#21 - The Worst Food Show Ever w/ Ian Hecox

Summary

Podcast Summary: Smosh Mouth – Episode #21: The Worst Food Show Ever w/ Ian Hecox

Introduction

In episode #21 of Smosh Mouth, released on November 13, 2023, hosts Shayne Topp (Shayne) and Amanda Lehan-Canto (Amanda) delve into a nostalgic and humorous exploration of their past culinary ventures. Joined by longtime Smosh collaborator Ian Hecox (Ian), the trio reacts to old cooking show clips, sharing laughs, awkward moments, and insightful reflections on their growth as content creators and food enthusiasts.

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Amanda's Cooking Show: "Food New England"

Amanda introduces her old cooking show, "Food New England," which dates back over a decade. The show combined Amanda cooking simple dishes, like a breakfast sandwich, with her touring Boston's favorite restaurants.

• Concept and Origin

  Amanda explains, “It’s a cooking show called Food New England, where I make an egg sandwich and then visit local spots” (00:31). The show was pitched to her by a Channel 7 News producer during a transitional period between her time with Defy and the revival of Smosh.

• Reactions and Highlights

  Reacting to the clips, Shayne notes, “I started one, I laughed immediately and I said, I am going to save this because it's so good” (02:45). Amanda reflects on her past self, admitting, “When I watch it back, I'm literally saying in my head, I have no idea what I'm doing” (02:36).

• Humorous Awkwardness

  The trio laughs over Amanda's nervousness and unintentional quirks. Ian quips, “This is so look out for the side mouth” (03:02), referencing Amanda’s subtle facial expressions during filming.

• Notable Quote

  Amanda humorously recounts her scripted yet improvised lines: “I don't know what the show’s purpose was, but I'm improvising all of it” (02:28).

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Ian Hecox's Cooking Show: "Sunday at Nana's"

Transitioning to Ian’s cooking show, "Sunday at Nana's," Shayne and Amanda react to his earnest yet somewhat underwhelming culinary segments filmed for Facebook.

• Concept and Origin

  Ian mentions, “I started the process when Smosh was in limbo, and then... after Smosh came back” (49:34). The show features Ian cooking alongside different “Nanas,” typically older women sharing family recipes.

• Reactions and Highlights

  Shayne observes, “This is so wholesome for those just listening. The visuals are so sweet” (53:54), contrasting the production quality with Amanda’s own show. Amanda adds, “Seeing it is so funny” (53:54), highlighting the genuine and unpolished nature of Ian’s segments.

• Culinary Insights and Friendship

  The group discusses the chemistry between Ian and the hosts of his show, noting how it contrasts with Amanda’s moments of panic. Ian shares fond memories of cooking with the Nanas, such as making spaghetti bolognese: “We made spaghetti bolognese, I think” (60:15).

• Notable Quote

  Ian’s sincere introduction stands out: “I’m Ian Hecox, a mediocre comedian and a terrible cook. I’m off to learn from the best kind of teacher there is” (50:15).

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Cooking Preferences and Personal Anecdotes

Throughout the episode, Shayne, Amanda, and Ian discuss their diverse culinary interests and experiences, weaving personal anecdotes into their reactions.

• Foodie Discussions

  Amanda shares her love for baking, particularly Middle Eastern desserts like baklava: “I have yet to find a good cookbook that is dessert” (05:52). Ian talks about his dietary restrictions, mentioning, “I can’t have gluten anymore” (03:35), and his frustrations with restaurants that don’t accommodate his needs.

• Favorite Recipes

  Shayne reminisces about his successful attempt at making baklava from a Mediterranean cookbook: “My first attempt at baklava... turned out great” (04:48). Amanda discusses her cooking evolution, highlighting her husband’s influence: “My husband cooks all the time. He’s such an amazing cook” (09:25).

• Notable Quotes

  Amanda candidly admits her struggles: “I am so deeply uncomfortable” (13:07) and humorously comments on her cooking mishaps: “I panicked” (20:10).

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Humorous Moments and Awkward Interactions

The episode is peppered with funny and awkward moments as the trio watches the old cooking show clips.

• Amanda’s On-Camera Panic

  Amanda frequently panics and stumbles over her words during her old shows, leading to laughs from Shayne and Ian. For instance, she nervously says, “I don’t know what I’m saying” (15:02), showcasing her unrehearsed style.

• Awkward Cooking Steps

  The group reacts to bizarre cooking steps, such as Amanda struggling with French toast without syrup, saying, “I am dying” (22:19), and Ian’s overly enthusiastic yet somewhat clumsy interactions in his show.

• Notable Quote

  Shayne humorously critiques Amanda's old show: “What am I watching? It’s like the very informational video” (16:42), highlighting the lack of meaningful content.

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Future Plans and New Cooking Show Ideas

Inspired by their old culinary attempts, Shayne and Amanda brainstorm ideas for new cooking shows, considering their past experiences.

• Shayne’s “Tender Time with Shayne”

  Shayne suggests, “It’s gonna be called Tender Time with Shayne. I go to restaurants and I order chicken tenders no matter where I am” (62:07), envisioning a humorous take on restaurant reviews focused solely on chicken tenders.

• Amanda’s Support and Suggestions

  Amanda encourages creative ideas, proposing, “We can always change that. We can do a cooking show for you, Shayne” (61:41), and expresses interest in Shayne’s concepts: “I love that” (62:24).

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End Segment: Smart Mouth

To wrap up the episode, Shayne and Amanda introduce a new segment called “Smart Mouth,” where they exchange interesting facts to challenge each other’s knowledge.

• Gameplay and Interaction

  Shayne initiates the game: “Do you guys know the largest animal that's ever existed on Earth?” (63:04). Shayne shares a fact about blue whales, while Ian presents a historical tidbit about Gandhi.

• Notable Quotes

  Shayne confidently states, “The blue whale that exists today is the largest animal that's ever existed” (64:06), while Ian reveals, “Gandhi was a stretcher bearer in a war in South Africa” (65:02).

• Humorous Banter

  The segment is filled with playful banter as the hosts humorously interact over their facts, emphasizing the lighthearted nature of the show.

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Conclusion and Reflections

As the episode concludes, Shayne, Amanda, and Ian reflect on their past cooking shows, acknowledging their growth and the comedic value of their previous content.

• Reflection on Growth

  Amanda remarks, “It showed me how far I have come” (48:47), appreciating the journey from her awkward beginnings to her current love for baking.

• Plans for Improvement

  The trio discusses enhancing future episodes with better production quality and more engaging content, inspired by the contrasting styles of their old shows.

• Final Notable Quote

  Shayne humorously ends the episode by saying, “You just made this whole clip on your dating profile” (56:11), highlighting the entertaining chaos of their past culinary attempts.

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Key Takeaways

• Evolution of Content

  Both Amanda and Ian have evolved significantly since their early cooking show days, transitioning from awkward and unpolished presentations to more confident and skilled culinary endeavors.

• Humor in Nostalgia

  The episode leverages nostalgic content to generate humor, highlighting the unintentional comedy arising from past mistakes and genuine moments of panic.

• Future Endeavors

  Inspired by their past, the hosts are eager to explore new and improved cooking show formats, aiming to blend humor with informative content.

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Amanda on Improvisation: “I have no idea what I’m doing” (02:36)

• Ian on Hosting: “I’m Ian Hecox, a mediocre comedian and a terrible cook” (50:15)

• Shayne on French Toast: “I just went with it” (32:33)

• Amanda’s Embarrassment: “I am so deeply uncomfortable” (13:07)

• Shayne’s Smart Mouth Fact: “The blue whale that exists today is the largest animal that's ever existed” (64:06)

• Ian’s Smart Mouth Fact: “Gandhi was a stretcher bearer in a war in South Africa” (65:02)

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Conclusion

Episode #21 of Smosh Mouth offers a delightful blend of nostalgia, humor, and camaraderie as Shayne, Amanda, and Ian revisit their past cooking show endeavors. Through candid reflections and witty banter, they celebrate their growth while playfully critiquing their early attempts at culinary content creation. This episode not only entertains listeners with behind-the-scenes stories but also sets the stage for future, more refined culinary adventures.

Transcript

[Shane]

Foreign. Welcome to Smosh Mouth. I'm Shane.

[Amanda]

And I'm Amanda.

[Shane]

And today's episode is gonna be real fun. We found Amanda's old cooking show from, what, 10 years ago?

[Amanda]

Like 11 or 12.

[Shane]

I had no idea that you had a cooking show. At one point, we found all of them on YouTube, and so we're gonna be reacting to those today. And here with us to react is Ian Hecox.

[Ian Hecox]

Hello.

[Shane]

Thanks for being here, man.

[Amanda]

Thanks for being here.

[Ian Hecox]

Thank you for having me.

[Amanda]

You also had a cooking show.

[Ian Hecox]

I did have a. I did have a cooking show. It's something that I agreed to. I think it was around the time of the downtime between the defy collapse and Smosh coming back. So it was like I was kind of, like, you know, considering expanding my career and becoming a chef.

[Amanda]

Becoming a chef.

[Ian Hecox]

Well, you know, I can't. I can't cut it as a chef, but I can eat food.

[Shane]

Well, the good news for you is that I also found that show, and we are also going to be reacting to that one as well.

[Ian Hecox]

I feel like my show is going to be better.

[Amanda]

Oh, it will be. It will be better.

[Shane]

We'll have to see. Amanda, you've talked so much crap about this show.

[Amanda]

Here's the thing is that it wasn't my cooking show.

[Shane]

Okay.

[Amanda]

So it's a cooking show called Food New England, where I'm from.

[Ian Hecox]

Wow.

[Amanda]

And when I was working at Channel 7 News, one of the producers came up to me and pitched it and was like, we'll get a crew. We'll take you to your favorite spots around Boston, and we'll film you talking and reacting and, like, kind of talking about the restaurant. And then the one is me making a breakfast sandwich in my apartment.

[Ian Hecox]

I was gonna ask, like, being New England, was it just you sucking down clams everywhere?

[Amanda]

No.

[Shane]

Today we're making clam chowder again for the fifth time, actually.

[Amanda]

I'm, like, not eating anything that's very New Englandy at all. Like, I make an egg sandwich, and I have, like, pancakes.

[Shane]

Spoilers.

