Podcast appearances and mentions of brandi clark

In this episode, Brandi Clark welcomes Nicole Spencer; fitness industry veteran, former Equinox manager, studio founder and creator of Authentic Conversion, to explore what it really takes to build, sustain and ultimately sell a coaching business. Nicole walks listeners through her accidental entry into fitness coaching, the rapid growth and eventual multi-six-figure sale of her brick-and-mortar studio, and the launch of a seven-figure online consulting brand. She shares why business owners should plan their exit while they're still growing, not once burnout hits, and explains how to create a business that holds real value to buyers. Nicole also dives into the importance of building strong systems, assembling a trustworthy team, understanding what buyers look for, and preparing for life after the sale so the transition is empowering instead of destabilizing. Whether you run a local studio or an online brand, this conversation offers grounded, real-world insight into creating a business that lasts and eventually sells.   And when your ready, here's how I can help:   30 Ways to Make $500 In Your Fitness Business By Next Week: https://beyondthesetsandreps.com/30-ways   90 Days Of Social Media Content For The Fitness Professional:   https://beyondthesetsandreps.com/90-days   Join our Facebook Group Successful Online Fit-Pro's where you will find a tribe of fabulous fitness trainers, done-for-you weekly content ideas, ways to start making money TODAY, content rewrites and much more: https://www.facebook.com/groups/fitprohangout

In this episode of Beyond the Sets & Reps, host Brandi Clark sits down with Six-Figure Framework graduate Sarah Gear, a full-time working mom who transformed a nonexistent business into a thriving coaching practice; and all in just 12 weeks. Sarah shares how she went from being a part-time Beachbody coach to building her own legit coaching business with a 75% close rate, signing 1–2 new clients every week. Tune in as Sarah reveals what it really looked like to start from scratch while balancing a full-time job, what she learned about herself along the way, and the simple systems that now power her growth. If you're a fitness coach, personal trainer, or health enthusiast looking to turn your passion into profit, this episode is packed with real talk, practical takeaways, and contagious inspiration.   And when your ready, here's how I can help:   30 Ways to Make $500 In Your Fitness Business By Next Week: https://beyondthesetsandreps.com/30-ways   90 Days Of Social Media Content For The Fitness Professional:   https://beyondthesetsandreps.com/90-days   Join our Facebook Group Successful Online Fit-Pro's where you will find a tribe of fabulous fitness trainers, done-for-you weekly content ideas, ways to start making money TODAY, content rewrites and much more: https://www.facebook.com/groups/fitprohangout

In this episode of Beyond the Sets and Reps, host Brandi Clark dives deep into the essential art of content creation for online business success. Let's dive in on why simply posting on social media isn't enough as Brandi outlines the real strategies behind building connection, trust, and ultimately sales through your content. If you've been feeling stuck posting consistently without seeing engagement, comments, DMs, or sales, this is the episode you've been waiting for. Brandi introduces the Client Acquisition Cycle and breaks down how each phase should shape your content strategy. She also shares 8 actionable tips for making your content clear, relatable, purpose-driven, and high-converting, with a special focus on the power of video and the magic of showing your true personality online. Ready to stop posting and praying, and start posting with purpose? Tune in now—and don't forget to check the show notes for details on how to join the Six Figure Framework!   And when your ready, here's how I can help: 30 Ways to Make $500 In Your Fitness Business By Next Week: https://www.standoutfitpro.com/30-ways       90 Days Of Social Media Content For The Fitness Professional: https://www.standoutfitpro.com/90-days-of-content   Join our Facebook Group Successful Online Fit-Pro's where you will find a tribe of fabulous fitness trainers, done-for-you weekly content ideas, ways to start making money TODAY, content rewrites and much more: https://www.facebook.com/groups/fitprohangout

In this episode of Beyond the Sets & Reps, host Brandi Clark drills into what fitness‑industry entrepreneurs should examine before hiring their first, or next business coach. Speaking from experience with both stellar and sub‑par mentors, she lays out a practical checklist: trust your intuition, make sure the coach's claims feel believable, confirm you connect with their personality, ensure their teaching style matches the way you learn, verify they have genuine client results, and observe whether their own marketing model aligns with how you want to run your business. Brandy also explains why transparency and the willingness to share past missteps are non‑negotiable traits in a mentor. This candid discussion gives coaches a clear roadmap for choosing guidance that fits their goals, vibe, and budget, while avoiding costly mistakes.   And when your ready, here's how I can help: 30 Ways to Make $500 In Your Fitness Business By Next Week: https://www.standoutfitpro.com/30-ways       90 Days Of Social Media Content For The Fitness Professional: https://www.standoutfitpro.com/90-days-of-content   Join our Facebook Group Successful Online Fit-Pro's where you will find a tribe of fabulous fitness trainers, done-for-you weekly content ideas, ways to start making money TODAY, content rewrites and much more: https://www.facebook.com/groups/fitprohangout

In this episode Brandi Clark will explain what exactly a social media strategy is, help you determine if you really need one and explain how to create a SIMPLE social media strategy that will work for you, help you find more followers and enroll more clients into your fitness business, programs and course.  . The Profit Accelerator - April 14-18   https://standoutfitpro.com/profit-accelerator   And when your ready, here's how I can help: 30 Ways to Make $500 In Your Fitness Business By Next Week: https://www.standoutfitpro.com/30-ways       90 Days Of Social Media Content For The Fitness Professional: https://www.standoutfitpro.com/90-days-of-content   Join our Facebook Group Successful Online Fit-Pro's where you will find a tribe of fabulous fitness trainers, done-for-you weekly content ideas, ways to start making money TODAY, content rewrites and much more: https://www.facebook.com/groups/fitprohangout

In this episode of Beyond the Sets & Reps, host Brandi Clark—also known as the “Messy Hair Millionaire”—tackles one of the biggest sticking points in fitness entrepreneurship: how to price your programs and services. Drawing on her experience as a two-time gym owner and national business mentor, she explains why the idea of “charging your worth” is misleading and instead shows listeners how to determine initial pricing based on factors like confidence, expertise, and client results. Brandi also dives into when and how to raise prices, including the telltale sign that you've reached a “saturation point” in your business. From debunking pricing myths, she encountered at a fitness convention in D.C. to offering easy, actionable steps to refine your own pricing, this episode is packed with practical advice for boosting profits without sacrificing authenticity or client trust.   And when your ready, here's how I can help:   30 Ways to Make $500 In Your Fitness Business By Next Week: https://beyondthesetsandreps.com/30-ways   90 Days Of Social Media Content For The Fitness Professional:   https://beyondthesetsandreps.com/90-days   Join our Facebook Group Successful Online Fit-Pro's where you will find a tribe of fabulous fitness trainers, done-for-you weekly content ideas, ways to start making money TODAY, content rewrites and much more: https://www.facebook.com/groups/fitprohangout   MyClientConnections.com is all-in-one platform that will run your entire fitness based business  With unlimited everything like courses, websites, funnels, scheduling, emails, texting and automated workflows you can charge your clients and give them a password protected portal for your programs courses…so no more chasing venmo payments!  At only $97 a month it is the obvious choice for new coaches entering the space and seasoned coaches looking for an upgraded back office experience.  Jump on over and take a look at myclientconnections.com  

In this episode, host Brandi Clark sits down with Maddie, an emerging force in the online fitness space, to discuss her remarkable transformation from struggling trainer to closing 80% of her sales calls. Maddie opens up about the days when she tried to sell low-priced e-books and hoped potential clients would notice her free workout videos—all without tangible results. She shares how taking a leap of faith and investing in a structured mentoring program completely reshaped her business. Listeners will hear Maddie's candid account of overcoming self-doubt, learning how to refine her sales approach, and finally believing in the value of her services. By following a step-by-step process and embracing every piece of feedback, she skyrocketed from zero revenue to earning over $9,000 in new sales, proving that sustainable success is achievable with the right guidance and mindset. This conversation offers inspiration and practical takeaways for anyone determined to turn their passion for fitness into a profitable, thriving online venture.   And when your ready, here's how I can help:   30 Ways to Make $500 In Your Fitness Business By Next Week: https://beyondthesetsandreps.com/30-ways   90 Days Of Social Media Content For The Fitness Professional:   https://beyondthesetsandreps.com/90-days   Join our Facebook Group Successful Online Fit-Pro's where you will find a tribe of fabulous fitness trainers, done-for-you weekly content ideas, ways to start making money TODAY, content rewrites and much more: https://www.facebook.com/groups/fitprohangout   MyClientConnections.com is all-in-one platform that will run your entire fitness based business  With unlimited everything like courses, websites, funnels, scheduling, emails, texting and automated workflows you can charge your clients and give them a password protected portal for your programs courses…so no more chasing venmo payments!  At only $97 a month it is the obvious choice for new coaches entering the space and seasoned coaches looking for an upgraded back office experience.  Jump on over and take a look at myclientconnections.com  

In this episode of Beyond the Sets & Reps, host Brandi Clark introduces four simple yet powerful questions designed to help business owners break through stagnation and move forward with clarity. Inspired by a thought-provoking book by Drew Hanlen, Brandi shares how these questions exposed areas where she was unknowingly holding herself back—both personally and professionally. She also walks through a revealing exercise where her team evaluated her leadership and the business using these four questions, uncovering insights that led to actionable changes. From identifying what to stop doing, to recognizing strengths worth doubling down on, this episode provides a blueprint for self-reflection and business growth.  If you've ever felt stuck, unmotivated, or unsure about your next steps, these four simple questions could be the game-changer you need. Tune in, take notes, and get ready to embrace new opportunities for success!   And when your ready, here's how I can help:   30 Ways to Make $500 In Your Fitness Business By Next Week: https://beyondthesetsandreps.com/30-ways   90 Days Of Social Media Content For The Fitness Professional:   https://beyondthesetsandreps.com/90-days   Join our Facebook Group Successful Online Fit-Pro's where you will find a tribe of fabulous fitness trainers, done-for-you weekly content ideas, ways to start making money TODAY, content rewrites and much more: https://www.facebook.com/groups/fitprohangout    

