Youtube channel recommendations
 

Bout time we had a thread for this :)) So here 'tis.

The video thread is great for individual videos - but what do we do if we want to recommend a whole Youtube channel rather than an individual video, I hear nobody ask.

Well, nobody, you post those recommendations here.

I'll start with 2 very different channels.


1. Beau of the Fifth Column (and indeed, The Fifth Column itself).


I frikken love this guy. I must have watched about 2 hours worth of short videos, and have yet to find one I haven't found interesting and thought provoking.

here are a few examples of his stuff:

About mistakes people make prepping for disaster survival...



More recently, about looting and state response in the wake of the hurricane



An appeal to Generation X

Good thread ma'am.

I follow a lot of channels that will minorly offend the lot of you, so I have chosen to highlight my least offensive recommendation. It's very American, so take that under advisement.

TheReportOfTheWeek is a young gentleman who dresses exclusively in old-style suits, parts and manages his hair with extreme care, speaks like an old-timey radio announcer, and reviews fast food items.

He's not funny; he's eccentric, and it's charming. It feels like he has chosen to go right along with his eccentricity, and it works beautifully for him. For example, he doesn't use his real name, or any sort of real name, he just refers to himself as "The Report of the Week" which is oddly satisfying.

In this new era of YouTube celebs, here is one that nobody saw coming. I like that part about our new media landscape. Never in a million billion years would the old media have given this cat air time. But he found an audience.

This, right here, is why I love youtube.

One of my favourite channels is Blind Wave. A group of RL friends who started a website commenting on the various things they enjoy, which then turned into a Youtube channel, with gaming, reactions, original content, cooking shows, podcast etc etc. Some stuff it's all of them, some stuff will have different pairings, or trios.

With Youtube revenue and patreon support they've managed to get a little studio set up, and they have a regular audience - I watched their Game of Thrrones reactions, and there were people sending in gifts to go on the desk during reactions, that were serious GoT merch - like, how much does the official collection of full colour maps cost??

They've carved out their little niche, grown their audience and are doing all sorts of entertaining and creative stuff with it.

Frikkin awesome.

Also he is great - I am totally watching more of his stuff.

Re: - I don't think we should be offended by a video channel. Or rather, I don't think we should be offended by your posting it. If we don't like a channel, we don't have to watch their videos.

I would just assume I wasn't the person you were recommending the video to :P


[eta] I sometimes wander through videos that are completely against my beliefs or opinions - it's interesting to get the other viewpoint - it's pretty essential if you disagree with that worldview that you have some understanding of what it is you are actually disagreeing with. And occasionally you happen upon a sliver of common ground, or something that makes you reassess your own worldview.

Well I did just finally hit the subscribe button on Nazi Pug guy Count Dankula. I don't know if I'm gonna stick with him... I don't know how far UKIP he is exactly, he went and talked to them, but he's funny, and representin' the free speech. And from here, to hear that deep Scottish accent really makes it more entertaining.

In this segment he tells the tale of Mad Jack Churchill and it's a fine tale indeed.

'archery and bagpipes'

Hahahah. That's fucking awesome.


I like his style. he's an excellent story teller.

"You can't help but respect a man who brings a sword to a fuckin' gunfight... and fuckin' wins." :D :D

"Madja cha chew"

Well I started down the Joe Rogan Experience pathway, and that led to Jordan Peterson and the entire Intellectual Dark Web.

Former professional attention whore and addict Russell Brand is changing his profession to Deep Thinker; sometimes he seems overwrought and boring, other times it seems like he is truly onto something.

I subscribe to the Philadelphia Eagles channel, but I'm not offering that as a recommendation, except that the Eagles are the finest team in all the land, led by Our Savior, Ginger Jesus.

I have stayed a Jonathan Pie fan. For some reason, his is the only anti-Trump comedy snark I can enjoy. I think he comes at it from a slightly different angle than our doctrinaire left.

