#71 - Would We Have Been Friends?

Summary

Podcast Summary: Smosh Mouth Episode #71 - "Would We Have Been Friends?"

Host(s): Shayne Topp (Shane), Amanda Lehan-Canto (Amanda), and Ian Hecox
Release Date: November 18, 2024
Duration: Approximately 69 minutes
Title: Would We Have Been Friends?

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Introduction

In episode #71 of Smosh Mouth, hosts Shane, Amanda, and Ian delve deep into the 19-year journey of Smosh, reflecting on their early beginnings, personal growth, challenges faced, and the enduring legacy of their collaborative efforts. The conversation is candid, humorous, and filled with nostalgic insights, making it an engaging listen for both long-time fans and newcomers.

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Celebrating Smosh's 19th Anniversary

The episode kicks off with the hosts acknowledging a significant milestone: Smosh turning 19 years old. Shane expresses his surprise and pride in the longevity of their venture.

• Shane (02:35):
  "Smosh is 19 years old."

This milestone serves as a backdrop for the hosts to reminisce about how Smosh began and evolved over nearly two decades.

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The Genesis of Smosh: Early Days (2005)

Ian takes the lead in recounting the humble beginnings of Smosh. Starting at 17 years old in 2005, Shane and Ian began creating content driven by boredom and a passion for making each other laugh.

• Ian (09:05):
  "Bored."

They initially used a basic webcam setup, limiting their filming radius to about three feet from the computer. This simplicity fostered creativity and spontaneity in their early sketches.

• Shane (09:25):
  "We had to shoot everything within, like a radius of like three feet from the computer at the beginning."

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Nostalgia for Early Technology and Content Creation

The hosts share a nostalgic appreciation for the outdated technology they once relied upon, such as floppy disks and laserdiscs. Shane muses about the challenges of recreating their early sketches with today's advanced equipment.

• Shane (10:05):
  "It would be really impressive..."

They fondly recall classic Smosh content, including the iconic "Pokemon Lip Sync" video, which remains a cherished part of their repertoire.

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Teenage Life and Friendship Dynamics

A significant portion of the episode explores whether Shane and Ian would have been friends had they attended high school together. Amanda interjects with her own wild teenage experiences, contrasting them with Shane and Ian's more focused paths.

• Amanda (26:07):
  "I was wild, man."

Shane discusses his homeschooling and acting pursuits, highlighting the differences in their social circles and how these may have influenced their potential friendship.

• Shane (35:00):
  "I think Smosh would be a kind of emo skater vibe from it."

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Reflections on "Love is Blind" and Other Shows

The conversation shifts to external influences, with the hosts critiquing the "Love is Blind" reunion. They express frustration over perceived shortcomings and how such shows impact their views on reality TV.

• Shane (05:16):
  "I hate that show."

Amanda adds her observations on the intensity and confrontational nature of the reunion, emphasizing the importance of meaningful discourse over superficial drama.

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Milestones and Challenges in Smosh's Journey

Ian and Shane delve into key milestones that shaped Smosh, such as the Smosh Summer Games and the premiere of "Smosh: The Movie." They also candidly discuss the turbulence brought about by Anthony leaving the group and the subsequent Defy Collapse.

• Ian (54:02):
  "The best moments were definitely times when we were able to just do something we never thought we'd be able to do."

The hosts reflect on the financial and logistical challenges of producing content in Los Angeles versus Sacramento, illustrating the resilience and adaptability that fueled Smosh's growth.

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The Evolution and Future of Smosh

As the episode draws to a close, the hosts emphasize their commitment to ensuring Smosh continues to thrive beyond the 19-year mark. They discuss plans to reach 20 years and the strategies to maintain relevance in an ever-evolving digital landscape.

• Shane (68:10):
  "We gotta make sure Smosh makes it to 20."

Amanda and Ian reaffirm their dedication, highlighting personal and collective efforts to sustain the brand's legacy.

