Primitive Technology. Guy in the jungle builds houses and makes pottery from scratch and I mean from scratch. He even gets into forging a little bit, made a crude iron knife from ore he collected himself.
The new blower he made is so facinating. The leaf as a valve is just so cool to see :D
- Actual financial advice, not WSB style but actual real life advice
- Fascinating videos on “deinfluencing” and what drives people addicted to TikTok
- Deep dives into companies, both failed and successful.
- Want to know exactly how Blockbuster failed? He’ll tell you.
- A humor based approach to the climate crisis. Where normally my anxiety flares, this guy goes above and beyond to make interesting and factual videos, while not being 100% doomer.
Alan Fischer (aka the Armchair Urbanist)
- Videos on Philly and urbanization
- Good train nerd, with fantastic videos on things like Conrail, and how Amtrak became a thing.
A lot of the channels I like have already been listed (more than once) by others, so I will just mention my top current favorites and few that haven’t been mentioned.
- SuperfastMatt -He’s a former Tesla engineer that hobby builds custom vehicles like an offroad Dodge Viper and a land-speed car
- HyperspacePirate -he’s a guy building his own diy cryocooler while doing all sorts of at-home refrigeration refinement utilizing off the shelf materials.
- Max Miller -He’s an educational cook that seems to speak to the former Alton Brown crowd.
- ThisOldTony -He’s a pair of machinist hands 🙌 that shows people the fundamentals of how to work with metal while also being entertaining
- Extractions&Ire -He’s a mad chemist from the southern hemisphere
- The Thought Emporium -He’s an amateur mad bio-engineer who among other things is working to create an array of rat neurons that he can teach to play Doom
Nilered is a mad chemist from the northern hemisphere that also barely makes content anymore so I can’t list him
I also love most of the content creators that are apart of Nebula.
Some of my favorites: - Microwave Society (Film Reviews/General Comedic Commentary) - Lackadaisy (Imagine Prohibition but cats) - The Click (Reading reddit posts, mostly when I draw) - LGR (Old tech mostly with some random modern stuff mixed in) - Douglas (They do voxel engine devlogs, and I am impressed with their work) - Bringus Studios (They mostly modify various electronics)
Bill McClintock Uri Tuchman Wristwatch revival Foureyes furniture BigClive dotcom
The Action Lab easily my favourite
Currently, Roll for Sandwich/Adventures in Aardia and No More Jockeys. Also love me some J. Kenji López-Alt, with a bit of Henry’s Kitchen for contrast.
Ordinary Sausage - A channel for people who wonder “could you turn X into a sausage, and if so how good would it taste?” Water? Air? Big Macs? Pickles? That and more, my friend. Pure culinary chaos, and weirdly wholesome to boot.
Joel Haver - The origin of the “semi-automated rotoscoping” animation style, a rather clever use of some existing filters, but also a genuinely funny creator, and prolific to boot.
The Try Channel. Super funny Irish individuals trying food & alcohol. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCabq3No3wXbs6Ut-Pux6SzA/videos Kirsten Dirksen. She is a filmmaker that has many videos on tiny homes, micro apartments, sustainable gardening and so much more. She travels the world to film. https://www.youtube.com/user/kirstendirksen/videos
A couple of atheism/philosophy channels that helped me focus on the positive aspects of my secular worldview, instead of merely being not theistic:
Made major improvements to my home cooking routine:
- Adam Ragusea. His podcast, which he stopped doing this year, is also worth a listen.
- Rainbow Plant Life. Vegan.
- Derek Sarno. Also vegan.
Culture & current events:
- Joan Westenberg. She just started a YouTube channel a couple days ago, but I’ve been subscribing to her newsletter for a few months and it’s great. Give her a follow on Mastodon, too: https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan
- Maggie Mae Fish Only just found this one, but seems well thought-out.
- Tara Mooknee Same here.
Internet Today is a great news channel. Based guys too.
It’s like having 2 friends to watch the end of the world with.
I really like Curious Archive, their video “I Hope It Ends With Monster” is one of my favorites.
theuppermostinlife - It’s just one person scooping up all of the music they like and curating a bunch of compilations. I’ve found lots of music I listen to regularly thanks to their efforts.
Red Letter Media! <3
(Yo, cake day lol)
