve. It's 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:04.040 my hometown. How are you, sir? Good greetings from the 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:06.760 city of Roses. Thank you, Thank you sir very much. 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:09.320 I was six years behind you in school, but I 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:13.480 used to listen to you on KGMO. I was the 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:15.520 one that called every day and say, man play in 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:18.080 and got a davida will you. Once he was on 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:21.440 the radio, he never looked back, working mornings and afternoons 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:26.120 at KGMO. And then it happened, Rusty Sharp got fired 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:29.240 and kicked off the air. The first too many firings 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:31.920 for USh over the years, all of which setbacks he 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:35.120 overcame and learned from on his way up to the 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:39.680 one gig, the third of a century engagement that ultimately 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:43.760 only God could terminate him from. He wasn't your typical 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:47.160 nineteen sixties teen ag didn't need and never sought the 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:50.480 approval of the high school in crowd. He preferred to 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:54.120 socialize with older, more mature friends. Although he won the 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:58.120 admiration of his school's upper classman with his quick wit 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:02.680 and sharp mind, the fearlessness in debate. He wasn't afraid 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:06.480 to stand out to be contravian. He refused, for example, 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:10.439 ever to wear blue jeans. Come on, let's face it, 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:12.800 it's looks like a barbarous sob. It's it's it's a 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:16.000 it's a prius, it's it's a liberal status symbol. Jeans 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:18.359 are liberal status symbols. At least they were. I know 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:21.320 everybody wears them. Now it's another battle we've lost. Absolutely. 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:24.199 They used to be a status symbol or carmelized our 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:27.040 startorial splendor. That we run around looking like a bunch 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:29.719 of hippies, and I'm not gonna do it. He had 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:32.960 yet to finish high school, but already there was a 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:37.280 Rush Limbo style and a Rush Limbo brand. After graduating 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:41.040 from Cape Gerado Central in nineteen s nine, Rush was 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:44.399 expected by his father to go to college, so he 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:50.200 enrolled at nearby Southeast Missouri State University. But after only 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:55.920 two semesters, Rush dropped out for good. Radio was calling, 0:17:57.440 --> 0:18:02.440 and Rush chose to pursue his dream, confident that it 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:10.359 amount to become reality unforgettable. That's the impression that you, 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:14.800 the Russia Limbaugh audience made with your support for Russia's 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:19.400 last charitable effort while Rush was still with us, through 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:23.520 the Stand Up for Betsy Ross campaign. Your generosity resulted 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:27.439 in a five million dollar donation to the Tunnel to 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:31.880 Towers Foundation. Rush said it best. We chose Tunnel to 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:35.679 Towers to be the beneficiary of the campaign because we 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:40.000 love the work they do and the story about how 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:44.320 they started. When a family experiences significant loss the mother 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:47.880 or father passes while serving our country, Tunnel to Towers 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:53.560 steps in freeze that family of a major worry during 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:57.720 their time of crisis. Tunnel to Towers pays off mortgages 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:02.199 in full for these families and provides them with the 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:05.720 comfort of a home when their world has literally been 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:09.159 turned upside down. The foundation does the same for first 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:14.080 responders and also build smart homes for our most catastrophically 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:18.920 injured veterans and first responders. More heroes need your help 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:23.640 do good by donating eleven dollars a month to Tunnel 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:29.199 to Towers at T two T dot org. That's the 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:33.920 letter T, the number two the letter T dot org. 