[Amanda]

Sorry.

[Ian Hecox]

Did people really need a cooking show to know how to make an egg sandwich?

[Amanda]

Yeah, they really, really did.

[Shane]

So you actually. You were the one cooking in this.

[Amanda]

For the most part, so no. So I'm cooking in one, and then I don't really know what his whole concept was, but I'm cooking in one, and then I go to a couple restaurants, and I, like, walk through. Here's the thing.

[Shane]

I found a little bit of both.

[Amanda]

I talk because I watch it back, and I You know when you watch back old videos of yourself, you're like, you know exactly where your head's at.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

And when I watch it back, I'm literally saying in my head, I have no idea what I'm doing. And I don't know what I'm saying because there was a script. I improvised the whole thing.

[Shane]

Oh, yeah.

[Amanda]

Oh, I improvised.

[Shane]

I haven't watched them. I have not watched them. I started one, I laughed immediately and I said, I am going to save this because it's so good.

[Amanda]

And I also can see, like, my mom and me a little bit. Like, I do this like, side mouth thing. You'll see.

[Ian Hecox]

This is so look out for the side mouth.

[Shane]

Okay. We'll keep an eye out for the side mouth. You guys both like food a lot, though. Like, you're two, you're two of the biggest foodies.

[Amanda]

I would say Ian's a very big, big food.

[Shane]

Yeah. More so than I think people realize. Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. I mean, I, I, I like food, I like food less now because. Because I can't have gluten anymore. So that has unfortunately, like ruined my world of food. But I do love, I do love, I do love me some food. I love, I love eating well.

[Shane]

So, yeah, I guess gluten does eliminate.

[Amanda]

A lot, but there is a ton of, there's tons of stuff. And also you live in LA where there's tons of gluten free restaurants.

[Shane]

Oh, yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, yeah. For sure. There's always, oh yeah, there's always options. But it's like, you know, like one of my, one of my favorite restaurants in la, PGA palace, which is this like Indian.

[Amanda]

Oh, yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Italian fusion restaurant. Literally everything there is gluten. Everything. So, and, and, and the, the owner has no interest in offering gluten free options, which is okay. That's totally in his power and I respect that. He's just like, I don't know, I don't need it. I don't need it. I don't know. My restaurant's popular.

[Amanda]

That's hard.

[Ian Hecox]

Which I get. I understand.

[Amanda]

I get that too.

[Ian Hecox]

It's so good though. That place is so bomb.

[Shane]

I definitely love food. I don't feel like I know of restaurants at the same level as you guys talk about, but I love going to new places and trying new stuff. There's really not a genre or cuisine that I'm not a fan of. I really like it all I get it depends on the quality. Sure.

[Amanda]

Yeah.

[Shane]

But I think the pro one I'm probably the biggest fan of is Mediterranean. When I first started when I was, like, 25. 26 was when I started being like, I need to learn how to cook. I genuinely know how to cook some stuff. And I got a Mediterranean cookbook, and I started making stuff out of that. And Ian could tell you it's my first attempt. But my first attempt at baklava was actually surprisingly successful. And I just followed the cookbook to the tee, and it took forever because you're laying all this. These layers of dough and all of olive oil, and you make this thing of honey and all this stuff that you pour over it at the end turned out great.

[Ian Hecox]

Man.

[Shane]

I need to make that again.

[Amanda]

I would love baklava. You don't know this, but is one of my favorite, favorite things on this. I love baklava. I love. I just. I. I don't like really sweet desserts, so I. Those are all my favorite flavors. Like, I love rose. I love pistachio. I also. I love. I love very floral things as sweets.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

I feel like I have a very different palette than. I don't know.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, like, a lot of, like, Middle Eastern.

[Amanda]

I love Middle Eastern food.

[Ian Hecox]

Like, because a lot of it's like dates, pistachios, maybe you get some cream jams. Not like, here's a giant cake. It's like. It's definitely, like. It's, like, pleasant, and then you don't feel like total garbage at the end.

[Amanda]

I love Middle Eastern food, Turkish food. I actually wanted to start getting a cookbook, like a Middle Eastern bake, because I. I got really into baking.

[Shane]

Oh, yeah.

[Amanda]

I love baking so, so much. And I feel like Middle Eastern desserts are some of my absolute favorites. So I. I have yet to find a good cookbook that is dessert.

[Shane]

Middle Eastern.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane]

I guess in the comments down below. Give us some suggestions.

[Amanda]

Yeah, I would love that.

[Shane]

I love desserts. I love finding a cookbook, and I want to do this soon of finding just a different. Different cuisine style or different genre and buying a cookbook for. Of that and trying to go through and make a bunch of stuff from it. I know there's, like. I think Mexican food would be one that I'd love to. To do because, yeah, making that all at home could be really fun.

[Ian Hecox]

Just watch the great British Bake off episode. Yeah.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Literally, they cover that.

[Shane]

No, because I've. I've. Growing up, I've had white people Mexican food, you know, where it's like, white people taco night, stuff like that. But I'd love to try to make some more, like, to make it better make it right. You know, Would be really fun.

[Ian Hecox]

Try to make some mole, dude.

[Shane]

I've heard that's a process. Isn't that like a 10 hour process or something?

[Ian Hecox]

Probably hunger. I mean, you got to also you.

[Amanda]

Need like specific stuff, containers and things to hold it in.

[Shane]

Maybe. You know what? All right, I'm going to work on.

[Ian Hecox]

Dude. As Shane makes mole. I'm going to brings a tub of mole.

[Shane]

That's going to be my cooking show, Shane makes mole. And it's. It's a 24 episode season of me failing. Every episode. Yeah, tons of yours. So.

[Ian Hecox]

So you bake.

[Amanda]

So I love baking. I don't know. It started in Covid. I love baking. I'm also. I love following a recipe.

[Shane]

Oh, dude. I love following a recipe to the tea.

[Amanda]

What? Yeah. One of my best friends, Dunya, she's Middle Eastern and she can just come up with it in her head. See me, I love following a recipe. So I feel like baking was really beneficial for doing that. I got obsessed with making thumbprint cookies. I have yet to bring those in. Like thumbprint cookies with a little bit of jam. Like.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, yeah.

[Shane]

Oh, yeah.

[Amanda]

I love those cookies so much. Shortbread.

[Shane]

Do you put the jam in after they're done baking? Is that a stupid question? So.

[Amanda]

No, it's not a stupid question, actually. So basically you're making them. You're making the whole dough and then you do them in little balls and then you roll them in sugar and you put them out on a baking sheet. And then you press your thumb, or you could do a little spoon, press your thumb. And then you put them in the freezer for 30 minutes before you do anything. Bring them out. Then they're like a little hard. And then you have to heat up the jam. Not too hot. And then you put the jam in and then you bake them.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, really?

[Amanda]

So they have to be frozen first, otherwise it will hold.

[Shane]

That makes sense.

[Amanda]

If you, if you skip the freezing part, you'll just get jam in the middle and then they'll just spread throughout the cookie.

[Shane]

Oh, okay. Interesting.

[Amanda]

Yeah. Pretty cool.

[Shane]

That mythical chef Josh fact that he said on our channel, which was that chocolate chip cookies were invented because the person wanted to make chocolate cookies.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, yeah.

[Shane]

They thought the chocolate chips would melt like into the cookies, but they didn't. They stayed as chips.

[Amanda]

What?

[Shane]

Yeah. Pretty crazy.

[Amanda]

Yeah.

[Shane]

All right, so you like baking now and you like. But you don't cook much.

[Amanda]

I do cook.

[Shane]

You do cook?

[Amanda]

So my husband cooks all the time. He's such an amazing cook. He's the type of person that just throws things together in his mind.

[Shane]

Pretty cool.

[Amanda]

He is such an amazing cook. And so I've gotten better at, like, trying to cook, so I've gotten all these amazing cookbooks. My friend got me Alice Waters. The, like, Very Simple Foods. So good. So I've gotten really good at making. I got a la cresette for my wedding. A wedding gift?

[Shane]

Hell, yeah.

[Amanda]

So I've gotten really into Dutch oven, like, coq auan.

[Ian Hecox]

I'm sorry, I can't.

[Amanda]

Dutch oven?

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. I'm never not gonna think of. You know, I'm such a. I'll never. I'll never, like, mature enough to hear somebody say I have a Dutch oven.

[Shane]

Ian immediately laughed. There wasn't a second.

[Ian Hecox]

You can't just mention a Dutch oven. The word cracking a little small, like.

[Amanda]

To Dutch oven each other all the time. So it's really fun. I should.

[Ian Hecox]

I should get one, though, because, like, you just make such, like, insane stews is so good.

[Amanda]

It's French.

[Shane]

I. I bake bread in my Dutch oven, so.

[Amanda]

Okay. I want to learn how to do that.

[Shane]

There's a book for.

[Amanda]

Is there a book?

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

Okay. I also.

[Shane]

Salt water, flower yeast.

[Amanda]

Wow. Oh, wow. I'm also kind of in the market for a Dutch oven cookbook.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

So anything in the comments I actually need. You guys are fucking chilling.

[Ian Hecox]

I'm like, you have a bed, don't you?

[Amanda]

Just get a blanket and a bunch of boards.

[Shane]

Eat some beads. Get under the blanket. Okay. So, Amanda, that's where your cooking career is now. But let's. It's time to take a trip in time to the start of Amanda's cooking.

[Amanda]

Career, which was zero.

[Shane]

And we're now going to react to New England food.

[Amanda]

I'm Food.

[Shane]

New England food.

[Ian Hecox]

New England.

[Amanda]

New England. Here's the thing. It's a channel. I think they have 300 subscribers, which is fun. And I'm not the only person on it. And funny story about this. My sister took me to a restaurant, thinking it was the one from my video. And it was the weirdest restaurant in Coolidge corner in Boston. And she was like, okay, we're here. And I was like, oh, cool. It's like French toast. They do French toast for potatoes. She's like, yeah, remember? And I was like, oh, this isn't where I did. She was like, oh, fuck. Why are we here?

[Shane]

All right, let's see this. Oh, my God. All right, Tim is going to set this up really quick for us, then we'll Begin. Okay, so this first one is titled Amanda's Tequila Margarita.

[Ian Hecox]

What? Margarita is in.

