Delivery App Conspiracy Theories with BENJAMIN MY POSTMATE!

Summary

The Shane Dawson Podcast: “Delivery App Conspiracy Theories with BENJAMIN MY POSTMATE!”
Release Date: March 9, 2025

Host: Shane Dawson
Guests: Benjamin (Shane's Postmate) and Grace (Benjamin's Girlfriend)

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1. Introduction and Special Guests (00:00 - 05:00)

Shane Dawson kicks off the episode by introducing his special guests, Benjamin and Grace. Benjamin, who has been Shane's Postmate numerous times without them having met in person, shares his excitement about finally appearing on the podcast.

Notable Quote:
Shane Dawson [01:07]: "He's so much more than just a postmate to me. He is a miracle worker."

Grace, Benjamin's girlfriend, briefly introduces herself and hints at her interest in “Animal Crossing,” sparking light-hearted banter among the hosts.

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2. The Story Behind Benjamin and Shane’s Connection (05:00 - 12:00)

Shane recounts the serendipitous way he discovered Benjamin through a YouTube short about Postmates. Despite having interacted via deliveries over millions of times, their first in-person meeting was unusual and orchestrated to preserve the surprise element.

Notable Quote:
Benjamin [03:19]: "I've delivered to Shane's house 25 million times that we've never actually met in person."

Grace adds to the story, explaining how Benjamin navigated the delivery app to avoid disrupting their first meeting.

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3. Life of a Delivery Driver: Scams and Ghost Kitchens (12:00 - 22:00)

Benjamin delves into his experiences as a delivery driver, highlighting challenges such as scams and the rise of ghost kitchens. He explains how some restaurants operate multiple virtual brands from a single kitchen, complicating the delivery process.

Notable Quote:
Benjamin [36:24]: "These ghost kitchens can be confusing when you're trying to pick up because you're like, where's this burger shop?"

Grace chimes in, emphasizing the importance of ordering from known restaurants to avoid such complications.

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4. Unveiling Store Tactics to Manipulate Consumers (22:00 - 46:00)

Shane transitions into discussing various manipulation tactics employed by stores to encourage consumers to spend more. He outlines strategies such as:

• Product Placement: Placing the cheapest items at the entrance to entice shoppers to add them to their carts.

  Notable Quote:
  Shane Dawson [66:35]: "They put the cheapest items in the front of the store right when you walk in because they know that you're gonna get excited about it."

• Aromatic Marketing: Utilizing specific scents to create a welcoming atmosphere and trigger nostalgic feelings that prompt purchases.

  Notable Quote:
  Shane Dawson [63:29]: "They pump out the smells of bread... It's nostalgia. It's a sales tactic."

• Price Decoys: Arranging products with varying price points to make mid-priced items appear as the best deals.

  Notable Quote:
  Shane Dawson [64:09]: "They will put a cheap one right in the middle so that's the one that you want to buy."

Shane also shares his personal experiences with these tactics, such as the revamped Hollister stores that use slower BPM music to keep shoppers in a calm state longer, thereby increasing sales.

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5. Blind Taste Test: Real vs. Knockoff Candies (46:00 - 62:33)

In a fun and engaging segment, the hosts conduct a blind taste test comparing real candy brands to their Walmart knockoffs. Participants sample Kit Kats, Twix, and Snickers from both authentic brands and Walmart’s versions, rating them based on taste and quality.

Notable Moments:

• Kit Kat: While some hosts couldn't distinguish between the real and fake versions, others noted subtle differences in texture and flavor.

  Shane Dawson [59:21]: "They both taste the same to me."

• Twix: The hosts discuss the marketing strategy of Twix's "Left Twix vs. Right Twix" campaign, appreciating how it creates a playful rivalry.

  Ryland Adams [60:17]: "The taste profile on this one is drastically different."

• Snickers: There was a consensus that Walmart’s Snickers didn't quite match the original in terms of caramel quality and overall taste.

  Shane Dawson [61:10]: "B tastes better quality."

Through laughter and honest opinions, the segment highlights the effectiveness of store-brand alternatives and their impact on consumer choices.

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6. Interactive Segment: "Gay or Not" (62:33 - 71:45)

The hosts engage in a lighthearted game called "Gay or Not," where they rate various actions or items on a scale to determine perceived sexual orientation stereotypes. The game sparks humorous debates and showcases the group's camaraderie.

Notable Quote:
Shane Dawson [39:08]: "It's straight. Because he's so confident."

The segment serves as entertainment, allowing guests and hosts to bond over playful banter while subtly addressing stereotypes.

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7. Delving into Conspiracy Theories: AI and Mars (71:45 - 68:04)

Shane introduces conspiracy theories surrounding artificial intelligence and Mars exploration. The discussion touches on:

• AI Robots: Concerns about AI developing autonomous capabilities that could pose threats to humanity.

  Notable Quote:
  Shane Dawson [49:02]: "They're making all these Tesla robots. Kim Kardashian is, like, doing a Macarena with them."

• Mars Footage: Skepticism about the authenticity of Mars imagery, suggesting that what is perceived as Mars might actually be footage from Devon Island in Canada.

  Ethan [68:24]: "When they show you the images of Mars. It's not real."

The conversation reflects common societal anxieties about technological advancements and space exploration, blending humor with speculative theories.

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8. Conclusion and Final Thoughts (68:04 - End)

Wrapping up the episode, Shane emphasizes the importance of being aware of customer manipulation tactics to make informed shopping decisions. He encourages listeners to share their observations and experiences in the comments, fostering community engagement.

Notable Quote:
Shane Dawson [66:58]: "Let us know in the comments if there's any customer manipulation things that you've noticed."

Benjamin expresses gratitude for the opportunity to appear on the podcast, highlighting the surreal nature of their interaction.

Notable Quote:
Benjamin [72:35]: "It's still so surreal with the whole just how everything played out."

The episode concludes with playful remarks and plans to boost Benjamin’s YouTube channel, leaving listeners entertained and informed.

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Key Takeaways:

• Consumer Awareness: Understanding the subtle tactics stores use to influence purchasing decisions can empower consumers to shop more mindfully.

• Delivery App Insights: The life of a delivery driver involves navigating scams, ghost kitchens, and complex delivery logistics, offering unique perspectives on the gig economy.

• Humor and Camaraderie: The podcast balances informative discussions with lighthearted games and interactions, fostering a relatable and engaging atmosphere.

• Conspiracy Curiosity: Engaging with speculative theories reflects societal concerns about technology and space, wrapped in entertainment.

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Note: This summary omits sponsored segments and advertisements to focus solely on the core content of the podcast episode.

Transcript

[Shane Dawson]

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[Ryland Adams]

That's your dream.

[Shane Dawson]

But we have not just one, but two special guests today. This has been so long in the making, guys, my heart is flying. We have Benjamin, my postmate.

[Benjamin]

Thank you for having me.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, my God. Which. He's so much more than just a postmate to me. He is a miracle worker. One of my favorite YouTubers now, and the boyfriend to the sweetest girl I've ever met in my whole life. Yes, welcome, Benjamin's girlfriend, Grace. Grace wasn't even planning on. Were you? You weren't even planning on being on the show today, right?

[Grace]

I mean, no, not really.

[Shane Dawson]

I know, but your makeup was so sickening and your hair was done. We were talking about Animal Crossing and you got really into it and you were like talking about all your cheat codes and hacks and I was like.

[Ryland Adams]

Oh, yeah, Are you a billionaire like Shane?

[Grace]

No, I haven't reached that status yet. I've been focusing really on, like, getting as much furniture as I can for this island.

[Ryland Adams]

Are you doing it in an honest way, though?

[Grace]

No, of course not.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay. Benjamin. Yes. Can we just talk about the lead up to this? How crazy if you guys didn't see the episode. Two episodes back, I talked about the craziest out of body experience I've literally ever had. It's what I imagine people who do that drug, like in the middle of the woods. Do you know what I mean? Ayahuasca, when they're like, I saw God and he told me to die. Whatever.

[Chris]

He told me to die.

[Jared]

Normally.

[Ryland Adams]

It's a life altering awakening.

[Ethan]

It is an ego death. Yes.

[Ryland Adams]

Did you do it?

[Ethan]

I mean, the smokable version. I've never done, like, in the woods, throwing up and feeling it.

[Shane Dawson]

But yeah, so that happened to me. I was literally throwing up because I was just shook. I was watching. I was watching a YouTube video is on my homepage. And it was like, I door dashed in the middle of the night. Dangerous. I was like, ooh, click. So I'm watching. I'm like, oh, I love this. Subscribe. Go to the channel. Look at the shorts. And there's a short. And it's like, hey, I don't want to mimic your voice, but go for it.

[Ryland Adams]

Go for it in front of you.

[Ethan]

Let's all try.

[Shane Dawson]

I was like, I got a delivery for a YouTuber watching, and it's pretty good.

[Ethan]

Whoa.

[Shane Dawson]

He got goat milk formula. And I was like, I have to be the only YouTuber in LA that gets goat milk formula.

[Ryland Adams]

Your wife with boobs is probably screaming at you. We need goat milk formula.

[Jared]

Literally, your wife with boobs.

[Shane Dawson]

So anyways, realized he was talking about me, went through my phone history, realized me and Benjamin have had a whole history. He has delivered to my house 25 million times that we've never actually met in person. Which is weird cause I always meet my postmates. But for some reason, when it's him, I don't. It's very confusing. But we talked about it on the show. He left a comment. We found each other. Found your Instagram.

[Benjamin]

Yeah. I was surprised. Cause that's. You gotta dig pretty deep for that.

[Shane Dawson]

Digged. Very deep.

[Ethan]

Good job.

[Shane Dawson]

Thank you. And now you're here. And let me just say, you were saying before the show, like, you've been kind of avoiding using the app around Target because you don't want to get me. Because we didn't want to ruin this experience of us meeting for the first time.

[Benjamin]

Exactly. And like I was saying earlier yesterday, I saw an order that was just goat milk formula, and my heart jumped for a sec. It was my first order of the day. And I was like, this is, like, too soon. It felt wrong. Like, I've been. I've been here so many times. But I was like, I can't take this.

[Shane Dawson]

No.

[Ryland Adams]

Have I met you?

[Benjamin]

I don't think so. I think I saw Spencer. I handed something off to Spencer once, but other than that, I think it was mostly just leave at the gate. Because there was always something, something.

[Ryland Adams]

If our dogs are out, it's a leave it at the gate.

[Shane Dawson]

Isn't that weird, though? Like, listen, I believe in the universe orchestrating things in very weird ways. And to me, it was very weirdly orchestrated because I literally have, like, Like Ash. Oh, should I not doc oppose me?

