#20 - We Convinced Her Five Nights At Freddy's Was Real w/ Spencer Agnew

Summary

Smosh Mouth - Episode #20: We Convinced Her Five Nights At Freddy's Was Real w/ Spencer Agnew

Release Date: November 6, 2023
Host: Smosh (Shayne Topp and Amanda Lehan-Canto)
Guest: Spencer Agnew

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1. Introduction

In Episode #20 of Smosh Mouth, hosts Shayne Topp (Shane) and Amanda Lehan-Canto (Amanda) welcome their special guest, Spencer Agnew. The episode centers around gaming, delving into personal gaming histories, the psychology of game design, and even a playful prank involving the popular game Five Nights at Freddy's (FNAF).

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2. Diving into Gaming

2.1. Personal Gaming Histories

The conversation kicks off with the trio sharing their favorite childhood games. Amanda reminisces about titles like Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, GoldenEye for N64, and Tony Hawk Pro Skater. Spencer, recognized as the true gamer among them, lists Asian Fire, among others, highlighting his extensive gaming knowledge.

Notable Quote:
Shane [01:03]: “It's Vice City.”

2.2. Spencer's Gaming Expertise

Spencer details his ability to recall games with remarkable precision, attributing it to what he describes as a "photographic memory."

Notable Quote:
Spencer [03:05]: “I kind of absorb that kind of knowledge like a sponge.”

Amanda contrasts her gaming experience, mentioning games like Carmen Sandiego and Gateway 2000, positioning herself as less of a gamer compared to Spencer.

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3. The Dark Side of Gaming: Addiction and Design

3.1. Understanding Game Addiction

The hosts delve into the addictive nature of modern games. Spencer discusses how game design often targets the brain's reward system, making games like World of Warcraft (WoW) and Call of Duty highly engaging and sometimes detrimental.

Notable Quote:
Shane [18:38]: “I got super addicted to World of Warcraft.”

3.2. Microtransactions and Monetization

Shane critiques the shift in game design from purely entertaining experiences to systems that encourage continuous spending through season passes and in-game purchases. Spencer echoes this sentiment, emphasizing the cyclical spending habits these models foster.

Notable Quote:
Spencer [25:37]: “It's a vicious cycle.”

3.3. Balancing Gameplay and Well-being

Amanda and Shane discuss personal strategies to moderate gaming, highlighting the importance of setting boundaries to prevent games from overtaking one's life.

Notable Quote:
Shane [28:01]: “I need to set aside the time that I'm playing it, and when I walk away, I'm not.”

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4. Introducing Amanda to the Gaming World

4.1. Planning the Prank

Shane and Spencer reveal their plan to convince Amanda that the plot of Five Nights at Freddy's is a true story, leveraging her non-gamer status for comedic effect.

Notable Quote:
Shane [32:18]: “Because of that, we decided to prank her and convince her that the plot of Five Nights at Freddy's is a true story.”

4.2. Executing the Prank

Throughout the episode, Spencer and Shane fabricate a dark narrative around FNAF, discussing fictional murders and haunted animatronics to lull Amanda into believing the game's lore is based on reality.

Notable Quote:
Spencer [34:26]: “He ended up killing like more kids.”

Amanda gradually becomes convinced, expressing genuine shock and disbelief upon learning the "truth."

Notable Quote:
Amanda [37:05]: “Whoa, how did I miss out on this true crime story?”

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5. True Crime Tangents

The discussion naturally transitions into conversations about true crime, with references to YouTubers like MatPat from Game Theory, who delve into the intricate lore of games like FNAF.

Notable Quote:
Spencer [65:08]: “Matpat has the show called Game Theory where he kind of pieces together the story.”

Amanda shares her passion for true crime, highlighting her fascination with intricate murder stories and their impact on popular culture.

Notable Quote:
Amanda [38:08]: “We always trade stories. I go rabbit hole so deep.”

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6. The Aftermath: Revealing the Prank

As the episode approaches its conclusion, Shane and Spencer confess their deceit, revealing that FNAF's storyline is entirely fictional and the intricate lore was a playful fabrication.

Notable Quote:
Shane [65:26]: “We lied and I'm sorry.”

Amanda reacts with a mix of betrayal and amusement, acknowledging the effectiveness of the prank.

Notable Quote:
Amanda [67:58]: “I hate you guys so much. I believed it so hard.”

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7. Conclusion and Future Plans

The hosts express enthusiasm about future collaborations, including potentially introducing Amanda to games like Dark Souls or Elden Ring. They invite listeners to suggest games for Amanda to explore, blending humor with genuine interest in cross-generational gaming experiences.

Notable Quote:
Amanda [69:17]: “I love that shit.”

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Key Takeaways

• Gaming's Influence: The episode underscores the profound impact gaming can have on individuals, from fostering deep memories to the potential for addiction.

• Evolving Game Design: There's a clear critique of modern monetization strategies in gaming, emphasizing the need for balance between engaging content and ethical design.

• Cross-Generational Understanding: The playful interaction between the hosts highlights the generational gaps in gaming knowledge and preferences, promoting a dialogue for greater understanding.

• The Power of Pranks: The successful prank serves as a testament to the camaraderie among the hosts and their ability to entertain through creative storytelling.

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Note: This summary omits advertisements, intros, outros, and non-content segments as per the request, focusing solely on the substantive discussions and interactions within the episode.

Transcript

[Shane]

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[Spencer]

I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.

[Shane]

With family, cannolis and spins mean everything.

[Amanda]

Now you want to get mixed up.

[Spencer]

In the family business?

[Shane]

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[Amanda]

Do a service for me.

[Shane]

Play the Godfather now at champacasino. Com. Welcome to the family. No purchase necessary VGW Group void where prohibited by law 21/ terms and conditions apply. Hello, and hello, and welcome back to Smoshmouth. I'm Shane.

[Amanda]

And I'm Amanda. And we have a special guest that we haven't had on before. Spencer Agnew.

[Spencer]

Well, thank you guys for having me.

[Amanda]

Is that your last name? Is that his name?

[Spencer]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

Agnew.

[Spencer]

I do really want to do a challenge where we all try and spell Angela's last name and, like, so you can get the closest.

[Shane]

Oh, God.

[Amanda]

G, I, A, R, R, R, T.

[Shane]

A, Z, X, Y, V. I think that's correct. Thank you, Spencer. Thank you for being here. Today is the gamer episode. This is all about gaming. So if you aren't a gamer, that's fine. Stick around because you're gonna learn all about gaming. We have two gamers here and one person who is not a gamer.

[Amanda]

Such a gamer. She plays games every day of her life.

[Spencer]

What were your top three games again?

[Amanda]

Grand Theft Auto. I think it was Vice City.

[Shane]

Vice City.

[Amanda]

Thank you. Trigger that out, 007.

[Shane]

Okay. GoldenEye the cool for N64.

[Spencer]

It's actually Asian under Fire.

[Amanda]

Very cool. And what's the fucking. God, Now I sound stupid. The Tony.

[Shane]

Tony Hawk Pro Skater.

[Amanda]

Thank you. I played that a little bit. Wasn't super into it.

[Shane]

So that's. And that's in your top three.

[Amanda]

Also on Gateway 2000, the mouse game where the mouse has to go through and chase the cheese by the castle. Thank you very much. And where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?

[Shane]

Okay.

[Amanda]

Hello.

[Shane]

That counts.

[Amanda]

Gamer right here. Stop the clock. I searched for Carmen Sandiego and had to kind of laser elevators to see if I could find her. Do you guys remember that game?

[Spencer]

You had the laser elevators?

[Amanda]

Yeah.

[Shane]

It was like I never played.

[Amanda]

Okay.

[Shane]

I was playing real games.

[Amanda]

I guess the real gamer is here. Me.

[Shane]

But clearly, Spencer, you are the actual gamer. We know this because on Smosh games, we did a guess the game thing where we are shown an image of, like, a sliver of a screen of a game. And you were scary good at It. You knew games that I had never even heard of, like Legacy of Kane, and wow. You were like, oh, that's definitely Psychonauts 2. And you would be correct.

[Spencer]

I think I just. I kind of absorb that kind of knowledge like a sponge. Like, and it happens for movies, too. Like, you know, I. I can really, like. I can see a movie once, and I don't really forget that experience, like that movie or like, that game that I played. Like, it's all just. I don't know. Like, it's crazy. Sometimes you'll be like, I can't believe, like, you remember that. Like, you saw that movie once. I'm like, so that's kind of why it's. It's when people are like, yeah, I watched that movie, like, four times in a week. I'm like, that's crazy, because I can kind of recount it pretty easily. I don't know.

[Amanda]

I'm with you on that. Do you have a bit of a.

[Shane]

Picture memory, I think, photographic.

[Amanda]

Photographic memory? Is that what it's called?

[Shane]

Yeah, it's called a photograph.

[Amanda]

Okay.

[Spencer]

Picture.

[Shane]

Picture memories.

[Amanda]

You have a picture memory, I think.

[Spencer]

For movies and games, yes.

[Amanda]

I'm the same way. When people are like, oh, I saw that movie four times. I'm like, why? Why? Everything is.

[Spencer]

Yeah, it was the same.

[Amanda]

Yeah.

[Shane]

Yeah, I'll remember. I will, over time, start to fade out, like, small details, but I'll remember the gist of a movie.

[Amanda]

Oh, I remember, like, all the little scenes.

