The treasure chest known as You Tube
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You Tube has always been the unique site on the internet. In the beginning it survived by advertising alone. Those were the great days when you could watch a quality movie for nothing. Although that has changed since Google bought it and most of its fine jewels require a subscription to You Tube Premium. However, as just about everyone knows there is still a lot of good stuff for free. I have developed a long list of uses for You Tube, especially now that I get to watch it via my TV.
On Saturday mornings I get my some of my favorite handicappers with DRF's Race of the Day:
If I miss a anything of interest, I can see it the following day without the need to record anything. Here is yesterday's episode of ABC's "This Week :
Not always a good thing for me to watch. On yesterday's spin show, George Stephanopoulos had Vivek Ramaswamy on as a special guest. Stephanopoulos being the true progressive hack that he is did not ask his guest a single question about his policies or his campaign. Stephanopoulos was only curious about Vivek's oath to support whoever the GOP nominee was. As many times as Ramaswamy told him that the alternative was worse than anyone the GOP could nominate, George just kept saying "I just don't get it." It was kind of infuriating to watch, but I've been trying to watch it since the unbiased David Brinkley launched "This Week," when it was still a news show.
Then there all those little items that people post. (The strange & unusual)
I don't know who that guy is or where he came from, but I get a kick out of watching him and his little daughter make things out in their big back yard.
During the pandemic I got to listen to the Chicago mob stories of a dying Frank Cullotta. It really was coffee with Cullotta!
Covid eventually got him. He testified against his lifelong friend Tough Tony Spilotro. What is amazing is that he actually outlived the "Outfit," and was able to come out in the open and make money off it.
There are also old TV series that are not yet on You Tube Premium. I believe many of those great comedies from the 70's are free. Recently I read an article about the numerous TV series supposedly about WWII that sprang up on TV in the 1960's. The key question was why did the series "Combat" outlast the others? I doubt anyone old enough remembers some of the others. For instance: who remembers "The Gallant Men?"
As I recall, I didn't care for any of them. I was in the minority on "Combat." I couldn't sit through an episode. After I read that article, I was wondering what it was that I didn't like about it. I can only recall doing homework and that thing would be on. Out of curiosity, I checked You Tube and there were all the seasons and episodes listed. So being unable to sleep, I went back and watched the very first episode. Usually, the very first episode has to sell it. It was directed by Robert Altman. If you are old enough to remember the series it takes place in France in 1944, when the German skeleton Army of the West was in full retreat, although you would never know it watching those episodes. The two stars were Rick Jason (the Lieutenant who was seldom in it) and Vic Morrow as Seargent Saunders.
Here is that 1st Episode (circa 1962)
https://youtu.be/szu1hOeqCHc?list=PLfQk6ph47fOzjRNdlvAtWO_GtkZmUiJuZ
I was kind of surprised at the simple yet entertaining script. It has a kind of a not so surprising, surprise ending, and it dealt with something that we didn't realize happened via the hands of US forces in WWII. Of course, there is that moment when the tiny squad is confronted by a tank incredibly dispatched to get them. That's when it all came back to me...what I didn't like about it.
That is my small sample of what I like about You Tube. Of course, it is that unlimited variety of You Tube that made it so popular for the young & old.
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"YouTube , social media platform and website for sharing videos. It was registered on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of the American e-commerce company PayPal . They had the idea that ordinary people would enjoy sharing their “home videos.” The company is headquartered in San Bruno, California .
Shortly after the site opened on a limited (“beta”) basis in May 2005, it was attracting some 30,000 visitors per day. By the time YouTube was officially launched on December 15, 2005, it was serving more than two million video views each day. By January 2006 that number had increased to more than 25 million views. The number of videos available at the site surpassed 25 million in March 2006, with more than 20,000 new videos uploaded on a daily basis. By the summer of 2006, YouTube was serving more than 100 million videos per day, and the number of videos being uploaded to the site showed no sign of slowing down."
YouTube | History, Founders, & Facts | Britannica
I dont have You Tube TV, but I have You Tube premium for 10 bucks a month. The best thing about it is that you can watch videos with no advertising. That alone is worth 10 bucks a month.
You Tube is great for finding forgotten music. I have found songs from the 60's that most people dont even know existed.
I can see buying that.
You can use a simple ad blocker for that. It eliminates the ads on youtube and many other sites (including NT). You can get most for free online.
"Rat Patrol" and "Wanted: Dead or Alive" were some favorites back in the day...
To each his own!
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I love YouTube. Videos of any subject or interest can be found there at any time of day or night. Cheap entertainment or in depth instruction in the arts and sciences. Especially if you like music in all its varieties. All you need is a good ad blocker, if "U" know what I mean!
(1) Yuja Wang. S.Rachmaninov. Variation 18 from Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini - YouTube
How did I ever forget the man who explains the massive WWII strategy games:
In the case above: The greatest game of all time.
I didn't know you couldn't watch movies for free on YouTube any more. Now I don't miss it so much. I can access two alternative sites for most music.
As for movies, there are 7 or 8 TV 24/7 movie channels here that show foreign films and there are almost always 3 to 5 English language movies to watch. Today I watched The Mexican, Patch Adams and Red Eye. The reason I'm able to create movie quizzes is because I've watched so many movies here - from Charlie Chaplin's silent ones up to ones that are 3 years old (not more recent ones due to copyright rules).