You're listening to the best of the perfect program.

Rush Limbaugh and I have had one thing in common.

One thing in common.

And that is every show Rush didn't know what his first words were going to be.

You could ask him right before he went on the air and he'd prepare for hours, five or

six hours the night before, four hours before every program in the morning.

And by noon, Eastern time, he had his what he called stacks of stuff arranged in front

of him in columns.

He could see the subject matter on everything he had and he could look at it.

He would grab it.

And early on before Rush Limbaugh was Rush Limbaugh, people would come in and say, okay,

Rush, what are you going to talk about today?

What's the most important thing you're going to talk about today?

What is it?

And he'd always respond, I don't know, I can't tell you.

Until the on air light went on and he said those first words into his golden microphone.

It was a spontaneous coming together of his thoughts and no one, no one except talk radio

people can understand that.

The greatest actors, the greatest performers, they don't write their own script and if they

do, they write it in advance.

Even like us, unlike Rush, we speak for three hours every day unscripted.

Unlike most, his desk was his broadcast studio.

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