Seinfeld Stories with Don Rosen (Hour 2)

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Great to have you with me on this Thursday night here on nightlight It is like the Christmas Eve of weekdays folks and we are barreling through another edition of nightlight comedy alive for Madison tonight Right above comedy on state and you know rich ever played Madison, Wisconsin when you were a comedian

Now I played Milwaukee, okay few times, but I never played Madison

great comedy top

they don't Madison Yeah,

go ahead.

Yeah, you know

When I was in law school and lived in Washington, DC, I was doing work for Normal, which was the national organization for the reform of marijuana laws.

Wow.

This is a true story.

I was just guy stuffed in envelopes, you know, when people buy t-shirts and bumpers from the back of Rolling Stone magazine and I would outfill the orders.

That's what I was doing.

But one time they had a strategy session.

Everybody come in to the big conference room, which, you know, 20, 30 people.

And we're going to have a conference, you know, a strategy session.

Of course, it was a hot box as a kid would say today.

I mean, there was a lot of marijuana being passed around and during this session.

And so this guy standing in front, he had a map United States.

He said, Madison, Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin has.

criminalized marijuana that is this was like 1977 or whatever it was they criminalized marijuana and so we have a good shot right there to use that as a springboard to other places somebody went Wisconsin and there's somebody else went cheese and then somebody went pizza and they were pizza and the meeting was over it was word association

oh that's

fantastic

Rich Scheider is my guest, folks.

He's an author and a comedian who you've seen on TV over the years, dating back to 1980s, been around a while.

Where can people find your books, Rich?

Amazon.com.

I killed.

There's a book that Mark Schiff and I put out.

There were all sorts of road stories.

And then my book is kicking through the ashes.

It's my life as a standup in the 1980s.

So I just framed it from that period of time.

You know, when I was doing stand up in the 80s and then and then went to write on the Roseanne show started writing for sitcoms.

So that's that's that's a time.

That's so great.

Mark Schiff.

I worked with him at the improv in Chicago and he did a joke.

It was just like the most he talked about dining and dashing.

And he would just he was so.

Oh, my God.

And it's a whole audience.

Let's get the whole audience to go.

We can all go.

We can all run right now.

We can run out of this club.

That was chef.

He's deadpan.

So I know some people know it's going.

Hey, this guy's serious.

We can.

They can't.

They can't stop us all.

He'd go.

They can't stop us all.

No,

he was.

We can all run.

We can all just.

He was so

deadpan and he would go.

He'd go.

They left the roast beef off the menu.

Get the car.

They left the roast beef off the bill.

Get the car.

It was just so.

You're right.

It was so deadpan.

Hey, Rich, one of the

stories you posted that I loved involved Steve Martin and Phyllis Diller.

Oh, can you please tell

the

story?

So

Phyllis.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I became friends with Phyllis Diller and she said the key to showbiz is eating the proper words would be a crap, but there's a different word for it.

You know, right?

So that's the key.

You have to learn.

You have to learn to how to eat crap.

You're going to because you're going to eat a lot of crap in showbiz.

You're going to take a lot of guff basically what she was saying in a different way.

And so this story to me was one of the best ones that Steve Martin was a young writer on the Smothers Brothers show.

I think, you know, 68, 69, whatever it was, he was writing for them.

And so, one week, the guest host was Sherri Lewis, and she had a hand puppet.

She was ventriloquist, had a hand puppet named Lambchop.

Lambchop.

So, they're having a writing session in Sherri's dressing room of the show, and they're trying to, you know, brainstorm corporate ideas for what to do with it this week.

And at one point, Sherri looks around and she goes, where's Lambchop?

She said, Lambchop, where's Lambchop?

So, everybody's now looking around for his hand puppet.

And then Steve Martin realizes he's sitting on the lamb chop.

He's sitting on the puppet.

So he pulls it out from under.

I mean, here it is, sorry.

And she goes, okay.

And they all leave.

And a couple of minutes later, Tommy Smothers, he's told me this story.

Tommy Smothers comes in to Steve Martin and says, listen, Sherry's very upset about you sitting on a lamb chop.

And she's going to walk.

And we won't have a guest star this week.

You got to go down and apologize to her for sitting on a lamb chop.

All right, go.

So, Steve Warren wants to keep his job.

I'm so he goes down there.

And he apologizes.

I'm so, I'm so sorry.

You're one of my favorite stars and I'm so glad you're here.

We're gonna have a lot of fun this week.

I'm so sorry I sat on a lamp shop.

Please accept my apology.

She says, I accept your apology.

Steve turns, starts to walk for the door and then hears, what about me?

And he turns around and says, Sherry's got the lamp shop puck going on.

