February 17, 2025 • 19 mins
Producers Ali and Greg on remembering Rush Limbaugh, the man, the legend, the way of life.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Welcome to the After Hours podcast, a behind the scenes
of the Clay and Buck Show. Original content brought to
you by the producers and anyone else on the team
that we can drag into the studio. This is producer Ali.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
And producer Greg.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Just like an after hours party, you never know where
it's going to show up in the Clay and Buck feed.
It's kind of like an easter egg. It's not going
to be there all the time, you never know, but
it's going to be fun, if not a little random,
and it's going to involve you, our audience, giving you
a look into our world.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Just all kinds of things about the show that you
don't get to see that we get to see that
we think can be super interesting, and we wanted to
share with you that you aren't going to get in
the regular day to day Clay and Buck Show.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
And because today is the four year anniversary of us
losing Rush, Greg and I, having been longtime Rush employees,
wanted to make debut episode of After Hours a nod
to him.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
We were talking about how Rush would have been so
thrilled in these this first.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Month of over the moon of Trump's.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Administration, and he was especially prescient. Back during twenty sixteen,
he had some he had some observations that were so
on point. And when you go back and look at
what he was saying about Trump and some of his frustrations,
Trump's frustrations with how government was run, it's.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Like, oh, absolutely, and I think that just pointing out
how nothing could come between Trump and and his followers too.
The only thing that could turn them away is Trump himself, right,
And if anything, that was really shown through the last
four years of the Biden presidency with all the stuff
(01:52):
that they came at Trump with left and right, and
you know, Trump supporters were solid with Trump.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
What do you think Rush would be saying about Doge.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Oh, he'd be talking about how great it is. It's
the most brilliant thing. And in fact, I think he
would say that this is the kind of thing that
Republicans conservatives, because Rush made a point of pointing out
that Trump was no conservative. He was, but he was
giving conservatives what they've always wanted. And this is exactly
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it's a prime example of it.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
And Trump wasn't I'm sorry, and Rush wasn't necessarily pro
elon either. If you recall back in the day he
used to point out a lot of things about things
Elon was doing that he didn't agree with. So it
is sort of this full circle moment of what Clay
and Buck were saying about how Elon got red pilled
his past voting record. So I just think it would
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be so amazing if he could see what was happening,
and I think he, well, I actually do think he's
up there smiling down on all of this, no question,
And we know a lot of you share those thoughts.
So Greg and I did some digging and we found
a clip that is so relevant to what's going on
today that we wanted to share it with you.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
It was from January of twenty twenty, so the election
was another eight months, nine months off, ten months off,
I guess at that point. And so we were still
in the midst of the first Trump presidency and his
takes on what was going on. I mean, you really
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brought it home before when you were talking about it.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Well, yeah, I was. When I was going through old transcripts.
I was just amazed by he kept talking about Trump
really understood that he wasn't a process guy. He's a
businessman and he just doesn't want to get hung up
in the process. He wants results. He's very results oriented
and a lot of his followers recognized that. So we
just want to share this clip because we think you'll
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enjoy it as much as we did listening to it again.
So why don't we go ahead and roll it, Greg.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Let's do it.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
President Trump's about to wrap up an impromptu press conference
in the White House. He's got some hard hat guys
standing behind him. There's some sort of it was an
infrastructure type gathering. This has been a just it's so
much fun to watch this this guy, President Trump. He
like me, He can take any question on any subject.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
And just nail it.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
They can't screw him up, they can't confuse him, they
can't double speak him. He just rams it down their throat.
He once again, you know, there's a big big news
today is that the Democrats that we get the audio
sound bites, Democrats in the media.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Are livid, are outraged that Trump continues to blame Obama
for the Iran nuke deal, and he continues to say
that Obama deposited one hundred and fifty billion dollars one
point eight billion dollars in cash on the tarmac in Iraq,
and the drive bys Andrea Mitchell's CNN.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
He didn't do it. He keeps bringing Obama. Why does
he keep bringing Obama up?