• Ian (68:23):
  "We subscribe. Subscribe."

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Notable Quotes and Highlights

Throughout the episode, several memorable quotes encapsulate the hosts' sentiments and the essence of their discussion:

• Shane (02:35):
  "Smosh is 19 years old."

• Ian (07:12):
  "Watch someone do it badly is when you realize how hard, hard something is."

• Shane (33:05):
  "You just have to be bored and horny."

• Amanda (26:07):
  "I was wild, man."

• Shane (68:10):
  "We gotta make sure Smosh makes it to 20."

These quotes highlight the blend of humor, honesty, and introspection that define the episode.

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Conclusion

Episode #71 of Smosh Mouth serves as a heartfelt tribute to the enduring spirit of Smosh. Through laughter, nostalgia, and candid reflections, Shane, Amanda, and Ian celebrate their collective journey, acknowledging both triumphs and tribulations. The episode not only honors the past but also sets the stage for Smosh's future endeavors, promising continued entertainment and connection with their audience.

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End of Summary

Transcript

[Amanda Lehan]

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[Shane Madej]

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[Amanda Lehan]

And I'm Amanda Lehan. Canto. This is Ian.

[Shane Madej]

Holy crap. You got to say your whole name.

[Amanda Lehan]

Yeah. Cause you didn't. And I was like, I'm gonna say all three of my names. And here's Ian.

[Ian Hecox]

Hey, I'm Ian.

[Shane Madej]

Ian Hecox is your middle name E. What? I said Ian.

[Ian Hecox]

Ian He Cox.

[Amanda Lehan]

Oh.

[Shane Madej]

Oh, I thought you said Ian.

[Amanda Lehan]

E. What's your real middle name?

[Ian Hecox]

Actually, it's a. It's a secret that you'll never know.

[Shane Madej]

I've known at some point and I've. I've forgotten.

[Ian Hecox]

Richard, you'll never know unless you go on Google and it'll tell you.

[Shane Madej]

It's just everywhere.

[Amanda Lehan]

I can't do that because we're filming.

[Ian Hecox]

So my middle name is Andrew.

[Shane Madej]

Oh.

[Ian Hecox]

But John was an interesting guest.

[Amanda Lehan]

Wow. Gave that up so fast.

[Ian Hecox]

Sorry. John was a good guess because Ian is Gaelic for John, apparently.

[Shane Madej]

Oh. Oh, look at that.

[Amanda Lehan]

We were just talking about Gaelic.

[Shane Madej]

We were?

[Amanda Lehan]

I was, yeah. No, Ian and I were.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. Because, er, Lingus, somebody said, don't call it Gaelic, just call it Irish.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah.

[Amanda Lehan]

And I was like, that's incorrect, ma'am, but maybe it's not.

[Ian Hecox]

Irish fans, rise up.

[Amanda Lehan]

Yeah. Let us know if you go on the plane. If you go on Aer Lingus to go to Ireland after they announce things to you in English, they announced things to you in what I thought was called Gaelic because that's was the original language. And someone said, no, it's just called Irish, stupid. All right. And here we go. I hate you. You're acting like a 19 year old right now.

[Shane Madej]

Oh, you know what else is 19? Smosh.

[Ian Hecox]

What?

[Shane Madej]

Smosh is 19 years old.

[Amanda Lehan]

Your first baby is 19.

[Shane Madej]

Wow.

[Amanda Lehan]

Do you like that?

[Shane Madej]

Crazy. Do you like that?

[Ian Hecox]

Like that? Yeah. They're out of the house now. I could finally shit with the door open, hopefully.

[Shane Madej]

Okay.

[Amanda Lehan]

Could have done that.

[Shane Madej]

I'm never doing.

[Amanda Lehan]

Shane doesn't do that ever.

[Ian Hecox]

No, actually, I don't. All right. I. I do. I do live by myself. I don't with the door open because I don't want the smell to escape the bathroom.

