My Great Idea This Week - A 24/7 Streaming Channel Of MTV'S Total Request Live (TRL) For Old Guys Like Me

Made my debut appearance on My Mom's Basement which I can only assume took so long because Robbie Fox didn't want people to know I am actually a bigger UFC fan than him and got him in with Dana White or that Clem invited me to his house once and I mistakenly walked into what I thought was a bathroom in his basement and when I opened the door it was a closet full of Derek Jeter memorabilia and is afraid I would expose it (joking on both accounts obviously) but whatever the case, I was thrilled to talk about The 25th anniversary of Almost Famous, a movie we all love as well as a bunch of nostalgia from the year 2000. They are two guys I love to talk to and are super interesting and super fun to be around, it was a ton of fun. 

In the layers of those conversations about what we watched back in the day before phones, and DVR etc that we kept coming back to was MTV TRL. For those of you who reading this who aren't seeing grey hairs yet, or worrying about starting to schedule prostate exams like myself, TRL was the it show for pre-teens and teens in the late 90's early 2000's. It's prime run was 98-2005 hosted by Carson Daly airing in the afternoons after school where it would play a countdown of music videos voted on by fans. An ancient concept on so many levels I know, but trust me it was modern back then. It had a studio audience and an audience outside on the streets everyday that grew and grew and grew. 

Artists and celebrities stopped by to promote their newest video, album or movie to the fans that they new were their biggest. It felt like the first real show targeted at an age group that was in need of something cool. We were in that weird phase of life that you outgrew kiddie movies and shows, and were starting to form your own likes and interests but unlike older teenagers who could go to R rated movies on their own and drive cars you were still restricted to the rules of your parents etc. TRL was the escape where you felt like it was aimed specifically for you. 

It was a place for lunatic fan groups to be celebrated and fight, and every once in a while threaten the host with murder. 

It was a perfect time for a perfect show at a perfect spot in my life. Pound for pound it was likely my favorite tv show of all time. I have very fond memories of watching it before practice doing homework.

In the conversation of the episode I brought up that with all the streaming services we have now, why isn't there a channel of MTV's TRL playing on demand or 24/7? Now I fully get that music rights can be an issue and that opens doors to a ton of things, but if you knew that show you knew they barely showed the music videos anyway, and hardly ever in their entirety. It was about the fans, the feuds, the weird clips, etc. So don't even show the music videos, we don't need them. Give us this stuff … 

Figure out a way to get TRL on demand and let us relive the glory days of MTV before the internet and smartphones. Throw the old guys a bone. 

Check out the full episode of My Mom's Basement here: