BUCK: A lot of you want to weigh in, I know a lot of you are thinking about Rush Limbaugh and we want to hear from some of you. You know that phone number: 800-282-2882. Kevin in St. Louis, Missouri. What’s up, Kevin?
CALLER: Hey, Clay and Buck, thanks for taking my call. Great job you guys have done in the past year filling in for Rush.
CLAY: Thank you.
CALLER: I just wanted you guys to know that I am originally from — well, I am from — Virginia, and I took these past three days off — yesterday, today, and Friday — to come out here to St. Louis to pay my respects to Rush and visit him at his grave site here in Bellefontaine Cemetery. Yeah. So I traveled all the way out here just to see Rush — and it is a rainy day, which is appropriate for the occasion, I think. It is a sad day.
BUCK: How many years did you listen to Rush for?
CALLER: Well, I am 27. I’ve been listening to him since I was 13, 14, I think.
BUCK: Wow.
CALLER: Yeah. If I’m not mistaken, it was 2008-2009 I think I started.
CLAY: Yeah, that’s one of the things that strikes me the most about meeting Rush listeners, Buck, is we know there’s people out there that are in their sixties and seventies that listened for 30 years. But young guys like that and girls who started off listening to Rush when they were maybe in their cars with their parents —
BUCK: Yeah.
CLAY: — teenagers, even younger sometimes than teenagers and have grown up with the show over all those years.
BUCK: And there’s so many. Thanks so much, Kevin, and good on you for going out there and paying your respect to Rush yourself. Clay, I’ll be at CPAC next week, and it’s always been amazing because CPAC, there’s so many young people who are there.
CLAY: Yeah.
CALLER: I got a couple of them. I’m very lucky to have two incidents with Mr. Limbaugh. One was funny as blazes, another one kind of almost got me in trouble. First one was in Delta’s Crown Room in Dallas, I walk in, there was a big, tall, skinny guy standing at a table, and it was old Serpent Head. So I said, “Hello, Mr. Carville. How are you?” and I asked for his autograph. He autographed, believe it or not… I’m the only guy I think on the planet that has James Carville’s autograph on the inside cover of a Rush Limbaugh book.
CLAY: (laughing) That’s pretty funny.
CALLER: Hey, it was cool. Carville was great. When I brought it over, he had this little goofy smirk on his face. But he was really great.
CLAY: He’s got a great sense of humor.
BUCK: He’s a nice guy and his wife, Mary, I believe actually once sat behind the EIB Mic, and Mary is absolutely a fantastic lady, Clay. She sent me the most details how-to-visit-New Orleans email I’ve ever gotten about anyplace in my life so I’m a big Mary Matalin fan.
CLAY: I’ve met James Carville, too, and he is funny, right? Honestly, he’s got a good sense of humor, he’s a huge sportsman, right — die-hard LSU guy — and, yeah, obviously the politics are different. He and his wife are such a perfect example of how —
BUCK: He’s a happy warrior Democrat, though.
CLAY: Yeah.
BUCK: I actually wish there were more people that were willing to get out there and engage the other side from the other side.
CLAY: Well, he’s been willing to call out his own party for their absurd wokeness, too, if you see a lot of the quotes that he has given in recent memory.
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BUCK: Want to talk to Steve in Raleigh, North Carolina, for a second here? Wanted to share something with us.
CLAY: Yeah, let’s do it.
CALLER: Hey, guys, mega dittos.
BUCK: Mega dittos.
CALLER: Yeah, I’ve been listening since I got out of the military. Was in the Navy, got out in the early nineties and found a restaurant that had a bus out front it that said Rush Bus. I had no idea what that was, so I decided eat my lunch there. And that’s how I got introduced to great Maha Rushie. I sat and ate lunch in a bus with his radio show being piped through the speakers. So that’s where I first met, Rush — and, guys, what a blessing today’s been. I’ve been in the car all day. It was just a freak accident. I had a lot of windshield time in my sales day today and I got to listen and hear Rush. Thank you.
BUCK: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: You know, it’s pretty… It’s overwhelming. But what a blessing. Thank you so much. You guys are doing a great job. I’m gonna do my part to make the hosts look great. You played the part with Joe Bar Hair, Behar, whatever her name is.
CLAY: Joy Behar.
BUCK: Joy Behar.
CALLER: Yeah, she’s saying, “Hey, I’m gonna choose to wear a mask. And you know what? That’s the great thing about this country, the freedom that we are given to make a choice for ourselves.” If she wants to wear a mask while she’s taking a shower, doing the groceries, riding a bus — which you guys point out, probably she never does — she’s free to wear that mask. She made the argument for everybody else that’s saying, “I just don’t want to wear one! I don’t want the government to make me do something.”
BUCK: We hear you, Steve. Thank you for calling in, my friend. We appreciate it. To everybody who’s calling in — we know for the whole show — thank you so much. And the way you all have embraced Clay and me during this whole process of transition and keeping the fight going is… We’re greatly humbled and honored by it. So, thank you so much for that. Clay, we got a lot more tomorrow.
CLAY: We’ll continue the fight, but we do thank all of you from the depths of our hearts and thank you, all of you, for spending time with us. And thank you to all of you who have been longtime Rush supporters.
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