Speaker 4 (05:01):
And he brings this up again, and these hard hat
guys standing behind him, whoever the guests are in the
White House, they start laughing. They're having the grandest time
just now concluding it to coincide with the beginning of
this program the President's on schedule today. There was a
there was a period during this little presser where the
(05:26):
President was talking about Iran and how there's never going
to be They're not going to get a nuclear weapon.
He's told them they're not going to be a nuclear
weapon in America. It's never going to be a socialist country.
And he said, now, look, we got to keep in
mind here i Ron could be waiting. They could be
hoping that some of the Democrats win in twenty twenty.
(05:47):
It could be waiting for a weaker president like Biden
or maybe Focahantas. He said Focahontas. And these guys standing
behind him looked at each other, jabbed them and start laughing.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
And of course the media in the room is seething.
The media in the room.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Privately, quietly outraged that Trump continues to disrespect the people
that they like, the Democrats.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Why does he call her folk a.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Haunted they keep asking themselves, folks, it was just it
was great, and that there is. It's a joy to
watch this stuff because he has them in the palm
of his hand, and they continue to live with his
belief that they are circling Trump and that they're getting
closer to wiping him out and destroying him. And each
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time they adopt this attitude or think they're getting close,
he just shuts him down. And with these hard hat
guys that were standing behind him, who were the reason
for the White House Briefing today, the White House meeting.
When you see these guys start laughing at the way
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the presents communicating, you can see that they love him
and that they're just having the greatest time, and it's
just they're happy to be there.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
And you know that this irritates the media even more.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
And irritating the media is a big deal, because that's
the same thing as irritating the Democrat Party. You know,
it's within the confines of the process that we are
treated to such terms as bipartisanship and fairness and cooperation
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and working with the other side, and all that's fine
and dany for Trump. If you get to a result,
if you get to a solution, if you accomplish something,
if you achieve something, if you advance your own objectives,
and the objectives for bureaucrats and process oriented people.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Does not include results.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
And do not out me on this, and it is
a it is a major stumbling point. Too much progress.
Can I let me explain it this way. Washington has
and they're not alone. I mean many many bureaucracies, local government, corporations,
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you name it.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
They love to get accolades while not doing much.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Make it look like they're all working hard, make it
look like progress is being made, but there aren't really
any results. There's cleverness and there is gamesmanship, and there's
advantage and disadvantage, but actual results.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Not much.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Because Washington has for the longest time gotten away with
the belief that getting.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Results it really hard, really hard.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
It requires bipartisanship, it requires a lot of sex revice,
it requires a lot of hard work. And the American
people have gotten used to the snail's pace of whatever
objectives government or Washington has. Trump is not of that world,
(09:17):
by the way, the press event today at the White
House that I just characterized for you is on the
deregulation that would allow construction projects to happen faster. It
was exactly about that which I was making the.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Point Trump is a results oriented guy.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
This was an event, was a press event on the
deregulations the administration wants to do that would allow construction
to happen faster.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
There was not one question on that, by the way,
not a.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Surprise, but nevertheless, I wanted to pass it.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Up that the drive by media did not ask one
question about it.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
And of course the people there that were assembled standing
behind and next to the President would be the beneficiaries
of this. A plan to get rid of all kinds
of rent tape that raises the costs and lowers the
speed and the pace at which projects get done, which
would also reduce the opportunities for payoffs and graft and
