Succotash Epi324: Debate, Argument, Brits & Smut

Damn! Late with an episode AGAIN! Hi, friend. Yes, It’s me, Marc Hershon, your every-other-weekly-co-host for Succotash, The Comedy Soundcast Soundcast. And double damn if I’m not dropping this Episode 324 a day late and a dollar short. To be honest, me and your co-host Tyson Saner are WAY more than a dollar short.

Just a reminder that we’re basically producing this show for the love of the Art that is Soundcasting. We still have no real sponsors, just that freeloading Henderson’s Pants outfit. Which means we’re putting our time with no recompense, and I’m shelling out dough-dee-oh-dough out of my pocket for the production costs. That’s 11+ years of taking on the chin for this medium!

We used to have a Donate button but I’m not sure what happened to it. We are technically Amazon Associates but I don’t know where those links that brought in our pittance went, either. Maybe we should do the Patreon thing? I don’t know. You guys just want to Venmo us some money? Hey. THAT could work. Let’s give it a try.

Open up your Venmo app and send along what you want. A buck? FIVE bucks? A ten-spot? TWENTY Dollars?! Just Venmo it me – my handle is @Hershco. That’s the @ sign and H-E-R-S-H-C-O. Shoot along a little message and we’ll give you muchos gracias on the show! Has any soundcast even attempted this before? Let’s make history!!!

Speaking of history, last week in this very same feed you could catch the aforementioned Tyson Saner holding court for Epi323, and he had a cavalcade of comedy soundcast clippage for you. Well, three clips. Is that enough to, technically, be a cavalcade? I’m not sure. Let’s look it up…

Hmm. “Cavalcade. Noun. Definition 1: A procession of riders or ships. Definition 2: A dramatic sequence or procession: SERIES.”

So there. Last week’s show was definitely a cavalcade. Way to go, Tyson! You can still catch that show, “The Autumn Triple Play”, which included snippets from On The Rocks: Where Celebrities & Cocktails Mix, Gutting the Sacred Cow, and Chatabix. The episode still resides on Apple and Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Amazon Music, iHeart Radio, Audible.com, Soundcloud, Podchaser, Podbay, and wherever finer soundcasts are streamed and/or download. That includes our own homesite, SuccotashShow.com, which contains the entire treasure trove of installments dating back to 2011.

For this week’s late-to-the-party-pal mess, which I’m calling “Debate, Argument, Brits & Smut”, you’re in for some clips from If I Were You, The Legal Geeks, Off Menu, and Pornomedy. Henderson’s Pants is once again riding our coattails with a freebie spot for their classic BauTrau Pants – classic because the references in the commercial are so damn old.

CLIPS

If I Were You
Our first clip comes from a show that has just passed the 560 episode mark! It’s If I Were You, from HeadGum, and featuring hosts Jake Hurwitz and Amir Blumenfeld. Both these guys are all over HeadGum because they’ve been there since it started. This show, If I Were You, drops every Monday and features the host-ages offering advice in realms that they both are and are not qualified to speak on. They invite listeners to send in their own “sticky situations” as they put, and they will try to help find a solution.Our clip comes from their milestone Epi560, entitled Mile High Club, and their listener query gets them talking about UFOs and ghosts.

The Legal Geeks
This next clip is from not only a show I mentioned I was going to be on, namely The Legal Geeks, but it’s from the show I WAS on and, in fact, features me along with show host Joshua Gilliland and some other attorneys. He co-hosts the show with Jessica Mederson but she was traveling the week I was asked to be an “expert witness” along with a bunch of other legal eagles, including Gregory Pang and a cast of their regulars. The show’s entitled “Review of The She-Hulk: Attorney-at-Law – Episode 5” and, because my day job finds me in the world of branding, trademarks, and other such intellectual property, or “IP”, Josh invited me along to ring on some of the trademark issues that the Jessica Walters character (played by Tatiana Maslany) has to tangle with in that episode. Namely, She-Hulk gets sued for trademark infringement over the use of the She-Hulk name by one of her enemies.

Backstory on The Legal Geeks soundcast: These real lawyers, headed up by Josh and Jessica, sound off on legal issues faced by fictional characters – everything from the MCU to the Star Wars Universe. Not just on the soundcast, but they show up to places like ComicCon in San Diego and run mock trials based on situations that crop up in these TV shows, movies, comic books, and so forth. Definitely check ‘em out!

Off Menu
This next soundcast is where the “Brits” part of this week’s title comes from. It’s Off Menu, featuring a pair of British comedians, Ed Gamble and James Acaster. Each episode, they invite a guest into what they term their “magical restaurant” to choose their favorite starter (that’s an appetizer to us Yanks), main course, side dish, dessert, and drink. It’s all just a glorious excuse to deep dive into heady – and sometimes silly – convo with their guests. A recent episode featured the fantastic, amazing, and England’s national treasure Richard E. Grant. This clip goes form the silly to the sublime, as Richard slides into how his late wife’s last wish fueled his recently released memoir, A Pocketful of Happiness.

Pornomedy
Last show off the bench today is only so because of alphabetization. It’s a new soundcast, just a few episodes in, entitled Pornomedy. It’s hosted by a good friend of Succotash, Monica Hamburg, who has not only had a couple of soundcasts over the past bunch of years that we’ve been on, but was our special guest co-host WAY back on Episode 64 in July of 2013, almost 10 years ago. She sent in this clip of Pornomedy, along with a note from which I quote the following: “Hi Marc: I hope you are doing well! So... I started a new podcast recently. "Pornomedy" which explores the weird world of free porn sites: Absurd porn comments (as though any aren't!), terrible titles, baffling tags - and more. This time, hilarious Baltimore comedian Mike Moran joins me. We speak of "The Chair" (i.e. It-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named) - as well as a porn commenter with maximum game, the right time to rent a truck for your porn film - and much more! This is only the 3rd episode of this new podcast (though it's on the feed with all the other shows I've done) but I like it. I hope you will too! (Of course, as always, no pressure if it's not right for the show ,etc.) Not right for the show – pfft! Oh, Monica, you DO go on!

Okay, friend. That’s about enough of that. And by “that” I mean this Episode 324 of Succotash. If you want more, there are always the archives OR pour some fresh Succotash into your ears next week when Tyson Saner brings you episode 325, which is sure to delight.

I’m out of here but not before reminding you that if you’re even wandering down a dark, lonely street in the middle of the night, and a shimmering figure emerges from the darkness and floats a few inches off the payment towards you to ask, “Have you heard anything good lately?”, won’t you please pass the Succotash?

— Marc Hershon