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Hey Scoops, 7 years ago today, on Penn's Sunday School, Matt asked to the world to check out a new podcast called Matt and Mattingly's Ice Cream Social. There, he asked his comedy partner Paul about growing up the son of a former priest and nun as parents and the rest is history. Adopting "preaching fun" as slogan akin to PSS's "preaching love", we felt that people don't always need reminding of the world's stresses and pressures. Our goal was to give people a time out from their regular lives and feel like they were joking around with friends. Now here we are in the craziest of circumstances across the globe and more than ever, we give you credit for feeling the weight of this all in your own personal ways. Now more than ever, we feel like we should offer silly in the face of serious. Thank you all so much for making this community so beautiful and being a source of light to the three of us. FYITFMatt, Paul and Jacob
Surprise! We're releasing the rest of our crossover episode with Penn's Sunday School a few days early, seeing that we could all use a little extra at-home entertainment during this period of social distancing. We'll be back with another new episode for you on Monday.
This week, we are joining forces with our friends at Penn’s Sunday School, the powerhouse podcast hosted by Las Vegas legend Penn Jillette, to release a crossover episode on both of our podcast feeds. Here is part one of my conversation with Penn and his co-host, Michael Goudeau. Part two will be up next Monday. (NOTE: This episode was recorded in February, prior to the coronavirus scare taking hold in Las Vegas and around the country.)
Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Like Penn, consider keeping a daily journal of each day’s activitiesDespite what you see on the news, most people are generally good, and the world is safer than ever beforeFat is lost in the kitchen, not in the gym. At the beginning of your weight loss journey, to instill this, consider avoiding the gym entirely. “If you want to really lose body fat for body recomposition, it’s 90%+ diet. You have to prove that to yourself, and a very effective way of doing so is by taking exercise off the table for a short period of time.” – Tim FerrissThe faster you lose weight, the more likely you are to keep it offRead the full notes @ podcastnotes.orgPenn Jillette on Magic, Losing 100+ Pounds, and Weaponizing Kindness | Brought to you by Brave and LinkedIn Jobs."One of the biggest challenges we face is staying kind with profound disagreement—and staying kind when a mechanism has been set up to make money and power out of hate." — Penn JillettePenn Jillette (@pennjillette) is a cultural phenomenon as a solo personality and as half of the world-famous, Emmy Award-winning magic duo and Las Vegas headliners Penn & Teller.Together since 1975, Penn & Teller's live show spent years on Broadway and is now the longest-running headliner show in Las Vegas where it plays nightly at The Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino. The pair has been awarded Las Vegas Magicians of the Year an amazing eights times.As part of Penn & Teller he has appeared on hundreds of shows, from The Simpsons and Friends to Billions. He recently co-wrote an episode of the Emmy-winning Netflix series Black Mirror.He co-hosted the controversial Showtime series Penn & Teller: Bullshit! which was nominated for thirteen Emmy Awards, won him a Writers Guild award, and was the longest-running show in the history of the network. He currently co-hosts the CW Network hit competition series Penn & Teller: Fool Us! which was nominated for a 2017 Critics' Choice award.Penn's latest book, The New York Times Best Seller Presto! takes an insightful and very humorous look at his recent weight loss journey. His previous book, God No! Signs You Might Be An Atheist and Other Magic Tales, spent six weeks on The New York Times Best Sellers list.His weekly podcast, Penn's Sunday School, was the number one downloaded podcast on Apple Podcasts during its debut week, and was named a Best New Comedy Podcast by Apple Podcasts.On the big screen, Penn produced the critically lauded 2005 documentary The Aristocrats, which features over 100 of the biggest names in comedy telling their versions of the dirtiest joke in history. He produced Tim's Vermeer, which follows the journey of an eccentric inventor determined to solve one of the art world's oldest mysteries. The Sony Pictures Classics release was nominated for a BAFTA and was shortlisted for the 2014 Oscars. He has recently completed the documentary Gambler's Ballad profiling