Succotash Epi259: Clippin' In The Summertime

Saluton, estas mi Tyson Saner and I am your host this week for Epi259 of Succotash, the Comedy Soundcast Soundcast. Thank you for joining me. Did you happen to catch last week's episode hosted by my co-host and every-other-show-host Marc Hershon? It was called "Mixin' Up A Mess O'Soundcasts" and featured clips from soundcasts Did You Get My Text?, Left-Handed Radio, May Contain Nuts, Stay F. Homekins, and a mini-clip from The Midnight Miracle. He also featured a clip from a recent Jock Doc Podcast in which he guest-starred. That episode of Succotash is still available to listen to on Apple and Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, and several other listening platforms so why not check it out when you get the chance? It's worth your time.

This week, I've got clips for you from soundcasts Self Esteem Party, Conversation For Adults, and Comedy Bang Bang...and since it's now officially Summer, we're brought to you by Henderson's Pants Wake Island Abbreviated Trousers.

I can't think of a single reason to delay the proceedings any further so…on with the clips!

CLIPS

Self Esteem Party
They call themselves "the perfect blend of comedy and honesty. Each week Alana Johnston interviews one of her showbiz pals and dives right into the core of who they are in this hilarious and painfully real podcast that explores all things Self Esteem." Our clip is from their episode from March 16, 2021, with guest Nick Wiger (Doughboys, How Did This Get Played?) talking about phone-free Sundays, Alana’s text anxiety and how Nick is now best friends with Alana’s dad!Clip 02

Conversation For Adults
Culture-critic Jimi Izrael rediscovers America by talking to people you may or may not know, about everything. What comes up, comes out. Lots of fun. No filter. We're featuring a clip with guest Andy Kindler (a past Succotash guest - Epi55: Noshin' with Andy Kindler).

Comedy Bang Bang: The Podcast
Join host Scott Aukerman (Comedy Bang! Bang! on IFC, Mr. Show) for a weekly podcast that blends conversation and character work from today's funniest comedians. While Scott begins by traditionally interviewing the celebrities, the open-door policy means an assortment of eccentric oddballs can pop by at any moment to chat, compete in games, and engage in comic revelry. Our clip is from just back around the corner: June 21st of 2021, when director Edgar Wright returned along with Ron and Russell Mael of the band Sparks to talk to Scott all about their new documentary The Sparks Brothers.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing and rating us wherever that is possible you would be doing us the greatest of favors because it helps people find us. How did YOU find us? Did someone recommend us to you? Did you click on us out of curiosity because we were on the same page as something else you were looking for? Another option that I can't think of at the moment?

Anyway, "tune in" to our next episode which should be #260 and "see" what Marc Hershon cooks up for you. Thank you for listening, Be Decent To Each Other, and if someone ask you if you've heard anything interesting lately would you mind telling them about us? We would really appreciate it. It's what we mean when we say "Please, Pass The Succotash".

— Tyson Saner

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Succotash Show Epi258: Mixin’ Up A Mess O’ Soundcasts

Hey, you. Glad to have you here for Epi258 of Succotash, the Comedy Soundcast Soundcast, where I, Marc Hershon, am Mixin’ Up a Mess O’ Soundcasts this week. Details on what shows I’m featuring in a sec but first, did you miss last week’s Epi 257, hosted by my alternating co-host Mr. Tyson Saner? He featured a triumphant trio of soundcast clips from Blake's Takes for God's Sakes, Good Game Nice Try, and Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard. You can always grab that or any other previous installment of Succotash right on our homsight, at SuccotashShow.com. Or pretty much anywhere else you normally gobble up your soundcast treats: Apple and Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio…search for Succotash Show on the web and we’re sure to pop up.

