Rush's Timeless Wisdom - Thirty Years Doing Anything Is an Accomplishment to Celebrate

how to how to deal with this. My heart rate monitor on my watch, my heart rate has been elevated about ten to fifty and beats above normal because of the all the excitement and everything about about this day and the reason I'm waiting for the door to open because nobody's on the other side of the glass, which means here it comes. They're gonna be coming in with the celebratory cake and the bottle of champagne. It's a four bunch of people that have showed up here today.

You know, it's no matter. I've been through this. Well, it's a gorgeous cake. It's a gorgeous cake, and there's only one candle on it, so it's impossible not to blow the out and it's done a shame. We can get everybody from the highly overrated staff here. You want to pop it, Go ahead, Popp and he's gonna pop the champagne. Make it here we go. Oh, you're actually going to pour a glass. See, this is what I've been conflicted about, whether or not WHET or not the thedden.

You see, it's totally out of my control here. Enjoy anyway, thank you all very much. I um uh, and tell what we're gonna do here today. We we haven't prepared a whole lot of audio clips from years gone by, because we've done that on anniversaries and anniversary programs previously. We've got some and we even have some audio of my days as a disc jockey back in Pittsburgh that

I don't think we've aired before. Cookie thinks that we have an exclusive little montage of me doing a morning show I think back in n But there is a program to do here today with news of the day, and I always like to keep looking forward. But people tell me, you know, thirty years doing anything at at at at a high degree of quality is worth commemorating. And if you don't do it, nobody else will. And you have to do it, and you have to do it for yourself, and you have to do it for

the staff. There have been people are working with you here for all of these years who have helped you make it possible, and all of that is profoundly true. And I am going to reflect on some aspects of this as the as the program goes on. But rather than do wall to wall one thing, I'm just gonna try to mix and match various elements of the program as we combine things that we do here, because that's

what the program is. It's improv and it combines a whole bunch of different elements seriousness, irreverent humor, uh, political commentary, all with credibility on whatever we tackle and so forth. And of course then there is you, I mean, and you with without you being out there, none of us are in here, and so it's ultimately all about you. And I remain blown away every day we go to the phones and I get calls from people who tell

me how long they've been listening. Since nineteen, since nineteen ninety, since nine. It's a stunning and amazing thing, and it is deeply, deeply gratifying. And I'm going to try during the course of the program to express all the various things that I'm feeling and the expressions of gratitude. But I don't want to try to pack it all in here in the in the first segment. So we'll just do the program and let it happen. See what happens as it happens, because every day and I maintain and

I'm going to do this program like any other. That's why you're there, and so we'll just do it as it happens. It happens. So I've had a lot of emails from a lot of people in the past couple of days, and one of them I received last night that started me thinking. And I love things that make me think, I'll be honest with you, and this one did.

Do you know how few people can say that they've had the same ethics, the same conscience, the same core beliefs, the same morality, and the same connectivity with themselves in their twenties, through their forties and into the sixties and beyond the best years. Do you realize how few people are as consistent and reliable as you are? And no, I don't ever stop to think of anything like that.

I don't think. See this is why I don't think it's unusual that things I believed in my heart when I was in my twenties would not survive my getting to my sixties core believes who I am. I can't. I can't believe. I can't. I can totally believe that I wouldn't change in those things. But this person said, you don't know how rare it is. And what inspired her to write this? I think she said was a caller that appeared on the program yesterday's saying basically the

same thing. Russia Limbaugh thirtieth Anniversary Day, August one program began. When that program again, the Republican Convention just ended. It was close to have George W. Bush or George H. W. Bush was to be UH nominated to complete his mission, meaning take on his World War two mission, where he had been shut down UH and vice president for Reagan for for eight years, and now it was his turn, and he ended up facing the loser, and it was

the name we gave to Michael decocously Democrat nominee. The program launched right in the thick and the middle of that of that presidential campaign, and I've been thinking about, you know, people asked me, are you aware of the thirty years? Yeah, you know, I did. Some of it seems like it happened yesterday. A lot of it does. There's none of it that seems like it's thirty years old.

I don't. I'm not able even though I've done this. Actually, if you count the three and half years in Sacramento, which were exactly like this show would just a cold station, that's that's thirty three and a half years. I even though I've done it, I don't have a cognizance of the passage of time of thirty years. I know thirty years have gone by, but so much of it seems like it was yesterday. And I think there's a reason

for that. I think I always everything that I do, or that everything that happens to me, I always try to learn from it, and I'm very analytical and philosophical, and I do get introspective in so far as it can help me improve. I don't relive the past and and uh sort of just try to surround myself with a glow. I'd always try to use what happened in the past two continue to grow, get better and to learn and so forth. So in that sense, i'm I'm

I'm introspective. And people saying the show is, you know, it used to be better back in the eighties, used to be better back in the nineties, and I stopped and think, is that really true? No two shows are the same. So I think it's never been better, And there are reasons why I think it's never been better, and I don't think. I don't think a radio show that even I did when I was forty could compete with the show that I do today. I didn't know back in you know, nineteen ninety what I know today.

I couldn't possibly have done today's show back in nineteen ninety. I didn't know enough. I hadn't lived enough