Podcast Review: <i>Let's Chat! with Revill and Friends</i>

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2016-05-20-1463751510-9344041-lets_chat.jpegIf you ever wanted to have conversations with people you like, admire, or are just plain curious about, start a podcast! That's kind of the feel of Let's Chat! with Revill and Friends, from the construction of the title with the "!" popping up in the middle to the homebrewed feel of the way the host, Chris Revill, goes through his opening comments, and on through the Skypely-flat quality of the interview with guest Michael Price.

Booming into Podcastland from Rhode Island, this episode of Let's Chat! is brimming with fanboy energy as Revill makes his early morning call to Hollywood writer Price. And Price is an amazingly giddy and engaging guest, considering it's about 7 A.M. his time when the call happens.

Currently the co-creator along with Bill Burr on Burr's Netflix-anchored F Is For Family animated series, Price has a long and interesting live-action and animation pedigree. Starting with sketch show The Newz and Ahh! Real Monsters in 1994, through interesting curiosities like Teen Angel and Homeboys in Outer Space, to the Lego Star Wars movie and multiple seasons on The Simpsons.

Host Revill basks in his own nostalgia as his guest talks about specific episodes of some of his early works and the listener can't help but to be vicariously transported back to their own childhood a bit. And at points where Revill's guest research appears to have failed him, Price seems not the least put out at filling in some of the gaps in his writing and production credits.

At this point in podcasting there are plenty of slick talkshows out there, but what Let's Chat! might lack in sounding "pro", it more than makes up for in the host's pleasure in being able to bring us his latest conversation.

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Podcasts I'm also listening to this week: The Late Show -- Tonight's Watch: S6E3 - Oathbreaker, and Just One More! with Joanna and Daphnie -- Epi34: Listener Questions

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The Let's Chat! review and other podcasts mentioned originally posted as part of This Week In Comedy Podcasts on Splitsider.com.

Marc Hershon is the host and executive producer of Succotash, The Comedy Podcast Podcast, featuring clips from comedy podcasts from across the Internet as well as interviews with podcasters, comedians, and assorted show biz folk. You can talk to him about comedy podcasts live for up to five minutes -- find him @hershco via the SpareMin app!

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