It's Taylor Swift's birthday. Yes, happy birthday to the Southern Songstress who gave us such musical classics as I knew you never loved me. Golden Knights? I've never seen a duck fly. Nighttime lover. Seriously, have you ever seen a duck in real life?

Learning to love and more.

I know I'll be celebrating by bumping loads of her classic hits.

Like, shake it out.

And I've seen ducks like flap around on the water,

but I've never seen one like in the sky, you know?

Like, do they go in the sky?

And more.

Happy birthday, Tatei, 56 years old today.

Yes, welcome back to the YouTube News podcast hosted by me, Benedict Townsend. And the more loyal

listeners among you may know that there was no episode last week. Unfortunately, I was a little

bit under the weather. I don't know if it was Madam Rona. I don't know what it was, but I'm back now. I'm still a little bit poorly, if I'm honest. I'm a little bit under the weather. But I've climbed out of my bed. I've climbed out of my cocoon of warmth and sneezing to come and join you here on the podcast because this surely takes precedence over everything,

especially my personal health. And without roaring enthusiasm in our hearts, why don't we roll

straight on to our first segment, the segment that we've done every single episode since we

started this show back in 1990. And this is, of course, on this day in YouTube history.

And today, the day I'm recording, is the 13th of December 2021. You may be hearing this a little

bit later. In fact, you almost certainly will be, but on the day we're recording,

it's the 13th of December, which is, of course, Taylor Swift's birthday. But that's not the

only exciting thing

that happened on that date. So many interesting things happened throughout YouTube history

on the 13th of December. So let's roll through some of my favorite, shall we?

On the 13th of December, 1968, the world's first ASMR channel was launched by NASA,

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