Remembering Rush
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0:41Rapid Radios. Welcome to a very special edition of After Hours with producer Allie.
0:53And producer Greg. We wanted to put this podcast together to commemorate the five -year
0:58passing of our El Rush bow.
1:01How has it been five years?
1:03I know. You can knock me over with a feather just at the thought of
1:06it. It seems like yesterday.
1:08We do want to acknowledge this anniversary because it is kind of a milestone at
1:12five years and put something together for the audience who still misses Rush, still yearns
1:19to hear from Rush, and just our way of honoring him, really.
1:23Absolutely. For someone, for people like us who work on the Clay and Buck show
1:28today and are thrilled to be there, we're really having a great time and we're
1:32having, you know, it's going along very well.
1:35And yet we were also with Rush's show back in the day.
1:40This is, it's bittersweet. It's the only way that I can really say it.
1:45It's because it's just so many conflicting emotions.
1:49There's moments where I'll hear something in the news or Clay and Buck will say
1:54something and I'll have these little glimpses and memories, almost like losing anyone in your
1:58life. There's a memory not far behind.
2:02Absolutely. I encounter it quite frequently with callers who will say, call and say, oh,
2:09Rush used to talk about this.
2:10It just happened this week, as a matter of fact.
2:13Rush talked about this and Rush talked about that.
2:16And oh, you got to remind Clay and Buck about what Rush said about X,
2:20Y, or Z. And so it's still fresh in all of your memories.
2:26Well, it's like when you lose a family member and you often refer to them
2:29in the same way. Or, oh my gosh, my uncle used to always say this.
2:32Or, oh my God, this really reminds me of mom right now.
2:36So that's how we feel.
2:38I mean, I was with Rush since I started in April of 2001 and you
2:43came on the scene. 2007.
2:45Yeah. So we've been with him a long time and there is so much content.
2:50So Greg, when we were thinking about putting this podcast together and what clips we
2:54would choose and we could go on for hours and hours.
2:57So we're like, we got to limit it.
2:5830 some years, 32 years.
3:00So let's have a goal of one hour.
3:02Okay. Okay. Well, you know when your wife tells you, I don't know if Lisa
3:05does this, your wife tells you, okay, I need you to do a cleanup project
3:08at home and it involves anything having to do with old videos or photos.
3:14My husband is away for a couple months doing a play.
3:17He's an actor. So I had the task of going through all of our photo
3:21albums in old VHS tape, so many bins in our apartment.
3:25We live in a small apartment.
3:26So I had to organize and I promised him I would clear out.
3:29This is not an ad for Legacy Box.
3:31I got sitting on the floor.
3:33It's now one month into my project and I just got so caught up looking
3:38at all the photos and just went down that rabbit hole of memories and that's
3:43kind of how I feel in putting together this podcast.
3:46You and I were going through the archives and I had the same thing happen.
3:51I ended up down a rabbit hole two hours later.
3:54What are we going to choose and highlight?
3:57There's just so many rich, wonderful, funny memories.
4:01Just before we came in here to sit down and start this recording, I was
4:05back in the war room just pulling up old clips from the Rush show, things
4:12that we highlighted on the anniversaries, the 20th, 25th, 30th anniversaries and other things from
4:18out throughout the years, laughing my head off, just talking about going down a rabbit
4:23hole. First it was this one, then it was that one, gravitas, and then this
4:27other montage and we're in the process of pulling some really great stuff for you
4:33that's meaningful and yet funny.
4:36We're going to time travel together.
4:38This podcast is going to be a little bit of everything for you.
4:41Yeah, we decided to put it into categories.
4:44Encapsulate and just give a tip of the hat to what Rush meant to all
4:50of us. That's right. And where we are today.
4:52And speaking of categories, cat -y -gories, it wouldn't be Rush without his love of
5:00animals, specifically cats and then later years dogs.
5:04But let's face it, cats came first.
5:07And his love affair with Pumpkin and then Allie, the cat that followed.
5:14Right. We had some funny memories with that.
5:16One of the clips I wanted to revisit, actually there were two, I had five,
5:21but I said, okay, got to limit it.
5:23So one of the clips was Rush's structure.
5:25Goals in getting the cat in the cat carrier.
5:28Oh, gosh. Okay, we're going to go to the phones.
5:31We had a bunch of people want to help me learn how to put my
5:35cat in a travel carrier.
5:39Like, I don't know. But we synthesized these down to one call.
5:45Many of them had the same helpful suggestions.
5:48This is Noreen in Downey, California.
5:51Glad you called, Noreen. How are you?
5:53I'm very good, Rush. Good morning to you.
5:55Thank you. I'm calling because I think I have a great solution for you and
5:59your pet. I know that you're upset and your cat's upset, but they make these
6:03nice soft -sided carriers that unzip on the top so that when you're picking up
6:09your kitty, you just hold it like you're petting it and you have it calm
6:12and you set it down inside the carrier and have somebody else help you zip
6:17it up really quick instead of trying to force her through the little door in
6:21the front where she can fight you.
6:22Also, it helps if you sing to your cat when you're picking her up so
6:27that she's calm. You mean instead of saying, little bitch, get in the damn carrier,
6:31I'm supposed to sing to it.
6:33Yeah, she'll love it and she'll calm down and then you'll be calm and so
6:37she'll be calm. I don't say that, by the way, to the cat folks.
6:40I just want you to know I'm being – I'm being – I'm loaded for
6:44bear today. I can launch on anything.
6:46Noreen, I appreciate the call.
6:48Thank you so much. I have a cat carrier with both a top opening and
6:53a front or back opening.
6:56No, I've not tried singing.
6:59I honestly haven't. But the last time this was necessitated, we tried to get the
7:04cat through the top. The cat is too smart for it.
7:07The cat does not want to go into it.
7:08We leave it out for two weeks before the cat's supposed to go to the
7:12dentist for gingivitis. I didn't think animals got that kind of stuff.
7:18Animals can't brush their teeth.
7:20I thought God took care of all that in a design.
7:23Lions can't brush their teeth.
7:24Dogs can't. Get gingivitis. Why don't we feed the cat hard cat food?
7:29Anyway, I got cat scratch fever the last time trying to get the cat in
7:34through the top. We've tried the towel routine.
7:40The cat just will not have it.
7:43Now, something, the last time the cat went, in order to be diagnosed with gingivitis,
7:50I sent the cat to the cat doctor, the veterinarian, to get the claws clipped.
7:56And, you know, property manager had no problem getting the cat in the cage then.
8:01And he was able to do it, lure her in with these addicting cat treats.
8:06But, of course, those won't work when the cat is going to be put under
8:10with anesthesia because you can't eat for 12 hours or 8 hours before that.
8:14There was nothing to lure the cat into the cage with.
8:17And since the cat was ravenously hungry, having not eaten since 10 o 'clock last
8:24night, there was no way the cat was going to fall for this going into
8:29the carrier business, not get tricked into it, not get sung into it, or any
8:33of that. So, anyway, project failed.
8:40I have to do a redo next week sometime.
8:42We'll get it done, but I guarantee you there's going to be scratches all over
8:46my arms and face. Because the property manager said, look, after all this, your cat
8:51hates me. You are going to have to do it.
8:56That, fine and dandy. I'll try singing.
9:00I'll try, I'll try, I'll sing Alfie.
9:03Cat won't know the difference.
9:04Allie, Alfie, and Noreen, I'll see if that works.
