Feb 3, 2021
The twins recall some of their "dressing room meets," with names like Eubie Blake, Harry Belafonte, Liza Minnelli and others. Also: More about life at the Magic Hotel (now the Magic Castle Hotel), puberty, first cars, autodidacts and diphthongs. And of course, another original song.
SHOW NOTES:
0:00 - "The Wind" by Chris Yale
3:27 - About the song
4:20 - Roger's Blog Post: "The Abdication Pandemic"
8:00 - Chihuahuas Gone Wild
8:20 - Eubie Blake
8:32 - George Shearing
9:01 - Harry Belafonte / David Blackwell
9:25 - "Shuffle Along" / More Eubie Blake
11:00 - We struggle with math, obviously.
12:19 - Liza Minnelli / "The Act" / Mathilde Pincus / "Walking Papers" / "Arthur in the Afternoon" / Roger Minami
14:48 - Dick Van Dyke
15:00 - The Magic Hotel
15:25 - Marc Eliot / Phil Ochs / "Death of a Rebel" / Michael Ochs Archive
16:23 - Ruth Warrick / "Irene" / Debbie Reynolds / Hans Conreid / Patsy Kelly
16:48 - More Phil Ochs
18:01 - Bob Davis and the Bertrand Russell Society / Chris' Valedictorian / Oxford English Dictionary
19:28 - "The Professor and the Madman"
20:05 - Autodidact is the fancy word for this episode.
20:25 - More Bob Davis / "The Story of Civilization" by Will and Ariel Durant
21:34 - Were we strange kids?
22:05 - Puberty
24:10 - Steve Fujinami and Mystic Sound Studios
24:36 - Diphthongs - whoops, another fancy word
25:51 - Driving and first cars
27:14 - Driving stick / Jim Alden / La Cienega and Sunset - the test.
30:10 - Flyering on the Sunset Strip
31:15 - Poseur on Sunset / Exene Cervenka
32:09 - KROQ / Ian Whitcomb
32:50 - Dad made us return our new clothes.
34:40 - Myrtle Beach / LuLu's North Myrtle Beach / House of Blues Myrtle Beach