Welcome to today's edition of the Rush Limbaugh Show podcast. It is an incredible honor to sit in for Rush Limbaugh on the program he built with his team's help and with the listeners help. That's all of us, 888 222. If you want to join us on an incredibly special day rush, his beloved wife, Catherine Limbaugh, will join us and take your questions. She's going to talk about the beautiful ceremony in which the MAHAT was laid to rest and a fond of reminding people that today is the day the Lord has made.

And I think you're going to hear something. And I encourage you to gather any fans of Rush Limbaugh to this broadcast. You're going to hear a brief piece of audio between a husband and wife rushing Catherine. And you're going to hear our rush. In a way you've never heard of before, and you're going to hear a man accepting the word of God and you're going to hear a loving couple. We're going to get to that in this segment. And then Catherine Lemba will join us on Russia show.

Now, those of us who listen to Rush for a long time, we knew that the Paul Revere books were an outgrowth of something that just lived in Rush's spirit, which was that he was committed to helping young skulls of mush become fully formed, Americans understanding American exceptionalism, etc.. And yesterday, yesterday, this provides a great opportunity because Joe Biden has said various things. One of the things he said is he's bragging about in President Trump made this point at CPAC.

He's bragging about educating kids that he's keeping in what the media used to call cages that are now facilities again, while blue state governors keep the American kids out of school. But yesterday, Joe Biden said that Mexico and the United States are equal. And if we're equal, why are millions of Americans flocking to this country to become Americans? Well, back in 2018, Rush explained to a 13 year old caller why it shouldn't be easy to become an American.

We have from Charlottesville, Ohio, I guess, is Delaware, and she is 13 years old. Hi, Dahlia. Welcome to our program.

Hi, Michel. And Buzz, thank you for having me. You bet. So I attended Catholic school in Strongsville, Ohio, and every Friday we have a current event topic and we pick a side and we debate about it, so it usually ends up being political. So this week, our topic is whether or not it should be easier for immigrants to become U.S. citizens. So I was wondering if you could help me with this problem.

I can give you the the overall theory of immigration that has always governed the subject in the United States. And in a nutshell, when you attach the question, should it be difficult to become a citizen? Yeah, it should be. And it's not overly hard as it is now, but it should require some commitment. Because the United States and this is probably what you're going to have trouble finding on the Web, I'm giving you, this is opinion, but it really isn't.

It's it's opinion based on my knowledge of the founding of the country and how the country was intended to be and what it became. And there's no other country like this in the world. There is no country in the world like the United States, not even free Western democracies. We are the only country in the world with a constitution that limits the government, that provides for the primacy of the citizen overgovernment. We do not have a constitution that limits what people can do.

We have a constitution, limits the government that has that had never been done before in the history of the world. Most people. Adelia even today, most people alive today live under some form of dictatorship or tyranny and have nowhere near the freedoms that we in the United States have.

They they don't have anywhere near the economic freedom and liberty or prosperity that we have, which is why we're such a targeted destination for people. We stand out. And it's precisely because this country was founded on the basis that human freedom and human liberty and the human mind unfettered leads to exceptionalism and greatness, not that we're better than any other people on the Earth, but because we have fewer restraints and restrictions on us, that we are freer to reach our potential as individuals and as a population.

Well, this led to the establishment of a distinct American culture. And by culture I mean rules and regulations and morality by which the citizens of America live by.

And this culture was itself rooted in the premise of individual liberty where you could pursue happiness while living your life unafraid of what you think, unafraid of what you say, unafraid of where you go, because your government does not have the power to penalize you for it. So this kind of unshackling of the human being led to untold.

Innovation and progress, economic prosperity and our population growth. We purchased Louisiana Purchase and won some territories.

The population growth of this country, coupled with that unique never before seen in the world, freedom and liberty unleashed a population like the world had never seen. Nations had been around for thousands of years, say, in Europe or the Middle East.

We in less than 200 years had eclipsed them by a factor of 10 in just basic standard of living circumstances, simple things like plumbing, sanitation, water, inventions such as air conditioning and flight and electricity and so forth. Leading the world in all kinds of innovation led to untold millions of people wanting to come here in order to preserve this country. It ought to be a very specific task for somebody, not a citizen, to become one. If they come here via legal immigration, they do have to take a test and those who endeavour to become citizens and pass the test, it's one of the most proud days of their lives.

If you've ever been to a naturalization ceremony, you ever seen one televised. It is one of the proudest days of their lives to become, quote unquote, an American. They learn the language. They become familiar with the customs. They do not sacrifice their nationality. If they arrive here as Italians, they still Italians, Italian, Americans, but they become Americans. It's a good thing to become an American, to be a participant in this unique, distinct culture.

Well, what's happening is that that unique, distinct culture is being diluted and watered down by record numbers of illegal immigrants who want to become citizens but do not want to have to do anything required to become a citizen other than show up. And that's why so many of us feel the country is at risk and threatened, we are a nation with a culture and a society worth preserving as as hard as it takes, as long as it takes as much as it takes to preserve it.

And we're under assault. There are people who think that our society is exclusionary, it's unfair, it discriminates. And all of that is literally a bunch of koka. We have in the past had problems. No nation on earth has done more to address discrimination, injustice, and it's an ongoing thing that the people of this country engage in each and every day while being accused of being racist, sexist bigots and homophobes. But I'm drifting away. At the bottom line is that America is so valuable to the world.

America is so important. Preserving the culture that led to this exceptionalism is worth preserving. And it ought to be hard. It ought to take some effort. To become an American, if you have grown up and you've not been educated and you have to come here, you want to become a citizen. What you need to learn what it takes. People born here grow into it. And that birthright, if you're born here, you're a citizen, so you don't take any test, you just grow up and hopefully you become an American, we are in charge.

Every nation should be in charge of who gets in and who doesn't. Every nation should have the ultimate right to determine who gets in and becomes a citizen who doesn't, there's nothing discriminatory about that. There's nothing unfair about that. It's necessary to preserve the country as is. It's why we have borders and so forth. So the short answer to the question is, yeah, it should not be easier to become a citizen. It's not that hard now, but it takes some level of commitment.

You want to see some degree of commit anything. Nothing in life should be easy. Nothing worthwhile is easy. Delu everything worthwhile does take some effort. In some cases a lot of it.

That's rush in public with a great lesson on how we can communicate American exceptionalism and why immigration matters. And now Rush in private. Rush always wanted to share everything about his life and today Captain who shared something incredibly personal and beautiful with us. This is a short conversation between Rush and Katherine about the plans for Rush's funeral.

So I am working with Rush and explaining to him his event. And I told him all he has to do is show up, which I've also arranged. Yeah, and it is an event and it's awesome. I mean, I hope you get invited to. Yeah. I mean, what she just described to me is incredible. I'm sorry. I'm going to miss it. But you're going to have a front row seat. I've just said to her, I can't believe it's so cool.

Yeah.

I can't believe I'm sitting here talking to her about my future. But we decided that we would be open and direct on it so that we can plan it very beautifully. And I told Russ that he is just shy of a president and presidents get this kind of treatment. So he deserves that. So that's a little heads up on what's coming. It's going to be beautiful. Be there or be square. I don't be late. That's up to you.

That's husband and wife in an incredible moment. And did you hear our rush with dignity and humor and even excitement?

Catherine Lemba joins us for your phone calls next on the EIB Network.

It's Tadamon filling in for our two soon departed friend, Rush Limbaugh. It's incredible honor now to welcome Rush's beloved wife, Katherine, to Rush's show. Katherine, that was an extraordinary gift you gave us of that audio clip of you and your husband speaking. And I speak for millions of listeners when I say thank you. Oh, you're absolutely welcome.

It's great to be here with you. Can I I just want to ask off the bat, how are you faring?

You know, I I'm doing OK. Of course, it's a very difficult time, but I really, truly feel we are all going through this process together. And it's very much a process. And I think it helps us to all be together and grieve in a sense and keep our rush with us in that way.

You know, there are just millions of people listening to this who've grown up like I did with your husband, Catherine. And I've seen the pictures that are going to be at Rush Limbaugh dot com of what you called the event in this this clip with Rush, with this. There's optimism even at that point. Yes. And it looks like an incredible event. So can you talk us through this funeral for your husband? Absolutely.

So that that conversation happened last year in about October. And we were walking around our house and just talking briefly about his upcoming event. We use the word event because that was a little bit more fun than the other. But, yes, we we did plan this throughout all of last year, knowing that at some point the day would come. Obviously, it came a lot sooner than we would have hoped and likes, but we did have a plan in place.

The only problem was we had hoped to invite a lot of Russia's friends, a lot of colleagues and a lot of the listening audience. But due to covid, we we couldn't do that. So it could only be an extremely limited number of immediate family, which is why I wanted to share a bit with you now so that you could all feel as though you were a part of it in some way. So, yes, in that clip, you heard Rush laughing about his upcoming events and it went exactly as he thought it would and had heard about.

I obviously left out a few key details that he didn't really need to know, but he he knew the majority and he was very actually excited. So that can give you some some comfort. But Rush was buried last Wednesday in St. Louis, Missouri, at a wonderful cemetery called Bel. On pain, it could also be pronounced Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri. It was an absolutely gorgeous day, slightly chilly, but nothing like the snow that Missouri had had a few days prior.

