Don Rooney and John Timpane talk with people you'd talk with, if you had a microphone
Play 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.
WHAT'S THE PODCAST ABOUT?
John and Don talk to interesting people about their interesting lives, hobbies and obsessions.
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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.
Co-Host
John has been a college English professor, and is the author of several books on poetry and other subjects. For over 20 years, John worked at the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper, where he served as editorial page editor, features writer, book editor and theater critic.