#66 - Teaching Amanda Internet Lore

Summary

Podcast Summary: Smosh Mouth Episode #66 - Teaching Amanda Internet Lore

Host/Authors: Shayne Topp (Shane), Amanda Lehan-Canto (Amanda), and Guest Trevor
Release Date: October 14, 2024
Duration: Approximately 67 minutes

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1. Introduction and Guest Welcome (01:30 - 05:00)

The episode kicks off with Shane welcoming listeners:

Shane (01:30): "Hey, welcome to Smosh Mouth. I'm Shane."

Amanda introduces herself alongside Shane and welcomes their special guest, Trevor:

Amanda (01:30): "And I'm Amanda. What's up? We have a very special guest with us, Trevor."

Shane reminisces about a past episode where Amanda was unaware of the "Harambe" meme, dubbing her the "offline queen of the Internet." This sets the stage for the episode's primary focus: educating Amanda on significant Internet lore.

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2. Amanda's Trip to Greece with Her Sisters (03:04 - 08:40)

Amanda shares her recent experience traveling to Greece with her three sisters, orchestrated by their mother. The trip was significant as it was the first time the sisters traveled together without partners or children.

Amanda (03:20): "No partners, no kids, no anyone. Just five women."

She describes the challenges of traveling with multiple personalities and the prolonged airplane journey:

Amanda (03:55): "The airplane is, like, 12 hours."

Despite initial anxieties, Amanda praises her sisters for being incredible companions. A recurring challenge during the trip was choosing dinner, highlighting the classic sibling dynamics of differing tastes and preferences.

Amanda (04:19): "Choosing dinner at night was the hardest thing I've ever done in my life."

She delves into the cultural aspects of Greece, noting the deep-rooted presence of Greek mythology in everyday life and the local traditions they encountered, such as shepherding and olive oil harvesting.

Amanda (07:56): "Extra virgin olive oil should be green. And it should be spicy."

Amanda also recounts humorous and memorable incidents, including her younger sister's popularity in Naxos and an unforgettable experience at a local bar where the floor was literally set on fire during dances.

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3. Introduction to Internet School (20:03 - 26:44)

Shane introduces the concept of "Internet School," a segment dedicated to educating Amanda about pivotal Internet events and memes she might have missed.

Shane (20:03): "Internet University. Duluth. Iud."

Amanda expresses enthusiasm yet admits to being a visual learner, sometimes missing out on information unless presented visually.

Amanda (20:48): "I will say that is very fun."

Shane begins listing various Internet phenomena to gauge Amanda's familiarity, setting up an interactive exploration of Internet culture.

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4. Exploring Internet Memes and Events (26:44 - 52:27)

a. Milkshake Duck (26:44 - 33:45)

Shane explains the "Milkshake Duck" meme, originating from a 2016 tweet by Pixelated Boat. The term describes how viral sensations are quickly canceled once negative information surfaces.

Shane (26:59): "The whole idea is that whenever someone becomes a viral sensation, they are basically canceled."

They discuss notable examples, including Ken Bone and the "Zoom Cat Lawyer," illustrating how sudden fame can unravel personal histories.

Shane (27:59): "Ken Bone became instantly famous... people discovered his Reddit history."

Amanda acknowledges some of the examples, while Trevor adds humor by impersonating the "Zoom Cat Lawyer."

b. Trevor's D&D Campaign (16:41 - 18:03)

Trevor briefly shares his involvement in a Dungeons & Dragons campaign with Mythical, highlighting collaboration with Rhett and Link.

Trevor (16:41): "I'm playing a bard, and his name is Plen Gowell."

c. Damn Daniel and Other Memes (23:52 - 26:27)

Shane quizzes Amanda on various memes like "Salt Bae," "Damn Daniel," and "Don't Hug Me I'm Scared," noting which ones Amanda is familiar with and expressing excitement about introducing her to new ones.

Shane (21:35): "Have you ever heard of Bronies?"

d. Bean Dad (42:37 - 52:27)

One of the most detailed discussions revolves around the "Bean Dad" phenomenon. Shane narrates a Twitter thread by John Roderick, where he shares an overly dramatic and pedantic story about teaching his daughter to use a can opener. The narrative's meticulous and exaggerated nature led to widespread ridicule, with Amanda and Trevor expressing frustration over the portrayal.

Shane (45:00): "It was the whole point to be like, hey, let me teach you how to do this."

They critique the way Shane portrays the father's over-the-top storytelling, emphasizing how it backfired, leading to his "cancelation" without prior notoriety.

Amanda (50:21): "I hate this guy so much."

e. Kony 2012 (56:39 - 64:47)

Trevor provides a summary of the "Kony 2012" campaign, originally intended to make Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony famous to facilitate his arrest. However, the campaign faced backlash due to misinformation and questionable fundraising practices.

Shane (57:20): "It was a thing that really nobody was against."

They discuss the effectiveness and ethical implications of viral campaigns, questioning the actual impact and transparency of funds raised.

Shane (61:32): "Everyone can agree that child soldiers are bad. But where did the money go?"

f. Other Internet Phenomena

Additional mentions include "Dashcon," "Salad Fingers," "Loss," and the quirky antics of "Mudang," a baby hippo causing mischief at the zoo, adding humor to the conversation.

Amanda (66:11): "So he's in a zoo?"

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5. The Impact of Sudden Internet Fame (Throughout Discussions)

A recurring theme is the double-edged sword of viral fame. While it can bring attention and success, it often comes with unforeseen negative consequences, including personal invasions of privacy, mental health strains, and the challenge of managing newfound popularity.

Shane (40:10): "He became the biggest celebrity... he eventually had to drop out of school and do homeschooling because it was so insane."

Amanda and Trevor reflect on the undesirable aspects of viral fame, expressing a desire to avoid such scenarios.

Amanda (41:31): "This is insane."

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6. Conclusion and Closing Remarks (66:52 - 67:25)

As the episode wraps up, the hosts hint at continuing their "Internet School" in future episodes, acknowledging they didn't cover all planned topics like "Dashcon" and "Don't Hug Me I'm Scared." They reaffirm their camaraderie with Trevor and express excitement for future discussions.

Shane (67:19): "Thanks, Trevor, for joining us, as always."

Trevor (67:21): "Thank you for having me. This is awesome. I love this shit."

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• On Sudden Fame and Privacy Invasion:

  Shane (40:10): "He became the biggest celebrity... he eventually had to drop out of school and do homeschooling because it was so insane."

• On the Absurdity of Bean Dad's Story:

  Shane (45:00): "It was the whole point to be like, hey, let me teach you how to do this."

  Amanda (50:21): "I hate this guy so much."

• On the Milkshake Duck Phenomenon:

  Shane (26:59): "The whole idea is that whenever someone becomes a viral sensation, they are basically canceled."

• On Amanda's Greece Trip Challenges:

  Amanda (04:19): "Choosing dinner at night was the hardest thing I've ever done in my life."

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Key Takeaways

• Educating the Uninitiated: The primary goal was to bring Amanda up to speed with significant Internet events and memes she was unaware of, highlighting the vastness and rapid evolution of online culture.

• Consequences of Viral Fame: Through examples like "Milkshake Duck" and "Bean Dad," the podcast delves into the unpredictability and potential pitfalls of achieving sudden Internet fame.

• Humor and Camaraderie: The hosts maintain a light-hearted and humorous tone throughout, balancing discussions on serious topics with playful banter and personal anecdotes.

• Reflection on Modern Media: The episode underscores the powerful influence of social media in shaping narratives and individual lives, often without considering the long-term implications.

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This episode serves as an insightful and entertaining exploration of Internet culture, emphasizing the importance of understanding and navigating the complexities of viral phenomena.

Transcript

[Amanda]

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[Amanda]

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[Shane]

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[Amanda]

And I'm Amanda. What's up? We have a very special guest with us, Trevor.

[Trevor]

Hey, I'm Trevor.

[Shane]

Trevor's here. Hey, before we get into just talking some smack at the beginning, this episode is one I've been very excited about for a while. We're doing Internet school. As some of you remember. One of the last times Trevor was here, we discovered that Amanda didn't know what or who Harambe was. Oh my God. Yeah. It became its own viral meme. You became the offline queen of the Internet.

[Amanda]

I know. And I never saw myself like that. But then I was like, yeah, I guess that makes sense in the YouTube world.

[Shane]

But ever since these months after, I've been thinking about all the past Internet, like stories and events that were huge that you may not know about. I've created a catalog and I've broken a bunch of the stories down. We're gonna go through and see which ones you don't know, and then we're gonna get to Tell you about them. It's so much fun.

[Amanda]

I will say that is very fun.

[Shane]

It's great.

[Amanda]

It's hard when people start talking about something, and I just go, mm. And then they look at me and go, you don't know what we're talking about.

[Shane]

Well, you're about to know it all. You're going to know it all. Yeah.

[Trevor]

Two minutes ago, when you guys were talking about credit.

[Amanda]

Yeah. We were talking about adult things.

[Shane]

We were talking about credit cards before.

[Trevor]

Yeah. I was like, I don't know. I don't get it.

[Amanda]

We'll explain that to you next time on credit Card school.

[Shane]

We didn't talk about this last week, but, Amanda, part of the reason why we had a bunch of episodes without you in these past months was because you were off in Greece.

[Amanda]

I was off in Greece.

[Shane]

So cool.

[Amanda]

I had my own Mamma Mia. Experience, minus all the dads.

[Shane]

Okay.

[Amanda]

No dads were there.

[Shane]

No Pierce Brosnan.

[Amanda]

No. Which would have been sick. That would have been cool. My mom decided to organize a trip with me and all my sisters together. I have three sisters, and we haven't done a trip with us. No partners, no kids, no anyone. Just five women.

