i watch the youtube a lot 2023 edition

i watch the youtube a lot. if you see something choice tell me! new non-music answers. but it can be music.

last night i watched some or all or most of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXBLYEeF5vs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWgH0hXZKrE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aICI7KiPLvA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDsLZWwdyX4

i spend more time with this guy then i do my friends:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibDrnMg3mbA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir3eJ1t13fk

His Appalachia videos have been great. very surprising in a lot of ways. i think he has about 10 of them up. he is very good at finding compelling talkers!

i fell asleep the other night with this playing and i had NO fucking clue what was going on. it was like a fever dream. i still don't know what the hell i was watching. its 5 hours long!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40wkJJXfwQ0

Thanks Scott these look compelling

Old episodes of Pop Quiz. Want to see Bill Wyman, Paul Jones from Manfred Mann and Hank Marvin from the Shadows try to figure out the artists behind three versions of "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"? Pop Quiz has you covered.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpJ8sZpy6eg

also watch the youtube a lot, thanks for the recs already watched some stickball, how do they keep track of that little ball!? very impressive

have watched a couple things on the real stories channel there's two or three on women's prisons with sir trevor mcdonald that were very fascinating and well done

have been enjoying this channel lately, travelogue of japan type stuff, no voice over which I love, funny and cute subtitles, will probably never occasion to visit but what an interesting country

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FphWjbofvA4

along the same lines this channel about the day to day life in yakutia is super interesting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKNCvS3Kuzw

nice. i will check those out.

i get my travel in with a lot of market videos and train travel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKnTIaFCajo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zomZywCAPTA

i fell asleep the other night with this playing and i had NO fucking clue what was going on. it was like a fever dream. i still don't know what the hell i was watching. its 5 hours long!

It's a very impressive very realistic climactic part of the unfolding narrative from Tim Heidecker & Gregg Turkington's "On Cinema At The Cinema" show universe. It sort of gives the viewer enough information to follow it out of context but you'd have to not miss anything - either way definitely makes a ton more sense if you watch it in context of the regular episodes of the core show.

I watch a lot of street food/restaurant process videos like that Foodieboy one above. Travel Thirsty was my favorite for a long time but they're on a stretch of episodes that veer between pretty boring and absolutely disgusting, culminating in one this past week of barbecued rats. The "Japanese Noodles Udon Soba Fukuoka" channel is much more peaceful. I watch 3-4 cocktail channels as well, with presenters of varying irritating-ness.

i watched that episode of Pop Quiz today posted above. very entertaining. you know when it starts that you are better off on a team with tim rice and not bill wyman.

i meant to look up the guy who was with tim rice and toyah and i forgot...

for the record, this is a go-to for amazing train journeys:

http://www.youtube.com/@dulevoz

my food video watching kinda devolved over the last couple of years until it just ended up being hot ones, katina eats kilos, and good mythical morning vids. i mean i like all those things but they feel like empty calories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J19w5TSTjcg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndKpRNMUyGM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRtgXYuKg1w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0_5rPzJie4

that's what i've been reduced to. spending all night one night watching obama in restaurants. i was going to make a Youtube playlist for them! simpler times. you can almost pretend he's still president if you watch enough of them.

if you liked / were confounded by the Trail of Tim Heidecker you should watch more of the On Cinema stuff it's pretty great

i will check it out! i was just watching their spooky stories show on hbo last night! i forgot about that one and still hadn't seen it. that is another weird one.

i've been thinking of him since i saw his bill maher parody on youtube.

i meant to look up the guy who was with tim rice and toyah and i forgot...

B. A. Robertson! I had to look him up too. Kinda pissed me off how pally him and Tim Rice were while Toyah was left to stare into the distance for much of it.

yeah thanks for introducing me to Pop Quiz what a great idea for a show, I gather Toyah was not taken very serious at the time even though her records were weird as hell and she ended up marrying Robert Fripp of all people, who does that?

their joint youtube channel is so fun, relationship goals for sure

skott you might enjoy my thread like this for kids the kids should see this

your hotheads mixtapes are great btw

I watched one of the Peter Santenello videos about Montana shortly after getting here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXCUCj9GVn0

This one was filmed pretty close to where I live:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYTrPdLv634

who loves watching canadians do some wild chainsaw videos? me!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7T0uxixkZU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pre48ymuZs

his pizza doesn't look like anything i would want to eat but i like his outlook and attitude. its infectious. gonna go out and start an empire now. NOT. i like being small potatoes. i put enough pressure on myself. i LOVE the no middle management approach. and the emphasis on talking to possible hires and not caring so much about resumes. and it seems like a good gig. hourly + tips averaging $32 an hour? sign me up. although Seattle is really expensive.
also, some people are just born for social media. if you have that skill now you are gold. doesn't matter what you sell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4qjfVZR51s

