How Rush Limbaugh ‘Spawned’ Glenn Beck | Guest: Christopher Rufo | 2/18/21

The Glenn Beck Program

Mercury Radio Arts

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.6 • 25.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2021

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Summary

Glenn dedicates the show to legendary conservative broadcaster Rush Limbaugh, who passed away Wednesday after his battle with cancer. Glenn tells less well-known stories of Rush and how he created the modern talk show industry and saved AM radio. While the mainstream media and the Left dance on Rush’s grave, Glenn remembers who Rush really was and further shares how he literally owes his career to Rush. Who would be on the “Mount Rushmore of Radio”? Christopher Rufo, director of the Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth & Poverty, joins to share Rush’s impact on his life and the latest on how fast critical race theory is spreading into schools and workplaces near you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We have our sponsor this half hour is a bill bar.
0:03.0	Now, my wife was the functionally the person who brought bill bar to America.
0:10.6	That's how I think about it.
0:11.6	Really?
0:12.6	Yeah.
0:13.6	They actually have a mural of my wife at the bill bar headquarters because she's talked
0:17.9	about it on Instagram so much.
0:21.0	And I bet that's how my wife found bill bar.
0:24.3	I think it was originally, but she's the one that turned you onto it.
0:27.7	And of course you didn't listen because you're you.
0:30.2	And they said it was the word healthy wasn't included unfortunately.
0:33.3	That was a huge mistake.
0:34.3	That was a huge mistake.
0:35.3	You're like, why would you call them healthy?
0:37.8	Yeah, it works with my wife's audience, but not really with you.
0:40.4	Yeah, not with me.
0:41.6	But it has real chocolate and a zillion different flavors.
0:44.8	They just had another one that showed up.
0:46.2	They had a new wafer bar or something that showed up at least at the house yesterday.
0:49.9	Okay, I'm a little pissed that she's getting all of these special deals and I don't get
0:54.2	them.
0:55.2	I don't get them until everybody gets them.
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