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Brian: We got it upstate, off eBay. Do you get a lot of chicks in this?
Rich: This is kind of a date-rape van. Brian: I suggested boarding up all the windows with cardboard to make it more enticing to women. Rich: (squeals) Keith! Keith! Keith: What. Rich: You were like this far (makes a hand motion to represent an inch more or less) from that car. Keith: I know, but I didn't hit it. You know how I roll, I roll tight. Tight!
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Keith: What confused you? Rich: Whether we were acting or not? In the show we are sometimes [acting] and sometimes it's just kind of how we are. It was a scripted thing but we also shot a lot randomly. Brian: You know what it is? We were playing characters and it was scripted but it was very much off the cusp. Cup? Cusp? Off the cup. Rich: A lot of it was very unscripted. I didn't think it was funny at all.
Brian: I don't think women are going to. I think maybe someone will.
Brian: Some. One. What demographic are you trying to reach?
Brian: I think men ages 18 to 90. Except 36-year-olds. In all honesty, I think the show is definitely geared towards men. There's sex in it, some violence, there is chasing. There is drug use, alcohol abuse.
Rich: This is really our pilot. Have you actually seen a tornado?
Rich: You want to see some footage? (He whips out his computer and shows me about five tornado videos and I say "wow" a lot.) Keith: We [him and Rich] filmed tornadoes for the Discovery Channel for three years and that's how we got this job.
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Keith: It is serious. Chasing is serious. Brian: The problem with a storm chasing show is that it's just a bunch of geeky nerdy scientists that are doing this and doing that and you cut back to an interview with somebody who was in it and the scientist is like, "That was a very intense four but I've seen more serious ones, we had high velocity winds." We wanted to make a show where it's just a bunch of alcoholic renegades. So then the architects over here put it together and IFC liked it so that's what we did. It's a good change from other shows that rely on real people that suck. Keith: Yes, we film tornadoes seriously, we've been hit by tornadoes, we've been as close as you can be and all the funny stuff happens right off camera and it can never be used for Discovery because they are a very serious network. They focus on the science.
Brian: My GF? Your girlfriend?
Brian: Oh, I thought you meant my grandfather and I was going to say that he is dead. My girlfriend likes it. I think we are breathing a lot of fumes.
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Rich: For two weeks. Every fucking night.
Brian: We're fucking real. Hehe. Keith: We're method.
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Keith: Rich would be the player. That wasn't one of the Backstreet Boys.
Keith: I would be the ethnic dude, Brian would be the dancer, James would be the rocker, Rich would be the sensitive one and Mike would be Mr. Business.When not chasing storms, Bad Brains spends the better part of its life residing under the BQE. No one touches it because why would they want to? Unless they want to steal the T.A.R.D. If you want to steal the T.A.R.D. you could snag it under the BQE pretty much without hassle. "People know us around here. Nobody is fucking with our shit," says Keith. They plan on opening their "hang machine" to the homeless after Bad Brains dies.
