The Returns: Hush Rush

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Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Each week on ‘The Returns,’ we pull a different episode from our archive to help put our present politics into historical context.

In the 1980s, Rush Limbaugh transformed talk radio. In the process, he radicalized his listeners and the conservative movement. Limbaugh’s talk radio style became a staple of the modern right. Then, the left joined the fray. This week: partisan loudmouth versus partisan loudmouth, and the shifting media landscape that helped create modern political warfare.

This episode first ran in June, 2021.

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:07.0	Smart journalism.
0:11.0	Smart journalism.
0:12.0	Fascinating topics.
0:13.0	Words that describe CNN's podcast, The Assignment with Audie Cornish.
0:17.0	Last year, the Army missed its recruitment goal.
0:20.0	It had 65,000 spots to fill and came up 10,000 short of that target.
0:25.0	Why is it so hard to recruit?
0:27.5	How's the Pentagon responding?
0:29.0	And how are the voices of service members on social media shifting the balance.
0:34.3	Listen to the assignment with Audie Cornish wherever you get your podcasts.
0:38.3	I promise not to get too technical with you, but bear with me for a second.
0:46.3	I am speaking to you now through an Electro-voice-R-E-20 microphone.
0:50.9	It's black with a mesh cap at the top, kind of clunky, very 80s looking.
0:55.0	It's pretty weighty. I think if you clubbed someone with it, you could probably knock them unconscious.
1:00.0	Same deal if you just talk real slow and boring.
1:03.0	Some people, people who spend all their time thinking about recording equipment,
1:06.8	think it sounds honky in the parlance.
1:09.3	I'm not entirely sure what that means, in any way I like it. My RE20 however is not gold-plated. But today on the show we have the story of
1:19.6	somebody whose was. Rush Limbaugh is probably the most famous conservative talk radio host of the 20th and 21st century.
1:28.0	He was a larger than life personality, and he contributed a whole lot to the hyper-partisan, hyper-polarized media landscape we live in today.
1:37.0	Making the story you're about to hear, we listened to a lot of Rush Limbaugh tape.
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