[Shane]

I have, like, standout moments. And I think I think about those moments so much that I forget other parts of it. Like, for instance, Metal Gear Solid four, there's a part where you're driving around on a motorcycle in Europe, and you hit this cool, like, ramp, and it goes slow motion for the first time in the game. You go through, like, all the game and it never. Slow motion. Suddenly it's slow motion for this moment. And my. My brain just thinks about that because when I was playing it, you know, young me was just like, whoa. Freaking out.

[Amanda]

Oh, so you remember, like, the really cool moment.

[Shane]

I remember the moments that really, like, got me going.

[Amanda]

You triggered a memory, actually, of another game that I played that probably me and my sister are trying to figure out what it's called, but we can't remember it. I definitely had a lot of computer games. It was just me on skis. Like, I played a guy on skis.

[Spencer]

See?

[Amanda]

Is that it?

[Shane]

See what I'm talking about?

[Amanda]

So you'd ski a mountain and that's it. And you're just like. And our whole goal was try to get to this side of the mountain. But you were like.

[Spencer]

And the Yeti comes and get you.

[Amanda]

Yes.

[Spencer]

Yeah, yeah. Ski free. It was in that collection with, like, the mouse game.

[Shane]

And then there's that pirate named the Skin Taker. And he shows up.

[Amanda]

That's the other episode.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

Holy shit. I have a lot of questions.

[Shane]

So you played a bunch of games, like, on your computer when you were a kid, or you didn't play them a ton.

[Amanda]

We. Seriously. I grew up with, you know, there was four sisters, so we had Barbies. But my sister. My little sister was a gamer. Like, she was obsessed. Capital G. She played Age of Empires, she played Sims. Like, she had a little fucking gamer. Other than that, we had nothing. What is it called?

[Shane]

A little gamer.

[Amanda]

Shut up.

[Shane]

A little gamer. I can judge you for not knowing a Game Boy.

[Amanda]

Anyways, we didn't have, like, PlayStation until later, and my mom despised it. She despised it. She was like, turn it off. Yeah. We just couldn't get that cursed device out of here.

[Shane]

Your mom's a pirate.

[Amanda]

So piratey. So gate. The computer games were like. Because it would be like, oh, I'm type. I'm working there. Yeah.

[Spencer]

No, it's really funny, like, the absolute, like, the quality of games that we would play as a kid, kind of. Because it was like all that was available because you couldn't, like, download games from the Internet. Like, now you go on Steam and it's literally thousands of games released like a week.

[Shane]

And you own thousands of games?

[Spencer]

I do, yeah. I think I own, like, it's. It's crazy.

[Shane]

What if you throw out a number?

[Spencer]

I think it's probably 2000 or 3000.

[Shane]

But you know that you're not gonna play at least 1500 of those games.

[Spencer]

No.

[Shane]

Ever?

[Spencer]

I'm not gonna play. I'll play like a game a month maybe.

[Amanda]

Why do you have that many games then?

[Shane]

A lot of them.

[Spencer]

You just kind of. You kind of just wind up collecting them. Like, I'll see. Like, oh, like, I want to play that game later. And It'll be like $10. So you'll buy it and then.

[Amanda]

Is it all on your computer?

[Spencer]

Yeah, so it's all. It's all on this account. And you can open that account anywhere. So it's like I can, you know, put it on my computer at work. I can do. So it's like.

[Amanda]

So you're not working?

[Spencer]

Yeah, so I have like that.

[Shane]

Well, he is working. He's in charge of games.

[Amanda]

Oh, my God.

[Shane]

So yeah, technically.

[Spencer]

Did you ever read the Far side? Like the, the comics?

[Shane]

Yeah. That's where they'd have like cows sometimes.

[Spencer]

Yeah, it was kind of cow themed.

[Shane]

You've seen them?

[Amanda]

I've seen it again, like comic. Comic books. Like, so they were like in the.

[Spencer]

It was like next to the Family Circus. It was like in the, in the newspaper.

[Shane]

This is real gamer time.

[Amanda]

Oh, in the newspaper.

[Spencer]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

The newspaper was for me to see what movies were playing. Do you guys remember when movies were only in the newspaper or you'd have to call and listen to all the movies?

[Spencer]

Because I remember I'm not that old.

[Amanda]

But this is what has happening. Hello.

[Shane]

I don't know why I don't remember that.

[Amanda]

You don't? Do you remember the newspaper?

[Spencer]

No, I remember this.

[Shane]

Do you remember the newspaper?

[Spencer]

The only two things I would go, I would see what movies were out and then I would see. And then I would read like fucking Dilbert.

[Amanda]

Okay. I would read Dilbert. I feel like Spencer and I are very similar.

[Spencer]

Yeah. But the Far side. Anyway, there was this one cartoon and it was like this little kid sitting there.

[Amanda]

I know this one.

[Spencer]

Yeah. And the little kid's sitting there and he's like. And he's like. And he's playing like as a super Nintendo or something like that. And there's the parents behind him and like the dad's got like a pipe and stuff. And like they're looking like really proud. And it's like hopeful. And the captions like hopeful parents. And it's them picturing like this, like, like the, the job listings in the newspaper. It's like wanted gamer, like $100,000 a year, like salary, like plus Ferrari. And it was like all these listings. And my parents would always like bring that up to me as a kid. Like, oh yeah, like this is what you, this is what you think is gonna happen. Blah, blah, blah. And like now that I literally do.

[Shane]

Have a job, I love like shooting.

[Spencer]

That, that, that joke back at them. Cause I'm like, no, in many ways, I truly do get paid to be a gamer. In many ways. Which is.

[Amanda]

You do.

[Shane]

It's funny that you mentioned that you play a game a month because you are so busy making content about games that you actually don't have enough time to game.

[Amanda]

That's true.

[Spencer]

It's like, I mean, it's kind of the same with shows and movies and games. By the time I'm done with work, by the time I get home, I. I kind of just want to watch YouTube. Like, it's I don't really have the. Like, to me, watching a movie is kind of energy, or playing a game is, like, expending energy, like, it's thought or, like, you know, there's not, like, head empty.

[Shane]

What's funny is that I feel like you and, like, Damien are seen as more the gamers on Smosh. But I do play a lot of video games in my time. I just don't play the games that we play on camera that often. Like, I'm playing Legend of Zelda all the time, or I'll play. I was playing Vampire Survivors for a while. I did get hooked on party animals, though.

[Spencer]

That's.

[Shane]

That game was awesome.

[Spencer]

It's always really funny to see what you get hooked on.

[Shane]

I get hooked on and it ranges. But I've had a hard time with games that require a big commitment, like, our and stuff.

[Spencer]

But, like, I think, like, I know we always talk about Last of Us Part two, but I think, like, if that were to come out right now, I'd be like, I don't have the time to play.

[Shane]

I know, I know.

[Amanda]

I feel like Last of Us, my friend, watched all that gameplay. I feel like if it's really interesting.

[Spencer]

I would be down to watch, I think so. There's so many games that I would like you to see, because I think you would be into them. Like, I think you would truly be into so many of these games.

[Amanda]

I know. I honestly, I know that I would. I think when I get exposed, like, with D and D, like, when I get exposed to something, I am so into it because I love, like, mystical stories and. And my husband's a gamer. He plays games. And I'll. Sometimes I'll sit and watch and be like, ugh, I can't do this. But some of them, like Diablo, I was like, ooh, I'm fucking into this. This is, like, dark and spooky.

[Shane]

I would argue that if you enjoy watching Diablo, there's other games you would really enjoy, because Diablo's not that fun to watch. I would contend there's.

[Spencer]

Yeah, there's certain. Like, I would almost say, like, the. Like, the Last of Us show was, like, fine, but the game is almost like, even more. Especially by the time you get to the second one. I think you'd be really blown away by the fidelity and stuff like that and the storytelling at Expose Me. No, I think that'd be awesome.

[Shane]

I think it'd be great. Look, we have a whole channel where we can do it.

[Amanda]

I would absolutely love that.

[Shane]

Because what about a horror game?

[Amanda]

You know, I love that.

[Shane]

Okay. I mean, Last of Us, but. But there's, like, horror games.

[Amanda]

Like, horror. When I played Baldur's Gate with. Well, I didn't play. I sat and watched Damien do it. I was super into that, too.

[Shane]

Oh, yeah, That's a storytelling game.

[Amanda]

I love storytelling. I love characters. I love creatures.

[Spencer]

I love, love creatures.

[Amanda]

And I love creatures. There's horror, Horror, tons of horror aspects in Baldur's Gate.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

Like a brain.

[Shane]

That's not a horror. It's not a horror game.

[Spencer]

But there are. There are a lot of, like, I. I am obsessed. And I was thinking about this, like, how many Just kind of how much I love, like, horror concepts. Like, as a. Because I'm trying to remember what I wanted to explain, but, yeah, just like, you know, like the concept of, like, that, like, worm infesting your brain. Speaking of. We were just talking about. Followed the House of Usher and that main actor, Rodrick, he gets the worm in him in the Star Trek movie. I don't know if you remember. He does remember. He's the captain who, like. Who, like. And remember they have the worm that they put in his ear.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

So I watched a bunch of Star Wars, Star Trek.

[Spencer]

Never really watched, dude. The J.J. amores movies, they're good, unfortunately. Super fun.

[Amanda]

I've watched a couple of those movies. And also we were talking about that Captain Kirk's Face is Halloween mask.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Spencer]

Oh, yes. I thought he meant Chris Pine. I was like. I thought he was hot.

[Amanda]

No, no, no.

[Shane]

Chris Pine, scary.

[Amanda]

The original William Shatner. But that actor from Follow the House of Usher does a lot of stuff. He's been acting forever.

