Introducing Slow TV by Hound on the Run

Come along for a ride on my bumper and watch them dogs run...

My first exposure to "slow TV" was a Netflix series where they ran an extremely long show of some nice ladies in Norway sheering a sheep, turning the wool into yarn, then knitting a sweater as a team from start to finish. It was some of the best television I had ever seen.

Another "episode" was of salmon anglers trying to catch fish on a river in Norway on a day with a really slow bite. Man, it was so boring. I loved it.

I recently mounted a GoPro on the bumper of my hunting truck and have been letting the recording run as I've been running around the woods with my dogs. I had no real plans for the footage at first, but as I watched it back, I realized it might make for some excellent slow tv.

Now, you can go to the Hound on the Run YouTube Channel and watch hours' worth of TPOV (truck point of view) footage driving down forest and logging roads in Oregon as I look for bobcats with my dogs. It's just the raw footage so you hear all the wind and engine rumble (well, future episodes there will be some sort of audio; I lost the audio from the first episode somehow) and there isn't any music or voice over.

For many years, my wife has been an avid watcher of a YouTube show call Safari Live. It's a twice-daily 4-hour livestream broadcast from various safari trucks in South Africa. It's in protected game preserves so the animals are entirely habituated to humans, which I find weird and unnatural, but the cameramen get some incredible up-close shots of African plains animals that you wouldn’t see otherwise. The guides are entertaining, too. I consider it an excellent example of slow tv and something we've gotten a great deal of value out of.

Slow TV by Hound on the Run is kind of like a much crappier version of that.

The first episode is live now and was recorded in September during the first few days of the opening of the bobcat pursuit season in Oregon. It's a bit over an hour long and the dogs make a few appearances, but most is just of the road.

I will never post the actual location or area where the videos are taken. If you think you know where it is, you can message or email me if you'd like, but please don't post it publicly to keep the spots good and prime as God intended them to be.

I've embedded the video to watch here, or you can open it in YouTube. Please subscribe to the Hound on the Run YouTube channel and tell your friends. I can't say these slow tv episodes will be very entertaining, or that anyone other than I will enjoy watching them. But so be it!

Without further ado, enjoy the first episode of Slow TV by Hound on the Run entitled: "Driving Forest Roads with Hounds #1."

Before we go, I will admit:

At first, I thought of the idea to post really long videos just of me driving around as a joke. Would be way to easy. But after I watched them, I thought they looked really cool and were relaxing to watch so I figured … why not? If you’re genuinely curious about the other slow TV that exists in the world, the Wikipedia page is a good read.

So, we’ll see how it goes. Let me know what you think in the comments.

For now, so long.

Niklas