[Ryland Adams]

No. I'm sure if he's watching, he would be flattered. He's upset. He's honestly a threat to our marriage.

[Shane Dawson]

I don't. What? Don't. Well, I don't want to make it up.

[Ethan]

I feel like I'm in a rom com right now with all this. It's like an amazing story you guys have.

[Shane Dawson]

It's meet you.

[Ryland Adams]

Let me stick around. If he stole Shane, he'd be like, you can stay.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah. What's his name? He loves you too, Ashfin.

[Ethan]

I love that.

[Shane Dawson]

He comes like five times a week and, like, we talk, we hang out, like, hang out. I literally, like, hang out with my postmates.

[Ryland Adams]

This is like a summerplex. I order so much.

[Ethan]

I always hang out with my postmates. Sorry we haven't met before.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay, so I have so many questions. Number one, if guys, if you haven't checked out Benjamin's channel, please check it out. It's so good. I love your videos.

[Benjamin]

Thank you.

[Shane Dawson]

Just saying that because you're my favorite postmate, so.

[Benjamin]

I am. I am your favorite.

[Shane Dawson]

100% confirmed.

[Chris]

You going to tell Ashvine? Wow.

[Ryland Adams]

Oh, my God.

[Shane Dawson]

The scandal when we moved to Colorado for a couple years. Like, obviously I didn't say goodbye to Ashen because I didn't know I was going to be gone that long. And then we came back and he was like, one of my first orders back. And when he pulled up, it was like the Notebook.

[Ethan]

It was raining.

[Shane Dawson]

There was tears. He was just like, where did you go? And I was like, colorado. And he's like, why you're back? And I was like, I'm back now, baby. So beautiful. Okay. But I did notice I was going through your channel and I was like, really going back in time? Because I was like, I want to see.

[Benjamin]

Oh, boy.

[Shane Dawson]

I want to see, like, where this started. And that was actually your first Door Dash video you ever did. You ever did.

[Benjamin]

Yes. It started about 45 days ago.

[Ryland Adams]

That's it. What?

[Benjamin]

Well, the. The short that you saw was the first short I ever made.

[Shane Dawson]

What?

[Benjamin]

Dashing. And I'm pretty sure you might remember, but I think the night before, because I was telling her, I was like, oh. Like, I, you know, go out and do deliveries. It might be fun to make content about.

[Grace]

Yeah.

[Benjamin]

And I think it was the night before we were watching one of Shane's videos.

[Grace]

I think we were watching the conspiracy theory. But your Stanley is, like, in the car, right? And like, the. The video with the car on fire and Stanley survived Yeah.

[Shane Dawson]

Yes.

[Benjamin]

Classic. Yeah. So then the very next day, I was like, you know what? I'm going to film today. Because honestly, I was probably inspired a little bit from watching. And I was like, alright, let's do this. So I took out my phone, claimed an order and the name was Shane. And I was like, I didn't think much of it, but then I saw where the order was going and I was like, this seems a little odd. And I saw what was on the order and I was like, no way. Like, wait, that's crazy.

[Chris]

That's even crazier that it was already a wild. Like, you then found the video and then this all happened. But the fact that you were watching a video before that is.

[Benjamin]

I think it was literally the night before.

[Jared]

Also the fact that you saw his first short. Like, a lot of things here are crazy.

[Shane Dawson]

I have like, beard chills.

[Ethan]

You couldn't write this stuff.

[Ryland Adams]

Oh, my gosh, I'm glad he has a girlfriend.

[Jared]

We're going to the My Gromit show, by the way. I don't know if you know, we're going to. Because she has a shirt.

[Grace]

And I was very friends to go with. I would love to.

[Jared]

I have no friends, period.

[Ryland Adams]

So we should.

[Shane Dawson]

All these connections.

[Ethan]

What is it?

[Shane Dawson]

Come, Ashby, come on out.

[Chris]

That would be. Oh, my God.

[Shane Dawson]

Wait, so. Okay, this is so fucking. This is so weird to me. Okay, so anyways, I went back through time and I saw that you were originally doing videos with your grandma.

[Benjamin]

I was on this channel. I've had countless channels since I was like, probably 12, 13. And technically my first job I ever really had was, I guess I could say YouTube. I had a Minecraft channel when I was like 14 and I got like my first AdSense check for like 100 bucks.

[Shane Dawson]

And I was like, 14?

[Benjamin]

Yeah. So I was like, very early. I got that taste of, like, at some point in my life. Like, this is something I kind of want to do whenever it makes sense. I just didn't know when that would be. And lately I've just been getting into creating again.

[Ethan]

So how did grandma become involved?

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah, how did that happen?

[Benjamin]

Well, it didn't take too much convincing. She's always been. She's probably going to watch this too, so. Hi, Grandma. But she's always been. My whole family has been always very supportive, but she was the one who. When I had that Minecraft channel, because my parents were always like, oh, you got to, you know, focus on school. Did you finish your homework and stuff? Like, they're very supportive, but did they.

[Ethan]

Not know you made 100 bucks?

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah, I mean, are they tripping?

[Benjamin]

It was like, it was like 140.

[Ethan]

You should have flashed the check around more. I think you would have got a different result from your parents. They would have respected the check.

[Benjamin]

But she was the only one back then who would like, like, she was the one who took me to VidCon cuz I still lived in Minnesota at the time. 20. I went two years, I think like 2014, 2015. I think I haven't been since then. But no, she was always someone who was super supportive and like, was like, yeah, you should do this or like, I'll come with you. And those music reaction type videos weren't just what I wanted to do. It was kind of just an idea in the moment, like I'll probably do a few of these. So I did that and they were a lot of fun and I'm thankful that she. Fun memories with her that I have on camera. So.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah, we used to make videos with our grandma all the time. Yeah, some of them may be a little problematic now.

[Ryland Adams]

Bella is a bitch.

[Shane Dawson]

Bella.

[Ethan]

Yeah, well, there was a 420 granny moment that happened.

[Ryland Adams]

So then why did you move to la?

[Benjamin]

Well, I first moved. I've moved here multiple times, but.

[Chris]

You moved here multiple times?

[Benjamin]

Yeah. So my last two years of high school I took college courses. So When I was 18, I had my high school diploma and then an associate's degree. So I was like, I feel comfortable now taking a couple years to just try things, maybe move to California, which is what I did. So that's kind of where the deliveries first came in. I didn't really understand how making a budget worked back then. So I looked online from Minnesota and I was like, oh, I can get like a one bedroom for like seventeen hundred dollars and I could probably live off like two grand a month and you know, just like Postmate and everything will be online. So I didn't have an apartment or a job lined up and I had probably like fifteen hundred dollars to my name and I spent pretty much all of it on like a one month Airbnb. And I was like, I'm going to give myself one month. I'm going to do Postmates and go from there and just see what happens. In total, I was only out for a couple months at first time and then my car was just like completely shot. It was just old, the brakes were like gone. So I. I drove the car with no brakes all the way back to Minnesota. Don't know how that happened.

[Jared]

Yeah, how did you stop?

[Chris]

It's downhill.

[Ethan]

The whole.

[Benjamin]

I didn't. I drove out. I drove at night.

[Grace]

No, I constantly ask him that.

[Jared]

He.

[Grace]

He doesn't know.

[Benjamin]

No, I was just driving at night with the open road and I could stop. It just took me maybe like three football fields. So, like, looking back, obviously should not have done that. So I went back home and. Yeah, and then that was around the time actually, I went to Florida too, which is where I met her.

[Grace]

Yeah.

[Benjamin]

So.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay. So you guys. So are you in. You're not really in his videos, right?

[Grace]

No, not really.

[Shane Dawson]

But are you gonna start to be?

[Grace]

I would like to be.

[Shane Dawson]

Because you said before the show because you weren't planning on being on the show today, and you were just so funny and so cute. You guys were so cute together. And I was like, do you want to come on the show? And you were just like. So, like, you're. You're building up to being on camera.

[Grace]

Yeah, I.

[Shane Dawson]

Well, I guess this is on camera.

[Benjamin]

It's a big first.

[Ethan]

Breaking you in slowly.

[Grace]

I cannonballed. But yeah, I do, like, want to be in his videos at some point. I just, I like, I work 40 hours and then I also have a second job on the weekends, so I don't really, like, make time for him to be part of, like, a big video that takes a long whole nother conversation.

[Ryland Adams]

And what do you do?

[Grace]

I work in insurance. And then my second job is I babysit on the weekends for a family that I love so much.

[Shane Dawson]

Wow. Okay. I just realized, I was like, wow, we have delivery service conspiracies. We have, like, Target, Walmart. We have conspiracies. I'm like, you've worked at all the places that we're going to talk about today? Yes.

[Grace]

I worked at a lot of jobs and I don't mind exposing.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, wow. Good answer.

[Ethan]

Very good answer.

[Shane Dawson]

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[Jared]

Yes, he went with me. Yeah.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay. So was it, like, you were, like, a celebrity there? Was it like they brought out bottle service?

[Chris]

That would be awesome.

[Jared]

No, if anything, I think no one cared at all, which is. I prefer that. Honestly. I'm, like, very anxious in a bar and in a club, and I like to disappear in a corner. That's what I do. And I could do that.

[Shane Dawson]

So was there lap dances?

[Jared]

No, it was nothing like that. I mean, is it not a strip club? There were Go Go, like, at, like, the Abbey. And, like, at a lot of gay bars, there's Go Go dances, which is not a strip. It's different. But there were Go Go Beefy Beefy, Go Go Boys, you know, But.

[Benjamin]

But I don't know.

[Jared]

It was really. It was really fun. Greg, the owner, was super sweet. He gave us, like, free drinks. I had a really good time.

[Ethan]

Wow.

[Jared]

Photo I took while I was there.

[Ryland Adams]

Is that one of the Go Go dancers?

[Jared]

So this is crazy. I don't know if you remember Periscope. It was an app that doesn't exist anymore. But way back then, I would just, like, go on Periscope all the time and talk to anybody nearby. This was a person I talked to a billion years ago on Paris. Like, and I have. I haven't really spoken to in forever. And I was like, what are you? And we, like, reconnected. That was very cool.

[Shane Dawson]

You look so good in that. Second of all, you would just go on Periscope and talk to. What do you mean?

[Jared]

Yeah, all the time. I have no friends as we discuss. And so I would talk to strangers online. That was easier. I would also Periscope myself. I'd livestream. I'd make friends with people in my chat. I'd go in their live streams. I have a friend in Canada named Amanda who's amazing. Hi, man.

[Shane Dawson]

Wow.

[Jared]

So, like, people I'm gonna meet at some point, and he was one of them. And we finally met, and turns out.

