The Don Rosen Show (Hour 2)

Work in hospitals are truly amazing people.

They are so nice and supportive.

It makes you suspicious, right?

Are they stealing the drugs?

They're a little too excited to be around sick people

in pajamas.

And when I say sick, I'm not talking

about the positive slang, right?

Because that's part of our language, right?

That jacket is sick.

But you don't want a medical professional

to be like, your test results are sick.

I mean, let me clarify, you're dying.

It's got to be hard to work in a hospital, that hospital

lighting.

Everyone looks sick in that hospital lighting.

I walked in, they're like, we should get you to the yard.

I'm just here to see my wife.

Well, you're a jaundice.

So you come here?

Oh my gosh, I have jaundice, too.

We all have jaundice.

When my wife would nap, I'd go to the cafeteria.

Hospitals have the most cutting-edge medical equipment,

but they're still serving food

like a Shawshank redemption.

How about selling an MRI machine

and getting a apostastation?

Oh, baby, do you know what that's worth?

Oh, heaven is a place on earth.

They stand heaven, the conspirst.

We'll make heaven our place on earth.

Who heaven is a place on earth?

When the night falls down,

I wait for you, I should come around.

I'm the world for a lie, with the standards of kids

on the street at the fly.

When you walk into the room, you move in close

and we start to move.

And we're spinning with the stars above,

and you let me out, in the way of love.

Formerly as the dog goes, yes.

Olympic trial aisle, 708 WRJ and radio,

hometown radio refreshed to civic media station.

I'm Don Rosen.

I was so looking forward to this hour.

Peach Wamp is here of a peach wamp is on every night

from seven until nine here on WRJ

and the entire civic media network.

He's everywhere.

You cover the entire state of Wisconsin.

That's kind of neat.

I could beat for waking up early.

I know you had a set your alarm.

And get ready and throw cold water in your face

to get up in the morning.

You know, my dad only did that once to me in my life.

I don't know why.

Oh, I know I remember what it was.

My brother and I, our job, we had one job in us,

take the garbage pails out.

This is before they had those garbage pails

that hook onto the back of the trucks.

And my father had this giant galvanized garbage

pail that weighed a ton and it took two people

to carry it out there.

And he always wanted the garbage pails out the night before

just to make sure his whole life was based on

making sure that garbage was collected.

So one night my brother and I decided to go to bed

and not take the garbage pails out.

We'll do it in the morning, maybe, maybe.

So my father woke up and he used to get up at 4.30 in the morning

because he had to go to, he worked in Brooklyn

and we lived on Long Island.

So he had to get out there and quick, you know,

and he did it.

Look out the window, the garbage pails weren't there.

And he took a cup of water and poured it on my face

and my brother's face.

Get out there and get the garbage pails out.

We went out in our underpants.

No time to get dressed.

He wanted the bed was soaked with water

because he poured water on us.

He's get out there and get those garbage pails out.

And the 4.30 in the morning getting the garbage

pails out in the underpants.

But you know what, I'll tell you something,

those garbage pails were out there every Friday night

before the Saturday morning pick up.

Why do you think of that?

They picked them up on Saturday.

We had two garbage pickups a weekend.

One was on Saturday morning and one was during the weekend.

Wow.

Do you know they used to have male delivery on twice a day

at one point?

Do you know in England, they had male delivery 12 times a day.

That's every hour because they didn't deliver it

in the middle of the night.

That's every hour.

We used to have male delivery in the morning

and the late in the afternoon.

Well, as a kid, no one is important enough

to get their male delivered 12 times a day.

Yeah, but you got to remember that was the only way

you get your male.

I mean, there was no internet.

There was no, that was it.

It had to be paper.

Can I tell you, can I get something

off my back real quick here?

So on Friday, I hate to do,

because you're the guest who should be talking about me.

But on Friday, I got an email from my medical doctor,

one of my doctors, and it said your payment is past due.

And I said, gee, you know, I never in my,

that's why I have my credits in the 800s

as I pay my bills, and I get them.

And I'm looking for my checkbook.

You know, I don't find the payment for them.

And I look through all the bills,

the old bills I save everything, didn't see it.

So I call up the person, she was very nice.

And she's, yes, we sent you out the payment to your portal

on whatever date it was last month.

I said, on my portal, no, no, no, no, no.

I get paper bills.

I've been getting paper bills for years.

She goes, well, we switched over.

I said, well, you can't just do that

and not tell me about it.

