Apr 11, 2023
Saluton, estas mi, Tyson Saner, and I welcome you heartily to this 351st episode of Succotash, The Comedy Soundcast Soundcast, which just so happens to be the second-to-last episode of Succotash before our 12-year anniverary special, which will then be swiftly followed by a well-deserved hiatus. If you are a 1st time listener, this show typically features clips from other soundcasts from around the world and has for almost 12 years.
The entire archive of episodes past can be found over at www.succotash.com for the time being, so if you end up enjoying this program and you'd like to share it with others, send them there or pretty much anywhere else you can listen to soundcasts, which are also called podcasts most everywhere else other than here on Succotash.
Last week in Episode #350, show creator and executive producer Marc Hershon brought you a "Chats" episode that featured conversation with, and fascinating stories from Shane Elliot of the sketch comedy group from North Hollywood called Fries On The Side that Mr. Hershon had also been involved with. It's a fascinating and funny chat that you should check out at your earliest convenience.
In this, the last episode I'm producing before our aforementioned hiatus, I have brought you some clips to listen to from the soundcasts Holidays After Dark, What Went Wrong, and Bit Weird But Fair Enough (I Guess).
I'll be rounding out the show with 2 clips from the Strange Times Show, the hosts of which just celebrated 10 of their own years in soundcasting. The episode clipped for this purpose is #462, titled "Ten Bloody Years". Many soundcasters sent in their congratulations in audio form, so I've decided to include the one I sent, and the one Marc sent. Those will be played at various points in this program.
I'm even throwing in a classic Henderson's Pants ad into this episode just for kicks. It's one of the oldest ones I think…If the numerical system it came with is to be believed.
Well, the show wasn't going to finish writing or producing itself, so I had to get into it. And now it's time for you to do the same…
CLIPS
Holidays After Dark
This is directly from the show description for
Holidays After Dark: "It's a year-round soundcast which
explores the strange, unusual, and dark sides of the holidays while
also paying tribute to the lighthearted festivities we all know and
love!" Featuring host Kristin Seering, our clip
is from show from March 28th, 2023 - Easter 2023: Tale of a
Homicidal Hare. In
this episode, Holidays After Dark explains the history
behind how the Easter Bunny came to be and tries to determine if
the story of the Bunny Man Killer is real or simply an urban
legend.
The clip I've selected is from somewhere in the middle.
Enjoy.
What Went Wrong
From Sad Boom Media,
What Went Wrong covers Hollywood’s most notoriously
disastrous movie productions, digging into the behind-the-scenes
insanity of everything from massive flops to record breaking
blockbusters. The
clip is from their episode of April 3rd, 2023: "Gone With The
Wind".
Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, and
Hattie McDaniel may star in 1939’s Gone With
the Wind, but this was David O. Selznick’s
dumpster fire. Join hosts Chris Winterbauer and Lizzie Bassett as they break down a
truly disastrous production featuring 15+ writers, 3+ directors, an
amphetamine-fueled producer, and racism galore - both onscreen and
off.
Bit Weird but Fair Enough (I
Guess)
From
Down Under, under The Angry Chimp banner, host Stuart Buckland and guests look at
some of the weird stuff going on in this crazy, crazy world.
Our
clip, from way back on the 1st of February, 2021, is from a show
entitled "God or Demon?" And it features not one but two Friends
of Succotash. In addition to Mr. Buckland, his guest
this episode was
British expat in South Korea Samantha Pett,
joining Stu to examine weirdness surrounding cats, exams, toast and
processed meat. (Sam was
formerly a co-host of The Strange Times Show for a
not-insubstantial amount of episodes, and a podcaster in her own
right with programs such as The Kimchi Chronicles and
Anarchy Audi". Keeping with the theme of including
Strange Times Show content in this episode, and also
wanting to feature Mr. Buckland's relatively recently established
soundcast, I was pleased to be able to get both of them in one
episode.
And there it went…my last solo episode of Succotash before our hiatus. What an amazing ride this has been. It's really hard to wrap my head around the passage of time it seems. I don't mean to say that I don't know what it is, although I don't know what it is more than someone who studies that sort of thing might. Or might claim to…That's what people who study that sort of thing say, right? "I know what time is..", in casual conversation. Or perhaps sitting by themselves in the middle of a café, working through what they imagine a conversation of that nature would be like, ultimately culminating in an unscheduled "outside voice" moment.
No, I don't mean to say that I don't know what it is…although I don't. It happens, I witness it, it continues to happen, and I attempt to fill it with variety and relative happiness…and music. I can't forget the music. Coming up next, and also LAST for…uh, well…let's just say that I'm not specifically sure how long it will be before we reemerge with something…But my understanding is that that is the plan…there's one of those "that that"'s again. Is that a peculiarity of the English language? I suppose I could look it up, but I'm not going to do that right now. I'm going to be working on other things in the meantime, and you will be able to find those things over at www.tysonsaner.com as well as an archive full of stuff I've already done as of this recording. Music, Gaming Videos, A Redbubble store…stuff like that…and who knows what else? I'm not 100% sure, but if I needed to be, I would never create anything…and there will be plenty of time for inactivity…um…let's just say…later?
Before I go, I need to remember to say "Thank You" to Marc Hershon and Joe Paulino for making me feel like a valuable contributor to something for the last 10 years of my life. It's a very specific thing to say "thank you" for, I know, but It's a very specific sort of gratitude I feel to those who would include me in their creative endeavors. I do not, and hopefully never will, take that sort of thing lightly….
…and now, I have to make the awkward transition into actually
saying "Good Bye"…so I will end by saying
"Thank You" to my parents and my wife for being supportive of me in
many ways including keeping me alive for the entirety of this
experience I call "life" so far. I hope I didn't make it more
difficult than it had to be. #Goalz
Thank you for listening, be decent to each other, and when you are out there in the world, should you seek out, or perhaps stumble across our archive during our absence, and you got something out of it that can only be expressed by sharing it with others in some form or another, for example sending them to www.succotashshow.com , then we will experience gratitude for you, for having done so. It's what we dream about happening when we utter the final words of every episode, which are please pass the Succotash…
— Tyson Saner