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Episode: 4589
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Title: YouTube Subscriptions 2025 #15
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr4589/hpr4589.mp3
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Transcribed: 2026-07-31 16:14:35 (official HPR transcript)
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 4589, for 2026-03-05
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Today's show is entitled, "YouTube Subscriptions 2025 #15"
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The host is Ahuka and the duration is 00:14:31
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The flag is Clean, and the license is CC-BY-SA
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The summary is "Part fifteen of my list of subscribed channels"
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You are listening to a show from the Reserve Q. This show was submitted in January 2025 to cover
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occasions just like this, where there are gaps in the regular schedule.
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Hello, this is Ahuka, welcoming you to Hacker Public Radio and another exciting episode.
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So with that, I'm going to continue on what I have been doing for the Reserve Q in this go-around,
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um, which is, I'm recording in January of 2025, and I'm looking at my YouTube channels that I am
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subscribed to and discussing them. So I'm going to start this time with TimeGhost History.
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TimeGhost is something we've mentioned before, one of the real-time history groups that came out of
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the Great War, uh, channel. Um, now, TimeGhost is one of those groups, and for their major projects,
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they have dedicated channels like World War II, um, Korean War, things like that. Um, but they
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did smaller things as well, so they have a TimeGhost History channel, um, where they did something
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like, uh, between, like, uh, between two wars. So, like, you know, what went on between World War I and
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World War II. Um, they did one on, um, Ukrainian identity, um, talking about the war in Ukraine. Um,
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they did something on Israel and Palestine and asking questions about, are the British the ones who
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really started all of that? Um, so, they also have a channel called TimeGhost Podcast. Um, I'm not sure
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they're doing it anymore. It looks like they released about, uh, six videos a couple of years
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ago and then stopped. Um, but I, as I often do with these, I'll just leave the channel in because
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there's no reason not to, something might pop up. Uh, next one is, uh, Toby Hadoke's channel. Uh,
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Toby Hadoke is, uh, someone who's very active in the Doctor Who community. Um, he is active with Big
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Finish. Um, he goes around to conventions. He's got a comedy monologue called, uh,
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Moths Ate My Doctor Who Scarf that he does at conventions. So, he's an interesting fellow and I
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like to follow what goes on. Next channel is Tom Sedell. Uh, Tom Sedell is a, uh, artist, cartoonist
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particularly, um, who has a online web comic called Gunner Krieg Court, which I quite enjoy.
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And this is his channel. The next one is called Touropia. Uh, and this is a travel-related channel.
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Uh, and they're sort of the, their bailiwick is to go to a place and say, you know, what are the top
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things to do here? What are the top areas you should visit? What have you? So, uh, the length of the video
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can vary a lot between a, you know, 15 or 20 minute, um, all the way up to an hour, depending
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on what sort of topic they're taking. So, they did, uh, 12 best places to visit in Vietnam. That
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was about a 20 minute. The 50 best places to visit in Asia, that was an hour. Um, the 23 most beautiful
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islands in the Mediterranean. That's about 41 minutes. Uh, so, you know, 12 best places to visit
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in Peru, 18 minutes.
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Now, the next channel is, uh, TPM TV. TPM stands for Talking Points Memo. And that is a press
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organization in the United States that, uh, I follow pretty closely. And in fact, I'm a, uh,
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subscriber, paid subscriber. Um, so it's, covers politics, basically, what's going on in Washington
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from a liberal point of view. Next channel is Trek Culture. Now, there's a, a organization called
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What Culture that is just sort of geek things in general, but then they set up specific channels.
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Uh, and so there's a Who Culture, uh, and there's a Trek Culture. There's others, but those are the
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two that I subscribe to. Um, and this is videos, uh, you know, talking about, um, Star Trek. Um,
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the lengths can vary a little bit, but on the average, they're probably 15 to 20 minutes. Um,
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then there's a channel called Tall Tapes. Um, this is about Jethro Tull. I mentioned before, uh,
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progressive rock is, uh, something I very much enjoy. I'm a big Jethro Tull fan. So, uh, a lot of
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this is concert footage, uh, and, you know, people may have, um, shot this. Uh, in other words,
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an audience, uh, recording for a lot of these. So, it's, it's not necessarily very high quality,
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but, uh, there's also some documentary stuff that gets in here.
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Then there's Ursa Ryan. Uh, Ursa Ryan is another one of those game people who does a number of
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things, but does a lot of civilization, and that's what I'm interested in. Uh, and same for the next
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channel, which is Van Bradley, um, who will discuss other things, but mostly does civilization,
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and that's why I am subscribed to it. Then there's Veritasium. Uh, and Veritasium, he says,
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is an element of truth. Videos about science, education, and anything else I find interesting.
