Rush always said, ‘History repeats itself.’ Now more than ever, we know Rush was always 99.8 percent right, according to recent polls! His brilliance on the radio is timeless. The page below will highlight favorite quotes and programs from over the years.
Rush Continues to Inspire
Caller Remembers Rush’s Very First Show in 1988
The Rush Limbaugh Show – August 1, 2017
RUSH: We’re gonna go to Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania. Mike, thank you for the call, sir. How are you?
CALLER: Hey, Rush! It’s Mike from Plymouth Meeting. Big congratulations and mega dittos!
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: I caught you on your very first broadcast on radio station 770. My wife and I were on our way to the Jersey Shore. I heard you talkin’, and I said to my wife, “What did he say his name was?” And she said, “I think he said ‘Rush.’” And I said, “Man, I don’t know who he is, but I sure like what he’s saying. He’s saying what I’m thinkin’,” and I’ve been listening ever since.
RUSH: Well, I appreciate that. You know right where you were, too, when you first heard the show.
CALLER: Rush, almost to the exact exit on the Jersey Turnpike on my way to the Jersey Shore listening to radio station 770; then you switched it to Philadelphia 96.5. I listened to you through all that static and lousy connections for years. (chuckling) Love you, man. Love you!
RUSH: (laughing) I appreciate it. I really do. I think about my first day at WABC, Studio 8X. Remember Studio 8X? I’m walking in there, and it’s my first day. I’m on my way to spending my first month in New York at a hotel. The moving van lost the furniture for two months. It was at Le Parker Meridien. I walked in and it was a heatwave. It was unrelenting. The rain felt like a hot shower.
I have never experienced a hotter summer in my life than the first six weeks I was in New York in 1988. I walked into WABC, and I knew — I knew — that many in management wished the deal had not been made that had me there to do these two free hours on WABC. But yet it was WABC, it was New York, it was the pinnacle. It was such a gamut of emotions that I went through. I’ll never forget any of it.
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RUSH: Well, that’s it for the look-back remembrances here on our 29th year, starting our 30th. Thirty years at any job is a big deal. Thirty years in this business in the same job? Maybe five people have done it. Maybe three. I don’t know.
“We don’t forget anything here and nothing gets past us. In fact, if you listen regularly you will hear about things long before they become mainstream pop culture.”
– PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
2020 State of the Union Address
Rush always said, ‘History repeats itself.’ Now more than ever, we know Rush was always 99.9 percent right, according to recent polls! His brilliance on the radio is timeless. The page below will highlight favorite quotes and programs from over the years.
“The founding of the country is something that every child deserves to know. The founding, the people behind it, what it took, why it’s so unique, what is unique about the United States. These things are not taught.”
Advice for a Mom Worried About Educating Her Kids at Home
The Rush Limbaugh Show, March 31, 2020
I actually was thinking about this over the weekend as I was plotting my return to the EIB studios, and I was just recording random thoughts as I had them so that I wouldn’t forget them, and one of the random thoughts I had, I heard somebody — don’t remember, doesn’t matter — complaining about having their kids at home with them all day and what the hell they were gonna do. And kids don’t do well at home, they gotta get out but they can’t get out, people are going crazy.
Advice for a Mom Worried About Educating Her Kids at Home
RUSH: Katie, San Andreas, California. Hi. Great to have you with us. Hello.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. It’s an honor to talk to you. I’ve been dreaming about this day for so long because I was a Rush child and I’m raising Rush children now. My mother is probably listening to this, and she’s like, “Oh, my God. She got on.”
RUSH: Well, congratulations. That’s great to hear.
CALLER: And I also want to say mega prayers to you. Our thoughts and prayers are with you all the time, and we pray for a full recovery.
RUSH: Thank you. Thank you very much.
CALLER: You’re welcome. I was told I need to get to the point. I live in a small community in California. I wanted to talk about and share with you how this is affecting us. I’m homeschooling my children now. I have three children 8, 5, and 2. And this has rocked our world. We are healthy, thank God. But it’s rocked our world in the fact that I don’t know how to teach my daughter Common Core. I don’t know how to teach the reading strategies that are expected so that she’s gonna pass the state tests. I don’t know how to teach reading to my 5-year-old with the expectations that they’re teaching.
