Succotash Shut-In Epi204: Reelin' Off The Clips

Saluton! Estas me, Tyson Saner. I am your every-other-epi host for this iteration of Succotash, The Comedy Soundcast Soundcast, currently called Succotash Shut-In, The Soundcast Stimulus Package. But you probably know by now because you clicked on it, and we thank you for it. Next week Marc Hershon will be doing the hosting duties but this week is mine and welcome to it.

I've got clips for you from a handful of soundcasts you may want to listen to more of in the future. That's how this works. I've got clips from Profiles in Eccentricity, Strange Times, and Nooner. This episode of Succotash is (fake) sponsored by Henderson's Pants' Massage-O-Pedic Trousers and Trumpoetry.com

And away we go…

CLIPS

Profiles in Eccentricities

First up: Profiles in Eccentricities from Starburns Audio. It's a show about weirdos, hosted by comedians John Fahy, Aaron Pita, and Matt Brousseau. Each episode tells a tale about someone who lives afoul of the rules most of us live by. What I've chosen for you is from the show from April 15, 2020. It profiles Franz Kafka, and it's called "Franz Kafka: Neurotic Maniac. The episode's description reads: This week Matt treats the boys to the life of the famously strange author of The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka. Despondent in relationships and acutely tormented by his father, Kafka is an overly neurotic figure awaiting judgment.

You can email them at ProfilesInEccentricities@gmail.com, and you can listen to them on Stitcher and Apple Podcasts, and they even have a YouTube presence.

Strange Times

From Davian Dent, Kat Sorens, and Dom Risk, longtime listeners of Succotash will know that we have clipped Strange Times quite a few times. And in fact, we have also had David Dent on as a guest at least twice. I've chosen a clip for you from the May 9 show 2020 entitled invisible Jews. His description says "This week our wayward sons turn their third eye to cyclists, furlough life, Carol Baskin, coronavirus, locked-down competitiveness, and sex music." Our clip features talk about VE day.

Nooner

Our final selection is from the Nooner soundcast on the Smodcast Network, the weekly live show from Kevin Smith's soundcast internet radio. It's currently hosted by Marty Yu, Steven Krueger, Cassandra Cardenes, and John Sylvain. This clip is from Episode 191 from July 9, of 2019. It's description reads: "Today on a very special Nooner the MIRPs (Minor Internet Radio Personality - As far as I know that term was coined by Nooner…), the MIRPs tried D&D for the first time. John Sylvain DM's - or "dungeon master's" with two special guest stars joining the adventure. Don't worry, there's still the casual racism, odd profanities, frequent over-talking, and a couple current event references tossed in, too. But then there's the looming threat of the dreaded Lich monster."

Now recently, on May 12 2020, the gang at Nooner had another Dungeons and Dragons episode that you can listen to on Soundcloud, on Stitcher, on Apple Podcasts and wherever fine podcasts are purchased and eaten. During a regular show. I maintain a running Tumblr commentary, and you can reach out to Nooner via email by clicking the link.

DONE

Congratulations! You made it to the end! Give yourself a boo-ya. Do people still say "boo-ya"? Have the millennials re appropriated it yet? Or perhaps the generation or two that came after them? How long does it take to make a cultural generation anyway? It's not important. It's a largely made-up idea, anyway.

Speaking of anyway, I hope you enjoyed these few ear morsels I have gathered for your listening experience. And if you do decide to listen to more of the shows I've selected for you, then I've done my job successfully. You can find the homesites and social media links to all these shows we feature on the Succotashshow.com homesite. So why not reach out to those shows and tell them what you think of their material? Tell 'em Succotash Shut-In sent you - we'd appreciate that a great deal. After all, it's what we mean when we ask you to please pass the Succotash.

— Tyson Saner

Succotash Shut-In Epi203: Flippin' Thru Clips

Welcome to Epi203 of Succotash Shut-In, the Soundcast Stimulus Package. I’m Marc Hershon, switch-off co-host with Tyson Saner, each of us taking every other week. That way we can bring you fresh Succotash every week as we do our best to ride out the pandemic lockdown together.

