[School of Rational Thought]

Rush post hearing loss is nowhere near pre hearing loss Rush

[C. Edmund Wright]

That was true...for a few years. He’s about back to par. But other things have changed...his two businesses, his fourth wife, and Bo Snerdly phoning it in (I don’t think Rush does, but I think his staff is to a degree).

[skimbell]

I think that it's more a pre-Katherine thing. Ever since he got married Rush has been literally "phoning it in". Before he got married he seldom took a call unless it was Open Lines Friday, and on that day he usually only got to four or five calls. Since Katherine arrived, he spends a lot more time trying to sell tea and his books between "getting back to your calls".

It's surly a lot easier to prep for a pack of phone calls than it is to take apart what's going on around the world, and it seems as though Rush is more into spending his prep time with his wife. He's got his contract and he probably is pretty much free to do his show however he wants.