Rabbit Hole Conspiracy Theories

Summary

The Shane Dawson Podcast: "Rabbit Hole Conspiracy Theories"
Release Date: November 24, 2024

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Introduction: Diving Deep into Conspiracies

In this special Thanksgiving edition of The Shane Dawson Podcast, host Shane Dawson and his close-knit group of friends embark on a journey down some of the most intense and mind-boggling conspiracy theories. Promising a blend of brutally honest personal stories, celebrity insights, and their regular segments like “Conspiracy Corner,” the episode sets the stage for an engaging hour of unfiltered conversation.

Personal Updates and Fashion Statements

The episode kicks off with light-hearted banter about the hosts' attire, emphasizing camouflage shirts and custom designs. Shane proudly presents a custom camo shirt labeled "Bear Slayer" to Chris, highlighting its dual appeal: "Number one, you go to the gay area and all the gay bears know what you're talking about. Number two, if you go to a conservative area, they just think you're a hunter" (00:57). Sandy reveals her new earrings, inspired by Ryu and Truth, sparking discussions about personal style and its impact.

Unveiling New Content: True Crime and Personal Projects

Chris shares excitement about his latest true crime video on Velma Barfield, the first woman executed by lethal injection in the USA. “It was really interesting and pretty eerie because she was older when this stuff was happening. And it's just really creepy" (02:43). This segment underscores the group's commitment to exploring deep and sometimes dark topics, resonating with their audience's curiosity.

TikTok Language Trends: "Crispy," "Yapping," and "Eaters"

A significant portion of the conversation delves into the evolving slang on TikTok, with words like "crispy," "yapping," and "eater" taking center stage. Shane vents his frustration: “What I'm not thankful for is TikTok... I don't watch TikTok, but we watch YouTube girls who do watch TikTok... And I'm like, oh, that must be another one" (04:05). The hosts debate the prevalence and impact of these terms, reflecting broader concerns about language shifts in digital culture.

Death Row Meals: Personal Preferences and Humorous Takes

The group engages in a humorous yet insightful discussion on their preferred last meals, sharing a blend of serious choices and playful exaggerations:

• Shane Dawson desires a Taco Bell Fiesta Taco Salad with “Volcano sauce on top” (05:47).
• Ryland Adams opts for a grilled stuffed XXL beef burrito and Chick-fil-A waffle fries with extra sauce (06:23).
• Jared humorously plans to counter lethal injections by gorging on massive meals like Hawaiian rolls and five gallons of water (08:18).

This segment not only showcases their camaraderie but also adds a lighthearted touch to the intense discussions.

Master Turkey Debater: Thanksgiving Games and Heated Debates

The hosts transition into their Thanksgiving-themed game, Master Turkey Debater, where they debate categories such as:

• Best Celebrity to Invite to Thanksgiving:

  • Spencer suggests Beyoncé due to a conspiracy theory surrounding gratitude.
  • Chris advocates for Gordon Ramsay, appreciating his culinary expertise.
  • Jared ultimately chooses Ramsay, valuing his presence without the overwhelming fame of Beyoncé.

  Notable Quote: “I think if we're talking about quality, great movie, I do think Spencer's in the top contenders, and I think we kind of are. But if we're talking about, like, rewatchability...” (40:03).

• Worst Thanksgiving Food:

  • Shane disparages “fancy stuffing” loaded with cranberries and onions.
  • Jared aligns with Shane, dismissing potato salad as "disgusting" (24:15).

  Notable Quote: “Potato salad. If you bring that to a Thanksgiving dinner, you have failed me” (24:15).

• Best Christmas Movie to Watch Early:

  • The group debates classics like Jingle All the Way, Home Alone, and The Santa Claus.
  • Spencer champions Home Alone for its timeless appeal.

  Notable Quote: “Home Alone is all time classic. You could kind of watch it any time of year just because it's Christmas based” (25:27).

• Best Holiday Tradition:

  • Chris recommends viewing Christmas lights as a family activity.
  • Ryland reminisces about an elaborate Easter egg hunt with riddles and hidden prizes (45:31).

  Notable Quote: “When I'm looking at your comments, they're trying to make you engaged, keep you angry...” (62:10).

Conspiracy Corner: Unraveling the Dead Internet and Hollywood Secrets

Shane and Jared dive into a series of gripping conspiracy theories:

• Poltergeist Curse: Shane reveals the unsettling truth behind the use of real skeletons in the Poltergeist movie scenes, questioning the legality and ethical implications.

  Notable Quote: “Shane Dawson: So everybody's saying the movie's cursed. They don't know why” (55:53).

• Dolly Parton Tattoo Theory: They explore the theory that Dolly Parton has extensive tattoos hidden under her long sleeves, speculating on her motivations and the impact on her public image.

  Notable Quote: “If you Google Dolly Parton short sleeves, you will only find a couple pictures... They are all tatted up” (56:46).

• Dead Internet Theory: Perhaps the most chilling discussion revolves around the idea that since 2016, the internet is predominantly run by AI bots designed to manipulate public opinion and maintain user engagement. Shane explains how billions of fake accounts are flooding platforms like Twitter and YouTube, making genuine human interaction scarce.

  Notable Quote: “It's a dead Internet theory. It’s getting out of hand. We’re losing touch” (66:16).

  • Mark Zuckerberg's AI Agents: The conversation touches on Meta's AI initiatives, predicting a future where AI-generated personas dominate social media interactions, further blurring the line between real and artificial connections.

Conclusion and Recap: Reflecting on the Rabbit Holes

As the episode wraps up, the hosts reflect on the deep dives into conspiracy theories and their personal discussions:

• Shane: “I can't believe it. It's like, you can’t stop finding the hints when you start looking at this” (63:00).
• Ryland: Emphasizes the emotional toll of interacting with AI-generated content, contemplating the future of genuine online relationships.
• Jared: Ponders the economic implications of AI in the entertainment industry, such as cloning and body doubles for celebrities to maintain their market presence.

The finale includes a humorous recap of the episode's highlights, leaving listeners both entertained and contemplative about the profound topics discussed.

Notable Quotes:

• Shane Dawson: “I want to really go in. We have theories that are very crazy, very intense” (00:46)
• Jared: “If you want to be the most giddy, like, nobody wants that. Like, she's coming to the house” (20:35)
• Shane Dawson: “The Dead Internet theory... it's very terrifying” (66:22)
• Ryland Adams: “If you look at comments on like a movie trailer... it's all very fake” (69:02)

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Conclusion: In this Thanksgiving-themed episode, The Shane Dawson Podcast seamlessly blends personal anecdotes, engaging games, and deep dives into some of the most intriguing conspiracy theories. From discussing the ethical dilemmas in Hollywood to unraveling the unsettling possibility of a bot-dominated internet, the hosts provide a rich and thought-provoking experience. Whether you're a long-time listener or new to the podcast, this episode offers a captivating exploration of truth, fiction, and the spaces in between.

Transcript

[Shane Dawson]

New two part conspiracy series up now on YouTube.com Shane enjoy. We are falling down some rabbit holes. I wanna really go in. We have theories that are very crazy, very intense and we're just gonna do a full on Thanksgiving edition of Conspiracy Corner. So get ready. Real. Real. It has a T. No, real. Hey, welcome back to whatever the hell this is. Can you see US edition? Oh, because we're all in camouflage except for you. Oh, wait, right.

[Ryland Adams]

What happened? You're the coordinator and you left yourself out of it.

[Shane Dawson]

Well, I got a camo shirt for me, but then I also got this one and I was like, oh, I like that one better. So me and Sandy aren't really in camouflage, but you know, we fit the vibe.

[Chris]

Yeah, we fit the color scheme. So I think that's what matters.

[Shane Dawson]

So the idea was. So this is our Thanksgiving episode. I can't believe Thanksgiving is happening. This is crazy. This year went by so fast.

[Ryland Adams]

I thought you meant in general, not just because it happened fast.

[Shane Dawson]

No. So I can't believe it's already the holidays. This is insane. But you guys look great. Chris, I got you your own custom camo shirt that says Bear Slayer on it.

[Sandy]

This is my favorite shirt anyone has ever given me.

[Shane Dawson]

Ever.

[Sandy]

Not only does it say Bear Slayer, but it has a bear like in the crosshairs.

[Shane Dawson]

Yes. Which works for two different reasons. Number one, you go to the gay area and all the gay bears know what you're talking about. Number two, if you go to a conservative area, they just think you're a hunter.

[Chris]

Very smart.

[Sandy]

Wow. I fit in in all areas. Should I wear this at Club Chub.

[Ryland Adams]

When I was the first time? I was just gonna say you finally have an excuse to go.

[Jared]

I will say though, you're wearing earrings today.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh my God.

[Sandy]

Yes.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah. Earring reveal.

[Jared]

I like the look.

[Shane Dawson]

It's very cool. Can we talk about the earrings? Because I noticed this on the sip. So tell us. So what happened? What made you do this change? I love this for you.

[Sandy]

I don't know. I love wearing earrings, but I'm constantly filming. I don't really have an excuse to wear them very often. I always have headphones on. It kind of hurts when I have headphones on. But it was inspired by Ryu and Truth.

[Ryland Adams]

I don't take mine out. He gave me these last Christmas and they haven't been out of my ears since.

[Shane Dawson]

Which is annoying because I've given you other earrings and you don't wear them.

[Ryland Adams]

No, it's like seasonally. Whenever you give me earrings, I take out the Previous ones. And put in these and leave them.

[Spencer]

You should get them. The most obnoxious earrings. Be like, well, these are your earrings for the year.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah, big old hoops. More life updates. What's going on, Sandy? What is going on? You did a true crime video. This is very exciting.

[Chris]

Well, you had mentioned, you know, maybe I should do one. And then everybody, not everybody, but a lot of people requested for me to do one. And so we thought, why not? Let's do it. So it's up right now.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay, what's the subject?

[Chris]

So this one is gonna be on Velma Barfield. And I don't know if we should give it away, what she did.

[Jared]

Well, she was the first woman ever executed by lethal injection in the usa.

[Ryland Adams]

Oh, so she died, girl.

[Jared]

Yeah, she died.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah.

[Chris]

She's gone.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah.

[Chris]

It was really interesting and pretty eerie because she was like, older when this stuff was happen. And it's just a really creepy stuff.

[Jared]

Death row gravy.

[Chris]

So it's not so much gruesome but, like, eerie.

[Jared]

It's creepy. But I think my favorite part is what was her last meal that she recommended?

[Chris]

Or she requested cheese doodles and Coca Cola.

[Ryland Adams]

What's a cheese doodle?

[Sandy]

I don't even know what a cheese doodle is.

[Shane Dawson]

I don't know, like a Cheeto. I will say this is a total side note. Things I'm not thankful for. We're gonna talk about what we're thankful for, but what I'm not thankful for is TikTok. Words, culture. I don't know if that makes sense. The reason that I bring this up is because when you said that, my first thought was all these girls that say it's so crispy. Crispy. A crispy Diet Coke. A Crispy Coke. This Diet Coke is so crispy. But the new one that is driving me fucking insane is when people. When people say, I'm just yapping. We're all yapping like. And listen, I don't watch TikTok, but we watch YouTube girls who do watch TikTok. And they're. And I like these girls, but they will start saying these words. And I'm like, oh, that must be another one.