[Shane]

Wow.

[Amanda]

On a plane to Greece. It was unbelievable. I think we all had anxieties before, because, I mean, we all have our own lives. All the sisters haven't traveled together, like, on an airplane.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

The airplane is, like, 12 hours.

[Trevor]

Oh, God.

[Amanda]

We haven't been on an airplane together in so long. That's many, many personalities.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

Any. But my sisters were incredible. Like, my sisters were like. It's like we all have the same conversations with the people we cared about. We're like, what if this happens? What if this happen? What if a fight blows up? What if we can't choose dinner? Which was the hardest part of the whole trip.

[Shane]

Choosing dinner.

[Amanda]

All of us.

[Shane]

Because everything is good.

[Amanda]

Everything is good. But some is, like, very touristy.

[Shane]

Right?

[Amanda]

And I heard that touristy places don't cook fish. Well, anyways, that's just, like, a whole other thing. Everything is so good. But choosing dinner at night was, like, the hardest thing I've ever done in my life. Cause it would be one person would say one thing, and we'd all be like, well, we don't know where we're going. It'd be like, I just don't want to be on this strip because it feels very touristy. And then we're like, well, we're fucked.

[Shane]

Did you guys not have an agenda?

[Amanda]

My mom had things planned. Like, we had an E bike tour planned. We had a boat, a little. A little motorboat planned. We had. She had things planned.

[Trevor]

I got a motorboat planned for this Saturday.

[Amanda]

No, no, no. Trevor, Trevor. Every time you. Come on.

[Shane]

What's up, dude? Y. All right.

[Amanda]

Every time Trevor comes on, he turns into such a dick. Am I right?

[Shane]

What?

[Amanda]

Am I right?

[Shane]

Oh, my God. All right.

[Amanda]

He's just sitting there waiting. He's just sitting there waiting. He's like, I got a motor.

[Shane]

I got a motor plan.

[Amanda]

He like, almost screamed it.

[Shane]

Oh, man. Okay.

[Amanda]

Yeah. So me and all my sisters went on a motorboat. Uh, Yep. It was pretty amazing. It was pretty funny walking through Greece. Cause people be like, sisters. Oh, thank the gods. Like, I was like, what? The gods? Zeus.

[Shane]

The gods.

[Amanda]

Zeus was a real vibe there.

[Shane]

Really?

[Amanda]

Oh, everyone talks about Zeus.

[Shane]

I always. I guess I wondered how big. Like. Cause we love Greek mythology in America. Like, we talk about it, but I wonder there if it's actually like. It's everything, really.

[Amanda]

The places that I went to. So I went to Naxos, which is a small island, and then I went to Athens for two days.

[Shane]

Cool.

[Amanda]

Which it is. Everything that is looming over the city, like, whether it's a mountain or an ancient ruin or whatever, is all Greek mythology. And it's all. I will say, yes, it could be for the tourist, for them to play it up a little bit, but it is part of their life. There are ancient ruins all over all these places. And I did learn that a lot of people will find ancient ruins and not. And just kind of like there's a whole, like, war about it. Like, who found the ancient ruin? What kind of people? Are they connected with that they can actually make money off of it.

[Shane]

Interesting.

[Amanda]

It's so wild there.

[Shane]

Wow. But Naxos, probably so much shit that people are just finding all the time.

[Amanda]

Oh, yeah. So much like Naxos was very, I feel like, old school. Like they still had shepherd houses, which I didn't understand what that was. It's like men who spend the entire season, they build this little house out of stone and they have one window and another window. There's no light, there's no bathroom, nothing. And they stay there in the hills and they like frickin get goats and they herd goats and they're just actual shepherds. And he's like, I think it's a dying off thing because women don't want to live there and mate with them. And I was like, well, oh, yeah, yeah, probably, yeah. Eight months in the dark without a toilet. I'm sorry. Hello.

[Shane]

That's a little rough.

[Amanda]

But, yeah, he was the guy who gave us, like, this ebike tour, was very, like, wanted to bring back a lot of traditions and keep the music alive. And then they had, like, a harvest. I learned that the harvest there for the olive oil could only be, like, done by certain.

[Shane]

Whoa.

[Amanda]

You had to be, like, generational in order to do the specific olive oil harvest.

[Shane]

By the way, olive oil, I'm sure it's crazy there.

[Amanda]

I learned so much. Extra virgin olive oil should be green. And it should be spicy.

[Shane]

Spicy.

[Amanda]

And it should be spicy in the back of your throat. And it goes away. When the color goes to yellow. It starts to be virgin olive oil. And then it starts to be olive oil. And you shouldn't keep it for longer than, like, a year, maybe even, like five months.

[Shane]

Wow.

[Amanda]

Should be spicy, huh? I ate olive oil every day.

[Shane]

Drink it.

[Trevor]

Drink it.

[Shane]

Just drink it.

[Amanda]

Yep. It was incredible. Greece was amazing. My sisters were amazing. That's a lot of personalities.

[Shane]

Yeah. A lot of. No, you sent me the photo of your sister wearing a chosen shirt. Like, not. Not like a chosen shirt. She was organically wearing a gas station, like, wolf shirt. Yep.

[Trevor]

That's awesome.

[Amanda]

My younger sister showed up in a straight up chosen shirt.

[Shane]

Badass.

[Amanda]

And I was like, oh, my God, It's a chosen shirt.

[Shane]

She's like, what the fuck are you talking about?

[Amanda]

She was like, this is my girlfriend's shirt. Okay, back up.

[Shane]

But it was out of my face.

[Amanda]

She wore it all the time. She actually. I will say, when we went to Greece, the person who got the most flirted with was my little sister.

[Shane]

Really?

[Amanda]

They loved it. She has, like, an undershave. She wore, like, a backwards hat. They were, like, so into it. They'd be like, you're nice. You're nice. But your sister. Your little sister. I was like, okay. That was, like, their vibe.

[Shane]

So funny.

[Amanda]

It was so funny. They were so great that everyone in Naxos was so unbelievably sweet.

[Shane]

Wow.

[Amanda]

It was wonderful. And we went swimming, and we did stumble into a bar that my sister like, let's go to this place. And we're like, okay. Where we danced and they lit the floor on fire.

[Shane]

You showed me footage and threw plates at us.

[Trevor]

What?

[Amanda]

Which sounds fake. Sounds like an American fake tale.

[Shane]

It sounds like they were trying to get you out of there. Well, the owner.

[Amanda]

The owner danced the whole time. And I asked them. I was like, do you guys just do this for tourists? They're like, no, we've been doing It Every night for five months. What? And they just go through plates and you'll be dancing, and then a woman in this leopard outfit. Well, I have a stack of plates, and she's staring you in the eye. And then it's just like, throws it at you and it crashes on the ground.

[Shane]

Why? You showed me footage. I didn't believe you. And then you showed me footage of the owner of this bar dancing on the ground that's on fire.

[Amanda]

Yes, correct.

[Shane]

Like, they're just spraying oil onto the ground, lighting it on fire. Opa. Yeah.

[Amanda]

It was unbelievable. And this guy, like, wanted to teach us to dance. Like, I felt so welcomed and loved and it was like, so, so wonderful. And apparently in September is not their touristy season. It's like the beginning of the end of their touristy season.

[Shane]

Interesting.

[Amanda]

But get this. I walked into this little tiny mart, very small, with my sister, and she called. She was like, oh, Amanda, grab a water. Cause the tap water isn't bueno to drink.

[Shane]

Oh.

[Amanda]

So you have to, like, buy these big bottles. And she called me Amanda. And this guy was like, are you Amanda from Smosh?

[Trevor]

No way.

[Amanda]

I'm not kidding.

[Shane]

Really?

[Amanda]

I'm not kidding. Oh, my God. Cause I was like, there's not a chance anyone in Greece. Which was great. I got to walk around and just be like, woo. This man, his name was Nykthimos. I wonder if he's listening right now, if he's listening. He's amazing. His name is Nikki Mos, which he told me that a lot of Greek men are named after saints.

[Shane]

Okay.

[Amanda]

They all have very religious saint names. There's a church, like, in every second. And he was like, I watch you, Amanda from Smosh.

[Shane]

That's awesome.

[Amanda]

My fucking sister's like, do you want a picture? And he's like, no, no, no. Okay. No.

[Shane]

Why?

[Amanda]

Why would I want a picture? Yeah. My sister's like, okay, I suck. But he was so nice.

[Shane]

Wow.

[Amanda]

Like, have you ever been to the States? He's like. He's like, new York, they all.

[Shane]

I'm like, new York to anyone who's not in the United States. There. It's like, New York City is America.

[Trevor]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

But he was so sweet. He was so sweet. And it was just an unbelievable experience. I've never swam in the sea. It was so salty and beautiful. You didn't have to do anything. You just floated to the top.

[Shane]

That's awesome.

[Amanda]

It was incredible.

[Shane]

The photos you showed me are unbelievable.

[Amanda]

It was incredible.

[Trevor]

That's crazy. I can't imagine going. I mean, I was in Idaho recently and I.

[Amanda]

Same thing.

[Shane]

Just like motorboat.

[Trevor]

Okay, Stop being motorboat. No, I was gonna say. And I spent an entire day golfing with my brother. Like, 12 hours of golfing. And I wanted to. I didn't want to see him for like three months afterward. I can't imagine going on a trip with your sister, Trevor.

