Succotash

Saluton, estas mi Tyson Saner. This is Succotash, Episode 263, and I will be your host for the duration. For those of you new to this soundcast, welcome! This is a show that listens to other people's soundcasts and clips them to give our audience a sample so that in the event they are looking for more soundcasts to listen to, they would theoretically have a few more ideas of what is waiting out there for them to enjoy. Last week on Epi262, my co-host (and every-other-show-host) Marc Hershon cast his ears out into the world and found 6 soundcasts to feature audio from. Five selected for the main show and one special clip to memorialize soundcaster Mat George of the soundcast She Rates Dogs which he had co-hosted with Michaela Okland until his unexpected and recent death at the age of 26. That episode can be found on our homesite at www.succotashshow.com or any of the places that you might find soundcasts to listen to including, but not limited to: Apple & Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, Podbay, and there are also episodes up on YouTube that are audio only. Yes, that most certainly is a thing. This episode I've got clips for you from the soundcasts Pretending With Dice, I Said No Gifts!, and Doughboys. I've also got a fantastic classic (as in 'produced many years ago ) advert from our longtime fictional sponsor Henderson's Pants and their RepubliFit Jeans!

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I Said No Gifts! Host Bridger Winegar invites friends, loved ones, and people he's secretly trying to destroy to join him in conversation. He only has one request: No gifts! Naturally, every guest disobeys, meaning their chat will eventually turn to whatever object lies beneath the wrapping paper. Our clip is from April 29, 2021, when Jimmy Kimmel Disobeys Bridger - Bridger is the epitome of grace even when Kimmel rudely gives him a gift. They discuss RVs, clam chowder, and toothpicks.

DoughboysThe podcast about chain restaurants. Comedians Mike Mitchell and Nick Wiger review fast food/sit-down chains and generally argue about food/everything. This clip hails from July 8th, 2021, the episode entitled "Golden Road Brewing with Jordan Morris" - Jordan Morris (Bubble, Jordan, Jesse, Go!) joins the boys and talks Lord of the Rings and summer treats before a review of Golden Road Brewing. Plus, another edition of "Let Me Be Frank" - the clip is comprised mainly of the opening of the LMBF segment.

Pretending With Dice An Actual-Play Tabletop RPG Podcast, playing various RPG systems in short story-arcs, featuring original music and soundscapes for a complete, immersive audio storytelling experience. This clip was harvested from May 20, 2021, the episode entitled "PWD Worldbuilding: The Amethyst Isles". AJ and Eden discuss the enigmatic Amethyst Isles, an archipelago broken off from the mainland by an ancient magical war.

And here we are again, together at the end...of the description of this episode. I do hope you enjoy this experience, and I hope that your takeaway from it involves seeking out one or more of the soundcasts you heard a sample of. That would make me happy indeed to know that I had acheived the desired effect.

I would like to mention that I am currently adding more gaming content to my YouTube channel: Tyson Saner: Gamer. I've been playing a decent amount of Minecraft lately and, in addition to the at-this-time 13 episodes of hosting Minecraft videos with gameplay and commentary, I've added two different flavors of "Minecraft" content.

One flavor is an episode of yours truly playing Minecraft and explaining it to my co-host of Anti Social Show Hunter Block, and the other flavor is basically what might best be described as "Minecraft ASMR". It's over two hours of "Minecraft" footage with no commentary, and no speed-ups. Just "Minecraft" in real time…to relax and soothe…theoretically.…I will also be adding more "Minecraft ASMR" videos to my channel so eventually there will be hours and hours of calming, relaxing, and hopefully sleep-inducing "Minecraft" footage to possibly satisfy a craving you never knew you had…

Just thought I'd throw that in at the end here. Thank you for listening, please rate and review us, be decent to each other, consider continuing to mask up to protect the unvaccinated against the more deadly and/or contagious COVID variants out there, and if anyone asks if you heard any interesting soundcasts lately won't you please…pass the Succotash?

— Tyson Saner

I am Marc Hershon, your every-other-weekly-host for Succotash, the Comedy Soundcast Soundcast, and this is Ep262. I'm calling it "Revisitin' 3 Old Faves Plus 2 New Faves, And A Sad Goodbye, Too."

Before we jump into the deep end, I want to remind you that, if you missed last week's Epi261 "Clippin' My Way Back To You", with my illustrious co-host-at-a-distance Tyson Saner, in which he featured clips from Girls 1 Kitchen, Strange Times, and Round Springfield, you can still fill your ears with it up at Apple & Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, and pretty much everywhere else in the known soundcast universe.

For this week's installment, I have a sack stuffed to the gills with not three, not four, but FIVE clips from – as the title intimates – 3 faves, which are namely Wheelbarrow Full Of Dicks, Story Worthy, and Monster Party. In addition, I have clips from two shows we've not featured before: 91 Donkey Lane, and Death is Hilarious. We're sponsored this time around by Henderson's Pants new Poncho Pantz, which would be welcome news for all of those folks suffering from unseasonal flooding going on around the world if these pants weren't fictional in nature.

RIP MAT GEORGE

Before we wade into this week's clippage, though, I wanted to take a few moments out to get to the "Sad Goodbye" part of this episode's title, and observe a sad milestone we passed this past week. Podcaster Mat George died this past Saturday morning in Los Angeles, the victim of a hit-and-run traffic accident. Mat was 26 years old, and the co-host of She Rates Dogs along with Michaela Okland. Known for his Twitter and Insta feeds under the handle @matchu-chutrain, the soundcast he did with Michaela brought the popular social media page SheRatesDogs to the soundcast world — and listeners' worst dating stories along with it. The milestone I mentioned is that fact that, in most of the accounts of Mat's death, he is being identified as a "podcaster". Our podcast, or soundcast, medium has been around for almost 20 years now but it's only now being recognized as a profession and I think that, through his untimely passing, Mat is the first among us to have the status of "podcaster" dignified by the mainstream press.

