Things are changing (but it's not that scary)!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- As 2022 winds down, I've been reflecting on where I've been, where I am, and where I'm going with these videos, and I've come to realize... it's time for a bit of change.
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I massively appreciate your content. Too many channels are producing more but lower quality videos. I far prefer fewer, but well researched and edited vids. As someone living in southern England, content like this is a window into another world for me.
Thank you so much for such a kind comment! It really is meaningful. There definitely is pressure to always be making and doing more with online video, so I appreciate the support as I'm intentionally doing the opposite. 🙂
Hi, I just found your channel a few days ago. I’m a recent return resident of Michigan (left for Hollywood after college…) if you’re ever near Ann Arbor, I’d love to talk and contribute what I can to help. I’m impressed with your communication skills!
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Thank you for telling cool stories about where we live. Not many people talk about Michigan natural history. Can’t wait to see what’s in store for 2023.
I discovered you only in the last week. I find you to be a wonderful, warm pick-me-up when I wake up or at the end the day. Your enthusiasm and interest is genuine, unpretentious, and pretty incredible. I'm in California and have no direct connection to Michigan, but you draw me in. Regardless of how many may see your videos, I think I speak for others in telling you that making even one person feel happier and more informed is reason enough to keep up the good work! It seems that topics I wouldn't think I might find that interesting take me on new paths. Until just yesterday, I never considered snow shoe adventures, but now you have me thinking about a snow trip this winter! Love the wall backdrop, too! Stay outta trouble!
Hello from West Michigan (Lower Peninsula). Looking forward to watching more videos. Love you energy and excitement about learning and sharing new things.
Just saw your Sudbury Impact video. Learned a lot and enjoyed it very much. I like your conversational style. I also enjoyed the "behind the curtains" elements of your production. For me, it's very engaging and instructive.
Thank you. Best wishes.
Just found you. Watched a bunch of your vides. Great Channel! You have great knowledge, boundless energy and a great smile!
UM geology grad here (‘79)… I enjoy your videos, in particular the Quincy Mine content (my father grew up ten miles away in Osceola). Keeping with your theme of featuring Michigan geology, you may consider taking a trip to Jackson, WY, and doing a video on Camp Davis, UM’s geology field camp, near Hoback Junction, which has been operating since the 1920s (?). I spent the summers of ‘76 and ‘78 studying there, a magical place for those of us who were fortunate to go.
Glad to see you are channeling in experts. You have a way of telling a story as a journey. Go Alexis Go
I just discovered your channel today! It’s great to find a channel about my home and I can’t wait to see what the future of this channel looks like!
As a MTU alumni, the videos about the UP are my favorite. The Keweenaw has such an interesting geologic history and I loved learning about the area. Keep up the great work!
As a yooper I love watching your videos. You really appreciate what the area has to offer. As a kid I lived in Manistique, Norway, and Houghton (at MTU in college)...it's a great place to live...as hard as it can be sometimes.
My wife is from Michigan. She went to the University of Michigan and was in the band. We like to visit the UP every summer. This year we will be going to the Keweenaw. I am doing the research and found the lava flow video. She is learning more about her home state than ever before. She loves your videos.
I've lived in Michigan my entire life, and enjoy learning about the state. I enjoy your style of storytelling and the upbeat attitude and energy that you put into it. I'm looking forward to seeing what you have in store for your future videos.
Just a hello from mid Michigan. I really enjoy my time in the UP and while I have seen a lot of it, there is something special in these videos. I really appreciate the enthusiasm and joy you bring to each of your videos. As educational as they are (and they are) your ability to spark that same enthusiasm in me to see and appreciate the state that I live in is priceless. That said, I'm going to head to Patreon and help as best I can.
Your enthusiasm is contagious and much needed in a chaotic world. I'm not from MI, but I've been to the Kitch-iti-kipi spring and have driven past the dredge you showed in a previous video and cameoed on this one. If you ever make it to NE MN, you should visit the Tower-Soudan underground mine.
Thank you for all of your outstanding work, Alexis. I'm a life long Michigan resident and my mother's side of the family hails from Dollar Bay. I've learned so much about the UP from your videos, and you've given us all some incredible insights about so many of the things we've wondered about every time we make a trip up to the Keweenaw to visit relatives.
