Hello everybody and welcome back to the YouTuber News podcast. My name is Benedict Townsend. I'm your host as always. I hope you've had a nice week.

Hope you've been staying safe and sane. It's a crazy time, but I hope that this show, as always, is a little bit of a distraction from all the madness.

And we've got some really juicy YouTube news stories for you today. We've got true YouTuber facts.

And we've got a brand new

segment I'm going to try out where I give you recommendations of things that you can watch

to pass the time while we're all at home. And isn't that nice of me and you are actually welcome.

Oh yes, welcome back everybody. My name is Benedict Townsend. You may know me from YouTuber News,

the video show. You may know me from this podcast. This might be the

very first episode you've ever listened to, in which case, welcome. It's so lovely to have you here

as part of our little family, if you will, or cult, however you decide to look at it. This show is

called YouTube News. It's where we cover things that are almost worthy of being considered news that sometimes involve

YouTubers, as well as some other fun little wacky segments. And why don't we kick off straight into some news

with a little story about Mr. Beast? Now Mr. Beast, you probably know him. We've covered him many times on

this show. He's a very famous YouTuber, famous for being very wealthy and for handing

out that wealth to various good causes. And I said on a previous episode of the show, when

YouTubers had started doing philanthropic efforts around the virus, I said, Mr. Beast hasn't donated

any money yet, but I bet when he does, it will be epic. And let's just say, I'm not eating my

words. I'm currently on a diet, and that diet is zero words. And also, it's like a weird thing

where it's like carbs in the morning, but then like, then I kind of fast for a few hours. It's like

this new thing I'm trying, but basically like no words are eaten. And there's also no egg on my face,

although that would be good protein. All of that to say that Jimmy Donaldson, that's his real name,

Mr Beast, has just released a 12-minute YouTube video in which he filled six semi-trucks with

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