Our Favorite YouTubers 2026

[music] Hey everybody, welcome to LCcast. I'm your host Matt and I'm Drew and we are Sans Nate. So uh it's just we're going to we're going to do a podcast with just the two of us and we are going to talk about our favorite YouTubers. Did I put a actually Drew did I put a mini topic in the show notes? >> You did. >> Oh, I did. What videos would you like to make but haven't felt like you could? Either because of content, laziness, or other reasons? >> That is my question to you, Drew. Are there videos that you would like to make but haven't felt like you could for whatever reason? >> Sure. [laughter] >> Okay. Well, what are they? >> That's the answer, right? >> You know what? I think more in terms of like laziness because I think I mean Matt and I have been kind of like pushing each other to do like a one video a week type thing. I don't know how well we're doing currently. Um I think it's barely scraping by basic if we had to kind of quantify it. Um >> I've definitely missed a week. [laughter] >> Yeah. But overall, I have when I've felt the need to make a video, I've made a video. And yeah, there have been times where I've been super stinking lazy and I haven't done so. Um, but you know, like I've said quite a few times, if I don't feel like I have something to say, I just won't say it. So, [laughter] uh, so yeah, there has been that balance of like not wanting to do a video and actually being successful at that or wanting to do a video and being too lazy to do it. I'm I'm trying to think, Matt, though, of the of, you know, how you framed it. Has there been a video that I wanted to make and maybe was too afraid or not wanting to uh ruffle anybody's feathers or something like that? and I'm trying to rack my brains about, but I'm not sure about that. So, yeah. >> Yeah, I think we're both in the same situation, Drew, where if we have an opinion, we're going to say it out loud. >> Um, and um, I've made plenty of videos that I I mean, I came out and said that Linux Mitten is a useless DRO [laughter] on camera and uh, and then I said Nixos wasn't a real distro, and I've stuck by that. So, uh, yeah, I don't think that I'm scared of not saying anything, but in terms of actual laziness, there's been a ton of them like every week. >> Yeah. Yeah. [laughter] >> Especially lately, it's just been such a slog. Um, I I have been I think this thing where we're trying to motivate each other has worked as well as it possibly could have. >> Yeah. >> Um, yeah. I mean, neither one of us are like jumping up and down like, "Hey, let's make some YouTube videos." But you know, >> you know what's interesting though, Matt, is I think we're kind of in the same category where we have finite amount of time. And what you want to do with that time maybe something and and granted making videos is creative. Okay, let's not I don't want to frame this like, oh, it's just it's just nothing, you know? It's it's nothing. But there are other ways for us to be creative. um using our computers and sometimes making videos isn't on the top priority list. >> That's very true. I've been I I know you've been I mean I know normally I say well Drew you're a mist retainer to you know mess with you but I mean you that's obviously a project that you've put a ton of time and effort into that may it may have otherwise gone to making a you know video every now and then when you you know you just rather script or something you know or update your you've been working on quick shaw right >> um >> yeah a lot a lot I put out Actually, I put out 0.4.0, the XFCE version of Butterbean. Um, not sure what date that was. I want to say it's close to a week ago. Um, but I have I I had a minor update like it's 0.4.1 now because I found uh a minor bug that I wanted to like push out there as quickly as possible. And um and yeah, that that has kept me from doing a video this week because I felt like, okay, I've got an hour and a half to do this. And it's probably better that I do the bug fix rather than actually, you know, doing a a video. So, >> I've been I've been doing I don't have obviously I'm not a I'm not a DRO maintainer because I'm not a dumbass, but [laughter] sorry. You ain't going to You ain't You ain't going to catch my butt doing that. No, sir. Um, but I've been doing I've been creating these like I mean I have a whole ecosystem of apps. Yes. For those of you like are anti- AI like 80% of them are vibe coded, but I've been working on a reading tracker/EUB reader that tracks everything that I read. That also built in some like audiobook features. Um, I did the DJ app that I've talked about on the podcast before. I've done a habit tracking app. I'm working now on a to-do list application that I've been working on for ages and it was kind of like broken. Uh, and so I've been trying working on that and then um so I've been using this app Quilpad on my phone for notes for a long time. Drew, I talked about it before. >> It stopped working. Um, it no longer has access to the file system on the phone. So I can't put it in the folder >> uh for sync thing. I don't know if it's the phone that I have or whatever. I've tried clearing all the data and starting over. it didn't work. So, uh, now I've been I've been creating an outline of how I would go through and create the perfect note takingaking, you know, ecosystem for myself. And I'm, you know, in traditional fashion, I'm going to create a Docker container and have it be like the source of truth for all notes and then have like a a CLI and a web client and an Android application and um probably a TUI, a whole bunch of different things. I'm still in the early stages of this. But I I've been doing that kind of stuff. And the thing about when you when you know your audience is at least mixed on AI stuff, it makes it actually kind of hard for you to cover the applications like in a video or whatever, when you know that you only coded like 20% of the So >> I I I just know that to be the fact that people give me a hard time and so I don't do it. So, I guess if I had to ask the question, are there videos that I would do, but I've been too much of a a wuss to do it? Probably the stuff that I've created that isn't necessarily all my work would probably classify as an answer there. >> Yeah. [laughter] I mean, there's Yeah, I mean, this is a mini topic, so I don't want to go much further, but >> Yeah. Yeah. Um, one of the things that um that came out this week is you know your the vote with Debian for example, it's like you know are we going how much are we going to use in terms of like LLM and so on so forth. Anyway, that passed and anyway it was a thing where um I'm sure there's going to be some bloodletting when it comes right down to it. Um, and so you no one's going to be no one's going to be um 100% uh on your [laughter] on the bandwagon for using AI to create stuff. And uh yeah, that's just we're just going to have to suck it up at at times, too. So, >> yeah. All right. So, let's go ahead and move on to the main topic tonight. We are going to cover our favorite YouTubers. Now, uh I I think both Drew and I can claim to have some YouTuber friends or at least YouTuber acquaintances, right? People that we know that we've talked