Michigan is amazing . I have lived here my entire life. There are some parts of Michigan where Logging was a HUGE industry .. You should make a trip northward near where I live.. About an hour both ways of me is Lumberman's Monument in Oscoda . Amazing history there and very pretty sights if you stop at all the lookouts and read the sings and stuff. Then if you head north of me about another hour near Grayling is Hartwick Pines national forest and there is trails you can walk and read and see tons of antique machines and stuff they used to cut and move logs to the river. The history is pretty interesting and its quite amazing to see trees that where once cut down for wood that have been protected that are hundreds of years old standing before your eyes that you can walk right up to and touch .. Some of these trees it takes more then one person to wrap your arms around.
Just found your channel. I love your videos. You are doing a great job at creating interesting content. I am a michigan native. Grew up in leelanau county and went to college at Michigan Tech. Your videos on all the places in the UP are great! Keep it up!
I started watching your videos last year after touring the Keweenaw again and finally doing the guided tour at Quincy mine. Don't know where your survey is, but I'd recommend Seney National Wildlife Refuge; I've birded there for almost 50 years and could make a fascinating video. The visito center was under reconstruction this year, don't know when it will be complete. The town of Seney was a lumber town of about 3000 residents and there is a small museum.
Thank you, I'm from Michigan so I'm super excited to learn more
Congratulations on this new chapter on your journey! It warms my heart to hear you're still connected with the SciShow/CrashCourse family even if only occasionally.
I just found your channel about a month ago, and your channel has taken off since then. I'm so impressed with your work. I love exploring Michigan, too, but now I'll appreciate the science and history of the places I visit. I've started making a list of my next trips from your videos. Thank you, Alexis!
My family has lived in the Keweenaw for many generations, as a big local history buff I love seeing you talk about these local places. please consider checking out the village of Alberta and the MTU Ford Center.
You're a great story teller. I love the way you take a lot of info and boil it down. I look forward to seeing you in 2023!
Alexis, I love the enthusiasm you bring to each subject!
Have you considered a video on the Michigan Basin? It may be the biggest geologic structure in the state, but also difficult to grasp because much of it is obscured by glacial till. I suspect many Michigan natives would be surprised to know what lies beneath their feet.
I have spent years coming up north ( family cabin at first ) then vacations to U.P. also have a Sister that lives up there.
Those times we didn't stay in the U.P. we stayed on Mackinac Island or at one of the campgrounds close by ferry's so we could spend at least a day there.
It seems like many on TH-cam got recommended the Sudbury impact video and well here we are.
I'm not too happy about your scaling back on videos. I've never been to Michigan but I love learning about... everything. You're a great orator to listen to and watch and I learn a lot from you. Your enthusiasm just makes me smile and your subject matter is very interesting, enough to pique my interest, one who has never been to Michigan but would love to go thanks to your perspective on it.
Hi Alexis
I really like your videos you do a great job. I'm a copper country historic artist, model railroader, and collector. Keep up the good work and your happy go lucky attitude is a natural with you.
Take care
Vince Fontana
I really hope that you realize that the reason many people watch your videos is YOU! Your animation and personality is infectious. You could make a video on the anatomy of a grain of sand, and I would watch it gladly. Suggestions? Maybe on the subject of the indigenous peoples of Michigan, or the early settlers of the state and their effect on the state. Whatever you choose, I love you and will continue watching whatever you choose to show me.
I recently stumbled on your channel and really enjoy it. You are so enthusiastic and engaging I hope educators use your videos in their classrooms or at the very least let the kids know about your channel. Keep up the great work!
So glad to have discovered your videos. I love the enthusiasm and eagerness to learn that you bring, as well as how you shoot pre-prepared with background research so you can have an informative discussion. You have a good balance of edited content that is well-paced, but still takes the time to show off the beauty and interests of your topic.
