From Jul 2, 2020: Meet Glenn Hamilton, a radio personality and Program Director, who talks about the now and the future of radio. Plus, he's a pretty fair musician to boot!
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!
Ron Brownstein, Senior Editor at Atlantic Magazine and Senior Political Analyst for CNN, has written Rock Me on the Water, about how 1974 was a watershed year for culture and politics -- when the media started to pay attention.
On October 7th the salsa music program "Alma Del Barrio" will celebrate 50 years on the air on KXLU-FM in Los Angeles! Kiki Soto tells how he helped put the show on the air, how he and dozens of others kept it going, and why salsa is an important musical…
Baseball is a funny game -- you can win 100 games and miss the playoffs, and a Wild Card team can win the World Series. Sweeny, Nick, Rob, John and Don look at the favorites and the surprises in this year's race for the pennant.
Netflix is the streaming, the service that helped create "binge watching." But now it's losing subscribers and may have to insert ads in programs. Is this the end? Media expert Robert Thompson has some ideas.
The most musical thing about the Musical Innertube is our theme song, played by the virtual band Car Radio Dog. Musicians Richard Lindsey and Kevin Timpane join John to talk about their virtual band.
Last year, a broken foot kept Julie McKelvey off Denali. This year, she topped that mountain, and climbed the highest point at the bottom of the world to boot!
The first images from the James Webb Space Telescope are amazing, and Mat Kaplan of the Planetary Society says they're changing the way we think about the universe.
In our Musical Innertube talk with the Planetary Society's Mat Kaplan about the James Webb Space Telescope, we refer to the first images taken by the JWST. Here's a clip of the program illustrated by the pictures we're talking about! Now you don't have to search all over the web…
In our Musical Innertube talk with the Planetary Society's Mat Kaplan about the James Webb Space Telescope, we refer to the first images taken by the JWST. Here's a clip of the program illustrated by the pictures we're talking about! Now you don't have to search all over the web…
In our Musical Innertube talk with the Planetary Society's Mat Kaplan about the James Webb Space Telescope, we refer to the first images taken by the JWST. Here's a clip of the program illustrated by the pictures we're talking about! Now you don't have to search all over the web…
After a two-year, pandemic-imposed hiatus, the San Diego Comic-Con returns to hosting in-person attendees this year. Gary Sassaman tells tales of working for the Con, designing program books as well as organizing the programs listed in those books.
It's genius! Track down the owners of car vanity license plates and find out what they mean -- and get an interesting back story to boot! Isaac Klein tells Don and John how he came up with his terrific podcast.
At this point in our history, you may be asking yourself, "Where, exactly, is this country headed?" Columnist Dick Polman has some interesting answers, starting with the fact that Ireland may have a leg up on us.
Garry Gilliam had a difference-making touchdown catch in a playoff game for the Seattle Seahawks. He wants to be a difference maker in his hometown as well. Garry heads up The Bridge, an organization designed to transform old and abandoned buildings into centers that bring housing, education and nutrition into…
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://unitedhelpukraine.org/our-focus
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....)
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...)
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.