#154 - Reading About YOUR Hometown Drama

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see kindness there i don't see any okay king yeah hi welcome to smosh mouth i'm shane and i'm amanda and we have a wonderful guest with us today she's wearing a hat but if you couldn't tell it is a rasha hi i'll just tip that up so you can confirm my identity no we got it i think it's clear thank you and uh you're wearing a guy's shirt you said but honestly it does not need to be a guy's shirt it's so freaking cute i go that's a nice shirt and you go well it's a shirt for god it's a man's shirt which is crazy well i've been doing a lot of um cross-gender dressing actually okay i've been doing a lot of like like collars like ties i've been really is that not a great is that not a good thing no i think i think it's awesome i i think it's fantastic i think it's great i don't know why amanda has a problem i know amanda clearly you don't want me to dress like a man i don't know why amanda's okay i think it's I said I had the giggles you did just saying um no I actually think I think women look so cool when they wear like the shirt and tie look like I think it's awesome yeah it's a really cool look I've been watching FIFA and I'm like I get that these women want to be in like tight ass dresses but damn put on a suit lady maybe that's just me hey they they look incredible but like I don't know I want to see these like FIFA announcers all the men are in badass suits and like yeah girl I mean listen I love a tight dress moment and I will be doing that as well I think what's fun for me is the duality of that I love being in a suit and a tie but then I also love being in a tight little number yeah yeah a look that's been really popular and I think men and women both look really good in it is the uh the Oxford shirt with uh shorts and then loafers with the high socks it's a cool look it's like a business casual like look and I think Princess Diana look yeah sorry to bring it up but like no she literally the the she had some tight like shorts with the big oversized sweatshirt yeah like sneaks uh-huh no sneaks yeah yeah yeah amazing I love it anyways uh today we are going to be reading people's hometown drama I am so for weeks now Selena has been uh accruing uh submissions on reddit town drama hell yeah um Selena where'd you get this idea from we asked for it on the smosh subreddit I know but you you just suddenly one day were like like i'm gonna get people's tea was telling me about some drama in her like in the facebook group of like the town of the town do you know what's weird though is we were talking about it at lunch i don't know if it's when rory was was directing but we were talking about our own hometown dramas and we were like what hometown drama is some crazy shit it's pretty juicy oh everybody's got stories i mean yeah that's when i listen to dateline sorry to say it but it is all ignited from hometown drama totally i think also that sometimes can shape us right like whatever we experience or see in our hometown yeah so you either are like that's crazy or you're like okay that's how the world is and then if you do go outside of that community then you sort of bring that story with you and you're like well this is what happened where i grew up yeah you find it it's like norm it's normal yeah it is i and i i'm sure it's still the same but like back in the day when you're a kid and something happens around the town you learn about it so slowly that it's it it adds to the like yeah the intensity of it and like everybody's aware but they're slowly getting the details it's always fascinating because it's never like outright it's not like a big explosion of something happening yeah it's like did you hear about this thing i don't i i i agree with that and also my mom was a teacher oh so she knew everything she would sit on the edge of my bed and i would wake up and she'd go oh my god did you hear blah blah blah blah blah like she would always she always knew teachers know everything right right and did you guys want to know the drama or were you like i i just want to stay out of it i just want to be a kid i don't think i was like actively seeking it but you just learned about everything you just knew you just found out i don't think you had a i don't think there was ever that option that i have a choice to go no i'm gonna set my boundary and not listen to this it was like a part of my life yeah i had to just you had to know you were just in it you're oh especially boston oh my god happening so fights in the hallway yeah whoa yeah yeah fights and punches oh yeah i think uh my hometown i don't think i was clued in very much of things um and i also think it was boring i mean arizona like in a suburb outside of phoenix it was there wasn't like too much exciting stuff i think that the things that happened would always be depressing yeah like oh this person died and you're like oh my god yes whoa yeah yeah yeah but not too much i don't know if i knew too much juicy like drama that was like fun and exciting were you ever a part of any of the drama no i was i was a boring ass kid i was really boring like let me tell you shane your your fun days are coming honey they're gonna hit what the fuck shane soon enough you're gonna be so fun about my childhood you're dissing my entire adult life no no no i'm talking about arizona uh no something wild is gonna happen you're gonna get caught up in some oh i've been in wild shit it just was after i was an adult here in california um see i then became a child actor yeah and then then all the weird shit happened pretty juicy but that wasn't hometown drama that was i'm in the acting industry where everything's drama drama drama um arizona it was just like me and my buddies would just be like you want to walk to burger king and we would walk to burger king and they'd be like do we want to go to this guy's house and play video games like yeah let's do that and that was most days that's that's awesome that sounds awesome that sounds awesome that sounds awesome awesome that was great i'm not complaining about it boys ours was my dream days ours was like a wendy's hang my virginity was like i'm good i'm here nothing could ever get close to me hey so you're gonna want to cut that he's gonna keep it i'm gonna do you assault right there and i'm gonna say we should cut that no keep it keep it keep it like shane's virginity keep it be proud when i was a teenager totally yeah yeah and then my adult life my virginity was like you know what we're still doing okay we're fine you're going on your own journey here i'm staying quiet i said the one thing and now i'm like you know what amanda shut up um arasha did you have hometown drama because you were in texas definitely you know shit everything's bigger in texas including the drama the drama was big it was uh there was a lot of shit going on i for me i was just unfortunately on the outside of it and i was like oh my god i'm gonna be like oh my god i'm gonna be like oh my god because that's where you want to be uh yeah yeah you wanted to be in it no no no i know i just i wanted to hear about it i wanted to be more in it and i i don't think that i relate to you guys in that it just sort of happened and i would hear about it i i actively felt like i needed to seek it um if i wanted to find out really frankly frankly just by the way i'm saying when i heard about things it was usually like months after it happened no mine was like it just happened two minutes ago oh it's my mom was a teacher for sure i think my my brother and i played a very similar role in our schools because he was uh he's only two years older than me so we went to the same um high school for a couple of years uh and we both i think were just really unfortunately a little isolated we were very different than the people that we went that we went to school with so a lot of the stuff that was happening unfortunately we were kind of left out a lot um so we would hear the drama from like our very small specific friend groups um but at that point similarly it had already happened that's good like you don't it's kind of a burden sometimes not saying that i was in the drama at all but like i felt like i i couldn't escape from it for sure if if