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Father of 11: You’ve Made Mannheim Steamroller a Part of Our Christmas

Dec 23, 2014

RUSH: A little Mannheim Steamroller there. The tune is called Pat-a-Pan. I’ll tell you, you cannot go wrong if Christmas music is part of your holiday evening, late afternoon. Everybody has their standards and favorites. Mannheim Steamroller, it’s all instrumental. I have a bit of an emotional attachment to it. It happened to be some of the first Christmas music I, by happenstance, happened to be listening to upon learning of the death of my father. I’ve had this emotional connection. It was on an airplane, 40,000 feet, looking out the window. I thought I was looking at heaven.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Little man Heim steam Roller. Here. The tune is called Patapan.
I'll tell you cannot you cannot go wrong if Christmas
music is part of your holiday evening, late afternoon. Everybody

(00:34):
has their standards and favorites. Manheim steam It's all instrumental.
I have a bit of an emotional attachment to it.
It happened to be some of the first Christmas music

(00:54):
my happenstance. They happen to be listening to upon the
learning of the death of my father, and I've I've
had this emotional connection. It was on an airplane, forty
feet looking out the window. I thought I was looking
at Heaven. Here is David in More, Oklahoma's we start

(01:18):
on the Phone's great to have you today, sir. Hello,
Merry Christmas Fresh, same to you, sir. I just wanted
to let you know when every holiday rolls around, we
think of you, and you are almost invariably a part
of our holiday. Whether it's Fourth of July when we
read the essay that your dad wrote about the Americans
who risked everything, um you reading the True Meaning of Thanksgiving,

(01:44):
the True Story of Thanksgiving, and George Washington's proclamation um
even and at Christmas time especially. I know this is
the time of you when you get very thankful. And
you actually introduced us to Mannheim steam Roller and now
steele a knocked. Is uh a valuable part of what
we do as a family. And is that not just

(02:06):
a beautiful version of that song? What what we do
is we all sit around uh, after we've decorated the
Christmas tree. By the way, I have eleven Rush babies.
I've been listening to you since nineteen Yes, sir, since
ninety nine when I took my baby girl home from
the hospital. You were on the radio. I promised you

(02:29):
this is true. You were on the radio and you
have been inculcating our children ever since. Um, I just
want to let you know you were such a part
of our family and we anyway, we sit around the
tree after we've decorated, we turn off all the lights
except for the Christmas lights. We listened to Knox as
we enjoy egg nog or whatever it is that that

(02:50):
we want to enjoy and we get we just contemplate
the meaning of Christmas and all the things that we're
thankful for, and Rush you were right up there. Uh.
And I know we've never met we've spoken several times,
you've spoken to my wife on occasion, but we we
just love you, and I just I believe that I
know you are very thankful for everything you've received, and
I also know that it's because the Lord has blessed

(03:11):
you in proportion to how you have blessed other people
with your children's books, educating them about the true history
of America. How you defend our traditions and our principles
and our values. I'm just I'm so thankful for that,
and so I just want to wish you a very
merry Christmas. Well, thank you sir very much. That's uh,

(03:34):
that's very touching, David, and I appreciate it profoundly. Um,
It's it's it echoes my thoughts as well about all
of you. You know, people thanksgiving, people give thanks for
some of the Christmas time has always been when when
the sense of gratitude for my good fortune overwhelms me,

(03:56):
and I I share it with people. But I'm honored.
I am honored to hold a place, uh in in
your family's Christmas and holiday celebrations the way you described
you can't know how that honors me, and I appreciate
it very much.