Welcome back, friends, to another episode of the YouTube News podcast.

Oh, it's wonderful to see you. You're looking fantastic today. Is that a new, is that a new bow in your hair? And what's that? You're wearing a tunic? Oh, no way, looking closer, it seems to be a potato sack that you've cut armholes out of. And leg holes. Oh, it looks itchy. Actually, come to think of it, you look terrible today. Go and get changed and come back and then we'll do the show.

It's time for YouTube and news. Oh, it looks itchy. Actually, come to think of it, you look terrible today.

Go and get changed and come back and then we'll do the show. It's time for YouTube news. Shane Dawson is teasing a brand new series for 2020. PewDie Pye has announced he's taking a break from YouTube in 2020. Plus, we'll be looking back at all the crazy things that happened on YouTube in, you guessed it, 2019. And we have true YouTuber facts,

the numbers segment, and a brand new installment of The Story of the Rat. What a great show.

Thanks, I agree. Welcome back to YouTube News, the podcast, everyone. My name is Benedict. It's

great to be back with you. And today is a very special episode. It's a special festive episode of

YouTube News. My producer's looking at me with

a look of real surprise. He didn't know that. He's just opening a new present he's got from a from a new love. It's very weird. It seems to be, what is that, producer Joe? Oh, it's three chickens. Three chickens. Oh, he's telling me that they're actually French hens. What did you get sent yesterday? Two dubs. Being said a lot of birds this year. Yeah, because on Saturday you got a tree,

didn't you? Like a little tree with a partridge. Who is sending you all these birds, Joe? Honestly, I don't know what's coming next, but it's probably just going to be more birds, so I'd probably tell them to stop. Probably nothing good coming on the horizon. But anyway, enough about Crimbo, and by the way, I'm probably going to get taken out on the street

and shot for even saying the word Crimbo these days. As you all know, there is, of course,

a bit of a war on Crimbo. Oh, sorry that the freaking PC Brigade and the Mac Brigade

coming after me, because I'm daring to say, have a great crimbus everybody,

Merry Chrysler.

I went to Starbucks the other day and I said, give me a Christmas cup and they said,

you have to pay for it.

And I said, I thought this was America.

I thought this was freedom.

And they said, sir, this is Bolton.

And anyway, we worked out in the end.

But Merry Crimbo to all of you out there unless you don't celebrate Crimbo. And they said, sir, this is Bolton. And anyway, we worked out in the end.

But merry Crimbo to all of you out there, unless you don't celebrate Crimbo, in which case, yeah, it's fine too. Okay, first up, we've got a story about Shane Dawson. Now, of course, I don't think anyone has had a better year than Shane Dawson, apart from possibly Jeffrey Starr, just in terms of sheer amount of money being earned. Let's just do a quick rundown on what Shane's done this year.

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