00:01I think the term in those days that people used to use was a magazine show.
00:05And so this was like sort of an avant-garde magazine show.
00:08John called it a spin through the pop culture blender.
00:11The term we used at the time was the pop culture blender.
00:15You know, we used to call it a spin through the pop culture blender.
00:18It'd be loud one minute just like grabbing you by the throat.
00:22It's the way things are going.
00:24It's like the creative voices you want to hear.
00:26It's like everybody's voice and nobody's voice.
00:28It was a kind of, you know, subversive current affairs show.
00:33It was genre-less. In fact, it just took the word genre and ripped it up and spat it out,
00:38you know, and pissed all over.
00:40But buzz was overload. Buzz was like a little glimpse through the curtain.
00:45I was buzzed. It's about what gives you a buzz.
00:50Television is the result of endless experiments.
00:53This, this is buzz.
00:54It felt like a distillation of the zeitgeist.
01:00Suddenly you saw this thing where in 15 minutes you'd seen more ideas than you'd seen in the last two
01:07years.
01:10And when I first saw buzz, I thought I was seeing the future of television.
01:15When I watch buzz today, I still think I'm seeing the future of video.
01:22It was extraordinary. I mean, really, it looked like something that Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs would have produced at
01:30kind of five o'clock in the morning after a whole weekend being on it.
01:34It's supposed to make you buzz. It's supposed to give you a buzz. What moves you? There is a buzz
01:41around.
01:42It's hard to classify. I would talk about buzz and I'd be like, well, what is it? And I'd try
01:45to explain it and I'm like, well, it's this new show.
01:47But it's really like, imagine, like, somebody's changing the channel.
01:51It was Paul's Boutique. There was no keeping up with all the samples.
01:55Buzz was the first piece of programming that really got my attention that just fucking blew my mind.
02:01But what buzz did was it pushed the envelope further than anybody else had ever pushed it.
02:07It was thought-provoking.
02:09It was like a scream. It was like this primal scream.
02:11It was in 1990.
02:12It felt like a thousand eyes all over the globe at once.
02:15I think the first person I ever heard talk about buzz was Bono.
02:19It was like flicking through a magazine.
02:20Influenced by bros.
02:22It's supposed to make you buzz.
02:24It's supposed to give you a buzz.
02:25He was way ahead of his time. That was understood.
02:28Well, we didn't realize that it was actually prophetic.
02:32So I shut it off. So I shut it all off. So I shut it off.
02:46This is Buzz.
03:02It's Buzz.
03:04It's Buzz.
03:06It's Buzz.
03:08It's Buzz.
03:10It's Buzz.
03:11It's Buzz.
03:12It's Buzz.
03:13You
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