to, right? So, we want to put a proviso in there. If you don't make a list, doesn't mean that you're not a good channel. It just means we can't name everybody. Okay. Um >> I know the people through Matt. That's [laughter] >> I'm I'm famous. I don't know what >> uh Yeah, I know. I'm aware. >> That's I can't even believe I can't even believe I got this gig. So, [laughter] Right. You You're just lucky to know me, Drew. This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. [laughter] I am not an influencer or anything like that. I just happen to have gotten lucky. All right. Uh anyways, we are going to uh name our favorite YouTubers. I'm not exactly sure how we should go about uh doing this, Drew. Um are we going to alternate back and forth, do you think? Is that a good idea given that? Maybe get a few at a time, Matt. Like two or three or so at a time. >> We will let you go first. >> We'll set We will have to say that Dro Tube being in the chat automatically puts Dro Tube in at the top of the uh of our favorite YouTuber list. >> If we put a poll out of how many people are actually subscribed to Dro Tube in our chat, it'd be 100%. I'm pretty sure. Yeah. >> Um I'm sure that >> if you're not, go subscribe to DT. I mean, seriously, what's wrong with you people? Um, he's been doing these man the I mean, he took a little bit of a break, but he did been doing these uh video man pages. Those things are awesome. Um, so good job, DT. All right. Anyways, Drew, why don't you take us off and do a two or three of yours, and then we'll, uh, come back and do a couple mine. Yeah. So, friend of the friend friend of the pod, uh, Tony BTW, um, is g gaining more and more traction. He's got 47K uh subscribers. I remember when he and I had the same number, Matt. That's that's what's so bad about that, [laughter] you know, and he's kind of he's definitely like blown past me in a big big way. The one thing that we always have to say with Tony, though, is um his his convention for saying the 2027 edition of this particular uh video. And uh we we love that part. And not to mention, he does some freaking amazing things and doesn't really care about how long it takes. It could take 40 minutes. It could take three hours, you know, and uh so I'm a big fan. I'm a big fan of Tony BTW even though he trolls me a little bit and I'm appreciative of that. So, do you I didn't know if you wanted to weigh in real quick. >> Uh yeah, Tonyy's great. I We should definitely have him on the pod again. Um, and it's always nice having people who are way smarter than us on the podcast. [laughter] So, >> oh my god. >> Right. That's lowhanging fruit, bro. >> That's not what you're trying to say is everyone we have on the podcast is smarter than us, dude. That's That's not very nice. >> I'm not saying that, man. But, >> but it's kind of true. [laughter] >> It's okay. All right. >> Okay. Brody again, friend of the pod. Um, puts out more content than any human should possibly do. I don't know how he has a life outside of like producing his content because holy that guy puts out a lot of a lot of videos. Okay, in fact, the one I'm talking about today is this one. Debian Linux is about to split in half because of AI. Um, so if you haven't seen that particular uh video, um, yeah, interesting. Interesting. Um, let me go one more here. Michael Horn. Um, and and make sure you know if you are looking at this uh on YouTube, uh there will be show notes if uh when when we uh put out the the audio [clears throat] portion of this uh of the podcast, but Michael Horn, it's Michael and then Horn backwards NR O. Uh and I think that he does phenomenal stuff. He's an Austrian um he's an Austrian um CIS admin and Linux gaming and uh he has a he has his own company called Horn Industries. So if you are interested in some in in another tech guy I'm going to try to move on from some tech but uh this guy's really stinking good as well. >> Okay, let's see if I can do this switch you know fairly. All right. So, my first one is uh so Drew, you won't actually be able to see this because I can't share both places, but um my first one is Typcraft. He he covers a lot of Linux stuff, but he's an obviously he's obviously slanted towards developers. >> Um I don't agree with everything that he says, but he does a lot of very smart stuff in terms of um like Neoim configuration files and stuff like that that he talks about a lot. He has a whole series on Neovim for noobs. uh that is really really good and the way his production value is also quite high. So I if you are dabbling in development or code I'd highly recommend uh checking out Typcraft very good. Again very well spoken puts together his videos very well. So check that out. He just did one on Omachi uh which apparently is just something that everyone has to do. Uh which you know fair game I'm going to do it too. So, uh, check him out if if you are interested in that kind of stuff. So, uh, my second one, and I'm not I'm going to butcher this guy's name, is, uh, Zei is his name. And he's fairly new, as far as I know, to to Linux, or at least making Linux YouTube videos. Uh, only only like maybe a year or so. And he's he's in still in the phase of trying new things. So, he he he did one recently. uh today about uh haiku uh and uh switching away from Linux with that and then the other one he did uh he also did an Omari video. So he's very much in the try stuff phase of the the Linux YouTuber uh you know career phase. So if if you're I again as Drew mentioned all the links to these will be in the show notes for those of you watching live. They're already there now. You don't have to wait for my lazy ass to actually put them there which is what happened the last time. Uh, they're there now. So, um, you can click on them if if you need to. So, I'm going to go ahead and stop at two, Drew, and go back to you because I don't have as many issues. So, >> okay. >> And, uh, so you can go next. >> So, yeah, friend of the pod, Nick from the Linux experiment. I'm just going to move on because everyone knows Nick. Um, as far Chuck, um, very good home labbing. um kind of he's got more and more stuff that is interesting uh because I think he's a newer Linux guy although I think that he had a lot of experience using Linux on the um in servers >> uh but kind of newer to the uh desktop um so I'm going to go with that. Now this one is I think is kind of interesting. You may not like him. He's not for everybody. Okay. Uh his name is uh T3 dg. Okay. Um he has a lot of videos about AI. Okay. A lot of videos about AI and he puts out a lot of content. I find him kind of because of his um dev background and the fact that he actually runs his own company. I think it's an interesting uh I listen to what he has to say always with a grain of salt basically, but when it comes to kind of analyzing how good certain uh certain LLMs are and what the use case is, I think that he has an interesting slant on that. Um, so this is my I think this is gonna be my last Well, there's tech adjacent, but definitely big production kind of tech. Uh, this will be the last one I have in that area. Do we want me to move on, Matt, or >> Yeah, you can do another one. Kim, go ahead. >> Okay. Um, so Lawn Lawn Sideman, which is uh