[Shane]

Yeah, yeah. Amanda, That's a very special margarita you're making there.

[Amanda]

This is a perfect title for exactly what these videos are. No fucking idea what I'm talking about.

[Shane]

Okay, let's hop in.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, yeah.

[Amanda]

I did not come up with this intro.

[D]

Hi, everybody, it's Amanda. We're here at one of the best fitness places in Quincy. It's called the Fat Cat.

[Amanda]

It's called the Fat Cat many times with my sister.

[D]

Very cool, Small, quaint, cozy place.

[Ian Hecox]

Can we pause it? Can you please take your hands out of your pocket?

[Shane]

You're moving your jacket everywhere.

[Ian Hecox]

You know what? You're clearly trying not to create a scene. You're speaking so low. You're like.

[Shane]

So we're here at this bar that I love.

[Ian Hecox]

How embarrassed are you in this?

[Amanda]

Embarrassed right now? Here's the one thing people don't know about this, about me. When I'm a person, I get really embarrassed in public. Really embarrassed.

[Ian Hecox]

I'm the same way.

[Amanda]

I get so embarrassed. I was so embarrassed this whole time. I could tell. I was like, people are watching us. Also, my hands during this time love to move, so they're in my pocket. So they don't.

[Shane]

But you're still moving them around.

[Ian Hecox]

Cause normally, like, 15 people were stabbed to death outside this apartment.

[Amanda]

I. I am so embarrassed. This whole time, I'm so embarrassed. And I'm embarrassed watching it.

[Shane]

I love how much you're spinning around, too. You keep turning back to the camera. It's like, could we not have started this video at the bar? Like, why are we doing this?

[Amanda]

So that wasn't my decision. You have to remember, I'm being directed.

[Shane]

The music's also blasting.

[Ian Hecox]

It's.

[Shane]

And you're like. And here we are at this bar.

[Amanda]

And of course, we showed up, and the owner was like, oh, is this happening? You know what I mean?

[Shane]

And the bartender was like, what are you doing it. All right, let's keep going.

[Ian Hecox]

I just love. It's just. It's just, like, ordinary, like, operating hours. You have, like, a camera with a giant light on it that's just blinding the bar patrons.

[Amanda]

I am so deeply uncomfortable. You should watch.

[Ian Hecox]

I can tell because I know this is the exact feeling I get. So I feel.

[Shane]

Well, buckle up, Ian. Yours is coming.

[D]

The best bar in town. Okay.

[Ian Hecox]

No cuts.

[D]

So I love every kind of drink there is. Martinis. Not so much. Too strong. Too much.

[Amanda]

Martinis are my favorite drink.

[D]

I must say. My true passion is Tequila with the salt flavor. I hate tequila lime. Mexican salsa. Yes.

[Ian Hecox]

What am I. Mexican salsa, yes.

[Shane]

Mexican salsa, yes. Comment down below. Mexican salsa, yes.

[Amanda]

Again. Again. I'm so deeply upset.

[Shane]

Kilo with the lime. Mexican salsa, yes. That's a Donald Trump quote.

[Amanda]

I don't know what the fuck I'm saying. I don't know what the.

[Shane]

Tim lost his shit at that quote.

[Amanda]

Mexican salsa, yes.

[Ian Hecox]

Next time I go. Next time I go to a Mexican restaurant, I'd be like, I love the tequila, the spider spice, the Mexican salsa, yes.

[Shane]

The waiter's gonna be like, okay, man, cool.

[Amanda]

It gets worse.

[Shane]

All right, let's keep going.

[D]

So I'm gonna order a fresh margarita from the beautiful bartender here. Slash manager.

[Amanda]

Don't know her name. How you doing? Good. How are you? Good. Would you like a house or a top shelf?

[D]

Like I said, I was poor, so.

[Amanda]

Did you hear this? Like, go back.

[Shane]

What it was.

[Amanda]

You miss what I say here. How you doing? Good. How are you? Good. Would you like a house or a top shelf?

[D]

Like I said, I was poor. So let's go with the house.

[Amanda]

Lunazul is a great tequila, huh?

[Shane]

Did you say that earlier? Like I said.

[Amanda]

Amanda.

[Shane]

Amanda looks like she's being tortured right now.

[Amanda]

Like I said I was poor to the house. So I. I told you this is up. Why would I go?

[Shane]

Are you. Are you paying for this personally in this video?

[Amanda]

What?

[Shane]

Why? It's a production, and they're forcing you to buy stuff. The production's like, we're not helping her. I don't know what the fuck. Okay, so we're watching a video where you're ordering a regular tequila margarita at a bar, and this is. What's the selling point. I'm not trying to be mean here, but, like, what am I watching?

[Amanda]

Guys, I have no idea what the show's purpose was, but the manager's like, top shelf or whatever, and I'm like, well, I'm poor. So how. She's like, you have a full camera crew.

[Shane]

What the.

[Amanda]

You have a full camera crew.

[Shane]

What the hell's going on?

[Amanda]

I don't fucking know.

[Shane]

At this stage, though, I don't see any difference. If there was a video of a guy being like, I'm gonna go to the gas station and buy a Bud Light. Like, what? It's like the very informational video.

[Amanda]

Again, the producer was an older dude who worked at Channel. This was his passion project. He didn't know what the he was doing, and so I got no direction. So I'm improvising all of It.

[Shane]

All right, well, let's see what else you improvise.

[Amanda]

So no matter what. So what else is going in this margarita? This is just. Wait, I mean, each bartender has.

[Ian Hecox]

Hold on. They just. They just poured.

[Shane]

Okay, that's a big.

[Ian Hecox]

That's a pint glass.

[Amanda]

They poured in pint glasses. Margaritas are in pint glasses.

[Ian Hecox]

That's insane.

[Shane]

There's a lot of ice in there. But that did look like a lot of tequila.

[Amanda]

That's right.

[Shane]

She did not measure that out.

[Ian Hecox]

No, she just was like, nah, bartender.

[Shane]

She's like, you need this.

[Amanda]

She's the manager. She's a house.

[Shane]

She's like, get your hands out of your pockets. I'm gonna make you.

[Ian Hecox]

You poor son of a bitch.

[Shane]

Mexican salsa.

[Amanda]

She's probably sitting there like, God, this girl has no career, mind you. This is the restaurant down the street from my sister's house. So we go in all.

[Shane]

No. Did you?

[Amanda]

Yes.

[Shane]

Okay.

[Ian Hecox]

Mexican salsa.

[Amanda]

I mean, each bartender has their own thing. For me, it's fresh squeezed lime, tequila.

[D]

Triple sec, and a little bit of sour mix.

[Amanda]

That's the camera's on the back of my camera's just like.

[Shane]

He's like, these margaritas are great.

[Amanda]

It's a 60 year old passion product. The guy behind the camera's 60 and.

[Ian Hecox]

This is his idea.

[Amanda]

Yes.

[Shane]

Okay, so she just. She just said like, this is my version of a margarita. And she described exactly a margarita. So she said other people have different versions of their margarita.

[Ian Hecox]

Well, I do remember ordering. I think I got a margarita at Kimmy's wedding and the guy put squirt into it. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow. He gave me like tequila and squirt.

[Shane]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Okay.

[Ian Hecox]

There are other ways that people make them.

[Shane]

No, it's not the right way.

[Amanda]

Absolutely not. Absolutely not.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, wait, it was a Paloma.

[D]

There's all different types of margaritas. Sometimes you can have watermelon.

[Shane]

I want you to explain just that we're not gonna go. I don't know what you're about to say.

[Ian Hecox]

She went to Chili's. She went to Chili's and got a watermelon margarita one time.

[Amanda]

Guys, I grew up on the East Coast. I watching this, knowing I have no idea what to say next. So I'm like, you know, there's watermelon. I don't even think I say any other flavors after this. I think I say lime.

[Shane]

Okay, let's. Let's see.

[Amanda]

Strawberry.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, strawberry.

[Shane]

These are strawberry margarita Chilies and Fridays.

[Amanda]

Were a hit in my life.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, for sure.

[Shane]

Strawberry margarita.

[Ian Hecox]

That's.

[Shane]

Yeah, it's a little bit better than watermelon. No, they're both.

[Amanda]

This is definitely TGIF Fridays, the 99.

[Shane]

I also love that you are. I love that you're weaving a spell as you were saying this. You're like, you can have this.

[Amanda]

Yeah. And do you see the side mouth? I'm like, so I don't know if I'm seeing it. Well, keep watching.

[D]

Sometimes there's actually margaritas mixed with sangria, which is the best of both worlds for me.

[Amanda]

Disgusting, Disgusting, disgusting.

[Shane]

Is that a thing you'd had?

[Amanda]

No.

[Ian Hecox]

You lied.

[Amanda]

I made that up. I've never had that in my fucking life.

[Ian Hecox]

I've never heard.

[Amanda]

You just made that up right there. I panicked.

[Shane]

You just said that. You know, sometimes they mix margaritas with saying green.

[Amanda]

That's me fucking panicking. I'm panicking. And mind you, the woman's there just being like.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane]

He turns back to the bartender, the bartender's like, we do not do that.

[Amanda]

We've never done that.

[Shane]

I will never. I promise you we'll never do that. All right. Okay. So we're hardly a minute in and Amanda's struggling pretty bad personally.

[D]

But let's go with the traditional one because I'm here and why not Lime salt. You know, the words get a little crazy.

[Shane]

I wanted you to say Mexican salsa. Yes. Again. I. I was waiting for it.

[Amanda]

Salsa, yes. Looks like she's going to mix it.

[D]

In there and put it old school.

[Amanda]

It's not a beautiful glass, it's a pint glass and it's a weird plastic tub of salt.

[D]

You can't smell anything cuz you're at home.

[Amanda]

Sorry.

[Ian Hecox]

The audio tele.

[Shane]

You can't smell anything cuz you're at home.

[D]

And then she puts the top on it.

[Amanda]

The salt.

[Shane]

Thank you. Oh, beautiful glass.

[Amanda]

Margarita. Yum yum. She just walks away. Finishing touch. Just a brown line. That was amazing.

[D]

Thank you you so much.

[Amanda]

I still don't know her name. That was amazing.

[D]

And thank you for letting me order this right now.

