I like that you're "boring". Helps me unwind.

Big approval from me on the setting. Your channel is for grownups, and that's NOT boring. Same for your gaming channel. I was re-watching a few of your Bloodborne episodes after work this week, in fact.

@stuffandthingsyoutube

2 ай бұрын

Nice! That was one of my favorite series.

You’re perfect the way you are, you’re not at all boring, and I love your videos. Especially the things and stuff about pipes. Your vocabulary is deliciously refreshing. I love that you’re not like all the other channels, it sets you apart in a good way.

@stuffandthingsyoutube

2 ай бұрын

Cheers!

Love your channel Bradly. You have a hip genuine, quirky brainy vibe. In the 80’s/90s, I went to used record stores to hang out with guys like you. Makes me nostalgic for the Pacific Northwest.

@stuffandthingsyoutube

2 ай бұрын

Ah, record stores...

What an idyllic setting!

Keep doing exactly what you are doing . Your authenticity is your main strength . Keep playing to it …

Pipe smokers, we're not a fun bunch. And I'm here for the meticulous pipe reviews.

@BlakesPipes

2 ай бұрын

I am pretty fun, I think, it's the ones under 40 y/o that don't find me fun! 😂

@cenoviopereira8603

2 ай бұрын

Nobody appreciates articulate answers anymore.

I hope you don't become fake over comments. for myself I enjoy your videos keep up the good work👍

@stuffandthingsyoutube

2 ай бұрын

Nah. I just thought it was a fun comment!

Good afternoon Bradley. I think it’s safe to say that most of your viewership likes your content just the way it is. I am glad you don’t intend on changing your on screen personality to reach the ‘younger generation’ as the commenter suggested. I would like to add that I myself am 22 years old and have been watching your content for probably 5 years. Your honest demeanour is precisely why I prefer your videos which are a welcome reprieve from the annoying format of most of those on KZread. This is probably a good time to thankyou for making pipe smoking so accessible. I consider your videos on the topic to be the best quality on the platform by far and I’m not sure I would have been able to get into the hobby without them.

@stuffandthingsyoutube

2 ай бұрын

That means a lot! Thanks so much!

PS You're meditative, not boring.

I came across this channel about 10 years ago (can that be right? time flies . . .) when I first started smoking a pipe. It felt different than other pipe channels on youtube. A big part of that was your genuineness and serious thoughtfulness in reviews. Chasing views would essentially kill what made you special. Glad you're not going to do it. Best wishes from KY.

@stuffandthingsyoutube

2 ай бұрын

Wow! Thanks for sticking around for so long!

I hate boredom and boring things + I've been watching 2 to 5 hours of your content each week for 8 years = you are not boring. On a sidenote, I f***** hate the dumbness dominating KZread (and society).

I like vanilla, so I must like boring too. I understand what he wrote. You are not a today's entertainer. You are not a circus act. "It's not my monkey, it's not my circus, but all the clowns know me!" One of my favorite quotes.

@stuffandthingsyoutube

2 ай бұрын

Good one!

Always be who you are, don't change even the slightest thing. Your reviews of pipe tobacco are the best reviews out there in my opinion, you are my most trusted reviewer in that area, because of how straightforward you are. Almost all other reviews beat around the bush or ramble on about something else that has nothing to do with why I'm listening or what I'm trying to learn. I do play games once in awhile and I watch reviews, when I do see someone shrieking or obviously just going for shock and awe I immediately stop playing that video and look for something else because that's not what I'm after. I watch your videos because it seems like we have a lot in common, I can't pretend at all. I would probably be the worst actor of all time because every role I would just be playing myself lol I can't pretend, I can only be who I am and It doesn't matter who likes it or not. I too get annoyed with myself if I even try to pretend to be something I'm not, so it's always very short-lived as I'm just not capable of pretending. In a world of fakes, always be genuine.

Bradley, I am digging the non-boring Seahawks hat!

@stuffandthingsyoutube

2 ай бұрын

Old school logo = best Seahawks logo.

Good Afternoon 😊 Nice Place 😍 Thanks for the video👏🏼 Appreciate your content and time 🙏🏽 Have a great day & Greetings from South Africa 🇿🇦

@stuffandthingsyoutube

2 ай бұрын

Cheers!

Just my uneducated .02. I think Working has the most potential as a future dependable income source. The content, editing, and subject seem like it would blow up with significant exposure.

@stuffandthingsyoutube

2 ай бұрын

I have faith in it too!

A bit late to the party! I can speak from my experience as an English teacher in Japan that as we get older, we are no longer cool to many teenagers. But with Y2K back in style these days, I get a lot more questions about what those times were like.

Very nice setting - could easily have been a summerday in Sweden.

@stuffandthingsyoutube

2 ай бұрын

I bet the climate is similar!

Ha!! Father in another father son watching combo here. My son actually found you before I did for your game playing videos. He was young, maybe 12 or 13. At one point I asked him if he was still watching your videos. He said yes, but that you were not that good at playing the games 😂. You be you. Son and dad here saying to us you are not boring.

