Shane at the center · rings = closeness · logos = projects · line weight = involvement. Hover any person or project to trace their connections.
Matt & Shane's Secret PodcastPanties in the MouthGilly & KeevesTires (Netflix)Stuff IslandAre You Garbage?Protect Our ParksTuesdays with StoriesWe Might Be DrunkThe Tim Dillon ShowThis Past WeekendThe Joe Rogan Experience2 Bears 1 CaveCum Town / TAFSLegion of SkanksThe BonfireKill TonyFlagrantSaturday Night LiveSports & MediaDad MeatMDE / Perfect Guy LifeStory WarzGaS DigitalStoner DadzPsych NawTim Butterly's ShowTigerBelly / Bad FriendsBussin' With The BoysThe Pat McAfee ShowCollege GameDayBud Light Super Bowl adsPardon My TakeYour Mom's HouseThe RegzReal Ass PodcastStavvy's WorldStand-up specialsWar Mode
INVOLVEMENT
Regular — core cast / co-host / creator
Guest — recurring appearances
Cameo — one-off
RINGS
Ring 0 — Zero
Ring 1 — The MSSP core
Ring 2 — Day-ones
Ring 3 — Inner circle
Ring 4 — Scene collaborators
Ring 5 — Outer collaborators
Ring 6 — Guests & project players
Ring 7 — One-offs & sports/media
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FIELD NOTES
The MSSP machine runs on three producers — Nick Mullen, LeMaire Lee and Shawn Gardini — planted in the innermost ring with co-host Matt McCusker.
Gilly & Keeves is the sketch duo of Shane Gillis & John McKeever, with an ensemble including Tommy Pope, Steve Gerben, Chris O'Connor, LeMaire Lee, Tim Butterly and Mike Rainey. (Corrected from v1, which framed it around Pope.)
Tommy Pope and Chris O'Connor were Shane's roommates back in the day — OG Philly crew, day-ones from before the fame. They now host Stuff Island together.
LeMaire Lee co-hosts the Panties in the Mouth podcast with Nate Marshall and Andy Malafarina.
The old ‘Comedy Circuit’ blob is now split into the actual shows: Kill Tony, Flagrant, Legion of Skanks, 2 Bears 1 Cave, Cum Town/TAFS, The Bonfire, Tuesdays with Stories, We Might Be Drunk, the Tim Dillon Show, This Past Weekend and JRE — each with its own logo.
Also mapped: Dad Meat (Butterly & Rainey’s show, Matt guests), Story Warz (Big Jay & Luis’s game show on GaS Digital), the GaS Digital network itself, Stoner Dadz (Matt, Butterly & Sidney Gantt), Matt’s Psych Naw course, MDE / Perfect Guy Life (Sam Hyde guested on MSSP in 2020), TigerBelly / Bad Friends (Shane guested with Bobby Lee), and Tim Butterly’s solo show.
The ‘Sports & Media’ blob is split the same way: Bussin’ With The Boys, The Pat McAfee Show, College GameDay and the Bud Light Super Bowl ads each get their own logo; Dana White and Trump stay under Sports & Media.
Threads from the center are Shane’s own lines — thick for his shows (MSSP, Gilly & Keeves, Tires, his specials, JRE as a 10+ episode regular), thinner for verified guest spots (Legion of Skanks, Kill Tony, The Bonfire, Flagrant, Theo’s show, Tim Dillon’s, Dad Meat, Story Warz, TigerBelly, Pardon My Take, Your Mom’s House, the GaS shows and more). Hover Shane to trace them all.
Connection audit, Oct 2026: every hub checked for Shane appearances and every person checked for missing show links, episode by episode. New: Pardon My Take (Big Cat & PFT Commenter), Your Mom’s House (Tom Segura & Christina Pazsitzky), The Regz, Real Ass Podcast (Luis’s show), Stavvy’s World, and a Stand-up specials hub (Beautiful Dogs / Live in Austin, directed by John McKeever, EP’d by Bill Burr). Chris O’Connor’s missing Stuff Island co-host line is restored; Stavros’s unverified Tires credit was cut.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast is the mothership: Patreon-fueled, hundreds of episodes, and the reason half these people know each other. It did a stint on Luis J. Gomez's GaS Digital network.
September 2019 — hired by SNL on a Thursday, fired by Monday over resurfaced podcast clips. February 24, 2024 — he walked back in as host.
Tires (Netflix): Season 1 in May 2024, a 12-episode Season 2 in June 2025, Season 3 renewed for 2026. Co-created with Steve Gerben & John McKeever.
The specials: Beautiful Dogs (Netflix, Sept 2023) and Live in Austin (YouTube, 2021) — the hour that took him from clubs to arenas.
Bud Light era: ‘Big Men on Cul-De-Sac’ (Super Bowl LIX) and ‘Keg’ (Super Bowl LX) with Post Malone & Peyton Manning.
UFC 309, Nov 2024: cageside with Trump — and the Trump-dance meme entered the canon. December 2024: dubbed Nick Saban ‘Alabama Jones’ to his face on College GameDay with Pat McAfee. July 2025: hosted the ESPYs.
Spud is Matt's dog — Matt’s coworker before the fame, and Matt’s brother Billy’s best friend. Spud and Billy host War Mode together (12 credited MSSP appearances for Spud). Billy McCusker sits in the inner circle: 23 MSSP episodes and one of Shane’s best friends.
Beach rental house crew (named on MSSP Ep 360 ‘The Perfect One’): Shane, Matt, Tommy Pope, Beezer, Chris O’Connor, Billy McCusker, Spud and Phil. The inner social circle — everyone on the map from that trip sits in rings 1-5.
Beezer is Brian Six’s nickname (beach crew, 3 MSSP appearances). Phil is Shane’s dad — the first-ever MSSP guest (Old Testament Ep 1) — and beach trip crew.
James McCann (‘James Donald Forbes McCann’) was discovered and made famous by Shane — 8 MSSP appearances, inner circle.