magic legend Johnny Thompson.Penn & Teller have their very own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and triumphantly returned to Broadway recently with Penn & Teller On Broadway, which was the highest-grossing non-musical for the entirety of its run.Please enjoy!This episode is brought to you by Brave, the next-generation Web browser. Brave was built by a team of privacy-focused, performance-oriented pioneers of the Web at the direction of Brendan Eich (co-founder of Mozilla Firefox and creator of JavaScript) and Brian Bondy. Brave now has more than 10 million monthly active users—including me.Why Brave? Because Brave gives you unmatched speed, security, and privacy. Whereas other browsers suck up your data -- profiling and tracking you across the Web and using that information to manipulate your decisions -- Brave operates up to six times faster by blocking ads and website trackers, preserving your anonymity and protecting you from this surveillance economy. Brave also includes options such as Private Window with Tor for those seeking advanced privacy and safety. Intuitive and easy to use, Brave allows you to import bookmarks from other browsers with one click, and all your favorite Chrome extensions are available with Brave. Listeners of The Tim Ferriss Show can easily upgrade their browser for free right now by going to Brave.com/Tim.This episode is also brought to you by LinkedIn Jobs. Hiring can be hard, and it and be super expensive and painful if you get it wrong. Today, with more qualified candidates than ever — but also more noise than ever — employers need a hiring solution that helps them find the right people for their businesses. LinkedIn Jobs provides just that by screening candidates with the hard and soft skills you’re looking for so you can quickly find and hire the right person.LinkedIn can make sure your job post gets in front of people you want to hire — people with the skills, qualifications, and other insights that help LinkedIn paint a better picture of potential candidates. It’s no wonder great candidates are hired every eight seconds on LinkedIn. Find the right person meant for your business today with LinkedIn Jobs. You can pay what you want, and the first $50 is on LinkedIn. Just visit LinkedIn.com/Tim to get $50 off your first job post! Terms and conditions apply.***If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to convince hard-to-get guests.For show notes and past guests, please visit tim.blog/podcast.Sign up for Tim’s email newsletter (“5-Bullet Friday”) at tim.blog/friday.For transcripts of episodes, go to tim.blog/transcripts.Interested in sponsoring the podcast? Please fill out the form at tim.blog/sponsor.Discover Tim’s books: tim.blog/books.Follow Tim:Twitter: twitter.com/tferriss Instagram: instagram.com/timferrissFacebook: facebook.com/timferriss YouTube: youtube.com/timferriss
Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Like Penn, consider keeping a daily journal of each day’s activitiesDespite what you see on the news, most people are generally good, and the world is safer than ever beforeFat is lost in the kitchen, not in the gym. At the beginning of your weight loss journey, to instill this, consider avoiding the gym entirely. “If you want to really lose body fat for body recomposition, it’s 90%+ diet. You have to prove that to yourself, and a very effective way of doing so is by taking exercise off the table for a short period of time.” – Tim FerrissThe faster you lose weight, the more likely you are to keep it offRead the full notes @ podcastnotes.orgPenn Jillette on Magic, Losing 100+ Pounds, and Weaponizing Kindness | Brought to you by Brave and LinkedIn Jobs."One of the biggest challenges we face is staying kind with profound disagreement—and staying kind when a mechanism has been set up to make money and power out of hate." — Penn JillettePenn Jillette (@pennjillette) is a cultural phenomenon as a solo personality and as half of the world-famous, Emmy Award-winning magic duo and Las Vegas headliners Penn & Teller.Together since 1975, Penn & Teller's live show spent years on Broadway and is now the longest-running headliner show in Las Vegas where it plays nightly at The Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino. The pair has been awarded Las Vegas Magicians of the Year an amazing eights times.As part of Penn & Teller he has appeared on hundreds of shows, from The Simpsons and Friends to Billions. He recently co-wrote an episode of the Emmy-winning Netflix series Black Mirror.He co-hosted the controversial Showtime series Penn & Teller: Bullshit! which was nominated for thirteen Emmy Awards, won