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Recently, we shared the results of our Spotify Wrapped for 2024.  Now, it's time to do the same for You Tube! #OurYearOnYouTube2024 NEW SUBSCRIBERS:  21 VIEWS:  4,263 LIKES:  76 SHARES: 54 MOST VIEWED:  The Musical …

Yes, we know Thanksgiving has passed, but we think it's never too late to say "thank you" to our listeners!  As lots of you already know, Spotify has released their 2024 WRAPPED for all those who post or listen, and the Musical Innertube did pr…

A couple of years ago, we posted a podcast about Joy to the Burg, a holiday CD produced by Christian Churches United and the Central Pennsylvania Music Hall of Fame.  Local central Pennsylvania bands recorded Christmas songs, and all proce…

         Sometimes, just before beginning to write, you hesitate, knowing this is going to hurt. That’s where I am just now, as I set out to remember a good friend of The Musical Innertube and a longtime friend of Don&…

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…