M: Luckily we've never been popular enough to be arrogant.
K: Yeah.
M: We're always flyin' under radar.
K: I'm thinking of being arrogant, starting this summer.
M: Okay.
K: I think that'd be a good idea.
M: I think that fits into my schedule.
I: Do you guys produce anything else out of Best Brains?
M: No.
K: Not right now. This show keeps us very busy, again because we're so small. If we were gonna produce something else we would have to add on, that would keep our, when I think about having our own studio the sets are up all the time, it makes it very easy to do what we do.
I: How much of the year have you spent working on the show?
K: We work year-round. We work six weeks on, one week off. We don't do a season like a lot of shows do, cause we wanna have lives, outside of our work, that's about it.
I: Having moved to the Sci-fi Channel....do you notice any difference between, I mean what is, what is you noticing the differences between the show, now and then?
M: Well I think it's been, the movies have been a little bit different and those kinda, we've sorta stuck to the sci-fi/horror realm. And so there hasn't been those kinda weird Sidehacker type movie, 60's motorcycle films or anything like that, which has kinda kept the focus of the show. But also just this feeling of kinda fitting in on the Sci-Fi Channel, kinda understanding that we, it sorta makes sense that we're on this network, as opposed to Comedy Central we always felt like we're this weird show from the Midwest and then they have their whole other agenda so it feels good to feel like we have a home and that we're working with these people.
I: Do you have any sense of how much longer you want the show to go?
K: I enjoy doing it, still. I'll stop when I stop enjoy-- when I don't enjoy it anymore.
M: I think till I get my new van paid for.
K: That'd be good.
M: Loadin' it up with dope and headin' down the road.
K: Whoo, whoo!
I: You guys talked about, being out in the Midwest, where do most of the writers come from, where did you guys get started?
K: Mike, Wisconsin. Illinois.
M: Yeah, yeah. I was just doing stand-up and acting in the Twin Cities and I met Josh Weinstein and Trace Beaulieu, and Joel I met a couple times, and the rest of the writers we just, stand-up comedy or acting, just kinda know 'em through that. It's total nepotism, admittedly.
K: And Jim Mallon and I, we had the real TV production backgrounds. Jim was the production manager at KTMA and I was the videographer, and we really took the jobs, both of us, so that we could make comedy for TV. It was the lowest-rated UHF station in Minneapolis so we could actually coax the station manager into letting us put shows on the air, it was great. I think we've been really lucky, and anything else we do, we may not be as lucky, but one of the things that's kept people from dabbling in our show is that it works, and it's funny. You know, it's really funny the way it is. So if you can make people laugh, you're, well... [laughing] consistently, then they give you a lot more leeway.
M: Yeah, I think it would be quite a change to just join a writing staff somewhere, and then have maybe you know three percent of your material get on the air, or have it be changed or edited so much, you know. Right now it's whatever we deicde we will make it into the show, and that's great.
I: If by chance somebody came in from whatever network and just handed you a whole boatload of money and [you] just snapped and decided to sell out (M laughs), how would you change the show, if you wanted to make it so...
K: I would cave in *so* fast. That's when I would become an arrogant man.
M: I would have Alyssa Milano on the show at all times.
K: With as few clothes on as possible. (M laughs) I think that'd be important. Immediately I'd get the entire cast of Friends to replace you. Matt LeBlanc, maybe, would make a good (M: Yeah, yeah) Mike Nelson.
M: And I'd go off and make Ed 2, so...
K: Yeah, and we'd get a monkey on the show, gotta have a monkey. An orangutan would be good.
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