In honor of Mat George, we've got a short clip that includes his final sign-off from the last episode of She Rates Dogs to drop before his death. Gone too soon at the age of 26, rest in peace Mat George. He and Michaela's show is very entertaining, and I urge you to listen to She Rates Dogs from wherever you get your soundcasts.

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WFODThe inspiration for playing the next clip came up on Twitter this past week, when I saw the the account for WFOD, or Wheelbarrow Full of Dicks, as it is actually called, had retweeted a tweet from Spreaker, which had asked them, "Has your podcast received any media coverage?" They answered, "We were featured on Succotash Show twice!" Which is true: First in Epi47 back in 2013, and again in Epi100 in 2014. (They were also mentioned in Epi141 for their wrong side of the argument position of Soundcast vs Podcast, when they said "soundcast" sounds "silly".) Well, Mike and the gang, clearly your stance was wrong as the world has long since embraced "soundcast" BUT we're not sore winners at Succotash and we are pleased and proud have having run the soundcast gamut along with you lo these many years. So hoping that the third times the charm, here is a clip from the most recent episode of Wheelbarrow Full of Dicks, in which the crew reminisces back to the beginning of the pandemic and a little old felon named Joe Exotic.

Story WorthySo one of the reasons I even saw the tweet from Wheelbarrow Full of Dicks was that it got re-tweeted by longtime soundcast friend Christine Blackburn. We have only ever crossed paths in real life at the old LA Podcast Festivals, but she's always been game to recommend soundcasts and help connect me to folks to interview for this show. And her show, the Story Worthy soundcast, is one of the longest running story-telling shows out there. And she's done a great job of gamifying the format over the years and in various kinds of judged settings, including Story Smash, which you can catch on YouTube. (See the blog entry for this episode at our homesite, SuccotashShow.com, for clickable links to the show I'm mentioning as well as the socials for the people themselves!) So, anyway, I figured it was high time to clip Christine's show. This snippet comes from recent Episode 684 featuring guest comedian and video director Gary Robinson. They're chatting about how some celebrities become so heavily identified for a defining role.

Death Is HilariousNow I certainly don't mean this episode of Succotash to be a downer, what with the memorial notice about Mat George up top and all, but I had received a note this week from Rachel Diamond, a PR assistant for a soundcast called Death Is Hilarious, asking if I'd give it a listen and consider playing a clip. So I listened and I liked it and I clipped it and it's here. Hosted by Tawny Platis, a widowed comedian who lost her husband George just a couple of years ago, and helped by her friend Sam Peterson, she was determined to channel her grief in helping herself and others to heal, find relief, and the power to laugh again in the face of death and other trauma. This clip is from a recent installment where Tawny chats with alt New York comic Ben Wasserman about dealing with the passing of his father.

Monster PartyGetting back into the swing with one more old fave this show, it's a clip from a recent episode of Monster Party. Hosted by a quartet of my old chums Matt Weinhold, Shawn Sheridan, Larry Strothe, and James Gonis, they usually sit around or, more recently because of the pandemic, Zoom around with a guest and go to town on horror, suspense, and sci-fi movies. They recently had a phenomenal "get" of a guest, actor Steve Railsback, and they talk extensively with Steve about his long career in movies and TV. A film that he became well-known for was 1980's The Stuntman, in which he starred with Peter O'Toole, and directed by Richard Rush. In this clip, the guys talk to Steve about that project and he gets into what it was like working with the likes of O'Toole and director Rush. (NOTE: If you download THIS week's episode, you'll hear yours truly – that's right: Me, – guesting on the show for a couple of hours or so yakking about movies in the theme of "Summer Scare-cation". A ton of fun and you can grab it everywhere online.)

91 Donkey LaneRounding our our true handful of clips – that's 5: One for each finger – is 91 Donkey Lane, a very funny sketch-ish soundcast that feastures the misadventures of Robert Bacon and Nate Lopez who become roommates in an apartment at 91 Donkey Lane, a place described as "magical but very dangerous." This clip is from the episode entitled "Total Recall", and featured Robert trying desperately to get away on a "mind vacation" so he can relax. This requires the same technology seen in the movie Total Recall, and the doctor helping him sounds suspiciously like Arnold Schwarzenegger. And the first place he travels to is the version of Mars featured in the Total Recall movie.

Too many clips for us to get to the Tweetsack this week — sorry Tweety — but we'll hit it next time.

Remember to listen for me on this week's edition of the Monster Party soundcast. If you have seen any of friend-of-Succotash comedian Dana Carvey's Instagram postings lately, @TheDanaCarvey, and see him using these kind of flat photo puppets of Joe Biden, well, that's MY handiwork! For reals. We used to make these bizarre puppet videos years ago and he's started to do some new ones as part of his soundcast Fantastic! With Dana Carvey. So he called me up and asked me to make up some new ones.

Up next week in this very same feed will be Tyson Saner with another sweaty clutch of soundcast clips for you so be sure to come back around. And don't be afraid to rate and review our show up on Apple or Google Podcasts, especially with some tasty 5-star reviews.

Stay safe as the summer wears on and the Delta COVID variant spreads out. Mask up inside when you can, wash your hands in a thorough manner – you know that drill – and and if anyone should happen to tap you on the shoulder to ask if you've heard anything good lately, please be sure to pass the Succotash.

