Dick Van Dyke is 100!
The Midnight Air
All Things Comedy
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
In honor of this legend, I’m telling you 10 Facts About Dick Van Dyke that you may not know. Plus I talk about the loss of Rob Reiner, read your messages, and cover the Holi-Days like, National Emo Day!
And for Premium Subscribers, I dig into the Winter Solstice and why we should celebrate it!
Thank you to Aaron Brungardt for engineering, mixing, and production expertise, Geoffrey Tice for artwork, Bobby TBD for theme music, and All Things Comedy for their support, production, and distribution.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Midnight Air listener. |
| 0:17.0 | Thanks for being here. |
| 0:18.7 | I hope that you have had a great weekend. |
| 0:20.7 | I hope your Christmas season is going really, really well. |
| 0:23.4 | I had a show that was planned, and I think I'm going to keep most of it the same. |
| 0:28.9 | But a little bit of it is going to talk about the loss of Rob Reiner. |
| 0:34.5 | I'm not going to get super into it. |
| 0:35.8 | I'm not going to talk about what actually |
| 0:37.5 | happened or transpired in the loss of him and his wife, Michelle. But I feel like I have to talk |
| 0:44.5 | about it a little bit. I don't know how much that's going to change the show if I get really carried |
| 0:48.1 | away. But it's my favorite movie of all time. And you already know about the great hang I had with Will and Corey and Jerry. |
| 1:01.5 | So it is weird. |
| 1:03.7 | For me, it obviously not tied together in any way. |
| 1:06.7 | But, you know, just sort of a strange feeling that the movie came to such prominence in my |
| 1:13.4 | day-to-day life for the last week and then rob we lose rob reiner and his wife michelle |
| 1:20.9 | before i get into all that stuff because we do we we do have fun i want to talk about good things |
| 1:24.2 | i want to talk about the living i want to talk about dick van dyke so i I get to that. I've got great messages from you. I hope I get to all of those. Plus, we have our holidays and our Marquette County Tribune, Germania, Butson News from the wonderful Rhonda Goldsmith. I haven't even read read it yet i'm going to read it blind with you |
| 1:44.3 | so cut me some slack there if you can um i think i had a bonus thing set up i don't did i even put that |
| 1:55.9 | in i just got all derailed last night um yeah no i do have a bonus thing. So maybe I'll do that. If you're a |
| 2:03.8 | premium subscriber, we have a big thing we're going to talk about. And next week, I'll, |
| 2:08.7 | I might as well start the plugs. Next week, Lisa Rubin is going to join me. And we are going to talk |
| 2:13.0 | about each of our five favorite things that we watched, mainly movies, a little bit of TV in 2025. |
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