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<\/p>\nMARK: Welcome to a special edition of the Rush Limbaugh Show with a very special guest. As I said on Friday, Rush had two great loves of his life, public and private, as it were. One was you, the tens of millions of listeners he found a third of a century ago and never broke faith with. And the other, the personal, private, endearing love he had to wait a little longer to find, and when he did, they didn\u2019t get as many years together as they should have. But Rush\u2019s beloved Kathryn is here today to take your calls on 1-800-282-2882. It\u2019s your chance to ask about the off-air side of Rush. Thank you so much for being here, Kathryn. How are you and the family doing at the moment?<\/p>\n
KATHRYN: Thank you so much, Mark. It\u2019s been a very difficult time, as it probably has been for everyone who\u2019s listened all these years. But we know that Rush is in a good place. He\u2019s in heaven. He\u2019s looking down on us, and that gives us some element of comfort. But it has been a very difficult time.<\/p>\n
MARK: And things are sort of complicated by the COVID situation because people can\u2019t have normal memorial services anymore. But you\u2019re planning a virtual memorial service for Rush at some point in the next few weeks?<\/p>\n
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KATHRYN: Yes, that\u2019s right. Unfortunately due to COVID we can\u2019t do as many things in person as we would like, but we are in the initial stages of planning a celebration of life that will be able to be viewed by all of the audience and friends and extended family at some point in the near future. We don\u2019t have an exact date just yet. We\u2019re working on some of the logistics. But, yes, that is something that we will have in the upcoming weeks to month.<\/p>\n
MARK: I hope you find someone to give a eulogy for Rush that was half as lovely as the one Rush gave for our late friend Kit Carson<\/a> a few years ago because that was spectacular, and afterwards I went up and congratulated Rush on that. I assumed he\u2019d done that for somebody or other every couple of months, or at least every year or so, and he said no, that was the very first funeral eulogy he had ever given, and he gave a beautiful one to Kit, and I hope we can find someone who does Rush the same beautiful justice that he did Kit.<\/p>\n We\u2019re going to shoot for an hour and see how it goes and if it\u2019s all a bit too much we\u2019ll understand if you need to bail, Kathryn. But let me exercise moderator\u2019s privilege and ask a first question to get us going, back to when you first met, because, as Rush tells it, you were working for the Gary Player Foundation. Mr. Player is the legendary South African golfer, greatest South African golfer of all time, and his foundation raises a lot of money for children, and you were told to invite Rush to some event and you weren\u2019t particularly keen to do it because all you knew about Rush came from the lefty media. That\u2019s how Rush told it. Is that your version of events too?<\/p>\n KATHRYN: Unfortunately, that is right, yes. (laughing) Well, I was working for Gary Player. I had lived overseas a majority of my life and always loved South Africa and met Gary Player and loved all of what he was doing with children. And so, yes, I was running his foundation at the time. And we were organizing a large celebrity golf tournament at the Floridian, Wayne Huizenga\u2019s former Floridian place, and Rush was one of the guests that was introduced to me as a possibility to make the list of possible A-Listers.<\/p>\n And, believe it or not, I put him down on maybe B or C — (laughing) — just based on what I thought I knew of him. I was raised overseas, so we were not as familiar with some of Rush\u2019s politics and stature and all of that at the time. So at the time I thought, “Okay. Well, I\u2019ve heard a lot about him, but I will give it a shot anyway.” So, I invited him, and he came in to the Floridian, and I remember it as if it was yesterday. He walked in, he was extraordinarily humble and kind. And I thought to myself, “This isn\u2019t quite the person that I thought was going to be arriving.”<\/p>\n And from that moment on I knew that everything that you read and hear is not necessarily accurate. And over the course of our marriage, he taught me and many others to not ever believe anything and don\u2019t read anything by what you think it is on the outside. So from that moment, Rush and I became friends for many years before we actually got married. We were very, very close from the early days of that meeting.<\/p>\n MARK: And as you said, you put him on the C-list, so you kind of moved him up as you got to know him, then, did you?<\/p>\n KATHRYN: (laughing) I don\u2019t think he\u2019s very happy if he\u2019s listening to me right now, but he would say that, too, so I know I\u2019m not saying anything outside of school. But, yes, absolutely there were others that perhaps were ahead. But over time there could be no one else that would be higher on the A-list than Rush. Rush was extraordinary in every way.<\/p>\n MARK: Well, that\u2019s certainly true. Let us take our first call. We\u2019re gonna do something I don\u2019t think has ever been done on the Rush Limbaugh Show because, as listeners know, Rush didn\u2019t always like to go to calls early and certainly not in the first segment, but this is between you and Kathryn today. Dan in Carson City, Nevada, you\u2019re live with Kathryn Limbaugh. What\u2019s your question for Kathryn?<\/p>\n CALLER: Mark, thanks for having me on. Kathryn, I just wanted to explain to you what Rush meant to me. (choking up) Now, I\u2019m gonna be a little emotional but I\u2019m really gonna try not to \u2019cause I want to get out what I have to say. We\u2019ve had two losses this year. We lost my mom 24 weeks ago, 25 weeks ago today, Thursday, to Parkinson\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n About eight years ago I was a lost kid — I would say kid \u2019cause I\u2019m only 47. I was lost, Kathryn. I\u2019d come in to work every day, I was hotheaded, but I was strong, I believed in what I believed and I wanted to be what I wanted to be, but I just didn\u2019t have direction. My Uncle Pat, who was a lifelong listener — and people that aren\u2019t lifelong listeners that are just years, just years, I\u2019m gonna miss out on so much. But lifelong listener, he said, “Daniel, you need to listen, you\u2019re not listening to us, but you need to listen to this gentleman.”<\/p>\n I turned him on and in the first five minutes, Kathryn, I didn\u2019t know him physically, but I felt him emotionally. And it was the first time I ever had a real father figure in my life. (choking up) God bless my mom. She did the best she could. But we had somebody that we could relate to, we had somebody that could help us feel the words he was saying, and then we could put that to our everyday life. He wasn\u2019t a politician. He wasn\u2019t this person that — he was us! He made us feel like he was us. And now, now we\u2019re lost, now we don\u2019t have that voice anymore.<\/p>\n I know, Mark — and no takeaway from the amazing guest hosts that he has. But I will have a sticker on my car forever, and I wish I had the original one, that said “Rush is Right” because I remember my Uncle Pat always saying, “Rush is right. You need to listen,” and it\u2019ll say, “Rush is Right: 1951 to 2021 and Forever.”<\/p>\n And so I just wanted to let you know how we felt here. I live in a small town in Carson City, Nevada, but his words changed our lives. And so I know my family has benefited from it. I know I have benefited from it. And, golly, I know that you have definitely benefited from it. So, God bless. We love him. His words were heard, and they were felt, and they\u2019re gonna be felt forever.