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Streaming TV Guide of the Day : Youtube Video Discovery of the Day.
If you have never watched THE RICH REBUILDS channel, which at its heart is about the love of getting the most out of your cars, this is arguably not the episode to start with. But for us long time fans, this is Rich at his most irreverant and funniest. I laughed and cringed all the way through this one. Comedic gold.
Greatest of All Time MMA List! The Final Word???
You will see a lot of people reacting to Connor McGregor’s GOAT List.
Most people with axes to grind, including the original video itself. However, I think this video by Youtube channel Weasel really gives you a list of Greatest of All Time, with ego removed, and one that actually makes sense.
Really great list. I give it a thumbs up!
Some Favorite Blu-Ray and DVD and Knife and Book Purchases of 2019! – Under Construction
UNDER CONSTRUCTION – come back tonight about 10pm for finished version
The last few years, I have been discovering new passions, or interests.
2018 was really me getting into slabs (sealed and protected graded comics) as well as headphones and to a small degree statues.
Buying my first 3 statues (and as of this writing still my only 3 statues) in 2018. It was also the year I began my dive into graded or slabbed comic books. I started 2018 with 0 slabbed comics and ended the year with over 2 dozen. I also got into headphones big that year, getting about half a dozen audiophile quality headphones.
By 2019 I had put the brakes on the slabbed comics, as well as the headphones (selling most of the headphones, only keeping a couple). Instead in 2019 I got bitten by two new collecting bugs, folding knives and Blu-ray Steel-books. Managing to control my collecting bug a little more in 2019, I only treated myself to one folding knife, my first new knife in over 10 years, but on the Steel-book front I have jumped in with both feet.
Having only owned one steel-book going into 2019, and having largely just not made time for physical media in the last several years, since 2014, by the end of 2019 I had definitely made up for lost time, i had amassed a collection of over 3 dozen mostly steel-books, with a smattering of digi-books thrown in. I won’t bog you down in all the great items I picked up in 2019, but will just shut out some that put a smile on my face every-time I see them, and that I highly recommend to other collectors out there.
THE THING – I saw this steelbook, a mingling of beautiful art piece, and quality remastered and feature rich version of one of my favorite movies, on someone’s youtube channel and I was blown away. While I appreciate the improvement of Bluray over DVD, I was never a fan of the Bluray packaging, branding. It looked cheap, it looked ugly, and in the age of streaming, you do have to justify what you allow to take up space in your home. So while not one of those extolling ‘physical media is dead’ for me at least, it had slowed down to absolute must haves, that I did not want to leave to the vagaries of streaming licensing deals, to ensure I could view it.
But with this Shoutfactory/ScreamFactory release of the THING I was introduced to something new in the market, boutique companies treating these Blurays as quality works, deserving of quality branding. So yeah, as funds allowed in 2019 I picked up ShoutFactory steelbook after steelbook, and they have just been homeruns. And 2019 was a particularly good year, because they were doing the John Carpenter series of films, and his work in steelbook… well let us say i can not think of many other genre filmmaker that I would have been as passionate about collecting as John Carpenter.
As of this writing there are only a couple of his films, that I still need from Shoutfactory. So big kudos to that Youtube channel and to ShoutFactory for making steelbooks a definite passion for me (and seemingly many others) in 2019.
And naturally Shoutfactory’s Steelbooks opened the door for me to great and must have steelbooks from other quality Bluray labels, such as Universal, Criterion, Disney, Indicator, Arrow and many more.
Some quick shoutouts for 2019:
STEELBOOKS
THE THING -ShoutFactory
PRINCE OF DARKNESS – ShoutFactory
LIFEFORCE – ShoutFactory
THE LAST JEDI – Disney
ROUGE ONE – Disney
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA -Zavvi
Under Construction- Come back tonight 10pm EST for completed post
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Inspirational Person/Youtube Video of the Day and Inspirational Person of 2019 : David Goggins
A year ago today, I did not know who David Goggins was, which says nothing at all about his well deserved fame, and a lot about how generally out of the world I am, in regards to any event or person who I do not figuratively trip over.
David Goggins, has been described as the man who the hardest men on the planet, look at as an inspirational tale. And with good reason. I did a post a while back that links to some of the coverage that introduced me to him.
David Goggins is a man who does not suffer fools, and does not suffer excuses, and lives by a grinding work ethic, that makes the hard or difficult or grueling day most of us think we are dealing with, literally pale in comparison.