She goes, are you gonna apologize to me?

So, Steve had to apologize to the hand puppet.

That's so great.

I love that story.

And everybody asked, everybody asked me to go.

Well, she's serious or joking, and I asked that same question at the time when he told me he was, oh, she was serious.

But it doesn't matter.

It's hilarious either way,

whether she's

joking or not.

Either way.

Oh, it's just absolutely.

Thinking

of Steve

Martin having to do that is just gold.

Yes, exactly.

Hey, maybe we could squeeze one more in here, if you don't mind, Rich.

Jackie

Mason

is from Wisconsin, and I know he was born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.

I know you have a Jackie Mason story.

Well,

that's it.

It's a little long story if you want to do the Ed Sullivan story, but he was on Ed Sullivan in 1964.

He was a regular in Ed Sullivan.

He did a great Ed Sullivan impression TV show back on the only three networks or three stations on your TV and Sunday night.

That was a huge one of the biggest shows of country this particular week.

Lyndon Bain Johnson, the president of the United States was speaking.

This is a live show that's held in show and

it cut into his speech Johnson's speech cut into the show so they don't cut away from the president they just delay cutting into the Ed Sullivan show and Jackie Mason is already on stage performing for the studio audience when the cameras come on they go and they're back on and he's performing now Ed Sullivan was standing on the stage to the right of Jackie Mason.

which is growing, not a problem, because he's just laughing at the performer or whatever.

But this particular time, they were running short because of Johnson's cutting into the show.

And so he's trying to give signals.

He doesn't know stage manager signals.

He's trying to give signals to Jackie to cut a couple minutes out of his bit.

And now the audience is looking at Ed over there doing hand gestures.

You know, it looks like he's signing for the death, but he doesn't know what he's doing.

He's doing the hand gestures.

Jack is afraid of losing the audience's attention, so he starts, you know, oh, you got fingers?

You got fingers?

Do you have fingers?

Are they talented fingers?

Are such talented fingers?

Maybe people should come to see you on your fingers.

You're talented fingers, right?

And he's flashing fingers, too.

Well, he's sort of upstage, and Ed got angry.

After the show, Ed...

Jackie gave him the finger.

That's what he thought.

He claimed Jackie gave him the finger on national television, which never would have happened.

Jackie, Jackie said, I didn't know what the finger was.

I don't buy that, but there's no way Jackie gave him the finger.

Well, the result was he banned Jackie and also put the word out.

I mean, this was 1964.

People didn't say darn, you know, they barely said darn or dang on TV.

They certainly didn't say damn, or they weren't giving each other the fingers on national television.

So it really hurt his career, like bookings were canceled.

And so he sued Ed, I don't know, it sued him for like $3 million, 1964, a lot of money, sued him for $3 million, which caused Ed to go, well, maybe I should look at the tapes.

They did have tapes back then.

So he looks at the tape, he goes, well, God darn, he didn't give me the finger.

He did not give him the finger.

And so then he welcomed Jackie back on the show, you know, open arms, please drop the lawsuit, have some more appearances, and all was, all was well.

That is so great.

Just awesome stuff.

Maybe we could get one.

Oh, can you tell the Pee Wee Herman song or a story before we let you go, Rich?

I love.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

So this was like 1981 Pee Wee Herman, you know, who became he had this great character and he went on David Letterman show and the next night this is in New York City.

I lived in New York City and with my first wife, Carol Lever.

And the next night he was performing in the theater.

Can't remember where it was.

It's in New York City, obviously.

So we were friends with mutual friends with

a woman who was a TV producer in New York, and she was very good friends with Peewee's manager.

And so we got backstage.

We're in Peewee's dress room.

I don't know Peewee, never saw him before.

He's in his Paul Rubens, Paul Rubens, in his Peewee outfit, the little gray suit, white shirt, the little bow tie, pancake makeup, red lips, you know, he's backstage, but he's not, he's just talking regular and smoking a cigarette, and everybody's chatting, and he starts going off like, I hate this character, I'm sick of him.

You know, I'm like there's a packed audience out there, you know, and he's like I hated up those sick of doing this character and the stage manager pops his head in the dress room and says Paul it's time to go on and he just puts the cigarette and he goes Right in the character and right in the character and dances that pewee dance out of the dress room on to the stage hour and a half killing him You know what I when he eventually, you know what happened to him in the movie theaters

I said, well, he finally figured out how to kill that character off years later.

He finally figured it out.

They're not going to bring Pee Wee out again.

Nobody asked me to do Pee Wee after this.

Here comes Pee Wee.

So great.

Rich, this is so fun.

