Podcasts about seven days a geek

The rules still remain the same: no sport, no politics, no math. But some other things have changed, like, this is now a Guest Based show!? Yes. And Grant Markham is the first! You should know him from many podcasts, including Seven Days A Geek and The Stranger Conversations. Look, the whole point of this is You Don't Need To Know Him, You Have ME! But I'll introduce you, I guess. You'll learn about that hair on his face, how he handles my awkward questions, learn if he would sacrifice his limbs to save space aliens, find out how he defines SKURDLE, TWIZEN and TUNGLE, and of course, take witness as he gets struck by Lightning Round. Find Grant on Twitter @Insta_Grants2 Find me there too @WickedTheory

This week we are super excited to have THE Grant Markham, co-host of Seven Days A Geek and creator of the probably, maybe, hopefully? to return Stranger Conversations and his theme of "Family Road Trips"! While Grant plays us some surefire hits from a UK band of the 70's and 80's (21:33, 59:01, 1:25:41, 1:56:00), Chris selects tracks from an 80's compilation album that was used to help fight cancer (38:35, 1:10:56, 1:35:42) and Paul gives us songs from a massive 90's band that could be classified as a "one album" wonder (48:02, 1:19:23, 1:50:04). All this plus Stranger Conversations and Podoberfest (4:42), 8 Track tapes (21:00), drafting in a Chevette (26:10), music exposure as a kid (31:42), Griswold moments (46:21), how old are we? (54:33), classic rock radio (1:04:51), Hauling Oates (1:12:08), misogyny (1:24:05), Edmonton to Calgary (1:44:33), and a question from Agent Palmer (2:04:21). Intro: by Paul Maier Outro: Holiday Road - Lindsay Graham Albums This Week: Supertramp - Greatest Hits   Let's Beat It - Various Artists   Spin Doctors - Pocket Full Of Kryptonite Reach Us: @insta_grants2  @pmaier001  @chrismaierBC   @olinernotes

This week welcome Stefanie Muniz of Gotham Lights, Geek Up and Go and Seven Days A Geek and her theme "Lounge Singers". While Stef plays us some swingin' tunes from one of the most famous 50's crooner of all time (15:00, 39:59, 1:06:14, 1:37:36), Chris selects tracks from a laid back jazz laden album from the 60's (21:52, 47:07, 1:15:36) and Paul gives us some classic 70's songs from a well known artist who began his career as a lounge performer (28:18, 55:14, 1:25:05). All this plus Bulleit and Gators (3:47), relocation services (6:15), Shumway (10:29), definition of lounge (19:06), jazz school (20:05), Palmer's first e-mail Q (36:19), Billboard charts (44:55), ulterior music motives (51:24), Palmer's second Q (1:03:53), female lounge singers (1:10:37), Austria and family history (1:29:34), Palmer's third Q (1:34:38) and Dr Who (1:44:60). Intro: Music by Dean Martin  Lyrics by Chris Maier  Outro: Dr. Who Theme Albums This Week: Songs For Swinging Lovers - Frank Sinatra   John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman - Self Titled   Strangers - Billy Joel Reach Us: @BadWolfBay87  @chrismaierBC  @pmaier001  @olinernotes  olinernotes@gmail.com

On this week's episode we welcome back our favourite fan, friend, and blogger, THE Agent Palmer of Seven Days A Geek, Wicked Theory Podcast, the Diamond Dave Show and more! After finalizing his theme of "First Concert" via Twitter Poll, Palmer and Chris each play tracks from the same classic rock band (11:49 + 40:55), but from different albums while Paul plays songs from a popular band he ended up sitting alone to see! All this plus more Nascar (6:23), original streaming concerts (14:59), guitar solos (29:20), show openers (47:21), Neil Diamond look a like (1:05:27), to single or not to single (1:14:01), Heartbreak Hotel (1:27:36), VLT's (1:31:26), explaining lyrics to your mother (1:34:37) and the infamous pink curtains (1:45:01). Intro: Music by Bob Marley Lyrics by Paul Maier  Outro: The Show Must Go On - Three Dog Night Albums This Week:   Nine Lives - Aerosmith     Greatest Hits - Three Dog Night       Pump - Aerosmith Reach Us: @agentpalmer  @pmaier001  @chrismaierBC  @olinernotes  olinernotes@gmail.com

