Kindness and Character

and other loved ones at this very sad time. Um Rush Lumba used to refer to himself as just the guy on the radio, and to be fair, he was on the radio, but he was far more than just a guy. Over the years, as many of you know, Rush raised a lot of money for various non profit and charitable organizations, from relief to families of fallen heroes, to Leakemia research and more. But those are things you've heard about on the air. Those are the things that

Rush talked about. What you don't know, because Rush never talked about it on the air, are the deeds that he did for people off the air. And you know he never wanted credit. He always would tell people or tell those that he gave so generously too. Don't tell anybody he didn't want people to know because it was

from his heart. Today, we're going to explore that generosity that was so prevalent in Russia's character, and I'd like to start this episode by telling you my own story when Rush first came to w A b C. Before the Russia Limbas Show became the mega success that it was, when it was just the radio show with fifty six stations and most people didn't know who Russia Limba was. Yet Russia's spirit was still the same. I know this because I'm one of the people that was affected by it.

I was a young guy in my third piece. For those of you operating under the illusion that radio is a high paying industry, well, when you're successful, it can be very rewarding. But like a lot of media jobs, if you're working behind the scenes, you're not making a heck of a lot of money. You do it because you love it. Well, I was one of those kids. I loved what I did. I was in the media and I wasn't making a hell of a lot of money.

Found myself in debt, so on the line talking to bill collectors, not even aware that others could hear me. And one of those others that did hear me was Rush. I get a call over the intercom, James, can you come back to my office? It's Rush. So I go back to his office and he asked me to shut the door. Rush said to me, you know, I'm not trying to get in your business. I'm not trying to intrude in your personal life. But I couldn't help. But over here parts of your phone call, and I just

want to ask you, is everything okay? Are you? Are you okay? Of course I'm embarrassed. You know who wouldn't be, But I fessed up, you know, you know Russia. Look, things are okay, but I'm having a little problem, you know, money problems here and there. And he persisted, well, how much you're gonna know for? How much are you in debt for? And I reluctantly told him the amount. It was about five thousand dollars on it all. And I

want to be really clear about something. Five thousand dollars to me then was a lot of money to me. Now it's a lot of money. He said, Look, I want to tell you, Look, don't panic over it. Things will work out. You're gonna be okay, and and don't sweat it. Okay, so that little embarrassing session was over. Go back to work, and let me just make it clear. I wasn't working for Russia at this point. I hadn't

even been rotated on his shows. This was during the stage when I was still just feeding in news stories once in a while that I thought he would be interested in. The Next day, I'm sitting in the newsroom in a calm, James, can you come back to my office. It's Rush. I go back to his office. Russ has shut the door. I shut the door, and he hands me an envelope. Is He says, this is for you. This is uh, this is not alone. This is a gift. Please don't tell anybody, but I did this for you.

But I'm doing this because you're a good guy, and good guys deserved to have good things happened to him once in a while. M open up the envelope and there's to check in there for five thousand dollars. Rush. I wasn't working for Rush. Rush wasn't trying to buy my friendship because we were already friends. Rush was generous to his heart, into his soul. It is something that

I will never forget. It is something that I have tried in my way to make sure that I have the same kind of generosity to people that I see that are in need where I can help, because it affected me so deeply. Now I want you to think about something I've watched, and I've heard all of these accusations about Rush Limbob from his political detractors over the years, people that don't know him, people that never listened to him.

And one of the things that particularly has upset me over the years as a black guy, as an African American, a proud African American, is to hear my friend Rush called a racist. This is a man who didn't have a racist bone in his body. He wanted his staff to be excellent, so he got excellent people. It just so happened we had a very diverse staff. Gay, straight, black, white, Asian. Didn't matter as long as you were good at what you were doing. But Russia's heart was extended to people

that he could help. Here's this little black kid from Queens we met just months before. This is before Rush the multimillionaire. This is before Rush the guy that's the king of the broadcast world. This is a guy who's struggling to make it up the chain himself. Rush Limbaugh had one of the most generous hearts of anyone I have or will ever meet in my life. And that's

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that's my pillow dot Com promo code icon. You know, national disasters are a terrible thing for all those affected, all those that get swept away in their miss and almost ten years ago to the date, there was a natural disaster that will never forget Joplin, Missouri. Today, we're gonna be speaking with Chat Elliott, who's the operations manager of k z r G in Joplin, because the story involves Rush, Rush and Catherine. Chad, Welcome to our podcast series.

