#131 - We Need To Talk About These Subreddits

Summary

Smosh Mouth Episode #131 - We Need To Talk About These Subreddits

Date: February 16, 2026
Hosts: Shane Topp, Amanda Lehan-Canto
Guest: Noah Grossman

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Episode Overview

This episode of Smosh Mouth is a lively exploration of the weird, wild, and wonderful corners of Reddit. Shane, Amanda, and special guest Noah take listeners on a tour through lesser-known or particularly entertaining subreddits, while also unpacking internet culture, TV tropes, and delightfully bizarre online behaviors. Their conversation—full of tangents, nostalgia, and their trademark self-deprecating humor—examines everything from cringe-worthy Craigslist ads to the philosophy of towel hygiene.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Reality TV: Survivor, Traitors, and Old-School Viewing

Timestamps: [01:23] – [09:41]

• Survivor Viewing Habits:

  • Noah advocates for only watching the last three episodes of Survivor for maximum drama and smart gameplay reveals.
    • “The best way to watch Survivor is to watch the final three episodes only.” — Noah [02:40]
  • Amanda prefers early episodes, loving the awkward beginnings and social dynamics.
    • “I like to watch the beginning and then the unraveling.” — Amanda [04:28]
  • Shared nostalgia for pre-streaming days of dropping in mid-show, having to “pick things up” in the middle.
  • Discussion of notable Survivor contestants, including Smosh alum Mari and the archetype of “grandma” players.

• Physical Toll of Survivor:

  • Humorous stories about contestants being airlifted for not pooping [06:12].
  • “They take people away because they haven’t pooped in five days.” — Amanda

• Would You Compete?

  • Amanda and Shane muse about whether they’d ever go on Survivor.

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2. Heated Rivalry: Media Chat & Representation in Sports

Timestamps: [13:24] – [18:22]

• First Impressions:

  • Shane finally watches the much-anticipated “Heated Rivalry”; finds it less explicit than rumored but well-produced, with great chemistry between the leads.
    • “The sex scene stuff wasn’t as intense as I thought… the chemistry is great.” — Shane [13:40], [17:15]
  • Amanda agrees, noting TikTok evidence of off-screen camaraderie.

• Sports & Representation:

  • Discussion about the hockey setting and queer representation in sports shows.
    • “It’s a matter of how much the NHL is going to lean into it.” — Shane [15:41]
  • Imagines how male sports fans might react to explicit queer romance in mainstream sports content, with plenty of jokes about hockey fights turning into make-out sessions.

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3. Oddball & Entertaining Subreddits

Timestamps: [18:28] – [39:01]

a. wtw F, O T M, J, A, J, T, R, A, T, C, A, B (When the Water Flows Over the Milk Jar at Just the Right Angle That Creates a Bubble)

• The group cracks up over this oddly specific subreddit for photos of water flowing over household containers in satisfying ways.
  • “It looks gorgeous. For our listeners, it created a perfect bubble over a Chambord bottle.” — Shane [20:50]
  • “I like to call that a water tit. And that’s a good water tit.” — Noah [21:11]

b. r/Boston

• Amanda, a Boston native, shares snowstorm memes and describes city life in winter, from shoveling out cars to braving parties in high heels.

  • “Whoever gets this spot… You’re welcome.” — Amanda [24:59]

• Tales of sporting event chaos, city pride, and Boston culture.

  • “Cars were flipped. Cars were on fire... There were a thousand cops on horses with tear gas.” — Amanda on Red Sox victory [29:41]
  • “That’s a male platonic Hallmark movie.” — Noah [31:47]

c. Top Character Tropes

Timestamps: [33:30] – [52:09]

• Users post commonly used film or TV tropes, with examples discussed:

  • “Main cast in a horror movie isn’t a group of morons” (e.g., Tremors, The Thing, Predator)
  • The “goes to prison and befriends everyone” trope — featuring Paddington 2, Arrested Development, Avatar: The Last Airbender.
    • “They send a sweet little bear to prison, dude.” — Shane [38:10]
  • Accidental censorship backfiring, e.g., Sailor Moon’s American dub turning lesbian cousins into awkward “close cousins” [41:16].

• Discussion on why tropes recur, whether they’re comforting, and which can still surprise viewers.

  • “I like cliche.” — Shane [39:56]

• Fun fact: “Jumping the Shark”—what it means, and its Happy Days/Winkler (The Fonz) origin.

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4. Reddit Legends & Absurdity

Timestamps: [52:42] – [56:41]

a. The Museum of Reddit

• Shane recalls the most famous Reddit comment:
  • “I’d like to have sex one more time with my wife, who passed away…” (infamous AskReddit post, 2016) [53:19]
  • “Someone commented beneath that saying, I also choose this guy’s dead wife.” [54:47]
  • Amanda: “You can’t bring this to me without that closure!” [55:08]

b. Delusional Craigslist

• Hilarious entries include someone selling a “rare quadruple peanut” for $500 and a mountain of Taco Bell mild sauces for $18.

c. Confidently Incorrect

• Showcase of people loudly broadcasting wrong info online:
  • “Kermit is not a mammal.” / “LMAO of course he’s a mammal, his surname is literally ‘the Frog.’” [59:17]
  • “Spain is in South America.” [60:06]

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5. Hygiene: Towel Talk & Washing Routines

Timestamps: [60:34] – [66:31]

• Viral Reddit thread: How often should you wash your bath towel?

  • “She said she uses a fresh towel every single time she showers because reusing one is swapping bacteria.” — Shane, reading the thread [61:07]
  • Amanda: “First of all, she’s ruining the environment... Washing your towel every shower?” [62:31]
  • Group consensus: Weekly (or every 2-4 days) is fine; daily is overkill except in very humid places.

• Showering habits: Night versus morning showers, routines tied to hair texture or lifestyle.

  • Shane’s straight hair only tames after a shower.
  • Amanda showers at night for curly-hair maintenance and relaxation.
  • Noah is a night sweater: “Depending how bad my depression is, maybe that’ll change…” [66:05]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Survivor Sh*tting Problems:

  • “They take people away because they haven’t pooped in five days.” — Amanda [06:04]
  • “You want to see them pre-constipation.” — Shane [07:12]

• On Watching Heated Rivalry:

  • “If there’s ‘Shane’ in anything, I’ll watch it. I have to watch it.” — Shane [17:35]

• On Boston Sports Riots:

  • “Every chick in their dorm room was just flashing people. It was a very thrilling, fun night!” — Amanda [29:41]

• On Reddit’s Legendary Comment:

  • “Someone commented beneath that saying, I also choose this guy’s dead wife.” — Shane [54:47]
  • Amanda: “You can’t bring this to me without that closure!” [55:08]

• On Insanely Over-Clean Towel Habits:

  • “She’s ruining the environment!” — Amanda [62:31]

• On Reddit’s Algorithm:

  • “Even though I don’t have an account, half the time it’s like VRtuber stuff I’m not interested in, but it’s number 12 in all of Reddit.” — Noah [68:57]

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Subreddit Highlights & Timestamps

| Subreddit | Start Time | Highlights | |---------------------- |----------- |--------------------------- | | wtw F, O T M... | [18:28] | Satisfying household water | | r/Boston | [22:16] | Snow memes & city chaos | | Top Character Tropes | [33:30] | Trope bingo & TV analysis | | Museum of Reddit| [52:42] | Legendary comments | | Delusional Craigslist | [56:44]| Absurd online sales | | Confidently Incorrect | [58:14] | Bad online confidence | | Hygiene | [60:34] | Towel wars & shower chat |

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Final Thoughts

The episode closes with the trio reflecting on the joy and chaos of Reddit, the relatable comfort of internet rabbit-holes, and the value of simple hygiene advice—plus Shane’s unmanageable hair and Amanda’s nostalgia for Boston. Listeners are encouraged to submit weird subreddits for future episodes.

Ending note: “Wash your towels.” — Shane [70:11]
“Do you guys want to submit for Traitors with me?” — Noah [70:11]

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For fans who missed this episode, this summary captures the best tangents, most insightful debates, and some of the flat-out weirdest corners of Reddit, as delivered in the irreverent, rapid-fire Smosh Mouth style.

Transcript

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[Shane]

Should I wait, Selena? Should I? Because Courtney still hasn't watched it. Should I. Should I bring up that I watched Heated the first episode of Heated Rivalry in this one, or should I wait for Courtney's episode? I think I could just bring it up here.

[Amanda]

You can bring it up here.

[Shane]

This one comes out first. Yeah, I'll just bring it up here because it's.

[Noah]

You're still gonna bring it up?

[Shane]

I'll bring. I'll probably bring it up.

[Amanda]

Did she not watch it with you?

[Shane]

She has not watched it. She was. She was doing your episode of URL.

[Amanda]

You watched it in the day.

[Shane]

I was at home, like working from home, searching, searching for subreddits, watching two guys go at it.

[Noah]

Have you ever been on that subreddit?

[Shane]

Yeah. Two guys.

[Noah]

They could be sexy.

[Shane]

That's gotta be a subreddit.

[Noah]

It's actually just sexy fight videos.

[Shane]

Sexy.

[Amanda]

I hope we're recording this.

[Shane]

Probably.

[Amanda]

Great.

[Shane]

All right. Hi. Welcome to Smosh Mouth. I'm Shane.

[Amanda]

And I'm Amanda. And we have a very, very special guest with us today. Noah.

[Noah]

What up, guys? Happy to be be here.

[Shane]

Noah, you sat down at this desk. We've been sitting here for like 10 minutes before rolling and we've already talked about like 10 different things that we have to come back to. First off, you said, you brought up Survivor and you said the best way to watch Survivor is to watch the final three episodes.

[Noah]

The final three episodes only. You like Survivor, right?

[Amanda]

So I don't support that.

[Noah]

You do that. I don't.