And by the way, put it back, I want paper.

She says, so you want, I said paper, paper, paper.

It's way I said it.

I said, don't you, how can you switch in the middle

and all of a sudden tell me, you know,

I don't check online for bills.

I said, now I'm late.

And I don't want to be late.

She goes, well, we'll get the paper went out to you

and put back paper, paper, paper.

They just switched it.

Now my bank every month sends me a thing.

We're switching to paperless unless you check this.

And then annoys me, because I like paper, paper, paper.

That's what I want.

I'm an old man.

I want paper, paper, paper.

The way it used to be.

Don't try to switch me.

Hey, okay, hey, Don, I have a question for you

because you kind of steered us here.

Now maybe no one has been able to answer this for me.

I'm not a finance guy.

My credit is probably not quite in the 800s,

but whatever.

However, why does your credit get dingged?

Why does your credit go down?

Okay, now I did talk to somebody who knows all about credit.

Used to work at Equifax.

And he said, there's no rhyme or reason why things go up and down.

Because if, like I paid off my mortgage

and my credit went down a little bit.

And I asked him, this is when I asked him,

I said, well, because now you've got rid of a debt

that you pay every month.

So now it went down.

He said, it's, there's no rhyme.

Yet you can't point to one individual thing

why it goes up and down.

He said, and I worked at Equifax,

and I can't figure out why credit goes up and down.

Obviously, if you don't pay your bills at all,

it's really going to plummet.

But for somebody like me, I pay, yeah,

I pay every single bill on time.

I never am late.

The credit card companies have my picture hanging up there

because they say, this is the way it should be.

This is the man you should emulate.

But it goes up and down.

And he said, I don't know why I can't.

Because if you have money to buy a car or a house

and they want to check your credit,

that should not bring the credit score down.

But it does.

That makes no sense.

No one has been able to answer that for me.

Somebody's getting rich off that I guarantee it somehow.

Now, like when I go to the my wife's bank

and they say, well, do you want to know what your credit score is,

that doesn't affect it.

But when you check it, like when you're taking out a car loan

or any other loan, yes, it makes it go down.

I can't understand why it would make it go down.

But it does, and you're right.

There's no rhyme or reason for it.

The guy from who used to work for EqualFac says,

he worked there for years

and he can't figure out why they go up and down.

So I do like AT&T.

I've actually asked that, yeah, I've asked that on my show

and no one, I said, if you know,

and you're a finance guy and nobody,

people, we got a couple, I have no ideas.

I should know that.

I love when people text in too to tell you they don't know.

It's like a friend of mine on Facebook a few weeks ago,

people were talking about a movie.

And he said, I didn't see it or I don't like it.

I didn't like it.

And a couple of people said, you know, I loved it.

I didn't like it.

One guy says, I haven't seen it yet.

Like, you don't have to say that.

You never want to be part of the conversation, you know.

Yeah, I don't know.

Well, what are you telling me you don't know for?

I only want people who know if you know, give me a call.

If you don't know, just mind your business and move on.

Scroll past this show.

We don't want you anymore.

If you're that stupid, I don't want to listen.

Okay, I got a whole bunch of things to talk about with you.

The new gods, are you a Godzilla fan at all?

That's a no.

That's it.

That's all for me, but I don't have that theater either.

That pause spoke volumes.

When I asked you if you're a Godzilla fan and then it's a pause.

Anyway, so the new Godzilla movie over.

That's minus one.

I like minus one.

I like that.

I didn't see it.

I want my wife wouldn't go see it with me.

And by the time I decided to get my butt out there to go watch it by myself, I wasn't

there anymore.

I didn't see it.

I heard it was fantastic.

I've seen I have Godzilla movies.

I have Rodan, Mothra movies at home.

I have Gadora.

I have all these movies, but I didn't see that one.

And that's the one.

The only one that won the Academy Award.

I didn't get to see.

Yeah, it was good.

Yeah, you got a flight solo done.

You got to get out there, man.

I did, but I watched the movie she wanted to watch.

She said, well, go watch it by yourself.

And I, I feel kind of create.

I used to go to the movies by myself all the time.

Now I feel creepy doing it.

I don't know why, but I used to go all the time.

Just don't wear a trench coat.

Yeah, and don't go to a kid's movie by yourself.

Right.

So I'll go to the barney.

You don't wear a trench coat.

Those are my rules.

So anyway, so you liked it.

You like that?

I like minus one.

Yeah.

