Episode 147: Michael Lisbe & Nate Reger (Acapulco, The Cool Kids) Interview (Frenemies After Show)
Dead Pilots Society
Ben Blacker and Andrew Reich
4.6 • 563 Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You know the thing and no one picked up your thing |
| 0:05.0 | And so you bury the thing |
| 0:07.0 | That's not the end of the thing |
| 0:10.0 | Don't you like jazz yet there's a spooky surprise |
| 0:13.0 | And though you cannot revise |
| 0:16.0 | And nothing ever really dies. |
| 0:44.9 | Welcome to Dead Pilot Society, the show that takes comedy pilots from A-list writers that were sold and developed at networks and streamers but never produced and gives them the table reads they never got a chance to have. |
| 0:48.5 | I am Andrew Reich, the creator and host of Dead Pilot Society. |
| 0:55.9 | And this is the after show for Frenemies, The Journey of Lewis and Clark, featuring my interview with Mike Lisbee and Nate Rieger. I got it wrong in my intro to the table read. I haven't known them since they were |
| 1:00.6 | assistants on Spin City. I actually met them after that. Sorry. We talk about how they got that first |
| 1:06.8 | show business break. We also talk about a real dilemma that I was involved with that they faced |
| 1:12.6 | early on in their career. You can think about what you might have done in their shoes. |
| 1:17.4 | We talk about some of the ways they generate ideas for pilots, some of their favorite staff |
| 1:20.9 | jobs, how G-chat has extended their partnership. And we also talked about what parts of their |
| 1:26.4 | Lewis and Clark pilot are actually |
| 1:28.4 | based on facts. It was really fun to talk with a couple of old friends. So here's my conversation |
| 1:36.1 | with Mike Lisby and Nate Rieger after a brief message. Hey, when you listen to podcasts, it really |
| 1:42.8 | just comes down to whether or not you like the sound of |
| 1:45.5 | everyone's voices. My voice is one of the sounds you'll hear on the podcast, Dr. Game Show. And this is |
| 1:51.4 | the voice of co-host and fearless leader Joe Firestone. This is a podcast where we play games |
| 1:57.6 | submitted by listeners, and we play them with callers over Zoom we've never spoken to in our lives. |
| 2:03.4 | So that is basically the concept of the show. Pretty chill. |
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