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Over quarter of a century ago I clerked for our State's highest appellate court.

My co-clerk at the time once remarked that "our penchant for celebrating stupidity & ignorance is going to do us in."

Boy was he right.

Why can't we have a channel/show which highlights the dedication and skill of a person who spends 7000K hours in his garage/hangar building an RV and the reward that follows?

Guess that isn't chuckle-worthy.

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Robert,

Your co-clerk made a good point except I'm not worried. "We" have survived stupidity and depravity for a long time. One of my favorite examples was of the notorious bank robbers/murderers, Bonnie and Clyde. Ten thousand people came to gawk at Clyde's funereal, forty thousand at Bonnie's. Bonnie, during her thankfully brief public life, inspired wide spread copy cat hair styles and dress among young women.

I have long ago learned how to deal with the ignorance of "the public": expect the worst.

I am never disappointed.

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He and TRW could (possibly) legally make a fortune setting stuff on fire!


You are saying that TRW could do it legally? That would likely be a first.

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I have long ago learned how to deal with the ignorance of "the public": expect the worst.

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Point taken.

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We have some content creators on BT who could give the details about how Youtube money happens, but I seriously doubt this guy made any 100k on this video.

Wanton destruction is an immature, depraved form of entertainment. This thing is like a snuff film.


Yeah, it's not going to make $100k...he only makes a decent annual amount due to putting out multiple videos a week. So far, best guess is that it made around $5-8k, and based on his typical content, it'll probably continue up to around $15k or so. His "driving in the ocean" video was his most popular by far, and that's estimated somewhere around $50-70k so far.

Assuming he got the plane fairly cheap (ie, was wings-off sitting in a hangar, yours for $10k), that's still $5k profit for that week. Again, I don't like it, but it is the nature of "entertainment" - there's clearly an audience for it. As others have mentioned, it's nothing "new", people have been enamored with odd stuff for eons. And luckily there's also equally-if-not-more popular channels that do productive/creative things like Mark Rober and Smarter Every Day.

It doesn't look to be overly popular so far, either, so guessing he won't be doing a round two with airplanes.

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I don't know what's worse, that Jackasses like this make a killing by making these stupid videos, or that people find this entertaining.

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I don't know what's worse, that Jackasses like this make a killing by making these stupid videos, or that people find this entertaining.

Why not both? :shrug:


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The video certainly made me cringe, and it isn't what I see as entertaining.

However, I do wonder how many folks that have negative opinions about this video thought the "Dukes of Hazard" TV show was great...


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The "Dukes of Hazard" didn't take someone's (probably years worth) of work & destroy it just to destroy it.

There is a difference.

And I liked "Dukes of Hazard", especially Daisy. I can't see comparing the two, wrecking a plane to Daisy's shorts???? Really?

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How many perfectly good cars did they destroy filming the jump scenes!?


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Some sources claim they destroyed over 300 Dodge Chargers making the Dukes of Hazzard. Mostly bent frames. I loved that show but I guess it's a fair comparison. I mean, technically it had a plot but I just wanted to see the General jump a chasm and outrun Roscoe.


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How many perfectly good cars did they destroy filming the jump scenes!?

Probably no antiques.


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Does someone know the history of this particular airplane? Because I've seen a few airplanes that were so far gone that there wasn't anything left of value. I don't know anything about Taylorcraft, but isn't it possible the spar was shot, wood rotted, sat outside for the last 20 years without running the engine that was at TBO when it was parked?


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How many perfectly good cars did they destroy filming the jump scenes!?

Probably no antiques.


Exactly. Back then, those were just old muscle cars. And they made something like 200,000 of them.

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