it's heavy stuff in a way and and you are just kind of trying to have a peace i think that is fine it's for me i think the reason i find drama so interesting in my adult life uh is because it maybe in a sad way it just kind of helps me feel a little more involved yeah you felt isolated like as you're saying and that when you're a teenager that's that can be the worst you want to feel connected you'd rather feel like oh intense emotions and oh my gosh drama but at least you're alone it's just it's what it is is like it's information yeah right and nobody nobody likes to be the one who's unaware of what's going on everybody knows the secret or everybody has this story that is circulating and you're like wait what what's happening wait who said that wait what happened i feel like i kind of love Of it being like, yeah, I don't even know what's happening. I like that right now because I think as, like, a kid and a teen. Oh, in my 30s. In my 30s. Sorry, I'm dying because I'm in my 30s. Yeah, yeah. No. Oh, you get over it by a certain point. I do remember when I was a teenager out here in L.A. Yeah. This is, like, actor kids. That's really. Yeah. Oh. The stuff you would hear. Too much. And I would hear the stuff that then would be, like, on TV later, right? If, like, these child stars, like, what's going on. Yeah. And I did sometimes feel like, oh, am I boring and not part of it because I'm not hearing about this until later on. Everybody's my informant because, like, everybody's aware of it except they're telling me, but I'm not aware of it. For sure. But, I don't know, nowadays, my God, I don't want any drama. I really, I'd really rather come in and be like, people, did you hear? And it's like, I didn't. I feel, like, more in bliss because any time I go home, it is like, did you hear? Well, that's, oh, so, you're, because I was going to say that's maturity, but you're saying you go home to visit your family. I don't know what it is about my town. I think it's a small town and they experience winter for many, many months. And let me tell you, drama just occurs. Yeah. And so, I like to escape from it, whereas, like, you like it because it makes you feel, like, included. Included and involved. And there's a part of me that is still like, oh, that would suck if I, everyone knew about it. It's like, I didn't hear about it. Yeah. There is a feeling of being included. I think there's also a part of it that makes me feel better about it. And in my adult life, whether I'm involved in the drama or not, there's a big, there's sort of, like, this advice, maybe, this, like, affirmation or this, like, just thing that I've really fallen back on. I feel like I've told you guys this as well. But it really, it just sometimes boils down to, whenever shit is going down, at least it's interesting. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Like, it's just, it's in a way, like, Burger King and, like, you know, and not really doing much. Yeah, you're a lame-ass life. No, no, it's like, I understand it. And there has to be a balance with it. Yeah. But at the same time, if my life is exciting. Yeah. In that way, and it is, like, whoa, that's crazy. And if I am going through a lot, and it's, again, a lot of drama, I really try to remind myself. At least it's interesting. At least I'm living life, it's interesting. At least people are like, whoa, what the hell is going on with you? Uh-huh. Yeah, but Burger King has the, have you had the chicken fries? No, I haven't. I haven't had that. Or the spicy chicken fries? Have you had those? Okay, well, that's what I want. See, that's the drama I was living. Yeah. Okay. No, I can't. I completely hear what you're saying. 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Bye. can trim up hedges to to make shapes and stuff like how at disneyland it's a mickey mouse whatever so it said bears and then someone really really in a well-done manner um reshaped it and it just says penis it's just a big oh my god it's so good it's well done whoa that took time and effort wait i like i i feel like i would keep that as the mayor i i love that yeah that is perfect i'd be like i'm the mayor and this is i have a penis and this is and then and in honor of my penis you have to have a penis to be a mayor of course are we taking a hometown drama duh there's no woman mayor that's a good joke oh oh 100 that's the prank the mayors have penises of course so it's only right that they keep the hedges trimmed okay yeah are you not on board with us no i i guess i am i guess i am um okay let's let's rank these uh let's let's rate all these hometown dramas scale 1 to 10 okay i think that one's a solid like two three two out of ten three what's your scale like what are you ranking it on just like juicy juicy okay so it's not like because that's hilarious that is funny but that's not that's not too wild like nobody died nobody's i'm gonna do a fair happen yeah right i want to do like a rating that's like a package deal no pun intended okay sort of like comedy um well this took a lot of juiciness like yeah all of it intelligence and for that i would i would maybe say it's maybe a four okay so yeah so we're just guessing the package deal so it's comedy comedy effort all of it is a four yeah i think i think and there's an element of mystery which i think is also very important nobody knows who did anonymous like if it's like oh it's found out it was this guy who did this it's more fun it's like we don't know who did this should i pass this off yeah pass it off honey there you go thank you okay um i guess i should do this one this comes from glam fibian a lady had a lion okay that's it that is pretty crazy we have a photo of the lion a lady had a lion i guess that's real a lion just chilling in a house i'm so sorry what how do you brush your teeth and go to bed at night uh with a lion there very well do we think she's telling the truth or is she do we think that photo is ai no let me see they were just like yeah let me just generate some drama hey march hey are you coming back anytime soon i'm hungry march that one's awesome wow so someone had a lion all right yeah as for drama i don't think that's drama that's just like that's just that's more of a weird Yeah. Every town has like the, the quirky person. Yep. It's like, well, that person's there. I'm going to, I'm going to give that one like a two because it does, it does make me, you know, think about it for a second. I'm going to give that one a three. That woman is facing death every single day of her life to have a lion stick his head out the window. What? Yeah. Yeah. Crazy. Yeah. But it's not real. It's not drama. Like that's not like a story. It's not drama. It's not an event. That's someone that just had that. Right. And that's a thing. But it's kind of drama that it is. Sounds like the lion was perfectly well behaved. It sounds like everyone knew it. Like they didn't, they didn't follow that up with, yeah. And it killed someone. It was just like, she had a lion. Yeah. Thank you for submitting that. We, yeah, that's what we want to say. Is that like, it sounds like it's just there and it's just chilling. Yeah. Okay. This one. Pretty fun. Pickleball mafia. Ooh, pickleball. Magic head 23 with two underscores. My neighborhood has been undergoing years of drama related to a tennis court that was hastily converted into a pickleball court, bypassing, adding any noise, reducing walls. The court is located right next to several homes, one of whom complained incessantly about the annoying noise caused by pickleball players. It got so disruptive that the homeowners decided to move, but struggled finding buyers due to the location of the court directly in their backyard. Okay. That does suck. This issue then snowballed when the homeowner threatened to sue the HOA, many of whom were avid pickleball players and refused to see any issues. It got so heated that finally the HOA decided to temporarily remove pickleball access and then all hell broke loose. The pickleball mafia, which is what our neighborhood nicknamed them, lashed out via anonymous notes to anti-pickleball members, accusations of social media bullying and sabotage during HOA elections and endless complaints. A pickleball committee was formed to investigate