Succotash Shut-In Epi222: Mixin' Up A Mess O' Clips

Saluton! Estas mi, Tyson Saner. Dankon, Bill Heywatt for the lovely introduction. I am your host of this week's edition of Succotash Shut-In: The Soundcast Stimulus Package. It's episode 222 this week.

Last week, Marc Hershon hosted episode 221, "Guestin’ It Up with Pat Kelly & Peter Oldring" and it was a pretty entertaining listen. You can still find it and all of the previous episodes at www.succotashshow.com and of course soundcast streaming services like Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Laughable, Podbay… just to name a few.

But you are here for this week's show and I do, indeed, have clips for you. I've got clips from City Mouse Country Mouse, The Bloodybits Horror Show, and Cold Callers Comedy. I've also got an advert from our longtime sponsor Henderson's Pants and their just-in-time-for-Autumn Leaf Behind Pants, and a reading from our other regular sponsor TrumPoetry.com.

CLIPS

City Mouse Country Mouse
Writers Nick Brown and Katherine O'Hara tell each stories about life from the city and life from the country. Our clip is from their debut episode from this past June entitled, appropriately enough, "Episode 1 - In which we introduce ourselves and describe how we met…" The clip is a peek inside a time period slightly later than that. for context, it was revealed early in this episode that host Katherine had recently had an erotic dream about other host Nick.

The Bloodybits Horror Show
Hosted by Eddie "The Axe" Jefferson, The Bloodybits Horror Show is a weekly discussion about all things horror. Movies, Television, Books, Video Games. We cover the history, behind the scenes, and philosophy of it all. This recent clip is from the beginning of September, where the host and sidekick Faustus are discussing what might be David Cronenberg's best work: Videodrome.

Cold Callers Comedy
Ramblings, utterings musings, debat…ings, mediocre sketches and the occasional uninspiring improv song from Paul Rich & Ryan Brannon of comedy duo/entity Cold Callers. Our featured clip is from their show which dropped August 16, 2020, entitled "Flat Derpers", where the hosts and guest/friend/former Emmerdale Mike Parr talk about "flat earthers" and read their tweets.

And that's where we put a pin in Succotash Shut-In for now. Now all that remains is for you to actually listen to the episode while I do hope we, at the very least,gave you something entertaining to listen to for the last +/- half-an-hour. Please remember to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or anywhere you can rate and review us to let us know how we did. It's been quiet in the old feedback department lately…

At any rate, Marc Hershon will be back for Epi 223 and who knows what he will have in store for you at that point in the future? I am as curious as you are, I imagine. That's really all I can do …is imagine… if you don't say anything…

But honestly, thank you for listening, be decent to each other, and remember: "Asymptomatic spread" is a real thing so wear a mask in public so you don't inadvertently murder someone close to you OR otherwise. Because, really, you can't count on that sort of thing only affecting a stranger, and in general you should care about them too because misery in the world is already plentiful, so why add to it?

Oh, and remember to PLEASE pass the Succotash.

— Tyson Saner

Succotash Shut-In Epi221: Guestin’ It Up with Pat Kelly & Peter Oldring

Welcome, welcome, welcome! I’m Marc Hershon, your host for THIS episode 221 of Succotash Shut-In: The Soundcast Stimulus Package, entitled, “Guestin’ it Up with Pat Kelly & Peter Oldring”. More on our special guests in a moment.

Hopefully you caught our previous installment, Epi220, “Harvestin’ Early Fall Comedy Clips”, with my alternating co-host Tyson Saner. He featured clips from The Whaley Family Hour, You're Dead To Me, and 2 Bears 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer. If you missed it, it’s not too late to catch it over on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, the Laughable app, and our very own homesite: SuccotashShow.com.

Now last time I was hosting, episode before last, #219, I played a clip from This Sounds Serious. It’s a true crime soundcast spoof of the first order, now in it’s third season. And I mentioned that I might be able to get the brains behind that bundle of comedy magnificence on this show. They have done been got, friend, and I am pleased to tell you that I have Pat Kelly and Peter Oldring as my special guests for this installment. I’m very excited. We’ll get into a lot of the stuff these guys have been doing and making funny since they were in high school. One of the shows they’ve done that makes me laugh hard is Dexter Guff is Smarter Than You…And You Can, Too. It’s a great send-up of motivational business dorks and Peter Oldring really nailed Dexter out of the gate. So I feature one of Dexter's patented "Thought Releases" before we get into the interview.