<\/p>\n And we\u2019re never, ever gonna forget our Rush Limbaugh. I\u2019m just so sad that I only got seven years with him. I feel like I\u2019m gonna miss out on a lifetime of knowledge. But I just wanted to let you know that we love him dearly (choking up) and we\u2019re hurting, too, \u2019cause we lost not once, but twice — in some cases, some people, three times with all the craziness that\u2019s happened.<\/p>\n But I just wanted to say that I didn\u2019t know him, but I felt him every time he spoke. So thank you, Rush. (choking up) I hope you\u2019re listening, and we love you. I love you, Mom. Thank you, Uncle Pat, for turning me on to this amazing man and this amazing station and amazing people that help him every day because he recognized that.<\/p>\n You know, sometimes, though, in life, we just forget about the people who help us. I always say my wife, Denise, is amazing because people always say, “Daniel, you\u2019re a great guy; we love you,” and I always say, “You know, behind every good man there\u2019s a woman pushing the buttons,” and so I believe that wholeheartedly.<\/p>\n KATHRYN: Thank you.<\/p>\n MARK: That\u2019s very true, Dan. Thank you very much for that call.<\/p>\n KATHRYN: Thank you.<\/p>\n MARK: Kathryn, there are tens of millions like Dan.<\/p>\n KATHRYN: Yeah.<\/p>\n MARK: There are particulars like he lost his mother and he lost Rush in the same year. But, basically, Rush had an immediate family of tens of millions of people.<\/p>\n KATHRYN: Yes. And I\u2019m very sorry, Dan, for your loss, both — your two losses that you had. My father passed away from pancreatic cancer not too long ago as well. And it is devastating when you lose anyone in your life. And Rush, for all of us — for me, but also for all of you — is a family member. And I know the other day when I came on to let you know of his passing, I very much felt that I was sharing that news with family.<\/p>\n So I hope you all know that I do fully understand the pain that you\u2019re going through. And I do believe that Rush is looking down, and he\u2019s listening. And while he\u2019s very, very, very sad that we are suffering, I believe that he is also happy because he knows that we will carry on and all of us will find a way to honor Rush and everything that he stood for.<\/p>\n MARK: Kathryn Limbaugh on the Rush Limbaugh Show. We will have more of your calls to Kathryn in just a moment.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n MARK: The Rush Limbaugh Show with Rush\u2019s beloved Kathryn in a very special appearance. Mark in Richmond, Virginia, you\u2019re live with Kathryn Limbaugh.<\/p>\n CALLER: First of all, Kathryn, my wife and I would like to express our deepest condolences —<\/p>\n KATHRYN: Thank you.<\/p>\n CALLER: — for the loss of Rush.<\/p>\n KATHRYN: Thank you.<\/p>\n CALLER: We loved him. We loved him from the bottom of our hearts. My question is, how did Elton John evolve as the musical guest at your wedding?<\/p>\n KATHRYN: Well, that\u2019s a great question, Mark. Both Rush and I loved Elton John for many years, and ironically, he happened to be staying in the exact same hotel as we were in Hawaii. We often went out to Hawaii to visit my parents, who live there. We would go most Christmases every year for many years. And the year before we got married, just prior, Elton John was staying in the same hotel as we were.<\/p>\n In fact, I believe he was in the hotel suite in the floor above us and we were right below. And Rush and I were on the deck, and we said to each other, “How about we invite Elton John to perform at our wedding? (laughing) That certainly won\u2019t be at all newsworthy.” So that is exactly what we did. We thought, at first, it was a bit funny.<\/p>\n Perhaps it wouldn\u2019t happen, but I wrote a letter to Elton John and told him how much we loved and adored him and respected his music and his career and asked if he might be available to headline at our wedding. And one thing led to another, and sure enough he accepted, very graciously, and he was there.<\/p>\n And he was absolutely wonderful. Rush and Sir Elton John kept in touch, as we did, and they spoke outside of the wedding. And it was a wonderful friendship, I would say. There were actually quite a few similarities that might not come across on the surface.<\/p>\n CALLER: That\u2019s awesome.<\/p>\n MARK: (chuckling) That is very interesting when you put it like that, Kathryn, because people think that Elton is just another conventional, cookie-cutter, left-wing rocker. But actually he\u2019s a much more sophisticated person and he\u2019s very decent and true to friends.<\/p>\n KATHRYN: Absolutely.<\/p>\n MARK: He doesn\u2019t abandon them.<\/p>\n KATHRYN: Absolutely. Wonderful man.<\/p>\n MARK: That\u2019s… Do you have a favorite Elton John song? I know the disc jockey side of Rush; he must have played a ton of Elton in his disc jockey days. Did you have a particular favorite?<\/p>\n KATHRYN: We did. We had a lot of favorites that we were actually able to put into the wedding. But I will say that Rush\u2019s favorite song and mine<\/a> as well is Your Song by Sir Elton John, and, in fact — a little bit of inside baseball, as Rush would say — I played that for Rush in his final days, and he was able to listen to that song, and we remembered our wedding and Elton John in particular.<\/p>\n MARK: That\u2019s a beautiful thought, actually. Laurie in Shreveport, Louisiana, you\u2019re live with Kathryn. Hi, Laurie.<\/p>\n CALLER: Hello. So, right to the point. I want Kathryn to know that not only have they been in my prayers but continue to be in my prayers (choking up), I want to thank you so much for sharing Rush with us. I know that that was difficult at times, but we are so very grateful. I wanted to call Rush, but was too, way too nervous, as you can probably tell right now.<\/p>\n KATHRYN: You don\u2019t sound nervous. As he would say, “you don\u2019t sound nervous.”<\/p>\n CALLER: Okay, great. My heart\u2019s racing like crazy. I knew I had to call today. I had to call. If I couldn\u2019t talk to Rush, I was gonna talk to his best girl. So one thing, most people hate Mondays. It\u2019s my favorite day of the week, because I want to hear what Rush has to say about whatever happened over the weekend. It could have been something big; it could have been something minimal.<\/p>\n I needed to hear Rush\u2019s voice. I needed to know, “What was his take on the weekend?” And so every Monday morning — for us, it\u2019s 11 o\u2019clock when we hear Rush — and so every Monday turn on that radio, listen to that bumper music. “Here comes Rush!” I\u2019m so excited. And the other thing that I wanted to tell you about was, so, the Rush Revere books, they came out a little late for my children.<\/p>\n So when my oldest daughter got married, one of the first things that I did was I bought Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims. It\u2019s been sitting on the shelf for quite a while. My grandson is about three. So I\u2019m getting close. I\u2019m getting close to where I can read them to him. And I\u2019m so grateful. I never even realized how grateful I am that when I read them, I got Rush.<\/p>\n KATHRYN: Thank you.<\/p>\n CALLER: I got history from the greatest history teacher of my life, and I got Rush. I\u2019m so thankful, and the day — the terrible day — last week, I went on the website. “Please let…” I want stuff to be there, I want to be able to find it. And of course, everybody thinks the same thing.<\/p>\n KATHRYN: Yes.<\/p>\n CALLER: So I want to know, will the books still be available for years to come, for us to get the rest of the books and be able to read it for generations to come?<\/p>\n KATHRYN: Yes. First, Laurie, I\u2019m very sorry for your loss, because this is a loss for all of us. And I can hear in your voice that you\u2019re very upset, and we all are. But as far as the books, yes, Rush and I don\u2019t have biological children. However, years ago we wanted to be sure that the younger generations learned about the true history of our country.