what should be done about the court. After a $10,000 noise study, it was determined that the pickleball court violated health and safety guidelines about the, about the proximity to houses and the HOA opted to convert the court back to regular tennis. The pickleball mafia did not like this and sent threatening notes to most outspoken anti-pickleball HOA member on his daughter's birthday. He responded by bringing a jar of pickles to the final pickleball committee meeting declaring, I will not be intimidated. Most recently, there were elections for several HOA spots and they had to ask all candidates what their pickleball stance was as residents of the HOA said, I will not be intimidated. They had to ask all candidates what their pickleball stance was as residents of the HOA said, without knowing. The pickleball mafia has now decided to sue the HOA. We'll see what happens next. Oh my God. I love this one. Coming with a pickleball, pickleball jar. What? I will not be intimidated. I need to know whose side you guys are on. Okay. I love this. This is, see, this to me is good drama. This is good drama. Because it's hilarious because it's pickleball. It's disrespecting pickleball. And yet somehow I'm heated. It's just like, yeah, heated rivalry. Ooh, pickleball players. Actually, it's a little bit more challengers. Imagine challengers, but pickleball. The two nerdiest Silicon Valley guys. I don't know. Cut it so we can make it. I don't know. Okay. Whose side are you on? It's either the HOA or it's not. This is really tough because if this was my backyard and all I heard was like, yeah. Those sounds are coming from inside the house. Pickleball is a little bit more like, oh. Oh. You guys sure. You sound like John Travolta in Grease. Hey. Oh. That's an old guy. I like that. I guess, is pickleball that much louder than tennis? I think it's the sound of pickleball. The balls are like hit a little bit hard. It's like more like paddles. I think anything could have gone in the back and if it was making noise, it would have been upsetting. How often are they playing? Are they playing overnight? People play pickleball. Pickleball is huge. It is crazy. Yeah. No. I know pickleball is huge, but I mean. But I think people are playing pickleball all day. The time, the hours. They're playing it all day, all night. Night time? Well, especially if it is so popular and there's only this one court for the community, they're probably trying to go in as much as possible. Yeah. Putting it right next to a house. That sucks. In their backyard. I mean, it must have been terrible. The homeowners moved and no one will buy it. To literally move in this economy? Yeah. So I'm on the homeowner's side a hundred percent. You're on the homeowner's side. Yeah. I think democracy. I think democracy demolish the pickleball court. I hate the HOA. Demolish? All they need to do is switch it. I just think it's like, it's like that's their home. They can't leave that where it's like a pickleball court. It's like, Hey man, there's, you got to find a way to have another pickleball court. I also like, I'm, I'm stereotyping in my head, right? I'm stereotyping my head that I'm like, these pickleball players, I have a hard time imagining these aren't just rich white people. And I'm unfortunately, I am unfortunately picturing, I'm picturing the types of guys that I know who play pickleball the most, like. They're called the mafia. Oh wait, the neighborhood called them the pickleball mafia. I don't know. If they called themselves the pickleball mafia, I think they should be killed. They deserve to be killed. Yeah. They didn't call themselves that, the neighborhood nickname. No, I actually have a lot of friends who play pickleball. Like it is huge. It sounds really fun. Yeah. But it's just like for them to intimidate a homeowner is just being like, Hey man, I can't sleep. I think for me, it just reads as entitlement because it just feels like you are only saying because you are not in the position that this other person is in. Like if, if that was you, if that was your home, you would be advocating differently. Of course. So, so I, I just hate when people aren't able to consider other people's position and are just working in the interest of what they want to do, which is something as silly as getting to play pickleball in this one court. This is not the only place. It's not another place we can find to build a pickleball court. Like if they're dropping 10K for studies and stuff, it's like, Hey guys, like what if we, as a community, But the HOA is never going to put money where it belongs. No, that's also true. And also like, They are also, I, I don't really like a lot of people in this story. If the HOA is listening, like we have to somehow like reverse block them. What do you guys do? I hate them. No, but also like this wasn't even silly anymore. They were sending threatening notes during the daughter's birthday party. Yeah, no, the, the pickleball, the, the way they are operating like a mafia on the day of his daughter's birthday. It was probably mermaid themed too. How awful is that? Oh gosh. But he brought that pickle jar. I love that. That's also what I'm going to say is like, it's easy to not be intimidated by a bunch of ball players i i just think it's i i like i like that this person i'm not feeling too nervous i like i like that they were like i i am not backing down that's what i can respect a bunch of lanky dudes and little shorts coming in i'm down i'm down to i i like if if a bunch of pickle ball players try to intimidate me i'm gonna be like hey man stop back off but if it was like oh they're playing rugby in your backyard i'd be like hey guys uh do you guys want iced tea gatorade anybody anyways you guys are being ah it's a little loud yeah i would have just pickled a ball in a jar and brought that and been like this could be your ball these are your balls that i pickled that's awesome okay well yeah come for me we'll see what happens next dot dot dot um so far this is my favorite one me too yeah i think i give this like a five six oh you are you are harsh you are a harsh critic thanks um six what were you gonna say i was i was thinking more closer to like a six or something like that i was thinking more like a six or something like that um of course you were i was thinking i excuse me it wasn't until that meme that i realized how often i say those numbers totally what numbers you know above average okay so you would give it a a seven seven was in my head six i seven so i'm like of course it can be juicier but like this has all the components agree like a five what it needs is like it needed two individuals to face like it need no like he brought the pickle jar it needed a fight to actually have but the fight to be like kind of pathetic yeah and end in it's like oh they actually got in a fight on the pickleball court but like they kind of were just like flapping each other and they just kind of fell to the ground i'm with you i'm gonna lock in seven i like that i'm gonna lock in five okay yeah but i agree with you it could have been a little bit more sexual yeah you needed it i just needed someone to kiss someone's husband and then it's just like excuse me i will not be intimidated and get your hands off my wife you know what i'm saying it needed an affair or it needed yeah yeah this episode of smosh mouth is sponsored by zocdoc if there's one thing i need to be drama free in my life it's my health i need it to be efficient i need to be covered by my insurance and sometimes i need to make an appointment on the same day that's why i use zocdoc zocdoc lets you search and compare local in-network doctors it's that easy they have more than 150 000 providers within 200 plus specialties across the world and they're all free to use zocdoc if you want to make an appointment with the right doctor across all 50 states and zocdoc's website has reviews from real patients this helped me find the right doctor for me and zocdoc is free to use see no drama i had been pushing off doctor's appointments forever until i downloaded zocdoc and then i had appointments set up within the 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over nine hundred dollars on average they make it super simple pop over to