[Ryland Adams]

And then you start hearing them all say that same word. And then you're like, oh, my God, everybody.

[Shane Dawson]

I fear that I may be yapping too much. I'm going to take a sip of.

[Ryland Adams]

Crispy Diet to transport any other human that, like, just didn't live on the Internet. And you hear these people say these things. It's so. It's such A turn off. It's so off putting. And you're like, what the fuck are you saying?

[Shane Dawson]

But also, no offense to anybody that we know or our friends or anybody that is using the words.

[Ryland Adams]

I'm sure a lot of people we know. It's just as it is. What it is.

[Spencer]

Every girl's dating profile, like right now, like, like, I'd say one in three. It's like one thing about me.

[Shane Dawson]

I'm a yapper.

[Spencer]

Every, like, one in three. It's like so many.

[Ryland Adams]

You should write one thing about me. I hate a yapper. Like, shut up.

[Spencer]

Wait, do you guys know there's another one that's training right now? I want to see if you guys know. Do you know what an eater is? Someone who's an eater.

[Sandy]

Someone who eats that.

[Shane Dawson]

An eater. Oh, when people are like, eating like.

[Ryland Adams]

Well, she ate like, you eat everything.

[Spencer]

No, an eater is like, you're really good at, like, orals.

[Sandy]

Oh, I wasn't far off.

[Spencer]

Yeah, yeah, that's like a big thing right now. It's like, oh, I'm with this girl. She's an eater.

[Chris]

Wait, guys say that about girls?

[Shane Dawson]

Both the girls. An eater.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Ryland Adams]

I don't want anybody eating girls present on their profiles. I eat.

[Spencer]

That's less of maybe on a profile, more like, I want to yapper.

[Shane Dawson]

I want to.

[Spencer]

Yeah, yeah, I'd rather yapper.

[Jared]

What the profile is. If I ain't yapping, I'm eating. Getting crispy, yachting.

[Shane Dawson]

I changed my mind. If I'm not yapping, I'm eating. It's literally fucking iconic, everybody.

[Jared]

Okay.

[Ryland Adams]

Yeah, yeah.

[Shane Dawson]

That's really good. Well, this is a fun side note. I love that. I want to just talk more on the. I feel like we do have a game planned, but if you guys have anything you want to talk about or bring up, this is a holiday edition. Let's pretend like we're at Thanksgiving dinner. What do you guys want to yap about next?

[Spencer]

Wait, what are your other. What are other people's death row meals? Because we did.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, that's a good idea. Yeah. Oh, that is hard. Okay. I know mine. Okay. It's from multiple places. Taco Bell. And they would have to bring these things back from the dead. So I want the fiesta taco salad with Baja sauce on top, Volcano sauce on top.

[Ryland Adams]

A salad for your last meal.

[Shane Dawson]

You've never had it. I want the grilled stuffed XXL beef burrito.

[Sandy]

Oh, I could come.

[Shane Dawson]

£5.

[Ryland Adams]

£5.

[Shane Dawson]

£5.

[Spencer]

Wait, for real?

[Chris]

I mean, the last meal. Who cares?

[Shane Dawson]

Yep.

[Ryland Adams]

Well, no no, I'm just saying, like, that's crazy that that existed on them. Well, I guess a chipotle burrito is probably five pounds.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Shane Dawson]

Then I want Chick Fil A. Sorry, Chris. I want Chick Fil A, waffle fries, and extra Chick Fil A sauce.

[Ryland Adams]

They're Mac and cheese.

[Shane Dawson]

And if the E. Coli situation is over, I want a chicken Big Mac.

[Jared]

Which I had one the other day, and I'm still here.

[Ryland Adams]

Thank God you're not into your wagyu filet anymore.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, that's my new addition.

[Ryland Adams]

Wagyu. Wagyu.

[Shane Dawson]

Guys, I'm an eater.

[Jared]

Well, yap about it.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay, so I tried for the first time. Not for the first time, honestly. Maybe, though, we went to a steakhouse, and I usually get, like, a chicken Caesar salad, which doesn't make sense, but I go to the steakhouse for the bread, and I get a side of ranch. And then the waiter goes, you want a straw with that ranch? And it always pisses me off. But I. For the first time. Except for the last waiter, he was so nice.

[Ryland Adams]

He was.

[Shane Dawson]

But then I tipped him way too much, which he deserved it. But I was like. I was just like, I'm tip him. Oh, good. And then we went back a week later, and he's like, hey, he was our waiter again.

[Ryland Adams]

And I was like, that good tip. He remembered our entire down to the drink. He was like, I remember you had this cocktail and you had this drink. Do you want it again? And we said, yeah.

[Shane Dawson]

So now every time we go there, I feel like I have to tip that amount or he's going to think that he fucked up.

[Jared]

I have the same feeling with the current sushi restaurant.

[Shane Dawson]

We're going to yap about it.

[Jared]

We went there one day. I was very generous. I was feeling good about stuff. I was tipping the sushi guys that were making the rolls. And then just like you, the next time we went, I thought, oh, man. Like, I didn't bring enough money, you know, to really do what I did last time. But the guy right away brought me out with what I normally have to drink, and I thought, you got me, Venmo. I'm busting the plastic out.

[Shane Dawson]

Long story short, I got Wagyu, Wagyu, Wagyu, Wagyu, whatever. Wagyu, wagyu. And I'm not a steak person, but now I am, so go hunt me some. It was so good. And I did dip this.

[Ryland Adams]

I cut it with my fork. It's so good.

[Shane Dawson]

I know. Yeah. So that's what I would have And a crispy Diet Coke from McDonald's. Okay.

[Jared]

I have a little bit of a strategy behind my last meal.

[Shane Dawson]

Give it to me.

[Jared]

I know before I said I would like to go out by shooting range. I feel like it's the most immediate, the quickest way to go.

[Shane Dawson]

Like Old Yeller, Pretty much like Old Yapper.

[Jared]

But I think what I would do is I would opt for a lethal injection. I'm thinking what they do is they calibrate the amount of lethal injection they do to the how much you weigh. So my goal is going to be to gain as much weight as humanly possible during my last meal to see if it offsets the lethal injection. Because if you survive it, you're free. If you survive, like, is that real? I don't know. I can't hear any proof to testing it, but. So I think what I would do is like you. I would have a couple five pound burritos.

[Shane Dawson]

Yes.

[Ryland Adams]

A bowl.

[Jared]

I would have two large straw hat pizzas. I'm not the biggest fan of Wingstop, but I do like it. I would probably have 40 Hawaiian.

[Shane Dawson]

Last meal.

[Chris]

Last meal.

[Ryland Adams]

You like it?

[Jared]

Wings. And then I want something to really add weight to me. So I'm gonna do two. Make it four brown loaves of bread from the Cheesecake Factory.

[Spencer]

Loafs of bread.

[Jared]

And I'm just. And I want five gallons of water. And I'm hoping to put it on about £20. So the fluid just drains right out of my body and I live and I get away with that.

[Chris]

We have to see how long they actually give you to eat because that would take you forever.

[Shane Dawson]

You need Eric the Electric to coach you.

[Jared]

Oh, yeah, I do. I need my last meal. Coach Eric.

[Shane Dawson]

That's a video. Oh, my God. Side note, one of the stars of 600lb life emailed us and was like, hey, I was on 600 pound life. She lost so much weight, like 700 pounds or something.

[Chris]

Wow.

[Shane Dawson]

And she's like, if you ever want me on the show, talk about, like what it's like to be on that show. And I was like, yes. So in the new year, we need to reach out to her because, oh, my God, we could watch her episode. We can get all the tea. I have so many questions about that show.

[Spencer]

She was like the heaviest woman in the world at one point.

[Shane Dawson]

I think, yeah, shout out, girl, if you're watching, we are going to reach out. Because I am so. That show is so. I cry every time I try to get you to watch it. And you were like, I don't like, okay.

[Ryland Adams]

And I'm not trying to be mean, but every time he wants to watch it is right when I, like, we, like, pull out our food and it's.

[Shane Dawson]

Not because of, like, well, they look bong they mukbang. For the first half of the episode.

[Ryland Adams]

It'S just like, it's intense. And then it's like, sometimes graphic. And I'm just like, this is not the show I want to be eating to.

[Jared]

Sandy will do that. That for me. She'll say, close your eyes if you know something gross is about to be on tv. Because I get the feeling like, I don't know if I'll ever be able to eat again.

[Shane Dawson]

I get so.

[Jared]

I'm so grossed out.

[Shane Dawson]

That's why I get so angry during the podcast when Rylan will say a word or something. I'm not going to say it. When somebody says something that triggers my appetite, I know that some people out there feel the same way. And then they turn the podcast off and it ruins their dinner. And I don't want to do that. So sorry, guys. We probably already did that today.

[Sandy]

This is a ya brother thing.

[Ryland Adams]

Yes.

[Chris]

I will say I do do the, like, don't. Okay, don't look. Don't look. Only really more for me because then I have to deal with him like, oh, I can't eat anymore. I gotta walk away. And it's like, man, like, don't ruin the evening. Because, yeah, heaven forbid you saw some.

[Ryland Adams]

And then it's 30 minutes later. I'm still, yes. Oh my God.

[Jared]

Or if I see her pull a hair out of her food, I'd be like, what? I'd be like, what was that? And then she was the same thing. It was a piece of cheese.

[Ryland Adams]

It's like, where?

[Chris]

No. Or if he's eating and like, I have to grab like the salt or something and I go over like this. He's like, don't touch my food. It's like, I wasn't even near your food.

[Ryland Adams]

Sometimes I'll like, have an itch on my nose. What did you pull? What did you pull? I'm like, I had an itch on my nose. He's like, prove it.

[Shane Dawson]

I'm like. Cuz I can see in my peripheral, I can see his arm reach toward his face and then do something and then leave his face. And I'm eating and I'm like, Jerry.

[Chris]

Does this thing where he's like, what are you doing? That's like, nothing.

[Ryland Adams]

Like, you see, I've been with you long enough that I know, like, I. I would never pick my nose around Joe.

[Shane Dawson]

Don't even say it.

[Jared]

Even when she's like brushing her hair or something in the car. I gotta cover my drink.

[Shane Dawson]

I literally. This is the word. Sorry. We'll wrap, we'll yap wrap this up real quick. But when I get my dinner right, I sit on the couch, fluff my pillows, I get my dinner. Now I've learned to bring a paper towel to cover my dinner, because when he comes in, he whips up the blanket and puffs the pillows and just dog hair, dog hair, dog hair. Floating, floating, floating. And then. And when I didn't have the paper towel coverage, I look and it's like I saw the dog hair flying, floating, and I couldn't catch it in time, and it ruined my dinner. Hey, sorry to interrupt the show. Please don't go anywhere. It's not an ad. Not that you should go anywhere during the ads. That's our us time. That's our me standing in my office at three in the morning trying not to yell too much because I don't want to scare my family time. We do have an ad, but before we get to that, we actually. This is kind of an ad, but it's personal. I want to talk about what I'm wearing. 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Okay, this is the perfect vibe right now because we're all in, like, a fighty mood because we're gonna play a game we haven't played in a while, and I'm very excited for it to return. We are going to play Master turkey debater. Nice.

