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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of The Rush Limbaugh Show podcast.
Hello everyone, I know that I am most certainly not
the Limbaugh that you tuned in to listen to today.
I like you very much wish Rush was behind this
golden microphone right now, welcoming you to another exceptional three

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hours of broadcasting. For over thirty two years, Rush has
cherished you his loyal audience and always look forward to
every single show. It is with profound sadness I must
share with you directly that our beloved Rush, my wonderful husband,

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passed away this morning due to complications from lung cancer.
As so many of you know, losing a loved one
is terribly difficult, even more so when that loved one
is larger than life. Rush will forever be the greatest

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of all time. Rush was an extraordinary man, A gentle giant, brilliant,
quick witted, genuinely kind, extremely generous, passionate, courageous, and the

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hardest working person I know. Despite being one of the
most recognized powerful people in the world, Rush never let
the success change his core or beliefs. He was polite
and respectful to everyone he met, even most recently when

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he was not feeling well in the hospital. He was
so appreciative to every single doctor and nurse, and custodian
and first responder. He never wanted to put anyone out
and always thank them profusely for their help. From today on,

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there will be a tremendous void in our lives and
of course on the radio. Rush loved our miraculous country
beyond measure. An unwavering patriot, he loved our United States military,

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our flag, our Constitution, our founding fathers. He proudly fought
and defended conservative values in a way that no one
else can. Rush often stood up and took arrows on
his own because he knew it was the right thing

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to do. Rush encouraged so many of us to think
for ourselves, to learn, and to lead. He often said,
it did not matter where you started or what you
look like. As Americans, we all have endless opportunities like

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nowhere else in the world. Rush gave us hope that
through hard work and determination, we can overcome the obstacles
in our lives and be our best. Many of you
started small businesses or pursued personal dreams because Rush gave

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you the faith that you could. He made the most
complex issues simple to understand. While making that level of
genius look easy, it most certainly was anything but easy. Irreplaceable,

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remarkable talent on behalf of the Limbaugh family. I would
personally like to thank each and every one of you
who prayed for Rush and inspired him to keep going.
You rallied around Rush and lifted him up when he

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needed you the most. I am certain, without a shadow
of a doubt, if he could be here to day,
he would be. He loved you, and he loved this
radio program with every part of his being. Instead, we

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know our Rush is in heaven encouraging us in the
same way he always did on earth. Rusha's love for
our country and belief that our best days are ahead
live on eternally in Russia's honor. May we all continue

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Russia's mission in our individual lives and communities. I know
all of you listening are terribly sad. We all are.
I'm terribly sorry to have to deliver this news to you.

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God bless you Rush, and God bless our country. The
day is going to come, folks, where I'm not going
to be able to do this. I don't know when
that is. I want to be able to do it
for as long as I want to do it, but
the day will come where I'm not going to be
able to. And I want you to understand that even

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when the day comes, I'd like to be here if
I have this sense of needing to constantly show my
appreciation for all that you have done and meant to me.
Remember when Rush said that back in December of twenty twenty,
he said that this day would come. He told all

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of us that the day where he'd want to be
here with us, but he wouldn't be able to because
of his health. But I know he'd want to be
here for all of us. And if he can't be
here today, let's be here for hen. We are back,
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nation's leading radio talk show, the most eagerly anticipated program,
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not retiring until every American agrees with me. And if
you can't be here today, let's be here for him.

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This program's for you, Rush from all of us. Well, Rush,
you're keeped up at Reagan and all of that. But
you know Reagan, ear of Reagan's over so long ago
or whatever. You know. The question is how Reagan overcome
the media. The media hated Reagan as much as they

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hate Bush. The media hated Reagan as much as they've
hated Nixon. The media hated Reagan as much as anybody
has ever hated the Republicans. Don't doubt me. For those
of you that weren't alive, do not doubt me. Reagan
was hated and despised. The players were different. Their names
are Sam Donaldson and Dan Blatherin, so but he was
just as despised as any media hated Bush or Nixon.

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And yet you've heard that, Yeah, well, but Reagan he
had dyscharism. He was able to speak directly to the
American people. He was able to go over the heads
of the media and speak to the people unfiltered. True,
but that's not why Reagan succeeded It all comes down

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to the same thing, substance and reality versus spin, PR,
buzz and myth. The end result, look at what happened
when Reagan was president. The economy grew like gangbusters. I

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don't care what the media is saying. The reality was
the economy was great. We were vanquishing communist foes foreign policy.
I mean, the point here is the way you overcome
the media is with success on the ground. But you

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don't vie for a buzz success or a PR success.
You don't try to have success that's defined by persuading
as many people as possible you're successful. You define success
by being successful implementing policies that work that re benefited
people because they helped themselves. The reason Reagan was able

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to overcome the media is because his policies revived the country,
which was in as bad a shape in the latter
seventies as it is now, which is precisely what we need. Again,
we don't need PR tactics to try to convince the
media we're not mean or bad. We don't need tactics
to get the media fool. We just need somebody who

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has unabashedly and unafraidly conservative who will implement policies that
will work and will bring actual positive results to people's lives.
And then it doesn't matter what the media says. They'll
look like buffoons like they did in the eighties. It's
just it's substance over symbolism, reality over buzz. That's all

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it is. Back after this, my dream would be if
everybody in this audience, or if everybody who would just
listen to me two times, would get it about liberalism.
That's the great threat that we face. The great challenge
of our time is liberalism or socialism, communism, which now

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all find their home in the Democrat Party. They must
lose and lose elections. They must continue to lose elections.
They must never become the majority in this country. They
must never become the majority of thinking. They've always been around,
they always will be, but they need to be defeated politically,
annihilated politically on an ongoing, consistent basis. It's a tough chore.

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Most people don't see other people ideologically. Most people don't
see other people politically. Note that's how the left is
trying to accomplish it. Though identity politics. They're trying to
get people who are wavery and don't really care about
all this stuff to hate us on the basis of race,
or on the basis of gender, or what have you.

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They steer away from ideas. They can't win debates and ideas,
so they cloak and camouflage their objectives and other things
like compassion and happiness, freedom, whatever else, when they stand
for the exact opposite of these things. That's why I
spend time talking about this. It's just an ongoing effort
to educate people. But I think is the greatest threat

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that we face now. Consequently, they think the same thing.
They think the greatest threat that we face is us,
and they're right because we are standing directly in the
way of they're amassing all of this power that they want.
We do not want power over them. We just want

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them to lose. We just want them to remain a minority.
I don't care if they're happy or unhappy. The part
of it. We love everybody. We want everybody to appreciate
living in this country. We want everybody to be able
to access the wonderful opportunities this country provides everybody. Intellectually,
I don't understand liberalism, and there's no way anybody can

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because it isn't an intellectual application. It's not about thinking.
Liberalism is totally about feeling, and ironically, that's one of
the reasons why it continues to seduce people. The emotions
have much deeper impressions, make much deeper impressions, and they're
much longer lasting than words that people hear. And that's

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a tough thing for me to admit, because I'm in
the word business. No, I don't come here dripping emotions
all the time. But it is true. People people don't
remember what you say, but they'll never forget how you
make them feel. So if, in this case, if Trump
is making people feel confident, if Trump makes people feel happy,
if Trump makes people feel involved, engaged, if Trump makes

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people feel like that the country has a chance with him,
the hell with what he's saying, it won't matter. While
all the critics are Trump, can you believe what he's saying?
Do you believe what he's said about Bush? How could
his supporters O? My god, rush? How could his support it?
How can you excuse when Trump's saying nobody's hearing what
Trump's saying. Isn't it evident by now whatever he's saying
doesn't matter? It's not causing him any support, costing him

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any support. It's all about how he's making people feel.
And I would submit to you it's the same thing
with Obama and by the same token, if you have
your average wet noodle, Republican could be who knows, brilliant, smart,
and whatever. If there's no charisma personality there, I don't
have anybody in mind. I'm just using this as a exercise.