I'm just going to say this to you.

I think I said this to you the last time you were on the air.

But when I was, I started doing standup comedy at the funny firm.

Well, I started not at the funny firm.

I was there one night with a friend of mine, Ty Fifths.

You were the headliner and Ty was asking you all these questions that I chimed in.

I mean, you gave us probably a half hour of your time to these two eager guys just trying to become comedians and you were gracious with your time and you were insightful and it's just to this day, I've not forgotten that.

I just think the world of you.

Thank you so much.

I appreciate it, Pete.

I gotta tell you.

Yeah, it's like, you know, it happened to me when I was a young comic in Washington DC and Franklin Jai, who was a big star headlining at

the

Cellar Door was a nightclub in not a comedy club, but an actual performance venue where Warren Zevon and Linda Ronsted would come in and he was and I went up to him and I said, I'm a young comic.

I want to see him.

And he said, come into my dressing room.

And I hung out with him for a couple of hours.

And he was just giving me advice.

And he was very generous.

So you kind of pass along what you're taught.

I should be passing this along, whatever I know.

It may not be much to help you.

But, you know, obviously, when somebody's interested in doing this, you have a connection.

Absolutely.

And your pleasure.

My pleasure.

You're still doing that with your story.

So keep in common.

Follow Rich on Instagram.

All

right.

Keep up the great

work,

buddy.

Thanks, Rich.

Thank you,

Pete.

All right.

That's

Rich.

Thank you,

Pete.

Thanks, man.

Thank you, buddy.

He made the popcorn picker week, which was anatomy of a fall and those stories are just absolute gold So hopefully he will put those in another book because that that's Steve Martin story I heard a couple days ago when I was watching this I couldn't even catch Catch my breath.

I was laughing so hard thinking of Steve Martin having to go do that.

It's just it's fantastic

So our question of the night ladies and gentlemen, Don Rosen is coming up in just a few minutes.

WRJN morning host, Don Rosen will be here momentarily.

We'll do a little celebrity talk like we do with Don.

And our question of the night is what is your, what is on your bucket list?

It's National Bucket List Day.

And you can share that with us and we will read your text on the radio.

Tom from New Berlin, I'm sorry.

Tom says to create AI.

that George Carlin and Frank Zappa word debate monitored by Howard Stern.

Yeah, what was that story?

Tom, give us some clarification.

I vaguely remember that, something about that, but he says, with my blackberry.

Oh, I'm lost.

Tom's awesome, though.

Tom gives awesome texts.

Please give us a few more details, Tom.

He says, love this.

Tom says, Jane love.

He was talking about the pack arena, of course.

Jane sounds awesome.

Totally agree, Tom.

Monica from Mount Horrib says, I'm a nerd.

So I want to get all the presidential museums in.

She wants to go to all the presidential museums.

That's cool.

That would be pretty cool.

That would be amazing.

She says, I have three left.

Nixon, Reagan and FDR would like to visit all 50 states to have about a dozen left.

That's a great bucket list item.

I went to the.

Reagan's, where Reagan is buried in California when we lived out there.

It was up in CME Valley.

It is the property that is on.

I think his library was there too.

It's stunning.

It's absolutely gorgeous.

So good luck with that though.

That's a great text.

Thank you, Steady Eddie.

We'll do Steady Eddie's when we come back.

I think, hey, Don Rosen is coming up.

Next, we've got some texts on the stream we have to get to.

What's on your bucket list, folks?

Join the fun.

It's Pete Schwabba in Night Light.

Don Rosen coming up next on the Civic Media Radio Network.

That is Barbara Streisand.

It's her birthday today.

She's one of the biggest,

if not the biggest star.

Maybe ever like one of the one of the she's like in the top of the upper echelon Certainly in contention certainly in contention in the in the running in the conversation however you want to say it she is I want to say in her 80s today, but I had the opportunity to meet her I wrote a movie called a guy thing co-wrote and at the premiere She was there because James Brolin her husband was in the movie.

Oh, yeah, so I get to meet I get to meet Barbara Streisand and then

Don Rosen, if you're listening, we need your phone number, pal.

We're missing, we're missing a digit.

So I can track that down for you to the where and I know I have that somewhere on my email.

But yeah, and then we, I went to this premiere and I'm sitting in the crowd and they sit me and my writing partner, Greg, who's been on this show several times next to Ariana Huffington and she

I looked over and that was when she was on the air lot with Al Franken.

It was, they were on Bill Maher's old show, Politically Incorrect.

So she's with her daughter.

I'm with my wife.

I lean over to Ariana Huffington and I just wanted to kind of have words with her and I said, hey, where's Al Franken tonight?

