The Shane Dawson Podcast - Cruise Ship Conspiracy Theories!

Episode Date: December 28, 2025

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Now we're going to get into some cruise ship conspiracies, guys. Oh my God, when I saw this email, I was like, I need to talk about this. And there's a lot of rabbit holes involved. Okay. So the email said, Hey, welcome back to whatever the hell this is. We're still here edition. The world didn't end.

Oh, was it supposed to? It was supposed to end on December 15th, babe. And look at us. We're here on December 30th and we're still kicking. Speaking of our world ending, guys, you might notice there's a big change today. This is really, really sad. Chris is not here. He has the flu.

It is really bad. We feel so bad for him. It has been lasting a while, which we'll get to in a second. There has been illnesses flying throughout this room. Is this what happens when we get old? Everybody just gets sick constantly because I was sick forever. You got sick. Spencer, we'll get into his whole saga.

I literally had an old person sickness. Literally, when you told me what you had, I was like, oh, the only person I know that ever had that was 85. We'll get into that in a second. But you know who's never sick? Mr. King and Queen of keto. Well, because they drink brown sludge every day. They were just drinking before this.

I did feel a little something coming on the other day. Within 15 minutes, it was gone. Whoa. I also think that was allergies, but don't be little my immune system and my ability to overcome sickness. I will give a tip. I was talking to my mom the other day. I was in her room and she was getting ready and she put vapor up on the bottom of her feet before she put socks on.

And she says, Sandy, I think this is why I don't ever get sick because I put vapor up on my feet. And I will say, you're welcome, guys. Okay, you're welcome. Sandy's mom is a testament to things like this working because she is still out there doing like insane work all the time for fun. Yeah, she mows a lot. I mean, she's got like an acre lot, you know, so she's like mowing the lawn. She's, you know, cutting your branches. Let's do that.

Well, I tell her, like, Mom, if you're going to do that, like, let us know. We'll do it. She goes, Sandy, I've got to keep my body aligned. Like, you know, I need to do something. An icon. The opposite of us. What are you talking about? I'm always out doing work.

The opposite of me. Exactly. Okay, so yes, Chris is not here. We miss him very much. We're so sad. We couldn't push this podcast date any further because we are in present day starting the pilot shoot literally in like three days. So it's going to be crazy.

And then we're going into Christmas and everybody's out of town. And it's a whole thing. So send Chris love, even though he will be better by the time you see this, but still send him love, why not? Yeah. Speaking of sick, Spencer, do you want to just dive into this? Because I, when this happened to Spencer, I don't, like, cry that often. You cried? No, but I could have.

He really pushed us off the ledge. When he told me that he had this, I had a memory. And Jared, I don't know if you remember this, but one of our coworkers who I think was, 80 had this and when she came back to work two months later she was like it was the worst pain i've ever had and i wanted to die so when he told me he had this i was like oh my god oh my god and he was like yeah my doctor said it won't be that bad though and in my head i'm thinking oh my god he doesn't know yeah so um yeah so i had shingles which was a disease i're keeping it alive yeah keeping it going to know that still existed well i think it's a lot more rare because

you only can get it if you've had chickenpox as a kid but i was like i guess i wasn't vaccinated or something and my mom was like you get it's two shots the first you got the first shot and then in between you've got chicken puck so i'm like half-vaxed i guess i don't know so i got it and then it just lives in your nerves and so it's an infection of it's a viral infection of your actual nerve which is why it hurts so much and so i had it i got lucky i had it on my face and neck instead of like a leg or something like that so lucky no i was being sarcastic oh okay really bad it was like i couldn't sleep on one side of my fit like is it that of chicken pox does it look like chicken box i don't even see it it's like there's still like oh we see it okay it's it's

contagious it's not contagious do you want to swap seat Shane well it is contagious to children it said that i'm talking about immune system apparently i have a really weak immune system because it said the only reason you get it really young is if you have a terrible immune system oh no wait so how did you get it now it didn't just flare up it just it just happens in your body yeah it just lives and then it can just like activate because i had chicken pox too i'm any day can just Breakout? Yes. Shingles lives in you. It's like being gay.

And it can awaken at any time. At any moment, you can realize that's my thing. So if you're sitting at home straight, it might awaken in you too. It might. Okay. Chishay. How did this go down? How do what go down?

Shingles. Brian's like, am I going to get shingles or not? What's going to happen? Like, tell us a little bit about it. I actually, I was here at the office. And then I started feeling really sick. And I thought it was scary. Yeah, like, all of a sudden I just like had to throw up.

so bad. I literally drove home and I like barely made it home, opened my door through up the door. It was so embarrassing. First of all, I, okay, so I saw Spencer and I was like, you look not great. Like you looked sick. Kind of like how Sandy said today. I was like, you don't look good. And then he was just like, yeah, I don't feel good. And I was like, oh, maybe do you want to go home or like do you have a flu or something? And you were just like, no, I think I'll be okay. I start my like meeting, which was on FaceTime. And like two seconds into the meeting, I'm talking to an actor. And then I just see a little bubble pop up, like, a text bubble from Spencer, and it's just like, I just threw up another text bubble. I'm still throwing up. I was like, oh, my God. What? I just assumed,

like, the plague is here and I'm about to start barfing on FaceTime with an actor. Like, I was like, oh my God. Anyway, so I felt so bad. Yeah. It was crazy. It felt like I was going through like 10 different sicknesses at once because I thought I had food poisoning. And then luckily I was going to the dermatologist the next day. I was like, uh, this is like this annoying. Like I thought it was like bad acne on like, my ear or something like that and then he was like he was like ah it shingles bad luck anyway and he got just like ushered me bad luck yeah he got said that he was like i was like oh what a week he's like man bad luck i was like okay he didn't give you any more than that he really gave me not a lot because i even was like i think i had food poisoning and he's like yeah probably yeah he was like

and then i was like looking it up i was even texting chain and he was like i think he's wrong like i think these symptoms are the shingles i looked it up you get you do get really sick it like you can like feel the nerve you can like feel the like because it like the like you can feel where all your nerve endings are because it just starts to like it just randomly will flare up and just be really painful can i ask a gross question how was your butt because isn't your is it's a rumor where your butt is where all your nerves collect that's why like some people put vodka in their butt to get drunk is this a rumor no that is where you're a lot of your nerve endings are yeah it's like a balloon right where like all the things come to the but

The balloon, it's like your nerves are, they all come to the butt. Oh, you're making me hurt. That doesn't make sense because I feel like if you get surgery on your nose or, you know, something going on your face, they usually give you medication for you to like not strain because they say that like when you cough, it actually pulls those nerves from your butt. Yeah. I think that's actually. And your testicles.

Well, luckily my butt and testicles are shingles free. Good for you, dude. And that's a win. Yeah. And you said you went to a dermatologist. I did. So did I. Good job. They don't need to brag.

How did that go? Well, no, it was a huge thing because it took like months to get in. Yeah, that's the word. But I had to strip down just my underwear. I took Sandy with me. He had a gown on cheese. I did not crack any fatties. In the waiting room.

But yeah, but they checked out my body and everything and said that I look great. Wow. Yeah, he was so nervous about this appointment. He was like, Sandy, can you please be there? He's like, I'm really nervous. And I said, well, are you nervous about them seeing you? Like them finding something. He's like both.

And I was like, oh. I mean, it's nerve-wracking. And nowadays in 2025, they send in like two assistants to make sure that you don't like do something bad to the main doctor. And it's like, now I'm more uncomfortable because there's four people just looking at me naked. And I'm happy the way it went down because the first time I went and they told me, oh, yeah, we have to schedule you for your full body scan. And I thought, oh, I'm going to have to get naked.

