#66 - Teaching Amanda Internet Lore - Smosh Mouth

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

Introduction

In episode #66 of Smosh Mouth, released on October 14, 2024, hosts Shayne Topp (Shane) and Amanda Lehan-Canto (Amanda) are joined by their guest Trevor for a special segment titled "Internet School." The primary goal of this episode is to educate Amanda on various significant internet events, memes, and phenomena that have shaped online culture over the years. The hosts blend personal anecdotes with in-depth discussions of internet lore, creating an engaging and informative experience for both longtime listeners and newcomers alike.

Amanda's Trip to Greece

The episode kicks off with Amanda sharing her recent personal adventure in Greece, where she traveled with her three sisters for the first time without any partners or children.

Challenging Dynamics ([02:16] - [12:31]):

Amanda recounts the complexities of traveling with siblings, highlighting instances of tension, such as the struggle to choose restaurants. She humorously describes the group's debates over dining preferences, emphasizing the balance between touristy spots and authentic local experiences.

Amanda (02:42): "Choosing dinner at night was the hardest thing I've ever done in my life... We'd all be like, well, we're fucked."

The trip included cultural immersions like an e-bike tour and a motorboat excursion. Amanda vividly describes interactions with locals, including a memorable encounter with a man named Nicthymos who recognized her from Smosh.

Amanda (10:12): "He was so sweet. And it was just an unbelievable experience."
Cultural Insights ([05:10] - [09:33]):

Amanda delves into Greek traditions, such as shepherding and olive oil harvesting, providing listeners with fascinating insights into the country's heritage. She explains the intricacies of olive oil production, noting its flavor profiles and shelf life.

Amanda (07:09): "Extra virgin olive oil should be green and spicy in the back of your throat."
Memorable Moments ([08:00] - [12:31]):

From unexpected bar experiences where the floor was humorously set on fire to the endearing behavior of her younger sister, Amanda paints a lively picture of her Greek getaway.

Amanda (08:28): "We danced and they lit the floor on fire... Why?"

Internet School: Testing Amanda's Knowledge

Transitioning from personal stories, Shane introduces the "Internet School" segment aimed at assessing and expanding Amanda's understanding of key internet phenomena.

Initial Assessment ([19:35] - [23:38]):

Shane presents a list of notable internet events, gauging Amanda's familiarity with each. Events discussed include Dramageddon, Gamergate, Leroy Jenkins, Salt Bae, GameStop Meme Stalker, and Kony 2012. Amanda admits limited knowledge on several topics, setting the stage for deeper exploration.

Shane (19:36): "I'm gonna list out a bunch of huge Internet events and see how much of them you are aware of."

Amanda (20:32): "No. 0%."
Exploring Memes and Viral Events ([23:38] - [36:38]):

The hosts delve into specific events, providing detailed explanations and sharing their perspectives.
- Milkshake Duck ([26:00] - [27:52]):
  
  Shane explains the term Milkshake Duck, originating from a 2016 tweet, which describes a scenario where a beloved figure is swiftly canceled after a problematic revelation.
  
  Shane (26:04): "Whenever someone becomes a viral sensation, they are basically canceled because we discover something."
- Gamergate and Leroy Jenkins ([20:06] - [20:21]):
  
  Brief mentions of Gamergate and Leroy Jenkins highlight significant moments in gaming and meme culture.
  
  Shane (20:25): "Leroy Jenkins sounds familiar."
- Salt Bae and GameStop Meme Stalker ([20:38] - [21:22]):
  
  Discussion around popular figures like Salt Bae and the GameStop Meme Stalker illustrates the rapid rise and fall of internet fame.
  
  Shane (20:40): "We got a hit, honey."
- Kony 2012 ([55:19] - [61:44]):
  
  A comprehensive analysis of the Kony 2012 campaign explores its initial success and subsequent decline. Shane and Trevor discuss the documentary's impact, the phenomenon of internet activism, and the consequences faced by the campaign's orchestrators.
  
  Shane (57:02): "The can opener is also a bottle opener. But I explained that part wasn't relevant."

In-Depth Analysis of Specific Events

Alex from Target ([35:23] - [39:35]):

The episode recounts the story of Alex from Target, a teenage cashier who became an overnight internet sensation after a photo was posted on Twitter by a customer. Shane discusses the psychological and social impacts of sudden fame, emphasizing the lack of foresight and the ethical implications of posting unsolicited photos.

Shane (35:36): "He becomes the biggest celebrity... He's now Alex from UPS."
Bean Dad ([41:41] - [51:14]):

Bean Dad serves as an example of self-cancellation, where a seemingly innocent story of a father struggling to teach his daughter how to open a can of beans was mocked for its over-the-top narrative and perceived lack of practical parenting.

Shane (44:55): "You are a psycho... Your child needs to be taken immediately from your hands."

Additional Internet Highlights

Mudang and Other Memes ([64:48] - [66:31]):

The hosts briefly touch upon newer internet memes and trends like Mudang, a mischievous baby hippo, showcasing the ever-evolving landscape of online humor.

Amanda (65:25): "Oh, my God."

Conclusion and Teasers for Future Episodes

As the episode wraps up, the hosts express enthusiasm for future discussions, hinting at more in-depth explorations of phenomena like Don't Hug Me I'm Scared and Dashcon. Their lively banter and shared experiences underscore the fun and educational nature of the Smosh Mouth podcast.

Shane (66:00): "Part two of this because... we have a bunch of research on Dashcon."

Amanda (66:18): "Okay, let's offline about my favorite thing to do."

Notable Quotes

Amanda (02:42): "Choosing dinner at night was the hardest thing I've ever done in my life... We'd all be like, well, we're fucked."
Shane (26:04): "Whenever someone becomes a viral sensation, they are basically canceled because we discover something."
Shane (35:36): "He becomes the biggest celebrity... He's now Alex from UPS."
Shane (44:55): "You are a psycho... Your child needs to be taken immediately from your hands."

Final Thoughts

Episode #66 of Smosh Mouth offers a blend of personal storytelling and comprehensive internet lore education. Through Amanda's journey to Greece and the subsequent "Internet School" segment, listeners are treated to both heartfelt experiences and insightful analyses of online phenomena. The inclusion of humorous interactions and candid reflections makes this episode a standout addition to the series, catering to both entertainment and informative desires.