Now it was in Japanese with subtitles, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Now they did release it as they released it twice.

Once is Godzilla minus one and Godzilla minus one minus color.

Which did you see the color version of the black and white version?

I saw the color version.

Yeah, I wanted to know they did that.

Yeah, they had, they released it for two weeks as Godzilla minus one minus color.

And you know where the name comes from, right?

You know how they got the name minus one?

No.

Okay, what happened was, and I've told the stories.

Oh, I did hear this.

After World War II,

after World War II, Japan was leveled.

Their morality, their morality, the morale, and everything was at zero.

The country was at zero.

And right after the atomic bomb leveled Japan at zero,

along came Godzilla to take it one step below zero minus one.

And that's where it came from, Godzilla.

Just took it one step.

So anyway, I've got the top Godzilla movies here.

Case you're interested.

Let's say you got a break coming up.

You know how that works?

So let's, let's get him in here.

Number one was Shin Godzilla.

This was another Japanese Godzilla made in 2016.

Then Godzilla, the original from 1954.

Now there were two versions in 1954.

One with Raymond Burr and one without Raymond Burr.

They wanted to give it a little Americanized filter until they stuck him in there.

Number three was Godzilla versus destroyer.

Destroyer was another monster.

They stuck in there and it was hard.

It was excellent.

Number four was the one you saw Godzilla minus one.

And the worst one at 34.

There were 34 Godzilla movies.

Not counting the current one, by the way.

Godzilla, 1998.

That's the one with Matthew Broderick.

That was a terrible one.

It was just all he looked like a lizard.

You find crawling on a wall in Florida.

He just looked.

It was awful.

But anyway, that was the worst one ever.

Yeah, the worst one ever.

The one with Matthew Broderick.

It was terrible.

Even though son of God, yeah, son of Godzilla was terrible.

You talk about the man on the rubber suit monster movies.

Gorgo was number one.

The British, the British movie Gorgo.

That was a good one.

I've got a week.

We've got to talk about parents.

We're going to talk about celebrities, movie stars.

I got all this stuff coming up to talk with you.

Including a series.

Did you see that series quiet on the set?

Did you see that?

No, I have not.

I want the Nickelodeon thing.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We'll talk about that.

All right.

Peach Swabble, I guess.

Yeah, I have not.

Hold on there, Pete.

It's 720.

WRJ and Pete Schwabba every night, 7 to 9 o'clock on the civic media network, including

WRJN.

Looking for a clonny date today, late afternoon showers with a high near 42 showers

tonight.

Lows around 38 snow possible tomorrow.

I feel like my hands on that groundhog.

His days are done.

Highs near 38 tomorrow.

Right now, it's sunny.

It is beautiful out there.

39 degrees.

It's just gorgeous with the money of the sun coming up over Lake Michigan this morning.

It's just wonderful.

All right, Pete.

We're going to talk about celebrities here.

Talk about before we do that, let's talk about comedians.

Now I know you can't tell me who your favorite comedian is because you have so many comedians

on it on the show as guests.

It wouldn't be fair, but I'm going to ask you who are some of some of your favorite

comedians.

Uh, you know, I, one of my favorites is a guy named Brian Regan.

I love him.

I love him.

Brian.

He's my favorite.

Yeah, he's, he's probably my top five all time, but he's great.

I had the pleasure of working with him for two weeks in a row back in like 1995.

We did St. Louis together and then a club outside Chicago.

He's phenomenal.

It's such a good guy.

Uh, I love one of your hometown guys, David Tell, worked with him years ago to great

joke writer, um, very funny guy.

And then, you know, I hate to be that guy, but the classics too, I love Richard Pryor,

I love George Carlin, you know, I used to love Bill Cosby, you know, but, uh, so yeah,

I, I've got a ton of them and a lot of guys here that I started with in Chicago that

are still working like to me, um, but a Jimmy Parto, um, there's just so many great

comics and there's so many great comics gone who didn't know how to market themselves

and it never became household names that are some of the guys that make me laugh the hardest

or great joke writers, great in the room, you know, adding jokes to scripts and stuff like

that.

Um, after some important buddy, you know, and I have some new favorites.

You know, I, I started off each segment, each out top of the hour and bottom of the hour

with a comedian, uh, and it's, it's difficult because you got to get a clean comedian for

radio.

You can't have any dirty words on the radio just the way it is.

So, and I don't want to use any ones that are bleeped out because that still implies some

language problem.

