I said last month that I needed to reset my YouTube algorithm so I was getting better recommendations. I think I\u2019ve accomplished that, spending way too much time on the platform over the last six weeks. Now it is skewed to like 90% car stuff. Which I\u2019m fine with, at the moment. That has caused me to add a new category for at least this month.<\/p>\n
Otherwise, not a lot of long form programming in March. Blame basketball and spring break, but the real reason was watching those 8000 hours of car vids.<\/p>\n
The Tourist<\/a>, season one B+<\/p>\n Griselda<\/a> It began well, but in the middle began to take a very strange path. By the final episode I was hoping it would be over. Shows like this, about drug lords, need something compelling about the bad guys to keep you interested. Griselda Blanco comes across as a pure psycho and gives the viewer no real reason to hope she somehow survives. So many of the characters, from Sofia Vergara in the title role to the police who chased her, seemed one-dimensional or cartoonish. That every Narcos<\/em> season was so good made Griselda<\/em>\u2019s flaws even more disappointing.<\/p>\n C+<\/p>\n Renovation Aloha<\/a> A-<\/p>\n Gold<\/a> B<\/p>\n Larry and Marge Go Large<\/a> A-<\/p>\n Oberammergau Alpine Coaster 4k<\/a> Anakeesta\u2019s NEW Hellbender Mountain Coaster in Gatlinburg Tennessee<\/a> Mountain Coaster Oeschinensee Kandersteg Switzerland<\/a> Building a Dream Home on a Hidden Beach in New Zealand<\/a> These 2 Italian dream homes will make you reconsider your life\u2026 Southern Italy, Gagliano del Capo<\/a> Our 1960 Mid-Century Glass Home Tour<\/a> DIRT Episode 6\u2014 Alaska<\/a> My Solo Trip to Hanoi, Vietnam<\/a> A Photography Trip Turns Prosperous<\/a> How the Dutch SOLVED Street Design<\/a> I wasted $1,000 on old junk at the Apple Store!<\/a> Glide with Josie Prendergast<\/a> Surfing With Whales<\/a> Being Different \/\/ Sony A7siii Canada Travel Film<\/a> Sick of second hand life? So was I.<\/a> How He Stumbled Upon The US Government\u2019s Nuclear Bunkers<\/a> The Paradox of an Infinite Universe<\/a> Here\u2019s the Thing about the M3 Macbook Air\u2026<\/a> In addition to watching tons of videos from several core channels, mostly on the Out of Spec network<\/a>, I also caught these.<\/p>\n NEW \u00a380k VW ID Buzz EV Camper Van Overnight REVIEW<\/a> Full Tour: Electrify America Flagship Indoor Charging Hub! The Nicest Public EV Station In America<\/a> How Tesla Became The Most Popular Car Brand In Norway<\/a> Living with the Tesla Cybertruck So You Don\u2019t Have To!<\/a> My First Look At The Audi Q6 e-tron! Tech Specs, Quick Tour, & First Drive<\/a> How far can electric cars REALLY go??<\/a> Do We Regret Buying a Rivian R1S? 7 Months Later\u2026<\/a> A Tour of the Rivian Plant | Go behind the scenes with founder RJ Scaringe<\/a> This $40,000 Tesla Solar & Powerwall Setup Is The Ultimate Home Power Station<\/a> Lucid Air: How to One-up Tesla!<\/a> The Vinfast VF8 is\u2026. trying<\/a> Why Car Insurance Rates Are Skyrocketing In The U.S.<\/a>
\nThis was one of the strangest shows I\u2019ve watched recently. Equal parts hilarious, bizarre, confusing, confounding, compelling, and off-beat, while always being super Australian. I think I liked it, but there were moments when I almost wanted to turn it off. I guess I\u2019ll give season two a shot at some point.<\/p>\n
\nThis was promoted as an expansion of the Narcos<\/em> world, another look at the Colombian-centered drug trade of the 1980s. That\u2019s true to a certain extent, but Griselda<\/em> suffers from that comparison.<\/p>\n
\nOur home reno show of the month. This couple does amazing things with truly shitty homes in Hawaii. We couldn\u2019t get over the cost of real estate out there. S and I also laughed at the height difference between the couple that hosts. Then we realized that\u2019s kind of what we look like.<\/p>\n
