QUESTION · MEDIA PRODUCTION Q&A

During the pre-show, the panel were discussing a video series and show about an abandoned construction site. Series name, please. And its spinoff.

ASKED BY · Jerry Hoyle · WESLEY CHAPEL, NORTH CAROLINA · 18 SEP 2026 · ▶ 00:52:45

THE PANEL'S ANSWER
Chris SabatoPANELIST

The series is 'Ambition Strikes' on YouTube, with a spinoff called 'Expedition Rove' featuring a person from a house renovation episode.

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52:45So the series is Ambition Strikes on YouTube, and I will post a link. And the spinoff is Expedition Rove. And if you've watched Ambition Strike, there's a series, there's a, they've always got some project that they're working on, right? And sometimes it's a quick project and sometimes it's a big, long project that takes multiple episodes. And one of those episodes was a house that they redid.

53:10And one of the persons that helped them on the house is in the Expedition Row. So it's kind of, it's a spinoff, right? I thoroughly enjoy it. It's just interesting. It's just interesting. It's, I don't know. And the Chris's approve. Well, if your price is to prove. Yeah, I will tell you, there's something extremely satisfying about watching any person work on a thing that's really good at a thing.

53:39And conversely, Mr. Ambition Strikes, I don't know his name, Zapata will tell you. He could figure out, he's not good at everything, but he can figure out everything. So watching the problem-solving aspect of that, it's insanely satisfying. It's kind of like on a totally other end of the spectrum, it's kind of like Matt Armstrong on YouTube. Matt Armstrong is this British dude, and he buys crash-damaged supercars, like cars that are worth $2 million.

54:14He buys them for $450,000 because it's been totaled. He puts $300,000 into it, and now he's $750,000 into owning a $2 million car. And it is insanely exciting to watch him try and solve a problem, try and solve a problem, try and solve a problem, and you see the excitement in his face when he goes, ah, I figured it out. And I got to tell you, and I feel a little stupid for admitting this,

54:47there have been times where I'm fist pumping my ceiling like oh he got it he got it and it's like holy crap I am so invested in this guy fixing the airbag on a car I will never be able to own and it's it's just really interesting watching humans solve problems is the best example of the joys in the journey because sometimes the way that they go about trying to solve the problem

55:11helps you solve a problem in your life that's totally unrelated and yeah love watching Ambition Strikes is really good though. It's fun. Next question. All right. Tommy Shanson, St. Paul, Minnesota asks, is there a better AI for mechanical or architecture design? Gemini and ChatGPT were useless to me. Courtney. Yeah, I'd be careful about using AI for creative work. Now, there are plugins in Autodesk and, you know,

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