0:00 - What is a Line? 1:41 - What is The Thin Red Line? 3:04 - What is The Thin Blue Line? 8:19 - Police vs. Racial Feralization 14:16 - What REALLY is The Thin Blue Line?
Partial Transcript: pastebin.com/Tv1ybc6L (PasteBin thought my script was "offensive" so the transcript is missing a couple paragraphs)
Music - "Siren Song" by me. I uploaded a music-only track on one of my many soundcloud personas in case you want to check it out - soundcloud.com/tehomfm/siren-song
The Philosophy of the Thin Blue LineThat Dang Dad2020-12-21 | What is the history of the Thin Blue Line flag, and what function does it serve in society today?
0:00 - What is a Line? 1:41 - What is The Thin Red Line? 3:04 - What is The Thin Blue Line? 8:19 - Police vs. Racial Feralization 14:16 - What REALLY is The Thin Blue Line?
Partial Transcript: pastebin.com/Tv1ybc6L (PasteBin thought my script was "offensive" so the transcript is missing a couple paragraphs)
Music - "Siren Song" by me. I uploaded a music-only track on one of my many soundcloud personas in case you want to check it out - soundcloud.com/tehomfm/siren-song
Stock Video from Free Videos, Life of Pix, and Cottonbro on Pexels.com
Goblin sprite used without permission from Alchemia RPG Ridley sprite from the greatest SNES game of all timeHave I Ever Been Wrong??That Dang Dad2024-10-15 | It's a simple question, don't jerk me around.
Title Music: "Das Ancom" by me Background music by me Dumpster video by Ivan A from Pexels
Transcript, in case you need it for your records: https://justpaste.it/b7bnqTactical Breach Wizards does something GENIUSThat Dang Dad2024-09-29 | I really like Tactical Breach Wizards and I really dislike trying to fit widescreen video games into a vertical shortElden Ring is About Necropolitics 💀That Dang Dad2024-09-23 | Playing through the game, I can't help but be reminded of several passages from Achille Mbembe's book NECROPOLITICS. Let me show you them.
CW for video game depictions of torture, genocide, colonialism, hangings, and spiders.
All game footage captured by meAre Cops Secretly Worshipping Baphomet?That Dang Dad2024-09-11 | What do cops, Youtubers, Baphomet, and North Korea have in common? And what does it mean for YOUR life? Only one way to find out...
Transcript: https://justpaste.it/ekbzkEx-Cop Asks: Is The Left Soft on Crime??That Dang Dad2024-08-28 | It's election season and politicians are running around claiming to be "tough on crime" but... are they? What does it mean to take crime seriously? What if heavy-handed policing is actually making everything worse? I used to be a cop, so here's what I think.
#police #crime #prison
0:00 - Intro 3:25 - What is Crime? 6:24 - But What IS Crime? 12:44 - Taking Crime Seriously
Music by me (let's call this one... um... "Soft Criminal"?)
Suggestions: Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Alex Vitale, Mariame Kaba, and Overthrow Media (youtube.com/@OverthrowMedia)
Transcript: https://justpaste.it/fv6roDid I Learn Anything GOOD in the Police Academy?That Dang Dad2024-07-31 | I have a lot of videos criticizing police training and policing as a system. Did I learn anything useful during my training? Yeah, and I have mixed feelings about it. Come, pop a squat, and let's hash it out.
#police #policeacademy #cops
Pexels Stock Video: Cottonbro - Title Video Kelly - End Credits
0:00 - INTRO, YA PANSY 1:51 - YOU CAN GO HARDER, MAGGOT 5:40 - YOU MUST DECIDE, ROOKIE 9:48 - YOU MISSED SOMETHING, DINGUS 14:06 - MIXED EMOTIONS, SCUMBAG
Footage Used: Starship Troopers Full Metal Jacket Office Space Alexander's No Good Very Bad Day Borat
Music: Date Night in Dogtown by me
Transcript: https://justpaste.it/bek25Sexy Nuns and Saami RegaliaThat Dang Dad2024-07-12 | Recently, the Saami Council asked Square Enix to stop using their cultural dress as a costume in a game. Why? Who are these people? Why should you care?