As Santa Claus said after a day of delivering toys around the world, "Oy." This Epi78 of Succotash was intended to be our Christmas episode but between the crush of business, holiday shenanigans, a wicked cold and assorted other speed bumps, it's only getting out now. And how was YOUR holiday? We have a brief chat with Rachel Eaton, the Director of Content Partnership at Stitcher. We start out talking about the nominations for the 2nd Annual Stitcher Awards but they closed the Sunday before Christmas. Fortunately, Rachel also talks about the voting portion of the awards. The finalists to get your votes in each category will be announced on Tuesday, December 31st, after which you can begin voting at the Stitcher site. (I appreciate that Rachel took time out to talk via phone while on vacation visiting family back in Boston!) We've also got a bunch of clips for you - many of which were harvested by Tyson Saner, our go-to guy and Honorary Associate Producer. He's also one of the three folks who called into the Succotash Hotline and dropped a holiday greeting on our listeners, all of which are featured in this episode. If you'd like to hear more of his melodious tones, I've been chatting with him about co-hosting an episode of Succotash sometime in January. SONG OF THE SEASON Our friend, fellow podcaster (Functional Nerds) and novelty songster John Alealio re-released one of his holiday classics, Batman Smells (A Rebuttal), and it's out pleasure to feature it this episode to help us round out our post-Christmas non-stravaganza. Click on John's name to go visit his site and pick up some of his tunage, won't you? DOUBLE DOSE O' DURST We're featuring not one but TWO of our Burst O' Durst segments this episode, including comedian Will Durst's belated Xmas List for 2013. THE 10 MOST ACTIVE SHOWS ON THE STITCHER TOP 100 COMEDY PODCASTS LIST Here's the way the movers, shakers, and droppers shaped up this past week: AT                                                                        MOVED33. Ari Shafir’s Skeptic Tank                                  +2655. Cashing In With TJ Miller                                  +3157. Improv 4 Humans with Matt Besser                   +3260. Thrilling Adventure Hour                                  +4162. Nobody Likes Onions                                        +5072. The Trev & Ben Show                                       -1273. SModcast FeAB                                                +2191. Jim Florentine’s ‘Metal Comedy Midgets’         +1293. The Dead Authors Podcast                               -1898. SModcast Edumacation                                    -13 CLIPS Amish Baby MachineThis clip was a request I made of Tyson Saner after I read last week’s Top 10 Most Active Show On Stitcher’s Top 100 Comedy Podcast list. The show jumped up over 500 places to get in. So I asked Tyson to grab me a sample. In this taste, hosts Dags and Jeff welcome back Dan Simon, who shares tales from his recent African adventure. WTFOne of the best known podcasts around is WTF or What The Fuck, with Marc Maron. He recently hit his epi450 and had Will Farrell on as his guest, which I reviewed for This Week In Comedy Podcasts on Splitsider.com. A few weeks earlier, Marc had author David Sedaris on and he’s a favorite of our friend Tyson Saner, who provided us with this clip of Sedaris reading from Marc’s recently published book.  (Marc's IFC TV series Maron returns in May of the new year.) Broadcast BasementChris Lanuti runs his show from an actual bar he has in his actual basement, surrounded by actual friends like Acoustic Mike and Wild Bill as well as whomever drops in. Chris is a former radio guy who knows how to run a show and I guess he’s the commissioner of the Broadcast Basement Fantasy Football League in which our Succotash Rocs did okay in this season, considering I know nothing about football other than the fact it’s the brown oblong ball. This clip focuses on that newish Christmas tradition: The Elf On The Shelf. Seven Days A GeekThe lads over at Seven Days A Geek recently held their “30 Days of Podcasting” event. These guys aren’t just podcasters but they also get into the nuts and bolts of podcasting a lot – well worth subscribing. In this clip, Jay “The Angry Ginger” and Jeremy McBlizzard discuss horror movies including The Human Centipede. The Black Guy Who TipsTyson Saner has clipped us a hunk of a pretty popular show featuring married couple Rod and Karen – no last names – who have been together since they were 16 and got marreid in 2002. They kick stuff around and also have interesting guests. This slice features the couple discussing R.Kelly’s ill-advised Q&A session via Twitter a little while back. Big & CleverThis podcast out of England has been around for three years and if it hadn’t been brought to my attention by one of our friends on Twitter, I still might have heard about these guys Danny Blaze and Keith True. They’re a pair of DJs and, much like our new friends Trev & Ben, they talk about news of the day, current events, pop culture and enjoy taking shots at each each other every now and then as well. There you go. A little over an hour of podcast gold. You can help us out for the new year by heading over to iTunes and gives us a nice star rating and perhaps a short review. You can also give us a "Thumbs Up" on Stitcher, Like us on Facebook, give us a heart on SoundCloud or Favorite our tweets when you see 'em on Twitter. You can also help us to offset expenses by clicking on the Donate button on the righthad side of our SuccotashShow.com website, dipping into your Christmas bonus and sending a little smidgen our way. We'll regale you in word and verse on the show. Best wishes for a great 2014 and we'll talk to you next year! - Marc Hershon