[Shane Dawson]

He'S really popular at Club Chop Break Down. How your boyfriend? Because I was thinking about it, and I was like, okay, if I knew, like, Chris Pratt was go. Go dancing on, like, a platform, I don't know if I'd want.

[Ryland Adams]

That was a bit. If I were to ever leave you for somebody, it would be for him. I love Chris Pratt.

[Shane Dawson]

What?

[Ryland Adams]

Or, like, I'm not, like, looking for Chris Pratt.

[Ethan]

I just think if a diving competition, per se.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, no, that would never happen.

[Ethan]

He ain't going.

[Jared]

Well, first off, people like chubby guys there, so people Weren't excited about me. People were excited about my boyfriend. Like, we'd walk around and people would gurn wolf and rub his belly. Yeah. Oh, that's a thing bears do. They go, yeah. And they.

[Grace]

I love this for you, by the way.

[Jared]

Thank you.

[Shane Dawson]

So you go there, right? And initially when you said that, I was like, oh, is the boyfriend gonna get jealous? Because there's all these, you know, big guys. But now the tables have turned.

[Ethan]

He's getting touched.

[Shane Dawson]

Now he's getting touched.

[Ethan]

How far did you allow it to go? I mean, was it into it?

[Shane Dawson]

Are we.

[Jared]

No, no, no, no. We're very, very, very monogamous.

[Ethan]

And, like, I do know people jack each other off on the dance floor and stuff. From the stories I've heard that did.

[Jared]

Happen with your boyfriend.

[Chris]

That did happen.

[Jared]

Because there was only like, five.

[Ryland Adams]

That's the kind of shit that goes down at gay bars.

[Jared]

I will say, though, they, you know, that'd be interesting. They went off to a sort of corner where no one was. A sort of corner where no one really was.

[Ryland Adams]

Bathroom. But a sort of corner they kind of hid.

[Jared]

And much like Ryland, they jacked each other off in the middle of the club.

[Ethan]

And they hid in the middle of the club.

[Jared]

No, in a corner.

[Ethan]

Were they massaging your boyfriend? Rubbing his stomach?

[Jared]

Like a little rub on the belly. And then we, like, we just kind of would laugh and keep walking, you know, because we didn't. We didn't know.

[Chris]

You didn't, like, jiggle anyone or anything like that.

[Jared]

No, I mean, I did touch this. This fellow's tummy for the photo, but, yeah, that's about it. It was just like a pat.

[Shane Dawson]

I'm happy for you.

[Jared]

Thank you. It was everything I ever wanted.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay, well, speaking of things that could potentially cause drama in relationships, which I'm so happy that didn't. I want to do a couple of quick rabbit holes, so I'm going to start with mine. Now. I'm going to say this. What is his name? Is it the Glizzy Gobbler?

[Chris]

I think that's what he's sort of known.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay. Do you know who I'm talking about?

[Ethan]

No.

[Shane Dawson]

So. Okay.

[Ethan]

I like it, though.

[Shane Dawson]

My Instagram feed has now become just compilations of the Glizzy Gobbler, which.

[Ethan]

You sound lucky.

[Shane Dawson]

Which. So I. Okay, so he's a man on TikTok who. People pay him and they send him emojis.

[Benjamin]

Oh, I've seen this guy. He's been on my feed too.

[Ethan]

Right.

[Chris]

It's like the ice cream.

[Shane Dawson]

So Good.

[Chris]

Like they give you a little thing and you do like a little.

[Shane Dawson]

But it's like a man version of it and. Well, let me just show you and Ryland, I'm not aroused by this. I swear to God I'm not.

[Ryland Adams]

How did it land on your for you page?

[Shane Dawson]

Spencer's for you page turned into my for you page. Club quizzy, here we come.

[Chris]

Glizzy.

[Shane Dawson]

Think of the ice cream.

[Benjamin]

Ice cream.

[Ethan]

So good.

[Benjamin]

Think of the ice cream.

[Shane Dawson]

Think of the hard me. I heart you too. Think of the glizzies.

[Ethan]

Sounds like Donald the Duck Overdrive.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, I love Glizzy Overdrive.

[Chris]

That's pretty excited.

[Ethan]

Increasing grip by 7%.

[Jared]

What?

[Ethan]

This is worth a couple bucks? You know this guy's entertaining 160 glizzies and doing glizzy overtime.

[Jared]

He hugged to us.

[Grace]

Oh my God.

[Ryland Adams]

Wow.

[Shane Dawson]

Now listen, at first I was like cringe. And then seven more compilations later, I was honestly like, what an icon.

[Ethan]

He's a genius.

[Shane Dawson]

He's a genius because it's so fucking funny and easy to make fun of and people probably go in there and hate watch him the glasses. I looked it up. He is making on one show between three and $5,000.

[Ethan]

I thought of a cool name.

[Shane Dawson]

What?

[Ethan]

The Glizzard of Oz.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh my God. For wicked. Okay, I'm saying here's my question though. Number, number one. Now, I did plan this before we knew there would be a woman here, so maybe you could just judge. But I was like, I'm right here. I was like, let's see who can do the. See who can do the best.

[Jared]

Oh, I have to go.

[Shane Dawson]

Because I was like joking about doing this and then Spencer did it and it was good. What Spencer? Spencer did show your glitz.

[Ethan]

Oh, no.

[Benjamin]

That was wet.

[Shane Dawson]

Well, that's how I do it.

[Ethan]

That was like uncomfortable.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, oh.

[Ethan]

160 hot dogs.

[Jared]

No one's gonna do better than that.

[Ryland Adams]

I wish they would play this at Club Chub.

[Shane Dawson]

All of the chubs glizzing together. Oh. Which did you know? Because when I brought it up to Spencer, he's like, well, you know what a glizzy is, right? And I was like, no job. And he goes, no, it's a hot dog.

[Ryland Adams]

Oh, so he's eating hot. Oh, I thought it was a blowjob too.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay, no, but now my. Now my recommended on Instagram is a.

[Ryland Adams]

Hot dog that different.

[Shane Dawson]

But now look at my. Look at my recommended just a bunch of dicks Glizzy Gobblers shirt.

[Ethan]

That's cute.

[Benjamin]

It is Cute.

[Shane Dawson]

But now I'm like, but it's a blowjob, but it's a hot dog. I don't know.

[Benjamin]

Does that guy have official merch?

[Shane Dawson]

If he does, I'm buying it. I'm supporting the Glizzy Gobbler. Okay, so speaking of rabbit holes, Chris, you said you had a rabbit hole that you fell down to recently.

[Jared]

I did, yes. So do you guys know about the cheese caves?

[Shane Dawson]

What?

[Jared]

Have you heard about the cheese caves?

[Shane Dawson]

This is a section of Club Chubs.

[Ethan]

Cheese glaze.

[Jared]

In America, there are cheese caves that began during the Great depression in the 20s and 30s when there was a depression and many farmers were struggling to stay in business. So the US government stepped in with agricultural subsidies to stabilize food production. And President Jimmy Carter created a dairy like an incentive for dairy farmers to increase production. And they so over delivered that we had so much milk and dairy that we didn't know what to do with it. And so the government decided to turn it all to cheese and butter and put these like giant gallon wheelbarrows of like cheese and butter into underground limestone caves in Missouri that were like originally miners mines, I believe. And if you look at photos of this, it just goes on forever and ever and ever. It's such an obscene amount of cheese. And then they were like, oh, no, we have way too much cheese. What do we do with this? So then they started giving out like bricks of cheese to low income families as like government cheese. And then not only that, they started going to restaurants and being like, we need you to have cheesier items on your menu. We have too much cheese. Please take our cheese. And so this is how we came up with like stuffed crust pizza and like four cheese pizza and like all these things because there's just way too much cheese. And we didn't know what to do with it. Just to keep it from going bad, they had to like put coolers, nachos.

[Ethan]

Because corn and cheese.

[Chris]

Oh, yeah.

[Jared]

I mean, it's just there was cheese everywhere because of this, because overpaid farmers got way too much milk.

[Shane Dawson]

And I have a question.

[Benjamin]

Yeah.

[Shane Dawson]

How did you get there?

[Ryland Adams]

I was thinking the same thing. I want to know the time of day, the environment you were in, and how this went down.

[Jared]

By the way, in the 80s they had accumulated £500 million of surplus cheese. Just so you know.

[Shane Dawson]

I hear you and it's fascinating, but how did you get there?

[Ryland Adams]

How, where were you?

[Jared]

I was on Instagram or TikTok or something and someone was like, oh, isn't it crazy? This is how, like, stuff crosses. Pizza was made. And I was like, that's not real. She made that up. And then I googled it and, like, just spiraled it was.

[Shane Dawson]

What is your Explore page like? Because I will say. Did I say this in the last episode? Occasionally on my Instagram, it'll get something recommended by you, which will be terrifying. And then I'll scroll, and then it'll be, you know, somebody talking about glizzies, and then I'll scroll, and then it'll just be like a big man rubbing his belly, going like, Chris, so, like, what is your vibe? Like, if you took a screenshot of your Explore page right now, or what are we talking?

[Jared]

90% of it is, like, otters. Cute otter. No, like animals. Like, where they have their hands out of, like, a hole out of, like, a glass at, like, a zoo and you can touch little hands.

[Shane Dawson]

Wait, real otters?

[Benjamin]

Yeah.

[Shane Dawson]

I thought you meant, like, hairy.

[Jared]

No, like cute otters. Like animals.

[Chris]

Can I also say no one else did the fucking Glizzy Gobbler thing. I was the only one who did it. Well, dude, I mean, I know, I.

[Ethan]

Know, but, like, if I had the glizzability. You had. Have. Well, I would have waited till the end to show everybody up. But you just want her to.

[Shane Dawson]

I kind of feel like Jared would be the best.

[Ryland Adams]

Well, I could host a Glizzy competition.

[Shane Dawson]

Guys, stick around for Rylan's recap. But we're all going to be giving glizzies. Giving.

[Benjamin]

Giving Glizzies.

[Jared]

But, yeah, it's giving Glizzy. To answer your question, it's literally cute animals or chubby men. One or the other.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Shane Dawson]

Love you. Okay, Cementer. Actually, hold on. First, Rylan, you got mad last time because you were like. Well, you never tell me you're doing a rabbit hole, so I'm not prepared. I told you a week ago, we're doing a rabbit hole. Do you have one?

[Ryland Adams]

No. All I do. Listen, never. If I started telling you about my rabbit holes, you would all black out in boredom.

[Shane Dawson]

Or different.

[Ethan]

Save us, Spencer.

[Ryland Adams]

Different meal ideas for one year olds.

[Shane Dawson]

Wait, Spencer, anytime somebody starts to get.

[Ethan]

Boring, can you just.

[Chris]

That's so much pressure.

