0:00 [Music] hey can I share with you guys one of the coolest uh bits of vintage knowledge that's out there vintage knowledge what's vintage knowledge uh not everybody knows about this because it's it's something that's I don't know if it's as interesting to everybody but I love it uh in 1993 there was this 12-year-old kid out of Tucson Arizona and he went by zot The Avengers and this kid had his own Public Access TV show that's dope where he played video games and accepted live callers chatted with his audience he even had trolls that would call in but this is the first known program that is kind of seen as the predecessor to like modern gaming streaming wow that's tight 93 you guys how did a kid even get a TV show
0:52 I'll tell you the story but here's what it looked like look how cool that is this is like early 90s okay so it's a HTTP azstarnet.com check it out cyber he's got the green screen behind him and stuff he plays games uh and he just chats and he's just like a cool kid and it's when when was that this is 1993 wow that's Advanced dude yeah look at this this looks so cool that's a cool setup too yeah for that look how sick this looks oh more combat did you get all the Game Genie codes for on Super Nintendo yeah okay well maybe you'll get a Game Genie for your birthday or Christmas or something Game Genie dude look how cool
1:44 that is right so of his time okay well let's take another phone call oh finish me I don't know how oh scorpion just hit block and up up when so he would like give codes he would give like uh oh yeah different moves yeah yeah those are all the on the screen dark purple blood3 so ahead of his time man wait did you just find this looks like slime flying all over the place how the heck okay phone caller I'll tell you this whole story hello hey what up hey can you hear me yeah I can hear you pretty good all right cool yeah my phone's kind of fed up hey what's what's the code for like the the first Sonic that you can go to any level they let you go to any level yeah what what's what's the code on the on the P switching angles and stuff on what game on Sonic the first
2:36 one oh on Sonic yeah well we not doing a Sonic show right now we're doing fighting games moral okay I'll give you the Sonic ████ he's good on camera too yeah he's a great kid yeah so this is um this is 1993 he doesn't die or anything don't worry um I was waiting for that yeah so the way he ran it he had a uh his show was called video games and more he had another camera point at a CRT Monitor and then it was like displayed through uh you know he had the green screen behind his head that's pretty uh for that I'm surprised it didn't actually get like picked up well yeah it was on yeah it didn't go on anything like that but it was on public access uh TV which with if most of you guys are young and you don't even know what that is it's basically like a TV channel that only the local people of that area can like access they can watch that it's
3:26 usually mainly about stuff in your own Community it's not really anything too advanced sometimes it's like talent shows or little things but this is how he got into it it's pretty pretty cool the story is awesome so his mom was on a search to find her birth parents cuz she was an adopted kid and uh the records were lost so she joined a support group that used Public Access TV in order to reach out and find people that were also like uh that were looking for their kids or were looking for their parents and then so she joined a support group that used uh a studio like that and since his mom thought that studio was really interesting she enrolled that kid uh Z the Avenger who's also named JJ uh she enrolled him in classes where he could learn how to operate the equipment like so he learned set lighting camera and
4:16 editing uh for the m at age 12 yeah and um actually by age 10 he learned that he ended up getting so good at those things that he got hired to work on the other Public Access shows before he had his own child labor yeah child labor and he worked on he said he remembers working on four Public Access shows back to back in one day from a religious program to like Community awareness shows so he would like it looks like he would just help with filming lighting and editing and then he had uh he actually learned how to uh how to do his own show because he was a fan of Wayne's World that's so he wanted to make a Wayne's World type show but combined with video games and he said that his estimated viewership if he had to you know name a number he said it was probably around 50 people each time he would broadcast and um he then
5:09 learned how to solder so that he could make higher definition svhs tapes out of normal ones which I didn't even know was a thing and the reason he wanted to do that was because he wanted to make uh backups of his episodes so he could submit them for reruns so smart you couldn't do them with regular you had to have svhs so in order to afford the tapes he applied for a grant in order to pay for this stuff at ████ 12 at 12 yeah how's this guy not like President it sounds like he has a smart Mom though too yeah yeah he said he says his parents were both really uh forward tech people that were like oh if something's new they wanted for her to be resourceful and use certain things yeah I know so he ended up working on a McDonald's commercial at some point and with the residuals he got himself an Apple 2 computer which is he learned uh
6:00 uh he taught himself HTML and created his own corresponding website for his show where people would go and get video game codes and uh and then he ended the public access show in 97 cuz he decided to focus on his computer programming school and later picked up bass guitar became a music producer and that's what he does still to this day waa this sounds like Ryan in an alternate universe I was just thinking that that's so crazy you stole my thought yeah you you said it under your breath and I just stole it so it's cool because I want there's some even there's some moments on his um on his shows where like he even gets trolls call in and it's pretty funny first Sonic let me find this uh I thought it was we're not doing a Sonic show can you curse you can't curse on public access right you can so like the thing that he he actually spoke on that a little bit he was saying that like there were other