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The emotional component of politics one of the most frustrating
aspects of it to me, because I don't know how
you battle it. I don't know how you talk people
out of their emotions. I don't know how you talk
people out of the fact that something or somebody makes
them feel good. This is the limbo legacy. Some people
are great example of conservative ideas. Part of my job

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is to notice things before you do and then tell you.
It's called the cutting edge. I'm on it. I own it.
There is a there's a little game being played by
the established Republican commentariat, what I call the inside de
Beltway conservative intelligentsia, the Republican intellectual elite, and it is

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aimed at muddling conservatism and discrediting, taking down if you
will conservative Tea Party candidates in the Republican presidential primary process.
And it is the way to do it. By the way,
is a page right out of the Democrat Left playbook. Now,
last week I mentioned and discussed at some length the

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argument that some were making that if conservatives demand candidates
who are too pure, they can't win. You. I don't
know if you've seen that, but it's it's effervesting out there,
and it always does. We can't win, you know, with
the conservatives. That's too pure, that's too rock rib, it's

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too rigid. We need a conservative who understands that raising
taxes now and then is a reasonable and sometimes intelligent
thing to do. We don't want the kind of purity
that says, never raise taxes. We don't want the kind
of purity that gives us the social issues. We need

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Republicans who aren't as pure, who will realize that sometimes
you just have to stop talking about guns in abortion
for the larger good of public policy. Well, today in
the Daily Caller there's a guy named Matt Lewis, and
he tried he is a takedown. I shall backman in

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the Daily Caller. In this case, it's not because she's
too pure. In her case, it's because she is too impure.
In other words, let's not support candidates who are unabashedly
conservative because they can't win. That's the advice. Michelle can't

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win because she's too unabashedly conservative. Palin can't win because
she's too unabashedly conservative. On the other hand, there are
no unabashedly conservative candidates in the field when you get
right down to it. This is what happens when you
try to analyze politics and write about it when you

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don't really understand conservatism and the Tea party movement, and
instead you get swept up in the Washington way and
the mentality of gotcha. See this whole notion of purity.
The assault on purity is just another way of attacking
mainstream conservatives. But conservatism, I would say, speaking for myself,

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conservatism is not about purity. It's about a philosophy. People
get sidetracked puritan all these other aspects. But conservatism is
a philosophy, and all conservatives do not agree on all
things when it comes to every issue or policy. However,
there are fundamental and defining principles and views on life

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that do define and unite conservatives. Now, let's look at Buckman.
Just a quick peek. Here at Michelle Backman. She is
a favored target of the establishment Washington. Now that doesn't
come as a surprise to you, does I mean you
know that she's a target. You've seen it. It might
perplexious to why at this stage of the game. Look,
I know we're in the Republican primaries and there are

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battle is between ourselves. Now it's understandable, but Establishment Washington
Bachman is a favorite target. And even to the point
it's talking about how she's too short, or she is radical,
or what have you. This is an attempt to alert
the tea Party that Michelle Bachman's a fraud, that she's

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really not one of you. She's out there trying to
create support, command support more you Tea Party people, but
she's not one of you. She's not pure. She's voted
for earmarks and ethanol. Okay, what else. Michelle Bachman has
been a leading advocate for stripping one hundred and five

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billion dollars from Obamacare so that it cannot be implemented.
Michelle Bachman was one of the early conservative leaders trying
to make sure that Obamacare was defunded she heard the
Tea Party, she heard everybody was taking it very seriously.
We must not allow this thing to become law, or
we must repeal it or defund it. Okay, here's one

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hundred and five billion dollars put in there stealth way
by Pelosi. She identified it. She wanted to strip it
out of there. She's a leading opponent of the continuing
resolution theory of funding government. She steadfastly stood up and
opposed the House leadership on funding the government two weeks

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at a time. She's a solid conservative on national security
in defense, he's a leading activist for the Tea Party,
and she's a major speaker at numerous Tea Party events. Now,
all of that distinguishes her quite a lot from most
of the candidates who are seeking the Republican nomination for

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president or planning to. However, because she supported some earmarks
in effort. All she has said now by non conservatives,
not to be pure enough for conservatives who are demanding purity.
And in another piece they'll say demanding purity is a
bad thing, But right now she's not pure enough. Nobody

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can be everything to everybody. On the big stuff. Michelle
Bachmann has flying colors when it comes to being defined
as a conservative, it's a stretch. It would be an
incredible stretch to try to say that she's not a conservative.
I think we've talked about earmarks, eth and all those

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two things are considering everything else we face, that's chump change.
But if you want to focus on those two things
trying to say she's impure, that's that's what's doing now,
that's that's what's underway. People on our side and some people, well,
they're not such great examples. Rush explains, Mint Romney represents

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the never trump mentality that's in the Republican parties, is
a strain of it. He may not be as virulent
as some of the should also called intellectual magazine types
who comprised the never Trumper's column writers and so forth,
But he exactly as I stated that, Look, here's Mitt Romney.

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He's running for president on twenty twelve, and in the
early stages of it, there's a rap going around it
he's not really a conservative, that he's a rhino, that
he is a moderate Republican and he has to pretend
to be a conservative because he really isn't one any
kinds of like most people in Washington, it looks now
his nose at conservatives, so in an attempt to persuade

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people that they were wrong, that he was in fact
a conservative. Do you remember how he described himself. He said,
I am a severe conservative, and all of us conservatives
looked at us. What the hell is a severe conservative?
We've never heard that Romney exemplifies the Washington establishment. He
is career politics, his family, his father, his career. There

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is a certain way that those people behave. There's a
certain station that they think they've achieved, and they maintain
it by knowing their place, and Republicans place is always
second tier. You must acknowledge your second tier. You must

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acknowledge the superiority of the primacy of the Washington establishment.
You must always make it clear that you appreciate being
in that establishment. If you don't fight back, you don't
really try to win in a permanent basis. Yeah, you
can test for the presidency every four years, and you

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may win now and then, but then you acknowledge you're
going to be destroyed the next four years. You acknowledge
that you're going to be hit, and that's the price
that you will pay for winning. And you have to
smile and grin and bear it, and it has grown
to just so frustrate Republican voters and conservative voters who
have fought all along that the Republicans are actually win

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in this, to win and to dominate and to push
the other side aside, that we are there to exercise
our will over the forces of opposition. We're there to win.
That's not the way Republican establishment people look at their
role in the establishment. Trump comes along and he just

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totally upsets the established norms, and it's on that basis
he's got to go and in they claim that he's
incompetent in a boob and does nobody's doing is filled
with chaos in dangering United States, losing our respect around
the world. We can't have this. We've established this world
order that the United States set up after World War Two.

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Trump's coming along time to blow it up, and we
can't allow this to happen. So it's easily understandable if
you if you know who the players are, and if
you have come to grips with the way Republicans in
this establishment acknowledge their place and it keep it right here.
More of the limbo legacy is coming up next on

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the EIB Network. Returning to the Rush Limbos show, more
of Rush's words of wisdom. To remember, I have multiple
years experience watching these people. I know liberalism and I
know media like the back of my hand. I've studied
the entire thirty years of this program. Much of it

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has been spent explaining liberalism to people so that I
can effectively refute it, Explaining the media who they are,
how they operate, examples of how they operate so that
I can refute it, so that I can hopefully be
persuasive with people in convincing them not to believe out

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of the shoot everything they hear. So with me when
I say it's intelligence guided by experience, That's really it.
All I needed to know based on thirty years of
watching this stuff, Troy, it was Brian Ross and that's
eighty percent of it. The other twenty percent of it
was ABC. And you couple that with what I already explained.

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They live and breathe with this unquenchable desire to destroy
Donald Trump. They wake up every day, each one of them,
every drive by media male and female that you watch
or read, I'm telling you, every one of them wakes
up every day hoping that day is going to be

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the day that they or one of their colleagues find
the silver bullet that's going to nail Trump. They are
convinced it's there. They have become delusional, They have so
immersed themselves in this lie for the last twelve months
plus that they believe Trump colluded. They believe Hillary should

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have won. They believe the election was hacked and tampered with.
They believe Trump colluded with Putin to screw Hillary out
of the elect They believe it like you believe whatever
you mostly believe in your life. They believe it. They
don't hope it, they don't think it, they believe it.
And so when here comes a story that features something

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we have never heard in all of this, never did
we hear that Trump as a candidate, not that word
specifically was not mentioned. But the bottom line, Troy, is
that I know it didn't happen. And the way I
know it didn't happen is by watching the very drive
by media and the Democrat Party. If there was evidence
that had happened, we would have long ago none it

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and they would have long ago used it and long
ago try to get rid of Trump. There is no
evidence there will not be any evidence because there isn't any.
They had to manufacture a fake dossier to further along
this fake narrative. They are living a series of lies.

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So it's only sense that when you have Flynn flipping
and admitting the line to the FBI, these people think
that Flynn has told Muller that Trump told him to
call the Russians and fake the election. Screw with the
old That's what they think. Since there's no evidence for it,
they have to get as close to that as they can.

