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If you fancy yourself joining the resistance and might run into law enforcement, Audit the Audit is a treasure trove of knowledge on what is legal or not in those encounters.

One that I haven't seen mentioned in this thread yet is AntsCanada. He has an incredible vivarium series going on right now and posts weekly updates.

I'm convinced that dude will continue to add 1000 gallon tanks to his house until the structure physically can't support it anymore.

I am an unusual consumer of YouTube content, with interests that go in many different directions. All of these folks are likeable, have been going for a really long time and know their topics intimately:

Thus, in no particular order, YouTubers I like are:

Enes Yilmazer (luxury real estate / mansion walkthroughs): https://youtube.com/@enesyilmazer

Aquaholic (boats and yachts): https://youtube.com/@aquaholic

The B1M (construction and civil engineering): https://youtube.com/@theb1m

The Bond Experience (Bond, James Bond): https://youtube.com/@thebondexperience

Red Dead Restoration (vintage watch restoration - usually completely silent videos except for ASMR as he restores old watches): https://youtube.com/@reddeadrestoration

Jay Leno's Garage ('nuff said -- in no way an obscure channel, but Jay knows and loves his cars): https://youtube.com/@jaylenosgarage

Hodinkee (watches) - https://youtube.com/@hodinkee

Berliner Philharmoniker (sublime music and orchestral performances) - https://youtube.com/@berlinphil

Bright Sun Films (abandoned buildings, bankrupt companies and other things, usually in a mini-documentary format): https://youtube.com/@brightsunfilms

Stop Skeletons from Fighting has some amazing docs and just released another for Mighty Number 9 that was really good

This Old Tony. If you know you know. He's sort of like Locksmithing Lawyer for machining.

Sabine Hossenfelder. Physics and shit.

Adam Savage Tested. You know.

Perkins Brothers Builders. They build houses start to finish, two shows a week that follow their current build.

Dale Philip. No BS travel vlogger. His backstory is he won $750K playing poker and decided to start a travel vlog.

Genuinely surprised to not see Smarter Every Day in these comments. Maybe it was there and I missed it.

That Pedal Show: weekly show about guitars, pedals and amps. I haven’t missed an episode in over 10 years

• Mystic Arts for D&D
• Taskmaster for Taskmaster
• Lessons from the Screenplay and Every Frame a Painting for movie theory (though both have slowed down a lot)
• El Train | Loop Kitchen for hip hop/sampling history
• NPR Music for Tiny Desk
• Team Coco for General Insanity
• Late Night with Seth Meyers for the only way I can watch news some days
• Triple J for the music

• Plastic Pills.
• Technology Connections / Extras
• Wood by wright.
• Rex Kruger. (another woodworker)

Channels that I actually look forward to each release:

4WD 24-7 Australian four wheel driving, visiting a lot of places I wish i could go to.

Fire to fork Camp fire cooking, but at the moment also a bit of a travel blog as Harry is in Canada right now.

Andy cooks Cooking show by a personable ex-chef

Brian Lagerstrom More cooking by a slightly less personable ex-chef

Captain Disillusion Special effects debunks and explainers. Rarely puts out videos but they're worth watching when they do arrive.

Clickspring Master craftsman does metalwork. I often have no idea what he's talking about but it's just great to watch.

Dylan O'Donnell Astrophotography with an Australian slant.

LEMMiNO Deep dives into mysteries and other topics. Well researched.

Nat's What I Reckon Started no-nonsense cooking videos during COVID lockdowns, delivering a good mix of cooking advice, mental health awareness and swearing. His videos aren't as tight now as they used to be but they're still fun to watch.

Primative Technology No voice over, relaxing to watch dude in North Queensland improving his skills over the years to make huts, ceramics and some iron smelting. Make sure you turn on captions!

Nutrition Made Simple - Science backed nutrition and health information with none of the nonsense that is so common with this type of social media content. No sponsorships, no ads, no products being sold. Just information.

Northernlion

Not sure how long "a long time" is so im just going to say 5yr + A lot of the youtubers I watch are new ones. The old ones either dont post anymore or I dont watch them anymore. These are the only ones I could find out of hundreds of subscriptions.

Jazza Art videos

Post 10 unblocking culverts

Q+A NZ news show.

Tech connections

Amatur MMA A mix of high quality fights and low quality fights short fights.

For new high quality channels it feels like there is an endless list. The people starting youtube now are so much better at making "good" videos.

WindowsG Electronics Old tech, linux, femboy in a maid outfit need I say more.

Diinki linux

Maple Circuit linux kernel patch notes

Ionic1k retro computer channel.

i2cjak capacitor vtuber roasts peoples schematics.

Dr Semiconductor guy building a semi fab in his shed.

B-Team cool Jiu jutsu channel and Craig Jones is a legend.

Real American Freestyle wrestling free videos of freestyle wrestling. Lots of MMA fighters head over here to compete.

LimiNZ tiny little nz channel but he makes good videos about NZ.