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so forth. So the longer you string a project out
and the more people you involve in it, the more
hands can dip into the payment pool, so to speak.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
And this is a classic event. This is a classic thing.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
I think one of the reasons Trump decided to bring
the press in on this I don't think he expect
to get any questions about it, but I think he
wanted people to know that this thing was taking place
because this is another example of it instance of the
Trump Agenda, which is actually aimed at making things better
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in the country. Trump has long said that he wants
to ramp up and really improve rebuild America's infrastructures. One
of the first things that he talked about after he
was inaugury. It was a big part of his campaign
of fact, it would be so expensive. He originally proposed
a public private partnership to get it done, where there'd
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be public money, government money, and private sector money pool
together to bring it up, make it happen at a
more rapid pace than it otherwise would. And it kind
of languished. But this is the kind of thing, This
is what everyge ordinary Americans complained about. How many times,
how many of you've had a remodeling project or any
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kind of a construction project never shows up on time,
no matter what they tell you, it never comes in
on time, and it never comes in on budget.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
And it's gotten to the point now if.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
You're building a house, you're adding a room or whatever,
whatever they tell you add a couple of months, and
add a couple of thousand dollars so that you won't
be disappointed when that happens.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
And this is the kind of thing that.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
On a grand scale building highways, remodeling airports, highway systems,
this kind of thing, speed is of the essence and
of course getting it done right.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
So this is right in the wheelhouse.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
So the Democrats are running around talking about spending all
this money on healthcare, treating everybody as victims. Once again,
here's Donald Trump, results oriented, wanting to be able to
tick off successes after successes, achievements after achievements, and he's
up against a bunch process people. Now, if both parties
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are engaged in process as part of a campaign and
trying to win the day on who's the better at process,
then you've got a dull, boring campaign. But when you've
got somebody demonstration able to get results up against process people,
the process people don't have a prayer.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
And that's what they know.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Greg, he totally nailed it, He really did. And I
think he would just be relishing in what's going on
right now because Trump is not a processed person. He
is a one hundred percent results person and has demonstrated
in just the past month.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Definitely, definitely, it feels very.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Fresh and Greg, I just want to talk about Rush now.
On a personal note, I actually jotted some things down
because today being the anniversary, there was a lot of
reflection in the last four years, and when you get
really used to something or someone, it's hard to imagine
anything else, which is why I maintain you should never
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look to replace anything, but rather celebrate the extensions it
produces everyone. Rush influenced every heart he touched, every mind
he changed or opened had a chain reaction, and his
impact was He never had any crumb crunchers of his own,
as he liked to call them, but he raised a
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generation of Rush babies over the airwaves that went on
to become powerful and important voices of our time. I
would even argue that Clay and Buck, if he had
had sons, would have been the product of Rush in
his thinking, and I think he would be so proud
of them, and they each have their own individual personalities
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and they would have been the spawn of Rush, so
to speak. He changed the trajectory of lives in big
ways and in subtle ways. Whether I know you remember this,
the prisoner in solitary that started listening to his show
and turned his life around after he got out. That
was a very powerful call. The legions of people he
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inspired to start small businesses, and even the people he
helped overcome addiction. I feel like Rush related to so
many people and a bunch of differ diferent ways. What
I personally always marveled about him, aside from his prescient
political analysis, was that he was an individual who endured.
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He faced a lot of personal challenges, more than most,
and was open about it. He learned from them and
was generous was sharing those learnings and those lessons with us, eager.
