The week on The Deep Dive: Analyzing the accent I get ripped apart on TikTok for having, revisiting another classic children’s book, Amazon won’t stop until we have floating blimp fulfillment centers, Matt Rife had a Beatles-level audience and then just gave it all away, and trains don’t stop for anyone – not even Ethan Hunt.

EDUCATION

What does a California accent sound like? by Dave Huxtable (10:28)

Everyone loves the experience of having an accent expert pick apart their accent that they never thought was unique – that’s why I clicked on this video. I’ve long been (correctly) accused of speaking with vocal fry on TikTok, and no matter how many user8347852093s want to believe that it’s an affectation, it’s also deeply ingrained in my brain and vocal cords because I’m from ✨California✨. In this video, Dave Huxtable taught me a little bit about why I speak the way I do, even though it sounds normal to me? Aside from that, this video was delightful, mainly because Dave might have the best comedic timing on YouTube – skip to 1:36 and 4:58 if you don’t believe me. Does this count as a video essay? Probably not, oh well.

MEDIA

Revisiting Where the Wild Things Are as an Adult by Roughest Drafts (25:37)

As a child, I was highly sensitive to the animation and illustration styles that I found scary. I vividly remember having nightmares about the cover art of Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach, Bluth movies gave me the heebie-jeebies for reasons I still don’t understand to this day, and Where the Wild Things Are scared me so much I memorized where it was located on my first-grade classroom bookshelf so that I wouldn’t accidentally pick it up. While my art style fears may have been irrational, I wasn’t the only kid who was afraid of Where the Wild Things Are. And now that we’re all grown up, it’s time to take another look at the children’s classic. In this video, Roughest Drafts explores the book’s underlying themes, from the overt to the possible, and what it means to learn from our mistakes and to be loved best of all.