Aug 3, 2015
Yes, it’s me. Marc Hershon. Your host and docent for Epi113 of Succotash, the Comedy Podcast Podcast. We’re back with a Succotash Clips installment, thanks largely to the efforts of our Associate Producer Tyson Saner, not to mention the savvy comedy podcasters who have uploaded their own clips directly to us via our upload link, which is http://hightail.com/u/succotash.
Coming up, clipwise, this show we have Cardboard, The Chillpak Hollywood Hour / Am I Right, Ladies?, The Magic Tavern, Radio Dan, the Talk Blocked podcast, The Mo Show, Wampa Stampa, and the We Are Not Alone podcast.
We also are featuring a double dose of our Burst O’ Durst segment with our resident political comedian and social commentator Will Durst - and he lavishes his vitriol on Donald Trump, and the TweetSack. We not only have a classic Henderson's Pants commercial this episode, but we've got an additional sponsor and a commercial from Empire State Gas, the patron for Chillpak Hollywood.
IN OTHER REALMS
Before I get to all that stuff, just a couple of mentions for stuff going on where I’ll be appearing live this September. I’ve been asked to host the TedX Marin Talk 2015 in San Rafael. There’s an amazing lineup of inspirational, informative speakers lined up and, somehow, me. That’s going to be on Thursday evening, September 17th — click the link for more info. Directly after that – and I do mean directly – I’ll be down south for the 4th Annual Los Angeles Podcast Festival, September 18-20. I’m going to do my best to nail down a spot in the SquareSpace Podcast Lab and interview folks passing through. This time, I’ll try to post everything while I’m there so I don’t end up with a humungous backlog of interviews that take months to unspool. I STILL haven’t gotten to all the ones I did last year. Shameful. You don’t have to be a podcaster to come by and watch some of your favorite podcasts happening live that weekend. And me. Not officially a part of the podfest but so what?
This episode's exhumed
podcast The Evil Teddy Bear Podcast, hacked out of its
eternal rest by Tyson. Hosted by Korey Epps and
Mike Capps, I was disappointed to learn that it
had gone "off mic" this past April. The clip we have is from two
episodes before their last one, with guest Will
Harrison, in an episode entitled The @Unheard Nerd
Strikes Again.
CLIPS
Chillpak Hollywood Hour /
Am I Right, Ladies?
We have a sneak preview
of sorts from a new podcast. If you caught Epi112 last time, I
interviewed Phil Leirness of the Chillpak
Hollywood Hour and Lily Holleman, who will be
co-hosting a new spinoff show from Chillpak, entitled
Am I Right, Ladies? That show features Lily and
comedian/actor Karen Forman and will be kicking
off…soon, was the best answer I’ve gotten out of them. But a couple
of weeks ago they did their last stint filling in for Phil and the
southward-traveling Dean Haglund, who has moved to
Australia. It's not only seems like a great example of two smart
women hosting a podcast, which will be largely about smart women,
but they also – in the grand tradition of Chillpak,
mentioned me.
The Mo Show
Podcast
Mocean
Melvin and a big cast of voice actors Unabashedly, I’ve
got a soft spot for well-produced sketch comedy podcasts. And I’ve
been turned onto a new one – The Mo Show, starring
voiceover performer Mocean Melvin and a crew of
funny, talented voice actors out of Los Angeles. BTW, about a week
ago or so, The Mo Show decided to honor us on Twitter by
proclaiming us the Best Show Named After a Food Containing Lima
Beans! So thank you, Mo Show!
Wampa
Stompa
Associate Producer
Tyson Saner has harvested a bunch of clippage for
today’s epi. One of them is the Wampa Stompa podcast. It’s
a newish show where the three co-hosts — Jon,
Gus, and Candy – “talk about
anything ranging from Star Wars to boxing to current events.” Seems
like two rather specific topics followed by kind of anything goes.