progressive.com answer some questions and you'll get a quick quote with coverage options tailored to your choices plus you'll see which discounts you may qualify for like the online quote discount or savings for paying in full in fact 99 of progressive auto customers earn at least one discount see if you could save when you switch to progressive you'll feel good about making a savvy choice visit progressive.com and see if you can enjoy a little extra cash back progressive casualty insurance company and affiliates national average 12-month savings of 946 dollars by new customers surveyed who saved with progressive between june 2024 and may 2025 potential savings will vary okay that's not so that's the end that's not drama that's a hey there's guys in the parking lot that sell tamales and one of them is really good and they're probably delicious i want to give this a negative 10 these are well this is okay i'm not going to give it negative numbers because it is still valuable information but it's it's not drama it's not drama it's not drama what if the two guys are beefing well we don't know that we only know that the beef is in the tamales well we only know is like yeah the guy with the nice teeth has better tamales okay what does that mean yeah what does that mean zero i'm gonna give this yeah a 0.5 i just i just got hungry hearing i'll give it a one i'll give it a one because i love tamales whoa that's awesome i'm obsessed with tamale that's so great thank you i genuinely mean it but i don't know why i kept double downing what kind of tamales do you guys get when you get tamales i don't know meat which meat i think it really matters does it oh yeah beef chicken oh yeah there's a uh lady oh man i got this one that's like blue corn and cheese yeah with some um tamales the like vegetarian ones are the best one yeah yeah i agree like cheese and like corn and stuff so we have to move on yeah we have to move on i am getting very hungry so that's the dramas all right so we read that fun fact one now it's time for some drama balls to the walls uh asexual rhino uh sorry i just read it name so glad reddit names reddit names okay so we're not into the drama yet uh uh so they have this rhino and there's a lady with a lion yeah okay they write when my parents were in school 80s and 90s there was an openly gay man who lived in a big house near the school the location is important this man had a cast of his lover's testicles bronzed and then hung it up on his front door i love this that's amazing for many years all the middle and high school kids would walk to the house after school and take turns hiding behind the fence darting into the yard and up to the door rubbing the balls and then running back it happens so often that the balls started to get discolored the way statues do when they're touched in the same place over and over the guy would sometimes come out and yell at the kids and they would scatter my mom suspects that the guy actually thought it was funny and was yelling at them as part of the game eventually the balls were removed my parents oh no oh so sorry to hear that sorry your front door was neutered sorry to this man my parents can't remember if they died or moved on or what uh or moved or what but the balls had been there so long that you could see their outline on the door for a long time i used to think my parents were fucking with me and had made up this story but i work with a lot of people now who went to school with my parents and they all have the same story i'm i realize now that this isn't really a drama but i think it's still a good story there was definitely drama with some parents complaining to the school and the people in the couple apparently a lot of people a lot of kids would have to then run back to school afterward so they could still get a ride without their parents knowing that's just a really fun fact the kids just wanted to touch the balls let them what is the problem i mean he had to have been okay something that's coming to my head here is like he's getting mad at people for touching these balls but he put them on the front door totally they're in his property like if you're making on his property if you're making a set of nuts the thing you have to grab to knock on your door i think that's incredible people are gonna come up and grab them i think it's hilarious but you people are gonna come up and grab them they're gonna grab but they've been really grabbing them if they're getting discolored yeah they've been rubbed they've been rubbed they've been rubbing and these kids are like do you want to go touch the balls yeah and they are like doing all these things and not telling their parents if that was my kid i'd be like so like what was it like did you like what why did you want to go touch the balls well i i want to know i'd want to know why they're so aggressively wanting i actually don't think that's a mystery at all i think i think it makes so much sense it's hilarious on the door what i wait sorry okay go on i i'm sorry i need us to just like hop back to when you were a freaking kid and something as funny and unexplored as balls yeah are on somebody's door oh i think it makes perfect sense from the kids of course you and your friends are going to be like let's go rub the shit out of that which is why as a parent i'd want to go like tell me like tell me whose idea was it why did you want to do it like i just want to hear from them i'd be like whose idea it was all of our idea yeah there's a pair of nuts on a door yeah britney spears it's his idea you gotta do it yes i i agree with you though that i think he shouldn't be upset but it also was a good argument that it is still technically his property my favorite thing about it though is if he's just acting like he's like telling the kids to scram as a part of the game i love it that's very fun i love it get off he's just like get off my lawn and then they run away and he just kind of smiles for a second 100 there that would be 10 out of 10 pretty good yeah i i'm gonna give that one a six what that gets a six it's not that it's not really that drama he literally says it's not really drama, or I guess, yeah. He literally said, yeah, it's not real. Oh, so you're saying I gave it too high. Yeah, that got a six, but. Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. Jesus. Three. Okay. Fine. Would you like to read the next couple? Wait, wait. Before we move on, I do have to tell this quick little story that just popped in my head. Is it about balls? Yeah, it is about balls, but it's about tennis balls. I'll never forget my front lawn. I don't know why, but we would always play on my front lawn. And this is gonna sound creepy, but it's not. We're fine. This man would. You know how tennis balls came in, like, a pack of three? Yeah. Randomly, he'd drive by, slow down, and throw a pack of three tennis balls. Like, it would hit me, or hit my sister, or, like, hit our front stairs. That's expensive. And it would happen all the time. So, he would drive really fast. I don't know if he hates you, or if he's giving you a gift. And then he'd slow down and go, and chuck the pack of three. And we'd be like, ow! You don't know who this guy is. No idea who he is. It happened for weeks. How many balls did you guys collect? Many. Many, many, many. Many. And we would never tell my mom, because we were like, oh, we don't wanna. Your mom didn't know about this? No. So, we would just tell my sister. It was like, that guy just threw those balls at me again. Amanda, this is the most insane thing you've ever told me. Well, I forgot about it. It was deep in a memory box. What? And then it just unlocked. Were they fresh packs? Fresh packs, unopened. Okay? He must have had the wrong address that he was giving to a friend. And he would drive by and be like. And chuck them as hard as he could. Okay. They would hit me, they would hit my sister. What kind of car was he driving? Like a Honda Civic. And he was an older guy. And so then, finally, like, I'm talking weeks of this. Oh, this was an isolated incident. This wasn't over the course of years. No, no, no, no, no. Isolated incident, weeks, weeks. Okay. It could be like three months. Okay. And we'd always be like, why? Why is this happening? So, then