Try keeping the audience interested and maintain the numbers that Rush has done for 20+ years. It is hard. No, not ditch digging hard, but nothing like being a politician. Try it sometime. Sit in front of a microphone and speak for 30 minutes without pulling your hair out.
You will end like most, sounding crazy after more hair pulling than ingenious, captivating, and consistent ideas flowing from your mouth.
Zero disagreement wrt Rush. I think he is phenomenally talented and a genius; not in the sense of an Einstein or a Tesla, but in his ability to communicate and foresee things well before they develop. Levin, on the other hand, has just become like a jackhammer that I do not want to hear. I still respect him tremendously for his Constitutional knowledge and in general his ability to impart it. But for the present, I don’t get the feeling he’s able to teach me anything beyond what he’s already taught me...which is a lot. And he has upped his abuse of listeners tenfold. It’s just flat out unpleasant and unrewarding for me to listen to him.
I will go back to both of them, tentatively, sometime in the future. For now, “radio off”.