Looking for some hidden gems
From my subscriptions:
Prozd Plays Games is a great let’s play style channel. He’s a voice actor and pretty funny.
NileRed is a chemistry madman who does very interesting experiments.
Technology Connections does deep dives into all sorts of household technologies: dishwashers, heat pumps, electric cars. He also dabbles in film photography, pinball machines, and other stuff I’m definitely forgetting.
Practical Engineering is a very high quality educational channel on civil engineering. Lately he’s even started going to work sites and filming projects as they go.
Folding ideas does very well researched video essays. His flat earth video a couple years ago really took off but basically everything he puts out is incredibly interesting.
Tom Stanton doesn’t upload much but he does model airplane and custom ebike content mostly.
Jenny Nicholson uploads once or twice a year now with theme park and weird media video essays.
If you’re into theme park channels you may enjoy “defunctland”
I have quite similar taste from the videos you listed. I will check out folding ideas because I have not heard about it before. You should check out clickspring. Its an awesome machining channel.
The flat earth video is amazing, I’ll give you that. But for my money, this is his best one.
Watched an hour long documentary on the history of the difficulty of making blue LED lights this weekend lol.
Saw the thumbnail for that and added it to my watch later. So I’ll probably never watch it
It’s actually a cool story. The dude was a technician and was shunned by the phd’s and had to repair equipment which gave him the skills to modify the machines to eventually succeed… and he later got a phd like he always wanted…. If the story is to be believed…. Either way pretty sure that dudes family is loaded unless there’s a weird thing from his country where they don’t allow hereditary stuff but maybe not…. Dum dum dum…. Does he get rich I can’t remember but he seemed happy I think and proud rightfully so
The Veritasium version is only 33 minutes 😉
This was a great watch!
Technology Connections, tomm Scott, smarter everyday, and similar channels
star wars/trek/gate lore and detail videos from people like, certifiably I game, metanerdz lore, gateworld
Fantasy world stuff like WH40K and LOTR, leutin09 and nerd of the rings, installation00 and hidden Xperia for halo
I’ve started watching movie breakdowns of varying types for movies I loved from the 80s onwards from people like media zealot, heavy spoilers, the deep dive
Metal/woodworking videos from people like That Works, Torbjörn Åhman, shurap, michaelcthulu
Shop videos of machining or fabrication from places like clickspring, make it extreme, and This Old Tony
History Time, cgp Grey, Sam o Nella, Bill wurtz
random genres here and there like rctestflite, casual navigation, daniel thrasher, huggbees…
There are clear trends and then you get some random extras.
All the metal/wood working seemed to be metal work videos. Are there any devoted to just woodwork please?
Generic Woodworking, Mattias Wandell, Jimmy diresta, the samurai carpenter
Thank you
Lock Picking Lawyer - You’ll quickly realize that locks only keep honest people honest. I even got my own set of practice picks to play around with.
Deviant Ollam - A professional penetration tester. His job is to infiltrate secure facilities then tell them how he did it, so they can improve their security. He takes LPL’s expertise, and puts it into practice. Start with his “I’ll let myself in” talk.
Veritasium - Dude talks at a camera about some niche science and tech concepts.
*Tom Scott - Now retired, so no new videos. Same idea as Veritasium, with a different host.
Technology Connections - Charmingly dorky dude in an t-shirt and blazer explains how everyday items work. Everything from air conditioners to jukeboxes and coffee makers. He’s a big part of why I’m not afraid to troubleshoot my own appliances.
Primitive Technology - Dude goes out into the middle of a forest and builds stuff with nothing but handmade tools. Turn on closed captioning!
Macho Nacho Productions - Retro console modding and emulation, featuring installs and reviews for some of the most popular mods and emulation tools.
Pirate Software - Former Blizzard/Amazon game dev is making his own indie game. There’s also a healthy dose of offensive digital security sprinkled throughout, because he’s also a greyhat hacker.
Practical Engineering - An engineer explains and demonstrates all kinds of engineering concepts, in a simple and easy to follow format. You’ll start seeing examples of his concepts all around you.
Adam Savage’s Tested - Adam Savage (of Mythbusters fame) builds and shows off all kinds of fun stuff. He also has great insight into how to best utilize a bunch of different tools and equipment.
The Modern Rogue - Two professional idiots try not to injure themselves (and often fail) while stumbling through learning everything from simple bar tricks to knife throwing and Mongolian archery. One of the hosts is a magician of some repute, so there are occasional bits of illusion and sleight of hand thrown in too. It’s basically “what would happen if a couple of dads tried to teach themselves how to make ninja stars in a garage?”
