The Shane Dawson Podcast - Delivery App Conspiracy Theories with BENJAMIN MY POSTMATE!

Episode Date: March 9, 2025

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but hopefully not get anybody fired. We'll figure that out when we get to it. Hey, what's up you guys? Welcome back to whatever the hell this is, making my dreams a reality edition. Not only does Ryland have breasts. That's your dream? But we have not just one,

but two special guests today. This has been so long in the making. Guys, my heart is forward. We have Benjamin, my postmate. Thank you for having me. Oh, my God. Which, he's so much more than just a postmate to me. He is a miracle worker, one of my favorite YouTubers now, and the boyfriend to the sweetest

girl I've ever met in my whole life. Yes. Welcome Benjamin's girlfriend, great. Great. You weren't even planning on being on the show today, right? I mean, no, not really. I know, but your makeup was so sickening. and your hair was done.

And we were talking about Animal Crossing and you got really into it and you were like talking about all your cheat codes and hacks and I was like... Are you a billionaire like Shane? No, I haven't reached that status yet. I've been focusing really on like

getting as much furniture as I can for this island. Are you doing it the good and honest way though? No, of course not. Okay, Benjamin. Can we just talk about the lead up to this? How crazy? If you guys didn't see the episode,

two episodes back, I talked about the craziest, out-of-body experience I've literally ever had. It's what I imagine people who do that drug, like in the middle of the woods. Do you know what I'm? Ayahuasca. When they're like, I saw God, and then he told me to die, whatever. And then he told me to die.

Normally it's a life-altering awakening. It is an ego death, yes. Did you do it? I mean, the smokable version. I've never done, like, in the woods, throwing up and filling it, but yeah. So that happened to me. I was literally throwing up because I was just shook. I was watching a YouTube video is on my home page and it was like I door dashed in the middle of the night

Dangerous I was like ooh click so I'm watching I'm like oh I love this subscribe go to the channel Look at the shorts and there's a short and it's like hey I mean I don't want to mimic your voice But go for it go for it in front of you let's all try I got a delivery for a YouTube watching and he got goat milk formula and I was like I have to be the only YouTuber in LA that gets goat milk Because your wife with boobs is probably screaming at you. We need goat milk for you. Literally. Your wife with boobs.

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

We found each other. Found your Instagram. Yeah, I was surprised. because you've got to dig pretty deep for that. Digged very deep for that. Good job. Thank you. And now you're here.

And let me just say, you were saying before the show, like you've been kind of avoiding using the app around Target because you don't want to get me because we didn't want to ruin this experience of us meeting for the first time. Exactly. And like I was saying earlier, yesterday I saw an order that was just goat milk formula.

And my heart jumped for a second. It was my first order of the day. And I was like, this isn't like too soon. It felt wrong. Like I've been here so many times. but I was like, I can't take this. Have I met you?

I don't think so. I think I saw Spencer. I handed something off to Spencer once. But other than that, I think it was mostly just leave at the gate because there was always something. Something. If our dogs are out, it's a leave it at the gate. Isn't that weird though?

Like, listen, I believe in the universe orchestrating things in very weird ways. And to me, it was very weirdly orchestrated. Because I literally have like, like Ashby. Oh. Should I know Docs at the pose, mate? No, I'm sure if he's watching, he would be flattered. He's upset. He's honestly a threat to our marriage.

I don't... Well, I don't want to make it up there. I feel like I'm in a rom-com right now with all this. It's like an amazing story you guys have. It's a very meat view. Let me stick around. If he stole Shane, he'd be like, you can stay. Yeah.

What's his name? Ashfee. He loves you too. Ashfine. I love that. He comes like five times a week and like we talk, we hang out. I literally like hang out with my postmates. This is like a self-flict. I order so much.

I always hang out my postmates. Sorry we haven't met before. Okay, so I have so many questions. Number one, guys, if you haven't checked out Benjamin's channel, please check it out. It's so good. I love your videos. Thank you. I'm not just saying that because you're my favorite postmate.

So I am your favorite. A hundred percent, yes. Confirm. You're gonna tell Ashveen? Wow. Oh, my God. The scandal. When we moved to Colorado for a couple years,

like, obviously, I didn't say goodbye to Ashbyn to Ashview because I didn't know I was going to be gone that long and then we came back and he was like one of my first orders back and when he pulled up it was like the notebook it was really tears he was just like where did you go and I was like Colorado and he's like why you're going I'm back now baby so beautiful okay but I did notice so I was going through your channel and I was like really going back in time because I was like I want to see oh boy I want to see like where this started and that was actually your first door dashed video you ever did you ever did. Yes, it started about 45 days ago.

That's it. What? Wow. Well, the short that you saw was the first short I ever made. What? Dashing. And I'm pretty sure you might remember, but I think the night before, because I was telling her, I was like, oh, like, I, you know, go out and do deliveries, it might be fun to make content about. Yeah. And I think it was the night before we were watching one of Shane's videos. I think we were watching the conspiracy theory about your, um, Stanley is like in the

Right. Right. And like, the, the, the video with the, car on fire and Stanley survived yeah yes classic yeah so then the very next day I was like you know what I'm gonna film today because honestly I was probably inspired a little bit from watching and I was like all right let's do this so I took out my phone claimed an order and the name was Shane and I was like I didn't think much of it but then I saw where the order was going and I was like this seems a little odd and I saw what was on the order and I was like no way like oh wait that's crazy That's even crazier that, because it was already a wild, like, that you then found the video and then this all happened.

But the fact that you were watching a video before, that is... I think it was literally the night before. Also, the fact that you saw his first short, like, a lot of things here are crazy. I have, like, weird shows. You couldn't write this stuff. Oh, my God. I'm glad he has a girlfriend. We're going to the Michael Gourmet Show, by the way.

I don't know if you know. We're going to... Because she has a shirt, and I was very excited. I have no friends to go with. I would love to. I have no friends. period. So we should have all these connections.

No, thanks. What is it going to come? Ashfine, come on out. That would be, oh my God. Wait, so, okay, this is so fucking, this is so weird to me. Okay, so anyways, I went back through time, and I saw that you were originally doing videos

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

very early I got that taste of like at some point of my life like this is something I kind of want to do whenever it makes sense I just didn't know when that would be and lately I've just been getting into creating again so how did grandma become involved yeah how did that happen well it didn't take too much convincing she's always been she's probably gonna watch this too so hi grandma but she's always been my whole family's been always very supportive but she was the one who when I had that Minecraft channel because my parents were always like oh you got to you know focus on school did you finish your homework and stuff like they were very supportive but um did they not know you made a hundred bucks yeah I mean are they tripping it was like it was like it was like it was like a hundred and 40 oh you should have flash the check around more I think you would have got a different result from your parents they would have respected the check but she was the only one back then who would like like she was the one who took me to vidcon because I still lived in Minnesota at the time 20 I went two years I think like 24

2014, 2015, I think. I haven't been since then. But, no, she was always someone who was super supportive and, like, was like, yeah, you should do this. Or, like, I'll come with you. And those music reaction type videos weren't just what I wanted to do. It was kind of just an idea in the moment. Like, I'll probably do a few of these. So I did that, and they were a lot of fun.

