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Episode: 4508
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Title: HPR4508: YouTube Subscriptions 2025 #8
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr4508/hpr4508.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-11-22 15:11:48
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 4508 for Wednesday 12 November 2025.
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Today's show is entitled, YouTube Subscriptions 2025 hash 8.
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It is part of the series YouTube Subscriptions.
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It is hosted by Ahukah and is about 16 minutes long.
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It carries a clean flag.
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The summary is Ahukah shares part 8 of his list of subscribe channels.
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You are listening to a show from the Reserve Q.
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We are airing it now because we had free slots that were not filled.
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This is a community project that needs listeners to contribute shows in order to survive.
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Please consider recording a show for Hacker Public Radio.
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Hello, this is Ahukah, welcoming you to Hacker Public Radio in another exciting episode.
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This one is coming to you from the Reserve Q.
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You know what that means?
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That means there aren't enough shows coming in and you need to do something about that.
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Hacker Public Radio is a community project and it relies on the community to submit the
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shows that keep the community going.
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At some point, if the shows don't come in, we just shut the whole thing down.
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I'm going to assume if you're listening to this, you're subscribed and you would regret
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that.
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So the best way to make sure it doesn't happen is to submit shows.
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It's really easy.
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So with that, I'm going to continue what I've been doing for a while now, which is going
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through my YouTube channel subscriptions.
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And I'm going to pick up this with Levant du Nord.
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Now Levant du Nord is a French Canadian folk music band that I really like.
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I like folk music and the French Canadian slant on it.
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It is kind of related to some other things, including Celtic, but you know, it has its
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own particular flavor and it's not quite like anything else and it's enjoyable.
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Now if you're a music person, it might be worth checking out if you think that might
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be the sort of thing you'd want to listen to.
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Now the next channel is called Learn Spanish with SpanishPod101.com, obviously we've talked
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before about how I am learning Spanish and have been really since the COVID pandemic hit.
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And this is one of the tools I think by now I've hit all three of the major tools that
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I use.
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So I use SpanishPod101.com, I use Duolingo and I use Coffee Break Spanish.
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So those are the three major things that I do.
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There's also another channel that we might get to that I dip into from time to time.
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Okay, the next channel I'm going to talk about is Lindsay Sterling.
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Now Lindsay is a violinist dancer, so it has a very energetic show.
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And it's fun, is she the world's best violinist?
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No, no, not the world's best dancer, but she puts on a good show and you know, that's
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reason enough to check it out.
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So I'm on the channel so I get to see what she's been doing.
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The next channel is Louis LaGal and Louis is another one of the doctor who fans that
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I follow who puts out videos.
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His videos are not frequent and they tend to be long and you know, that's usually the
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case.
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If you're putting out videos every day, they're not going to be long videos.
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If you're going to do something that's going to take an hour and a half when you put
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it out, you might spend several months producing it.
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So it's fun stuff.
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It's a doctor who oriented and so if you're into a doctor who check it out.
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Next one is Lucinox.
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Now Lucinox is kind of an offshoot of the channel that I discussed previously called
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Fire of Learning and it just never really took off.
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They at one point a few months back as I record this said, well, we're just closing it
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down for now.
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You know, that may end up being permanent, but I'm just leaving it on the list because
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it does no harm to leave it on the list.
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So the subscriptions there, if they start it up again, I'll know about it.
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And if they don't, no harm, no foul.
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Now the next one is called Lydian Label Online.
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And this is a channel done by the band Lydian Collective.
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Now this is I think London based, certainly UK based, but I believe they're mostly based
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in London.
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And they do a kind of a jazz fusion sort of thing.
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It's keyboards, guitar, bass, and drums.
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I really like what they do.
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They tend to be what I think of as very tasteful.
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In other words, they're not trying to see, you know, how much they can dazzle you with
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millions of notes they can produce.
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They instead seem to be trying to make music.
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What a concept.
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And I'm a huge fan of the Lydian Collective.
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I have all of the CDs.
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I will continue to get all of the CDs as long as they keep producing them.
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The only way I can see them is through YouTube because they're not at the point where they're
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touring outside the country.
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And so that's the best I can do.
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Next channel, many a true nerd.
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Well, you know, this is, among other things, a lot of it has to do with computer gaming
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and other nerdy topics.
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This is one of those channels where they put out more videos than I actually take the
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time to watch because a lot of the times it's something I'm just not interested in.
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But when they do something I'm interested in, then that's great.
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And that's how I approach it, you know, I get a notification for every video and then
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I decide, is this what I want to watch or not?
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The next channel I want to discuss here is called Mean Mr. Mayo.
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It's a guy named Joe Mayo and the name is a play on the Beatles Mean Mr. Mustard.
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And this is a primarily Beatles related channel.