9:08Also, I came across how someone described Trump as the cat that wouldn't go into
9:14the carrier. And I was rereading this transcript and I just laughing out loud because
9:20they were actually quite observant way back when.
9:23That was in 2018. Wow.
9:26Okay. And we have time here at the end of the half hour to get
9:30back into the phones. Now, this is an interesting little analogy here coming up.
9:36This is Sharon in Dalton, Massachusetts.
9:39I'm glad you called. How are you?
9:42Hey, Rush. Make a ditto.
9:43It's a joy. Thank you.
9:45I'll just get to my little comment here.
9:47And it's basically about the media's power and manipulation that they've had over the past,
9:51whatever, 30 plus years. And ever since Trump's little victory, or, you know, great victory,
9:57their little blim is off the rose.
9:58And he is just one cat that ain't going in that cat carrier.
10:03So I'm really glad that we have a fighter, you know, because it's about time.
10:07I just can't believe all these people for all these years that have actually bought
10:12what they have been selling, you know.
10:14I remember back in the 80s when I was still, like, I was like 18.
10:19But, you know, I mean, I wasn't, you know, I always didn't believe what they
10:23were telling me then. And it just always astounded me how so many people just
10:27buy what they sell. Well, I'm with you.
10:30I'm close to that age.
10:31In the 80s, I was in my 20s.
10:34I'm a little bit ahead of you.
10:36But I remember the same thing.
10:38And much of the 80s, well, from the last half of the 70s and 1983,
10:44I was not in broadcasting.
10:46I was working for a baseball team, the Kansas City Royals.
10:51And when you weren't there, everything was sports.
10:54You occasionally go to lunch and talk about, you know, what was in the news,
10:58but anybody had really strong opinions about it was looked at like a geek.
11:02Yeah. And as it was sports, sports, sports, that's the only thing that mattered.
11:06Sports with the controversies of the day were whatever the sports pages were saying about
11:09your players. And I, too, was struck by just how rote the belief in whatever
11:17was in the news. Now, this is, there's only CNN at this point in time.
11:21My radio program didn't start until 88.
11:23I mean, there's nothing but the three networks and CNN.
11:26And I was like you.
11:27I was stunned by how many people just believed it without even questioning it.
11:30Whatever it was in the news, network, newspaper, what have you.
11:32You know, I love your analogy that Trump is the cat that won't go in
11:38the carrier. He will not go along with the, and Trump is the guy who
11:42defies every supposed tip or how to or suggestion on whatever ideas to get him
11:51in the carrier. I like your thinking on that.
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12:24T's and C's apply. I used to pull quotes, Greg of Rush, talking about his
12:28cat, just because I am also a cat lover.
12:32And of all the quotes he had about pumpkin, this was my favorite.
12:37So I don't have the audio, so I'm just going to read this one.
12:41Something happened this morning that has never happened in all the years I've had pumpkin.
12:46I slept really well last night.
12:48I remember nothing about sleeping.
12:49So it must have been really good.
12:51I woke up on my left side, and the moment I opened my eyes, and
12:55this has, again, never happened before, pumpkin was looking right at me.
13:00Her head was on the pillow, eyes wide open, just looking right at me.
13:04I had no clue she was there.
13:06I don't know how long she had been there.
13:08She had never done that.
13:09She never put her head on the pillow, right level with my eyes.
13:13My heart melted. It was one of those little glimpses of Rush you got when
13:18he got all gooey about his cat.
13:20Absolutely. I loved it. I just loved it.
13:22Yeah. And he was definitely an animal person.
13:25He didn't have children of his own.
13:27And so pumpkin and the other animals really kind of became, you talk about fur
13:31babies, they were his fur babies.
13:33They really were. Yes. When was that from?
13:36Do you have a date?
13:36I don't have a date on that, but I remember it when it happened, the
13:40day it happened, because I've had that experience with my own cats.
13:43Sure. And there is something, anyone who has animals, there is this look.
13:47You can't explain it to people who aren't animal people, but there is a look
13:51in their eyes. And Rush also once explained it as almost spiritual, like you're looking
13:55at God. And I love that.
13:56I can appreciate that. I love that.
13:58And he also used to joke about how he learned everything he needed to know
14:02about women through his cats.
14:06Oh, wow. Another piece of audio that I decided to pull for this podcast was
14:13about how often Rush would reform lefties.
14:19So he would, people who used to be liberal would listen to his show and
14:23then kind of see the light, or as Rush would say, would come home.
14:27I know there's a trend on social media.
14:30The trend is called walking away or something, something to that effect, where people are
14:35talking about leaving the Democrat Party and stating why.
14:38This was from January of 2014, and it was titled A Liberal Reformed by the
14:45Show. I pulled this because I think it's instructive to see his effect and his
14:50impact. And I think Clay and Buck are working on the same thing, reforming people,
14:55making them kind of come around.
14:56And it's something that has to constantly happen in order to not cause our country
15:01to slide into chaos. Efren Cortes, Colorado.
15:04Great to have you, sir.
15:05Hello. Thank you, Rush. Thanks for asking me on.
15:08Well, welcome, sir. I just want to get something off my chest.
15:12You know, I used to be a victim of democratic talking points, I guess you
15:18could say, where I grew up thinking that I am poor and that I really
15:22can't make it without them.
15:24And to see this immigration thing go through and all they're going to see on
15:28the media is what I was, you know, grew up with.
15:31Yeah. Which is that you can't do it without help.
15:34You can't do it without a guiding hand from an elected official or a government,
15:39right? Right. Exactly. And, you know, I'm proof that it can happen.
15:44I'm a conservative, not a Republican, and hard work does pay off.
15:48I don't need somebody to tell me, hey, you can't do it without me.
15:51I can't. Would you describe yourself as self -reliant?
15:55Yes, sir. Absolutely. Well, when did this transformation in you take place?
16:01When I was a teenager.
16:02And I actually, well, like most people, stumbled across you because, you know, throughout any
16:08other type of media, there's no such thing as conservative talking.
16:12And so when I stumbled across you, I was like, whoa, no way.
16:16That's what I think. That's how I feel.
16:19So, you know. And it made me see a lot of things that I was
16:23thinking and that, you know.
16:25So that was great. So you had your instincts and then you found a radio
16:29show that validated them. You had somebody on the radio that was saying things that
16:34you thought were true, that were right.
16:37And it gave you confidence to believe in yourself.
16:41That's how it works, folks.
16:43Exactly. Efren, that is fabulous.
16:48There was another one, Greg.
16:49I don't know if you remember this call.
16:51I was trying to find it and I couldn't.
16:53But it was an ex -convict.
16:55Do you remember that? Yes.
16:56I was just sitting here trying to remember if he was actually still in prison
17:03or recently out of prison.
17:04No, he called after getting out of prison and he told, if I got the
17:08story right, we'll look for this clip.
17:09And Rush rarely did this, but it was so good.
17:12He said, let's play this again on tomorrow's show.
17:15He was moved by it.
17:16The story, as I recall, a guy, he had done some bad things.
17:20He went to prison. He was breaking rules.
17:23He was angry, lashing out.
17:25So they ended up putting him in solitary.
17:27He got tired of just listening to music, tuned into Rush's show almost by default.
17:33And after some months, he completely had a 180, completely turned his life around, got
17:40out of prison, cleaned up his act, and then called the show to tell Rush,
17:45you actually saved my life.
17:46Yeah. I remember that entirely.
17:48It was fantastic. You said moving.
17:51It was really moving. And just the connection that you're able to create.
