Email Tha Mike | AIM - ThaMikeSayz. | myspace.com/theawfulshow..

I am a 33 year old married male, with a daughter who is almost 3 and I hate writing bios. For the sake of this page, I guess I'll just fucking write one.

I'm the bitcher and complainer on the show. Nothing is ever good enough for me (I have a love/hate relationship with our audience) and I speak my mind openly on a regular basis. I don't like many people in this world, but the ones I do, I think I treat very well and I have excellent friendships with them. (I.E. the guys on this show). Besides my talents of being a pessimist, my duties on the show are basically to keep things running in the right direction like an air traffic controller. Also apparently I am pretty good with the prank call games according to the listeners.

Back in my early 20's I stumbled into radio by chance by being hired to board op baseball games on a miniscule AM station in York, PA. I decided my funny commentary would be better and no one was listening anyway so I started announcing the games myself. After being with the AM station for a week, the sister FM station which was top 40 at the time switched to Alternative and all the DJ's quit. I was moved over to the FM station to do the 7-Midnight shift on weeknights and eventually became # 3 in the market. After the station started carrying the Howard Stern show in the mornings, the PD decided to hire real DJ's and I was switched to overnights on the weekends where I remained # 1 until I quit.

Nerraux came out from Pittsburgh to Reading for a job and we became roommates by happenstance and he's been my sidekick ever since. Or am I his sidekick? I guess it depends on who you're talking to.

Nerraux and I always talked about doing radio together and after a long time of thinking we should do it, we decided podcasting was the way for us. Nerraux could be clean enough for your grandma to listen to if he wanted to, me on the other hand, I don't censor myself so regular radio wouldn't work. We brought on Keyz full time after realizing how talented he is and then brought on Joel to even us out with his comedic styling's.

I am very thankful to work with this crew and I see big things for us ahead in the future.

Email Nerraux | AIM - Nerraux | myspace.com/nerraux

Hey kids, I’m Nerraux. I’m the voice of reason in this crew, which should tell you just how doomed we are. I handle setting up most of the interviews, so if you’re someone interesting or know someone who is, drop me an e-mail and we’ll set something up.

Like Mike, I was in “real” radio when I was in high school (the now defunct X-15). My station wasn’t the big deal his was, but I did get to play some cutting-edge alternative, and it gave me a love for broadcasting. I did four years of college radio at WRSK — the best damn college station ever, and the birthplace of the original Awful Show. When I got out of school radio and I parted ways, but I always missed my love.

Mike and I have been friends, lovers and/or coworkers for a long-ass time now. We’ve been into Internet Radio since before anybody had bandwidth to listen to it. Soundbreak.com (we miss you, sexy Toby!) and eYada.com (all hail Dan and Scott!) had our full attention for many hours that we were supposed to be working.

The Awful Show was born after discussions about “the old days,” wondering how we could get our friends involved in something fun, and the pleading of our wives for us to find a hobby.

Email Keyz | AIM - AwfulShowKeyz | myspace.com/awfulshowkeyz

Keyz is an ultra-high power jet engine running on 87 octane. The distortion of his cognitive processes can mostly be attributed to ingestion of excruciatingly massive quantities of undercooked red meat, experimental antidepressants and warm Mountain Dew.

Keyz was able to force his way onto college radio by threatening the program director with a hypodermic syringe filled with Vanilla Coke, claiming it was Uranium-238, the kind made famous by Marvin the Martian. He headed several different programs including a heavy metal program and a classical music show. During this period, he met Nerraux. Inevitably, Keyz graduated and moved on to his true calling, selling shoes to fat women. It was less than a year later he saw an article on MSNBC stating that selling shoes to fat women could not be considered a true calling.

Lost, Keyz wandered through SW Pennsylvania trying to fill the gap with meaningless endeavors like marriage. This clouded his judgment and he later found himself being a co-host on a NASCAR talk show on a Country radio station. On the brink of total mediocrity, he snapped himself out of his walking coma and got a divorce.

Shortly after moving to an apartment south of Pittsburgh, Keyz was called by The Awful Show for commentary during the show's second broadcast. From the third show on, Keyz was a regular on The Awful Show.

Keyz is presently receiving psychological counseling for his sexual obsession with Rosie O'Donnell.

Email Joel | AIM - JoelTheZombie | myspace.com/amomentarylapsewithjoel

a brief history of joel.
(the long version)

what you are about to read contains elements of truth and a whole butt load of lies.... either way.... what do you really care....?

i was born way back in 1974 and raised in Kansas City, MO.... i lived there for the first 18 years of my life.... then after graduating high school i moved to Chicago.... i did my schooling there.... then moved back to the Kansas City to start a family (despite my insistance that i would never dothat).... and now myself and my family have moved out to Colorado to settle in for the long haul.... after moving here, i've set up Awful Show Studios: West which serves as both a place to record on Friday
nights and as a secret masturbation station....

i started working in radio in college, when i helped to implement the first radio station at my school.... i pursued that love to my second college, where i promptly changed gears to study screen writing instead..... (partly due to peer pressure and i found out the drugs are better.)

although i never got my degree.... i did realize that i had left for school a boy, and came home a slightly older boy..... which no degree can show you how to become.... and from there, while working at an internet company.... i started my e-mail based comic strip, “Gregory: the really angry robot”.... somehow drawing pictures of the CEO as a pot smoking pirate, got the creative juices flowing.... the comic has now been running for about 7 years now (send me an e-mail to join), and although it's on and off again of a hiatus status, it's always lurking in the shadows.... just like me.... in your closet.

i'm a published author, an on and off again musician, an actor and an artist. I've got a beautiful wife, two wonderful children and a 12 year old bassett hound.... now i've got you.... got you wet and ready for some hot whiffle ball action....! SCHPLAOW!