[Ethan]

It's kind of like, you know that show where they do the gong or like, yeah, the singer come out with the hook. Like, you just glizzy when you feel like we've all had enough. And let's all not be offended by a glizzy, okay? It's just.

[Benjamin]

All right, we all.

[Ryland Adams]

Mutual respect for the Glizzies it's just a hot dog.

[Ethan]

Nothing personal. It's just a glizzy.

[Benjamin]

Okay, guys, I'm cool.

[Ethan]

Nothing personal.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay, Spencer.

[Chris]

Okay.

[Shane Dawson]

Your rabbit hole is actually insane.

[Chris]

Yeah. So the rabbit hole I found was. It started from an email. I don't remember the viewer, so I apologize. But a few of you have sent this in. Have you guys heard of the Yellow Deli?

[Ethan]

No. No.

[Chris]

So it's this kind of like hippie sandwiching. They have a lot of locations. A lot. It started in Tennessee, so it's a lot in the South. And like a lot of people just think it's like, oh, this is cool. Like all natural, sort of like granola, like sandwich place, but yum. It's actually run by a cult. It's like, what? It's perfect.

[Shane Dawson]

Is it legend? Is it?

[Chris]

No, no, no. So they don't have a location in la. It's just. It's down in like San Diego out here.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay.

[Benjamin]

All that is. I have hear.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

Close for comfort.

[Chris]

So it started out in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where my grandparents are from. So shout out. I wonder if they've ever eaten that. So they started this guy, Eugene Spriggs, I believe his name is, was in Tennessee and he had had a sort of rough backstory, had a like, rough life. And he found God and he. But he basically created his own version of like his own religion where it's kind of mixing Jewish belief, Christian belief. It's kind of like a lot based on like old things on the Bible. And so he started a sandwich shop called yet the Yellow Deli to basically support like their. The church and everything. It's like their only way of income.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay. It's like chick fil a to launder.

[Ethan]

Money, I would imagine.

[Chris]

Yeah, exactly. And just like they had no other way of making money. And everyone working at these yellow delis essentially is a member of the 12 Tribes community, which is like the official religion, which is like they believe like the end is coming in. Like we're all reverting back to these 12 tribes and it's. It's very like cultish. Very like standard stuff.

[Shane Dawson]

I don't know sandwiches, like cult themes.

[Jared]

There's 12 subs.

[Chris]

I don't think they like the being called a cult.

[Shane Dawson]

Never mind.

[Chris]

But so they're all over the world now. They're like in Argentina and Europe, like all. There's a ton of them. And when they moved to Vermont in the 80s, that was sort of like the. There's a lot of like cult awareness going on in America. At that time. And so, like, there was a huge raid and, like, in Vermont, it was a big deal. Like, one of the biggest raids in the state. And it got thrown out because it was all illegal. And it, like, affected the whole governor's race. It was, like, a huge story, and they didn't find anything. But then all these former members are coming out being like, no, this is happening. But it feels like every time they got raided, it was fine. So there's no real, like, end to this. It's still an ongoing thing. They still have delis all over the place. I just.

[Jared]

It's.

[Chris]

I didn't, like, tell.

[Ethan]

Is the food good? Like, are they on Yelp? I mean, if they make a mean pesto.

[Shane Dawson]

Because, like, Chick Fil A sauce is so good. Like, I'm okay if they.

[Ryland Adams]

Yellow deli.

[Shane Dawson]

Wow. Anyways, how did you get there?

[Chris]

That. I started from the email, and I was like, what is this? And I looked it up, and then it's. I just think it's really interesting that, like, I know you see, like, I. I'm interested in, like, those cult documentary. Like, there's the one about the one in Oregon, the Wild Country. And I was like, this is crazy. It happened in the past. Like, that. That stuff doesn't happen anymore. Like. Like you were saying, like, people know about it, but they still go there. But then enough people, I guess, don't know about it or don't care. And it was just really interesting. And, like, you know, we should Conspiracy kitchen try their sandwich.

[Shane Dawson]

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[Benjamin]

Thank you, thank you.

[Jared]

Also, your story's so cool how like you kept coming out here and you never gave up. It's like genuinely inspiring.

[Benjamin]

This is the third, third time. So.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay, I have so many questions. Number one, how do you like, what is the craziest experience you've had as a delivery driver?

[Benjamin]

Well, there's a few times I've been scammed. A few times I've had scammed. I've had gay rumors spread about me at a Target.

[Shane Dawson]

What?

[Chris]

What? What?

[Ethan]

It happens.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay, us too. Wait, what do you mean?

[Benjamin]

Should we start with that one?

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah, they thought you were like looking for games. Sex. Well, what?

[Benjamin]

Yeah, this was what a couple years ago. She worked at this target at the time but there was this one employee there we'll call Jonathan. And how would you describe Jonathan?

[Ryland Adams]

Gay?

[Grace]

Well, I didn't know that.

[Benjamin]

Well, he had. He usually would be like at the self checkout and he had, I don't know how to describe it in a nice way. He had, he had some issues, Kristen, like being maybe like over friendly to customers and just kind of talking a lot. And then I guess I was a little too friendly with him one time because I was in the produce section one morning. In the produce section. That's where all this stuff happens. But he tend. He tended to wander sometimes from his spot around self checkout. So I'm just, you know, like, looking at bananas and apples and stuff, and all of a sudden I saw you. And then I just saw Jonathan up behind me. So I'm just like, oh, hey, how's it going? He starts talking to me, and he happened to ask what I was doing later. And I just thought it's normal conversation. So I was like, oh, yeah, I'm probably just gonna go, like, chill in my hot tub. And he, I guess, took touching.

[Ryland Adams]

And you're savvy.

[Chris]

Very baby.

[Ryland Adams]

And as soon as a hot tub.

[Shane Dawson]

With a banana, as soon as it.

[Benjamin]

Came out of my mouth, I was like, oh, no. But I didn't. I didn't know, you know, what he was into. I just was genuinely, at that time, I was really into hot tubbing.

[Jared]

It's relaxing.

[Shane Dawson]

What a niche.

[Ryland Adams]

No, it was hot tub reviews.

[Benjamin]

But anyway, so as soon as I said that, I was like, oh, no. And then he was like, oh, can I, like, join you later? Like, and he was kind of inviting himself just to see what I would say. And I was like, oh, like, no, trying to play. I was trying to be nice just because I. I always was in our conversations, but I was. I pretty much just said, like, oh, I'm not sure. Like, I might have people coming over. I don't remember exactly what I said, but.

[Ethan]

Wow, so you went for a pretty hard diss.

[Benjamin]

Yeah. But I guess the way I responded, I tried to be nice and kind of like, shutting it down just because he was very like, if I didn't shut it down, the conversation wasn't gonna end. So I was like, I gotta keep working. But I was like, nice talking to you. Like, I'll see you later. Then cut to. What was it the next day?

[Shane Dawson]

Mm.

[Benjamin]

And she sends me a text. We're both working. And she's like, hey, like, I need to call you, like, talk about something. I was like, oh, that's interesting. You never want to hear that from your significant other. So she calls me and basically she's like, I just. I think I know the answer, but I just, like, have to ask. You knew what?

[Grace]

I knew it was true.

[Benjamin]

But she was like, were you in the bathroom? Like, goblin glizzies.

[Ethan]

My gosh.

[Benjamin]

Because Jonathan was saying that a ship shopper was caught in the bathroom with another guy, and that ship shopper was me, allegedly. So. And I didn't know this. I'm just, like, walking around not knowing that people are hearing this as I'm just like, my name. And they're like, what?

[Shane Dawson]

He made up a whole lie about you?

[Grace]

Yeah.

[Benjamin]

I guess the only thing I could think of is that he wasn't happy with how I, like, handled the hot tub discussion.

[Ethan]

You teased him pretty hard, let's be honest, dude. He said you got planes. And he told me, you're gonna be in a hot tub gripping a banana.

[Ryland Adams]

Saying, I've got other people coming with.

[Ethan]

An apple and a banana. Like, I'm gonna be in my hot tub, dude.

[Benjamin]

See, I obviously told her that I didn't, and I didn't need confirming.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, my God. So then all the other employees are, like, looking at you.

[Grace]

Well, no. So, like, he's been causing issues in our store before. And so, like.

[Shane Dawson]

What else.

[Chris]

What else he doing?

[Benjamin]

Yeah, I'm no longer Welco.

[Grace]

No, no, no. Jonathan. Right? Yeah. And then I go into work the next day, and my friend slash co worker was like, hey, by the way, Jonathan's saying, like, stuff about your boyfriend.

[Shane Dawson]

Wow, an orchestrated attack.

[Grace]

Yeah.

[Shane Dawson]

Do we have any other.

[Chris]

Can I.

[Ethan]

What?

[Chris]

Is there, like, a restaurant that's. Or, I mean, I don't know if you haven't, like, is there, like, a place that's, like, this is the fucking worst place to pick up from, but I gotta do it.

[Benjamin]

If I did have to pick a least favorite place, I'd probably say Wingstop. And this might make you not want to order Wingstop. They're the one place that I've delivered that they make the drivers fill the drinks.

[Shane Dawson]

What?

[Chris]

So fill your own, like, soda.

[Benjamin]

Like, they're like, the restaurant's supposed to handle the food because they're the food handlers. But that's the one restaurant. It's probably not allowed. Like, they're probably not supposed to do this, but every wing stop I've picked up from, they're like, here's the customer's food, like, in the sealed bag. And then they're like, here's an open cup and a lid. Go, like, fill the drink.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay, I. You might not have had this experience, because I don't think Shipt does restaurants, but have you ever encountered when a restaurant has another fake restaurant inside of it?

[Benjamin]

Ghost kitchen.

[Shane Dawson]

Yes.

[Benjamin]

Yes. And that's one reason why I only order food from, like, restaurants that I know. Because you'll be scrolling and you see all these places. You're like, ooh, like, sparkly barbecue shrimp. And it'll have, like, These. A lot of times, like, AI pictures of, like. Like this food and stuff. And a lot of times that's coming out of, like, a Denny's.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Benjamin]

Or like. Yeah, so I have. They can be confusing when you're trying to pick up because you're like, where's this burger shop? And then you're like, oh, it's like inside 7 11. It's like in the back of 711 or somewhere.

[Jared]

It's like, isn't that, like, Mr. Beast Burger? Like, at, like, he just had, I don't know, buca di beppo and stuff.

[Benjamin]

Yeah. Red robin. Buca di. Yeah.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah.

[Chris]

Wait, how did you get scammed, though? Like, how did.

[Benjamin]

Did anyone else have that issue when they first, like, moved to la? Like, getting scammed, or is that just of me problems?