Even he was never a hy me guy, he had
a knack for bringing humor into the harder moments, like
joking about never having to answer the phone again after
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he lost his hearing, or how his cat taught him
everything he needed to know about women. For him, it
was all about gratitude, remaining optimistic, and connecting with you
and having fun. His spirit, his humor was very infectious,
and I think we were all better for having listened
to him.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I agree. You know a couple of things you said
key something in me, and you know I was hired
in two thousand and seven by the Great Kit Carson,
and it was because the George W. Bush presidency was
coming to an end and change was coming, and rush
knew that. Rush knew. He didn't know exactly what was
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going to happen, but it was six years since nine
to eleven, and the Patriot Act was everywhere in the news,
and there was all kinds of things, stirrings and rumblings
and disenchantment from the mainstream and the left. So he
knew something was coming. And that change turned out to
be Barack Obama, and he was perfectly poised because of
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that to be the voice of the opposition. I still
remember that day, just before Obama was inaugurated, when he
said those four immortal words, I hope he fails.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
I hope he fails.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Nobody on the staff could believe he said it. I
don't know what you thought. Jaws dropped, jaws dropped. Nobody
in the media could believe that he said. But then
he explained, and he had a point. Why what I
want Obama's policies to fail. Liberalism is the problem, and
that's what Obama is bringing more of liberalism. And he
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was the person that fought the Obama policies and which
led to where we are today. You know, so eight
years of Obama led to you know, Trump and where
we are today. And just going back a little bit further,
Rush was just that kind of guy. He was kind
of like the comet that killed all the dinosaurs sixty
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five million years ago. You know, you talked about the
big impact that's that sort of made me think of
those dinosaurs being the legacy media and the liberalism and
I'm eager to see where we go from here.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Absolutely, and his relevance it's timeless.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
It is well, this has been fascinating Intrudeau to After Hours.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Yes, and on future episodes of After Hours. Like we said,
it's kind of like an after hours party. You never
know who's going to show up. You never know what's
going to be there or what kind of shenanigans Greg
and I who will bring to you. But one thing
we do want to do is make it very interactive
and include you the audience. So we have the talkback
(18:22):
feature on the iHeartRadio app where you can record a
message and send it to us. Clay and Buck have
a lot of fun with the talkback, but we get
so many of them that we can only air a
handful during the regular show, So kind of like the
footage that plays after a movie, you get the little
bonus extras. We're going to bring more talkbacks into the
after hours that don't make it onto the air.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Send them to us because we're the ones who get them.
They don't go to Klaimbuck first, Ali and I see
them first, so send them right to us.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Yeah, and if you have any also behind the scenes
questions how we do things here on the show. We
want this to be a very open, engaging, fun thing.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
We've got some ideas for coming up in the future
for how things look behind the scenes and how you
can interact better with the show.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
And you know, we've got tips. We've got tips.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Thanks ally, this has been fun.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Yes, yeah, And for all of you out there who
are missing Rush today, we hope listening to his voice again,
hearing how relevant he still is and always will be,
brought some comfort to you on this four year anniversary.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Until next time,
Welcome to the After Hours podcast, a behind the scenes
of the Clay and Buck Show. Original content brought to
you by the producers and anyone else on the team
that we can drag into the studio. This is producer Ali.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
And producer Greg.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Just like an after hours party, you never know where
it's going to show up in the Clay and Buck feed.
It's kind of like an easter egg. It's not going
to be there all the time, you never know, but
it's going to be fun, if not a little random,
and it's going to involve you, our audience, giving you
a look into our world.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Just all kinds of things about the show that you
don't get to see that we get to see that
we think can be super interesting, and we wanted to
share with you that you aren't going to get in
the regular day to day Clay and Buck Show.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
And because today is the four year anniversary of us
losing Rush, Greg and I, having been longtime Rush employees,
wanted to make debut episode of After Hours a nod
to him.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
We were talking about how Rush would have been so
thrilled in these this first.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Month of over the moon of Trump's.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Administration, and he was especially prescient. Back during twenty sixteen,
he had some he had some observations that were so
on point. And when you go back and look at
what he was saying about Trump and some of his frustrations,
Trump's frustrations with how government was run, it's.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Like, oh, absolutely, and I think that just pointing out
how nothing could come between Trump and and his followers too.
The only thing that could turn them away is Trump himself, right,
And if anything, that was really shown through the last
four years of the Biden presidency with all the stuff
(01:52):
that they came at Trump with left and right, and
you know, Trump supporters were solid with Trump.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
What do you think Rush would be saying about Doge.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Oh, he'd be talking about how great it is. It's
the most brilliant thing. And in fact, I think he
would say that this is the kind of thing that
Republicans conservatives, because Rush made a point of pointing out
that Trump was no conservative. He was, but he was
giving conservatives what they've always wanted. And this is exactly
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it's a prime example of it.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
And Trump wasn't I'm sorry, and Rush wasn't necessarily pro
elon either. If you recall back in the day he
used to point out a lot of things about things
Elon was doing that he didn't agree with. So it
is sort of this full circle moment of what Clay
and Buck were saying about how Elon got red pilled
his past voting record. So I just think it would
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be so amazing if he could see what was happening,
and I think he, well, I actually do think he's
up there smiling down on all of this, no question,
And we know a lot of you share those thoughts.
