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Episode: 4545
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Title: YouTube Subscriptions 2025 #12
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr4545/hpr4545.mp3
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Transcribed: 2026-07-31 16:13:40 (official HPR transcript)
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 4545, for 2026-01-02
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Today's show is entitled, "YouTube Subscriptions 2025 #12"
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The host is Ahuka and the duration is 00:16:28
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The flag is Clean, and the license is CC-BY-SA
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The summary is "Part twelve of my list of subscribed channels"
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You are listening to a show from the Reserve Q. We are airing it now because we had
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free slots that were not filled. This is a community project that needs listeners to contribute
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shows in order to survive. Please consider recording a show for Hacker Public Radio.
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Hello, this is Ahooga for Hacker Public Radio. Welcome in you to another exciting episode.
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And this is coming to you from the Reserve Q. So you know what that means? We're not getting
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enough shows submitted. Hacker Public Radio is a community project that relies on members
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of the community to record and submit shows. If that doesn't happen at some point, we
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shut the whole thing down. I don't want that to happen. I'm assuming if you're subscribed,
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you don't want that to happen either. So record a show and submit it. It's really
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not that hard. So with the public service announcement out of the way, I'm going to
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continue with my discussion of YouTube channels that I subscribe to. And I'm going to start
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this one with Rick Steve's travel. Now Rick Steve is a travel writer. Also has a company
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that leads tours primarily Europe. In fact, the company is called Rick Steve's Europe.
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So these are a series of videos. They're long. So typically an hour and a half to two hours
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at a time. So some of them might be check favorites beyond Prague, Normandy and D. D. B.
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Which is Toledo in Spain. Ethical traveling in a warming world, Norway in a nutshell, you
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know, all of these are over an hour. Now they come out once a week. I will sometimes skip
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one. If I don't have the time, he's also got the Rick Steve's Europe channel by itself. And this
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is the primarily the short form, relatively short. So a lot of these are like 25 minutes. And I
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think what they are is rebroadcasts of the television show. In the United States, he's got a
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program that heirs on the public broadcast system, PBS, called Rick Steve's Europe. So this is,
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I think mostly just rebroadcasting those programs. There's a lot of them by now. He's been doing this
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for years. The next channel I'm going to mention is Ringo Star. Yes, the ex beetle. So this is
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partly news. If he has a new release, he may release a music video to go with the new song.
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Typically, though, it's mostly just short stuff. And maybe four or five minutes max.
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So then there's Robert Reich. Robert Reich was the Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration
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and this is another one of my news and politics things. He's a observer of what's going on in
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comments on political developments in the United States. Now, these can vary between short and long.
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So he did one like the ten biggest myths about our economy that was close to a half hour,
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that he did one, why the super rich are killing social security. And that was like four minutes long.
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So a little variety there. On the next one is called Rob words. Rob is the name of the host.
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And he's a word geek. What that means is that he is taking a look at some of the interesting
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things about language. These are typically in the 20 minute or so range, 17 to 23 kind of thing.
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So one of them was the worst English phrase book ever written. That was interesting.
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Did Shakespeare invent as many words as people claim? Untranslatable French words.
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Words, the Vikings left behind. Old Norse words that are still in English.
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Did one on the alphabet, the origin of all of these letters? And so on.
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Okay, next channel is Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. That's the official channel.
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So usually it's going to be stuff about the induction ceremonies and who's getting inducted each year.
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So it's kind of a news channel as much as anything.
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Then there's Rowan J. Coleman. And he does what he calls in-depth retrospective reviews on science fiction
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and superheroes and stuff like that. So he's talking about visuals stuff. TV movies, things like that.
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Review and analysis. So might be Star Trek, Babylon 5, Robo Cop, Red Warp, and so on.
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Then there's Royal Caribbean blog and Royal Caribbean is a cruise line. So this is about cruising.
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These are, again, you know, probably about 10 minutes long. It comes out about once a week.
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Things not to do on a cruise. The five big changes coming to Royal Caribbean in 2025.
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How much do I tip everyone on a cruise? I'm not sure if this is actually an official one or
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there's just some guy decided to do it because it reads like it's just some guy deciding to do it.
