Succotash Epi255: Clippin' Triples

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!

CLIPS

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

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Succotash - Epi254 – Fieldin’ Four Funny Clips

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!

CLIPS

Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast
One 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 Show
Onto 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 Head
Here’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

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Succotash Epi253: Three Clips in Search of a Theme

Saluton, estas mi Tyson Saner and welcome to Succotash! I'm your every-other-week host for this episode which happens to be #253. Last week in show #252, show creator Marc Hershon had a chat with none other than Wayne Federman, who has been studying the history of comedy for quite some time now. In fact, he has a book out called "The History of Stand-Up: from Mark Twain to Dave Chappelle", which you can find on Amazon or by clicking the link on the show's archive blog at www.succotashshow.com.

There is a podcast companion (more-or-less) to the book also called "The History of Standup" and I clipped it back in December of 2019 for episode 198 of Succotash. I also listened to every episode of that particular soundcast that had been released at the time. Comedy, after all, has been one of my favorite subjects for a very long time. I encourage you to check out that episode, last week's episode, and pretty much any episode from the past that you have time for…

But this week, I've got a fresh trio of clips for you. I've selected some snippets from the soundcasts Corridor Cast, Let's Chat! with Chris Revill, and Blank Check with Griffin & David. I've also got a Henderson's Pants advert for their new Air-Cooled Culottes, just in time for the hot, sticky, summer months ahead. After all, what would Succotash be without a word from our faithful, longtime fake sponsor?

CLIPS

Corridor Cast
"The official podcast of YouTube's Corridor Crew" isn't really much of a description. What I can say is that this soundcast is, basically, if you like what Corridor Crew — Sam, Niko, Wren & Jake — do on YouTube and you always wondered what it was like to just listen to the peeps there chatting about stuff at length rather than the smaller bits that you get of them in the huge volume of excellent content on their channel that focuses on featuring various types of Special Effects, and other visual arts including animation and stuntwork - both bad and good - in all parts of the world wherever visual arts are created and mostly available to the public at large. They also do many short films featuring an extraordinary level of creative use of CGI, often video game-themed but not always. One of my personal favorites is called Dubstep Guns. Anyway, the clip I've selected is from a recent episode released in April of this year, Epi89 - "Wren's Broken Collar Bone & Sam's Lockdown".

Blank Check with Griffin & David
Not just another bad movie podcast, Blank Check reviews directors' complete filmographies episode to episode. Specifically, the auteurs whose early successes afforded them the rare ‘blank check’ from Hollywood to produce passion projects. Each new miniseries, hosts Griffin Newman and David Sims delve into the works of film’s most outsized personalities in painstakingly hilarious detail. I first clipped this soundcast back for Succotash Epi179 in October of 2018. The clip featured in this episode is from April 24th, 2021, entitled "Ishtar with Clint McElroy". I definitely have a soft spot for this film. The opening always makes me giggle.…I'm about due for a rewatch on that, too.

Let's Chat! with Chris Revill
Lets Chat! With Chris Revill is a conversational exploration of subcultures. Host Chris Revill uses his behavioral health background and pop culture obsession to connect with guests from the world of punk rock, podcasting, and pop culture. Let’s Chat! Has been featured in Vulture, Huffington Post, and has been in the top 100 comedy podcast on Apple Podcasts. Our clip is from April 5th of this year and features guest Chris Gethard of the Beautiful/Anonymous podcast.

I wanted to mention that I recieved my 2nd vaccination shot a few days ago and was fortunate enough to have minimal side-effects. I also changed my appearance significantly earlier today because…why not? I've been sporting a Van Dyke under my mask that only my wife and son and maybe my mom once and anyone who follows my Instagram @revt23 were able to see for over a year now…and the hair on my head really went for it too, mostly as an addition to what was pretty much a COVID Van Dyke…I had a COVID Ponytail as it were. Both of those things sound really awful out loud and they don't look so good on the page either…and ultimately I was tired of them. I filmed the whole thing and my two-year-old son Jareth was there as it was happening because I get really freaked out thinking about him getting freaked out about things, so in my head it's like he was maybe going to be like "Why does Daddy look different" or worse yet "Who is that?"…and it's hard to say whether it would have made a difference or not but I am glad I did it anyway.

Other things I am glad about is that recently the CDC announced that fully vaccinated people will most likely be OK if they don't wear masks and want to get close to other people. That means I can hug my at-risk family members now and not worry about killing them…so THAT's nice. Having to do with that, the only thing I worry about is the people who aren't vaccinated, who never wore masks or socially distanced and now we won't be able to tell them from the vaccinated people who are choosing not to wear masks in public. It's the worry that one who has active empathy for their fellow human beings has. Also, I think about death all the time so there's that.

Thank you for listening, be decent to each other, and please share the show with others because it really helps us out as does subscribing to us, retweeting us, and writing reviews when and wherever that's applicable. It's what we mean when we ask you to "Please…Pass the Succotash".

