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00:00:00.000 i'm exhausted from today's yeah it must be kind of cool to talk to the wife of a person who's in

00:00:04.940 the radio hall of fame you know someone's really accomplished something and not just like they give

00:00:10.680 that out to just any other now yeah wow yeah yeah no we had we had katherine uh limbaugh on 0.94

00:00:16.760 that's really cool and she's just a remarkable woman so kind and gracious and uh but she has

00:00:23.160 a new book out that rush actually started to write with her while he was dying um and uh

00:00:29.740 she reminded me of this thing called optimism which i had forgotten about i had too yeah i didn't know

00:00:35.440 it existed yeah but just a really at least for me it was emotionally draining for me yeah um i mean we

00:00:43.800 thought we talked about this during uh when we were off the air but this is the first election that

00:00:50.200 we're going through without rush limbaugh and we talked to her about that that's i mean that's a

00:00:54.820 that's a big statement and i it didn't really hit me until we started talking to her yeah we do talk

00:00:58.980 to a couple of candidates in some of the biggest races in the country as well uh don boldock in

00:01:03.520 new hampshire today liked him yeah i think you will too yeah eric schmidt uh we like him a lot

00:01:08.320 in missouri uh so a couple big candidates there and i think it was a good show that was a good

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00:03:09.720 so the debate last night in florida went probably i think as expected uh de santis crushed uh charlie

00:03:22.360 chris was just kept trying to focus on abortion rights what what de santis crushed what debate were

00:03:31.540 you watching i was i was closely following the new york times coverage on this yeah were you yeah i got

00:03:38.780 a totally different picture of this like for example that time when uh when a good old rod de santis

00:03:47.880 always always going to it always with those misleading republican claims like last night

00:03:53.100 when he said mr christ was supporting abortion up until the moment of birth this is a common

00:03:58.700 republican claim but abortion until the moment of birth doesn't exist i they literally wrote that

00:04:05.800 sentence in the new york times called partial birth abortion no it does not exist

00:04:11.340 no i'm i am curious on this because we've seen many cases where it did exist and people were

00:04:20.060 arrested for it so those people obviously should be let out of prison i ask you do you think the

00:04:24.840 writers at the new york times think they're jedis i yes i think that's not the abortion you were

00:04:31.020 looking for i was reading their coverage today and i think you might be onto something i think they

00:04:35.420 think they can wave their hands what what do you mean it doesn't exist what does that mean

00:04:40.580 now you could say it doesn't occur frequently it's not an incredibly common uh procedure you could

00:04:47.960 certainly make that point and that would be valid it's not the most common type of abortion to say

00:04:52.820 it does not exist is like it's insanity what do you mean it doesn't exist what what are you talking

00:05:00.500 about war is peace right like and and let's just say for a moment it didn't exist it still should be

00:05:08.460 illegal right like art the clown from terrifier 2 does not actually exist he's a movie character

00:05:16.780 however killer clowns should still be outlawed right and the point of the comment from desantis

00:05:23.900 is that chris doesn't want it outlawed he wants it to be legal he wants it to be up to the woman whether

00:05:31.340 the killer clown comes and decapitates think about how worker at his think about how weak you are as an

00:05:39.620 individual if you only read the new york times another yeah you are now accepting that things 0.54

00:05:46.820 that exist in the real world don't exist yeah and things that don't exist in the real world do exist

00:05:54.140 right it's incredible i mean you have no chance of survival let me give you can i give you a couple

00:05:59.380 another example from the desantis debate yeah yeah he uh desantis also said mr chris supported

00:06:05.200 dismemberment abortions a pejorative term for procedures performed later in pregnancy

00:06:12.400 oh i guess if you're dismembering a baby you could describe it as pejorative because it is a 0.62

00:06:21.360 negative connotation the whole taking the baby apart thing there is some negative association

00:06:28.820 with that again they don't but there's also that's what occurs during the abortion they don't say

00:06:34.240 that's not what he's describing it inaccurately yeah it's just a negative way of saying taking the baby