The interview runs about 45 minutes and we dig into some of the great techniques they've mastered when it comes to nailing certain tropes, cadences, and deliveries with their on-the-money spoofs. One of the first bits that caught my attention was Pat in this video from their This Is That program they've been doing for years in Vancouver:

This episode of Succotash is brought to you by our regular sponsors, Hendersons Pants - featuring their new Fancy Pants for Fops, and Trumpoetry.com.

If there are other soundcasts you’d like us to track down the hosts of and have them on the show, tweet or insta at us @SuccotashShow or call our tollful warmline at (818) 921-7212 and let us know. We’ll figure out how to tag ‘em, bag ‘em, and drag them in front of the Succotash Shut-In microphones.

Remember that my compadre Tyson Saner will be back on this very feed starting this upcoming Tuesday with a brand new episode filled with fun. Or at least some more comedy soundcast clips. And you can supply your own fun. Until then, please remember to wash your hands, wear a mask – yes, a mask…I’m talking to you – and please, pass the Succotash.

— Marc Hershon

Succotash Shut-In Epi220: Harvestin' Early Fall Comedy Clips

Saluton, estas mi Tyson Saner. I'm your every-other-epi host for the show which is Succotash Shut-In: The Soundcast Stimulus Package. Last week, Marc Hershon had the helm and brought you clips from 4 "True Crime" soundcasts. As you are reading this you no doubt notice that the words "True Crime" were in quotation marks in that previous sentence…as were the most recent use of those words a few seconds ago… but for different reasons. I use quotes because, although the soundcasts he clipped were "True Crime Themed" (See? Quotes again!), they were in fact all soundcasts that parodied "True Crime" as a genre and "True Crime soundcasts" as a genre…of soundcasts. They were "A Very Fatal Murder", "Done Disappeared", "My Neighbors Are Dead", and "This Sounds Serious" …and I urge you to check out that episode for a taste of all of those. It's episode 219. …

But THIS is Episode 220 and I've got clips for you for this episode. The clips I've selected for you are from The Whaley Family Hour, You're Dead To Me, and 2 Bears 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer. I've also got special advertisements from both of our fake sponsors, "Henderson's Pants" and "TrumPoetry.com" as per usual… and we here at Succotash are still on the lookout for a real sponsor just in case any are listening.

And away we go!

CLIPS

The Whaley Family Hour
Spend way less than an hour with Frank Whaley (Pulp Fiction, Marvel's Luke Cage, Field of Dreams) and Heather Whaley, author of Eat Your Feelings: Recipes for Self-Loathing as they huddle through the pandemic in a closet. Our clip is from their debut epi back in March entitled "Is This Thing On?"

You're Dead To Me
Touted as, "The history podcast for people who don't like history… and those who do." Greg Jenner brings together the best names in comedy and history to learn and laugh about the past. Our snipped clip is from February 28th of this year, and is called "Mary Shelley", mostly because host Jenner is joined by literary expert Dr. Corin Throsby and comedian Lauren Pattison to explore the often turbulent life of literary icon Mary Shelley.

2 Bears 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
Every week, comedian best friends Tom Segura and Bert Kreischer get together in the bear cave at YMH Studios to do what bears do: make each other laugh. Our featured clip is from the very recently dropped epi from August 31st, 2020. During this episode, Tom and Bert discuss Tom getting drunk over the weekend. Bert then shares what his weekend was like, and why he got kicked out of someone's house. They discuss their want to hire a private investigator to be on retainer, their old nicknames, and guys who wear cologne. Tom wraps up the show by sharing a video of him singing to his son.

WRAP-UP

I hope you enjoy this sampling of soundcasts during your extended period of home-dwelling…or any time, really. I hope this show encourages you to find out more about the world of soundcasting from the various sources that you can use to find their shows and, of course, more episodes of our show.

We appreciate your listening. If you are listening to us thru a service of some type that includes audience participation in the form of a ratings mechanism…we'd surely appreciate that as well. Some of us going thru this time of plague together might have accidentally discovered that they enjoy hearing other people have conversations in a totally-not-illegally-surveilling sort of way due to us here at Succotash and I wonder now where that will take you.

Will you be back next week? Will you be on to something else? Will you plumb the depths of our archive at www.succotashshow.com and discover shows that we featured in the last…almost a decade? Will you recommend us to your friends?

