Welcome to today's edition of the Rush Limbaugh Show podcast. It is an incredible honor to be on EIB, filling in for our departed friend Rush Limbaugh on a day that is a day that the Lord has made. And it's a day that three decades ago, Rush Limbaugh decided to take the biggest known career risk that any celebrity had ever taken. Any talk show host to Kraatz, open line Friday, 802, 82 to 82. And I am imagining what the Malha would be telling us about the news cycle.

In fact, I'd love to hear from you what you hear in your mind about the news cycle today through the lens of Rush Limbaugh and the rules of life, etc., that he taught us at 800 to eight to 22. You just think about this, that what used to be cages? Well, no. I mean, go back to this. They were facilities under Barack Obama where, quote, migrant children were held. Then they became cages.

That desperates angels were put during the Trump administration cages where the kids were put in other facilities again. And I can just imagine, Rush, explain this all to us, that it's just it's what liberals do. You have a a you know, a man in the White House behind the militarized installation who for years talked about President Trump's knee jerk foreign policy and dangerous foreign policy, who's now bombed Syria? I don't see Code Pink. I think Rush told us they take vacations during Democrat's presidencies or pseudo presidencies.

So I'd love to hear what you think about what Rush would be telling us today from some of his undeniable truths of life. Also, just things that Rush told you over the years that resonate with you, maybe even outside of politics or specifically outside of politics. In addition to your calls today, a bunch of classic phone calls. Some of them are funny, hilarious. Some of them are touching. One favorite aspect of Rush to me is that he defied council culture his whole career.

There were constant attempts. I've heard Markstein talk really eloquently about the hundreds of millions of dollars spent to try to get Russia off the air. One of my very favorite lessons from professor from Professor Limbaugh was Rush defeated chancel culture from the actual White House, an attempt to cancel him for the White House. Before that was even a phrase. And it happened after Rush gave The Wall Street Journal for words about Obama's first term. Let's hear this and explain how Rush defeated it.

Now, you millennials are young enough. You may not have been listening to this program January 16th, 2009. On January 16th, 2009, the day before I had been contacted by the Wall Street Journal, Obama was yet to be emasculated. That would be five days later. The Wall Street Journal was acting, asking a highly reputed, relevant commentators to submit 400 words on their hopes and dreams for the new Obama administration. And I came here to the Golden EIB microphone and I told my audience.

My reply to The Wall Street Journal sound, I don't know, 400 words, I need four. I hope he fails. Well, what are you laughing at? Here's the point. Everybody think it's outrageous to say, look at even my staff. Oh, you can't do that. Why not? Why is it any different? What's new? What is unfair about my saying? I hope liberalism fails. Liberalism is our problem. Liberalism is what's gotten us dangerously close to the precipice here.

Why do I want more of it? I don't care what the drive by story is. I would be honored if the drive by media headline me all day long Limbaugh column. I hope Obama fails. Somebody has got to say it.

And they did. They headlined it exactly that way. Limbaugh. I hope Obama fails. What they purposely got wrong was they reported that I was hoping America failed. Then I was so rank partisan that I was willing for my country to suffer. In order for Obama's presidency to fail and it was the exact opposite. I wanted Obama to fail so that my country would not. I wanted Obama's liberal agenda, his socialist community organizer agenda to fail. I did not and never have and never will want America to fail.

Never. No way, this was my point of trying to articulate the difference. I wanted Obama to fail implementing things like Obamacare, I wanted Obama to fail and letting the Iranians have nuclear weapons. I wanted Obama to fail at keeping our borders open. I wanted Obama to fail in everything he did. I wanted Obama to fail at the stimulus. I did not want America to fail. I wanted America to be saved.

I made that distinction every day for a month, even my first nationally televised address to America at the CPAC convention in February. I went through it there on national TV for NFL networks, just as I did to you here. And it continued to be misrepresented. It continued to be portrayed as I was hoping America would fail. And it still is. Nine years later, folks, and they can't let go of it was Rush on December 4th, 2017, remembering earlier when he said this and I absolutely adored the lesson from Professor Limbaugh after the White House went at him and the Democrats, they took out billboards trying to attack Rush the White House.

The president was attacking a media figure, albeit the biggest talk show host in history. Most listened to. And I remember Rush's response on the air. He quoted the Alinsky. He said, look, you know, Mr. President, I get the playbook. Pick a target. Cut it off from a support base, isolate it, but the problem is you think that my target is my advertisers and advertisers has been very loyal to Rush. He said, look, I'm family with my listeners.

You can't separate us. He also said that he said, President Obama, I've prepared all my life for people like you. You know, there's nothing you can give me. Therefore, there's nothing you can take from me. And he offered a peace treaty of sorts or a meeting or said, listen, why don't you fly the Air Force One down here and we'll have a meeting and see if we can come to some form of agreement. Or better yet, Russia said, I tell you what, I'll come and pick you up.

Be one, because it's a it's a better airplane. And on the way back, I can talk to you about what it feels like to purchase things like this with money you earned. Rush canceled that attempt to cancel Rush Limbaugh, and there's a lot of people who could learn a lot of lessons from that to this day. Now in the News, we'll hear your phone calls about this barocco. Biden has decided to bomb Syria after Gen's Circle back.

Soki talked about President Trump's dangerous militarized foreign policy. And, of course, there's no one from the left who's going after this. But you remember, there's another story that Russia had shared with us and now that brocco Biden controls the White House. So he went back to bombing Middle Eastern countries. You will probably remember Russia's story about Ron Silver. If not, here's a reminder. You all remember in 1992, the week prior to the inauguration of Slick Willy, Clinton scheduled all kinds of events on the Washington Mall parties and events.

And one of the things that Clinton's schedule was a flyover of military jets. And there was an actor by the name of Ron Silver and Ron Silver got mad as hell. He said, what the hell is that we don't do? Who are there flying jets overwash? What the hell? And somebody had to calm him down, said Ron. Those are our jets now. Oh, yeah. So when the Democrats those are our jets that used to be they were Reagan's jets and Bush's jets, they weren't ours, but now they're our jets.

And that indication, right. Ron Silver later became a great conservative before he passed away.

If your foreign policy is dependent upon who is doing the bombing, you don't have a foreign policy. And Russia shared with us all these years about the Democrats and the duplicitous way they use the military and exploration projects and wars that they sponsored. But so many of them had nothing to do with putting America first. We have now and Russia warned us about this. We have now a president who has announced that America is not first. And I think to this day, this is a you realize this is our first full week without America's anchorman.

This is the first full week since Russia has gone to heaven. And I would love to hear a monologue today about Syria and a reminder of how the Democrats actually enjoy using the military in this fashion once they get into office. I remember Rush's monologue about Barack Obama's interview with Jimmy Buffett. Obama bragged about being good at killing people. Do you remember this? I think it was a Rolling Stone. Where he was talking about droning people and it turned out he was really good at this.

Later this weekend, Rush is going to be honored at CPAC and it makes sense he's going to stay. President Trump is going to speak. He is the headliner. You know that Jack Dorsey at Twitter has actually put up this this warning page when you click to go to CPAC dot org, if you see a link from CPAC on Twitter, at least this is the way it was a few days ago. They were putting up a this may be a dangerous link page.

Yep, it is dangerous. For leftism. Because Rush gave an historic speech at CPAC. We're going to go back through that. The president's going to speak. There will be networks that will show up. But we also live in an era where Rush had warned us that they couldn't wait one day to bring back the so-called Fairness Doctrine, one day to limit what media you're allowed to see and how we see this, the Democrats plotting this. So we'll hear your phone calls today about lessons from Professor Limbaugh, how you think Rush would be handling news today on Open Line Friday 800 282 282.

It's Todd Hermann in on the EIB Network slaughterman filling in on the EIB Network for our friend Rush Limbaugh. And I was puzzling about this, about the ability to maintain a grounding.

You know, we'll we'll get your comments on how Rush would view the news of the day and things you've learned from Professor Limbaugh.

But I've been puzzling about Rush's ability to maintain his grounding as a one word celebrity. I mean, I've never thought of Rush as a celebrity. I was thought of him as well.

We think of them as family, a thinker, a political analyst, par excellence, all of these things. But like you, for all these years, he seemed to be a friend. And I think the grounding came from his daily interactions with us. People at Russia's level don't get that, they get a lot of yes, people that I know I know that the liberal stand, that joke about dittos, they don't they don't get that. Russia never wanted my robots ever.

He liked to debate things with us. And I think that was how Rush maintained this grounding, not to mention his upbringing, et cetera, and this showed when he talked to callers, you think about all the calls Rush took and it's still he still got jazzed when there was a unique idea or a hard question. And in fact, anyone who ever got through to the famous phone number 888 to 282 remembers the thrill of being greeted by the Moja.

Here is Stuart in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Great to have you. Stuart, how are you, sir? Hey, Russ, you a great man. Question is this. Lee Greenwood sings a song about starting over with his children and his wife. My question to you is, if you had to start over with nothing. What are some things that money can buy that you would miss?

Oh, what a clever, clever. Let me translate this. If you were poor and destitute and pooping in the streets of San Francisco, what would you miss the most? That's right. That money can buy. In other words, money can't buy happiness. But we're going to pretend here the what what would you miss that you can afford now that you can't afford wouldn't be able to. Oh, man. Well, there's.