The aim of this season of the show is to bring you short snippets of a variety of comedy soundcasts – a kind of Whitman’s Sampler of funny – so you can then track the ones down that you like and grab their full shows. To make it even easier for your soundcast safari you can easily get to each show by clicking on it's title as it appears below.

I’ve decided to go with a kind of TV-themed rack of soundcasts to play for you durinig the half-hour we have together. We have Office Ladies; Fake Doctors, Real Friends; The Darkest Timeline, and Bonanas for Bonanza.

This episode of Succotash is sponsored by Henderson’s Pants new Foggy Bottom Britches and also Trumpoetry.com.

CLIPS

Office Ladies

If you were a fan of TV's The Office – particularly the American version of Ricky Gervais’ genius mockumentary brainchild – or have thought about jumping in to fill up those long days and nights of sheltering in place, Office Ladies is the perfect “watch-along” soundcast. It’s hosted by Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey, who played Pam Beesley and Angela Martin on the show. And it’s an episode-by-episode, one-for-one breakdown, of the entire run of the TV show, which was on from 2005 to 2013 on NBC.

One of the most recent shows tracked the season finale episode of season two, entitled “Casino Night”, which had been written by Steve Carell, who not just played but embodied Michael Scott, the boss. And they had a special guest for this episode – John Krasinski, who played Jim Halpert, who ends up marrying Pam in the show. In this clip, John and Jenna reminisce about when they auditioned together for The Office, which is when they first met.

BTW — If you haven’t caught John’s weekly YouTube SGN videos, which stands for Some Good News, you’re missing out on some great spirit-lifting news about what people are doing during the COVID-19 crisis to help others. Check out a recent installment…

Fake Doctors, Real Friends

Another episode-by-episode breakdown of a beloved TV sitcom is Fake Doctors, Real Friends. Hosted by Zack Braff and Donald Faison, who were two of the series’ regulars on Scrubs, which ran from 2001 to 2010 – most of it on NBC, but the last two seasons aired on ABC. If you somehow missed this show the first time around — it did debut almost 20 years ago — here’s a summary from IMDB.com: “Set in the fictional Sacred Heart hospital in California, John 'J.D.' Dorian makes his way through the overwhelming world of medicine, with the help of his best friend, his fellow rookie doctors, and the arrogant, but brilliant attending physician he views as his mentor.”

So Zach played J.D. and Donald his best friend, Christopher Turk. There are a lot of funny fantasy sequences in the show, which are mostly in J.D.’s brain. This clip is from a recent episode where series creator Bill Lawrence jumps in as their guest to talk about the show.

The Darkest Timeline

So our next clip, from The Darkest Timeline, is also TV-show-related but it’s not a “rewatch show”. The title comes from an episode of NBC’s Community, created by Dan Harmon (who has a couple of soundcasts out there, including Harmontown – a show so popular it spawned its own documentary) and where the plot of it was a look at the show’s characters in a comically grim, alternate reality. Two of the show’s stars – Joel McHale and Ken Jeong – became best friends and feuding enemies. They often take any opportunity if being interviewed alone to throw shade at the other. Not unlike the ongoing rivalry between Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds, albeit with smaller paychecks.

Anyway, they’re currently Zooming together to bring this soundcast to us and it’s really more of a weekly update on the COVID-19 situation and the outlook for the future. Ken has been a doctor for many years, long before he became an actor, and Joel has been a comedian, long before he became an actor. And they’ve found a quirky mix in this show of being informative while trying to keep things as light as they can given the gravity of the current health situation.

This clip, however, is all for fun, as it’s from their Episode 9 which dropped recently and featured a Zoom call with pretty much the entire cast minus Chevy Chase, and including show creator Dan Harmon. For the record, that was Alison Brie, Danny Pudi, Dan Harmon, Donald Glover, Yvette Nicole Brown, Gillian Jacobs, and Jim Rash plus, of course, Joel and Ken. You won’t get that firepower every week but The Darkest Timeline is a a good listen and you can keep up on what’s happening, viruswise.

