Tomorrow You're Fired

When we started the radio show Two and a half years ago we knew we might not have much time. We knew it might only be these Thirty Episodes, we knew it might not bring fame and fortune and money and riches, but we did know it would bring us great training, and a great opportunity to find a bigger audience audience than Friday nights at the Heartland in Roger's Park. We made a sign that hangs in the office to this day that says "Tomorrow, You're Fired." In other words, get out of this what you can while you can. Our first contract was for Thirty episodes or Fifteen hours of content or as much comedy as we had written in the previous five years combined. Daunting. And we were in completely new territory, so we'd have to learn how to write this much content and produce this much content on-the-job, while holding down dayjobs. It wasn't easy. Nor was Season Two. I doubt anyone reading this has listened to every episode...because I haven't. But I'll tell you what you'd have heard if you had, six to ten amateurs really come into their own. You can see learning in the work, Episode 18 is as far as you could get form Episode 1, 30 is light-years from 18, 32 is an amazing advance beyond 30 and the ten episodes have been some of the greatest advancements we've made with severe and surprising right and left turns in format from a single half-hour conversation (54) to a full-on Mad Magazine Parody of Twin Peaks (55). Along the way we made breakthroughs in writing that I'm positive we would've claimed impossible two and a half years ago.

And Tomorrow, You're Fired.

This was the best thing that could've happened to us. Why waste another year of learning far less and THEN get cancelled. We were blessed with the opportunity to "get good or get out" in the entertainment industry where you have to be good or be thrown out the door. And now, we are ready. Ready to tackle other mediums with renewed confidence that we are really fucking good at this. 30 fully produced hours of entertainment. Who could be upset at that. Thank you WBEZ for allowing a bunch of idiots who don't know enough to know when they're in over their head to roll with the punches and learn more than we could've in ten years at our previous pace. No challenge seems daunting now, so we're cooking up all kinds of them for us now and I know the next year will be far better with this freedom than with the standard and familiar constraints.

The website will continue to be filled with original content, look for us onstage doing staged versions of some of our favorite episodes this fall. Thank you all for listening and supporting us, because we're all about you.