00:06:39.940 apart can you but there's positive ways there's positive ways like he could have grown up to be

00:06:50.460 a killer clown i can this he was in a clown suit inside the womb this procedure belongs in the 0.70

00:06:58.700 killer clown movie that is where it should be it should be something supported by half of the

00:07:04.680 country and by the way it's not half of the politicians in this country yes but then you go

00:07:10.960 over to the house where nancy pelosi is running she's trying her best to get democrats elected can i give 0.85

00:07:18.220 you some quotes from the piece that came out that was the desantis piece that you just heard okay

00:07:22.400 um and oh should i give you the one more desantis one it's pretty good yeah go all right i'll give

00:07:29.460 it to you he gave also a graphic and inaccurate description of gender affirming care for transgender

00:07:36.080 children suggesting falsely that doctors were mutilating minors in reality gender affirming care

00:07:43.540 which major major medical associations including pediatric associations endorse primarily involves

00:07:49.800 social support non-permanent treatments like puberty blockers and hormonal treatments so all the videos

00:07:58.160 you've seen of doctors surgeons describing how many times bragging to their dei departments how often

00:08:08.720 they've done these surgeries that also doesn't exist it's just social support it's just yeah you go

00:08:17.280 jill you're really john that's all it is do you believe this ron desantis character but on the other

00:08:25.640 side in the house yeah nancy pelosi yeah also got covered and i think you'll say this is the same

00:08:31.620 type of treatment that ron desantis received here's some quotes from the these are all real quotes

00:08:38.480 from the article today new york times in peak form this may be peak new york times wow i'm maybe it

00:08:46.560 was when they were denying the holodomor but i will say it might just be today okay okay miss pelosi this

00:08:55.140 is a quote after multiple articles about how rich the new prime minister and how awful rich and how

00:09:02.260 he's privileged the new prime minister of great britain yeah the woman with the ice cream drawer in her

00:09:08.360 right yeah okay miss pelosi is an 82 year old juggernaut in armani actual quote a juggernaut

00:09:18.480 in armani as in giorgio armani yes okay for her uh-huh it's a wonderful attribute that she

00:09:26.620 owns these incredibly expensive clothes yes the article directly above it just how rich is the new prime

00:09:34.800 minister of britain rishi sunak's assent is breakthrough for diversity with privilege

00:09:39.700 attached okay back to pelosi her energy level amazes and inspires her troops i'm surprised her staff is 0.87

00:09:49.860 not on record saying that she's lazy i don't know i'm surprised they couldn't get that quote out of

00:09:53.380 them you know she's actually lazy and awful i don't know she is masterful said representative 1.00

00:10:00.080 hayley stevens a michigan democrat and this one i don't know what to make of this i would like your

00:10:06.480 opinion on what to make of this quote as she campaigned last week she carried in her purse

00:10:12.540 a sausage

00:10:19.640 this is a real quote as she campaigned last week she campaigned she carried in her purse a sausage 0.98

00:10:34.060 wrapped in a bow

00:10:36.240 what fan walked up to nancy belosi said madam speaker here's a sausage 1.00

00:10:49.180 wrapped in a bow and she's carrying it around in her purse

00:10:55.700 who carries a sausage in her purse i don't i do not want to answer that as i may be a trial of the fcc

00:11:05.560 i gotta take a break i gotta take a break

00:11:13.160 a sausage

00:11:15.580 she has a purse sausage 0.94

00:11:18.360 ladies and gentlemen

00:11:20.520 nancy pelosi is walking around

00:11:23.720 you want to talk about science of dementia isn't number one on the list

00:11:28.200 you're carrying a sausage in your purse

00:11:30.920 where did i put that sausage

00:11:34.800 okay if out of the blue one day someone just gave you a chance to save seven that's in the new

00:11:42.840 new york times

00:11:44.040 this is the best of the glenbeck program

00:11:48.700 eric schmidt is joining us now he's running for u.s uh senate he is currently the missouri attorney general

