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. 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 am Andrew Reich, the creator and host of Dead Pilot Society.

And this is the after show for The Thread, featuring my interview with

Mike Gagerman and Andrew Waller. Andrew and Mike are the writers of the film Search Party,

not to be confused with the TV show search party. Also, the minds behind the viral Twitter

thread, Sh Don't Tell Steve, currently writing Last Chance Lawyer for NBC with Henry Winkler

set to star. I should also say, I guess this full disclosure or whatever, since it'll become

obvious, Andrew and Mike are old friends of mine, even though in the interview I confidently

get wrong where Mike went to college. But I've known these guys for a long time.

And it was fun to really hear their whole story.

We hear the story of how these two high school friends teamed up as writing partners.

It's a journey that includes the glory days of Internet 1.0, Simpson and Bruckheimer,

a carload of dildos, misheard talking heads lyrics,

and more. I've talked to a lot of writing teams for this podcast. In comedy, it's a pretty

common thing. And since I've had a writing partner for most of my writing career, it's a subject,

I'm really interested in. And I think there are some great insights about

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