<\/p>\n But it became a project of his that he absolutely adored. And he loved the idea of making complex American history easy for the younger generation to understand. So we introduced the horse named Liberty that could time travel.<\/p>\n MARK: (chuckling)<\/p>\n KATHRYN: And it was a wonderful project of his and of ours to write those books. So, yes, they will continue on for years, I hope.<\/p>\n MARK: Yes. Rush loved Liberty, the talking horse.<\/p>\n KATHRYN: Yes. (chuckles)<\/p>\n MARK: Some of us guest hosts got a bit resentful (laughing) that he loved that darn horse more than he loved the guest hosts.<\/p>\n KATHRYN: Yes. (laughing)<\/p>\n MARK: But we\u2019ll pick up that thought with Kathryn Limbaugh in just a moment.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n MARK: Welcome along to America\u2019s number-one radio show with a very special guest, the one and only Kathryn Limbaugh. Kevin in Brick, New Jersey, you\u2019re live with Kathryn. What\u2019s your question?<\/p>\n CALLER: Hi, Kathryn. I just wanted to say how much I love Rush and he was like a grandfather to me. And I just wanted to thank you so much for taking care of him this past year. I just wish God would let us listen to his radio show that we all know he\u2019s hosting right now in heaven.<\/p>\n KATHRYN: Yes.<\/p>\n CALLER: But my question really for you is just a curious one. What was his daily routine like, like what time did he wake up, when did he go to the studio, when did —<\/p>\n KATHRYN: Right.<\/p>\n KATHRYN: Well, Rush was an incredible creature of habit. As you can imagine being on the radio for so many years\u2019 time was very, very important to him. In fact, if I ever asked him what time we should be ready to go somewhere, he would say 12:17, as opposed to 12:15 or 12 o\u2019clock. But his routine was often the exact same, even throughout this cancer period of time this last year.<\/p>\n So what he would usually do is wake up in the morning, probably about 8, 8 o\u2019clock. He would take a shower, he would feed his little cat, Allie, who he adored and still would be feeding her if he could. But he would head to the studio probably about 8:30, and he would do show prep in the morning prior to the show coming on.<\/p>\n But one thing about Rush is that he never stopped working. He jokes about that often, but he really never stopped working. From the moment that he got home after the show, he may give himself 15 minutes or 20 minutes or maybe an hour of rest time, but then he was right back at it. He was always preparing. He was always reading his iPad, paying attention to current events and so forth. So I would say he was always working, but the exact schedule started in the morning about 8 o\u2019clock and carried through to the show and on to the show itself.<\/p>\n MARK: Yes. He was amazing because when he used to talk about show prep, in a sense he was never not show prepping.<\/p>\n KATHRYN: Correct.<\/p>\n MARK: He was taking something in from somewhere all the time.<\/p>\n KATHRYN: Absolutely. All, all the time. And he would pick up things from TV, from TV shows, from mainstream news that he would occasionally watch, from iPad stories, from tech blogs. He was always, always, always on in some capacity. It was very difficult for him not to be engaged. He was so brilliant that I think he actively, always had to be learning and preparing in some capacity.<\/p>\n KATHRYN: (laughing)<\/p>\n MARK: I don\u2019t know whether we want to go too far into that. You were talking about the Rush Revere books, which I think it\u2019s generally understood came from you. Rush had done a couple of nonfiction books back in the early nineties and had no particular desire to go back and do that again. And you two cowrote that Rush Revere together. Was that your special little project, a corner of Rush\u2019s professional life that you could carve out for yourself?<\/p>\n KATHRYN: I believe so. We very much did it together, but I\u2019ve always loved American history and knew that Rush was speaking to an audience that maybe didn\u2019t quite know how to reach their children or to the younger generations in their family. And we wanted to provide a way for them to do so. And that\u2019s really how that came about. I did do the majority of the writing, but Rush was right there throughout the entire process, and every point of it we did in a way together. And it was a huge project of both of our lives.<\/p>\n MARK: Well, it was hugely successful. Here is Rush himself talking about the Rush Revere books a couple of years ago.<\/a><\/p>\n BEGIN ARCHIVE CLIP<\/p>\n RUSH: I am holding here now in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers the book, number two, ladies and gentlemen. We inside refer to it as book two. Rush Revere and the First Patriots is out. This is it. This is the day it\u2019s available. And I just want to tell you, your kids are going to love it. If they liked book one, they are going to like book two.<\/p>\n Kathryn came to me and said, “You know what? You are very concerned about education in America and what\u2019s happening, what\u2019s not being taught, what\u2019s being lied about. Why don\u2019t you write the truth of American history for kids?” And that turned the light on. I mean, that was exciting on a number of levels. A, the purpose. But, B, the challenge. I\u2019d never written children\u2019s books before. I never even thought about doing it.<\/p>\n So we were off to the races. The first book came out last October, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, the true story of the first people seeking freedom to arrive at the New World. That story has been so bastardized and taught wrong and purposely mistold. The mission is educating young people to the truth of this country because it\u2019s a great country. The history of this country is wonderful. The history of this country is the blessing of God. The history of this country is something to be extremely proud of. Being an American is something to be extremely proud of.<\/p>\n There are too many people in the education system today who simply don\u2019t look at America that way. They don\u2019t look at America as anything special. In fact, some of them look at it as a problem in the world. There are certainly people who do not believe the founding of this country was as I believe, miraculous. I believe it was a miracle and preserving it for people who will come after us is important. We were all born with golden opportunity and freedom just as our parents and grandparents had found. They fought, and they sacrificed, and many of them lost everything to preserve the basic foundations, the institutions, the traditions that define America and its greatness.<\/p>\n We want to do the same. I want to do the same. I want to do what I can to see to it that people who follow me have the same opportunities that I had. So that\u2019s the mission behind these books. These books are written for ages 10 to 13, but everybody will enjoy these books. Everybody that\u2019s read them does. In fact, even adults who have read these books have told us that they are learning things they didn\u2019t know about the Pilgrims and things that happened either before they set sail, while they were en route, and after they got here.<\/p>\n Rush Revere is able to take students, a few students, with them on their time travels. And Rush Revere — is this not a brilliant concept or what, folks? I mean, this kind of a vehicle provides creative opportunities galore. Rush Revere is able to take his smartphone, a built-in video camera, with him as they time travel back to American history. They\u2019re able to videotape what actually happened, bring it back to the classroom, and without giving away that they time travel. The whole class doesn\u2019t know this, just a select few know it. And it\u2019s the mixing of the secret of the time travel with two or three, four students involved, everybody keeping it a secret and yet the truth of American history being taught in a genuinely fun, truthful, informative way.