Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Studio Walls

  Every week I send my Minutia Men Co-Host Dave Stern a list from our audio archives for this week's Studio Walls feature. These are the possibilities for this week. Which one will he choose?

*April 17, 2019, our old buddy (and Eckhartz Press author) Chet Coppock died. We had Mark Giangreco on the podcast, and he told us some great stories about things he learned from Chet. (Listen to the entire interview here)

*April 18, 1938, the first Superman comic book was released. We had comic book expert (and owner of that issue) Gary Moondog Colabuona to talk about that. (Full interview here)

*April 19 is World Poker Day. We had World Series of Poker winner Tristan Wade on the show in 2018 to talk about his poker career. (Listen to all of it here)

*April 19, 1982, 38 Special released the song "Caught Up in You". Rick jammed on that song with the writer of it, Jim Peterik, live in the studio. (Full interview is here)

*April 21st is Vince Argento's birthday. The voice of the Minutia Men podcast audio appeared on the show once, and brought along his greatest masterpiece. Psycho on Ice. (AUDIO)

*April 21, 1978, the movie I Wanna Hold Your Hand was released. Rick and Nick DiGilio talked about the greatness of that film during our interview with Nick (Full interview is here)

*April 22 is John Waters birthday. The avante guard film director did a promo for our advertising agency AMISH Chicago Advertising (AUDIO)

*April 22, 2019, the film Avengers Endgame was released. We talked to the man who did many of the stunts in that film, Bobby Holland Hanton. (Listen to the entire interview here)

*April 22, 1932, the Cubs faced the Reds at Wrigley Field. Pat Pieper was the PA Man, and we have the audio of him announcing the starting lineups. (AUDIO)

*April 23rd would have been Lee Miller's birthday. We talked to her son Anthony Penrose about his mother's incredible life, which included taking a bath in Adolf Hitler's bathtub on the day he killed himself. (Incredible interview here)


(Photo: First Cubs-Sox crosstown game. Guess which team won.)