[Ryland Adams]

Okay, so all of our death row meals.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, good.

[Ryland Adams]

It's good.

[Jared]

It's fine.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah, we're fine.

[Ryland Adams]

No, no, no, we're fine.

[Shane Dawson]

Are you sure?

[Sandy]

Yeah.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay.

[Ryland Adams]

I'm good.

[Shane Dawson]

Do you have one? Yeah.

[Sandy]

What is yours?

[Ryland Adams]

I don't know.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay, so master turkey Debater. If you guys don't remember, Master debater is the game where we each have a category that we're judging, right. And everybody else has to debate for their choice, and then the judge chooses who won the debate and then they rack up points. So this is all Thanksgiving holiday themed. So first we are going to have Jared be the judge, and the category is the best celebrity to invite to Thanksgiving.

[Ryland Adams]

That's not fair. He hates mine.

[Shane Dawson]

He doesn't know yours yet.

[Ryland Adams]

Lead that case then he can't judge this.

[Sandy]

He knows his.

[Shane Dawson]

And remember, get angry, get mean, Chris, don't apologize. Cause last time we played this game, Chris texted me, Chris texted Ryland after and was like, I'm sorry if I was too mean. And Ryland's like, no, you weren't. And then you said to me, you're like, was I too mean? I was like, no. Feel free. Go in.

[Sandy]

I can't fake it. I was really passionate about a thing. I don't know if I'll be as I'll try.

[Shane Dawson]

I can't fake it.

[Ryland Adams]

You couldn't get mean enough for me.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, okay. So yes. Does everybody have their best celebrity to invite to dinner?

[Sandy]

Yes.

[Jared]

Impress me.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay, who wants to go first?

[Sandy]

Spencer.

[Spencer]

Okay, this is like referencing something I don't know. You know what this is? So do you know about the Beyonce thanking conspiracy kind of a thing going on right now?

[Ryland Adams]

Yeah.

[Spencer]

So there's a mini little, like, theory that if you don't thank Beyonce at a award show or anything like that. Like, bad things happen to you. What holiday do we need to give thanks more than Thanksgiving? So let's just cover our bases, Jer. We don't want anything bad to happen. Let's get Beyonce in. Maybe Jay Z will show up. That'd be cool.

[Shane Dawson]

So you're inviting her out of fear? Are you a Beyonce fan?

[Spencer]

Well, I think she'd be fun to have around.

[Chris]

Have around?

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah, perform.

[Ryland Adams]

I'd be so afraid of her coming into my house. I feel like they'd be like, what is this? Trash?

[Jared]

This is very good for you right now, Rylan.

[Ryland Adams]

Can they invite us? I'd rather go to their like 140 million dollar Malibu mansion.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah.

[Ryland Adams]

Than them be like, what is this?

[Shane Dawson]

Okay, we'll make it.

[Chris]

If that's the case, then you win. Spencer. If we can be invited.

[Spencer]

We can.

[Shane Dawson]

We can.

[Chris]

You know who I think Beyonce would love to have at her house for Thanksgiving?

[Ryland Adams]

Who?

[Chris]

Gordon Ramsay.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, I mean. Oh.

[Chris]

I mean, he is the ultimate. He's gonna be. He's able to tell you if you made the turkey just right, what you can add to your food. I think he is like the ultimate guest.

[Spencer]

But is that what you want? Do you want. He's like, known for being so critical about food. So do you want someone who's gonna.

[Sandy]

Be like, he's gonna be so mean.

[Ryland Adams]

Oh, is he gonna make it?

[Chris]

I would love it. Yeah. I mean, really? You're kind of getting like a dine and like a show dude to get.

[Jared]

A live rendition of idiot sandwich at your house. That would be epic.

[Shane Dawson]

What are you, an idiot sandwich? Sounds like I'm the winner.

[Sandy]

I think Spencer's onto something because every like your like, favorite thing that your mother taught you how to make, he's gonna be like, trash. Your whole family makes trash food. Like, it's gonna be so mean.

[Jared]

Such a good answer. They're ganging up on you. I like that.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay. Fuck. So, yeah, my other answer isn't really for you. It's more just for me. But you know what? I can debate for myself. I wanna invite Cardi B. Let me explain why that's a good question. She is a ballerina. Fun. She's so fun. She's so funny. I mean, all that stuff.

[Ryland Adams]

She's gonna tell you what she thinks.

[Shane Dawson]

Tell you what you think she's gonna be. Yeah, talk about yapping. She's gonna yap up the room and that you are not gonna forget that night. You're not gonna be able to get her out of your house. She's gonna be yapping, she's gonna be having fun. She's gonna bring her cardi b whipped cream shots. So I'm going cardi b.

[Chris]

Okay.

[Sandy]

Okay, Fair enough. I went back and forth, but right now I'm thinking, like, Jack Black because he's known for being one of the, like, more humble, funny celebrities. I went to a movie screening. He was there. He was very himself. Like, he wasn't putting. When he's himself in movies, he's not putting something on. Like, he's just funny and nice and sweet to everyone. I think he'd be funny and entertaining, but, like, also not steal the attention away if, like, someone else is talking. I think you'd be respectful and. Yeah, he's just the best.

[Ryland Adams]

Not the mall cop.

[Sandy]

I mean, you know.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah. Kevin James.

[Ryland Adams]

You just forgot about him.

[Sandy]

No, I mean, listen, I'm not.

[Shane Dawson]

Not.

[Sandy]

I'm not thinking about who I'm most attracted to. I'm with family. You know what I mean? Nothing's happening with these people.

[Ryland Adams]

Oh, you're worried with Kevin James it might escalate to the other room?

[Shane Dawson]

Yes, I do.

[Ryland Adams]

If you really want to make a splash, you're inviting Taylor Swift.

[Jared]

Thanks for saying it.

[Ryland Adams]

The whole world will just be so excited that she's arrived. And I mean, even if you're not her biggest fan, do you not want to hear the inner workings of what's going on inside of the most massive pop stars world? Like, I do want to just know the inner workings.

[Shane Dawson]

Like, you think she's gonna give you honest, real tea? Taylor Swift.

[Chris]

Well, okay. I have something to say. Picture this. You're at the house jackbox. New movies on the tv. Taylor Swift is on the radio in the kitchen with Gordon Ramsay as he's teaching us how to make the perfect stuffing. He's probably talking crap a little bit on, like, like someone's dish.

[Shane Dawson]

It's fucking rotten, you fucking idiot.

[Sandy]

It's rotten.

[Chris]

I just feel like that just sounds like a fun, amazing night.

[Shane Dawson]

And then at the. And then right before you guys eat, you all say you're thankful for Beyonce so you don't have to invite her.

[Chris]

There you go. Yes.

[Ryland Adams]

And I'm just saying, like, if you want to be the most giddy, like, nobody wants that. Like, she's coming to the house. I think I'd, like, ship my pants and I'd be like, what am I going to wear?

[Shane Dawson]

Cassie is too big. She guards.

[Chris]

You know who probably makes the best Mac and cheese?

[Shane Dawson]

Who? Gordon Cardi. B, you know Cardi B. Hot dogs in it. Delicious.

[Jared]

Oh, Cardi B's making it from box. Already know Gordon Ramsay is going to be in there canoodling noodles.

[Chris]

Exactly.

[Sandy]

Yeah.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay, so Jared, make your big choice.

[Ryland Adams]

Here's the thing.

[Shane Dawson]

No, it's over.

[Ryland Adams]

No, you've swayed me. Speak of Cardi B.

[Shane Dawson]

Listen. Wow. Okay, listen, keep talking.

[Ryland Adams]

You're. If you're talking about who's going to be real, who's going to give you who they are.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah, the real cuz.

[Ryland Adams]

You're right. Taylor's never going to be real with me.

[Chris]

Wait, are you just piggybacking off with his selection?

[Ryland Adams]

Well, listen, I would be the most excited about Taylor Swift, but she would give me a Persona. Let's just keep it real.

[Sandy]

Ryland's a cheater. He's helping you. You're cheaters.

[Jared]

Thank you.

[Spencer]

I will say, I think. I do think Cardi B is a good.

[Jared]

Thank you.

[Shane Dawson]

I agree.

[Spencer]

Jack Black's a good answer too though.

[Shane Dawson]

Jared, make your choice who's coming to Thanksgiving dinner.

[Chris]

Drummer.

[Jared]

You know you got me with the Mac and cheese. I think I'm going to invite Gordon Ramsay.

[Ryland Adams]

It's cuz it's his wife with his.

[Sandy]

With his free Mac and cheese.

[Jared]

Jack Black is cool. Nothing against Jack Black. I mean, I. You know, Taylor Swift. I don't know what you could have said to sway me there. I do like Cardi B. But after I'm turked out, I don't want super loud people around me.

[Shane Dawson]

You know what I'm saying?

[Jared]

Like Cardi B. Sounds like she might give me a headache.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, she. She gets turked out too.

[Jared]

Okay, if she's turked out enough, then maybe we could turk together and we could eat. You know what I mean?

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah. Okay, the next category is worst Thanksgiving food. And the judge is Spencer. Okay, does everybody have their worst Thanksgiving food ready?

[Jared]

Yes.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay, I'm gonna start. Oh, wait. This is hard because I feel like you like fancy things.

[Spencer]

Some fancy things. Some fancy things? No.

[Jared]

What an answer of someone who likes fancy things, right?

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, no.

[Jared]

Some yes, some no.

[Shane Dawson]

Depends. Depends. Okay. Okay, you know what? I'm just gonna go with my truth here and maybe you'll respect my truth. I hate fancy stuffing. I hate it. I like from the box. I like it to taste like stuffing. I want stovetop. I do not want the big thick chunks of hard bread with all the cranberries and all like the. The like tomato, like dried tomato shit. And like all the onions like that shit. And then they put some weird Sauce in it and it's like tangy. I hate it. I do not like fancy stuffing. I have mushrooms I want want from the box. Classic. Not that disgusting fancy stuffing. Anybody else?

[Jared]

I'm going to agree. I hate stuffing when it has onions in it. But Spencer, let's be real. Potato salad is disgusting.

[Ryland Adams]

What?

[Shane Dawson]

Whoa.

[Jared]

Potato salad. If you bring that to a Thanksgiving dinner, you have failed me. I agree.

[Spencer]

I agree with that.

[Jared]

Perfect. Oh, we are.

[Shane Dawson]

We are. I just don't.

[Spencer]

Is it a Thanksgiving dis.

[Jared]

I don't want to make your stomach turn by talking too much about potatoes, Alex. Because it's so disgusting.

[Sandy]

Whoa. I love butt.

[Jared]

It's like mayonnaise. I don't even know what's in it. I've never tried it. I don't want to try it.

[Shane Dawson]

Whoa.

[Jared]

Yuck.

[Shane Dawson]

There is a weird crunch in it. I don't know what that is.

[Ryland Adams]

I think it's like stuff.

[Jared]

If I taste a crunch in my food, that's worse almost than finding a hair.

