What YouTube (or alternative) Podcasts do you Subscribe to?

One that I catch fairly often is Rich Does Politics which can help take off the blinders. "Rich" is a Pakistani Brit covering a wide range of topics in an almost Art Bell way. UK politics, US politics, Chinese politics, world politics, and even UFOs now and then.

It is normally an interview format, with guests having deeper connections and insights than you get elsewhere. Many are from political movements, others are retired from industry, others are retired high-ranking military.

Here's a recent episode. It covers many topics but most of them could change what you think our real problems are.

Trump BROKE Britain So They Invented A Shortage To Survive

0:00 There is no RAM shortage
1:00 Greetings from Cyprus
1:42 The RAM chip shortage story
2:15 Who shut the memory lines down
3:13 The hyperscale data centre narrative
4:07 The collapse has already happened
5:11 Seven companies propping up the market
6:16 The alchemy engine and rehypothecation
6:55 Manufacturing a key dependency
8:36 Gödel, Goebbels and the chipset proof
9:46 Why the hyperscaler future isn't coming
11:06 Hydraulic despotism and the debt
12:09 The TLDR: holding the general price level
13:08 What gold bugs and Bitcoiners miss
13:29 The Austrian structure of production
15:03 Step seven, Argentina and the named enemies
16:11 Oracle's debt and the junk bond signal
17:31 The Larry Ellison digression
18:18 Flock cameras, Palantir and the new climate grift
18:58 How they prep the next narrative
20:30 China: the fight over the horizon
21:06 Everybody has a job in the misdirection
22:52 Grok confirms the throttling
23:32 Trillions spent on what cannot work
25:15 A money laundering grift
26:09 Who they're putting in charge
27:33 Oxford's 15-minute city
28:12 Why the Blade Runners feed the grift
30:07 Blaming the country, not the individuals
32:10 The only weapons they have left
34:25 Taking World War Three off the table
35:47 Civil war, and what is left
36:10 SOFR, Fannie and Freddie
37:13 The Clarity Act and stablecoins
38:56 Why markets are trading this way
40:30 Funnelling money through city bonds
42:09 Private equity and the cash out
43:18 Strip mining small business
44:29 Reframing the panopticon
45:09 The great wealth transfer
45:29 Fake job postings and credentialism
46:50 Why this sells communism
 
I think this is a weekly, The Way I Heard It by Mike Rowe ("Dirty Jobs" TV show, books, etc.).

About an hour interview. His premise is the value of honest work and how to get kids back into these necessary jobs and take pride in them.

 
I don’t subscribe to any podcast but there are a few individual YouTube channels (mainly bodybuilders and the likes) that I do like to keep up with thus the thing with the subscribe button.

Just as a side; I have noticed that quite a few YouTube channels have taken up a “Members Only” stance. I don’t know about the rest but FOX Live is charging around $20 a month which is ridiculous because it comes with a whole cable subscription on TV.
I already pay for Premium YouTube but nope, that doesn’t include the Members Only sites.
 
By "subscribe," I'm not talking about paying them for access. If you click the "Subscribe" button, you are subscribed until you unsubscribe. If you watch a podcast or channel that you enjoy or find interesting, I don't know why you wouldn't subscribe, because it would simply make it easier for you to find the channel again.
 
I only mentioned the Member’s Only thing as a side and how many more of those sites are popping up.

As to the subscribe thing, I normally don’t sit and listen to podcasts ergo I do not subscribe to them. If one pops up and the subject line doesn’t look like click bait and if my past experience listening to them doesn’t include the F Bomb being dropped every few seconds then I might tune in.

If George Smoot had a podcast, then I would definitely subscribe to it but as it stands, most astro-physicists are more interested in research and possibly giving an occasional lecture rather than broadcasting on YouTube.
 
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I watch or listen to quite a bit of video or audio, but have never subscribed or commented on anything.

I ingest a wide variety of content depending on my mood. It could be an astronomy podcast, classic movie, how-to-video, short story, medical info, or anything else that catches my fancy.
 
The algorithm used by YouTube might, in part, be politically motivated, given that Google owns the platform, but it is also based on what you watch and what you're subscribed to, so subscribing to the things you like makes it easier for you to find the things that you like because they'll be presented to you. For example, when I view YouTube on our TV upstairs, I see mostly political stuff and music shows like "The Voice," because my wife is the one who generally accesses YouTube from that television. When I'm feeling particularly mean, sometimes I'll subscribe to all of the polka channels I can find on her account, so that is what she's presented with. If I want to be even meaner, I'll change her default language to Korean or something.

