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the stories that still remain out there that

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we just don't have time to do with this

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series. And this is just

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ocean of what Russia's

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Americans and people around the world.

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hope you'll enjoy this final episode. We've

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got a lot of different people we're gonna talk to on this final

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this episode of Russia Number the man behind

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the Golden E I B microphone, we are pleased

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to have Mike Mamone broadcast

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engineer, the longest serving

3:17

broadcast engineer with the Russian Lumba program,

3:19

and welcome Mr. A. Maimon.

3:22

Well, thank you for having me. Yes,

3:24

now you have the distinction, Mike

3:27

Mamone, of being the

3:29

only engineer in America

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that is responsible for a billion

3:34

dollar business that you have no

3:36

part of. I want to kind

3:38

of go through that story for a minute, and

3:40

that would be the story of Snapple.

3:44

Tell us about Mike Mamone, Snapple

3:46

and the Russia Lumba program. Well,

3:49

all right downstair. I used to take the

3:52

Long Island Railroad into into

3:55

the studio because at that time the Network

3:57

studio was at Twopen Plaza and

4:00

pen Plaza is you know, is

4:02

always just it's a hole, it's a

4:04

pit, it's a horrible, horrible place to

4:06

be. But at that time, they

4:09

sold the most amazing, you

4:11

know, the deli's in there sold the most amazing

4:13

assortment of beverages. So

4:15

I found Snapple one day and it's

4:17

like, oh, raspberry iced tea, this

4:20

looks good, and they sold cups

4:22

of ice. So I started, you

4:24

know, I would buy one and you

4:26

know, bring it to work and drink it. And then you know,

4:28

after like a couple of weeks, rush he says, he says,

4:31

what is that? He says, that looks that looks

4:33

really good. And I said, I said, it's

4:35

Snapple. I said it's iced tea. I'll bring

4:37

you one tomorrow. So I

4:39

brought him, you know, so the next day I brought him one and

4:41

it's like he's like, wow,

4:44

this is fantastic. So he goes down the air and he

4:46

starts, you know, expounding on

4:48

how wonderful it is. And then so every

4:51

day then I would bring him, you know, I

4:53

would get one and bring one for him. So

4:55

after, you know, after a while, after one

4:57

of these long spiels about how wonderful it was,

5:00

and he would always make the the uh,

5:02

the big show of sipping it. And it's like, oh

5:05

m, this is what such wonderful stuff.

5:07

So I made it. I taped it one day

5:09

and I gave it to one of the salespeople. I said, why don't you go

5:11

do something with dicks and

5:14

he did so, and that's what happened,

5:17

and then it went through the roof.

5:20

It went through the roof exactly

5:22

right now. At the time, Snapple was a

5:24

local beverage. This was

5:26

a company that was a quote, a local

5:29

company. I don't know whether they would New York, New Jersey

5:31

or Connecticut, but it was. They were making

5:33

Snapple. It did not have a

5:36

national presence at all. And so Rush

5:38

was talking about this amazing

5:41

iced tea on a national show

5:43

even though it was local. Their phones

5:45

started ringing. It's like, where can we get this? Where

5:48

can we get this? So then

5:50

it suddenly it was everywhere. And then you know,

5:52

they got they took Wendy the snapp a lady.

5:55

I mean, but the thing that made Snapple different

5:57

was that it also had they had a different

6:00

that of distributing the product. Um.

6:02

So it's like everything seemed to be very

6:04

local. And then uh, they

6:06

took the company public. And

6:09

I know that Russia. I know that Russia got stuck

6:11

in and I was thinking, it's like damn

6:14

and Snapple road rode

6:16

the way for you know, for a good long

6:18

time until they sold

6:21

out to Quaker Oats. So,

6:23

Mike mamone, you are in a way

6:26

responsible for the iced T craze

6:28

that has taken America by storm.

6:31

Okay, so you're the broadcast engineer for Russilan

6:33

Bars program. You are the broadcast engineer,

6:36

the longest serving engineer on the

6:38

most listen to radio program

6:40

in American history. Tell us what

6:42

your day is like? What do you do? Okay?

6:45

Um, basically, I every

6:49

element that you hear that is

6:51

not Russia's voice gets mixed

6:53

in by me. So everything

6:56

everything that was, as you said,

6:58

that was not Russia's voice in some

7:00

way or another, you touched

7:03

on that show. You as

7:05

I said, you you're the longest serving broadcast

7:08

engineer that we have had on the staff.

7:10

What do you think Russia's legacy is going to be, Well,

7:13

the legacy of you know, of

7:15

the man who basically saved,

7:18

saved a M radio and recreated

7:21

talk radio into a you

7:24

know, into a major political force.

7:27

I mean, that's that's a pretty big one.

7:30

You know. He will oh well, I

7:32

mean we will remember him as being the

7:35

kind of giving things which you know, not enough

7:37

people will ever know about,

7:40

you know, his charitable gift

7:42

giving and the organizations

7:44

that that he is that he is supported

7:46

throughout the years, like you know, likely Leukemian

7:50

Foma Society, m cleff and

7:53

you know all the other things. It's like nobody

7:55

would ever you know, it's like I know,

7:57

and you've you've told the stories about the

8:00

you know, the things that he has done for people

8:03

on the condition you know, of total anonymity.

8:06

So you know, I would like to

8:08

see you know, more of that on

8:10

side. But you know the legacy of having

8:14

you know, saved the business,

8:16

recreated the business, and been responsible

8:19

for um,

8:22

well, you know an answer answering

8:25

the mainstream media. I mean it's like that,

8:28

you know, that's enough for anybody. Well,

8:31

Mike, what what do you think? You look back

8:33

over it all and you've had an amazing

8:35

career. Well, I don't

8:38

don't don't downplay the thing

8:40

because people have alluded to this before.

8:42

But let's face it, if we

8:44

had a buck for every time someone said

8:47

there's a real good show going on in here,

8:50

uh, we both have a lot of

8:52

money. I

8:56

mean that was you know, another thing

8:58

that made it, you know, that made it

9:00

fun because there

9:03

was a whole another show going on inside

9:06

and you know, mostly you know, being

9:08

with being with you Kit Brett.

9:11

I've kind of felt like, all

9:13

right, when when he moved to Florida, it

9:16

was like there was still you know, there was still

9:18

a show still going on, you know at

9:20

my end, because there were still you know, there were still people

9:22

here. But then it's like as

9:25

things went on, it's like you

9:28

are at the screening. Moved to Florida, so you

9:30

were screening there. So then it was just me and Kit.

9:32

Then Kit died, which still

9:36

you know, still just I

9:39

still tear up thinking about. But then so

9:42

now I'm in the room all

9:44

by myself, so

9:47

you know, and I've made the illusion before,

9:49

it's like, um, I feel like Michael Collins,

9:52

you know from Apollo eleven. You

9:56

guys are down there having fun on the moon

9:58

and I'm you know, it's like, all right, I'm

10:00

major Tom here, you know, a circling here.

10:05

So no, I have I have an

10:07

entire studio full of people again, and

10:10

I'm actually having to sell people. It's like, you know, stop

10:12

screaming in the phone, because it's like you don't. You

10:14

don't have to scream at the callers, you

10:17

know, So, I mean, who would do such a thing?

10:19

I don't know. It's like you said, a very

10:22

bad example for those people, not

10:24

because they looked at you and it's like,

10:27

James, stop screat What is he screaming at

10:29

those people for? And

10:33

that? And that you got suspended for doing

10:35

that? Yes, I did. I got you were not the only

10:37

ones to spend it. I got suspended to, yes,

10:40

But yeah, but they taped your phone

10:42

calls. Yeah they did that. We

10:45

want to find out what's really going on back

10:51

you're just letting out all the secrets.

10:53

Yes, they did. They wanted to find out exactly

10:55

what was happening on the other end of

10:58

those phone calls. And you know what, they

11:00

taped them when they came back and listened to them

11:02

and said, my god, I'd scream at them too,

11:05

exactly, And after they

11:07

heard what I had to deal with every day, it was

11:09

kind of like that went away. The

11:12

The one regret that I have is that, you know,

11:14

there was never really anything of us doing

11:16

anything in there. So yeah,

11:20

but it's probably just as well because there was a lot

11:22

of cursing. Yeah that was. Yes,

11:24

Yeah, we were a little naughty with the language. Well,

11:27

Mike, this has just been a real pleasure,

11:29

real treat to have you here. Um,

11:32

I'm glad you did this interview. Michael. Yeah,

11:34

I was, you know, I wasn't. I wasn't

11:36

going to but after listening

11:38

to the listening to the Lunar Crew do

11:40

their show, it's like, all right, that

11:43

changed my mind? What about that changed

11:45

your mind? I really can't can't

11:47

put my finger on it, you know, because

11:50

well, first of all, it's like, having been

11:52

around all this time, I thought I knew all

11:54

the stories, but some

11:57

of the things that you know that Brian and Dawn were

12:00

and it's like I really didn't know that.

12:02

I remember that when he moved down to that

12:05

when he moved down and he was in a room all

12:07

by himself with

12:10

the you know, with the box

12:13

that was things just like I want to do this from Florida.

12:15

How would do this? I said, We'll build you a box,

12:18

So, you know, I came up with the

12:21

you know, with the you know basically

12:23

with the box, and there was a signaling device

12:25

that we used which nobody else used. And I was telling

12:27

somebody about it. It's like, my god, that's brilliant.

