The ScottyDontX Show
Solving for "X" - every day.
I am in the process of building a podcast from scratch, adding to it one step at a time, one day at a time.
Since there was no show preparation, no written script, and no market research, let's categorize this first one as comedy-improv.
Because, with me or at me, someone will find a reason to laugh.
The ScottyDontX Show
Episode #23 - Broadcasting Chaos and The Seattle Freeze
Imagine dealing with unpredictable, sometimes downright disturbing callers while hosting a public access cable show in early 2000s Seattle. Join me as I walk down memory lane, sharing stories from the Scotty Dune X podcast and my adventures with colorful characters and controversial content, including the infamous incident involving unlicensed pornographic material on public access. I'll also shed light on the logistical hurdles of those broadcasting days and offer a heartfelt comparison of the warm, friendly vibe of Des Moines, Iowa, to the chilly, often distant social scene known as the Seattle Freeze. Plus, get my spoiler-free take on "Beetlejuice 2," exploring how it balances nostalgia with fresh ideas.
From spirited debates on the merits of traditional radio shows versus modern podcasts to the silly fun of fictional foods like "gargle up," this episode offers a little bit of everything. I’ll emphasize the importance of letting success speak for itself and round out the episode by guiding you to my social media platforms—Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Tumblr. Finally, I leave you with a quirky reflection on self-awareness, guaranteed to leave you both entertained and introspective. Don’t miss this unique blend of personal anecdotes, media critique, and playful musings.
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Holy 23rd episode Batman. This Scotty Dune X podcast Is soon to be one of the most ignored Podcasts in Gotham. Speaking of collecting Slash hoarding Out, there exists a collection Of my public access cable shows from earlier in the 2000s and I thought I had them on a big old thumb drive and that drive has nothing on it, but I had an off-site backup with a friend named Jim Aruni I'm pretty sure that's not the legal name. Anyhow, we'll get those files back over to my system and then I can relive the memories and erase them. No, we're not going to spend that much in bandwidth costs to erase, but a couple episodes that I had them send over, my first and my last.
Speaker 1:The people who watch Public Access Seattle and call in are just foul, horrible, just foul, horrible. And I had one caller who said this is Billy, can I rape you? He was asking consent to rape me. No, that's not going to be a thing. I wonder if I've even mentioned that on my podcast before. Anyway, there were cool callers but some were just freaking vile.
Speaker 1:Oh, let me mention something about public access in Seattle, washington. There was a guy or two and what they thought is hey, freedom of speech, we can show porno. So after midnight is when their show would air and they would show porno. However, they didn't really have the rights to the content. They were showing stuff from videos where they'd contacted the video owners and this is before porn was readily available on the internet and they said hey, we'd like to show a scene or two from your video, because we do a public access show and talk about videos. And they're like okay, well, the scene they were showing was all of them running the tape, and sometimes they would do split screens and run different tapes from different companies, as I remember. So not going to mention the people's names, although one of them was actually kind of clever and did incorporate the word Woody into his name the other person is just yeah, and I don't think those people are in the entertainment business anymore because their shows were shut down for basically airing unlicensed content. Whoops, because in public access back in the day, you had to sign off and hold harmless the cable company for your activities and, yeah, showing too much of other people's material on your show was a no-no. And then they're like oh, that's freedom of speech, you can't curtail me. Yeah, no, you absolutely can make your own speech and show it as long as you, you know, follow the rules of the country you're in, but no, no, no grabbing other people's vhs tapes from the 18 or older room in the back of the country you're in, but no, no, no Grabbing other people's VHS tapes from the 18 or older room in the back of the Quickie Mart that has some video VHSs for rent that did not wind up flying forever.
Speaker 1:Thank you for listening to the Scotty Don't X Show. I can be found on Facebook, at ScottyDon'tX, on Instagram at ScottyDon'tX, on TikTok, at ScottyDon'tX, on Tumblr at ScottyDon'tX Maybe. If you look deep inside yourself, I'm there waving out at you. No-transcript it. Public access is pretty good to me. I learned not only Seattle but um Clark County, vancouver public access and there was Tonya Elton who was the public access facilitator and the public access station slash studio was actually hosted inside Hudson's Bay High School before it relocated out of there to a place in a strip mall which wound up being near where 1550K Van was when I worked for when I had my show in 1550K Van. Years later, there's part of me that really wishes I was not back in Vancouver, washington.
Speaker 1:I had a great time in Des Moines, iowa, and there was Midwest Nice, which is a lot different from the Seattle Freeze, pacific Northwest Freeze. I went for a walk on lunch and had a great conversation with somebody, a friendly time. You know it was great. Up here it's just everyone's got their own tunnel vision. And yeah, when I was going for walks in Des Moines, iowa, that was during the time of cell phones and smartphones too. So it's not oh well, that was earlier and now it's. You know, everyone's in their cell phones. Nope, people were stuck with their noses in their socialized media. I don't know, I kind of wish I owned some grass so I could say, hey, get off my lawn. I'm not going to bitch about that person's driving. And this is the second person who hasn't figured out how left turning in front of other traffic works or does not work. Anyway, beautiful moon poking through the clouds tonight.
Speaker 1:Beetlejuice 2 review. It's on the theaters. No spoilers. I liked a lot of it. Some of it's like wow, how hard can you lean on the old stuff before it becomes unpalatable? Wow, movie reviews suck if you don't have any spoilers or anything.
Speaker 1:I suppose I could talk about stuff in the trailers, but then that puts me on the BJ Shea road where? Oh, it's in the trailer. I didn't spoil it for you and well, yeah, you ruined it for many people. Oh, speaking, let's talk BJ. So back when they were doing the Star Trek reboot, prime Timeline, kelvin Timeline there were prequel comic books. So I avoided those because I was avoiding spoilers and BJ on his show talks about this, that and the other thing. It's like spoilers. It's like, well, no, it was out there in the material. And, yeah, I chose to avoid the material, just like I choose to avoid extended trailers with things coming out.
Speaker 1:Oh well, agree to disagree. Somebody has a radio show, somebody else has a podcast. I think we're going to let success speak for itself and I'm going to have a big glass of gargle up. How come nobody's made a food called gargle up? Well, thank you for listening to the Scotty Don't X Show. I can be found on Facebook at Scotty Don't X, on Instagram at Scotty Don't X. On TikTok, at Scotty Don't X. On Tumblr, at Scotty Don't X. Maybe, if you look deep inside yourself, I'm there waving out at you. Okay, yeah, I just creeped myself out with that image.