[Spencer]

Yeah, I'm trying to. I'm trying to remember his name. I'm bummed. I can't remember.

[Shane]

Put it in the comments. Down below.

[Spencer]

Put it in the comments.

[Shane]

So you have. You talk. The games that you played were when you were a kid. So you have not played any.

[Spencer]

They've come a long time.

[Shane]

Have you ever. You haven't even played any games on Smosh games, have you?

[Amanda]

No, but I.

[Shane]

You. You're more in our board game.

[Amanda]

But I would. I would honestly love to, because during COVID like, H does these things where he's like, my birthday gift. Play Diablo with me. My birthday gift, Play Age of Empires with me. And I said, I think on this podcast that I played Age of Empires with him, and I loved it. But my whole goal was to, like, feed the. Feed the troops and build it up. And then I look up and H has, like, built A fucking castle around me and about to attack me. I like to build the world. I like to build and live in a world. So if there's a game that I.

[Spencer]

Can play, so many.

[Shane]

Look, the game that I always pitch to people is Stardew Val.

[Amanda]

Stardew Valley.

[Shane]

That Stardew Valley. Because you can't lose. You. You're just. You.

[Amanda]

That's the other thing. I don't give a fuck about winning or losing. Like, I'm competitive, but when it comes to winning or losing, it's too big that I'd rather just like survive and play.

[Shane]

Let me tell you the premise of Stardew Valley. And you're gonna. You're gonna love it.

[Amanda]

Okay?

[Shane]

Okay. Cause I was addicted to this game.

[Amanda]

Okay?

[Shane]

You. It starts off and you see your grandpa and he's sick in bed. Cause he's old and he's dying. And he gives you a letter. He's just like. He's like, hey, I want you to have this letter and I want you to open it up. Whenever you in life feel that you've hit a dead end and you want like a change. And so then it cuts to your character and it's very like pixelated. It's like old school. Like, imagine like 90s looking thing and it cuts to a building in the middle of a city. And you're at a cubicle and you're just sitting there typing with a bunch of cubicles around you. And then your character sits back and then you opens up a drawer and finds the letter. And you open up the letter and it turns out your grandpa gave you the rights to his farm near this. This town out in the middle of like this sweet town. And he gives you his old farm that. He's like, I want you. If you want this farm, it's yours. And so then you move to this farm and you then start off and it's this little tiny farm and it's. You've got all this land, but it's like covered in weeds and stuff. And you just start fixing up this farm and you have the town with all the people there, and you get to know all of them. And there's a story to every person that you meet. And you just kind of do your thing and you cannot die if you go out too late. You pass out and you wake up at your front porch or. So there's no losing in the game. You just slowly kind of build up your farm and you get crops and you plant them and you have to water them every day. And then you grow them and then you sell the plants for money that you then use to build up your farm.

[Amanda]

Like Oregon Trail.

[Shane]

Yeah, but it's even sweeter.

[Spencer]

It's like, it's like the end of. It's like if it.

[Shane]

It's like Oregon Trail ended in die. I like that there's no dysentery in Starry like that.

[Amanda]

But I will say it's fun to have an underlying of something coming and consequences also. I like that very much. I think that would be really, really fun. But I think the part of Age of Empires was like this little underlaying of consequences.

[Spencer]

Someone's in that fog that can come out and kill me.

[Amanda]

Yeah. Like I still kind of like that. Cause it like puts a fire under me. But I think, I think if I were to. I think if I were to play that game, I think I would be on it constantly. I think there's another side of me.

[Spencer]

That like you're afraid.

[Amanda]

I'm afraid to get into games. Cause I'm like, I. What if I lose my soul? Like I'm just constantly playing it.

[Shane]

Oh, get addicted.

[Amanda]

Because like I get addicted to shows. Like yeah, some, some like detective shows. I'll be up until like four in the morning watching them.

[Spencer]

Now this is, that is a good like you know, because I know a lot of someone's. I mean this might be. Get a little, I don't know like what the word is but like you know, gender stereotype. But like everyone's always like oh dudes. Like you know, they're came and they're like, they're up with their boys playing Call of Duty. But a lot of like women I know, it's like, you know, they'll play sims and they'll be doing like the most depraved shit until like, like staying up like all.

[Amanda]

I know those women, that's my sister and some of my friends, they're like, dude, fucking. I got pregnant. I was underneath the blankets, I was having sex. I built all these houses. I'm like, when do you sleep? Never. And I'm like, I can't.

[Spencer]

That was my friend with Stardew Valley. So she was like, oh, I've been playing a lot of Stardew Valley.

[Amanda]

That's what I'm worried about.

[Spencer]

I've been playing like dozens of hours. I was like, oh, that's crazy. And she invited me to her farm like cuz you can, you can visit someone's farm online.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Spencer]

And I visited and like my switch literally like could not like it was.

[Shane]

Chugging like the, the, there was so much stuff.

[Spencer]

The hardware of the switch, like could not keep up with like how much shit she had built out.

[Amanda]

See, that's what I get worried. I think it's because the way I grew up as my mom was like TV and all this is going to like rot your brain. I get worried that I would get like trapped and addicted.

[Shane]

Yeah, I think there's a way to moderate it. What's tough with games and how you get addicted is that it's. Games are designed to kind of feed into your reward complex in your brain. Right. Of like, oh, I'm working on this thing and I achieved this thing and I got a reward for it. And you kind of keep wanting to like do that. If you find the right game that perfectly gets you in the way that you're motivated in the way you like to achieve things, it will be bad. I was at one point in my life absolutely addicted to a game to the point where it was a problem. And that was a game called World of Warcraft. And I was 14, I was 14.

[Spencer]

Years old with Tom Cruise. No Warcraft.

[Amanda]

What am I thinking? Oh, Worlds.

[Shane]

Yeah, that one.

[Amanda]

Pretty cool. I've got it.

[Spencer]

That's a great movie.

[Amanda]

I did not see the movie.

[Shane]

So at 14 I got super addicted to World of Warcraft and I was acting at the time, so I was homeschooled. So. And my school was online, so I could be doing schoolwork online, but I would just have World of Warcraft pulled up and I would play it for all day, every day. And I mean there was a year and you could see the amount of time you played. Now I would often just have it up on my computer where I wasn't playing. So that a lot of these hours don't count technically. But in the span of a year I had logged like three months of playing. That's right, yeah. And it was so bad that 15 year old me, that year it was December, 15 year old me was like, I have to stop. Yeah, I recognized it. I was like, I have to stop. And I, I uninstalled the game, I threw it out and I was like, I'm never playing it again.

[Amanda]

It's addictive.

[Shane]

I was like, I'm never playing it again. Now I've played tons of games since, but I realized for me I needed games that I can beat. If I can beat the game 100% agree, then I, then I can beat it. And I know it won't. I won't be addicted to it forever. And I'VE had a much healthier relationship. I don't think games are, like, bad, but I think people have to recognize, and this is anything. If you have an unhealthy relationship with something where you feel it's messing up your life in some way, then, yeah, you have to. You have to recognize that and do something about it. And that could be anything. But for me, it was that game and I. Dude, I was so. I was so addicted, man. And I. I remember it. The glory days. My. My Torren warrior.

[Spencer]

I was gonna. I was gonna ask.

[Shane]

I was a giant. I was a giant. Giant, like, bull, like, monster. A minotaur type monster.

[Amanda]

Oh, cool.

[Shane]

And so you would play. It was entirely online. And so there's tens of thousands of people playing, and you're in this big open world with tons of people playing. And I chose to be in the horde, which is the, like, bad guys. So I was orcs, undead, and I was a giant minotaur guy. Whoa. But I was a warrior, so I had a giant axe. And I joined a guild of, like, a bunch of other people. And so me and, like, 40 people would join up to go and go in dungeons and, like, fight giant monsters and stuff. And you're all talking on microphones and stuff. And, like, you have a part to fulfill and Ventrilo. Yeah. And it. It felt you had such an obligation. It kind of got to a point where it was no longer fun and like, oh, shit, yeah, my guild is meeting up tonight.

[Spencer]

Oh, you didn't go to the. You didn't go to, like, the. The. The Raid.

[Shane]

Raid. So you don't get the rewards and.

[Amanda]

Then you never actually really leave your house as a person.

[Shane]

It's. It's. And that becomes your social circle and that. And. And it's. It's. It can be. I do think it can be a problem. I don't think it is inherently, but for me, it was. And I mean, I. Without. Maybe it was shitty. I didn't even tell my guild, but I. I know. I think my guild fell apart.

[Amanda]

Your guild is going to show up, like, say, shit.

[Shane]

But it was so much fun. It was. But a lot of it was just this feeling of, I want to achieve this and I got to do all this stuff to achieve this. But I look at what I was actually doing in the game, and a lot of it's really dumb. A lot of it. I'm like, oh, I'm hunting in this area for these gems, and I'm just going in a circle for hours trying to find these Creatures to kill to get these gems so I can go sell them and get money and then go back. And it would take. In order to achieve something in that game. Like, I wanted to get a. Like a mount, a horse, but in. For my character, it was like a giant monster thing.

[Amanda]

Yeah.

[Shane]

It took me weeks of work to get it.

[Amanda]

And that's. I will say that's a good game because they fucking got you, though.

[Spencer]

That game is you have to pay monthly.

[Amanda]

What's your. What's your. What's your most addictive game? Spencer?

[Spencer]

I was addicted to World of Warcraft a little bit.

[Shane]

It was an incredible.

