The Musical Innertube

She gives voice to some of your favorite animated characters, all while navigating the twists and turns of an unusual corner of show business. Spend a few fascinating minutes with Cristina Pucelli!

These two gumshoes can gather all the clues and tell us if the new Chip and Dale movie is worth seeing.  No, not Don and John! Tad Stones was around for the first Rescue Rangers series, and Jerry Bec…

Meet Mykhailo.  He's an American with a background in special ops and battleground medicine, who has close ties to Ukraine. Listen as he tells John and Don what he saw during his recent time in that …

Election 2022 mania is underway! But the real interesting stuff happens after someone is elected to office. Pennsylvania State Representative Patty Kim tells Don and John about the ups and downs of b…

Two years ago, Jill Sherer Murray released her book "Big Wild Love" just as the pandemic got underway. Publicity and her book tour were suddenly gone! In a talk with John and Don last year, Jill told…

Bioethicist Art Caplan says the leaked Supreme Court opinion on Roe v. Wade might just lead to different states establishing different values. Some Americans may not want to live in some of those sta…

"To be, or not to be..." Poetry, sure, but also the dilemma faced by Schrodinger's cat. Meet Dava Sobel, who curates a magazine column where poetry blends with science. (Both poetry and science have …

June 22nd? Nope, Earth Day is EVERY day!  Can we reverse climate change? Weather Channel meteorologist Carl Parker has some answers and ideas in this Innertube from last August.  You can read the IPC…

We at the Musical Innertube love radio, and so does Mike Hingson, who takes us back to the time not that long ago when radio flourished as an entertainment medium. (When they were on the air, Don and…

He's been Pseudolus, Max Prince, and the one, the only, Groucho! Frank Ferrante talks with Don and onetime Philadelphia Inquirer theater critic John about his life in the theater and his evening as G…

Tired of springing forward and falling back? So is the U.S. Senate, apparently. But is permanent DST the best option? And why do we get so frazzled by time changes? Sleep expert Dr. Seema Khosla prov…

The Musical Innertube gets musical with David Loud! He shares stories with Don and John about his time as a Broadway actor, pianist, conductor, arranger - and a person dealing with Parkinson's diseas…

As Russia invades Ukraine, cell phones, social media, and traditional TV cameras are giving us intimate details of the conflict.  Media expert Robert Thompson talks about the results, good and bad.

When the CDC needed advice on the COIVID vaccines, one of the people they turned to was Paul Offit. Here Paul gives John and Don a review of the COVID vaccine story and a look ahead to its future.

Be vewwwy quiet...Don and John are talking with Jerry Beck, cartoon lover and historian! Listen in for tales of 'toons, from the arrival of sound to the enhancement of CGI. (By the way, John's the on…

From 2020 - Don and John get dangerous with Tad Stones, who worked for Disney animation at the dawn of TV's Disney Afternoon. Hear stories about the development of Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers (ori…

Spring's on the way, time for baseball! Not so fast - Sweeny Murti says, once again, players and owners are having a moneyball problem. Will this, once again, cause strikes on the street instead of o…

From 2020: John and Don talk with author Katherine Hill, whose new book, "A Short Move," follows the career of a football player and the family and friends that surround him. There's even some discus…