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Yes, welcome back everybody. My name is Benedict Townsend and this right here is YouTube News, the podcast, the only podcast about YouTuber news that I am currently the host of.

It is wonderful to have you back here again for another episode, unless of course this is

your first episode, in which case, hi, hello, how you doing? Great to have you on board.

And we've got a cracking show for you today. We've got some stories about YouTubers,

well, technically TikTok stars, but who's counting? And we have the next

titillating, enticing, skin removing installment of rat, the story of a rat. And if that doesn't

shake you up like a bottle of pop, I don't know what will. But why don't we roll straight into our

first story, seeing as I'm in a jazzed mood today, and I can't wait to get jazzed.

And this is about a little known creator by the name of Charlie D. Emilio. Some people in the past may have said Charlie DiMilio, but that's actually wrong.

You'd have to be a real clown, a real idiot clown to say it wrong like that, because it is famously Charlie Demilio.

And this is all about her book, Essentially Charlie, the ultimate guide to keeping it real.

And the shocking, truly shocking news that she may not have written this book herself.

Now this book, I don't think very surprisingly, was a smash hit. It was a New York Times bestseller, although let's keep it real for a second. It does seem like every book

that's ever released is a New York Times bestseller these days. I don't know if they've changed

the criteria or something. I think there's like 10 different charts now, or maybe more.

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