It's an otter to be here. Thank you so much for having me today. Well, Chad, let me, let me. Let's talk about what happened. You were working at the news talk Giant in Joplin, Missouri, k z RG. Tell us what happened ten years ago and e f five tornado towards Chaplin apart. About a quarter of town was destroyed. A hundred and sixty one people passed away parish that day, and it happened so quickly and there was really no time to prepare. We were on the air that day

telling people take cover. That looks to be a pretty serious, bad situation. Uh, but we had no idea of what we were going to really see in the coming minutes. It happened about five pm. It was a Sunday, was and the Joplin High School UM graduation was happening that day at our college here in town, Missouri, Southern State University.

And just as the graduation was ending and people were leaving, and the tornado sirens went off and people were getting in their cars trying to leave, and there were people in Pact did at that time they were struck by the tornado. Um, you just don't realize how bad a situation is. You know, you see it on TV, you hear about it on the radio, about devastation that comes from hurricanes and tornadoes, But until you've been in a situation like that or at ground zero, you don't really

you can't really fathom what it's like. I just remember being on the air and just trying to warn people, and the phone calls started coming in. People were panicked. You had you could hear it in their voices that there was something really really wrong that or that had taken place in Joblin. They would tell us the hospital was wiped out, the hospital's gone, and you're thinking the hospital. Wait a minute, wait, well, how do you cope with that?

How did people cope with their hospital being destroyed in the middle of this horrific tornado. It was chaos, utter chaos. People were uh, just trying to get well, really trying to get out of their homes. There are a lot of people trapped in their homes at this point. Thankfully we have a second hospital, we have to. We have Freeman, and we have Mercy here in Chown in town, but at the time it was Mercy St. John's and St. John's was wiped out. I was destroyed. Um. Just horrific situation.

I remember trying to get home. My home was struck and I'm trying to get home because I was on the air telling this story, letting people know to take cover, and my wife sent me a text message, Um, it said, honey, I love you. I see the tornado, and then that was it. That was the last thing I heard from my wife until I could get home. It took me thirty minutes, and I only live about three minutes from our radio station, so it took me thirty minutes to

get home. Because power lines were down, I had to park my car, I had to shim me underpower lines. And I went through the destroyed hospital and I saw people leaving that hospital in backs of pickup trucks. Uh. There were nurses holding uh saline bags in the air over these people while they're trying to load them in, and people were more bloodied. It was it was like a war zone, is the best way I could describe it.

So I'm making my way through this situation here. I'm trying to find out do I have a home, Do I have a wife? Do I have a daughter? Still, and trying to get through town. And I go through the hospital, and I hear the oxygen shooting into the air, uh and natural gas also shooting into the air. You can hear so candlestick waiting to go up if a spark was were to happen. At that point, I noticed that this this park. All the grass was gone. The tornado sucked all the grass off the ground. It was

just as mud at this point. And I just remember vivid things like that popping back into my mind here ten years later. So I finally make it up to my neighborhood and the homes are gone. So I keep walking a little bit further, a little bit further, and I see, okay, the homes are totally gone at one end of my street. And then I start seeing some homes that are still standing. I get to my home. The roofs ripped off, and my wife is standing with our daughter in the middle of the street. Thank god

they survived, but our home obviously was destroyed. Many people didn't survive that day. The building is gone, joshable, people trapped in their cars. I see cars scrumpled. The building is just the windows are blown out. Oh my lord, we've got power lines down all along here on Range Line. Uh. They definitely people need help here tonight. Good Will is destroyed. There are buildings missing, Josh. Right now, I see water shooting up the building right now. There there's so much damage.