\nOur first spring break movie, our housemates randomly picked this one night. Interesting story but not a great movie. Afterward I read the true events it was based on and decided that they adjusted the timeframe back a decade just so Matthew McConaughey could play a 1980s oilman.<\/p>\n
\nOur second break movie. Our housemates had seen this before and insisted we watch it. Wonderfully charming and fun.<\/p>\n
\nShorts, YouTubes, etc<\/h3>\n
\nImst Alpine Coaster 4k<\/a>
\nThese look awesome. Since they are German-engineered I\u2019m sure they\u2019re perfectly safe.<\/p>\n
\nNext I found this American version. I\u2019m deep into Alpine coaster YouTube now.<\/p>\n
\nFinally – HOLY SHIT! – there\u2019s this one, which basically looks like you\u2019re going down a luge course without ice. This one has to crash occasionally, right?<\/p>\n
\nIf we ever buy property in New Zealand I\u2019m going to look up this design team.<\/p>\n
\nOr why not buy an existing property in southern Italy?<\/p>\n
\nThen you\u2019ve got these fucking hipsters and their expensive-ass lighting.<\/p>\n
\nSomehow I missed this when it was released. Alaska seems pretty cool.<\/p>\n
\nVietnam looks awesome.<\/p>\n
\nPhotographing Old British Petrol Stations on Expired 4×5 Film<\/a>
\nA Week in Thailand<\/a>
\nWith the weather improving, I\u2019ve been feeling the urge to pick up a camera again. So adding some of my favorite photography YouTubers back into the stream.<\/p>\n
\nScratching my urban planning itch. They SOLVED that shit.<\/p>\n
\nSome weird products on this list.<\/p>\n
\nSurfing videos are cool. Surfing videos featuring surfers who look like supermodels are even cooler. Don\u2019t tell my wife or daughters.<\/p>\n
\nTravel + surfing = dopeness.<\/p>\n
\nI thought this was going to be a lead-in to a series. So it was refreshing to just be a seven minute video about this guy\u2019s adventures.<\/p>\n
\nThere comes a time in life where you have to sort your sh*t<\/a>
\nShort-form Beau Miles bullshit. \u201cNetflix is gunna be knockin\u2019 after this.\u201d \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n
\nThis wasn\u2019t as interesting as I hoped it would be.<\/p>\n
\nScience!<\/p>\n
\nI\u2019ll save you some time: unless you\u2019re a pro, always buy the cheapest model with the biggest storage.<\/p>\n
\nCar Content<\/h3>\n
\nGood thing these aren\u2019t available in the US yet or it might be top of my new car list.<\/p>\n
\nA big issue with EV adoption is that many of the people who are most interested in them live\/work in congested urban areas where there isn\u2019t room for chargers, and apartments\/condos often don\u2019t allow Level 2 home chargers. This solution seems best suited for tech-savvy cities like San Fransisco.<\/p>\n
\nInteresting series of events.<\/p>\n
\nSorry, this thing is incredibly dumb looking.<\/p>\n
\nThen there\u2019s this, which, HOLY SHIT IS IT SEXY!!! Maybe I\u2019ll win the lottery before it\u2019s time to buy my next-next car and I can afford an e-tron.<\/p>\n
\nNone of these are on my list of potential cars but I still was interested in the outcome.<\/p>\n
\nI hate how videos like this are titled to generate controversy. This is actually a very fair, honest, mostly positive accounting. The estimate they got for repairing some minor damage was indeed insane, though.<\/p>\n
\nKinda cool. I hope they make it.<\/p>\n
\nNot strictly about cars, but another step on where we should be headed as a society. If we ever build a house – something that seems pretty unlikely – I would 100% roll the cost of adding solar into the project. As it stands, though, we don\u2019t have a spare 40K sitting around to add it to our current home. Unless C or L get full rides to college.<\/p>\n
\nI\u2019ve ridden in a Lucid, and they are indeed awesome. I disagree with his critique of the Air\u2019s looks.<\/p>\n
\nOne of the crazy things about the EV space is that there are some cars out there that are kind of crappy, yet still start in the $50K range. Boggles the mind.<\/p>\n
\nThey leave out the most important part: the insurance industry is a scam.<\/p>\n