Listen in as Brandi Clark coaches and Bri Scully in a candid conversation about the struggles that many business owners face, particularly those in the fitness industry. Brie opens up about her journey — from the inception of her business to the emotional and logistical challenges that came with motherhood and transitioning to her new business focus. Throughout this episode, Brandi emphasizes the importance of personal mindset in business success. She probes Bri into what it truly means to her to face potential rejection or disappointment in her business. As the conversation unfolds, listeners will find themselves reflecting on their own mental barriers and how these often unspoken fears can hinder their growth. Brandi encourages Bri to confront the fear of failure and recognize that the journey to success is paved with challenges that are both internal and external. Listeners will walk away with vital takeaways, particularly around the significance of effective client communication, personal narrative in marketing, and transforming mindset issues into a powerful source for personal growth. As Brie embarks on her journey toward re-establishing her business goals and creating impactful services for her clients, her story will likely inspire many to dig deep and cultivate the resilience needed for success. As you tune in, prepare to gain valuable insights not just into enhancing client engagement and program structuring, but also into the crucial self-reflection that can lead to real transformation in both business and personal life. . And when your ready, here's how I can help:   30 Ways to Make $500 In Your Fitness Business By Next Week: https://beyondthesetsandreps.com/30-ways   90 Days Of Social Media Content For The Fitness Professional:   https://beyondthesetsandreps.com/90-days Join our Facebook Group Successful Online Fit-Pro's where you will find a tribe of fabulous fitness trainers, done-for-you weekly content ideas, ways to start making money TODAY, content rewrites and much more: https://www.facebook.com/groups/fitprohangout

Gather around as host Brandi Clark relates a critical insight about consumer behavior, particularly the urgent shift towards instant gratification, influenced not just by the rise of technology but also by new treatments like GLP-1. This development has significantly altered buying motivations as consumers increasingly lean towards quicker solutions rather than traditional, labor-intensive methods of achieving health and fitness goals. In her candid style, she underscores the need for business owners to adapt their strategies to meet this new consumer mindset. Brandi expertly breaks down the competitive landscape, emphasizing that trust in the fitness industry is dwindling. With an alarming surge of new coaches entering the market, trust is at a crossroads; consumers are left to sift through countless options which may leave them feeling jaded—an unfortunate reality many experienced in the field can relate to. Brandi urges her listeners to cultivate trust and emphasize genuine human connection amidst the noise, providing insight into how relationship marketing will be the lifeblood of successful coaching businesses moving forward. The discussion shifts to the changing dynamic of consumer education, revealing that today's clients come pre-equipped with knowledge and expectations. Listeners will learn how to identify potential clients better, as those interested may take longer to explore their options, having already done substantial research before reaching out. Brandi explains that nurturing these leads is paramount, highlighting the importance of consistent engagement and providing value through regular content, conversion events, and frequent communication. With every point that Brandi touches on, she encourages fitness professionals to lean into transparency and authenticity. As she reflects on a world craving personal connection over automated responses, she stresses how simply being yourself—messy hair and all—can resonate with clients and cultivate loyalty. The emphasis on building familiar relationships, rather than relying solely on flashy marketing tactics—aligns perfectly with her mission to overhaul the way fitness professionals connect with their clients. Brandi also lays the groundwork for cultivating a human-centric approach to business in the face of rising automation and low-ticket offers flooding the market. She invites coaches to fill the growing gaps left by a quickly automated fitness industry by offering services grounded in relationship-building, accountability, and genuine guidance. By prioritizing these connections, professionals can differentiate themselves from low-cost alternatives that often fail to deliver substantial results.   MyClientConnections.com  is all-in-one platform that will run your entire fitness based business  With unlimited everything like courses, websites, funnels, scheduling, emails, texting and automated workflows you can charge your clients and give them a password protected portal for your programs courses…so no more chasing venmo payments!  At only $97 a month it is the obvious choice for new coaches entering the space and seasoned coaches looking for an upgraded back office experience.  Jump on over and take a look at myclientconnections.com   And when your ready, here's how I can help: 2025 INSTANT PROFIT CHALLENGE RESET: https://www.standoutfitpro.com/instant-profit-challenge-2   30 Ways to Make $500 In Your Fitness Business By Next Week: https://beyondthesetsandreps.com/30-ways   90 Days Of Social Media Content For The Fitness Professional:   https://beyondthesetsandreps.com/90-days   Join our Facebook Group Successful Online Fit-Pro's where you will find a tribe of fabulous fitness trainers, done-for-you weekly content ideas, ways to start making money TODAY, content rewrites and much more: https://www.facebook.com/groups/fitprohangout

Which is better for your fitness business, social media marketing or email marketing?  Where should you be focusing your time and energy...on increasing your follower count or increasing your list size? In this episode Brandi Clark dives into the topic of social media vs email for generating new sales and finding new clients for your online business, hybrid business and even your gym or studio.   Make 2025 Your First Six Figure Year - December 7th - $97:  https://standoutfitpro.com/6f-masterclass-2025   MyClientConnections.com  is all-in-one platform that will run your entire fitness based business  With unlimited everything like courses, websites, funnels, scheduling, emails, texting and automated workflows you can charge your clients and give them a password protected portal for your programs courses…so no more chasing venmo payments!  At only $97 a month it is the obvious choice for new coaches entering the space and seasoned coaches looking for an upgraded back office experience.  Jump on over and take a look at myclientconnections.com   And when you're ready, here's how I can help:   30 Ways to Make $500 In Your Fitness Business By Next Week: https://beyondthesetsandreps.com/30-ways   90 Days Of Social Media Content For The Fitness Professional:   https://beyondthesetsandreps.com/90-days Join our Facebook Group Successful Online Fit-Pro's where you will find a tribe of fabulous fitness trainers, done-for-you weekly content ideas, ways to start making money TODAY, content rewrites and much more: https://www.facebook.com/groups/fitprohangout

"I'm worried what other people will think."  This phrase prevents so many powerful men and woman from stepping to their full potential, and this only robs the world of all their greatness.  In this episode Brandi Clark will walk you thru the 4 step process she walks herself thru when she starts to worry what others will think and how it helps her get past the fear of others judgement.     And when your ready, here's how I can help: 30 Ways to Make $500 In Your Fitness Business By Next Week: https://www.standoutfitpro.com/30-ways       90 Days Of Social Media Content For The Fitness Professional: https://www.standoutfitpro.com/90-days-of-content Join our Facebook Group Successful Online Fit-Pro's where you will find a tribe of fabulous fitness trainers, done-for-you weekly content ideas, ways to start making money TODAY, content rewrites and much more: https://www.facebook.com/groups/fitprohangout Apply For Free Coaching: Complete this 5 question application to see if you qualify for free coaching and business strategy with Brandi: https://api.leadconnectorhq.com/widget/survey/fV5ufq5c3hTtkch6F2gd  

In this episode Brandi Clark will explain what exactly a social media strategy is, help you determine if you really need one and explain how to create a SIMPLE social media strategy that will work for you, help you find more followers and enroll more clients into your fitness business, programs and course.  . How To Create Content That Captures And Keeps The Attention Of Your Ideal Client Thursday February 15 (replay available): https://www.standoutfitpro.com/how-to-create-content   And when your ready, here's how I can help: 30 Ways to Make $500 In Your Fitness Business By Next Week: https://www.standoutfitpro.com/30-ways       90 Days Of Social Media Content For The Fitness Professional: https://www.standoutfitpro.com/90-days-of-content   Join our Facebook Group Successful Online Fit-Pro's where you will find a tribe of fabulous fitness trainers, done-for-you weekly content ideas, ways to start making money TODAY, content rewrites and much more: https://www.facebook.com/groups/fitprohangout   Apply For Free Coaching: Complete this 5 question application to see if you qualify for free coaching and business strategy with Brandi: https://api.leadconnectorhq.com/widget/survey/fV5ufq5c3hTtkch6F2gd

What's one of the biggest mistakes fitness professionals can make as they start to grow their businesses?  Brandi Clark explains her background and journey thru the fitness industry from group fitness instructor, personal trainer and gym owner to fitness business coach and how she has made every costly mistake in the book...and more importantly she wants to help you avoid doing the same.  REGISTER FOR THE FREE TRAINING: How To Create Content That Captures And Keeps The Attention Of Your Ideal Client Thursday February 15 (replay available): https://www.standoutfitpro.com/how-to-create-content   And when your ready, here's how I can help: 30 Ways to Make $500 In Your Fitness Business By Next Week: https://www.standoutfitpro.com/30-ways       90 Days Of Social Media Content For The Fitness Professional: https://www.standoutfitpro.com/90-days-of-content   Join our Facebook Group Successful Online Fit-Pro's where you will find a tribe of fabulous fitness trainers, done-for-you weekly content ideas, ways to start making money TODAY, content rewrites and much more: https://www.facebook.com/groups/fitprohangout   Apply For Free Coaching: Complete this 5 question application to see if you qualify for free coaching and business strategy with Brandi: https://api.leadconnectorhq.com/widget/survey/fV5ufq5c3hTtkch6F2gd

CJ Miller takes a break from painting to share his experience of feeling blue and depressed. He encourages the listener to feel the emotion and keep on painting. When we feel our emotions, they process through us and take us to a new place. He also discusses his childhood experience with Seasonal Depression Disorder and how he learned to walk through emotions he cites a recent interview with Dr. Jane Gardner who explains the Emotional Scale and how we must feel an emotion completely before moving on to the next step. Watch “How do Emotions Hold Us Back from Creativity with Dr. Jayne Gardner” for more information. CJ reminds us to keep painting. A pdf of the emotional scale is listed on the Spiritual Artist Today website in the Practice Guides section. What sad song is CJ really into right now? "Dear Insecurity" by Brandi Clark featuring Brandi Carlisle. https://open.spotify.com/album/5vLQakn5RIIinS715tqgjI Learn more about CJ, his podcast, book, and retreats by visiting www.spiritualartisttoday.com.  