I live in southern Ontario, so we share some of the Geology of Michigan. Should you need to expand your coverage I think you'll discover there's comparable Geologic interests and places of great beauty. One such region is the Thirty Thousand Island area of eastern Georgian Bay. There the landscape is a vast expanse of glacier-polished Canadian Shield, with much evidence of the eroded bases of mountains from hundreds of millions of years ago, that now dot the bay as low islands where families have built their vacation cottages. Rock cuts for highways show the tortured folding of multi-coloured granite, quartz, and basalt layers with many fracture inclusions. Truly an amazing place to visit. Inland there's the region around Bancroft that's been called the Gem and Mineral Centre of Ontario, with many mines and quarry sites to explore. Much for anyone with an interest in Geology and Natural History.
Just came across your channel and after a watching a few videos I subbed right away. As a lifelong Michigander I enjoy anything Michigan related as long as the content is about anything north of Traverse City.
Recently found you. I'm in Michigan. Born and raised. I love what you are doing.
Just found this video and I have to say, I love your videos. Some things, like the one about the chaos of the Toledo War, I kind of knew about from school, but most of your videos I really never knew anything about so they are completely fascinating to a Michigan ex-pat currently stuck in the backwoods of Arkansas. You are seriously giving me so many places to visit when I can eventually move back home. Thank you for that, because I always knew Michigan was a wonderful, fascinating place, but until I discovered your channel, I never knew exactly how interesting and amazing my home really is.
Thank you so much, Heather! I really appreciate you saying that. For what it's worth, I also didn't realize how fascinating this place was until I started this series! 🙂
Glad I found your channel. Michigan has so much to share!
Happy Holidays!
Deeper not wider content. Thank you. Maybe how people can convert to Michigan’s original prairie landscape- species , soil etc. as the No mow lawns are taking off(finally). Take care. Happy new year.
It will be interesting to see your new content with your new format.
I don't know if you've been to the Iron Mountain/Kingsford area yet in your travels across da U.P., but there are a few interesting things to see here, such as the Cornish Pump museum, and the Iron Mountain ski jump. The Cornish Pump was one of the largest steam powered water pumps in North America, used to pump water out of the iron mine that it sits next to. It's a fascinating piece of technology for the time in which it was built. The museum seems to only be open in the summer now, but it's worth a visit.
The site also houses the WW2 glider museum. A lot of the gliders were built locally at the old Ford plant in Kingsford where they built the "woodies" before WW2.
Just discovered your channel! Looking forward to watching all your videos.
I just found you 2 days ago. I watch a lot of Time Team, and I think that's why You Tube sent me here. I really enjoy your vids. You are lovely and well spoken. I live in WI so I know a little about Mich. Good health and luck to you.
Thank you for what you are doing to help educate, promote, and celebrate history in the upper peninsula. Although I've lived most of my life in South Eastern Michigan's lower peninsula (Oakland County Mostly), I've been to the UP many times in my life, and I've loved going each time, regardless of whether it was the summer or winter. Now that I'm doing my own to help celebrate local history down here in the southeastern part of the state, I appreciate it THAT MUCH MORE what you are doing to bring attention to the amazing history and geology of the upper peninsula!
Just found you this week. Love your content. Here's something to investigate. In Cass County, MI there is a place called bald hill. We used to go there but now it is on private property. Many years ago I read an article that is it part of a huge, ancient meteor mostly buried. I would love to know more as I live just a few miles away.
Just found your channel. You’re terrific! Can’t wait for your new adventures! 😊👍👍
Possibly something for your wall, I once saw a watershed, or possibly a drainage map of Michigan. I think it was at a welcome center near the Illinois/Indiana border. I never saw one again and had regretted not buying it.
I knew this was coming. It makes sense and it's a good thing. I look forward to the new adventures, while hoping that the experts don't cramp your style. You gotta hang onto your style.
Hi! So glad the algorithm suggested you. Great work!
I hunted in the U.P. when I was a kid, and seeing your videos on the U.P. are probably my favorites. You are right about the flies!
The Almighty TH-cam Algorithm brought your channel to my attention a few days ago, and in that short time I've seen that your subscriptions have increased a few thousand..... That is great, you have a fascinating channel and a very personable style of storytelling. Looking forward to your new content!
Thank you! I appreciate that! And it's definitely been wild seeing the numbers go up so much - I feel super grateful. 🙂 Thanks for being here!
