"Smosh Reads Reddit Stories" is my new podcast obsession
The podcast 'Smosh Reads Reddit Stories' has become a popular choice for listeners seeking entertainment while engaging in daily activities. Hosted by Shayne Topp, the show features discussions on various Reddit stories, often with humor and empathy. Since its launch in 2022, it has produced over 160 episodes, drawing from themes of relationships and personal anecdotes.
- ▪The podcast is hosted by Shayne Topp and features various Smosh cast members as co-hosts.
- ▪It draws content from popular subReddits like r/relationships and r/AmItheAsshole.
- ▪The show combines humor with insightful discussions on complex personal stories.
Boing Boing files mainly under tech. We currently carry 375 of its stories.
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| Original publisher | Boing Boing |
| Canonical URL | https://boingboing.net/2026/05/25/smosh-reads-reddit-stories-is-my-new-podcast-obsession.html |
| Publication time | Mon, 25 May 2026 18:14:31 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-25T18:42:39.973Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-25T18:42:39.973Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | RGH2yC17ZXS6 |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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"Smosh Reads Reddit Stories" is my new podcast obsession Jennifer Sandlin 11:14 am Mon May 25, 2026 Ink Drop/Shutterstock.com If you need something new to listen to while you cook, drive to work, or walk your dog, I have the perfect podcast! I recently discovered "Smosh Reads Reddit Stories"—yes, that Smosh, the YouTube sketch comedy-improv collective founded by Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox that took off in the early 2000s. Over the last few months, I've been happily making my way through the podcast's back catalog. I've long been an avid reader of Reddit, so I was excited to discover "Smosh Reads," which draws its content from some of my favorite subReddits, including r/relationships, r/AmItheAsshole, and more.
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