The comedy4cast Network. Let's dog-ear that for now.
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, 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 Day episode with part of a classic comedy4cast episode.
So, let's get started with Odd News PAC.
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 four 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 EverReady 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
up 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 or 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 anytime,
anywhere, with no battery required. How is this possible?
Matthias Larsson, chef and flavorist at Rewind,
says 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.
Mmm, 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.
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
Five Years of Not Being Featured on iTunes.
Because in five years I had not been 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.
Really? A secret revolving wall here in the studio?
Who's over there anyway? Clinton, it's Dan Klass from The Bitterest Pill.
Hey, everybody, it's C.C. Chapman from Accident Hash and Managing the Gray...
Brian Ibbott here from Coverville.
Dude, Clinton, I just wanted to congratulate you on five years of comedy4cast.
I mean, five years of not being on iTunes? That takes skills.
That takes the comedic genius that only you bring forth. 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.
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.
Now, I know, you know, I was featured on iTunes in the early days.
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.
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. 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.
It's not like that phone pod thing will ever take off anyway.
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.
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 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
Um, dude, whatever So, to all the listeners, and to you, Clinton,
Basically, congrats Okay?
Hey, Clinton, you've had five years That's good enough Congratulations on five
years From Dan Klass. 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.
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.
Lending their voices in this episode were Brian Ibbott, Dan Klass, and C.C. Chapman.
Additional voices, script, and original music by me, Clinton Alvord. Copyright 2025.
All rights reserved. Talk to you again next time. But for now,
that's it. We're done, done, done, done, done.
Bye-bye. you.