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I haven't watched this video yet, but this channel "Soft White Underbelly" has some really incredible content especially around drug addiction in the US. Has h

I haven't watched this video yet, but this channel "Soft White Underbelly" has some really incredible content especially around drug addiction in the US. Has helped me to humanize the headlines we see about the "opioid crisis" in recent years.

sshine 5y ago
It's my favorite channel as of lately. He's interviewed drug addicts, gang members, prostitutes, gangsters, pimps, inbreds, cross-dressers, skinheads, rapists, homeless, transgenders, native americans, kids. It lets me meet people I normally wouldn't have the patience to get to know, and it humanizes them.
Fargoan 5y ago
- fredoliveira 5y ago
  We really have to let go of this dumb idea that anything out of one's comfort zone is "cringe".
  - Fargoan 5y ago
    - WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
  - Fargoan 5y ago
    - that_guy_iain 5y ago
      I don't think that BAYC is out of his comfort zone more than they think spending thousands on a jpg you don't own the copyright or any real rights just to flex is cringe. I would suspect many people who hold that view think Rolexs and luxury watches are also cringe.
  - Chris2048 5y ago
    Who said that's the reason it's cringe? You're burying the lede.
  - tptacek 5y ago
    That's not what "cringe" means. To be "cringe", you have to be vicariously embarrassed for the person involved.
jrumbut 5y ago
The channel certainly has interviewed some fascinating individuals, but the repetitive lines of questioning he pursues are tiresome. He almost always starts by asking if someone grew up with both parents. That's an interesting thing to know but interview after interview this question leads interviewees down the same path and it leaves blind spots. I hardly ever hear him ask in depth about their early experiences at schools, churches, childhood friends, extended family, the healthcare system, sports, media, etc. There are some Freudian assumptions baked into his interview style and I think if he challenged himself to try other angles he could go from humanizing the guests to individualizing them.
- that_guy_iain 5y ago
  > I hardly ever hear him ask in depth about their early experiences at schools, churches, childhood friends, extended family, the healthcare system, sports, media, etc. To be fair, they're normally 30 minute interviews even in 3-hour long interviews very rarely do any interviewers go in depth on any subject. I think I understand what you want but I don't think you'll ever really find it.
  - jrumbut 5y ago
    That's exactly the issue. Since he isn't going to memoir depth (or only rarely does), I'd like him to make sure not to dig the same shallow hole over and over again.
sgt 5y ago
Also check out Peter Santolini, another YouTuber who recently interviewed the guy from SWU.

sshine 5y ago

It's my favorite channel as of lately. He's interviewed drug addicts, gang members, prostitutes, gangsters, pimps, inbreds, cross-dressers, skinheads, rapists, homeless, transgenders, native americans, kids. It lets me meet people I normally wouldn't have the patience to get to know, and it humanizes them.

Fargoan 5y ago

fredoliveira 5y ago
We really have to let go of this dumb idea that anything out of one's comfort zone is "cringe".
- Fargoan 5y ago
  - WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
- Fargoan 5y ago
  - that_guy_iain 5y ago
    I don't think that BAYC is out of his comfort zone more than they think spending thousands on a jpg you don't own the copyright or any real rights just to flex is cringe. I would suspect many people who hold that view think Rolexs and luxury watches are also cringe.
- Chris2048 5y ago
  Who said that's the reason it's cringe? You're burying the lede.
- tptacek 5y ago
  That's not what "cringe" means. To be "cringe", you have to be vicariously embarrassed for the person involved.

jrumbut 5y ago

The channel certainly has interviewed some fascinating individuals, but the repetitive lines of questioning he pursues are tiresome. He almost always starts by asking if someone grew up with both parents. That's an interesting thing to know but interview after interview this question leads interviewees down the same path and it leaves blind spots. I hardly ever hear him ask in depth about their early experiences at schools, churches, childhood friends, extended family, the healthcare system, sports, media, etc. There are some Freudian assumptions baked into his interview style and I think if he challenged himself to try other angles he could go from humanizing the guests to individualizing them.

that_guy_iain 5y ago
> I hardly ever hear him ask in depth about their early experiences at schools, churches, childhood friends, extended family, the healthcare system, sports, media, etc. To be fair, they're normally 30 minute interviews even in 3-hour long interviews very rarely do any interviewers go in depth on any subject. I think I understand what you want but I don't think you'll ever really find it.
- jrumbut 5y ago
  That's exactly the issue. Since he isn't going to memoir depth (or only rarely does), I'd like him to make sure not to dig the same shallow hole over and over again.

sgt 5y ago

Also check out Peter Santolini, another YouTuber who recently interviewed the guy from SWU.