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[00:00]
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[00:27]
Shane
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[00:34]
Amanda
And I'm Amanda. What's up? We have a very special guest with us. Trevor.
[00:39]
Unknown
Hey, I'm Trevor.
[00:41]
Shane
Trevor is 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 and. Oh my God. Yeah, it was. It became. It became its own viral meme. You became the offline queen. Yeah. Of the Internet.
[01:12]
Amanda
I know. And I never. I never saw myself like that. But then I was like, yeah, I guess that makes sense in the YouTube world.
[01:19]
Shane
But ever since these, 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.
[01:40]
Amanda
I will say that is very fun.
[01:42]
Shane
It's great.
[01:43]
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.
[01:48]
Shane
Well, you're about to know it all. You're going to know it all.
[01:51]
Unknown
That was me two minutes ago when you guys were talking about credit.
[01:55]
Amanda
Yeah, we were talking about adult things.
[01:58]
Shane
We were talking about credit cards before.
[02:00]
Amanda
Yeah.
[02:01]
Unknown
I was like, I don't know. I don't get it.
[02:05]
Amanda
We'll explain that to you next time on Credit Card school.
[02:08]
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.
[02:16]
Amanda
I was off in Greece.
[02:18]
Shane
So cool.
[02:19]
Amanda
I had my own mamma Mia experience. Minus all the dads. Okay, no dads were there.
[02:23]
Shane
No Pierce Brosnan?
[02:24]
Amanda
No. Which would have been sick. That would've 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.
[02:43]
Shane
Wow.
[02:43]
Amanda
On a plane to. 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.
[02:58]
Shane
Yeah.
[02:59]
Amanda
The airplane is like 12 hours. We haven't been on an airplane together in so long. That's many, many personalities.
[03:08]
Shane
Yeah.
[03:08]
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 happen? What if this happens? What if a fight blows up? What if we can't choose dinner? Which was the hardest part of the whole trip.
[03:22]
Shane
Choosing dinner, all of us. Because everything is good.
[03:25]
Amanda
Everything is good. But some is, like, very touristy, right? 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, because it would be one person would say one thing, and we'd all be like, well, we don't know where we're going. I'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.
[03:49]
Shane
Did you guys not have an agenda?
[03:51]
Amanda
My mom had things planned. Like, we had an e. Bike tour planned. We had a boat, a little. A little motorboat planned. She had things planned.
[04:02]
Unknown
I got a motorboat planned for this Saturday.
[04:04]
Amanda
No, no, no. Trevor.
[04:12]
Unknown
Trevor.
[04:13]
Amanda
Every time you. Come on.
[04:14]
Shane
What's up, dude? Y. All right.
[04:17]
Amanda
Every time Trevor comes on, he turns into such a dick. Am I right?
[04:22]
Shane
What?
[04:23]
Amanda
Am I right?
[04:24]
Shane
Oh, my God. All right.
[04:28]
Amanda
He's just sitting there waiting. He's just sitting there waiting. He's like, I got a motor.
[04:33]
Shane
I got a motor plan.
[04:37]
Amanda
He, like, almost screamed it.
[04:39]
Shane
Oh, man. Okay.
[04:40]
Unknown
Yeah.
[04:40]
Amanda
So me and all my sisters went on a motorboat. Yep. It was pretty amazing. It was pretty funny walking through Greece because people be like, sisters. Oh, thank the God. Like, I was like, the gods.
[04:54]
Shane
Zeus.
[04:55]
Amanda
Zeus was a real vibe there.
[04:59]
Shane
Really? Oh, I always. I guess I wondered how big. Like, because we love Greek mythology in America. Like, we talk about it But I wonder there if it's actually like. It's everything, really.
[05:10]
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.
[05:16]
Shane
Cool.
[05:16]
Amanda
Which it is there Every. Everything that is looming over the city, like, whether it's a mountain or an ancient ruin or whatever, is all Greek mythology. And they all. It's all. I will say, like, yes, it could be for the tourist, for them to play it up a little bit, but, like, 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 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.
[05:53]
Shane
Interesting.
[05:55]
Amanda
It's so wild there.
[05:57]
Shane
Wow. There's probably so much shit that people are just finding all the time.
[06:00]
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, fricking 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.
[06:41]
Shane
That's a little rough.
[06:43]
Amanda
But, yeah, he was the guy who gave us, like, this E Bike 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 families.
[06:59]
Shane
Whoa.
[07:00]
Amanda
You had to be, like, generational in order to do the specific olive oil harvest.
[07:06]
Shane
By the way, olive oil, I'm sure it's crazy there.
[07:10]
Amanda
I learned so much. Extra virgin olive oil should be green. And it should be spicy.
[07:15]
Shane
Spicy.
[07:16]
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.
[07:31]
Shane
Wow.
[07:31]
Amanda
Should be spicy, huh? I ate olive oil every day, drank it Drank it.
[07:36]
Shane
Just drank it.
[07:37]
Amanda
Yep. It was incredible. Greece was amazing. My sisters were amazing. That's a lot of personalities.
[07:44]
Shane
Yeah. 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.
[07:53]
Amanda
Yep.
[07:54]
Unknown
That's awesome.
[07:54]
Amanda
My younger sister showed up in a straight up chosen shirt.
[07:58]
Shane
Badass.
[07:59]
Amanda
And I was like, oh, my God, it's a chosen shirt.
[08:01]
Shane
She's like, what the fuck are you talking about?
[08:03]
Amanda
She was like, this is my girlfriend's shirt. Okay, back up.
[08:06]
Shane
But it was out of my face.
[08:08]
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.
[08:17]
Shane
Really?
[08:17]
Amanda
They loved it. She was like an undershave. She wore, like, a backwards hat. They were, like, so into it. They'd be like, you nice. You're nice. But your sister. Your little sister. I was like, okay. That was, like, their vibe.
[08:30]
Shane
So funny.
[08:31]
Amanda
It was so funny. It was so great that everyone in Naxos was so unbelievably sweet.
[08:36]
Shane
Wow.
[08:36]
Amanda
It was. 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.
[08:49]
Shane
You showed me footage and threw plates at us.
[08:51]
Amanda
What? Which sounds fake. Sounds like an American fake tale.
[08:55]
Shane
It sounds like they were trying to get you out of there. Well, the owner.
[09:00]
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, like, this leopard outfit 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. Why?
[09:21]
Shane
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.
[09:28]
Amanda
Yes, correct.
[09:30]
Shane
Like, they're just spraying oil onto the ground, lighting it on fire. Yeah.
[09:34]
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.
[09:49]
Shane
Interesting.
[09:50]
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.
[10:01]
Shane
Oh.
[10:01]
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? No, I'm not kidding.
[10:11]
