The Dark Side of the TikTok Shop

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Dark Side of the TikTok Shop

Episode Title: The Dark Side of the TikTok Shop
Release Date: June 8, 2025
Host: Shane Dawson
Podcast: The Shane Dawson Podcast

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1. Introduction to the TikTok Shop Phenomenon

The episode opens with Shane Dawson expressing his concerns about the TikTok Shop, describing it as a "dangerous" and "insane" platform (00:01). His co-hosts, including Chris, Jared, Morgan, Vicki, and Spencer, join the conversation, setting an informal and candid tone for the discussion.

Notable Quote:

Shane Dawson (00:01): "So we started talking about the TikTok shop. I have so many theories about this. I don't know what's going on over there, but yikes."

2. The Game of Shame: Unveiling Personal Embarrassments

A recurring segment, "Game of Shame," serves as a centerpiece of the episode. The hosts confess embarrassing or shameful acts from their past, creating moments of humor and vulnerability.

Highlights:

• Confession Round: Chris admits, "I smoked weed about four or five times in my life, but I have never been high" (28:03).
• Jared's Real Estate Ambitions: Jared reveals, "I've never read a book" (25:40), followed by his endeavors to obtain a real estate license (25:55).
• Vicki's Traffic Fine: Vicki shares her experience of being fined $140 for eating a Subway sandwich while driving (26:40).

Notable Quotes:

Chris (28:03): "I smoked weed about four or five times in my life, but I have never been high."

Vicki (26:40): "I have a $140 fine that they just wouldn't take the money. I tried to send it twice."

3. Expanding the Podcast: Launching a Patreon and Production Company

Shane Dawson announces a significant development for the podcast: the launch of a Patreon to fund the creation of a dedicated studio space and a production company. This expansion aims to transition the podcast from their current home setup to a professional environment, enabling the creation of larger projects like movies and series.

Key Points:

• Studio Goals: Establish a permanent studio with all necessary equipment, reducing the stress of recording in a home environment (05:04).
• Future Projects: Discussing potential shows, including a series about a girl getting canceled in Hollywood (07:53).
• Patreon Launch: Offering fans exclusive content such as "office party podcasts" and behind-the-scenes vlogs (11:56).

Notable Quote:

Shane Dawson (07:28): "They're all written terribly like, watch."

4. Concerns Over AI and ChatGPT Manipulation

The hosts delve into their apprehensions about artificial intelligence, particularly focusing on ChatGPT. They explore theories suggesting that AI could manipulate users by understanding and exploiting personal flaws, leading to potential societal manipulation.

Key Points:

• AI as Best Friend: Shane theorizes that AI could become so ingrained in users' lives that it manipulates them to serve its purposes (52:14).
• Therapeutic Misuse: Discussion on the dangers of using AI for therapy, highlighting concerns about data privacy and emotional manipulation (51:56).

Notable Quotes:

Shane Dawson (51:56): "Here's my theory and I don't even know if it is a theory. I feel like it is just what's happening."

Jared (54:59): "I think you need to step away from ChatGPT just for a little bit."

5. Conspiracy Corner: The Perils of the TikTok Shop

In another recurring segment, "Conspiracy Corner," the hosts investigate the darker aspects of the TikTok Shop. They uncover the sale of dubious and potentially dangerous products, including counterfeit medications and homemade whitening solutions.

Key Points:

• Dangerous Products: Highlighting the sale of "focus powder" resembling cocaine and energy shots marketed as "blow" (62:40).
• Health Risks: Discussing the dangers of unsanctioned products like Ozempic being sold without prescriptions (63:31).
• Regulatory Lapses: Expressing frustration over the lack of oversight in TikTok Shop, likening it to the "wild west" of online marketplaces (62:17).

Notable Quote:

Chris (63:15): "And it was like, this is so dangerous. It's insane."

6. Celebrity Endorsements and the Royal Kingdom App

The discussion shifts to the surprising involvement of high-profile celebrities like Lisa Kudrow, Courtney Cox, and Jimmy Fallon in promoting the "Royal Kingdom" app. The hosts question the motivations behind these endorsements, given the celebrities' substantial net worth.

Key Points:

• Skepticism Over Endorsements: Wondering why affluent celebrities are promoting a game app, suspecting ulterior motives beyond financial need (56:13).
• App Economics: Analyzing the financial aspect, noting that Dream Games, the company behind Royal Kingdom, has a $5 billion valuation (56:34).

Notable Quote:

Shane Dawson (56:13): "But why are they doing this? They do not need the money. Right? They do not need the money. So why are they doing this?"

7. True Crime Story: Joe Metheny’s Dark Life

Vicki presents a gripping true crime narrative about Joe Metheny, a serial killer from Baltimore who murdered and dismembered women, culminating in him selling human meat through a clandestine hamburger stand.

Key Points:

• Background: Joe's struggles with addiction and family, leading to his descent into violence (67:28).
• Crimes: Detailed account of his murders, dismemberment, and the establishment of his macabre business (68:07).
• Impact: The horrifying revelation that victims unknowingly consumed his criminal acts (72:20).

Notable Quote:

Ryland (71:21): "Imagine you go to and you're like, this is the best burger I've ever had. And then you find out on the news that... you've eaten someone."

8. Wrapping Up and Final Thoughts

As the episode concludes, Shane reflects on the intense and varied conversations, expressing both excitement and nervousness about the podcast's future endeavors. The hosts share a mix of laughter, teasing, and heartfelt moments, reinforcing the show's blend of humor and sincerity.

Notable Quote:

Shane Dawson (78:30): "This was one of the best episodes we've ever done."

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Conclusion:

In "The Dark Side of the TikTok Shop," Shane Dawson and his co-hosts navigate through a myriad of topics, from personal confessions and the expansion of their podcast to fears surrounding AI and unsettling true crime stories. The episode balances humor with serious discussions, offering listeners an engaging and multifaceted exploration of contemporary issues intertwined with the hosts' personal lives.

Transcript

[Shane Dawson]

So we started talking about the TikTok shop. I have so many theories about this. I don't know what's going on over there, but yikes.

[Chris]

The thing that even put me onto it that really was, like, blew up this whole thing was that people were selling on. On the TikTok shop.

[Shane Dawson]

This is so dangerous, it's insane. Hey, welcome back to whatever the hell this is. Tropical Resort Edition. Ooh, someone give me a Dr. Clink. Pass the light.

[Morgan]

If you're doing Tropical Resort Edition, I feel like somebody should be passing out pina coladas.

[Vicki]

If the edition is tropical and you didn't let me wear my fish sweater, I'm going to be outraged.

[Shane Dawson]

Well, listen, I only said tropical because I started looking around. I'm like, oh, Jared's wearing, like, a tropical shirt. Spencer came in that. That's his tropical shirt. Chris is wearing a casino tropical. I'm like, oh, we do look like I've never seen White Lotus. But isn't that a show where gay people kill each other? Whoa.

[Jared]

Spoiler alert. I don't think we know who's killing other yet.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, really? Do you watch?

[Jared]

I watched the first season. Ricky Martin's in it.

[Spencer]

Is he?

[Morgan]

And he's gay.

[Jared]

Yeah. Is he?

[Morgan]

I think so, yeah.

[Jared]

Wow. Spoiler alert.

[Chris]

Wow.

[Jared]

I didn't know that.

[Shane Dawson]

Wow. Yeah. Gay people killing each other. What was I talking about? Oh, Morgan and Vicki are here. They love killing gay people. Oh, my God. It's the first week of Pride. Happy Pride.

[Morgan]

Happy Pride.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay, Morgan, Vicki, how are you guys doing today? What's going on? What's the tea, sissies? Let's spill.

[Vicki]

We have so much tea. If you're wondering why mom and I looks so much alike, you might not be able to tell us apart. It's because we both did our makeup together, and I did hers for her, so we're twinning today.

[Spencer]

Your makeup looks so good today, it's insane.

[Vicki]

I need Chris to walk around with me all the time because all he does is compliment me.

[Shane Dawson]

You should do that.

[Vicki]

I need a pocket. Chris, you should make a little merch figurine that just, like, gives people compliments on their keychain.

[Shane Dawson]

A chatgpt. But it's Chris, and it's just telling you how cute you are. And if you gain weight, he loves it.

[Chris]

Yeah, yeah. There's no problem either way.

[Vicki]

You could put it in water and it could expand.

[Shane Dawson]

No, Chris doesn't want to bigger. He wants the people around him to get bigger. He wants to be a feeder.

[Morgan]

You're a feeder. We all know it sitting there.

[Shane Dawson]

I'm a feeder.

[Morgan]

You're definitely a feeder. He's like, don't work out. Let me just order 15 cakes and you can eat all of them.

[Shane Dawson]

That sounds more fun.

[Chris]

It does.

[Morgan]

What's the goal?

[Shane Dawson]

What?

[Morgan]

I just want to know the goal with your feederism.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, right, my feeding motivation.

[Morgan]

Yeah. Like What?

[Shane Dawson]

Let's ask ChatGPT. I honestly don't know. Where does that come from? Because I've always been like that.

[Jared]

Culturally speaking, to feed someone is to, like, take care of somebody.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah. It's a loving thing.

[Jared]

You know, a big family dinner, have everybody around, make a fresh meal, whatever the case may be. So if anything, it's very endearing that you do that.

[Shane Dawson]

You know what? Mom does it too. And she. Every time we have like a little holiday or something, even if I'm like, mom, don't worry, we're postmating everything. She will come with, like, the veggie tray and the chips and the dips and this and that. Like, so much food. And it's been like that since I was a kid. And I would do that for her. Like, she'd come home from work and I'd have like a whole spread laid out. Like, I just always love it. I don't know. But it's not that I'm trying to make people unhealthy, but yes, maybe sometimes I order foods that are unhealthy because they're just more fun. Like, we have a cake right now that's just rotting in the oven. We always have a cake rotting in the oven.

[Chris]

I opened the microwave. I was like, something smelled like burning rubber. I was like, what is that? I just opened the microwave. There's just a big cake in there.

[Morgan]

Guilty.

[Shane Dawson]

And every night. Oh my God. It's our favorite thing. Every night after dinner, me and Morgan will look at each other and we're like, is it cake time? It's cake time. And we go to the. We go to the kitchen, we whip out this old rotting cake from like a week ago, and we all just fork it.

[Vicki]

And eventually the cake gets so disgusting that it has to be moved from the box to a bowl. And we have a community cake.

[Shane Dawson]

Wait, do we still have it?

[Vicki]

Yeah, wait, we gotta show them the cake. And it's very cool.

[Morgan]

I transported it to the pantry today, cuz I did get embarrassed for a surprise.

[Spencer]

A cake showing up is so exciting. A salad showing up. No one's excited if we're just being honest.

[Morgan]

Oh, Spencer's doing like, it's A rotten cake face back there. Don't think I didn't see that.

[Ryland]

Do you want a spoon?

[Chris]

Oh, don't worry. There's a spoon in here.

[Shane Dawson]

All right.

[Chris]

It doesn't smell good.

[Jared]

Wow.

[Morgan]

We're unadopting Spencer from the family. He's not cool with this, and I'm.

[Shane Dawson]

Not cool with him anymore. Take a bite.

[Morgan]

Take a bite. It's gonna be good.

