Jokes On Us | Reading Reddit Stories

Summary

Smosh Reads Reddit Stories: "Jokes On Us | Reading Reddit Stories"

Released: January 17, 2026
Host: Shane (Shayne Topp)
Guests: Courtney, Arasha
Theme: Pranks

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Episode Overview

This riotous episode dives into the theme of pranks, exploring the fine (and often blurry) line between good-natured goofs and mean-spirited antics. From fake dietary choices to emotionally devastating deceptions, the Smosh crew unpacks various Reddit stories about pranking gone right––and very, very wrong. Expect the classic mix of laughter, incredulity, and sharp commentary from Shayne and his couch companions, Courtney and Arasha.

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Prank Warm-Up & Episode Kickoff

[02:03 – 05:25]

• The episode begins with a series of goofy meta-pranks among the hosts. Shane fake-starts the episode by pretending no guests are present, only to be joined by Courtney and Arasha, who continue the faux confusion.
• Arasha wears a trench coat set-up and tries, unsuccessfully, to prank the others with a whoopee cushion ("She has a whoopee cushion taped to her ass, by the way." – Courtney, [03:05]). The prank’s failure adds to the hilarity.
• Shane officially announces the episode’s theme: PRANKS. The group reflects on how Reddit pranks often lean toward the cruel or pointlessly committed, rather than clever fun ("They're almost always mean and horrible." – Shane, [05:16]).

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Story 1: The Appletarian Prank

[05:37 – 14:04]

Story Summary

A Redditor pretends for three weeks to become an “Appletarian”—eating only apple-based foods to prank friends—culminating in a staged intervention and ultimately, a breakup with his girlfriend.

Key Discussion Points

• The Smosh crew is bewildered by the duration and scope of the commitment.
• Courtney points out that, though funny at arm’s length, it’s disruptive and pointless for actual friends ("There's no payoff." – Courtney, [08:40]).
• Arasha highlights pranks in a public setting (like a comedy channel) can have a justifiable payoff; this, by contrast, is just needling friends.
• Shane discusses the nutritional and physiological impossibility: "Three weeks of only apples and apple juice. There's no way you're feeling good." [09:18]
• The intervention and breakup signal that the prank did real social harm.
• The group oscillates between finding the commitment hilarious and the premise truly pointless ("When you think about it, you're like, wait, why would you do that? And you're like, wait, that's awesome." – Arasha, [12:11]).

Notable Quotes

• "Cause there's like, what's the payoff? ... For him, I'm like, what's the—yeah, you tell everyone. They go, great." – Shane [08:40]
• "He committed to it. Nobody's filming it." – Courtney, [12:19]

Verdict

Mild Amusement but Socially Clueless – The prank is absurd but more baffling than mean.

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Story 2: The Annoying Beeper – Emotional Warfare

[17:49 – 30:30]

Story Summary

A woman posts about her boyfriend planting a beeping device (an "Annoying PCB") in her room, driving her to paranoia and sleep deprivation, especially during her stressful first week at a new job. The boyfriend gaslights her before revealing it was a prank.

Key Discussion Points

• The crew unanimously agrees this is not a prank but psychological torture.
• Shane: "This isn't a prank. This is torture." [25:32]
• The boyfriend’s continued “beep beep beep” texts after the reveal are flagged as insensitive and, frankly, disturbing.
• The context is crucial—the girlfriend had already communicated needing seriousness and support, and her anxiety was exacerbated by the “prank”.
• The panel reflects on boundaries, communication, and consent in relationships.

Notable Quotes

• "If somebody is actively being like, I am not in a good place. I'm actually anxious and I can't sleep. How is that not like setting off alarms?" – Arasha, [29:16]
• "He enjoys torturing you." – Shane, [24:36]

Verdict

Massive Red Flag – Emotional Abuse: The prank exposes serious issues in the relationship; the advice is unanimous that she should leave.

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Story 3: Faked Death Prank

[30:41 – 37:38]

Story Summary

A man fakes his own death for two weeks to “prank” his girlfriend of four years. On revealing the truth, he finds her devastated and reconsidering the relationship.

Key Discussion Points

• The group is stunned by the scale and cruelty of the prank.
• Courtney: “Death isn’t funny. Like, death, losing a loved one isn’t funny. There’s no joy in that.” [34:00]
• The emotional trauma inflicted cannot be undone—Shane compares it to genuinely traumatic experiences, which don’t “go away” just because it was a joke.
• Even OP’s regret and therapy-seeking are not enough to redeem the act.
• The panel concludes there’s no path back to a healthy relationship.

Notable Quotes

• "That's not something that someone can get past." – Arasha, [35:26]
• "Good God, dude. Oh my God, be an appletarian or something." – Shane, [35:49]

Verdict

Irredeemable Cruelty – No hope for the relationship, beyond-the-pale behavior.

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Story 4: The Friendship “Test”

[39:51 – 48:20]

Story Summary

A platonic male friend helps a female friend (Jess) with moving. Her best friend Kim has long believed he “wants to get in her pants.” Jess tests him by faking interest; when he reciprocates, she claims vindication and is upset. He skips helping her move.

Key Discussion Points

• The Smosh crew finds the “test” manipulative and unfair.
• Courtney notes how this “test” avoids honest communication and sets up a no-win situation.
• Shane: “I hate tests. Anytime...what are you doing?”
• The group notes any real friendship requires communication, not set-ups.
• Jess’s emotional reaction transfers blame unfairly; her use of help for the move becomes part of the manipulation.

Notable Quotes

• “This isn’t a good test. There’s no control.” – Courtney, [44:16]
• “That’s not a friend.” – Shane, [44:41]

Verdict

Unkind and Immature – Not a prank, just a poorly handled, manipulative situation.

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Story 5: Starbucks Prank Name & Van Shoes

[48:33 – 62:24]

Story Summary

A Redditor pranks a Starbucks barista by giving the name “I need more head.” The barista, offended, hurls the drink (ruining his Vans) and refuses a replacement. The OP reports her to the manager; in comments, he claims—unconvincingly—to be a 13-year-old.

Key Discussion Points

• The crew lands squarely on the barista’s side, especially given the daily abuse service workers take.
• Courtney and Shane are skeptical of OP’s claim to be 13, noting the writing style and details.
• The group discusses the difference between consensual, rapport-based jokes and pranking total strangers ("Don’t prank strangers.“ — Shane, [53:43])
• The name joke itself is deemed unfunny and cringe, especially in a workplace context.

Notable Quotes

• "I kind of love throwing the drink, honestly. It's like you get someone at their wit's end." – Courtney, [50:34]
• “It was sexual harassment. Haven’t you been living in the modern world?” – Reddit comment read by Shane, [57:58]

Verdict

Asshole Move – Sexual harassment, disrespect, and a clear lack of empathy. Adult-OP-pretending-to-be-13 speculation adds another layer.

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Story 6: Divorce Announcement on April Fool’s

[65:35 – 74:39]

Story Summary

On April 1st, after getting a text to attend an urgent family meeting, a man listens to a somber family announcement about an affair-driven divorce. Believing it’s an April Fool’s prank, he laughs and slow-claps, only to discover it’s painfully real.

Key Discussion Points

• The crew picks apart the awkwardness and social cues—a newbie to the family, wrong day to make jokes, undeniably bizarre setting for a divorce announcement.
• Shane: “This is so curb your enthusiasm.” [69:23]
• Courtney suggests that, though the OP committed a gaffe, the context (April 1st, family group meeting) is odd enough to justify his mistake—a little.
• The real villain, however, remains the cheating spouse. The OP is just the family buffoon.

Notable Quotes

• “This is so curb your enthusiasm.” – Shane, [69:23]
• “He’s the jester.” – Courtney, [73:09]

Verdict

Cringe but Relatable Buffoonery – Socially awkward, but not malicious. Rightly mortified.

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Meta Moments & Final Reflections

[74:45 – 76:43]

• Arasha jokingly claims she wrote one of the stories ("I pranked you. I wrote one of those stories." – Arasha, [75:01]), highlighting how blurred truth can be in Reddit storytelling.
• The crew note that except for the friendship “test,” all pranksters were men—prompting reflection on pattern and intent.
• In closing, they agree that, in retrospect, the “Appletarian” prank was by far the least harmful—even bordering on “adorably pointless” compared to the emotional carnage wrought in other stories ("I'll give you a pass." – Courtney, [75:37]).

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Key Episode Quotes

• “A prank is not a prank unless the person you’re pranking enjoys it.” – Shane, [25:14]
• “This isn’t a prank. This is torture.” – Shane, [25:32]
• “That’s not a friend.” – Shane, [44:41]
• "Don't prank strangers." – Shane, [53:43]

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Episode Flow (Major Story Timestamps)

• [05:37] Story 1: The Appletarian prank
• [17:49] Story 2: The Annoying Beeper/Emotional warfare
• [30:41] Story 3: The Faked Death prank
• [39:51] Story 4: The Friendship Test
• [48:33] Story 5: Starbucks prank name
• [65:35] Story 6: Divorce on April Fool’s Day
• [74:45] Final reflections, meta-discussion

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Overall Takeaways

• Consent and Context Matter: Every story highlighted the importance of understanding your audience and respecting emotional boundaries—pranks that don’t are usually just cruelty.
• Service Worker Pranks = Big No: The crew is unequivocal about never pranking people at work, especially in service industries.
• Communication Beats “Testing”: The stories underscore how honest relationships—romantic or platonic—depend on open dialogue, not sneaky "tests."
• Prank Hierarchy: From “Appletarian” (quirky, pointless) up to "faking your own death" (relationship-ending, potentially traumatic), the episode draws lines between silly, misguided, and monstrous.

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Tone: A mix of playful mockery, genuine concern, and eye-rolling disbelief—the Smosh crew’s dynamic offers both big laughs and thoughtful commentary on where pranking culture goes off the rails.

For Listeners:
This episode is for anyone who loves reaction content, enjoys dissecting messy internet drama, and wants to reflect on the sometimes not-so-harmless world of pranking.

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Transcript

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[Shane]

Ha ha ha. Pranked you. You thought I wasn't here, but I am. Oh, but where are our guests? There's no guests here. Ha ha.

[Courtney]

We pranked you.

