I’ve been listening to Rush since I was about 12 years old (so about 1993) so I think I’ve been hearing “I was born to host and you were born to listen” soon after. I just tend to ignore it. :)
But I will say that since his rehab stint a few years ago, he seems...different to me. Whether he’s finally comfortable being himself—and he has said that for a very long time he was trying to get everyone to like him—he’s waxed philosophical a lot more since then.
That’s when I first heard Rush too, around 93, but I was 11, I was a kid and didn’t care about politics, although I knew that Clinton was no good. That was one of several things that set me on the road to conservatism.