<\/p>\n Look, I love very much what I do here. I\u2019m very proud of what I do, proud of what I\u2019ve become, and I\u2019m really proud of being an American and proud of what I believe. How to get it to \u2019em? Bingo! Rush Revere and the First Patriots, the second book.<\/p>\n END ARCHIVE CLIP<\/p>\n MARK: And we should say that that talking horse is such a genius that he was able to get Rush Revere into Buckingham Palace with George III. You don\u2019t have to give away any secrets \u2019cause the two of you are credited as coauthors. Is Liberty, the talking horse, your creation, Kathryn?<\/p>\n KATHRYN: I\u2019ll say it\u2019s both of our creation. But Rush definitely put life to Liberty. He\u2019s the one who had the voice behind Liberty. But we wanted to make it fun. You know, that was the one thing with American history. We knew it was out there, perhaps not accurate, but we knew it was out there in schools, but it wasn\u2019t told in a fun way, so we put our heads together and said how can we come up with a way that will be really fun for young readers to experience and really understand American history as opposed to just memorizing for a test? So Liberty the horse was the vehicle to do that. And Liberty was very funny. Actually, I will say that our old English sheepdog Abbey — (laughing) — is probably the role model for Liberty and maybe the inspiration.<\/p>\n MARK: Well, they\u2019re incredible books. I took my hat off at Rush Revere actually getting through the doors of Buckingham Palace. That was a great moment. It\u2019s Kathryn Limbaugh on the Rush Limbaugh Show, very special edition. Your calls straight ahead.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n MARK: The one and only Rush Limbaugh Show. Nothing like it in a century of broadcasting in the United States. The Rush Limbaugh Show today with special guest Kathryn Limbaugh. Gemma in Greensboro, Georgia. Gemma, you\u2019re live with Kathryn.<\/p>\n CALLER: Thank you, Mark. First, my condolences, Kathryn — and to you, Mark, in the passing of a friend. My… I don\u2019t have a question. I had a little tribute, if you will, to compare Rush to the great Winston Churchill. While they were separated by continents, time, and spheres of influence, each man had an uncanny ability to really see political figures and their ideologies.<\/p>\n Both were great orators, passionate, patriotic men who loved their countrymen with abandon. Their respective bodies of their life\u2019s work was extraordinary, and we all are the great beneficiaries of their passion, their loyalty, and their love.<\/p>\n And I know Churchill told Parliament in his final speech, “Never flinch, never worry, never despair.” So I guess my message is to all the Rush listeners and mourners, “Don\u2019t worry. Better times ahead. (choking up) God bless you all, and God bless Rush.”<\/p>\n KATHRYN: Thank you, Gemma, so much for that comparison. I should say that that\u2019s one that I have said about Rush many, many times privately. It\u2019s known within our family. In fact, we have a painting of Winston Churchill in Rush\u2019s library, and I would often say to him that he is America\u2019s Winston Churchill.<\/p>\n And the truth is, it\u2019s not time to panic. There will be no other Rush Limbaugh ever. We all know that. But I hope that all of us will find it within ourselves to carry on his message, his legacy, and everything that he believed in — in some way — in our own lives.<\/p>\n MARK: Let\u2019s go quickly to Gracie in New York. Gracie, what\u2019s your question for Kathryn?<\/p>\n CALLER: I have a comment. Kathryn, thank you so much for doing this for his listeners. We need this time together. I\u2019ve listened to my Rush since the first week in July 1988. I told my husband that I had accidentally turned on the car radio and I heard the most beautiful, intelligent voice which articulated what I believed.<\/p>\n You know, back then we conservatives thought we were the dummies. Rush said that it would take three to six weeks to understand him. But I was hooked by the end of the first week. Kathryn, if someone said something critical about my Rush, I always asked them, “Listen. Do you listen to him?” And most of the time they say, “No.”<\/p>\n I said, “Well, at least listen to his top-of-the-hour monologue.” He was our college professor who explained issues clearly and concisely. Kathryn, thank you again for doing this for us. God bless you and keep you safe. I loved Rush so much. And believe it or not I got condolence calls, \u2019cause they know how much I love him. So I\u2019ll keep praying for you, Kathryn.<\/p>\n KATHRYN: Thank you.<\/p>\n CALLER: God bless you.<\/p>\n KATHRYN: Thank you. God bless you. And, Gracie, he is your Rush, and he is all of our Rush and forever will be. And I know we will have heavy hearts for quite a long time. But as far as everyone who criticized or wrote things about him that are not accurate or not true, hopefully all of us in his Rush Army will be able to counter that and prove how incredibly brilliant and wonderful and unique he was and always will be.<\/p>\n MARK: Yes. That\u2019s right, Kathryn. The Rush Army — and that is one mighty, awesome, powerful army. This is the Rush Limbaugh Show with special guest Kathryn Limbaugh. Kathryn\u2019s gonna stay over into the next hour, so do call 1-800-282-2882.<\/p>\n ANNOUNCER: A celebration of life, celebrating the life of Rush Limbaugh on the EIB Network.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n MARK: The Rush Limbaugh Show across the United States, now in its 33rd year, and we aren\u2019t going anywhere. We will be in this time slot tomorrow and through all the days ahead. We are blessed today with a very special guest, the love of Rush\u2019s life, Kathryn Limbaugh, and Kathryn will be back with us in the next hour.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n MARK: This is a special edition of the Rush Limbaugh Show with a very special guest, Rush\u2019s beloved Kathryn. As Kathryn told us in the first hour, because of COVID you can\u2019t have a big memorial service with thousands of people; so Kathryn is planning a virtual memorial service, as she told us, and we\u2019ll keep you up to date as the various dates and plans and all the details of that emerge.<\/p>\n Kathryn has very kindly agreed to stay on and take a few more of your calls. So let\u2019s not waste any time. Let\u2019s go to John in St. Louis, Missouri, which is really Rush\u2019s neck of the woods. John, you\u2019re live with Kathryn Limbaugh.<\/p>\n CALLER: Kathryn, my condolences.<\/p>\n KATHRYN: Thank you.<\/p>\n CALLER: I really appreciate what you and your husband did, especially for us who are retired military. I\u2019m a retired military doctor, and — as you heard — from Rush\u2019s home state of Missouri, and I want to thank and salute both of you for the support of our active duty military and our retirees as well as the veterans who had to stand in line for help for so many years.<\/p>\n And we adore our United States military and know the sacrifice that they make, and you make, and their families make on our behalf. So we will always continue to support the military through our foundation and other endeavors that we will do going forward. But, yes, it was a very big passion of ours.<\/p>\n CALLER: (unintelligible)<\/p>\n MARK: You know, the… Carry on, John.<\/p>\n CALLER: My salute to both of you — and to you, Mark — for always supporting us in our fight for freedom.