The Mental Suppository Bret M. Herholz

The Mental Suppository will be back later in the year with brand new episodes and brand new surprises. But for now, we have a special First Day of Summer Presentation: The Metal Suppository LIVE at the Hotel Vernon reading a radio script titled Man’s Best Friend. An unproduced pilot for a radio series which would have featured Walt Kelly’s comic strip character Pogo Possum. The script itself was printed in The Best of Pogo. A collection of Kelly’s earlier comic strips. One of the stories from those early strips was the inspiration for the unproduced radio play.
 
Bret, a long time fan of the strip, was inspired by the Twitter group Pogo Re-Antiquated
@pogoreanimated who did a group project of doing their own short animated versions of the animated special Pogo’s Special Birthday Special originally produced by Chuck Jones. Bret decided to get the gang together to record this script. 
 
If anyone involved in that group would be interested in taking what the group recorded and putting it to animation, please contact us.
 
But for now, sit back and enjoy this either in your living room, deck or front porch with a cool drink on a early summer night.
 

2022 has been a productive (and very silly) year for the Mental Suppository Podcast. Especially with the amount of “sponsors”. The podcast had so many this year that it couldn’t fit just one episode!! So, for your listening pleasure here’s PART TWO of AND NOW ANOTHER WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR. A collection of some of the commercials that appeared this season on the Mental Suppository podcast. AND coming out on Christmas Day will be a DOUBLE ALBUM of all the sponsors that appeared in parts one and two on Bandcamp!

The second year of the Mental Suppository Podcast is rapidly coming to a close. 
And much like year one, the podcast has had its share of unique "sponsors". 
And this year even more. So many as a matter of fact that the team has compiled all of them into TWO special episodes that will be available as a double album near the end of the year!! That's right!! 
We've gone all Use Your Illusion without Axl Rose's outbursts. So sit back and enjoy.

It didn’t matter if The Fall Guy or the Dukes of Hazzard wasn’t being shown that night. Once you saw the logo and heard the music for A CBS SPECIAL PRESENTATION, you knew something good was about to happen. 
From Halloween till Christmas Time (and later New Years), it was all about the specials. 
As a kid growing up in the 1970s and 1980s From October 31st till December 31st you had something to look forward to when CBS would roll out all their prime holiday specials. 
This was in the days before streaming, DVDS, Videocassettes or even taping them off the television set. You had to physically WAIT an entire year before you saw Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Garfield, Rudolph, the Grinch or Frosty embark on their holiday specials. 
Get into your coziest pajamas and slippers, make yourself a cup of cocoa, get a plate of Christmas cookies and remember all the great Christmas specials (and movies) with us….
…oh and try not to think about Woodstock actually eating another bird in the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving special.

The recent passing  of television, stage and voice actor Kevin Conroy marked the end of an era.  
For many who grew up in the 1990s, he WAS Batman starting with the iconic Batman the Animated Series and has continued to voice the character for the past 30 years in various spin offs, direct to DVD productions and video games. 
Although admitting he wasn’t an aficionado, it has been a character he has enjoyed returning to alongside Mark Hamill’s iconic take on the Joker time and again. As well as someone who has been appreciative of the fans love and support for his take on the character over the years he has voiced him. 
Being longtime fans of Batman TAS (which was the subject of our very first episode) we felt we needed to pay tribute to someone who this podcast feels is THE definite Batman. 
Kevin gave the character a portrayal and a voice so many live action productions have missed the mark on. 
For all of us at the Mental Suppository, along with so many fans out there, Kevin Conroy was and always will be… THE Batman. 
All who take on the role after him have some very big shoes to fill.

Each year, the Philadelphia Fringe Festival brings local, national and international art to Philadelphia with a nearly month-long extravaganza of performing arts. 
But with how much it costs to enter, can most performing artist afford to apply? And even if they are able to get in, it's not a given that these artists will turn a profit on their performances.
Most artists who are trying to make their voices heard do not make a lot of money and depend on art shows and events to make ends meet. The Free Fringe in Philadelphia offers artists a more affordable alternative to the costs of applying to Philadelphia Fringe. 
In this episode, Bret talks with Murphy Grumbar who tells him about his own recent experiences putting together and staging a performance piece for the Free Fringe and his thoughts on the performing art scene in Philadelphia.