Saturday, May 10, 2025
Friday, May 09, 2025
Free Kicks
Our latest episode delves into that incredible Champions League semi-finals. radiomisfits.com/fk249/
— Rick Kaempfer (@rickkaempfer.bsky.social) May 9, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Tuesday, May 06, 2025
Top 100
This is exciting news. The top 100 celebrity interview podcasts in the world were listed this week, and look who made the list! Coming in at #64, your humble hosts of Minutia Men Celebrity Interview. You can check out the whole list here: www.millionpodcasts.com/celebrity-in...
— Rick Kaempfer (@rickkaempfer.bsky.social) May 5, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Monday, May 05, 2025
Publishing Portal--May 5, 2025
The latest news from Eckhartz Press, and a chance to peek into some of the great previous offerings from our humble little publishing company.
=Chili Dog MVP authors David Fletcher and John Owens had a memorable weekend. They spent Saturday at Comiskey Park with Dick Allen's family. The White Sox honored Dick's upcoming induction into the Hall of Fame with Dick Allen Bobblehead Night!
Dick Allen's family out at the ballpark on his bobblehead day ❤️ pic.twitter.com/qn5abjFC5e
— Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) May 3, 2025
=This week in 2022, Andy Masur interviewed Chili Dog MVP co-author John Owens (photo) on his podcast. That podcast is right here if you'd like to hear it.
=The new updated 7th edition of EveryCubEver is flying off the shelves. Get your copy today. This one includes more than 200 classic photographs.
=This week in 2019 was a big week for EveryCubEver. Rick got the official approval of the book from Cubs owner Tom Ricketts at a Cubs game on May 6, and then two days later Rick appeared on stage participating in the musical "Miracle"...
=Larry Rosenbaum is out there hustling, promoting our hit book of 2024, The Flip Side. Another Record appearance coming soon. Details below.
=The book is still getting great reviews. Check out this one that arrived in co-author Ken Churilla's mailbox this past week...(click to enlarge)
An upcoming appearance in Wauconda by Surviving Sue author Vicki Atkinson. June 19th. Mark your calendar. Don't miss it!
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=This week in 2019, Janet Sutherland appeared on the Radio Health Journal, a program that is syndicated to over 500 radio stations in America. That's her with the show's executive producer, Reed Pence.
=Two former Loopers, Wendy Snyder and Scott Dirks are mentioned in this month's Illinois Entertainer media column. You can read it here.
=This week last year (May 11), The Loop Files came to Pollyana Brewing Company in Roselle! It was like a Loop Reunion. (L-R: Ed "Edwardo" Williams, Jimmy Mac McInerney, Jeff Hoover, Piranha Man, Rick, Brendan Sullivan, Wendy Snyder, Tom Seritella)
=Axios Chicago also posted an interview with author Rick Kaempfer.
Records Truly Is My Middle Name
=This week in 1976 one of the most memorable moments in John Landecker's book Records Truly is My Middle Name occurred. John and his friend John Travolta appeared at Woodfield Mall expecting to encounter a few hundred fans. Instead there were 20,000+.
=This week in 2016, Pat Colander appeared on Rick Kogan's show on WGN Radio discussing her book Hugh Hefner's First Funeral. You can listen to that interview here.
=Eckhartz Press author Ken Smoller is celebrating a birthday this week (May 6). Ken's book Last Comiskey is one of our best sellers from last year!
=This week (May 7) is WGN-TV's Dina Bair's birthday. Dina was a big supporter of our book The Living Wills. She interviewed Rick and Brendan on the midday show at WGN, and offered this review of the book...
This is so terrific and so creative! I was laughing out loud and I was crying. You absolutely have to pick up this book and read it. It’s wonderful.
=This week (May 10) is also WGN-TV's Larry Hawley's birthday. He had author Paul M. Banks on his television show, and offered this review of his book...
“Paul is as versatile of a sports journalist as I’ve ever met in my career, covering a wide variety of sports. This exploration of the growth of ‘The Beautiful Game’ in America and its emergence in the country’s mainstream culture serves as another testament to his universal sports expertise.”
=Bobby Skafish's great book about his many interviews with rock stars is also chockful of photos. One of them is celebrating a birthday this week. Here's Alex Van Halen (May 8) with Bobby...
=This week in 1976, terrorist Ulrike Meinhof was found hanged in her prison cell. That event was woven into the pages of Back in the DDR. Rick featured that excerpt on his blog.
=The late NFL great Johnny Unitas would have been celebrating a birthday this week (May 7). He gets a full chapter in Randy Merkin's book Behind the Glass.
=Chet Coppock often entertained counter-intuitive positions about the sports heroes of his lifetime. Sonny Liston (born May 8) was one of them. Liston was considered a villain in his day, but Chet always rooted for him. He explains the reasons why in Your Dime My Dance Floor.
Rantings of a Bitter Childless Woman
=This week in 2016, we released Rantings of a Bitter Childless Woman by Jeanne Bellezzo. Here's a Q&A with the author the week the book came out.
=This week in 2017, we signed author Bob Shannon (photo). He wrote the book Turn it Up for us. One of the chapters is about this week's birthday boy, the legendary announcer Gary Owens (May 10).
The Balding Handbook
=This week in 1977 was very important in the history of the combover. The Balding Handbook chronicled this momentous event. The book is no longer in print, but this free excerpt lives on.
