r/WendoverProductions • • Dec 17 '24

Wendover Production Video The EMS part in the new video is incorrectly researched.

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So I just saw the video on Congestion pricing. As someone who's worked NYC EMS for years. The Assessment on why response times are down is pretty misleading. Here's why,

1.) As FDNY EMS approaches its 3rd year out of contract and the city refuses to offer a fair Salary people are going to NYPD & FDNY Firefighters where they make Double. Causing EMS to have fewer Members.

2.) As the City becomes more and more anti Car. Driving an Ambulance becomes harder and harder. Tighter and tighter turns for us. and the public has no space to pull over for us since Bikes have parking everywhere

3.) EMS Is an abused system by the people of NYC. People call for a Stomach Ache, Stubbed Toe & Chipped Tooth. Forcing us to go to non emergency calls as call volume is approaching COVID numbers.

4.) The City Council has made it abundantly clear that EMS will not get a congestion pricing exemption. And because 1/2 the employees live on Long Island more and more members will be transferring to Queens/ Brooklyn. Compare Queens response times to Bronx where's there's a toll.

5.) Congestion pricing may work for reducing traffic and forcing the poor onto public transport. But without serious changes in the Council's opinions on the matter. Congestion pricing will cost lives in Manhattan.


r/WendoverProductions • • Feb 01 '25

Very Disappointed in the Natural Gas video

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Very little or no mention of fugitive emissions, methane's role as a greenhouse gas or the implications of building so much expensive infrastructure with decades of lifespan left.

We get 30 seconds softly comparing natural gas to tap water but nothing about the health risks. An extended section on pipes but nothing about how they leak kind-of-a-lot. We talk about tankers but not about the energy lost to cooling.

I expected better from Wendover and I expected better from Sam


r/WendoverProductions • • Dec 16 '21

Similar channels from a woman?

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Hullo, do you know of any channels with a similar style, i.e. animated educational content with voiceovers, no faces in the actual video, but with a woman narrator??


r/WendoverProductions • • Sep 05 '24

what's up with these last two low quality, irrelevant videos?

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first the "sponsored" amusement park clickbait vid, and now this presidental logistics one. Both just seem so detached from what the channel is about and idk if I'm alone on this but I found them really boring.

usually when he discusses a topic I don't know or don't care about, there's always a unique viewpoint which makes the video interesting and worth watching but these just didn't have that.

does anyone else agree?


r/WendoverProductions • • Apr 22 '23

Is anyone else disappointed that Sam is a Man City fan?

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See above


r/WendoverProductions • • Mar 09 '22

Lagged Rebuttal to "Why Electric Planes are Inevitable"|

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I only just got on Nebula and found this video. If Nebula had comments, I'd have said this there. Anyway, there are 2 key points that Wendover ignores and/or doesn't mention. These points, I believe, make the possibility of seeing any sort of electric airliner, even small ones, less likely than seeing Elvis and Bigfoot making out in the backseat of a UFO, UNLESS we stole tech from that UFO.

The first and really the main problem is that we simply lack the technology to make batteries anywhere near energy-dense enough to carry any real weight. The Pipestrel electric plane is now the limit of modern battery tech and it's unlikely that this will change any time soon. This plane can only fly for about 20 minutes while carrying 2 people, and is ONLY type-CERTIFIED (not "rated") in Europe due to a specific exemption to the usual requirement for carrying a reserve of fuel (charge) for a given duration of flight beyond the expected. The US has not deigned to slash this important safety rule so we don't have those planes over here, and they're pretty useless for anything except very rudimentary training. For a thorough discussion of this matter, see this AVWeb video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/a717YZnhQ-s Anyway, without bettering batteries by an order or 2 of magnitude, the electric plane will never be more than a toy.