12:30

It's like, but nobody, as far as I

12:32

know, did stuff like that. So I

12:34

didn't know that Brian was sitting out in the parking lot

12:36

for half of that and

12:39

I thought, okay,

12:41

you know, so I was like, all right, well, let's

12:44

give this a go. Did it seem did

12:46

it seem that it all went Yes,

12:49

it went went by incredibly fast,

12:51

and it was like the I mean, even

12:53

you know, judging by all right, like doing

12:56

the Christmas shows when I said, it's like, you know what, nobody's

12:58

gonna listen to our show on Christmas? Why don't we just

13:00

play Christmas music? So and

13:02

then it's like I'm listening back then I said, my god,

13:05

I've done like twenty five of these and

13:07

it was like, wow, Mike,

13:10

what a treat I'm glad you decided

13:12

to do the interview with us, me too.

13:15

I guess the best illustration

13:17

that I can give of this is Snapple. I'd

13:20

never heard of Snapple until I got to New York,

13:22

and I last thing I thought it was

13:24

was a nice tea when I heard the

13:26

brand name. The broadcast engineer

13:28

one day, who was the same broadcast engineer

13:31

than his today, was in his

13:33

studio and his broadcast engineer studio

13:35

complex and he was pouring a bottle of this

13:37

stuff over a cup with cracked ice in

13:39

it. It was the hottest heck day in New

13:41

York. And so what is that? Is it? Snapple? It was

13:44

like raspberry flavor. And I tasted it and

13:46

they said, whoa that was? It

13:48

was delicious. Mine now is better,

13:50

by the way, but it was the time. It

13:52

was the best I've ever tasted. Over

13:54

the course of this series, we've taken you on the

13:56

biographical journey of Russia's life,

13:59

narrated by his friends and colleagues.

14:01

As this is our final episode, we

14:03

could think of none better to narrate this final

14:06

piece than the two men who now occupy

14:08

the sacred noon to three pm Eastern

14:10

time slot across America for Premier

14:13

Networks Clay Travis and

14:15

Buck Sexton. The Life

14:17

of Russia Limbaugh, Chapter twelve,

14:20

narrated by Clay Travis and

14:22

Buck Sexton. I

14:26

have to tell you something today that I wish I

14:28

didn't have to tell you. That's how

14:30

Rush began to break the news to you, to

14:33

us on February

14:36

that he had been diagnosed with advanced lung

14:38

cancer, and for the first time

14:40

in more than thirty years, we

14:42

had to confront the reality that

14:44

he wouldn't be there in the middle of our day forever.

14:47

Most people might have walked away from their professional

14:49

life for good at that point, especially somewhat

14:52

of his means, but not Rush Limbaugh

14:54

determined as ever, he dug in for the long

14:56

haul, no matter how painful or difficult

14:59

it would get. I thought about trying to

15:01

do this without anybody knowing,

15:03

because I don't like making things about

15:05

me. But there are going to be days that

15:08

I'm not going to be able to be here. And

15:10

you know me, I'm the mayor of real film.

15:12

This has happened, and my intention

15:15

is to come here every day I can.

15:17

But what else would you expect. This

15:19

is a man whose passion for his craft was

15:22

unparalleled, a man who taught us

15:24

that no matter how many times you get knocked down

15:26

or in his case, even fired seven

15:28

times, you keep getting up

15:30

and pushing forward until you reach greatness.

15:33

Be humble, grateful, and share

15:35

your success with others, helping others,

15:37

even if you don't expect or want credit

15:39

publicly for it. The legacy of Russian

15:41

Limbaugh, and its surface, might be that he was a groundbreaking

15:44

broadcaster who saved a m radio,

15:47

or a savvy intellectual who knew politics

15:49

had sided out, both things true

15:51

he surely was, but his bigger

15:53

legacy will live on even brighter

15:56

behind the scenes with the people who knew him

15:58

best and loved him most. Checking

16:00

with a mother on his staff before asking her

16:02

to travel to make sure her daughter didn't

16:04

have any events at school she wouldn't want to

16:06

miss. Quietly helping an employee

16:09

pay off some debt or replace a broken

16:11

down vehicle, sending ten, twenty

16:14

or fifty thousand dollars to someone he'd

16:16

never met whose story he found

16:18

and touched his heart. You know, I have a philosophy

16:21

there's good that happens and everything

16:23

that may not reveal itself immediately,

16:25

and even in the most

16:27

dire circumstances. If you

16:29

had just wait, you just remain

16:32

open to things, the good

16:35

in it, we'll

16:37

reveal itself. And that has happened

16:39

to me as well. These are the lesser known

16:42

measures of the man behind the golden E I

16:44

B microphone. On the air, it

16:46

was talent on loan from God. But

16:49

off the air, his character, resolve

16:51

and warm, loving heart. That

16:54

was all Rush Hudson Limbaugh, the

16:56

third with integrity

16:58

on loan from nobody,

17:08

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org. Throughout

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this episode, you're gonna hear from a lot of different

18:32

people. Some of them you probably know, some

18:34

of them you may not. All of these

18:36

people have some kind of connection to Russ

18:39

with personal stories of times they spent with

18:41

him, or even better, some of

18:43

the things they've learned from him. Among

18:45

those, you will hear from of some of Russia's former

18:47

co workers and friends, plus the many guest

18:50

host of the Russiland Ball Show over the years,

18:52

like this guy, one of our favorite

18:55

guest host of all time from

18:57

K T T H N. C Ittle.

19:02

You have often struggled with how to

19:04

explain to people sufficiently

19:06

the honor it was to fill in for Rush

19:08

for all those years and to be a guide host

19:11

um after Rush died. And

19:14

the best he can come up with this is this, if

19:17

if you were a if you're an

19:19

animator and You've got to fill in

19:21

for Walt Disney or your favorite

19:23

animator. What what would that be like? Are the people who

19:25

invented your medium, not even your favorite, but who

19:27

invented your medium.

19:30

That's that's what this is like. Uh.

19:32

If you are a software designer

19:35

and you got called in to fill in on a day at

19:37

work for Steve Jobs, what's that

19:39

like? I mean, that's

19:41

the level we're talking about here. And in terms of

19:43

Russia's legacy, any

19:46

time you turn on a radio station

19:48

and you hear an opinion based show, you will

19:50

be hearing the legacy of Rush

19:52

Limbaugh. Opinion radio wouldn't have survived

19:55

without Rush. It simply wouldn't have. So

19:57

anytime you hear opinion on radio,

20:00

you're listening to the legacy.

20:02

America had an extra

20:04

thirty years

20:07

to try to save itself. That's

20:10

Russia's legacy, and that continues. There

20:13

are people who understand their country now,

20:15

children who will read Russia's

20:18

books. That's his legacy. And in

20:20

the last few months of his life he

20:22

shared with us his faith, his

20:25

status as a Christ follower, and

20:28

of course that's his enduring legacy.

20:33

Hey, everybody, this is Mark Davis. Currently The

20:35

Morning host at six sixty Am The Answer

20:38

in Dallas Fort Worth, but for almost

20:40

twenty years from the mid nineties until

20:43

I hosted a morning show on w b

20:45

a P, the proud Rush Limbaugh affiliate

20:48

for North Texas. Now, that alone was an

20:50

honor. But when the opportunity arose

20:53

in two thousand eight to begin to

20:55

fill in for Rush, well that's

20:58

an easy yes. So I slid into

21:01

my version of the substitute host chair, which

21:03

in my case was right in my own studio in

21:05

Texas, except for the times

21:07

when I flew up to New York to

21:09

see the first E I B microphone.

21:11

To sit in the actual genuine

21:13

chair, it was like visiting the Radio Smithsonian.

21:17

Wherever I did it, the joy of filling

21:19

in for Rush was amplified by

21:21

the pure pleasure of spending time

21:23

in person with James Golden, a

21:25

k A. Bo Snordly, Mike Mamone, the

21:28

late Kit Carson. He was the guy who would

21:30

always call and and then make the ask

21:32

whenever there was a Rush absence that needed filling

21:35

and I filled that role so gladly

21:37

and so gratefully from two thousand eight

21:39

to two thousand twelve. When

21:41

I changed radio stations here in Texas, but

21:43

the memories and the friendships live

21:46

on. His absence is a void

21:49

in my life and an empty

21:51

space in American radio that cannot

21:53

be filled. But those of us

21:56

who listened, those of us who love him,

21:58

can continue to be in inspired by him.

22:01

I know I will, So

22:03

as a page turns in radio history,

22:05

I want all of you to know that Rush

22:07

was the kind of man you would want him to

22:10

be. Kind, devoted

22:12

to his family, devoted to the radio family

22:14

of people around him, and devoted to

22:16

this great nation which he served

22:19

so well in this chosen calling

22:21

of talk radio. God bless you Rush, and

22:23

blessings to all of you who

22:25

listened to him. His love for you was

22:27

obvious every day, and our

22:30

love for him will last forever.

22:33

It's Kitty O'Neil here and back

22:36

in the eighties at kf b K, my

22:38

job was to screen calls

22:40

for one of the talk shows, and

22:43

Rush Limbaugh moved into that slot,

22:45

so I screened calls for him.