him a Writers Guild award, and was the longest-running show in the history of the network. He currently co-hosts the CW Network hit competition series Penn & Teller: Fool Us! which was nominated for a 2017 Critics' Choice award.Penn's latest book, The New York Times Best Seller Presto! takes an insightful and very humorous look at his recent weight loss journey. His previous book, God No! Signs You Might Be An Atheist and Other Magic Tales, spent six weeks on The New York Times Best Sellers list.His weekly podcast, Penn's Sunday School, was the number one downloaded podcast on Apple Podcasts during its debut week, and was named a Best New Comedy Podcast by Apple Podcasts.On the big screen, Penn produced the critically lauded 2005 documentary The Aristocrats, which features over 100 of the biggest names in comedy telling their versions of the dirtiest joke in history. He produced Tim's Vermeer, which follows the journey of an eccentric inventor determined to solve one of the art world's oldest mysteries. The Sony Pictures Classics release was nominated for a BAFTA and was shortlisted for the 2014 Oscars. He has recently completed the documentary Gambler's Ballad profiling magic legend Johnny Thompson.Penn & Teller have their very own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and triumphantly returned to Broadway recently with Penn & Teller On Broadway, which was the highest-grossing non-musical for the entirety of its run.Please enjoy!This episode is brought to you by Brave, the next-generation Web browser. Brave was built by a team of privacy-focused, performance-oriented pioneers of the Web at the direction of Brendan Eich (co-founder of Mozilla Firefox and creator of JavaScript) and Brian Bondy. Brave now has more than 10 million monthly active users—including me.Why Brave? Because Brave gives you unmatched speed, security, and privacy. Whereas other browsers suck up your data -- profiling and tracking you across the Web and using that information to manipulate your decisions -- Brave operates up to six times faster by blocking ads and website trackers, preserving your anonymity and protecting you from this surveillance economy. Brave also includes options such as Private Window with Tor for those seeking advanced privacy and safety. Intuitive and easy to use, Brave allows you to import bookmarks from other browsers with one click, and all your favorite Chrome extensions are available with Brave. Listeners of The Tim Ferriss Show can easily upgrade their browser for free right now by going to Brave.com/Tim.This episode is also brought to you by LinkedIn Jobs. Hiring can be hard, and it and be super expensive and painful if you get it wrong. Today, with more qualified candidates than ever — but also more noise than ever — employers need a hiring solution that helps them find the right people for their businesses. LinkedIn Jobs provides just that by screening candidates with the hard and soft skills you’re looking for so you can quickly find and hire the right person.LinkedIn can make sure your job post gets in front of people you want to hire — people with the skills, qualifications, and other insights that help LinkedIn paint a better picture of potential candidates. It’s no wonder great candidates are hired every eight seconds on LinkedIn. Find the right person meant for your business today with LinkedIn Jobs. You can pay what you want, and the first $50 is on LinkedIn. Just visit LinkedIn.com/Tim to get $50 off your first job post! Terms and conditions apply.***If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to convince hard-to-get guests.For show notes and past guests, please visit tim.blog/podcast.Sign up for Tim’s email newsletter (“5-Bullet Friday”) at tim.blog/friday.For transcripts of episodes, go to tim.blog/transcripts.Interested in sponsoring the podcast? Please fill out the form at tim.blog/sponsor.Discover Tim’s books: tim.blog/books.Follow Tim:Twitter: twitter.com/tferriss Instagram: instagram.com/timferrissFacebook: facebook.com/timferriss YouTube: youtube.com/timferriss
Penn Jillette is a magician, actor, musician, inventor, television personality, and best-selling author best known for his work with fellow magician Teller as half of the team Penn & Teller. Check out his podcast called "Penn's Sunday School" available on Apple Podcasts and other platforms.
Diesmal etwas ohne Luft, aber mit einer Podcastempfehlung für Penn's Sunday School und einer Leseempfehlung für die Dresden Files von Jim Butcher.
The Reasonable Men switch their usual format and interview Magician, Writer, Comedian Matt Donnelly of Penn's Sunday School and Ice Cream Social Podcast.