— Tyson Saner

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Succotash Epi252: Fraternizin’ with Federman

I’m Marc Hershon, your every-other-weekly host and this is episode 252 of The Comedy Soundcast Soundcast. But did you catch my partner in clips, Tyson Saner, on last week’s installment? Epi251 featured snippets from a trio of soundcasts: Worst Movies Ever Played, Thought Spiral, and Bob Saget's Here For You. You can still catch it in all the usual downloady spots, like Apple & Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Soundcloud, iHeart Radio, YouTube and our own damn homesite, SuccotashShow.com.

I don’t have clips for you this week. Even better, I have an interview with the very delightful Wayne Federman! Wayne’s an old buddy and a friend of the show and he’s just put out a new book, The History of Stand-Up. You can get it pretty much everywhere but click the link above over to where it lives on Amazon.

This is an extra-long episode of the show. These days Tyson and I try to keep these zipping along at about an half-hour so this is more like the old Succotash where we’d go for an hour or more. But Wayne and I were having a good chat and I didn’t want to slice and dice it all up so you’re getting it all. At the far end we have a word from our sponsor, Henderson’s Pants, and their new Wake Island Abbreviated Trousers. And we take a quick dunk in the Tweetsack as well.

If you liked the show, please feel free to jump over to Apple Podcasts to rate and review us in a favorable way. And if you’re a comedy soundcaster and would like to get a clip on the show, hang on for Bill Heywatt’s wrapup to get details on how you can make that happen.

Tyson Saner will be cruising this feed next week with a passle of clips for you. 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

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Succotash Epi251: Flowerin' with May Clips

Saluton, estas mi Tyson Saner. I am your every-other-week host for this 5th season of Succotash, now in its 10th year. Because this is Episode #251, that means that last week's episode, hosted by show creator Marc Hershon, was Epi250 which also is quite the milestone. That episode, which you can still find on your favorite soundcast-streaming and/or acquiring service or at our homesite www.succotashshow.com, featured a quartet of clips. Three From the soundcasts Bummer Boys, The Celebrity Memoir Book Club, and Odd Dad Out which had not been featured on Succotash before, and one from old friends and supporters of Succotash over the last decade, the gang over at The Salty Language Podcast. All that listening goodness is available to you should you wish to listen to it sometime in the future.

This week I've got three clips for you from the soundcasts Worst Movies Ever Played, Thought Spiral, and Bob Saget's Here For You. There's also an ad for Henderson's Pants' new Scavenger Slax in store for you somewhere in this program. If you've been listening for a while you probably know more-or-less exactly where in this episode to expect to hear that.

CLIPS

Worst Movies Ever Played
This is a new "actual play" podcast where three comedians improvise hilariously bad VHS movies. The kind you'd find scavenging through the dumpster behind a Blockbuster Video. Hosts Patrick Baker (Regular Show), Brent Butler (Norm Macdonald Live), and Geoffrey Golden (Wet Hot American Summer RPG) produce cheesy movies on the fly using the Straight to VHS roleplaying game. They play every role and narrate the action, while Hollywood sound designer Adam Baker (The Invisible Man) provides the music and sound effects. I chose this clip from March 30th, 2021, "Stop or My Owl Will Shoot (Part 1)", because it seems to be the best way to get across what to expect from this soundcast.

Thought Spiral
Comedians Andy Kindler (Bob’s Burgers, Maron) and J. Elvis Weinstein (MST3K, Freaks and Geeks) convene weekly to solve the problems of the world but usually end up talking about comedy and various forms of anxiety. Produced by Alex Brizel (ShowBriz Studios). This show's clip is from April 12, 2021, and pulls from an episode dealing with Andy’s famous shirt, Josh stops hovering, Andy gets some roadwork in, Josh finally getting a real SHOT IN THE ARM, Clyde takes a leap, listener questions, and much more Spiraling. (I chose this clip because I really feel it captures the essence of the listening experience...)

Bob Saget's Here For You
According to the show's official blurb: "Bob Saget's Here For You is a podcast that is like no other— Because it goes inside Bob Saget’s mind, and then quickly filters out through his mouth. Bob has a way of calming people with genuine empathy and humor while they’re going through a difficult time, which we all are at present." Our featured clip comes from his March 29th, 2021, episode, featuring guest Bob Newhart, who "Looks back at His Career: Standup, The Bob Newhart Show, Catch 22, and When He Knew Elf Would Be a Hit".

I do hope you enjoy the selections of clips that I have selected for you. These bite-size shows are admittedly somewhat easier to put together than the longer ones used to be. It sort of makes sense, doesn't it? I do enjoy listening to soundcasts still, and if it weren't for this show I would listen to far less of a variety of shows. I might be less adventurous in what I listen to, or I might just stick to a few that I listen to all the time and call it good.

Thank you for listening, please take a moment to rate and review us if you could - it would really help us out a great deal with the algorithms and whatnot - and please share us with people by telling other people about us. For months now I've seen people on Twitter literally asking if anyone had heard any good podcasts lately and even though I have taken the time to answer their question by steering them towards our show it would make all the difference in the world if you were to do that as well. Sharing is caring, and it's what we mean when we ask you to Please Pass The Succotash...

— Tyson Saner

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