By the later episodes, the spontaneity was partly a function of school work kicking in. We couldn’t sit down and plan every segment [in detail] like we did with the first couple of episodes.

It just goes to show, if you have the drive and the desire, we have the resources here at the University.

They’ve yet to return our phone calls, e-mails, pigeon carriers.

We had plenty of free time and we used damn near all of it.

Final Cut Pro mastery, at the very least.

There was this one line, ‘fresh succulent first years,’ that we taped literally 22 times.

Now we faced a greater challenge — keeping it up, maintaining the humor and professionalism we started with, during the typically very rough third year.

You can get people interested and involved in ways far beyond the capabilities of normal TV.

We think nuclear proliferation is one of those issues that is on the public’s mind, especially in light of Iran.

Our end goal — I’ll stop the show and die a happy man — is if we could get Larry J. Sabato and Jon Stewart on the show simultaneously.

We all respect each other [and] like being around each other. Everyone who works on the show shares the same passion, and we all love doing it.

After weeks — weeks being minutes — we had a location.

The first couple of episodes, there are tapes and tapes of us laughing because we couldn’t get the line down.