I cannot stress it enough. Please, if you don't need to be out tonight, stay home, power lizer down everywhere. There are people that are there have got to be injured right now. There are probably people's topitalities right now. People are trapped and buildings. There are Billy's missing that used to be here. They're totally gone, wiped away from the foundation. And this is a major hit. We have taken a major hit here in the city of Joplin,

and there are people that are needing help. Sixty one people died, many many others injured, and that's physically injured. We're not talking about those whose psyche was injured by going through all of this. Everybody in Joplin, everybody, every single person had to be affected emotionally by what was going on in your town. Rush and Katherine saw those pictures, We saw the coverage, and the relief efforts got underway,

and Rush and Katherine decided they wanted to help. What do you remember about that, Well, I remember Rush was trying. He was kicking off two of by tea uh, and he was looking for a location to come and host

an event, and he chose Joplin. He's I remember he was on stage at the Fourth of July celebration and he said that he chose Chaplin Um because of our perseverance, because of our belief in our country, and how we took ourselves and and picked ourselves up by the bootstraps and we did what it was necessary to bring Choplin back, to make Chaplin whole again as best as we could. That was one of the interesting things here in Joplin,

the debris UH and all of the storm damage. With a third of town destroyed, we had a lot of damage, and we were able to clean that up in record time. You had FEMA talking about they were just so surprised by that, and I think that intrigued Rush, and that's one of the reasons why Rush came to Joplin. And it was a very hot day. I do remember that on July the fourth year in Choplin, it was almost a hundred degrees UH. And the tea was a welcome sight.

We really enjoyed it, and we had some groups of people that came out and helped Rush and Russia's team distribute the tea to the to the community. It was standing room. There wasn't a lot of room. People were everywhere. Just a chance to hear Rush speak. You may not know it yet but you are the essence of what the father had. You are You are the epitomey. You are the people who make this country work. What happened here is something that you are going to a race.

You're gonna build back. It is going to get fixed, It is going to be rebuilt. It's going to be better than it ever was. You are going to show the rest of the country how it's done. You represent the best of what this country has to offer. You understand the principle of hard work and self reliance. You understand the difference between self interests and selfishness, and you

are not selfish. You are all gonna be working in your own self interests to rebuild your lives, and in the process, everybody else's lives will be will rebuild right along with yours. We are all part. We are all part of a great part of this country that understands the kind steps of hard work and self reliance, respect for our neighbors, love, doing the best we can, playing by the rules, understanding none of us are perfect, but

we're there for each other when times requiring. Joplin, Missouri, you are defining that the world Cowe's he truly cared about the people of Joplin. Being from Missouri as uh Rush was, he really cared about what was happening and the recovery effort here in Joplin, and I remember he made a sizable donation to Joplin's recovery effort, and it was just beautiful expression of love that Russian Catherine could have done. And just coming here and and bringing some

a distraction. I think I've described it that way for the last few years, is a distraction from what we've been dealing with because a tornado of that magnitude, a storm of that magnitude, it really affects a lot of a lot of people. And we were still I mean, we're forty three days post tornado, and we were trying to clean our lives back up and get things back on the right path, and it just seemed like every day it was a burden, one thing after another. Rebuilding

we were trying to rebuild at that time. But Rush coming was such a distraction, is such a welcomed distraction from the chaos that we had been living for the last forty three days. At that point, we're gonna have fireworks, And I believe there was a band that was gonna play uh and Rush was going to come out and speak. Uh. So kind of the festivities were set up. Rush was concerned about the vendors and you know about their loss

because he was there handing out too by tea. So he went and made sure every vendor was taken care of monetarily. I bet they were surprised. Absolutely. You know. One of the things we heard in in town at that time was why why are we bringing in someone like Rush Limbaugh to speak to the crowd. And we would always this would not only at that time, but years later, you know, you would. You didn't hear from Hollywood or the big celebrities coming in. We didn't have

any of that. And there were no donations by anyone else of of that magnitude, nothing like what Rush did. Rush's contribution to Joplin, he really did care and he was here and he made sure Joplin was taken care of. So what are you going to do. What I'm gonna do is keep the spotlight on Joplin, Missouri and how you were overcoming something that was just throwing your way. So thank you all very much. You have a great future. You are Americans. We are all Americans. I remembers all

stop and you whatever you want to be. In each episode, we continue to document the biographical journey of Russia's life, narrated by some of his friends and colleagues. Today, we're pleased to welcome, like Russia, man of strong conviction, a uniquely talented broadcast host, Glenn Beck. The Life of Russia Limbaugh, Chapter six, narrated by Glenn Beck. The landscape of national syndication of daytime talk radio shows in was lonely compared to the daytime syndication space of today. The idea of