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He does some movie reviews as well.
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But I basically follow it for the Beatles content.
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He's also on a podcast that I listen to, which also has a channel.
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And this is one that's devoted to the Beatles as individual solo performers after the Beatles
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broke up.
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The next one is called Midas Touch.
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Midas Touch is the name of a news organization, liberal.
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And they are becoming very prominent in the alternative media space.
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One of the things that we're seeing now is that politicians do not necessarily just
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communicate with people through the major television networks or the major news outlets.
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That in fact so many people have tuned out all of those things that if you want to reach
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people you have to do things like go on YouTube or go on the podcasts or what have you.
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So this is a, they put out a number of shows daily.
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Some of them I listen to, some of them I don't again, it's a function of time sometimes.
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You put out a 10 minute video on a topic, I'm liable to listen.
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You put out an hour long video, now there's a good chance I'm going to say now I'm going
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to skip it.
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There's only so many hours in the day and I'm not going to spend all of them in front
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of a computer screen watching YouTube videos.
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This is something I do in the evening, you know, after dinner I relax and watch some
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YouTube videos before I go to bed.
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Next one I'm going to mention is called mental floss and this is a fun one.
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It is kind of a nerdy channel that does a variety of different things.
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Some of them are list videos like 15 mispronounced words, those are the list videos.
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They also do misconceptions videos like misconceptions about Africa, stuff like that.
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Light entertainment but I always enjoy it.
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Now the next one I want to discuss is called Metatrek and this is a Star Trek related
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channel and so it talks about Star Trek, you know, examining how certain themes are
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handled in the show or reviewing different things in the show.
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Obviously I will know I'm a big Doctor Who fan, I've been getting into Star Trek as
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well and lately I've been going through, I got a boxed set of all of the original series,
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the three seasons back in the 1960s and my wife and I have been going through that.
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So you know, there's no reason you have to just have one bit of geek in your life, you
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can have multiples.
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The next I'm going to mention is called the Michigan Irish Music Festival, I love Irish
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music, I love going to Irish Music Festivals, I've been Ireland a couple of times and enjoyed
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music when I was there, in fact I remember in Belfast a few years ago going on kind of
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a pub crawl led by some musicians and it was a lot of fun.
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While we have in Michigan where I live, we have our own Irish festival that is in September
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every year, I've been to it and enjoyed a lot so this lets me keep up with the news
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on that.
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There's another big Irish festival by the way in Dublin, Ohio, well with a name like
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Dublin, you know, you kind of have to do it right and we're going to be going there
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with a couple of friends this year.
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Next channel is MinuteEarth and along with that is MinutePhysics, I'll treat them together
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because they're pretty similar, basically they use animation drawings to develop short
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videos and talking about, I'll say an average of about three minutes the piece to talk about
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some topic involving earth science or physics and they come out, I'm going to say probably
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less than once a week, you know, maybe once every two weeks but they're fun and I enjoy
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them.
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Next is a channel called, well it's the name of the person, Mohini Day, Mohini Day is
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a bass player from India and she is absolutely phenomenal.
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So this is, she'll put stuff out on the channel, usually fairly short, you know, her performing
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some place so she might do a three minute clip of her doing a bass solo at a concert
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or something like that, she's really good and I enjoy it.
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The next channel I want to mention is the Mona Lisa Twins, you know, Mona Lisa is obviously
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the name of a famous painting but they're actually two twins, two ladies and one of them
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is named Mona and the other is named Lisa so it was kind of a natural thing for them
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to put together.
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When I first was listening to them they were doing a lot of covers of Beatles songs and
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they still do a lot of covers of Beatles songs, they also have their own material that
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they write, they've been performing at the cavern in Liverpool, you know, it's, I'm a huge
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Beatles fan so I enjoy the Mona Lisa Twins as well.
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Then there's a Monty Python, you know, you kind of have to have Monty Python, you can't
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go through life without your Monty Python.
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And this is mostly little snippets from the TV program or occasionally from one of the
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movies and they just put a little piece of that out there just to sort of keep in the
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public eye a little bit.
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Then there's more perfect union and this is a channel that is kind of devoted to how
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we can, you know, strengthen unions and build working class power and pretty much United
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States oriented as far as that goes.
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And that happens to be something I'm a great believer in so I follow the channel.
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And there's Mr. Tartus.
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Well you may know that the Tartus is the blue police box that Dr. Who flies around
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time and space in.
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So Mr. Tartus is another Dr. Who channel that does reviews, discussion, you know, what's
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going on in the world of Dr. Who, what's the latest news from the BBC.
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So this is a channel where I can keep up with all of that.
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And so with that, I think that's probably enough for this.
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So this is a hookah for Hacker Public Radio signing off and encouraging you to support
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FreeSoftware.
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