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Um, so, the, the host is, uh, fellow named Derek, and so, um, he did things like, uh, people said
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this experiment was impossible, so I tried it. So, and it, something involving thermite. That was about
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a half hour long. Um, do people understand the scale of the universe? You know, 15 minute, um,
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uh, why don't railroads need expansion joints?
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So, it's, it's, uh, science in general. Uh, next one is Viking. Uh, I'm, this Viking,
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Viking is in reference to the cruise line. Um, my wife and I have done two Viking river cruises,
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one on the Rhine and one on the Danube. Uh, enjoyed them both tremendously. Uh, so, I'm subscribing to
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the channel, and then, in addition to the Viking channel, the Viking channel is mostly relatively short,
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um, um, uh, promotional kinds of things. And you're talking like two, three minutes. Then there's,
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they have another one called Viking TV with longer ones. And those typically would, uh, involve, uh,
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involve interviews, uh, with people, uh, regarding some of the things that you might do on a Viking
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cruise. Um, so, you know, Christmas on the Rhine, um, is one of the things they do. Um,
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you know, beyond the brochure, taking a look at, like, the Lyon and Provence is one of the ones they do.
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The Antarctic Explorer is another one they do. Then there's Vlog Brothers. Um, and this was the channel
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that was started long time ago by two brothers. And they would just make it a point a couple of times
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a week. They would record a video to talk to the other one. And, uh, that led to them doing Crash Course
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and creating the company called Complexly, and which is now involved with, um, PBS Digital Studios. But,
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you know, this is the channel where they are still doing, um, those, uh, videos. One on Tuesday and one on
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Friday. So, Tuesday, John Green, who you might know as an author, um, does his video. And then his
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brother Hank does, uh, his video in response on Friday. And they're typically, you know, about five
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minutes in length, but they don't stick to that necessarily. And there's, um, Washington Monthly.
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Uh, Washington Monthly is a magazine, again, from a fairly left liberal perspective on politics in the
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United States. It's one of the ones I support. Then there's Who Culture. Um, uh, we talked about
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Trek Culture a few minutes ago. So, this is the one about Doctor Who. Uh, it's the same group of people,
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uh, talking about, uh, Doctor Who, uh, and specifically the different episodes.
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Then there is Walter's World. And this is a fellow, um, who is named Walters. That's his last name. Um,
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and so he and his wife and children do, um, travel around the world. And so he'll do videos about,
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uh, things that he's learned in doing that. Um, so for instance, he just did one on, um,
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five big travel rule changes for 2025, how you need to get a visa now to get to Europe.
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I don't remember exactly when that kicks in. I think it's in a few months. Um, that was about
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five minutes. Then Mistakes Tourists Make in Austria. That was about 15 minutes. Um,
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so he does these, a couple of these a week. Um, then there's World War II. Um, this is another
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time ghost production. They, they did a fantastic job, um, of covering World War II. Again, real time.
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So each week we're covering the corresponding week, um, in the war, but also they did two,
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uh, extra special productions. One was about Pearl Harbor and the other was about D-Day.
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And in each one, uh, what they did is they just expanded, uh, or, you know, zoomed in kind of
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to, uh, do, uh, do hour by hour what was going on. Um, and so the D-Day, it's, they cover 24 hours
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of D-Day with about 24 hours worth of video. Um, so, you know, it's a really good one. If you have
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any interest in World War II history, check it out. Then, um, XKCD, uh, which is a web comic that
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I think geeks are fairly familiar with in many cases. And, um, Randall Munro, the writer also,
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um, uh, wrote some books called What If, and then created this What If channel where he does videos
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about, you know, what, what if we put a pool on the moon? What would a magnitude 15 earthquake be
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like? What if you swam in a nuclear storage pool? The next one is You Can't Unhear This.
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Um, and this is a channel about the Beatles, and what it does is it digs into some aspect,
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um, typically, you know, 10 to 15 minute videos. Like, there was one on paperback writer, how
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that changed the Beatles sound forever, the amazing recording history of Here Comes the Sun,
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uh, the drum mystery in the Beatles song, Dear Prudence.
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All right.
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So, with that, I have concluded all of the subscriptions in my YouTube subscription list.
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Took a long time to do that, but then I subscribed to a lot of channels.
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Well, I hope this hasn't bored you too much. This is Ahooka for Hacker Public Radio signing
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off and, as always, encouraging you to support free software. Bye-bye.
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