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<\/p>\nTODD: I want to talk to Brian in north Alabama. Brian, you\u2019re on the Rush Limbaugh program as Todd Herman filling in for our departed friend. Brian, welcome to Rush\u2019s show.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Thank you for taking my call. And my condolences go out to Rush\u2019s family and the staff there and all of his listeners. I wanted to touch on a point you made earlier about you can\u2019t separate the family. My mom and dad listened to Rush from the get-go. My dad he\u2019s passed, but my mom still listened, and she\u2019s cried nearly every day since he died.<\/p>\n
This morning at work a lady that I work with — a coworker, Connie — came up, and she was talking. She wanted to get a tattoo. Now, Connie you would not think would ever get a tattoo, and they\u2019re like, “What?” “Yes, I want it to say EIB,” and people didn\u2019t realize what she was talking about, but I knew. I was thinking, “Okay.”<\/p>\n
She started asking about different tattoo parlors around where she could get this tattoo. But it just goes to show, the family — her family — can\u2019t be separated. Now, I\u2019ve got blood family I have nothing to do with; they have nothing to do me. But America, true Americans — I don\u2019t care if you\u2019re Hispanic, you\u2019re black, you\u2019re white, you\u2019re Indian, whatever — what religion you are, if you\u2019re atheist. If you\u2019re a true part of the family, we accept as you are and we all, by God, fight together to the end. And that is the crux of what Rush was trying to get across to this nation, is that: By gosh, we\u2019re family and we fight for the good of the country to the end.<\/p>\n
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TODD: Yeah. It\u2019s interesting, you know, God Almighty contains — or sees no races, right? He\u2019s with us all, and it\u2019s a beautiful way to say that, and I can hear that you\u2019re feeling emotional. I want to let you know that, folks, are still pretty emotional. And I just want to say, Brian, I hear that in your voice, and I don\u2019t want to make light of the situation \u2019cause I know that you\u2019re emotional and your dear mother\u2019s emotional. First of all, what\u2019s your mom\u2019s name?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Margene.<\/p>\n
TODD: Margene. From the EIB family to you, thank you for all these years of support. God bless you. Now, Brian, I have an idea for Connie. And this would be predicated upon just thinking a bit about Rush. What if Connie were to get a tattoo that said, “Connie the Rush Babe” on her arm?<\/p>\n
CALLER: (laughing) There you go.<\/p>\n
TODD: “Connie the Rush Babe.” Right?<\/p>\n
CALLER: There you go.<\/p>\n
TODD: Okay.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Absolutely. I can see her rocking it.<\/p>\n
TODD: I can see her rocking it, too, with the hearts and EIB in the middle, maybe the Golden EIB Microphone surrounded with flowers. Does Connie have favorite flowers?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Oh, that I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n
TODD: Okay. If she has favorite flowers —<\/p>\n
CALLER: I\u2019ll get with her husband on that.<\/p>\n
TODD: (laughing) Good man, Brian. Smart move. Well, if it\u2019s not flowers, maybe she has a certain caliber of ammunition she enjoys that can surround the heart, being a good conservative woman. But will you run that by her, “Connie the Rush Babe”?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I\u2019ll do it.<\/p>\n
TODD: Okay.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I will do it.<\/p>\n
TODD: I appreciate the call. Thank you, Brian. Thank you, and God be with you. See, now, Rush Babe, that was an invention that people misunderstood this. And I want you to hear something here that just proves that Rush Limbaugh knew that women were not monolithic, and the phenomena of Rush Babes on Facebook absolutely proved it.<\/p>\n
RUSH: “Rush Babe” is not demeaning or insulting of women in any way. It is an acknowledgement, ladies and gentlemen, that a proud conservative woman is innately attractive for her independence or intellect or commitment to real values and doesn\u2019t mind being called a babe. It\u2019s a compliment to a well-adjusted woman. Hey, babe, how are you? It\u2019s not an insult. Rush Babes for America is a compliment. Only in the land of the left would calling a woman a babe to her face be insulting, such as stigmatizing or ignoring the existence of her brain.<\/p>\n
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Do you remember — I never forgot this, just to show you the generation — a great director was married to Julie Andrews, Blake Edwards. He got a lifetime achievement award at the Oscars one year, and he gave all of his thanks to the best “broad” in the world. The best broad he\u2019d ever met, his wife, Julie Andrews, and you could hear a gasp in the room amongst the young actors and actresses who thought he was insulting her.<\/p>\n
