Aug 30, 2016
That’s right, it’s me, Marc Hershon. Your host and all-electric vehicle for Epi138 of Succotash, the Comedy Soundcast Soundcast.
NOTE: If you haven’t been here the past couple of episodes, we’ve started a campaign to change the generic use of the word “podcast” to “soundcast”. (I realize that this gets a little sticky for those shows that pretty much officially have “podcast” in the name. The word is part of our logo design here on Succotash and for the past 5+ years, we’ve been THE Comedy Podcast Podcast.
But the name is anchoring the medium to a single device – the iPod from Apple – so I want to throw it back wide open with the new designation soundcast. Our announcer Bill Heywatt is supposed to be cutting new intros and outros for the show to reflect the name change, but our engineer/producer Joe Paulino has had a computer meltdown at Studio P. So until he gets things back up and rolling we’re stuck with the old P-word in the open and close to the show.
And also have to get around to changing the logo, as seen here. No one said this soundcast biz was going to be easy. Or did they? I can’t remember…
First of all BIG news! BIG BIG News, in a way – it really isn’t going to change anything as far as I know, but Succotash is now available for your listening pleasure through the I Heart Radio chain, network, thing. It hasn’t required us to do much, as far as I can tell but we are on there! Potentially MILLIONS of new listeners can now avoid us. Just go to IHeartRadio.com and search for Succotash OR click this link!
LIVE APPEARANCES!
I’ve got a couple of live appearances coming up. If you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area, I’m going to be part of the 40th year reunion show of Spaghetti Jam, which was a really popular improvisational comedy show in San Francisco starting back in the 1970s. We’re gettign as many of the people that we can find that can still move most of their limbs to show up for this. It’s on Sunday, September 11th – that’s right, 9-11, best date for a comedy show ever, at the Throckmorton Theatre in Mill Valley. You can go to http://142ThrockmortonTheatre.org for tickets and information.
And then later in the month – September 23-25 – I’ll be at the 5th Annual Los Angeles Podcast Festival. I’m hosting the Journalism and Podcasting panel on Sunday afternoon at 2 PM, but the rest of the time, I’ll be set up in the Podcast Lab with my equipment doing interviews so stop on by and let’s chat!
Back to business. This is another installment of Succotash Clips, and it’s chock full of tasty snippets of soundcasts and podcasts from all over the web. I clipped a couple, our associate producer Tyson Saner grabbed a few, and we also have some uploaded directly to us using our upload link: http://hightail.com/u/Succotash.
In alphabetical order, we’ll be hearing from Dark Journey, Dazed & Convicted, Dino & Andy’s Skull Juice, Drinking In The Park,Lesser Known Somebodies, Proudly Resents, Spirits, Tao Of Comedy, and The 85th South Show. We also have a visit to the Podcast Graveyard to hold a clip seance with a soundcast from the great beyond.
Plus a Burst O’ Durst from our friend, political comedian, and social commentator Will Durst. We also have a little ditty for our pal Abner Serd. Not to mention a Scrooge McDuck–style dip into the Tweetsack.
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THE CLIPS!
Dino And
Andy’s Skull
Juice
Let’s start
out with a clip from a brand new soundcast, one that reviewed last
week for Splitsider.com. It’s got the great title of Dino And
Andy’s Skull Juice, and features Dino
Stamatopolous, a guy who’s written on SNL,
created Adult Swim’s Moral Orel, wrote and appeared on
Community, and has written a whole bunch of funny stuff
besides. Andy Dick is, well, Andy Dick. He’s been
a standup comedian, sketch and improv player, as well as having
appeared in films and television. These guys were pals for 25
years, although, as Dino points out in episode #1, he didn’t talk
to Andy for 10 years. (Our esteemed Associate Producer
Tyson Saner snagged this clip from their kickoff
episode, which picks up right from their opening theme
song.)
Lesser Known
Somebodies
Friend-of-the-Succotash
Abner Serd sent along a link to a comedy podcast
he found out of South Africa. It’s called Lesser Known
Somebodies, hosted by Johannesberg-based
comedian Simmi Areff, and the latest installment
features fellow
local
comic Alfred Adriaan. Took me a few minutes
to get into the rhythm of the accent but then these guys unspool a
kind of fascinating glimpse inside the current comedy scene in and
around Johannesberg. (I got
such a kick out of listening to Lesser Known Somebodies
that I reviewed it in
last week’s Huffington
Post.)