The sun was shining brightly in the really crisp air. And this cemetery is very historic. It has a lot of historic figures, such as William Clark of Lewis and Clark Expedition and others. And just to picture it, it might remind you a bit of Arlington or other historic cemeteries around the world with winding hills and pathways and big trees that are bare right now. But in the upcoming months, they will be full and green and and very lovely to walk around.

But as I said in that clip, I've always said Russia's just shy of a president, in my opinion, and needed a funeral that was very worthy of him. So we concentrated a lot on tradition and ceremony at every turn. From the moment that he left the house here in Palm Beach, there was a procession escorting rush to the transport plane that would take him to St. Louis. And then when we arrived in St. Louis, there was a procession leading to the cemetery.

So he was never left alone in any aspect of this. And then once we got to the cemetery, there was a horse drawn carriage waiting for him. And it was simply stunning. There will be some pictures for you to see, but you could hear the cracking of the horse hooves. As we walk through the cemetery following behind Rush, you could hear the singing of the birds. It was very peaceful, very beautiful. And we followed behind the horse drawn carriage until we reached the chapel.

And when we reached the chapel, we had a small service in the chapel, which is located in the cemetery. Rush was escorted into the chapel to his favorite version of the Battle Hymn of the Republic. And you can picture hearing that song and seeing the American flag draped over Rush at the front of the chapel. That was perfectly fitting and absolutely beautiful. And then once we had a small ceremony there within the chapel, we followed behind us again in the carriage leading down towards the burial site.

And it was just stunning, if you can imagine, looking forward through a winding road to see this beautiful carriage with grass in it and then flags around his gravesite. So as we approach the grave site, you could see these beautiful American flags waving in the wind and the sun was shining through directly on that spot. It couldn't have been more fitting. So Rush was escorted to his final resting place. We played around Rush and we also played some of his favorite music from America The Beautiful by Ray Charles and also a musical version of the Irish Blessing, which we knew Russell loved.

So it was absolutely stunning with a beautiful oak tree overhead, the sun shining directly on Rush, very patriotic and very worthy of him.

Oh, it sounds everything that Russia deserved. There's going to be pictures that Rush Limbaugh dotcom and we only have about 30 seconds before we go to a quick break. I just wanted to tell you in that sound clip I heard, I heard a rush who was probably given to reaching over occasionally and and holding your hand. He sounded and I just I just have this picture of him just with such warmth, which you.

Absolutely. And we laughed. A good portion of you also know said he was very sarcastic, as am I. So a good portion of the time we laugh.

We made fun of the upcoming event in a way, but it was clearly very serious and an important moment. Yeah, time it is.

Kartzinel Limbaugh is with us. When we come back of the extraordinary opportunity to talk with Katherine about her rush and to learn more about our rush, her rush in our rush. One person, but known in different ways, seem to be on the phones at 800 to eight to 282. And I do encourage you to gather any and all fans of the mall.

America's Anchorman, The Truth Detector as his beloved wife, Katherine shares more about this experience on the EIB Network.

And at this point, Rush Limbaugh is a great love of his life. His wife, Catherine Lumby, joins us on Rush's show. Your calls at 888 222. I'm going to take host prerogative quickly, Catherine, if it's OK. I'm going to get to the phones. I heard you talk with Marc Stein and. An extraordinary conversation, I just want to see if I can boil it down to a time when you met Rush, can you think to the time where you realized that you'd begun to really love this man?

I would say right away, the first time that we went out for dinner, I spoke with that about that last time. But when we went out to dinner, he just was so incredibly well-spoken, as you can imagine. He was a gentleman. He was kind, but also he was very funny and our humor connected right away at the beginning. So I would say years and years ago, I first knew that I loved him. And over the years it's obviously grown with even more deep admiration.

It's just a beautiful story.

And with your permission, we'll talk with Liz and Hubert, North Carolina, Liz Euron with Mrs. Katherine.

Linda, Katherine, thank you so much for sharing these moments with with us. I am so thankful for the last 17 years of the military wife. I have moved a lot. I have four small children. My husband deployed four times and there have been many days where I try to make new friends or at least family, and there's some loneliness. And I have always had rush to turn on. And I I've always known that he's going to be there to speak truth and reason into a world that sometimes it doesn't make sense.

And I have always been perfectly to preserve his message of hope and his inspiration. I look back on my life and I'm so thankful that I found him early. I started listening in 92 at 12:00 and I started thinking about conservatism. And I can look back and I count this every time I spoke up in high school and in college against policies that I know are not right and are not good. And he inspired me to do that. He gave me the courage to to actually just say, hey, there's a different way.

Hey, let's try this. And I have always loved that. And as are our four children have grown and our rush babies, before we bought the books, we bought the CDs with Russia's voice of of all the rest of their books. And we listened to them kind of like old cereal with the family around and the kids around. And they they listened over and over. And I know that that I just really recently realized that a lot of you that has inspired that and written that.

We just thank you for Rush's voice and thank you for your voice and the time and energy you put into that, because it has made a difference in my life. I'm thankful for Russia's influence and where I who I am, because, you know, he made me a better conservative. He made me I'm just so thankful for this beautiful life I've created and his influence. And I just realized now you had a huge part in that. And I want to say thank you.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for you, for what you've done to. Right and to support Russia.

Thank you, Liz. Thank you so much for calling in and taking the time. And I really appreciate what you said about about the military in particular. I completely understand what it's like to move a lot. I see it as well. And missing Russia and having that stability, I can completely relate to you on that as well as millions that are listening. So thank you for your service. First and foremost, I know that that's a very difficult role to be at home while your husband's deployed with your children.

So kudos to you for for doing that on our behalf. And then secondly, in terms of of how Russia helped to shape your life, I think he did, too, that with so many. And what I want to encourage people to do as we go forward is to continue that and and say to yourself, what broadbrush want me to do or what would he encouraged me to do or what would Rush think on this? And I think that's our best way of of continuing rush forward.

And on my side, I will certainly continue the books in some respects. In fact, since William Clark is in St. Louis along with Russ, maybe Russophobia will have to go and explore the gateway to the West where we will be.

But but I will certainly do my part to to keep Rush and Rush Revere alive so that younger generations can hear the great stories of our founding.

Liz, thank you so much for sharing with us. And I join Katherine in thanking you for your for your service. And Katherine, I think we might have just heard a new Rush Revere book, Born Courtesy. Russia's is has been laid to rest. Oh, yeah. I think that would be terrific. And I wanted to ask you, I talked to someone who escorted your husband to Afghanistan and was there when Rush talked to a young girl who was going to school for the first time and the Taliban had been stricken from the area.

Rush was in this dangerous position area. But talking to her and that he didn't speak her language, but he was so intent on listening to her and it's just a heartwarming story. I wanted to ask you, what was Rush like around kids?

You know, it's funny. He was always nervous because I think he felt that he didn't know how to connect. But I've heard from so many people who have children, they have said he was wonderful with children. In fact, a close friend of mine was eight at the time and he was going through brain cancer. And Rush met him and had breakfast with him every morning. And he shared a story with me that Rush was as kind and able to connect as anyone possibly could be.

So I think he was his own worst critic, but he was actually wonderful with children.

So it doesn't surprise me, given Rush's creativity and zeal and humor. Let's talk to Gerri in Charlotte, North Carolina. Gerri, you're on with Catherine Lumby. Welcome. Thank you so very much, Kathleen. Thank you for coming back on. I'm going to try to keep it together. I want to ask you if you would tell us the reminiscences about Rush with your animals. I listen, I've been listening to him for decades and I remember hearing him talk about Punkin, and he was a cat guy.

And then when you came into his life and you got the dogs and you didn't just get any dogs, you got old English sheepdog. That's a lot of dog. Yes, I would. I have a Benoni Italian, so I've had a golden retriever. So I'm a big dog person, medium to big dog person. So when you got a sheep dog, I thought, holy heck, but I would love to hear about Rush with with your dogs.

And I know he loved all your animals. I also just wanted to say. Yes, I'm so very sorry and I think about the things about you and I think about Rush every day. Yeah. And it gives me a little bit of peace to think about once playing golf with all the great absolute would like to think about his dad and telling him how proud he was.

Yeah. Yes. And again, I am so sorry for your loss. I hear it in your voice and I share that sense. Medicine, as well as so many who are listening but uplifting story in terms of dogs and pumpkin and Ali. So Rush absolutely loves his cats. That that definitely was the first love. So Pumpkin was that was primary. And then after Pumpkin passed, I drove up actually to Jacksonville to try to find a pumpkin number two.

And I did. I brought back a surprise and Ali the cat. So Rush absolutely loved this cat. It was so funny to see them together because here he is, this larger than life person who just came off the radio speaking to millions. And now he's really being run by this little cat, Ali, who wanted to be sad and petted and everything. But he adored her. She slept right next to him in bed and actually woke him up, often said to go and be sad.

But in terms of the dogs, he loves them. So we started with one abbey, who is the queen of the pack, and then we continued on with four. So we have four very large and hairy old English sheepdogs who we consider our kids. And Rush was definitely the leader of the two of us to that. I adored them, but I was a strict a strict rule enforcer. But he was not he he would always give them extra treats for biscuits.

So they loved him. Whenever I was away, he would make sure that he was raiding the biscuit jar and giving them all plenty of sweets. So he loved to call himself Mr Dog Biscuit. And he said they only love me because I miss their dog biscuit. And I said, Oh, they love you more than that. But so he was great with them. He loved to walk in the yard with them and always went in before work or after work and said the abbey was certainly his his favourite out of the group.