[Spencer]

So kind of everyone was, but I was nowhere near the degree of that. But it's the, like, addictiveness of games is something that I've thought about a lot. And because World of Warcraft is kind of the first one I remember a lot of my friends being addicted to. I remember watching my friend get addicted to call of Duty 4 in, like, real time. And a lot of it, I was kind of realizing was like, the sound design and World of Warcraft is kind of the same way. Like, there's a very specific sound. Like, when you level up, that becomes nostalgic. That becomes like. It becomes almost like you want to sound. It's like the slot machine thing where, like, you pull it in. Call of Duty, what they did, like, for the first three games, you know, it was like you would. You would join an online game, you would shoot all the people, and then you would. And then you would log off and you'd be like, that was crazy. And starting with the fourth one, that was when you would shoot somebody and it'd be like, plus 50 points. And like. And then, like, with that 50 points, like, it would be like, okay, now you're closer to level two.

[Amanda]

So it's all like that reward sound.

[Spencer]

So it's like that. It's a reward sound. So like now, like, in every Call of Duty, there's a sound, like when you shoot something and hit something, like, it's a very, like. It's a very distinct, like, tick sound that, like, your brain almost gets trained to enjoy. And then, you know, there's a sound for, like, if you get like, three kills in a row or like, what's that?

[Amanda]

Pavlovian.

[Spencer]

It's very Pavlovian. And, you know, World of Warcraft is kind of one of the first ones I remember. Like, makes sense, you know, just like there are these sounds that get stuck in your head and you just want to hear them because it's satisfying.

[Amanda]

It's like a TV show opening song.

[Spencer]

Exactly.

[Amanda]

That you get addicted to that.

[Spencer]

You're like, ooh, there's like, a little. Like, in Call of Duty, there's like a little guitar riff when you gain a level, and it just becomes. And then you go back and play older games, and when you're missing that, you realize you lose a lot of that satisfaction.

[Shane]

That's so interesting. It's a lot of it, I think, really got bad when games now have an incentive to keep you playing. Because back when I was younger, before World of Warcraft, which was. Since it was a monthly subscription, they wanted you to keep playing, so they were trying to incentivize you to play and not wanting to stop playing. But before that, games were just kind of designed to be like, we tried to make this great game so that people would buy it. And once you buy it now, they don't get any more money because we only just sold you that.

[Amanda]

Right?

[Shane]

But nowadays games have so much more stuff in them to spend more money on. They want you to buy upgrades. They want you to keep playing, like, have a subscription to it. So they are actively trying to design it to hit that reward complex in your brain to make you want to keep playing that next next bit. And it's not just a matter of, oh, I'm playing that game because it's really fun. It's.

[Spencer]

I gotta unlock the next.

[Shane]

I'm compelled to keep playing, like, a.

[Spencer]

Lot of, like, the. The two biggest ones right now. I mean, two of the biggest are, like, Call of Duty and Fortnite. And both of them, like, the main mode that most people play are free, but they'll do, like, season passes, which are, like. It'll run for a month or two. And if you get to. If you play during that time, you can unlock certain things that will, like, never be unlockable again. So you're like, fuck, I have to buy this season pass right now and unlock these things. And then you'll have, like, points left over from that one. So you're like, fuck, like, I might as well buy the next season pass because I want the things unlockable in this. And it just kind of becomes this vicious cycle. So this game that's free, like, Fortnite's free. And I probably spent, like, over $100, which isn't that much in, like, compared to what a lot of people have spent. But it's crazy because, you know, it's, you know, like, it's whenever, like, the, you know, the first one's Free. And then it's like, it's honestly.

[Amanda]

It's honestly brilliant.

[Spencer]

Like, it's genius.

[Amanda]

I will say, like, to me, when I play those games, I'm thinking about other things. Like, I'm thinking about the group of people who are creating the guitar riff. And, like, I'm thinking about these two guys in a studio. Like, I'm thinking about all those other things, and I'm thinking, like, wow, this is brilliant marketing. Wow, this gets this. So it's like, I would have to be really into a game to get immersed into it. Like, I will say, when I played Age of Empires was just, like, such an old game. But I loved, like, the travel aspect of it. I like when it's like a different layout, like a different frontier. And. But I think the spending money is. Is hard. I think that maybe would turn me off because I think it's the way I grew up. Like, TV was very limited in my house. Like, we weren't allowed to watch that much tv. And money was. We were very. Money was, like, very conscious. Like, we were very aware of what shit cost.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

And. But just my mom was really intense. Like, we were the type of kids who would, like, if we heard our car come in, we'd turn off the TV and be like, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da.

[Shane]

So much more complicated nowadays with so many subscriptions and just, like, digital purchases all over the place. It's so easy for your wallet to just leak nowadays. And kids do, like. I'm sure it's preying on them sometimes, too.

[Amanda]

Well, I'm watching my niece and nephew, like, ask for my mom's phone or my sister's phone, and they. They're like, oh, my God, my phone has, like, seven new games on it. What is this? And I look at them just, like, consistently playing their games. And there's nothing wrong with that. It's just like, I. I also get, like, fidgety. Do you know what I mean? Like, it's actually hard for me to sit and read a book for hours because I. Amanda, get fidgety in a seat. Like, I would struggle sitting in a seat for that long. That's just. Yeah, I honestly think that's really the.

[Shane]

Biggest thing I. I am a believer of because I really like video games, but I am a believer of kind of like, I need to set aside the time that I'm playing it, and when I walk away, I'm not. And there's. I struggle with the kind of concept of just, at any moment, just being able to pull out your phone and just playing a game. And like, I think that can kind of mess up my brain. I'm not gonna speak for other people, but I think it's important for me to be like, okay, for this next hour, here's what I'm doing. But I'm not gonna be going in and out. And that's when it gets bad. And that's where things like a game or anything really can kind of start spreading and taking over your life in a bad way. But that's my take on it, but I've fallen victim to, to it, you know?

[Spencer]

Have you ever played any mobile games?

[Shane]

Like games on your, on your phone? You got games on your phone?

[Spencer]

Have you got.

[Amanda]

I have zero games on my phone.

[Shane]

Have you ever had a game on your phone?

[Amanda]

I had the Snake game on my Nokia when I was 16.

[Shane]

Okay.

[Amanda]

Pretty sick. No, I, I'm just really intense. I'm really intense about, I have a time limit on Instagram.

[Spencer]

Wow.

[Amanda]

Like, I'm really intense about my phone. I, I, I don't know what it was, but I like, I get ill. Like I feel sometimes though, I'll be like, I want to go on Instagram and I want to fucking laugh. I want to laugh at funny videos and I'll let myself, I'll give it. And then when I get off I'm like, I don't feel good. Like I, I truly cannot play games on my phone. I just fucking, I don't know, it's just like not, I, I didn't really do it as a kid. I genuinely think because I wasn't really allowed to have that much screen time as a kid that it put me in this other.

[Spencer]

See, I think mine was kind of the opposite. Like I played, I, I was not allowed to have a, like a, an in home console and we also didn't have like cable wowing up.

[Shane]

You don't have anything.

[Spencer]

And like I also like wasn't allowed to like Pokemon cards and I mean now look at me, I'm all fucked up.

[Shane]

Damn. You're, you're, they tried and see I had all of it.

[Spencer]

I think it kind of backfired.

[Shane]

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[Shane]

Back to the show.

[Amanda]

Here we go.

[Shane]

Before we hop in, I should just give you some context about what's about to happen. You see, Spencer and I know a lot about video games, but Amanda knows nothing. So because of that, we decided to prank her and convince her that the plot of the video game Five nights at Freddy's is a true story. So enjoy.

[Amanda]

I don't think it's good to be so restrictive, but for me, my obsession lies in, like, movies. I love movies. My favorite thing is to, like, find a good movie. I also love to rewatch my favorite classic movies. I love international series. Like, I have an addiction to that.

[Shane]

We all have a love for movies here. I think we're the three. I think I'd say of the cast, us three are the most movie people. Like, I feel like that's fair. I mean, everyone. Everyone loves movies, But I think us three are, like, we watch all sorts and a ton.

[Amanda]

A ton of movies. Those are my addictions.

[Shane]

Are you gonna see Five Nights at Freddy's?

[Amanda]

Freddy Krueger?

[Shane]

No, no, it's. It's this. It's this weird story that is based on a true story.

[Spencer]

Yeah, it's. I know y'all did, like the horror thing, but it's like. It's. It's truly like one of the most fucked up stories like. Or like one of the like.

[Amanda]

So it's a true story.

[Spencer]

So. Yeah, the movie is like based on this true story. Like so what happened was there was this guy who. It's basically Chuck E. Cheese. And what happened was there were these kids that pulled a prank on this other kid. Yeah. And they put his. The kid hated. It was like a birthday party and the kid hated animatronics. And so they were like, I saw.

[Amanda]

The trailer for it.

[Spencer]

Yeah. But this like. I don't think they'll do this in the movie. Cause it's like, it's dark.

[Shane]

I thought it was one of the kids of. The owner of it put the other kid in. In the suit or like so he.

[Spencer]

So they, they were pranking the kid and they put his head in the suit. But they were like these like. It's called like a.

[Shane]

It's called like a spring lock or something.

[Spencer]

Yeah, like a spring trap.

[Shane]

It was these. Because it was this like kind of experimental type of suits. The. The guy who created it, like really? I don't know. But. But it ended up. It ended up, I think killed the kid.

[Spencer]

So basically the jaw like snapped on the kid's head.

[Amanda]

Did he die?

[Spencer]

He died. Not immediately. They like took him out.