Big fan of the weird man on the street stuff from the BBC Archive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogRODRXJtjQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqGVmPK55XA

YouTube killing adblockers makes it almost impossible to use and no I’m not paying for premium.

one of these days when i break both of my legs i'm going to watch everything on the korean classic film channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFPeQvW8XcA

I may have mentioned this earlier, but the only #vanlife channel I watch is this minimalist one from Japan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfHcGcJocRY

scott, I was gonna post a Korean Film Council video to this thread too! 1982's Village Of Haze. It's very hard to recommend as there is a prolonged, upsetting sexual assault in it and true to 20th century misogyny fashion the victim ends up liking it....but this happens towards the end of the film, and there's a good solid hour of just amazing cinema before it! One of the most gorgeous looking films I've ever seen, perfect autumn viewing. Kind of horror-not-horror. There's a scene at a train station with Yazoo playing that's worthy of Douglas Sirk.

Every cinematheque in the world should take a cue from what Korea's doing imo.

i will make a note of it.

on the flipside there is also a north korean video archive on youtube that is intense and if you watch too much of it you might actually end up brainwashing yourself.

This is the most beautiful thing I've seen all week. Watch the slow-mo! Even if you hate American football.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAMWd-zvmtM

AMAZINGNESS!! so jealous of his bookworm lair!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6cIujCC3Do

Happy Christmas!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbij7hYP5SA

Time to meet our 2023 Iowa Pork Youth Leadership Team

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3yOKvF_IYw

they do look like they'd fry up real good.

please please won't someone make me stop watching these horrible videos. this guy needs to go to an island far far way from humanity. thanks, trump!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfTUIKzmt-s

omg i'm so glad i'm not a cop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vNJQnGroWk

God scott why are you doing this psychic damage to yourself.

Watch a Space Ghost Coast To Coast episodes livestream instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiheRTcwkc4

i don't know i find them compelling! they are like one-act plays. i think Artaud would approve. i do enjoy seeing jerks get comeuppance. that's probably not right though. i don't think the psychic damage is too severe. i only watch jerky white people acting jerky. i watched so many Karen videos during pandemic.

i like the sovereign citizen ones. they are like small Beckett plays. people just repeating the same thing over and over. "I do not need a driver's license to drive a vehicle." "Yes you do." "No I don't." "Yes you do." "I do not need a driver's license to drive a vehicle." "Yes you do." "No I don't."

i know i know and you're right but i swear this is better than off broadway. in fact i'm bringing this verbatim account to a little black box theater in soho. a one-act. the repetition transfixes me. how many times can he pull that seatbelt? so many times!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCopTEj6yFU

I got sucked into these kinds of vids around the pandemic, not good for my soul, most compelling for me was watching that one Florida dude get arrested again and again for impersonating the police. sometimes I don’t know if I hate fake cops or real cops more.

there is one where this douche-y looking guy will not leave an airport after he is told to leave and they must ask him to leave like 50 times and finally they wrestle him to the ground and take him outside and he has all kinds of shady shit in his backpack. false identities. tons of other people's credit card info. laptops. 6 phones. tons of cash. i just could not believe that he was that dumb. how could anyone that shady be that dumb? it was amazing. he could have just walked out like it was no big deal.

the mask ones are still fascinating to me. i hope someone writes a good book or article about mask psychosis. it often involved race. just really bizarre behavior. the pandemic brought so much stuff to the surface. one woman in an airport who won't leave because she won't mask just repeating "am i white?" "am i white?" over and over.

i do feel like i'm looking at it as sociology. i stay away from cops and people of color, the poor, and the obviously mentally ill for the most part. it feels more exploitative like Cops was. but watching so many, uh, red state folks just losing their minds...is informative. its a phenomena.

listening to some old radio shows! they are actually good work listening. easy enough for me to listen and also do my Discogs work. listening to a good Dragnet. the channel i am on has, like, 200 episodes of Dragnet alone! fun. probably going to come across lots and lots of racism. i just like how they sound. i think the reason why i have never listened to podcasts or books on CD is because its TOO clear in an ASMR way. it ends up getting on my nerves. the fuzzy stuff from the 30s and 40s and 50s is JUST right clarity-wise.

yeah kinda the same reason I still listen to sports on the AM, such a wonderful soothing squashed sound

yeah there is nothing like baseball on AM. or local college sports on AM.