Also, this is an updated version of the video where I fixed some omissions in my script that made it sound like Catholics were Christianizing Scandinavia when it was actually Protestants. They are both Christian sects, but my original script muddied those waters in an ahistorical way. Sorry about that!
Title music - The Weald Reclaims The Apse by me Bkg Music - The Mines of Narshe by Nobuo Uematsu (slowed and reverbed all to hell)
Sources Used: Lang, Valter (2020). Homo Fennicus Simms, Doug https://www.laits.utexas.edu/sami/dieda/hist/genetic.htm Simms, Doug https://www.laits.utexas.edu/sami/dieda/hist/sami-west.htm Andrej Kotljarchuk diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:748534/FULLTEXT01.pdf
Transcript: https://justpaste.it/aof91What is Sleaze and Who Can Be Sleazy?That Dang Dad2024-06-12 | Watching LOVE LIES BLEEDING, I was thrilled to be watching a sleazy lesbian thriller. But then I wondered... is it "sleazy" if it's women being directed by women? Let's talk about it.
#sleaze #film #loveliesbleeding #johnwaters
Transcript: https://justpaste.it/fauft
Background Footage: Third Avenue El (1950) Downtown Area, Huntington Beach (1974)
Music by me (don't get excited, it's all sample packs)
Stock Footage: Tom Fisk, Dmitry Marchenkov, Dan C Paduret, Neugiemase, Matthias Groeneveld, Vasili Kovbasiuk, CIMA Photo and Film, Binary Ego, Luis Quintero, Yaroslav Shuraev, Cengiz Z, imustbedead, Klaus, Dom Le Roy, Andrew Kota, Vladimir Bryzgin, ShibajTV, WeStarMoney, Dmitriy Varennikov, Ake Wall, Richard Thrift, Athena Sandrini, Postcard Pictures, Chris J. Mitchell, LayZ Owl, Gusat Silviu, James Cheney, Ricky Esquivel, Kelly, Super Lunar, Berke Can, CoverrRuvim Miksankiy Matheus Gugelmimi have a weird question for trans people 🏳️⚧️That Dang Dad2024-05-13 | It's a good question, no TERFism here, don't worry. Basically, if gender is a social construct or a performance, what happens if there is no society and no audience?? Yeah, I know, right??
thumbnail photo by thiago japyassuWISH: Disneys Anarchist Masterpiece?That Dang Dad2024-04-30 | Recently I watched WISH with my kid and was astonished at the deep anarchist lore contained therein. Come and see, come and see.
(i started this video as kind of a bit but i accidentally wrote a good script... hate when that happens...)
#wish #disney #anarchism
Title Music: When You Wish Upon A Star (remixed by me) Bkg Music: Snow White original OST slowed and reverbed
Thank you to Pexel videographers: Andrew Dyer, Frank Cone, Colin Jones, Dan C. Paduret, Jol Acen, Roy Kim, Roy S, Vimeo, Yee Lung, ZCH
transcript: https://justpaste.it/ekapxThe Politics of Heartbreak 💔That Dang Dad2024-04-17 | What do Appalachian miners, Creationist pastors, and creep youtubers have in common? And why does it make me afraid for the future? All this and more will be revealed to you... if you're ready...
#heartbreak #politics #betrayal
Thumbnail photo by RDNE Productions
Works Cited: "Living Poor and Voting Rich" in Appalachia Author(s): DAVID SUTTON Source: Appalachian Journal, Vol. 32, No. 3 (SPRING 2005), pp. 340-351 Appalachian Fall, 2020, pp. 177
Music: This Used To Be a Grocery Store by me Pexel Footage by: Mart Productions & Oleg Gamulinskii Other footage: Faces of Black Lung NIOSH 2008-131 2008
Transcript: https://justpaste.it/fk1vtWhy Do Cops Like Anti-Cop Music?That Dang Dad2024-03-21 | When I was on patrol, I used to bump KRS-One's "Sound of Da Police" in my cop car even though the song was about how awful I was. Why? And why did I use the word 'apt' so many times in this video? Watch and find out!
