All right, thanks Scott Shannon and thanks to all of you. Thanks for being with us.

80941 Sean. If you want to be a part of this program, Scott Shannon sent me a couple of notes

speaking of him, the great broadcasting genius that he is talking about the saddest news of the day,

the loss of our dear friend. You know, as our friend Jim Grace, a greatest of all time,

Rush Limbaugh, losing his battle with cancer. And you know, here's a guy, Scott Shannon,

and he loves radio. He's such a good guy. He to this day, just an amazing voice himself and

creating morning zoo radio, taking things to another level. And he actually just said something

so deep and so profound, and it just struck me. Not only did he say it's a sad day for America,

he says he changed everything in so many different ways. We have a lot to talk about as it relates to

Rush. I have my own side of things. I've been close with his family. And let me start by saying,

I know that his wife Catherine, though it was the love of his life, she gave an incredible

tribute to him. And I'm going to play it at the start of Rush's show today. I know Rush's family.

I haven't had a contract in radio and TV that wasn't done by a good friend of this program,

David Limbaugh. I know how devastated his whole family is today and his beautiful wife, Lisa,

and their wonderful kids. I know that Rush's team, James Goldham, both snurdily as Rush called him,

Kathleen Cookies as Rush called him Mike Maymone. It's just a loss. It's a very deep, profound,

irreplaceable icon broadcasting icon. He, you know, my friend Neil Bortz,

always said he was the bay breuth of of our industry. And he's right. But he, I add to it a little bit

and on bay breuth, Lou Garrick, Hank Aaron and Derek Jeter of our industry. And he had, he transformed

radio and I'll go through this story as the program goes through this afternoon and transformed

single handedly saved AM radio single handedly. Then he then then he went on to save FM radio

as broadcasting and podcasting and and new media came on the scene and no one else would have

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