TikTok star Jake Shane is lastly leaning into longer kind content material. The social media comic — who rose to fame together with his viral skits and now boasts greater than 5 million followers throughout platforms — has introduced a model new podcast launching Jan 4.
“Therapuss with Jake Shane,” introduced Monday morning, will loosely observe the format of a remedy session, with listeners calling in to share their issues with Shane and a rotating co-host. The 30-minute classes are impressed by his viral Instagram Tales collection “Inform Me What’s Mistaken,” which within the new format will embrace a “pusscription” the place callers shall be “pusscribed” the right popular culture treatment to assist them make their manner by the muck — whether or not it’s Olivia Rodrigo’s “GUTS”, a “Clueless” rewatch or a popular culture deep dive on Elizabeth Holmes’ friendship with Jen Shah.
Except for difficult himself with new materials, Shane say he’s most excited for his followers to study extra about his life and to show that he can create participating, long-form content material. “I’m excited to only discuss extra about my life and tales about my life as a result of typically it’s actually laborious to get individuals’s consideration on TikTok,” Shane tells Selection. “However I believe the individuals listening will hopefully have some curiosity after which I can have all my mates on, cool friends, and simply actually have an area for me to indicate that I can discuss and might make individuals giggle longer than simply in a 45-second skit, I could make individuals giggle for a 30-minute podcast.”
The therapy-style podcast can even supply Shane a possibility to speak extra brazenly about his experiences with OCD and anxiousness, which he solely vaguely shares on TikTok. “That’s additionally why I got here up with ‘Therapuss’ as a result of my anxiousness and OCD is such an essential a part of understanding me as a result of it takes up a lot of my life,” he says .”So I believe this may give me the area to have the ability to speak about it extra to individuals that truly wish to hear it.”
Shane has but to announce his friends and co-hosts for the primary season however followers can count on a slate of bold-faced names who run in his inside circle.
“Therapuss with Jake Shane” will launch on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever else you take heed to podcasts, on Jan. 4.