17:57You know, you're sitting here as we are right now.
18:00It's you in a microphone in a room.
18:02And yet, you're able to reach through the medium, through the electron, over the miles,
18:10the distance, and the time, and touch people's hearts and souls and minds.
18:16And the ability to do that is indescribable.
18:21It's not everybody can do it.
18:23It's very rare. And that was on display when that call occurred.
18:29And I totally remember that.
18:30That was actually very early on in my tenure on the show, as I recall.
18:34We'll have to dig that one up because that was very powerful.
18:38It was. And the fact that he wanted to then play.
18:41It was a long call, too.
18:42He wanted to play it the following day on the show says a lot.
18:45Yeah. It was amazing. Rush had that kind of ability to connect with people.
18:50Right. Which brings me to these monologues that would move people on his show.
18:55And the one that I wanted to choose for today's podcast is from 2017, and
19:01it's titled Most Limitations Are Self -Imposed.
19:05He did a lot of great think pieces, which would just make you think.
19:10You might not always like to hear what he's saying, but you almost couldn't deny
19:15the message. Definitely not. And I'll tell you just a little bit of inside baseball
19:19here. Those shows, those particular episodes when he would do those, they were very well
19:25done, and they were very well received and very powerful.
19:28They were very frustrating for those of us who actually worked on the show and
19:34in the process of trying to gather sound bites or do other things, news -related
19:39specifically, and focusing on what was happening in current events.
19:44And then Rush would spend his time taking the listener through these other sorts of
20:00episodes. And it was, again, talk about bittersweet.
20:07On the one hand, very powerful and very moving.
20:10On the other hand, very frustrating as an employee because you're like, I just worked
20:13on all this stuff and nothing got addressed.
20:16So it's, again, a little peek behind the curtain, and that's what we like to
20:21do here on the After Hours show to give you a little peek behind.
20:26So it was always very well done.
20:29Sometimes it can be a little frustrating as someone behind the scenes.
20:32So it's just interesting. I just wanted to give you that perspective.
20:35I wasn't sure if you had any of that kind of experience.
20:38Yeah, I always loved those.
20:41They were evergreen. You could listen to them today, tomorrow, 10 years from now.
20:47I personally loved those monologues that had nothing to do with what was happening in
20:53the news. They were more introspective, reflective.
20:56Sure. Life lessons. I got a lot from them.
21:00So I liked them. TED Talks before.
21:02They were. They were Rush Talks.
21:04Rush Talks. Oh, I like that.
21:05One of the things that mattered a lot to Rush was the lack of civics
21:10education and economic. And Clay recently hit on that, too.
21:16Took the words right out of my mouth.
21:17Yes. Clay and Buck did a whole thing on the problem that we have currently
21:21in our education system. We're really not teaching civics and economics.
21:25And it's creating a generation, I'm afraid, of handouts.
21:30Socialist ideas are looking good.
21:32Absolutely. Yeah. And that's why someone like Imam Dhani is able to do well and
21:37succeed is because the young people aren't being taught the way we have things in
21:43our federal republic are set up and why they are the way they are.
21:48and they're not given to see why it's important and made to understand.
21:52It's not entirely always the fault of the teachers.
21:54I think that some of that has to do with it.
21:58The unions are certainly no help in that regard.
22:00Public pop culture is also really big in poo -pooing and cutting that sort of
22:08down. So it's unfortunate that this sort of thing happened.
22:13So, yeah, when Clay was really talking about that and Buck recently, it was a
22:17good callback. To what Rush was saying.
22:20And another reason why he wrote those children's books.
22:22That was a good way of introducing kids to government, why it's formed, why our
22:28country is unique, why all these things are important.
22:31I mean, if you have young kids, you can still buy them.
22:34The Rush Revere series. Those are really great books.
22:37The reason he wrote those books was because he was hearing from so many homeschoolers.
22:42Moms very concerned about what their kids were learning in school.
22:45I know that's something that means a lot to Clay.
22:48And now Buck with the little one.
22:49But that was a very, very important impetus to why he even decided to write
22:54the books. Yes, absolutely. So I pulled up this transcript, Rush giving a homeschool mom
22:59advice on how to teach civic.
23:01Open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh.
23:04With half my brain tied behind my back every day.
23:09Just to be nice. Just to be fair, equitable, and kind.
23:15Here's Jennifer in Floyd, Iowa.
23:17Great to have you on the EIB Network.
23:19Hello. Hi, Rush. Hey, we homeschool and we belong to a homeschool co -op.
23:25And this fall I'm going to be teaching a civics class at the co -op.
23:29And I was just wondering, what would you tell kids who are interested in politics,
23:34who are interested in running for office one day?
23:37What can they do to prepare?
23:38Because I really believe in this group.
23:40So there's going to be some of them that are going to run for office.
23:45Well, there are actually so many things.
23:49What age group are we talking about here?
23:52It will be all the way from kindergarten to 12th grade.
23:55We're going to break it up into two groups.
23:58So, yeah, there will be two classes.
24:00Okay. Now, I may want to revise some of my answer here as I think
24:06about things later today because I will be thinking about this all through the weekend
24:10because I take a question like this very seriously.
24:14In no particular order, the thing I would focus on first, I would do every
24:22– and this is something that I have just in recent days thought of.
24:28If I were in your position, if I were in the position of taking somebody
24:33from square one who doesn't know much of anything and getting them prepared to be
24:37an American, what would I do?
24:39Because I think it's crucial, just like you say.
24:42And I think starting with the founding documents, you have got to start with the
24:48Declaration of Independence. And you have got to explain who the people were that signed
24:53it and what happened to them.
24:54And you have to explain the uniqueness, the never had it been done before in
25:01human history, this kind of a revolution to set up this kind of government.
25:05In other words, I would teach how blessedly special, blessedly unique the United States of
25:15America is. How there has never been a better system for managing the day -to
25:22-day affairs of life to maximize human potential than the United States of America.
25:28And then I would start in ways that I think would relate to whatever age
25:33group you're talking about, how to get that related to them, how to get them
25:36to appreciate it. And I would start with the Declaration, and maybe even a little
25:44pre -Declaration history. I would start with a history of the world, and I would
25:49also, I would make sure that at some stage of this, Jennifer, that these kids
25:57understand exactly what left -wing politics is.
26:02I would make sure they have no mistakes about what communism is, what socialism is,
26:09what liberalism is. I would teach them how to recognize them.
26:13I would want them to be able to automatically reject it rather than be seduced
26:21by it. I would want them to be able to understand immediately when they see
26:26it or see a liberal and be prepared to reject it on both an emotional
26:33and intellectual basis. Now, kindergarten, we're way above that grade here.
26:40But when you start getting into the sixth grade, fifth grade, so forth, I'd get
26:46serious about this. It's not too young to teach the uniqueness and how special this
26:54country is. And I would teach things like the way most people in the history
26:59of the world have been forced to live and contrast it with life in the
27:03United States. And I would honestly tackle American history.
27:08You cannot do this without focusing on American history, not from the standpoint of teaching
27:15our flaws. Not from the standpoint of teaching what was wrong, but showing how this
27:22country was established, knowing these flaws and how overcoming them and triumphing over them was
27:30built in. And that's where you get to the Constitution.
27:34But I do the declaration first, and I would really explain the preamble I'd spend
27:39a lot of time on.
27:40We are all endowed by our Creator, i .e.