00:11:56.600 hello eric how are you

00:11:57.900 good to be with you i'm doing great glenn

00:12:00.060 hey uh i just have to ask you

00:12:01.680 does some of your tenacity

00:12:03.880 come from the fact that your

00:12:06.180 i think it was your grandfather

00:12:07.580 was in the seventh army

00:12:10.640 which if i'm not mistaken the seventh was patten

00:12:14.040 wasn't it

00:12:14.780 well he was in the uh it was in the uh the 44th infantry division

00:12:18.840 and they saw a lot of combat and my grandfather had a

00:12:21.760 eighth grade education and fought in world war ii came back

00:12:24.620 started a butcher shop

00:12:26.560 uh where you know he raised a family

00:12:28.600 my dad worked

00:12:29.400 seven days a week in the midnight shift

00:12:31.660 and so yeah i think i think i got some of that grit and determination from my family and that work ethic because there's a lot of work to do but uh i'm certainly blessed to have to be in a position to do some of the stuff so um i want to talk to you about two things esg and uh the covid investigation can we start there

00:12:49.040 yeah absolutely okay there's a lot to talk about which which one do you want to talk about esg or or or the code of us yeah let's do that first

00:12:57.140 the court granted your request to depose anthony fauci

00:13:02.120 and also jen uh saki and and others

00:13:06.040 about the

00:13:07.260 administration

00:13:08.540 colluding with social media to uh to suppress free speech

00:13:13.380 yeah so we filed the lawsuit and uh it's a landmark lawsuit when we filed it in the spring we've been fighting all summer to get uh discovery which we've received and now we've got an order to take the depositions of fauci and saki under oath and others

00:13:25.980 which is a big uh um a big thing in this case to get to the truth because as you know glenn the the first amendment is the beating heart of our constitution we're born with the right to speak our minds and have opinions and government's role is to protect that right certainly not to infringe upon that right and what we've seen

00:13:43.960 especially during covid was a government outsourcing its censorship to big tech giants like facebook and twitter and instagram and through this discovery and this lawsuit we found out that

00:13:55.960 they were holding weekly censorship meetings

00:13:58.420 that that uh senior facebook officials were texting the surgeon general of the united states saying hey yeah we took that one down what else can we do i mean coordinating directly

00:14:07.960 wow and colluding directly with the government to silence people to deflat the platform them to you know

00:14:14.200 to essentially silence them and uh we also know that uh uh you know obviously anthony fauci was a part of this jen saki was

00:14:23.000 you know when she was press secretary spoke openly about how they were flagging posts

00:14:27.500 for facebook and so now for the first time we get a look under the hood

00:14:32.140 we've actually got the documents to prove this was actually happening but on friday we got a court order

00:14:37.420 to take fauci's deposition and i just think um for a lot of reasons glenn this is critical because what

00:14:44.600 we saw during covid was wasn't about the science we know that it wasn't about anything like that it was

00:14:50.320 about power and control and if you dared to disagree if you dared to have a dissenting opinion

00:14:56.120 i mean they came after you and not just msnbc and these you know crazies on the left but the

00:15:03.440 government oh yeah yeah the united states correct correct uh the government was using um these i mean

00:15:11.160 it is it's a public private partnership between social media and the white house and the government

00:15:17.720 and it's absolutely wrong so you're investigating this what is what's the ramification

00:15:23.740 if you can prove this in a court of law what what happens what's the penalty well ultimately

00:15:30.720 yeah i mean ultimately we're seeking to enjoin it to stop it but i think glenn um maybe the most

00:15:36.360 important work that could come from all of this there's a lot of i suppose repercussions down the line

00:15:40.760 but exposing this because you know this would be the job of uh of a press that wasn't so aligned

00:15:48.120 right with right the biden administration and by the way part of this investigation also is not just

00:15:54.540 what was happening during covid but you know we also are taking the deposition of um of a um fbi

00:16:02.000 official who has bragged on a podcast about his working relationship with big tech and the hunter biden

