Hey folks, it's great to be back. Really great to be back and I need to ask you a favor.

I need you to give you, give me a few minutes here just to get my sea legs.

This has been a very, very bad couple of weeks for me.

I don't want to get into any more detail about it.

Those of you who've been through this know exactly what I'm talking about.

But it has not been, um, well, it's not been a break in the sense that it hasn't been

restful or relaxing or any kind of what people would call a vacation.

But I wanted to get back and here we are behind the golden EIB microphone, the

Rush Limbaugh program where every show seems like the most important show.

Where every caller matters, every caller people move to the edge of their chairs to

hear what the caller says.

And every program reverberates with the truth that the country we're born in is the best.

Great to have you with us.

Telephone number is 800-282-2882 and I'm sure that numbers of you want to weigh in

and we'll do our best here to get to as many people on the phones today as possible.

Um, if you want to send an email, the address is L. Rushbow at eibnet.us.

First thing I want to do folks, I want to go back to audio soundbite.

And by the way, part of getting my sea legs today is, is, um, I'm going to be hitting this

cough button a lot. Not to cough, but to, um, do other bodily things that would sound rude to do

on the air. So there's going to be a little dead air during the program today.

Um, but it's, that's not a major thing, nothing to worry about. I just want to prepare you

for the fact that, uh, that that is, no, I'm talking about blowing my nose. Don't go there

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