[Amanda]

I know. I understand. Truly. All of us, apparently, like, we all had worked out all the many scenarios that could possibly happen, but we were like, oh, yeah, I'm gonna be with you for eight days straight, including 10 to 12 hour flights, sitting next to you while you watch your movie. There was definitely times where it was like, I need space. But we got to the place where we'd be like, I need space. And we'd be like, and you take that space. And we all had books. But then after day six, you're just like, in it. Then you're like, hey, where's my sister?

[Shane]

Aw.

[Amanda]

It's like, good morning. Where's my sisters?

[Shane]

No, the photos, the photos. You showed me a photo of like all of your sisters and your mom. And it looks like a rom com. Like, it looks like some sort of like sweet movie type of thing.

[Amanda]

Except you didn't know what happened before that. So.

[Shane]

Yeah. Okay.

[Amanda]

There's just many conversations. It would be like, I don't. I'm good. Okay. Are you good? Me and my sister made up this whole thing that we were, like, frustrated with my mom and she was in the backseat and we were like trying to drive with a map. Because no GPS works in Naxos, so you have to have a big map and there's all one ways.

[Trevor]

What's that? No, I'm kidding.

[Amanda]

I hate you. And we would be driving and because my mom was mad at us, we decided. So if someone was mad in the group, then you decided to be extra kind to the others. So we had this whole thing where we were driving. My mom was so mad at us. Cause we kept getting lost and, like, trying to go through these crazy streets. And so we were trying to be kind to each other. And I'd be like, thank you, sister, for getting me to the destination. She'd be like, no, thank you, sister, for being such an excellent driver. No, thank you, sister, for being able to hold up the map while I drove. No, thank you, sister. It was like a whole fucking thing. It was like dynamics. Dynamics.

[Shane]

It was like, ugh, that's so funny.

[Amanda]

And now I just wake up in the morning with my husband. I'm like, hey, he's like, hey. I'm like, you're not mad at me? I'm like, do you want orange juice or not? No problem. You make your decision. All good.

[Shane]

So funny. That's so funny. Cause when I hang out with my brothers, it's like the complete opposite. We're all so chill that, like, nothing. Nothing happens.

[Amanda]

That sounds fun.

[Trevor]

My brother just projects his insecurities onto me.

[Shane]

Does he watch the show?

[Trevor]

I don't care if he does.

[Amanda]

Shane can't handle it. Shane can't handle. He can't handle it.

[Trevor]

He does. He needs to hear it.

[Shane]

Oh, my God.

[Trevor]

He just bullies me endlessly. And I love him and I, you know, and I love my nephews, and he's great, but my brother needs to learn how to deal with his problems.

[Amanda]

Oh, my God.

[Shane]

Damn, Trevor.

[Amanda]

Keep this in and we will clip this.

[Trevor]

Yeah, no, feel free, Matt. Dude, grow up.

[Amanda]

Calling him out, I will say, calling out your siblings, it can be kind of good in a way. But then you have to. It could be years until you, like, smooth out.

[Shane]

That's a commitment.

[Amanda]

Smooth it out. It's a commitment. So well done.

[Trevor]

No, he's just going to do it again. If he watches this, he's just going to be like, yo, buddy. No, I think that you're stupid. And, you know.

[Amanda]

How old is he?

[Trevor]

He's two years older than me.

[Amanda]

Okay.

[Shane]

Very close. See, I don't have siblings. My brothers aren't close in age.

[Amanda]

That's why.

[Shane]

So they're more like. It's probably more of a dynamic of really cool uncles. Oh, we're brothers. But even between them, we're all chill. We just don't have issues. But people who have siblings that are right next to each other.

[Amanda]

Mine's like, two years older. I know.

[Shane]

It can be a lot crazier. Anyways.

[Amanda]

Anyways. Wow. So that was Grease, and I'm back now.

[Shane]

Well, I want to get into some Internet school things, but really quick. Before that, Trevor, I saw an announcement for something that's really cool that you're part of, on the mythical side of things. They're doing D and D. Oh, yeah.

[Trevor]

No, I'm pumped about it. Cause I haven't played D and D in a long time, but now everyone is, like, paid to be there, so they have to be there. It's not like a thing where people are gonna, like, it's slowly gonna peter out. I actually get to have a D and D campaign.

[Amanda]

Are you the dm?

[Trevor]

No. No. So tj, who works on the Rhett and Link channel, he Works really closely with Rhett and Link. He's the dm and he's a big D and D nerd. And I'm actually the only person in the group that has played D and D before.

[Shane]

Rhett and Link are gonna be playing it for the first time.

[Amanda]

Oh, my God. That's amazing.

[Trevor]

It's actually cool, though. So we have. It's myself, Emily, Lily, and Mikayla. And then we have one character. The first session is Rhett played him and then Link played him. But he's gonna be played by a new guest every week or every session that we do. So Damien's coming on.

[Shane]

Really?

[Trevor]

Yeah. So that'll be fun.

[Amanda]

Amazing.

[Shane]

Hell, yeah.

[Trevor]

No, it's going to be a good time. It's interesting playing D and D with people that have never played before. But it's a lot of fun because, you know, we're just.

[Shane]

We know it.

[Amanda]

I understand it.

[Shane]

None of us had played it, so. Yeah.

[Amanda]

Except for Damian.

[Trevor]

Okay.

[Shane]

Oh, well, Angela had played some. And Chance. Chance and Angela actually, they've.

[Amanda]

They've actually played.

[Shane]

But Amanda and I were the. We're the freshman for the baby.

[Trevor]

Yeah. Now, my character's awesome. I'm playing a bard, and his name is Plen Gowell.

[Shane]

Yep.

[Trevor]

And when I.

[Amanda]

Excellent name.

[Trevor]

Yeah.

[Shane]

Well, exactly what you were doing with that one.

[Trevor]

Because when they were. They were like, we're gonna do art of the character. So what do you want your character to look like? So I just sent a picture of Glenn Powell, and I was like, my character's name is gonna be playing out.

[Amanda]

Obsession with Glenn Powell. You watch Twisters as well?

[Trevor]

We watched it together.

[Amanda]

I know. Did you know that Trevor and I stood in the front of the stage? So we went to Twisters.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

Him and I in a group, and we went in front of the stage and pretended to be Twisters while everyone was sitting there.

[Shane]

Well, that's awesome. Yeah.

[Amanda]

Yeah.

[Shane]

Did anyone think you guys were.

[Trevor]

I think a couple.

[Amanda]

I think a couple people. I think a couple people ran for their lives and went into a barn door where they're like, where did that barn appear?

[Shane]

Yeah, it just appeared.

[Trevor]

Raven. Raven was like, you should go up to, like, the front and then, like, just spin in a circle.

[Amanda]

It was actually Raven's idea.

[Trevor]

And then. Yeah. And then it was like, Mandy, did Glenn see Glenn?

[Amanda]

Well, he could have.

[Trevor]

He could have.

[Amanda]

He wasn't there yet, but he did show up.

[Trevor]

Glen Powell was there, and then there was a lady that was screaming that ran up to the front and was screaming with a sign. That then had to be escorted out of the theater.

[Amanda]

Yes. Because there's, like, a rodeo scene in Twisters, and they don't like how they mistreat animals, which is true. So she ran up, but it was a long time of her yelling before anyone did anything. So it's just Glenn Powell, Daisy Edgar Jones kind of standing there looking, like, very nice. And I almost felt like I wanted to join her in the fight, but then I was like, I can't.

[Trevor]

Yeah.

[Shane]

I thought she was protesting for the twisters. Like, hey, they mistreated the twist. Giving Twisters a bad name.

[Amanda]

Yeah, no, that would have been awesome.

[Shane]

That would have been crazy.

[Trevor]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

So anyways, Glenn Powell.

[Trevor]

Yeah.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Trevor]

Glenn Powell.

[Amanda]

That's awesome.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

Want to be Glenn Powell.

[Trevor]

Yeah, it's on. It's. Well, not unfortunate. It's on mythical society. So it won't be, like, on the. On the main channel or anything like that. But it's been fun so far, what we've done.

[Shane]

That's great, man.

[Trevor]

Yeah.

[Shane]

Well, sick. Shall we get into Internet school?

[Amanda]

Yeah, I would love to.

[Shane]

That's the. That's just what we're calling it. I don't know what we're. Internet University. Just Internet lectures. Iu.

[Trevor]

Iu. Internet University. Duluth. Iud.

[Shane]

I was going to say, you get your Internet.

[Amanda]

That's awesome.

[Shane]

You get your Internet.

[Amanda]

Going in sucks. Going out also sucks.

[Shane]

Duluth was the first city I thought of that started with D. Okay, I'm going to do a list here off the bat, Amanda.

[Amanda]

Okay.

[Shane]

I'm going to list out a bunch of huge Internet events, and I'm gonna see how much of them you are aware of. I want you to be honest, because I think it's great if you don't. Because then we get to talk about it.

[Trevor]

Yes. Yeah.

[Shane]

But these are some that we're not gonna talk about today. But I just wanna see if you're aware of them.

[Amanda]

I just want you to know, also, I'm a visual person, so sometimes you'll say something and I might not know.

[Shane]

But you may not know. Okay, that's fine.

[Trevor]

All right.

[Shane]

That's fine. Are you aware of Dramageddon?

[Amanda]

No.

[Shane]

Sarah, are you aware of Gamergate?

[Amanda]

I've heard about it.

[Shane]

You've heard? Probably in this office.

[Amanda]

Why do I feel like I'm on the stand?

[Shane]

Right. You've probably heard of Gamergate. Cause we have. I have a lot of gate, and.

[Amanda]

Ian has been talking about it a lot.

[Shane]

It was a big deal, and we're in the gaming sphere, so people are aware of It. Do you know about Leroy Jenkins?