[Amanda Lehan]

Whoa.

[Shane Madej]

There's another good reason.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

There's so many good reasons.

[Amanda Lehan]

So freeing.

[Shane Madej]

I just like to have the door closed to be like, I'm in my capsule.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

And when I leave. And nobody knows what happens when you. Yeah, When I sh. In there, nobody knows what happens when I poop.

[Ian Hecox]

When I poop.

[Shane Madej]

When I walk out of the bathroom, Courtney goes, what'd you do in there? I go, nothing.

[Amanda Lehan]

Yeah. I didn't take a sh.

[Shane Madej]

I didn't take a sh. In there.

[Ian Hecox]

You're like a radio.

[Shane Madej]

I don't even know what that is.

[Ian Hecox]

Like a radio edit of, like, a rap song. I didn't take a shoot.

[Amanda Lehan]

Another thing that you do when you're 19, make up fun raps.

[Ian Hecox]

We did. We did do that when we were 19.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah, you did do that. Really quick, before we get into talking about smosh being 19. We talked about this a couple weeks ago. We talked about it before it happened. We talked about the Love Is Blind reunion before it happened.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh.

[Shane Madej]

To make predictions. And I said, I sort of made predictions. I was just venting about how I'm like, it's gonna suck and it's going to be the most infuriating thing ever.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

And it was. It was in surprising ways. They. They found ways to piss me off in ways I didn't expect.

[Ian Hecox]

This is true.

[Amanda Lehan]

So I didn't watch it because so many people told me it was not worth my time.

[Shane Madej]

It truly. I. I am borderline. I hate that show enough to borderline be, like, don't watch it. Like, don't. Don't support that show.

[Amanda Lehan]

And you know what? Vanessa Lachey felt that in episode one when she wore that intense black leather and she almost didn't speak, but had the eyes of vengeance. I don't know if you saw that. Maybe she' listening to us because she's.

[Ian Hecox]

I think it's possible.

[Amanda Lehan]

Ian and I talked about this. She seemed really mad.

[Shane Madej]

I think. I think this one this time, and I don't want to talk about it too much because it was forever ago, but this time I wasn't. I was mad at both of them, Nick and Vanessa, just because they were both like wet noodles. It wasn't that they were, like, necessarily going after anyone. They just kind of let horrible shit happen. And when you let horrible shit happen, the worst people win because they're the ones who are going to be the most aggressive and make accusations.

[Amanda Lehan]

I agree.

[Shane Madej]

And they just kind of let it all. All fly. And the people who kind of. The people who got the fingers pointed out were not the people that I needed to hear from.

[Ian Hecox]

Who.

[Amanda Lehan]

Who got their fingers pointed out.

[Shane Madej]

Nick was entirely the focus. Nick, he was entirely the focus.

[Amanda Lehan]

Oh, wait, Hannah's neck.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah. Take out the trash. The whole basis. And now we're talking about it, the whole basis was Hannah was like, yeah. You had a journal entry where you said you wanted to be famous from Love Is Mine. It's like, hold on, you're talking about and. And this. And nobody said friends.

[Ian Hecox]

Her and her friends.

[Amanda Lehan]

He read her to do list.

[Shane Madej]

She posted. She posted his journal entry on her. Like, social media. I'm like, wait, nobody's talking about how this is an invasion of privacy.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

And also, Hannah quit her job and now is in LA with an agent, like, trying to be an actor. And I'm like, you literally did the thing that you're accusing him of, but nobody.

[Amanda Lehan]

He journaled that.

[Ian Hecox]

He journaled that he wanted to be one of the most famous. He was the. One of the most famous contestants on Love Is Blind.

[Shane Madej]

But no, he had a list of, like, three goals. And he's clearly someone who's trying to write goals.

[Amanda Lehan]

He's like pineapple lover. I think it was a little bit.

