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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush Limbaugh Show podcast.

And greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the

fruited plane.

It is great to have you here today.

Great to be with you, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Studies of All Things That Matter.

Telephone number, 800282, 282, if you want to be on the program. We're going to do a version of open line Friday today, Mr. Snurddley, whatever people want to call about, whatever

they want to ask about, whatever they want to say anything about, let them have at it.

And since we're not going to be here on Friday, this is in fact the last program of the

year for me. And folks, I want to tell you at the outset here, to me, this is a very important program.

I have very much that I want to say to all of you today.

And I'm feeling very pressured.

Not pressured.

I'm feeling stage fright kind of thing.

So much I want to say, and I want to say it correctly. I want to

convey my feelings, and I want to do it right. I want to do it to the best of my ability.

And I have found in circumstances like this that the best thing to do is not to think about it.

Don't make it more pressure-packed than it already is.

But it's very important. You all are very important. My family is very important to me. I've had

a year now to reflect on the things that really matter, a year to reflect on the things that are

completely relevant and important to me.

And all of you were in that large conglomeration of people and things that are very important to me.

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