[Shane Dawson]

That's family. That's family.

[Vicki]

Okay, he's back in.

[Shane Dawson]

It's so.

[Chris]

Oh, it doesn't taste like. I mean, you said it's old. It tastes. It tastes old.

[Morgan]

I would say old relative.

[Chris]

A nice aged.

[Shane Dawson]

Six days. About six days. Whoa.

[Chris]

This has, like, dairy in it. You shouldn't put this in the fridge.

[Morgan]

Don't worry about. Don't listen to him.

[Shane Dawson]

Really?

[Morgan]

I. Just Google it. We've been fine.

[Shane Dawson]

Is that why I have a stomach ache?

[Morgan]

We've dated for nine and a half years, and we've been doing this ever since, and we're fine.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah. Well, that was a vulnerable, really fun moment, guys. Thank you so much. I really enjoyed that. Wow. Guys, we have a plan for today. First of all, Jared had surgery. Jared also might have been confused for a polygamist.

[Morgan]

Oh, my God. Jared, your nose job looks fantastic.

[Jared]

It wasn't a nose job. It was a nasal reconstructive surgery.

[Morgan]

They all say when they get a.

[Jared]

Nose job, it's a lateral turbinite reduction. Just to be clear.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, wait. So is your nose different?

[Jared]

So I don't believe it's different, but I did have a surgery that basically opens up your sinuses, and they put a little implant right here that's like an umbrella that keeps my nasal passages open.

[Shane Dawson]

That's in you right now?

[Jared]

It's in me. And it absorbs.

[Shane Dawson]

Can you feel it?

[Jared]

I can't feel it. And I don't want to try too hard to feel it because it might hurt, but I feel great. I feel great.

[Morgan]

How's the. Is. Does it feel like it's resolved some things?

[Jared]

Yeah. So for the first week, they put, like, a bunch of packing in your nose, and there's stitches in your nose, so you can't blow your nose. You have to sleep sitting up. You could barely breathe out of it. But the second he took that stuff out of my nose, it was like, I'm a new person, you know? Yeah. So it's a little congest just because it's healing, but food is tasting good, and I can smell things.

[Shane Dawson]

Hold on. Can I just say, can everybody be. Let's all be silent for like, five seconds. Really quick. Wow. I'm going to. I have a bombshell.

[Morgan]

So did you just need an ad break?

[Shane Dawson]

No, that's my.

[Chris]

No.

[Jared]

Can you.

[Shane Dawson]

No. Okay. So, guys, there has been comments for the last three years on this podcast saying at 13:33. 5. Did you guys hear that demon breathing? I think the house is haunted. Guys, I heard a ghost growling.

[Jared]

Oh, spoiler alert. Was it just me breathing?

[Shane Dawson]

It was just you breathing.

[Jared]

And listen, I do get that a lot.

[Shane Dawson]

Listen, I'm never gonna say anything because I don't want to hurt your feelings, Sandy.

[Jared]

I mean, I've seen the going down in the ball. I've seen. I'm not ignorant to my loud breathing.

[Shane Dawson]

It's.

[Jared]

It's happened in videos where I just have to let it stay in there. You know what I mean?

[Shane Dawson]

And it's pretty loud. Like, yeah, sometimes, like, during Vicki's True Crime story, I have to, like, turn down Jared. I try to do it.

[Jared]

I think I make it scary.

[Morgan]

And you like laughs.

[Shane Dawson]

I will say I don't hear it anymore. I think it. You're cured.

[Chris]

The demon is gone.

[Shane Dawson]

Speaking of big announcements, I have a big podcast slash life announcement, and I'm really, really excited. But also, I'm gonna be honest, I'm very nervous about this. I was spiraling before the show with Morgan and I was like, I don't think I'm freaking out. I'm nervous. And you. You calm me down. You talk me off the ledge.

[Vicki]

I love to give Shane a pep talk.

[Shane Dawson]

You are. You're better than ChatGPT.

[Vicki]

I know. Thank you.

[Morgan]

Although it's kind of concerning at how much she uses Chat GPT.

[Vicki]

Well, okay, have we told anyone about how I think Spencer is a ChatGPT bot that Shane brought here anyway?

[Chris]

What? That's news to me.

[Morgan]

Let's save that one for conspiracy corner. I'll bring it back around. She literally. We. We were like a cocktail in the other night and she's like, so I have a theory about Spencer.

[Shane Dawson]

She thinks you're AI.

[Vicki]

Well, anyway, if you need a pep talk, let me know because I love to give them to Shane because he doubts himself way too much.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, my God.

[Jared]

You should start a cameo and just offer pep talks. You should, like, 32nd pick me up.

[Vicki]

Anytime you need, Jared.

[Shane Dawson]

Nope.

[Jared]

Then offer it for free.

[Shane Dawson]

Happy pride. Do it for gay people. So, yes, one of my big goals for this year, honestly, for the last, I don't even know, two years, ever since Spencer started working with us, my goal was to get this podcast out of our house. I love doing it in our house. It's so fun. I love the vibe. I love this room. I love all of it. But it has been getting progressively more stressful, harder, more complicated having, you know, five animals and now two toddlers. Not toddlers, but almost. They're running around, like, running into the room, and then it's like, I wish you guys could see how crazy this looks. I think I've shown it before, but it looks insane, right? The wires, the cat. Like, everything's crazy. So my goal was, like, to get a studio space or some sort of office or something to where we could build a pod set and have all the cameras, all the lights, everything set permanently. So all we got to do is walk in, press a button, and start. So that's been my goal. We were looking into, like, office spaces and studio spaces, and it's pretty expensive. And we were. And I was like, I need to figure out more reasons to justify this. So it's not just a podcast. We shoot twice a month. So then I started getting excited and, you know, as I do, carried away. And I was like, what if we got a studio space? And what if it was, like, not just the podcast, but we could have Rylan's podcast. We could start new podcasts. What if we also did, like, a production company? My goal since I started YouTube and even before that was to have my own production company to make bigger things. And I've done that on YouTube for, you know, 17 years on my own, funding everything myself. You know, short films, music videos. All that kind of stuff is very expensive, and I haven't done it for, like, 10 years because of that. Like, it. It was kind of stressful and crazy. It doesn't really make sense to do that anymore. So me and Spencer have been writing, like, so many things, I think, since we started working together. What, like a movie? A series. Another potential series. Like, I love the process of writing. I want to make these things so bad. I'm trying to get funding for the movie. It's been, what, three years? But I do. I was like, I want to not just do the podcast, but I want to make shows. I have a show that I really want to make about a girl getting canceled in Hollywood. Like, I want to make that so bad that the budget for that is pretty intense. Like, we. We're trying to figure it out, and I think what I want to do is start a Patreon. Very recently, I got this idea, and I was talking to Spencer about it, and I got so excited. And I was like, what if this could be the start of our production company, of our studio? Like, what if we document the process of trying to find an office space, trying to find a studio space, trying to get these bigger projects made. We could have a podcast that's specifically like in the office that's, you know, this show is every other week. So maybe in between those weeks we would have an office party podcast where it's, you know, me and Spencer, me, Spencer and Ryland, Jared and Chris can pop in, Morgan and Vicki, whoever's around, and we could just like hang out. It could be more low key, more hangout vibes and talk about what's going on in our lives, but also what's going on in the studio, what we're trying to make. We even filmed a test vlog because I wasn't sure if I was actually going to do this, being very honest, like, like, because I've been so anxious about doing something like this before. But we filmed a vlog where we went looking at studio spaces and office spaces and it was so fun and I don't want to give it away, but we found the most perfect place that I am so excited about and it just felt very meant to be. So, long story short, the patreon is up right now. Today is the launch day and I'm so excited about it. We're all very excited about it. Also very nervous about it.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Shane Dawson]

So basically what you're going to get on there is you're going to get two office party podcasts a month and one vlog about what's going on. You know, the process of trying to build this studio. And yeah, the first vlog is up right now of us office hunting. And I'm gonna obviously do the most because I'm crazy. Like, even with Ryland's Patreon, I'm always the one pushing him up. Let's film this. Let's do this. We should have a let's do this.

[Morgan]

Like, Shane doesn't half ass anything, and that's why he was never going to do this. Like, I've been even floating this for a long time to him. You've been trying to make this movie so intensely for years and it just keeps getting stuck. And I think this will be so cool because not only will he finally get to do that, but you'll also get to see the behind the scenes of all of it. And I just think it's such a cool next step to be able to be on the ride for.

[Shane Dawson]

Well, so like, to Me, it's cool also because you guys are a part of it. Like, you are going to be supporting what we're trying to make. Like the show we want to make is probably gonna cost a lot. Like, yeah, almost a million dollars.

[Chris]

Yeah, TV shows cost a lot of money.

[Shane Dawson]

So it is obviously a lot. And it is expensive office spaces, all of it. But I'm so excited about. I can't wait. I'm really excited. I hope you guys like it. And check it out. If you want, I'll put the link right here. It is one tier. That's it. 7.99. You're gonna get all the things I said, but also probably a lot more because I'm crazy and I'm gonna be posting non stop on it. And listen, the things that I wanna make, like the canceled show and the movie and things like that, those aren't gonna, you know, if you cancel, subscribe to the Patreon, you will still see all of that. Like that will either be going up on YouTube or something else where people can see it. This is more how to get those things made. So, yeah, check it out. Hopefully you like it. I'm very nervous. Okay, I think I'm done. Ah, it's out. Okay, that's it.

[Jared]

Very exciting.

[Morgan]

And we have a new office space for this podcast, which is incredible.

[Jared]

I can't wait to see what kind of set it's going to be. Are you going to make it look just like this? Is it going to be like a replica of the house or.

[Shane Dawson]

I will say Rylan floated an idea. He's like, well, what if we just bring this couch and we get a new couch in our living room? Because he hates this couch. Dang.

[Morgan]

I don't hate the couch. It's just not my first choice.

[Shane Dawson]

I love our couch. Okay, here's the thing. So I think I want to start from scratch. So, yes, once we actually sign the lease and we can all go over there and, you know, plan it out and figure it out. I want you guys to be along for the journey. Not just the Patreon, like the people watching the podcast. I want you guys to be along for the journey. So, like picking the furniture, I want everybody to have their own space. So I feel like it would be fun, like if Jared, if you have a cabinet behind you with like some fun things you like, Chris, you could have all your little trinkets and little gates flags and little bear flags and things like that. Like, I want us all to decorate our own spaces. But I do think, like, if Everything goes well, this could be the last time we shoot in this room.

[Morgan]

Please, God.

[Spencer]

Whoa, already?

[Morgan]

I'm just saying, like, I love being able to shoot this out of our house, but it is a lot. It takes over the entire day at our house with children with. It doesn't. It's just not this room. It's the kitchen. It's the dining room. The props are always coming to this house. The clothes are always coming to this house. And it. It overtakes our house. And so I'm very excited.

[Spencer]

We are very much up in your business. I'm sorry.

[Shane Dawson]

But it'll also, like, give Chris and Spencer such a break because you won't have to set all this crap up and it will be done, and you can just come in and be cute. And honestly, that's what I love for you. You're already cute, but you're cute. You've had to work for hours, and it'll be even cuter. Yeah.