Shane
Really, I'm not kidding.
[10:12]
Unknown
Oh, my God.
[10:13]
Amanda
Because 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 Nychthymos. I wonder if he's listening right now. If he's listening. He's amazing. His name is Nick Thimos, which he told me that a lot of Greek men are named after saints.
[10:31]
Shane
Okay.
[10:31]
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.
[10:39]
Shane
That's awesome.
[10:40]
Amanda
My fucking sister's like, do you want a picture? And he's like, no, no, no. Okay. No.
[10:45]
Shane
Why?
[10:45]
Amanda
Why would I want a picture? Yeah. My sister was like, okay, I suck. But he was so nice.
[10:53]
Shane
Wow.
[10:53]
Amanda
And I was like, have you ever been to the States? He's like. He's like, new York, they all. I'm like, you're in the States. New York.
[11:00]
Shane
To anyone who's not in the United States, there it's like, New York City is America.
[11:05]
Unknown
Yeah.
[11:05]
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.
[11:20]
Shane
That's awesome.
[11:21]
Amanda
It was incredible.
[11:23]
Shane
The photos you showed me are unbelievable.
[11:24]
Amanda
It was incredible.
[11:25]
Unknown
That's crazy. I can't imagine going. I mean, I was in Idaho recently and I.
[11:30]
Shane
Same thing. Just like I was.
[11:31]
Amanda
Motorboat.
[11:32]
Unknown
Okay, stop. 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.
[11:47]
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 forever. Eight days straight, including 10 to 12 hour flights, sitting next to you while you watch your, like, movie. Like it. 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, then after day six you're just, like, in it. Then you're like, hey, where's my sister?
[12:29]
Shane
Aww.
[12:29]
Amanda
It's like, good morning. Where's my sisters?
[12:31]
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. It looks like some sort of, like, sweet movie 10.
[12:42]
Amanda
Except you didn't know what happened before that. So.
[12:44]
Shane
Yeah, okay.
[12:45]
Amanda
There's just many conversations that 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 trying to drive with a map. Because no GPS works in Nexus, so you have to have a big map and there's all one ways.
[13:02]
Unknown
What's that? I'm kidding.
[13:04]
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.
[13:41]
Shane
It was like, ugh, that's so funny.
[13:44]
Amanda
And now I just, like, 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.
[13:57]
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.
[14:05]
Amanda
That sounds fun.
[14:06]
Unknown
My brother just projects his insecurities onto me.
[14:09]
Shane
Does he watch the show?
[14:11]
Unknown
I don't care if he does.
[14:12]
Amanda
Shane can't handle it. Shane can't handle it.
[14:15]
Unknown
He does. He needs to hear it.
[14:17]
Shane
Oh, my God.
[14:18]
Unknown
He just bullies me endlessly. And I love. 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.
[14:29]
Amanda
Oh, my God.
[14:30]
Shane
Damn. Forever.
[14:31]
Amanda
Keep this in and we will clip this.
[14:33]
Unknown
Yeah. No. Feel free, Matt. Dude, grow up.
[14:37]
Shane
Calling him out.
[14:39]
Amanda
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 it out. It's a commitment. So well done.
[14:52]
Unknown
No, it's. He's just gonna. He's just gonna do it again. You know, if he watches this, he's just gonna be like, yo, hey, buddy. No, I think that you're stupid. And, you know.
[15:02]
Amanda
How old is he?
[15:03]
Unknown
He's two years older than me.
[15:05]
Amanda
Okay.
[15:05]
Shane
Very close. See, I don't have siblings. My brothers aren't close in age.
[15:08]
Amanda
That's why.
[15:08]
Shane
So they're more like. It's probably more of a dynamic of, like, really cool uncles. Oh, we're brothers. But even between them, like, we're all chill. Like, we just don't have issues. But people who have, like, siblings that are right next to each other.
[15:23]
Amanda
Mine's, like, two years older.
[15:25]
Shane
I know. It can be a lot crazier. Yeah. Anyways.
[15:28]
Amanda
Anyways. Wow. So that was Greece, and I'm back now.
[15:32]
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 dd.
[15:44]
Unknown
Oh, yeah. No, I'm pumped about it. Cause I haven't played DD 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, you know, have a DD campaign.
[15:59]
Amanda
Are you the dm?
[16:00]
Shane
No.
[16:01]
Unknown
No. So tj, who works on the Rhett and Link channel, he works really close 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 DD before.
[16:12]
Shane
Rhett and Link are going to be playing it for the first time.
[16:14]
Amanda
Oh, my God. That's amazing.
[16:16]
Unknown
It's actually cool, though. So we have. It's myself, Emily, Lily, and Mikaela. And then we have one character. The first session is Rhett played him and then Link played him. But he's going to be played by, like, a new guest every week or every session that we do. So Damian's coming on.
[16:35]
Shane
Really?
[16:37]
Unknown
Yeah. So that'll be fun.
[16:38]
Amanda
Amazing.
[16:39]
Shane
Hell, yeah.
[16:40]
Unknown
No, it's gonna be a good time. It's interesting playing DD with people that have never played before. But it's a lot of fun. Cause, you know, we're just gonna do it.
[16:48]
Shane
I understand. It none of us had played it, so. Really?
[16:51]
Amanda
Yeah. Except for Damian.
[16:52]
Unknown
Okay.
[16:52]
Shane
Oh, well, Angela had played some. And Chance. Chance and Angela actually.
[16:55]
Amanda
They've actually played.
[16:56]
Shane
But Amanda and I were the fresh. Completely.
[16:59]
Amanda
We're the babies.
[17:00]
Shane
Yeah.
[17:01]
Unknown
My character's awesome. I'm playing a bard, and his name is Plen Gowell.
[17:06]
Shane
Yep.
[17:06]
Unknown
And when I.
[17:07]
Amanda
Excellent name.
[17:08]
Unknown
Yeah.
[17:08]
Shane
Well, exactly what you were doing with that one.
[17:11]
Unknown
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 Glen Powell, and then I was like, my character's name is gonna be Plen Gow.
[17:19]
Amanda
I was obsession with Glen Powell. You watched Twisters as well?
[17:22]
Unknown
We watched it together.
[17:24]
Amanda
I know. Did you know that Trevor and I stood in the front of the stage, so we went to Twisters?
[17:30]
Shane
Yeah.
[17:31]
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. Yeah.
[17:37]
Shane
Well, that's awesome. Yeah.
[17:39]
Amanda
Yeah.
[17:40]
Shane
Did anyone think you guys were.
[17:41]
Unknown
I think a couple.
[17:42]
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.
[17:48]
Shane
Yeah, it just appeared.
[17:49]
Unknown
Raven. Raven was like, you should go up to, like, the front, and then, like, just spin in a circle.
[17:53]
Amanda
It was actually Raven's idea.
[17:54]
Shane
And then.
[17:55]
Unknown
Yeah. And then it was like, Mandy, did Glenn see Glen?
[17:59]
Amanda
Well, he could have.
[18:00]
Unknown
He could have.
[18:00]
Amanda
He wasn't there yet, but he did show up.
[18:03]
Unknown
Yeah. 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.
[18:13]
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 Glen Powell, Daisy Edgar Jones kind of standing there looking, like, very nice. And I. I almost felt like I wanted to join her in the fight, but then I was like, I can't.
