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 the book cannot revise

And nothing ever really dies.

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 am Andrew Reich, the creator and host of Dead Pilot Society. And this is the after show for Guy Text, featuring my interview with Aaron Brownstein and Simon Gans.

Aaron and Simon have written on About a Boy, Santa Clarita Diet, and Beavis and Butthead.

Those first two credits mean I got to talk to them about working with two incredible writers and showrunners,

Jason Cadams on About a Boy and Victor Fresco on Santa Clarita Diet.

Aaron even worked with Jason Cadams on Friday Night Lights, one of my all-time, all-time favorite shows.

It's always cool when I get to talk to writers about what they learned from great showrunners

and Jason and Victor are two who are definitely in the Pantheon.

Speaking of the Pantheon, I also found out who Simon's dad is in this conversation, which is very exciting to me. We talked about the crazy note they got from the network on this script and how they handled it. As I mentioned last week, I'm going to be doing a special episode at the end of January where I talked to Aaron and Simon and the writers of next month's episode, which is also

about a group of guys in their text thread. So the four of them are going to talk with me.

Just get into the nuts and bolts of writing a pilot with this premise. So that's going to be

cool. But for now, enjoy my conversation with Aaron Brownstein and Simon Gans after a brief message.

All right, we're over 70 episodes into our show. Let's learn everything. So let's do a quick

progress tech. Have we learned about quantum physics? Yes, episode 59. We haven't learned about

the history of gossip yet, have we? Yes, we have. Same episode, actually. Have we talked to Tom

Scott about his love of roller coasters? Episode 64. So, how close are we to learning everything?

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