He is a man who to some extent ensconces himself in the miserable and suffering, to find what lies beyond.
He is a hard relentless man, for an oft hard relentless world.
But he cares, he cares.
By his own estimation he is a natural introvert, a natural stutterer, a challenged learner, a fat man, and by any estimation he has transcended all labels that was put on him by others or by himself. When most of us make excuses for our failings, David Goggins at some point, at many points, said no… no more.
In a world that loves mediocrity, David Goggins learned to loathe it with a passion and a response and a tenacity that can only be called… relentless. “No you are not Big Boned…. You are fat!!!” to paraphrase Goggins.
He can come off as a gruff and a brusque human, in his language, in his stance, in his relentlessness, but what is clear is that relentlessness is shield and armor… for a man who cares deeply for all of us, and our wars against mediocrity.
Spending ten hours calling your followers for the holidays? Who the eff does that??? Who subjects themselves to that??? David Goggins does. He doesn’t hold himself up as perfect, and he’s not asking you to be perfect. He is asking you to when you get kicked in the teeth, (which you will, it is what life does) to get up, and be harder to knock down next time.
The most inspirational person I know this year, who I do not really know, someone that is outside my circle of friends and family (who if we are lucky are the ones to most tangibly inspire us), hands down is David Goggins. His story and his videos this year taught me clearly something we allow ourselves to forget, that no one cares about the things we complain about, no one, and they should not, what people should care about is the things you spend time fixing. You are either a complainer or a problem solver, part of the problem or part of the solution.
David Goggins calls you to be part of the solution. Whatever your specific solution is. He welcomes you to the war.
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Streaming TV Guide of the Day : Youtube Shows of the Day!
Streaming TV Guide of the Day : Youtube Shows of the Day!
Or in the words of the MANDALORIAN show… I HAVE SPOKEN! 🙂
So that’s it in a nutshell guys all the must watch Youtube shows for today, the 10th Day of December, in the Two Thousandth and Nineteenth year of a Crucified Lord, if you go by the Gregorian calendar, or the One thousandth Four Hundred and thirty ninth year of the Hijri calendar, or the year Four Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifteen on the Traditional Chinese calendar. Man I love how wacky our world is. 🙂
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This Week’s 3 Best and Three Worst Free Streaming VOD TV Services and Why!
Best and Worst Free Streaming Services for Week 48 of 2019!
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YOUTUBE – For another Week Youtube is the number one free streaming channel. Content Provider’s such as THE JOHN CAMPEA SHOW , TOP 5 SCARY VIDEOS, WEALLJUGGLEKNIVES, NEAR MINT CONDITION, METAL COMPLEX, THE DELUXE EDITION, FILMSELECT TRAILER, RICH REBUILDS, NICK SHABAZZ, SCOTTY KILMER, CORD CUTTERS NEWS, ALTER, GQ, SILVER_AGED DAVE, SOCAL ATTRACTIONS 360, CEREAL AT MIDNIGHT, AMATEUR FILMIES, HAWAII KNIFE AND GEAR, REGIE COLLECTS, SINISTER CINEMA REVIEWS, WRANGLESTAR, THE COMIC COLLECTOR, CANADIAN PREPPER, TARAS KUL, FIRST WE FEAST, GOHAN THE HUSKY, CASI DAVIS, CEDRIC & ADA GEAR AND OUTDOORS, SILVER HAIRED BRONZE AGE BABE COMICS, BAT IN THE SUN, BLURAY DAN, IAN CORZINE, OFF THE SHELF MOVIE NIGHT, MMA ON POINT, OMNIDOG’S VAULT, CINEMANIACSEVENTY7 and WILSONIAN MOVIE MUSEUM releasing between them just some very enjoyable and informative content in the last seven days. (p.s. It is a lot of channels and content, so look for an upcoming post that higlights the best, must see You Tube videos from each channel)
- ROKU CHANNEL– Youtube was pretty enjoyable last week, so I didn’t really have the time or inclination to watch much of anything else on the free channels. Exception being the ROKU CHANNEL. It offers the first episode of some cable shows I have not yet checked out. So was able to watch the first episodes of WATCHMEN (loved it), GAME OF THRONES (yes, I have not watched a single episode of Game of Thrones, until this free episode on the Roku Channel. It was good. However, no real desire to catch up with it, but if other episodes turn up for free i’ll check them out) and the first episodes of DAVINCI’S DEMONS and AMERICAN GODS (didn’t like either one). So, for giving me the chance to check out these shows, with a minimum of commercial interruptions (CRACKLE take notes) ROKU makes it on this list. And finally…
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TUBI TV- These guys must pay attention to my viewing preferences, because they have a huge assortment of BIG FOOT movies. I’ve seen most of them, but I appreciate these films being available, and did catch up with a couple I have not seen before; 2017’s THE HUNTING (an interesting but flawed “monster in the woods” movie with a twist) and the un-watchably annoying and badly acted BIGFOOT COUNTRY and the simply awful THE MOTH. But I liked being able to at least check these movies out. And what I love about TUBI is they do not drown you in ads, you get to watch a good chunk of the movie before they interrupt it with 2 or 3 ads (not 6 ads, every few minutes, or every-time you try to rewind or fast forward… CRACKLE looking at you!!!)