This is bad. But that was when I was at my fattest. You know what I'm saying? so there was a lot of anxiety going on. But this time I went in, I was like, I'll get naked in the lobby. And they were like, that's why we have two assists. Yeah, please do nothing.

Tranquilize him. But no, I'm free. I'm clear. Well, as a celebration, Spencer, for your shingles free new life, although it could just come back at any moment. Yeah, for now, for now. Thanks for reminding me. Yeah.

But to celebrate, I did get you a present. And I might have already told you about this. Oh. I was trying to lift your spirits. But Spencer got obsessed with nerds candy boys. Wow. Oh my God. He said, I got you a few bags.

It was quite devastating. We were at Target with Spencer and he goes, yeah, ever since we tried those, I stopped at a different target location every time I leave work to find them and they're nowhere. Wow. Thank you so much. You're so welcome. They literally, it felt like how, you know how drug dealers are like, have a little bit of crack, like, just for free. And then it was like, oh my God, like I need it. I had it.

I was like, this is the best candy in the world. I need to find it. I went to three different targets. None of them had it. Wow. It's fucking insane. It's so good. So I got an extra bag for me.

And then I opened it. I've been eating it all week. Whenever I get stressed or anxious or nervous, I just take a handful of those. And it honestly does change my brain chemistry. Like it's sponsored by nerds? Yes. Nerds have been knocking out of the park. But nothing is a better endorsement than comparing something to crack.

That is what I want to someday in life create something where people say, that's like crack. Are you okay sharing? I have found my own. version of crack lately that's interesting that is sourdough bread my sister's been making her own sourdough bread and she makes it with like chilies and cheese and then she just made like a cinnamon one the other day and it is so good jared says i can't go over there without him being there because he doesn't trust me absolutely not it's yeah it's bad that sounds really good how are they they're fucking insane right i got them from some sketchy-ass fucking website i check the expiration date they're fine

But I don't even know where I ended up on the internet. No, because they don't sell them. It's their Halloween candy. Make more of, make more nerds. Yeah, make them in tree shapes for Christmas. Yeah, literally. Yeah. Nerds, step it the fuck up.

They're saying candy corn, but it's not candy corn. Oh. It's the texture of candy corn. Right. Like a chewy texture. Can we also really quick just get into something that Rylan doesn't believe happened? And I feel really bad for you, Spencer, that that you have somebody so close to you at the moment, literally not believe your trauma. But Spencer told me the other day that he not only survived shingles, but got attacked by a dog.

I got attacked by a goddamn dog. And I told Ryland, and Riley goes, no, he didn't. What? I was like, it just doesn't seem real. That's what I felt when it happened to me. Wait, how big was this dog? It was a big dog. I didn't get that.

I didn't really get that hurt. I just got a little scratch in my arm. But it was just more like, what the hell? Like, I was like, finally I feel better. I'm going to walk to the grocery store, just pick up some food. I don't have anything in the apartment. like all right it's like a nice day and I was just walking I was feeling good and then I walk by this guy is a pretty small guy with like a big kind of husky type of dog

on a leash and then I like last thing I was walking by and then I sort of looked at the dog made eye contact with the dog I was like oh that's not a friendly dog and it like it like jumped at me I was like oh what did the hunter do he was just like oh sorry sorry sorry and then he just kind of ran away wait he left the dog or you ran away with the dog with the dog with the dog on like a leash yeah and then I was like what just happened I look around there was like a homeless dude in the bus stop like man that shit was crazy yeah it was see rylan it happened wait did it there was a witness or scratch it just scratched me I was like worried because I also afterwards was like when you get attacked my dog you should

ask like hey is your dog like vaccinate like you know what you're like you think that's what you're thinking about after getting the attack like well I mean is your dog vaccinated otherwise I don't want to catch rabies I don't want to like die from rabies we also didn't get fit right I just got scratch go to your dermatologist I think I have rabies You do. Bad luck. Bye. But yeah.

So I had like 20 minutes where I was like, well, I'm going to die of rabies after Schingles. And then I was like, no, that it was clearly like a pet dog. You know what I mean? Right, right, right, right. It was just like a out of control dog. Anyway. Yeah, like, Shane came home and he's like, I go, well, how was Spencer?

Is he doing better? Shane's like, yeah, but then you got a text by a talk. I was like, I was like, you lied to me. It did feel like I was like, I need to like. I need to like, what are you talking about? I need to like make right in the world or something. Like, I did something to someone. You know, when I was in elementary, I was walking home, and I actually got chased by a dog.

I was, like, turning into, like, my neighborhood, and I got chased by this. I'm assuming a German Shepherd, oh, that's my first time. But I ran so hard. I jumped behind somebody's, like, truck, like their pickup truck, and I just stood there crying, like, yelling for help. I was terrified. And no joke, I was scared of dogs for, like, decades. It's terrifying. Yeah.

Yeah, it makes sense, especially as a kid that's crazy. Wow. Wow. But I still like dogs. Okay, well, speaking of dog fights, or wait, it's more of a cat and dog fight, because as we were setting up for the podcast and I was going over notes and stuff, I heard two little birdies in the other room talking, Rylan and Sandy, and they were talking about all the things that Jared did to piss Sandy off, and Sandy said she was keeping a list for the podcast. No, this was not for your podcast. This is for the sip. Oh, and I, oh.

But I do have one thing. I do have one thing. She's producing the sip. Period. I do have one thing. So the other day, I was having just a moment, you know, feeling kind of emotional for now. I don't remember why. And then so he was in the kitchen and I was in the living room and I said, you know, I'm feeling so much better.

I said, do you know what would make me feel even better? And he goes, and I said, if I just sing to you, can I sing to you? And he goes, please don't. I was having a moment. I was cooking. There was a lot going on. And I just couldn't do it at that. moment. Wait, what would you sing? Well, lately I've been singing, you know, the chestnut

song, chestnuts roasting. Yeah, so he just doesn't, you know. Just singing it at him? Well, just singing aloud. It's like Christmas Carolyn. I will say, though, back in the day, she used to sing very loud in the car with the windows up. Yeah, we had to stop that. That was a little bit extreme. Why are you looking at me? No, you just listen to things too loud. They're catching strays over here Yeah, one time we were at home Years ago and I was singing And he walked outside of the house

It like across the street And he says you'd hear me all the way over there Wow, your power Yeah, that's what my singing teacher said She said, you got a big voice We just need to teach you how to use it I'm pretty sure she said it's kind of like a horse I don't know, remember

A horse? Yeah Thanks Miss Joanne shout out she's the best well sandy have you ever thought about serenating jared in spanish well i do sing selina's songs but i'm down to learn more and jared would it be nice to know what sandy was singing i want nothing more than that well then you should probably start using babel that's right today's episode is sponsored by babel please don't go anywhere guys you're not going to want to miss this because babel's giving you guys a very special offer And it's going to be a new year.

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Okay, fun. Okay, so the game is in this 2,023, right, or 24, 23. When did Barbie come out? Well, this was like the Pink Stanley that everybody was like murdering each other for him. Okay, nobody actually got murdered, right? No, no, no one of murder. If you had murder in their hearts, though, for that thing. You're right.

Okay, so yes, this is the Pink Stanley that caused catastrophe two years ago because it was the biggest trend of that year. Well, we have so many more trends that have happened in the last year. So what we did was Spencer went and wrote a bunch of. of little trends on little pieces of paper and put them in this iconic Stanley. Okay, are these trends in Spencer's world or the rest of the ones? I tried to make it of a spread, a spread. They're not, basically not my world. Okay.

Some of them are maybe stretches. We'll see. We'll see. I got it from different sources. Because if they were trends in Spencer's world, we'd all be out. Yeah. I should have done that. I should have done a bonus round. So I'm going to pull out one. I'm going to read it and then we're all going to vote on whether it should stay in 2025 or if it should come with us. if it should come with us in 2026. So what should we call this game? And what should we yell?

Trend it or end it. Oh! Whoa! I do feel like we're on the morning of the morning hours of the Today Show. Trend it or end it. Yeah, it's very Today Show code. Wow. Okay, here we go.

The first trend is, oh no. We're taking up space. Oh, geez. The Katie Perry and Space Space Space Space. memes. I love it. I mean, okay, let's all vote. One, two, three. Train it. End it. Oh. Let me, okay, let me fight for it. I know it's frivolous and dumb to send a bunch of rich people up to space to float around for two seconds. And like, I get that it's dumb. But all of them, like holding hands and turning to the camera going, we're taking up space. Funny. Like, and I needed

it. Everyone did. We all needed something to laugh about. And honestly, they provided. that for the world. So thank you for your service. I mean, they probably, I don't know if it, like, damaged the world. I don't, I'm not a scientist. I don't think it was great for the world. But now, what we also get out of it is every interviewer asking every celebrity, like, so when are you going to go to space? So true. And they all have to figure out an answer where they're like not being too mean to Katie. Like, would you do it? I think I've done enough. It is pretty interesting. When are you going to space? Me personally. Well, that's another thing. So I saw a clip of Ariana Grande where it like from

years ago, they're like, when do you want to go to space? She's like, I want to go up there, send me there. I love space. And then they asked her recently, and she was like, I do not want to go to Christmas. I was like, wow, Katie made us all really second question. I wouldn't, I wouldn't do that trip, personally. I'm staying right here for now. I think it's, it makes sense.

You know, good for her. In fact. Yes, she's always trying. Didn't you go to her tour or something because of this? No, I'm because of that. I'm a Katie cat. Right. I like Katie Perry.

I think the memes were funny. Don't get me wrong. But I feel like that should be like a time capsule of that moment and let's move on, you know? Right. Like we don't need any other celebrities going up in space. I don't think they're going to. All right. Next trend.

And guys, feel free to play along with us in the comments below. K-pop Demon Hunters. Biggest movie of the year, folks. Three, two, one. Trending it. Trending it. I haven't seen it. I haven't seen it.

I've seen it. It's so good. Okay. What is it about? Uh, so it's about, it's about this, this girl who is a demon fighter and she's trying to save her community because the demons are starting to come up from the underworld. And by her singing in her group, it essentially like kills the demons or puts them back into the underworld. But the soundtrack is really the winner here. It's so good.

Every song and a cool fact is that the girl that sings for the main singer, uh, she, I believe in Korea, they have school where a bunch of or aspiring seekers go to, and that's how they develop these groups. Well, you kind of age out, I think, by like 27 or something. So she essentially aged out, and then she started writing these songs and blew up on this show. Yeah, it's so good. All the songs are like, ugh. Are you serenating Jared around the house with it? That's what you were trying to get the demons out of the house.

I'm just trying to get you to pay attention so we can fight the demons. No, he doesn't really watch anime. And I don't really watch anime either But my sister's super into it So I watched the last 15 minutes of it And I got hooked And so I was like I gotta watch the whole thing I wanted to see what all the fuss was about

But Shane just won't fuss with me Yeah You fall asleep during everything I can't watch anything with you Because halfway through you're like I'm going to sleep And then you say it You say I'm going to sleep

And then I have to wait I have to wait He drives me crazy We can't just like start a movie And then finish it the next night He has to start and finish the movie I respect film. And I need to see a movie from beginning. Okay, we started watching the movie

what women want the other night, which, if you haven't seen it, so good, iconic movie. And Mel Gibson, he can like hear, he could, he can hear what women are thinking. And then Helen Hunt's really good. Okay, so we start watching it. And now we're at the climax. We're at like this big moment. Him and Helen Hunt, are they, aren't they? Are they going to kiss? Are they not going to kiss? And then Ryan, I'm going to sleep. Don't watch this without me. And I'm like, okay, so then the next night, we start watching it. Ryan was like, what's happening? Who's that? I just want to say good for you, Ryland. You know your boundaries.

You know when you're ready and you're calling it a night. Good for you. We don't, you can't watch movies. Okay, next trend is. Okay, never mind. Wicked. Oh, okay. Are we, what is it?

Ending it or end it. Okay. One, two, three. End it. I was too afraid to say anything. No, it was not like it was great for what it was. was for sure and it had its two year presence so like i think we've had like they're making more you guys walked out of you guys said you walked out of the second sir that's none of your business

that was a private story that we okay can i can i no no let's leave it in although shea did threaten me he goes you can't tell that story on the sip i told it anyways because i wouldn't be there to explain my side of it okay so here's what happened we got we went to hovier's our favorite restaurant and i had literally there's a problem i need to go to a doctor and figure it out i had one drink, okay? One shot of vodka in my Diet Coke, and I was like, had to be lifted out of the rest. I was like, oh, like it was crazy, whatever. So I was drunk. And then Rylan's like, he knew I was drunk. And he was just like, we should go to Wicked. I don't want to be left out of the conversation, you know, I want to know what's going on. Okay. And listen, I love Ari.

So I'm like, listen, I'm down. Let's go. I go and there's no seats available. It is sold out every single show in every single theater in our vicinity. We are the gayest. area ever it was like yeah like near west holly that just so packed right the only seats they had available were in the front front row side of the front it was crazy right so we get there i'm so drunk at this point we sit down and i'm just like huh and then like cynthia and ari pop up beforehand and i'm just like hallucinating i'm seeing them from this weird perspective you turn your neck to see each one of them because it's so close to the screen it was crazy and i was just like i can't do this and then like a lion started singing and i was just like oh my god i'm too drunk for this i need to be sober for this and i

turn and ryan's asleep and then i just poke him i'm like well i try i think i'm having a panic attack we have to it's too big and i'm like so drunk we have to go but how are we going to walk out of wicket like that's such a bad look in the front row okay you pretend you have to go pee and then three minutes later i have to go pee too okay but here what happened i i went to go pee right and so i stand you know like off to the side and i'm like still kind of watching the movie and I'm waiting for Ryland. I swear to God, he fell asleep again

because I was, like, waiting there for 10 fucking minutes. Well, I was having, like, I don't know, I felt like I was going to be booed out of the theater. You know what I'm talking about? It's like,

they know I'm not going to the bathroom. I'm leaving. They just know you're not going to the bathroom. It's like, you can see it all over my face in the dark theater that I'm leaving because I can't be there anymore. I'm excited to see where they take it

because it's going again? Yes, they're making more. Enough. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I know. Like, Ariana, I'm going to go to meet the parents or whatever the next one of those is.

Like, I'm supportive of the actors in it, but, like, we've had enough, right? Like, there's not another press tour that I can take. I'm sure they're over it, too. I'm sure Cynthia and Ariana are just like, can we move on? And then Universal's like, Yeah.

Come back. You're doing it again. Here's a brew. They have, like, a green face paint, like, come here, come here. Yeah, it's not the movies that are as exhausting as the press tours. Yeah, it's a lot. Thanks.