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On the other hand, I've got to assume he's got some kind of relationship with Royal Caribbean
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cruise line that enables him to do it, otherwise he'd probably get a cease and desist.
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But there you have it. Then the Sabaton history. Sabaton is a Swedish heavy metal band and a lot of
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their songs, possibly all of them. I'm not an expert. I have to do with war and related topics.
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So the Sabaton history channel is hosted by Indy NIDAL. Now Indy NIDAL was the host of the World War
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one series that we talked about when we were looking at real-time history. He's one of the people
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that split off and is now hosting videos on time ghost, which we will get to because I'm going
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through this thing alphabetical order. So he's the host of the Sabaton history channel and
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so it will usually be a discussion of something in history and then there's a Sabaton song.
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It's about that and then he'll talk to one of the members of the group and say, okay, when you wrote
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this song, what were you trying to do, what were you thinking about? Then there's the next channel
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be Sassy Gamer Lady and this is another one of those Gamer channels. Now she does a number of things
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but occasionally Civ will be a part of that and so it's mostly the Civ that I'm interested in.
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Then science news channel. Science news is a publication that for a long time has been coming,
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it's been published in the United States for decades. I think it traces itself back to the
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beginning of the 20th century. They had been publishing by weekly and I think in just now with
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2025, they may have just switched to monthly because I just got a very different looking publication
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that says it's the January issue. So if the publication is all about what's in the news and science,
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very good stuff. The videos are really short. So when I say short, I mean typically less than a minute,
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occasionally just over that but like see a vampire bat working out on a treadmill.
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An animation one, how Pluto met its largest moon Karen.
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Watch an Ethiopian wolf slurp nectar from a flower. Here's what work is praying on a whale shark looks
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like. So and all of these are like you know 30 seconds long kind of thing. So just a short little thing.
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Then there's science at NASA, another one of the NASA ones and this is from the Science Mission
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Directorate. So it's talk about the science work that NASA is doing and that could be
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experiments conducted in space or it could have to do with developing new scientific instruments
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or what have you. Something going on on a space station could come on this channel but it's
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basically science oriented. And there's a channel that I could probably drop at this point because
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I don't think the the host is doing anything any more because he switched to a different name
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channel. This channel is called scienceium an element of knowledge and the Derek the host
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now has a channel called veritasium and seems to be doing everything over there. But there were some
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a few good videos there. Then there's the Sci-Fi channel. Sci-Fi is short for science Friday and in the
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United States that is a radio program that is on national public radio or American public radio.
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I'm not sure either. I'm not never entirely sure what the difference is but it's a public radio
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program. It's also a podcast and it's a YouTube channel and what they do on the YouTube channel is
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usually somewhat shorter form. So you know we could be talking about anything from a couple of
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minutes to seven or eight minutes occasionally something longer. They have a Sci-Fi book club and
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that can engender longer videos because I have a group of people talking about a particular book
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so that can go on longer. But most of these tend to be anywhere from a few minutes up to like 15 minutes.
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And then there is Sci-Show. Sci-Show is another complexly
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product and it's just a YouTube channel devoted to science. So these are the same people behind crash
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course. They're the people that got involved with PBS digital and this is their specifically science
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related channel and then they split out a couple after that. So there's also Sci-Show Psych
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which is all about psychology. I haven't seen anything lately from them so I'm not sure if
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they're still doing it or if it's on hiatus and then there's Sci-Show Space which is specifically
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about space and that does seem to still produce a few things. So like they did one a few months back
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about black holes and then there is security now. This is the twit network. This is the one with Steve
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Gibson and I sort of just check in. Those are so long. The average video there seems to be at least
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two hours long and I don't often have that much time but the nice thing is in the show notes they
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list all of the topics. So what I tend to do is I scan that first and say okay is there anything
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here I really want to know about. And you know frequently it is the case that I look at and say
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nothing that's going to compel me to dig into a two hour long program. So I think that's enough
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for this. This is a hookah for Hacker Public Radio signing off and it's always encouraging you
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