Welcome to the podcast.
Please Stop Talking, also known as the PST Podcast, is an online comedy podcast that started on June 17th 2017, when the first episode (later renamed Episode 0) was uploaded to the second channel of youtuber Shammy, named Second Shammy. The channel has since become a dedicated channel for the podcast, along with other videos or announcements related to it. The podcast is currently in its 6th season, with each season lasting one year.Each episode involves 4 cast members from a rotating group of 7 main members and various Special Guests sharing stories, answering questions, and attempting to find some way to fill an hour of air time, often to hilarious effect. The seven main podcast members are:
- Shammy
(Joy), a video game reviewer who introduces each episode and attempts to keep things on track. She was the host of the podcast, but has since left as of March 2022. - SirMeowMusic (Billy), a Canadian musician who worked as Joy's audio engineer and has since become the host of the podcast following Shammy's departure.
- SirZulu (Kyle), an old friend of Joy who studies psychology.
- SuperSneakSheap (Cameron), a fan of Shammy from New Zealand who became Joy's friend after insulting her online.
- Brendaniel (Brendan), a youtuber who was originally a Special Guest to the podcast in season 1, then joined the main cast in season 2.
- MandaloreGaming (Mandy), a video game reviewer who was also a Special Guest in season 1 and joined the cast in season 2. Has his own page here.
- PunkDuck (Ed), a (formerly) Smite-focused gaming youtuber who joined the main cast in season 2. He stopped making appearances on the podcast as of December 2023.
Please Stop Talking contains examples of:
- Abusive Parents: In Episode 18: Ceiling Burgers, Brendan tells stories of horrible things he did when he was younger, and Joy implies that its likely due to Brendan's upbringing. When Kyle asks what he means, Brendan begins talking about his physically and verbally abusive father and the physiological effects that abuse had on him as a child.
- Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: Mandy, already much The Trickster of the cast on a normal day sober when discussing stuff, when he's sufficiently inebriated as described in certain stories, his antics go through the roof and will even target his sober self for later just For the Evulz, leading to chaos all around.
- Ascended Extra: Mandy and Brendan were Special Guests in Season 1. In Season 2, they both became part of the main cast.
- *Bleep*-dammit!: David often attempts to censor certain words or names, but either doesn't censor them completely or forgets to censor every instance, making it obvious what is being censored. This can be found in:
- Episode 3, Inquires and Replies: Towards the end of the episode, Kyle says a word that is censored out. David complains about the word, causing Kyle and Cameron to continue saying it. Most of the instances of the word aren't entirely bleeped, making it obvious the word being censored is Cunt.
- Bratty Teenage Daughter: In Episode 25: Oh No, David tells a story about a female friend of his who got super attached to her boyfriend, and demanded he spend time with her. This culminated in her screaming "I'm your mom now!" after finding out his mother had cancer.
- "Cavemen vs. Astronauts" Debate: In Episode 3: Inquires and Replies, Joy, David, Kyle, and Cameron are asked who would win in a fight - a gun with a sword or a sword with a gun. Joy and Kyle are sure the sword with a gun would win, while David and Cameron think the gun with a sword would. Everybody gets unnecessarily heated over the debate and a consensus is never reached. Later in that same episode, a question asks what unnecessarily strong opinions everyone has, prompting Joy to start arguing over whether or not "Y'all" is a proper contraction and whether Fahrenheit or Celsius is a better measure of temperature. These arguments both end when everyone gets tired of Joy and reluctantly agrees with her.
- Change the Uncomfortable Subject: In Episode 25: Oh No, David tells a story that likely ends with the death of someone's terminally ill mother. Everybody is clearly uncomfortable but nobody knows how to transition to a different conversation, despite desperately searching for one. The conversation finally changes when David says he has another story:Shammy: Take us out of here David, please.
- Episode Zero: The Beginning: Averted at first, where the first episode of the podcast was labelled as Episode 1, but was later renamed to Episode 0, playing the trope straight.
- Gollum Made Me Do It: In one story Mandy admits that "Drunk Mandy" often sets up traps and pranks for "Sober Mandy", usually trying to get him drunk again. This includes the vodka bottles incident. In "Future David", a Lost Episode, it's revealed that Sleep-Deprived-Mandy is just like Drunk Mandy and apparently hid his portion of the podcast after the recording to prank himself. It took 9 months for him to find it.
- Hair of the Dog: According to Joy, Mandy's way of "dealing" with hangovers is to leave plastic water bottles around the house for when you wake up, but they're actually filled with vodka (which in terms of visuals and smell is indistinguishable from water) so that when him and Joy started stumbling around looking for water, they would end up drinking the first liquids they'd find and get drunk again.
- Moody Mount: In Episode 10: The THOD, Mandy tells a story about a horse he once rode when he was thirteen. The horse (appropriately named "Loco") was perfectly fine at first... right until a butterfly flew past it, which caused Loco to panic and bolt as fast as he could with Mandy still on, until it finally stopped in the middle of nowhere and laid down screaming. Another horse, from a place Mandy worked at, had an unfortunate habit of luring birds to its stable and crushing them with its hooves.
- Near-Death Experience: In Episode 39: Fear and Loathing in DFW, Joy discusses how she and Mandy nearly asphyxiated themselves after Mandy put vodka through their air filter and then forgot he did it.
- Noodle Incident: In Episode 3: Inquires and Replies, Cameron alludes to a story of something, implied to be illegal, that he had done which was so terrible that he can't tell the story on the podcast. This story is referenced multiple times in various episodes. It was later promised that the story will eventually be shared when the channel reaches 50k subscribers.
- Running Gag: A couple.
- "I'm glad you asked."
- The Void.note
- Self Botched Catchphrase: Joy begins every episode with the catchphrase "I'm your host [Deadname], but you might know me better as Shammy". She usually messes this phrase up however, by accidentally mixing up "Shammy" and "[Deadname]". This happens often enough that it has become a running joke.
- Special Guest: The Podcast occasionally brings on other youtubers or friends of the main members as special guests. Season 1 guests have since become regular cast members, with season 2 guests being KrealTube and The Void.
- The Trickster: Mandy. Often at the expense of Joy...and sometimes himself, as well. His father also liked to play tricks on him as well.
- Troubling Unchildlike Behaviour: Mandy's middle school experience included digging for quartz crystals, getting into "rock wars", tricking younger students into doing unpaid labour, and drafting quartz digging treaties.
David, cut that out.
