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In June 2019, Denby created a scripted podcast called ''Extremities'' about the logistics of living in the world's most isolated populated locations.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Scott |first1=Richard |title='Extremities': taking you to the world's most isolated places |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/the-podcast-hour/audio/2018702810/extremities-taking-you-to-the-world-s-most-isolated-places |access-date=December 20, 2019 |work=Radio New Zealand |agency=The Podcast Hour |date=July 5, 2019 |format=Audio |language=en-NZ}}</ref><ref group="‡">{{cite AV media |last1=Denby |first1=Sam |title=Announcing a New Podcast That Nobody Asked For |medium=Video |publisher=Half as Interesting |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whdlsgKpvBY |date=June 12, 2019 |time=[//youtube.com/watch?v=whdlsgKpvBY&t=60 1:00] |access-date=June 13, 2019 |language=en |via=YouTube}}</ref> The first season was about [[Pitcairn Islands|Pitcairn Island]], consisting of six episodes. Season 2 started on September 25, 2019, and is about [[Svalbard]]. Season 3 started on November 27, 2019, and was about [[Saint Helena]].<ref group="‡">{{Cite tweet|last=Denby|first=Sam|date=November 28, 2019|title=Extremities season three has now started!|user=wendoverpro|number=1200080856704004096|access-date=June 11, 2020|language=en}}</ref>
In June 2019, Denby created a scripted podcast called ''Extremities'' about the logistics of living in the world's most isolated populated locations.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Scott |first1=Richard |title='Extremities': taking you to the world's most isolated places |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/the-podcast-hour/audio/2018702810/extremities-taking-you-to-the-world-s-most-isolated-places |access-date=December 20, 2019 |work=Radio New Zealand |agency=The Podcast Hour |date=July 5, 2019 |format=Audio |language=en-NZ}}</ref><ref group="‡">{{cite AV media |last1=Denby |first1=Sam |title=Announcing a New Podcast That Nobody Asked For |medium=Video |publisher=Half as Interesting |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whdlsgKpvBY |date=June 12, 2019 |time=1:00 |access-date=June 13, 2019 |language=en |via=YouTube}}</ref> The first season was about [[Pitcairn Islands|Pitcairn Island]], consisting of six episodes. Season 2 started on September 25, 2019, and is about [[Svalbard]]. Season 3 started on November 27, 2019, and was about [[Saint Helena]].<ref group="‡">{{Cite tweet|last=Denby|first=Sam|date=November 28, 2019|title=Extremities season three has now started!|user=wendoverpro|number=1200080856704004096|access-date=June 11, 2020|language=en}}</ref>


Following this podcast, it was announced that Extremities would evolve into a relaunch as Sam's third YouTube channel, starting out with a video about the [[Little Bay Islands]] and a video about [[Socotra]], followed by a third video about the [[Kerguelen Islands]] one week after and then following a schedule of releasing a video every third Wednesday.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHhJuAOK3CI|title=Extremities: A New Channel by Wendover Productions|via=www.youtube.com}}</ref>
Following this podcast, it was announced that Extremities would evolve into a relaunch as Sam's third YouTube channel, starting out with a video about the [[Little Bay Islands]] and a video about [[Socotra]], followed by a third video about the [[Kerguelen Islands]] one week after and then following a schedule of releasing a video every third Wednesday.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHhJuAOK3CI|title=Extremities: A New Channel by Wendover Productions|via=www.youtube.com}}</ref>

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Sam Denby
Personal information
Born
Washington D.C., U.S.
NationalityAmerican
OccupationContent producer
Websitewendoverproductions.com, halfasinteresting.com
YouTube information
Channels
GenreEducational entertainment
Subscribers
  • 3.39 million (Wendover Productions)
  • 2.11 million (Half as Interesting)
  • 157 thousand (Extremities)
  • 54.2 thousand (Sam from Wendover)
Total views
  • 504.0 million (Wendover Productions)
  • 425.7 million (Half as Interesting)
  • 1.1 million (Extremities)
  • 657.7 thousand (Sam from Wendover)
100,000 subscribers2016
1,000,000 subscribers2018
Last updated: March 5, 2022

Sam Denby is an American YouTube personality and podcaster, best known for creating the edutainment YouTube channels Wendover Productions and Half as Interesting. He also hosts the podcast Extremities.

