The Rush Limbaugh Show Podcast

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of the Russia Limbo Show podcast.
Welcome to a special edition of the Russian Limbo Show
with a very special guest. As I said on Friday,
Rush had two great loves of his life, public and private,
as it were. One was you, the tens of millions

(00:22):
of listeners he found a third of a century ago
and never broke faith with. And the other, the personal, private,
enduring love, he had to wait a little longer to find,
and when he did, they didn't get as many years
together as they should have. But Russia's beloved Catherine is
here today to take your calls on one eight hundred

(00:45):
two eight two eight eight two. It's your chance to
ask about the off air side of Rush. Thank you
so much for being here, Catherine. How are you and
the family doing at the moment, Thank you so much. Mark.
It's been a very difficult time, as it probably has

(01:06):
been for everyone who's listened all these years. But we
know that Rush is in a good place. He's in heaven,
he's looking down on us, and that gives us some
element of comfort. But it has been a very difficult
time and things are sort of complicated by the COVID
situation because people can't have normal memorial services anymore. But

(01:32):
you're planning a virtual memorial service for us at some
point in the next few weeks. Yes, that's right. Unfortunately,
due to COVID, we can't do as many things in
person as we would like. But we are in the
initial stages of planning a celebration of life that will
be able to be viewed by all of the audience

(01:55):
and friends and extended family at some point in the
near future. Or we don't have an exact teach as yet.
We're working on some of the logistics, but yes, that
is something that we will have in the upcoming weeks
to month. Well, I hope you find someone to give
a eulogy for Rush that was half as lovely as

(02:18):
the one Rush gay for late friend Kit Carson a
few years ago, because that was spectacular. And afterwards I
went up and congratulated Rush on that, and he said
that I assumed he'd done that for somebody or other
every every couple of months, or at least every year
or so, and he said, no, that was the very
first funeral eulogy he had ever given, and he gave

(02:42):
a beautiful one to Kit, and I hope we can
find someone who does Rush the same beautiful justice he did. Kit.
We're going to shoot for an hour and see how
it goes, and if it's all a bit too much,
will understand if you need to bail Catherine. But let
me exercise more data's privilege and ask a first question

(03:03):
to get us going back to when you first met, because,
as Rush tells it, you were working for the Gary
Player Foundation. Mister Player is the legendary South African golf,
the greatest South African golf of all time, and his
foundation raises a lot of money for children. And you
were told to invite Rush to some event, and you

(03:24):
weren't particularly keen to do it because all you knew
about Rush came from the lefty media. That's how Rush
told it. Yeah, is that your version of events too? Unfortunately?
That is right. Yes, Well, I was working for Gary Player.
I had lived Overseas the majority of my life and

(03:45):
always loved South Africa and met Gary Player and loved
all of what he was doing with children, and so yes,
I was running his foundation at the time, and we
were organizing a large celebrity golf turn at the Floridian.
Wayne Hysinga's former Floridian place, and Rush was one of

(04:07):
the guests that was introduced to me as a possibility
to make the list of possible A listers, And believe
it or not, I put him down on maybe B
or C, just just based on what I thought I
knew of him. I was raised overseas, so we were

(04:28):
not as familiar with some of Russia's politics and stature
and all of that at the time. So at the
time I thought, okay, well I've heard a lot about him,
but I will give it a shot anyway. So I
invited him, and he came into the Floridian. I remember
it as if it was yesterday. He walked in, he

(04:49):
was extraordinarily humble and kind, and I thought to myself,
this isn't quite the person that I thought was going
to be arriving. And from that moment on I knew
that everything that you read and here is not necessarily accurate.
And over the course of our marriage he taught taught
me and many others to not ever believe anything and

(05:13):
don't read anything by what you think it is on
the outside. So from that moment, Russia and I became
friends for many years before we actually we got married,
but we were very very close from the early early
days of that meeting. And as you said, you put

(05:33):
him on the story, you kind of moved him up
as you got to know him. I don't think he's
very happy if he's listening to me right now, but
he would say that too, so I know I'm not
saying anything outside of school. But yes, absolutely there were
there were others that perhaps were ahead, but over time
there could be no one else that would be higher

(05:56):
on the A list than Rush. Rush was extraordinary every way. Well,
that's certainly true. Let us take our first call. We're
going to do something. I don't think it's ever been
done on the Russian Embo show because as listeners know,
Rush didn't always like to go to calls early, and
certainly not in the first segment. But this is between

(06:17):
you and Katherine today, Dan in Carson City, Nevada. Your
life with Katherine Limbo. What's your question for Katherine Mark?
Thanks for having me on, Katherine. I just wanted to
explain to you what she mean to me. Now I'm
going to be a little emotion but I'm really going
to try not to because I want to get out
what I have to say we've had two losses this year.

(06:40):
We lost my mom twenty four weeks ago, twenty five
weeks ago today to our Thursday, to Parkison's disease. About
eight years ago. I was a lost kid. I would
say kid because I'm only forty seven, right. I was lost, Catherine.
I'd come into work every day. I was hot headed,
but I was strong. I believed in what I believed,

(07:02):
and I wanted to be who I wanted to be,
but I just didn't have direction. My uncle Pat, who
was a lifelong listener, and I'm talking to these people
that are lifelong listeners that are just years. You know,
I'm just in years and I'm going to miss out
on so much. But lifelong listener, he says, Daniel, you
need to listen. You're not listening to us, but you
need to listen to this gentleman. I turned him on

(07:23):
and in the first five minutes Katherine and I didn't
know him physically, sorry, but I felt him emotionally. And
it was the first time I ever had a real
father sitting here in my life. God let him. My
mom she did the best she could, but we had
somebody that we could relate to. We have somebody that

(07:44):
could help us feel the words he was saying, and
then we could put that to our everyday life. He
wasn't a politician, he wasn't this person that meant he was.
He was us. He made us feel like he was us.
And now now we're lost. Now we don't have that
voice anymore. And I know Mark, and it's no it's

(08:04):
no takeaway from the amazing guest hosts that he has.
But I will have a sticker on my car forever.
And I wish I had the original one that said
Rush is right, because I remember my uncle Pat always saying, man,
Rush is right. You need to listen and it'll say
Rush is right nineteen fifty one to twenty twenty one

(08:27):
and forever. And so I just wanted to let you
know how we felt here. I'm living full small town
in Carson City, Nevada, but his words changed our lives.
And so I know my family has benefited from it.
I know I have benefited from it, and Collie, I
know that you have definitely benefited from it. So so

(08:48):
God bless we love him. His words were heard and
they were felt, and they're going to be felt forever.
And we're never ever going to forget our Rush slimball.
I'm just so sad that I only got seven years
with him. I feel like I'm going to miss out
on a lifetime of knowledge. But I just wanted to

(09:11):
let you know that we love him dearly, and we're
hurting too, because we lost this year, not once but twice.
In some cases, some people will say me three times
with all the craziness that's happened. But I just wanted
to say that I know I didn't know him, but
I felt him every time he spoke. So thank you, Rush.

(09:32):
I hope you're hitting me and we love you. I
love you, Mom. Thank you Uncle Pat for turning me
on to this amazing man and this amazing station and
amazing people that help him every day, because he recognized that,
you know, sometimes his own life, we just forget about
the people who help us. I always say, my wife

(09:53):
Denise is amazing because people always say, Daniel, you're a
great guy, we love you, and I always say, you know,
behind every good man, there's a woman pushing the button,
and so I believe that whole that's very true. Dan,
Thank you, thank you very much for that. I thank Catherine.
There there are tens of millions like Dan. Yeah, there

(10:14):
were particulars like he lost his mother and he lost
Rush in the same year, but basically Rush had an
immediate family of tens of millions of people. Yes, and
I'm very sorry Dan for your for your loss, both
your two losses that you had. My father passed away
from pancreatic cancer not too long ago as well, and

(10:36):
it is devastating when you lose anyone in your life.
And Rush, for all of us, for me, but also
for all of you, is a family member. And I
know the other day when I when I came on
to let you know of his passing, I very much
felt that I was sharing that news with family. So

(10:58):
I hope you all know that I do fully understand
the pain that you're going through, and I do believe
that Rush is looking down and he's listening. And while
he's very, very very sad that we are suffering, I
believe that he is also happy because he knows that

(11:19):
we will carry on and all of us will find
a way to honor Rush and everything that he stood
for Catherine Limbo on the Rush Limbo Show. We will
have more of your calls to Katherine in just a
moment the Rush Limbo Show with Rush's beloved Katherine in

(11:42):
a very special appearance Mark in Richmond, Virginia, Your Life
with Katherine Limbo. First of all, Katherine, my wife and
I would like to express our deepest condolences. Thanks Rush,
Thank you. We loved him. We came from the bottom
of our hearts. My question is how did it, how

(12:06):
did Elton John evolve as the musical guest at your wedding? Well,
that's a great question. Mark. Both Russia and I loved
Elton John for many years, and ironically he happened to
be staying in the exact same hotel as we were

(12:26):
in Hawaii. We often went out to Hawaii to visit
my parents who live there. We would go most Christmases
every year for many years, and the year before we
got married, just prior, Elton John was staying in the
same hotel as we were. In fact, I believe he
was in the hotel suite in the floor above us,

(12:49):
and we were right below, and Russia and I were
on the deck and we said to each other, how
about we invite Elton John to perform at our wedding.
That certainly won't be at all newsworthy. Um, so that
is exactly what we did. We we thought at first
it was it was a bit funny, and perhaps it
whenn't happened. But I wrote a letter to Elton John

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and told him how much we loved and adored him
and respected his music and his career, and asked if
he might be available to headline at our wedding. And
one thing led to another, and sure enough he accepted
very graciously, and he was there and he was absolutely wonderful.