I’m concerned for their future education. My husband and I have the conversation daily, do we hold them back? What do we do? They are missing a third of the school year, and like you were pointing out before, why? The numbers aren’t there. I’m having such a hard time wrapping my head around this. We’re changing everyone’s daily life for such a small —
RUSH: But the California situation — now, one thing, I need to be as accurate as I can here. The New York metropolitan area is home to the largest and most prominent ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia.
CALLER: Yes.
RUSH: But that still didn’t mitigate the fact that five to 7,000 Chinese flying into and out of California every day for who knows how long and that the numbers of people infected and the death toll in California is so far below what common sense would tell you it should be. And there has to be a reason for it. As a layman, I don’t know what it is.
CALLER: I can’t wrap my head around it. We’ve been locked down. They canceled school the week of St. Patrick’s Day so the 16th of March they canceled school. The kids were supposed to be on spring break for two weeks. That Thursday after St. Patrick’s Day — so the 19th, I guess — our governor, who’s a genius, put us all on lockdown. And, you know, we’ve been sheltered in place. My husband has an essential job, so thank God he’s still working and he’s still getting paid. But, I mean, you’re just changing everyone’s daily life. And I have a hard time, I’m just having such a hard time with it.
RUSH: Well, let me get back to your homeschooling question.
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: And maybe I misinterpreted it. You don’t want to do it? You would rather they be exposed to Common Core?
CALLER: No, I’d rather — see, I guess I’m torn on that one is I think the social aspect of my kids going to school, they miss that daily, but then for me to make sure that I’m still teaching them so they’re not gonna be behind next year, I feel like I have to expose them a little bit to Common Core. Does that make sense?
RUSH: Okay, I get what you mean.
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: I get what you mean.
CALLER: I don’t want to be a teacher. I taught nine years ago.
RUSH: I actually was thinking about this over the weekend as I was plotting my return to the EIB studios, and I was just recording random thoughts as I had them so that I wouldn’t forget them, and one of the random thoughts I had, I heard somebody — don’t remember, doesn’t matter — complaining about having their kids at home with them all day and what the hell they were gonna do. And kids don’t do well at home, they gotta get out but they can’t get out, people are going crazy.
So I thought, you know, I happen to like home. I’ve built my life around being home. I got everything I need at home. I’ve set it up that way. I don’t have to leave home for anything. I love being home. I’ve always dreamed of having a home. It’s just one of my quirks. So how can I be helpful and transfer this attitude to other people? Because right now people don’t have any choice. We’re being ordered to stay home under penalty of this or that.
So what can you tell your kids? Well, educating them, you have such a golden opportunity here. You have no choice, they are at home. They’re prisoners. You’re prisoners. You have a golden opportunity to correct whatever kind of drivel they have been taught. And you’re not under time pressure. You don’t have to do eight hours of school a day. You can devise your own method for doing this. You can instill in them the concept of nationalism and patriotism and tell them exactly why they have to stay home. You know, they’re not too young to learn. How old are your kids?
CALLER: They are 8, 5, and 2. And that’s what I’ve done —
RUSH: The 8-year-old is not too young to learn some of these things.
CALLER: Oh, absolutely not. Like, we start our day with the Pledge. We do the Star-Spangled Banner, and my 8-year-old, I don’t know what she was being taught in school, but she just was under the assumption everything was free. And I was like no, nothing is free. No. Everything costs money. We’re gonna go back to capitalism 101 here.
RUSH: Right. Well, exactly. But in the meantime there are some other lessons that they’re learning, and among them — and I wish I had had more of it my whole life, particularly when I was younger, and that’s discipline. You have an opportunity to teach discipline that you don’t even have to be mean about it because there is no alternative. They have to learn to deal with these restrictions. They have to learn to come up with ways to keep themselves, quote, entertained, busy, whatever to pass the time because that’s the key. You can find ways for it to be productive.