<\/p>\n MARK: Thank you, John. I just wanted pick up on John\u2019s point there, because people may not know this, Kathryn, but it wasn\u2019t just military charities or public fundraising operations when you did the Betsy Ross T-shirts and things like that. There are all kinds of odd people who are just individuals whose plight happened to be brought to Rush\u2019s attention —<\/p>\n KATHRYN: yes.<\/p>\n MARK: — and he did things for them without any publicity, without anybody knowing about it.<\/p>\n KATHRYN: Absolutely. I think that\u2019s one thing about Rush that isn\u2019t as widely known because he didn\u2019t do things for the reason of fame or recognition or trying to get kudos anywhere. He did it because he truly cared, and I can tell you countless numbers of people were directly helped by his generosity over the years. We did things in a small-scale way or in a more grand, public way such as the Stand Up for Betsy Ross campaign.<\/p>\n But, yes, Rush never, ever forgot anyone along the way who helped him reach his pinnacle of success. He heard stories of individuals that were going through perhaps cancer or other things in their lives and he found a way to help them directly. And that\u2019s something that was not really highly told over the years or really publicized or written about, but it certainly should be part of his legacy. He\u2019s one of the most generous people and celebrities that you could ever find.<\/p>\n MARK: You know, I\u2019ve heard so many stories just in the last few days — people have bombarded me with them — that I hope I\u2019ll be forgiven if I get some of the details wrong. But one of them was the father of somebody shipped out to Afghanistan. He\u2019s over there in some miserable barrack in Helmand Province, where you can\u2019t step outside without everybody trying to blow you away.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not the greatest place in the world to be, and somehow the dad got notice, got notice of Rush\u2019s shipment over to his son, and that kid out there in Helmand Province got all these gifts directly from Rush and was emailing directly from Rush in the hell of Helmand Province in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n KATHRYN: Absolutely. And that was him to the core. I would say that he donated millions and millions and millions of dollars over the years and did other things beyond just financial to help people in various ways. But that was never publicized particularly. You would hear about things now and again, but not in the way that perhaps other celebrities received the recognition.<\/p>\n Rush really didn\u2019t do it for that reason. But, yes, there were many, many individuals that he would personally call and talk to about what they were going through to either inspire them in the way that he could financially or just be there and support them by talking to them on the phone. And, yes, there\u2019s countless examples of that over the years.<\/p>\n MARK: Well, that was a great question from John because there is certainly a special connection between Rush and the military.<\/p>\n KATHRYN: One thing I should say, Mark, as well, is that Rush and I established a foundation not too long ago, and we will continue to support the military, our police, our first responders. Those were all very, very, very important to Rush. And we will be continuing to support all of those individuals in any way that we can.<\/p>\n MARK: Well, that\u2019s terrific news. John rightly identified that special connection with the military and with law enforcement. And I think you may find this next question touches on matters rather closer to home, though, Kathryn.<\/p>\n KATHRYN: (chuckles)<\/p>\n MARK: Beth from Alabaster, Alabama. You are live with Kathryn Limbaugh. What\u2019s your question for Kathryn?<\/p>\n CALLER: Thank you, Kathryn. First, I wanted to thank you for doing the show today. It means so much to all of us Dittoheads, and maybe you can make this a monthly feature.<\/p>\n KATHRYN: (laughing) Well, I don\u2019t know. (laughing)<\/p>\n CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n KATHRYN: I\u2019m definitely not America\u2019s Anchorman. But I will fill in now and again.<\/p>\n CALLER: But it shows a different side of Rush. You know, he was very private, and we appreciated that, but it\u2019s kind of neat to hear you and your insight. I\u2019m very nervous, and I\u2019m gonna try not to cry. So I\u2019m gonna try to keep this light, but I have been with Rush since Day One. And my oldest son was born on his two-year anniversary, so it\u2019s easy for me to know how many years Rush has been on.<\/p>\n And I also wanted to thank you for your courage last Wednesday in coming on the show to tell us yourself. You just made it so much easier to bear in some way. It was special to hear the bad news that way instead of just hearing it on the news or somebody that didn\u2019t love Rush the way you do. But I have a girl question.<\/p>\n My girl question is… I have more than these questions, but I decided on this, and it\u2019s what I told Bo. We would like to hear the Medal of Freedom story one day. But my girl questions are, “What was your first date like, and what was maybe your most unique date?” And maybe gifts, too, if you want to expand on that.<\/p>\n And I\u2019m very happy to be able to be here with you and share directly with you, as I know Rush would want. But in terms our first date, I know I told you earlier that he was on the C-list (laughs) when we first met and we were friends and he quickly became an A-lister in my book.<\/p>\n And so he invited me to dinner as just a friend and we went to dinner here in Palm Beach at a restaurant, a favorite restaurant of his, and he drove separately from myself. However, we met in the restaurant, and he was such a gentleman. From the moment that we first sat down, he did everything that you would expect a total gentleman to do.<\/p>\n He was very kind. He was so well spoken, obviously. He had a lot to talk about. And he was very intriguing from the first moment we met. However, we were just friends. He would laugh at this story, but we were buddies. He called it “the buddy rules.” (laughs) We were buddies for a period of time even after that date.<\/p>\n And it just flourished from there, and we became more than that. And in terms of you asked about unique gifts, he really gave me many. As a bit of a joke, he loved tech, and he always tried to get me interested in tech. So I believe he always gave me an iPhone (laughs) or something related to tech which wasn\u2019t particularly romantic. (laughs) But he did supplement that as well with very romantic gifts.<\/p>\n And one of our favorite trips was we went to Monaco for one of our anniversaries. And that was something that Rush wanted to do and I wanted to do, and I would say that was one of the most special trips that we had because he was able to be somewhat normal and not as well recognized there. So we went out to dinner together, and he didn\u2019t have to hide (laughs) as much as he would here. And it was wonderful. So I would say that was probably one of our most unique trips and gifts that he gave me.<\/p>\n MARK: Why did he want to go to Monaco in particular, Kathryn?<\/p>\n KATHRYN: I\u2019m not sure. It was just one that was on his bucket list, and he had been many places in Europe, and I grew up in Europe partly, in London and other places. He always had Monaco on his mind. Possibly he wanted to dress up like James Bond (laughing) and look wonderful in a tux. I\u2019m not sure. But —<\/p>\n MARK: (laughing) Did you go to the casino there?<\/p>\n KATHRYN: We did. We did. We did. We dressed up. We did the whole thing. He wore a tux, I wore a very nice dress, and we went to the casino and all of it. It was wonderful.<\/p>\n MARK: Oh, okay. That\u2019s great.<\/p>\n KATHRYN: We stayed right there in the square in Monaco, so our patio was overlooking the casino itself. It was beautiful.