As for what I’ve got in store for you this time around, I’m going a little differently that usual. I normally harvest four clips from various comedy soundcasts but I’ve got kind of a mixed bag special for you. A combo platter, if you will. There are some brand new shows and a smattering of things from a few years ago. We’ll be hearing from Patton Oswalt and Meredith Salanger in the new Did You Get My Text?; a couple of comedy sketch commercials from Left-Handed Radio; May Contain Nuts, a BBC soundcast from Scotland; Stay F. Homekins, the pandemic-inspired show from Paul F. Tompkins, and a mini-clip from The Midnight Miracle by Dave Chapelle and assorted co-hosts. In addition, I’ll be featuring a clip from the Jock Doc Podcast. Yes, I featured the JDP on my last installment, it’s true. BUT this clip features yours truly appearing as a character on the most recent installment of Dr. London Smith’s show and, gosh, I’d hate for you to miss a minute of me!

Plus this episode is sponsored by Henderson’s Pants new Down Under Pants, mate!

Here’s something I forget to mention a lot of these shows but if you’re like to read what I have to say about comedy soundcasts and not just listen to me blather on, I am part of the squad that writes the this Week in Comedy Podcasts column over on Vulture.com each week. We each pick one and write about 200 words about it. That column drops every Thursday, usually, and this week I’m reviewing…well, that would be telling. Suffice it to say that I will be reviewing one of the shows that I am clipping in this very episode. In fact, it might be this first clip…

CLIPS

Did You Get My Text?
…Which is from the first episode of a brand new soundcast. It’s called Did You Get My Text? And features comedian Patton Oswalt and his wife, Meredith Salenger, who – according to the show blurb – live in the same house yet text each other more than people who live across the country from one another. Here, they sit down and go through their texts together. Our clip is about a photo Patton texted to Meredith which you might have seen. It got quite a bit of attention. It’s a woman being interviewed on the news from her home and in the background, displayed prominently on a bookshelf, is the kind of object you normally wouldn’t be showing off.

The Jock Doc Podcast
Next up is a clip from The Jock Doc Podcast. And yes, yes I know I JUST featured a clip from Dr. London Smith and Cameron week before last because they uploaded it to us. But THIS clip is different. It’s special. It’s got ME in it! But not just me, I’m playing a zany character with a bad French accent. I play Guy Niçoise, a “reclaimed food chef”. Which means he makes meals out of garbage, basically. Bon apetít!

Left-Handed Radio
A podcast crew that has been around even longer than your Succotash family is Left-Handed Radio. Started in 2010, a year before us, it is hosted by Anna Rubanova and Adam Bozarth. It's largely a collection of original comedy sketches and parodies, mostly of public radio shows and ads. Their publicist, Heidi Vanderlee, from Positive Jam PR, sent me a couple of their spots for Father’s Day, which was just this past Sunday. Let’s listen together…

May Contain Nuts
For this next clip we leave the States and head for Scotland. BBC Scotland, to be exact, and a TV show AND a soundcast called May Contain Nuts, to be exacter. This clip is from episode 6 of Series 3 that dropped a year ago this month. The show touts itself as being about “Four hosts, one subject, no script,” and features hosts Stuart Condy, Russell Miller, Chris Miller and Craig-James Moncur. This clip is from a show all about Stonehenge and these guys are pretty funny. I think. Their Scottish burrs are so thick I had to listen a couple or twelve times to get it all, so don’t be afraid to hit that rewind button.

Stay F. Homekins
What did soundcasting mainstay Paul f. Tompkins and his wife Janie Haddad Tompkins do during the COVID-19 lockdown? They produced a soundcast of course, called Stay F. Tompkins. And it’s still going, although I’m not sure how much longer they’ll be keeping it going – Paul’s got to get back to visiting all those other soundcasts! In this clip, Paul starts to get into having been a guest on Larry King’s show…