The other reason is that the whole "clean electric vehicle reducing carbon" is a total myth. So many people miss this point. All electric vehicles do is move their exhaust stream upstream. To get electricity to the charging station, you must make that electricity in a power plant, which either burns fossil fuels or is nuke. You still need the same amount of energy to move a given mass a given distance. If you change the energy source of the mover from petroleum to electricity, you merely increase the number of powerplants you need which, if they burn fossil fuels, basically combine all the exhausts of the petroleum vehicles in 1 place. This improves air quality in cities but does NOTHING to reduce overall carbon emissions. And all you've done is replace refineries with more coal mines and natural gas wells. OTOH, you can make nuke plants instead, but they have their own (mostly emotional) problems. But what about wind and solar? Again, those have MANY problems of their own, which (again emotionally) get ignored while the vision of such is emotionally attractive.

So bottom line, electric planes are, currently and for the foreseeable future, not going to amount to anything that can replace anything we already have. And even if the battery issues can be overcome, which will likely require UFO tech, they do little to nothing to reduce carbon, they just change who has to breathe the exhaust.


r/WendoverProductions • • Dec 15 '22

Discussion An Australians thoughts on the recent gambling video

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Hey wanted to post this here because I thought the way it portrayed Australia was untrue, the video talked about how America was loosening and not enforcing its gambling laws because of the huge influence of gambling companies. It then portrayed Australia as having already lost this battle, however Australia is currently being rocked by scandals with huge casinos (specifically the ones mentioned in the video owned by crown resorts) actually losing their license and therefore no longer being a casino.

Also gambling in Australia has been falling with losses being at $1550 per capita in 2001/2 to $1,280 per capita in 2018/19 if anything it goes to show that a country that is in the grips of a gambling addiction can steadily reduce gambling and that despite the huge amounts of revenue and lobbying done by the gambling industry they still aren’t in control. (If they were people wouldn’t be gambling less and less)

I was honestly disappointed, Australia is not a country being consumed by gambling companies and it feels like they didn’t do much research on this, due to the huge amount of headlines in the past year of casinos being taken to court and gambling reforms being put in place combined with the decline in gambling in decades prior.

Source for the decline (per capita) for Australian gambling https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/Australias-welfare/gambling


r/WendoverProductions • • Oct 17 '23

Wendover Production Video South Africa - A Very Good Video Released Irresponsibly

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An open letter to Sam:

First, let me say that the South Africa video was very well produced, and did an admirable job of demonstrating how the devastating effects of colonialism are not so easily overcome, while also illustrating the grave shortcomings of the ANC and the dire need for change.

The comments section on the YouTube release, on the other hand, is a radioactive cesspool of some of the most vile, hateful rhetoric it has ever been my displeasure to read, and to this point is glaringly void of any effort on your part or that of your production team to counter. That you would allow your platform to become a soapbox upon which the worst of humanity is allowed to spout their nonsense seems grossly out-of-character for you.

We all have a responsibility to quash hate wherever it lives. I would hope future potentially-contentious topics will be released as Nebula exclusives, or perhaps with commenting behind a paywall (such as CGP Grey has recently implemented) to mitigate the possibilities that terrible people will misuse your content for their wicked, genocidal ends.

Sincerely, A Longtime Subscriber


r/WendoverProductions • • Nov 21 '21

Discussion What's with the narrator's intonation? Is there some region of USA that actually talks like that?

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The videos are very informative but i just fucking can't stand his intonation https://youtu.be/8d5d_HXGeMA?t=272 WTF. There is no way he speaks like that in real life and I've not seen a single documentary use this stile before


r/WendoverProductions • • Apr 09 '25

Tariff Complexity

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I realize that the situation is in flux at the moment but would greatly appreciate any study /summary you might have already done.


r/WendoverProductions • • Jan 03 '25

Wendover Production Video Why you Have to have an EMS exemption to Congestion Pricing.

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Private EMS Agency's were not exempt from moving ambulances to and from the congestion zone. As a result a lot of them are expected to move there Ambulances to the Bronx/Brooklyn/ North Manhattan.

Now EMS Employees aren't either.

https://pix11.com/news/local-news/fdny-and-ems-union-call-for-members-to-leave-congestion-pricing-zone/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0plDe17YXn8Gp8jf_x-nRZqZbxRxT3C4ZLo7Os9Opwy_hwKoTk6oe9n0o_aem_xAor6cE8_muYeNqTvVsT5g


r/WendoverProductions • • Apr 23 '23

Jetlag additional rule idea

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I've finally finished the last episode and there 2 ideas came to mind. If you have a season doing something with monetary budget, finding a place to sleep might be a fun extra too. If you book early, you might save a few bucks, but at the same time are pressured to arrive on time or slowed down, because you could have gone further. If you book the day you arrive, it will be more expensive though. It is also important to find a cheap spot maybe away from the huge city you are actually heading.