[Shane Dawson]

There's crunches in my stuffing that my gross fancy stuffing. It's all crunchy.

[Jared]

Yuck.

[Shane Dawson]

Anybody else?

[Ryland Adams]

Well, I'm between two things. I guess.

[Sandy]

Steal mine.

[Ryland Adams]

I guess just the turkey.

[Sandy]

No, you stole mine.

[Ryland Adams]

You stole mine.

[Shane Dawson]

Really?

[Chris]

That's like the main event.

[Ryland Adams]

I mean if it's done perfectly and somebody like chops up the perfect pieces for me and I don't have to look at the disgustingness, then fine.

[Shane Dawson]

I kind of feel like Spencer likes turkey. Cuz he like he's quiet.

[Chris]

He's very quiet.

[Shane Dawson]

No, he loves. But a bad.

[Spencer]

I'll agree a bad cooked turkey is.

[Jared]

Like dry turkey is.

[Shane Dawson]

Is.

[Spencer]

No, but I agree that it is awful.

[Shane Dawson]

But that's not his answer.

[Spencer]

No.

[Jared]

Well, just remember that even the best potato salad is still disgusting. So imagine a bad potato salad.

[Chris]

You know what's worse is a goopy pumpkin pie.

[Jared]

I knew that was your answer. You wouldn't tell me, but I knew it.

[Chris]

Who likes pumpkin pie?

[Ryland Adams]

Well, if it's goopy, then what is goopy?

[Chris]

Yeah, goopy is just like. Like a big mush on. Just like.

[Shane Dawson]

So is it a pie or is it a pudding or what is it?

[Ryland Adams]

So what pie do you do?

[Chris]

Do you agree, Spencer?

[Spencer]

In my family we always. My mom always makes a key lime pie. So we don't ever really have pumpkin pie. But I will say it's contender.

[Sandy]

So I mean the only thing. Because I'm literally google. I don't know. But like green beans, I guess like people will just have green beans by itself.

[Shane Dawson]

Just Plain. Yeah.

[Sandy]

Not like a casserole. Delicious.

[Shane Dawson]

That's a good contention.

[Sandy]

Just green beans.

[Chris]

You mean just vegetables.

[Sandy]

Just boring green beans by itself. And the flavor, it's like you didn't even try. You just showed up with beans.

[Shane Dawson]

I get that.

[Ryland Adams]

None of the fried onions on top.

[Sandy]

Yeah, nothing.

[Chris]

Or the cheese and the grill.

[Sandy]

That's insane.

[Shane Dawson]

That's like soupy.

[Jared]

I'd kick someone out the house if they just brought me some fucking raw green beans. If that was their thing. Now you ain't eating. You can have your green bean by yourself.

[Ryland Adams]

Honestly, if the potato salad and the green beans were in front of you, you'd rather take a bite of the potato salad.

[Chris]

Oh, 100% no.

[Ryland Adams]

So Chris might have just won, but.

[Shane Dawson]

If somebody handed you a bowl of crunchy stuffing with mint all over it.

[Jared]

Mint.

[Chris]

Okay.

[Jared]

You can't dip a cookie in that.

[Shane Dawson]

That Spencer who can't dip a cookie.

[Spencer]

I think I have an answer.

[Shane Dawson]

Dry.

[Ryland Adams]

Dry turkey.

[Spencer]

It is stuffing. Because the stuffing with like raisins or cranberries in it is. Cuz I like stuffing. I like stuffing, but I don't. I also don't like it too fancy. Just like simple. I do like the onions in it, but like simple. Even like box stuffing I like. But if you put like cranberries in it, I'm out.

[Shane Dawson]

I'm out. Cranberries.

[Spencer]

Ruins the meal. Ruins the meal.

[Jared]

Well, you know, there was cranberries in my potato salad.

[Shane Dawson]

I don't think I've ever.

[Spencer]

I've never been to a Thanksgiving where someone brought potatoes either.

[Jared]

It's always the like yeah. Cuz everybody potatoes cuz everybody agrees with me. Spencer, I know you.

[Ryland Adams]

I love you made up on Thanksgiving.

[Shane Dawson]

Potato salad is like like Easter.

[Spencer]

Yeah.

[Ryland Adams]

We do more of like the cheesy potatoes on Thanksgiving or the layered.

[Shane Dawson]

Does everybody think ham is better than turkey? I'm not trying to start drama.

[Jared]

It is depending honey glaze.

[Sandy]

No, I do agree with, with you. Turkey's boring. Like, and my grandma makes a particularly good turkey. Like it's not that dry, but it's still turkey. It's boring.

[Jared]

You get the Hawaiian roll and you make it into a sandwich and replace.

[Shane Dawson]

The turkey with ham. Done.

[Jared]

I'll put turkey and ham on my.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay.

[Ryland Adams]

You talked me into it. I love Thanksgiving.

[Chris]

I will say a stuffing, a bad stuffing ruins. It's really good. Yeah.

[Spencer]

One time my family, we didn't get a turkey and so we just ordered chick fil a nuggets for our meal and it was the best Thanksgiving. It was so good. No one was mad about it at all.

[Shane Dawson]

Dipping those in gravy. Are you kidding?

[Jared]

Gravy?

[Spencer]

Gravy is the king of Thanksgiving in my life.

[Sandy]

Yes.

[Spencer]

Makes everything out.

[Shane Dawson]

Can we do that this year?

[Ryland Adams]

Honestly, we don't have any other options.

[Shane Dawson]

And waffle fries.

[Jared]

That's the kind of Thanksgiving dinner I would imagine potato salad might be at.

[Shane Dawson]

You know, Cardi B is coming. She's loving fries.

[Ryland Adams]

And the Mac and cheese.

[Jared]

We used to go to Sizzler.

[Shane Dawson]

We did. We went to Sizzler. We went to Marie Callender.

[Jared]

El Dorito.

[Shane Dawson]

KFC Thanksgiving people want to hate. Yeah, our family doesn't cook until they're doing dishes.

[Jared]

Then they're like, we should have gone to Sizzler.

[Shane Dawson]

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[Sandy]

All right.

[Shane Dawson]

Enjoy the rest of the show. Bye. Okay, next category. This is one of most excited. The judge is going to be Chris. Okay, and the category is. What is the worst store to get stuck at during a Black Friday sale? And I'm gonna go first because I'm very passionate about this Bath and Body Works. I have been there on Black Friday. You love bath and I love Bath and Body Works. I love the candles, I love the hand sanitizers. I love everything they do. Keep doing it. But Black Friday sales at Bath and Body Works. Are you talking about Karen's going wild? Talk about getting some Karen content. Oh, my God. You'll get punched in the throat and you're gay. Don't even think about going there. It would be a nightmare. Not welcome.

[Ryland Adams]

Is it just a bunch of women and gay guys.

[Shane Dawson]

A bunch of angry women who want you out of their store because the store is for them.

[Sandy]

I worked there. And you're right.

[Shane Dawson]

Thank you. Points, points, points.

[Ryland Adams]

No, definitely. That's like whatever. But there's Hell on Earth is a store that I can't fathom any day of the year, let alone Black Friday. And that would be Lush. Don't even get me started on how miserable that place is. I hate that place. I hate it so much, I even walking by it makes my whole body shiver. And I'm like, oh.

[Shane Dawson]

I will say, what is it? What do you hate?

[Spencer]

Yeah, what do you.

[Ryland Adams]

Everything I hate. I hate the vibe. I hate the products. I hate. I hate it all.

[Jared]

I hate the name already. But what do they sell?

[Ryland Adams]

Like soap. Soap.

[Shane Dawson]

And then when you go in there, stinky, the women that were or men, the people that work there will wash your arm for you. Do you want to test this soap? And they take your arm over over to the sink and then they lather up your arm. I think coveted ruined it.

[Jared]

So what if you're like, yeah, but I like to test soap with my wiener.

[Shane Dawson]

I really got you.

[Ryland Adams]

I've just never liked the product I've ever gotten from there either. I mean, I haven't got one in years.

[Jared]

This isn't sponsored, by the way, by Lush.

[Shane Dawson]

No, no, no. But have it like on Black Friday. We've been there on Black Friday and the women there going crazy washing arms are so stressed.

[Ryland Adams]

But at least at Bath and Body Works you can get something you might like. Lush is going to be like annoying and miserable and you're gonna hate the product.

[Chris]

Oh, you know what's worse than Lush? Nothing Thing and is Walmart During Black Friday. The places went already huge. There's people like, stomping on each other, trying to get, like, a TV or some game or.

[Ryland Adams]

You'll get a fat deal there, though.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah, you're.

[Sandy]

You also might die.

[Chris]

Well, yes, because there's so many people, so, you know, they might have deals.

[Shane Dawson]

There's also more places to hide in Bath and Body Works. There's really nowhere to hide. And broken glass everywhere.

[Ryland Adams]

Walmart. You might end up at the ER, but you also might get $100 TV.

[Jared]

And just think about the migraine you would get at Bath and Body Works from all these Karens trying out different scents.

[Ryland Adams]

Whose side are you on?

[Jared]

Oh, I'm not even worried, because mine is the best answer. Chris, we could both agree that the last place either one of us ever want to be on this earth, let alone a Black Friday, is ikea. They won't let you out of that place.

[Sandy]

Place.

[Jared]

It's a maze.

[Ryland Adams]

I feel like Chris might like ikea.

[Sandy]

I love ikea.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah, you can just lay down.

[Jared]

Yes, exactly, Chris. And guess what? Sometimes when you love things, you don't want to see them at their worst because it's going to change your opinion on them. So I just want to preserve your love for ikea. It sounds like you really don't have any kind of affinity for either one of these stores. And I don't even know what saying Walmart, that's stupid. They have Hot Wheels. I'd love to be locked in Walmart overnight.

[Shane Dawson]

You could live in a Walmart.

[Jared]

I. I practically do.

[Ryland Adams]

But the nice thing about those stores, though, Chris, is they each have their own individual parking lot where Shane and I have stores in the mall. So you not only have to fight the mall traffic, you have to walk through the mall traffic.

[Jared]

But they do have outside entrances, Chris. So it's kind of like the same.

[Sandy]

But to further prove your point real quick, IKEA also has, like, a babysitter center, like a little playground where they'll watch your kids.

[Chris]

Walmart does it.

[Jared]

You want to see that on Black Friday?

[Spencer]

Okay, okay. We're talking about Karen's. I picked a place you could copy and paste, like, two other stores for it. JCPenney. Karen Central.

[Sandy]

I worked there. I worked there, too.

[Shane Dawson]

Right.

[Spencer]

And it was terrible.

[Sandy]

Right?

[Jared]

It was.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah.

[Spencer]

Yeah, Just think back on that. You, Chris, you even go in JC Penny at all.

[Sandy]

No, I think I'm traumatized from working.

[Spencer]

Exactly. You want to go in on the worst day of the year where Karens are fighting over some, like, blouse or something.

[Shane Dawson]

But the lighting. J.C. penney's is good and it's not.

[Ryland Adams]

Even stinky in there.

[Sandy]

It's never stinking.

[Ryland Adams]

You don't have, you don't have to like deal with the smells of lush.

