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Is Rush's Voice Changing ?

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Tuned into Rush the other day for the first time in a long time. Seemed that he voice has changed or if the delay tape was slowed.
Limbaugh words were so slow in coming out one might think he had had a stroke or was on medication... again.
Anyone else notice?
 
I think now that Rush is set for life, he's probably going to start putting half as much effort into his show, kinda like athletes after they sign ginormous contracts (see: New York Mets)...
 
IRS said:
Tuned into Rush the other day for the first time in a long time. Seemed that he voice has changed or if the delay tape was slowed.
Limbaugh words were so slow in coming out one might think he had had a stroke or was on medication... again.
Anyone else notice?
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It's funny you should mention that. Today (Thursday 07/10) I tuned in to the opening segment to hear his take of Jesse Jackson's mal mot. When Rush mentioned Jesse's name in the past, he used to do an octave-downward-leap "the REVerend JACK-son". Today, his voice couldn't go that low.
 
I think the fact that someone was actually willing to pay him a $400 Million dollar contract actually caused him to have a mini stroke!
 
His voice started changing when he lost his hearing, with the implant it returned to something close to his normal voice, but it was never quite the same. I'd attribute any change in his voice to problems with his hearing. He has a woman in studio with him doing real time transcription so he can read what the callers are saying.
 
I hae noticed a pronounciation problem. Sometimes he gives a unique "pronounciation" to words just to be funny. But sometimes I believe he actually does not realize how the word is coming out. On the Jackson commentary the other day, I did not notice the change in "Rev" but now that you mention it, the word was not uttered in the old way.
 
You guys are way off. It's either the extra starch the laundry puts in his shorts or the acoustic effects from his five chins.
 
It must mean that his hearing is even worse than was thought. Can he not hear his own voice without distortion?
I didn't read the cover story in last Sundays "NYTM." Maybe they addressed the state of his health?
 
He did not "lose" his hearing. The hearing loss was a result of his drug use. To lose something is accidental. In Rush's case, his hypocritical drug-taking is the culprit.
 
WKomm said:
He did not "lose" his hearing. The hearing loss was a result of his drug use. To lose something is accidental. In Rush's case, his hypocritical drug-taking is the culprit.
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But he wasn't taking the drugs to do that, so its technically accidental.
 
someplacesomewhere said:
WKomm said:
He did not "lose" his hearing. The hearing loss was a result of his drug use. To lose something is accidental. In Rush's case, his hypocritical drug-taking is the culprit.
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But he wasn't taking the drugs to do that, so its technically accidental.
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Is it? There's none so deaf as those wo will not hear.

There are issues and points on which I agree with his views, notably "energy/global warming/economy", but much of the time
he seems to have a very closed mind, and it is ironic his hearing is what went.
 
Just a bit of info...

Hearing loss does create speech changes in most people.
I have a 10% loss in one ear and 30 in another.
I noticed a difference in my airchecks and now use a device not like
the one Rush uses... but an in-ear monitor with a processing (equalization and limiter processor by dbx audio) package that will boost where my loss is and still maintain the aural perception if a "Flat" EQ.

I have regained the speech and tone I once had, also my voice isn't being stressed by trying to compensate for what I didn't hear before.

This could be part of Rush's issue. The other could be the abuse of OC.
 
I have found nothing online that supports the allegation that abuse of Oxycontin causes hearing loss

Aspirin overdose on the other hand does cause a hearing loss that subsides over time in most cases.
 
Most narcotics and certain psychotropic meds will cause hearing loss with long term use over time.

This is in print... Try the "DSM-IV" for medical use. it's out there on the net.
 
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