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Wild that Johnny Evans is playing in a Liverpool/Man Utd game in 2023.

We started a re-watch of Monk last night and discovered that a Monk movie just came out on Peacock last week. I also reminded myself that Monk is a show that boasts guest stars such as Willie Nelson, Korn, Meat Loaf and Snoop Dog. As well as having an episode written by Jon Wurster from the Mountain Goats. Not to mention two Randy Newman songs were written for it.

I still can't really believe that Roy Hodgson is still going.

IIRC those went pretty soon after the video dropped

Looks like James Somerton's YouTube channel is gone.

James Somerton owns two very expensive cameras he doesn't need and doesnt know how to use. All his talking head stuff looks like absolutely garbage.

one thing I noticed about James Somerton was how he just wasn't interesting to listen to or watch in any of the clips I saw. I dunno if I'm one to talk, I'm aware that I'm naturally a bit deadpan and low energy so whenever I'm performing I at least try to seem a bit more energetic than I am IRL. I've got 1,500 subscribers and haven't made a video in a long time now, but it makes you feel things to see people ripping other people off and being successful. At most, I just feel vindicated for every footnote, citation, and bibliography I've ever done for a video even if I didn't always do. It wasn't a thing people really did when I first started doing the videos really.

I feel like the ones who have survived and flourished from those days were the ones with something to actually say when the faux anger was no longer working. Seeing the glimpses ive seen of the AVGN on other peoples videos (hbomberguy and lady emilys to be exact). That just seems kinda sad now. He feels like a relic. Todd in the Shadows is probably the only "big" name from those times I still watch on YouTube who remains mostly unchanged but he was never an "angry reviewer". Lindsay Ellis is still going too but she is 100% behind a paywall these days and she doesn't upload too often. Although he wasn't a big TGWTG name Dan Olson came into his own YouTube. He seems to just do these long documentary projects now. But they're always good. These days I mostly watch a few video essay types with my girlfriend on weekends. Along with the above mentioned we watch probably watch a Patrick Willems or a Maggie Mae Fish video every time one drops and dip in and out of a few others. We planned on watching just an hour of the Hbomberguy video and ended up watching close to 3hrs of it. Its rare we would sit and watch a multi hour video like that. I do think hbomb manages to keep the pace fairly well with how he structures them.

Ive still an hour and 10 mins of the hbomb video left and then i wake up to this Id never heard of Jake Summerton before this. I had seen Internet Historian videos pop up on YouTube but the name plus the avatar put me off watching them. I watched one Illuminaughty video and I cannot remember what it was. I do remember the style and delivery just didn't click with me. It just kinda felt a bit flat.

Hbomberguy has dropped a nearly 4hr video on plagiarism on youtube not watched it yet, will probably spread it out over a few days tbh

I had a post ready to go about Liverpool being not that good today Then my internet dropped and Liverpool scored twice.

Liverpool have scored great goals but haven't defended well. Im not sure how much of that is down to Kelleher.

continuing on the Springsteen thing: I learned there is a terrible Rage Against The Machine version of The Ghost of Tom Joad.

I watched the trailer without sound last night and thought some of the shots had a real shot-on-greenscreen look to them. They'll probably look better in the final film tbh

https://rip.ie/death-notice/shane-macgowan-tipperary-nenagh-537819 Shane McGowan's death notice is up on Ireland's premier death notices website

Not knowing his history, I still remember being shocked the first time I ever heard Shane McGowan speak because I assumed he would talk in a Dublin accent.

I feel like he had been in rough shape for quite some time based on anything I had ever heard. I wasn't tremendously into his work but it's sort of inescapable living in Ireland. With Sinead O'Connor and Christy Dignam from Aslan dying this year too feels a few names of an area of Irish music have gone.

Ended up on $2.7 million. compared to the Gizmoplex one this was a fairly low-key effort which feels mostly strike-related, a little hit by going outside off of Kickstarter and a little hit by some people being a bit put off by season 13. This seems to me to be mainly down to the lack of physical sets, that they gave the live show crew time on the main show and Crow's voice was different. It's a shame. I hope they can go again. This much would've gotten them 3 episodes last time out. EDIT: Joel has sent out an email update: The big news is they seem to be exploring some offers from outside backers to help fund things going forward.

i'd be surprised if Liverpool don't score at all in this game

Beyond Atlantis now, mothercrabbers!

One of the Gizmoplex specials was the "surgically enhanced" Pumaman. It looked good! That it's totally pre-taped seems like a mistake. Even if they did a few hours live streaming each night with whatever cast/writers they could, did a jackbox thing, a Q and A, whatever silly things they could to get some interest that'd be a lot better than doing the same Turkey Day thing they usually do only with a crowdfund campaign attached.

Joel's latest backer email has an interesting start