lawn.tv, TV um is kind of my my guy because he talk he talks a lot about like uh mini PCs and he knows a lot when it when it comes to uh media um and doing things like um Plex. He does a lot of stuff with Plex for example and um and um over the air um over the air streaming. So, I'm a big fan of Lawn Sideman and um I think that uh I think that if you are a guy that likes either Plex Jellyfin or uh overtheair antennas and um streaming locally, then um yeah, you should definitely subscribe to Lawn Sideman. All right, so my first one is you suck at programming. So um [snorts] despite my uh constant use of vibe coding uh I do enjoy uh learning about programming and and uh you suck at programming is an amazing channel for bash. If you are even close to wanting to be a bash scriptor he has a he has like a I think it's a four or seven hour course on everything you need to know about bash. It's amazing. Watch it all. I mean and you know he's personable. He he's well spoken. He he he can put across a point without making you feel like you're a And he also he shows these really cool like bashisms where he can in his videos and his shorts and stuff, he'll show you how to do like really kind of like niche things with Bash that just are kind of just cool. Maybe you'll never use them, but highly recommend if you even even if you aren't a Bash scriptor, but you have aspirations to be, highly recommend. You suck at Programming. His stuff is fantastic. He he so Drew you have this website that kind of looks like a a terminal. He actually created his website out of Bash, you know what I mean? So So he he has a little thing for Bash. It's fantastic. Highly recommend again that if if you are interested in Bash at all. He talks a little bit about other programmings, but it's almost exclusively Bash. Uh so there's that. Um so my next one and I'm not even going to try. Uh this is his name is Nur Nir Lickman. probably mispronouncing that. So this this fellow he creates he does I mean he's like a wizard. So he'll actually make a custom Linux like distributions based on like micro kernels and he'll he'll show you how to boot off of like a like a floppy disc bootable in terms of like a actual working Linux distro. He'll he'll create different core utils and use base core utils for stuff. Uh, it's very very nerdy. Um, way way over my head. Like I could do none of this stuff and actually expect my computer not to explode. Uh, but if you're interested in that nerdy coding like Linux related hardcore kernel stuff uh, and off thebeaten path kind of stuff, I highly recommend uh, this gentleman as well. It's very, very good. Um, he doesn't put out a lot of videos, probably one every couple months, so it's not going to overload you. and they're never very long. So, he's not he's not teaching you how to do it. It's more just like you're watching a long type of thing. You may may pick things up, but I don't think tutorials are his his like how to, you know, way of doing things. So, uh there's mine. Uh Drew, I will go ahead and switch it back to you next. I'll do two each. >> Okay. Okay. So, I'm sure that Matt I I don't know if I've stolen this one from Matt, but switch and click um is kind of a keyboards, but then again, she's got a lot more stuff that she's been like um she's been putting videos out on and Steam OS being one of them, but and I think she's she's kind of documented her journey into Linux as well recently. And I think that it's it's it's always fascinates me because we've always, you know, especially those of us that have been on Linux for quite some time, you got don't do that, you [laughter] know, don't do that or or make this switch or something like that. But I will say what you know, one of the things that I gained from her website this her her love for this particular keyboard, which is the Rainy 75. Okay. Definitely. I think she did one on mini or or 75 uh keyboards or something like that. This was a great purchase. I'm just letting you know. The Rainy 75. Great purchase. Not as cool as Matts. All right, I get that. Not as cool as Matts, but still very good. Moving on. Uh Tyler the antenna man. Okay. So, like I said before, along with Lawn Sideman, um if you have any desire to uh like actually have local broadcast uh TV at your house, uh he does a lot of uh reviews of antennas that you can buy and um and does a really good job. He's even he even has like a way for you to send him and for 40 bucks he does a consult with you and like for example if you send him fill out this form and he'll you know and figure out you know or and give him rather your address he will say get this particular antenna and mount it at this part of your house and you're going to get the best reception. So, um, Tyler the antenna man. Um, let me go. That's actually my last part of that that segment. Matt, let me back to you. >> All right, let's see. So, I did I have managed to find myself a couple more. >> All right, so I'm going to go with So, I'm I'm leaving the realm of technology and moving into my other hobby, which is fountain pens. Uh, this this gentleman's name is Doodlebud. Obviously, probably not his real name, but his channel name is Doodlebud, and he covers fountain pens. And um most of these fountain pens are well, he he does a lot of accessible ones, like like really really cheap, and then he does ones that are like aspirational, like you're probably never going to afford these things. So, um and uh his handwriting is immaculate, which I'm highly je je je je je je je je je je je je je je je je je je je je jealous of because mine is um the opposite end of immaculate, which is um not legible at all. But if you're interested in in fountain pens, I don't think that there's a better channel honestly for looking at different inks, different papers, actual fountain pens. If you're just kind of like nerding out on fountain pens, which I I unfortunately am I I you guys can't see this now because you're not I'm not on a actual camera, but I have I have fountain pens all around me. I have a whole rack of them. I have a serious issue. They are the new keyboards is what I'm trying to say. Um, so my next one is Ben makes everything. So th this guy I have a thing for cyber decks like and watching people make cyber decks and this guy has made a couple of them that are really really freaking cool. Uh he does other things as well. So he he's like an engineer of some kind. He can make uh like he can make anything. I'm convinced that he can make anything. He's he's made this um this la the last one was a an advanced power bank. He made it all from scratch in 3D printing. The one before that was like a handheld cyber deck. You can you guys can kind of see it if you're watching the video. I watched that whole thing. It's it's amazing. Like I I want like I I thought about messages, hey, how much would it cost for you to make me one of those? Cuz I'm obviously not going to do it myself, but I would really like one of those things. It was really really cool. Um I don't even know that I'd use it, but it's it's it's it's amazing. I do, like I said, I have a thing for for cyber decks. Um, one day maybe I'll have a 3D printer. I'll be able to make one, but it's really really cool. So, that's Ben