[Jared]

I got scammed with actor things, like, with. Where they're like, oh, you got a good look. Come be an actor. Pay a billion dollars for this thing. And I'm like, okay, I want to be an actor.

[Ryland Adams]

Look into them.

[Shane Dawson]

No.

[Benjamin]

Well, the first time it happened was probably one of the worst times. This was, I think I want to say the first time I came out. So it was already just not a great time.

[Ethan]

To Jonathan in the produce section.

[Benjamin]

Well, that's a whole. That's a whole nother thing. Some of her friends. Friends thought I was gay before.

[Grace]

A lot of my friends.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, that's gay. That's hard.

[Benjamin]

Okay. Although I need that. I'm gonna bring this up. This feels like a good place for this. So I've done some things that she thinks are like a couple of glizzies.

[Grace]

You killed them pretty quickly.

[Ethan]

Let's stop speaking cryptically here. Are you sucking wieners, dude? Or, like, what's going on? I can't keep up with the glizzy talk. I can appreciate.

[Benjamin]

I can appreciate.

[Ethan]

I'm all out.

[Benjamin]

I can appreciate a good chicken bratwurst.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, okay. Wow.

[Jared]

That felt like more code.

[Ethan]

I don't know what you're talking about. Yeah, that's.

[Chris]

That.

[Ethan]

That's just a compliment. If someone said I had a chicken bratwurst.

[Shane Dawson]

It's nice.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Shane Dawson]

Nice. So you're. You're not gay?

[Benjamin]

I'm not gay. I may have just done some gay things.

[Shane Dawson]

Like what?

[Benjamin]

But I don't think.

[Shane Dawson]

No judgment.

[Benjamin]

That's the thing.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay, so we'll.

[Benjamin]

We can may play.

[Shane Dawson]

Let's rate it.

[Benjamin]

We can play a game called Gay or Not.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay.

[Chris]

This is a good game for this podcast.

[Ryland Adams]

Okay. We all have whiteboards.

[Shane Dawson]

We all have whiteboards and markers.

[Jared]

Was this precam?

[Ryland Adams]

Because.

[Shane Dawson]

Wow.

[Ryland Adams]

This is for the. The women that call in and their husbands.

[Chris]

Oh, yeah. This is dick.

[Jared]

We're pretty.

[Ryland Adams]

We're pretty well equipped.

[Jared]

The fact that this wasn't planned, but we all have.

[Benjamin]

I know. I didn't know.

[Shane Dawson]

I love this game.

[Benjamin]

Are we doing like a spectrum or just like a yes or no?

[Chris]

Let's do a 1 to 10.

[Benjamin]

Let's do 1 to 10.

[Ryland Adams]

I think it's just gay or not gay. Right.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay, listen, there's. Yeah, we believe in the spectrum, but.

[Jared]

You know, for ease of the game.

[Shane Dawson]

For the ease of the game.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Benjamin]

Okay. So we'll start with a pretty basic one. Owning a rose gold iPhone.

[Ryland Adams]

I'll go with Nokia.

[Shane Dawson]

That's bi, though. Bi. I know. And I told him.

[Benjamin]

This is what started this whole discussion. Her co worker saw my phone and answers.

[Ethan]

I think it's pimp.

[Shane Dawson]

Half.

[Jared]

I didn't know half was an answer.

[Shane Dawson]

It is for me. I represent the half community.

[Grace]

I didn't know we could put half, so I just put gay.

[Ethan]

Wow.

[Benjamin]

Think that. I thought you were going to. I thought you. Didn't you defend me?

[Jared]

Listen, I get it.

[Shane Dawson]

I did.

[Grace]

But it, like, took a lot of defending that day.

[Ryland Adams]

Let's see your iPhone, Shane.

[Shane Dawson]

You have my rose gold iPhone.

[Ryland Adams]

Yay.

[Ethan]

Not looking good.

[Ryland Adams]

I wouldn't even have a rose gold iPhone.

[Chris]

Wow.

[Ryland Adams]

And I have tits. I'm just kidding.

[Ethan]

I would. I don't care.

[Benjamin]

Well, I had a rose gold MacBook too, so I don't know if that would change.

[Shane Dawson]

Ooh.

[Ethan]

That would have changed my mind.

[Grace]

But at the same time, time too.

[Benjamin]

Wow.

[Shane Dawson]

Coordinating.

[Grace]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

Yeah. I would have put gay.

[Benjamin]

I just like the color.

[Shane Dawson]

Not helping. You know what? Straight. Because he's so confident.

[Ethan]

All right, but name something else you do that might be gay.

[Benjamin]

It's skinny dipping with the homies.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh.

[Chris]

How old were you?

[Benjamin]

And by homies, I mean one homie.

[Jared]

Yeah. How old?

[Benjamin]

14, 15. Minecraft era.

[Shane Dawson]

I'm ready and go.

[Ethan]

I'm going to say at 14. That's not gay.

[Shane Dawson]

I underlined it 10 million times. Times. That's the age where you and your guy friends are like, that would be so gay if we did that. But that's because you're like. But maybe I kind of want to.

[Jared]

When you're experimenting.

[Ryland Adams]

Yeah.

[Shane Dawson]

It's experimental gay.

[Jared]

Yes.

[Ethan]

I need to know a little more about the story. Like, could you not wear clothes? But you needed to get wet. Wait, I don't know.

[Shane Dawson]

Totally naked.

[Benjamin]

Yeah.

[Ryland Adams]

Skinny dipping.

[Shane Dawson]

It was.

[Benjamin]

It was at Night, though.

[Chris]

In a lake.

[Benjamin]

In a lake.

[Shane Dawson]

In the moonlight, where either of you are.

[Chris]

I'd stop.

[Ethan]

I think.

[Benjamin]

Well, my eyes were, like, up, so. Not that I was aware of.

[Shane Dawson]

Water was cold.

[Benjamin]

Well, that wasn't as exciting.

[Chris]

Oh, okay, I turn it back.

[Ethan]

That's gay.

[Chris]

I think. I think pool is gay, lake is straight.

[Benjamin]

We're just two straight guys and, like, enjoying the thrill of being naked.

[Ethan]

No, no, no, that's not a sentence. I. I don't know about that.

[Jared]

I just think of, like, have you seen.

[Ethan]

Not in my experience.

[Jared]

Has anyone seen Brockbank Mountain? That's a scene in Brock Bag Mountain. That's all I can think.

[Ethan]

I can't quit you.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay. Ooh, another one.

[Benjamin]

This will be the last one.

[Ethan]

Oh, it doesn't have to be. We need an encore.

[Benjamin]

Probably playing strip tennis.

[Ethan]

We all know guys. That's gay, right? That's gay. Do we have to write it down? Yeah. Strip tennis with a homie.

[Jared]

With a homie, yeah.

[Shane Dawson]

Why are you and the homies always naked?

[Chris]

Tennis is such a fluffy.

[Shane Dawson]

Have you dated kittens in the past?

[Grace]

So I'm personally bi, and I had a boyfriend in high school who was pan. So, yeah, I feel like my type is more like twink vibes.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, he's a twink now. Yeah.

[Grace]

I call Ben my twink.

[Benjamin]

I do have to say, though, anytime I want a confidence boost, I just accept an order on Santa Monica Boulevard.

[Ethan]

Good for you, dude. Good answer.

[Shane Dawson]

Gay.

[Ethan]

Wait.

[Shane Dawson]

You know, it's so interesting. Maybe my gaydar is off. Well, no, it's not, because you're not gay, but. No, you're not.

[Benjamin]

Not that I'm aware of. I'm just.

[Ryland Adams]

Do you.

[Shane Dawson]

Wait. When you said you do you've done.

[Benjamin]

Gay things well by, like, those things? That's pretty much the extent of it.

[Shane Dawson]

Interesting.

[Jared]

I actually think you're not gay at all, because, like, the people who are gay are the people who are so, like, I'm not gay. And they can really, like, angrily homophobic. And you're.

[Shane Dawson]

The homies are always dressed like.

[Grace]

That's what I liked about Bang. And he was so, like. For me, it was confidence in his masculinity. Like, he could.

[Benjamin]

Do you take his clothes off during tennis?

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah.

[Grace]

Okay, I didn't know about that.

[Chris]

Like, you're, like, moving around, like, and it's, like, hard if you trip.

[Ethan]

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

[Chris]

The court is hard.

[Shane Dawson]

Balls flying around like that.

[Chris]

Just, like, you could, like, skin way more than your knee if you're playing strings.

[Shane Dawson]

Also definitely, like, no growers. Not a Grower. Because we would net strip anything.

[Ethan]

Never.

[Jared]

I can't even go to the bathroom if there's not the like things at the urinal.

[Shane Dawson]

No, well I can't. I don't even swim naked in my own house.

[Ryland Adams]

It's annoying.

[Shane Dawson]

Yes. Because I wear underwear. And he's just like, what is the point of that? Where it's just the two of us? And I'm like, yeah, exactly. You have eyes.

[Grace]

Like I hate being naked even when I'm alone.

[Ethan]

Me too.

[Grace]

Like I can't. If I see myself in the mirror, I'm like, put something on.

[Jared]

I relate. Yeah, but you're beautiful. That's crazy.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, my husband's coming in to watch Love is Blind with me. Oh, what a fun night. Why does he have popcorn? Oh God. And it's in a big bowl. Oh, there's so much of it. We'll be fine. We'll be fine. Well what is that? Peanut M&M's. Not even the normal ones. The peanut with the extra. Oh God, Shane, what do we do? I. I could hit the bowl out of his hands and throw it against the wall and make sure he can't eat any of it cuz it's all over the floor. I got just the idea. Luckily I always have my Raycon everyday earbuds. And with my Raycon everyday earbud I can so quickly drown out everything around me with isolation mode. And that bowl of popcorn is mighty big. But luckily with my raycons I have 32 hours of battery life and multi point connectivity, which means I can be connected to my computer and my phone. I can be doing multiple things while he's chewing. Oh God, my Raycons just died. Well, luckily with Raycon's quick charge function, just 10 minutes of charging can get me 90 minutes of that battery life that I so desperately need. Thank you Raycon for saving my marriage. I'm just kidding. I love my husband. I don't mind his chewing. That's a lie. But there's so much more that Raycons can do in addition to, you know, helping me survive that very large bowl. Raycons start at half the price as other premium audio brands and has similar features. Also the water resistance is huge, especially if you sweat like me. They're just great. Great quality, great price and great to look at. Great, great. I said great a lot. The colors are beautiful. It's not just one or two colors. They have so many different vibes. The rose gold, the blue. You can go to the site, check it out. See what they have. They also have a lot more than just the earbuds. But today they are giving you guys a very special discount. If you go to buyraycon.com grower, you'll get 20% off of the everyday earbuds. That's right, buyraycon.com growers to get 20% off of your earbuds. So check it out. If you haven't tried them yet, you're going to love them. But just in case you're not liking them, they do offer a 30 day happiness guarantee, return policy, no questions asked. So thank you so much, Raycon, for sponsoring this episode and, and I hope you guys enjoy the rest of the show. Bye. Okay, welcome back, guys. We have so much to talk about today. I am nervous about some of it. We are going to get to something I've been wanting to talk about for a while, which is customer manipulation. And this is the perfect episode because we started planning this before we even knew Benjamin was coming on the show. This is perfect because we're going to be talking about things that stores do to confuse us to get us to spend more money. Some shady shit that goes down on delivery apps. So we're gonna have some insider information, but hopefully not get anybody fired. We'll figure that out when we get to it. Okay, first theory, guys. It's a new year. You know, we're starting over. We're staying positive. So I saw this news story and I was like, you know what? Perfect timing. Let me show you what's in store for us. What? So, oh my God.