He was engaging in shock value, but back in his day, World War II generation, women were broads. It did not mean they were cows like it meant when I was in high school. The dames, they were broads. Go read a Mickey Spillane novel. Anyway, he just called her a great broad. It was the best compliment he could give her, and she took it that way, of course. And that\u2019s what Rush Babes is. It\u2019s not at all insulting.<\/p>\n
TODD: This is where the left, again… I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s… Well, no. Let\u2019s say this. Part of the left sees women as monoliths because they need to, the same way that Joe Biden was perfectly comfortable saying, “If you have trouble deciding whether to vote for me or Donald Trump, you ain\u2019t black.”<\/p>\n
They have no problem putting people into these boxes because the boxes have been so fortuitous and such a good political tactic, that you use these things as political tactics, and suddenly you begin to believe these things. You suddenly begin to believe that women are all one thing and all offended by one thing. And this goes, I think, to also the grounding of Rush and also his optimism.<\/p>\n
I believe that Rush felt, when he took a call from one of us, that he could do what politicians call “human connect,” and what Rush might call talking with us. The good-hearted people can see the glimmer — or even it would be sense the glimmer — in Rush\u2019s eyes. He says, “Oh, so you must be a Rush Babe.” I\u2019ve heard that a hundred times.<\/p>\n
If I\u2019ve heard it a hundred times, I\u2019ve heard it a thousand times, “You must be a Rush Babe.” There are gonna be some people who get deeply offended by that, and that\u2019s okay, because you can\u2019t be a genuine human without offending people sometimes. And cancel culture is, of course, trying to chill all this. And Rush defeated cancel culture as we talked about.<\/p>\n
Cancel culture that came from the White House! That\u2019s it. It\u2019s the genuineness. There are people who pull punches and people who chill their own speech because they\u2019re afraid. They chill their own analysis because they\u2019re in fear of this current culture, and there are gonna be people who pay a cost for that, and for people who don\u2019t. But our Rush, if you ever got on the air with him, and that “shhh” sound goes, and he welcomes you to the show, it sounded like someone picking up the phone to talk to a buddy.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s just the way he did it.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Sondra in New Jersey. Sondra, you\u2019re on Rush Limbaugh\u2019s program. It\u2019s Todd Herman filling in on EIB. Hi, Sondra.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Todd. Thank you so much for taking my call, and I must compliment the phone screener. He is extremely sensitive and professional. But what I wanted to say today is, “How could I not thank Rush Limbaugh this whole year giving me strength to deal with my husband who yesterday had a liver transplant?”<\/p>\n
All through the year, he was very negative and very down, and I was listening to Rush every day saying, “I am so grateful to get up every morning and start my day,” and I would say to my husband. “Michael, why don\u2019t you be like Rush? Be positive. Be grateful that you\u2019re here having breakfast and doing your day.” I have to say, Rush is strong and brave, and he taught me how to teach my husband to be like that.<\/p>\n
TODD: I loved hearing that. I love it, and I was just —<\/p>\n
CALLER: It\u2019s the truth!<\/p>\n
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TODD: You know what? There\u2019s a power of prayer. Harvard did this study once. They intended to disprove the power of prayer. I read this in a book. I\u2019ll have to pull it out sometime and reference the actual study. But they found out that when people are being prayed for and they know they\u2019re being prayed for, they do better than people who are just being prayed for, and they all do better than people who don\u2019t receive prayers. So Michael in New Jersey, what if we just transfer some prayers to your husband and let him know.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Awww.<\/p>\n
TODD: The biggest radio audience in history, even with the rank amateur guest host here, are praying for Michael, right?<\/p>\n
CALLER: (chuckles) That is so nice.<\/p>\n
TODD: And listen, this is on audio in archive at RushLimbaugh.com. You listen to how Rush lived his last year of life.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n
TODD: There were no doldrums.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yup.<\/p>\n
TODD: And you have a choice. I mean, you can be negative, and that\u2019s not going to help you be healthy. You can be positive, which does help and gives you quality of life. Is there anything else we can do for Michael from afar?<\/p>\n
CALLER: No, you\u2019ve said it all. You did a beautiful thing today, saying that, and I just want you to know, I\u2019ve been listening to Rush all my adult life, and I love him, and I will miss him, and I do miss him. But I like that you\u2019ll keep him going every day like you\u2019re doing, because he\u2019s one-of-a-kind.<\/p>\n
TODD: (laughing) That\u2019s an understatement.<\/p>\n
CALLER: One-of-a-kind.<\/p>\n