William Osman - Dude with programming and electrical engineering experience uses it to create a musical bidet, and other equally dumb things.
Michael Reeves - See above. He’s friends with William Osman, and they often collab.
Dropout - The old CollegeHumor production crew. They have a variety of content. Game Changer is my personal favorite; Contestants compete on a game show where the rules change with every episode, and the contestants aren’t told what the new rules are.A man of class and taste. I chose to picture you wearing the in bread cat T-shirt while you wrote this.
Internet Comment Etiquette- fellow over 30 dude making consistently hilarious videos lambasting shitty internet trends
Civvie11 - fellow over 30 dude making consistently hilarious videos showcasing boomer shooters, both good and bad
Lock picking lawyer
A few picks
- Clickspring
- this old Tony
- bigglivedotcom
- deviant ollam
- leitnerjoe
- clownc0re
- nibbles and bytes
- aging wheels
- bad obsession motorsport
BOM has taught me so many useful things, and I’m not even a fabricator. Great channel. I’ve also been watching Iron Trap for more fab stuff.
I see opportunities for new brackets everywhere!
Climate Town - Looks at fossil fuel propaganda with humour
Everday Astronaut - This guy loves space. Contagious joy but also in depth. He also got a ticket to space. Where I go for space news, docs, and live streams.
Half as interesting - Short interesting videos
Kurzgestagt - what if or how science questions
Minute Earth - very short biology videos
Minute Physics - very short physics videos
Not Just Bikes - urbanism and will help you see how cities can be better and what’s stopping it
Practical Engineering - Engineering explained
Primative Technology - Guy build stone age shit in the forest
The B1M - Short docs about buildings
Tomorrow’s build - Short docs about future building.
Just started to get into land restoration and binge watched: Shaun Overton Dustups
!landrestoration@lemm.ee going to plug a community I’m going to try get off the ground in the next few weeks.
Mostly cooking videos. Some channels I enjoy are
- J Kenji Lopez Alt
- Ethan Chlebowski
- Adam Ragusea
- Imamu Room
The other half of the time, I’d probably be listening to a Lex Fridman interview.
- Project Farm
- Lock Picking Lawyer
- History Matters
- GeologyHub
- Corridor Crew
- B1M
- Kurzgesagt
- Dave’s Garage
- Mattias Wandel
… and many others that are a lot more hobby specific…
Seconding (thirding, etc)
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Adam Savage’s Tested - cosplay, engineering challenges, interviews with makers
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Project Farm - no nonsense tool/equipment tests
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Bad Obsession Motorsport - two guys taking WAY too long building an old mini into a rally car
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Primitive Technology - John Plant building cabins and clay tiles and basic iron smelting in the Australian woods. No talking at all, but turn on subtitles to find out what he’s doing
Stuff I didn’t see recommended:
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James May’s The Reassembled - Top Gear’s Captain Slow putting things back together. Very ASMR
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What’s Next - the new name for Drive Tribe, the Top Gear guy’s video channel. I love the series where they send their curmudgeonly producer on last minute international travel to shoot ad hoc travel shows
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TASKMASTER - a British TV show where celebrities you’ve probably never seen before make their way creatively through challeneges
I flipping love taskmaster (CA USA) and no one else I know watches it
I got into it from 8 out of 10 cats and similar panel shows. It’s so fun!
Taskmaster is so good. And it’s basically all available to watch on YouTube. I finished all of the original seasons and started watching some of the spinoffs like Taskmaster NZ
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Great suggestions here, but no mention of SuperfastMatt. Speaks to the engineer in me by collecting projects and overcomplicating them all.
My subscriptions in no particular order:
Cathode Ray Dude
Perun
Ordinary Things
LazerPig
Well There’s Your Problem
Kurzgesagt
Münecat
Veritasium
Map Men
Practical Engineering
Task & Purpose
Todd In The Shadows
Intergalactic Binman
Lord HardthrasherAdam Savage’s Tested, watching his videos finally got me to start working on my 3d printing and costuming.
Oceanliner Designs - lots of interesting videos about titanic & other ships of that era.
Caitlin Doughty/ask a mortician - lots of cool video essays about death
B1M - lots of cool engineering related videos
Evan & Katelyn - lots of cool resin creations… gives me cooking channel vibes where after watching a video, i have an intense urge to make things i dont need.
Well Theres Your Problem - a podcast about engineering disasters… with slides
Tasting History with Max Miller - a cooking channel that is also a history lesson… super cool
In addition, just a bunch of urban planning youtube (city beautiful/city nerd/oh the urbanity, etc) & video game content
