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🎬💿 Welcome to KB: The After-Show — MTV Edition! 💿🎬Where you have no idea what year it is! You’ve just stepped into KB’s MTV Wonderland, where time rewinds to the golden era of music television — and pop culture is forever young.

TONIGHT’S GUEST: The legendary MTV and ABC journalist Chris Connelly — the man who lived, breathed, and reported the pulse of a generation.

We’re diving into:

* Growing up on Manhattan Island (with all the grit and groove)

* Katie’s childhood MTV tapings — yes, literally on VHS

* Why so many classic MTV clips never made it to YouTube 👀

* Life at Rolling Stone, working beside Kurt Loder

* Behind the lens of MTV’s The Big Picture

* The wild ride from print journalism to live TV

* The magic (and chaos) of the live show era

* What made the MTV audience unlike any other

* The back injury Chris still remembers

* Reflections on the end of MTV’s cultural chapter 💔

* Woodstock ‘99 — What The Hell Happened?

* The art of asking (and not asking) questions as a journalist

* All The Graceland Vibes!

* True crime: Cold Blooded Mystery In Alaska (20/20)

* Chris’s heartfelt story about reporting the death of Tupac Shakur

* Memories of Afeni Shakur, (Tupac’s Mother).

💥 Plug in. Press play. Relive the music, media, and mayhem that shaped a generation. This is KB: The After-Show — part of our MTV series.

Don’t forget to check out the TV edition on YouTube! 📺

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