Not my best work.

Not a great line, not really necessarily clever.

I'm just trying to start a dialogue.

Ariana Huffington doesn't even look at me.

And she goes at home.

So that was my, uh, that was my interaction with Ari and Huffington at the guy.

A conversation.

A guy thing premiere.

Yeah.

That's about as far as I got.

Well, let's get, we'll get Don's number.

I'm going to search my email, but right now I want to play a clip.

This is, um, it's Jack, Jack Nicholson's birthday was yesterday.

He's in several of, I mean, he's in many amazing films.

But a couple of my favorites are Chinatown and the last detail.

In Chinatown, I have a clip between Jack Nicholson and John Houston, and this is where the whole movie kind of wraps up.

The plot is sort of summarized in this one quick scene between Jack Nicholson and John Houston from

Chinatown.

Either you bring the water to LA, or you bring LA to the water.

How are you going to do that?

By incorporating the valley into the city.

Simple as that.

How much are you worth?

I

have no

idea.

How much do you want?

No, I just want to know what you're worth.

Over 10 million?

Oh, my yes.

Why are you doing it?

How much better can you eat?

What can you buy that you can't already afford?

The future, Mr. Gitz.

The

future.

Now, where's the girl?

I want the only daughter I got left.

You found out Evelyn was lost to me a long time ago.

Who do you blame for that, Har?

I don't blame myself.

See, Mr. Gitz, most people never have to face the fact that the right time and the right place, they're capable of anything.

Claude.

Take those glasses from him, will you?

Not worth it, Mr. Gates.

It's

really not worth it.

He's got a gun to his head after basically figuring out what the deal was with the water.

Such a great movie Chinatown.

I'm due for a rewatch.

Absolutely great stuff.

I'll meet you since birthday.

Have you seen it though?

Right?

Yes.

Yeah.

It's just it's like a great noir written by Robert Towne.

Just a phenomenal movie and I cannot wait.

It's been long enough.

Sometimes you rewatch a movie and you're not ready to rewatch it.

You just you saw it too soon.

And then all of a sudden it's like I should have waited a little longer.

But it's been about 10 years since I've seen Chinatown.

I'm excited.

One of

my favorite things about it is also like you wouldn't expect Chinatown to be a special effects movie.

But there's the scene where they stick the knife in his nose and then they cut it.

Oh, yeah.

And the way they made that look so real is by having a knife that had a spring and a hinge so that when they pulled it, it would slide out and then go back quick enough that you wouldn't see it.

Really?

And it had a tube that squirted fake blood at the same time.

So it looked like they cut his nose.

That is so cool.

I thought it

was really cool.

I love behind the scenes

stuff like that.

How did you

find that out?

I just never even questioned it.

Uh, what, there was a YouTube video that I watched where they tried to recreate it and compare it to if you tried to do it with CG and they're like, no, this is way better than trying to do it with CG.

Yeah,

that was a great, that was Roman Polanski, I believe.

It had a cameo.

It was the one that sliced his nose.

I think so.

Um, yeah.

Wow.

Great, uh, great tidbit.

Mr. Zamas bringing the heat.

Uh, Anna from Madison says, hi Pete and Aaron, my bucket list is to see the Rolling Stones in concert.

Paul McCartney in concert and Ringo Starr in concert.

That's a great bucket list.

Why couldn't I think of something like that?

I've pretty much seen everybody I want to see concert-wise.

So I wasn't thinking along those lines, but that is a great text.

Thank you, Anna.

Anna always has good thoughts.

And steady Eddie says, Pete, I completed my bucket list last night.

Wow, this is nice.

He says, I was at a Bonnie Rake concert in Carolina.

I just arrived back home to Wisconsin.

in parentheses.

I was singing like a lark with Bonnie to the song Angel from Montgomery.

It was beautiful till some mean old guy gave me such a dirty look while mumbling something like, shut up, you old crow.

Huh, that sounds familiar.

It does sound familiar.

Don't know what his problem was.

Some people just don't appreciate good music.

Well done, steady Eddie, as always.

That's great stuff.

And then PJ on the stream says, bucket list to travel around the world.

First Canada to find distant relatives, then make my way to Germany to find more distant relatives.

That's another great one.

Like it includes travel and tracking down ancestors, your family tree.

I think that's awesome.

Keep those texts coming, folks.

What's on your bucket list?

It is National Bucket List Day.

We are going to get Don Rosen on the phone.

That is my vow to you.

During the news, we will track down.

Don Rosen and have a little bit of celebrity talk with the host of the WRJ and Morning Show.

We're coming right back.

This is Pete Schwabba and Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.

This is Nightlight with Pete Schwabba.