[Shane]

Pranked. And for our audio listeners, you don't know what the hell's going on. Yeah, that was good. Oh, God.

[Courtney]

So we're here.

[Arasha]

Yeah.

[Shane]

Well, that's right. Welcome to smosh reads. Reddit stories, actually. What's going on?

[Arasha]

I got you guys. Cause there's actually nothing in my trench coat.

[Shane]

Wow. Okay.

[Courtney]

I really did it.

[Arasha]

Even though you thought there was something there.

[Shane]

I'm gonna be honest, you wearing a trench coat and holding it together like this did have me pretty nervous.

[Arasha]

I got you guys. I got. But, hey, now I'm just ready to sit down and listen to some right Stories.

[Courtney]

Okay. She has a whoopee cushion taped to her ass, by the way.

[Arasha]

Let me try it again.

[Shane]

Let me try it again.

[Arasha]

She thought, I got you guys.

[Courtney]

You're sitting down on a couch. The couch. It is a squishy couch. It's not gonna work.

[Shane]

You're not sitting on a hard squirt.

[Courtney]

Permission to punch your ass.

[Arasha]

Yeah.

[Courtney]

Wait, okay, hold on.

[Shane]

Wait.

[Arasha]

Okay, okay. We had a rehearsal. We had blocking rehearsal for that.

[Courtney]

You used the company dollar on this?

[Arasha]

We had blocking rehearsal earlier.

[Shane]

We taped it earlier today. They literally were like, arasha, can I talk to you for a second? And it was for that.

[Courtney]

For this.

[Shane]

I thought it was for some intense shit.

[Courtney]

Dumbass.

[Arasha]

Listen, listen. It wasn't my idea. I just went along with it.

[Shane]

I love that it failed.

[Arasha]

And I knew that it worked.

[Shane]

It wouldn't have been as funny if it worked. Cause I was fully prepared for the fart. The second you were like, guys, it's all good. And you went to sit down, I was like, it's about to fart. And then it didn't happen. I was like. And it failed. And that's even funnier.

[Courtney]

Yeah. And then how haphazardly it was taped to your ass was also awesome.

[Arasha]

Listen, we had to work quickly.

[Shane]

Welcome to Smosh Reads Reddit Stories. I'm Shane. And today's theme is pranks. As you can probably guess, Rasha goes.

[Courtney]

Oh, no, that was the intro. She's just now realizing that's how the episode's gonna start.

[Shane]

We're gonna cut all that.

[Courtney]

No, we're keeping that in.

[Arasha]

Oh, no. My face is hot.

[Courtney]

My face is hot.

[Arasha]

Yeah.

[Shane]

Dude, we haven't even started this, and this is where we're at.

[Courtney]

Oh, my God.

[Shane]

Okay. Okay, guys. Today's theme is prank. We've been here before with pranks. Every time we do prank on Reddit stories, we go, what is a prank?

[Courtney]

I shot her in the head. It's a prank.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Courtney]

Got her. Nope, it's not.

[Shane]

They're almost always mean and horrible.

[Arasha]

Yeah.

[Shane]

Let's see how they go this time. Yeah.

[Courtney]

We're all warmed up.

[Shane]

Yeah, we're ready.

[Arasha]

You know, like the feeling, like when your face is just like heat.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Courtney]

Yes, I do.

[Shane]

When your face is heat.

[Courtney]

Yeah.

[Shane]

Are we ready for our first prank story? Please.

[Courtney]

Let's do it.

[Arasha]

Please.

[Shane]

All right. This comes from Am I the asshole? It was posted in March of 2019. Am I the asshole for pretending to be an Appletarian eating only apple derived food drinks for three weeks as a prank, causing my friends to have an intervention for me? Okay.

[Courtney]

Huh?

[Arasha]

Apple.

[Shane]

Terry, I feel like I maybe have read this before, but maybe I'm wrong.

[Arasha]

Apple flavored stuff's good.

[Shane]

I got the idea a few weeks ago to prank my friends by pretending to be an Appletarian, meaning somebody who only eats food products that are derived from apples and would only drink apple juice or apple cider. I told them all that I had read on the Internet that eating only apples was the healthiest thing for you. When I first told them, they thought I was joking, but they underestimated how committed I would be to a joke. So whenever in the presence of one of my friends, or friend of friends, co workers, et cetera, who knew them, I was very careful to only be seen eating apples or drinking apple juice, cider, apples, whole apples, diced apples, sauce, the inside of an apple pie, baked apples, candy apples with the chocolate shaved off, et cetera. Finally, after about a week, they bought that I had become an Appletarian. They started giving me information about how unhealthy it was to only eat apples and growing increasingly exasperated by it. Some of them even got angry. But I wanted to stick with the joke. Finally, after the end of three weeks, I walked into what I was told was a movie night, but was actually an intervention for me. They were all super concerned about my well being and had all sorts of information or whatever. Finally, I started laughing hysterically. They were confused as hell, so I told them I had been faking it the whole time and had been eating real meals outside their knowledge. I even took out some beef jerky from my pants pocket to prove it and munched it. I thought they'd appreciate the joke, but they were actually really annoyed. My girlfriend even broke up with me over this because. Because a few days ago I had ruined our date night when I told the waiter I only wanted apples because I was an Appletarian and had embarrassed her for a dumb joke. In my opinion, the joke was solid and they should appreciate my commitment to the prank. But did I go too far?

[Courtney]

Dude, dude, bad joke.

[Shane]

My girlfriend broke up with me over it. It's really funny.

[Arasha]

Oh, it's really funny.

[Courtney]

It's really funny.

[Arasha]

They couldn't have been together for that long.

[Shane]

So it's like my girlfriend of five years broke up with me.

[Courtney]

This is something that, from a third party perspective, if you're not involved in any of the relationships, is funny. But in practice, I guess everyone got a little concerned if they're gonna throw an intervention.

[Shane]

He committed hard.

[Courtney]

Too hard. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Also clue your girlfriend in on the joke.

[Shane]

Right?

[Arasha]

And this is another one of those cases too, where it's like, you know, the pranks that we pull, the commitment that we do. We're a comedy channel, right? This is just a group of friends that seem like they genuinely care about each other and are just trying to have date nights and fun nights together. And it's actually ruining it.

[Shane]

Yeah. Cause there's like, what's the payoff? Right?

[Courtney]

There's no payoff.

[Shane]

Cause like, you faked an engagement for four months. However, the payoff was a video that did very well. Like, and it was like, okay, great. I get what you're doing it for. But for him, I'm like, what's the. Yeah, you tell everyone. They go, great. So.

[Courtney]

So why'd you do that for three weeks?

[Arasha]

Right?

[Shane]

Like, damn.

[Courtney]

Also, that's a. May I say, a quick turnaround for an intervention.

[Shane]

That is tough.

[Arasha]

No, they were honest.

[Courtney]

They must have been really, like, concerned.

[Arasha]

Or it just actually was that big of an issue. Cause we didn't hear the date night thing until after the girlfriend broke up with him. So how many instances, how many experiences.

[Courtney]

How many events did he ruin with his apple situation?

[Shane]

I'd like to think that I would be more suspicious because I'm like, three weeks of only apples and apple juice. There's no way you're feeling good.

[Courtney]

No, it's nutritionally bad.

[Shane]

I'm like, you are not gonna be hanging in there that well. No protein, zero protein. I mean, you're getting fiber, but like. No.

[Courtney]

And some calories and sugar, but you're not.

[Shane]

Your body's gonna be like the amount of apples you'd have to eat to maintain a normal caloric. Cause they're not that many calories.

[Arasha]

No.

[Courtney]

Like 50 to 100.

[Shane]

It's like nothing.

[Courtney]

You'd need like 20 apples a day or something. Like, my God, three weeks.

[Shane]

I'd be like, you would not be functioning that well.

[Courtney]

Like, if we were to actually be doing this apple diet.

[Shane]

Yeah, I would think, right.

[Arasha]

And it was just random. He said, like, he just decided to start doing this.

[Shane]

Decided to be appletarian. I got the idea a few weeks ago to prank my friends by pretending to be an Appletarian. It's not even April. This is posted in March.

[Arasha]

He's just like, brilliant.

[Shane]

It's not April 1st yet.

[Courtney]

Do you think he was waiting for the reveal on April 1st?

[Shane]

I guess, maybe. But that's like a long commitment. I'm like, this is exhausting.

[Courtney]

Yeah.

[Shane]

The verdict was no assholes here. Just kind of like, yeah, just.

[Courtney]

That's how I feel.

[Arasha]

Right?

[Courtney]

I'm like, so why'd you do that?

[Shane]

What are you doing, man?

[Courtney]

So what's that for?

[Arasha]

But again, the breakup makes it clues us in that it was actually a lot more agonizing than he's telling.

[Courtney]

Exactly.

[Arasha]

He's like, yeah, I did this, I did that. And everyone else was probably like, you're ruining our time with you. Like, we can't be around if you're gonna continue to do this.

[Shane]

Yeah. Comments? Someone said, no assholes here. I may be in a minority, but I think this is fucking funny as hell. I feel like your girlfriend overreacted, but maybe in the future include your girlfriend in said prank.

[Arasha]

Right?

[Shane]

Someone said, not the asshole. Absolute legend. That level of commitment is on par with the method acting of Daniel Day Lewis. Thanks for the late night laugh. Someone else said, no assholes here. But the date thing is really pushing it. Yeah.

[Courtney]

It just goes back to the quick turnaround intervention and the breakup means that this was more of a problem in the circle of people than again, the zoom out is like, I guess that could be funny. I guess.

[Arasha]

No. Yeah, yeah.

[Courtney]

But, like, practically in the real world, clearly people were concerned.

[Shane]

I think the comments are in agreement with what you're saying. Or I'm like, for me, reading this funny online as a hypothetical situation, I'm like, funny.

[Arasha]

Well, actually.

[Shane]

But if living through it. What's going on, Arasha?

[Arasha]

Now it's making me laugh.

[Courtney]

Okay, okay.

[Arasha]

Because I'm thinking, Jesus Christ. About how unfunny.

[Courtney]

How much of a waste of time it is thinking about.

[Shane]

How stupid this is. And now I love it. Now I'm on board with him.