[Amanda]

What?

[Ian Hecox]

Huh?

[D]

We don't need that.

[Ian Hecox]

Are you just going to suck all that?

[D]

Do a little squeeze, Put it in.

[Ian Hecox]

That was just a mouthful of salt.

[Amanda]

That is really, really good. Yep.

[D]

Why with the sweet, the ice cold.

[Amanda]

The salt, the sweet and the ice cold.

[Ian Hecox]

I have ice cold.

[Amanda]

Guys, I am panicking. I am full panic mode. Because first of all, I am not a salt person. I don't love. Like when things are too salty, you could tell I am dying.

[Shane]

You just got a mouthful.

[Ian Hecox]

You Got a mouthful. That is more so than I've ever seen on a glass.

[Shane]

That is. It is loaded.

[Amanda]

I am dying fresh slime. Oh, no, I think it goes down.

[D]

A little bit too easy. Yeah, this is really, really good.

[Shane]

What was that, James? They just cut to a quick.

[Amanda]

That was the quickest shot. That's the fat cat.

[Shane]

They cut to a drawing on the wall of a cat for like, a second, and then it's back to you, right where we just were.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, well, I mean, there's no.

[Shane]

It. It's just.

[Ian Hecox]

It's just one camera.

[Shane]

Yeah, I know, but it's.

[Ian Hecox]

It's like the only cut in this actual video. No, she's just rolling.

[Amanda]

Horrific. And then it crossfades here, so the cat's in the background.

[D]

Sometimes I get them and they're too sweet.

[Amanda]

Like that sour mix.

[D]

You didn't put any sour mix in it, right? I put a smidge.

[Shane]

You know, she's like, I put sour mix in that.

[Amanda]

I'm like, you didn't put any sour mix.

[Shane]

She told you at the beginning. She said what the ingredients were and she said, sour mix.

[Amanda]

She did, yes.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, yeah, yes.

[Shane]

She said sour mix.

[Amanda]

And I go, you didn't put any sour mix in the dry.

[Shane]

What is this, Tequila?

[Amanda]

I put a smidge at that.

[Shane]

I. I put a smidge.

[Amanda]

She hates her life right now.

[Shane]

She's so mad. This is the worst day.

[Ian Hecox]

I just don't think she cares.

[Amanda]

Like, no.

[Ian Hecox]

She's like, she's been a good sport. She's been a really good sport.

[Shane]

Barbara's her name. No, it was. It was on the video.

[Amanda]

I could not remember. I kept going like. And thank you.

[Ian Hecox]

I'm gonna say it's Kimberly.

[Shane]

That's.

[Ian Hecox]

I must say.

[Shane]

All right.

[Amanda]

Margaritas are supposed to taste like tequila.

[D]

Exactly. She knows what she's talking about. Most places don't, because it's usually like, sweet sour mix, and now it's just.

[Amanda]

Like the sweet sour ice and lemon.

[Shane]

Okay, you really do not know what you're talking about right now.

[Amanda]

I don't know what I'm saying. I don't know what I'm saying. And I keep bringing up the sour mix. How much I hate it. I'm like, yeah, most places don't know what they're talking about. They put sour mix in.

[Shane]

It's just a sweet sour mix. And this one's fresh. It's like, no, it's not.

[Amanda]

She's like, I put sour.

[Shane]

She's like, I made it exactly how you just described.

[Amanda]

You hate them. And I don't know what I'm talking about.

[Ian Hecox]

And this ice. Delicious.

[Shane]

And the. I know.

[Amanda]

There's so much cold. Ice cold.

[Ian Hecox]

Ice.

[Amanda]

Salt. Olay.

[D]

Olay. Yeah.

[Amanda]

Cheers.

[D]

Help me.

[Amanda]

That's the video.

[Shane]

That's the video.

[Amanda]

See, I couldn't. I haven't been able to get all the way to the end, so I haven't seen it in a while. I just picture a group, like a dad band group, who's just like, bam.

[Shane]

Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. Mexican salsa. Yes. That was. That was pretty rough, Amanda. I'm not gonna lie. It gets so much worse, Amanda.

[Ian Hecox]

I gotta say, Anthony Bourdain walked so you could. Jesus, I don't even know.

[D]

Honestly.

[Ian Hecox]

Honestly, I already know what to call this.

[Shane]

So this was 2011? Around then.

[Amanda]

Yeah.

[Shane]

So while I was on so Random, you were doing this?

[Amanda]

Yes, I was killing it. I think I was like, 23 here. 23, yeah.

[Shane]

Badass.

[Amanda]

I loved my straight, straight, straight hair.

[Shane]

So did you drink a lot of margaritas before this?

[Amanda]

No, tequila's not my favorite.

[Shane]

You were not versed in margaritas. So you were just. Was that one of the margaritas?

[Ian Hecox]

Well, because it's the sweet.

[Shane]

It's the sweet and the sour.

[Ian Hecox]

Sour mix is.

[Amanda]

The thing is, I am panicking.

[Shane]

Okay.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, yeah.

[Amanda]

Through all of this, I'm panicking because I keep, like, doing this mouth thing.

[Shane]

You were doing that.

[Amanda]

Do you guys notice it?

[Shane]

It's.

[Ian Hecox]

I mean, but, like, I would say, like, it's not your fault, you know? Like, I feel like you were. You were really put in a very strange situation.

[Amanda]

It's okay. I look at these as. As. Thank you. I look at these as major growth. I'm like, wow, look, I've grown so much.

[Ian Hecox]

Why did he pick you, though, for this?

[Amanda]

I. Because I was a writer at Channel 7, and he was like, oh, you'd be great for my show.

[Shane]

Yeah. He saw your newsreel and said, oh, if she could talk about dead bodies, she could talk about margaritas.

[Amanda]

Psychotic. First of all, I'm wearing way too many scars on that newsreel.

[Shane]

But you weren't wearing a scarf there.

[Amanda]

But I'm wearing one here.

[Shane]

Okay, let's get into this. This was called French toast.

[Ian Hecox]

Ooh, another French toast.

[Amanda]

Just another very east coast food.

[Shane]

So that when you were getting served. But now you're about to be cooking.

[Amanda]

No, I'm getting served.

[Shane]

Oh, getting French toast.

[Amanda]

Correct.

[Shane]

A recipe that you could have made.

[Amanda]

Genuinely, there's really no point to this show. There is zero point to the show.

[Shane]

Okay, okay. Here we go.

[Amanda]

Here we go.

[Shane]

Bring it in.

[D]

I hope everything is grilled. Of course. I love grilled bread. Dozen, buttery, delicious. All right, so they give you a cup of ice. Endless refills.

[Shane]

We're going to go over to ice, your favorite thing. Ice is Amanda's favorite thing. Thank God. They gave her a glass of ice. And she's like, you can come to this place. They give you a glass of ice, and it's awesome.

[Amanda]

I fucking panicked.

[Shane]

I like to chew on it like a dog panicking.

[Amanda]

I'm like, ice, ice. And there's ice in here. And it's so great that there's ice in here. And I love ice. And when we have ice, everything's good.

[D]

The drink section right now.

[Amanda]

I actually love this place for breakfast. It was the.

[Shane]

Okay.

[Ian Hecox]

I love a good dine.

[Shane]

Okay.

[Amanda]

It was so good. What am I doing?

[D]

All right.

[Amanda]

Please watch the people behind me, too.

[D]

Hot, cold winter.

[Amanda]

I love iced coffee. Hot, cold winter.

[Shane]

You did just say that.

[Ian Hecox]

I also love that this is still one camera. He had you get up and walk past. The cut is then go back and then walk from another.

[Shane]

This cut is insane when you consider that fact.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

Boom.

[Ian Hecox]

And then he has.

[Shane]

Breaking the 180 rule. But who cares?

[D]

Hot, cold winter.

[Shane]

Hot, cold winter.

[Amanda]

I am fully flipping out my heart. You know what I'm thinking about? I'm like, the guy at the register doesn't want me to be here. All these people are trying to have food. I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about. I don't even know why I'm here.

[Shane]

Yeah, you're ruining their dad matter.

[D]

The only thing I wish is that.

[Amanda]

I wish for big flavored iced coffee.

[Shane]

What?

[D]

Hey, I can't be too picky.

[Ian Hecox]

It's a giant pension. It's just a giant.

[Shane]

You're getting.

[Ian Hecox]

You just pour into a cup.

[Shane]

You're talking about this like it's some whimsical thing. They have a dispenser for coffee. And I'm not hating on that. That's fine. But I just love that you're. I love that you're trying iced coffee.

[Amanda]

And I'm like, ooh, you're trying to.

[Shane]

Talk about this, like, look at this wonderful thing they have. It's called a soda machine.

[Amanda]

Which is probably why he had me do these videos. Cause I'm like, ooh, look at this scene. Winter.

[Shane]

These videos are great for someone who doesn't know the planet who just landed on this planet. Yeah.

[Amanda]

I was like, I'm from Mercury Hello.

[Ian Hecox]

All right. Mexican salsa.

[Shane]

Yum.

[Amanda]

Yes. All right.

[D]

We fill it up now that they don't really have flavored. I'm gonna add a little bit of hot coffee to add a little bit of flavor.

[Amanda]

Why would hot coffee.

[Shane]

What? Hold on. So. Because maybe there's that. You just made iced coffee, and you're now adding hot coffee to it.

[Amanda]

It's probably a flavored hot coffee.

[Shane]

You're pretty crazy.

[D]

Crunch.

[Amanda]

Vanilla.

[Shane]

Oh, still insane.

[Amanda]

I will say hazelnut.

[D]

Tiny, tiny bit of pop.

[Amanda]

Hazelnut was my obsession session. I love hazel iced coffee.

[Shane]

I can tell you're wearing a scarf.

[Amanda]

Look at my whole.

[Shane]

This outfit is insane.

[Amanda]

It's amazing.

[Shane]

It's good, though.

[Amanda]

Milk. That bracelet. My sister lived in Kenya for a year and gave it to me, and I never took it off.

[Shane]

That's awesome. I think you told us that. Yeah.

[D]

This might be a little bit overflowing. Sometimes. I want more than I can have.

[Amanda]

What a tank.

[Shane]

Okay.

[Amanda]

Words of wisdom.

