Improviser Mark Raterman stops by Studio 309 and discusses growing up outside DC, traveling / working in Europe after graduating college, the origins of Cook County Social Club, and more!

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- Box rants sports fans.
- Drinking and sobriety and rituals and meditation.
- Growing up in Reston VA with divorced parents and traveling into DC for concerts as a kid.
- Playing sports specifically hockey and doing bits in school.
- Attending Virginia Tech, for sports broadcasting, and getting into campus sketch w/ Ground Zero.
- A television internship in New Orleans and performing stand up at Movie Pictures.
- Traveling Europe after saving some money from radio work, before coming back through Hawaii.
- Brief stint in LA, returning to DC and taking classes at Washington Improv, before Chicago.
- Taking classes at iO and working at a law firm w/ TJ Miller, Brendan Jennings, et cetera.
- The origins of Cook County Social Club and touring with Second City.
- Moving to Los Angeles after selling some pilots and crashing on couches.

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