RUSH: This is Dean in Beulah, Iowa. Am I pronouncing that right?
CALLER: Yes, you are.
RUSH: Thank you, sir. Welcome to the program.
CALLER: Thank you. Mega dittos, Rush. Hey, I was just wondering, I’ve been a fan of the show for a long time, and has Chris Matthews ever guest hosted your show?
RUSH: Yes, he has.
CALLER: And why did you do that.
RUSH: Well, you know, there was a time that… Help me out on this, Snerdley. It was the mid-nineties, right?
CALLER: Yeah, at least that long ago. It’s been a long time, way before he ever came out as being more liberal. You know, for a time there he was almost conservative.
RUSH: Well, in part. But when we put him on as a guest host we knew that he wasn’t full-fledged conservative, but we did it just as a change of pace.
CALLER: Okay.
RUSH: But back then, he and I had a good relationship. I was going on his show, and he was calling in to my show, and we had a good relationship back then, but I stopped being invited to go on his show. Maybe it’s I stopped accepting invitations. I don’t know which. But clearly now, that network now is the house organ for the Democrat National Committee.
CALLER: Yeah. I think I remember that show he was on, and it was pretty good, if I remember right, but (laughs).
RUSH: I didn’t hear it. I never listen when I’m not here, obviously. If I could listen, I would be here to do the show. So I didn’t hear it. I’m trying to remember. My memory is, we had some people complain.
CALLER: (laughter) Well, I can believe it. It just kind of astonished me the one time, and as the years progress, I said, ‘Do I remember right? Did Chris Matthews actually host?’
RUSH: We’re going back 13 or 14 years here. We have to be.
CALLER: Yeah.
CALLER: Well, a little bit. (laughing)
RUSH: Yeah, yeah, yeah. That’s what you’re doing. ‘How could you? What were you thinking, Rush?’
CALLER: (laughing) Exactly!
RUSH: Let me tell you something. There have been a lot of guest hosts on this program that are stranger circumstances than that one.
CALLER: That’s all my question was but I was just kind of curious, so…
RUSH: Well, I hope that your curiosity has been dealt with.
CALLER: It has.
RUSH: Thanks much.