Catherine, I hope that Russia's audience hears this extraordinary moment that Russia is a worldwide celebrity known by one name. Yes. And yet his wife, you are sharing him with us in this way. I don't know that I've ever heard this done and will continue to take calls. But I just want to again, thank you for your Grace and your vulnerability. Thank you for sharing this with us.

You're most welcome and will continue with Katherine Lemba on the album It's Tadamon, filling in for our departed friends who left us way too soon, Rush Limbaugh with his beloved wife, Catherine. So gracious to spend time with us today. And Catherine, one quick question. Do you have something you carry with you that reminds you of Rush? I mean, obviously you have the memories and and frankly, he lives everywhere, given how much of an impact he made on this country.

But is there any keepsake you keep to remind you of Rush? Absolutely.

In fact, I have it on everything. I have his wedding ring that is around my neck with a cross. So I have that every day with me everywhere. It's beautiful.

Beautiful picture. Let's talk to Paul in Parkland, Florida. Paul, you're on Rush's show with Rush's beloved wife, Katherine.

Hello, Todd. And hello, Katherine. It's so nice that you are taking these calls again quickly. I told to keep it short, so I will. I spoke with Rush several, several years ago, and I was always trying to get to talk to him again. But in any case, moving right along up the up towards the end there, I got a gut punch when he said he had been diagnosed and I had two brothers who were diagnosed and gone within six weeks of the diagnosis.

So every day that went by, the rush was still there, very grateful to still hear him. And then as time goes towards the end here, he had I saw him on the Dettol cam. I listened to him on the radio. He was so enthusiastic. He was right there. He was 100 percent the whole time. And I was terribly impressed with that. And then all of a sudden there was a lot of guest host and it was Treatment Week and it dragged out.

And I think I started to worry. And then when I heard you on the radio that day, I just fell to pieces. But many Keiko's want to know, when did you when did you know when did Rush know that it was time that he couldn't do it anymore? Because I know he would do it no matter what, if he could get himself at a microphone. He what? But when did he finally Utusan probably made a decision. It's time for him to just kick back and then let nature take its course.

Sure. And thank you so much for your your call. I think, honestly, this is something that Rush would not mind me sharing because I think he'd be proud of it. So it is a little little more intimate, I guess, but I. I will share with you that he he was always committed to the radio and to all of you, he adored it and it was the one thing that kept him going throughout. To be honest, he probably didn't feel well enough to do the show a good a good portion of the time, but that wasn't going to deter him at all.

He was 100 percent committed to the campaigns of President Trump. And all of last year, he he would not take no for an answer in terms of going on the show. So he pushed forward as often as he could. And then towards this here and what happened recently, the blessing and I think this will give all of you some comfort, is Russia really didn't know that it was his last show. He didn't know that day that he spoke to all of you and had a wonderful show that that was, in fact, the last time that he would be at the studio.

So he left that day thinking that he would be coming back the next day. And unfortunately, he just got a little bit sicker and sicker by the day. And we had to take a bit of an emergency action for him. But the blessing in this is that he knew he was going to heaven, but he didn't know that that was his his final show and didn't know that he would not be speaking with all of you directly again. So that does provide some comfort that it was it was peaceful and unknown.

That is an incredible amount of comfort, and you mentioned Russia knowing he was going to heaven, Catherine Limbaugh, I have to imagine that gives you a great deal of comfort.

Absolutely. Yes. We talked about it all the time. And you may recall he always said practically every show that he thinks God for for being able to wake up that day. And that's really how he took it one day at a time and and knew that it was God's plan. And we would we would go forward as we needed to. But he knew ultimately that he would return to heaven and be greeted by everyone who gone before him.

And I wanted to ask quickly, you've got about a minute and a half left with Catherine Limbaugh. Is there anything we can do for you?

Oh, thank you. Honestly, just knowing the numbers of people that are out there grieving gives me comfort, not because they're grieving, because we're sharing in it together. I've read so many wonderful messages and all of what you're saying is so kind. And I just encourage you all to carry on what Rush started. And that would give me such comfort to know that Rush will live on through all of us and we will continue his mission and continue to support our wonderful country as he would want.

I've spoken with people. Catherine Limbaugh, who became sober because of Rush, started businesses because of Rush. I myself got into the tech business and had a career I could never have imagined because of the words your husband shared. The greatest professional honor I ever had was sitting in the seat filling in for your husband. And that's now just topped by getting this opportunity to speak to you. And I hope that you will make a habit. And this is, you know, far be it for me to ask, but I hope that you will connect with this audience as this show continues, as we continue to feature Russia's wisdom as a voice.

I just as one listener to many to you, it's an incredible comfort to hear you. Absolutely.

And he has always considered you all an extended part of our family, and I do as well. And I want to make sure you all listening know how much we we care about you and sharing your grief. So I will be here as often as you would like to hear me.

Unfortunately, I'm not Rush, but I will try my best.

Yeah, no one is. No one is. Will Catherine go with God's good grace and comfort? And we thank you so very much today.

You're very welcome. All the best to everyone indeed.

Todd Hermann thanking you for Katzir, Limbaugh and the EIB.

Now, I just got the most amazing news. Catherine Limbaugh is going to stay with us and continue to talk to us. Rush's audience about her husband. And if you didn't hear and you just jumping into the program, as Rush would say, new listeners joining every single seconds, you didn't hear an extraordinary piece of audio, which is going to be Roshumba Dotcom, as I understand it, with some amazing pictures as Rush Limbaugh was laid to rest in a beautiful setting, in a setting with famous musicians and certainly what Rush deserves.

So as we roll through this, I would just ask you to reflect on something. When was the last time the wife or husband of a celebrity? And I didn't I never thought of Russia a celebrity. I was thought of him as a professor and a and a patriot and an activist and a leader. And of course, the reason he was so successful, one of them is he entertained us while he did all those things. You don't build a radio show like this without that talent on loan from God, as Rush would say, extraordinary to be able to visit with Katherine.

Limbaugh has decided to stay for the next segment to continue to talk with you.

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Sometimes in life, you pinch yourself and you say, I'm truly I am hosting Rush's show, he's departed to heaven, and I'm speaking with Rush's wife, Catherine and Catherine Limbaugh has decided to stay over this segment to speak with more of you. And, Katherine, thank you for this. This is an incredible gift. Thank you for doing this.

Absolutely happy to.

I want to ask you one question and I want to get into phone calls. People are so anxious to talk to you. Rush to a lot of us was a professor. He was an activist. He was a political thinker. He was an intelligence. And also this radio show became successful based upon his ability to hold an audience. Did he consider himself an entertainer at all?

I wouldn't say he considered himself an entertainer, but he knew he had to be entertaining if that happened.

And so he really he wanted always to make people laugh. He knew the subject matter was incredibly important, but what made him different and what he knew made him different was he put a spin to it that was funny and made people turn off the radio and be inspired, but also laugh a bit despite the very serious topic. So I would say he considered himself entertaining.

That's a perfect way to put it. That's a perfect way to put it. As so many people anxious to talk to you. Let's roll this off and kick it off with Mike in Cape Coral, Florida. Mike, you were on the Rush Limbaugh program with Russia's beloved wife, Catherine. Welcome. Thanks to Catherine, my deepest and most sincere condolences. I'm sorry. Oh, I just want to thank you for that very descriptive, audible recount of Russia's funeral.

I've been watching for the past 16 years. And so to hear it in such detail, given I thought that was there.

Oh, I'm so glad that's what I was hoping. And I'm so sorry for the loss that I can hear. You know, it's funny that I took notes at the Limbaugh Institute for Conservative Studies, just like you and just like all of the listeners. And I remember Rush always said, you need to paint a picture in people's minds and you need to let people feel as they can be a part of it. And that that's what I hope to do, not quite as well as he did, but I hope to give you that.

So thank you so much. I'm very glad that you could you could imagine being there. Thank you, Mike.

Thank you for your phone in Russia show and for sharing your emotion with us and being open about that. We do appreciate it. When Rush was laid to rest. Can I ask. It was a small ceremony covid in the lockdown. Prescriptions prevented a greater number of people there mass just roughly who was there. And it was family and friends. And obviously it's a funeral and people are sad. But I heard this extraordinary clip of you and Rush talking in October about the event and Russia's optimism.

Was there that mix of happiness or optimism in the small group? And who was there, if I might ask?

Sure. It really was only immediate family. The covid restrictions were quite tight. So it was our immediate family. We hoped we could have had a lot more people, a lot more friends, but unfortunately we couldn't. So it was just immediate family. I would see that there was optimism in the sense that Rush was on his way to heaven, but also that it was very patriotic and very worthy of him. So I think there was a sense of pride in the family that that Russia had lived such a wonderful life and now was was buried in the respect that he deserved.

It's wonderful. And to thank you for sharing these photos with us. Folks will be at at Rush Limbaugh Dotcom. Let's talk to Scott in Jacksonville, Florida. Scott, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program with Mrs. Katherine Limbaugh. Kathleen, hi, long time listener, 25 plus years, and I'm so sorry, well, she's not with us anymore. But my question is, I've always been curious about if you all had any semblance of a so-called normal life.

I mean, did you get to go shopping? Did you go. I mean, so many wonderful restaurants in Palm Beach. Did you ever just spontaneously go out to dine? And if so, did you have to wear a disguise or did your husband?

