Yale Brothers Podcast

Episode 25 - "Diphthongs and Autodidacts"


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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

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