Discipline, I think, is one of the greatest lessons that could be taught during this. And also there is this concept — a lot of people disagree, but there is the concept of denial. They can’t go out. They can’t do this, they can’t do that. You have to tell ’em why. We’re in a war. We are being attacked by an invisible enemy that doesn’t care who it attacks and can kill a lot of people. It’s your job to keep them safe, and you love them, and that’s why this is all happening. And there’s certain things that right now they just can’t do and just can’t have.
It’s a combination of discipline and denial. You can’t always go where you want. You can’t always go where you want when you want. And you have to learn to use your time at home to learn things, to become a better person, become more educated, more informed. There are opportunities in all this. I believe that there’s good in everything that happens. It may be hard to find, it may be invisible, but it will reveal itself.
CALLER: I completely agree. And, you know, I had my mental emotional breakdown Sunday when this was gonna go on for 30 more days, but then I was like I need to look at it as a half full glass, that I have the opportunity to spend more time with my children, to influence them in the way that I want them to be influenced, to teach them how great of a country we do live in and the Founding Fathers and all that stuff that they’re not being taught in school.
RUSH: There you go. There you go. Now, folks, a lot of this stuff I imagine to some of you sounds very Pollyannish out there and to some of you it may sound very naive and unrealistic, but it is what it is, to use the cliche. And there are opportunities here that are presenting themselves, and they’re not incidental, and they’re not insignificant, and they’re not cliched. But the other thing, Katie, this can’t go on. I’m gonna keep saying this until it permeates. You say 30 more days and then — you know what they’re gonna do?
They’re not gonna do it in 30-day intervals. They’re gonna tell us the sequester will continue for another two weeks. And everybody will say, “Oh, two weeks, we can handle that.” And then the next two weeks, two weeks again. And then another two weeks, another two weeks, because psychologically it is thought that we’ll accept that it might be over in two more weeks, every two weeks. But this can’t go on interminably. It just can’t. I’m glad that you called, Katie. And I appreciate the time.
I’m gonna be a little selfish. I have a teaching aid for you. That would be the Rush Revere series, five books that are written for the kids a little older than your 8-year-old, but she can do it. And then the other two that you have will be qualified before long. The Rush Revere series on the founding of America, that’s written truthfully for kids in your age group and coming. I’m glad you called. It’s great to talk to you.
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RUSH: By the way, we are preparing an entry page at RushLimbaugh.com — on the Rush Revere page — because we have some Rush Revere copies that we are gonna be donating to families once we have an entry page set up. It’s not ready to go yet. We’re working on this, and as soon as we get it set up, I’ll let you know.
Listeners Tell Rush How He’s Inspired Them To Succeed
The Rush Limbaugh Show, March 2, 2020
Well, I thank you very much. You know, I’m always flattered and deeply appreciative when I find out how detailed people’s listening is. And you have heard the details. And they’ve obviously made an impression on you. I remember many of the times — not all, I’m sure — but I remember many of the times I’ve talked about getting a job versus finding a career versus becoming productive versus finding what it is that you are born to do..
Listeners Tell Rush How He’s Inspired Them To Succeed
The Rush Limbaugh Show, March 2, 2020
RUSH: This is Larry in Fall River, Massachusetts. Hey, Larry, great to have you. I’m glad you waited, sir. Hi.
CALLER: Thank you, and dittos. I wanted to say that I thank you and I’m glad I got the chance to do this, but I became a doctor thanks to you. I’ve been a doctor a long time now, but it’s thanks to you. And my second point is, I remember —
RUSH: Wait. What kind of doctor are you?
CALLER: I’m a spine specialist.
RUSH: A spine specialist. And how did this program make you want to become a doctor?
CALLER: I was a schoolteacher, and you talked about following your passion and how you’ve never worked a day in your life because you love what you did. And I was convincing myself that, you know what, I should do that too. And of course I had the grades and the academic ability, and of course I went to school in New York, NYU, so they’re probably gonna lose credit now, but that’s okay.
RUSH: I love hearing stories like that. I really do. Because, see, it was in you all the time.
CALLER: Yes.
