00:00:00.000Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk Show, we remember Rush Limbaugh.
00:00:03.000Most of this podcast was recorded live on radio while the news itself was breaking.
00:00:10.000And so, to be honest with you, I did the best I could to remember a friend and an American hero and patriot who passed away hours before the broadcast and was actually announced during our broadcast.
00:00:28.000I make a point at the end of this episode that when I was in the White House and I was meeting with the president and I would be meeting with Jared Kushner, I'd be meeting with Kelly and Connolly, or I'd be meeting with people all throughout the White House.
00:00:38.000Do you know what the number one topic of conversation was in the afternoon?
00:01:04.000In this episode, you will see all throughout some tape, some clips, some remembrances as we look back and think and remember the great Rush Limbaugh.
00:01:17.000If you want to support our program, it's charliekirk.com slash support.
00:01:20.000And I say this, without Rush, there would be no podcast you're listening to right now.
00:01:25.000We remember the biggest one, the guy that made all this possible.
00:01:42.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:51.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
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00:03:02.000We're going to get more into Joe Biden here, and I didn't want to say anything on air that isn't true or verified, but it seems to be many people are reporting that the king of talk radio, Rush Limbaugh, has died.
00:03:17.000So the man that has inspired so many Americans, myself included, has passed away.
00:03:35.000We honored him in one of our events at Turning Point USA.
00:03:38.000I'm going to have to get my thoughts here as I process this live on air.
00:03:42.000Again, this is one of the parts of live radio, so you're going to have to bear with me as I get these messages.
00:03:49.000I didn't want to say anything as I was trying to dissect Joe Biden saying whatever he was saying last night with this tragic news.
00:03:56.000Rush Limbaugh changed America for the better.
00:04:00.000Rush Limbaugh blazed a trail forward that has left many people, myself included, in his debt.
00:04:18.000Rush Limbaugh invented the form of communication that we know as terrestrial radio in America.
00:04:31.000There will never be another Rush Limbaugh.
00:04:34.000And if you're just tuning in right now on radio, we have just received confirmation that Rush Limbaugh has passed away at age 70 after a very difficult battle with lung cancer.
00:04:50.000He's a man who saw things before they happened.
00:04:54.000He remained in good spirits despite everything that was thrown at him.
00:04:59.000And I'm going to have a lot more to say about that as we continue to process this information.
00:05:06.000Rush Limbaugh has passed away, and he has been fighting cancer for the last year that we know of.
00:05:12.000Rush Limbaugh is one of the reasons I got into politics.
00:05:17.000I was a junior in high school trying to figure out how to articulate my political beliefs.
00:05:25.000And I would have my lunch from, I remember it precisely, 12.27 to 1.12 every day.
00:05:35.000And so around my junior year in high school, I was able to drive back and forth to home and get lunch and come back.
00:05:42.000And so I used to turn on a local radio station in Chicago, and Rush Limbaugh was on.
00:05:48.000Now, I was getting involved in politics earlier than that.
00:05:51.000And everyone told me in the middle or the center left that Rush Limbaugh was the worst thing ever.
00:05:56.000I never actually listened to him myself.
00:05:59.000So I started to listen to this guy, and he made so much sense.
00:06:06.000He was, in a lot of ways, almost like the conservative fulcrum, like the center of gravity for all conservatism, where we could find our bearings whenever we are under assault by the far left.
00:06:23.000He pioneered the idea of three hours of talk radio with no guests.
00:06:29.000You have to understand that back in the 1990s, when Rush started, I think it was late 80s, early 90s, there were a lot of people worried that there was no way for the conservative movement to be distributed.
00:06:49.000This was before any sort of Facebook, social media, Instagram.
00:06:55.000And so all of a sudden, a man from Missouri, I think he got his start in Sacramento, starting a radio station in Sacramento, if my memory serves me correctly.
00:07:07.000And he started to do things differently.
00:07:34.000And I'll never forget sitting with my good friend Brent Bozell.
00:07:38.000He told me a story about Rush Limbaugh.
00:07:40.000And I'll tell you plenty of stories because now it's more important than ever that we share it because I can already see what the left is going to do.