New subscriber here, finding your video very interesting, so what ever you are doing it works. Keep up the great work and good luck.
I think I've found a kindred spirit, someone curious about how things work and why. I'm really enjoying your videos, making a bucket list of places to see on out next UP adventure.
I love learning new and more in depth about stuff I already knew about our state.
Brilliant insights! Our family absolutely loves your work! Please keep it coming!
Super excited to see where things go! It's been such a fun ride so far!
And one thing I've learned recently is that it's super fun to watch or listen to someone who is incredibly skilled or learned in something, so expect should be awesome.
Thanks, Chris! You've been along for this ride a LOT longer than most, ha ha, so thank you in particular for sticking with me! 🙂
Oh believe me. It's been incredibly fun! Can't wait to see what your new video style is like!
Kinda stumbled on your channel a couple of weeks ago. You have to be the happiest person on this planet, which is why I decided to follow you. I'm not from Michigan, but in my trucking days, I wandered through your state many times. Keep being you, and I will continue to watch your channel
Just discovered your channel. Thank you from a fellow michigander. Nice work
Thank you so much for your work and enthusiasm! I'm a new watcher and subscriber, and I'm really enjoying your creations so far!
I love learning and seeing stuff in the field but I’m also good with listening as long as there is slides or something like that. I love your videos!!❤
You provide it all in your videos ... Science, geography, scenery and above all an attitude of wonder at the world around you. It is impossible to watch you and not alternately, smile and drop my jaw at your infectious smile and great presentation. Keep using experts, they do add to the content but you yourself are the best salesperson for this channel. *** Personally I am not interested in merch but it could give you some added income. Do it. *** The way I use your channel is by sharing it with friends who have a similar curiosity.
Always a pleasure to see you in my sub box. Some days I don't watch for a bit, and then I'll go back and give you the attention your videos deserve. Keep on keepin' on!
I live in Wisconsin and found you by your video on the Edmund Fitzgerald. I’ve enjoyed many of your other videos and subbed. I’m a private pilot and this past summer spent a long weekend at my friends private airport in the UP outside of Escanaba. Over those days I enjoyed flying over the UP and had a particularly memorable flight by Pictured Rocks. I look forward to seeing more videos from you and like how you talk with a smile.
Just discovered your channel. Love your topics and your enthusiasm. Thought I would offer you a video idea. Rockport in Alpena MI. I would imagine you know of it but had to be sure. Abandoned quarry, fossil hunting, shipwreck, bat caves, and tons of history all in one spot. Looking forward to your new content.
Thanks for sharing the bts info. What makes YT fun for me - and different from traditional media - is the diary aspect of individual creators sharing their process as they go. Best of luck in the new 'format', and I'll see you again 1/6/23!
Thanks for sharing that! I always wonder how much of that journey to share in videos, so it's helpful to hear you find it interesting! 🙂
This is in Minnesota, but, do a video on the Devil's Kettle on the Brule river. 🙂 It empties into Lake Superior.
I like the new background. 🙂
Thank you! 🙂 Also, thanks for the suggestion! I'll add it to the spreadsheet of survey responses once those start trickling in!
@@AlexisDahl - What, you aren't going to do an episode on something just because I say you should?! *comic pout* Seriously though, thanks! :-)
This is such a funny example, because it’s been talked about at great length, but we still have no idea, so who knows - maybe a viewer of the NEXT video about it will be the one who eventually figures it out!
Love the Yooper focus. The expert interviews really add to the content. Hoping you reveal some places I have not seen.
Thank-you for all the cool MI facts. I have lived in MI most of my life and I truly cherish the great lakes. I look forward to all the new stuff coming in your new format. 😀
Seems like the algo is starting to push your content. I've really enjoyed what I've seen so far. It's interesting to learn more about things I've seen in Michigan.
Looking forward to what you do.
Thanks for the video ✌
Thanks for watching! 🙂
0:10 Haha! I love your personality. I laughed along.
4:19 Well, no wonder you videos are so filled with knowledge. I'm glad you're struck out on your own to create your channel.
The new angle you're taking in speaking with experts and following along with them makes a whole lot of sense.