— Marc Hershon

Saluton! Estas mi Tyson Saner. I am your host this week on Epi261 of Succotash, the Comedy Soundcast Soundcast. Thank you for joining me! In case you missed last week's Episode 260, my co-host - and every-other-show-host - Marc Hershon gathered a quartet of clips from the soundcasts Better Off Better, BHHcast, Play With Pain, and Plumbing the Death Star. If you get the chance, I urge you to check that out sometime by looking for our show on Apple or Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, and some other places including in the archive at our homesite at SuccotashShow.com.

This episode I've got clips from 3 Girls 1 Kitchen, Strange Times, and Round Springfield. I've also got a fun ad for Passive Aggro Pants from our longtime fake sponsor Henderson's Pants to throw into the mix…because, after all, what would an episode of Succotash be without a segment devoted to a sponsor that we've never seen dime one from because THEY DON'T EXIST!

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3 Girls 1 Kitchen This is a show for the internet age. Filled to the brim with not only food, but a recipe for disaster. Join Lana, Olivia, and Alexa as they talk dating, sex, culture, and interview some of today's hottest celebs. Our clip comes from just last month: June 4th, 2021 and, in this episode, the girls get political and share their views on Caitlyn Jenner running for governor, Lana reveals some major life news, and they discuss how different attachment styles can affect relationships.

Strange TimesI clipped "Gash", the June 29th episode of this weekly comedy & satirical podcast presented by Davian Dent, Kat Sorens & Dom Risk. Davian is out of hospital but quite clearly still under the influence of the industrial-grade pain killers he was prescribed…

Round SpringfieldThis Simpsons-adjacent podcast is hosted by Allie Goertz and Julia Prescott, interviewing writers, directors, showrunners, and voice-actors from the Simpsons-verse on their various paths to Springfield, failed pilots, other projects, and beyond. Although these guys are still churning out episodes today, we flash back to March 30th, 2015 for "Flaming Moe's" (with J. Elvis Weinstein). Weinstein sets the stage for Allie and Julia on what the world was like when The Simpsons' Cheers-centric episode first aired.

I hope you find something to enjoy or at least find interesting in trhis week's bounty. I'm leaving "funny" out of the conversation because of how subjective humor is. Comedy can be elusive but soundcasts are plentiful. I didn't really have more to that thought, it's just two things that are true next to each other. Not all soundcasts are meant to be funny after all.

Here's a secret: Life isn't meant to be funny. Actually, I have no idea if that's true or not because it implies that life is supposed to have any sort of meaning and I am not the authority on that subject. Life can be very funny and not just strange but also the "ha-ha" variety.

In the next episode, #262, Marc Hershon will have something for you to listen to…but since that's in my future I have no idea what that something will be except that it will likely be comedy and/or soundcast-related in some way…although it does not have to be. If you decide to listen again in 2 weeks I will be back with something else. Until then, be decent to each other, beware of asymptomatic spread, and if someone asks if you've heard anything interesting lately would you please pass the Succotash?

— Tyson Saner

Hello, friend-o! As our announcer, Bill Heywatt, says, I AM Marc Hershon, your every-other-weekly-host of Succotash, the Comedy Soundcast soundcast. And this is Epi260, clocking in just as we pass the half-year mark for 2021. Here in the US we've got COVID-19 on the run, except for those pesky variants. If you are elsewhere in the world, here's hoping for the best for you and yours.

Before I get into the comedy soundcasts that I will be featuring clips from this week, let me check in and ask if you were able to catch last week's installment, Epi259, with my alternating co-host Tyson Saner, in which he featured snippets from Self Esteem Party, Conversation For Adults, and Comedy Bang Bang. You can catch that show, or any other past 'sode, at our homesite SuccotashShow.com. You can also get pretty far back at Apple or Google Podcasts, Spotify, Sticher, and even SoundCloud will let you flip back a few weeks.

For the shows I'm clipping this week, I just kind of took a scattershot look through a number of comedy soundcast lists for 2021 and snagged a couple from some I heard recently and a couple I hadn't even heard of until this week. We've got samples from Better Off Better, BHHcast, Play With Pain, and Plumbing the Death Star. I also have a brief moment from a bit I contributed to from The Los Angeles Breakfast Club: On The Air, a soundcast hosted by Phil Leirness that I serve as the announcer for. This episode is sponsored by Henderson's Pants new Space Pants – Henderson's, where no pants have gone before!

Before we get to the clippage, I wanted to give a recommendation to a pretty bold comedy-slash-psychological experiment currently on Netflix. If you haven't caught Bo Burnham's Inside special, you might want to check it out. Don't be expecting to see him enteraining a crowd of people in a theater, though. This is way different. Very unique. It's his exploration of his comedy during the pandemic, where the entire show takes place in one room and he's apparently doing all the tech himself. Lots of talking to the camera and to himself. There's music, confessions, and tears. I found one of the songs, "White Woman's Instagram" from the special up on YouTube so I thought I'd throw it in here. The lyrics are amazingly on-tone but you should check out the video from the special because Bo's visual interpretation of the subject in question is fantastic.

I found Inside pretty powerful and totally captivating. And just a tad claustrophobic. If you're up for something different, whether you know Bo's work or not, check it out on Netflix.

Alright, let's get into THIS show now, and onto the clips!