And I want that.

I want a nice and clean, the two cleanest I came up with are Brian Regan and also Jim

Gaffigan.

Jim Gaffigan is funny.

I love Jim Gaffigan.

Oh, Gaffigan is great.

Now, the other way.

Yeah.

Ben.

No, I was just going to say I spent 10 days in New York City with Jim in 1997, he and I

both got cast in a VH1 pilot, uh, it was called Laptrax and Jim was kind of already an

old pro and it was the first thing I had ever booked.

I was kind of a little weirded out by the whole experience, but it was really interesting

and really fun.

Jim was pretty cool.

He kind of showed me around New York a little bit and that was the first time I ever met

him or ever even heard of him and he's going on to become well, Jim Gaffigan, he's great

and it's you said he's very clean and, uh, yeah, in my experience, he was a great guy.

I think the funniest comedians are the ones you can relate to when they talk like, oh,

I've been through that.

You know, there's a guy he's very filthy, but he's funny.

He's a British comedian named Jimmy.

Oh, what is his name?

Jimmy.

I can't think of his last name.

He's British.

But you can't even begin to put it on the radio.

I'll think of his name in a few minutes here.

The older I get, the less I remember, um, yeah, Jimmy, oh, man, he is so funny, but I

can, I know where I can put him on the radio.

Rocky La Point.

There's a guy who I found is very funny.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, he's good.

Rocky's great.

Sure.

Now, is Dennis Regan?

I love him.

Is Dennis Regan related to Brian Regan?

Dennis.

Yeah.

And I remember when Dennis started in, like, both came out of Florida and people were like,

oh, you got to see Dennis.

He's funnier than Brian.

And I was like, what?

And Dennis was a really good bandit.

I think mostly now he writes.

I don't even know if he does bandit anymore.

I've never actually met Dennis.

So I couldn't really tell you there.

Very funny.

And I love putting the comedy on in the morning, but I listened to it the day before.

Then I listened to it again today to make sure I didn't miss anything.

Because I don't want to take a chance.

Wait down that.

Yeah.

The service I use generally bleeps out the stuff, but occasionally something will come.

And I want to stay away from certain topics because it's a morning show.

I people should, you know, you want to wake up feeling good.

You don't want to wake up feeling, oh, my goodness, I didn't realize that.

That's just awful.

So there's.

Yeah.

I think Brian is so great because like, like you said, every, he's clean, but everything

he talks about, not everything, but most things are, it's about feeling like an idiot.

And we all been there.

He can't weigh the UPS back as he doesn't know what hurts me.

It's just, he's so great.

There's one where he, he goes up to this woman and he says, well, congratulations, you

know, you're pregnant.

And the audience starts crying, oh, no, he says, well, I know now, you know, don't ever

say that.

And woman, oh, you're pregnant, I'll let you know for sure that she's pregnant.

And he said, well, I know now.

And then they had another funny one.

There's obviously a writer in Hollywood named Brian Regan.

And he wrote the movie 102 Dalmatians, the sequel to 101 Dalmatians.

So they call them up and they say, would you like to do an interview or they see it was

in town?

And they said, sure.

They said, we're going to be at this theater.

Meet us and he said, okay, I'll be at the theater.

But we want to put you in front of the 102 Dalmatian poster and he said, well, okay, I guess

I don't care.

He didn't know.

He still didn't know.

And they start talking to him about the movie 102 Dalmatians, he's answering questions,

but he has no idea that they think he's the writer of the movie because he didn't know.

And he goes on with his bit and I'm hysterical and I say, wow, that's pretty good.

I don't have, God, I don't have their names in front.

There were so many women comedians I run as well.

I can't think of their names off hand, but there's so many good comedians out there and

I like to laugh.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, Ellen Jennerus was a great comic before she got, you know, host their own talk show.

Yes, you know, I mean, yeah, a lot of, I mean, most of the women, I knew that really

cracked me up when I had to become really good writers, too.

There's a comic out of Chicago called Carla Felicia, who was just, you know, just really

funny.

Yeah, Brian, if you haven't checked out down, if you haven't heard Brian's, I walked

on the moon routine, you probably have because you're a big fan, but that was something

that came out with about 10 or 12 years ago, was a really funny routine and special.

He does another funny bit about the moon.

He goes, you know, since we walked on the moon, when people can't get something to work

right, they say, they can't fix a bottle of new, but we have going to put a man on

the moon.