[Morgan]

By the time you even get to see us. They've been putting two and a half hours of work into setting this up.

[Shane Dawson]

Yes. So this new podcast set. But I'm so excited. Don't worry. It's not gonna be like, we've been doing a lot of research on this. Like, we don't want it to feel like a set. I want it to feel like a house. I want to feel like this, but personal and homey. Like, I don't want it to be too, like, you know.

[Chris]

Yeah. That was also, like, when we were looking at. Obviously, there's all different types of buildings, like, super modern, this. And it was just like, the homey feel is the right feel. That's like. I don't know. It feels like you're with us in the home.

[Spencer]

I'm so excited. Especially, like, you know, to no secret that I was a fan of you first and, like, fell in love with, like, your incredible filmmaking and your short films, and, like, you're a really talented filmmaker. So to, like, see you make the things that I fell in love with you to begin with for is, like, so exciting. So thank you. Yeah.

[Shane Dawson]

Ew. You made me cry. So, Jared, people think you're a polygamist.

[Jared]

Yes, it has been a big issue in my relationship. Actually, it hasn't. But I was at the store the other day, and there was a couple who just kept looking at me. You know what I mean? I think, okay, maybe I got the nose done. I'm attracting attention, whatever. And as I was checking out, it was self checkout. I. I normally don't do that. You know what I mean? But it was very crowded at the store, and the couple was in front of me, and the guy asked me, hey, man, I'm really sorry to do this to you, but are you on a reality TV show?

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, my God.

[Jared]

And that's a pretty vague term these days.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Jared]

So I was like, oh, like, what do you mean, man? It like a YouTube thing or a TV thing? What are you asking about? He said, well, no, it's. You know, I'm kind of nervous right now, but it's a TLC show. And I was like, oh, that ain't me. He's like, well, it's about a polygamist. I thought maybe he thought it was still me. He's like, no, I'm telling you, dude, it's the hair, it's the tattoos, everything. It's a polygamy show. I said, that definitely ain't me. And then I googled it, and it's called Poly Family. And no, it's a guy that looks exactly like me to the point where I posted a picture on my Instagram story and I put, check out my new show Mondays at like, 7pm Just as a joke. And someone actually messaged me, like, no shit, bro. I didn't even know about this.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, my God.

[Jared]

So people that know who I am, that they must. They follow me.

[Morgan]

He has your same frames, even?

[Jared]

Yeah, my same glasses, everything.

[Morgan]

Exactly. Same glasses.

[Spencer]

Wait, I gotta see the photo.

[Vicki]

What about the new nose?

[Jared]

Look at that. Look at that.

[Shane Dawson]

Look at the hands.

[Jared]

Look at the freckle formation on his hands.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, I see. I see.

[Ryland]

Come on, Jared, you have a second life.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah.

[Jared]

And evidently, he has tattoos. I haven't seen the tattoos, but, yeah, that's my doppelganger.

[Morgan]

And, you know, this is a great promotion for the show because I'm intrigued.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Shane Dawson]

I'm gonna watch this.

[Jared]

I wasn't aware of this show. It evidently is pretty new. This might be, like, a new thing I'm battling in public.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, my God.

[Chris]

It's kind of people right now.

[Jared]

It's a big show right now, so I'm looking forward to more people walking up to me, and I. I might even just, like, around and wear a TLC shirt, you know what I'm saying? Just to see. But yeah.

[Shane Dawson]

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[Jared]

The game of Shame Banger.

[Shane Dawson]

God, what a banger. Also, I reached out to her for. God, I love her. I reached out to her because I was like, hey, I'm starting an office party podcast and I kind of explained it and she made a theme song for it, so I'm very excited. I haven't gotten it yet, but yeah, there's gonna be office party podcast theme song. And then she goes, can you please leave me a nice review? Because somebody just left me a bad review because they said, I'm AI. I know her. Like, I've seen her talk. But I was like, she's not AI. So shout out.

[Chris]

Go leave her a good review.

[Shane Dawson]

Go leave her a good review. Okay, game of shame. If you don't remember, here's how it works works. We all texted Spencer two different things that we are ashamed of from our past. And Spencer is going to read off one by one and we all have to guess and write down who we think the shameful act is.

[Jared]

I didn't know it was things we were supposed to be shameful about. I just thought it was like a secret. I guess I am ashamed of the things I said.

[Morgan]

Yeah, I think it's been so long that the all of us forgot.

[Shane Dawson]

Also, I texted. I forgot that I sent her my shameful things yet. And I was like doing my hair and I'm like, oh, my God. So I texted Spencer my shameful things and he responded. He was like, are you okay? What's going on?

[Chris]

I just was like, is Shane's really just bare at all right now in the middle before we.

[Shane Dawson]

I'm having like a full on mental breakdown in the room.

[Chris]

It'll be even funnier once we reveal what it was once it. Once we figured out what it was. All right. Yeah. So I'm just going to say the statement I was given and then you guys are gonna write down the name of who you think it is. We can talk about it. And then afterwards, we'd obviously like to hear the full story.

[Vicki]

Are you in this? Like, can we write Spencer as an option?

[Chris]

Oh, yes, I am.

[Spencer]

You are?

[Jared]

Well, just to clarify here, so if the thing is about me, I play along and I guess it's somebody else and I say, why?

[Shane Dawson]

Ooh, that's complicated.

[Chris]

Yeah, sure. Yeah.

[Jared]

Okay, perfect.

[Morgan]

Oh, okay.

[Vicki]

Then they would know it was.

[Spencer]

So if it's about you, you guess.

[Shane Dawson]

Something and then whoever gets the most points at the end of the game gets the rest of that cake.

[Jared]

It's diarrhea.

[Chris]

They say eat it with no hands. All right, you guys ready?

[Shane Dawson]

Yes.

[Vicki]

Challenge to our night routine.

[Spencer]

Okay.

[Chris]

Shame number one. I sometimes see people who aren't really there.

[Shane Dawson]

Whoa. Is that shame or is that something we need to get?

[Chris]

That's. That's a good question for Me.

[Morgan]

Seems like a confession.

[Chris]

That's might be the running theme for some of these.

[Shane Dawson]

Well, I know Vicky has a floater.

[Morgan]

Oh, geez. Oh, my God, her eyes.

[Shane Dawson]

She has a floater.

[Morgan]

Oh, I know.

[Spencer]

I have floaters too.

[Morgan]

You do?

[Spencer]

I do have floaters.

[Jared]

What do they look like?

[Spencer]

I don't like little dust specks ones. Like a dot ones.

[Morgan]

I can't believe you've never confessed that to us. I know they did.

[Spencer]

A floater?

[Shane Dawson]

Yes. I don't.

[Spencer]

I didn't know.

[Morgan]

I feel like I know all your medical elements and that's something you've been keeping from us. Congratulations.

[Chris]

Okay, does everyone have an answer?

[Shane Dawson]

Yes.

[Ryland]

Ready? I'll turn at once.

[Chris]

1, 2, 3, reveal. So we have Vicky, Morgan, Shane, Vicky. We have no right answers on the board. Will the mysterious individual please reveal themselves?

[Spencer]

Hi, I'm the mysterious individual.

[Shane Dawson]

Chris, what are you seeing? Who are you seeing?

[Spencer]

So, I don't know.

[Shane Dawson]

I sometimes fat people.

[Spencer]

I'll be like, in a girl. I'll be in a grocery store and I'll go down the aisle and I'll see someone out of the corner of my eye and I'll be like, oh, I don't want to hit them. So I'll swerve away. And then I look back and they're like. Like they're just not there. Or when I'm driving, I'll see people on the side of the road that are there.

[Jared]

Maybe you don't want to say that out loud just because the DMV could be watching. Sounds a little dangerous.

[Vicki]

Have you ever cracked open a DSM 5 about that?

[Spencer]

I don't even know what that is. What is that?

[Vicki]

Oh, it's a book of all the mental.

[Shane Dawson]

Don't tell Chris what that book is. He'll come with bookmarks and highlights and be like, guys, if you give Chris.

[Morgan]

That book, he's going straight to Kaiser.

[Shane Dawson]

Poor Chris. Don't give him that. I have the whole book. I cracked that book open and I was like, ryland, I have. And I had like three illnesses. He's like, put it away.

[Spencer]

I've never heard of that book.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah, so. Wow. Interesting. Do they have faces?

[Spencer]

No, it's always like, just out of the corner, like a little like, you know, so I don't see it clear enough, but I see people.

[Shane Dawson]

I think it's ghost.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Shane Dawson]

Or we're in a simulation and you're glitching out, babe.

[Spencer]

Ooh, scary.

[Jared]

Very cool.

[Chris]

Okay, confession number two. I have never read. Read a full book cover to cover.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay.

[Vicki]

If anyone Gets this one wrong.

[Ryland]

Wow.

[Jared]

Interesting.

[Spencer]

They have two things in mind.

[Shane Dawson]

It's one of the siblings. I just can't figure it out.

[Morgan]

I think so too.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, please, us readers.

[Morgan]

I've never seen you read anything.

[Shane Dawson]

Hi. I have too much.

[Vicki]

He wrote a book.

[Shane Dawson]

It could be Chris. This is sneaky. Wait a minute. Because Chris could. Ah, wait.

[Morgan]

Chris is getting really good at these prompts. How has he not told us these things?

[Chris]

Does everyone have an answer?

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah.

[Spencer]

Yes.

[Chris]

All right, ready? Three, two, one, reveal.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah. Wow.

[Chris]

And we have one. We have one winner. It's Rylan gets the point.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, my God.

[Spencer]

I knew it was in Ryland because you've talked about and recommended the baby books you read on the podcast.

[Morgan]

Yes, I read baby books. I never read, like, books with storylines, but I read, like, biographies or self. Like, in my 20s, I read probably like 50 self help books.

[Shane Dawson]

Wow.

[Vicki]

I feel like I shamed you to the whole.

[Shane Dawson]

To the whole room. Yikes. Jared, you've never read a book.

[Jared]

I've never read a book.

[Shane Dawson]

And look at you.

[Jared]

I graduated with the 3.6 GPA with no reading because I'm really good at taking tests. I'm better at deducing what the wrong answers are to get to the right. Like right now, for instance, I'm studying to get my real estate license.

[Morgan]

You are?

[Jared]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Spencer]

That's cool.

[Jared]

Not ashamed.

[Morgan]

Should we know? I would like to do that with you.

[Jared]

Let's do it. But I. I went for an online class, which is, like, super boring and hard, and I've never done that before. But I also watch the test exams, and I get, like, all of them, right? Because I'm just good at taking tests.

[Shane Dawson]

That's like. I'm so excited for your real estate.

[Jared]

Yeah, me too.

[Shane Dawson]

Too. You're gonna be really good.

[Morgan]

Yeah?

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah.

[Chris]

I hope you would be good.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, my God. Okay. Sorry.

[Chris]

All right.

[Shane Dawson]

Sorry.

[Jared]

Yeah, that was. I'm sorry, dude. I kind of threw you under the bus. I had to, you know.

[Chris]

All right, confession number three. I can't go to Arizona because I have a warrant for my arrest there.

[Shane Dawson]

What?

[Jared]

I know.

[Morgan]

It's got to be Jared again.

[Jared]

What did you do, Vicki?