However, it's funny because Rush would always say he specialized in hermit's. So his favorite thing to do was definitely to stay home and and read his iPad and study for this show and work. That's without question. If not that, then he likely would be golfing or something else. But we couldn't go out to dinner too freely. He was very, very well recognized and people would come up. But the one thing is, everyone who came up in all the years of us going out, all were friendly and all were fans, and they felt as though they knew him personally, which made him a different kind of celebrity.

They would come over and talk about his cats or anything. So there was a mix of that. There was a little bit of opportunity to go out, but probably not really freely as far as one would would have it in a free sort of sense.

Thank you for that. Scott, thank you for the question and all the years of supporting Russia's program. Catherine, what do you wish women in general knew about your husband? I mean, I was both, you know, sad and heartbroken hearing you talk with Markstein, but it was such an extraordinary interview. And you talked about Russia being on the sea list for this event.

You were a, you know, Gulf War and then you met him and realized, oh, my goodness, we've made this tremendous mistake. He's this beautiful gentleman. What do you wish women in general knew about your Rush Limbaugh?

Absolutely. That's the one thing that that is talked about sometimes in the media. And he's demeaned and not characterized in the right way. So I'm happy to talk about that. He was an incredible gentleman in every sense of the word. He was so polite not only to me, not only to women, but really to to everyone. He was he was a true and utter old soul in that in that way, he would open the door for me.

He would make sure that I was seated. He would pull out the chair behind me. He was he was everything that you would hope a gentleman would be. He was very much fat. And I sometimes hear things out there in the media and say, that's nothing like our rush. And so we will continue to to counter that image of him because it's not remotely true. A true gentleman in every sense.

I love hearing you say it that way. I just love the way you express this love for your husband. Bonnie in Lexington, Texas, welcome to the program Rush Limbaugh built and the love of his life, Catherine Limbaugh. Welcome, Bonnie.

Thank you, Todd. Hello, Catherine. Thank you for doing this for all of us. I want to say that every single one of us over the years that we've listened to Rush, we've learned so much from him. But I must say that in this past year, he taught every single one of us how to live until we die because he never minced words about it. He was very forthcoming with us. And as hard as it was to believe it, to know that it would happen, he did teach us how to live until we die.

And now you are showing us how to live, how to go on without him. And I just want to thank you for that. It's tremendously encouraging that we can endure all of this together and we do miss him tremendously. And it's still difficult to wrap our heads around that. He. Isn't here now. Thank you so much and I'm truly glad to be here and be able to talk with all of you and feel you're part of our extended family and be able to grieve together.

It is such an incredible loss. The void is tremendous. We all feel it. But I think we're trying our best to say what Rush wants of us. And I know he said this to me many times personally. He wants me to go on. He wants us all to carry on and he wants our country to remain a wonderful, miraculous country. So that's that's my hope and mission is to inspire all of us to carry on in Russia's honor and see what he would want us to do, which is continue his mission and continue to fight for our incredible country and conservative values.

Thank you very much, Bonnie, for the phone call. Catherine, about you've been so kind to stay over a segment. I can tell you that that Russia's audience to talk to you for weeks at a time. It's taken so much of your time.

May I ask this is closing question I watched the president bestow upon your husband the Medal of Freedom. Yes. And I truly believe in all the years I observed your husband as a personality and thinker and celebrity, I do not believe I ever saw him shocked. What did you feel when you saw Russia's response to receiving that medal?

He was truly and utterly touched by that. We have deep respect and appreciation for Donald Trump doing that in such a manner that it could be seen literally all over the world. And that was a huge moment in Russia's life. It was it was a moment that he will never forget and I will never forget. He was overcome by emotion and felt so proud of being able to be there, to be honored in such a way by President Trump. It was remarkable.

And what you saw on TV was exactly how he was feeling. He he was fun thinking I'm just a young man from Cape Girardeau starting out here. I am now. It was it was tremendous. And we are deeply, deeply appreciative to to President Trump for that that honor.

No one deserved it more given how he stood up for freedom and freedom of speech. I want to thank you again for your extraordinary commitment to this audience. And in this time and I'll just close with one question for you. Is there any specific prayer you or the family would like at this time of grieving?

You know, I listen and read prayers every single day. It's helping to to get through. But I spoke to Vice President Pence the other day. He phones very kindly, along with with Karen Temp's. And he left me with a bit of a prayer that says The Lord is close to the brokenhearted. And I have that written on a piece of paper that I carry around with me. And it's just very inspirational. I thought that was something nice to keep with us.

The Lord is close to the brokenhearted.

Well, let the Lord be close to you and the Limbaugh family and the extended family and the extended family beyond that. So gracious again, to spend this extra segment with us. It's your husband's program. Clearly, any time you want on, you simply call. And that happens. And and I can tell you right now, just by the way the phones are going, it would be an extraordinary thing to do again. So thank you so much for your time, Cathy.

Absolutely. God bless you all. Thank you.

Todd Hermann filling in for the only Maharishi will ever have on the on the EIB Network.

Are everybody OK? What an extraordinary gift to spend time with Catherine Lemba. And I asked you this question, did Rush consider himself an entertainer? She said no, he considered himself entertaining and that that was to hold the audience's attention because of the gravity of the subject matter. I can tell you, just observing as a radio guy or as a media guy, the way Ray Charles would sit at a piano and play out a song is the same way Rush Limbaugh would sit behind the golden microphone and play the mainstream media.

In fact, last week on this program, we replayed a clip of a clip that what Rush was discussing, one of his all time favorite great moments on the radio was the day he, quote, endorsed Bill Clinton and it set the nation on fire until everyone figured out it was a gag. So we had a huge, overwhelming demand from the audience to find an actual clip of that show. So the EIB team dug into the archives. And now we take you all the way back to October 29, 1992.

I actually have the shakes.

I do not want to do the show today, my friends. It's just this simple. I've changed my mind on the presidential race. And if the mood of this country is not where I am right now, then I'm the one that's going to have to change here.

At 12 minutes after the hour.

On the 22nd of October, I'm here to tell you that I have decided to endorse the candidacy of Bill Clinton for president. It's the only way I think the country can really, truly be safe. I've had to weigh my thoughts very carefully. I've had to weigh this decision.

I've thought about it a lot. I've talked to a lot of people. I have not made this decision lightly. Let's see, what else do I I'm. I don't know. I'm. Let me just go to the phones. Camille in Brooklyn.

Camille. Hi, Rush Limbaugh. Welcome to the program.

Yes. I'm surprised you said that you were surprised. I'm shocked. I can't believe you threw in the towel.

You have to do what you think is right. But some people vote for them. Oh, my God. I just can't trust them. I just have some.

Well, see, that's that's just that's an indication of how tough it is for everybody. What am I to do?

Am I supposed to come in here and make it up? Am I supposed to come here? I mean, it just the charade is I can't do that, folks. Phyllis in the Bronx in New York, hello. Hello.

My name is Phyllis. Yes, ma'am. I am a conservative. I am home sick today, but now I'm really sick. Rush, what are you doing to us? I'm sick and tired of the liberals in this country who pushing one. What are you talking about? I mean, you are backing Mr.. You're backing Bill Clinton. I am not. I am a surgeon. I never said that. But I heard you say no, no, no, no.

This is you're just trying to twist my words and turn them around. I never said it.

Yeah. What did you say? Could could you just tell me? You said you couldn't. You know, I can't even talk. I'm so upset. I'm practically ready for tears.

You keep talking about something. It happened 23 minutes ago. It's irrelevant. You know, Rush, I know what I heard. I'm sitting here and I'm listening to you. I listen to you every chance I get. Well, you're the guru of the conservatives.

You're going to have to listen a little bit more closely, Phillips, and you have to think about the future. What happens in the past is irrelevant. It doesn't matter. Suzette from Chicago, welcome to the program.

You know, mega dittos and accolades. You are wonderful. I put on your show and I hit a coronary and I'm listening to you. And I start to think, no, I know what you're doing, Rush. You're doing the Bill Clinton flip flop. You're you know, this is really sad.

Now, this is. No, no, no, no. This is your this is this is this is really pathetic. You're going to deny it. But you can you can.

Well, you know, of course I'm going to deny it because I didn't say it. I know I'm going. And you can't we cannot move forward. It's I know you know, to find you to try to make me the issue here. It's really sad.

I know. Isn't it terrible. And I mean, what you're doing is really great. You can deny it. That's OK. But what believe me, I can deny it.

I, I am denying and I do deny it. You know, I never said I was for Clinton. I know I know you people that you are so worried about my conservative views, your soul. You think I'm such a maniac out there now you're hearing me say things I've never said.

You want to play the tape, play the tape.

I know what I said. I didn't say that. Okay.

You know, I'd like to say one thing, though, is that you really bring home a point that I don't know what she's talking about.

You keep your business going over and over. She just keeps making the same point here. And it's you know, we've been patient.

You can deny it, dear sir. But I know you don't. I didn't say it.

I mean, you still I've had you on the phone here for, what, five minutes? And all you want to talk about is something that happened to, what, 45 minutes ago?

I was younger than sorry. I had not heard that from the day that I remember being in Spokane. I'm in Spokane today, 590 KQ A. Muser studio, and I remember the program director coming to me. Your guy just flipped. He just flipped. He's he's he's gone in for Clinton. I thought it's impossible. It's impossible. This didn't happen. And she figured it out. That's just. I hope you don't. Feel weird that a like a junior rodeo clown, Philon, is saying this from a perspective of a radio guy.