Now, this is one of these questions to answer this honestly or do I try to come up with something clever? Yeah, at the top of the list would have to be IBE one, because I still pinch myself when I got on board that thing.

STEWART Right. Oh, there's hands down that that would be I mean, what else? Mr. Snod Weeks's.

I would miss the iPhone. Yeah, but the iPhone would be within range now if. Wait a minute. He didn't say wait a minute. He didn't say poor, destitute and hopeless. He didn't say poor, destitute and talentless. He said I'm starting over again, meaning I've done it once, I can do it again. The iPhone is aspirational. True, but EIB one is much, much, much more aspirational on an iPhone.

But Sterling's point is correct to it.

I mean, it is kind of silly how much I like the thing. I it is incredible how much pleasure I get out of it. And you know what else? It is almost disturbing how much disappointment it creates. For example. Now, wait, I got to draw the line on this somewhere. I mean, well, I don't want to be misunderstood, but there's nothing about the iPhone itself that disappoints me other than the lack of speed of technological innovation.

That's silly. Right? But I mean, he asked. So now the iPhone, all this all this tech stuff, not just the iPhone tech stuff, is a it's a brain exercise for me. It's it's something that keeps my my brain from stagnating. To keep up with this stuff is a challenge. It's fun to do, but it would be within range if I were destitute, hopeless, pooping in the streets of San Francisco because he didn't say that I had no chance of getting skin.

So interesting question. I appreciate that, Stuart. See what I mean about the interaction. You see, Rush is jazz that the question and the sort of the the challenge in the Internet lecture challenge. But there's something else there. If you've not lived in San Francisco that that pooping on the streets, that's a real thing. That's that's I remember the first time I was in the Tenderloin in San Francisco and I thought, oh, that's that person's he's he's he's lost something is.

Well, yeah, sort of. Sadly, he's lost his humanity. So sad. And then this in the midst of that phone call. Did you hear it? The optimism. The smarts, the quick analysis of the caller's question. He said Stewart from Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, didn't say. Poor, destitute. And hopeless. That's rush to a T.. He's imagining I have to come completely over, my money's gone. And I'm on the streets in San Francisco and I'm forced to defecate on the streets, I've got nowhere to go or I won't go to a shelter if it brushwood find a way to help.

Even at that moment. He sang, but he didn't say hopeless. He didn't say talentless. So, no, I don't look at the national picture, we'll get into your calls about this, it's easy. It's fundamentally easy to be hopeless. You see people who didn't take the lesson from Rush and do fold to cancel culture, you see organizations that fold the cancer culture. And now they have to rebuild, but even in that moment, you see this optimism.

And that more than anything else, I believe I truly believe that more than anything else. May have been the key. Well, there's the talents, there's the magician as a radio performer, not that Rush was performing for us. There's analyzing and talking with us, but that core optimism. Always talking about things that could be done. I could see it never happened, thankfully, but it did. I mean, what did he say? He was fired five times, but only seven for only twice for rank insubordination.

I could see Orosz.

Having woken up and the money's gone and where a lot of us would roll over and go back to sleep or duck and cover, I could see Rush getting up, getting a piece of paper, and he had to borrow one and putting down the list of things he's going to do now. And do you believe that it was that heart? That form of optimism that didn't just propel the career, but propelled every day us listening with hope even as things looked bad with hope, because that's how Rush communicated.

We'll get to your phone calls. More great rush moments as we continue this tournament in on the EIB Network 888 222 on Open Line Friday.

A little bit less of a risk for me and that I'm a rank amateur guest host. But we do turn the phones over to rank amateur callers. Love to hear what you think the Professor Limbaugh would say about today's news events, lessons you've learned, nonpolitical, etc..

Blue check your Twitter types, liberality, generosities. They instinctively dislike us conservatives. So they constantly. Referred to Russia as a misogynist or a racist, and in fact, if you heard the conversation, extraordinary conversation between Markstein and Russia's dear Catherine, his wife, Catherine, have been deceived about these characterizations of Rush.

And she put Rush Limbaugh on the C list of celebrities for a golf event she was organising. Then she met Rush and realized, my goodness, I've made this grave error. This person is nothing like that. And of course, now you have this history, as Catherine shared with us on Russia's program.

So some of the things some of the reasons for this is Rush loved stereotypical humor because he knew it was stereotypical. He was once asked what he thought of the feminist movement. He said, I love the feminist movement, especially when I'm walking behind it.

And people could not grasp that Rush could see the multiple layers of funny to that funny in that it's in a stereotypical joke, funny because it's funny and funny because it just drove leftists nuts.

There was this invention. It was called The Rush, Babe, and it's just I have a little bit of an idea here about Rush babe. First, I want to talk to Brian in North Alabama. Brian, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program. Is Tadamon filling in for our departed friend Brian? Welcome to Russia Show. Accepted McCole and. Our condolences go out to his family and the staff there and all of his listeners. I wanted to touch on a point you made earlier about you can't separate the family, me and my mom and dad listen to Rush from the get go.

My dad, which he's passed, but my mom still listens and she's cried nearly every day from his dad. And this morning at work, a lady that I work with, a coworker, Connie, came up and she was talking that she wanted to get a tattoo. Not on it.

Connie, you would not think would ever get and they're like, what would you say?

I didn't realize what she was talking about, but I need and I was thinking, OK. And she started asking about the different tattoo parlors around that where she could get this tattoo.

But it just goes family. Pro family can't be separated. Now, I've got blood, family. I have nothing to do with. I have nothing to do with me but America.

True Americans. I don't care if you're Hispanic, if you're black or white, you're Indian, whatever, or what religion you are. If you're atheist, if you're true part of the family, we accept you as you are and we all, by God, fight together to the end. And that is the crux of what Rush was trying to get across to this nation, is that, by gosh, we're family and we fight for the good of the country to the end.

Yeah, it's interesting.

You know, God Almighty contains seasonal races, right? He is. He's with us all. And there's a beautiful way to say that. And I can hear that you're you're feeling emotional. And I want to let you know that the folks are still pretty emotional. And I want to just say, Brian, I hear that in your voice. And I don't want to make light of the situation because I know that your emotional and your your dear mother's emotion.

First of all, what's your mom's name?

Margene. Margene from the EIB family to you. Thank you for all these years of support and God bless you. Now, Brian, I. An idea for Connie. And this would be predicated upon you just thinking a bit about Rush. What if Connie were to get a tattoo that said Connie the Rush babe on her?

Hey, there you go, Connie. The rush, Babe Ruth, you go.

Okay, I can see a rock and I could see a rock and a two with the heart and I'd be in the middle. Maybe the golden EIB microphone surrounded with Connie. A favorite flowers. I know that I don't know, OK, because she has favorite flowers, because I know that good man, Brian, smart move. Well, if it's not flowers, maybe she has a certain caliber of ammunition she enjoys that could surround the heart being a good conservative woman.

But we run that by her. Corney The Rush, babe. I'll do it, OK.

I appreciate that. Yeah. Thank you, Brian. Thank you. And God go with you. No rush because that that was an invention that people misunderstood this. And I want you to hear something here that just proves it, that Rush Limbaugh knew that women were not monolithic and the phenomena of Rush babes on Facebook absolutely proved it.

Rush babe is not demeaning or insulting of women in any way.

It is an acknowledgment, ladies and gentlemen. That a proud conservative woman is innately attractive for independence or intellect, her commitment to real values and doesn't mind being called a babe.

It's a compliment to a well-adjusted. Hey, babe, how are you this not an insult? Rush Beeb's for America is a compliment. Only in the land of the left would calling a woman a babe to her face or something b. Insulting, such as stigmatizing or ignoring the existence of her brain. Remember, I never forgot this just to show you the generation and the great director. Oh, he's married to Julie Andrews. I can't Blake Edwards. He got a lifetime epidemic award at the Oscars one year.

And he gave all of his thanks to the best broad in the world.

The best broad he'd ever met, his wife, Julie Andrews, and you can hear a gasp in the room amongst the young actors and actresses who thought he was insulting her.

He was engaging in shock value.

But back in his day, World War two generation women were broads. That did not mean they were cows like it meant when I was in high school. That dame's they were broads, they were OK. I read a Mickey Spillane novel.

There's anyway, he just called a great, great broad what a great role was the best compliment he could give her and she took it that way, of course, and that's what Rush Beeb's is.

It's not at all insulting. And this is that this is where the left again, I don't know if it's well, no, I'd say this part of the left sees women as monoliths because they need to the same way that Joe Biden was perfectly comfortable saying if you have trouble deciding whether to vote for me or Donald Trump, you ain't black. They have no problem putting people into these boxes because the boxes have been so fortuitous and such a good political tactic that you use these things as political tactics and suddenly you begin to believe these things.

And suddenly begin to believe that women are all one thing and all offended by one thing, and this goes, I think, to also the grounding of Rush and also his optimism. I believe that Rush felt when he took a call from one of us that he could do what politicians call Human Connect and what Rush might call talking with us, and that the good hearted people can see the glimmer or even it would be sensing the glimmer in Russia's eyes.

He says, Oh, so you must be a rush, babe. I've heard that one. If I've heard it 100 times, I've heard it a thousand times.

