Succotash Epi353: Our 12th Anniversary Show!
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We've been teasing it for months but it's finally here: Our 12th anniversary episode of doing Succotash, the Comedy Soundcast Soundcast! I'm going to keep this blog piece tight and sweet - and urge you to avail yourself of the actual episode, which you can find at your favorite download location OR at our , . This episode — our last before embarking on a shortish hiatus — is double-hosted, featuring and . We talk about the shows' origins, its evolution during the Age of Soundcasting, and a number of the personalities we've met along the way. One of those personalities joins us...
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Succotash Epi352: Last Clips Before Hiatus
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Can you feel it, listener? I can. I can feel it. The warm, sultry breeze of our impending Succotash hiatus is gently wafting around the next bend in our feed. I’m your every-other-weekly-host and welcome to Episode 352, which I’m calling “Last Clips Before Hiatus” because, well, it’s our second-to-last episode before we take a break BUT the last one in which we’ll be featuring clips. I’ll tell you more about what our LAST show before jump the tracks is going to be like toward this end of this blog entry but, for now, let’s share this time together as just another in the long...
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Succotash Epi351 - The Penultimate Pre-Hiatus Show
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Saluton, estas mi, , and I welcome you heartily to this 351st episode of Succotash, The Comedy Soundcast Soundcast, which just so happens to be the second-to-last episode of Succotash before our 12-year anniverary special, which will then be swiftly followed by a well-deserved hiatus. If you are a 1st time listener, this show typically features clips from other soundcasts from around the world and has for almost 12 years. The entire archive of episodes past can be found over at for the time being, so if you end up enjoying this program and you'd like to share it with others, send them...
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Succotash Epi350 — Special Guest: Shane Elliott
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Hello, friend! here for yet another edition – the 350th installment, in fact – of Succotash, the Comedy Soundcast Soundcast. Later this month we’ll be celebrating hitting our 12th Anniversary of bringing you clips from (mostly) comedy soundcasts and interviews with some of those soundcasters, some comedians, and some other showbiz folk, as our esteemed booth announcer, , is fond of saying. That anniversary show will be fun. It will be me and my switching-off-with-me-every-other-week co-host on the show together, along with a special guest surprise! That show is going to drop on...
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Succotash Epi349: One For The Kids
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Saluton, estas mi . Welcome to Succotash, the Comedy Soundcast Soundcast! Have you listened to us before? If so, then welcome back! We're clocking in at #349 this week and the duties of finding soundcast clips falls on me. Did you happen to hear last week's episode titled "A Spring Bouquet of Clips" ? It was Epi348 and it featured a trio of clips from the soundcasts FOGO, Tell Me About It, and The Best Show. In addition, that episode featured another drop-in from comedian with a selection from his "Slices" blog, and that one was called “The Thai That Unbinds”. It was a fun episode, and...
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Succotash Epi348: A Spring Bouquet of Clips
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Happy Vernal Equinox, Succotashians! I’m your every-other-weekly-host, , and thanks for plucking Episode 348 out of the soundcastosphere, an episode I’m calling “A Spring Bouquet of Clips” because, well, this show is dropping close to the first day of Spring! Speaking of Spring, something that’s springing up very soon is the 12th anniversary of Succotash, the Comedy Soundcast Soundcast. Your co-host and mine, , will be joining me for a celebratory episode where we’ll look back on the show’s dozen years. We’ll have some clips from shows, classic Henderson’s Pants ads, some...
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Succotash Epi347: Hollywood Adjacent
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Saluton estas mi, , welcoming you to Succotash Episode #347. I will be your host for the duration of this episode as it is my turn to do so. Last week in Epi346, subtitled "Clips Like a Lion", show creator and executive producer of Succotash brought you a clips episode plus a little something extra. The clips featured in that episode were from the Soundcasts known as Dear Chelsea, The JTrain Podcast, and Two Vegan Idiots. The aformentioned extra took the form of a contribution from comedian "Slices" blog, called "Rebel Without A Phone". It was an entertaining episode that, if you were...