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And that's what Brian Ross's report was. And I had
no doubt from the first moment I saw it that
it was not going to hold up. Was I guessing? Yeah,
Because I mean I don't work at ABC, I don't
know Brian Ross. I hadn't talked to him about it,
so yes, total wild guess, But it really wasn't. It's
intelligence guided my experience and a fearlessness to say so

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because I know him. I've studied them my whole life.
The fact that I've done that, I can't tell you
how frustrating it is that more people don't see it,
because to me, it's so obvious and easy. But again,
I've spent thirty years on it. More of the limbo
legacy coming up on the EIB network. Rush has been

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an inspiration to millions. The scholars tell their stories. Here's
Marie in Dayton, Ohio. Glad you waited and welcome to
the program. Hi, Hi, thank you for having me. I'm
praying for you, hope you get better. And this is
I'm a first time caller and I just ordered to
say that I am not a victim. I am a minority.

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I don't believe in victimhood. But racism does exist, and
it comes from the Democratic Party. A lot of people
miss this and looking at it. Warren said during the
debate that she said that we need to pay people
more so we can pay the black and brown people
who do this work when she was referring to childcare
work right. And what that tells me is that she

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believes that black and brown people are the ones that
do that work when there's white people that do honorable
and good work of childcare. But brown and black people
are also entrepreneurs. And it's our persistence and perseverance and
our belief in a strong work ethic and our belief
in the American dream that helps us overcome and become
business owners. And I myself, I mean, I was fired

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for my company and I bought a company that fired
me two years later. But it wasn't because just a minute,
you know, you just can't flash that bias. You were
fired by a company and you bought it two years later.
How did you do that? Well, it was a fluke.
I never thought I'd be CEO of the company. I

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was selling medical diagnostic equipment to diagnose dizziness, concussion, and
traumatic brain injuries. And I was fired because they said, ironically,
they said I'm making too much money because I not educated.
I'm not a doctor, and doctors should be selling to doctors.
I shouldn't be making that kind of money. I was
straight commission and so they fired me. And at that time,

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I was a single mom with four kids, minority. But
I didn't say I'm a victim or it's it's a
crime from the white manch No. I went not and
I worked, and I worked my butt off, and then
I started ANOTA company and I earned enough money that
when they found out how well I was doing, they
called and they said, hey, are you interested in investing?
And I said interested in investing? Well, let me take

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a look at some boot. So your point is you point,
you're a minority business owner. You have actually yeah, you've
actually purchased a company and fired you and and but
you still think the Democrats still think that you're too
stupid to do anything but menial work. Exactly. And that's
what they say. If you listen to the debate, you
listen to everything they say. They think you're too stupid.

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You need the government to help you because they exactly
because they pander to you. That's exactly you said it.
She said it. Now mean she's a minority businesswoman. She
said it. That's exactly how the Democrat Party looks at minorities.
It is incapable. You know what. The biggest problem is
the soft bigotry of low expectations. And that's what the

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Democrat Party in the American left does to minorities. One
of the worst things if you're a parent and you
have kids, one of the worst things you can do
is have low expectations of them and tell them that
if you expect great things from them, that's motivating and
it can become self fulfilling. But if you have low expectations,

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and it's exactly the Democrats are built on that philosophy.
The soft big A treat low expectation. You can't do much,
you can't do it on your own, you can't do
it without us. But it's not just minorities that the
Democrats treat that way. It's a whole lot of their
voter base. That's how they look, that's the preferred constituency.

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The day is going to come, folks, I'm not going
to be able to do this. I don't know when
that is. I want to be able to do it
for as long as I want to do, but the
day will come where I'm not going to be able
to do And I want you to understand that even
when the day comes, I'd like to be here if

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I have this sense of needing to constantly show my
appreciation for all that you have done and meant to me.

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here for all of us. And if you can't be
here today, let's be here for him. We are back
America's anchorman, America's truth detector. The views expressed on this

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six percent of a time. That's the latest opinion audit
in from the Sullivan Group. And you are part of
the all audience expectations on a daily basis. I am
your host for life, not retiring until every American agrees
with me. And if you can't be here today, let's

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be here for him. This program's for you, Rush from
all of us, Greetings, my friends, are welcome to the
one and only EIB Network and a Rush Limbaugh program.
On the first of August twenty eighteen. This is our
thirtieth anniversary of this program. And I have to tell

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you I have been so conflicted all day about to
how to deal with this. My heart rate monitor on
my watch, my heart rate has been elevated about ten
to fifteen beats about normal, ten to fifteen beats about
normal because of the ah, the excitement and everything about

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about this day. And tell what we're gonna do here today.
We haven't prepared aired a whole lot of audio clips
from years gone by, because we've done that on anniversaries
and anniversary programs previously, we've got some, and we even
have some audio of my days as a disc jockey
back in Pittsburgh that I don't think we've aired before.

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Cookie thinks that we have an exclusive on little montage
of me doing a morning show, I think back in
nineteen seventy one. But there is a program to do
here today with news of the day, and I always
like to keep looking forward. But people tell me, you know,
thirty years doing anything at a high degree of quality

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is worth commemorating, and if you don't do it, nobody
else will. And you have to do it, and you
have to do it for yourself, and you have to
do it for the staff. There have been people at
working with you here for all of these years who
have helped you make it possible, and all of that
is profoundly true. And I am going to reflect on
some aspects of this as the as the program goes on.

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Rather than do wall to wall one thing, I'm just
going to try to mix and match various elements of
the program as we combine things that we do here,
because that's what the program is. It's improv and it
combines a whole bunch of different elements, seriousness, irreverent humor,
political commentary, all with credibility on whatever we tackle and

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so forth. And of course then there is you, I mean,
and you. Without you being out there, none of us
are in here, and so it's ultimately all about you.
And I remain blown away every day we go to
the phones and I get calls from people who tell
me how long they've been listening. Since nineteen eighty eight,

(36:50):
since nineteen ninety since nineteen ninety two, nineteen ninety three.
It's a stunning and amazing thing. And it is deeply,
deeply out of fine. And I'm going to try during
the course of the program to express all the various
things that I'm feeling and the expressions of gratitude. But
I don't want to try to pack it all in

(37:13):
here in the first segment. So we'll just do the
program and let it happen. See what happens as it happens,
because every day, and I maintain I'm going to do
this program like any other. That's why you're there. So
we'll just do it as it happens. It happens. Now
the big news of the day, aside from this program

(37:33):
reaching thirty years and be size the fact that nobody
will ever do this again. I don't want to talk
about me. I really do not want to make this
about me the big news of the day to day.
I think two things. One is the President and his
urging of the Attorney General to end the Russia probe,

(37:54):
to basically tell Muller to shut it up. Now, what's
interesting about this is the President could do this himself
in a sense. I'm not talking about firing Muller, but
he could declassify everything that we still don't know about
the origins of this investigation and the details. He still
chooses not to do it, and the best guess reason

(38:15):
for that is the avoidance of a charge of obstruction
of justice. I also think there are other factors that
are bleeding into this. Now. Remember yesterday we shared with
you also a story by Jonathan Turley. He wrote a
piece saying, we are only one witness away from disaster.

(38:36):
Trump is only one witness away from disaster. It's not
the Manafort trial or the second Manafort trial. Turley's theory
is that Muller is going after Donald Trump Junior and
the meeting at Trump Tower and everything that might have
any ancillary involvement or impact on that there are. You
may have heard rumors of a second Trump Tower meeting

(39:01):
that nobody has officially known of or been informed of
to this point, then we have heard the latest addition
to this is that Muller is not going for collusion
and he's not going for obstruction. He's going for conspiracy.
In a number of indictments that Mueller is handed down
to date, one of the charges has been this very

(39:26):
vague conspiracy to defraud the United States. Now I forget
who he first charged with that, and I don't remember
the specifics, but I do remember that when it happened,
a bunch of really smart legal people I know started
scratching their heads and what a conspiracy to defraud the
United States? I'm not aware of some I'm not aware

(39:48):
of a statute. I'm not aware that there is such
a charge. But Mueller has charged people with that. So
not collusion, not obstruction, but conspiracy. So if you put
the fact that Muller may be aiming at conspiracy to
defunct his old you know, collusion isn't a crime of
conspiracy is if you conspire to collude, the collusion is

(40:09):
not the crime conspiring can be. And so if you
look at conspiracy to defraud the United States and somehow
try to link that to what Donald Trump Junior was doing,
the theory from Turley is that this is where Muller
is headed because there isn't anything on the president. There's
nothing on collusion. There's really nothing on obstruction. You can't

(40:29):
you can't get a president on obstruction for doing his
constitutionally authorized and permitted duties. But conspiracy. If you can
link Donald Trump Junior and the Trump Tower meeting and
some other things, and maybe other members of the Trump
family do a very wide, broad based conspiracy charge, then
you could really upset Trump, which has been the objective

(40:54):
of this from the beginning. And I think the aware
the possibility that all of this might be happening explains
why Trump has been on the war path the past
couple of days and why Rudy Giuliani has been on
a warpath the past week. I mean, these guys have
been flooding the media and they have been launching salvo