finally, I was like, Mom, this man keeps throwing packs of three tennis balls into the yard and it would constantly hit me. And she'd go, oh, that's Ira. She knew exactly who it was. It's one of her. My mom was a masseuse, also, on top of being a teacher. Of course. She massaged in the house. It was one of her massage clients. She was like, oh, he heard that you guys started playing tennis. So he wouldn't even say anything to you? Nope. Just throw him at you? He would go, slow down and chuck them as hard as he could at us. And that was his way of saying, oh, the girls are playing tennis? Let me chuck tennis balls at them. Like, nice three-pack balls. Those are truly, I think they're pretty pricey. Yeah. Oh, my God. I don't. There's a whole other world of me where my mom had a bunch of massage clients and they were all the most ridiculous characters ever. Right. And I'd always be like, hello? And they'd be like, your mom here? Like, my whole life was just random people in my house. Totally. Only in Boston could someone give a gift in a mean way. Like, really? Like, it's a very nice thing that he was doing. Totally. But the way he was doing it was assault. And if you know. Literally throwing tennis balls at young girls. It's a good excuse to hit kids. But my mom's like, how generous of him. That was very kind of him. Thank you so much, Ira. Did you thank him? No, and I was like, I couldn't because he did a drive-by. Because he drove past. I want that so bad to be the next stim. That's Ira. Oh, that's Ira. Oh, that's Ira. You heard your girls were playing tennis. He's doing a nice thing. Oh, that's Ira. If you knew my family, you'd be like, of course. Right. No, that is classic Cindy. Anyways, this is a classic Cindy. But all those balls stories. We got a lot of balls stories. I love it. I love it. Pickle balls. Anyways, we can move on. This is not really hometown drama. I'm going to give the balls on the door two out of ten. One for each ball. But I'm going to give Ira ten out of ten. Love, love Ira. I like these character stories, though. I do appreciate of, like, the interesting characters in these small towns. I love them. Yeah. Okay. Next up, we have from Icy-Engine2592. We could have been BuzzFeed. When I was in high school, the administration got rid of all school dances because there was too much inappropriate dancing happening at them. It caused quite the stir in town and was covered on local news. I didn't ever like school dances anyways, so it really didn't have an effect on me. But I remember finding out there was an article written about it on Smosh.com. Yes. Back when Smosh Pit had articles. And I thought that was probably the coolest thing my town would ever do. Smosh Pit had articles? Well, Smosh.com did. Because Smosh.com started as a website. It was like a blog? It had a bunch of stuff. That's where they would upload their videos at first. Anthony would make games, like Flash games, on there. And then, yeah, they would just write post articles and stuff. Actually, for a long time. There was, even up until when I was working here, the website was still active and would still have posts and things. What's a Flash game? Oh, no. My beard grows out. I turn into a skeleton. Games that used to play on web browsers back in the day were called Flash games because they ran on Flash, which was the name of the software. Oh, gotcha. So, like, E-Bombs World and Newgrounds.com. All these websites, they would have Flash games. DisneyChannelGames.com. They were very, like, cartoon-looking games. But it was an engine. So, it was called Flash games. Icy Engine. You went to college during COVID. Yeah, you are two years old. Yeah, did I mean to tell you I, like, ruined the vibe in here? She ruined the vibe in a game, in a video. We were just all talking about college, and everyone was like, yeah, and, like, Arasha, like, what was this year? Like, how was that? And I was like, oh, that was the year that COVID happened. And we were like, you were in college during COVID? And, like, everybody just started shitting on me. I didn't shit on her. Everyone started throwing tennis balls at me. That was Ira. That was Ira. Oh, that's Ira. Yeah, I also think it must have been like, you just didn't play games on your computer much. Well, I played Disney Channel games. Okay. I had to get the pizza boxes so that Carrie could sing in the hotel, and Zach and Cody couldn't get caught by Mr. Mosby. Those were Flash games. Whoa, hey, look at you. I just didn't need a flash drive to play them, so. Well, you don't need a flash drive to play Flash games. We have to move on. Actually, you know what? This is fun for me. I feel healed. Okay. Let's have the spotlight on Arasha. Great. I think this is a perfect one. Selena titled this the most wholesome thing on here. But wait a second. So let's break down this story. So Smosh. Oh, oh, oh, yeah, literally. We just fucking moved on. Smosh saw this local story and then wrote about it. Yeah. I don't know who was writing the articles whenever this was, this happened, because you know, Ian would write a lot of articles in the beginning of Smosh.com. But I think they had multiple people working on it for a long time. So they essentially had a bunch of grind lines, and they cut it down. Grind lines? Well, it was just, it was just, what's the, what's the movie? Footloose. Footloose. Yeah. They just cut out the dances because the dancing was getting too crazy. Oh, yeah, yeah, Footloose, right, the town. Yeah. Did you guys go to school dances? Yeah. Oh, yeah, we talked about this. Oh. I've been a part of grind lines, and Shane. You've been a part of grind lines? Yeah, everyone, like, my town, yeah, my town was a bunch of dancers, okay? No, I don't know. Everyone was a part of grind lines. I wasn't, like, the one in the grind line. It was, like, me and all my friends. And I'm, and we're really happy for you. Guys, it doesn't make me cool, okay? What does that look like? How is it a line? Everyone's just like, everyone's like, oh, my God, grind line, you're, it doesn't make me cool. But you were, but you were popular in school. Yeah. So you're, like, you're standing? There's nothing wrong with that. I'm just saying, yeah, but you were popular. I was popular in school. I don't know. There's nothing, I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that. I'm just saying. I was popular, and I was in the grind lines. Hell, yeah. Sue me. And so that means somebody was standing, and a bunch of your friends were. Do you know what a grind line is? No. All right. A grind line is, like, a very fun way. Arasha just graduated high school. To, to. I just started grinding. To bump on each other. So essentially. Right, I know grind. You're dancing like this. Yeah. Someone dances behind you like this. And someone's bent over. And someone's dancing in front of you like this. Oh. And then someone dances in front of them like this. It's like a massage train. It's a, it's a horny conga line. Yes. Okay. Yeah. So there's just, like. And teachers despise it. Right. Yeah. Because there's more contact. It's more rubbing. You're rubbing. Because they're forming a phalanx, and you can't. How do you. We're the human centipede, but grinding. You're all just grinding on each other. But everybody's standing. Nobody's bent over. People can be bent over if they want. If you're in the front. That just. Okay. What happens in the grind line stays in the grind line. If you're in the front, you're getting it from all the bars. Apparently. Okay. Jesus Christ. And if you're in the back. You're in the back. You're just, you're just. You're in the back. You're just going. Anybody want to. Anybody want to jump on. Okay. Okay. So we think that maybe there were some grind lines at these school dances. I don't know. I don't know what's going on there. We don't actually know. It just says too much inappropriate dancing. Look, some schools are harsher than others. Yeah. For sure. Any physical contact. Like I said, all of our dances were at an old vet hangout. And so the vets couldn't really do much. A vet hangout? Yeah. We had a lot of veterans. So it was like an armored car. You thought veterinarians? Yeah. I was like, you guys went to dance with the animals? No, no, no. Old vets. Old vets