You can create content all day long but if it doesn't reach your dream customer and have them say, I want to work with her! It's a miss. Create content that creates clients and leave the busy work to the rest.  You just promoted for someone else. With CHAT GPT you have to be good. You have to tell stories that an AI can't. You have to have humor and personal input no one but you can have. Brandi Clark has experienced the mistakes trainers make as have I!  We potentially have failed so you don't have to! And we let you lean over the fence and hear how to avoid those kinds of mistakes. In a moment in time where you can't afford to be lost in the shuffle.  We reposition your goal on social, and your thoughts about creating content that is truly deep.  Want more help? Join the Fully Booked Online Fit-Pro summit hosted by Brandi. My Guest:  Brandi Clark is a marketing and sales mentor for those in the fitness industry. With over 20 years in the fitness industry she has served her clients in every capacity from group instructor, personal trainer, master trainer offering CEC's to fitness professionals and a gym owner with multiple locations. She understands how quickly the industry changes and evolves and she spends her time helping fitness professionals adapt so they don't get left behind. Her specialty is teaching coaches and trainers how to create content that really connects with their audience so they can build their training business and help more people achieve lasting lifelong changes. She spent years as a Master Trainer educating fitness professionals thru CEC courses and programs that she developed and delivered. Questions We Answer in This Episode: How to create content that stands out What do most fitness professionals do wrong as they enter into the online space? What should fitness professionals focus on as they incorporate online training? Tell us more about this upcoming Virtual Summit? Your content that creates clients won't look or sound like anyone else's. If it does, you have work to do. A copycat approach won't work for an authentic success.  Become a Fully Booked Online Fit-Pro: Where to Focus Your Time and Energy in 2023 https://fitnessmarketingmastery.com/fully-booked Brandi on Social: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brandiclarkfit/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/fitprohangout Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/standoutfitpro/ Resources: Health & Fitness Business Scorecard: https://www.fitnessmarketingmastery.com/scorecard Marketing to Women Copywriting Course: https://www.fitnessmarketingmastery.com/copywriting-course Other Episodes You Might Like: The Truth About Email Frequency and Content: https://www.fitnessmarketingmastery.com/email-frequency/ 12 Content Ideas for Fitness & Health Coaches: https://www.fitnessmarketingmastery.com/content-ideas/ What to Post on Social Media | How I Decide Weekly Content: https://www.fitnessmarketingmastery.com/what-to-post/

We all know that consistency is a major factor in growing your audience and business, but it can feel overwhelming constantly making new social posts, blogs, and programs. Join our panel of experts as they cover not only what content works best and how to make the process easier, but also how to repurpose your existing content to maintain a consistent marketing strategy.

Ellen Britton is an amazing guitarist and songwriter who has toured with many huge acts and appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The View, The Rosie O'Donnell Show, and The Today Show. As a teacher, she has worked with Brandi Clark, Pam Tillis, Mickey Guyton, Carly Pearce, Little Big Town and so many more.On this episode, Ellen talks about the importance of dynamics as a performer and guitar player and shares some voices, strumming patterns and power chords for anyone who would like to write on guitar!https://www.ellenbritton.comhttps://www.scarletkeys.comhttps://www.instagram.com/scarletkeysofficial/https://www.amazon.com/Craft-Songwriting-Music-Meaning-Emotion/dp/0876391927/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2PP55NU6E9ST6&keywords=the+craft+of+songwriting&qid=1659573139&sprefix=the+craft+of+songwritin%2Caps%2C153&sr=8-1Engineer: Peter Sykes https://www.petersykesmusic.comThe show's theme song "What's in a Song" was co-written with Otto GrossRecorded and performed by Otto Gross: @OttoGrossProduction (instagram)@OttoGrossMusic (Youtube, facebook, TikTok)https://biglink.to/ottogrossmusic 

OSF Saint Luke Medical Center will host another virtual Healthy Workplace event on Thursday, April 28th, online via Zoom from 7:30 Am to 8:30 Am. The meeting is aimed at Business Owners and those in the Insurance industry who'd like to learn more about the benefits of creating a healthy workplace. The specific topic of the April 28th Healthy Workplace Event is OSF On-Call Virtual Urgent Care and the featured speaker will be Speakers: Kate Barth, VP of On Demand Services and Brandi Clark, VP of OSF OnCall Digital Care.

The Glass Art Society (GAS), Inc. is an international organization whose mission is to encourage excellence, to advance education, to promote the development and appreciation of the glass arts, and to support the worldwide community of artists who work with glass. Since 1971, GAS has been using the joy of glass to connect, inspire, and empower all facets of the global glass community.  From the early days of the American Studio Glass movement to the upcoming United Nations' International Year of Glass, GAS continues to foster connections that last a lifetime. This year's gathering – held in Tacoma, Washington, from May 18 – 21 – celebrates 50 years of Glass Art Society. With the theme Between Here and There, this milestone conference will explore the past five decades of glass and what the next five decades will hold for making, collecting, and educating.  GAS Executive Director, Brandi Clark, says: “This will be one of the most exciting GAS conferences yet. GAS will be celebrating its 50th Anniversary, it is the United Nations' International Year of Glass, and we will be able to gather together again after three long years! While celebrating the history of GAS, we will also be highlighting the reach and diversity that is the future of the glass community. Our Saxe Emerging Artists are a great reflection of that.”  The Glass Art Society is pleased to announce the 2022 Saxe Emerging Artist Award recipients: Fumi Amano, Krista Israel, and Madeline Rile Smith. Each winner will receive the opportunity to present at the 2022 Annual GAS Conference, placement in a digital artist exhibition, an honorarium to support their artistic endeavors, and more. Through a competitive jurying process, GAS recognizes emerging artists every year based on their promising talent with glass. Applicants—nominated by peers, academics, and curators—are evaluated by a professional panel of jurors.  All interdisciplinary artists, each of the three winners use their work to explore the similarities between the unique properties of glass and their own minds and bodies. Joining me on this episode of Talking Out Your Glass podcast, Smith uses glass as a “performative vehicle to consider notions of intimacy and embodiment,” exploring the parallels between the human body and the medium of glass.  Informed by her background in music, Smith creates objects that explore connection and isolation. Her work has been exhibited in venues throughout the US and internationally, and has been featured in New Glass Review 41 and 35. She currently teaches glass art as an adjunct professor at Rochester Institute of Technology and has instructed glass working in schools and institutions throughout the East Coast, including UrbanGlass, Salem Community College, and the Crefeld School.  You can see more of her current work and educational videos on Instagram, Youtube, and TikTok. States Smith: “Informed by my experience with chronic pain, my work explores degrees of ability and compromise of the human body. Pain has caused periods of isolation in my life, and as a result I have a strong impulse to connect with others. I utilize glass as a performative vehicle to explore interaction between people. Through objects and performance, I examine the pleasure, intimacy and discomfort that accompany the interpersonal experiences we all seek.”  This episode also features a conversation Natali Rodrigues, former GAS Board President, this year's GAS Lifetime Membership award winner, and Associate Professor in the Glass Program at the Alberta University of the Arts in Canada. Rodrigues discusses the upcoming GAS conference, the organization's new mission, vision, values and strategic plan, and how those are being implemented to create a more inclusive organization and glass community. “The more work GAS does to be an international organization, the more ways it finds to bring together the glass community across borders,” Rodrigues says. And you'll hear from one of GAS' founders, Fritz Dreisbach. Equal parts artist, scientist, and historian, Dreisbach has spent the last five decades teaching and demonstrating glassblowing around the world. This “Johnny Appleseed of Glass” has himself played a vital role in the history of the American Studio Glass movement that he now strives to preserve and share with the next generation. In the process of inspiring others to try glass, Dreisbach began studying and reinventing historic shapes in glass with his personal brand of irony, humor, and fun. Children's toys and games, funk ceramics, and 1960s comics all inspired Dreisbach's early artwork. Above all, he endeavored to capture the fluid nature of the hot glass used to create his work. Having studied painting at the University of Iowa, earning his master of arts degree, Dreisbach planned to eventually teach college level art, thus his advisor instructed him to study a wide variety of mediums. A two-credit, experimental course in glassblowing was part of the curriculum. Serendipitously, his love affair with glass began the summer of 1964, only two years after the seminal '62 Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) workshops. During this time, Dreisbach first met and was inspired by three pioneers of Studio Glass—Harvey Littleton, Dominick Labino, and Erwin Eisch. Dreisbach has led hundreds of workshops and lectures about glass in over 185 institutions worldwide. Traversing the country, teaching and spreading the gospel, earned him the moniker, “The Johnny Appleseed of Glass.” Dreisbach designed and built many hot shops in the 1960s and 1970s, including Pilchuck Glass School. After his short visit in 1971, the artist began teaching and advising the school for over four decades and has served as an artist trustee since 1993. He helped found and direct the Glass Art Society, which presented him with its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002. Enjoy this multi-faceted conversation about GAS – past, present and future.    