[18:35]
Shane
Yeah. I thought she was protesting for the twisters. Like, hey, they mistreated the twist. Giving twisters a bad name. Yeah.
[18:42]
Amanda
No, that would have been awesome.
[18:44]
Shane
That would have been crazy.
[18:45]
Unknown
Yeah.
[18:45]
Amanda
So anyways, Glen Powell.
[18:47]
Unknown
Yeah. Yeah. Glen Powell gal.
[18:49]
Amanda
That's awesome.
[18:50]
Shane
Yeah.
[18:50]
Amanda
Just want to be Glen Powell.
[18:51]
Shane
Yeah.
[18:51]
Unknown
It's un. It's un. Well, not unfortunate. It's unmythical society, so it won't be, like, on the main channel or anything like that. But it's been fun so far, what we've done.
[19:02]
Shane
That's great, man.
[19:03]
Unknown
Yeah.
[19:03]
Shane
Well, sick. Shall we get into Internet school?
[19:06]
Amanda
Yeah, I would love to.
[19:08]
Shane
That's just what we're calling it. I don't know what we're. Internet University. Just Internet lectures. Iu.
[19:15]
Unknown
Iu. Internet University Duluth. Iud.
[19:19]
Shane
I was gonna say, you get your.
[19:21]
Amanda
That's awesome.
[19:21]
Shane
You get your.
[19:23]
Amanda
Going in sucks. Going out also sucks.
[19:28]
Shane
Duluth was the first city I thought of that started with D. Okay, I'm gonna do a list here off the bat, Amanda.
[19:37]
Amanda
Okay.
[19:38]
Shane
I'm gonna 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.
[19:47]
Unknown
Yes. Yeah.
[19:48]
Shane
But these are some that we're not going to talk about today. But I just want to see if you're aware of them.
[19:52]
Amanda
I just want you to know, also, I'm a visual person, so sometimes you'll say something and I might not know.
[19:56]
Shane
But may not know. Okay, that's fine.
[19:58]
Unknown
All right.
[19:58]
Shane
That's fine. Are you aware of Dramageddon?
[20:03]
Amanda
No, sir.
[20:04]
Shane
Are you aware of Gamergate?
[20:07]
Amanda
I've heard about it.
[20:08]
Shane
You've heard probably in this office.
[20:09]
Amanda
Why do I feel like I'm on the stand, Right?
[20:11]
Shane
You've probably heard of Gamergate? Because I have.
[20:14]
Amanda
Ian has been talking about it a lot.
[20:16]
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?
[20:22]
Amanda
This sounds really familiar. Yeah, it actually genuinely does.
[20:26]
Shane
Leroy Jenkins sounds familiar.
[20:27]
Amanda
Okay, it does sound familiar.
[20:29]
Shane
Okay.
[20:29]
Amanda
Okay.
[20:29]
Unknown
That's a good one.
[20:30]
Shane
Have you ever heard of the World record egg.
[20:32]
Amanda
No. 0%.
[20:33]
Unknown
Wow.
[20:34]
Shane
Do you know who Salt Bae is? Yeah. Okay. You know Salt Bae?
[20:39]
Unknown
I do.
[20:40]
Shane
We got a hit, honey.
[20:41]
Amanda
I.
[20:41]
Shane
Do you know Salt bae? Do you know about the Gamestop meme stalker?
[20:44]
Amanda
Is it when everything went to shit with that guy from Gamestop?
[20:47]
Shane
I think you might be sort of.
[20:50]
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. Okay.
[20:56]
Shane
Yeah.
[20:56]
Amanda
Is that kind of it?
[20:57]
Shane
You got the. I think you're aware of it. Yeah.
[20:59]
Unknown
Yeah.
[20:59]
Shane
Have you ever heard of West Elm, Caleb?
[21:01]
Amanda
No.
[21:02]
Shane
That was a crazy. No, sir. I'll cover that some other time. That one blew my mind.
[21:07]
Amanda
Okay.
[21:07]
Unknown
I'm sad we aren't getting into all of These. These are all great ones.
[21:10]
Shane
We could. We could. Well, if we have time at the end, maybe we'll cover one of them. You have to have known about Kony 2012.
[21:17]
Amanda
No.
[21:21]
Shane
You don't know Kony 2012.
[21:22]
Unknown
Oh, my God.
[21:23]
Amanda
If you show me a picture maybe.
[21:25]
Shane
Dude, no. I think Kony 2012.
[21:28]
Amanda
No.
[21:28]
Shane
Okay. Dude.
[21:29]
Unknown
Okay.
[21:30]
Amanda
But wait, wait.
[21:31]
Unknown
I remember being in my 8th grade geography class and watching a Kony 2012 video.
[21:37]
Amanda
Wait a second. Maybe. Maybe if you show me the video.
[21:40]
Shane
Okay, it's totally fine. No, it's. 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. We would do this on our TikTok or something where we'd show you this. Have you watched or are you aware of Rebecca Black's Friday?
[22:00]
Amanda
Of course.
[22:01]
Shane
Okay.
[22:01]
Amanda
Okay. Friday, of course.
[22:03]
Shane
There we go.
[22:04]
Amanda
100%. Didn't her dad pay for that music video or something?
[22:07]
Shane
Probably.
[22:07]
Amanda
Yeah, I know about that.
[22:09]
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 were. We had a lot of friends, were trying to get in the music industry, and that was a production company that a lot of people kind of were in. And. But so she showed me that video when it had, like, 20,000 views.
[22:28]
Unknown
Oh, my God.
[22:29]
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.
[22:35]
Amanda
You thought it was crazy good or crazy bad? It's bad.
[22:38]
Shane
There's no defending it.
[22:39]
Amanda
It's so.
[22:39]
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.
[22:46]
Unknown
Yeah.
[22:47]
Amanda
Jesus.
[22:48]
Shane
Yeah. She's crushing it. Okay. Have you ever heard of Bronies?
[22:56]
Amanda
Like Jab Bronies?
[22:58]
Shane
No.
[22:58]
Amanda
Okay.
[23:00]
Shane
Jab Bronies. Bronies. Oh, man.
[23:05]
Amanda
No, no.
[23:06]
Shane
Do you know who. Do you know about Damn Daniel?
[23:09]
Amanda
Yes, of course. Damn Daniel with the shoes.
[23:12]
Shane
Okay. You know, Damn Daniel. Back at it again with the shoes.
[23:16]
Amanda
I love Damn Daniel.
[23:17]
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.
[23:23]
Unknown
That's on my list.
[23:24]
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 going to get into some that I'm going to tell you about. And even if you are aware of them, I think it'll be fun to talk about.
[23:38]
Unknown
Can I go through my list really quick and see? Because I don't know, there might be some overlap. So. Yeah, mine are, like, very kind of a little bit more like YouTube. I feel like I have, like, a lot of YouTube websites on here, but. Okay. Salad fingers.
[23:52]
Amanda
I know salad fingers.
[23:53]
Unknown
Okay. Okay.
[23:53]
Amanda
I actually watched a lot of YouTube in college.
[23:55]
Unknown
Okay.
[23:56]
Shane
All right.
[23:57]
Amanda
I hated salad fingers and also couldn't stop watching it. I was never the creepy little hands.
[24:01]
Unknown
I do a pretty good salad finger. The feeling of rust against my salad fingers is almost orgasmic.
[24:10]
Amanda
Wow. That's actually really good.
[24:11]
Shane
Like, it's 10 years ago when everyone was doing salad fingers impressions.
[24:16]
Unknown
Loss.
[24:17]
Shane
I don't think I know what this is.
[24:19]
Unknown
You guys don't know loss?
[24:21]
Amanda
No.
[24:22]
Shane
Loss. Loss.
[24:23]
Amanda
No.
[24:24]
Shane
Oh, man.
[24:24]
Unknown
I don't know if I can explain loss.
[24:26]
Shane
Okay, okay.
[24:27]
Unknown
We don't have to get into loss. Happy tree friends.
[24:29]
Shane
Yeah. No, no.
[24:31]
Unknown
Okay. Charlie the unicorn.
[24:33]
Shane
Yeah.
[24:34]
Amanda
No horse.
[24:35]
Shane
Wow. You don't know Charlie the unicorn?
