The Mysterious Science Of Turning Christian: The Mike Nelson Interview
The Babylon Bee
Seth Dillon
4.4 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Editor-in-chief Kyle Mann and creative director Ethan Nicolle welcome Mike Nelson, former star of Mystery Science Theater 3000, RiffTrax dude, and host of some podcasts. Mike talks to Kyle and Ethan about his story of becoming a Christian, working in an industry that’s not really down with that, making comedy for all, and how he and Ethan helped ruin VeggieTales.
You can hear more from Mike Nelson on his podcasts: Like Trees Walking (about Basic Christian Apologetics), 372 Pages We’ll Never Get Back (about bad books) and he semi-regularly joins in with Doug TenNapel and Ethan Nicolle on Audio Mullet!
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Topics Discussed
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The guys plan out Mike’s tombstone listing his accomplishments
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Mike Nelson’s story and his work on MST3K
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How Ready Player One is terrible
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Coming to faith in Hollywood
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Facing doubts, finding ammunition in C.S. Lewis’ God in the Dock
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Working with people who disagree with you
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RiffTrax events and other podcasts
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Mike Nelson worked on the infamous Netflix run of Veggietales with Ethan
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Hollywood name-dropping and funny things that happened to Mike’s wife
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Seat-fillers at award shows
Mentioned in this episode: MST3K: Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders (This episode may be a good gateway into MST3K according to Mike Nelson)
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| 0:00.0 | Real People Real Interviews |
| 0:04.0 | I just have to say that I object |
| 0:07.0 | Strain you as late to your use of the word hilarious. |
| 0:10.0 | Hard-hitting questions. |
| 0:12.0 | What do you think about feminism? |
| 0:14.0 | Do you like it? |
| 0:15.0 | Taking you to the cutting edge of truth. |
| 0:18.0 | Yeah, well last Jedi is one of the worst movies ever made |
| 0:21.0 | and it was very clear that Ryan Johnson doesn't like Star Wars. |
| 0:25.0 | Kyle pulls no punches. |
| 0:27.0 | I want to ask how you're able to sleep at night. |
| 0:30.0 | He's a brings bone-shattering common sense from the top rope. |
| 0:35.0 | If I may, how double dare you? |
| 0:38.0 | This is the Babylon B Interview Show. |
| 0:42.0 | Alright, we are here in the Babylon B Interview Studio. |
| 0:52.0 | And we have Omega Star this week. |
| 0:55.0 | A man I grew up admiring deeply. |
| 0:59.0 | Worshiping at the altar of? |
| 1:01.0 | Worshiping at the altar of. |
| 1:03.0 | He was a guy who, if you're ever flipping through the channels, |
| 1:07.0 | and you saw little theater seats and you saw a couple robots |
| 1:12.0 | and then you saw this guy and they're making fun of old movies, |
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