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I really love long-form content that dives deep on a specific topic. It's an easy way for me to turn my brain off and have something to listen to while working or driving, even if I've never heard of the topic and will never encounter it in real life. Even if you're not really paying attention to whatever's being said, at the end of the discussion you feel like you've learned something (even if it wasn't important). Here are a couple of quality choices to get the thread started: Down the Rabbit Hole A fantastic series of essays about drat near anything, from internet history to American terrorist cults to the lives of two dudes that lived in a house by themselves in the early 1900s. This is the channel that made me want to create this thread. It's very well researched and just about every video on the channel is worth watching. Recommended video: Mouse Utopia Experiments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgGLFozNM2o "Let me tell you about" (http://www.lmtya.com/) A podcast where two guys discuss a topic that one of them has researched in-depth for about an hour. They're generally pretty funny and don't get political very often. HBomberGuy Basically everything he's ever done is a long-rear end essay about a specific cultural artifact or game or show. Gets political a lot, so not for everyone. His video on why the new Sherlock is bad is pretty good, though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkoGBOs5ecM (2 hours) The F-Plus Podcast Pretty sure the guys running this are goons? Fantastic 1-hour dives into weird forums on the internet. Ahoy Very well-produced and entertaining essays about gaming and, sometimes, histories of modern weapons. I recommend his video on Polybius, which is very well done, but all their videos have such incredible polish that it's worth going through the whole library. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7X6Yeydgyg PCP University Youtube channel where one guy literally gives a college-style lecture on a single topic to a group of shitheads. Content is very hit-or-miss, as the lecturer changes with every lecture and the audience are a bunch of 4chan dickheads, but can be very entertaining and is always well researched. I'm putting this one dead-last due to way too much vulgarity and "edgy" poo poo. Their episode on cult-hit "webcomic" Tails Gets Trolled is interesting as hell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O2a31HfLtk
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Ross's Game Dungeon is a series on mostly weird and obscure video games by the guy who makes Freeman's Mind. This two-part episode on Armed and Delirious is a good example. ContraPoints makes weird videos, often about terrible people and their terrible philosophies. Every Frame a Painting is a series on movies and how they're constructed. Jenny Nicholson talks a lot about Star Wars, but also other things sometimes. This review/read-through of a badly-written fanfic is pretty good. Lindsay Ellis mostly analyses movies. This one is about Beauty and the Beast. Pop Culture Detective is kind of similar. Here's a video about the "born sexy yesterday" cliché.
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Jul 7, 2018 10:09
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Whoa, pop culture detective is exactly my poo poo 😮
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Jul 8, 2018 01:16
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Certain bits of Jon Bois' Pretty Good are intriguing. To me Bois sometimes gets too into his ideas to the detriment of his subject, but there are some really fun topics he's hit. The best of: Rat Poison and Brandy: The 1904 St. Louis Olympic Marathon. 220-0 Troy State 253, DeVry 141
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Jul 8, 2018 01:26
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Jon Bois is the gift humanity doesn't deserve. One of them, anyway.
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Knick Knacks- a comprehensive retrospective of Nickelodeon A super extensively researched look at Nickelodeon's history. Each episode focuses on a single show in roughly chronological order from the networks beginnings in 1979. He hasn't even gotten to any shows that I remember yet but it's still fascinating.
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