{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Succotash Clips Epi186: Subbin' For Tyson","description":"Saluton and it is NOT your regular host, Tyson Saner, this time around but former host, executive producer, and folding plastic room divider Marc Hershon. That\u2019s right. I will be filling in for Tyson for this, Epi186, and another one or two episodes as well because Mr. and Mrs. Saner are welcoming their first baby into the world! Congratulations from all of us here at Succotash to all of you Saners \u2013 old and new \u2013 up in Humboldt County in Northern California. Tyson needed to take some time away from his duties as host of this show and I volunteered to step in for a bit so here I am. If you would like to pass along your congratulations to Tyson, feel free to ping him on Twitter @RevT23 or you can email him at Tyson@SuccotashShow.com. You can even call our tollful Skype line and leave him a cheery message at (818) 921-7212. If you don\u2019t recognize my voice, that\u2019s okay. I started Succotash back in 2012 and, after seven years of hosting the show, stepped away from the microphone almost exactly a year ago to make way for Tyson to take the reins. I\u2019ve been in the background as the executive producer \u2013 posting the shows online and handling all of our social media stuff. And I\u2019ve been busy trying to get a couple of new projects off the ground, too. If you\u2019re new to Succotash, the Comedy Soundcast Soundcast, this is where we feature snippets from other peoples\u2019 comedy soundcasts in order to let you know what\u2019s going on out there in the incredibly crowded field of soundcasting. We\u2019re like a Whitman\u2019s Sampler of rich, chewy soundcast goodness. This episode we\u2019ll be featuring clips from Armchair Expert, Conan O\u2019Brien Needs A Friend, Dave Hill\u2019s Podcast Incident, The Smartest Man in The World, What A Time To Be Alive, and The Young & The Weary. BTW, Succotash is brought to you by Henderson\u2019s Pants new Toddler Trousers AND Trumpoetry.com. One segment we WON\u2019T be featuring this episode \u2014 and may not be for the foreseeable future \u2014 is our long-running Burst O\u2019 Durst with political comedian and social commentator Will Durst. Will\u2019s been doing this segments for YEARS, literally out of the goodness of his heart, and he\u2019s taking a much-needed hiatus. And he\u2019s not sure if it\u2019s worth coming back. Why, you ask? We can\u2019t afford to pay him for his excellent commentaries because we don\u2019t have paying sponsors. We are totally listener-supported but no one clicks on our Donate button at SuccotashShow.com, or clicks on the Amazon banner at the top of that same page, or buys any of our merch. So we\u2019d love to keep bringing you Will\u2019s amazing take on the political and social landscape but the coffers are empty. If you\u2019d like to hear more Durst, let us know at durst@succotashshow.com. And if or until he rejoins us on Succotash, you can always check him out at HIS website, at WillDurst.com. Enough of that. Let\u2019s get into the clippage, shall we? Conan O\u2019Brien Needs A Friend One of the other things I do besides executive produce Succotash is provide weekly reviews to Vulture.com\u2019s This Week In Comedy Podcasts. That online column used to be on Splitsider but it was bought by Vulture and all us reviewers made the jump over there, too. Recently I\u2019ve reviewed several episode of the relatively new Conan O\u2019Brien Needs A Friend soundcast and it\u2019s pretty damned entertaining. The set up is that Conan O'Brien are been hosting his TV talkshow for along time but never really has time to make friends will all of his many celebrity guests. This soundcast is meant to be the cure for that. Recently, though, Conan had an actual friend on the show, none other than Adam Sandler. They\u2019ve known each other for over 30 years, were on Saturday Night Live together, and even live in the same neighborhood in Los Angeles. In our snippet, they talk about their approaches to dealing with audiences. Dave Hill\u2019s Podcasting IncidentDave Hill is a quintuple threat \u2014 comedian, actor, writer, musician, and radio\/soundcast host. He originally hails from Columbus, Ohio but is moored in New York these days, where he puts out his Dave Hill\u2019s Podcasting Incident whenever he can. This past week