YouTube and Podcasts

[author_by_night]

Do you have any channels you regularly watch on YouTube? & Do you listen to any podcasts?I tend to listen to YouTube videos while I work from home and do chores, more than watch, so I'm lumping them together. I go in cycles

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[honeymink]

Do you know of any Percy Jackson related podcasts?

I haven't really looked for a podcast on books in general but watched a lot of the reviews and more in-depth discussion vlog posts on youtube about The Hunger Games' prequel. There was some good stuff there. I especially appreciated the one by this woman who I think had a degree in political science and was dissecting the novel based on the quotes by Thomas Hobbs and John Locke in the preface and their rivaling philosophies on how humans ought to be governed. Anyway, she reviews a lot of books on her youtube channel which is called elenathegreat. Maybe worth checking out.

I like bekindrewind most of the time (though she is wrong when it comes to Luise Rainer), often some interesting bits about Hollywood cinema.

Yeah, I know Jimmy Snow as I follow Brenda Davies (God Is Grey), I mainly follow her podcast now though and not so much the youtube stuff anymore though there is still some overlap. With regard to some things, I often find myself agreeing with Jimmy Snow but I can't watch

[author_by_night]

I'll have to check out elenathegreat!

Don't know about Percy Jackson. I'm not really a fan. I know, I know, for shame!

but I can't watch one more bizarre thing about Girl Defined, Mrs Midwest or Paul & Morgan anymore.

I do sort of wish he'd look at new territory. I don't really watch the Girl Defined stuff he does. More the other things. I also feel he's sometimes a bit too derisive of religion - I get that he had a bad experience, and I think it's good that he's really calling out the fundies (and I do believe that's his ultimate objective), but every so often it crosses a bit of a line. For me.

I like Fundie Fridays, but sometimes they're a little too intense with mentions of child abuse. Not a fault at all! Those things need to be exposed. I just get squeamish. I really liked their Christmas special series they did last holiday season.

I should listen to Brenda's podcast. :) I like Brenda's stuff.

[honeymink]

feel he's sometimes a bit too derisive of religion - I get that he had a bad experience

I don't what his childhood/youth looked like precisely, I gathered from the collaborations he did with Brenda and with Jaclyn Glenn that he was brought up in some unhealthy Mormon setting so, I understand what made him turn away. (Also Mormons are not Christians btw - not that that makes it any more or less bad but there's this weirdly blurred imagine in the U.S. because of politics and voting.) As for being derisive - yeah, I mean, I can overlook that to some degree until Atheists make it their mission to call everything about my religion rubbish and tell me I shouldn't have one. I have a friend like that (here on LJ). It really grates on my nerves. I think it's live and let live.

calling out the fundiesLike I said, I could see his point up to a point but now it's just a bit stale, you know? Mainly because I'm not sure who is listening except for people who already think the same way he is thinking and well maybe the other side but not to be

[sherrilina]

Oooh could you share links re: the THG prequel? I finally finished reading that a few months back...what did you think? (I immediately wanted to reread THG, lol, and was bummed the movie is no longer on Netflix).

[honeymink]

Disregard my PM by the way, I obviously cannot read I thought you needed the book. As for the videos -- that was the one by Elena the Great that I found really insightful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qf-5sj6uh8

There is this other young woman going by the handle The Geek Apprentice who did a lot of discussion videos on The Hunger Games and its prequel. I don't agree with her 100% on everything but her videos usually make a good point in the grand scheme of things on societal issues. Here is one of them but she made a lot more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY-Dmz1fVrQ

[sherrilina]

Heh, no worries, thanks anyway for that! ;) And for these links.

[honeymink]

I think they are good as a jump off point and then you are led to more things. After I finished reading it, I went to youtube and I also listened to the audiobook by the way - I'm still not the biggest fan of audiobooks but I have to say that was well done and so were the ones for the orginal THG series! But yes, there were some good video essays that I think you might enjoy. :)

[sherrilina]

Oh I actually found the audiobook for it a bit annoying (especially the female voices, and when the person attempted to sing, lol), and ended up having to stop listening to it because there was a flaw where it cut off the end of chapter 16...so I had to wait until I could get a physical copy from the library to make sure I didn't miss anything and read the rest.

[honeymink]

Yeah the singing didn't translate well - when you read it you can pretend it's a poem... I hope that when the film gets made they get somebody good to write the music for it... maybe Allie Gonino. I don't know with Lucy's voice, I guess but I could overlook it since she wasn't such a main factor as originally thought. Did you listen to the original THG audiobooks as read by Tatiana Maslaney (sp?) though? I thought she did a great job!

[sherrilina]

I mean I would be happy if they even got the same people who did "Hanging Tree" to do the music (T Bone Barrett I think?), that tune was just too perfect and beautiful.

I did listen to THG so far with Tatiana, though I was actually disappointed...I thought she would be better at doing different voices because she is so good at playing different roles on OB.

[honeymink]

I don't know, I thought she was great. I don't listen to a lot of audiobooks, mainly because I fall asleep while listening tbh. I really enjoyed them. There were audio-versions of favourite books that I was way more disappointed in.