I have watched the “Crushing Crunchy & Soft Things by Car! Experiment: Car vs Tower Kumquat” video from the Experiment with Everythings YouTube channel:

In this video, a car tire drives over a variety of objects. I think the objects include steel wool, cigarettes, pop cans, squeaky rubber pig toys, a computer keyboard, a bowl of what looks like nuts, various foods, some plastic toys, ice cream cones, a ceramic coffee mug, a compact fluorescent lamp, and other items that I couldn’t always identify.

I think that this was an entertaining video, although I wouldn’t try this at home, as it looks like it could potentially be dangerous and it looks like it could also make a big mess!

• Karl

There’s a new video that Steve Looker of the Lookner YouTube channel has created live, entitled “LIVE: I Clean My Apartment”:

As the title of the video suggests, in this live stream recording Steve does some basic cleaning of his apartment, while interacting with viewers of the stream. Since he appears to be filming it with his cell phone’s camera, and not using a device like a gimbal, there is a lot of motion and movement, which some viewers might find to be annoying. I found that I got used to it as the video went on.

While preparing to clean, he ends up giving a brief tour of his 1-bedroom apartment, showing the layout of the entry way, the kitchen area, the living room area that he also uses as a work area and and as a bedroom, the location of the room he uses as the studio for his Agenda-Free TV YouTube channel, and the apartment’s bathroom that is off to the side.

The first cleaning he does is with his vacuum, starting in his kitchen and entry areas. While cleaning, he stops now and then to talk about some of the items he owns, including some padded floor mats he has in his kitchen, his cutting board, a clothes drying rack, his foyer rug, and even the vacuum itself. He also talks about how he feels that having an automatic dishwasher in an apartment is unnecessary, because one can just wash their dishes by hand after using them.

He moves on to vacuuming under his bed and part of his living room area, before moving over to vacuum the bathroom floor and even the bathroom ceiling fan cover as suggested by a viewer. Somebody in the chat also suggested that he get some house plants, but he replies that he doesn’t like extra things in his apartment, and prefers things that have a practical purpose. He also does some more vacuuming near his desk in the rest of the living room area of his apartment.

Steve uses microfiber cleaning cloths to wipe down various surfaces in his bathroom. While in the bathroom he talks about how he wears a dental retainer, and even lost it in a rental car at one point and had to get it shipped back to him. He also uses the microfiber cloths to wipe down surfaces in his kitchen and his desk.

While in the kitchen area, Steve talks about his kitchen video streaming setup. He had used his cell phone for recording previous videos, but to get higher quality video he’s planning to get a long USB extension cable so he can use his webcam in the kitchen instead, with it hooked up to his computer that’s over in his living room past his bed. He wraps up the video with some more interaction with the viewers in the live chat.

This might not be the most exciting video, but at least he does end up with a cleaner apartment by the end of it. It also gives the audience a better idea about the layout of the apartment, which might not have been as clear previously when he had primarily filmed in just the kitchen or just at his desk work area.

• Karl

Steve Lookner has posted a live stream video entitled “This Is Driving Me CRAZY” to his relatively new Lookner channel on YouTube:

In this video, Steve is using his phone to record a live stream from the streets of Atlanta near his apartment. He’s filming from the sidewalk near an in-progress building construction site, and shows us some large metal plates that have been put over holes that have been excavated into the road.

When cars and other vehicles drive over the plates, it can sometimes make loud thumping or thudding noises. It doesn’t happen for every vehicle that drives over the plate, but it does happen often enough and it’s loud enough for Steve to find the noises to be very annoying. It can apparently happen all day and all night.

He explains how he has tried to contact city officials to try to get the problem dealt with, but he has not yet had any luck actually getting it fixed. He thinks it might take months before it’s resolved. To try to limit the impact of the noise on his everyday life, Steve mentions that he uses white noise machines.