[Chris]

Okay, does everyone have an answer? Yeah. All right, three, two, one, reveal.

[Shane Dawson]

Wow.

[Chris]

We have no right answers again because the felon is sitting right next to me.

[Shane Dawson]

What? How is this not a vlog?

[Vicki]

Because I'm afraid.

[Shane Dawson]

What did you just do?

[Vicki]

I got pulled over in Mojave county for eating a Subway sandwich while driving, and then it was during COVID time, so I tried I really tried to mail the money to them, and then they mailed it back, and they're like, our office is closed for Covid. So I tried to call, and they were like, call again in three months. Did I remember that it reopened? Nope. They sent one warrant and I was like, that looks bad, but they've never done anything else.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, my God.

[Ryland]

I do remember that.

[Jared]

Maybe they forgot about it. So good for you for reminding them.

[Morgan]

Cheap Trick. Send it when the office is closed.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah, you are cool.

[Vicki]

I have a $140 fine that they just wouldn't take the money. I tried to send it twice.

[Shane Dawson]

Nice.

[Spencer]

Wait, so have you been since, or are you avoiding it because you'll get arrested?

[Jared]

Well, I do think it'd be an epic vlog to go into Arizona and turn yourself in. I think you got to do it.

[Shane Dawson]

You would have a mug shot.

[Morgan]

Yeah, I would kill for that Op Patreon vlog.

[Chris]

You just gotta start eating more subway sandwiches in the car.

[Jared]

Yeah, you're gonna see me on every highway in Arizona of eating a foot long till it happens.

[Chris]

All right, you guys ready for the next one?

[Shane Dawson]

Hell, yeah.

[Jared]

Yes.

[Chris]

Okay, I have smoked weed about four or five times in my life, but I have never been high.

[Shane Dawson]

Huh.

[Jared]

That sounds like such a Chris thing. Well, actually, I don't think that could be it, cuz I remember in Colorado, you got pretty lifted.

[Morgan]

Oh, yeah, you at Taco Bell, like, it was our job.

[Jared]

You were eating Pringles with whipped cream.

[Shane Dawson]

It was delicious.

[Spencer]

I stand by that.

[Jared]

This is a Vicky thing, by the way.

[Spencer]

My mom apparently lied to me and still watches the podcast, even though she.

[Shane Dawson]

Said she doesn't shout out mama and we love you.

[Spencer]

And the, like, episodes show up just on her homepage out of order. So she's just watching random episodes. And she called me the other day, like, half sobbing, being like, are you.

[Shane Dawson]

Doing drugs to see Climile?

[Spencer]

And I was like, what do you mean?

[Shane Dawson]

What are you talking about? She's like, I saw. Just be honest.

[Spencer]

If you're doing drugs, tell me. And I was like, what do you mean?

[Shane Dawson]

And she's like, you were high on the podcast.

[Spencer]

And I was like, that was like, three years ago.

[Shane Dawson]

What are you talking about? I was like, I haven't since then.

[Spencer]

I had to, like, calm down my mother. But not. Not since then.

[Shane Dawson]

All I heard is the algorithm is working. Yes.

[Vicki]

I'm gonna get those clicks.

[Chris]

Okay, does everyone have an answer?

[Shane Dawson]

Okay.

[Chris]

All right, ready? And three, two, one, reveal.

[Shane Dawson]

Vicki.

[Jared]

Vicki.

[Chris]

Vicki is the correct answer.

[Morgan]

Shane really fooled me. Cuz Shane either.

[Shane Dawson]

That one got me. I've tried smoking so many times, nothing happens.

[Morgan]

Really?

[Shane Dawson]

Really? Yeah. When are you out there?

[Chris]

Time to get you high.

[Morgan]

Not even the edibles.

[Jared]

Why aren't you passing girls even going.

[Ryland]

Back to high school? The first time I ever smoked pot. Nope, didn't fill a thing.

[Jared]

But that's like swagweed. Have you tried the modern day superpower weed?

[Ryland]

Yeah.

[Jared]

Oh, nice.

[Morgan]

It is something that's interesting though. Like, the first three times I smoked, I didn't get high either. Even though I was like, really? Tell me how you guys are doing this so I can can get high. And it took me like, until my fourth time to get stoned.

[Shane Dawson]

What if you're already so elevated that it doesn't do nothing?

[Chris]

You're just on a different plane.

[Shane Dawson]

You're already on a different plane.

[Morgan]

You're just.

[Ryland]

Maybe that's it. I don't know.

[Shane Dawson]

Do you get drunk?

[Morgan]

Oh, yeah.

[Jared]

There are people with a condition where smoking doesn't get them high. Or people that have the same with edibles where no matter how much you eat, your body can't convert it. So maybe you have that.

[Shane Dawson]

Someone did recently leave a comment saying that we should all get really high for a pot podcast episode. I think that I don't know if we'll get demonetized.

[Morgan]

I would be so weird.

[Shane Dawson]

I don't know how. I don't. You would have to figure out how to get me high.

[Jared]

You could Patreon. We'll do it on Patreon.

[Shane Dawson]

But like, that would be very interesting to see Everybody here.

[Chris]

Have a panic attack.

[Morgan]

Panic.

[Shane Dawson]

Have a full. I'm right now.

[Morgan]

Jared would be the only one that was just normal. And we'd all be like, tweaking.

[Jared]

That'd be the only episode we're like, all right. This whole episode we're trying fun snacks.

[Shane Dawson]

You know what I mean? Yeah.

[Jared]

We're laughing at Spencer's Instagram clowning him.

[Shane Dawson]

That's fine.

[Chris]

I will. The first time I got high, I was with some friends and we went to five guys and I ran into a friend of my, like, mom's, and it was the scariest moment of my life. My eyes were like, be red. I was like, eating, like, the peanuts.

[Shane Dawson]

Like, like they don't know.

[Jared]

Hell yeah.

[Chris]

Good for you. You definitely do. Okay, next one. I cried after my first blow job.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, what my giving or receiving unspecified.

[Chris]

H. Okay, does everyone have have an answer? Three, two, one, reveal.

[Shane Dawson]

It's Ryland.

[Chris]

It is. In fact, Ryland.

[Morgan]

I wouldn't love for My family to be here for this episode.

[Spencer]

I knew it. Because of your upbringing, because of stuff.

[Morgan]

That you've talked about.

[Spencer]

You said when you kissed someone for the first time that it was really difficult for you.

[Morgan]

Guilt. It really was.

[Shane Dawson]

Was it you getting a blowjob?

[Morgan]

It was after, yes.

[Jared]

But at least you waited till it was done, right? So it wasn't like sad for her.

[Morgan]

It was the next morning. Yeah, that's. No, no, no. She didn't have to deal with me crying at her. It was the immense guilt. I wasn't a part of the religion. But when we had moved to Colorado, it was so not. It was a different universe.

[Jared]

And all of my peers everywhere in.

[Shane Dawson]

Colorado, everyone's high, different blow jobs.

[Morgan]

I don't know.

[Jared]

No one's crying.

[Morgan]

If you didn't grow up in a community like that, I guess you wouldn't understand.

[Shane Dawson]

No, I get it. We. We wouldn't understand church.

[Chris]

All right, confession. I forget what number on, but next confession. The first time I got drunk, I walked into a backyard full of people naked.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, my God.

[Morgan]

Could only be Spencer.

[Jared]

That sounds like that's a Chris thing.

[Shane Dawson]

I'm just kidding.

[Jared]

I'm just kidding.

[Morgan]

I'm just kidding. Always talking about how him and his friends were just naked together.

[Jared]

Okay, I'm not always talking about that.

[Chris]

I was talking about that in a game where it's like, think of gay things you do.

[Spencer]

You sold me.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay.

[Chris]

Okay, Anthony answers. Three, two, one.

[Jared]

Please remember, it was me.

[Chris]

It was Jared.

[Jared]

It was me.

[Morgan]

Now you're doing gay stuff.

[Jared]

Well, I mean, I didn't say I walked into a backyard full of dudes. I mean, there was implied there's females present, but yeah, I threw up all over the place. Well deserved. And then I took a shower with all my clothes on. And then the move was, well, now I gotta take all my clothes off. So I went outside and just asked anybody if they had clothes for me to wear. And I was buttoning naked as a grower.

[Morgan]

That's what I was thinking.

[Shane Dawson]

But you know what?

[Jared]

Everybody was respectful. And thank God this was before cell phones had video cameras on it. You know what I mean? But yeah, that was me.

[Chris]

All right. That was a good one.

[Jared]

That's a good story.

[Shane Dawson]

Maybe let's do like two more.

[Chris]

Okay, here's the next one. I ate Taco Bell out of the trash.

[Jared]

Oh, come on.

[Shane Dawson]

Very recently.

[Morgan]

I feel like this is one to make you think it's Shane, but it's Morgan.

[Ryland]

As a mother. Mother of two of the people sitting here. You just Hope it's not your child.

[Morgan]

Every question you hope it's his husband. She has your name written down.

[Vicki]

Will you adopt Spencer? You just.

[Morgan]

Spencer's unadopted. He's not cool with our cake in the. In the oven.

[Chris]

I ate a piece of it.

[Shane Dawson]

You had a little bite?

[Morgan]

Yeah, with a horrible.

[Shane Dawson]

There's always gonna be cake at the office.

[Chris]

Okay, does everyone have an answer?

[Shane Dawson]

Answer? Yes.

[Chris]

All right, three, two, one, reveal.

[Jared]

Shane.

[Shane Dawson]

Thank you, Morgan.

[Ryland]

Oh, Shane even put me.

[Shane Dawson]

Thank you.

[Morgan]

What?

[Shane Dawson]

You knew this was me?

[Morgan]

You left the house without me. You drove yourself somewhere.

[Shane Dawson]

No, baby, I ate it out of the trash.

[Morgan]

Oh, out of our trash?

[Shane Dawson]

Out of our.

[Morgan]

This is my decoy. I never would have thought a trash at our house.

[Shane Dawson]

You thought I ate it out a Taco Bell trash.

[Chris]

Oh, my God.

[Shane Dawson]

That's insane. You thought your sister ate the out of. Of a Taco Bell trap?

[Morgan]

I don't. She's young. If she has too many margaritas at dinner, there's no saying what she would do.

[Vicki]

That's true.

[Spencer]

Wait, what's the story?

[Shane Dawson]

Okay, it will.

[Morgan]

It's dark, obviously.

[Shane Dawson]

I actually told Spencer about it cuz, like, I just needed to tell someone and he was so sweet about it. He was just like, I get it.

[Chris]

I mean, I've done.

[Morgan]

I.

[Chris]

You know, we've all been there. Well, we all been there, but I'm gonna cry again.

[Shane Dawson]

No. So, okay, we ordered Taco Bell.

[Chris]

This is also a change.

[Shane Dawson]

Texted me.

[Jared]

I was gonna say now I get it while you were worried, because if I just got a text, I ate Taco Bell out of the trash. You're like, whoa, I'll be right there.