And I'm thankful that she, fun memories with her that I have on camera. So. Yeah, we used to make videos with our grandma all the time. Yeah. Some of them, maybe a little problematic now. Bella is a bitch Who's Bella? Yeah, well there was a 420

Granny moment that happened So then why did you move to LA? Well, I first moved, I've moved here multiple times But you moved here multiple times? Yeah, so my last two years of high school I took college courses So when I was 18, I had my high school diploma And then an associate's degree

So I was like, I feel comfortable now Taking a couple years to just try things Maybe move to California, which is what I did. So that's kind of where the deliveries first came in. I didn't really understand how making a budget worked back then. So I looked online from Minnesota and I was like, oh, I can get like a one bedroom for like $1,700 and I could probably live off like $2,000 a month and you know, just like postmate and everything will be all fine.

So I didn't have an apartment or a job lined up and I had probably like $1,500 to my name. And I spent pretty much all of it on like a one month Airbnb. And I was like, I'm going to give myself one month. I'm going to do Postmates and go from there and just see what happens. In total, I was only out for a couple months that first time. And then my car was just like completely shot. It was just old. The brakes were like gone.

So I drove the car with no brakes all the way back to Minnesota. Don't know how that happened. Yeah. How did you stop? It's down hill the whole way. I didn't. I drove at night. No, I constantly ask him that.

He doesn't know. No, I was just driving at night with the open road. And I could stop. It just took me maybe like three football fields. So it was like looking back, obviously, should not have done that. So I went back home. And yeah, and then those were on the time actually I went to Florida too, which is where I met her.

Yeah. So. Okay. So you guys, so are you in, you're not really in his videos, right? No, not really. But are you going to start to be? I would like to be. Because you said before the show, because you weren't planning on being on the show today.

And you were just so funny and so cute. And you guys were so cute together. And I was like, do you want to come on the show? and you were just like, ah. So, like, you're building up to being on camera. Yeah, I, uh... Well, I guess this isn't on camera. It's a big first step.

Breaking you in slowly. I can't embald. But, yeah, I do, like, want to be in his videos at some point. I just, I, like, I work 40 hours, and then I also have a second job on the weekend. So I don't really, like, make time for him to be in part of, like, a big video that takes a... That's a whole other conversation. And what do you do? I work in insurance, and then my second job is I babysit on the weekends for a family that I love so much.

Wow, okay. I just realized, I was like, wow, we have delivery service conspiracies. We have, like, Target. I'm like, you worked at all the places that we're going to talk about today. Yeah, I've worked a lot of jobs, and I don't mind exposing. Oh, wow. Good answer. Very good answer.

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Okay, so was it like, you were like a celebrity there, where is it like they brought out bottle service? No, if anything, I think no one cared, which is, I prefer that, honestly. I'm, like, very anxious in a bar and in a club, and I like to disappear in a corner. That's what I do, and I could do that. So was there lap dances? No, it was nothing like that. I mean, there were go-go, like at, like the abbey and, like, at a lot of gay bars, there's go-go dance.

Right. Which is not a strip, it's different. But there were go-go beefy go-go boys, you know. But I don't know. It was really fun. Greg, the owner, was super sweet. He gave us, like, free drinks. I had a really good time.

Wow. This is a photo I took while I was there. Is that one of the go-go dancers? So this is crazy. I don't know if you remember Periscope. It was an app that doesn't exist anymore. But way back then, I would just, like, go on Periscope all the time and talk to anybody nearby. This was a person I talked to a billion years ago on Periscope.

And I haven't really spoken to in forever. And I was like, what are you? And we like reconnected. That was very cool. First of all, you look so good in that picture. Reconnected. Second of all, you would just go on Periscope and talk to, what do you mean? Yeah, all the time.

Who? I have no friends as we discussed. Yeah. And so I would talk to strangers online. That was easier. I would also Periscope myself. I'd live stream. I'd make friends with people in my chat.

I'd go on their live streams. I have a friend in Canada named Amanda. It was amazing. Hi, Mandi. Wow. So like people I'm going to meet at some point. And he was one of them. And we finally met.

And it turns out he's really popular at Club Job. Break down how your boyfriend, because I was thinking about it and I was like okay if I knew like Chris Pratt was go go dancing on like a platform I don't know if I'd want that was a bit if I were to ever leave you for somebody it would be for him I love Chris Pratt what or like I'm not like edging for Chris Pratt I just think if a diving competition per se oh no that would never have he ain't going well first off people I like chubby guys there so people weren't excited about me people were excited by my boyfriend. Like we'd walk around and people would gur and wolf and rub his belly.

I like that. Oh, that's a thing bears do. Right, right. They go woof or gur. Yeah. And they... I love this for you, by the way. Thank you.

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Now he's getting touched. How far did you allow it to go? I mean, was it? Were you into it? Are you cucking? No, no, no, no. We're very, very, very monogamous. And like, I do know people jack each other off

on the dance floor and stuff from the stories I've heard. That did happen. With your boyfriend. That did happen? Because there was only like five days. That's the kind of shit that goes down at gay bars. I will say, though, they, you know.

That'd be interesting. They went off to a sort of corner where no one was. A sort of corner. Where no one really was. No bathroom, but a sort of corner. They kind of hid, and much like Ryland, they jacked each other off in the middle of the club. And they hid in the middle of the club?

No, in a corner. Were they massaging your boyfriend, rubbing his stomach? Just a little rub on the belly, and then we just kind of would laugh and keep walking, you know? Because we didn't know what to him. And you didn't, like, jiggle anyone or anything like that? No. I mean, I did touch this fellow's tummy for the photo, but yeah, that's about it. It was just like a pat.

I'm happy for you. Thank you. It was everything I ever wanted. Okay. Well, speaking of things that could potentially cause drama in relationships, which I'm so happy that didn't, I want to do a couple quick rabbit holes. So I'm going to start with mine.

Now, I'm going to say this. What is his name? Is it the Glizy Gobbler? I think that's what he's sort of known as. Okay. Do you know who I'm talking about? No. I like it, though.

My Instagram feed has now become just compilations of the Glizy Gobbler. which he's not lucky which um so i okay so he's a man on tic-tok who uh people pay him and they send him emojis oh i've seen this guy he's been on my feed too right it's like the ice cream so good like they give you a little thing and you do like a little but it's like a man version of it and well let me just show you and riland i'm not aroused by this but i really i swear to god i'm not how did it land on your for you page oh spencer's for you page turned into my for you page Club Glyssie, here we come Club Glyssie

Think of the ice cream Ice cream, so good Think of the ice cream Think of the heart of me I've heard you too Think of the glissies Sounds like Donald the duck Overdrive

Oh, I love glizzy overdrive Oh, I love Glezy overdrive Oh That's pretty set of it Increasing grip By 7% What It's just worth a couple bucks

You know, this guy's entertaining 160 glissies And three glissy overtime He hop to us Oh my God Now listen At first I was like cringe And then seven more compilations

I was honestly like what an icon He's a genius He's a genius because it's so fucking funny And easy to make fun of And people probably go in there and hate watching him The glasses I looked it up He is making on one show between $3,000 and $5,000 of $1.

What? I thought of a cool name. What? The Glizzard of Oz. Holy shit. Oh, my God, for Wicked. Okay. I'm saying.