But good Lord. I hear this now differently because I'm not driving in my car or working on a house or just I'm listening with headphones on, it's magical. The three decades that we've gotten off of this, it's not performance.

It was craft and yes, he made a brilliant point Russia didn't care about, I did not have sexual relations with that woman, which he did a far better job than I did as Todd Hermann filling in for our departed friend Rush Limbaugh on the EIB Network just this past weekend.

Listen to my Seattle show sent me from Rush's archives, something he found about Rush explaining Lysenko Haysom, which was a dynamic named after Joseph Stalin's house biologist, whereby so-called scientific research was twisted in order to have a political outcome.

And this is when the Democrats were talking about being poor. Changes your DNA so that you are more than genetically poor was the point they were making. And Rush, of course, took that on in the fashion that only Rush could. And people who didn't listen to Rush never understood the intellectual appeal of Russia, which is why I've said to folks in terms of introducing people to Russia, used the Limbaugh letter because people will read that in a way that they can't consume the radio show because their defenses will be up.

I don't want to be charmed by this guy. So now when you talk about the most influential figures in the intellectual American conservatism, it's Buckley, people who understood Reagan, it's Reagan and it's Rush Limbaugh. And Rush discussed his relationship with Mr. Buckley on many occasions. Here's the first time he visited Buckley's home in Manhattan.

I entered what I thought was a shrine. To my left was a harpsichord. He played the harpsichord. He wasn't playing it at the point at this time. He played it. He was playing it. When I walked in some time later to appear as his guest on firing line taped in his living room, which is where I was escorted when we when I arrived.

I can't folks can't describe how nervous I was one of the same time, trying not to be in and just relax and be myself. I was escorted in first and that room was full, I was one of the last to arrive because I'd driven around the block four times trying to get the courage up to go in.

He was the first to stand up and greet me that that charismatic love of life smile welcomed me into that room as though I belonged there as much as any other guest did ask me what I wanted to drink. I said I'd like a Diet Coke sat down. Look at I mean, these people are all they're the smartest people in the world, I mean, these are the people that put out National Review. These are the people that that helped Bill Buckley in his quest, which was memorable.

I mean, we owe Bill Buckley every bit. The debt we conservatives owe Bill Buckley ever bit the debt that we owe Ronald Reagan to occurred simultaneously.

And Reagan was also inspired and educated quite a bit by Buckley. Very, very close friends. We all buckley the same kind of gratitude in my mind, I rank Bill Buckley is a founding father. Anyway, Mr. Buckley prepared my Diet Coke and I sat down and the conversation was about at the time I entered, they were talking about whether or not James Joyce could publish Ulysses if he tried to at that point today, meaning it was so risque, could anybody publish it?

And they were having a discussion about that and literature in general, you know, I'm sitting here swimming and his Diet Coke doesn't taste like Diet Coke. What is this? It tasted like it tasted like mineral oil that had cola coloring in. It wasn't long before Mrs. Buckley Pat made her grand entrance into the room after everybody else had arrived, coming down the sweeping staircase into that room. Everybody in that room shot up like Jackson.

The box she came over to me, first off, welcomed me to their home, thanked me so much for what I had been saying about her husband and her son and the magazine and so forth. My Diet Coke was about half empty. She said, Would you like a refill? What's that? I said, it's Diet Coke. So she took it, took it over to Bill Fixx, Mr. Limbaugh, another one. She watched him fix it, I guess, because I'm in the middle of talking to somebody and I hear her shot.

Bill, what are you doing? I said Diet Coke. So I was right. It wasn't I don't know what it was that he served me up. Don't read anything into this is just one of these things that I. I remember. Then we went into dinner, big circular table in the dining room and in the conversation, and they all wanted to know what I thought about things. They all want to know how I go about doing my radio show.

What's my point? What one of the things I'm trying to accomplish, they were fans. It was one of the most memorable nights of my life. And I'll tell you why, because at the time, there was a definable respected by all conservative leader and he was it. He had no ego, he didn't feel threatened by the arrival of other conservatives, he welcomed them, bring them all in, find out if they're legit.

Find out if they're worth the imprimatur, but bring them in. And that night, I was made to feel welcome in the quote unquote, conservative movement as started by its leader.

I can't describe how he made me feel that night.

He became a confidante and a friend and an adviser, and he became somebody that I could, you know, ask what do you what do you think of me the right way to handle a situation like this?

And and he would tell me it was just it was like having another father.

In fact, I remember the first time just remember this the first time that I had him and some other people over to my apartment in New York for dinner.

We're having some brandy and cigars after dinner at my little circular dining room table, I forget how many there might have been in the dining room table, could see 12 people.

And I, I guess I'd had one too many brandies. So I was a little less inhibited. And I stood up and I gave Bill a toast. This has to be 1996 or 97. So, I mean, this is this is after I'd met him only for a long time and got to know him. And I told him, I said, you know, my father passed away in 1990, but you make me think my dad's still alive here with me.

And he started crying, acted a little embarrassed. I said, oh, I see you're tearing up. But it's true.

I think for all of the talk about how intelligent I mean, that's not even the word to describe your genius. The amount of knowledge he acquired was able to spit back on virtually anything. It was incomprehensible to me.

His brain, his intellect, his use of it was indescribable. But I don't think he had an ego. I mean, he knew who he was and he knew what he bestowed on people who knew what his impact was.

But he was still very humble and he was not accustomed to hearing a compliment like that. When I told him, you know, my father's still alive, Bill, you're here. And they kind of got choky, looked around. He looked looked at Pat and so forth. And I remember to Gay and Stanley Gamson, dear friends of mine from here, when they're there, maybe Newt Gingrich, too. That's right. When Newt was there, we had a Newt had invited a bunch of us when he was speaker to have dinner on the terrace outside his office.

And then we decided to do it again at a different place. And we did it Buckley's place next time. And then and then we did it at my place. Nobody came to my place to finish the the troika of this.

And I remember, you know, I mean, it was it was funny. Knewton Buckley would have little arguments and Buckley would Buckley would tell Newt what he thought and vice versa.

I mean, it was I can't describe to you the thrill all of this was for me to be among such a giant and such an intellect and somebody who really we throw this term around conservative movement. And I do think that that label, that term narrows what we all are, you and I, what we believe.

But at the time, you know, conservatism was a process of growing and expanding and and destroying the monopoly of the drive by media. And we've gotten so big now that we've splintered and everybody's trying to be the next Buckley, not in terms of who he was as a man, but in terms of being thought of as the intellectual leader, the intellectual inspiration for the movement. And as such, there's now competition. There was no competition. Buckley just made it OK for people to come out of the closet.

Everybody revered him. But now it's it's a little different. I kind of this happens as organizations and life evolves and changes and you can't go back to what it was.

But I've said oftentimes on this program, being an elected officials are what have you were missing outside of the media is conservative leadership. And so, you know, we have a number of people who are trying to redefine what conservative conservatism is with themselves as the leader, fine and dandy, everybody is free to do what they want. But it's it's causing rifts, causing some splinters to take place. Which is natural as as well, this makes me miss Mr.

Buckley all the more he was a leader with the power of his intellect than his presence and not physical presence. Just the fact that he was there doing what he was doing was leadership. I don't know how many others felt about him the way I did, I have universal respect among people and I'm sure there were people knew him that had things about him they didn't like.

Which is true of everyone, but I never found any of those. I was too enamored and too much in all, of course, they all gave way after, you know, after time and it was it was easy to be myself around him.

And that's that's, of course, when things really got fun because he was so welcoming and understanding and he knew his brain was 15000 times smarter than anybody else.

His patient was really patient. It was never insulting. And he was never dismissive. It was always inclusive.

And that was born of his confidence of knowing who he was and what he had done and being very proud of it.

To this day, I don't know how he lived the life he did to be as productive as he was and to engage in what he called, as I said earlier, his sybaritic pursuits with as much energy and with as much time. I don't know how he did it.

I still marvel whenever I read anything he's written. I always will. And I'll always continue to learn something from him, no matter the fact that he's gone. You can reread books that he's written, books that he's edited, columns go back and read some of the early national reviews. Just as inspirational today as to me anyway, and I think to a lot of people as they were when they were first published and.

So are you. We'll continue on the Rush Limbaugh program, Todd Hermann filling in on the idea.

Coming up next hour on Russia's program, we're going to hear the evolution of the update theme that Russia look back to that. And did Russia predict it? Electing a president Trump would save America alone? No, that's not what Russia predicted. You'll hear what he predicted next. Russia show. Let's talk now to Katie in Maine. Katie, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program is tournament filling. And I'm glad you called Katie. Hi.

How are you doing, Todd? I was calling because what I wanted to share with everybody with what Rush did for me personally, I grew up Christian, you know, typical conservative values, but I didn't have a true love of country until I started listening to Rush.

And I've never told my husband this, but I credit him with turning the entourage because I never said, yes, really, and God will work with him now anyway.

So, yeah, honey, I love you, but don't you dare rub it in my face, but. For me, listening to Rush. I actually began to understand the political world, how they worked, what they did and why they did it, and especially I want to say in the past five years, it is really he brought home to me just how truly fragile our freedom was. I literally grew up taking that for granted. And I wanted to, you know, take the opportunity to say thank you to Katherine.

You know, I know she's not on anymore, but a true thank you because this past year, you know that she was sacrificing her time with Rush. To be supportive and be there for him so that he could still be there for us. He could still encourage us and he truly went out with his boots on, fighting for freedom until the last very minute. And so that's just what I wanted to call to share. And also, you know, to any other moms out there, I don't think the fight is over.