[24:36]
Amanda
I don't think I do. Like I said visual. If I saw it, maybe.
[24:39]
Unknown
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.
[24:47]
Amanda
I know about the cinnamon challenge.
[24:48]
Unknown
What about tide pods? People eating Tide pods.
[24:51]
Amanda
I have heard about Tide pods.
[24:52]
Unknown
Okay. What about the Benadryl challenge?
[24:54]
Shane
I haven't heard about the Benadryl challenge.
[24:56]
Unknown
That's a recent one. Kids are just eating a bunch of Benadryl.
[24:59]
Shane
Okay. Okay. Yeah. I feel like dumb shit, like, that has happened forever, where it's just like, oh, how can I die? That's dumb.
[25:06]
Unknown
Yeah. No, literally. And then, like.
[25:08]
Amanda
No, literally. Anyways, I did it.
[25:09]
Shane
Now Benadryl is going to be behind a glass box. Like Tide pods are.
[25:13]
Amanda
Yeah, they are.
[25:15]
Shane
Tide pods are 100% behind. At a lot of places, they're behind glass because people were doing dumb shit.
[25:22]
Unknown
The last one I had was like, Are you familiar with, like, a creepypasta Is.
[25:25]
Amanda
Oh, well, I am.
[25:26]
Shane
Only because we did an episode.
[25:28]
Unknown
Oh, you did it.
[25:28]
Shane
And we're going to do another.
[25:29]
Unknown
Sorry, not a fan of the show.
[25:31]
Shane
I need to get your Rex. I need to get your creepypasta Rex. Because we read a couple last year. We're going to read more this year.
[25:37]
Unknown
Okay. No, there are some really good ones.
[25:39]
Shane
Okay. Let's get into some of mine that I have that we can get into.
[25:43]
Amanda
Okay.
[25:44]
Shane
And I think you'll probably be aware of some of these things, but we're gonna talk about it regardless. It'll be fun to go back memory lane. The first thing I want to 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.
[26:00]
Amanda
I know about this.
[26:01]
Shane
You know about this.
[26:02]
Amanda
I know about this.
[26:03]
Shane
Okay. You probably know about it because I've brought it up a lot.
[26:04]
Amanda
Kiana brought it up.
[26:05]
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 duct 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. 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 something. All of them, past a. The most. One of the most recent ones is. Well, actually, what's crazy. We'll go back even further. That was tweeted in June of 2016. Then October of 2016, Ken Bone, who I've talked about several times now, I.
[27:03]
Amanda
Know about Ken Bone.
[27:04]
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?
[27:48]
Amanda
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[27:49]
Unknown
Mr. Ponton, I believe you have a filter turned on in the video settings. You might want to.
[27:59]
Shane
We're trying to. Can you hear me, Judge?
[28:02]
Unknown
I can hear you. I think it's a filter.
[28:05]
Amanda
It is.
[28:06]
Shane
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. I'm here live. I'm not a cat.
[28:20]
Unknown
I can see that.
[28:21]
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.
[28:36]
Unknown
Oh, my God.
[28:37]
Shane
So that's diabolical. Yes. So he became.
[28:43]
Amanda
So the universe purposely put the kitten on him.
[28:45]
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 a psycho.
[28:54]
Amanda
You think a hacker, like, did that?
[28:56]
Shane
No, no, no, no. I think it was all an accident. But it shows, like becoming super famous. You better not have dirt.
[29:03]
Amanda
Yeah.
[29:03]
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.
[29:16]
Unknown
Oh, my God.
[29:17]
Shane
I. 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 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 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.
[30:05]
Unknown
Yeah.
[30:05]
Shane
Because friends were like, he's not friends. But people were like, he's awful. And a lot of his exes came out being like, he is the worst human.
[30:13]
Unknown
Yeah.
[30:13]
Shane
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.
[30:20]
Amanda
Cause people are what is wrong. 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 was gonna spiral.
[30:28]
Shane
But no, people were like, he just wants attention so bad.
[30:31]
Amanda
Yikes.
[30:32]
Shane
This dude just wants attention. So it became questionable whether this was real or not.
[30:36]
Unknown
That was a crazy one. Cause, you know, in the mythical kitchen, when that was all happening, we're like, we gotta do a cinnamon toast crunch shrimp recipe.
[30:43]
Shane
Funny.
[30:44]
Unknown
We gotta make, like, a recipe to be like, hey, actually, cinnamon toast crunch and 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.
[30:54]
Amanda
Was it good?
[30:55]
Unknown
Yeah.
[30:58]
Amanda
That'S awesome.
[30:59]
Unknown
Duh.
[31:00]
Trevor
We make good food.
[31:01]
Amanda
That's so sick.
[31:04]
Unknown
Thank you.
[31:05]
Shane
Yeah, it was good.
[31:10]
Amanda
Yeah.
[31:11]
Unknown
Nice.
[31:12]
Shane
Did I tell you I met a chef youtuber? I don't think he'd mind me saying this, because it was. I think it was all joking. I met a chef YouTuber recently named Nick, who is. He's a really great chef, does awesome, awesome stuff. And I was talking 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 crazy bunch. I was like, yeah, they are.
[31:37]
Unknown
Nick DiGiovanni.
[31:38]
Shane
Yeah, yeah.
[31:39]
Unknown
No, Nick Giovanni is awesome.
[31:40]
Shane
He was so, so cool.
[31:41]
Unknown
He's the sweetest guy. And most like, sort of like, mild mannered. He came in and did a video with us and that. 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.
[31:54]
Amanda
I think.
[31:54]
Shane
No, you're Gordon Ramsay.
[31:56]
Amanda
Oh, I'm talking about Gordon Ramsay. Nevermind.
[31:58]
Unknown
No, Nick DiGiovanni. 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.
[32:08]
Shane
He, like, almost won MasterChef.
[32:10]
Unknown
Yeah.
[32:11]
Amanda
Whoa.
[32:11]
Shane
Yeah, it was wild. Yeah, it was cool to meet him. No, he's great. But, yeah, he was like, crazy. He's like, they're crazy.
[32:17]
Unknown
Yeah.
[32:17]
Shane
I was like, well, yeah, Josh is crazy. Well, I think Josh. Josh is all the crazy for you guys.
[32:24]
Unknown
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.
[32:34]
Shane
But you guys are also comedy focused, which a lot of other chefs aren't.
[32:37]
Unknown
Yeah. But Josh is far and away the craziest.
[32:39]
Shane
He's a psycho.
[32:40]
Unknown
Yeah, he's a psycho.
[32:41]
Shane
No, Josh is fully insane. He would. And he. He owns that fact.
[32:44]
Unknown
Yeah.
[32:45]
Shane
Anyways, back to milkshake, duck and viral people.
[32:49]
Amanda
Yes.
[32:49]
Shane
Sometimes people go super viral and they aren't milkshake ducked. 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.
[33:02]
Unknown
Yeah.
[33:03]
Shane
And the most recent one that you're definitely aware of is Hawk to a girl. Yeah, it's hard to avoid Hawk to a girl.
[33:10]
Unknown
So we're not on that thing.
[33:12]
Shane
Yeah, we're not going to talk about Hawk to a girl. Okay.
[33:14]
Unknown
Why not?
[33:15]
Shane