So you must be a rush, babe. They're going to be some people who get deeply offended by that, and that's OK, because you can't be a genuine human without offending people sometimes. And cancer culture is, of course, trying to chill all this and Rush defeated cancer culture as we talked about cancer culture that came from the White House. It's the genuine this. There are people who pull punches and people who kill their own speech because they're afraid that, sure, they kill their own analysis because they're in fear of this current culture and there are going to be people who pay costs for that.

And for people who don't but are Roshe, if you ever go to the air with them and that sound goes and welcome to the show, it sounded like someone picking up the phone to talk to a buddy. That's just the way he did.

Is Todd Hermann in for our departed friend Rush Limbaugh? The EIB Network.

Todd Hermann in for our departed friends. Now at Internal Peace with God. Rush Limbaugh. Leftists love. They love to pretend that they want villages to raise families like, oh, man, got to find that Rush had such fun with with Hillary's. It takes a village to raise a family thing when what they mean is they mean that they need they want big government to indoctrinate the kids, you know, and if you doubt that he just consults what big education is doing to kids.

And on the converse to that, EIB is a village of ideas. I can remember debates about which Republican for whom we should vote on Russia's program. I can remember debates about President Trump's approach to things on this program about parenting. I remember a debate about organic foods on this program where Rush proved himself to understand the technology of that. It's always been that way, and it's a village of ideas and it is a family. Later in the program, you're going to hear a call from the Russian archives of someone who describes Russia's presence on the radio, saving a life.

We'll talk about that. Let's talk to Sandra in New Jersey. Sandra, you're on Rush Limbaugh's program. Is Thottam filling in, A.B.? Hi, Sandra. Oh, hi, Todd.

Thank you so much for taking my call. And I must compliment the phone screen. He is extremely sensitive and professional. But what I wanted to say today is how could I not think Rush Limbaugh this whole year, giving me strength to deal with my husband, who yesterday had a liver transplant, and all through the year he was very negative and very down. And I would listen to Rush every day saying, I am so grateful to get up every morning and start my day.

And I would say to my husband, Michael, why does you be like Rush? Be positive, be grateful that you're here having breakfast and and doing you a day. And I have to say, Rush was strong and brave and he taught me how to teach my husband to be like that. I love hearing that.

I love it. And I would just you know what? There's a power of of prayer. This Harvard did this study once. They intended to disprove the power of prayer. And I did this in a book up to pull it out some time in reference, the actual study. But they found out that when people are being prayed for and they know they're being prayed for, they do better than people who are just being prayed for. And they all do better than people who don't receive prayers.

So, Michael in New Jersey, What if we just transfer some prayers to your husband and let them know we are a whole the biggest radio audience in history, even with a rank amateur guest host here are praying for Michael. Right.

And the thing is nice. And listen, this is this is on audio in archives at Rush Limbaugh dot com.

You listen to how Rush lived his last year of life. There were no doldrums. And you have a choice. I mean, you can you can be negative. And that's not going to help you be healthy. You can be positive, which does help and gives you quality of life. Is there anything else we can do for Michael from afar? No, he said it all, you did a beautiful thing today saying that, and I just want you to know I've been listening to all my adult life and I love him and I will miss him.

I do miss him, but I like that you'll keep him going every day like you doing because he's one of a kind.

Well, that's an understatement. There's no doubt about that. Sandra, thank you so much for calling Russia's program. And, oh, just a lot of prayers for you and Michael. Now, you see what I'm talking about. This is from we can go we could go across the country. We could do this. I promise. We could do this. I promise. Given the power and the reach of the program that you built with Rush side by side, I promise we could go throughout the country and we could gather calls like that and we could feature calls like that.

We're going to get to Rush's speech at CPAC. We're going to get this was a decade ago and how prescient it was and how optimistic it was. You'll hear that next hour. A life rush saved by being on the radio. Let's talk. We were talking about Rush babies. Let's get this in real quick. Anna in San Diego, California. And I'm so pleased you called Rush's show. It's tournament on the EIB Network, Kianna. High tide, it's such an honor to talk to you and you could be on the show.

Sorry, I didn't mean to get emotional, but OK, I got inspired by the lady that called about being arrested because I consider myself a rush baby and arrested. My dad is the one that turned me on to all of this. And he also taught me, like the greatest lesson that I ever learned just as a person. And it was like Bush was that vehicle. So I have this magnet that says, Right, babe, I am arresting.

Oh, I love it.

I do. Is a really great. And of course, I get a lot of comments. People come to my house. But I remember my dad is originally from Kansas City. So Rush has been on our radio since I was a kid. So when I had I'm a baby, I really am. And then I grew up to become a rush babe. But he one day we were driving and he had rush on on the radio. And I said, Dad, why do you listen to this guy, which is just so mean and angry?

And my dad was telling me, this sweet, sweet man, and he said, you know, you he said Rush is a very exciting and excitable guy. He said, you hear this emotion because but you're not listening to his message. And he challenged me to listen to Rush for a week. And I started to listen and he said, you're not going to know who these players are. You're not going to know what's coming to them, people that help you with that.

But just listen. And that was in the early eighties, mid eighties, I should say, or late 80s, late 80s. And here I am today and I love it. Rarely missed a day. All right. But I learned the difference between hearing and listening and, yes, in my life to be a loving person. And we're up against a clock.

I want to tell you something. Listen very closely, because I know you're a lifetime long rush listener. Anna is one of my top ten favorite female names. All right, and thanks for calling Rush's show. I appreciate it. Everybody get it. It's Todd Hermann in for us Chehabi Network. Oh, good heavens, I'm just so enjoying visiting with you today on Russia's program is Todd Hermann in on estab filling in for Rush Markstein sent. That is the standard we fill in.

We're still filling in for Rush next hour. We see what's happening. And it's obvious, it's perfectly predictable. The Democrats have the White House behind the militarized installation. Joe Biden gets to be in the White House and we're seeing this enormous spending machine starting back up. Nancy Pelosi has pledged that no matter what, they're going to get the minimum wage bill in there, the minimum wage, you know, increase across the board. So suddenly all businesses having small businesses having been hammered by Democrat state governors, lockdown's can suddenly afford 15 bucks.

We had that that California congressman. Oh, we don't want businesses that can't afford 15 bucks. We don't want small businesses. That's clear. Given your behaviors and policies. That's clear. Rush gave a speech. About about these dynamics of big government. He spoke at CPAC. I remember seeing the speech on TV. I regretted that it didn't go watch it in person. It was phenomenal. You'll hear part of that and some phone calls that I'm just looking at now.

And I am just amazed at the things that you're going to hear and we'll hear together as we continue on the EIB Network.

It's Todd Hermann in for our departed friend Rush Limbaugh, a young college grad gunned down while simply walking his dog. A mom, Michelle Parker, vanishes after she drops off her little twins as a babysitter.

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What an incredible honor to be on the EIB Network, continuing to fill in for our dearly departed friends, never forgotten. Rush Limbaugh on today, the day the Lord has made. And this is the time God has decided we will live. Rush is going to be honored tonight at CPAC at the Ronald Reagan dinner. However, just justice just happened. Governor Ronda Santos of Florida just spoke at CPAC and he also honored Rush just seconds ago.

Now, the battles ahead will be made more difficult without the voice of one of our greatest field generals, my friend Rush Limbaugh.

On Wednesday, the state of Florida had the flags flown at half staff in honor of Rush in honor of his legacy, Rush displayed the courage of his convictions time and time again.

Rush was one of the first to fight and win against Cancel Culture Rush show that fighting the left requires strength and that conservatism, devoid of backbone, is doomed to fail.

A man, what a beautiful state, but we just talked about Russia defeating cancer culture last hour, there's a lesson to be had here. Russia warned us what Biden would do. He's doing it. The Democrats want the the so-called VPE Kamala Harris to overrule the House parliamentarians guidance, by the way, that's a career public servant. We're told you don't overrule career public servants. They want Kamala Harris to rule that the minimum wage is in order in this process, which seems well, the House parliamentarian said, what?

That's not that's not an order. President Trump will speak this weekend at CPAC is, of course, the left finds this dangerous. And Jack Dorsey put up this stupid warning, if you clicked on a link to see PIAC, Doug from Twitter, it told you it was possibly unsafe. And that's look, I mean, it's possible that that's just a side effect of of Jack Dorsey going through his day, micro dosing, something or other. And that's a possibility.

Have no proof that that's not the case. So as Russia's witness, the Democrats simply cannot drain the Treasury fast enough. And no one was better at talking us through the Democrats wasting wasting of other people's money then was Rush. Do you people remember in the 1980s, during the great era of Reaganomics, which caused a 25 year economic boom to take place, every bit of good economic news that's taking place in this country since the 80s is due to Reaganomics, not the Clinton's tax increases, not to anything Clinton did.

If it weren't for the Republicans being elected to run Congress, who wouldn't had welfare reform? We wouldn't have had balanced budgets. A whole bunch of things that compensated for Clinton's stupid tax increases in 1994. In 1993. So now we're going to have we might have I want to warn you, people of this economic growth for the fourth quarter this year when we get the number in January, might be negative five percent. That means, ladies and gentlemen, that revenue to the Treasury is going to be much lower than the fourth quarter last year.

You couple that with all of the layoffs that have taken place in further tax receipts not being paid because people aren't working. And you add to it all of this ludicrous, irresponsible bailout spending, and we're looking at a federal deficit of one and a half to two trillion dollars. And back when the deficit was 300 billion and Democrats were caterwauling about being irresponsible, the deficit monster was going to swallow us all up. And now Obama, Obama and his team are running around saying deficit spending, no big deal.