who played cards and drank whiskey and talked about war. And they had like, what's What's one of those old stories? school tanks a tank i know that you meant something more specific shut your mouth they had a tank there were two pet spots they had a tank they had a tank and they would always go you see the tank out there you were like yes i did can i get back to my grind line old guy i was in the battle of the bulge that's great i gotta go grind my bulge um i remember grinding on the front lines the veterans were the chaperones okay listen arasha i'm picturing the most intense world war ii veteran just sitting in the corner no that's what they were except they were like selling candy and soda to us and they were like they were always so mad they were so mad that we were there in their place but they had no choice they had no choice they were like this is our hangout i'm so mad you guys are here and they would just be like and if your mom was late to pick you up it sucked because you had to like stand with one of them you're outside like this and you're like like you think this is cold i remember bastone yeah all right okay okay sorry we uh derailed there a little bit sorry i had to talk old times for sure for sure go on um do we feel good to move on yeah i think would you guys want to rate that one yeah that was that was a school dance is getting banned two mid that's that's two or three i mean that that that's very par for the course i remember our school our uh elementary school band uh you weren't allowed to run during recess we were there why is that so uh a kid a kid ran into a pole um and i think the parents threatened to sue this happened a lot their kids are dumbass oh oh arizona you have to imagine arizona arizona parents are like that's that's karen central the heat condenses the karens into like a tougher they mold into one the school constantly got threatened to to be sued so we over the course of my time in elementary school we had less and less things we could do and i remember when it finally it was like you're not allowed to run at recess you're not allowed to run um and it was because a kid had run into a pole and it's like you know the school the school should have gone school should have issued a statement just like skill issue man like you look ahead in front of you um wow yeah so no running i think i had that too at my school in elementary school they tried it and then they failed and we went back to something else what because then it was like you know the speed walk you'd still find ways to sneak a run in they're like hey teachers aren't looking let's run around i love i love sneaking runs in like you're not supposed to run in the hallways but you would always be like oh yeah but i can get here way quicker i'm not supposed to run in the hallways but you would always be like oh yeah like a run in this morning that's just like a run well no i meant diarrhea okay why why okay why here's the hometown drama in smosh you talking about poop consistently i think it's good to share i don't i think it sounds i think you can talk about poop it sounds like maybe you need to change up the diet a little bit sounds like you guys are jealous not at all i am quite jealous not at all i would love to poop multiple times a day but it's not possible my ga track is fucked okay amanda that's really crazy of you to bring that up i'm having fun that's so gross next drama i am having a good time having a good time i'm gonna give the school dance one a one um only because the fact that it was also an article written about it that's the only part that's interesting to me this episode of smosh mouth is sponsored by stitch fix summer has arrived and i realized my wardrobe was missing a few essentials lightweight tees shorts and a few outfits for special occasions but i'm not looking for just a random piece of clothing i wanted a full outfit that felt styled and catered to me and that's why i use stitch fix stitch fix sends me personalized pieces from my stylist all i have to do is take 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between june 2024 and may 2025 potential savings will vary so i grew up in a small town in india growing up one of my dad's colleague was a bachelor and a true gem of a man let's call him v he would always help people participate in local festivals and holiday celebrations and was a very jovial fellow he was also the first person in my town who would give free tuitions to the poorer kids on sundays and saturday evenings and buy them school supplies new clothes and even pay for this kid's school fees so they didn't have to drop out four years ago in 2022 he had a sudden stroke while on an evening walk he was taken to the hospital and he was diagnosed with a stroke that had affected both his heart and his brain i'm not a medically inclined person so i'm not sure of what the condition was essentially the cost of surgery and recovery was far more than what he could afford at the time but for a small town people rallied behind him for the first time i saw people of my small town even those who were the bad natured people come together as a community to raise the funds for his surgery and post-care they organized a full raffle sheet campaign targeting people from neighboring towns people donated money from their own savings and at any given time there were so many visitors to his hospital room every day someone would make him home-cooked meals for him so he wouldn't have to eat hospital food when asked i remember one of my parents friends said that v was a man who would lay on mud and let people walk all over him if it meant someone else's shoe wouldn't get dirty whoa he was a man that was the reason why so many poorer families had a future now because he gave because he gave their kids a chance to succeed in life through education the town truly believed in the kindness of this man and came together to save him v didn't survive post-op and passed away his funeral had over 2,500 people who were walking to the cremation ground and everyone wept one of the kids he taught has since started a school in his name in the town and has become a teacher to the other kids he was a hero and he inspired so many people to be better and kinder oh wow well this should be a novel yeah so rest in peace v um as far as drama goes zero zero out of ten as far as uh absolutely beautiful story ten out of ten no there's no there's no that that is the polar opposite that is the sweetest truly that is a great story the that fills me with hope and joy good incredibly heartfelt what an incredible man seriously what an incredible man wow this reminds me of um my late grandfather actually because he was similarly like such a giving man and he had he had this thing too that like in his pocket he always had just like these like candies yeah and everywhere he would go he would just give like random people like these like candies and stuff like kind of candy um it was like a little indian sweet they were like like wrapped up individually and he would just like give them out he'd always have them and similarly like anytime he had like money in his pocket or anything like he would always just like randomly be giving it out to people like so sweet it's it's just such a it's such an incredible trait to have the ability to not care about what you're you have at all and just want to be yeah at its most extreme just generous yeah also candies man i don't i don't know what it is about older people but my my like my great aunt would have bowls of candy and yeah bowls of all different candy i didn't know how long the candy was out or how long it'd been there totally sometimes you try it was like my papa ted always had uh those lemon the lemon the lemon heads not not lemon heads it was they were like a little more coated the These were the other, but they're like a lemon sour candy and then, or peppermints. Peppermint, classic. And there was a time when we were driving, he was, he had to drive, right? He was too nervous to, if he wasn't driving, he'd be in the passenger seat behind the driver's seat, like gripping. And, but one time he was driving us and it was my mom, my brother and I, and I just somehow didn't notice, but you know, he was smacking on peppermints the entire