[Shane Madej]

Of a manifest thing.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. Kind of like he said, sell two homes.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Be in the best shape of my life for two weeks.

[Shane Madej]

I don't know.

[Ian Hecox]

Come on, bro.

[Amanda Lehan]

Clear off that game table that I have downstairs in my room with all the saints everywhere. Remember his room?

[Ian Hecox]

The pool table? She's like, you say you had a pool table, and it's just like a pool table that's shoved into a closet. He's like, well, yeah, I mean, like, I gotta.

[Shane Madej]

I don't use that anyways. It sucked ass.

[Ian Hecox]

It was not good.

[Shane Madej]

It sucked ass. I hate that show.

[Ian Hecox]

There's a lot of. There's a lot of issues with the show, I think, you know, being Rihas VA's Assault Lake City girly.

[Amanda Lehan]

OK.

[Ian Hecox]

I think the way that they do reunions is so much better. It's three. It's three parts. They stretch their reunion out into three parts, but with that they're actually able to go into each thing that happened and say, let's talk about it.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

And the host, Andy, actually, like, holds the fire.

[Shane Madej]

He's great. That's the key is. And it's watching someone do it badly is when you realize how hard, hard something is.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

And being a reality show host is something that probably at some point I was like, oh, that's can't be that hard. But now watching, I'm like, oh, my God, you are juggling so much.

[Amanda Lehan]

You really are.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

That's crazy.

[Ian Hecox]

Anyways, the reunion was kind of a bummer, and they had, like, all this stupid filler. Like, I don't care about the alumni, like, sitting there, like, the council of. Of lovers, of beings.

[Amanda Lehan]

Like, stop.

[Shane Madej]

I hated it anyways.

[Amanda Lehan]

But you watched the whole thing.

[Shane Madej]

I watched. Well, I end. I end up watching the whole thing. I always am like, I'm not going to do this. Courtney Lynn. Be like, well, I'm going to watch the first episode, and then I end up watching it.

[Amanda Lehan]

Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

Because it's the formula of how bad it is is so good. But I end up, every time being like, I hated this. I hate what the show. I feel like it's promoting everybody. I feel like it's a very. I feel like it promotes gender war, too.

[Amanda Lehan]

And then they bring their friends, and they're like, all right, I want y'all to meet Nick. And then all the friends are like, that's not what she's doing. She saying this. And it's like, dude, of course your friends are going to, like, stick up for you. Like, I just. I hate the meaning of the friends and the meaning of the mom. Remember that? Mother.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, I'll cut your balls off.

[Shane Madej]

She honestly. She Honestly, at the reunion, was the only one who kind of, like, was pointing anything like, you wanted her to host it, Right? Yeah, she actually was, like, pointing things out. Anyways, I'm done talking about Love is Blind. Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

I think half the people stopped listening.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah, nobody's listening.

[Ian Hecox]

Like, I came here to talk about Smosh.

[Amanda Lehan]

Like, smosh turned 19. So. Love is blind.

[Shane Madej]

Love is blind conversation. So Smosh is 19 years old.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

Ian, did you think that it would last this long?

[Ian Hecox]

No. Why would I when you. Well, I mean, I've officially done. I've lived more of my life working, doing Smosh than not doing Smosh.

[Amanda Lehan]

That is crazy. That's insane, because. How old were you when you first started smosh?

[Ian Hecox]

17.

[Amanda Lehan]

17, wow. So a senior in high school.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, we were just out of high.

[Shane Madej]

School and how serious? I mean, like, when you first started, it was just. It was. It wasn't like a plan. It was just kind of. You're messing around.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

And then you said, you told me.

[Amanda Lehan]

That you were, like, bored and you were just making videos.

[Ian Hecox]

Bored.

[Amanda Lehan]

You were bored?

[Ian Hecox]

Bored.

[Amanda Lehan]

Wow.