[Arasha]

No, it's great. When you think about it, you're like, wait, why would you do that? And you're like, wait, that's awesome.

[Courtney]

Three weeks.

[Shane]

He committed to it. Nobody's filming it.

[Courtney]

I wonder how long he was gonna go.

[Shane]

I wonder, too.

[Courtney]

Cause, like, he clearly stopped. Cause of the intervention. But, like, it's also.

[Shane]

How out of character is this? You know? Like, is this in par with, like, oh, he's a silly guy. He does pranks sometimes. Or was it like he's.

[Courtney]

He's like a doctor.

[Shane]

He has never pulled a prank before in his life. Well, he can't be a doctor. He's having all those apples.

[Arasha]

Yeah, right. I think he wants to be sneaky. He, like, wants to be silly. And this is his, like, breakout role.

[Shane]

Yeah, guys, I'm trying being sill.

[Courtney]

He's hard launching silly personality and it's not working.

[Arasha]

This is his first, but he'll get there. We'll chicken with him soon.

[Courtney]

God.

[Shane]

There's no updates.

[Courtney]

Why would there be.

[Shane]

Update? I'm back to being appletarian, giving it another shot for real.

[Courtney]

This does open a whole world of word fusion where you can do a blanktarian that I've never even thought about.

[Shane]

I mean, people do the carnivore diet, which is, to me, just as silly.

[Courtney]

Oh, sure. But I mean, like, I'm a foodtarian.

[Shane]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Courtney]

I'm a dessert tarian. You know what I mean?

[Arasha]

Blonde terrian.

[Shane]

Sign me up, right?

[Arasha]

Really?

[Shane]

I'm a winatarian. Yeah.

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[Arasha]

Oh, no.

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It's ghast leak.

[Arasha]

It's gas leak.

[Shane]

It's very gas leaks. The last I filmed two smosh mouths and a previous Reddit story where we had the longest story that was very wholesome and had everybody crying in this room. And now I have to continue.

[Arasha]

That's why you're 48 at age.

[Shane]

Dude, I'm 48 now. Aw, you read enough stories. All right, let's move on.

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[Courtney]

If it's small prank and I'm gonna say, no, probably not.

[Shane]

She's not overreacting.

[Courtney]

I'm gonna say it's a bad prank and she's reacting properly.

[Arasha]

I think she is overreacting. And I think it was like something happened. And then it was like, just kidding, it was a prank. And she's like, I'm deeply hurt.

[Shane]

There was another story we read where a woman was talking about how her husband's pranks were just full on abuse.

[Arasha]

Oh, I think I was in that.

[Shane]

It was like putting. He was putting like baby poop on her toast and shit. Like, and just be like, ha ha, like pranked.

[Courtney]

Wow.

[Shane]

It was awful.

[Arasha]

Awful.

[Courtney]

Yeah. Okay, now I'm medically concerned. Now I'm medically concerned that I don't have that memory.

[Arasha]

I feel like I have that memory, but maybe it was just so many. I took te.

[Shane]

I do not. I don't remember anything.

[Courtney]

Yeah.

[Shane]

At all. The fans have pointed out a lot of being like, I'm surprised Shane doesn't remember that thing. I'm like, we've shot 5,000 episodes.

[Arasha]

So many words are said.

[Courtney]

I'm reading, like, these memories are in the short term ram. They're getting overwritten.

[Shane]

I got it.

[Arasha]

Move on. Cause you ever just rewatch an episode and you're reacting to the story that you literally heard weeks ago, but you're like, oh my God.

[Courtney]

Oh yeah.

[Arasha]

For the first time.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Arasha]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Short term memory bank.

[Shane]

No, the scariest is when I rewatch a Reddit stories and I disagree with my own take. And I'm like, yeah, I've done that too.

[Arasha]

Fuck yeah. Because you have time.

[Shane]

That's scary.

[Courtney]

Yeah, I've done that too.

[Shane]

It's also. What also happens sometimes now is we will film an episode of Reddit Stories and in the three months before it comes out, I'll go, oh, I totally disagree with what I said there.

[Arasha]

Yep.

[Courtney]

Oh, well. Oh, well.

[Arasha]

People change.

[Shane]

Okay. Am I overreacting over this small prank?

[Arasha]

Hmm.

[Shane]

I, a 22 year old woman, have been with my boyfriend, who's 25, for a little over a year and a half. Recently we've been running into hurdles because I have been feeling like he has been bothering, teasing, poking, biting me more than being a serious loving partner to me. For context I mean making weird noises all the time, referencing Italian brain rot or groping me randomly even if I'm in the middle of a sentence and talking about something serious, et cetera. When I would prefer active listening, loving touch, unironic Quality time. Big asks right? Yeah, we had a huge conversation about this recently as I was on the brink of ending things with him since the lack of warmth relative to his unseriousness was making me feel empty. Since then there has been a genuine effort and big improvement and I was starting to feel very hopeful that this was something we could work through. Fast forward a little. I am starting a new job as an educator and while I am very excited about it, it is also a huge adjustment and has been really stressful. On top of that, for the past six days I have been hearing this bizarre beeping noise coming from my closet that chirps once every 20 to 40 minutes, driving me nuts. I couldn't figure out what it was. It was keeping me up and infiltrating my dreams and it started to freak me out since nothing I own makes that sound. Nothing in the closet even had a battery in it and from my overall stress and lack of good sleep, I was starting to grow paranoid that someone had planted a device in my room. To add to this, I am extremely private and the only people who are regularly in my room are myself and my boyfriend when he visits. This led to me fearing that my boyfriend was secretly stalking me and had planted a mic or something in my room that was starting to make noise. I had zero reason to believe this and had 100% trust in him, but was starting to go crazy. It even happened while talking with my therapist and when I explained the mystery of its origins, she seemed equally concerned. To make matters worse, the fridge at work is broken and beeps nine times every minute, so it has started feeling like the chirping is following me, compounding my general distress last night after a stressful day and finding out some unrelated unsettling news that is enough to affect me on its own. My sister heard the noise as well and we decided to tear my closet apart at 10pm when I had to wake up at 6am to figure out what has been plaguing me. After timing the beeps for an hour, it beeped in irregular intervals. We found this tiny Arduino board deep in one of my boxes labeled Annoying PCB as pictured. Google it. It's literal sole purpose is to drive its victims insane. So the picture of the device it's a tiny little device that just beeps.

[Courtney]

Oh, my God. That's like, as thin as a credit card, but like a quarter of the size.

[Shane]

Yeah. So an Adreno board is just like a tiny little device for people, like, getting into.

[Courtney]

It's just like a basic, like an understanding, like, electronic device.

[Shane]

And so this whole purpose of this is just to beep. I was immediately horrified, quite literally shaking and crying, as my wildest nightmare of someone planting a device in my room had literally come true. My immediate thought was, who would do something like this? What did I do to deserve this? I called my boyfriend immediately and he admitted he knew what it was. I hung up and haven't spoken to him since. The reason I'm not sure if I'm overreacting is because on the one hand, I understand how this might be funny, but to me, that doesn't matter, given A, the fact that I've been feeling like he hasn't been generally serious with me to a problematic extent, B, the fact that this has been plaguing me and disrupting my sleep literally the first week of my new job, and C, I had been complaining about it to him for days, and he played along, being confused and concerned, repeatedly asking me, what does it sound like? And even dismissing my genuine concern slash paranoia, saying, maybe there's a little cricket in your room. I just feel like this is on par with glitter bombing, like something you do to someone you hate, not the supposed love of your life. It feels like psychological warfare. And between stretching this out for days and planting it in my room, this feels like a massive breach of trust. I haven't spoken to him at all, and he's been texting me, saying things like it was just a prank. Beep, beep, beep, beep. And I miss you, and please don't ignore me. I am so against stonewalling, but I have literally nothing to say to him, and he hasn't apologized or shown any remorse. I don't feel ready to speak to him at all. Maybe it was a good prank with bad timing, but I can't help but feel like this is just setting us back again, and I am genuinely shaken. I honestly don't see a future at this point and I'm not really sure what to do. If you've read this far, thank you for listening and I appreciate any advice or kindness, and I got it right.

[Courtney]

I'm not overreacting.

[Arasha]

Yeah, I should believe women, not Beep.

[Courtney]

Beep, beep, beep is like, he's still.

[Shane]

Going, are you dating the joker? Like, holy God.

[Arasha]

Or Like a fifth grader. Like, this is so frustrating. She specifically was like, I want you to just take things a little bit more seriously. And he was like, let me find the most serious week of your life when you're starting a new job and.

[Courtney]

Ruin to basically torture you.

[Shane]

And she said she had some unsettling news in her life going on that was already.

[Arasha]

And I didn't think that he even. At first, I was like, oh, maybe he doesn't know how much it's affecting her. But then she said that they had.

[Shane]

Conversations, and he's there going like, oh, what's it sound like?

[Arasha]

He.

[Shane]

These aren't. This isn't a prank to me.

[Courtney]

This is.

[Shane]

He enjoys torturing you.

[Arasha]

Exactly. Exactly.

[Shane]

Yeah, exactly.

[Arasha]

It's just, like, it's not fun. I feel like it's the payoff again. It's like this. Like, oh, ha, ha ha. There's like, relief in it from both parties, but clearly that's a, just not your audience. Like, he clearly doesn't know her at all. To be able to pull another prank like this and then B, to just, like, gaslight her the entire time that she's actually trying to figure out what's going on in her life, like, it's just not funny.

[Courtney]

I feel like the only prank you can pull in a relationship that is beneficial and would work is like doing a prank to pull off a surprise party.

[Shane]

Yes.

[Courtney]

That you're. That they would obviously be okay with.

[Shane]

Those are the only pranks that I think I. To me, a prank is not a prank unless the person you're pranking enjoys it. Enjoys it. Right. So the fun is the switch up of, like. No, actually, there's a good. Like, oh, there's a bad thing. Actually, it's a good thing. But this isn't a prank. This is torture.

[Courtney]

This is torture.

[Shane]

This is full on torture.

[Courtney]

Right? Yeah.

[Arasha]

Like, I see that device, and I think about who I would want to give that to, and it's nobody that I love.

[Shane]

Yeah. No.

