837-Aug10

comedy4cast #837

Odd News PAC for August 10, 2025

"Currently Trending"

Written by

Clinton Alvord

CAST

(in order of appearance, where possible, otherwise by actor)

ID ANNOUNCER.......................COMPUTER
CLINTON............................CLINTON ALVORD

DAN KLASS..........................DAN KLASS

C.C. CHAPMAN.......................C.C. CHAPMAN

BRIAN IBBOTT.......................BRIAN IBBOTT

INTRO: COMEDY4CAST STUDIO

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ID ANNOUNCER

The comedy4cast network. Let's dog ear that for now.

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CLINTON

It's time, once again, for the Dog Days of Podcasting, a call for podcasters to try to put out a podcast every day in August. For more information and to hear all the shows, go to dogdaysofpodcasting.com.

We always take this MONTH to provide you with some interesting, yet totally useless Odd News. And this year, to celebrate the Platinum Anniversary of comedy4cast, or PAC for short, we'll end each Dog Days episode with part of a classic comedy4cast episode. So, let's get started with "Odd News PAC"!

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STORY: HELLO, MR. CHIPS

CLINTON

Ah, youth. Those days when you thought anything and everything was possible. Like growing up to be the first person to ever sail around the world in a bathtub. Or attend 4 years of college without incurring crippling debt.

And you thought you'd live forever, so you'd give anything a try. At least ONCE. Well, now you can relive one of those experiences over and over again, because someone has turned it into a crunchy snack.

Introducing the latest creation from Dutch snack brand Rewind -- 9-volt battery-flavored tortilla chips. And the name alone is one of those things where "if you know, you know".

The 9-volt battery may not be as common as it once was. After all, it was introduced by Eveready in 1956, designed to power those hip new transistor radios that all the kids were using. And right from the start, kids noticed that the little brick-shaped battery has a fascinating feature.

Unlike most batteries where the positive and negative terminals are on opposite sides or opposite ends of the cell, on a 9-volt battery both terminals are on the same end. So from the early days of rock and roll, through the heyday of walkie-talkies to RC toy cars, kids have done the logical thing with a 9-volt battery -- put their tongue on the connectors, completing a circuit, and resulting in a metallic tasting ZAP! That's because one to two milliamps of current is actually flowing through the tip of their tongue.

Please note: comedy4cast does not endorse this practice. Electricity is dangerous and can even be deadly. So, like, just don't.

And the good news is, now you don't have to! Or, if you DID do it once, now you can experience it any time, anywhere, with no battery required.

How is this possible? Mattias Larsson, chef and flavorist at Rewind says the the company uses a blend of citric acid and sodium bicarbonate to create the tongue-tingling effect, and balances it out with mineral salts to give the chips a metallic tang. Mmmmm. Tasty.

Unfortunately, Rewind 9-volt battery-flavored tortilla chips are currently only available in the Netherlands. But the company is planning to expand sales into the European market. So tell your tongue to be patient just a bit longer.

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CLIP: A MAJOR MILESTONE, I GUESS

CLINTON

And now, let's celebrate 20 years of comedy4cast with this classic clip!

In mid 2010 I ran a special episode with the appropriate title "Celebrating 5 years of not being featured on iTunes." It was a star-studded event that had celebrity guests bursting in unannounced, breaking windows, calling in on the super secret phone line...It was madness. And, at the height of it all, fellow podcasting pioneers Brian Ibbott, Dan Klass and C.C. Chapman made an impressive entrance into the studio.

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CLINTON (cont'd)

Really? A secret revolving wall here in the studio? Who's over there anyway?

DAN KLASS

Clinton, it's Dan Klass from The Bitterest Pill.

C.C. CHAPMAN

Hey, everybody, it's C.C. Chapman from Accident Hash and Managing the Gray...

BRIAN IBBOTT

Brian Nibbitt here from Coverville.

C.C. CHAPMAN

Dude.

BRIAN IBBOTT

Clinton, I just wanted to congratulate you on five years of comedy4cast.

C.C. CHAPMAN

I mean, five years of not being on iTunes? That takes skills. That takes the comedic genius that only you bring forth.

DAN KLASS

I mean, that... I think that might be an iTunes record. Seriously, if I knew anyone at iTunes that I could call to find out if that's some sort of unprecedented... I mean, it seems, it seems just absolutely...

BRIAN IBBOTT

Thanks to podcast listeners and strong hallucinogens, Coverville hit the five-year anniversary mark 17 years ago, back when 23rd President Benjamin Harrison first coined the phrase podcasting.

DAN KLASS

Now, I know, you know, I was featured on iTunes in the early days.

C.C. CHAPMAN

I mean, you know, I've been featured on iTunes, you know, a whole bunch of times. And I've been on the homepage and parenting. I've been all over iTunes.

DAN KLASS

You know, they had me wandering around the front of iTunes, you know, for a good month or so, actually. Unfortunately that month was in 2005. Uh, Clinton. So, yeah, I kind of know where you're at. I'm wondering, you know, when I'm going to hit the five-year mark of having not been back on, uh, you know, forget it. Forget it. Um, dude, whatever. You know, who needs them? All right, we need them. That's the point. The point is, actually, we need them.

C.C. CHAPMAN

You know, just, I mean, anybody in the world can just show up on the front page of iTunes and get millions of visits and listens to their podcast, but to not be featured after five years.

BRIAN IBBOTT

It's not like that phone pod thing will ever take off anyway.

C.C. CHAPMAN

And basically, what I wanted to say is that I'm basically really proud of you. And basically, I hope that another five years of basically the best comedy on podcasts comes out from you.

DAN KLASS

I'm so confused now. I don't even know what to say. You know, five years. For good, bad, whatever, it's up to you, I don't care, five years.

BRIAN IBBOTT

Well, my nurse says it's time for my sponge bath Again, I wanted to congratulate you on five fantastic years of podcasting And wishing you and yours a merry Gippelschnitz.

DAN KLASS

Um, dude, whatever.

C.C. CHAPMAN

So, to all the listeners, and to you, Clinton, Basically, congrats.

DAN KLASS

Okay? Hey, Clinton, you've had five years That's good enough Congratulations on five years From Dan Klass.

CLINTON

No, wait, guys, how did you get the wall to turn around and, uh, they're gone? Well, this episode didn't turn out exactly as I had planned.

OUTRO: COMEDY4CAST STUDIO

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CLINTON

That about wraps it up for today's Odd News PAC. But first, a shout-out to the comedy4cast Patreon patrons, including our producer-level patrons, Paul Barrie, from the A Window to the Magic podcast and Kirby Bartlett-Sloan from the 20 Megabyte Doctor Who podcast. You too can support comedy4cast and get episodes before everyone else for as little as $2 a month. Just search for comedy4cast, all one word with the number 4, on patreon.com.

Talk to you again next time! But for now, that's it. We're done, done, done, done, done. Bye bye!

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