(41:15):
after salvo after salvo at Muller. Trump is proceeding on
the fact that this whole thing's a witch hunt, that
it's a hunks that none of it is legitimate. Rudy
is just all over the place. And the way to
understand what Rudy is doing is stop thinking of him
as a lawyer. He is a lawyer, and his relationship

(41:36):
with Trump may be that he's been hired as a lawyer,
but the work he's doing is not legal. Rudy is
doing pitbull representation in the media, and I think some
people think that Rudy is winning. The objective here is
to raise public doubt about the integrity and the honesty
of Muller and his investigation. We even had new yesterday

(42:00):
that Trump and his team are preparing their own report,
that Mueller is going to issue a report when this
investigation ends, if it ever does. And it's pretty easy
to predict some of the ingredients of Muller's report. If
he doesn't have Trump on collusion, and he doesn't, then
if he doesn't have any evidence of obstruction, nothing that
can stick. But he is going after conspiracy. He can

(42:23):
write a report that accuses the presidents of behavior being lax, inattentive, irresponsible.
The president's behavior in conduct opened the door for the
Russians to come in and influence art If he writes
a report like that, then the media will pick that up.
That report would be submitted to Rosenstein. Rosenstein would decide

(42:45):
whether to make it public, send it up to Congress.
It would be made public, no doubt, and then the
media would get hold of it, and that would become
the new narrative. Trump may not have colluded, but he
made it possible for the Russians to do what they did.
Trump may not have actual obstructed, but because he was
so lax and so inexperienced, and so outside, so unaware

(43:07):
of how official Washington works, that in his meandering ways,
he may have opened doors for the Russians to enter
our politics in our elections that he wasn't even aware.
He can imagine the impact of a report like that. So,
and I have no doubt that the Muller report will
contain evidence, not evidence, suggestions, and it will be supporting

(43:29):
evidence too, lent credence to whatever these allegations that are
made in the report would happen to be. So Rudy's
out there. I think they are conducting a plan here
that's that's designed to blunt at whatever Mueller ends up
saying reporting by challenging Mueller's authenticity, his integrity, his bias.

(43:57):
That's why Trump keeps talking about this as a hoax
and a win chunk with thirteen Hillary donating investigators and
so forth. And it's why Rudy is going scorched earth.
And this is what the Clintons did. This is what
Bill Clinton and James Carbo and Stephanopolis did with ken Starr.
They turned him into was sex pervert. Since Starr was

(44:17):
investigating Monica Lewinsky, the Blue Dress lying under Oath, the
Paula Jones case, which was about sexual abuse and harassments.
They turned Star into a pervert who was such a
sexual pervert that the only reason he was doing this
is because he got off reading about all the things
Clinton was doing. That's what they tried to characterize ken

(44:38):
Starr is doing so that I think is not accusing
the Trump team of being that perverse. I think their
attacks on Muller are warranted. We've been told that Mueller
is the most honest, the most decent, the man with
the highest in tech rivy of anyone we could find
in Washington to conduct such an important investigation. Well, maybe

(45:00):
within the confines of the swamp, that's what they think.
But the Trump team can't allow that to be what
the general public thinks. If maybe if the report's going
to have all of this negative stuff, they've got to
do whatever they can. Here to Tainton, and anybody in
Trump's position would be doing this except average Republican who

(45:23):
would be sitting along, going along, sitting silent, saying we
must let the system play out and we must deal
with the results as they come, because we are Republicans
and our logo is a gigantic boot print on our backs.
And that's just how Republicans in the past have played this. Now,

(45:44):
in a related thing, Trump had a rally in Tampa
last night that it was to promote the gubernatorial candidacy
of Ronda Santis running for governor Republican side here down
in Florida, and the rally last night, let me just
share with you a report here from somebody at Politico.

(46:08):
Politico's Mark Caputo mocks Trump rally attendees as toothless garbage people.
Political reporter Mark Caputo mocked attendees of Trump's Tampa rally
on Tuesday night, referring to them as toothless garbage people,
and then after eleven hours, Caputo posted an apology. I

(46:28):
need to apologize for tweeting caustic remarks after seeing a
reporter be rated and abused. Hate begets hate. My comments
referred only to those jeering and swearing at the man,
not at a broad swath of people. But the fault
is mine for causing confusion and feeding anger. Nice tribe.

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But the fact of the matter is that even before
the rally happens, people inside the Beltway think exactly that
of most Trump supporters. Toothless garbage people, hey seed hicks, dumb, ignorant, uneducated, stupid,
easily manipulative or manipulative, easily steered the wrong way. Basically

(47:15):
a bunch of disjointed, angry people who cannot adapt to
the transforming of American culture in society. They want to
take it back to the days of the fifties when
they ran the rule and rule the ruist and they
were all in charge. And now those days are gone
and they can't deal with it. And it's a good
thing they have lost out because they are a bunch

(47:36):
of toothless, brain dead people sitting on the deck out
in front of the shack playing the banjo as Burt
Reynolds and the Boys go rafting by that's what they
think of your average Trump voter, and this guy just
happened to let it out. Now he's claiming that what
made him do this was the crowd last night getting
all over Jim Accosta. Jim Acosta CNN, who was a

(47:58):
regular provocateur of Trump crowd last night was shouting CNN sucks,
CNN sucks. And Acosta was telling Wolf Blitzer, Wolf and
CASA can't understand where the crowd saying here saying CNN sucks.
So Acosta was reporting to Wolf what the crowd was
saying at CNN sucks, and then a costas this is
really this is dangerous. This is going to lead to

(48:19):
several people maybe getting hurt. And I keep saying, you mean,
like Steve Scalisee and other Republicans who were shot at
a baseball practice. I'm not aware of any violence having
been perpetrated against any of you. You keep acting like
it's imminent and it's going to happen, and you ignore
the violence that's already happening to Republicans based on the

(48:39):
way you guys in the media are doing your jobs.
And by the way, as far as Acosta is concerned,
let's stop the phony tiers. This guy couldn't get more
name recognition or more popularity in his life if it
weren't for Donald Trump signaling enough. And I will guarantee
you that Acosta secretly and privately loves it. Cited is

(49:00):
he's a typical see and in no name, but Trump
and his administration have singled him out because Acosta decides
to play rude, decides to be a provocateur. He knows
Trump is going to hit back, and I've maintained it.
Acosta loves it secretly every time it happens, and an
acoustic gets to go out and play like he's actually

(49:20):
at war and that there are real bullets being fired
and he's risking his life to go to a Trump
rally and report what's going on. What they really can't
stand is that Trump still sells out and the people
there are still madly in love and totally supportive of Trump.

(49:40):
Those rallies, wherever they happen, are real, live evidence of
the media failure to distance those people from Donald Trump.
They're hoping for half filled arenas. They're hoping for people
showing up who hate Trump being in the majority. They're
hoping to that be the result of their report. They

(50:02):
want to cause that. They're looking at failure each and
every Trump rally and it's driving a batty. Got to
take a break back after that. This is the Limbaugh
Legacy on the EIB Network. Returning now to the Russia
Limboss Show, more of Russia's great moments we've all shared.

(50:24):
I've had a lot of emails from a lot of
people in the past couple of days, and one of
them I received last night that started me thinking. And
I love things that make me think, I'll be honest
with you, and this one did. Do you know how
few people can say that they've had the same ethics,

(50:46):
the same conscience, the same core beliefs, the same morality,
and the same connectivity with themselves in their twenty through
their forties and into the sixties and beyond into their

(51:07):
best years. Do you realize how few people are as
consistent and reliable as you are? And No, I don't
ever stop to think anything like that. I don't think.
See this is why I don't think it's unusual that

(51:27):
things I believed in my heart when I was in
my twenties would not survive my getting to my sixties.
Core believes who I am. I can't. I can't believe.
I can't. I can totally believe that I wouldn't change
in those things. But this person said, you don't know

(51:48):
how rare it is. And what inspired her to write this,
I think she said was a caller that appeared on
the program yesterday's saying basically the same thing back in
just a moment, welcome back to more of great moments
from Russia, Limbaugh, moments we've all shared together. There is
no way that I could begin to touch on or

(52:10):
cover all of what I think are the important things
that have enabled this program to thrive, because there's so
many different events, there's so many people that have been
involved and starting down the road of trying to remember them,
and it started the beginning your chronological order. The minute
you forget somebody, you've got problems. You can't mention them all.

