Posted on 07/04/2013 1:31:04 PM PDT by SMGFan
I heard Rush on WABC when he first started his local show on 07/04/1988. He began a national show separate from NYC on August 1st (?) I remember the Iran Air Flight 665 being shot down. I have listened to him ever since.
Has anyone else listened to him regularly since then? Is Rush still relevant 25 years later?
I took the plunge and am forever indebted.
In the years of traveling and establishing our business, I would time my brief sales calls for the top of each hour. I'd arrive at about :54, and usually be done by :06, having hardly missed a word. I suppose that makes me a fanatic. I'd imagine I'm in the 1st percentile of hours listened.
He was right. Find something you love and you'll probably do it better than anyone else. Starting small is no impediment. Growth happens when you can handle it. Long hours don't seem long, nor do they seem like work. Just passing along my lessons from the fuzzball in hopes it helps someone else.
Not 25, but around 22 years (wow). I always listened to talk radio in Philly. Sometime around the time Frank Rizzo died (coulda been before or after), the station I listened to changed its lineup and started playing Rush.
I wasn’t quite a Republican then, more leaning toward libertarian. I was also afraid of Rush - I expected him to be mean, racist, just awful.
Well, the only channel I could get in my office was that talk channel and there was no choice but listen to Rush if I was going to listen to anything at all. And, as Rush often points out, I was one of those people who realized that Rush was echoing what I was already feeling and thinking.
So, twenty plus years later, is he still relevant? Yes, I still get a fair amount of inside info from him, though I think I get a lot of the news first here on FR. I could care less about golf, flying, or football, so I often tune out mentally when he starts on about those topics. I also think he can be repetitive and a bit reactionary. Sometimes I think he says something clever in reaction to an event, without thinking through what he’s said or really analyzing the issue.
But all in all, I’m still a Rush fan. I belong to Rush 24/7 and haven’t had a reason to stop subscribing. The world is better with Rush than without him.
I listened at first maybe 8 years. He quickly became a bore with his all about me stuff. I never listen to him since. But then I have never heard Michael Savage...don’t know who he is. I also never listened to the Fox News guy who writes on The Blaze. These people have a personal agenda, not a national patriot one.
Got to a point I could see that my ship had come in as far as conditions would allow and I had to swim out to it.
Life and responsibilities get to the point where, you know how to swim, the whos and whats you're responsible for are covered and all that's left is the plunge of faith and a hard swim against the waves out to that waiting ship of fortune and/or fate.
And then, along comes typhoon obama.
How many small businesses and great ideas are being mothballed for a better time in a hopefully more sane world? Keeping my eyes open for a break in the weather.
Not quite the fourth, but the week of, for his NY local show that ran in the 10-2 ET slot right before his national show (after Dave Dawson, but before Lynn Samuels and Bob Grant). My favorite memories from those days were “Paloma Blanca” with the Satanic encoded message peace update, the Dukakis update with a horrible performance of Ode to the Working Man (some Copland piece) supposedly by the Brookline Pops, but most of all, an Open Line Friday call on his NY program.
An older woman from New Jersey decided to take her time to tell a long and winding story having to do with cat leash laws in some community in New Jersey. This was the type of stuff you expect to hear on a 1,000 watt station in a medium town, not on a 50,000 watt NYC based blow torch. Rush let her begin her story, but had her hold while he took other calls and went to breaks. The woman stayed on, and told the whole story. It seemed to take the better part of an hour. At the same time, I thought that Rush was letting us in on a little joke shared with a few hundred-thousand listeners. I think I am the only one who remembers the first feminist update (Lesly Gore’s “You Don’t Own Me”), which dovetailed perfectly into the (Blow Monkeys/Klaus Nomi) versions of the same song. Who can forget the caller abortions, the Condom update (curious not allowed on the NYC show), Pounds for Peace, and the busload of homeless to go to Palm Springs?
That’s just for starters.
Since 1992. Found him by mistake and laughed harder and had more fun with radio than ever before. And since my college professors hated the man, I paid more attention to him. Even sent one the Limbaugh Letter.
Well then who remembers the dog being lost in the subway??? Rush started talking about the report of the dog and then out comes this series of sounds like if the dog got ^%$^&^@$%^#$^@#$%!#$. Don’t want to go there. But he had a lot of humor during the Clinton and Bush years. The tone has taken a more serious turn since the creep took office.
I found online: On the Friday after Easter 1991, we were in Ralph's car returning to Ft. Bragg when he turned on the radio saying, "Hey Wally, you'll like this guy; he has your sense of humor!" It was Rush, and he was covering the "unpleasantness" surrounding William Kennedy Smith and the Kennedy Florida compound the previous Easter weekend. Part of the routine was a tape loop with Bart Simpson saying, "I didn't do it; nobody saw me; you can't prove anything!" interspersed with Ted Kennedy referring to the period of the events as "a typical Kennedy family Easter weekend."
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I can’t say for sure. Maybe sometime around 1990.
Been listening pretty regularly since about 2003 or so.
He doesn’t always get it right, and sometimes falls short of the bar that he himself has set for conservatives, but he’s still the best at what he does.
Pretty much. Rush is the only persona who stays reliably conservative.
Saw them w/Nugent back in the 70’s...
Summer of 91
I was driving to a job in 1988, flipping around the am as I was growing bored with the only political shows on the radio, namely, NPR stations. I locked in a Sacramento station, this guy was talking, I listened and never turned him off since. He cracked me up and explained what was really going on in politics. I started my real political education then, even though I had a degree in political science. I took so much s&*% from friends and family, all libs. Still are except my wife who listens almost daily now. He transformed radio and me. Thanks Rush.
I have listened to him since he debuted here, April 1990.
Sure doesn’t seem like 23 years ago. Geesh.
I heard him the first day he was on WPTF in Raleigh. I think that was his first day going national.
Remember his TV show? Had been around a few years but many stations picked it up about 95. First started at noon but quickly got shuffled to midnight, then to odd hours sometime in the AM and it's airtime was never listed. You needed to stay up way late or put in an 8 hours VCR tape before bed. Since there was not much internet at that time I had to compare notes with other fans to find out if it was the same in their area. It was. That's when I first knew we we were going to have problems like the ones today because his show got the bum's rush even by Conservative TV stations in Conservative areas by simply whiny leftist pressure on them and advertisers. They caved in to people who weren't going to listen or buy the advertiser's products anyway. Show had high ratings which makes the owner's and advertiser's stupidity more perplexing.
If you never listen to any of them, how do you know they have a personal agenda and not a patriotic one?
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