And every time they can't get something we can do, put a man on the moon, but we can't

get the phone to work correctly.

He goes, what if we didn't ever put a man on the moon?

People would say, the phone doesn't work.

We tried not the bottle opener doesn't work.

We tried, but since we put a man on the moon, everything's compared to that.

And he's right.

People didn't have to do great after that.

We walked on the moon needs to say, we can get a man on the moon, but we can't get

this working correctly.

And he's right.

So I'm good.

Yeah, that's funny.

Okay.

So I'm going to play a comedy bit from Brian Regan coming up in just a moment here.

And we're talking to Pete Schwabba and can hear him every night, seven to midnight, seven

to midnight, seven to nine o'clock.

I had to work in extra seven to nine o'clock at the, you know, when I first started

in radio, I was the station janitor at 18 years old.

And the events you put me on the overnight show, rock show.

And they said, can you do it seven nights a week from midnight to six?

Was it okay?

So I was the janitor from five to eight.

I was overnight from seven to midnight to six.

And I went to college all day.

I was at the Hof University.

Went all day long to college.

I didn't sleep.

There were days I didn't sleep, but I was 18, 19 years old.

And I think this is nothing.

Yeah, I can get away with it.

This is nothing for you.

Yeah.

Pete Schwabba is with us at 729 WRJ and hometown radio refreshed, a civic media station.

Sarah, yeah, don't move.

I like music, man.

That's why I like to go to the airport early, you know?

I always play great music.

I always have unbelievable sound systems.

You get there early.

You take advantage of that.

You just jammed with the best music known to man.

Occasionally, there's an announcement.

But other than that, you're just getting into the music, you know, yesterday.

All much with the gentleman who left a briefcase at the security area of Concourse C.

Please return to claim your briefcase.

And it seems like all unattended vehicles will be towed away at the owner's expense.

Oh, I believe there's been a gate change for Flight 207.

It'll now be departing at of gate 19.

Yesterday, I love that song.

Takes my mind off traveling.

All right.

All right.

There we go.

I'm skipping CD.

I love that.

All right.

Peach Wobble, my guess 735 W R Jan.

They don't make CDs like they used to.

They don't make CDs at all anymore.

They still do make CD.

They don't make CD.

Yeah.

That's still make them a little bit.

And that was a funny Brian Reagan bit.

And that's so true though.

You go to the airport.

You're listening to the song.

All of a sudden.

Well, the person who left the suitcase unattended.

You always hear that.

That is so funny.

We'll talk about some celebrities you've interviewed over the years.

Big name celebrities that really.

I mean, you were in awe of where you sat there.

You know, I can't believe I'm talking to.

And you finally, you're talking to a big name celebrity.

And you're sweating because you can't believe there's, you're talking to them.

Name some of those people.

Right.

Pardon me.

You know what?

As far as interviewing goes down, I haven't until I got on the air.

I'm sort of somewhat new to radio.

But my interactions have been like with several celebrities.

But it's been in kind of a work environment like I would write interstitials for, you know,

people that were on the air and would work with them that way.

Or if I worked with them in a movie, like I cast Tony Goldwood and Lauren Holley.

In a film I did years ago called The Godfather of Green Bay.

You know, Thomas Lennon was in the movie, Lance Barber.

And living in LA for almost 15 years, you know, people just, you see people at the grocery store.

I wrote an elevator which any chase wants.

You know, like, it's a really.

Stuff like that has been most of my.

Yeah.

I was going to a meeting with my writing partner at the time, Greg Liana, who created the Meet the Parents franchise.

We've sold some stuff together.

And we were meeting at this place.

It was actually, it was constantly, a couple was constantly.

It was the Zuckerbrothers company.

And we were meeting with their director of development.

And Kevin Chase was going to a meeting there too.

He was probably actually meeting with the Zuckerbrothers because he's a different, he has a different Q rating.

But we were writing up in the elevator together.

And I said something to him like probably about the elevator or whatever.

I was, you know, he kind of chuckled or whatever.

And I said, I don't remember exactly what I said to him down.

But I said, was that okay?

That was better than I love your work, right?

And he said, yeah, he said you could have said you loved me.

And that would have made me really nervous.

And then I laughed and I said, well, I do.

And then he cracked up.

So that kind of made my day.

Like, if you could make like a comedy legend laugh in a short amount of time.

Good.

Like, to me, that would make my day.

If I met Albert Brooks in person, I'd probably panic.

So there were very few people that I really would get nervous around.