make mix everything. Uh, and I do I do I will go back to a another uh Linux one. This is the Linux Saloon. Uh, we had we had Nate from the Linux Saloon a couple uh on the podcast a few weeks ago and he's the host of Linux Saloon and it's basically a Linux user group that happens every week, like every single week. Open to the public. if you want to join, you can get their link in the in their Discord server. Um, I've never actually been on it yet because I tend to be messing around with our podcasts on sun on Saturday evenings to get it posted. Uh, but one day I'll be on there. Uh, but if if you're they cover applications, open mic nights they have all the time, distros, all sorts of things. Uh, it is a weekly lug. I can't imagine doing our lugg every every week. So, I'm I'm I'm Yeah, I've been on it for twi I've been on it twice now. It's It's fun. It's fun. >> Cool. Awesome. Um, one day, like I said, one day I'll go on there, but definitely if you if you haven't, even if you don't want to be on there, definitely watch along. It's very good. So, uh, those are are I think I did three there. So, Drew, you're up next. >> Okay. So, I'm going into sports. I know, guys. I know. Okay. Um, but um I I Matt and I both are big sports idiots. So, when it comes right down to it, the guys that are on Check the Mic, okay, that's Steve and Sam, and they used to be part of PFF, if anybody knows what PFF is, I'm impressed. Okay, but uh PFF got bought, so they ended up like kind of breaking away and trying to do something on their own. Um, this is a smaller I, you know, smaller, but less than a 100,000 subscribers, but the content that they put out is unbelievably good. if you're a football uh fan. The next one is Mina Kines. Whoops. Yep, there we go. Mina Kimes, and she is on ESPN, but really also very knowledgeable about football. So, those two on football. I'm going to move on real quick. If you haven't seen NPR Music, um I know there's a lot of subscribers out there, but their Tiny Desk Concert series is amazing. It really is amazing. So, if you are more um if if you like a wide variety of music, most of it is going to be acoustic based because of the the environment that they're in in these tiny desk concerts. It's amazing. It really is amazing. I'm going to stop there, Matt. But I've got a three more uh music ones. >> Okay. All right. So, my next one is All right. So, this is this is going to make everybody laugh, but uh I I have a thing for Farming Simulator, and not only do I play it in an obnoxious amount I know, I know. Surprise. Uh did you know, Drew, I'm over $300 in that game. >> That's nice. >> It's sad. It's not It's not It's not funny. It It's moving on to the sad. It's moving on to the sad aspect of it. But, uh cuz I also watch other people play the game, which is kind of funny. So, one of my favorites is a a guy who goes by Hugs. H U G H U G-Z. Uh, this kind of like Nate who has one of those voices that could talk about anything and you could just listen to for a while. Um, he he has another he has a voice like that and he's he's also hilarious. Like he's very very funny. Um, this is not going to be for everybody. Okay. Matter of fact, a lot of the ones that I have coming up not for everybody, but and and I'm not going to overload it. I think this is the only one I have on Farming Simulator. It's not the only Farm Sim content creator that I subscribe to. Uh, but Hugs is is amazing. It's probably my favorite. So, there's We'll just get that one out of the way. My next one is uh a channel called Juxapose. Now, this creator uh started off redesigning like websites like like they they would find websites on the the internet, say that they're wrong, and then just kind of graphically redesign them on on on camera, but they actually just recently switched to Linux, and they become a riser. Um so, they've done several the one they called they did um they they did one called I tried designing an easy Linux theme. It looks amazing. And granted, they did it in KDE, so you know, whatever. But it was pretty awesome. So, I I don't know if they've switched to Linux full-time, but for sure that they they've done a whole bunch of stuff on Linux and open source content re recently. So, and again, very very highly well very well produced. You can tell they know how to edit a video. It's just very very well done. So if you if you are interested in that more design design, you know, thing, you can definitely check that out. It's very good. Um, all right. So, and and then I this may be my only other gaming one is Wolf Den. Uh, this is this guy's name is Bob and he he reviews mostly handheld consoles and stuff like that. I don't I I consider myself a gamer. I'm not really a gamer. I'm a I'm more of a I'm more of a farmer. [laughter] That's just a I'm a digital farmer. Okay. Uh [laughter] but so this is basically the only game I play, but I still like to watch other people talk about games and he's one of the ones that's just really really good. He also streams quite a bit. So, if you're interested in the more streaming aspect of him actually playing games and not just looking at the hardware, I just find this kind of stuff very entertaining. Even though I wouldn't buy any of the things that he talks about um beyond the ones that I already have like the the Steam Deck, which I've sent sold or some of the Elipo handheld uh things I bought like years ago. Um so, Wolf then it's WL FF, not the other way around. Uh and DEN just like normal. So, there's that. Sorry, Drew, you're next. Yeah. So, I'm still in the music category. Whoops. Did I messed up? Okay, I guess I'm good. Okay. Um, so Rick Biato is a former music uh producer. Um, and maybe he still is. I don't know. But basically, some of the some of the guys that he gets to interview amazing like, you know, I've seen um I've seen his interview with Billy Joel. I've seen his interview interview with Sting. I've seen is unbelievable. Um, if you have and I go I know this isn't this isn't the most recent music but overall some of the things that he has um in terms of the interviews that he has and then just talking about music amazing because of his experience and he's got great ears and he can play uh a bunch of different instruments. Um, so Rick Biato is a must. And then there's a guy called Professor of Rock. He's got over I mean he's got over 1.5 million subscribers as well. and um and he has these really awesome stories about this one hit wonder or a number of other things that um that you'll find interesting, especially if you uh like kind of like u you know, rock of the 70s and 80s and stuff like that. Just go peruse his channel and you'll find something that you're like, "Oh my god, I didn't realize that." And so his knowledge of and uh of the history of rock and roll is is amazing. Um the last one in this category is uh Michael Palmano. He's actually a guitar player. I play guitar as well. Certainly not as well as Michael Palmo, but some of the things that he does like he'll get uh someone says, "Hey, hey, do you know how to play this?" And then he'll basically teach you um the chords and some of the uh licks that go with that particular song. And then there are are times too where he will um he'll listen to