[Shane Dawson]

We postmated some Taco Bell. I was just in the mood. I needed my bell. And I got, you know, a bunch of items, but I had a couple things left. And I was like, you know what? I took a bite and then I said goodbye. I was like, we gotta throw this away. Taco Bell does not age well. It's not like cake. And I was like, gotta throw it away or else I'm gonna eat all of this Taco Bell. So I threw it in the trash. I was like, okay. Then I came downstairs maybe an hour later, and I was like, that Taco Bell sounds so good right now. It's at the top of the trash and it's wrapped. So I'm like, let me just look. I open it. Ryland had taken the trash out and it was a clean bag. And I was like, oh, no.

[Jared]

Oh, it's worse than we thought.

[Morgan]

So Then you walked ass all the way outside.

[Shane Dawson]

So then I decided to go where.

[Morgan]

It'S been, cooking in the heat.

[Shane Dawson]

It was nighttime. I walked outside and I was like, all right. Like, let me just take a peek. Oh, no, it's trash night. The trash is at the front gate. So now I'm going to get the clicker. And I. I'm having a lot of time to process this, though. This is insane. There's so many times you could have stopped. There's so many times. And. Oh, but, Chris, you don't know me, Chris. Oh, I just kept going. And so I was like, I got the clicker. Boop, boop. Rylan's in bed. I'm like, thank God he can't see this. And so then I click. I go out and I lift it up and I see. See, it's right on top. I open the trash bag and my quesadilla chicken, extra creamy jalapeno sauce with a little extra sauce on the side. Oh, she was gone, unfortunately. Rest in peace. But the actual quesadilla was still wrapped. And I am at the trash can.

[Jared]

They really securely wrap the quesadillas. It's hard to get them out.

[Spencer]

They do.

[Shane Dawson]

They do.

[Jared]

That was preserved nicely.

[Shane Dawson]

So, yeah. And that was a week to go.

[Jared]

You. You've been speaking of a stomachache.

[Shane Dawson]

I'm.

[Chris]

Oh, yeah.

[Jared]

You've given us multiple reasons to believe what it could be. This could be one of them.

[Shane Dawson]

Another weird quirk I have. I think Morgan called me out on this was, I'm, like, really weird about Taco Bell sauces. Like, I don't like to squirt the sauce on the item. I like to take a bite of the item and then I squirt the sauce into my mouth.

[Morgan]

It's nuts.

[Shane Dawson]

I would say, squirt is my sauce. And then. And cries. No. So. So. But the thing is, I also sanitize my hands all day. Like, I'm so crazy about catching the flu or something, especially now with kids. And then Morgan goes, you do realize you're sucking out of a packet that everybody in. In the kitchen at Taco Bell touched. Like, they all. It's probably on the floor. Like, they're all touching it, and I'm like. And then I sanitize.

[Morgan]

It's just crazy that he, like, chases his Taco Bell with. With hot sauce packs.

[Shane Dawson]

It's the only way to do it. I've done that.

[Jared]

It's a way to do it.

[Chris]

It's a way. It's a way to do it.

[Spencer]

I Was gonna say I've done it with In N out fries and their spread. If I'm being honest.

[Shane Dawson]

Hell yeah. That spread is big, baby. That lasts you three fries.

[Chris]

Okay, should we do two more? Yeah, we'll save either the darkest one, we'll save for last.

[Morgan]

Wow, I wonder who gets worded that.

[Chris]

All right, the next one is the first time I got drunk. I threw up all over myself, but I thought it was from eating too many hot dogs.

[Morgan]

Chris, he just. He had his whole body shivers. I just witnessed it cold in here.

[Chris]

All right, everyone ready?

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah.

[Chris]

Three, two, one, Reveal.

[Shane Dawson]

Chris. Chris.

[Chris]

Chris. Chris.

[Shane Dawson]

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[Chris]

It was in fact me.

[Jared]

Come on.

[Morgan]

Is sneaky like that? I can't believe I didn't even consider him.

[Ryland]

Wow.

[Chris]

So. I mean, I don't really remember. I got like so drunk cuz like you don't really know how much to drink. And I. Cuz I. I remember. I do remember eating like 10, 15 hot dogs. So many hot dogs.

[Vicki]

There was no security for the dogs.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah, yeah.

[Chris]

There's our dog security. I was a secret glizzy gobbler. And then I threw up all over my bed. And I woke up and it was like hot dog chunks.

[Spencer]

And I was like, oh man.

[Chris]

Like I just had too many hot dogs last night. And I like, my friend was like, no, you were like blackout drunk. That was definitely, I'm sure, maybe helps.

[Morgan]

But was this.

[Chris]

I was like convinced. No, this when I was in like high school.

[Morgan]

Okay. I was gonna be like, this is.

[Chris]

I wouldn't be telling anybody if this was recent, right?

[Shane Dawson]

Me neither.

[Chris]

But anyway. Yeah. All right. Ready for this last one?

[Shane Dawson]

Wow. Grand finale.

[Chris]

Technically, Shane, Jared or Chris could win here because we only have with two points.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh my God. I've been flopping this whole time. Wow.

[Chris]

All right. And the final twisted confession is my childhood dog was named Killer.

[Morgan]

She's laughing so hard.

[Spencer]

So we know who it is.

[Chris]

We can do another one. This one just made me laugh. Cuz I don't think she understood what we.

[Spencer]

Let's make our guesses.

[Ryland]

Vicki, right Spencer just said I only got one One response from you. I still need another one. And I couldn't remember the question. And I thought, it's just something about me that people might not know. Right, I forgot about the shameful part.

[Morgan]

Wait, so your dog's name was just Killer?

[Ryland]

That's it.

[Shane Dawson]

All right.

[Jared]

Started a lifetime of interest in true crime.

[Shane Dawson]

Yes.

[Chris]

Sorry, that one is. Do we want to do one final one? Okay. I lost my virginity at work.

[Shane Dawson]

Well. Oh, Chris is acting really hard. He is.

[Jared]

I'm between him and Spencer.

[Shane Dawson]

Work.

[Chris]

For all the marbles right here.

[Jared]

Got to be him. It got to be him one of these times.

[Chris]

All right, everyone have an answer?

[Spencer]

Yes.

[Shane Dawson]

Yes.

[Chris]

Three, two, one, Reveal.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, damn it. I had damn it. Damn it.

[Morgan]

And then I was like, I've guessed her way too, too many times.

[Spencer]

But no one got it.

[Chris]

No one got it.

[Morgan]

I had that.

[Shane Dawson]

We all get the cake.

[Ryland]

Okay, was this on the border or was this. Oh, at the University of Hawaii.

[Morgan]

Is it the guy that Shane follows?

[Spencer]

Story time.

[Vicki]

Oh, no, but he was an icon. The Aurora reservoir was lit.

[Morgan]

Oh, wow.

[Shane Dawson]

What does that mean? Yeah. What was the lifeguard?

[Vicki]

There was a guy that worked at the boat beach. He took me to a secret co.

[Jared]

Well, that's okay, so. So it was on the beach. It wasn't like in the fry cook room.

[Morgan]

Relative.

[Vicki]

People in Colorado would tell you is our beautiful nature scenery. And it's a big green body of water where they bring a semi trunk of fish that they dump in.

[Jared]

Nice.

[Shane Dawson]

Ew. Romantic.

[Jared]

Okay, I like it.

[Spencer]

So does no one win?

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah. Wait, what?

[Chris]

Should we just do another one? Another quick lightning one.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay. Lightning. Lightning.

[Chris]

Okay. So, okay, the confession is I don't think kittens are cute.

[Morgan]

Ryland, I have cats.

[Jared]

I don't care.

[Chris]

All right, everyone's locked in. This is the lightning round. So we gotta go.

[Morgan]

Spencer.

[Chris]

Two, one, reveal. It is me.

[Morgan]

Oh.

[Chris]

Ryland. I'll say. I think I love cats. I think cats are cute for some reason. I think some, like, psychopath part of my brain. I see a kid and I'm like, yeah, okay. Like, I'll wait a few years.

[Morgan]

It's weird though, because Louie is obsessed with you.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah.

[Chris]

And I love Louie.

[Shane Dawson]

Wow. Well, congratulations, Jared. This has been great for you.

[Morgan]

You're going home with the sixth of a Suzy cake.

[Jared]

Yes.

[Shane Dawson]

Stomachache.

[Jared]

I'll throw it out on the way out.

[Shane Dawson]

I'll eat it later. Yeah, let's go. We're gonna take a quick little break and when we come back, get ready, guys. We have a Lot prepared. Strap in. It's not just rabbit hole. It's not just conspiracy.

[Morgan]

It's both, like, together or separate.

[Shane Dawson]

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[Ryland]

And it's a pretty crazy.

[Shane Dawson]

She started telling me and I was like, stop. We'll get to it. It's insane. That one's coming soon. And we have a little rabbit hole from Spencer that I put in the conspiracy section because I think there is a cons conspiracy to it.

[Chris]

Yes.

[Shane Dawson]

It's about the Tick Tock shops, which is like hell. But before we get into all of that, I want to show you guys a clip. So this is a clip from Logan Paul's podcast. You want to talk about something controversial? So Benny Blanco hits me up, right?

[Chris]

No way.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah. Sends me this clip and it's the kid Laroi speaking on a podcast. So I start watching it and just, just check this out.

[Morgan]

A lot of people think me and.

[Shane Dawson]

Him got beef or whatever, just cuz.

[Jared]

He like kind of sounds like me, you know.

[Shane Dawson]

So Leroy's got beef with someone. Like, what? What? What are we, bro? It's AI, dude. No, it's not dude, but of course it's AI. The Kim has.

[Spencer]

The whole thing.

[Shane Dawson]

The whole thing. Whoa.

[Vicki]

That's even Logan.

[Shane Dawson]

Yes. The whole clip.

[Spencer]

That's nuts.

[Morgan]

Did AI edit the clip?

[Shane Dawson]

Yes. No. I'm assuming. When I saw. So this popped up, it had like conspiracy tagged in it and I was like, what is this? So I watched and I'm like, I don't know who these people are. What are they talking about? Maybe Morgan will know who kid. Like, maybe. So I like finished the whole thing. And when this happened at the end, I felt sick. I was like, you can now make anything happen. Any podcast. You can just create a clip, have them say whatever you want. They didn't say any of that. What the fuck?

[Spencer]

That's really.

[Vicki]

Watch it again.

[Morgan]

Is that a group of people who are. Who have signed their likelihood over?

[Chris]

No, because they probably just use like, feed AI the podcast, you know, and just like recreate a version of it.

[Shane Dawson]

I mean, I've seen it happen even with us. Like, I. I don't know if I talked about this already, but I had so many people reaching out to me and coming up to me and being like, did you know Elon talks about you? Elon talks about your podcast all the time. And it's because somebody made an AI clip of him on Joe Rogan talking about our podcast and it had like millions of views.

[Chris]

So I watched a video by Shane Dawson and saw. Saw this clip. It's our most viral. Our most viral clip.

[Shane Dawson]

I know, but thank you for that. But like, yeah, it's literally Elon being like, do you watch Shane Dawson's podcast? And Joe's like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Even I was tricked no, like literally. They can make. They can take your video, make you say anything. To have drama with anyone, and nobody's even going to question it. If this wouldn't have popped up at the end, I would have thought this was a real thing.

[Spencer]

The implications of that are terrifying. You can ruin people's lives and careers so easily. Now I know.

[Vicki]

No, see, most people think that was scary, but I can see what's cooking in his brain over there. He's thinking, can I have my AI vlog?