Here's my question, though. Number one. Now, I did plan this before we knew there would be a woman here. So maybe you could just judge. But I was like, let's see. I'm right here. I was like, let's see who can do the. Let's see who can do the best.

Oh I have to go I'll happily judge Because I was like joking about doing this And then Spencer did it and it was good What Spencer did it? Oh no

That was wet That's how I do it That was like Uncomfortable Oh Oh Overdrive 160 hot dogs

No one's gonna do better than that I wish they would play this at club job All the the chubs glizzing together at the same time, which did you know? Because when I brought it up to Spencer, he's like, well, you know what a glizzy is, right? And I was like a blowjob. And he goes, no, it's a hot dog. Oh.

So he's eating hot. Oh. I thought it was a blow job too. Okay, no, but now my, now my recommended on Instagram. Is a hot dog that different? But now, look at my, look my recommended. Just a bunch of dix. Glizy gobblers.

Shirt. That's cute. It is cute. But now I'm like, wait, but it's a blow job. But it's a hot job. I don't know. Does that guy have official merch? If he does, I'm buying it.

I'm supporting the Cluzzi Gobble. Um, okay. So, speaking of rabbit holes, Chris, you said you had a rabbit hole that you fell down to recently. I did. Yes. So, do you guys know about the cheese caves? What? Have you heard about the cheese?

Is this a section of club chubs? No. Cheese blaze? In America, there are cheese caves that began during the Great Depression in the 20s and 30s when repression and many farmers were struggling to stay in business so the US government stepped in with agricultural subsidies to stabilize food production and President Jimmy Carter created a dairy like an incentive for dairy farmers to increase production and they so overdelivered that we had so much milk and dairy that we didn't know what to do with it and so the government decided

to turn it all to cheese and butter and put these like giant gallon wheelbarrows of like cheese and into underground limestone caves in Missouri that were like originally miners mines I believe and if you look at photos of this it just goes on forever and ever and ever it's such an obscene amount of cheese and then they were like oh no we have way too much cheese what do we do with this so then they started giving out like bricks of cheese to low-income families as like government cheese and then not only that they started going to restaurants and being like we need you to have cheesier items on your menu we have

too much cheese please take our cheese and so this is how we came up with like stuffed crust pizza and like four cheese pizza and like all these things because there was just way too much cheese and we didn't know what to do with it just to keep it from going bad they had to like put coolers and stuff and it was expensive

because corn and cheese oh yeah I mean it's just there was cheese everywhere because of this because we overpaid farmers got way too much milk and I have a question yeah how did you get there? I was thinking the same thing I want to know the time of day the environment you were in

and how this went down. By the way, in the 80s, they had accumulated 500 million pounds of surplus cheese, just so you know. I hear you, and it's fascinating, but how did you get there? Where were you? I was on Instagram or TikTok or something,

and someone was like, oh, isn't it crazy? This is how, like, stuff crust pizza was made, and I was like, that's not real. She made that up, and then I Googled it and, like, just spiraled. What is your explore page like? Because I will say,

did I say this in the last episode? Occasionally, on my Instagram, it'll get something right. recommended by you, which will be terrifying, and then it'll scroll, and then it'll be, you know, somebody talking about glizzies, and then I'll scroll, and then it'll just be like a big man rubbing his belly going, ooh. What? Like, like, Chris. And I'll say, okay, so, like, what is your vibe? Like, if you took a screenshot of your explore page right now, or what are we talking? 90% of it is, like, otters.

It's just, like, cute ot, no, like, animals, like, where they have their hands out of, like, a hole out of, like, a glass at, like, a zoo, and you can touch the little. Wait, real otters? Yeah. I thought you meant like hairy little men. No, like cute otters, like animals. Can I also say no one else did the fucking glizzy gobbler thing? I was the only what he did it.

Well, dude, I mean it. I moved past it really fast. If I had the glissibility you have, well, I would have waited until the end to show everybody up. But you just went right ahead and that was it. I kind of feel like Jared would be the best. Well, I could host a glizzy competition in the recap. You know, what?

Guys, stick around for Riley's recap, but we're all going to be giving glizzies. Giving glizzies. It's giving glissies. To answer your question is literally cute animals or chubby men, one or the other. Okay. I love you. Okay. Spencer.

Actually, hold on. First, Ryland, you got mad last time because you were like, well, you never tell me you're doing a rabbit hole, so I'm not prepared. I told you a week ago we were doing a rabbit hole. Do you have one? No. All I do, listen. Never.

If I started telling you about my rabbit holes, you would all black out in boredom. Or. Save us, Spencer. Different meal ideas for one-year-old. Any time somebody starts to get boring, can you just getzy? That's so much pressure on me. That's kind of like, you know that show where they do the gong or like they have a singer come out with the hook? Like, you just glizzy when you feel like we've all had enough.

And let's all not be offended by a glizzy, okay? It's just a mutual respect for the glizzy. It's just a hot dog. Nothing personal is just a glizzy. Okay, guys. I'm cool, glit's nothing personal. Okay, Spencer. Okay.

Your rabbit hole is actually insane Yeah, so the rabbit hole was, it started from an email, I don't remember the viewer I apologize, but a few of you have sent this in Have you guys heard of the Yellow Deli? No, no. So it's this kind of like hippie sandwiching. They have a lot of locations a lot. It started in

Tennessee, so it's a lot in the south and like a lot of people just think it's like, oh, this is cool, like an all natural sort of like granola like sandwich place, but yeah, it's actually run by a cult. It's like, what? It's perfect. Is it a legend? Is it,

are we no no no so they don't have a location in LA it's just it's down in like San Diego out here okay oh that's I have heard about yeah yeah yeah close for comfort so it started out

in Chattanooga Tennessee where my grandparents are from so shout out I wonder if they've ever eaten there so they started this guy Eugene Spriggs I believe his name is was in Tennessee and he had a sort of rough back story

had a like rough life and he found God and he but he basically created his own version of, like, his own religion where it's kind of mixing Jewish belief, Christian belief. It's kind of, like, a lot of based on, like, old things on the Bible. And so he started a sandwich shop called the Yellow Deli

to basically support, like, the church and everything. It's like their only way of income. Okay, it's like Chick-Blay. Yeah, it's like Chick-Blay. To launder money, I would imagine. Yeah, exactly. And just, like, they had no other way of making money. And everyone working at these Yellow Delies essentially is a member of the 12 tribes community,

which is, like, the official religion, which is, like, they believe, like, the end is coming in, like, we're all reverting back to these 12 tribes, and it's very, like, cultish, very, like, standard stuff, I don't know. Are the sandwiches, like, cult themes? There's 12 subs. I don't think they like being called a cult in general. Oh, never mind.

Just kidding. So, they're all over the world now. They're, like, in Argentina and Europe. What? There's a ton of them. And when they moved to Vermont in the 80s, that was sort of, like, there was a lot of, like, cult awareness going on in America at that time. And so, like, there was a huge raid, and, like,

in Vermont, it was a big deal, like, one of the biggest raids in the state, and it got thrown out because it was all illegal, and it, like, affected the whole governor's race. It was, like, a huge story, and they didn't find anything, but then all these former members are coming out being like, no, this is happening. But it feels like every time they got raided, it was fine. So there's no real, like, end to this. It's still an ongoing thing. There still have delisies all over the place. I didn't, like, tell the story. Is the food good?