But, I digress. When I access YouTube from my own account downstairs, I will mostly be presented with the things I like to watch. Although YouTube sometimes makes my subscriptions disappear mysteriously, for the most part, they simply keep me from having to search for something that I want to watch, or if I do have to search, it's easier to do because I can look through my subscriptions; otherwise, I might forget the names of the channels I like.
 
I think that some people take pride in not subscribing to anything because it feels like independence. "I'm not one of those people who gets sucked into YouTube's ecosystem." Others might dislike the idea that YouTube tracks what they watch and uses subscriptions to determine the recommendations they make. Subscribing feels like feeding the YouTube machine. Subscribing might feel like a commitment, although it isn't.

However, if you log into an account with YouTube, it's going to track what you watch anyhow - it just gives them little to work with, and that only makes it harder to find anything worth watching.

Without subscriptions, if you watch one video with an alligator, YouTube will think you're really into alligators and will feed you a crap load of alligator videos. To a point, it does that anyhow, but subscriptions act as long-term stabilizers, saying "no matter what I might watch today, these are my interests."

Thus, if you don't subscribe to things you like, you end up with a feed that swings wildly based on mood, and a homepage dominated by whatever they clicked last. The recommendation system never learns your stable preferences. You might think you're avoiding the algorithm, but your actually giving Google more control.
 
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Ken Anderson said:
The algorithm used by YouTube might, in part, be politically motivated, given that Google owns the platform, but it is also based on what you watch and what you're subscribed to, so subscribing to the things you like makes it easier for you to find the things that you like because they'll be presented to you. For example, when I view YouTube on our TV upstairs, I see mostly political stuff and music shows like "The Voice," because my wife is the one who generally accesses YouTube from that television. When I'm feeling particularly mean, sometimes I'll subscribe to all of the polka channels I can find on her account, so that is what she's presented with. If I want to be even meaner, I'll change her default language to Korean or something.

But, I digress. When I access YouTube from my own account downstairs, I will mostly be presented with the things I like to watch. Although YouTube sometimes makes my subscriptions disappear mysteriously, for the most part, they simply keep me from having to search for something that I want to watch, or if I do have to search, it's easier to do because I can look through my subscriptions; otherwise, I might forget the names of the channels I lik
Ken Anderson said:
I think that some people take pride in not subscribing to anything because it feels like independence. "I'm not one of those people who gets sucked into YouTube's ecosystem." Others might dislike the idea that YouTube tracks what they watch and uses subscriptions to determine the recommendations they make. Subscribing feels like feeding the YouTube machine. Subscribing might feel like a commitment, although it isn't.

However, if you log into an account with YouTube, it's going to track what you watch anyhow - it just gives them little to work with, and that only makes it harder to find anything worth watching.

Without subscriptions, if you watch one video with an alligator, YouTube will think you're really into alligators and will feed you a crap load of alligator videos. To a point, it does that anyhow, but subscriptions act as long-term stabilizers, saying "no matter what I might watch today, these are my interests."

Thus, if you don't subscribe to things you like, you end. Up with a feed that swings wildly based on mood, and a homepage dominated by whatever they clicked last. The recommendation system never learns your stable preferences. You might think you're avoiding the algorithm, but your actually giving Google more control.
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There are so many rabbit holes to fall into when I am on you tube, I don't need too many regulars.
 
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Mary Stetler said:
There are so many rabbit holes to fall into when I am on you tube, I don't need to many regulars.
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Ditto. I usually go to youtube with a specific question/topic in mind, so I just search for videos about whatever that is. I subscribe to a couple of channels and then their content gets boring and repetitive, so I unsubscribe. I don't care about algorithms or youtube tracking what I watch.
 
Bobby Cole said:
I only mentioned the Member’s Only thing as a side and how many more of those sites are popping up.

As to the subscribe thing, I normally don’t sit and listen to podcasts ergo I do not subscribe to them. If one pops up and the subject line doesn’t look like click bait and if my past experience listening to them doesn’t include the F Bomb being dropped every few seconds then I might tune in.

If George Smoot had a podcast, then I would definitely subscribe to it but as it stands, most astro-physicists are more interested in research and possibly giving an occasional lecture rather than broadcasting on YouTube.
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If George Smoot had a podcast he'd be pulling a Harry Houdini ("Light candles so I can find my way back.") George died last September. Sorry, Bro.
 
While I don't subscribe to anything anymore, I am a follower of Indy Neidel, an historian and actor who has an amazing string of history broadcasts extending over years. He is an America who (I think) married a German and moved to Sweden. His channel originates in Germany where he partners with another historian and several staff members.

Here is a sample of his work:
 
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