12 emergency plumbers ignored by host
A quick Google search revealed 12 available 24-hour emergency plumbers in Virginia Beach, but the Airbnb host initially refused to call any of them.
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Jul 4, 2026
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At 53:48 · chapter starts 50:22
Shayne reads the final and most epic story of the episode: a 2019 Reddit post from Today I Fucked Up, narrated in the breathless style of a D&D campaign log complete with dice rolls for damage and a witching hour mis-timed by an hour. Eight guests arrive to a lovely Airbnb in Virginia Beach — wine, chocolates, popcorn — and within hours both toilets are down. Their host Paul is reluctant to call any of the 12 available emergency plumbers a quick Google reveals. [1] — Shayne Topp "A group of eight 20-somethings rent a Virginia Beach Airbnb that gradually descends into sewage hell: first one toilet, then both, then the…" 51:52 When a plumber finally arrives at midnight with Paul and his friend, the 'final blasting' causes raw sewage to erupt from the shower and both toilets. By early morning, it's seeping through the baseboards and pooling in the hallway, cutting the group off from their last suitcases. A brave soul vaults the rising floodwaters. Paul arrives at 11:35 AM, takes in the scene, and says: 'This house is fucked.' They flee. Shayne, Ian, and Amanda are in full hysterics throughout; Ian tops it off by confessing his own tree-root sewer backup story.
Shit River 2K19: A Chronicle
A group of eight 20-somethings rent a Virginia Beach Airbnb that gradually descends into sewage hell: first one toilet, then both, then the shower floods with raw sewage, and finally it starts oozing from the baseboards. The host Paul ignores 12 available emergency plumbers before finally declaring 'This house is fucked.' It's written as a D&D campaign log and it's a masterpiece.
8 guests, 2 broken toilets, raw sewage flooding
Eight people at a Virginia Beach Airbnb experienced complete sewage failure — both toilets stopped working, and raw sewage ultimately flooded from the shower, toilets, and even the baseboards.
Ian's Root-in-the-Line Confession
After the Airbnb sewage disaster story, Ian volunteers that he once had a tree root grow into his main sewer line — and everything he'd flushed came back up through his shower. The hosts dissolve into chaos speculating about what exactly came back up. It's the most earned gross-out moment of the episode.
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