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Succotash Epi346: Clips Like a Lion
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Can you believe it? We’re here again. You and I, I mean. I am, as our booth announcer just intoned, your every-other-weekly-host . And you’re, obviously, you. And this IS Succotash, the Comedy Soundcast Soundcast. Episode 346, to be exact. And, if this is your first visit, well, then, you know pretty much what you need to know. We’re just about a month away from celebrating this soundcast’s 12th anniversary. TWELVE years! Can you imagine? When Succotash started, the dodo birds were practically still alive, walking the still-cooling surface of the primordial Earth, stalking...
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Succotash Epi345 — Special Guest: Josh Barnes
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Saluton, estas mi welcoming you to this "Chats" episode of Succotash, The Comedy Soundcast Soundcast, now in the last vestiges of its 11th year bringing you now 345 episodes including this one. Yes, this is Episode 345, which means that the last episode that dropped into our stream was episode 344 and THAT episode was also a Chats episode, hosted by show creator and executive producer , with whom I share hosting duties with on an every-other-weekly basis. In Epi344, Mr. Hershon's guest was of The Legal Geeks soundcast, which, on their main webpage over at is described as "The Legal...
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Succotash Epi344 — Special Guest: Josh Gilliland
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Howdy, soundcast aficionados! You must be a fan of soundcasts if you’re dropping in for yet another installment of Succotash, the Comedy Soundcast Soundcast. Because that’s all we do around here is pay homage to soundcasts. We play clips from 'em, we talk about ‘em, and sometimes we talk to the people who are ON the soundcasts, like today. But good deary me, I am getting ahead of myself. Myself being one , your every-other-weekly host of Succotash, and this is Episode 344. We’re about 5 weeks away from hitting our 12 year anniversary of this show — can you feel the excitement, the...
info_outlineSeason’s greetings, Succotashians! I’m your every-other-weekly co-host Marc Hershon and I know it’s a little early to be making with the Christmas cheer but this is likely the last time I’ll be speaking to you until after Christmas and New Year’s – my fellow co-host Tyson Saner and I will be taking a little holiday break after next week – so I figured I better make with the Yuletide wishes while I can.
Speaking of Mr. Saner, if you missed his most recent installment, that would be Succotash Shut-In, Episode 232, featuring clips from comedy soundcasts Sam Pancake Presents the Monday Afternoon Movie, Puppet Tears: Puppetry Shop Talk, and Good For You. It’s not to late to enjoy it: It’s available from our homesite, SuccotashShow.com, as well as Google and Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Stitcher, Laughable, and even on YouTube.
Normally I’d haul in a Santa’s sack full of season snippets for you on a show this close to Ex-mas but I’m unwrapping something different for you. If our normal fare is like a Whitman’s Sampler of soundcasts, then this is more like a Harry & David’s delivery – it’s a fresh chat! So fresh that, until I recorded this episode’s conversation with our guest last week, she and I had never met or even spoken before, even though we’ve been working together for the past couple of years.
Becca James is my guest this episode. She’s a freelance writer who has a major focus on soundcasts – or “podcasts” as she still refers to them (and I will be, too, during this interview but just to make her feel comfortable.) She and I are fellow soundcasts reviewers for This Week in Comedy Podcasts (there’s that word again!) over on Vulture.com. She does a lot more written coverage than I, and she writes about comedy, and music, and a variety of subjects. She was a writer then editor at the AV Club a while back. And we cover how she got into it, what she likes about the gig, and we’ll talk about why she’s never seriously considered starting up her own soundcast.
Another big thank you to YOU for dropping by, popping us in your earholes, and enjoying the show. At least, I hope you enjoyed the show. If that’s true, then keep the good feelings going all the way over to Apple Podcasts and give us a pile o’ stars and a tasty little review. Even a couple of lines will do nicely, thanks.
I’ll get out of here with a reminder that Tyson will be here next week with Epi234, then we’re off for a few weeks until after the New Year and I will return with Epi325 on Tuesday, January 16th, of 2021. Until then, I want to wish you and yours a wonderful holiday season, with a reminder to stay safe, socially distance, wash your hands and – until you get that Coronavirus vaccine in you, stop touching people! And you don’t have to touch them to give them the gift of cheer this year, which is to simply pass the Succotash!
‑ Marc Hershon