(13:34):
Rush and Um, Sir Elton John kept in touch as
we did, and they spoke outside of the wedding and
it was a wonderful friendship. I would say there were
actually quite a few similarities that might not come across
on the surface. That is. That is very interesting when

(13:56):
you when you put it like that, Catherine, because people
think that Elton it is just another conventional cookie cutter,
left wing rocker, but actually he's a much more sophisticated
person and he's very decent and true to friends. He
doesn't abandon them. Absolutely absolutely wonderful man. Yeah, and that's

(14:18):
do you have a favorite Elton John song? I know
the disc jockey side of Rush. He must he must
have played a ton of Elton in his disc jockey days.
But did you have a particular favorite. We did. We
had a lot of favorites that we were actually able
to put into the wedding. But I will say that
Rush's favorite song and mine as well, is your song

(14:40):
by Sir Elton John, and in fact, a little bit
of inside Baseball, as Rush would say. I played that
for Rush in his final days, and he was able
to listen to that song, and we remembered our wedding
in Elton John in particular. That's that's a beautiful that's

(15:00):
a beautiful thought. Actually, Laurie in Shreefold Louisiana, you're live
with Catherine. Hi, Laurie, Hello, Hello, So right to the point,
I want Catherine to know that not only have they
been in my prayers, to continue to be in my prayers.
I want to thank you so much for sharing Rush

(15:22):
with us. I know that that it's difficult at times,
but we are so very grateful. I always wanted to
call Russian's two way too nervous, as you can probably
tell I am right now. You don't sound nervous, as
he would say, you don't sound nervous. Okay, great, My
heart is racing like crazy. I knew I had to

(15:45):
call today. I had to call. If I couldn't talk
to Rush, I was gonna talk to his best girl.
So one thing most people hate, Mondays is my favorite
day of the week because I want to hear what
Rush has to say about whatever happened over the weekend.
It could have been something big, it could have been
something minimal. I needed to hear Rush's voice. I need

(16:05):
to say to know what was his take on the weekend.
And so every Monday morning for hus at eleven o'clock
where we hear Rush. And so every Monday turn on
at radio, listen to that bump of music. Here comes Rush.
I'm so excited. And the other thing that I wanted
to tell you about was that so the Rush Revere books,

(16:28):
they came out a little late for my children. So
when my oldest daughter got married, one of the first
things that I did have, I said that I bought
the Rush Revere and the Grave Pilgrims. It's been sitting
on the shelf for quite a while. My grandson is
about to be three, so I'm getting close. I'm getting
close to where I can read them to him. And

(16:49):
I'm so grateful. I never even realized how grateful I
am that when I read them, I've got Rush, thank you,
I've got history from the greatest history teacher of my life.
And I've got Rush, and I'm so thankful. And the day,
the terrible day last week, I went on the website. Please,

(17:09):
I just want the stuff to be there. I want
to be on fine, And of course everybody did the
same thing, so I want to know, well, the books
still be available for years to come, for us to
get the rest of books and be able to read
it for generations to come. Yes, first, Laurie, I'm very
sorry for your loss, because this is a loss for
all of us, and I can hear in your voice

(17:32):
that you're very upset, and we all are. But as
far as the books, yes, Russia and I don't have
biological children. However, years ago we wanted to be sure
that the younger generations learned about the true history of
our country. So we were in Hawaii again during one

(17:53):
of our Christmas breaks, sitting on the deck again as
we often were, and we just came up with the
idea of why don't we reach out to the younger
generation through a book series and At first, Rush was
a little bit concerned and nervous that he wouldn't know
how to do that because we don't have children. But
it became a project of his that he absolutely adored,

(18:18):
and he loved the idea of making complex American history
easy for the younger generation to understand. So we introduced
a horse named Liberty that could time travel, and it was.
It was a wonderful, a wonderful project of his and
of ours to write those books. So yes, they will

(18:38):
continue on for years, I hope, yes. Right, Rush loved
Liberty the talking horse. Some of us guest hosts got
a bit resentful that he loved he loved that that
dawn horse, more that he loved the guest house. But well,
we'll pick up that thought with Katherine Limbo in just
a moment. Welcome along to America's number one radio show

(19:03):
with a very special guest, the one and only Katherine Limbaugh.
Kevin in Brick, New Jersey. You're alive with Katherine. What's
your question? Hi ya? Katherine? Um, I just want to
say how much I love Rush and he was like
grandfather remain and I just want to thank you so
much for taking care of him. This past year. I

(19:23):
just wish God would let us listen to his radio
show that we all know he's he's hosting right now
in heaven. Yes, But my question really for you is
um just a curious one. Um, what was this daily routine? Like,
like what time you wake up when you go to studio?
Like would he stuff like that? Well? Rush was an

(19:44):
incredible creature of habit, as you can imagine being on
the radio for so many years. Time was very very
important to him. In fact, if I ever asked him
what time we should be ready to go somewhere, he
would say twelve seventeen as opposed to twelve fifty at
twelve o'clock. But his routine was often the exact same,

(20:05):
even throughout this cancer period of time this last year.
So what he would usually do is wake up in
the morning, probably about eight eight o'clock. He would take
a shower, he would feed his little cat, Alley, who
he adored and still would be feeding her if he could.
But he would head to the studio probably about eight thirty,

(20:27):
and he would do show prep in the morning prior
to the show coming on. But one thing about Rush
is that he never stopped working. He joked about that often,
but he really never stopped working from the moment that
he got home after the show. He may give himself
fifteen minutes or twenty minutes or maybe an hour of
rest time, but then he was right back at it.

(20:50):
He was always preparing, He was always reading his iPad,
paying attention to current events and so forth. So I
would say he was always working, but the exact exact
schedule started in the morning about eight o'clock and carried
through to the show end, onto the show itself. Yes,

(21:11):
he was amazing because when he used to talk about
show prep in a sense, he was never not show prepping.
He was taking something in from somewhere all the time,
absolutely all all the time, and he would pick up
things from TV, from TV shows, from mainstream news that

(21:33):
he would occasionally watch, from iPad, stories from tech blogs.
He was always always, always on in some capacity. It
was very difficult for him not to be engaged. He
was so brilliant that I think he actively always had
to be learning and preparing in some capacity. Yeah, it's interesting.

(21:55):
I had the feeling that that last question was tell
me what rushed so I could do it too. And
Mike Pence actually has a column. I think it's over
at Fox News today where he talks about when he
did radio in Indiana, and he describes himself as Rush
Limbaugh on decaf, which that was his slogan, which I

(22:19):
think would make me Rush Limbaugh on ambient or something.
I don't know whether we want to go too far
into that. You were you were talking about the Rush
Revere books, which which which I think it's it's generally understood,
came from you. You pushed Russia, done a couple of
non fiction books back in the early nineties and had

(22:42):
no particular desire to go back and do that again.
And you two co wrote that Rush Revere together. Was
that your little was that your special little project, that
a corner of Rush's professional life, that that you could
carve for yourself. I believe so we very much did

(23:04):
it together. But I've always loved American history and knew
that Rush was speaking to an audience that maybe didn't
quite know how to reach their children or to the
younger generations in their family, and we wanted to provide
a way for them to do so. And that's really
how that came about. I did do the majority of

(23:27):
the writing, but Rush was right there throughout the entire
process and every point of it we did in a
way together, and it was a huge project of both
of our lives. Well it was hugely successful. Here is
Rush himself talking about the Rush Rivee books a couple

(23:50):
of years ago. But I am holding here now in
my formerly nicotine stained fingers the book number two. Ladies
and gentlemen, we inside refer to his book two. Rush
Revere and the First Patriots is out. This is it,
This is the day it's available, and I just want

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to tell you your kids are going to love it.
If they liked book one, they are going to like
book two. Now as you know, well maybe you don't
know if you're a new listener. These books are part
of a mission. I had done a couple of books

(24:32):
in the early nineties, and since then people have been
urging me. Vince Flynn, good friend, the late Vince Flynn, Rush,
you got to do another one running into twenty twelve.
You got to do another, Vince. I've been there, done that.
Don't want it. If Catherine came to me said, you
know what, you are very concerned about education in America

(24:53):
and what's happening, what's not being taught what's being lied about.
Why don't you write the truth of American history for kids?
And that that turned to light on I mean that
that was exciting on a number of levels. A the purpose,
but be the challenge. Never written killed children's books before
and never thought about doing it. And so we were

(25:16):
off to the races. And the first book came out
last October. Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, the true
story of the literally the first people seeking freedom to
arrive in a new world. And that story has been
so bastardized and taught wrong and purposely mistold. That the

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mission is educating young people to the truth of this
country because it's a great country. The history of this
country is wonderful. The history of this country is the
blessing of God. The history of this country is something
to be extremely proud of. Being an American is something
to be proud of. And there are too many people

(26:03):
in the education system today who simply don't look at
America that way. They don't look at America as anything special.
In fact, some of them look at it as a
problem in the world. There are certainly people who do
not believe the founding of this country was as I
believe miraculous. I believe it was a miracle, and preserving