he was out in my neck o\u2019 the woods for the San Francisco Sketchfest, which I was also doing, but our paths did not cross. Nonetheless, we have a clip from his latest drop, Epi99, featuring another multi-hyphenate, Sarah Hartshorne, who is a writer\/comedian\/former America\u2019s Top Model contestant. In this clip, she and Dave talk about her modeling in Germany and wearing a dirndl. (I mainly picked this clip so I could say, \u2018dirndl\u2019.) The Smartest Man in The WorldI figured it was time to revisit The Smartest Man in The World, the soundcast from past Succotash guest Greg Proops, best known, perhaps, from Whose Line Is It Anyway. He\u2019s also a personal friend and improv cast member with yours truly, and I think he\u2019s one of the fastest, funniest, people around. In this clip, Greg and his wife, Jennifer, soundcast from the Fortress of Proopitude and, in our sniplette, they get into some old Hollywood lore and hijinks. Armchair ExpertA show that popped into Soundcastland this past year or so is Armchair Expert, hosted by actor Dax Shepard. Although his interviewing style is a little scattershot, I enjoy the loose informality he has with his guests, most of which he knows from his rambling around Los Angeles for a number of years. Just recently he hosted Sarah Silverman for a lengthy and revealing chat. Another thing I like about Dax is that he doesn\u2019t mind venturing into areas that other hosts might feel uncomfortable about \u2013 as in the segment we're featuring, where he talks to Sarah about his reaction to her sexuality. What A Time To Be AliveIt is so hard to keep up with the avalanche of soundcasts, comedy and otherwise. Even as someone whose job is reviewing the damn things, I am constantly finding not just new shows, but shows that have been on for a while that completely slipped beneath my radar. One of those is What A Time To Be Alive. It features three hosts \u2014 Eli Yudin, Kath Barbadoro, and Patrick Monohan \u2014 and, as they say on their Patreon site, it\u2019s \u201cthe only podcast that counts down all the things each week that make you say the title of the podcast.\u201d In our clip, the trio get giddy over the topic of nunchucks and what a ridiculous weapon it (they?) makes in the wrong hands\u2026or even the right ones. The Young & The WearyOur final entry this episode is from a new soundcast \u2014 just three or four installments in \u2014 and it\u2019s called The Young & The Weary. Great title. And apropos. The "Young" is 32-year-old Jeremy Pinsly, a comedian raised in Nashville, now based in New York. The "Weary" is 88-year-old Dev Rogers, a former occupational therapist, an author, and a budding comedic actor from Buffalo, New York \u2014 she\u2019ll be appearing in Comedy Central's Broad City this year. As these two have gotten to know each other during the first few episodes, they\u2019ve kind of revealed a lot. Like how they each lost their virginity. Our clip is from the third episode, \u201cBad Language\u201d, and they chat about the use of dirty words in comedy. Whew! I forgot how labor intensive Succotash can be to pull together. Maybe I\u2019ll think of giving Tyson a raise. Especially now that he has another pair of ears to play soundcasts into. Of course, to do that, we\u2019d need some money coming in. Remember? Donate button, Amazon banner, merch from the Succotashery? All available at our homesite \u2013 http:\/\/SuccotashShow.com  And if you can\u2019t afford to give up the loot then how about rate and review Succotash Show up on our listing on iTunes? Doesn\u2019t cost you anything than your pride and vanity. It has been a pleasure spending this time with you, filling in for our hiatusing Tyson Saner. I may be back for another one or two of these but fear not \u2013 Mr. Saner will be back in the Big Chair before you know it! A couple of reminders before I skedaddle. If YOU\u2019RE a comedy soundcaster and would like to hear a clip of your show on our show, stay tuned for the closing credits where our esteemed announcer, Bill Heywatt, will give you details on how to upload those clips directly to us. And the other thing I want to urge you to do \u2014 whether it\u2019s to your family, loved ones, friends, or even enemies \u2014 is to please pass the Succotash! \u2014 Marc Hershon ","author_name":"Succotash","author_url":"http:\/\/succotashshow.com","html":"