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“Pandemic Politics…” was a typical podcast promotion tweet. The show featured @robertwrighter and @DamonLinker. It is part of the tsunami of commentary on COVID-19. Replies to this tweet sparked this post. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress.
@Ty_Lookwell “Still feeling so “optimistic about the freak out” and “impressed” as when you recorded this a few days ago?” @robertwrighter “those aren’t direct quotes, right? e.g., did I ever use the word ‘optimistic’ without ‘guardedly’ in front of it? and, yes, i’m impressed with how dramatically we’re altering our lifestyles in response to this.”
01 – What exactly did Bob say? It is easy to find out. First, open the YouTube file of the conversation. The chat also appeared on blogginheads.tv.
02 – There is a line of stuff under the title. It starts with the number of views, and the broadcast date. At the far right side, you will see three dots. (…) Click on those three dots. A three part menu will appear. Click on the middle option, “Open transcript.” A window will appear next to the viewer.
03 – Click anywhere in this window. Hit cntrl+A. Hit cntrl+C. Open a blank word document. Hit cntrl+V. Save the document. This is a transcript of the conversation.
04 – Hit cntrl+F. Type “optimistic” into the window for “Find what.” You will quickly find this:
06:19
we’ll see III but a big question is how
06:24
rapidly do we get the problem under
06:26
control and I have to say …
05 – With a bit of digital elbow grease, or a nifty program, you can reduce this. 06:19 “but a big question is how rapidly do we get the problem under control and I have to say I’ve gotten more optimistic as a result of the freakout we are taking dramatic measures are being taken almost none of them as a result of political guidance”
06 – The next step is to make a link to the comment. On YouTube, you make a comment. Include the time that the remark started. When the comment is published, the starting time will be in blue type. This means a link has been created. Click on that link, or right click, and choose “Open Link in New Tab.” You now have a link to the comment.
07 – If the comments are closed, you can still make a link. Copy the url into a blank tab. To the end of the url, add &t=xxxs . In place of the xxx before the s, insert the number of seconds, from the start of the video. For the clip above, the number of seconds is 379, or 06 minutes and 19 seconds (06:19.) The added code for this link is &t=379s. Once you have added this to the end of the url, hit enter. The video should start at the correct time.
08 – Bloggingheads.tv also allows you to make a link. These were known, at one time, as a “Dingle link.” On top of the viewer, you see a blue arrow jumping out of a square. Click on that icon. In the options, you see “or choose a specific part to share.” Enter the starting time in the “Start at” box, and the shut up time in the “Stop at” box. As if by magic, you now have a link to the comment.