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Dreaming of radio stardom, or at least a few real-live listeners, Dan Schulz and Scott Wirkus broadcast the first Dan & Scott Show from the basement of an empty retirement home in Jackson, Wis. It was April Fools' Day, 1996, and Schulz and Wirkus, then 31 and 30, had maxed out their credit cards, quit their jobs at an ad agency and printing plant, and moved in to produce an Internet radio show...
...polished but off-color tribute to goofy guys' prank calling from dorm rooms everywhere, airs to an audience of 100,000 on a talk-radio website called eYada.com The site is different from the hundreds of AM and FM stations that now simultaneously stream their programming onto the Web. Schulz and Wirkus describe their show as "a thumbing of the nose at anyone who smells of authority." Like all Net radio, they don't answer to the FCC, and they toss the F word liberally in segments like "Penis Talk" and "This isn't phone sex, you dumb...
Just days after Schulz and Wirkus started at eYada in February, one of their guests was Rick Rockwell, the notorious bachelor from Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire? Rockwell made a plea for more prospective brides, earning the Dan & Scott Show national media attention. "We started out at this stupid retirement home," says Schulz. "Now we're on Entertainment Tonight...
Long before they had even one fan, Schulz and Wirkus dreamed of being the morning team at a radio station. When it first became possible to send live audio over the Net, "we said, 'You know, this Internet thing is hot. I bet in six months we'll be rich,'" Schulz says. "That started two years of bill collectors' pounding on our doors, of family begging us, 'Please, don't do this. You had good jobs.'" Living on Spam and Jolly Good Soda, the two talked up their show in online news groups and at local colleges. As its popularity...
That sort of reticence proved deadly for the late Charles Schulz, beloved creator of Peanuts, who resisted being tested despite the fact that his mother, two uncles and an aunt died of colon cancer. By the time physicians discovered his tumor last fall, it had spread to his stomach lining, and there was little they could...