We'd appreciate it if you did. That's what we mean when we ask you politely to please, pass the Succotash? 

— Tyson Saner

Succotash Shut-In Epi219: Mockin’ Murders (and Other True Crimes)

I’m your every-other-episode host Marc Hershon, ushering you through Epi219 of Succotash Shut-In: The Soundcast Stimulus Package. If you missed episode 218, with our every-OTHER-episode host Tyson Saner, in which he featured snippets from comedy soundcasts The Honeydew Podcast with Ryan Sickler, The Bitchuation Room, and Vegan Abattoir, you can still fill yours ears with at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, the Laughable app, and our homesite: SuccotashShow.com.

I got a lot of nice responses and retweets to our Episode 217, where I interviewed multi-threat talent Mike Birbiglia, and you can still listen to that show as well. But this week I’m back to featuring a quadruple cluster of comedy soundcast clips. You can probably figure out my theme for this installment by the title: “Mockin’ Murders (and Other True Crimes)”. One of the most popular genres in soundcasting for the past few years – ever since Serial, actually, back in 2014 — is true crime. And following on the heels of it are the fake true crime shows. There have been some great ones. There have been some bad ones. But I thought I’d feature a few of the best ones, past and present, in case you haven’t had a chance to catch them.

 

I’m featuring clips from A Very Fatal Murder, Done Disappeared, My Neighbors Are Dead, and This Sounds Serious. And, as per always, Succotash Shut-In is sponsored by Henderson’s Pants, this week featuring their new Picnic Pants, just in time for socially social distancing! And our other regular sponsor is Trumpoetry.com, aiming a rhyming barrage of bombast squarely at the Orange Menace until he’s out of office OR until this show finally gets a paying sponsor. Then we toss both of those freeloading ad-peddlers out of Soundcastville.

Let’s get to the…

 

CLIPS

 

A Very Fatal Murder

If you’re a fan of true crime stories, real or imagined, you owe it to yourself to catch A Very Fatal Murder, produced by the Onion starting with Season 1 back in 2018. There have been two seasons, eight episodes apiece, and a third season was supposed to drop this year but I’ve found no sign of it yet. The intrepid, kudos-hungry citizen journalist is a soundcaster named David Pascall, voiced by David Sidorov, who also wrote the soundcast with head writer Katy Yeiser. The first season involves trying to find the perpetrator of the “perfect murder” of Hayley Price, a beloved high school student in the small town of Bluff Springs, Nebraska. This clip is from the premiere episode of the first season, where Pascall arrives in town and begins to sketch out a typical American town where murder can happen.

 

Done Disappeared

In the spirit of Wondery’s The Vanished came Done Disappeared, a three season (so far) that started in 2017. Investigative soundcaster John David Booter (which may or may not be a fictional nom de cast) goes in search of the truth behind the disappearance of Clara Pockets, a Pennsylvania woman. The very first episode has Booter arriving at the scene of a crime which may not be the scene of THE crime, but it’s a mess either way. I left in Booter’s live reading of a Me Undies commercial because it’s pretty damned funny, I don’t think it’s legit, and I’m jealous that Succotash, which has been soundcasting since 2011, has never had Me Undies as a sponsor.

My Neighbors Are Dead

Okay, this next show we’re featuring is a little different from the true crime spoof. My Neighbors Are Dead, which we originally clipped back in 2017, is more “meta” than that. It works on the premise that horrific murders from movies — like Nightmare on Elm Street and the Jason movies — are real, and the host, Adam Peacock, interviews some of the lesser known characters (and often survivors) of those films. It’s also improvised, unlike the three other shows we’re featuring this episode, which are tightly written and produced pieces. We’re clipping the most recent installment, Halloween H2O with guest Lauren Ash, who you may now from Superstore and the Giving It Up for Less soundcast, is onboard to talk about her love of the Halloween franchise. She also portrays a hapless single mom whose van gets stolen by Michael Myers.