The Midnight Miracle
The Midnight Miracle is a soundcast that came out of a summer camp that Dave Chapelle put on in Ohio. The show description calls it “a thought-provoking podcast that uniquely blends the salon and variety show traditions while providing a glimpse into the inner lives of hosts Talib Kweli, yasiin bey, Dave Chappelle, and friends.” It’s available under Apple Podcasts’ new paid subscription model which can frankly go fuck itself. So I couldn’t get an ordinary clip from the show BUT they released this two minute blurp – that’s a cross between a blip and a blurb – so here you go…

You had enough? Me, too. Be sure to pop in next week for Tyson Saner and Episode 259’s rasher of soundcast clippage. Remember to give a listen to me guesting on the Jock Doc Podcast. If you want advanced voting rights, I guess you’ll have to find someplace more forward-thinking that the USA. And if anyone asks if you’ve heard anything good lately, feel free to pass that ol’ devil Succotash!

— Marc Hershon

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Succotash Epi257: Tryin' Clips On For Size

Saluton, estas mi Tyson Saner and I welcome you to Succotash Epi257. Last week in Epi256, show creator Marc Hershon had a quartet of soundcast clips on offer to you from the soundcasts known as The Ron Burgundy Podcast, May I Elaborate? with JB Smoove, Comedy Has An Ouchie, and The Jock Doc Podcast. I can, with great confidence, say that it was an excellent show last week for potentially getting people interested in other folks' soundcasting efforts from around the globe.

I do actually listen to episodes of Succotash that I don't host because I am also a fan of the show which, as we are wont to point out lately, has been going on for 10 years now. One of the side effects of listening to as many soundcasts as I have been for over a decade now is that my mind is constantly exposed to new information in a way that apparently sacrifices some of my ability to recall certain things.

For example, in this week's edition of the show I've got clips for you from the soundcasts Blake's Takes for God's Sakes, Good Game Nice Try, and Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard…and I think I may have a memory of Succotash featuring clips from at least one of these soundcasts before…but I am not sure.…Also, I refuse to look it up because I am really not that worried about it.

So why bring it up? I gotta write about something. Like the fact this episode is sponsored by Henderson's Pants new Pushover Pants! See? I'm really just making one-sided conversation with you. And speaking of one-sided conversations…

Some soundcasts are hosted by one person, without a co-host and our first clip on offer is one of those:

CLIPS

Blake's Takes for God's Sakes
Through (often incoherent) free-association, comedian Blake Wexler improvises 45 minutes of takes on subjects ranging from his own massive legs to the best animated bears of all time. Our clip was harvested from the episode that dropped May 26th, 2021.

Good Game Nice Try
What happens when a Twitch star joins forces with the brains behind Conan’s Clueless Gamer? Pure video game magic! Each week Sonja Reid and Aaron Bleyaert nerd out with your favorite actors, musicians, comedians, gamers, and athletes who are as passionate about gaming as they are. From T-Pain venting about Pac-Man to AtomicMari becoming a real-life Lara Croft, guests share the games that they most loathe and love. Plus there will be epic stories, reviews, recommendations, and giveaways. I went back to the very beginning of this soundcasts' archive to take a clip from the first episode which posted on November 20th, 2020 and is called: T-Pain vs. Pac-Man.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Dax Shepard loves talking to people. Endlessly fascinated by the messiness of being human, he finds people who are vulnerable and honest about their struggles and shortcomings to be incredibly sexy. With more than a decade of sobriety, a degree in Anthropology and four years of improv training, Dax attempts, along with producer/sidekick Monica Padman, to discover human “truths” without any laboratory work, clinical trials or data collection. In other words, an Armchair Expert. Our clips is snipped from Epi331 that dropped recently, on May 31st, 2021, featuring returning guest Vincent D'Onofrio (Full Metal Jacket, Jurassic World, Men in Black).

After that we end up together…at the end. I hope you find some entertainment in this program, and that you might seek out more content from the creators that we're sampling for you. I hope you come back next week for more content from other people's soundcasts…or perhaps Mr. Hershon will do a "Chats" episode with a guest and you can enjoy THAT content.

