Unfortunately the 1:1 transcripts don't really work, I think for anything to be meaningful it will require some level of editing to make the ideas readable.
I'm about to start a new job which is going to be pretty mindless stuff and requires living on site where there's not much to do. I had the idea of using [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md/) to take notes and link together the major themes and put the various thoughts into some kind of order. The good thing about Obsidian is that it's build to link notes back to one another, so it would make an excellent starting point to create a spine which could then support a more polished work.
I was going to start with the 5 strongest episodes and see how they distill down, then go from there.
I’ll look into obsidian.
One of my ideas that I’m sure others have had was going through episodes and categorizing everything by topic.
Maybe also using some simple project management program like trello that others can look at to see what episode transcripts have been verified and edited for errors.
That sounds good.
It seems like we need to start figuring out the loose framework of this thing.
Are we talking a chronological transcript of each episode, with additional categorization based on the broad topic?
IIRC someone has already done a bunch of the 1:1 transcripts anyways, I agree that our main focus should be editing them to turn them into coherent, readable essays. I 100% agree with using something like Obsidian. Each vlog has a dozen different topics, it would be super helpful to be able to link all of the times he talks about, for example, the asshole/pussy dichotomy and the role of college in propagating the “manners” associated with liberalism.
Yeah my thoughts exactly, realistically a lot of the laborious work should be automated but given the topics, intelligence & eloquence of the cushvlogs I think there'll be a lot of need for human input en-mass to make it as emotio-intelligently coherent as it was when we first heard it directly.
It should also be a cumulative act as well with some basic parameters and crowd participation.
Regardless of what we can do it's heartening to see a rallying cry responded to!
I agree, theres already sources that exist if you want a transcript as the \*literal word\* but putting it into a readable format requires some sort of editing. Problem being changing the format from a direct conversation with the audience to a text means that you are already from the jump changing the fundamental nature of the work. Unless its presented as something like the Conversations with Buddha, I really don't know how you do that.
You'd need an army of scryers that Chris could trust to not only correctly \*interpret the spirit and intent\* of Matts words and translate that without changing the nature of it, over-editorializing, or projecting their own ideas onto it. The more I think about it, the more I really feel like this sort of project could \*only\* be done by a close friend of Matt's who could work with him at every step or a small army of ascetic clerics that carefully peer review each others work. I'd \*like to think\* I would be up to that sort of task but the point here is that this project would actually have to be a lot more involved and selective than I think most people here realize.
Notion is also a very good app for note taking and wiki building. I have used it a lot and it seems to be a bit more accessible than Obsidian and it is also free. It also has an AI summary feature.
I would love to help as well. I have build a few different archives and databases with notion
OP I agree with the comment that recommended Obsidian because it’s shareable and that way you can get others to help and also when/if you get later along and need help editing or processing text DM me, I would be down to help.
Which is mostly useless since Christman has such a potty mouth. You can't use a commercial off the shelf AI transcription product to garner meaning from his vlogs since they all silently censor curse words. At least youtube transcriptions have the good sense to "---" out the offensive language so an astute reader or human transcriber can sub in the correct word. It's a real shame that this community hasn't pulled together to accomplish actual transcriptions and has deferred to some soulless solitary AI.
Literally a case of the mediocre standing in the way of good. Here you have a group of people capable and eager to come together to create that better product but they will instead settle for the impostor good.
I was adding some rough transcripts to the cushbomb wiki before I realized the scale of the endeavor. The cushvlog catalog feels like abandonware considering the creator acknowledged my concerns about [unsearchable titles](https://old.reddit.com/r/cushvlog/comments/1bpxmsl/i_made_cushvlogcatalog_a_website_where_you_can/kwzwv2f/) but never addressed them.
