1 00:00:00,020 --> 00:00:04,940 The comedy4cast Network. Let's dog-ear that for now. 2 00:00:07,080 --> 00:00:12,860 It's time once again for the Dog Days of Podcasting, a call for podcasters to 3 00:00:12,860 --> 00:00:15,980 try to put out a podcast every day in August. 4 00:00:16,060 --> 00:00:20,980 For more information, go to dogdaysofpodcasting.com. 5 00:00:21,140 --> 00:00:24,720 We always take this month to provide you with some interesting, 6 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:27,500 yet totally useless, Odd News. 7 00:00:27,940 --> 00:00:32,820 And this year, to celebrate the platinum anniversary of comedy4cast, 8 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:40,479 or PAC for short, we'll end each Dog Day episode with part of a classic comedy4cast episode. 9 00:00:40,740 --> 00:00:45,220 So, let's get started with Odd News PAC. 10 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:51,720 Ah, youth. Those days when you thought anything and everything was possible. 11 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:56,460 Like growing up to be the first person to ever sail around the world in a bathtub, 12 00:00:56,780 --> 00:01:00,940 or attend four years of college without incurring crippling debt. 13 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:06,180 And you thought you'd live forever, so you'd give anything a try, at least once. 14 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:10,500 Well, now you can relive one of those experiences over and over again, 15 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:13,620 because someone has turned it into a crunchy snack. 16 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:17,959 Introducing the latest creation from Dutch snack brand Rewind, 17 00:01:18,380 --> 00:01:21,120 9-volt battery-flavored tortilla chips. 18 00:01:21,500 --> 00:01:26,380 And the name alone is one of those things where, if you know, you know. 19 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:29,819 The 9-volt battery may not be as common as it once was. 20 00:01:29,980 --> 00:01:35,820 After all, it was introduced by EverReady in 1956, designed to power those hip 21 00:01:35,820 --> 00:01:38,300 new transistor radios that all the kids were using. 22 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:42,720 And right from the start, kids noticed that the little brick-shaped battery 23 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:44,700 has a fascinating feature. 24 00:01:44,960 --> 00:01:48,960 Unlike most batteries where the positive and negative terminals are on opposite 25 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:55,000 sides or opposite ends of the cell, on a 9-volt battery, both terminals are on the same end. 26 00:01:55,140 --> 00:01:59,660 So, from the early days of rock and roll through the heyday of walkie-talkies 27 00:01:59,660 --> 00:02:05,140 up to RC toy cars, kids have done the logical thing with a 9-volt battery. 28 00:02:05,900 --> 00:02:12,199 Put their tongue on the connectors, completing a circuit and resulting in a metallic-tasting zap. 29 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:18,480 That's because one or two milliamps of current is actually flowing through the tip of their tongue. 30 00:02:18,699 --> 00:02:21,100 Please note, comedy4cast does not endorse this practice. 31 00:02:21,380 --> 00:02:23,320 Electricity is dangerous and can even be deadly. 32 00:02:23,660 --> 00:02:27,320 So, like, just don't. And the good news is, now you don't have to. 33 00:02:27,580 --> 00:02:31,419 Or, if you did do it once, now you can experience it anytime, 34 00:02:31,419 --> 00:02:35,480 anywhere, with no battery required. How is this possible? 35 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:39,520 Matthias Larsson, chef and flavorist at Rewind, 36 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:44,740 says the company uses a blend of citric acid and sodium bicarbonate to create 37 00:02:44,740 --> 00:02:51,340 the tongue-tingling effect and balances it out with mineral salts to give the chips a metallic tang. 38 00:02:52,020 --> 00:02:58,020 Mmm, tasty. Unfortunately, Rewind 9-volt battery-flavored tortilla chips are 39 00:02:58,020 --> 00:03:02,280 currently only available in the Netherlands, But the company is planning to 40 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:04,419 expand sales into the European market. 41 00:03:04,620 --> 00:03:07,980 So tell your tongue to be patient just a bit longer. 42 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:15,220 And now let's celebrate 20 years of comedy4cast with this classic clip. 43 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:20,820 In mid-2010, I ran a special episode with the appropriate title Celebrating 44 00:03:20,820 --> 00:03:23,320 Five Years of Not Being Featured on iTunes. 45 00:03:23,660 --> 00:03:28,960 Because in five years I had not been featured on iTunes. It was a star-studded 46 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:33,340 event that had celebrity guests bursting in unannounced, breaking windows, 47 00:03:33,780 --> 00:03:36,980 calling in on the super-secret phone line. It was madness. 48 00:03:37,300 --> 00:03:43,060 And at the height of it all, fellow podcasting pioneers Brian Ibbott, Dan Klass, and C.C. 49 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:46,560 Chapman made an impressive entrance into the studio. 