[Ian Hecox]

We were. This is suburbia. Didn't have a lot of, like, money to, like, do stuff, so it was just like. Yeah. I don't know. This. This. This is silly.

[Amanda Lehan]

What did you film things on?

[Ian Hecox]

Started with a webcam.

[Shane Madej]

Like Android.

[Ian Hecox]

Like a shitty, like, webcam that was wired to the computer. So, like.

[Amanda Lehan]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

We had to shoot everything within, like a radius of like three feet from the computer at the beginning.

[Shane Madej]

So funny. Yeah, so funny.

[Amanda Lehan]

Wait, that's amazing.

[Shane Madej]

I pitched to you guys the idea of trying to recreate a sketch with all the same equipment from back then, which would be so much harder now because it's hard to just get that equipment.

[Amanda Lehan]

Yeah, you get a webcam.

[Shane Madej]

Getting the equipment now.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. Like a Windows movie maker from 2005.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah. You'd need all the same software, all the same hardware.

[Amanda Lehan]

That would actually be really funny, though.

[Shane Madej]

It would be really impressive. But a lot of that stuff's probably lost. Lost, lost technology. Nobody knows how they made it. It's kind of like the pyramids.

[Amanda Lehan]

It was not that long ago.

[Shane Madej]

We don't know how Ian and Anthony made the Pokemon lip sync video. It's similar to Stonehenge.

[Ian Hecox]

It's like a V are like, how does it work?

[Shane Madej]

Yeah. Nobody really knows.

[Amanda Lehan]

People in their 30s. You guys keep thinking that we're just so old. We're not. Right?

[Shane Madej]

You're all ancient technology of laserdisc ate you.

[Ian Hecox]

Did you ever have laserdisc?

[Shane Madej]

No, but Spencer's been talking about collecting laserdiscs.

[Amanda Lehan]

I had a floppy disc.

[Shane Madej]

Whoa. Talking about old in school. Shut up in my class.

[Amanda Lehan]

Sparkling biz.

[Shane Madej]

I was aware of floppy disks. We had floppy disks. Yeah, yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

I'm trying to remember if Chex Quest was on floppy or if it was on C. Chex Quest. Chex what, the quiz cereal? Chex Quest. I always gotta shout out Chex Quest, which was, you know, Chex the cereal.

[Amanda Lehan]

Right, of course.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay. Do you know Doom the video game?

[Amanda Lehan]

No.

[Shane Madej]

Really?

[Amanda Lehan]

So I think maybe yes.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay, so the original Doom was like this weird kind of like. Like 3D shooters, weren't. They were like, just starting to become a thing. And Doom is this very popular hyper violent.

[Amanda Lehan]

Okay, I think I know, I think I know.

[Ian Hecox]

You're like shooting these, like, kind of like zombie Hell spawn people. You're on Mars. There's a lot of blood.

[Amanda Lehan]

So something I wouldn't be allowed to play, right?

[Ian Hecox]

Exactly. And I wouldn't be allowed to play it either. However, Checks created like a. Like they made like a mod to. To Doom and made it like a kid's version of Doom. And you're playing this Checks guy and you're like shooting these like snot guys. And it was with guns. With. With. Well, they weren't serial guns. They were. Yeah, they were serial. Yeah. So it was like. It was like the only way that I could play, like a violent shooter game and it was free, came in a fucking box of checks.

[Shane Madej]

That's insane.

[Amanda Lehan]

That is so.

[Ian Hecox]

Dude, shout out Checks.

[Shane Madej]

I've never played Doom, but it's such a fascinating game on a like, kind of software level or programming level. Because people will program Doom into like, weird shit.

[Ian Hecox]

It's the benchmark.

[Shane Madej]

It'll be like, I think this is wrong. But someone programmed it into something weird like a pregnancy test or something where you can play Doom on.

[Ian Hecox]

Wait, that's always the thing.

[Amanda Lehan]

How do you play Doom on a pregnancy test?

[Ian Hecox]

Exactly.