00:16:09.340 laptop story so all of these things that you know people were pointing out as this is you know

00:16:14.960 this is unbelievable we can't believe this is happening in the united states america this is

00:16:18.800 orwellian in this lawsuit we get the opportunity to actually show documents to show emails to show

00:16:25.580 text messages in these sworn depositions that will be taken what was actually happening and i don't care

00:16:31.460 what your political stripe has done this ought to scare the bejesus out of everybody i mean this is the

00:16:37.200 kind of stuff that um you see happening in other countries that if it was happening in other countries

00:16:42.660 our state department would be warning us about the level of censorship right in government action

00:16:48.380 and authoritarianism uh and i think we have to stand up and we have to push back and uh you know i've

00:16:54.260 been unafraid to do so and we're and we're making progress um let me just tie it to the senate will you

00:17:00.820 take this kind of stuff to the senate and do you have enough allies in the senate to get this on the

00:17:08.940 table and on the agenda i hope so but this is what i'm going to do i'm going to take the same fighting

00:17:13.980 spirit i've had as attorney general and take it to the senate because i think a very important role

00:17:18.400 over the next two years assuming we take the majority which will be very important um is this

00:17:23.060 oversight role and you got to have tough people who are unafraid to ask these questions and i've said

00:17:27.980 you know when fauci announced that his retirement in december um you know that should not excuse him

00:17:33.920 from being you know called before congress so fauci ought to clear his calendar for 2023 because it's

00:17:40.480 not just about the covet censorship we still need answers on what he knew about the you know gain of

00:17:46.160 function research his role with that right covering it up with the world health organization not being

00:17:50.980 honest with the american people coordinating with the teachers unions to shut down schools and force

00:17:56.080 five-year-olds to wear a mask we cannot let this stuff ever happen again and the only way we're ever

00:18:01.240 going to do that is to get answers hold these people's feet to the fire and i'm committed to

00:18:05.400 doing that we ought to bring in senior justice department officials why is it our justice

00:18:09.460 department is targeting you know political enemies why is it okay for pro-life you know folks to be

00:18:15.300 targeted why are parents being investigated under the patriot act for showing up to school board meetings

00:18:20.860 there's a lot of things we need to do but i'm going to be right in the center i promise you that

00:18:25.420 eric schmidt who is uh running for uh u.s senate and uh currently stew beating his opponent right in

00:18:34.060 the polls yep seems that way although you can never be too sure make sure you go out and vote yeah vote

00:18:38.200 vote vote vote vote um eric i want to talk to you also hear about your work on esg you have led 19 states

00:18:48.960 in a coalition to launch an investigation into six major banks over esg investing tell me about this

00:18:56.720 yeah i know i know glenn this is something you've been talking about for a very long time and

00:19:01.280 and this is real and i think the american people are becoming more familiar with the term and what it

00:19:06.020 means and what the repercussions could mean for the united states so you know six of the largest banks

00:19:11.360 we launched an investigation into them we issued subpoenas we launched that uh early last week

00:19:16.860 um to get at their involvement in this net zero banking alliance and what is that it is the united

00:19:24.860 nations governs alliance among some of the biggest banks in the world and to put that in perspective

00:19:31.180 they control about 40 percent of all the banking assets the united states these six banks and what

00:19:36.460 they've committed to do is to by 2050 and benchmarks all along the way have a portfolio that is a net

00:19:43.700 carbon neutral portfolio what does that mean well it means that they're going to cut off lending and

00:19:51.480 capital for oil and gas um in energy exploration auto manufacturing agriculture i mean this is far

00:20:00.680 reaching and it is not uh just about oil and gas i mean this gets at everything for example the farmer

00:20:07.320 that has too many diesel powered vehicles on his farm might not get that loan i mean this is incredibly

00:20:14.580 scary stuff they've committed to it and so we've launched this investigation because this thing

00:20:19.460 uh sounds a lot like anti-competitive behavior it sounds a lot like unfair trade practices and so

00:20:27.120 missouri's leading the charge with these other states to investigate this and actually issue these

