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July 5, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 5, 2010, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Say, folks, I think we have a new acronym for the President of the United States is no longer POTUS.
It's A. Codis, ass kicker of the United States.
You believe that.
Oh, I'll tell you what, this guy, President Obama is giving Marxist professors a bad name.
Well, you know, reality always gets in the way of Marxism, and it is here.
Anyway, folks, great to be back with you, Rush Limbaugh, Cloud9 here at the Excellence and Broadcasting Network.
Great to have you here.
The uh telephone number if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882, the email address, L Rushball at EIB net.com.
So everybody has been saying, what are you gonna say about your wedding on the radio?
And I said, I I really don't know.
I'm gonna figure out what to say when the microphone goes on.
You know, I never plan things.
We do things improv here.
The first thing I want to address is why didn't I say anything about it in advance?
You know, you and I in this audience for over 20 years, almost 21 now, 21 years in August, have had a familial relationship.
And I read some of the emails before uh Catherine and I left on a honeymoon.
Uh we left on Monday of last week, a week ago yesterday.
And there was some emails, not a whole lot.
Why didn't you tell us?
How why did you keep this a secret?
Folks, there's a very simple answer to this.
Um for one that we wanted to not have this take place in public.
We don't want any kind of a circus atmosphere associated with any of this.
Um whether people believe it or not, I do not seek media attention, particularly in my private life.
I want no part of it.
We did a damn good job of keeping this thing undercover, under wraps, up until the day before uh the thing was to take place.
And if it weren't for Zev Chafitz's book, uh other people of the media have it would not have known what was going on.
The fact that Zeb Chaffetz and his book Rush Limbaugh and Army of One uh published the wedding date.
You know, some some media people went out and got the book and so whoa, what is this?
And so the uh the the lid was blown, but even at that we did not provide uh any details because folks, seriously, the the the um there there's no desire here to live this marriage, this relationship in public, to have constant media attention to it.
Um this was this is a private affair uh for Catherine and me and uh 400 of our friends and uh and associates.
And I have to tell you, I uh I have uh people have telling me of the the people who were at the wedding and on on Saturday night, have never seen me happier.
While I was waiting at the altar for Catherine, and it took her forever, which I didn't she took one step at a time, one step, pause, one step, pa and I'm saying, come on!
Come on, and I'm hopping up and down up there at the altar.
And everybody says, You have never looked happier.
Right, Snerdly.
You never looked happier, never looked uh more radiant.
I this was such a memorable affair.
Nobody who was there will ever forget this if I if I if I say so myself.
Uh I'm getting a bunch of echoes now from uh uh members of the highly overrated staff who were invited and uh and who were there.
But I I we we have not a lot of people said, Where's the pictures?
Same thing.
We we we did not allow cameras.
We allowed no cameras in some no personal cameras, no personal video phones.
Uh the only the only pictures there are are those taken by the four or five professionals that we hired to run around at the luau that we did on Friday night prior to the wedding on Saturday, and then during the wedding, the reception uh dinner and the after dinner concert.
Uh and we we haven't seen the pictures yet.
We just got back last night uh after stopping in Detroit to pick up Sheepdog Number Two.
Uh we we we left Las Vegas at nine o'clock yesterday morning, got back last night after stopping in Detroit to pick up Wellesley.
Uh Wellesley is 13 weeks old.
What's what what what's the deit's where the breeder is.
Yeah, Detroit's where the They have these beautiful dogs in Detroit.
Outside Detroit, if if uh uh is is the Yeah, my our wedding is the least transparent wedding ever.
It is is the way to look at this.
So we've got Wellesley now, thirteen weeks to go with with Abby.
Uh they haven't met yet.
That'll happen this afternoon at five o'clock.
We pick up Abby from kindergarten.
Yes, kindergarten.
Abby goes to a school.
Uh we haven't seen Abby in about 10 days, so it's gonna be I can't wait for I cannot wait for Abby and this little sheepdog, uh Wellesley, two females.
Uh punkin met the uh met the puppy last night, everything fine until the sheepdog started barking, and then punkin ran for the hills.
But it's just fun.
Folks, it's it's it's uh fab.
No, the dog does not know how to read.
What do you mean does a dog know how to read?