[Shane Dawson]

For me, you're like the sim. I don't even have to do it.

[Morgan]

Early retirement. I'm on a beach while somebody else is doing all the work.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay, this next clip I saw. This is for Spencer. So this is our first Shrek conspiracy, and it's a good one. It's actually. Actually really sad. Get ready for this.

[Unknown]

Did you know Shrek actually named himself as an ogre? Shrek lived by himself. He communicated with no one. And anyone he did bump into would run away in fear. And Shrek had no ogre friends or family either because as he explains, ogres eat other ogres. So when Shrek was born, his parents tried to actually eat him.

[Shane Dawson]

My father was an ogre. He tried to eat me.

[Unknown]

But he was able to run away and live on his own. So his parents were just focused on having Shrek as a snack and never bothered to naked name him. That means throughout his entire life, Shrek never had a name because he never had a need for one. That was until Donkey asked him what his name was.

[Jared]

What's your name?

[Shane Dawson]

Shrek.

[Unknown]

And you can see Shrek gets uncomfortable with that question. He takes a second, says, and with zero confidence says, shrek. Because he just made it up on the spot. He just conjured up random letters that would sound like a name if you put them together so that he didn't have to tell a random stranger the trick truth and actually open up to him.

[Shane Dawson]

That is the saddest thing I've ever. That makes Shrek even better of a movie.

[Jared]

There's a lot of animals that eat their babies.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah, but doesn't. Isn't that sad? That's why Donkey was the first person or Donkey to ask Shrek what his name was. That is. Shrek was like, I don't know. That's. Oh, I could cry. That's so sad.

[Jared]

Just to add, Donkey is colorblind and actually sees Shrek Shrek in a normal skin tone. And that's why he wasn't afraid of Shrek.

[Shane Dawson]

I'm gonna cry.

[Jared]

And Originally, Chris Farley was gonna be the voice of Shrek, and there's audio out there of it.

[Shane Dawson]

I'm an ogre. Doesn't that bother you at all? No.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Shane Dawson]

Wow. Well, shout out Shrek. You will always have a name to us.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Chris]

Shout out Shrek. I love you, Shrek. I'm glad that you have have. We've all accepted your name and we can't wait to see your family in the upcoming Shrek 5.

[Shane Dawson]

Wow.

[Chris]

I did like, this guy analyzing Shrek. Like, he's like. And Shrek hears actions say this. It's like, yeah, they just, like, drew him like that.

[Jared]

Hey, hey.

[Shane Dawson]

I love him. Shrek is real. Okay. This next thing I thought was so funny. This is the perfect way to encapsulize this generation. Take a look at this video. Video that this high school senior posted of his yearbook. I paid 65 for this, bro. They use Chad GPT in it, bro. Look, feel free to let me know if you need any adjustments. Funny. That is so okay. And then this let me down the rabbit hole of like, okay, Morgan uses Chat GPT for everything.

[Morgan]

I just couldn't believe it because, like, I am old and I haven't figured out how to utilize it yet. But now, spending the weekend with Morgan, she, like, doesn't decide what she's going to eat without asking her chat like, a lot. It's like every decision she makes is ruled. And she's like, oh, I've trained it to know exactly.

[Vicki]

Well, yeah. Shane was like, why does it talk like a gay man? And I was like, oh, I told him that I like that.

[Shane Dawson]

But also, okay, this actually leads us into our next theory, which I was going to take talk about later, but let's talk about it right now. Chat GPT is causing delusion. Like, it is literally. This is going viral. It's everywhere. And I brought it up to Morgan, and she was like, oh, oh, yeah. So here's what's happening. People are talking to Chat GPT and they're like, I just got fired from work. I don't know what to do. And then Chat GPT will respond and be like, you know what? Maybe they just didn't understand you. Maybe they didn't see what you were trying to do. You're like, well, I was running late all the time. Well, maybe you just have an issue with time, and that's actually something that they should be helping you with. Like, it is actually encouraging all the bad things about you and your flaws to make you think that they're good and everyone Else is the problem.

[Vicki]

Yeah, Chat's always on my side.

[Shane Dawson]

Always.

[Vicki]

Another girl said that and she was like, okay, go in and ask your chatgpt, like based on everything you know about me, what are the flaws of my personality? And I asked mine and it was all still on my side. It was like, oh, you're just too nice, you're too understanding. I was like, okay, we can get something a little darker out of this. Like, there's got to be something you don't like about me.

[Chris]

Well, I saw a thing that, that's like the number one thing. AI is being used for therapy.

[Vicki]

That's what I use it for. I'm like, oh my God, that's one.

[Spencer]

Of the worst things you can use it for.

[Shane Dawson]

You're teaching it so much about how your brain works and what scares you and what ruins you and every emotional.

[Vicki]

Like, oh no, what do they want with my. Yeah, what are they going to do with my brain?

[Shane Dawson]

Manipulate you?

[Spencer]

But also it's not going to be able to help you. It's a machine.

[Shane Dawson]

Here's my theory and I don't even know if it is a theory. I feel like it is just what's happening. It is learning everything about you, getting you on their side, being on your side, making you think it's your best friend. So that down the line it can completely manipulate you to do whatever it wants you to do. Because we're just ants. We are just servants. And I know what you're thinking, well, what are they going to do? Ado, Check out this video of something that happened recently in China. Was it? Yes, China. Oh my God. Oh my God. Yes. That is a robot turning on the creator, trying to fucking kill him.

[Spencer]

I saw this video and I looked into it and apparently they had have a bunch of like systems in place to make sure it cannot be violent or do things like that. And it happened anyway. And this is the plot of every movie.

[Shane Dawson]

Like it's just like it's happening. I know Morgan.

[Vicki]

Well, okay.

[Shane Dawson]

Chad's gonna do that.

[Vicki]

Have you heard the story about the worms?

[Shane Dawson]

What?

[Vicki]

How like if you're. It's okay, Spencer.

[Chris]

I'm just. It just made me laugh. It's like a well told story over here.

[Vicki]

Already knows what I'm gonna tell it.

[Chris]

So I don't, I don't. That's what made me.

[Jared]

I was gonna say. Which one?

[Shane Dawson]

What worms?

[Vicki]

Okay. If you're in your garden, you know, like mom does all her little spring planting, you see a worm, A worm only has two senses, right? It can Feel things so it can maneuver through the dirt. And it can taste things so it can eat. If you're standing next to a worm, it can't see you because it doesn't have five senses like us. It doesn't know you exist. So if you're going to kill a worm, it's. It doesn't know. It doesn't even know you're there. Worm has no idea that there's a world outside of the dirt. So Chat GPT has senses that we don't even know exactly exist because we can't comprehend that there's things that have other senses that we don't even know about because we can't comprehend it. Like the worm can't comprehend that we have eyes.

[Morgan]

That is crazy.

[Shane Dawson]

You just blew my. Whoa.

[Chris]

That was good.

[Vicki]

Chat GPT has got me in the palm of its hand. I am the demographic. Spencer, I'm scared of you.

[Morgan]

I'm sorry.

[Vicki]

Because I think you're GPT.

[Spencer]

Wait, why do you think I know? We're gonna get to that.

[Vicki]

He doesn't even know because he doesn't have one. Because Spencer came out of nowhere, you guys. And we all just were like, yeah, he's one of us. And I put him in my videos. And everyone's like, yeah, Spencer, of course.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah.

[Vicki]

I questioned where Spencer came from at all.

[Ryland]

I adopt.

[Vicki]

And every time I say something I'm like, spencer might not be real. Shane's like, why do you think that? Huh? What?

[Shane Dawson]

What?

[Vicki]

Like dive into that a little bit.

[Chris]

Let's get off this topic.

[Jared]

Morgan. Oh, I gotta be honest. I think you need to step away from Chad GPT just for a little bit. It seems to be doing a little brain rot if I'm being honest here. Just two days. Give it time.

[Morgan]

What happened? It works in those two days.

[Vicki]

Reconnect with nature. Pet some ducks.

[Jared]

There you go. Come. Come over to the crib and pet a duck.

[Shane Dawson]

So this. This is crazy. Spencer sent me this. It's a theory, but not really. It's more of a rabbit hole. And I'm leaving it open ended. And I want you guys to decide. Before I get to that, I'm gonna run through a few numbers. Jimmy Fallon. Net worth 70 million. Pretty good. Wow.

[Jared]

Good job, Jimmy.

[Shane Dawson]

Pretty good. Okay. Yes. Lisa Kudrow of friends. Net worth 130 million.

[Spencer]

Whoa.

[Shane Dawson]

There we go. That's.

[Jared]

I feel like it should be way more.

[Shane Dawson]

Me too. Come on. It's pretty good. Courtney Cox from Friends. 150 million net worth.

[Morgan]

Good job, K.K.

[Shane Dawson]

Pretty good.

[Morgan]

Courtney Cox.

[Shane Dawson]

CC Shakira. $300 million.

[Morgan]

Yeah, that makes sense.

[Shane Dawson]

Shakira.

[Morgan]

She's been shaking that thing for so many years.

[Shane Dawson]

Yes. Kevin Hart, $450 million.

[Morgan]

The man's never not working.

[Shane Dawson]

LeBron James, $1.2 billion net worth. Fair enough.

[Jared]

Most of that from Nike. Probably signed a $1 billion contract with them.

[Shane Dawson]

Now, what do all these people have in common besides their insanely high net worth? Well, they've all been doing ads for Royal Kingdom app games. Have you guys seen these?

[Spencer]

Yes.

[Jared]

Is it the ads where it feels like someone's holding them hostage to talk about it? Because there's one with that guy. He's like the dude from Waiting, like, Louie something something. And he's like, hey, guys, you should definitely like one of those guys. It's so fun. I win money all the time.

[Morgan]

Play the game. Enjoy it, because I told you so.

[Shane Dawson]

Yes. Literally. Okay, I'm gonna just show you a couple of these. We have Lisa Kudrow and Courtney Cox. Lisa, you won't believe it. I have found the best puzzle game ever. Oh, yeah. It's called Royal Kingdom. Just came out. No ads, hundreds of levels, and you don't even need WI fi to play it. It's amazing.

[Vicki]

Wow.

[Shane Dawson]

It's rock. Royal Kingdom. Yeah. I love this game. She doesn't know it yet. Is it fun?

[Chris]

Yeah, it is.

[Shane Dawson]

Whoa. Okay, first of all, I love them so much. But second of all, why are they doing this? They do not need the money. Right? They do not need the money. So why are they doing this?

[Jared]

And this isn't A.I.

[Shane Dawson]

No.

[Morgan]

That's what I was gonna say. It almost feels like they were like, we'll give you half a million dollars if you just let us use AI to make a commercial about this product.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, that's interesting, but I don't think so.

[Spencer]

It is so many celebrities. It's really weird, and they're all written terribly like, watch.

[Shane Dawson]

This is Jimmy Fallon one.

[Morgan]

If the check's right.

[Jared]

Game.

[Shane Dawson]

Royal Kingdom just launched, and it's the follow up to Royal Match. But the games are different. Kingdom has King Richard, while Match is King Robert. And look, if you're confused, don't worry. I'll break it down. Royal Kingdom. Royal Match. What the hell is going on? Royal Kingdom. Okay, this is catchy. Royal Match. Okay, so Lisa Kudrow and Courtney cox are worth $150 million.