<\/p>\n MARK: Yeah. There\u2019s not a lot of it. It\u2019s just a couple of square miles there.<\/p>\n KATHRYN: Right. (laughs)<\/p>\n MARK: It\u2019s like fun to — and as you said for Rush, it\u2019s like a place he can go and he\u2019s not gonna be pestered by people every five feet or so as he walks through the street.<\/p>\n KATHRYN: Absolutely. It took a while. (laughing) He was noticed, but just not as instantly. (laughing)<\/p>\n MARK: (laughing) Yeah, that\u2019s true. That\u2019s true. It\u2019s pretty much anywhere on the planet for that. This is a special edition of the Rush Limbaugh Show with Kathryn Limbaugh taking your calls on 1-800-282-2882. And we\u2019ll have more straight ahead.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n MARK: The Rush Limbaugh Show with special guest Kathryn Limbaugh. Gill in Atlanta, Georgia, you\u2019re next with Kathryn. What\u2019s on your mind?<\/p>\n CALLER: Hi, Kathryn. And thank you so much, Kathryn, for giving us the opportunity to speak with you today. I know it takes a lot of courage.<\/p>\n KATHRYN: Thank you.<\/p>\n KATHRYN: Thank you. And you\u2019re absolutely right. I think the best gift that we can possibly give to Rush as he looks down on us from heaven, is to continue what he stood for in the best possible way. And through all of you, through Rush\u2019s Army, I know we can do that in various ways. You\u2019re 100 percent right. That\u2019s the best thing we can do is not panic, not give up, and continue on his mission in his honor.<\/p>\n MARK: Let\u2019s go to Cindy in Winter Haven, Florida. Cindy, you\u2019re live with Kathryn.<\/p>\n CALLER: Hi, Kathryn! I\u2019m so happy to hear from you — or talk to you. Rush was like a dad to me. He was the first person I listened to in 1988 when I was a junior in high school, and I was like, “Oh, my gosh. He sounds just like my dad is talking to me.” And when my dad passed away, I just listened to him every day and was just so thrilled because it was like I was still hearing my dad. So I miss him, and we love you, and we pray for you every day.<\/p>\n KATHRYN: Thank you.<\/p>\n CALLER: My question is, I\u2019m a homeschool mom, have been. I homeschooled my four kids. And I now homeschool my grandkids. And they\u2019re 5 and 8, and we\u2019re working through the Rush Revere books. And we\u2019re using your unit studies online. And are you going to expand on them? And will you expand your series at all? Because that would be amazing to be able to continue that with my grandchildren as they grow up.<\/p>\n KATHRYN: Oh, thank you so much, Cindy. I really, really appreciate it. Getting right to the books themselves, we do hope to continue the series and expand on them as Rush would like. We are also looking at possibly doing a cartoon that specifically focuses on fun American history and true accurate American history. So there are some things in the works we do want to continue that project on since that was very much a passion of Rush\u2019s. I don\u2019t know exactly when we will be able to, but we certainly hope to in the months and years ahead.<\/p>\n KATHRYN: Yes, it was. We stopped at the presidency, but we\u2019re going to continue on we hope. But that was the original plan, that we would continue on in history from the early days of our founding on straightforward. So we have plenty of topics to cover and plenty of books to write at the right time.<\/p>\n MARK: Well, that\u2019s very good news. And I hope you will keep doing that because it\u2019s a wonderfully original angle. It\u2019s a very clever angle on history because you\u2019ve got a contemporary perspective on ancient times because you\u2019ve got a teacher and his pupils actually in the events they\u2019re studying. It\u2019s a very clever concept.<\/p>\n KATHRYN: Thank you. That\u2019s exactly what we wanted. We wanted the young reader or any readers to be able to go right to the scene of the action, instead of just hearing about it, we hoped that they could time travel back to whatever was happening at that period of time and really learn about it by seeing it and witnessing it and even talking to some of the patriots of that time. So some of the young schoolchildren that traveled as part of Rush Revere\u2019s crew, they would talk to George Washington or they would talk to others and be able to experience history firsthand in a fun way.<\/p>\n MARK: Now, you\u2019re billed on the cover of those books at Kathryn Adams Limbaugh. Is that because you\u2019re a great, great, great whatever of John Adams and those guys?<\/p>\n KATHRYN: Yes. The great John Adams I should add. (laughing)<\/p>\n MARK: Yes. (laughing)<\/p>\n KATHRYN: Yes, actually through my mother\u2019s side of the family we do — I\u2019m originally from New England, and my mother\u2019s side of the family is from New England. And, yes, it dates back to John Adams.<\/p>\n MARK: Wow. That\u2019s amazing. ‘Cause actually Rush was serious about history —<\/p>\n KATHRYN: Yes.<\/p>\n MARK: — and he thought that it wasn\u2019t the past, it actually lived and breathed and taught us lessons right now.<\/p>\n KATHRYN: Absolutely. In addition to Winston Churchill, I often said that Rush was a modern-day Founding Father, and I think he was in many respects that I could compare him to many of the Founding Fathers. But, yes, he adored history as did I. So I hope that we certainly will continue writing the books and doing cartoons and other things.<\/p>\n MARK: Well, I hope you do too. One of the loveliest things on this show the last few years has been when Rush has had a 10-year-old or a 12-year-old on the phone with him talking about how much they love those books. That was wonderful and completely unexpected from Rush and in a sense a gift to the nation —<\/p>\n KATHRYN: Yes.<\/p>\n MARK: — via Rush from you. A wonderful thing. Kathryn Limbaugh is with us on a very special edition of the Rush Limbaugh Show. The Rush Limbaugh Show isn\u2019t going anywhere. We are right here as we have been for over 32 years. Lots more still to come.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n MARK: Mark Steyn here, but with a very special guest, Kathryn Limbaugh, as you know about 15 minutes ago it was suggested by one of our callers that Kathryn should make this a regular gig, and then an amazing number — I\u2019ve just been looking at Twitter — an amazing number of people, and by emails, people seem to be seconding that so we may have to have Johnny Donovan do the America\u2019s Anchorwoman or America\u2019s Anchorlady idents for Kathryn.<\/p>\n Let us go to Carrie in Wolfe City, Texas. Carrie, you\u2019re live with Kathryn.<\/p>\n CALLER: Hi, Kathryn. Hi, Mark. I just wanted to offer my condolences.<\/p>\n KATHRYN: Thank you.<\/p>\n CALLER: I\u2019ve known Rush since I was 10-year-old. So I\u2019ve known him my whole life and I feel his loss so deeply. And I was just wondering if there was a particular charity that I could make a contribution to or a donation to in his honor. I know it wouldn\u2019t even do justice to the way that I feel about him, but I just feel like I need to do something.<\/p>\n CALLER: I\u2019ll make sure and do that, then. He just really means a lot to me.<\/p>\n KATHRYN: Thank you very much. I know that they are starting a specific scholarship in Rush\u2019s name<\/a>, so I think that would be wonderful and kind of you.<\/p>\n CALLER: Well, thank you for taking my call.<\/p>\n KATHRYN: Thank you.<\/p>\n MARK: Tell us a bit about this foundation that you and Rush started, Kathryn.<\/p>\n MARK: And that\u2019s actually part of your background, isn\u2019t it? Because as I mentioned at the top of the show, you were with the Gary Player Foundation, and he started up — he\u2019s the greatest South African golfer of all time and he started a foundation that is primarily to benefit children.