[Amanda]

I don't like it. I don't greenlight it. I don't appreciate it. It's fine. I do love Survivor. I am a Survivor fan. Here's the deal. I watched Survivor when it first came out, I was like, woo. And then I stopped like everybody else. And then the pandemic hit and then me and my husband went ham ham on Survivor. And now Survivor is the best, best character watching, best people watching, best, like, game. What I love about it is, like, there's just enough drama to keep me going where I don't feel like, oh, my God, that was so toxic. But there's not too much drama. You know what I'm saying?

[Noah]

Yeah, it's.

[Amanda]

Do you know what I'm.

[Noah]

I can only say because I watched the last three episodes of many seasons, it's the best way to watch it because you get kind of the climax of the actual gaming segment and you also get in the last three episodes, people now realizing who they kind of fucked over.

[Amanda]

Yes.

[Noah]

Can I say the F word?

[Shane]

Yes. Oh, yeah.

[Noah]

And realizing, oh, I'm gonna have to do one last smart move and really try to plead my case to this jury of people that have effed over. And then you see them go in front of the live audience and try to plead their. And it's incredible. You just see the fireworks at the end.

[Shane]

Do you think it's better to only watch the final three or are you saying, like, it's just the best part so you don't have to bother with the previous part?

[Noah]

It lets you time travel a bit because I'm watching it on, like, free streaming service. So there's two different Survivor channels, two different seasons going on all the time, so I can hop between them and I just get in on, like, episode 14 and then I can flip back to the other one and it's on episode 15. And so I'm able to just go back and forth and time travel through all of Survivor and. And just get the Good part.

[Amanda]

This is so wild.

[Noah]

It's incredible.

[Amanda]

Here. Here's streaming. Change the game for me is like the ending when they plead their case to the jury. I find it to be the most cringy part. I actually love the beginning. I. I find the uncomfortableness of people feeling each other out and making allies to be, like, my favorite part, because I like to watch the beginning and then the unraveling. So you like to watch where people have already come to clearness. I like the beginning where they're just like, hey, nice to meet you. Yeah, I' I'm a writer. And then it's like, no one knows that I'm actually an actor or whatever.

[Noah]

Secretly, I'm a cop.

[Shane]

And I say, boy, I really got them.

[Amanda]

Yeah, I like to watch.

[Noah]

Hey, that guy's acting weird.

[Shane]

I think, oh, we got him.

[Amanda]

See, I like that stuff. And then I like them going like, oh, no. I push people away. Oh, no. So you like it already when they've had the aha moment. Oh, God.

[Noah]

In the same way, though, they then have to sit there and then plead to everyone and be like, I realized on this island, like, I'm someone who pushes people away. And it's been so great to grow with you, Kathy, and I'm so sorry I took those bananas and made you starve.

[Amanda]

And Kathy's like, wet bananas. I'm 65. I'm a grandma, and I should win because I'm a grandma. It's like, bitch, you're a grandma. We don't. That's fun, but you're not gonna win because you're a grandma.

[Noah]

Can you imagine being 65? Because I've seen it now in multiple seasons and going through the same physical challenges the other people do. It's incredible because they're not lying. You really will get, like, a stomach parasite because you are trapped on an.

[Amanda]

Island for two months.

[Noah]

Like, you will come home with no money and. And the inability to gain weight for, like, a decade.

[Shane]

Worse.

[Noah]

Really? Yes. And they're all happy about it.

[Amanda]

They take people away because they haven't pooped in five days. Yeah, they're like. They're, like, bringing the team. It's like, all right, so we've checked you out. You haven't pooped in five days.

[Shane]

So we're a little bit worried about that. You've got two minutes to shit right now. We're going to show your work.

[Noah]

I watched an old man get helicoptered out for that issue, and he was towards the very end, and the next day, he did poop. And he was at the jury and he was fine. He could have stayed in the competition.

[Amanda]

I watched one guy like leave because he didn't poop. And he was just like, no, it's my dream. And they're like, sorry, like, we don't want to risk it. If you haven't pooped yet, please help.

[Shane]

They're helicoptering him away. He's trying to shit. He's like, I can do it.

[Amanda]

He's like, all of me. Bring me back to the beach.

[Shane]

Take me back. Okay, okay.

[Amanda]

You're kind of slightly convincing me. But here's the deal. I won't. I want to see. I want to see the beginning when they're all bright eyed on the boat being like going down on the ocean. And then it's all their side thing. It's like, watch out world. And I'm about to slay all these people.

[Shane]

You want to see them pre constipation.

[Amanda]

I want to see pre.

[Noah]

Before the poop.

[Amanda]

You just want to see after the shit. And I'm sorry, Noah.

[Shane]

No, I. There is a charm though, Noah, that like. And I'm so nostalgic for this of like back in the day before streaming when you like would hop in halfway through a movie or hop into a TV show, it's like, well, the first five episodes have aired, you can't go back and watch them. So you have to start now and just pick things up and something about it makes it like really fun to watch.

[Amanda]

That is true.

[Shane]

We don't get that anymore. So I get it. I do get it.

[Amanda]

So are you gonna watch the new season with Mike White?

[Noah]

I'm gonna hop in.

[Amanda]

Oh, God.

[Noah]

I went to last episode and I'm gonna enjoy that season. Would you, would you ever go on Survivor? Because you know, Mari went on Survivor. Did you watch?

[Amanda]

I. For some reason I think I probably watched it without knowing who she was yet.

[Shane]

She got eliminated very early. I think they like, I believe she was the first. Yeah. I mean, and, and probably the right call.

[Noah]

She.

[Shane]

She's a threat. She's too good.

[Noah]

And she's also super nice. So I feel like no one would trust someone who's physically capable and legitimately nice.

[Shane]

They're like, we don't watching this new season of Traitors. It's the biggest problem with like these types of shows is the smartest, most capable people get eliminated first. Yep. So everyone's like, you're gonna win. Get out of here.

[Amanda]

Right? No, but the, the people who. Not in Traders but Survivor. The people who are like buff and fit. They do not get eliminated. They're just held until they break apart in the merge because they need their, like, muscles or else no one gets coconuts.

[Noah]

Yeah, for real, like, again, it's Survivor. They're really competing for coconuts and bananas. I swear, I have seen Jeff Probst look someone in the eye and say, I'm so sorry, no bananas tonight. And you see that this person hasn't eaten in 40 hours. 40 hours, no food.

[Shane]

You just did a puzzle. You need those bananas to shit.

[Amanda]

I just hate that you're kind of right so much because I feel like you're cheating. But it's fine. It's true. The big guys get the coconuts. And sometimes there's always, like, the little firecracker girl who's like, I can get the coconuts, too. And it's like, girl, you can't climb that tree.

[Shane]

Cynthia died last night trying to get coconut.

[Amanda]

She was a grandma. She was never gonna.

[Shane]

She was 65 years old. You cannot get coconuts when you're 65.

[Amanda]

That's why Survivor's so funny, because people have this, like. They almost just, like, fight for themselves. They're like, I'm this. I'm this trope. Right? Like, I'm this character, and you better watch your backs. And then they get voted off first night.

[Shane]

Okay. I do need to watch this show.

[Noah]

You do?

[Shane]

I watched it back when it first started, and then I haven't watched it.

[Amanda]

It's totally. Back then was bad.

[Shane]

It was great. What are you talking about? It was fantastic.

[Amanda]

It was good, but it was a little bit like.

[Shane]

I watched the Boston Rob his first season when he proposed at the end.

[Noah]

Oh, my God.

[Shane]

I watched that when it was airing.

[Amanda]

That season is so good. Yeah.

[Shane]

Yes. It was really good.

[Noah]

Boston Row's been on, like, three times.

[Amanda]

Yeah, he has. Yes. But there was a first time where he met his wife Amber.

[Noah]

Wow.

[Shane]

And they fell in love, and they were the final two. Wow. It was like Hunger Games.

[Amanda]

You have to watch the whole season.

[Noah]

Dude, that's incredible. Oh, my God. That's so smart.

[Shane]

It was really.

[Noah]

No matter what, they win. It's a 50. 50.

[Shane]

Exactly.

[Amanda]

And they did.

[Noah]

Oh, love it.

[Shane]

That's the other reason he proposed, is so that they would win. He's playing the long game. Yeah.

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[Shane]

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[Amanda]

Please stop talking.

[Noah]

For sure.

[Amanda]

Back to the show.

[Shane]

Okay, so before we continue, I should let people know what we're doing. This.

[Noah]

Why are we here?

[Shane]

We are.

[Noah]

You get distracted?

[Shane]

No, no, it's Great. We are gonna be going over some subreddits, some other fun subreddits. We have Reddit stories where we do. Am I the asshole? All those. But these are. We're digging for, like, some. Some hidden gems. Some of them aren't so hidden. Of gems.

[Amanda]

Yes.

[Shane]

One of them that I pulled is actually one of the most popular right now, but it's been kind of a recent.

[Amanda]

Yes.

[Shane]

Popular subreddit, but we're gonna go over some of those. However, before we continue. Something else we were talking about before we started rolling is this is gonna make a lot of listeners happy. I finally watched the first episode of Heated Rivalry.

[Amanda]

Oh, my God.

[Shane]

Yeah, it's good. It was. It was pretty much what I expected. I will say the sex scene stuff wasn't as intense as I thought it was gonna be. Yeah, it's a lot. They're. I'm like, wow. Okay.

[Amanda]

Yeah, but it's not.

[Shane]

I think people.

[Amanda]

I think people watch it and they're like, they don't normally watch stuff like that, so, like, whoa, have you seen it? And I think that's them, like, coming to terms with that. They also watched it and it's like, yeah, it's okay.

[Noah]

Yeah, it's okay, bro. That's great marketing. If I was on the marketing team, I'd be like, oh, my God. We need to get as many people who are, like, so surprised and just blow that up. Yeah, that's such great. I. I've haven't seen it, but is the hockey good?