00:20:31.160 subpoenas and get to the bottom of it because glenn what we're seeing right now with inflation

00:20:36.100 obviously when you spend trillions and you cut off and you know domestic energy supply and declare war

00:20:40.780 american energy you get higher prices for everything that's what we're seeing right now this is the

00:20:45.280 long-term vision for that this is to make sure that you know this happens in the long run and

00:20:51.720 everybody's going to pay a lot more for everything and it's also feeding away american sovereignty big

00:20:58.580 time the idea that the united nations would be dictating who gets a loan what farmer gets a loan

00:21:05.400 what startup you know we have all the energy we'll ever need in this country to be energy dominant

00:21:10.160 and to export that to our friends and allies around the world and this is a direct threat to that no doubt

00:21:14.180 so you sent a list of of questions uh about you know you're you've uh you say you're part of the

00:21:23.000 global climate initiative identify who made the decision to join uh include any involvement or input

00:21:29.300 from your board of directors investors covered companies and your reasoning what exactly are you doing

00:21:34.860 what is your participation level what are you expecting to find uh well we've launched it and

00:21:41.760 we want to know more because as i said the legal issues here this is not just uh you know we could

00:21:47.240 object to this um theoretically rhetorically we can talk about the implications it could have for the

00:21:53.460 economy all of those things are legitimate points of discussion and i think you and i see eye to eye on

00:21:58.280 that but this is these are legal documents right these are these are civil investigative demands

00:22:02.220 essentially subpoenas saying you need to tell us more about this because we have laws in our state

00:22:07.900 that might forbid this practice and um and so we want to get them on the record find out what exactly

00:22:13.880 um you know the process has been for them internally have they been working together on this again this is

00:22:20.340 40 of all the banking assets in the united states and it's not just 2050 there are benchmarks all along the

00:22:28.060 way that again will siphon off cut off lending and capital for energy exploration the manufacturing of

00:22:35.520 cars you know farm loans i mean this is pretty far reaching and deserves scrutiny um so tell me about

00:22:44.580 the uh election how you doing so far how are you feeling we're i mean we're we're uh in a good

00:22:51.100 position um i think we're in a strong position but i'm running against uh an heiress uh of the 0.68

00:22:57.320 anheiser bush fortune who is outspending us right now and and by the way you can't make this stuff

00:23:03.240 up when you know my dad worked at anheiser bush seven days a week of the midnight shift i referenced

00:23:07.540 that i actually in college gave tours and took out the trash at the estate that she grew up on

00:23:12.520 the media hates this right because who said blue collar roots who's fighting for working class families

00:23:19.420 taking on an out-of-touch limousine liberal so that's obviously a difference in our backgrounds but

00:23:24.680 also our beliefs when she signed on to the green new deal she's campaigning to be the 51st vote

00:23:29.140 um for the biden agenda would be a total disaster is for eliminating the filibuster packing the court 0.97

00:23:35.360 and so you know we've got a tough race here that we're gonna continue to run through the tape because

00:23:40.800 getting the majority getting to 51 certainly runs through missouri and if you know people want to help

00:23:45.960 they can text schmidt to 30409 we'd appreciate it we've uh got 14 days to save america here

00:23:52.780 go ahead i know i know doing everything i can i know um by the way she's outspending uh eric two to 0.95

00:24:00.560 one and this is what's happening you know nancy pelosi just came out a couple of days ago and they're

00:24:05.940 just all this dark money is being poured in what are you talking about the democrats are outspending

00:24:11.360 two and three to one in every case it's crazy the amount of money that they're spending

00:24:17.740 and uh doesn't look like it's working so far thank you so much you know go ahead we'll keep fighting

00:24:24.000 glenn thanks we'll keep fighting thanks for all that you do and like i said everything we talked

00:24:28.460 about today and on your show previously i'm going to take that same spirit to the senate we need more

00:24:32.700 reinforcements in washington and uh appreciate you having me on thank you eric appreciate it eric schmidt