(26:27):
it for people who will come after us is important.
We were all born with golden opportunity and freedom, just
as our parents and grandparents had found. And they fought
and they sacrificed, and many of them lost everything to
preserve the basic foundations, the institutions, the traditions that define

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America and its greatness. We want to do the same.
We want to leave. I want to do the same.
I want to do what I can to see to
it that people who follow me have the same opportunities
that I had. And so that's the mission behind these books.
These books are written for ages ten to thirteen, but

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everybody will enjoy these books. Everybody that's read them does.
In fact, even adults who have read these books have
told us that they are learning things they didn't know
about the Pilgrims and things that happened either before they
set sail, while they were en route, and after they
got here. So here's the premise. Rush Revere is our

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logo icon for the best iced Tea in America. Two
if by dot com, which, by the way, is where
the Adventures of Rush Revere and everything related to the
books is found two if byte dot com. So Rush Revere,
even though we work him hard as a spokesman as

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an icon for two if by Tea is also a
substitute teacher, substitute history teacher. He has a horse named Liberty.
It's a special horse. The horse talks. The horse is
kind of a smart elec our young readers favorite character

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is the horse. Liberty also has the ability to time
travel anywhere that American History could take someone, including Holland,
including England. And rush Revere is able to take students
a few students with them on their time travels. And

(28:43):
rush Revere is just not a brilliant concept or what
folks I mean. This kind of a vehicle provides creative
opportunities galore. Rush Revere is able to take his smartphone
built in video camera with him as they time travel
back to American history, and they're able to videotape what
actually happened to bring it back to the classroom and

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without giving away that they time travel. The whole class
doesn't know this les to select few know it. And
it's the mixing of the secret of the time travel
with two or three four students involved everybody keeping it
a secret, and yet the truth of American history being
taught in a genuinely fun, truthful, informative way. Look at

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I love very much what I do here. I'm very
proud of what I do, proud of what I become,
and I'm really proud of being an American, proud of
what I believe. How to get it to him, Bingo,
Rush Revere and the First Patriot, second Book, and we
should say that that talking horse is such a genius
that he was able to get Rush Revere into Buckingham

(29:58):
Palace with George the Third Just mean, just I mean,
you know, if you give away any secrets because the
two of you are credited is co authors? Is Liberty
the talkie Horse your creation, Katherine, I'll say it's it's
both of our creation. But Rush definitely put life to liberty.

(30:19):
He's he's the one who had the voice behind behind Liberty.
But we wanted to make it fun, you know, that
was the one thing with American history. We knew it
was out there, perhaps not accurate, but we knew it
was out there in schools, but it wasn't told in
a fun way. So we put our heads together and said,
how can we come up with a way that will
be really fun for young readers to experience and really

(30:42):
understand American history as opposed to just memorizing for as tests.
So Liberty the Horse was the vehicle to do that,
and Liberty was very funny. Actually, I will say that
our old English sheepdog Abbey is probably the role model
for Liberty and maybe the inspiration. Well, it's a they're

(31:02):
incredible books. I did. I took my hat off at
at Rush River actually getting through the doors of Buckingham Palace.
That was a great momentum. It's Katherine Limbaugh on The
Rush Limbo Show Show, Very special edition, Your Calls straight Ahead,

(31:24):
the one and only Rush Limbo Show, nothing like it
in a century of broadcasting in the United States. The
Rush Limbo Show Today with special guest Katherine Limbo Gemma
in Greensboro, Georgia. Gemma, you're live with Katherine. Thank you
Mark First, my condolence is Katherine and in too you Mark.

(31:47):
In the passing of a friend, h my, I don't
have a question. I had a little tribute, if you will,
to compare Rush to the great Winston Churchill. While they
were separated by continents time, and spears of influence. Each
man had an uncanny ability to really see political figures

(32:07):
and their ideologies. Both were great orators, passion and patriotic
men who loved their countrymen with abandon their respective bodies
of their life's work was extraordinary, and we all are
the great beneficiaries of their passion, their loyalty and their love.

(32:29):
And I know Churchill told Parliament in his final speech,
never flinch, never worry, never despair. So I guess my
message is to all the Rush listeners and mourners, don't weary.
Better times ahead. God bless you all, and God bless Rush.

(32:49):
Thank you Gemma so much for that comparison. I should
say that that's one that I have said about Rush
many many times privately. It's known within our family. In fact,
we have a painting of Winston Churchill in Russia's library
and I would often say to him that he is

(33:11):
America's Winston Churchill. And most recently in the harder days,
he reminded me greatly of Winston Churchill during his trying times.
And I am so glad that you said that for
everyone to hear, because the comparison is very, very very accurate.

(33:32):
And yes, also in terms of how we go forward,
I think that Rush would always be asked, is it
time to panic? And the truth is it's not time
to panic. There will be no other Rush Limbaugh ever.
We all know that. But I hope that all of
us will find it within ourselves to carry on his message,

(33:56):
his legacy, and everything that he believed in some way
in our own lives. Let's go quickly to Gracie in
New York. Gracie, what's your question for Katherine? I have
a comment, Captaine, thank you so much for doing this
for his listeners. We need this time together. I've listened

(34:20):
to my Rush since the first week in July nineteen
eighty eight. I told my husband that I had accidentally
turned on the car radio and I heard the most beautiful,
intelligent voice which articulated what I believe. You know, back then,
we conservatives, so we were the dummies. Rush said that
it would take three to six weeks to understand him,

(34:41):
but I was hooked by the end of the first week. Catherine.
If someone said something critical about my Rush, I always
asked them, listen, do you listen to him? And most
of the time they say no, Well, I said, well,
at least listened to its top of the hour monologue.
He was our college professor who explained issues clearly and concisely. Katherine,

(35:04):
thank you again for doing this for us. God bless
you and keep you safe. I love Rush so much
and believe it in that I got condolence calls because
they know how much I love him. No, I'll keep
praying for your cat and thank you, God bless you
and Gracie. He is your Rush, and he is all
of our Rush, and forever will be. And I know

(35:27):
we will have heavy hearts for quite a long time.
But as far as everyone who criticized or write things
about him that are not accurate or not true, hopefully
all of us and his Rush Army will be able
to counter that and prove how incredibly brilliant and wonderful
and unique he was and always will be. Yes, that's right, Catherine,

(35:52):
the Rush Army, and that is one mighty awesome, powerful army.
This is the Russian and Bosha with special guest Katherine Limbaugh.
Katherine's going to stay over into the next hour, so
du call one eight hundred two eight two two eight
eight two. The Rush Limbaugh Show across the United States

(36:14):
now in its thirty third year, and we aren't going anywhere.
We will be in this time slot tomorrow and through
all the days ahead. We are blessed today with a
very special guest, the love of Rush's life, Katherine Limbaugh.

(36:34):
And Katherine will be back with us in the next hour.
This is a special edition of the Rush Limbo Show
with a very special guest, Rush's beloved Katherine. As Katherine
told us in the first hour, because of COVID, you

(36:55):
can't have a big memorial service with thousands of people.
So Katherine is planning a virtual memorial service, as she
told us, and we'll keep you up to date as
the various dates and plans and all the details of
that emerged. Katherine has very kindly agreed to stay on

(37:19):
and take a few more of your calls. So let's
not waste any time. Let's go to John in Saint Louis, Missouri,
which is really Russia's neck of the woods. John, you're
live with Katherine Limbo. Yea out there. In my condolences.
I really appreciate what you and your husband did, especially

(37:40):
for us. We retired military. I'm a retired military doctor
and from as you heard from Russia's home state of Missouri. Yeah,
and I want to think and as salute out to
both of you for the support of our active duty
military and our retirees as well of the veterans who

(38:01):
had to stand in line for help for so many years.
Thank you very much, John for your service. My father
went to the Naval Academy, so we are big Navy
fans and adore the military. Russian I from the moment
we met, talked extensively about the military and how much
it impacted both of us throughout our lives. And we

(38:23):
adore our United States military and know the sacrifice that
they make and you make and their families make on
our behalf. So we will always continue to support the
military through our foundation and other endeavors that we will
do going forward. But yes, it was a very big
passion of ours, you know, the carry on John might

(38:49):
salute to both of you. Thank you, Mark for always
supporting us. Yeah, thanks, thanks for freedom. Thank thank you John.
I just wanted to pick up on John's point there
because people may not not know this, Catherine, but it
wasn't just military charities or public fundraising operations or when

(39:11):
you did the Betsy Ross t shirts and things like that.
There's there's all kinds of odd people who are just
individuals whose plight happened to be brought to Rush's attention,
and he did things for them without any publicity, without
anybody knowing about it. Absolutely. I think that's one thing
about Rush that it isn't as widely known because he

(39:33):
didn't do things for the reason of fame or recognition
or trying to get kudos anywhere. He did it because
he truly cared. And I can tell you countless numbers
of people words directly helped by his generosity over the years.
We did things in a small scale way or in
a more grand public way, such as the stand Up

(39:56):
for Betsy Ross campaign. But yes, Rush never ever forgot
anyone along the way who helped him reach his pinnacle
of success. He heard stories of individuals that were going
through perhaps cancer or other things in their lives, and
he found a way to help them directly. And that's
something that was not really highly told over the years,

(40:19):
or really publicized or written about, but it certainly should
be part of his legacy. He's one of the most
generous people and celebrities that you could ever find. You know,
I've had so many stories just in the last few days.
People have bombarded me with them that I hope I'll
be forgiven if I get some of the details wrong.

