I Once Interviewed The Legendary Dan Rather

Today is Thursday, so you know what that means — throwback Thursday! And today we are taking it all the way back to the MMR days, and the time I interviewed Dan Rather.

The year was 1997 and I was back at the one and only MMR hosting the morning show with Elise Brown.

Plus, Kevin Gunn, also nicknamed the Professor by Pierre Robert, was producing the show, and the great Earl Bailey would hop on and supply the show with all of the news going on in the world.

Oh, and I can’t forget Buzz Barkley, who is pictured all the way to the right in this photo.

Buzz would stop by from time to time with a ton of entertainment fun that the show enjoyed.

Well, on this particular day when the photo above was captured, we interviewed Dan Rather.

For those too young to know, Dan Rather was easily one of the biggest news anchors in the world at that time and spent the bulk of his career at CBS.

With that being said, to say that we were nervous to interview one of the most popular network news anchors in the world at the time, would be an understatement! 

I mean he was doing stories on 60 Minutes at the time, so I think being nervous was a little fair!

But it turned out all of that nervousness was for nothing because Dan Rather turned out to be a really great interview, and he was incredibly nice to all of us.

At the end of the on-air interview, he actually thanked us, and said, “That was a fun interview!”

I even had him introduce Pearl Jam’s song “Jeremy” live on-air — it was awesome!

It was such a good day, and seeing that photo of all of us took me right back to that day in 1997.

As many of you know after reading my post about the Stanley Cup from yesterday, I spent the last week on vacation down the Jersey shore.

And from many of my other posts before that, you know I enjoy going for some long bike rides — especially down the shore!

So what could be better than squeezing in a nice bike ride on a week's long vacation? Squeezing in a nice bike ride on a week’s long vacation with a great friend of mine, of course!

I got to go on a great ride with my buddy Casey Boy from The Preston and Steve Show on our sister station, WMMR.

We rode through multiple shore towns as we got in a practice ride in preparation for this Sunday’s Ben To The Shore ride! For those that don’t know, the Ben To The Shore Bike Tour is a charity event that raises funds for Families Behind the Badge Children’s Foundation, which is for the families of fallen first responders and police officers.

It is always a lot of fun and something I look forward to each year!

During our practice route, Casey Boy and I rode about 25.81 miles from Wildwood to Town Bank to Cape May Point to Cape May then all the way back to Wildwood where we started.

It was a great time and has me ready to conquer the 65-mile Ben To The Shore ride! This will actually be my tenth year riding in the event and each year it gets better and better.

If you are interested in donating, visit fbbcf.org or visit the Team WMMR Rock and Rollers page.

I can’t wait for Sunday and hopefully, the weather holds up for the ride! I’m sure there will be a lot of people on the ride for this great cause!

Who do you think will cross the finish line first, me or Casey Boy?

Here's a selfie Casey Boy took on our ride. It is of Casey, Pattyann, and myself. What a great crew.

I took this during our ride. I'm not sure how I kept my balance! Just ahead of my leading the way are Casey and Pattyann.

Like I mentioned in the photo above, there they are leading the way. It's a tight bridge like many down the shore. Luckily, we all managed to make it across.

The first sign you see in Town Bank. Apparently, it is the birthplace of the South Jersey. I wonder what it was like in 1635?

Outside the beautiful Willow Creek Winery. What a cool sign. We definitely needed to check this place out on the ride.

The land the winery was on was beautiful. Look at those flowers! The property was huge.

You know we had to make our way into the winery! Riding on the bricks was not as hard as you would think. It was even cooler on the inside.

You know I had to grab a group picture inside the winery! I am actually wearing a jersey from a previous Ben To The Shore ride! I wonder what this year's will look like?

Just a group of people that love a good bike ride. I know we all can't wait for Sunday's ride. Hopefully, the weather is as nice as it was on this day!

The map of our 25-mile ride. We covered so much ground. It is nuts looking at it in map form!