Personal podcast roundup

Enhance your Podcast Roundup experience by listening along to audio samples of the very podcasts celebrated in this column. Visit Podcast Roundup and check out the tracks in the audio player at right.

Also, explore the Ken Turetzky podcast phenomenon in this introductory feature: Podcast pals spin pop culture and a couple of comedy songs.

Hyper Nonsense, Episode 25

Date: August 24, 2006.

Full episode: More famouser than you!

Summary: Shawno and Jen remember my name.

Apology  (1:41).

Podsafe Comedy Countdown, Episode 16

Date: August 23, 2006

Full episode: Hot August Songs

Summary: The Philosophy Guy overloads the VU meter, wheezes and and bumps things into the mic, but makes up for amateurish technique by introducing Her Shit Don’t Stink as “our first new hot song.”

Hot!  (1:57).

The UnRadio Show, Episode 28

Date: August 23, 2006.

Full episode: Eat This UnRadio Show

Summary: Travis Goss and two badly miked co-hosts play some songs and discuss roller derby and other interests, in a show that inexplicably runs two hours and 12 minutes. The Ballad Of Morris The Cat cues up as the second track, immediately following a tune called “Bunnyrabbits, Satan, Cheese and Milk”.

Roller derby  (0:37).

Hyper Nonsense, Episode 24

Date: August 22, 2006

Full episode: Violence and other business

Summary: Hosts Shawno and Jen play The Ballad Of Morris The Cat, forget the composer’s name, apologize.

Who dat?  (3:42).

Benzoid Report, Episode 36

Date: July 31, 2006

Full episode: Benzoid Report

Summary: At the 26:28 mark of this program originating from northern Michigan, host Michael Dell plays Her Shit Don’t Stink and launches into a woodsy, midwestern tirade against twin devils Microsoft and Verizon.

You debbil, you  (1:57).

Doom Cast, Episode 14

Date: July 19, 2006

Full episode: MMORPGs are G-A-Y

Summary: Anybody can run a podcast, and this bunch of kids with time on their hands and nothing to say prove the point. If you can hang in until the 16-minute mark, you’ll hear Her Shit Don’t Stink. Or, listen to this excerpt (0:38).

The Mike and Michelle Show, Episode 54

Date: July 2, 2006

Full episode: A special dedication

Summary: Hosts Mike and Michelle devote loving attention to Her Shit Don’t Stink, commenting on the song throughout and then debating its value to society. Tragically, rifts appear in the relationship that eventually lead to the team’s breakup.

“That is such a classic!”  (0:22).

Michelle protests  (0:10).

Full segment  (7:03).

The UnRadio Show, Episode 20

Date: June 30, 2006

Full episode: UnRadio Show

Summary: Host Travis Goss plays Her Shit Don’t Stink as the second track of his program centered on music and comedy. UnRadio evaded my standard Google search due to an initial Web site credit for “Len Turetzky.” But research reveals this to be the podcasting debut for HSDS, previously ascribed to the Mike and Michelle Show.

Posted in: Podcast Roundup at 8:51 pm Mon, Aug 28, 2006.