Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and BoxeXton Show Podcast.

Welcome in everybody to the Thursday edition of the Clay Travis and BoxeXton Show.

There is a lot going on and we'll be diving into all of it with you momentarily.

But we want to take a minute or two or more for us first here to have a moment of remembrance.

Because one year ago today we lost the founding father of conservative talk radio, Rush Limbaugh.

As he used to put it, he was a man, a legend, a way of life, doing what he was born to do

with half his brain tied behind his back just to make it fair. The exercise is talent on loan from

God for over three decades before succumbing to stage four lung cancer last year, a battle he

fought right to the end behind the Golden Eiv mic. Rush was larger than life in the radio universe,

but he also never wanted to make it about him. He was truly focused on the conservative cause

while also having more fun than any human being should be allowed to have. Clay, I remember when

we were first told together that we would have the great honor and the great responsibility

of just trying to take up the fight. Because we both knew right away we looked at each other and

said there's no such thing as replacing Rush Limbaugh's the greatest that ever lived, the greatest

that will be in this medium of radio. But I remember you looked at me and we said we're going to do

our very best. That's exactly right and I know we're going to talk to Catherine Rush's widow

here in a little bit on the show. And over the months that we have been sitting behind a couple

of pairs of golden microphones as you well said, nobody can fill Rush's shoes, but hopefully

each of us can fill one of them. And that was the idea that Julie Talbot who made the decision

to put us in and had been working with Rush for decades before doing such a fabulous job, what she

knew and what Rush knew was the battles that he had been fighting were only going to be accelerating

in terms of their intensity. And I know many of you out there listening right now are thinking about

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