June 23, 2021 • 37 mins
Legendary broadcaster Rush Limbaugh is obviously best known for his political savvy and candid commentary, but one of his most charming character traits was his sense of humor. James Golden explores the lighter, funnier side of Rush, with some behind-the-scenes stories, the origin of Rush’s best bits and some highlights of over 30 years of the Rush Limbaugh Show. Additionally, James chats with political satirist, impressionist and long time contributor to the show, Paul Shanklin and replays some of their favorite bits and parodies over the years. This episode also contains an appearance from Radio Hall of Fame inductee and former syndicated radio host, Neal Boortz, who narrates a special feature dedicated to Rush’s own induction into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1993.
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Limba The Man Behind the Golden E I B Microphone,
we take a look at the lighter side of Russia
Laba and the Russia Limbus Show. You're gonna hear from
Paul Shanklin, or, as Rush would call him, White comedian
Paul Shanklin. Once Paul started up with the songs and everything,
it just I think we all know is that Paul's
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feminist updates, the gay community rights update. My favorite was
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Rush always have a wicked sense of humor. Yes, and
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two t dot org. Any listener to the Rational Bushell
know was that parodies fun huge part of the equation,
and there has been no one over the years that
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has bought more fun in terms of parodies to the
Russi lan Bus Show than the gentleman We're gonna hear
from today, Paul Shanklin. Now, Paul is not the only
one that has contributed to the fund to the parodies.
Early on the show, we had guys like Doug Rice
who sent in Ditto's rush. We had uh, we had
Paul Silhan and but when Paul Shanklin came on the scene,
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everything changed. We had showed, we had parodies, we had
parodies like we've never had before, songs. This guy turned
out to be, I don't know, a godsend. He was
something special. Hey, Paul, welcome to Russia. Lumba, the man
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behind the Golden e I B Mike, Well, thank you
and this is my as normal as I ever get
normal voice. So this is what you said, can you
do one of the other? What's this? Maybe? Look James,
this ain't our Just get on with it, Paul, Okay,
I have to ask you this. Okay, you're gonna have
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to get okay, pick it up or not. Thanks Reverend Paul.
How did you first learn of Rusch Lumbo? How did you?
How did you? When did you come in? When did
you hear the show for the first time? When did
you do? How did this happen? The first time I
heard it? And it was in the it was in
the early nineties. I can't remember the year, but I
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know who introduced it because it was the local show
host at w MC sevent in Memphis, where I'm from,
and uh, Oliver c Reid and he he basically read
the Wall Street Journal every morning for three hours. Uh,
so you didn't have to. And he, uh, he got
into talking about this show that's gonna come on. Yeah,
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it's discuss Russia Lumbo. I don't think it's much to it.
It's a flash the pan. He's not gonna make it,
but but give it a listen. And I listened. I
was hooked, I mean the first day. And uh, Interestingly,
I always thought Rush was a lot older than he was,
not because of the way he sounded, but he was mature,
and that was a difference in talk radio. Somebody somebody
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that was I don't know. He just had a had
a sense of having been and had had his own
ideas of way things were Okay, so you listened and
oh yeah, you, like millions of us, got hooked to
the show. What made you decide to I want to contribute?
I want to be a part of this what? What
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was what was that? Like? Well, I had I had
been trying, um to to do something in local radio
for some time and uh, and I'd pretty much given
up on it. Uh. My friend Mike Ramirez, he's a
uh and I have to say, he's a two two
time so they get this right, two time Pulitzer Prize winner,
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uh for being a political cartoonist. And we'd play golf
together and when he was, especially in the short game
or on tea off either way, I'd say, wait a minute,
that you ain't doing that right. Let me help and
mess him up because he's a natural athlete. I'm not.
So it was the only way I could win. And
he kept he said, you you've got to get into radio.
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You gotta get in. So he introduced me to people
and I'm particularly or I used to be shy to
I'll learn it didn't pay and uh, I just uh
it just never could find anybody that would let me
on their show. And uh, it was in the September
I was at the fair with my wife and we
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walked up to uh to a guy off the midway
and uh, it was Kenny Bozak with old he's ninety
eight point seven here in Memphis and he uh, he
was at this booth. It was the do year move
contest for Turner Dairy and he was stuck there recording
people doing their cowmu as they came off the midway drunk.
And then they were later going to have a move off,
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which I didn't win, by the way, but I said yeah,
So he said, do you want me to he said?
I asked him this, and he goes, so, what's going
on and he goes, oh, you know, the cow moving
and you know we'll have a move off. I said,
do you want me to move like ross Paro? And
he said, yeah, whatever. So I said, look, I'm only
going to do this for the volunteer. So here goes
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what I've done the volunteers. Can I start over again?
And he said, would you talk to our morning guy?
That was great? So I was on their show. And
you know, of course local radio doesn't pay anything. You know,
you might get a free half of a steak and
a third of a baked potato with this coupon. You know,
they give me all kinds of prizes to go out
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to eat and all that kind of thing. And it
was fun to do whatever I wanted to, uh for
local radio and uh but of course Ramire has had
bigger plans for him. He kept bugging me for eight
you gotta get on the Limboll Show. You gotta get
on the Limbo Show. Gotta get on the limb Show.
And I said, yeah, okay, Well I've done some songs,
and we recorded several things and and had him on
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tape and uh so he put it all into it.
He was on back in the ancient days and quarter
inch shape. And I sent a tape to Johnny Donovan.
Waited a week. I didn't hear anything, and called Johnny
Donovan and went something like this, Hello. I said, oh
this isa I got. That's such a thing, and don't
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didn't get it. Show me another one. So hung up
and dutifully got together the same stuff, put it in
a package FedEx all the way up to New York.