22:48

He did a show that was

22:51

comedic in nature, although he

22:54

expressed a lot of political

22:57

views and different views on society

22:59

and things that were happening, but he

23:01

did it in a way that was

23:03

more like a an f M radio

23:06

jock. I think that's what set him apart,

23:09

is that he was conservative

23:11

in view, but very

23:14

shall we say, irreverent in the

23:16

way that he executed

23:19

his show. It was full

23:21

of humorous bits and

23:24

jokes and certainly

23:26

had a conservative bent,

23:29

but was highly

23:31

entertaining, so people

23:33

from both sides of the aisle would listen.

23:36

I remember him as being extremely confident,

23:39

but also very insecure at

23:41

the same time. Rush was very

23:43

complex and often an enigma

23:46

to me. He was extremely

23:49

generous, though, and as he

23:52

became more wealthy and

23:54

famous, his generosity only increased.

23:56

People often asked me what he was like off

23:58

the air, and he was not one to

24:01

monopolize a conversation or

24:03

be overbearing with his views. He

24:06

was a very balanced conversationalist

24:09

and would would listen to all sides

24:11

of an argument. I don't think he ever

24:13

set out to be the voice of the Republican

24:15

Party, but he really became

24:17

elevated to that position, and

24:20

I suppose felt an obligation to fulfill

24:23

that. But as famous as he became,

24:25

he never did forget his friends

24:28

or where he started. As

24:32

we've been recording this series and we've talked

24:35

to so many people in Russia's life, professionally

24:37

and personally. We've had a chance

24:39

to hear stories that even I

24:41

hadn't heard before. I had the chance

24:44

to sit down and talk with some of Russia's closest

24:46

personal friends. People he spent a

24:48

lot of time with on the golf course and

24:51

out and about a normal everyday life.

24:53

And they couldn't have been nicer, more generous

24:55

with their time. David and Jennie

24:58

Rassau. Now Rush came for the

25:00

middle class family in Cape Gerardo,

25:02

Missouri. You guys came from

25:04

a middle class background as well,

25:06

But here you are friends with russilan Ball,

25:09

living in one of the most exclusive communities

25:11

in the United States. You played golf together,

25:14

you dined together. How did you become

25:16

friends with Rush? Rush had

25:18

a great curiosity about everybody

25:20

he met. He he

25:23

would give dinner parties and

25:25

we were fortunate enough to be invited, and

25:27

he would go around the table. It maybe

25:30

fifteen sixteen people around the table, to go

25:32

around and have everybody

25:34

tell their story how they got

25:37

to Palm Beach, and if

25:39

he knew their story, he would then tell

25:41

the story of the people. So he was curious

25:43

about everyone and how they how

25:46

they got to Palm Beach, how

25:48

they made their money, what they did

25:50

that was successful, what

25:53

they did that they were most proud of. He

25:55

loved those stories. He really loved

25:58

American stories, success to American

26:00

success story. What do you think the biggest misunderstanding

26:03

is about Rush, particularly among

26:05

people on the left. What do people not

26:08

understand about Rush Limbaugh?

26:10

They think he's an evil person. They

26:12

think he is so right

26:15

wing and so unwilling

26:18

to bend his train of thought, that

26:22

he's the enemy. And

26:25

we saw that firsthand, especially in Connecticut,

26:28

which is not necessarily a bastion of

26:30

of right wing Republican

26:33

views. And he would come up to this

26:35

golf tournament with they did it for like

26:37

twelve years. It was a three day tournament, and

26:40

he would meet a lot of people who were Democrats,

26:43

and they all approached him with a little wariness.

26:46

But once the ice was broken,

26:49

whether it was the first t shot or

26:51

the first joke, or he'd hand

26:53

them a cigar or anything

26:56

like that, all of a sudden they opened up

26:58

and they found out he was jed New

27:00

only a nice man. He was

27:02

a teddy bearer. He loved

27:04

everyone. He didn't have a hurtful

27:06

thing to say about anyone, and

27:09

I think that's the most misunderstood thing about

27:11

him. We were proud to introduce

27:13

him to my brother, for example,

27:15

who is very left wing, and

27:18

his wife. We had a dinner party

27:21

and they were both very, very nervous about

27:23

having dinner with Russia Limball because they'd heard all

27:26

these stories, and he

27:28

just wiled them over. They

27:31

ended up exchanging gifts. They

27:35

just could not believe how nice a man

27:37

he was. So that that

27:39

was the mystery. The man and

27:42

the myth. Rush could

27:45

walk into a room and people would that's

27:48

Rush Limball, and they were.

27:50

They gravitated to him. I

27:52

mean, it's just it's

27:54

bigger than life. Now

27:57

you also got both of you. Of course, been

27:59

a lot of time with the miss As you said today, what

28:01

do you think is the thing that you

28:04

most want people to know about

28:07

him that maybe they don't know,

28:10

including those of us who love him.

28:13

His heart said it all.

28:15

He looked at you with

28:18

sincerity, with understanding.

28:21

He wanted to talk to you. He

28:23

wanted to find out all

28:26

about you. And it wasn't just at

28:30

a at a dinner party. He

28:32

didn't talk much. He

28:35

asked the questions and

28:37

wanted to hear other people

28:40

talk about themselves Russian

28:42

speak about himself. Yeah,

28:45

I think that's fair. I think you know

28:47

there, we have a lot of Democrat friends,

28:49

were not solely Republican,

28:52

and we have Democrat friends here in Palm

28:54

Beach. A couple of them come to mind

28:57

who we played golf with, and he

28:59

knew that they were Democrats, and

29:01

they knew he was Russia. Limbaugh the lead

29:04

Republican, the leader of the Republican

29:06

Party and all that sort of stuff. But they

29:08

loved playing golf with him. They loved

29:10

having lunch with him. We'd have breakfast

29:13

together on Saturday mornings. They loved having breakfast

29:15

with him because he wouldn't talk politics

29:17

all the time. You talk about life, you talk about

29:19

football games. He talked about

29:22

golf, he talked about

29:24

golfers, He talked about all

29:26

sorts of things other than politics. If

29:29

somebody brought up politics, he

29:31

would be grudgingly asked answer the question.

29:33

But you knew he didn't want to be involved

29:36

in politics. In some of his free

29:38

time that he did that fifteen

29:40

hours a week on the air

29:42

and another fifty hours a week in preparation.

29:46

So this was downtime for him.

29:48

He appreciated it, and everyone

29:50

who met him really loved

29:53

and respected him. Another great story

29:55

of Russian. He gave the best super

29:58

Bowl parties and Masters parties

30:00

you could ever imagine. Everybody

30:03

wanted an invitation because he served

30:05

great wine, and he served it. You

30:07

didn't go, and he went around, poured the

30:09

wine. He went around and gave everybody that something

30:12

to eat. He went on this one woman

30:14

who was ninety years old, the mother of somebody,

30:16

was there. He doated on her to make

30:19

certain she was comfortable, she had a good seat,

30:21

she could see the tournament, whatever,

30:23

and he would just do it. So this

30:25

one Super Bowl weekend,

30:28

it's a Saturday morning and I

30:31

was arranging some of the golf games. And

30:33

he gets to the club and he

30:35

sees that I don't have my golf shoes on. He

30:37

said, when are you gonna put on your shoes. I

30:39

said, I'm not playing. He said, what do you mean you're

30:42

not playing? But this I said,

30:44

I'm going back to Connecticut today. I gotta call at

30:46

two o'clock this morning our grand

30:48

We had a granddaughter born this morning at too. So

30:51

we're flying up there. And he

30:53

said, you can't fly up there I

30:55

said why. He said, because I've got the Super Bowl party.

30:58

And I said, I'm sorry, going up

31:00

to see my new granddaughter. And

31:02

he said so. He walks out of the locker

31:04

room. He comes back about two minutes

31:07

later. He said, at the time, we had our own

31:09

plane. He said, wait a minute, your plane is

31:11

in for maintenance. How are you going?

31:13

I said commercial, No, you're not.

31:15

He went to the phone booth, called up

31:18

Mike, and he said, can

31:21

you be at the airport at ten o'clock. He's going to take

31:23

you up. So Brush flew

31:25

Jeanie and I up to Bridgeport,

31:27

Connecticut. We've rented a car.

31:30

We went from there to the hospital. We saw our granddaughter

31:33

before she was twenty four hours old. And

31:35

that's the way he was. He just his

31:37

generosity, knew no bounds. Well,

31:41

let me close by saying this and

31:43

thank you for spending so much time with me

31:45

and with us. We're

31:48

glad. I'm glad that Rush

31:50

had friends like you, David

31:53

and Eugenie in his life and his

31:55

other close friends. Because he

31:57

had to endorse so much bullshit

32:01

from people that didn't know him,

32:04

from people that lied about him,

32:07

from a media that was filled

32:09

with people that were jealous of his success

32:13

and knew that some of the things

32:15

that were reporting about him

32:17

we're not true, and

32:20

so I am glad that

32:22

he You guys were able

32:25

to help Rush

32:28

have a normal life

32:31

as he could, especially on the weekends

32:33

and with family and with friends,

32:35

and to take away from some of that madness

32:38

that he had to put up with. Well,

32:41

thank you. It was our You know, I

32:43

feel more rewarded than anyone Jeanie

32:45

and I do. We just getting to

32:47

know him and be with him and enjoy

32:50

his company. It was a blessing.

