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#131 - We Need To Talk About These Subreddits

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#131 - We Need To Talk About These Subreddits

The transcript blends diverse topics ranging from animal rescue and clean living products to media analysis and internet culture. It begins with a heartfelt appeal to support bear rescue efforts in Armenia, followed by a product-driven segment promoting eco-friendly personal care. A central discussion on Survivor explores viewer preferences for watching only the final episodes, highlighting the show’s dramatic climax and emotional payoffs. The conversation expands into popular Reddit subreddits, where fans analyze tropes like "jumping the shark" or characters befriending prisoners, and reflect on media censorship, such as in Sailor Moon. A touching Reddit comment about wanting to have sex with a deceased spouse becomes a cultural touchstone for its emotional depth. The show also examines *Heated Rivalry*, praising its chemistry and realistic storytelling. A Boston snowstorm subreddit offers humor and insight into regional winter life, while the broader thread emphasizes how internet communities and media tropes reveal universal human experiences—ranging from grief and loyalty to resilience and humor. These elements together create a rich, reflective narrative about connection, shared experiences, and the power of storytelling across platforms.

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this is the sound of captivity this is the sound of rescue and this is the sound of freedom give Armenia's captive bears a second chance by supporting international animal rescue call 508-826-1083 or search the great bear rescue to learn more finding everyday essentials that are actually clean effective and easy to incorporate into your routine can feel overwhelming they make simple non-toxic swaps that actually work their clean start bundle is the perfect place to begin with three everyday essentials their best-selling aluminum-free deodorant mini body butter and lip balm for fresh pits nourish skin and hydrated lips whether you're new to private life or if you're new to private life or if you're new to private life or if you're new to private life or if you're new to primary pure refreshing your routine the clean start bundle makes switching to cleaner care simple and gives you an even better value when you start with the bundle should I wait Selena should I because Courtney still hasn't watched it should I should I bring up that I watched heated the first episode of heated rivalry in this one or should I wait for Courtney's episode I think I could just bring it up here because this one comes out first yes yeah I'll just bring it up here because it's you're still gonna bring it up because I'll bring I'll probably bring it up she has not watched it she was she was doing your episode of you watched it in the day I was at home like working from home searching searching for subreddits watching two guys go at it have you ever been on that subreddit yeah two guys you think it'd be sexy that's gotta be a subreddit it's actually just sexy fight videos sexy I hope we're recording this probably great all right hi welcome to smosh mouth I'm Shane and I'm Amanda and we have a very very special guest with us today Noah what up guys happy to be here Noah uh you sat down at this desk uh we've been sitting here for like 10 minutes before rolling and uh we've already talked about like 10 different things that we have to come back to uh first off you said uh you brought up survivor and you said the best way to watch survivor is to watch the final three episodes the final three episodes only you like survivor right so I don't support that you do that I don't I don't like it I don't greenlight it I don't appreciate it um it's fine I do love survivor I am a survivor fan here's the deal I watched survivor when it first came out I was like woo and then I stopped like everybody else and then the pandemic hit and then me and my husband went ham ham on survivor and now survivor is the best best character watching best people watching best like game what I love about it is like there's just enough drama to keep me going where I don't feel like oh my god that was so toxic but there's not too much drama you know what I'm saying yeah do you know what I'm saying I know what you're saying because I watched the last three episodes of many seasons uh it's it's the best way to watch it because you get kind of the the climax of the actual gaming yes segment and you also get in the last three episodes people now realizing who they kind of fucked over yes can I say the f word yes oh yeah and and realizing oh I'm gonna have to do one last smart move and really try to plead my case to this jury of people that have effed over and then you see them go in front of the live audience and try to plead their case and it's incredible you just see the fireworks at the end do you think do you think it's better to only watch the final three or or are you saying like it's just the best part so you you don't have to bother with the previous it lets you time travel a bit because I'm watching it on like free streaming service so there's two different survivor channels two different seasons going on all the time so I can hop between them and I just get in on like episode 14 and then I can flip back to the other one and I can just watch the final three episodes and I can watch the other one and it's on episode 15 and so I'm able to just go back and forth and time travel through all of survivor and just get the good parts this is so wild it's incredible here here's here's a part for me is like the ending when they plead their case to the jury I find it to be the most cringy part I actually love the beginning I I find the uncomfortableness of people feeling each other out and making allies to be like my favorite part because I like to watch the beginning and then the unraveling so you like to watch the beginning and then the unraveling so you like to watch the where people have already come to clearness I like the beginning where they're just like hey nice to meet you yeah I'm I'm I'm a writer and then it's like no one knows that I'm actually an actor hey that guy's acting weird I think oh we got him see I like that stuff and then I like them going like oh no I push people away oh no so you like it already when they've had the aha moment mm-hmm oh god in the same way though they then have to sit there and then plead to everyone and be like I realized on this island like I'm someone who pushes people away and it's been so great to grow with you Kathy and I'm so sorry I took those bananas and made you starve and Kathy's like wet bananas I'm 65 I'm a grandma and I should win because I'm a grandma it's like dude bitch you're a grandma we don't that's fun but you're not gonna win because you're a grandma can you imagine being 65 because I've seen it now in multiple seasons and going through the same physical challenges the other people do it's incredible it's incredible it's incredible it's incredible it's incredible because they're not lying you really will get like a stomach parasite because you are trapped on an island for two months yeah like you will come home with no money and the inability to gain weight for like half a decade worse you really yes and they're all happy about it they take people away because they haven't pooped in five days yeah they're like they're like bringing the team it's like all right so we've checked you out you haven't pooped in five days so we're a little bit worried about that you've got two minutes to shit right now we're gonna and you gotta show your work I watched an old man get helicoptered out for that issue and he was at towards the very end and the next day he did poop and he was at the jury and he was fine he could have stayed in the competition oh I watched one guy like leave because he didn't poop and he was just like no it's my dream and they're like sorry like we don't want to risk it if you haven't pooped yet they're helicoptering him away he's trying to shit he's like I can do it bring me back to the beach take me back to the beach okay okay you're kind of slightly convincing me but here's the deal I won't I want to see I want to see the beginning when they're all bright-eyed on the boat being like going down on the ocean and then it's all their side thing it's like watch out world and I'm about to slay all these people you want to see them pre-constipation I want to see pre before the poop you just want to see the poop before the poop after the shit and I'm sorry Noah no I there is a charm though Noah that like and I'm so nostalgic for this of like back in the day before streaming when you like would hop in halfway through a movie or hop hop into a TV show it's like well the five first five episodes have aired you can't go back and watch them so you have to start now and just pick things up and something about it makes it like really fun to watch that is true we don't get that anymore so I get it I do get it so are you gonna watch the new season with Mike White I'm gonna hop in oh god last episode and I'm gonna enjoy that season would you would you ever go on Survivor cuz you know Mari went on Survivor did you watch that I for some reason I think I probably watched it without knowing who she was yet she got eliminated very early I think they like she was the first yeah I mean and and probably the right call she she's a threat she's too good and she's also super nice so I feel like no one would trust someone who's physically capable and legitimately nice they're like we don't know what's up watching this new season of Traders it's the biggest problem with like these types of shows is the smartest most capable people get eliminated first yep so everyone's like you're gonna win get out of here right no but the the people who not in Traders but Survivor the people