Waited a week, called again, Dope, didn't get it. Send
me another one. Send him a third tape. I'm persistent
I might not be much of anything else, but I
am persistent. Send him a third tape. Called him and
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he he said, yeah, we got it. It was great.
We'll be in touch. And I was kind of the
jack did. I kind of gave up, and Ramirez said,
you didn't. You didn't do any voices when you call.
I said, no, I didn't do any voices when I called.
He's he's real busy. He's got this big voice, scary
big voice, just like James Golden, scary, big voice. And
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I don't know what to do. And I just said,
I just hung up the phone. He's a calling back
and just do Clinton. If you called back and do Clinton.
He's got it. He's got to listen to you. So
I called him back. He said, hello, Johnny, this is
Bill Clinton. And I know you and Rush are really tight,
and for some reason, he and I have really fallen
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out over this gaze in the military thing. Can you
talk to him and put us back together as friends?
And he said, who is this? I said, this is
Paul Shanklin from Memphis, Tennessee. He goes, that was great. Good,
you send me a taper. Honest truth. That's the honest truth.
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And I've been pulling his leg ever since. Uh, and
that's how I got started. He's he he kind of
coached me. You know, I didn't know a whole lot
about radio, and and Johnny has been my mentor and
coach and guide all along. And uh, we've had so
much fun together, although I have driven him a little
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crazy from time to time. When did you start doing voices? Paul?
Wouldn't you realize we had a talent for this? Well,
the thing was, it was something that came natural. My
my mother's family were marines and postal workers, and she
was a chemist. So you can tell that was not
the humorous side. My father was a veterinarian and uh,
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his my father's side of the family, they all do that.
I mean, they were known far and wide for what
they call in the country mocking folks. And people didn't
like people that mocked folks. And uh, when I worked
on the farm Tommy Swain, we used to say Paul
even me and hateful because I did his voice, you know,
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And uh, I'm not. I was pretty scrawny, so and
I was the youngest of five kids, so my best
defense was satire, chance and counters unusual circumstances and seemingly
unimportant events change the course of history every day. Let's
find out what happened on this day in history. So
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you're having a good time. Oh yeah, you were right
about that steam. He puts on a real swanky party.
But he sure has a lot of kids to send
to college. Oh they're not his kids. They're massus is
Who's they're paid to give massages for guests. Oh you
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should get one. Oh no, I I can't imagine. I've
never We'll rely here. You don't really like it? Do
you really think I should? Absolutely? It will become a session.
And that's what happened on this day in history. Soon
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the biggest tell us since Jeffrey Steele's dossier is not
hitting the shelves. Still mulling it over by Robert Mueller.
How can a story written to protect a corrupt former
FBI official by an equally corrupt former FBI official be true?
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Find out when it's leaked in little bitty bits leading
up to the mid term elections. Learn how quotation marks
and presidential tweets have actually possibly been used to obstruct justice.
That this isn't the only hotel bit in question, and
that Republican and Russian are both spelled with an r
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if half the bias sources and the outrageous tell all
or true Donald Trump will lose House and Senate seats,
we hope unofficially leaked by Robert Mueller to the press
from now till November still Mully get over quoting anonymous
sources in Russian who sounds suspiciously like the Clintons. Over
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the course of this series, we've been hearing the biographical
journey of Russia's life, narrated by some of his friends, family,
and fellow broadcasters. Today, author and former radio host and
fellow Radio Hall of Fame inductee Neil boards The Life
of Russia Limbaugh, Chapter seven, narrated by Neil Boortz. When
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you think about what it means to be inducted into
the Paul of Fame, you might think first of legendary
names like Ruth Aaron, maybe Montana Marino. Here's a few
more for you, Freed, Harvey Limbaugh. That's right, members of
the Radio Hall of Fame, and Rush Limbaugh is obviously
right there a member, but unlike the others who typically
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have to wait until the end of their careers, it
was clear early on that the Hall needed to make
room for Rush. After only five years of syndication and
overwhelming record breaking success, he became part of a prestigious
class of inductees in nineteene For a guy from Cape Girardo, Missouri,
fired from his first seven radio jobs before finding any
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sort of success behind the microphone, the entire experience was
nothing short of humbling. So many standards of excellence have
been set by previous inductees, including tonight's, that all I
can hope to do is try to approximate them as
I go through my career, and if I am one
day judged to have done that, then I will consider
it to have been worth it. In the success, I
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say what I say to the American people, and any
chance I have a chance to speak to them, I do,
and I am so grateful and so honored. Regardless what
I mean to them, I am certain that I will
never mean as much to them as they mean to me.
After patiently waiting through a critical introductory speech from Sally
Jesse Raphael based on their political differences, Rush confidently strolled
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up to the podium and delivered an acceptance speech full
of class, grace, and gratitude. In the speech, he offered
his thanks to the American people, family, and colleagues, and
ironically enough, his competition and those who disagreed with you.
When I came to New York, there was one man.
I said, here's the standard. That's what I'm up against.
Here's who I consider my competition to be. If Larry
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King had not shown that syndicated talk programming would work,
I wouldn't have had the chance. I thank Larry King
as well. I thank all of you. Thank you so
much for allowing you to run along. Thank you, no
matter if you're an athlete, a musician, or a broadcaster.
Being inducted into the Hall of Fame as usually the
crowning achievement of a long career finished as you head
off in the sunset. But for Rush Limbaugh, it was
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only the beginning, with still more than twenty five years
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code icon. Paul. I want to talk about the one
that generated the most controversy and it remains one of
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my favorites. You know what that is, don't you? That song? Yes?