<\/p>\n KATHRYN: Yes. Throughout my life I\u2019ve been involved with charity in some capacity. My mother was a diplomat. My father went to the Naval Academy and was in business. So we lived overseas the majority of my life. And in those years, we would do things with the local communities and that started my passion for charity and helping others. And now we continue to do so in various ways. But I absolutely see our foundation continuing and helping families and organizations that we love.<\/p>\n MARK: Okay. That\u2019s great news. The other thing I mentioned at the top of the show was the story behind how you met, and here\u2019s Rush recalling that, and also what he calls the happiest weekend of his life<\/a>.<\/p>\n BEGIN ARCHIVE CLIP<\/p>\n RUSH: So everybody has been saying, “What are you going to say about your wedding on the radio?” And I said, “I really don\u2019t know. I\u2019ll figure out what to say when the microphone goes on.” I never plan things. We do things improv here.<\/p>\n This was such a memorable affair. Nobody who was there will ever forget this if I do say so myself. (laughing) I\u2019m getting a bunch of echoes now from members of the highly overrated staff who were invited and who were there. A lot of people said, “Where\u2019s the pictures?” Same thing. We did not allow cameras. We allowed no cameras, no personal cameras, no personal video phones. The only pictures there are, are those taken by the four or five professionals that we hired to run around at the luau that we did on Friday night prior to the wedding on Saturday and then during the wedding, the reception dinner and the after-dinner concert. We haven\u2019t seen the pictures yet.<\/p>\n Now, folks, a lot of you want to know about Kathryn. “Why didn\u2019t you say anything about this?” I\u2019ve been on the radio here for 20-plus years, and a lot of what I\u2019ve done in my private life has been lived in public, and I just decided, no more. We want to try to be as normal as we can. Now, we know that we\u2019re not going to be able to live anonymously, but we can forestall some media attention by not seeking it, and we didn\u2019t in this case.<\/p>\n But I have known Kathryn for six years. I met Kathryn when she was running the foundation for Gary Player, and part of that job was to put together celebrity golf tournaments for Gary Player at various places. One of them was up at Wayne Huizenga\u2019s course in Palm City at the Floridian. And for the first three years I went up there I never met Kathryn. It was always e-mail invitations, and I came to find out that she didn\u2019t even want to invite me, that it took a friend of hers, “You gotta get Rush Limbaugh.” She said, “Rush Limbaugh?” She only knew of me as I was portrayed in public.<\/p>\n Well, when that happens you look to the right. When I looked to my right there was nobody there. So I look to my left. Another tap, “Hi, I\u2019m Kathryn.” So I looked to my left finally and there she is in white slacks, long flowing blonde hair and I saw her from the rear first. She\u2019s congratulating everybody else in line, saying hi to everybody, and one thing led to another, she ended up working for National Football League liaising with the local host committees for Super Bowls every year.<\/p>\n And it just built over time, over six years, and, folks, I know many of you have followed my life since we got to know each other, and I think — well, no, I know that I got it right. Like Winston Churchill said, “Never, never, never give up.” If you\u2019re out there thinking all this kind of happiness is going to elude you, forget it. It will either slap you upside the face or you\u2019ll find it one way or the other, and I hope that you find as much happiness as I have. I would love to tell you some of the details about the wedding, but I wouldn\u2019t know where to start and I wouldn\u2019t know where to stop.<\/p>\n We wanted to put on a grand two-day party in our hometown here for our friends and associates. We wanted to do this and just blow it out, and we wanted everybody to have the best time they\u2019ve ever had. Kathryn planned the entire thing, every detail.<\/p>\n You\u2019ve heard that Elton John performed at the wedding. This is all true and I\u2019ll tell you about that in just a second. You know, it is very instructive to find out that all of these supposed tolerant, loving, open-minded people on the left have given him such grief for performing at our wedding. He has really caught hell for this. He doesn\u2019t care. We\u2019ve been in contact with him, but he doesn\u2019t care. It was amazing what he did. The performance that he put on for us, it was 75 minutes, it was specifically tailored to our circumstances.<\/p>\n We wanted to make everybody a part of it. We wanted everybody to feel they were there because we love \u2019em. Everybody there was there for a reason, because they mean something special, even you, Snerdly, everybody was there because they meant something special to us. And I\u2019m not trying to ladle this on to make you feel like, “Oh, what did I miss?” I\u2019m trying to share it with you after the fact. We did not want any news of this in advance. We didn\u2019t want any prying eyes. We just didn\u2019t want a circus atmosphere, which is the only reason why there was no advance notice of this from me.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve got confidence in Kathryn. Anything she says she\u2019s going to do is going to happen. I\u2019m striving to have her look at me that way now, that anything I say — (laughing) — anyway, quick time-out. We\u2019ll be back. I\u2019ll tell you a little about the ceremony, and we\u2019ll move on. And I\u2019ll tell you how the Elton John thing came about since people who weren\u2019t there are commenting on why he did it. It\u2019s just been amazing to see all the criticism he\u2019s gotten from his side of the aisle when we just elected a president who was all about unity, we were told, we\u2019re supposed to join together, post-partisanship.<\/p>\n Well, here was some giant, big-time unity on the evening of Saturday, June 5th, and who the hell is mad at it? The left. Yeah, it was a party, but it was a meaningful wedding, it was a heartfelt ceremony and so forth and everybody involved had a wonderful time. Yet these people have to run around and try to denigrate Elton John for deigning to do this. It\u2019s very instructive, folks, very instructive about the left and who they really are and what they\u2019re all about.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/APP-022221-Rush-Kathryn-Medal-9-1.jpg\")
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So we were in Hawaii again (chuckles) during one of our Christmas breaks, sitting on the deck again as we often were, and we just came up with the idea of, “Why don\u2019t we reach out to the younger generation through a book series?” And at first, Rush was a little bit concerned and nervous that he wouldn\u2019t know how to do that because we don\u2019t have children.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/APP-zz-app-RUSH-BW-EIB-Network-11.jpg\")
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MARK: Yeah. It\u2019s interesting. I had the feeling that last question was, “Tell me what Rush did so I could do it too.” (laughing) Mike Pence actually has a column, I think it\u2019s over at Fox News<\/a> today, where he talks about when he did radio in Indiana and he describes himself as Rush Limbaugh on decaf, which that was his slogan, which I think would make me Rush Limbaugh on Ambien or some such thing.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/05Rushrevere650.jpg\")
Now, as you know — well, maybe you don\u2019t know if you\u2019re a new listener. These books are part of a mission. I\u2019d done a couple of books in the early nineties, and since then people have been urging me, Vince Flynn, good friend, the late Vince Flynn, “Rush, you gotta do another one.” We were running into the 2012 election: “You\u2019ve got to do another one.” I said, “Vince, I\u2019ve been there, done that.”<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/RushRevereAd4.png\")
