Michael Dennis Starbuck

Hello everyone! My name is Michael Dennis Starbuck, and I usually post weather videos, travel videos, and vlogs on here. I posted political videos for a while on here, but I don't do that anymore. I try and keep it positive on this channel as much as possible. All of my videos are usually recorded by phone or tablet, so that's why my videos don't always turn out the greatest. A lot of times, I don't just make videos (the traveling videos and vlogs) for views, I make them for memories. That's another good reason I keep this channel positive. My life doesn't evolve around YouTube, I just upload and post videos just for fun in my downtime.

Instagram: mike.star.made.it98
Second YouTube channel: Opinionated Rural Michigander
Third YouTube channel: Mike The Conservative Michigander
Twitter: @StarbuckDennis
Facebook Page: Michael Dennis Starbuck Photography & Productions


Michael Dennis Starbuck

April 2025 recap! From recording rain and snow to spending a weekend in northern Indiana to going to two Easter celebrations and many more, there were definitely quite a few good memories made from this month. Unfortunately, this is one of the months that didn't end the best as my red Ford truck had major issues and my grandma last her house she'd been staying at for over 2 decades.

2 days ago | [YT] | 1

Michael Dennis Starbuck

March 2025 recap! During this month, I ended up doing quite a bit more than in January and February. Recorded some smoky skies as there were wildfires being reported in a few areas, two bad thunderstorms, celebrating my little sister's 14th birthday, and many other things.

2 days ago | [YT] | 0

Michael Dennis Starbuck

January/February 2025 recap! Nothing much happened within those first two months, so i just put those two months together. Some good memories were made as I did record a little bit of weather, watched my little sister play basketball, went snowmobiling, replaced my grandpa's bathroom floor, and a few other things.

2 days ago | [YT] | 2

Michael Dennis Starbuck

Might go through and make a few recap posts on here from each and every month in 2025. After that, I will officially be done making videos about 2025, other than maybe later on when I do one year anniversary videos of some of the wicked storms I recorded in 2025. That's about it.

Might do a video tomorrow or sometime later this week talking about some of my plans for this year that I didn't talk about in my last big video.

3 days ago | [YT] | 1

Michael Dennis Starbuck

Happy New Year everyone! Hope you all have a very blessed year ahead of you!

1 week ago | [YT] | 2

Michael Dennis Starbuck

All right folks, I had finally just put together my December 2025 vlog and am currently in the process of downloading it after putting it together, and then hopefully by tomorrow, I'll have it uploaded to my channel. I was hoping to have my December vlog uploaded tonight, but I ran into some technical difficulties while putting my video together as my tablet decided to start having some issues, so that set me back a little bit. But that being said, either tomorrow or on New Year's Day, I'm going to put together a video talking about how my 2025 went, the things that made me happy from 2025, the things I wish that I could have done in 2025, and also talk about what I hope to do in 2026. For that video, I plan to do some speaking, and then do like a big recap and show a bunch of clips from quite a few videos that I have uploaded to my YouTube channel in 2025, such as storms that I recorded or any other weather, some of the trips that I went on, certain events, etc.

With all that being said, I do want to say that this year of 2025 definitely came with quite a few ups and downs, as there were quite a few things that did go as planned and I thought were pretty good, then there were some things that did not go as planned or had to be changed up because something happened with someone or because I had to cancel because certain things came up. While I'm not going to go down the list of everything that did or didn't go as planned in 2025 in this post, that is something that I will bring up when I go to do the video. Even though 2025 wasn't the best year, it definitely isn't by far the worst year either. I'm not here to complain about things that did not go as planned, but I just wanted to speak of a few things that did not go as planned, but I definitely have more things that I think went as planned, such as things that made me happy. There was also a few changes of plans that turned out to be way better than the plans I had made originally. So there is that.

With 2025 coming to an end, there are quite a few things that I do have planned, but I'm not 100% sure exactly how it's all going to work out or if it'll even work out if it does, but I do definitely have quite a few plans for 2026.

A few more things that I do want to mention in this post is that I want to say thank you to everybody who's been subscribing to my YouTube channel lately, especially this year. I started my YouTube channel in early 2014, and it definitely makes me happy that my channel is getting bigger and bigger, even though I'm far from the biggest YouTube channel out there. And you know what? That is totally fine by me, I don't ever expect to be a major YouTube channel. I don't like to put my entire life behind YouTube obviously, because there's many other things in my life that I think are more important than YouTube and any other social media out there. But YouTube is one of the very few social medias out there that has gotten me through some thin times and thick times. To see that my subscriber count is going up on my channel definitely makes me happy and thankful for the amount of people that I've subscribed to my channel and those who are subscribed, but probably don't watch my videos. And I'm also happy for those that watch my videos as well. I completely understand that not everybody watches my stuff, which is totally fine. I don't upload the most entertaining content out there, but I upload what I like to upload because that's just me, especially when it comes to the big monthly vlogs. I understand that not everybody wants to sit down and watch a 3 to 4 -hour long video, which I totally understand that. So much with somebody else's video, unless if it's all about traveling to places or something like that. Again, to everybody who's been subscribing to my YouTube channel? I just want to say thank you so much for doing so. It really means a lot to me and for that I cannot say how. Thankful I am that my channel is getting more and more attention.

For my big December 2025 vlog, It is of course going to be another long video. I had originally thought that it wasn't going to be near as long as my December 2024 video, but I think my prediction was wrong there. I didn't feel like I did a crap ton for this December 2025 log, considering a vast majority of it was me recording weather between any other event that happened for this video that I'm about to upload hopefully tomorrow if possible, but I guess there were more things that I ended up doing and probably forgot about. Lol. I ended up being sick this past week, so that kind of screwed with my memory a little bit. Lol. But yeah, like I said, I will have my December 2025 Vlog uploaded hopefully by tomorrow morning.

1 week ago | [YT] | 1

Michael Dennis Starbuck

Merry Christmas everyone! Hope you all had a fantastic one to remember. Still feeling a little sick unfortunately, but I sure didn't let it bring me down.

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 2

Michael Dennis Starbuck

What a wonderful time to be dealing with a scratchy throat. Not fun at all.

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 1

Michael Dennis Starbuck

Food from Outback steakhouse or Texas Roadhouse hits completely differently when you go an entire work day without eating. 😂

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 1

Michael Dennis Starbuck

My family and I got ourselves a tree today. Gonna work on decorating it tomorrow. 🎄🎅🎄🎅

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