[Shane]

There's not been a lot of questions. There's a surprise. There's not much hockey.

[Amanda]

There's a lot of.

[Shane]

It's a lot of, like, the stuff around the hockey, right? Like the getting drafted, what team you're going to, the practices, the sponsorships, kind of like everything around the sport, but not as much of a sports show.

[Amanda]

It's more like the training that it takes to be a hockey player or like the lifestyle that it takes to be a hockey player vibe. So that's. I would say they touch on that, but it's mainly about them.

[Shane]

Yeah, it's far more focused on them. I hope there's some more sports stuff. I love sports movies and sports shows. So, you know, just get some good, like, sports action. Go back to the hotel room, get some action. Get back on the.

[Amanda]

On the race action. But it's never looked so good.

[Shane]

There were. There were some butts. There were some buts.

[Amanda]

So are you going to continue?

[Shane]

Yeah, I'll continue watching. Of course. I'm Going to finish it. I'm going back and forth between that and task. Get them. I get them mixed up a little bit.

[Amanda]

No.

[Shane]

If you'll get back on the ring.

[Amanda]

Task and heated rivalry. Those two shows do not go together.

[Shane]

This task force has got to get these guys.

[Amanda]

Yeah. Task.

[Shane]

They're playing hockey too well. They got to stop them.

[Amanda]

My God, such a dark, aggressive. I do have a question. Do you think because of heat of rivalry, people are now going to like, everybody's going to want to watch hockey and go to hockey games.

[Shane]

It's a matter of how much the NHL is going to like, lean into it. Lean into it. Because, like, sports are traditionally not very. They haven't been very accepting and very like, there's no. I don't know if there's any openly gay players in the NHL.

[Noah]

The NHL is known for their fistfights. So like, dude, this Stanley Cup, I think the first game two people go to fight stead. They just start making out that so hard.

[Amanda]

Oh, my God.

[Shane]

It would be the most watched sports game this year. The super bowl wouldn't come close.

[Amanda]

I hope that they do because I am so ready for these like hetero males to be sitting there being like. But like also pretty much into it. You know what I'm saying? They're gonna be watching, being like, get back. Get back to the ice.

[Shane]

Whatever sport, like goes. You know what? We're going. We're going for that hockey.

[Noah]

Get back to the ice, boys.

[Amanda]

I watched a lot of ice hockey when I was on the east.

[Shane]

You were in Boston. But where heated rivalry, some of it takes place.

[Amanda]

Yeah, I know, I know. But we don't see that was the mom is like, well, I think it had a lot more of Boston and whatever.

[Shane]

The heat of rivalry is an impressive show on a production standpoint because I think the budget's really small and so what they're managing to do with such a small budget is actually pretty incredible. It's actually a very contained show.

[Amanda]

They. They shot all in Canada, I would assume.

[Shane]

I think it's a Toronto based production. But a lot of it's hotel rooms. A lot of it's like. I'm very impressed with shows and movies where it's like at a certain point you're like, wait, they shot most of this in room, but they made it feel bigger than that. And that's heated rivalry.

[Amanda]

The chemistry is.

[Shane]

Chemistry is great.

[Amanda]

The chemistry is great on screen. And then if you watch like tik toks of them doing interviews, they just have so much fun.

[Shane]

Oh, yeah.

[Amanda]

So much respect, so much fun. They just have really good chemistry.

[Shane]

Yeah, they're. The acting is fantastic.

[Amanda]

Yeah.

[Noah]

Are they in a relationship in real life?

[Shane]

No, I think one of the guys is. I. I think one of the guys is straight.

[Amanda]

The guy who plays Shane, I'm pretty sure is straight.

[Noah]

Yeah, I know him.

[Shane]

Yeah. So I do a pretty good job at it. Before I started watching the show, I feel like a month or so ago, when I was out, I was getting a lot of DMs and things being like, are you watching Heated rivalry. There's Shane in it. And I'm like, great, man. Yeah. That's how I work. If there's Shane in anything, I'll watch it. I have to watch it.

[Amanda]

Wow. People think that you love yourself so much. That's. So.

[Shane]

His name is spelled differently than mine. But, you know, he's totally different, too. He looks very different, I will say.

[Amanda]

Oh, I don't want to say anything because you haven't watched it, but when you watch it, there's moments where you're just like, oh, I've heard.

[Shane]

I've heard that the first three episodes is like, oh, that's the sex. And then after that, it's like, oh, it's just a genuinely really sweet, really great show. Yeah, but it's shot really well, it's written really well, and the acting's great.

[Noah]

Maybe I'll check out the last three episodes.

[Shane]

Shall we get into some subreddits?

[Noah]

Let's do it. I'm excited.

[Amanda]

Yeah, me too.

[Shane]

I was searching all day yesterday, but Selena found a few as well. So we're gonna start with a simple one that Selena found. This is called wtw F, O T M, J, A, J, T, R, A, T, C, A, B.

[Amanda]

Why?

[Shane]

What that stands for is when the water flows over the milk jar at just the right angle, that creates a bubble. Oh, we love that. I get a good feeling.

[Amanda]

What is happening.

[Noah]

These guys have way too much time.

[Amanda]

On their fucking hand.

[Shane]

Sorry. Sorry. Courtney, had you watched burlesque recently? Wagon Watt. I was watching that, and I was like, amanda is Cher.

[Amanda]

I am literally Cher.

[Shane]

Wagon Wall Truces. Wagon Wheel, Watusi.

[Noah]

God.

[Amanda]

Cher. When she has her solo in burlesque and you're just like, what's her song? It doesn't matter.

[Shane]

But she's just like, oh, we need to run. She's like, sure.

[Amanda]

Hit it.

[Noah]

Yeah.

[Shane]

I can't lose my club. I can't lo. That movie's insane.

[Amanda]

It's the best movie ever.

[Shane]

It literally starts. It's just like. It's like Christina Aguilera walking into this club. And also just like.

[Amanda]

Tess. Tess, give me a chance.

[Shane]

A wagon watch Sh. Courty had the volume up so high.

[Noah]

Would.

[Shane]

Would Christina Aguilera blast that? Our cats ran upstairs.

[Amanda]

Dude.

[Shane]

Sorry. Completely.

[Amanda]

That movie is the best movie on this point.

[Shane]

That is what Courtney said. And I was like, yeah, no, it.

[Amanda]

Is the best movie.

[Noah]

No, no.

[Shane]

It is the most 2010 movie to ever exist.

[Amanda]

I'm sorry, but it's every girl's dream to be like, yeah. By night, I'm a burlesque dancer.

[Shane]

The bartender who wears a bowler. Bowler cap is only a vest.

[Noah]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

And he's just like.

[Shane]

I'm like, that's 2010 as a guy. Anyways, panic at the disco. Moving on. Okay, so what we have here are photos. So for our listeners, we'll do our best to explain it, but, you know, it's. It's kind of similar to, like, laminar flow. Right.

[Noah]

Where when.

[Shane]

When the water hits something just right and it creates this perfect shape.

[Amanda]

Yeah.

[Shane]

So we have a few images here. We have decrystallizing Chambord. So I guess they had Chambord in the freezer.

[Noah]

Okay.

[Shane]

So they're pouring water on it, and it creates a perfect year around it. We can put the image up. It looks gorgeous. For our listeners, it created a perfect bubble over a Chambord bottle.

[Noah]

Doesn't that make you want to be a little frog there? Yeah, like, I want to be a little frog underneath there.

[Amanda]

I want to be a little frog.

[Shane]

Look at this. This is over a soy sauce bottle. That is a perfect half sphere.

[Noah]

I like to call that a water tit. And that's a good water tit.

[Amanda]

A water tit.

[Shane]

That is a water tit.

[Amanda]

You can say that.

[Shane]

Ooh, milk jug effect at a beautiful fountain at Disney. Wow, look at this one. That one's a perfect. Whoa.

[Amanda]

Now that's a milk jug.

[Shane]

That's a 10 out of 10 right there. Oh, boy. Why.

[Amanda]

Why does a Disney fountain look like they're like, in Italy? Like what?

[Shane]

That's what they're going for.

[Amanda]

That's what? Sometimes at Disney where you're just like, whoa, I'm in Italia. But you're like, no, I'm in Disney.

[Shane]

Well, that's cause different lands. It's like Frontierland and Paris.

[Amanda]

Yeah. Epcot.

[Noah]

As a cop, as a kid, whenever I'd go in the lines at those Disneyland places, I was so little, I could kind of get behind things and see areas you weren't Fully supposed to. And it was very interesting to see the difference between fake cobweb and real cobweb, like on the same thing. Cause I'd be like, oh, this is fun. And then I'd be like, oh, wait, no, that's real spider.

[Amanda]

Spiders. You're like, ew, yucky. Disney's not fun anymore. Real stuff. Yucky.

[Shane]

I hate this. I want only illusion.

[Amanda]

Yeah.

[Shane]

Okay, our next subreddit.

[Noah]

Okay, that one was a pretty good subreddit.

[Shane]

That was a really good subreddit. I love, like, imagery subreddits. The next one is Boston.

[Amanda]

Oh, my God. Let me see. Give me this. Okay, these are the ones that I found because as we're talking right now, obviously huge snowstorm, but I found some Pat's fans ones. This is Boston and it just says Pat's fans. And it's like a bunch of dudes in Pat's jerseys pushing like a. Probably a Honda Civic in like, I think five feet of snow or above.

[Shane]

It's like minus 10 degrees.

[Amanda]

Yeah. Yeah. And you know what? This was my life for a long time. You were like, oh, I have to leave. And then you'd leave two hours early just to shovel out your car.

[Noah]

You should just not go anywhere.

