Succotash, the Comedy Soundcast Soundcast, was launched in 2011 with the idea of promoting comedy soundcasts in what was then a marketplace still trying to find its way. By featuring short clips of shows being produced by funny folks both known and unknown, we like to feel that we maybe had a little tiny, eeny weeny, itsy bitsy bit to do with helping to ignite the torch of soundcasts across the globe! (But then we've always had a rather high opinion of ourselves...)
Original show host and executive producer Marc Hershon, along with booth announcer Bill Heywatt, engineer/producer Joe Paulino, associate producer Tyson Saner, musical director Scott Carvey, and booth assistant Kenny Durgis have kept the flame alive o'er these many years. In 2018, Hershon abandoned the host chair and anointed Saner to the position, with nary a notice from the legions of listeners. Typical.
This weekend, September 23-25, I'm heading to Los Angeles to
take part in the 2016 Los Angeles Podcast Festival for the
weekend.
It's a fun festival, featuring a few dozen of the most
popular podcasts today — Welcome To Night Vale, Criminal, Fitzdog
Radio, Doughboys, Cashing in With TJ Miller, Alison Rosen is Your
New Best Friend, and many more that will all be doing live versions
of their programs for the PodFest audience.
There are also a number of panels throughout the weekend,
including one on Sunday, September 25th, at 2 PM, on Podcasting and
Journalism featuring the host and producer of the Criminal Podcast,
and a reporter from the USA Today that I have the honor of
moderating.
Why am I telling you all this? You, who may be scattered
willy and nilly across the globe this weekend? Because the LA
PodFest is going to be livecasting the entire event through their
website, http://LAPodFest.com, for those who can make the trek
to the Southland. And not just in audio but in video,
too!
They're charging $25 for the whole kit n' kaboodle of shows,
interview, panels, etc. BUT, if you use my special discount code —
HUFFINGTON — you can save $5. And you've even be helping out my own
podcast, Succotash, the Comedy Soundcast Soundcast, because they're
going to kick me back some money based on how many people use the
HUFFINGTON code to get their discount.
Here's a link with my discount code embedded in it, that you
can cut and past into your browser to make it even easy to hang out
and be part of this weekend 2016 Los Angeles Podcast Festival —
https://podfest2016.eventbrite.com/?discount=HUFFINGTON
Succotash, The Comedy Soundcast Soundcast - playing snippets from some of the best (and worst) comedy podcasts across the interwebs! Also interviews with assorted and interesting show biz folk.