MTOD: I've Pulled the Plug

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura) 04/19/2020 at 08:28 • Filed to: None

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MTOD just isn’t any fun any more. A year or two ago, it was fun and a little quaint. Now MTOD is chock full of cookie cutter, totally redundant programming. The shows that drew me in initially, Roadkill and Roadkill garage, are on a rear burner these days and Roadkill itself doesn’t do anything but destroy expensive parts and ruin cars. I’m out.

Watching Bad Obsession Motor Sport, Project Binky, instead.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/19/2020 at 08:35

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Rusty has folded...

Under_Score > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/19/2020 at 08:42

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Remember when they were free on YouTube? Same.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/19/2020 at 08:55

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i never signed up to the channel

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/19/2020 at 09:10

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I should probably do the same, and pretty much for the same reasons. There’s so much other good stuff out there that it doesn’t make a lot of sense to subscribe for the occasional viewing I do now, particularly when I get most of the content through my TV provider (albeit with commercials). I’ll probably cancel this and look at what other subscriptions I have that I’m not using, like Apple Music, and have enough to go commercial free on YouTube.

I have been streaming music from Google, commercial free, just by mentioning an artist to my smart speaker. The mixes are pretty good and I’ve learned of some music and artists I wasn’t familiar with by doing this.  Yeah, it’s not as flexible as other services and usually has the same Playlist every time, but did I mention the commercials and the price?

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/19/2020 at 09:11

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I just watched a Dirt Every Day that was pretty good they built a bobbed, and boat sided humvee and tested to against a side by side. It was really just an ad for the new Polaris RZR but it was entertaining, and the truck they built was cool. But it also follows the same formula as all their other episodes. Rush through Building thing, go test it, probably fail. That does get boring after awhile.

Just Jeepin' > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/19/2020 at 09:18

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I feel like I should re-subscribe: I really miss Dirthead Dave & Fred. It’s just hard to justify that much each month for one (well, two) shows.

On the other hand, it’s roughly one Big Mac meal , so I should stop whining.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media 04/19/2020 at 09:52

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Yup; they lost me.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Under_Score 04/19/2020 at 09:53

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Not only that, but the original quaint content has drowned in a see of crap with dull, shallow, vulgar people. And it’s all the same, all over produced. And in the surge of the past few months, the original shows Roadkill, Roadkill Garage and Hot Rod Garage have all but disappeared.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > pip bip - choose Corrour 04/19/2020 at 09:55

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I did in order to have access to Roadkill and Roadkill Garage and, later, Hot Rod Garage, when each episode got released. Now, those original shows are lost and buried.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 04/19/2020 at 09:56

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I’m getting good ROI from Spotify. My entire family uses it. Spotify has changed my music listening life. Significantly.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 04/19/2020 at 09:58

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I’m not an off roader, but I’ve watched a few episodes of DED and it’s okay. But yeah, rush through the build and whatever.

Project Binky has been refreshing. And the hauler they’re building, Escargot.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Just Jeepin' 04/19/2020 at 09:59

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One Big Mac

I felt the same, initially, when they were smaller. But the tidbits that I subscribed for are gone, and I get literally nothing from all the rest. And I subscribe to lots of other things that return much more value.

Just Jeepin' > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/19/2020 at 10:05

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Yeah, I admit I didn’t look around much, but nothing else other than Freibu rger occasionally talking about something Jeep-related ever struck me as interesting.

Kiltedpadre > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/19/2020 at 10:05

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It has definitely lost a lot of the appeal that it originally had. I miss the days on Roadkill of “this is what we’ve got, and we need to make it work.” Now it’s “we bought this old, dirty car, and we’ll see what happens when we throw $12,000 worth of free parts at it.”

I still enjoy Dirt Everyday and Hot Rod garage, but new episodes of the main shows that appealed to me are getting to be awfully too few and far between. 

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Kiltedpadre 04/19/2020 at 10:16

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Haven't seen a new HRG episode in two months and the last one was boring and irrelevant.

Poor_Sh > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/19/2020 at 10:23

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I did the $2 per month for a year deal. So I paid $24 for 2020 and it’s there if I want it or not. They had some live streams of races when they happened which was nice and I watch some crazy past truck racing and such. Their live stream was awful quality though lol

sn4cktimes > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/19/2020 at 11:54

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That’s too bad. HRG was the only youtube era show from MT I watched.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > sn4cktimes 04/19/2020 at 11:58

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I’m wondering if Tony quit. Just a hunch.

sn4cktimes > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/19/2020 at 12:01

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Tony was the reason I watched. Most car show personalities annoy me. They come off “all knowing” in a preachy way, or seem to be bumbling idiots. If I wanna watch a bumbling idiot I can just take my own ass to my garage and get at it. Tony just seemed pleasant. 

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > sn4cktimes 04/19/2020 at 12:11

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He was annoying early on, younger, and needing to prove himself. But I didn’t mind him and he had a great set of skills. Freiberger has gotten to be more jerky. Finnegan is off doing his own thing. My favorite personality has been Steve Dulcich.

Victorinoo > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/19/2020 at 13:31

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They are running a $1 a month promotion right now. Might be worth it to signup now 

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Victorinoo 04/19/2020 at 13:41

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I’d expect them to require me to be a new customer. But I’m not watching MTOD at all these days. I’m voting with my feet.

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/19/2020 at 14:34

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For me, it was the removal of the old vintage racing backlogs as well as the stacks of old content they seemed to excise for more generic car building shows. 

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 04/19/2020 at 16:02

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It’s disappointing. Plus, for me, all of that content has a certain rude vibe that I find offputting.

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/19/2020 at 16:10

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It’d be fine if any of them did anything different, but the basic formula of “Middle aged white men with tattoos and shitty haircuts drop V8s into things and rev motors” has been done and redone so many times with so little variation that I just can’t possibly care about any of them. I mean, how many times can you say “We know you liked gas monkey garage despite all logic saying you shouldn’t so let’s do it again and change NOTHING!” before you realize no one actually liked GMG to begin with?!?!?

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 04/19/2020 at 17:18

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Make a rat rod . And I’m sure the audience will appreciate it if I am rude.

Have you checked out Project Binky? Bad Obsession Motorsports on YouTube? Please do, if you haven’t yet.

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/19/2020 at 18:35

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Yeeeeaaahhhh......I have, and to keep it short, I find that series boring and overdrawn. It’s neat, but I can’t sit through a single episode without pausing, opening a new tab, and forgetting that I started it. 

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 04/19/2020 at 20:26

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That’s fair. I nod off a bit sometimes as well while Nick fabricates ridiculous  solutions to things. But I also learn a lot and get a lot of ideas from them. What strikes you as overdrawn, I’d probably describe as thorough and consistent and, if I’m honest, quite compelling for exactly that reason. They capture the experience of wrenching and fabricating in a very authentic way. Unlike the showmen on MTOD.