(52:33):
Maybe it's better not to start, But then some of
them are so important you have to mention them. So
I'm hoping there's enough time left today to do as
much of this as I can, because that's what anniversary
days are four remember. Johnny Carson, on his last show
tonight show made a point of saying this is not

(52:55):
a performance show, meaning there were no guests and no monologue,
no jokes, no nothing. It was it was strictly a recap.
You've had some highlights, it had some heartfelt remembrances from
Johnny Carson himself, but he made a point of saying
that was it a performation and that was not an anniversary.
It was his last show. This is an anniversary show
and parts of an R performance show, but parts of

(53:16):
an R archival and filled with remembrance. It's what I
mean about combining these elements. This is from the Rush
to Excellence tour stop in nineteen eighty nine. I hadn't
even been in New York a year yet, maybe maybe
thirteen months. It could have been a year, but I
don't think so kept being pulled back to Sacramento because

(53:38):
how important it was in making this program possible. So
here's the second part. There's there's fifteen thousand people in
the crowd here. This is what's called ARCO Arena. Men. Yeah,
this hit it. This whole experience. Not one bit of
it is work, not one bit of it. It is
all just more fun than I've ever had my life.

(54:01):
It is absolutely no hardship whatsoever to fly around the
country to see people, to be on the radio, or
any of that, but especially to come back here. You
know you enjoy my show, and I appreciate that more

(54:24):
than you'll ever know. I don't want to beat this
into the ground. I'm sure you've all felt like you
weren't going to ever amount to anything, even though you
knew you were capable of it. I felt that way.
The only difference between you and me is that I'm
up here and you're out there. And the only reason
I'm up here is because you're out there. Right. It's

(54:46):
true you may enjoy my show, but I'll tell you
you people, especially you people in this town, in this area,
you don't know it. So I'm going to tell you
you rejuvenated my life. Because a successful radio person is
not a success simply because he does what he does.
People have to listen to it, appreciate it, and support it,
and everybody in this room has. I mean, for me

(55:08):
six years ago to be mired in loneliness and aimlessly
walking through life and then to come here and have
tickets sell out in two hours, my friends, that hits
me in the heart like nothing you can ever imagine
will I mean, I'll tell you I you have rejuvenated

(55:31):
my life and you have made me something I never
even thought I could be. And I have just one
thing to say to you, a sincere and heartfelt thank you.
That was in Sacramento. I wish I knew the month.
It was nineteen eighty nine. I'd have to look it
up an account of the Rushdex store. It had to
be summertimes. It's hot as hell. I meant a hundred
and ten degrees in a daytime out there. And as

(55:52):
I say, if I had the roof open all days,
what the hell's going? I mean, I did this thing
in a touch. We're videotaping it. It went off like
a like a dream. Anyway, it's fun to relive these
these old things, these old moments. That stuff sounds that
I remember Sacramento like it was yesterday. It doesn't seem
like thirty years ago. Anyway, back to the phones. This

(56:14):
is Bob in Coronado, California. I'm glad you waited, sir,
You're next in Hello. Well, congratulations to you Rush. You
richly deserve it, and just always remember that you built it.
I did in the vein. If you didn't build that.
I appreciate that, sir, Thank you, Yes, Rush. What I'd
like to discuss very briefly is as a Trump supporter,

(56:37):
there's a big difference in sort of why I might
be a hidden Trump supporter in two eighteen versus two
thousand and sixteen. There's really two reasons. Number One, In
two thousand and sixteen, I could wear my red Mega
hat around and people were amused by it. In two
thousand and eighteen, liberal people become violent and I don't

(57:01):
wear it, so I can't say it's happened to me,
but I know for a fact. And then the second
difference between two thousand and sixteen and twenty and eighteen.
I could go to dinner with friends in two thousand
and sixteen and you know, have a few adult beverages
and then bring out the fact that I think I'm
going to vote for Donald Trump, and that would be
amusing to them, even liberals, almost like it was self

(57:24):
deprecating humor to admit that you were sort of stupid.
But now if I did it, people will walk away
and never be my friend forever. I mean, it's the
difference between two thousand and sixteen and two eighteen because
of the negative the libs reaction and the press's reaction.
It's a totally different thing that's going on, but I

(57:47):
think the results the same. The people are going to
stay hidden because you just can't be an outspoken, open
Trump supporter. I'd be curious to what your thoughts are
unless you go to a rally where are surrounded by
like minded people. That that's a pretty that's a pretty
stark difference that you have described here. You can't where

(58:08):
your make America grave hat again. You can't have dinner
or socialize with people that didn't vote for Trump because
they've abandoned they don't want any part. What do you
chalk that up to? You haven't changed, have you? No? Um? Rush?
I just I think they they're just very entitled. It's
that elitism. Come but we wait, before you knew these people,

(58:30):
were they that rude? Were they that angry? Were they
were they this lacking in in respect and dignity? I mean,
who do these people think they are? Were they this
arrogant and condescending before Trump came along? Rush? I think
I think they're like it's a it's a common human trait.
I don't think they I don't think many of them

(58:51):
had really ever experienced losing. Maybe things were too easy
for him, and Trump represented losing. You know, maybe George W.
Bush didn't because he was close enough to them, but
Trump represented losing. And I would say, I've been to
two Trump rallies. Agree with what you're saying. Go to
a Trump rally, it's I mean, I wish I could

(59:14):
have gone to a Billy Graham rally when I was
a kid with my grandparents. But go to a Trump
rally exhilarating. Um. There's just no description for how okay.
Well me let me ask you. If you're sitting out
there now, you're you're you're chronicling, sharing with us of
differences in the way you have to live your life.
From twenty sixty to twenty eighteen. You've had to take

(59:35):
off the cap. You've had to go silent and stand
mute about your support for Trump. Um, And you think
a lot of people are having to do that. Does
this Do you think that people like you in twenty
sixteen who were just raring and ready to go vote
for Trump are still as motivated. Are they being dissuaded

(59:58):
from it because of the way they're being treated by people,
by their friends and others. Is this affecting any of them?
Is it making any of them go wobbly? No? Hell no, Rus,
I'll tell you without a doubt, nobody's getting WOBBLI with
four point one percent GDP growth that maybe we'll have
one more print before the election. It might even hit

(01:00:19):
five we people. The people aren't stupid, you know. People
five million people got a thousand or two thousand dollars raise.
People are getting paid more. Yeah, but the consultants are
telling us that then doesn't matter that Trump better be better,
stop this immigration talking and talk about the economy because
people aren't realizing how good they've got it. Yeah, Russ,

(01:00:42):
they're talking to the coastal people. I mean, I live
out here amongst them. I totally get it. You know,
I read because of your recommendation, I read Selena Zito's book.
Oh yeah, the Great, the Great Revolt. They don't talk
to those people, they'll miss it again. There is absolutely
no way provide people use Trump's enthusiasm and they don't

(01:01:03):
become complacent. Right now, let's way the midterms turn out bad.
Let's talk about the midterms though, because when the president
was on here an hour ago, and I asked him
about his strategy leading into the midterms, and he said
something about very interesting. He's not sure. He doesn't know
if support for him right now is transferable to every

(01:01:27):
Republican running for reelection in the House and those in
the Senate. It's another way of saying he's not sure
of his coat tails. And I was. I guess I
was a little surprised, because I would think his coat
tails will still be relevant. But I think everybody voting
for Trump and knows damn well why, and that he'd
better continue to have at least a majority in the

(01:01:48):
House if he has any chance. I think Trump's voters
are sophisticated enough to know that if the Democrats win
the House, all this ends, they're going to just start
oversight investigation, shut down his agenda. Trump voters would better
understand that whatever you think are your local Republican, Trump
needs more Republicans in the House than Democrats are all
this is going to come to a screeching halt. But

(01:02:10):
he said he wasn't quite he wasn't quite certain how transferable,
meaning support for him is for congressional midterm Republican candidates. Well,
rush he said it both ways, that maybe I'll do
it before, maybe I'll do it after. I think he
was I hope he was giving a throwing a bone
to the soft Republicans that want him to Yeah. Yeah,

(01:02:32):
I thought the same thing. I thought that there's something
going on. He made it a point two or three times,
talk about how great they are, but rush what happens
if if we lose? If he loses the mid terms
by two votes? There is no wall. I mean, the
House has to propose bills at the Senate signs onto.
It's not just that, it's not just that there's no wall,

(01:02:56):
there's no agenda. And if the Democrats win the House,
it's going to be nothing but committees that you've never
heard of, investigating this and that about everything Trump's done,
and endless parade of witnesses from the administration. You're going
to see oversight of the executive branch like you've never seen.
If the Democrats win, it's not going to be impeachment.

(01:03:20):
It's not going to be that. They're not going to
get rid of him that way. This is they're salivating
it being able to shut this all down and humiliate
Trump with him in office. And that's why. It's it's
crucial that whatever they're the support for him that exists
out there better be, as he says, transferable. Anyway, I'm
glad you called and I really appreciate you putting up

(01:03:42):
all my questions. It's not what you expected. You did great.
This is the Limbaugh legacy on the EIB network. Welcome
back to more of great moments from Russia Limbaugh moments
we've all shared together. This is the Russia Limbosh Show.