Career

Wendover Productions

Denby created the YouTube channel Wendover Productions on February 11, 2010. He uploaded his first video about the psychology of advertising on August 31, 2015.[‡ 1] Denby has since uploaded hundreds of other videos. as of March 2022, he has over 3.34 million subscribers and over 490 million channel views.[1][‡ 2] His videos are most commonly about logistics, most notably those of aviation, as well as geography and economics.[2] His video on Tourism in Iceland received significant attention.[3]

On December 31, 2019, following the subject of Saint Helena on the Extremities podcast, Wendover Productions released on YouTube the documentary The World's Most Useful Airport, which documents the origins of the airport of St. Helena, the troubles with being certified for operational use, etc. alongside a segment that talks about the airport's medevac value with a testament from the mother of a patient.[‡ 3]

Half as Interesting

"That Wikipedia List" redirects here. For the Wikipedia list on which the series is based on, see Wikipedia:Unusual articles.

On August 31, 2017, Denby announced the creation of a second channel called Half as Interesting.[‡ 4] The channel was launched to be a continuation of a series called "That Wikipedia List" or TWL, which had covered topics Denby chose from Wikipedia:Unusual articles, but the new channel would not be limited to that list.[‡ 4] Videos are released 3 times every 2 weeks, every Thursday and every other Tuesday at 10:30 am Eastern Time,[‡ 5] and cover various assorted topics.[‡ 6]

As of March 2022, the channel has over 2 million subscribers and over 400 million channel views.[4][‡ 6] Half As Interesting has a Nebula Exclusive called The Brick Facade.[‡ 7] Its name is derived from Denby's tendency to start videos about secret topics with facts about bricks.

Extremities podcast and YouTube channel

In June 2019, Denby created a scripted podcast called Extremities about the logistics of living in the world's most isolated populated locations.[5][‡ 8] The first season was about Pitcairn Island, consisting of six episodes. Season 2 started on September 25, 2019, and is about Svalbard. Season 3 started on November 27, 2019, and was about Saint Helena.[‡ 9]

Following this podcast, it was announced that Extremities would evolve into a relaunch as Sam's third YouTube channel, starting out with a video about the Little Bay Islands and a video about Socotra, followed by a third video about the Kerguelen Islands one week after and then following a schedule of releasing a video every third Wednesday.[6]

Other works

From April 2017 through February 2018, Denby co-hosted the Showmakers podcast on YouTube with fellow content creator Brian McManus, creator and host of the Real Engineering YouTube channel.[7] The show featured a unique guest in each installment of its 15 episode run, with the topics varying but a common theme across many episodes being self-improvement and understanding YouTube. In November 2018, 9 months after the last episode, Denby stated in a Reddit thread that the podcast was unlikely to return due to a shortage of guests that Denby and McManus were interested in interviewing.[8] However, in September 2020, McManus announced through the Showmakers YouTube channel that the podcast would be returning, this time through Nebula.[9] 3 Episodes were created between in September and October that year, with the last Showmakers episode premiering on October 14, 2020.[10]

In March 2018, he was invited to film with scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson on his show StarTalk, where Denby, Tyson and Chuck Nice talked about the possibilities of interstellar travel.[‡ 10] This coincided with the launch of his third channel, Sam from Wendover.[‡ 11]

He was one of the original founders of the Standard creator community along with Dave Wiskus, CGP Grey, Philipp Dettmer, and many other creators. Through Standard, he has released most of his content to Standard's Nebula streaming service, mostly the same videos he posts on YouTube but ad and sponsorship free.

Documentaries and Game Shows

Denby has produced three documentaries. The World's Most Useful Airport, about the development and struggles of the St. Helena Airport, The Final Years of Majuro, about the sinking of the Marshall Islands, and Alaska's Silent Summer, about the decay of tourism in Ketchikan during the Covid-19 Pandemic.