But someone like Chevy Chase was kind of one of them just because I grew up with his movies and that kind of stuff, you know.

My favorite Albert Brooks line was in a movie called Modern Romance.

Do you remember that movie?

Oh, yeah.

I've seen it probably 20 times.

He's sitting, he's breaking up with his girlfriend for the umpteenth time.

And he's in a diner sitting across the table.

And he says, you know, our romance is like, it's like a no win situation.

It's and she said, he said, he said, he said, you know what that is?

A no win situation.

He goes, no, he goes, you don't know what a no win.

It's like Vietnam.

And he's comparing his relationship to Vietnam, the war in Vietnam.

He said, that was a no win situation.

This isn't.

I just love the way he compared his girlfriend's romance or like to the Vietnam war.

It's so great.

And the idea that it's Catherine Harold, the beautiful Catherine Harold sitting opposite

him.

And he all he does is look for nitpicky things.

Yeah.

There's a lot of examples of a no win situation.

Vietnam.

The other was lost in America.

I thought that was just genius.

That movie.

Oh, yeah.

But there's a scene.

Brilliant.

There's a scene in there where he gives up everything in life.

He leaves his big job on Madison Avenue.

He tells her to quit.

We're going to go cash out everything and go touch Indians across America.

That's what he says.

We're just going to get a mobile home.

We're going to travel America.

And the first time they they land in Las Vegas and they lose it.

She bets everything and they lose everything.

But he winds up.

Now they got to get jobs.

And she's got a job as an assistant manager working at Der Weiner Schnitzel.

And he gets, he gets to meet the boss.

The boss is like 17 years old.

And he said, boss is going to sleep on it tonight.

And he's going to sleep on it.

He's going to tell if you get, he's going to sleep on it.

It's a little, it's a 17 year old.

Anyway, Albert Brooks is great.

Here are some of the people I got to meet in the field.

Go ahead.

I was going to say that movie.

It's one of my all time favorite comedies as well as real life.

Albert Brooks did real life.

Yes.

Then Modern Romance.

Then Lost in America.

Those three are just perfect movies.

But in Lost in America, Bill Murray was actually supposed to play the lead character.

But they couldn't get him for five years.

So Albert Brooks just said, well, I'm going to do this.

You know, so it would have been interesting to see how that film.

Because I think a lot of people who love comedy know that film.

But it's not like up there with one of the great, you know,

does it from the mind is one of the all time greatest comedies to people who don't really know Albert Brooks that well.

It's not interesting.

You know, in another, I hate to keep bringing great scenes up.

But after she loses everything in Las Vegas, he tries to get the money back from Gary Marshall,

who's the head of the star in the sans hotel.

He says, he says, we're the bold people.

You give us some money because we're the bold people.

We're not like those schnucks who come here to see Wayne Newton and Gary Marshall.

Like Wayne Newton, does that make me a schnuck?

And he goes, no, no, no, I used to bad example.

But anyway, so they go out to Hoover Dan because now they're broke.

They have nothing.

He go and the camera pans over Hoover Dan because who wants to go first?

You or me?

When he goes down to the casino and she's gambling.

And he's in his bathrobe because he can't find his life.

It's five in the morning, whatever.

And she's playing roulette and he walks up and he sees her win.

And he starts breaking out like, oh my God, she won.

And he has no idea.

She's locked everything.

That's the destiny.

And he starts cheering because she wants, like, his cluelessness.

It's just one of my favorite moments in the whole movie.

I have that not only on VHS also have it on DVD.

Just in case, you know, every time we move up to and make one of my things obsolete,

I have to move up and get lost in America.

Here's some of the people I spoke to in life.

And some of them were interesting.

I'll tell you the worst person I interviewed in the moment.

I was sitting in my living room one day and we're watching TV.

My son was there.

My wife was there several years ago.

And they get a call and the call says, hi, this is Donnie Osmond.

I said, who is this?

Come on.

It was Donnie Osmond.

He was starting a new radio show.

It's indicated radio show.

And I was the program director here at this.

It was a WRJN.

And he wanted to know if I wanted to have it on the radio and we talked for a little while

on the air on the phone.

And I said, yeah, I just got out.

He just, he had just won the Mirabal trophy on Dancing with the Stars.

We talked about that.

And I just had this conversation with Donnie Osmond on the phone while I'm watching TV in my living room.

That never happens to me.

Then I, wow.

I go, this is when I was at my first radio station, about 1920 years old.