[D]

People say it gives you cancer. Don't they all give you cancer?

[Amanda]

What the hell am I talking?

[Ian Hecox]

Like, why is this, like, why? Like, we've all put sugar and sweeteners into our coffee, put milk in our coffee. Why do we need to film this?

[Amanda]

Why are we filming me getting iced coffee?

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, this is.

[Amanda]

That's the thing.

[Ian Hecox]

So odd.

[Amanda]

I felt like I just did what I. What I was given. I just made a meal out of it, you know?

[Shane]

Yeah, you really were. You. The great thing about it is you do not stop talking, which I think is the point. The guy, you were like, I need to just keep saying things, and you keep saying stuff. I think if I were to host this, especially back then, when I was younger, it would just be quiet, and I just be like, okay, we're getting coffee. All right, so we have our coffee.

[Amanda]

Which is probably why he had me do it, because I was just go. I was panic talking.

[Shane]

That's great. It's great.

[Amanda]

I'm like, winter cold. Ice. Yum.

[Shane]

Whatever. Mexican salsa. Yes.

[D]

I'm going with Splenda.

[Amanda]

It's what I like. It's what I like. And it gives people cancer. Here we go.

[Shane]

Who cares, right? It's all about the coffee.

[D]

Cover covers are over there.

[Shane]

Cool.

[Amanda]

Oh, I didn't use the straw in the last video, and now I'm gonna use a straw.

[D]

Look at that.

[Amanda]

I'm a big walking contradiction.

[Shane]

It's. It's just coffee.

[Amanda]

It just. Who.

[Shane]

You're talking it up. You're talking it up.

[Ian Hecox]

This really is dark coffee.

[D]

It's the best Part of the day. Gets you going. Turns me into a real human.

[Amanda]

Coffee. Oh, there's a stairs. Yes.

[Shane]

Yes.

[D]

Thank you so much.

[Ian Hecox]

Well, that's French toast.

[D]

Perfect.

[Shane]

Yep, you did order French toast.

[D]

All right. Can you smell that?

[Amanda]

Let's go.

[D]

The coffee.

[Ian Hecox]

Amanda, tv.

[Amanda]

What am I doing? TV writer.

[D]

So we can add a little bit of butter. That maple syrup.

[Amanda]

So cute.

[D]

We don't need to add too much butter. So the reason that I'm getting.

[Shane]

So you just get out of this video and then you're not adding any butter.

[Amanda]

Nope.

[Shane]

You're about to just eat these dry. No syrup, no butter.

[Amanda]

Because I'm freaking out inside. Trust. Trust me. I am losing it.

[Shane]

If they had brought you a plate of just four plain bread slices, not French toast, I'd be like, oh, my God. You'd have been like, oh, look at that. Gorgeous. I love. They make their bread so unique. You know, some people cook the French toast. Some people just give you bread. You would have found a way.

[Amanda]

I have the gift of gab.

[Ian Hecox]

I'm just like. He couldn't go into the back and, like, film them making it.

[Shane]

At least I know we get. And we get nothing.

[Ian Hecox]

There's no insight into.

[Amanda]

We saw you making.

[Shane]

We not even making coffee. We saw you pour coffee from a dispenser.

[Amanda]

Yeah. Next video, I am making something.

[Shane]

Oh, I'm so excited.

[Amanda]

Terrible.

[D]

I usually get the eggs, the golden grill. Same. I mean, I like differences, but I like to.

[Amanda]

As you notice, I say a word, and then I say, got this.

[D]

And she loves trying everything on the menu.

[Shane]

You're talking about this, like, this. Some sort of insane thing. It's French toast, and you're eating it without syrup, which I guess some people do, but I just think that's a little weird.

[Amanda]

I'm eating it dry because I'm panicking, man. I, like, just go with it.

[D]

I was pretty much eating her menu, her meal. All right.

[Amanda]

Okay.

[D]

We're gonna cut, right?

[Ian Hecox]

Just. No, no retake.

[Shane]

Okay.

[Ian Hecox]

Can we do that again?

[Shane]

No.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay. All right.

[Shane]

So we're just gonna keep on rolling, huh? Okay.

[Amanda]

And then I just go, excuse me.

[Shane]

If. If this. If someone came in and, like, Pulp Fiction style held up this diner, you guys would still keep rolling. And you'd be like, oh, they loved it. This place.

[Ian Hecox]

Looks at that.

[Amanda]

It's a shootout. Excuse me? Nothing.

[Ian Hecox]

I love shootouts. The guns.

[Shane]

The guns.

[Ian Hecox]

The ice cold.

[Shane]

The ice cold. The winter.

[Amanda]

All right.

[Shane]

Okay. Cutting it to a dry.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay.

[Shane]

What are you doing? What are you doing?

[Ian Hecox]

Why are you shifting the French Toast.

[D]

Sour, sweet. It's crazy when you have food, you know, you think, this might not be good. This doesn't sound good.

[Shane]

What?

[D]

But if you just think of the flavors in your head and you mix them and you put them all together, it's perfect.

[Ian Hecox]

What?

[Amanda]

What did you say?

[Ian Hecox]

What is that? Can we.

[Shane]

Can we. Good. Let's get that quote one more time.

[D]

You know, you think this might not be good. This doesn't sound good. But if you just think of the flavors in your head and you mix them and you put them all together, it's perfect.

[Amanda]

My brain. My brain was like. My brain was in survival mode. My brain was like, let me get some words. A taxi. Food mix. Perfect.

[Shane]

Did you mean to say, like you meant to say?

[Amanda]

I know what I meant.

[Shane]

Think about the flavors and you mix them up in your head.

[Amanda]

I. I think what I meant.

[Shane]

We're like, mix all the flavors on the plate.

[Amanda]

I think what I meant to say is that if you read all the ingredients and they all sound good, mixing them together will probably be good.

[Shane]

Is this still. And I'm not judging. Is this still how you eat French toast where you. You cut up. You cut it up and then you pour a little bit of syrup on each.

[Amanda]

Yes.

[Ian Hecox]

Bit.

[Amanda]

Yeah.

[Shane]

Okay. I respect that. Yeah, that's okay.

[Ian Hecox]

Is there something in that French toast?

[Amanda]

Yeah, there's like cream and shit.

[Ian Hecox]

There's like.

[Amanda]

I think you're not.

[Shane]

You're not talking about that, though. No, you don't mention.

[Amanda]

That's like I say they're sweet.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, that's something to. Yeah, that'd be something to point out because this doesn't look like traditional French toast.

[Amanda]

If you like length. If you put what's in the front, like, other than that, what is the point?

[Ian Hecox]

It's just you eating.

[Shane]

We are literally watching you eat French.

[Ian Hecox]

I mean, like, really, you were ahead of your time. This is a mukbang.

[Shane]

Yeah. Truly a mukbang with hardly anything. Yeah, it's perfect.

[D]

All right, first bite going.

[Ian Hecox]

That's a. That's a lunchtime of smosh.

[Shane]

Yeah. Smosh reference.

[Ian Hecox]

First bite.

[Shane]

First bite. You just said first bite.

[D]

Going in.

[Amanda]

Watch. I think this guy behind me just stares. Okay, we're done.

[Shane]

That's it. That's the only clip that you gave us from that one.

[Amanda]

And we're done.

[Ian Hecox]

And we're done.

[Amanda]

You don't say anything else? Cuz I literally think I just eat and then I don't talk about anything.

[Ian Hecox]

And he just like, just one tear rolls down.

[Amanda]

Yep.

[Shane]

And I'm like, it looked like good French toast, though. That makes me want French toast.

[Amanda]

Yeah. This place was amazing.

[Shane]

Okay, okay. Now we've moved on to something a little more advanced. Breakfast Maple.

[Amanda]

Here's what you guys need to know is. He was like, oh, do you have a kitchen? And I was like. I was so done living at home that I decided to move to Boston, to the city. I live with five random people I had never met just on Craigslist. And I moved in, and we all shared this huge house, and I lived in the attic. I couldn't stand up.

[Shane]

How do I not know this?

[Amanda]

I couldn't stand up tall in my room.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, my God.

[Amanda]

My room was this. I was never. I could never stand up tall in my room. The rent was jeep. And this is where I filmed this.

[Ian Hecox]

How long filmed in the attic?

[Amanda]

I filmed there. I lived there for, like a year and a half.

[Shane]

Oh, was it fun?

[Amanda]

Actually, it was really fun. It was just like a bunch of random people.

[Ian Hecox]

But was it all women?

[Amanda]

No, it was. It was. It was two couples. Oh, and then me.

[Ian Hecox]

That's like, safer.

[Amanda]

Yeah. It was wild. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I felt totally safe. It was wild.

[Shane]

Thought you lived in the attic.

[Amanda]

But I couldn't stand up tall in my room.

[Shane]

That's insane. How crouched were you in your room?

[Amanda]

Literally. Literally. This. I don't very crouched. I could only fit a bed and a dresser, but I was free. I wasn't living at home.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

And I could walk to the T. And I felt like, okay, I had a job.

[Shane]

I could walk to the T. So this was.

[Amanda]

Yeah, that's the subway.

[Shane]

So this was filmed in the kitchen. And so your roommates weren't there at the time?

[Amanda]

They weren't there. I don't think they were there. I don't know where they were.

[Shane]

Okay. They made sure to get out so you could make a breakfast bagel. Yeah. Okay. Breakfast.

[Amanda]

My. My. My cooking skills wasn't. Yeah.

[Shane]

Oh, we're about to seat pointless. This is just pointless. Hell yeah. Dude.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, whoa. Something.

[D]

My name is Amanda.

[Shane]

Okay, hold on. Let me. Let me get that again.

[Ian Hecox]

All this font is.

[D]

Hi, everybody. My name is Amanda and I'm in Somerville. I just moved into my brand new apartment. I have an island.

[Shane]

My brand new apartment.

[Amanda]

Five other Craigslist people.

[Shane]

I. I wonder if this place has an attic. And I wonder what it's like.

[Amanda]

Literally none of the stuff behind me is mine.

[D]

This is crazy for a brand new apartment.

[Amanda]

It's not brand new. It's so old. It's the oldest building.

[Shane]

In the world. Is it an apartment or is it a house?

[Amanda]

It's just a fucking house.