32:54

It was nice to be able to say to our

32:56

friends, he's just as normal

32:59

as you, as you with you. You

33:01

know, he gets up in the morning, he

33:03

does what he does, does

33:06

what you do. You know, he's

33:08

a human being, but he's a

33:10

human being with a huge heart. Yeah,

33:13

I know you miss him. Well, I

33:15

will say this, the last year

33:18

and a half Rush was

33:20

playing the best golf I've ever seen him play.

33:23

He was amazing. I

33:26

used, I'll drive him. All of

33:28

a sudden, he's twenty to fifty yards ahead of

33:30

me. Um. He had

33:32

an albatross on a par five,

33:35

which means he sank his second shot

33:38

on a par five Yeah,

33:41

he was just beside himself. He was

33:43

so excited. He just loved

33:46

the competition. He was

33:49

If he hit a bad shot, he didn't care about the score,

33:51

he dropped another ball and hit it

33:53

again. He

33:56

just he was fun to be with. We just had

33:58

We had so much fun to go there and

34:02

all. Now we have a lot of great memories. Now,

34:06

yeah, don't say

34:08

he never made his bed anywhere when he

34:10

came to visit. But

34:13

a friend of mine, Lord Rosso of Cross

34:16

Harbor, has got this friend is

34:18

it's a shaft manufacturer. I

34:20

don't know a few people who don't play golf. The shaft

34:23

is particularly in um

34:27

long shafted clubs like the Driver, Fairway

34:29

medals and so forth, and longer. Well in every

34:31

club back the shaft is the engine. Anyway,

34:34

Lord Rosso had this new shaft in his driver

34:36

on Sunday, and I'm not kidding.

34:38

He was hitting the ball ten twelve

34:40

yards farther than he normally

34:42

does. And I was kind of in disbelief

34:46

because to get that kind of a differentiation

34:49

you need more swing speed. But a

34:52

shaft can

34:55

compensate for a slower

34:57

swing speed if it's good.

35:00

So I got this new shaft and I was gonna

35:02

go try it yesterday to see if I could get an inditional

35:05

tent tralve large yards like Lord Russo

35:07

of Cross Harbor was, and

35:09

I got. I got rained out to

35:13

say that if you knew Rush Limbaugh, you were left

35:15

with an unforgettable impression of the man. That's

35:18

an understatement. Everybody who

35:20

knew him remembers how when

35:22

where they met Rush, and also what

35:25

they've learned from Rush, how he

35:27

impacted them, just like he impacted

35:30

all the rest of us who worked at the E

35:32

I B Network. There's so many stories,

35:34

and here's more of them from a couple of the guests

35:36

host that sat in and a good friend

35:39

of mine and Russia's Congressman

35:41

Louie gomer but first from w

35:44

HP in Harrisburg and w p HT

35:46

in Philadelphia, Ken Matthews. So

35:49

I started guest hoasting for Rush in

35:51

the summer of and

35:54

then I did my final show

35:57

as a guide host. It

36:00

was also the final Rush

36:02

show. And the

36:05

thing that sticks out to me, there's so many things

36:08

and we we don't have twenty

36:11

six hours for me to explain it. But

36:14

um I started out as a listener, like

36:16

millions of other people that I ended up

36:18

as a guest toast, and

36:22

Rush made me a better

36:24

guest toast. But he also made me a smarter

36:27

person and a better thinker, and

36:30

a lot of that came from being a Rush listener

36:33

because Rush was an

36:36

intellectual giant, but

36:40

he wasn't a snob about it, and

36:42

he had fun and he liked to laugh, and he was a

36:44

smart alec and I think

36:46

a lot of those characteristics appeal to the American

36:48

people. So we

36:51

always have to bring our a game when we're guest

36:53

toasting for him. But the

36:56

nice thing about it is the entire

36:58

team is at the level.

37:00

Everybody brings their a game because

37:04

their patriots, they love America,

37:07

and they love Rush. So it was

37:09

a wonderful environment to work in. And

37:12

the listeners are outstanding, and

37:15

why wouldn't they be. Rush

37:18

loved the listeners, So it

37:20

was a blessing and a wonderful opportunity.

37:24

My name is Brett winter Ball. I

37:26

was a member of the E. I. B Family

37:29

from until two

37:31

thousand six and then brought back again

37:33

in the year that

37:36

fateful year. I

37:38

had such great, amazing

37:41

memories of my time with

37:43

the folks here at the IB Network, But most

37:45

importantly of Rush Limbaugh. I

37:47

came into the IB network as a as

37:49

a kid, really five years old,

37:51

kind of a wise guy. I thought I knew it all

37:54

until I ran at a kid Carson and James

37:56

Golden, Mike Maimon, and of course

37:58

the Boss Rush Limbaugh. Then I realized

38:00

I didn't know anything. But over the course

38:03

of my years on the program,

38:05

I learned so much. I learned about

38:07

generosity, I learned about humor. I

38:09

learned about the brilliance of

38:11

a broadcaster performing

38:13

day after day against all

38:16

sorts of adversaries, both

38:18

professional and sometimes even

38:20

on a personal level. You know, Rush

38:22

Limbaugh is a once in a

38:25

millennium talent, really

38:27

is. When you consider the amazing work he

38:29

did in the different parts of his

38:31

life and over the course of thirty three years,

38:34

you have to be struck by

38:36

the genius. But it was also due

38:38

in large part to the amazing team behind the scenes.

38:41

My friend James, Kid, Carson,

38:44

Cookie Coco, Joe,

38:47

Ali Mayman, you

38:49

go down the list, it goes on and on, including the

38:51

people who helped run the Limbaugh Letter as

38:54

well. This was truly a family,

38:56

and a family it remains to this

38:58

day. I'm still in touch with everybody

39:01

on the program, and everybody's still in touch with me.

39:04

It's a profound mark that was left

39:06

in my life. You can't ever forget

39:08

where you were when you heard your

39:11

wedding, your birth

39:13

of your first or second child announced

39:15

on a radio program by a guy who genuinely

39:17

cared about you as a person. And

39:20

to this day, I remain indebted

39:22

to the experiences I had for

39:24

the better part of a decade. Those

39:27

memories will live on forever in

39:29

my heart, and I look forward to

39:32

sitting with Rush one day show

39:34

prepping together up there

39:37

in the big, beautiful

39:39

broadcast studio in the sky.

39:42

Thank you, Rush Limbaugh for all you did,

39:44

and thank you to the listeners who

39:47

made this all possible. May God

39:49

bless and keep all of us

39:51

that will one day be reunited. This

39:55

is Louis Gobert,

39:58

a dear friend, and each Texas asked

40:01

have you heard Rush Limbaugh? And I said,

40:03

I've heard off him, but I

40:05

had not heard him. He said, his

40:07

sense of humor is a bit like yours, and

40:10

I think you'd really like him.

40:12

Well, I didn't just like him. I loved him. During

40:15

the rest of nineteen ninety one, and from then

40:17

on. I was listening to Rush all

40:19

I could. After being elected

40:21

to be a judge in one of our highest

40:23

trial courts in Texas, I had

40:25

to allow the jury to take a lunch break

40:28

so I would go to my office and work

40:30

while I was listening to Rush. By

40:32

nineteen ninety four, he had so many

40:35

Americans listening to him

40:37

it was no wonder that the freshman

40:40

Republicans in Congress named Rush

40:42

as an honorary member of their class.

40:45

He really did make that much

40:47

difference. Then, over the years,

40:50

his amazing dissection and

40:52

explanation of our country's problems

40:55

had many of us saying, yeah, he's

40:57

right. But as Rush said,

40:59

it wasn't he was brainwashing

41:01

anyone. He was just expressing

41:04

so well what we all were feeling.

41:07

So after I got elected to Congress, I

41:09

met became dear friends with James

41:11

Golden a ka bo Snerdley,

41:14

who became a virtual brother from

41:16

another mother. Also

41:18

getting to know David Limbaugh because

41:20

of Rush was another huge benefit.

41:23

Yet, getting to watch Rush

41:25

and James and their other two staff

41:27

in the studio Palm Beach was

41:29

like seeing a finely honed machine

41:32

that was poetry, emotion, looking

41:35

back, just being able to

41:37

email and hear back from Rush, usually

41:40

during the show while he was talking. Was

41:43

such an honor. He was an anomaly

41:45

among men who took what

41:47

God loaned him and

41:50

made the most of it for the benefit of all

41:52

the people of this country. That's

41:54

why my last time to see him was an

41:56

emotional moment. The night he

41:58

had President Trump announced the

42:01

Presidential Medal of Freedom in the

42:03

House Chamber, we knew

42:06

Russia was dying of cancer, might

42:08

not have too much longer to live. Outside

42:11

the gallery of the House Chamber upstairs,

42:15

I rushed up there to see him,

42:17

and I saw others come by and shake his

42:19

hand while I was walking toward him.

42:21

But it was too emotional moment. A

42:24

handshake would not do for

42:26

the person who had been in my car,

42:29

but in my home, been in my

42:32

heart. I opened

42:34

my arms and said Rush,

42:37

and he smiled, and he opened his arms

42:40

and said Louis. Then

42:42

we hugged. As

42:45

I said in the last email, sitting

42:48

before he left the air for the last time,

42:52

Russia, Beetles were wrong. You've

42:55

multiplied exponentially the

42:58

love you make Rush,

43:01

my friend, You're missed. A

43:07

few episodes ago, we played a vignette

43:09

that was voiced by Scott Bayo. You might

43:11

have thought when you heard it, wait a minute, Scott

43:13

Bale. Well, after the episode

43:15

was released, we got a note from one of our executive

43:17

producers, Craig Kitchen. He reminded

43:20

us of how Scott Bayo

43:22

actually came to know Rush,

43:25

and we thought it might be nice to put it in context

43:27

for you. Back in two thousand

43:29

seventeen, I got a call. It

43:32

was Scott. He was calling in from California.

