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TODD: Let\u2019s talk to Jeff in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania. Jeff, you\u2019re on the Rush Limbaugh program. Todd Herman, your guide host this week. Hi, Jeff.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Todd. I appreciate you taking my call. First, I\u2019d like to thank everyone at the EIB for continuing to honor Rush daily.<\/p>\n

TODD: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: He was quite a man, and he\u2019s gonna live on quite some time. We need him now more than ever.<\/p>\n

TODD: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: My question was, and I heard Bo speak early in the show and was very emotional. I think it\u2019s emotional for all of us. But was to you and to other guest hosts, hopefully you all can touch base at some point, but what was it like to get the call when they say, “Hey, Rush would like you to guest host?”<\/p>\n

\"\"TODD: Well, gosh, I will tell you. I think God gives us hints of things, and this could sound incredibly self-serving. I had had this strange feeling that very important people were listening to my radio show in Seattle (beyond my very important listeners, without which it wouldn\u2019t exist) and I just put that feeling aside. It\u2019s… You know, it\u2019s just a feeling.<\/p>\n

And then my program director brought me into his office one day, and those are always fun things in radio. You know, it\u2019s Friday at 4:30. “Hey, Todd, could I have you come into my office Friday at 5:30? Go ahead and bring all your personal items.”<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n

TODD: (laughs) So, I walk in and I sit down, and my program director looks me in the eye and he said, “Do you have any interests in filling in for Rush Limbaugh?” And imagine my biological reaction.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I bet.<\/p>\n

TODD: It was all the air left my body, all of it, and I remember feeling very dizzy and (gasping) inhaling and saying, “Yes, I — I — I do,” and then the funniest thing happened is I got a call from gentleman named Kraig who works on the program, and he and I visited, and he said, “You\u2019re gonna get a call from a guy named James Golden<\/a>,” and that was some of the process.<\/p>\n

And then after James (who you know as Bo Snerdley) and I visited. James and I realized we knew each other from way back. Back in the internet radio days, we had met, and it came this full circle. I will tell you this, Jeff. You\u2019ll hear me say — and I hope you guys know — I couldn\u2019t be more professionally honored. I don\u2019t want to get teary-eyed \u2019cause we did that earlier.<\/p>\n

Even as a radio host, a mentor from afar, the things that I did in life that professionally mattered were because Rush gave me the bravery. His saying, “Never let those who didn\u2019t tell you, ‘You can\u2019t'” was fundamental in changing my view of life, and to what degree I was willing to put myself in uncomfortable circumstances to gain these results. So, that was my experience.<\/p>\n

But, by the way, some time we\u2019ll tell the story. I never… It\u2019s Rush\u2019s show. It will always be. I don\u2019t want to make it about me. I\u2019ll tell you this: The first time the bumper music ran? (laughing) I thought I had it all together \u2019til I heard Rush\u2019s music run! “Oh, my gosh.” Expecting someone to come in and go, “Oh, we didn\u2019t know you were that guy from Spokane. Get outta here.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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