They made me the public service director.

And this is on Long Island.

And then I went to a myasthenia gravis recognition dinner.

And myasthenia gravis is obviously a disease, but it was a recognition dinner.

And I'm looking at the people sitting at my table.

And I said, Tony Randall.

And I said, Tony Randall.

Look at guys got the same name as the actor.

And the lady who worked for myasthenia gravisity, that's Tony Randall, the actor.

He just got done with the odd couple on TV.

It just, just ended.

I said, Tony Randall, the actor, I'm sitting next to him at the dinner table.

And I, you know, all of a sudden, I'm 1920 years old.

What am I doing this to Tony Randall?

One of the nicest guys.

I sat at the table.

He asked me about my radio career.

And we sat there and we had a nice dinner together.

He was wearing a talks.

I was wearing some out of date.

It probably leaves your suit.

And what?

But what are the nicest people?

That's hilarious.

Yeah.

I would love to met Tony Randall.

That's a great one.

Nicky Rooney.

Go ahead.

Go ahead.

No.

I was just going to add to the, when I first moved to LA, my, all my standup friends who,

you know, kind of welcomed this out there and showed us around on that kind of stuff.

They had a game they played.

The weirdest celebrity at the weirdest location.

And the winner before we moved there was Ernest Borgnein in the, you know, home furnishings of a target.

So when we, my mother-in-law was visiting and my wife and my mother-in-law were out running errands.

And they were going into Joanne Fabrics in the Valley and Valley Village.

My wife opens the door.

Or no, they were walking into the Joanne Fabrics.

And someone holds the door for them.

They look at Mike Tyson.

So Mike Tyson with the crazy tattoo on his face followed them into Joanne Fabrics.

He was there looking for something else.

But I told my friends my wife, Mike Tyson and Joanne Fabrics.

And they were like, oh, it's incredible.

It's never like someone you'd never expect to see there.

So that was really a fun part of living there.

But Tony Randall, I would love to have met Tony Randall.

So here's my two Ernest Borgnein stories.

The circus parade.

We were doing a Christmas thing.

I'll tell you that first.

We were doing a Christmas thing here at the radio station.

So let's get famous celebrities to wish our listeners Merry Christmas.

So I wrote to a whole bunch of people like this is the day of cassettes.

I mail them an audio cassette with postage and everything.

All they do in the envelope just record our Merry Christmas greeting

and send it back to me.

We used it on the air.

The first person that sent it back was Ernest Borgnein.

At the time he was the head clown in the Milwaukee Circus Parade.

So he's very familiar with the area.

And he was very, he said this nice grieving on there.

And it was wonderful.

Cut this several years later.

He's making a movie in Burlington, Wisconsin.

It's a real low budget thing.

A local guy put it together.

And he's out there and I went with my tape recorder and I recorded.

What are the nicest people?

I said to him, I was talking about the different things.

I said, you know, you're such a nice guy.

How did you place such a mean guy in the movie, Emperor of the North,

with Lee Marvin?

He played a sadistic train conductor during the Depression.

He said, yeah, I was a mean person in that one.

And he was a mean person in a lot of movies.

So we talked.

And I said, this guy is nice.

What a nice human being.

He took time from the acting on the set to sit down with me.

It was outside.

And he was just had two chairs and he talked to me as long as I wanted.

Until he finally had to go back to work.

Yeah.

Another person.

Oh, that's great.

Mickey Rooney was in town.

This story at the end of his life.

He was in town at Horlach High School in town here to appear in sugar babies with his wife.

Sometimes I think his eighth or ninth wife.

And we were told we can go out there and talk to him.

Now all the people that went out there were very young people.

They didn't know.

They didn't know the difference in Mickey Rooney and Andy Rooney.

They just thought, you know, they didn't know.

So they said, why don't you talk to him?

Because you know him, you know, his movies and everything.

And we'll just, you know, listen to what you guys say.

I said, fine.

Another guy who couldn't have been nicer.

Mickey, he answered all my quote.

We talked about the golden days of Hollywood with the Judy Garland.

I talked about my favorite Mickey Rooney.

What's it's a mad, mad, mad, mad world.

I love that picture with him.

We talked about his, he just got done voicing a part on the Simpsons.

We mentioned that.

But we talked about when he was a child actor.

And he's one of the few child actors who actually made it into adulthood.

And which just as popular as an adult, he was a child.

Because he was a member of the little rascals at one time.