6:51 Public Access shows that were really like overboard and crazy but he didn't he never wanted to have things like that on his show here's what here's like a troll that calls in it's pretty funny okay for color you're on the air any questions yeah I have a question about Mortal Kombat what's your question what do you say gang bang is that what did he say I don't know color isn't that cute it's like I don't know some guy just goes eat me and then I think he that was a thing everyone says eat me yeah it was so weird and then um what kind of question is that eat me is like probably for saying like you're fat get to you in a minute phone car and
7:43 whooping his butt to you okay oh they're actually playing while they're talkinging it's later the keys a so they're it's literally streaming they're playing that game live soon to have his own video game sure well hello phone caller you're on the air uh why you guys suck so much why does what sucks so much your mom my mama that's not a nice thing to say just learn some manners he doesn't have a m learn some respect he doesn't have a mama that was the peak of your mom jokes huh yeah his mom ditched him his mom ditched him hello phone call you're on the air any questions on super yeah you
8:35 have for what com Mortal Kombat any game geny codes for that what system Genesis Super Nintendo Super Nintendo it's funny CU When that guy's all your mom he's okay let me dig down he's like what a what a rot that he say and on Mother's Day dude that's sick that's so sick that this kid had this show and he literally could there was nothing for him to reference other than waynesworld like he didn't have some other guy to copy wow and all these streamers yeah he's like people look at him as like the first streamer it was so hard to do that back then like you had to set up so much and like sink it oh man it was crazy yeah so he like this is him today like speaking on it and he said he had a really cool thing to say he says nobody there was rich we were all coming together and
9:25 taking advantage of very expensive equipment that we would normally never have access to in order to share our messages and that is just so cyber Punk cool yeah he's super cool and he like yeah today just he's a music producer and he just loves that his little show is kind of known as the ancestor of like modern day like streaming yeah my high school had like um like a video TV production room oh did you do anything in there no but I got to see inside smoke pot in there a little bit and they had the old school camera like for the like the TV shows the ones that are like this big right and the monitor is like this huge and you got to like cam up it like that and then they had a little size room like here where they had a little table set up and then you can do like but the thing is none of those videos actually
10:16 like were shown in the school what do you mean like they would make content but like I thought that it would be cool if they actually made the content like made High School news or whatever and played it but they didn't do any of that oh that's too bad they just had like a video recording studio just for practice maybe they did in the past but and then the equipment looked like it was from the 70s too we might have had one of those too but I also never saw anything like School news now yeah that would have been cool if they did that football team just lost again there are some towns where like the uh isn't it like their whatever their school TV thing is can be reached through Public Access oh yeah yeah I don't know now now that they don't do that but like back in the day danger back in the day they used to do that right I would see like city
11:06 council hearings here in mon Park when I would just flip through the channels yeah even that I mean I guess the modern equivalent would be that one uh Canyon Lake City that I'm so obsessed with how they have their own YouTube channel and like you can get community news like through the YouTube that's pretty sick in your own like closed community but this is like this is over when you guys see like ████ like that though does it take you back back to that age yeah instantly cuz that makes me so happy cuz I'm like I wish I saw that when I was like eight I just miss I miss like not being aware of everything like I hate that today you just know everything and you're forced to know everything and information it's that it's that backfire of like the information age everything being so accessible you can't put it away back then like that's if he was doing this that's all he's doing you know what I mean for your present how did you find him what's that how did you
11:57 find him um I was just reading about like ran is him I was just reading about old ████ and it just like came up and uh and then I started he still has his episodes uh he's working with internet archive to get all of his old episodes like available to watch that's cool dude all the transitions throw me back to Nostalgia where it's like it's like faded in the background yeah on the side angle so fun you remember like shows had to be yet to be there on the schedule like if if I knew about the show as a kid I would ████ bike home to like be there on time to watch the show that's why prime time was so expensive like they knew that most people were going to be watching TV at that time yeah crazy and then you went to school and everyone was talking about the same show crazy did you see Simpsons last night crazy
12:47 how that worked man was crazy how and we only kind of had that again with Game of Thrones I don't even know if there's this uh that anymore like where all of us from like Hawaii to New York we saw the same ████ maybe like super bowl or something probably the closest thing now it's all Diddy stuff everybody knows about but you can join us for the elections when we live stream on the 5th coming live from Kasa De Anthony hopefully this comes out before then we're going to be having cigars in his living room
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