That's trend. Oh, my God. Cold play. kiss cam oh yeah end it do you guys remember this I sure do for yeah yeah they're still making claims I don't talking about it I see headlines to this day about like people and they've out in a cold like kiss range after okay I don't care about the actual I mean whatever if it was real or not I don't know but what I want to end is now every time somebody's on a jumbo thing yes yes and on Instagram reels it's always just like oh oh it's a cold play

Quiz camp moment. I'm like, oh my God. Because every like PR or like media person at every sports arena is like, oh, new thing, new thing. And then it's like, we're still doing that. It's like, how often are you guys coming across kiss cam content? Every day. I guess all the kiss cam accounts I follow. I don't really have that problem. What is your Instagram explore page? Houses. That's it. Sprinkled in with like what I fed my two year old today. Yeah. Mine is, and we'll talk about it later in the show But mine for some reason is just people getting hit in the head at the carnival

But it's like the same video but different people And they're like, hey guys, I'm here at the carnival And then like they get hit in the head with a ride I mean, no I'll show you one later in the show I have seen seven of them It's not real, it's AI Yeah, okay

What's Jared's Hot Wheels? Hot Wheels And then like you, I do have some AI where it's like a chiropractor and a senior citizen That just body slams them through a wall. It's entertaining a little bit. I don't know if it's like a bad person vibe to say it's entertaining, but only because it's fake. I send Jared so many memes, and he doesn't even open them up.

Lizzie does the same to me. I do the same to you, and you always tell me, I don't know, but Instagram before noon. I don't. That's annoying. Well, because the annoying thing about Shane is he won't just DM it to me. Like, he won't just, like, hit the airplane and share. He texts me a link. And then he wants to discuss it when he wakes up.

And I'm like, I haven't watched it because I don't open Instagram until new. Well, you know what I showed him because on my explore fee, there's also like couple, like the trending things that couples do. And so I showed Jared one and he was like, oh, we can't do that. What was it? Remember it was when the girl was like swinging on top of him? Like he picked her up and then he like put her back down. Yeah, let's try that right now and see how it goes. I would love to prove myself wrong on that one.

No, just like still like that. And she always is sending me that Denzo Washington. Washington. Oh, I'm leaving with something. I'm leaving with something. I'm like, I'm leaving here with something. You know what I'm from around the way? I'm leaving with something. Like, oh, when you go to Disneyland and they tell you you can't have anything, I'm leaving with something. I'm leaving with something. I'm around the way. I'm leaving with something. First of all, I love Denzel, Washington. His birthday is December 28th, and I already told Jared that we are watching all Denzel movies. I'm obsessed with him. Happy birthday, Denzel. Happy birthday, Denzy! And you know what tricks me is that, you know, those... I'm assuming their AI movies or videos where it's like Denzel who talks first.

And then, like, it goes to, like, scenery. But it kind of sounds like Denzel. But then towards, like, probably close to the end, I'm like, this is not Denzel. Why am I watching this whole video? But it gets me every single time. Every single time I watch it. They're the same thing with Joe Rogan. Like, did you hear what he said?

Yeah. And then it's like some bullshit. It's like, there ain't no. way that's what he was referring to but yeah yeah all right next thing nothing beats a jet two holiday oh yeah i don't even get it i haven't ever finished one of them i don't know what it means it's just a song show what's the show oh love island right i don't know i think it's just an ad nothing beats a jet two holiday and right now it doesn't even make sense what people put it it's a sound it's like it's like scarlet takes a tumble oh i did recently see an instagram

count called Poops Daily or something like that where all it is and it's disgusting but for some reason I scroll through like 10 of them is just people pooping in public like someone will be walking through like CVS and just like take a dump but they put that over like nothing big

to jet to holiday and then somebody just fly pooping all over the wall of like McDonald's or something okay it's funny it was funny but they kind of overused it after like the third one and I heard that I'm like okay we need new material they're pooping I get it but like I want a different backdrop for this but yeah I have

heard that wow I'm still gonna say end it yeah yeah it's both and end it yeah let's do a couple oh oh my booboos I already I do it by the oh I'm over it yeah I think the world is a little I was always over it you know what's so weird though it didn't have that moment of like like like Lebooboo didn't do anything wrong like Leboo didn't have anything happen it just like Everybody slowly forgot about them. Although we did pass one of those stores the other day. And it was still popping. We just recently went to a collectible show.

They had a ton of loboos and their clothes. Like so many clothes for these loboos. It's crazy. But Jared was telling me that they're not really in trend anymore. So money lost. They're out. Okay. Next trend is life of a showgirl.

Dangerous territory. Why is that? I don't even know what it is. It's the Taylor Swift album. Why don't you fuck around and find out with the Swifties? Whoa. Yeah, it's the Taylor Swift album that came out this year. I have a lot.

I actually kind of have a lot of thoughts about this and I don't think they're problematic. Should I share first before we vote? Yeah, sure. Yeah. I kind of feel like music, the music industry in general, as I'm getting older and as more and more and more artists and more and more music and more this, more more that, I feel like things kind of come and go really fast. And it used to be like an art.

artist would come out, drop one song, and for six months they're playing that song. And then they drop another. Or the album, it lasts for four years until their next album. Like, the Britney Spears album, like that lasted two, three years. I feel like now it's almost like you put out music and everybody's like, where's the next one? And people move on so fast. We're living in a world of singles and we're living in a world where people can put out music. Anybody.

It's like with streamers or YouTube or everyone has the ability to create now. Like everyone can be a musical artist and post on TikTok and have the same opportunity a big artist could if they have a hit song. So it makes everyone, even the superstars, less impactful. And also I think you're referring to a time where like terrestrial radio was 99% of music listening. I mean, now it's you go on the internet and people play it out in like one day and then they want the next thing. It is crazy though with like life of the show girl. You could not turn around without avoiding it. probably two weeks, three weeks, maybe a month, and then silence.

Like, yeah, it's kind of weird. Where was I had for these two weeks? You didn't even know what it was. You were peak. I still see reels with her music on there. I just think now everybody's on to the documentary that's going to come out. I just feel like you said, everything's so fast pace. I do think she in a way also kind of discovered the new version of what you're saying,

where it's like the thing that's going to last a long time is a tour because the tour is going to last for like months and like everyone's going to gear the video yeah yeah right um okay last one grand finale here we go the last trend of 2025 is dubai chocolate and it and it ain't it over they sell a fucking candy bar at circle k for 20 dollars what and it and it ain't even big so people can walk around flex in Dubai. And I get it. It's pistachios that are all blended and pistachios ain't cheap. But I can buy a whole bag of pistachios for $3.

Yeah, that's crazy. You know what I'm saying? Once I saw Walmart did like this Dubai cakes, I was like, and it. I love it. I love it. Stay, Dubai chocolate. Stay, please. She just wants to eat her Dubai chocolate on her JetBlue vacation,

watching diamond hot. Trend it. Well, there you go. That was our trended or ended for 2025. Which of the trends do you feel the most strongly about? Let us know in the comments. Which trend should we end? Like, should we have a full-on funeral for?

I'm going to say, I guess, Lubu's. Yeah, but see, I feel more passionately about ending Dubai chocolate. Because the booboo's already sad enough, you know? In Dubai, do they eat that chocolate? Or are they over there being like, why are they calling the chocolate at us? That's a good question. You know what I mean? Is that just like a thing people know is like,

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thanks for being you you know what trend it trend yourself you're leaving with something I need to see this meme. I still have not seen it. Oh, it's the bad. It's hilarious. I got to love Denzel. Okay, I'm going to go pee. I'm going to look up the Denzel meme.