[Shane]

Growing up in Arizona and living in Los Angeles, I have such a romantic sized idea about snow and living in the snow. But I'm sure living anywhere with snow, you hate it so much you.

[Amanda]

What happens is the first snowfall, you feel like, oh, my God, it's snowing. And then when things get canceled, you're like, what the hell? And then you have to. You really have to dig out your car to get anywhere.

[Shane]

Yeah, My brother, because my family lives in Colorado, so my brother was like, dude, I have to wake up at 5am to shovel out the driveway. It sucks.

[Noah]

Yeah.

[Shane]

I'm like, ah, just have another chore.

[Amanda]

Yep.

[Shane]

Like, that sounds awful.

[Noah]

I know, dude, just get like a. Just get like a snowmobile. At that point, just. Just commit that six months out of the year you have a snowmobile and that's it. That's how you're getting around.

[Amanda]

You know? What you do is what we did growing up is we like made friends with the plow guy who did our street, and we would be like, can you do our. Cause they're not supposed to do your driveways. They get paid by the town, by.

[Shane]

The city to park if you slip them a Benji.

[Amanda]

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

[Shane]

Don't people have heated driveways?

[Amanda]

Those people are rich, dude.

[Noah]

That's an insane amount of those People rich.

[Shane]

I saw a video of someone, like, installing a heated driveway. I was like, that's crazy.

[Amanda]

Those people that.

[Shane]

Yeah, I'm sure that's an absurd amount of money.

[Amanda]

I'm kind of like, no. I think there's something about if you're gonna live there and choose to live there, you need to spend the hours shoveling. That was my upbringing. It's just like. Like, my mom's like, I'll give you girls 20 bucks to shovel for two hours.

[Shane]

Holy. I think. I think every. Wherever you live, you have to earn it. Like in Arizona, you. When. If you're going to live there, you have to run full speed at a cacti at some point, you know, just to experience it.

[Noah]

You have to sizzle the bottom of your foot at least once.

[Shane]

Yeah. You have to walk barefoot out on the. On the sidewalk.

[Noah]

Yeah, you do.

[Amanda]

Okay, this is another snow one. Who. Whomever gets this spot. And my spouse is this spot in east Boston after we leave.

[Noah]

You're welcome.

[Amanda]

I don't know why they mentioned the spouses. So East Boston. So there's this picture. Oh, my God, there's so much snow. So there's.

[Shane]

The car is completely covered.

[Amanda]

He's about to shovel out his car, and that means that an open spot. And those are hard to get.

[Shane]

Damn. How fast can that. This car is completely covered in snow. Truly a mound of snow. Know how fast can that happen? Is that overnight or is it do.

[Amanda]

This is overnight. This is like an hour, an hour and a half. So the best thing to do is start to shovel out. Then once you've kind of shoveled out, you turn your car on, you heat it up, and then you have to ice scrape the top.

[Noah]

Oh, no. I think I'd just die in my car. Well, yeah, I think that's what I.

[Shane]

My car. I think I'd be like, I'm not getting that bad.

[Noah]

You know what? If I was on the east coast, dude, I'd be building tunnels. Why. Why don't we got. I'd be a tunnel from underground to my friend's house. That's it.

[Shane]

Everyone in Boston would just be tuned.

[Amanda]

No, you would come out of your house like a normal Bostonian and be.

[Shane]

Like, ah, this is wicked shitty.

[Amanda]

This is wicked shitty, dude.

[Noah]

Zip lines. I get on my roof and I zipline where I need to go. I avoid the ice in the street.

[Amanda]

Well, some people ski skiing down the Somerville bike path. Somerville is where I used to live. It's around Cambridge by Davis Square. These people are skiing down the bike Path.

[Shane]

Just like cross country skiing, which you were talking about before we were filming.

[Amanda]

Basically to get to work.

[Shane]

You were trying to convince us that it's. It's fun.

[Amanda]

It is fun, dude.

[Shane]

No, I don't think it sounds fun.

[Amanda]

It is fun. And it's really, really hard.

[Shane]

Hey, you know all the joy of skiing. What if you did it on flatland? What if you didn't ski?

[Noah]

You ever ran a marathon with weights on your feet?

[Amanda]

Guys, it's fun.

[Shane]

You ever ran a marathon? But you're kind of stuck that east coast in you.

[Noah]

You.

[Amanda]

You, like, get tortured your whole life and you're like, wait, it's actually fun being from California.

[Noah]

I feel like a place called Somerville is telling you when you should be there. You know what I mean?

[Shane]

Yeah, it's a good point.

[Amanda]

Spelled summer. No, I should be S O M E R summer. Like somber, like sadness.

[Noah]

Like only some of us stay summer part of the year.

[Shane]

Somerville.

[Amanda]

I love Somerville. So fun. Okay, here's the last one in Boston.

[Noah]

Sorry. You just made me think of east coast Smallville. I'm so sorry.

[Amanda]

East Coast Smallville.

[Shane]

Bostonian Superman.

[Noah]

Yeah, dude, don't trust.

[Shane]

I'm flying wicked fast right now.

[Amanda]

I love that show. Anyways.

[Shane]

You would love Smallville.

[Amanda]

I loved that show. Why?

[Shane]

How many seasons did you watch? It was on for like 50 years. Did you watch. It was truly on forever.

[Amanda]

Smallville was on. No, it wasn't.

[Noah]

It was said in like nine seasons.

[Shane]

No, it had, like, guys, Smallville was on forever.

[Amanda]

I watched everything. Superman. I watched the. Lois.

[Shane]

Lois and Clark.

[Amanda]

Lois and clark. 10 seasons.

[Noah]

10 seasons.

[Amanda]

Whoa.

[Shane]

Yeah, I watched it all.

[Amanda]

And then you know about the. The cult that those ladies were in? I also watched that.

[Noah]

You're gonna have to tell me another episode where you tell me about Smallville.

[Shane]

One of the from Smallville was in.

[Noah]

A. Oh, was in Nexium.

[Amanda]

Not one. Multiple.

[Shane]

Oh, multiple From Smallville. Yeah.

[Amanda]

The lead girl.

[Noah]

Wait, multiple people in one cult or one person in multiple cults?

[Amanda]

The first one.

[Noah]

Okay.

[Amanda]

Okay. Yeah.

[Noah]

Wild.

[Amanda]

Pretty fun. All right. New Year's in Fenway. This is actually my favorite. There's something that you should know, but there's just. It's just super snowy and a high heel. Open toed. High heel. Sparkly, like stiletto.

[Noah]

Yes, that's silver.

[Amanda]

Here's the deal about Boston. It doesn't matter how cold it is or how snowy it is, women are always gonna wear, like, it's the summer. They're gonna wear little skirts and high heels and no jacket because they don't want to carry it. I was one of them.

[Shane]

Wow.

[Amanda]

So this is.

[Shane]

And they got platinum blonde hair. They've got spray tans. Is that crazy? By now, the Patriots might have won the super bowl. And you're gonna have to go. No, I'm just kidding.

[Amanda]

I might go platinum. Anyways. So this is like my favorite last picture.

[Shane]

Does.

[Amanda]

No, I might go.

[Shane]

Can I ask. Is Boston city. When the. When like the Patriots or. Or the Red Sox or a team wins, is the city crazy? Because when. Because when the Eagles won the Super Bowl. Phil. So have you heard about how when Philadelphia. When the Eagles won the super bowl, they have. They grease up the. The light post.

[Noah]

Oh. So no one can climb.

[Shane]

So people don't climb them.

[Noah]

Oh, that's so.

[Shane]

And they still find a way.

[Noah]

Oh, dude. Squirrel technology against them. So smart. Holy.

[Amanda]

Dude.

[Noah]

Next get the aluminum.

[Shane]

But like, it is Boston.

[Amanda]

That type Boston.

[Shane]

It's gotta be. They're. They're nuts.

[Amanda]

They are absolutely crazy. And. And the time I experienced this the most, I was at College at Umar UMass Amherst. And I think the Red Sox won the World Series.

[Shane]

And they broke the curse.

[Amanda]

They broke the curse.

[Noah]

Shillings.

[Amanda]

Cars were flipped. Cars were flipped over. Cars were on fire. There were a thousand cops on horses with tear gas. Every, like every chick in their dorm room was just flashing people. It was one of the. It was a very thrilling, fun night. Also living in Boston, they tried to like, flip over buses. I don't think they oiled up any of the lampposts, but they should have.

[Shane]

Yeah, people are climbing on them.

[Amanda]

They should have like, stuck all the way.

[Noah]

So we in Boston, the Boston Cream. Took me way too long to get there. I'm so sorry.

[Amanda]

What happens is you got there and then you immediately said, it took me way too long to get there.

[Noah]

Cause it did land that.

[Amanda]

It was Noah land it.

[Shane]

Sully that joke.

[Amanda]

Come on, dude.

[Noah]

Fenway was my favorite place in Boston. I went as a kid that was. Seeing the Green Monster was incredible. It's my favorite place.

[Shane]

I've heard Fenway park is amazing.

[Amanda]

It is. Is. It is so fun because they have old school stands. Everything is right there. It's. They close off the streets. You, like, walk the streets. There's amazing food vendors. The bleacher bar is like the best spot to be. It's a bar underneath the bleachers. Oh, that's out in the outfield. And they open it up so you're just sitting there. You can watch the game in the outfield.

[Shane]

Sports games are. Are really fun. I love the rest because I went to the. I went to the AFC championship game with the Broncos against the Patriots, and it was like, a bunch of Patriots Broncos fans, and a snowstorm happened midway through the game, and, like, everybody there was just, like, kind of having a great time because it was so insane. We were all covered in snow, but it was awesome. I love that even though the Broncos lost, they still had a great time.

[Amanda]

Well, I was watching. The Patriots came with you.

[Shane]

So what?

[Amanda]

On the other side, I was watching the Patriots game.

