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Hi there!  It's Don.  If you slog through these blogs, you'll come upon one we posted very early on about how John and I "created" comic books when we were in  high school, and how we met and talked to the great artist Jack Kirby wh…

Back in Episode 152, we talked with music historian Jon Burlingame about his new book, Dreamsville: Henry Mancini, Peter Gunn and music for TV Noir.  Jon said he wrote the book in part because 2024 marks the 100th anniversary of Mancini's birth…

Director Jennifer Lin has lined up a few new film festivals showing her film about pioneering ballet dancer George Lee!  Here's the newest list!  Please, if you live in or near one of these cities, take a day trip and see this remarkable f…

Recently, we talked with bioethicist Art Caplan about the Olympics and how they affect the health of the competitors.  (Art was especially concerned about the e-coli floating in the Seine, something the swimmers seemed to have overcome.)  …

With the movie "Twisters" out in the theaters  - a sequel of sorts to an earlier film - Don and John have an episoded out now where they talk with meteorologist Carl Parker about the science behind tornadoes and how they form.   &nbs…

As many of you may surmise from our repeated posting of all things MLB, John and Don are baseball nuts, and have been since we were kids.  Perhaps baseball brings out the kid in all of us - although there are some who say John and Don never gre…

Have you listened to Bill Trousdale yet?  Well, hop to it!  (Sock hop or hip-hop, your choice!) The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 145 - Bill Trousdale The man is a walking encyclopedia about the roots of rock, rhythm-and-blues mus…

Our annual summer severe weather forecast with Weather Channel meteorologist Carl Parker is up and running at https://www.musicalinnertube.com/s2e142.  Carl says most meteorologists see another summer of extreme heat, intense tornadoes and powe…

Cartoon historian Jerry Beck is curating the launch of an all-new national television network, MeTV TOONS, and he's talking EXCLUSIVELY with Don and John about the new network!  The Musical Innertube is the ONLY podcast Jerry is talking with ab…

We know, we hear you!  All of you fine Musical Innertube aficionados who constantly tell us, "We love listening to the podcast, but what we'd really like to do is READ the podcast!" Well, friends, this is your lucky day -- actually, the first …