TODD: There\u2019s no doubt about that. Sondra, thank you so much for calling Rush\u2019s program. Oh, just a lot of prayers for you and Michael. You see what I\u2019m talking about. This is from… We could go across the country. We could do this. I promise we could do this. I promise. Given the power and the reach of the program that you\u2019ve built with Rush side by side, I promise we could go throughout the country and we could gather calls like that.<\/p>\n
And we could feature calls like that. We\u2019re gonna get to Rush\u2019s speech at CPAC. We\u2019re going to get… This was a decade ago, and how prescient it was and how optimistic it was. You\u2019ll hear that next hour — and a life Rush saved by being on the radio. We were talking about Rush Babes. Let\u2019s get this in real quick: Anna in San Diego, California, and I\u2019m so pleased you called Rush\u2019s show. It\u2019s Todd Herman on the EIB Network. Hi, Anna.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Todd. It\u2019s such an honor to talk to you and to be on the show. (chokes up) Sorry, I didn\u2019t mean to get emotional, but I —<\/p>\n
TODD: Okay.<\/p>\n
CALLER: — I am inspired by the lady that called about being a Rush Babe because I consider myself a Rush Baby and a Rush Babe. My dad is the one that turned me on to all of this, and he also taught me like the greatest lesson that I ever learned just as a person, and it was like Rush was that vehicle. So I have this magnet that says “Rush Babe.” I am a Rush Babe.<\/p>\n
TODD: (laughing) I love it.<\/p>\n
CALLER: (laughs) I do. It\u2019s really great — and, of course, I get a lot of comments when people come to my house. But I remember my dad… See, I grew up in Kansas City, so Rush has been on our radio since I was a kid. So when I tell \u2019em I\u2019m a Rush Baby, I really am, and then I grew up to become a Rush Babe. But one day we were driving, and he had Rush on the radio.<\/p>\n
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I said, “Dad, why do you listen to this guy? He seems so moody and angry,” and my dad looked at me — he\u2019s a sweet, sweet man — and he said, “Rush is a very exciting and excitable guy.” He said, “You hear this emotion, but you\u2019re not listening to his message,” and he challenged me to listen to Rush for a week, and I started to listen, and he said, “You\u2019re not gonna know who these players are. You\u2019re not gonna know the current events.”<\/p>\n
TODD: Yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: He goes, “I\u2019ll help you with that. But just listen.” And that was in the late eighties, and here I am today, and I have —<\/p>\n
TODD: I love it.<\/p>\n
CALLER: — rarely missed a day —<\/p>\n
TODD: Yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: — with Rush. But I love the difference between hearing and listening, and it has helped —<\/p>\n
TODD: Yes.<\/p>\n
CALLER: — me in my life —<\/p>\n
TODD: I love it.<\/p>\n
CALLER: — to be a better person.<\/p>\n
TODD: And we\u2019re up against the clock. I want to tell you something — listen very closely, \u2019cause I know you\u2019re a lifetime, long Rush listener — Anna is one of my top 10 favorite female names.<\/p>\n
CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n
TODD: (laughing) All right, Anna, thanks for calling Rush\u2019s show.<\/p>\n
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TODD: Tim in Turlock, California. Tim, you\u2019re on the Rush Limbaugh program. It\u2019s Todd Herman failing at filling in. Tim, my apologies for leading you onto the air with an error.<\/p>\n
CALLER: (laughs) That\u2019s all right. I love your passion, Todd. Man, I tell you, I\u2019ve become a big fan of yours.<\/p>\n
TODD: Thank you.<\/p>\n
CALLER: The ultimate Rush Babe was Rush\u2019s mom. I started listening to Rush in 1988 after my brother told me about him. So I had a topic that I was gonna talk about. It was about the movie Born on the Fourth of July with Tom Cruise. And while I was on hold, Rush brought his mom on like he did often —<\/p>\n
TODD: (laughing)<\/p>\n
CALLER:<\/p>\n
CALLER: — and he had a conversation with her.<\/p>\n
TODD: (laughing)<\/p>\n
CALLER: So when he hung up, I knew I had him because he didn\u2019t tell his mom he loved her, and he\u2019s speaking to her. This is Compuserve days, back in Compuserve before Rush 24\/7.<\/p>\n
TODD: (laughing)<\/p>\n
CALLER: There was a guy who transcribed every Rush\u2019s show. Anyway, I knew I had him. So I didn\u2019t get to my topic. I said, “Rush, I\u2019m totally ashamed of you.” He said, “Whoa. Whoa. What\u2019s up?”<\/p>\n
TODD: (laughing)<\/p>\n
CALLER: I said, “You got your mom on here with all these millions of people. You hung up, and you didn\u2019t tell her you loved her.”<\/p>\n
TODD: (laughing)<\/p>\n
CALLER: So he said, “Snerdley, get my mother back on the line right now.” So Snerdley called his mom back and he had to humbly apologize to her and tell her how much he loved her —<\/p>\n
TODD: (laughing)<\/p>\n
CALLER: — and it was awesome. So he let me talk to his mom.<\/p>\n
TODD: Oh!<\/p>\n
CALLER: We had a conversation. I got a whole segment out of him. So I talked with his mom and had a wonderful conversation with her and told her how proud I was, \u2019cause me and Rush are the same age. So I telling how proud I was of her son, and then he played a parody. My brother had a favorite parody. It was called Sensitive Nineties Kind of Guy.<\/p>\n
