Don and Mike Show and me!

I got an invitation to be an in studio guest with Don and Mike. If you don't know who they are, you probably don't own a radio. I was asked to be a guest celebrity on their version of Match Game. Having been a big fan of the show when Gene Rayburn was the host back in the 70s, I was really looking forward to playing.

Robb Spewak, who claims to be the producer of the Don and Mike show, sent me an e-mail with the invite. First they wanted to do it on Wednesday. My schedule just wasn't going to work, but Robb said they could do it on Thursday instead. Great! I was available and ready. Would I emulate Bill Daly or Richard Dawson or perhaps Charles Nelson Reilly? I'd just have to have some fun and hope I didn't do anything to get me in trouble.

Great that was, until it snowed on Thursday. Instead of playing Match Game, I was covering the snow in Frederick, Maryland. I love being out in the weather, so this was cool and the whole Match Game thing, or something else will come up again. But, I must admit to being a little disappointed.


The very first internship I ever did was at a top 40 radio station on Long Island when I was turning 18. WBLI 106.1 FM was the station. I've always enjoyed radio. TV has been great to me, but radio seems to have a freedom about it, a looseness, that I don't seem to duplicate but on rare occasions when I'm on TV. Perhaps it's the time constraints that we have with weather casts and hard outs for commercials, where radio has a freer schedule.



Anyway, back to Don and Mike....the guys had a lot of fun talking about me and Topper and some of the other weather and news people in DC on Thursday and you really should have a listen to the podcast. Go to their website and click on the link to "The Glory of Bernstein". I'm not making this up. That's the actual title.


One more tidbit, they have a picture of me and JC, morphed that is.

I'll try and let you know when I'll be on for real. Oh,and the beauty of all of this. I still, after being in DC for over 7 years, have never spoken to either Don and Mike in person or on the phone. That'll change soon enough!