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STAFF: Hooray!<\/p>\nRUSH: Greetings, my friends, and welcome to the one and only EIB Network and the Rush Limbaugh program on the 1st of August, 2018. This is our 30th anniversary of this program, and I have to tell you, I have been so conflicted all day about how to deal with this. My heart rate monitor on my watch says my heart rate\u2019s been elevated about 10 to 15 beats above normal because of all the excitement and everything about this day. The reason is I\u2019m waiting for the door to open, because nobody\u2019s on the other side of the glass, which means… (interruption) Here it comes. They\u2019re gonna be coming in with the celebratory cake and the bottle of champagne.<\/p>\n
STAFF: Hooray!<\/p>\n
RUSH: It\u2019s a whole bunch of people that have shown up here today.<\/p>\n
WOMAN: Congratulations, Rush!<\/p>\n
RUSH: (chuckling) No matter… I\u2019ve been through this… Oh, it\u2019s a gorgeous cake. It\u2019s a gorgeous cake — and there\u2019s only one candle on it; so it\u2019s impossible not to blow that out, and it\u2019s done… (blowing)<\/p>\n
WOMAN: Wooooo!<\/p>\n
MAN: Celebrating 30 years.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right on. Right on.<\/p>\n
STAFF: (applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: It\u2019s a shame we can\u2019t get everybody from the highly overrated staff here. You want to pop it? Go ahead; pop it. We\u2019re gonna pop the champagne. Make it —<\/p>\n
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STAFF: (cheers)<\/p>\n
RUSH: There we go! (laughing) Oh, you\u2019re actually going to pour a glass?<\/p>\n
WOMAN: Yes!<\/p>\n
STAFF: (laughing)<\/p>\n
RUSH: See, this is what I\u2019ve been conflicted about, whether or not to do…<\/p>\n
STAFF: (laughing)<\/p>\n
RUSH: You see, it\u2019s totally out of my control here.<\/p>\n
MAN: Enjoy.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Anyway, thank you all very much. I appreciate it. I\u2019ll tell you what we\u2019re gonna do here today. We haven\u2019t prepared a whole lot of audio clips from years gone by because we\u2019ve done that on anniversary programs previously. We\u2019ve got some, and we even have some audio of my days as a disc jockey back in Pittsburgh that I don\u2019t think we\u2019ve aired before. Cookie thinks we have an exclusive. It\u2019s a little montage of me doing a morning show, I think, back in 1971.<\/p>\n
There is a program to do here today with news of the day, and I always like to keep looking forward too. But people tell me, “You know, 30 years doing anything at a high degree of quality is worth commemorating — and if you don\u2019t do it, nobody else will. You have to do it. You have to do it for yourself and you have to do it for the staff. There have been people that have been working here with you for all of these years who have helped you make it possible,” and all of that is profoundly true.<\/p>\n
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I am gonna reflect on some aspects of this as the program goes on. But rather than do wall-to-wall one thing, I\u2019m just gonna try to mix-and-match various elements of the program as we combine things that we do here because that\u2019s what the program is. It\u2019s improv, and it combines a whole bunch of different elements — seriousness, irreverent humor, political commentary — all with credibility on whatever we tackle and so forth. Of course, then there is you.<\/p>\n
I mean, without you being out there, none of us are in here. So it\u2019s ultimately all about you, and I remain blown away every day when we go to the phones and I get calls from people who tell me how long they\u2019ve been listening. Since 1988, since 1990, since 1992, 1993. It\u2019s a stunning and amazing thing, and it is deeply, deeply gratifying. And I am gonna try, during the course of the program, to express all the various things that I\u2019m feeling and the expressions of gratitude.<\/p>\n
But I don\u2019t want to try to pack it all in here in the first segment. So we\u2019ll just do the program and let it happen, see what happens as it happens, because every day — and I maintain that I\u2019m gonna do this program like any other. That\u2019s why you\u2019re there. So we\u2019ll just do it; as it happens, it happens.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: So I\u2019ve had a lot of emails from a lot of people in the past couple of days, and one of them I received last night that started me thinking. Now, I love things that make me think — I\u2019ll be honest with you — and this one did. “Do you know how few people can say that they\u2019ve had the same ethics, the same conscience, the same core beliefs, the same morality, and the same connectivity with themselves in their twenties, through their forties, and into the sixties and beyond, into their best years? Do you realize how few people are as consistent and reliable as you are?”<\/p>\n
No, I don\u2019t ever stop to think of anything like that. I don\u2019t think… See, this is why I don\u2019t… I don\u2019t think it\u2019s unusual that things I believed in my heart when I was in my twenties would survive my getting to my sixties. Core beliefs. I can totally believe that I wouldn\u2019t change in those things. But this person said, “You don\u2019t know how rare it is,” and what inspired her to write this, I think she said, was a caller that appeared to the program yesterday saying basically the same thing.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Rush Limbaugh, 30th anniversary day. On August 1st, 1988, the program began. When that program began, the Republican convention had just ended or was close to ending. George H. W. Bush was to be nominated to “complete his mission,” meaning take on his World War II mission where he had been shot down. He had been vice president for Reagan for eight years, and then it was his turn, and he ended up facing The Loser. That was the name we gave to Michael Dukakis, the Democrat nominee.<\/p>\n
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The program launched right in the thick, in the middle of that presidential campaign. I\u2019ve been thinking about… You know, people ask me, “Are you aware of the 30 years?” Yeah, I am. Some of it seems like it happened yesterday. A lot of it does. There\u2019s none of it that seems like it\u2019s 30 years old. I\u2019m not able… Even though I\u2019ve done this… Actually, if you count the 3-1\/2 in Sacramento — which were exactly like this show, just a local of station — that\u2019s 33-1\/2 years.<\/p>\n
Even though I\u2019ve done it, I don\u2019t have a cognizance of the passage of time for 30 years. I know 30 years have gone by, but so much of it seems like it was yesterday. I think there\u2019s a reason for that. I think… You know, everything that I do or everything that happens to me, I always try to learn from it. I\u2019m very analytical and philosophical, and I do get introspective insofar as it can help me improve. I don\u2019t relive the past and sort of just try to surround myself with a glow.<\/p>\n
I always try to use what happened in the past to continue to grow, get better, and learn and so forth. So in that sense, I\u2019m introspective. People say, “The show used to be better back in the eighties, used to be better back in the nineties.” I stop and think, “Is that really true?” No two shows are the same. I think it\u2019s never been better, and there are reasons why I think it\u2019s never been better. I don\u2019t think a radio show that I did when I was 40 could compete with a show that I do today. I didn\u2019t know back in 1990 what I know today. I couldn\u2019t possibly have done today\u2019s show back in 1990. I didn\u2019t know enough, hadn\u2019t lived enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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