Sources: Adamson, C. R. (1983). Punishment after Slavery: Southern State Penal Systems, 1865-1890. Social Problems, 30(5), 555–569. https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.2307/800272
Brucato, Vol. 47, No. 3/4 (161/162), A Critical Theory of Police Power in the Twenty-First Century (2020), pp. 115-136 https://www.academia.edu/59124938/Policing_Race_and_Racing_Police_The_Origin_of_US_Police_in_Slave_Patrols
Society of the Spectacle, Guy DeBord Translated by Ron Adams https://unredacted-word.pub/spectacle/
Videos used (from Internet Archive): There Goes a Police Car, 1994 Sega Video Driver Police Pursuit VHS, 1988 Mexican-Americans: The Invisible Minority, 1969 Transportation Of Prisoners, 1969 "Black or White" by Michael 'Megan's Law' Jackson
Transcript: https://justpaste.it/bd267Stop getting scammed, ya mark!That Dang Dad2024-03-01 | Scams. How do they work? WHY do they work? Why did a lady put $50,000 into a shoebox and hand it to a stranger? How can you protect yourself from similar shoebox foolishness? Let's talk about it!
#scams #safety #grifters #money
Title music: "MONEYMONEY" by me (remix of Whales by Hail Mary Mallon)
Thumbnail Guy From: Mart Productions
Transcript: https://justpaste.it/2uk59
Books Cited: Presuasion (2016) & Influence (1984) by Robert Cialdini
Article Cited: thecut.com/article/amazon-scam-call-ftc-arrest-warrants.htmlThe Art Still Trolling Conservatives 100 Years LaterThat Dang Dad2024-02-14 | There's a very special work of art that makes conservatives very upset. I should know, I used to be one of them. Let's talk art, Dada, Tim & Eric, and curiosity.
Music Da Da Da Remix by Me Bisexual Anthem by Domo Wilson Four Kings by Motoi Sakurai
Stock Footage CottonBro K2 Productions Anthony Shkraba
Transcript: https://justpaste.it/efgofHow Can Cops (And Others) Be So Cruel??That Dang Dad2024-01-31 | In 2020, I made a video about how law enforcement taught me to dehumanize people. It's now 2024 and I'd like to revisit some of my thoughts in light of violence against migrants, the trans community, and Palestine.
Transcript: https://justpaste.it/6788q Stock video by Pavel Danilyuk Music by me Horrible comedy by Tim AllenThe Indigenous Open World Genius of TCHIAThat Dang Dad2024-01-01 | Tchia, based on the cultures of New Caledonia, gives us a grand adventure in a gorgeous world. It managed to make me feel more connected to the land than TOTK, a much bigger, more complex game. Let's talk about open worlds, community, and yes... colonialism.
#tchia #openworld #totk #newcaledonia
Music: Sailing, Underwater Reef, Aemoon City, Main Theme, all by John Robert Matz
Sources: Mortensen, R (2000) - Slaving in Australia - http://www.paclii.org/journals/fJSPL/vol04/7.shtml West, Barbara A. (2009). Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Asia and Oceania "Exports". Sydney Chronicle. 21 April 1847 Shineberg, Dorothy (1999) The People Trade.
Transcript: https://justpaste.it/2ijasAlternative Hedonism & How To Desire BetterThat Dang Dad2023-12-23 | Kate Soper argues that a post-climate catastrophe world will be full of pleasures, not an austere no-fun zone. Lida Maxwell argues that Soper does not go far enough in critiquing capitalism's indoctrination of lack. What does it all mean?!
Works Cited: The Politics of Pleasure, Soper et al, 2022 The Fate of Desire, Hans, 1990
Pexels Footage: Omar Ramadan Tom Fisk George Morina
Title Music: Whatcha Want, Beastie Boys Remix by me
Beach Scene in Thumbnail: 'Distant Blessings' by Saumolia Puapuaga
Transcript: https://justpaste.it/dc0alBuilding Community: Two GOTYs in ConversationThat Dang Dad2023-12-05 | Two of my 2023 games of the year are about building and preserving community - The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood and Saltsea Chronicles. My other two GOTYs are about how much I love a tiefling barbarian and about a twink that falls from the sky, but that's not important. Let's talk about the first two instead.
#gameoftheyear #2023 #bestof #harm
Title Music: Bar Hoppin' by Me Bkg Music: Rito Village and Temple of Time, TOTK Soundtrack
Transcript: https://justpaste.it/dfju4A Lefty Meditation on PrayerThat Dang Dad2023-12-01 | Recently someone prayed for me in a really nice way. And, naturally, it got me thinking about MASCULINITY and how we carve out spaces that make it safe to show fear and doubt. I know... the script is even messier!
