August 2, 2021 • 8 mins
RUSH: Greetings, my friends, and welcome to the one and only EIB Network and the Rush Limbaugh program on the 1st of August, 2018. This is our 30th anniversary of this program, and I have to tell you, I have been so conflicted all day about how to deal with this. My heart rate monitor on my watch says my heart rate’s been elevated about 10 to 15 beats above normal because of all the excitement and everything about this day. The reason is I’m waiting for the door to open because nobody’s on the other side of the glass, which means… (interruption) Here it comes. They’re gonna be coming in with the celebratory cake and the bottle of champagne.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Greetings, my friends, and welcome to the one and only
I I V Network and a Russia Limbaugh program. On
the first of August two thousand eighteen. This is our
thirtieth anniversary of this program, and I have to tell
you I have been so conflicted all day about how to,
how to how to deal with this. My heart rate
(00:21):
monitor on my watch, my heart rate has been elevated
about ten to fifty and beats above normal because of
the all the excitement and everything about about this day
and the reason I'm waiting for the door to open
because nobody's on the other side of the glass, which
means here it comes. They're gonna be coming in with
the celebratory cake and the bottle of champagne. It's a
(00:44):
four bunch of people that have showed up here today.
You know, it's no matter. I've been through this. Well,
it's a gorgeous cake. It's a gorgeous cake, and there's
only one candle on it, so it's impossible not to
blow the out and it's done a shame. We can
(01:06):
get everybody from the highly overrated staff here. You want
to pop it, Go ahead, Popp and he's gonna pop
the champagne. Make it here we go. Oh, you're actually
going to pour a glass. See, this is what I've
been conflicted about, whether or not WHET or not the thedden.
You see, it's totally out of my control here. Enjoy anyway,
(01:31):
thank you all very much. I um uh, and tell
what we're gonna do here today. We we haven't prepared
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
(01:53):
I don't think we've aired before. Cookie thinks that we
have an exclusive little montage of me doing a morning
show I think back in n 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 at
(02:17):
at at a high degree of quality 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 are 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
(02:39):
this as the as the program goes on. But rather
than do wall to wall one thing, I'm just gonna
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, uh, political commentary,
(03:02):
all with credibility on whatever we tackle and so forth.
And of course then there is you, I mean, and
you with 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
(03:23):
the phones and I get calls from people who tell
me how long they've been listening. Since nineteen, since nineteen ninety,
since nine. It's a stunning and amazing thing, and it
is deeply, deeply gratifying. And I'm going to try during
(03:45):
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
here in the 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 and
(04:06):
I'm going to do this program like any other. That's
why you're there, and so we'll just do it as
it happens. It happens. So 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
(04:29):
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, the same conscience, the same core beliefs,
the same morality, and the same connectivity with themselves in
(04:51):
their twenties, through their forties and into the sixties and
beyond the best years. Do you realize how few people
are as consistent and reliable as you are? And no,
(05:11):
I don't ever stop to think of anything like that.
I don't think. See this is why I don't think
it's unusual that 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.
(05:32):
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 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. Russia Limbaugh thirtieth Anniversary Day, August one program began.
(05:58):
When that program again, the Republican Convention just ended. It
was close to have George W. Bush or George H. W.
Bush was to be UH nominated to complete his mission,
meaning take on his World War two mission, where he
had been shut down UH and vice president for Reagan
(06:21):
for for eight years, and now it was his turn,
and he ended up facing the loser, and it was
the name we gave to Michael decocously Democrat nominee. The
program launched right in the thick and the middle of
that of that presidential campaign, and I've been thinking about,
you know, people asked me, are you aware of the
thirty years? Yeah, you know, I did. Some of it
(06:42):
seems like it happened yesterday. A lot of it does.
There's none of it that seems like it's thirty years old.
I don't. I'm not able even though I've done this. Actually,
if you count the three and half years in Sacramento,
which were exactly like this show would just a cold station,
that's that's thirty three and a half years. I even
(07:04):
though I've done it, I don't have a cognizance of
the passage of time of thirty years. I know thirty
years have gone by, but so much of it seems
like it was yesterday. And I think there's a reason
for that. I think I always everything that I do,
or that everything that happens to me, I always try
(07:25):
to learn from it, and I'm very analytical and philosophical,
and I do get introspective in so far as it
can help me improve. I don't relive the past and
and uh sort of just try to surround myself with
a glow. I'd always try to use what happened in
the past two continue to grow, get better and to
(07:48):
learn and so forth. So in that sense, i'm I'm
I'm introspective. And people saying the show is, you know,
it used to be better back in the eighties, used
to be better back in the nineties, and I stopped
and think, is that really true? No two shows are
the same. So I think it's never been better, And
there are reasons why I think it's never been better,
and I don't think. I don't think a radio show
that even I did when I was forty could compete
(08:10):
with the show that I do today. I didn't know
back in you know, nineteen ninety what I know today.
