from the early 1980s new york art scene, to mtv music videos, to television theme songs, it's a band that has never stopped crting. newshour weekend's christopher booker caught up with the founding members of they mig be giants as they get ready to release a new alemanbubad rkon ew >> reporter: the world of they might be giantis a curious one. from esoteric projects like their dial-a-song service that allowed anyone to call in and listen to one of their recordings on an answering machine, to their steady, beloved presth ienheen eccentric output of high school friends john linell and john flasburg never seems to slow. ♪ fan department because our ntuot slwhaaydo tthunisff ws as that do great work. ertain point, os aitket lm we've had enough of you. you can leave now." contemporaries that we came up with who had much greater success than we have, have definitely gotten the, like, reality check. like, wouldn't be a bad idea to just let it go. >> cut your losses. >> yeah. and that's-- i mean, to a little-- to a certain extent, we've-- it's always been a bit of a struggle for us, to a c