music and he'll explain what is um what the what the artist might have been thinking and he has an unbelievable appreciation uh for uh for musicians and stuff like that. So, uh, that is the three other music, uh, YouTubers that I watch. >> Okay, nice. Uh, I didn't actually go through and categorize mine. That's why I've been kind of jumping all around on mine. U, so my next one, I I couldn't go through this whole thing without having at least one keyboard YouTuber. Uh, keyboard keyboard YouTubers don't last very long for the most part. They tend to burn out because it's such an expensive hobby. and keyboard manufacturers, the the mainstream ones will send them out to you if you're you got a lot of content, but you there's only so many times you can cover a Razor or a you know a mainstream keyboard. The where the content comes from is from the more like third party custom created boards and those don't you don't get sent very often because they're just so astonishingly expensive. So, uh, keyboard content creators you, well, not always, but a lot of times, especially the smaller ones, tend to have to buy that stuff themselves, which means that they don't usually last very long because it's such an obnoxiously expensive thing. So, I'm going to recommend I think he's British. His name, I'm not sure what his actual name is, but his channel name is C H Y R O S R22. I'm assuming that that's probably a reference to something. I don't know what it is, but uh anyways, he reviews both new keyboards and really old keyboards, which I find entertaining. So, if you're into if you're like me and you like keyboard history, which is just it's just something that I'm into, uh he he he will review older keyboards. Some of them you can't even buy anymore. He's not really doing it for consumerism aspects. He does some of that stuff, but a lot of stuff is just because this is a really old cool old keyboard. I'm going to talk about it for 20 minutes, right? And that's awesome. Uh, and then he he I don't think he and I will get along very well because he doesn't like split keyboards. I love split keyboards. So, he has he has a vendetta. I will say if you are into keyboards and you decide to subscribe to this guy's channel, beware his dirty mouth. He is a he is um very colorful personality. Let's just put it that way. So, uh, if you're if you're into interested in keyboards, this is one of my favorite ones that still actually posts quite often. A lot of, like I said, they burn out quite fast. It's hard to find one that actually still posts about keyboards all the time. So, there's that. All right. So, here's another one that you wouldn't think I'd be into. And this is Perkins Builder Brothers. They do not need They have well over a million subscribers. They don't need me to to pimp their channel, but I do like watching other people build houses and stuff. I just find it relaxing. It's not something I could ever do because I'd be one of those people. I'd get to the end and wonder why the roof was two foot short. Um because I couldn't measure for the my life. My my math skills aren't there. But I do like watch watching other people and I find while a lot of it I think they're trying to be educational, I still find the personalities of their crew very entertaining. So it's really fun to watch. I I go through I don't watch them all the time. Sometimes I'm really into their channel. Sometimes I get bored with it. I got I kind of go through strict, but it's very good. Uh, my other one of this three batch is going to go back to technology. Now, I I'm not an Apple fanboy anymore, but I used to be. I'm reformed. Uh, but I still like to watch the Apple content quite often. This guy guy's name is Christopher Loi, and he talks about how he uses an iPad as his main computer all the time. And I find that utterly fascinating because I could never do it. Um, and he also does a lot of stuff in terms of like applications and stuff. Again, I don't use an Apple device unless I absolutely have to anymore. I have a Macintosh. It's no longer plugged in, thank the Lord. Uh, but I still enjoy that kind of content. So, uh, if you're interested in Apple stuff, but you don't want to deal with like news, like he doesn't really cover news. He covers more applications and productivity and how he does stuff in terms of actually using the iPad as a as like a content creation device and productivity machine. I like I said, I find that utterly fascinating. So, those are my three for this this batch. Drew, you're next. >> Okay. Max the meat guy. Okay. He's got over 10 million subscribers on YouTube. I don't know if anybody else watches because I think that not only is he really interesting when it comes to um like trying food, like this one video, he says, "I ate every fried chicken in America." And then he gives it like a score. Okay. So I uh I was fascinated by the fact that he ate every fried every fried chicken in uh in America. But he also has a lot of uh really valuable information when it comes to like cooking steaks for example, how to do what's the best way to do it, how the best way to prepare. Anyway, Max the meat guy. Um so the next one is beard meets food. Oh, come on. Okay. Over. [laughter] >> That was my next one. Sorry. Oh, really? Oh, sorry, Matt. >> No, that's fine. All right. So, basically, this guy is a um his name is Adam Moran. He does UK challenge eating and uh he has this I I I don't know how many I've videos I've seen of his where he has failed. I don't know that there's been any. I'm just saying >> if there has been, it's very very rare. Um, >> yeah. See, >> okay. So, so just to just to >> No, chime in. Ju >> Yeah. Ju just to put this out there, if if you're squeamish about watching other people eat food, especially uh without manners. He he does he does time challenges, so he kind of has to stuff his face, so it can kind of be a little gross sometimes. Um >> it's awesome, though. You >> ever seen Man, dude. >> Yeah. Very very good and highly entertaining. Sorry, Joy. I kind of cut in there, but >> No, no, no, no. We're all good. Uh, the last one I have in the food category is this is now this is this is my guy. Okay, this is my guy. Fork and Embers. Okay, he's a barbecue guy. Uh, and he's from the Carol, no, Kentucky. Um, he's from he's from the South. He's got 155,000 subscribers, so he's not massively big or anything like that, but this is a small channel plug that I'm doing right now. He does storytelling, drinks bourbon, uh, doesn't like shill on pre-made seasonings. I don't know, Matt. I've never told you this, Matt, but I have a I am a Kansas City certified barbecue judge. Okay. >> Well, I know that. >> I've done the schooling. I have done competitions uh in barbecue. And um this is this is my guy. This is Fork and Embers. And I just want to say everyone should subscribe to this guy. Okay. [snorts] So, that's my last one in the food category. >> Okay. All right. So, I'm gonna see as how you bogarted my uh beard meets food, I'm going to come up with a couple extra uh just kind of along the same veins. There's one called Randy Santel and I also think his wife is I think it's his wife Kina. >> No, it's his girlfriend. >> Girlfriend. Okay. I knew I knew they were somehow