Rush Limbaugh 10/8/2001 thread

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[Bosco]

Listening to Rush today, his voice sounds in a little higher register than in previous weeks and months. Anyone else notice?

[CubicleGuy]

Yep. What's he talking about -- soul searching? I wonder if he's sick?

He said that last week, when he was gone, the explanation was that he was on vacation, but he says today that he was not on vacation, and that he wishes he had been on vacation.

I think it's going to get interesting today.

[Incorrigible]

Last week The Don and Mike Show dopes claimed Rush had a stroke.

[marktuoni]

Cigar smoking DOES have some nasty side effects on the soft palate.

In the words of Arnold...I hope "it's not a toooma!"

[Wright is right!]

"To be honest it almost sounds distorted at times."

Back during the debate over "Rush's voice sounds deeper," I listened in, as an old broadcaster, and had two observations.

1. The audio chain (all the gear from the microphone on down the line) sounded less clean than usual. The technical quality of Rush's feed has always been quite good. It didn't sound so good the day I checked. And

2. I think he's a little too proud of his Wm. F. Buckley impersonation and unconsciously slips into some of its pronunciation from time to time. It definitely WAS annoying.

Michael

[TRY ONE]

Any time a ball player signs a ~ $ 100 million + contract they always say..."it's not about the money...it's about respect."

If you're a non-ball play and sign $ 100 million + contract .......I guess you say ....."I'm doing some soul searching...." And if you're a Peter Jenning or Dan Blather that sould searching starts one's travel down the Guilt Road such that you blame America for everything....

[bluegrass]

Logged on just to see if anyone else noticed. Guess so....

[KC_Conspirator]

I noticed that as well. Its sounds like he is on speed.

[jbstrick]

His voice sounds a little better now....

[CedarDave]

He started off by stating that he wasn't on vacation like we had been told. He said he wished it was a vacation. He had planned to take the whole first hour to discuss this, but then Sunday's bombing started and he will talk about his personal issues later. Somethings up with him, that's for sure.

[aruanan]

Vocal pitch and speed: It has previously been established that some big markets do real-time time compression on Rush's show in order to have a greater amount of time each hour to sell for local ads. Sometimes this results in audible artifacts. It can sound like a slight garble. If someone doing it doesn't watch which knobs he's tweaking, it can result in a higher pitch, though both pitch and duration can be adjusted separately. Today both the speed and the pitch seem to be bumped up.

In looking through reviews on vocal pathologies, I have not yet located one that describes a shift to a higher pitch.

[Bosco]

Rush said he'll talk about the past week later in his first hour. He did say that he was NOT on vacation last week (and wished he was...).

[cactusSharp]

I don't care if he talks out his hands..Rush is why Republicans rule. I could care less anothers opinion on this...It is true !!!!!!! God bless you Rush

[aruanan]

See post #31.

[Rebelbase]

Rush is taking an extra day off to play golf. This is his voice double talking today.

Tin Foil Off.

[Rustynailww]

rush should run is show thru tube amps.

[skeeter]

JUST as I suspected... the old 'Nodes on the Vocal Cords' trick.

[Gone_Postal]

I wounder if you play his monolog backwards will you hear something like "I love FreeRepublic" repeated several times.

nah

[Aggie Mama]

He's a capitalist. Why should he feel guilty about that?