You know the thing and no one picked up your thing

And so you buried the thing

That's not the end of the thing

Don't you like eyes

Yet there's a spooky surprise

And though you cannot revise

And nothing ever really dies Never really died.

Welcome to Dead Pilot Society, the show that takes comedy pilots from N-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.

You know, just a quick plug before we start, my co-producer and partner on Dead Pilot Society, Ben Blacker, has his own podcast called The Writers' Panel.

You know, Dead Pilot Society has been going for nine years now, but the Writers' Panel has been going for even longer than that.

If you enjoy these interview episodes, then you would really enjoy the Writers' Panel.

Ben has had some incredible guests lately, and he's really good at interviewing writers. It's a great podcast. If you like

this, you'll like that. Check it out. Okay, this is the after show for the cheap seats featuring my

interview with David S. Rosenthal. Rosie and I go way back to summer camp, which we talk about here.

We met when we were like nine and ten years old,

so it was really fun to get to catch up.

He's had an incredible career.

We talk about how really soon, after he got his first writing job,

he became the creator and showrunner of Ellen, which was the beginning of a wild show business ride.

He's worked on so many amazing shows, Spin City, Gilmore Girls, the Middle, and Jane the Virgin, just to name a handful.

He's equally adept at comedy and drama.

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