[Chris]

And it's actually not that busy. And they have great deals on scarves.

[Jared]

Remember, Remember Black Friday?

[Sandy]

I did see two women fist fight over a projector. That did happen.

[Jared]

And how awesome was that? How great was it to see Horrible.

[Shane Dawson]

I think we fought enough narrow it.

[Ryland Adams]

Down and I'm hard.

[Sandy]

For me it's a really hard smell.

[Shane Dawson]

Mine, it's smelly.

[Sandy]

So for me it's between, you know, flashback to the worst. It's between Bath and Body Works and Walmart. What If I'm being honest, I'm sorry.

[Shane Dawson]

Smaller and more crazy and Walmart is.

[Sandy]

Nuts all the time.

[Ryland Adams]

You dare walk into a lush.

[Sandy]

Like there's never a time Walmart is chill. I have to be honest, I've never been in a lush, so I can't. I don't have anything to face at all.

[Ryland Adams]

Miserable. That's why you haven't been there. This is so hard.

[Shane Dawson]

They're both horrible.

[Sandy]

I'm. I'm gonna go with bath and waterworks.

[Jared]

I'm traumatized.

[Sandy]

Only because I'm traumatized.

[Chris]

Probably they're not fair enough.

[Sandy]

But Walmart was a good and so is. I don't know.

[Spencer]

I'm sorry.

[Sandy]

I don't know.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay, the next category is best Christmas movie to watch early. And the judge is Ryland. Woo.

[Ryland Adams]

I probably don't remember any of them.

[Shane Dawson]

Perfect.

[Chris]

But you'll remember the unforgettable jingle all the way.

[Ryland Adams]

Oh yes.

[Chris]

I mean, who doesn't love that movie? You could watch it. I mean right now, in November. We can watch it right now. And watching Arnold just like flying through the town trying to find this, you.

[Jared]

Know, figure, you know, as you're talking in the movie, you're just triggering me because that movie is all about capitalism and the violence around Black Friday and it's hurting my heart. So I just want to bring a little piece into the mix. Tim Allen, all time classic actor. The movie the Santa Claus, he turns into Santa Claus. It's heartfelt.

[Ryland Adams]

If you start bringing two and three into the mix, you start to lose me. But the original classic you're bringing into the mix.

[Jared]

Let's forget about those now don't exist in this story. Just number one, the Santa Claus.

[Ryland Adams]

I will say that was an every year repeat in our household, but that's.

[Chris]

Probably closer to Christmas. We're talking about movies that you could see like right from the get go. You Know, something fun, something light, you know, and that's Shingle all the way.

[Jared]

Sinbad chasing around arc.

[Ryland Adams]

Arnold, what do you have?

[Sandy]

I mean, I love. I love both of those movies, but the prompt specifically was to watch early.

[Shane Dawson]

Right.

[Sandy]

And so there's only really one that I can think of. Christmas movie that could also be a Thanksgiving, that could also be a Halloween. That could also be anything. And it's a Nightmare Before Christmas. It's an all year round movie. And it can be.

[Spencer]

The face gives it away.

[Sandy]

And it could be all. Because it's the only thing to watch.

[Jared]

Thinking of that. But then you came to the position.

[Sandy]

Of sandwich one, because that's the only one that you can watch. All of these are Christmas movies. You got to watch them on Christmas. This is the only one you can watch early. And it actually makes any kind of sense.

[Ryland Adams]

My problem isn't with the movie. I've never seen it. My problem is how overdone it is in, like, costumes. You even dressed me up as her one time.

[Shane Dawson]

Right.

[Jared]

The fan.

[Ryland Adams]

But I'm annoyed by it, if I'm being honest.

[Spencer]

Oh, okay, Rylan, Okay. What is this image conjure for you?

[Jared]

Home Alone, Home Alone.

[Spencer]

All time classic.

[Ryland Adams]

A little scary, though.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, but that's.

[Spencer]

It's not Christmas yet, so it's time. It's Halloween is just around the corner, just past Halloween, so it's maybe a little spooky, still in the air, but it's also zany and fun. Joe Pesci's in the movie, and the other guy, the Wet Bandits. A fun classic movie. You guys have kids.

[Shane Dawson]

Daniel Stern.

[Spencer]

Incredible movie, Incredible movie, Incredible time. You could kind of watch it any time of year just because it's Christmas based. But the hijinks, the fun, the laughs.

[Shane Dawson]

Home Alone 3, underrated. Mine is a family classic. It's something that your whole family loves. And that is Nashley Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.

[Ryland Adams]

Oh, that's my dad's favorite movie. So I'm kind of. I mean, I love it, but it's like it was one that he was like, we've gotta watch this movie. So it's like sea felt for us. Yeah, kind of.

[Shane Dawson]

Which is why I thought of that one and then I pivoted. I'll be Home for Christmas. I'll be Home for Christmas with Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Jessica Biel. And it was about Jonathan Taylor Thomas and he has to get home for Christmas and he gets a Corvette and he picks up Jessica Biel and they're on a road trip and it's so fun, and it's so cute, and it's so funny.

[Sandy]

Rylan, have you seen that movie?

[Ryland Adams]

I don't think so.

[Shane Dawson]

He has, multiple times. But it's a really good movie.

[Ryland Adams]

Okay, here's the thing, everyone. If we're talking, like, quality, great movie, I do think Spencer's in the top contenders, and I think we kind of are. But if we're talking about, like, rewatch ability and the way that I'm going to force a movie on Jet and Matt, Max, like National Lampoon was forced upon me, Jared's got to be the winner. Always good, never not fun.

[Chris]

You know what?

[Ryland Adams]

Great movie.

[Jared]

You know, I already won.

[Chris]

I already won in a marathon, fighting each other. You know, that is a good all the way.

[Sandy]

I loved everyone's movies, actually.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah, me too.

[Ryland Adams]

I watched that movie every year.

[Jared]

I almost went with an earnest movie, so I'm glad I did that.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay, we have one last final category, and the category is. I'll just be RuPaul for this round. I'm the judge. Mama Ru is taking over, and the category is Best Holiday Tradition. So whether it's something you do in your family, something you want to start doing with your new family, give me whatever your best tradition is and get ready for judgment.

[Chris]

The best tradition, of course, is seeing lights. You know, you're spending time with your family. You guys get in the car, and you guys go somewhere, and you walk around and you see these beautiful Christmas lights.

[Shane Dawson]

Is the heater on in the car? Because I'm claustrophobic and I get car snacks.

[Chris]

Well, you have to have the heater on with the windows down.

[Ryland Adams]

Oh, Shane's out.

[Chris]

I mean. Oh, with the windows down.

[Ryland Adams]

Oh.

[Chris]

So that way your feet don't get, you know, cold, but you'll feel the air in your.

[Shane Dawson]

But my makeup's melted.

[Jared]

Having to drive somewhere to see something. Yuck.

[Shane Dawson]

Horrible.

[Jared]

I'm talking about people coming to your house.

[Shane Dawson]

Huh?

[Jared]

To sing to you.

[Shane Dawson]

Love it.

[Jared]

Christmas caroling.

[Shane Dawson]

Uhhuh.

[Ryland Adams]

I would be pissed if I.

[Jared]

It could be funny.

[Shane Dawson]

Yes.

[Jared]

You could laugh at them if you want. If you like to sing, you could join in with them. Or if you just feel like being a little bit rude, you can tell them, get the hell off of my property. Whatever that was.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, my God.

[Jared]

So, yeah, Christmas caroling.

[Spencer]

I hate caroling.

[Ryland Adams]

See, it almost is like soliciting, though, if it's a call I don't want where I'm like, oh, this is my baby's bath time. You know? Like, it feels like the real life version of That I put caroling in.

[Spencer]

The same category as like, it's your birthday and everyone's singing to you. You don't really know what to do when it's happening. You're kind of just like, oh, okay. Like, good, good.

[Shane Dawson]

I stare them right in the fucking.

[Ryland Adams]

Eyes like, hold on, let me pop some pop popcorn.

[Spencer]

Well, okay. So mine is more of like a thing my family would do, especially when we were little kids. Imagine. So imagine this. Jet and Max are a little older. They're so excited. All around the tree. It's Christmas Eve. Okay. You guys can open one present on Christmas Eve. One present, and then they go to bed and then they're so excited the next morning. I think that's the best tradition.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, okay. I don't hate that one. That is fun.

[Jared]

Giving in to your kids, pressuring you.

[Shane Dawson]

Right?

[Jared]

Just listen to the singing that night.

[Sandy]

Yeah, I mean, mine was. It's a really simple thing. It's just the only time my family ever got together to share a meal was holidays. And so it's like eating a home cooked meal and staying up late. That was the only night I could stay up late and share a meal. And we did that on every holiday. Not just Christmas, but every holiday. And my dad was a workaholic. He was never there. Like we all were gone all the time. We were never together. So it's like the. The only thing that brings us together is to like, eat great food. We're all foodies, talk, stay up late. And I loved it. And the older I get, I really don't get to see my family anymore. So I appreciate those moments so incredibly much. When they happen, it's just like, yeah, that, like, sharing a meal, staying up late is everything.

[Shane Dawson]

Chris, thank you so much for bearing your heart with us here today. I really felt that emotion, but to me that sounds like a whole lot of yapping and a lot of chewing, chewing, chewing. And that's very triggering to me. My misophonia. Yeah. So I'm going to say that's a pass for me. But I love your raw emotions that you brought to that story, Spencer. That was a beautiful story.

[Ryland Adams]

I haven't gone.

[Shane Dawson]

Really? Yeah. There go. Oh, I'm sorry, Rus. Give me your big hitch.

[Ryland Adams]

My favorite. Honestly, I mean, I love Christmas. That's my number one favorite holiday. But I think tradition wise was the Easter egg hunt my mom put on. Every Easter morning. You'd wake up to a plastic egg on the foot of your bed and it crack open with a clue and it's like Riddle. Hi, I'm the Easter Bunny. My car broke down and I had to use your washer to clean my clothes or whatever. And then it like goes all over the house.

[Shane Dawson]

No, keep going.

[Ryland Adams]

There's small prizes at each one or small gifts at each one. And when you get to the end, there's the big Easter basket. So I always, like, really remember that and cherish that a lot because it's like, it's a lot of fun.

[Jared]

That's sweet.

[Shane Dawson]

Tugging at the heartstrings in Easter, you know, a very underrepresented holiday that people don't really talk about much.

[Jared]

I will say though, like, who wants to have to think that hard right when they wake up? My brain don't even work for like two hours after I wake up, let alone solving a fucking riddle.

[Ryland Adams]

Well, that's exactly an Easter basket when I wake up.

[Jared]

You know what I mean? Okay, FA la la la la. It's time to choose.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay, contestants, everybody. I've made my decision. Chris, once again, love the story. Spencer. I don't remember yours. Sandy. Oh, the lights and the thing and it got confusing with the car and the steps. I don't quite know where I am and I don't really know. Jared. Oh, you know, I love singing, but honestly, I don't like. But I also don't like the competition and if there's going to be caroling, it's going to go from me. So the winner is Rylan with Easter eggs for one.

[Ryland Adams]

The only one without a Christmas tradition.