We got to do it. We got to revive the economy. You don't revive the economy with deficit spending. FDR, FDR, New Deal prolonged the Great Depression for seven years. It didn't fix anything. Unemployment didn't drop considerably.

Tax rates went up. It was a disaster. And the New Deal was not about reviving the economy. It was about guaranteeing interminable power for the Democrat Party. And that's what's happening here. Elections have consequences. So we're going to have these giant deficits, one and a half to two trillion dollars a year, and the people responsible for this are telling us and the auto companies what they need to do to restructure and run themselves the right way. Don't make me sick.

This is outrageous. It is ridiculous for people who are running up an irresponsible number of amount of debt, stupid, unproductive spending.

I thought we were going to bail out the banks. I thought we were going to open up the credit markets. Zilch, zero, nada has happened. A lot of people told you it was not going to work and we keep doing it, we're going to bail this out, we're going to bail that out. We're going to take care of that. We still got two trillion dollars in loans the Fed made. They won't tell us to who when we are in this much debt.

You don't have any liberty. You don't have nearly as much freedom.

Folks, when the government is running the car business, when the government is running the banks, when the government is running this or that, it's sort of like the DMV.

You have to go there because there's nowhere else and you know what that's like. And when they end up running a health care business, it's going to be more of the same.

Ditto the rest.

It's only 15 billion and only 15 billion. General Motors is 62 billion dollars in debt.

70 percent of the GDP is going to it's going to be government in debt. If we don't if we don't get a handle on this, that's where we're headed. 70 percent of the GDP is going to be government in debt.

And the very people responsible for this have the audacity to tell the automobile business or anybody else how to run their business, the arguments. Of substance are taking place, as they always do on the conservative side of the aisle here. Taxpayer money ought not be pumped down. Rat holes, public or private sector central planners have no business trying to micromanage the automobile industry, but it is their business to micromanage themselves and they are botching it. They are failures and they can't even run their own cafeteria at a profit.

And it's closed to the public. The Senate cafeteria is an open drain down which money flows. They can't even run their own cafeteria folks. We see they can't run. With three trillion dollars a year to spend without going into debt, they still can't do things responsibly. Federal government is hemorrhaging right now.

It's going to be at least a trillion and a half dollars next year.

And it's telling companies that they are being responsible, irresponsible. What Barney Frank, Harry Reid, Pelosi. Patting themselves on the back for insisting upon fiscal responsibility from the Big Three automakers, don't make me laugh because I still break into a coughing spasm now and then.

If I do, why not?

Why not try taking on some of this big government mandated discipline on themselves? Chris Dodd, why didn't you have the character to refuse a sweetheart mortgage from Countrywide? Why didn't you have the character with Barney Frank to look at Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and shut it down or clean it up? You people have no moral authority whatsoever to be demanding financial or any other kind of responsibility from anybody in this country, particularly in the private sector, you guys go talk to Colin Powell all day long and lament the nimrods and idiots who do not understand the sophisticated way in which Washington works.

And we all understand it. You people are who you are because you do nothing but kiss ass with the media. You will do anything the media wants in order to get preferential treatment and phony reputations of greatness.

You people who haven't the slightest idea what life is really like in this country because you get sweetheart mortgages and who knows who the hell else gives you things that you don't pay the going price for. You tell everybody else how to live their lives. Don't make me puke. I just had this incredible vision. That was Rush from 2008. And mind you, there are states in this landmass. Like the country of California and the country of Washington state. That are considering.

Banning. Gas powered cars, we heard Rush say. When the government controls the automotive world, they don't technically control it. They're trying to Elon Musk has said there's not enough electrical power in the United States to power these cars. Secondly, a lot of the electrical power comes from coal and hydropower.

Manmade hydropower. But I had this vision. And this vision of this office place in New York. Division of the radio on. As an Orangeman. We're studying deals and paging through deals had this vision. In the Trump building, that guy named Donald Trump to stop, stop, stop. Hold on a second. Turned up the radio. I want to hear this. And remember, the president talked about being able to buy politicians. And remember, even the president, prior to the insane overreaction to the covid flu, which came along all of a sudden Tony Fauci went from, you know, I was going to cruise to Italy if I were a young person.

This is not this is less dangerous for most people than the flu. Something along those lines to all of a sudden this is Captain Trips in The Walking Dead all put together. It's like a Landshark A but chasing a bunch of snakes on a plane. Remember that before that? President Trump was dismantling. Those behaviors. I could see President Trump, Donald Trump at the time saying someone's got to do something really interesting to know if that was the case.

The president will speak at CPAC on Sunday. Rush will be honored tonight at the Ronald Reagan dinner. You really will not believe this phone call we're going to take when we come back from a Rush listener.

It's taught Herman in for our departed friend Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network.

It's Todd Hermann filling in for our departed friend Rush Limbaugh. We love you, Rush. We miss you on the EIB Network. Unlike organs like The New York Times says, a federal officer was hit in the head with a fire extinguisher. And that's that's the injuries led to the death, which has turned out, according to the officer's mom and others, not to be the case. Apparently, sadly, the officer succumbed to what appears to be a stroke at the police station.

That was after January six. We mentioned things we get wrong.

The honoring of a brush will occur tomorrow night at Sepak. And because of the strength of vibe, I made a mistake and said it was going to be Friday. And it might be that they have to set up a second dinner now because this is a vibe. But I'm just a guest host, so probably I don't have quite that power. You know, people who listen to Rush throughout the years, there was the political analysis. We just heard the 2008 monologue on big spending and and the righteous indignation at that and the insider deals.

But we also knew about when Rush would speak of family, the beloved letters that he would read that particularly from his grandfather's father, he would speak of his brother in the way that he grew up. And he would speak so lovingly of that the support that he got in the legendary discussion of his mom in that machine. He had that that allowed him to replicate a radio show in his home. All of these things, his father supporting him in radio, even though he didn't want to rush to go into the law.

And so people who knew Rush maybe knew that that's where some of the optimism came from, optimism and belief in himself. In fact, if you were with us yesterday, we had a caller, David, from Dayton, Ohio, who said Rush kept his mother alive after his father passed away. There's so many listeners out there that can relate to that. And since we were just clarifying what Rush meant about being a rush, babe, and we talked with Anna, a former Rush baby who grew up to be a rush babe, here's one such babe that he spoke to last year with an idea for him.

Oh, that's that's a that is a host error. That was a host error I'd done screwed up. I read the run down the wrong way. I take full responsibility. Everybody send me angry letters. No, I did that wrong. Were, in fact, going to talk to Tim in Turlock, California. Tim, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program. Is Todd Hermann failing at filling in? Tim, my apologies for leading you on the air with an error.

That's right, love your passion, TORDJMAN to become a big fan of yours, the ultimate rush, babe, was Russia's mom. I started listening to Rush in 1988 after my brother told me about him. So I had a topic that I was going to talk about, hours about the movie, the Fourth of July with Tom Cruise. And while I was on hold, Russ brought his mom on like he did often and had a conversation with her. So when he hung up.

I knew I had him. He didn't tell his mom and loved her. I was speaking to her. This is talk of the back and conquer server before Rush 24/7. A guy who transcribe every Russian show. So anyhow, I knew I had him. So I didn't get to my topic and said, Rush, I am totally ashamed, you know, what's up? So you got your mom here with all these millions of people. You hung up and you didn't tell her you loved her.

So he said, my mother acted alone right now. So I certainly called his mom back and he said, I humbly apologize to her and tell her how much I loved her. And it was awesome. And and so he let me talk to his mom. Oh, I had a conversation. I got a whole segment out of him. So I talked to mom and I had a wonderful conversation with her and told her how proud of because we are in Russia the same age.

I tell you how proud I was of your other son. And then I he played up and my brother had a favorite parody, was called Sensitive, nice kind of guy. And I have never heard that parody. And so so if those guys can dig out that parody, it was so cool. But yeah, I definitely was like the hero of my town for at least a week.

And but was it was so I all that claim to fame that I was the only guy, only caller. They got to talk to Russia's mom.

Well, you may be the only caller who successfully called rush out that way. Know, I'm I'm feeling a little left out, honestly, because you could have really just nailed me for the dual ears correcting an error and then making the one.

But you were to consider that you're too valuable. And I didn't want that. I don't want to brag on you, but yeah, I got Rush. Good man. I got it. Wow.

You broke. You know what, Tim? You know what else you did? You broke the you broke the prime directive of Kohler's. What is the prime duty of a caller when they were calling them Malha? What was prime duty. This is a topic that's that's secondary, that's tactical, the prime duty of the caller to a good definition of good. There it is.

You you you know, I should get a EIB badge or something like that.

I'd say we're giving you a far I'm pinning a badge into. But you don't want me pinned a badge because I've made no. I could make a third mistake and actually stick you in the chest with the pencil.

Let's make it be worth it. OK, let's make it a sticker. I'm putting a sticker on you, Tim. That's a great, great memory, man. I really appreciate you sharing that with us. That is just awesome.

Very special. Very special time. You know.