[Shane]

I think he died later. But then the owner, the real story is that the owner like lost his mind. And then the owner. And I don't know if it was proven, but the owner ended up killing like more kids.

[Spencer]

The owner killed kids and would like.

[Amanda]

Whoa, how did I miss out on this true crime story?

[Spencer]

There's this guy, his name's Matthew Patrick and he like has this YouTube channel and. And he'll like. He kind of like goes into it.

[Shane]

Cuz he goes into. He's a true crime youtuber and so he goes in on all of these types of things and he. He does a full in depth thing about. About.

[Amanda]

Whoa.

[Shane]

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[Spencer]

Yeah.

[Shane]

And I wonder, I've always wondered if it was very covered up because places like Chuck E. Cheese and Disney still exists. Didn't want that type of connotation. So that's how it kind of got pushed. This is all in the 80s. I mean, I think it. The Internet's also. Yeah, the Internet's also built a ton of lore. And so, you know, for a lot of this, it's all just a theory. But it really got nuts. And I think there were more. Where the Internet got nuts was that they were saying, like, that the animatronics were at a certain point doing it on their own. Yeah, like.

[Amanda]

But, well, yeah, the Internet. You have to be really careful with the Internet and crime stories because they go off. And it's funny because I was gonna come back at you guys with all.

[Shane]

My murder shows and we knew it.

[Amanda]

And you guys never knew this one before me.

[Shane]

You had never heard of Freddy Fazbear.

[Amanda]

I hadn't, but what I was saying is, like, you know, like the, the murder show about the Hotel Cecile. The Cecile Hotel. It, it turns out that, like, all of that was just like web sleuths, like, their opinions. So I, I, I sometimes I stay away from commenters, but there are some people who are pretty on point, like on TikTok and YouTube, that you're just like, holy.

[Spencer]

Matpat's pretty good.

[Shane]

He's Matpat. Yeah, that's his name.

[Spencer]

But yeah. So, well, after the bite of. It's called, like, the bite of 83. Like, if you look up, like, the bite of 83. But then, like, the thing was like the. So this is kind of where the movie comes in. Because the thing was like, the owner killed these kids and put them in the animatronic suits so that he put.

[Shane]

Their bodies, he would hide the bodies in there.

[Spencer]

But obviously possession's not real. Blah, blah, blah. That's not real. But then the movie's like, oh, but what if those suits were like, it.

[Amanda]

Took it another step.

[Spencer]

Possessed. Blah, blah, blah.

[Amanda]

See, you talk about getting addicted to games. That's what I get addicted to.

[Spencer]

Like, these stories.

[Amanda]

Angela and I, we always trade stories. But I will go for hours digging into. Oh, I go rabbit hole so deep. I also go rabbit hole. Like, if I'm watching a movie and I see someone that I like, an actor I'll go on a rabbit hole in their life.

[Spencer]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

So I get nerdy when I watch movies. I'm like, oh, yeah, that guy was with this person and he did this other movie and that director, blah, blah. And my sister's like, can you just. That's what I get nerdy about. I get nerdy about.

[Shane]

So what we're talking about is something you would technically nerd out about.

[Amanda]

Oh, you know. You know, later I'm gonna fucking Google shocked.

[Shane]

You haven't heard about it.

[Amanda]

The bite of three.

[Spencer]

Yeah.

[Shane]

Well, I thought it was the bite of 82.

[Spencer]

No, there's the bite of 83.

[Shane]

It's bite of 83. Yeah. No, I. It's well known. It's super well known. Yeah. You would love Matpat stuff.

[Amanda]

Matpat. Great name.

[Shane]

Yeah. True crime.

[Amanda]

Yeah. True crime is my geek.

[Shane]

How you've missed out on arguably the best true crime channel on YouTube.

[Amanda]

Wow.

[Shane]

Yeah. Looks like we're the experts.

[Amanda]

I don't think so. I don't think so. I wrote down.

[Spencer]

He was. He's been on the channel a couple times.

[Amanda]

Okay, guys, I get it. All right? Fucking. I get it.

[Shane]

It's okay. It's okay. It's okay. Hey. Hey. This was Pat.

[Spencer]

This was a long time ago.

[Shane]

This is a long time ago. This is the 80s.

[Amanda]

I'm gonna come in with a matt. Pat.

[Shane]

You're gonna. You're gonna know. You're gonna come back in tomorrow, and you're gonna know everything about Freddy fazbear. Pate of 83 hat and what was that? William Afton was the name of the guy.

[Spencer]

Was the. The.

[Shane]

Yeah. William Afton.

[Amanda]

I can't believe I missed out on that. Sometimes I. And be like, what is this about? Night Stalker. Hmm. Like, sometimes I'll miss out on huge ones. But, like, the small random, like the murder in, you know, Cork, Ireland or something, I'm like, oh, I know everything about that.

[Shane]

This all happened in Utah.

[Amanda]

Utah. Oh, Utah, man. Why. Why do so many murders happen in the, like, Utah, Illinois, like, nothing else.

[Spencer]

Going on out there. Yeah, it's all the damn repression.

[Amanda]

They tried to true east coast, too.

[Shane]

Utah tried to have one. Utah tried to make their own Chuck E. Cheese. And this is how it went.

[Amanda]

Oh, God.

[Spencer]

I have thought a lot about, like, the. I don't know what the word is, almost like, the concentration of horror writers that come out of, like, Maine and Massachusetts, like, stuff like that. I mean, you have like, all of, like, the biggest, like, horror creators have kind of come out of there. It's almost like how crazy it is, the amount of music that comes out of, like, England for how tiny it is. Like, there's so many, like, English artists, English actors.

[Shane]

It's because they talk like this.

[Spencer]

Yeah.

[Shane]

It's like, you gotta sing. You don't wanna hear him talk, mate.

[Amanda]

You reckon that we should sing also? I feel like for now I'm going into Irish, but I feel like for actors, they're in England because they take acting on another level, like, very theater y, very serious. And Ireland, who comes out of that?

[Spencer]

Colin Farrell.

[Amanda]

Colin Farrell.

[Shane]

Just Colin Farrell.

[Spencer]

Just Colin Farrell. The one is Saoirse Ronan. Is she Irish?

[Amanda]

Saoirse Ronan.

[Spencer]

Saoirse.

[Amanda]

Saoirse Ronan.

[Spencer]

But I think there is something super pleasant about when English or Irish or, you know, Scottish actors do an American accent. I think it almost hits different. Like, they do it better. They're focusing on words in a very different way. Like, they're almost. They have to be more intentional. And I think a lot of that pays off in a very subtle, like.

[Amanda]

But do you agree that they sound a little bit more East Coast?

[Spencer]

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Amanda]

You know what I mean? Like, Chris Hemsworth. Like, like. Or maybe that's just Australia.

[Spencer]

He does a pretty good bro.

[Amanda]

Like, a little bit more like, East Coasty. I don't know. I don't know. Maybe that's just me.

[Shane]

Yeah, it's probably just you anyways.

[Amanda]

Pretty cool.

[Spencer]

You ever heard Dan Stevens do his American accent?

[Amanda]

No.

[Spencer]

It's crazy.

[Amanda]

I can't wait to hear it.

[Spencer]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

Matpat bite of 83. Dan Stevens.

[Spencer]

Dan Stevens.

[Shane]

You're coming as an expert.

[Amanda]

I have fucking homework to do, but nothing on games. Actually, I really do. If you were to show me, like, three games that I could watch, I.

[Spencer]

Would love to do that.

[Amanda]

Or play. Can we do that?

[Shane]

We could play some games on Smosh games. I mean, this is your decision, Spencer, but we could play some games on Smosh games where it's like introducing you.

[Amanda]

Yeah.

[Shane]

To a huge franchise. So people who are into it would be like, oh, my God.

[Spencer]

I've always wanted to do. I know. Sorry to throw on main, but, like, Kiana, because Kiana knows, like, almost nothing about games and, like, arguably a lot of movies. And I'm like, you are, like, the perfect.

[Amanda]

Like, Kiana and I should.

[Spencer]

Yeah. Like, like, person to be like. Because she's like. She had never seen, like, Jurassic Park. I was like, that's.

[Shane]

That's insane.

[Spencer]

That's insane. It's almost like. It's like, oh, have you ever Heard the story of, like, Jesus. It's like, no, it's like, oh, let me tell you this crazy story.

[Amanda]

I can't handle that. I also will say, being married to someone not from this country, he hasn't seen a lot of the. Like, we watched Good Will Hunt. He watched Good Will Hunting for the first time with me, and I was just like. And Hocus pocus. Do not show someone Hocus pocus for the first time. Now don't. It's not great because they don't like it.

[Spencer]

Yeah, it's not.

[Amanda]

He was like, this movie's weird and wacky. And I'm like, huh? And also Death becomes her. One of my favorite movies ever. Don't show someone who's never seen it back in the day. Because if you're. I think movies in, like, the 80s and 90s, they don't translate unless you've seen it before.

[Shane]

Unless you have that nostalgic memory to it. Yeah, it's tough. And you're biased if you watched it when you were young. Yeah, it's hard. Then they're like, this is silly.

[Amanda]

And you're like, what?

