is going on, welcome to the daily show, i'm trevor noah and joining me for today's headlines is michael kosta, how are you doing, michael? >> the year is almost over, trevor. >> trevor: right? >> two more weeks and i realize i got to get on my new year's resolution now or else i'm never going to have actually done anything. so for the next two weeks, i am going vegan. and for the next 12 days i'm going to do no cheese pizza and impossible burger and then new year's eve i'm going to do spaghetti with tofu butter s that what they do, i don't know, but never too late, that's my mission. >> trevor: i think itity moo be. >> okay. >> trevor: but you know what, good for you. >> i'm still going for t you know. >> trevor: that is what i love with about you michael. >> thanks, trevor. >> trevor: always pushing, all right straight into today's headlines. we kick things off with the big media news. every year since 1927 time magazine has awarded person of the year to the world's most influential news maker. it is by far the most incredible honor that most people find out about in a be dentist's office. a

i'm trevor noah, and joining me for today's headlines is michael kosta. what's going on, michael? snowhow you doing? >> i'm doing great. tonight is the third night of hanukkah. not everybody knew that. i want to say what's up to my jewish people. great holiday. but i feel like what changes because hanukkah, everyone still has to go to work. you still have to take care of your kids, you know. i feel like hanukkah needs more respect, which is why from now on, for the rest of hanukkah, i'm not coming into work. and i think all of us, just don't go to work for the rest of hanukkah, and for all hanukkahs in the future. solidarity with my jewish folk. so... i'm an ally to the jewish people. i also am not going to go to work for the rest of hanukkah, so... >> trevor: sounds a lot like your devali argument. but good for you, michael. >> i'm trying to-- i don't want hanukkah to get the second-- i don't want hanukkah to get the shaft. >> trevor: i hear you. it's just a little suspicious that you always seem to be, you know, finding new people to be allies to when it comes to not coming to w

michael kosta takes a look at all the top scams of the year. ♪♪ ♪♪ >> a lot changed in 2021 -- the length, the energy level of our president, my inlaws hulu password. within thing that didn't change is people still fell for anything. you know how they say a sucker is born a minute? more sucking going on than an orgy at the dyson factory. nonfungible tokens is one of the biggest. when you buy the right to a piece of digital art. they got pretty expensive. >> $200,000 for a lebron james dunking clip. 600,000 for -- i don't know what that is in the middle. and millions for jack dorsey's first tweet. this image of digital toilet paper is worth $2,100. >> trevor: $2,100 for digital toilet paper. come in hand by when i dump in the meta verse. people spent millions on nfts thinking they had actual value but they can become worthless anytime. i bought this of a dog wearing panty hose. i love stock. the next scam the meme stock. people were pumping money into terrible businesses because the internet thought it was cool. it was the financial equivalent of the tide pod challenge and no stock was mor