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

And hello, everybody.

It's great to be back.

It is just a thrill and a delight to be back here behind the Golden EIB microphone.

And I really appreciate your patience and you're hanging in there supporting our guest host, Todd Herman, last Thursday and Friday. Mark Stein, all the rest of the guys, I just, I really do appreciate it. But it is so good to be back. Here's the telephone number. If you want to be on the program, it's 800 282-282-282.

And the email address is El Rushbow at EIBnet.us.

Okay, time for an update on my condition, my circumstances, my treatment.

I told you all from the very beginning that I did not want to be a cancer patient here on the radio.

Now, those of you who have been through this or have had family members go through it, you know that it takes over your life if you let it.

You know that it has deep-seated psychological impacts on everybody in your family, including the person who has come down with it.

And it takes a yeoman's effort to get past all that.

It takes a lot of effort to try to live what used to be and what you try to make a normal life again. But there's always that cloud hanging out over there. So rather than talk about blood draws and all of the medical specifics, what I thought I would do was use a sports analogy. And since I used to work

for the Kansas City Royals, I understand baseball a bit. Baseball is probably the best sport to use

to analogize where I am to date in my treatment for what is, for those of you who don't know, there's new people listening and tuning in each and every day, advanced stage lung cancer, which was diagnosed back in January on the 20th.

So leaning on my time with the Kansas City Royals, I thought the best way to update you and to inform you

would be with baseball analogy. And it was in late January that we learned of the diagnosis.

That means we learned of a really tough opponent. So it was time to go up to bat.

Time to walk to the plate, bat in hand,

and that is exactly what happened.

And my first two at bats were horrible.

My first two at bats were horrible. My first two at bats struck out.

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