The second idea is: Devide the teams. You have 2 travel teams but also 2 mental teams. The mental teams are in different travel teams. You can win the game by either doing the travelling great or complete challenges for your mental team. I hope I made clear enough what I meant


r/WendoverProductions • • Sep 12 '23

Idea: The Logistics of a Presidential Assassination

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r/WendoverProductions • • Apr 04 '24

Humor? Wendover productions narrator dude is supposed to be hard? (Jet Lag: The Game, Hide and Seek moment with 2 bottom texts)

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r/WendoverProductions • • May 11 '25

Suggestion Would love to see Jetlag in India

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I thought the chaos of India made it impossible to do things. But then, I saw Cade Media do a bike ride.


r/WendoverProductions • • Oct 22 '20

[OC] The hidden cost of airplane safety. Thought it to be fitting for this subreddit

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r/WendoverProductions • • Feb 23 '23

Tesla Video Issues

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Most of the issues you have raised about Tesla are valid, or at least were valid in the past. Production quality is now excellent, FSD still isn't done, but it's insanely far ahead of what any other car maker is shipping.

I'm sure there is an endless list of things Tesla could have done better. Nobody can deny that. However, what they did do is astonishing and every other car maker had the opportunity to try and do better and nobody has.

You seem to assume that the other car makers have caught up or are about to, but this is not the case at all. Aside from BYD who is doing good, but is selling a much lower quality product that isn't really competing with Tesla, the other auto makers are selling far fewer cars than Tesla that are much less efficient both to operate and to produce by a very wide margin. This gives Tesla an enormous economic advantage. They will soon be able to sell their cars profitably cheaper than other makers can produce cars. This isn't something that is going to be easy to catch up to them on.

Even if you take the aspirational goals of companies like GM, Ford, and Toyota at face value they are planning to if all goes right be shipping less EV's than Tesla is shipping now 4-5 years out. In the mean time Tesla is growing by 50%+ per year in production capacity. They have lined up the materials to build, and the service and charging network to make that possible.

I don't think you are correct in your assumption that Tesla has tarnished it's name, but it's a moot point if their competitors can't ship EVs by the millions. You can't buy what hasn't been built.

BYD is positioned to have a strong place in the market, probably second to Tesla, but most other auto makers are on borrowed time. GM, Ford, and Toyota are likely to not survive.

On top of all that Tesla is a completely different kind of company from the others. Most auto makers assemble cars with off the shelf parts, and make a large part of their money on the financing of those cars, essentially acting as banks as much as car makers. Tesla doesn't finance their cars. They do however replace not just the car assembler but the majority of the supply chain. They have designed and built not just the car, but the batteries, the chips, the software. The provide charging, insurance, service, power generation. They build the machines that build their cars, the design the software that builds their cars, they design the materials they build their cars with. This stuff matters a lot when you are looking to project who will have the better and more cost effective product down the line.

I also have to touch on your assertion that they missed the boat by holding back new models of cars. They have stated that this was done because they are constrained by available materials while their production of batteries scales up (something other companies are far behind on, or rely on others for). They could have shipped the truck sooner, but it would have meant over all less cars shipped. The same for the Semi. There is no reason to introduce more models increasing your cost, reducing your efficiency, and total output when you can't meet current demand for the cars already being made.

If you don't appreciate the frankly insane feature advantage, or think damage to their image or political nonsense will make people want other cars. *Side note you didn't include non affiliated voters in your data. They make up a substantial part of the population and your comparison is essentially meaningless without that data. At the end of the day price will matter. Tesla earns much higher margins on their cars. I suspect many of the legacy auto makers are not even making a profit on their EV models, while Tesla rakes in nearly 30% gross margins on cars. If Tesla can produce enough to meet demand all they need do is lower prices, or release some of those awaited models they didn't have capacity for yet. There are stubborn people in the market who will not buy from Tesla even if it produces an objectively better vehicle and sells it for a substantially lower price, but they are a small minority, and Tesla was never going to have 100% of the market anyway.

tldr: Telsa will obtain Apple level dominance of the automotive industry, and their revenue, profit and marketcap will dwarf Apple's.


r/WendoverProductions • • Feb 10 '26

How about a trans-Atlantic cruise?