[Shane]

Look at this apartment that I have.

[Ian Hecox]

Literally nothing you say is the. Nothing you say is the truth.

[Amanda]

It's all a lie because it's coming from a panicked place.

[Shane]

This is my new apartment where I like to mix sangria and margarita together.

[Amanda]

My brain is sending out alert signals and they're coming out as words.

[D]

Kind of live in a little hostel, five people. Yeah.

[Shane]

Okay. You're being honest.

[Amanda]

Okay, okay.

[Shane]

Finally, the truth comes out.

[Amanda]

The thing is, I'm not purpose lying. It's just happening because there's no takes. It's one take.

[Ian Hecox]

It's one take.

[D]

Lots is going on. So today we are making a vegetarian Mediterranean egg sandwich.

[Amanda]

Not Mediterranean.

[D]

It's average and simple, but it's really not.

[Shane]

It's not Mediterranean and it sounds simple, but it's really not. It's not.

[Amanda]

I think I just put. I think I just had lettuce. Pretty positive.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, this is very Mediterranean.

[Shane]

It's Mediterranean. It's got a tomato in it.

[Amanda]

I'm the queen of making nothing into something amazing.

[D]

It's saying it's different. It's nice.

[Amanda]

Bless you.

[Shane]

Bless you.

[Ian Hecox]

Thank you.

[Shane]

Okay.

[D]

Crisp, clean. So we got a lot going on. Hey, so we got the everything bagel.

[Shane]

Okay, so we got a pretty good setup here. We have some orange slices just for decoration on the cutting board. Do not need to be there. Why are they on the cutting board? Because I understand. I understand you can have orange slices for your breakfast. They're not going to be in the bagel. I hope you got a red onion there. Tomato. Is that butter or cheese?

[Ian Hecox]

There's something out of the onion. I don't know.

[Amanda]

It's just butter on the cookie.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, I don't.

[Amanda]

Butter.

[Ian Hecox]

And there's just alfalfa sprouts decoration.

[D]

But for the side, they work.

[Amanda]

And the egg is chipotle. Spanish. That onion is Spanish.

[Shane]

That tomato is gigantic. That's a big tomato.

[Amanda]

And I need lettuce, espanya.

[D]

Making for more to.

[Amanda]

And I have three knives just in case.

[D]

I always like using.

[Shane]

I like at this stage. It is very funny that you said Mediterranean. And it's just got a lot of the standard ingredients that's making.

[Amanda]

Shut up.

[D]

Lettuce. My sister just turned into a vegetarian, so. And I'm a big.

[Ian Hecox]

Just turned into a vegetarian. Full moon.

[Amanda]

I remember when she's like, I'm a vegetarian. And my mom was like, why? Why?

[Ian Hecox]

I'm so pissed about it.

[D]

Meat. So kind of feel like I gotta eat some more lettuce. Vegetables, but works. So instead of lettuce, a little plain, I'm gonna add spinach.

[Amanda]

I just say I gotta eat more lettuce instead of lettuce. I have to eat spinach.

[Shane]

So it's spinach instead of lettuce. Pretty cool.

[D]

Spinach. We got some sprouts in honor of my vegetarian sister.

[Amanda]

Great.

[Shane]

The spinach is also a celebration of the vegetarian system. The sprouts in particular.

[Amanda]

Again, alerts to my brain are just words. Butter.

[D]

And of course, the spice. We got a little spice.

[Ian Hecox]

Jack Daniels mustard. Jack Dan, my favorite Mediterranean staple. Jack Daniels spicy southwest mustard.

[Shane]

Spice of Janet Daniels.

[Amanda]

I know for a fact that I had no mustard. Mustard. And I looked in the fridge, and my roommates only shopped at Costco, and they bought the worst. And I was like, jack Daniels, here we go.

[Shane]

You didn't even shop for this. No. They showed up with the camera crew. And you're like, I guess I'm cooking whatever.

[Amanda]

No, I. I had to. I had to supply everything. I did do everything. See?

[D]

Southwest Jack Daniels. Delicious. And my favorite, jalapeno cheese.

[Amanda]

That is true. That's still my favorite cheese.

[D]

Fantastic. I can't wait.

[Amanda]

I don't know why I'm whispering.

[D]

So a little bit of butter. We're going to grill our bagel. Toasting is just boring.

[Shane]

Okay, let's flash forward here.

[D]

About me either is I have three sisters, no brother.

[Amanda]

So you're just talking Irish. No idea what I'm saying.

[D]

Mustache, the whole shebang, jumping.

[Amanda]

I said he's Irish with a mustache.

[D]

Any way that you want. I like my eggs runny. So at the end, you can dip the yolk, the bread and the yolk, and have it delicious. Just runny. Beautiful.

[Amanda]

What? Runny and beautiful.

[Ian Hecox]

I. I can't wait to see how you cook this egg.

[Amanda]

I'm dying. I think. I think. I think I died in this video.

[Shane]

Okay, so you just put on the pan and then we just forget.

[Amanda]

Also, look to the way I cut this. My cousin, who was a chef, messaged me, was like, I need to teach you how to cut onions.

[Shane]

Oh, yeah, you're just. You're just. I'm not even an expert on cutting onions, but, yeah, it was not good.

[Amanda]

Just psychotic.

[D]

Look, I like to feel the crunch.

[Shane]

What are you doing?

[D]

Perfect bagel grilling.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, those are giant pieces of onion.

[Amanda]

Yeah. What am I doing? Also, mind you, I was running on.

[D]

Now I like to add a little bit.

[Amanda]

I was like, nuts, like anything.

[Ian Hecox]

So Hal okay, so jalapeno cheese. You just. Oh, you just dropped the block. Blocks of cheese on top of the fry.

[Shane]

Oh, my God.

[Ian Hecox]

What is that supposed to do?

[Shane]

What the hell?

[Ian Hecox]

Did you expect that to melt?

[D]

I don't know.

[Amanda]

I've never done that after that in my life.

[Shane]

Had you ever done it before?

[Amanda]

Oh, my God.

[Shane]

Dude, this is. Yeah, I need to see the results of all.

[Ian Hecox]

I want to see what this.

[Shane]

What this.

[Ian Hecox]

The egg cheese.

[Amanda]

Looks like I made such a mess.

[Ian Hecox]

Jesus Christ.

[Shane]

Bit of the result here.

[Amanda]

Sandwich is not a 700 calories.

[Shane]

Okay. Okay.

[Ian Hecox]

So the cheese is on one side. On one side of the egg.

[D]

The tomato.

[Amanda]

Make sure we get the chunk of those onions. Yeah, baby. Just in chunks.

[Shane]

Oh, good. You didn't need to cut the onions. You could have just had the rings up.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, Put one ring.

[D]

This is for you, baby sis. Vegetarian.

[Amanda]

I'm also just like. My nose is running like. I'm just like spinach.

[Shane]

You're like. Yeah. So.

[Ian Hecox]

One single spinach leaf.

[Amanda]

I'm dying. You can tell I'm dying. Hug make me really cry.

[Shane]

Oh, my God.

[Amanda]

And we couldn't cut.

[Shane]

Okay. And you loaded it up with sprouts.

[Amanda]

And for all you mean I'm dying.

[D]

Meat eaters out there.

[Amanda]

Vegetarian is not a bad way to go. It's delicious. I don't know what I'm saying. I also. I'm also. If you notice, I'm speaking in the back of my throat.

[Shane]

A.

[Amanda]

Do you feel that? I'm like, vegetarians is the easiest way to vegetarian.

[Shane]

So if all my main teachers out there. Vegetarian is pretty good. Like, they've probably had vegetarian.

[Amanda]

Fearful little girl.

[Shane]

Most people have had a salad.

[Amanda]

Listen, you're going to get a ton of facts from me in any of these videos.

[Shane]

I want someone in the comments to let us know. Somebody out there, please mix sangria with margarita and tell us your result.

[Ian Hecox]

The Amanda margarita.

[Amanda]

Yeah, it's really good. Oh, what is this song?

[Ian Hecox]

This knife is terrible. It's taking like, five years to this bagel.

[Shane]

No.

[Ian Hecox]

What is that editing?

[Shane]

No.

[Ian Hecox]

Dude, aren't we tripping right now? Oh, this is like a really bad porno.

[Shane]

That was the most insane thing I've ever seen. Oh, my God.

[Amanda]

I haven't been able to get to the end of these videos. And I forgot that he put, like, a sexy sax.

[Ian Hecox]

He put a sexy sax for the. For the egg exploding.

[Shane]

All right, here's the bite.

[D]

Just in love. I'm in love. Why is it to be in love with this?

[Ian Hecox]

He put like a soft filter over the.

[D]

Yeah, I think it is.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[D]

You don't have to worry about them.

[Amanda]

Calling you all the time. What am I over? What are you saying?

[D]

They're there. You make them and then they're gone.

[Ian Hecox]

You're not even talking about the food for joining me. You didn't even react. You didn't even say it was good.

[D]

I'll take care of the sandwich.

[Shane]

Oh, my God.

[Amanda]

All I say is excuse me. I say excuse me so much.

[Shane]

I cannot explain how insane if. If you're just listening to this, the. The. The soft filter they put on. This is so insane. It just looks like it's fogged up.

[Ian Hecox]

It looks like a flashback sequence.

[Shane]

And the music is insane.

[Amanda]

And I don't react to the bite.

[Ian Hecox]

No, no.

[Amanda]

You just talked about a boyfriend, not calling me, which is not how I feel about boyfriend.

[Shane]

And you did not explain how it tasted at all for a second. And also, honestly buy it. I don't think it looked good. It looked bad.

[Amanda]

So behind me is like a weird yellow wall. Like, nothing looked good in that.

[Shane]

No, this was insane.

[Amanda]

And these are the type of videos I was sending to my family to be like, look, I did, like, a fun video.

[Shane]

Guys, check it out. Probably why they're like, she's never gonna.

[Amanda]

That's why. When I was like, I'm moving. Now I understand why they didn't want me to move to la.

[Shane]

Oh, yeah, they saw that. They were like, what are you gonna do?

[Amanda]

Don't do it. You're not gonna. Honey, you're gonna get your heart broken. Thanks, guys, for going on that rockin journey with me.

[Shane]

Oh, my God.