No, we're not going to talk about Hawk to a girl because everyone knows. Everyone listening knows about Hawk to a girl.
[33:20]
Unknown
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[33:22]
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[33:47]
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[33:53]
Amanda
This sounds familiar.
[33:55]
Shane
Funny. So hop 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, Hawk to a. Spit on that thing. And everyone loves it.
[34:11]
Unknown
Referencing fellatio, of course, becomes.
[34:13]
Shane
Becomes the hugest thing. She's now got a podcast. She's doing all sorts of shit. Talk to a stop.
[34:21]
Amanda
That's actually brilliant.
[34:22]
Shane
It actually is. I think it's pretty smart.
[34:24]
Amanda
What are. What. What are we gonna. What is she gonna talk about?
[34:27]
Unknown
They unclear.
[34:28]
Shane
Hawk 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. 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.
[35:24]
Amanda
That's brave.
[35:25]
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 it's. It's Alex from Target.
[35:37]
Amanda
Alex.
[35:38]
Shane
Who's Alex from Target? He becomes the biggest celebrity. They find his Twitter account. He gets 650,000 followers within a week. Yeah.
[35:47]
Amanda
Oh, no.
[35:47]
Shane
Without having done anything. Without even knowing that a photo was taken and posted.
[35:52]
Amanda
Is it illegal to take a photo and post it?
[35:54]
Shane
I guess not, no.
[35:56]
Amanda
Okay.
[35:56]
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. Ellen as Alex from Target. He goes on Ellen in just his kind of uniform from Target. And he's just there. 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 is in Alex from Target.
[36:38]
Amanda
How long ago was this?
[36:39]
Shane
10 years ago.
[36:40]
Amanda
Where is he now?
[36:41]
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.
[37:00]
Unknown
How have you not heard?
[37:01]
Amanda
Why haven't they talked to me about this? Why haven't they checked in with their source me?
[37:06]
Unknown
Oh, goodness.
[37:07]
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 article. He didn't know the photo was taken. Within 24 hours. His number was leaked.
[37:19]
Amanda
Oh.
[37:20]
Shane
And his phone got blown up so much by people texting him that basically his phone, he's like, my phone basically stopped working. Like, it was just so insane. Is this someone who's not. This is also 2014. Like, being a social media personality is not really as much of a thing. Yeah, yeah. And he's. He admits in the Interviews. Like, I was not a very online person. You know, similar to Hawk to a girl. Like, not an online person. Not really caring about that. And so he doesn't know what's happening to him. He goes to Ellen. 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.
[38:05]
Amanda
Oh, this is just bad.
[38:07]
Shane
And he then. And I was thinking about this. Cause, 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 doing?
[38:21]
Amanda
He's like, I don't want to.
[38:22]
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.
[38:29]
Amanda
Yeah. Not force that on people.
[38:32]
Shane
But he had a management team suddenly, you know, because it was like, yeah, you've got all this stuff.
[38:38]
Amanda
Vultures.
[38:38]
Shane
I need to do brand deals. I need to do all these things. And so he. 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 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.
[39:14]
Amanda
Where's this chick who posted the photo?
[39:17]
Shane
I don't know. 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.
[39:24]
Amanda
Dude, that honestly is scary.
[39:26]
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.
[39:35]
Amanda
I agree.
[39:36]
Shane
I always think you're the weird one.
[39:38]
Unknown
I had a friend. Cause I remember this happening. And my friend TJ worked at Target. And then I went to Target and I took a picture of him, and I tweeted TJ from Target As a joke. Not in an intent to go viral or anything. I just thought it was funny.
[39:51]
Shane
I just can't believe. It's just so funny, man. It's weird.
[39:56]
Amanda
That's a world. That's a world I cannot understand. Like, I cannot understand why that photo makes people go, whoa. And it's the biggest thing in the world.
[40:05]
Shane
I know. Well, once something becomes popular, then people are just into it because it's what everybody's into. Once that avalanche starts, it's hard to stop it. But it is interesting. So that's.
[40:20]
Amanda
But he didn't get Milkshake Duck.
[40:22]
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.
[40:35]
Amanda
This is insane. Insane.
[40:36]
Shane
Yeah.
[40:38]
Amanda
I would not want to blow up like that. I would not want to, like, get my name like that.
[40:43]
Shane
That must be.
[40:45]
Amanda
No.
[40:46]
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.
[40:57]
Amanda
Yeah, yeah.
[40:58]
Shane
You'll slowly. Your numbers just slowly rise. You know, for the first couple of years at Smosh, I would see my numbers just.
[41:05]
Unknown
Yeah.
[41:06]
Shane
And so I'm like, okay. Like, I can lean into this as opposed to just all waking up one day and you have a million followers.
[41:12]
Unknown
Yeah.
[41:12]
Amanda
No.
[41:13]
Shane
Especially if you never wanted to be in the entertainment industry.
[41:16]
Amanda
Exactly.
[41:17]
Unknown
Yeah.
[41:18]
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 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.
[41:42]
Amanda
I'm gonna keep saying that sounds familiar, because it's true.
[41:44]
Shane
Okay. Bean dad. Bean dad is a very specific story, but people on Twitter will reference it a lot. So Bean dad, basically, there was a. This guy. He was in a band. He's this older guy. He's a dad. He was a podcaster. He was in, like, 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 Like. Like learning story for people. Like a story that people 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 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.
[42:48]
Amanda
Here's what gets me is like, why do we. Why are we spending our time on this?
[42:52]
Shane
Okay. Because it's entertaining.
[42:55]
Unknown
Because it's awesome.
[42:56]
Shane
Here we go. So it was a guy named John Roderick. He had a verified account, so he was a.
[43:01]
Amanda
He was a cool name.
[43:03]
Shane
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 dot, dot, dot into its. She's nine.
[44:19]
Amanda
Oh, my God.
[44:20]
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.
[44:56]
Amanda
Yeah, I'm with her. I'm with her.
[44:59]
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.
[45:59]
Amanda
I am sick.
[46:00]
Shane
I know.
[46:01]
Unknown
I can't wait to treat my child like this.
[46:04]
Amanda
Stop.
[46:04]
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 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 chunk 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'd 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. 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 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?
[49:22]
Amanda
I never ever needed to experience that, ever.