[Shane Dawson]

Well, thank you so much. Okay, I'm going to stop. There we go. Who is the winner? Oh, my gosh.

[Spencer]

So the people with one point are Sandy, Jared, and Ryland, which means our winner with two points is.

[Shane Dawson]

Shane Ruth.

[Sandy]

The Christmas Miracle.

[Shane Dawson]

Wow, that was fun. I love the good ones. Let us know in the comments what your favorite Christmas movie is because I want to watch some new ones. I feel like I've seen all the major ones, but, like, are there any specific ones, niche ones, Hallmark ones? Like, what are the ones that we should be checking out?

[Ryland Adams]

Well, I'm sure Lindsay Lohan has a new one coming.

[Shane Dawson]

She always does. Okay, we're going to take a quick little break and when we come back, not just conspiracies. We are falling down some rabbit holes. I want to really go in. We have theories that are very crazy, very intense, and we're just going to do a full on Thanksgiving edition of Conspiracy Corner. So get ready, grab your turkey, throw it away because it sucks. We'll see you guys back in A second. Okay. I am so excited about this. I have been wanting to work with this company for years. I think we've even joked about it. No, I know we've joked about it in the past, literally, maybe even in the first episode of this podcast years ago. And it's finally happening today. I'm so excited, Excited to say that today's episode is sponsored by Manscaped. Yes. Guys, I cannot even think of a more perfect brand for this show. The amount of times we talk about manscaping, the idea of manscaping comes up. Honestly, every single episode. We are all a bunch of hairy men who are in constant need of grooming. So I'm so excited that Manscaped is now part of our show. Manscaped is literally the perfect gift idea for any guy in your life or woman. And they sent me their brand new product. Product, the Chairman Pro, which is so next level. This is the perfect gift. It's so beautiful. It's like matte and glossy black, which I love a matte and a glossy combined. So let me just go over a few of like the top things about this product. Obviously, it's very easy to use. It has a long lasting time. Whoa. You know what I mean? Do I know what I mean? Whatever. Up to 75 minutes. And they have a five minute quick charge option. Also, there's an LED spotlight, so when you're actually shaving, it'll light up the places that you need to get to. It's just an incredible product. It's, in my opinion, the best razor I've ever used. It's just a really good gift idea. But I just wanted to tell you guys about that and yeah, tell you how excited I am that they're working with us. So the Chairman Pro has not one, but two interchangeable skin safe blade heads. There's a skin safe four blade foil for when you want that extra smooth skin. And then the skin safe stubble trimmer, which is when I use. And that's when you want to keep the stubble, but just clean it up a little bit. It also has flex adjust technology, which helps pivot and get every curve of your face. You don't need miss any areas. Like right here for me is a problem area with the Chairman Pro. It has been so easy to get to that place. It's also waterproof, so you can take it in the shower, not worry about it. And their offer for you guys today is the Chairman Pro package. So let me explain what's in it. Obviously, you get the Chairman Pro. You also get The Power Shave gel, which is non irritating. It'll defend against redness or irritation. That's something that I. Anytime I've had to, like, shave down completely to, like, bare face, I always get splotches and, like, red bumps. Bumps. And with the Power Shave gel, it's going to help protect against that. And the package also has the Face Shave Soother, which is an aftershave serum that'll hydrate your skin, soothe any post shave irritation, and help reduce the chance of bumps or a redness. So to get the Chairman Pro package today, all you got to do is go to manscaped.com and get 20 off and free shipping by using Code Grower at checkout. That's manscaped.com, use code grower and get 20 off and free shipping. So thank you so much, Manscaped. Also, if you want to see us do a live tutorial. Oh, my God. Shaving Jared's beard. I don't know what I would have to do to get Jared to allow me to do that, but if you want that, leave in the comments. All right, thank you so much. Manscaped. And I hope you guys enjoy the rest of the show. Bye. Hey, welcome back. Okay, we are gonna dive right in. This is something I've thought about for a long time, and I didn't know anybody else talked about this. And then Spencer sent me this reel and. Well, just take a look. You used to work at a secret Starbucks, is that right? Yeah, there is a Starbucks that is, like, above reserve. Like, a Starbucks no one's ever heard of or been to.

[Jared]

All right.

[Shane Dawson]

Have you ever wondered while driving in Los Angeles, how come you've never seen, like, Will Smith stuck in traffic on the 405? That's because there's a series of intricate tunnels underneath Los Angeles known as the actor Bond. I'm not kidding. Like, they get access points to move through the city without ever having to be in traffic. You can come up in lax, you can pop up at Dodger Stadium underneath there. In those tunnels is Starbucks set up at different locations, subways, to allow them to get coffee while they're driving.

[Ryland Adams]

All of them.

[Shane Dawson]

Seinfeld. You see Seinfeld down there? I've seen Seinfeld down there, dude. Almond milk latte, two shots.

[Jared]

Wow.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah. Okay, first of all, so, yes, he says that he worked at Starbucks Underground in la, where all the celebrities go. The secrets of Starbucks. Right. Okay, here's the thing. Yes, maybe he's lying, but also why this is so specific to lie about. But also, there has Been theories about underground, like tunnels and stuff in Disneyland.

[Ryland Adams]

Dia Dia, Denver International Airport, why wouldn't.

[Shane Dawson]

There be an la? And then I started thinking, you know what? We do live in la. I've lived in LA my whole life and I can count on one hand the amount of times I've seen a celebrity in a car. I mean, I know you could say maybe they're in an Uber or like they're being driven around, but wouldn't you still see them in the backseat? Like, I really rarely. Jojo Siwa. Yep, that's it.

[Ryland Adams]

I think everyone sees her because of her car.

[Shane Dawson]

Jojo Siwa. And honestly, maybe that's it.

[Sandy]

I do have one other thing that might go in and that's my friend worked at Starbucks bucks in like Calabasas Agora area, like in between. And all the Kardashians went there like every morning, like drove there, walked in.

[Shane Dawson]

See, but those types of celebrities want that, right? They want attention. They call paparazzi, but like the big, like the Oprah's, the Seinfeld's, the ones that are super rich and like don't want and don't care. Don't want to deal with that. I can see them doing the underground tunnels thing.

[Jared]

They. There is underground tunnels in Los Angeles?

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah, there is.

[Jared]

It's believed that that's where the list desert people live.

[Shane Dawson]

Wait, where?

[Jared]

Under downtown there's catacombs. Oh, right. There's like a huge system of tunnels with areas to congregate, like lobbyish type pod openings. Like think about, the earth is so huge, you can go a thousand stories down, but you can't go a thousand stories up necessarily even. That's why Elon Musk, his whole thing is in the future it would be going down, not up as far as like real estate.

[Sandy]

What I heard, I don't know if it's true, but that at some point they started building a subway system in la and then I guess it got scrapped for some reason. So there's like they're still working on many, many, many, many miles of abandoned underground.

[Jared]

We could do this subway. But how are celebrities going to get Starbucks?

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah.

[Jared]

If they don't want to be in traffic? I also think maybe they just don't go anywhere.

[Shane Dawson]

Right.

[Jared]

Like that's why we don't see them. Like do they really want to go? Where are they going to go?

[Ryland Adams]

Yeah, they're sitting there. Resistance. They're not really going.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay, well speaking of Hollywood theories, this is fucking insane. I don't want to get. Okay, I'm trying to Figure out how to, like, explain this without giving it away until the end, because I can't believe it. So you guys have heard about the poltergeist curse, right?

[Sandy]

No.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, yeah. Really? Okay. So the movie, the Poltergeist is a horror movie from, I think, the 80s.

[Sandy]

About the cast and crew.

[Shane Dawson]

So that's the start of it, right? So people from that movie and from that franchise, guys died. There has been four actors that died during and after the filming of those movies. So people started saying, oh, it's a curse. There's something about the movie or the filmmaking that cursed all of them. There's documentaries about it, there's specials about it. It's really, really interesting. So there is a scene in the movie where the lead of the movie is, like, in this swimming pool and there's all these skeletons and dead bodies and stuff floating. She's fighting with them. And it's like a really scary scene. Well, it was just revealed that those are actual dead dead bodies, real skeletons. And she said in an interview, you have to understand that this sequence took probably four to five days to shoot. So I was in the mud and goop all day, every day for, like, four to five days with skeletons all around me. I assumed that they were not real skeletons. I assumed they were prop skeletons made out of plastic or rubber. Then I found out, as did the whole crew, that they were using real skeletons because it was too expensive to make fake skeletons out of rubber. And everybody got creeped out after that. So the production went to, like, a morgue or a place that sells bodies and filled that pool with bodies. So let me show you the scene of the movie and now know that these are real fucking bodies that they put in this horror movie.

[Chris]

It's crazy that it's even legal to do that.

[Sandy]

I don't think you could get away with it now. I don't think so.

[Jared]

They'd still do it, do they?

[Sandy]

In movies?

[Shane Dawson]

Real. Real. It has the teeth real. Like, this is real. So, yes.

[Sandy]

Yeah, that's insane.

[Shane Dawson]

So everybody's saying the movie's cursed. They don't know why.

[Sandy]

Yeah, that's why. What do you mean, they don't know why?

[Shane Dawson]

That is insane. So then I looked into it and yes, Jared's right. They do this a lot and they still do this today. It is like a real thing. When you die, you can donate your body or your organs, your bones, whatever, to research or different, whatever. So the places that you're donating to are selling your body to movies because it is really expensive. To recreate.

[Sandy]

They still do this. The regulations are so strict now.

[Shane Dawson]

How would they? Like, I have no idea.

[Sandy]

You can't do anything.

[Shane Dawson]

Like. I know.

[Sandy]

Like, In Friday the 13th, someone got hyperthermia because she was in cold water for, like, very extended periods of time. You can't do that anymore. But you can have real dead body. Like, it doesn't make sense.

[Shane Dawson]

So, yeah, I thought that was crazy. Let's lighten it up really fast, because we have some really dark ones coming. This I just thought was really funny. And, like. Like, I really fell down a rabbit hole about it, because once I started researching, I was like, wait, this is actually insane. Have you heard about the Dolly Parton theory?

[Sandy]

No.

[Shane Dawson]

Now, Dolly, we love you. Okay, so I'm not coming for you, but this is pretty wild. So if you Google Dolly Parton short sleeves, you will only find a couple pictures. But then if you Google her from then, she is wearing long sleeves at every appearance in every picture that you will see of Dolly. No short sleeves here.

[Ryland Adams]

Well, as Wendy Williams would say, she's a woman of a particular age, and she probably wants to wear what makes her feel the most confident, because, like, sometimes I could be insecure about my arms too. And you, like, want the right amount of sleeves that make you look right.

[Shane Dawson]

Or she has full tattoo sleeves for years because she doesn't want to freak out her audience. And she's been wearing long sleeves and gloves to cover all of her tats. Now, this is a big theory. There are rabbit holes about this. There is pictures of her chest right here. She has, like, a big tattoo right here that she covers, and she forgot to cover it in one performance, and you can kind of see it. So there are theories that she is full body tatted up.

[Sandy]

I love her.

[Ryland Adams]

I think that'd be badass. I wonder what, like, the image protection is. Like, her fans would still like the tattoo.

