Wideo Wednesday: Daily Watch

 

At the moment, my daily viewing on YouTube includes at least four ‘programs’ that I follow; my day does not feel quite complete until I’ve watched them.

          One of them is First Time Watching Dragon Ball by Suzy Lu, a commenter based in the United Kingdom. She has first reactions to an episode a day, and her lively, somewhat naïve enthusiasm is a great way to relive watching the show. It doesn’t hurt that she’s kind of cute. I suppose I really stick with the show because I started it as it was first beginning, and it’s a good way to eke out a rewatch of Dragon Ball in nice, bite-size chunks. The one jarring aspect (for me) is that she sometimes pronounces ‘s’ as ‘sh’, so words like ‘assume’ are pronounced ‘ashume’. But since she seems to be Scottish this is just a mild distraction. Here is the first episode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLGK8gdKom4

          Another is Anthony’s Animation Talk, a channel dedicated to review of all one thousand Warner Brothers’ cartoon shorts. Each show lasts from twenty to thirty minutes long, so each cartoon is fairly thoroughly covered. He usually has one or two expert guests, and they cover studio history, the animators, the background artists, the voice actors, the release date, their place in history, and my favorite aspect (which led me to the site in the first place), what music was used. And since he is Australian, his jarring trait is to pronounce ‘H’ as ‘Haitch’, instead of ‘Aitch’. Thus, HD is always Haitch-Dee. Again, no biggie compared to the stellar content, but it still tends to scrimple. Here is his Introductory video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgUZ51zUPa4

And here is a sample about Duck Amok, a cartoon so significant that they talk about it for about an hour:

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

Another amusing watch is The DEEV Channel, by @DEEVreal, who also does Zeducation. It tends to be a daily brokering of interesting memes and short funny films, hosted by a regular kind of guy who pretends to be a neutral observer, but who has an obvious point of view. His sense of humor seems to jibe well enough with mine. Here is yesterday’s show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHIki70e_2M

          On a more serious note (but heavily spiced with humor) I like to watch The Michael Knowles Show. He is a conservative Catholic (or is it a Catholic conservative?) who points out ‘the abundant hypocrisy of the left’, their lapses of logic and failures of fact. He is also a nimble debater on his feet. His enemies are constantly trying to paint him as some kind of bigot and failing abysmally. In what is a seasonal sample, here is his recounting of the historical Pilgrims, their Native American allies, and Thanksgiving:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jthq6xX86RY