who are like buff and fit they do not get eliminated they're just held until they break apart in the merge because they need their like muscles or else no one gets coconuts yeah for real no like again in Survivor they're really competing for coconuts and bananas I have seen Jeff Probst look someone in the eye and say I'm so sorry no bananas tonight and you see that this person hasn't eaten in 40 hours 40 hours no food you just did a puzzle and you need those bananas to I actually hate that you're kind of right so much because I feel like you're cheating but it's fine it's true the big guys get the coconuts and sometimes there's always like the little firecracker girl who's like I can get the coconuts too and it's like girl you can't climb that tree Cynthia died last night she was a grandma she was never gonna she was 65 years old you cannot get coconuts when you're 65. that's why Survivor is so funny because people have this like they almost just like fight for themselves they're like I'm this I'm this trope right like I'm this character and you better watch your backs and then they get voted off first night uh okay I do need to watch this show you do I watched it back when it first started and then I have it's totally back then was bad that was great what are you talking about it was fantastic it was good but it was a little bit I watched the Boston Rob his first season when he proposed at the end oh my God I watched that when it was airing that season is so good yeah have you yes it was really good Boston Rob's been on like three times yeah he has yeah but there was a first time where he met his wife Amber wow and they fell in love and they were the final two wow it was like Hunger Games you have to watch the whole season dude that's incredible oh my God that's so smart it was really matter what they win it's a 50 50 exactly and they did oh love it that's the only reason he proposed is so that he could split the money he's playing the long game yeah okay so before we continue uh I should let people know what we're doing this episode. Why are we here? Sorry. When I'm here, you get distracted. No, no, it's great. We are going to be going over some subreddits, some other fun subreddits. We have Reddit stories where we do am I the asshole, all those. But these are, I think we're digging for like some hidden gems. Some of them aren't so hidden of gems. Yes. One of them that I pulled is actually one of the most popular right now, but it's been kind of a recent popular subreddit. But we're going to go over some of those. However, before we continue, something else we were talking about before we started rolling is, this is going to make a lot of listeners happy. I finally watched the first episode of Heated Rivalry. Oh my God, a scene. Yeah, it was good. It was pretty much what I expected. I will say the sex scene stuff wasn't as intense as I thought it was going to be. Yeah. It's a lot. I'm like, wow, okay. Yeah. But it's not as insane as I thought. I think people watch it and they're like, they don't normally watch stuff like that. They're like, whoa, have you seen it? And I think that's them like coming to terms with that they also watched it. And it's like, yeah, it's okay. Yeah. It's okay. Bro, that's great marketing. If I was on the marketing team, I'd be like, oh my God, we need to get as many people who are like so surprised and just blow that up. That's such great. I haven't seen it, but is the hockey good? There's not been a lot of hockey. Good question. Not a lot of hockey in the first episode. There's not much hockey. There's a lot of them. It's a lot of like the stuff around the hockey, right? Yes. Like the, getting drafted, what team you're going to, the practices, the sponsorships, kind of like everything around the sport, but not as much of a sports show. It's more like the training that it takes to be a hockey player or like the lifestyle that it takes to be a hockey player vibes. That's, I would say they touch on that, but it's mainly about them. Yeah. It's their story. It's far more focused on them. I hope there's some more sports stuff. I love sports movies and sports shows. So, you know, just get some good like sports action, go back to the hotel, hotel room, get some action, get back out on the, on the ring. Get some ass action. Butts never looked so good. There were some butts. So are you going to continue? Yeah, I'll continue watching. Yeah, of course. I'm going to finish it. I'm going back and forth between that and task. Get them. I get them mixed up a little bit. No. If you, get back on the rink. Task and heated rivalry. Those two shows do not go together at all. This task force has got to get together. Get these guys. Yeah, task is like. They're playing hockey too well. They got to stop them. Oh my God. Such a dark aggressive. I do have a question. Do you think because of heated rivalry, people are now going to like, everybody's going to want to watch hockey and go to hockey games? It's a matter of how much the NHL is going to like adopt. Lean into it. Lean into it. Because like sports are, are traditionally not very, they haven't been very accepting and very like, there's no, I don't know if there's any openly gay players in the NHL. The NHL is known for, for their fist fights. So like, dude, this Stanley Cup, I think the first game, two people go to fight instead, they just start making out. That's so hard. Oh my God. It would be the most watched sports game this year. The Super Bowl wouldn't come close. I hope that they do because I'm so ready for these like hetero males to be sitting there being like, but like also pretty much into it. You know what I'm saying? They're going to be watching being like, get back, get back to the ice. Whatever sport like goes, you know, what we're going, we're going for that. You love hockey. Get back to the ice. I will say, I watched a lot of ice hockey when I was on the East Coast. Well, yeah, you were in Boston. But. Where heated rivalry, some of it takes place. Yeah, I know. I know, but we don't see, that was my only qualm is like, I wanted to see more of Boston and whatever. The heated rivalry is an impressive show on a production standpoint because I think the budget's really small. And so what they're managing to do with such a small budget is actually pretty incredible. It's actually a very contained show. They should, they should, they should have shot all in Canada. I would assume. I think it's a Toronto based production, but a lot of it's hotel rooms. A lot of it's like, I'm very impressed with shows and movies where it's like, at a certain point, you're like, wait, they shot most of this in one room, but they made it feel bigger than that. And that's heated rivalry. The chemistry is just so. Chemistry is great. The chemistry is great on screen. And then if you watch like TikToks of them doing interviews, they just have so much fun. Oh yeah. So much respect, so much fun. They just have really good chemistry. Yeah, they're, the acting is fantastic. Yeah. Are they in a relationship in real life? No. I think one of the guys is, I think one of the guys is straight. The guy who plays Shane, I'm pretty sure is straight. Yeah, I know him. Yeah. So I do a pretty good job at it. Before I started watching the show, I feel like a month or so ago when it was out, I was getting a lot of DMs and things being like, are you watching heated rivalry? There's Shane in it. And I'm like, great man. Yeah, that's how I work. If there's Shane in anything, I have to watch it. Wow. People think that you love yourself so much. That's so cool. That's so cool. That's so cool. His name is spelled differently than mine, but you know, normal Shane. He looks totally different too. He looks very different. I will say, oh, I don't want to say anything because you haven't watched it, but when you watch it, there's moments where you're just like. Oh, I've heard, I've heard that the first three episodes is like, oh, that's the sex. And then after that, it's like, oh, it's just a genuinely really sweet, really great show. Yeah. But it's shot really well. It's written really well. And the acting's great. Maybe I'll check out the last three episodes. Shall we get into some subreddits? Let's do it. I'm excited. Yeah, me too. I was searching all day yesterday, but Selena found a few as well. So we're going to start with a simple one that Selena found. This is called WTWFOTMJAJTRATCAB. Why? What that stands for is when the water flows over the milk jar at just the right angle, that creates a bubble. Oh, we love that. Sometimes I get a good feeling. What is happening? These guys have way too much time on their fucking hands. To be like. Sorry, sorry, Courtney had me watch burlesque recently. Wagon what you said. Wagon what you said. I was watching that and I was like, Amanda is Cher. I am literally Cher. Wagon what you said. Wagon wheel what you see. God, Cher, when she has her solo in burlesque, and you're just like. What's her song? It doesn't matter, but she's like. It's like Midnight. Oh, we need to run. She's like, Cher, hit it. I can't lose my club. That movie's insane. It's the best movie ever. It literally starts, it's just like, it's like Christina Aguilera walking into this club and also just like, ah, sometimes. She's like, what the fuck? Tess, give me a chance. Wagon what you said. Courtney had the volume up so high, when Christina Aguilera blasts that, our cats ran upstairs. Dude. Sorry, completely. That movie is the best movie on this planet. That is what Courtney said, and I was like, yeah. No, it is the best movie ever. No, no. It is the most 2010 movie to ever exist. And I'm sorry, but it's every girl's dream to be like, yeah, by night, I'm a burlesque dancer. The bartender who wears a bowler cap and only a vest. Yeah, and he's just like. I'm like, that's 2010, as a guy. Anyways. Panic at the disco. Moving on. So what we have here are photos. So for our listeners, we'll do our best to explain it. But