With Earth Day coming up, it's a great time to have a conversation around actionable & simple ways you can help out the planet, a little more than you already are. From community involvement and at-home tips, to documentary recommendations, Brandi Clark Burton, one of the most knowledgeable environmentalists and Austinites we know, helps us reflect and inspires us to make some changes this month, however big or small. Show Notes here - --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/amostlygreenlife/message

Today, we are sharing a podcast interview we were on a month ago with our friend Brandi Clark. Brandi asked some great questions around creating and selling a High Ticket Offer as a Health and Fitness Coach and we wanted to share it with you.   Tune into this short discussion, we promise you it will inspire you and give you some new insights to take action on right away!   In This Episode, we discuss: How to create and sell a $2k High Ticket Offer How to build your confidence to do this Our 6 step pathway to get to $10k months How to play offense, not defense in your biz   Follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/chrisandericmartinez/ and see the full Show Notes to this episode here https://www.liveadynamiclifestyle.com/podcast/how-to-create-sell-a-2k-high-ticket-offer-as-an-online-health-fitness-coach/   Checkout our Trusted and Recommended Sponsors: Checkout the fitness addition to start getting a feel for the pocket suite App https://pocketsuite.io/register/dynamic-fit-pros   Grab your “Magic Mind” Energy Drink and get 20% off using the coupon code “dynamic20” and click the link below. www.magicmind.co/dynamic

2:55 I gotta jump straight into Facebook ads. And here I was spending 1000s of dollars a month on Facebook ads and then paying somebody to manage these ads. And then I paid 1000s of dollars for somebody to build me this WordPress site that I didn't even know how to manage. So I had to pay them to manage it. Because I'm a trainer, I am not a I'm not techie, I am not a developer, I don't know that side of things. So I ended up making all of the mistakes, some of them I made over and over again. So I like to take those mistakes and turn them into lessons and pay that forward and help other trainers and coaches who are kind of transitioning into the online world and teach them how to do it better and faster than I did. Because when I did this, I was coming from a brick and mortar facility. So I had two gyms. And, you know, we all know Jim's recurring business model, right. And it's really just about that recurring lower price type model so that you can get as many people right, it's like mass we're going through for volume pricing. And so I thought that's what I needed to do, you know, when I transitioned out of the gym, sold my gym and then came into the online space.    5:32 One thing that I feel like and also came up over and over again, as I was talking to the experts, it's lack of consistency. It's a lack of consistency, right. And sometimes, we don't know why we're not being consistent. We don't know why our mind is holding us back or our energy, for some reason is holding us back because we have every intention of being consistent. So like, if you can relate to waking up every morning thinking, Okay, today, I'm going to go up today I'm going to go live, today's the day, I'm going to go live today's day, I'm going to make these posts Today's the day I'm going to do all of these things that I told myself I was going to do yesterday, but didn't for whatever reason. Today's a brand new day, I'm going to do that. And then you don't write your beat, you feel resistance, you pull back you for whatever reason, just don't pull the trigger and follow through with that. So I would say I to answer your question, the biggest mistake most traders are making and coaches are making an entrepreneur's are making honestly, it's lack of consistency.   10:00 So take that same piece of content, talk about what how you did it, and how they can do it to connect with them on a very deep level know their pain points, for example, that 30 year old mother of two, what is her pain point, her pain point is probably that it's a pain in the butt to get to the gym for her, because she's probably got an infant on an infant carrier on this elbow. And then she's got a toddler in her hand down here. And what our what should be a one hour trip to the gym turns into two hours, because she's got to change diapers, she's got a nurse a baby, she's got to get the kid in the car, strap them in their seatbelt, get there, get them into the KidCare, try to get the workout in route the kids from the KidCare, get him back. It's a whole situation for that woman. So how can you talk about that situation for that woman.   12:51 And we put this event together to help personal trainers, coaches, entrepreneurs, figure out why they are not standing out, and why they're not getting visible. Because why? It comes back to sales, right? So if you're feeling frustrated in your business, if you're feeling stuck in your business, if you feel like you're posting every day, and you're being consistent, but you're not getting the traction that you that you deserve, or you feel like you need, this is exactly why we put this event together. So we collaborated with all of these amazing minds, and asked everybody a couple of questions. One, what are trainers and coaches doing wrong? As they enter into the online space today? What should they be doing instead? Everybody answered that question. Also, everybody spoke to their zone of genius. So like Jason, you came in and you spoke to you spoke to video marketing, and what people need to do on live videos and videos in general and how to grab that attention immediately and get people to raise their hand.    16:20 But if you look at social media as a whole, right, it's like, I think I read a few different statistics when I was doing some research on statistic number one is that the average person scrolls, five miles on news feed every year, right? That's the average person. Some people do way more, some people do a little less. But that means they're just scrolling, right scrolling, scrolling, scrolling. That's number one, right? So you've got to do something to stand out. Otherwise, you're going to be driven by just like that billboard that unfortunately gets put up in. It's like a good spot.  “So if you're feeling frustrated in your business, if you're feeling stuck in your business, if you feel like you're posting every day, and you're being consistent, but you're not getting the traction that you that you deserve, or you feel like you need, this is exactly why we put this event together. So we collaborated with all of these amazing minds, and asked everybody a couple of questions. One, what are trainers and coaches doing wrong? As they enter into the online space today? What should they be doing instead?”   There's a difference between content that converts content that engages and content that just gets seen and overlooked.  You can't stand out, you can't increase your visibility, so nobody sees you. The best place is gonna be my Facebook group. It's called successful online fit pros. Your roadmap to a six figure business. Connect with Brandi: https://rebrand.ly/18cnkf1

Terri Clark interviews artist and breast cancer survivor Anita Cochran.  Anita is hosting the second of her Love Anchors benefit shows on May 15th at a marina in east Tennessee.  Terri will appear along with Jamie O'Neal, Brandi Clark, and Carolyn Dawn Johnson.  They talk about Anita's battle with cancer, and how she was inspired to start the Love Anchors Fund.  They also talk about Anita's country music career, including her #1 duet with Steve Wariner: "What If I Said." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Clave de rock. Programa 2ºListado de artistas y canciones por orden de aparición:1. Chuck Berry, Lady B. Goode2. Rock and Roll Music, Ian Gillan & The Javelins3. The Mavericks, Swingin4. Tami Nielson, Any fool with a heart5. Brandi Clark, Who You Thought I Was6. Reba McEntire, There's No U in Oklahoma7. Tania Tucker, The Wheels of Laredo8. David Brookings & The Average Lookings, Without You9. Zephaniah O'Hara, Something Stupid10. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Listen to Her Heart11. Champagne, Where is Barbara Ann?12. Kenny Neal, Plain Old Common Sense13. Gregg Martinez, I Can't Stand The Rain14. The Steeldrivers, I Choose You15. Hot Country Knights, Pick Her Up.16. Dale Watson, I Lie When I Drink

Everybody has a freak flag...they just don't always fly it. That is definitely NOT the case with our guests, Dave Willacker and Brandi Clark. They fly it high and proud! Dave eats fire, swallows swords and electrocutes himself...on purpose! And Brandi...well, she walks on broken glass, gets buckwhipped and lays in a coffin filled with 80 of biggest hissing cockroaches you've ever seen!  And...sometimes she eats them! They're just a couple of freaks... trying to earn a buck. 

Yes, it's me - Marc Hershon - your host and executive producer for Epi 159 of Succotash, the Comedy Soundcast Soundcast. Usually we'd either be presenting a Succotash Clips or a Succotash Chats installment and, while I guess this is more Chats than Clips, it's a lot more informal than usual. That's because I recorded it from Studio F (my Fiat 500C) as I was trundling down Interstate 5 from San Francisco to Los Angeles to this year's Los Angeles Podcast Festival. The quality is about as good as you might expect, considering I'm in a tiny convertible car speaking into a digital recorder. But, as our friend in soundcasting Phil Leirness from Chillpak Hollywood Hour says, how much are you paying for this? We're featuring an interview I did with a writer and entrepreneur, RIck Karlsruher, who self-published a very funny novel, Standoff: How the Cold War Really Ended. We talk about the book, his attempts turn it into a movie, and some other adventures as well. This installment features a double dose of our Burst O' Durst with political comedian and social commentator Will Durst. And in lieu of having access to our TweetSack, I play a brief message that came into our Succotash Hotline from listener and soundcaster Hunter Block, who co-hosts The Anti Social Show with our own Associate Producer Tyson Saner.  I also have a in-transit speakerphone chat with longtime friend-of-Succotash (and friend in real life) Travis Clark. We talk about his new soundcast, Quick Question, that he co-hosts with Jonathan Sadowski. We also talk about his old soundcast, Tiny Odd Conversations, that he used to do with his wife Brandi Clark. And we stir the pot about a couple of other things before I hang up and get back to the business of driving south. This episode of Succotash is brought to you by Henderson's Pet Pants, BTW — your pet may not be embarrassed running around with their butt hanging out but, really, come on. And that's it. I'm actually posting this episode from the Podcast Lab at the Los Angeles Podcast Festival so disregard any of the events that I'm talking about that will have passed by the time this show reaches your ears. But feel free to enjoy the rest of it! And I hereby promise that the next 'sode of this soundcast, Epi160, will be dropping WAY sooner than this one did. — Marc Hershon

