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philthecowEveryone should listen to "Strong Eliza," the radio show by Jon Peters and myself that is debuting this Monday at 8:00 pm EST. It's primarily a sketch comedy show, and the central character is Eliza Hinckle-Stromberg, a middle school anthropologist based on and voiced by yours truly.
Each week will feature a three act "Eliza Story" about middle school and a whole bunch of other goodies. Alex List, Fletch Wortmann, Ethel Reines, and Charlie Decker are just a few of our confirmed writers; the first musical guest is going to be Woody Jiang; the theme of our show, in a phrase, is "being really awkward," so I'm sure all of you could also be writers if you so wish.
I can't promise that the first show is going to be great; we really have very little idea what we're doing, the full cast hasn't rehearsed yet, writing for radio is tough and some of the first show's sketches are admittedly weak. But the whole gang has a lot of enthusiasm (I'm hammering away on a sketch for next week as we speak), awkwardness is a never-exhausted topic to which I know all of you can relate, we have some great talent on board, and the main character is based on me.
(Incidentally,arctangent's show is directly after mine. So even if you don't want to listen to my show, you'll probably end up catching some of it anyway when you tune in early to his. And since one of the last segments in every show is going to be "Eliza's Book Report," my reminiscing over those books we read in middle school, you're going to love it and wish you had listened to the whole thing.)
Each week will feature a three act "Eliza Story" about middle school and a whole bunch of other goodies. Alex List, Fletch Wortmann, Ethel Reines, and Charlie Decker are just a few of our confirmed writers; the first musical guest is going to be Woody Jiang; the theme of our show, in a phrase, is "being really awkward," so I'm sure all of you could also be writers if you so wish.
I can't promise that the first show is going to be great; we really have very little idea what we're doing, the full cast hasn't rehearsed yet, writing for radio is tough and some of the first show's sketches are admittedly weak. But the whole gang has a lot of enthusiasm (I'm hammering away on a sketch for next week as we speak), awkwardness is a never-exhausted topic to which I know all of you can relate, we have some great talent on board, and the main character is based on me.
(Incidentally,
arctangent's show is directly after mine. So even if you don't want to listen to my show, you'll probably end up catching some of it anyway when you tune in early to his. And since one of the last segments in every show is going to be "Eliza's Book Report," my reminiscing over those books we read in middle school, you're going to love it and wish you had listened to the whole thing.)