together. Um, but anyways, they both do they both have channels like that. I don't have hers pulled up, but I have Ry's pull up. >> Katrina is her name. Yeah. >> Yeah. C A T I N A. Yep. >> Um, but anyways, the same kind of vein as Beer Moots meets food. Um, if if you ever watched Man Versus Food back in the back in the day, it's still the same kind of thing. Uh, it's just they don't they're not on TV. They're doing it for YouTube. Um, I I obviously, as you can see, I'm a big food guy. Uh, even I could not eat some of the things that they these guys eat. Like that gigantic pizza looks fantastic that you're seeing on screen now. It looks fantastic. Best Kansas City's 29inch pizza. Pizza is my food. Like I could eat every day for the rest of my life. Um, I'd have a hard time putting down 29 inch pizza. Um, well, for a couple days, sure. Uh, but it it would it would take me it would take me a while. So, all right. But anyways, highly recommend if you're into that kind of thing, that one. Uh, my next one is uh Peter McKinnon. Again, doesn't really need me to pimp his channel, but I like journaling and stuff like that, productivity videos, and his stuff is highly entertaining because he deals with a lot of analog stuff. So things like um [clears throat] journaling with stamps and like rubber stamps and typewriters and stuff like that. It's really really cool. If you're I've slowly moved into since I got into the fountain pen stuff, I've tried to embrace more of the analog stuff for note takingaking than I ever have before. I still like my digital notes. I still want a digital system, but I'll like I have a whole I have multiple journals just sitting around me for different purposes. Some of them are just for scr like a scratch pad. I have this one here. You guys can't actually see cuz I'm not on camera, but I This is the one that I use for for development work. And I have another one for the YouTube channel, which um unfortunately collects dust most often because I'm a lazy son of a Um but there you go. It especially if you're into journaling or typewriters or doing that kind of stuff. Again, high production value. And I just really like basically all the stuff that he puts out. It's very, very good. Um he's been around for a very long time. So people he's like he's like Casey Neistat. He has just he's like YouTube royalty. All right. And then u my last one of this three batch one is one called strolling the city. Uh this this has no talking whatsoever. It's just a person walking around different cities. Most of the time New York City um I find it highly reactive. Sometimes I'll just put it on the background while I'm working and every once in a while just I love New York City. I love Philadelphia. Um I'm going to be in Chicago in a couple weeks. I love Chicago. Um just being able to watch someone else stroll the city, you know, either the rain or whatever weather. It's just highly relaxing for me. So I strolling the city, fantastic uh stuff if if that's the kind of thing you're into. So uh that's my third one of this batch. I have two more after this one. You still have a couple. >> Uh, these are my last three. >> Okay, let's go ahead and get you on camera then. >> These are these are hodge podge. Okay, so Thiago Forte is a um second brain and the para method. Now, if any of I I've talked about par method very briefly. Um, one of the things that Matt and I have talked about is having your own uh home uh having modified your home user directory. Okay. And in the para method I have and maybe I'll show [laughter] maybe I'll show it sometime maybe on a video but basically um it's broken into projects areas of interest resources and then an archive and then actually I add one more to that at the very top and that's inbox. Okay. So, if you are interested in kind of a different paradigm when it comes to organizing your workflow, um, and having a second brain, um, Thiago Forte has some unbelievably valuable information that is, um, it's really damn cool. Very cool. Thiago Forte, uh, when it comes to productivity, Dr. Eric Berg is the guy that I talk to about, you know, or talk to the guy that I watch uh when it comes to um staying healthy and some of the things that he talks about in terms of like a low carbohydrate diet and uh what um how to you know like right there I I get cramps because I play a lot of ball uh and I have a lot of um you know I and I spend a lot of energy and I live in Florida where I sweat to death uh out in the heat when I'm playing ball. And so, you know, how do I recover? How do I uh how do I basically hydrate after? And some of the stuff that he says is great. And this is the last one on my list and it's called the Appalachian Storyteller. Okay. Um I am fascinated. I know Matt is a bit, you know, has a degree, a master's degree in in history and uh some of the stuff that this guy comes up with and the stories that he has about the, you know, the Appalachian South is awesome. I can I can listen to it's like a television show. I sit there and watch one of his videos for 30 minutes and be like thoroughly entertained by the the story that he's talking about like the mystery of Lizzie Caldwell and so on. It's it's awesome. It's awesome and um and free and free. Uh so the Appalachian Storyteller will be my last um YouTube. Okay, so I have three more. We we I did a pretty good job of getting some so we we were a little bit more balanced out. So let me see if I can switch to the right workspace here. So, uh, kind of similar to Strolling City. This one is called Proalk Tours. And, uh, this one is more Europeanbased. In fact, I think they're all European based. He does a lot of Italy, a lot of Spain, a lot of France. Um, God, I've spent hundreds of hours watching this guy's YouTube channel. Again, no talking is just the sound of the city as he walks through different like really ancient cities. So, he'll take you past the Pantheon and uh the the Colosseum and he he does he's done a lot of tours of like St. Peter's Basilica and the Vatican and a whole bunch of places like that. Um and as a history nerd, even if you I mean he does some subtitles work, so if you want to if you want to get some of the history, he puts some of the stuff in the sub in the in the in the closed captions. But, um I just like watching that stuff because some of the places where I probably will never be able to afford to go. Um, so it's I and if if you're if you're like me and you like to experience this part of the world, but you can't actually go there, I highly recommend Pro Walker. There's actually quite a few channels like are kind of like that that do different places. There's a there's a one called Alice Alice Strolls and uh they do ones more in Canada and stuff like that. So, if you're interested in canadian hit cities and stuff like that, again, like Montreal and uh um um Quebec, a lot of places in Quebec are place are really really pretty places to visit and it's just kind of cool that you can take these little tours on the on YouTube. Uh so, highly recommend that. Um kind of kind of another one that I use for for just kind of background things. There's this guy, this guy does talk, so it's not really background stuff. His name is London Eats and he's