And he just was great.

I love talking to him at Horlach High School.

He was appearing.

What do you make of that?

You know, it's, well, until a minute ago.

And here's how early it is for me down.

I feel a minute ago.

I was thinking Mickey Rourk.

I'm like, no.

I don't think you're running.

Mickey Rourk.

I was like, oh, Mickey Rourk.

You're okay.

Yeah.

I also get.

Gary Sinice was doing a benefit in Kenosha.

So I had his phone number to interview him.

And when I called him, he said, listen, I'm just hitting out to the airport now.

Here's my cell phone number.

Give me four minutes.

I'll be out in my car.

I guess he was taking a limo to the airport wherever he was.

He said, give me a call to my car.

And we'll talk for as long as I can get to, you know, take me to get to the airport.

Another great guy.

Just talked about everything under the sun.

But, you know, I'm going to go to the airport.

I had to hang up with him.

But what a great interview.

After the break, I'm going to tell you the worst person I ever interviewed.

As a big, big, big name.

This person got on the phone and didn't want to do the interview.

She was kind of forced into it.

And she gave me all one word answers.

Beautiful.

I'll tell you who it is coming up in a moment.

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And some people try and bring me down and say it's not even a holiday.

I think that's the greatest holiday there is.

Because the way it's structured.

Because on April Fool's Day, you play a prank on a friend of yours.

And then you yell the name of the holiday at them.

You guys feel me on that, right?

I don't see why I'm here.

I'm here.

You're the name of the holiday at them.

You guys feel me on that, right?

I don't see why we don't celebrate every holiday like that.

Like, who said fire to my mailbox?

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Did you ever see the movie about Bobby DARREN?

Pete, who was called Beyond the Sea, Kevin Spacey played Bobby DARREN?

Did you ever see that movie?

Oh yeah, from the 90s maybe.

Yeah, yeah. It was a good movie.

Yeah, I did see it.

There's a guy who found out.

Yeah, another one.

Go ahead.

No, I was just going to say another guy that had a pre-imposed part of his career.

I can listen to Cosby growing up.

I idolized him.

And then you find out who he became later.

And same thing with Kevin Spacey.

You know, I loved him as an actor.

And you know, he's still a great actor.

But you just find out some of the dirt.

Well, the thing with Bobby DARREN was,

here's a guy who found out the woman he thought was his mother.

His entire life was actually his sister.

Imagine that happening to you.

All of us, and you find out the person you thought was your mother was your sister.

Oh, it was a horrible story.

Whoa.

And he died early because he had rheumatic fever as a kid.

And he never really got, never recovered from it.

I was going to tell you real quickly here.

The worst interview I ever did was Carol King.

I was supposed to interview him.

Oh, really?

Now here's what happened.

She was promoting some kind of charitable event she was associated with.

And I don't know if it was early in the morning.

I caught her on a bad day.

I don't know what it was.

I got up through her manager or somebody.

So I called her up.

And I started talking to it.

Every answer was, yeah, no.

So I said, you know, I grew up in the tapestry album.

I said, it's genius.

That tapestry album is one of the most classic albums of all time.

Nothing. She said nothing.

And I said, well, let's talk about the event coming up.

Yeah, it's Thursday at 8 o'clock.

And we're raising money for so and so.

This was supposed to be a half hour interview.

It was over in 15 minutes.

I couldn't get her to say anything.

I don't know if she didn't like my persona.

I don't know how.

I never spoke to her before my life.

I don't know how she could have not liked me.

You know, as Jerry Seinfeld's mother said on the show on Seinfeld.

I'll hit anyone.

Anybody not like you.

Anybody not like you.

And then if dad said, maybe some people don't like him.

I could see that.

That's how my mother felt the same way too.

You know, when the kids didn't want to play with me.

How could they not want to play with you?

You said you're a good kid.

Why don't they want to play?

It's funny. You remember that line.

I'm trying to like.

I'm trying to wreck my brain for like people that I.

I did have a weird experience like Ariana Huffington from the.

Huffington post.

She and Al Franken used to be on Bill Mars show when it was called

politically correct.

So I was at a movie.

I wrote a film.

I was at a movie.

I was at a movie.

I was at a movie.

I wrote a film.

I was at a movie.

And then my wife and I were sitting there and they sat next to Area and

Huffington who was there with her daughter.

At the time I said, you know, she was kind of joined at the hip with Al Franken.

Now, I did not knock her socks off.

They opened a question.