(01:04:06):
This is Alicia in Miami. Hi, Alicia, you're next. It's
great to have your open mind Friday him. Thank you
for having me on your show. You bet um. You
know the first time I heard your program, I think
he was around March twenty something, in twenty oh one. Um,
I was home. I just had to right for Madrid.

(01:04:28):
I married in Madrid with an American citizen and we
decided to move to New York. And you were talking
about how you were losing your hearing, and actually, you
know you moved with the tears because I'm a journalist
and I was thinking, what is he going to do
if you can't hear? How is he going to continue
with this show? I was doing the same thing yeah,

(01:04:53):
that's the thing. You know, you continue to do the
same thing day and day out, and I really got addicted.
And even when I went back to Spain, I would
try to listen to it through the Internet. And then
fast forward to spring of two thousand and nine. I
was I was a correspondent for the newspaper. I was
doing translation and I write, and I was having tower

(01:05:14):
with my my corporate candle syndrome. So I had surgery.
It was really bad, really wrong. It was a medical negligence,
and I lost my fingers, all five fingers with my
left hand. No wait, wait, wait, wait, you lost all
five fingers on your left hand. You are a writer. Yeah,

(01:05:35):
Lucky for me, they just cut the fingers, not the
rest of the hand, because in the beginning they said
it was going to be below elbow. So I'm lucky
and I'm alive. But you know, it's a shock where
you're going to do if you write. So there are
many things to many people to um credit for my recovery,

(01:06:01):
and you're one of them, you know, because you inspired me.
You know, it's like our veterans. They come back without
two limbs, through limbs and they keep going and they
keep doing what they what they do, you know, and
it was the same with you. So just so you know,
I really look up to you, and I listened to

(01:06:22):
your program every day and it was it was really
good what I was doing. We have to keep listening
to you because you know that you can be an
individual with strength in stamina to keep going and just
not be well because it was your fingers. Oh, I
can imagine I when I was when I was losing

(01:06:44):
my hearing. It was but it's obviously scary, but it
was also frustrating. It happened rapidly, but in stages. I
lost it all of six months. It was it was
about ten percent a week at one point, and it
finally one day I came in here and I literally
I called New York the engineer get started on set

(01:07:07):
up for that day's program. I couldn't understand what he's saying.
I heard hurt him. Fine, I just my my hearing
had deteriorated that I could not make out the words.
And so I'm really honored that I could have been
a part in that for you. I know how important
it is, and it's uh now, I don't even think
about it now other than what I like just got

(01:07:28):
a new one on my right side. Then it becomes
a focal point and I tell people about it. But
now to me, it's just normal. How about you? What
is your what is your work around? Um? I'm doing
pretty well. I keep translating. I don't do a lot
of gigs on journalism because I'm really really disappointed at
the state of the profession. So I'm doing a lot
of writing, translating, and I'm doing well. I work at

(01:07:51):
home with my dog and I enjoy itself. Florida. And
what do you do? You use your right Do you
use your right hand to write? No? No, No, both hands,
the wild fingers. I trained myself in the beginning. I
would use UM drug on the voice recognition software, which

(01:08:12):
is very good, but it's not the same when you
write with your hands and when you write with your speech. Well,
you know, that's interesting. That's interesting. You say that because
you know I want to send you, Uh, do you
have Well, I'm gonna send you anywhere you have an
iPad or an iPad many? No, I don't. I want to.
I want to send you an iPad many. You can

(01:08:32):
dictate on it. What what you're what you're calling a
Voice recognition, you can dictate to it um any any
app that has a keyboard, email word processing, you can dictate. Now.
In my case, I speak my thoughts much better than
I write them, because that's what I've done my whole

(01:08:53):
My brain can't keep up with typing on a keyboard,
I but it can keep up with my mouth, or
my mouth can keep up with my brain. So I
just when I when I write anything or a lot
of things, I dictate it and then go back and
clean it up later. Because if I just if I write,
I can't type because I get focused on making mistakes,
correcting them and losing my train of thought, and I

(01:09:14):
get frustrated. And I've learned now that I can actually
dictate my thoughts, speak them with more vocabulary and more
creativity than if I just sit down and write. Thank
you so much. That's so nice. I have to tell
you something else. I just bought your Rush Redier and
the Brace Pilgrims, not for a kid, but for me.

(01:09:34):
I'm enjoying it. You bought it for you? Oh yes, yes,
I'm a Bratches reader. And I tried to improve my
inclusion every day and my learning of history of this
country I'm so glad and so grateful to be able
to become an American, which would be very soon. So

(01:09:55):
oh God, bless you. This is the Limbaugh legacy on
the EIB network. You crashed us three hours in media.
Just keep churning away, my friends, and we are at
the center of it all. You can't turn around Rush

(01:10:16):
and your thoughts and prayers, ladies and gentlemen. Catherine Limbaugh,
Hello everyone. I know that I am most certainly not
the Limbaugh that you tuned in to listen to today.
I like you very much wish Rush was behind this
golden microphone right now, welcoming you to another exceptional three

(01:10:40):
hours of broadcasting. For over thirty two years, Rush has
cherished you his loyal audience and always look forward to
every single show. It is with profound sadness I must
share with you directly that our beloved Rush, my wonderful husband,

(01:11:06):
passed away this morning due to complications from lung cancer.
As so many of you know, losing a loved one
is terribly difficult, even more so when that loved one
is larger than life. Rush will forever be the greatest

(01:11:30):
of all time. Rush was an extraordinary man, a gentle, giant, brilliant,
quick witted, genuinely kind, extremely generous, passionate, courageous, and the

(01:11:51):
hardest working person I know. Despite being one of the
most recognized powerful people in the world, Rush never let
the success change his core or beliefs. He was polite
and respectful to everyone he met, even most recently when

(01:12:17):
he was not feeling well in the hospital. He was
so appreciative to every single doctor and nurse and custodian
and first responder. He never wanted to put anyone out
and always thank them profusely for their help. From today on,

(01:12:43):
there will be a tremendous void in our lives and
of course on the radio. Rush loved our miraculous country
beyond measure. An unwavering patriot, he loved our United States military,

(01:13:04):
our flag, our Constitution, our founding fathers. He proudly fought
and defended conservative values in a way that no one
else can. Rush often stood up and took arrows on
his own because he knew it was the right thing

(01:13:26):
to do. Rush encouraged so many of us to think
for ourselves, to learn, and to lead. He often said,
it did not matter where you started or what you
look like as Americans, we all have endless opportunities. Like

(01:13:48):
nowhere else in the world. Rush gave us hope that,
through hard work and determination, we can overcome the obstacles
and our lives and be our best. Many of you
started small businesses or pursued personal dreams because Rush gave

(01:14:12):
you the faith that you could. He made the most
complex issues simple to understand. While making that level of
genius look easy, it most certainly was anything but easy, irreplaceable,

(01:14:33):
remarkable talent on behalf of the Limbaugh family. I would
personally like to thank each and every one of you
who prayed for Rush and inspired him to keep going.
You rallied around Rush and lifted him up when he

(01:14:57):
needed you the most. I am certain, without a shadow
of a doubt, if he could be here to day,
he would be. He loved you, and he loved this
radio program with every part of his being. Instead, we

(01:15:20):
know our Rush is in heaven, encouraging us in the
same way he always did on Earth. Rush's love for
our country and belief that our best days are ahead
live on eternally in Russia's honor. May we all continue

(01:15:45):
Rushia's mission in our individual lives and communities I know
all of you listening are terribly sad. We all are.
I'm terribly sorry to have to deliver this news to you.

(01:16:10):
God bless you Rush, and God bless our country. The
day is going to come, folks, Run not going to
be able to do this. I don't know when that is.
I want to be able to do it for as
long as I want to do it, but the day
will come where I'm not going to be able to
do And I want you to understand that even when

(01:16:33):
the day comes, I'd like to be here if I
have this sense of needing to constantly show my appreciation
for all that you have done and meant to me.

