I SWEAR I tried to edit this down. A little.
T-shirt check: RAGE – yes! [Hums intro to Killing in the Name]
00:03 NOT PICKS [shudder] LOL
00:07 All this talk about fingers makes me uncomfortable for some reason.
00:12 “Pick players are terrible people.” Lol – we’ve heard this voice before:
“You don’t want to think of all the bad things I have to say about Flea.” This voice is like an anti-Noob Josh, hiding in the shadows, ready to spew bass pessimism at a moment’s notice. No? Just me? Oh, OK.
00:20 2001: A Pick Odyssey [Ella laughs at Josh’s sniffing] [OK fine – I laughed too]
00:25 This is exactly the type of video I was searching for earlier in the year, when I got bored trying to watch an unfunny, 30-minute video about using a pick. THANK YOU
00:30 “Pickitup!” [Kristine does a little ska dance]
00:35 From their website: “Phat-Tone was designed to provide bass players the feel and tone your fingers produce.” Um…
00:39 Nice dance moves, @JoshFossgreen 
01:09 At some point my brain realizes, after hearing the long list of pick-using pro bass players, that the pick vs fingers myth is just another thing people like to argue about instead of practicing.
01:18 “…pretend they can play it…” Who needs aloe?
01:27 Point for Wayne!
01:31 Really? I wouldn’t have thought that, but my brain was conditioned to use fingers first from playing violin. We played pizzicato at first to focus on fretting before adding an inanimate object, the bow, to the mix.
01:50 “I am a bass player who uses whatever technique is needed for the song” – yes, please and thank you.
02:18 Love hearing the tone comparison and am realizing that pick playing is why I have occasionally mistaken bass for guitar in the past.
02:19 CLEVER
02:32 Another way to gauge bass player progression (a la @Gio ‘s thread): when you can look at a waveform, hear the explanation, and understand the nuance the visual information is giving you
03:44 SPEED: This is why I originally wanted info on pick playing, but…maybe I just need to practice more. 
04:10 Still can’t imagine starting with a pick. Bass strings are so tactile.
04:43 Ella immediately yells “OMG a Minecraft Diamond Pickaxe!”
05:51 TORTEX (my current favorite) – ooooh that’s what I bought at my local music store recently
06:10 Ella had to rewatch and verify that Josh was actually using a toothpick to play. And then pick his teeth lol
06:34 A good opportunity to teach Ella about Wyle. E. Coyote. Also, a fun reminder of how tall Josh is! It was a looooong way for the pick to fall.
07:03 Five Point Checklist – visually detailed from multiple angles – THANK YOU
07:20 Not too tight, but don’t drop [scribbles notes]
08:07 AY it feels like a picking free-for-all! At least I can cling to how to hold the pick for some sort of consistency. And practice. Lots of practice.
08:34 KIM GORDON SONIC YOUTH
08:42 – 12:13 There is a lot of detail here that I will be going over again and again. THANK YOU
10:30 “Then just put on a Ramones record and downpick your way to heaven.” That sounds like fun
12:14 “So now you know that I love the pick…” oh you gave that game away back in February with that plastic, clicky, nasty pick playing in your love letter of a tribute to Roundabout 
12:15 “…but don’t think this means I’m gonna stop throwing them off the screen with stupid sound effects.” Wouldn’t hear of it.
“Cat fight!” - cat against a pick? That pick’s ending up under the sofa
“Angel choir!” - this pick’s gone to heaven
“Qbert!” – g#%@*&~it I dropped it again
“Arnold Schwarzenegger!” – that pick will be back
“Stairway to Heaven” – Ledd Zep, sure, but have you considered The Chicken?
“Pottery smash!” – didn’t need that vase anyway
“James Hetfield!” – ummm…dreams of dragons’ fire and of picks that will bite
“The Brady Bunch theme!” – Today I was reminded that Barry Williams (Greg) asked Florence Henderson (Carol, his TV MOM) out on a date. When he was 16. Scandalous!
“Wilhelm Scream!!!” – Classic! 
Ella’s Top 4 Laughs
- 12:20 – Pick-throwing Sound Effects Rundown!
- 02:19 – Subscribe to BassBuzz!
- 06:09 – A Toothpick!
- 06:39 – A Long Drop and Exploding Pick!