Hey, there's no show today and no contest winners, so contest will be drawn next week so you can go to the websites and still enter.

I don't know what they're listed there. I appreciate all the kind words. I can't respond to them all. I haven't read them all. I see the subject line, I see the first line in the preview and it's just a weird thing where he's sitting there and you just don't want to think about it but it's all you can think about and you don't want to talk about it but it's all you end up talking about.

And the waves just come and go and it sucks but you know you take comfort in the fact that it's what he would have wanted, how he would have wanted it and he got more time than you know probably we thought we would but anyway not going to be here today.

I probably won't be here tomorrow maybe you know Wednesday. I don't know. At some point this week I'll be back. I just haven't I'm not even following the news. I don't know what the hell's going on but I'm looking at the old interviews and the ones I have saved on this computer or what you're going to get.

So it looks like it's going to be boast nerdly. I'm going to do boast. I don't know when this is from or what it's about. It's from about a year ago. And so yeah, enjoy.

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 boast nerdly. How are you doing my friend?

Derek, I'm okay. 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.

It's still not over. It was what I listened to on the radio. It's 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 a 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 is the president of Premier Networks and Craig Kitchen.

Who I don't even know what Craig's title is. Craig is just Mr. Everything. Craig has been work with the show and executive capacity for many years.

He is the founder of Premier Networks before he went 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 I'll bring it.

It is an awesome responsibility because we're trying to, with the podcasters, I have two amazing producers, broadcast producers, working with me.

So Tyler 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 then we encourage people to download it wherever they download their podcast from.

It's called Rush and the Brother Man behind the Golden E.I.P. Mike. And it feels like a weight in a way because we want it to be excellent.

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