RUSH: This passion was in you all the time. You just needed a little kick that told you you could do it.
CALLER: Absolutely. And the money and everything just appeared. It was a miracle, if you want to use that term. But it just occurred. And I’ve been practicing a lot now, and still passionate about it, I’m getting a little older in my years and long in the tooth, but I have as much passion today than the day I walked into the school and walked into the anatomy lab. So it’s there.
RUSH: Well, thank you very much. I love hearing stories like that, when anybody is able to get out of a rut, find out what they really love doing, and go do it. That’s fabulous. Thank you very much. Now, I know you had something you wanted to add to that. That’s when I interrupted you.
CALLER: I remember when you got scammed also on a virus back when they had the HTLV-3, now called HIV, on that talk show. You were on a panel show as a guest host, and they tried to do the same thing they’re doing now. It’s the same thing. It’s the same stuff. You were right then. You’re right now. And that’s something that they can’t grasp.
RUSH: You know what he’s talking about? He goes back to very beginning. He’s talking about when I got set up and scammed guest hosting the Pat Sajak show.
CALLER: Correct.
RUSH: That’s what he’s talking about. Yeah, you’re right. You’re right. I took those producers at their word, and honestly, I thought it was gonna be an opportunity to reach out to some people that misunderstood me, and instead it was a gigantic setup. You’re absolutely right about that.
CALLER: And you learned from that and you became — so you’re right now, let me tell you, you are so right now about these viruses, and you’re right then, and you’re right about it. So you know your stuff. You do your research.
RUSH: Well, I do. Thank you. I do. You’re exactly right.
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RUSH: Phillip in Austin, Texas. It’s great to have you with us today on the program, sir. Hello.
CALLER: Good afternoon, Mr. Limbaugh. Professor Limbaugh, it is a distinct honor to be able to speak with you.
RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much. A distinct honor to have you here with us.
CALLER: A 28-year student of the Rush Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. It was a proud moment for me to watch you receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: And I feel like you’re so deserving because you speak truth and life values, and what you’ve taught to millions of people across different generations, and I’m one of those. And what I’ve received of huge value from you is not to live in fear. And it hearkens back to that previous caller that talked about being able to do what he wanted to do, and he lived without fear, being able to move in that. And so when I see the coronavirus reporting, of course I come to you first, but the spattering I listen to out across the other areas I’ve noticed that they are not reporting, or in any significant way, speaking of the recovery rate, which looks to me commensurate with — I’m not a statistics or, you know —
RUSH: You know, that is really fascinating. I’ve made the point a couple times. I’m glad you’ve picked up on that. There is a massive recovery rate that nobody talks about, and it’s right here on the Johns Hopkins website.
CALLER: Yes, sir.
RUSH: And, you know, you’re also so right. Even if they’re trying to create an attitude or atmosphere of fear, you don’t have to play along with it. You have the ability to reject fear. You have the ability to reject whatever it is that the conventional wisdom of daily news reporting is. You have the ability to reject it.
CALLER: Yes, sir. May I say one thing?
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: I feel like not only are you my professor, but you’re also a friend and a mentor and somebody that I’ve looked up to and I dare say a hero, due to the values, the true life values that you’ve expounded out there. I remember many years ago you spoke to — it was some information you had put out about being able to get a job. And you talked about the different levels and what’s required and whether it was a high school or college education. And I think at the top level of that had something to do with integrity and respect. And I think that those are parts of values that you teach out there that are invaluable. And I’m thankful that I’ve been able to experience you for all these years and many years to come.
RUSH: Well, I thank you very much. You know, I’m always flattered and deeply appreciative when I find out how detailed people’s listening is. And you have heard the details. And they’ve obviously made an impression on you. I remember many of the times — not all, I’m sure — but I remember many of the times I’ve talked about getting a job versus finding a career versus becoming productive versus finding what it is that you are born to do.
We are all born to do something, including being lazy. Some people just have to find what they were born to do is. And, yeah, it’s a rewarding thing to get calls like yours. I deeply and profoundly appreciate it. That’s Phillip in Austin, Texas.