I that song. Let's talk about that the song, that
song that yeah brought the magic. That's actually the thing
is is that you I. I learned a very important
lesson with that song. What did you learn? Don't quote
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three Democrats in one song? I quoted the guy who
wrote the piece, Barack Obama. The magic Negro. I quoted
Joe Biden, and I quoted Al Sharpton, and I got
in more trouble than I've ever been in. And uh, well,
since at least seventh grade, Barack, the Magic Negro still
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still remains up there. I think it may be my
number one favorite that you've ever done. And part of
it is because of the insanity that it created. The
left wind absolutely berserk, and it was. Yeah, it was
a song that was written from a piece that was
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written in the Los Angeles Times and the columnist wrote, matter, Yeah, well,
what kind of flak did you get from it? I
was on vacation when it really got big. I put
it on an album and it it wound up at
a at a Republican event, and uh, somebody got wound
up and given out by a friend of mine just
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giving out my album, and of course they looked down
at and some other Republican no doubt is the one
that turned him in because they were all vying for
the GOP leadership position, party party chairman, and uh, somebody
freaked out, and you know, it's it's it is what
it is. And there's a good bit of quote from
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everybody that other than me that was involved in it,
and how Sharpton felt about it, Joe felt him about
him being bright and new and clean and all of that.
And Uh. I had somebody say, is there anything you uh,
if you had to do it over again, is there
anything you could do differently about the song? I said, yeah,
really there is. The base is a little tubby range.
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All right, you do a wicked Lewis Farrecan the million
Man March and Louis Farrakans sort of yes, you know.
That's where I got my greatest compliment one time. The
greatest compliment I ever got was when my mother called
me and she said they played Louis Ferricon on the
Limball Show today. Was was that you? Wow? My own
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mother didn't recognize my voice. Hello, my sister, Hello, my brother.
I'm a crazy, crazy man. In a sea of misdirected
candidates trying to unseat Donald Trump, only one has proven
she can win. Hillary. Only Hillary can win over moderate liberals, progressives,
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and socialists by reaching out and pretending to be whatever
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in the fight against Donald Trump, it's time to bring
our best. It's time to have a proven candidate. It's
time Joe Joe clamp she's running against her. Oh yeah, right, well,
it's I thinking you weren't we doubt hat you'll be
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the sens with Governor Andrew Culomo. Let's listen to it
as he gets an important call from a close advisor. Hello,
I need you to do something important. Hey, Ma, I'm
kind of busy right now. I gotta respond to some stuff.
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You respond to me and I might save your fer.
I want you to build up your constituency by coming
to the home I know and talk to the little
old ladies in the retirement home. Yeah, yeah, I get it.
I get it, but I can't right now. A lot
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of lonely women here would appreciate some of that special
attention from you. A little hockey kissy will go along
way to rebuild your political REAMA. What have you got
to louse Andrew the governorship? Mike, I can't, I'm busy.
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You know I can't keep you Saturday, Gordon join us
next time? Are microphones take you behind the scenes? What
isn't Paul? This has been spectacular. Thank you man, I
really appreciate you. Let me let me ask you to
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leave us with this. Your thoughts, your thoughts about Russilan Ball,
who he was, the impact, the funny, your thoughts about
working with the show and what you have gotten out
of the experience of working with Rush on the Russlan
Blood Program. Well, you know, it's it's one thing for
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us to be, you know, in the background, and and
you know, we had our contributions. People knew we did things,
but he took all the arrows. And that's hard, uh
to to have personal people writing articles. And I got
a little of that on the Magic Negro and some
other stuff that I had done, but I didn't get
it for decades. And uh, to have the thick skin
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and still hold your values up, that was that was amazing.
And how he's different to me than many other show
hosts was that he was interesting. Um, you know, we
all kind of knew it what the news of the
day was because we're watching Fox or we're listening to
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something else. And before the show and we're thinking, what's
gonna Russian us about that? He might he might talk
a out whatever the news of the day was for
ten minutes. Then he would go to what he thought
was important, would be something completely different and more interesting
and more informative of behind the scenes and all that.
But he was interesting for three hours a day. I
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had to do that. I mean, that's it. It seems easy.
But you've hosted, You've done some things in radio that
I haven't done. I've done a little bit hosting for
local radio here, and it wears you out. It's not
just you know, you get in front of a microphone
and talk. You gotta have something to say that people will.
You gotta be interesting for three hours or actually interesting
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for five minutes because somebody will change the channel. So,
I mean, he was. He was just amazing like that.
And again the fact that he would you know, he
would praise me, but he would let me do you
know what, I what I wanted to do. Uh, And
it didn't get in the way of that at all.
Um At one time though, kit Kitt said, yeah, is
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this this girl, she's she works to the show, She's
got an idea. I'm gonna send it to you and
you know, just do what you do, what you want
to with it, and and uh and it was actually
pretty good and I used it and and then uh
uh this time I got it. Uh, I got it
from Rush and uh. He said, you know, I want you,
I want you to do this. The same girl's name
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on the on the email. Um, let me look at it,
and I might. And I emailed him back and said, well, look,
I like it. I really like it, but I might
change a rhyme or two here because I'm thinking this
and this, this, this, and I wrote it up and
kind of changed. He goes, no, don't change anything. It
was the John Edwards song I Am a Woman, and
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it was written by Catherine And of course Kid had
never told me who she was. And I told I
told Angie. I said, well, what what in the world?
I said, he Russia. Doesn't want to change anything, this
girl wrote, She goes, probably his girlfriend, Paul and I
went heads up then and Kid Kidd minuted to it.
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After that. He goes, yeah, I did tell you how funny.
That's awesome. Well, Paul, this has been a real treat.
