{"id":724,"date":"2012-07-01T22:16:53","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T05:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=724"},"modified":"2012-07-01T22:16:53","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T05:16:53","slug":"podthoughts-the-shed-show-with-andy-dick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=724","title":{"rendered":"Podthoughts: The SHeD Show with Andy Dick"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blubrry.com\/bdata\/coverart\/andy_dick_show.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vital stats:<\/strong><br \/>\nFormat: conversations (and occasional songs) between Andy Dick and his friends and colleagues<br \/>\nEpisode duration: 1h-1h30m<br \/>\nFrequency: erratic<\/p>\n<p>I know who Andy Dick is, and yet I don\u2019t know who Andy Dick is. He entered my awareness as a guest on\u00a0<em>Loveline<\/em>, the nightly radio program that occupied one of the larger, more edifying chunks of my time between the ages of thirteen and twenty. He had a specific reason for being famous back then, which I believe had something to do with a role on the ABC sitcom\u00a0<em>NewsRadio<\/em>. I remain more or less ignorant of that show, despite its retroactive receipt of a great deal of comedy-nerd credibility, at least by the standard of ABC sitcoms. I know just as much about\u00a0<em>Less Than Perfect<\/em>, the other sitcom, this time about an office, which carried his mainstream recognition into the 2000s. My curiosity\u00a0<em>has<\/em>\u00a0long had a place for his band, the Bitches of the Century, but mostly because of its name. I can\u2019t get enough of that name.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, this thin experience has provided reason enough for me to download Dick\u2019s every guest appearance on today\u2019s interview-ish comedy podcasts and comedy-ish interview podcasts: Marc Maron\u2019s, say, or Adam Carolla\u2019s. As far back as I can remember, and in whichever sonic medium I can remember, a conversation with Andy Dick has always meant a conversation about drugs and alcohol, either the benefits thereof, the indignities thereof, or the vagaries of quitting them. Given his once apparently constant struggles with substance abuse and tendency toward bizarre public behavior, Dick became something of a dead man walking in the eyes of the media. Yet, like a high-personality Zelig wandering through a very specific and strikingly grim circle of show business, he displayed a hardy survival instinct while his significantly less doomed-seeming associates \u2014 actors Phil Hartman and David Strickland come to mind \u2014 met their ends.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maximumfun.org\/2012\/07\/01\/podthoughts-colin-marshall-shed-show-andy-dick\">at Maximum Fun<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vital stats: Format: conversations (and occasional songs) between Andy Dick and his friends and colleagues Episode duration: 1h-1h30m Frequency: erratic I know who Andy Dick is, and yet I don\u2019t know who Andy Dick is. He entered my awareness as a guest on\u00a0Loveline, the nightly radio program that occupied one of the larger, more edifying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podthoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":726,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions\/726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}