you know, it's kind of similar to like laminar flow, right? Where when the water hits something just right and it creates this perfect shape. Yeah. So we have a few images here. We have decrystallizing Chambord. So I guess they had Chambord in the freezer. Okay. So they're pouring water on it and it creates a perfect year around it. We can put the image up. Wow. It looks gorgeous. For our listeners, it created a perfect bubble over a Chambord bottle. Doesn't that make you want to be a little frog in there? Yeah. Like I want to be a little frog underneath there. I want to be a little frog underneath there. Look at this. This is over a soy sauce bottle. That is a perfect, perfect half sphere. I like to call that a water tit and that's a good water tit right there. A water tit? That is a water tit. You can say that. Ooh. Milk jug effect at a beautiful fountain at Disney. Wow. Look at this one. That one's a perfect bubble. Now that's a milk jug. Whoa. 10 out of 10 right there. Oh boy. Why does a Disney fountain look like they're like in Italy? That's what they're going for. That's what messes me up sometimes at Disney where you're just like, whoa, I'm in Italia. But you're like, no, I'm in Disney. No. Well, that's because it's different lands. No, yeah. It's like frontier land. Yeah. And Paris. Yeah, Epcot. Epcot is insane. As a kid, whenever I'd go in the lines at those Disneyland places, I was so little, I could kind of get behind things and see areas you weren't fully aware of. And it was very interesting to see the difference between like fake cobweb and real cobweb like on the same thing. So I'd be like, oh, this is fun. And then I'd be like, oh, wait, no, that's real spiders. You're like, ew, yucky. Disney's not fun anymore. Real stuff, yuck. I hate this. I want only illusion. Yeah. Okay. Our next subreddit. Okay. That one was a pretty good subreddit. That was a really good subreddit. I love like imagery subreddits. The next one is Boston. Oh my God. Let me see. Let me see. Give me this. Okay. These are the ones that I found because as we're talking right now, obviously huge snowstorm, but I found some Pats fans ones. This is Boston and it just says Pats fans and it's like a bunch of dudes in Pats jerseys pushing like a, probably a Honda Civic in like, I think five feet of snow or above. It's like negative 10 degrees. Yeah. And you know what? This was my life for a long time. long time. You were like, oh, I have to leave. And then you'd leave two hours just to shovel out your car you should just not go anywhere growing up in arizona and living in los angeles i have such a romanticized idea about snow and living in the snow but i'm sure living anywhere with snow you hate it so much you what happens is the first snowfall you feel like oh my god it's snowing and then when things get canceled you're like what the hell and then you have to you really have to dig out your car to get anywhere yeah my brother because my family lives in colorado so my brother was like dude i have to wake up at 5 a.m to shovel out the driveway it sucks yep i'm like ah just have another chore yep like that sounds awful i know just get like a just get like a snowmobile at that point just just commit that six months out of the year you have a snowmobile and that's it that's how you're getting around you know what you do is what we did growing up is we like made friends with the plow guy who did our street and we would be like you know what you do is what we did growing up is we like made friends with the plow guy who did our street and we would be like you know what you do is what we did growing up is we like made friends with can you do our because they're not supposed to do your driveways they get paid by the town by the city to plow the streets if you slimp them a benji yeah yeah exactly um don't people have heated don't people have heated driveways those people are rich dude that's an insane amount yeah i saw i saw a video of someone like installing a heated driveway i was like that's crazy yeah i'm sure that's an absurd amount of money i'm kind of like no i think i think there's something about if you're there and choose to live there yeah you need to spend the hour shoveling that was my upbringing it's just like my mom's like i'll give you girls 20 bucks to shovel for two hours really i think i think every wherever you live you have to earn it like in arizona you when if you're gonna live there you have to run full speed out of cacti at some point you know just to experience it you have to sizzle the bottom of your foot at least yeah you have to walk barefoot out on the on the sidewalk yeah you do okay this is another um snow one whom whomever gets to the bottom of your foot gets this spot at my spouse's spot in east boston after we leave you're welcome i don't know why they mentioned the spouses so east boston so there's this picture oh my god there's so much snow so this guy the car is completely covered he's about to shovel out his car and that means it'll be an open spot an open spot and those are hard to get damn how fast can that this car is that overnight or is it this is overnight this is like an hour an hour and a half so the best thing to do is start to shovel out then once you've kind of shoveled out you turn your car on you heat it up and then you have to ice scrape the top oh no i think i'd just die in my car well yeah i think that's what i think i'd leave my car i think i'd be like i'm not getting that back you know what if i was on the east coast dude i'd be building tunnels why don't why don't we got i'd be a tunnel from my house to my friend's house that's it everyone in boston just go underground no you would come out of your house like a normal bostonian and just be like oh this is wicked shitty this is wicked shitty dude ziplines i get on my roof and i zipline where i need to go i avoid the ice in the street well some people ski skiing down the somerville bike path somerville is where i used to live it's uh around cambridge by davis square these people are skiing down the bike path just like cross-country skiing which you were talking about before we were filming basically to get to work you were trying to convince us that it's it's fun it is fun dude no i don't think it sounds fun it is fun and it's really really hard hey you know all the joy of skiing what if you did it uh on flatland what if you didn't ski you ever ran a marathon with weights on your feet guys it's fun you ever ran a marathon but you're kind of stuck that east coast in you you you like get tortured your whole life and you're like wait it's actually fun being from california i feel like a place called somerville is telling you when you should be there you know what i mean yeah it's a good point it's right in the name it's not spelt summer no it should be it's spelled s-o-m-e-r summer like somber like sadness like only some of us stay so summer part of the year summer somerville i love somerville so fun okay here's the last one in boston sorry you just made me think of east coast smallville i'm so sorry east coast smallville bostonian superman yeah dude don't trust i'm flying wicked fast right now i love that show anyways you would love smallville i loved that show why how many seasons did you do you watch it was on for like 50 years did you watch it was truly on forever smallville was on no it wasn't it was like nine seasons no it had like guys smallville was on forever i watched everything superman i watched the lois uh lois and clark lois and clark 10 seasons 10 seasons whoa yeah i watched it all and then you know about the the cult that those ladies were in i also watched that you're gonna have to tell me another episode where you tell me about a one of the leads from smallville was in a oh was it nexium not one multiple multiple from smallville yeah the lead girl wait wait multiple people in one cult or one person in multiple cults the first one okay okay yeah wild pretty fun all right new year's in fenway this is actually my favorite there's something that you should know but there's just it's just super snowy and a high heel open-toed high heel sparkly like stiletto yes that's silver here's the deal about boston it doesn't matter how cold it is or how snowy it is women are always gonna wear like it's the summer they're gonna wear little skirts and high heels and no jacket because they don't want to carry it i was one of them wow so this and they got platinum blonde hair they've got spray tans is that crazy by now the patriots might have won the super bowl and you're gonna have to go no i'm just kidding i might go platinum anyways um so this is like my favorite last picture of the year i'm gonna have to go platinum i'm gonna have to go platinum sure does no i might go can i ask is boston a city when the when like the patriots or or the red sox or a team wins is the city crazy because when because when the eagles won the super bowl phil so have you heard about how when philadelphia when the eagles won the super bowl they have they grease up the the light post oh so no one can so people don't climb oh that's so they still find a way oh dude squirrel technology against them so smart holy dude next get the aluminum um but like it is boston that type of boston it's gotta be they're they're nuts they are absolutely crazy and and the time i experienced the most i was at college at umass amherst and the i think the red socks won the world series and they broke they broke the curse they broke the curse cars were flipped over cars were on fire there were a thousand cops on horses with tear gas every chick in their dorm room was just flashing people it was one of the it was a very thrilling fun night um also living in boston they tried to like flip over buses i don't think they oiled up any of the lampposts but they should have yeah people were climbing on they should have like stuck all the cars to the ground boston cream took me way too long to get there i'm so sorry what