hearing me okay very good yes all right we got it fixed whatever it was so much better uh anyway

what i was saying was when i heard her her voice i knew it was going to be very bad we'll take

some calls by the way a lot of people uh want to talk about rush and what rush meant to them

you know he created uh everything uh before, Rush came along, I think was

88, 1988, and before that, the big talk shows, you had Bob Grant, you had Barry Gray, you had

Barry Farber, of course. These guys were phenomenal. They were very good, but there were nothing like Rush. And Rush

was so different. Remember, he started as a local show here in New York, and it shouldn't have worked

because he was so Midwestern. You know, most of us on the radio are. I'm from the Midwest, but you get

here and you become a New Yorker.

Rush was not interested in becoming a New Yorker.

He remained a very humble, sweet, Midwestern guy,

and he kept sounding that way, but he just took off immediately.

The show became huge, huge. And it just got bigger.

And it went national.

It was 200 stations.

And the next thing, you know, 300 stations.

There was 400 stations.

And all of a sudden it was 500, 600 stations.

And I remember you'd look at or talk to Bob Grant or those guys.

And they couldn't figure out why this guy was

taken off. Joe Bartlett, are you

back? Yeah, I'm back. A short

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