Jun 2, 2015
Yes, it’s me. Marc Hershon. Your host and rack jobber for Epi110 of Succotash, the Comedy Podcast Podcast. This is a Succotash Clips episode — finally back after two Succotash Chats epis — which means we’re featuring clip after clip after clip from comedy podcasts scattered all over the webiverse.
A lot of them were harvested by our intrepid Associate Producer Tyson Saner. I scraped up a few. Some were sent in by comedy podcasters themselves, or uploaded to us directly via our upload site, at http://hightail.com/u/succotash.
One of them isn’t even a comedy podcast, but the host asked if I’d feature a clip and I figured “Screw the network fatcats and bigwigs! This is MY show, dammit, and I’ll do what I please!” That’s right. This one non-comedy podcast clip is going to be played come Hell or high water! But just a little bit later in the show.
What shows will we be clipping in this epi, mighten you ask? Here’s what in store: The Comatose Podcast, Eric And Stacey, Excuse My Adlib, The Blank Planet, We’re From The Internet, and The Wrong Foot Podcast.
Burst O' Durst
In addition to the clips we have a double dose of our Burst O’ Durst with comedian and social commentator Will Durst. He talks about who the hell would want to be President of the United States, and also a quick lesson on several advantages and disadvantages of being a Baby Boomer. Also, if you’re going to be in or around San Francisco at the end of June, you can catch Durst giving a workshop as part of the Beatnick Shindig going on at Fort Mason. It’s on Saturday, June 27th, just one hour from 10:30 to 11:30 AM and the cost is just 20 bucks. Hop over to http://BeatnickShindig.com and grab yourself some tickets.
Bill The Podcaster
Our announcer, Bill Heywatt, has come out of the booth and has embarked on his own podcast adventure. He's still with the show, but you can now catch some mini-episodes of The Bill Heywatt Show as part of The Strange Times Podcast, with Davian Dent and Kat Sorens. We feature his very first episode in it's entirety on this show.
Clips
The Blank
Planet
The way Bill even came up
the idea of starting his own show was during a discussion that was
going on when he and I were guests recently of Davian Dent on his
new podcast The Blank Planet. "Disucssion" is a term I use
loosely - our chat degraded rapidly and then those Brits started
prodding Bill to start his own podcast.
The Wrong Foot Comedy
Podcast
We got a clip from the
The Wrong Foot Comedy Podcast, sent in from executive
producer Robin Brecker. They’ve got a big ol’ cast
over there pulling off some delightful audio sketch comedy. I’m not
sure who’s in this piece from their Epi194. It’s called “Unlucky
Lou”.
Excuse My
Adlib
Tyson grabbed us a sample
of the Excuse My Adlib, which their website describes as
“an online hiphop-based talk show brought to you…by you – the fans
of hiphop and hosted by Rozay, Big
Therm, and J Boss.” Well, that’s
Succotash to a T. Big fan. Tyson says, “The selected clip
is from the middle of a discussion about Trevor
Noah” – soon to be replacing John Stewart
on The Daily Show – “and is regarding whether or not
someone's social media presence is a fair reflection of their
non-virtual personality or being.”
Comatose
Podcast
The hiphop thing was a
little step away form our usual fare of comedy podcasts. So I’m
going to slide a little further over to bring you a clip – a very
self-contained clip – from The Comatose Podcast. Executive
producer John Bauer wasn’t even going to send it
in, he just likes Succotash, but I said go ahead, let’s do
this thing. There are a number of people behind the scenes and on
the microphones for this show, which is – according to their
homesite – “the result of creative people who neglected getting
into creative fields finding a way to collaborate and release their
pent up energy. It’s one part learning to express yourself one part
letting yourself go and opening up the expression that’s already
there.” Cool. Heavy. Heavy and cool.
We’re From The
Internet
Podcasting has really
supplanted radio for a lot of people, and it’s begun to seek
specific progamming niches in some case. We got a note from
Kev and Steve, the hosts of
We’re From The Internet, and they asked us to clip them.
They refer to their show as “a daily comedy breakfast show” where
they answer the most pressing question of the day — whatever it
might be and wherever it might come from. Fair enough. Back in Epi9
of their show, the question was, “How big a house do you need if
you want a pet panda?” Here’s a clip that has little to do with the
original question but still manages to hover around the topic of
animals.
The
Eric & Stacey "Talking Rubbish"
Podcast
Ripped from the
Tweetsack, this clip comes to us from The Eric & Stacey
"Talking Rubbish" Podcast. They used our instant upload option
and got their clip to us just by going to
http://Hightail.com/u/succotash. Their note with the clip reads:
“Hi there Succotash! Got a clip for ya. We were in the middle
of our ‘Dumb fuck of the week’ segment. The dumb tweet Eric read
jogged his memory about what they opened the show with ( Eric's job
at the car dealership) and had some more details to add. The clip
is from episode 102 ‘well...that was gross’ of Eric and Stacey -
Talking rubbish” Thanks, Eric and Stacey! Someday we may even
learn what your last names are.
Podcast
Graveyard
Tyson dreamed up this segment, which I love,
because it pays homage to some late, great podcasts that – although
they may have been beloved at one time – have gone away for one
reason or another. In most cases, we may never know why. The latest
show to lie in state is an old favorite of Succotash,
mainly because we had some great interactions with the host over
the past couple of years and even a couple of free beers at the
very first Los Angeles Podcast Festival. I’m talking about PodCRASH!
with Chris Gore, the same guy who started
FilmThreat magazine years ago.
That’s it for this edition of Succotash Clips, friends. I know it was a long drought between shows this time – longer than usual – but I’m trying to get back on the beam and I already have a full rack of clips locked and loaded for another episode real soon.
In the meantime, enjoy, tell your friends, and thanks for passing the Succotash!
— Marc Hershon