[Spencer]

I think it does require a certain, like, suspension of almost like, you know, this is another can of worms. But it's like when you show someone anime, it's like there's so many things where it's like, if you watch anime, it's like, yeah, that's like, kind of par for the course. Like, where someone who doesn't watch it, watching, they're like, what the fuck is this? Like, that's weird as shit. Like, why? What's the part of that? And it's like, if you get hung up on those. But there's just certain. You almost build up a tolerance. And I think, you know, this is like, so goofy of us for saying this, but, like, even 80s and 90s and like, even, like early 2000s movies, just the things they're saying. If you watch a movie before, like, 2010, 10, you like, I usually like. It's like, like, if you give them. You give them a certain amount of time. A comedy movie from before 2010, there's certain words they will say. It's like, I give them 30 minutes before they say that word.

[Shane]

It's tough. Comedies, 10 minutes. Comedy's pre 2010, you're just not going to get through it without there being something that's like, yeah, that doesn't work nowadays.

[Amanda]

So do you think movies back in the day are the same as, like, games back in the day? Do games translate as cringy?

[Shane]

Now, that's actually a great question because I try to replay games from, like, pre. I mean, honestly, sometimes it's like pre 2015, and I'm just like. It's just hard. It doesn't. They've improved so much that, like, this happened to me. You're not going to know what I'm talking about. But there's a game called BioShock. Have you played BioShock Biodome? No. There's a game called Bioshock, and it's so popular. People who've played this game love this game. It's got a whole community around it.

[Spencer]

Or Verbinski was gonna make the movie. It was gonna be sick as hell.

[Amanda]

Cool.

[Shane]

It's a really cool premise where, like.

[Spencer]

Back in the day, the Caribbean and shit.

[Amanda]

Oh, amazing.

[Shane]

It's a cool premise, basically, like, back in the day, super rich people created this utopia at the bottom of the ocean, but then they all went fucking nuts. And. Yeah, it's.

[Spencer]

It's honestly, like, it would have. It's one of the coolest, like, concepts.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Spencer]

Of all time.

[Shane]

It's a great game to watch.

[Amanda]

So BioShock doesn't really translate.

[Shane]

So I tried to play it years after it had come out. It came out in, like, 2007.

[Spencer]

Yeah.

[Shane]

Around. Around that time. And so I tried to play it, like, close to a decade later, and I beat it. But I remember just kind of being like, all right, like, cool. There's so many games that have taken its formula and improved on it since. It's kind of like when you watch an old black and white movie and people are like, oh, I love that movie. But I'm like, yeah, but it sucks now. Like, it's. It's cool. I get it. I get that it. This is where so many other ideas came from. But as far as entertainment goes, we have made things more entertaining, at least for my modern brain. Right. And there's certain old movies and old games that for the time you're like, oh, my God, this is incredible for.

[Amanda]

And they still. I would say that they still translate.

[Shane]

They still translate.

[Spencer]

There's definitely, like, black and white bangers. Like Casablanca is incredible, like Roman Holiday.

[Shane]

But it's a different type of thing.

[Spencer]

It's a different, like, you know, different vibe. Different. I mean, the. The medium was still, like, in its infancy. And that's what you gotta remember with video games. It's like, you know, they've only been around since, like, the 70s.

[Amanda]

That's true.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Spencer]

Even in the 70s, it was, like, primitive.

[Shane]

That was Pong Yeah.

[Spencer]

What.

[Amanda]

So what game was like back in the day still translates now that people still love.

[Shane]

Okay, what games. What games from. From older times are still just as good now and someone could pick it up just now and play. I would argue. I would argue. First off, I think the Super Mario Brothers games are actually.

[Spencer]

I think those have aged. Especially when you go back and you play like the other ones from the era. Like you play. I don't know if you played any of like Spyro the Dragon or Rayman or Donkey Kong or. Or Nope. What was the other one?

[Amanda]

Maybe at like a friend's house.

[Spencer]

But not enough like Banjo Kazooie. Even like all these games like they just do not play as well as like the Mario games. Cause you can put like anyone down in front of a Mario game and it's still like it handles beautifully and that's like, that's something. So that's basically what.

[Amanda]

So Mario Mario.

[Shane]

I think like I would say like Super Mario Brothers 3. Like going old school. Like the one. The side scrolling ones. You're jumping on Goombas and Turtles. I think.

[Amanda]

Oh, we play that on the games channel.

[Shane]

We have, we have next to our. In our games pod where we work, we have a tiny little TV screen with a Super Nintendo and we have those games Tim's been playing Link to the Past. He comes by and sits down and plays that for a while. I think that could be one game that could introduce you here. I'm going to. I feel like as I'm thinking of games that.

[Spencer]

Yeah, no, I feel like.

[Amanda]

I feel like Spencer, you're not gonna be able to see.

[Spencer]

Yeah. You know, let me get other.

[Shane]

No, you're not glasses. You're not chosen enough other games that could introduce you to the medium. That's tough. Definitely Super Mario Brothers. I would argue.

[Amanda]

What's your name?

[Spencer]

I am the chosen.

[Amanda]

Okay, great.

[Shane]

Other old school games that hold up super freaking well. Crap.

[Spencer]

The early works of Shigeru Miyamoto.

[Shane]

Yeah, definitely Zelda. I would say the, the original Zeldas. I would argue that Ocarina of Time hasn't aged well.

[Amanda]

Ocarina of Time. Yeah, that's fun.

[Shane]

Have you heard of Ocarina of Time?

[Amanda]

I've heard that it's time to. For me to go back upstairs and leave you boys down here.

[Shane]

Get. Okay, can you get us in our bunk room?

[Amanda]

You know what? It's time for me to get the pizza bagels and bring them back down here.

[Shane]

It's Bagel bites time.

[Amanda]

No, I haven't heard of that. All knowing one. Have you heard of any Ashley Judd thriller movies?

[Shane]

Yes.

[Spencer]

Along came a spider.

[Amanda]

I told you that before we started. Yeah, and it was a trick because I don't think she's in that one.

[Shane]

She's in. I definitely have seen some Ashley Judd movies and I'm just trying.

[Amanda]

Double jeopardy.

[Shane]

Yes.

[Amanda]

The Girls.

[Shane]

Yeah, there you go. Is Kiss the Girls.

[Amanda]

The freedom. Kiss the Girls is a thriller to the max.

[Shane]

Weird name for a thriller.

[Spencer]

To me, any romantic film is a thriller because frankly, it's a little scary.

[Amanda]

Yeah.

[Shane]

Well, have you seen Akira?

[Amanda]

No.

[Shane]

Have you seen Paprika?

[Amanda]

That's a spice.

[Spencer]

Have you seen Sweet Home Alabama?

[Amanda]

Yes, I have.

[Shane]

Okay, well, there we go. We've seen. We've seen some stuff.

[Amanda]

And that guy, the lead actor of that is the Home Depot boys. Pretty cool. See, those are the things I know. Anyways, do you guys want iced tea?

[Shane]

Okay.

[Amanda]

You guys want iced tea? Where are you looking?

[Shane]

I was looking all over the place.

[Spencer]

My eyes were closed.

[Shane]

Yeah. Oh, anytime I'm playing the Chosen, my eyes are fully closed.

[Amanda]

Oh my God, I feel so much better. Cause the Chosen is just like all knowing.

[Shane]

What did you think of dudes who played video games when you were younger? Would you judge people for it?

[Amanda]

Nope. I genuinely. Cause my little sister played video games all the time. I genuinely just thought it was another world. I was like, man, I'll never understand that. It was more like I got written off right away. It was like, you wouldn't know what's happening right now. It was like, you wouldn't know. So when my brain went, you're right, I wouldn't know. So I'll never do it. You know what I mean? So, yeah, I've been bullied my whole life. No, I'm just kidding.

[Shane]

I'm kidding.

[Amanda]

I always wanted to play, but I. I'm very different now. But when I was younger, I didn't want to mess up, so I would less try to go out and experiment things because I was like, well, if I don't know it, I don't want to mess up. Whereas now it's like, oh, fuck it, I'll try it. Cause I don't care as much about messing up. But like, I think back then it was like, oh, they said I could never touch it, so I probably won't be able to. Like my little sister was like, you wouldn't get it.

[Spencer]

Were there things. This is kind of a bigger question, but like, were there things you were judgmental about growing up? Cause I feel like you're so non Judgmental. But it's like, did you see, like, maybe Pokemon cards? And you're like, that's nerdy.

[Amanda]

Nope.

[Spencer]

Interesting.

[Amanda]

Judgmental about. I mean, my sister loved Marilyn Manson, but I didn't. I wasn't really judgmental about that.

[Spencer]

Be judgmental about it now.

[Shane]

I think you could be.

[Amanda]

Now I am. Honestly, I was a little bit, like, what a nerd to my little sister who was obsessed with karate. I mean, she slept in her karate uniform.

[Shane]

Okay, that.

[Amanda]

She was a little bit, like, that's fair.

[Shane]

That's fully insane.

[Amanda]

Get away. But I was such, like, a little freak when I was little. Like, such a little nerd because my dad gave me a video camera and I stopped the world to make little commercials when I was younger. Like, my sister, I would make her fucking drink Folgers and be like, folgers in your. Like, I was a. I would take.

[Shane]

I guess you couldn't judge anyone.

[Amanda]

I was a freaking loser freak. Like, I. Loser in a good way. Like, I.

[Shane]

That's not that crazy.

[Amanda]

I know, but, like, that. I didn't have time to be like, ugh, you're so annoying. Like, I didn't give a shit about fashion or makeup really, or, like, really cool clothes because I always got my sister's hand me downs. I was obsessed. When I got the video camera, I think I was like, six. I was addicted to, like, what was the next little short film or commercial that I was gonna force my sister to be my husband. My mom, the murderer, the villain, the director.

[Shane]

I just wanna do karate.