So Greg and I did some digging and we found
a clip that is so relevant to what's going on
today that we wanted to share it with you.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
It was from January of twenty twenty, so the election
was another eight months, nine months off, ten months off,
I guess at that point. And so we were still
in the midst of the first Trump presidency and his
takes on what was going on. I mean, you really
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brought it home before when you were talking about it.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Well, yeah, I was. When I was going through old transcripts.
I was just amazed by he kept talking about Trump
really understood that he wasn't a process guy. He's a
businessman and he just doesn't want to get hung up
in the process. He wants results. He's very results oriented
and a lot of his followers recognized that. So we
just want to share this clip because we think you'll
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enjoy it as much as we did listening to it again.
So why don't we go ahead and roll it, Greg.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Let's do it.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
President Trump's about to wrap up an impromptu press conference
in the White House. He's got some hard hat guys
standing behind him. There's some sort of it was an
infrastructure type gathering. This has been a just it's so
much fun to watch this this guy, President Trump. He
like me, He can take any question on any subject.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
And just nail it.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
They can't screw him up, they can't confuse him, they
can't double speak him. He just rams it down their throat.
He once again, you know, there's a big big news
today is that the Democrats that we get the audio
sound bites, Democrats in the media.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Are livid, are outraged that Trump continues to blame Obama
for the Iran nuke deal, and he continues to say
that Obama deposited one hundred and fifty billion dollars one
point eight billion dollars in cash on the tarmac in Iraq,
and the drive bys Andrea Mitchell's CNN.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
He didn't do it. He keeps bringing Obama. Why does
he keep bringing Obama up?
Speaker 4 (05:01):
And he brings this up again, and these hard hat
guys standing behind him, whoever the guests are in the
White House, they start laughing. They're having the grandest time
just now concluding it to coincide with the beginning of
this program the President's on schedule today. There was a
there was a period during this little presser where the
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President was talking about Iran and how there's never going
to be They're not going to get a nuclear weapon.
He's told them they're not going to be a nuclear
weapon in America. It's never going to be a socialist country.
And he said, now, look, we got to keep in
mind here i Ron could be waiting. They could be
hoping that some of the Democrats win in twenty twenty.
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It could be waiting for a weaker president like Biden
or maybe Focahantas. He said Focahontas. And these guys standing
behind him looked at each other, jabbed them and start laughing.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
And of course the media in the room is seething.
The media in the room.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Privately, quietly outraged that Trump continues to disrespect the people
that they like, the Democrats.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Why does he call her folk a.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Haunted they keep asking themselves, folks, it was just it
was great, and that there is. It's a joy to
watch this stuff because he has them in the palm
of his hand, and they continue to live with his
belief that they are circling Trump and that they're getting
closer to wiping him out and destroying him. And each
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time they adopt this attitude or think they're getting close,
he just shuts him down. And with these hard hat
guys that were standing behind him, who were the reason
for the White House Briefing today, the White House meeting.
When you see these guys start laughing at the way
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the presents communicating, you can see that they love him
and that they're just having the greatest time, and it's
just they're happy to be there.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
And you know that this irritates the media even more.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
And irritating the media is a big deal, because that's
the same thing as irritating the Democrat Party. You know,
it's within the confines of the process that we are
treated to such terms as bipartisanship and fairness and cooperation
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and working with the other side, and all that's fine
and dany for Trump. If you get to a result,
if you get to a solution, if you accomplish something,
if you achieve something, if you advance your own objectives,
and the objectives for bureaucrats and process oriented people.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Does not include results.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
And do not out me on this, and it is
a it is a major stumbling point. Too much progress.