[Amanda]

This sounds really familiar. Yeah, it actually genuinely does.

[Shane]

Leroy Jenkins sounds familiar.

[Amanda]

Okay, it does sound familiar.

[Shane]

Okay.

[Amanda]

Okay.

[Trevor]

It's a good one.

[Shane]

Have you ever heard of the world record egg.

[Amanda]

No. 0%.

[Trevor]

Wow.

[Shane]

Do you know who Salt Bae is? Yeah. Okay. You know Salt Bae?

[Trevor]

I do.

[Shane]

We got a hint, honey.

[Amanda]

I.

[Shane]

Do you know Salt Bae? Do you know about the GameStop meme stalker?

[Amanda]

Is it when everything went to shit with that guy from GameStop?

[Shane]

I think you might be sort of.

[Amanda]

Yeah, there's a guy who did the whole GameStop like, crazy thing where he's making a bunch of money and stuff like that.

[Shane]

Okay. You got the. I think you're aware of it. Yeah, yeah. Have you ever heard of West Elm, Caleb?

[Amanda]

No.

[Shane]

That was a cruel. No, sir, we're not. I'll. I'll cover that some other time. That one blew my mind.

[Amanda]

Okay.

[Trevor]

I'm sad we aren't getting into all of these. These are all great ones.

[Shane]

We could. We could. Well, if we have time at the end, maybe we'll. We'll cover one of them. You have to have known about Kony 2012.

[Amanda]

No.

[Shane]

You don't know Cody 2012.

[Trevor]

Oh, my God.

[Amanda]

If you show me a picture maybe.

[Shane]

Dude, no. I think Kony 2012.

[Amanda]

No.

[Shane]

Okay.

[Trevor]

Dude. Okay.

[Amanda]

But wait, wait.

[Trevor]

I remember being in my 8th grade geography class and watching a Kony 2012 video.

[Amanda]

Wait a second. Maybe. Maybe if you show me the video.

[Shane]

Okay, it's totally fine. No, it's totally fine. Okay. Okay. This one. Amanda, you will be such a fan. I can't wait. I don't think we could show the whole video. I. We would do this on. On our TikTok or something where we'd show you this. Have you watched or are you aware of Rebecca Black's Friday?

[Amanda]

Of course.

[Trevor]

Okay, Friday.

[Amanda]

Friday, of course.

[Shane]

There we go.

[Amanda]

100%. Didn't her dad pay for that music video or something?

[Shane]

Probably.

[Amanda]

Yeah, I know about that.

[Shane]

My friend showed me that video before it blew up because we had a lot of friends who were, like, kind of in that sphere of music, because I was. I was. Yeah, we had a lot of friends who were trying to get in the music industry, and that was a production company that a lot of people kind of were in. And so she showed me that video when it had, like, 20,000 views.

[Trevor]

Oh, my God.

[Shane]

And she was like, bro, watch this. And I was like, oh, my God, this is crazy. And then it became the biggest thing.

[Amanda]

You thought it was crazy good or crazy bad. It's bad. Of course.

[Shane]

There's no defending it.

[Amanda]

It's so bad.

[Shane]

But I think Rebecca Black leveraged it so well. She owned it. And she has, like, a remix of it that's like, a hit right now. Yeah.

[Amanda]

Jesus.

[Shane]

Yeah, she's crushing it. Okay. Have you ever heard of Bronies?

[Amanda]

Like, Jab Bronies?

[Shane]

No.

[Amanda]

Okay.

[Shane]

Bronies. Oh, man.

[Amanda]

No, no.

[Shane]

Do you know who? Do you know about Damn Daniel?

[Amanda]

Yes, of course. Damn Daniel with the shoes.

[Shane]

Okay.

[Amanda]

Know about this.

[Shane]

Damn, Damn Daniel. Fuck out of the game with the shoes.

[Amanda]

I love Damn Daniel.

[Shane]

Here's one that I do not think you will know and I think you'll love. It is, don't hug me. I'm scared.

[Trevor]

That's on my list.

[Shane]

That's on your list? Amanda, you're gonna love this shit so much. Awesome. You're gonna be obsessed with this. I can't wait to show you. All right, those were some that I listed. Now we're gonna get into some that I'm gonna tell you about. And even if you are aware of them, I think it'll be fun to talk about them.

[Trevor]

Can I go through my list really quick and see? Please?

[Shane]

I don't know.

[Trevor]

There might be some overlap. So.

[Shane]

Yeah, minor.

[Trevor]

Like, very kind of a little bit more like you. I feel like I have, like, a lot of YouTube websites on here, but. Okay. Salad fingers.

[Amanda]

I know salad fingers.

[Trevor]

Okay. Okay.

[Amanda]

I actually watched a lot of YouTube in college.

[Trevor]

Okay.

[Shane]

All right.

[Amanda]

I hated salad fingers and also couldn't stop watching it. I was never the creepy little hands.

[Trevor]

I do a pretty good salad finger. The feeling of rust against my salad fingers is almost orgasmic.

[Amanda]

Wow. That's actually really good.

[Shane]

Like, it's 10 years ago when everyone was doing salad fingers impressions.

[Amanda]

Yeah.

[Trevor]

Loss.

[Shane]

I think I know what this is.

[Trevor]

You guys don't know.

[Shane]

Loss.

[Amanda]

No.

[Shane]

Loss.

[Trevor]

Loss.

[Amanda]

No.

[Shane]

Oh, man.

[Trevor]

I don't know if I can explain loss right now.

[Shane]

Okay.

[Trevor]

We don't have to get into loss. Happy tree friends.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

No.

[Shane]

No.

[Trevor]

Okay. Charlie the unicorn.

[Amanda]

Yeah. No, of course.

[Shane]

Wow. Oh, you don't know Charlie the unicorn?

[Amanda]

I don't think I do. Like I said visual. If I saw it, maybe.

[Trevor]

Okay. There's. There were, like, challenges that went around that were, like, very, like, dangerous. Like, people were dying from them. So there's, like, the cinnamon challenge.

[Amanda]

I know about the cinnamon challenge.

[Trevor]

What about Tide pods? People eating Tide pods.

[Amanda]

I have heard about Tide pods.

[Trevor]

Okay. What about the Benadryl challenge?

[Shane]

I haven't heard about no Benadryl challenge.

[Trevor]

That's a recent One kids are just eating a bunch of Benadryl.

[Shane]

Okay. Okay.

[Trevor]

Yeah.

[Shane]

I feel like dumb shit, like, that has happened forever, where it's just like, oh, how can I die?

[Trevor]

Yeah. No, literally. And then, like.

[Amanda]

No, literally. Anyways, I did it.

[Shane]

Now Benadryl is going to be behind a glass box. Like Tide pods are.

[Amanda]

Yeah, they are.

[Shane]

Tide pods are 100% behind. Like, at a lot of places, they're behind glass because people were doing dumb shit.

[Trevor]

The last one I had was like. Are you familiar with, like, a creepypasta Is.

[Amanda]

Oh, well, I am.

[Shane]

Only because we did an episode. Oh, you did it. And we're going to do another.

[Trevor]

Sorry, not a fan of the show.

[Shane]

I need to get your Rex. I need to get your creepypasta Rex. Cause we read a couple last year and we're gonna read more this year.

[Trevor]

Okay. No, there's some really good ones.

[Shane]

Okay. Let's get into some of mine that I have that we can get into.

[Amanda]

Okay, Ready?

[Shane]

And I think you'll probably be aware of some of these things, but we're gonna talk about it regardless.

[Amanda]

Okay.

[Shane]

It'll be fun to go back memory lane. The first thing I wanna talk about is a. It's a meme, but it's also a term used for people on the Internet, and it is called milkshake duck.

[Amanda]

I know about this.

[Shane]

You know about this?

[Amanda]

I know about this.

[Shane]

Okay, you probably know about it because I've brought it up.

[Amanda]

Kiana brought it up.

[Shane]

Kiana brings it up. It's a term that's used. It's like someone's. Someone becomes a milkshake duck. Someone's milkshake ducked type of thing. It all stems from this tweet from 2016 by this account named Pixelated Boat. Who. Really funny account. But they tweeted this joke. This is June 2016. They tweet. The whole Internet loves milkshake duck. A lovely duck that drinks milkshakes. Five seconds later, we regret to inform you the duck is racist.

[Amanda]

Racist.

[Shane]

That is the. That is the whole joke. And the idea is that whenever someone becomes a viral sensation, they are basically canceled. They immediately get canceled because we discover all of their past. One of the most recent ones is. Well, actually, what's crazy, we'll go back even further. That was treated in June of 2016. Then October of 2016, Ken Bone, who I've talked about several times now, I.

[Amanda]

Know about Ken Bone.

[Shane]

He became instantly famous as this, like, sweet, endearing, like, impartial guy who's undecided on the election. And then he did a Reddit ama and then people discovered his Reddit history and it was crazy. He had a lot of questionable stuff, but some other instances of this. There was Zoom cat lawyer in 2021, in 2021, when people were doing Zoom meetings and stuff, there was these lawyers that were. That were talking. It was probably over like a case or something. And he had a filter of a kitten over his camera and he's freaking out in the Zoom call. He's like, guys, I'm not a cat. I'm not a cat. He's freaking out. He doesn't know how to get the filter off. You know how you can have filters?

[Amanda]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Trevor]

Mr. Ponton, I believe you have a filter turned on in the video settings. You might want to.

[Shane]

Can you hear me, Judge?

[Trevor]

I can hear you. I think it's a filter.

[Shane]

It is, and I don't know how to remove it. I've got my assistant here. She's trying to. But I'm prepared to go forward with it. That's. I'm here live. It's not. I'm not a cat.

