Oct 22, 2014
At long last, here is Epi97 of Succotash, the Comedy Podcast Podcast. I put this installment together while on vacation in Hawaii — not the first time we've come to you from Paradise — but, just as usual these days, I did my recording from Studio F (in this case, a rented Fiat 500C), so the sound quality of my wraparound portions will sound remarkably the same as always.
Went a little bit different with the show this time out. This episode we’ve got not just some comedy podcast clips for you but also a few of the interviews that I did recently at the 3rd Annual Los Angeles Podcast Festival (which was about a month ago now…)
Among the many folks I got a chance to talk to while I was in the SquareSpace Podcast Lab and whose interviews I share this episode include…
Janet Varney from the JV Club podcast. Yes, I FINALLY got my old friend Janet to sit down and chat for a bit. I’ve known her since before she got out of college, when she and her fellow sketch performers (Cole Stratton, David Owen, and Gabriel Diani) were in a group called Totally False People and used to open for my improv group The Riffingtons in the San Francisco Bay Area. Needless to say, she and her compatriots have FAR outstripped my show business career on many fronts and I love it. She’s great and her podcast The JV Club is going great guns.
Christine Blackburn from the Story Worthy podcast. Christine’s always fun to talk to, plus she kept finding new people for me to interview while I was at the podcast festival, which was great – I made some new podcaster friends and found out about some great show I’d never heard of before which we’ll be featuring on future episodes of Succotash. We also talked about working together to try and get Story Worthy on the boards, live, somewhere in the Bay Area soon.
Matt
Weinhold, co-host of the Monster Party podcast.
Always great hanging out with Matt whenever I’m in LA and I was
especially happy to have been asked to jump into the Monster Party
with him and the guys. Before that happened, though, he dropped by
the podfest after work so we chatted it up, then we wandered around
poking our heads into the shows going on, then we gorged ourselves
on late night eats at Jerry's Deli in the Valley.
In addition to the interviews, we play clips from all three of their shows, not to mention a trio of other podcasts, which were harvested by our ace Associate Producer Tyson Saner.
N0 TWEETSACK
OR 10 MOST ACTIVE SEGMENTS THIS
WEEK
Because I knew this was going to be a long show, there's no Tweetsack segment this week. And the Top 10 Most Active Shows in Stitcher's Top 100 Comedy Podcasts List is on hold because Stitcher apparently hasn't updated their stats on that list in the past month. Who do they think they are? Succotash? Of all the nerve.
Nonetheless, we do have our Burst O' Durst at the end of the show, featuring political comedian and cultural commentator Will Durst, this time talking about the spooky upcoming midterm elections.
CLIPS
Chillpak
Hollywood Hour
A way longer-than-usual visit with
Dean Haglund and Phil Leirness,
plucked from their somewaht recent "partycast" in Los Angeles,
where they took time out to interview…me.
The New
Hollywood
Tyson sent along a clip from a podcast I
hadn’t heard before this show: The New Hollywood. I’m not sure this
qualifies as a comedy podcast – the show’s homesite describes the
show as “a podcast interview show about the greatest films from the
70's – by the people who made them.” - but there are sure some
great funny stories in some of the episodes. This clip is from a
few weeks ago when actor Stacy Keach and host
Brian Flaherty discussed Keach’s career, and when
he and a partner wrote what could have been a war epic for
producer Roger Corman.
The JV Club
Host
Janet Varney kicked this podcast off over 130
episodes ago, mostly talking talking one-on-one with female guest
from the arts (although her "Boys of Summer" shows allow her to
stretch the format a bit.) This clip features her guest, actress
Noureen DeWolfe, whom she appeared with in the
popular web/TV series reality show spoof Burning
Love.
Bad
Reception
We have a clip from a podcast that’s just
getting started, called Bad Reception, with host
Jordan Scherer. It’s only a few episodes in, and
the show’s homesite says that Jordan talks to himself and guests
about life, pop culture, and comedy. In the clip Tyson pulled, the
host is talking his listeners about why they should give podcasting
a try themselves.
Story Worthy
Featuring
hosts Christine Blackburn and Hannes
Phinney. In this clip from the recent "Trouble In My
Pants" episode of Story Worthy, we share part of a story
that starts out favorably but seems to very quickly head south in a
story related by storytelling guest Iris
Bahr.
Happy Sad
Confused
Our associate producer Tyson tossed us an
episode from Happy Sad Confused with host Josh
Horowitz. He talks to celebrities about "everything and
anything", according to the show's homesite. I don’t know about
that but he recently chatted up Justin Long about
working with Kevin Smith, who directed him in the
oddball film Tusk.
Monster Party
We've featured clips
from Monster Party before, with co-hosts James Gonis,
Shawn Sheridan, Larry Strothe, Matt Weinhold, and a different guest
each episode. This particular episode, MAd Doctors, which
dropped this week, features ME! It's funny in spite of that
fact…
Just a closing note to let you know that I appreciate all of you who have been mentioning the show on Twitter and Facebook and especially everyone who has taken the time to rate and review us on iTunes and "Thumbs Upping" us on Stitcher Smart Radio.
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If you want to help us offset the costs of production, you can also click on our Donate button at the Succotash site or you can even buy some merch in our Succotashery. So many ways to help pass the Succotash and so little time, really.
Thanks once again to Tyson Saner, our associate producer, Joe Paulino, our engineer/producer, an Bill Heywatt, our booth announcer.
Thanks for passing the Succotash!
— Marc Hershon