Play With PainFull disclosure before I continue: I am not a sports fan. Never have been and likely never will be. I'm not sure why, but watching games live or on TV has never grabbed me. Football, baseball, basketball, soccer, the Olympic events – just not my thing. The pity of it is that there are a lot of comedy soundcasts that are connected to sports, either directly or just because the hosts and guests are into them. Like the Monday Morning Podcast with Bill Burr. I love Burr. He's one of the funniest humans around today. But as soon as he goes into a sptry about sports or having watched some game or another over the weekend, I'm lost. But I hereby resolve to better. For YOU. And I'm going to start with Play with Pain with Chet Waterhouse. Now Chet is a character, an old play-by-play sports announcer, as created and played by comedian Jeff Cesario. He usually has a comedian on as a guest, someone else who's at least somewhat into sports, and they kickk around a lot of the sports news of the day. We're clipping a recent show with guest Paul "Sully" Sullivan but he was a little audio glitchy on the show so I'm just featuring Chet's sports update, a regular feature on the show.

Plumbing the Death StarI am rarely surprised any more when I find a soundcast that I think no one else knows about and then find out it's a pretty big hit and has been for a while. The soundcast world is just too damn big now to get that lucky. But I'm glad I found Plumbing the Death Star. Out of Australia and the wonderfully named Sanspants Radio Netowkr, the show features Joel L. Zammit, Jackson B. Daly, and another Joel, Joel Duscher. The loosely-wrapped premise of the show is to bring logic into the worlds of fantasy and sci-fi and pop culture in general. Our featured clip is from their recent episode entitled "Is It Ethical to Bust Ghosts?", which means it only took them until now to get around to an almost 40-year-old movie. Although with the new Ghostbusters: Afterlife supposed to drop this Fall, maybe it couldn't be more timely.

Better Off BetterTouting their show Better Off Better as "a comedic, cut-throat journey to self-betterment", hosts Chris K. Daniels, Jenny Whipple, and Sam Caswell are constantly challenging each other to get better and, well, being better. Called "The best comedy podcast of 2021" by their moms, each episode features a new wrinkle in how to make oneself better. At least in theory. For their recent 50th episode, the trio decided to go hairless down south of the border by using a couple of "experimental hair removal" techniques: Sugar Waxing and Sandpaper Shaving. How did it all come out? Or off? We don't have time to get into the whole thing on our show, but here's a taste…

BHHcastThe "Bah-cast", which is actually spelled BHHcast, features hosts Jamie Bendall, Adam Haigh, and Jamie Hernan, interviews comedians and other guests with, as they put it, an incredible backstory. The kickoff to their Season 5 a little over a month ago, an episode entitled "Tandem Skydiving" featured comedian and family man Paul Virzi. Reflecting what I was saying earlier in this show, the BHHcast seems to dip heavily into sports and I listened diligently, although our clip gets more into a show that Paul had a little while back called Gun To Your Head, where he would force his guests to make tough decisions based on the premise there was a gun to your head so you HAD to answer. The gang decides to play a little of that game here…

The music I'm using under the TweetSack listings this week, by the way, was composed and performed by my buddy DJ Knifeketeer. That particular number is called "Rocket Hat on the Run" and you can find the entire Rocket Hat soundtrack on YouTube by subscribing to DJ Knifeketeer.

If you were hoping for more of episode 260 of this show, I'm afraid that's our time. You may, of course, listen to it back again as many times as you like. And if you hang out in this same feed next week, you'll be treated to my compadre Tyson Saner and his newest selection of soundcastd clippage for you. Special thanks to our announcer Bill Heywatt and our amazing producer/engineer Joe Paulino, not to mention booth assistant Kenny Durgess, our secret weapon and the hardest working man in soundcasting next to Paul F. Tompkins.

Enjoy your summer while you can, check out some if not all of the soundcasts we've sampled for you here today, and if anyone ever asks if you've heard anything good lately, please be sue to pass the Succotash, won't you?

— Marc Hershon

Saluton, estas mi Tyson Saner and I am your host this week for Epi259 of Succotash, the Comedy Soundcast Soundcast. Thank you for joining me. Did you happen to catch last week's episode hosted by my co-host and every-other-show-host Marc Hershon? It was called "Mixin' Up A Mess O'Soundcasts" and featured clips from soundcasts Did You Get My Text?, Left-Handed Radio, May Contain Nuts, Stay F. Homekins, and a mini-clip from The Midnight Miracle. He also featured a clip from a recent Jock Doc Podcast in which he guest-starred. That episode of Succotash is still available to listen to on Apple and Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, and several other listening platforms so why not check it out when you get the chance? It's worth your time.

This week, I've got clips for you from soundcasts Self Esteem Party, Conversation For Adults, and Comedy Bang Bang...and since it's now officially Summer, we're brought to you by Henderson's Pants Wake Island Abbreviated Trousers.

I can't think of a single reason to delay the proceedings any further so…on with the clips!

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Self Esteem Party They call themselves "the perfect blend of comedy and honesty. Each week Alana Johnston interviews one of her showbiz pals and dives right into the core of who they are in this hilarious and painfully real podcast that explores all things Self Esteem." Our clip is from their episode from March 16, 2021, with guest Nick Wiger (Doughboys, How Did This Get Played?) talking about phone-free Sundays, Alana's text anxiety and how Nick is now best friends with Alana's dad!

Conversation For Adults Culture-critic Jimi Izrael rediscovers America by talking to people you may or may not know, about everything. What comes up, comes out. Lots of fun. No filter. We're featuring a clip with guest Andy Kindler (a past Succotash guest - Epi55: Noshin' with Andy Kindler).