It’s me. Marc Hershon, your host and busboy for Epi107 of Succotash, the Comedy Podcast Podcast. Since this is an edition of Succotash Clips, we have a Easter basket full of comedy podcast clips on hand to unleash on your ears. Many thanks, as always, to our faithful associate producer, Tyson Saner, for grabbing so many of these for us. And also to those of you comedy podcasters who sent in your own clips OR even someone else’s clips — that’s what we got this week, from our friend in the UK, Davian Dent. Davian sent along a pair of clips from shows other than his Strange Times podcast or his Bitter Sound show or his The Blank Planet podcast. Such a show of podcaster generosity has inspired a new feature we kick off in this episode. And we’ve got a jam-packed epi for you, including clips from Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast, Angelos & Barry, The Angry Chimp, Casa Mirth, Dark Angels and Pretty Freaks, Date Speeding, Everyone Has A Podcast, Hypernonsense, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Radio Dan Show, and Who The Eff Is Sal Calanni podcast. In addition we have another visit to the Podcast Graveyard to pay homage to a late, great show, as well as unboxing a double dose of our Burst O’ Durst segment with comedian & social commentator Will Durst (you can also catch Will tweeting @WillDurst!), the Tweetsack, and a new commercial from our friends at Henderson’s Pants, who are sponsoring this edition and promoting their new Money Maker Pants. Man, you’d think with this much show we’d be charging extra but, no, you’re getting all of this great entertainment for free! But that doesn’t mean you have to take advantage of our largess. If you’d like to give a little back, visit our homesite, at http://SuccotashShow.com, and give our Donate button a quick click to throw us a few doubloons. Or while you’re there you can click the Amazon banner at the top of the page to do your online shopping and they’ll kick us back a little piece of the action. OR click on the link to our Succotashery and purch some merch with our keen new Season 2 logo on it! See how many ways you can help to be a part of this show in a very real and financial way? Podcast Graveyard There are thousand upon thousand of podcasts out on the podwaves. Many of them in the past have had trouble sustaining themselves over the long haul. And many that are currently being produced now will eventually be gone. But we’d hate for any podcast to be forgotten, which is why we have open the Podcast Graveyard. This episode, our associate producer Tyson Saner has exhumed Making It With Riki Lindhome, a podcast that seems to have ended without fanfare in December of 2013. Riki is getting a lot of heat as one half of the Garfunkel and Oates comedy team, so maybe that’s what pulled her away from her show on the podwaves. Her last entry was Epi74 and her guest was Mike Farah, the president of production at Funny or Die.   Clips Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal PodcastWe hadn’t visited Gilbert Gottfried and his Amazing Colossal Podcast since it first dropped almost a year ago. But I got a note a couple of weeks ago from friend-of-the-show Shawn Marek over at the Sideshow Network, where Amazing Colossal lives. Shawn’s a big hotshot producer over there and he wanted to let me know that TV wildman and loose cannon Dan Harmon, the creator of Community as well as Adult Swim’s Rick & Morty (as well as host of his own Harmontown podcast) was on Gilbert’s show. Now you get to hear a snippet from that show, courtesy of Mr. Marek, when Dan explains the whole magilla that happened between himself and Chevy Chase. The Joe Rogan ExperienceWe’ve featured The Joe Rogan Experience a few times over the almost three years our show’s been around but not for a while. In this snippet, Joe Rogan's guest Bert Kreischer, a comedian and podcaster in his own right, along with co-host Brian Redban, chatter about comedian Colin Quinn, a type of comedy appears to be replaced, and our memories are likened to a computer’s hard drive. The Radio Dan ShowDan Delgado over at The Radio Dan Show has taken advantage of our instant upload link to shoot a couple of snippets from his podcast over to us. They’re short clips – less than a minute each, so I decided to make you a Radio Dan Sandwich or "danwich". I’ve wrapped both snippets around a tasty chunk of chat that I had with Dan last September in the Podcast Lab where we were both staked out during the 3rd Annual LA Podcast Festival. Date SpeedingSomeone else who took advantage of our Succotash instant upload was Jason Duplissea, who was one-half of the What Duvet Said podcast. (That show’s been on hiatus – Jason says it may get an overhaul and be kicked back into gear again. Hmm. If not, we might find What Duvet Said in the Podcast Graveyard!) Anyway, he’s got a new podcast up and running called Date Speeding hosted by the Reverend Rich Hugh. He says it’s advice for online daters and has a kind of Jack Handey/Deep Thoughts vibe, but with what he calls “a healthy dose of explicit language.” Angelos & BarryIn a world of confusion, media bombardment and mixed messages, it’s good to know the great philosopher's tradition still exists. Much like 70s comedy legends Derek & Clive before them, Angelos & Barry present a truly hysterical meeting of minds. Angelos Epithemiou was previously on cult UK comedy show Shooting Stars and Barry From Watford has graced TV, radio, and even our friend Davian Dent's shows The Bitter Sound and Strange Times. In this clip, the two discuss the possibly apocryphal events surrounding porn legend "King Dong" on a British 70s evening light entertainment show. The Casa Mirth PodcastIn this clip from the first episode of the new and second series of The Casa Mirth Podcast, Dr. Norman Trousers and River Zambezi discuss the differences between woman's swimwear and underwear. Everyone Has A PodcastAnother Tyson grab this week is a clip from Everyone Has A Podcast, with hosts Adam and Byron who, apparently, have no last names. According to their website, the guys are slowly building themselves a recording studio but started out doing their show by recording it into an iPhone. This clip is from their Epi3, entitled “Butt Crunch”. The Angry Chimp ShowOur friends Stu and company down under at The Angry Chimp Show uploaded us a clip from season 2 of their monkeyshines, which has just drawn to a close this week. Stu sent along a note with the clip that reads: “Hi, thought I would submit a clip from the second season of The Angry Chimp Show for your consideration should you be short on clips for upcoming epis. Hope you are well and keep up the good work! Stu” Thanks, Stu! These guys are a lot of fun and know how to work the audio sketch medium. Who The Eff Is Sal Calanni?There’s a podcast we’ve featured a time or two before that’s had a couple of permutations, including being called The Sal & Angelo Show. Now it’s called Who The Eff is Sal Calanni? and features San Francisco comedian Sal Calanni. He recently hit his 200th episode so I thought it was high time to check in, and he’s got a great story in the episode featuring the process he had to go through to audition for a movie that’s being shot in the Bay Area. Hyper NonsenseThis clip has a bit of a mysterious history. It was uploaded directly to us and with the show's information, and that it was from a recent episode of Hyper Nonsense. So I tweeted out a thank you and heard back from one of one of the co-hosts who claims that they never submitted a clip and where did it come from? Who knows, really. The hosts, Shawn Thorpe and his wife, Jen, are podcast vets, having started a podcast in 2005 called The Phantomfeed. Then they moved and launched a new show called Hyper Nonsense in 2006, which ran until 2009. In 2010 they started a new ‘cast called GeminiDragon, which ended in 2012, at which point they kicked off No Market Radio. Shawn wasn’t happy with that concept and so, in 2013, he and Jen decided to breathe new life into Hyper Nonsense and they swear on a stack of websites, that this one is here to stay. Dark Angels and Pretty FreaksI wonder if it’s time for a new adage, something along the lines of “the couple that podcasts together stays together”. There are a LOT of married couples in the podcast game, like our friends Travis and Brandi Clark from Tiny Odd Conversations, or Shawn and Jen from Hypernonsense that we also featured this show. There’s a show out of nearby Napa, California, called Dark Angels and Pretty Freaks, hosted by Annaleis and her husband Neil C. They’ve been really nice about retweeting a lot of our Succotash tweets but this is the first chance we’ve had to feature their show. The tagline on their website states, “Helping to Kill Your Commute”. It’s a conversational-style show with topics ranging all over the place, a lot of it focusing on things they do together. So maybe it’s kind of like real time couples’ therapy or something. I pulled this clip of them talking about a magic show they saw during a recent trip to Reno. That’s going to do it for Succotash Epi107. Thanks to our esteemed associate producer Tyson Saner, our producer/engineer Joe Paulino, and our booth announcer Bill Haywatt. Next time, in Epi108, I will feature my recent interview with comedy writer extraordinaire and podcaster David Feldman, and we’ll also have a Boozin’ with Bill segment, where our announcer will mix up a concoction he calls “The Roman Candle”. In the meantime, please feel free to pass the Succotash! — Marc Hershon

