Oh, everybody, and happy Tuesday, the 18th of July 2023. Yes, Tuesday. Already there. I'm not back yet. I am probably out of my grog, my haze. I don't know.

I don't know what the feeling is going to be like, but I hope it's a good one. No, but I don't have to do it again any time soon. Anyway, instead of me rambling and coherently, I am going to play another best of this is an interview I did with the one and only James Golden aka bow snurdly. I'm usually on w a b c up in New York every Saturday morning with him 7 to 8 a.m. on his show, which is 7 to 10 a.m. But

he's been on vacation last two weeks. I'll be back. I think this Saturday, but yeah, he's been living the cruise life. So good on him. But since you missed his voice, if you've missed his voice, and maybe you didn't know you missed his voice, but you're about to learn that you missed his voice. It's me and James Golden aka bow snurdly. I'll be back should be back tomorrow.

Welcome back to the program. I'll never forget the day I heard that coming down the headphones sitting in front of a microphone scared to death. Soiling myself going, oh, my God, I'm about to talk. The day I had the great honor of filling in for Rush Limbaugh, and it's a great honor again to welcome back producer of the Rush Limbaugh show and the official call screener and the official Obama criticizer. His name is James Golden, but you know him by bow snurdly. How are you doing, my friend?

Derek, I'm OK. Good to be with you. How are you doing? I'm doing every time it's a Friday. I'm doing great. I'm doing great. You, of course, years, decades with the Rush Limbaugh show, and then the horrible loss of Rush, just still not over it. It was what I listened to on the radio. It was all I listened to on the radio. And to keep the legacy alive, you have launched a new podcast, Rush Limbaugh, the man behind the golden EIB microphone.

You've always had the stories, and you get the stories out of you a little bit talking to you. But now the Rush Limbaugh family, and I know three people who work, worked for Rush for a long, long time. It's a very tight-knit group and very protective group. This new podcast, you're letting people into areas that you didn't previously let them into.

How did the podcast come about and how does it feel doing it and letting that the sort of wall down? It came about, I was asked to do it by Julie Talbot, who's the president of Premier Networks and Craig Kitchen, who I don't even know what Craig's title is. Craig is just Mr. Everything. He's Craig has been worked with the show in executive capacity for many years. He's the founder of Premier Networks before he went to it.

To move on to another company of his own. And so they asked me what I'd be interested in hosting a podcast series on Rush and the life of Rush. And I, of course, said immediately, yes, I would.

That was one that was for me and over and it is an awesome responsibility because we're trying to, with the podcasters. I have two amazing producers, broadcast producers, working with me.

So totaler and Chris Kelly. And what we're trying to do is create exactly what you said, Derek, which is kind of a look behind the scenes.

And yeah, that hasn't been done so far on the program. At least not to any great degree. It's a 12-part series. So there'll be 12 episodes.

The first one is out this week was out Wednesday of this week. And we encourage people to download it wherever they download their podcast from.

It's called Rush and the mother man behind the golden EIP mic. And it feels like a weight in a way because we want it to be excellent.

We wanted to live up to the standards of the EIP network. The standards that Rush has. Of course, I feel that I would want Rush to be proud of every single second of it if you were able to hear it.

And so there's a lot of anxiety from my part just we want it to be compelling.

I can tell you as a long time listener since like 89 when he first came on in Detroit to the end. I listened to the first episode and it exceeded it exceeded it.

The first episode is called most difficult day. And you recount it also features it's a biography, but it's also a peak behind the curtain.

The first half of the podcast is you recounting with audio clips from Rush the day that he announced to the staff before he announced to the world, the same day he announced to the world that he had advanced lung cancer.

Recount a little because you say in the podcast that you didn't have staff meetings. Rush never called the staff together. Everybody knew their jobs. Everybody did it. If you needed. It's something you could it was a well oiled machine at that point. So you knew driving in that something was up. Could you what did you think it could have been.

I didn't. I didn't know. All I knew that I was tense. As soon as I heard while driving into work that there was going to be an all hands on tech meeting. We don't we don't have to be I've been fed work. We just don't.

We've had maybe one. I think that I can remember maybe there was another one. I only remember one in the entire 33 years. And so I knew something was wrong.

And we had a staff member who was actually on a vacation that was called back from vacation. I didn't know that while I was driving in but when when I realized that the person was also there.

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