If you're ever in San Diego, California and need a cameraman, I volunteer. :D
My Brother was born in Ironwood Michigan in 1961 when my Dad was in the Air Force up there.
Just do more of what you have been doing! I don't often get to explore northern Michigan and it's fun watching and learning from your explorations. I'm from a little city called mt.clemens and we too have some good history. Thanks for the content and enjoy your holidays!!
Ah, amazing! I actually grew up not that far from Mt. Clemens. (I didn't visit often, but have distinct memories of sitting in a coffee shop somewhere in town waiting for my first-ever freelance project to get published.) Hope you have a lovely holiday season as well!
JUST discovered your channel and am immediately hooked. I'm a lifelong Michigander but am learning so much stuff I'd never heard of or considered. Thank you!
Awesome new plans. I just discovered your channel and have subscribed! I see I have lots of old content I can enjoy. I am ready to walk on the oldest stone on the face of the earth. ... Stuff I had only read about.
Awesome so far, just found the channel and can't wait to watch all the videos.
Any Huron mountain club stuff in the works?
I started researching yooper history and when I came across the club and how secretive they are I had to know more...it's been hard but so far wow
new to the channel, but glad to join the evolution!
I love your energy and enthusiasm! You're a great communicator too. I just found you and I'm looking forward to watching more of your videos. I like your new approach (and your old approach), so good luck with your channel. Happy holidays to you and yours and see you next year! 🙂
Happy 2023! I'm from the Netherlands and the algorithm dropped into your orbit. US, Glacial lakes and granite must be the way YT keywords, based on my Nick Zentner on YT consumption. I binged everything I didn't even know I would like to learn about Washington State geology. I'm quite happy to learn from you about the UP of Michigan. As the Netherlands is in a delta we don't really have rocks (clay, sand and silt all the way down here) keep mentioning rocks and I will be back watching. If you ever have questions on delta's, levies and dykes you can ask me :)
I just recently was introduced to your videos, and have subscribed! I really enjoyed the content and your presentation of the subject at hand!
Alexis...you might look into the old lumber rail road that was covered by the dunes in SW mich..as kids we found the tracks exiting on the water side of the dunes....also how about a story on the DC 7 ? that went down outside of South haven during a thunder storm....I grew up in South Haven / Bridgman area and know the area well...thanks, keep up the excellent work !
I am so glad I stumbled across your channel! I've only spent about 24 hours of my life on the UP, but somehow that just doesn't matter.
Regarding your video format change, I have really enjoyed your expert videos. I have many older scholars in my family - there is so much knowledge in professors emeritus (literal and figurative) and all they need is a sympathetic ear to pour their decades of research into. So, well done in recognizing such a vast and untapped resource. I look forward to seeing what else you discover!
Oh, you can do good research for sure. As someone who studies History and Geography, I think you are doing a great job explaining the topics you have posted. Regional History and Geography is one of my favs to watch and learn. I often considered doing my own vids in Sudbury, a region that is rich in history and geography. I am happy to be a subscriber and look forward to watching more of your vids. Thank you for making them.
Love your channel and I have an idea for you if you're interested. The great fire in the thumb of Michigan in 1871 was possibly from A fringe theory links together several major fires that occurred simultaneously in America, including the Great Chicago Fire, the Great Michigan Fire, and the Peshtigo Fire, claiming that they were caused by fragments of Biela's Comet striking the Earth, in October 1871 . Just a thought :)
You're so excited, not to much, not to little...just right!!
Just found your channel... THANK YOU... I love it! Add more history too... would love it even more
Thank you so much! I'm a science communicator by trade, so that tends to be my main focus, but I am always happy to talk about good people stories.
Just saw this at the very end of the year, and need to go through many more of your videos to really answer your survey. Something to do while watching bowl games this 2022. So far, what I'm seeing about Michigan is fascinating- and it certainly making me wonder more about things in this state.
I just found your channel thanks to your videos with experts (the one about the meteor impact) so absolutely keep doing that! It's great.
I'll just turn on the always notify option so the longer gaps between videos don't mean TH-cam forgets your channel.