27:44God, with certain inalienable, and I would spend a lot of time making sure they
27:49understood the word inalienable, rights, among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
27:55That is what our founders believed the natural state of every human being, the natural
28:03existence that we were created, yearning to be free and to enjoy the God -given
28:09opportunity to live. And that the United States of America is the best place on
28:15the planet where a person can pursue that with the least obstacles and shackles in
28:23his way. And that's what makes it unique.
28:27The American exceptionalism, the exceptionalism is not that we're better people.
28:30It's that there's no other place ever in the world where the way we do
28:35things has been tried. It's such a great story.
28:39The history of America is a unique story, and it is so special, and it
28:45can be one of the most wonderful stories to tell if you yourself know it,
28:49and if you yourself believe in it, and if you yourself love it.
28:53And it doesn't need to be an indoctrination.
28:55You need to teach these kids with the full acceptance that they're smart enough to
29:01get it, because it isn't that complicated.
29:04You need to prepare them for whatever objections they're going to get.
29:08But more than anything, in addition to doing all this or at the same time,
29:14you're teaching them to think about it themselves, to realize some things themselves.
29:19Critical thinking, rather than having everything indoctrinated or propagandized, is going to be so crucial
29:27and important for them. And it sounds like a lot, and it is if you
29:34try to do it all in six months or one school year, but it's got
29:37to be an ongoing project from the earliest days that the kids you think are
29:44old enough to actually comprehend what you're telling them.
29:47As they get older, they're able to comprehend even more.
29:52And there are a number of ways you can relate it to events in their
29:54lives to make it real to them.
29:58But I think it's great what you're doing.
30:01I think it's a golden opportunity that you have.
30:04And I wish there were more people like you do.
30:07I know the homeschooling community, if it will, is huge and it's growing.
30:14And they're doing the Lord's work, in my estimation.
30:16They really are. So does that help, or does that overly complicate things?
30:20Oh, Rush, that is so great.
30:22You just about brought me to tears.
30:24That's awesome. That has helped so much.
30:27Thank you. Well, it's such a special place, and that there's every reason in the
30:32world to love it. At the same time, understanding nobody and nothing is perfect.
30:37But it's so great, so unique, so special.
30:42And there's no other place like it where human beings can maximize and realize their
30:47dreams. There are other places where there's freedom.
30:50There's Great Britain. There's parts of Europe, Australia, and so forth.
30:55But there's no place that does it all in one package.
30:59And make sure you teach that all of this is constantly under attack, that this
31:07way of life for human beings, that this way of government is constantly being attacked
31:13by people who oppose people being freedom.
31:17And if I were one of your kids, that'd be the biggest question.
31:19Why would somebody not want us to be free?
31:23That would be the first.
31:24It was. When I first heard about enemies of the United States and why they
31:28hated us, I didn't comprehend.
31:30Why would anybody hate freedom?
31:32What in the world? That's where you've got to know liberalism.
31:36And that's where you've got to know communism.
31:37And that's where you have to be able to explain who these kids need to
31:44be aware of, who want to take all that they are blessed to have as
31:49Americans away from them and everybody else.
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32:22T's and C's apply. Something that I always marveled at when it came to Rush
32:26was all of the things he overcame in life.
32:29A lot of people experience at least one of the list of things.
32:35He experienced all of them.
32:36He lost his hearing. I mean, had a disability.
32:40Right. Had issues. He struggled with weight, weight control.
32:43This ishor to be something that he powers brother - He was - very open
32:44about that. He experienced divorce.
32:47He experienced addiction. He experienced so many things that would just take, like one of
32:54those things would take someone down.
32:56And he was like the phoenix.
32:57He would always rise up after every one of those.
33:00And by the way, all of this in public.
33:02Right. Very public. Very public.
33:04Rise up and just still approach life with such optimism and positivity.
33:11And I just, I always marveled at that because a lot of us, you know,
33:15would be inclined to be like, oh, what was me?
33:18Oh, this happened. That happened.
33:20Life is against me. Nope.
33:23Not him. No. And it's a good lesson.
33:25It's, I've heard it embodied in the, in the kind of the expression.
33:29It's not that you got knocked down.
33:31It's how you get up.
33:33Yes. It's, you know, that you, that you get up and that you, you know,
33:36how you gather yourself and get going again.
33:38And he, he did that.
33:40A lot of people get knocked down and they stay down and, or they get
33:43up once and they got knocked down again and then they call it quits.
33:47And you know, it's, it's hard.
33:48It's hard. I mean, he talks about, he very openly talked about getting fired seven
33:53times and just all the things he had to do in his career to get
33:57to where he got. That was not handed to him by no means.
34:02There were so many mountains he had to climb.
34:04And people still held it against him that he never graduated college.
34:08Yep. You know, that, that sort of thing.
34:11And, and you, he made no bones about the fact that he had a hard
34:14time with dancing, you know, in college, the ballroom dancing in college.
34:19And you know what, because as we're finding out today, it's becoming much more prevalent
34:24is that college is not for everybody.
34:27It's not, you know, in the, for the longest time, it was this whole mantra
34:32is that you had to go to college to get ahead.
34:34You have to go to college.
34:35And now we're recognizing that there's so many people out there who in the trades
34:40are able to go and make a great living early in their careers and that
34:47they don't need college and that they're able to go and, and maybe even retire
34:51earlier than they might otherwise have.
34:54And, um, so it's a, it's a good lesson that it's, you know, just because
34:57the prevailing opinion of everybody is, oh yeah, you have to go to Harvard or
35:02Yale or, you know, heaven forbid, Columbia, you know, you don't have to, it's really
35:08not necessary. I remember him telling stories about even his childhood and wanting more than
35:13anything to be on the football team and not making it on the football team,
35:17being cut and what that was like and how that felt.
35:20And so from a young age, he still, still pursued the things he loved and
35:25still went out. Everyone in his family followed law.
35:29They went into law and he was very open about his father was nervous and
35:32disappointed. Like, what are you doing being a DJ on the radio?
35:36What are you doing with your life?
35:38And he's like a lot of other people would cave.
35:41They might feel, they might give into those pressures.
35:43I remember him specifically telling a story about how he had like no money and
35:48he had to use his credit card at the gas station to buy chips for
35:52dinner in addition to the gas because that's, that's all he could use.
35:57Right. And he still, it's like the, that book, the little engine that could.
36:02Yeah. He had to leave broadcasting, which he loved.
36:06And he got a job with the Royals, the Kansas City Royals.
36:08He did that for, I don't even know how many years.
36:11He was there for a while.
36:12It was like five years, I think.
36:13We actually played our last After Hours episode that we did.
36:16I, I pulled that audio of him talking about his.
36:19That's right. That time in the, at the Kansas City Royals.
36:22I just couldn't remember exactly how long it was.
36:25And, and then, yeah, he ended up getting back into radio because he realized that
36:30working in, you know, for the Royals and he wasn't making a lot of money
36:33then either. I mean, people think, oh, he had this house in Florida and Palm
36:37Beach and all this money and all, he was $23 ,000 a year working for
36:42the Royals, something like that back in the day.
36:45So it was, he always also talked about how, when he was younger and he
36:50really wanted to aspire to something, he would drive around neighborhoods with really nice houses
36:55and just marvel at, Hey, that's my goal.
36:58I want to go there someday, not drive around and be like, oh, that person
37:02has more than I do.
37:03And I'll, I need, you know, his mentality was all of, he was very ambitious.
37:08He was not jealous in a way of, I'm going to take that from them
37:12or they don't deserve that.
37:14And I do. And therefore, yeah, no, absolutely.