(40:41):
But one of them was the father of somebody shipped
out to Afghanistan. He's over there in some miserable barracks
and Hellman Province where you can't step outside without everybody
trying to blow you up. It's not the greatest place
in the world to be. And somehow the dad got notice,

(41:02):
got notice of his son's shipment over to Rush, and
that kid out there in Hellman Province got all these
gifts sent directly from Rush and was emailing directly from
Rush in the hell of Hellman Province in Afghanistan. That nobody,

(41:22):
As I said, that's not a public thing. It's not
a public campaign. Rush used to make jokes about all
the people with all their virtue signaling ribbons on their
breast when they walk out on an award. So this
was just something Rush did privately that nobody knew about, absolutely,
and that was him to the core. I will say

(41:44):
that he donated millions and millions and millions of dollars
over the years and did other things beyond just financial
to help people in various ways, but that was never
publicized particularly you'd hear about things now again, but not
in the way that perhaps other celebrities received the recognition,

(42:05):
and Rush really didn't do it for that reason. But yes,
there were many many individuals that he would personally call
and talk to about what they were going through to
either inspire them in a way that he could financially
or or just be there and support them by talking
to them on the phone. And yes, that's there's countless

(42:25):
examples of that over the years. Well, that was a
great question from John, because there is certainly a special
connection between Rush and the military. And one thing I
should say Mark as well, is that Russia and I
establish a foundation not too long ago, and we will
continue to support the military, our police, our first responders.

(42:47):
Those were all very, very very important to Russian We
will be continuing to support all of those individuals in
any way that we can. Well, that's terrific news, um, John,
John rightly identified that special connection with the military and
with law enforcement and they I think you may find

(43:08):
this next question touches on matters rather closer to home, though.
Katherine Beth from Alabaster, Alabama. You are live with Katherine Limball.
What's your what's your question for Catherine? Thank you? Catherine. First,
someone into thank you for doing the show today. It
means so much to all of this poto heads and

(43:31):
maybe you can make this a monthly feature. Well, I
don't I don't know. I'm definitely not America's anchor man,
but I will fill in now and again it shows
a different start of orsh that. You know, he was
very private and we appreciated that, but um, it's kind
of neat to hear you and your your insight. Um,

(43:55):
I'm very nervous and I'm going to try not to cry,
so I'm going to try to keep this fight. But
I've been with RUSSA since day one, and my oldest
son was born on his two year anniversary, so it's
easy for me to know how many years RUSSA has
been on. And I also wanted to thank you for
your courage last dnestay on coming on the show to

(44:16):
tell us yourself made it so much easier to bear.
In some way, it was special to hear that hear
it the bad news that way instead of just hear
it in on the news or somebody that didn't love
Rush the way you do. But I have a girl question,

(44:36):
my girl questions. I have more than these questions that
I decided on this and that's what I told both,
and we would like to hear the medal of my
freedom story one day. But my girl questions are what
was your first date like? And what was maybe your
most need date? And maybe gifts too if you want
to expand on that. Sure, absolutely well this question. I

(45:00):
probably am the right person to ask because I'm not
sure if rush would remember per se, So this is
actually a great one for me in terms of a
girl question. But first of all, I again I'm sorry
for your losses as a loss for all of us,
and we are we are all grieving, and I'm very
happy to be able to be here with you and

(45:20):
share directly with you, as I know Rushwood would want.
But in terms of our first dates, so I know
I told you earlier that he was on the C
List when we first met, and we were friends and
he quickly became an a lister in my book, and
so he invited me to dinner as just a friend,
and we went to dinner here on Palm Beach at

(45:42):
a restaurant, a favorite restaurant of his, and he drove
separately from from myself. However, we met in the restaurant,
and he was such such a gentleman. He from the
moment that we first sat down, he did everything that
you would expect a total gentleman to do. He was
very kind, he was so well spoken. Obviously, he had

(46:04):
a lot to talk about, and he was very intriguing
from the first moment we met. However, we were just friends.
He would laugh at this story, but we were buddies.
He called it the buddy rules. We were buddies for
a period of time even after that date, and it
just flourished from from there and we became more than that.

(46:26):
And in terms of you asked about unique gifts, he
really gave me many. As a bit of a joke,
he loved tech and he always tried to get me
interested in tech. So I believe he always gave me
an iPhone or something related to tech, which wasn't particularly romantic,

(46:47):
but he did. He did supplement that as well with
very romantic gifts. And one of our favorite trips was
we went to Monaco for one of our anniversaries, and
that was something that Rush wanted to do and I
wanted to do. And I would say that was one
of the most special trips that we had because he
was able to be somewhat normal and not as well

(47:11):
recognized there. So we went out to dinner together and
he didn't have to hide as much as he would here,
and it was wonderful. So I would say that was
probably one of our most unique trips and gifts that
heat me. Why why did he want to go to
Monaco in particular cafe? I'm not sure. It was just

(47:35):
one that was on his bucket list and he had
been many places in Europe, and I grew up in Europe,
partly in London and other places, and he just he
always had Monico on his mind. Um, possibly he wanted
to dress up like James Bond and look look wonderful
in attacks. I'm not sure. But did you did you
go to the casine? Now? We did? We did. We did,

(47:57):
We dressed up, we did the whole thing. We he
wore a tucks, I wore a very nice dress and
we went to the casino and all of it. It
was wonderful. Oh, okay, it's great. We stayed right there
in the square in Monaco. So our patio was was
overlooking the casino itself. It was beautiful. Yeah, there's there's

(48:18):
not a there's not a lot of it. It's just
a couple of square miles. Great, it's it's like fun too.
And as you said, for Rush, it's it's like a
place he can go and he's not going to be
pestered by people every five every five foot or so
as he walked through the street. Absolutely, it took a while.
He wasn't He was noticed, but just not as instantly. Yeah,

(48:42):
that's true, that's true. It's pretty much anywhere on the
on the planet for that. This is a special edition
of The Rush Limbo Show with Catherine Limbau taking your
calls on one eight hundred two eight two eight eight
two and will have more straight ahead The Rush Limbo
Show with special game Catherine Limbaugh gil in Atlanta, Georgia.

(49:05):
You're next with Katherine. What's on your mind? Hi, Catherine,
And thank you so much, Catherine forgiving us the opportunity
to speak with you today. I don't know, it takes
a lot of courage. Thank you, And I have a comment. Really,
Rush's voice will echo through the ages, Katherine and the
voice is not only of all the radio and other

(49:27):
media voices that we hear, but it will also resonate
in the tens of millions of voices that were part
of the Rush army. It's our challenge now to continue
the fight, never panic, never give up, and I have
a battle cry, says Rush Strong. We all must continue

(49:48):
to fight as I know Rush would want. And once again,
thank you so much for being there today. Well, thank you,
And you're absolutely right. I think the best gift that
he can possibly give to Rush as he looks down
on us from heaven is to continue what he stood
for in the best possible way and through all of you,

(50:10):
through Russia's army. I know we can do that in
various ways. You're one hundred percent right. That's the best
thing we can do is not panic, not give up,
and continue on his mission in his honor. Let's go
to Cindy in winter Haven, Florida. Cindy, your life with Catherine. Hi, Catherine.

(50:34):
I'm so happy to hear from you or talk to you.
Rush was like a dad to me. He was the
first person I listened to in nineteen eighty eight when
I was a junior in high school and I was like, Oh,
my gosh, he sounds just like my dad is talking
to me. And when my dad has a way, I
just listen to him every day and was just so

(50:55):
thrilled because it was like I was still hearing my dad.
So I missed him. And we love you and we
pray for you every day. Thank you. My question is
I'm a homeschool mom, have been homeschooled my four kids,
and I now homeschool my grandkids and they're five and eight,
and we're working through the Rush review books, and you've
been using your unit studies online and are you going

(51:18):
to expand on them and will you expand your series
at all? Because that would be amazing to be able
to continue that with my grandchildren as they grow up.
Oh thank you so much. Cindia really really appreciate it.
Getting right to the books themselves. We do hope to
continue the series and expand on them as Rush would like.

