{"id":387117,"date":"2021-03-17T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=387117"},"modified":"2021-03-18T16:00:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T20:00:18","slug":"one-month-later-rush-still-inspires-we-will-never-give-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/03\/17\/one-month-later-rush-still-inspires-we-will-never-give-up\/","title":{"rendered":"One Month Later, Rush Inspires Us: We Will Never Give Up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRETT: Today is one month since we lost our dear Rush Limbaugh. Now, the thing about loss that we have to remember &#8212; it\u2019s especially a profound one &#8212; is that time moves differently afterwards. It does. It always seems to change when you experience a profound loss, a loss of a parent, a loss of a grandparent, a beloved spouse, aunt, uncle, and &#8212; God forbid &#8212; a child. Things change. Things become different.<\/p>\n<p>Rush always looked forward to getting older. He loved life, but he always looked forward to getting older, with one exception: The reality of losing people that he loved. Now we\u2019ve lost Rush. I remember the phone call I received one month ago today just within minutes of the program starting and Rush\u2019s beloved Kathryn taking to the microphone to announce the horrible news that we had lost Rush.<\/p>\n<p>I remember how for a moment I just sat in stunned silence, and I know all of us did, and many of us are still stunned. I heard Ken Matthews yesterday talk about the fact that we hear him on our stations and in our cars, and we just go back to how it always was, and then we realize we\u2019ve lost him. Now this is where we get to march forward, to carry on his memory.<\/p>\n<div id=\"zype_605233f072091500018d0d54\"><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.zype.com\/embed\/605233f072091500018d0d54.js?api_key=6yUf3WZePk78GtpC3BXdZSqZ5ma_gYmV_rEJ8OYJZ0wq3AlDKM2RFnOcBN0xiMco&amp;controls=true\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s why we\u2019re keeping his voice and words as part of your day, because he would want you to remember them &#8212; the lessons, the logic, most definitely the laughter &#8212; and we\u2019ll have a ton of that today. While it may not be the same, it is still the Maha. And like anything you love, it\u2019s to be remembered and cherished always. So today we welcome you to call in with your forever dittos as we continue to remember Rush.<\/p>\n<p>Our number, as you well know it, is 800-282-2882, to share your thoughts, to share your remembrances, and of course to share the smiles that I know he gave you across the years. We all were honored and privileged to be a part of this journey.<\/p>\n<p>We were all honored and privileged to be a part of the wisdom and the laughs that Rush was able to produce on (chuckles) a moment-by-moment basis. It really is evident that this is the fastest three hours in radio, the fastest week in media, as he was famous for saying. So I think it\u2019s important to remember right off the top, right off the top who <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2017\/04\/24\/kate-obeirne-godmother-of-the-modern-conservative-movement\/\">Rush was and his thoughts on getting older and the power of nostalgia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I\u2019ve always said, folks, that I love getting older. I have never feared getting older. I\u2019ve always been, in my own life, borne out that\u2019s been true, the next year has been better than the previous one. When I was 15, I wanted to be 21. I wanted to get all this childhood, teenage stuff out of the way. I wanted to get successful. I wanted to get on the track.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to get moving and as I looked at life, everybody older than me seemed really happy, really self-sufficient, and I had that as a goal. And it\u2019s always been true. There has not been a year that I have had regretted getting older yet, except for things like this. The unavoidable reality that once you hit your 60s, the news is going to be more frequent that your friends and acquaintances are sick, ill, and have passed away.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the one unavoidable downside of getting older.<\/p>\n<p>But, you know, I\u2019ve always had a belief that nostalgia has a unique way of only &#8212; at least in my case, nostalgia for me is never negative. It\u2019s always positive, when I think about the past and remember things of people that I\u2019ve met and meant a lot to me, it\u2019s always positive, always uplifting. Never is any of it negative, never is there any anguish about it.<\/p>\n<p>Do not lose the faith.<\/p>\n<p>Keep the faith.<\/p>\n<div id=\"zype_60521c70201dbc00018522d4\"><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.zype.com\/embed\/60521c70201dbc00018522d4.js?api_key=6yUf3WZePk78GtpC3BXdZSqZ5ma_gYmV_rEJ8OYJZ0wq3AlDKM2RFnOcBN0xiMco&#038;controls=true\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>BRETT: The journey we\u2019ve taken over the years listening to Rush and the simultaneous events of our lives that we\u2019ve all shared, the national stories, the international stories, the politics, the scoundrels and the heroes. But we\u2019ve also taken this journey with Rush, and that journey has also brought with us our own family and friend experiences with people that we\u2019ve gotten to know across the years, children that we\u2019ve had and spouses that we\u2019ve married and all of that journey.