Don Was Remembers Brian Wilson, Plus Great Stories about Rolling Stones, Ringo Starr, Bob Dylan, Blue Note & So Much More (Part 1)

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🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Phil & David are thrilled to welcome Don Was -- famed record producer, musician and Blue Note Records President -- for Jersey Mike's sandwiches and the first part of an epic conversation about Don's remarkable life in music and all that jazz. They start by paying tribute to the late great Brian Wilson, the subject of Don's brilliant 1995 documentary, "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times." Coming in Part 2: Don talks about working with Bonnie Raitt, The B-52s, John Mayer, Was (Not Was) and much more. To learn more about building community through food and "Somebody Feed the People," visit the Philanthropy page at philrosenthalworld.com.

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0:00.0	Hello, David.
0:02.0	Hey, Phil.
0:03.0	We have someone very special.
0:05.0	Someone who was special and it still was.
0:08.0	Was not was special.
0:10.0	He was, no, he just was and is special.
0:12.0	By the way, what does that mean was not was?
0:14.0	Oh, now you're going too deep.
0:16.0	Well, we'll save that for the second of the two episodes we're going to run with Don Was. And Don Was is one of
0:22.7	the greatest record producers, musicians, coolest cats I've ever met. I've known him for,
0:29.4	I think, exactly as long as I've known you, or maybe a little longer. Who's better? He was
0:37.2	better. You He was better.
0:38.0	You not was better.
0:40.7	But so we're going to hear, this is going to be the first of two episodes, and we're
0:44.8	going to be talking about first we paid tribute to Brian Wilson, who he worked with
0:49.3	and made a great documentary about, who recently passed.
0:52.7	We talked about the Rolling Stones.
0:54.2	You like them? I do like that, yes. We talk about Ringo. passed. We talk about the Rolling Stones. You like them?
0:54.9	I do like that, yes.
0:56.1	We talk about Ringo.
0:57.7	Great.
0:58.0	We talk about Bob Dylan.
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