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- Right, I think it's time for another favourites video
because I'm been watching a lot of TV.
A lot of TV.
But it's not just TV faves.
We've got books, we've got films,
we're got some fashion, hello new jumper.
(laughing)
so before we get into the actual stuff
I just wanted to talk about a thing that has been
bothering me recently.
Very low stakes, not really that important at all,
but wanted to mention it.
So with Youtubers, influencers, online content creators,
there is this umbrella category of lifestyle
and lots of things can fit into that like beauty
and fashion and skincare and home and travel
and all of that kind of stuff and I don't really
do a huge amount of that but lifestyle is still
this very useful umbrella term for like some
of the little things that I do.
However, I don't consider myself
a lifestyle content creator.
So I have the sex education stuff
and then I also talk about like chronic illness
and disability and I kind of umbrella those stuff
under like taboo topics and talking about that
but then all of this other stuff for instance
like my favourites videos or talking about career
organisation and things like that, I'm like
is that lifestyle?
I don't know.
With the favourites videos and the fact that I talk
about the stuff in these a lot online,
so for instance books, films, TV, video games,
theatre, musicals I don't know all of that stuff,
there is a word that I really wish would catch
on as the catch all category for it like lifestyle
but not lifestyle.
What I want it to be is culture.
So instead of being a lifestyle content creator
I'd be a culture content creator but that just
doesn't have the same ring to it because
it's not caught on yet and I just need it to catch on.
I would just really love culture content creator
for people like me who make videos about media
about pop culture and things like that.
About culture, about culture.
For it to catch on.
Please let me know in the comments
what you think of this.
If you think it can, will, ever catch on.
It just irks me because I don't fully fit
into lifestyle and I hate explaining
the kind of content that I do.
I hate having to be like I talk about books
and film, ah.
Anyway, let's get into it.
First of all, books.
Books, books, books.
So I think this year I am not reading
as much as I was in previous years.
I'm not sure why.
I think it's because I'm gaming a lot
and I also think it's because I'm listening
to lots of podcasts.
But my recent book faves are all non-fiction books
so also they take me longer to read
than the fiction ones.
Have I talked about this before?
Because I'm not doing monthly faves
and I'm just doing them as and when
I'm not questioning myself if I've talked
about this before.
I don't think I have.
Anyway.
Educated by Tara Westover.
Oh boy.
So this is Tara's memoir.
She grew up in a family that were Mormons
and her dad believed that the end of days was coming.
They stockpiled a lot of food and resources
and also she didn't have a birth certificate
growing up.
Their dad was like very paranoid and suspicious
of the medical establishment and also the education
establishment and so they were home schooled,
treated at home with her mothers herbal remedies
and things like that, and it's the story of her life
and how she left home and got an education.
It is so beautifully written and so considered.
I don't know, it's really interesting.
Like she has so much empathy and recognition
of everyone's humanity.
It is beautiful and it is shocking
and would recommend.
Like it is such a good book.
And Barack Obama even said a remarkable memoir.
Speaking of the Obama's, another book
that I read this month was Becoming by Michelle Obama
and I listened to this one on Audible and I would
highly recommend listening to it because Michelle reads it.
As someone in the UK, I know of the Obama's.
I'm just like oh yeah the president and first lady
of the United States for a while,
but I don't really know much about their history
and their backstory especially Michelle's
so it was really cool to read about like
her childhood and where she went to school
and how her and Barack met and then their life
in the White House and it is so great.
Again, beautifully written, beautifully spoken
to me in my ears.
Just really interesting.
I love how much she talks about the privacy
and security elements of it and just how living
in the White House is not normal.
But then trying to make it as normal as possible
for their family 'cause their kids were like
really young when Barack Obama became president.
But a huge chunk of the book is like her childhood
and growing up and like early days way before
they were in the White House and so that stuff
is really interesting.
If you wanna feel a bit inspired I would highly recommend.
And then my third book favourite I haven't finished
yet but I just really wanted to mention it
because I don't know when I'm gonna do another
favourites video and that is Sapiens by, yeah.
Not gonna pronounce his name right.
Also can't remember his name off the top of my head
but you know the one that's like a brief history
of humankind.
That book.
That one.
I'm also listening to the audiobook of that
because I cannot be bothered carrying around
a thick book and I find it easier to consume
non-fiction audibly than reading it.
I don't know why.
