I heard about Rush the same way. My husband and I had a flight school at OC Airport (John Wayne) in the ‘70’s - 90’s and when I had work to do at the school, I always had the radio on - listening to a radio talk show from L. A. One of our pilots came in one day and asked me if I’d ever listened or heard of a guy named Rush Limbaugh. He told me where to find him and I never listened to the other guy again. That was easy at 9 am to noon but after we left CA and moved to GA, it wasn’t that easy to be near a radio when he came on at noon Eastern time. Always will miss him.
He had an influence on me and I'll never forget him.