One may be inclined to wonder exactly how a company that has only produced one project to date finds the audacity to actually dedicate an entire website to itself.
Well, the truth is, I had to cheat a little.
You'll find that I've included the show "Minutes Later..." (our namesake) in our body of work, even though it was technically produced by Warrior's Voice Productions (WVP). Luckily, WVP founder Dan O'Hare is a friend of mine, and the company is currently in hibernation. Pretty much all of the same people were involved in both, so we're related in a way. I certainly intend to give credit where it's due, however, so for that reason I've included Dan's original press release that we had included in the "Minutes Later..." press packets. Click the link below to check it out...
View the Warrior's Voice Press Release
Following the close of "Minutes Later..." , I made an attempt to write a sequel which, obviously, never happened. I had finished the video segments and we'd even had a read-thru. Something was wrong, though. To this day I'm still not exactly sure what it was. Several of us got very depressed around that time for some reason, and are heart's just weren't in it anymore. There were also some crew problems (which I'm not at liberty to discuss), but the biggest blow for me was the fact that WVP just sort of fizzled out. This meant there would be no production company behind any future projects. Understand at this point that the mere thought of producing a show myself was a concept that I would have embraced about as enthusiastically as I would have embraced a homeless man's socks. So I did what any all-American, narcissistic-neurotic young man would do: I vacillated between alternating bouts of self-hatred and apathy for the better part of a year.
Several months into my "dark period", I got the idea to read through the video segments of the defunct "Minutes Later II: Raging Guava". I was convinced the script was crap by that point, but one little segment still made me laugh. It featured two talk show hosts named Chad and Barb who had little more than two pages of dialogue. This proved to be all the inspiration I needed to start writing again. I came up with the concept of having the two of them host a morning show for drunk, depressed, unemployed people (in other words, people like me at that time) and "Wake Up, Slug!...with Chad and Barb" was born.
I'd love to say that somehow through the process of writing this new script I was able to work through the pain I was feeling, and emerge spiritually cleansed and perhaps a bit wiser from the realization that the act of creation leads to feelings of self-worth and love.
But, no, that's not how it happened at all. Actually, I only finished a few pages, then put it aside until I was able to crawl out of the quagmire on my own. At that point I finished the script, got the gang together, was accepted into the HA! Comedy Festival, and produced that baby under the company name of Minutes Later Media. Not exactly sure what the moral is. If you can think of one, let me know.
Anyway, what had simply began as a name to put on our postcards, evolved into a real-deal production company as evidenced by the shoddy state of my checking account. I was then forced to retrospectively attach values and ideals to this little venture. Luckily, that wasn't too hard. The things that depress me, piss me off, or fill me with righteous indignation seem to be fertile grounds for comedy in my book. Hence, the little tag-line beneath the logo. Whatever. It's cute. The point is, I personally take great joy in watching some dark aspect of human behavior mercilessly mocked in front of me. I find it rather cathartic if I can laugh at something that under normal circumstances might not be so funny. So that's more or less the artistic goal of this company. Of course, sometimes we just do goofy shit because we feel like it. We're good at that too.
-Jeff Sproul