Las Vegas writer/entertainer/performer Matt Donnelly joins Curt Carstensen for a discussion about Matt's journey through the entertainment industry and his new focus on comedy magic. Find Matt Donnelly: Mind Noodler on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Listen to the Abracababble podcast by following this link. Listen to Matt and Mattingly's Ice Cream Social here. Listen to Penn's Sunday School here. Read the Vox article about "Intellectual Humility" here. Follow "People I Know Show" on Facebook and Instagram.
Encore release September 21, 2018. Encore release June 14, 2017. We interview entertainer and skeptic Penn Jillette, author of the new collection of essays and anecdotes Every Day Is an Atheist Holiday (hardcover or Kindle). He also has a new podcast called Penn's Sunday School. For more about Penn (and longtime partner Teller) visit PennandTeller.com. Plus: We celebrate the 5th anniversary of this podcast!
Penn Jillette (magician! Penn's Sunday School podcast!) makes it weird!
Greeting Carbon Based Humans! Also known as Fred… It’s an exciting episode today because we’ve added our first official Carbon Based Title to the roster. It goes to Nadia Bracken, who is now officially our self-designated Carbon Based Critic. She emailed us after last episode to let us know that our intro wasn’t quite chipper enough. Not only that, but we also noticed that we made an egregious error by failing to mention YOU, Fred. For shame! So we re-recorded it and hope you like it. Knowing us we’ll redo it another six dozen times before we’re sort of happy with it, so by all means, share your thoughts! Lisa Gerber Is Sexy Fan of the show and prior guest Lisa Gerber has a podcast! It’s called the Gear Show and we think it’s pretty great. If you’re an outdoors-y kind of person and you like getting your gear on, this is a great listen. She’s also a pretty amazing marketer whose blog articles continue to inspire us. And she agreed that we should have started Carbon Based Business Units at episode one, which makes her extra special awesome. Outrage! Last episode we talked about the United Airlines snafu in the context of customer service. Afterwards, Ralph heard an episode of Penn’s Sunday School podcast that gave him food for thought when it comes to outrage, social media and clickbait. What else can we say? No doubt the internet is full of outrage. And while the United Airlines scene was a bad one, it was isolated, and it was definitely blown up on social media. But the more people jump on the bandwagon, the more a story takes on a life of its own, maybe even out of proportion to the big picture. In Other News… You may have heard about the murder committed on Facebook Live. It was a horrible thing, but the conversation that subsequently focused on “what can Facebook do” is somewhat misguided. The truth is, people are going to be horrible whether they have a live audience or not. And nobody can read someone’s mind to prevent a horrible thing from happening. Facebook should do exactly what they did: swiftly remove the video and cooperate with law enforcement. Some people have suggested that Facebook should have a reaction button related to crime or danger that automatically triggers a takedown of the offending content. But we think that could seriously backfire if people use that reaction to sabotage other people or viewpoints they don’t like. That horrible murder was an isolated case and building mob mentality into preventing content from being displayed can become a detriment to free speech. Facebook Live isn’t going away. Nor are horrible people. The best we can do is deal with what happens as it happens. Maybe it’s partly our jobs to be vigilant, and even to foster better behavior and peace in our own worlds. Hm. We Have An Emotional Experience Our main conversation today revolves around an email that I got late Wednesday evening from a client. The email boiled down to this: he knows there is something seriously wrong with his website. He isn’t getting any traffic. He knows that Ralph and I have taken ourselves out of working on marketing and SEO for clients so we have time for our startups and podcast. He needs admin access to his site so he can fix what’s wrong with it right away. And he can’t wait days or weeks for me to respond. Without context, that may seem like just an ordinary email, albeit one from an unhappy client. But it wasn’t an ordinary email. It was actually a very upsetting one, for a couple of reasons. First, this is a long-time client we’ve worked with for two decades. For two decades we’ve been personally invested in him, his business and his success. While we currently aren’t actively working on his marketing (because he hasn’t hired us to do so, and