Hello everybody and welcome back to the YouTube News podcast. My name is Benedict Townsend. It's wonderful to be back here with you yet again for another week. A little bit of housekeeping before we begin. You know, we're coming to the end of the year. It's a time for reflection, a time to look back. And I don't know if I told you this already, but I think it was last week. I discovered that I've been talking into the wrong end of this microphone

for, oh, the best part of a calendar year. So if this episode sounds better, that will be directly why.

And all I can say is, you're welcome again for the quality, quality programming I provide on this show.

Now, we've got some crazy YouTube stories for you today, and we've got a

festive edition of the numbers segment. But before that, another thing I've been asked to do by

management, this is just being passed around, just a thing that every citizen is required to hear.

I have got hold of the naughty and nice list this year. Santa Claus is naughty and nice list.

He's Chris Kringle and he travels around the world, delivering presents.

You may have heard about this.

It's a very popular thing he does every year.

And basically, yes, there's a naughty and nice list.

And if you've been well behaved this year, you're on the naughty list.

No, no, sorry, nice list, nice list.

And if you've been badly behaved, you're on the naughty list, is that? No, no, sorry, nice list, nice list. And if you've been, badly behaved, you're on the naughty list. So, um, to make things a little bit more streamlined

this year, they're actually, they're releasing the list ahead of time, ahead of Christmas,

to prevent sort of nasty surprises on the day. This way, naughty people know that they're going

to be getting cold in their stocking well before the day. It's just a little

bit kinder. So I've got the list here. Let me just unfold it. It's comically large and unrolling and

filling up the whole room because it's so long. Now, before I start reading this, obviously this has been

a crazy year. You know, it's been a very unique year. It's been a tough time for all of us. And this year's

naughty and nice list does reflect that. And it's a little bit more thorough than the usual list.

But anyway, enough. Enough out of me. Let's just let's just get through the list. So everybody

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