I’m back from the first Los
Angeles Podcast Festival, which was about a week ago. It was pretty much a
success and more well organized than you might imagine four
comedians — Dave Anthony, Graham Elwood, Chris Mancini and Andy Wood — might be able to pull together. There were some interesting panels
on how to promote your podcast and how to soup up your technology, stuff like
that. And a bunch of live podcasts, everybody from Greg Behrendt and Dave
Anthony’s Walking the Room and Superego! to Fitzdog Radio and Doug Loves
Movies. Doug Benson’s show included Marc Maron, Zach
Galafinaikis, Steve Agee, Todd Glass, and Dave Anthony. It was the most hilarious train wreck of a live podcast you’re
liable to see…or hear.
Susan Wygmans, Travis Clark, Me, Brandy Clark |
I got a
chance to meet up with some of the podcasters that I’ve been tweeting and
Skyping with over the past year or so but have never meet face to face! I had
breakfast Travis and Brandy Clark from Tiny Odd Conversations and Susan Wygmans
from Toggle The Switch. I recorded
our conversation for the heck of it so for those really curious about what four podcasters like to shoot the shit
about, just click on the player below. (It's like a Succotash bonus track!)
Here's what waiting for you in this exciting episode...
Firstly, my background music: If you like Bluegrass, check out the tunage behind me in the show's opening. That's It's Okay To Pick It by comedian Denny Johnston and Mark Linford. You can get yourself a copy and can rate it for them over at CDBaby, iTunes and Amazon.
Epi38 features my interview via Skype with friend-of-the-show Dave Nelson, host of the Comedy A-Go-Go podcast and who
recently dropped his 100th episode. David interviewed me right after the very first episode of Succotash landed and I'm a little embarrassed it's taken this long to return the favor.As far as the clips for this episode go, I was so inundated by the popular shows at the Podcast Festival last week that I thought I’d try to feature clips from shows you might not know about, and a few that you might because I’ve featured them here before.
We’ve heard from Rob
Maher and Joe Robinson of The Rob & Joe
Show out of Baltimore before. They’re always got some interesting chatter going
on and, in this clip, it’s about Rob’s encounter at a standup show with a blind
audience member after the show. They livecast every Monday night at
7:30 PM East Coast time at their homesite.
I’m not quite sure what the thing
is with the Ben-A-Pod podcast. Host Benjamin Bubb has guests, features, chat, and
“audio drama” but Ben’s voice is electronically modulated
throughout the show. It’s like listening to a Stephen Hawking podcast. I’m
not sure if it wouldn’t drive you crazy hearing it all the time, but it’s
definitely different. Especially this clip which get super-meta as Ben-A-Pod
calls an automated help line.
I actually shouldn’t be playing this
epi's Burst O’ Durst with Will Durst because it’s kind of time-sentitive — it’s based on the second
presidential debate and now the third and final debate has already come and gone. But it’s Durst, dammit, so here it is!
Hope you enjoy this episode. If you’re a comedy podcaster
and want us to feature a clip from your show on Succotash, just send along a 3-5 minute MP3
or WAV chunk to clips@SuccotashShow.com.
And if you’re a fan of a particular comedy podcaster, let us know what it is by
dropping a line to me, Marc@SuccotashShow.com
and I’ll track it down.
Until next time, please remember to pass the Succotash!
— Marc Hershon
Until next time, please remember to pass the Succotash!
— Marc Hershon