RUSH: Mark in Wichita. Great to have you, sir. How are you doing?
CALLER: Well, it’s a pleasure, Rush. I’m glad my call didn’t drop because I have an important message I want to get to you and the millions of listeners that you have, and that message is: “Man, you have finally done it.” I want this message to go to those intermittent listeners or those occasional listeners or especially the new ones and the young ones. I was an occasional listener too. I listened to you, I enjoyed your program, but you are now A-1 on my list every day for three hours. I need to listen to you. I signed up for two years at The Limbaugh Letter this morning.
RUSH: Whoa.
CALLER: You finally did it.
CALLER: It was, as you say, when I look at the knowledge, when I look at the accuracy, when I look at the insight and the intuition. Over this last year and a half, you were right; and everybody I used to respect — the so-called experts, the so-called know-it-alls — were wrong. They were completely wrong, they continue to be wrong —
RUSH: That’s true, they do.
CALLER: — and you are my voice of sanity.
RUSH: Well, what a great call to start off with. The only thing is, I didn’t know we had casual listeners.
CALLER: (chuckling)
RUSH: I thought everybody who listens was an addict.
CALLER: Let me tell you, it is one of those things, unless you make it a priority, and for God’s sakes, if this the country isn’t a priority? If our culture, if our society, if what we believe in isn’t important enough, then what is? I finally came to that realization that, if this isn’t a priority, then by golly it needs to be, and now it is. Three hours a day. Is that too much to ask?
RUSH: No! (laughing) Heck, no.
CALLER: Well, not to me.
RUSH: I really appreciate that.
RUSH: I cannot thank you enough. That is so well stated. I just have one question. I need to know it for my own professional/marketing terms.
CALLER: Yes, sir?
RUSH: You said you were a casual listener. How much, how often did you listen? What made it casual? Couple minutes a day? Half hour every week? Two or three days a week?
CALLER: I would say when I was in a car or when I was near a radio — and the rest of my life wasn’t just completely intruding with living and doing — I made it a point. Because I always appreciated your knowledge, appreciated your insight and the entertainment, of course, too.
RUSH: Oh, yes.
CALLER: But it was really the being right. It was this last year and a half that did it. It was this fact that everybody was saying one thing, and you were just out there — an island, a voice in the wilderness — saying, “Wait a minute. I don’t think that’s what it is. I think it’s this. And you were right; they were wrong. That’s what will turn an occasional or a somewhat — what I call “casual” or “occasional” — listener into someone like me now —
RUSH: Right.
CALLER: — who says, “No, this is it. This is something I need to do every day.”
RUSH: Okay. Well, then what happened was you had a sudden bolt-of-lightning realization that kind of crept up on you. A casual listener. “Yeah, that sounds good. Yeah, that sounds right.” And after a while, the cumulative effect is: “Holy cow, the guy’s never wrong! This is important!” Fifteen hours a week. Is it really too much to ask?