[Arasha]

Like you. There's no like, even a person who I think could laugh at that. I still wouldn't want to do that. Cause I know how terrible it would make that happen.

[Courtney]

And her at work, hearing the beeps and being like, it's following me. I'm like, you're sending her into an episode. You're simulating a paranoia problem.

[Shane]

That's what Crazy clearly wants. The amount of stories we read about boyfriends who do this who are incapable of just genuine conversation or genuine connection.

[Arasha]

Right.

[Shane]

Turn everything into a joke.

[Arasha]

Well, it Goes back to the beginning, too, of what she was saying that he was doing, which was just groping her randomly. Sorry, we have to get back to biting. Like, what was that?

[Courtney]

That was a different thing.

[Shane]

Yeah, a lot. We breezed past in the story, and it's like, op. What are you talking about?

[Arasha]

Right?

[Courtney]

And there's something about her being like, I guess it could be funny or whatever, that I'm like, has he gotten into your brain about this stuff?

[Shane]

Like, no.

[Courtney]

No, girl, it's not.

[Arasha]

Well, I can imagine those conversations and that she would be questioning herself when the other person's like, no, it's funny.

[Courtney]

No, that's what I mean.

[Arasha]

Yeah.

[Courtney]

You have someone going like, you're overreacting.

[Arasha]

Yeah, exactly.

[Courtney]

Her coming to this, being like, am I overreacting? I'm like, oh, please come back to us over here. Get out of that.

[Arasha]

Even if it was, I think, again, maybe objectively funny or something, it's still just like, she doesn't want that. She was upfront about not enjoying those silly little things, and this clearly affected her in a different way. So even if it was like, oh, yeah, that could be funny to somebody else, that just wasn't the experience. Yes.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Courtney]

She said, please stop. He said, I'm gonna do 20 times worse.

[Shane]

I'm gonna. Let me up it a notch.

[Arasha]

Yeah, but let me wait. Let me get better and improve as partner. So then you don't see it coming.

[Courtney]

Exactly.

[Shane]

He's interrupting her sleep, which is such a. Like, vulnerable.

[Courtney]

A necessary thing.

[Shane]

Necessary thing.

[Arasha]

Yeah.

[Shane]

He put it. He hid it in her room, in her closet. It's like, you've been dating a year and a half. Like, that's her space.

[Arasha]

Right.

[Shane]

You're invading her space. There's so many breaches of boundaries in this.

[Arasha]

Yeah. It's a total violation. And it's actually like, a greater part of the terror that he was like, oh, I want this, like, overnight for you.

[Shane]

Yeah. Comments? Let me give you advice as someone who's been on the receiving end of this, someone who has your safety, mental health, and trust in one hand and the ability to entertain themselves at the expense of another human being in the other, and they choose the second one. They are letting you know where you stand in their life. You were clearly suffering from this for multiple reasons, and he kept going. It was entertaining to him to watch you be scared and confused. The fact that he's sending you beeping messages and kicking a circle in the dirt, going sawy while taking no accountability speaks volumes. He's not worth being with anymore. You deserve better than a partner that will torture you for their entertainment. Someone said not overreacting. I agree stonewalling is inappropriate in a relationship. However, I don't think that's what you're doing. He's added trauma and anxiety to your life and you're momentarily setting boundaries while you collect yourself and decide your next step. Me, I'd never talk to him again. This is psycho behavior and the biggest red flag possible. Other people have gone into more detail, so I don't feel I need to reiterate what others are saying. But bottom line, I want to reinforce that this behavior is absolutely not okay on his part and not something a supportive boyfriend or partner would ever do. Not to mention he just played it off like he didn't know when you expressed how much it was bothering you and continues to tease you about it. I don't think you're reacting enough.

[Courtney]

Yes.

[Shane]

Yeah, I fully agree with that. I mean, if I'm a friend of hers, I'm like, his behavior is scary.

[Arasha]

Yeah.

[Shane]

I'm like, not only do not talk.

[Courtney]

To him, like, restrain our mind.

[Shane]

We need to like go about this in the proper way of getting you distance from yourself.

[Arasha]

I mean, even just zooming out and looking at the crux of a relationship, it's like you're in that because you care about the other person. You love them, you love their feelings, you want to take care of them. If somebody is actively being like, I am not in a good place. I'm actually anxious and I can't sleep. How is that not like setting off alarms for you? Being like, wait, this is my person, I need to help them stop doing this to her. Right. And instead he's like, I can't wait for this reveal. Like, what?

[Shane]

No, it's truly scary where this could go. I'm like, put this guy on a list.

[Courtney]

Yeah, for real.

[Arasha]

Separate them.

[Shane]

Lastly, someone said going to focus only on the prank because you said boyfriend has noticeably improved in the other areas, which I hope is true because he sounds like he sucks. This would be a funny prank at an office or in an open living space somewhere. It happens occasionally. There can be a ha ha moment together when it is found and it doesn't go on too long. Putting this deeply hidden in your bedroom and letting it run while you try to sleep is absolutely insane. Huge asshole behavior. At absolute best, he has no consideration for your well being. And at worst, he was trying to stress you out and drive you insane in a more serious sense than this prank could ever be. Not overreacting and honestly, I hope for your sake this is a breaking point for you because this is insane.

[Courtney]

For real?

[Shane]

Yeah, 100%. Wow. Oh my God. Well, we got the type of story I was expecting.

[Courtney]

There we go.

[Shane]

Prank episode. Oh, and I've been told the next one is worse.

[Arasha]

Woo hoo.

[Shane]

Yay. All right, our next story comes from relationship advice. This was posted in August of 2023. I, a 28 year old man, faked my own death as a prank. And now I'm afraid my girlfriend, who's 26, will leave me. Need advice?

[Arasha]

You left first.

[Shane]

This. I don't think this is the first faking death prank story we've read on Reddit stories. Cause I feel like I've made another Tom Sawyer joke before at some point.

[Courtney]

Also, like, haven't you. Haven't these people seen movies and things like this where it's like, what was it? Castaway? She thought Tom Hanks was gone and then he comes back and they don't get back together because she's like, I mourned you, right?

[Shane]

No you don't.

[Courtney]

How? What?

[Shane]

And he lost Wilson too.

[Courtney]

And that was the real tragedy of the story.

[Shane]

Kills me.

[Courtney]

Kills me every time.

[Arasha]

I guess their thinking must be like, let me make them feel really, really sad. So then when I come back, it's like they love me so much more. Oh my God.

[Courtney]

Yeah, but prank. So that's a tactic to make me love to be loved more.

[Arasha]

Yeah. I don't know, maybe wires are getting crossed in their heads. Cause clearly they're sick in the head.

[Courtney]

Let's hear a story.

[Shane]

This is going to sound wild, but please hear me out. I recently made the most regrettable decision of my life by faking my own death as a prank. I know how it sounds. I thought it would be a big shock, followed by relief and then laughter. I genuinely believed that it would be seen as just an elaborate joke. But the reality was far worse than I could have ever imagined. My girlfriend of four years has been supportive through thick and thin, and I can't believe I put her through the emotional turmoil of thinking I was gone for two weeks. She grieved, she mourned, and I saw the post she wrote about me online. I came clean after realizing the deep pain I had caused. Now she's distant and understandably so. She says she's reevaluating everything and that she never thought I was capable of something so cruel. She's still in shock and hasn't given me a clear answer about the future of our relationship. I Love her deeply and I can't imagine my life without her. I know I messed up on an epic scale and I'm willing to do whatever it takes to make it right. I've already started therapy to get to the root of why I thought this was a good idea in the first place. But how do I approach this with her? How can I even begin to make amends? Is there any coming back from this? Or have I irreparably ruined the best relationship I've ever had? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Two weeks, bro.

[Courtney]

Dude, it's over.

[Arasha]

And a four year relationship.

[Courtney]

So you're in, you're in at four years. You're in.

[Arasha]

You're freaking in.

[Shane]

And I will say now we don't have an update. So we don't know how he went about this faking death, but it had to have been fucking brutal.

[Arasha]

Right? You have to do that on a massive scale.

[Shane]

And she had to have believed he was dead. So it had to. How do you even pull that off?

[Arasha]

He'd have to like go somewhere else. He'd have to lied to his entire family. Cuz four years in there, hopefully probably all connected. All of his friends, like everybody in his life he had to have pranked. And it seems like this is the only reaction he's.

[Courtney]

Or did he have friends who like backed him up on this?

[Arasha]

I sure hope not.

[Courtney]

I sure hope not. Also, I don't think this needs to be said. Death isn't funny. Like death losing a loved one isn't funny. There's no joy in that.

[Arasha]

Right.

[Courtney]

There's no. Why would you think this would work out well.

[Arasha]

Right?

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Courtney]

Especially it seems like a younger person.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Courtney]

Like 25.

[Arasha]

Yeah.

[Shane]

It's also, you know, it's not a prank. Like you are going to make her believe 100% even for a day, but for two weeks that you're dead. So she's now experienced that. And that was really true.

[Courtney]

That is a real experience.

[Shane]

It reminds me of the story where a lady unintentionally, she had a bath bomb that made the bath red. And then she fell asleep in the bath and her boyfriend and his brother found her in the bath and thought she had died.

[Arasha]

Yeah.

[Courtney]

Whoa.

[Shane]

And it's like, oh. She was like, oh no. Like I'm.

[Courtney]

I'm alive. I'm alive.

[Shane]

I fell asleep in the bath and I just had a red bath bomb. But I'm like, for them, they have now experienced that trauma. That trauma is real in their brain and body and nervous system.

[Arasha]

Yeah. And he chose to actively create that for her.

[Shane]

And so two weeks of it is fully. That's embedded.

[Courtney]

That's deeply embedded.

[Arasha]

Yeah, I mean I will give him the credit in that. It seems like he's also now coming to terms with what he did and he's, it seems like remorseful and he's going to go to therapy to figure out why he thought it was a good idea. I think all that language is accurate. I just personally think that's, that's not something that someone can get past.

[Courtney]

No, not at all. No, it's like, great, I'm glad you're gonna figure out why you thought that was funny. But like, you're not getting your relationship back. You shouldn't get your relationship back.

[Arasha]

And in his words, the best relationship of his life. So why gamble that? I mean, maybe self sabotage.

