Why is your song such a slut?

Podcast: Bofore Radio
Dates: April 4 and May 30, 2008
Titles: Old People, Beer In The Morning and Nothing But Animals
Download the show: Episode 13, Episode 18 and Episode 24 (Select mp3 button)

Tyrone Kahn was quite alarmed once he heard the intro to one of the newer Demented comedy music podcasts, Bofore Radio.

“He’s using the same theme music I use for Kahn Man’s Comedy Corner!” Tyrone complained about BR host and recording artist Odd Austin Aeschliman.

Foolishly, I waded into the subject. “Well, where did you hear the song?” I asked Tyrone.

“I heard it on Manic Mondays!” Tyrone exclaimed without a hint of irony. “It’s the theme song for their News of the Stupid segment!”

One theme, three podcasts

The bouncy theme music shared by three comedy podcasts is the instrumental Eskimo Pie Is Not A Pie And Contains Very Little Eskimo by Dr. Demento fave Worm Quartet.

“Hey man! I was just thinking about you — primarily because I just ripped my The Best Of The Red Peters Comedy Music Hour, Volume 1 CD and you’re totally flippin’ on it,” wrote Worm Quartet founder ShoEboX in response to my investigative query.

“My song is a slut because there are only about three comedy artists who have ever put an instrumental on a CD, and Weird Al’s Fun Zone has already been overused to death.”

Everything’s cool, though. ShoEboX gave Tyrone official, first-class, A-1 permission to use his song, and a fast-thinking Odd Austin Aeschliman told Tyrone he also used the song because Tyrone’s his podcasting hero and Odd Austin wanted to be just like his hero Tyrone.

Here’s the part about me

Bofore Radio featured three of my songs, I’ll Get Old And Die, Her Shit Don’t Stink and The Ballad Of Morris The Cat, on recent shows.

Odd Austin sometimes literally phones in his show, recording his dry, smartass commentary via podcast host Gcast’s telephone feature. He affects a fake pirate voice (portraying the fictional character known as “Goose,” who ostensibly co-hosts the show with another character named “Goblin”) but otherwise performs his duties in a satisfactory manner.

My name often provides pause for podcasters who struggle with the pronunciation of Turetzky. “That’s hard to say,” Odd Austin noted. And oddly, he censored himself when pronouncing the title of Her Shit Don’t Stink, but didn’t censor the actual song.

And that’s the end of that story!

Her sssss don’t stink  (2:01).

Posted in: Podcast Roundup at 12:15 am Fri, Jul 18, 2008.