Half as Interesting has produced two game shows. Sam From Wendover Presents 'A Very Good Trivia Show' Presented By Sam From Wendover, which features fellow Nebula creators and involved baking, IKEA assembly, arithmetic, geometry, and trivia, and Half as Interesting’s Crime Spree, where Denby has 72 hours and $5,000 to break the most unusual laws across the US, and he loses a point whenever his writers, Ben and Adam, catch him, which they have $3,000 to do. The channel also produced a comedy special, The Brick Facade, which involves Denby on trial for revealing government secrets and covering them up with lengthy discussions about bricks.

Personal life

While Denby was born in Washington, D.C.,[citation needed] he explained during the launch of his third channel that he has lived in Edinburgh, Scotland, for at least two years.[‡ 11] However, on his Instagram account, he stated he has lived in Colorado as of 2020.[‡ 12] In Wendover bonus content posted on Nebula, Denby went to the closest Tesla Supercharger, which was located in Glenwood Springs, CO. As of April 2018, he was studying international business.[‡ 13]

References

Citations

  1. ^ "Wendover Productions - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved August 6, 2021.
  2. ^ Dudley, David (August 19, 2020). "Bad Trains, Explained". City Lab. Retrieved June 17, 2020.
  3. ^ Hafstað, Vala (June 7, 2019). "Iceland's Tourism Explosion Explained". Iceland Monitor. Retrieved June 17, 2020.
  4. ^ "Half as Interesting - YouTube". www.youtube.com.
  5. ^ Scott, Richard (July 5, 2019). "'Extremities': taking you to the world's most isolated places" (Audio). Radio New Zealand. The Podcast Hour. Retrieved December 20, 2019.
  6. ^ "Extremities: A New Channel by Wendover Productions" – via www.youtube.com.
  7. ^ "Showmakers - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved April 1, 2022.
  8. ^ "What happened to Showmakers?". r/wendoverproductions.
  9. ^ "Showmakers - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved April 1, 2022.
  10. ^ "Nebula". Nebula (subscription required).

Primary sources

In the text these references are preceded by a double dagger (‡):

  1. ^ "How Marketers Manipulate Us: Psychological Manipulation in Advertising – YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved November 8, 2020.
  2. ^ "Wendover Productions". YouTube. Retrieved October 21, 2020.
  3. ^ "The World's Most Useful Airport [Documentary]". Wendover Productions. December 31, 2019 – via YouTube.
  4. ^ a b Denby, Sam (March 27, 2018). TWL is back! (But not here...) (Video). Wendover Productions. Retrieved December 20, 2019 – via YouTube.
  5. ^ "Half as Interesting". YouTube. Retrieved February 9, 2020.
  6. ^ a b "Half as Interesting". Youtube. Retrieved October 21, 2020.
  7. ^ "Nebula". watchnebula.com. Retrieved September 22, 2020.
  8. ^ Denby, Sam (June 12, 2019). Announcing a New Podcast That Nobody Asked For (Video). Half as Interesting. Event occurs at 1:00. Retrieved June 13, 2019 – via YouTube.
  9. ^ Denby, Sam [@wendoverpro] (November 28, 2019). "Extremities season three has now started!" (Tweet). Retrieved June 11, 2020 – via Twitter.
  10. ^ deGrasse Tyson, Neil; Nice, Chuck; Denby, Sam (March 27, 2018). Interstellar Travel with Wendover and Neil Tyson (Video). StarTalk. Retrieved December 20, 2019 – via YouTube.
  11. ^ a b Denby, Sam (March 27, 2018). A Moderately Successful Face Reveal (Video). Sam from Wendover. Event occurs at 1:25. Retrieved April 6, 2018 – via YouTube. {{cite AV media}}: External link in |time= (help)
  12. ^ "Life update: I've moved to Colorado Pictured: Skiing, a week ago". Instagram. Archived from the original on December 24, 2021. Retrieved December 19, 2020.
  13. ^ Denby, Sam. "Economics has too much math. I study International Business". Reddit. Retrieved April 6, 2018.

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