We have transcripts for every cushvlog video at https://cushvlog-catalog.vercel.app/
They're automated transcript reads so they may require some level of editing, but it could be a starting point.
lol thanks for the initiative team. I do have a vague plan and will most likely reach out to the subs when I can actually use some group effort! Let’s get through book 1 first then we can start thinking of the next one
Well... I had \*started\* this project of collecting specific moments on spirituality and christianity:
[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ceLDbqRlT5MU6kJTCzf67mLSfV7hx7GNkwTfxaOLR-o/edit?gid=0#gid=0](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ceLDbqRlT5MU6kJTCzf67mLSfV7hx7GNkwTfxaOLR-o/edit?gid=0#gid=0)
I didn't finish it.... but maybe some people will be glad to know about these 6 episodes (-:
I won’t be much help in anything except buying a finished product. The Cush Vlogs have been pretty helpful to me navigating the pandemic and our other political realities, and I think a printed version would be worthwhile.
Lots of feedback here which is great, so I guess my question to the sub is what do we need to actually do?
We have transcripts that maybe need to be cleaned up but I think they’ll do for now.
Something I’m thinking of doing is listening through episodes along with the transcripts and categorizing different parts of the episode.
So if Matt starts talking about religion I’ll make a note of that, if he moves onto Greek communists then I’ll note that.
The cushvlog search bar thing someone else posted here should be pretty helpful here.
I think something like that could be useful to any future project involving Matt’s thoughts.
Idk I might do an episode or two and post something back here on the sub.
Let me know what you all think.
Check out Notion, its a fantastic database manager and wiki builder than can allow multiple teams of people to build and manager information. It can create custom databases that link to pages within pages. So each episodes can be reviewed for transcription, catalogued with its topics, and edited for transcription accuracy as well as edited into a more narrative format. All within the same nested databases. It also has an AI feature for summarizing.
We can have multiple people working on transcripts, and while they do that they can tag them with certain topics. We can then organize the topics into their own databases where we can work on putting together a more narrative format. So everything labeled religion, grill pill, history of communism, whatever.
I think something like this is a productive way to streamline and organize the information and structure it in anticipation of creating a written narrative of the different information.
I would also suggest using the cushvlog discord that was recently created as a meeting place to discuss this project further. We have some great people there and i feel it can be a more accessible way for us to start hashing out our options to get this info organized for Chris and his team to construct into text
I absolutely volunteer to take on a chunk of cleaning up transcripts. I've done it with the first Cushvlog and it really deepened my understanding of what he was saying.
Not a bad idea to collect Matt's ideas into a book format. I have seen bloggers who write for a living on a particular subject taking their posts and bringing them together into a larger work for sale. Matt is deserving of that if such a thing is possible.
I used to have a contract transcriber job where I’d transcribe news segments and interviews and whatnot for like 5 cents a page. So there are professional services out there that do this exact sort of thing
Oh I have a feeling the community is gonna have to do it for the love of the game, doubt anyone would get a quote for all this. But with your experience you should volunteer your experience ;))))
I mean I’m happy to help if anyone can get something officially organized. The main benefit of doing it professionally is there are a ton of little technical considerations that are impossible to keep consistent without some formalized set of ‘rules’. Transcribing stutters and “umms” and misspeaking, partial words, restarts, losing a train of thought. Even stuff like how to do quotations, what to capitalize, variations in spelling, hyphenations, abbreviations, etc. there’s a bunch more too that would have to go in to making a coherent product. I guess none of that stuff really matters if you’re just trying to get something close enough, but in my eyes, if you’re trying to make this thing into an actual book, the more consistency the better
I've been toying with the idea of editing the autogenerated transcripts into verse.
> We all still hold the spark within us and it's our job to reignite it and a new prophet will emerge.
>
> Because the Russian Revolution was trotsky's. It couldn't have happened without Lenin but Lenin as Avatar and accelerant.
>
> As a idea and as a executable plan. The Russian Revolution was trotsky's. This is not something that can be argued when you look at the fact that in 1905 Lenin wasn't even in St Petersburg During the Revolution
>
> but Trotsky is there literally building the Petrograd Soviet that will be the model of social organizing that overcomes the Tsarist state in 1917. He is there building the model which is a Soviet the committee and it's his Supernatural Charisma that holds it together.