he's a guy who delivers uh like um Door Dash and stuff in London [laughter] and I like I it's such a weird thing. I found it on YouTube just one day and now I watch him all the time. Uh like it's just something that's I find I highly interested. So So one thing that I learned that I didn't really know was so so Drew, you know, like you order from Door Dash or whatever and you pay a tip. Like you just like now you can't even not pay a tip. have to do it. In like Europe, they don't tip at all, right? In fact, it's really rare for this guy to get a tip. So, sometimes like he does a delivery for like £3, which is like not that much money. Like it doesn't seem like he's making a lot of money, but I find it highly entertaining cuz he he's he's like a motorcycle guy. Um I have no dreams whatsoever of being on a motorcycle cuz I would murder myself the first time I tipped it over. [laughter] It just it would just it would it would be a disaster just waiting to start. But I find it entertaining that he delivers around London. Plus, it's kind of like those city walks but with kind of commentary where he'll he'll visit different parts of London which I find entertaining because it's again it's a really cool city to kind of be around in. So I it's just good stuff. Again, not for everybody, but it's cool. My last one is actually the only history one that I have on the the list. Um and that's because I'm very picky when it comes to history YouTubers. There's not very many of them out there that are very good. There are there are a few that I could I I would shout out um the time team stuff. I if you're interested in archaeology at all, highly recommend time team stuff. I didn't put it on the list simply because it is very niche. You have to be really interested in people out there digging in the dirt looking for ancient artifacts in Britain. Um the older stuff is way better than the new stuff with Sir Tony Robertson. guy's really really good, but he's like 90 years old now, so he's not on as nearly as much as it used to be. Um, it was it was an old British t TV show. Um, so there anyways, the one I'm actually supposed to be talking about is called Overly Sarcastic Productions. It's not fully history stuff, but he has quite a few history stuff that also very very high productions. Doesn't actually appear on camera, I don't believe. And it will take you through like the entire history of Rome in like a three-hour video. um very very good, highly accurate. They're going to get get get get basically everything right because they're pulling from primary sources and stuff. Uh but it's very entertaining. It's not going to put you to sleep. So, uh that's my last one. Overly sarcastic productions. So, uh >> nice. >> So, very very Oops, that's the wrong that's the thoroughly the wrong one. So, surprisingly enough, I didn't go to any workspaces that I should have went to, but still. There we go. All right, Drew. So those are our favorite content creators of 2026. So again, if you are interested in any of the ones that we we mention here, we do have them all in the show notes. So you can check those out uh below uh whether you are watching live or the recorded version that comes out on Saturday. So that's great. So Drew, we haven't done Nuggies of the Week I think in like three or four weeks. It's been a while. Uh because when Brody was here, we didn't we we were on that like gigantic podcast, so we didn't do one that week. And the the last time we did a podcast, they were all nuggies of the week cuz we did the apps. So, it's time to get back on the horse. We are doing nuggies of the week. So, Drew, do you have a nuggie of the week to share with us? >> Um, [sighs] do you want me to go first? >> Yes. Go ahead, please. >> Okay. So, um, for those of you guys who've been watching for a little while, uh, the last few weeks or whatever, you'll know that Drew has been making fun of me because I'm back on Hyperland. Um, I I don't know what his discrim discriminatory nature is for Hyperland, but I guess it is what it is. Um, you can't teach an old dog new tricks, I guess, is what you were trying to say. [laughter] But anyways, so um, in traditional Vaxree fashion, he's trying to make it the window manager that will do anything. So he has made it so that there are you can scroll now kind of similar to Neri in Hyperland. So it's it's actually part of the more recent versions of Hyperland. Uh and it's actually fairly well fleshed out. It's not quite as good as Neri. So if you're if you're a fan of Neri, you'll probably find that some of the controllers are a little bit lacking, but for the most part, everything there is there that you need and it will build right into your Hyperland config. You don't need a plugin or anything for it anymore. So, and I think that that's great. So, I I if you're watching the video, you'll actually be able to see I'm going to open up a terminal now and it actually is scrolling back and forth, you know, just as you want. I can actually make it smaller, bigger, whatever you want. And it's really, really cool. I can, you know, I can move the the client to the beginning of the stack, to the end of the stack. I can open up Emacs as another part of the stack. And then I and then I have three different parts of that stack and it just scrolls back and forth. I have all my workspaces there. You can do it as per monitor. So if you wanted to have or not per monitor but per workspace. If you wanted to have one workspace that was just regular tiling master stack, you could have that and then have all the rest of them t uh scrolling. So it's kind of similar to what what um Mango WC will allow you to do. That's really cool. So uh highly recommend if you are in hyperland. Again, I don't actually recommend it because it does break quite often and you have to fix things. Um, especially if you you have to live on the git thing. I recommend uh hyperland scrolling as as a part of your workflow. It's really really good. I'm actually kind of this is my new way I've abandoned master stack for now. Scrolling is really really cool through. So there you go. Uh did did you find yourself a nugie of the week? Um, I am going to go with what you just did. [laughter] >> Okay. >> I'm going to show off something, I guess. And let me share screen. So, I've been working on this. Are you guys seeing a blank screen right now? >> Uh, your Yes, >> it should be just blank. Okay. So, I'm just going to open up a few things real quick. Got four terminals open. What you're seeing right now is DWM, but what you're not seeing is DWM um in a with an SL status bar, anything like this. This so this is some of the quick shell stuff. This is not out yet in terms of a on production. Uh this is on a dev branch of my DWM setup. If you uh if you rightclick, you can actually set a wallpaper and it changes everything. Okay. The other thing that it's that I'm doing is you can change your layout. You can change your gaps. You can change the bar height and scaling for your uh for your bar. And then there's some other things that um is going to be part of this this uh this this quick shell and that is your network. Uh it even shows if you've got tail scale running or a VPN running as well. So that's that's the