And when we come back, it is a really good conspiracy corner because we also have a true crime that ties in with a conspiracy. She wouldn't even let me talk to her before we got here. She's been really working on this two crimes. It's good. She came with something. I said, don't talk to me. We love a true crime host who does her homework. Jeez. He's like, Sandy, you're over thinking, don't talk to me until we, you know, we get in there.

I can't wait. All right. We'll be right back in a second. Hey, welcome back. Okay, guys, I don't want to start this off with a fight. But I will say, it is the end of the year, so maybe it could be kind of fun. I wasn't even going to do this one because when I read it, I was like, there's no way. And then Spencer was like, oh crap. And I was like, what? He goes, I think this is real. And I was like, what? Well, who are you fighting with? He's about to be you. You produced the segment. There's a rat in the house. There's a reason why he said, are you ready? Can you take a wild guess what it's going to be about?

A stupid fucking color theory. Guys, we have a new dress. And I'm not kidding, this is a real, genuine new dress. Why can't you guys be optimistic and hope me and Shane both see eye to eye? We can be. I 100% see one thing. And then Spencer was like, I see the other thing. Unfortunately, I did see the other thing.

So at least I have Spencer on my side if I'm not on yours. Well, you also had shingles. So maybe that, you know. Maybe he's seen clearly now. Okay, ready? This is an email from Marin. Hey, guys, I want to apologize in advance. How sorry are you, Marin?

I found another instance of the black and blue versus white and gold dress. And I see white and gold, but all of my friends see black and blue. Let me know what you guys see. Okay, Spencer. Show them the picture. Deep breaths. You don't need to fight any battle. You don't have to prove anything to anyone.

Oh, I see black and blue. Yeah. Yeah. What? Really? Black and blue. Wait, really? Jared, what do you see?

Jared. Be honest. I see black and blue. Really? What the fuck? I don't even see a hint of white and gold. Well, wait, look at it on my phone. Wait, is my shingles?

The shingles actually ruined me because I see white and gold. Still to this day? Oh, no. Still to this very day. I mean, where sunlight is hitting the kneecaps, I do see a little bit of gradation within the colors. All I see is like blue, blue and black, black. Okay, that is kind of scary.

That is worrying. Maybe the shingles did mess me. So other people do see white and gold? Okay, let us know in the comments. What do you see? Do you see black and blue? Do you see white and gold? I'm determined that this is the new dress.

The pajamas are the new. That's pajamas. right yeah the pajamas are the new dress or the christmas season trend it i just love that we're on the same page this is so fun it feels really weird okay so this next one is crazy we talked about how so many episodes of black mirror are coming to life one of the episodes that we talked about was the app where it was like an ai version of a relative or a loved one that passed away and you can like still talk to them and connect with them after they're gone i think we all kind of agreed that that's too dark and sad and I don't know the like it's not them because it's not them yeah that's the whole

episode yes and I understand the need for like you know the grieving process and that I can't even write my head around how sad that is but also like I'm not a scientist I don't know it's not good should we yawning again no I was reacting you were yawning I was reacting I was reacting I was reacting black and blue okay okay well I was on Instagram and I saw this and I thought it was not real it is he's getting bigger See? Oh, honey, that's wonderful. Kicking like crazy.

He's listening. Put your hand on your tummy and hum to him. You used to love that. The ad's even worse. That's too much. He's dancing in there. What? Mom, would you tell Charlie that bedtime story you always used to tell me?

Once upon a time, there was a baby unicorn who didn't know he knew how to fly. This baby unicorn. was like your mom because she didn't know that she knew how to fly but she knew how to do all kinds of fabulous things hi grandma hey charlie how was school today what it's really fun i mean it's crazy i didn't make it this far in the ad yeah it's crazy it's really weird this is their official ad by the way are you fucking kidding me they put this out there he is it's the guy what the fuck i will say i've seen photos i'm sure you guys have seen the ads on um like Instagram or somewhere where it's like a photo and you're essentially enhancing it and it moves like

like like a gesture yeah like smiling or something like that to me i feel like that's kind of interesting but this is too much i feel like i don't want anybody talking back to me that's that's scary well the craziest part about this it's really weird is this app was created by a former disney charlie was that charlie worthy was he in the app he was like the older guy in there But it is, I don't love the idea of talking to a dead person. I don't, I don't know, and especially the way that I see the, the afterlife, where I've heard from mediums, like, I've heard that demons, ghosts, anything beyond, can use technology to talk to us. And if they really want to talk to us, they will use technology. So I don't like the idea of them being like, ooh, an app.

Yeah. And then they use that. Like, that to me is not great. Yeah. Because this shows that avatar that he's holding on the phone in his hand, that could easily be replicated with like 50 other of them and make a movie or something. Yeah. Right? Well, this is an example of something.

I know this is going to sound stupid. I brought this up earlier in the show. There is a video I saw on Instagram that I was, I thought it was real and it scared the fuck out of me. Yes, it's kind of funny. But like, it was so realistic. And then I showed Rylan. And he was like, that's AI. And I know this is going to sound crazy.

But this is one of the first times I've ever seen AI be so fucking real that I could not wrap my head around it. Our fair tonight. That's spinning star ride behind me. It's supposed to be safe. I don't trust it. Ah! Oh, why's that low? Wait.

My back. My back. Oh, my God. This is the thing you get on your Instagram seven times? Yes. There's multiple people getting hit by carnival games. But like, isn't that crazy how fucking real that? Look at it on your phone.

You don't see the glitching. You don't see the glitch. You don't see the little, like, tiny little glitchy. Like, this is so fucking real every single element of it. Even the carnival. I am willing to bet if I had to. That it's real. That, well, she would.

She is in front of a green screen doing that. And they're creating the background to coincide with it. No. It's sororabets. There is multiple of these. So now you guys will have these on your algorithm because you were in the same idea. But there is like a hundred of these of like, it's a soror. thing you type in like person getting hit in the head

with whatever and you get this it's crazy so this is generated based off a prompt that you just put into it not me personally but yeah it's like a Sora thing wow which is wild because I just saw something not like with the carnival but and I had to watch it a few times because I was not sure

but it looks like a tower and there's different levels and there's a ton of people on on these towers or these floors and you just see it collapsing oh my God but yeah then it's then you learn that it's AI and it's like how is this even allowed to be like on your phone this is crazy i don't know well speaking of things that are very very confusing our ticot theory

continues okay so months ago we talked about the fact that my ticot's get no views there's nothing i can do to get views on ticot i can try a trend i'll get no fucking views but if somebody takes a video of me from far away looking horrible on a fucking roller coaster or somebody takes a picture of me whatever for some reason they get views this happened recently i got a text from my friend and they were just like i don't know if you know this but you're viral right now on tic and my whole my ass fell out like all my nerves they all broke and i was like what because i just was so scared it she's like oh no no it's a good thing i didn't look into it because i was like okay i don't want to know whatever's happening over on that app i don't want to know about it and

then i am here we're playing the podcast and spencer goes you know you're like a tic talk right now and i was like spencer my butt's about to open again and he goes no no no it's a good thing and i was like okay it to me so I know we really aren't on tic talk we have no idea you guys are something it hasn't made its way over to instagram that's where i am so hasn't made his way over there we're just doing christmas tree little debby recipes right now so we this hasn't gotten to us yet um so spencer breakdown what is happening to me on tictor yeah so basically it's just a video i think i have the original video if you want to watch it but it's you and geoffrey okay during the like whole palette thing and he's like organizing colors and you're just like yes yeah like i forget what the

audio is but you're like oh my god yes oh my god brilliant so it's just that audio and so it's all about like and so the trend is all about flow state so it's like because there's everyone's like oh he was in the flow state he was like he was like you don't even think about it and so now people are using this audio for all these for like should I like Spencer you should tell me when something's trending like this so then I can make one too yeah I get it together Spencer I do my oh you're right like his husband doing it oh I see oh wait okay what am I Do you want to see the original? Yeah, let me see what the original video is.