00:24:37.740 um an attorney general i am most impressed with he has taken the bull by the horns on a few items

00:24:45.800 and is relentless just relentless uh and would be great to have that kind of a wake-up call in the senate

00:24:54.120 the best of the glenn beck program

00:25:00.200 and greetings to you thrill seekers conversationalists and music lovers all across the

00:25:09.560 bountiful and optimistic fruited plain it's the rush limbaugh program here on the excellence in

00:25:15.860 broadcasting network and greetings to you thrill seekers conversational

00:25:18.680 katherine adams limbaugh let me just explain who she is she was born in massachusetts she is a

00:25:27.840 direct descendant from the mayflower direct lineage to john and uh and john quincy adams

00:25:35.020 katherine uh has traveled to and lived in over 40 countries on five continents originally due to her

00:25:42.940 mother's career as an american diplomat and her father's international business career following

00:25:47.000 graduation from the naval academy throughout her youth katherine gained vast well-rounded experiences

00:25:53.280 routinely representing the united states abroad liaisoning with heads of state ambassadors and

00:25:59.420 high-ranking military officers while also witnessing human suffering firsthand including extreme poverty

00:26:05.660 and disease early on katherine made it a lifelong mission to help others in times of crisis encourage

00:26:11.700 people to reach their highest potential at 15 she taught english as a volunteer while living in a

00:26:18.040 remote country in west africa she translated for american military doctors who would set up field hospitals

00:26:24.420 on uh on missions and raise funds for underprivileged children leading to a national recognition as

00:26:31.460 foreign service teen of the year she is uh also the co-author of the number one new york times best-selling

00:26:39.900 adventures of rush revere american history book series um she also has been a major player and led

00:26:47.740 major productions um part of significant charitable efforts including nelson mandela invitational in south africa

00:26:55.220 the stand up for betsy ross campaign with her husband which raised over five million dollars for families of

00:27:00.620 first responders and of course she has donated along with uh her family now foundation millions of dollars

00:27:07.760 affected by cancer illness and hardship she was the one who told us on february 17th 2021

00:27:16.160 that her husband had passed away she also said that um his legacy would continue and she is doing that in a couple of ways

00:27:27.460 she is uh presenting the first ever american patriot scholarship in honor of rush and uh she's supporting american

00:27:35.640 military heroes police first responders and gold star families through their foundation she is also her and her

00:27:43.180 brother david i'm sorry russia's brother david uh have put together a um a book radio's greatest of all time

00:27:51.860 katherine welcome hello glenn goodness what an introduction that that certainly wasn't from the new york times

00:28:01.540 no it was not from the new york times i think they have a different version you know i i was reading i was

00:28:09.840 reading your bio and i thought it this is this is um hard to say strange to say but truly a uh an equal

00:28:21.200 to rush as far as accomplishments thank you so much thank you so much i don't know if i can agree in

00:28:28.340 in full but thank you i truly appreciate it very very much so the name greatest of all radio's greatest

00:28:35.020 of all time is it true that that's what it says on his death certificate yes we have to be on brand

00:28:43.820 at all times very important very important straight from start to finish but but yes it does another

00:28:52.240 thing that we wanted to do in a way to to tweak the media's final goodbye from rush which we know

00:28:59.160 he certainly would have loved oh my god someone put that through ironically that poor person is that put

00:29:06.540 it through but yes yes it is so so fantastic uh under occupation radio's greatest of all time

00:29:14.760 um i was there um in the capital the night he got the um the presidential freedom award

00:29:24.640 um and he always struck me i mean he was he was bombastic on the air you know on loan from god but he

00:29:35.820 always struck me as a very humble person in real life and i could see that that really deeply moved him

00:29:44.240 that night you know he really was he was incredibly brilliant and incredibly kind fearless exceptionally

00:29:53.760 talented in radio of course but but he was truly gifted but i believe one of his attributes that we all

00:30:02.100 love the most was he was so humble he had the biggest heart he was so sincere he never forgot the little