[Trevor]

I can. I can see that.

[Shane]

It became huge. Everyone was like, this is so funny. And then within 24 hours, people learned it came out that he had used federal agents to torment a former lover with drug raids and bogus charges back in 2014.

[Trevor]

Oh, my God.

[Shane]

So that's diabolical.

[Amanda]

What?

[Shane]

Yes. So he became.

[Amanda]

So the universe purposely put the kitten on.

[Shane]

I think that kitten thing was there to expose him. Not only is it just like, oh, he tweeted some crazy stuff. It's like, oh, you full on were psycho.

[Amanda]

You think a hacker like did that?

[Shane]

No, no, no, no. I think it was all an accident. But it shows, like becoming super famous. You better not have dirt.

[Amanda]

Yeah.

[Shane]

Another one that I. This is probably one of the most play by play Internet events that I was like there for. I was there all day for this and you know about it is Cinnamon Toast shrimp guy. Oh my God. I was there for every tweet when he. So he first. He was a comedian, a podcast host, minor following on Twitter. He posts this photo of him with like the shrimp tails in his. In his cinnamon toast Crunch. He's like, guys, I found shrimp in my cinnamon toast Crunch. What's the deal? Becomes huge. He's giving a whole thread of the. Of like how he's trying to contact them. Their response was really bad. This whole thing's playing out. People are just losing their minds over it. But what happened was it became huge. And then every person from his life and past came out being like, hey, this guy's just a huge liar and a piece of shit. Now, it never got fully proven from my research, it never got fully proven that there wasn't shrimp in the cinnamon toast crunch as much as just his character was just destroyed because friends were like, he's. Or not friends. But people were like, he's awful. And a lot of his exes came out being like, he is the worst human. And so within 24 hours, this all blows up. And then his social media is basically scrubbed. He has to leave the Internet and everything, because people are what is wrong.

[Amanda]

I mean, it's like they don't understand that if they go out and do this crazy thing. Well, I mean, he didn't know he.

[Shane]

Was going to viral, but no, people were like, he just wants attention so bad.

[Amanda]

Yikes.

[Shane]

This dude just wants attention. So it became questionable whether this was real or not.

[Trevor]

That was a crazy one. Because, you know, in the mythical kitchen, when that was all happening, we were like, we got to do a cinnamon toast crunch shrimp recipe.

[Shane]

Funny.

[Trevor]

We got to make, like, a recipe to be like, hey, actually, cinnamon toast crunch shrimp is good. And so we made a TikTok. Like, literally that day, I think we went out and got, like, shrimp, and Josh made something.

[Amanda]

Was it good?

[Trevor]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

That's awesome.

[Trevor]

Yeah, we make good food.

[Amanda]

So sick.

[Trevor]

Thank you.

[Shane]

Yeah, it was good.

[Amanda]

Yeah.

[Trevor]

Nice.

[Shane]

Did I tell you I met a chef youtuber? I don't think he'd mind me saying this, because it was all joking. I met a chef youtuber recently named Nick. Who. He's a really great chef, does awesome, awesome stuff. And I was talking to him about mythical kitchen. I was like, yeah, I know the mythical kitchen. They're the only chefs I know. Otherwise. He's like, yeah, man. He's like, they're crazy. They're a crazy bunch. I was like, yeah, they are.

[Trevor]

Is it Nick DiGiovanni?

[Shane]

Yeah, yeah.

[Trevor]

No, Nick DiGiovanni's awesome.

[Shane]

He was so cool.

[Trevor]

He's the sweetest guy. And most like, sort of like, mild mannered. He came in and did a video with us, and I made a beef Wellington for him. Actually, that was the first ever beef Wellington I made. Fun fact, but I've heard this story.

[Amanda]

I think.

[Shane]

No, you're Gordon Ramsay.

[Amanda]

Oh, I'm talking about Gordon Ramsay. Nevermind.

[Trevor]

No, Nick Deville. Nick digivani. That was the first beef Wellington I made. And yeah, he was just this kind of, like, sheepish. Just like, super nice. Guy. And then just being like, on camera with Josh, it was just like the funniest thing.

[Shane]

He, like, almost won MasterChef.

[Trevor]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

Whoa.

[Shane]

Yeah, it was wild.

[Amanda]

Yeah.

[Shane]

It was cool to meet him.

[Trevor]

No, he's great.

[Shane]

But yeah, he was like, crazy bunch. He's like, they're crazy. Yeah. I was like, well, yeah.

[Amanda]

Do you see yourself as crazy?

[Shane]

Well, I think Josh. Josh is all the crazy for you guys.

[Trevor]

Yeah. And it like seeps over, I think. Like, it's so funny because you get so many comments of people. Like, everyone's just morphing into Josh. I think we're all crazy, you know, in our own ways.

[Shane]

But you guys are also comedy focused, which a lot of other chefs aren't.

[Trevor]

Yeah. But Josh is far and away the craziest.

[Shane]

He's a psycho.

[Trevor]

Yeah, he's a psycho.

[Shane]

No, Josh is fully insane. He owns that fast.

[Trevor]

Yeah.

[Shane]

Anyways, back to Milkshake duck and viral people.

[Amanda]

Yes.

[Shane]

Sometimes people go super viral and they aren't milkshake duck. But what's also really interesting is when people go viral, when they don't even realize they're going viral or they didn't do anything themselves to go viral. Yeah. And the most recent one that you're definitely aware of is Hawk to a girl. Yeah, it's hard to avoid girl. So we're not on that thing. Yeah, we're not going to talk about Huck to a girl. Okay.

[Trevor]

Why not?

[Shane]

No, we're not going to talk about Hock to a girl because everyone knows. Everyone listening knows about Hock to a girl.

[Trevor]

Do you know about Big Chungus?

[Shane]

My dad works in B2B marketing. He came by my school for career day and said he was a big roas man. Then he told everyone how much he loved calculating his return on ad spend. My friends still laugh at me to this day. Not everyone gets B2B, but with LinkedIn.

[Trevor]

You'Ll be able to reach people who do. Get a hundred dollar credit on your next ad campaign. Go to LinkedIn.com campaign to claim your credit.

[Shane]

That's LinkedIn.com campaign. Terms and conditions apply. LinkedIn, the place to be. To be.

[Amanda]

This sounds familiar.

[Shane]

Funny. So talk to a girl. Just. Just to preface for people listening, she had no social media. She was not a person who was in the entertainment industry. Not trying to become famous. Street interview just kind of says. Says a quick thing. Just like, yeah, huck to a spit on that thing. And everyone loves it.

[Trevor]

Referencing fellatio, of course, becomes the hugest thing.

[Shane]

She's now got a Podcast. She's doing all sorts of shit. Talk to her.

[Trevor]

Stop, stop.

[Amanda]

That's actually brilliant.

[Shane]

It actually is. I think it's pretty smart.

[Amanda]

What are we going to. What is she going to talk about?

[Trevor]

They unclear.

[Shane]

Hock tua. Anyways, sounds awesome. So she's become huge for this small little tidbit of a thing. What's crazy is this is not the first time this has happened. It's probably happened many times, but there is an instance that is even, I think, wilder than this. And it happened 10 years ago. Basically what happened was there's this teenage dude working at Target. He is minding his business. He's working the checkout counter, just checking out someone's items. And a teenage girl who thinks he's cute takes a photo of him without him realizing. Oh yeah. And he's. And in the photo, he's not even looking. Here's. Here's the photo. Looks like kind of Justin Bieber, you know, kind of vibe. His name, name tag says Alex. She's just a young 16 year old dude. She posts this on Twitter just saying, yo, like, look at this cute guy, like kind of thing.

[Amanda]

Oh, really? That's brave.

[Shane]

I know. So she posts this on Twitter and that photo becomes insanely viral. Super huge. And people find his account because they know that it's. It's Alex from Target. Target? Who's Alex from Target? He becomes the biggest celebrity. They find his Twitter account. He gets 650,000 followers within a week. Yeah.

[Amanda]

Oh, no.

[Shane]

Without having done anything. Without even knowing that a photo was taken and posted of him.

[Amanda]

Is it illegal to take a photo and post it?

[Shane]

I guess not, no.

[Amanda]

Okay.

[Shane]

Ethically, I do think it's strange. I think that's a conversation. There was a photo recently of a guy who, at an airport who had a huge backpack and someone posted it. And that kind of went viral too. But it also is still the conversation of like, hey, don't take photos of people without them 100%. Anyways, so this goes so viral that within a week he is invited to go on the Ellen show on Ellen as Alex from Target. He goes on Ellen in just his kind of uniform from Target. And he's just there and he's like, yeah, I'm Alex from Target. That's what I do. I don't know what's going on. He becomes the biggest celebrity.

[Trevor]

Is insane.

[Shane]

Alex from Target.

[Amanda]

How long ago was this?

[Shane]

10 years ago.

[Amanda]

Where is he now?

[Shane]

So glad you asked that because I did some research. I did some research because I actually wasn't too familiar with Alex from Target 2014. I wasn't super online, at least not on Twitter. And this was just the biggest deal. Whoa. But he did an interview with People this year.

[Trevor]

How have you not heard?

[Amanda]

Why haven't they talked to me about this?

[Trevor]

I have not heard.

[Amanda]

Why haven't they checked in with their source me?

[Trevor]

Oh, goodness.

[Shane]

So he talked about it and what happened was. So he didn't know the photo was taken. I have a bunch of notes from this. From this article. He didn't know the photo was taken. Within 24 hours. His number was leaked.

[Amanda]

Oh, no.