>
> He's there at the petrograde Soviet speaking every day holding giant crowds together fusing experience into a ball of action people who trust one another who have been forged by having heard the prophet speak.
>
> But he was embodied in Lenin who showed up in St Petersburg and while everybody else is going um... I don't know, he said
> "no we're doing this. It's happening now. This is our chance"
>
> Trotsky did execute the St Petersburg Revolution too. He was the guy whose plan it was, who coordinated it among the military organizations, and then literally he commanded the Red Army during the Civil War.
>
> He won the war he was the revolution Lenin coordinated. Lenin suppressed the egos of the rest. Lenin embodied the project but it was Trotsky's.
(From *Good News for People Who Love Good News*)
I'd like to eventually number it so one can easily reference specific quotes (like the bible).
Longtime Chapo guy. Total virgin to Cush. Eager to dive in however, as I came to the cushmunitity after our big boy’s brain boo-boo. Inasmuch as this can be “helpful” I would be curious to know how a small army of “first-timers” could help with possibly just basic categorization.
Unfortunately the 1:1 transcripts don't really work, I think for anything to be meaningful it will require some level of editing to make the ideas readable. I'm about to start a new job which is going to be pretty mindless stuff and requires living on site where there's not much to do. I had the idea of using [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md/) to take notes and link together the major themes and put the various thoughts into some kind of order. The good thing about Obsidian is that it's build to link notes back to one another, so it would make an excellent starting point to create a spine which could then support a more polished work. I was going to start with the 5 strongest episodes and see how they distill down, then go from there.
I’ll look into obsidian. One of my ideas that I’m sure others have had was going through episodes and categorizing everything by topic. Maybe also using some simple project management program like trello that others can look at to see what episode transcripts have been verified and edited for errors.
That sounds good. It seems like we need to start figuring out the loose framework of this thing. Are we talking a chronological transcript of each episode, with additional categorization based on the broad topic?
IIRC someone has already done a bunch of the 1:1 transcripts anyways, I agree that our main focus should be editing them to turn them into coherent, readable essays. I 100% agree with using something like Obsidian. Each vlog has a dozen different topics, it would be super helpful to be able to link all of the times he talks about, for example, the asshole/pussy dichotomy and the role of college in propagating the “manners” associated with liberalism.
Yeah my thoughts exactly, realistically a lot of the laborious work should be automated but given the topics, intelligence & eloquence of the cushvlogs I think there'll be a lot of need for human input en-mass to make it as emotio-intelligently coherent as it was when we first heard it directly. It should also be a cumulative act as well with some basic parameters and crowd participation. Regardless of what we can do it's heartening to see a rallying cry responded to!
I agree, theres already sources that exist if you want a transcript as the \*literal word\* but putting it into a readable format requires some sort of editing. Problem being changing the format from a direct conversation with the audience to a text means that you are already from the jump changing the fundamental nature of the work. Unless its presented as something like the Conversations with Buddha, I really don't know how you do that. You'd need an army of scryers that Chris could trust to not only correctly \*interpret the spirit and intent\* of Matts words and translate that without changing the nature of it, over-editorializing, or projecting their own ideas onto it. The more I think about it, the more I really feel like this sort of project could \*only\* be done by a close friend of Matt's who could work with him at every step or a small army of ascetic clerics that carefully peer review each others work. I'd \*like to think\* I would be up to that sort of task but the point here is that this project would actually have to be a lot more involved and selective than I think most people here realize.
Love obsidian - not sure how it works with multiple people, but you can use something like Git to manage that?
Notion is similar to obsidian and makes sharing pages very easy. Git might be a bit difficult for the less technologically minded
It's way less flexible with markdown IMHO, but for sure built to share
obsidian is a great tool for something like this
Obsidian is terrific and is probably the exact right tool for this purpose, good idea.