[Shane]

I know. We were texting each other. I was sending her photos of me covered in snow. It was. It was fun.

[Noah]

Rivalry.

[Shane]

Yeah, he did. Yeah. Honestly, though, there was a really sweet moment because I was there with my brothers, and there was Patriots fans. And, like, we're all talking, of course, at times, but at one point in the middle of the snow, my brothers and I and some of these Patriots fans, like, we grabbed each other. We're like, this is what it's all about. Because, like, the snow was just blasting us. We're like, well, we're not leaving.

[Amanda]

Dude.

[Noah]

I feel like that's a male platonic Hallmark movie.

[Shane]

Totally.

[Noah]

That's what you just described. You go to the football game in the snow.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Noah]

You get the people on the other team, and you guys just become best friends.

[Shane]

Well, it was kind of like us against the elements, too. Right? Like, the game was happening. But it was also like, yeah, we're not gonna let this snowstorm scare us away.

[Amanda]

I love. I love that. I miss going to games like that.

[Shane]

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[Amanda]

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[Shane]

Oh, nice. Well, this was my face when I thought about organizing my finances. Oh, I don't like that.

[Amanda]

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[Noah]

Back to the show.

[Shane]

Anyways, moving on.

[Amanda]

Moving on.

[Shane]

This subreddit has been probably one of my favorites recently, and it's been popping up a ton on my feed, and it's always a blast. It's called Top Character Tropes. Oh, and all it is. So the way it works is someone will post a character trope, whether they hate it, they love it, whatever.

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[Shane]

You post the trope and then all the comments have to find other examples of it.

[Amanda]

Love it.

[Shane]

And it can be kind of anywhere. It could be video games, TV shows, books, movies, or real life. Sometimes people are like, here's an example in real life.

[Amanda]

Did you already have this on there?

[Shane]

We've mentioned this.

[Amanda]

Didn't I send this to you? I sent this to Selena. I was like, oh, we should do this one. That's so funny.

[Shane]

Yeah. So I found a bunch of good examples. So the first one that I have is Love Trope. The main cast in a horror movie isn't a group of morons. And their examples are the townies in Tremors, because they're really. They truly are, like, figuring it out. And they're like. Like they're not just dumbasses. And then the prime example is the Arctic Crew. In the thing.

[Amanda]

Oh yeah.

[Shane]

Cuz they're truly a team of scientists and someone points out. It's like throughout that entire movie of the thing. I'm trying not to spoil it too much. They truly do the smartest thing that they can, that they are aware of. They're just being outsmarted and out played by this thing. It's really epic. Then the top comment in response is the team from Predator, Arnold Schwarzenegger and all of them, it's like. But they just, they didn't know they were fighting an alien.

[Noah]

Yeah.

[Shane]

So if anything, they're doing everything they can.

[Noah]

A great job at it.

[Amanda]

Yeah.

[Noah]

Because from their perspective, I'm in a movie for them. They're really just like shooting at nothing in a jungle.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Noah]

Like fully nothing. And they're pretty close to doing it.

[Shane]

And Arnold at the end, like, he, he doesn't. It's why. So there's the movie Prey. Right. Which was, which was a woman, a young woman. She was a Comanche. I think she was Comanche or Apach. And I think she's Comanche. And some people were like, oh, this is like, obviously the super toxic people come out and they're like, oh, of course they have like a woman. It's like Arnold was. Didn't beat the Predator because he was strong. He beat him because he out. You have to outwit.

[Amanda]

Exactly.

[Shane]

The Predator. And she outwitted him as well.

[Amanda]

Outplay.

[Shane]

Exactly.

[Amanda]

Survivor.

[Shane]

Survivor. And we're back to Survivor. I need to rewatch Predator. But I loved Prey.

[Amanda]

I love Prey.

[Shane]

I've not watched so good. I've not watched Predator Badlands, but I'm kind of like an Alien Predator fanatic. But I've never watched Alien vs. Predator.

[Amanda]

Wait, do we think that Alien did the movie Alien? Do we think that that group of people did a good job?

[Shane]

Yes. That was also an example in here. People were saying that they are a good example as well. No, I mean, I think they overall they're reacting in a smart way. People are just pointing out like a lot of movies, it's. I don't like when people die in horror movies purely out of stupidity.

[Amanda]

Scream.

[Shane]

I get scared when people do everything they can. I think Halloween's a good example.

[Amanda]

Halloween is so.

[Shane]

I think Jamie Lee Curtis does respond like she responds very well to Michael Myers and is like, I'm gonna stay away from this.

[Amanda]

I love Halloween.

[Shane]

I'm gonna fight back. I'm gonna go where I should go, try to get help the way I can. But he's truly this Force that Keeps Coming.

[Amanda]

That was filmed in Pasadena.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

They still, like, shut down that house during Halloween. And you can, like, walk through it. Oh, that's cool. And I went there one Halloween, and it was just a Michael Myers standing on the porch waving at everyone.

[Noah]

Hey, guys.

[Shane]

Another trope is when a character goes to prison and befriends all the prisoners.

[Noah]

Oh, my goodness. And Arrested Development is my first thought.

[Shane]

Arrested Development brought up here.

[Noah]

Jordan. Paddington does it. Sorry.

[Shane]

And Paddington is the top. It's the one that they posted. They go, Paddington, Paddington 2. He goes to. When someone explained the plot of Paddington 2 to me, they're like, because I've seen Paddington. And they're like, have you seen Paddington 2? I still haven't, but someone was like, oh, Paddington 2. And I'm like, what's the plot? And they go, he goes to prison. I was like, they send a sweet little bear to prison, Dude. He goes to prison. That's the plot.

[Amanda]

I heard it's a really good movie.

[Noah]

It's really good.

[Shane]

People say it's the best movie of all time.

[Amanda]

What?

[Noah]

Yeah.

[Shane]

I'm not kidding. People say Paddington 2.

[Amanda]

Do you agree, Noah?

[Noah]

I have seen Paddington. I do not remember it. I was way too high and I cried too much. I'm not even kidding. I straight up, I got too high, cried too much. I know. The first one cried a lot, and I loved it. The second one, I got too emotional. I truly don't remember it.

[Amanda]

Oh, my God.

[Noah]

I know. I've seen it because it's on, like, a watch history.

[Amanda]

I think you need to watch it again.

[Noah]

Yeah, but it takes me a while to watch things that make me cry.

[Amanda]

No. Yeah, that makes sense. It's hard to see.

[Shane]

The post has two examples. It's Paddington 2 and then Cecil from Invincible, which is the comic show. But George Senior from Arrested Development, also Tobias, later in the series. It happens multiple times in Arrested Development. It also happen two or three times in Avatar. The Last Airbender. Oh, you're right.

[Noah]

Befriends all the.

[Shane]

I think it's Uncle Iroh. Is it him that also goes. Yeah. Wow. It's. It's. It's interesting, Zuko. This subreddit makes me realize, like, how often tropes are used. I'm like, that's such a specific trope. And it's.

[Amanda]

I feel like every movie has seven different stories, and they're all just using all of them with, like, similar tropes. And. And it. We love it because there's, like, a nice familiarity to it.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

It's like reading books. Books.

[Shane]

Yeah, yeah.

[Amanda]

Same tropes.

[Shane]

I like. I, I like cliche.

[Amanda]

Me too.

[Shane]

Like, I, I think it's, it's a.

[Amanda]

But it can be done differently with the characters in the relationship.

[Shane]

It's always a different taste.

[Amanda]

Yeah.

[Shane]

Here's a very specific one. Censorship. Accidentally making things worse.

[Noah]

Oh yeah.

[Shane]

And where this happens a lot is they reference a lot of cartoons. Primary example of this, and it's. There's multiple aspects in this is Sailor moon from the 90s.

[Amanda]

I love sailor Moon.

[Shane]

So in Sailor Moon, Sailor Neptune and Sailor Uranus were a lesbian in the original Japanese version, but were censored to be cousins in the American dubbed version.

[Noah]

Oh. So inadvertently.

[Shane]

Inadvertently making them seem like an incestuous lesbian couple. And people recalled this. Friends who. I watched some of the show. I didn't watch it all the way through, but people were like, yeah, it was, it was weird. It's like, oh, we're cousins. But there's some weird tension because originally they were. They were supposed to be a couple. Now it also in Sailor Moon, someone pointed out later on, don't forget Fisheye from Sailor Moon. Fisheye is a feminine presenting male. They to censor this, they just fish eyed. They turned them into a female, but they kept the above scene where at one point they take their top off and they're shirtless and they're like. So rather than having to explain that Fisheye is male, they would rather have a flat chested female flash her chest to everyone.

[Amanda]

This makes no sense. I. Censorship is just, it's silly.

[Shane]

Right? And it kind of shows like we are. We make things worse in the process of trying.

[Amanda]

If you're young, you're watching it, you're like, oh, do I have to like my cousin?

[Shane]

Yeah, you don't understand. And the other example they give is Batman. The Animated Series censors didn't allow depictions of death. So the victims were shown frozen in place, eyes wide open with eerie smiles and no explanation. This is somehow even more disturbing. And they have this photo from it where the Joker has taken out some people.

[Noah]

Wow.

[Shane]

And it's just like, oh, are they just like in a horrible stuck state?

[Amanda]

Who decided this?

[Shane]

I know they're just not thinking about it. It's like. But can I real quick.

[Noah]

I just want to say being a censor is secretly a dream job of mine. Kind of like being on jury duty where it's like, it sounds like hell. And that's kind of what I like. I would love nothing more than to be in the Mud with some of the dumbest people all trying to explain why we need to like censor something and just sit there and just go through the minutia and just get to explain why what they're suggest is the dumbest thing ever that makes sense.

[Shane]

It does actually make me talk shit. It makes me wish I could be in the room for when they're like deciding the rating for a video game.

