For My Incredibly Weird Selection Of Interests - Blog Posts

some of my faves recently!

for science, I second bobbybroccoli! Loads of very cool science videos

for (pre-)history: Dan Davis History (amazing, fairly European focused as that's his specialty), Stefan Milo (more science-y side of archaeology, pretty gloabl), and Milo Rossi, for American (including lots of indigenous) history and pseudoscience

for religion/history, esoterica is great. I don't have the background to even begin to understand some of the videos, but those I can get into are incredible, it's a channel devoted to non-dogmatic early abrahamic religious history (think origins of the abrahamic god, the two part (so far) series on Yahweh is awesome). Presents detailed academic research in an approachable way, and I really like the religious history without the trappings of religious dogma as part of it.

some other faves;

for tv analysis, Harbo Wholmes is amazing for doctor who analysis (and is doing an episode by episode analysis for the current season)

for philosophy, philosophytube is great and generally well explained

hi do you have long video essay recommendations

sure, ill give you some channels

but: they wont be anyone you havent heard of before, only some of them make truly long content, many will cover different topics, and i cannot necessarily attest to the true quality of all of the content or the creators- i tend to put on long videos to work to, and dont pay particularly close attention to them. these are really just people that pop up in my recommended often

im not ever on an active hunt for niche creators on youtube. maybe i should be

green means i like this persons work particularity. like i actually pay attention when its on

Quinton Reviews

Sagan Hawkes

Dream Jelly

Big Joel

Izzzyzzz

hbomberguy

minaxa

Paper Will

GermanPeter

Civvie 11

Decino

LGR

PatMac

Richter Overtime

RetroGamingNow

Defunctland

Darling Dollz

LSuperSonicQ

i also recommend old episodes of Unsolved Mysteries or even some of the stuff History Channel uploads (old eps of Ancient Aliens and whatnot) if youre just looking for some background noise. fair warning for those, though, in that theyre both old and sensational by nature. im sure you know that, but i wouldnt sleep right if i didnt offer the disclaimer

ill add more channels if i can find or think of any

i found a post once with some good specific videos linked on it, ill see if i cant find it again for you

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