Don Rooney and John Timpane talk with people you'd talk with, if you had a microphone
Play Latest EpisodeBack in college, John and Don hosted a radio show. Once, they went on the air to introduce "a soothing musical interlude"...but they misspoke, and instead introduced "a soothing musical innertube," and the name stuck.
John and Don talk to interesting people about their interesting lives, hobbies and obsessions.
John and Don have talked with lots of people - some have actually been musical! Here are some examples
Amanda Gefter was researching a famed physicist when she kept seeing the name "Putnam" in his journals. That led her to an unknown but brilliant scientist who came up with an explanation of how the human brain works.
Explore with us the world of literary jealousy, a writer who's missing and presumed dead, and a detective who has no idea what she's doing. It's all part of Lee Upton's new novel, Wrongful
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Jennifer Lin's documentary about George Lee, who went from ballet student/refugee in Shanghai to the NYC Ballet, is now airing on PBS American Masters . Here's Jennifer talking about the film from late last year.
We here at the Musical Innertube know you like to listen to podcasts. But we've also heard from those of you who say, "John and Don, the Innertube is only 30-40 minutes long! How do we fill the many other minutes of the week?" Here are two su…
Keep an eye on the program listings of your local PBS station to catch Ten Times Better, the short film made by Jennifer Lin - the one we talked about back in Episode 151: The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 151 - Jennifer Lin talks about her …
It's with great sorrow that we note the death of George Lee, who moved from learning ballet from Russian masters in Singapore to the bright lights of Broadway shows, thrilling audiences with his athletic dancing ability. George then spent time dea…
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Don has appeared as an air personality on radio stations in Maryland, New Hampshire, Kansas and Florida. He later became a radio news reporter and anchor in Atlanta and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. In Harrisburg, he moved to television, as a news reporter and weatherman. Moving across town to the Pennsylvania state Capitol, Don then spent 18 years as a public relations official with the Pennsylvania State Senate.
