Hey everyone, hi, hello, it is me Allison Rosen. Welcome to another episode of Allison Rosen's

Unibest Friend. I'm sitting here with Return Guest, Joan Array. Hello, hello everybody. Hi. Good to see you again. I feel like all sorts of stuff has been happening with you. And in fact before we started just

nearly 30 seconds ago, you mentioned that you had been interviewed by NPR this morning. Yes. What was that for? It was this reporter is putting together a story for the comeback of Mr. Science CDR 3000,

which I am the new host of. And so he's kind of interviewing people along the way through the process of bringing it back. And so that was my interview. That's why I still have this NPR voice.

Doing right now. So your NPR voice is like thoughtful and introspective. But just a hint of vocal fry. Yeah, I did get emotional during it.

Did you really? I did. I did. Once I started talking about it too much, it said I kind of get a little overwhelmed and I don't know how to process it.

So I yeah, it was it was I didn't cry, but I might have welled up a little bit. Have you actually said tears yet? Yeah, I I said tears when I put on the jumpsuit for the first time that had my my

new last name on it. Heston. And then I when we did the reunion show in Minneapolis when I went out on stage and I heard people like chanting my name. And I was really nervous about it because, you

know, nerds can be a vile beast. And and they have been to me in the past. So I was I was I was I was were you know, I was hesitant and and you know, having going out on stage with Joel Heston kind of like, you

know, like pulled my hand up and it's that's when I will start to cry. Yeah. So here and there. And I have to say when when words started getting around that they

were rebooting mystery science theater 3000 people it was it was like word of mouth like I haven't seen in years and people were just going, did you

hear the rebooting mystery MST 3 K and did you hear they got they got Jonah Ray like people were genuinely excited because it's such a beloved franchise that they were so excited

that was coming back, but then it was double that it was Jonah they were like, they got somebody who gets it. They got somebody who's

going to do it right. Yeah, people were really going crazy. Yeah, it was you know, I got a lot of that too. Now I'm not going to say it was all bad. Right. Well, that was my question. You

said that nerds can be a vile beast. And I wondered, do you mean in relation to this show? No, I think with any with anything they like there with their culture

stuff, which I am a very big fan of and a part of the community. I'd like to think, but it is it does have similar.

It does have a lot of analogous stuff to like punk rock culture, which is like you say you like something. And you know, so you like

this band. Yeah, but did you hear that first seven inch like it's a, oh, I like mystery science theater. Well, what's your your favorite episode? Well, this episode, but you'll you don't like this

or obscure, near culture is very much similar to it in that way, which is just it's just underground culture. Right. It's just a, you know, not everybody likes it. And

that's a good thing. And I think there's this idea too that the more mainstream something becomes, then it'll be ruined. Yeah. And that's that's always the fear.

It's it's odd though. Right now, I think because of the internet were at a were at a place. And I was talking to Devon Farachi about this. He's the editor for

a birth movies death and the cannon podcast and very, very, you know, I love the guy a lot. And but we were talking about how things not everything has to be the biggest thing in the world.

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