37:16It was very ambitious and, and very hopeful and positive.
37:20And truly understood and appreciated the opportunities this country has and capitalism emphasis.
37:28Exactly. And the, the warmth of individualism and the rugged individualism and being able to
37:35pick yourself up by your bootstraps and set out and carve the path that you
37:41want to carve and not, you know, be part of the collective just because, you
37:46know, it's easy or convenient or, or.
37:49Our last after hours podcast, Greg and I revisited the rush individualism versus collectivism archives
37:56because we had just come off the new year with mom, Donnie's speech in New
38:00York and praising that. And we were both, we were both sick, but we were
38:04like, we are recording this after hours and we are going to play rush.
38:08We need to remind everyone of the things.
38:10things. So if you missed it, head back there and check it out.
38:14Yeah, just go into the Clay and Buck Podcast Network.
38:17You'll find us. Way down in a hole, this is season five of The Wire.
38:25The theme song is by Steve Earle.
38:29Here's Stephen in Murray, Utah.
38:30So you're reading Steve Young's book, and the challenges he faced coming up reminded him
38:37of the quote you heard me say about...
38:39Not quite, Rush. Rush, it reminded me of your quote.
38:44It reminded me of your quote where you said, most of the reasons people think
38:47they can't do is something the reasons they've invented.
38:49Right. Everything you do in life is up to you.
38:52Part of life is realizing you have much more potential and ability than you'd ever
38:55know. But it's up to you to face the fears and unleash that, which really
38:58drives you. Now, as I read this book by Steve Young, his path to the
39:04NFL wasn't easy. At BYU, he was number eight on this team depth chart, and
39:10he said, well, I could have thrown a pity party and just given up and
39:13gone home, or I could have chosen to have a positive perspective on life and
39:19let my play prove people wrong.
39:22People told Steve Young he'd never make it as a left -handed quarterback, that his
39:27accuracy wasn't there. But, well, he worked on his accuracy.
39:31And, I mean, look at the way his career turned out in the Hall of
39:36Fame and his Super Bowl ring.
39:38So that just reminded me of that quote from you.
39:42And I've noticed that quote to be true in my own life.
39:46You see, I was born premature, and I have some challenges.
39:51And I used this quote of yours in college essays or during some lectures and
39:58journalism classes. And my professors were pretty impressed.
40:02And I've noticed that quote of yours to be true in my own life.
40:06So I wanted to thank you for that.
40:09Well, I appreciate that. I really do.
40:10I love having things come back like this because that's always great to have affirmation
40:17like that. You know, speaking of Steve Young, I mean, he's overcome a lot, there's
40:21no question, and he's achieved a lot.
40:24But I think one of the things, he probably would admit this if he were
40:29here. And I think people in the sports media, people who follow NFL, are pretty
40:36much aware of this. But he was second string to Joe Montana for a number
40:41of years. It's like being second string to Babe Ruth.
40:46It doesn't matter who's next.
40:48There's no way they can measure up.
40:50I mean, Joe Montana was mythologically huge.
40:57In fact, Joe Montana, that was one name.
40:59I mean, Joe Montana was such a big deal in San Francisco.
41:03It wasn't Joe Montana. It was Joe Montana.
41:05He just owned everything. And Young was on the bench.
41:10I can remember, I was at a game, the Fortiners and the New Orleans Saints
41:15at the Superdome, and Montana was hurt.
41:18And Young was the starting quarterback.
41:20And it was not yet his job because Montana was going to come back and
41:25reclaim the job, but soon thereafter would be traded or released and go to the
41:30Kansas City Chiefs. But during the pregame, Joe Montana was granting interviews on the sideline
41:38to anybody that had a camera.
41:41Even though he wasn't playing, he was a bigger deal than Steve Young, who was
41:48going to be starting that day.
41:49Now, I don't know, I know Steve Young.
41:52I got to know Steve Young during my stint at the pre -politicized days of
41:59ESPN on the Sunday NFL pregame show.
42:04And I've only met Montana once.
42:07But, folks, the reason that I have all these things about such philosophies is the
42:12only limitations we have in life for the most of them are the ones we
42:15place on ourselves. When you get to the rarefied air that people like Montana and
42:22Steve Young and other NFL quarterbacks are breathing, you can't believe the competitive, the cutthroat
42:31competitive nature of things. And make no mistake, and this is not a cut, I
42:38don't want anybody calling Montana and telling him that I was, because it's not, but
42:44Joe Montana on a day that Steve Young is going to start because Montana's hurt
42:48and Montana is still trying to soak up all the oxygen with all the pregame
42:52interviews. Now, not, I mean, he could turn them down, but that's not going to
42:56happen. And the press wanting to talk to Montana was quite natural.
42:59He wasn't seeking them out.
43:01But it was a way to keep the light shining on him.
43:04He wanted the job back.
43:05It's just the way it is.
43:07It wasn't mean. It wasn't cruel.
43:09It's just the nature of competition.
43:12And my fear is we're not teaching competition.
43:14We're shielding people from it.
43:16For the longest time, children, nobody's allowed to win anything.
43:22Participation trophies. But when you get to real life, and if you really want to
43:26amount to something, when you get whatever line of work you're in, as you get
43:33to the top of that line of work, there are very few people there.
43:38That's why the French... That's why the French...
43:39is rarefied air. And it is cutthroat.
43:44The competition is cutthroat, even among best friends.
43:49And you have to be able, by virtue of experience, to be able to deal
43:55with it. You're not going to win every outing.
43:58I don't mean game. You're not going to beat everybody out for the top job.
44:03And sometimes you're going to be the best, but you're not going to get the
44:07gig because there are other factors.
44:09People making the decision might like somebody more than they like you.
44:12It's vicious. And you have to be totally singularly focused on yourself.
44:19Not in a bad way.
44:20You have to believe in yourself.
44:22You have to believe there's a reason you're trying to pursue the highest levels you
44:27can go. And that's because you can do it and you can do it well
44:30and you can do it better than anybody else.
44:33The minute you carve out that life for yourself, you are making enemies.
44:40Because a lot of people are going to be fighting for the same thing and
44:43they're going to try to be beating you out and denying you what you want.
44:47You're going to be doing the same thing to them.
44:49There are going to be others who just resent you for thinking you're that good.
44:53They're going to resent you for even having the audacity to try to climb that
44:57high. I mean, folks, it is vicious out there.
45:00It's also very healthy. All of these things are things that successful people have to
45:07go through in order not just to reach the pinnacle, but then to stay there.
45:12Because I'm going to tell you, getting there while fraught with stress and competition and
45:19never ending assaults, getting there is not even half as hard as staying.
45:25Because once you get there or close to it, everybody wants what you have.
45:29And there's really, it's much easier to go south than north when you're at the
45:33top. And so that's why I have this philosophy about limitations.
45:39It's easy to be a victim.
45:41Look how easy the Democrat Party has made almost half this country think they're victims
45:45of something. And what happens to you when you're a victim?
45:49Well, when you're a victim, you automatically have a built -in excuse for failure.
45:55When you are a victim, it's always somebody else's fault.
46:00When you're a victim, success is not possible.
46:04When you are a victim of something, you are acknowledging that you are as far
46:10as you're going to get and you can't get any further because there are more
46:13powerful forces arrayed against you than the force of yourself against it.
46:18And the Democrat Party does this on purpose.
46:20The Democrat Party makes as many people victims as possible because it freezes them right
46:25where they are. And that's usually in lower middle class or abject poverty.