Proudly
Resents
We got a clip sent over by Adam Spiegelman, he of
the Proudly Resents podcast. (He was complaining that
there was no upload button on our Succotash homesite,
which is true. I am working to remedy that. But you can always
just got
to http://hightail.com/u/Succotash
and then upload a 3-5 minute MP3
clip.) He recently had Conan writer Todd
Levin on to help him dismantle Ninja 3: The
Domination. At one point Todd talks about the only time
Conan O’Brien ever got sued. As Adam tells it, “It
involves a one-hit wonder, an 80’s film, and Tim
Tebo.”
Dazed &
Convicted:
Craigslost
We got
a clip uploaded to us from the delightful Monica
Hamburg, host of the Dazed & Convicted soundcast.
Lately, it’s been subtitled as Dazed & Convicted:
Craigslost. And why, you might ask? Monica likes combing the
seedier side of Craigslist and presents, literally, the pick of the
litter. Litter
being the operative word…
The 85 South
Show
Tyson clipped
us a taste of The 85 South Show, which is billed as “a
podcast for people who don’t know what a podcast is."
It’s hosted by DC Young Fly and Karlous
Miller. This clip we have is from an episode done in the
wake of police-involved
shootings, the killing of Alton Sterling and
Philando Castille, with the hosts and their guest,
Last Comic Standing champ
Clayton English, discussing solutions to stop the
violence, and the role that comedy plays in the social dialog.
#blacklivesmatter
Spirits
Okay, I don’t know how many times I have said on this show that we
prefer to play clips rather than promos. Clips make for better,
real-er sample of the show. And I can talk about ‘em. When we had
Hal Lublin and Mark Gagliardi
on earlier this year, they even made a definitive We Got This
ruling that clips are better than promos. But some people don’t get
it, and that’s fine. We support all soundcasts and so it is that
spirit that I present this 30-second promo of Spirits
without additional commentary…
Drinking In
The Park
Just the
opposite of the challenge of Spirits is what I’ve got
going on with a show called Drinking In The Park. The
hosts are Neil and Johnny, per
their direct upload to
Succotash, with no last names. But they sent me the whole
episode Issue 10, Live At Toronto Comicon. Not a clip, but
almost 10 minutes of chat and music stuff. Still better than a
promo! I sliced out a few minutes of them talking to some joker who
calls himself That Joker
Guy.
Doctor Who:
Dark
Journey
This is a clip from a show called
Doctor Who:
Dark Journey. I don’t think it’s officially affiliated with
the British TV series Dr. Who at all. In fact, I know it
isn’t, because here’s the note that came with clip: “The
attached file is a clip from AM Audio Media's main audio drama
Doctor Who: Dark Journey. Dark Journey is an
unofficial fan made audio drama featuring professional actors,
writers, sound designers and composers. Our theme tune is by the UK
prog rock group 'Traffic Experiment'. Dark Odyssey is a
bit of a wink and nod self parody of it and all things fan
made.”
The Tao of
Comedy
This podcast
has a pretty grim origin story. The host, Kelly
Maclean, had been at last year’s Just For Laughs festival
in Canada, where she interviewed a number of comedians. Four months
later, her brother Andrew was killed in a car
accident. The conversations she had in Montreal were the things
that brought her back from crushing depression and so she’s
launched the podcast in order to continue that kind of deep
interchange with funny people. In this clip from Epi10, she’s
talking to Brad Williams, standup and co-host of
the About Last Night soundcast.
Podcast
Graveyard
In the 5 years that I’ve been running
Succotash, comedy writer Caleb Bacon has
had two very listenable soundcasts. The first was called The
Gentleman’s Club which took a podcast dirtnap at the end of
2012. A few months later, Caleb was back with more of an
instructional soundcast called Man School, in which he
talked to guys from
various walks
off life, although most were somehow connected to show business,
and he’d get their story about some deep subject matter. A little
over a year ago, in June of 2015, the last known class of Man
School was in session. The clip
we're featuring is from a few epis before that one, #83,
with Caleb and his guest comic, writer and fellow podcaster
Mick Betancourt (The Mick Betancourt
Show),
talking about life as a sober alcoholic.
Country
Fair Song
The latest
ditty from our friend Abner
Serd celebrates
the "season" of county fairs. Special thanks to Abner
for joining our "Soundcast
Movement"!
SUCCOTASH CAN USE YOUR HELP!
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Thanks for passing the Succotash!
— Marc Hershon