00:30:10.720 guy he never became too big and he never really thought of himself as rush limbaugh we've the name

00:30:18.260 rush limbaugh he he did on the radio but but not not in real life so to speak he always tried to have a

00:30:26.800 better show the next day he never thought that he accomplished the peaks that he did um he always was

00:30:34.100 working so incredibly hard so yes that night meant everything to him he was very surprised by it we were

00:30:43.360 actually in boston he had geared up to making this announcement on the radio and thought that was

00:30:49.660 basically it that the secret was out and now he could go about his medical mission so to speak and so

00:30:56.600 we left for boston right after that announcement that day and there was a call from the president when he was

00:31:03.560 supposed to be going into surgery that said you really should be in washington tonight we thought oh

00:31:10.620 well we don't quite have the attire for that or the mindset but but he was so incredibly touched

00:31:20.260 so honored so thrilled it meant everything to him literally did he know that that was coming

00:31:26.780 did it was it told to him in the white house or was that the moment that we all saw was that the

00:31:33.340 moment he knew that was the moment that he knew is going to be presented to him there he didn't know

00:31:40.080 when we flew up he didn't know when the president was calling that morning he only knew earlier in in

00:31:47.720 the white house when we spoke with president trump and their immediate family who were deeply appreciative

00:31:53.420 too of course but that moment he didn't know that it was going to be awarded then and there so

00:32:00.040 everything came at him rapid fire and his emotions were so sincere he was actually not feeling well

00:32:07.700 at all that evening he was going into a pretty significant surgery the next day so just being

00:32:14.880 there was was quite a feat for him to be there but having that awarded to him where it was in the form

00:32:22.700 that it was meant meant meant everything he he was a just a young boy from missouri as he often said

00:32:29.380 he he wanted to be on the radio from the time he was eight but he certainly never dreamed that he would

00:32:35.480 be awarded the presidential medal of freedom in that forum uh you know his um i think rush was um

00:32:46.240 he felt the same way i feel about my audience and not every host feels this way they're like family

00:32:52.000 and because you get to know each other while we're at a disadvantage we don't really get to know the

00:32:58.800 listener we kind of know because if they've been with us for a long time we know that they've you know

00:33:04.440 they're self-selecting so they're they're kind of like us you know yeah um how hard was it and how long

00:33:11.160 did he have to hide this from people that he was so sick it was it was really a surprise to him he

00:33:19.620 really didn't have symptoms like other people may so he didn't find out until late january and he

00:33:27.460 announced this in early february he didn't have to he didn't have to carry it too long but how did he

00:33:34.900 know what why what made him go to the doctor actually we were celebrating his birthday and

00:33:41.160 he didn't mention as most husbands or men may not he didn't mention that he wasn't particularly

00:33:46.760 feeling well we were celebrating his birthday and the very next day he started to have difficulty

00:33:53.360 breathing he was having a heaviness in his chest he had pain in the back of his shoulder and i said

00:33:59.980 you know this could be related to the heart because he had had a heart issue at one point so i i said to

00:34:06.780 him you know we really should fly and see your your doctor we were flying right over his doctor in

00:34:13.520 chicago and um we found out then and there that it it wasn't the heart and that it was going to need

00:34:20.080 a battery of tests and we didn't confirm it until probably a week or so later in boston at dana

00:34:27.280 farber and um and then from there all of the treatment and so forth started but he did have to carry

00:34:33.740 it for a period of time because he wanted to deliver it in the best possible way and as you said like

00:34:40.140 you his audience means everything to him they are a brother a father a family figure and he knew

00:34:48.720 that they were going to take this news incredibly hard so he had to hold it for a period of time but

00:34:55.060 not too long that potentially it would get out in the news if we were to start treatment or something

00:34:59.660 you um you start the um you start the book with a conversation that

00:35:05.500 you and rush had um in the in the hospital on january 12th about about a month before he died

00:35:12.900 yes can you take us back to that absolutely this book is very different in that it doesn't read like

