The Dan & Scott Show

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The Dan & Scott Show was an avant-garde adult comedy program ,precursor to Satellite Radio Comedy in its content and level of quality. Without a doubt the funniest and according to numbers the biggest and most popular show of its kind every year it ran. The show had and still has a notoriously loyal listenership known in the beggining as the Phreak Army aka Freak army a bunch of diverse people from around the world who joined together in a chat room to interact with the show and have a direct influence on the show's comedy /prank calls/ bits. The Dan and Scott show wasnt a simple operation out of a basement , they had people working for them as computer technicians board operators producers ,they were in the big leagues with high figure incomes as opposed to most of the internet content ,streamed or podcasted and even traditional radio. They had some major investors like Time warner on eyada for example.They began as pioneers of Podcasting on AOL in 1995.Then it ran streamed over the years from 1996 to 2001, first on Broadcast.com , Audionet , Audioactive, Talkspot.com, Radio HTB and finaly Eyada.com. They had the show on radiofun.com for a number of years aswell.

Pseudo.com approached them at one point but didnt offer a decent enouph salary.

The name of the show came from the hosts, Scott Wirkus and Dan Schulz. It didnt survive the tail end of the dot com crash of 2000-2001 due to a glitch in the finances of Eyada. And just before Eyada's death comedyworld.com also died and it was the only hope left, last of the streamed comedy sites. After trying to find (another).com for a while it became apparent that the dot.com crash had killed all the viable streamed radio sites on the market. Soon after they contacted HBO and were asked to submit a censored demo, the details are sketchy but it was either refused or they decided not to go censored and decided to put an end to the show. They announced it was going on hiatus soon after. Since then Dan does marketing in NYC ,Scott does radio production and Dj's on FM radio stations in Wisconsin.

The show was featured in a story in a March, 2000 issue of TIME magazine.