Hello everybody and welcome back to the YouTube News podcast. My name is Benedict Townsend and a very merry Christmas to you if you celebrate or even if you don't. I hope you've had a good week regardless. It's now just after Christmas with New Year's on the horizon and it's a time I think a time of reflection, which is of course the one thing none of us want to do this year because 2020, hey, maybe it's

a controversial opinion, but 2020 wasn't exactly the best year. But have no fear, we've got a special

clip show episode of the year that was on YouTube and News the podcast. Producer Joe has been

very diligently going through the archives, getting clips out, and we've got a really, I think,

really quite nice little special clip show

for you here featuring the best of, you know, the stories, the best of our guest interviews,

the best of true YouTuber facts, questions from the audience, and just a whole ton of me

going off the rails and talking complete and utter nonsense. The whole thing split up into little sections so you can jump around.

You know, if you want to hear questions from the audience, they'll come up later.

It's all there. It's all fun and it's all nonsense.

And hopefully this is something that you can just throw on while you're still recovering from all that turkey you ate.

Unless you're vegetarian, in which case, you know, nutloaf or whatever. Either way, let's cue that music and get into our very last episode of YouTube News the podcast for 2020.

Yes, welcome back, everybody.

My name is Benedict Townsend. It's wonderful to have you here, whether this be your very first episode of YouTube and News the podcast,

or whether you've listened to every single episode this year.

All are welcome, and I'm grateful that you're all here having a cheeky listen.

And what a year it's been, the podcast was nominated for a global award.

And thanks to you guys and your diligent voting skills, we got right down to the short list and nearly won.

We chatted to some guests.

I chatted a whole load of nonsense and rat the

story of a rat, truly evolved into history's greatest soap opera. So why don't we take a peek

back through the looking glass of time? And let's start by looking at some of the crazy

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