Today’s prompt from Long and Short Reviews is, unique YouTube videos we have seen lately. But first, WWW Wednesday!

WWW Wednesday

WHAT have you finished reading recently? The Letters of JFK, edited by Martin Sandler. Very nearly finished with Brad Birzer’s The Declaration of Independence: A Radical Experiment in Liberty.

WHAT are you reading now? SHELLI: R-Evolution, third in Doug Brode’s SF mystery-action series.

WHAT are you reading next? You know, we’re supposed to have finished our CC spin (for me, Angle of Repose) by June 5. I should really get on that. Also, random coincidence….three years ago I shared a quote from Angle of Repose on facebook!

In my mind I write letters to the newspapers, saying Dear Editor. As a modern man and a one-legged man, I can tell you that the conditions are similar. We have been cut off, the past has been ended and the family has broken up and the present is adrift in its wheelchair. I had a wife who after twenty-five years of marriage took on the coloration of the 1960s. I have a son who, though we are affectionate with one another, is no more my true son than if he breathed through gills. That is no gap between the generations, that is a gulf. The elements have changed, there are whole new orders of magnitude and kind. The present of 1970 is no more an extension of my grandparents’ world, this West is no more a development of the West they helped build, than the sea over the Santorin is an extension of that once island of rock and olives. My wife turns out after a quarter of a century to be someone I never knew, my son starts all fresh from his own premises. My grandparents had to live their way out of one world and into another, or into several others, making new out of old the way corals live their reef upward. I am on my grandparents’ side. I believe in Time, as they did, and in the life chronological rather than the life existential. We live in time and through it, we build our huts in its ruins , or used to, and we cannot afford all these abandonings.”

Ten Most Recently Liked Vids on Youtube

None of these would embed. Grrr.

(1) A live scene from HARRY V. I’ve never seen this produced on the stage — only the Branagh movie — so this was interesting. Harry’s “Once more into the breach” and “Crispian’s Day” speeches are favorites.

(2) “When the NPC is a Scammer”

Gaming humor from a great channel that does a lot of it, beginning with Epic NPC Man. They have an RDR2 series I love.

(3) “Doctor vs Firefighter: Never Have I Ever”. I watch a lot of occupational videos on youtube — doctors, lawyers, firemen, etc reacting to footage — and this is a collab between two favorites.

(4) “Tolkien’s timeless mythology”. I love listening to Brad Birzer’s voice. This is a 40 second clip from one of his interviews.

I am convinced that five hundred years from now, people will read Tolkien the way we read Dante. He is beyond literature.

(5) Funny “Customer States”.

Auto mechanics react to weird/outrageous ‘just rolled into the shop’ videos. Includes footage of a car trying to crank when the door is unlocked.

(6) A cover of LagWagon’s “May 16” from ‘WinningShot’, from a…Korean band. Every year I share the original on facebook on May 16th for some reason. No one has ever commented on it.

(7) “Cupid”, Sierra Ferrell cover of Sam Cooke’s original. I love listening to Sierra, an “old time” singer who experiments a lot musically.

(8) “Small Town Guys Having a Chill Night”. Charlie and Myles do Charlie and Myles things.

“We did NOT behave tonight.”
“We should NOT go home to our wives.”

(9) Can Arthur Morgan’s Actor Remember His Iconic Lines?

Roger Clark tries to remember lines from RDR2, not all his. He did alllllll right, boah.

(10) “LIVE | Thomas Massie Concession Speech”.

I hated having to watch this so much, but sassy Massie stayed funny to the end. “I would have come out sooner, but it took a minute to find Ed Gallrein in Tel Aviv.” Massie was primary’d by the Don for refusing to help pass the omnibus bill (that was basically Joe Biden’s budget but with some new stuff) and working with house Democrats to force action on Epstein.

And bonus!

(11) “I Bought Tools on TEMU So You Don’t Have To”. Charlie and Myles at it again. One of the tools is….a flamethrower.