Kipper McGee shopping "Jerry's Kidders" show

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: Dobie Maxwell's 'Dented Can' Diary : Inglourious Kidders : By ItsMrLucky : OnMilwaukee.com Community Blogger : Published Aug. 23, 2009 at 4:23 p.m. : Saturday August 22nd, 2009 - Chicago, IL/Kenosha, WI/Gurnee, IL : Busy from sunup to sundown today. I didn't get to bed until 6am because I was working on Jerry's Kidders bits and needed to finish up. I got right back up at 8:00 and it reminded me of one of the good things about not being in morning radio anymore. The hours stink. : I'd much rather be pooped but prepared than go in the studio and waste everyone's time as I easily could have done. I respect Jerry too much and he's putting his neck out by even having us on at all. WGN is a major radio station and I'm very fortunate to have a regular weekly slot on it. The least I can do is give my best effort. Plus, we were short a Kidder. : Tim Slagle had to attend a funeral in Michigan on short notice so we had a short crew. I felt I needed to be the anchor today because Ken Sevara's strength isn't necessarily on the radio side. Tim and Ken are both comics. Jerry is the radio guy. I'm the only one who has done both full time so it was up to me to set the pace today. I love that kind of challenge. : After the show we met up with Kipper McGee for lunch. Kipper is still trying to sell us to a distributor for a syndicated show and we've gotten some nibbles apparently. That's a long shot and we all know it but we're in the machine and that means we have a chance. : Lisa Greene also joined us. Lisa is a veteran Chicago radio talent and is between jobs as so many good people are right now. She came to see me a Zanies a while back and we've kept in touch. She's extremely professional and is looking to get back in the business so I thought it would be good for her to mingle with Kipper and also get to meet the Kidders. : We don't have any female voices right now but at some point we might need one. Lisa is a pro and a sweetheart too and we all got along splendidly at lunch. Kipper is working a lot of angles and he has to make a living since getting dumped at WLS. He's one of an all too tiny pool of radio people I trust but he loves the Kidders and I know he'll do us right. : We're starting to build our team of quality people around us and that's what will put us over the top ultimately. We're funny enough on the air and we've proven it on two major Chicago radio stations going on two years now. The real secret is how we sell ourselves. : Are we always brilliant? Of course not. Nobody is. What we are is consistent in how we go about our business and we show up each week prepared to provide content for the time we're on the air. Some weeks have been better than others but as a whole this is a winner. : People with reputations as solid as Kipper McGee backing us don't hurt one bit. We are also on one of the biggest radio stations in America and every time we go on the air it's a notch in our credibility belt. These are all things that rank a lot higher than being funny. : As we keep improving hopefully we'll keep building a larger following and eventually be able to do live shows in theatres rather than have to scrape the comedy club goo out of the bottom of that barrel. We're all way over that. This is our ray of hope and we know it. : Basically what we've got now is a weekly half hour commercial in place to eventually sell something to those who like what we do. That product could be a live show or maybe a tangible item like a book or CD or anything else we can come up with. How can we get the very most out of it? That's what we kicked around at lunch and all of us contributed.

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