Uh no, you mean Abby, kindergarten.
It's uh it's uh it's a daycare center that we call a school.
Uh just for the for the fun of it.
It's cultural enrichment for the uh for the dog.
Uh anyway, we have our own terms for what uh what we do with the animals here, but we love them.
Now, uh folks, I I have to I have to a lot of you want to know about Catherine.
Uh why didn't you say anything about this?
Why again uh you know I've I've I've been on the radio here for 20 plus years, and a lot of what I've done in my private life has been lived in public, and I just decided no more.
Uh we uh we want to try to be as normal as we can.
Now we we know that we're not gonna be able to live anonymously, but we can forestall some media attention by not seeking it.
And we didn't uh in this case.
But I have known Catherine for four years, six years.
I met Catherine when she was uh running the foundation for Gary Player.
Uh and she part of the job was to put together celebrity golf tournaments for Gary Player at various places, and one of them was up at Wayne Heisinger's course in Palm City at uh at at the Floridian.
And for the first three years I went up there, I never met Catherine.
It was always email invitations.
And I came to find out that she didn't even want to invite me, that it took a friend of hers.
You got to get Rush Limbaugh.
She said, Rush Limbaugh.
And she only knew of me as uh as I was portrayed in public.
So what the first time I actually saw Catherine was at one of these golf tournaments, and all the celebrities were sitting on white folding chairs near the sand trap, where Sevy Biasteros was putting on a sand trap demonstration and botching it.
Sevy Biasteros could not get out of a sand trap to save his life.
It looked like me, and we're all kind of looking at each other.
So I'm sitting next to Patrick Duffy of Dallas, and I'm the last one on the right side uh of the row, and I hear it, I feel a tap on my right shoulder.
Well, when that happens, you look to the right.
When I look to the right, there was nobody there.
So I looked to my left.
Uh uh tap on the hi, I'm Catherine.
So I looked to my left finally, and there she is in white slacks, long flowing blonde hair, and I saw her from the rear first.
Uh, and she's uh congratulating everybody else in line, saying hi to everybody.
And it one thing led to another.
She ended up working for the National Football League, liaising with the local host committees uh for Super Bowls every year.
Uh and it just built over time, over six years.
And folks, I know many of you have followed uh uh my life since we got to know each other, and I think well no, I know I got it right.
I like Winston Churchill said, never, never, never give up.
If you're out there thinking all this kind of happiness is going to elude you, forget it.
It will.
If it'll it'll either slap you upside the face or you'll find it one way or the other.
But I hope that you find uh as much happiness as I have.
I would love to tell you uh some of the details about the wedding, but uh I don't I wouldn't know where to start, and I wouldn't know where to stop.
Well, okay, Snerdley's saying start with the with the ceremony.
But before before I get, and yes, we're gonna talk about Obama and the oil spill.
We're gonna get to all that in due course, folks.
Remember, I'm chomping it to bit here uh to get to all this, because this is outrageous what we're being set up for here.
But this wedding has been in the planning stages or was in the planning stages from last September.
And there were certain things that we both agreed to that we wanted.
We wanted to put on a grand two-day party in our in our hometown here for our friends and and uh and associates.
And we wanted to do this and just blow it out.
And we wanted everybody to have the best time they've ever had.
Catherine planned the entire thing.
Every detail.
I mean, you've heard that Elton John performed at the uh at the wedding.
This is all true, and I'll tell you about that in just a second.
You know, it is very instructive.
It is very instructive to find out that all of these supposed tolerant, loving, open-minded people on the left, have given him such grief for performing at our wedding.
He has really caught hell for this.
He doesn't care.
Uh we've been in contact with him, but he doesn't, he doesn't care.
He's uh it was it was amazing what he did.
The performance that he put on for us, it was 75 minutes, it was it was specifically tailored to uh to our circumstances, and how we how we secured Elton John is a is an interesting story in and of itself, which he told the assembled guests after his first song.
Uh he got a standing ovation when he came out.
He got a standing ovation after every tune.
Um he did an encore, and he darted off stage after uh after what we thought was his final song, and I knew he was coming back.
He he uh bounced right back, and the final song was Can You Feel the Love Tonight?