[Ian Hecox]

We got one more though, right?

[Shane]

No, I think. Hold on.

[Amanda]

The next one is.

[Shane]

All right, baby. So. That was incredible.

[Ian Hecox]

Wow.

[Shane]

Amanda. Bravo.

[Amanda]

Ice cold winter.

[Shane]

Ice cold winter.

[Ian Hecox]

Mexican salsa.

[Shane]

The amount of quotes in that. Yeah, incredible.

[Amanda]

It's very quotable. And also it showed me how far I have come.

[Ian Hecox]

I feel like we should, like, make that bagel just.

[Shane]

We should do that.

[Amanda]

Yeah. I have not put cheese on the egg while it's cooking in a while.

[Ian Hecox]

We should try that.

[Shane]

Let's do it. Let's do it. Okay.

[Amanda]

Okay.

[Shane]

Now we get to see Ian's cooking show.

[Amanda]

Finally I can rest.

[Shane]

Getting schooled on pasta Buddha Nesca with Ian Hickok. So, Ian. Yeah. You did this show when Smosh kind of went under for a little bit. So, yeah, I made a lot of free time.

[Ian Hecox]

I made. No, I. No, I made. I started the deal process when it was kind of like in limbo, and then this shot like, after Smashing came back and everything.

[Shane]

Okay. I think I remember you doing this. And they'll be like, yeah, Ian's doing a cooking show. And I was like, oh, okay.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane]

I didn't realize he was, he was into that.

[Amanda]

Okay.

[Ian Hecox]

Like, on that level.

[Shane]

So this was called. Or we'll get, we'll get the. You know what? Let's just see this intro.

[Amanda]

I love it.

[Shane]

Shall we?

[Amanda]

Are you feeling what I was just feeling?

[Ian Hecox]

I mean, I, I, I don't even know if I've actually seen the final cuts.

[Shane]

The intro. The intro is what I, I only watched the intro and I already was laughing. Yeah. Not because it's bad, but because it's just, It's Ian.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. It's very whole.

[Shane]

It's. Listen to the most wholesome thing you're ever gonna hear Ian say.

[Ian Hecox]

This is the most earnest you'll ever get.

[Shane]

It's, it's, it's shocking. As a viewer, if you watch a lot of our content, you're gonna be like, who is this man? Here we go.

[Amanda]

Here we go.

[Shane]

I have.

[Ian Hecox]

I'm Ian. I'm Ian Hecox, a mediocre comedian and a terrible cook. I'm off to learn from the best kind of teacher there is. Nanas, man. Because it was. I think they were. I think. Well, I think they changed the name of it or what.

[Shane]

So this first one, this first one, they don't have you saying the title. It's a weird change.

[Amanda]

This feels like a Paul Rudd movie. Like the beginning of a Paul Reb Mov.

[Shane]

Hi, I'm Ian Hecox. And he's like, hey, what's going on? I'm Ian Hecox.

[Ian Hecox]

Today I'm cooking with Flora Anona, bringing her Italian flair to the kitchen. Hi, Laura.

[Shane]

Ian.

[D]

Hi.

[Shane]

This is Sunday at Nana's.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, yeah.

[Shane]

This is Sunday at Nana's.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, that's not even. That was like a placeholder.

[Shane]

Yeah. They had not gotten your intro. They hadn't gotten your intro yet.

[Ian Hecox]

No.

[Amanda]

Yes, go back. Go back.

[Shane]

Intro.

[Ian Hecox]

No, they were definitely supposed to replace that. Anona bringing her Italian flair to the kitchen.

[Shane]

Hi, Laura.

[D]

Hi.

[Shane]

Hidden. This is Sunday at Nana's.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, see, that's the.

[Shane]

Not. Then they had an AI voice filling that in.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. No, because they needed me to, like, come in and do a bunch of vo and I couldn't do it in time.

[Shane]

Oh, wow.

[Amanda]

Sunday and Nana.

[Shane]

Yeah. And then I think I recorded Nice to meet you. This is Sunday and Nanas.

[Ian Hecox]

And I might have recorded some at my house. So I think that's why some of the VO doesn't sound incredible.

[Shane]

This is. But this is so wholesome for those just listening. The visuals are so sweet. It's as food Networky Lifetime channel as you can get.

[Amanda]

Way better. Way better than mine.

[Shane]

Sunday at Dennis with Ian Heatcox.

[Amanda]

Oh, look at all those little plates.

[Shane]

So I have not watched anything else beyond this point.

[Amanda]

So excited.

[Shane]

We're about to see you with an old Italian. Yeah, the salsa, AKA the sauce.

[Ian Hecox]

So, Flora, what are we making?

[E]

Today we make puttanesca. Okay, I'm gonna show you the way. I do.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay.

[Amanda]

I love her.

[E]

You want to put this salsa in a bowl?

[Ian Hecox]

The whole thing?

[E]

The whole thing. Okay. Dealing it like when you want to kill somebody. Squeeze out.

[Shane]

Oh, this is a messy job. What's happening? Oh, right. Oh, you need your apron.

[Amanda]

Oh, my God.

[Shane]

He's just like, okay.

[Amanda]

She's like, when you want to kill.

[Ian Hecox]

Someone, she's like, you gotta. You gotta smash up all the tomatoes up there.

[Shane]

Like the way that I killed my ex husband. Whoa.

[Amanda]

She's like, put on this apron. Shut up.

[Ian Hecox]

She's like, I am quirky. I am Italian. You kill your husband. So what?

[E]

Oh, you feel better now? You can.

[Amanda]

Her daughter's like, new boyfriend, and she's like, come cook with me. I'll find out if you're good.

[Shane]

For you, my daughter.

[E]

Peace. I'm going to start the garlic.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay. How long have you been making puttanesca?

[E]

When I was maybe 8, 9 years old. One night.

[Amanda]

We don't have in that bowl.

[Shane]

Close up shot of Ian's hands just touching tomatoes.

[Amanda]

They're so white. And you're just like. It does. I swear, you're just.

[Shane]

The camera flanked the piano on. I think what makes this funny to me is how. Well, this is the opposite of yours. It's shot so well. Everything is so crisp. So it's just Ian just there. That's what's funny to me, though.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, yeah. It was like a really, like, good crew.

[Shane]

It's a really well done show. But just seeing it is so funny.

[Ian Hecox]

Taste, mate.

[E]

In the cabinet, she found a little pepper, garlic, olives, and she said, I'm gonna make some kind of salsa.

[Amanda]

The snail is greedy.

[Shane]

I want Ian to just be like, what the.

[Amanda]

Snan has been waiting for this video to come out.

[Shane]

She's. Yeah, she's still.

[Amanda]

I hope your hands are in that bowl the entire.

[Ian Hecox]

I just leave there.

[E]

We have a dinner. I put a garlic. Two gloves of garlic. The caper.

[Ian Hecox]

I love capers.

[Shane]

Yeah, it's looking good already.

[E]

It's ready for salsa.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay, great.

[Amanda]

Oh, good.

[Shane]

Oh, thank God.

[Amanda]

God. Let's get that out of here.

[Shane]

Okay.

[E]

Italian parsley.

[Shane]

Okay. Got the parsley. This music is so.

[Ian Hecox]

It's like the Sims.

[Shane]

I feel like I'm building an.

[Ian Hecox]

It's a great British Bake off for sure.

[Amanda]

I love it. She loves putting things in your hands.

[Shane]

Throughout the filming of Sunday at Nana's. Cause you were with a different Nana every episode.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane]

Was there ever sexual tension? Always.

[Ian Hecox]

Always.

[Shane]

Lots.

[Amanda]

Stop. Really? She's like, give me a hand.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. And then she just. Good, strong.

[Amanda]

Yes, strong hand. Kill my ex husband. Kill my husband.

[D]

Kill my husband.

[Shane]

Well, she's my husband.

[Ian Hecox]

She's making me do stuff because that was part of the show. Like, they wanted me to, like, do the work. Like they wanted me to.

[Shane]

Each shot, she's pouring salt into your hands.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Amanda]

They wanted you to do the work.

[Ian Hecox]

They wanted me to do the work. They didn't want them to do. Shots of tequila. Right now. That's what we need the salt for.

[Amanda]

Oh.

[Shane]

Oh, Tequila sour. Amanda loves sour tequila.

[Ian Hecox]

Yum.

[Amanda]

Sangria.

[Ian Hecox]

Just kind of spread it in there.

[Shane]

Oh, she just hits you.

[Amanda]

She's like, no, she just loses.

[Shane]

You know, I gotta say, if you. You should put these, like, on. If you have a dating profile, put this. Just put this whole clip on.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, okay.

[Shane]

Because I think it sells you pretty.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

Because you're just like, hey, yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

And she's like.

[Shane]

God. I meant this whole thing, you know? It's very sweet. It just. Ian, we. I don't feel like Smosh ever sees you like this.

[Amanda]

It's so sweet.

[Shane]

It's very sweet.

[E]

I need the Pepe. Pepe.

[Shane]

Pepe. What are you.

[E]

Pepe.

[Shane]

You see a guy like, oh, he's.

[Amanda]

There just, like, stirring.

[Ian Hecox]

Pepe.

[E]

Pepe.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, pepper.

[Amanda]

Wait, Pepe. I thought I was the only man here.

[Shane]

What? Who else? Oh, my God.

[E]

Smell it.

[Ian Hecox]

She knows I'm not that stupid.

[Amanda]

She's like, yes.

[E]

Okay. Last time.

[Ian Hecox]

All right.

[Amanda]

This music feels like you're climbing up a mountain.

[E]

I will put in the caravato leaves. They have to be cook.

[Amanda]

Oh, step two.

[Shane]

Oh, the zucchini.

[E]

Look at the way I cut the zucchini.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay, Let the zuck it up.

[E]

Let me see. And then we're going to try the zucchini.

[Amanda]

Don't give him. Do. Give him a knife towards you.

[Shane]

Hello.

[E]

No, this you call zucchini.

[Shane]

Look, I know, I'm sorry. She just roasted her ass.

[Amanda]

Whip you.

[Shane]

That was your first one I've never roasting.

[Ian Hecox]

I've never cut like a vegetable like that. That's hella scary. Cutting a knife towards you. I don't think I just did that recently with an apple and I. And I cut into my finger.