[Courtney]

I was about to say like the most mega self sabotage. It's like, Jesus, just cheat on her. Holy shit.

[Shane]

I'm like, good God, dude. Oh my God, be an appletarian or something.

[Courtney]

Yeah, be an appletarian.

[Shane]

Comments? Wait, you let her think you were dead for two weeks? You were a horrific partner and if it were me, there would be no coming back. Nothing you could do would ever, ever make it right.

[Arasha]

Yeah.

[Shane]

Someone said two weeks. Jesus fucking Christ. What's wrong with you? What went through your head to do a two week prank about being dead? I expected you to have done a five minute prank and that was bad enough. Where the bloody hell were you during those two weeks? Didn't respond. Someone said, I mean, I'm impressed that your girlfriend is re evaluating the relationship and being distant instead of just leaving you. Some people are really lucky. I have no advice for you. You don't deserve it. If I see a post of your girlfriend around, I will tell her she deserves better and she needs more self esteem. They wrote self steam just so you know. She doesn't need to reevaluate shit. She needs to dump you before you can say sorry again. You have no remorse. You are just afraid of the consequences of your actions. Your behavior is similar to a sociopath. And if your girlfriend has any sense of self preservation, she will leave. And I say this again, I now understand why women are deciding to die single and having many cats. The bar is in hell apparently.

[Courtney]

Yeah. Dear God, that's a lot.

[Arasha]

I mean even, even if it was like an afternoon, even if it was.

[Courtney]

Like they still are experiencing us.

[Arasha]

Yeah, yeah. Like it's still awful. It's still that like initial like oh my God, it's all the grief and everything that follows. And then even just before that of like, why would you think to do something like that to me?

[Courtney]

Unbelievable. Well, this sucks.

[Arasha]

Yeah.

[Shane]

Well, get a load of this guy.

[Arasha]

Yeah, the other guy suddenly seems better.

[Shane]

Yeah, Appletarian's not that bad.

[Arasha]

Appletarian's funny.

[Courtney]

Because it's not.

[Arasha]

Cause it's not.

[Shane]

Because it's not.

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[Courtney]

Let's hear what the prank is, then.

[Arasha]

We'Ll be able to decide.

[Shane]

Okay, I'm a 24 year old man and my friend Jess is a 22 year old woman. We've known each other for about three years since we met in a class. We've always been platonic and to be completely honest, I'm not the type of guy to go for it. Yesterday Jess was supposed to move. I was going to drive my truck over to her place, help her load up her stuff, and get her out of her apartment. Her situation with her roommates has become highly unstable due to irreconcilable differences, so she was in a rush to leave. The day before yesterday, as a way of thanking me in advance, Jess ordered pizza for the two of us. We were sitting there watching a movie on my couch, being platonic friends as usual, and suddenly she inched closer to me. I figured it was nothing until a minute later she got a little closer. Then she got a little closer and all I could do was think about how it was finally happening. She squeezed up really close next to me and looked up at my face. I'm not the most confident guy, so all I could say was hi. To which she responded hi. Then she asked if I wanted to do something. I asked what something was and she said, oh, you know, something. Still trying to keep room for plausible deniability. Again I laughed and I said I don't know what something was. She kept staring at me and nodding and I thought I'd take my chances. I asked if I could kiss her. She immediately stood up, walked to the other end of the room and sat down on the armchair. Then she took out her phone. I immediately apologized to her and she said that I should just forget it. A few minutes of incredibly awkward silence passed and then she said, I guess Kim, her best friend, was right. I asked what Kim was right about and she explained that for several years Kim has repeated again and again that I was only trying to get into her pants. Apparently Kim put her up to testing me. I felt horrible immediately. I apologized to Jess again, said that while I found her attractive, I'd do nothing to hurt our friendship, and then apologized yet again. Jess accepted it while crying a Bit. Then I told her she had nothing to worry about. After Jess went home, I got to thinking that it was incredibly mean spirited that she would do that to me. I apologized, but that juvenile high school prank just started to strike me the wrong way. I talked to my sister, who I can talk to about anything, who reinforced that it was disgusting behavior. Then she asked for Jess address, which I declined to give her. The next morning, instead of meeting up with Jess at the promised time, I just didn't. I had taken the day off work, but I went in anyway because I wanted to get my mind off what happened. Jess was blowing up my phone all day. And then I got a couple of texts from a number I didn't recognize, which I imagine was Kim. Finally, Jess called me a flaking creep. And that was the end. I'm really mixed on this. I feel kind of bad, but not so bad. Was I wrong?

[Arasha]

I think I need some clarification. I think I mixed up Jess and Kim for a second.

[Shane]

Kim is Jess friend.

[Arasha]

Yes.

[Shane]

Who for years has been like, he only wants to get into your pants. And so Kim was like, you need to test him, so make him think you're super into him.

[Courtney]

And Opie said that he was platonically interested in this person. Right.

[Shane]

Or did he say that? We've always been platonic, but he is saying, like, oh, this is finally happening.

[Arasha]

Like, sure.

[Shane]

He's. He is attracted to her.

[Courtney]

So he was down for something, but he was never gonna, like, make a move.

[Shane]

He was never trying to push forward.

[Arasha]

And they're painting that as, like, bad on him.

[Shane]

Yeah, yeah. That he's attracted to her, in Kim's words.

[Courtney]

That he just wants to get in your pants.

[Arasha]

Gotcha.

[Courtney]

Yeah.

[Arasha]

Okay. Okay.

[Courtney]

Even though he was, like, down to help her move. I don't know.

[Shane]

Yeah. It sounds like, to my interpretation, was like, he's attracted to her, but he understands. Like, oh, but we're friends and whatever. So I'll put that aside. We're friends and I care about you as a friend.

[Arasha]

Right. But wasn't necessarily.

[Shane]

I'm not expecting anything.

[Arasha]

Exactly.

[Shane]

So she then tricks him into being like, oh, like, are you down for something? And he's like, okay. And then.

[Arasha]

And then she's like, aha, I knew you were into me.

[Shane]

I got you.

[Courtney]

Right. And then was emotional about it.

[Arasha]

Right.

[Shane]

I think that's mean. It's also not gonna be, like, accurate. Cause there's just a lot of people out there that might just be, like, down. Like, even if he's not, like, into you. Like, truly, a lot of single people out there, they're just like. I mean, like, I might just be like, sure. It's not a big deal to me. And it's not that I'm, like, trying to do something, but, like, this is so weird. I mean, I hate tests. Anytime Esther comes up, tests.

[Courtney]

What are you doing?

[Arasha]

It also seemed like he was, like, semi respectful about it. He didn't do anything. And then was like, he kept going.

[Courtney]

What do you mean? What are you talking about? What?

[Arasha]

Is something okay? Can I kiss you?

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Courtney]

Also, this isn't a good test. There's no control.

[Shane]

You're right.

[Courtney]

And I don't need a control group. Yeah, you need a control group.

[Arasha]

The variable.

[Courtney]

The variable.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Courtney]

And she's coming onto him.

[Arasha]

Yeah.

[Courtney]

And so that's not. That's actually not the test.

[Shane]

And then you have to submit it for peer review.

[Courtney]

Right. There's no review.

[Arasha]

Cause we're peers.

[Shane]

Oh, wow. How did you do that? Yeah, this is just a messed up situation, unfortunately, where, like, he's not the asshole. He doesn't need to feel bad. But that's not a friend. No, that's not a friend. It's not gonna work. The fact that she. Then she does that. But then it's like, oh, but you're helping me move still. It's like, yeah, yeah.

[Arasha]

This is.

[Shane]

This. This is just not good. This is just a situation.

[Courtney]

And if he wanted to, he could be like, cool, I'm not gonna show up tomorrow.

[Arasha]

I was gonna say that he could.

[Shane]

Give her the headphones.

[Courtney]

Could've just been like, I'm not gonna show up tomorrow. But also, it's like, I also. I don't blame him for not going, obviously.

[Arasha]

Totally. Totally. He was hurt, but I agree with you. I think even like a passive aggressive one, but just some sort of text that's like, I'm not gonna be there.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Arasha]

That maybe would help with the communication of her bombarding him and stuff. But he's not a flaky creep.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Courtney]

No. I don't know. This kind of is all like, ugh, God.

[Shane]

I know.

[Arasha]

Yeah. Like, why? They're just bored.

[Shane]

This strikes me as one of those stories where I'm like, I need to know them in person to get more of the vibe. But I'm also just like. It just sounds like you guys are not gonna be friends.

[Arasha]

Yeah.

[Shane]

Like, you're both young and it's just. Yeah. You're 24. She's 22. It's just like, yeah, this is so. This is go. One of those friendships that when you're 30, you're like, yeah, we were not friends.

[Courtney]

That didn't work.

[Shane]

Verdict was not the asshole comments. Not the asshole. Jess is manipulative and cruel. What a dick move. I'm sorry this happened to you. Someone said, not the asshole. You don't do that to your friend and expect them to help you just after she should be the one apologizing. Someone said, not the asshole. That's a lousy stunt to pull on anyone, but especially a friend. It's a lose lose situation for you. She hit on you and you responded positively. She got upset. If she had hit on you and you responded, no, she still would have been upset. Apparently she doesn't value your relationship as much as you. You have every right to pull back and reassess your friendship, including wondering if she's just using you for what you do for her and how much money you spend on her, such as helping her move.

[Arasha]

That's a really good point. That's a point. Yeah. Well, and also just like, what? What would have happened? Yeah. If he was like, I don't think I want to go there.

[Courtney]

So you think I'm ugly, right? Are you gonna help an ugly girl move?

[Arasha]

Uh huh.

[Shane]

It's an unfortunate situation. Cause also you do it. And he goes, oh, I'm not into you. But then he's now going, are you into me? And she goes, no, I was testing you. It's like, so why'd you do that? I wouldn't believe that. I'd be like, oh, now this is weird. It's awkward no matter what.

[Arasha]

There's no such thing.

[Shane]

That's why I don't like testing is really bad. Because even after you say, oh, I was testing you, it's like, you better hope they believe you.

[Courtney]

Yeah, right.

[Shane]

Cause many wouldn't.

[Courtney]

Now it's like if something else happens, it's like, is this a test? Just in response to what you're saying now, Everything could be a test.