(51:42):
We are also looking at possibly doing a cartoon that
specifically focuses on fun American history and true, accurate American history.
So there are some things in the works we do
want to continue that project on since that was very
much a passion of Russia's I don't know exactly when

(52:03):
we will be able to, but we certainly hope to
in the months and years ahead. Was that part of
the original plan for the series, Catherine, that you'd you'd
start off in colonial revolutionary times, and then Rush for
Revere would be in the Civil War, and then in
World War two and all just you'd basically be jumping

(52:26):
around the entirety of American history. Yes, it was. We
stopped at the Presidency, but we're going to continue on,
we hope. But that that was the original plan, that
we would continue on in history from the early days
of our founding on straightforward. So we have plenty of
topics to cover in plenty of books to write at

(52:46):
the right time. Well, that's very good news, and I
hope you, I hope you will keep doing that because
it's a it's a wonderfully original angle. It's a very
clever angle on history, because you've got a contemporary perspective
on ancient times, because because you've got a teacher and

(53:08):
his pupils actually in the events they're studying, it's a
very clever concept. Well, thank you, that's exactly what we wanted.
We wanted the young readers or any readers to be
able to go right to the scene of the action
instead of just hearing about it. We hope that they
could time travel back to whatever was happening at that
period of time and really learn about it by seeing

(53:29):
it and witnessing it and even talking to some of
the patriots of that time. So some of the young
school children that traveled as part of Rush Revere's crew,
they would talk to George Washington, or they would talk
to others and be able to experience history firsthand in
a fun way. Now you'll build on the cover of
those books, as Catherine Adams limboys that because you're a great, great,

(53:54):
great whatever of John Adams and those guys. Yes, they're
great John Adams. I should you know. Yes, actually through
my mother's side of the family, we do. I'm originally
from New England and my mother's side of the families
is from New England. And yes, it leaps back to

(54:16):
John Adams. Wow, that's that's that's amazing because actually Rush
was serious about history and he uh and he thought
that it lived and it wasn't the past. It actually
lived and breathed and taught us lessons right now, absolutely
in addition to Winston Churchill. I often said that Rush

(54:37):
was a modern day Founding Father, and I think he
was in many respects that I could compare him to
many of the Founding fathers. But but yes, he adored history,
is did I. So I hope that we certainly will
continue writing the books and doing cartoons and other things. Well,
I hope you. I hope you do too. One of

(54:57):
the loveliest things on this show that few years has
been when Rush has had a ten year old or
a twelve year old on the phone with him talking
about how much they love those books. That was a
very That was a wonderful and completely unexpected from Rush
and in a sense a gift to the nation by

(55:18):
a rush from from you. A wonderful thing. Katherine Limbaugh
is with us on a very special edition of The
Rush Limball Show. The Rush Limball Show isn't going anywhere.
We are right here as we have been for over
thirty two years, lots more still to come. Mark Stein here,

(55:40):
but with a very special guest, Katherine Limbaugh. As you know,
about fifteen minutes ago, it was suggested by one of
our callers that Katherine should make this a regular gig.
And an amazing number. I've just been looking at Twitter,
an amazing number people, and by emails people seem to

(56:02):
be seconding that. So we may have to have Johnny
Donovan do the America's Anchor Woman or America's Anchor Lady
idents for Katherine. Let us go to carry in Wolf City, Texas.
Carry your Live with Katherine. Hi, Katherine Hymark. I just
wanted to offer my condolences. I know I've known Rushfort

(56:25):
since I was ten years old, so I've known him
a whole life, and but I feel his loss so deeply,
and I was just wondering if there was a particular
charity that I could make a contribution to or a
donation too, in his honor. I know it wouldn't even
do justice to the way that I feel about him,
but I just feel like I need to do something.

(56:48):
Thank you so much, Carrie. To hear the emotion in
your voice really touches my heart because I know that
so many of you grew up listening to Rush. He's
been in your home, in your cars, and I know
he's very much a part of your lives and your family.
So it really touches me deeply that we can all
be together and I can hear you directly. But in

(57:11):
terms of a charity and a donation in particular, we
didn't set something up, mainly because I know that Rush
always was so thankful to his audience over the years
and didn't want to do anything to ask for any more.
So I thought it would be best not to set
up a specific charity. But if you would like to donate,

(57:34):
I would say the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation is
one that we have supported for many years and love
and they would be very honored to have that donation.
I we'll make sure and do that. Then, I just
thank you, really mean, go out to me, Thank you

(57:54):
very much. I know that they are starting a specific
scholarship in Russia's name, so I think that would be
wonderful and kind of you. Well, thank you for taking
my call. Thank you. Tell us a bit about this
foundation that you and Rush started, Kathy. Yes, we started
some years ago, and it primarily is to support younger

(58:19):
people through scholarships, and particularly people who are facing hardships
or obstacles in their life. We wanted to inspire them
by reviewing their entries and providing scholarships so that they
could continue their education. That's one focus. And then we
also have been helping families of police and law enforcement specifically,

(58:43):
and also families who are enduring illnesses or hardships such
as cancer in their life, and we plan to continue
to do so. And that's actually part of your background,
isn't it, Because as I mentioned at the top of
the show, you with the Gary Player Foundation and and

(59:03):
he started up he's the greatest h South African golf
of all time, and he started a foundation that is
primarily for to benefit children. Yes, I'm throughout my life
I've been involved with with charity in some capacity. My
mother was a diplomat, my father was He went to

(59:27):
the Naval Academy and was in business. So we lived
overseas the majority of my life, and in those years
we would do things with the local communities and that
started my passion for for charity and helping others. And
and now we continue to do so in various in
various ways. But I absolutely see our foundation continuing and

(59:52):
helping families and organizations that we that we love. Okay,
that's that's that's great news. The other thing I mentioned
the at the top of the show was the story
behind how you met and his rush recalling that and
also what he calls the happiest weekend of his life.

(01:00:12):
So everybody has been saying, what are you gonna say
about your wedding on the radio, And I really don't know.
I'm gonna gonna figure out what to say when the
microphone goes on. You know, I never planned things. We
do things improv here. This was This was a private
affair for Katherine and me and four hundred of our
friends and associates. And I have to tell you, I

(01:00:35):
have people of telling me the people were at the
wedding on Saturday night, they have never seen me happier.
While I was waiting at the altar for Catherine, and
it took her forever, which I didn't get. She took
one step at a time, one step, pause, one step,
and I'm saying, come on, come on, and I'm hopping

(01:00:56):
up and down up there at the altar, and everybody says,
you have never looked happier, rights nerdily, You've never looked happier,
never looked more radiant. This was such a memorable affair.
Nobody who was there will ever forget this. If I,
if I, if I say so myself I'm getting a

(01:01:17):
bunch of echoes now from members of the highly overrated
staff who were invited and uh and who were there.
But we have not a lot of people, So where's
the pictures? The same thing we did not allow cameras.
We allowed no cameras in some no personal cameras, no
personal video phones. The only the only pictures there are

(01:01:38):
are those taken by the four or five professionals that
we hired to run around at the luau that we
did on Friday night prior to the wedding on Saturday,
and then during the wedding of the reception, dinner and
the after dinner concert, and we haven't seen the pictures yet. Now, folks,
I have to have a lot of you want to
know about Catherine. Why didn't you say anything about this? Again?

(01:02:01):
You know, I've I've been on the radio here for
twenty plus years and a lot of what I've done
in my private life has been lived in public. And
I just decided no more. We want to try to
be as normal as we can. Now. We know that
we're not going to be able to live anonymously, but
we can forestall some media attention by not seeking it.

(01:02:24):
And we didn't in this case. But I have known
Catherine for four years six years. I met Catherine when
she was running the foundation for Gary Player, and she
part of the job was to put together celebrity golf
tournaments for Gary Player at various places, and one of
them was up at Wayne Heisinger's course in Palm City

(01:02:44):
at the Floridian, And for the first three years I
went up there, I've never met Catherine. It was always
email invitations, and I came to find out that she
didn't even want to invite me, that it took a
friend of her. You got to get rush Limball, she said,
Rush Limbaugh. And she only knew of me as I
was portrayed in public. So the first time I actually

(01:03:05):
saw Catherine was at one of these golf tournaments and
all the celebrities were sitting on white folding chairs near
the sand trap were Sevy Bias Teros was putting on
a sand trap demonstration and botching it. Sevy Bias Darrows
could not get out of a sand trap to save
his life. It looked like me and We're all kind
of looking at each other. So I'm sitting next to

(01:03:26):
Patrick Duffy of Dallas and I'm the last one on
the right side of the row, and I hear it,
I feel a tap on my right shoulder. Well, when
that happens, you look to the right. When I looked
to the right, there was nobody there. So I looked
to my left. Taps Hi, I'm Katherine. So I looked
to my left finally, and there she is in white
slack's long flowing blonde here. And I saw her from

(01:03:48):
the rear first, and she's congratulating everybody else in line,
saying hi to everybody. And it one thing led to another.
She ended working for the National Football League, liaising with
the local host committees for Super Bowls every year, and
it just built over time over six years. And folks,

(01:04:08):
I know many of you have followed my life since
we got to know each other. And I think, well, no,
I know I got it right. Like Winston Churchill said,
never never, never give up. If you're out there thinking
all this kind of happiness is going to elude you,
forget it. It will if it'll even slap you upside

(01:04:31):
the face, or you'll find it one way or the other.
But I hope that you find as much happiness as
I have. I would love to tell you some of
the details about the wedding, but I don't. I wouldn't
know where to start, and I wouldn't know where to stop.
We wanted to put on a grand two day party

(01:04:52):
in our hometown here for our friends and associates, and
we wanted to do this and just blow it up,
and we wanted everybody to have the best time they've
ever had. Catherine planned the entire thing, every detail. I mean,
you've heard that Elton John performed at at the wedding.

(01:05:13):
This is all true, and I'll tell you about that
in just a seconds. It's you know, it is very instructive.
It is very instructive to find out that all of
these supposed tolerant, loving, open minded people on the left
have given him such a grief for performing at our wedding.
He has really caught hell for this. He doesn't care.

(01:05:37):
We've been in contact with him, but he doesn't he
doesn't care. He's uh. It was. It was amazing what
he did, the performance that he put on for us.
It was seventy five minutes. It was it was specifically
tailored to our circumstances. This whole weekend was the product
of months of preparation and the execution was just amazing.