Thank you for the phone call, Tim, all the way from Turlock, California. That's just amazing. Yeah. I told you that you were going to believe these calls that we have and so much more lined up. We'll talk we'll get to this this this clip that relates to Rush Beebs.

And if you missed the phone call with Anna, it was a remarkable phone call.

Grew up a rush baby became or was born became a rush baby because her dad got her to listen through Rush's passion, to listen to the message and to learn from the message. And then she grew up into a rush, babe. So we spent some time last hour going through the actual meaning of Rush Babe, them sort of to remark on one thing at the top of the show. We're talking during the break about this. We played that clip from Rhonda Stantis.

Did you hear the sentences? Emotion. As he just it was like a brief 40 second clip. As he honored Rush Limbaugh at CPAC, Oregon Rush to be honored tomorrow night at this Ronald Reagan dinner. I don't know. I was thinking about this. I don't believe. That I've heard Rhonda Santurce be that emotional. In front of an audience, I'm sure he's, you know, a multifaceted man, he's a human being with a soul. I'm sure he's capable of that.

I really like that moment when Rhonda Santos is going to land in terms of the future politics, I mean, because there's another resident of Florida, Donald Trump, who's one of his daughters, has said that he's certainly interested in getting back into the game.

President Trump will speak on Sunday. We'll hear some of Russia's words from a decade ago at CPAC. We go back through some history of the emergence of a possible Rush Babe dating site and whether that ever got off the ground. And I will go stretching my hamstrings so I don't have another muscle pull induced error.

Todd Hermann in for EIB.

I just mentioned this and I want you to hear it again. We played this at the top of the hour, a little radio speak. This was now minutes ago at CPAC where Ron the Santurce made some beautiful and really emotional remarks about Rush just moments ago.

Now, the battles ahead will be made more difficult without the voice of one of our greatest field generals, my friend Rush Limbaugh.

On Wednesday, the state of Florida had the flags flown at half staff in honor of Rush in honor of his legacy, Rush displayed the courage of his convictions time and time again.

Rush was one of the first to fight and win against Cancel Culture Rush show that fighting the left requires strength and that conservatism, devoid of backbone, is doomed to fail.

There's a lot of people who should listen to that on loop. About the fighting back against cancer culture thing, a whole lot of people at some point this program with Rush obviously at the helm, went from talk show to nationwide phenomena to cultural phenomena.

And I would in fact, I'm going to think about when that happened, was it the bake sale, Dann's bake sale? Was it rushed? Right. Those bumper strips, was it the books? Was it the TV show that some time it became a cultural phenomena and Rush's personality and wisdom and intelligence did that?

And you and the loyalty of these advertisers, these small businesses that Rush Limbaugh made big, believe it or not.

There was actually talk of a ditto head dating site and Katherine in Austin, Texas, you're next. It's great to have you. Hi. Hi. It's an absolute honor to get to speak with you. I grew up a rush, babe. And in our family, we like to say you're the best friend we've never met. Thank you very much. I like that. Yeah. So I live in Austin, Texas, one of the most liberal atheist cities in all of America.

And my fundamental viewpoints could not be more polar opposite. So I was wondering if you have ever thought about doing a single service dating website or a singles for Rush dating website?

That is correct. But I personally think that anybody who calls your show is a quality person.

You're right about that. In fact, you know, we never, never thought about a dating website. One of the problems with that is obviously all the women would want to choose me.

And I couldn't I couldn't be available on my own site. But, you know, you're right about something.

You're really we engage in a lot of audience outreach here.

We started doing it during the Revere books and it continued through a number of different outlets that we are. And we've made it very easy for people to reach out to us if they want to share things with us about what the program has meant to them, how long they've been listening. And we have found the most incredible people make up the audience for this program.

It is I can't I can't describe for how heartwarming it is to listen to what people who participate in these outreach efforts literally say about about what this program has meant to them and me, of course. And so you're absolutely right. The people in this audience are definitely quality people. And I need to thank you for that dating website. And when I start thinking of things like that, Catherine, I start thinking of liability. Yeah. And all that stuff.

But you're right. You want to find a way to access the great guys that are in this or that section of it couldn't be more disastrous than what I've currently been, I'm sure. How did you end up what are you, an Austin native? I'm not. I'm from a tiny town called Troy, Texas. It's about an hour and a half north. And so I went to school at AT&T in the time that it was much less liberal than it is now.

But see, what had the tech companies took over that town and they started bringing their tech employees in? I started setting up their tech stuff like South by Southwest started, and they just culturally took over when of course, it didn't hurt. That it's a university town is as well. So, you know, I've I've there was one time Catherine I didn't really dabble in is a website dating site with you. I don't know how long you been listening, but, oh, within the first three or four years of this program, one of the one of the certainly was Mario Snarkily, who was one of the original call screeners suggested that it might be it might be a cool thing if every female caller had a photo with us on file as a requirement before she could go on the air.

So I thought, well, this could be fun. And I mentioned this, and I required every woman who thought that she might someday call the program and want to up here to send us a photo so that we could then qualify. You wouldn't believe, Catherine, the photos that came in. I mean, they came in by the tens of thousands, Mario Spurtle. I had never seen a guy so happy, I bet. And they were picture women were going out to the beach taking pictures in their bikinis.

Some were taking pictures showing of some brownies that just came out of the oven. It random. And boy, did I get in trouble. Oh, did I get a I got in trouble from the women who know me thought was the most sexist thing. Why don't you require pictures of men? Of course, I couldn't tell them why this really happened. It was just one of Synergy's had the idea. But see, when I can't blame it on one of the snow, at least because I'm the one that actually did so I had to take the hit.

And it's not easy. And the pictures are gone, certainly took the pictures with him when he was he left to go work at Entertainment Tonight or some such thing. But I'm flattered by your question. That's that's and I'd like to find a solution for your problem, too. I would love for you to as well. What was that I said, I would love for you to as well. Well, we say that to me slower. What do you think?

Just because somebody is talking to me here, Catherine, I can't believe what you're saying. Oh, I just said she needs to find a solution. What is your solution? I don't really have one. That's why I called the great majority. I thought maybe you would have. Oh, you OK? Well, Mr. Nordley here is saying the first step may be for you to deposit a picture of yourself on file here with us at which let me know the email address to send it to you.

No, no, no. We are teasing about this. But this is a challenge, not where you've been. You're correct in your assessment of the quality people that listen to this program. And I I understand the obstacles in your way of living and living in Austin. I know. Dating website you. That's something no. We've never actually thought about doing. But I really appreciate you calling in and suggesting the idea. And the nice thing you said, I really appreciate.

It's great that you did. And it's it's great to meet you and have a chat with you.

There's only one of the city brothers still at Ebbe, and that's Bolstad. They so he's behind the scenes most of the time. This came from behind the scenes, a broadcast engineer. Great idea, great description of what a rush dating app would be like because I've never used Tinder. I'm married. I have no use for Tinder, although I did. I checked into it when when Tony Foushee was saying in the midst of when it was all this is the most deadly disease ever known to man.

Well, it is OK to go to Tinder and date, but you know, if it gets really romantic, wear a mask. And he's updated that to wear a couple on your mouth. But I don't want to go further than that. This would be the only dating site if it were arush dating site or app where swiping right is. That's that's the good thing to do. That means you're in you swipe left.

Then there's all sorts of weird noises and a cacophonous sound in your pictures. iRace or maybe vacuumed off the app. Long time Rush listeners.

You know the reference, we'll come back with more, it's Todd Hermann on EIB, filling in for our departed friend Rush Limbaugh, Todd Hermann in for our dear friend Rush.

This is the first full broadcast week without America's anchorman. And take a moment to reflect on what he has meant to such a moment, an hour talking about current news, but also lots of incredible phone calls of of memories of working with Russia. Next hour, we will go through some of Russia's CPAC speech from a decade ago. Russia will be honored tomorrow night at CPAC. Rhonda Santurce had a great statement about Russia that he made at CPAC just about half an hour ago.

We grabbed that immediately after they said it. The team picked that up. You'll hear him talk about principles, not just debating policies, but that conservatives must not be ashamed of the principles that we hold. We must live these principles. And I'll just tell you that having been in D.C., I know that there are many professional Republicans who are deadly embarrassed of true conservative principles. It makes them feel icky. We just talked about this idea of a rush dating site and Rush said, well, clearly I wouldn't be available.

No, he wouldn't, because of his dear wife. Kathryn Bryan in Shawnee, Kansas, joins us on Rush show. Bright as Tadamon filling in.

And you you have a rush in Catherine story. I sure do, about 10, 11 years ago, I got a phone call and that number was blocked, so I didn't want to answer it. I don't know who you are. And that went on for several days. Eventually, they gave up on me and they left a voicemail. It was Rush and Katherine letting me know I'd won a contest. Wow. And you you missed the call, I missed the call, one of the biggest mistakes of my life.

And so you did you did not get to speak with them. I did not they while later one of the representatives called me and told me everything I want and it was huge, the great part of it was that the next year I got a check with several thousand dollars saying this is to pay the taxes on what we gave you last year.

Got no. Rush, Catherine, paid the taxes on what they gave you. First class people. One of the best ones of my life, one of the worst times of my life, I didn't get to talk to him. So what would you have said? I would have told him what big fan I am, yeah, how Rush Universe means, and right now I'd like to give my condolences to the entire Rush universe. Yeah, yeah.

