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I'm currently physically unable to bring myself to watch or read any news at the moment, and social media has taken a proper back seat, mainly due to the bullshit that gets thrown around on FB even when there isn't a global pandemic going on

So, I've found proper solace in Youtube, and it would appear that content creators have realised this and upped their game a notch. The National theatre are showing recordings of full stage plays. At the moment it's One man, two Guvnors starriing james Corden, which I'm enjoying a lot more than than I thought I would. If they show War Horse i'm not sure the servers would cope.

Jimmy Carr's broadcasting daily quizzes from his home studio. Same suit, no makeup, same hair & teeth. Questions at 6pm, answers at 8. He didn't have to, but he did. There's also live streams popping up more than usual which are happy distractions.

So, to help us get through this when reality's too much, please post your favourite YT finds here. Another one, if you're interested, 6 yeears after Jedi, & 3 years after Aliens, here's Mark Hamill & Bill Paxton in Slipstream.


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Check out DryBar comedy.
Some briliant comics on there you'll probably never hear of
Fred Klett
Jeff Allen
Ross Bennett


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My new Flash Fiction blog. All my own work
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I am not young enough to know everything.

Random things I subscribe to...

Tom Scott with interesting places
https://www.youtube.com/user/enyay

Pushing Up Roses (mainly adventure game and old TV episode reviews of Murder She Wrote)
https://www.youtube.com/user/pushinguproses

Retro Man Cave (retro computers usually)
https://www.youtube.com/user/RetroManCave

Numberphile & Computerphile & Standup Maths (mostly self explanatory!)
https://www.youtube.com/user/Computerphile
https://www.youtube.com/user/numberphile
https://www.youtube.com/user/standupmaths

The Escapist for game and movie reviews (Zero Punctuation and MovieBob)
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheEscapistMagazine

PatmanQC history of video games
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCkuHXWWyw-3KXKIHyc88oA

ElectroBoom (funny), EEVblog, and Great Scott for electronics:
https://www.youtube.com/user/msadaghd
https://www.youtube.com/user/EEVblog
https://www.youtube.com/user/greatscottlab

Eric Rosen for Chess
https://www.youtube.com/user/RosenChess

Defunctland is a great series of documentaries on things that have been and gone, the Muppets series is a must watch
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVo63lbKHjC04KqYhwSZ_Pg

Techmoan for strange audio/tech things
https://www.youtube.com/user/Techmoan


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Lots of stuff catches my eye on Youtube.

I'm often clicking on John Schneider's channel (Bo Duke in Dukes of Hazzard and Papa Kent on Smallville). Whole lot of nostalgia, and he can be mad as a loon.

When it comes to vintage tech, I'm subscribed to Retro Recipes, The 8 Bit Guy, The Spectrum Show, and Technology Connections,  as well as Techmoan and Retro Man Cave, and will occasionally click on LGR or Ashens videos too.

My Mechanics is the most zen channel I know. This Swiss engineer takes junk and restores it to normal, and he films the process in his engineering workshop. Totally fascinating, and turns "I make a new one" into a catchphrase.

Another repair channel which I can zone out to is TronicsFix

And a Youtube channel which captures that early Top Gear feel is Car Throttle, a series of low budget and daft car challenges.

When I feel nostalgic for my student days, I watch an episode of Ox Tales But it's better if you can find the alternative Saban dub as that's funnier.

There's a wodge more that I click on but I'll leave this here, always good...




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I enjoy mysterious and ancient and lost history where it does not tie up with current academic thinking. One of the best channels for this is  'PraveenMohan' channel , he is an Indian and his voice takes a bit of getting used to but goes into great detail about forgotten or hidden technology of the ancient builders, like molding rocks, statues, and using machinery to cut stone blocks and even ancient lathes to cut rotational carvings and pillars. He travels India and other countries, and has been a guest on some episodes of 'ancient aliens' TV show.

If you like rockets and space travel, there's
Scott Manley's channel
Curious Droid, who also talks about other people moving and military tech

And if you like maths, and who doesn't, there's
StandUpMaths from Matt Parker of the Festival of the Spoken Nerd

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Jitendar Canth

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"I thought what I`d do was, I`d pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes."

Site Reviewer at DVD Reviewer & MyReviewer

Carving out a niche with a pneumatic drill at Anime @ MyReviewer.com

If you like jazz and old style music with the boogie girls and crooners, but put to modern songs and old songs, then the PostModern jukebox is for you.  I have stacks of these songs on memory stick in the van and boogie on down. On both youtube page and face book page....Featuring many different music styles and music artists, example below

This item was edited on Thursday, 9th April 2020, 10:03

Nebula 75...a new Super-isolation and lo-budget puppet drama series made during the lockdown, based on Fireball XL5, Thunderbirds and the like :D 

 

Didn't think it was worth a thread on it's own, but I've started following the Game Grumps a lot on YT. At first I thought it was just another gaming commentary type channel, but it turns out they're quite the fingers in many baskets group. Apart from the plethora of videos on their channel (and by jiminy. there's a lot), they've also developed a couple of games themselves, Arin has written an audiobook and Dan's lead singer of Ninja Sex Party

Anyhoo, a few years ago they were playing a homebrew NES game called Battlekid, which is insanely difficult at the best of times. Arin got stuck on one particular boss battle, and the ensuing audio was such a rich tapestry, they then asked any animators, professional or otherwise, to animate vignettes from the audio, which they would pick the best and splice together to cover the entire run time. Someone even created an amazing song using samples from the audio which plays over the end credits. I probably watching this once every two days as I'm always finding something new each time. Caution, lots of swearing & legit rage throughout.

And for reference this is the original video from whence the audio was taken




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A little Jerry Lewis killed a couple of hours...

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Jitendar Canth

Quote:
"I thought what I`d do was, I`d pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes."

Site Reviewer at DVD Reviewer & MyReviewer

Carving out a niche with a pneumatic drill at Anime @ MyReviewer.com