{"id":597,"date":"2019-05-29T06:34:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T11:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casualnotice.com\/?p=597"},"modified":"2023-07-13T00:38:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T05:38:24","slug":"youtube-season-1-episode-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casualnotice.com\/?p=597","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Season 1 Episode 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/www.casualnotice.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/CNCD-S1-E1-Au.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Audio in case reading isn&#8217;t your thing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">On the Road<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It may seem weird. Some old guy on YouTube who\u2019s not being embarrassing or adorable at his daughter\u2019s wedding. I\u2019ll even admit that I don\u2019t have a lot to say that hasn\u2019t been said before by smarter and more talented voices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given that YouTube is the world&#8217;s biggest video sharing site, it can be challenging for creators to compete with other channels and gain visibility. Rumble, however, is a smaller platform, which means creators can get more exposure and be more easily discovered by viewers looking for new and unique video content. Check <a href=\"https:\/\/themarketingheaven.com\/buy-rumble-views\/\">https:\/\/themarketingheaven.com\/buy-rumble-views\/<\/a> to learn how to buy Rumble views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But that\u2019s the thing. A lot of voices are being silenced\nlately. Admittedly, these are mostly cranks, trolls and wackadoos, and I don\u2019t\nagree with a lot of\u2014or anything, really\u2014that most of them have to say, but\nthat\u2019s not the point. They are being silenced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, they\u2019re being silenced by exemption from ostensibly\nprivate platforms owned by technically private companies. But they\u2019re still\nbeing silenced. They are being denied a form of free speech that is assumed by\nthe rest of us. Some of them are being attacked financially, even though there\nis no legal basis for denying them commerce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I may get into that more in-depth, later. That\u2019s a subject\nthat deserves its own entry, not just a mention in a \u201cWelcome to my vlog,\u201d\nvideo. Today is all about who I am and what this is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, it concerns me, this rush to silence the outliers.\nI\u2019m all about ignoring people who are demonstrably crazy, or mocking them at\nleast. Late night talk radio is one of my favorite sources of amusement. What\nI\u2019m not about is holding you metaphorical hand over someone\u2019s mouth, even if\nyou know everything that\u2019s going to come out of it is offensive or batshit. Or\nboth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I choose not to watch Milo Yiannopolis videos or listen\nto Louis Farrakhan\u2019s sermons, that\u2019s my choice. When I hear Alex Jones\nnattering on in that gravelly voice like the weird old guy in the hotel bar at\none in the morning, it\u2019s my decision whether I will listen to him or phase him\nout while I imagine kittens boxing, or switch him off, entirely. I decide\nwhat\u2019s good for me to hear, and what\u2019s bad. I don\u2019t need to have my content\nregulated like I\u2019m a child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That just leaves me to make my protest. Well, I\u2019m old, which\nmeans much of my contact with my family and friends is via Facebook, so that\u2019s\nnot an option. I don\u2019t even use most of the others, except YouTube. Anyway,\nit\u2019s been my experience that leaving the party is the dumbest way to try to\nmake your voice heard. Once you\u2019re out the door, the ones who made you leave\nare free to interpret and reimagine whatever you had to say. Or ignore it\ncompletely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I decided that I would protest the loss of voices by adding\nmy voice in their place. Sort of an \u201cI am Spartacus\u201d moment, I guess. My hope\nis that I\u2019ll encourage others to do the same, and they\u2019ll encourage more.\nEventually, the Internet will fill up with people saying things that other\npeople don\u2019t want to hear, and those other people will just have to get over\nthemselves and not listen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, yeah, the format\u2026I don\u2019t like to have my photo taken, so staring into a webcam while I do this is not an option. Trust me, I\u2019m doing you a favor. As I mentioned, I\u2019m kind of old. I\u2019m also bald in an unattractive, Dennis Franz sort of way, and I\u2019m about three Big Macs shy of morbid obesity. These are not things you want to see on your computer screen unless they\u2019re wearing a bowler hat and getting stuck in a doorway next to their ridiculously thin sidekick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m using footage from my dashcam, because I own it. I\u2019m too\nlazy to animate, I don\u2019t have a lot of faith in the Fair Use defense, and streams\nof my gaming attempts would mostly be just the loading screen and thirty\nseconds of me getting pummeled because I tripped into a boss battle without\npicking up the golden macguffin. But I like to go places, and I like back\nroads, so you can vicariously enjoy the beauty of America\u2019s federal and state\nhighway systems. Map coordinates are on the bottom of the screen if you think\nyou recognize something or want to go there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, that\u2019s why this is here. There will be more, soon,\nand you can listen to my unsolicited views on a wide array of topics. I have no\nexpectation of ever being monetized, so there may be some cursing. There will\ndefinitely be things that offend\u2026oh\u2026pretty much everyone, eventually.\n\nI suppose I should insert a catch\n\n\n\nr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the Road It may seem weird. Some old guy on YouTube who\u2019s not being embarrassing or adorable at his daughter\u2019s wedding. I\u2019ll even admit that I don\u2019t have a lot to say that hasn\u2019t been said before by smarter and more talented voices. 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