#prayer #masculinity #vulnerability
music: "Mary, Do Ya Twerk?" by me
Transcript: https://justpaste.it/bs7j2Teaching Your Dad About #LandBack (ft Lost Futures & Silver Spook)That Dang Dad2023-11-21 | T'is the season to think about colonialism and indigenous liberation. What is Land Back? Is it a revenge plot or is it something deeper? I didn't know much about it so I asked LostFutures and Silver Spook to educate me.
Transcript: https://justpaste.it/7ffu2Friction, Frustration, and Fun: A Gamer MeditationThat Dang Dad2023-11-14 | Why do I love Elden Ring and hate Sekiro? Why do I cheat on some hard games but not others? And what's Silent Hill 2 got to do with it?
Also, I was sick when I recorded this so legally you have to be nice to me.
#silenthill #gaming #difficulty #eldenring
Music: Silent Hill Theme (Piano) - Akira Yamaoka Prohibited Arts - Kow Otani
Gameplay Footage by: TheRadBrad Esoterickk meIm Insecure (and heres why you should care)That Dang Dad2023-11-05 | I'm insecure about a bunch of stuff and I'm pretty sure I've done terrible things motivated entirely by that insecurity. Let's talk about it because maybe you have too.
#insecurity #confidence #confident #solidarity
Title music by me
Also some music from Mario Sunshine (File Select Screen)
Transcript: https://justpaste.it/csu5pThe Impossible Economics of Fleeing Red State FascismThat Dang Dad2023-10-16 | This is the story of how I spent a ton of money getting my daughter out of Republican-controlled Kentucky for her safety and how most families can't be as lucky as mine. We need something other than luck and individualist charity. Let's talk about it.
#moving #relocation #fascism #mutualaid
Title Music by me
0:00 - Intro 1:47 - The Move 5:22 - Yeah, Ok, So What
Transcript https://justpaste.it/bvjz0I Live In Minnesota NowThat Dang Dad2023-10-08 | it's official, it's permanent (as far as I know). we have escaped red state fascism.
#minnesota #kentucky #movingCertain Words That Make Me NervousThat Dang Dad2023-09-19 | There are some words that aren't bad in and of themselves but which can hide some pretty nasty ideologies inside them. Next time you see them, you can ask yourself what might be lurking just beneath the surface.
Transcript: https://justpaste.it/a8320What THE MEG 2 can teach us about anxietyThat Dang Dad2023-09-05 | #shorts #anxiety #themeg2The Video I Regret Making (plus a quick life update)That Dang Dad2023-08-25 | There's a video on my channel that I kinda wish I didn't make. Buuuut... it's complicated.
Also, did you know I'm moving? You did?? Big deal, everyone did.
#asmr #fatherhood #fathers #alienation
Music: Final Fantasy Mystic Quest - Beautiful ForestThe American Obsession Rotting Us From WithinThat Dang Dad2023-07-30 | People from the United States are fearful people but one fear in particular informs every aspect of how we think about what makes a Good Society. And it's gross. I don't care for it. Made a whole video about it actually. Watch it or perish.
Thumbnail elements from Pexels users: Timo Miroshnichenko, Erik McLean, PixabayAI and the Kentuckification of the United StatesThat Dang Dad2023-07-12 | What does coal mining have to do with machine learning? What if I told you it has EVERYTHING to do with machine learning? Huh? Then what? Guess you'll have to watch the video.
#ai #machinelearning #kentucky #appalachia
00:00 - Introduction 01:54 - My Recent Kentucky Home 06:37 - The Ghoul in the Machine 10:51 - Leaving Harlan Alive
Transcript: https://justpaste.it/be48j
Music "What Would You Give In Exchange for Your Soul" by Bill Monroe (Ghost In The Machine Mix by me) - vocaroo.com/18qlW9zo0Gzk - (sorry to the person i told i would have this up yesterday... i forgot!) Seinfeld Title Theme "Shooter" by clipping.
