Tuesday, August 09, 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?

*One August 8, 2019, we had a very special podcast at the Museum of Broadcasting with special guests Dane Placko and Jay Shatz. (Photo below) (Full show is here)

*August 8, 1977, Ernie Banks was inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame. We have the audio (AUDIO)

*August 10 is Justin Thereaux's birthday. Gene Silver, one of the stars of the Mosquito Coast, written/directed by Justin, was on our podcast a few years ago, and talked about working on that famous streaming classic (Full interview is here)

*August 11, 2017, Rick and Dave fill in on WLS Radio for Bob Sirott. Among our guests that day, Denny Laine, Neil Innes, and Mark Hudson. (Photo below) (Audio is here)

*August 11 is Chris Hemsworth's birthday. We had his stunt double on the show, and he had some great stories about working with Chris and some of the stunts he has performed for him. (Full interview is here)

*August 11 is also Barry Butler's birthday. The best photographer of Chicago was on our podcast a few years ago to talk about the lengths he goes to snap his memorable photographs (Full interview is here)

*August 12, 1994, baseball went on strike. I wrote a song about that incredibly unpopular strike for John Landecker & the Legends (AUDIO)