The SHECKYmagazine Podcast
The SHECKYmagazine Podcast
brian McKim
Annnnnd, we're back! They stopped writing and started talking! The editors and publishers of SHECKYmagazine.com now stand astride a podcast devoted to standup comedy! USA Today called them "Charming, sincere and helpful!" For fifteen years, they were the force behind the WWW's most beloved magazine about standup, now they're casting the pod!
A YEAR LOCKED DOWN
Mr. Potato Head, Dr. Seuss, truth, common sense and trust have all succumbed to a totally different virus! Will history, art and "Breakfast At Tiffany's" be  the next victims? Is that a light at the end of the tunnel, or is it the headlight of the Woke Express? Give us a listen and find out! 
Mar 8, 2021
1 hr 9 min
Comedians Are Energy Conductors
In Episode 18 of the SHECKYmagazine PODCAST, Brian and Traci vent about the 198-day (and counting) lockdown, flying, Sophie Tucker, ancient alien astronauts and ENERGY-- why we lack energy, why we need energy and how comedians are super-conductors. Tune in now-- but STAY AWAY from the CANS!
Oct 1, 2020
1 hr 3 min
Is It Over?
Brian McKim & Traci Skene, podcasting from locked down Las Vegas, NV, consider whether standup comedy-- LIVE, the way it oughta be-- will ever come back from the Great 2020 Fear Porn Lockdown Pandemic Panic! Is life over? Is the career history? The future, as always, is uncertain. Listen in as we speak for the vulnerable, prattle on about the present and fret about the future.
Jul 24, 2020
1 hr 3 min
Loch Dune: The Death of the Hands Bit
We're two comedians, unable to make living because our state, our city, is shut down. We vent! We despair! We theorize! We ask questions! We have plenty of toilet paper, but our patience is wearing thin! 
Apr 24, 2020
1 hr 1 min
CoronaVirus Vodka and Fear
Our home for the past nine years, Las Vegas, NV, has been pretty much shut down. Podcasting from our walk-in closet, we share our frustration, knock back some booze and wonder if Sin City will survive the 2020 Pandemic.
Mar 20, 2020
55 min
Notebooks and Friendships
The Editors of the WWW's most beloved magazine about standup return to PODland with an hour of zany chatting about Comedy Notebooks, the joke-writing process and exactly what is a friend and how can a comic get one? Eavesdrop on this convo between  SHECKYmagazine's Brian McKim & Traci Skene!
Feb 18, 2020
1 hr 1 min
Did Ricky Gervais Cheapen The Golden Globes?
Ricky Gervais told some jokes about some self-important people in Hollywood and the world lost its mind! Episode 13 of the SHECKYmagazine PODCAST dives into the controversial Golden Globes broadcast fallout and also continues to sound the alarm about "anti-freelancer" legislation-- coming to a state near YOU!
Jan 18, 2020
1 hr 3 min
The Vinyl Word
For Episode 12, we dropped the needle on some mid-century comedy albums! We invite you to listen along with us as we analyze the phenomenon of the comedy album! Before the internet, people listened to spinning discs of vinyl to hear the best and funniest comedians! They spread the "open-minded, rough humor of the people!"
Dec 14, 2019
1 hr 5 min
Ten Year Challenge
Only three people made it on both the 2019 and the 2009 Forbes World's Highest-Paid Comedians List! And TWO of them have PUPPETS! Who won the '09 Grammy for Best Comedy Album? Who might win it in 2020? We pillaged the SHECKYmag Archives to bring you a 2009 Comedy Time Capsule! Listen in as we spill the answer to those burning questions... and much, much MORE!
Dec 2, 2019
1 hr 4 min
Clean vs. Dirty
It's the TENTH EPISODE of the SHECKYmagazine Podcast! In "Clean vs. Dirty" Brian McKim and Traci Skene  ask, What IS clean comedy? What makes comedy "raunchy?" Why aren't there more clean comedians? Can a comic be clean and still be offensive?   
Nov 16, 2019
1 hr 5 min
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