I think I have it. Whoa, whoa. So that's the original video. It's just you go like, whoa, whoa, whoa. But now the trend is like when I send more than two emails without checking my phone, I'm reaching a flow state and it's like, Whoa, whoa. So it's just like people in flow states. Okay, all right.

When I'm eating wings and fries at the same time. TikTok is so stupid. Hey, I'm trending. Whoa, whoa. So that's all that's it. I don't even think I can participate. Like, I'm proud of you. Wait, when my pig gets a drink.

Wait, hold on. When my pig gets a drink between every bite and genuinely reaches a flow state. Whoa, whoa. Oh my gosh, that's so adorable. So you introduce a guinea pig in the mix and you got me. Okay, that's the first one that I'm like, all right. That's cute. Yeah.

Wow. We need to delete these apps. No, babe, we're viral. It's just like, it's too much. Okay, you guys, it's stupid. You know what's more, the most embarrassing is if I did a flow state thing and it got no views. Yeah. With my own voice.

You know what I mean? We're not doing it. We're not drawing that. Okay, now let's get into a couple quick conspiracy update. Guys, we got so many emails, by the way, if you want to send us an email with a conspiracy, Mandela Effect, anything, it's Shane Dossom Podcast stuff at gmail.com. Okay, this I have never laughed now. I'm already laughing. Okay, so, okay, Julissa sent this in.

This is a screenshot of a tweet. This is a DoorDash update. Just found out that the best Greek restaurant I've ever eaten at that I found on DoorDash last year and ordered from multiple times is actually just a cafeteria of a hospital wow there's a picture of the food oh my god she said i'm actually devastated right now it was hospital how is this hospital food it looks so good it looks really good that is so fucking funny oh my god hosmades and nordash have been fucking with me so much lately like especially on thanksgiving so i didn't eat Thanksgiving food because like we didn't cook or anything and like I was starving at night and I was like oh fuck there's nothing open it's Thanksgiving the only things open are like you know the big chain the Denny's and whatever and so but when I go on postmates all their ghost kitchens are like take it over it's like fresh and tasties or like Billy's you know pig roast and I'm just like this is all fucking Denny's like fuck um yeah that's actually that would be a great name for a ghost kitchen and

capitalize off of this is just call it hospital food because imagine how easy it would it be for something like dude i was blown away by hospital food like who would ever thought oh like a trendy bar yeah okay this one this one's also very funny okay so this is a discount store update this was from kelly hey guys love love love your videos i'm a senior in college and i've been watching since i was eight oh wait what i guess that is possible wow that's crazy thank you um anyways here's some tea i attached a photo of what the fuck I found at the discount store. And then look at this. She found at the discount store a bark box.

Just fully other products. If you don't know what that is, that's a subscription service where you pay to get a monthly box of like dog stuff and like somebody fucking left. It literally has the, how do they accept this back? I don't know. It has a literal address on it. What? That's actually a genius market. being employed by Barkbox.

What if they're placing these in stores and people buy them and they're like, how do I get another one? Wait, that's actually a really good idea. Yeah. Because they're pretty expensive. Dude, shout out to Barkbox. Very smart. Okay, this is another mini update.

We got so many emails about this. So this went viral. It's about Chuck E. Cheese. And it's two brothers who claim that they're the reason that our conspiracy started. So here's the video. Okay, what was this? That was crazy. Is that a trend?

I don't know. Okay, no, I'm going to debunk this. Unless they specifically work at the location we were at, but also, if that is true, then how come it's happening at all? Yeah, it doesn't make any sense, yeah. The Chucky Cheese conspiracy has been around for, I would say, at this point, like 30 years. Oh my gosh, yeah. We talked about it when we were kids.

Yeah. Damn. So, yeah. Okay. This one is very specific. Okay. This is something that Rylan actually got passionate about when I brought this up. Me?

Just check out this. Has anybody else noticed that Reese's peanut butter cups taste nasty now? Yes. I was dipping into my... He looks so sad about it. I figured I'd go for one, and it tasted like straight chemicals. And I swear they didn't used to taste like that. At Fandual Casino, you get even more ways to play.

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but I can swear they didn't used to taste that nasty. I have had this thought this year specifically. Well, yeah, because our kids went trick-or-treating and we were... Yeah, because last year, I think it was last year, we did the Mandela effect, or it was some theory about recess, and it was like, oh, is the pumpkin just the same as the bat? Oh, yeah. Whatever. And I remember eating those on the podcast and being like, oh, these are so good. And then we went trick-or-treating last year, and I remember eating all of our kids' resists and being like, oh, so happy they can't eat these and we get them.

This year went trick-or-treating, snuck our little paws in there, took a bite of that recess, and I was like, ugh. This tastes disgusting. I'm like, well, maybe it's expired. I'd get a different one. Ugh. I'm like, maybe that's expired. I get the white chocolate one. Ugh.

What's going on? Rhesus is my favorite candy of all time. What the hell is going on? So I brought some. Oh, you did. See, here's the thing. I thought either we got a bad batch or somebody has been holding onto these in their house forever. Then we'd trick or treated.

And they were like, let's get rid of them. Or I had like COVID or something and my taste buds weren't working. The last time I did eerieces, it did, it almost like broke up like, powdery. It sounds like crumbly almost, but it felt, it tastes it really dry. I know that we are on this nutritional plan, but I think it would be beneficial because

you are like the biggest Reese's pieces fan. I do love the... You should just take like the smallest, just a taster. Do you guys want to... Throw it over, babes. Throw me the damn rhesus! I mean, you guys are fine. Fine. You know what? I have to admit something. What? No. It's okay. We're not pressure you guys. Jerry doesn't know this.

He doesn't? Oh, let him sit so he gets a reaction. He doesn't know. I'm scared. And I'm nervous. Okay. What did you do? He's never going to leave my side. Oh my God.

You're really building this stuff. If you did what I think you did. I was hanging out with my sister. A donut. And I had half of an Oreo. I know. I know. See, you think I would be mad.

And I am. But I'm only mad because you didn't offer me half of an Oreo. And I look at these as major wins. Because at one point in our life. I need the whole box. We would buy a box of Oreos and treat one roll like one pack. Yeah. And the fact that you limited yourself to half of an Oreo, I'm very proud of you.

Just never do it again. Without me. Well, I know where she's hiding them. No, no, no. We must dispose of them immediately. Not orally. Okay. Orally.

Do you both want one or you're splitting? Are Spencer and I get in one of those? For what? Jesus are fucked up little recess. They're like great. Why are they like, they're so, they're Reese's pumpkins. Oh my gosh, it smells good. Ooh, they are gray.

Ew. It just looks dry. Like a little dutty bubble. Okay, this is very specific, but they taste like plant protein. Mm-hmm. You know what I mean? The texture, yeah, that's a good way to plan out. Like the protein powder that's like plants?

It does taste like a protein shake or something like that. Because like when I drink my protein shakes, sometimes there's clumps and you chew it. And this is what it is. What's going on? I feel like. Listen, this is just a theory, Rhesus. I love you so much. I literally would die for Riesis.

