Episode: 4519
Title: YouTube Subscriptions 2025 #10
Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr4519/hpr4519.mp3
Transcribed: 2026-07-31 16:13:09 (official HPR transcript)

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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 4519, for 2025-11-27
Today's show is entitled, "YouTube Subscriptions 2025 #10"
The host is Ahuka and the duration is 00:16:40
The flag is Clean, and the license is CC-BY-SA
The summary is "Ahuka shares part ten of his list of subscribed channels"
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Traditionally people will post a first show about something like how they got into technology
So I'm going to now continue with my look at my
Different YouTube subscriptions
And talk about them
So the next one I'm gonna talk about is is one called parlagram
Parlagram is a music
Related site most of what they do, but not all
has to do with the Beatles and
So that might be thought they did
For instance some very interesting ones about
Some of the tapes
Original recording masters and things like that that they're able to look at and
He did a
a tour inside
Abbey road studios and got to talk to some of the people who work there
So stuff that I find interesting
So the next one is Paul Whitewick
I don't remember how I stumbled across this one
but
Paul Whitewick is
Very interested in the history of England
I say England because I think that's really what he focuses on
Not great Britain or the United Kingdom
And a lot of it is historical so
He will take a look at old Roman roads and
Look for historical sites that might be 2000 years old
A lot of what he does is getting out into
The outdoors and
Walking around to sites and showing them to you
And if you have an interesting history
Particularly English history
You might be interested in that
Then there's PBS Eons now
PBS is in America the public broadcast system and
What they did is they set up an arm called PBS digital and they are
Linked I don't know the exact
Contractual details they're linked with complexity which does crash course and some of those things
And so Eons is about
Prehistoric history so it's it's going back
Into deep time it could be dinosaurs it could be prehistoric hominids
Yeah, so it's long ago
Now these shows
They can vary
They've started the thing called deep time and these are like hour-long
Life and death on a tiny
Dinosaurs island could you survive the end of the triassic stuff like that
Others are you know the 10 to 15 minute range
So one of them
Good example of that how animals got anuses
which is you know it's a scientific problem to figure out
No one was when the Amazon flowed backwards
So interesting stuff and
Another one from PBS is PBS origins
Now this is a history show and because PBS is the American
Public broadcast system it's they're talking about American history and
Trying to look at why things are the way they are in this country
So they did things like
History of America's highways
um
Who can identify as a native American?
Things like that
So it's it's American history and then there's PBS space time
This is a very interesting one for me at least this is hardcore physics
um so
Typically these episodes that come out once a week they're gonna be 15 to 20 minutes long
So you know is the way function the building block of reality
What is the new ultimate energy limit of the universe?
What if the universe did not start with the big bang
This is some of the things that they have tackled
You know you over time you get a pretty good
Education in relativity and what's involved in that and black holes and all of those good things
um
Next channel is
PCJ Law
Now this is someone who's a gamer
so
He does a lot mostly civilization
Which you might expect for me you know that I would find someone who does a lot of sieve
um
And so he did for instance and his videos tend to be longer
so
Mastering the Civ5 early game on deity and he does kind of a walk through of what you need to do if you
Want to accomplish that
um
Or
Civ5 beginner tactics to win more wars
How to build big cities
And so on
A lot of it is Civ5
uh
Well, you know in our civilization series I've pointed out that different versions of Civ
There are people who are still playing them to this day and think they're you know
There there are people who think Civ3 was the best
Civ ever released
Another group of people think no it was Civ4 was the best and Civ5 and so on and as I'm recording this Civ7 is going to be out in a few weeks
Well, you know
That's how it is so this channel PCJ Law is uh it's gonna have a lot of Civ5 information
uh
The next channel is periodic videos
And this is another one of those ones by Brady Haran and I mentioned that he
He has a channel about chemistry
uh and this is that channel the periodic part is a
Reference back to the periodic table and
What it is is each video
It's kind of like takes a look at
A particular element and
There's a well-known chemist who is one of the main hosts of this channel
And
There will do experiments and see you know what happens if you take this and you know you take a particular mineral and
Um
What happens if you
File it into powder and then drop the powder into a flame, you know will it produce a particular color or something like that?
If you like
Chemistry this this is pretty good
Then there's a fellow named Philip Hawkins
And he calls his channel
Culture Phil culture filter, sorry
But the Phil coming from his name and this is another
Mostly doctor who occasionally does something else, but primarily doctor who related
Reviews analysis stuff like that
Then there's photo advanced
uh and this is a channel that is devoted to
Gimp
Inkscape and blender and it does tutorials
And so if you want it to learn more about any of those three software things
You know this would be a good place to go to get more information
um
So there's a Gimp beginners guide tutorial course which is a series of videos that take you through that
Gimp text blenders beginners guide blender tutorials and so on
Next is physics girl
Now this it right now is
Sort of on hiatus unfortunately the host
Diana Cohen
Got long COVID
And so she is just just recently got to the point that she could get out of bed and stand
Which tells you how bad it got
She spent several years basically just in bed I'm able to do anything
But she did some very nice
Videos about physics and I'm hoping she gets back to it and so I'm sticking with the channel see how she's doing and
Hoping that
Eventually she'll get back to doing the videos that she's known for
The videos that she did on physics is really good
So
Then there's a channel called politics girl and this is
You know news and
Public affairs stuff in the United States
So if you're not interested in American politics and I
Realize a lot of people aren't then skip over it but if that's something that is of interest to you
this is
And as you might expect given my leanings it did so
It's kind of a view from the left on this
Then there's popular cruising
And these videos
They're a little bit
longer than some of the ones I do it's
Generally reviews of either a cruise ship or some activity
and they tend to be
20 to 30 minutes
long
You know if you want that sort of thing and you want to know about what's the newest ship and and
What was it like traveling on that ship?
This will be one to check out
Next is one called postmodern jukebox
This is a fascinating one
The postmodern jukebox is
What they do is they take
Contemporary
What they call today's hits
And do them in an earlier musical style
So
Some of the ones
You know what if they did the boys are back in town by thin lazy
But did it as a 50s rock and roll
um
Or
You know chapel-runs good luck babe done as a 1960s Leslie Gorson
um
I love it
My wife and I have been to see them live they they do have a
A touring organization as well
And the live shows are also fascinating and and we've enjoyed them a great deal
And there is potato mick whiskey
Little ethnic stereotyping going on here
Potato mick whiskey is from Ireland and
He is
Another one of those people who is a gamer
Primarily sieve but
Really strategy for ex games in general
He does videos some of them are tutorial videos many of them are
He'll do a series of videos that take you through an entire game from start to finish
Now sieve games
Can take a long time to play so doing it from start to finish might mean 12 hours worth of video
And then he'll he'll break it up into you know 12 one hour segments or something like that
It's good stuff if you're into it
as is
Pravis PRA v u s
and again
More than just sieve so
He will tackle other games like
You know one is surviving Mars which is a real-time strategy game
um
Another game is rebel incorporated
Or some of the others plague incorporated
So
You know if he's doing a game that I'm interested in then I'll watch the video otherwise I'll say yeah skip it
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