Hi! It's me, Marc Hershon, and this is the official blog entry for Epi85 of Succotash, the Comedy Podcast Podcast. What’s it been? THREE weeks since the last episode went out? Damn, if I was on a network they would have dropped my sorry ass by now. But - as always - thank YOU for listening. And thanks to this episode's special guest co-host for being here all the way from England! Davian Dent is not only host of his own podcast, The Bitter Sound, but he also co-hosts another one called Strange Times. Davian is with me for the entire show. He's also a musician and an audio wunderkind as well. He's brought some clips, I've brought some clips and there's also quite a bit of chat in between. And what, exactly, is on the show today, you might ask? Clips, of course. Davian selected some, I picked some, we’re going to play clips from both of Davian’s shows. I also have a quick chat with Mike Guido, an old friend of mine who started out in standup comedy years ago in the burgeoning San Francisco scene but went away from it for a long time. Now he's back with a touching one-man show, A Real Man - Dad. Daughter. Autism. And Mike's just trying to raise a mere $9000 in the next couple of weeks to turn his stage show into a video to raise awareness for autism. Find out more through our brief conversation, check out his video on Kickstarter.com and see if you don't find it to be a very worth cause. (Succotash put our money into the kitty…) In addition to clips n' chat, this week's epi also feature TWO Bursts O' Durst with our political comedy correspondent Will Durst, a brand new commercial for Henderson's Pants and a rummage around the ol' Tweetsack. The 10 Most Active Shows In Stitcher's Top 100 Comedy Podcast List SURPRISE! This week I'm trying an experiment to NOT list the !0 Most Active shows here on the blog. Instead, you're going to have to download or stream the show in order to hear Davian and I reading the list aloud, to music no less. Clips Chillpak Hollywood HourHosts Dean Haglund and Phil Leirness are just about to close out their seventh year of consecutive weekly podcasts. in the clip this week we learn that myself and our Associate Producer Tyson Saner are being outed on Chillpak as being members of the Illuminati. The Bitter SoundMy guest co-host Davian Dent this week shares a snippet from his "main hang", The Bitter Sound, and we talk a bit about how it came about as well as why it's got such a unique, well, sound. Strange TimesDavian also sheds a little light on his unique companions - Kat Sorens and Jerry T'what - who are housed under the guise of the Strange Times podcast.  Sweet Feathery JesusMy guest co-host puts his stake in the ground this week (not a euphemism) and proclaims that SFJ is his favorite podcast. The antics of Booze, Belasco, and Dr. P fill me with a sweet, feathery feeling as well as we share a bit of their trademark banter. The Andy Daly Podcast Pilot ProgramThe eight episodes of inspired brilliance that comprised this limited-run podcast series have ended their initial debuts but you can binge-listen the heck out of what Andy Daly and Superego's Matt Gourley created over on Earwolf.com. Each show featured one of the delightfully strange characters which Andy initially brought to life during various times on the Comedy Bang Bang show. The clip we have is from Shut Up And Have Fun with Danny Mahoney.  Tiny Odd ConversationsWe listen in to a recent episode of the show which features Travis and Brandi Clark, longtime friends-of-Succotash and, as it happens, favorites of Davian's as well. Brandi coins a new term in this clip that has Travis proclaiming his undying love for her all over again.   Fitzdog RadioHost of Fitzdog Radio, Greg Fitzsimmons, was our Special Guest on the most recent episode of Succotash. During that conversation we touched on the menace of a certain patent troll who has set out to make lives miserable for podcasters. Adam Carola is one of the chief targets of the troll and I thought it important that our listeners learn a little bit more about this threat to podcasting everywhere so we play a bit of Adam's visit with Greg. The Brit & The AmericanAgain, the tastes of my guest co-host and I dovetail in the form of The Brit & The American, a fun show with international flavor featuring the lively conversation between co-hosts Alba Lewis and Thomas Moore. Homeo & JulietI happened to catch comedian Mary Patterson opening for Greg Fitzsimmons when he played the Punchline in San Francisco a few weeks ago. That's when I discovered she has a podcast which she shares with Jason Romaine. Usually p'casting out from Los Angeles, they have a number of folks in "the biz" on their show. In this clip, they chat it up wiht comedy writer Alec Moore. That's pretty much it but don't be fooled by the length of my blog entry (people often are), as this show passes an hour and a half quite neatly in its runtime. Plenty for everyone so please don't be shy about passing the Succotash! — Marc Hershon

The usual format for the show is to be festooned with wall-to-wall clips of comedy podcasts from around the world via the internet. Along with some regular features and some inane silliness provided by our local crew – me, Joe Paulino our producer/engineer, Bill Heywatt our booth announcer, and even Kenny Durgess, our booth assistant. For Succotash, Epi65, we DO have a few clips but we also have an interview with special guest Paul Mecurio. We’ve clipped The Paul Mecurio Show several times before. And the last time was a short clip from an interview he did with Paul McCartney. Well, his entire episode featuring the McCartney interview dropped this week. So we talk to Paul about that, his own career, podcasting, and a whole lot more. He talks about having gone from sweating out 100-hour-weeks as a big shot Wall Street acquisitions-and-mergers guy and chucking it all to do open mics and one-nighters as a standup comedian. And how his work ethic paid off as he moved up and into the offices of The Daily Show and later The Colbert Report as an Emmy-winning writer. And then how he ran into Sir Paul McCartney in passing one day, struck up a conversation and ended up inviting him to be interviewed for his podcast. The rest is online and we have the interview with the guy who interviewed McCartney. I'm never washing my audio recorder again… THE TOP 10 MOST ACTIVE SHOWS IN THE STITCHER TOP 100 COMEDY PODCAST LIST There was mostly sluggish movement this week on the Stitcher Top 100 Comedy Podcast list. MOSTLY. There were a few gigantic climbs up the ladder, though and a few jumpy jumps as well. (That’s a technical term. Jumpy jump. It means, well…look it up.) 55. The Morning Stream +3062. Onion Radio News -1763. The Artie Lange Show -1565. Writer’s Bloc Podcast +355!68. Tits & Giggles +632!71. The Joey Medina Show +22982. Answer Me This +3687. Dining With Doug & Karen –2490. Keith & The Girl -2498. #AfterBlack +68 BACK TO BOGANWOOD We're up to Episode 4 in our featuring of Jason "Jabs" McNamara's Boganwood pod mini-series. In my chat with Jabs before it play, we talk about what some other podcasters think about the show and also get into where he got the idea for some of the characters in the show. CHEF EDDIE VEDDER Since the beginning of the year, I've been featuring a little Easter Egg at the end of almost every episode: A recipe for succotash - different each week - pulled from videos on YouTube of people preparing the dish. But now I'm scrapping the bottom of the saucepan as I've gone through most of them at this point. So I reached out to Travis and Brandi Clark of the Tiny Odd Conversations podcast and they were able to get Chef Eddie Vedder to whip up his version of succotash exclusively for our show. So if you listen past the show ending, after Bill Heywatt says his goodbye, you can hear Chef Eddie prepare his dish while he tells - nay, sings - you how to do it at home. BURST O' DURST Our Ambassador to the Middle Will Durst lambasts the conservative folk of Texas in this week's installment of his regular feature. And if you're going to be in the San Francisco area this summer, Will's show BoomeRaging, LSD to OMG, has been extended! It plays ever Tuesday night at the Marsh Theater in the city. visit http://WillDurst.com for more information. CLIPS Tits & GigglesJumping up 632 places to hit #68 in the Stitcher Top 100 Comedy Podcasts this week, in only its second week, it's “The podcast for women in comedy AND their supportive male friends.” according to the homesite for the just two-episode old podcast. In our clip, host Sue Smith (actress, writer and comedian)  talks to Orthodox Jewish transgender comedian Dana Friedman talks about the pressure, in front of a Jewish audience, whether to do Jewish material or not. (Spoiler Alert: Sometimes, she doesn’t.)  Writer’s BlocWriters’ Bloc is a podcast that leaped up 355 places, ending up at #65 this week on the Stitcher Top 100 Comedy Podcasts, and it’s a show all about the business of comedy writing. Hosted by J.R. Havlan, an 8-time Emmy Award-winning writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, his recent guest was Scott Jacobson, the co-producer of TV's Bob’s Burgers. In the clip we have, Scott talks about how the show was originally pitched to the network, and they also get into some of the characters. The OddCast PodcastCongratulations to Adam Barker over at The Oddcast Podcast on hitting his Epi100! Adam’s got several shows under the Barker Productions banner, including the It’s Not Soccer podcast and the Ask An American podcast. For Episode 100, he had fellow podcasters from all over the place chime into an extensive audio play, in which a visitor from the future comes back to warn him about how dangerous his podcast is going to become. I clipped a clever bit from the top of the show, springing off of his catchphrase, “Nobody Is Listening”, and based on the Baz Luhrman song, Everybody’s Free To Wear Sunscreen. Doesn't seem like a lot in writing but this episode runs over an hour and 20 minutes. (Not as lengthy as last week's fun epi with guest co-host Monica Hamburg from the Dazed & Convicted podcast, but still pretty ample!) Hope you enjoy it. Fell free to let me know how you're liking the show by emailing me at marc@SuccotashShow.com or show your appreciate even more concretely by going up to iTunes where you can rate and review Succotash. For even MORE concrete-ness, you can use the Donate button on the side of of our homesite and toss us some spare change to help us keep this mothership hovering a little longer over Podcastland. Don't forget to pass the Succotash! — Marc Hershon