But yeah, this book is fascinating and also
if you watched my recent video about date ideas
that you can do at home, one of them was having
a book club with your partner and Dan and I
are both listening separately to Sapiens
and so we keep checking in with each other
with like where we're up to and like discussing
the ideas that he has and the theories
and the history of humankind.
It's so interesting.
We're especially fascinated by the whole
imagined orders thing of like how we organise
our collective experience as human beings I guess.
And also enjoying how unapologetic the author
is about how religion is an imagined order
that humans imagined.
He's just like yes this how religion works.
Humans made it up and yeah, I just find
it really refreshing and really interesting
and I also found on Penguins website
like loads of book club questions to it
so once me and Dan have finished I'm gonna be like
right let's sit down over dinner and answer
these questions about the book.
So I'm well excited about that.
So those are the books and now onto TV.
TV.
So much TV.
Oh my god.
I'm gonna try and get through these quite quickly.
So I watched season one of Grace and Frankie.
Oh my goodness.
I'm so glad that I found a new hilarious
heartwarming sitcom that's just like
really easy to consume 'cause I've like
watched season one now.
I don't feel in any rush to watch season two
but I just know that when I'm in the mood for that
I can just switch it on and just be like
I love these characters they're so brilliant.
It's basically about these two women in their 70s
and their husbands break up with them because they
are gay together and then the two of them don't like
each other and then it's about the friendship blossoming.
It's so great, it's so great.
Second TV favourite.
Fleabag season two.
I think all I'm gonna say about this is
holy shit.
The hot priest.
How did they manage it?
How did they manage to make a Catholic priest that sexy?
Anyway, Fleabag's brilliant.
If you haven't watched Fleabag you really need to
get on that.
My third TV favourite is season five of Broad City.
I have talked about Broad City a lot.
I love Broad City.
Season five was the final season and it was like
so sad but heartwarming and I think they ended
it really well like I was very satisfied with how
they left it.
Oh my god, I love the characters.
Abbi and Ilana, just brilliant but fair enough
they wanna move onto other projects
but Broad City is so good.
Broad City is also one of those TV shows that I can
just like go back and rewatch and just enjoy
'cause every episode is just golden.
Golden.
Hilarious.
If you like women and New York and comedy,
watch Broad City, come on.
If you're in the UK you can watch is on Now TV.
Fourth TV favourite is Outlander.
So many of my friends have been telling me
to watch Outlander and they're like you love
Game of Thrones, you would love Outlander
it's basically set in the Scottish Highlands
and there is time travel and sexy Scottish men
and lots of sex and I was like yeah,
cool cool cool cool cool and now I'm watching it
and yes.
I'm not as obsessed with it as I am with Game of Thrones
but I'm getting there and I've not finished season one
yet so maybe with the cliffhanger that comes
at the end of that or whatever I'll be like huh!
But I am very much enjoying it.
It's a pretty intense show.
Alright.
I've said the words already.
Game of Thrones.
Can it be a favourite even though the final season
has only just started?
Yes it can because I was invited to the premier
in Belfast.
I got to see the first episode before it came out.
Like, the pressure.
The pressure of not spoiling it.
No, I would never spoil anything don't you worry.
So I was invited on a press trip with Sky Atlantic
to go to Northern Ireland and see some of the filming
locations and we got to meet the direwolves.
The direwolves that play the pups of Grey Wind
and Summer in season one and then we got to
go to the premier and the after party
and it was,
I mean,
as a massive Game of Throne fan I am so grateful
for the perks of my job.
Oh my god.
It was unreal.
I'm so excited for this season.
There's only six episodes.
It's gonna be over so quick.
George R. R. Martin please hurry up
and write Winds of Winter.
I'm gonna need more Game of Thrones in my life.
If you are interested in talking theories
and spoilers and stuff with me there is a thread
on my private discord which is for Patreons
and Twitch subscribers.
So if you become a Patreon or a Twitch sub
then you get access to the private discord
and there is a thread in there that is where
we can talk spoilers.
So those have been my favourite TV shows.
I have three more and I don't know whether
they're like films or TV shows
'cause they're on Netflix but they're documentaries
and they're feature length so.
Is Netflix TV or is Netflix movies?
I don't know.
Anyway, when we were on holiday I don't know
what happened but we ended up watching loads
of true crime and cult documentaries
and it's a great time.
I would highly recommend.
So we watched Abducted In Plain Sight which is about
this paedophile abuser man who basically kidnaps
this young girl but he was like a family friend
of the family and he also seduces her parents.
It is a hot mess.
You're just watching this like oh my goodness.
And it's fairly traumatising as well to be honest.