short version of this. Um, that's the short version of this. >> It's I really like QuickShell, Drew, but I'm too lazy to start my own. So, I just forked DMS. Um, it it was just easier to fork someone else's work and start from there. I created a a QuickShell um a widget for local send so I can send files back and forth between my my phone and my computer. Um, >> it was really cool. was actually fairly easy to do and the the language isn't too like hard uh to get around is it's not like in something crazy like like have you ever tried EW Drew? Have did you ever look at you? >> No the >> I mean again we're Yeah, this that would be for Whan right though EW or is that >> I think that it will work on Xark. I may be talking with my ass and I don't know it's mostly for Whan but um like I did a whole stream on it and didn't get anywhere because the the language is really really bad. Um, so yeah, I had a break. Quick shell is quite good. Again, I've been kind of too lazy to start my own, but um anyways, so I believe Mr. Drew, that that is where we're going to end this one. We we just hit the hour mark just now. It's hour 1 hour 20 seconds. So we we did pretty damn good. So uh that is it for uh this podcast. I have a few housekeeping things to talk about. First off, uh, a week from Thursday, we have our first log of September already. Like it just feels like we just did the last one, >> but we have a the first one is a week from this upcoming Thursday. So, if you want to join us, we you can do that. That's at that's again, it's the second Thursday of the month. It is at 12:30 p.m. Eastern time. It will be an open mic morning. We really need a different a different name for it, but that's what we're calling it. Basically, we'll just get around, you know, into into a room and we'll talk Linux, whatever kind of floats our boat. But we are do we do a second we do do a second one cuz I'm 5 years old. Um, we do a second one every month is the fourth Thursday of the month. That is at 8:15 p.m. Eastern time on the 4th Thursday. And we have started a new tradition where we look at a dro or it'll eventually be we'll also work in some apps as well. But this time we're looking at Omachi. Um and if you are interested in that, you'll probably want to install it now and actually have some uh things to talk about if you're interested in that kind of thing. So highly recommend uh checking out the lug. We have a a fantastic time. Like it's really it's actually the last one Drew was our high highest viewed lug ever. It went up to like six or seven thousand views on YouTube. So it was good stuff. That was the Cashio. Yeah, the Cashio OS one >> on Cashy. Nice. >> All right. >> So I recommend checking that out. Drew has linked in the chat the the lug calendar which has not been updated. So I need to do that tonight. I will I will get that taken care of. Uh but uh definitely check out the Lux. So, the other thing I need to talk about is uh leaving a review. If you want to watch us live, we do record this live every Tuesday at 8:00, you know, is never at 8:00. It's around 8:15. Let's just be honest about it. Matt's always late. It's just what it is. Um, it can't be helped. It's just the way, you know, whatever. Uh, but anyways, around 8:00 every Tuesday, we record this live. But if you can't watch the live version, we do post the edited version on Saturday. That's usually edited by Nate. Uh, but this week I have a feeling it'll probably be me. Um, so expect the quality to be, you know, not as good. I guess it's just the way that it, again, it's the way that it is. I mean, I have a, you guys, it is what it is. That's what it is. There's the reason why there's that's on the wall. Uh, but anyways, you can watch the recorded and edited version on Saturday evenings. Uh, and uh, it it removes most of the ums usually. Anyways, so check check that out cuz there are >> I didn't know we had any, Matt. >> Well, okay. Okay. So, Drew to me, I have so that that Brody podcast that was like an hour and a half long, I ended up editing that. Um, and I I will say this, of the three of us, the one that does the fewest is Nate. Um, you're you come in second place. I am an um machine. I say them all the damn time. I thought I was better, you know? I thought I I thought I was way and I feel like I'm better than I used to be. Like when I first started the YouTube thing, I was horrendous. I I'd do ums and a's and you know and uh a whole bunch of different filler words. Maybe I am actually better, but uh it when I edit I was like, "God damn it, Matt. Jesus Christ. Would you could you could you say another word other than um just once?" It was horrible. I really should just stop talking now cuz it's just it's just just adding to the amount of ums that I'll have to pull out of the podcast. Anyways, uh if you want to get in contact with us, the best way to do so is email. email at linxcast.org. That's the place there if you want to find Drew. He is just a guy Linux uh on the internet basically on YouTube on the YouTubes and uh he has a website and also butterben.org where you can find his DRO that he has created because he is a DRO maintainer. It it's in the contract. I say it every week so it's just the way it is. All right. Anyways, check that stuff out. Make sure you subscribe to his channel. He puts out contents about Debian and scripting and uh window managers and quick shell recently and he he does some streaming which is great stuff. So make sure you check out his his channel if you haven't already. Highly recommend. Very good. He he should be on the list of our favorite creators because he is in fact one of our favorite creators. So um now that I've done my brown nosing for the night, it's time for us to leave and we [laughter] >> I'll be back next week then. I I'm so glad about that, Drew, cuz if I had to do this podcast by myself, it wouldn't be pretty. You know, I have actually done a couple solo Linux casts. If you go way back in the in the day, they were not good. So, anyways, that's [laughter] that's just where we'll end it. We don't want that. We don't want those times to come again. So, we will see you guys next time. >> Nice hat, by the way, Matt. >> Oh, yeah. Well, you see, I I would pimped it out if actually anybody could actually buy one of these hats, Drew. But seeing as how you refuse to actually have a store, I just figured I'd just let it speak for itself. So, um, thank you for the hat, by the way, Drew. I do appreciate it. It It is very uh very comfy and very sexy. But, um, again, limited supply only, apparently, because um, stingy bastard over there. We'll put it on the internet for people to buy. I I will put it I tell you what, I put it on my store. 100% proceeds go to you, but you're going to have to do it yourself. All right. All right. Anyways, he's not going to do that cuz he wants to be um what's what's the like um >> exclusive? >> Well, exclusive is a good is a good word for it. But also like 20 years from now when Drew is like no longer doing YouTube, >> he'll have these hats that he can just kind of point to. Hey, remember when you know I used to do YouTube? He just pointed to thing. Anyways, it's time for time for us to go. We will see you next time. >> [snorts]