[Shane]

Oh, so you didn't learn anything from these dance? Her.

[Amanda]

Her thumbs are probably hard. Oh, yeah, my Bubba's thumbs, she would cut and I'd be like, ah. But it wouldn't go through.

[Shane]

It's just. Al, jump forward here to. Let's see if there's another step.

[Ian Hecox]

Pasta time.

[Shane]

Oh, pasta time.

[E]

Right inside you.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay.

[Amanda]

She look so stressed.

[Shane]

Oh, that looks good. Oh, so you're grilling or you're. You're frying?

[Ian Hecox]

Frying this.

[E]

Put some garlic.

[Ian Hecox]

Just kind of sprinkle it.

[E]

Yes.

[Amanda]

Okay, this is little bit.

[E]

That's it.

[Ian Hecox]

All right.

[E]

Open the pepper. Little bit Pepe.

[Shane]

Got to love this basil.

[Ian Hecox]

This is mint.

[E]

Slice very thin.

[Ian Hecox]

Thin slices over this.

[Amanda]

God.

[Shane]

Great.

[Amanda]

Yeah, you guys have great chemistry.

[Shane]

Great chemistry. You guys are a great team.

[Ian Hecox]

What can I say? Bananas love me.

[Amanda]

My God. Do you have her collar?

[Shane]

I want to see this final result.

[E]

Oh, remember me. L memory.

[Ian Hecox]

That's great. Can we try the zucchini?

[E]

Try the zucchini.

[Shane]

Oh, yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, I've never had zucchini with. With vinegar.

[Shane]

And it's.

[Ian Hecox]

It gives it a nice little punch.

[Shane]

I like this.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, exactly.

[Shane]

What does she. What if she. What, actually punched you right there?

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. And they probably would have knocked me out.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

Was it. Was it. Is it very awkward to film these things?

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

Okay.

[Ian Hecox]

Well, I don't know, like, because like the thing is like all of the. All of the nanas are just like nice and like, they're just like regular people.

[Amanda]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

And they were just like, I don't know, kind of like happy to share like something that they'd been making forever. Like, there was like one lady that like had this Mac and cheese and then this like one of them was like this like 89 year old man and he was like, he was like a. He was like a public defender.

[Shane]

No, I was only. Find this guy if he's not even a professional.

[Ian Hecox]

None of them are professional.

[Shane]

They're just, they're just grandma's. They're just.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, yeah. There was like one that was like, type of cooks. This, she was the mom. This guy owns a restaurant and she was his mom and she made this like this like Shanghai knees. Like chicken, like, like stew.

[Amanda]

Wow.

[Ian Hecox]

Like use like just an entire chicken. Dude, is so. Hell yeah. It was so good.

[Amanda]

What about this 89 year old public defender.

[Ian Hecox]

We made spaghetti bolognese, I think.

[Shane]

Okay.

[D]

Wow.

[Ian Hecox]

And it was pretty good.

[Shane]

So all these natives, they, they lived up to the hype.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. There was. Yeah, Yep. Yeah, it was, it was, it was all, it was all great. You know, then you'd have like, never mind.

[Amanda]

What is happening here?

[Shane]

All right, so I mean, I feel like this seems like the kind of the end.

[E]

Me too.

[Ian Hecox]

Flora, this was so amazing. Thank you so much for taking me into your house.

[E]

You learned something.

[Shane]

Oh, my God, yes.

[Ian Hecox]

Just.

[Shane]

Thank you.

[E]

You're welcome.

[Ian Hecox]

Ciao.

[E]

Ciao.

[Shane]

Oh, yes, I learned something. All right, let's. Let's get out of here. Let's. I'm done. And I'm done.

[Amanda]

You're gonna stay.

[Shane]

You're gonna stay. You're not gonna leave.

[Ian Hecox]

You're gonna be my next husband.

[Shane]

I'm an impression. Beat you. Wow. Wow. So you did about what, seven episodes of this?

[Ian Hecox]

Something like that, yeah.

[Shane]

Oh, I, I, I checked it out. It's got like a couple thousand views, so.

[Amanda]

Okay, cool. Nice. Mine has like 25.

[Shane]

Yeah, that's it. Which actually I, that makes me nervous that 25 people saw you make.

[Ian Hecox]

Did you check this on YouTube or Facebook? Because they went out on YouTube. Okay.

[Shane]

Oh, these were more Facebook.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, they were Facebook. Like original.

[Amanda]

Yeah, don't sleep on the Facebook views.

[Shane]

Okay, then never mind. I don't know how these were. You guys both had cooking shows and I. I never had a cooking show.

[Amanda]

Well, we can always change that. We can do a cooking show for you, Shane. I'll get my phone and we'll come.

[Shane]

Dark kitchen and just go someplace. Follow me to a Chili's and we'll just one shot and I just go.

[Amanda]

Then you're going to see how many flavors of margaritas there are because there's a lot more than just strawberry mar.

[Ian Hecox]

They call these things fajitas.

[Amanda]

Wow.

[Ian Hecox]

I love it. The, the steam, the vegetables.

[Shane]

Yum. Oh. Oh. I know it's gonna be, it's gonna be called Tender time with Shane. And I go to restaurants and I order chicken tenders no matter where I am. And if they don't serve chicken. Chicken tenders. I leave.

[Amanda]

Oh, okay. That sounds promising.

[Shane]

Yeah, but that. So every episode is me reviewing a different set of chicken tenders.

[Amanda]

I love it.

[Shane]

From a different place.

[Amanda]

I love that.

[Shane]

Maybe some episodes I'll make chicken tenders.

[Amanda]

That sounds great.

[Shane]

I think that, look, I think this is a good show.

[Amanda]

I would actually watch you make bake stuff and make your bread.

[Ian Hecox]

I Would.

[Shane]

Okay. Okay.

[Amanda]

Butter me up with shade. Okay, wait. We have a fun end segment.

[Shane]

All right, so Amanda and I want to. We want to figure out an end segment for this show. So we're going to experiment a little bit. And this first end segment we're trying out, it's called Smart mouth.

[Amanda]

Smart mouth.

[Shane]

So we say something really interesting. We'll take turns.

[Amanda]

Yep.

[Shane]

Say something super interesting, and if the other person doesn't know about it, you win.

[Amanda]

Yep.

[Shane]

It's a success. You.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, okay.

[Shane]

So you need to say a cool fact.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay.

[Shane]

That, and if anyone else here at this table knows it, then you did, you did not succeed it. Correct. Smart mouth.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay.

[Amanda]

Yep.

[Shane]

All right, Ian, you want to participate?

[Ian Hecox]

Yes.

[Shane]

Okay. Okay. And you're, you're also in it. If you know about something, then you go first. Okay. I, I, I struggled with this, I thought. But I, I have one that I think is pretty cool. It's a fact that I love. Okay, do you guys know the largest animal that's ever existed on Earth? The largest animal? Yes. You do? You do? Okay, because I'm about to tell you. And it.

[Amanda]

T. Rex, obviously.

[Ian Hecox]

No, that's so far.

[Amanda]

Hip hip hippo.

[Shane]

No. No.

[Amanda]

Is it Megalodon?

[Shane]

Are you about to ruin this?

[Ian Hecox]

I mean, I was gonna say that.

[Shane]

Megalodon. No. Blue whale.

[Ian Hecox]

Damn it.

[Shane]

The blue whale that exists today is the largest animal that's ever existed. The blue whale, it's bigger than any animal. All the dinosaurs, everything. There's no proof of anything that's been bigger than a blue whale.

[Amanda]

Bigger than the Megalodon?

[Shane]

Bigger. Bigger than. Blue whale's. Gigantic. It's a hundred feet long, and it's, like, so big. And some. Another factor I learned, apparently they're so big that you could, like, a person could fit inside their veins.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, I've heard that, like, the heart, like their heart is the size of, like, a car.

[Shane]

Right?

[Amanda]

Oh, hey, that's amazing.

[Shane]

It beyond enormous.

[Amanda]

Okay, you.

[Shane]

So I, I won.

[Amanda]

You win.

[Shane]

I didn't think. I thought Ian was gonna know that.

[Amanda]

No, I didn't know that. Okay, Ian, what's yours?

[Shane]

All right, Ian.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay, wait, do, do you have to. Okay, so I could just tell you.

[Shane]

You could tell me and we'll be honest if we knew it or not.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay.

[Shane]

Okay.

[Ian Hecox]

Gandhi was a stretcher bearer in a war in South Africa.

[Shane]

Okay. Yeah, I didn't.

[Amanda]

What's a stretcher bearer?

[Shane]

What is a structure?

[Ian Hecox]

He, like, carried people on stretchers.

[Shane]

Oh. Whoa. Oh. I didn't, I, I didn't know that. I didn't know that.

[Amanda]

Okay, I guess you win.

[Shane]

You got.

[Amanda]

That's.

[Shane]

You got that pretty wild. That's a pretty niche fact.

[Amanda]

Pretty crazy, but hey, that works. My fact sucks because I did it food related and it's kind of stupid.

[Shane]

No, that makes. That makes a lot of sense.

[Amanda]

What was the first thing planted in space?

[Shane]

Would that be potatoes?

[D]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

Yeah.

[Shane]

All right.

[Amanda]

Thank you so much for coming.

[Shane]

This has been great. This has been smart mouth segment that we're trying. Oh, successful.

[Amanda]

I love it.

[Shane]

So Amanda has failed Smart mouth. But we'll maybe bring it back and you'll have another chance.

[Amanda]

Sure.

[Shane]

Thank you guys for watching Ian. Thank you for being here.

[Ian Hecox]

Thank you.

[Shane]

Thank you for spending a Sunday with us, Nana.

[Amanda]

Yeah, Nana. We love you, Nana.

[Ian Hecox]

You're welcome.

[Amanda]

Man, you got beat them out of you.

[Shane]

Thanks for watching. Comment down below. Your favorite Amanda quote.

[Amanda]

Yes. And Dutch oven cookbooks. I mean.

[Shane]

Yeah, yeah, let us know. Some Dutch oven cookbooks.

[Ian Hecox]

Let's get a sheet.

[Shane]

All right. Bye.

[Amanda]

Bye.

[E]

You never can be a cook.