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

Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your EIB anchor baby.

Thrill to be here, no supporting paperwork whatsoever.

It's a treatment week for Rush.

He's super honest about that.

Why he has to be away and how it's likely to go.

I'm not sure I'd want to be that up front about everything if I was in Russia's situation,

but he is, as he has always said, the mayor of Realville, so he's completely

real, even when it's appalling things that are happening to him. And as he always says,

if it all goes well, the treatment, he'll be back sometime after the middle of the week. And if it doesn't go so well, he wants to wait

till he's back at full strength. And you should appreciate it. Because when rush is at full

strength, it means you have to stand well back from the receiving apparatus, or it will

scorch you. So it's Mark Stein. Here we have Ken Matthews from the great state of

Pennsylvania. What am I saying? The great state of Pennsylvania. I'm sorry, I meant the corrupt

dump of graft and fraud of Pennsylvania. That will be Ken Matthews. He will be here tomorrow.

And I was thinking about, I keep meaning to ask Ken how many of his

deceased great, great, great uncles and great, great, great aunts from the late 19th century

voted in the recent election in Pennsylvania. But I was thinking that if rushes out till the end of the week,

we may get Ken to bring in one of his deceased great, great, great, great, great uncles and

have him guest hosts the show. After all, if you can have dead voters, you can certainly

have dead guest hosts. And yes, I know what you're saying. We had a dead guest host yesterday,

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