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Dating Is Cooked | Reading Reddit Stories

02 May 2026

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

0.031 - 21.06 Shayne Topp

hello welcome to smosh reads reddit stories i'm shane and today's theme is dating and i'm joined by two people who um are dating maybe i've dated you don't know you we don't know chance don't give them fodder yeah yeah they're like courtney's in the room just like what oh

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Chapter 2: What unusual kink does he hint at two weeks into dating?

21.479 - 38.812 Shayne Topp

We're talking about dating again. I feel like we've done dating episodes before that you've been on. Yeah. It's always a fun time to talk about it. No drama at all. Nope. It's super easy. So chill. Yeah. I noticed in our comments, everybody says that dating is like just easy for them.

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Chapter 3: How does talking about her car affect their relationship?

38.832 - 42.559 Shayne Topp

There's no problems going on. Like it's easy to get a date.

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42.579 - 44.042 Chanse McCrary

Dates always go well. Yeah.

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44.062 - 45.547 Shayne Topp

It's awesome. Yeah. Yeah.

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Chapter 4: Why is she upset about him staying overnight at another woman's apartment?

45.748 - 48.383 Chanse McCrary

It's being reciprocated. Honestly, why are we even doing this podcast?

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48.403 - 52.465 Shayne Topp

Yeah, we don't need to do this. The consensus is that dating is easy and it's successful. And awesome and fun.

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Chapter 5: Is my neighbor interested in me or just being friendly?

53.272 - 55.234 Shayne Topp

Psyche, gotcha guys.

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55.374 - 58.938 Chanse McCrary

Gotcha, we fooled you.

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58.958 - 69.83 Shayne Topp

Should we just start? We can start and I would like to let the people know today I will be fidgeting with this little string that I found on my bracelet. Okay, for those listening, he's got a string. It's a very small string.

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69.85 - 75.536 Chanse McCrary

I have this beaded bracelet, which I'm gonna do everything in my power not to go like this the whole time, okay?

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76.216 - 96.805 Shayne Topp

And now we can begin, okay? And now we start. Okay. Our first story. It comes from Am I Overreacting? This was posted in January of this year. Am I overreacting? He keeps hinting at an unusual kink two weeks in. I just started talking to this guy a few weeks ago, and he seems really amazing so far.

97.125 - 115.071 Shayne Topp

He's attractive, gives well thought out responses when we're texting, compliments me often, and has generally been great to chat with. Today, in a very innocuous way, while we were talking about how our separate New Year's Eve plans had gone, he brought up the show Fear Factor, specifically when people are made to interact with bugs.

115.051 - 149.985 Shayne Topp

He asked if I was afraid of bugs, and I replied that I'm generally not too scared of them. Then he asked if I would hypothetically participate in a challenge where I was asked to squish a bug with my bare hands. I replied that I think it's mean to just kill bugs for no reason. Oh, no.

Chapter 6: What happens when I buy my girlfriend vanilla shampoo?

149.965 - 165.019 Shayne Topp

I said that I wouldn't necessarily be afraid to do it, but that I wouldn't particularly want to either or enjoy doing so. Then he asked if we were in a relationship if I'd squish a big bug. The bigger, the better. Yeah, how big is that bug?

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165.039 - 186.905 Shayne Topp

At this point, I was weirded out and asked him if it was a sexual thing, and he said it wasn't, that it was just attractive to see a woman being brave enough to do something like that. I felt tentatively okay with that explanation and steered the conversation away from that after this. So, anyway, so the weather... No, let's get back to the big bug, actually. Yeah, no, the weather's great.

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188.168 - 190.953 Shayne Topp

Bugs, though. Big fat-ass bug.

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190.973 - 192.656 Chanse McCrary

Big fat-ass bug. You gonna splat it or what?

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192.676 - 193.017 Shayne Topp

Thorax.

Chapter 7: Why did my girlfriend leave me over a cheese wheel?

193.992 - 213.773 Shayne Topp

The thing is, he's already brought it up again. He brought up that his friend dared him to squish a bug with his hands once. And when I didn't really give that a response, he followed up with, do you want to hear about the dare? So now I'm weirded out. Even though he assured me it wasn't a sexual thing, I can't help but feel like he brought it up way too many times for it not to be.

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213.753 - 226.435 Shayne Topp

I really don't want to look it up, though. Is this something you'd look past? I don't want to kink shame or anything, but I really have a problem with the idea of crushing bugs. I love animals and hate the idea of squishing bugs for no reason, even if they're dead.

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226.776 - 244.83 Shayne Topp

I feel like even if I shut it down completely and we started a relationship, I'd always have it in the back of my mind and look at him a little differently. What if we saw a bug and I wanted to pick it up because it's cute? I'd be worried about what he was thinking. Am I being too sensitive? Is this something worth bringing it off for?

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245.411 - 248.498 Tommy Bowe

What if I see a bug? What if I see a bug?

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248.839 - 249.661 Shayne Topp

And I pick it up.

Chapter 8: How does a cheese investment lead to relationship issues?

250.001 - 256.093 Shayne Topp

I guess I can date him. I just hope I never come across a bug ever again. Okay.

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256.514 - 259.437 Chanse McCrary

There is a kink for everything, isn't there? There really is.

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259.457 - 284.682 Shayne Topp

I think I've looked this up before. Because remember when Endgame was coming out and everyone was like, oh, Ant-Man should just crawl up Thanos' booty hole. And then I was like, why does everybody want ants in people's booty holes? And I was like, is that a sexual thing? And there's a sexual thing about bugs crawling into your holes. But this is someone just crushing a bug. Yeah, killing the bug.

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284.662 - 287.711 Shayne Topp

Yeah, with the bare hands, crushing it with their bare hands.

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287.792 - 291.543 Chanse McCrary

How do you acquire that kink? What did you see when you were three years old? I know.

291.583 - 293.068 Shayne Topp

Maybe it's evolutionary.

296.39 - 299.936 Unknown

Crush bug. Kill bug. Hot lady, kill bug.

300.537 - 305.406 Chanse McCrary

Hot lady, kill bug. Big lady, big bug. Big bug, bigger lady. Big lady, big bug.

305.847 - 324.476 Shayne Topp

This is two weeks in. Yeah. He's dropping hints. That's intense. Mr. Man needs her to squash a bug. Two weeks in, I'm thinking, where does this escalate to? Yeah. Because if it's like a year and I'm like, okay, you've been holding on to this. I mean, Fear Factor was a perfect end for him. He's like, hell yeah. I get to see so many fucking bugs right now. Yeah.

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