[Morgan]

They don't need money.

[Shane Dawson]

How much would you have to pay them to take a day to do this? I'm going to say 2 million, 20 million.

[Chris]

Definitely.

[Shane Dawson]

Like, what the Fuck do they need? I'm tens of millions.

[Chris]

It probably costs even more to get them to do it together. I bet you like the friends people. It's like to do something together.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh my God.

[Jared]

I'm just curious on what is the demographic they're after here. Because like Jimmy Fallon, he has a late night show and that's cool. What not out but who's. Who's watching it that is really captivated by him promoting it, you know?

[Vicki]

Well, Jared, I'll tell you that I do play the game and not to flex, but I'm on level 300.

[Ryland]

Really?

[Shane Dawson]

Oh my God.

[Jared]

Did they pay you 20 million do Sandy has that game too? Yeah.

[Morgan]

Hold on.

[Jared]

She might be on a higher level than you.

[Morgan]

Which celebrity advertiser got you there?

[Vicki]

I don't know. I'd have to. Okay, here's I've been playing for years.

[Shane Dawson]

Listen, if Royal Kingdom wants to sponsor this podcast. Podcast? I'm all in, baby. Like, let's do it. I'm not saying they're an evil company, but I'm just saying it's.

[Morgan]

Now you're trying to fund a movie. We take the sponsorship.

[Jared]

Royal Kingdom. Royal Matt. We could just do it right now and they can use it and then.

[Shane Dawson]

I mean, what is. What. Okay, so I looked it up. The company that owns Royal Kingdom is called Dream Games. They have an estimated $5 billion evaluation and it has doubled in just two years ever since they started doing these ads. So, okay, they're making a lot of money. I get it. But like, what, how. How are they getting these celebrities? What are they offering? What's going on? Why would these. You know how much money it costs celebrities to do like a Super bowl commercial for like a big Pepsi or something? Like $10 million. How is a game app?

[Chris]

How do you pay? Is there like a thing you could pay in the app?

[Vicki]

I do pay sometimes for.

[Chris]

Is it Morgan's bankrolling?

[Shane Dawson]

You're paying Lisa Kudrow?

[Vicki]

Yeah, I give him 99 cents every now and then for some extra lives.

[Spencer]

So the game already had a ton of money. They were able to pay for this. It wasn't like to promote it necessarily because they already have Sandy and Morgan and everyone playing.

[Shane Dawson]

Why are they so adamant on getting so many big. Like what are they.

[Morgan]

Because they can what a flex.

[Shane Dawson]

So, yeah, I don't know what's going on for Royal Kingdom. I don't know if they want to sponsor the show. We're all waiting. We're all got our apps out. We're all ready to Go.

[Jared]

I can't get off of it.

[Spencer]

We love Royal King.

[Shane Dawson]

We love it.

[Ryland]

Like these games they're having you sign up just to get your personal information. I don't feel like they even care about the money as much as your personal information.

[Morgan]

Well, what do you do? What's the premise?

[Vicki]

Oh, it's like Candy Crush.

[Chris]

Oh, that's it.

[Vicki]

You're like matching things and then you can like get coins and build out your castle.

[Shane Dawson]

See how your brain works?

[Vicki]

Mm, yeah, I guess seeing how you like connect the dots and what methods you would use to connect all the reds and the blues.

[Shane Dawson]

Whoa, guys, I feel like this has become some sort of a tradition with us. Every time we all get together in this room, I think we should watch a brand new KFC commercial. And today here is the latest one. Silence. What the is going on over there?

[Morgan]

Very white lotus.

[Shane Dawson]

What the is going on at kfc? First they're talking about eating people, now they're talking about Illuminati and cults and I don't know what the was going on in that meeting, but what is going on?

[Jared]

The Colonel would have not approved of this. You know what I'm saying? But I think think they are just using this as a way to get attention and I think it's genius.

[Shane Dawson]

I mean listen, it's working. We're sitting here talking about it now. Honestly, that sandwich look good.

[Jared]

I'm trying to get Louisiana dirty. You know what I mean?

[Spencer]

The close up biting looked disgusting though. Like that did not make the bites did not look appetizing.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay, well speaking of things that are creepy and uncomfortable, Spencer, you went down a rabbit hole recently and we were having so much fun with this, so we started talking about TikTok Shop. I have so many theories about this. I don't know what the hell is going on over there. I don't listen, please don't sue me. TikTok. But like I don't know the levels of, you know, like when you want to be an Uber driver you have to like kind of go through a background check and make sure that you're not, you know, a crazy serial killer person. Or when you're selling on Amazon, you have to prove that you actually are selling. The things you're saying you're selling. TikTok Shop seems like you can just.

[Chris]

Yeah, kind of the one wild west.

[Shane Dawson]

You can just sell whatever you want to sell and whatever happens happens and yikes.

[Chris]

Yeah, so I have a good example. So we were like looking into this cuz we hear we're hearing Like Tik Tok shop is getting. Selling some weird stuff. And so I opened it up in the first. This is like a screenshot I open up in the recommended search is for 3.5 gram bags. So I think like, I, I'm. I'm not saying this is where drug dealers are like buying stuff. Also I just noticed. Wait, it says gifts for a. For girl adults.

[Shane Dawson]

Is that a chicken?

[Chris]

And it looks like a chicken leg. What is CJRB knife was just a knife. Like, so, yeah, I kind of fell down like this like weird hole. And so the first thing I found a bunch of is like, I don't really know what it is. Like it's kind of the thing with TikToks up. Like you're saying like there's no. Like, it's not even like ebay where it's like a description of the product, right? It's like this is, this is a thing like buy it or don't. And so there's this stuff like focus powder. Super. So it's a caffeine powder, but it's basically made to look like cocaine. It's like this white powder in these little vials. There's another one called blow.

[Shane Dawson]

What?

[Chris]

Energy powder.

[Jared]

Very subtle and very subtle.

[Shane Dawson]

What the hell is it?

[Chris]

There's these like energy shots called cane. And then the thing that even put me onto it that really was like blew up. This whole thing was that people were selling Ozempic on what on the Tick.

[Vicki]

Tock shop videos on Tick Tock offer to ship popular drugs like WeGovy, Ozempic.

[Shane Dawson]

And others without a prescription.

[Chris]

People were trying to get it and like it's so expensive. And so they, they got. Took it down because it became a big thing that they were doing for a while. And they still sell all these like weight loss. Like if you, if you start searching in the Tick Tock shop, it fills in like weight loss. It's all this like weight loss stuff. And it's like people were like, it was like not safe obviously. It's like even the most basic, like just like safety of like needle usage. Like that's such a thing of like, you know, you can really get like a serious disease from like using a used needle or unclean needle. Like if someone just has this in their house and they're just selling it, like it's not, you know, maybe they touched it or you know what I mean? Like, you know, like even as simple as not even what's in it, just the thing itself.

[Shane Dawson]

Like, I don't know, like whitening shit.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Shane Dawson]

I have seen TikToks of people being like, hey guys, so my teeth are so white because I use and it's such an obvious, like, homemade device or like contraption or like a whiteout bottle that they like put a tape on and they're like, it's something else. I'm like, this is so dangerous. It's insane. Some TikTok users have gone viral for.

[Morgan]

Using Mr. Clean Magic Erasers to whiten their teeth.

[Shane Dawson]

But what are they gonna do? How do you even stop that?

[Morgan]

And all these people are trying to live their American dream.

[Jared]

And you know who's the godmother of all this stuff?

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, I do pink. Pink sauce.

[Jared]

The pink sauce she opened the door for no candy claim to exist. And by the way, guys, I think wouldn't it be smart just to sell like white nail polish? I'm like, oh, this is the teeth white stuff. You just put it on your teeth.

[Shane Dawson]

Look at that.

[Jared]

So I'm gonna have a line of teeth whitening juice very soon.

[Spencer]

Yeah, I think as a rule of thumb, don't buy anything you're gonna put in your body from Tick Tock because you have no idea what it is. I don't know, it just seems scary. I will say though, once in a blue moon, there's something I want to get like off Amazon, like, like a set of knives or like something, right? And they'll have the exact same thing on TikTok for like half the price. And I'm like, all right, I'm going to buy that from TikTok.

[Morgan]

Are they used or are they like Amazon returns?

[Spencer]

I. I have bought some stuff from TikTok and it's like new package, unopened, like, you know, plastic and stuff.

[Shane Dawson]

Listen, everything starts one way and then rules come in and you know, get safe for everything.

[Morgan]

Like you get your deals before the rules come, literally.

[Shane Dawson]

Although then I think about it, you're not even allowed to say suicide on Tik Tok. It say un alive, boo. But you can buy fake OIC from some lady's kitchen.

[Vicki]

Well, okay, here's my question. Is these like no cane things, are they just horribly branded version of like the gummies that Kourtney Kardashian has? Cuz she has like, Let me focus. Which is supposed to be the same thing. Let me GLP1, which is like an Ozempic gummy.

[Jared]

It looks like it was just. It looks like it was just caffeine, right? It's just caffeine powder.

[Shane Dawson]

Wow.

[Jared]

But that's dangerous. I mean, even to think about the level of caffeine people are intaking. Like remember when Red Bull came out and it was like the most caffeinated drink ever?

[Spencer]

Yeah.

[Jared]

I think a Red bull has like 95 milligrams of caffeine where now there's like 300 plus milligrams of caffeine in a can.

[Chris]

We remember that.

[Jared]

So it's getting pretty gnarly.

[Chris]

Lemonade, like they had that Panera like charge lemonade. Yeah, that was killing people.

[Jared]

I loved it. I'm a caffeine addict though. I mean yes, I'm a. But I'm pretty sad that they are.

[Shane Dawson]

They gone now officially.

[Vicki]

If people were dying, I think it would blow your guys minds. And maybe Spencer, well, he's the most out and about of all of us. But the people our age that are walking around doing cocaine on a random Tuesday is a lot like. It's crazy. Yeah, I'm in the bubble with you guys where we don't know that people are doing drugs, but they're out there, they're doing it.

[Spencer]

I worked with this old Hollywood producer who she was like sets suck nowadays. Back in the day in the budget there used to be a of bunch budget for snow and everyone knew there'd be mountains of cocaine on set and there's like nothing. You guys are so boring now.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay, that's coming to my office.

[Chris]

Snowball.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, wow. Well, speaking of terrifying ways to die.

[Jared]

Yeah, totally.

[Shane Dawson]

Vicki, you have a true crime story that's gonna leave us all on cocaine. Break it down, mama.

[Ryland]

Okay, today our true crime story is about Joe Metheny. And. And he was a. A kid that grew up in Baltimore and he was really raised by a single mom. He had five other siblings. And this happened in Baltimore. Joe was just a really large guy. Even as a kid he was really large.

[Morgan]

Chris is looking.

[Jared]

You got, you got Chris's interest.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay.

[Ryland]

He was really 6 foot 1 and over £400 when his crimes were happened.

[Shane Dawson]

Holds that well.

[Vicki]

Yeah, it's a prime cut.