A lot of people are feeling that way. Listen, I had an experience when my father passed that has inserted in me a knowledge that I met my father's spirit. I know it. It's not it's not even debatable for me. I know what happened. I was lucid and awake. And I do believe that that that rush, you know, he he accepted the will of God and he did it with grace.

In fact, he did it with humor.

He did it with grace and humor. And he did it with dignity. And he did it with optimism and he did what he loved until the moment that he couldn't. And that's exactly what Rush said. I will do this program until I cannot.

And so I do believe that Rush has from a high enjoyed seeing this. I think that he wants us to laugh. Ali, he's been with the program forever. And I were talking up prior to the show. And I believe Rush would want us to laugh, to enjoy this medium, this this medium that he saved radio. Right. So that's a great phone call. I'm sorry you didn't get to speak with Rush. That is a fantastic phone call.

Thank you, Brian. Let's take one more call. We'll talk to Frank in Glendora, California. Frank, welcome to the program. You helped Rush Limbaugh bill this Todd Hermann simply filling in for the Mahat Frank.

Absolutely, man. I mean, I lived in Sacramento and I heard Rush in 1986 for a week. And then I'm down in Southern California in Glendora, 1988. My cousin tells me Rush is going to be on every day. And I just want to tell everybody, you know, we do all the work. But Rush Rush is advocacy of self employment. I was in medical school at the time and I didn't want to become an employee. And and it was Russia's advocacy of self-employed employment.

And despite describing it with enough courage, that gave me the courage to go straight into self employment, to be in a life of leadership council and by passing being an employer employee. And you walked into my office when I had an office and I had on top of my window, Russ is right, and that was five years.

Most of my clients were Russian Pan and and I specialize I specialize in in in helping liberals and conservatives, you know, if that was really in them. Yeah, I owe that to Russia. Russia is offering inspiration. And I miss the guy. Man. Yeah, yeah.

You know what, Frank? We all do. That's a beautiful phone call. You and I are sort of joined at the hip in that way. I did not become a person of relations or someone who helped people in that regard. I mean, I helps people. In fact, I do more of that now than I did earlier in life. But it was Russia's insistence upon never let someone who didn't tell you that you can't never let someone who tried and failed say that you shouldn't try.

Never let the world's description of the only way to gain knowledge is through a structured environment. Never, never let that never let that stop you. There's lots of ways to gain knowledge. And college and higher ed in academia can be super helpful. The knowledge is the interaction with people smarter than you. And you can get that through mentors. You can get that through asking people who who have successfully done things. What were the habits you had that you got this done?

How did you do that? That it's so in that way, Frank, you and I are very similar because just hearing Russian on the radio gave me the courage to go into high tech, into starting an Internet radio network with my friends as co-founders. That's a great phone call, Frank.

Thanks for calling Russia's show. It's Todd Hermann filling in on the EIB Network. Todd Hermann, always honored to fill in on I.B. for Rush Limbaugh. We're just talking to Frank. I can't tell you. And Frank was talking about I was a Frankenthal. I think I get the name wrong. Caller was talking about Rush having changed his life from afar. I think given him the courage to go out and be self-employed instead of having a job. There's nothing wrong.

I'm all legal work is is honorable work unless it's a being a politician, in which case it's rarely honorable these days. I mean, there's there's some honorable people to do it, but like, you know, look, three percent, that's a pretty big number of honorable people.

It's probably higher than that.

Maybe it could be up to three and a half percent. And I've talked to so many people who've heard Rush tell the story of being fired and refired and and told time and again, you can't do it, you don't have it. And for that moment, a brief time going to work for the Kansas City Royals and then coming back and doing what he wanted to do, that which made him happy in that voice inside him, that thank God that God gave Rush the talent, but also God kept bug and rush like get into the game.

This is this is what you were meant to do. And he often said to us, I'm meant to host. You're meant to listen. And we all have these talents, as we've talked about on the show before, those aren't unique experiences. There's so much more as we continue to explore the legacy of our friends, Rush Limbaugh, including much more, much more of Rush's voice coming up on the EIB Network.

What an absolute honor it is to fill in on the EIB Network. And it's always Markstein was first to say this. I want to make that clear. It's always filling in for the Maham. Today is, in fact, today. The Lord has made and we have talked and I want to thank you guys. I want to thank the callers today. It's just been an incredible pastiche. It's a great word, pastiche, as we've talked through the reality of Rush and what he meant to us as professor, we remind ourselves of Joe Biden is in the White House, gets to occupy it behind the militarized installation.

He's already bombed another country. And Rush reminded us of of Ron Silver, who later became a conservative, saying when Clinton was being inaugurated, what's with all the military jets? And someone said, those are our jets now.

And Rush was right then and right now that when it's their jets, so-called, they like to do these things. So we've talked about that.

We talked about how EIB became a cultural phenomena.

We've recognized it together today, that that rush also became an emotional phenomenon for people giving people the courage to start their own businesses. It helped one woman talk to her husband, who has had a think he had a replacement of the Packers.

I think she said that no liver replacement, that that it's it's OK to be optimistic that Bílek like Rush in this regard. We've heard this discussion.

We've heard of the great generosity of Rush and Catherine in regard to people winning, you know, contests on this network. We've talked to people who've been instructed by Rush in ways of of changing their politics, all of it today in one radio show.

And there's more. Rush loved conservative principles, they never change. I heard Ken Matthews say, listen to Ken, I think it was yesterday.

That can discussed the fact that Rush didn't change because he was grounded in principles. And that helped us ground ourselves in our thinking. And helped us really solidify what we felt and thought into the undeniable truths of life. It's been a valuable, valuable gift for a lot of people, so Rush didn't think he did talk about principles, we played this clip twice. If Rhonda Santurce briefly honoring Rush at CPAC. Beautiful statement from Governor Santos, who's done an incredible job as governor.

So here's the Mahat himself. OK, remembering this decades ago CPAC speech where he talked about going beyond policies to persuade and speaking about our principles. This is my CPAC speech, February 28, 2009.

I mentioned this yesterday and I want to revive it today when I told the crowd, the assumed throng, that we're going to hamstring ourselves if all we do is stay focused on policy. From a standpoint of what we have to do, folks, this is not about taking a policy or a process that the Democrats have put forward and fighting over it around the edges, if we're going to convince the minds and hearts of the American people that what's about to happen to them is as disastrous as anything in their lives in peacetime, we're going to have to discuss philosophy with that.

We are going to have to talk about principles because our principles are not present in what's happening here. So where the hell do we go to compromise what we believe in, what our principles are, what their principles are, just the opposite of what is happening. And this was a, you know, no longer rant here about the this whole notion that everything focuses on policy.

And remember now at this point in time, we just got shellacked and I'm the only guy not willing to cave and give in and try to get along and mitigate the damage.

I'm out there saying I hope he fails and everybody's having a cow over that. And I'm saying, why do we accept their policy premise and then negotiate around the edges? Why do we accept that there must be a health care bill? OK, they say we need a health care bill, fine, we disagree with yours, we'll do our own. Why did we come up with the idea of a health care bill on our own? Are we reacting?

Same thing with all the other polls. So if we get caught up in policy, they're going to win all the time because they're the ones that have this never ending policy agenda and we're always going to be on the defensive. And where do our principles and where does our philosophy tie in when all we're doing is discussing policy after policy after policy?

I'm not ashamed to be conservative. I'm not ashamed to say I'm a Reaganite. I'm not ashamed to say and I am a constitutional conservative. One thing I've learned over the course of my life, not just in this career, but as a human being, one thing I've learned is you have to be honest about who you are. The less like people ask me.

In fact, here's the the real beginning of this was. I remember when I really idolized George Will and William Buckley, not everybody got a chance to meet them and I'm I'm sitting at home not having yet met them and wondering about them.

And when I got the chance to talk to them, I ask them because I had my own impressions of them as being crucially important. To the formulation of opinion in the country having a great, great impact on policy events and so forth, and I remember ask them, George Will first, you ever sit at home late at night, families going to bed?

Do you ever take stock, feel proud about what you've done, the influence you have and will just pooh poohed? That made it sound like it was sort of a silly question and said, I don't think of myself like well at all. I'm thinking about what I have to do tomorrow. And Buckley, he didn't say that exact thing, but it was somewhat similar, you got to be on who I don't care who you are and what you do for a living, whatever.

You've got to be honest with you about who you are. Who was it?

Clint Eastwood. If you just shot somebody on a spaghetti westerns, some man's got to know his limitations.

I mean, you can't you're going to sit around a lie to yourself about how big you are and how important you are. You are headed for the biggest wake up call. It could crush you psychologically that you could ever face.

That's why I have to sometimes, like I kind of laugh at these people on like you can tell I don't care who you can tell when somebody is really full of themselves and really thinks that they're the cat's meow, as my mom used to say.

And then you realize their audience might be 500000 people. And in the big scheme of things, nobody's ever even heard of them. Much less cares, but they're sitting there telling themselves how big and important it is, living a lie, and I I've always tried it was Magnum force that was that was the dirty here was not it was not the spaghetti Westerns.

It was it was Magnum force, you know, Eastwood and Dirty Harry.

When Rush said and you heard it, too, where he said about the Republicans. Nibbling around the edges of policy, debating around the edges of what they want to do. I lived it. This is one of the most astonishing days and I thought immediately. I at the time, I had no real connection to EIB, I thought, oh. I wish so much I could have Russia in this room, this was in D.C. and the Obamacare thing had been announced.