Bonanas for Bonanza

For our last clip we’re going to take a hard left away from the sitcoms that feature prominently in the three preceding segments. Although this last one is, for all intents and purposes, a “rewatch” show. I’m not even sure how to explain Bonanas for Bonanza without taking up this whole show but let’s try. First of all, I’m not mispronouncing the title – it IS BO-nanas for Bonanza. Not sure why.

As for the rest: Once upon a time, Andy Daly and Matt Gourley did a couple of seasons of Andy Daly’s Podcast Pilot Project over on Earwolf. (We clipped one of those pilots, Shut Up and Have Fun with Danny Mahoney, back in Epi85 of Succotash in 2014.) One of Andy’s characters from that group of pilot episodes was Dalton Wilcox, who billed himself as “The Poet Laureate of the West.” He also had a habit of hunting down and killing monsters such as werewolves and vampires.

Cut to present day Soundcastland where Any and Matt have created a rewatch show around Bonanza, a very popular TV Western that ran for 15 years and went off the air in 1973. 1973. Take that in for a minute. You can find a lot of it on YouTube and some other streaming services. Well, hilariously, with Andy playing Dalton Wilcox and Matt coming in as country music legend Mutt Taylor, along with comedian Maria Bamford along for the ride as Bonanza superfan Amy Sleeverson, this trio is attempting to get their audience through all 431 episodes of this long-defunct TV show. They often will have a guest riding shotgun and our clip, Episode 4, “The Piute War”, feature the hardest-working guest in soundcasting: Paul F. Tompkins, appearing as Dalton’s adversary, Russell Shine.

That’s going to do ‘er for Epi203 of Succotash Shut-In, the Soundcast Stimulus Package. Episode 204 will be coming up next week with my co-host-at-a-distance Tyson Saner. And coming up in the next few weeks from my side of the soundcast will likely be an interview with returning guest, improv and standup comedian extraordinaire Greg Proops, and a special Down Under edition of the show featuring clips from Australian-based soundcasts and co-hosted with old friend of Succotash Jason McNamara, aka “Jabs”, from Canberra, Australia.

But that’s in the future. For now, take care of yourself, maintain social distance, wear a mask when you go out – I don’t care what local governments are saying, just use your common sense, and if you want to help cheer someone up, please pass them the Succotash!

— Marc Hershon

Succotash Shut-In Epi202: Quarantinin' With The Funny

Saluton! Esta me, Tyson Saner. And it seems like only a couple of weeks ago I was putting the finishing touches on Episode 200 of Succotash, the Comedy Soundcast Soundcast. and sending it off to executive producer Marc Hershon to be posted as the final episode before our much-ballyhooed hiatus.

Well, if you're listening to this…it means the hiatus is over.

If you listened to Episode 201, hosted by my now sorta social distancing co-host Marc Hershon, then you already knew that. If you haven't listened to Episode 201, yet, you still can. It's a shorter episode than Succotash is, traditionally, so it won't take very long. And it explains why it is shorter, and why we are back, and really has some great content that should help you, the listener, get into the swing of things for this new phase of the soundcast formerly known as Succotash, the Comedy Soundcast Soundcast, now known as Succotash Shut-In. Coming to you weekly with alternating hosts Marc Hershon and yours truly, the afore-mentioned Tyson Saner.

I've got clips from Second Run Movie Pod, You Need To See This, and Shenk. This episode is sponsored by Henderson's Pants new Breakaway Trousers, and by Trumpoetry.com. I know you're anxious to experience your now weekly dose of soundcast clips from the comedy world as it deals with the quarantine that everybody who doesn't want to die from COVID-19 is adhering to for the foreseeable future. So without further ado, it's clip time.

