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Nov. 18, 2024

The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 164 - Dick Polman on the results of the 2024 elections

JFK Jr running HHS? Matt Gaetz as AG? Political columnist Dick Polman breaks down how Trump won the election -- and how Harris lost it -- but, more importantly, what we can expect for the next four years.

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Nov. 11, 2024

The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 163 - Bob Jensen

What do you do when someone says, "I don't care what your facts are, I believe what I believe." Or any one of a thousand variations of that. Journalist and professor Bob Jensen has some ideas.

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Nov. 4, 2024

The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 162 - Dick Polman on Election 2024

First and foremost, get out today and vote! Here's a little something to listen to while you're in line to vote: John, Don, and political commentator Dick Polman reflecting on the presidential candidates.

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Oct. 28, 2024

The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 161 - Joy Stocke's Halloween Party

Planning a Halloween get-together? Chef Joy Stocke says you can knock 'em dead by burying them with birria, slaying them with souffles, and bloodying them with brownies! All the recipes are right here! Bone appetit!

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Oct. 21, 2024

The Musical Innertube - Blast from the Past - Cory Hutcheson's New World Witchery

From October 25, 2022, comes folklorist Cory Hutcheson to tell us about the witches that live among us today! (To be fully prepared, grab a bottle of Pine Sol and head for the crossroads!)

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Oct. 14, 2024

The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 160 - Ian Bogost

Remember "piling into a car?" Remember "soccer moms" driving minivans? Remember when every other car wasn't a black SUV shaped like a shoe? Writer Ian Bogost talks about the latest changes in cars, and attitudes.

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Oct. 7, 2024

The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 159 - Nick Roman talks Baseball Playoffs 2024

Once again, here's three guys talking baseball. Nick Roman's Dodgers are in the playoffs, as are John's and Don's Phillies, and they're happy. But there are a lot of other dangerous teams in the mix as well!

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Sept. 30, 2024

The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 158 - Fran Metzman

Fran Metzman writes about the Cha-Cha Babes, "boomer" women who haved found freedom later in life. They find that freedom can be fun, but can also lead to dangerous situations.

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Sept. 23, 2024

The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 157 - Galina Vromen

The atomic bomb was developed in secret. That's the backdrop for Galina Vromen's novel Hill of Secrets, where she explores what secrets might have been kept by the families living in the shadow of the bomb.

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Sept. 16, 2024

The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 156 - Mike Hingson and Keri Wyatt Kent

Living with a guide dog requires trust, courage, and love - things we could all use a bit more of in our own lives. Mike and Keri's book shows this by using Mike's dogs as examples.

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Sept. 10, 2024

The Musical Innertube Extra - September 11th, Mike Hingson and Roselle

Mike Hingson survived the terrorist attack on World Trade Center Tower 1 on September 11, 2001. We're presenting his story again as a reminder and tribute, to Mike and to those who lost their lives that day.

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Sept. 9, 2024

The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 155 - More Music with Bill Trousdale

Bill Truousdale's back with a look at the Pennsylvania talent that gave birth to rock 'n' roll! Names you've heard of, like Bill Haley, and names you probably haven't, like Sister Rosetta Tharp.

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Sept. 9, 2024

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Sept. 2, 2024

The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 154 - Mykhaylo Tells Us How to Help Ukraine

We talk again with Mykhaylo, an American now living mostly in Ukraine, who is in the U.S. collecting medical supplies to take back to the battlefield. You can help by donating to houseofukraine.org

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Aug. 26, 2024

The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 153 - Katherine Ramsland Caught Dead-Handed

Katherine returns to the podcast to talk about her latest Nutcrackers book, Dead Handed. Annie Hunter's grandfather is dying, so she heads to New England to face family secrets, a haunted village and possible suicides.

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Aug. 19, 2024

The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 152 - Jon Burlingame, Henry Mancini and Peter Gunn

To mark Henry Mancini's 100th birthday, music expert JonBurlingame takes us back to where the composer's prolific career really took off - the 1960s TV show Peter Gunn.

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Aug. 12, 2024

The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 151 - Jennifer Lin talks about her film Ten Times Better

As a child, George Lee studied ballet with Russian tutors in Shanghai. As a teenager, he danced in The Nutcracker and Flower Drum Song in New York. Filmmaker Jennifer Lin tells his story in Ten Times Better.

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Aug. 5, 2024

The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 150 - Carl Parker talks about Twisters

First, "Twister." Now, "Twisters." Movies about tornado chasers and scientists trying to understand tornadoes. How much do we know about tornadoes, and how accurate are the movies? The Weather Channel's Carl Parker explains.

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July 29, 2024

The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 149 - Dick Polman on the new political realities

Overnight, the 2024 presidential race has changed with the candidacy of Vice-President Kamala Harris. Political commentator Dick Polman sets up the field and the stakes in the three months left before the election.

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July 22, 2024

The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 148 - Nick Roman talks baseball

Just three old friends - and baseball fans - sitting around talking about what they like and don't like about the 2024 season at the All-Star break. And about the best and worst baseball parks.

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July 15, 2024

The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 147 - Art Caplan on the 2024 Olympics

Bioethicist Art Caplan says there are a lot of health challenges at the Olympics, starting with swimming in the sewer that is the Seine River. Also, are we all ready for retirement?

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July 8, 2024

The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 146 - Lee Upton

Lee Upton, author of "Tabitha, Get Up!", talks about creating her comic novel about a biographer who takes on two clients and, through a series of misadventures, writes about neither one of them.

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July 2, 2024

The Musical Innertube Volume 2, Number 145 Bill Trousdale

Music historian Bill Trousdale says the "Northern Soul" music played by regional bands in Central Pennsylvania in the 60s and 70s had a ripple effect on music trends across the country and around the world

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June 24, 2024

The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 144 - Michael Wood on Proust

French author Marcel Proust wrote only one novel in his career, In Search of Lost Time. This seven-volume tome is regarded by some - including Princeton professor emeritus Michael Wood - to be one of the best novels ever written.

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