Comedy Bang Bang: The Podcast Join host Scott Aukerman (Comedy Bang! Bang! on IFC, Mr. Show) for a weekly podcast that blends conversation and character work from today's funniest comedians. While Scott begins by traditionally interviewing the celebrities, the open-door policy means an assortment of eccentric oddballs can pop by at any moment to chat, compete in games, and engage in comic revelry. Our clip is from just back around the corner: June 21st of 2021, when director Edgar Wright returned along with Ron and Russell Mael of the band Sparks to talk to Scott all about their new documentary The Sparks Brothers.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing and rating us wherever that is possible you would be doing us the greatest of favors because it helps people find us. How did YOU find us? Did someone recommend us to you? Did you click on us out of curiosity because we were on the same page as something else you were looking for? Another option that I can't think of at the moment?

Anyway, "tune in" to our next episode which should be #260 and "see" what Marc Hershon cooks up for you. Thank you for listening, Be Decent To Each Other, and if someone ask you if you've heard anything interesting lately would you mind telling them about us? We would really appreciate it. It's what we mean when we say "Please, Pass The Succotash".

— Tyson Saner

Hey, you. Glad to have you here for Epi258 of Succotash, the Comedy Soundcast Soundcast, where I, Marc Hershon, am Mixin' Up a Mess O' Soundcasts this week. Details on what shows I'm featuring in a sec but first, did you miss last week's Epi 257, hosted by my alternating co-host Mr. Tyson Saner? He featured a triumphant trio of soundcast clips from Blake's Takes for God's Sakes, Good Game Nice Try, and Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard. You can always grab that or any other previous installment of Succotash right on our homsight, at SuccotashShow.com. Or pretty much anywhere else you normally gobble up your soundcast treats: Apple and Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio…search for Succotash Show on the web and we're sure to pop up.

As for what I've got in store for you this time around, I'm going a little differently that usual. I normally harvest four clips from various comedy soundcasts but I've got kind of a mixed bag special for you. A combo platter, if you will. There are some brand new shows and a smattering of things from a few years ago. We'll be hearing from Patton Oswalt and Meredith Salenger in the new Did You Get My Text?; a couple of comedy sketch commercials from Left-Handed Radio; May Contain Nuts, a BBC soundcast from Scotland; Stay F. Homekins, the pandemic-inspired show from Paul F. Tompkins, and a mini-clip from The Midnight Miracle by Dave Chapelle and assorted co-hosts. In addition, I'll be featuring a clip from the Jock Doc Podcast. Yes, I featured the JDP on my last installment, it's true. BUT this clip features yours truly appearing as a character on the most recent installment of Dr. London Smith's show and, gosh, I'd hate for you to miss a minute of me!

Plus this episode is sponsored by Henderson's Pants new Down Under Pants, mate!

Here's something I forget to mention a lot of these shows but if you're like to read what I have to say about comedy soundcasts and not just listen to me blather on, I am part of the squad that writes the this Week in Comedy Podcasts column over on Vulture.com each week. We each pick one and write about 200 words about it. That column drops every Thursday, usually, and this week I'm reviewing…well, that would be telling. Suffice it to say that I will be reviewing one of the shows that I am clipping in this very episode. In fact, it might be this first clip…

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Did You Get My Text?…Which is from the first episode of a brand new soundcast. It's called Did You Get My Text? And features comedian Patton Oswalt and his wife, Meredith Salenger, who – according to the show blurb – live in the same house yet text each other more than people who live across the country from one another. Here, they sit down and go through their texts together. Our clip is about a photo Patton texted to Meredith which you might have seen. It got quite a bit of attention. It's a woman being interviewed on the news from her home and in the background, displayed prominently on a bookshelf, is the kind of object you normally wouldn't be showing off.

The Jock Doc PodcastNext up is a clip from The Jock Doc Podcast. And yes, yes I know I JUST featured a clip from Dr. London Smith and Cameron week before last because they uploaded it to us. But THIS clip is different. It's special. It's got ME in it! But not just me, I'm playing a zany character with a bad French accent. I play Guy Niçoise, a "reclaimed food chef". Which means he makes meals out of garbage, basically. Bon apetít!

Left Handed RadioA podcast crew that has been around even longer than your Succotash family is Left Handed Radio. Started in 2010, a year before us, it is hosted by Anna Rubanova and Adam Bozarth. It's largely a collection of original comedy sketches and parodies, mostly of public radio shows and ads. Their publicist, Heidi Vanderlee, from Positive Jam PR, sent me a couple of their spots for Father's Day, which was just this past Sunday. Let's listen together…

May Contain NutsFor this next clip we leave the States and head for Scotland. BBC Scotland, to be exact, and a TV show AND a soundcast called May Contain Nuts, to be exacter. This clip is from episode 6 of Series 3 that dropped a year ago this month. The show touts itself as being about "Four hosts, one subject, no script," and features hosts Stuart Condy, Russell Miller, Chris Miller and Craig-James Moncur. This clip is from a show all about Stonehenge and these guys are pretty funny. I think. Their Scottish burrs are so thick I had to listen a couple or twelve times to get it all, so don't be afraid to hit that rewind button.

Stay F. HomekinsWhat did soundcasting mainstay Paul F. Tompkins and his wife Janie Haddad Tompkins do during the COVID-19 lockdown? They produced a soundcast of course, called Stay F. Tompkins. And it's still going, although I'm not sure how much longer they'll be keeping it going – Paul's got to get back to visiting all those other soundcasts! In this clip, Paul starts to get into having been a guest on Larry King's show…

The Midnight MiracleThe Midnight Miracle is a soundcast that came out of a summer camp that Dave Chappelle put on in Ohio. The show description calls it "a thought-provoking podcast that uniquely blends the salon and variety show traditions while providing a glimpse into the inner lives of hosts Talib Kweli, yasiin bey, Dave Chappelle, and friends." It's available under Apple Podcasts' new paid subscription model, so I couldn't get an ordinary clip from the show BUT they released this two minute blurp – that's a cross between a blip and a blurb – so here you go…

You had enough? Me, too. Be sure to pop in next week for Tyson Saner and Episode 259's rasher of soundcast clippage. Remember to give a listen to me guesting on the Jock Doc Podcast. If you want advanced voting rights, I guess you'll have to find someplace more forward-thinking that the USA. And if anyone asks if you've heard anything good lately, feel free to pass that ol' devil Succotash!