[Ethan]

I'm a little disappointed with the animation quality. I feel like we could have done better in 2025.

[Ryland Adams]

They're just assuming it's hitting New York.

[Shane Dawson]

Well, it always does in the movies. So if you guys haven't heard, there is an asteroid that is supposedly on its way over here to Earth by the year 2032. So eight years away. What? And, but don't worry, they're saying it only has a 2% chance of hitting the Earth, which Spencer then reminded me. How much is that?

[Chris]

Yeah, it's one in 50. So like if you did something 50 times, it's a little too close for me.

[Shane Dawson]

A little too close for me.

[Ryland Adams]

Yeah, I think odds are good.

[Ethan]

I'm feeling good about it.

[Ryland Adams]

You know, this is like when they tell us it's gonna rain in LA and then it's like drizzling.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah, it's exactly like that.

[Benjamin]

Weren't the OD like one in like a hundred or something? And now they Keep getting.

[Shane Dawson]

They keep crazy.

[Benjamin]

I've seen. Keep seeing articles on this, but I haven't, like, looked into it at all because I, like, haven't wanted to.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah, so don't do it. Yes. It started at 1 out of 100, and then a week later, there was a news footage that said, hey, guys, so we're raising it.

[Ryland Adams]

They were like, we didn't get enough clicks on that last article. Let's raise the ante.

[Benjamin]

So the odds doubled.

[Shane Dawson]

The odds doubled.

[Jared]

What?

[Benjamin]

And we still have how many years?

[Shane Dawson]

Eight. Which, if you do the math on that, if it doubles every week, yeah, we're fucked.

[Jared]

That's not enough years.

[Shane Dawson]

But here's the thing. I looked at the comment section on this video, and, like, everybody's just like, bring it. Like, we're waiting. And I'm like, listen, I get the humor of that, but also, I don't want.

[Jared]

I don't.

[Ryland Adams]

Well, we have. I mean, I know, like, you can value your life without kids, but I'm worried about him.

[Benjamin]

Wait, so has it said, like, what the estimated damage would be? Like, is this a total wipe out the planet? Like, just a continent?

[Shane Dawson]

I think that. Are we just moving to a different. I think. Listen, I'm not a scientist, but I do know when things like this happen, it does affect the entire world. I don't know if it will take out the entire world, but it won't be great. Okay, guys.

[Benjamin]

Yes.

[Shane Dawson]

This freaked me out. Now, listen, we already know AI is taking over. We already know robots are coming. They're making all these Tesla robots. Kim Kardashian is, like, doing a Macarena with them. It's getting scary. This popped up on my homepage. They are now working on a robot that has artificial muscles, ligaments, veins, and will be able to move and twitch and do things. Well, not like twitch stream, but like twitch. You know what I mean? Or that too. Just like a human. Here is a prototype.

[Jared]

I saw a second of it.

[Shane Dawson]

Ew. Ew. Look at the. Look. Look at that.

[Grace]

Why is it.

[Shane Dawson]

It's coming alive. It's waking up.

[Jared]

Burn it. Burn it to the ground.

[Shane Dawson]

Ew. I hate it. I hate it.

[Grace]

It looks like one of those, like, when you get frog legs. Like. Yes. Like the muscle mem.

[Shane Dawson]

Yes. Why this robot? So here's some of the fun things that they're teaching it. Teaching him how to use scissors. Teaching him how to use power tools.

[Ryland Adams]

As somebody who just spent three hours building an outdoor playset, I could use this.

[Shane Dawson]

So, yeah, this is happening. I don't understand we don't need this. Stop. Stop.

[Ryland Adams]

I can think of a few things. I can use it for free time.

[Chris]

We introduce, like, fucking. This crazy robot's gonna kill everyone. Ryland's like, sounds pretty good to me.

[Ryland Adams]

They're killing us in every way. The things we eat, the alien, like, everything's killing us. So bring it on.

[Jared]

But it. Holding scissors and snapping and stabbing you to death in your sleep.

[Shane Dawson]

Thank you.

[Ryland Adams]

You don't have to get one.

[Shane Dawson]

We are not having one.

[Jared]

I don't want you to die.

[Benjamin]

This is why every time after I use ChatGPT, I always say thank you.

[Shane Dawson]

At the very end. I know.

[Grace]

I always go, can you please, like.

[Benjamin]

I'm so sorry to bother you.

[Grace]

When you took over the Earth.

[Shane Dawson]

So, yeah, that's happening. It's terrifying. There's no way to stop it. I don't really know what to do.

[Chris]

So, yeah, if you're a scientist, stop working on it.

[Shane Dawson]

Please stop. But if you're also a scientist, I have something to show you.

[Ethan]

Proceed.

[Shane Dawson]

I can't.

[Chris]

Yeah, it's this one. Well, it would be good for a science.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay, you know what? I'm gonna show you something that has gone very, very viral. And I just want your honest, initial reactions to it. Yes.

[Grace]

Can the mirror see my head moving?

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah. How does the mirror know what I'm doing if I've got it covered?

[Chris]

What?

[Ethan]

The mirror is inanimated.

[Shane Dawson]

Don't know nothing. How can you see what my head.

[Grace]

Is doing on the other side if I've got this?

[Benjamin]

How can the.

[Grace]

How does the mirror know what I'm.

[Shane Dawson]

Doing on the other side?

[Ryland Adams]

I'm too stupid for this.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay.

[Grace]

Like, it makes sense, but it doesn't.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay, let me just say to her, to her credit, to her credit, I know this is stupid because it's how mirrors work, but can I explain how the fuck mirrors work? No, I know. No, I can't.

[Ryland Adams]

How can you. Diagonal angle.

[Shane Dawson]

Everybody's. Everybody's roasting her in the comments. And they're like, it's a fucking mirror. Like, that's what it does. Not.

[Ryland Adams]

When it's covered.

[Shane Dawson]

Then all the replies are like, but I don't know how it works either.

[Ethan]

It's because light bends.

[Shane Dawson]

But how come when you're looking at a reflection in, like, a clear piece of glass, it's not backwards?

[Ethan]

Because you're not looking at your reflection back at you. You're looking at your reflection through the glass.

[Shane Dawson]

I'm gonna puke. This is too much for me.

[Ethan]

I just made it up. It sounded Right.

[Shane Dawson]

So listen, shout out Bethany King, 68. You're not stupid. You were on to something.

[Ryland Adams]

Yeah, it was kind of stupid.

[Shane Dawson]

This was something that maybe you should have just kept with you and your husband.

[Ryland Adams]

You know, I appreciate it, but I.

[Shane Dawson]

Like the raw honesty of her posting this on the Internet.

[Grace]

I think what bothers me is I'll never know what I. I actually look like.

[Shane Dawson]

Yes.

[Grace]

And other people will.

[Shane Dawson]

Yes.

[Grace]

Even if I look in a mirror, I'll never know.

[Shane Dawson]

I could have a panic attack thinking about that.

[Grace]

They say I have.

[Ethan]

They say that on average, people are 20% more attractive than they. You're lying themselves.

[Shane Dawson]

Google it.

[Grace]

Self help apps.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah. Okay, guys, speaking of the world wanting us dead, has anybody noticed that every day there's another food recall? Yes, I'm.

[Jared]

I just posted this on thread. It's terrifying.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay. It's every day, bro.

[Jared]

Literally, it's like everything. It's like chicken and I'm turkey and I pour and I'm like, oh, I just can't eat anything.

[Shane Dawson]

Eggs, broccoli from Walmart. They literally put it as a high risk category, risk of death. And I looked at the comments and all the comments were like, I just ate that.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Shane Dawson]

Like, what do I do? Then we had boar's head meat. They had a huge recall with listeria and death.

[Ryland Adams]

Well, yuck.

[Jared]

Cry. I ate. Ate boar's head at an establishment. Like, right when this happened, I was like, I'm gonna die in panic.

[Ryland Adams]

You ordered boar's head?

[Chris]

That's like a brand. Oh, they just make like. Yeah, like, deli meat.

[Jared]

It's a good brand.

[Chris]

Like turkey and stuff.

[Ethan]

Brand, to be specific. Dang Kroger.

[Shane Dawson]

They had bad hummus. Gerber. They had something wrong with their.

[Chris]

Yeah, they had, like, a teething thing for babies that had, like, it was like, coming off in their mouth.

[Shane Dawson]

McDonald's. Their whole situation with the quarter pounder with the onions and the salmon. And then this one. You brought me this one. Trader Joe's there. I'm sorry to drag Trader Joe's again, but they had an acai bowl that had plastic in it.

[Chris]

Yeah, this happened, like, the other day. So apparently people love the frozen acai bowl from Trader Joe's.

[Jared]

I love the frozen acai bowl from Trader Joe's.

[Chris]

Well, I would maybe hold off on it for a little bit. I think it has a lot of plastic in it. So.

[Ethan]

Yeah, that's a. I wonder if this is a result of a lot of things becoming automated and people are stepping away from industry and they're using robots and AI to, you know, just get auto crops and auto packaging. And this could be one of the things about AI. It's putting plastic in foods. You gotta think about it.

[Shane Dawson]

Here's the thing. I didn't. I don't fully know what the conspiracy about this is because I was googling it and I was like, is nobody talking about why this is happening so much? And no, there's like, really no articles about it. And I was thinking, I'm like, okay, so a few months back, we had the weird fruit situation where all the fruit at Walmart and Costco was like bending. And did you remember? Do you see any of that? Yeah, it was like, oh, I just ate a blueberry, but it's plastic. Like it was getting crazy. That died down. Now we're moving on to this where it's like every food is causing death. And you. And also, what if you don't have social media? What if it's not on your Explore page and you're just eating the broccoli?

