#142 - Who Is The Sane One Here? w/ Anna Konkle

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🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 93 minutes

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0:00 Intro
5:02 Anna Konkle’s memoir, The Sane One
11:28 Sponsor!
13:11 Back to Anna’s book & mediating on life and death
40:07 Shayne’s drowning story
43:47 Sponsor!
45:02 Perception of self & parents
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1:03:38 More on the book, cockroaches, and rodents
1:26:13 Embarrassing confessions

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0:00.0	Hi, welcome to Smoshmouth. I'm Shane. And I'm Amanda and we have a really, really exciting guest with us today. It's Anna Conkel, she is the co-creator of Penn 15, currently on the new season of Hacks, and we're talking about her memoir, The Sane One, which we all read and I'm so excited to talk about it. Hi, Anna. Hi, thanks for having me. Of course. My mic in the right. Your mic is... We're still adjusting to these as well.
0:24.4	Okay. excited to talk about it. Hi, Anna. Hi, thanks for having me. Of course. My mic in the right.
0:21.7	Your mic is... We're still adjusting to these as well, so maybe mine's in the wrong place. No, it looks great. Scott, how's our mics? Yeah, he says they're great. Scott's like, it's chill, dude. Does a kickflip. Yeah, Scott's very cool. Hey, Scott. Hey, Scott. guy.
0:38.4	Hey.
0:38.9	Talk later.
0:39.9	Yeah.
0:40.4	Wow, you did Amanda's bit. Yeah, Scott's very cool Hey Scott Yeah Talk later
0:39.5	Yeah
0:40.1	Wow you did Amanda's bit
0:41.6	Every time we do sound check
0:43.2	Amanda goes into this long rant
0:45.0	Where it's like her calling Scott after so long
0:47.9	We understand each other
0:48.9	We understand each other
0:50.1	I think we do
0:50.2	And maybe Scott too
0:51.9	Yeah maybe Scott
0:52.8	Anyways
0:53.5	How are you? I was going to say, I'm not just randomly touching my book, I was going to say, like, let's connect later. How am I? I'm good. I'm good. I'm happy to be here. We're so funny to have you. We're so funny to have you. have you. When we found out you were going to be coming on the show, I was literally so stoked. I didn't mention this before, but Penn 15 truly is like one of my favorite shows. Really? Oh, thank you. Like, I was obsessed with that show. I still am. It's so funny. And I related to so much of it. Really? I know it was about like preteen girls, but I was like so much of the experiences. I was like, wow, this hits really hard for me. Thank you. That's so nice. I feel like it's now I'm realizing on TikTok, which I'm not on, but I'm thinking about it. Me too. I think about it too. And I'm not on it either. Yeah, we think about it. We think about it. But a lot of like teenagers or middle schoolers or whatever are coming up to me being like, I love you on TikTok. Whoa. Because, wait, your clips of Penn 15 are on TikTok. They don't know it's a show. They don't know it's a TV show they just see it on TikTok.
2:18.4	And then they're like, you, you might have to cut this where they're like, you're the one that called your mama cunt. No, we can keep that. And I'm like, oh, we're 12. Oh, my God. But don't say that. Like, I'm going to get arrested. Oh, are you kidding me? 12 year olds say crazy things.
2:18.4	I did in real life call my mom that in high school.
2:22.1	Did she?
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