(01:06:01):
And I've had people come up to me who guests there,
the former producers for major networks, movie theater studios and
so forth. I've never seen a production like this. There
has never been a wedding that we have been to,
and there never will be anytime anybody goes to a

(01:06:21):
wedding from now on. That was that yours rush. They
are going to never forget yours, and it was it
was memorable. Well, we want we wanted. We wanted to
make everybody a part of it. We wanted everybody to
feel they were there because we love them. Everybody there
was there for a reason because they mean something. Even

(01:06:43):
used nerdily. Everybody there because they meant something special to us.
And I really, I'm not trying to ladle this on
to make you feel like, oh what did I miss?
I'm trying to share it with you after the fact.
We did not want any of this in advance. We
didn't want any prying eyes. We did we just didn't

(01:07:04):
want a circus atmosphere, which is the only reason why, uh,
there was no advanced notice of this from me. I've
got confidence in Catherine and anything she says she's going
to do is going to happen. I'm striving to have
her look at me that way now that anything I
say anyway, quick time out, we'll be back. I'll tell
her about the ceremony and we'll move on. I'll tell

(01:07:28):
you how the Elton John thing came about. Since everybody
is people who weren't there are commenting on why he
did it. It's just it's been. It's been amazing to
see and all the criticism he's gotten from his side
of the of the aisle. When we just elected a
president who was all about unity. We were told we're

(01:07:48):
supposed to join together postpartisanship. Well, here was some giant,
big time unity on the evening of Saturday, June fifth.
And who the hell's mad at it? The left? Yeah,
it was a party, but it was a meaningful wedding.
It was. It was a heartfelt ceremony and so forth,
and everybody involved had a wonderful time. You had. These
people have to run around and try to get a

(01:08:10):
great Elton John for deigning to do this. It's very instructive, folks,
very instructive about the left and who they really are
and what they're all about. I've always said that life
when you when you look back on your life, no
matter what you have accumulated, and no matter what you

(01:08:31):
have acquired and achieved, life is about people and friends
and the relationships you have with the people you love.
That's what life is all about. And when you look back,
the nostalgic moments, the warm moments of your life, always
will be about that, Always be about relationships that you

(01:08:52):
have with people that you love. Always will be about
events that you have experienced with people that you love.
And so I would not I would be remiss if
I if I didn't thank everybody who who showed up
because it made it made our weekend. For I love
the way Rush deployees Winston Churchill's words to buck up

(01:09:17):
his Majesty's dominions in the depths of war, to encourage
you to go out and do what he did and
find the great love of your life. Catherine will take
more of your calls straight ahead the Rush Limbo Show
with special guest Catherine Limbo. Let's go to Zoe in Champagne, Illinois. Zoe,

(01:09:39):
what's your question for Catherine? Catherine? I just want to
thank you for allowing your listeners to grieve along with
you and to share in that and to acknowledge as
you have, what we're going through and how hard it is.
And I not everyone would do that, and I just
want to thank you for that graciousness. Is amazing and

(01:10:01):
we do want more of the Catherine Show. And I
just wanted to say really quickly, how I came to
I was with Rush from the very beginning, well almost.
My mother was really in the beginning. And I was
in the car with her one day in the very beginning,
and she said, oh, you should listen to him. You

(01:10:22):
would really like him. And all I heard was he
was kind of loud and it wasn't the politics or anything,
and I said, oh, I don't think so. Well, within
about two days, I was completely on board because I
took the time to listen to him, and I found
out he was just a loveable little fuzz ball. That's

(01:10:43):
one exactly right. He was incredibly charming. He hooked you
in a couple of days, that's exactly right. And I
never never looked back, and I just I just want
to thank you, and it's really helping me. I knew
this day was going to come, it was going to
be hard, but I didn't. I don't think I really
realize the grief that I would feel. And to know

(01:11:04):
that the show is going to go on is such
a comfort to some of us because many of us
have said, what are we going to do now, and
knowing it'll still be there, it's helping me to hang on.
Thank you so much, Katherine, You're welcome. Thank you a
little bit too. I knew you were very special to
come into rush of life as you did, and now

(01:11:25):
I know more about you. I'm so grateful for that too. Well.
Thank you so much. I really appreciate it, and I'm
so happy to be here with you. I think it
helps us both, so thank you very much. Thank you
very much, Zoe, and thank you Catherine for spending these
last two hours with us. As I said, I don't

(01:11:47):
think it can be easy when you marry a guy
who has a close immediate family of tens of millions
of people and you and in the end you are
a grieving wife like like any other grieving wife, except
you have to share it with all these other people,
and that's not the easiest thing to do. And you've

(01:12:08):
been incredibly kind to give us your time today. Thank
you very much. I really appreciate it. Again, I'm so
sorry for everyone's loss and including mine. Well, I took
note of that song you mentioned that you and Rush
particularly liked, and we're going to get to that before
today's show is out. Catherine Limbaugh, thank you very much.

(01:12:32):
We'll be back in just a moment. Thank you so
much to Catherine Limbaugh for spending the last two hours
with us on the Rush Limbaugh Show. For our final hour,
we will hear how do they say it? Not better half?
That's the missus, isn't it. They're not so bad a half.
We are going to hear Rush his voice, a magnificent

(01:12:55):
radio voice, a truly great radio voice, not just because
of the vote called timber, because of everything he said
as well. And so we're going to get in tons
of Rush in the last hour, and we will also
have a little bit of a farewell to Catherine from
me as well. That's coming up on the one and

(01:13:16):
only Rush Limbo Show. As you well know, Rush always said,
you know, folks, this isn't about me, And by now
he's probably up there yelling, hey, guys, enough about me.
The stick to the issues crowd is going nuts out there. Well,
we will get back to the issues soon enough, because

(01:13:38):
the Limbo Institute for Advance Conservative Studies, where I have
been a somewhat somewhat unimpressive foreign exchange student for many,
many years now, I should have completed this degree something
like twelve years ago. The Limbo Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies,
it's not like your local grade school. We never close

(01:14:01):
and we are never shut down, not by the Chai
Coom nineteen or by anything else. The Rush Limbo Show
isn't going anywhere, and Rush's irreplaceable voice will continue to
dominate the airwaves. But we have been privileged to share
some time with Catherine for these last two hours and

(01:14:24):
learn a little about Rush off the air when he
was away from the Golden EIB microphone. And you know,
Katherine was telling us that when Elton john sang at
their wedding, that both of them had a favorite song
by Elton. And it doesn't matter if you're the most

(01:14:47):
famous guy in America as Rush was. When you're in love,
you're just a courting couple like any other courting couple,
and you have your favorite song, whether it's the way
you look tonight or it had to be you or whatever.
It is and for Rush and Katherine. There was a
particular song by Elton that they loved to introduce it.

(01:15:09):
He is Rush, Katherine, his best wife ever, My lovely wife, Katherine, Katherine,
my lovely and beautiful wife, Katherine. Katherine looked radiant, just beautiful.
Just got another message from Katherine which says, babe, because
she heard me talking about the note from the watch.

(01:15:30):
So now I'm going to reply to it. Very cool
in it, sweetie. She has led a fascinating life, has
grown up all over her parents, where her mother was
a State Department diplomat and her father was a Naval
Academy grad. She speaks a number of languages, it has
been in number of places, and is a fascinating person. Katherine.

(01:15:52):
So I want you to do a book for kids
and telling the truth about American history. The only place
I really want to be during all of this, aside
from the side of my lovely wife, Catherine, is in
the radio studio. The beautiful and gorgeous and just wonderful Catherine, Catherine,
the beautiful, incomparable Catherine, Catherine, the lovely and gracious, the

(01:16:13):
most beautiful. She's just been a gigantic pillar of strength
by virtue of her countenance and her being optimistic, happy, bouncy.
I have been defended. I've been made to look better
than I am. My lovely wife Catherine has done so
much in that regard. I could not be doing this

(01:16:36):
without Catherine. I have never experienced anybody so selfless. I
marvel at her selflessness. I don't know how she does it, Catherine,
and I well, I know it's true for her too.
I've never been happier. It's a little that funny, this

(01:17:03):
feeling inside, not on those who can't. He's a lay
high don't have much money, but boil fida, I buy
big housewear. We both could leave if I was a sculptor,

(01:17:34):
but then again, no, or a man who makes potions
and travel and show why. No, it's not much, but
it's the best I can't do. My gift is my
song game. This one's for you, and you can tell

(01:18:04):
everybody this is a song and maybe quite simple. But
now that is done. I whope, do I hope? Do
mind that I put down the words I wonderful life.

(01:18:30):
While you're in the world. I sat on the roof
GI top the masks, swell you how the verses where

(01:18:54):
they've got to be quite cross, but the sun's been quiet.
I cry while I wrote the song. It's for people
like you that keep it turned on. So excuse me,

(01:19:16):
fucking but these things I do to see I forgotten.
If they're green, call they're blue. Anyway, the thing is
what I really need. Yours are the sweetest guys of

(01:19:41):
help scene. And you can tell everybody this is the
song and maybe quite simple now that is done. I
hope your donna, your dad put down the word howdful

(01:20:12):
life while you're in the world. I hope your donna,
I hope the dumbad but down a word howful life

(01:20:33):
while you're in the world. That is fair. Catherine and
Rush with all our love their favorite Elton John song.