[Amanda]

She literally was like, what do I have to do? And I'm like, okay, you are in the pyramids and we are finding hieroglyphics. Go. Once I made her a mummy for, like, hours. I was like, stay in this room when the camera hits you. When I do this, the camera's on. You react.

[Shane]

You know what I. You know what I'm gonna say here is that I think it's kind of messed up that you had your sister participate so much in your hobbies, but it doesn't sound like you ever really paid attention to her video games.

[Amanda]

It's so true.

[Shane]

Okay, I didn't mean for that to actually.

[Amanda]

No, but it is true.

[Spencer]

Like, I, as the older sibling.

[Amanda]

You as an older sibling.

[Shane]

How do you think it would make your sister feel if you showed up and you're just like, hey, I know everything about Pokemon now. Do you think she'd be like, what the.

[Amanda]

I think it was more Sims.

[Shane]

Like, if I was like, sims.

[Spencer]

Hey, if you went to a restaurant with her and ordered imperfect Simlish. How do you think she'd react?

[Shane]

I don't know.

[Amanda]

Fuck that is, you know, It's Simlish.

[Shane]

Is how the sims talk.

[Spencer]

Yeah. Garble do.

[Amanda]

My sim sister would lose it as well as my husband. Like, I feel like he wasn't into sims, but, like, if I sat down and been like, hey, do you want to play Dota? Do you want to play Diablo?

[Shane]

He'd be like, wait, you told me months ago that for your husband's birthday, you promised that you'd play Diablo with him. Have you?

[Amanda]

I did.

[Shane]

You did?

[Amanda]

Yeah, it was.

[Shane]

How was it?

[Amanda]

It was fun. I had a good time.

[Shane]

What'd you play as?

[Amanda]

I don't know. Some. Would your guy would I like a big dude.

[Shane]

Oh, like a big barbarian dude.

[Amanda]

Go and search in this cave and pick up all the gem things. I was more into age event. Like, when he told me to play Age of Empires, I was like, I'm down.

[Spencer]

Cool versus great, because you can build up. Like, that was my favorite. Like, I'd always want to make my little town, like, against, like, a cliff or something like that. Like, find the right place. Like, oh, there's berries here, there's trees.

[Shane]

But you played it too peacefully. You need to have a more messed up mindset.

[Amanda]

Should I show up to my sister's birthday in a full karate outfit and. And know Sims, like, she would be so, well, Sims.

[Shane]

This is the thing. Knowing Sims is just knowing how to take a shower. And she would be, take a dump and feed yourself. That's all you do.

[Amanda]

Hey, I had a Tamagotchi. I played with that.

[Shane]

Okay, so, you know, okay, But I'm too involved.

[Amanda]

I didn't never wanted them to die. Yeah, that's the thing. I invested too hard. I think I would invest too hard. I can't shut down. Like, when I'm watching a movie I am in, I'm like, I don't know how people can just be like, oh, yeah, he's gonna die. Like, I'm just so invested. So I think maybe naturally I'm protecting myself, because I think I would just get, like, addicted and obsessed.

[Spencer]

I don't know if I think insanely addicting.

[Shane]

It is addictive. Look, if you went to Courtney and you said, hey, could we play Sims sometime here? Maybe on a. Maybe on a live stream? Maybe just.

[Amanda]

I think I just.

[Shane]

Or just for fun. And if you just said, hey, could I. Could we. Could you teach me how to play Sims? Courtney would lose her mind. I think I would know that Steam would come out. Like, she'd. She'd be like, what? And then she. She.

[Amanda]

There's a lot of people I'm going to make happy.

[Shane]

Yeah. I'm trying to think if we did, like, a livestream or a video where we were introducing you to a game, I'm trying to think what would be some good ones.

[Spencer]

One of my favorite ideas, and it's. It would be like, try not to rage. Like, that's. That's what it was like, internally for me.

[Amanda]

Ooh.

[Spencer]

And it would be either you or Courtney playing, like, probably Dark Souls, which are like, these. Really?

[Shane]

Yeah. We already brought this up because Damien and I said we were going to have you play this, so maybe, look, maybe we do it.

[Spencer]

But it would be try not to rage, and it would be basically be like, you. So you would play, and then Damian and maybe Shane, like, would have to watch you play and, like, try not to get frustrated.

[Shane]

Yeah. We'd have to try to keep it.

[Amanda]

So you guys would watch me play Dark Souls and you guys would try not to rage at me. Playing Dark Souls.

[Shane]

That'd be very fun. While we were trying to help you, we should be trying. We should be actively trying to help you get through it, and we have to stay very positive, and we cannot get upset at all. That would be very. And it would be. It would be challenging because those games are. Are tough, and they are so hard to tell someone how to play them if you don't play those games.

[Amanda]

Wait, I would absolutely fucking love that. Because you guys would want to murder me.

[Spencer]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

You guys would despise me.

[Shane]

I. And I feel like I can keep calm if I want to, but I think I would have a hard time. And I can only imagine how Damien would be like. No, because Damien's so good at those games that he.

[Amanda]

Would you imagine if I played Baldur's Gate and he was just sitting and watching?

[Spencer]

That'd be so fun.

[Shane]

Oh, that would actually be. That might even be funnier.

[Spencer]

No, but that, like. Because I also think I'm, like, really calm, but I think watching anyone play Dark Souls for the first time just because you have, like, you know, we've been playing those kinds of games for, what, like, 10, 15?

[Shane]

It should be Elden Ring. We should just put her into Elden Ring.

[Spencer]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

Elden Ring sounds fun.

[Shane]

Elden Ring. It's the same type of game. No.

[Amanda]

Cool.

[Shane]

I don't think there's elves in Elden Ring. Elden Ring is. It's like Dark Souls, but you're just. You're just a hero in a messed up world.

[Amanda]

What's the log?

[Shane]

Okay, that's. That's pretty much you're a hero in a messed up world. You're not even a hero in those games. You kind of play as, like, a messed up thing.

[Spencer]

You're so.

[Shane]

Dude, it's just.

[Amanda]

I don't know.

[Spencer]

I, I. Oh, I think you're into them for sure.

[Amanda]

I surprise. I surprise myself.

[Shane]

You think they're gorgeous?

[Amanda]

I think. I think what holds me back is trying to do it perfectly right rather than exploring and discovering. So I think that that would be good for me.

[Shane]

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, Amanda plays Elden Ring, and we try not to lose our minds. Watching is a very good premise of a thing. Look, let's do it. We've pitched other things on this show that have. Have become a reality. Sniper Chess again.

[Amanda]

Yeah.

[Spencer]

You're gonna love it. I really hope we get to do it again.

[Amanda]

I would love to do it.

[Spencer]

Yeah.

[Shane]

Yeah. It was a lot of fun.

[Amanda]

I. I love what we've been doing lately. Like, things on pit, things on games. Like, it's been so fun. That game wavelength. You didn't, you didn't play it, but we played it on pit and it was so fucking great. And I brought it to a party, and people were obsessed with it. It's really fun. It's like, I think of. I think of a subject, and you or you guys think of a number, and then I have to ask from 1 to 10, and then I have to ask a question, and you have to give me an answer based on what you think the rating is. So say it's like, oh, right, like a nine. And I'm like, soup. And you're like, broccoli cheddar. But it has to be for you. And I'm like, does Spencer like broccoli cheddar?

[Shane]

Does he fucks with Interesting.

[Amanda]

It's pretty fucking rad. Although when I just explained it, it sounded pretty lame, but no, I mean, very cool.

[Shane]

Fun. Or we bring moose masks all over the place.

[Spencer]

Dude.

[Shane]

Lord Gentleman's Moosemaster.

[Amanda]

Or different themes.

[Spencer]

We're trying to think.

[Shane]

Yep. Spencer's actively training Bro Bro Moose. Bro Moose Master. You know, I would love Rowy Moosemaster. I would love to do that.

[Amanda]

Or like, tea time Moosemaster.

[Shane]

Like, well, that's general.

[Spencer]

That was kind of. Yeah, nice try.

[Shane]

No, we already did that. No, no, that's already been done. Like, like, ladies, Chosen Moosemaster.

[Spencer]

Chosen Moosemaster.

[Shane]

Chosen Moosemaster could be very, like, say.

[Spencer]

Say, like Akira Kurosawa film.

[Shane]

Yeah, that's pretty good. Pretty good now.

[Spencer]

And here's. Here's.

[Shane]

Oh, Amanda would be screwed.

[Amanda]

I'd be fucked.

[Shane]

Okay. Actually, give me one.

[Amanda]

Give me one.

[Shane]

What Seven Samurai you'd like.

[Amanda]

Oh, I've. I think I've seen Seven Samurai.

[Shane]

Speaking of going back to anime, have you seen any Hayao Miyazaki movies?

[Amanda]

Is that Spirited Away?

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

You know what? I. My two friends are obsessed with it and their favorite movie was Spirited Away. I struggled. It made me feel ill. It made me feel like I didn't like the pig troughs. Oh, yeah, I struggled.

[Shane]

Pig trough is rough.

[Spencer]

I like, I saw it in fifth grade and it really scared me.

[Shane]

It's scary.

[Amanda]

I don't like, kind of also like.

[Spencer]

No, there's a lot of gross.

[Amanda]

Gross animation.

[Shane]

It is gross.

[Amanda]

Ren and Stimpy.

[Shane]

Yeah, that's fair. Okay, that's fair.

[Spencer]

And there's a lot of.

[Amanda]

But I'd like to watch more a.