[Noah]

Yes.

[Shane]

Like, what's that process like? You know? And I'm like, do they really play the game? Like, what are they doing?

[Noah]

Do they just read like a description that was given by the people who produce it?

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Noah]

Who knows? I want to be in there.

[Amanda]

And you want to also be. Be on jury duty In.

[Noah]

In. Yes. If it's until I was actually asked. And then they were like, oh, yeah, it's $15 a day.

[Amanda]

Right.

[Noah]

I can't do that.

[Amanda]

You can't do that. Okay. You want to be in a place where you can like play both sides and almost be like devil's advocate and be like, okay, here's why this doesn't work situation. So you want to be.

[Noah]

It's. It's like devil's advocate. But if I'm. I'm the angel, like, you want something to happen. So then I get to sit here and just be like, what you said is so fucking stupid. Explain to me, but now break it down into points and we can go one by one why what you said is stupid and maybe make it better.

[Shane]

Wow.

[Noah]

Yeah. That's like, I would love to have that be a lawyer. If I was. If. If I had less add, I probably could have done it. That's what I was going to do. Before I committed to Smosh. That was my out in the contract was to go to LMU to be a lawyer. Yeah. And then I was like, the entertainment industry, I don't really see. I'm not about to be an entertainment lawyer. And I didn't know if I necessarily wanted to get into criminal law and like tort stuff. And it doesn't matter. Hey, instead I'm here.

[Amanda]

You still can.

[Shane]

First choice. Being a lawyer is one of those jobs that media makes it sound cool, but I'm like, go one of the most boring jobs on the fucking planet. When I almost got jury duty last year, that whole process, I was like, I would die if I was. Because these lawyers, it's so mundane.

[Amanda]

I feel like I would love it. I just literally, I wish time could stop so then I could do it. I genuinely don't have time.

[Shane]

I love. I Love reading, but not like they're able to read boring shit.

[Amanda]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Shane]

All day. You know what would I.

[Noah]

Just the last three days of jury duty. You know what I mean?

[Amanda]

Oh, my God.

[Noah]

Just the last three days.

[Shane]

You stop, you tag.

[Noah]

All right, Guess what I miss the closing cases.

[Shane]

Guilty. For sure.

[Noah]

Uhhuh.

[Amanda]

I can't stand this.

[Shane]

They're like, this is a civil case. Yeah, he's guilty. Go present him.

[Noah]

Execution.

[Shane]

Yeah. Kill him. This next one is when the example is so iconic, the whole trope is named after it.

[Amanda]

Ooh.

[Shane]

So one of the. The top comment. Because I'll go to the post post, the top comment is jumping the shark. We've all heard the term jumping the shark.

[Noah]

What is that originally from?

[Shane]

So when.

[Noah]

Wait, wait. Henry Winkler, right?

[Shane]

You got it, Fonzie. So.

[Amanda]

Oh.

[Shane]

So you know when people go the show like, oh, it's like, how's it doing? It's like, oh, the show jumped the shark with that episode. Or, oh, the movie jumped the shark with that. That. It's a phrase that's used when it's like, they've gone too far. It's about to, like, lose its quality. Like, all right, it's not good anymore. On Happy Days, there was a later. In one of the later seasons, the Fonz is dared to jump a shark on water.

[Noah]

Sk.

[Shane]

This is considered by many to be the defining moment when Happy Days started to decline in quality. Well, yeah, I guess some people were saying that there's an opposite name for this trope for when a show finds its footing and begins to improve, called Growing the Beard. And it references Star Trek Next Generation, when one of the characters started to grow a beard. And like, I guess the first season or two of Next Generation, we're talking.

[Noah]

About, like, park, but the secondary, Picard. No, no. So Picard is the there. And then who's his second? Is his second.

[Shane]

The one who grows second grows the beard.

[Noah]

That's what I was about to say, because watching the show that I would agree with that.

[Shane]

I've heard. I've heard Next Generation is like one of the best shows.

[Amanda]

They're saying growing the beard is like when. When a show leveling up.

[Shane]

When a show. You know how most shows the first or second season are a little bit like, ah, you got to get through it. And then.

[Amanda]

Yeah.

[Shane]

Like, for instance, one of my favorite shows, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I feel like the first season is kind of.

[Amanda]

Like they're figuring it out.

[Shane]

They're figuring it out. And then second, third season, I think the Third season. Oftentimes the show is like, that's always the best season.

[Amanda]

I'm kind of with you on that.

[Shane]

Third season rocks all the time.

[Amanda]

I'm still watching. I'm still watching Breaking Bad. Still. Whoa.

[Noah]

Where are you at right now?

[Amanda]

I'm on the last season. Oh. I thought the third season was incredible. Then the fourth season was like, fourth.

[Shane]

Season might be the best out of that one. Third and fourth seasons are always insane.

[Amanda]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Shane]

So they're examples, though. And you might. Might not get some of these equivalent exchange from Full Metal Alchemist Power. Power. It comes at a proportional cost. Now, here's one that blows my mind. Have you ever heard the phrase when someone's talking about, like, a traumatic event, that someone like you did this to me, it's like, I'm sorry, but I don't remember any of it. You don't remember. For you, that was the most important day in your life. For me, it was a Tuesday. We've heard that phrase.

[Amanda]

Yep.

[Shane]

You know what that's from?

[Amanda]

What?

[Shane]

Street Fighter. The movie from. Wow.

[Amanda]

Street Fighter.

[Shane]

John Claude Van Damme. Yeah. That movie is regarded as being a dogship movie. I didn't realize that Badass quote is from it. It's M. Bison saying that to Chun Li, I think, But.

[Amanda]

But.

[Noah]

And then she kicks his ass.

[Amanda]

That's the best time. That's like the climax time where they come and they finally face the person that has been, like, ruining their lives forever. And it's usually like a daughter father or whatever. Son father.

[Noah]

And then it's just like, yeah, the villain is like, dude, that was another day.

[Shane]

There was another post that I didn't pull of, like, the trope of when it's like, I'm here to avenge my father and the villain goes, I don't even know who you are. Yeah, like, that's a very common trope as well. That also is badass. And then they also reference Doombot. You destroyed a decoy. The real deal is still out there. Like that. That was first presented by, I think, Dr. Doom in Fantastic Four in the comics, where it's like, they think they beat Dr. Doom, and it's like, oh, no, that was not the real Dr. Doom. There's a decoy.

[Amanda]

Well, that. That can. That can also work for when you face your enemy, your father or whatever, and then he's just like, I don't even know who you are. And then you have to face the real enemy, which is, like, inside yourself.

[Noah]

Whoa.

[Shane]

It's actually you. I love this. This is One of my favorite favorites. Love Trope story hints at the existence of some cosmic supernatural horror, but it's never definitively confirmed within the story, which remains grounded.

[Noah]

Yes.

[Shane]

Their example is True Detective, season one. Oh, love it. I love that show so much. And in it, it's like them searching for a serial killer. But throughout the entire show, watching it, you think there's gonna be supernatural elements. There's weird shit where, like, the killer leaves this sign that's like, this spiral, and at one point, like, Matthew McConaugh looks out and these birds in this area create that spiral. You're like, is there, like, some weird, mystical stuff going on? Never confirmed, though. Yeah, but you just kind of have the feeling of like, maybe.

[Amanda]

I feel like all of True Detective kind of did that. But what it was is that, like, the killers were always in this, like, culty kind of psychological place that it made it feel like, oh, are we all tripping right now.

[Noah]

Setting too, of, like, kind of like Everglades, Like. Like just out of civilization, but it's not too far.

[Amanda]

Yes.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Noah]

It's so fun. So good.

[Shane]

An example that's brought up is Moby Dick, because in the novel, the whales, described as having strange carvings on it, is seemingly invincible and covered in harpoons. People have visions, dreams, and warnings while hunting it. Everyone who encounters it seems to be a bit mad or have some extreme misfortune. Comes across as very eldritch. And there's some minor evidence it even served as an inspiration for Love. Lovecraft, Ahab's obsession, also following very Lovecraftian themes. Or it's just a whale.

[Amanda]

Well, that's the thing is our brains as humans, we. We will not accept the logical answer. So we want to create all of these. Now, here's the deal. The. The newest True Detective that was set in Alaska, like, a part of me, they had that kind of fantastical kind of element, but I. I was kind of interested in. In that, like, the indigenous element of that. There are spirits that have, like, passed on that are calling you because it's, like, dark 247 during a certain period. Like, I kind of want to believe in that, but a lot of people are like, oh, it's your mind as a person trying to, like, you know. You know, when kids experience trauma and they create a monster, like a monster in their room or something like that, it's kind of like that.

[Shane]

I. It's. It's something I love in movies and TV shows. I love the, like, is there something more happening?

[Amanda]

I don't know, Personifying Your fears.

[Shane]

Yeah, it's. It's. It's awesome. There's the movie. I need to rewatch it. The movie the Lighthouse with Robert Pattinson.

[Amanda]

I've never seen it.

[Noah]

Yeah, that goes crazy. But it goes. It's kind of in a fun way.

[Shane]

Similar where it's like. It's probably about a madman, but it's like, are there mermaids?

[Noah]

Yeah. I mean, if there's mermaids, that's. I mean, multiple crimes.

[Amanda]

Of course.

[Noah]

Humanity and mermaids, I think. But I want to say on that either way. Yeah, on that trope is a lot of the times and it's usually done horribly, is they do reveal kind of what might be supernatural and try to make it logical. And usually it completely destroys something. But when it's done well, it becomes my favorite thing ever. Both of you, have you guys watched Dark Netflix? Dark.

[Shane]

Dark. I need to watch.

[Noah]

You need to.

[Shane]

I know that it's.

[Noah]

Apparently I've yet to see a show better. That show came out, like, years ago.