Like, are they on Yelp? I mean, if they make a mean pesto. Because, like, Chick-fil-A sauce is so good. Like, I'm okay if they... The yellow deli? Wow. How did you get there? I started from the email and I was like, what is this?

And I looked it up and then it's... I just think it's really interesting that like... I don't know. You see, like, I'm interested in like those cult documentary. Like, there's the one about the one in Oregon, the wild country. And I was like, this is crazy. It happened in the past. Like, that stuff doesn't happen anymore.

Like, you were saying, like, people know about it, but they still go there, but then enough people, I guess, don't know about it or don't care. And it was just really interesting to me and, like, you know, we should a conspiracy kitchen try their same. Okay. What is that smell? Is it pizza and drunk people burps?

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videos you say hey guys I'm a postmate and also I'm a delivery driver and also a YouTuber hopefully a full-time YouTuber but right now I'm doing both. Guys head on over's channel. Subscribe Check him out. Show him love because he needs to be a full-time YouTuber because he's so talented and so good. Thank you. Thank you. Also, your story's so cool. How like you kept coming out here and you never gave up. It's like genuinely inspiring. This is a third, third time. So. Okay. I have so many questions. Number one. How do you like what is the craziest experience you've had as a delivery driver? Well, there's a few times. I've been scammed a few times. I've had, I've had gay rumors spread about me at a target. What? What? Wait, what? It happens.

Okay, us too. Wait, what do you mean? Should you start with that one? Yeah, they thought you were like looking for gay sex? Well, what? Yeah, this was what? A couple years ago? She worked at this target at the time, but there was this one employee there, we'll call Jonathan.

And how would you describe Jonathan? Gay? Well, I didn't know that. Well, he had, he usually would be like at the self-checkout, and he had, I don't know how to describe it in a nice way. He had some issues just in like being maybe like over friendly to customers and just kind of talking a lot. And then I guess I was a little too friendly with him one time because I was in the produce section one morning. What the produce section? That's where all this stuff happens.

But he tended to wander sometimes from his spot around self-checkout. So I'm just, you know, like looking at bananas and apples and stuff. And all of a sudden I hear. I just hear Jonathan up behind me so I'm just like oh hey how's it going he starts talking to me and he happened to ask what I was doing later and I just thought he's normal conversation so I was like oh yeah I'm probably just going to go like chill in my hot tub and he I guess took touching and your sound very baity well and as soon as it came out of my mouth with a banana And as soon as it came out of my mouth, I was like, oh, no.

But I didn't, I didn't know, you know, what he was into. I just was genuinely, at that time, I was really into hot tubbing. It's relaxing. What a niche. No, it was an error. Hot tub reviews. But anyway, so as soon as I said that, I was like, oh, no. And then he was like, oh, can I, like, join you later?

And he was kind of inviting himself just to see what I would say. And I was like, oh, like, no, trying to play. I was trying to be nice just because. I always was in our conversations, but I was, I pretty much just said, like, oh, I'm not sure, like, I might have people coming over. I don't remember exactly what I said, but I was like, wow. So you went for a pretty hard diss. Yeah, but I guess the way I responded, I tried to be nice and kind of like shutting it down

just because he was very, like, if I didn't shut it down, the conversation wasn't going to end. So I was like, I got to keep working, but it was like nice talking to you. Like, I'll see you later. Then cut to the, well, it was the next day? Mm-hmm. And she sends me a text. we're both working and she's like hey like I didn't need to call you like talk about something I was like oh that's interesting you never want to hear that from your significant other

so she calls me and basically she's like I just I think I know the answer but I just like have to ask I didn't know what I knew what was true but she was like were you in the bathroom like goblin glissies What? Oh my gosh. Because Jonathan was saying that a ship shopper was caught in the bathroom with another guy. What? And that ship shopper was me, allegedly. So, and I didn't know this.

I'm just like walking around not knowing that people are hearing this as I'm just like, my name and I'm saying, and they're like, oh, my head, it's my head. What? He made up a whole lie about you? Yeah. I guess the only thing I could think of is that he wasn't happy with how I handled the hot. tub discussion? You teased him pretty hard. Let's be

honest, dude. He said you got planes and I told you're going to be in a hot tub. Gripping a banana saying, I've got other people coming over. With an apple and a banana, like, I'm going to be in my hot tub, dude. So, yeah, I obviously told her that I didn't. I didn't need confirming. Oh my God, so then all the other employees are

looking at you, like, poor girl. So, like, he's been causing issues in our store before. And so, like, I was like, what else? What else? Yeah, I'm no longer. you're welcome there. No, no, no, Jonathan. Right. Um, yeah, and then I go into work the next day and my friend slash coworker was like, hey, by the way, Jonathan's saying like stuff about your boyfriend. Wow, an orchestrated attack. Yeah. Do we have any other? Can I, what? Is there like a

restaurant that's, or I mean, I don't know if you haven't, like, is there like a place that's like, this is the fucking worst place to pick up from, but I got to do it. Um, if I did have to pick a least favorite place, I'd probably say wing stop. Um, and this might make you not want to order wingstop. They're the one place that I've delivered that they make the drivers fill the drinks. What? So you fill your own like soda? Like they're like the restaurant's supposed to handle the food because they're the food handlers. But that's the one restaurant which is probably not allowed, like they're probably not supposed to do this.

But every wing stop I've picked up from, they're like here's the customer's food like in the sealed bag. And then they're like here's an open cup and a lid. Go like fill the drink. Okay, you might not have had this experience because I don't think shipped does restaurants, but have you ever encountered when a restaurant has another fake restaurant inside of it. Ghost kitchens. Yes. Yes, and that's one reason why I only order food from, like, restaurants that I know

because you'll be scrolling and you see all these places. You're like, ooh, like sparkly barbecue shrimp. And it'll have like these, a lot of times like AI pictures of like this food and stuff. And a lot of times that's coming out of like a danies. Yeah. Or like, yeah. So they can be confusing when you're trying to pick up because you're like, where's this burger shop? And then you're like, oh, it's like inside 7-Eleven.

It's like in the back of 7-Eleven or somewhere. Isn't that like Mr. Bezberger? Like he just had, I don't know, Bougu de Beppo and stuff. Yeah, Red Robin, Bucca de Bebo, yeah. Wait, how did you get scammed, though? Like, how did anyone else have that issue when they first, like, moved to L.A., like getting scammed? Or is that just a me problem? I got scammed with actor things, like with where they're like,

oh, you got a good look, come be an actor, pay a billion dollars for this thing. And I'm like, okay, I want to be an actor. Look into them? No. Well, the first time it happened was probably one of the worst times. This was, I think, I want to say the first time I came out. So it was already just not a great time. Came out.

And not a fun of the bathroom. To Jonathan in the produce section. Well, that's a whole, that's a whole other thing. Some of her friends thought I was gay before. A lot of my friends. This podcast is brought to you by Carvana. Buying a car shouldn't eat up your week. That's why Carvana made it convenient.

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glissies. He's killed them pretty quickly. Let's stop speaking cryptically here. Are you sucking wieners, dude, or like, what's going on? I can't keep up with the glizzy talk. I can appreciate it. I can appreciate a good chicken Broughtwurst. Oh.

