The Nerd Show podcast does a phone interview with Joel. These guys are not hardcore fans, they’re more “I’m too young to remember the Comedy Central era but I used to watch it on the Sci-Fi Channel sometimes/The episode I watched on youtube the other day was the first one I’ve seen in years” guys, so the interview goes over familiar ground, but Joel gets to plug the new Shout set and Cinematic Titanic, so it’s all good.
The interview starts at about the 12 minute mark.
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Poor Joel. It must be a drag to slog through the same content for every interview. You have be a good sport for the local press just to get the word out for people who don’t know what CT is doing. You have my sympathies Joel.
I can’t figure out how to make the podcast play – clicking “play” just brings up a blank page for me.
Despite the fact that Joel’s interview may well be MST3K 101 – Intro to MST, you have to start somewhere, and if it puts backsides in seats at their shows, and puts dollars in their coffers … Anyway, the rest of the show’s description does intrigue me, so it’d be nice if I could figure out how to listen to it.
Cubby–just right-click on “play” and download the mp3.
Oh. Download. “This will simplify everything!”
Actually, I got it to launch in Safari (as opposed to my usual ancient Firefox) by re-pasting the address in the toolbar. Listening now. :-)
I’m always intrigued by Joel’s answers to the “how did MST come about” question–they’re slightly different each time. This time he talks about the “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” picture in some detail (shows you how genius works–I had a copy of that album, and must have seen that picture a million times, and never thought of a TV show), and just barely mentions the “Silent Running” connection. Also, I never knew that the reason for the bots was to have three distinctive silhouettes–so there’s a new piece of the story for me. There should be a compilation of these Joel origin-stories somewhere.
I feel like someone mentioned at some point in history that Joel’s been known to make stuff up on the spot when asked “what influenced MST3K”… but, uh, no idea where. I may have dreamed it. Probably did.
Joel could avoid all these same questions if he would just get on twitter or Facebook or other social media where he could be more independent and advertise CT relentlessly! Wish he would, this coming from an entire family of longtime fans!!
But I enjoy these long form interviews too much. Twitter and Facebook would take that conversation tone out of it. We are talking about a 90 something minute program her and to me it would be wrong to boil it down to a Tweet.
Josh says it best (I’m paraphrasing here) when he points out that MST fans are the best because of our longer attention span. Not only did we sit through 198 episodes of a 2 hour TV show but we still love it 10+ years after it is cancelled.
That type of attention span deserves more than a Tweet.