drive. And at one point I turned, I just see my mom and she's just like. She's so annoying. I'm losing my mind. He's smacking on those peppermints. And you don't even notice. He truly, he truly, in like the, like basically one of the cup holders, he just always had like a big thing of like candies. Totally, totally. Diet Dr. Peppers and candies all day, every day. Wow. He's rocking on those things. So sweet. Ours was like Seagram's ginger ale and Werther's. Wow. But people like that from this story really like, it sucks that they are so. Rare. Like, like really to hear those people who are just super selfless. Agreed. Agreed. Yeah. I mean, that's, that's why they're called gems. They're rare. Absolutely. But I think what's really beautiful too, is that the fact that like what he was maybe think or like what other people could have maybe said about him is like, oh, especially when it's just like what we're kind of sharing of like, you know, giving out candies, it could feel like such a small little thing that this person is doing. But then when something happened to him. The fact that he was able to bring together this entire town and community in a way that further shaped them, like solidified this community, whatever happens now, I think like he changed. He made such an impact on it. Yeah. It was glue. Yeah. That community. V. Wow. V. V. I'm getting, yeah, I'm giving that a zero to 10 as a compliment. Agreed. That I'm like, that's not drama. Yeah. That's good. That's the best thing. Wow. Because the drama, drama rips a town apart. And he did the opposite. Yeah. Yes, it does. There's always sides. Okay. Here's one. A great follow up. A shit and run. Excellent title. Whoa. Alyssa, Alyssa K. Singh. In September of 2020, a man broke into a home, shit in the dishwasher and left. He didn't even steal anything. Just hung a dump and bought. Bolted. A shit and run. I don't think they ever caught the poopy perp, but this made global news. Global news. Let this story be a reminder to lock your doors before bed. I love that it made global news. Like in China, they're like, you will not believe what happened in Sacramento. Global. And not hung a dump, but like we're talking second row. Hung a dump. Yeah. Yeah. That's a very inconvenient place to poop. No, that someone had a vendetta. That. That is good. Because it has mystery. It does have a crime, but the crime, nobody got like super hurt. Massively inconvenienced. Why in the dishwasher? So that way when it runs, it's like poop water all over the dishwasher. Oh my God, they fucked up the dishwasher. It's like, it's like, it's truly like the evolution of a double decker, right? Like you're really, really putting some effort. Have you ever done a dump? Upper decker. Did you hang a dump in the dishwasher? No, I've never heard of doing it in a dishwasher. If we know what an upper deck is, what's a double decker? A double decker is when you do both. A little bit down there and a little bit on top? Bowl and upstairs. Shade boring childhood my ass. I know what you've been doing. My brother made so many upper decker jokes when I was a kid. I don't know why. You're a wild kid. He thought it was so funny. The thought of. Do you know what an upper decker is? An upper decker is. When you shit in the top. In the. In the. In the thing. In the thing behind the toilet. Yeah, you lift up the top and you do it there. So that when you flush, shit comes out. You stunned everyone out there. You've never heard of that? It's like a. Hey, there's a lot that you can learn. It's cool when you're born earlier than you. Yeah. No, that was the 90s. And you're saying that's an old timey thing? I don't think it's old timey. It's not old timey. I bet bros do it all day. You can still do it. Toilets are still the same. Shane could do it anytime he wants. You could do it anytime you want. I guess I could try it. You can't really do it. I don't think the toilets here at Smosh have the tanks. They're a little more industrial style. Okay, then I'm not super interested. But if you're visiting someone's home and you don't like them, you could drop an upper decker in them. Yeah, okay, okay. But the dishwasher, yeah, it's interesting. Dishwasher is way worse. It's like where in the dishwasher. It's way worse because you have to literally, what do you do? You've got to get rid of that dishwasher. Hopefully it was one in each of the utensil pockets. We don't need to speculate like that. Anyways. I'm going to give this an eight because this is mysterious. That is a, it's bold. It's weird. It's like there's clearly, and I think there's more to this story. I kind of agree. For it to just be left as we don't know why this happened. Poopy perp. What's going on? It's like, I think, I think there's probably a lot going on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The poopy perp. I'm giving this a 7.5. I'm trying to think of my package deal. Definitely is effort. You had to break in. You had to shit in the dishwasher. It's creative. It's intelligent. It doesn't directly harm anybody, but it obviously is a massive inconvenience. I mean, yeah. It's not like someone died. Right. And it's really funny. I'm trying to think. I'm trying to think if somebody in my hometown was like, whoa, like, did you hear like somebody, somebody shit in, in Ira's dishwasher? Like, I feel like I would. Ira would never accept that. Right. No, Ira would go out and chuck some balls. I'm going to say a nine. Whoa. I'm going to say a nine because I'm believing that there is a lot more to this story and the mystery is keeping me alive. And it has to do with your favorite. I think to hit a nine or a 10, like an affair needs to happen and the governor needs to be involved. Oh my God. A governor and an affair. That to me is like 10. I want to cozy up to that story. Yeah, exactly. Okay. This has nothing to do with the governor. Here's the next story. The toucans are out. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Where are they? One's up there. Hey, little guy. Oh, this is directed to me. This is a direct thing. John Mello, artist, says, ask Amanda about New Bedford, Massachusetts, various historical contributions and how much she loved the whaling museum field trips. It is true. I went to whaling museum field trips all the time. It is the saddest museums. Okay. It's literally about fishermen killing whales for their blubber and oil and they're all over New Bedford. Okay. Okay. New Bedford is where my grandpa. My grandparents lived. Very Portuguese. Also, see if she remembers. Oh, also see if she remembers the seagull sculpture with its toucans out. For some reason, this was the first thing that came to mind. This sculpture went up by the port and it caused quite a controversy. The artist Donna Dodson and the notoriously beloved seagull Cinderella. I don't know if I remember this, but it's a seagull with. Oh. With her toucans out. With her cute little boobs. Oh. And her toucans are out. Just a, okay. And she's at a whaling museum. Matching with the toucans. Yeah. Guys, I don't remember this. I don't remember this. I probably would have remembered this if I saw it. Is that a seagull or is that a pelican? I guess it's a seagull. How dare you? It's a seagull. Look at her. She's posed for that. Just a, wow. And look, their toucans are out. I really can't pull my eyes away. She's loud and proud. Okay. Okay. That is epic. Uh. Yeah. Whaling museums were a big part of my life. They're really intense. Yeah. Sounds like it. They're like a lot of Portuguese fishermen. That's what they did. And they're, they're like museum field trip when you're a kid and you're like, it's the saddest museum I've ever been to. Um, thank you for the shout out. I don't remember this, this seagull, but pretty freaking epic. Look at her. She's got a long skirt on too. Right. Yeah. Also, also. What's the drama there? Yeah. Also not feeling super, super dramatic about it, but it is. But I love it. Yeah. They're trying to jog some memories about your hometown. And that's the drama. Yeah. The drama is no kids should go to the whaling museum. That's the drama there. Yeah. For sure. Do you want me to read this last one? Yeah, you can read it. All right. Here we go. Take it home. Here's our final, our final