insists that marketing won’t help his business), we do ad hoc work when he needs it. Anything from updating his website to sending out email campaigns. Second, we’ve done a lot of pro bono work for him. We know what tough times are, so when we can help a fellow business person and human being, we do. We’ve done it without expectation and never under duress. It’s been our choice and we’ve been happy to do it. Perhaps most importantly, though, the things he said in his email were provably untrue. And they were particularly hurtful in light of how much time and effort we’ve put into his business over the years and the type of relationship we thought we had. Let’s start with the facts. We have not taken ourselves out of client work. Client work is what sustains us, pays the bills, allows us to spend time podcasting and building our startups – one of which isn’t making any money yet because we make sure our clients come first. So to say that we’re not invested in our clients anymore was wrong and hurtful. We don’t take days or weeks to respond. In fact, I had just spoken to him two days earlier. I’ve worked for him nights, and weekends when he’s needed something done quickly. So to say that it takes weeks for us to get back to him was wrong and hurtful. We also have provided him with admin access to his site – very specific, specialized and custom-built access designed around his exact needs. So to say that he cannot access his site is wrong. So when that email came in, I reacted. I was mad, I was upset, I was frustrated – but I went to bed and decided to sleep it off and address it fresh in the morning. But instead of feeling clearer in the morning, I was just as bent out of shape, so I emailed my client and told him what I just told you – not in an angry way, but in a factual way. Yes, I told him he was wrong! And I addressed his request for admin access to his site. I told him that he did have admin access, and if there was something he needed to access but couldn’t, he had to let us know what that was so perhaps we could build something for him to do so. I also addressed something that has come up before, which is the crux of this story. We host his site and have a strict security policy that does not allow the typical cpanel access to the database and files that you might get at a host like BlueHost or Godaddy. In the past, he’s accused us of “holding him hostage” and I reminded him of what I always say: if he needs that type of access, we will move his site to another host that allows it. No ransom required. And They All Lived Happily Ever After… But Not Really Well, my response didn’t go over well. My client accused me of failing to answer his question. And then referenced the last episode of our podcast where we talked about the manager that kicked us out of the restaurant, and told me that I was doing the same thing to him. Which is kind of funny in that not-funny way, since one day I was holding him hostage and the next I was kicking him out. The bigger issue here is that this was not the first time we’d been accused of various things by this client – from the hostage scenario to failing to respond and on and on. But overall we had thought it was a good relationship. We liked him. We were, as I mentioned, personally invested. And for the most part those unpleasant times rolled over us and we moved on. But this time felt like the last straw. So we decided that in the best interests of our business and his satisfaction, we’d move his site to a host that allows him full and unrestricted access to his site, and essentially sever the business relationship. We’ve been maybe a little too personally and emotionally invested in his business and it was time to step back. It was a hard decision to make after a 20 year relationship, but we felt that it needed to be done in the best interests of everyone. This Isn’t A Bitch Session. We’re Just Carbon Based Humans. We didn’t have this conversation to spend an hour complaining or calling out a client. We’re sharing this story because we know that people have been in this same place too. Whether you’re in a relationship with a client that goes south, or you’re putting too much in and getting not enough out, or if you’re doing something that isn’t working for you or your client, it’s easy to get caught up in it. And at the same time it’s easy to feel like you’re alone in that. Well, you’re not. We’ve all been there. We all have those hard times that feel like crap, when we have to make hard decisions, and are forced to recognize our limitations. And at the end of the day, we’re all told to “build relationships”, which isn’t a clinical thing. It involves some emotional investment. So when this stuff happens, it affects us. In