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.
Our current talk with Al Filreis, who's been teaching poetry at UPenn for more than 30 years, reminded us that we've been talking with poets and non-fiction writers for awhile here on the Innertube. Not 30 years' worth, but awhile...
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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.
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