Okay. Wow, that felt like more code. I don't know what you're talking about. Yeah, that's as a compliment if someone said I had a chicken brought worst. It's nice. Yeah. Nice. So you're not gay.

I'm not gay. I may have just done some gay things. Like what? But I don't think they're gay. That's the thing. Okay. So we'll, we can play... Let's rate it.

We can play a game called gay or not. Okay. This is a good game for this podcast. Okay. We all have whiteboards and markers. Was this pre-planned? Wow. This is for the women that call in and their husbands...

Oh, yeah. We are gay. This is dick. So we're pretty well equipped. The fact that this wasn't planned, but we all have... I know. I didn't know. I love this game.

Are we doing like a spectrum or just like a yes or no? Let's do a one to ten. Gay or not gay? I think it's just gay or not gay, right? Okay. There's no spectrum here. Yeah, we believe in the spectrum, but you know. For ease of the game.

For the ease of the game. Yeah. Okay. So we'll start with a pretty basic one. Owning a rose gold iPhone. Oh, I'll go with not gay. Oh, that's bye though. It's so fine.

And I told him. This is what started this whole discussion. Her coworker. Saw my phone. And I think it's PEP. Half. I didn't know half was an answer. It is for me.

I represent the half community. I didn't know we could put half, so I just put gay. Wow. I thought you were going to, I thought you, didn't you defend me? Listen, I did, but it like took a lot of defending that day. Let's see your iPhone, Shane. Uh, you need my rose gold iPhone? Gay.

Not looking good. I wouldn't even have a rose gold iPhone. Wow. tits. I'm just kidding. I would. I don't care. Well, I had a rose gold Macbook, too, so I don't know if that would change. Ooh, that would have changed my mind. But at the same time, too. Wow. Coordinating. Yeah. Yeah, I would have put gay. I just like the color. Not helping. Fair enough. You know what? Straight because he's so confident. All right, but

name something else you did that might be gay. It's skinny dipping with the homies. Oh. How old were you? And by homies, I mean one homie. Yeah. How old? How old? How old? 18, 15? Minecraft era. I'm ready. And I go. I'm going to say at 14, that's not gay.

I underlined it 10 million times. I put a little gay. That's the age where you and your guy friends are like, that would be so gay if we did that, but maybe I kind of want to. When you're experimenting, yes. It's experimental gay. Yes.

I need to know a little more about the story. Could you not wear clothes, but you needed to get wet? I don't know. Are you totally naked? Yeah. Skinny dipping. It was at night, though. In a lake?

In the moonlight. We're either a few hours. I'd stop. Well, my eyes were like up, so. Not that I was aware of. Why not just underwear? Well, that wasn't as exciting. Oh.

Okay. I turned it back. That's gay. I think, I think pool is gay. Lake is straight. We're just two straight guys and like enjoying the thrill of being naked. No, no, no. That's not a sentence.

I don't know about. that I just think of like have you seen that of my experience has anyone seen broke by my own that's a scene in brook back man that's all I can think I can't quit you uh okay oh this will be the last one oh it doesn't have to be we need an encore probably playing strip tennis we all know guys that's gay right that's gay do we have to write it down let's not waste to eat yeah strip tennis with a homie that's with a homie yeah are you and the homies always naked tennis is such a have you dating you guys in the past Um, so I'm personally five.

And, um, I had a boyfriend in high school who was Pan. Um, so yeah, I feel like my type is more like, twink vibes. Oh, he's a tweak now. Yeah, I call Ben my twos. I do have to say, though, anytime I want a confidence boost, I just accepts an order on Santa Monica Boulevard. Good for you, dude. Yay! Yay!

You know, it's so interesting. Maybe my gay dars off. Well, no, it's not, because you're not gay. But, no, you're not. Not that I'm aware of. I'm just, I just, you know. Wait, when you said you do, you've done gay things. Well, by like those things.

Oh, those things. That was pretty much the extent of it. Um, interesting. I actually think you're not gay at all. Because, like, the people who are gay are the people who are so like, I'm not gay. They can really, like, angrily homophobic in your nose. The homies are always dressed.

Like, that's what I liked about Ben. He was so, like, for me, it was confidence in his masculinity. Like, he could do. You take his clothes off during tennis. Okay, I didn't know about that. Like, you're like moving around, like, and it's like hard. If you trip. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

The court is hard. Balls flying around like that? It's just like, you could like skin way more than your knee if you're playing striped tennis. Also, definitely like no growers, not a grower because we would net strip anything. We would never. I can't even go to the bathroom if there's not the like things at the urinal. No, well, I can't, I don't even swim naked in my own house. It's annoying.

It's annoying. Yes, because I wear underwear. And he's just like, what is the point of that? Where it's just the two of us. And I'm like, yeah, exactly. You have eyes. Like, I hate being naked even when I'm alone. Me too.

Like, I can't. If I see myself in the mirror, I'm like, I'd put something like. I relate. Yeah. But you're beautiful. It's crazy. Yeah. Oh, my husband's coming in to watch Love is Blind with me.

Oh, what a fun night. Why does he have popcorn? Oh, God. And it's in a big bowl. Oh, there's so much of it. We'll be fine. We'll be fine. Well, what is that? Peanut M&Ms? Not even the normal ones? The peanut with the extra... Oh, God. Shane, what do we do? I could hit the bowl out of his hands and throw it against the wall and make sure he can't eat any of it because it's all over the floor.

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We're going to get to something I've been wanting to talk about for a while, which is customer manipulation. And this is the perfect episode because we started planning this before we even knew Benjamin was coming on the show. This is perfect because we're going to be talking about things that stores do to confuse us to get us to spend more money, some shady shit that goes down on delivery apps. So we're going to have some insider information,

but hopefully not get anybody fired. We'll figure that out when we get to it. Okay, first theory. Guys, it's a new year. You know, we're starting over. We're staying positive. So I saw this news story and I was like, you know what? Perfect timing.

Let me show you what's in store for us. What? So. Oh my God. I'm a little disappointed with the animation quality. I feel like we could have done better in 2025. They're just assuming it's hitting. New York? Well, it always does in the movies. So, if you guys haven't heard, there is an asteroid

that is supposedly on its way over here to Earth by the year 2032. So eight years away. What? And, but don't worry, they're saying it only has a 2% chance of hitting the Earth, which Spencer then reminded me, how much is that? Yeah, it's 1 in 50. So like, if you did something 50 times, it's a little too close for me. A little too close for me. I think odds are good. I'm feeling good about it, you know? This is like when they tell us it's going to rain in L.A.

And then it's like drizzling. Yeah, it's exactly like that. Weren't the odds like one in like 100 or something? And now they keep getting closer? I've seen, keep seeing articles on this, but I haven't like looked into it at all because I like haven't wanted to. Yeah. So.

Don't. Yes, it started at one out of 100. And then a week later, there was a news. footage that said, hey, guys, so we're raising it. They were like, we didn't get enough clicks on that last article. Let's raise the ante. So the odds doubled. The odds doubled. What? And we still have how many years?

Eight. Which if you do the math on that, if it doubles every week, yeah, we're fucked. That's not enough years. But here's the thing. I looked at the comment section on this video and like, everybody's just like, bring it. Like, we're waiting. And I'm like, listen, I get the humor of that, but also, I don't want to... I don't want...