Hi Alexis. TH-cam just pointed me to your videos a couple of days ago and I'm enjoying them tremendously. I'm from West Michigan but am currently living in NE Wisconsin. I've visited many of the places in your videos and it's really fun seeing a deep dive into their history and geology. Have a happy new year and I look forward to more videos.
I’m from Ohio so I’m not sure how you feel about me making a comment. 😊 I love Sci show and I’m always looking for new science and history content. It seems to me that using an expert on location is a more traditional way of creating a story. Thinking every thing from Mr Rogers visiting the pencil factor, to Nova exploration of the giant crystal caverns in Mexico. With that said it is wildly effective, and I haven’t seen it as a format on TH-cam. Take this space and run with it.
Ha ha, you are more than welcome. 🙂 Thanks for the encouragement!
Just filled out the survey. a little late but just found your channel today. I put Blacksmithing in there but there are quire a few smiths in the western UP you might be interested in. Copper Island Forge should be close to you. He is doing classes at Calumet art center and he knows his stuff. Also your videos kinda give off a Tom Scott kinda vibe. How do you feel about his format?
I just started watching your channel. As a native Michigander, I love your content. My only regret is that I didn't have your videos when I visited these places years ago. I have one suggestion. Forgive me if it's already been covered. I haven't worked through all of your videos yet. Have you considered doing something on North Manitou Island? It's a fascinating place that I would love to hear about from your perspective.
Thanks so much! I really appreciate that. And I haven't done anything on the island yet! I have had a couple of folks recommend that to me recently, though, so I've added it to my ongoing list of ideas to look into. 🙂
@@AlexisDahl An interesting angle would be how the diesel motor saved this island from complete deforestation as a parallel to todays electric motor. Probably not your gig but it would be cool.
I stumbled upon your channel today. Quite possibly the absolute best content on TH-cam. Fascinating, Extremely well done and beyond entertaining. Thank you for everything you’re doing! Absolutely awesome!
This mid-Michiganian (NOT Michigander) just found you. I'm looking forward to what you have to show. Take care.
Hi, I just recently discovered your channel through a youtube suggestion. I love your animated exuberance and passion. You breathe life into your topics of discussion. I am now a subscriber and I am watching more of you previously posted videos. I hope your channel grows to become a major channel next year.
Hey, thank you so much! I appreciate you taking the time to leave such a kind comment, and I'm glad you're here! 🙂
Love the channel, love the content, love the enthusiasm, look forward to seeing more!
Just found you channel and gotta say love what I've seen so far. We love in southern WI, but love going to the UP for the nature and geology. Glad to have a channel I can have my kids watch to get excited about our upcoming adventures.
I went on a group tour with Randall Carlson and company to the Channelled Scablands in Washington State in 2021 and it was fantastic. If you haven't heard of him he's worth the inquiry. I appreciate your content.
I loved your videos on the UP, copper mines, shipwrecks and light houses. Thanks for the awesome content.
Wow. Why did it take TH-cam so long to bring me here? Your videos are so great! As a Michigan resident I’m digging your deep dive looks at these places I can readily visit. Time to plan a road trip! But first I’ll do the Patreon thing. Seriously never done that before. If ever there was a time it’s now. Thanks and Happy New Year.
Oh, man, thank you! That's so kind of you, and I deeply appreciate it! ☺️
Sounds great! You seem very excited about this change so I am ON BOARD!!!
Also, just filled out the survey!
I appreciate your work. I have a request. The last time I was in Houghton I visited the massive copper plates on display at MTU on Sharon avenue. Do you have a presentation on those plates? If not, could you make one? Another topic of interest to me is the world record piece of float copper that was found in Ontonangon and is now on display in the Smithsonian
I just found your channel! Going to share with some friends who I went to Michigan Tech. Side note, is that video out about the spiders in the cave next to the Douglass Houghton Falls? My friends and I went there a few years ago and we almost ventured into the cave ourselves I’m glad we didn’t!
Thanks for being here! 🙂 And the falls video isn't out yet! I'm waiting to hear back from some folks before I continue moving along with that one. I am also very glad I didn't go in that cave, though!
Thank you, Thank you, for the awesome, interesting educational videos