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The Rushfans Corpus

Every word the Rushfans YouTube podcast said across 43 episodes — the 20 most recent, plus the complete Hold Your Fire and Presto album runs (one show per song) — transcribed verbatim and indexed line by line so any claim can be cited to a timestamp.

What is this? A Rush fan club records talking shows on the web about the rock band Rush. A robot listened to 20 of their shows and wrote down every single word they said, with the clock time next to each line. This page lets you read it all and search it like a giant book.
▶ Rushfans on YouTube
43episodes
42,937timestamped lines
279,544words
532in channel

What all 43 episodes of Rush talk cover

Literal mention counts across all 43 episodes (the 20 most recent plus the 12 Hold Your Fire and 11 Presto album-run episodes). Band tallies are lines that name each member; album and song tallies are lines containing the title. Caption stage-directions like [Laughter] and [Music] are stripped; the reader keeps every caption verbatim. Click an album, song, or word to search it.

⚠️These are auto-generated YouTube captions: no punctuation, no speaker names, and the occasional mis-hear. Use them as a searchable index of what was said, not a clean edited transcript.

Band member share of voice

Neil Peart551
Alex Lifeson303
Geddy Lee72

Most-discussed albums

Presto169
Power Windows101
Hold Your Fire90
Clockwork Angels83
Grace Under Pressure62
Counterparts58
211230
Signals30
Roll The Bones30

Songs named most

The Anarchist67
Marathon40
Second Nature36
Limelight33
Available Light31
Prime Mover27
Mission26
Scars26

Busiest episodes (words)

#171 Presto10k
#288 Top 3 Sequences of Three Songs10k
Special Rush Deep Dive: Hold Your Fire10k
#285 The Anarchist9k
#164 Show Don't Tell9k

Words they lean on

kind 1151because 872little 529always 386love 371lyrics 329life 294before 286through 263sort 259make 242idea 236three 228power 204windows 137clockwork 132

The Hold Your Fire episodes — full transcripts

The Rushfans Roundtable covered Hold Your Fire one song per episode (#151–161), plus album-level shows. All 12 are now pulled into this corpus. Click any one to read its full transcript in the reader.

The Presto episodes — full transcripts

The Rushfans Roundtable also went through Presto one song per episode (#164–175), plus album-level shows. All 11 are pulled into this corpus. Click any one to read its full transcript in the reader.

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🔥 Hold Your Fire · album run (one show per song)
🎹 Presto · album run (one show per song)

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