[Shane]

And his phone got blown up so much by people texting him, by messing fire that basically his phone, he's like, my phone basically stopped working. Like, it was just so insane. This is someone who's not. This is also 2014. Like, being a social media personality is not really as much of a thing.

[Amanda]

Yeah.

[Shane]

Yeah. And he's. He admits in the interview, he's like, I was not a very online person. You know, similar to how to like, not an online person. Not really caring about that. And so he doesn't know what's happening to him. He goes to. But at his school, he's 16. There were like, news outlets would be waiting outside of his school. People started treating him, obviously, so differently that he eventually had to drop out of school and do homeschooling because it was so insane.

[Trevor]

Oh, my God.

[Amanda]

Oh, this is just bad.

[Shane]

And he then. And I was thinking about this because, you know, hawk to a girl doing all these things and everyone's joking like, oh, she's doing a podcast. But he's talking about how immediately he had so many people pressuring him, being like, you need to take advantage of this. If you don't take advantage of this, you're like, what are you.

[Amanda]

I don't want to.

[Shane]

He's like, I hate this. He said he immediately hated just trying to be an entertainer. He's like, I'm not an entertainer.

[Amanda]

Yeah, don't force that on people.

[Shane]

But he had a management team suddenly, because it was like, yeah, you've got all this stuff.

[Amanda]

Vultures.

[Shane]

I need to do brand deals. I need to do all these things. And so I think he tried to do YouTube for, like, two years. He was trying to leverage this thing because he was being told to. But he said he hated it the whole time. And then at. Eventually he just was like, I'm done. I'm leaving it. I'm stopping. And he has no social media anymore. He deleted his Twitter account. Whoa. In it, he did say. He said this in the article that he works at UPS now, so he's now Alex from ups, but he's a lot happier now, it seems. He seems like he's a chill dude who likes being off grid.

[Amanda]

Where's this chick who posted the photo?

[Shane]

I don't know. There it was also, I guess it was said in the article that she, the person who posted on Twitter, wasn't the one who took the photo.

[Amanda]

Dude, that. That, honestly, is.

[Shane]

It's all weird. It's all weird. I think it's weird behavior to post a photo of someone, to take a photo of someone without them knowing and especially posted online. I think you're the weird person.

[Amanda]

I agree.

[Shane]

I always think you're the weird one.

[Trevor]

I had a friend, because I remember this happening, and my friend TJ worked at Target, and then I went to Target, I took a picture of him, and I tweeted TJ from Target as.

[Shane]

A joke, not in an intent to.

[Trevor]

Go viral or anything. I just thought it was funny.

[Shane]

I just can't believe it's just so funny, man. It's weird.

[Amanda]

That's a world I cannot understand. I cannot understand why that photo makes people go, whoa. And it's the biggest thing in the world.

[Shane]

I know. Well, once something becomes popular, then people are just into it because it's what everybody's into. Once that. Once that avalanche starts, it's hard to stop it, but it is interesting. So that's.

[Amanda]

But he didn't get milkshake ducked.

[Shane]

He did not get milkshake ducked. No, he was fine. He was clean because. Well, he's 16, for one. He also just didn't really have a presence. Same with Hawk to a girl. Just no Internet presence to judge. So it's just like, here's this brand new person on the Internet.

[Amanda]

This is insane.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

I would not want to blow up like that. I would not want to, like, get my name like that.

[Shane]

That must be.

[Amanda]

No.

[Shane]

Working at Smosh, because when I worked on Disney, like, I got recognized a little bit, but surprisingly not much at all. Smosh has been nice because it's been a very gradual.

[Amanda]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Shane]

You'll slowly. Your numbers just slowly rise. You know, for the first couple years at Smosh, I would see my numbers just.

[Trevor]

Yeah.

[Shane]

And so I'm like, okay. Like, I can lean into this as opposed to just waking up one day and you have a million followers.

[Trevor]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

No.

[Shane]

Especially if you never wanted to be in the entertainment industry.

[Amanda]

Exactly.

[Shane]

Awful.

[Trevor]

Yeah.

[Shane]

Okay, so that was a Twitter thing. Here's another Twitter thing. And this is someone who basically milkshake, ducked themselves. Canceled. This is another phenomenon, is people basically sharing things they just shouldn't share. Oh, and canceling themselves. If you're very online on Twitter, it's also a very millennial meme. I feel like I don't know if you've heard of Bean Dad. Yeah, you've heard of Bean Dad.

[Amanda]

I'm gonna keep saying that sounds familiar, because it's true.

[Shane]

Okay. Bean dad is a very specific story, but people on Twitter will reference it a lot. So Bean dad, basically, there was this guy. He was in a band. He's this older guy. He's a dad. He was a podcaster. He was kind of a podcaster, but he was in a band. So he had a minor following on Twitter. But he one day decides to post a thread on Twitter, and he wanted this to be, like, a charming learning story for people. Like a story that people will read and go, huh, that's so cute. And he tells this story about how it was a rainy day, and he was at home doing a puzzle, and his daughter, who's nine years old, was hungry and wanted. And he said, oh, eat some beans. Eat a can of beans. And she goes, I don't know how to open it. And instead of teaching her, he wants her to figure out how to open the beans herself. And here is the saga, because I have the entire thread with us.

[Amanda]

Here's what gets me is like, why do we. Why. Why are we spending our time on this?

[Shane]

Okay, because it's entertaining.

[Trevor]

Because it's awesome.

[Shane]

Here we go. So it was a guy named John Roderick. He had a. He had a verified account. So he was a. He was a cool name. Big deal. Okay, so Yesterday, my daughter, 9, was hungry, and I was doing a jigsaw puzzle. So I said over my shoulder, make some baked beans. She said, how? Like all kids do when they want you to do it. So I said, open a can and put it in a pot. She brought me the can and said, open it how? With a can opener. I said, incredulous. She brought me the can opener, and we both stared at it. I realized I'd never taught her to use it. Most cans now have pull tops. I felt like a dope. What kind of apocalypse father doesn't teach his kid how to use a manual can opener? So I said, how do you think this works? She studied it and applied it to the top of the can sideways. She struggled for a while and with a big, dramatic sigh, said, will you please just open the can? Apocalypse dad was overjoyed. A teaching moment just dropped in my lap. I said, the little device is designed to do one thing. Open cans, study the parts, study the can, figure out what the can opener inventor wanted was thinking when they tried to solve this problem. The can opener is also a bottle opener. But I explained that part wasn't relevant. I went back to my jigsaw puzzle. She was next to me, grunting and groaning, trying to get the thing. I should say that spatial orientation, process, visualization and order of operation are not things she dot, dot, dot into it. She's nine.

[Amanda]

Oh, my God.

[Shane]

I knew this would be a challenge, but it was a rainy weekend. Eventually, she collapsed in a frustrated heap. I said, explain the parts. She said, this little wheel is meant to cut these gears, turn the wheel when you spin the handle. This other wheel looks like a gear, but isn't. She couldn't figure out the clamping step, a key element. I said, the tool is made to be pleasing, but it doesn't have any. Hold on. This line is crazy. I said, the tool is made to be pleasing, but it doesn't have any superfluous qualities. Everything that moves does so for a reason. She said, I hate you.

[Amanda]

Yeah, I'm with her. I'm with her.

[Shane]

I'm sure she believes that. She does. I said, you understand everything except how the tool addresses the can. She sighed. At this point, she said, I don't want baked beans, and marched off. Apocalypse dad went into full the road mode. Sweetheart, neither of us will eat another bite today until we get into this can of beans. She screamed, ah. Like Lucy Van Pelt. She read a book for a while. Soon she was back at the can. The top was all dented now, the lip of the can practically serrated from failed attempts. We studied the tool some more. She really wanted it to be oriented up and down or across the top of the can. The sideways orientation is very counterintuitive. She was fixated on orienting the tool in a in a few configurations and couldn't imagine other possibilities. I compared the can opener to other tools. By now we were working on anger management and perseverance, too. She suggested she open the can with a hammer. There were tears. Okay, next part.

[Amanda]

I am sick.

[Shane]

I know.

[Trevor]

I can't wait to treat my child like this.

[Amanda]

Stop.

[Shane]

I told her stories of some of the great cans I'd opened over the years. She rolled her eyes. We talked about industrial. Industrial design and what a funny little device the opener is. I showed how I open cans with a buck knife. I rhapsodize about cold SpaghettiOs straight from the can. Eventually she had it all figured out. She had the placement of the tool. She could turn the handle and the can would spin. We were down on the floor by this point, but the kachunk of puncturing the lid still eluded us. We'd been at it for six hours, on and off. We were hungry. I'd been tempted many times along the way to guide her hand. I wanted her to experience the magnificence of the can opener so much I couldn't stand the suspense. Neither of us liked baked beans that much. The cupboards are bare, so it seemed like a paltry reward for this work. I'd forgotten how finicky the tool really is, particularly when it comes to the puncture. She had it all lined up, but the cutting wheel is a little wobbly by design, and you have to really get on top of it to clamp it down. You know the feeling. You can misfire the damn thing. Finally she squeezed down on it, and although it was a misfire, a light went off in her head. Many times throughout the day she'd yelled at me, my brain is fuzzy. I can't think of anything else to try. And I'd say, when your brain doesn't work, trust your hands. She felt the tool click over the lip of the can. I saw it in her hands by this point. She developed a little ritual of addressing the tool to the can, starting with it in a vertical axis and rotating it to the horizontal while clamping down in a single motion. A choreography. She looked at me expectantly, excitedly. After six hours of trying, you don't want to express too much hope. Was this another blind alley? The can had been through hell, label ripped off, dented, sharpened, and bird. A veteran of thousands of a thousand psychic wars, she knew, though. She set up again carefully, and brought the swing away to bear on the can of S and W baked beans with the meticulousness of Roger Moore extracting a detonator from an icbm. In the Spy who Loved Me, a soft pop resound. A soft pop resounded in the room, so different from all the other sounds we'd made. She didn't look up. She knew the action. A little baked bean sauce appeared. She savored each twist until the lid, as I hoped it would, rewarded her by standing perfectly at attention, saluting her effort and ingenuity. She was elated and carried it to the kitchen in both hands. She knew this was a commonplace task and a common tool, but also that this was a search. Also that this was serious business. She knows her dad and the stock I put in these things. A more mechanically inclined kid might have figured it out in minutes. She factored the scale, but was rightfully proud. I'm proud of her too. I know I'm infuriating. I know this is parenting theater. In some ways, I suffer from a lack of perseverance myself. And like all parents throughout history, I'm trying to correct my own mistakes in the way I educate my child. She sees through this. The Swing Away can opener is a little voodoo doll for us. Now it will reappear as an allegory many more times in her life. You can be sure she knows this too. But this is an allegory of triumph. I wish I had more of those for myself. I wish I had more stories like this. The only problem is now she wants to open every fucking can in the house. And that's bean, dad. Oh, isn't that insane?

