Studio Walls--March 20, 2024

 

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. 

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?

*March 13, 1781 the planet Uranus was discovered. We talked to Phil Plait about our favorite planet. (Listen to the entire interview here)

*March 14 is Dobie Maxwell's birthday. We interviewed Dobie on the show, including about his book Monkey in the Middle.. (Listen to full interview)

*March 14 is also the birthday of God Friended Me creator Steve Harper. We talked to him about that show, and the importance of the BLM marches in 2020. (Listen to full interview here)

*March 15 is the Ides of March. We had Ides of March lead singer Jim Peterik on the show, and he played their biggest hit ("Vehicle") for us. (Full interview available here).

*March 17 is St. Patrick's Day. A perfect day to call the Catholic Confession Hotline (AUDIO)

*St. Patrick's Day\, of course, was celebrated live on the podcast in 2020 when we had Irish musician Timothy O'Shea in the studio. (Listen to his entire interview here)

*March 17, 2017 is the day the program The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel debuted. We spoke to an actor on that show, Dave Koenig (Full interview is here)

*March 18 is sportscaster Rich King's birthday. We had him on the show on the anniversary of his retirement. (Listen to interview here)

*March 18 is also the birthday of Maroon 5 lead singer Adam Levine. We talked to the man who discovered him playing in a garage, John Denicola. John is the guy who co-wrote the hits for the film Dirty Dancing. (Listen to full interview here).

(Rick and Dave with Timothy O'Shea)