You know the thing and no one picked up your thing

And so you buried the thing

That's not the good end of the thing

Don't you like jazz yet there's a spooky surprise

And though you cannot revise

And nothing ever really dies.

The Dead Pilot Society. 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.

I'm Andrew Reich, the creator and host of Dead Pilot Society.

This is the after show for I Hate Myself, featuring my interview with Dario and Demir

Konizia.

Dario and Demir have the most amazing show business origin story I've heard in all my years

of interviewing writers.

You will hear how these guys made it from Sarajevo in Bosnia to a Czech refugee camp to writing on Young Sheldon.

I almost feel like this story is too good for Dead Pilot Society.

Like there should be an episode of This American Life or something, but it's here and you get to listen to it. These two brothers are so great and so inspiring.

And I don't know, hearing them talk about how important these VHS tapes of Dallas and Dynasty

and 90210 and Laverne and Shirley that they watch in that refugee camp were, it makes you realize the impact that this work we television writers do can have in all sorts

of unexpected places.

This is, as they say, a very special episode.

Here's my conversation with Dario and Demir, Conizia, after a brief message.

Hey, this is Mike Cablon.

If you Wadiway.

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