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:41.719 Shortly after the number three came in. So how did 0:19:41.800 --> 0:19:45.600 that happen? I call Rush and um because I asked him. 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:48.080 I was listening and because I was at the time, 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:50.400 I was in Maryland and I was still doing things 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:52.720 for the show. I was still doing a lot of 0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:55.000 stuff for the show, but I had moved to Maryland. 0:19:55.440 --> 0:19:58.560 I noticed though that something was up with Russia's voice 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:02.280 and something was going on. I called him, like, Rush, 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:05.800 what's what is everything? Are you okay? Is everything good? 0:20:06.960 --> 0:20:08.840 And he told me at the time, he said, you know, 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:12.320 I he said, if I told you what was going on, 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:16.680 you might not believe it, or you he said something else. 0:20:16.720 --> 0:20:18.440 I'm trying to remember what it was because it kind 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:20.760 of scared me. He said, if I told you what 0:20:20.800 --> 0:20:23.720 it was, if I told you how bad things really were, 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:26.320 it was something to that effect. You wouldn't believe it. 0:20:26.320 --> 0:20:29.480 I'm like, what could possibly be this bad? And then 0:20:29.600 --> 0:20:33.680 I got a call from John Acton shortly afterwards, and 0:20:33.760 --> 0:20:36.800 he told me that Rush was losing his hearing. And 0:20:36.840 --> 0:20:39.359 I told him to book a flight for me, please, 0:20:39.480 --> 0:20:42.760 for the next day. And and and I remember getting this. 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:45.280 I hadn't been to Palm Beach before. And I've always 0:20:45.280 --> 0:20:48.200 read about Palm Beach, heard about Palm Beach. When when 0:20:48.280 --> 0:20:50.199 Rush moved to Palm Beach, I was in the New 0:20:50.280 --> 0:20:52.640 York studios and I asked him about the weather every 0:20:52.720 --> 0:20:54.440 day in the winter, I'd be like, oh man, it's 0:20:54.440 --> 0:20:57.600 eighty degrees down there, and it sucks here and and 0:20:57.640 --> 0:21:01.200 all the rest of that. I'd go through um every day. 0:21:01.200 --> 0:21:03.359 I would walk through Penn Station. They'd be announcing the 0:21:03.400 --> 0:21:05.960 train that was running from New York to Miami, and 0:21:05.960 --> 0:21:08.720 I'd always hear Palm Beach as like three or four 0:21:08.760 --> 0:21:10.960 stops before Miami. Said, Oh man, I wonder what it's 0:21:10.960 --> 0:21:13.280 like in Palm Beach. Wouldn't it be nice to work 0:21:13.280 --> 0:21:15.320 in Palm Beach? But I never thought I wouldn't ever 0:21:15.440 --> 0:21:17.200 be in Palm Beach. I was in New York. I'm 0:21:17.240 --> 0:21:21.320 a New Yorker, so we remember, right do. We took 0:21:21.400 --> 0:21:22.879 us a while, and we had to work on you 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:27.920 to turn you into a Floridian, you know. And so 0:21:27.960 --> 0:21:32.080 what happened was I got there that night and when 0:21:32.080 --> 0:21:35.360 I walked in, Rush was in the parking lot. Kit 0:21:35.560 --> 0:21:39.800 was in the parking lot, and and John Acton and 0:21:39.880 --> 0:21:42.200 so I walked over and I gave Russia hug and 0:21:42.240 --> 0:21:45.080 we but I didn't the gravity of it was really 0:21:45.119 --> 0:21:47.679 weird because I didn't, you know, I didn't you know, 0:21:47.720 --> 0:21:51.359 he had kept it really well that he was completely death. 0:21:52.560 --> 0:21:57.119 So that was really a little bit weird and that, yeah, yeah, 0:21:57.160 --> 0:21:59.520 that really knew he was losing his hearing. So the 0:21:59.560 --> 0:22:03.159 next day I come into this little studio and there 0:22:03.200 --> 0:22:06.000 you are there, and then Dawn is there, and like, 0:22:06.119 --> 0:22:09.800 Dawn is this hottie Potati? Right, yeah, you were on 0:22:10.040 --> 0:22:18.399 no offense, I mean, but I was. Yeah, Well that 0:22:18.480 --> 0:22:25.399 was thirty years ago. Brian was Superman, and that's what 0:22:25.440 --> 0:22:28.000 we're saying. We used to call him Superman. Yes, you're 0:22:28.000 --> 0:22:32.639 still Superman. You have gray hair. Now Superman didn't have 0:22:32.680 --> 0:22:36.520 gray hair, right, And wait a minute, and Brian, it 0:22:36.640 --> 0:22:41.119 was in the days when you used to be single. Yeah, 0:22:41.200 --> 0:22:43.120 that's right, so what it used to come to work 0:22:43.160 --> 0:22:50.560 and sometimes used to sleep under the cons sometimes yea, yeah. 0:22:50.560 --> 0:22:53.439