the short term, it feels crummy. It feels like failure. It lacks the kind of closure you’d want for a relationship that’s lasted for 20 years. But long term, we feel that this is the best decision for us, and for him. Nobody was happy with where the relationship was headed, and in the end everyone needs to move on. What do you think? Have you been in a scenario with a client where you had to end the relationship as a wise business decision but that left emotional sludge in its wake? If you’ve got a story, we’d love to hear it. And let us know what you think of ours. Extras Visit Big Leap Creative and read Lisa's marketing brilliance Listen to the Gear Show on Stitcher or iTunes Check out Penn's Sunday School. The episode we mentioned is 283, The Packaging of Outrage
Penn's Sunday School director and excellent audio dude, Reddi Rich sits in the churn. Many topics are discussed. So many if fact, we run out of time for Jock Vs Nerd or scoop mail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Paul talks about his upcoming appearance on Penn's Sunday School. Matt and Paul talk about dealing with "psychics" at work. How to deal with con artist, beggars, and grifters. Matt shares his favorite NYC story. Paul searches for ghost stories on youtube. Paul avoids going to a show with Matt. Paul's dog star in a photo shoot. ...holy balls this is a long episdode. Jock Vs Nerd and Scoop Mail.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This episode we return to our roots. Clips, clips and more clips. Also, a return to Studio P ("The Home of The Hit!"), engineer-producer Joe Paulino, and another long-awaited installment of Boozin' With Bill featuring our booth announcer Bill Haywatt. Bill's concoctions are usually something he picked up during one of the many radio gigs he's had over the past 70 years. Often scrounged from either a hard-drinking co-worker or from one of the numerous dive bars that could be found in the neighborhoods that usually spring up around radio stations and recording studios. This time around he presents us with the very first alcoholic mixture he can first remember making while still a lad at the tender age of 14. During the show he dubbed it "The Beer Float" but given the beer required for this one, I call it "The Floating Heinie". Either way it's a twist on that soda fountain favorite, the root beer float. THE COUNTDOWN Once again, very little movement in the Top 10 of Stitcher's Comedy Podcast chart this last week. In fact, this week, other than the fact two shows switched places in the Top 10, nothing’s gone on. 10. Doug Loves Movies9. DeathSquad8. Real Time with Bill Maher7. Mohr Stories6. SModcast5. The Nerdist4. NPR: Car Talk Podcast3. WTF with Marc Maron2. The Adam Carolla Show1. The Joe Rogan Experience I think for the next episode, I may add the bottom 10 (from #90-100) just to have some new show names in the mix. REVIEW In "This Week In Comedy Podcasts" on Splitsider.com I reviewed Penn's Sunday School with Penn Jillette and guest Peter "Herman's Hermits" Noone! It went a little something - no, exactly - like this: Ah, Penn Jillette. Magician, conman, truth-sayer, provocateur and atheist. It’s the last of those that drives many of the discussions around Penn’s Sunday School, although in the latest installment, none of that comes around until after the first hour, during which time Peter Noone (of Herman’s Hermits fame) is Jillette’s guest. And Noone turns out to be a treasure trove of fantastic stories from the early days of the British Invasion and beyond. The child TV star (from BBC’s Coronation) had turned to music and was playing at the age of 16 while hanging around the Beatles before they took off. He tells of John Lennon knocking out five blokes in a working man’s bar and of meeting and hanging out with Elvis in Hawaii a few years later. Jillette punctuates Noone’s tales with his trademark hoarse guffaw. Later in the show, after Noone has left, the host shares how his own atheist beliefs have been picked up by his young daughter and how that causes a bit of a problem with a god-fearing boy in her school, about which Jillette is a little leery about dealing with. Jillette’s shows tend to run over an hour, and each extra minute is well worth the listen. So you can get the complete flavor of it, I clip that show in this very episode. DURST This week our on-call Raging Moderate Will Durst turns his acerbic funny beam on the Civil Ware brewing in the Republican't party for our Burst O' Durst. CLIPS OVERVIEW Our first clip is from new podcast, Overview, by a friend of Succotash and a good buddy of mine: Rick Overton! (He was one of our earliest guests – you can find my interview with him in Epi 6 AND I also released a bonus Epi 6.5, which