@stuffandthingsyoutube

2 ай бұрын

Haha! Nice! I'm glad he watched regardless of my skill level. ;-)

The society itself in general is getting more and more "dumb". So to hear from upcoming adults that you are considered to be "boring" sounds like a great achievement ! I realy like the outside filmed videos as they are more natural and authentic (and the place in this video is gorgeous !) and hope you can enjoy them aswell !

That comment is very funny in its frankness haha, although I don't agree with it; nowadays there's a big audience for longform 30 minute plus reviews diving deep into specific subjects, be it fiction or exercise science or computers or whatever, so in my opinion at least your intricate and eloquent style of presentation is probably one of your channel's main strengths. As you mentioned appreciating suggestions, I figure I'll give my thoughts on the matter. When it comes to catching an audience on KZread, in my opinion the main thing working against you is the eclectic nature of your channel: I can't help but notice that the most successful channels tend to find one thing that they do well, and then focus upon doing it and nothing else: your channel covers a lot of different subjects, besides smoking you also have videos about guitars, fashion, fiction, photography etc. etc. which you rotate through week to week. There are plenty of hugely successful channels about each of those subjects, but those channels will focus on just one of those subjects alone, and rarely deviate, or if they do, only to subjects which are still very related in spirit. Imagine for example that you pick up a viewer from the review of the custom telecaster you bought a while ago, chances are he's mostly going to be interested in watching other guitar videos, so if he checks your channel and finds that you mostly don't talk about guitars you'll lose him, or even if he subscribes, you'll lose him if you cover other things for a few weeks; compare that to the same person clicking on a guitar review, and then findings a channel with twenty other guitar reviews similar to the one he just watched, and pedal reviews, technique tips etc. etc. Sometimes you'll catch someone who enjoys learning about new interests, or that happens to like other things that you cover (I'm one of them lol), but given the way KZread is structured and consumed, channels that specialise will gather and maintain larger audiences imo. To be clear I'm not suggesting you make any changes, I very much enjoy your channel as is, but I thought the message you got raised an interesting question so I thought I'd give my two cents as someone who has wasted enough time on this website to have an opinion about this stuff.

@stuffandthingsyoutube

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for the comment! And you are quite right. I've talked about this very thing on several occasions. When I give people advice on starting a KZread channel, I tell them to focus on one thing and one thing only, but I've never taken that advice myself. Haha! Thanks for watching!

Your channel is fine, I have watched for some time now. I don't S Andy P's, I will never lay cement; nor do I play video games. It just interesting to hear about stuff n things I know nothing about. I like the occassional field trip.

@stuffandthingsyoutube

2 ай бұрын

Nice! That's definitely good to hear.

I love your content! I think you are doing exactly what you need to be doing you definitely have staying power. Mr B I buy a lot of blends according to your reviews your spot on with my pallet what I mean is your tastes on tobacco are really similar to my own so your a real good resource for me and I get entrained too keep it up hope you don’t ever go away your a legend in the YTPC

@stuffandthingsyoutube

2 ай бұрын

Cheers! I'm glad my "T" opinions line up with your own.

Burning Sticks! 🤣

Huh what I fell asleep due to boredom! 😉

Washington is such a beautiful state. Thanks for sharing and looking forward to hearing your thoughts on that cigar. Been trying out a few myself lately.

@stuffandthingsyoutube

2 ай бұрын

It really is!

Never Boring! I enjoy the Nikon FE vids. I may get back into processing film if it's not too much of an expense.

@stuffandthingsyoutube

2 ай бұрын

My FE has been out of commission, but I hope to have it working again soon!

Smoke is smoke.

People are primarily drawn here by your personality. If you changed, I think you would actually see a drop in viewership. I also remember seeing that comment and thinking it was wrong on all points. Especially the repetition. You are arguably the best speaker/presenter of the channels I watch. Especially odd the cuff.

You're not boring. They're annoying. They're young, and I'm getting old. Still gaming though. That's what's important. Speaking of which, I'm watching your Elden Ring series again for the 3rd time and doing another play through in preparation for the new DLC next month. It should be glorious. Praise the sun! Oh, wrong game. 😀

@stuffandthingsyoutube

2 ай бұрын

Haha! Praise the Sun works for any Fromsoft game. ;-)

Keep on using jr. synonyms and compositioning acrylic dialogue. 😊🌱 Mac. New Phone. Omaha N.E.😊🌱

I'm going to continue telling people you're a doctor.

"Boring?" Clearly you need to start churning out more EDC videos. Hahahaha

@stuffandthingsyoutube

2 ай бұрын

Haha. Such an interesting little world on KZread...

#AskStuffandThings As a Facilities Manager, I always notice building/building-system related things wherever I go, especially a new place/environment. Do you find yourself checking out the quality/lack thereof/detail/etc. of the concrete about the world in the same way, especially since it's so ubiquitous? Cheers!

