{"id":777,"date":"2012-07-22T21:59:19","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T04:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=777"},"modified":"2012-07-22T21:59:19","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T04:59:19","slug":"podthoughts-the-dana-gould-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=777","title":{"rendered":"Podthoughts: The Dana Gould Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thepaltrysapien.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DanaGouldHour1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/center>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Vital stats:<\/strong><br \/>\nFormat: thematic comedy gab, broken up with prepared segments<br \/>\nEpisode duration: 1h-1h30m<br \/>\nFrequency: 1-2 per month<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy do you want to do a podcast? You ain\u2019t gonna do no podcast. You just a johnny-come-lately. You spent too much time on <em>The Simpsons<\/em> and you lost it, and now you\u2019re trying to get it back, and everybody thinks it\u2019s pathetic. You ain\u2019t no Marc Maron.\u201d Those words come in the voice of Little Richard, as performed by Dana Gould, to convey to us what the discouraging disapproving-dad voice inside his head sounds like. (His theory says that such a voice gets much easier to ignore when it sounds like Little Richard.) This happens on the very podcast that discourages, <a href=\"http:\/\/danagould.com\/podcasts\/\"><em>The Dana Gould Hour<\/em><\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/TheDanaGouldHour\">RSS<\/a>] [<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-dana-gould-hour\/id499464663\">iTunes<\/a>]. Luckily for Gould, and for us, Little Richard can only take that Marc Maron comparison so far. It pleases me to report that Gould has opted not to crank out yet another comedian-interviews-comedians podcast, but to put on more of a&#8230; production.<\/p>\n<p>Its episodes, with come out once or twice a month, offer segments, scripted stories, recurring characters, and historical sound clips. I would draw a comparison to Paul F. Tompkins\u2019 <em>Paul F. Tompkast<\/em>, but I haven\u2019t heard that show yet. <em>The Dana Gould Hour<\/em> makes the unusual structural choice of interweaving these bits and pieces with group conversations like you\u2019d hear on more standard comedy-gab shows. Each time out, Gould surrounds himself with colleagues \u2014 Eddie Pepitone usually shows up, to my increasing delight \u2014 and they all riff on a theme. These themes have included the apocalypse [<a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/danagould\/Apocalicious.mp3\">MP3<\/a>], carnies and theme parks [<a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/danagould\/dghs01e06.mp3\">MP3<\/a>], and Woody Allen\u2019s wife, Soon-Yi Previn [<a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/danagould\/Soon-Yi_Or_Later.mp3\">MP3<\/a>]. That last one usually gets me onboard, whatever the situation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maximumfun.org\/2012\/07\/22\/podthoughts-colin-marshall-dana-gould-hour\">at Maximum Fun<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Vital stats: Format: thematic comedy gab, broken up with prepared segments Episode duration: 1h-1h30m Frequency: 1-2 per month \u201cWhy do you want to do a podcast? You ain\u2019t gonna do no podcast. You just a johnny-come-lately. You spent too much time on The Simpsons and you lost it, and now you\u2019re trying to get [&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-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podthoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777","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=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":780,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions\/780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}