Uh and had people in uh enthralled, uh very intimate, 420 people in uh in a decorated ballroom, making it look like a lounge, people were on sofas, cocktail tables and chairs and so forth.
But to give you an example of the of the detail, while the concert was going on, all of our guests staying at the breakers of the hotel, which is about 95% of them, we placed a CD of Elton John's greatest hits on the pillow in their bedrooms with a personal note from us to each one of them, and people who were local, people who did not stay in the hotel, when their cars were fetched by the valet.
Uh they were presented, the Elton John CD in a personal note, the greatest hit CD.
Uh every every possible imaginal, imaginable detail that you could conceive was taken care of and dealt with and executed flawlessly.
This whole weekend was the product of months of preparation, and the execution was just amazing.
And and uh I've had people come up to me who guests there that former producers for major networks, movie theater studios and so forth.
I've never seen a production like this.
There has never been a wedding that we have been to, and there never will be.
Anytime anybody goes to a wedding from now on that was at yours, Rush, uh, they are going to never forget yours.
And it was it was memorable.
Well, we we w we wanted we wanted to make everybody a part of it.
We wanted everybody to feel uh they were there because we love them.
Everybody there was there for a reason, because they mean something special.
Even you, Snerdley, everybody there because they meant something special to us.
And I really'm not trying to ladle this on to make you feel like, oh, what did I miss?
I'm trying to share it with you after the fact.
We did not want any news of this in advance.
We didn't want any prying eyes.
We did I we just didn't want a circus atmosphere, which is the only reason why uh there was no advanced notice of this from me.
Uh it was just, folks, it was just my desire, I don't get to do this very much, to just have a couple of days as a private citizen with nobody knowing who I am or what I'm doing, except the people who know us and love us.
I gotta take a quick time out here.
We got a lot to do.
There's more to say about you.
Is that enough, Snerdly?
Is that enough, Catherine?
Should I go?
Oh, yeah, I haven't talked about the ceremony.
Ceremony, the hutch.
The hutch.
Yeah, we had the color guard there.
Uh one of the guests came up to me the next morning in a hotel we're having breakfast.
You know, you just blow everybody away.
Here you are married by an African American preacher.
You're serenaded by a gay, openly gay, popular music icon, and they say you're the bigot.
It was uh it was a magical weekend.
I will never, I will never forget this.
And I I just you know, all I had to do was show up and say, I do.
Uh I had to show up the rehearsal dinner.
Uh you know, I did few little organizational things, but this was a production totally 100% conceived, inspired, and executed by the bride.
Even while she was doing bride stuff.
She was doing all this.
I've never seen anything like it.
And I never had one moment of doubt that it was all going to come off.
I never I've I've got confidence in Catherine.
Anything she says she's going to do is uh is going to happen.
I'm striving to have her look at me that way now that anything I say is.
Anyway, quick time out, we'll be back.
I'll tell a little bit about the ceremony, uh and we'll move on.
And I'll tell you how the Elton John thing came about, since everybody is uh uh people who weren't there are commenting on why he did it.
It's just it's been it's been amazing to see.
And all the criticism he's gotten from his side of the uh of the aisle when we just elected a president who was all about unity, we were told.
We're supposed to join together post-partisanship.
Well, here was some giant big-time unity on the evening of Saturday, June 5th, and who the hell's mad at it?
The left.
Yeah, it was a party, but it was a meaningful wedding.
It was a it was a heartfelt ceremony and so forth.
And everybody involved had a wonderful time.
Yeah, these people have to run around and try to uh denigrate Elton John for deigning to do this.
Uh very instructive, folks.
Very instructive about the left and who they really are and what they're all about.
But sit tight.
We're coming back right after this.
Don't go away.
And we're back, El Rush Bow behind the golden EIB microphone broadcast excellence from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
All right, the ceremony.
We had uh uh as Snerdley describes it, one moment you're crying with joy and emotion, and the next minute you're laughing yourself silly.
And that roller coaster kept going up and down.
We we had four songs from uh Broadway musicals, uh The Phantom of the Opera, Jekyll and Hyde, uh, and a performed by genuine Broadway singers, Rob Evan and Lisa Vorman, and they just they were fabulous.