Those of us that have been with the show for
so long. All of us. We we all love you,
your joy to work with and and we've enjoyed your
parodies too, even though we've heard all of them over
and over fifteen twenty thousand. Yes, join the commercial, but
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they never cease to entertain. Well, thank you, and you
have an amazing talent. Well, I'll either go to jail
ford or the neighbors will get me. Well, the neighbors
might come get you, but they'll do so with laughter.
Thank you so much for being with us, Paul, as
they used their pitchforks. Yes, thanks, Paul. We appreciate you
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being with us. Thank you, man, I really appreciate you.
Is it really true? Are you really harmless? Lovable? Totally? Totally.
I'm one of the nicest, sweetest, quietest people you would
ever meet. I'm one of the most humble people that
you would ever run into. Riley, she's laughing. But it's
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it's it happens. It happens to be the truth you
asked him. I wouldn't lie to you about it. If
I were a mean person, I would tell you and
that I would hang up on you. Okay, my mom's
wanted to marry you since she was fifteen since he
was fifteen hold is now eight team. Thanks for sending
me his limball letters. Wait a minute, he's sending you
his used limball letters. Well, I'll tell what we'll do.
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We will send you a subscription and charge it to
our production budget. We'll take it up to Johnny Donovan's budget.
That's what I'll tell you what. I'll tell you what.
Let's do. I've got a better idea, Dan, Here's what
we're gonna do. You must organize a bake sale. Are
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you married, Yeah, there's your wife bake well, yeah, but
she hates your show. That's another reason I can't get
the letters. She won't. Let's put the finances to it.
Then is up to you to go out and earn
money independent, independently for your wife. So have her bakes
and stuff, and don't tell her why this is. This
is a great way to get even. I was a
smoke in DJ. I was ahead of my time. I
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kept getting fired for playing music I liked. Yeah, those
were those were, those were fun days. But here we go.
It's the Rush Hawkins singers and thank the more than
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Billy come on sart' the thank God the Happy Harry
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have a fars of Black Lives Matter, singers rush to
due on the loan gone, What miss You? Larbislaw, a
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soprano World written down opera singer from Dallas, Texas. We
had no idea what was coming and just came in
one day, So did so did Thank the Lord Russia Limbs.
I just came in one day. Just blew me away.
Now the Update, which was a musical portion of the program,
one of the principal ways that I pioneered combining politics
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with comedy and music. A lot of people have done
it since, but it first happened here. The combination serious discussion,
irreverent humor, the playing of rock and roll music on
programs that people thought the audience would not be interested in,
pioneering stuff, and it was used to educate, to laugh,
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to create humor, and also inform people of things I
wanted them to know about. The Left Barney Frank up,
date time Homeless, Ain't got no Sometimes I sing with this,
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I'm alone wrong to bring home General Dincin's Update. There's
a hold up in the Bronk stood it's lights. There's
a time to German harmom that's backed up to Jackson's rison.
There's this Country Shot, a Child's Resistance Wild General David Dinkins,
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where are you? It's time for a timber update, Time
for a gay community update. Themes Hulks a vocal portrayal
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here by the late and Great Klaus Norman. This is
our animal rights update theme. Andy Williams and his elevator
Shoes with the through on Free the Piece update, Slim
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Woman Sat when the Sun Shines on the Mountain and
the Knight All Run. A feminist update. The sem Nazis
are livid at me because of well, general principles you done,
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And that's how we taught. That's how we laughed and
made people aware of the mockery of the left and
what they really were and what things they believed in.
And we occasionally go back to the group yard forgotten
hits and relive it. Ladies and gentlemen. Now it is
getting good. It's getting good everywhere out there. I have
just about laughed myself into paralysis here about ten minutes ago,
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and sturdily brought me something. It's in the New York
Daily News today that I missed on the lesbian farmers
story here. I don't know that I'm gonna be able
to explain this to you without cracking up. It's a
New York Daily news story. Rush Limball warns bomba regime
is sending government paid lesbian farmers to invade red stakes.
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What they're trying to do is convince lesbians to become farmers.
He told listeners. There's a specific, sinister motive to the shift,
Limbaugh claimed, ruining conservative voting blocks. And then I said,
I'm like you, I never before in my life knew
that lesbians wanted to be farmers. I suspect what really
ticked them off was my next line. And like I say,
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I could have thrown in things like about zucchini and
and carrots in any number, but I didn't. I kept
it above board. The next line was, I never knew
that lesbians wanted to get behind the horse and the
plow and start burrowing. That's probably what took them all,
lesbian I wanted to get behind the horse. Even laughed
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at my own line when I read it. My own
line when I read it. Thanks for listening to this
episode of Russian Limbaugh, The Man behind the Golden ei
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Paul Shanklin, the Witty the creative the white comedian Paul Shanklin,
who has been a part of the Rush Limbaugh Show
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for these many years. Next episode a real treat, We're
gonna take you behind the scenes with two people that
have been with Rush for decades. Rush referred to them
as Coco and Cookie. You'll find out who they really
are and what they did with the Russi land Ball
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we take a look at the lighter side of Russia
Laba and the Russia Limbus Show. You're gonna hear from
Paul Shanklin, or, as Rush would call him, White comedian
Paul Shanklin. Once Paul started up with the songs and everything,
it just I think we all know is that Paul's
talent was so good that they just said, Okay, we
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gotta hire this guy. Plus anybody that's listened to Rush
for the full Ride remembers the early days, the humor
that came from the homeless updates, that came from the
feminist updates, the gay community rights update. My favorite was
the animal rights update. That was Rush and Mike Mamone
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creatively together doing something that later would just chafe the left,
but we had so many laughs from it. Now did
Rush always have a wicked sense of humor. Yes, and
you can hear that that humor inside the remarks that
he was making. He was very witty, He was very funny,
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I mean things he used to say, politics is show
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It was it was he would he would find a
way to pierce sometimes serious issues with a unique sense
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at T two t dot org. That's t the number
two t dot org. Any listener to the Rational Bushell
know was that parodies fun huge part of the equation,
and there has been no one over the years that
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has bought more fun in terms of parodies to the
Russi lan Bus Show than the gentleman We're gonna hear
from today, Paul Shanklin. Now, Paul is not the only
one that has contributed to the fund to the parodies.