43:35

Put up the call and Scott,

43:37

just like everybody else, called into

43:40

our number one eight to two.

43:43

I screened him the way I would screen any

43:46

other caller. What he was saying

43:48

made sense. Well, he got on

43:50

the air with Rush and lo and

43:52

behold it was revealed.

43:55

It wasn't a Scott from California.

43:57

He was a Scott that most Americans.

44:00

Here's a portion of that telephone. Okay,

44:02

here we go to the phones. We're starting in Los Angeles,

44:05

Hig, Scott. Great to have you with us in the EIB network.

44:07

IM out, Thanks, Rush. You know I'm a hardcore

44:09

conservative. Tomp gave them power by

44:11

winning and by and by implementing his agenda.

44:14

Or you think they should be grateful, Absolutely,

44:17

they'll win more. Isn't Washington, d C?

44:22

Great? Alright, Sorry, I'm

44:24

in Hollywood, so it's the same thing. Sorry, Benda, you're

44:28

in Hollywood. Okay, let me see

44:30

the Scots that I know in Hollywood. It's not tom

44:33

My Hand Scott, Scott Scots. No, I don't. I don't

44:35

know you. I know people you know I know, but

44:37

I'm trying to do names.

44:41

You are, Scott Bayo. I am Well,

44:43

it's an honor to meet you. I'm happy that you're in the

44:45

audience. It's great that you've been the audience

44:47

every day. I'm a huge fan and I'm dying to play

44:49

golf with your Rush. Well, look, when

44:51

we finish here, if you'll stay online, if

44:53

you can give an email address to Mr Snirtley

44:56

the next time I'm out there, will play. Absolutely.

44:59

I absolutely love the So there you go. That's

45:01

how Scott Bayo and Rush Limbaugh are

45:03

connected. And we thank Scott and

45:06

the many others we've had over the course of this

45:08

series that narrated the life of Rush

45:10

Limbobb and yets that you've heard in each

45:13

episode. So in addition to Scott,

45:15

our thanks also to Rudy Giuliani,

45:18

Mark Stein, Sean Hannity,

45:21

Mark Levine, Megan Kelly,

45:23

Glenn Beck, Neil Boortz, Mary

45:26

Madlin, George Nori, Nick

45:28

Sercy, who you will hear from again in

45:30

his own words in a few minutes, and of course

45:33

Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. Now

45:37

the thoughts of a couple of more guests, host and longtime

45:40

friends of Russia's first from w i

45:42

s N in Milwaukee, guest host Mark

45:45

Belling. Rush didn't

45:47

invent talk radio. I mean

45:50

it was there and a lot of people were doing

45:52

doing it. What he did was he was the first

45:54

to really tap it's

45:57

potential, and all

45:59

of us who do talk radio will

46:01

be forever grateful for the fact that he was

46:03

able to tap it to the extent that he did, because

46:06

it put all of these stations all over America

46:09

on the map. And here they

46:11

had this show or the Rush Show, that was getting great

46:13

ratings, but it's on for three hours a day

46:15

and they had to program the

46:17

rest of the day. And it gave opportunity for all

46:19

sorts of other people to not only

46:21

get jobs, but beyond stations that had

46:24

huge listenerships, so we

46:26

could all be exposed to the same audiences

46:28

in our local communities that you

46:31

know Rush was being exposed to the

46:34

greatest talk show host of all time. It's

46:36

obviously Rush Limbaugh. But here's the thing.

46:38

He will always be the greatest talk show host

46:40

of all time. It's impossible for anybody

46:43

to be greater than him because he invented

46:45

the art form and he'll always be the standard

46:48

by which everybody has measured, kind

46:51

of like Babe Ruth and baseball. He will always

46:53

be the greatest baseball player who ever played

46:55

the game, and Rush will always be the greatest talk show

46:57

host ever. I

46:59

get hosted the program for I

47:02

don't even know. It's over twenty years,

47:04

a long time. I still remember the first

47:06

time. It's late nineties, I think

47:09

that I did the program. And the day before

47:11

I was to go to New York in Milwaukee, I

47:13

was unbelievably sick. I was

47:15

deathly ill. In fact, I was so

47:18

sick I couldn't even drive myself to the

47:20

airport. I had to have a friend drive me there.

47:22

But I had to go. This was the first time I

47:24

was going to do the program. And if you if

47:26

I would have said I'm sick,

47:28

I can't do the show, everybody would have assumed

47:31

that I chickened out, I would have been the biggest laughing

47:33

stock on radio. So I dragged

47:35

myself in to do the program,

47:37

filled myself with as many your preference

47:39

as I possibly could, and survived the whole

47:42

thing. People thought it was really good. In retrospect,

47:44

it was terrible, probably the worst one that I did,

47:47

but I survived it. I had to do it. The

47:49

opportunity to do the Rush

47:51

program, your first chance to do it. To turn it down

47:53

would have been suicidal. Such

47:55

a platform. Over the years that I

47:57

did the show, I'd hear from people that I hadn't

47:59

heard him in decade, somebody living in New Mexico,

48:02

somebody living in Nebraska, people

48:04

even in my own state of Wisconsin who weren't familiar

48:06

with me from Milwaukee. The reach

48:08

of the show was incredible. One other thing

48:11

I want to talk about is the staff.

48:14

When I come in to do the program. Of course

48:16

I wouldn't see Rush. I'm doing the program

48:18

on days that he's off. I dealt with the staff,

48:20

and the thing that I noticed over the years was the

48:22

incredible loyalty that the staff

48:25

had to Rush. I mean, many people were

48:27

with him for decades. I

48:29

think of people like James Golden Bulls

48:31

post nearly, Mike Mamona's broadcast engineer,

48:34

The Lake Kick Carson, who like me,

48:36

is from Milwaukee. These people were

48:38

there forever and they

48:40

always had Rushes back. Now,

48:43

part of it is who wants to leave a winner?

48:45

Nobody wants to leave a program that's

48:47

it's phenomenally successful. Is this? But

48:49

it was beyond this. There was clearly a

48:52

deep pride that the people who worked on the

48:54

Rushes Brush program had in

48:56

the show. They knew that what they were

48:58

doing was changing communication

49:01

forever. From WSB

49:03

in Atlanta, guest host Eric

49:05

Ericsson the very first time I ever filled

49:08

in for Rush Limball, they flew me up to New York

49:10

City. I'm in there and I mean, it is it's

49:12

maman, it is Carson, it is

49:14

both Snrdly himself. I'm looking

49:16

at all that. The light goes on and I'm like, what on

49:19

earth have I just done? And I freak

49:21

out, uh And there's silence there

49:23

for just a second, and then I start and

49:25

it gets a little natural until halfway through the show

49:27

and I look and they're Snurdly flailing

49:30

his arms pointing towards me,

49:33

pounding his fist on the desk. I'm

49:35

like, I've just lost

49:38

the opportunity to ever do this year. I had no idea

49:40

what I had done, and I run in very apologetically

49:42

during breaking I'm very sorry what did I do?

49:45

And kick Carson looks at me and says, what do you mean? I

49:47

said, well, I mean Snurdley. He's in there.

49:49

And this is before I even really connected both Sturdy

49:51

James Golden, same person, and he's how

49:54

that's just James talking to a caller. I

50:00

was fine. I learned more from

50:02

Rush though, by not being able to fill in for him

50:04

when I didn't support Trump in twenty sixteen,

50:07

very deviated from where the audience was, and

50:10

Rush reached out regularly to

50:12

see how I was doing. He called

50:14

me, it's like, look, you got to build a relationship with your audience.

50:17

And I started very mindfully,

50:19

deliberately, maybe over sharing

50:21

my life with him, connecting to them on

50:23

on faith and culture and not

50:25

just the raw politics of the day, finding areas

50:28

of conversation we could agree on and talk about

50:30

and laugh at. In particular, that was one thing

50:32

Russia always told me, is find stuff you can

50:34

laugh at with your audience. And it

50:36

worked, and my audience is now

50:38

bigger than it ever was. Even before

50:40

jumping into syndication, it was one of

50:42

the largest local talk shows in the country,

50:45

in large part because Rush was a great mentor and

50:47

gave great advice. And I listened around

50:49

October of last year

50:52

before Rush passed away. He

50:54

reached out to me, and usually it was me reaching

50:56

out to him, and if it was him reaching out

50:59

to me first, I always paid attention and

51:01

just want to know how radio was going. I was doing two

51:04

shows at the time, and

51:07

he knows he knew I

51:09

was not good at with business and

51:12

wanted to give me some advice on the

51:14

radio business and how it works. And

51:18

then he just told me, I said,

51:20

you need to get up every day and make

51:22

sure that behind the microphone

51:24

is where you want to be, and if it is, you

51:26

need to keep doing it. Don't ever not

51:29

do it. And I would never have

51:31

gotten behind the microphone had he not

51:33

told me that I needed to do it. I

51:36

genuinely, truly. I mean, everybody in radio

51:38

talk radio is their career to Rush, but I really

51:40

do owe my career to Rush. I would have said

51:42

no to a job he told me

51:44

I needed to say yes to. And a decade

51:47

later. Now I'm suddenly finding

51:49

myself in syndication and continuing to

51:51

grow my show. Thanks Rush. My name

51:53

is Larry Iron. I'm the president of Hillsdale

51:55

College. I met Russland eighty

52:00

eight, I think was the year in which he became a sort

52:02

of national figure and moved from

52:04

Sacramento, California, to New York and launched

52:07

this mighty radio show that then went on from

52:09

nine until his death

52:11

this year. He's a galvanizing man.