was my interview with Rick in its entirety.) Now he’s got his own show going. And he’s already had some great guests from the world of comedy. Recently he spoke with comedy legend Jonathan Winters – what a score! It struck me that some of what Jonathan is talking about in our clip, where he’s talking about starting out as a comic, relates directly across to podcasting in many ways. MAN SCHOOL Although this IS a new podcast, the host will be familiar to some of you Succotashians. It’s Caleb Bacon who, until a couple of months ago, was the host of The Gentlemen’s Club podcast. With this new show, Bacon gets pretty heavy in the first show, as his guest is “Bald Bryan” Bishop, who is a producer and sidekick on the Adam Carolla Show as well as the co-host of his own podcast called The Film Vault. Four years ago, at the age of 30, Bryan was diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer. He’s still around, so not only has he survived it, but it’s given him some perspectives on life a 30 year old doesn’t often have. PENN'S SUNDAY SCHOOL Penn Jillette, best know for being one-half of Penn & Teller, does a number of things as well, including this podcast. Jillette has become somewhat well know for being an atheist – he doesn’t believe in god – and he often goes into the topic on his podcast. But he also has guests come through and the subject of religion never comes up. Recently he had Peter Noone on the show, the founding member of Herman’s Hermits. NOBODIES PODCAST From the show’s intro I know that host Nick Dressel is a student at MSU in East Lansing, Michigan, and the premise for Nobodies is that he and all of his guest are “nobodies” – they are actors and comedians and other flavors of performance who have not “arrived” yet but hope to someday, so Nick sees his show as being the first place you will have heard his guests, but not the last. In Epi35 of Nobodies, his guests Spencer Perrenoud and Jason Carlen gather ‘round a rendering of “McConaughey”. SNITCH & LINS Here’s one of the only clips from a show we’ve heard from before – it’s Snitch & Lins from Australia! I like the fact that this is a sketch more than anything. I think if I have to hear more people going off on a pop culture riff on their podcasts, I’ll throw up. So thanks, Stitch & Lins! 3 PLEASANT GENTLEMEN When I heard from Cam of the 3 Pleasant Gentlemen podcast, I was informed that there are only TWO Gentlemen in the cast - Cam and Remo. The third Gentleman is a woman, who goes by the name Savy. I also discovered that I’m not alone in finding out that a car makes for a suitable substitute podcasting facility. (While we often have luxurious Studio P, The Home of The Hit!, at our disposal, some episodes of Succotash come to you via Studio F, my Fiat.) 3 Pleasant Gentlemen orginates from the roomy interior of a Chevy Tahoe. DRUNKEN TAOIST I think I’m going to be enjoying the Drunken Taoist, a bi-monthly podcast hosted by Daniele Bolelli. He’s got quite a colorful collection of stuff next to his name. He’s a writer, a martial artist, and a college professor. His teaching style’s described as “half standup comedian and half Zen master.” Bolelli’s guest from the episode we clipped is New York Times Best Selling author Christopher Ryan, who co-wrote Sex At Dawn and has his own podcast called Tangentially Speaking. DIRTY KONG PODCAST Unlike The Drunken Taoist, our next podcast has precious little on about the podcast or the people on it, even though they have a half dozen places on the web where you grab their episodes. I can’t even find names for the voices you’re hearing in this clip from the Dirty Kong Podcast. OK HYPOTHETICAL We have a clip from another new podcast – only 6 epis in – called OK Hypothetical and it was submitted by Garin, one of the two hosts. The other fellow is Connor. I like these guys. Here’s the text from their email: “Good morning, The attached clip is actually the full first episode of our show. Run time is 4 minutes 33. Thank you for your consideration. Garin and Connor”. Straight to the point. No nonsense. Get in, get out, no one gets hurt. I love that their show’s title is most of what you need to know about how the show goes. So there you go - back to a clips royale with this episode! If you're a comedy podcaster, remember that you are welcome to submit a 3-5 minute MP3 clip from your show, via email, to clips@SuccotashShow.com. (While we may well get around to your podcast, there are THOUSANDS of shows out there on the comedy side of podcasting, so you stand a better chance of having us feature you if you are proactive and shoot us a clip yourself! Until next time, won't you please pass the Succotash? — Marc Hershon
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