the time was bold and full of risk. But Ed McLaughlin knew intimately the power of spoken word radio, and he knew the time to strike was then you have a giant in the radio business. Ed McLaughlin, who retires from ABC, is given two hours of satellite time to fill as he wishes. He could have chosen to do anything with these two hours. He could have played music. He could have done you know, polka, he could have done Chinese opera. But he believed in the power of

spoken word radio. He believed it could win. So on August one, nationwide syndication of the Rush Limbop program began The initial offering was two hours a day, and fifty six brave stations stood with Rush as true believers and loyal affiliates. On day one, it took off. It took off faster and bigger than anybody had expected. It took off and exploded the way you dream about. The flagship station of the Rush Limbaugh program was seventy seven w

a d C in New York. In the beginning, Rush also hosted a local show from ten till noon, and then his national radio program from noon to two pm Eastern every day on the inaugural affiliates scattered all across America. The reason I had to do that was that we started with fifty six stations. That's not enough stations for national advertisers to care. And I faced for a year and a half derision and criticism and mockery and all that for what I was trying to do and the

way we didn't. The reason I had to do that in New York show is because that's where we were given three minutes an hour to sell national advertising. So we were able to tell advertisers their commercials would be heard in New York City. Because if you couldn't do that back then, you couldn't have a nationally syndicated program.

In a matter of months, the program expanded to three hours of daily national syndication R noon to three, and the program's rapid growth demanded more attention and focus from Rush, ultimately leading to the end of his local midday program on w ABC. ED McLaughlin's brilliant bet on daytime syndication paid off, exceeding even the wildest expectations of his now

superstar host Rush Limbaugh. The show's growth was unstoppable, reaching an unprecedented five hundred national affiliates in only three years, and that's a number that only continued to grow in the thirty that followed. The Tunnel to Towers Foundation has been supporting America's heroes since nine eleven, on America's darkest day,

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thank you for your support. Our other guests today from the E I B Network Scott Hennan of W D, A, Y and FAGO. Now this was something of a surprise. Scott was interviewing me about the podcast and he revealed a story about Russia's generosity that we just had to include in this episode. When you hear it, you'll know why. Here's a clip from that interview. I do remember after the flood of nineties seven, Russia been the Grand Forks in the early nineties on a rushed excellence tour and

he hated a restaurant called Sanders. Went back, talked about Sanders on the air, got to know the owner and the owner. Funny thing was the owners very liberal, but

he he loved Rush. And Rush found out about his restaurant being destroyed during the flood and called one day on the air talk to people, said, boy, you you really inspire us, and how you're just picking up the bootstraps, not waiting for government to getch you through the flood of the century, and send a personal fifty tho dollar check, uh, to the to the owner of that restaurant. Never forget this when I found a firsthand just how generous he was.

Didn't want anybody to know about, didn't make a big deal of it, but uh, just that kind of a kind of a man, and very generous obviously to me. Brought us down to a palm beach to record television commercials for the launch of our Ama Love and handed the flag and uh and just so sweet to my mother in law who came along, and I just I could go on and on and on. You know all

those stories, James, but it's a it's pretty incredible. We told our audience that really Rush taught us a lot, and now it's up to us, isn't if there will never be enough another Rush limbla broll there. There will never be another Rush Lim whatever. That is not a story that I had heard. And see this is what

I mean. Every day we're learning more and more about Rush and some of the things that he did, and his legacy is just going to be filled with people that come out and revel the nature of his humble but very generous personality. Thank you for being so generous with your time, Scott, and for telling us that incredible story. Well that's easy to do. And I tell you he is uh holds a special place in us our Heartedy well forever both nerd like folks. There he is. James Golden.