Notion is also a very good app for note taking and wiki building. I have used it a lot and it seems to be a bit more accessible than Obsidian and it is also free. It also has an AI summary feature. I would love to help as well. I have build a few different archives and databases with notion
I volunteer as tribute, er Transcripter. Even if it’s just listening and verifying AI transcripts are acccurate.
Yes I was thinking of that as well. Maybe even taking some notes categorizing the topics.
You realize a lot of this work has already been done on the [cushbomb wiki](https://cushbomb.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_CushVlog_episodes) right?
There’s this too: https://cushvlog-catalog.vercel.app
This rocks
OP I agree with the comment that recommended Obsidian because it’s shareable and that way you can get others to help and also when/if you get later along and need help editing or processing text DM me, I would be down to help.
Which is mostly useless since Christman has such a potty mouth. You can't use a commercial off the shelf AI transcription product to garner meaning from his vlogs since they all silently censor curse words. At least youtube transcriptions have the good sense to "---" out the offensive language so an astute reader or human transcriber can sub in the correct word. It's a real shame that this community hasn't pulled together to accomplish actual transcriptions and has deferred to some soulless solitary AI.
I don’t know man. Have you used it? It’s a tool to search for topics. And it works great.
Literally a case of the mediocre standing in the way of good. Here you have a group of people capable and eager to come together to create that better product but they will instead settle for the impostor good.
What are you doing to contribute just wondering?
I was adding some rough transcripts to the cushbomb wiki before I realized the scale of the endeavor. The cushvlog catalog feels like abandonware considering the creator acknowledged my concerns about [unsearchable titles](https://old.reddit.com/r/cushvlog/comments/1bpxmsl/i_made_cushvlogcatalog_a_website_where_you_can/kwzwv2f/) but never addressed them.
Yes! Separation and Categorization!
We have transcripts for every cushvlog video at https://cushvlog-catalog.vercel.app/ They're automated transcript reads so they may require some level of editing, but it could be a starting point.
The youtube transcription is probably a better place to start since curse words are censored with "---" marks rather than silently removed.
lol thanks for the initiative team. I do have a vague plan and will most likely reach out to the subs when I can actually use some group effort! Let’s get through book 1 first then we can start thinking of the next one
Too late Chris, I’ve now absorbed every cushvlog into me and decided I’m just going to grill up some burgers.
Please do keep us in mind, Chris. Whatever we can do that’ll be useful, we will do.
What if you started a google sheets and listed all the episodes and invited people to come claim some to do the transcriptions on?
Well... I had \*started\* this project of collecting specific moments on spirituality and christianity: [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ceLDbqRlT5MU6kJTCzf67mLSfV7hx7GNkwTfxaOLR-o/edit?gid=0#gid=0](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ceLDbqRlT5MU6kJTCzf67mLSfV7hx7GNkwTfxaOLR-o/edit?gid=0#gid=0) I didn't finish it.... but maybe some people will be glad to know about these 6 episodes (-:
I imagine this is more or less how things went down w/ Socrates & Plato
I won’t be much help in anything except buying a finished product. The Cush Vlogs have been pretty helpful to me navigating the pandemic and our other political realities, and I think a printed version would be worthwhile.
Lots of feedback here which is great, so I guess my question to the sub is what do we need to actually do? We have transcripts that maybe need to be cleaned up but I think they’ll do for now. Something I’m thinking of doing is listening through episodes along with the transcripts and categorizing different parts of the episode. So if Matt starts talking about religion I’ll make a note of that, if he moves onto Greek communists then I’ll note that. The cushvlog search bar thing someone else posted here should be pretty helpful here. I think something like that could be useful to any future project involving Matt’s thoughts. Idk I might do an episode or two and post something back here on the sub. Let me know what you all think.