(01:16:54):
here for all of us. And if he can't be
here today, let's be here for hand. We are back
America's Anchorman, America's truth Detector. The views expressed on this

(01:17:19):
six percent of a time, that's the latest opinion on
an end from the Sullivan Group, and you are part
of the fastest three hours in media. Russilyan ball having
more fun than a human being, should be allowed to
have nation's leading radio talk show, the most eagerly anticipated program,

(01:17:42):
an America program which meets and surpasses all audience expectations
on a daily basis. I am your host for life,
not retiring until every American agrees with me. And if
he can't be here today, let's be here for him.
This programs for you. Rush from all of us. This

(01:18:06):
is the EIB network. More of Brush's words, a wisdom
to remember, We'll rush you kick up a Reagan and
all of that. But you know Reagan, ear of Reagan's
over so long ago or whatever. You know. The question

(01:18:27):
is how did Reagan overcome the media? The media hated
Reagan as much as they hate Bush. The media hated
Reagan as much as they've hated Nixon. The media hated
Reagan as much as anybody has ever hated the Republicans.
Don't doubt me. For those of you that weren't alive,
do not doubt me. Reagan was hated and despised the

(01:18:47):
players were different. Their names are Sam Donaldson and Dan
Dan Blatherin. So but he was just as despised as
any media hated Bush or Nixon. And yet you've heard that, Yeah, well,
but Reagan he had this charism. He was able to
speak directly to the American people. He was able to

(01:19:11):
go over the heads of the media and speak to
the people unfiltered. True, but that's not why Reagan succeeded.
It all comes down to the same thing, substance and

(01:19:31):
reality versus spin, PR, buzz and myth. The end result,
look at what happened when Reagan was president. The economy
grew like gangbusters. I don't care what the media saying.
The reality was the economy was great. We were vanquishing

(01:19:57):
communist foes foreign policy. And then the point here is
the way you overcome the media is with success on
the ground. But you don't vie for a buzz success
or a PR success. You don't try to have success

(01:20:17):
that's defined by persuading as many people as possible you're successful.
You define success by being successful implementing policies that work
that really benefited people because they helped themselves. The reason
Reagan was able to overcome the media is because his
policies revived the country which was in as bad a

(01:20:41):
shape in the latter seventies as it is now, which
is precisely what we need. Again. We don't need pr
tactics to try to convince the media we're not mean
or bad. We don't need tactics to get the media fool.
We just need somebody who has unabashedly and unafraid conservative
who will implement policies that will work and will bring

(01:21:05):
actual positive results to people's lives. And then it doesn't
matter what the media says. They'll look like buffoons like
they did in the eighties. It's just it's substance over symbolism,
reality over buzz. That's all it is back after this.

(01:21:28):
But my dream would be if everybody in this audience,
or if everybody who would just listen to me two times,
would get it about liberalism. That's the great threat that
we face. The great challenge of our time is liberalism
or socialism communism, which now all find their home in
the Democrat Party. They must lose and lose elections. They

(01:21:52):
must continue to lose elections. They must never become the
majority in this country. They must never become the majority
of thinking. They've always been around, they always will be,
but they need to be defeated politically, annihilated politically on
an ongoing, consistent basis. It's a tough chore. Most people

(01:22:14):
don't see other people ideologically. Most people don't see other
people politically. Note that's how the left is trying to
accomplish it though identity politics. They're trying to get people
who are wavering and don't really care about all this
stuff to hate us on the basis of race, or
the basis of gender, or what have you. They steer

(01:22:36):
away from ideas. They can't win debates and ideas, so
they cloak and camouflage their objectives and other things like
compassion and happiness, freedom, whatever else, when they stand for
the exact opposite of these things. So that's why I
spend time talking about this. It's just an ongoing effort
to educate people. But I think is the greatest threat

(01:22:58):
that we face now. Consequently, they think the same thing.
They think the greatest threat that we face is us,
and they're right because we are standing directly in the
way of they're amassing all of this power that they want.
We do not want power. Over them. We just want

(01:23:18):
them to lose. We just want them to remain a minority.
I don't care if they're happy or unhappy. Part of it.
We love everybody. We want everybody to appreciate living in
this country. We want everybody to be able to access
the wonderful opportunities this country provides everybody. Intellectually, I don't
understand liberalism, and there's no way anybody can because it

(01:23:39):
isn't an intellectual application. It's not about thinking. Liberalism is
totally about feeling, and ironically, that's one of the reasons
why it continues to seduce people. The emotions have much
deeper impressions, make much deeper impressions, and they're much longer
lasting than the words that people here. Well, that's a

(01:24:02):
tough thing for me to admit, because I'm in the
word business. No, I don't come here dripping emotions all
the time, but it is. It is true. People people
don't remember what you say, but they'll never forget how
you make him feel. So if in this case, if
Trump is making people feel confident, if Trump makes people
feel happy, if Trump makes people feel involved, engaged, if

(01:24:25):
Trump makes people feel like that the country has a
chance with him, the hell with what he's saying. It
won't matter. While all the critics a Trump, can you
believe what he's saying? Do you believe what he's said
about Bush? How could his supporters? Why? God Rush, how
could his support it? How can you excuse what Trump's saying?
Nobody's hearing what Trump's saying. Isn't it evident? By now
whatever he's saying doesn't matter. It's not causing him any support,

(01:24:48):
costing him any support. It's all about how he's making
people feel. And I would submit to you it's the
same thing with Obama and by the same token, if
you have your average wet noodle Republican could be who knows, brilliant,
smartin whatever. If there's no charisma personality there, I don't
have anybody in mind. I'm just using this as a exercise.

(01:25:10):
This the emotional component of politics, one of the most
frustrating aspects of it to me, because I don't know
how you battle it. I don't know how you talk
people out of their emotions. I don't know how you
talk people out of the fact that some returning now
to the Russia them Boss show more of Russia's great
moments we've all shared and we go back to the
phones we have run highway around h Russia is in Atlanta. Okay, great,

(01:25:37):
how you doing? Sar doing? Great? Listener? Since about ninety two, Hey, listen, Rush.
One of the things that makes your program so outstanding,
obviously besides your humble self, is the parodies that you
come up with. I mean, nobody does what you do
on a regular basis, and I'm curious about the creative process.

(01:25:59):
Where do those come from? Do you think of them
and say, hey, mister Paul Shanklin, make me a parody
about this, or do people send them to you? How
they The parodies had kind of an interesting life span.
When the program first started, I was I mean it
was it. Every song, parody and bit was something that

(01:26:21):
I had prepped and stored up and wanted to use
for a while. This inspired people to start sending things in,
and some of them were usable, and I did ignorantly
I thought they were genuine contributors. And later I started
getting bills and people demanding that I announced who did
the parish. I stopped accepting anything that was submitted. I

(01:26:47):
learned earlier it was a big trick behind that not
just with parodies, but any any number of things. Where
we currently are now we have a satirist, the white
comedian Paul Shanklin, who lives in Tennessee, who he basically
scripts these. He does the impersonations, He does the voice

(01:27:11):
synthesization to facilitate the impersonations, and it's it's all a
result of what happens on the program that serves as
the inspiration. Sometimes I have an idea to ask him
to do it, but he submits, I like it, use
it. It It wants some changes changing, but they're basically spontaneous
based on what happens in the news. The parody is

(01:27:32):
the satires have taken a fascinating I stop and thinking
about it road in the way they happened. There are
many phases. This program is going through any phases. The
opening phase when it was brand new, nothing like it,
nothing else out there like it. It was just hot

(01:27:53):
as firecrackers going through the roof. I remember going to
Atlanta to a football game in the whole stadium, stopping
and aploy said, Bush Stadium in Saint Louis because it
was so brandy, what has nothing like it? It was
the first national conservative show and it was, it wasn't
just politics. We're making fun of liberals with parodies and
all kinds of stuff was and then that dies down

(01:28:18):
after it becomes more settled in and program hopefully never static.
It's constantly growing and changing and adapting to all kinds
of factors. The host gets older and more mature, the
subject matter becomes more serious, different power players in Washington
and in the media determining what's discussed. Every it's just

(01:28:39):
it's a it could never get stale if you stay
hip to it. And so the parodies are in the
same way. And early on when it was Brandy, you know,
success as many fathers and failure is an orphan and
a couple that with robust naivete on my part. So

(01:29:01):
first two years, I mean, I've got all kinds of
little helpers out there that I don't know. People are
sending me their thoughts on things, and most of it
was up and up, and some of it I said,
this is really good, and I would I would share it,
sometimes identify it or not. And in some cases I
found out that people sending stuff had their own websites,

(01:29:24):
and I ended up being accused of copying and stealing
from their website it was set up. There were other
times where a spouse you know, you've used enough of this,
don't you think you should start paying this this? And
I said, wait, I'm just trying to be nice. For
crying out loud, you're going to troubles there. It's trying
to be nice. So I eventually said, to hell with it.
The inclusive of this isn't just going to be me

(01:29:46):
only mean none of this other outside stuff being nice
doesn't work. And the parodies were the same way. There
were there were things that were submitted over the transom.
One of the most famous parodies here that was not
commissioned per se was the parody of Dion and the

(01:30:08):
Wanderer the Swimmer with Ted Kennedy and that was that
was submitted by a couple of guys in Albany. And uh, yeah,
it's it's a it's a great import Dion de Mucci.
The song was Ted Kennedy singing it. Yeah, let's said

(01:30:30):
this a little bit of it here. You see the
people's flavor what we're talking about here. This was submitted
over to transom from Albany. Didn't know the guy played
an over and over again for I'm I'm the guy
who would never settle down with pretty girls. Well you
know that I'm around. I can a man. I love him,
pushed to be. They were all the same. I get

(01:30:52):
so goshed on himid I don't even know their name
because I'm a Philander. Yeshandra, I sleep around, around, around,
around around. My muser on the left, got a member
on the right. Only God will know where I'll be
passing out tonight. And if you want to ask me

(01:31:14):
which girl I love the best, I'll care open my shirt.
Got mother Rosie on my chest because I'm a philanderer. Yes,
a Philander. I sleep around, around, around, around, around. Yeah,
I'm the type of guy he likes to roam around.
I never in one place. I roam from town to town.

