We Saved These Stories For Them w/ The Basement Yard | Reading Reddit Stories

**Shayne Topp** (0:00)
This episode of Reddit Stories is sponsored by DoorDash. Gotchu delivered, DoorDash. Hello and welcome to Smosh Reads Reddit Stories. I'm Shayne. And today, the theme doesn't really matter because we have two incredible guests joining us. From the basement yard, we have Joe and Frank here on the couch.

**Joe Santagato** (0:18)
Thank you so much.

**Shayne Topp** (0:19)
Thank you for being here. I feel like we have been wanting this to happen for so long.

**Joe Santagato** (0:24)
Same.

**Shayne Topp** (0:25)
Like on any of our shows. Yeah. I feel like we have shouted you guys out. I feel like you guys have talked about us occasionally.

**Joe Santagato** (0:30)
Yeah. As soon as we heard you say the basement yard, we were like, yeah, we got to get over there. They got a big audience. Yeah.

**Frank Alvarez** (0:37)
I will say, I was a little afraid meeting you because, I don't know if the cameras are adding the amount of muscle this dude is sitting here with, but last time we spoke about you, we wondered who would win in a fist fight.

**Shayne Topp** (0:46)
And I saw this and Joe said he would drag me around the ring.

**Joe Santagato** (0:52)
I was like, looks like I was like high in weight or whatever. So like just bicep curls. All right, great. Yeah.

**Frank Alvarez** (0:59)
So we were afraid walking in that you were just going to walk in and full on start decking us.

**Shayne Topp** (1:03)
Just fully open and just bam. Say it again. No, I am truly so excited. I am genuinely a fan. Courtney was the one who told me about your guys' podcast. And then we would listen to it a lot when we're on long drives and stuff. It's so fucking funny. Thank you, man. We're really excited. Well, great. You guys know Reddit.
You know Reddit.
You've been on Too Hot Takes. So this is, you've already. Yeah.

**Joe Santagato** (1:28)
And honestly, I really appreciate people who are able to find the most insane things on Reddit. Yeah.

**Shayne Topp** (1:34)
Our producers are incredible at this.

**Joe Santagato** (1:36)
And I hope you have therapists as well because obviously reading some of this.

**Frank Alvarez** (1:40)
Sure, everyone does a little bit of therapy work here. They're reprising each other. It's a nice community.

**Shayne Topp** (1:46)
Yeah.
I have been told, I think we have a pretty legendary story in this one. One that's like very famous on Reddit. We're finally doing it.

**Frank Alvarez** (1:54)
Okay.

**Shayne Topp** (1:55)
And I've been wanting to read it for years.

**Joe Santagato** (1:56)
You guys held it for us? Yeah. Oh my God.

**Shayne Topp** (1:58)
We've been holding it for a while. We're like waiting for the right moment. So. Don't fold this up.

**Joe Santagato** (2:02)
Here we go. Yeah, I know.

**Shayne Topp** (2:04)
Do not mess this up.

**Joe Santagato** (2:05)
The pressure.

**Shayne Topp** (2:07)
Here we go. Our first story comes from Am I the Asshole? This was posted in 2019

**Joe Santagato** (2:12)
Excellent year.

**Shayne Topp** (2:14)
Yeah, excellent year.

**Joe Santagato** (2:15)
Wonderful vintage.

**Shayne Topp** (2:16)
Yeah. I hardly remember 2019, I feel like.

**Joe Santagato** (2:21)
It seems like two years ago. It's been a long time.

**Frank Alvarez** (2:24)
Yeah, it's decades at this point.

**Joe Santagato** (2:25)
Truly.

**Shayne Topp** (2:27)
Yeah.

**Joe Santagato** (2:28)
Yeah. Even hearing that, I'm like, no, not seven.

**Shayne Topp** (2:30)
Don't say that.

**Joe Santagato** (2:31)
Not seven.

**Shayne Topp** (2:32)
Okay.
Am I the Asshole for throwing away my boyfriend's potentially illegal yogurt collection?
Okay. So I did find this one. I found this one and I sent it. I was like, we got to read this shit. I'm a 29-year-old woman. My boyfriend is a 30-year-old man. We've been living together for two years in a little studio in a very expensive big US city. My boyfriend grew up rurally with lots of space, enough to collect all kinds of things. He collected action figures and video games and all the normal kid stuff when he was young. But as he grew older, he became interested in more unusual things. As a teen, he had eight guinea pigs of different types from different breeders. Since Tide Pods were released seven years ago, he saved one of every kind of Tide Pod. He's got a big box of an international variety of electric insulators, those little ceramic hats that power lines wrap around on power poles. He's not a hoarder. He's usually neat, just used to having lots of space for his bizarro collections. At his parents' ranch, he has two big rooms full of containers of weird and impressive things. He recently became interested in yogurt. He's always hated dairy products until about a year ago. He's not just started drinking milk and sharing ice cream with me, but he's found a love for yogurts. So he now collects them, of course. The problem is that they're perishable. So until earlier today, our little 550 square foot studio contained about 2,100 cups of yogurt.