Sources and Inspiration: Trillbilly Worker's Party Podcast - https://podbay.fm/p/trillbilly-workers-party (Episode 293 at around 41 minutes is what i'm referencing) What You're Getting Wrong About Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte
Poets Cited: John Donne - The Flea Dmitriy Berenson - 405 Brendan Constantine - A Little Black
Transcript: https://justpaste.it/bc6buTears of the Kingdom, Elden Ring, and Player AgencyThat Dang Dad2023-06-08 | My no-spoilers review of #TOTK in which we discuss playfulness, replayability, and design limitations. It's a real gas!
#Zelda #tearsofthekingdom #eldenring
music - SXYMTHRFCKR by me
transcript - https://justpaste.it/as3qwThe Left only wants FREE STUFFThat Dang Dad2023-06-02 | has a conservative ever told you or someone you love that the left only cares about getting things for free? allow me to demolish that with facts and logicTo Be a Man: Valid Frustrations and Unhelpful MindsetsThat Dang Dad2023-05-24 | What does it mean to be a man? Canadian rapper Dax has ideas, but I think there's more to the story. Join me, won't you?
0:00 - Intro 2:17 - The Song 12:39 - Final ThoughtsFighting Cosmic Horror with Charts and GraphsThat Dang Dad2023-04-18 | Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson are two of my favorite filmmakers because they create cosmic horror films with something very very special: love (and even hope). Let's talk about it!
#horror #scifi #lovecraft #film
Mild first-half spoilers for: Resolution (2012) The Endless (2017) Synchronic (2019) Something in the Dirt (2022)
Title Music: "Al Azif" by me
Background Music: "Astronecronomy (Dedrummed and Slathered In Reverb So It Doesn't Distort My Talking Mix)" by me
Transcript: https://justpaste.it/and3oCruelty Squad, Brokenness, and Anti-Design (ft. Oddnon)That Dang Dad2023-04-12 | just guys being dudes talking about a video game that makes you feel bad. we talk true games for real gamerz, design, substance abuse, disability, capitalism, and david lynch. join us... won't u?
#CrueltySquad #design #capitalism #gaming
Oddnon's Links: Comic: http://xtreme-corp.com/store Twitch: http://twitch.tv/oddnon In the video, Oddnon calls himself an artist when he meant to say writer. But folks, writing IS art. The art of wordsmithing, thoughtcraft, verbomancy. (But yeah, he wrote the comic, he didn't draw it fyi)
Music: Divinity of the Office - Cruelty Squad OST Controlled Depopulation (super slowed down) - Cruelty Squad OSTFatherhood (in the school shooting capital of the world)That Dang Dad2023-04-07 | I promise, one day I will share poetry of mine that ISN'T mopey.
Music: "Sad Dad in a Parking Lot: The Musical" by me
#poetry #poem #fatherhood #parentingReligious Repetition, Homelessness, and Heavy MetalThat Dang Dad2023-03-29 | Why does a noise rock band from Oklahoma remind me of Psalm 136? The answer will thrill and titillate you.
Transcript: https://justpaste.it/6y5qiwhat is this paintingThat Dang Dad2023-03-22 | what is it
#shorts #art #paintingDÁD ON TÁR (and cancel culture)That Dang Dad2023-03-11 | Is TÁR about cancel culture? Or is it about how powerful a general strike would be? Well, it's not NOT about those things...
#tar #film #cancelculture
Music:
Mahler's Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor: I. Trauermarsch Mahler's Symphony No. 9 in D-sharp major: IV. Adagio from MusOpen.org
Clips:
TÁR (2022) dir. Todd Field
Arturo Toscanini Conducting Music of Giuseppe Verdi (1944) dir. USIA Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1, B Flat Minor (1962) dir. Kiril Kondrashin United Action Means Victory (1939) dir. UAW Millions of Us (1935) dir. American Labor Films from Archive.org
Transcript https://justpaste.it/2zo3o25 Tips To Make Men Happier (ft. The Boy Detectives)That Dang Dad2023-02-28 | Some have claimed that The Left does not give good advice to men. So... I asked men what they needed advice on and then I enlisted HOT STUDS IN YOUR AREA to help me help them. Join me, won't you?