I am Pete Schwabba, your host.

We are coming to you live from Madison, Wisconsin tonight, folks.

Beautiful downtown Madison.

Good to change things up every once in a while.

Riding shotgun tonight instead of the K-man is Aaron Zommer's.

Conrad is eagerly awaiting probably the Packers draft pick in the first round.

He's at the draft, chilling

out.

I hope he is sober enough to comprehend what's going on.

You never know in Green Bay, specifically.

Listen, with the draft, they can put it away.

And here's another guy who, I don't know if Don, Don is such a music guy and a radio guy.

I don't even know if Don cares about sports.

He could be a classic sports hater for all I know.

But we'll find out because we're gonna bring him on the show right now, ladies and gentlemen.

It is my pleasure to welcome my friend and the host of the WRJN morning show, Don Rosen.

Hey, buddy.

Hey, please.

Thanks.

You know, the whole world is heading to Green Bay and you're running from Green Bay.

Well, I told the people at the radio station and we're seeing let's rent space in our parking lot for people to park for the NFL draft and they're taking over up the Green

Bay.

They might be taking you up on that.

I've been hearing.

It could be cheaper.

It could be cheaper.

Right.

The hotel rooms are jacked up.

But are you a sports fan, Don?

Uh, not really.

When I, I looked in New York, we had, um, my father had the season tickets for the New York Mets.

So back in the sixties and their, and their championship year 69, I went every weekend.

I was the pride of the neighbor.

Everybody wanted to get my four tickets, you know, come with me.

And we didn't drive.

So we used to take the long on the railroad in the shade.

And this is when they had the world's fair around.

They built a spur.

So you were able to go.

take the law, the old world's fair spur and took your right to the front gate of Shea Stadium.

And it was really good.

When I went to college, it was the training camp.

It still is off to the version training camp for the New York Jets.

And we used to sit there have our lunch on the grass to name it.

There was a loser down there and it's all coming up to us talking to us while we're eating our lunch, taking our French fries.

And that's about that's about

it.

That is a Don Rosen story, if I've ever heard one.

You have great stories, Don, about just comings and goings with celebrities.

I have several because I lived in just north of Hollywood, basically, but you have been around in radio.

You have such great stories.

Can you?

I know you've told this before, but

can you tell me your report?

Yeah, go ahead.

Our pastor at our church, he just left to take another church assignment, but he was there for 25 years.

He went to North Hollywood High.

That's where he grew up going there.

I live two blocks from there.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Molly Ringwald was in his class and Dweezel Zappa was in his class too.

That's great.

Well, you had a very famous classmate too.

And you were friends, and I love the story you tell about him, especially when you talk about the other friend who is mad that he didn't stay in touch.

You know what I'm referring to?

Oh, yeah.

Can you please tell that?

Jerry Seinfeld, we grew up in Las Apeigwa, New York, and he was about six houses from me, but we went to school together, we went to each other's birthday parties, all that kind of stuff.

His next door neighbor was a guy named Joel Edmond.

And at my 20th house, the reunion,

Joel came up to me and he said, boy, Jerry is really stuck up.

We're friends all our lives and now he doesn't want to talk to me.

He doesn't return my calls.

He said, he's a different world

now, Joel.

He said, it's different.

And he said, yeah, but we're his friends.

We grew up with him.

We hung up all the time.

I said, but he's, he's got different friends now.

He's in a different world now cut to on one of the seasons of Seinfeld.

And I forget the character's name on the show, but it was Joel Harnig or something like that.

And

on the show, he played an old friend of Jerry that kept pestering him all the time, but the good old days, ones who want to be friends with me anymore.

And I'm watching this and I call my brother and I said, that was Joel

Higman,

he's talking

about.

And I thought that's him.

And so I have it on DVD and I watch it and I describe the story to my wife.

That's about to watch the

episode.

That's Joel Hegman he wrote that about.

I love it.

And Joel never, I know Joel Hegman never picked up on it.

Well, that probably describes why he didn't understand initially the nuance or the difference.

I don't know.

I guess that doesn't surprise me is what I'm saying.

And you know what, Jerry, he's a different life, you know.

Yeah.

Don't keep pestering him, and that's just it.

Well, most people don't keep in touch anyway with her.

I mean, when you get out of grade school, for God's sakes, even if you're not a famous TV star, you just don't, unless you live right by the, you kind of lose touch anyway, don't you?

Yeah.

And, you know, we had a young girl working for us at the radio station at WRJN, and she was going to see Jerry at the Riverside Theater in Milwaukee.

And she said, he's having these biographies from Massapiqua.

That's where you're from.

