I remember this episode. It was the first time I had ever seen Rush or heard him speak. I had a friend that I talked politics with who told me “there’s a guy on the radio named Rush Limbaugh. You should listen to his show, I think you would like him.” I said “yeah, yeah, I’ll have to check him out some time” - but never did. One day I was at the gym, and Donahue’s show was on the TV they had mounted on the wall. When Donahue introduced him, it got my attention because of what my friend had said. I was a Rush fan from that day on.
I first started listening to Rush around the time of that broadcast. A friend at work told me about him, so I started listening. I was shocked at how right he was about almost everything, and I really enjoyed his humorous commentary and commercials. I listened to him for twelve years non-stop and had to stop when I changed jobs. I always kept up with him and was aware of what he was doing on the radio and tv. He quite literally changed my life.
RIP, Rush.
I heard about Rush the same way. My husband and I had a flight school at OC Airport (John Wayne) in the ‘70’s - 90’s and when I had work to do at the school, I always had the radio on - listening to a radio talk show from L. A. One of our pilots came in one day and asked me if I’d ever listened or heard of a guy named Rush Limbaugh. He told me where to find him and I never listened to the other guy again. That was easy at 9 am to noon but after we left CA and moved to GA, it wasn’t that easy to be near a radio when he came on at noon Eastern time. Always will miss him.