Early on the show, we had guys like Doug Rice
who sent in Ditto's rush. We had uh, we had
Paul Silhan and but when Paul Shanklin came on the scene,
(04:31):
everything changed. We had showed, we had parodies, we had
parodies like we've never had before, songs. This guy turned
out to be, I don't know, a godsend. He was
something special. Hey, Paul, welcome to Russia. Lumba, the man
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behind the Golden e I B Mike, Well, thank you
and this is my as normal as I ever get
normal voice. So this is what you said, can you
do one of the other? What's this? Maybe? Look James,
this ain't our Just get on with it, Paul, Okay,
I have to ask you this. Okay, you're gonna have
(05:12):
to get okay, pick it up or not. Thanks Reverend Paul.
How did you first learn of Rusch Lumbo? How did you?
How did you? When did you come in? When did
you hear the show for the first time? When did
you do? How did this happen? The first time I
heard it? And it was in the it was in
the early nineties. I can't remember the year, but I
(05:34):
know who introduced it because it was the local show
host at w MC sevent in Memphis, where I'm from,
and uh, Oliver c Reid and he he basically read
the Wall Street Journal every morning for three hours. Uh,
so you didn't have to. And he, uh, he got
into talking about this show that's gonna come on. Yeah,
(05:55):
it's discuss Russia Lumbo. I don't think it's much to it.
It's a flash the pan. He's not gonna make it,
but but give it a listen. And I listened. I
was hooked, I mean the first day. And uh, Interestingly,
I always thought Rush was a lot older than he was,
not because of the way he sounded, but he was mature,
and that was a difference in talk radio. Somebody somebody
(06:17):
that was I don't know. He just had a had
a sense of having been and had had his own
ideas of way things were Okay, so you listened and
oh yeah, you, like millions of us, got hooked to
the show. What made you decide to I want to contribute?
I want to be a part of this what? What
(06:38):
was what was that? Like? Well, I had I had
been trying, um to to do something in local radio
for some time and uh, and I'd pretty much given
up on it. Uh. My friend Mike Ramirez, he's a
uh and I have to say, he's a two two
time so they get this right, two time Pulitzer Prize winner,
(06:58):
uh for being a political cartoonist. And we'd play golf
together and when he was, especially in the short game
or on tea off either way, I'd say, wait a minute,
that you ain't doing that right. Let me help and
mess him up because he's a natural athlete. I'm not.
So it was the only way I could win. And
he kept he said, you you've got to get into radio.
(07:19):
You gotta get in. So he introduced me to people
and I'm particularly or I used to be shy to
I'll learn it didn't pay and uh, I just uh
it just never could find anybody that would let me
on their show. And uh, it was in the September
I was at the fair with my wife and we
(07:39):
walked up to uh to a guy off the midway
and uh, it was Kenny Bozak with old he's ninety
eight point seven here in Memphis and he uh, he
was at this booth. It was the do year move
contest for Turner Dairy and he was stuck there recording
people doing their cowmu as they came off the midway drunk.
And then they were later going to have a move off,
(08:02):
which I didn't win, by the way, but I said yeah,
So he said, do you want me to he said?
I asked him this, and he goes, so, what's going
on and he goes, oh, you know, the cow moving
and you know we'll have a move off. I said,
do you want me to move like ross Paro? And
he said, yeah, whatever. So I said, look, I'm only
going to do this for the volunteer. So here goes
(08:26):
what I've done the volunteers. Can I start over again?
And he said, would you talk to our morning guy?
That was great? So I was on their show. And
you know, of course local radio doesn't pay anything. You know,
you might get a free half of a steak and
a third of a baked potato with this coupon. You know,
they give me all kinds of prizes to go out
(08:47):
to eat and all that kind of thing. And it
was fun to do whatever I wanted to, uh for
local radio and uh but of course Ramire has had
bigger plans for him. He kept bugging me for eight
you gotta get on the Limboll Show. You gotta get
on the Limbo Show. Gotta get on the limb Show.
And I said, yeah, okay, Well I've done some songs,
and we recorded several things and and had him on
(09:09):
tape and uh so he put it all into it.
He was on back in the ancient days and quarter
inch shape. And I sent a tape to Johnny Donovan.
Waited a week. I didn't hear anything, and called Johnny
Donovan and went something like this, Hello. I said, oh
this isa I got. That's such a thing, and don't
(09:32):
didn't get it. Show me another one. So hung up
and dutifully got together the same stuff, put it in
a package FedEx all the way up to New York.
Waited a week, called again, Dope, didn't get it. Send
me another one. Send him a third tape. I'm persistent
I might not be much of anything else, but I
am persistent. Send him a third tape. Called him and
(09:53):
he he said, yeah, we got it. It was great.
We'll be in touch. And I was kind of the
jack did. I kind of gave up, and Ramirez said,
you didn't. You didn't do any voices when you call.
I said, no, I didn't do any voices when I called.
He's he's real busy. He's got this big voice, scary
big voice, just like James Golden, scary, big voice. And
(10:13):
I don't know what to do. And I just said,
I just hung up the phone. He's a calling back
and just do Clinton. If you called back and do Clinton.