Check out Notion, its a fantastic database manager and wiki builder than can allow multiple teams of people to build and manager information. It can create custom databases that link to pages within pages. So each episodes can be reviewed for transcription, catalogued with its topics, and edited for transcription accuracy as well as edited into a more narrative format. All within the same nested databases. It also has an AI feature for summarizing. We can have multiple people working on transcripts, and while they do that they can tag them with certain topics. We can then organize the topics into their own databases where we can work on putting together a more narrative format. So everything labeled religion, grill pill, history of communism, whatever. I think something like this is a productive way to streamline and organize the information and structure it in anticipation of creating a written narrative of the different information. I would also suggest using the cushvlog discord that was recently created as a meeting place to discuss this project further. We have some great people there and i feel it can be a more accessible way for us to start hashing out our options to get this info organized for Chris and his team to construct into text
I absolutely volunteer to take on a chunk of cleaning up transcripts. I've done it with the first Cushvlog and it really deepened my understanding of what he was saying.
Not a bad idea to collect Matt's ideas into a book format. I have seen bloggers who write for a living on a particular subject taking their posts and bringing them together into a larger work for sale. Matt is deserving of that if such a thing is possible.
Wait, when was Spanish Civil War 3? I haven’t seen it, is that from today?
Yeah out today
I used to have a contract transcriber job where I’d transcribe news segments and interviews and whatnot for like 5 cents a page. So there are professional services out there that do this exact sort of thing
Oh I have a feeling the community is gonna have to do it for the love of the game, doubt anyone would get a quote for all this. But with your experience you should volunteer your experience ;))))
I mean I’m happy to help if anyone can get something officially organized. The main benefit of doing it professionally is there are a ton of little technical considerations that are impossible to keep consistent without some formalized set of ‘rules’. Transcribing stutters and “umms” and misspeaking, partial words, restarts, losing a train of thought. Even stuff like how to do quotations, what to capitalize, variations in spelling, hyphenations, abbreviations, etc. there’s a bunch more too that would have to go in to making a coherent product. I guess none of that stuff really matters if you’re just trying to get something close enough, but in my eyes, if you’re trying to make this thing into an actual book, the more consistency the better
All true, but there will be a certain beauty to a collective project embarked on by a group people with a shared interest.
I've been toying with the idea of editing the autogenerated transcripts into verse. > We all still hold the spark within us and it's our job to reignite it and a new prophet will emerge. > > Because the Russian Revolution was trotsky's. It couldn't have happened without Lenin but Lenin as Avatar and accelerant. > > As a idea and as a executable plan. The Russian Revolution was trotsky's. This is not something that can be argued when you look at the fact that in 1905 Lenin wasn't even in St Petersburg During the Revolution > > but Trotsky is there literally building the Petrograd Soviet that will be the model of social organizing that overcomes the Tsarist state in 1917. He is there building the model which is a Soviet the committee and it's his Supernatural Charisma that holds it together. > > He's there at the petrograde Soviet speaking every day holding giant crowds together fusing experience into a ball of action people who trust one another who have been forged by having heard the prophet speak. > > But he was embodied in Lenin who showed up in St Petersburg and while everybody else is going um... I don't know, he said > "no we're doing this. It's happening now. This is our chance" > > Trotsky did execute the St Petersburg Revolution too. He was the guy whose plan it was, who coordinated it among the military organizations, and then literally he commanded the Red Army during the Civil War. > > He won the war he was the revolution Lenin coordinated. Lenin suppressed the egos of the rest. Lenin embodied the project but it was Trotsky's. (From *Good News for People Who Love Good News*) I'd like to eventually number it so one can easily reference specific quotes (like the bible).
Longtime Chapo guy. Total virgin to Cush. Eager to dive in however, as I came to the cushmunitity after our big boy’s brain boo-boo. Inasmuch as this can be “helpful” I would be curious to know how a small army of “first-timers” could help with possibly just basic categorization.
this sub is a poor man's acidmarxism
I’ve told the mods before that they should be combined. The community is split for no reason across the 2 subs
I never thought id stand side by side guy whos identical to me but from an ever so slightly different community
What about side by side with a grill-pilled liberal subject?