A weekly update/preview of my latest podcasts, and a look back at some of my previous audio work from this week in history over the past 40+ years.
Here are a few from the archives...
March 17 (St. Patrick’s Day)--Timothy O’Shea (Irish musician) appeared on the show and performed for us.
March 17—Catholic Confession Hotline. We've called it before. Will we call it again?
March 18—Rich King birthday. The former sportscaster/author appeared on the show several times, including this one.
March 18—Adam Levine birthday. The lead singer of Maroon 5 was discovered by one our guests, famed songwriter/record producer John Denicola. He told us that story.
March 19—Frank Jasper birthday. The Oscar gate crasher told us all about his famous stunts.
March 19—Dave T. Koenig birthday. The Mrs. Maisel star chatted with us a few years ago.
March 19--Bruce Willis birthday. I told the story of my mid-90s brush with Bruce on this episode of Minutia Men.
March 19, 1953—First TV broadcast of the Oscars. Our go-to Oscar expert is Eric Litt.
March 20—Carl Reiner birthday. Carl is my writing hero, and I told the story of what is was like meeting him, on this episode of Minutia Men.
March 20, 1966—The Rascals appear on the Ed Sullivan show. Felix Cavaliere was on the show and told us the story of that day.
March 20--Mitch Michaels birthday. Our interview with Mitch is here.
March 21—Eddie Money birthday. Kurt Elling came on the show and told us the greatest Eddie Money story ever.
March 22--Werner Klemperer birthday. Dave had a brush with Werner and told us that story in this episode.
March 22—William Shatner birthday. One of the strangest interviews we ever did was with a street band (one guy) from Seattle who goes by William Shatner's Hairpiece.
March 22—Andrew Lloyd Webber birthday. One of his main lyrical collaborators (Glen Slater) told us what Sir Andrew is really like.
March 23, 2003—The documentary Scrabylon released. We talked to the director, Scott Petersen.
March 23, 2023—Marquee announces “When it was a game” Cubs special (that I participated in). It was eventually called "Cubs Flicks". You can see part of it here.
March 23—Mark Buehrle birthday—Spike Manton is a friend of the White Sox great and told us a funny story about him.