He's got it. He's got to listen to you. So
I called him back. He said, hello, Johnny, this is
Bill Clinton. And I know you and Rush are really tight,
and for some reason, he and I have really fallen
(10:35):
out over this gaze in the military thing. Can you
talk to him and put us back together as friends?
And he said, who is this? I said, this is
Paul Shanklin from Memphis, Tennessee. He goes, that was great. Good,
you send me a taper. Honest truth. That's the honest truth.
(10:57):
And I've been pulling his leg ever since. Uh, and
that's how I got started. He's he he kind of
coached me. You know, I didn't know a whole lot
about radio, and and Johnny has been my mentor and
coach and guide all along. And uh, we've had so
much fun together, although I have driven him a little
(11:19):
crazy from time to time. When did you start doing voices? Paul?
Wouldn't you realize we had a talent for this? Well,
the thing was, it was something that came natural. My
my mother's family were marines and postal workers, and she
was a chemist. So you can tell that was not
the humorous side. My father was a veterinarian and uh,
(11:42):
his my father's side of the family, they all do that.
I mean, they were known far and wide for what
they call in the country mocking folks. And people didn't
like people that mocked folks. And uh, when I worked
on the farm Tommy Swain, we used to say Paul
even me and hateful because I did his voice, you know,
(12:06):
And uh, I'm not. I was pretty scrawny, so and
I was the youngest of five kids, so my best
defense was satire, chance and counters unusual circumstances and seemingly
unimportant events change the course of history every day. Let's
find out what happened on this day in history. So
(12:33):
you're having a good time. Oh yeah, you were right
about that steam. He puts on a real swanky party.
But he sure has a lot of kids to send
to college. Oh they're not his kids. They're massus is
Who's they're paid to give massages for guests. Oh you
(12:54):
should get one. Oh no, I I can't imagine. I've
never We'll rely here. You don't really like it? Do
you really think I should? Absolutely? It will become a session.
And that's what happened on this day in history. Soon
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the biggest tell us since Jeffrey Steele's dossier is not
hitting the shelves. Still mulling it over by Robert Mueller.
How can a story written to protect a corrupt former
FBI official by an equally corrupt former FBI official be true?
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Find out when it's leaked in little bitty bits leading
up to the mid term elections. Learn how quotation marks
and presidential tweets have actually possibly been used to obstruct justice.
That this isn't the only hotel bit in question, and
that Republican and Russian are both spelled with an r
(13:58):
if half the bias sources and the outrageous tell all
or true Donald Trump will lose House and Senate seats,
we hope unofficially leaked by Robert Mueller to the press
from now till November still Mully get over quoting anonymous
sources in Russian who sounds suspiciously like the Clintons. Over
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the course of this series, we've been hearing the biographical
journey of Russia's life, narrated by some of his friends, family,
and fellow broadcasters. Today, author and former radio host and
fellow Radio Hall of Fame inductee Neil boards The Life
of Russia Limbaugh, Chapter seven, narrated by Neil Boortz. When
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you think about what it means to be inducted into
the Paul of Fame, you might think first of legendary
names like Ruth Aaron, maybe Montana Marino. Here's a few
more for you, Freed, Harvey Limbaugh. That's right, members of
the Radio Hall of Fame, and Rush Limbaugh is obviously
right there a member, but unlike the others who typically
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have to wait until the end of their careers, it
was clear early on that the Hall needed to make
room for Rush. After only five years of syndication and
overwhelming record breaking success, he became part of a prestigious
class of inductees in nineteene For a guy from Cape Girardo, Missouri,
fired from his first seven radio jobs before finding any
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sort of success behind the microphone, the entire experience was
nothing short of humbling. So many standards of excellence have
been set by previous inductees, including tonight's, that all I
can hope to do is try to approximate them as
I go through my career, and if I am one
day judged to have done that, then I will consider
it to have been worth it. In the success, I
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say what I say to the American people, and any
chance I have a chance to speak to them, I do,
and I am so grateful and so honored. Regardless what
I mean to them, I am certain that I will
never mean as much to them as they mean to me.
After patiently waiting through a critical introductory speech from Sally
Jesse Raphael based on their political differences, Rush confidently strolled
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up to the podium and delivered an acceptance speech full
of class, grace, and gratitude. In the speech, he offered
his thanks to the American people, family, and colleagues, and
ironically enough, his competition and those who disagreed with you.
When I came to New York, there was one man.
I said, here's the standard. That's what I'm up against.
Here's who I consider my competition to be. If Larry
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King had not shown that syndicated talk programming would work,
I wouldn't have had the chance. I thank Larry King
as well. I thank all of you. Thank you so
much for allowing you to run along. Thank you, no
matter if you're an athlete, a musician, or a broadcaster.
Being inducted into the Hall of Fame as usually the
crowning achievement of a long career finished as you head
off in the sunset. But for Rush Limbaugh, it was
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code icon. Paul. I want to talk about the one
that generated the most controversy and it remains one of
(18:27):
my favorites. You know what that is, don't you? That song? Yes?
