#2: “Who Put the Handles on the Can?” by Stan Freberg

I love radio. And when I say “radio,” I don’t mean “radio.” I mean radio. Narrative radio. And not a dude from Park Slope telling a story about how one time on a road trip he met some uneducated people who taught him about how much better than them he really is. I mean real narrative radio, with scripts and characters and sounds that all put together can do more to tell a story than any other medium.

I was a writer/producer in radio for a while and was lucky enough to get to make some of that kind of thing. And in fact my secret plan is that after I become such a massive success in teevee writing that execs are inventing Gears-of-War-style weaponry for the sole purpose of firing huge amounts of cash at me, I’ll gather up some of the money and use it to create hilarious scripted radio shows which, by the unmitigated gravitational force of my massive respect in the creative industry, will lead to a genre rebirth of Wrath-of-Khanian proportions.

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