How has the Dorktown series of long form sports documentaries on the Secret Base channel not been brought up here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvh6NLqKRfs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcGamPqUIxI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIgK56cAjfY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3_whi6KuLo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfFn4NqQr_U

XP A few things I've enjoyed lately on YT

Everything you wanted to know about Alain Delon but were too afraid to ask
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkxya5plwXQ

The algorithm throwing out some musical lost treasure lately - this is like "maggot brain" with heavy synth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw6Wjd9lALM

Lou Gramm had a helluva voice. I'm a Foreigner convert after watching this live set from '81
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGqOCSJ26kE

OK I’ll stop. There’s also a multipart series on the history of the Minnesota Vikings, another one on the Atlanta Falcons, and one on the day a crazy pilot decided to crash his light aircraft into a stadium. I love all of it.

i will check them out, tombot! i don't know that channel.

michael b, that 1986 tape showed up on my youtube today and i played it! that is one powerful algorithm. the comments for it are funny:

@Ghostrider42047
8 days ago
You dont search for this, it finds you

@Orphenia_
6 days ago
We meet again weary algorithm travelers. We’ve made it.

@lucabrasi8420
4 weeks ago
Count yourselves lucky folks for the algorithm has decided we are some of the worthy few .

@coreydotson2524
2 weeks ago
If you’re here, I love you. I’m proud of you. Everything you’re doing is worthwhile and meaningful. Stay strong and carry on. You matter.

There's been a few other corkers that popped up lately too for me, Scott

What are you trying to tell me, oh Great Almighty Algorithm?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTCakUZlXK4

Hipster crate-digging algorithm, you're really excelling yourself here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCo7pOJw8Lo

Beautiful 90s indie tune, never heard of this band before, reminds me of Velocity Girl a bit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iSM_6qd4Ss

They're dumb but I get a laugh from these Obscurest Vinyl tunes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icY5DYwOHyA

going back to thread beginnings, Must Try Bangkok Street Food - my idea of heaven, holy hell, how did i miss this before?!

when i watch those street market videos it makes going to my local supermarket seem really really boring.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPHcBvy6yT4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0xFa9d5XLY

hey i have been meaning to remember to put this here. an IlXOr with an amazing channel. like going on a trip to some alternate lynchian universe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=featured

aargh

http://www.youtube.com/@JSanders

haha, sorry!

so much cool stuff on there.

hell yeah!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIF2N7dnl-s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf0f3vjka8Q

i can watch these videos for hours. go ahead, diagnose me, i don't care. i don't even watch video game videos. these videos though, for whatever reason, push all my buttons. get it? for the record: i have never been to a casino or played a slot machine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtaIY8qieEs

that is horrifying

time to meet our 2024 Iowa Pork Youth Leadership

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlKoZfgt2uw

"that is horrifying"

i know, right? they are wildly popular. i kinda like watching people gamble. who knew? also, the bells and whistles. very stimm-ulating for me. everyone has their own ASMRs i guess.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fqt3sKk5O4

Probably best to not dive too deep into the politics of popular Youtube blacksmiths/Forged in Fire hosts

aw man i started watching bogan aussie ex-con rapper Spanian for his vids on street food and tough neighborhoods around the globe and i thought...man i hope he doesn't turn out to be alt-right and then i see the beginning of a Vice doc on him that has a disclaimer about Spanian's homophobic rants on instagram and how he's been dropped by his agent/label/etc..and that was my last day with Spanian. he was funny. and i did enjoy seeing that insane neighborhood waaaaaay the hell up a mountain in medellin columbia as well as as one in sao paulo.

and yes i did watch the entire vegas matt interview on howie mandel's podcast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2IYBe-NbVI

My ads are so weird. For years now I’ve been getting various products aimed at ladies with leakage and tons of pharmaceutical lobby ads from all angles of the drug pricing debate. And then the occasional ad for a grocery chain that’s nowhere near me. So I got the Wegman’s whistle jingle stuck in my head and had a dream last night in which Novo Nordisk featured prominently enough for me to remember it.

i pay for super youtube with no ads and youtube music. its definitely worth it since i'm such a YTJunkie.

ublock origin is still defeating YT ads for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNykX7X0n58

ooh that reminds me of the Area X books. i will watch that tomorrow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1t-bxG27Mk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDaoO-_HK-M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYdibsKc7mo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqTfcLoPh-g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOAzWjBjzPs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYBYCsxbiaM

THIS IS SO AMAZING FIVE STARS MUST SEE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBB1I0wdMno

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBE4_xrelY4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCm6nz7LXws

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2HP8kKTcNA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSAPhtY2fsk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtKXfw6vvvI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-27D3fnQdc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8CJlrzvWMM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVZ1XRwdxws

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvU2zHMFlfU

Woah.
AMAZING FIVE STAR video is intense...

yah, its nuts and will put you in a trance.