I can definitely see how he could find those noises to be disruptive and annoying. They did happen often enough while he was filming his live stream, which was a few seconds shy of 30 minutes long. Good luck with this problem, Steve!

• Karl

I just watched the “Crushing Crunchy & Soft Things by Car! Experiment: Car vs Snack” video from the Experiment with Everythings YouTube channel:

In this video a car drives over, as far as I can tell, things like oranges, a pineapple. a ceramic figurine, a slightly opened drink bottle, a container of instant soup, drink boxes, plastic tools, light bulbs, pottery, and other items.

I wouldn’t try this at home because of the risk of injury, as well as the mess it can make! Some of the crushed food makes a big mess!

• Karl

Steve Lookner has a new live stream video on his Lookner channel on YouTube entitled “My Housing Dilemma”:

He’s speaking from the kitchen of his apartment about his housing situation, telling us that he worries about it a lot. While he says he loves doing Agenda-Free TV, there isn’t always breaking news happening. This causes him to be anxious on days when there isn’t breaking news, as he’s then not doing streams, which means he isn’t getting donations from the viewers, which means that he’s not making money. He explains that he lives in Midtown Atlanta, and pays “significant” rent.

Steve talks about how for the fix six months of Agenda-Free TV, he lived in Roswell, Georgia, just north of Atlanta. But he found it too quiet there, and felt too isolated. He also had to drive from his apartment complex to go anywhere.

So he decided to take one year to live in the city, to see how it would work. He has found it more convenient. There’s a gym in the apartment building he lives in, for example, that allows him to work out but still get back to broadcasting on Agenda-Free TV quickly if there is breaking news. Groceries and food are also quicker to get, especially on busy news days. He says the first year is over, and he has just renewed the lease for his apartment in Midtown Atlanta, and now he has to decide what to do.

Steve says he has no anxiety on days with breaking news, but he finds himself getting anxious on other days. He wonders if he should cover more stories, or whether or not he should move somewhere cheaper. He could move somewhere where it’s very cheap to live, but he needs high speed fiber Internet and it’s not always available in some communities. He also needs to be able to stay close by, so he can get on Agenda-Free TV quickly if there is breaking news. He talks about living in Opelika, Alabama for a year. He found it nice, but also too quiet. He also points out that he needs to be in a building with solid walls, so his broadcasting and work doesn’t disturb his neighbors, and he doesn’t want to be able to hear them, either.

This leads to the question he’s facing: should he leave Atlanta for somewhere cheaper, to help with the anxiety and worry about not making money on slow news days?

Somebody in the live chat suggested that he should move to Hawaii. Steve says that his family is in Boston, so he doesn’t want to be too far away from them. He also has some doubts about the speed of the Internet there, as well as how to get his possessions out there if he were to move there. Orlando is also suggested as an option.

Steve mentions that there are other complicating factors. One is that 2020 is an election year in the US. His current Agenda-Free TV studio setup works great, and he thinks it’s risky to move because things might not work as well. He’s also not sure what he’ll be doing in a year.

He says he had considered ignoring the temperature requirement, and moving somewhere very cheap, like Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The Internet download speeds there are fast, but he thought the upload speeds would be too slow for the work he does. Steve talks about how he’s never owned a property, as he’s always moved around a lot and never knew where he was going to be the next year.

Chattanooga comes up as a possible place to move to. Steve says he checked it out before renewing his lease. It apparently has very good Internet, but he also says it seemed too quiet on a weekday when he visited.

Steve ends up cutting the stream short because of a breaking news story that he wants to cover on Agenda-Free TV.

I think that this housing situation is a complex problem to deal with. There are a lot of factors involved that may not be as important for somebody who works in a separate office or building, for example, or for somebody who doesn’t have the high speed Internet requirement that Steve has. Although it’s a short stream, it sure gave me a lot to think about and to consider. I hope that Steve is able to find some arrangement that works, so that he can continue to create Agenda-Free TV and Lookner channel content.

• Karl