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Only ones I haven't seen mentioned so far:

Post Apocalyptic Inventor

German guy visits scrapyards to find tools and other items to repair out repurpose.

AudioPilz

Aka. Bad Gear. Reviews of synths and drum machines. Goes over the pros and cons, mostly cons. Does AV audio demo and 2 song demos with music videos made from retro cartoons and tons of meme content.

David Hilowitz Music

I guess I would call this mostly unusual music stuff. Lots of unusual and found or cheaply made diy instruments. He uploads sample libraries for then as well so you can make songs with them too.

Rose Anvil

Dissects shoes and boots so you can find footwear worth the cost.

To add a few I haven't seen mentioned yet:

• jon bois
• knowing better
• folding ideas
• Todd in the shadows
• I did a thing
• legal eagle
• internet historian

And a few more which I think are great but YMMV depending on your particular interests:

• city planner plays
• historia civilis
• junkyard digs
• tech ingredients
• Scott Manley
• BobbyBroccoli
• summoning salt

tl;dr: if you only pick up one name from all these comments, let it be jon bois. He's made some of the most compelling content I've ever seen, especially the "pretty good" series. Money back guarantee, you will not be disappointed.

tl;dr for real: jon bois, climate town, electroboom.

When it comes to food, stay away from non-professional channels like Tasty or even websites like Allrecipes.com. The recipes may turn out to be disasters - pro sources always test and retest their recipes.

I can recommend these food channels:

Thai cooking by a Thai https://www.youtube.com/@PailinsKitchen
Soul food by Momma Cherri https://www.youtube.com/@MommaCherri
EZ Asian cooking https://www.youtube.com/@adamliaw
Italian https://www.youtube.com/@NOTANOTHERCOOKINGSHOW
Keto recipes https://www.youtube.com/@KetoConnect
Baking https://www.youtube.com/@BrianLagerstrom
Food Lab https://www.youtube.com/@JKenjiLopezAlt/videos
Ethan Chlebowski https://www.youtube.com/@EthanChlebowski/videos

~~GeoGuesser's~~ GeoWizard's adventures

I'll watch anything, but never expected I'd watch a dude just walk in a straight line for hours

Edit: clearly not that memorable, but still recommended!

StarTalk

Joe Scott

Slidebean

Carwow

Donut Media

Doctor Mike

Chris Ramsay

Cleo Abram

Half Asleep Chris

Physics Girl

TLDR News

Adding to those that aren't here

Tech ingredients - science experiments at home on a wide range of subjects

This old tony - well crafted videos about machining and other shop stuff with a pinch of humor

Look mom no computer - electronics and synths

Strange parts - maker, electronics (he made the iphone with USB c)

AvE - foul mouthed hero, tool teardowns and other stuff

Wintergatan - about a man who's making a music machine

Steve Wallis - camping with Steve

Super wholesome - great dude. Enjoys camping in..... Non traditional spots.

First video I watched was him camping in the middle of a roundabout (traffic circle). Good times.

Haven't seen acollierasto mentioned yet.

She's a scientist with a PHD in Astrophysics and does deep dives on specific topics, generally from the angle of science communication and how it often fails that topic in some way.

Her videos are very simple and low production value, but packed with information. She's a great communicator and you walk away from each video, not just with better knowledge on a topic, but also with a sense of where the holes in that knowledge are. Like where the limits of the metaphor being used to covey the topic to you exist.

Louis Rossman

Nick Zentner (@GeologyNick) has been delivering college level lectures and seminars in geology for years. He has several lecture series ranging from 101 level, senior College level, to breaking research. He also has many shorts and onsite presentations.

Noraly (@ItchyBoots) has been traveling around the world via motorcycle for 6 or so years. She's currently traversing western Africa, and has hundreds of hours of backlog. She has previously traveled from India to the Netherlands, and then from Argentina to Alaska (with a break for COVID).

Code Bullet: Australian doing stupid and entertaining programming

John Savill: if you want to know anything about the Microsoft Azure Cloud

Francis John: Irish dude playing Rimworld and Oxygen Not Included with weird settings.

Without saying what you like it is quite hard to recommend things.

• Nino's Home - Easy desserts and snacks recipes
• Historical Italian Cooking - self-explanatory
• Tasting History with Max Miller - historical recipes recreated
• toldinstone - Historian explains common Ancient Roman questions
• JustOneCookBook - Japanese recipes
• Kommander Karl - NPC skits

For in-depth game analysis: Joseph Anderson; Whitelight

If you're interested in a dry-humored, game-reviewing owl with an upload schedule just as fucked up as his sleep schedule, try Shammy.

For humorous but interesting, creative and well explained engineering: Stuff Made Here

For interesting gaming challenges: Ymfah is absolutely amazing

The Present Past (History)

Cody’s Lab (Science)

NileRed (Chemistry)

Finematics (Cryptocurrency)

The Hated One (Privacy)

RealLifeLore (Geography & Recent History)

Tom Nicholas (Sociology & Philosophy)

PhilosophyTube (Philosophy)

Sam Holmes Sailing. I know nothing about sailing and somehow stumbled across his videos. He makes vlogs about his solo sailing adventures. They are relaxing to me for some reason.