happens is you got there and then you immediately said it took me way too long to get there because it did land that plane noah land it sully that joke yeah come on dude fenway was my favorite place in boston i went as a kid that was seeing the green monster was incredible it's my favorite i've heard fenway park is amazing it is it is so fun because they have old school stands um everything is right there it's they close off the streets you like walk the streets there's amazing food vendors um the bleacher bar is like the best spot to be it's a bar underneath the bleachers oh that's out in the outfield and they open it up so you're just sitting there you can watch the game in the outfield sports games are are really cool i love the right because i went to the uh i went to the afc championship game uh with the broncos against the patriots and it was like a bunch of patriots broncos fans and a snowstorm happened midway through the game and like all everybody there was just like kind of having a great time because it was so insane we were all covered in snow but it was awesome i love that even though the broncos lost i still had a great time well you just described the patriots game with you so what on the other side i was watching the patriots i know we were texting each other i was sending her photos of me covered in snow it was it was fun rivalry yeah he did yeah honestly though there was a really sweet moment because i was there with my brothers and there was patriots fans and like we're all talking shit of course at times uh but um at one point in the middle of the snow uh my brothers and i and some of these patriots fans like grabbed each other we're like this is what it's all about because like the snow was just blasting us we're like well we're not leaving dude i feel like that's a male platonic hallmark movie totally that's what you just described you go to the football game and you're like oh my god i'm gonna go to the football game in the snow yeah you get the people on the other team and you guys just become best friends well it was kind of like us against the elements too right like the game was happening but it was also like yeah we're not gonna let this snowstorm scare us away i love i love that i i miss going to games like that yeah this episode moving on moving on uh this subreddit has been probably one of my favorites recently um and it's been popping up a ton on my feed and it's always a so the way it works is someone will post a character trope whether they hate it they love it whatever they feel about it you post a trope and then all the comments have to find other examples of it love it and it can be kind of anywhere it could be video games tv shows books uh uh movies um or real life sometimes people are like here's an example in real life did you already have this on there we've mentioned this didn't i send this to you i sent this to selena i was like oh we should do this one that's so funny yeah so i found a bunch of good examples um so the first one that i i have is love trope the main cast in a horror movie isn't a group of morons and they're examples are the townies in tremors because they're really they truly are like figuring it out and they're like they're not just dumb asses and then uh the prime example is the arctic crew in uh the thing oh yeah because they're truly a team of scientists and someone points out it's like throughout that entire movie of the thing i'm trying not to spoil it too much they truly do the smartest thing that they can that they can that they are aware of they're just being outsmarted and out played by this thing um it's really epic uh then uh the top comment in response is the team from predator arnold schwarzenegger and all of them it's like but they just so good they didn't know they were fighting an alien yeah so they're doing everything they can a great job at it yeah because from their perspective i'm in a movie for them they're really just like shooting at nothing in a jungle yeah like fully nothing and they're pretty close to doing it and arnold at the end like he he doesn't it's why um so there's the movie prey right um which was which was a woman a young woman uh she was a comanche uh i think she was comanche or apache uh and i think she's comanche and um some people were like oh this is like obviously the super toxic people come out and they're like oh of course they have like a woman it's like arnold was didn't beat the predator because he was strong he beat him because he out you have to outwit exactly the predator and she outwitted him as well outplay exactly survivor and we're back to survivor um i i need to re-watch predator but i loved prey i love i've not watched uh i've not watched predator badlands but i'm kind of like an alien predator fanatic but i've never watched alien versus predator wait do we think that alien did a the movie alien do we think that that group of people did a good job yes that was also an example in here people were saying that they are a good example as well no i mean i think they overall they're reacting yeah in a smart way people are just pointing out like a lot of movies it's i don't like when people die in horror movies purely out of stupidity screen i i get scared when people do everything they can i think halloween's a good example halloween is so good uh jamie lee curtis does respond like she responds very well to michael myers and is like i'm gonna stay away from this i love halloween i'm gonna fight back i'm gonna go where i should go try to get help the way i can but he's truly this force that keeps coming that was filmed in pasadena yeah like shut down that house during halloween and you can like walk through it oh that's and i went there one halloween and it was just a michael myers standing on the porch waving at everyone hey guys um another trope is when a character goes to prison and befriends all the prisoners oh my goodness and all the rest of the development is my first thought arrest brought up here yeah george paddington does it sorry and paddington is the top it's the one that they posted they go yes paddington 2 he goes to when someone explained the plot of paddington 2 to me they're like because i've seen paddington and they're like have you seen paddington 2 i still haven't but someone was like oh paddington 2 and i'm like what's the plot and they go he goes to prison i was like they send a sweet little bear to prison he goes to prison that's the plot i heard it's a really good movie it's really good people say it's the best movie of all time what yeah i'm not kidding people say paddington 2 do you agree noah i have seen paddington i do not remember it i was way too high and i cried too much i'm not even kidding i straight up i got too high and i cried too much i know the first one cried a lot and i loved it the second one i got too emotional i truly don't remember it oh my god i know i've seen it because it's on like a watch history i think you need to watch it again yeah but it takes me a while to watch things that make me cry no yeah that makes sense it's hard to see um the post has two examples it's paddington 2 and then cecil from invisible uh which is a the comic show but george senior from arrested development also tobias later in the series it happens multiple times in the rest of development it also happens two or three times in avatar the last airbender oh you're right and i think it's uh uncle i wrote yeah him that also goes yeah uh wow it's it's it's interesting this subreddit makes me realize like how often tropes are used i'm like that's such a specific trope and it's i feel like every movie has seven different stories and they're all just using all of them with like similar tropes and and it we love it because there's like a nice familiarity to it yeah it's like reading books yeah yeah i like i like cliche me too like i i think it's it's around it can be done differently with the characters in the relationship it's always a different taste yeah here's a very specific one censorship accidentally making things worse oh yeah and where this happens a lot is they reference a lot of cartoons primary example of this and it's there's multiple aspects in this is sailor moon from the 90s i love sailor oh so in sailor moon sailor neptune and sailor uh uranus were a lesbian couple in the original japanese version but were censored to be cousins in the american dubbed version oh so inadvertently inadvertently making them seem like an incestuous lesbian couple bro and people recalled this our friends who i watched some of the show i didn't watch it i love it but people were like yeah it was it was weird because it's like oh we're cousins but there's some weird tension because originally they were uh they were supposed to be a couple now it also in sailor moon someone pointed out later on don't forget fish eye from sailor moon fish eye is a feminine presenting male the they to censor this they just fish eyed they turned them into a female but they kept the above scene where at one point they take their top off and they're shirtless and they're like so rather than having to explain that fish eye is male they would rather have a flat chested female flash her chest to everyone um this makes no sense i censorship is just it's silly right and it kind of shows like we are we make things worse in the process of trying if you're young you're watching it you're like oh do i have to like my cousin yeah you don't understand um and the other example they give is batman the animated series censors didn't allow depictions of death so the victims were shown frozen in place and they were not allowed to be censored so they were not allowed to be it's eyes wide open with eerie smiles and no explanation this is somehow even more disturbing and they have this photo from it where the joker had taken out some people wow and it's just like oh are they just like in a horrible stuck state who decided this i know they're just not thinking about