#masculinity #manhood #advice #mensrights
0:00 - Intro (ft. sick music) 3:53 - How do I get a girlfriend? 13:08 - How do I make friends and connect with men? 18:03 - How do I deal with crushing loneliness? 23:06 - How can I get better at empathizing with people? 29:57 - How can I get better at comforting people? 33:32 - How can I have better emotional intelligence? 37:20 - How can I be MANLY without being toxic? 45:12 - How can I be a better conversationalist? 46:50 - What makes a good leader? 51:25 - How do I set goals and be self-motivated? 54:11 - How do I contribute positively to a social space? 56:36 - How do I deal with anger? 1:01:18 - How can I develop better self-awareness? 1:04:43 - How can I learn to let go or move on? 1:10:43 - How do I deal with not meeting expectations? 1:18:20 - LIGHTNING ROUND 1:22:11 - Closing Thoughts
Transcript: https://justpaste.it/8t443The Ethical Weirdness of License Plate ReadersThat Dang Dad2023-02-06 | When I was a cop, my department encountered an ethical dilemma about technology and data collection. That issue has only gotten worse. Let's talk about it.
Title and background music by me Hair and makeup by LeHerpe Poisson Costumes by Dollup™was I wrong about soil erosion???That Dang Dad2023-01-27 | In my video on the Menu, I repeated a claim that there are only 60 harvests left before agribusiness completely exhausts the soil's ability to grow food... turns out I was repeating a pretty suspicious claim. sorry!
#climatechange #soil #environmentalist
paper cited: Evans, Daniel & Quinton, John & Davies, J & Zhao, Jianlin & Govers, Gerard. (2020). Soil lifespans and how they can be extended by land use and management change. Environmental Research Letters. 15. 10.1088/1748-9326/aba2fd.The Weird Way THE MENU Skewers The RichThat Dang Dad2023-01-21 | THE MENU is a 2022 comedy thriller about fine dining. As is my wont, I see something intriguing bubbling under the surface.
Minor thematic spoilers for Glass Onion, Major spoilers for The Menu.
#TheMenu #GlassOnion #prestige #wealth
Music: Schubert's Piano Sonata No. 20, D. 959 in A Major
Transcript: https://justpaste.it/d3gbhIs The Left Failing Men?That Dang Dad2023-01-08 | Some are saying that left-wing content and politics don't do enough to attract men and act as a counterbalance to the Andrew Tates of the world. Is that true? Are men's issues being ignored?
Transcript - https://justpaste.it/cp8l6Reparative Reading and Social MediaThat Dang Dad2023-01-02 | Have you ever heard of paranoid and reparative reading? What do they have to do with Twitter? We talk Eve Sedgwick, China Miéville, walkable cities, and so much more!
#paranoia #criticaltheory #reading
Works Cited: “Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading, or, You’re so paranoid, you probably think this essay is about you." - Eve Sedgwick (1995, 2003) PDF: https://www.ias.edu/sites/default/files/sss/pdfs/Critique/sedgwick-paranoid-reading.pdf
Title Music: "The Paranoid Position" by me "Free Palestine" by Ambassador
Transcript: https://justpaste.it/8k9nrThe Life-Changing Secret About IdentityThat Dang Dad2022-12-18 | What did a bunch of LGBTQ+ teens teach me about gender, sexuality, and identity? It just might change your life!
#shorts #identity #genderEx-Cop: Police Unions Are The Enemy of the Labor MovementThat Dang Dad2022-12-06 | Police unions are not valid labor unions. Let's talk about it!
#shorts #police #unions #abolition
background music by meStuff I Liked In 2022 (including my Game of the Year)That Dang Dad2022-12-02 | 2022 had it all: Dark Brandon, I Can Solo Her, and that's all I can remember. No but seriously, I liked a lot of games, movies, books, and music this year. Let me recommend you them!
Movies: Jackass Forever Deep Water Watcher Bodies Bodies Bodies Crimes of the Future Nope Hellraiser 2022 Prey Barbarian Everything Everywhere All At Once X Pearl
Books: What's the Use by Sara Ahmed - youtube.com/watch?v=uprWQmDkOQg How To Blow Up A Pipeline by Andreas Malm - youtube.com/watch?v=ZoDhW8g5xks The Weird edited by Ann and Jeff Vendermeer The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein Blood in My Eye by George Jackson