• zefrank (funny 10 minute nature documentaries)
• AlphaPhoenix (highly informative science communication)

Cool DIY projects with an overall chilled vibe: https://www.youtube.com/@DIYPerks

Relaxing watch restorations with informative commentary https://www.youtube.com/@WristwatchRevival

For informative but entertaining car related stuff MCM are pretty great: https://www.youtube.com/mightycarmods

If you're into F1, The Race has a pretty good youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/WeAreTheRace

Also Josh Revell deserves a shoutout https://www.youtube.com/@thejoshrevell

Crazy mashups - think Mr Bean in Cyberpunk: https://www.youtube.com/@eli_handle_bwav

General drunken shinanigans: https://www.youtube.com/@coldones

Chilled, nicely shot Japanese cooking videos: https://www.youtube.com/@JunsKitchen

Other generic cooking advice but also quite entertaining: https://www.youtube.com/@SortedFood

Geeky coffee related stuff: https://www.youtube.com/@jameshoffmann

Standard self plug (mostly stupid gaming stuff): https://www.youtube.com/@WoodstockYT

Depends what you're into

I like:

Air Safety Institute - https://www.youtube.com/@AirSafetyInstitute - they cover recent GA crashes, all sorts of stuff related to airplanes and what not. Really interesting and well presented.

HorrorGeek - https://www.youtube.com/@TheHorrorGeek - amusing reviews of horror movies

NerdExplains - https://www.youtube.com/@NerdExplains - really snarky and mean-spirited horror movie reviews

PeriscopeFilm - https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm - Archival film footage from through the ages, just all kinds of crazy stuff

Ill Advised Records - https://www.youtube.com/@illadvisedrecords - relaxing music

Law & Crime Network - https://www.youtube.com/@LawAndCrime - Content about crime and trials and what have you

Cryochamber - https://www.youtube.com/@cryochamberlabel - Relaxing music

There's a bunch more (the New Jersey museum guy, Drachnifel, bunch of true crime stuff) but that's what leapt to mind first

AvE Adam Savage/Tested Bushy and the Backlogs

Can't believe nobody's recommended NileRed/NileBlue yet. His videos are awesome

SUV RVing: https://www.youtube.com/@SUVRVing

An extremely down to earth travel channel about a guy who mostly just drives around exploring the American West and sleeping in his car.

He finds all kinds of hidden gems you have never heard of and he researches and tells you a lot of interesting details about the areas he visits. But the videos are very chill and he talks about some of the more mundane details of his trip that would be cut from most channels videos.

It is extremely relaxing to watch, really feels like you are hanging out and going on a road trip with your buddy.

History Matters is absolutely hilarious if you like world history and British humor.

Little Chinese Everywhere
I've traveled in China a lot and she goes to places I've never had the opportunity to, asks so many well thought out questions to the locals, and does an excellent job editing it together. Great channel if you like travel stuff

The B1M
Incredible channel about construction and architecture. Because they cover worldwide you get a big of regional information. The videos are high quality with tons of business details you would have to pay for premium subscriptions to get before.

Maigomika
New channel about a couple who moved to a very rural part of Japan and their challenges. It isnt stuffed with info, they let the environment lead the pace and fill in little details here and there. Beautiful imagery with a bit of home cam style that really brings the viewer into their world.

Well There’s Your Problem

Drachinifel

I scrolled quite a ways and did not see anyone mention "Well, there's your problem". Its a podcast about engineering disasters with slides and pronouns.

Timeline - remember when history Channel was awesome? It was all timeline documentaries

Odyssey - ancient history documentaries

Steve Mould - engineering and how things work

Crux - news (mostly concerning the war in Ukraine) that is subtitles w music background

DankPods He recently announced that he'll be taking a break from content creation, so this is the perfect time for you to binge watch everything he has made in the past 3 years.

AveragePixel

Applied science

Tomatoanus

"The Infographics Show" kind of my favorite.

Also recently seen video "Tourism in Afganistan" recorded less than year ago. Interesting content I would say.

Veritasium, high minded science made simple and easy without it seeming patronizing

And of course a plug for Simon Whistler, the man has like 8 individual channels covering a lot of information

Legit Street Cars, Primitive Technology, Ghost Town Living, Donut (their older stuff is better than newer), Colin Furze (older stuff also better than new, but newer stuff is bigger, more expensive projects as his channel has grown), Blackmail Studio and Wristwatch Revival. Those are the YT channels I'm constantly watching (along with Critical Role, but excluded due to length of episodes).

@yousuckatcooking - entertaining cooking and legit recipes!
@fortnine - amazing quality motorbike channel. Even if you don't ride its very educational and entertaining.

Dunkey

Kurzgesagt

Primitive Technology

Internet Comment Etiquette with Erik

Watchers

Good Mythical Morning

Civvie11

Let's Game it Out

AmbiguousAmphibian

The Spiffing Brit

Call Me Kevin

• The China Show
• The Punkrock MBA
• Callmenchoko
• Kmac2021
• The Art of Photography
• TwoSetViolin
• Davie504
• NFKRZ
• TwoMinutePapers
• Adam Neely

For entertainement:

Good Mythical Morning
Mythical Kitchen
Cold Ones
Girlfriend Reviews
Ididathing
William Osman
Michael Reeves
Ludwig/Mogul Mail

Podcasts:
H3 Podcast
The Yard Podcast
Trash Taste Podcast
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