[49:25]
Shane
So naturally the response to this is, you're a psycho.
[49:28]
Amanda
You need to.
[49:29]
Shane
That was all of Twitter.
[49:31]
Amanda
You need to lose crazy. Your child needs to be taken immediately from your hands. Oh, my God.
[49:37]
Shane
What?
[49:38]
Amanda
A psycho also clearly wants to be a writer and thinks he's like, a writer. And it's like, dude, you're a psycho.
[49:45]
Shane
A lot of it is just how he writes it. No, him being like. Like, she was. 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.
[50:01]
Unknown
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.
[50:14]
Amanda
Exactly.
[50:14]
Shane
It's. It's the line. It's. Hold on. There's the line that's absolutely, fully insane.
[50:21]
Amanda
I hate this guy.
[50:22]
Shane
Which is the tool was made to be pleasing. Like, it's like, what are you saying, man?
[50:28]
Amanda
He wants to be a writer. He's not.
[50:30]
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?
[50:42]
Amanda
I would have packed a backpack, bought my sheet, tied it over the window and been like, fuck off now.
[50:50]
Shane
I should say he doubled down on this shit.
[50:53]
Amanda
Like, so what happened to him?
[50:55]
Shane
So ultimately he deleted his Twitter account. He had to. He had to fucking go. He had to leave because everyone was on everyone. Yeah, he's been dad. He's forever. Bean dad.
[51:05]
Unknown
Yeah.
[51:05]
Shane
He is known to this day as Bean Dad. It's been years and people still talk about being dad.
[51:11]
Amanda
Do we have an update on where he is now?
[51:13]
Shane
I don't know. He's gone.
[51:14]
Unknown
I can't wait for one day when my child, like, accidentally cuts themselves. I'm gonna be playing Fortnite and be like, there's a needle and thread in the drawer. Figure it out.
[51:21]
Shane
You gotta learn how to sew it back.
[51:23]
Unknown
Learn how to sew. Daddy's gotta get a vicaroid.
[51:27]
Shane
No, there were. The amount of memes that came about were crazy, but yeah.
[51:32]
Amanda
Did anyone in his life like, come out and say anything, like, the wife or the ex wife or ex husband or.
[51:39]
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.
[52:06]
Amanda
I think he probably thought, oh, he thought this was a manager. Was like, wow, do you see the writings of this man? We need to get him a book deal.
[52:14]
Shane
He really thought he was the most charming.
[52:16]
Amanda
Because wasn't. Wasn't Twilight written in, like, a. A chat forum? Didn't she write.
[52:22]
Shane
You're thinking of Stephanie Meyer. You're thinking of. Isn't that EL James? Fifty Shades of Gray was a fan fiction of Twilight.
[52:30]
Unknown
Yeah.
[52:31]
Shane
And then she reworked it to make 50 shades of. Of Gray. And also Sarah J. Maas. Throne of Glass, I think was, like, written online at.
[52:41]
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.
[52:48]
Unknown
That's awesome.
[52:49]
Shane
Yeah.
[52:49]
Amanda
I don't want to sleep. I just want to read it.
[52:52]
Unknown
Imagine just, like, abusing your child for six hours and then being like, all right, let me grab my thesaurus and head to Twitter.
[53:00]
Amanda
It's actually true.
[53:01]
Shane
Literally insane.
[53:03]
Amanda
So why are your cabinets bare, man?
[53:05]
Shane
It's.
[53:06]
Amanda
Get some food.
[53:07]
Unknown
Yeah.
[53:07]
Shane
It's so funny, though. Like, it's such a specific type of agonizing that this guy.
[53:13]
Amanda
And he wasn't working. He was working on a jigsaw puzzle.
[53:16]
Shane
He was doing a jigsaw puzzle. He's like. He's like, I could tell this is gonna take a lot of time, but it's a rainy weekend.
[53:20]
Amanda
I'm like, he's like the guy in Saw who rolls out on a fucking wheelchair, and he's like, her Shaw.
[53:26]
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.
[53:36]
Amanda
I actually can't, 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, ask the question. Like, when I would play the next round 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. I was like, I don't know what the question is. He's like, ask the question about where 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. Cause we're hungry, bro. So, like, dudes like that, if they stepped one second into my family, they would be annihilated.
[54:20]
Shane
I think people like that. Cause you meet people like that who are so smug, and you can tell that they. 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. Exactly. 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.
[54:40]
Amanda
Ask the question.
[54:41]
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.
[54:49]
Amanda
He never even said that. He was like, please, Amy, please just open it.
[54:53]
Shane
I love that he wrote, she said, I hate you.
[54:56]
Amanda
She said, I hate you. Understandably. So.
[54:59]
Unknown
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 funny.
[55:09]
Shane
I can't believe you don't know Kony 2012.
[55:11]
Unknown
That's.
[55:11]
Shane
That's one that, like, I feel like we can. We can do Coney 2012. Yeah, we can talk about Kony 2012. I will say.
[55:18]
Unknown
I'll pull up some. I'll pull up some quick.
[55:20]
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?
[55:27]
Amanda
No.
[55:28]
Shane
Okay, we have that for another time.
[55:31]
Amanda
Nope.
[55:32]
Shane
Cony 2012.
[55:34]
Amanda
Is there a picture? Any reference?
[55:36]
Unknown
It's not about a picture.
[55:38]
Shane
I mean, I could. Well, it was a short film, basically. Yeah.
[55:41]
Amanda
Okay, so go ahead, launch into it.
[55:43]
Unknown
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.
[56:21]
Shane
It wasn't just conservative circles. It wasn't every circle.
[56:24]
Unknown
Okay. I didn't know how big it was.
[56:26]
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.
[56:50]
Amanda
Wait, the child soldiers in Uganda, right?
[56:54]
Shane
I don't know where it was.
[56:56]
Unknown
Yeah.
[56:57]
Amanda
Was it Uganda?
[56:57]
Unknown
Yeah, he was Uganda.
[56:58]
Amanda
Cause this, this, the child soldiers do sound familiar, but I don't know what this is.
[57:03]
Shane
It is a real thing.
[57:04]
Amanda
Yeah.
[57:04]
Shane
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 gonna make him famous. Then what?
[57:41]
Unknown
What do we do?
[57:42]
Shane
There's also questions of if Cony's 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, 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.
[58:23]
Amanda
Why are you laughing so hard?
[58:25]
Unknown
Just because it was crazy.
[58:27]
Shane
Insane.
[58:27]
Unknown
And imagine me as a 12 year old being like inside 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, Jackie. And we have all my 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 repenting and he's like going back and there was just this moment of weakness.
[59:02]
Shane
But the ultimate problem was nobody knows where did the money go. Like what was it it nothing happened. Like that's the issue.
[59:10]
Unknown
Yeah.
[59:10]
Shane
No, everyone, everyone in. I think everyone can agree that child soldiers are bad. Selena spent $10 on a bracelet.
[59:17]
Amanda