00:07:48.000I'm going to see article after article of the man who divided America, the man who brought us into the post-political face.
00:07:54.000This is a decent man who basically saved the country from getting into the hands of the far left multiple times, and I'll prove it to you.
00:08:03.000And so, Brent Bozell told me a story with Rush where Rush was going to do 60 Minutes in the early 90s when 60 Minutes was trying to attack this idea of conservative talk radio because conservatives were trying to find a way to distribute their information.
00:08:19.000They couldn't do it on the mainstream networks.
00:08:21.000They couldn't do it through newspaper or print.
00:08:25.000And so, all there was left was terrestrial radio.
00:08:38.000And Brent said they're going to make you look bad and all this.
00:08:41.000Rush ended up running circles around these guys.
00:08:44.000Ended up being published as one of the most embarrassing moments for 60 Minutes when Rush Limbaugh was in this moment of growth.
00:08:51.000And he spread to over, I think, 800 radio stations across the country.
00:08:58.000Rush Limbaugh was more than just a talk show host.
00:09:04.000He was people's daily source of sanity and clarity.
00:09:09.000He was people's ability to stay anchored to the truth of our country.
00:09:20.000And so, this is very hard to talk about this in real time, but I'm going to spend the remainder of this program remembering Rush and his impact, playing his most amazing moments.
00:09:51.000Rush spoke at our Turning Point USA events twice.
00:09:55.000In fact, one thing that I can be very proud of is that one of the last public speaking events that Rush Limbaugh ever did was at Turning Point USA when he introduced President Donald Trump at our event.
00:11:58.000You were there to listen to Rush for good reason.
00:12:02.000I will make the argument that Rush Limbaugh is the man who kept America free.
00:12:11.000If it wasn't for Rush Limbaugh in the 1990s and early 2000s, I don't know who possibly would have been able to communicate to that many people the truth of what was happening in the country and the ripple effect after that.
00:12:26.000Imagine reaching 15 million people a week intimately in their car with the correct message of what's happening in the country.
00:12:38.000Rush was more than just someone who processed the news.
00:12:48.000Show me another member of the media where people would design their entire daily schedule around what they had to say.
00:12:56.000Show me another member of the media where people would call themselves, I'm a Rush baby.
00:13:03.000That my political affiliation is marked with riding around in the car listening to the great Rush Limbaugh.
00:13:12.000And every single person that is in politics today, from Donald Trump to Rand Paul to Sean Hannity to Mark Levin, everyone flows downstream from Rush Limbaugh.
00:13:31.000His courage, his wit, his charisma, his ability to just do a 15, 20-minute segment on what would just seem to be a small little article, the rustling of the papers, the sound bites, the callers that would call themselves ditto heads.
00:13:54.000His ability to be able to make sense of the confusing nature, to predict things before they happened.
00:14:36.000And all throughout high school and in the early parts of Turning Point USA, no matter how crazy or chaotic things got in the country, I knew that at 11 o'clock Central, 12 o'clock Eastern, if I got in my car, I could turn on my radio and someone would make sense of that for me.
00:14:58.000And he would do it in a way that was lighthearted in nature, factual and rational.
00:15:09.000So then I started to grow Turning Point USA and spent more time in Palm Beach.
00:15:18.000We had our student action summit there for five years at the Palm Beach Convention Center.
00:15:23.000And so I knew very little about the geography of Florida.
00:15:26.000I didn't know the difference between Palm Beach or Boca Grande to Naples to Sarasota to Miami.
00:15:34.000And so as I was in Palm Beach, people started to say, hey, you know, Rush Limbaugh broadcasts from here.
00:15:47.000And so, kind of the legend of Rush grew throughout 2015, 2016, and I kept listening to him, and I became a Rush Limbaugh application subscriber, where in the commercial breaks, he would play his old tapes of him mimicking Nancy Pelosi.
00:16:51.000So just so you know, Rush had cochlear implants, difficulty hearing.
00:17:02.000And so Rush did not feel very comfortable in public spaces or public events.
00:17:10.000And he kind of grew with a reputation of not necessarily being a recluse, but not someone that would go out on the town.
