and she was in one of the class of the john aden learning how to make you know personal videos and storytelling and she did a video that featured her son included some information about criminal justice reform and  that video they got invited to show that in washington washington d c and as part of some legislation reform that they were working on and the video that they made definitely had an impact in in  criminal justice reform legislation so we're so excited to have you back as this is only your second time here yeah so is easier to perform on our on our final day you want one of these up  so we're not going to start yet this is public access technical difficulties but you know we call our criminal justice reform coalition is one of just hundreds of nonprofit organizations that use the resources here to learn how to make their own media to learn have a how to have a voice in the new media conversation and we were super proud of our work with with pam and justin and the others at the colorado criminal justice reform coalition in addition to the public access station that we run and the radio station we've talked about the media foundation also has kind of like an ad agency arm where we produce videos produce websites do communications services for nonprofits trying to make sure that nonprofit organizations have loud voice in the in the media sphere and that work is still going strong and we've done some great work with c c j r c and a lot of the organizations that they work with you can learn more about that at open media foundation dot org so what's the what else are we talking i'm excited to say all this stuff but we're also killing time due to do technical difficulties later tonight so this is our last night broadcasting on the t v station and i think we've all heard people say like oh be so great to do a show about this or that and my job i was originally doing creative work here at the station but for the past several years i've just been a manager which i'm even worse at than the creative stuff but every once in awhile i have these thoughts of like oh i wish i did this or i wish i did that on the station and so tonight after we get through of the true talent the long list that we have the taking us through it probably midnight or so i'm going to just get up on the stage and do all that stuff that i like wish i had done over the years one of them is showing a bunch of clips from  and and kyle mooney i don't know if you guys know you know those people but it's going to be great and i'm going to be here until until the wee hours of the morning doing that and i invite anyone who's watching at home or anyone who's here in the studio if you have any ideas anything you want to do even come up until bad jokes is our last word this is our last night to do it so i invite you to consider doing it ok good and like don't tell bad jokes  they're like what tell us about your biggest strengths and like my biggest strength is i know everybody and literally know everybody and the boss is like not nobody knows everybody's like just trying me and he's like right do you know tom cruise and he's like yeah we can just head over there s that the interview was in l a anyway and so he's like get in my car they drive over tom cruise south he opens the door and tom cruise is like oh my god dave so good to see you i mean indirect reach out to you want to come over for dinner and he's just like blown away the boss of going away and he's like just try know the pope and and so dave's like right we're going to take another flight so they get on a plane they go to the vatican the pope's out on some balcony like blessing the crowds and there's too many too many people in the crowd some dude like what we can't get up there i can't get his attention but just give me a second i know all the guards too so they'll let me up and so so like he leaves and like ten minutes later ten minutes later he's he walks out on the balcony with the pope and he's he's waving down at the crowd and he sees as boss down there just like with his eyes open like talking to the people around him and then he kind of like falls over and he's laying on the ground the crowd's kind of rolling over so  he he runs down to the boss and he's like or the guy who hasn't hired him yet and he's like man what happened there like we think he had a heart attack or something and he's like he's like joel the guy's name is joel wake up what's wrong what happened is like is like it 's the last shock i couldn't handle it the guy leaned over to me and said who the heck is that on out there with dave  one day here soon but yeah i mean we did try and do something different here and you know for those who didn't know it was a pretty revolutionary idea when we first launched public access and number the city it pulled any operational funding for public access so we had to use a really different model so we let our members schedule their own t v shows our web development department built some software that lets them see all the openings for the type of video that or music or whatever that they submitted they selected their own broadcast slot so we don't even have a view or review the shows they schedule than themselves and then everyone views them votes on those shows on the website and on t v and and those votes drive the scheduling for channel fifty seven the channel you're watching right now if you're watching from home which has h d counterpart on channel eighty one so it's a really unique way to run a t v station let's the community really puts the power in the hands of the community and let the community decide what they want to see that's still the way that are that's still the way that our audio station who will be programmed as a sound effect for this big base box still the way that the radio station is a program so if you listen in eighty nine point three h d three or ninety two point nine you can vote on those songs at the website demo media dot org and the more votes song gets the more it will play so the audience really gets to determine what they want to hear and what they don't want to hear and then we aren't playing the gatekeeper either so community members don't come to us and say please give me a better time slot or something they just go tell their friends and family to vote on their show and the more votes there their song or their show gets than the more  to you turn on the in well we're experiencing these technical difficulties check to check to check check check i want to acknowledge one more time all the volunteers every show that happens here is done by community members not by paid staff or most media foundation we exist to make sure that the community has the skills and equipment they need to amplify their own voice so this is a crew of volunteers and we want to thank them and i don't like to single them out because there are so many volunteers happen helping out tonight but i'm going to single one out  gabe in that corner back there you still back there gabe i can't really see you gave us was an internist in our video production department like eight years ago or something like that he was such a stellar inturn brought a lot of skills to helping make sure nonprofits had great videos fundraising videos and training videos and then senses internship and did like seven or eight years ago he's just been the most consistent volunteer and he runs camera every first friday for open music sessions he's always around me at the kickstarter launch our radio station he was one of like two or three people that stayed here till midnight when the clock ticked and we when we hit our goal by like ten dollars or something and i think  donating like five dollars at the last minute on his own is i'm sure extremely well paying salary to help us cross the finish line so i want to thank you gave for doing it every time i direct on on on the switch and you're running camera i was just you know we've got one super solid camera so they queue for for doing this for us over the years we really appreciate it