[Shane]

I've heard it's the most, like, perfectly tied up show.

[Noah]

Incredible. They do three seasons and it's like, done over three, four years. I have to be like, from the first episode, you knew what the last episode was. And that's unbelievable to me. Jonas.

[Amanda]

Yeah, Jonas.

[Shane]

Jonas Yellow. I need to watch it.

[Amanda]

Raincoat. It is so good.

[Shane]

I've heard someone described it being one of the most perfectly, like, tied up shows.

[Amanda]

Yeah.

[Noah]

It's the only time of recent history that the trope of actually revealing it is better than. Than you not revealing it. Yes. That's probably the only time. Yeah. And I want something else. Like it. I have yet to get it.

[Amanda]

They. They. The creators tried to do a new series. I was not a big fan. The ship. The. I forget what the ship was called. Like 1972.

[Noah]

Oh. I watched the first, like, two episodes and I wasn't into it too. I didn't know if it was because it was purity, period. It just wasn't interesting.

[Amanda]

It didn't hit as well. Which is okay, huh?

[Noah]

Yeah. Definitely watch it. Everyone wants watch that.

[Amanda]

Okay, so good.

[Shane]

Before we get on to these other ones I want to talk about, there is a subreddit called the Museum of Reddit.

[Noah]

Oh, this is fun.

[Shane]

And the Museum of Reddit, it's all the most famous things that have ever happened on Reddit. Like, old school stuff.

[Amanda]

Oh, fun.

[Shane]

I only pulled one thing, and I can't remember if I brought this up in one of our last Reddit episodes, but it is one of the most famous comments on Reddit to the point that people quote it all the time. Like if you're serving through Reddit and you're looking at a post, people might quote this okay, it comes from 10 years ago.

[Noah]

Cute.

[Shane]

And it's. It's. There was an ask Reddit post 2016 where someone posted you can have sex with one real person from all of human history who is your ultimate lay and someone Comment Comments Top comment goes. I'd like to have sex one more time with my wife, who passed away from cancer nine years ago. My body yearns for hers. The ultimate downside to finding the one is she may die young and leave you wanting.

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[Shane]

Commented beneath that saying, I also choose this guy's dead wife. And someone commented on that. Holy fucking shit. My dude. It is. Wow.

[Amanda]

Did the guy comment on the comments?

[Shane]

I don't know.

[Amanda]

What do you you can't bring this to me without that closure.

[Shane]

I don't know. I doubt it.

[Amanda]

I There's something so great that's insane. It's insane about someone taking a real question and taking it so to heart and then someone being like, yeah, I want to get with that lady too.

[Shane]

I also choose this guy's dead one.

[Noah]

It's like you get like one of.

[Shane]

The most heartfelt, one of the most heartfelt legitimate comments you'll ever see. It's like, oh yeah. And then for someone to read that and go, yeah, let me type this up right now.

[Amanda]

You know what, though? You kind of need that, because I can sometimes be that guy who's like, well, I wish that Bubba and my husband be like, yeah, or this. And I'm like, what? It just, like, takes you out.

[Shane]

And obviously from Reddit stories, reading so many Reddit comments, I feel like you can tell that so many Redditors are striving to hit that type of comment that people are. Every Reddit post has people trying to be snarky, trying to have a witty comment, and it never hits that well. But, man, that one.

[Amanda]

That one.

[Shane]

That one is hits. And it's. It's kind of the, like, it's. It's the gold standard. Nothing has topped that, really. There might be some others that are up there, but that is the famous one.

[Noah]

I mean, in a. In a really weird way, he's, like, kept the memory of that woman alive forever now.

[Shane]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Noah]

That's just very strange.

[Shane]

Everyone remembers that guy's dead.

[Noah]

Dude, that's unique. Oh, I call it unique.

[Shane]

It is unique.

[Amanda]

That is so perfect.

[Shane]

Okay. That's the only museum of Reddit one I have.

[Noah]

What?

[Shane]

That's the only one I have. Another one that I found called Delusional Craigslist. Wait.

[Noah]

People trying to sell the craziest.

[Shane]

Someone. Someone posted rare quadruple peanut. 500 bucks. And it's a. It's a peanut that's got four peanuts in it.

[Noah]

Quadruple.

[Amanda]

Is that a real.

[Shane]

That's a real peanut.

[Amanda]

Why 500?

[Noah]

Come on.

[Shane]

Okay, you find a quadruple peanut.

[Noah]

Care.

[Amanda]

I don't care about it.

[Noah]

I for sure have found it. I've eaten enough peanuts in my life.

[Shane]

I do not think quadruple peanuts are. That right.

[Noah]

It's not. $500. Peanuts, rare.

[Amanda]

Who the hell eats peanuts?

[Shane]

Everyone at Texas Roadhouse.

[Noah]

Yes, they did. And they put the shells right on the floor.

[Shane]

You just throw them on the floor.

[Noah]

That was fun as a kid. Yeah.

[Amanda]

Remember, they would be like, it's your birthday. You want to go ride the horse? And you're like, I'd like to sit in my seat, please. No.

[Shane]

Anyways, next up, someone is trying to sell for $18, 72 mild sauces.

[Amanda]

Wait a minute.

[Shane]

Actually a pretty good deal.

[Noah]

Yeah, I'm trying to do the math on that.

[Shane]

How many Taco Bell orders do you have to. To get to get 72 of them?

[Noah]

I think you usually got to pay a quarter of sauce if you're getting more than four.

[Amanda]

It took them an hour to set those sauces up like that.

[Noah]

You Know what that is? That's someone's severance package. They just got fired.

[Shane]

They're like, here's mild sauce. They're like, can I get one hot.

[Noah]

Yeah.

[Shane]

Yeah. Can I get fired? It's like, no, you're fired. Yeah, you're out of here.

[Noah]

You're fire. You're fired. You get mild sauce. Damn, bro.

[Shane]

Damn. Another subreddit is confidently incorrect. I think I've brought this one up before.

[Noah]

Love it. That's me all day.

[Shane]

It's just so. It's so insane.

[Noah]

Love it.

[Amanda]

That's Noah confidently.

[Noah]

We're going to argue before we Google cuz then it's a competition. It's fun.

[Shane]

God, there. It was famous. So recently there was a famous video of this penguin marching off into the mountains. And I didn't find this on the subreddit, but a penguin marching off into the the mountains. And it was on Tik Tok. And someone commented, like, there was a quote. And someone's like, Nietzsche spoke of this. And someone's like, have you read Nietzsche? He's like, no, have you? The guy goes, no. I'm like, that is so many conversations. You find. This was on TikTok, but here are some confidently incorrect posts. So this is a conversation between multiple people. One guy goes, did you know mammals cannot be green? And someone replied, kermit would like a word. And someone goes, kermit is not a mammal. And that guy responded, responds, lmao, of course he's a mammal. His surname is literally the frog.

[Noah]

It's.

[Shane]

It's so great. Incredible.

[Amanda]

What the hell is happening?

[Shane]

Oh God, what a life.

[Amanda]

What a life.

[Shane]

Kermit is. You know, he's a hand.

[Noah]

So technically he's a mammal.

[Shane]

Technically. I guess technically he is Kermit, specifically.

[Noah]

The only mammalian frog.

[Shane]

Well, is Kermit the puppet or is Kermit the hand? Hand.

[Noah]

Kermit is the dream.

[Amanda]

Kermit is not.

[Shane]

Kermit is the vision.

[Amanda]

He is not a puppet. Kermit is a real frog.

[Noah]

So he's saying he's an amphibian.

[Amanda]

Kermit is an amphibian, okay? He's real. He sang Somewhere over the Rainbow. Enough.

[Shane]

Enough. Okay? Someone said Spanish and Dutch are European. Someone said Dutch is Spanish isn't. And he goes, spain is in Europe. And this person responds, wrong again. Again. It's in South America.

[Amanda]

No.

[Shane]

And there's one. Oh boy. Okay, buddy.

[Amanda]

No, wait.

[Noah]

Is that a time traveler? Buddy.

[Shane]

They're like dark. Oh, yeah. Is this a conquistador?

[Noah]

Yeah, it's 1542 over here, bro.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

Oh, no. That's so sad. You kind of. I love that no one else commented. They were just like, we're gonna let this one lie.

[Shane]

We're just gonna let you go, man. All right.

[Noah]

Dang.

[Shane]

The final subreddit that I have is hygiene.

[Amanda]

Oh, let's talk about it.

[Shane]

There's a lot of posts. A lot of them are just kind of a little more normal. People just discussing, like, what. What they do, how often they wash their hair, like, things like that. But occasionally people will post. People post things, and they'll be like, hey, like, I was told, this is normal, or I was raised thinking, this is normal. This is normal. And it's, like, so far out there. Because people don't talk about a lot of hygiene things.

[Noah]

No, they. They don't.

[Shane]

We don't. We're. We're very uncomfortable talking about something.

[Amanda]

It's very uncomfortable. It's like we don't want to admit.

[Shane]

So a lot of, like, bathroom habits and things go undiscussed and people don't.

[Noah]

You got to figure it out. And you just cross your fingers. You figure it out before you're 18.

[Amanda]

Well, bathroom habits are talked about. Shower habits are a little bit different. Everyone's talking.

