Thanks For Everything, Rush
Producers would go out to a payphone in the parking lot and call the show and say they were “Bob from San Diego” or “Sheila from Ohio.”
Ultimately my show got picked up by Premiere Radio Networks, the country’s largest syndication company, and I became its first long-form talk-show host on a roster that eventually would include giants like Rush, Sean Hannity and Dr. Laura.
Until I walked away in 2009, I ended up working in radio for 26 years. Nineteen years were with my nationally syndicated talk show, which was carried by nearly 300 stations.
I owe my talk-radio career to Rush. Without him blazing the trail and creating a new medium for conservatives, I don’t know where I would have ended up.
Many of the biggest names in conservative talk radio and TV today also owe their careers to him.
For three decades he showed so many of us the way. We talkers knew we were never going to be him, but he opened the door for us so we could try.
Thanks for that and everything else, Rush. RIP.
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