Today we’d like to introduce you to Mike Cherlow.
Thanks for sharing your story with us, Mike. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there.
ChipChat started on Ripped Radio Network back in 2015, as a news comedy show featuring me, Chip, and Larry King (without suspenders.) We mostly made fun of what we read in the news and interviewed basically anybody who would talk to us. Then the 2016 election came and with it the ability to write comedy radio. It’s a lot easier to make fun of Trump than almost anything else.
Because we had the access and platform by that point, we were a comedy radio show with a mission to unseat Trump and try to save the republic. It’s not working. Eventually, Larry had to leave when his family moved away, and I found a new co-host, Fisch. Together we are now Fisch and Chip, which is funny and gets funnier the more times you say it. We are still a news comedy show, and we still interview a lot of interesting people. It’s been a wild five years.
Has it been a smooth road?
It has certainly not been smooth. First of all we didn’t know how to do radio. We thought it was just people talking and being naturally brilliant and funny. Since we couldn’t be either, we had to write. I learned that I need to do about three to four hours of prep work to produce an hour and a half of the radio.
At one point, the studio closed, so I had to get some gear and put the show on from my Shack Out Back. I knew something about how to run aboard, but doing so while also being on air is really hard and complicated. Fortunately, the studio reopened eventually and we could go back to just being us.
Then Larry got sent to Seattle, and I had to find a new co-host. After a series of tryouts and some good candidates, Fisch eventually joined the show and we have been together now for a little over a year.
We’d love to hear more about your work.
We are in the business of telling you, the listeners, the news, but the way we see it, and with a comic twist. Occasionally we have real news from real sources, and when it happens, it can occasionally move the needle a little.
Once, we had some inside information about a member of Congress doing something that seemed a lot like he was trying to hide something and break the law. We went on air with it, tipped off a few real reporters and the next couple days the story percolated up to the mainstream. That was a big win for our little show.
Contact Info:
- Website: coplaymedia.com
- Instagram: @rippedchipchat
- Facebook: facebook.com/rippedchipchat
- Twitter: @chipchatrr
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