[Ryland Adams]

Then you'll probably still.

[Ethan]

It's because they want us afraid of food.

[Ryland Adams]

That's what I'm.

[Ethan]

So they could tell us what we should eat. And that's why they're making this fake, fake meat farm situation huge. And they're trying to get everybody involved with this fake meat that they're being able to create in the lab.

[Jared]

Oh, that's interesting because almost everything, like, if you went vegan, you're kind of safe from 90 of the recalls.

[Shane Dawson]

Except for the Walmart broccoli they want.

[Jared]

Except for the broccoli they want you.

[Ethan]

To eat what they want. They can make and have the most profitability on themselves, you know.

[Shane Dawson]

So wait, what do you mean? So you're Talking about the 3D printed meat?

[Ethan]

Yes.

[Chris]

The other thing we found, we were looking it up was. Which is also even more like the change is happening right now is that recently, last 2024 was the highest. It was like a huge jump in sicknesses from recalls. So all of a sudden now everyone's getting sick from all this food. Whereas before it was like recalls about just this. But now it's way more deaths, way more people getting sick from recalled food than ever before. So there's a weird trend suddenly happening right now.

[Ryland Adams]

I'm so pissed if I die from eating a food when I'm so cautious about, about flying on a plane or doing dangerous things. And then it's like, oh, I just ate broccoli from Walmart.

[Ethan]

Which, like, imagine getting taken out by broccoli from Walmart.

[Ryland Adams]

They don't even let me film there.

[Ethan]

Can we just use this as a moment to point out this has never happened with Cheetos. Cheetos are safe, they're delicious. So good job to you. Cheetos.

[Ryland Adams]

Have you fact checked that?

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah. Nobody. I will.

[Ethan]

Look, don't trust what you read on the Internet. They're against Cheetos.

[Shane Dawson]

They are. They're always coming up with stories.

[Ethan]

Exactly.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah. Okay, Spencer just got up to go get a surprise.

[Ethan]

Ooh.

[Shane Dawson]

But while he's doing that, really quick, I just need to read this email from Nicole because this shit pissed me off. This is about Uber Eats. Hey Shane, I hope you're doing well. I was ordering food on Uber Eats and I got a promotion for 15% off and my boyfriend actually noticed that when you clicked on the promotion to use it, the prices would raise. What? Okay. Oh no. Once again, this is just alleged. This isn't for me. This is from Nicole, so don't sue me. Uber Eats. I use you every night. So as you can see, this is McDonald's Uber Eats right before she clicked on the discount 10 piece nugget 6.89. Okay, after the. After she said she wanted to use the discount 10 piece nugget 8.19.

[Ethan]

No larchy.

[Shane Dawson]

That is a definition of malarkey.

[Ethan]

Yes.

[Shane Dawson]

That is insane. I don't know if this is real.

[Jared]

I would be so upset.

[Ethan]

I'll Never eat at McDonald's again.

[Ryland Adams]

Today they're probably implementing surcharges like Uber does.

[Shane Dawson]

Speaking of Walmart, this is one of my favorite things that Walmart does. They completely rip off big brands and make their own versions of things. And sometimes supposedly, allegedly, they actually go to the same manufacturer of those products. Like for example, if they want to make the Walmart version of Cheerios, allegedly, they might go to the Cheerios factory, allegedly and literally use Cheerios and just call it Walmart Cheerios. So supposedly they have done it again with candy. So let me show you.

[Jared]

Are any of these recalled?

[Shane Dawson]

I don't know. Quick Google. Okay, so as you can see we have KitKat or as they're also known, milk chocolate crispy wafer bars.

[Ryland Adams]

I want to know how much are we saving for going with the everyday value brand?

[Ethan]

Honestly, chocolate bars like that could be like 250 to $3. Walmart one probably 79 cents.

[Chris]

No, he's right, he's right.

[Ethan]

Yeah, I know Walmart prices.

[Shane Dawson]

We have a Snickers, which weird that it doesn't say it's a satisfies. I don't Quite understand that.

[Jared]

Oh, they were. They were putting things on there at one point, like names and then things.

[Shane Dawson]

That is such a flex that they're like, we don't even have to put our own fucking name on this. We know what this is. So we have a Snickers and then we also have a peanut caramel and nougat bar.

[Ethan]

It's to the point. It's to the point. Yeah.

[Shane Dawson]

I cannot wait for this. We have a Twix, a classic. And we also have the cookie and caramel bars.

[Ryland Adams]

So very Jenny Craig creative with their branding. I guess they want you to know what it is.

[Shane Dawson]

We're gonna do a blind taste test. So in front of you you have a plate that has Spencer wrapped candies with little Spencer A and Bs on them.

[Chris]

What do you guys want to start with?

[Ethan]

The Kit Kat.

[Ryland Adams]

The Kit Kat.

[Chris]

All right, Kit Kat.

[Ryland Adams]

Okay. Are we just going for it?

[Chris]

Yeah, yeah, go for it now.

[Ryland Adams]

I love a Kit Kat.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, my God. Glizzing the whole thing. Don't choke.

[Jared]

I'm gonna be girding it up tonight.

[Ryland Adams]

Just take tiny bites. I can't.

[Jared]

I have no self control.

[Ethan]

Okay, okay, so now I could try.

[Grace]

B. I'm the same way. Ben took the corner of a bite and I took like a whole chunk.

[Shane Dawson]

I ate the whole thing.

[Ryland Adams]

Now look, let me say the knockoff is good, but I know the Kit Kat signature flavor.

[Shane Dawson]

You already tried it?

[Ryland Adams]

Yeah, both of them.

[Ethan]

B.

[Ryland Adams]

Try B. I don't know which is which. I mean, I do. Visually speaking, I don't know. From the taste, I can tell.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah, they both taste the same to me.

[Grace]

Really Tasted different.

[Ryland Adams]

The chocolate is a little different.

[Chris]

All right, should we go around, get everyone's answers?

[Jared]

They're both really good. There's a difference though.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay, who thinks the real one is A?

[Ethan]

That's the real one.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, you think that's a real.

[Ryland Adams]

Yeah, A is the real one.

[Shane Dawson]

I was gonna say the. I was gonna say the fake one was first.

[Ryland Adams]

The one that's a little bit darker is real.

[Jared]

Yeah, I think B is the fake one, but I like it better.

[Chris]

You guys are.

[Benjamin]

Except for Shane.

[Shane Dawson]

Correct.

[Chris]

A is the real one. B is the fake.

[Shane Dawson]

Wow.

[Jared]

Wait, how did we.

[Ethan]

Hey, I don't.

[Grace]

It tasted more. I don't know how to explain it. It tastes more Ghirardelli to me.

[Shane Dawson]

B. Yeah, Like.

[Ryland Adams]

Yeah, the B one is a little more smooth.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah.

[Ryland Adams]

The KitKat is sharper.

[Grace]

Yeah.

[Shane Dawson]

Looks like a little poop.

[Chris]

All right, you guys want to do the Twix?

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah. Okay. A. Okay.

[Ryland Adams]

Oh, and I love a Twix.

[Chris]

That whole right left Twix campaign was such a smart one because I was so like, I like the left one better.

[Benjamin]

I like the right one better.

[Grace]

And Mike and Ike, like, people started taking that idea on other companies.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh.

[Grace]

They started, like, splitting the company in half to create, like, controversy.

[Ethan]

Oh, nerds did it first.

[Jared]

I feel like you're just calling people.

[Shane Dawson]

Try the second one.

[Ethan]

I shouldn't have looked.

[Jared]

Oh, why? It says B has to be real.

[Shane Dawson]

B is so much better. Oh, it's so much juicier.

[Ryland Adams]

B is trash.

[Jared]

I can't tell the difference.

[Shane Dawson]

I thought B was the one.

[Ryland Adams]

The KitKat was a really good dupe. Okay, this is not a good dupe.

[Shane Dawson]

So you think B is Walmart?

[Ryland Adams]

It's trash.

[Jared]

I can't tell the difference.

[Ethan]

Okay, if you haven't eaten all of B yet, yet, it tastes like a graham cracker.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay, which one do you guys think is? I can't tell.

[Ethan]

I think A is real.

[Benjamin]

A is real. The caramel on B just tasted a little cheap. Or off.

[Shane Dawson]

Cheap taste.

[Chris]

Once again, A is real, B is fake.

[Shane Dawson]

I was trying to drink.

[Jared]

It didn't work.

[Shane Dawson]

B was so cheap.

[Ethan]

Nothing. I like it for 79 cents. Load me up.

[Jared]

Why can't I tell the difference between these?

[Shane Dawson]

Put them.

[Ryland Adams]

I don't know.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay, our grand finale. We got a Snickers girl in the house.

[Ryland Adams]

A or B first.

[Chris]

Let's do A first.

[Shane Dawson]

This one's pretty. This one's pretty.

[Ryland Adams]

This is pretty.

[Shane Dawson]

It's cute. Cute.

[Jared]

Do you eat it enough to look at it and know immediately?

[Grace]

I don't know. I'm gonna see now.

[Jared]

It looks the same.

[Shane Dawson]

Did you already. Oh, B. Oh, B has a design as well.

[Jared]

Instincts. No, hold on. Maybe I'm wrong.

[Shane Dawson]

Hold on. Oh, wait a minute.

[Ryland Adams]

I'm finding the common thread is the real one has a little bit more of A. A darker, rich chocolate.

[Benjamin]

Yeah. B tastes better quality.

[Shane Dawson]

They both have this. Oh, no, they have different.

[Ryland Adams]

Oh, wow. The innards on B is really good.

[Grace]

I'm keeping this.

[Benjamin]

Yeah. And the top, or the veiny part on top is like, whoa, man.

[Ethan]

Very gay.

[Benjamin]

More authentic.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, yeah.

[Ryland Adams]

The taste profile on this one is drastically different.

[Benjamin]

I think this is the most different.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay.

[Chris]

B is real. A is fake.

[Jared]

I was gonna say I thought it was real.

[Ryland Adams]

You know, I would splurge on your candy, kids. It makes a difference. I could tell on every single one.

[Jared]

I can't. I can't.

[Shane Dawson]

So conspiracy debunked. Walmart is not Using the Mars factory.

[Ryland Adams]

But it's still a great deal.

[Shane Dawson]

Still a good deal, though. Still a good deal.

[Ryland Adams]

Well, that was great.

[Shane Dawson]

See, I knew that would cheer you up.

[Ryland Adams]

This is a good one.