— Marc Hershon

Saluton, estas mi Tyson Saner and I welcome you to Succotash Epi257. Last week in Epi256, show creator Marc Hershon had a quartet of soundcast clips on offer to you from the soundcasts known as The Ron Burgundy Podcast, May I Elaborate? with JB Smoove, Comedy Has An Ouchie, and The Jock Doc Podcast. I can, with great confidence, say that it was an excellent show last week for potentially getting people interested in other folks' soundcasting efforts from around the globe.

I do actually listen to episodes of Succotash that I don't host because I am also a fan of the show which, as we are wont to point out lately, has been going on for 10 years now. One of the side effects of listening to as many soundcasts as I have been for over a decade now is that my mind is constantly exposed to new information in a way that apparently sacrifices some of my ability to recall certain things.

For example, in this week's edition of the show I've got clips for you from the soundcasts Blake's Takes for God's Sakes, Good Game Nice Try, and Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard…and I think I may have a memory of Succotash featuring clips from at least one of these soundcasts before…but I am not sure.…Also, I refuse to look it up because I am really not that worried about it.

So why bring it up? I gotta write about something. Like the fact this episode is sponsored by Henderson's Pants new Pushover Pants! See? I'm really just making one-sided conversation with you. And speaking of one-sided conversations…

Some soundcasts are hosted by one person, without a co-host and our first clip on offer is one of those:

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Blake's Takes for God's Sakes Through (often incoherent) free-association, comedian Blake Wexler improvises 45 minutes of takes on subjects ranging from his own massive legs to the best animated bears of all time. Our clip was harvested from the episode that dropped May 26th, 2021.

Good Game Nice Try What happens when a Twitch star joins forces with the brains behind Conan's Clueless Gamer? Pure video game magic! Each week Sonja Reid and Aaron Bleyaert nerd out with your favorite actors, musicians, comedians, gamers, and athletes who are as passionate about gaming as they are. From T-Pain venting about Pac-Man to AtomicMari becoming a real-life Lara Croft, guests share the games that they most loathe and love. Plus there will be epic stories, reviews, recommendations, and giveaways. I went back to the very beginning of this soundcasts' archive to take a clip from the first episode which posted on November 20th, 2020 and is called: T-Pain vs. Pac-Man.

Armchair Expert with Dax ShepardDax Shepard loves talking to people. Endlessly fascinated by the messiness of being human, he finds people who are vulnerable and honest about their struggles and shortcomings to be incredibly sexy. With more than a decade of sobriety, a degree in Anthropology and four years of improv training, Dax attempts, along with producer/sidekick Monica Padman, to discover human "truths" without any laboratory work, clinical trials or data collection. In other words, an Armchair Expert. Our clips is snipped from Epi331 that dropped recently, on May 31st, 2021, featuring returning guest Vincent D'Onofrio (Full Metal Jacket, Jurassic World, Men in Black).

After that we end up together…at the end. I hope you find some entertainment in this program, and that you might seek out more content from the creators that we're sampling for you. I hope you come back next week for more content from other people's soundcasts…or perhaps Mr. Hershon will do a "Chats" episode with a guest and you can enjoy THAT content.

Maybe you'll go back thru our archive at www.succotashshow.com and find the mountain of entertainment that we've both made AND collected over the last 10 years…me for 8 years…maybe you will go to Apple Podcasts to rate and review our efforts favorably if it's how you feel about us. I hope you do. Maybe you'll tell other people about the content you heard within this or past episodes and recommend it to other people. That would be awesome. Maybe, you'll go to one of the many music purchasing websites that exist to buy a copy of the song "Hope" created by myself and onetime soundcaster and guest of Succotash Korey Epps. It has been available for purchase for a little over 2 years now. It's a little more than four minutes long and it costs somewhere between 1 and 2 dollars and then you can love it forever, and add it to your posi-corps dance party playlist to be enjoyed by anyone who is exposed to it. Trust me, it's worth it.

I'll catch you again in Epi259 so, until then, be decent to each other and please don't forget to pass the Succotash.

— Tyson Saner

Howdy, friend, and welcome to Epi256 of Succotash, the Comedy Soundcast Soundcast, which I am entitling "Playing Through A Foursome" because I, Marc Hershon, have precisely four comedy soundcast clips for you in this show. More on those in a moment. Did you happen to catch last week's episode 255 of our little show? That's when your every-other-weekly-alternating-host Tyson Saner took you on a tour of a trio of comedy soundcasts, including Childlike At Best with Mike Valdes, Shut Up, I Love It, and Distractible. It's never too late to catch that or any past edition of Succotash – in addition to the fleet of distribution points like Apple and Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, and more, you can always resort to our homesite, SuccotashShow.com.

In fact, you can dip back into our storehouse of Succotash any time you want at our website, where every episode is archived and available for listening. What's more, if you want to get to the homesite of any of the shows we feature clips from or find the socials of the hosts and guests on those shows, you can usually find links on the blog entry that accompanies each episode – again – at SuccotashShow.com. (I know that Tyson takes great pains to read those links out during his episodes but I'm the executive producer of Succotash and I am – how to you say? – lazy. But those links are up for every episode regardless of who's hosting. And as a blanket back-announce for the clips you'll be hearing this episode, all are available on Apple & Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, and pretty much everywhere find soundcasts are streamed and/or downloaded.

