Do not think that Rush won't see your entries. He slums here on FR. He really does.
Late 1980s and I am visiting a friend in MN. We are pheasant hunting and took a break for lunch. Sitting in his truck he says “You have to hear this guy” and he turns on the radio. I have been a listener ever since.
Jackson, Tennessee, is a bastion of liberal Democrats and the TV station, WBBJ, put Rush on at 12:30 at night. My fiance and I would stay up late to watch his show. He was like a breath of fresh air considering that we didn’t have cable and could only get the alphabet outlet news. I missed the TV show when it went off the air.
August 1990 during the first gulf war.
Pretty easy to remember as I have as working at KHTR/KQQQ in Pullman, WA when the owners wife came in and said “you’ve got to hear this guy we added to the AM side.” And the rest, as they say, is history.
I was in Japan and posting to a Tokyo BBS. Suddenly the depraved leftards started calling me a “Limbot.” I had no idea what they were talking about, but they were convinced that I must be his “disciple.”
Some guy was posting transcripts of Limbaugh’s show, so I started reading those, then AFRTS started playing one hour of his show. I don’t think he ever disagreed with me on anything until Rubio.
It seems to me that he has abandoned the fight against the forced legitimization of sodomy.
1986 KFBK Sacramento.
I joke that I was a regular caller...who was usually left on hold. Actually I did make it all the way through to on the air at least 3 or 4 times in the first couple years. Bo Snerdly would talk to me right up until I was on. Great guy.
Once Rush went national I tried to call a few times...Fugetaboutit. Perpetual busy signal.
Oddly, it was November 5, 2008, the day that he famously said that he hoped Obama would fail. I was actually driving home from Las Vegas having spent Election Day there monitoring polling sites on behalf of the Democratic Party. I was basking in the glow of Obama’s victory, and probably stopped on Rush flipping through the dial, maybe thinking that I would get to experience a sweet bit of schadenfreude. The irony, I know. Been listening to him ever since!
The very first time I heard him I was in a college parking lot, sitting in my car and I heard him faintly on an AM radio talk radio station about 100 miles away. I tried tuning in a few times but reception was poor because of the distance. I did note right away he was outspoken compared with the usual things that you would hear on talk radio. This had to have been in 1989 or 1990. I made a mental note to see if his program would be carried locally and finally in a year or two it was. I remember Rush would sometimes perform “caller abortions.”
Back in August of 1988, self employed and working from home.....my 10 year old son came home all excited about a radio show he had just heard. He said “mom...there’s a guy on the radio that thinks just like us. You’ve got to listen.” :-))
Around 1990, “Up, Up and Away” (as the background music) for `Condom Update.’”.
Who was this brash guy saying “condom” out loud? I’d never even heard the word spoken before then. I was a little upset.
In those days, I worked Tues. - Sat, and I was out at 3 p.m. on a Summer day.
Turned on the radio, Boston 68, WRKO. I heard this guy talking, and he said something like....’for those of you on Welfare, who are just waking up...’
I laughed because it was a Saturday and I had been up for 11 hours already.
That was it. He sounded gay to me, but I laughed. Found him again later the next week. That was probably in 1989 or 90, but I cannot say for certain.
Must have been a tape, because it was not a weekday.
I saw him being interviewed on 60 Minutes in, I believe, 1988. My dad had just died and Inthought boy would he love this guy. I started to listen to Rush and have been a fan ever since.
It was around 1990, about the time of Desert Shield.
I was working alone in a building in Richmond, Va.
I found an old radio and turned it on. I found out I could only get am stations.
As I slowly turned the dial I heard the theme from the movie Born Free only it was punctuated by shotgun blasts. I thought I had found some sort of comedy station.
Rush came on and was joking about PETA pitching a fit about NZ paying a bounty on all wild rabbits killed.
It seems wild rabbits had overrun the country because there were no natural predators there.
He ripped PETA a good one with humor and facts.
Since then I’ve listened to him whenever I can.
Turned a few friends on to him too.
It was November 15, 1989. I was working for Boeing in Huntsville, AL, and I was in a training class in Madison (just west of Huntsville).
During lunch, I west out to the truck to catch the weather report, as the weather was a bit dicey. I tuned to WVNN, AM 770, out of nearby Athens, AL, and heard Rush for the first time. Two thoughts immediately came to mind; first was, “Wow, this guy thinks just like I do.” My second thought was, “He’s going to wind up in the gulag someday.” I immediately became a faithful listener, and remained so for years. I’m still an occasional listener, but life and work are too busy for me to tune in every day. It’s difficult to quantify the impact he’s had on this country, but I’m certain that he has extended the lifespan of our Republic and has made the world a better place.
I remember the date because, later that afternoon, an F4 tornado heavily damaged Huntsville and the surrounding area, resulting in 21 fatalities.
I remember listening to Rush while Reagan was still president.
I must have picked up on the show very shortly after it went on the air, perhaps a week or two in.
He was on KFI Los Angeles at the time, and it was a super-station that could be heard from around Ventura to about Carlsbad, and east to San Bernadino.
It was great to realize we had Reagan in the White House, and Rush promoting his and other Conservative policies at the time.
We had two other Conservatives on the air in those days, George Putnam and Ray Briem.
Those were great times.
Trump is doing it all over again, and Rush is supporting him better than the Republican Congress, that’s for sure.
I first heard Rush sometime in 1988. Previously I had heard about him in the news. Then right after the top of the hour I heard the theme music. Simply based on the style and attitude of the theme music I knew this must be the Rush Limbaugh people are talking about. It was strange. For some reason he had not even announced his name but I knew who he was.
I was in ministry and got a call to a church near Sacratomato in 1984 I it was not long before I found him on KPFK and listened avidly so I was pleased when he went National. I had no idea he would be such a big deal but there were no national conservative talk shows 30 years ago. God Bless him for hanging in there
Heard Rush the first time in 1991 after a 20-year absence from the US (worked and lived in the ME in the oil industry). Felt immediately attracted to his program and listen to it whenever possible.
I used to listen to him every day when he was on the radio in Sacramento Ca.
September 12, 2001. I was on a United flight the day before and suspected that my casual approach to news and politics wasn’t going to cut it going forward...