TODD: (laughing)<\/p>\n
CALLER: I have not heard that parody in so long. So if those guys can dig up that parody, it was so cool.<\/p>\n
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TODD: (laughing)<\/p>\n
CALLER: But, yeah, I definitely was, like, the hero of my town for at least a week.<\/p>\n
TODD: (laughing)<\/p>\n
CALLER: I had that claim to fame that I was the only guy, the only caller that got to talk to Rush\u2019s mom.<\/p>\n
TODD: Well, you may be the only caller (laughing) who ever successfully called Rush out that way.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n
TODD: I\u2019m feeling a little left out, honestly, because, Tim, you could have really just nailed me for the dual errors — correcting an error and then making another one — but you were too kind to do that.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah, I coulda got you, too. But, you know, time is valuable, and I didn\u2019t want to rub on you but, yeah. I got Rush good man. I got him.<\/p>\n
TODD: Wow. You broke… You know what? Tim, you know what else you did? You broke the prime directive of callers.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yep.<\/p>\n
TODD: What is the prime duty of a caller when they were calling the Maha? Who was prime duty?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Get to the topic. (laughing)<\/p>\n
TODD: That\u2019s secondary. That\u2019s tactical. The prime duty of the caller…?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Make him look good!<\/p>\n
TODD: There it is!<\/p>\n
CALLER: Make him look good.<\/p>\n
TODD: Yeah, yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Oh, man, I should get a EIB badge or something like that from you guys.<\/p>\n
TODD: (laughing) I\u2019ll tell you what, we\u2019re giving you from afar… I\u2019m pinning a badge into the air, but you don\u2019t want me pinning badge, because I\u2019ve made two mistakes, \u2019cause I could make a third mistake and actually stick you in the chest with the pin. So let\u2019s make —<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah, that\u2019d be worth it.<\/p>\n
TODD: (laughing) Let\u2019s make it a sticker. I\u2019m putting a sticker on you. Tim, that\u2019s a great, great memory, man. I really appreciate you sharing that with us. That is just awesome.<\/p>\n
CALLER: He was very special. Very special time.<\/p>\n
TODD: Well, thank you for the phone call, Tim, all the way from Turlock, California. It\u2019s just amazing. See, I told you that you weren\u2019t gonna believe these calls that we have — and so much more lined up. We\u2019ll talk more. We\u2019ll get to this clip that relates to Rush Babes. If you missed the phone with Anna, it was a remarkable phone call.<\/p>\n
She grew up a Rush Baby. Yeah, was born a Rush Baby and became a Rush Babe, \u2019cause her dad got her to listen. Through Rush\u2019s passion, he got her to listen to the message and to learn from the message, and then she grew up into a Rush Babe. So we spent some time last hour going through the actual meaning of Rush Babedom.<\/p>\n
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TODD: Now, at some point this program — with Rush obviously at the helm — went from talk show to nationwide phenomenon to cultural phenomenon . And I would… In fact, I\u2019m gonna think about when that happened. Was it the bake sale, Dan\u2019s Bake Sale? Was it Rush is Right, those bumper stickers?<\/p>\n
Was it the books? Was it the TV show? At some time, it became a cultural phenomenon, and Rush\u2019s personality and wisdom and intelligence, and you and the loyalty of these advertisers, these small businesses that Rush Limbaugh made big. Believe it or not, there was actually talk of a Dittohead dating site<\/a>.<\/p>\n RUSH: Catherine in Austin, Texas. You\u2019re next. It\u2019s great to have you. Hi.<\/p>\n CALLER: Hi. It\u2019s an absolute honor to get to speak with you. I grew up a Rush Baby, and in our family we like to say you\u2019re the best friend we\u2019ve never met.<\/p>\n RUSH: Thank you. Thank you very much. I like that.<\/p>\n CALLER: Yeah. So I live in Austin, Texas, one of the most liberal, atheist cities in all of America. And my fundamental viewpoints could not be more polar opposite. So I was wondering if you have ever thought about doing a Singles for Rush dating website.<\/p>\n RUSH: (chuckles) A Singles for Rush dating website?<\/p>\n CALLER: That is correct. I personally think that anybody who calls your show is a quality person.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>RUSH: You\u2019re right about that. In fact, you know, I\u2019ve never thought about a dating website. One of the problems with that is, obviously all the women would want to choose me, and I couldn\u2019t be available on my own site. But, you know, you\u2019re right about something. You really hit a point. We engage in a lot of audience outreach here. We started doing it during the Revere books, and it continued through a number of different outlets.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/APP-022321-zz-app-smile-RUSH.jpg\")
CALLER: Just let me know the email address to send it to.<\/p>\n