Maybe you'll go back thru our archive at www.succotashshow.com and find the mountain of entertainment that we've both made AND collected over the last 10 years…me for 8 years…maybe you will go to Apple Podcasts to rate and review our efforts favorably if it's how you feel about us. I hope you do. Maybe you'll tell other people about the content you heard within this or past episodes and recommend it to other people. That would be awesome. Maybe, you'll go to one of the many music purchasing websites that exist to buy a copy of the song "Hope" created by myself and onetime soundcaster and guest of Succotash Korey Epps. It has been available for purchase for a little over 2 years now. It's a little more than four minutes long and it costs somewhere between 1 and 2 dollars and then you can love it forever, and add it to your posi-corps dance party playlist to be enjoyed by anyone who is exposed to it. Trust me, it's worth it.

I'll catch you again in Epi259 so, until then, be decent to each other and please don't forget to pass the Succotash.

— Tyson Saner

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Succotash Epi256: Playin’ Thru A Foursome

Howdy, friend, and welcome to Epi256 of Succotash, the Comedy Soundcast Soundcast, which I am entitling “Playing Through A Foursome” because I, Marc Hershon, have precisely four comedy soundcast clips for you in this show. More on those in a moment. Did you happen to catch last week’s episode 255 of our little show? That’s when your every-other-weekly-alternating-host Tyson Saner took you on a tour of a trio of comedy soundcasts, including Childlike At Best with Mike Valdes, Shut Up, I Love It, and Distractible. It’s never too late to catch that or any past edition of Succotash – in addition to the fleet of distribution points like Apple and Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, and more, you can always resort to our homesite, SuccotashShow.com.

 

In fact, you can dip back into our storehouse of Succotash any time you want at our website, where every episode is archived and available for listening. What’s more, if you want to get to the homesite of any of the shows we feature clips from or find the socials of the hosts and guests on those shows, you can usually find links on the blog entry that accompanies each episode – again – at SuccotashShow.com. (I know that Tyson takes great pains to read those links out during his episodes but I’m the executive producer of Succotash and I am – how to you say? – lazy. But those links are up for every episode regardless of who’s hosting. And as a blanket back-announce for the clips you’ll be hearing this episode, all are available on Apple & Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, and pretty much everywhere find soundcasts are streamed and/or downloaded.

 

As for the foursome of awesome clips I’m sharing with you this week, I’ve got three from Column A and one from Column B. Column A in this case are clips from shows I harvested myself, which includes The Ron Burgundy Podcast, May I Elaborate with JB Smoove, and Comedy Has An Ouchie. Column B are those clips sent in by a soundcaster or listener and, this week, we enjoy another hit off The Jock Doc Podcast as submitted by host Dr. London Smith. In unrelated news, I’ll be appearing as Guy Niçoise, a chef of reclaimed food products, with a bad French accent, on The Jock Doc Podcast a little later this month.

 

This episode of Succcotash, the Comedy Soundcast Soundcast, is brought to you by Henderson’s Pants, makers of the patented Pain Pants, designed to help you lose weight quick and painfully.

Just before I get to the clips, I wanted to share some exciting news with you. We don’t really have a great way to track how this show is doing in terms of ratings. With some many thousands of soundcasts in the world today, it’s amazing that anyone can find us at all. But I got a note from someone named Carlos Tenor at a place called Pod Status and I guess they track rankings of shows. He wanted to let me – and by extension, you – know that Succotash is ranked 200 in the category Comedy Interviews on Apple Podcasts in China, and 241 in Germany’s Apple Podcasts’ rankings. So, if you were dying to know how we’re faring in those markets – BOOM. Pretty much tastemakers and influencers in my book.

 

With all that business…bizzed, let’s jump headlong into the clips.