[Arasha]

True.

[Shane]

I also have a hard time believing in any of these stories of these people who test other people that they would be okay with being tested.

[Arasha]

Oh yeah.

[Shane]

I never believed that it would work in the flip.

[Arasha]

Well, it's just probably out of fear or just not understanding that you can have a conversation with somebody. I think that person is right that Jess is just not valuing this friendship. Because then there would have been the barrier of, hey, other friend. Kim, you don't have to question that between us. I know our friendship. We are friends. Don't worry. But then if you still are like, oh, maybe Kim's right. I'm not sure. Then there's the very natural step of communicating with op, Your actual friend and being like, hey, my other friend brought up some concerns. Just want to check. How are we doing? Is everything okay? Not. Let's set up this weird test where I'm definitely gonna lose you as a friend after.

[Courtney]

Yeah. No matter what.

[Shane]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. If she actually cared about him as a friend, she would have wanted to talk to him.

[Courtney]

Just had a conversation.

[Arasha]

Yeah.

[Courtney]

And then you could navigate. Oh, you do have. You could have feelings for me. Okay, well, I don't have that back. Are you okay with that? You know, how does this look for us moving forward? You could navigate that positively. Yes, there is a solution in a conversation.

[Arasha]

Absolutely. But they're too scared.

[Courtney]

They're too scared, so they do a test.

[Shane]

Oh, God. Boo. Boo.

[Arasha]

Boo.

[Shane]

Our next story comes from. Am I the asshole? Am I the asshole for playing a joke on a Starbucks worker and then reporting her.

[Courtney]

Stop. No. Leave the Starbucks worker alone. God, please let the barista be. They had to unionize.

[Shane]

Their company is already torturing them.

[Courtney]

Exactly. Please leave them alone. Any service worker. No prank.

[Arasha]

No prank. No prank on service.

[Shane]

Please don't prank a service worker. So basically, I was ordering at a Starbucks, and I did the classic dirty name joke. I've done this before, and every time the worker laughed and found it funny too. I thought it was a nice break from the serious customers who just want to get their coffee and go, and then they appreciated someone giving them some entertainment mid shift. Clearly, I was wrong, and I apologize for that. I walked up, asked for a drink, paid for it, and gave her a name. In need more head. A need more head.

[Courtney]

That's the line she goes with.

[Shane]

A need more head. Lazy. Which, if your accent doesn't really work for this name, mine doesn't, which is why it worked so well. It sounds like I need more head in the area's native accent. Once my drink was ready, she read out the name and immediately realized what she had said. I raised my hand and started walking towards her to collect my drink, but she got this furious look on her face and hurled the drink across the room with it landing at my feet and splattering all over my shoes. What the fuck? I just yelled, what the fuck? At this, because obviously now I'd need to clean up my shoes, which were vans. And also because I paid for my drink already, I walked up to her and apologized, saying that I thought it was a harmless joke and that it wouldn't piss anyone off. And clearly I was wrong. She accepted my apology, but told me she wouldn't be making another drink for me. I got pissed at this because I paid for this and Starbucks isn't cheap. Plus, she had ruined my shoes as well. I asked to speak to her manager, who then apologized for her and told her he'd remember this. I feel bad because Starbucks workers already deal with a lot of shit, and now I got into trouble for something that I 100% caused. Am I the asshole?

[Courtney]

I kind of love throwing the drink, honestly. It's like you get someone at their wit's end. It's awesome to see that.

[Arasha]

No, Hearing you say hurled your drink across was really satisfying.

[Shane]

I don't know why I can't get over it. I'm laughing really hard at the inclusion that they're vans. It's like. It's like she. Which got all over my shoes. Which are, by the way, shoes.

[Arasha]

Right.

[Courtney]

Which are standard shoes.

[Shane]

Which are standard shoes. So I'm like, thanks, man. I guess maybe if. I don't know, like, if they're like the kind of velvety kinds, maybe it's like, tough to clean. No.

[Arasha]

Who cares?

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Courtney]

Why not? Like Wanda Blowjob, you know, I. Wanda Blow. I don't know.

[Arasha]

Instead of a kneadbull head.

[Courtney]

A knead mole head is so lame.

[Arasha]

I kind of like it.

[Shane]

Too bad you weren't the barista. I know.

[Courtney]

Do you like it in the appletarian way where it's like, this is kind of lame?

[Arasha]

Uh, yeah. But then, like, it starts going back and forth so much, then you never know, you know?

[Courtney]

Right.

[Arasha]

Like, it's funny, but then it's unfunny. But then because it's unfunny, it's funny.

[Courtney]

Okay, what about gentrification? Fun. You know? Where are the fun names? Then I would be like, ha ha, that's good.

[Shane]

That one's good. Cause it's at a Starbucks. So it's really.

[Courtney]

Exactly, exactly. So then you go, jen.

[Arasha]

Yeah. I think maybe the issue here is in both the cases of Wanda Blowjob and they need more head. It makes the person who's saying the names look like such a fool.

[Courtney]

Of course.

[Arasha]

A big fool.

[Courtney]

I'm not saying the problem is just the name.

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[Courtney]

I'm just saying if we're gonna do it, can we do it good?

[Arasha]

And if we do it good, I think that's a little bit more lighthearted where it's like, ha ha, I said that out loud. You got me. But I didn't say something that I'm super embarrassed about.

[Courtney]

Right. Exactly.

[Shane]

At work.

[Courtney]

Yeah. I just love that she threw it that rocks.

[Shane]

It's fucking.

[Arasha]

See, I was picturing her, too.

[Shane]

See the back? Yeah.

[Courtney]

She's like, I need more head.

[Shane]

Goddamn.

[Courtney]

Bam.

[Arasha]

I need more head.

[Shane]

That is the funniest action taken.

[Courtney]

Exactly.

[Shane]

In all these stories we've read today.

[Courtney]

Exactly.

[Shane]

Now, if I was there in person, I'd be like, whoa, yes.

[Arasha]

Yes.

[Shane]

Would I remember it forever? Yeah. Yes.

[Arasha]

Now, how do we feel about her refusing to make another drink?

[Shane]

She's like, I accept your apology. No more beverages.

[Arasha]

No more beverage, no more head.

[Courtney]

I mean, if the manager wants to step in and, like, make another drink, sure, whatever. But, like, I think. I don't know. I, for some reason, feel so hard for this Starbucks employee.

[Shane]

It's like, oh, yeah.

[Courtney]

If I were the manager, I'd be like, you were right. Like, I would, like, pull her aside and be like, that was awesome. Go take a five. I'm gonna handle this.

[Arasha]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think so. Yeah. I'm like, it's hard. It doesn't feel like I'm not, like, incredibly mad at this guy because again, it seems like he's like, I feel bad. I shouldn't have done that. I was just trying to keep it lighthearted and have some fun. But I also am like, yeah, that sucks. If you're not in the mood for it and you just told the coffee shop that you want more head. That sucks.

[Shane]

It's like, it's 5:00am yeah, exactly. That sucks.

[Courtney]

It's like, if you're at your wit's end and you're dealing with something at home, and then it's at the end of your shift and you work out at Starbucks, it's like. Like, you don't need a prank.

[Arasha]

You don't need a prank.

[Shane]

No, you need more head. I'm like, don't prank strangers. Like, it's just what it is. You don't know what this person's going through. Yes. I'm like. And I'm like, you're gonna complain about the price? I'm like, your first mistake was going to Starbucks, dude.

[Courtney]

100%.

[Shane]

You're spending so much money for dog shit.

[Arasha]

Right?

[Shane]

Like, come on, man.

[Arasha]

I think that's a good point.

[Shane]

If you have your local spot where you know the baristas and you've got a rapport with them. Cool. Having fun. But sure don't. I don't know this person.

[Courtney]

Nope.

[Shane]

I can only assume based on just this post. That I'm like, I'm guessing you're probably someone who's in their 30s or 40s, and this barista's, like, 20 or something, or just someone who's been working and they do not want to be working there. Yep. They're just grinding through the day, getting paid nothing for this bullshit.

[Arasha]

It comes off as a little selfish and definitely inconsiderate. Cause it's just like, this will surely be funny for me. Let me do this.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Arasha]

And you don't know the person. So, like, you're saying you don't know what's going on with them and, like.

[Shane]

Cool. It worked for some other baristas. You know that baristas are not one person.

[Arasha]

Yeah.

[Shane]

They're all a different person with a different life.

[Arasha]

Crazy.

[Courtney]

They're not Nurse Joy like op, But.

[Shane]

OP views them like Nurse Joy when it's like they're. Oh, well, it made the other baristas laugh. And you're all the same.

[Courtney]

I think what you just said is, again, the core of the whole prank thing is it's like he finds it funny. They should find it funny too.

[Arasha]

Yes.

[Courtney]

That's the issue.

[Arasha]

All the parties have to be almost, like, consenting before it happens.

[Courtney]

Exactly.

[Shane]

I will say, though, unfortunately, she. I mean, we don't know what kind of coffee he ordered. If she threw hot coffee at a person, that's.

[Courtney]

That does change things. That's a little bit.

[Shane]

And if you're a manager and you're like, you threw hot coffee at a customer, like, at his Vans. I understand. At his Vans, no less. It is a. Like a. It's just kind of like that's where.

[Courtney]

It is more danger.

[Shane]

Like, yeah. Being a barista is a tough job that sucks ass.

[Courtney]

That's very true.

[Shane]

If you cannot throw hot coffee, that could be a huge lawsuit.

[Arasha]

Totally.

[Shane]

Like, I. I'm, like, on her side emotionally, but I'm also like, hey, you can't be doing that. I can't defend.

[Courtney]

In my mind, it was a vanilla bean frat.

[Arasha]

I was imagining a rainbow unicorn situation.

[Shane]

I'm imagining I could be like, the amount of people who order hot coffee at Starbucks. I just don't feel like it's that many. I feel like people go there for iced things. Yes.

[Arasha]

Yeah.

[Courtney]

That is correct.

[Shane]

And so I'm imagining it's an ice drink. The way he's responding is not sounding like it was a hot coffee.

[Courtney]

He didn't say, oh, my God.

[Shane]

He's like, this is inconvenient.

[Arasha]

Yeah.

