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'Clay and Buck' celebrate one year on air: 'Continuing the fight' Rush Limbaugh began in 1988

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Clay Travis and Buck Sexton follow the late Rush Limbaugh at noon eastern

On the one-year anniversary of the "Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show" 
officially taking over for the late Rush Limbaugh, the hosts celebrated 
their last 52 weeks at noon eastern, while touching on pressing issues of 
the day as always.

Travis, who typically broadcasts from Nashville, traveled to New York to 
anchor in-person with his co-host, city native Sexton.

The hosts said that, like their EIB Network predecessor, they encourage 
and enjoy listeners' reactions and analysis to anything that happens on 
the program or in the news, down to the most apolitical.

In the most recent example, Travis said a listener named Gregory emailed 
him at 5:18 in the morning on the East Coast to inform him that Sexton has 
been botching "Top Gun" references on-air.

"The [email] headline was ‘Buck Messed Up on Top Gun’," Travis recalled. 
"First of all, before I even read his email, I didn't know how we ended up 
in a world where people reach out to me to share opinions about you on 
movies." Sexton had purportedly confused "Merlin" with Tom Skerritt's 
"Viper."

Sexton and Travis suggested that exchange, on even a tangential topic, and 
the requisite political interjection (about "Merlin" being played by "that 
freaking socialist-liberal Tim Robbins"), shows how listeners are engaging 
with the program as they were with Limbaugh:

"Thank you to Gregory. In all honesty, one of the most fun things I think 
about the one-year anniversary is … how committed this audience has been 
to helping us to continue to fight, that Rush was so committed to 
himself," Travis added.

And, just as in the case of Limbaugh, listeners have not been apprehensive 
about offering an opposing viewpoint, Sexton said, explaining an episode 
where a listener wrote in to object to how the former CIA officer cracks 
his eggs – directly into the frying pan, rather than an intermediary bowl.

FLASHBACK: RUSH LIMBAUGH ERA COMES TO AN END, AS TRAVIS & SEXTON LAUNCH 
NEW ERA

"The Rush Limbaugh Show" first hit the airwaves on August 1, 1988. 
Limbaugh spent 33 years behind the golden microphone, many of those at #1, 
before passing away in 2021 at the age of 70 following a battle with 
cancer. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2020 from 
President Donald Trump.

On one of his final shows, the 2020 edition of the annual Christmas-themed 
affair, an emotional Limbaugh spoke at length about his love for his 
audience, and how he was grateful to God to have outlived his cancer 
prognosis – as the final chords of Mannheim's ‘Silent Night’ rung out.

Almost immediately following news of his passing, scores of Dittoheads 
dropped off mementos and cards, creating a makeshift memorial in front of 
his Palm Beach, Fla. home.

Following his death, the EIB Network was helmed by several of the 
program's popular guest hosts, including New Hampshire's Mark Steyn, 
Pennsylvania's Ken Matthews of WHP-580, former Seattle host Todd Herman 
and North Carolina's Brett Winterble.

RUSH LIMBAUGH REMEMBERED BY BO SNERDLEY: ‘INCREDIBLE HUMAN BEING’

When Sexton and Travis took over for Limbaugh, both said it was an honor 
and privilege to do so.

"I was inspired by Rush, and so was Clay," Sexton told Fox News at the 
time. "One of the biggest breaks in my career was guest-hosting for Rush 
[eight] years ago."

Sexton said he could personally attest to the connection the late Limbaugh 
had with his millions of Dittoheads, remarking to Fox News that after just 
one day of guest-hosting years prior, he received numerous encouraging 
communications from listeners who made a real connection with him – as 
they still continue to do to this day.

Travis added at the time, Limbaugh won't ever be replaced, but together he 
and Sexton work to continue the late Missourian's core values:

"[M]ost importantly – American exceptionalism, a fervent embrace of 
capitalism, and a belief in a robust marketplace of ideas," he said.

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