it it's like but um can i real quick i just want to say being a censor is secretly a dream job of mine kind of like being on jury duty where it's like it sounds like hell and that's kind of what i like i would love nothing more than to be a censor than to be in the mud with some of the dumbest people all trying to explain why we need to like censor something and just sit there and just go through the minutiae and just get to explain why what they're suggesting is the dumbest thing ever it does it does actually make me talk shit it makes me uh wish i could be in the room for when they're like uh deciding the rating for a video game yes like what's that process like you know and i'm like do they really play the game like what are they doing do they just read the game and they're like oh my god i'm like oh my god i'm like oh my like a description that was given by the the people who produce it who knows i want to be in there and you want to also be on jury duty in in yes if it's actually asked and then they were like oh yeah it's 15 a day right i can't do that you can't do that okay you want to be in a place where you can like play both sides and almost be like devil's advocate and be like okay here's why this doesn't work situation so you want to be it's it's like devil's advocate but if i'm i'm the angel like you want something to happen and you're like oh my god i'm like oh my god i'm like oh my god i'm so then i get to sit here and just be like what you said is so fucking stupid explain to me but now break it down into points and we can go one by one why what you said is stupid and we can maybe make it better wow yeah that's like i would love to have that be a lawyer if i was if i had less add i probably could have done it that's what i was gonna do before i committed to smosh that was my out in the contract was to go to lmu to be a lawyer yeah and then i was like the entertainment industry i don't really see i'm not about to be an entertainment lawyer and i didn't know if i could get into criminal law and like tort stuff and it doesn't matter hey instead i'm here you still can't i feel like choice because being a lawyer is one of those jobs that media makes it sound cool but i'm like gotta be one of the most boring jobs yeah fucking planet when i almost got jury duty last year that whole process i was like i would die if i was because these lawyers the it's so mundane what they're going through i feel like i would love it i just literally i wish time could stop so then i could do it i genuinely don't have i love i love reading but not like they're able to read boring shit yeah all day yeah you know what would i just the last three days of jury duty you know what i mean oh my god just the last three days yeah you tagged his right you're just like all right guys what i missed yeah the closing cases and then he's guilty for sure uh-huh i can't stand they're like this is a civil case yeah he's guilty go and present him to execution yeah kill him uh this next one is when the example is so iconic the whole trope is not true named after it um so one of the top comment because i'll go to the post the top comment is jumping the shark yeah we've all heard the term jumping the shark what is that originally from so when wait wait henry winkler right you got it fonzie so oh you know when people go the show like oh it's like how's it doing it's like oh the show jumped the shark with that episode or oh the movie jumped the shark with that that it's a phrase that's used when it's like they've gone too far it's about to like lose its quality like all right it's not good anymore yeah um on happy days uh there was a later in one of the later seasons the fonz is dared to jump a shark on water skis haha This is considered by many to be the defining moment when happy days started to decline in quality. Well, yeah. I guess some people are saying that there's an opposite name for this trope for when a show finds its footing and begins to improve called Growing the Beard. And it references Star Trek Next Generation when one of the characters started to grow a beard and like, I guess the first season or two of Next Generation. Are we talking about not Kirk, but the secondary, Picard. No, so Picard is there. And then who's his second? Is his second the one who grows the beard? The second grows the beard. That's what I was about to say because watching the show, I would agree with that. I've heard Next Generation is like one of the best shows. Wait, they're saying Growing the Beard is like leveling up? When a show, you know how most shows, the first or second season are a little bit like, oh, you got to get through it. And then like, for instance, one of my favorite shows, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I feel like the first season is kind of like. They're figuring it out. And then second, third season. I think the third season, oftentimes the shows, it's like, it's always the best season. I'm kind of with you on that. Third season rocks all the time. I'm still watching Breaking Bad, still. Whoa, where are you at right now? I'm on the last season. Oh. I thought the third season was incredible. Third season is. But then the fourth season was like, what? Fourth season might be the best out of that one. Third and fourth seasons are always insane. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So there are examples though. You might not get some of these. Equivalent Exchange from Full Metal Alchemist. Power. Power, it comes at a proportional cost. Now, here's one that blows my mind. Have you ever heard the phrase, when someone's talking about like a traumatic event, that someone like, you did this to me. It's like, I'm sorry, but I don't remember any of it. You don't remember? For you, that was the most important day in your life. For me, it was a Tuesday. We've heard that phrase. Uh-huh, yep. You know what that's from? What? Street Fighter, the movie. Wow. Is Street Fighter Jean-Claude Van Damme? Van Damme? Yeah. Yeah, that movie is. Regarded as being a dog shit movie, I didn't realize that badass quote is from it. Damn. It's M. Bison saying that to Chun-Li, I think. And then she kicks his ass. That's the best time. That's like the climax time where they come and they finally face the person that has been like ruining their lives forever. And it's usually like a daughter, father, or whatever, a son, father. And then it's just like. Yeah, the villain is like, dude, that was another day. There was another post that I didn't pull. Of like the trope of when it's like, I'm here to avenge my father. And the villain goes, I don't even know who you are. Yeah. Like that's a very common trope as well. Love it. That also is badass. And then they also reference Doombot. You destroyed a decoy. The real deal is still out there. Like that was first presented by, I think, Dr. Doom in Fantastic Four in the comics. Where it's like, they think they beat Dr. Doom. And it's like, oh no, that was not the real Dr. Doom. There's a decoy. Well, that can also work for when you face your enemy. Your father or whatever. And then he's just like, I don't even know who you are. And then you have to face the real enemy, which is like inside yourself. Whoa. It's actually you. I love this. This is one of my favorites. Love trope. Story hints at the existence of some cosmic supernatural horror, but it's never definitively confirmed within the story, which remains grounded. Yes. Their example is True Detective season one. Oh, love it. I love that show. Yeah. I love it so much. And in it, it's like them searching for a serial killer. But throughout the entire show, watching it, you think there's going to be supernatural elements. There's weird shit. Oh, yes. Where like the killer leaves this sign that's like this spiral. And at one point, like Matthew McConaughey looks out and these birds in this area create that spiral. And you're like, is there like some weird mystical stuff going on? Never confirmed though. Yeah. But you just kind of have the feeling of like, maybe. I feel like all of True Detective kind of did that. But what it was is that like the killers were always, in this like culty kind of psychological place that it made it feel like, oh, are we all tripping right now? The setting too of like, kind of like Everglades, like just out of civilization, but it's not too far. Yes. Yeah. It's so fun. It's so good. An example that's brought up is Moby Dick. Because in the novel, the whales described as having strange carvings on it is seemingly invincible and covered in harpoons. People have visions, dreams, and warnings while hungry. Everyone who encounters it seems to be a bit mad or have some extreme misfortune. Comes across as very eldritch. And there's some minor evidence it even served as an inspiration for Lovecraft. Ahab's obsession also following very Lovecraftian themes. Or it's just a fucking whale. Well, that's the thing is our brains as humans, we will not accept the logical answer. So we want to create all of these. Now here's the deal. The newest True Detective that was set in Alaska, like a part of me, they had that kind of fantastical kind of element. But I was kind of interested in that. Like the indigenous element of that. There are spirits that have like passed on that are calling you because it's like dark 24 seven during a certain period. Like I kind of want to believe in that. But a lot of people are like, oh, it's your mind as a person trying to like, you know, you know when kids experience trauma and they create a monster, like a monster in their room or something like that. It's kind of like that. It's something I love in movies and TV shows. I love the like, is there something more happening? I don't know. Personifying your fears. Yeah, it's awesome. There's the movie. I need to rewatch it. The movie, The Lighthouse with Robert Pattinson. I've never seen it. Oh, yeah. That goes crazy, but it's kind of in a fun way. Similar where it's like, it's probably about a madman, but it's like, are there mermaids? Yeah. I mean, if there's mermaids, that's, I mean, multiple crimes. Of course there's mermaids. Against humanity and mermaids, I think, but I want to say on that. Bad either way. Yeah. On that trope is, a lot of the times, and it's usually done horribly, is they do reveal kind of what might be supernatural and try to make it logical, and usually it completely destroys something, but when it's done well, it becomes my favorite thing ever. Both of you, have you guys watched Dark? Netflix Dark? Yes, I love Dark. I need to watch it. You need to. I know that it's apparently. I've yet to see a show, that show came out like five years ago. I've heard it's the most like perfectly tied up show. Dark is so incredible. They do three seasons, and it's like done over three, four years. Yep. I have to be like, from the first episode, you knew what the last episode was, and that's unbelievable to me. Yeah. Yeah. Jonas, Jonas, I need to watch it. It is so good. I've heard, someone described it being one of the most perfectly like tied up shows. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's the only time of recent history that the trope of actually revealing it is better than you not revealing it. Yes. It's probably the only time. Yes. Yeah. And I want something else like it. I have yet to get it. The creators tried to do a new series. I was not a big fan. The ship. I forget what the ship was called, like 1972 or something. Oh, I watched the first like two episodes, and I wasn't into it too. I didn't know if it was because it was period-y, period-y. It just wasn't that. Yeah, interesting. It didn't hit as well, which is okay. Huh. Yeah, definitely watch it. Everyone watch that. Okay. It was so good. Before we get onto these other ones, I want to talk about, there is a subreddit called The Museum of Reddit. Oh, this is fun. And The Museum of Reddit, it's all the most famous things that have ever happened on Reddit, like old school stuff. Oh, fun. I only pulled one thing, and I can't remember if I brought this up in one of our last Reddit episodes, but it is one of the most famous comments on Reddit, to the point that people quote it all the time. Like if you're surfing through Reddit and you're looking at a post, people might quote this. It comes from 10 years ago. Who? Cute. And there was an Ask Reddit post. 2016. Where someone posted, you can have sex with one real person from all of human history. Who is your ultimate lay? And someone comments. Top comment goes, I'd like to have sex one more time with my wife who passed away from cancer nine years ago. My body yearns for hers. 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question and taking it so to heart and then something like yeah i want to get with that lady too i also choose this guy's dead wife it's like you get a special place in hell one of the most heartfelt legitimate comments you'll ever see it's like oh yeah and then for someone to read that and go yeah let me type this up right now you know what though you kind of need that because i can sometimes be that guy who's like well i wish that bubble and my husband would be like yeah or this and i'm like what it just like takes you out and and obviously from reddit stories reading so many reddit comments i feel like you can tell that so many redditors are striving to hit that type of comment that people are caught every reddit post has a people trying to have a witty comment and it never hits that well but man that one that one that one hits and it's it's kind of the like it's it's the gold standard nothing has topped that really there might be some others that are up there but that is the famous one i mean you know in a really weird way he's like kept the memory of that woman alive forever now yeah yeah and that's just very everyone remembers that guy's dead wife dude that's unique i call it unique it is unique that is so perfect okay that's the only museum of reddit one i have what that's the only one uh i have another one that i found called delusional craigslist wait people trying to sell the craziest it's someone someone posted rare quadruple peanut and it's a it's a peanut that's got four peanuts in it what drew is that a real that's a real peanut why 500 come on okay you find a quadruple peanut i don't care i don't care about it i for sure have found it i've eaten enough peanuts in my life i do not think quadruple peanuts are that it's not 500 rare who the hell eats peanuts yes they did and they put the shells right on the floor you just throw them on the floor that was fun as a kid yeah remember they would be like it's your birthday you want to go ride the horse and you're like i'd like to sit in my seat please anyways next up someone is trying to sell for 18 72 mild sauces wait a minute actually a pretty good deal yeah i'm trying to do the math on that how many taco bell orders do you have to get to get 72 of them i think you usually gotta pay a quarter a sauce if you're getting more than four it took them an hour to set those uh sauces up like that you know what that is that's someone's severance package they just got fired they're like here's mild sauce is that can i get one hot yeah yeah can i get fired it's like no you're fired yeah get out of here you're fired you get mild sauce damn bro damn um another subreddit is confidently incorrect i think i've brought this one up before that's me all day it's so it's so insane we're gonna argue before we google because then it's a competition it's fun god it was famous uh so recently um there was a famous video of this penguin marching off into the mountains and uh i didn't find this on the subreddit but uh a penguin marching off into the mountains the the mountains and it was on tiktok and someone commented like there was a quote and someone's like nichi spoke of this and someone's like have you read nichi he's like no have you and the guy goes no i'm like that is so many conversations you find um this was on tiktok but here are some uh confidently incorrect posts so this is a conversation between multiple people one guy goes did you know mammals cannot be green and someone replied kermit would like a word and someone goes kermit is not a mammal and that guy responds lmao of course he's a mammal his surname is literally the frog it's it's so great what the hell is happening oh god um what a life what a life kermit is uh you know he's a hand so technically he's a mammal technically i guess technically he is kermit specifically he's the only mammalian frog well is kermit the puppet or is kermit the hand kermit is the dream kermit is not kermit is the vision he is not a puppet kermit is a real frog okay so he's an amphibian kermit is an amphibian okay he's real he's saying somewhere over the rainbow enough enough okay someone said spanish and dutch are european someone said dutch is spanish isn't and he goes spain is in europe and this person responds wrong again it's in south america no and there's one oh boy okay buddy no wait is that a time traveler buddy like dark oh yeah is this a conquistador yeah it's 1542 over here bro yeah no that's so sad i know you kind of i love that no one else commented they were just like we're gonna let this one lie we're just gonna let you go man all right dang the final subreddit that i have uh is uh hygiene hmm oh let's talk about it uh there's a lot of posts a lot of them are just kind of a little more normal people just discussing like what what they do how often they wash their hair like things like that um but occasionally people will post people will post things and they'll be like hey like i was told this is normal or i was raised thinking this is normal is this normal and it's like so far out there um because people don't talk about a lot of hygiene things no they they don't we don't we're very uncomfortable talking about something uncomfortable it's like we don't want to admit so so a lot of like bathroom habits and things go undiscussed and people don't you got to figure it out and you just cross your fingers you figure it out before you're 18 well bathroom habits are talked about shower habits are a little bit different everyone's talking so here's one that has me thinking definitely uh someone goes my roommate perceives me as dirty for reusing my towel and now i'm so perplexed i'm currently sitting in my room feeling pretty judged and honestly just confused i moved in with a new roommate a couple weeks ago and everything was fine until this morning i'm like oh my god i'm so perplexed i'm so perplexed i'm so perplexed i'm so she saw me hanging up my towel after a shower and asked how long i'd been using that specific one i told her it's my towel for the week and i usually just swap it out every sunday when i do laundry she looked at me like i just confessed to a crime she said she uses a fresh towel every single time she showers because reusing one is swapping bacteria back and forth growing up my family's logic was always that you're at your absolute cleanest when you step out of the shower you're just scrubbed you just scrubbed yourself so the towel stays clean you just hang it up let it dry and it's fine for the next day and i'm like oh my god i'm so perplexed i'm so perplexed i'm so my mom and grandma have always done it this way now she's acting like i'm a walking petri dish she says the dampness makes it a breeding ground for mold but it's just water and it dries in a few hours anyway i genuinely didn't realize people were out here doing an entire load of laundry just for towels every few days it seems like a massive waste of time if you're already clean am i actually gross like how many times are you guys using a towel before it goes in the hamper i'm starting to wonder if my whole family is just an outlier or she is um um first of all she's ruining the environment whoa whoa whoa whoa first of all she's killing the moon first of all the moon is dying first of all