Yes, yes, settle down, everyone, settle down. You stop chewing gum. Now, as you can probably tell, your usual teacher is not here today, so I will be filling in. I am your supply teacher, Mr. Town Send. Thank you, eyes forward, please. And today we will be covering YouTube and use the podcast.

Please take out your podcast textbooks and turn to page 38. What do you mean you do not have podcast textbooks?

Ugh. The school system is even more broken than I recall. Yes, I was a teacher for many years

than I had to stop because of a traumatic

incident involving a turtle and some high explosives. I'm not getting into it now. Do you at least

have booklets about YouTube news? No, sir. Sorry. All we've got is these deflated volleyball.

My God, this is even worse than I thought. Well, I guess it'll fall to me the teacher to teach you. Who would have

thunk it? I guess it all began back in 1936 when the podcast started. Yes, welcome back everybody

to YouTube needs the podcast. My name is Benedict Townsend. it is my great pleasure to welcome you to another episode

whether it be your very first episode or your very first hundredth episode. Welcome back to the show.

We're going to have a grand old time as we discuss some wild news from the online world and perhaps

even bring back a beloved numbers centric segment.

Not going to say which one, but I think the veteran fans among you may know which

what I'm talking about.

True YouTuber facts.

So it's going to be a great episode and I think me talking more and more about how great

it's going to be is only going to help that.

And why don't we start with one of my favorite genres of news?

It's people being stupid to try and get famous on TikTok.

And this is a headline.

I'm going to read this headline verbatim from the Metro, so hat tip to Metro.

And the headline reads,

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