Science and futurism with Isaac Arthur.

Bobby Fingers

Clay sculpting with humorous narration.

Watch 30 seconds to get the feel. One of the best.

Jenny Mickelson does… nerd stuff? Highlights include:

“Church cinimatic universe” where she becomes a sommelier of art and walks you through a decade or so of some church in Canada’s Easter plays, which are delightfully technical and imaginative while also being a beautiful form of cringe.

And a 4+ hour documentary/review/commentary on her visit to the short lived “star wars hotel”

I’m not big into star wars or Disneyworld/land wherever it was, but I watched that whole thing.

Potholer54, does very good scientific debunking videos

PBS spacetime, physics that you’ll understand for 60% yet it keeps being super interesting

Thunderf00t, does good debunking videos. Has a bit of an attitude but so far always is right on piint. already has been bashing musk since a decade ago

Drain Addict.

He’s a weird plumber. From Australia. He unclogs drains. When he walks, he moves his arms like a player character in an FPS. He has a toy rat and crocodile that help him. Sometimes it’s hard to tell what’s a sound effect and what’s a real sound.

It seems like it shouldn’t work but somehow it does.

How long-form?

I absolutely love “More Kitboga”, videos where a fella calls scammers and uses a Roland VT3-3 voice transformer to improv. Video lengths range from a few hours to… I believe his record fucking with the same call center (like two or three specific people) is 54 hours. I put it on when I’m working from home. He is HILARIOUS. He and his team have whole fake websites, fake banks, and a fake Google Play store where he can redeem fake Google play cards into his account and it works as the actual play store would. People go insane when they see they “lost” thousands of dollars because an “old lady” redeemed the codes they wanted.

True crime: Explore With Us is a channel my partner recently found. Lots of FOIA’d videos and pictures that have never been seen before they made their videos. Very interesting.

“Stuff made here” is an excellent channel about crazy fun engineering projects, such as a pool cuestick that always pockets the ball and so on.

Along with Technology Connections, Philosophy Tube, and Primitive Technology, here are my “must watch” subs

Climate Town - Excellent videos about climate change and environmental impact that are insightful and funny

Contrapoints - Well written and meticulous deconstructions of philosophical concepts in media, pop culture and society with a dry wit

Every Frame a Painting - Amazing content on film-making. No longer active, but if you haven’t seen it yet, lucky you, enjoy.

Pop Culture Detective - Interesting meta analyses of popular tropes in pop culture

Because I’m into historical clothing and fashion, Bernadette Banner and Abby Cox both do great videos on costuming, history and creating cool stuff

Hoovies Garage for some car comedy. The guy buys dump cars that need repairs and he let the local mechanic fix them. He makes dumb choices for entertainment.

I’m sure I have a bunch but two I haven’t seen here:

OrdinaryThings - has shifted to MUCH longer form current-events / documentarian content. Humorous and pundit-y but also informative about world news I likely missed. His yearly “The ___ Business of 20__” videos are great recaps.

Harke - Found this channel basically by accident and fell in love with it. Admittedly pretty niche about a VERY specific kind of retro, but it’s stuff I grew up with so I’m all about it. Retro adventure games and music and that kind of thing. Super underrated!

Trying not to put duplicates:

• ViceGripGrage - finds old shitty cars and gets them running and drives them home
• MightyCarMods - as the name suggests, building/fixing/modifying cars
• Savagegeese - very detailed car reviews, no bullshit
• B1M - talks about mega projects and there issues
• ItchyBoots - Badass motorcyclist that has traveled solo across the world
• shiey - Explores abandoned places, hops trains, insane lack of fear of heights
• The Proper People - also explores abandoned buildings
• Rick Beato - music producer that analyzes songs and talks about various music related topics

This Old Tony: home machinist that fixes stuff and makes other stuff in his garage, but does everything very well thought out. Humorous and good editing.

I like longer form sailing channels that avoid the more obvious place or lack basic sailing skills and are frankly dangerous. I don’t get to sail as much as I like so this is a good look and what I would rather be doing.

Maddison Boat Works their recent videos are of their epic tour of the Pacific Ocean, the road less travelled. Beautifully shot and narrated.

NBJS single-handed sailing in the North Sea, often in bad weather.

Alluring Arctic depending what time period you pick there is a wide range of mostly arctic sailing. They recently did the North West passage and are currently over wintering in Greenland.

in addition to a lot of others already mentioned (there’s a lot of overlap)

History:

• Step Back History

culture/politics:

• Shanspeare
• FD Signifier

writing/education:

• Zoe Bee

media/ect:

• Tale Foundry (technically about writing fiction, but they also discuss media in general along with its themes, character archetypes, ect. it’s more interesting than it sounds)

• Pop Culture Detective

• Jacob Geller (mostly video games)

• My Little Thought Tree (also psychology)

• Broey Deschanel

I love Technology Connections for an easy, interesting watch. He just explains how appliances work lol