We also watched this one called Holy Hell
which is about this cult and as you can imagine
the leader of the cult is very abusive and problematic
and it all kind of comes out and the footage
from it is because one of the members of the cult
was like a filmmaker and he just like filmed everything
and then he got out of the cult and created this
documentary out of all of the footage that he had
of his time in the cult,
and it is powerful, like huh oh boy.
And then we also watched this documentary about
flat earthers called Behind the Curve
and oh boy.
Like you kind of wanna laugh at them
but then I'm also kind of terrified of them
because it's not just the fact that they believe
the earth is flat.
It's about what that means and how they are then
like oh well if all of the authorities lied
about this what else are they lying about,
we're being controlled by lizard people.
You just get into like really dangerous conspiracies
often quite antisemitic as well.
You can be like ha ha they're idiots
but then I don't know.
There is a line, I'm not sure where that is
where it gets really dangerous and I'm like
this is real bad.
But in the documentary there are two points
where different flat earthers are conducting
their own science experiments to prove
that the earth is flat and they do their experiments
and the results that come back are actual
proof that the earth is not flat.
Anyway, watch it it's great fun.
And also terrifying.
Moving on to slightly more lighthearted content.
I finally got round to watching Avengers Infinity War
which meant that I could watch Captain Marvel
which was great, which the true reason why I needed
to watch all of those was so I could watch Rowan Ellis'
video about why Captain Marvel is gay.
So my favourites are not those films even
though I did thoroughly enjoy those films.
The favourite is Rowan's video
which I will link below.
You have to go and watch it.
It's her passionately ranting about why
Captain Marvel is gay, and it is solid.
There are diagrams in this video,
there is evidence, it is solid.
And yes, can confirm Captain Marvel is gay.
We just need Marvel to confirm that Captain Marvel is gay.
That would be great.
So this next favourite may be one of the most
ridiculous favourites that I've ever talked about.
You know how much I love organisation.
I got myself a label maker.
Am I Amy Santiago or am I Amy Santiago?
Pow pow.
(laughing)
Punch, punch, punch, punch, punch.
(clicking) So satisfying.
There we go.
Hello!
(laughing)
Great purchase, great purchase.
We're getting onto fashion and style now.
Maybe I can be a lifestyle Youtuber.
One day.
The jewellery company Eclectic Eccentricity
sent me some new pieces and these earrings
are my absolute favourite.
I love them.
I have talked about this company a lot.
Like even these earrings that I'm wearing
right now are from them.
Full disclaimer, they often gift me these pieces
but I got you guys 10% off if you are interested.
So you just use the code hannah when you checkout
and that is also an affiliate code so anything
that you buy through that like I get a little
commission but you get 10% off so, win-win.
Yeah, these are my new favourites from their collection.
I freaking love them.
I'm a bit of a like dangly earring person
I love it, I love it.
And then I'm sure you have all been thinking this
as you were watching it.
Hannah, where's that jumper from.
What this?
This thing?
Maybe my new favourite piece of clothing.
This is from Joanie Clothing.
It was also gifted.
They sent it to me and I have an affiliate link
with them.
Afraid I don't have a discount code for you
but I will leave a link in the description.
Any who, it is all of my favourite colours.
I'm obsessed.
It's just so cosy and comfy and I know
summer is hopefully round the corner, probably not.
Having a nice thin jumper, always necessary.
And then my final clothing favourite
is my new pair of jeans
and I bought these from Levi's.
I've never bought a pair of Levi jeans before.
This is new territory for me but basically
I had a pair of high waisted skinny black jeans
from ASOS and they just got a hole in the crotch
and I think I'd had them six months
and this happens to me all of the time.
I am a hole in the crotch kinda gal when it comes
to jeans and I think it's because one I wear skinny
jeans all the time.
I tend to only have one or two pairs of jeans
so I will wear them constantly it's not like
I'm switching between jeans so they get a lot of wear,
and also I've got chubby thighs
so the hoo (hands rubbing)
all of that stuff going on.
But I thought I would actually invest in an expensive
pair of jeans and so this is my test.
These jeans I think they cost like just under
100 pounds or something.
The most amount I've even spent on jeans
which was quite nerve-wracking but I'm gonna
test if they last longer than six months
although ideally you want them to last
like a year of two but we will see.
So far I am loving them, they look amazing on me.
My arse looks incredible but I will keep you updated
like at what point they get the crotch hole.
We will see, dun dun dun.
What a cliffhanger.
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