Can I let me explain it this way. Washington has
and they're not alone. I mean many many bureaucracies, local government, corporations,
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you name it.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
They love to get accolades while not doing much.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Make it look like they're all working hard, make it
look like progress is being made, but there aren't really
any results. There's cleverness and there is gamesmanship, and there's
advantage and disadvantage, but actual results.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Not much.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Because Washington has for the longest time gotten away with
the belief that getting.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Results it really hard, really hard.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
It requires bipartisanship, it requires a lot of sex revice,
it requires a lot of hard work. And the American
people have gotten used to the snail's pace of whatever
objectives government or Washington has. Trump is not of that world,
(09:17):
by the way, the press event today at the White
House that I just characterized for you is on the
deregulation that would allow construction projects to happen faster. It
was exactly about that which I was making the.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Point Trump is a results oriented guy.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
This was an event, was a press event on the
deregulations the administration wants to do that would allow construction
to happen faster.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
There was not one question on that, by the way,
not a.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Surprise, but nevertheless, I wanted to pass it.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Up that the drive by media did not ask one
question about it.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
And of course the people there that were assembled standing
behind and next to the President would be the beneficiaries
of this. A plan to get rid of all kinds
of rent tape that raises the costs and lowers the
speed and the pace at which projects get done, which
would also reduce the opportunities for payoffs and graft and
(10:26):
so forth. So the longer you string a project out
and the more people you involve in it, the more
hands can dip into the payment pool, so to speak.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
And this is a classic event. This is a classic thing.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
I think one of the reasons Trump decided to bring
the press in on this I don't think he expect
to get any questions about it, but I think he
wanted people to know that this thing was taking place
because this is another example of it instance of the
Trump Agenda, which is actually aimed at making things better
(11:07):
in the country. Trump has long said that he wants
to ramp up and really improve rebuild America's infrastructures. One
of the first things that he talked about after he
was inaugury. It was a big part of his campaign
of fact, it would be so expensive. He originally proposed
a public private partnership to get it done, where there'd
(11:27):
be public money, government money, and private sector money pool
together to bring it up, make it happen at a
more rapid pace than it otherwise would. And it kind
of languished. But this is the kind of thing, This
is what everyge ordinary Americans complained about. How many times,
how many of you've had a remodeling project or any
(11:49):
kind of a construction project never shows up on time,
no matter what they tell you, it never comes in
on time, and it never comes in on budget.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
And it's gotten to the point now if.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
You're building a house, you're adding a room or whatever,
whatever they tell you add a couple of months, and
add a couple of thousand dollars so that you won't
be disappointed when that happens.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
And this is the kind of thing that.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
On a grand scale building highways, remodeling airports, highway systems,
this kind of thing, speed is of the essence and
of course getting it done right.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
So this is right in the wheelhouse.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
So the Democrats are running around talking about spending all
this money on healthcare, treating everybody as victims. Once again,
here's Donald Trump, results oriented, wanting to be able to
tick off successes after successes, achievements after achievements, and he's
up against a bunch process people. Now, if both parties
(12:49):
are engaged in process as part of a campaign and
trying to win the day on who's the better at process,
then you've got a dull, boring campaign. But when you've
got somebody demonstration able to get results up against process people,
the process people don't have a prayer.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
And that's what they know.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Greg, he totally nailed it, He really did. And I
think he would just be relishing in what's going on
right now because Trump is not a processed person. He
is a one hundred percent results person and has demonstrated
in just the past month.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Definitely, definitely, it feels very.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Fresh and Greg, I just want to talk about Rush now.