SaveItForParts DIY Projects, horder, like satelites

ones i haven't seen mentioned:

• hbomberguy: long form video essays, uploads about once a year
• Core-A Gaming: video analysis about fighting games at large
• Domics: one of the pioneers of the animated "storytime" YouTube meta
• FilmJoy: long form video essays about visual media, typically focusing on a particular movie per essay
• Internet Shaquille: an extremely down to earth cooking channel
• Knowing Better: long form video essays, generally about American history, often exploring untaught/heavily misunderstood subjects
• MeatCanyon: great animation meant to be disturbing and funny, sometimes even both at once
• Outdoor Boys: watch a very pleasant man survive outdoors, usually in Alaska
• Project Farm: attempts to apply the scientific method on various household appliances to discover which are good at what they're supposed to do
• Will Anderson: did you ever want competitive Scrabble analysis? Then boy do I have the channel for you!
• The Plain Bagel: levelheaded explanations for financial news, not quite as dry as Patrick Boyle
• synthet: visual and funny breakdowns of popular musical (synth) techniques
• Zullie the Witch: From Software lore explorer
• CalebCity: short form comedy skits, often with a gaming tint to it
• tanks for nothin: watch someone build interesting aquascaped fishtanks, but the videos themselves are art too

I really like the adventures by geowizard since the beginning of his youtube career.

• PlayFrame - animator plays video games (the guy from the original Extra Credits)
• NewFramePlus - about video game animation, really well made, fun and informative (same person as above)
• SnakeDiscovery - snake hatching videos and reptile content
• Clint's Reptiles - biologist, "best pet for you?" and animal phylogenies etc. Very engaging personality.
• 7 Days of Science - paleontology science news
• Bernadette Banner - historical fashion
• BilliSpeaks and NotMadJustMoody - cats learning to "speak" using buttons
• Casual Geographic - entertaining and surprisingly accurate animal mini-documentaries
• CinemaTherapy - therapy explained with movies
• How to Cook That - food science and debunking
• Jim Browning - fighting tech support scams
• JunsKitchen - japanese cooking (but the cats steal the show)
• Leafy Street - entertaining reptile keeping videos
• Matthias Krantz - builds whacky musical instruments
• NativLang - animated videos about obscure linguistics
• SerpaDesign - terrarium and vivarium builds
• People Are Fish - palaentology deep dives and new discoveries
• Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong - explaining and updating old toy dinosaur designs

There's many more but I fear the list would get too long.

TLDR news (news)

The Linux experience (Linux and open source news)

Real Civil Engineer (video games, I scratch the itch without playing)

Kurzgesagt (explainers)

Not Just Bikes (urbanism)

Money and Macro (economics)

Just have a think (energy transition/climate news)

Wendover (deep dives, a lot on aviation)

Real life lore (history, mostly 20th century or later)

Stuff made here (entertaining engineering projects)

Simon Clark (climate news)

Polymatter (mix of economics, history and geopolitics, a lot on China)

Real Engineering (engineering)

Climate Town (climate explainers, a lot on fossil fuel lobby)

📚 🐶

Steve Donoghue - Curmudgeonly king of booktube. An outcast, a leper, a pariah!

• Zero filter. Doesn't care about algorithmic exposure. Encourages you not to sub
• Thousands of book recommendations, from romance to World War II to post-apocalypse SF to biography
• Entire novel readalongs with included commentaries
• Extended takedowns of grifters and general book-related stupidity

Channel ID: UC1B9FfvVLRt8s6scUa79oag

Feral Historian - Perceptive media commentary (SFF oriented)

Channel ID: UC4tpMC_bflphcXUtPk59Vyw

ramblinactivist - A UK left-liberal conservationist tackles economics, politics, etc. and profiles a whole lot of interesting books. Shows you how to make a portable stove for your illiicit camping excursions too. He's no longer active but there's a keen mind at work here

Channel ID: UClZOu4ZeZP75cx2d4t5gHbA

Mighty Car Mods is still putting out great content after all these years.

I've been watching since they were replacing head units in crappy 90s nuggets in their mums driveway. Now they've really evolved and are replacing head units in crappy 90s nuggets in their own workshop.

I've watched Maru and Walter Santi (cats) for a long time.

My husband likes Bourbon Moth Woodworking. I can't stand the stupid fake speech pattern he adopted when he got popular.

watched for a long time and still find worth returning to

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In no particular order:

• Civvie11 (Video games)
• Warlockcracy (Video games, mostly CRPGs. Good humour)
• Wilburgur (Video games)
• SsethTzeentach (Hyper meme-fied game reviews)
• Historia Civilis (History)
• ymfah (Video game challenges, hyper meme-fied)
• Technology Connection (Everyday tech)
• Grim Beard (Long video game reviews)
• Noah Caldwell-Gervais (Long video game reviews)
• Frederik Knudsen (Rabbit hole stuff)

Plus more I can't recall right now. But I can watch any old video from these guys any time and not feel bored.

Anton Petrov. Talks about scientific papers. Cool guy.

Syd and Macky (Mountain Biking)

Most of my staples have been mentioned, but I want to give a shout out to Food Wishes, America's Test Kitchen and That Dude Can Cook, Chef Jean-Pierre. Been cooking staples for years now. Also, Hey Grill Hey but it's younger.

For drinks, How To Drink (though I feel they've been chasing algorithms and losing focus and soul), City-Steady Brewing, Cocktail Chemistry and Cocktail Time with Kevin Kos.

For politics, I go to Parkrose Permaculture and Farm to Taber. Both excellent and insightful even if I'm not always in full agreement.

For woodworking, it's StumpyNubs, Blacktail Studio (highly recommend even if you're not into woodworking), The Wood Whisperer. Lincoln Street Woodworking is newer but I still enjoy it.

I'm a car guy and honestly this space has become dismal. I watch Stay Tuned every Friday or weekend at least. I voted my conscience and unsubbed from Matt's Offroading, Rat Rod Racing, Robby Layton and all of the Utahbers. While I can't be certain I'm guessing they all voted for Trump and I just can't support that shit. Oh and I really enjoy Regular Car Reviews