[Shane Madej]

It's such an old game that all of our technology now is so far from where it was then that there's enough memory on random ass things to play.

[Ian Hecox]

It's always like, can I play Doom on it? That's like, well, how.

[Shane Madej]

Why people do it as a challenge, right?

[Amanda Lehan]

So you guys are sitting on the toilet after you put.

[Shane Madej]

I'm not this Amanda, but maybe I thought about it with the door closed.

[Ian Hecox]

Have you ever seen with the door?

[Shane Madej]

That's why I close the door so I can play Doom on my pregnancy quest. Pregnancy.

[Amanda Lehan]

Pregnancy quest. That's awesome.

[Shane Madej]

Pregnancy quest.

[Ian Hecox]

You know anyone else on their pregnancy quest?

[Amanda Lehan]

That's actually awesome. That's adventurous females trying to get pregnant. That's a pregnancy quest.

[Ian Hecox]

That's a way. That's a way better way of asking somebody like, if they're like planning on having a kid.

[Amanda Lehan]

You're on the quest.

[Ian Hecox]

Yo, how far are you on your pregnancy quest? You only side quest.

[Amanda Lehan]

I actually kind of love that because it makes us feel like badass.

[Shane Madej]

I could never fathom asking someone if they're trying and you shouldn't. I can't. Like some of those questions that parents ask that are like, I guess were normal at some point of like, are you trying for a kid? I'm like, the fuck kind of creepy questions.

[Amanda Lehan]

They have no respect. They don't care.

[Ian Hecox]

Have you seen.

[Amanda Lehan]

Don't care.

[Ian Hecox]

Have you seen The Tim Allen Doom mod? No, where they replaced. So this is.

[Amanda Lehan]

This is Tim Allen in the Santa Claus or Tim Allen and Home Improvement.

[Ian Hecox]

Home Improvement. So it's Home Improvement.

[Shane Madej]

I like how I know that. It's Home Improvement.

[Ian Hecox]

And have you seen this?

[Shane Madej]

I've seen this.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay. This is classic. So. So somebody modded Doom and they just replaced all the assets with Tim Allen.

[Shane Madej]

And you see, they're all coming at you. They're all doing the thing. And it's good stuff, right? Yeah.

[Amanda Lehan]

Wait. That's so funny. I loved Home Improvement.

[Shane Madej]

Well, then you're gonna love what was.

[Amanda Lehan]

The man behind the events. I hate that. Okay. I kind of hate that.

[Shane Madej]

It's good.

[Amanda Lehan]

Damn, I missed out on such a funny, funny world.

[Shane Madej]

I bet you your dad does programming and stuff.

[Amanda Lehan]

My dad? He was a computer engineer. He used to.

[Shane Madej]

Your dad knows all about this?

[Amanda Lehan]

He used to read like Microsoft.

[Shane Madej]

Your dad probably has programmed doom into weird shit.

[Amanda Lehan]

I don't think. He was never a video game guy.

[Shane Madej]

I bet if you had a Tamagotchi as a kid, he would have programmed doom.

[Amanda Lehan]

I had a Tamagotchi as a kid, and that Tamagotchi was fed. I never let that baby die, ever. Whereas my sister, it died every fucking day.

[Ian Hecox]

Can you run doom on Tamagotchi?

[Shane Madej]

I bet you could run doom on a Tamagotchi.

[Amanda Lehan]

This is so cool.

[Shane Madej]

You kept your Tamagotchi alive.

[Amanda Lehan]

Of course I did.

[Shane Madej]

For how long?

[Amanda Lehan]

I am. Well, where is a monster? Oh, I threw it away when I was, like, a certain age.

[Shane Madej]

You threw it away?

[Amanda Lehan]

Yeah, after I played. What's that?

[Shane Madej]

That's somehow worse than letting it die. You abandoned it.

[Amanda Lehan]

What are those bones called? Funny bones.

