She's performing in "Oklahoma" across the country. She's performing on Twitter and Instagram and TikTok on all your devices. Here and now, Hannah Solow is appearing on the Musical Innertube!
She gives voice to some of your favorite animated characters, all while navigating the twists and turns of an unusual corner of show business. Spend a few fascinating minutes with Cristina Pucelli!
These two gumshoes can gather all the clues and tell us if the new Chip and Dale movie is worth seeing. No, not Don and John! Tad Stones was around for the first Rescue Rangers series, and Jerry Beck has made a living out of studying cartoons.
Meet Mykhailo. He's an American with a background in special ops and battleground medicine, who has close ties to Ukraine. Listen as he tells John and Don what he saw during his recent time in that war-torn country. If you'd like to help, Mykhailo recommends https://helpukraine.center
Election 2022 mania is underway! But the real interesting stuff happens after someone is elected to office. Pennsylvania State Representative Patty Kim tells Don and John about the ups and downs of being elected to public service. (Unfortunately, she can't fix Don's parking tickets....)
Two years ago, Jill Sherer Murray released her book "Big Wild Love" just as the pandemic got underway. Publicity and her book tour were suddenly gone! In a talk with John and Don last year, Jill told the story of how she got through that trauma with some cookies and some Big Wild Love -- and described how you, too, can get through by letting go.
Bioethicist Art Caplan says the leaked Supreme Court opinion on Roe v. Wade might just lead to different states establishing different values. Some Americans may not want to live in some of those states, prompting them to leave -- causing an American Brexit.
"To be, or not to be..." Poetry, sure, but also the dilemma faced by Schrodinger's cat. Meet Dava Sobel, who curates a magazine column where poetry blends with science. (Both poetry and science have met Don and John, but they won't admit it...)
June 22nd? Nope, Earth Day is EVERY day! Can we reverse climate change? Weather Channel meteorologist Carl Parker has some answers and ideas in this Innertube from last August. You can read the IPCC Climate report at www.ipcc.ch/report. For solutions, there’s this: www.drawdown.org/solutions/table-of-solutions.
We at the Musical Innertube love radio, and so does Mike Hingson, who takes us back to the time not that long ago when radio flourished as an entertainment medium. (When they were on the air, Don and John flushed radio as an entertainment medium.)
He's been Pseudolus, Max Prince, and the one, the only, Groucho! Frank Ferrante talks with Don and onetime Philadelphia Inquirer theater critic John about his life in the theater and his evening as Groucho, captured on film and playing on PBS this month. Check it out at eveningwithgroucho.com
Tired of springing forward and falling back? So is the U.S. Senate, apparently. But is permanent DST the best option? And why do we get so frazzled by time changes? Sleep expert Dr. Seema Khosla provides the answers for sleepyheads Don and John.
The Musical Innertube gets musical with David Loud! He shares stories with Don and John about his time as a Broadway actor, pianist, conductor, arranger - and a person dealing with Parkinson's disease. The details are in his book, Facing the Music ( Facing the Music | Book by David Loud | Official Publisher Page | Simon & Schuster (simonandschuster.com)
As Russia invades Ukraine, cell phones, social media, and traditional TV cameras are giving us intimate details of the conflict. Media expert Robert Thompson talks about the results, good and bad.
When the CDC needed advice on the COIVID vaccines, one of the people they turned to was Paul Offit. Here Paul gives John and Don a review of the COVID vaccine story and a look ahead to its future.
Be vewwwy quiet...Don and John are talking with Jerry Beck, cartoon lover and historian! Listen in for tales of 'toons, from the arrival of sound to the enhancement of CGI. (By the way, John's the one wearing Mickey Mouse ears, and Don's the one wearing CG underwear.)
From 2020 - Don and John get dangerous with Tad Stones, who worked for Disney animation at the dawn of TV's Disney Afternoon. Hear stories about the development of Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers (originally supposed to be mice!) and the origin story of Tad's creation, Darkwing Duck!
Spring's on the way, time for baseball! Not so fast - Sweeny Murti says, once again, players and owners are having a moneyball problem. Will this, once again, cause strikes on the street instead of on the diamond?
From 2020: John and Don talk with author Katherine Hill, whose new book, "A Short Move," follows the career of a football player and the family and friends that surround him. There's even some discussion about his brain. (Don was slightly disappointed that it has nothing to do with zombies.) Read Katherine's book: https://www.amazon.com/Short-Move-Katherine-Hill/dp/163246103X
From June 2020 - Mat Kaplan of the Planetary Society talks about all things stellar -- the pitfalls of daytime stargazing, why it's important to get men and women on the moon and Mars, and whether or not Klingons appreciate "I Love Lucy."
Holly would, and Mary did! Mary Lyon worked in Los Angeles radio for decades as a news and entertainment reporter. Here are some of the entertaining stories Mary gathered on the beat! (Don and John are just beat.)
"What a long, strange trip it's been." A phrase perfectly suited to Don and John, who are "deadheads" in EVERY sense of the word. Join our hosts as they walk you back through 50 episodes. (Just make sure you don't trip while walking backwards.)
How long to quarantine? Mask or no mask? Open schools or remote learning? Bioethicist Art Caplan answers all your COVID questions and says the messaging on COVID should be a little clearer and more direct. (You know, like John and Don, only not as silly.)
Like his contemporaries Edison and the Wright brothers, John Browning changed the world with his inventions. Nathan Gorenstein tells about the life and times of the genius who revolutionized how guns are made.
The Christmas season is a time for giving - and this season, you have the opportunity to give and support people who have been giving of themselves on behalf of foster kids all year. Listen as Lori Serratelli tells the story of CASA, and get your virtual ornament at dauphincountycasa.org/tree.
Folklore expert Cory Hutcheson finishes the "Holiday Trifecta," telling us all about Christmas traditions and quirks (not to be confused with the famous law offices of Traditions and Quirks).
The week is seven days. Why? And why does each day seem to have its own personality? David Henkin has been looking onto this for a week of Sundays, and he has some fascinating answers to these questions.
Have you heard about the only successful terrorist overthrow of an established local government in America? David Zucchino, author of the Pulitzer prize-winning "Wilmington's Lie," talks with John and Don about what happened in 1898 and how it still resonates today.
Nancy Ryan was a morning radio fixture in Harrisburg, PA, for 25 years at country station Bob 94.9. Then, one of those mornings, she became the victim of a budget cut. Nancy tells Don and John how she bounced back.
Why do we eat turkey on Thanksgiving? How did Black Friday get started? Did America really celebrate Thanksgiving in April? And are we REALLY that thankful for Don and John? Folklore expert Cory Hutcheson has all the answers!