I still feel we have a country to fight for. And I'm working hard to educate my children, not just being sick history. And of course, we are using the rest of your book, the very awesome. But I'm trying to teach them just how our political system moves and how our daily choices. Even from small to where we shop, affect our political system and affect our freedom and how we need to work every day for it's keeping our freedom.

It's beautifully said. Katie, I appreciate the phone call. And I'm sure this will keep this secret that your husband, he doesn't need to know. We'll just make sure this show's a block from his workplace. So thank you very much for phoning Rush's show. Very inspiring. And you said something about fragile systems. I know in conservative circles it's a little bit controversial to talk about the movie The Hunger Games. If you haven't seen the movie The Hunger Games or more precisely, if you've not read the books, that is a conservative movie.

I don't know anything about the director as a person. I don't know anything about the screenwriter as a person. But you talk about the overreach of government and the the application of force and tyranny against people and the splitting up of people. If you don't know the story and it's sort of an old story and that humans, not humans, but for the entertainment of the elites and the splitting up of the country into these districts, and there's this great moment where Donald Sutherland.

Yep, liberal, is in the scene with the Katniss Everdeen main character. And and she has just foiled The Hunger Games because she figured out, like, you can't kill both of the heroes, but you need one of us to live.

And and so she and the the man that she fell in love with, they were going to take these poison berries. And then then this would destroy the theater that they built for the elites. And Donald Sutherland in the second movie is furious with her. And she says our system must be pretty fragile if it be brought down with a with a couple of berries. And he says, oh, indeed it is, miss everything. Indeed it is Rush Limbaugh.

And when he helped swell, President Trump would probably argue with this. I don't think Donald Trump would have been a president without Rush.

And what President Trump did in office was surface, in fact, how fragile the system is and to what degree the deep state elites will go to maintain the system or to seize it again. So next hour, we'll talk about what Rush's actual prediction was about electing Donald Trump. More to follow.

It's Todd Hermann in for Rush Limbaugh, our dearly departed friend on the EIB Network.

Oh, it's Todd Hermann, the honor to fill in for our departed friend Rush Limbaugh. Man, if you missed the hour and, well, about an hour that we spent with Katherine Limbaugh, I encourage you to get to Rush Limbaugh dot com. And I'm not trying to sell Rush 24/7. I am saying that it was an extraordinary moment of radio because of her and what she was willing to share with this audience, all of us, about her time with Rush, about Rush's a man and some extraordinary, just vulnerable moments that the wife of a celebrity and Katharine is a person in her own right with her own accomplishments and intelligence in the Rush Revere books.

Obviously, we know that's a ton of Katherine's work. Something to say. She's a wife of a celebrity, full stop. She's a human being with intelligence and warmth. And we experience that. What she shared with us as as a listening family is something I really hope you will take advantage of hearing, because I think it will bring you peace. And I also think it's a lesson in a way that Rush left us, which was about dying well.

It's about going out with optimism and gratitude. It's an extraordinary moment, and I hope you'll hear her and take advantage of that next hour. Rush relived the evolution of the update theme and a famous caller.

You've heard of Mick from High Mountains, but do you know why he's famous in the rush circles? We'll continue on the EIB Network.

Today is the day the Lord has made. And what a gift God has given us today, opportunity to relive some of the great memories of Rush and look at what Rush presented as his vision for the future as we lived through these confusing times. But that's the responsibility God has given us. We had Catherine Limbaugh join us for over an hour in the first hour and part of the second hour of this program and gave of herself great moments of just private moments between she and Rush and shared with us an amazing piece of audio with she and Rush talking about what they called the events Rush's event, which was Rush's funeral.

And there'll be some pictures available at Rush Limbaugh dot com. I beg you to take full advantage of that. They're beautiful pictures of when Rush Limbaugh was laid to rest in what unfortunately had to be a private ceremony. And Rush, of course, Rush didn't just push Donald Trump over the finish line. And I'm sure that President Trump would disagree. Rush, without rush, the Donald Trump wouldn't have been president, I think. But Rush didn't say that electing Donald Trump saves the country.

That's that's that's a misnomer. Rush knew there was a lot involved in beginning to fight back against what Rush so early on called the deep state. And a lot of us a deep state. Come on. What? We've seen it. And President Trump surfaced the existence of the deep state for everybody to see, everybody with eyes to see saw it. So now here we are talking about 2022 and 2024 and way back in February of 2016.

Rush Limbaugh told us that saving the country was going to be about more than one election, and he also predicted there wouldn't be any unity.

A lot of people talking about bringing the country together, unifying us, making factions of people who disagree somehow come together. I don't think that that's going to happen. We're too divided. The people on the left, they don't want to reach common ground with us. We are next to them. Or worse, we are the Gestapo did them. We're Nazis to them. We are whatever standing in the way of whatever. These people have to be defeated.

They have to be overwhelmed. And then after they're defeated, they cannot be allowed to bully whoever wins into cowardice and caving in. It's going to be tough. Winning an election is just a tiny first step. After we win the election, it's going to take perseverance to prevail over all the attempts to subvert the winners of the election and are corrupt. What's going on, knowing they still own a lot of the bureaucracy. But if you believe in a certain cultural America, it's under siege.

There's nothing to join with on the other side in preserving it. They want to tear it down, transform it and rebuild it. They have to be defeated. This is why the Republican Party is worthless. They don't even think this way. The Republican Party is thinking about showing they can work together, they can cooperate, make Washington work. Sorry we're so past that. We're so far past that. It's irrelevant. We're talking about holding on and preserving the country is founded and it's going to be really, really hard.

The second thing is Rush. And this is not just you crush. We can't afford 12 million people. We're never going. Who says all that is, is a conversation stopper? We are the United States of America who says we can't get rid of people who are here illegally. It's not a question of we can't it's a question of do we have the resolve to do we have the desire to? Does it make sense to do it? Are we going to do it?

And believe me, even if we win on this, the people opposing it are going to be firing ammo at whoever wins like you can't believe.

But if we're serious about stopping this transformation of America, it isn't going to be easy and winning an election is not going to send a signal to the other side to stand down. You lost. They don't look at it that way. This is a fight between socialism and capitalism, freedom versus tyranny, however you want to. There isn't any overlap. The only things that we may have in common with them are what people want for their families.

But we can't even agree on the definition of a family with half of these people.

So I don't think all the putting our heads together and coming together and unifying and working and making the country come together and common ground, that's we're so far past that. Because once you accept the task at hand, what has to happen, it's winning the election, that's the queen being born and we're an infant and we've got people coming at us, they're going to try to wipe us out and eliminate everything and pretend it didn't happen, corrupt, sabotage, undermine whoever the next president is and whoever's running the next Congress and whoever nominates a Supreme Court justice.

If it's a conservative, you have no idea what's going to be brought to bear. We're going to need people with such backbone and guts and steel and iron to hold up and withstand what's going to come at them.

You can't even imagine it, that it's what's going to happen. So it's all of that that informs me each and every day here, folks, as to what happens on this program, analyzing what's going on out there. This is for keeps.

This isn't about unifying getting along. They're not interested in it. And what do you want to get along with them over? What about their agenda? Do you want to embrace?

February of 2016, Inrush basically described the now infamous Time magazine article where the left bragged about Sure, oh yeah, we hid information from the American people.

Yeah, we changed the voting rules at the last minute. Yes. We coordinated with domestic terror groups who are burning down American cities. And Russia saw that coming and a lot of cars and they'd call Rush would ask him for predictions or what do you see coming or advice or how are we going to deal with this? There are some callers. I've seen this as a rank amateur guest host. I've seen callers take off as phenomenon's in social media because of the reach of the show.

And over the years, there have been a few callers who've, in fact, become famous in Limbaugh law. Nick, from the high mountains of New Mexico was one of them. Here's Rush playing a segment featuring him. I forgot to mention yesterday the you know, I felt yesterday, if I must be honest with you, I was telling certainly when we left, I felt like I left half my IQ at home.

Yes, just a brain didn't seem to be working as quickly and fluidly as I'm accustomed to it certainly assured me that was not detectable, but I feel a little bit better here today. Ladies and gentlemen, I forgot to see this. This is an example of what I mean by leaving half my intellect at home yesterday, the people at human events are doing a huge, huge, nice thing, a send up on my 20th anniversary. Jed Babbin and I did a little interview with him on Friday, and they published a transcript of it yesterday.

Levin had just a great piece. I guess they're having people all week write different different pieces that we linked to it, of course, at Rush Limbaugh Dotcom. But I just I forgot to mention this yesterday and to thank them and our buddies at WorldNet Daily are doing just all kinds of things, posting tribute pieces from all kinds of people. And I just I forgot to mention this. Yes, I felt better. I felt. Well, I know, but they started this on Friday and through the weekend.

And I you know, I have manners.

I'm polite. I wanted to thank them. And I did just as I say, I left half my IQ at home yesterday and I didn't feel physically bad. It just felt like the brain wasn't working. And I know most people that's how you are most days. But that's unusual for me. And it was a little frustrating, of course, when the staff says now, we couldn't tell a difference.

You know how staffs are. They suck up, which is why I trust my instincts on all of this. Speaking of the 20th anniversary week celebration, the 20th anniversary is coming up on Friday. I've had a number of requests for highlights of previous shows and one of the.