(01:20:54):
I hope you don't mind that I put down in
words how wonderful life is while you're in the world
and beyond the world, and for all eternity too. I
don't know Bernie Taupin, who wrote that song with Elton
too well, but I know Tim Rice, who's been a

(01:21:15):
dear friend of mine for years and wrote the lyrics
with Elton. The songs for the Lion King, Can You
Feel the Love Tonight and Hakuna Matata and all those
and Elton always wants the lyric first. He always wants
the words first, which lyricists hate to do because it
can all come out tumpty tumpty, tumty tumty. And what

(01:21:36):
happened in that partnership, both with Tim and Elton and
with Bernie and Elton is what you just heard there.
That guy sat down, wrote some words on paper, and
then Elton set them magically in ways that that lyric
writer would never have expected. And that is the favorite

(01:21:57):
song from the Elton and Bernie song Book performed at
the wedding for Rush and Katherine, and we played it
again there, not just not just for Catherine because she
was talking about it earlier, but also for Rush because
the disc jockey in him survived, as we heard on
Friday Show, the disc jockey in him and the disc

(01:22:20):
jockey's approach to doing radio survived in him all through
the years. And that's one reason why he was a
better talk guy than anything than anyone else. Apart from that,
as I said, the Rush Limball Show isn't going anywhere.
The excellence in broadcasting network isn't going anywhere, and Rush's
voice isn't going anywhere, So you need not have any

(01:22:45):
fear of that. This is mark stein In for Rush.
That's all It's ever been mark stein In for Rush
through all these years. It's been the greatest privilege of
my life in these United States to guest host for Rush,
because this is surely one of the jobs that Americans

(01:23:06):
will do. And Rush has been very indulgent of a
of an efite foreigner in letting him anchor this seat.
We are going to hear lots from Rush in the
remaining part of today's show. Do stick with us the
Russia Limbo Show on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network. You know,

(01:23:32):
during this last year, as you know if you read
his editorials in the Limball Letter, Rush in a certain
sense grew more profound about the things he talked about,
or grew That's not strictly true, he grew more openly profound.
Rush was a man of faith, but he wore his

(01:23:53):
faith lightly. He wasn't a public god botherer, as they
say in the Anglican communion where I happen to be
situated mainly tribalie. But Rush wore his faith lightly. However, However,

(01:24:15):
once in a while he did explicitly address the question
of God and truth in a very profound way. Mica
and Milwaukee. Thank you for calling, Mica. How are you.
I'm doing well, Rush, And as a young Conservative, I
am deeply concerned with the heart and soul of America
and Americans as I see all that's going on and

(01:24:37):
the issues being brought up. I'm concerned that truth needs
to be known and be told. And that's the only
way this generation, in the next generation is going to
survive is by knowing the truth. I mean, we've outlawed God.
We have taken all these things out of our culture
and made unimportant things important. And truth needs be known.

(01:24:57):
We need to see this next generation know that truth.
And as a bus driver also I interact with the
young people and I'm concerned. There's obviously bright ones out there,
but I see that they aren't being taught like they should,
and they aren't being taught about God. That concerns me.
It's not just they're not being taught about it. I
mean God is being systematically eliminated now to people who

(01:25:20):
might not everybody believes in the same God. There are
a lot of religions that believe in a God. The
Left actually does not believe in a God, much like
you and I would. There. God can be the environment,
or it can be a concept like gaia or whatever.

(01:25:41):
But the reason for no God on the left is
with no God, there's no morality and there's no right
or wrong, and anybody else gets to proclaim. And that's
the great source for me of societal dysfunction. It may
sound silly, but you know the one of the primary

(01:26:02):
fuel for religion is eternal life, that there's more to
this than just this. There's more to all of this
than there's more to this than earth, and nobody will
ever have any proof for it. It's faith trust in God.
Everybody comes up with their own ways, plus their religious
teachings to try to believe it and have faith in it.
But then you're faith with people think it's all bunk,

(01:26:23):
and they just want to disregard all of it, and
they want to laugh at, make fun of, and impugne
people who have such beliefs, and with it, they take
away morality, they take away the concepts of universal right
and wrong. And you talked about truth, they even obliterate that,
and then they get to replace it with whatever they want,
whatever advances, whatever they care about and at the same

(01:26:44):
time ridiculing and laughing at people who don't believe it.
In the process, the entire foundation of culture and society
is whittled away. I have the same fear you do,
same fear, and I've had it for much longer than
you because I'm a little older than you are. Sure

(01:27:05):
it gets risky when you talk about truth, because who
gets a defined truth? Well, I know our founders they
all believed in God and the Bible, and they maybe
didn't believe they can not. Let me say, if you
can fight, you can find the right leftist and he'll
tell you no, that's a myth. The Founding Fathers were
a budget of atheists, and they didn't believe in God

(01:27:26):
and they didn't care about God. And so this is
taught you know, your your version of truth is going
to be countered by somebody else's version of truth, and
then the definition of truth becomes something over which people argue,
just like facts have become. What's what's needed is massive

(01:27:48):
educational exposure to things where people have much more information
and input to be able to make up their own minds.
But that's what the left fears. It's people making up
their own minds people left that their own devices, and
I got to chore us what liberalism forces on people.
Rush is absolutely right about that every society needs a

(01:28:11):
transcendent meaning to life. Otherwise you're just circling around in
a hyper present tense that is by definition shallow. Why
do men plant trees that they will not live to
see grow to their glory? Why in medieval Europe did

(01:28:33):
people start to build the most beautiful buildings, the most
beautiful cathedrals to the glory of God, knowing that they
would never live to see those buildings completed and to
worship in those buildings. And Rush is absolutely right there
that if you cease to have faith, there's not a

(01:28:54):
lot left except government and the state. And it was
interesting to me this last terrible year to hear Rush
reflect profoundly and honestly on his faith now by means
of contrasts, and to demonstrate the range. This was always
a feature I loved on the Rush show, his list

(01:29:14):
of his ten most favorite ladies names that he used
to say from time to time. And here is a
caller taking Rush to task over those top ten ladies names.
So I want to grab Jeff in Scranton Pennsylvania. Welcome sir,
great to have you on the program. Rush, Thanks for

(01:29:35):
taking my call. Yeah, you're bet. I was calling with
regards to your top ten female names. Oh yeah, well
I've got a lot more than ten. So I was
wondering if I could run through it with you real fast. Well,
you're claiming that I have more than ten. Yes, top
ten favorite female names. Yeah, so I have Jenny, Melanie,

(01:30:00):
at Megan, Sarah. Now you could have said Sharon, but Allison, Amy, Morgan, Jennifer, Jenna, Tanisha, Jill, Jane, Nina, Marcia, Kaylin, Laurie, Cheryl, Vincenzia, Ashley, Natalie, Isabella, Lauren, Misty, Alexis,

(01:30:24):
and Lissa. Well, all I can tell you is that
when I when I mentioned each of one of those names,
it was in a list of ten at the time. Okay,
But I was wondering why Laura wasn't on there. Who
Laura wasn't on there? I don't know they've ever had
a call from somebody named Laura. No, okay, because it's

(01:30:44):
a good name and it's a you know, great Johnny
Mercer's song as well. Uh yeah, it is a great
A lot of a lot of women are a class
of women have the name Laura. I mean, it's it's
it is tough having a top ten list of favorite
female names. That's true. So all of this is about
the fact that you think I'm discriminating against Laura. Oh no, no, no,

(01:31:05):
I just I just started noticing that they just seemed
to be more than ten. So I started writing them down.
It did you really did? Started writing them down? Well,
I have some dates if you want to dates. Oh no,
I totally believe you. I'm not going to deny this.
I just some days, you know, I was, I was
super host. Other days my mind was not totally here.
And I answered this, like James Collmeywood, Well, the best

(01:31:26):
of my recollection, I've never been more than ten. Now
some people have said it's more than ten. It might
have been. I can't say for sure. But they're all
great names. That's what's important. They are absolutely But thanks
for everything you do. Rush. We appreciate it. Thank here,
Thank you, Jeff. I really really appreciate that. It's a
great open line Friday call, a great breaker of tension,

(01:31:49):
and it was a great open line Friday call. It's
like the hit Parade. There are names that are just
bubbling up the top ten, and then there are names
that suddenly mysteriously drop out of the top ten. You
will notice the name that wasn't on that list, though,
and that is Catherine, because sometimes there are names you

(01:32:12):
want to keep just for yourself. This is the one
and only Rush Limbo Show on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network,
The Rush Limbo Show on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Most of today's shows show has been devoted to you

(01:32:33):
and Catherine, And obviously there were a lot of people
who can't get through to speak to Catherine, so we
want to pick up a couple of them right now
before we close it out for today, Let's go to
Dave in Pittsburgh, where almost half a century ago, Rush
was a disc jockey on the radio in that town. Dave,

(01:32:55):
You're on America's number one radio show. Great have you
with us? Hi? Mark, I just wanted to call this
share how I've always felt about Rush Limbaugh. I mean,
I I started listening to a show and eighty nine
I saw his TV show, which I think I had
a stiff to like two or three o'clock in the mornings.
Who watched the show? Setting my alarm? All going to

(01:33:15):
college to do that. I've been listened to the show
constantly since the early nineties, late eighties. And if somebody
were to ask me during many years, if you had
the chance to speak to anyone in the world, anybody, anybody,
who would it be. It wouldn't have been the President

(01:33:36):
of the United States. It wouldn't have been anybody. It
would have been Rush. And you know, finally years two
years ago, I got the guts to call and I
got through and I got to talk to Rush on
the air. And that was a moment. It was an honor.
That was such a good thing to get to talk
to Rush after listening to all those years. Yeah, that's that.