[Shane Madej]

Silly bones.

[Amanda Lehan]

Is it silly bones? I feel like I was asleep in a. In a pod. Like in the alien going through a part of space and missed out.

[Shane Madej]

I need to show you. There is a YouTube video. It's one of my favorites, called My House Wad. Right? It's a really creepy. Creepy where someone did a pro. Like, nobody knows who this person is who made this program, but someone programmed doom. And it seems like it's normal. And then you make this one move, and then all of a sudden it replays, but it's a little different. And then people who know this know, like, oh, this is one of the creepiest, coolest things. I'll show you. I'll send you this video and you'll watch it and you'll be fascinated by it.

[Ian Hecox]

We should make Amanda play PT.

[Shane Madej]

Oh, my God.

[Amanda Lehan]

PT Physical therapy.

[Shane Madej]

PT Is PT Is one of the best games ever made.

[Ian Hecox]

It was a. It was a trailer.

[Amanda Lehan]

Paul Thomas.

[Shane Madej]

It was a trailer for.

[Ian Hecox]

It was. It stood for playable trailer. But it was. But it was like a horror game.

[Shane Madej]

It's very similar to Resident Evil, but.

[Ian Hecox]

It never got finished. But this trailer was made, and it was, like, one of the best, like, little, tiny horror games. It, like. It kind of, like, changed the horror game.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Like, Realm.

[Shane Madej]

Big deal.

[Ian Hecox]

Huge deal. Scary as.

[Shane Madej]

So Smosh was made in 2005.

[Ian Hecox]

So Smosh was made in 2005.

[Amanda Lehan]

Five. You were 17?

[Ian Hecox]

I was 17.

[Shane Madej]

How old were you?

[Amanda Lehan]

I was 17.

[Ian Hecox]

Wow.

[Amanda Lehan]

Right?

[Shane Madej]

I. I just did this math. 2005. I was 14.

[Amanda Lehan]

Okay, great. Good for you. I was 17. Yep.

[Shane Madej]

Okay.

[Amanda Lehan]

Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

Pretty cool.

[Amanda Lehan]

Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

2005, I feel like, is not that memorable of a year. Right. It just kind of Just what was going on.

[Amanda Lehan]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Because the high school.

[Amanda Lehan]

High school senior in high school.

[Shane Madej]

High School musical hadn't come out yet.

[Amanda Lehan]

Oh, yeah. Cares about that.

[Ian Hecox]

Napoleon Dynamite was already out.

[Shane Madej]

It was already been out for. No, I don't think anything happened in 2005.

[Ian Hecox]

I think Smosh, like, really hit, you.

[Shane Madej]

Know, like, nothing else, nothing fun, nothing awesome happened in 2005. That.

[Amanda Lehan]

Fact checkers.

[Ian Hecox]

Not really. IPOD Nano.

[Amanda Lehan]

IPOD Nano was my shit, okay. Because I was running with a Discman forever. And when you're running with a disc man and you have a CD in there to run with, it means it skips your whole run.

[Ian Hecox]

Well, that's what you have memory for. Like, the CD players would have, like, memory, but it'd be, like, 10 seconds of memory, so you have to, like.

[Amanda Lehan]

Yeah, it sucked. I basically ran like this. Then when I got the Nano, I was like, this is sick.

[Shane Madej]

I had the OG iPod for a long time. Oh.

[Ian Hecox]

Pope John Paul died in 2005.

[Shane Madej]

Oh, that's right. We got him.

[Amanda Lehan]

Jesus Christ. Are we gonna have to cut, like, 90% of this episode? I think we might.

[Ian Hecox]

When you were.

[Shane Madej]

When you were 17, what were you up to?

[Amanda Lehan]

I was a senior in high school, and every. I think. What was I doing? I was. I was definitely in a play. I can't remember which play. What?

[Shane Madej]

Ian's just on his phone just looking around at stuff.