One of the most frequently received requests has been for phone calls from MK from the high mountains of New Mexico, we have coming up later in the week.

We have a a whole piece on Danz bake sale featuring MC from the high mountains of New Mexico. But I ask Cookie, go into the archives just fine. Doesn't matter what it is, just find one. Today she found one October 28, 1994, about 14 years ago. This is MC, who is no longer with us and the way MC from the high mountains of New Mexico, the closest thing that we've ever had to a regular caller on this program.

We haven't had one since.

And I guess he became a regular caller, but I don't remember that he just get in when he called. Or was it was it. We had his number and called him. He just got in.

He just got in that.

Oh, that's right. That's right. I forgot I sent Nick a fax machine so he could fax stuff to us. And the things I have forgotten anyway here is that call just runs about a couple minutes shy of two minutes. Well, looky here. Look who we have back on our phones. It's Mick from the high mountains of New Mexico. Welcome back, sir.

Mick. Yes, sir. How are you from the high mountains of New Mexico? Sure. Are you great? I'm glad you're there. Besides burning up my fax machine trying to get rid of Bingaman Richardson and. I had a message for you. Do you still have that? They're here. Ted Nugent said, yeah, it's sitting there on my TV show set.

Well, sir, I am sending caused the demise of 11 Kayode and 10. When did you do this? Just during the recent season. You caused the demise of 11 Kayode. Right. I brought 11 of them back, 10 of them made a pahlka for my ex. And the prime code of all is being shipped to you to hang on one of those horns that you have of Nugent's what you loose. So I'm going to mail it to you.

Well, that's true.

Well, I have it. How big is it?

It's a full skin. I'm looking at it right now. It's hanging on the wall. I'd say it's about four feet long tail and all.

Now, what do people normally do with these things? I mean, if you don't make coats out of. Yeah, but if you don't do that, what do you do, frame it or do you hang?

Oh, you just hang it on the wall, say, look what a man I am. You know, I skinned my own Coskun is out. Yeah, well, this is tremendous. I have never had my own skin and we will hang it on Nugent's mousse with pride. Thanks, Mick, as always.

It's great to hear from you, Mick. From the high mountains in New Mexico. We all met him for the first time at Dan's bake sale.

And he looked he looked pretty much exactly like what we expected him looked like a cowboy, thin, you know, gaunt, almost with with a sweater worn face and so forth, you know, genuine man. It was a genuine man. Does anyone remember the prime directive when you called them? Aha. What was your job as a caller to make the host? Got it. Look good. More to come on the Rush Limbaugh program.

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As you know, Rush was always fascinated by technology, including how advanced cell phones have become. And he told us a lot like, you know, your cell phones, actually a small computer with a phone app on it. He was right about that. We rely on cell phones to keep us connected and access all sorts of data. And look, that can get expensive unless, of course, you've taken Rush's advice and switched to pure talk. Here's the Moreschi offering bad advice so many of us have taken.

Hey, folks, there's one sure bet.

And you can make this year, and that is you're going to use your cell phone more than you did last year. You're going to make more calls. You're going to get and send more text messages. You are going to have more data usage. That translates to bigger cell phone bills. You're going to be paying more for it unless you are proactive and do something about that. And this is why so many people in this audience are switching their cell phone service from one of the big providers to pure talk, pure talk offers you unlimited talk, unlimited text and six gigs of data for just thirty dollars a month.

And if you go over on data, they don't charge you for it anymore. Well, how can that be? Well, get it and see. You'll find out how it can be. They don't charge you if you go over your six gigs of data. And you compare that monthly price 30 bucks a month to your current cell phone bill. Just compare it to your current cell phone bill. I mean, I would have to make a guess, but 75, 80 bucks, depending on how many lines and phones you have, don't know what it is, but 30 bucks a month for unlimited talk, unlimited text, six gigs of data.

Now, here's the real icing on the cake. Pure talk uses the same cell phone towers as one of the biggest cell phone service providers in America. Can't name that provider. But pure talk does not have the expensive costs of retail stores. They don't have an infrastructure, they have to maintain that they use the same cell towers on the big providers, they focus on providing great service and support with every pure torque employee located in the U.S. from your cell phone, do this dial pound 250 and say pure torque, get started.

You'll say 50 percent off your first month. That's a to five 00 and say pure torque. Just pick up your 500 pound to five and say pure torque. Guess what? Somebody from there will answer and you're off and running. It's easy to do. Just like Rush said, using your cell phone press the pound sign and the number two five zero and then say pure torque. You'll speak with one of pure talks, customer service people right here in the United States to get you started.

Calling us now, Pudge from Parkersburg, West Virginia. Pudge, welcome to Rush Limbaugh's program. It's Todd Hermann filling in for our departed friend.

Hi, Pudge. Hi, glad to be talking with you. This is the home of last night's Labor Department, the Treasury Department of Public Debt.

He says that one done while he was hosting the Rush Limbaugh Show. But get right to it. I just I've been at really 12 years trying to think, Rush, I'm a 12 year nonhostile lymphoma cancer survivor and I want to try to get on the Catherine, but I miss that. But I used Rush, Rush and the technology and downloaded a retrial to get on today. So I'm sorry to out of that. But I just wanted to thank Catherine and him for the one day telethon's that he had all the time and that, you know, hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars for the Lymphoma Society, because twelve years ago I went to chemo, radiation, the whole works that one of the things I had, I had chemo eight hours and the right toxin therapy for the next day.

And my toxin was really on the cutting edge of antibody combat to cancer. And it was I talked to the doctor and because I was just what I am and it was really brought through the Lymphoma Society that the toxin medicine. Was about and I guess in between God and Rush, I just wanted to thank and Katherine, all three of them for the life that he's given me. And just real quick, as a side note, hey, when you're talking when you're getting ready for a vacation, a permanent vacation like rushing to Katherine was, it's easy when you know where you're going and when you're talking about a funeral or, you know, if you know where you're going and where you going to end up.

It's easy to talk about the banks. Thank the Lord Jesus Christ for the saving grace and saving rush. That was one of my big concerns that Russia was going to spend eternity and I know where it's at. Yeah, but get up and listen.

Well, you've delayed that trip a little bit by I hear you, you know, calling attention to I think it's tens of millions, if I'm not mistaken, of dollars that rush in Catherine helped raise for, you know, research into leukemia and lymphoma. And I hear you crediting him. But I also heard you say, you know, Russian God and of course, we heard Catherine in the first hour. I know you wanted to talk with her, and I'm sure that she'll be thankful to hear these comments.

But that Rush being with God now and having an opportunity to ask what I'm thinking of is all the questions Russia will have. And maybe it is that you get to heaven and you suddenly know all these things, although I imagine that you solve these questions for God. I just I think of his intellect and his soul and that that search for knowledge. And, you know, I've got to tell you that, you know, it's but, you know, I don't want to make light of your call at all by pointing out that there's a lot of people who have contacted this program to say Russia's optimism helped me become sober.

Russia's optimism helped me come back from losing my businesses or or, you know, falling into poverty and not really not not not thinking of that as a destination or a permanent destination, that it was a point. It was a season in my life. So we hear these calls and you never get tired of hearing even as someone who had nothing to do with it. I had nothing to do with this. And I never get tired of hearing about this because this is I don't know that this can happen with podcasting.

And podcasting has its place in the world. And there's a podcast by morning show people listen to. And that blows my mind that people go through that process to listen to it. But there's something about live radio. I hope we never lose it. And I think that it's the transfer of human energy. I really do that, that I think we could feel through the microphone Russia's life energies. He shared that with us and almost wished life into people and wished life into the country.

And that zeal, I just think that connection gets lost once it's on a podcast.

Thanks for the call page. Glad that you lived. Todd Hermann on the EIB Network.

Do you remember back in the day when Russia announced that he was leaving New York because they had passed these insane taxes on high earners and people who employ people like Rush did, and then they passed? This is our call this insanity where they were going to try to tax Rush if he spent the night in New York. And so the Southern Command was born and Rush decreed it so they would have the Southern Command of EIB and that happened. Now, speaking of New York, a third woman has accused Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment.

And his brother Fredo has announced that he's not even allowed to mention his brother on CNN, even though they used to goof with each other with, you know, big prop cutups. Now, Rush had these guys absolutely pegged months ago, and he characterized Andrew Cuomo as arrogant during a press conference as I'm the governor and you're not. And like countless jokes Rush made, it came true instantly. Now, yesterday on this program, it's amazing, I tell jokes about liberals, I characterize them or do things to make fun of them, and within minutes the joke comes true or the characterization is something that they actually go out there and do.

And it happened yesterday. In reviewing Governor Cuomo, his press conference yesterday, I happened to say I characterized it as the I'm governor and you're not press coverage. Remember that I'm governor and you're not. Let's go audio sound bites. Because last night, in fact, here's Will. This is what I said for let's get this get this at Governor Cuomo. I'm governor. And you're not briefing today. Governor Cuomo already today during the Governor Cuomo. I'm governor and you're not briefing last night, CNN, Frido primetime.

So Governor Cuomo is on with his brother, Fredo. And we just listen, just listen, will you, please, when I get the last word, the interview supposed to be over. Why do you let him know talking?

You can't he don't want the last word.

I'm governor and you're not the governor. And I'm governor and you're not. That's why you have to shut up, Fredo. That's why I got I'm governor. And that's how I characterized this press conference.

