That is what they call you when you are brave enough to tell the truth. Few people are better qualified to assess rush Limbaugh life than RIS friend and frequent guest host Mark Steyn. This is part of what he wrote on the perspective on his life, usually in this line of work. If you are lucky, you get a moment a year or two when you are in the in thing and you hope to hold enough of the moment as it slowly fades until you retire rush, did something unprecedentedded in the history of tv and radio broadcasting began in the United States in nineteen, twenty rush, Limbaugh show came along. Two third of a censure ray later became number one quickly and stayed at the top all the way to today for a third of entire history of the medium that is remarkable. Rush Limbaugh was a remarkable man. He lived a life that mattered and Mark Steyn joins us now to remember rush Limbaugh. Thank you for coming on and the piece you wrote for him today, which was really a piece

of writing. So you knew him. You knew him for a long time. You worked with him, he were his fill in host. How would you assess him standing back? He was a brilliant broadcaster. I wrote today about the first time I ever heard him you just driving through the north main woods when there are no radio stations available. Suddenly this voice came in from out of nowhere and started it wasnt. What he was talking about. It was how he talked about it. He made politics fun. He brought in all the elements he had twenty years as a non terribly successful disk jockey where he had honed his craft, so he was able to use humor. He was able to use parody songs. He was brilliant at it. He was better than anybody that is apart from anything else that made him totally secure.

He had no fear of any of the talents that came along after him would ever surpass him. He was simply the best he invented this forum 30 something years ago. He and KIT Carson talking about this and kit was his chief of staff for decades kit didnt start out that way. He was just a guy working in the straights. He handed rush a working in t station. He handed rush unimportant stories at the day he said. Do you have more stuff like? Is that and that began the format of the show where he didnt just talk about what Mitch Mcconnell or Nancy Pelosi was doing. He had all the other stories in which there was some aspect of it that reflected on the grand comedy alike. I guest hosted for him yesterday and there was a story there about. Thirty Taliban members had died during bomb making class in an afghan mosque. They got a little ahead of

themselves and actually blown themselves sky high, its a Taliban workplace accident, its not a big story, its not an important story, but rush understood that the great cavalcade of life, all these things factored in everybody, does that nowhere form. Now nobody did until he invented it. As you just said, he did it for a third of a century, which is incredible. You made a point in the piece today. I didnt appreciate, because I didnt work with him that the people who did work with him tended to work with him for decades. It seemed revealing of his character. We have heard people assess who he was a man and people try to impugn his character. What does it tell you about him? Well, I think he was a fantastic employer and a brilliant friend to many many people. That is why people came and joined the e dot IB network. We know there were big name

celebrities who cant keep a secretary for six weeks yeah. We know quite a few. Everybody does, and instead people came to Teschi dot, B network and e dot IW network and they never left. I never realized how big the show was until I think it was. I guest hosted it three times then, the following day I took my little girl to a horse riding event point to point somewhere over the river from me in New Hampshire in Vermont. We got there a little early. She said to me: can we go to the concession stand, a little truck in the middle of the field? I said she turned vegetarian. You know a couple weeks earlier, I said well have a hot dog and veggie burger, coffee and bottle of water. He said you sound just like that. Guy who guest hosts for rush it was. I was amazed- I had said a dozen words to the guy. I only guest hosted the show

three times and I was suddenly and I used to before. They were kind enough to build a studio. For me, I used to go and guest host at it at local affiliate in New Hampshire. It was interesting to me because the owner, when I would do the show like a tiny cramp studio, they would bring in the owner of Buds Chevrolet and the lady at Darlenes diners and the big advertisers, not because I was there, but the rush Limbaugh show was there. He was beloved in a way that I dont think radio is a very intimate medium. You are driving around in your truck and its like. The guy is in your head for three hours, but rush had a connection beyond that. I had a couple of guys working at my house for months, as is the New Hampshire way every day at 1159. They would hang the transistor radio on the chimney and blast sit up on the roof. Listening to rush,

nobody wanted to miss that incredible, nothing like it. There is nothing like it. You have an amazing vignette in your remembrance of him today, where you talk to the Prime Minister of Australia in Australia, he says: why are you going back to the? U dot s? You said im guest hosting for rush Limbaugh. He says well, that is a big. You give the audience numbers and he says that is more than there are Australians. Will there ever be anybody with the mass reach again in mass media? I cant imagine it. If Rushs listeners were a nation, they would be one of the biggest and the powerful nations on earth some consolation. He told me a lot. The last words he said on air, an embarrassment to me because the last few weeks he has had to have the guest hosts standing by in case he falters in the second hour and cant complete the show. So he said at the end of his

last show he said. Thank you, Mr Steyn. Well see you next time there was no next time. I was embarrassed about the thank you, Mr Steyn. I thought the coolest thing was to be he used to insult the guest host if he knew I was coming in on Wednesday on Tuesday. He would put you down coolest thing in the world to be put down by rush when he told me about that, and many other things was. He was completely secure and a decade ago he had heart problems on vacation in Hawaii, with all the evil stuff on the internet on Twitter, which was young, then die rush just die, he didnt care it washed off him. He was totally secure and he knew he was the best at what he did and he taught a lot of us to be as secure as he was. I owe him everything in that respect.