Succotash Epi79: New Yearin' with some Clippage
Jan 12, 2014
Howdy and Happy New Year from Succotash, the Comedy Podcast Podcast! In typical fashion, this greeting isn't coming until the second week of the new year. We kick off the show with Skype visit from comedian, podcaster, and friend of the show Paul Mecurio. He's going to be at The Punchline in San Francisco this week, so if you're in the Bay Area, be sure to check him out! (I'll be at the Wednesday night show and will be packing some of our Succotash magnetic buttons - just ask me for one!)
I'll be meeting up with Paul and doing a face-to-face sitdown for a longer chat which we'll feature on an upcoming epi.
Paul's opening intro with me is only a few minutes of this show, which means we've got time for a bunch of clips, our Burst O' Durst - in which political comedian Will Durst gives us his predictions for 2014, an ad for Henderson's Auld Lang Slacks, our Tweetsack segment, and the pilot episode for Adam Barker's new Batfella pod series!
As I announce in this week's episode, our Honorary Associate Producer Tyson Saner is no longer honorary, he's actually the Official Associate Producer! While there's no salary or benefits that come with the gig, we're honored to have his services in harvesting clips from the vast field of comedy podcasts out there. And he'll be co-hosting an upcoming episode soon, so you'll get to hear from the man himself.
The 10 Most Active Shows in the Stitcher Top 100 Comedy Podcast List
Of the shows that moved the most on this week's Top 100, nine were up and only one was down.
AT MOVED
35.
What About
Pod?
+12
36. Bertcast’s
Podcast
+34
56. PRI: Michael Feldman’s Whad’Ya
Know?
+28
57. SModcast >>
Edumacation
+19
69.
Wits
+28
71. Where’s My Forty Acres: Ratchet & Real
Opinions
+27
74. Industry Standard w/Barry
Katz
+57
82. The Champs w/Neal Brennan & Moshe
Kasher
+14
97. SModcast >> Last Week on Earth with Ben
Gleib
+28
99. The Dana Gould
Hour
-13
The Clips
Big Pop Fun
We’ve featured Big Pop Fun before. That's the podcast hosted
by comedian and actor Tom F. Wilson. It’s a nicely
put-together interview show and recently the guest was none other
than friend-of-Succotash Travis Clark from the
Tiny Odd Conversations podcast. (I have my own interview
that I haven’t had a chance to get to that I did with Travis and
his wife Brandi when I was in LA for the Podfest last
October. I'll post it soon. I promise!
This Ain’t Iowa
I’m often talking about how vast the world of podcasting is and
comedy podcasts comprise a major continent of that world. It’s so
big that it’s hard to see – or hear – everything until it’s too
late. This Ain’t Iowa is a podcast out of Las Vegas, hosted
by comedian Brian Mollica and it’s been chugging along since
2006. But now that chugging is coming to an end. Brian’s doing his
“farewell tour” of the show, as he calls it, and has been having
past co-hosts and regular guests calling and dropping in. One of
those guest was a guy who was only ever identified on the show as
“Wooden Spoon” and Spoon seems to have a somewhat colored and
checkered past on the show.
Pop My
Culture
We haven’t heard from the Pop My Culture podcast for a
while, with Cole Stratton and Vanessa Ragland - oh,
they've been podcasting, we just haven't played a clip from them
recently - but we’re going to hear from them now, along with their
guest Armin Shimmerman, who you might know from his role as
Quark on Deep Space Nine.
Break Room Party
I first caught wind of the Break Room Party podcast on
Twitter so I decided to check ‘em out. At first, it sounded to me
like one of those dreaded “shootin’ the shit” shows I’ve kind of
come to fear having to slog through but I hung in there. Sure
enough, the four hosts – Josh, Brandon, Trey & Ryan –
didn’t disappoint. What they lack in comedy chops they make up for
in comraderie and good natured ribbing. PLUS they dispense business
advice. Every episode’s a different topic and this time it was
about The Interview. The boys got off into a sideline about How To
Turn The Interview Around.
Uttabull
Another show that came via a Twitter reference is the first podcast
that I’d heard of that originates from the Isle of Man in the
British Isles. Liam and Jason are the hosts of
Uttabull. (Or, rather, Liam seems to be THE host while Jason
USUALLY shows up.) They do a segment called Jason’s News and that’s
where I pulled this clip from, as the gents get into a story from
somewhere in Poland.
Hangin’ Outcast
Twitter was once again the conduit for me virtually meeting up with
the Hangin’ Outcast podcast. These guys – Alex and
Justin - are located in the Heart of the Inland Empire,
which is another way of talking a whole bunch of nothing off the
beaten track in Southern California. From this episode, I pulled
the two hosts doling out some advice for those who want some to get
into this podcast game.
The 31 Podcast
Tyson Saner clipped us something from a show I hadn’t heard of
before: The 31 Podcast. It’s basically a twist on the old
“20 Questions” game, in which the host, Brandt Tobler, asks
his guests 31 questions. Not sure why. But here he is with his
guest Tom Segura, cohost of his own podcast, Your Mom’s
House.
Batfella
Here's the FULL debut episode of Adam Barker’s parody audio
series, The Adventures of Batfella. Written and voiced by
Adam along with some guests. Episode one, of many more to come,
features the voice talents of British actress Rita Ramnani.
If you're an Adam Barker fan (And, really, who isn't?), you should
enjoy this show and not just because the two podcasts that
Adam normally does – the Oddcast Podcast UK and Its Not
Soccer are taking a break until early spring while his
girlfriend has a baby.
There it is then. Epi79 is done. 2014 is off and running. And all is right with the world. I want to thank you, our listener, for doing us the honor of listening, I hope you continue to listen and, what’s more it would be delicious of you if you were to pass the Succotash…
— Marc Hershon