[Shane]

Cause, yeah, if it's a burning hot coffee. That's.

[Courtney]

I feel like he would have said my feet got burned, not my vans got stained.

[Arasha]

Yeah, he would have included that as well. So as to give us not just all the information, but also like get us more on his side. Cause we would have picked that up.

[Shane]

Yeah, but also to go back. His prank is also making a stranger say, I need more head, which is very uncomfortable and sexual and nature and everything. So.

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[Shane]

A lot going on here. Verdict was asshole Comments? You're the asshole. This wasn't a harmless prank. It was sexual harassment. Haven't you been living in the modern world? Surely you've been trained at work on what sexual harassment is and that you should not participate in it. So why would you bring sexual harassment into the workplace of a service worker? Cruel asshole.

[Courtney]

Move.

[Shane]

Someone OP said I'm still in school. Oh my God.

[Courtney]

No.

[Shane]

Oh oh no.

[Arasha]

Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. How old? What grade?

[Shane]

Op says I'm still. I'm in fifth grade. Op said I'm still in school. I'm 13. No turning 14. I'm sorry, I didn't know making someone say a dirty name was sexual harassment. Well, this changes a lot.

[Courtney]

That would have been information.

[Shane]

Include your age op.

[Courtney]

I was imagining like a 35 year old man.

[Shane]

I was imagining a 35 year old man too.

[Arasha]

Way ahead of his time with the wordplay.

[Shane]

Wait, this. This 13 year old has impeccable writing ability.

[Arasha]

Yeah way.

[Shane]

Also, I need more head.

[Courtney]

I will Say kind of shitty, which would be a 13 year old. That's the only evidence.

[Shane]

Okay, okay. Giving a prank name, I would say, I know 13 year olds do pranks and shit. This feels kind of like beneath a 13 year old in a way that I'm like, no, a 13 year old is gonna do something far more devastating than a prank name at Starbucks.

[Arasha]

This explains the vans. You guys OP.

[Shane]

Let me read this whole comment first OP says, I'm still in school, I'm 13, turning 14. I'm sorry, I didn't know making someone say a dirty name was sexual harassment. Someone responded to that saying, I feel like you are possibly lying about your age because if you admit you're an adult, the judgment would be even harsher. The post doesn't read like it was written by a 13, 14 year old, but the behavior certainly suggests that age range. I'm looking back at this post and they write, I walked up, asked for a drink, paid for it, and gave her a name. A need more head. Which if your accent doesn't really work for this name. Mine doesn't. Which is why it works so well. In parenthesis, it sounds like I need more head. And in the area's native accent, I'm like, buddy, yeah, you might be an extremely. Somehow an extremely mature 13 year old, which I know is possible, but you're writing, you're doing the thing of like he even writes. So basically I was ordering at a Starbucks and I did the classic dirty name joke. Classic dirty name joke. As a 13 year old, how do.

[Courtney]

You know what a classic thing is unless you're.

[Shane]

I'm just really not buying it. I think this is a douchebag who's like, fuck, I'm 13.

[Arasha]

It feels like that would have also been included in the story. No way. A barista hurling a drink at a 13 year old.

[Shane]

Yeah, no way.

[Arasha]

It's. And also probably not even accepting the order. What 13 year old is coming up to the counter and paying for their own Starbucks?

[Shane]

And they're also saying, okay, no, I'm not buying It's a 13 year old. They're like, oh, I go up and I do this to the baristas all the time. And it makes them laugh.

[Arasha]

I'm like, what baristas?

[Shane]

Like, hello, you're a regular at this place where you make the baristas laugh. Thirteen year olds. Here comes little Jimmy once again. I know it's possible. I'm just. This is totally reading as an adult man.

[Courtney]

Yeah.

[Arasha]

Thirteen, I believe is like eighth grade. An eighth grader is ordering at Starbucks regularly.

[Shane]

Frankly. Cause I'm thinking back, me and my friends when we were in 8th grade would go and we would fuck with people places. But if you're giving a fake name at Starbucks, it's not gonna be a need more head. It's gonna be, yeah, I'm fuckface. Come dude.

[Courtney]

Exactly, exactly, exactly.

[Arasha]

Stupid and bad. And you're probably with your friend group cause you're all like, hehehe, this is so funny. This guy's by himself.

[Shane]

Like, mm, I told them a dirty joke.

[Arasha]

No, 13. He's not 13. He's not 13. He would've said that earlier. He's saying it in response to the comment because it's a scary comment and brings up heavy topics and he got scared also.

[Courtney]

I just gotta say, I'm guaranteeing this is not a 13 year old because if you've read any Internet comments ever, 13 year olds always go, I'm 13. And this and that. You know, they love saying that.

[Arasha]

They start with it.

[Courtney]

They start, they start by saying, I'm 13. Mm.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Arasha]

Or like there would just be lots of other. Like, you know, there'd be clues, there'd be signs inside of the writing. And I don't think 13 year olds have that like layer to be able to discern on social media of like, oh, let me pull this away so that people aren't biased about my age. Like that's not something that they would think about.

[Shane]

This 13 year old is fluent in millennial writing. Like fluent. And I'm like, I'm just not buying it. You sound way too lame. Yeah, like, you know 13 year olds are gonna make fun of me. And I'm like, no, right?

[Arasha]

We bought it because we believed it for a second. And then it's like, wait, you go back and you're like, I can't believe it.

[Courtney]

I can't believe it. Is it a throwaway account? Yeah.

[Shane]

There's no other posts. Okay, no other posts. I'm not buying it. I think this is a grown man. 35, absolute loser. Someone said, as someone who is a woman and who also worked at Starbucks, thus dealing with my fair share of sexual harassment, you're the asshole 100 times over. What you did wasn't a joke, it wasn't funny. It was absolutely disgusting. And you should be banned from that store. The fact that you got her in trouble for your behavior makes it even worse. And you're right. Starbucks employees get a lot of crap from customers and even their managers. But you doing that didn't make Things any better? If you can't act your age, then stay at home, even if you're 13, right? Act your age.

[Courtney]

Act your age.

[Arasha]

Yeah.

[Shane]

Someone said, that's sexual harassment. You're the asshole. She doesn't owe you shit in terms of reporting her. You completely manufactured this horrendous situation from nothing, and she was literally just trying to work. So you're the asshole times two and.

[Arasha]

Wait a minute. He said he's 13 turning 14. 13 year olds don't say that. They say they're 13 and a half.

[Shane]

I think people give up the half by that age. Did you?

[Courtney]

It's okay. We'll let you have that.

[Arasha]

I didn't know you guys. I'm 13.

[Courtney]

Oh, rash was 13.

[Arasha]

I'm 13 and a half. All right, the kids are saying it.

[Courtney]

Let's bring the whoopee cushion back out.

[Shane]

I also. Nah, I'm reading too much into it. I don't care. I don't. Let us know if you think OP is 13, because I'm not buying it.

[Arasha]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I wanna see how they're writing their words, but just the way that they.

[Shane]

Put it together, it's written just perfectly.

[Arasha]

No typos, capitalizations, all together, which is fine.

[Shane]

I think there's plenty of 13 year olds who are really well written. But it's just the wording, it's just how it's coming across. It's written as someone who has experience with just being a lame idiot for a lot longer. Yeah. Also, I got. She wouldn't make another drink for me. I got pissed at this because I paid for this. And Starbucks isn't cheap. It's like, Buddy, if you're 13, you don't have a job.

[Arasha]

You're gonna be talking about money in.

[Shane]

A very different way than just, like, this isn't cheap.

[Courtney]

I use my whole allowance.

[Shane]

I'm like, you're going to Starbucks a lot. You also just say, like, oh, I'm still in school. I'm 13 turning 14. I'm like, you would say, I'm in middle school or I'm in high school. People who say, I'm in school are referring to college. I feel like you should.

[Arasha]

I'm still in school, actually. Yeah. That discourse about money is so real. Cause when you're a kid, you don't know, like, what. What costs a lot and what doesn't.

[Courtney]

Right.

[Shane]

I don't even care about the story anymore. I'm like, you're an adult saying you're 13 online asshole. That's an asshole. You're a criminal now. You're going to jail buddy.

[Courtney]

You and your vans.

[Shane]

And if you are 13, if you are actually 13, you are the funniest person.

[Arasha]

Yeah so sorry out of everybody. So sorry if you're 13.

[Shane]

Sorry if you're 13.

[Arasha]

So sorry if you're 13.

[Courtney]

We need to study your brain or something. Yeah cause you're developing.

[Shane]

You're the four Seasons baby. Yes, a little bit older me Moving on to our last story today. I fucked up by thinking Divorce was an April Fool's gag. Ooh. Oh no shit.

[Courtney]

Oh don't divorce someone on April 1st.

[Shane]

This was posted April 2nd of 2019 oh God.

[Arasha]

God, just don't do anything.

[Shane]

Let me preface this off by blaming all of you, the entirety of Reddit, for desensitizing me and giving me major trust issues on April Fool's Day. So here it goes. Yesterday I got a group text from my wife Sarah's side of the family stating there was an emergency family meeting happening that night over dinner at my mother in law Barb's house. I immediately had April Fools spidey senses starting to tingle. But we haven't all gotten together since Christmas so I overlooked it and said we my wife and I were in. We were the last to arrive and it was pretty somber when we walked in. We all sat down at the table and my wife's brother Tim informed the family that his wife Ashley has been having an affair and they are divorcing. The affair was with a longtime close family friend, Chris, who lived a block away. Chris wife Jen had caught them when she came home early one day last week and broke the news to Tim. Both families have been friends for years. They live less than a block from each other. They each have been married for 15 plus years, have four kids right around the same age. Honestly, I have always thought both of them were picture perfect families. Hell, all four of them and their kids were at our house two weeks ago for a barbecue. Anyways, after airing a lot of dirty laundry and their plans to divorce, how it could affect future family functions, and opening it up to the group for any questions, there was silence. I broke the silence with laughter and a slow clap like a villain, saying this was the best April Fool's gag I've ever seen. But I wasn't falling for it. I told Ashley, and especially Tim that they needed to consider going into theater. Their performances were top notch and tears seemed genuine. Being the newest member of the family my wife and I married six months ago, this was probably not the best thing to say in Hindsight, I probably should not have said anything. Everyone in the room looked horrified. My mother in law, who had been crying the entire time, lost all composure. She left the room in hysterics and did not return before we left. Tim just shook his head and his cheating wife actually let out a brief chuckle before calling me out for being a dumbass for thinking this was a ruse, then berated me for being so insensitive. The rest of the family sat in silence shaking their heads as my wife berated me for trying to make a joke out of a serious situation. I am still dumbfounded. In hindsight, I probably should have sat in silence, but I honestly still feel like I was calling out an April Fool's gag. In Op's defense, it was April 1st for sure.