52:14

He came to my notice because I'd be in taxi

52:16

cabs in Sacramento, California, and

52:18

if it was in the morning, Russia

52:20

Lim Boss show was always on, and

52:22

every time there was a break, the cab driver turned

52:25

around and say to me, this guy is great. And

52:27

I listened to him, and I thought, boy, this guy's something,

52:29

you know, because that mixture of an

52:32

analyst and an entertainer

52:35

was deliberate in him,

52:38

and he took it to the highest state. I

52:40

met him in a hotel somebody pointing about

52:42

to me, and I went and I said, love your show, which

52:44

you know, everybody ever made him and probably said that time.

52:46

Then later he became a big national

52:49

figure and I would have contact with him

52:51

from time to time he got the idea that we

52:53

should advertise on his show,

52:56

and he had a backlog people wanted

52:58

to advertise, so I I, yeah, we'll

53:00

give it a whirl. And then the point about the world

53:02

is he was great. He uh

53:05

understood what our college

53:08

was about. He wanted me to explain

53:10

it to him, and I did many times,

53:12

and uh, he just turned it into gold.

53:15

So I admired him. I liked

53:17

him a lot. You know, he was on the radio three

53:20

hours a day, five days a week

53:22

for thirty some years. It was essential

53:24

to the success of Russia Limbaugh that he was an

53:27

entertainer. He was funny, he would just

53:29

make you laugh. But more essential than

53:31

that is that he represented some big

53:33

things that are rooted deeply in America,

53:35

and he defended those things consistently

53:38

for his whole career. And of course those

53:40

things cannot die. They are eternal,

53:43

and he has helped to sustain them so far,

53:46

and we should carry on. Trump

53:48

doesn't care. Uh,

53:51

he's not politically corrective. He's fearless.

53:53

He's not afraid to tell people what

53:56

he actually thinks about other people

53:58

or things, and he's not worried

54:01

about the reaction that people have to

54:03

it. He's just gonna go ahead and be who he is.

54:05

He's one of these people that really

54:09

he embodies the idea

54:11

that you attract the kind of people

54:13

you are, and that you should not be

54:16

a phony to try to attract certain people,

54:18

trying to be like the people you want to attract.

54:20

It never works. He just is who he is, and

54:22

whoever doesn't like him their problem. Whoever

54:25

does find there in the inner circle, We're

54:28

so glad to have with us, if only for a

54:30

few moments, one of the busiest men in

54:32

America to share his thoughts about

54:35

Russia. Lim Law President Donald

54:37

J. Trump, Mr? President, What do

54:39

you think Russia? Limbaugh's legacy will be across

54:41

America and the world more than

54:43

anything else. Freedom encourage. You

54:45

know, he had guts. Rush would talk about

54:48

anything that was appropriate to talk

54:50

about. These other people, even

54:53

the good ones. They're good people, but they want to be

54:55

politically correct. They don't want to say

54:58

anything that's too controversial. And

55:00

that's what made him successful. Bow. You know

55:03

that you don't other than anybody. You may

55:05

be one guy that does it better than I

55:07

do. Rush

55:10

was a He was a man who

55:13

had tremendous courage, and he had

55:15

tremendous principle and if he

55:17

believed in something, he talked about it. And who

55:19

had an audience like him? You know, Sean

55:21

Hannity is great and he's a great guy

55:23

and a great person in every way.

55:26

And Sean said, it's a voice that can

55:28

never ever be replaced.

55:31

And you know, for Sean to say that, who's

55:33

so big in his own right and he's a massive audience.

55:36

But and Sean openly says, Nope,

55:38

Rush was the voice. It can never be replaced.

55:41

You cannot because I used to say, well, who

55:44

can replace Rush? And the fact

55:46

is nobody will ever replace him.

55:49

He was a courageous person and

55:51

he loved our country. Well, Mr President,

55:53

on behalf of all of us who worked with Rush

55:56

and his millions of fans, we want

55:58

to thank you will bestowing

56:00

the Medal of Freedom upon him at that time,

56:03

only you could do that and make

56:05

all of the elected Democrats in Washington

56:08

show up for the ceremony. Thank you

56:10

for that. It was such a beautiful night. One

56:12

will never forget. Thank you for doing

56:14

that, Mr President. That was a great

56:16

evening and I've never seen anything like it. One

56:18

side was going crazy in a positive

56:21

way, and the other side was dead and silent.

56:23

But you know what, you looked at the eyes of

56:26

the other side. They knew he deserved

56:28

it. They knew it, they respected They

56:31

respected him as much as they

56:33

may be disliked him. And I don't

56:35

know disagreed with him for whatever reason. I

56:37

don't know why you would. He wants a strong military

56:40

once slow texts, you know, all of the

56:42

common sense things. But but they got

56:44

it and giving it to him was his greatest

56:47

honor. And giving it there and

56:49

I was just an idea that I had and I said,

56:51

let's go for it. And uh,

56:54

that was quite a night. That was quite a night.

56:56

Thank you for your time, Mr President. We so

56:59

love you. Thank you for joining Thanks keep

57:01

up the work very much. He

57:04

is the greatest fighter and winner that

57:06

you will ever meet. Rush Limball,

57:09

thank you for your decades

57:12

tireless devotion to our us.

57:28

In recognition of all

57:31

that you have done for our nation, the

57:33

millions of people a day that

57:36

you speak to and that you inspire, and

57:39

all of the incredible work that

57:41

you have done for charity, I

57:44

am proud to announce tonight that you will

57:46

be receiving our country's highest

57:49

civilian honor, the Presidential

57:51

Medal of Freedom. So

58:04

this is our last episode of Russilan by

58:06

the man behind the Golden the IB microphone.

58:08

We've heard from a lot of people, but I wanted you,

58:11

ladies and gentlemen to hear from the two

58:13

men that helped me produce this podcast

58:16

series. Phil Tower Chris Kelly.

58:18

Welcome to your podcast of Whom

58:21

with Me? Hello

58:23

James, Well, Chris, let's start with

58:25

you. What have you learned? You

58:27

came into this, as I understand that, correct

58:30

me if I'm wrong. You came into this not so much

58:32

a political guy. Tell me what you've

58:34

learned from this series. You know, listen, I'm

58:36

I am. I'm a radio guy, right,

58:39

so having been around

58:41

radio for a long time and having

58:44

worked for radio stations that were rush lingall

58:46

affiliates for a long time. Um,

58:49

obviously you know you you revere somebody

58:51

of his stature, uh

58:54

and his success level politically

58:56

speaking. No, I'm not overly

58:58

interested in a lot of politics

59:00

in general, right, but I am

59:02

interested in somebody that knows how to communicate

59:05

and somebody who does it at

59:07

the level that he did it for so long. And

59:10

I gotta tell you Honestly, the

59:12

stories that I've been privy to behind

59:15

the scenes, is we've recorded this thing,

59:18

it's kind of blown me away. He reminds me a lot of

59:20

a guy that I used to work for for a long

59:22

time. Uh. And hearing hearing

59:24

people like Brian say he was like another father

59:27

to me, or hearing just your

59:29

emotion in talking about him, and getting

59:32

the chance to know some of these other people

59:34

that have interacted with and and been part

59:36

of Russia's life for so long has been really, really

59:38

special, and I'm really really proud

59:41

to have been part of this project. This

59:43

podcast has been about,

59:46

you know, at the end of the day, no matter

59:48

what you watch on TV, no matter what you listen

59:51

to on the radio, no matter what you

59:53

read online, there's another human being on

59:55

the other end of that content. And

59:58

what I have been really sted in over

1:00:00

the course of this series, and I hope others have paid attention

1:00:03

to, is laying down all political

1:00:05

ideology and laying down all what

1:00:08

you read in the newspaper, online

1:00:10

or whatever, is that there's this guy

1:00:13

and there was so many more

1:00:15

layers to him than you

1:00:18

ever really got to hear on the radio,

1:00:20

or that anybody ever really knew that

1:00:23

to me is the whole purpose of why

1:00:25

we've been doing this podcast. It's been an

1:00:28

absolute pleasure to produce

1:00:31

this and and especially I have to say

1:00:33

James, to get to know you and work with

1:00:35

you. You are a prose

1:00:37

pro and I know just in reading some

1:00:39

of the comments from um

1:00:42

people that have left reviews on the podcast,

1:00:44

and uh, just getting

1:00:47

feedback from people in my own orbit,

1:00:50

the level at which people speak of you, Uh,

1:00:52

they couldn't be couldn't be more right.