00:17:18.000In fact, I remember driving once from Denver to Steamboat Springs, listening to the Rush Limbaugh program, and he was just describing how he lost his hearing.
00:17:31.000It happened almost basically overnight, and he almost never heard again.
00:17:35.000In fact, the amazing thing that I never understood about Rush Limbaugh is how he was able to do all these voices without being able to hear their voice.
00:17:43.000How was he able to mimic Barack Obama without being able to hear Barack Obama's voice?
00:17:49.000So he had cochlear implants, and Byron says, Charlie, I want to take you to go meet him.
00:17:55.000So we go met at a club in Palm Beach that many of you know of.
00:18:00.000Not a nightclub, okay, it was a country club.
00:18:04.000And I'll never forget we met at like 7 a.m. right before Rush went to go golf.
00:18:10.000So Rush golfed every Saturday morning at this place.
00:18:14.000And to my incredible surprise, Rush sat down and had breakfast with us.
00:18:23.000So Rush, for breakfast, he very well could have ordered pancakes, French toast, waffles.
00:18:31.000Maybe he wanted to go with an Egg McMuffin.
00:18:33.000There's a whole plate of bacon because he said the grease and the fat makes him smarter.
00:19:55.000And for those of you that follow me on social media, you'll be able to see some of the videos of this, of Rush, where I said, I want to give him the Lifetime Achievement Award.
00:20:06.000And thank God, and I don't say that lightly, we did that.
00:20:11.000And so we honored him with the Life Achievement Award.
00:20:13.000And he does not go and accept many awards, by the way.
00:21:07.000I think this was in, yeah, that's right.
00:21:09.000That was in January of 2019, February 2019.
00:21:12.000We had about a 45-minute taped interview conversation where Rush was asking questions, and I was the monthly newsletter interview for the Rush Limbaugh, whatever.
00:21:22.000And so he was always just, and I need to go listen to it back, to be honest.
00:21:27.000There's probably so much wisdom there.
00:21:28.000He was a phenomenal mentor and friend throughout all of it.
00:21:32.000And so then in December of 2019, we were hosting our Palm Beach Student Action Summit.
00:21:41.000And we had just confirmed the president, President Trump.
00:21:46.000And I thought to myself, who would be the perfect person to introduce him?
00:21:50.000Because, you know, I could do it, but that's a fun thing.
00:21:53.000But I wanted to say who could really make this special?
00:24:28.000Rush had the movement on his shoulders for decades.
00:24:34.000He's the one that took the arrows from the media.
00:24:35.000He's the one that had to fend off media matters.
00:24:38.000He's the one that had to endure attacks relentlessly.
00:24:43.000So now it's up to us to fill that void.
00:24:46.000And as a side note, Rush Limbaugh is what they call the bigoted king of talk radio.
00:24:51.000Meanwhile, the Washington Post called Al Baghdadi an austere religious scholar.
00:24:56.000The media wonder why people hate them and they don't trust them.
00:25:01.000I know a lot of people are grieving, myself included.
00:25:04.000And I could say this, though, with my relationship with Rush, I have a lot of sadness, but I have no regrets.
00:25:14.000I really had an opportunity to spend time with him, learn from him, have him speak at our events.
00:25:22.000He was so generous with his time, with his platform.
00:25:28.000And after the fourth or fifth time I met with him and I sat down with him and I would give him a compliment, he almost had difficulty processing it.
00:25:39.000And at first, I didn't really understand it.
00:25:42.000But no, he was so legitimately humble without, I think, realizing how powerful his audience was at times that he stayed so in touch with the grassroots.
00:25:57.000You want to talk about someone that has been right about almost every single prediction the last couple years.
00:26:03.000Never underestimated Trump, always was critical of the Republican establishment.
00:26:11.000He analyzed things perfectly because he was always in touch with the very same people that launched his radio career.
00:26:19.000And I think he's from Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
00:26:55.000He was positive about what was to come.
00:26:59.000And he put a lot of that on his shoulders.
00:27:02.000And in the way that he went about his program, he was unlike any other radio host I ever listened to.
00:27:11.000And that's not a slight at any of these other amazing legends.
