Why this story? The whole channel is running at 2,179,080 views a day, 12 times a normal day (187,881).
Caleb Hearon's podcast usually happens around a table in Brooklyn, in the room the show calls the So Trudio. For its Halloween episode, "Brittany Broski & Drew Afualo Live from Disneyland," the conversation moved to Disneyland after closing time, with two guests instead of the usual one.
The pairing makes sense. Broski and Afualo both built huge followings on TikTok before moving into podcasting: Broski as the face behind one of the internet's best-known reaction memes, Afualo with her sharp takedowns of men behaving badly in her comment sections. Hearon, who came up the same way, tends to let his guests set the pace, and here there are two of them.
The description lays out the plan: a contest over who can kick the highest, scary stories, favorite treats, a discussion of how each of them would get out of a Saw trap, and a segment billed simply as "body parts."
Posted on October 8, the episode has passed 2 million views, about twice as many as Stavros Halkias's recent return and far beyond the episode with Whitmer Thomas a week earlier. It carried the whole channel with it: daily views ran more than eleven times above their usual level, and a few thousand new subscribers arrived over the same days.