And I told her the whole story.

And I called my mother.

I said, do you have any childhood pictures of us?

And she found one where we're like five or six years old together.

And she made a copy of it.

She brought it to Jerry.

And Jerry's manager came out in the lobby of the Riverside said, did you give that picture to Jerry?

He wants to meet you.

So she went back to the dressing room.

And Jerry said, where'd you get the picture?

And she told him.

And she said, could you sign it?

Unfortunately, he signed it to me, not her.

It was heartbroken.

He said, dear Don, you must get together more than once every 40 years, Jerry.

That sounds about right.

But I said, you still got his autograph.

What difference does it make?

You should have sent something to him.

Yeah, I'm sure you would have.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, he's a nice guy.

Do you think

he, you know, I've met him three times and he was always really nice.

I was a young comic, probably peppered him with too many questions, but he was, you know, he was fine back then.

And notice he seems a little curmudgeony.

more so in the last few years.

Have you noticed

that?

Do you know how old

he is?

If you give me a second, I can figure it out.

He was 33 in 1987.

I know that much, but I'm not good enough at math to figure that out quickly.

He's going to be in April.

He was 71 years old in April because we got Bar Mitzvah a few weeks apart when he was school together.

And I remember his Bar Mitzvah was in mid-April and mine was in May 28th.

Did you guys go to each other's bar mitzvahs?

Not the parties, but we went to each other's bar mitzvah in the synagogue, yeah.

Okay.

Yeah, I just, I think he's a little crabby the last few years.

And I don't know why.

I don't understand why a guy with a billion dollars who's got the world on a string still, even at 70, is like that.

Cause he's got Joe Higman calling him day and

night.

And he's probably got about 50 Joe Higmans out there calling him day and night.

My

guest is Don Rosen.

He is the host of the WRJ and Morning Show in Racine.

And he joins us here on Nightlight periodically.

We talk about our celebrity sightings.

Don, I

got a bunch of

them.

Well, share another one.

And then I want to tell you why I think Racine and Kenosha are going to be boom towns.

Okay.

Before that, I wanted to, we run the entertainment beat.

uh, in the morning on W. R. J. Oh, yeah.

Six fifties, seven fifties, eight fifties.

I love them.

And I love your gigs in there.

And I wrote two of them down because you were talking about the monopoly movie.

He didn't want about that.

And you're really under your breath.

You said, I hate it already.

Normally you got that.

And it was so fast.

And we were talking about Russell Brand.

And I guess he's got another

Accuser or something.

Yeah,

he's okay.

And you're talking about the salacious things he's accused of and then under your breath you said what a guy

Well, I apologize I was in a hurry today, so I've got a couple clunkers coming your way for tomorrow, but stick with me I'll get the no I appreciate you playing them, and I'm glad you're enjoying them.

They're fun to do

Yeah, yeah Kenosha Racine boom.

Yeah,

okay,

so

here's the thing

I have a cousin that just bought a house in Kenosha, and Kenosha and Racine, you know, right between Chicago and Milwaukee, close from Milwaukee, but I've been doing all this reading where Michigan is going to be the go-to state in 20 years.

Because of global warming and climate change and what's going on in California and Florida, people are going to go north to the Great Lakes.

Michigan supposedly is the darling, but I say, you know, Wisconsin were basically very same.

topography-wise and whatever.

Kenosha and Racine are right on the water.

And they're right between two huge cities, this little kind of haven between Milwaukee and Chicago if you don't want to live in giant cities.

I really think, I think you're going to make a killing on your house is what I'm saying.

Well, I'm sitting in it now.

We got everything redone the walls.

We got new floors, getting a new roof, we got new porch.

We got new water heaters.

We got new bathroom.

We got a new shower.

We got new.

So yeah, I hope so.

I can get my money

back.

I just want to get my money back.

Yeah, we like this house.

We have two nice neighbors.

We live on Main Street, but the neighbors couldn't be better.

I love them all.

And we all watch out for each other.

So that's great.

I just think it's like a great, you can be on the train.

You could take the train to Chicago from

there.

You could 20 minutes

to

Milwaukee.

I mean, it's amazing.

Five bucks you catch the the method training from you got to go to Kenosha for the Metro Right if you catch it five bucks takes you right in on a weekend right to downtown Chicago

So all right, so that was just a little that was like an intermission.

What is going on at WRJ and you've got this great new facility How are things going there and what have you got you can share with us?

Well, I've been there 25 years

I took nine off.

I got fired by one owner and then when he sold the station, I got hired back.

So there for 24 years, the first go around in a year and a half with Civic Media so far.

The Civic Media network is done from there, the talk network.