00:35:20.820 a typical book it isn't a start and finish type of story it's more so a collection of rush's favorite

00:35:29.080 moments whether it was on air or off air and some of the times i was recording him talking about

00:35:36.680 reflections he started this book in early february of 2020 and a lot of the time we were in the hospital

00:35:43.360 during these conversations or these recordings and one of those conversations was was about was about

00:35:51.040 that and it opens up where he was brought a donut by me for his birthday and he was reflecting on his

00:36:00.560 time in missouri as a young intern before he became the person that we all know as as the famous rush

00:36:08.220 limbaugh he was just a young kid with a dream hanging around a radio station and in his hometown of

00:36:15.360 cape dorado missouri and um this donut brought him back because he used to be the young kid that would

00:36:22.100 bring donuts fresh baked donuts to to the um radio station there in his hometown so he was only about

00:36:30.920 15 or 16 but that brought him right back and he had never told that story before i happened to be

00:36:38.240 recording it and we transcribed it directly as he said it um that that day in the hospital

00:36:44.200 so it is amazing to me we're with katherine uh adams limbaugh and uh she has just put out a book that

00:36:52.380 she and rush started and uh then david came in david limbaugh to help finish it's radio's greatest of all

00:37:00.660 time when you're when you're looking through the book there is one thing that struck me i i've

00:37:08.140 led a pretty blessed life for the last 25 30 years and rush is actually the guy who gave permission

00:37:15.700 for me to be on the network at this time um and so he really actually started my career um but um

00:37:23.360 uh i've had a blessed career and i've met a lot of people but when you read this book my gosh he knew

00:37:32.200 the giants of history and and conversed with them and and worked with them

00:37:39.960 were you when you came in and uh came into his life with the experience you have was that a little

00:37:50.460 odd for you too or not is it just me no i i don't think that part was odd as much as

00:37:59.960 how he was talked about in the mainstream media and getting used to that portion of it because i

00:38:06.760 came to know and knew who he was off of of the radio and and who he was in person and i think

00:38:14.860 the harder thing was knowing how he was talked about when here he was able to relate to as you

00:38:21.340 said the heads of state or really anyone um top celebrities key figures that was reagan thatcher

00:38:30.000 that was his peer group yeah and and i think how he was talked about in the mainstream media was the

00:38:37.160 harder thing to to get used to but in terms of who he interacted with he was just the same he was

00:38:44.220 the same person as talking on the radio he directly spoke to the american people in the same way that

00:38:51.180 he spoke to the president united states he was he was rushed through and through which i i love the

00:38:57.380 most about him um did he ever get used to or did he blow off all the horrible things that were said

00:39:06.180 about him because if you're like my wife my wife probably has a harder time with it than i do 1.00

00:39:12.820 yeah i think so as well he always said that the media didn't make him and can't break him so i i think

00:39:22.020 that he took it as as a measure of success he didn't ever particularly get used to it but he said the more

00:39:29.980 that they're talking and making things up i'm obviously effective so i i tried to look at it in

00:39:36.460 in that way as well but i definitely probably had a harder time than he did with some of the things

00:39:41.800 that are were said so what is we have one minute uh let me think if i can come up with a one minute

00:39:48.700 question because i i've got i've got a lot of philosophical questions for you and um real quick

00:39:54.900 how did you two meet we met long ago through friends when i was running a charity for gary

00:40:01.740 player and the nelson mandela invitational and did did you know of did you were you a fan of his on

00:40:08.840 the radio or not i i was a fan of his and and became more and more a fan as time went on but i did listen

00:40:18.380 early on but i should just say quickly glenn before we have to go because i know we're short on time

00:40:22.980 that proceeds from this book will benefit the children of fallen military heroes that is very

00:40:29.780 important because this book is not about selling books it's about inspiring the country rush loves

00:40:36.080 the american people in our country with all of his heart there's 14 days left for a very important

00:40:41.700 election and i know rush is still with us and talking to us so do i

00:40:46.140 you

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The Glenn Beck Program - October 25, 2022

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