46:29It makes them resentful. If you're a victim, you're not happy.
46:32You can't be happy. It's impossible to be happy.
46:35It's even difficult to be content.
46:36If you're a victim, you're always mad, but never at yourself.
46:40You're mad at somebody else.
46:41The Democrats have parlayed this into one of the biggest political movements in human history.
46:48And that would be of the victimized.
46:51Look at how many victim groups there are.
46:54And they all happen to be Democrat constituency groups.
46:57They all are on the protest march.
46:59They're all angry. They're all enraged.
47:01Some of them are women.
47:02Some of them are minorities.
47:03Some of them are illegal immigrants.
47:05You name it. But they all have one thing in common.
47:07They have given up on the notion that they could be somebody and instead have
47:13descended into full fledged victimhood and the comfort of being in a group of like
47:20minded failures. Why isn't everybody a victim?
47:22It'd be easy if anybody could choose that if they wanted to.
47:26Being a victim is almost as easy as being a liberal.
47:28It's one of those gutless choices you could make.
47:30Doesn't take much. Built in excuses for failure.
47:33Built in excuses for being miserable.
47:36Built in excuses for being angry all the time.
47:38No reason to try to be happy.
47:40It's not possible. You're a victim.
47:42Victim of what? Well, you're a victim of discrimination.
47:44Well, you're a victim of America.
47:46You're a victim of America's past.
47:48You're a victim of religion.
47:51You're a victim of bigotry, of homophobia, whatever.
47:53You're a victim of something.
47:55The Democrats got one for you.
47:56If you want to be a victim, call him up.
47:59You know, call Schumer. Tell him, hey, I want to join you.
48:01I want to be a victim.
48:02Do you have a group for me?
48:03He'll have one. He'll ask you what color you are.
48:05He'll ask you what your sexual orientation is.
48:07He'll ask you what your gender is.
48:09He'll ask you any number of questions.
48:12And he'll give you your choice of victim groups that you can join.
48:15And then he'll show you where you go to get a food stamp allocation here
48:19or this or that there.
48:21How you get emergency health care if you need it.
48:23All on the Democrats. And it can keep it flowing if you just do two
48:26things. Stay victim and vote Democrat.
48:30But the people that don't choose that end up being the ones victims hate.
48:34The people that choose to face life.
48:38The people that choose to embrace it.
48:41The people that choose to just soak it up.
48:45The people that choose to dive right in and test their limits and find out
48:52what they're capable of and how good they can be.
48:55And if that's really what they do want to do, victims are going to hate
48:58them because they are showing what anybody could do if they just had an attitude
49:05adjustment. So If you think, for example, that, well, let's say you want to do
49:12a job, and you want to be really, you want to rise really high in
49:16that career, but where you live, that job doesn't exist.
49:22Your town's too small. Or maybe the business is in your town, but even if
49:26you reach the pinnacle there, it's not, because it's a small town, it's not nearly
49:31as high as you could go.
49:32If you're unwilling to move, well, that's all on you.
49:37That's a limitation you're placing on yourself.
49:39Now, that's fine. If that's what makes you happy, I'm not criticizing things.
49:44I'm just pointing out that it's not usually anybody else's fault when you don't get
49:49what you want. Sometimes it is.
49:52There's exceptions to everything, but it's usually the self -limitations that we attach to ourselves.
50:00I wanted to be a success in radio.
50:02There was no way it was ever going to happen if I stayed where I
50:06was born. It was not possible.
50:09Nothing against where I was born, nothing against the people there.
50:13It just wasn't possible. I knew when I was 15 that I was going to
50:19have to leave if I was serious about what I was doing.
50:22And back then, I knew that every climb, every rung up the ladder was going
50:28to involve another move. And it did.
50:33And it's... I wanted it badly.
50:38I remained dedicated to my desires.
50:40And it's what enabled me to come back after being fired seven or eight times,
50:45whatever it was, only twice for legitimate insubordination.
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51:20T's and C's apply. Greg, what are some of your personal favorite Rush memories working
51:25on this show? Things that really stood out to you that you wanted to highlight
51:27today? Well, some of the things that when I think of Rush, Rush to me
51:31was the ultimate jokester. He was a prankster.
51:36He was like, you know, the Loki, the god of...
51:39The Norse god of trickster.
51:42The trickster god. That was Rush.
51:44He had a wicked sense of humor, and he loved playing jokes on the listeners.
51:50And this goes, went back to his early days of being a DJ as well.
51:55And some of the things when he would talk about seeing women farting in their
52:01cars when they, you know, and people were calling up and going, you can't see
52:05people farting in the car.
52:07Of course, I saw the women farting and only women doing it.
52:11And of course, he was referring to putting on your makeup.
52:13F -A -R -D. F -A -R -D.
52:15And people getting really worked up about that sort of stuff.
52:18One of the classics that I think that anybody stops and thinks about, that one
52:25is a good one, is when Rush endorsed Bill Clinton back in 1992.
52:30Yes. That one has to be up there in the pantheon of great Rush moments
52:36when... Well, that was a prank with a twist and a lesson.
52:39It absolutely was. And, you know, the whole thing, and I was just listening to
52:46it, that whole segment, he goes on and he talks about why he's sad and
52:52he's really not happy about what's happening and he's depressed, he doesn't want to be
52:56there. And then he gets to the nut, says, I'm endorsing Bill Clinton for president.
53:03And, I mean, scratch your needle, scratch on the record.
53:07What? And then the poor woman who called in not long after that, Phyllis, it
53:15makes your heart break and you're laughing at the same time because I feel so
53:21bad for Phyllis. I mean, I think it's such a great, epic moment.
53:26And, of course, Rush wasn't doing it.
53:28Again, just for fun. There was a moral to the exercise.
53:31There was a reason that he was doing that.
53:33Exactly. But he loved being able to do that and to use his sense of
53:39humor to bring forth all of these things.
53:42And, you know, I never said that.
53:44Ma 'am, you're talking about something 25 minutes ago.
53:47We should move on. That's the past.
53:50It's just great. It's just, you know, it's wonderful stuff.
53:54So let's go ahead and maybe listen to that.
53:57What do you think? Yeah, let's do it.
53:58I, ladies and gentlemen, here at 12 minutes after the hour, on the 22nd of
54:06October, am here to tell you that I have decided to endorse the candidacy of
54:13Bill Clinton for president. Phyllis in the Bronx in New York.
54:18Hello. Hello. Hello. My name is Phyllis.
54:21Yes, ma 'am. I am a conservative and I back my president 100%.
54:27I work for the Board of Ed.
54:29I am home sick today, but now I'm really sick.
54:32Rush, what are you doing?
54:34to us. I'm sick and tired of the liberals in this country who are pushing
54:39our buttons. What are you talking about?
54:41I mean, you're backing, mister, you're backing Bill Clinton.
54:47I am not. I am not.
54:49You just said you're backing.
54:49I never said that. You said you were going to change your vote.
54:54You're not voting for the president.
54:55You're going to have to vote for Bill Clinton.
54:57That, I did not say that.
54:59I did not say that I was going to.
55:01What did you say? What did you say?
55:02I did not say that I was going to vote for Bill Clinton.
55:07But I heard you say those words.
55:09No, no, no, no. This is, you're just trying to twist my words and turn
55:13them around. I never said it.
55:16What did you say? Could, could you just tell me, you, you, you said you
55:19couldn't, you know, I can't even talk.
55:21I'm so upset. I'm, I'm practically ready for, for tears.