Well, we have... I mean, I know, like, you can value your life without kids, but I'm worried about him. Wait, so has it said, like, what the estimated damage would be? Like, is this a total wipe out the planet? Like, just a continent? I think that... Are we just moving to a different I think, listen, I'm not a scientist. But I do know, when things like this happen, it does affect the entire world. I don't know if it will take out the entire world, but it won't be great. Okay, guys. Yes. This freaked me out. Now, listen, we already know AI's We already know robots are coming. They're making all these Tesla robots. Kim Kardashian is like doing the macarena with them. It's getting scary. This popped up on my homepage. They are now working on a robot that has artificial muscles, ligaments, veins, and we'll be able to move and twitch and do things. Well, not like Twitch stream, but like Twitch. You know what I mean? Or that too. Just like a human. Here is a prototype. I saw a second of it.

Ew. Ew. Ew. Why is it? Ew. It's coming alive. It's waking up. Ew.

What the fuck. Burn it. Burn it to the ground. Ew. Ew. I hate it. It looks like one of those like when you get frog legs. Like you order for it and it moves.

Yes. Like the muscle. Yes. Why? This fucking robot. So here's some of the fun things that they're teaching it. Teaching him how to use scissors. No.

Teaching him how to use. Power tool. What? As somebody who just spent three hours building an outdoor play set, I could use this. So yeah, this is happening. I don't understand. We don't need this. Stop.

Stop. I could think of a few things I could use it for. Every time we introduce, like, fucking this crazy robot's going to kill everyone around. It's like, sounds pretty good to me. They're killing us in every way. The things we eat, the alien, like, everything's killing us. So bring it on. But it holding scissors and snapping and stabbing you to death in your sleep.

Thank you. Okay, you don't have to get one. We are not having one. I don't want you to die. This is why every time after I use chat GPTA, I always say thank you at the very end. I know, I always go, can you please, like this? I'm so sorry to bother you? Remember me when you take over the earth?

So yeah, that's happening. It's terrifying. There's no way to stop it. I don't really know what to do. So yeah. If you're a scientist, stop working on it. Please stop. But if you're also a scientist, I have something to show you.

Proceed. I can't. Why? Yeah, it's this one. Well, it would be good for a scientist. Okay, you know what? I'm going to show you something that has gone very, very viral. And I just want your honest initial reactions to it.

Yeah. Can the mirror see my head moving? Yeah. How does the mirror know what I'm doing if I've got it covered? What? The mirror is inanimate. They don't know nothing. How can you see what my head is doing on the other side if I've got this other.

How can the, how does the mirror? How does the mirror? Mira, no, what I'm doing on the other side. I'm too stupid for this. Okay. Like, it makes sense, but it doesn't. Okay, let me just say, to her credit, to her credit, I know this is stupid because it's how mirrors work. But can I explain how the fuck mirrors work?

No, I can't. No, I can't. How can you see it from the diagonal angle? Everybody's, everybody's roasting her in the comments and they're like, it's a fucking mirror. Like, that's what it does. Not when it's covered. But then all the replies are like, but I don't know how it works. It's because light bends.

But how come when you're looking at a reflection in like a clear piece of glass, it's not backwards? Because you're not looking at your reflection back at you. You're looking at your reflection through the glass. I'm going to puke. This is too much for mine. I just made it up. It sounded right. So listen, shout out Bethany King 68.

You're not stupid. You were on to something. Yeah. It was just kind of stupid. This was something that maybe you should have just kept with you and your husband. You know, I appreciate it. But I like the raw honesty of her posting this on the theater. I think what bothers me is I'll never know what I actually look like.

Yes. And other people will. Yes. Even if I look in a mirror, I'll never know. I could have a panic attack thinking about that. They say that on average, people are 20% more attractive than they appear to be themselves. No, I think it's like self-help apps. Yeah.

Okay. Guys, speaking of the world wanting us dead, has anybody noticed that every day There's another fucking food recall. Yes. I just post this on threads. It's terrifying. Okay. It's every day, bro.

Literally, it's like everything. It's like chicken and our turkey and I'm like, oh, I just can't eat anything. Eggs. Broccoli from Walmart. They literally put it as a high risk category, risk of death. And I looked at the comments and all the comments were like, I just ate that. Yeah. Like, what do I do?

Then we had Boershead meat. They had a huge recall with Listeria and death. Well, yuck. I ate Boershead at a lot. at an establishment, like, right when this happened, I was like, I'm going to die in panic. You ordered Boar's Head? That's like a brand.

Oh. They just make like deli meat. It's a good brand. Like turkey and stuff. Oh, I think you guys are talking about it. Wolfgang Pucks brand to be specific. Dang. Groger, they had bad hummus.

Gerber. They had something wrong with their products. Yeah, they had like a teething thing for babies that had like, it was like coming off in their mouth and stuff. McDonald's, their whole situation with the quarter pounder with the onions and the and then this one, you brought me this one. Trader Joe's. Sorry to drag Trader Joe's again

But they had an Asai Bowl That had plastic in it Yeah, this happened like the other day So apparently people love the frozen Asaibo from Trader Joe I love the frozen Asaibo from Trader Joe's Well, I would maybe hold off on it for a little bit I think it has a lot of plastic in it

So yeah, that was like a day ago I wonder if this is a result of a lot of things Becoming automated And people are stepping away from industry And they're using robots and AI To, you know, just get auto crops And auto packaging and this could be one of the things about AI.

It's putting plastic in foods. You're going to think about it. Here's the thing. I don't fully know what the conspiracy about this is because I was Googling it. And I was like, is nobody talking about why this is happening so much? And no. There's like really no articles about it. And I was thinking, I'm like, okay, so a few months back, we had the weird fruit situation

where all the fruit at Walmart and Costco was like bending. And did you remember, did you see any of that? It was like, oh, I just ate a blueberry. But it's plastic. Like, it was getting crazy. That died down. Now we're moving. Moving on to this, where it's like every food is causing death.

And also, what if you don't have social media? What if it's not on your explore page? And you're just eating the broccoli from Walmart. Then you'll probably see a lot. It's because they want us afraid of food. That's what I'm... So they could tell us what we should eat, and that's why they're making this fake meat farm situation huge.

And they're trying to get everybody involved with this fake meat that they're being able to create in the lab. Oh, that's interesting because almost everything... Like, if you went vegan, you're kind of safe from 90% of the recalls. Except for the Walmart. No, that's... They want you to eat what they want. They can make and have the most profitability on themselves, you know?

So wait, what do you mean? So you're talking about the 3D printed meat? Yes. The other thing we found we were looking it up, which is also even more like the change is happening right now, is that recently last to the 2024 was the highest, it was like a huge jump in like sicknesses from recalls. So like all of a sudden now everyone's getting sick from all this food. Whereas before it was like recalls about just this. But now it's like way more deaths, way more like people getting sick from.

like recalled food than ever before. So there's like, there's a weird trend like suddenly happening up right now. I'd be so pissed if I die from eating a food when I'm so cautious about flying on a plane or doing dangerous things. And then it's like, oh, I just ate fucking broccoli from Walmart. Which is like, I'm back to me taking out by broccoli from Walmart. That's a rough way to go. They don't even let me film there.