And in a moment of lucidity, back when Michael Steele was a conservative, he wanted to fight against Obamacare because Michael Steele said this is socialism, it's a precursor to communism. This is going to destroy the country. We're going to go on a political campaign against it. We're going to use the mechanisms of the RNC, the voter database, get out the vote mechanisms to fight against this tooth and nail.

And as a matter of fact, what happened was I was in a meeting, the leadership meeting with the RNC, I believe the chairman was there. I the fact they know Michael was there. And we got word from one of the one of the staff said John Boehner and Mitch McConnell themselves. Have told us to stand down on this. They didn't want it fought. They wanted to work within it. To work within a framework. Of the government taking over more health care, which is originally what made it to be so expensive, what he spoke there at CPAC, that dynamic Rush Limbaugh explained.

Extemporaneously speaking. What happened 60 days later? That's how on top of it, the Mahat was. And I'm sad to say that dynamic has returned. We see McConnell once again, well, yeah, we'll participate in the Democrats agenda, but we'll change a few minor things, so much more to get to, including one of the most touching calls you'll ever hear from a woman who described that to her.

Rush Limbaugh was home to hear that. Todd Hermann filling in on the EIB Network.

It's Todd Hermann, a lifelong listener of Rush Limbaugh, with you lifelong listeners of Rush. We talked earlier. I'm trying to figure out the time where Rush made EIB a cultural touchstone. It's certainly a Rosetta Stone for people. It is. It is a touchstone of meaning. It is a it's created a common language. We'll talk about that. Some of the nicknames that the president's trumpet put on people. Rush was first at that. And in my judgment, not to offend the president, perhaps best at it.

He talked about his consistency of principles. And one of those was that that Rush just loved the members of our military. Just I've and I will tell it again, because it's the last time I was honored to fill in for Rush.

And I just about broke into tears then of how he displayed that love on a personal basis. And even if more stories about that, sometime when it's my turn to tell stories today, it's own turns and Rush's voice Rush got a display of this.

In fact, this was put on a touching, just beautiful display in a call Rush took from a military kid who said that Rush was her home. Here's Amy in Fort Eustis, Virginia. Amy, thank you for calling and waiting. Nice to have you on the program.

Thank you so much for taking my call. Yes, I'm very excited to be talking to you. Thank you. I just wanted to call first to tell you a little bit about myself really quick. I grew up an Air Force brat. My father did not retire until I was a freshman in college. And then when I was 20, I married a man who had just finished up flight school in the army. So and that was almost 15 years ago.

So my whole my whole life, I know the military lifestyle. That's about all I know. And along with that comes moving around all the time. I am in I'll be 35 years old this year. I am in my 21st house in my life. Oh, we move all the time. The Army has moved us eight times in the last 14 years. But, you know, I'm not complaining about that. I like it. It's always an adventure.

But I was just talking with my mom the other day and that of my family lives anywhere that I ever lived growing up because they have moved around as well. So I really don't have a concept of going home anywhere. And I go visit family, but it's not really my home. It's a strange city, you know, and we were trying to think of what constitutes home for me. And of course, wherever my husband and my kids are, that certainly helps.

But also I had this realization that no matter where I have lived, especially over the past 10 years or so, I have had Rush Limbaugh and we you know, we have the radio everywhere and I can just turn it on. And so I wanted to thank you for being, I guess, my stability and and my home, especially for the past 10 or 12 years. Well, I don't know what to say.

That is so sweet. That's so nice. Sweet, so metrosexual word.

Oh, you're you're much more attractive than the new Brawny Man. Well, thank you. Thank you. I agree with that. Oh, wow.

I'm well, I'm not often speechless and I'm not speechless now because I'm talking about that. That's that's one of the nicest things anybody's ever said to me.

Well, thank you. I you know, I've been trying I mean, you would take the time of all things to take the time to call about to thank me for that or to mention that that's that's very, very touching. Right.

Of all the things that got you obviously have going on in your life to stop what you're doing today and make this phone call is I am actually sitting also outside of the Fort Eustis military base because I can't talk on my cell phone when I'm on, you know, on the phone.

So you left your home to make the call it. Why that? I was I was driving and I wasn't sure I was going to get through. And I thought, well, I was driving. I would try. And of course, I got through. So I have pulled over and I'm sitting here. It's at least 180 degrees out here. And I'm not going to be able to get my grocery shopping done because I have to go pick up my kids.

But we'll just go out to dinner tonight and celebrate. But I got to talk to you, and it's a good day.

Well, that's that's that's that's so nice. I, I wish my mother were alive to hear you say that, that I really did. My mother. This would make her so proud. It would wash away whatever bad memory she. I have me for at least a couple of days. Well, good, although I'm. She would this would be so she'd be telling all of her friends about because she she was always so excited when anybody loved her little boy.

Well well, we absolutely do here. And we talk about you and your show. And my husband has received one of the 24/7 for the military, one of the early adopters by the adopt the soldier thing.

Yes. And so when he is traveling around, he logs in and when he's not able to listen to you during the day, he logs in and can get updated. And and so so we just enjoy you and enjoy your show. And I wanted to tell you that you were like home for me. So thank you.

Well, I appreciate that more than, you know, from Rush being a home to a military kid to a gentleman who escorted Rush when he went to Afghanistan. Dan joins us live now on the Rush Limbaugh program from Spencer, Massachusetts. Dan, welcome to Rush's show. It's tournament filling in. Tell us about escorting Rush in Afghanistan.

So it was 2004 and the sergeant in the Air Force at the time. And when his plane landed, I had the privilege and honor of greeting his plane and escorting him around the flight line and, you know, and getting him around and making sure he was safe. And I walked on the plane and walked up to him and said, Mr. Limbaugh, it's an honor me. I never called him Rush. I didn't feel like I wanted to call Mr.

Limbaugh. And in so for a very short period of time, I got one on one time with him and we we talked. And when I said it's an honor to meet you, he extended his hand and said, no, it's an honor to meet you. Yeah. And I'm getting emotional here because. So my. It was an amazing day. Yeah, I have a friend who was there, and you may know her what's her name on Rush's show, but she got to be with Rush as well.

What was he like around the troops? He was there for us. It wasn't about him and I think he got more pleasure possibly than we did by greeting us. He was an amazing, amazing person. He inspired me and my crew that I was there with. We in his passing, we've kind of gotten together through our social media and we've been sharing pictures and stories of that day. And all of us say, like your last caller said, that was a great day.

Yeah. And it stands out as one of my greatest days in the military. And I was on the air about a year and a half after I was there. I called in and I was on the show with with Rush. And we had a great conversation about this same event. Yeah. And he put our picture on the map and I love it.

Mind blowing. I love it. He sent me some clothing. He sent me a shirt and pull over and he printed the picture. And about a week later, I get a package in the mail from him that he had printed my picture, signed it and mailed it to me. I haven't got my address. Well, come on. Well, he does Rush Limbaugh. He could put a call in to anybody and reach out. Hey, listen, you know, sometimes in the even in the midst of great stories, the clock is sometimes enemy over this thing.

That's called a heartbreak. No, no. But let me can I just tell you one thing?

All he was to Kathwari. Yeah. My my my sincerest condolences. Yeah. She was wonderful to him and they were wonderful together.

Indeed. Indeed. I'm gonna have to cut in here. Dan, I just I because the clock's going to cut us off. I need to tell you, because I can feel our family in I.B.. San Todd, you better. And I want to say we're really honored that you got to be there to escort and protect our rush while you were there.

And welcome home, Dannette Sackets.

Show in a row or a caller got me teared up. I know where this is, man, this is the first full week without rush at the helm of the EIB Network and what a call. I just had this if you missed it, Dan called the share with us that he got to escort Rush and protects our rush in in Afghanistan. And he told the story of going on the airplane and this one on one moment and saying it's an honor to meet you, Mr.

Limbaugh. And Rush saying, no, it's an honor to meet you and catch you to see that it's almost as good.

It's completely different before. Before President Trump took to rebranding politicians permanently, Hillary will always be crooked, Hillary. Rush did that and he put together such names as my favorite of all time has to be Slick Willie. You know, William Jefferson Blythe Clinton. The third became Slick Willie or little Dick Durbin. I never could figure that one out. But that was the name Puff Dashiell or Barack Obama's wife, the boss. But just this past June, just just a few months ago, a caller asked Rush about the origin of one such nickname, Mark, in a tractor trailer somewhere in Massachusetts.

It's great to have you here with us, sir. Hi.

I'm megadose Ross. My question is real simple. Why Chatsworth Osborne Jr.

Well, you mean why do I call Tucker Carlson sometimes Chatsworth Osborne Jr..

Yeah, I call him that now. My wife says stop that. Well, do you know who Chatsworth Osborne Junior was? No, I don't.

Do you ever remember watching a television show? How old are you?

60. I didn't watch much TV, though.

OK, well, there was a very, very popular TV show in the 1960s called Dobie Gillis.

