We ended last year with a look at the great clickbait wars, how news organizations gave up on journalism and turned to divisive articles about people's favorite TV shows, movies, and cultural events to create chaos and drive traffic to their sites.

While they're still at it, data-driven corporations are turning our selfies into gorgeous portraits of action movie stars, sexy cyborgs, and Russian cosmonauts, while paying none of the artists

whose work they stole to create it.

What happens when your AI selfie is sexier than your real self?

Today we look back on the news and topics that shaped our year with two of our favorite comedians,

Matt Brown, whose YouTube channel examines the singing styles of Black Divas and Dan Cass, who we discovered from his parody of Steve from Blues Clues.

Listen as we take a look at the biggest villains, the boldest heroes, and who we're busting a nut to this holiday season.

Plus, merry Turfmas.

Trans bloggers show a little Dickensian compassion

to Scrooge's like J.K. Rowling.

Words of the year, gaslighting, goblin mode, and bussy.

And Mariah Carey admits the title of Queen of Christmas

always belong to Darlene Love.

I'm Fausta Fernos. I'm Mark Billion.

And happy holidays. It's a feast of fun.

That's a river deep Mountain High by Tina Turner.

How does that go, Matt?

As Tina or is Carol?

Both.

Give me a little bit of everything.

Okay, wait, because Tina would...

This is Tina.

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