I love Riesis. I mean, but recently everyone I've tried has been bad. You can't continue to love bad habits. It's bad. Yeah, it's like good. Yeah, I need to try another one. Okay, now we're going to get into some cruise ship conspiracies, guys. Oh my God, first of all, I've never been on a cruise.

Rylan has tried to get me on a cruise so many times. I get really seasick. so I'm terrified of doing that, but I love watching cruise videos, my favorite vloggers, Ordinner Adventures, love watching them on cruises, but when I saw this email, I was like, I need to talk about this, and there's a lot of rabbit holes involved. Okay, so the email said, so the subject of the email was Cruise Line Food Conspiracy. So this is from Jeremy. Hey, Shane and Crew, my wife and I are a huge fan of the show, and we have a conspiracy for the podcast.

Not to make it gross, so I'll use some innuendos. Not sure where to start, but it involves bathroom usage and fiber passage. So the conspiracy here is that cruise lines are putting laxatives or other softening methods in their food to make your poop soft and easier for the ship plumbing. Reddit users said that they don't slash wouldn't do that for legal reasons. Reason being is because laxatives cause nausea and that's technically poisoning and drugging people with other consent. But they could be getting away with it. because of the seasickness excuse, which would also be a valid reason for nausea, so the laxatives could go unnoticed.

Just saying, things were very solid before we got on the boat. Eating habits have also stabilized. I feel like it's worth a conspiracy. Okay, so I went down this rabbit hole, and there are so... Well, we have some cruisers aboard. You softly went down the rabbit hole. This, okay, I'm not saying any cruise ship does this. This is just a theory, like, don't come for me, Carnival or whatever the fuck.

I think this is illegal and not happening. But it did, like, get me thinking, I'm like, that's kind of genius, like, micro doses of, like, laxatives. Because that many people pooping on a crew, I mean, we've seen poop crews. A nightmare. That turned into a fucking shit show, literally, where now people are pooping in bags, which, by the way, people were being so, like, against pooping in a bag. I was like, if I got a poop, I'll poop in any, I'll poop in a bag. Pooping in a bag seems like a better alternative than what they were doing. Some of them were pooping off the side of the cruise.

That seems like a good idea. Other things that supposedly cruises do, watering down their alcohol so that they don't let you bring any alcohol on board. Well, because their alcohol, they do all inclusive packages and it's like. Right. There's also been a lot of theories that they're just dumping everybody's poop into the ocean. No, that's not a theory. That's true. That's law.

But they can only do it after they reach 12 miles out of land. Once they get to 12 miles away from land, they could dump it however they want. Because they have filtration on the boat before they reach that level. But once they're 12 miles out, they're just dumping. I think it's like 150 tons or something like that. And that's not ruining the ocean? It is. Okay, well, you guys have been on cruises.

Have you noticed the... You're soft. So my only theory here, and this is, I'm not a scientist, despite what people believe, you're confident enough. What if the gravitational pull on land is a little greater than on water, and because of the less gravitational pull going on within your body, it doesn't really allow your poop to form as solidly as it would? That could be it. Have you ever seen a fish not take a liquidy poop? They should be logs. That's true.

Yeah, but they're in water. Fish don't poop logs. Or another theory could be that you're not used to eating all that food they put out. So now, you know, you're not used to eating that. So now you're eating a buffet of food with the free frozen yogurt. Watery alcohol. You know what I mean? So that's going to do something in your body.

And aside from that, I think the cruise that we went on, there's 3,000 people. You're out for four or five days. And they got to keep all of that food somehow. not going bad for that amount of time. There has to be a massive amount of preservatives in it. So whatever they're putting in the food is just not natural for your body to digest possibly. Have you ever seen the thing where airplanes,

I think they freeze the shit? What? And there have been stories of them accidentally releasing it in the air because it's like a big ice queue and it's like killed people before. But it ain't no meteor. It's a big old frozen chunk of shit. What?

That is my luck. No, that's Spencer. after getting attacked by a dog well speaking of terrifying things happening on cruises sandy you have a cruise themed true crime did you guys plan that well yeah i told her i was like oh i think i want to talk about cruises and i was like oh we should do a cruise because i haven't really heard any true crime cruise stories and there has to be something oh there's got to be overboard there's a ton and so this one i'm going to talk about uh took place in 2005 It's a couple.

Their names are George and Jennifer Smith. They're in their, like, mid-20s. You know, your typical beautiful couple. On the scale of one to Chad. What's his looks? Very Chad. Oh, wow. Some might even call him a Jared.

A Jared. There you go. He was like six, four. She was beautiful, blonde hair. But they were also very social. They were outgoing. They made friends everywhere they went. Couldn't be me.

And to the point where they made friends, with a couple on board and the couple said that while they were you know at a port everywhere they would go they were just constantly taking photos of themselves they just looked really happy and so they were also kind of flashy right so he

had a woodwear a watch that was like you know maybe like 15 grand and he was also very loud about how much money they had like in their cabin right so one night it was the night of July 4th and they were in the casino they were gambling

Jennifer was at the blackjack table, and then George was at another table gambling, and he made fast friends with this guy named Josh. Now Josh is an American, and they just hit it off, right? So while they were gambling, they also made friends with another three group of guys, one of them was named Gregory, his cousin, Zach, and then their friend Rusty. So they all were just gambling, having time, drinking. And so around 2.30 is when the casino closed. So they didn't want to stop, you know, having a good time. So they ended up going to the disco floor, right? So they wanted to dance. They wanted to drink. And everybody was having a good time. Well, Josh says that maybe about 30 or 40 minutes later, he looked over and Jennifer was really drunk.

And to the point where he saw the casino supervisor put his arm around her and he felt like maybe they were just being really flirty. But he didn't know if she was flirting with him or she just was so unstable he was helping her but everybody kind of thought maybe they're flirting because then a few minutes after they saw George and Jennifer arguing and Jennifer kicked him and walked off like she was kind of stabling but she walked off they didn't see her the rest of the night so then about 3.30 the disco floor closed up so George at this time was so intoxicated he couldn't even walk and so the guys went ahead and helped him up to his cabin Jennifer wasn't there but they had said that they just assumed

maybe she found the casino supervisor and maybe she was having an affair they didn't know so about seven o'clock in the morning the next day this guest her name was emily she goes out to her balcony to take a photo of the sunrise and little did she see a blood puddle down below it was actually the deck canopy right and the blood was kind of trailing off over the boat and so then she alerted with the staff and it didn't take long before they realized that it was George Smith's like he was missing and they don't say that he died they just said he was overboard right that's like the terminology and so they found Jennifer the staff found Jennifer at the spa because she had an appointment that she kept and then they investigated you know who was with George the night before and then

they gathered the four guys that they had seen in the security camera so at that point you had the cruise detectives and their police essentially just asking them questions. The guy said, you know, what we know now, that he was really drunk, they helped him to his cabin, they left, and then they had to pour at the turkey, I don't know if that's how you say it. They were at Turkey when they ported, and then the Turkey police took over. They started investigating. So the Turkish police went ahead and started investigating.

Josh told them, you got to look into the casino supervisor because Jennifer was with him last and something is going on. So I didn't know this about ships, but they're actually able to do a timestamp of when you enter your room. So they were able to see that the casino supervisor actually had gone to his girlfriend's cabin

and so she come from the alibi because she had said that she had woken up when he came in. So then they weren't able to prove anything. So essentially nothing really happened. They actually handed it off to the FBI. So the FBI was investigating what was going on and had talked to Jennifer.