This week's a mostly clipless week on Succotash. Stockpiling a bunch for the next episode while I devote the majority of Epi53 to my interview with Matt Weinhold. In addition to his long history as a standup comedian, Matt's be involved in writing and helping to produce a lot of television, web, and film projects as well. Included in that dossier: Writer and voice actor for MTV’s The Super Adventure Team; a writer and co-creator with Greg Proops on The Amazing Colossal Show, appeared in the Star Trek documentary Trekkies, written on tons of other TV including BBC America’s The Nerdist, Style Network’s The Dish, and used to be part of the Fashion Police commentary team for US magazine. You can also still get Matt's comedy CD, Dead Funny, by clicking on the link or on iTunes. In the realm of podcasting, Matt's been podguesting with the likes of Jackie Kashian on Dork Forest and more frequently on The Dana Gould Hour. But he's in the process of turning what was a YouTube experiment into a full on video/audio podcast and we talk (and play) a bit from his Monster Party concept during our interview. (Fair notice: We recorded the interview at the Coffee Fix in Studio City, CA. While it's a great place for coffee, the cavernous space, loud background music, blenders, grinders, and clanking utensils made for a listener-challenging environment. We've done what we could to pull out some of the room noise but there are portions of the interview that are somewhat hard to hear. Apologies. Welcome to the world of guerrilla podcasting...) THE COUNTDOWN Rather than do a straight-ahead Top 10 countdown from this week's Stitcher's Top 100 Comedy Podcasts — because the 'casts at the top don't seem to change very much - this week we introduce "The 10 Most Active in the Stitcher Top 100 Comedy Podcast List"! It was based on an idea I got from Ed Wallick, host of the Don't Quit Your Daycast podcast. I've ranked ten shows by their relative position on the chart, but also included the number of spaces they moved in the past week. Or points they go - I can't really figure out that that up or down number is supposed to represent considering that one of the shows — SModcast — moved DOWN 101 points on a chart that only has 100 spaces. 14. Girl On Guy with Aisha Tyler +2441. Bullseye with Jesse Thorn +1446. SModcast -10152. The Onion +5561. The David Feldman Show -2664. Superego +8571. Alonzo Bodden: Who’s Paying Attention? +2980. Sex Squad +1391. Loveline +2499. The Ricky Gervais Podcast -20 CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT Phil Leirness Last week I played a clip from the Chillpak Hollywood Hour, one of the first podcasts I ever listened to, and I mentioned that hosts Phil Leirness and Dean Haglund had been doing the show for over 4 years. My bad. It’s been SIX years. Not only that, I incorrectly gave their website. It’s ChillpakHollywood.com (As I did mentioned last show, they DO still have a MySpace page, though.) I’m told that my voicemail apology to them will be a special guest on the next episode of CHH. Just got word that pre-production is underway on The Lady Killers, a new feature film by Phil and Dean. If you get a chance, check out their enthralling documentary The Truth Is Out There. ME BEING ME I'm a guest on the latest Seven Days A Geek episode of Podcasting 101. The Angry Ginger and I chat it up about how simple it really is to kick off a show, how to figure out what a podcast should be about and a bunch of other inside baseball chatter. Click on the show link and check it out for some good (mostly) clean conversation about the blood n' guts of podcasting. SING IT, CHET Chet Haase Friend-of-Succotash Chet Haase has sent along a nifty little ditty in the wake of the changing of the Pope called Papal Reign, a parody to Prince's Purple Rain. It's timely and funny and you'll find it at the tail end of Epi53. Thanks, Chet! DON'T FORGET DURST Our Ambassador to the Middle Will Durst offers a litany of things that go awry as we move into Upper Middle age in this week's Burst O' Durst. I also get into our TweetSack a bit this week, including some real honest-to-God emails. I read off a long list of Twitter handles from folks who have retweeted, favorited and otherwise been kind to Succotash this past week. It's really appreciated and makes doing the show worthwhile knowing that people are enjoying the experience and sharing that enjoyment with others. Or, as I like to think about it, passing the Succotash! — Marc Hershon