Can we just use this as a moment to point out? This has never happened with Cheetos. Cheetos are safe. They're delicious. So, good job to you Cheetos. Have you back checked that? Yeah, nobody... I will look.

Don't trust what you read on the internet. They're against Cheetos. They are. They're always coming up with stories. Exactly. Yeah. Okay, Spencer just got up to go get a surprise. Ooh. But while he's doing that, really quick, I just need to read this email from Nicole,

because this shit piss me off. This is about Uber Eats. Hey, Shane, I hope you're doing well. I was ordering food on Uber Eats, and I got a promotion for 15% off. And my boyfriend, friend actually noticed that when you clicked on the promotion to use it, the prices would raise. What? Okay.

Oh, no. Once again, this is just alleged. This isn't for me. This is from Nicole. So don't sue me, Uber Eats. I use you every night. So, as you can see, this is McDonald's Uber Eats, right? Before she clicked on the discount, 10 piece nugget 689.

Okay? After the, after she said she wanted to use the discount, 10 piece nugget, 819. No. Alarkey. That is the definition of malarkey. Yes. That is insane. I don't know if this is real.

I would be so upset. I'll never read a McDonald's again today. They're probably implementing surcharges like Uber does. Speaking of Walmart, this is one of my favorite things that Walmart does. They completely rip off big brands and make their own versions of things. And sometimes supposedly, allegedly, they actually go to the same manufacturer of those products. Like, for example, if they want to make the Walmart version of Cheerios, allegedly, they might go to the Cheerios factory, allegedly, and literally use Cheerios and just call it Walmart Cheerios. So supposedly, they have been.

done it again with candy. So let me show you. For any of these recalls? So we have, quick Google. Okay, so as you can see, we have Kit Kat or as they're also known, milk chocolate crispy wafer bars. I want to know how much are we saving for going with the everyday value brand. Dude, chocolate bars like that could be like $2.50 to $3.

Walmart one, probably $0. He's right. He's right. Yeah, I know Walmart prices. We have a Snickers, which weird that it doesn't save. it's a satisfies. I don't quite understand that. Oh, they were putting things on there at one point, like names and then things.

That is such a flex that they're like, we don't even have to put our own fucking name on this. You know what this is. So we have a Snickers, and then we also have a peanut, caramel, and Nuget bar. That sounds on a... It's to the point. It's to the point. I cannot wait for this. We have a Twix, a classic. And we also have

the cookie and caramel bars. So... It's very Jimmy Craig. Creative with their branding. I guess they want you to know what it is. We're going to do. do a blind taste test. So in front of you, you have a plate that has Spencer wrapped candies with little Spencer's A and B's on them. What do you guys want to start with? The Kiv Cat. All right,

Kit Kat. Okay, are we just going for it? Yeah, yeah, go for it. Now, I love a Kit Kat. Oh, my God. Glizzing the whole thing. Don't choke. I'm going to be girding it up tonight. Just take tiny bite. I can't. I have no soap. Okay, okay. So now I can try B. I'm just like, Ben took the corner of a fight, and I took, like, a whole chunk of it. Now, let me say, the knockoff is good, but I know the Kit Kat signature flavor. You already tried it? Yeah. Both of them?

B, try B. I don't know which is Witt. I mean, I do, visually speaking, I don't know from the taste I can tell. I have no idea. They both taste the same to me. Really? The chocolate is a little different. All right, should we go around?

They're both really good. They're both really good. There's a difference. Okay. Who thinks the real? one is A. That's the real one. You think that's a real one?

A is the real one. I was going to say the fake one was first. The one that's a little bit darker is real. Yeah. I think B is the fake one, but I like it better. You guys are, except for Shane. Correct. A is the real one.

B is the fake. Wow. Wait, how did we? A. It tastes more, I don't know how to explain it. It tastes more girder deli to me. Ooh. Yeah, like fancy for 70s so far.

Yeah, the B one is a little more. smooth. Yeah. The Kit Kat is sharper. Yeah. It's like a little poop. Alright, you guys want to do the Twix? Yeah, okay. A. Okay. Oh, and I love a Twix. That whole right-left Twix campaign was such a smart one because I was so like,

I like the left one better, I like the right one better. And then people started like Mike and I. Like people started taking that idea on other companies. Oh. They started like splitting the company in half to create like controversy. Oh. I think nerds did it first. I feel like

He's got to be in a real deal. You're just calling people there. Try the second one. B, I shouldn't have looked. Why? It says, B has to be real. B is so much better. It's so much juicier.

B is trash. I can't tell the difference. I thought B was the one. The Kit Kat was a really good dupe. This is not a good dupe. So you think B is Walmart. It's trash. I can't tell the Diff.

Okay, if you haven't eaten all of B yet, it tastes like a gram cracker. Okay. Which one do you guys think is real? I can't tell them. I think A is real. The caramel on B just tasted a little cheap or off. You have a cheap taste.

Once again, A is real, B is fake. I was trying to drink it for London work. B was so cheap. Nothing. I like it for 79 cents. Load me up. Why can't I tell the difference between these? I don't know.

Okay, our grand finale. We got a Snickers girl in the house. A or B first. Let's do A first. This one's pretty. This one's pretty. This is pretty. She's cute.

Cute. Do you eat it enough to look at it and know immediately? I don't know. I'm going to see now. They look the same. Wait, did you already... Oh, B. Oh, B has a design as well.

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They both have the... Oh, no. He is real. Oh, wow. The innards on bees. is really good. I'm keeping this. Yeah, and the top, or the vainy part on top is like...

Whoa, man. Gay. Very gay. More authentic. Oh, yeah. The taste profile on this one is drastically different. I think this is the most different. Okay.

Yeah, B is real. A is fake. I was gonna say, I thought A was real. You know, I would splurge on your candy kids. It makes a difference. I could tell on every single one. I can't. I can't. So conspiracy debunked, Walmart is not using

the Mars factory. But it's still a great deal. Still a good deal, though. Wow, that was great. See, I knew that would cheer you out. This is a good one. You're welcome. Okay, we're going to talk about all the ways that stores and companies are manipulating

you to spend more money. This is crazy. So, number one, we'll start slow. They put the cheapest items in the front of the store right when you walk in, because they know that you're going to get excited about it, put some in your cart, and now you've got some stuff in your cart. Oh, you might as well keep shopping. That's why Target has the one spot.

That's why they always have the discreet. count things, the little bargain bins right at the front. It's a genius manipulation tactic. Number two, the smells. So you know how at Disneyland they have the smellitizers that we've talked about where they pump out all the smells around the park to get you to spend money, to think about, oh, that smells delicious. I want some baked goods or whatever. I smell it. Do you? Stores do it too. So obviously no grocery stores do it. They put the bread section right at the front door so that they're pumping out the smells of bread. But home appliance stores started pumping the smell of apple pies.

Which sounds crazy, but they did the research. Their sales went up 23% when they started pumping apple pie smell into the home appliance stores. Honestly, I prefer it. But why? Because they're selling you an oven. They want you to be like, oh, I could cook my apple pie on Thanksgiving in this oven. And, you know, like you walk into a bakery, it smells good.