1:00:55

You are truly a gentleman

1:00:57

and a professional, and it's been an absolute pleasure

1:00:59

to work with you. I'm blushing and that's

1:01:02

hard to see, by the way. Thank

1:01:04

you, Thank

1:01:09

you so much. Chris Kelly our

1:01:11

other producer, Phil Tower. Phil,

1:01:13

I'm gonna ask you the same question, well in a

1:01:15

different kind of way, what have you learned from from

1:01:18

from producing this podcast series about the

1:01:20

life of Russian Lumball, the guy behind

1:01:22

the Golden IBY microphone. Well,

1:01:24

I'm going to give you a quick, simple answer, and that is

1:01:27

have a dream, never

1:01:29

give up on it. Rush

1:01:32

decided that radio was his calling.

1:01:35

We knew that as a young kid he hated going

1:01:38

to school and that was his vision.

1:01:40

He was fired from his first seven jobs,

1:01:43

and in the end he was successful because he

1:01:45

had a dream. He had a vision, and he kept

1:01:48

to it. And along the way he met

1:01:50

some great people and he stayed humble and grateful

1:01:53

until the end. And what in a great American

1:01:56

success story that is James and you

1:01:58

were You had an

1:02:00

inside seat to the whole thing, So I mean,

1:02:03

what an incredible honor um.

1:02:05

In the end, he was just a guy who loved what he

1:02:08

did. And we've heard that from our parents

1:02:10

and mentors along the way.

1:02:12

You gotta love what you do in life. And Rush

1:02:15

loved radio and he loved his

1:02:18

show. He loved being with his audience. He was

1:02:20

there until the end. And I

1:02:22

need to make Chris and you

1:02:24

blush because Chris, when I

1:02:26

received a call from Craig Kitchen, the

1:02:29

godfather of this whole project, if you

1:02:31

will, I told him, I said,

1:02:34

we need a masterful audio

1:02:36

guy, and introduced

1:02:38

Chris Kelly, my co producer who

1:02:40

makes these podcasts. Sing James and you

1:02:43

know that the way the music has mixed, everything's

1:02:45

together. And you, James,

1:02:48

a storyteller who gave each of us chills

1:02:50

as we heard some of these stories. Oh

1:02:52

my gosh, Well, I'm gonna say this. You know, I've

1:02:54

been in radio all my life, almost as

1:02:56

I look back on it now, almost

1:02:58

all of my life, I've been in this radio

1:03:01

business, and of course we're work. Working with Rush

1:03:03

Limbaugh was an amazing

1:03:06

blessing. It was a

1:03:09

chance of a lifetime

1:03:12

that has made my life. And

1:03:15

working with both you Phil

1:03:17

and you Chris has been such

1:03:19

a delight. You Rush

1:03:22

used to say, you know, the job of Colors was to

1:03:24

make make the host look good, not

1:03:26

to suck up or anything, but but to bring

1:03:28

out the best. And working with two people

1:03:31

who are the very best at

1:03:33

what they do makes

1:03:35

you up your game. And that's what both of you have

1:03:38

done for me. You've made this a pleasure. You've

1:03:40

made this a remarkable experience

1:03:42

that I'll never forget. And I cannot

1:03:45

thank you enough for the hard

1:03:47

work and energy you put in. People that are not in

1:03:49

this business don't understand the time that

1:03:51

it takes just to produce one

1:03:53

episode, and you

1:03:56

guys have now both of you have

1:03:58

spent so many hours going

1:04:00

through this podcast with me and

1:04:03

going through Russia Llanbaw's life with me, and

1:04:06

the way that you produced this

1:04:09

we hope brings all

1:04:11

of us hope. Those that

1:04:13

listen to Rush, those that knew

1:04:15

Rush, and those that didn't know Rush will

1:04:18

find appreciation for what

1:04:20

an incredible man he was

1:04:24

based on the production skills that

1:04:26

you guys brought to the table, and I just can't thank

1:04:28

you enough. So just

1:04:31

this week, you know, in one of the previous episodes,

1:04:33

I mentioned the dream that I had of Russia. I was trying to

1:04:35

figure it out. So just this week I had another dream.

1:04:38

Um, as we sit here with

1:04:40

the final episode of RUSSI Lana the Man behind

1:04:42

the Golden Knee, I'd be microphone and

1:04:44

in this dream, Dawn, Brian and I were sitting

1:04:47

in the control room and Rush was doing the show. And

1:04:49

let me tell you, this was so vivid. It

1:04:51

was such a vivid dream that

1:04:54

at some point I looked

1:04:57

at Dawn and said, how

1:04:59

is this possible? Bowl, How are we here

1:05:01

listening to Rush in

1:05:03

the studio with us? This has to be

1:05:05

a dream. And then I woke

1:05:08

up. Well, my

1:05:11

life with Rush was kind of like a dream. It

1:05:14

happened all so quickly. Now

1:05:16

when I look back on it, when

1:05:18

you look back over three decades of your

1:05:20

life, and and and you've spent three

1:05:23

decades with someone who's had an amazing impact

1:05:25

on your life. What can you say.

1:05:27

It's hard to believe that we're at the stage now

1:05:29

where where we're talking about it in

1:05:32

the past tense. But here's the thing. Rush

1:05:35

will never be past tense. For

1:05:38

three decades, he

1:05:40

connected with millions

1:05:43

of people. He didn't just connect

1:05:46

with their brains with ideas,

1:05:48

he connected with their hearts. He

1:05:52

connected with people in a

1:05:54

way that no other media

1:05:56

personality in our

1:06:00

history has connected with people.

1:06:02

And that is evidenced by

1:06:04

the stories that people tell

1:06:06

among themselves, some of the stories that

1:06:09

you'll see in some of the reviews of this podcast,

1:06:11

and and if you're fortunate enough to

1:06:14

read in some of the emails or other communications

1:06:16

that people send with each other. Rush impacted

1:06:18

people in a way that most broadcasters

1:06:21

could only dream of. He

1:06:23

loved what he did. He loved

1:06:26

this country, he loved his family,

1:06:29

He loved what he did.

1:06:32

Russell Lambas said he was born to talk

1:06:35

and we were born to listen. He was so right. He

1:06:37

was born to do what he did, and

1:06:40

he did it well. That talent

1:06:42

has been returned to God, but thank

1:06:44

God we had that talent. For thirty years.

1:06:47

More than thirty years, Rush,

1:06:50

We love you, we miss you, and

1:06:53

will never ever forget

1:06:55

you. One final guest

1:06:58

host we haven't heard from yet, or

1:07:00

at least not in his own words, He narrated

1:07:02

a life of Russi Lymbob and Yet for us in our

1:07:05

last episode, but also sent us

1:07:07

a little bit more of his own story and

1:07:09

insight on how Rush impacted him

1:07:12

and inspired his life. In liberal

1:07:14

Hollywood, of all places, actor

1:07:17

Nick Sarcy was a fan of Russia Limbaugh,

1:07:19

but what he didn't know was that Rush was

1:07:22

also a fan of his work until

1:07:24

one day he mentioned him on the air

1:07:27

and the rest was history. So now here's

1:07:29

Nick Sercy, one time guest

1:07:31

host of the Russi lan Bar Program, but more

1:07:33

importantly, a long time listener

1:07:36

just like you and me. And this

1:07:39

is nick story. I

1:07:44

was living in North Carolina with my wife and

1:07:47

newborn daughter and driving long

1:07:49

distances for auditions trying

1:07:51

to get my acting career started. Many

1:07:54

of my trips were from western North Carolina

1:07:56

to Wilmington, North Carolina, at

1:07:58

four hundred miles six and a half hour drive

1:08:01

one way. There was nothing but the

1:08:03

radio to keep you awake and

1:08:05

alive. And then one day, flipping

1:08:08

through I came upon this voice,

1:08:11

this warm, jocular, joyful,

1:08:14

sonorous, pleasant voice, bragging

1:08:17

about his talent on loan

1:08:19

from God and

1:08:22

tying half his brain behind his back to make

1:08:24

it fair to the callers, talking about

1:08:26

politics, the news of the day, playing

1:08:29

funny song parodies, and he was

1:08:31

making fun of Democrats. And

1:08:33

at that time this simply was

1:08:35

not done, And I thought, who

1:08:38

the hell is this guy? For you young

1:08:40

whipper snappers out there, it is hard

1:08:42

to understand what life was like before

1:08:45

Rush. There was no one,

1:08:48

and I mean no one like him.

1:08:51

There was no Fox News, no Sean Hannity,

1:08:54

not really even a talk radio format,

1:08:56

not on a national level. Rush

1:08:58

started it all. He

1:09:01

showed us all that the left did

1:09:03

not define him and by

1:09:06

extension us, and

1:09:08

he talked to us like every single

1:09:11

one of us was a dear friend,

1:09:14

and in our hearts we

1:09:16

made friends with Rush. It

1:09:20

is nearly impossible for me to put into words

1:09:22

how much Rush has meant to me over the

1:09:24

years working in Hollywood

1:09:27

amongst the leftists in power, Rush was

1:09:29

the thing I organized my day

1:09:31

around. I even bought a short

1:09:33

wave radio from Radio Shack Google

1:09:36

that kids, so I could hear Rush

1:09:38

from anywhere on earth, even

1:09:40

if he was preempted by current events. Because

1:09:44

as a small town kid pursuing the

1:09:46

seemingly impossible goal of making a

1:09:48

living as an actor, I saw

1:09:50

myself in Rush when

1:09:53

he talked about wanting to be on the radio from

1:09:55

a very young age and knowing that

1:09:57

radio was what he wanted to do with his life.