[Courtney]

That's kind of the only thing he's got on his desk.

[Shane]

That's kind of his only card.

[Arasha]

Yeah, but it's kind of just like, Wait, was that the end of the story?

[Shane]

That's the end of the story.

[Courtney]

Wow.

[Shane]

Yeah, it is kind of like, you are the newest member of the family. You can sit this one out.

[Arasha]

Right.

[Shane]

It's like if it's an April Fool's gag, they're gonna come around and do it.

[Arasha]

Let them have it.

[Shane]

That's one of those. It's one of those where you kinda, if it's a prank, you kinda can't do anything about it. Even if you know it's a prank. You're like, well, I'm not gonna be the one who says no, this isn't happening.

[Arasha]

Right. Like, what are you going to win by being the identifier of this prank?

[Shane]

Right.

[Arasha]

If for whatever reason this is a prank, they clearly are wanting to pull a big prank and they're wanting to do it. They're wanting to pull out all the stops. Having the whole family there. It's a whole thing. It is selfish of you to think that you're gonna be a big part of it by revealing it when you are a new member of this family.

[Courtney]

Exactly.

[Shane]

Oh, that's painful. This is so curb youb enthusiasm.

[Courtney]

100%.

[Shane]

This is 100%.

[Arasha]

I thought it was gonna be his own divorce, which was just gonna be really sad, but this is now just making it worse for everybody else.

[Courtney]

Yeah.

[Shane]

He could only one up this by when the cheating wife called him a dumbass. He could have been like, well, you cheated on your husband.

[Courtney]

Right.

[Shane]

To be fair.

[Courtney]

To be fair, I can't talk to you.

[Shane]

I'm the worst person in the room right now. Yeah, you're here. Can we talk about. That is a tense ass situation. The wife who cheated is there in the room. They are all there.

[Arasha]

Yeah.

[Shane]

I have never heard of that type of situation.

[Courtney]

No, I've never heard of, like, a meeting.

[Arasha]

Yeah. I mean, it's probably a very involved, intertwined family. And they're like, we need to tell everybody what happened.

[Shane]

Oh, my God.

[Courtney]

You could do it over text.

[Arasha]

You could, you could. I mean, Barb couldn't even take it. She left the room to be like.

[Shane]

Hey, I don't have to be here for this. Yeah. Every situation when I've heard of someone cheating, it's like you talk to the party who was cheated on, and you're like, 100% all right, we're talking to you.

[Courtney]

Yeah. I guess now that I'm looking at it, a family member meeting to discuss a divorce is slightly bizarre.

[Shane]

It's a situation I've never.

[Courtney]

I've never heard of.

[Shane]

I've certainly never been part of.

[Courtney]

So maybe he has that on his side.

[Shane]

He has it on his side.

[Courtney]

He just shouldn't have clapped.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Courtney]

And laughed.

[Shane]

I would have been okay. It would have been okay if he even was just like, hey, like, it's like, what?

[Arasha]

It's what I expected you guys to do when I took off the trench coat.

[Shane]

Well, the trench. Taking off the trench coat was not the prank. Sitting down was the prank. To be fair.

[Courtney]

You take off the trench, you trench coat clap yourself.

[Shane]

You take off the trench coat, Revealing a taped whoopee cushion on your back. And then sat down. Like, Tommy saw it before you sat down.

[Arasha]

Yeah. How did you see it?

[Courtney]

With my eyes.

[Arasha]

But I had the trench coat on.

[Shane]

You took it off.

[Courtney]

You took it off and threw it on the ground.

[Shane]

You could have kept it on to sit down again.

[Courtney]

Yeah. We still would have heard the fart. No, don't clap yourself again.

[Shane]

Cause there's a version. It's April 1st. You have this crazy meeting where it's like, we're all together because she cheated on me. And this is all gonna happen where you could maybe, if you could go, hey, like, I'm sorry. I'm having a hard time believing this. It's April 1st. Please tell me this is a joke.

[Arasha]

Yeah, that's what it is.

[Courtney]

Please tell me this is a joke.

[Shane]

Please tell me this is a joke. And they go, no, it's not.

[Arasha]

I think they still would have been like, what? How can you even suggest that? But then move on.

[Courtney]

Yes, but still better. You could still get over that little moment other than going like, Ha ha ha.

[Arasha]

Yeah.

[Shane]

You know?

[Arasha]

Yeah. That's rough. Yeah. It's incredibly fulfilling though. It's really satisfying to do.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Arasha]

But it's like that's not your moment.

[Courtney]

No.

[Shane]

Yeah. The top comment. The top comment is why would the cheating wife be there for this? OP said it was her decision to divorce. My brother in law is still open to working things out, but she is planning on starting over with the guy she had an affair with. As poor of a decision as this seems to be, I think she realizes that she's going to have some limited contact with this side of the family over the years. So to be clear, she's the worst person still in that room. He's just the biggest dumbass.

[Arasha]

Somehow that's so maybe so sad.

[Shane]

No, her thinking it's gonna work out with the guy she's having an affair with does make her the biggest dumbass in the room.

[Arasha]

Well, and also just a terror like you have. There's so many kids involved. Like.

[Shane]

Yeah, no, I get it. He did the like Seinfeld situation. But she's still the reason everyone's hysterical.

[Courtney]

100%. There's gonna be a villain in the story itself.

[Shane]

Oh, she's the villain.

[Courtney]

Yeah, right.

[Shane]

He's just a.

[Courtney]

He's the jester.

[Shane]

He's the jester.

[Arasha]

He's the village idiot.

[Courtney]

Yeah.

[Shane]

Someone said, who gets the whole family together to tell them they're getting divorced? How weird. Also, anybody who makes big announcements on April 1st is just asking for it. You did nothing wrong. Someone said, I broke the silence with laughter and a slow clap. Rest in peace, your marriage is next. Divorced. See? Opie said. Tell me about it. I've gotten eight texts while at work asking why I would post this on Reddit. Apparently it's on the front page. Yeah. Dude, what are you doing?

[Arasha]

Oh, my God.

[Shane]

What are you doing, man?

[Courtney]

Come on.

[Shane]

No, come on, bro. This guy. This guy is. He's George Costanza.

[Courtney]

100%.

[Shane]

Yeah, 100%. Dude. Oh, God. Sorry. You said that. Op later goes on to say, there's NEST cameras in the house. Should he post the footage. This guy is somehow. Yeah, he's the biggest dumbass.

[Courtney]

He's a buffoon. He's a buffoon.

[Arasha]

We gotta go back to the beginning of the post too, because he even says he's like, I blame Reddit because it's your fault. So he probably just spends most of his time.

[Shane]

This is a Redditor. This is a full on Redditor. Yeah, he's forgotten regular human interaction.

[Arasha]

So he's like, hey, all my friends on here. You guys wanna see the moment that I was an idiot?

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Courtney]

Well, he's also 13.

[Arasha]

He's also 13 and a half. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Shane]

So, yeah, they're like, get out. And he's like, okay, well, thanks for the cake kind stranger.

[Arasha]

And then leaves to go to school.

[Courtney]

Classic divorce.

[Shane]

Yeah. Angry upvote.

[Arasha]

Yeah.

[Shane]

Oh, God.

[Arasha]

I guess this is the part where I tell you guys that one of those stories might not have been real.

[Shane]

I mean, that's probably the case for every episode of this show.

[Courtney]

No, she's cooking on something. She's trying to find something.

[Shane]

Find the thing.

[Arasha]

Find it. I, ha ha, pranked you. I wrote one of those stories.

[Shane]

Which one?

[Arasha]

What were they again?

[Shane]

Right, right. We've already forgotten the stories.

[Arasha]

The toes. The baby poop on the toes.

[Shane]

That wasn't from this episode.

[Courtney]

That was from a year and a half ago.

[Arasha]

I've been waiting.

[Shane]

You weren't in that episode. Wow. Well, these were all awful.

[Courtney]

Yep.

[Arasha]

Yeah.

[Courtney]

Makes me think back on apple.

[Shane]

Appletarian. Somehow comes out. I'm like, you know what?

[Courtney]

I'll give you a pass.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Courtney]

In the general scheme.

[Arasha]

And these were all. These were all male pranksters. Right?

[Shane]

We don't. We don't know. We technically. The 13 year old. We technically don't know, but we can only assume.

[Arasha]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Shane]

Oh, the girl who tested and pranked him. She tested him and it's like, not a. It's not right. It's a. It's not a necessary.

[Arasha]

It's just a bad.

[Shane]

A prank has. The prank has the idea that this is gonna be funny. She was testing him. Yeah. So it's prank adjacent.

[Arasha]

Yeah.

[Shane]

So she was shitty, but not in a prank way.

[Courtney]

In a bad person action.

[Arasha]

In a bad person action way.

[Shane]

Just bad person action way. Yeah.

[Courtney]

Well, hey, we did it.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

We did it.

[Courtney]

Hey, we did it.

[Shane]

Thank you both for joining me today.

[Courtney]

Can't believe this is the final episode of Reddit.

[Arasha]

It's crazy.

[Shane]

Final episode.

[Arasha]

Should we go back into our behind the couch?

[Courtney]

Oh, yeah, let's.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Courtney]

Should we end the episode behind the.

[Arasha]

Couch so that it's like a loop?

[Shane]

All right.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

Yeah.

[Courtney]

Oh. Cause you're gonna replay this over and over again.

[Shane]

Yeah, this will just reach the back on you and that'll be fun for you. All right, thanks for watching and we'll see you next Saturday.

[Courtney]

Bye.

[Shane]

We're getting back behind the stuff. You got shane.

[Arasha]

You got shane.

[Courtney]

Shame.