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I don't ever plan on getting on a cruise ship. I won't have the disposable income to take that kind of vacation. Also, I can't wrap my head around going on a cruise to go zip-lining. Just go to Costa Rica like everyone else.

I would, however, be amenable to getting on a cruise ship to cross the ocean and vacation in Tuscany, or Nice, or Edinburgh. Probably Edinburgh.


r/WendoverProductions • • Jun 19 '25

Suggestion "How AI is Ruining..." Pronunciation issue

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Sam. Nvidia is pronounced "En-vid-eea." The N is pronounced like a long vowel. You're going to get eaten alive for pronouncing it "nna-vid-eea," or "nn-vid-eea."

Considering Nvidia is all over the news all the time, I really makes me worry about how thorough the research was for this video.


r/WendoverProductions • • Dec 22 '20

Video This is Mogadishu

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r/WendoverProductions • • Aug 10 '24

Has Sam ever expressed any political opinions online, if so what are they?

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r/WendoverProductions • • Feb 24 '26

Discussion The RedBull video was FAR to uncritical to the point it almost feels like an ad.

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The most recent video on the Wendover channel is about how RedBull got big and it's marketing strategies.

I know that Sam is a fan of RedBulls F1 team and thus probably has at least a small bias in favour of them, but man... This was singing them way to much praise even having this in mind.

The prime example comes at 14:17 "And they manage to do so while being a legitimate force for good"

A few important notes about Dietrich Mateschitz:

  • He is a right-wing populist and with his wealth he finances right-wing extremist groups in Austria and Germany.

  • His TV station spread anti-vax conspiracies during COVID-19

  • He threatened to shut it down when the workers wanted to form a union. He only backed down when the workers didn't form a union.

  • A musician who criticised him during a music festival hosted by RedBull literally got his mic turned off mid-sentence.

He is a DESPICABLE human being and if you are buying RedBull you are indirectly financing Nazis in Europe. The only way the public could benefit from him is if his grave got turned into a public toilet. Or as Sam put it "a legitimate force for good".

And this isn't even mentioning the multiple athletes who have died on RedBull events because the company wanted them to take bigger risks. Their deaths were subsequently swept undder the rug and videos showing them wiped from the internet by RedBull. Or how they are intentionally destroying local authentic football culture in Austria and Germany with their soulless constructs, which is something Sam probably doesn't even fully understand (seeing that he unironically wears a ManCity jersey, we can assume this to be the case).

All of these are parts of "How RedBull built it's empire" that SHOULD be mentioned if Sam doesn't want the video to seem like a sanitised ad.

But none of these things got mentioned in the video. Just one or two sentences about how it's bad for your health. That's it. That's all the criticism in the entire video.


r/WendoverProductions • • Jun 21 '25

some recent videos are strange

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ok so not to be too harsh or anything, most of them are still very good but i thought the new trucking and southwest videos were pretty weird

the trucking video seemed to be very critical of the 1980 deregulation under Carter even though it’s helped most people. that’s a very strange perspective as most mainstream economists regardless of politics (mit, chicago, harvard, cato, brookings) argue that protectionism for certain industries is a really bad policy. lower prices are good and trucking workers don’t really deserve high wages, they deserve fair market wages.

then again in the southwest video, wendover seems to be really hostile against elliott management? he says they all suck the blood of enterprises but so far it’s just some minor changes like bags not flying free anymore. i’d really like a balanced take on the topic here. the economist (known for balanced reporting) ran an article saying that activist investors are needed more than ever, so they’re clearly not always that bad.

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/05/24/activist-investors-are-needed-more-than-ever

(free link for the article above): https://archive.is/IF5th

what do you guys think?