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

Merry Christmas to you.

It's always an incredible honor to sit in for Rush Limbaugh on today, the day the Lord

has made, the time in which we are chosen to live.

Rush shared some things yesterday with us, and I've seen people talking about it on social

media.

Yesterday, I got to listen to the first portion of Rush's program with my young producer at

KTTH in Seattle, Alex Overall, young and conservative, and I'm so glad that we got to hear

a man explain the toughest possible situation

with the greatest possible optimism and the greatest possible generosity and thankfulness to this audience.

Rush spoke with us yesterday as we sat and listened about the nature of this disease and his gratitude.

I usually use the Christmas program such as this one to engage in my thank yous and my thankfulness

for the year rather than at Thanksgiving. And I don't know why something about Christmas, my childhood memories of it, the family

is getting together and the children making it what it was.

My feelings of thankfulness always surface, my feelings of great gratitude, always surface at the Christmas time of year.

And it's no different this year.

Now, in January of this year, toward the end of the month, I received a diagnosis.

You all know, but there's something I want to say about it.

Stage four, advanced lung cancer, terminal diagnosis.

The objective of everybody involved was to extend life for as long as possible, as enjoyable, as possible.

Now many of you have been through this. Lots of you have been through this as individuals,

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