00:27:14.000Mark Levin, Sean Handy, they're amazing.
00:27:16.000But Rush, more than anyone else, I felt like Rush was talking to me, not talking to a group of people.
00:27:23.000I felt like Rush was having a one-on-one conversation with me.
00:27:27.000His pauses, his inflections, his vocabulary, his diction, his humor, his humanity.
00:27:36.000How many times did you hear Rush just shuffle together papers or say, which cut is this or what's going on here?
00:27:44.000And you felt as if you were sitting right there in the studio with him and you were having a one-on-one conversation about the future of America.
00:27:51.000You didn't feel as if he was broadcasting.
00:28:06.000We just lost someone with a distribution of 15 million people a day that he spoke to.
00:28:13.000And so now in every single vertical in the church, in communities, in business, in politics, in communication, it's now time to step up, everybody.
00:28:26.000We're now going to need 1,000 people to be as active as Rush to fill the void that he left.
00:28:37.000In our fast-paced world, it's tough to make reading a priority.
00:28:42.000Use what I use to digest big ideas quickly at thinker.org/slash Charlie, T-H-I-N-K-R.org.
00:28:49.000They summarize the key ideas from new and noteworthy nonfiction, giving you access to an entire library of great books in bite-sized form.
00:28:56.000Read or listen to hundreds of titles in a matter of minutes, from old classics like Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People, to the recent bestsellers like Jordan Peterson's 12 Rules for Life.
00:29:06.000When I'm going for walks or when I'm riding on the bike, I always pop open thinker.org, T-H-I-N-K-R.org, and I just try to learn something new every day.
00:29:15.000That's something we talk about here a lot on this Charlie Kirk show.
00:29:37.000I think people listen to the radio for three reasons.
00:29:39.000Be entertained, to be entertained, and to be entertained.
00:29:42.000And avid listeners were wildly entertained when they tuned into Rush Limbaugh, arguably the most influential talk show host in the history of radio.
00:29:50.000You're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
00:29:52.000His daily program, heard by an estimated 20 million listeners each day and broadcast on more than 650 affiliates, made him one of the most well-known voices for grassroots conservatives.
00:30:16.000The highest rated ever talk radio show in the history of the United States, airing on over 600 radio stations across the country, including some massive radio stations.
00:30:29.000It started in 1988 and has never looked back.
00:30:34.000And people were skeptical of whether or not people actually wanted to hear the conservative point of view over terrestrial radio.
00:30:42.000Rush Limbaugh kept the Reagan Revolution, which is a grassroots, people-centered revolution, alive for decades.
00:30:50.000When Obama swept into office in 2008 with a mandate and Democrats and House, Senate and the House coming alongside of it, it was Rush Limbaugh that was the number one thorn in the side of the Obama administration.
00:31:08.000Daily Rush would go on warning against what Obama was going to do to the country using comedy, levity, lightheartedness.
00:31:19.000Let's play the two cuts here of President Trump talking about Rush just a couple moments ago.
00:32:46.000And he was the man that kept America free.
00:32:50.000Who else but Rush can say for 30 years he was able to keep a consistent message, a following, keep people engaged and dedicated around conservative values.
00:35:41.000The left in America, the left around the world thinks America is the problem, and we're not.
00:35:46.000When America leads, when America triumphs, when America prospers, the world does greater than ever.
00:35:57.000That was at our turning point USA Student Action Summit, where Rush was articulating very eloquently that when America succeeds, the world succeeds.
00:36:14.000Who could possibly be against the phrase, make America great?
00:36:18.000You could see in the way that he just did that description at our event exactly why the left needed to rise up against him in such awful ways.
00:36:33.000Because as long as Rush Limbaugh was talking on radio, their totalitarian takeover was in jeopardy.
00:36:41.000As long as Rush Limbaugh kept on broadcasting, he was adding transparency to their theft.
00:36:49.000We talked about yesterday about a secret ballot that very well might have happened, which would have got Donald Trump indicted.
00:36:57.000But the fact that there was a public ballot ensured that Donald Trump was acquitted because they didn't want to face their voters.
00:37:06.000But do you know who else the Senate Republicans are afraid of?