55:26Look, I don't know. You keep wanting to look in, look, look, look, all I
55:30can tell you is I'm, I'm tired of it.
55:31Everybody wants to look into my past.
55:33No, no, no, no. Not looking at your past.
55:35It was 23 minutes ago.
55:38You keep talking about something that happened 23 minutes ago.
55:41It's irrelevant. Can't we move on with things that matter?
55:44It's irrelevant. You said about changing your entire conservative view?
55:48Can't we talk about the things that, I mean, you keep wanting to say what
55:51I said 23 minutes ago.
55:53It doesn't matter. It does.
55:55It does not. You told everybody all over the country.
55:57I didn't say it. I didn't say it.
56:00I was younger 23 minutes ago.
56:02Cut me some slack. No.
56:04I did, you know, this is the, this is the kind of, we're trying to
56:07move forward. We've got some things that are important that we've got to do on
56:11this radio show and you want to talk about something that happened 23 minutes ago.
56:14That's right. Well. Because it's very relevant.
56:17It is not. We are two weeks away from the election.
56:20You are talking to the entire country and the entire country is listening to you
56:25who has been our, our leader, the one we looked up to for, for everything.
56:31Now you're telling us, I can't go with Mr.
56:34Bush. I never said that.
56:36I did not say that you can't go with Mr.
56:38Bush. You can go with Mr.
56:39Bush. I hope you do.
56:41Oh, I am going with Mr.
56:42Bush. I think everybody should.
56:44And, and just at this moment when the industrial production in the country is on
56:48the upswing, labor figures are up.
56:51I mean, people are really starting to get it back together again.
56:55We need, we need to vote for Mr.
56:57Bush. He needs us now.
56:59He needs our support more than ever.
57:02Let me tell you something.
57:03I couldn't agree with you more.
57:06Where have you been? That's exactly the point that I have been making.
57:10You think that stuff, you know, that stuff because of me, because of this show,
57:15because I'm the one that has told you how good things are.
57:19I've told you how things aren't bad.
57:21I've told you how there's reason to be optimistic because you live in the United
57:24States of America and you call here and you give me grief about something I
57:28never even said. Oh, you know, Rush, I know what I heard.
57:33I'm sitting here and I'm listening to you.
57:35I listen to you every chance I get.
57:37Well, you're going to have to listen a little bit more closely, Phillips, and you're
57:44going to have to think about the future.
57:45This, what happens in the past is irrelevant.
57:47It doesn't matter. You mean you're talking about, you're talking about my character.
57:51When you are challenging something I've said 23, 25 minutes ago, you're talking about my
57:56character. My character doesn't matter to anything.
58:00What matters is this country and how we've got to get it fixed and do
58:04it right. And then, so just, I appreciate your concern, but you've got to get
58:09focused on the things that are important.
58:11I don't know about you, but for me, for my money right there, that, that
58:16the pain in her voice, poor Phyllis.
58:20And I don't know what ever happened to Phyllis, but I, you can hear she's,
58:24Rush, you're our leader. And we're, you know, you're telling us not to vote for
58:28President Bush and we're going to vote for President Bush.
58:31I never told you not to vote for President Bush.
58:33I just told you what I'm going to do.
58:35Uh, just, uh, and I feel so bad for her and, and yet laughing at
58:40the same time. It was wonderful.
58:41It's funny, actually, similarly, um, a, a comedian that I, that I liked Dennis Leary
58:48did, had a bit again, same kind of timeframe back in the early nineties where
58:54he was, he would go and talk about how these celebrities would go out and
58:59they would trash a car and they would do drugs and they would get caught
59:03and all this stuff. And then they'd go, I screwed up.
59:06I'm going to rehab. And they would, you know, kind of get a pass on
59:10that. And Rush was kind of illustrating, illustrate the absurdity of that sort of thing.
59:15How can, you know, I'm good.
59:17You should be giving me a pass.
59:19Why are you giving me a hard time about this?
59:22I'm just, you know, so that's really kind of the way I see it is
59:28that he was really trying to illustrate the absurdity of these nincompoops who are trying
59:34to get away with everything and not be held accountable, especially the liberals and Democrats
59:38on the left. So that was classic Rush illustrating absurdity by being absurd.
59:43And that's what he loved to do more than anything.
59:46Thank you. Yes. That's a good way to put it.
59:48Yeah. He had a, he had a way of summing things up as you just
59:51did. I, you took my seven minutes of verbal diarrhea and boiled it down to,
59:57you know, seven words. So thank you.
1:00:00Another funny thing that he would do.
1:00:02Every time we had female callers call in, he would often, I would say eight
1:00:08times out of ten, tell the woman, Mary Lee, that is my top ten female
1:00:15name. Julia, that is my top ten female.
1:00:18He did it so many times.
1:00:19Allie from Manhattan, Allie is one of my top ten all -time female names.
1:00:23Well, he did name his cat after me, so.
1:00:25So you say, yeah. It's good to tell people that story.
1:00:29It's an urban myth. We don't know the truth.
1:00:30So, yes, and I have to give a tip of the hat to, you know,
1:00:35I had the fortune, good fortune, of working with Cookie back in the day.
1:00:40And when we were putting together some of the retrospective for the 25 - and
1:00:4530 -year anniversaries, we put together a montage of Rush talking about all the top
1:00:53ten female names. And how many tens ten times over, was it?
1:00:57Yeah, it was in the 60s or 70s, I think, is what it finally came
1:01:01down to, and where we finally, but let's, you know, here's a little snippet of
1:01:06that montage for you right now.
1:01:08Kathy, one of my all -time top ten favorite female names.
1:01:12Kristen's in a top ten list of names.
1:01:14Kim is one of those names in my all -time top ten favorite female names.
1:01:18What a great name. Kaylin, one of my all -time favorite top ten female names.
1:01:22Ellen, one of my all -time favorite top ten female names.
1:01:25Elizabeth is one of my all -time top ten favorite female names.
1:01:29Erin's one of my all -time top ten favorite female names.
1:01:32And, yes, Valerie is one of my all -time top ten favorite female names.
1:01:36Vincenza, one of my all -time top ten favorite female names.
1:01:40This is Isabella, one of my all -time top ten favorite female names.
1:01:44Here's Lori, also in my top ten favorite girl names.
1:01:48Leslie, that's one of my top ten all -time favorite female names, too.
1:01:52Lila, now one of my all -time top ten favorite female names.
1:01:56Lauren, one of my all -time top ten favorite female names.
1:02:01Laura, one of my all -time top ten favorite female names, too.
1:02:04Nancy's in my top ten favorite female names list.
1:02:07This is Nina, one of my all -time favorite top ten female names.
1:02:10Tina, one of my all -time top ten favorite female names.
1:02:13Denise, one of my all -time top ten favorite female names.
1:02:16Tracy is one of my top ten all -time favorite female names.
1:02:19Denise, one of my all -time top ten favorite female names.
1:02:23Prissy is one of my all -time top ten favorite female names.
1:02:26Mrs. Polly, one of my all -time favorite top ten female names.
1:02:31Sarah's one of my all -time top ten female names.
1:02:34Sissy is one of my all -time top ten favorite female names.
1:02:37Susan, one of my all -time top ten favorite female names.
1:02:40Top ten favorite female names, Sheila.
1:02:42Barbara's in my all -time top ten list of female names.
1:02:45I've never had a caller named Barbie, even though it's in my top ten all
1:02:48-time favorite female names. Bruna is one of my all -time top ten female names.