hometown drama. That's an expensive curse. Zeroside writes, how about the time my city, Spokane, Washington, got put under a one point four million dollar Romani curse because of a rogue police raid? Basically, back in 1986, the local cops went completely rogue and launched this massive, hyper-aggressive raid on the homes of Grover and Jimmy Marks, who were leaders of the local Romani community. They were looking for stolen jewelry, but ended up ransacking the place, ripping through babies' diapers and taking millions in cash and heirlooms. Hey, those are expensive. Shocking absolutely no one, the courts later ruled the entire raid was 100% illegal and a mass murder. This is a massive violation of civil rights, but instead of just filing a normal lawsuit and waiting around, Jimmy Marks decided to wage absolute psychological warfare on the city. He walked straight into a crowded city council meeting and placed a formal public curse on the city and everyone in charge. The best part is he didn't just say it and walk away. He spent the next 15 years trolling city hall. Every time the city had a budget crisis, a terrible winter storm, or a political scandal, Jimmy would show up to council meetings to mock the officials and remind them, the curse was working. At one point he literally parked a hearse right outside city hall threw the doors open and told everyone he was unleashing his dead father's spirit to haunt the building forever the city officials got so completely rattled by the endless bad press that they eventually just broke in the late 90s they cut the family a 1.43 million dollar settlement check just to get him to stop jimmy took the cash but he passed away a few years later without ever officially lifting the hex to this day whenever something bizarre disastrous happens in local politics here everyone still jokes that the building is cursed whoa that rocks that rocks there's no governor involved or making out but i i did not consider that a curse putting a curse on all the officials of a town that's that's that's not just hometown drama that's legend status they're gonna talk about that for a hundred years they're still gonna they're still talking about that for a hundred years they're still gonna they're still talking about that for a hundred years they're still talking about it that's awesome and he died before the hex was lifted oh did he die before he could spend any of that money maybe he i don't know it wasn't about the money for it wasn't about the money no it wasn't about the money it was about having the power and control over these people and the principal like what a great reason to put a fucking curse well they robbed the town robbed him in insanely so that is a crazy story why did they rob him uh they they raided the i that's my curse that's the hex i love it wow i love it i i'm gonna give this like a nine yeah i think that's a nine that's that is stellar and it goes on for 15 years he parked a hearse outside of city hall like that's dedication although if he was like my husband or brother i'd be like you gotta stop right right right you know i say constantly like i am a skeptical person but if someone was like i'm cursing you i'd be like believe it hey man can we can we figure this out i don't want to be cursed that's not right i agree i'm i'm in the nine zone as well i think i i want to give it 9.5 because i also wish he just like kissed someone i an affair still yeah there was some sort of an affair if it turned out that the raid happened because the mayor raided his place because jimmy was having sex with his wife with the mayor who had a penis or with the mayor who's a woman who has a penis yes okay but i i just sex needs to happen for it to hit the 10 mark agreed agreed and maybe it did we're just not hearing about it but i bet jimmy i doubt it they would spokane washington nobody's having sex yeah jimmy was fucking jimmy was fucking jimmy was the only one fucking he just i think he would go a town over jimmy definitely want to drive down to eugene oregon yeah because they didn't know about him i mean a guy putting a curse is kind of like a bit washington and oregon when shit happens up there it's not just like oh a little bit of drama it's like no people die people die the those states do not mess around at all yeah they really don't it's pretty epic twin peaks was filmed there yeah it's pretty epic no um wow so this was our highest drama story and yes we apparently have a lot more hometown dramas so i kind of think we need to do a part two probably probably wow guys thank you so much for submitting all these this is amazing yeah and thank you arasha for joining us yeah oh thanks for having me you know i love the drama yeah well now i know i love the drama why so you can be connected and included yeah a bit yeah and it's interesting it is very interesting all of these were interesting very interesting i will give them that yeah whether we rated it high or not on a drama scale right does that mean they're not i will never forget about the balls knocking on the door never forget about the balls you know before we go i mean i love drama we love we love uh people's wild stories arasha you have a podcast that's all about that yeah entirely so yes thank you um yeah pretty much um i have a podcast called fest pool it's on youtube and also on all podcast platforms and essentially it's kind of like what we did today except people submit them anonymously via voicemails and so we sort of get to hear from people's actual voices what they want to share about anything they're confessing they're confessing uh a secret uh it could be it could be wholesome stuff like that um and similarly it's tough because we always want more information yeah it's always like oh i don't know all the details but we just kind of have to go off of of what we hear but they're leaving it's juicy they leave voice listening and then responding to it yeah yeah so it's like a call-in confession show which i need both of you on the couch with me oh i would love so this is your official invitation oh my god i've been waiting for it i've been waiting for it i've been checking my mailbox yes i would love that i would i would love to join let's fess okay it's it gets dirty let's fess right short for confess right exactly and it rhymes with cesspool yeah which is like dirty bacteria like dirty little secrets of course it's a bit of a scientific vibe yeah you know yeah well we're in uh go watch fest pool it's i've already watched some of your episodes it's very funny and very juicy oh my god thank you very much that that's that's the thing is it's interesting it does not take much for people to confess things yeah i'm like hey man all right before before people even knew what i was doing with their confessions because we needed confessions to start before the show even was announced so i just sort of randomly haphazardly just made a video asking people to just send in confessions and people just called and be like i killed a man i killed him i burned down a house we got ten thousand we got ten thousand calls like people want to get things off their chest they do and if it's anonymous they can get it off their chest without having to you're doing a good you're letting people lighten the load right you're also letting us all enjoy the juiciness oh absolutely yeah in the hopes that there will be some sort of redemption forgiveness like that's you know that's the undertone of it but at the end of the day a lot of people just end up being like it it feels good to get this off my chest i love it well i can't wait to be on fest pool thank you so much for watching hometown drama hopefully part two yeah all right all right see you later bye find the vacation you're looking for in missouri whether you're searching for this wanting something like this oh that's cute maybe up for something like this or just really really need something more like this you'll find the vacation you're looking for in missouri the vacation you want in missouri missouri it's the getaway that gets you plan your fun at visitmo.com every journey needs a guide the center for professional education is yours guiding your professional growth every step of the way 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