Succotash Clips Epi161: Boozin' n' Boozy n' Stuff
Dec 8, 2017
Ho ho ho, yes it’s me, Marc Hershon. Host and nerf herder for Epi161 of Succotash, the Comedy Soundcast Soundcast. This is a full-on Succotash Clips episode, with a couple of extra treats in store, as befits the holiday season.
First up,
gotta couple of like dates coming up. This very show has been
invited to get onstage in the upcoming 17th Annual San Francisco
Sketchfest once again. We’ll be at Piano Fight in the Tenderloin on
Sunday, January 14th, at 5:30 PM. Our announcer, Bill
Heywatt, will once again be live for this show and we’ll
have some special guests. So special I don’t even know who they
will be yet – gotta wait to see who’s hanging around from the
Sketchfest as we get closer to the date.
Admission is FREE but space is limited, so you can click here for your free tickets!
Then a week later, at that same SF Sketchfest but at a different venue – the historic, magnificent Castro Theater - they will be doing a tribute screening of The Foot Fist Way, starring Danny McBride and directed by Jody Hill. It’s a hilarious low budget movie if you haven’t seen it, McBride’s first starring role – since he and Hill co-produced it, he had an in, you see. And both of those guys will be on hand and onstage for a live chat which I am honored to have been asked to moderate. That's on Sunday, January 21st, at 8 PM. So get over to SFSketchfest.com or, again, I’ve got the direct link to tickets right here.
Also don’t forget that I’m working with Phil Leirness as the announcer on his less-than-a-year-old soundcast Los Angeles Breakfasts Club ON THE AIR. The December edition is up now and you can download ‘er from iTunes or from the homesite: http://LABreakfastClub.com.
But now onto THIS show.
Here’s the deal with this installment – the clips we’re playing were all pretty much harvested by our Associate Producer Tyson Saner for a show I was GOING to do back in October as a crossover episode with the guys from the Monster Party soundcast — Matt Weinhold, Larry Strothe, Shawn Sheridan and James Gonis. But Matt ended up having back surgery the week I was going to be in LA and we couldn’t pull the thing together.
So before these clips start growing mold on them – or the digital equivalent – I figured we’d just do a Succotash Clips where we just play snippets from comedy soundcasts that are horror and sci-fi movie oriented.
We’ve got The Sci-Fi Movie Podcast, CadaverCast, Comedy Film Nerds, the Universal Monster Cast and The Star Wars Minute. Plus I’ll throw in a clip from Monster Party just give my pals over there some guilt feelings.
In addition there's a Burst O’ Durst segment with political comedian and social commentator Will Durst. PLUS a visit to the Studio P wet bar in a new Boozin’ with Bill where Mr. Heywatt is going to mix up an unsavory tribute to Washington D.C. called the Swamp Drainer!
And, of course, this whole magilla is brought to you Henderson’s new Holiday Pants.
THE
CLIPS
Monster
Party
Here’s a clip
from the show responsible for this particular clip collection,
Monster Party, and it's actually one of my favorite
soundcasts. (You can tell because even with all the shows I have to
listen to for THIS show AND my Splitsider.com reviews, I actually
subscribe to this one!) This is from their latest drop,
featuring a past guest to this show as their guest, and real life
friend Rick Overton. The episode is entitled
“Future Past” and looks at the future as depicted in films from the
past. In this clip, the guys are going off about the way Star Trek
thinks we might be going.
Comedy Film
Nerds
We love
Comedy Film Nerds with Chris Mancini and
Graham Elwood. In fact I just featured my chat
with Chris from the recent Los Angeles Podcast Festival on our last
episode. And while they don’t feature strictly sci-fi, monster, and
horror movies on their show, they ARE pretty heavily into those
genres. Back in their episode 384, the guys – along with guest
Kevin Avery - get into a low budget crazy little
movie called Dave Made A Maze, where they get into a
little aside about none other than Rick Overton,
who was just heard on the previous clip. Man, this show is getting’
meta!
The
Sci-Fi Movie Podcast
The next clip
is from a very specific genre soundcast. The show is called The
Sci-Fi Movie Podcast (although
at their homesite their logo says it’s The Sci-Fi Movie AND TV
Podcast…), hosted by Remi Lavictoire and
Jonathan Colbon, a couple of film geeks from
Canada. This clip is from a recent episode where they were getting
into War for The Planet of the Apes. They’ve been around
for a few years, so you will no doubt find their show propagated
throughout Soundcast Land.
Cadavercast
Next up is a
clip from a show that Tyson says is “delightful” called
Cadavercast, a Father-Son Monster Movie Podcast. The hosts
are a Dad, Jef Burnham, and his 5-year-old son
Alistair. And with a 5-year-old behind the mic,
trust me when I saw a horror movie soundcast has never been more
adorable.This clip is from their Epi30 where they get into one on
of my all time faves, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad. Their
homesite is actually just up on Soundcloud, and you can find the
show on iTunes and other places you might expect to find
soundcasts.
Universal Monsters
Cast
There’s
soundcast for specific movie genres, like monster movies, say. But
then there are shows that get into sub-genres, too – such as the
Universal Monsters Cast. First of all, I like that they
just call it a “cast” instead of using the “P” word. Our associate
producer really likes this show – says the hosts — Gillman
Joel, Dr. Shock and Wolfman
Josh — really stay on track with the discussion which, in
this case, is all about The Mummy. In this clip, its about
how Hammer Films treated the character, which came from the
Universal corral of monsters.
The
Star Wars Minute
One of the
best-known and longest-running sci-fi soundcasts around has got to
be The Star Wars Minute. It set the bar for micro-genre
casts, in that Pete the Retailer (aka
Peter Bonavita) and Alex Robinson
decided to break down Star Wars in the geekiest way
imaginable – devoting each episode to ONE MINUTE of the movie, from
beginning to end, including the closing credits. And they’re been
working their way through the entire franchise. Currently blazing
their way through Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, they are
up to minute 18 with guest commentator Chrysanthe
Tan, a very talented musician/composer with, clearly, a
streak of geek.
BOOZIN' WITH BILL
Here's Bill's latest recipe, Swamp Drainer, and after you try it you'll be asking yourself the same question I asked myself: Why?
That's going to do it for Epi161 but before this clog ends, I have a question for you and, please, answer honestly: Have you been up to the podcast section of iTunes – that’s what they call soundcasts, of course — have you been up there to rate and review the Succotash Show? Of course you haven’t.
I don’t blame you.
No, wait. Yes, I do.
But you can correct that easily enough by jumping up there right now to give us 5 stars and a short, pithy review. It really helps to get the word out there because our listing pops up higher in the pages and pages of soundcasts.
If you’re in San Francisco during January don’t forget about our dates at SF Sketchfest and you can grab FREE tickets for the Sunday January 14th LIVE Succotash Show at 5:30 PM by clicking on the link up above.
Hope to see you around. And, as always, thanks for passing the Succotash!
— Marc Hershon