00:37:10.000When the Senate Republicans were thinking about selling America for a cheap price, and Senate Republicans were thinking about doing policies or voting for bills that might have been dangerous to our country, they whispered to each other, well, what if Rush does a segment on us?
00:38:14.000That without Rush and his contribution to the American conversation or the zeitgeist, you could say, the country would be in a much different place.
00:38:28.000So why didn't Senate Republicans and the Gang of Eight pass amnesty back in 2014?
00:38:36.000It's because Rush Limbaugh did three hours of radio on it.
00:38:45.000Senate Republicans and Congressional Republicans, in their most private moments, would confide and say, you know, it's one thing if they run a bunch of ads against us if we vote a certain way, but if Rush goes after us, that'll be the end of our political career.
00:40:27.000Without Rush Limbaugh, Donald Trump would not have won the presidency in 2016.
00:40:32.000Without Rush Limbaugh, you do not have Justice Kavanaugh.
00:40:34.000You don't have Justice Gorsuch, you don't have Amy Coney Barrett.
00:40:36.000You don't have Clarence Thomas, which happened right in the middle of Rush Limbaugh coming to fame in the radio, the radio world.
00:40:50.000The model was completely and totally unproven.
00:40:53.000You're trying to tell me one guy is going to talk uninterrupted and make his own jokes about the news of today and people are going to want to listen to that.
00:41:11.000Even liberals who now call themselves in the intellectual dark web, like Eric Weinstein or any of those people, they all follow in the footsteps of Rush.
00:41:28.000Anyone who's in long-form podcasting follows in the footsteps of Rush.
00:41:33.000Rush was podcasting before podcasting.
00:41:40.000It had its own flavor, its own style, for a very specific purpose and for a reason.
00:41:48.000Because Rush trusted the listeners enough that they wanted more than just political popcorn.
00:41:54.000And if you listen to Rush and you really listen to him two years ago, three years ago, in the midst of Donald Trump under duress, and you look at the deep philosophy, the analysis, it's the best that was out there.
00:42:09.000Seeing exactly what motivates the left, going a level deeper, asking the proper questions, analyzing the proper information correctly, bringing people to a higher level of engagement and expertise.
00:42:27.000And so in the next segment, I want to explore what are the main lessons.
00:42:33.000I also want to remember some of the best moments.
00:42:34.000We have some great cuts here of Rush Limbaugh handling some liberal callers.
00:42:39.000But what are the main lessons that we can take that we can apply to our own life and to the conservative movement right now?
00:42:46.000All of you listening to my words right now are listening to these words because of Rush Limbaugh.
00:42:51.000The man who pioneered this medium, who fought daily and valiantly for the country, for freedom, for conservative values.
00:45:16.000On behalf of the Limbaugh family, I would personally like to thank each and every one of you who prayed for Rush and inspired him to keep going.
00:45:31.000You rallied around Rush and lifted him up when he needed you the most.
00:45:39.000I am certain, without a shadow of a doubt, if he could be here today, he would be.
00:45:46.000He loved you, and he loved this radio program with every part of his being.
00:47:32.000Is this the best you've got to sit here and claim that I was interested in getting to the truth about Benghazi, where four Americans died because of the incompetence and laziness of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, who was off the grid during the whole time.
00:50:51.000My point in all of this today is gratitude.
00:50:54.000My point in everything today that I share with you about this is to say thanks and to tell everybody involved how much I love you from the bottom of a sizable and growing and still beating heart.
00:51:52.000Let's go to Cut 51, Tucker Carlson, talking about the void left by Rush's death.
00:51:58.000But before that, you think about what Rush just said in that clip, that he was filled with gratitude for his listeners, for the people that defended him, for the people that believed in him.
00:52:16.000And little did he know that was going to be his last broadcast ever to the largest radio audience ever assembled in the history of talk radio.
00:52:38.000It's like you didn't have to explain what it meant to be a conservative when Rush Limbaugh was doing it better than you could.
00:52:45.000And so now that he's gone, you have to sort of wonder, like, is there, and again, I'm not taxing anybody, but it's your question, is there any elected Republican in the Congress right now who could stand up in front of a microphone and tell you in 10 minutes why it is you vote Republican or why it is you're a conservative or what it is you believe or what America is about?
