July 2022 Patreon Update/Newsletter (Patreon)

Hey Skip Introthusiasts! (I kinda like the ring of that one)

I’m hard at work on the PAW PATROL VIDEO!!!!

Yeah that’s right. After what feels like decades of teasing, I’m deep in the weeds of researching and watching what might possibly be the single worst television show I’ve ever seen in my life.

I was reading an article yesterday where a producer on the show was asked if he ever thinks about doing heroin after an exhausting day of voiceover recording and he said “yes, except that people in kids’ television can’t afford heroin.” So, yeah, that’s the general vibe.

If you’re reading this, that’s because you are a patron! It’s your support that is allowing me to go deep on research for this project, and also the reason that I have had to watch so much PAW Patrol. You are both my blessing and my curse.

Thank you for doing that, it’s really nice! Every month I put out a newsletter like this one, updating you all on the state of the channel, Patreon, and the copaganda series. I’ve been doing a ton of research and you can find a full reading list for this video (and the others in the series attached in this post). The reading list is broken down by episodes, but some of what I’m researching now will find its way into any one of the next 3 copaganda videos.

The plan is to launch Copaganda PAW Patrol by the end of July, but I’m pulling out all the stops for this one, so there’s a chance that it might not be quite ready until the beginning of August. It’s probably going to be the biggest/baddest/smartest/coapagandaiest video I’ve ever made, and I figure you wouldn’t want it any other way. Don’t worry though, I’m burning the midnight oil.

After that, the next 2 videos in the docket are going to be further episodes in Copaganda. What can I say, sometimes the news just makes me super depressed and this is the only thing that feels like it’s helping.

This Sunday (7/17) will be the live Q&A, I’ll post a thread where you can post your questions separately, as always. I’m trying to get back to the first-ish Sunday of the month but without stacking Q&As too close to each other. It’s a work in progress.

Lastly, I wrote my monthly TV roundup covering everything I watched in June. I like doing these to quickly touch on everything I’m watching, so let me know if you’re interested in any of these shows and I can talk more about them either in Q&As or possibly video essays!

Schedule (dates tentative)

July

7/17 - Live Q/A

7/31 - Copaganda 10: PAW Patrol

August

Copaganda 11: We Own This City, Line of Duty, and Internal Affairs

September

Topaganda 12: The Incredible Fascist Propaganda of Top Gun: Maverick

Further into the future:

Copaganda Episodes

How Cop Shows Tackle Mental Health - Criminal Minds, Hannibal, and various others

How Law & Order Shaped the Status Quo

Private Investigators - Veronica Mars

Women on Cop Shows

Sex Workers and Sexual Assault in police cop shows

Other Videos

Yellowjackets and the Art of Genre-Bending

Atlanta’s Meta-trolling

Can We Talk About Schmidt from New Girl?

A Passionate Defense of Lost

Better Call Saul & Breaking Bad Retrospective

The Rise and Fall of Heroes

How Black Mirror became Mundane

Postmodern Superhero TV: The Boys, Watchmen, Invincible, Umbrella Academy

Please, please, please reach out to me if you have any comments, questions, concerns, thoughts, prayers, or even if you just want to say hi either here or at bumtugglies@gmail.com.

Best,

Jackson