[Shane Dawson]

You're welcome. Okay, we're gonna talk about all the ways that stores and companies are manipulating you to spend more money. This is crazy. So, number one, we'll start slow. They put the cheapest items in the front of the store right when you walk in because they know that you're gonna get excited about it. Put some in your cart. And now you got some stuff in your cart. Oh, you might as well keep shopping. That's why target has the 1 spot. That's why they always have the discount things, little bargain bins right at the front. It's a genius manipulation tactic. Number two, the smells. So you know how at Disneyland they have the smellitizers that we've talked about where they pump out all the smells around the park to get you to spend money to think about, oh, this, that smells delicious. I want some baked goods or whatever. I smell it. Do you Stores do it too? So obviously no, grocery stores do it. They put the bread section right at the front door so that they're pumping out the smells of bread. But home appliance stores started pumping the smell of apple pies.

[Ethan]

What?

[Shane Dawson]

Which sounds crazy, but they did the research. Their sales went up 23% when they started pumping apple. Apple pie smell into the home appliance stores.

[Ryland Adams]

Honestly, I prefer it.

[Jared]

But why?

[Shane Dawson]

Because you're.

[Ryland Adams]

It's. They're selling you an oven. They want you to be like, oh, I could cook my apple pie on Thanksgiving in this oven. And you know, like, you walk into a bakery, it smells good. You have. It's nostalgia. It's a sales tactic.

[Shane Dawson]

So grocery stores. Grocery stores also do this. Obviously they do the baked bread, but they also will cook things like meals that they're not even going to sell and nobody's even going to eat. And they will literally cook it just so that that smell will be blasting into sections of the store, which I thought was crazy.

[Jared]

I mean, I know this does happen. My ex worked at an ice cream shop and they would make the, like, waffle cones all the time, even if they had way more than they needed, just so, like, the smell of waffle would fill them.

[Chris]

Oh, yeah. That's like the. One of the best smells.

[Jared]

Yeah, it's so good.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay, this is kind of a life hack. Honestly. Did you guys know that gas prices are the highest on Friday afternoons because everybody's leaving Work and they have places to go on the weekends. And gas prices are cheapest on Monday morning because they know people don't want to stop on Monday morning to get gas. Wow.

[Jared]

So I'm only going to get gas on Mondays going forward.

[Shane Dawson]

Literally. Such a life fact. Did not know that. This one I thought was fascinating. So maybe like five years ago, we talked about Hollister and all the things they do to, like, manipulate you when you're in the store. They used to pump out really loud fucking crazy house music. They used to keep it really dark. They would have intense smells and colognes. Their whole purpose would be to confuse you into a state of just making a decision really fast because you want to get out of there. So I went into a Hollister pretty recently and I was like, whoa, this is different. They have completely revamped it. It's bright now. The music is really slow and chill and, like soft. There's no crazy smells. Like, it was a really calming experience. And I was like, oh, that's interesting. So I asked an employee there. I was like, did you guys, like, switch it up? Because last time I was here, it was crazy. It was like a club. And they were like, oh, yeah, we switched it up. But actually sales have gone up. So I was looking into it. This is the new thing. So no longer are stores playing really loud crazy music to confuse you. Now they're playing music that has a slower BPM than the average heart rate because they want you to be in such a calm Zen state that you want to be at the store longer and shop more. Which now think about it. Next time you go to a store, grocery store, somewhere in the mall, you'll hear like really slow music. And sometimes they even will play normal, like radio hits. And they'll slow it down really, just to get your heart rate matching. So that was crazy. Here's another thing to do at grocery stores that I thought was very smart and also pissed me off because I fell for it recently. It's called price decoys. So what they do is if you're looking at, I don't know, spaghetti sauces, you'll see it on the shelf and there'll be, like a really expensive spaghetti sauce right next to it. There'll be a cheap one, and then there'll be another really expensive one right on the other side. So they will put the cheap one right in the middle. That way that's the one that you want to buy. Because you're going to see the expensive one be like, oh, oh, well, this one is so much cheaper. And you'll always go for it. And if you look at the store, they do it with everything they have, the price, decoy, always.

[Ryland Adams]

And most of the time, it's the one that's the store brand, probably, I'd assume, Right?

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah, that's. That's 100% what Walmart does. They will literally put their fake oats or whatever right next to Cheerios, because obviously they want you to get that one.

[Ethan]

And then best value. That's the brand.

[Ryland Adams]

Yeah.

[Shane Dawson]

So obviously there are so many more than that. Let us know in the comments if there's any customer manipulation, things that you've noticed or things that we should go try out in the real world, in addition to going to that sandwich shop and seeing if we're gonna join.

[Chris]

Yeah, we should test it out.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay. Jared, take us out with something that you were telling me in the kitchen, and I was like, you know what? Save that for the podcast. It involves Mars.

[Ethan]

I know. We're all thinking the same thing, right? At least we can go to Mars when the Earth goes to shit.

[Benjamin]

I'm not thinking.

[Ethan]

We're all thinking that.

[Ryland Adams]

I would rather go.

[Ethan]

We're all thinking it.

[Ryland Adams]

Than send my ass to Mars. But me and the AI robots will be here.

[Ethan]

They haven't gotten to you yet, Ryland. But they want people scared. They want us to go to Mars, or that's the mindset, because they got to have us on edge in, evidently, Mars. All the footage. Footage that we've seen up until now is actually footage of Devon island in Canada, which, if you look it up, it's even like Mars on Earth. It's, you know, the landscape of Mars on. On this planet. People are saying that that's where they're filming all of the Mars imagery. Well, because I think it's all part of the, you know, the hoorah. It's. So they're in Canada taking images of Mars. Look at that, guys. I know, I know. It seems goofy. Look into it.

[Shane Dawson]

Wow.

[Ryland Adams]

Does it seem safer there?

[Ethan]

I mean, it's the largest desolate island, I believe, in the Western hemisphere, if not on the globe. So it's just huge. And it's an old crater that. Or a comet that impacted the Earth.

[Ryland Adams]

What?

[Ethan]

And now it's like a frozen mass that's this island. And it looks exactly like Mars. Like, exactly.

[Ryland Adams]

Let's take a trip.

[Ethan]

I'm just saying, don't believe it. When they show you the images of Mars. It's not real.

[Ryland Adams]

Never. So not one.

[Ethan]

It's not real.

[Shane Dawson]

A Just a theory. A.

[Ethan]

So, yeah, this will come around. At one point in life, people like, oh, my gosh, I can't believe Jared said that so early on. He was so early to the movement.

[Shane Dawson]

No, you're right.

[Ethan]

You know, you're right.

[Shane Dawson]

But yeah, well, speaking of who's gay.

[Ryland Adams]

And who's not, why don't you try this, Jared?

[Ethan]

Who are we talking about?

[Ryland Adams]

We're trying to get to a recap.

[Ethan]

Oh, speaking of a guy who is out of this world, Rylan, get to a recap. But he's not really out of this world. He's actually in Canada.

[Ryland Adams]

Coming to you live from Canada. This is Rylan's recap.

[Shane Dawson]

My camera action. Rylan's recap is about to happen.

[Ryland Adams]

Rylan's recap. On today's episode of the Shane Dawson Podcast, Shane's world is spun out of orbit when planet Benjamin comes crashing into him.

[Shane Dawson]

With other planet Grace.

[Ryland Adams]

Oh. With other planet Grace.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh. The Glizzy Gobbler.

[Ryland Adams]

Oh.

[Shane Dawson]

Never seen him use two hands before.

[Ryland Adams]

All right, the Glizzy Goblin. Goblin. What's his name? Glizzy Gobbler. What's his name?

[Chris]

Yes.

[Shane Dawson]

Gobbler.

[Ryland Adams]

I can't say his name.

[Shane Dawson]

James. Here.

[Ethan]

The Glizzy Globbler is on Tik Tok. Why is his name Turbo mode? And he's making three to $5,000. So, guys, if you're thinking, what am I going to do with my life? Learn the Gobbler. And you can make that much money?

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah. Don't waste your time driving out to LA from Minnesota multiple times. You know, just go on Tik Tok and gobble them Glizzies.

[Ethan]

All you need is a wall and back. You gliz it up, make a lot of money.

[Jared]

Honestly, I might start.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah. Chris went to Club Chub and touched a belly.

[Ryland Adams]

In controversial non controversial news, Chris attends Club Chub with his boyfriend and claims it wasn't sexual. Although we caught him in the wild touching a Chubb's Rub.

[Ethan]

A Chub's Rub.

[Shane Dawson]

Benjamin's not gay.

[Jared]

Is that the conclusion? We are we, sir.

[Ryland Adams]

In gay or not news, the podcast couch has to play an intense game of Is he gay? Turns out we're not sure.

[Shane Dawson]

Inconclusive. Mirrors. How do those work?

[Ryland Adams]

Nobody really knows. And although you all are dragging this woman for not understanding the concept of a mirror, the reason this video has views is because none of us really understand it.

[Ethan]

Robot alert.

[Ryland Adams]

What's going on with robots? Jared, I have correspondent in the field.

[Ethan]

New robots are hitting the market to look even More realistic than ever. Get yours now on sizzle for only 13.99amonth for the rest of your life.

[Ryland Adams]

While you might think Walmart brings great value, I'm here to break it to you that their knockoff candy bars, while cheap, are not delicious. They don't taste like the real deal and they are preying on you to believe that it tastes good when not being compared compared to the original.

[Shane Dawson]

Wow, I was angry about that.

[Ryland Adams]

Yeah, I can tell. All of them.

[Ethan]

I thoroughly enjoyed the snicker board.

[Shane Dawson]

Wrap it up.

[Ryland Adams]

Okay, well, make sure you shop your Shane Dawson merch@shane dawsonmerch.com Follow us all on social media. We're linked in the description section below. And most importantly, go over and subscribe to Benjamin. We're trying to get him to be an exclusive YouTuber making his living off of YouTube.

[Shane Dawson]

How many subscribers you have?

[Benjamin]

Almost 20k.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay, if we get Benjamin to 100k right now, he will tell us if he's actually gay or not.

[Ethan]

He'll glizzy.

[Benjamin]

I'm down for that.

[Ryland Adams]

He'll finally reveal if he was giving glizzies in the Target bathroom. All right, and that's it. Good night.

[Jared]

Ben and I are going to go hang out in a hot tub.

[Shane Dawson]

I'll see you guys later while you guys go. Hopefully you enjoyed whatever the hell that was. That was so much fun. Thank you guys so much for coming. I know this was like such a weird experience. How was this for you?

[Grace]

I had a lot of fun.

[Benjamin]

Really? It was a lot of fun. Thanks for having us. It's still so surreal with the whole just how everything played out. I still think it's so cool.

[Shane Dawson]

So this is so amazing. I love this so much. I love the fact that this happened. I can't believe this happened. And yeah, Ashvin, don't worry. I still love you so much. All right, see you guys next time. Bye.