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You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Rolling in third hour of the Thursday edition of the program. I hope all of you are having a fantastic start to your mornings. I know that there are a lot of weather related conditions and concerns all over the country as a deep freeze has set in. I hope that things are getting better in Texas in particular, but millions of you out there.

I know that many of you are out there dealing with a lot of different travel conditions than normally would be the case and I hope things are getting better sooner rather than later.

Wherever you may find yourself I know by the weekend things should be getting back to normal in many ways. We are sitting probably with I don't even know what the total is seven or eight inches of snow here in Nashville which never happens.

I'm going to finish off the show here this hour and then probably take my kids and end up a sledding looks like absolutely perfect sledding conditions so that is what is on tap here in the outkicks studios crazy and unfortunate.

And and and wild when you look at the history and the legacy of Russian limbaugh in the world of radio so I have been doing daily radio solo for about five years now and I did it before that on the weekend and solo for years and years.

And what I would say in general is whether you like this show or not there are relatively few people who can do solo radio on any topic sports, current events anything and even fewer of those people who can do it well and a tiny pin prick of people who can do it well for as long as Russian limbaugh did radio decades and decades of what I believe is the most in the world.

The most influential radio show that has ever existed in the history of the United States in the in the current affairs in the political realm in terms of influencing public policy and in terms of just a massive audience of people who are listening along and in particular I thought that they I think there are two people who are radio legends right now.

That is Russian limbaugh and that is Howard Stern and if you debate them and discuss them and try to analyze them the way that I would basically that I would basically characterize it is limbaugh is the most influential radio person of all time I think Howard Stern is probably the most entertaining radio person of all time when you think about the decades and decades of work that both of those guys have done.

In their careers and that I went on with Gottlieb yesterday in the afternoon talking about this soon after the news broke and what I said was and I think there's a lot of truth to it.

There's a difference between influential and entertaining and the most entertaining movie for instance never by and large ends up winning the Academy Award because there's a difference between movies that are that are significant and I think that is the most entertaining radio show.

It's a significant and making major statements oftentimes and just popcorn level entertaining movies so the Marvel superhero movies which is what I would say basically is Howard Stern never end up even though they have a massive appeal winning Oscars and meanwhile there are other movies that are incredibly influential that don't have the same viewership that people end up giving a lot of attention to.

I would say that is in a rough analogy the difference between limbaugh and between Stern it's why I would say limbaugh is the most influential I really do believe this the most influential person to ever do radio and I know many of you who listen to this show I'm even on some of the same stations that Russian limbaugh is also on and I know many of you are going to miss him a great deal so condolences to Russia limbaugh and to

his family and to his millions and millions of fans that have spent decades listening to his radio show on a daily basis limbaugh in particular penetrated into the world of sports relatively quickly in a segment that went viral all the way back in 2003 in particular limbaugh was hired to work at ESPN as a commentator on their NFL

pregame show and alongside of Tom Jackson and Chris Burman Steve Young and Michael Irvin it's wild to even think about now because of the direction that ESPN has gone since then the idea of anybody who is not a far left wing zealot working at ESPN is almost hard to imagine much less a right wing conservative radio commentator

but it did not last very long with Russian limbaugh on the television network and that is because of this segment that went viral talking about Donovan McNabb and the success or failure of the Philadelphia Eagles if you haven't heard that clip in a long time I still find it to be incredibly timely and I would encourage you to listen here this is from ESPN in 2003

Russian limbaugh discussing alongside of Tom Jackson and Chris Burman and Michael Irvin and also Steve Young the quarterback position with Donovan, NAB and the Eagles

I've listened to all of you guys actually and I think the sum total of what you're all saying is that Donovan McNabb is regressing he's going backwards

and I'm sorry to say this I don't think he's been that good from the get go I think what we've had here is a little social concern in the NFL

I think the media has been very desirous and a black quarterback do well where it's in black coaches and black quarterbacks doing well I think there is a little hope invested in McNabb

and he got a lot of credit for the performance of this team that he really didn't deserve this team.

But somebody went to those championship games, they went to those probo's somebody made those plays that I saw running down the field doing it with his legs doing it with his arm

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