[Amanda]

I never ever needed to experience that, ever.

[Shane]

So naturally the response to this is, you're a psycho. That was all of Twitter.

[Amanda]

You need to crazy. Your child needs to be taken immediately from your hands.

[Trevor]

Oh my God, what a psycho.

[Amanda]

Also clearly wants to be a writer and thinks he's like a writer. And it's like, dude, you're a psycho.

[Shane]

A lot of it is just how he writes it. No, him being like, she was trying to open this can with the meticulousness of Roger Moore extracting a detonator from the ICBM and the Spy who Loved Me. I'm like, dude, stop. Just stop.

[Trevor]

You know, also, he didn't say half of that shit to her. You know, it just like, he was probably just like, figure it out. Like, I can't, I don't have time. Like all this shit that he's saying, like, this is what I said to her and this is how she responded. Like, there's no way.

[Amanda]

Exactly.

[Shane]

It's the line. It's. Hold on, there's the line that's absolutely fully insane.

[Amanda]

I hate this guy so much.

[Shane]

Which is the tool was made to be pleasing. Like, it's like, what are you saying, man?

[Amanda]

He wants to be a writer. He's not.

[Shane]

He said that. He said this to his nine year old daughter. The tool is made to be pleasing, but it doesn't have any superfluous qualities. Everything that moves does so for a reason. It's so nine year old me would have been like, what?

[Amanda]

I would have packed a backpack, bought my sheet, tied it over the window and Been like, fuck off now.

[Shane]

I should say he doubled down on this shit.

[Amanda]

Like, so what happened to him?

[Shane]

So ultimately he deleted his Twitter account. He had. He had to fucking go. He had to leave because everyone was on everyone. He's been dad. He's forever Bean Dad.

[Trevor]

Yeah.

[Shane]

He is known to this day as Bean Dad. It's been years and people will still talk about Bean Dad.

[Amanda]

Do we have an update on where he is now?

[Shane]

I don't know. He's gone.

[Trevor]

I can't wait for one day when my child, like, accidentally cuts themselves. I don't be playing fortnight and be like, there's a needle and thread in the drawer. Figure it out.

[Shane]

You gotta learn how to sew it back.

[Trevor]

Learn how to sew. Daddy's gotta get a vic.

[Shane]

Roy. No, There were. The amount of memes that came about were crazy, but. Yeah.

[Amanda]

Did anyone in his life, like, come out and say anything, like, wife or the ex wife or ex husband?

[Shane]

I don't think so. I think naturally he also did get milkshake ducked. There were old tweets of his that were. That were pretty offensive that surfaced. So that just kind of. Further. Not that people needed it, but it was just. You don't see it much anymore. I think people are far more cautious on Twitter, but this was probably the last instance of someone really tweeting out a whole story that just makes him look bad.

[Amanda]

I think he probably thought, oh, he.

[Shane]

Thought this was true.

[Amanda]

A manager was like, wow, do you see the writings of this man? We need to get him a book deal.

[Shane]

He really thought he was the most charming guy.

[Amanda]

Because wasn't Twilight written in a. A chat forum?

[Shane]

Didn't she write Stephanie Meyer? You're thinking of. Isn't that EL James? Fifty Shades of Grey was a fan fiction of Twilight.

[Trevor]

Yeah.

[Shane]

And then she reworked it to make 50 shades of grey. And also Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass, I think was, like, written online at 50.

[Amanda]

I'm so deep in that book series. Shane told me to read Court of Thorns of Roses. And I was like, all right. And I did. And now I'm addicted.

[Trevor]

That's awesome.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

I don't want to sleep. I just want to read it.

[Trevor]

I imagine just like, abusing your child for six hours and then being like, all right, let me grab my thesaurus and head to Twitter.

[Amanda]

Yeah. It's actually true.

[Trevor]

Literally insane.

[Amanda]

So why are your cabinets bare, man?

[Shane]

It's food.

[Trevor]

Yeah.

[Shane]

It's so funny, though. Like, it's such a specific type of agonizing that this guy and he wasn't working.

[Amanda]

He was working on a jigsaw puzzle.

[Shane]

He's doing a jigsaw puzzle. He's like. He's like, I could tell this is going to take a lot of time, but it's a rainy weekend.

[Amanda]

I'm like, he's like the guy in Saw who rolls out on a fucking wheelchair, and he's like, her Shaw.

[Shane]

I mean, it's like the whole point is to be like, hey, let me teach you how to do this. Let me show you how. It's like, let me show you how. And then you do it yourself. Right? That's fair.

[Amanda]

I. I actually can't it in the smallest way. I can't stand when men do that. My uncle, I love him so much, but we were playing backgammon, and he's like. He's like, ask the question. Like, when I would, like, play the next round, and me and my husband were playing, and he was right next to me, and I was like, I want to get the next role. And he goes, ask yourself the question. And I was like, I don't know what the question is. He's like, ask the question about what your next role should be. And he kept saying it the whole day. My sister was like, hey, we need more burgers on the grill. He was like, ask the question. And she's like, we need more burgers because we're hungry, bro. So, like, dudes like that, if they stepped one second into my family, they would be annihilated.

[Shane]

I think people like that because you meet people like that who are so smug, and you can tell that they think that what they're saying is like a movie moment. Yeah, exactly. I'm saying the thing that you're gonna remember forever. You're gonna. I'm saying the thing to you right now that 20 years from now, you're gonna go. A wise man once said, ask the question.

[Amanda]

Ask the question.

[Shane]

And I thought, yeah, ask the question. I'll never forget when my dad said, the device is pleasing by nature but superfluous by design.

[Amanda]

He never even said that. He was like, please, Amy, please just open it.

[Shane]

I love that he wrote, she said, I hate you.

[Amanda]

She said, I hate you.

[Trevor]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

I think you were speaking understandably.

[Trevor]

So honestly, the one thing that I was really excited to do was don't hug me. I'm scared. So if you want to talk about that or. I'd love to do Kony 2012. I think that's so fun.

[Shane]

I can't believe you don't know Kony 2012.

[Trevor]

That's.

[Shane]

That's one that, like, I feel like we can. We can do Kony 2012. Yeah, we can talk about Kony 2012. I will save. I will say. I'll.

[Trevor]

I'll pull up some. I'll pull up some quick.

[Shane]

I will. Because we'll. We're clearly going to do this again. I was the last one that I had, and we'll see if you know it or not. Are you aware of Dashcon?

[Amanda]

No.

[Shane]

Okay, we have that for another time.

[Amanda]

Nope.

[Shane]

Kony 2012.

[Amanda]

So is there a picture? Any reference?

[Trevor]

It's not about a picture.

[Shane]

I mean, I could. There's a. Well, it was a short film, basically. Yeah.

[Amanda]

Okay, so go ahead, launch into it.

[Trevor]

Okay, so I'll just read the Wikipedia, like, Cliff note right here. Okay. So Kony 2012 is a 2012American short documentary film produced by Invisible Children. The film's purpose was to make Ugandan cult leader, war criminal, and ICC fugitive Joseph Kony, globally known, so as to have him arrested by the end of 2012. So the whole thing was like, there's this really terrible person. He's like, you know, like he's creating a child army. Like, we have to stop him. Kony 2012, we need him arrested. Like, that was the whole thing. And it went very big. I mean, especially in, you know, the conservative Christian circles. Like, I was learning about it in school.

[Shane]

It wasn't just conservative circles. It wasn't every circle.

[Trevor]

Okay. I didn't know how big it was.

[Shane]

It was a thing that really nobody was against. It was like, hey, this guy's using child soldiers. It was like, everyone's like, oh, my God, I didn't know about this. And it was like, yeah. And the documentary was so, like, emotionally gripping. I will say this. 30 minutes was intense. My friend was like, have you heard about Kony 2012? And I was like, what is this? And she. She shows it to me and she's like, oh, my God, we gotta. We gotta do something.

[Amanda]

Wait, the child soldiers in Uganda, Right?

[Shane]

I don't know where it was.

[Trevor]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

Was it Uganda?

[Trevor]

He was Uganda.

[Amanda]

Because this. This. The child soldiers do sound familiar, but I don't know what this is.

[Shane]

It is a real thing. Yeah. Now, okay, that is a real thing. The thing is not with Kony. The thing is with this campaign. This campaign is huge. And it's just like, we gotta make him the most famous person. And so everyone is donating to Kony 2012. Everyone's buying, getting these packs of things and merch of Kony. 2012, it's, it's so huge. Everyone's, it's everyone's main focus. Like global warming is out the window. It's Kony 2012. Now the issue that starts to arise is, okay, we're going to make him famous. Then what?