1:10:00

When he talked about the jobs that he had

1:10:02

been fired from and all the setbacks he had

1:10:04

encountered along the way, and

1:10:06

how he had still persevered, he

1:10:10

gave me hope. He made me believe,

1:10:12

perhaps more than any other single person

1:10:14

in my life besides my mom, that

1:10:17

I could do it if I just kept going.

1:10:20

He sustained me through all the disappointments

1:10:22

and the triumphs, and most

1:10:24

of all, he let me know that I was not alone

1:10:27

in being a conservative, even

1:10:29

while I was in the thick den of

1:10:31

leftist thieves, bullies and vipers

1:10:34

that he is Hollywood in I

1:10:37

was cast his art Mullen and the TV show

1:10:40

justified a role that perhaps came

1:10:42

the signature role of my career. And

1:10:45

Rush said repeatedly on the air how

1:10:47

much he liked to show which thrilled

1:10:49

me to no end. I was so proud that

1:10:52

my friend Rush, who had never

1:10:54

met at that time. Like some of

1:10:57

my work, nothing makes

1:10:59

me feel like I had made

1:11:01

it more than that fact. And

1:11:04

then one day it happened Rush

1:11:06

mentioned me by name on the

1:11:08

air. My phone blew

1:11:11

up with my friends calling me to tell me.

1:11:13

I couldn't believe it. And by

1:11:15

then Twitter had arrived on the scene, and

1:11:17

I was already friends with Russia's brother David,

1:11:20

and I tweeted him and one thing led

1:11:22

to another, and then the next day

1:11:26

I got a call from Bo Snerdley

1:11:28

himself asking me if

1:11:30

I would like to come on the show and be

1:11:32

interviewed by the Maha Rushi

1:11:35

himself. And since then I've

1:11:37

had the privilege of meeting Russian person,

1:11:40

of introducing him at a speech he gave

1:11:42

to that top secret Hollywood

1:11:44

conservative group that had no name

1:11:47

and in fact never existed. And

1:11:49

towards the end of Russia's life, when he talked about

1:11:51

how blessed he was to live the life he

1:11:53

had, I saw myself and

1:11:56

him again. There's no question

1:11:58

that I have been a very fortunate I've

1:12:00

been able to forge a living for myself and my

1:12:03

beautiful family by acting, which

1:12:05

is a miracle in and of itself, but

1:12:08

still perhaps the most incredible,

1:12:11

preposterous thing that has

1:12:13

ever happened to me occurred on December when

1:12:18

I had the honor of guest hosting

1:12:21

the Rush Limball Program. It

1:12:24

was a gift to me in so many ways.

1:12:26

I'm not a radio guy. I was

1:12:28

dragged across the finish line that day by

1:12:30

the great boats Nerdly and the amazing

1:12:33

Mike Mammone, and it remains

1:12:35

to me the single most surreal

1:12:37

event in my life. It's

1:12:40

an honor that I still can't believe

1:12:42

I received when Craig Kitchen

1:12:44

passed along a message to me from Rush

1:12:47

the day before I guest hosted. Rush

1:12:49

had said to ask me why

1:12:52

I wanted to get into radio, and

1:12:56

I told Craig to tell Rush that I wasn't

1:12:58

really sure if I did, but I

1:13:00

knew that I just wanted to know what

1:13:03

it felt like to be Rush

1:13:06

for one day, and

1:13:08

it gave me even more of an appreciation of

1:13:10

how great Rush was when

1:13:12

I experienced exactly how hard

1:13:15

it is to be on the radio for three

1:13:17

hours just once, let

1:13:20

alone fifteen hours a week. Fifty

1:13:22

weeks a year for thirty years at

1:13:24

the very top of the mountain, with no

1:13:27

one else ever even cloaks.

1:13:31

Over those years, I have so many memories

1:13:34

laughing with him at his song parodies,

1:13:37

crying with him when he had his pain killer

1:13:39

issues, praying for him when his

1:13:41

hearing went, and of course

1:13:44

sobbing when he announced that

1:13:47

he had the cancer that would

1:13:49

ultimately end his life. And

1:13:52

when that sad day came. I

1:13:55

was just like everybody else that was in Russia's

1:13:57

thirty million plus audience. We

1:14:00

grieved not just

1:14:02

because we agreed with his politics, not

1:14:05

for the validation and courage he modeled

1:14:08

for us, not just because

1:14:10

we would miss hearing his inimitable

1:14:12

take on the day's events. We

1:14:14

grieved like he was part

1:14:17

of our family and we

1:14:19

were. We grieved

1:14:21

because we loved him, and

1:14:24

we knew he loved us. If

1:14:28

it can ever be said about someone that he

1:14:30

did not live in vain, then

1:14:32

his life made a difference that

1:14:35

someone is rush. He

1:14:37

showed us the way. May

1:14:40

we have the same courage that he had

1:14:43

to laugh in the face of hatred, to

1:14:46

defend this country and what it stands for, and

1:14:49

to do so with intelligence and

1:14:51

humor and love.

1:14:56

God bless Rush Limbaugh, and

1:15:00

God bless the United States of America,

1:15:02

and God bless the United States. I'm

1:15:05

never going to be able to adequately

1:15:07

think the people who are responsible

1:15:10

for one of the greatest lives

1:15:13

anybody could have had. Anybody. Mega

1:15:15

dittos megal prayer, Mega love

1:15:17

for Rush. That man is in heaven and he's

1:15:20

being right there by the throne, and

1:15:22

I thank God for them. You will be remembered

1:15:24

as a man who on air

1:15:27

changed the course of conversation in

1:15:29

America. The more you can be your real,

1:15:32

authentic self, the better you're going to be.

1:15:35

And that's Rush. Rush

1:15:38

encouraged so many of us to

1:15:40

think for ourselves, to learn

1:15:43

and to lead. He often said

1:15:46

it did not matter where you started

1:15:48

or what you look like. As Americans,

1:15:51

we all have endless opportunities

1:15:54

like nowhere else in the world. I

1:15:56

have met the goals I

1:15:58

set for myself, and I have

1:16:01

been able to do it all for the most part

1:16:03

on my terms. I just cannot get

1:16:05

any better. And to be able to share

1:16:08

all of this with you and tell you how grateful

1:16:11

I am makes me happy. You

1:16:14

didn't have to know Rush to love him all.

1:16:16

You had to do was listen to him. He was a historian,

1:16:18

he was a comedian. He was

1:16:21

a brilliant, brilliant man, and he

1:16:23

will be greatly missed, and there'll not be

1:16:25

another Russian law in this world. People try

1:16:27

to figure out why he was so successful

1:16:29

you did, You just can't put it in in an

1:16:32

easy define herble box. His

1:16:34

love of his audience, his love or what he did,

1:16:36

his intelligence, his wit. Rush

1:16:38

was like a second father for me because

1:16:41

I probably spent more time with him than anybody

1:16:43

in the last twenty years. I know now that God

1:16:45

needs him for something up there. Now he's got a

1:16:47

new job, and he did his part here and

1:16:50

now we all have to, you know,

1:16:52

continue his legacy

1:16:55

anyway we care. There was nobody that ever

1:16:57

was in the presence of the man, liberals

1:17:00

or conservatives or a political people

1:17:03

who didn't think he was the most gentlemanly,

1:17:06

humble person they've

1:17:08

ever met. Here's the all knowing, all seeing, all

1:17:10

caring Maha Rushing, and it

1:17:13

was America's anchor man and truth detective. And

1:17:15

he was also a brother and an

1:17:17

uncle, and his son and a grandson.

1:17:19

I'm just trying to give thanks every

1:17:22

day for all of the blessings. I

1:17:24

have had a blessed life I have. I

1:17:26

have had so many great friends

1:17:29

I had and still do. Um that

1:17:31

it's it's uh, there's

1:17:34

nothing negative for me. There's there's nothing, nothing

1:17:37

that i have deep regrets about because

1:17:39

I've been too blessed, because I've been to He

1:17:44

would give so generously to taste

1:17:46

so many organizations and so many people,

1:17:48

and would do so many things anonymously,

1:17:50

so much that people will never know the

1:17:53

amount of stuff that he's done. Russia's

1:17:55

voice isn't going anywhere,

1:17:59

so you need not have any care of

1:18:01

that. On behalf of the Limbaugh

1:18:03

family, I would personally like to

1:18:06

thank each and every one of you who

1:18:09

prayed for Rush and inspired

1:18:11

him to keep going. He loved

1:18:14

you, and he loved this

1:18:16

radio program with every

1:18:19

part of his being. You have to give

1:18:22

every day, you know. I've love

1:18:24

to point out we all only get one life. We

1:18:27

don't get to do over againness, Well we

1:18:30

do. Actually we gotta do over every day if

1:18:32

we choose to look at it that way. Once

1:18:35

we're old enough on the tour enough to understand

1:18:37

what life is and that there is only

1:18:40

one, then you do get do overs.

1:18:43

Far more optimistic than pessimistic, focusing

1:18:46

on the goodness that

1:18:49

exists each day, and

1:18:51

there is goodness and everything

1:18:53

that happens. It may not be immediately

1:18:57

a parent, but it's there and

1:19:00

it will eventually reveal itself. It always does

1:19:03

reveal itself. It always does. A

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1:19:19

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1:19:22

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1:19:24

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1:19:26

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1:19:31

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