[Chris]

I think they would love it.

[Shane Dawson]

I mean, maybe she'll do a reveal at some point.

[Sandy]

To be fair, though, they're all, like, from the older generation. I don't know if this is just my parents, but both of my parents are like, if you were. If you have tattoos, that's crazy, right? Like, that's, like, only, like, people have been in prison have tattoos.

[Ryland Adams]

A different generation.

[Sandy]

Yeah. So maybe.

[Jared]

Let's be honest, though. If you look at her arms, those are very tone, very in shape, Right? I think those are the kind of arms you'd be showing off.

[Shane Dawson]

Off, huh?

[Jared]

They probably have muscle definition. You show those up.

[Ryland Adams]

I bet Dolly hits Pilates, seven days a week.

[Sandy]

Oh, for sure.

[Chris]

Nine to five, maybe twice on Friday.

[Jared]

Dotties new celebrity I want at Thanksgiving. Oh, that's a great one.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, that would be a good one. Yeah. Okay, so I have something that I want to do a deep dive on later in the episode. That is something we've kind of touched on before, and that's the dead Internet theory. But I. I really did a lot of research on this, and it's very terrifying. So I want to go down that rabbit hole a little later.

[Ryland Adams]

But first, what do you mean, dead Internet?

[Shane Dawson]

Find out soon. Okay, but first, Jared, you have a few theories that are crazy. You haven't really explored them with me, but you kind of gave me bullet points, and I was like, oh, my God, yes. So where do you want to start?

[Jared]

Did Paul McCartney actually die in 1966 on.

[Shane Dawson]

No.

[Jared]

November 9th at 5 in the morning. The theory goes that on the morning of November 9th in 1966, there was a little bit of an argument in the studio between John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

[Shane Dawson]

Do you want to explain for Rylan who that? Who that is?

[Jared]

The Beatles. The Beatles.

[Ryland Adams]

I know who the Beatles are.

[Jared]

The Beatles.

[Shane Dawson]

Did you know who they were before he said that?

[Ryland Adams]

Yeah. Are you kidding me?

[Jared]

Hey, the Beatles.

[Shane Dawson]

That just feels very definitely rolling in their graves now.

[Spencer]

The Beatles jersey's all English people because.

[Chris]

You'Re sticking your teeth out.

[Shane Dawson]

I've never seen a British person do that, by the way.

[Jared]

It's something I'm working on. Back to the Beatles.

[Shane Dawson]

Yes. Oh, please.

[Jared]

So that was a stop. So there was a spat in the studio. Paul McCartney drove off, and the theory goes that he was decapitated during a car accident. And then the label got back to the Beatles, and they're like, hey, hey, we got to keep this under wraps. We got an album coming out, you know, Ain't no use in losing all kinds of money because of this. So we are going to have someone fill in for Paul McCartney, which, ironically, a year before that, in 1965, they had a lookalike contest for Paul McCartney, which some believe was just in case anything were to happen to these guys. Let's have, like, these lookalike contests. And a gentleman named Billy Shear was chosen to fill in for Paul McCartney. And the Beatles themselves, they were so distraught by this because they were having to keep this secret in that they were trying to let out clues along the way for people. And it wasn't until 1969 that people really started grabbing onto this. But the next album they released was sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club. And on the COVID it looks like a funeral procession of some sort, right? There's a guitar on top of the grave or the tombstone. That's left handed. Paul was left handed, right? But on the back of the album art is all of them. And Paul is the only one not facing the camera. And then George Harrison's pointing like this and there's lyrics on the back. And his thumb is pointed literally to where it says Wednesday morning at 5am and November 11th, 11th in 1966 was on a Wednesday. And around 5am is when supposedly his car crashed. But here's where it gets kind of funny, because there's, there's a lot more. I mean, this could be like people make hours and hours of documentaries about this just because there's so many of these clues scattered throughout. If you play the beginning of one of their songs backwards, it says, he's the dead man. He's the dead man. What it sounds like John Lennon at the end of one song is saying, I buried Paul. But the. What they're saying is he's actually saying cranberry sauce.

[Shane Dawson]

What?

[Jared]

Yeah, cranberry sauce. But the fun thing is record sales for the Beatles skyrocketed when this happened because people were damaging their records trying to hear the secret messages by playing them in reverse. So typically people would go in and buy two at a time right off the bat because they knew they were probably gonna mess one of them up.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, my God.

[Jared]

So this could be they were just trying to boost record sales. So they put out this theory, they just had fun with it and they put out a bunch of like these little hints, you know, like people are losing their. Like, have you ever seen 23 with Jim Carrey?

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah.

[Jared]

They're like losing their minds over this because you can't stop finding the hints when you start looking at this, right?

[Shane Dawson]

The music industry is so crazy and evil. I. I could see somebody dying and them just replacing him. But on the other side, they're so crazy and evil. I can see them putting this out and being like, oh, let's fucking make up a theory that he's dead, like 100%.

[Jared]

Well, it's like these days you think that rappers are really having to beef or people are really mad at each other. But I think Kanye west and 50 Cent one time had this beef and the whole thing was, we'll settle it by who sells more records on release day. You know, so nowadays they just manufacture a romance, a beef. But that was just their very smart marketing way of creating Like a beef almost. But instead it was, is he really alive? Is he dead? Like, where's Paul? You know, Wow. I don't know. I. I thought it was pretty cool. And that was another thing we could talk about at the time, but cloning in the music industry, because think about it, once your face has a value to it, like Taylor Swift, for instance. Let's just put Taylor Swift out there.

[Ryland Adams]

She'd have to have a clone Taylor Swift. So many shows a week.

[Shane Dawson]

Week.

[Jared]

If Taylor Swift were to unfortunately not be able to perform shows for whatever reason, you know, whether it be small or big, she goes out. A lot of money lost for a lot of people.

[Shane Dawson]

A lot of people's jobs, all the.

[Jared]

People that are going on tour with her. Then you have the record label, all the people, whatever the case, and there's.

[Ryland Adams]

Compilations of her just, like, so sick, like, going to the side.

[Jared]

So, like, what would you do as a safety measure if you needed to, just in case? You could either clone them, you could get a body double. I mean, a lot of celebrities have body doubles that are decoys that they send out.

[Shane Dawson]

Right?

[Jared]

Just saying that.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay, listen, that sound. That could sound crazy, but the more I've learned about Hollywood, the more documentaries I've watched, the more that I've seen, like, does not surprise me, because about the money. It's all about the money. And yeah, if your whole. Like, even we were watching the Martha Stewart documentary, and her business plan was, she is the center of the universe. Martha is, you know, the sun. And then everything around her is all of her business ventures, right? And all the investors were like, well, that's dangerous. Because if you die, you get hit by a bus tomorrow, everything crumbles. Like, what do we.

[Ryland Adams]

There's thousands of jobs to jail. It kind of did.

[Shane Dawson]

So then you start thinking, well, yeah, you have a Britney Spears, you have a Kanye, you have a Taylor Swift. They're the center of everything now. Especially, you have, like, Ariana and Rihanna, and they're at the center. And then you have their beauty. Beauty. Their. Their clothing lines, their movies, their makeup, their. This. Like, there's so many thousands of jobs.

[Jared]

Taylor Swift probably, economically has more going on than, like, some small countries.

[Chris]

Oh, yeah.

[Jared]

Like, her net worth and how much she provides for other people probably outweighs a lot of countries on this planet.

[Ryland Adams]

That's what I am impressed by her. Even if you don't like her music, you've got to be impressed by her work ethic and her business mindset. Because to employ that many people and create that much money. You can't have a bad day. You can't say no. You can't be off. You're a machine.

[Shane Dawson]

Wow. Well, that was really good. Thank you. That was a good deep dive. Holy shit. That made me think.

[Jared]

Not good for myself and you and us. And all of us.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah. Okay, well, speaking of things that are not what they seem and potentially dead, the dead Internet theory. So I have seen so many of you guys bring this up in the comments. So I actually did write a whole script for it for the main channel video, which, if you haven't seen it yet, man, channel video, conspiracy video. It's out right now. Please check it out. We're so proud of it. I wrote a whole script for it and I ended up not putting it in because it just didn't fit with the video. But it is one of the craziest theories I've heard and honestly one of the most realistic. So we talked about it a little bit. So in a previous podcast with Jared.

[Jared]

It's a very hard topic to digest and to make palatable. So I'm very excited to see what you have to say about it.

[Shane Dawson]

So basically, if you don't know, let me ask you a question. Have you noticed that the more time you spend on the Internet, whether that's social media or like on your computer, have you noticed that the more time you spend there, the more alone you feel?

[Ryland Adams]

Yeah, yeah.

[Shane Dawson]

You don't feel connected. You don't feel like, oh, I'm a part of something. You feel lonely and depressed. It's kind of soul sucking. Well, that's because the theory is, around 2016, the Internet died and it is now just a shell of itself. Most of the users, most of the comments. Comments, most of the websites, the news articles, everything created by AI to manipulate public opinion and keep you engaged. Now think about this. When you go to X or Twitter or whatever and you, you know, search something like, I don't really use Twitter, but if I want to see a certain topic or see what's going on, I'll, you know, search on Twitter and see what people are saying. And there's so many tweets. But then when you actually click on the profile, there's no picture. There's no real other tweets. Tweets. Like, there's a lot of bots. Like, I'm talking, like thousands of bots. Every time I was clicking on a profile or you go to a YouTube video and you see, like, lately there's been this ass that keeps commenting on our podcast.

[Ryland Adams]

It's like porn star esque images. And it's not, I don't know about the one on your podcast, but across all channels that we have.

[Shane Dawson]

So it's like an ass. And it's ass. I'm not kidding. It's an ass. And it says like anybody else? Love Shane Chains podcast. I love it so much, right? And it gets a bunch of thumbs up and you're like, okay, this is very clearly AI. But then when you look at the replies, it's like, oh, I love the podcast. Oh, it's like people replying to it. You're like, don't people know this is AI?

[Ryland Adams]

Is it real?

[Shane Dawson]

It's bots. It's AI. So these, these AI bots have created accounts. They go on YouTube, they leave comments, and then they create new AI bot accounts to reply to those comments. And then those are we getting the view for it. Those AI bots go to other videos and leave comments. Have you ever looked at comments on like a movie trailer? So a movie trailer will be posted and like two hours later, there's a thousand comments that are like, this movie looks amazing. Can't wait for this movie. Oh, I love Julia Robertson, that movie. Like, it's all very fake. You click on their profiles, they're not real people, they're all bots. Then YouTube. Now YouTube has millions of channels that are literally AI and I've been tricked by so many of them. Like, there'll be a movie review channel where you'll be watching it and you're listening to this movie review, review, and you see the trailer and stuff. But then I found out that it's AI. It's literally not real. I don't know who runs it, but there's thousands of them. Have you also noticed when you Google something, right, and you're trying to find the answer to a question, you'll see a bunch of articles that pop up. So it's like if you Google, is there really lead in Stanley Cup? This is a Buckeyes cup, by the way, not Stanley Cup. But you Google that and you'll see all these articles from all these different news organizations and websites. And then you click on an article and you read it, okay? Then you click on the next one, you're like, wait, this is the same article. What the fuck? But this is a different website, okay? You click on another one. This is the same fucking article. This is copy and pasted on a thousand websites and it's all the same fucking article. It's because those are all AI generated, literally not real websites. The whole point of them is for you to click on it so they can get their advertisements because they put ads all over the page, but it's just AI running all of these fake news articles. Facebook. You have somebody fighting the comments on Facebook. Like we've had relatives, people I know who fight in the comments on Facebook. They get so worked up and then they find out that it's a fucking bot. And they were literally worked up for nothing on Facebook for hours. And it's because the whole goal of these bots, and which we'll get into in a second, who's controlling this? But the whole goal is to keep you engaged, to keep you angry, to keep you emotionally invested, fighting with all of these fucking bots, all of these fake accounts, and also, also to sway your opinion. This is where it gets crazy. There's 8 billion people on the planet, right? About 5.5 billion people have Internet access. Guess how many fake accounts meta the owners of Facebook and Instagram. Guess how many fake accounts meta deactivated just in the last six years?