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That brings us to our WORST free streaning channel of the 48th week of 2019. It is hands down as if you could not guess…
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CRACKLE
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CRACKLE – the shame of it is… they actually have content worth watching, that is not available on other channels. But their egregious overuse of advertising makes the channel unwatchable. I fool you not, it is like 6 ads, before they start the program, then 6 ads seemingly every 10 minutes or less. And you get ads immediately if you need to fast-forward or rewind. It adds up to more ads than actual runningtime of the movie, almost. I could not make it through 15 minutes of being on CRACKLE. Just not worth my time… at all. Hands down the worst streaming channel of week 48.
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Best Knives, Multitools of 2019!!! Great Gifts to give the Outdoors Person or Working Person this Holiday Season!
Best Knives, Multitools of 2019!!! Great Gifts to give the Outdoors Person or Working Person this Holiday Season! PT 1 of 3!
So yeah folks I’ve become a multi-tool, knife connoisseur in the last year.
Here then is, in my opinion, the best knives, best bang for your buck knives, for the outdoors person, tech, collector head, knife person out there, that are still available for purchase in 2019.
I think the following, are GREAT gifts, if you know you have a knife multi-tool user to shop for. I OWN some of these knives, and it is my hope to eventually own them all.
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Now without further ado, the HEROIC TIMES best knives and multi-tools of 2019!
KERSHAW: There are a lot of new fancy companies on the knife stage today. But long before these ‘late-comers’ and the fad of gentleman folders, and ‘drop closed’ blades, and ‘tip-up’ carry snobs, you had Kershaw, making dependable working knives, for hard working people.
I’ve had a Kershaw Clash for years, half-serrated, assisted open, tip-down carry. It was then and remains now, the gold standard for working knives at the $30 price point. Everyone should have a couple KERSHAW Clash beater knives hanging around for that package to be opened, or seat-belt or tie-wrap to cut through. Hell I’ve used mine to strip cables in a pinch. It is a workhorse, a must have when dependability is all.
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Okay, next up is…
KUBEY Folding Knife Darknight KU003 with Tanto Point D2 Steel and G10 Handle, Ball Bearing Flip and Liner Lock Mechanism, for Outdoor Hunting and Camping
At the $20 mark this particular KUBEY knife is a no-brainer of a purchase. Almost sold out, get yours now! Honorable mention to the KUBEY KU046TI Titanium Flipper! Currently on sale for $40. I’m a pocket clip guy. I love a well designed pocket clip, and this TITANIUM FLIPPER, hits all the right marks.
And get the honorable mention… HERE!
I could never pay over $200 for a pocket knife,when for a FRACTION of that there are companies like Harnds producing pocket knives like the TALISMAN. Just as a collectible, as a work of art, it is worth the incredibly low $36 price tag. Add to that it is a high quality functional, capable, brilliantly milled tool and it is simply a must own.
Stepping up quite a bit, close to my 2 bills limit, is this STUNNER of a knife, the Titanium KIZER T1. WoW!. At a $150 it is really a big step up, and is it really a $100 better than the above Harnds and Kubey? To be honest no, I would be MUCH happier with this knife around the $100 mark. But man, you talk about a well reviewed, drool inducing knife, this is it. If you have the funds to kick out for this knife, the person who gets it, whether yourself or a gift… WILL LOVE IT! It is definitely one that is calling to me, and I’m going to have to add to my collection sooner rather than later.
It is absolutely a work of art. Look how brilliantly milled that pocket clip is! Odd the things that does it for us collectors. But yep, if you likewise find it a must own, get yours here!
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