(01:33:57):
There's a lesson there day if if you feel like that,
because you said you started listening e eighty nine something
like that and you finally called him. What was that
eight years ago? Is that right? I'm not sure what
I think it was more recent than that. I think
it might have been two thousand and sixteen or sort
or not to that maybe, okay, so so like so basically,

(01:34:22):
it took you a quarter of a century to pluck
up the courage to dial Wow, you like to go
to college and I was a national show, and I
just think, you know, I don't know if I'm going
to get on a national show, and you got so
many devoted listeners and millions of people are listening. Well,
you know, Rush would have told you that. That's one

(01:34:43):
of the greatest and most basic of all Russian limbole lessons.
When you when there's something you want to do, you
don't think of all the obstacles that are in the
way to achieving it. You just go for it and
do it. So so thank you for glad. I'm I'm
seriously glad you finally got through, Dave. But you know

(01:35:05):
you you could have you could have called it nineteen
eighty nine and nineteen ninety, nineteen ninety one, and maybe
you would have got through. Then. That is that is
a lesson. One of the core lessons of life that
Rush taught is don't think. Don't think, oh, it's a
national show. I'll never get through. I'll be behind Betsy

(01:35:25):
from pres Skuyle, Maine and Mabel from Juno, Alaska, and
they're never gonna I'm never gonna get through. Just go
for it. And that was how Rush lived his life.
He went for it and he achieved it and he
wants the same for you, Dave, so so don't leave
it another quarter century next time. Okay, thank you, thank

(01:35:48):
you so much for that, for that call. We you know,
we were joking about that, but it actually is a
very good lesson and Rush taught. Rush taught innumerable good
lessons of these decades. The tone, you know, I won't
disguise it. The tone changed in the last year. There
were there were far too many appearances by US guest hosts,

(01:36:14):
and when Rush was here, as I said, he often
had deep and profound thoughts on his mind. Here is
Rush from his last show before Christmas, it would be
his last Christmas show, and here is Rush talking about

(01:36:34):
what he has learned over the previous grim twelve months. Folks,
I want to tell you at the outswer here to me,
this is a very important program. I have very much
that I want to say to all of you today,
and I'm feeling very pressured. Not pressured, I'm feeling stage fright.

(01:36:55):
The kind of thing I so much I want to say,
and I want to say it correctly. I want to
convey my feelings and I want to do it right.
I want to do it to the best of my ability,
and I have found in circumstances like this that the
best thing to do is not to think about it.
Don't make it more pressure packed than it already is.

(01:37:17):
But it's very important. You all are very important. My
family is very important to me. I've had a year
now to reflect on the things that really matter, a
year to reflect on the things that are completely relevant
and important to me, and all of you are in
that large conglomeration of people and things that are very

(01:37:44):
important to me. My feelings of thankfulness always surface, my
feelings of great gratitude always surface at the Christmas time
of year, and it's no different this year. Now. In
January of this year, towards the end of the month,

(01:38:06):
I received a diagnosis you all know, but either's something
I want to say about it. Stage four advanced lung cancer,
terminal diagnosis. The objective of everybody involved was to extend

(01:38:27):
life for as long as possible, as enjoyably as possible. Now,
many of you have been through this, Lots of you
have been through this as individuals, as families, and you
know what that means. Medical treatment that is designed to

(01:38:48):
attack the disease as greatly as possible, while maintaining a
quality of life that makes it worth it. Some people
can't deal with the side effects of chemo or other
forms of treatment. Well back in late January, when I
received this diagnosis and I was shocked. I was stunned,

(01:39:11):
and I was in denial for about a week. I mean,
I'm rush limbo, I'm I miss the big, the vast
right wing conspiracy. I mean, I'm indestructible as it can't
be right. What it was, and what I didn't know

(01:39:34):
at the time that I learned later in the course
of the year was that I wasn't expected to be
alive today. I wasn't expected to make it to October,
and then to November, and then to December. And yet
here I am, and today I've got some problems. If

(01:39:58):
I'm feeling pretty good today, God's with me today. God
knows how important this program is to me today. And
I'm feeling natural in terms of energy, normal in terms
of energy, and I'm feeling entirely capable of doing it today.
I have been blessed. I mentioned to all of you

(01:40:20):
back in the early days sometime I guess this might
have been in February, was around it was. I think
either during or shortly after I had received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom at this year's State of the Union
address by President Trump in the House Chamber. Well, when

(01:40:44):
I got my diagnosis and when I began to receive
all of the outpouring of love and affection from everywhere
in my life, from from so many of you in

(01:41:07):
so many ways, and from my family who man, they
have supported me my entire career, even during times it
would have been understandable and easy for them to say,
rush who, we don't know this guy, But that never happened.
I mean, I've been totally supported by virtually everybody in

(01:41:31):
my family. I've been propped up, I have been defended.
I've been made to look better than I am. My
my lovely wife Catherine has done so much in that regard.
She has done so much with Russia, limbaud dot com
and with the charitable efforts that we have engaged in,

(01:41:53):
and all of it has been to my benefit. All
of it has been for the h and yours, so
the benefit of people who are the recipients of our efforts.
So many people have put me first in all of this.
I understand now what Luke Garrick meant because I certainly

(01:42:16):
feel like that. I feel extremely fortunate and lucky. And
because I have outlived the diagnosis, I've been able to
receive and hear and process some of the most wonderful

(01:42:37):
nice things about me that I might not have ever
heard had I have not gotten thick to anything. How
many people who pass away never hear the eulogies, never
hear the the thank yous. I've been very lucky, folks,

(01:42:59):
And I can't tell you how many, how many ways.
My point in everything today that I share with you
about this is to say thanks, and to tell everybody
involved how much I love you from the bottom of
a sizeable and growing and still beating heart. And there's

(01:43:20):
room for for much more, all because I've learned what
love really is during this. You know, I have a
philosophy there's good that happens in everything. It may not
reveal itself immediately, and even in the most dire circumstances,

(01:43:41):
if you just wait, you just remain open to things,
the good in it will reveal itself. And that has
happened to me as well in countless countless ways. You
know I'm mentioned Catherine. Don't misunderstand She's done much more

(01:44:02):
than just redesign website and the and shepherd the Rush
Limba dot com store. She shepherded the charitable efforts to
Betsy Ross Stand Up for Betsy Ross. That amount of
money we generated for the tunnel the Towers organization just

(01:44:23):
incredible stuff. And it was all done for me well,
and and the beneficiaries that it was all done for me.
All of this was done for me. So many people
have done things this year for me and it's I know,
it's not embarrassing, it's just gratifying. And it has helped

(01:44:46):
me to see so much, so clearly about the goodness
of people and their and their decency, and it's confirmed
so much of my instinctive beliefs about people. Thank you
so much for being with us today, and thank you

(01:45:07):
for for being part of this audience for thirty years,
thirty two, whatever it is, it's just mind boggling. The
Rush Limbo Show on the excellence in broadcasting, Edward, Let's
go to John in Senora, California, possibly Senora, California. John.
Great to have you, Great to have you with us.

(01:45:28):
I think I rose four ridges in the air on
that pronunciation. What's on your buying today John, Well, excuse me, Mark,
from my bride and my bride and me, we love
you dearly. Linda really got me going on you and
you're incredible. There's nobody better than you with your wit

(01:45:50):
and your humor. Oh well, let's let's let's look get
into let's look get into that job. I'm honored to be.
It's such a great, such a great privilege you have
sat in for us all these through all these years,
from from the from my bride and me, Linda, our

(01:46:11):
deepest and sincereous condolences to Catherine. America has lost a
huge chunk of her heart. But yet he is still
with us, and he will be eternally. Rush always said
that he has talent on loan from God, and there

(01:46:36):
has to be a little correction there. That talent that
he has, Heavenly Father has blessed him with that eternally
he will always have it. In nineteen ninety three, August
I had a single coronary bypass and our daughter Tanya
Lynn called me and said, Papa, you got to turn

(01:47:01):
the radio on and listen to Russia Limbaugh. He is
incredible you and he think exactly alike. And I did,
and we've listened to him ever since. What an incredible man.
He has given so much to this nation, and I

(01:47:23):
feel so honored to have known who he is. He
and Clarence Thomas are my two big heroes, incredible men.
Thank you, Thank you very much for that, John. That
is the last word. We couldn't put it any better
than that. Incredible and that brilliant knack that millions of

(01:47:46):
people found. Suddenly there's someone on the radio talking exactly
like I think, as nobody has done for all the
decades beforehand. Thank you for that. John. We'll close it
out in just a moment. That is it for the
first show of the one thousand, seven hundred and second
week of the Russian m Bull Show. That's my rough

(01:48:06):
mental arithmetic. Thank you as always to the best team
in radio, to mister Snadley, to Craig and Brian in
Palm Beach, to Ali and Mike in New York. And
I would also like to thank our late friend Kit Carson,
who was Rush's chief of staff for decades and helped
nurse made me through my first eight or nine years
behind the golden EIB microphone and probably not enough time

(01:48:31):
at that. I thank especially Catherine for today's show. She
was so brave and generous with her time, and she
is planning a virtual Rush memorial that we will bring
you more news of right here, and above all, I
want to thank Rush, who will be heard tomorrow and

(01:48:51):
Wednesday and Thursday and through all the days the excellence
in broadcasting network goes on. Do not miss tomorrow's Rush
Limbo Show.

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