50 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:53,120 Really? A secret revolving wall here in the studio? 51 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:57,340 Who's over there anyway? Clinton, it's Dan Klass from The Bitterest Pill. 52 00:03:57,460 --> 00:04:00,900 Hey, everybody, it's C.C. Chapman from Accident Hash and Managing the Gray... 53 00:04:00,900 --> 00:04:02,100 Brian Ibbott here from Coverville. 54 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:05,980 Dude, Clinton, I just wanted to congratulate you on five years of comedy4cast. 55 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:11,000 I mean, five years of not being on iTunes? That takes skills. 56 00:04:11,220 --> 00:04:15,560 That takes the comedic genius that only you bring forth. I mean, that... 57 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:20,100 I think that might be an iTunes record. Seriously, if I knew anyone at iTunes 58 00:04:20,100 --> 00:04:22,980 that I could call to find out if that's some sort of unprecedented... 59 00:04:22,980 --> 00:04:25,140 I mean, it seems, it seems just absolutely. 60 00:04:25,260 --> 00:04:28,680 Thanks to podcast listeners and strong hallucinogens, Coverville hit the five-year 61 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:33,460 anniversary mark 17 years ago, back when 23rd President Benjamin Harrison first 62 00:04:33,460 --> 00:04:34,960 coined the phrase podcasting. 63 00:04:35,020 --> 00:04:39,080 Now, I know, you know, I was featured on iTunes in the early days. 64 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:42,580 I mean, you know, I've been featured on iTunes, you know, a whole bunch of times. 65 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:45,279 And I've been on the homepage and parenting. I've been all over iTunes. 66 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:48,420 You know, they had me wandering around the front of iTunes, you know, 67 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:50,020 for a good month or so, actually. 68 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:54,240 Unfortunately that month was in 2005. 69 00:04:55,670 --> 00:04:59,410 Uh, Clinton. So, yeah, I kind of know where you're at. 70 00:04:59,510 --> 00:05:03,390 I'm wondering, you know, when I'm going to hit the five-year mark of having 71 00:05:03,390 --> 00:05:09,550 not been back on, uh, you know, forget it. Forget it. Um, dude, whatever. 72 00:05:10,470 --> 00:05:14,589 You know, who needs them? All right, we need them. That's the point. 73 00:05:14,710 --> 00:05:17,350 The point is, actually, we need them. You know, just, I mean, 74 00:05:17,450 --> 00:05:20,430 anybody in the world can just show up on the front page of iTunes and get millions 75 00:05:20,430 --> 00:05:25,710 of visits and listens to their podcast, but to not be featured after five years. 76 00:05:25,710 --> 00:05:28,870 It's not like that phone pod thing will ever take off anyway. 77 00:05:29,130 --> 00:05:33,490 And basically, what I wanted to say is that I'm basically really proud of you. 78 00:05:33,649 --> 00:05:38,250 And basically, I hope that another five years of basically the best comedy on 79 00:05:38,250 --> 00:05:40,470 podcasts comes out from you. 80 00:05:40,589 --> 00:05:43,529 I'm so confused now. I don't even know what to say. You know, five years. 81 00:05:44,330 --> 00:05:47,589 For good, bad, whatever, it's up to you, I don't care, five years Well, 82 00:05:47,750 --> 00:05:50,750 my nurse says it's time for my sponge bath Again, I wanted to congratulate you 83 00:05:50,750 --> 00:05:55,270 on five fantastic years of podcasting And wishing you and yours a merry Gippelschnitz 84 00:05:55,270 --> 00:05:59,029 Um, dude, whatever So, to all the listeners, and to you, Clinton, 85 00:06:00,770 --> 00:06:02,250 Basically, congrats Okay? 86 00:06:02,589 --> 00:06:07,570 Hey, Clinton, you've had five years That's good enough Congratulations on five 87 00:06:07,570 --> 00:06:13,089 years From Dan Klass. No, wait, guys, how did you get the wall to turn around and, uh, they're gone? 88 00:06:15,850 --> 00:06:19,450 Well, this episode didn't turn out exactly as I had planned. 89 00:06:20,950 --> 00:06:24,090 That about wraps it up for today's Odd News PAC. 90 00:06:24,310 --> 00:06:27,950 But first, a shout-out to the comedy4cast Patreon patrons, 91 00:06:28,250 --> 00:06:33,010 including our producer-level patrons, Paul Barrie from the A Window to the Magic 92 00:06:33,010 --> 00:06:38,170 podcast and Kirby Bartlett-Sloan from the 20-megabyte Doctor Who podcast. 93 00:06:38,550 --> 00:06:43,150 You too can support comedy4cast and get episodes before everyone else. 94 00:06:43,150 --> 00:06:45,510 For as little as $2 a month. 95 00:06:45,750 --> 00:06:51,930 Just search for comedy4cast, all one word with the number 4, on Patreon.com. 96 00:06:52,470 --> 00:06:57,930 Lending their voices in this episode were Brian Ibbott, Dan Klass, and C.C. Chapman. 97 00:06:58,310 --> 00:07:04,330 Additional voices, script, and original music by me, Clinton Alvord. Copyright 2025. 98 00:07:05,070 --> 00:07:08,890 All rights reserved. Talk to you again next time. But for now, 99 00:07:09,210 --> 00:07:11,110 that's it. We're done, done, done, done, done. 100 00:07:11,490 --> 00:07:13,950 Bye-bye. you.