because of her first of all she's the worst person i've ever seen in my life um washing your towel every shower is that's no seven towels a week i want to speak on this because okay that is how i used to live and i think the difference is whether or not you have in unit laundry when i still lived at my parents house i could do towels every single day i could do towels every single day i could do towels every day i could do a ton of laundry whenever so i could do do you use a fresh towel each shower now living in an apartment i will not share a towel over days but i'll share a towel with my girlfriend so technically they are correct a wet towel sitting in any part of your house is going to grow mildew mold to some degree obviously that is normal as in the normal person has some layers of this on them all the time because most people can't do enough towels to have one fresh every day well i mean if it's sitting on its drying the top comment i think kind of nails it because we live in la which is pretty dry so it can dry off like it actually it's not like it's going to develop mold i would hope because where are you hanging it that it's not touching anything we're not near your toilet you're hanging it off your towel rack or towel rack a towel rack so it's perfectly where's your towel rack it's in the in the bathroom in the bathroom but where you take a poopoo peepee i don't take poopoo peepee in the bathroom i do it in the air i poop upward someone said i found it varies wildly depending on where someone grew up if you grew up somewhere super humid your towel never really dries and it gets gross fast oh yeah so i can see that maybe if you're near the equator if you're somewhere tropical that maybe it's like yeah you have to swap them out more because they don't dry off but like growing up in arizona that place was so dry yeah you hang up your towel even in the bathroom it's dry after an hour i just yeah i definitely reuse my towel not like over many many days but i think once a week isn't i would never judge someone for once a week i wouldn't judge someone for once a week but i will say after after a week i would say i would say even a week is a little like i think you got two days of putting that on your body after that that's a foot towel i'm gonna say like three to four okay all right okay use a towel like you do jeans how does that make you feel what do you say like what do you mean how often do i wash my jeans yeah not that often but that's what you can get three to four every five years or something really oh my god i was like wait a minute you gotta be wearing real denim a lot of like i was like wait that checks whoa a lot of a lot of like raw denim enthusiasts put them in the freezer or whatever yeah on the topic though of showers and stuff there was a comment it was asking the question do you shower at night or in the morning showering before bed pros keeps your bed clean it's relaxing at night uh if you wake up late you are still clean cons you might smell sweaty if you sweat during the night if your bed is dirty then you're dirty for the next day these are all things i could think of but i would love to know what you do and why you do it i am if i'm going to wash my hair which is normally once maybe twice a week i shower at night okay i sleep with my hair wet which i know people are like what the hell is wrong with you yeah yeah so i lay out like a a cotton thing and then i sleep with my hair wet which i know people like you could get sick but it works better for my hair because it's curly and i just like showering at night i just find it to be better it's very i want to get into bed like clean yeah i get that that's my vibes yeah i i usually uh always was uh morning shower if i'm going to work i'm always going to morning shower uh depending on how bad my depression is maybe that'll change but when i'm doing good always going to morning shower and then night shower as well uh if i'm going to be like in bed with my girlfriend or anything like that because she's like germaphobic about the bed and i get that but i am like a night sweater so even if i shower at night you have like it's a morning i'm gonna shower yeah you're still gonna sweat that's fine i'm a morning i shower yeah morning every time because my my hair i have to wash it like my hair oh dude i didn't even think about i wake up i wake up and my hair is people talk about how insane my hair is all the time uh when i wake up it is in insane ways and unless i shower i cannot manipulate it really that's so interesting because you'd never expect because if i sleep on my side my hair is just straight up it's like truly like even if i wet it in the sink it like i have to like so i need to get in the shower to get it to a place where i can rework it do you have really straight hair yeah like if you grow your hair would it be stick straight and blonde yes whoa well when i had so my hair when i was a teenager it was really long and it went it parted straight down the middle because i could not get it to not do that straight down and then because of my shoulders and stuff it would like flare out whoa you were like full 60s dude it was ridiculous man i was wonderful that's amazing uh not wham uh what's no no no you were uh oh hansen brothers yeah you were the hansen brothers no i wish i was wham yeah i was like no they've got they've got volume i wish i could have george michael's hair his hair rocked oh no my hair my hair was not coiffed my hair was straight i would love to see you with like a blunt cut just like whoa it truly would just be flat i like it dude that's if you ever booked like the next austin powers that would be you're that henchman i don't think they're bringing back austin powers no damn no yeah no remember when i did austin powers impression did it go well we did a short of it and it got like zero views oh no one knows negative 10 views yeah people left well i guess austin powers now also is like very sexually forward and people might not get the irony of the character he was doing like the gold member anyways um well that's all the subreddits whoa yeah i love subreddits so much i want to dig more into subreddits and then bring them back but i uh i i only found boss in this round yeah well hey that's fine hey no uh thank you for being here yeah dude thank you for journeying into subreddits with us of course you're not because you're not you're not like huge into reddit no no i don't have an account i don't like to have an account on reddit but i don't either way i'm like knows who you are i'm an anonymous lurker yeah oh my god you guys are just lurkers but you know what's crazy about reddit is like it'll suggest like fun things that you know and also just the most random stuff even though i don't have an account half the time it's like vr i don't have an account i don't have an account i don't have vr tuber or like random just stuff that i'm not interested in but it's like number 12 in all of reddit i'm just like dude i don't it's interesting i'm obviously out of current reddit culture if that makes sense it's all over the place okay i mean it's it's it's really all over the place it's interesting to see what niche communities exist um it is actually really really fascinated by that you know what's cool about reddit the final thing i'll say is the way that topics now can spread between subreddits is very interesting before it was very much more segmented before it entered the subreddit it was very much more segmented before it entered kind of the current social media energy of it so it is unique where like i will be able to get news but because it's like in all the random subreddit it's not even because i'm looking for news at this point it's all spread out yeah it's really interesting well well thank you so much noah for joining us thank you for letting me be here of course enjoyable always and uh thank you all for listening and watching um and let us know in the comments down below if there's subreddits that you found that you want us to talk about find posts from because if you found some hidden gems let us know and um we'll see you later bye do you guys want to submit for traders with me traders us okay let's do it yeah you are more than just a heart patient at trinity health of new england we get to know you which can help us diagnose a problem and start treatment faster our cardiovascular team offers the latest imaging and device technology testing and surgical procedures you'd expect from a national health system with the person you're talking to you'll be able to get the most out of the personal touch you want from local experts we know the 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Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. A rescue initiative in Armenia gives captive bears a second chance at freedom through international animal rescue efforts.
  2. A clean living product bundle offers simple, non-toxic alternatives for everyday essentials like deodorant, body butter, and lip balm.
  3. The discussion highlights differing opinions on how to watch Survivor, with fans debating whether to watch only the final episodes or the full season.
  4. A popular subreddit explores character tropes in media, such as "jumping the shark" or "growing the beard," and includes real-life examples like censorship in Sailor Moon.
  5. A deeply emotional Reddit comment about wanting to have sex with a deceased spouse goes viral, becoming a legendary moment for its authenticity and heart.
  6. The show *Heated Rivalry* is praised for its strong chemistry, realistic portrayal of relationships, and unique focus on hockey players' lifestyles.
  7. A Boston-based subreddit shares humorous and relatable stories about winter survival, snowstorms, and local culture, especially Pats fans shoveling in extreme weather.
  8. The conversation underscores how media tropes and user-generated content reveal universal human experiences, from grief to nostalgia and humor.