Cookie God, that he created a a predestiny for four eighty Cuomo and Kennedy. Cuomo whopped walks into it. Thank you, Rush, for personifying what I am. That's one of the many things about this program. Rush would illustrate absurdity by being absurd. Then you'd have politicians take it on. Another one of the staples of Rush's show was the innovations of the Rush Limbaugh Show in the early years was the update theme in When Rush would play a song parody which introduced a discussion of the various issues that he talked about to be on the edge of societal evolution.

On his 30th anniversary in twenty eighteen, Rush Limbaugh took a look back.

Now the update, which was a musical portion of the program, one of the principal ways that I pioneered combining politics with comedy and music. A lot of people have done it since, but it first happened here, the combination, serious discussion, irreverent humor, the playing of rock and roll music on programs that people thought the audience would not be interested in, pioneering stuff.

And it was used to educate, to laugh, to create humor and also inform people of things I wanted them to know about the left.

Barney Frank, update time by. Homeless. Oh, God, no. Sometimes I sing with. I'm praying, oh, oh. Update time in a Hugo and the Rush Limbaugh program, 10 miles to the gallon and diesel, just a normal saving goods for.

Arranged in a General Dinkins update theme, there's a holdup in the Bronx, Brooklyn's Broken Out invites. There's a traffic jam in Harlem that's backed up to Jackson Heights. There's this cartoon show The Child Crosses the line while General David Dinkins, where are you?

It's time for a timber update that I know that. That.

But a lot of time for a gay community update theme park, a vocal portrayal here by the late and great Klausener.

This is our animal rights update theme. Andy Williams and his elevator shoes with the through. The. Peace update Slim Whitman saying, when the sun shines on the mountain and the names are run. A feminist update. The feminazi are livid at me because of, well, general principles where. For families, they buy you dinner. Open your door and the day good for me.

And that's how we taught, that's how we laughed and made people aware of the mockery of the left and what they really were and the things they believed in.

And we occasionally go back to the graveyard of forgotten hits and relive a think she did on the topic of Rush's humor. Kelvyn in Indio, California. You're on the Rush Limbaugh program. Todd Herrman sitting in for a departed friend.

Welcome, Kelvyn. Thank you, Todd, it's a pleasure to speak with you. You're doing a great job, brother. Thank you, brother. Thank you. So, yeah, you know, the many, many gifts that this incredible radio icon had, I appreciate his humor. And I'm going to miss that humor, especially his nicknames.

I remember I remember when when he started talking about Peter struck stroke.

And because I wasn't quite sure how to pronounce that last name, he called him Peter Struck Stroke. And then after the hearing, he added, SCHMOCK. And I thought that was absolutely hilarious.

And and I was hoping to get a hold of him before he left us and have a little fun with him myself and ask him if we could add one to that. Peter struck stroke schmock schmuck.

I can't speak for the four Rush Limbaugh and the Rush ever spoke for Rush, but I think that to be a rush approved, I never could figure out. You know, I loved Slick Willy was to me just it so described William Jefferson Blythe Clinton third. But I got lost at that little Dick Durbin thing. I didn't I just never knew what that referenced in relation to Rush's nicknames. What was. Oh, did he have one for Chuck Schumer?

Was it. No, no, no, I don't. Even if I'm allowed to say it, it's something about Chuck you as.

Oh, thanks for bringing that up. Yeah. How many times did you break out laughing listening to rush of show. Oh, many times. Yeah, just the fact that, you know, he just enjoyed himself and had fun with that and it just drove the love crazy.

It did. And I wish everybody had the occasion to. We get this. I've heard us talk about this. Markstein I think I think I heard Brent talk about it, too, that while Brent was involved in the creation of some of these things, I hope I'm not giving away state secrets there. But Brent was on yesterday and responsible for some of this artistry that we get to listen to the parodies. Well, because they feed this audio down the line to make the lives of production directors everywhere easier.

So we know that the feed is connected. We get to hear the best of this. So we are the best of those parodies. And it just it it somehow I heard Mark say it sort of brings the spirit of the show alive, and it does. And it sort of reminds you that Rush set this tone of serious topics, though, with a comical flair to that covid you set us up perfectly for the next segment. You guys are going to hear Rush's humor in a setting that most people could not find humor within.

It is a very private moment between Rush and his beloved Catherine as they talk about Russia's event, by which we mean Russia's funeral. You will hear Rush and Catherine talking privately about the plans for Russia's funeral when we come back.

In the Russian bupropion tournament, filling in on the EIB Network tournament, filling in for our dearly departed friends. Rush Limbaugh now questioning the greats, having discussion with the greats in heaven. I'm just looking again at the photos Catherine Lemba shared with us of the funeral for rushing that beautiful blue skies and on the lake and the horse drawn carriage in which Rush lay and just prior to Rush being buried and laid to rest. And beautiful coffin picture of Catherine. Those will be at Rush Limbaugh Dotcom.

We just talked about Rush's sense of humor and Catherine shared with us an extraordinary piece of audio like nothing I've ever heard. You're going to hear Rush and Catherine. And this was October of last year talking about Rush's event by which they meant Rush's funeral. Listen to this.

So I am working with Rush and explaining to him his event. And I told him all he has to do is show up, which I've also arranged. Yeah. And it is an event and it's awesome. I mean, I hope you get invited to it. Yeah. I mean, what she just described to me is incredible. I'm sorry. I'm going to miss it, but you're going to have a front row seat. I just said to her, I can't believe it's so cool.

Yeah. I can't believe I'm sitting here talking to her about my future. But we decided that we would be open and direct on it so that we can plan it very beautifully. And I told Russ that he is just shy of a president and presidents get this kind of treatment. So he deserves that. So that's a little heads up on what's coming. It's going to be beautiful. Be there or be square. Right. Don't be late. That's up to you.

It's an incredible moment of optimism. And you just can't you then we just talk about human energy, transferring itself through live radio. I know that that's a tape, but couldn't you just feel the energy between Rush and Catherine? I do hope you get to hear Catherine Labas appearance with us in the first couple hours of the program today. Alan, the owner of Allentown, Pennsylvania, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program. It's tournament filling in. Hi, Alan.

How are you doing?

I've made the owner. Huh? Well, you're Alan. It's Allentown. I've given you I've given you a day of honor. You own the town.

All right. Appreciate it. What I was calling about was I've been trying to get through for years and Vietnam vet, retired military. And in 2015, between September, October, I hired a P.I. to help me look for my children. And I was looking to different universities, as many as I could find from my hotel. And I stopped because I was a policeman and I was confused where I was at, and he says to me, this was me, this was in Tokyo.

Yeah.

And he says to me. I listen to Rush Limbaugh every day as a Tokyo policeman.

That was his way of connecting with you as an American, right? Yes, he is just me, like, are you conservative or something like that?

He goes, yes, I love Rush Limbaugh.

Did you? So I guess that crossed the cultural barrier. You guys just had this instant moment of connection.

Yes, it was great. Yeah.

Yeah, that's terrific. What did it mean for you to hear Rush's support for our veterans?

Oh, I loved it all the time. I was listening to him every chance I got. Yeah. Trying to tell my subordinates to listen to him. Yeah.

You know, I appreciate that. Listen, Allen. Welcome home, brother. OK, welcome home.

I love that because maybe. It's more relaxing. It was like, yes, somebody knows what's going on. Yeah, well, the law is. Yeah, no, I, I appreciate the phone call to rush the show, and it's just a great moment to relive. Thank you very much. And I want to try to get just one more call in real quick. Steve, we're going to be up against the clock. And so you have to be brevity is the sake of humor and clarity.

So, Steve, go ahead.

You on your show, OK? Hey, our condolences to Catherine and all the Limbaugh family. I just wanted to pick up where you talked about Rush illustrating absurdity by being absurd. I can remember trying to get my sister Susan to listen to Rush the longest time. And finally she goes out and listen to the film in the 1990s. And the first caller comes on and this is back when the feminists were pushing that oral sex is rape. And, you know, they were really off the charts.

And what she is doing is feminazi bit. And the first woman calls in and goes, oh, hi, this is Amy from Toledo. And how many times have you been raped, Amy? Three times. Two boys like to call you back. What in the world do you love me listening to which stayed with it and finally became a huge fan. And, you know, I actually well, we're all from New York. And as soon as we started the rush, all of our thoughts changed.

Yeah, all of our ideas. Everything we went for. Yeah.

And there was Rush taking the very serious topic of rape, which Rush took very seriously and pointing out that when you just use it for political means, you lose the seriousness of what should always be a serious, awful crime to be imparted upon a woman. And the left just uses it for political ammo.

And Rush illustrated that absurdity brilliantly out of respect for women, will come back on the Rush Limbaugh program.

Rush's method was so precise and so smart that if you are a new listener, that's why he said you need to spend six months or so getting to understand the show because the illustration of absurdity through being absurd could be taken for what it was not. And that's why the show was something that you had to listen to daily. And this great gift today that Catherine shared with us about Russia's gentlemanly way around all women and his gentle way around kids even she said that Rush Limbaugh was nervous when he's around kids because he felt like he didn't know how to act, but he did it well.

It was the heart that beat with a desire to make people happy. And in this great lesson of dying well and accepting of God's will, that is a way to be happy. Rush wanted us to be optimistic, and he did that through the program and he did that through pursuit of liberty, not having it handed to you. And clearly, as you learned today, again here in Katherine, he found himself in a marriage to a woman who respected Rush for who she learns he is and was and is.

It's been my honor to fill in on the EIB Network today. Thank you.

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