On a personal note, I actually jotted some things down
because today being the anniversary, there was a lot of
reflection in the last four years, and when you get
really used to something or someone, it's hard to imagine
anything else, which is why I maintain you should never
(13:46):
look to replace anything, but rather celebrate the extensions it
produces everyone. Rush influenced every heart he touched, every mind
he changed or opened had a chain reaction, and his
impact was He never had any crumb crunchers of his own,
as he liked to call them, but he raised a
(14:07):
generation of Rush babies over the airwaves that went on
to become powerful and important voices of our time. I
would even argue that Clay and Buck, if he had
had sons, would have been the product of Rush in
his thinking, and I think he would be so proud
of them, and they each have their own individual personalities
(14:27):
and they would have been the spawn of Rush, so
to speak. He changed the trajectory of lives in big
ways and in subtle ways. Whether I know you remember this,
the prisoner in solitary that started listening to his show
and turned his life around after he got out. That
was a very powerful call. The legions of people he
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inspired to start small businesses, and even the people he
helped overcome addiction. I feel like Rush related to so
many people and a bunch of differ diferent ways. What
I personally always marveled about him, aside from his prescient
political analysis, was that he was an individual who endured.
(15:10):
He faced a lot of personal challenges, more than most,
and was open about it. He learned from them and
was generous was sharing those learnings and those lessons with us, eager.
Even he was never a hy me guy, he had
a knack for bringing humor into the harder moments, like
joking about never having to answer the phone again after
(15:31):
he lost his hearing, or how his cat taught him
everything he needed to know about women. For him, it
was all about gratitude, remaining optimistic, and connecting with you
and having fun. His spirit, his humor was very infectious,
and I think we were all better for having listened
to him.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I agree. You know a couple of things you said
key something in me, and you know I was hired
in two thousand and seven by the Great Kit Carson,
and it was because the George W. Bush presidency was
coming to an end and change was coming, and rush
knew that. Rush knew. He didn't know exactly what was
(16:15):
going to happen, but it was six years since nine
to eleven, and the Patriot Act was everywhere in the news,
and there was all kinds of things, stirrings and rumblings
and disenchantment from the mainstream and the left. So he
knew something was coming. And that change turned out to
be Barack Obama, and he was perfectly poised because of
(16:37):
that to be the voice of the opposition. I still
remember that day, just before Obama was inaugurated, when he
said those four immortal words, I hope he fails.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
I hope he fails.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Nobody on the staff could believe he said it. I
don't know what you thought. Jaws dropped, jaws dropped. Nobody
in the media could believe that he said. But then
he explained, and he had a point. Why what I
want Obama's policies to fail. Liberalism is the problem, and
that's what Obama is bringing more of liberalism. And he
(17:12):
was the person that fought the Obama policies and which
led to where we are today. You know, so eight
years of Obama led to you know, Trump and where
we are today. And just going back a little bit further,
Rush was just that kind of guy. He was kind
of like the comet that killed all the dinosaurs sixty
(17:35):
five million years ago. You know, you talked about the
big impact that's that sort of made me think of
those dinosaurs being the legacy media and the liberalism and
I'm eager to see where we go from here.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Absolutely, and his relevance it's timeless.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
It is well, this has been fascinating Intrudeau to After Hours.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Yes, and on future episodes of After Hours. Like we said,
it's kind of like an after hours party. You never
know who's going to show up. You never know what's
going to be there or what kind of shenanigans Greg
and I who will bring to you. But one thing
we do want to do is make it very interactive
and include you the audience. So we have the talkback
(18:22):
feature on the iHeartRadio app where you can record a
message and send it to us. Clay and Buck have
a lot of fun with the talkback, but we get
so many of them that we can only air a
handful during the regular show, So kind of like the
footage that plays after a movie, you get the little
bonus extras. We're going to bring more talkbacks into the
after hours that don't make it onto the air.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Send them to us because we're the ones who get them.
They don't go to Klaimbuck first, Ali and I see
them first, so send them right to us.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Yeah, and if you have any also behind the scenes
questions how we do things here on the show. We
want this to be a very open, engaging, fun thing.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
We've got some ideas for coming up in the future
for how things look behind the scenes and how you
can interact better with the show.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
And you know, we've got tips. We've got tips.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Thanks ally, this has been fun.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Yes, yeah, And for all of you out there who
are missing Rush today, we hope listening to his voice again,
hearing how relevant he still is and always will be,
brought some comfort to you on this four year anniversary.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Until next time,
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