A few years back, former Clash leader Joe Strummer, standing on stage at the Roxy, paused in mid song (it was "White Riot," I think), gazed in wonderment at the roiling mass surging and swelling before him, and proclaimed in his stentorian voice that "Boston is the punkest town!" Twenty-nine-year-old Sean Huck agrees. Originally from Kentucky, he fled that state’s smallish underground punk culture for Boston, where he’s currently producing a public-access cable-television punk-o-rama titled The Life We Lead (it airs Tuesdays at midnight on BNN-TV). Here, he discovered, "the kids put everything they have into the scene. The DIY attitude is really, really strong, and everybody works so hard. These kids spend thousands of dollars to promote bands: buying merch, going out of town, taking time off work. When I go to other cities, the kids all say, ‘Our scene sucks . . . we don’t have anything like yours.’ That’s why this show exists."

Filmed wholly on digital camera equipment (appropriated from the software company where Huck has his "real job"), the half-hour show’s production values alone set it apart from the cable-access pack. But its real appeal is how Huck casts his TV eye on a vibrant youth culture, offering an earnest, enlightening glimpse at the Hub’s far-flung but close-knit scene.

Highlights? Pogo to the opening montage (themesong courtesy of Mission Hill street punks Suspect Device), a flash of Doc Martens, hooded sweatshirts, and half-empty pint glasses! Guffaw as Dickie Barrett and Murphy’s Law frontman Jimmy Gestapo trade noogies on stage at the Middle East! Leer at a video from Tokyo’s kitten-cute and marble-mouthed punkettes Thug Murder (ingénues of Ken Casey’s Flat Records) as they cover the Bobby Fuller Four — or is it the Clash? — before being thrown into a BPD squad car! (The law won, you see.) Moderating it all is Huck himself, an avuncular VJ perched on the sofa of his defiantly unpunk living room like a cross between Rikki Rachtman and Mr. Rogers.

The show’s live-performance footage is great, and where else can you see a Skels video these days? But Huck feels the show’s real strength is its interviews, be they shorter Q&As or show-length profiles of bands like Tommy and the Terrors and Dropkick Murphys (wherein the provenance of bagpipe player Spicy McHaggis’s nom de punk is finally revealed). "When you see interviews [on MTV], they want a specific message to be conveyed. It’s scripted. That’s pointless. When I interview people, they get to have their voice, and the kids get to learn about what’s going on behind the music that they love."

For Huck, TLWL itself is a labor of love. He estimates he spends 25 to 30 hours a week on its editing alone. "Then I have to come up with the questions, do the interviews, go to the shows, film, go through the footage, figure out what to use, put that in the computer, map out the story, build it, run it off on tape, have a friend make duplications. Then I update the Web site."

But he’s gonna stick with it for a while. Not only are the kids he sees at shows appreciative ("Everybody’s really excited; I’ve gotten nothing but positive responses, which tells me that I’m doing the right thing"), but it’s paying off in other ways. Ken Casey was so taken with the Dropkicks episode that he asked Huck to help produce a DVD documenting the band’s recent trifecta of Paddy’s Day shows.

And he knows he’s serving a need. "There’s so much going on, and no one’s really taking the time to chronicle it. These bands have something to say."

The Life We Lead airs Tuesdays at midnight on Cablevision Channel 23 in Greater Boston. Videotapes of past shows are available at www.thelifewelead.com.