 

This Sounds Serious: Grand Casino

Which brings us to the final clip we’re featuring this week. It’s from a show we have featured several times in the past, mainly because I think it’s not only hilarious but incredibly well written, performed, and produced. I’ve also got a podcrush on the producers, Kelly&Kelly, who do a whole lot more than This Sounds Serious, and it’s all funny. The third season just dropped for this show and I reviewed the first episode last week for This Week in Comedy Podcasts on Vulture.com. The host of the show is still Gwen Radford (played by Carly Pope), yet another intrepid soundcast journalist but one who is fixated on 9-1-1 calls. This time around, in the season entitled Grand Casino, it’s a call from back in 1991 that puts her on the path of tracking down a Hollywood conman. They tap into some solid soundcast casting with Paul F. Tompkins and Gary Anthony Williams, but there also some voices from the Kelly&Kelly stable that really know how to come across as almost the real deal, if the situations weren’t quite so cracked.

So that’s that. Dunzo. Epi219 is in the can, so to speak. Tyson Saner and I will continue to bring you episodes of Succotash Shut-In every week as long as we can and as long as this extended period of lockdown or shelter-in-place continues. It’s all to both celebrate comedy soundcasts and also to give you a chance to sample some shows you might not have heard or been aware of, given there are literally hundreds of thousands of soundcasts out there.

 

If you want to reach me and/or Tyson, you can address either of us @succotashshow.com or listen to Bill Heywatt’s wrapup coming up for things like the hotline number and the URL where you can upload clips from your own comedy soundcast directly to us to include in the show!

 

Until next time, let’s try not to be assholes to each other, wear a mask (if you don’t get THAT, there’s really no way for us to be friends), and remember to please pass the Succotash!

 

— Marc Hershon

Succotash Shut-In Epi218: Tryin' a New Triad of Clips

Saluton, estas mi Tyson Saner. I'll be your host this week on Succotash Shut-In: The Soundcast Stimulus Package.

Last week, in Episode 217, my co-host and show creator Marc Hershon interviewed American stand-up comedian, actor, director, producer, writer and soundcaster Mike Birbiglia. If you haven't heard that episode yet I recommend that you do at your earliest convenience should you also be in the mood to listen to a soundcast episode at that particular moment in your future.

In this episode I've chosen some prime clippage for your listening pleasure. I've got clips from The Honeydew Podcast with Ryan Sickler, The Bitchuation Room, and Vegan Abattoir. This week we're once again sponsored by Henderson's handsome new Ransom Pants, and we have a reading from TrumPoetry.com our other 100% fake sponsor with a 100% real website.

Ready? The show starts here…

CLIPS

The Bitchuation Room 

A weekly caucus of progressive comics, activists, and thinkers hosted by Francesca Fiorentini. Our featured clip is from just a few weeks back - August 9th - an episode entitled "Breaking Biden" with guests Marisa Franco of Mijente and comedian Zahra Noorbakhsh.

The HoneyDew with Ryan Sickler 

The HoneyDew is a storytelling podcast hosted by comedian Ryan Sickler. Inspired by Ryan's adverse upbringing, the show focuses on highlighting and laughing at the lowlights of life. We're featuring a clip from their episode from August 17th, "Big JOhnson Energy", with guest Sara Weinshenk sharing a story about how she was being prescribed Adderall for ADD…and ended up in a psych ward for 72 hours.

Vegan Abattoir 

When filmmaker Kevin Smith nearly died from a massive heart attack, his only begotten daughter Harley Quinn Smith convinced him to try a plant-based diet for 2 months. 2 years later and still not dead, the dad asked his daughter to join forces so the two can provide plant-based answers to the Vegan-curious questions they get from a meat-eating and dairy-drinking audience. The clip we're highlighting is from their debut "Going Green" episode from June 26th of this year (that being 2020.)

…and here we all are once more at the end together. I do hope your listening experience was to your liking. Next week, Marc Hershon will have the hosting duties and I will, presumably, still be on the hunt for more soundcasts to clip. It just so happens that I've got two in mind already but you'll need to listen to Epi220 if you want to know what I ultimately decided on.

I greatly appreciate you for taking some of your time to spend time with us here at Succotash Shut-In. You have so many choices after all and we are but one…that also provides you with a few possible alternatives to us. Or, perhaps you prefer only to hear snippets of shows to a longer listening experience and Succotash is the only way you do that. We may never know…unless you go to Apple Podcasts or some other site that allows you to rate and comment on shows…and tell us there…you can also email us at marc@succotashshow.com or call in to our non-toll-free # which the wonderful Bill Heywatt will give during the outro of the show…which is right around the corner.

So, until next time… follow us on social media, Be decent to each other, wear a mask in public to protect yourselves and others, incorporate critical thinking into your daily life, maintain hope, and please…Pass the Succotash!

— Tyson Saner