Succotash Epi263: Flippin' Hot Summer Clips

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!

CLIPS

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.

Doughboys
The 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

Check out this episode!

Succotash Epi262: Revisitin’ 3 Old Faves Plus 2 New Faves

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.

CLIPS

WFOD
The 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 Worthy
So 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 Hilarious
Now 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 Party
Getting 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 Lane
Rounding 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

Check out this episode!

Succotash Epi261: Clippin' My Way Back To You

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!

CLIPS

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 Times
I 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 Springfield
This 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

Check out this episode!

Succotash Epi260: Pickin’ Clips at Random

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 or the special because Bo’s visual inpretation of the subject in question is fantastic. Here is the audio presentation of “White Woman’s Instagram”.

<center><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xHotXbGZiFY" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></center>

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 Pain
Full 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 Star
I 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 Better
Touting 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…

BHHcast
The “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

Check out this episode!