And they were uh she sang at at the uh at the uh at a dinner, and we actually brought out a color guard, saluted the military, Catherine's father's uh graduate of the Naval Academy with Senator McCain.
He finished much higher than Senator McCain, and we didn't know this, but we dedicated a portion of the wedding dinner to him with anchors away after the color guard, and Lisa Vroman sang, God bless America, that was just uh this is what Snerdley means.
One moment you're crying, and uh the next moment you're laughing.
Uh simply can't believe it.
Catherine and I wrote a paragraph to each other that the Hutch, Ken Hutchison, the Reverend Dr. Ken Hutcherson flew in from Seattle to perform the ceremony, read uh to the audience.
We did not read them to each other, he read them.
And uh during the vows, for example, uh the Hutch would say, you repeat the vows, and say, for richer and poorer, and I would say for richer and richer and richer and richer.
He said, uh, for better or worse, and I said, for better, for better, for better, for better, and worse.
Whispered it, I was Mike.
Uh at the end of the paragraph, well, I my paragraph to Catherine started out, we've come a long way since you imposed the buddy rules.
And a lot of people, what were the buddy rules?
It's kind of self-explanatory.
Uh, and my last line was may our select comfort mattress setting be the same forever.
And the place brought was just going nuts.
And meanwhile, the Hutch uh said, you know, these rings Are a token.
And there's three tokens up here because I'm one of them.
He said, I'm the only black guy here that has not been paid to be here.
Which was not true.
But people are looking, what in the world is going on?
And I looked at the audience when he said this.
I said, I'm sorry, folks, I should have warned you.
And they're laughing and then they're crying.
Catherine escorted down the aisle by both her brother John and uh and her father, because they both mean so much to her.
Uh they walked her halfway down.
Her father finished.
I couldn't wait for them to get to the altar.
I finally have to get to about ten feet, and the process was so slow.
So I finally just went out there.
And I got rid of the father, and I grabbed Catherine.
I took her up to the altar, and we we we started the started the ceremony.
And I couldn't take my eye off of her during the whole thing.
I never, from the time she started walking down, I had people telling me you were bopping up and down uh up there waiting for her, this giant smile on your face, which was true.
Uh all of that was true.
I was delirious.
I was, and and at the time the Hutch said, and I now pronounce you husband and slay husband and wife.
I went, yes!
Yes, two different times.
And then we took our tour back down the aisle where we went for photos, and everybody else went for the uh for the cocktail reception, which of course is the bride and groom you never get to, because you have to do the photos and all that.
Yeah, I know it.
We were supposed to be outside in the courtyard, but it was very hot and humid, so we did it in a circle room.
That was uh it was a gorgeous uh every venue, every venue was just uh perfect and uh and well done, but it was a major, major production.
And everybody who attended will attest to how flawless and seamless and huge and big and unique and surprising and unexpected, it all came off, and it all happened because Catherine did it.
It was just amazing, folks.
Executing a scientost studies flawlessly is zero mistakes.
I'm gonna tell you a little bit more about the about the wedding weekend because frankly, folks, is one of the happiest weekends, probably the happiest weekend of my life, and I would much rather relive it than talk about Obama and what he's going to do to damage and ruin this country.
We got all year to talk about that, but I'm only going to have one occasion to tell you about this.
And and uh this is it.
Now, a lot of people told Catherine, uh, in fact, I just got a note from H.R. up in New York that he and his wife Theresa looked like Grace Kelly.
I said, Nope, Grace Kelly looks like Catherine.
And we don't know if we're gonna release a picture yet.
I mean, this is all part of uh Snerdley.
Snerdley, you gotta release a picture.
We're thinking about it, but again, it's it's uh not something that we have a firm.
In fact, Coco, the website just goes, You got a picture?
I said, nope, not yet.
He wrote back, okay, okay, okay.
Uh we haven't seen them yet.
We were supposed to see them last night, but we haven't, because we've been uh we've been, well, understandably busy uh in the evenings uh and some of the afternoons, uh, ladies and gentlemen, for the past uh ten or twelve days.
But Catherine looked radiant, just beautiful.
I I couldn't, I mean, she shows up way at the end of the hallway, the the the uh between all the rows of people.