I that song. Let's talk about that the song, that
song that yeah brought the magic. That's actually the thing
is is that you I. I learned a very important
lesson with that song. What did you learn? Don't quote
(18:49):
three Democrats in one song? I quoted the guy who
wrote the piece, Barack Obama. The magic Negro. I quoted
Joe Biden, and I quoted Al Sharpton, and I got
in more trouble than I've ever been in. And uh, well,
since at least seventh grade, Barack, the Magic Negro still
(19:13):
still remains up there. I think it may be my
number one favorite that you've ever done. And part of
it is because of the insanity that it created. The
left wind absolutely berserk, and it was. Yeah, it was
a song that was written from a piece that was
(19:37):
written in the Los Angeles Times and the columnist wrote, matter, Yeah, well,
what kind of flak did you get from it? I
was on vacation when it really got big. I put
it on an album and it it wound up at
a at a Republican event, and uh, somebody got wound
up and given out by a friend of mine just
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giving out my album, and of course they looked down
at and some other Republican no doubt is the one
that turned him in because they were all vying for
the GOP leadership position, party party chairman, and uh, somebody
freaked out, and you know, it's it's it is what
it is. And there's a good bit of quote from
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everybody that other than me that was involved in it,
and how Sharpton felt about it, Joe felt him about
him being bright and new and clean and all of that.
And Uh. I had somebody say, is there anything you uh,
if you had to do it over again, is there
anything you could do differently about the song? I said, yeah,
really there is. The base is a little tubby range.
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All right, you do a wicked Lewis Farrecan the million
Man March and Louis Farrakans sort of yes, you know.
That's where I got my greatest compliment one time. The
greatest compliment I ever got was when my mother called
me and she said they played Louis Ferricon on the
Limball Show today. Was was that you? Wow? My own
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mother didn't recognize my voice. Hello, my sister, Hello, my brother.
I'm a crazy, crazy man. In a sea of misdirected
candidates trying to unseat Donald Trump, only one has proven
she can win. Hillary. Only Hillary can win over moderate liberals, progressives,
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and socialists by reaching out and pretending to be whatever
you want her to be. She can be a hawk,
a dove, a sophisticated Yankee, or a diet in the
world pig riding Southern Democrat, and since she has proven
she can endure the physical rigors of the campaign with
some assistance and a d a compliant ramps and elevators
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in the fight against Donald Trump, it's time to bring
our best. It's time to have a proven candidate. It's
time Joe Joe clamp she's running against her. Oh yeah, right, well,
it's I thinking you weren't we doubt hat you'll be
(22:17):
the sens with Governor Andrew Culomo. Let's listen to it
as he gets an important call from a close advisor. Hello,
I need you to do something important. Hey, Ma, I'm
kind of busy right now. I gotta respond to some stuff.
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You respond to me and I might save your fer.
I want you to build up your constituency by coming
to the home I know and talk to the little
old ladies in the retirement home. Yeah, yeah, I get it.
I get it, but I can't right now. A lot
(23:05):
of lonely women here would appreciate some of that special
attention from you. A little hockey kissy will go along
way to rebuild your political REAMA. What have you got
to louse Andrew the governorship? Mike, I can't, I'm busy.
(23:27):
You know I can't keep you Saturday, Gordon join us
next time? Are microphones take you behind the scenes? What
isn't Paul? This has been spectacular. Thank you man, I
really appreciate you. Let me let me ask you to
(23:49):
leave us with this. Your thoughts, your thoughts about Russilan Ball,
who he was, the impact, the funny, your thoughts about
working with the show and what you have gotten out
of the experience of working with Rush on the Russlan
Blood Program. Well, you know, it's it's one thing for
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us to be, you know, in the background, and and
you know, we had our contributions. People knew we did things,
but he took all the arrows. And that's hard, uh
to to have personal people writing articles. And I got
a little of that on the Magic Negro and some
other stuff that I had done, but I didn't get
it for decades. And uh, to have the thick skin
(24:32):
and still hold your values up, that was that was amazing.
And how he's different to me than many other show
hosts was that he was interesting. Um, you know, we
all kind of knew it what the news of the
day was because we're watching Fox or we're listening to
(24:54):
something else. And before the show and we're thinking, what's
gonna Russian us about that? He might he might talk
a out whatever the news of the day was for
ten minutes. Then he would go to what he thought
was important, would be something completely different and more interesting
and more informative of behind the scenes and all that.
But he was interesting for three hours a day. I
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had to do that. I mean, that's it. It seems easy.
But you've hosted, You've done some things in radio that
I haven't done. I've done a little bit hosting for
local radio here, and it wears you out. It's not
just you know, you get in front of a microphone
and talk. You gotta have something to say that people will.
You gotta be interesting for three hours or actually interesting
(25:35):
for five minutes because somebody will change the channel. So,
I mean, he was. He was just amazing like that.
And again the fact that he would you know, he
would praise me, but he would let me do you
know what, I what I wanted to do. Uh, And
it didn't get in the way of that at all.
Um At one time though, kit Kitt said, yeah, is
(25:57):
this this girl, she's she works to the show, She's
got an idea. I'm gonna send it to you and
you know, just do what you do, what you want
to with it, and and uh and it was actually
pretty good and I used it and and then uh
uh this time I got it. Uh, I got it
from Rush and uh. He said, you know, I want you,
I want you to do this. The same girl's name
(26:18):
on the on the email. Um, let me look at it,
and I might. And I emailed him back and said, well, look,
I like it. I really like it, but I might
change a rhyme or two here because I'm thinking this
and this, this, this, and I wrote it up and
kind of changed. He goes, no, don't change anything. It
was the John Edwards song I Am a Woman, and
(26:40):
it was written by Catherine And of course Kid had
never told me who she was. And I told I
told Angie. I said, well, what what in the world?
I said, he Russia. Doesn't want to change anything, this
girl wrote, She goes, probably his girlfriend, Paul and I
went heads up then and Kid Kidd minuted to it.
(27:00):
After that. He goes, yeah, I did tell you how funny.
That's awesome. Well, Paul, this has been a real treat.