[Spencer]

Lot of the music, Mizaki stuff like, like Princess Mononoke or like Nausicaa. Like, they have got a lot of the. And that's kind of what I was talking about with like the anime. There's kind of a certain allowance you give or there's a certain expectation of like, you know, this definitely isn't every anime, but a lot of the popular ones, like Akira has like a lot of the gross, like body horror where it's like the like veins will be like contorting or like kind of expanding.

[Amanda]

I think I'm getting more. Yeah.

[Spencer]

Like when no face, like kind of like expands and is like swallowing up everything. Like there's a lot of the really visceral gross, like kind of undulating or like throbbing like mass of things. It's like really, really gross.

[Shane]

No, Spirited Away, I think it's pg. It's one of those PG movies where you're like, hard.

[Amanda]

I think it mentally made me feel like the people, like the parents turning into pigs. I. Oh, that's.

[Spencer]

That scared me.

[Amanda]

I think mentally feel like. Like it made me feel low. But I know people love spirit. You know, they're doing a live action spirit way.

[Shane]

Oh, I don't know.

[Spencer]

They're doing the play people love.

[Amanda]

And so I want to give his movies more of a try because even if something grosses me out, I still want to see more.

[Shane]

Sure.

[Spencer]

That's like. That's why I'm always like, kind of not confused. But people are like, Spirited Away is such a vibe. Like blah, blah, blah. Like, did we watch the same Movie. It's kind of a. It's an intense one.

[Shane]

Horrific. It's horrific. But the ending. The ending is beautiful. Oh, that's weird.

[Amanda]

What?

[Shane]

But the ending of Spirited Away is beautiful. It ends in a very beautiful way, but it's very horrifying at the beginning and it's very symbolic. I think what's also is that that movie is very symbolic for a lot of feelings you have as a kid. And that. That pig trough scene is absolutely there.

[Amanda]

I think what's. Yeah, I think for me, anime. Like, we watched a lot of, you know, remember the Hans Christian Andersen, Right. Original Disney movies or whatever. So back in the day, they would make anime but put, like, English voices on them. Do you guys remember that original Little Mermaid? It's a Little Mermaid. It's like anime with English voices on it. It's really, really dark.

[Shane]

Huh?

[Amanda]

I grew up watching that. So in a way, I was introduced to anime in that sense. But it was really, really dark. But it wasn't gory. It was more fantastical. You haven't seen that one? No, I remember, like, Little Mermaid Dies in the End.

[Shane]

Well, yeah, I know. I know.

[Spencer]

Original.

[Amanda]

It's the Hans Christian Andersen ones.

[Spencer]

It is. It is funny. Like, seeing what, like. I know, like Courtney Loves, like, Speed Racer and.

[Shane]

Yeah, like that.

[Spencer]

Like the old. Old anime. Like, so it always has been, like, prevalent, but it's never quite. I don't know.

[Amanda]

Yeah. So basically, we need to mix worlds. You guys, I gotta get into. You got. We gotta do a live stream.

[Shane]

Okay.

[Amanda]

Of Dark Souls or Elden's Ring.

[Shane]

Elden Ring.

[Amanda]

Elden Ring.

[Shane]

Elden Ring is a good one. I think we could do Sims is another option. And. And I feel we cannot end this stream without being honest with you. I think. Another one. There's another game called Five Nights at Freddy's.

[Spencer]

Jesus.

[Shane]

Where you're a security guard at a pizzeria in Utah and there are animatronics that are alive with ghosts.

[Amanda]

That should be a game.

[Spencer]

It is a game.

[Shane]

That is. It is a game. So we should play it the entire. We were unfortunately lying.

[Spencer]

No, there was no bite of 80.

[Shane]

There's no bite of 83. I can't. I can't end this podcast just leaving that.

[Spencer]

Matpat has the show called Game Theory where he, like, kind of like. He, like, kind of like. Because Five Nights at Freddy's is, like, a very simple game where you're, like, kind of looking at security things and the animatronics coming, like. But, like, he's, like, kind of he's pieced together the story from all these.

[Shane]

Different Five Nights at Freddy's is a video game series. So the All. Everything we told you is.

[Amanda]

You guys made me feel so bad. You guys made me feel so bad about murder.

[Spencer]

Okay?

[Amanda]

To be fair, that is my thing.

[Spencer]

Do you know how hard it was to say all that with a straight face?

[Shane]

I almost lost it.

[Amanda]

Did you guys plan this ahead?

[Spencer]

Yeah.

[Shane]

Yeah, we did. We talked about this. We were going to convince you because we knew that we could convince you.

[Spencer]

That we knew that you were probably, like, the one. I mean, a lot of, like, the bite of 83 is such, like, a.

[Amanda]

Meme, because wasn't it bite of 82? No. 83.

[Spencer]

Yeah. There's also bite of 87.

[Amanda]

You guys, I fully believed it. I was like, wow, that's the.

[Shane]

That's how intense the lore of this video game.

[Spencer]

And it gets so fucking stupid. We could literally do an entire podcast of just explaining the rest of the lore to you, because it gets so. It's like, oh, he killed them. Then, like, they possessed, and they, like, brought him back. And then he got in this other suit, and that suit, like, collapsed on him. And then, like, through sheer will, like, he stayed alive in that suit for, like, 20 years, like, sustained by hatred. And then he was, like, harvesting the. Like, I was like, yeah, how did.

[Amanda]

I not know about this man who kills children and puts them in the setup.

[Shane]

The setup of it, I think, is really cool. Yeah, the setup of this guy and how he loses his mind and kills children, I think is. Is well done. Five Nights at Freddy does have a lot of cool lore. It does get said.

[Spencer]

The other cool part is at one point, like, so the main, like, the guy who killed those kid, his son, like, kind of, like, wants to, like, figure out what his dad was doing. So at one point, he, like, you know, he finds his, like, underground lair and stuff. And then he winds up getting scooped, which is like this, like, machine that basically scoops out his organs and his bones, and then it puts one of the machines, like, inside of his body. So, like, instead of, like, the person being inside of the animatronic, it's the animatronics inside of him.

[Shane]

Him.

[Spencer]

But then, like, his. All of his, like, flesh and stuff starts rotting. So he smells really bad. That's why he becomes, like, the purple man, because he's like this, like, ew.

[Shane]

It's a crazy. So it's a horror video game series scoop. And the way that you play the first video game and it. I'm wondering if it's a good one for us to play sometime.

[Spencer]

It's fucking. How do you do with jump scares?

[Shane]

Yeah. So you're a security guard.

[Amanda]

I get really scared, but I love it.

[Shane]

You're a security guard and the game is you looking at all the security footage of this. You're staying the night at this pizzeria, but the animatronics are alive and stuff, so you have to try to, like, not let them get past you and sneak up on you and you're trying.

[Amanda]

To like, wait, I want to play. I love that shit.

[Shane]

All right, maybe. Maybe. Let's. Let's. We're gonna figure out what game we're gonna introduce you to, but it's. We lied and I'm sorry.

[Amanda]

You fuckers. I was like.

[Shane]

Wasn't sure we were gonna get away with it.

[Amanda]

Fight of 83. I was like.

[Shane]

But for a moment. For a moment there.

[Amanda]

Matpat's real.

[Shane]

Matpat's a real YouTuber, but he does video games.

[Amanda]

I hate you guys so much. I believed it so hard.

[Shane]

So anyways, for a moment there, Amanda, you believed the plot of Five Nights at Freddy's was a real story, and that's a cool experience.

[Amanda]

Yeah. You guys, I feel betrayed. I also feel like I wasn't a good murderer person.

[Shane]

No, I did not know true crime. You know that if you don't know it, that it doesn't exist. That's the thing.

[Amanda]

I. I was like, Shane knows nothing really about true crime. Every time I bring up true crime, he's like, huh? And I'm like, dude, where are you?

[Spencer]

Charles Manson?

[Shane]

The Manson girls. I feel bad. It was very funny. If you are allowed to get back at me in any way with some sort of prank. Okay, I deserve it.

[Amanda]

Now Tommy Lee Jones is gonna come at your desk.

[Shane]

What? Tommy Lee Jones is gonna come on my desk?

[Amanda]

I said no.

[Spencer]

I was gonna to say that, but I was like, I can't.

[Shane]

Where did that come from? All right.

[Amanda]

I said come at your desk. You. That way.

[Shane]

What's that mean?

[Amanda]

Either.

[Spencer]

You know what?

[Amanda]

Nothing.

[Shane]

Okay. Spencer, thank you for being here.

[Amanda]

Thanks, Spencer.

[Spencer]

Awesome.

[Amanda]

Did you have fun?

[Spencer]

I had a blast. Yeah.

[Shane]

Yeah. This is really cool. Amanda, we're going to start. We're going to start introducing you to some games. So pay attention to that on Smosh games. We'll probably. We'll probably do it at some point.

[Spencer]

Yeah, I would love to.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

Okay, let's go. I'm about to nerd out, bitch.

[Shane]

Thank you for watching. Let us know what games you wanted to play? Yeah, let. What game should Amanda play? Let us know in the comments down below. All right.

[Amanda]

All right.

[Shane]

See you later.

[Amanda]

Bye.

[Shane]

Bye. Oh, man, I'm so sorry.

[Amanda]

So the movie is based on the video game?

[Shane]

Yes. Step into the world of power, loyalty, and luck.

[Amanda]

I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.

[Shane]

With family. Cannolis and spins mean everything. Now you want to get mixed up.

[Spencer]

In the family business?

[Shane]

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[Amanda]

Do a service for me.

[Shane]

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[Spencer]

Welcome to the family.

[Shane]

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