I'm from our studios.

That's kind of nice.

They were all refurbished.

It's a great facility.

It's in a residential neighborhood.

But you know, we were there before the other homes were there the station turns 100 years old in the year and a half.

How about that

on December 6th of?

2026 only 100 years old the the historic museum downtown the as you said you heard it museum downtown is doing a 100 year exhibit for us It's pretty

cool.

Yeah, it's been it's it's pretty good radio stations got a lot of history to it and it never it never gave up it never went the way of a m radio stations just

You know, dying was always vibrant, always a part of the community.

And one of the ratings I saw in the morning show came out number two in the county, which is great.

Oh, fantastic.

Yeah, I mean, it's, I mean, it's doing real well.

We have two FM signals and one AM on WRJM.

Love it.

But, you know, Civic Media is done from there.

All their talk shows are done from that studio across from me.

That's fantastic.

Except for you.

I know, except I'm all over the place.

I, you know, I haven't, I would love to do a show from there, just to do a show from there, because I typically, uh, re, or broadcast from Green Bay, occasionally from Madison when I'm here for PBS stuff or like a special circumstance like this, but I would love to see those studios.

Uh, so maybe we can make a field trip or something.

I think that would be fun.

Do you want to hear my, uh, do you want to hear my Steven Soderbergh, how I was emasculated in front of the director, Steven Soderbergh?

Yeah.

Alright, so he's one of my favorite directors.

So my wife and I moved to LA It's like late summer 97 and I'm up for this TV show which I ended up getting cast in it was a VH1 pilot and One of the producers had a friend who showed up at this party and her boyfriend was Steven Soderbergh So I had had some back and forth with this woman because she was the woman who cast me his friend in the show and she starts talking about You know, I should wear the same thing

to my callback audition that I had on the initial audition because it was a very cute top.

She kept saying cute top and Stephen Soderbergh is just nodding and she's like, oh, he had this really cute top on.

Are you going to wear that cute top?

And I'm like, I have to clarify.

I'm being emasculated in front of the hottest director in town right now.

And all I can think of is I have to tell him it's not like a pink tube top or something.

You know, it was just a, you know, women talk like she just thinks it was a nice shirt.

So that's my humble brag about Steven Soderbergh.

But when we come back, folks, I'm hoping Don will tell his story about how he almost killed Jimmy Stewart, America's real sweetheart.

That's coming up next with our pal Don Rosen.

This is Nightlight with Peach Waba on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Hey, this is Nightlight with Peach Wamba.

Welcome back.

Our question of the night was a pretty decent one.

Fight in the NFL Draft, but what's on your bucket list?

It's National Bucket List Day.

Bridget from the 818 says, I'd like to take a really nice vacation, relaxing, full of good food, adventures, sun, and water.

That's a great one.

Thank you, Bridget.

I still like Gordy's going to Alaska.

That's probably the most attainable.

of the ones we've heard tonight.

And then PJ on the stream says, Clay Matthews just did a short speech and said while unfolding a sheet of paper, dear America, the bears still suck.

You know what, Clay Matthews?

I think I could take Clay Matthews.

He's been retired, he's probably let himself go.

Let's find out what Don Rosen thinks.

Don, how do you think I do in a fist fight with Clay Matthews?

I don't know how you would do, but I'd be very poorly in a fist fight with anybody.

I was in one fight in my entire life.

Oh,

really?

And it was over in about three seconds.

When I was in the fifth grade, a kid named Mickey Strange, that was his name.

Oh, dear.

It was bragging all over the school.

And I'm tall.

You're a big dude.

I'm six foot three now.

It's probably a little taller than.

OK.

And he said how he could take me.

And the whole school, the whole elementary school was waiting on the playground.

And I saw him leaning against the fence.

And I said, let's get this over with.

And I just charged him as fast as I could.

And I pounded him into the fence.

Just, you know, not with my hand, just my body.

Fight was over.

He was crying his eyes out.

It was the only fight that was ever in my entire life.

Can I just give you an A for strategy there, Don?

Knowing your strengths, that's impressive.

I pushed him into the chain link fence.

He tried to cry.

The whole school was there and people started to feel the reality was crying as I felt.

I feel

like that's how all elementary schools fights goes.

Whoever lands the first hit wins.

Right.

It's over immediately.

Especially the other guys bigger.

It's just, it's a done deal.

That's fantastic, Don.

Don,

do you have a...

Oh, go

ahead.

Sorry, buddy.

I emailed you a picture during the break there.

Oh, you did?

Okay.

Let me see what we got here.

The photo.

All right.

Is it of the fight?

Oh, I love this photo.

All right.

I'm going to send this to you, Aaron.