Here we are, smack in the middle of Epi49, just one 'sode away from our 50th show! Exciting! And we have a wonderful Special Guest this show — Hal Lublin! If you're a fan of The Thrilling Adventure Hour, then you've heard LOTS of Hal because he's all over that show as both the announcer and filling out a number of roles in the various sketches.  When I interviewed TAH's co-creator Ben Blacker back in Epi37, he told me that I really should try to catch the show live. And I finally got the opportunity this past weekend when the entire cast and orchestra traveled north from Hollywood, California, America to appear at the 12th Annual San Francisco Sketchfest. I got to see Hal and the rest of the gang put on a very funny show (they performed twice, actually, back to back) and Mr. Lublin was kind enough to sit with me before making the trek back down south. Our podcaster friends can relate when I say that Hal, while he exercises his voice on behalf of TAH as well as cartoons and other voiceover work, still holds down a fulltime day job. AND is perfectly happy to continue doing so. He tells us why during the interview, as well as some "tricks of the trade" when it comes to taking care of those precious pipes. COUNTDOWN Two new entries into the Top 10 Comedy Podcasts as reported by Stitcher Smart Radio this week. (STILL no movement in the upper six spots, though - those podcasts are wedged in tighter than a sumo wrestler's mawashi.) And we clip the two newcomers this week so you can taste a sample. 10. The Church Of What’s Happening Now - Joey Diaz9. Doug Loves Movies - Doug Benson8. Real Time with Bill Maher7. SModcast - Kevin Smith & Scott Mosier6. Mohr Stories with Jay Mohr5. The Nerdist w/Chris Hardwick4. NPR: Car Talk Podcast3. WTF with Marc Maron2. The Adam Carolla Show1. The Joe Rogan Experience TWEETSACK In the TweetSack this week is an email with an attachment from Davian Dent, the host of The Bitter Sound Podcast. He's recorded a song - a parody of the Sid Vicious take of Sinatra's My Way, which is dedicated to the podcasters that have supported his run of six shows he's done so far. And he mentions those podcasts by name (including Succotash...at the very end.) So I've put the song at the very end of the show in kind - hope you enjoy it! INTERVIEWS It seems I'm enjoying a tiny surge of demand the last week or so, as I have been interviewed by Jason Parsons at the Seven Days A Geek podcast as well as by Adam Harris from The Standup Chronicles show. Those drop soon so click on the links above and check 'em out when they do. The end of next week I'm off to LA for a few days, where I'm scheduled to appear on Combat Radio, live on Friday morning, February 22nd, with host Ethan Dettenmaier. Should be fun! REVIEW This week I'm reviewing a pretty funny show that's been flying under my radar every though they've now got 99 shows under their belt: The Ardent Atheist with Emery Emery and Heather Henderson. as my portion of This Week In Comedy Podcasts over on Splitsider. CLIPS REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHERTake a hit HBO show and dump it into iPod’s podcast directory – BAM, instant hit video podcast. That’s Real Time with Bill Maher. No fuss, no muss. If you saw it last week on TV, then you probably WON’T download it this week. But if you MISSED it…now it’s free. SMODCASTThe original SModcast that started Kevin Smith’s SMOdcast network. (A network that's now celebrating its sixth year anniversary.) They haven’t been around THAT long – this clip is from Kvein Smith and Scott Moser’s latest edition, #238. SEVEN DAYS A GEEKAs mentioned above, I was recently interviewed by Jason Parsons over at Seven Days A Geek – the show we did was kind of a nuts n’ bolts about podcasting – and the least I could do was ask him to send along a clip from his regular show for us to feature. In the clip we have, Jason is getting the lowdown from his pal TK1 on how his buddy managed to break his toe. THE BRAWDCASTThe three women behind the Brawdcast take webstealth to a whole new level  — on their homesite they’re only known by their Twitter handles: @ButtRockBetty, @JennieK97 and @HollzInSeattle.  The first two are the talent, the third is their producer. And in this clip we’re hearing about the art of spanking. In public, no less. THE HALF SCOOPI’ve heard form the boys over at The Half Scoop podcast - that’d be Stephen, Corben, and Bryce – that they’ve been tweaking their format. They just rounded the 25-show mark so we give a listen to the newish-sounding Half Scoop! TALES FROM THE ATTIC  So little information on their website, but here’s a line from Seth Wright & Zack Bennett's listing on iTunes: “Underwhelming, crude episodes filled with ramblings and random banter from Seth and Zack.” In this clip, war stories on performing on the road are re-hashed guest Angelo Warner. BURST O' DURST Not really a clip but a self-contained feature from the brain and attendant mouth of our Ambassador to the Middle, political comedian Will Durst. In this installment, Will gives out his own brand of mythical statuettes to some political worthies in this award season we're entering. There's what's in store for you this epi. Keep in mind the next show is our FIFTIETH episode (!) and we're going to celebrate with a show-long interview by the three-man cast of Superego, one of the hottest podcasts around. Until next time, please remember to pass the Succotash! — Marc Hershon