Welcome to Epi59 of Succotash, the Comedy Podcast Podcast once again. This episode we’ll be paying visits to some old friends. Why? Well, I’ve been playing a lot of clips from new shows – new in the both the sense that they just started podcasting and some new in the sense that I just am getting around to them even though they’ve been online for a while.  So I figured we should drop in on some podcasts and podcasters we've clipped previously and see how they're sounding. I also have an interview with Special Guest Michael Meehan, who is a San Francisco-based comedian, actor and now movie maker. I talk with Mike while eating at a really noise Chinese restaurant in the Marina District about Hey Monster, Hands Off My City!, the feature-length comedy he’s directing and has an IndieGoGo campaign for to help foot the bill. Which means there is still time for YOU to get involved, kick in some dough to help out and - if you get really generous, get yourself a juicy onscreen appearance in the movie! There's a link to the 15-days-left-to-go IndieGoGo campaign over on the right hand side of our homesite at SuccotashShow.com. (We kicked in $50 - why wouldn't we? Mike bought dinner, after all...) And I'm embedding the teaser video for Hey Monster, Hands Off My City in the body of the blog below. Mike and I talk a bit about standup and some sketch comedy he did with his two brothers awhile back but, because we're mostly focusing on the movie, I'll be inviting him back to spend more time talking about comedy and his take on podcasting as an extension of some comedians' careers. BOOZIN' WITH BILL This epi sees a new Boozin’ With Bill segment. This time he's got a nice summer cooler of a drink that he whips up (with no blender mishap like last time!) and he'll tell you how to make an Elliott Spritzer, in honor of the besmirched prostitution customer and former governor of New York, Elliott Spitzer. The recipe is included right on our homesite, should you be brave enough to attempt whipping up one of booth announcer Bill Haywatt's concoctions. CHILLPAK VS SUCCOTASH: WE WIN! After months of playful back-and-forth mentions on each others' podcasts, it seems that Dean Haglund and Phil Leirness of The Chillpak Hollywood Hour dropped the bal due to Dean having to leave town suddenly and the guys having to play a pre-recorded show that pre-dated our tete-a-tete. Rather than be a sore winner, I talked with Phil at lenght  the other night about that and other things. It was too long to include in THIS episode of Succotash, so I will make it the focus of an upcoming Succotash Special Edition: Epi59 that I will drop in a few days. THE 10 MOST ACTIVE IN THE STITCHER TOP 100 COMEDY PODCAST LIST I'm enjoying the fact we moved away from a standard Top 10 list to feature, instead, the shows showing the most movement - up OR down - on Stitcher's Top 100 Comedy Podcasts list. Just wanted to thank Ed Wallick of the Don't Quit Your Daycast for suggesting the idea. Here is this week's rundown: 37. Onion Radio News +2838. Smodcast -> FEaB +7850. The Dana Gould Hour +5455. The Naughty Show +1962. About Last Night +3767. Yoshi Didn’t Podcast -2868. Jim Florentine’s ‘Metal Comedy Midgets’ +2481. The Tenderloins Podcast +3683. Dining With Doug & Karen +4994. The Dead Authors Podcast -22 BURST O' DURST This week's installment features  our Ambassador to the Middle Will Durst picking on those he calls "The Batty Battalion" of Obamanators. (If you're going to be in the San Francico area, check out Will's new one-man show BoomeRaging: From LSD to OMG, Tuesday nights through June 25th at the Marsh Theater.) THE CLIPS Tiny Odd Conversationsravis and Brandi Clark just hit their 100th episode! There was a time about 50 or 60 epis ago when they were ready to hang it up for fear they had nothing left to say. Obviously, they found some new stuff to talk about. I’ve had a several opportunities to meet up and hang out with them and they are a delight, as you may be able to glean from this exchange clipped from TOC Epi100… Dylan Brody's Neighbor's CouchDarren Staley is a podcast host I’ve NOT had the pleasure of meeting personally but we have cross-tweeted a lot and I’ve clipped his show a few times on the show before. He's a nice guy – Dylan Brody even told me that himself – and the audio quality on his show has gotten WAY better since he first put voice to mic. Here’s part of his chat with writer and a producer of Everybody Loves Raymond and a bunch of other stuff, Lew Schneider. Royal & DoodallAfter I got my t-shirt and a nice note from Tommy Royal and Angus Doodall over at the Royal & Doodall podcast, I mentioned I’d play a clip form their show, which we hadn’t visited in a while. To my surprise, they hadn’t DONE a show since March. Never fear, they’re still around and finally dropped show 59.1 a few days ago. Tommy thought he should catch Angus up on what he’d been missing… Dazed & ConvictedLast episode I mentioned that I would clip Dazed & Convicted by friend-of-Succotash Monica Hamburg and so I did. She and co-host Bill Allman podcast out of Canada, where they bring up some freakish crime stories, do some sketches around them, then bring in a comedian to help determine their “Fucktard Of The Week”. That's all for now. Like our Facebook page. Rate us on iTunes. Thumbs up us on Stitcher. Buy some merch. And, above all else, please remember to pass the Succotash! — Marc Hershon

WARNING: This is NOT a "regular" episode of Succotash, the Comedy Podcast Podcast. No clips. No interviews. No TweetSack. Call it an experiment. I was driving back to San Francisco after a weekend in Los Angeles. While in the southland I visited with a number of podcasters, comedians and past guests of Succotash: Rick Overton, Matt Weinhold, Ethan Dettenmaier, Shawn Marek, Travis Clark, Brandi Clark, Jon Manfrellotti, and Chris Gore. My conversations with all those folks invariably came around to podcasting. Why do we do it? Where is it going? And what does it all mean? Collectively, we batted those concepts and more around in our little discussion groups but - once I was alone, trapped in my car (Studio F) for the six hour Kessel Run back to The City By The Bay, the questions continued to bounce around in my head. So I fished out my trusty iPhone 5, my iRig Cast mic, and rambled into it for about 26 minutes. I ruminated on my show, other shows, and the podcasting industry as a whole. I wondered aloud about our listenship, the respect that podcasters may or may not be due, and all of the entertainment that's regularly provided for free by an ever-widening pool of podcasters around the world. Don't worry — it's not a signal that we're changing direction at Succotash. We've got another clip-filled extravaganza coming right around the corner with Episode 52. But one beautiful thing about this artform (if I may be afforded the chance to refer to it as such), is that a person can do anything they want from this side of the microphone. On the flip side, listeners don't have to listen to it. So this is, as I said in the beginning, an experiment. If you like it, let me know. If you hate it, let me know. Email, Facebook, Twitter, the Succotash Hotline (818.921.7212) — there's plenty of ways for you to get your thoughts and feedback to me. And I'll be back with our usual bag o' podcast clips in our very next episode! So don't be afraid to pass the Succotash. — Marc Hershon

Happy holidays! Whether you're a Christmas-er, an Hanuakkat, or a Kwanza-hut, Succotash is damned glad to have you. "It's the time of miracles," said Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber in Die Hard and it's true. First of all, we're back in Studio P for the first time in many episodes. So good to have engineer/producer Joe Paulino back behind the controls. Not to mention Bill Haywatt, who has a fresh installment of Boozin' With Bill on tap this time around. Even Kenny Durgess, our booth assistant, is on the job and it's a great way to ring in the holiday season. I wanted to do something special for the holidays, so Epi44 is our Succotash Christmas Card to the illustrious members of the Pod Mafia. Who ARE the Pod Mafia? A loose collective of podcasters who have struck up a virtual (and sometimes actual) friendship via the web, and have actively worked to cross-promote each others' podcasts. I am pleased and honored to have been dubbed the Podfather by this crew, although I'm aware it's a precarious perch at best and someone else could shake me loose at any time. Nonetheless, for the meantime, as Podfather, it's my pleasure to offer up clips from the assembled members of the Pod Mafia this episode. One of the best things about getting to do an epi of Succotash in Studio P is that it puts us in proximity to Bill Haywatt's wet bar and give us a chance to present Boozin' With Bill. This time about, that workhorse of radio drops a great post New Year's hangover drink on us which he calls Harry Of The Dog That Bit You. It's named for Harry Morgan, with whom Bill worked on an old radio show called Mystery In The Air, and it's a real doozy. Burst O' Durst Our resident raging moderate, Will Durst, sounds off about gun control in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School nightmare. Holiday Reminder Show some love to your favorite podcasts by hopping up to iTunes and both rating and reviewing those same podcasts with lots of stars and glowing praise. Then do the same on Stitcher Smart Radio - go up to their website, search for your faves and give them a big ol "thumbs up!" Every little bit helps, and the more often you do it, the better their visibility gets on the charts. Sing A Song Of Yuletide I'm happy to be able to feature Is A Chupacabra Kosher?, a new song off the Season's Geekings EP by friend-of-Succotash John Anealio. Jump over to his website to give yourself a stocking stuffer: A free download of his holiday album! Happy Holidays From Henderson's Pants! We have a commercial this episode from our friends at Henderson's. More than a commercial, it's a tale done in the style of the popular Christmas poem, 'Twas The Night Before Christmas. Enjoy!  A Good Run Our friend Caleb Bacon, host of The Gentlemen's Club podcast, has run down the curtain on that show after 154 episodes. I give him a final salute in the form of a review in This Week In Comedy Podcasts on Splitsider.com but don't despair— Caleb is already prepping to return in February 2013 with his new podcast, Man School! In his farewell episode, Caleb is interviewed as much as he interviews by his guest, That Chris Gore of PodCRASH podcast fame. The Clips As I mentioned above, all the clips this week save one are from members of the Pod Mafia. Dylan Brody's Neighbor's CouchAlthough Darren Staley is not a member of the Pod Mafia, I think he would be if he trafficked with out kind more. Last epi I though I was going to get to his clip but it didn't happen. So I promised him we'd give him pole position this time around.In addition to being a supporter Succotash his show's audio audio quality has gotten steadily better since I first started listening. And his guests are often, amazing, quite celebrity-statured. This clip features part of his chat with Rosanne Barr. Royal & DoodallTommy Royal of the Royal & Doodall show is – I'm pretty sure – the bloke responsible for coining not just the Pod Mafia name, but also for dubbing yours truly the Podfather. Unfortunately, Tommy is not in the show I'm clipping this episode. It seems he's been replace by Lady Isabel P., who co-hosts this installment with Angus Doodall. Don't miss their Christmas Panto show which should I have role in. See if you can pick out my voice — I’m an audio chameleon. Don't Quit Your DaycastEd Wallick from Don’t Quit Your Daycast is not just a member of the Pod Mafia but was inspired, in part, do put his own podcast together after hearing Succotash. He just had his one-year-a-versary show, where he ranted – Ed loves to rant – ranted about Thanksgiving with guests Taylor Ripley (aka @TurkReno) and Tom Bevis of the Destination Asphyxiation podcast. (We also have a Christmas Greeting called into the Succotash Hotline by Ed!) Destination AsphyxiationSince we have Ed Wallick and Tom Bevis in the same room – Tom was up from Southern California visiting Ed in Northern California, who turns out to be his uncle – let’s listen for the first time to a clip from Tom’s Destination Asphyxiation show. Oh, look – it’s Ed Wallick, ranting some more! The DHead FactorThough Jabs at The DHead Factor has other fellows who occasionally do the show with him in Canberra, Australia – like #FUJosh – he’s definitely the body and soul of the show and a stalwart member of the Pod Mafia. As the guy who kicked of International Succotash Show Day on December 4th – I hope you all celebrated it – he’s always saluted here at Studio P. Tiny Little Odd ConversationsMerry Christmas to Travis and Brandi Clark, the hosts of Tiny Odd Conversations. They were almost out of the Pod Mafia before it began toward the end last year because Travis was feeling like there was nowhere else to go with the show. I helped talk him off the ledge, and glad to have done so because we may never have gotten that great cookie recipe from Chef Eddie Vetter otherwise. Here’s part of a conversation that Travis and Brandi had on their Not The Holiday Special episode, about a homeless Santa they came across. Pissed Off ManI THINK Gavin from The Pissed Off Man Show is in the Pod Mafia. But I didn’t want to take a chance that he isn’t because he IS the Pissed Off Man. So Merry Christmas, Gee, and for a guy who says he doesn’t have much to be pissed off about on the last day of existence, according to the Mayan calendar, he still gets a few shots in… From Out Of NowhereThe From Out of Nowhere podcast – or FOONcast – with Eric Furniss and Rob Kern is really a music podcast but they’ve got a sense of humor and Eric is very active on Twitter as a member of the Pod Mafia. They’ve been doing their show from a local bar because their studio got damaged by Hurrican Sandy. The show I grabbed to clip from, however, actually features Rob in a bar interview he did awhile back with Motörhead's Lemmy Kilmister and Matt Sorum. Sorry, Eric – I was in a hurry! We’ll get your voice in there next time. So that's who's in our Christmas card to the members of the Pod Mafia. I hope I remembered everybody. And I know there are some folks in the Pod Mafia Irregulars that I wanted to clip this episode but there just wasn’t time. I WILL clip you guys next epi, but in the meantime, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to the folks behind Bonnandobo, The Brit And The American, Clutch & Wiggle, The Random Variety Show and Toggle The Switch! Happy holidays to everybody (especially those of you who have discovered, listened to, and enjoy our show!), and may you all have a great new year, in which you should remember, for the sake of all that's holy, to pass the Succotash!  Marc Hershon

