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And just get the orchestra to warm up.

Very nice.

And everyone's doing their stretches.

Very good.

And I think we're ready to begin the show.

Hello, everybody.

Welcome back to YouTube News, the podcast.

My name is Benedict Townsend.

You may hear a little bit more ambient noise today

because i'm recording in a different room because we're painting our bedroom where i usually record

so if you hear some cars going by or some neighbors stomping upstairs or the government tax people

pounding at my door screaming some nonsense about you've never paid any tax, Benedict, and we're going to get you.

Have you hear anything like that, just try and ignore it. It doesn't matter.

That, for example, was a loud noise outside, and that's fun, that's flavor, you know, that's

texture. It adds what the French call ambience, or what I would call ambiance.

Anyway, welcome back to the show. We've got a

quaker of a show for you. I've got a bit of a theme this week with the stories, which is just

things that people shouldn't have done. This episode is mostly about young men making terrible

decisions. And in a way, isn't that kind of the plotline of all of human history, young men making

terrible decisions? I'll leave that to you to ponder as we crack on with YouTuber News, the podcast.

Hello, everyone. As I said before, my name is Benedict Townsend. Welcome back to the podcast.

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