 Over the ensuing years, Wurster and Scharpling kept in touch, coming up with comedy ideas that would eventually find a home on Scharpling’s WFMU radio show.The duo’s first performance on Scharpling’s WFMU show occurred on November 19, 1997 and featured Wurster calling in as Ronald Thomas Clontle, the misguided, egotistical author of a music reference book titled "Rock, Rot & Rule".Listeners believed the call to be a real interview with a real author and called in to argue with Clontle over pronouncements like "Madness invented ska" and "David Bowie rots because he’s made too many changes."