As for the foursome of awesome clips I'm sharing with you this week, I've got three from Column A and one from Column B. Column A in this case are clips from shows I harvested myself, which includes The Ron Burgundy Podcast, May I Elaborate with JB Smoove, and Comedy Has An Ouchie. Column B are those clips sent in by a soundcaster or listener and, this week, we enjoy another hit off The Jock Doc Podcast as submitted by host Dr. London Smith. In unrelated news, I'll be appearing as Guy Niçoise, a chef of reclaimed food products, with a bad French accent, on The Jock Doc Podcast a little later this month.

This episode of Succcotash, the Comedy Soundcast Soundcast, is brought to you by Henderson's Pants, makers of the patented Pain Pants, designed to help you lose weight quick and painfully.

Just before I get to the clips, I wanted to share some exciting news with you. We don't really have a great way to track how this show is doing in terms of ratings. With some many thousands of soundcasts in the world today, it's amazing that anyone can find us at all. But I got a note from someone named Carlos Tenor at a place called Pod Status and I guess they track rankings of shows. He wanted to let me – and by extension, you – know that Succotash is ranked 200 in the category Comedy Interviews on Apple Podcasts in China, and 241 in Germany's Apple Podcasts' rankings. So, if you were dying to know how we're faring in those markets – BOOM. Pretty much tastemakers and influencers in my book.

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The Ron Burgundy PodcastWill Ferrell is back for his 4th season playing the title character in The Ron Burgundy Podcast, the guy he made famous as the blustering, not-very-smart, TV news anchorman in the movie Anchorman. Along with this long-suffering sidekick, Carolina Barlow, Ron is ready to take on the world again with commentary, interviews, and a mind that still doesn't quite seem to be all there. The new season kicked off just last week and our clip is from the first episode "Ron Takes The Vaccine." Ron seems a little hesitant to actually get the shot.

May I Elaborate?Another guy that consistently makes me laugh is JB Smoove, whether he's on Curb Your Enthusiasm with Larry David or guesting on a talk show or spouting words of wisdom. That's what he's doing now, five days a week, on his new soundcast May I Elaborate? Joined by Miles Grose, who selects some tidbit of wisdom from various sources – mostly self-help enlightenment desk calendars, I think. Then JB breaks those philosophies down as only he can. Warning that the following clip is un-bleeped and has some salty language, for those unfamiliar with JB's style.

Comedy Has An OuchieA pretty new entry into Soundcastland is Comedy Has An Ouchie, hosted by Steve Han, Phylicia McLeod, and Ashley Whitehurst, a trio of comedy improvisors with their roots in the Chicago scene. But their newer generation of performers, the system in the comedy world is rife with problems both on the surface and behind the scenes. Each episode they kick around relevant topics and try to come up with some solutions. This clip is from their episode last week called "Chicago Is Where It's At" and they are right in the midst of the ideal comedy venue wish list.

The Jock Doc PodcastOur final clip of the show comes from The Jock Doc Podcast, literally. Host Dr. London Smith sent along a clip from a recent episode, along with this note: "Sorry the file isn't in simple audio format, but my cohost sent this brief moment from this week's episode to me today in group chat and it was short enough that I thought it might be a nice goody for Succotash." Love it, Doc. Thanks for thinking of us and we can convert pretty much any audio format into the thin, tinny-sounding show you're hearing now. He goes on: "The Jock Doc Podcast is an improvised comedy with the premise of being a medical education podcast. Listeners can find us at all major podcast platforms or just find links at JockDocPodcast.com Thanks! Dr. London Smith (.com)"

Tyson's back next week with more soundcast clip fun and I might do an interview the week after that, considering how well this show is regarded in the Comedy Interview field in both China and Germany. In the meantime, if anyone should happen to ask if you have heard anything good lately, feel free to pass the Succotash!

— Marc Hershon

Saluton, estas mi Tyson Saner and welcome to episode #255 of Succotash, formerly Succotash Shut-In, formerly Succotash The Comedy Soundcast Soundcast, formerly Succotash, the Comedy Podcast Podcast. Now in our 5th season and 10th year. Last week in Epi254, original show host and my every-other-week co-host Marc Hershon brought you a quartet of clips from the soundcasts Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast, The Amazing Nerd Show, I Shake My Head, and Who's Right?. That show is still available wherever you listen to soundcasts…or "podcasts" as many people still refer to them as. Of course you can also listen to the archived version of the show at our homesite www.Succotashshow.com.

This week I'm bringing you some clips as well. I'm still looking around for guests and I do have a couple lined up but that's for a future "chats" episode and since you are here with me now and I've got clips for you then this will be a clips show. This episode's clips are from the soundcasts Childlike At Best with Mike Valdes, Shut Up, I Love It, and Distractible. I've also got an advertisement from Succotash's longtime sponsor Henderson's Pants for their new CoverAlls for you that is specific to "this time of year"…whatever THAT means. (I do realize that it makes no sense to say "whatever THAT means" in this context due to the fact that it would be a ridiculous thing to suggest that I didn't know EXACTLY what I meant when I said that. The particular "that" being the "THAT" in "whatever THAT means". Please take note of the quotation marks you can't see me using if you aren't reading this.) Tally-Ho!

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Childlike At Best with Mike Valdes Every week your favorite grown up kid, Mike Valdes, chats with his favorite people about adolescence. Listen as they dive into a cereal bowl full of nostalgia, funny stories & more! Our featured clip from Mike's April 26th, 2021, episode, in which he chatted with Josh Sneed (DryBar Comedy, Comedy Central) about growing up in Cincinnati, getting booed at a baseball game, & learning that you're never too old to have an all-out Nerf war at work. Their featured cereal for the episode was Kellogg's Little Debbie: Oatmeal Creme Pies cereal!

