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Episode: 4432
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Title: HPR4432: YouTube Subscriptions 2025 #3
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr4432/hpr4432.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-26 00:38:47
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 4,432, for Tuesday the 29th of July 2025.
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Today's show is entitled, YouTube Subscriptions 2025 Hash 3.
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It is part of the series YouTube Subscriptions.
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It is hosted by Ahukah and is about 15 minutes long.
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It carries a clean flag.
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The summary is part 3 of my list of subscribe channels.
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You are listening to a show from the Reserve Q. We are airing it now because we had free
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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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Hello, this is Ahukah and welcome to another exciting episode.
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This one is coming out of the Reserve Q. So if you are hearing this, that is a signal
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that shows are running low and you should do something about it.
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It is not that hard.
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So I am going to continue talking about YouTube channels that I subscribe to and there
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is quite a few of them.
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One of the things that I explained in an earlier episode is that I don't actually watch
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much television.
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I watch a lot of YouTube videos and so subscribing to channels is one way I get my daily
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fix.
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The other thing worth explaining is that the frequency with which these channels release
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content is somewhat variable.
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Now there are some things like news related channels that release content daily.
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There are some channels that release content once or twice a week.
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There are some that I don't think I have heard from in a couple of years.
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But I still leave them on my list of subscribed channels because I never know when something
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is going to suddenly pop up.
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I was on a channel which will get to at some point World War II and they had finished
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all of their coverage of World War II and had moved on to do other things and all of a
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sudden they decided, no, we want to go back and do an in-depth look at this one battle
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and suddenly I have more content coming.
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So my theory is it doesn't cost me anything to leave a channel on the list.
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So I do, so I've got a lot of channels.
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So continuing from the last time, C-A-T-L, now C-A-T-L is a Chinese company that makes
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batteries for electric vehicles.
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Now I previously did an episode about electric vehicles and the battery technology and how
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that's changing and that's how I, you know, in researching all of that I found this company
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and they're really at the forefront of what's going on in this area and so I subscribe
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to their channel and most of what I get is PR stuff, frankly, but, you know, occasionally
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it's a little more in-depth and I enjoy hearing what's going on.
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I am, as I explained previously, I'm going to be having to buy a new car one of these
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days.
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My 2012 Mazda 3 isn't going to last forever and so I'm looking at something more environmentally
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friendly.
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Now that, that Mazda gets really good gas mileage but I think I can do better the next
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time around.
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So that's why I stick with that.
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The next channel I'm going to mention is CGP Gray.
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Now, Gray is one of those people who releases content very erratically so I'm not here
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from him for two or three months and then a video will pop up.
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I guess that works for him.
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I assume he's not making a living out of this.
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But he does very interesting idiosyncratic videos where he'll see something that he'll
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go, huh, that looks strange and he'll dig into it and he'll do a video explaining whatever
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it is that he thought was kind of strange and it's fun so it's on on my list.
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Now the next one is the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
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This is the official YouTube channel for this satellite and as it says on the tin, you
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know, this is a satellite that's an observatory that is looking at things in space using X-rays
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different part of the radio spectrum.
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So I periodically will get videos from them and they're usually pretty short, you know,
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no more than a couple of minutes about something that they have seen with the Chandra X-ray
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Observatory and we'll get some video data on what they've seen.
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Next one is Crystal D.
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Crystal D is, I subscribed to her channel because of she's a big Doctor Who geek and so I
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get, again, infrequent and fairly short videos from her and it's about Doctor Who and as
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you know I'm a big Doctor Who fan so that makes sense.
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Now the next one is a channel that is called Civilization.
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It's not the official channel.
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It's a channel by someone who is a big fan and plays Civilization and you know a lot
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of the people who do this, they will do videos demonstrating games that they've played
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which can be interesting if they're a really good player.
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You can pick up some strategy tips and things like that and you know that's basically what
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Yogs Civilization channel is all about.