 

CLIPS

 

The Ron Burgundy Podcast

Will Ferrell is back for his 4th season playing the title character in The Ron Burgundy Podcast, the guy he made famous as the blustering, not-very-smart, TV news anchorman in the movie Anchorman. Along with this long-suffering sidekick, Carolina Barlow, Ron is ready to take on the world again with commentary, interviews, and a mind that still doesn’t quite seem to be all there. The new season kicked off just last week and our clip is from the first episode “Ron Takes The Vaccine.” Ron seems a little hesitant to actually get the shot.

A little later on in that episode Ron gives himself an injection and there are some weird side effects. I really like this show – it’s well-written, funny, and has Will Ferrell!

 

May I Elaborate?

Another guy that consistently makes me laugh is JB Smoove, whether he’s on Curb Your Enthusiasm with Larry David or guesting on a talk show or spouting words of wisdom. That’s what he’s doing now, five days a week, on his new soundcast May I Elaborate? Joined by Miles Grose, who selects some tidbit of wisdom from various sources – mostly self-help enlightenment desk calendars, I think. Then JB breaks those philosophies down as only he can. Warning that the following clip is un-bleeped and has some salty language, for those unfamiliar with JB’s style.

There’s a little dab of May I Elaborate? with JB Smoove and Miles Grose. They’re already little bite-sized soundcasts so ideal for clearing the palate between longer shows.

 

Henderson’s Pants

It’s time for a commercial from our longtime sponsor, Henderson’s Pants. Alternately, it’s time for you to hit the fast forward button and skip the next minute and a half.

 

Comedy Has An Ouchie

A pretty new entry into Soundcastland is Comedy Has An Ouchie, hosted by Steve Han, Phylicia McLeod, and Ashley Whitehurst, a trio of comedy improvisors with their roots in the Chicago scene. But their newer generation of performers, the system in the comedy world is rife with problems both on the surface and behind the scenes. Each episode they kick around relevant topics and try to come up with some solutions. This clip is from their episode last week called “Chicago Is Where It’s At” and they are right in the midst of the ideal comedy venue wish list.

As a longtime improvisor myself, this soundcast is meat and potatoes but I imagine some folks might not relate. It’s a fascinating look into the impro comedy mindset of today – that’s Comedy Has an Ouchie.

 

The Jock Doc Podcast

Our final clip of the show comes from The Jock Doc Podcast, literally. Host Dr. London Smith sent along a clip from a recent episode, along with this note: “Sorry the file isn’t in simple audio format, but my cohost sent this brief moment from this week’s episode to me today in group chat and it was short enough that I thought it might be a nice goody for Succotash.” Love it, Doc. Thanks for thinkning of us and we can convert pretty much any audio format into the thin, tinny-sounding show you’re hearing now. He goes on: “The Jock Doc Podcast is an improvised comedy with the premise of being a medical education podcast. Listeners can find us at all major podcast platforms or just find links at JockDocPodcast.com Thanks! Dr. London Smith (.com)” Let’s give a listen…

I’m not sure who the guest is there but you get the idea. As I mentioned earlier, I was invited on the Jock Doc Podcast and that episode should drop before the month is out.

 

Okay, is that it? Oh, we’re not done yet? That’s right. It’s Tweetsack time. I scraped up mentions of Succotash on the socials – Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, mostly – and here’s where I do a rundown of those folks. The bag feels pretty light this week but that doesn’t make any of these lovely folks any less special: Mike Valdes, Jeff Simmermon, Kara McGuirk-Allison, Laura Saner, Jeff Hyde, Erica (This Machine Kills Fascists), Josh Sneed, Becca James, Ewan Gotfryd, Nicole Villela, Eileen Mary O’Connell, Joe Cabello, Screams & Moans, and Podcast Army.

 

That’s it, friend. Dunzo. At least for this installment of the Comedy Soundcast Soundcast. Tyson’s back next week with more soundcast clip fun and I might do an interview the week after that, considering how well this show is regarded in the Comedy Interview field in both China and Germany. In the meantime, if anyone should happen to ask if you have heard anything good lately, feel free to pass the Succotash!

 

— Marc Hershon

 

 

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