CLIPS

Second Run Movie Pod

Featuring Kory Epps and Adam Shumaker, on the Second Run Movie Pod the two hosts talk about films they've seen and whether or not they'd give them a second look. At least I believe that's what the show's about. In this epi, Kory and Adam gotta go fast as they talk about Sonic the Hedgehog and Birds of Prey.

You can find Kory Epps at OnlyFans.com/KoryEpps. Those are the deets provided on the blog. And there's a little note that says that was the last episode before the quarantine lockdown before the coronavirus and they hope everyone is staying safe and healthy. We're trying, Kory!

You Need To See This

With Lucé and Cozi, the description of the show on their homesite says "Join hosts Lucé Tomlin-Brenner and Cozi Orlen every week as they argue for one film you absolutely need to watch. They'll cover everything from lesser known arthouse indies to 'How did you miss this?' blockbusters." Each episode at least one of the hosts has seen and loved thge film and at least one has missed it. Then, with no spoilers, they'll convince they'll convince you to spend your precious time watching it. That's a great idea. The clip I've got for you is from an episode posted on April 20, 2020. The guest? None other than the one of the co-hosts on The Nooner Podcast on Kevin Smith's Smodcast Network, Cassandra Cardenas. (She's also been, by the way, a guest of Anti Social Show, another soundcast that I co-host, actually, with Hunter Block who was a guest of Succotash in our previous season, check that out sometime.) Anyway, Cassandra and Cozy talk to Lucy about the incredibly fun British comedy Spice World from 1997. If you'd like to support this soundcast, you can click over to Anchor.fm/YouNeedToSeeThis/support.

Shenk

Comedian Sara Wineshenk interviews comedians, musicians and artists living in Los Angeles. Topics include fashion, cannabis and comedy. The clip is from the episode that posted April 29 2020. called "Weather Women, Lava Lamps, and Dream Cars", in which live, from quarantine, Sara sits down to answer some questions, specifically about the topics mentioned in the title AND her favorite type of cat.

Not only can you find Shenk on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify, but you can email all fashion/guest-related questions to shenkpod@gmail.com.

WRAP-UP

And there it is. Episode 204, the second of Season 4 of Succotash Shut-In, The Soundcast Stimulus Package. Remember, if you go to SuccotashShow.com you can find all the social media and website info that will help you find these shows with very little effort on your part.

Of course, our archive of past episodes is there to just a few simple keystrokes and mouse clicks or taps on a mobile device brings you more of us and those we feature on this program. Tell them Succotash Shut-In sent ya – we'd appreciate it a great deal. Sharing is caring. And not only is it something we can safely do the distance. It's what we mean when we gently remind you to please pass the Succotash!

— Tyson Saner

Succotash Shut-In, Epi201: Soundin' Off in Isolation

Thank you, Bill Heywatt. Holy cats! We’re back! After what may have been the shortest hiatus in soundcast history! Hello. Welcome. I’m Marc Hershon, this show’s original host, then executive producer, and now sort-of-co-host, for Season 4 of what we’re calling Succotash Shut-In, the Soundcast Stimulus Package.

First off, if you’re wondering what’s happened to host Tyson Saner, worry not. He and I have a little chat just a few minutes into the show to fill you in on what our plan is for this crazy, locked-down Season 4. And he will be back every other week – switching off with me, to bring you a fresh batch of Succotash – meaning clips from a wide variety of comedy soundcasts AND also some interviews – each and every week! That’s our plan, anyway. Tyson and I will be doing our part to help fan the flame of soundcasting during these uncertain times, by giving you a place to listen in on a few minutes of some specially curated content. Then it’s up to you to decide if you want to got start downloading full episodes of those shows for your listening enjoyment.

You can see how we do and rate us appropriately on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, the Laughable app, and anywhere else fine soundcasts are streamed and or downloaded.

