The Musical Innertube

Salsa, the condiment -- it's mild, it's spicy, it's hot.  Salsa, the music -- it's mild, it's spicy, it's hot -- it's all types of Latin music wrapped up in one name. And nobody delivers salsa music …

Julie McKelvey is attempting to climb the world's seven tallest mountains.  Last month, she attempted the summit of Denali in Alaska -- and she missed it by a foot.  Her foot.  Don and John talk to J…

Are you fully vaccinated? Art Caplan says you have to have BOTH shots. Should you mask up in the supermarket even if you've had both shots? Art Caplan says yes! Plus, our bio-ethicist doesn't think m…

Author, advisor and TEDx-talker Jill Sherer Murray shows John and Don how letting go can led to new paths -- and sometimes a whole new life. Also, you'll discover why we almost named this episode, "I…

Ron Brownstein, Senior Editor at Atlantic Magazine and Senior Political Analyst for CNN, has written a book about how 1974 was a watershed year for culture and politics in Los Angeles. --Wait!! Don a…

Head on down to your local Wawa for a hoagie and some wooder ice, as John and Don talk with former Philadelphia Inquirer TV critic Ellen Gray.  They'll be discussing all the Philadelphia quirks and r…

John and Don are huge baseball fans, and so is Sweeny Murti of WFAN Radio and the New York Yankees. Listen in as Sweeny tells the Innertube boys about his hour with Billy Crystal, Tom Jane, and Barry…

John and Don re-unite with Art Caplan, the Mitty Professor of Bioethics at New York University Langone Medical Center, to get the hows and whys of vaccine hesitancy and herd immunity. But, unfortunat…

(Please hum Star Trek theme) Bruce Betts, Chief Scientist of the Planetary Society, takes John and Don where no Musical Innertube has gone before (except maybe our first episode with Mat Kaplan)! To …

Making a return appearance to the Musical Innertube is educator Abby Mahone, who, along with fellow educator Courtney Hart, tells Don and John how students, teachers and parents in their school are c…

Don and John talk to old friend Mike Hingson, who is many things:  author, motivational speaker, and someone who survived the collapse of the World Trade Center on September 11th of 2001 by walking d…

What can a city's architecture tell us about its health and growth? John and Don find out by talking with the Philadelphia Inquirer's Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Inga Saffron, who talk…

Finish off 2020 with John and Don and bio-ethicist Art Caplan, who, like all of us, wants the pandemic to be over -- he's just not optimistic about that happening right away.

Thankfully, we're entering the vaccine phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. It's the job of the FDA's Vaccine Advisory Committee to recommend the authorization of those vaccines. John and Don reconnect wi…

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed most everything, especially the way we do business -- we never used to have "contactless delivery," right? Don and John talk with business consultant and keynote spe…

Is it fun being a cartoon voiceover artist? You bet! Is it tough getting a job as a cartoon voiceover artist?  You bet! Join Don and John as they spend a few delightful minutes talking with Cristina …

To celebrate Thanksgiving, we gathered some of the Musical Innertube family around the table (virtually, of course!) to spin old family legends about how the Musical Innertube came to be, lo these ma…

It's been hard for adults to wrap their heads around the 2020 election, let alone small children. Don and John talk with educator Dr. Abby Mahone, who gives advice on how to talk with toddlers about …