[Jared]

7.3 billion.

[Shane Dawson]

27 billion fake accounts. 27 billion. So it is said last year, 49.6% of all Internet traffic, all of it was from bots. And this guy, Timothy Shoup from the Copenhagen Institute of Future Studies, predicts that in just two years, 99% of the Internet will be generated by artificial intelligence. 99%.

[Ryland Adams]

So not consuming, but creating.

[Shane Dawson]

Creating. And it's already happening.

[Sandy]

So people are going to get over.

[Shane Dawson]

It, you would think. Like it, it is to a point now where anything you post online, the comment section is insane and brutal, and the point is to make you engaged and angry and fight and fight. And then when you click on their account, they're not fucking real. So what is the point of this? Who's controlling this? Here's where the theory gets crazy. So the theory is that the powers that be, the people that control things, were like, oh, this is way more powerful than tv. This is way more powerful than the news. This is the big most powerful thing in the world. If we control this, we control the world. We control what people see, what people think, what people. You know, we literally control their minds. We can fucking brainwash people. AI can already brainwash people, right? We talked about that in the last episode. So now they created all these AIs, all these algorithms to completely control the Internet. But the problem is AI starts to recreate itself. Itself. AI starts to build on itself, because when AI gets smart enough, it creates AI underneath it. So now we've lost control. That's what he's saying. In two years, we've completely lost control. They created all these AI bots and all these algorithms, all these things, and now it's to a point where they can't control it. And now you have Mark Zuckerberg, who is doing something that is insane. Shout out Mark at Meta. His new plan is called AI Agent Agents. So what is that? AI agents are when you as a Facebook member or Instagram can create an AI version of yourself and it's your agent, you can make it do whatever you want, it can DM people for you, it can post videos and pictures for you, it could do anything you want. Now you're thinking, okay, that has to be far in the future. It's not. Remember, like four months ago we talked about this, Mr. Beast, Charli D'Amelio. There was all these celebrity weird videos and we were confused. We're like, what is this? Why are they allowing AI to do this? It's because they were testing it. That's when Meta was testing this feature. And that's what AI agents are going to be. Completely indistinguishable from reality. So it's already happening and it makes you think, what is this going to turn into? And why? When I'm on social media, I've never felt more depressed and more alone than when I'm scrolling Instagram reels. Or maybe for some of you, scrolling telling tick tock, your brain is rotting. You feel like you're getting lonelier and lonelier. And maybe it's because you're literally just interacting with fake people, which is the opposite of what the Internet was supposed to be, connecting with real people. But now that's gone crazy. So that's a dead Internet theory. It's getting out of hand. We're losing touch. And I think hopefully maybe there'll be a rebellion where people will turn away from that. But then again, where would the podcast go? I don't run up.

[Ryland Adams]

It would take the population to stop. And consumers aren't going to stop consuming the Internet because it's everyone's crutch. And I saw something the other day where it was like, you challenge yourself to be bored instead of like grabbing for your phone at every free moment. Because it is like we find ourselves grabbing in any free moment that we have. I mean, I don't know if all of you do, but, like, I'll be doing anything and I'm like, oh, grab my. And I'll catch myself grabbing my phone. And so lately I've just been trying to be like, oh, don't grab your phone.

[Shane Dawson]

And it's scary because even like with my emails, like we kind of talked about this on the main channel video, but literally I'll go to my emails now and before I even start typing, it's like, do you want to say this?

[Spencer]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ryland Adams]

Do you want to say this suggestion? And what's scary is they're, they're not. Not coming for any industry, every industry they're trying to take over. And so it is, it does like beg the question, where does that leave us, us as a society? How are we going to have jobs? How are we going to make income? What's money going to mean? And it's scary.

[Jared]

I kind of hope it just convolutes the whole situation to a degree and it makes people branch off and try to separate themselves from the whole AI movement. You know, they'll still be like, but.

[Ryland Adams]

You'D have to at least go off the Internet.

[Chris]

Well, and that's the thing I was going to say is that even like. So I know Instagram is going to have the AI agents, right? But for YouTube. YouTube for content creators, like, what if there's AI these people who are going to be vlogging.

[Ryland Adams]

They will, and it's going to be more entertaining.

[Chris]

How are you gonna even know if it's real or not?

[Shane Dawson]

It's such a. Yeah, it's getting, it's getting close. Like with all the apps and all the websites that now you can create influencers, like, it's getting close.

[Ryland Adams]

The amount of people I see that create content from using AI now is nuts. Especially in the real world and TikTok world.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Sandy]

I just hope enough people like Spencer was talking about become aware and get frustrated and like, I don't know if we have to like protest. I don't know if we have to like, but I hope something.

[Ryland Adams]

Well, we'd have to stop using the Internet, which none of us are gonna do. It's like agreeing to the iPhone. We're not gonna not agree to the iPhone. We're gonna use the iPhone.

[Sandy]

You can't put some kind of like really strict rule or regulation against it, you know?

[Ryland Adams]

I mean.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah, I hope so whatever happens, like, please, if you see a comment with an ass as a picture, like it don't interrupt. Fact is not real unless it is. And now I'm like ass shaving.

[Ryland Adams]

Yeah, wouldn't that be crazy? We just have a lot of only fans, models that watch and you're like, if you are one of those, let us know you're real. I hope that if that is a.

[Sandy]

Real person, I hope they comment multiple times too. Like, this is a real. My name's Cheryl.

[Ryland Adams]

In the comments.

[Shane Dawson]

Well, speaking of asses that talk.

[Ryland Adams]

Yeah, yeah.

[Shane Dawson]

Let's get to a recap. Light, camera, action.

[Ryland Adams]

Ryland's recap is about to happen. Ryland's recap. On today's episode of the Shane Dawson Podcast, Chris confirms what we already thought we knew. That he's super gay, but not super gay. Sporting two earrings, not just one. Which would be the most gay. I'm so confused on that.

[Shane Dawson]

I'd have gay. Chris's.

[Ryland Adams]

Multiple earrings are.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, right. We can't stop yapping.

[Ryland Adams]

Yappy, yappy.

[Shane Dawson]

You.

[Ryland Adams]

We're yapping, we're eating, we're cooking and cleaning. I don't know, a fourth one.

[Shane Dawson]

Cleaning. Wait, that could be good cleaning. Like, you're cleaning.

[Ryland Adams]

Oh, she clean.

[Shane Dawson]

She clean. She clean.

[Spencer]

She clean eater.

[Ryland Adams]

What she claim.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, we talked about death row. Death row meal. Meals, meals.

[Ryland Adams]

Oh, some of us got to share our death row meals, but only the favorites, because some of us still haven't expressed our favorite.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay, what is your favorite? Or what do you want to eat when you're about to die?

[Ryland Adams]

Now that you asked, Dry turkey. Honestly, Chick Fil A sounding really good. Like, just all I can eat, you know? Because sometimes I'm like, oh, this is bad for me. I shouldn't. But I'm doing the Mac and cheese, I'm doing the classic burger, I'm doing the fries, and I'm loading all of it with chick Fil A sauce.

[Shane Dawson]

Ooh.

[Ryland Adams]

I always want to be bad, but I'm never that bad. I do. Very bad.

[Jared]

It's your pleasure.

[Shane Dawson]

Poltergeist used real bodies.

[Ryland Adams]

Sick.

[Spencer]

In the news, they bring up stories like, sick, Disgusting.

[Ryland Adams]

Ever want to be a movie star? But it didn't happen for you. In this lifetime, make sure you sign up to. To be a donor after you go. You might just show up in movies such as the Poltergeist and other horror movies that can't afford to recreate real skulls.

[Jared]

Brutal.

[Ryland Adams]

There's hope for me.

[Jared]

The Santa Claus. Best holiday movie we can.

[Ryland Adams]

Oh, my gosh. If you're in search of the best holiday movie ever, look no further than the Santa Claus. You don't need Jingle all the Way. You don't need Home Alone. You don't need the Nightmare Before Christmas or even the one that shows Shane mentioned I've never seen before. Just stop in your tracks right at the Santa Claus. And seriously, stop there. You don't need one or two, three or four.

[Shane Dawson]

Rylan's the only person that hates lush.

[Ryland Adams]

Ooh, I hate lush. I'm sorry. To that corporation. I mean, I really did drag them. So if you guys like lush. I'm not here to yuck your yum. I just will never join you.

[Spencer]

Dolly Parton is tatted up.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh.

[Ryland Adams]

Oh, okay, hold on, everyone.

[Shane Dawson]

He got Sabrina Carpenter tickets, so he's not here with us.

[Ryland Adams]

I'm checked out. I'm just, like, trying to get to Friday. Okay. Ever thought Dolly Parton? What was the story, Jared? Talk about Dolly Parton. We have a special correspondent.

[Spencer]

Jerry, have you ever wondered why you.

[Jared]

Why you can't see Dolly Parton's arms?

[Ryland Adams]

This is like an AI YouTube channel.

[Jared]

It's possibly because she got tattoos. I don't know. I'm losing it.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay, let's do one more. The Internet's dead.

[Ryland Adams]

Oh, my gosh. That was my genuine reaction. Well, I realized you teased us. She said, like, oh, we're going to talk about things we're thankful for just a little later. We never talked about anything we were.

[Jared]

Thankful for, but we'll just say, Sabrina Carpenter tickets.

[Ryland Adams]

That and all of you watching at home. And we're thankful for you shopping Shane Dawson's merch. Shane Dawson merch dot com. And tuning into this podcast every other week, where we'll see you again here in two weeks.

[Sandy]

Okay.

[Shane Dawson]

Yes. We are so thankful. Honestly, this is. In my opinion, I think this has been the best year of the podcast. I really do. We've had so much fun every time. We've tried new things, tried different things. Spencer joined. I think you joined this year.

[Jared]

Right? I can't see him, though, in that camouflage.

[Ryland Adams]

I have to go to bed.

[Shane Dawson]

All right.

[Spencer]

That joke at the end of the episode.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah. Well, thank you, guys. We're thankful for you. And, yeah, we'll see you guys here in a couple weeks. And, yeah, we're going to go. All right, bye. Good boy.