Woodturner 21

This guy is a 3rd generation production woodturner in England. He's been production turning for close to 40 years and you can see the kind of skill that only comes with thousands and thousands of hours of practice. Absolute economy of movement and sure cuts. 37 yrs x 50 weeks x 40 hours =74,000 hours.

His technique is astounding. It's so relaxing to watch. Some of his videos have the sound of the turning, which is music in itself, others have (or had) added music.

The guy is super nice and friendly, and comes across as humble.

AvE is a Trip , shoppy talk but funny


This old Tony is funny


Abom is a classy dude


All Metal working vids ( Mostly )

Oh and the Scottish Granny


Watch it all the way thru with out laughing , i dare ya !!!

Not sure if I ran across this here or not, but this guy is recreating the antitkythera mechanism.

Stewie Griffin is all grown up and now he builds custom guitars. This is Crimson guitars YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/user/CrimsonCustomGuitars

I've been binging it while I await my new guitar and repairs to the old one.

Well, now, what does he mean by Stewie Griff--ohnowIgetit.:yesnod:

He annoyed me at first... But then I got past that.

This one isn't on the you tube channel, but it's done a bit better. He does voice over in post production instead of the manic yammering in the first couple builds I watched, and it is more informative and you don't have to endure as much silliness.

https://crimsonguitars.com/the-9-hou...-in-real-time/

There are a handful of other builds there too. I watched the 100 minute and 12 hour guitars first, and am currently on episode 2 of that link ^ up there.

I think I might try this guitar building thing.

Bruce gave me a huge slab of wood.... You happen to remember what kind of wood that is, xo? I have some sepele and some wenge, as well....

So this is research, really.

It's Black Walnut.

That's racist.

African-American Walnut

I follow a bunch of various makers.

This guy is fun. His accent reminds me of home.

Ohhh - I am totallly sending my brother a link to that.

@ UT -

Hopefully this plays outside the UK.

Jonathon Pie on 'Mansplaining' - from his live show - (nsfw):

:) plays here. Thank you, that's some good Pie! (And yeah, you women-folk are hardcore!)

Youtube just demonetized his entire channel.

That sort of thing is going to slash away YouTube's relevance very quickly.

What relevance, as an entertainment alternative to the Netflix or Hula?

And now there is the very silly Pewdiepie vs T-Series subscriber count battle.

Pewdiepie is fun. He's a Swedish gamer, who cracks funny at memes. T-Series is an Indian music video channel... not silly at all, just mainstream Indian culture. It's an actual battle for what would be far and away the top subscribed YouTube channel. (These two channels have 85M subscribers and I believe the #3 contender has about half those numbers.)

Pewds is now making it into a huge comic battle, inside joke for the fans, as if it's critically important that we all subscribe and "smash Like" on videos so he can defeat T-Series. It is in the spirit of Boaty McBoatface and Pewds clearly understands that. He takes himself very un-seriously. Which is surely why he's popular.

"Bitch lasagna" Pewd's fake rap song to focus the battle

Nice thread here DanaC.

Great info overall. For the majority of my adult life I've been living short term at a given place, then moving on. Short term - move, Short term - move. For years. I'm good at it when most others are not.

It doesn't make me sad either. Moving.

So, when the subjects are taking care of yourself, preparing for situations that are beyond your control, and surviving those situations in reasonable comfort short term, I'm paying attention.

I completely agree with the notion that just having guns is not going to get you through the crisis. And that one is none. Two is one. And many other ideas shared in the videos.

It's also great to read your enthusiasm for the whole idea of prepping. That you don't need to be preparing for the coming communist invasion to benefit from these suggestions. Natural disasters are a very real reason to take some time and effort in preparing.

I'll also share a little gem free of charge from my little group of roaming contractors that I've never seen online.

Rice and dry dog food.

Shortly after I move in, there's a big bag of both somewhere in my crashpad.

Much cheaper than the freeze dried Mountain house stored food and something to give out in a time of great hunger. First the rice, then the dog food. Not exactly FEMA rations but if you're hungry...

