Matt: Matt Flanagan is the president of MCMLF Productions Incorporated. Matt is a comedy writer, writing with his long-time writing partner David McHugh. Matt’s first professional writing job was at Cerebellum Studios. His second job was writing for The Late Show with David Letterman. Matt and Dave wrote one movie that starred Jessica Simpson. We don’t talk about it.

Jennie: If it weren’t for public radio, I wouldn’t exist. My father Larry Josephson was a public radio host before the creation of National Public Radio. He hosted a morning show on WBAI, the Pacifica station in New York City. This was in the 1960’s when WBAI was the center of the countercultural revolution.

My dad moved west in the 1970’s to work at KPFA in Berkeley, CA. That’s where he met my mom. They moved back to New York and I was born. I made my radio debut when I was four years old. Fair warning: I flubbed the call sign.

The other thing you need to know is that I was a camp counselor at a Quaker summer camp in Pennsylvania. This is where I learned how to keep the peace between 10 tweens living in a space the size of your spare bedroom. This skill has helped in every job since. I also learned to parallel park a Dodge Ram sixteen-seater with a full canoe rack on the back, which is harder than you think.

After college, I worked for eight years at CBS News, freelanced in traditional media for a while, and then worked for Yahoo as a digital video producer. At Yahoo, I produced award-winning branded series and mini-documentaries and was then hired as a video programmer. This job was like a paid education in how to promote digital content, improve audience experience, and analyze metrics.

I was the founding executive producer of The Daily Tech News Show, a crowd-funded independent podcast about technology. Tom Merritt, the host of that show, has taught me an incredible amount about how to build a thriving, positive internet community, something he’s done successfully for more than a decade. I’m currently a senior advisor to that show, which is in its fifth year of independent ad-free podcasting.

I was a story producer at the public radio show Marketplace, working with some of the best radio talent in the business. I helped launch the podcast Make Me Smart with Kai and Molly, and produced and edited 46 episodes of the weekly program. It’s a job I loved, and would have loved to continue doing, but as it turns out, my dad, the first person to put me on the radio, needs a little more help these days.

So I returned to independent podcast producing and consulting. I’m based out of Los Angeles and often in New York. I take on consulting projects that “fit in a backpack” and travel with me.