And you never saw that it was it was a college kids program, Dobie Gillis was a college student. His buddies were college kids. It was it was kind of like a college kid version of Leave it to Beaver. And and one of the characters was this uppity, elitist, snobbish, you know, nothing character named Chatsworth Osborne Jr., you know, who would name the kid Chatsworth. It's obviously somebody's last name, Chatsworth Osborne Jr.. So the kid was a preppy and it just him always it's a very affectionate nickname that I have developed for Tucker Carlson.

I haven't used it in a long time, but that that is the source of it. You should YouTube, Dobie Gillis, and you'll you'll see the character. Well, I'm done.

And now when I get home, I will make it home tonight. You'll probably recognize the actor who portrays Chatsworth, Osborne Jr. but that show is now 60s. That shows close to 70 years old. And it was in black and white. And I don't remember who starred as Dobie Gillis, but that that was the name of the show. And there were all kinds of great characters in it. And it was basically a bunch smart ass little college kids even back then.

And it was just about their lives. Now they interacted with with the professors. I was nine or 10 years old when the show ran.

I'm not even sure my memory of it is accurate.

But what you need to know is that it was an affectionate. Nickname. Yeah, Dwayne Hickman. That's right, Dwayne, and you'll recognize Dwayne Hickman was Dobie Gillis, the star of the show, but you'll recognize Chatsworth Ausborn Jr. He's a character actor that's been in stuff for 60 years, 50 years at least. Anyway, I'm glad you called out there, Mark. Now, that's a great open line. Friday question. And just bite mark, were you offended by that or were you worried that Chatsworth would be offended by it?

OK, good, good. Because there was no offense ever intended.

No, no, no, no, no, I was not describing Tucker as a no nothing elitist, it's a physical. Similarity, Chatsworth, I was one junior and I named him that when Tucker was hosting CROSSFIRE back on CNN.

Such was the power of Rush's personality and the scope of vibe that people were concerned that he had permanently rebranded Tucker Carlson on Fox News as as Chatsworth Osborn Jr.. That would have been cool. And Rush's TV show. And speaking of that, Lisa from Jasper, Georgia, joins us on the Rush Limbaugh program. Lisa, it's Todd Hermann sitting in for our dearly departed dear Rush. Welcome to Russia. Thank you. I was introduced to Rush on television back in the 90s.

I was beginning my children ready for school and my family were all working class. Southern, hard working Democrats. As we know, our parties are not as they were back then, things have evolved and changed. But I was Democrat because my parents were. And I would watch have him on and I would get so frustrated and so aggravated and but I couldn't turn him off.

I kept listening to the show he kept because he was so passionate with everything he said you couldn't stop listening. And over the years, during that time raising my kids, I really didn't have time to really be political. And it's not until the last 10 years or so that I started listening again and he completely changed my political views. Why? Because it makes sense. Yeah, it wasn't a bunch of gibberish trying to. It wasn't the things against one side or the other.

Hey, tell the truth, yeah, about the news, he told us what was going on, it was a bunch of padding for the left or the right, and there did get to be some of that, but. He made me be able to say things in a way. That it was understandable for all of us. Yes, I do mourn the loss of him, but I'm more celebrate all the things that he accomplished, all the months that he was able to change with his words and his passion.

And I think we're all blessed that we got to have that, that we got to have be able to get in our car and turn the radio on and hear that voice and what he had to say. Absolutely.

Rush shared before he passed, Lisa Ross shared that he felt sometimes that he had failed to not change enough minds. And I remember that day listening to Rush in my truck as people called to say, you know, I hate to disagree with you, but no, you didn't fail. Can you imagine how much time you bought this country and you know, and how how you've equipped us to be peaceful warriors right now and then to push for what's right.

I, I wish Rush were here to take this phone call from you to know that the TV show led you that way. But also, I do believe Rush here's here's words like this from him. That's a great phone call. I really appreciate that. Lisa, thank you for calling on your show.

Well, thank you. And I look forward to seeing what you guys have stepped in for him during the time he has. He was ill prior to this. And I commend how you kept he is his vision for our country going. And I look forward to see what you do with it. Now, has he gone to a better place?

Yes, to the better place. There's my call, of course, people far smarter than me figuring that out. And it's just a blessing that Yabe has continued in this way. And that just speaks to the power of this network. I would just say one thing about these ads that are running from Rush's advertisers that that's that's an incredible thing. And I hope that it continues. And I it's not my place to thank them. They're not my advertisers.

They're Rush's. I want to take a super quick call here before we go to break from URRY in Sparta, New Jersey early. Have back a quick minute. I thank you for calling your show hiree. Hi. Hi. So you want me to tell my story and you want me to say something about Rush Limbaugh and. Yeah, look, I was born and lived in the Soviet Union 33 years. Tuesday, OK, first back. I was born in a 10 room communal apartment.

Our family, Parool. One toilet, one thing, one kitchen for everybody. Almost like 40 people there. So I learned quite early to hate what they had. Yeah, I started dreaming of the United States.

Yes. I told you everything. Yes. How did you learn English? Only because I the clock just beats us up. How did you learn English?

Well, I tried to learn in the Soviet Union. I went to the College of Foreign Languages. But the way they teach it is exactly not to talk to what spies?

Yeah. So I didn't learn much. What happened when they came here? I started not immediately, but probably 15 years ago. I started listening to Rush. Wow. I know my English from him. Wow. I learned America. I learned about America. But what I was going to tell you is that I loved America in the first place. Yeah, I pressed a button down back in the Soviet Union. A button American button down. Yeah.

I mean, American chewing gum, American, anything, any piece of information. And naturally, quite quickly, I got in my future wife. We got arrested then when we were 19 years old. Arrested, questioned by secret police, KGB. Yeah, well, let go. But when I was 21, I ended up in communist labor camp. I was released and it took me 10 years, but they left us and they came to America.

And I don't know why. I don't know how. But we ended up in California and it was so beautiful. Yeah, yeah.

Or I hate I just I am Killorn. I just die. It happened. It cut you off. I want to hear your whole story. I wonder if we could call you back some time and get the whole story just because we're short on time. I want people to hear what our friend or he said he learned he loved America, learned English from Rush. I got to hear the rest his story some time. Eric, just a beautiful phone call.

Please stay on hold and let's reconnect with you. That's just a phenomenal story.

We need to hear more. Thank you for Congress show, please, Campbell.

It's Todd Herrman filling in on the EIB Network, Todd Hermann in on EIB for our dear friend Rush Limbaugh. As I've said a bunch of times, Maher was an eternal optimist who's now eternally at peace with the Lord. Listen to Rush closed out his CPAC speech from a decade ago with just such a message.

So as you leave here, as you leave here, optimism, confidence, not guilt, it's not worth it. There's nothing to be guilty about. Don't treat people as children, respect their intelligence, realize that there's a way to persuade people sometimes the worst way to get in her face and point the thing that set up a set of circumstances where the conclusion is obvious. Let them think they came up with the idea themselves. Then they'll think they're smart, that they can figure it out.

Who cares how you persuade them? The fact that they can be persuaded is factually correct. It's possible. But the main thing to do here, stop thinking that we are a minority. I stop thinking, stop, stop thinking that it is being in the minority that liberates you. It is your beliefs. It is your core principles. It is your confidence that liberates you. Let's talk to on that topic optimism and principles, John and Twinsburg, New York.

John, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program. Todd Hermann filling in. We got about 90 seconds. John, welcome to the program. Thank you so much. I can do it in 90 seconds. Mega heavily dittos and thanks for taking my call. I was listening to some of these calls. They're so hard to follow, but I'll do my best. I remember, you know, Rush obviously last year announced that he had cancer and that was a huge comeback, one of the earlier calls this morning.

But I have listened long enough to remember when he lost his hearing. I don't know whether it was the late 90s. And then on top of that, there was an oxycodone type addiction. I don't remember all the details, but tell me that those are not huge like comebacks. I mean, a guy on the radio losing his hearing that would be like me as working with my hands, losing a couple of fingers, you know. Yep. Amazing.

Yep. Amazing. Not only the cancer, but the hearing loss. That's always amazed me and how he was able to just come back from that with all the gadgets and gizmos and technology in the. And the heart, I mean, God in the heart. Well, and John, you're telling me one of my favorite moments. When he came back and had the, you know, was having to read the words of callers, not hear them, and he couldn't hear his beloved music before he got the the cochlear implant, Rush came back and gave us a lesson that I will never, ever, ever forget, that with freedom comes responsibility.

And Rush spoke of the responsibility for the choices he made, and it changed countless lives. I've heard people call and say, you are the reason I got sober. Great, great call.

John, thanks for that, is Todd Hermann in on the EIB Network, such as the range of a man who so humbly and gracefully accepted the will of God and spoke of his talent being on loan from God, that that today we've had a governor praise rush at CPAC. We have had a woman who described Russia's her home because she was raised in a military family. We had a woman who became a rush baby through her own father and then grew up to be a rush baby.

We had a gentleman who escorted Rush in Afghanistan. We had a gentleman who who Rush convinced via the radio to go become an independent business owner versus having a job and a decision that that man is very glad he made. And we've had wisdom from Rush back in 2008, the principles of which apply today, the descriptions of what Democrats do when they're in office apply today and tomorrow night. Rush Hudson, Limbaugh the third will be honored at CPAC on Saturday night.

And then President Trump will give a speech on Sunday at CPAC. And, gee, I wonder if President Trump will have anything to say about our rush.

Such an honor to fill in on EBI Network. Todd Hermann, thank you for having me.