I couldn't possibly have done today's show back in nineteen ninety.
I didn't know enough. I hadn't lived enough
Greetings, my friends, and welcome to the one and only
I I V Network and a Russia Limbaugh program. On
the first of August two thousand eighteen. This is our
thirtieth anniversary of this program, and I have to tell
you I have been so conflicted all day about how to,
how to how to deal with this. My heart rate
(00:21):
monitor on my watch, my heart rate has been elevated
about ten to fifty and beats above normal because of
the all the excitement and everything about about this day
and the reason I'm waiting for the door to open
because nobody's on the other side of the glass, which
means here it comes. They're gonna be coming in with
the celebratory cake and the bottle of champagne. It's a
(00:44):
four bunch of people that have showed up here today.
You know, it's no matter. I've been through this. Well,
it's a gorgeous cake. It's a gorgeous cake, and there's
only one candle on it, so it's impossible not to
blow the out and it's done a shame. We can
(01:06):
get everybody from the highly overrated staff here. You want
to pop it, Go ahead, Popp and he's gonna pop
the champagne. Make it here we go. Oh, you're actually
going to pour a glass. See, this is what I've
been conflicted about, whether or not WHET or not the thedden.
You see, it's totally out of my control here. Enjoy anyway,
(01:31):
thank you all very much. I um uh, and tell
what we're gonna do here today. We we haven't prepared
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
(01:53):
I don't think we've aired before. Cookie thinks that we
have an exclusive little montage of me doing a morning
show I think back in n 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 at
(02:17):
at at a high degree of quality 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 are 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
(02:39):
this as the as the program goes on. But rather
than do wall to wall one thing, I'm just gonna
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, uh, political commentary,
(03:02):
all with credibility on whatever we tackle and so forth.
And of course then there is you, I mean, and
you with 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
(03:23):
the phones and I get calls from people who tell
me how long they've been listening. Since nineteen, since nineteen ninety,
since nine. It's a stunning and amazing thing, and it
is deeply, deeply gratifying. And I'm going to try during
(03:45):
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
here in the 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 and
(04:06):
I'm going to do this program like any other. That's
why you're there, and so we'll just do it as
it happens. It happens. So 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
(04:29):
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, the same conscience, the same core beliefs,
the same morality, and the same connectivity with themselves in
(04:51):
their twenties, through their forties and into the sixties and
beyond the best years. Do you realize how few people
are as consistent and reliable as you are? And no,
(05:11):
I don't ever stop to think of anything like that.
I don't think. See this is why I don't think
it's unusual that 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.
(05:32):
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 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. Russia Limbaugh thirtieth Anniversary Day, August one program began.
(05:58):
When that program again, the Republican Convention just ended. It
was close to have George W. Bush or George H. W.
Bush was to be UH nominated to complete his mission,
meaning take on his World War two mission, where he
had been shut down UH and vice president for Reagan
(06:21):
for for eight years, and now it was his turn,
and he ended up facing the loser, and it was
the name we gave to Michael decocously Democrat nominee. The
program launched right in the thick and the middle of
that of that presidential campaign, and I've been thinking about,
you know, people asked me, are you aware of the
thirty years? Yeah, you know, I did. Some of it
(06:42):
seems like it happened yesterday. A lot of it does.
There's none of it that seems like it's thirty years old.
I don't. I'm not able even though I've done this. Actually,
if you count the three and half years in Sacramento,
which were exactly like this show would just a cold station,
that's that's thirty three and a half years. I even
(07:04):
though I've done it, I don't have a cognizance of
the passage of time of thirty years. I know thirty
years have gone by, but so much of it seems
like it was yesterday. And I think there's a reason
for that. I think I always everything that I do,
or that everything that happens to me, I always try
(07:25):
to learn from it, and I'm very analytical and philosophical,
and I do get introspective in so far as it
can help me improve. I don't relive the past and
and uh sort of just try to surround myself with
a glow. I'd always try to use what happened in
the past two continue to grow, get better and to
(07:48):
learn and so forth. So in that sense, i'm I'm
I'm introspective. And people saying the show is, you know,
it used to be better back in the eighties, used
to be better back in the nineties, and I stopped
and think, is that really true? No two shows are
the same. So I think it's never been better, And
there are reasons why I think it's never been better,
and I don't think. I don't think a radio show
that even I did when I was forty could compete
(08:10):
with the show that I do today. I didn't know
back in you know, nineteen ninety what I know today.
I couldn't possibly have done today's show back in nineteen ninety.
I didn't know enough. I hadn't lived enough
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