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Now the official one is called Civilization-Topic and that comes from the for-axis studios and
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so right now for instance as I'm recording this you'll probably be hearing this after
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the game has come out but as I'm recording this we are awaiting the release of Civilization
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7 and that is due in February of 2025 and so what they've been doing is some videos with
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the developers and through about one a month in the lead up to the release and each one
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is like an hour to an hour and a half long but you've got the developers they're going
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through different aspects of the game explaining what they're thinking is and how they expect
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things to work.
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Now you know once the game is released we're not going to get that so much but there could
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also be releases of expansions of the game DLC and all of that kind of stuff so there
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will probably be more topics as we go along.
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Now the next one is Clever Dick Films.
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This is another Dr. Who channel Clever Dick does videos basically looking at each of the
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people who have played the doctor and what their shows are like kind of doing an overall
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evaluation of the performer and the era so you know he's started with William Hartnull
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the first doctor and you know has continued periodically releasing another one I don't
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think he's made his way all the way through to the current day yet but when he does release
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one I like to know about it.
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The next channel I'm going to mention is one of the news slash politics channels.
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I've added a number of those recently as we just went through a election in the United
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States in 2024 as I'm recording this and I'm pretty politically active and interested
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in current events so I subscribe to a number of channels and Cliff's Edge is one of them.
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Now I tend to be fairly liberal in the American sense which I guess you know social democratic
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in the European sense something like that so that's the kind of thing you would probably
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get if you followed any of the channels that I follow.
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There are others so you know if you have different ideas find your own.
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The next one is Coffee Break Languages and you know I have been learning Spanish and
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we've talked about that before and there's something that I started doing when COVID hit
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and wanted to make sure my brain didn't turn to jello so I started working on learning
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Spanish and one of the places that I went to for some help with that is Coffee Break Languages.
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Their motto is turn your downtime into do time and the idea is that they're like 15 minute
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lessons but the channel is not the actual lessons in most cases.
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The channel keeps me up on what they're doing.
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You can buy the lessons and I have bought a number of them.
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Next one is called Console Room.
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Console Room is a channel devoted to Doctor Who again in this case specifically a Doctor
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Who Convention that takes place in the United States it's a Chicago Tartus and that's
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always in the fall the United States in well the Chicago area and so let's me keep up
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to date with and they put out things you know if they have a panel with one of the doctors
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or one of the companions they will frequently videotape or video record I shouldn't say
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tape in this day and age the video record the the panel and release it on their channel
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which is very nice so if you can't get to the the convention I can't always you can
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still find out what went on there.
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Next one content lit with Simon Faye Simon Faye.
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I think I got into this originally because he did a very in-depth analysis of foundation
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by Isaac Asimov the foundation trilogy and then I really liked what he did and looked
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at some of his other videos and thought okay well you know he doesn't release a ton of
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stuff you know it's been months since I've seen anything from him but leave it on here
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in case he does do something.
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Next one is called council of geeks.
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Now earlier we mentioned break room of geeks why was that earlier because I'm doing this
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in alphabetical order if you haven't figured that out and so council of geeks I discovered
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a long time ago because the person involved Vera Wilde does reviews of different episodes
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of doctor who and I thought okay I like that something I'm interested in and and I like
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her take on things so I've been very happy with subscribing to that channel and keeping
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up with with what she has to say.
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Next one is called crash course.
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How crash course is kind of become a fairly big thing in certain circles they've affiliated
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with the public broadcast system in the United States the PBS digital they're affiliated
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with that I don't know exactly the details and doesn't really matter but what they do
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is they provide educational content so there's crash course science crash course philosophy
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crash force history you know and they will do often a like a 20 week exploration of a
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given topic like they did one on just a biology and another one on botany and you know
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another one on they're doing one right now on religion and another one on political theory.
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So it's fun I enjoy it and I'm a sucker for good educational content anyway now the
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next one is crispy pro which is a fairly odd name perhaps but it's a person who is from
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Australia who's a doctor who fan and does reviews of doctor who so you know just like
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many of the other ones that I have subscribed to well that's about enough for now this is
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a hookah thanking you all and encouraging you as always to support free software so bye bye
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