Those of us that have been with the show for
so long. All of us. We we all love you,
your joy to work with and and we've enjoyed your
parodies too, even though we've heard all of them over
and over fifteen twenty thousand. Yes, join the commercial, but
(27:24):
they never cease to entertain. Well, thank you, and you
have an amazing talent. Well, I'll either go to jail
ford or the neighbors will get me. Well, the neighbors
might come get you, but they'll do so with laughter.
Thank you so much for being with us, Paul, as
they used their pitchforks. Yes, thanks, Paul. We appreciate you
(27:45):
being with us. Thank you, man, I really appreciate you.
Is it really true? Are you really harmless? Lovable? Totally? Totally.
I'm one of the nicest, sweetest, quietest people you would
ever meet. I'm one of the most humble people that
you would ever run into. Riley, she's laughing. But it's
(28:07):
it's it happens. It happens to be the truth you
asked him. I wouldn't lie to you about it. If
I were a mean person, I would tell you and
that I would hang up on you. Okay, my mom's
wanted to marry you since she was fifteen since he
was fifteen hold is now eight team. Thanks for sending
me his limball letters. Wait a minute, he's sending you
his used limball letters. Well, I'll tell what we'll do.
(28:31):
We will send you a subscription and charge it to
our production budget. We'll take it up to Johnny Donovan's budget.
That's what I'll tell you what. I'll tell you what.
Let's do. I've got a better idea, Dan, Here's what
we're gonna do. You must organize a bake sale. Are
(28:51):
you married, Yeah, there's your wife bake well, yeah, but
she hates your show. That's another reason I can't get
the letters. She won't. Let's put the finances to it.
Then is up to you to go out and earn
money independent, independently for your wife. So have her bakes
and stuff, and don't tell her why this is. This
is a great way to get even. I was a
smoke in DJ. I was ahead of my time. I
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kept getting fired for playing music I liked. Yeah, those
were those were, those were fun days. But here we go.
It's the Rush Hawkins singers and thank the more than
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Billy come on sart' the thank God the Happy Harry
(30:32):
have a fars of Black Lives Matter, singers rush to
due on the loan gone, What miss You? Larbislaw, a
(31:08):
soprano World written down opera singer from Dallas, Texas. We
had no idea what was coming and just came in
one day, So did so did Thank the Lord Russia Limbs.
I just came in one day. Just blew me away.
Now the Update, which was a musical portion of the program,
one of the principal ways that I pioneered combining politics
(31:32):
with comedy and music. A lot of people have done
it since, but it first happened here. The combination serious discussion,
irreverent humor, the playing of rock and roll music on
programs that people thought the audience would not be interested in,
pioneering stuff, and it was used to educate, to laugh,
(31:55):
to create humor, and also inform people of things I
wanted them to know about. The Left Barney Frank up,
date time Homeless, Ain't got no Sometimes I sing with this,
(32:21):
I'm alone wrong to bring home General Dincin's Update. There's
a hold up in the Bronk stood it's lights. There's
a time to German harmom that's backed up to Jackson's rison.
There's this Country Shot, a Child's Resistance Wild General David Dinkins,
(32:45):
where are you? It's time for a timber update, Time
for a gay community update. Themes Hulks a vocal portrayal
(33:09):
here by the late and Great Klaus Norman. This is
our animal rights update theme. Andy Williams and his elevator
Shoes with the through on Free the Piece update, Slim
(33:47):
Woman Sat when the Sun Shines on the Mountain and
the Knight All Run. A feminist update. The sem Nazis
are livid at me because of well, general principles you done,
(34:20):
And that's how we taught. That's how we laughed and
made people aware of the mockery of the left and
what they really were and what things they believed in.
And we occasionally go back to the group yard forgotten
hits and relive it. Ladies and gentlemen. Now it is
getting good. It's getting good everywhere out there. I have
just about laughed myself into paralysis here about ten minutes ago,
(34:43):
and sturdily brought me something. It's in the New York
Daily News today that I missed on the lesbian farmers
story here. I don't know that I'm gonna be able
to explain this to you without cracking up. It's a
New York Daily news story. Rush Limball warns bomba regime
is sending government paid lesbian farmers to invade red stakes.
(35:06):
What they're trying to do is convince lesbians to become farmers.
He told listeners. There's a specific, sinister motive to the shift,
Limbaugh claimed, ruining conservative voting blocks. And then I said,
I'm like you, I never before in my life knew
that lesbians wanted to be farmers. I suspect what really
ticked them off was my next line. And like I say,
(35:26):
I could have thrown in things like about zucchini and
and carrots in any number, but I didn't. I kept
it above board. The next line was, I never knew
that lesbians wanted to get behind the horse and the
plow and start burrowing. That's probably what took them all,
lesbian I wanted to get behind the horse. Even laughed
(35:49):
at my own line when I read it. My own
line when I read it. Thanks for listening to this
episode of Russian Limbaugh, The Man behind the Golden ei
B Microphone. Our thanks today to our very special guest,
Paul Shanklin, the Witty the creative the white comedian Paul Shanklin,
who has been a part of the Rush Limbaugh Show
(36:10):
for these many years. Next episode a real treat, We're
gonna take you behind the scenes with two people that
have been with Rush for decades. Rush referred to them
as Coco and Cookie. You'll find out who they really
are and what they did with the Russi land Ball
Show on our next episode. Russia Limbaugh The Man Behind
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the Golden E I B Microphone is produced by Chris
Kelly and Phil to Howard, the best producers in America,
Production assistance Mike Mamone and the executive producers Craig Kitchen
and Julie Talbot. Our program distributed worldwide by Premier Networks,
found on the I Heart Radio app or wherever you
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listen to your favorite podcast. This is James Golden. This
is both Nervling. This is James Golden. I'm honored to
be your host for this and every single episode of
Russia Limbaugh The Man Behind the Golden E I B Microphone.
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