[Trevor]

What do we do?

[Shane]

There's also questions of if Kony is even alive because he hasn't been seen in years. So you're donating to this campaign, this guy who's American, this white dude in America. Yeah, right. The campaign I think probably got a little bit out of hand from what he was expecting. It culminates and the end of this whole campaign is when he gets arrested in San Diego because he is on the streets naked jacking off psychotic, high on cocaine. Partially sad, but also this was all clearly not thought out, this whole campaign. But I'm telling you, Kony 2012 was the thing in 2012.

[Amanda]

Why are you laughing so hard?

[Trevor]

Just because it was crazy, so insane. And imagine me as a 12 year old being like in school watching this documentary, being like, this is huge. And we're like having fundraisers in our school. We're doing things. And then as a 12 year old to be like, this guy got caught naked jacking on his. And we have all the teachers like backpedaling this thing and he's like. And we're like, no, it's okay. Like, you know, like he had a moment like, and he's repented and he's like going back and there was just this moment of weakness.

[Shane]

But the ultimate problem was nobody knows where did the money go. Like what was it? Nothing happened. Like that's the issue. Yeah, everyone, everyone in. I think everyone can agree that child soldiers are bad. Selena spent $10 on a bracelet.

[Amanda]

Well, sounds like you lucked out. Sounds like people spent a lot.

[Shane]

I'm telling you, it was hard to find people who weren't invested in this.

[Amanda]

So we never ever had this in our school. The biggest thing we had in our school was like Livestrong bracelets.

[Shane]

Which, those are big too.

[Amanda]

Which got fucked over. But we, if we had Kony 20 and my mom was a teacher, like I had never. I don't think our school.

[Shane]

This maybe didn't reach does not every sphere, but it was big amongst my friends.

[Amanda]

Unless I forget it completely, it was huge. How old were you?

[Shane]

I was.

[Amanda]

You said 14.

[Trevor]

I was 12. I mean 12.

[Shane]

I was like 21. I was like 21.

[Amanda]

12 and 21.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

Let's see baby.

[Shane]

Yeah, I'm like nine years older than you.

[Amanda]

Okay, so if you were 21, then I was still best friends. Not in school.

[Trevor]

Yeah, we're still best friends.

[Shane]

But. But it was. It was wild, man. It was huge. It was so big that I remember it was kind of funny because for the years leading up to that, I. Fun fact, I was actually kind of obsessed with the whole Mayan calendar ending in 2012. So it was like the end of the world 2012. And I was like, what if it's the end of the world and Kony 2012? Kind of just like. We were all like, I don't give a shit if it's the end of the world. We got it. We gotta make Kony famous. That was. It was.

[Amanda]

So the point was to make him famous so he would get exposed.

[Shane]

So that.

[Amanda]

But yeah, but where did. So where did the money go?

[Shane]

I don't know.

[Trevor]

We don't know.

[Shane]

I mean, I don't actually know.

[Trevor]

That's like the crazy thing, though is it's like from the beginning, it's sort of like if you want to take down, you know, this Ugandan warlord making a child army, like, yeah, you can raise him a ton of money, but how do you actually go get him?

[Shane]

What does the money do? It brought.

[Trevor]

Send in an assassin.

[Amanda]

Like, does the money buy one assassin?

[Trevor]

Yeah, like, it's. It's so funny.

[Shane]

It was kind of like. And it's also like the thing of like, we're gonna make him famous. I'm like, I'm pretty sure the international. Like, I'm pretty sure countries know who he is. Yeah, it's not like. It's not like the American government didn't know who he was.

[Amanda]

So what happened to this guy after he had a psychotic break?

[Shane]

I actually don't know. That's kind of where it ended. Like, truthfully, it kind of fizzled out. It was actually one of those situations where it was the biggest thing. Everyone's all in, and then suddenly we're all like. We were never into it and we're gonna pretend like that never happened, but.

[Trevor]

Raised millions of dollars?

[Shane]

Oh, tens of millions.

[Trevor]

Like 10. Like, yeah. Insane amounts of money.

[Shane]

Do we have a number on how much it probably raised? $12.6 million.

[Amanda]

And we don't know where that money.

[Shane]

I don't know, Trevor and I don't know.

[Trevor]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

Wikipedia. I'm just kidding.

[Trevor]

Hold on, hold on, hold on.

[Amanda]

So this is. Isn't this insane when, like a whole thing sweeps over the country and we're all in, and then. So is this guy Kony still alive? Do we know anything about him?

[Shane]

I don't know. I don't personally know. And I will say also, like, sadly, he's one of many horrible people out in the world. But it was just more the phenomenon in America. It was more the societal obsession with it. We were all so riveted by it and then suddenly it was like, yeah, this campaign's a little tricky.

[Amanda]

That's what's tricky about documentaries. Cause they can be extremely biased.

[Shane]

Yes, extremely biased. It's important when you watch a documentary to like also kind of.

[Amanda]

Right.

[Shane]

Cause a documentary by nature is a persuasive essay and you have to kind of be like, all right, what are the facts? And then music like that they're putting in the background. The score, the way they're filming it, the lighting. Those things affect you psychologically, of course. And the Konya 30 minute documentary is so like, truly, it's really well made because you watch it and it's hard not to be like, oh my God.

[Trevor]

So it looks like Invisible Children. The people who made the documentary invested $13.7 million to their on the ground programs in Central and East Africa. So, yeah, just kind of like to help, like, I don't know, like anti war efforts in Africa.

[Shane]

So it did get invested. That's good news. Yeah. Good news is that it did go to hopefully a good cause. But the Internet aspect of it was this guy who was running it because he was the one voicing over the campaign. Yeah, he was the one who kind.

[Amanda]

Of like, can I see what he looks like?

[Trevor]

I'm just going to look up Kony 2012 guy.

[Shane]

Yeah, Kony 2012. Dude.

[Trevor]

This is him. That's even funnier.

[Amanda]

I feel like if you shaved your face and made that little face that you could kind of look like him a little bit.

[Trevor]

Play him in the dark.

[Shane]

It was wild, man.

[Trevor]

Now imagine that guy just like. And he's like, yeah. And he's jacking off in the street naked. It's crazy.

[Shane]

It's.

[Amanda]

So why is it when. When celebrity men have breakdowns, they always go naked through the street?

[Shane]

It was wild. Like, I didn't prepare stuff for Kony 2012. I didn't do my research on it, but I remember that was like that year.

[Trevor]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

Yeah.

[Trevor]

Did they ever get him? Oh, yeah. Here's the.

[Shane]

Oh, so rough, man.

[Amanda]

I mean, you have to be at a. You really have to have a psychotic break when you go outside. Like, that's when it gets to the place where it's like, how much was he holding onto his shoulders? Like, how much was actually going on. Whether he ignited it or not. That's too much for one person.

[Shane]

I got the video.

[Trevor]

Do you guys want to watch it?

[Shane]

Well, I don't know if we can show them.

[Amanda]

Maybe later.

[Trevor]

It's just for me.

[Shane]

Just. You're just gonna watch the video? Okay. Okay. Lastly, before we go. Before we go. Amanda, do you know about Mudang?

[Amanda]

No.

[Shane]

You don't know about Mudang?

[Amanda]

What?

[Trevor]

Oh, come on. No, see, here at Smosh, we have our finger on the pulse.

[Shane]

We know about Mudang.

[Trevor]

Mudang is happening right now.

[Shane]

Mudang is happening in this moment, currently right now. He's a little baby hippo.

[Trevor]

Mudang's a baby hippo.

[Amanda]

Oh, baby.

[Trevor]

And seems to be just a rambunctious little rascal.

[Shane]

Yeah. Oh, baby. Just a sweet little baby hippo. That's all.

[Trevor]

That's it.

[Amanda]

So he's in a zoo?

[Trevor]

Well, yeah, but he's always biting people or getting spray boob water. Yeah, awesome.

[Amanda]

Good. You should bite people so you can get out of that zoo.

[Shane]

Yeah. Free Mudang.

[Amanda]

You know how I feel. Tits out for Mudang.

[Shane]

Free Mudang.

[Amanda]

I don't know if that works, actually.

[Trevor]

Did you just say tits out for Mudang?

[Amanda]

Listen, I said it, and I regret it.

[Shane]

Everybody.

[Trevor]

Tits out for Mudang.

[Amanda]

He's a baby.

[Shane]

Guys, dick's out from mudang.

[Trevor]

And kony 2012. Go donate.

[Shane]

Oh, my God. We're reviving all.

[Amanda]

I can't handle still out there.

[Shane]

God dang it, guys. Open up a can of beans.

[Amanda]

I hate that dad so much.

[Shane]

All right, sounds like we need a.

[Amanda]

Part two of this because.

[Shane]

Oh, we have so many. We didn't get to dashcon, which I have a bunch of research on.

[Amanda]

And what's the other one?

[Trevor]

Don't hug me. I'm scared.

[Shane]

Don't hug me. I'm scared. I don't know how we.

[Trevor]

That wouldn't be tough. Videos. There's a lot of videos we just.

[Shane]

Got to show you.

[Trevor]

We'll offline about that.

[Amanda]

Okay, let's offline about that. Favorite thing to do.

[Shane]

Okay, thank you guys, for watching. We'll see you later.

[Amanda]

Thanks, Trevor, for joining us, as always.

[Trevor]

Thank you for having me. This is awesome. I love this shit. That's great.

[Shane]

This is great. All right, bye, guys. Bye.