<\/p>\n<p>And, you know, it\u2019s interesting, because when you lose somebody so near and dear to you, so close to you, you realize very quickly as you think back, you don\u2019t dwell on the arguments, the tough times, the challenges. You think back about the things that make you smile, that give you that warmth inside your heart. Rush was always a fighter. Rush was confident. Rush understood the courage of convictions.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s exactly how Rush would want us to remember him, with good cheer, smiling &#8212; and we\u2019ll have plenty of that today. We\u2019ll have plenty of laughs today. We\u2019re gonna continue to carry the standard forward, the standard that was set by Rush. Also, I want to share with you something very special. Kathryn, his beloved Kathryn, has shared a message from Rush, videotaped earlier this year, capturing him in a moment where he\u2019s reminding us to never give up.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to that message over at RushLimbaugh.com, and you can see him and hear him, and you\u2019ll see that twinkle in his eye and that confidence and that energy as he urges us on &#8212; and that\u2019s what I think is most important. To connect to that, to connect to the notion that we must soldier on. We must march on. We must continue to be of good cheer.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what makes this side of the argument all the more attractive to people. Conservatives, by and large, don\u2019t walk around with a dour cover, an angry sort of countenance. Conservatives are confident because conservatives are advocates for freedom and for liberty. Rush was that: An evangelist for the individual to reach heights that individual thought to be impossible.<\/p>\n<p>Yet it\u2019s interesting. As we\u2019ve enter into this year I\u2019ve found myself reading some of the is to I can say, the Ancient Romans and Greeks who had theories and thoughts about civilization, society, the way government should work. I came across a phenomenal quote from Marcus Aurelius that I think is so fitting for Rush. Marcus Aurelius said, &#8220;It never ceases to amaze me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We all love ourselves more than other people but we care more about their opinion than our own.&#8221; In a way, it reaches across the 20 centuries talking about the notion of a cancel culture, any of that stuff. Rush was supremely confident. Rush was of good cheer. Rush understood what it was going to take to battle those folks who would try to shut us down, to shut him down, because he did it for 30 years &#8212; and success, success is its best encouragement.<\/p>\n<p>He famously said, &#8220;Free speech gives us the ability to react vigorously with effective arguments and expose the weakness and misdirection of the other side\u2019s claims.&#8221; Let that sink in for a moment. It means you have to be confident in what you\u2019re arguing. You have to utilize effective arguments. You can\u2019t just go by feelings or tantrums or yelling and screaming and pounding the desk.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-384231\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/APP-20201-030221-Rush-RIP-In-Loving-Memory.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/APP-20201-030221-Rush-RIP-In-Loving-Memory.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/APP-20201-030221-Rush-RIP-In-Loving-Memory-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/APP-20201-030221-Rush-RIP-In-Loving-Memory-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No. It goes to the very core of our logic. It goes to the core of our beliefs, the idea that you want to expose the weakness. That\u2019s where you get the pounding and the yelling and the tantrumming and the misdirection of the other side\u2019s claims, misdirection being the attempt to confuse you with a bunch of disconnected gobbledygook, as Rush would say.<\/p>\n<p>Rush was spot on, and he understood how it was we were to proceed. Never surrendering the battlefield, the intellectual high ground, and utilizing humor to make the point when just a plain old argument wouldn\u2019t work. Over the course of the next three hours, we\u2019re gonna go through this.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re gonna talk about what\u2019s happening today and look at Rush\u2019s prescient mind as it relates to the current condition of the body politic and the culture itself &#8212; and I want to encourage you that Kathryn has shared a message from Rush videotaped earlier this year, capturing him in a moment where he\u2019s reminding us to never give up. When you feel a little down cast or sad, fire it up and take a look at it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRETT: His beloved Kathryn has shared a message from Rush, videotaped earlier this year, capturing him in a moment where he&#039;s reminding us to never give up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":387128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>One Month Later, Rush Inspires Us: We Will Never Give Up! - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/03\/17\/one-month-later-rush-still-inspires-we-will-never-give-up\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"One Month Later, Rush Inspires Us: We Will Never Give Up! 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