Professional Highlight

Last Wednesday, I enjoyed what is currently one of the top five moments in my professional career thus far.

That list, by the way, doesn’t actually exist, but if it did, this would be on it.

Some background: I helped launch and currently co-host a weekly podcast where I work. It exists for two reasons. One, to help promote our station, and two, to give our listeners some extra cultural content geared toward them they wouldn’t otherwise find through our station (movie reviews, area events, that kind of thing). Toward that end, I realized one day that it might be fun to recap some of the best and worst movies of 2007. It also came to me: who would be better to help us with that than Michael J. Nelson?

Best known as the former host and head writer for “Mystery Science Theater 3000,” Mike is also an author and is currently busy with a very MST3K-ish project called RiffTrax. I’m a fan of all three of those things he has worked to produce, so I sent him an interview request via his website, and he obligingly agreed.

What follows here is the portion of the interview that we used on our podcast. If you’d like a link to the full thing, let me know, but this is the piece that I’m blogging about. Enjoy!

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