Well, sounds like you lucked out. Sounds like people spent.
[59:20]
Shane
I'm telling you, it was hard to find people who weren't invested in. In this.
[59:24]
Amanda
So we never ever had this in our school. The biggest thing we had in our school was like Livestrong bracelets.
[59:30]
Shane
Which. Those are big too.
[59:31]
Amanda
Which, which got, you know, over. But we, I. If we had Coney 20 and my mom was a teacher, like I had never. I don't think our school.
[59:40]
Shane
This maybe didn't reached us. Not every sphere. But it was big amongst my friends.
[59:44]
Amanda
Unless I forget it completely.
[59:45]
Shane
It was huge.
[59:46]
Amanda
How old were you?
[59:48]
Shane
I was said 14.
[59:49]
Unknown
I was 12. I mean 12.
[59:51]
Shane
I was like 21. I was like 21.
[59:53]
Amanda
12 and 21.
[59:56]
Shane
Yeah.
[59:57]
Amanda
Let's see a baby.
[59:58]
Shane
Yeah, I'm nine years older than you.
[60:00]
Amanda
Okay, so if you were 21 then I was not in school.
[60:03]
Unknown
Yeah, we're still best friends.
[60:04]
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. It was like the end of the world 2012. And I was like, what if it's the end 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 got to make Cody famous. That was. It was.
[60:28]
Amanda
So the point was to make him famous so he would get exposed that. But. But where did. So where did the money go?
[60:36]
Shane
I don't know.
[60:36]
Unknown
We don't know.
[60:37]
Shane
I mean, I don't actually know.
[60:38]
Unknown
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?
[60:50]
Shane
What does the money do? It brought.
[60:52]
Unknown
Send in an assassin. Like, yeah, like, it's. It's so funny from the beginning.
[60:59]
Shane
And it's also, like, the thing of, like, we're making famous. I'm like, I'm pretty sure the international, like, I'm pretty sure countries know who he is.
[61:06]
Unknown
Yeah.
[61:06]
Shane
It's not like. It's not like the American government didn't know who he was.
[61:10]
Amanda
So what happened to this guy after he had a psychotic break?
[61:13]
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.
[61:27]
Unknown
Happens, but, like, raise millions of dollars.
[61:30]
Shane
Oh, tens of millions.
[61:31]
Unknown
Like, 10. Like, yeah. Insane amounts of money.
[61:34]
Shane
Do we have a number on how much it probably raised? $12.6 million.
[61:40]
Amanda
And we don't know where that money is.
[61:42]
Shane
I don't know, Trevor, and I don't know.
[61:45]
Amanda
Yeah, I'm sure someone Wikipedia. Just kidding.
[61:49]
Unknown
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
[61:51]
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 Coney still alive? Do we know anything about him?
[62:02]
Shane
I don't know. I. 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, like, societal obsession with it. Like, we were all so riveted by it, and then suddenly it was like, oh, yeah, this campaign's a little.
[62:27]
Amanda
That's what's tricky about documentaries, because they can be extremely biased.
[62:30]
Shane
Yes. Extremely biased. It's important when you watch a documentary to, like, also kind of.
[62:37]
Amanda
Right.
[62:38]
Shane
Because 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 Kony 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.
[63:01]
Unknown
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.
[63:18]
Shane
Okay, 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.
[63:34]
Amanda
Of like, can I see what he looks like?
[63:36]
Unknown
I'm just gonna look up coney 2012 guy.
[63:39]
Shane
Yeah, coney 2012, dude.
[63:41]
Unknown
This is him. That's even funnier.
[63:45]
Amanda
I feel like if you shaved your face and made that little face, that you could kind of look like him.
[63:49]
Unknown
A little bit playing in the dock.
[63:51]
Shane
It was wild, man.
[63:52]
Unknown
Now imagine that guy just like. And he's like. Yeah. And he's jacking off in the street naked. It's crazy.
[63:58]
Shane
It's so weird.
[63:59]
Amanda
Why is it when. When celebrity men have breakdowns, they always go naked through the street?
[64:03]
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.
[64:13]
Unknown
Yeah. Yeah. Did they ever get him? Oh, yeah. Here's the.
[64:17]
Shane
Oh, so rough, man.
[64:19]
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.
[64:34]
Shane
I got the video.
[64:35]
Unknown
Do you guys want to watch it?
[64:36]
Shane
Well, I don't know if we can show them.
[64:37]
Amanda
Maybe later.
[64:38]
Unknown
It's just for me.
[64:39]
Shane
Just. You're just gonna watch the video? Okay. Okay. Lastly, before we go. Before we go. Amanda, do you know about Mudang?
[64:49]
Amanda
No.
[64:49]
Shane
You don't know about Mu Dang?
[64:52]
Amanda
What?
[64:52]
Unknown
Oh, come on.
[64:53]
Shane
Ah, no.
[64:55]
Unknown
See, here at Smosh, we have our finger on the pulse.
[64:58]
Shane
We know about Mu Dang.
[64:59]
Unknown
Mudang is happening right now.
[65:00]
Shane
Mudang is happening in this moment currently right now. He's a little baby hippo.
[65:06]
Unknown
Mudang's a baby hippo.
[65:07]
Shane
Oh, baby.
[65:08]
Unknown
And seems to be just a rambunctious little rascal.
[65:11]
Shane
Yeah. Oh, baby. Just a sweet little baby hippo. That's all.
[65:15]
Unknown
That's it.
[65:16]
Amanda
So he's in a zoo?
[65:17]
Unknown
Well, yeah, but he's always biting people or getting sprayed with water.
[65:22]
Shane
Yeah.
[65:22]
Unknown
Awesome.
[65:23]
Amanda
Good. He should bite people so he can get out of that zoo.
[65:25]
Shane
Yeah. Free mudang.
[65:27]
Amanda
You know how I feel. Tits out for Moo Dang.
[65:30]
Shane
Free Moo Dang.
[65:31]
Amanda
I don't know if that works, actually.
[65:33]
Unknown
Did you just say tits out for Mu Daeng?
[65:36]
Amanda
Listen, I said it and I regret it.
[65:39]
Unknown
Everybody. Tits out for Moo Dang.
[65:41]
Amanda
Guys. He's a baby.
[65:42]
Shane
Guys. Dicks out for Moo Dang.
[65:46]
Unknown
And Coney 2012. Go donate.
[65:48]
Amanda
Oh, my God.
[65:49]
Shane
We're reviving.
[65:51]
Amanda
I can't handle that.
[65:52]
Unknown
Still out there.
[65:53]
Shane
God, I can't. Guys, open up a can of beans.
[65:56]
Amanda
I hate that dad so much.
[66:00]
Shane
All right, sounds like we need a.
[66:01]
Amanda
Part two of this because.
[66:02]
Shane
Oh, we have so many we didn't get to dashcon, which I have a bunch of research on.
[66:08]
Amanda
And what's the other one?
[66:09]
Unknown
Don't hug me. I'm scared.
[66:10]
Shane
Don't hug me. I'm scared. I don't know how he that would be.
[66:13]
Unknown
There's a lot of videos we just.
[66:14]
Shane
Got to show you.
[66:14]
Unknown
We'll offline about that.
[66:16]
Amanda
Okay, let's offline about my favorite thing to do.
[66:19]
Shane
Okay. Thank you guys for watching. We'll see you later.
[66:23]
Amanda
Thanks, Trevor, for joining us. As always, for having me.
[66:26]
Unknown
This is awesome. I love this shit. That's great.
[66:29]
Shane
This is great.
[66:29]
Unknown
Great.
[66:30]
Shane
All right. Bye, guys.
[66:31]
Amanda
Bye.
[66:36]
Unknown
Hello.
[66:36]
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Shane
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