When John Dixon, aka Riverside’s Plumber , isn’t digging under the crawl spaces of Inland Empire homes to fix clogs and leaks, he’s digging through archives to create online content that champions the region’s musical history.

“When I started creating content, I felt that a lot of other creators had made a name for themselves by making fun of Riverside,” Dixon said during a recent phone interview. “I never wanted to make fun of Riverside. I love Riverside. It’s a beautiful place with a lot of great people, history and stories. That’s what I wanted to portray.”

At 10 years old, he found a passion for creating content on YouTube’s early ad-free days. Under different pseudonyms, he’s done sketch comedy, documentary-style videos, and created science experiments on TikTok. While Dixon had

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