Although episode 36 of Succotash finds us back in Studio P ("The Home of The Hit!"), it's without the benefit of our engineer/producer Joe Paulino this time. Under the unsteady hand of booth assistant Kenny Durgess, the good ship Succotash manages to make the journey through the rocky shoals of podcast clips and interviews (not to mention a new Boozin' With Bill segment) to arrive in one piece in your ears. I'd planned to have Will Durst, our Ambassador to the Middle and the funniest political comic this side of Congress, live in the studio. He's just put out a new e-book, Elect To Laugh, a collection of his syndicated newspaper columns and I figured he'd snap up the chance to plug it. This being an election year with very little time left on the clock, it’s a political comic’s busiest season so we'll have to reschedule for right after Libertarian President Gary Johnson gets sworn in. (See what I did there? It's a joke about the fact I probably will never get Will into the studio...) You can click the links here or visit http://SuccotashShow.com and look for the cover of Will's book for a link to where you can buy and download a copy. Not to mention that with close out this edition of the show with our usual Burst O' Durst. The host with past Succotash guest Joe Klocek In the realm of other things comedy, apropos of nothing having to do with this podcast, I was at the 32nd annual Comedy Day in San Francisco Sunday before last. It's a big tradition in the history of Bay Area comedy, dubbed by the event's originator, the late Jose Simon, as the local comedy scene's version of a company picnic. I hung out backstage, said howdy to a bunch of comedian friends I probably won't see most of for another year, and enjoyed a rare warm and sunny summer day in Golden Gate Park. As mentioned above, show announcer Bill Haywatt stumbles into Studio P this episode to ply me with alcohol in another edition of his Boozin' With Bill segment. This time we literally are draining the dregs of this bit when he prepares the drink he calls "The Starter Kit", basing what we swill down on what he finds left in the glasses and bottles strewn around Studio P following some kind of wild party that went on there the night before we taped the show. Normally you want to follow a recipe pretty closely but, in the case of The Starter Kit, you can pretty much throw in whatever you find lying around. Here's what is in the clip set for Epi36: Fitzdog RadioGreg Fitzsimmons has a great show not just because of the fact he’s genuinely entertaining and funny, but he manages to get some great guests, including producer/director Judd Apatow who, in this clip talks about supporting comedy (being a reformed standup himself), Tweeting too much and casting his own kids in movies. The Geek GenerationRob Logan, Bryan Lipsitz and Mike Volpe are within spitting distance of their 100th Geek Generation episode - congrats, guys - and thought we'd enjoy hearing a slice of their visit with Hollywood producer and former WCW talent Jeff Katz. He tells about the mistakes that were made in regards to Deadpool's character, ultimately resulting in him leaving production of the Wolverine movie. Tiny Odd ConversationsNot just a clip from Tiny Odd Conversations this episode, but I actually Skyped it up with TOC cohost Travis Clark to dig into the detail of his upcoming Hashtag Comedy Show in Los Angeles. What started out as mostly a joke to get people to donate to his and wife Brandi's podcast has lunged out of control into a full-fledged night of comedy with the focus being on having his non-standup spouse get on stage to tell jokes. The show is on for November 11 at The Other Door in North Hollywood. And you can get free tickets just by donating to the cause! So click over to http://TOCpod.com and help joke the life our of Brandi Clark! We also play a clip from TOC feauring their first-ever celebrity chef segment with none other than Chef Eddie Vedder. Podd SocksFirst time on for a show from Down Under I haven’t heard of before, featuring a quartet of Aussie 20-somethings — Ben Dunlop, Kris Francis, Nathan Press and Jack de Zwart — sitting around and shooting the shite about "current events, pop culture, telling personal stories from their lives and analysing conspiracy theories" as their website tells it. Cashing In with TJ MillerI've featured a clip before but I’ve loved the concept for this podcast ever since host Cash Levy told it to me so I'm playing some more. It’s supposed to be a regular talk show style podcast with various guests…but every episode the guest who was scheduled never shows up and comedian/actor TJ Miller is always called to fill in. This clip finds them in a riff about going back to where you grew up to do a comedy show and the kind of reception you get from the old hometown crowd. They also coin the term "hot pods". Random Variety Show PodcastFlattery may not get you many places but it will definitely get your comedy podcast clip on this show. Especially, as in the case of friend-od-Succotash Charley Miller, who has declared that listening to our podcast is what got him psyched up to do The Random Variety Show. Charley's 17.5 episodes into his show, which originates out of San Diego, and he features interviews with various locally-based performers as well as some unusual guest...like Groucho Marx. Don’t Quit Your DaycastAnother fine fellow who’s leapt onto the podcasting soundstage recently is Ed Wallick, who’s also been venturing on the open mic stages around the Bay Area for the past couple of years. Like Charley Miller, he credits Succotash with showing him a way to do his own thing on the interwebs and it’s been fun watching him develop his format and style along the way. In this clip from DQYP, Ed teams up with Tiny Odd Conversation's Travis Clark to create Jesse vs. Jesse, a bit about battling Jesse Venturas. Venturai? The HustleCo-hosts Will Gilman and Adam Tucker run conversationally amok with a variety of guests — comedians, musicians and — I think — random dudes off the street sometimes. In this clip they have fellow comedians Harry J. Riley and Justin McNiff in the house and they’re riffing about men having a limit on the number of erections we get in our lifetimes. In addition to clips this episode, I feature Angy Robot, a cut off of the album Laser Zombie Robot Love by sci-fi/comedy musician (and past Succotash guest) John Anealio. Feel free to not only enjoy the tunage, but click over to John's site (http://JohnAnealio.com) and grab the whole album for yourself for just $5 bucks. Finally, as promised on the actual podcast, here's the artist's rendering of yours truly by Angus Doodall Tommy Royal of the Royal & Doodall podcast, luxuriating over a steaming bowl of succotash. Truly a thing of beauty to behold. I should get the original from him and auction it off. That's our show. Presented for your pleasure. (Here's joping Engineer Joe makes it back in time for the next in-studio edition of the show!) Please remember to pass the Succotash. — Marc Hershon

Prophecy. It took Voyager seven seasons to make her way across the Delta Quadrant, and during that time we were teased with Klingons on occasion. There were holographic Klingons, Klingon Borg, a vivid dream about Klingons, and even a photograph of a Klingon. But for the real thing we had to wait until near the end of the seven-year journey. Finally, Janeway and her crew crossed paths with real warriors—three generations removed—and a little old-school pre-Khitomer action was served up. Oh… and Neelix got lucky, too. In this episode of The Ready Room we're joined by Larry Nemecek, who penned the original story, to talk about “Prophecy” and the long and winding road that finally led to the story of B'Elanna and Tom's magical baby.  In news we cover Levar Burton and J.J. Abrams at Apple's WWDC 2012, Television Critics Association Awards nominations for William Shatner and Star Trek: The Original Series, a Gorn appearance in the upcoming Star Trek console game, Mary Czerwinski and Brandi Clark's Glue Guns and Phasers, and lots of news and rumors about the next Star Trek film. Plus we grow enormous mustaches, redesign Starfleet uniforms (for the better), and Greg gets really serious.

It took Voyager seven seasons to make her way across the Delta Quadrant, and during that time we were teased with Klingons on occasion. There were holographic Klingons, Klingon Borg, a vivid dream about Klingons, and even a photograph of a Klingon. But for the real thing we had to wait until near the end of the seven-year journey. Finally, Janeway and her crew crossed paths with real warriors—three generations removed—and a little old-school pre-Khitomer action was served up. Oh… and Neelix got lucky, too. In this episode of The Ready Room we’re joined by Larry Nemecek, who penned the original story, to talk about “Prophecy” and the long and winding road that finally led to the story of B’Elanna and Tom’s magical baby.  In news we cover Levar Burton and J.J. Abrams at Apple’s WWDC 2012, Television Critics Association Awards nominations for William Shatner and Star Trek: The Original Series, a Gorn appearance in the upcoming Star Trek console game, Mary Czerwinski and Brandi Clark’s Glue Guns and Phasers, and lots of news and rumors about the next Star Trek film. Plus we grow enormous mustaches, redesign Starfleet uniforms (for the better), and Greg gets really serious. Originally published as The Ready Room 52: Klingon Love Machine God.