Let's see if we can post this in the stream.

This is Don Rosen with his old buddy.

I'm in the back row.

I kind of geeky looking.

I was tall.

I'm in the back row there.

These two girls there that look kind of odd, like space creatures.

I'm between them.

And Jerry is in the far right on the floor with sneakers.

Of course, he's wearing sneakers, right?

All right, I just sent that to Aaron.

Let's see if we can post that in the stream.

Do you have a bucket list, Don?

An item you have to get to?

No, I've done everything I wanted in my life.

You're kidding.

Wow, look

at you.

I've been in radios since I'm 18 years old.

This is my 54th year in radio, continuous.

And this is all I wanted to do in life.

I've got a great daughter.

I've got a great wife.

What more do I want?

Oh, it's nice.

No pressure, then.

That's great.

I see this picture, Aaron, you sent.

Don, we were talking about Chinatown.

And I'll have to watch this later.

But it was, Aaron saw a video about how they cut Jack Nicholson's nose.

Do you remember that scene?

Yeah, yeah, I remember that.

Yeah, it was

like a great special effect, even for back then.

And that looks awesome.

You know, my wife and I are watching courtroom movies recently.

Okay.

And I got to tell you, we watched the courtroom scene of A Few Good Men.

If you don't think

If you just think that Tom Cruise is a nothing actor, just an action film, watch him in

that courtroom

scene with Jack Nicholson, getting Jack Nicholson to admit that he wore the code red.

I mean, you see his eyes are watering.

He's

kicking, he's nervous, he's scared.

He's desperate.

And he gets it.

Yeah,

he's desperate because he knows now if he doesn't do it now, he's going to be court-martialed.

He's already started doing it.

That was the best, one of the best acting courtroom scenes I've seen.

I agree.

And I said that about Tom Cruise.

Like he went through kind of the weird phase where he was dancing on the couch and everybody thought with Scientology.

That guy is maybe the greatest movie star that's ever made movie.

He just makes so few bad films.

And even if they're not great, they're really entertaining.

He's phenomenal.

So that's a great take.

We have your picture up Don.

Those of you watching

on the

stream.

So, Seinfeld's in the front row.

It's a front right.

Front right at the end, I see it.

That sure

looks like Jerry Seinfeld.

Yes, it does.

And then where's Don?

On the back row.

Right in front

of the teacher?

What's

that?

You have a plaid shirt on?

I don't know.

There's two tall guys.

I'm toward the center.

OK.

Yeah, that's Don.

I

love

that.

Thank you for sharing that buddy.

Hey, we've got about what do we have Aaron a couple minutes two minutes two minutes Do you think you could tell your Jimmy Stewart story before we have to sign

off?

All right real quickly I was in Los Angeles with two business guys from radio station in Milwaukee We were in San Diego to listen to a radio station.

This is for the internet.

You had to physically go there And I beg you miss.

Let's go to the stars homes I want to take a ride to the stars homes and we get a map from some kids sitting on a beach chair on the corner for five bucks And I'm driving through and this woman is on Roxbury Drive

And this woman is walking across the street with her dog and I let her go.

She weighs me.

Thank you.

And I started to go in this old man with a sailor's cap up, you know, pulled down.

He starts to walk across and I stopped and he weighs me on.

And as I start to go, he steps into the street.

So the guy next to him says, let him go.

I couldn't wait me on.

So he weighs me on again.

He steps into the street again.

And so I rolled down the window.

I said, Mr. Stewart, please go.

He was looking, he's going for his wife and his dog and he gives me a salute.

And he walks on.

So that's the, I almost ran over James Stewart story.

That is my favorite almost killed a celebrity story.

I think I've ever

heard.

I

never get tired of that.

Don, that is awesome.

Thank you so much.

Let's not let as much time go by next time.

I love having you on the

show.

You got it.

And

thanks for playing the beats again.

Glad you're enjoying them.

Have

a great show

tomorrow.

All right.

All right.

See you Don.

That's Don Rosen.

Check out Don's work on WRJN every morning, outstanding stuff.

Aaron, thank you so much.

This is so fun.

I always enjoy working with you.

You're just on it, and it's awesome.

And thank you a bunch.

I know I was a little frazzled today, so you hung with me.

Well, you also got ambushed at the beginning of the show by

an ostrich.

And a guy who faked, called, and sick.

Come on.

Thank you to Don Rosen.

Thank you to Rich Scheidner.

Thank you for all your texts.

Brian Amalki says, go on a cruise.

Always love ships and water.

It was born in June, so I'm a cancer, a crab.

All right.

Have a great night, Wisconsin.

See you Monday.