Thanks James, appreciate you. We'll talk to you. So the guy he was talking about was a liberal, and that's where Russia's heart was it. You know, we're all Americans. We go through natural disasters, we go through the ups and the downs of life without our political affiliations tied to us. Rush Catherine have given so much. They've given so much of their time, they've given so much of their energy, and they've helped raise money for those in need, and that is part of his legacy that will never

be a raised. I also want to say a quick note to all of you in the Russian Limball audience and beyond to those of you who listened to talk radio, to those of you involved this audience, the Russian Limbaugh audience, the audiences of many, so many talk radio hosts around the nation have proven to be the most generous souls in America. You give, you give to help people, you give to change people's lives. You earn and you give,

and very often without anyone saying thank you. So from all of us who are working on this series, Rush Limbaugh, the man behind the Golden eib Mike, we'd like to say thank you. I thought it would be helpful to define conservatism for people because nobody else was. Everybody has assumed conservatisms this or that, small government, less taxes and all this stuff. But it's really about people. It's about our understanding of people. It's about our faith trust in people.

It's about the knowledge that it is people that make a great nation. It's ordinary people pursuing an accomplishing extraordinary things with the freedom the ambition to do so. And I just thought it needs to be pointed out. The reason I wanted to relive it is because we put together a montage that will demonstrate the love and compassion that you in this audience have shown consistently for thirty

one years. Despite all the attempts to impugne you and me, to criticize us, to label us improperly as racist, sexist, or bigots, for thirty one years, you have proven and demonstrated time and time again my explanation of who we as conservatives are. The Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation that is now of Fisher is going to get in excess of four point two million dollars because I am matching Betty Casey's bid on eBay four point two million dollars

because of you too. If By Tea has donated over a million dollars in product and monitor Harry donations to incredible causes, including the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation. Folks, you have done it again. You exceeded one million dollars in charitable donations to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of America. We ended up a total take of two million, five d nineteen thousand, six hundred and forty three dollars with

Leukemia Lymphoma Society Radio thon last week. Yes, my friends, it was a record Leukemia Lymphoma Society Radio than excess of three million dollars. It was another record amount donated, and folks, it is phenomenal. The final number is gonna come somewhere north of three million dollars. We sent a truck.

Laude was about three thousand cases of two of five teen to the Joplin Fourth of July celebrations, Items of interest to American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, Unchael Milken and the Prostate Cancer Foundation, the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, the Elves for Autism charity golf outing. All the proceeds went to the Fisher Houses. The Adventure of Rush Revere series is a proud sponsor of the Navy Seals Museums. Liberty delivered a whole bunch of books so

the Toys for Touch program. Today we have thousands upon thousands of donors here in the Adopted Soldier program. We have zoomed past one hundred thousand t shirts and there were fourteen thousand new orders today. The amount of money that we were able to donate to Tunnel the Towers is one point five million dollars. We had so many more sales over the weekend. That we have upped the donation to tunnel the towers from one and a half

million two million dollars today, a monumental achievement. We have now raised three million dollars for the Tunnel of Towers found Foundation. You know, today we've been talking a lot about and you've been hearing a lot about Russia's charity work, Russia's philanthropy, the work of Katherine and Rush in helping people. There was another giver on our E. I. B Staff and one that all of us miss terribly and will

never forget. And the Russia Limbus Show would not have been the Russia Limbus Show that you know without him. He was our chief of staff. His name was Kit Carson, and Kit was very involved every year with the Lukmia than That's just one of the things that he did. Kit was a friend to everybody on the staff. He always brought humor with him, He always brought honesty with him, and Kit and I would have the most credible time.

Some people compared our relationship if you've ever seen the the movie with the Trivolta and uh Sam Jackson pulp fiction, they would compare the relationship that that that Kit and I had to Uh to pulp fiction because he would just go at it with each other in the control room. I'll tell you a secret, this Kit had a nickname from me and Uh and I had a nickname for him. So Kid used to call me Shoka Zulu, and and

he did it with Hey, Shokazulu. And what he would do is just I'd call Kit Casper the friendly ghost because Kit was pale with this beautiful red hair, this this full head of red hair. Kid was like a brother to me. We were like brothers. And Kit and his lovely wife Teresa, and his two kids, Jesse and

