I now have a new definition of fun: spending a couple of hours on the radio with Hugh Hewitt. We taped this afternoon. The show will air tonight from 6 to 9 EST, I believe. “My” two hours — what a vulgar phrase — will be the first.

Hugh has put my new book on his Necessary Bookshelf, his first addition to that shelf in 2012. This is a great honor, of course. But if The Book of Caddyshack isn’t there — how canonical can his shelf be?

Throughout our two hours, Hugh made terrific use of music. For example, he plays Bob Dylan’s “Man of Peace,” which is cited in my book. Also “It’s All in the Game” — music by Charles G. Dawes, vice president of the United States, and a 1925 Nobel peace laureate.

Let me tell you a little story. An Ohio boy going off to Harvard, Hugh sent WFB a submission for National Review. WFB responded with his typical note: kind, encouraging, sparkling. He suggested that Hugh meet up with another young correspondent of his — a West Virginia boy who, like Hugh, was going off to Harvard.

That was Charles Kesler. The two met almost immediately upon arriving in Cambridge. And they are, of course, stars of the conservative firmament.

Anyway, to be on Hugh’s show is to be bathed in delight (or so I found).