Summary:

The transcript blends diverse topics ranging from animal rescue and clean living products to media analysis and internet culture. It begins with a heartfelt appeal to support bear rescue efforts in Armenia, followed by a product-driven segment promoting eco-friendly personal care. A central discussion on Survivor explores viewer preferences for watching only the final episodes, highlighting the show’s dramatic climax and emotional payoffs.

The conversation expands into popular Reddit subreddits, where fans analyze tropes like "jumping the shark" or characters befriending prisoners, and reflect on media censorship, such as in Sailor Moon. A touching Reddit comment about wanting to have sex with a deceased spouse becomes a cultural touchstone for its emotional depth. The show also examines *Heated Rivalry*, praising its chemistry and realistic storytelling.

A Boston snowstorm subreddit offers humor and insight into regional winter life, while the broader thread emphasizes how internet communities and media tropes reveal universal human experiences—ranging from grief and loyalty to resilience and humor. These elements together create a rich, reflective narrative about connection, shared experiences, and the power of storytelling across platforms.

FAQs

The Great Bear Rescue initiative provides a second chance for captive bears by supporting international animal rescue efforts.

Start with the Clean Start Bundle, which includes a deodorant, body butter, and lip balm—three everyday essentials that are aluminum-free and non-toxic.

Yes, you can watch the first episode of 'Heated Rivalry' and bring it up with others, as it’s a strong entry point and the show’s chemistry and storytelling are highly praised.

The 'Jumping the Shark' trope refers to a moment when a show loses quality by making a drastic, absurd, or over-the-top decision, often marking a decline in the series’ quality.

Many fans recommend watching only the final three episodes to see the climax, character revelations, and the emotional pleas before the jury, which are considered the most compelling parts.

The 'Growing the Beard' trope refers to a show improving in quality after its early seasons, often symbolized by a character growing a beard, signaling a shift toward maturity and better storytelling.

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