Jack were just, I mean, just the perfect family. And one of the things that that happened in our show was, I guess now when I look back on it on kind of a preparation for loss, is that Kit had a difficult bout with cancer and we lost Kid and and Rush the whole staff was just and we still are in mourning for Kid, even as we mourn Rush. And I'd like for you to listen to a few things that that Rush said about our dear friend, our

chief of staff, our beloved Kit Carson. I speak for everybody here at the e IB Network when I say that there's just we. We we feel a an overwhelming absence. We feel an overwhelming m whole in the in the normal ebb and flow of of energy and presence in our network because of the passing yesterday morning of Chief of Staff Christopher kit Carson, and it's going to take a while. He was relevant member of the staff. Chief of staff chiefs of staff are been with me longer

than anybody the twenty seven years. I can't possibly personally respond to everyone who is sending me email condolences, but they are. They're beautiful. And the people who are writing me who knew Kit are telling me stories that I didn't know, things that had happened with with when they had interacted with Kitty. Funny funny stories. They were descriptions of his magnanimous and gracious and hilarious personality. It's not I don't misunderstand it's it's it's not that I didn't

know of the aspects of his personality. I didn't know the specific details of these particular stories. We never told me. Yeah, I went out last night, I was such and such and here's what I told him, and here's what they said back that that only happened when I wanted to know what happened with certain things. And most of these stories they're just they're just fabulous and they're great. You know, Mark Stein had a great comment. He had a he had a great piece by the way, I'm kid at

his website. It was really sweet. It was really, really really good. Mark sneine and he said, pointed, this is people joining IB and they never leave. And that's one of the reasons why this show works so well. It's because it's it's we've been a team here by twenty seven years, folks, that we've either completed or we just started. I get these anniversaries all screwed up in the in the odd years, but it's a lot of years, and

everybody on the staff contributes in their own way. But you know, I, I just have decided that based on the things I've learned um on my little success track here, they don't need to go home and have their families scream at them about why are they staying in about you one of the rush portugular I just it's it's it's just better and safer for them if if they remain out in a line of fire, pure and simple That's that's why you haven't heard a whole bunch of

names mentioned all the time. Kit Carson's family's wife Teresa, and his kids. I have have asked if there are any remembrances, that they be donations to one of two places, Leukemia Lymphoma Society of America or Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, which is where kid was treated. They loved him there. I've never seen this before. Doctor cried when he was released to go home on I guess it was Tuesdays last week, doctor right. She had

really grown attached to it. One of the reasons why, well, it was I am an engaging personality, was how courageously and good naturedly he fought it. None of us ever saw. I'm sure he in his private moments was mad cursing himself for whatever rotten luck. But as far as we were concerned, it was just he was always in a in an upbeat, engaging mood. He was very infectious, uplifting personality. And every day or every other day, whenever, however, he

often he had to go get a treatment. Was like you have got to go doctor, just got a doctor appointment. There was no attempt to garner any sympathy. It was the other way around. It was it was too not cause the distraction. It was just the most amazing thing, folks. Kit Carson. He took all kinds of pressure off of me so I could stay focused on this and he was able to do this getting to know me and studying program. It was he could do it to sleep after a while. That's why this isn't going to be

such a big void. And he knew when when the program is over. This is tough to explain. When the program's over, it's solved. I don't want to do anything related to the program for at least three hours. I am wrung out, but I'm not allowed. I've often said other things, I've gotten a point where I don't have to do what I don't want to do. That's not true. Where Kid was involved, program would end every day three o'clock and I would record the morning update for both

audio in the video version of it. So what he would routine we do. I would do the two updates, usually can get them both done in one take. What are you and video at the same time, and Kit would routinely say, well, that's it, that's it. I got nothing here, and I'd say, fine, that's cool, except and then he'd launched into ten things or five or whatever it was. But he always prefaced it by saying, look, I got nothing's nothing here, I'm free and queered. Oh wait.

It always softened my reaction. He had it down to a science. That's why all of that stuff us And that's as much inside Baseball as we need to bore you with. We just we feel like a giant that we just miss him. There's a there's a void and emptiness here. It's gonna be a long time uh to get used to, but we uh we hope God bless

us kidneys family. After Rush passed, a lot of us are talking now and we're sharing stories among ourselves, people that worked within the organization, and there are a lot of stories that you will never hear because Rush wanted it that way. But let me tell you something, this man was a giver. He was a giver. That's who wrestling ball was a very sincere thanks today to Chat Elliott and Scott Hennings for telling their stories about how Rush directly affected the markets that they live and work

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