Watched an hour long documentary on the history of the difficulty of making blue LED lights this weekend lol.

I watch all sorts of urbex and abandoned exploration videos. The Proper People are great.

Rust to running videos about restoration of old cars and heavy machinery. vice Grip Garage is great, that guys a hoot.

Lately I’ve been into the guy’s channel who bought the old Cerro Gordo mine and had been doing cool videos where he explores the old mines like 900 feet underground.

I’ve been into Heavy D Sparks rescue and recovery videos too.

If you asked me a few years ago, I would have not even said I’m interested in any of these, but with the flood of useless “creator” content, I think they’re pretty interesting.

Lock picking lawyer

Synthesizer news and reviews, Dark Souls streams (Lobosjr is the only streamer I can tolerate), 80s and 90s music videos, cute cat videos, Rush covers, gadget teardowns, soldering videos.

Edit: Almost forgot robot sumo.

Russian dashcam. I can’t stop.

Just about nothing besides a song I wanna hear really quick

• James O’Brien’s weekday talk show from the UK. Always intelligent, sometimes witty, and very compassionate.
• Tim Pierce’s guitar channel. He is one of the top session musicians in LA, but also a very humble and thoughtful man.
• Michael Popok on the Midas network. Definitely opinionated (leaning left), but he really explains the legal issues around current events (especially the Trump trials) very well
• Space Ice movie reviews. When you can’t get enough ridicule of Steven Seagal
• Dr Glaucomflecken: very funny and perceptive views of the American medical system. Every doctor I know loves it

I’m over 40.

Beau of the Fifth Column has a fantastic perspective on politics and world events, and is a great presenter. Politicon with James Carville, The Bulwark (for sane conservatives), The Daily Show, Last Week Tonight.

Perun makes entertaining PowerPoints on the nature of global conflict and defense.

Frasier Cain, Event Horizon, SciShow Space, Cool Worlds, PBS Spacetime, Isaac Arthur for space and science.

For comedy I like Taylor Tomlinson, Liz Miele, Sam Morril, Norm MacDonald, Josh Johnson… look, there are a lot of great comedians out there.

So many musical virtuosos to discover. Charles Berthoud, Justin Johnson, Bill Sutton, Doreen Ketchens, Too Many Zoos… just go find great musicians. It ain’t hard.

Professor of Rock, Team Coco, Adam Savage, Forgotten Weapons, InrangeTV, The Prehistory Guys, Stefan Milo, PBS Eons, Fall of Civilizations, Kyle Hill, Advoko MAKES, Primitive Technology, NileRed, ClickSpring, my mechanics, sreetips, Cody’sLab, shurap, Corridor Crew…

I waste way too much time on YouTube, you guys.

A lot of the other ones people have shared, but also: Professor Lando and The Hydraulic Press Channel.

Videos on urbanism and transit, video essays, tutorials, and music videos. I watch more YouTube than any other streaming service.

• 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…

Kurzgesagt
Last Week Tonight
Veritasium
Map Men
Rob Words
Mr.Ballen
melodysheep
Space Matters
Technology Connections

These are the ones I watch regularly. Most of these channels offer educational content.

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.

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.

Great suggestions here, but no mention of SuperfastMatt. Speaks to the engineer in me by collecting projects and overcomplicating them all.