{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Succotash Epi338: First-of-the-Year Foursome!","description":"Welcome to our first \u201creal\u201d Succotash episode of 2023! I\u2019m Marc Hershon, your host for this week\u2019s Episode 338, \u201cFirst-of-the-Year Foursome\u201d. Here\u2019s wishing you and yours a fantastic New Year. As your Comedy Soundcast Soundcast, we\u2019ll be bringing you a whole bunch of clips throughout this coming year. Mostly from comedy soundcasts \u2013 our name for \u201cpodcasts\u201d \u2013 but we also vary from that from time to time. All to give you a taste of the hundreds of thousands of shows that are out there in Soundcastland. We sample \u2018em for you with hopes you\u2019ll be curious enough to go check \u2018em out yourself. When I say \u201cwe\u201d, in case you\u2019re new to this program, it\u2019s all about me and my awesome co-host Tyson Saner. (Although we\u2019re co-hosts, we prefer to divide and conquer, meaning that we each host alternating weeks.) And the reason I call this the first \u201creal\u201d episode of the year? The past two installments of this soundcast were Succotash \u201cSecond Helpings, with the most recent one, Epi337, with your aforementioned loyal and faithful co-host Tyson, featured a reheating of Episode 173 with special guest Hunter Block. You can still catch wherever you find, get, or trap your soundcasts, including Soundclouds, Spotify, PodBay, iHeart Radio, YouTube, Amazon Music, Audible, Stitcher, Apple and Google Podcasts. Feel free to start your hunt right at our homesite, SucccotashShow.com, where the entire archive of almost 12 years of shows has been loving curated for you. So what do I have in store for you, snippet-wise in this installment? I have delectable samples from SNAFU, The Retrospectors\u2019 Today in History, The Worst Idea of All Time, and Unpopular Opinion. As if that\u2019s not enough, we also have a sparkling, brand new advertisement from our longtime, non-paying, and completely fake sponsor Henderson\u2019s Pants, featuring the new Bottoms Up Cargo Pants, with a design inspired by our very own Bill Heywatt. CLIPS SNAFUOur first offering is a clip from a show hosted by comedian, actor, and now soundcaster Ed Helms, who you hopefully know from his stints on The Daily Show, The Office, and the Hangover movie franchise. The show\u2019s description puts it best, in that the show is about history\u2019s greatest screw-ups. The first season of SNAFU, which recently concluded, delved into the story of something called Able Archer 83, a NATO military exercise that almost touched off a nuclear was in November or 1983. Maybe. If you ever saw, heard about, or remembered a feature film from that same year: Wargames, starring Matthew Broderick as a kid who ends up tangling with a military battle simulator computer that, well, almost starts nuclear Armageddon. Or does it? Anyway, it\u2019s a great show, uncovering stuff in history most of us probably don\u2019t know anything about. As part of his uncovering the story, Ed talked to both Broderick and the director, John Badham. And after the season was mostly over, he recently dropped a bonus episode featuring his chats with the two Wargamers. We have a sample of his convo with Matthew\u2026 The Retrospectors: This Day in HistoryThis is a daily show, as evidenced by the title, but each episode only runs about 10 minutes. So it\u2019s either a great kickoff to your other soundcasts or a nice palate cleanser between shows. Hosted by Olly Mann, Rebecca Messina, and Arion McNicoll, each episode is packed full of fascinating tidbits about something in particular that occurred that particular day in the past, as well as many of the trappings that surrounded it. Our clip comes from an episode that dropped last Friday called \u201cRink-O-Mania!\u201d and rips the cover off the invention and introduction of the first roller skates\u2026 The Worst Idea of All TimeI\u2019m reasonably certain that you had to have heard of the next soundcast we\u2019re featuring. Hailing from New Zealand, TWIOAT quickly got notoriety when it popped onto the scene in 2014. That\u2019s because the two hosts, Guy Montgomery and Tim Batt, centered the whole freshman year of the show by watching and reviewing the Adam Sandler movie Grown Ups 2. Once a week. Every week. For an entire year. Then they went on to do the same thing with Sex and The City 2, Sex and The City, We Are Your Friends, and the Emmanuelle franchise of softcore porn films. Their latest challenge? The Fast and Furious franchise. The franchise. In reverse order. While they still mostly go it alone \u2013 who else would want this crazy duty \u2013 they occasionally bring in people that are fascinated by their ordeal. Just last week, they dredged through the details of F9, as the 9th installment is lovingly known, with none other than comedian, actor, and soundcast host, performer, producer, and all-time most frequent guest Paul F. Tompkins. In our clip, Paul starts to explain the plot of the film as if he had to pitch it to a crowd of people fleeing a burning theater. Unpopular OpinionComedian and writer Adam Tod Brown and co-host Jeff bring you Unpopular Opinion every week. It\u2019s often relevant news and pop culture-related topics, of which the guys often have contrary perspectives. Back a few weeks ago, in December, they dropped an episode entitled \u201cThe Ballad of P22\u201d, which was the designation of an storied and infamous mountain lion roaming the Los Angeles environs. They talk about P22\u2019s history and recent demise, some news stories about the Los Angeles city council, Dungeons and Dragons as therapy and the saga of Burnt Toast, which was the name of a cat that, well, just may have killed an alligator. Listen up\u2026 That\u2019s it for the clips this week but now is the time to get yourself ready for our next week\u2019s show, Episode 339, because it is Tyson Saner\u2019s ONE HUNDREDTH SHOW! I\u2019m not sure what he\u2019s got in store but man, am I glad we have him. Speaking honestly, if Tyson hadn\u2019t accepted the challenge to jump in hear \u2013 first as a host to relieve me for a couple and then to alternate weeks with me since the start of the COVID pandemic, you would not have a Succotash Show to listen to today. So be sure to grab next week\u2019s show from this feed and don\u2019t be shy about sending in some congratulations, either on our @SuccotashShow Twitter and Instagram accounts but directly to him here at tyson@SuccotashShow.com! See you week after next. And, in the meantime, if you get pulled over by a police officer and you don\u2019t think you\u2019ve done anything wrong, just wait until he strolls up to the car, roll down the window and expect him to ask, \u201cHave you heard anything good lately?\u201d At that point, won\u2019t you please pass him the Succotash? \u2014 Marc Hershon sjgALOuKCEX65JNy5SZm ","author_name":"Succotash","author_url":"http:\/\/succotashshow.com","html":"