The Musical Innertube - Blast from the Past - David Zucchino
Release Date: 02/21/2023
The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 102 - Art Caplan on the "official" end of COVID
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The U.S. Government and the World Health Organization have officially declared an end to the COVID emergency. Really? Bioethicist Art Caplan says the virus is still around, and he adds that we didn't seem to learn coping skills during the pandemic.
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The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 101 - Dick Polman tries to make sense of it all
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Lately, we've noticed that, on many political issues, the polls say one thing, state legislatures do the opposite. Political columnist Dick Polman says that's the result of years of behind-the-scenes work by political operatives on the local level.
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The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Episode 100 - The 100th Episode!
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Guest Host Mat Kaplan takes us through the maze that is the minds of John Timpane and Don Rooney, to find out what has made the podcast tick all these years. (Be sure to check for ticks when it's done!)
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The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 99 - Carrie Bassett and Frogwatch USA
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Did you know that standing by a pond and listening to the frogs can help save wetlands? Carrie Bassett tells us why that's true and how you can become a citizen scientist as part of FrogWatch USA.
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The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 98 - Lynn Levin
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Lynn Levin: poet, teacher, translator, critic. Is there anything in literature she can't do? Apparently not! Now you can add "short story writer" to that list! House Parties is full of characters, twists and a bit of fun!
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The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 97 - Jean Kwok
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There's so much packed into this episode! Jean has had a full and interersting life, and it formed the basis of her book Girl in Translation. When the book was challenged in a Pennsylvania school district, she flew in from Europe to defend it.
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The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 96 - Jon Burlingame
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Everyone can sing the themes to Gilligan's Island, The Brady Bunch, and Friends. Jon Burlingame is rich with knowledge about those themes and many others (My Mother the Car, anyone?). He shares that knowledge here on the Innertube and in his book, Music for Prime Time.
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The Musical Innertube - Blast from the Past - David Loud
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The Musical Innertube gets musical with David Loud! He shares stories from his book Facing the Music about his time as a Broadway actor, pianist, conductor, arranger - and a person dealing with Parkinson's disease.
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The Musical Innertube - Blast from the Past - Julie McKelvey
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Julie McKelvey is in Nepal, preparing to climb to the top of Mt. Everest in May. Here's the talk we had with Julie after she climbed Denali in Alaska, on her way to climbing the 7 tallest peaks in the world.
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The Musical Innertube - Blast from the Past - Dr. Seema Khosla
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Here we are, a couple of weeks into DST, and a lot of us are still frazzled by the time shift. What sleep doctor Seema Khosla said last year still holds true: it's normal to be frazzled, and the shift should end!
info_outlineLittle known fact: the elected government of Wilmington, NC, was overthrown by terrorists "by the ballot and the bullet" in 1898. David Zucchino told the story in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, "Wilmington's Lie."