e always wanted to have the world of entertainment at our fingertips, to be a quick click away from infinite options. As always, we were not careful comes in. “As the child of a single mom, I was babysat by cable television,” he says, “so this is my attempt to understand my own upbringing and the world at large through the strange-ass media that I’ve consumed over the years.” Every Tuesday night at , Berg weaves old television, low-budget genre films, dead-mall videos, vintage local commercials, and even Ring camera footage—“all the stuff that lurks in the corners of YouTube and on the dusty shelves of illicit torrent sites”—into a strange and fascinating tapestry. It’s familiar and foreign, freaky and funny, a stoned late-night flip through the channels like we thought we’d never do again. The enterprise has expanded to the biweekly a celebration of odd children’s programming called and an excavation of found footage and New York City cable access. “It’s bringing back appointment viewing,” Berg says. “It’s exposing people to things they aren’t immediately familiar with, and that’s pretty radical.” is not for everyone, and in a risk-averse, algorithmic entertainment landscape, that’s the point. “It’s a message in a bottle for whoever wants to read it,” he says. Join the show’s Patreon, and pop that bottle open.
