We all remember where we were on that fateful day of August 13, 1991. It was a revolution both of technology and of our minds. On this day our lives and culture were forever changed. The Nintendo had been a staple of our childhoods, but it was with the release of the Super Nintendo that we evolved into the people we are today.

We had been exposed to 16 bit graphics before, but never with quite the same gameplay and fun. It was a status symbol. If you had it you were either really rich or really cool. And either attribute was fine for the have-nots, because the rich/cool kids were our opportunity to step into the bigger world of the SNES. Don’t get me wrong, we pleaded and begged our parents for the Super Nintendo, but it was $199.00, and some of us would just have to wait for our prayers to be answered. We would have done anything to get it and become “the cool kids of 1991-92,” but alas Andy got his in ‘94 and I myself didn’t receive the SNES until the Christmas of 1995.

Andy and I pondered what we would have done had we been a little older and a little more qualified for a job at the time of the Super Nintendo’s release. The answer was we would have owned it day one, no exceptions- even if we had to sell our souls. It would have been awesome.

Back in 2003, a beautiful song was created as a celebration of a comedy short/sketch called Danny & the Alien which was only half shot before inevitably being thrown into the P! Company’s Archives (or our big box of unlabeled tapes). The other day I found that box baking at my parents’ house in the upstairs of our garage apartment. I salvaged a handful of the tapes which now were mysteriously labeled. Now that I think about it, I believe Andy offered to pay Kirk the price of (1) Whataburger Combo meal to go through, label, and catalog each of the tapes from our 10 or so year existence. Kirk agreed to do this- as is his nature. He’s always helpful- and willing to earn a delicious snack. However, to this day, we still have not paid him his combo meal.

[Click on the Alien]

Anyway, so I found the tape of Danny & the Alien- partially recorded over and lacking some quality due to the climate conditions that the tapes were stored in. I did find the complete song recorded by Drew, Andy, and John. I then used the highest audio editing software I own (GarageBand) and tried to pull out a presentable version of the hit theme song that never was. Here it is in it’s glorious stereo quality. Maybe the fans will hear this and beckon for the release of the sketch that may never be…

A unique creature…

We began shooting this sketch the night Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was released. It’s only been 4 weeks since then and the release of the last Harry Potter book. After shooting that evening, Andy and I conjured up a spell of our own by sending a message psychically to our future selves- demanding that they send us an edited version of the sketch (from the future). We had done so much work shooting and managing a preliminary edit that we felt we would enlist the help of our future selves- who ’s experience would inevitability be superior to our own resulting in a better product. The instantaneous gratification didn’t come, week after week we waited, until this afternoon.

It turns out our future selves finally finished the never-ending work in progress. But it turns out our future selves were actually the same as our present selves from the night of the shoot. So I just wanted to take the opportunity to tell our “four-week future selves” to go fuck themselves and also thanks for nothing.

And you know, what really got my blood boiling was that today we got a “psychic message” from the past. Now our past selves are asking for a cut of the sketch. It’s bull shit. I’ve no intent on sending them anything- so deal with it.

Finally, you may enjoy the Sketch.

That’s right folks. After over a year of no new podcasts for the P! Company website, we have finally delivered- and done so in spades. The following is a loosely constructed 54 minute podcast that follows our two heroes, Andy and Kyle, effortlessly flowing through a number of improvised radio scenes.

*If your looking for information or something else specific on the P! Company then do not waste you time with our meandering MP3 file. But if that free flowing thought is something that does interest you, then- please, enjoy the fruits of our labor.

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