[Shane]

So here's one that has me thinking, definitely. Someone goes, my roommate perceives me as dirty for reusing my towel, and now I'm so perplexed. I'm currently sitting in my room feeling pretty judged and honestly, just confused. I moved in with a new roommate a couple of weeks ago, and everything was fine until this morning. Morning. She saw me hanging up my towel after a shower and asked how long I'd been using that specific one. I told her it's my towel for the week, and I usually just swap it out. Every Sunday when I do laundry, she looked at me like I just confessed to a crime. She said she uses a fresh towel every single time she showers because reusing one is swapping bacteria back and forth. Growing up, my family's logic was always that you're at your absolute cleanest when you step out of the shower. You're just scrubbed. You just scrubbed yourself. So the towel stays clean. Clean. You just hang it up, let it dry, and it's fine for the next day. My mom and grandma have always done it this way. Now she's acting like I'm a walking petri dish. She says the dampness makes it a breeding ground for mold, but it's just water, and it dries in a few hours anyway. I genuinely didn't realize people Were out here doing an entire load of laundry just for towels every few days. It seems like a massive waste of time if you're already clean. Am I actually gross? Like how many times are you guys using a towel before it goes in the hand hamper? Starting to wonder if my whole family is just an outlier or she is.

[Amanda]

First of all, she's ruining the environment.

[Noah]

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

[Shane]

First of all, she's killing the moon.

[Amanda]

First of all, the moon is dying.

[Shane]

First of all, because of her. First of all, she's the worst person I've ever seen in my life.

[Amanda]

Washing your towel every shower.

[Shane]

That's no seven towels a week.

[Noah]

I want to speak on this because that is how oh I used to live. And I think the difference is whether or not you have in unit laundry. When I still lived at my parents house, I could do towels whenever. So I could do.

[Amanda]

Do you use a fresh towel each.

[Noah]

Shower now living in an apartment, I will not share a towel over days, but I'll share a towel with my girlfriend. So technically they are correct. A wet towel sitting in any part of your house is going to grow mildew mold to some degree. Obviously that is normal. As in the normal person has some layers of this on them all the time because most people can't do enough towels to have one fresh every day.

[Shane]

Well, I mean if it's sitting on its drying.

[Amanda]

The.

[Shane]

The top comment I think kind of nails it because we live in la, which is pretty dry so it can dry off. Like it actually it's not like it's going to develop mold. I would hope because where are you.

[Noah]

Hanging it that it's not touching anything or not near your toilet.

[Shane]

You're hanging it off your shower towel.

[Amanda]

Rack or towel rack?

[Shane]

A towel rack. So it's perfectly.

[Noah]

But where's your towel towel rack?

[Amanda]

It's in the.

[Shane]

In the bathroom.

[Noah]

In the bathroom where you take a poo poo pee pee.

[Amanda]

I don't pee in the bathroom.

[Shane]

I just don't.

[Noah]

I poop upward for a banana.

[Shane]

Someone said. I found it varies wildly depending on where someone grew up. If you grew up somewhere super humid, your towel never really dries and it gets gross fast.

[Noah]

Oh yeah.

[Shane]

So I can see that maybe if you're near the equator, if you're somewhere tropical that maybe it's like. Yeah, you have to swap them out more because they don't dry off. But like growing up in Arizona, that place was so dry.

[Noah]

Yeah.

[Shane]

You hang up your towel even in the bathroom. It's dry after an hour.

[Amanda]

I Just. Yeah, I definitely reuse my towel. Not, like, over many, many days, but.

[Shane]

I think once a week isn't. I would never judge someone for once a week.

[Amanda]

I wouldn't judge someone for once a week. But I will say I would judge.

[Shane]

Someone for once for a week.

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I would say.

[Amanda]

I would say even a week is a little, like.

[Noah]

I think you got two days of putting that on your body. After that, that's a foot towel.

[Amanda]

I'm gonna say like, three to four.

[Noah]

Four.

[Shane]

Okay.

[Noah]

All right.

[Shane]

Okay.

[Noah]

Use a towel like you do jeans. How does that make you feel? What do you mean?

[Amanda]

What do you mean? How often do I wash my jeans? Yeah, not that often, but that's what you can get. Three to four every five years or something.

[Noah]

Really? Oh, my God. I was like, wait a minute. You got to be wearing real denim.

[Shane]

A lot of, like.

[Noah]

Wait, that checks.

[Amanda]

Whoa.

[Shane]

A lot of. A lot of, like, raw denim enthusiasts are like, put them in the freezer or whatever.

[Amanda]

Yeah.

[Shane]

On the topic, though, of. Of shower and stuff, there was a comment. It was asking the question, do you shower at night or in the morning? Showering before bed pros. Keeps your bed clean. It's relaxing at night. If you wake up late, you are still clean. Cons, you might smell sweaty. If you sweat during the night. If your bed is dirty, then you are dirty for the next day. These are all things I could think of. But I would love to know what you do and why you do it.

[Amanda]

I am. If I'm going to wash my hair, which is normally once, maybe twice a week, I shower I. At night.

[Shane]

Okay.

[Amanda]

I sleep with my hair wet, which I know people are, like, in, like, a towel or something wrong with you.

[Noah]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

Yeah. So I lay out, like, a cotton thing, and then I sleep with my hair wet, which I know people like, you could get sick, but it works better for my hair because it's curly, and I just like showering at night. I just find it to be better. It's very relaxing. I want to get into bed, like, clean.

[Shane]

Yeah, I get that.

[Amanda]

That's my vibes.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Noah]

I usually always was a morning shower. If I'm going to work, I'm always going to morning shower. Depending on how bad my depression is, maybe that'll change. But when I'm doing good, always get a morning shower and then night shower as well. If I'm gonna be, like, in bed with my girlfriend or anything like that. Cause she's, like, germaphobic about the bed, and I get that. But I am, like, a night sweater, so Even if I shower at night, you have to shower like in the morning. I'm gonna shower. Yeah, you're still gonna sweat.

[Amanda]

That's fine.

[Shane]

I'm a morning. I shower. Yeah, morning. Every time. Cause my hair, I have to wash it. Like my hair.

[Noah]

Oh, dude, I didn't even think about that.

[Shane]

I wake up and my hair. Hair is. People talk about how insane my hair is all the time. When I wake up, it is in insane ways. And unless I shower, I cannot manipulate it.

[Noah]

Really? That's so interesting. Because you'd never expect that.

[Shane]

Cuz if I sleep on my side, my hair is just straight up. It's like truly like even if I let it sink it like I have to like. So I need to get in the shower to get it to a place where I can rework it.

[Amanda]

Do you have really straight hair?

[Noah]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

Like if you grow your hair, would it be stick straight and blonde?

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Noah]

Yes.

[Amanda]

Whoa.

[Shane]

Well, when I had so my hair when I was a teenager, it was really long and it went. It parted straight down the middle. Cuz I could not get it to not do that straight down. And then because of my shoulders and stuff, it would like flare out.

[Noah]

Whoa. You were like full 60s, dude.

[Shane]

It was ridiculous, man. I was Wham.

[Amanda]

That's amazing.

[Shane]

Not Wham. What's. No, no, no.

[Amanda]

You were Mbop. Oh, Hanson brother. Yeah, you were the handsome brothers.

[Shane]

No, I wish I was Wham.

[Amanda]

Yeah, I was like.

[Shane]

No, they were. They've got volume. I wish I could have George Michael's hair. His hair rocked. Oh no, my hair. My hair was not coiffed. My hair was straight. Bam.

[Amanda]

I would love to see you with like a blunt cut. Just like.

[Noah]

Whoa.

[Shane]

It truly would just be flat.

[Amanda]

I like it.

[Noah]

Dude, that's. If you ever booked like the next Austin Powers, that would be. You're that henchman.

[Amanda]

I don't think just back Austin Powers.

[Noah]

No. Damn.

[Amanda]

No.

[Noah]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

No. Remember when I did Austin Powers impression?

[Noah]

Did it go well?

[Shane]

We did a short of it and it. It got like zero views.

[Amanda]

Oh, no one knows Austin Powers negative 10 views.

[Shane]

Yeah, people left.

[Noah]

Well, I guess Austin Powers now also is like very sexually forward and people might not get the irony of the character he was doing.

[Amanda]

He didn't like the gold member anyways.

[Shane]

Well, that's all the subreddits. Whoa.

[Amanda]

I love subreddits so much. I want to dig more into subreddits and then bring them back. But I only found boss in this round.

[Shane]

Yeah, well, hey, that's fine. Hey Noah, thank you for Being here.

[Noah]

Yeah, dude, thank you.

[Shane]

I love your journeying into subreddits with us. Of course you're not, because you're not like huge into Reddit.

[Noah]

No, no, I don't have an account. I don't like to have an account on Reddit, but I don't either. Either way, it knows who you are.

[Shane]

I'm an anonymous lurker.

[Noah]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

Oh my God. Yeah, you guys are just lurkers.

[Noah]

But you know what's crazy about Reddit is like, it'll suggest like fun things and also just the most random stuff. Even though I don't have an account half the time it's like VR tuber or like random just stuff that I'm not interested in. But it's like number 12 in all of Reddit. I'm just like, dude, I don't.

[Shane]

It's interesting.

[Noah]

I'm obviously out of current Reddit culture, if that makes sense.

[Shane]

It's all over the place. I mean, it's really all over the place. It's interesting to see what niche communities exist.

[Amanda]

It is actually really fun.

[Shane]

I was really fascinated by that.

[Noah]

You know what's cool about Reddit? The final thing I'll say is the way that topics now can spread between subreddits is very interesting before it was very much more segmented before it entered kind of the current social media energy of it. So it is unique where, like I will be able to get news, but because it's like in all the random subreddits, not even. Cause I'm looking for news at this point.

[Amanda]

It's all spread out.

[Shane]

Yeah, it's really interesting.

[Amanda]

Well, thank you so much, Noah, for joining us.

[Noah]

Thank you for letting me be here.

[Shane]

Of course.

[Noah]

Enjoyable always.

[Shane]

And thank you all for listening and watching. Watching. And let us know in the comments down below if there's subreddits that you found that you want us to talk about. Find post from. Because if you found some hidden gems, let us know and we'll see you later. Bye. Wash your towels.

[Noah]

Do you guys want to submit for traders with me? Traders? Us? Okay, let's do it.

[Amanda]

Yeah.