I'm whoa.
And people could see me at the going, whoa, whoa.
And they're alternately looking at her and looking at me for for my reaction to it.
But she was she was more beautiful than I've ever seen her, and that's saying something.
Because she's uh beautiful every day.
Now the Elton John stuff, let me tell you how this happened.
We still told you that we put this whole thing into motion last September.
In fact, we we didn't even announce the engagement.
We got engaged October 3rd in Pittsburgh at Lamont.
Pittsburgh has ties for both of us.
It's my first town away from home.
Uh my first place I attempted to succeed and didn't.
And so closing the loop in Pittsburgh, I may not have succeeded there, but I sure as hell did last October 3rd.
Lamont's on Mount Washington overlooks downtown Pittsburgh in the stadium.
This was a uh it was a uh Saturday night.
The next night, we were with Al Michaels and the NBC crew for the Chargers and Steelers, and we're on the sideline.
Lynn Swan comes over and says hello, and Catherine's got on the engagement rock.
You know, people are blinded by the light, looking, what is that?
Oh no, it's nothing.
It's nothing, is it?
Little disguised.
So it was just funny.
So we started putting it all together, and Catherine's first request, her first hope was to have Elton John.
Now, when your bride to be says, I really would like to get Elton John, you try to think of a way to make it happen.
And I'm thinking, okay, how?
How am I going to do this?
Who am I going to get to broach?
I have since met his agent, uh Howard Howard Rhodes in Los Angeles, Michael Hewitson, another with his staff.
They're just, we've made some really great new friends in this whole process.
So in the in the process, starting to planning and trying to figure out uh how we can get Elton.
We also had a couple of standbys that we were going to contact in case we couldn't get Elton.
Then last December we went to Hawaii, as uh as you know, there was a health incident, medical emergency for me, and it amazes me that that is still being reported as a heart attack, even though I, with the doctor standing next to me, conducted a press conference, which pulled all the reporters off of Obama.
He was there at the same time.
And I said it was not a heart attack.
The doctor said it wasn't a heart attack.
We don't know what it was.
Uh, but there's no arterial damage, no coronary disease, there's no blockage.
Get an angiogram.
It was actually good, a giant picture of health.
But while we're there, we're staying at the Kahala Hotel on Oahu, and when we had checked in, the general manager, Thomas Pawley, had told us that Elton John was in the suite right above us.
So we still hadn't resolved this, so I went out on our little patio deck, because his is right above, and I started singing Elton John songs, standing hoping he would hear.
And I'm singing Little Jeannie and whatever Elton John songs I could think of, uh, and didn't hear a word.
Then the medical emergency happens, got back from the hospital after a couple, three days there, and the general manager of the Kahala, Thomas Pawley says, Elton John was asking about you.
And I said, What was he hoping I didn't survive?
No, no, no.
He wanted he wanted to know if you're if you were okay because he knew you were staying here.
So light bulb went off, and I said, Catherine, write him a note.
Write him a note and get Thomas Paulie to deliver it.
And say whatever you and she did.
So she puts this note together, uh explaining how much we both admire his music, his career, his talent, his achievements.
Uh she puts in uh two or three paragraphs about me that uh she wanted him to know that unlike the media portrayal.
I had to come back home to resume work.
She stayed in Hawaii for a couple of more weeks to be with her mother and her father over there.
And I'm uh I'm I'm checking my emails one night about a week later, and the subject line from an email from Catherine says, in all caps, we got Elton with two exclamation points.
And I wrote her back, how did this happen?
She told me what had happened, and uh it it transpired that he had gotten her note, and somehow his agent had heard about it, and somebody had talked to him as agent or somebody and and and said, You won't believe this.
And he told this story before uh before performing for us on Saturday night.
He said, You won't believe this, and you described the offer.
And the agent said, Well, I know you won't want to do it.
How do you how do you want to handle it?
Oh, no, no, I do.
I most certainly do want to do this.
I'm just ecstatic here because this is something from the get-go that Catherine said she hoped would happen.
And here it was, it was going to happen.
And at that time, uh, you know, I didn't touch it.
Laid off of it for a couple of minutes or a couple of weeks, actually, and uh and then uh wrote a note to Michael Hewitson, who is one of Elton's uh confidants, and uh thanked them profusely for accepting the gig.
