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142 = How Long Would YouTube Take to View and How to Display Without Glue or Screws

August 31, 2026 · 60 min

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📺 How long would it take to watch all of YouTube?

🪧 How can you make an interesting public display board without damaging the walls?

🏖️ And we have Any Other Beachness (it’s a bit windy and a bit crabby)


Head to our BlueSky/Twitter/Instagram to see Matt and Bec’s differing experiences of the solar eclipse.


Here’s Count Binface and Matt the Count Binface Count Agent getting papped in Clacton: https://tinyurl.com/2h7apka7

And here's Matt's Stand-Up Maths video - Can Count Binface win? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zn1pGRgEoo

If you like the sound of David Elms Describes A Room, you can find out more here: ⁠https://www.davidelmsdescribesaroom.com/⁠


Here are the places to go for a deep dive into YouTube Stats:

https://tubestats.org/

Counting YouTube Videos via Random Prefix Sampling: https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/2068816.2068851

A Transparent, Replicable, and Large-Scale Census of YouTube Channels and their Subscriber Counts Over Time https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06999


Do you have a problem for Bec and Matt to solve? Tell us about it: https://www.aproblemsquared.com/


Matt has extended his tour - and he’s filming the show in London in October - all the dates, venues and tickets can be found here: http://standupmaths.com/shows


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