In this clip, from Wampa Stompa Epi8, the hosts speculate
on everything shown in the Star Wars: The Force Awakens
trailer. They also rank their top 3 Pixar films, along with what
purely animated Disney films are their favorite.
Hello from The Magic
Tavern
A couple of weeks ago I
reviewed a podcast called Hello from The Magic Tavern for
Splitsider.com and the Huffington Post. Now, there are a number of
Dungeon & Dragon and other role playing podcasts floating around,
like Nerd Poker with Brian Posehn and Friends over on
Earwolf. But, as I mentioned in my review, this is the first one
I’ve found where characters who might otherwise be heard
adventuring are actually just hanging out in a tavern, actually
recording a podcast rather than dungeon crawling or whatever. The
set-up is that the main host, Arnie Neikamp, fell
through a magical rift behind a Chicago area Bunger King into the
mystical land of Foon. (No relation, as far as I know, to
friend-of-Succotash Eric Furniss of the From
Out Of Nowhere podcast, or as it is otherwise known, the
FOONcast.) Anyway, Arnie has set up shop at the Vermilion Minotaur,
AKA The Magic Tavern, with his co-hosts: The wizard Usidore, played
by Matt Young, and Chunt the Changeling, voiced by
Adal Rifai. In the clip we're featuring, from
episode 19, their guest is someone near and dear to my heart, given
my background in branding: Merlinda Flimpery (Irene
Marquette), a Namer – a person who gives secret
names to people so that no one can discover their
power.
Talk
Blocked
This clip was provided
directly from gents of the Talk Blocked podcast, who sent
a download link into the Tweetsack, at
clips@SuccotashShow.com.
You can also upload your 3-5 minute clip directly to us at http://Hightail.com/u/succotash.
Cody and Steve-O (NOT the same
Steve-O from the Jackass movies) have put out about 20
episodes of their show now. Our clip comes from Epi18 and features
their guest, Dr. Mike, an actual ER doc, talking
about a young man who came in complaining of stomach pains. The
diagnosis turned out to be a bit more graphic that one might
suppose.
Cardboard!
We
were talking role playing games a couple of clips ago. Now, thanks
to Tyson, we’re switching to board games, with a clip from the
Cardboard! podcast with host Rich Sommer.
Billing himself as a “board game evangelist”, Sommer is known from
his appearance on Mad Men. And, in fact, this clip
features two of his castmates – Michael Gladis and
Aaron Staton. Gladis has the host relate his
favorite “chess photo” story in this segment.
The Radio Dan
Show
I got to know Dan
Delgado, aka “Radio Dan”, of the Radio Dan Show,
last year at the LA Podfest. We were both hunkered down in the
Podcast Lab pretty much the whole time, so we got to talking,
watching each other’s equipment when the other one wanted to take a
break, you know – Brothers in Podcasting. Not sure if he’s making
the trek out from Boca Raton, Florida, again this year, but he’d
sent along a little…I’d guess you’d call it rant… about his unsung
40 years of sobriety, as he sees it.
We Are Not
Alone
Holy cats! As previously
mentioned, I’m a big fan of folks doing audio sketch comedy for
their podcasts, especially when it well-written and fun. And that’s
got Britain’s We Are Not Alone written all over. They’re
four seasons in and it’s all put together like campy 1950’s
science fiction. This show is writen by Jon
Thrower and Andrew Fletcher. They both
act in it and there is a bunch of other cast members voicing what
you’re hearing as well. Here’s a taste from epi 3 of the lastest
season, entitled, Wonderbirds Are
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That's what's in store for your ears with Epi113 of Succotash Clip!. Thanks so much for the listen. We appreciate your patronage. If you’d like to help us to defray the cost of production on Succotash, feel free to visit our homesite, http://SuccotashShow.com, and click on the Donate button there. Or on the Amazon banner at the top of the page – everything you buy on that particular shopping trip gives us a time percentage. OR you can purch some merch through the Succotashery – t-shirts, mugs, all stort of gewgaws can be yours.
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— Marc Hershon