00:53:43.000They saw something in the New York Times or they read something in the morning.
00:53:47.000Millions of people lived this pattern.
00:53:51.000They woke up, they got ready for work, they turned on the news, and they heard some liberal talking head say something they knew wasn't true.
00:54:48.000Rush Limbaugh stood up every single day and said what so many other people were thinking.
00:54:54.000Rush Lumbaugh was unafraid to articulate the politically incorrect issues of the day.
00:55:02.000And so, when people were bombarded over the weekend with their liberal family or their relatives, people would start to get a little anxious.
00:55:11.000And they just knew that on Monday at 12 o'clock Eastern, they could turn on that dial and that famous music would begin.
00:55:20.000And the introduction would say, and now the Doctor of Democracy from Mission Command in sunny South Florida, Rush Limbaugh.
00:55:33.000He'd always start with some grandiose introduction and get right into it.
00:55:42.000And his lead was always can't miss radio, his first 15 minutes.
00:55:45.000So, whatever Rush led with, it was talked about everywhere.
00:55:51.000Now, a lot of people listened to the show all the way through, but the lead itself was the most listened to part of radio probably in American history.
00:55:58.000That's right when people got on their lunch breaks on the West Coast.
00:56:01.000Some people were just getting to work and they'd wait in their car a little bit.
00:56:04.000I knew one guy in Los Angeles who worked for a big corporation, and part of his negotiation was that he could get into work every day at 9:30.
00:56:20.000In fact, I was just texting with him earlier because he was such a big Rush Limbaugh fan.
00:56:25.000He negotiated with his boss, and I don't think he told his wife, that he was going to have to start work 30 minutes later and stay after work 30 minutes later.
00:56:36.000Because he needed his 30 minutes of rush before he got into work every day.
00:56:40.000I know people that were run banks, and they had all their employees knew that you do not walk in and interrupt them between 12 or 3 any day.
00:56:51.000You could have meetings before 12 or 3, but it's called rush time.
00:56:56.000I know people, Tom Patrick and many others, have been able to recite chapter and verse of every single topic Rush Limbaugh went throughout the week.
00:57:11.000He understood the anxiety of a conservative American that was seeing their country be crumbled before them, that was being attacked by powerful liberal forces.
00:57:25.000With Rush, you always felt like you were on offense.
00:57:29.000With Rush, you always felt that no matter what was happening around you, he was the captain of the ship.
00:57:35.000He was the head of this mission, and it was going to be okay.
00:57:40.000Because he exuded confidence and clear solutions.
00:57:48.000And then the next segment, he would get into the appropriate amount of sarcasm and mockery that the left absolutely deserved.
00:57:56.000And sometimes he pushed the boundaries a little bit too far.
00:57:59.000But then you could still look away because it was all the while incredibly entertaining.
00:58:05.000But then there were the moments when Rush got very serious.
00:58:11.000He used humor as a way to communicate, as a way to make it easier to consume.
00:58:17.000But then there were the moments when Rush got down to business.
00:58:22.000When Brett Kavanaugh was under fire, that's all Rush talked about for three hours a day.
00:58:28.000Christine Ballsey Ford is what he called it.
00:58:32.000Went through all the documents, went through all the trials, asking the right questions.
00:58:37.000And do you know who Senate staffers were listening to in between breaks?
00:58:41.000They were putting in their headphones to see what was Rush saying.
00:58:46.000When I would walk the White House to go visit Jared Kushner and to go see the people negotiating Middle East peace, do you know what they were saying at 2 o'clock Eastern in the White House?
00:59:00.000The White House was looking to Rush for guidance.
00:59:03.000Rush was not looking to the White House for guidance.
00:59:06.000That is a man that shaped public policy.
00:59:09.000That is a man that shaped the daily interaction and behavior of millions of people.
00:59:15.000A legend, a hero, and full of courage.
00:59:22.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:59:23.000If you want to get involved with Turning Point USA, the organization that Rush himself put his name behind, go to tpusa.com, email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.