@stuffandthingsyoutube

2 ай бұрын

Definitely! Though I try not to bring it up with whomever I may be with at the moment.

If you're boring, I'd hate to see what adjectives I'd get.

Just curious, why do you hate the term EDC? Oh and by the way I hope you never change the way you present your content. Your “boring” style is right up my alley!

@stuffandthingsyoutube

2 ай бұрын

I just cringe at how certain buzzwords get popularized on KZread, and "EDC" is one of those for me.

Hello Bradley, I'm a new viewer on your channel and I have been watching a lot of your older videos. I watched a lot of your Sunday STUFFandTHINGS series in hopes to find the answer to a question in mind which I still have yet to obtain. My question is - Do you smoke your pipes with a filter? Many pipe smokers experience tongue bite no matter what they do, and other superhuman smokers can allow themselves to puff on forever until the bow eventually sets on fire.. Thank you for the good content, i feel more and more educated and confident to begin my pipe smoking hobby

@stuffandthingsyoutube

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching! I answer that question here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/iIuEqbCEp8qwe9Y.html

Seeing as we seem to be witnessing the complete devolution of the human race around us and on our devices, I'd not lose too much sleep over the tag "boring". I've recently started watching more and more of your videos recently, would say you are much more 'niche' than boring, and your general commentary and reviews are highly engaging. Let the 'boring' brigade stick to the fake shit, you keep it real for the semi-intelligents out there. Word.

So... what happend to poor conan and subotai? Does your ex got custody of them or they nearing the end of their life cycle so they are released to the local park?

@stuffandthingsyoutube

2 ай бұрын

They're still kicking in my new place! They don't seem to notice that they have changed locations in the slightest. They're approaching three years old, but they don't seem to be slowing down at all. I'll have to do an update soon.

Heh, 'Boring', because your content doesn't cater to the 15 sec TikTok crowd. That is in no way a loss for you Bradley. Being part of the Herd is less important than being your own person. I have a Question about the 'Working' Channel: "What happens when something goes wrong? For instance, has a Form ever given way? What do you do when that happens? Has something ever been missed on a Pour that couldn't be fixed? What is the process for making it right?"

@stuffandthingsyoutube

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for the questions! I'll tackle them next week.

Wow, I would never bend my work to suit the “masses”, especially from some random alcoholic on YT, albeit possibly well intentioned, possibly not😂. Many successful people become that way by not doing what others are doing.

@stuffandthingsyoutube

2 ай бұрын

I just enjoyed the comment and thought it would be fun to talk about!

Any chance of a playthrough of the Elden Ring DLC when that drops?

@stuffandthingsyoutube

2 ай бұрын

Maybe a slight chance, but I don't want to get anyone's hopes up!

Hey kids S’in green T is just as bad as S’in Cs so be smart and enjoy a taste E 🤪 BORING 😂 Maybe start doing the thing where you slap the lens at every transition 🤣 On second thought not no but HELL NO. Appreciate the content Bradley

@stuffandthingsyoutube

2 ай бұрын

Good idea!! Haha.

I come to KZread to watch somebody overanalyze and explain something.

Gorgeous setting, boring? Not really. Just an in depth person as opposed to the many shallow types one can so easily find on KZread. Also your areas of discussion/subject matter (with the exception of gaming) are special interest I think. Maybe working is the channel with the most growth potential? But don’t change your style, or your content.

@stuffandthingsyoutube

2 ай бұрын

I feel like working has the most potential as well. Cheers!

It's funny cause in the guy's comment he repeats himself and way over explained his critique. I guess that's why he likes your content!

You're not boring, kids just want silly jokes and lots of empty noise.

In this case boring = articulate. An almost lost skill in this day and age unfortunately.

Know it all guy needs to just do know it all guy and let over analyze guy do what over analyze guys do.

The camera zooms across a hellish landscape of demons playing heavy metal licks, panning up a badly rendered AI mountain. At the top stands one man completely in black... Smash cut to a close up that fills the screen: "Are you ready for some EXTREME tobacco reviews? This is your Lord Bradley where we burn Stuff and rock on about Things! RAAAAAH!" Please, please remain boring.

@stuffandthingsyoutube

2 ай бұрын

Hmm... interesting...

You're not boring if you'd do tobacco reviews the way you used to. You should tell the audience what it would take to get you back smoking a pipe on camera and using whole words and they just might pay for it.

@stuffandthingsyoutube

2 ай бұрын

I still do tobacco reviews exactly like I used to. In my reviews (since they're not monetized), I DO still use whole words. The only thing that has changed is I don't show the actual lighting of the pipe. I still smoke it on camera just as much as I always have. People need to relax with the "You changed!" narrative.

@EthanReviews123

2 ай бұрын

@@stuffandthingsyoutube I’m sorry if it sounds accusatory; not my intention. I’m just throwing some ideas out for you. I think a lot of people generally like the way you did your old tobacco reviews the best but then everyone loved Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle felt it was beneath him, lol. What’s the greater good? 🤷‍♂️