YouTube Channel Subscriptions and Clips

Algorithms innit

Meades Shrine

If somewhat low end dodgy horror appeals. VHS Wasteland.

Patrick Dickinson might be similar to those? He does stuff around Sheffield: wild camp, waterway exploring, I found his channel recently.

Wingin' It! With Paul Lucas and DennisBunnik are good for experiencing plane and train (former) and plane trips (latter).

my mechanics for refurbishing rusty old bench tools, part ASMR part refurb porn.

Curious Droid and Veritasium for interesting science and technology vids, lots of space and rocket stuff. Tom Scott for bitesize videos about science and weird things.

bald and bankrupt for an affable dude mooching around the world but mostly the former USSR and India, no 'hey guys!', sponsored content or intro titles, just pure video.

TA Outdoors for a mix of sumptuously filmed long-form videos of him making shelters and spending the night out in the woods, and more vlog style posts of him doing up an air raid shelter he found in his new house.

Joe Robinet, US version of the above.

Summoning Salt, authoritative and exhaustive documentaries on the wacky world of speedrunning, awe-inspiringly obsessive.

Harry's Garage, the founder of Evo magazine lives on an idyllic farm in the Cotswolds and has a brilliant car collection, as well as a list of motor industry contacts as long as yer combine harvester, so he's always got something interesting in to talk about. Affable, knowledgeable and about as far as you can get from Car YouTuber as possible. Also has another channel called Harry's Farm all about life on the farm.

Iohan Gueorguiev. Accept no substitutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0wAPztOO2U

Mike Boyd, learning how to do stuff. He's kind of run out of steam now, but old episodes are well worth checking out.

Pithy bikes. Guy learns to weld and build bikes and fixtures. Great learning curve and cool guy

Was gonna say bald and bankrupt
Hell of an advert for learning languages

Pretty low key but my buddy Hardie gets around Asia a fair amount on his bike

https://youtu.be/-XkL6U6Swkg

This Old Tony for funny well produced machining videos

An example from the sillier end of the scale

https://youtu.be/uFTQxWlMGeE

"Simon, a bloke in the woods"
Camping/bivvy life in the woods.

Primitive Technology

Dan is great but you're gonna love Dave...
https://youtu.be/L-CrLpwvlKk

Project Binky for two blokes making a Mini into a 4WD monster.

Funny as fuck even if you aren't a Petrol head.

https://youtu.be/7hCPODjJO7s

Haas machining channel is both informative and relaxing

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi-1bvDwzwBq0OFKiF2atkg

Should have listened to the Coolant episode last night rather than freaking myself out in the blind panic Covid thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK1DoRiu3Cg

Wingin' It! With Paul Lucas and DennisBunnik are good for experiencing plane and train
(former) and plane trips (latter).

bald and bankrupt for an affable dude mooching around the world but mostly the former
USSR and India, no 'hey guys!', sponsored content or intro titles, just pure video.

I like all three of these! Another travel channel I watch is Gabriel Traveller. He's a Californian ex-hippy type who travels a lot at the budget end of the scale. He's more about what it's like once you arrive, not how you got there.

"Simon, a bloke in the woods"

Yeah I watch a few of his from time to time

You've probably watched the original Wintergatan video of the dude playing music on his crazy marble machine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q

He's been building a successor to it for the past three years with weekly updates. It's pretty close to completion now but if you want something to binge watch, there's 120 episodes of its construction: e: click the link, microcosm doesn't like embedding playlists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8qyVURtSZc&list=PLLLYkE3G1HED6rW-bkliHbMroHYFf4ukv
-bkliHbMroHYFf4ukv&v=C8qyVURtSZc

120 episodes of its construction

This appeals to my interests

The Post Apocalyptic Inventor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp1DE3dMNoM

Wish I had those skills

Looks amazing and great drone skilllzz

Late to this thread.
Meades Shrine should be on everybody's list.

Some good recommendations in here.

I'll add Geoffrey Crocker - Kiwi doing an insane renovation of his landy and similar attention to detail to this lathe. Well made videos with some funny bits.

https://youtu.be/DtKutRzSf0U

Also, Maximus Ironthumper. Silly name, but is he is a blacksmith. Many of his videos are either landrover based, or his current mad project to build some electro organ into the back of an old Russian Zil troop truck. Its the opposite end of the scale to the guy above. He also lives pretty much off grid, so double impressive.

https://youtu.be/p9J8esFcSns

I enjoy Sailing La Vagabonde back catalogue when I’m feeling trapped indoors.

Decent escape.

https://youtu.be/cF5JedknFGU