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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\u2019s not really down with that,\xa0 making comedy for all, and how he and Ethan helped ruin VeggieTales.\xa0

You can hear\xa0more from Mike Nelson on his podcasts: Like Trees Walking (about Basic Christian Apologetics), 372 Pages We\u2019ll Never Get Back (about bad books) and he semi-regularly joins in with Doug TenNapel and Ethan Nicolle on\xa0Audio Mullet!\xa0

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Topics Discussed

• The guys plan out Mike\u2019s tombstone listing his accomplishments

• Mike Nelson\u2019s story and his work on MST3K

• How Ready Player One is terrible

• Coming to faith in Hollywood

• Facing doubts, finding ammunition in C.S. Lewis\u2019 God in the Dock

• Working with people who disagree with you

• RiffTrax events and other podcasts

• Mike Nelson worked on the infamous Netflix run of Veggietales with Ethan

• Hollywood name-dropping and funny things that happened to Mike\u2019s wife

• Seat-fillers at award shows\xa0

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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