1:02:53Marjorie, that's one of my all -time top ten favorite female names.
1:02:56Melanie is one of my all -time top ten favorite female names.
1:03:00Martha, I love that name.
1:03:01Martha, one of my top favorite female names.
1:03:03Marcia is one of my all -time favorite top ten female names.
1:03:06Megan is one of my all -time top ten favorite female names, too.
1:03:09Michelle is one of my all -time top ten favorite female names.
1:03:13Morgan, one of my all -time top ten female names.
1:03:16Misty's one of my all -time top ten favorite female names.
1:03:20Cheryl is one of my all -time top ten female names.
1:03:23Candy, one of my all -time top ten favorite female names.
1:03:26Rachel is one of my all -time top ten favorite female names.
1:03:28Allison, one of my all -time top ten favorite female names.
1:03:33Oh, Amy, one of my top ten all -time favorite female names.
1:03:37Angelique, one of my all -time top ten favorite female names.
1:03:40Ashley, one of my all -time top ten favorite female names.
1:03:44Amber is, you know, one of my all -time top ten favorite female names.
1:03:48Hi, Jeanette. This is one of my all -time favorite top ten female names.
1:03:51Jenna is one of my all -time top ten favorite female names.
1:03:54Jenny, one of my all -time top ten favorite female names.
1:03:57Jennifer, one of the top ten all -time favorite female names.
1:04:00Jeannie, one of my all -time top ten favorite female names.
1:04:04Jill is one of my all -time top 10 female names.
1:04:08Jane's my all -time top 10 favorite female name.
1:04:11Catherine, I'm glad you called.
1:04:12It's one of my all -time top 10 favorite names.
1:04:15He had a way of disarming people right away when they called in because it
1:04:20is a little scary. You're calling into a national radio show.
1:04:22You're speaking to Rush Limbaugh.
1:04:24So that was one of his techniques to calm the person down on the other
1:04:29end, especially women. And I thought it was an excellent tactic.
1:04:33It was very good. And we understand, you know, I talked to, again, one of
1:04:37the things that I get to do is talk to the listeners every day.
1:04:41And a lot of them call and they just want to say something to me.
1:04:45You know, hey, tell Clay and Buck this.
1:04:46Or hey, tell, and hey, don't you want to go on the air?
1:04:49I'll say to them, oh, no, I'm not good on the phone.
1:04:52You know, I'd be too nervous.
1:04:54And I always say, you're just talking on the phone, just like you are to
1:04:57me right now. But people, you know, understandably, you know, they get caught up because,
1:05:04yeah, you are in a position where, you know, a lot of people potentially could
1:05:09be hearing your voice. And that could be a daunting kind of a task.
1:05:13So I understand the feeling of anxiety that some people have.
1:05:20And, yes, he was very good at doing that.
1:05:23And I think Clay and Buck do a great job of that as well, quite
1:05:25honestly. Yes, all three of them embody genuine curiosity with the car.
1:05:30caller. They want to know what point of view they're coming from.
1:05:34Absolutely. They want to engage.
1:05:36And that's why we love it when, you know, you call and you get right
1:05:40out of the gate, you know, you, hey, you know, okay, hey, Allie in Manhattan,
1:05:43what's on your mind? Boom, boom, boom.
1:05:46And you make your points and because, you know, hey, that's great.
1:05:50Or that's, oh, thanks for the call, Clay, we'll say and move you on.
1:05:53And it's, it really is helpful when, you know, this is a little bit of
1:05:58a clinic for you right now.
1:05:59If you just, and it's hard, you get distracted, you're on hold for a long
1:06:03time and that sort of thing.
1:06:04But being able to do that and make, do a call, be a caller on
1:06:10one of these shows is a skill.
1:06:12And not everybody can, is suited for that either.
1:06:15And that's part of my job too, is as a call screener is to kind
1:06:18of, you know, help people get there and weave through the ones who aren't quite
1:06:24there yet. As Rush would say, get in, get it and get out.
1:06:29That's right. Exactly. So those are some of the other, some of the things.
1:06:32And I think, you know, one of the other things that I think that we
1:06:37had the opportunity to look back on and that I really enjoyed was some of
1:06:41the, the updates, some of the, oh, the Barney Frank update and the homeless update
1:06:47and some of the other updates, the global warming updates and that sort of thing.
1:06:51We, the homeless one always gets me, ain't got no home.
1:06:58Curtis, frog man, Taylor. Yeah.
1:07:00The frog man. Yeah. Great stuff.
1:07:02I don't know about you, but I think we've played a lot of great clips.
1:07:07We've done some, made a nice dent and did a nice little tribute to, to
1:07:13Rush. And I hope that, I hope that you enjoyed it as well.
1:07:16You know, it brought up some memories for you.
1:07:18And if you'd like to share any of your own memories with us, feel free
1:07:21to send Greg a talk back or shoot us an email if you're a VIP.
1:07:27And we really do want to hear from you.
1:07:29Do the talk backs is really easy.
1:07:31Just do it through the app.
1:07:32You can do it either listening to your local station, listening to the show through
1:07:36your local station, or you can find Clay and Buck's picture in the podcast side
1:07:41and just send it to the podcast.
1:07:43Yeah. There's a little microphone.
1:07:44All you have to do is click on it and you get 30 seconds to
1:07:47leave your message and then it goes right to Greg.
1:07:49Yep. You hit send and it's off on, on its way and, um, we get
1:07:55them all. And so, you know, one of us always sees them.
1:07:59So. Well, Greg, thank you for taking this walk down memory lane with me.
1:08:04This has been a lot of fun.
1:08:05Thank you. And until next time, by the way, you should do legacy box.
1:08:09If you have the opportunity, here's just a, you know, shameless plug for legacy box.
1:08:13Allie was talking about all those photos she was going through earlier.
1:08:16So, um, legacy box is something that I've taken advantage of, advantage of.
1:08:21You've taken advantage of, um, they're right down there in Tennessee.
1:08:25It's all, um, American, you know, you, you send your stuff down to them.
1:08:30They do what they have to do to give you a digital file and they
1:08:34can, you can either access it online or they'll send you a thumb drive.
1:08:38The great thing about them is they can put things in the cloud and why
1:08:42that's important. I have some good, really close friends from college that their family lived
1:08:47in the Pacific Palisades and they lost everything in the fires, everything, every photo, every
1:08:53video. And if they had used a service like legacy box, they would have at
1:08:57least had that preserved somewhere.
1:08:59Those memories are irreplaceable. That old media legacy box can easily digitize it for you.
1:09:05It's very simple process. You just go to legacy box .com, put in clay or
1:09:10box name, either one, and you'll get a discount.
1:09:13Highly, highly recommend this. You don't want to wait until it's too late.
1:09:17No, definitely do it today.
1:09:19If you have the opportunity, especially if you're sitting on the floor, the midst of
1:09:23pile of old photos of your husband and other things while he's not there, you
1:09:27have to clear up and get it out of the way.
1:09:29Greg, I have one month left to finish this project.
1:09:32And I don't know about you, but whenever you've had to do a project for
1:09:36your wife and then you end up, you made the mess 10 times bigger than
1:09:40the original mess. And then now you have, you know, half the time to do
1:09:46twice the work because now you have to go through everything else.
1:09:48It's crazy. Yes. All right, everyone.
1:09:51Thank you for tuning in.
1:09:52And we hope this anniversary is brings happy memories.
1:09:57Yeah. Until next time, I'm producer Greg.
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