<\/a>So here\u2019s the premise. Rush Revere is our logo icon for the best iced tea in America, TwoIfByTea.com, which, by the way, is where the Adventures of Rush Revere and everything related to the books is found, TwoIfByTea.com. So Rush Revere, even though we work him hard as a spokesman, as an icon for Two If By Tea, is also a substitute teacher, substitute history teacher. He has a horse named Liberty. It\u2019s a special horse. The horse talks. The horse is kind of a smart aleck. Our young readers\u2019 favorite character is the horse. Liberty also has the ability to time travel anywhere that American history could take someone, including Holland, including England.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/APP-050219-Churchill.jpg\")
And most recently, in the harder days, he reminded me greatly of Winston Churchill during his trying times. And I am so glad that you\u2019ve said that for everyone to hear because the comparison is very, very, very accurate. And, yes, also in terms of how we go forward, I think that Rush would always be asked, “Is it time to panic?”<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/APP-022221-Rush-Kathryn-Medal-5-1.jpg\")
KATHRYN: Thank you very much, John, for your service. My father went to the Naval Academy, so we are big Navy fans and adore the military. Rush and I, from the moment we met, talked extensively about the military and how much it impacted both of us throughout our lives.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/APP-021921-American-Flag-HALF-MAST-x.jpg\")
Nobody knew. As I said, that\u2019s not a public thing. It\u2019s not a public campaign. Rush used to make jokes about all the people with all their virtue signaling ribbons on their breasts when they walk out in an award show. This was just something Rush did privately that nobody knew about.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/APP-102518-Dittohead-Nation-EST.jpg\")
KATHRYN: Sure. Absolutely. Well, this question I probably am the right person to ask \u2019cause I\u2019m not sure Rush would remember per se so this is actually a great one for me (laughs) in terms of a girl question. But, first of all, again, I\u2019m sorry for your loss. This is a loss for all of us, and we are all grieving.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/APP-022221-Rush-Kathryn-Medal-3.jpg\")
CALLER: And I have a comment, really. Rush\u2019s voice will echo through the ages, Kathryn, and the voice is not only of all the radio and other media voices that we hear, but it will also resonate in the tens of millions of voices that were, you know, part of the Rush Army. It\u2019s our challenge now to continue the fight, never panic, never give up. And I have a battle cry for us. “Rush Strong.” We all must continue to fight as I know Rush would want, and once again, thank you so much for being there today.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/APP-Rush-Revere.jpg\")
MARK: Was that part of the original plan for the series, Kathryn, that you\u2019d start off in Colonial Revolutionary times, and then Rush Revere would be in the Civil War and then in World War II and you\u2019d basically be jumping around the entirety of American history?<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/APP-022221-Rush-Marine-Corps-Law-Enforcement.jpg\")
<\/a>KATHRYN: Thank you so much, Carrie. To hear the emotion in your voice really touches my heart because I know that so many of you grew up listening to Rush. He\u2019s been in your homes and your cars. I know he\u2019s very much a part of your life and your family so it really touches me deeply that we can all be together, and I can hear you directly. But in terms of a charity and a donation in particular, we didn\u2019t set something up mainly because I know that Rush always was so thankful to his audience over the years and didn\u2019t want to do anything to ask for any more. So I thought it would be best not to set up a specific charity. But if you would like to donate, I would say the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation<\/a> is one that we have supported for many years and love, and they would be very honored to have that donation.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/APP-022221-Rush-Marine-Corps-Law-Enforcement-2.jpg\")
<\/a>KATHRYN: Yes. We started some years ago, and it primarily is to support younger people, and through scholarships and particularly people who are facing hardships or obstacles in their life. We wanted to inspire them by reviewing their entries and providing scholarships so that they could continue their education. That\u2019s one focus. And then we also have been helping families of police and law enforcement specifically, and also families who are enduring illnesses or hardships such as cancer in their life, and we plan to continue to do so.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/APP-022221-Rush-Kathryn-Medal-13-SS.jpg\")
This was a private affair for Kathryn and me and 400 of our friends and associates. And I have to tell you, people have been telling me, people who were at the wedding on Saturday night had never seen me happier while I was waiting at the altar for Kathryn, and it took her forever, she took one step at a time. One step, pause, one step, pause, and I\u2019m saying, “Come on! Come on!” I\u2019m hopping up and down up there at the altar. And everybody said, “You have never looked happier.” Right, Snerdley? “You\u2019ve never looked happier, never looked more radiant.”<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/APP-022221-Rush-Kathryn-Medal-11-SS.jpg\")
So the first time I actually saw Kathryn was at one of these golf tournaments and all the celebrities were sitting on white folding chairs near the sand trap where Seve Ballesteros was putting on a sand trap demonstration and botching it. Seve Ballesteros could not get out of the sand trap to save his life. It looked like me, and we\u2019re all kind of looking at each other, I\u2019m sitting next to Patrick Duffy of Dallas and I\u2019m the last one on the right side of the row, and I feel a tap on my right shoulder.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/APP-022221-Rush-Kathryn-Elton-John-2.jpg\")
<\/a>This whole weekend was the product of months of preparation, and the execution was just amazing. I\u2019ve had people come up to me, guests there that were former producers for major networks, movie theaters, studios and so forth, “I\u2019ve never seen a production like this. There has never been a wedding that we have been to, and there never will be. Any time anybody goes to a wedding from now on that was at yours, Rush, they are going to never forget yours.” And it was memorable.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>I\u2019ve always said that life, when you look back on your life, no matter what you have accumulated and no matter what you have acquired and achieved, life is about people and friends and the relationships you have with the people you love. That\u2019s what life is all about, and when you look back, the nostalgic moments, the warm moments of your life always will be about that, always will be about relationships that you had with people that you love, always will be about events that you have experienced with people that you love. And so I would be remiss if I didn\u2019t thank everybody who showed up, \u2019cause it made our weekend for us.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/APP-022221-Rush-Kathryn-Medal-10.jpg\")
MARK: Thank you very much, Zoe — and thank you, Kathryn, for spending these last two hours with us. As I said, I don\u2019t think it can be easy when you marry a guy who has a close, immediate family of tens of millions of people —<\/p>\n