(01:31:37):
And when I find myself blowing bush up, girl, I've
heart righted it. Car of mine, I think afore a
world design with Kennedy. Yes, I'm Ted Kennedy. The cosh
been round and round and round and round and round,

(01:31:57):
never up. Every every time we play one of these
that inspire others. And we had a group from California
called Dave Smith Band, and they they alerted us to
the Klausnomy. Uh it was. It was the massive growth era.

(01:32:19):
But the current evolution now is that Paul Shanklin is
our official satirist and parody. UH produces them and he's
the white comedian uh In it lives in Memphis or
National somewhere in Tennessee, doesn't matter where he is. And
it's all derivative of what happens on the programs. It's
a it's a collaborative process, but they're not scripted in advance.

(01:32:44):
It's a lot of its the singers have to be
hired and all that, but it's it's the more improvit is,
the better, and the sooner it gets done after an
event happens, the better. Some of these things used to
take three months or three weeks to produce him at
that time of the issues over and dead and gone
with m oh I born free, Well that that wasn't

(01:33:07):
That was just Andy Williams and I just put a
bunch of guns and bombs and explosions over it. Tweaking,
the tweaking again all Rush the Knife, Rush the Knife,
This one what a history. A FedEx driver or ups
in Las Vegas created Rush the Knife based on Mac

(01:33:32):
the Knife by Bobby Darren and it was just classic.
It was it still holds up to this day, and
we can't play it because it's owned by the estate
of whoever it was. It owns the Threepenny Opera, and
we're under threat of jail if we ever played against

(01:33:52):
on anniversary shows. We've snuck in like twenty seconds of
it fair use and we just rolled the dice. Under
the philosophy, it's better to apologize and ask for permission. Um. Now,
the rushhawk and singers and barber should a law that
was over the over the translator, the opera singer from
the soloist soprano from from Dallas. The audience got into

(01:34:14):
the program. They were just the number of people buying
billboards for the Dan's bake sale. They're not four Collas
Colorado anyway. That's that's an overview of the of the
parody situation. But his question was about the creativity of it,
I think, and that's that it all is inspired by

(01:34:35):
what happens on the program and creative juices flow from that.
I mean, for every parody that you hear, they're probably
two or three that are submitted that don't pass muster.
We're kind of like Apple in that regard, we don't
use it and we're ready to use if it's if
it's right. Sometimes we'll test markets somethink we're not sure of.
But and all of these are on display, constant for
people to call the program and are on the whole.

(01:34:56):
That's what we do is play the parodies, you know,
rather than elevator music music put people as This is
the Limbaugh legacy on the EIB network. Returning now to
the Russia Limboss Show, more of Russia's great moments we've

(01:35:17):
all shared. I want to go to the phones for
a brief moment. I just saw a note. There was
a young young girl on the phone Friday during open
line Friday that apparently we didn't get to. She's thirteen.
She was on hold for most of the program. Her
name is Olivia, San Antonio, Texas. And Olivia. First, I'm

(01:35:37):
sorry you held office so long Friday, but I'm very
gratified that you did. I'm very grateful and I'm glad
you're back here today. We got her number, she let us,
she let her parents graciously allowed us to call her back.
So here you are, Olivia, Thank you so much. How
are you doing good. How are you well? I'm great,
great to have you and it's great to know that
you're out there. I just wanted to say I love well.

(01:36:03):
My whole family loved your Rest Review series. We think
that Liberty is our favorite character. We just love you
and Liberty together. It's hilarious. And my family went odd
a history trip in the fall and we listened to

(01:36:30):
your books and then we went and sold the famous
site that you talked about in your books? You did?
How long did that take? I mean, did you go
to all of them? Did I understand you correctly? Yeah,
we went up the East coast and it took seven weeks.

(01:36:54):
Seven We took a seven week trip to visit every
historical place we wrote about in the Rush Review books. Yes,
holy seven week. Did you do them all back to
back or did you do a week here and then
a week there? You just devoted seven weeks them all
back to back. We drove, drove it drove. I am

(01:37:17):
I'm floored. How many in your family? Five of us
with my grandparents, my sisters, my mob and did be
well what did you think? Okay, so you had listened
to you said you listen to the books. You listen
to the audio version, and did you read them too?
I haven't read them. I've listened to them. Okay, well

(01:37:41):
that's good because you got to hear me read them,
and that's that's that's as good as reading them. You
can't do better than that. So what did you think
of all these places? I mean you heard about them
in the books and then you see them. Uh, were
your expectations met? Were you glad you did this? Yes?
Did you have a favorite? Did you have a favorite

(01:38:02):
place or a most a most meaningful place? I think
I like the I actually got to stand on the
spot where the Boston Point Boston. There's some so many
spots in Boston that we wrote about. That's the Old Church,

(01:38:23):
the Revere locations. They're just well, I'm so happy that
you did that. I've I've I've had some calls some
people that went to a couple they take a week here,
a couple of weeks, they're going to certain places. But
you did all in your family with you. That is um,

(01:38:44):
that's just above and bear. You know we you say
your favorite your favorite character is Liberty. Yet well we
have the whole Revere operation. We've got a whole goodie
bag full of exciting, really good stuff. That's something like
you would love to have if you are, if you
are that into these books, which is just great. I'm

(01:39:06):
floored that that that you had the time, your family
took us time to do this. Uh. We put a
lot of time right in these books, and we wanted
to get them as historically accurate as as possible. Uh.
You know, we we believe, Olivia, that if more people
actually knew, if they were taught the really unique and

(01:39:27):
great aspects of American history, that we wouldn't have as
many problems in the country as we have today because
there wouldn't be so many misunderstandings about what kind of
country we are and what our founders intended it to be.
So I'm just I'm so moved to learn that you
did this. We've how everyone about the books that we

(01:39:58):
we've how the all about our history traps, and we
tell them about your books. I can't that that's even
better that you're doing that. It's too bad you didn't
have a stash of them to give away as you
were telling everybody about maybe we could do something about that. Look, Olivia,

(01:40:21):
thank thank you so much. Now don't hang up, because
we need to get a mailing address for you where
we can send you the Liberty Revere goodie package and
some other surprises in there. Because this is really above
and beyond the call what you've done here. You've really
gotten so into it the reason we did this. You

(01:40:42):
have epitomized the reason that we did these books. I
would love that. Thank you so much. I can't thank
you enough. Olivia, Thank you so much. You remember, don't
hang up a nice man, mister Snerdley will be with
you in mere moments to get your mailing dress. Boy.
Folks a meth that that kind of feedback. Seven weeks

(01:41:07):
to visit all the spots. They say their family took
her five of them. That's just it's amazing, flat out amazing.
Thank you again, Olivia and Olivia's parents there from San Antonio, Texas.
And she was on hold. It was open line Friday.
She was in the whole a long time Friday, and

(01:41:28):
I made the mistake of not getting to her, so
she let us call her back. This is the Limbaugh
legacy on the EIB network. Welcome back to more of
great moments from Russia. Limbaugh. This is Dwayne and Boston.
Great to have you sir the EiV Network. Hello, UM.

(01:41:51):
The reason why I called um, I've been listening since
high school fifty four now. My mom gave me a
book of yours in high school, and I talking about
it online the other night after you got your award
African American Christian. But I'm conservative, so you know, I'm
automatically and Hawaiah and in certain circles. But I was
talking about how me and my follows on need to

(01:42:15):
keep you lifted up in prayer and cover you and
your family and your wife, and and stand with you
while you go through because I believe you come out
on the other side of victorious. And while I was
doing that, a guy I started going in on me
and my mom. My mom's been dead since two thousand
and ten, but he said, oh, your mom gave you
a Rush book. That should give you a what's what's
the call Marx book as well,

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