How honored we were for it.
And uh Hewitson wrote back and said, This is gonna happen, Rush.
This This really is going to happen.
Elton is actually looking forward to this.
So I'm sitting there going, I don't believe this.
It's actually happened.
During the whole process, this was in January.
He moved some tour dates that he had for that weekend in Serbia.
He rescheduled them for some time later in order to be able to do this.
And I tell you something funny about this.
Three weeks before our wedding and his performance, I get this note from American Express.
I'm a black card member.
And it's an invitation on Sunday night, June the 6th, for an evening with Elton John in New York at the Time Warner Center or Carnegie Hall of Road.
And I'm looking at this and I said, You mean to tell me that I could have gone up to New York and taken Catherine and hear him free of charge the next night.
I looked at this and I said, This is unbelievable.
So I wrote Hewitson and I said, I can't believe this.
You guys are going to New York after, oh yeah, we're going to be coming in from Atlanta.
We'll do your gig.
We'll fly back to Atlanta late Saturday night and head to um head to New York for the American Express show on Sunday night.
We uh we met Elton backstage prior to the uh prior to the performance.
He walked in, gave me a hug, gave Catherine a big hug, invited us to dinner at his home in London, was uh was dead serious about it.
Uh and we had just the greatest chat with him uh backstage, and he he told Catherine that uh she reminded him of somebody in his life very beautiful.
Uh and we just had uh had the the greatest time he could not have been friendlier.
There was uh, you know, I asked him, uh, you're 63.
I said, I can't believe the schedule you keep.
I mean, you're in Morocco one night, and you're in Egypt, they let you in.
Uh I mean, you're you're you're touring, you're doing Vegas, you're do you ever get Tyson no?
What would I do if I quit?
What would you do if you quit?
Just play golf.
And I said, That's true.
I don't I said, Rush, we're doing what we love.
There's no reason to stop.
I uh I'm I'm enjoying every minute of it.
So he goes out, he does the performance, comes out, sings a song, and then tells the story that I've just told you about uh about how it happened.
Now, we did get worried on the Friday before the wedding, because it it leaked out as a rumor that it was Elton John.
And I sent, I sent Elton's camp an email and said, okay, it's leaked out here.
Uh no problem, Rush.
No, we're gonna be there, it's not a problem whatsoever.
We can't wait to get there.
We're looking forward to it.
And the crowd, we had really, in our invitations and the conversations, all of our guests had been making bets as to who the entertainment was.
I mean, it was Paul McCartney.
Vince Flynn said to me uh the week before the wedding, look, my secret service contacts have told me that after the White House, Paul McCartney is booked on a plane to Palm Beach.
And I said, Well, he's welcome to come to Palm Beach, but he's not invited to our wedding.
Everybody was trying to I mean, you should, it was Bon Jovi, Jimmy Buffett, uh uh uh Earth Wind and Fire, uh Rolling Stones, and nobody, nobody in in the weeks leading up, nobody guessed it.
Not one person guessed it.
And Flynn said, I know somebody's guessed it, and you're just lying.
You know you're just using stone.
I said, Vince, nobody's guessed it.
Then Friday night at the Louell.
I'm talking to Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, and he guessed it.
And I had to put on my stone face, and I just started laughing.
What?
I said, Mr. Justice Thomas, what in the world would make you think it's Elton John?
And he just started his big belly laugh and so forth.
So I'm gosh, I hope I pulled off this poker face.
Then it leaks.
Uh, what was it, Friday morning it leaked or Saturday morning, whatever it was, it leaked in the newspaper.
And a lot of the guests were somewhat disappointed that the surprise had leaked out, but not all of them knew it.
Which, which, which uh which stunned me.
They were still taking bets that maybe it was a feint, that it was uh a head fake, that was part of our plan to keep the entertainment secret.
Uh HR, he read it in the paper.
He didn't believe it.
A lot of people didn't believe it.
So it came time to uh leave the dinner and dancing and go into the in the Ponce Stelion Bullroom, which was set up for Elton's performance.
Single piano with a synthesizer.
It was amazing, by the way.
One man show what he was able to do with a piano and a synthesizer keyboard.