Shut Up I Love It Comedy writers Sasha Feiler and Joe Cabello host Shut Up I Love It, a comedy soundcast that celebrates the aspects of life that make you go "Ooh!" and others go "Yuck!". Our clip is from the May 9th, 2021, episode featuring guest Erika Curry, a writer/performer and co-host of the Trashy Trashy Podcast. She's also a big fan of a classic cult film Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999) starring the drop-dead-gorgeous Denise Richards, Allison Janney, Amy Adams, Brittany Murphy and a couple of Kirstens.

Distractible The Distractible podcast with Mark Fischbach, Wade Barnes, and Bob Muyskens is a space to have thoughtful discussions about funny, out there, or otherwise interesting stories from everyday life. Also an opportunity for three friends to remind each other they are not as smart as they think. The featured clip is from the spisode that dropped May 17th, 2021 entitled "Hair", wherein the guys discuss all things hair (and the lack there of)! They warn of the dangers of hair removal, explore the strange hair trends of ancient Greek statues, and discuss sci-fi scenarios where the elite harvest hair and organs from the less fortunate. I chose this clip because…Teratoma…

And that's all the content I have for you this week. I do hope you enjoy what you hear, and maybe now you'll have an idea for what to listen to next…Maybe you had that already…maybe you were going to listen to one of our past episodes next? It's possible. As I said before, you can find the show archive at SuccotashShow.com (and we do have easily a few hundred other soundcasts that we've featured over the years as possible future listening for you to pass the time with. There's so many more soundcasts out there now than there were when Succotash started...and not everyone is still around…but their archives usually are…often on Google podcasts, iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Podbay, IheartRadio, just to name a few…and you should look into them if you are interested enough to do so.

Thank you for spending time with us, and if you wouldn't mind terribly, could you tell people about us? It's what we mean when we ask you to please pass the Succotash…

— Tyson Saner

Greetings, friend. This is, indeed, Succotash, the Comedy Soundcast Soundcast, Episode 254, and vaxed, taxed, and maxed, I am your every-other-weekly host, Marc Hershon. I'm in the Big chair here at Succotash every other week. Which means for last week, Epi253, Tyson Saner was holding down the fort. He featured three comedy soundcast clips, including Corridor Cast, Let's Chat! with Chris Revill, and Blank Check with Griffin & David. What's that you say? You missed it?! Never fear, you can still catch it wherever fine soundcasts are streamed and/or downloaded, including Apple & Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Soundcloud, iHeart Radio, YouTube and hard to belief but our own homesite: SuccotashShow.com.

As for what I have in store for you this week, I shall not hold you in suspense any longer. We've got fun-sized chunks from Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast, The Amazing Nerd Show, I Shake My Head, and Who's Right? This episode is brought to you by Henderson's Pants, who are reissuing the very first pair of specialty jeans that we advertised on this show 10 years ago: Henderson's Turtleneck Slax!

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Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal PodcastOne of my favorite go-to comedy soundcasts is Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast. Gilbert's always got amazing guests and they always end up wandering down the most bizarre and wonderful sidetracks during the conversation. Sidekick Frank Santopadre helps to goad Gil and his guests back onto the main path (although he's sometimes the one steering them into the weeds.) They recently had comedian Jeff Altman on and, if you don't know Jeff, there was a point in time, back in the 1980s, when he was everywhere. In this clip, Jeff and Gilbert talk about the Comedy Store in LA and about how Jeff's friendship with David Letterman began.

The Amazing Nerd ShowOnto our second Amazing show of the show, and we know it's amazing because it's right there in the title: The Amazing Nerd Show. Hosts Christian and Damon cover a lot of territory each episode because there's a lot – across film, comic, horror, video games, wrestling, and more to nerd out about. In our featured clip, the guys watch the trailer for the upcoming GI Joe Snake Eyes movie and then both pretty much rip into it.

It's time for a word from our sponsor, Henderson's Pants, and as I mentioned up top, this was the very first product that Henderson's Pants advertised with us back in 2011: Their celebrated Turtleneck Slax!

I Shake My HeadHere's the second soundcast this episode that has its home over on the Podbean Network, and it's one we've clipped before, back in Epi188 a couple of years ago. I Shake My Head is hosted by a couple of friends, Lisa Gibson and Samantha Sperling, women in their early 50s – they've been doing the show so long that in the About section of their website it, they're described as being in their late 40s – and they converse about pretty much any topic that suits their fancy. In this clip, Lisa reveals to Samantha that she believes she has become a vegan, or at least a baby vegan.

Who's Right?The last clip out of the bag this episode is from Who's Right? with Anthony and Doug, a show straight out of Kansas. It's also the third soundcast in a row where I cannot find last names for the hosts. I'm not sure what that means. I do know that these guys kick around a lot of topics. I love the blurb for their show up on Apple Podcasts: "Doug and Anthony tackle big issues and wrestle with the ramifications that come from doing no research." Kinda tells you everything you need to know. In this clip, they get into whether 'tis nobler to vax or not to vax…or to just lie about having gotten the jab at all.

That's the steaming helping of Succotash in store for you this week. I hope you get enough. If not, I heartily welcome you back next week for some more tasty snippets that are being carefully curated, even as we speak, but my cohort and co-host Tyson Saner. Until then, if someone should happen to approach you and ask if you've heard anything good lately, won't you please pass the Succotash?

— Marc Hershon