I hate to see the negative feedback here... not every overlanding trip, IMHO, is all about getting over the most extreme terrain possible. Overlanding to me is about travel and experiencing new places. Sometimes it's difficult to get there and sometimes its not as difficult, but it's new and interesting.
These trips are expensive. Most of us arm-chair wheelers sit at our desks at work and wish we could do this, but can't either afford it or take the time off work. That is where the sponsorship becomes so important. Yes, i agree that i fast forward the beginning of the shows to get past the advertising, but hey, it's not offensive to me and it is part of what makes these guys have the chance to put up these videos. You just have to watch knowing what those things are and move on.
If i could get sponsorships and do these types of trips, you bet your butt i would and i would post up the reports with commercials if that is what i had to do.
Same here. The micro aggression is in poor taste as well ("btw I bought stuff from your shop...") to inappropriately attempt to put more weight in their critiquing of the free content when they're two completely different threads.
Kurt certainly doesn't have to participate, but he chooses to engage a rather anonymous internet bunch here. One way anonymity. That's pretty brave if you ask me. Let's continue to encourage or take it to pm.
End of day, this isn't Alaska. This isn't Idaho or Montana. This is an entirely new series with a new narrative, new equipment, new sponsors and new people with different perspectives literally and figuratively.
I'm much more interested in this season than any of the others. Why? Because the success of Central America EO is a barometer for future series of this type. Sans corporate involvement, content like this cannot be sustained nor improved upon. YouTube economics doesn't pay the bills even with millions of views each episode. We need scale and to scale you need a broader audience. Winching and rock crawling can only hold their attention for so long. What keeps people coming back for more are the stories. Real life humans dealing with personal challenges and prevailing above and beyond the trail. EO has never been about the vehicles or equipment. It was about real working men breaking from the sheltered/safe cubicle existence to go adventuring with family and friends with little to no dependency on the corporate teat.
The very fact that clay and crew were even able to launch Central America is a tremendous achievement. These are family men with real jobs who probably coordinated this on an insanely demanding, need it done yesterday schedule. Look at that sponsor list alone. Crazy!
I look forward to each and every channel update and will judge the series in whole.
PS - Any Amazon or Netflix execs who can pull some strings here at some point so these guys can consider making it their career?
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