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?

*July 25 is famous comedy club owner Mitzie Shore's birthday. Comedian Ross Bennett told us what it was like to perform in front of this comedy icon. (Full interview is here)

*July 25 would have been Walter Payton's birthday. He once had a very memorable appearance on John Landecker's show (AUDIO)

*July 26 is Mick Jagger's birthday. Best Selling author James Finn Garner once appeared on the show and had a heated argument with Rick about Beatles vs. Stones. (Full interview here)

*July 26 is also Shane Obedzinski's birthday. Shane was one of the kid actors in the classic baseball movie The Sandlot, and appeared on our show to talk about it. (Full interview here)

*July 27, 2000, the movie Thomas and the Magic Railroad was released. Little Tommy Kaempfer reviewed the film for the John Landecker show (AUDIO)

*July 27, 1919, Chicago was embroiled in a full-out race riot. Author Robert Loerzel came on the show to discuss that horrible day in Chicago history. (Full interview here)

*July 27th would have Leo Durocher's birthday. We have some very salty outtakes from his old radio show with Lou Boudreau. (AUDIO)

*July 29, 1981, Disney on Ice premiers. Little Tommy Kaempfer once reviewed the film Toy Story on Ice for the John Landecker show (AUDIO)

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 3 is Billy Hayes birthday. Billy wrote the incredible Midnight Express, and was a guest on Minutia Men Celebrity Interview a few years ago. (Listen to the entire interview here)

*April 3, 1983, the Tubes released their biggest hit, She's a Beauty. Fee Waybill told us the story about the creation of that song with famed producer David Foster Wallace. (Listen to the entire interview here)

*April 5 is Jane Ashcr's birthday. Author Paul Salzman was in India with her and Paul McCartney in 1968 and told the story of meeting her there, and then again in London. (Listen to the entire interview here)

*April 6 is Marilu Henner's birthday. We have the audio of her most memorable appearance on the John Records Landecker show (AUDIO)

*April 7, 2017, the Mick Rock documentary was released on Netflix. Mick told us all about that film during our interview. (Listen to the entire interview here)

*April 7, 1993, the classic baseball film The Sandlot was released. We talked to one of the stars of that film, Shane Obedzinski. (Listen to the entire interview here)

*April 7, 1976, another classic baseball film, The Bad News Bears, was released. We spoke to one of the stars of that film, David Pollock (Listen to the entire interview here)

*April 8, 1969, Willie Smith hit a walk off homer on Opening Day to spark one of the most memorable seasons in Cubs history. (AUDIO of Cubs play by play)

*April 9, Mark Pellegrino birthday. We spoke to him about one of his pet causes, anti-bullying. (Entire interview is here)

*April 9 also would have been Mutual of Omaha's Jim Fowler's birthday. He did a nice promo for our advertising agency back in the day (AUDIO)

*April 9, 2021, the Steven King series Them featured actor Gene Silvers in a terrifying role. We spoke to Gene about that (Entire interview is here)