Hello there, friend, and welcome to this special end-of-year edition of the YouTube News podcast.

My name, as always, is Benedict Townsend, and it's wonderful to be here with you.

What a wild year it's been online.

And so to celebrate, I'm going to take a quick peek at my top three favorite, weirdest YouTube stories of the year.

We're also going to have a little quick number segment, and we're going to have episode four of The Story of the Rat. It's a slightly shorter episode this week, because we're pre-recording

this. It's actually, what's the date today? May 4th, 2015. We're really trying to be efficient

and get these all in the bank ahead of time. So looking forward to this coming out in a few years and who's going to win in 2016? I can't wait to see.

I hope you will enjoy our most recent episode, which was a rewriting of the poem

Twas the Night Before Christmas, but all about YouTubers.

That's not a joke, that's a real thing I did. It took forever.

If you haven't listened to it, it came out as a little bonus episode on the 23rd of December. And look, I know it's nearly New Year's now,

but it's still sort of the festive season,

so you can probably still enjoy that poem.

And it would be good for me if you did,

because then we get more listens,

and I get one penny for every thousand listens.

So we get a few more listens in there.

I can finally afford that new toothbrush I've had my eye on.

But enough dilly-dallying.

Let's get on with the news that was previously. And what better way to reflect on the weird

stories of the year than with a good old-fashioned epic radio countdown? Let's start with number three.

Number three. At number three, we've got David Dobrick's monthly earnings dropping.

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