At the end of the contract, there's always a nice dog nearby I can gift the dry food and rice to.

Cheap insurance.

Good channels to watch. Nice thread!

Do they ever mention to include a big bag of salt? You can preserve what you kill for eating later, without having refrigeration.

I'm thinking meteorite here rather than civil instability

Yeah, I was reading about this guy who has a plan to feed 6 billion people with fungi and weird shit in case of nuke war, big space rock, or super volcano. He was saying any of those would practically blot out the sun for at least two years.

Then it dawned on me, that would render all those solar panels almost useless.

Good call.

It's cheap, non-toxic, not flammable and not terribly incriminating when the FBI breaks the door in.

I'll add it to my list.

It's quite salty.

Not so much with lime and tequila.

Hmmm curing meat with salt is a little more difficult than I thought, this page says it wants low-but-not-freezing temperatures for a month. But it also says you can brine the meat in jars, and doesn't say it has to be any particular temperature for that.

It also says you can smoke the meat, and that seems like the best way.

Ah, but with just salt you can ferment veggies! Of course you have to grow/find them first, but they last basically forever without refrigeration, plus the probiotics will help you fight off all the dysentery you'll be getting from those failing sanitation systems.

It's nice if you can stay put; but, if you have to be on the move it doesn't make the weight cut.

I have subscribed to PewDiePie, to help him try to defeat T-Series.

PewDiePie is fine light entertainment for the Interneterati youth. Gaming, memes, being all meta, cracking wise in an internet-millennial sort of way.

J: You're watching that PewDiePie guy?
UT: Yes he's funny
J: He looks like a bro. Is he a bro culture guy?
UT: No he's Swedish.

PewDiePie throws around the n-word in his videos and has promoted neo-Nazi channels on his channel.

Anyone who knows PewDiePie knows that is Vox being Vox. It is what they do. And it is revolting.

Is the Alt-right revolting as well?
I don't have time to tease out whether inside jokes are really jokes, so I'll leave him to the tragically hip. I've become much more reflective about what I expose my brain to. Going deep into any counter-culture is stimulating and fun but from my immersive libertarian experience I know that I often left common sense in the cloak room.

I been watching BBQ porn lately

It depends on your definition of alt-right! Originally it meant the revolting white nationalists, including nazi Richard Spencer who apparently coined the term. But many people heard the term out of that context, and came to believe it describes some different vague righty group. At this point, Ben Shapiro is often described as alt-right. Shapiro is an orthodox Jew. The white nationalists hate him.

PewDiePie links hundreds of sites when he uses identifies meme creators and whatnot. Linking creators is a courtesy. Just linking to a site doesn't indicate any kind of philosophical agreement. Notice that the Cellar currently links to such a site. Intent matters. Intent is everything.

Guilt by association is revolting. It recalls the red scare, where you could be blacklisted just for being friends with a "known Communist", or attending a meeting to find out what it was about. Today, link to Nazis? Make jokes about Nazis? Well then you must be one.

What, Griff is a nazi? Well the Toad said so. Hey did you hear Toad said Griff is a nazi?
Reading for comprehension is passe, skimming for gossip is the ticket, just grab things to tweet before somebody beats you to it, truth be damned. :(

You can just grab 'em by the tweet.

I stopped at 1:20. He's got pepper seeds everywhere. They're in everything.

I'm pretty sure that didn't happen.

The BBC tried to hire Dankula to do a panel show; and this allowed the entire thing to blow up today, as the Beeb could legitimately be challenged as offering a platform to a Nazi-adjacent convicted hate criminal. BBC had to recant and fire him.

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/s...alute-14081982

There were headlines saying "Nazi pug criminal", and I can't imagine what someone would make of that moniker, if they didn't know the Dankula back story.

But allowing the term to describe some different vague righty group allows you to claim that the people you are describing are Nazis. Hence it allows you to tag people you disagree with as the worst people on earth. This is extremely false, and extremely bad, but it has been allowed to happen by people who should know better.