Let me tell you what soundcasts we’ll be featuring this episode. We’ve got clips from The Ron Burgundy Podcast, Shooters Gotta Shoot, The Cannon Canon, and the Monster Party soundcast. Plus, somewhere in the middle of all that, I have a quick revisit with Phil Leirness, co-host of the Chillpak Hollywood Hour! (If you’re thinking you just heard from Phil, you’re right – he was the last guest of the last episode of the previous season of Succotash.)

This episode is also sponsored by Henderson’s Pants TurtleNeck® Slacks.

THE CLIPS

The Ron Burgundy Podcast

Will Ferrell is now into his second season reprising the role of Ron Burgundy, made famous from the Anchorman movies, in an iHeart Radio production called The Ron Burgundy Podcast. Assisted by his ever-suffering…assistant Carolina Barlow, it seems that Ron may never quite realize that this isn’t actually a radio show. He has frequently has guests on — some real, some fictional — but in a recent episode entitled “From Lassie to Jesus”, he and Carolina have the studio to themselves and Ron is set to tell us about the top 10 people he’d like to meet in heaven. Our clip’s from the top of the show, just because I find Ferrell so funny before he even gets to the premise of the show.

Shooters Gotta Shoot

Shooters Gotta Shoot soundcast features comedian Erica Spera and businesswoman Molly DeMellier – both former NCAA athletes who know how to get what they want except, according to the show’s official website, when it comes to men. Telling it like it is, with a generous dollop of humor thrown in, they explore the complicated, frustrating and bizarre realities of dating as headstrong, twenty-something women in New York City. And they have guests! Recently, that included comedian Francis Ellis, whom you can also catch on soundcasts Barstool Sports and BroBible, who came on to discuss the 5 “love languages”. In this clip they’re talking about rings.

The Cannon Canon

Gotta brand new soundcast for you by a couple of UCB’ers, Frank Garcia-Hejl and Geoff Garlock, called The Cannon Canon. No, it’s not about the TV series Cannon, featuring William Conrad as a generously-proportioned PI that ran from 1971-76. Instead, these guys are going to deconstruct every movie that was produced by Cannon Films. They kicked it off with a deep dive into Death Wish II, starring Charles Bronson, and along for the ride is actor pal Noah Segan. Here’s a clip where they get into some of the nit and the grit of the movie. (Considering there are at least 46 more films in the Cannon Canon, these guys are going to be kept busy for about a year if they drop one episode a week.)

Monster Party

We round out this first episode of our 4^th season of Succotash with not just a personal favorite, but one of the only soundcasts around that actually likes having me on as a guest: Monster Party! Featuring a quartet of hosts, including comedian, writer, longtime friend of the ‘Tash and a personal pal o’ mine, Matt Weinhold, as well Shawn Sheridan, Larry Strothe, and James Gonis, fine gentlemen all. This show was borne of the hosts’ love for all things horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and all around nerdtastical, conceived when they sat around drinking in a shared hotel room at the San Diego Comic Con many years ago. It’s that same kind of discussion, but in soundcast form. Episodes can run two or three hours, usually with guest, where they proceed to drink and discuss movies and TV shows around various theme. I recently was invited back for my second visit, this time via Zoom thanks to COVID-19, and the theme was Hexes, Spells, and Curses. Here’s how part of that went…

ADIOS

And that’s it. The first episode of the new season of Succotash Shut-In is complete. Here’s hoping you enjoy the new shorter format, and that you’ll take the time to check out some (if not all) the soundcasts we sampled for you. And same as before, if you ARE a comedy soundcaster and would like us to feature a clip from your show, you can take the initiative and upload a 3 to 5 minute swatch of your program directly to us by going to hightail.com/u/Succotash.

We’re looking for a nice sponsor or two to help us offset the costs of production and streaming Succotash so if you know of anyone or ARE anyone who is interested, please contact me directly at m-a-r-c@SuccotashShow.com. We will also likely be putting our PayPal donation button back up soon, a link to our Succotashery for merch, and maybe even a Patreon page.

In lieu of donations, and until we meet again, I will remind you to tell your friends about us by simply passing the Succotash! Good-bye.

— Marc Hershon