I've heard many of you say this in the past, but I didn't believe you. Wow. Watching my regular YouTube channels has kept me entertained lately. A lot less BS, more content. I could go on. So far, I've mostly stuck to Sloppy Mechanics, Cleetus McFarland, Watch Wes Work, and some random LS swap channels.
Has this happened to others? If so, what's your fav channels?
Yes, and I know I'm probably going to get heat for this but I can't stop watching Scotty Kilmer. He just makes me crack up. Autovolg and another that escapes me right now.
I've been watching August Hunicke cut trees for a couple months.
and Vehcor rebuild cars.
Dailies for me include Scotty cranmer, good mythical morning, binging with babish, definctland...those are just the non car ones.
The History Guy
Rick Beato
Dark Docs
Whitewick's Abandonded Railways
Luke Towan
Anything with Simon Whistler
Joe Rogan(occasionally)
FYI none of those are automotive.
Uh, yeah. YouTube, Curiosity Stream, Amazon Prime, Hulu and Disney+ are on regular rotation around here and fullfill 90% of the stuff we want on our TVs.
Since none of us care about sports all that much (though the Olympics and Racing are fun to watch, but are often available on YT or other online sources), there's not been any need to pay for cable and every time we stay in a hotel that has cable, we confirm our decisions more and more each time.
Bottom line, its just entertainment, it isn't your life so who cares if you can't get every channel or show you may want? Enjoy the ones you have and spend your time more wisely on other things that ARE important to you.
Cleetus’ Freedom Factory resurrection is my new favorite build thread.
Y'all are watching the Plays With Cars channel right? Right?!?
I watch Goobertown Hobbies (soothing Bob Ross of miniature painting), Darrell Braun Guitar, Cleetus, and VINWiki (crazy car stories that are entertaining).
I like watching the Lemons recap videos, those are usually entertaining. PhilsComputerLab does some interesting tests of vintage computers and which parts are good to build a vintage computer if you want to play old DOS games, for example. Aging Wheels does some pretty good stuff with odd cars.
slowbird said:I like watching the Lemons recap videos, those are usually entertaining. PhilsComputerLab does some interesting tests of vintage computers and which parts are good to build a vintage computer if you want to play old DOS games, for example. Aging Wheels does some pretty good stuff with odd cars.
Every Lemons recap fills me with joy, which then turns to sadness when I realize I can't share the video with any of my friends because they won't understand the humor.
Build and Battle from Hoonigan really caught me off guard with how low drama and down to earth it is. Coming from a channel that specializes in screaming into handheld cameras and blowing up poorly assembled drift cars.
The only show I watch regularly right now is 4WD Action Australia. Partially because it's the only cooking show I can actually follow.
Pete Gossett said:The History Guy
Rick Beato
I like The History Guy too. And if you like Rick Beato, I imagine you'd also like Adam Neely and Signals Music Studio.
My dad recommended South Main Auto as he repairs cars very thoroughly and properly.
Not exactly super funny but a very nice and intelligent guy.
here is an example:
Oh I've been addicted to YouTube for a few years now. A partial list:
Forgotten Weapons (guns)
InRangeTV (guns/history)
Doug Demuro
Pete Thorn (guitar)
Rick Beato
History Matters
Mary Spender (guitar)
GCN (biking)
GMBN (mtn biking)
Gone with the Wynns (RV/sailing)
Sailing La Vagabond
Seth's Bike Hacks
JHS Pedal Show (guitar)
...and probably a dozen more...
I found "Flying Sparks" and got hooked on You Tube stuff! Helps that it is local and interesting too.
Cleetus McFarland is one of my favorites.
I am a sucker for "will it run" videos too as that is just my wheelhouse.
Often surprised at what is suggested that I kinda like too! Korean acapella contest shows?
Fun looking up obscure or hard to find movies such as "Worlds fastest Indian".
Of course Project Binky.
Bruce
Hagerty has some good content too. The Redline Rebuilds ones being my favorite.
Hoonigan's various channels are my go-to. Lots of daily content and it covers all disciplines of automotive performance. For non-car, Funhaus gets me laughing like no other. Warning: they are an acquired taste.
Anything by Adam Savage (Tested)
Mike Rowe - The way I heard it.
Vinwiki, Grind Hard Plumbing (motorcycle powered powerwheels), B is for Build, Colin Furze (crazy fab builds), Cleatus, DriveTribe
I really like geographics and biographics. They are about people and places.
But I watch
Cleetus, boostedboiz, pfi speed, tavarish, vinwiki, 1320, goonzquad(wrecked car repair), binky, car throttle, and then my gaming content.
I don't watch many web videos. As Clarkson once said (paraphrasing): dumb people doing dumb things are boring. Clever people doing clever things are boring. Clever people doing stupid things is funny. YouTube has too many of the former.
I do watch Colin Furze (selectively) because I love the results and he is firmly in the last category. I watch My Mechanics and Project Binky for the sheer quality of the result. But otherwise - not really.
I don't watch much broadcast TV and don't have cable, but I've been a Netflix subscriber since before the streaming days.
In reply to Keith Tanner :
I don't fully disagree with you, but I'd rather watch a hack on YouTube than nearly any of the scripted car shows. Take powerblock/nation for example... Here's another build of a SBC using out of the box aluminum heads you can't afford using a shop full of tools you can't afford. Might as well throw on those EBC brake pads. Also dustless blasting pyramid scheme time.
Well, I don't watch the scripted car shows either :) Again with the dumb people.
I have a price list on what it takes to get on some of those shows like Two Cars Garage. They are ads, pure and simple.
Agree with th OP. I subscribe to about 150 YT channels; I never watch regular TV at all, and YouTube has largely replaced my Netflix/Hulu/etc streaming as well.
In reply to Keith Tanner :
I don't know... I guess it depends on what you're watching. A lot of YouTubers have been creating videos for awhile and are pretty good at.
The Forgotten Weapons guy manages to get out almost one video per day, which is an astonishing feat of editing. Some of the videos are more complicated than others, but still - it's impressive.
Others tend to publish one video per week, typically on a specific day. Those videos can have production values that rival network produced videos. Of course, many of these folks are full-time YouTubers, so technically are "pros".
Ian F said:Oh I've been addicted to YouTube for a few years now. A partial list:
Forgotten Weapons (guns)
InRangeTV (guns/history)
Doug Demuro
Pete Thorn (guitar)
Rick Beato
History Matters
Mary Spender (guitar)
GCN (biking)
GMBN (mtn biking)
Gone with the Wynns (RV/sailing)
Sailing La Vagabond
Seth's Bike Hacks
JHS Pedal Show (guitar)
...and probably a dozen more...
I like Seth's bike hacks too, especially the Walmart bikes.
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