The Woman Who Recorded Everything | Answers With Joe
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Marion Stokes was an eccentric Philadelphia native who obsessively recorded multiple TV channels on VHS tapes for 35 years. Her archive of over 40,000 tapes have become a priceless document of a pivotal period of American history – and may help us to better understand the world today.
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@kalebpinkston3495
August 26, 2025 at 3:14 am
As amazing as this is I doubt we’ll even get to see a 10th of this content simply due to copyright
@daveedarevalo1
August 26, 2025 at 3:14 am
71,000 videos
@WildFacts-101
August 26, 2025 at 3:14 am
It's good show old lass
@shinnok80
August 26, 2025 at 3:14 am
its not a conspiracy if they are right 😛
@williambrennan5701
August 26, 2025 at 3:14 am
she was crazy and had mental health issues. She was rich because she got lucky married a rich husband and she liked apple stock. She was a hoarder. However though she was crazy she did humanity a service by recording everything on t.v. people always assumed stations kept all the old tapes. They did not. she saved many things from disappearing
@litlpupup
August 26, 2025 at 3:14 am
we should ask her first when we need to find lost media
@thirstyCactus
August 26, 2025 at 3:14 am
Eat it with your mouth…
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@ChristianFrates1997
August 26, 2025 at 3:14 am
Physical media is very important.
@auntyshakira747
August 26, 2025 at 3:14 am
Marion Stokes is a genius, way beyond her time. Her collection is now priceless. Amazing how many at the time would think her 'crazy', now we applaud her genius❤
@aspenchar
August 26, 2025 at 3:14 am
i respect it, more media needs to be preserved physically
@rrr-ny6ck
August 26, 2025 at 3:14 am
She said that she recorded everything because the rich and powerful are able to write their own history by deleting it
@marcse7en
August 26, 2025 at 3:14 am
VHS cassettes can't be played any more? … Really? … Despite the fact there are probably millions of VCRs all over planet Earth? … You can STILL play video formats considerably older than VHS! For example, SONY CV, EIAJ, U-Matic, and Philips VCR, to name a few!
@photodube
August 26, 2025 at 3:14 am
Mr Plinkett has not lost faith that his VCR will be repaired someday.
@AidenRKrone
August 26, 2025 at 3:14 am
The Fair Play for Cuba Committee was a communist front organization funded by Fidel Castro. The committee was supported by members of the Socialist Workers Party and the Communist Party USA (the cooperation of these two radical left-wing political parties is remarkable, given their political, ideological, and doctrinal differences). The goal of the committee was to weaken American resistance to communist aggression in Vietnam and to strengthen American popular support for Castro's communist regime in Cuba. The most famous Fair Play for Cuba Committee member was, of course, Lee Harvey Oswald, the communist and rogue CIA asset who assassinated U.S. President John F. Kennedy. Coupled with Marion M. Stokes's participation in "civil rights" issues, which were themselves often incited and organized by the Communist Party USA and numerous other left-wing groups, it can be accurately said that Stokes was at the very least a communist sympathizer. Her enormous collection of videotapes and books is fascinating, that much is true, but any biographical sketch of her should not leave out the unsavory portions of her life.
@thomasdickson35
August 26, 2025 at 3:14 am
My parents kept three VHS players and their tapes. My brother and I watched 'The Last Unicorn' a few years ago 😁
@tiffanymarie9750
August 26, 2025 at 3:14 am
I mean, she just created a VCR version of old school rich people libraries.
@leahl5007
August 26, 2025 at 3:14 am
That Half in the Bag reference was a lovely surprise X)
@DumA2034
August 26, 2025 at 3:14 am
Shameless transition into that plug lmao
@Jin420
August 26, 2025 at 3:14 am
Damn… and I thought I was crazy for holding onto my recorded VHS. 😂😂
@matildachalmers
August 26, 2025 at 3:14 am
rip marion you would’ve loved tiktok
@benandsylvia
August 26, 2025 at 3:14 am
Night court, ha ha ha !
@hide56734
August 26, 2025 at 3:14 am
Ehhhehehehehe
@MattyLaws
August 26, 2025 at 3:14 am
I don't know why, but I was actually glad when you didn't segue into a VPN sponsor when you were talking about the lack of privacy.
@loganlalich553
August 26, 2025 at 3:14 am
Late to the party, but joe’s hair in his indie film was incredible. Wish I had hair like that
@meltylove
August 26, 2025 at 3:14 am
i am 10 seconds into the video but she's sooo me i'm obsessed
@andreatolchinsky7698
August 26, 2025 at 3:14 am
Please do not say "early ohts" ever again
@tigerterrible
August 26, 2025 at 3:14 am
Had she been poor, she would have been labeled a hoarder, told she needed help for her mental health issue, and everything would have been dumped in the garbage.
Don't get me wrong: I think it's amazing what she captured, just things could have ended up different.
@jevinday
August 26, 2025 at 3:14 am
Definitely a bit obsessive, but my brother and I talk frequently about how archiving culture is valuable
@tennesseehighclass
August 26, 2025 at 3:14 am
We pour some wine lmao 😂😂😂.
@Baelor-Breakspear
August 26, 2025 at 3:14 am
I actually met Pete Seeger a few different times. He lived in the town I grew up in and we wouldn’t have had riverfront park if it wasn’t for him. He was a good man
@WGSMRW
August 26, 2025 at 3:14 am
3:17 Wow, you're really going to call out your entire audience as autistic/ND? Bold claim, but I'd have to agree 😂
@polythewicked
August 26, 2025 at 3:14 am
I’m her, but with digital books.
@dereks1264
August 26, 2025 at 3:14 am
"Night Court" – YES!
@trixieleigh7912
August 26, 2025 at 3:14 am
Niiiight Coooourt!!
@billyalarie929
August 26, 2025 at 3:14 am
I’m so glad that [SPOILER]
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she didn’t have to know about sandy hook
@michellethong8476
August 26, 2025 at 3:14 am
It's not paranoia, if it's true. Activists are often monitored, and history has shown us what happens to many activists. I'm very glad to see that her work is being archived, and that we've been able to recover decades of info that was otherwise lost. I can't imagine it was easy for her family but the world will benefit from her hard work.
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