Today New Zealand's major book retailer banned Jordan Peterson's "12 Rules For Life".

We have entered the book-burning phase of the Brown Scare.

There is absolutely nothing political about the book. It's basically a self-help book peppered with Peterson's observations. Everyone should read it, it's 100% wonderful. I have, and I feel it has done nothing short of improving my life. Peterson isn't even all that righty. He's a traditionalist if you could say anything about him.

Meanwhile, book they did not ban, still on the shelves: Mein Kampf.

Mein Kampf? It's not personal, strictly business.

That book has probably done more to bring misguided young men away from the extreme right than any of the anti-indoctrination schemes currently targeting at risk youth.

Truth!

Peterson's biggest point is: empty nihilism leads to resentment. Disappearing into resentment is literally a personal hell on earth. But getting your life sorted out, by taking responsibility, is where you find meaning in life, and that is the antidote to that nihilism and resentment.

That's exactly what a resentful shitposting possible shooter with no life needs to understand.

Bingo.

He is also telling disaffected and unhappy young men (mainly) to stop trying to fix everybody else and society at large until they've sorted themselves out - clean your room before you try to clean the world

I think you can't have a full discussion about why young people are experiencing historical levels of stress, anxiety, depression, nihilism, resentment, and the effects that cascade from there, without addressing the tangible impact of the lack of economic opportunities that are available to the group of people who grew up during the 2008 recession.

I personally suspect that the rise of young, white, male violence is coming from a group of boys who saw their fathers and grandfathers being able to support a family and maintain patriarchal dominance over society by simply being a reasonably proficient, regular (white), middle-class dude. I'm sure they're asking why that social contract has betrayed them. Of course they have nihilism and resentment.

What are we telling them-- pull yourselves up by the bootstraps?

No, it has nothing to do with that

Oh, okay. Dodged a bullet there.

Get it? Dodged a bullet?

That isn't Peterson's message though. His is more of a ...exert control over your own life in a small way - you can't control the world, but you can give yourself a clean room as a first step to taking control of your life and your ability to respond to the world and opportunities (of whatever kind) when they arise. To develop a sense of personal responsibility and competence in the face of sometimes profoundly difficult situations. To not be overwhelmed and find a way to direct your efforts to your own advantage - to do what you can to make your own little part of the world, yourself, your family your friends a better place to be,starting with yourself.

When I first started at the place I work, wee had a conversation in our little training group with our trainer about stress and coping with corporate bullshit and targets and all that - he had been for some kind of stress counselling at one point after a minor breakdown a few years earlier and the counselor employed the metaphor of the hula hoop of control.

I still find myself occasionally thinking - hang on, this is not within my hula hoop of control, i really need to stop fretting about it :P What can \I tackle that is within my control?

It's not just that "times are tough"*. It's WAY worse than that! In the end, we all die!

And all our loved ones die. Often with great pain and suffering. Before that, you will have to deal with a remarkable amount of pain and suffering yourself. The promise that "everything will made all better" disappears when we become adults and realize that the condition "all better" doesn't really exist and nobody is going to make it right.

So, life sucks and then you die is the default human condition. Peterson: So what are you going to do about that?




* Times are always tough. By almost any measure, our current time is arguably the least-tough time humanity has ever experienced. Life expectancy, the end of total war, the end of scarcity.

The richest person on earth, 200 years ago -- and every King in every Kingdom in history -- would have given it ALL up, in return for the miracle of modern dentistry.

But even in these marvelous times, we find ourselves nihilistic, jaded, desperately unhappy. It is a crisis of meaning.

Fair enough. Reminds me of 'Man's Search for Meaning' by Viktor Frankl.

"...chronicling his experiences as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps during World War II, and describing his psychotherapeutic method, which involved identifying a purpose in life to feel positively about, and then immersively imagining that outcome."

Yup, that is it.

Here's where I got all that