But regardless, uh we had the stage obscured by drop screens, drop curtains.
And they told me you announce it when the curtains fall, when you see the curtains fall.
So I've stood up there, microphone in hand, curtains drop.
I said, ladies and gentlemen, Sir Elton John.
And the room stood up in mass, standing ovation.
He came out, could tell he was a little surprised that he got a standing ovation from this crowd.
It was uh, and he did, and after every song he got a standing O. What did he do?
Ten songs, I think, in the uh in the 75 minutes.
I think he actually went an hour and 20 minutes, supposed to be an hour and ten.
And it ended, then the after party began, went on at about two o'clock.
And that's that's when the uh all the guests, you know, this is it's never stopped.
Every moment, every venue has been bigger than the preceding one.
This has been the greatest thing we've ever been to.
And I have to tell you folks, it was for me too.
It is the greatest weekend of my life.
It was just and I'm saying Catherine, I said, I'm I'm at heart, I'm just this little hick kid from Southeast Missouri.
And look, look what happened here this weekend.
I got you.
I had 400 of our closest friends and associates here to see it.
Elton John showed up.
And then, of course, we we left and we tracking all of the the really snarky comments that he was getting from um.
People supposedly friendly with him on his side of the aisle was very, as I said earlier, it was very, very instructive to watch this.
So the people who want unity and who want togetherness, and he said he came out, he told the people you might be surprised to see me here.
He said, Why do you think I'm here?
Because I want to build bridges.
I want to build bridges.
I don't want to erect walls.
Another standing ovation when he uh when he got that.
He was clearly having a great time.
He was applauding himself after each song.
Got up from the piano, walked the full length of the stage, greet everybody, clapped for himself.
People were waving candles like it was an outdoor concert.
Uh people standing up in the aisles and uh and and dancing.
Once, once in a moment, lifetime thrill.
And that's what it was supposed to be.
Something once in a moment, and it was.
And Catherine and I uh, well, I know it's true for her too.
We've never been happier.
I know it's true for me, and I can tell same thing with her, but she did a most remarkable job of putting all this together from the Broadway singers to she's the one that secured Elton.
Her letter to him while we were in the hotel.
There's there's no question about it.
Uh clearly he fell for her.
Uh and he was smitten with her backstage before the for the concert, as is everybody who meets her.
Very, very true.
Quick time out, folks.
Next segment's gonna be real short because this one was so long, but it was worth it.
And welcome back.
We'll get to your phone calls in the next hour, and to give you look it, you can figure out what we're going to be talking about as the rest of the show unfolds.
The BP oil spill, the Obama administration, and Obama's personal reaction to it.
Now, folks, I hope you remember that about a half a week, maybe a week before I left, I told you they want this disaster.
I told you that this is something that's gonna play right into their hands.
This is a he's gonna he's gonna use this thing to push cap and trade.
He has devastated the the Gulf oil business by uh eliminating all offshore drilling until the so-called cause for this thing is Found.
Uh it it's it's a disaster in and of itself, the way the President of the United States is dealing with this.
Uh it's it's a crisis, and they are going to make full use of it.
This uh this speech from the Oval Office tonight is not about the oil spill.
It's not about BP.
It is about Obama.
The whole purpose for this is Obama's plumbing plummeting approval numbers and an attempt to get them back up.
Uh we we have learned so much about early offers of assistance from uh foreign countries that were rejected because the paperwork wasn't done correctly or so forth and so on.
The Bob Etheridge situation uh yesterday.
I have many, many, many things to say about that.
And we have a general stack of stuff uh that has accumulated in my absence.
That of course, until I say something about it, it really hasn't been said.
So all of that, plus more, including your phone calls, when we get back at the top of the next hour.
Uh some confusion email.
Rush, who performed your wedding ceremony?
Clarence Thomas or or or Reverend Hutcherson.
It was Reverend Hutchison.
Somebody who was uninformed did leak that it was Clarence Thomas.
That performed the ceremony was not the case.
It was Reverend Hutcherson from uh from Seattle.
The Hutch, you've heard him on the program as we discussed football.
My Uncle Steve performed the first half of the ceremony as someone out of state, a federal judge out of state.
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