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<\/p>\nMARK: Here is something that I don\u2019t think most of you will have heard before. It goes right back to the very earliest days when Rush had found his way to New York City, and I believe — I\u2019ve looked into this, and I can\u2019t find anything earlier — but I believe this is actually Rush\u2019s first television appearance. It\u2019s on public access cable in Connecticut, for whatever that is worth, and Rush is taking calls, and as you know when you\u2019re not doing your own show and you sometimes are on some of these other shows, they don\u2019t have as many callers or would-be callers as Rush does. They\u2019ve got the same, you know, three or four people who call in to Connecticut public access cable every day.<\/p>\n
And so we chopped the first guy off, the caller off, because he was just trying to say that Rush made him mad, and he had that all his life going back to Walter Winchell. I guess if you\u2019re among Rush\u2019s older listeners you\u2019ll remember Walter Winchell. He used to begin every broadcast by saying, I think, “Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. America and all the ships at sea.” And he was a huge guy. He\u2019s mentioned in a zillion popular songs. He\u2019s referenced in Shuffle off to Buffalo and everything else. And Walter Winchell did make a lot of people mad.<\/p>\n
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And Rush here is trying to explain politely to the guy just how it is he does his show. And what is interesting to me about this is that if you asked him a third of a century later, I think he would have given pretty much the same reply. And his interesting comparisons here as a former disc jockey between the platters he used to spin when he was playing all the top 40 hits and the difference when you\u2019re doing talk radio instead of top 40 hits you have callers. I think this is right at the beginning of his career. You can glimpse from this how well Rush understood his form.<\/p>\n
BEGIN ARCHIVE CLIP<\/p>\n
RUSH: Can I be honest with you about something?<\/p>\n
HOST: Yeah, sure.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You\u2019re going all the way back to Walter Winchell.<\/p>\n
HOST: Right.<\/p>\n
RUSH: We have people who are on the radio and TV, as we all know — we could go down the list of people — who are there for one reason only, and that\u2019s to make you mad. And the formula for making you, the viewer, the listener, mad hasn\u2019t changed a bit, yet people keep falling for it.<\/p>\n
HOST: Uh-huh.<\/p>\n