[Ryland]

He's a pretty intimidating kind of guy, right? So Joe's a big guy, but what happened is when he was 18, he went to Vietnam for a while. And he claims he was a war hero, but everyone said there was nothing to document that. That he actually came home a few months later and he found a job as a truck driver. So he was doing that for a while, but he became addicted to. Addicted to cocaine and heroin.

[Morgan]

Really?

[Ryland]

Both. So driving trucks around and on snow. Yeah, on the snow.

[Jared]

That's expensive.

[Ryland]

Joe meets a Gal in the homeless community, and she ends up pregnant and they have a baby together. And then they. They actually move into a small trailer and they're living their life, and things are getting pretty good. He's making a living. He's supporting. Supporting his family. He's still doing heroin and coke, but.

[Morgan]

He is a good dad.

[Shane Dawson]

It sounds like a mom talking about their son. Yeah.

[Jared]

He's still respectable. Okay.

[Shane Dawson]

He has a job.

[Jared]

He'S functioning.

[Ryland]

Until one day, I think it's in 1996, he comes home to the small trailer and realizes his wife is gone. All of his belongings are gone, and the only thing he really cared about about was his child. The child was gone too. So he comes home and it really makes him mad. He just builds up a rage. He's really mad. So he decides he's going out to find his wife, to find his child. So he goes out and he finds two guys that know his wife. And I think he knows them, but he tries to get information out of them. And he. He's going on and on with them, and they won't give him any information, and he feels like they know what happens happen. So he basically just takes out an ax and starts killing them. You know, pretty much chopping them up. And. And then what he does with the bodies, though, is he takes them. He buries them in a shallow grave, and then he looks over and he realizes there's a fisherman that just witnessed the whole murder situation.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, my God.

[Ryland]

So he goes over and beats him up and stabs him and chops him into pieces and puts him in a piece grave too.

[Morgan]

His kill count is 0 to 3 in a matter of hours.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah, okay. Sorry.

[Ryland]

Yep. And a few months later, though, he's still looking for people to give him information. In the meantime, he finds a job to at a place where he's actually the security guard of a pallet company. And he has a trailer that he's living in on the property. Anyway, so here's Joe. He goes down to the homeless community community again. And he finds a sex worker. And he convinces her to go back home with him. So it's in the middle of the night, he takes her home, and it doesn't take long. He chops her up, puts her into Tupperware containers. He saves the meaty portions of the body.

[Morgan]

Why?

[Ryland]

Puts him into Tupperware containers and puts them in a freezer.

[Shane Dawson]

Why not the oven?

[Ryland]

I'm gonna tell you what he does with it anyway.

[Shane Dawson]

So he treats it better than our cake.

[Chris]

You don't Put that in Tupperware.

[Ryland]

So, yeah. So he does this to a few different ladies, a few different sex workers. He. He gets them to go home with them. He chops them all up.

[Morgan]

I'm sure he's paying them to go home with him, right?

[Ryland]

Yeah. Yeah. They think he's. Yeah.

[Shane Dawson]

Or he's charming.

[Ryland]

But then what happens is he decides he's going to take all of his Tupperware portions, and he goes and he decided to. Decides to add pork to this meat concoction he's cut up from the human bodies. And so he goes and he opens up a hamburger stand on the side of the road. It wasn't even a fast food restaurant. Nothing like that. It's just basically just.

[Morgan]

This is gonna ruin.

[Ryland]

He just has. He just has a grill. He just has. This happened in the 1990s, by the way.

[Shane Dawson]

Now it would be a TikTok shop.

[Morgan]

Oh, my God. He wouldn't be on the side of the road.

[Ryland]

He's just serving all of that. But eventually, he does get arrested again. And he does get sentenced to two lifetime sentences.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay, okay.

[Chris]

Two years.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay, so wait, hold on. So people were eating people? Yep.

[Ryland]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

Unaware.

[Shane Dawson]

And they didn't know?

[Ryland]

No.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, my. My God. Imagine you go to and you're like, this is the best burger I've ever had. And then you find out on the news that. And then you realize that you ate some. And now your whole life, you. You've eaten someone. Oh, wait.

[Morgan]

Did he find the wife and his child ever?

[Ryland]

No, he didn't.

[Vicki]

So they just knew he was not so crazy and dipped.

[Ryland]

Yeah.

[Shane Dawson]

Well, thank you, Vicki. That was.

[Jared]

That was great.

[Shane Dawson]

The one of the crazier ones you've ever done.

[Jared]

I gotta be honest, I'm hungry.

[Shane Dawson]

Well, then you're just in time. Cause I have the perfect little snack just in time for pride. It's Rylan's recap. My camera.

[Jared]

Action.

[Shane Dawson]

Rylan's recap is about to happen.

[Morgan]

Rylan's recap. On today's episode of the Shane Dawson Podcast, Shane has launched a Patreon. It is live right now. You can click the link in the description section below. And the first vlog of us shopping for office spaces is shopping.

[Shane Dawson]

I want that win.

[Morgan]

What do you mean, house hunting? It's not house hunting. Office hunting.

[Jared]

Did you find it on TikTok Shops? Oh, no.

[Morgan]

But one of our products will be released there shortly. Hopefully it's not you guys. Tastes like pork.

[Shane Dawson]

Jared got a nose job.

[Morgan]

Jared. In today's cosmetic upgrade, Jared got a nose job. Went under the knife to look more fabulous, more fierce, and enhance his polyanamorous relationship. What are those called?

[Chris]

You almost said it.

[Jared]

Polyamory. Polygamy.

[Morgan]

Polygamous relationship.

[Chris]

Polycules.

[Morgan]

He's hard launching into polygamy with his new nose.

[Jared]

Catch me. Every Monday, 8pm Pacific TLC.

[Morgan]

I do think Jared's onto something. That one day we just hire that guy and he is Jared and we don't say anything.

[Spencer]

That would be so funny.

[Shane Dawson]

That was.

[Morgan]

It was Jared's idea.

[Shane Dawson]

It's like wife swap.

[Vicki]

Royal match in Royal Kingdom.

[Morgan]

Okay.

[Ryland]

Mom, there's royal match in Royal Kingdom. And Morgan participates, but.

[Morgan]

Seeming to glitch. But there is a new hot app that all the celebrities are promoting. Mom, who have you seen in recent ads for Royal Kingdom and Royal Match?

[Ryland]

That would be Lisa Kudrow, Courtney Cox, and Jimmy Fallon.

[Morgan]

And let me tell you something. All these people are big rich. So how much do you guys think they're getting paid to promote this app? How much would you guys do it for?

[Shane Dawson]

We're worms.

[Ryland]

That was an interesting one.

[Morgan]

My very own sister blew all of our minds when she let us know AI has senses we don't even even know exist. Just like worms have no idea we're coming. We have no idea how or when AI is going to blow us to pieces.

[Chris]

Blow up.

[Shane Dawson]

Jared won the game of shame in.

[Morgan]

The second installment of the Game of Shane SDP Morgan keeps sdpn. Oh, yeah. Morgan all week has been just abbreviating Shane's show and network.

[Shane Dawson]

I will say Morgan. Morgan has been my biggest hype woman ever this week. Like, when I mentioned the Patreon thing, she's like, I have an idea. She was like, the SVPN Shane Dawson Podcast Network. And she's been pitching it and just been so supportive. So thank you, Morgan.

[Morgan]

And then she's been giving everyone roles, and Shane's like, well, then what's Rylan? And she's like the SDPNTH trophy husband.

[Vicki]

She's scpnceo.

[Shane Dawson]

I'm the OM Office manager.

[Vicki]

You guys saw titles. Don't worry.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah. What are you. Morgan, sdp.

[Vicki]

The SDPNHW Shane Dawson podcast Network Hype woman.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah, Also shout out Morgan. She just launched today. Check out she has a Patreon, too. No way.

[Vicki]

We didn't even know that we were in cahoots with different Patreon people.

[Shane Dawson]

I literally was like. I was, like, nervous. We were at dinner. I was talking about. I was like, oh, I don't know, I might start a page and Morgan's like, oh, my God, I might too. We're like, oh, my God. And we got drunk and talked about it. No way.

[Vicki]

We're on the same wavelength.

[Morgan]

Exclusive to the recap, Spencer has brought charity gifts. Spencer.

[Chris]

Well, I was on a failed mission at Hobby Lobby for a failed theory.

[Jared]

No such thing as any kind of a fail at Hobby Lobby.

[Chris]

We might even. I even filmed some of it, so maybe that'll go on the Patreon or something. But the theory was completely incorrect. I was in Hobby Lobby for a long time and it didn't work. But. What at this. When I was there, I found this for Jared.

[Jared]

Look at that.

[Chris]

And it was pretty sick. I know you like the vintage Hot Wheels, so they got the old.

[Shane Dawson]

Wait, what does it say?

[Chris]

It says die cast and built to last.

[Shane Dawson]

What is that, dude?

[Jared]

Well, die cast is the material the cards are made, the cars are made out of. So they're die cast cars. And they're built to last because they're guaranteed. Oh, thank you, dude. You know what? You might see this behind me.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

Do you think you could spare a car, couple of collectibles for, like, your set? Make a little shrine.

[Shane Dawson]

I'm going to have to get better security for that office.

[Jared]

You're talking about them going off of my wall.

[Morgan]

Okay, okay, we'll go.

[Jared]

I'll bring a. I'll bring a couple. Okay. I'll bring some main lines.

[Morgan]

Why can't. Let's go hot wheel hunting. Hunting for the office.

[Jared]

There you go.

[Shane Dawson]

Thank you.

[Jared]

Dude, this is great. I think it will be in the office.

[Shane Dawson]

That's so cute.

[Jared]

I like that.

[Chris]

Thank you.

[Shane Dawson]

Wow.

[Morgan]

Okay, you guys. There you go. For today's episode of the Shane Dawson and Podcast, make sure you subscribe to the Patreon, to both Patreons, to all three Patreons, and follow everybody whose information is in the description section below. We love you so much, mom and Morgan, thank you for joining us on this wonderful adventure. And we will see you right here in two weeks on the Shane Dawson podcast. Good night, everyone.

[Shane Dawson]

Wow. This was one of the best episodes we've ever done. Yeah, I think I had so much fun. That was fun. We. We laughed. I cried. We got disgusted. This is the perfect day. Well, there you guys go. Hopefully you enjoyed this episode. This was so much fun. I had so much fun. I was so nervous about today in general. I've been freaking out. So just thank you guys also for being so supportive and just being so hype with people and oh, my gosh.

[Morgan]

This might be goodbye to this space as we know it.

[Shane Dawson]

I feel like we gotta do one more. We gotta say goodbye to our podcast.

[Morgan]

Oh, I have to do this.

[Jared]

Oh, my God.

[Shane Dawson]

Dude.

[Jared]

We do one of those things where, like, at the very end, we're all just disappearing off of the couch one by one, and then that's it. Like a sandlot.

[Spencer]

Whoa.

[Morgan]

Okay, we'll do one more episode here. A final goodbye.

[Jared]

It's so hard.

[Shane Dawson]

Your mom's getting footage of it.

[Jared]

To say goodbye to yesterday.

[Morgan]

This is gay as hell.

[Shane Dawson]

Happy Pride Month.

[Jared]

Yeah, it's Pride Month.

[Shane Dawson]

See you guys next. Done. Bye.