Do not think that Rush won't see your entries. He slums here on FR. He really does.
Summer 1988, 560 KSFO. I was a high school kid and it was a lazy Saturday afternoon rerun show. I had picked up a pizza and was just loafing and listening to the radio. This guy came on and making fun of liberals and it was awesome and hilarious. In those days, Rush also had a great radio voice, much stronger and fuller then. He could have been doing movie trailers like Don LaFontaine.
I can’t say I remember exactly what the date was, but it had to be back in the early days of the first Clinton administration. I was quickly hooked and used to tape his TV show religiously. I even had a web site for awhile called “Ditto Headquarters” to discuss his show. I still own the vanity plate “DITTOS” which resides on my C5 Corvette.
Does anyone here recall a story Rush told about him and his brother as kids sending prank telegrams to some baseball manager travelling from city to city with his team?
Something about meeting with a famous player at the time or something like that?
I was in grad school. I had read, either in the Nation, the New Yorker, or The Progressive, about this radio guy who was against everything I thought I stood for, who had a nice presentation but was evil. There was something called Rush-rooms out in the mid-west where the great “unwashed” listened to him.
So I was driving in to class and I searched the dial and found him, this had to be 91 or so. I listened and each time I was in the car, I listened more.
He used the term “feminazis” and said things that I had not ever heard said out loud. I found him funny and a bit subversive, in a nice way.
Since we had just adopted two black infants, I was just beginning to learn how racist the left really was, and he provided an interesting counterpoint.
I have listened to him throughout the years.
Although he can stop hawking wares on his show, and let them go to regular commercials, I find I turn him off when he is selling stuff. And I hate when he segues into selling while talking about other more political things. Ingraham does that too. They would be much better off running a series of real commercials at set times with more talk in between.
A few months after that my husband and friend drove to Myrtle Beach to play golf. During the night, to keep them awake, they listened to cassette tapes of Rush's previous few days' programs. (Probably illegal - sorry, Rush!). They've both been hooked since then also!
I first heard Limbaugh in the summer of 1988 while tiling my bathroom. He did a local hour on WABC in addition to his national show, right before the great Bob Grant.
It was the ties. Asked someone who was wearing one and was told it was from this dude on TV. Tuned in and never tuned out, from TV to AM radio and now 24/7 podcast.
1989, I was driving a cab in Naples, Florida. Got tired of hearing the same old songs on FM radio while reading Travis McGee novels between fares.
WNOG-AM replaced Michael Jackson (not the singer) with Rush, I have become a frequent listener ever since.
In sacramento maybe his second week. I listened to KABC and others in LA before like Joe Pyne on tv, Michael Jackson Bill Helay sports, my favorite. but rush was the most political and he went after social issues.
Rush had a line with women. A voice like a mink glove.
I was in the Army and a couple of guys had him on the radio. He was doin “On Air Abortions”, I laughed my but off and have listened ever since. At least when I can, work can interfere
1993. Out on the parking lot of work taking a nap during my lunch hour.
Approximately 1990. I was going through the dial when I came across Rush doing a segment on Ted Kennedy. He had the sound effect of dripping water in the background.
I don’t recall the first time I heard Rush nationally. I think though the first time I heard him was on his New York “Local Local” show driving from Connecticut.
I do recall the first time I tuned into him specifically; LA riot aftermath.
It’s like trying to remember the first time you saw a cartoon or heard a song.
I got hooked on Rush on KFI the summer of 1988. He kept me company painting our fence.
My father was the first person to suggest that I listen to him. Daddy at age 90 and I still listen. I’m happy that our President called to congratulate Rush today.
1988. My dear husband was a truck driver who came home and told me that there was a talk radio host I just had to listen to. Have been listening ever since. He has gone to be with the Lord but I tell my grandchildren about Rush and hope and pray they will liove this country as much as their paw paw did. Thank you Rush!
It was whatever year he started. I was at my grandparents house and heard my brother Jimmy excitedly talking to another brother about a new conservative guy on the radio. For those of you familiar with talk radio host, the late Bob Grant, you may have heard my brother, ‘Jimmy From Brooklyn’, on his progrsm.
Yes he does do show prep on FR. 1991 when I was a coop during my engineering undergrad. UAW plant with conservative engineers and skilled technicians. Line was knuckle dragging Democrats. Odd we are all still employed. Their jobs are in China or Mexico.
Loved the Clintoon parody songs. Hooked ever since.
I was playing a round of golf one day with a friend who owned a radio station. This would have been sometime around 1989. He well knew my politics and mentioned that soon he would have this talk show on his station with this guy named Rush Limbaugh.
I started listening at that time and honestly I don’t think I ever missed a show from 1989 through 2001. Every day in my office I would listen to Liddy’s show first and then Rush.
I only ocassionally listen to Rush these last 10 or so years.