Storyteller and comedian Mary Jo Pehl joined up with the crew on Mystery Science Theater 3000 just as the show was beginning its run on Comedy Central. A generation of like-minded folks watched as Pehl's Pearl Forrester tormented the passengers aboard the Satellite of Love with terrible movies.
Before her gig as a comedy writer on a hit TV show, Mary Jo saved her babysitting money to purchase her economically-researched first album. The marquee performer at her first concert was overshadowed by a one-hit wonder that served as the opener. And her secretly-profound guilty pleasure song was accidentally not deleted from a hand-me-down iPod. "Have you ever read the lyrics? The lyrics are kind of deep."
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