And here's her storyline. of what happened that night. So she actually said she doesn't remember anything from that night. And the crew's staff said that they had seen her wandering around and it almost looked like she wasn't able to walk. So they helped her get onto her floor, which was the ninth floor. She walked out of the elevator and she made her right. But later we find out that her room was actually on the left-hand side. So what happens is she kind of goes into the corner of the hall and passes out there. She says when she wakes up in the morning, she goes to the room. George wasn't there, but she didn't, you know, think it was odd.

She wasn't worried because she thought, you know what? He must have partied really hard and maybe he just stayed in like a friend's cabin. And so she essentially just got ready and then made her appointment to the spa. Wasn't worried until the staff, you know, found her and let her know that he was missing. So then the FBI thought, okay, well, maybe there was no way she was able to kill him or to throw him overboard because she was just so intoxicated. So then they go and they talk to the guys. And another thing is that a neighbor of Georges said that he heard people arguing in the balcony that night.

And then all of a sudden you heard people saying or a man saying to the guys, good night, good night. So that's what happened. So they ended up settling for $1.3 million. And they also gave the family the investigation like folders on this case. But the crazy part is that one of the guys, Gregory, he is the only one that talked when they were investigating them. And he was saying how, you know, there was no way George killed himself. And he was just talking more to the police, right? Well, at that time, Gregory was in jail for he was selling, like, trafficking drugs.

He got out and he was killed in his driveway. These three men were Russian Americans. And so people think that the Russian mosque. had something to do with it. And because he was talking about this murder, that that's why they went ahead and put a hit on him. Whoa. That's crazy.

Yeah. These four guys saw this guy flaunting everything that he had. Yes. They know the cruise ship game. This might not be their first time doing it. They put something in his drink, took him back to his hotel, and threw him overboard, and that's it.

Because he said that when they found the room when the staff came in, took photos, the door was shut, which in a cruise ship, The door shuts really fast on its own anyways, but the curtains were closed. So there was no way that George committed suicide. How would he do that and have the curtains closed? There's no way.

Wow. And they're confident that it was not the wife after all of these years. So they're confident that it's not the wife. Even the family is starting to say like, okay, it's not the wife. They actually believe, like Jared said, that they were probably roofied and that this was kind of like a robbery gone wrong. But what ended up happening now, and I believe it was in 2015. They actually ended having to close it

because they just didn't have enough evidence on what was going on. But their family just posted like a $100,000 reward for anybody that has any, you know, information. Wow. Yeah, so their family, like, they're still going home and trying to find whoever did this

or any information. And so the cameras don't show exactly who walked in? Well, it was 2005, so they didn't have cameras away. They have them now. Yeah. Now I believe that they even have like almost like a sensor of like if somebody were to go overboard right yeah but i mean there's so many stories out

there if you look up that were people just go missing and there's just no way to prove it wow well speaking of terrifying yeah i don't somebody got a segue for that it's time for recap On today's episode of the Shane Dossin podcast, Spencer is back and has survived. The elder disease of shingles. Yay! How the fuck old are you, Spencer? Tell us for real. How old are you?

I don't think we ever... None of your fucking business, but I've never had shingles. Okay, well, he's not even a human. You probably have some disgusting animal disease. Whoa. Nope, all clear. Just went to the vet yesterday. Wait, it looks like there's another co-host who,

entered their oh my god he lost the shoe he lost his shoe oh no uh steve hardling are you here yes i'm right here sorry forgot his voice thank you for finally announcing it i was only over here for five minutes before you uh actually said anything about me which i appreciate how's the spencer just a second i'm talking to spencer uh spencer i'm really happy to hear you recover from shingles thank you so i'll see you at the bingo hall this week okay that's enough of you Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Hey, Sally. Can I take this one? Oh, sure, Riley. Oh, we played a hot game of trended or end it. And the cast has agreed. The thing we're leaving in 2025 the most is do buy chocolate. I don't think we agreed, right? Yeah, Sandy disagreed.

Oh. That's okay. Do you buy chocolate for me? I'll take it. I call it don't buy chocolate. You guys can't even eat it on your keto diet. I don't think you can eat it either. I think you can eat it either.

of chocolate. Shut the fuck up, Spitzer! Sorry. Rees are bad now! In horrible news, we have discovered after eating our own children's Halloween candy that Reese's have gone down the shitter. Seriously. And no, it's not only on cruises that they taste bad, they taste bad everywhere, but come out soft

all places. I hope they fix it by Easter. Because if they give me that big old bunny and it tastes gross, I would be so sad. No, we're gonna have to seek out other brands. No. And allegedly, chocolate's getting expensive, so all these brands are switching to fake chocolate. Allegedly. I think Steve is live at the Chocolate factory.

Hey, everybody, I'm here at Hershey's Chocolate, and I have been doing my own little investigation, and come to find out, in the back room, I saw a couple 3D printers. I'm not going to say what it's about, but I don't want any piece of it. Any pieces of it. Ooh. Good chain. Good pun. Back to you, Sally. Oh, thanks.

Oh, Spencer got attacked by a dog. Oh, is it real or is it big? Spencer gets attacked by a dog. Trend in or end it? End it. Stop attacking me. End it. Oh, Shane went viral on TikTok.

Oh, in other news, our own Shane has gone viral on TikTok. Some would say it's a fun, trending sound. Others would say it's really got to go. I mean, if this is like what we're doing. This is the last straw. Everything else you're finding. A nice trend about me? Well, no, I'm just saying, although it's nice and I appreciate the acknowledgement of my husband.

Thank you. I'm starting to think, like, this is the end. I'm more afraid of what TikTok is doing to our brains than what AI is doing for humanity. This is what set it all off. Delete the app. Despite what Zach and Cody might have you believing, it's not always a sleep life. Life on deck. Oh, that was good, Steve.

That was good one. Off to you. Wait, Chris, get better. Chris, we miss you, and we hope that you're already better. Definitely better for the time of theirs. Just a second, I'm doing a heart. Oh. So sweet, Steve.

We are wishing you the best, Chris, and we miss you very much. Well, that's going to do it for us here today on the Shane Dawson podcast. Wait, it's the last episode of the year. Oh, no. That's sad. What was your first? favorite thing that happened this year. Oh my god. On the podcast or in general? In general. Okay, I have a cheesy one. What? Okay. So recently, like, when I leave the room,

the boys will say, I love you, Dad. That's cute. That's really cute. And that's recent. Even today when we were leaving to film the podcast, I said, bye, and he got, and Jack's, bye, Dadda. That's really cute. My favorite part was going to New York for the first time and having so much fun and being able to visit some family and just enjoying ourselves. check out the blogs but but it was very fun mine well definitely has to be being able to leave my job to be able to do this and experience all these crazy cool adventures so thank you I had a big moment I'm revising mine I went to Garth Brooks bar yes now the good memories are hit us all flooding back all right you guys well hope you enjoyed this episode of the

Dawson podcast and hope you had a great year with us we had a fantastic time with all of you make sure you shop your Shane Dawson merch at shan dawsonmerch.com and we'll be right back here in two weeks on the Shane Dawson podcast thank you for watching today's episode and we'll see you next time good night wow thank you guys for the amazing year this has been one of the best years ever I'm so grateful for this podcast for oh my gosh that's even more sad that Chris isn't here I'm just so grateful for everything for all of this, for all of you guys. And yeah, I can't wait for next year. And we're going to be right back here, bringing the same heat. Is that what people say? Youch. We'll see you guys next time. Bye.

Oh, bye. Thank you.