You can have, it's nostalgia. It's a sales tactic. So grocery stores, grocery stores also do this. Obviously, they do the bake. bread, but they also will cook things like meals that they're not even going to sell and nobody's even going to eat. And they will literally cook it just so that smell will be blasting into sections of the store, which is that was crazy. I mean, I know this does happen. My ex worked at an ice cream shop and they would make the like waffle cones all the time, even if they had way more than

they needed just so like the smell of waffle would fill in the smoke. That's like the one of the best smells. Yeah, it's so good. Okay, this is kind of a life hack, honestly. Did you guys know that gas prices are the highest on Friday afternoons because everybody's leaving work and they have places to go on the weekends and gas prices are cheapest on Monday morning because they know people don't want to stop on Monday morning to get gas. Wow. So I'm only going to get gas on Mondays going forward. Literally, such a life fact. Did not know that. This one I thought was fascinating. So maybe like five years ago we talked about Hollister and all the things they do to like manipulate you when you're in the store. They used to pump out really loud fucking crazy house music. They

we used to keep it really dark. They would have intense smells and colognes. Their whole purpose would be to confuse you into a state of just making a decision really fast because you want to get out of there. So I went into a Hollister pretty recently and I was like, whoa, this is different. They have completely revamped it. It's bright now. The music is really slow and chill and like soft. There's no crazy smells. Like it was a really calming experience and I was like, oh, that's interesting. So I asked an employee there. I was like, did you guys like switch it up? Because last time I was here was crazy. It was like a club. and they were like oh yeah we switched it up but actually sales have gone up so i was looking into it this is the new thing so no longer are stores playing really loud crazy music to confuse you now they're

playing music that has a slower bpm than the average heart rate because they want you to be in such a calm zen state that you want to be at the store longer and shop more which now think about it next time you go to a store grocery store somewhere in the mall you'll hear like really slow music and sometimes they even will play normal like radio hits and they'll slow it down. Really? Just to get your heart rate matching. So that was crazy. Here's another thing to do at grocery stores that I thought was very smart and also pissed me off

because I fell for it recently. It's called price decoys. So what they do is if you're looking at, I don't know, spaghetti sauces, you'll see it on the shelf and there'll be like a really expensive spaghetti sauce right next to it. There'll be a cheap one. And then there'll be another really expensive one right on the other side. So they will put the cheap one right in the middle. That way, that's the one that you want to buy.

Because you're going to see the expensive one be like, oh, oh, well, this one is so much cheaper and you'll always go for it. And if you look at the store, they do it with everything. They have the price decoy, always. And most of the time, it's the one that's the store brand probably, I'd assume, right? It is, yeah. That's 100% what Walmart does. They will literally put their fake o's or whatever right next to Cheerios because obviously they want you to get that one. And then you're going to tell you.

That's the brand. Yeah. So obviously, there are so. many more than that let us know in the comments if there's any customer manipulation things that you've noticed or things that we should go try out in the real world in addition to going to that sandwich shop and seeing if we're going to join us out um okay Jared take us out with of something that you were telling me in the kitchen and I was like you know what save that for the podcast it involves Mars I know we're all thinking the same thing right at least we can go to

Mars when the earth goes to shit I'm not thinking we're all thinking that I would rather go We're all thinking it. Then send my ass to Mars. But me and the AI robots will be here. They haven't gotten to you yet, Ryland. But they want people scared. They want us to go to Mars, or that's the mindset because they got to have us on edge. And evidently, Mars, all the footage that we've seen up until now, is actually footage of Devon Island in Canada.

Which, if you look it up, it's even like Mars on Earth. It's just, you know, the landscape of Mars on this planet. People are saying that that's where they're filming all of the Mars. imagery. In Canada? Well, because I think it's all part of the who rides. So they're in Canada taking images of Mars.

Look at it, guys. I know. I know. It seems goofy. Look it up. Look into it. Wow. Does it seem safer there? I mean, it's the largest desolate island, I believe, in the Western atmosphere, if not on the globe. So it's just huge, and it's an old

crater that, or a comet that impacted the Earth. What? And now it's like a frozen mass that's this island. And it looks exactly like Mars. Like exactly. Let's take a trip. I'm just saying, don't believe it.

When they show you the images of Mars, it's not real. Never, so not one. It's not real, A? Just a theory. A. So, yeah, this will come around. At one point in light, people are like, oh my gosh, I can't believe Jared said that so early on. It was so early to the movement.

Yeah, yeah. No, you're right. You know? You're right. But yeah. Well, speaking of who's gay and who's not. Why don't you try this, Jared? Who are we talking about?

We're trying to get to a recap. Oh, speaking of a guy who is out of this world. Rylan. Let's get to a recap. But he's not really out of this world. He's actually in Canada. Coming to you live from Canada, this is Rylan's recap. My camera action.

Ryland's recap is about to happen. On today's episode of the Shane Dawson podcast, Shane's world is spun out of orbit when planet Benjamin comes crashing into him. With other planet Grace. Oh, with other planet Grace. Oh, the Gleazy Gobler. Oh. Never seen him use two hands before.

All right, the Glizy Goblin. What's his name? Glyzzy gobbler? What's his name? Yes, yes. Why can't say his name? Jared. The glizzy globler is on TikTok.

Why is his name in? Turbo mode. And he's making $3,000 to $5,000. So guys, if you're thinking, what am I going to do with my life? Learn the gobbler and you can make that much money. Yeah, don't waste your time driving out to L.A. from Minnesota multiple times. Yeah. You know, just go on TikTok and gobble them glizzies.

All you need is a wall and bag. Back you gliss it up, making a lot of money. Honestly, I might start. Yeah. Chris went to Club Chub and touched a belly. In controversial, non-controversial news, Chris attends Club Chub with his boyfriend and claims it wasn't sexual, although we caught him in the wild touching a Chub's rub.

A Chub's Frub. Benjamin's not gay. Is that the conclusion we used? Are we sure? In gay or not news, the podcast, couch has to play an intense game of is he gay? Turns out we're not sure.

Inclusive. Mere's. How do those work? Nobody really knows. And although you all are dragging this woman for not understanding the concept of a mirror, the reason this video has views is because none of us really understand it. A robot alert.

What's going on with robots, Jared? I have a correspondent in the field. New robots are hitting the market to look even more realistic than ever get yours now on sizzle for only 1399 a month for the rest of your life well you might think walmart brings great value i'm here to break it to you that their knockoff candy bars while cheap are not delicious they don't taste like the real deal and they are praying on you to believe that it tastes good when not being compared to the original wow i was angry about that yeah i actually thoroughly enjoyed i can tell all of them i thoroughly enjoyed the snicker water book okay wrap it up

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Almost 20K? Okay. If we get Benjamin to 100K right now, he will tell us if he's actually gay or not. He'll glizzy. I'm down for that. He'll find him to reveal if he was getting. Giving glizzies in the target bathroom.

All right, and that's it. Good night. Ben and I are going to go hang out in the hot tub. I'll see you guys later. Well, you guys go. Hopefully you enjoyed whatever the hell that was. That was so much fun. Thank you guys so much for coming.

I know this was like such a weird experience. How was this for you? I had a lot of fun. Yeah, it was a lot of fun. Well, thanks for having us. It's still so surreal with the whole, just how everything played out. I still think it's so cool.

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

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