[Amanda Lehan]

This wasn't important.

[Ian Hecox]

I was looking at. I was looking at births and deaths. I don't know if this is a death from 2005 or as a birth, but it was a Canadian senator representing Newfoundland and Labrador, and his name is C. William Duty. You look at it.

[Shane Madej]

It's not even that crazy.

[Ian Hecox]

Look how it's spelled.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah.

[Amanda Lehan]

It's crazy that smosh turned 19 and we're acting like little freaking teenagers.

[Ian Hecox]

Imagine having your last name.

[Shane Madej]

I can tell you what I was. I can tell you what I was doing in 2005.

[Amanda Lehan]

Tell me.

[Shane Madej]

This is more so 2006, but it began in 2005. World of Warcraft.

[Amanda Lehan]

Oh, wait, yeah, I remember you talking about.

[Shane Madej]

There is a documentary you should watch called the Secret Life of Ibelin.

[Amanda Lehan]

Oh.

[Shane Madej]

And you are going to add it to the list. You're going to sob.

[Amanda Lehan]

Why?

[Shane Madej]

I don't even.

[Amanda Lehan]

Kid who fell into World of Warcraft because he played.

[Shane Madej]

So it's actually. No, it's actually beautiful. It's actually a beautiful story. I don't want to go into it too much, but it's an incredible dude who played World of Warcraft and changed lives, and it's changed his lives.

[Amanda Lehan]

Whoa. Okay.

[Shane Madej]

Gorgeous story. But I was so into it, man. I played.

[Amanda Lehan]

I played college in high school.

[Shane Madej]

So I was beginning high school, but I was homeschooled. Cause I was now acting. And that year, actually 2005, sucked because I was just riddled with anxiety and stress because I was. Because I was so stressed by the idea of not going to high school. And it'd been a thing that I, like, kind of believed in the fantasy of it my whole life. You know when you're a kid and you see all these movies and stuff about high school, it's like, whoa, high school's gonna be crazy. And my brothers were in college by this point and. Or even past college by this point, and talked it up so much and we're like, oh, high school's awesome. College is awesome. And so I was like, no, high school's fine. I was not gonna go do it. And so I was gonna be homeschooled because I was pursuing acting, which I was also very excited about. But I was like, what if acting doesn't work out? And then I give up high school and then I also don't get the acting dream and then I just have neither.

[Amanda Lehan]

I took so much pressure for a.

[Shane Madej]

Frickin 17 year old for 14 year old. I was 14.

[Amanda Lehan]

That's crazy.

[Shane Madej]

It sucked.

[Amanda Lehan]

Oh, yeah, you were 14.

[Shane Madej]

It sucked. But. But I played a lot of World of Warcraft.

[Amanda Lehan]

And that helped soothe your anxieties.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

You know what else happened in 2005?

[Amanda Lehan]

What?

[Ian Hecox]

YouTube.

[Shane Madej]

Well, yeah, you guys were right there at the start.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, you literally.

[Amanda Lehan]

So YouTube came out. You guys were making videos before YouTube came out or when YouTube came out because you were making videos.

[Ian Hecox]

That's a great question. I guess YouTube had already come out when we started making videos. We didn't know about YouTube yet.

[Amanda Lehan]

So you're just making them for fun.

[Ian Hecox]

You're just making them. Anthony's hosting them on his website. And then we were uploading them onto MySpace.

[Amanda Lehan]

Oh, yes, I knew that. And then when did you get the idea to start putting them on YouTube? Wait, when you're. When your mice. When your MySpace started blowing up, Right? Weren't you in school? Stop looking at your phone.

[Ian Hecox]

I'm looking at other events.

[Amanda Lehan]

I'm gonna kill him.

[Ian Hecox]

English whiskey is reestablished in England.

[Shane Madej]

The fact that you had to look this far for events in 2005. And that's the best.

[Ian Hecox]

No, this is literally. This is the most boring fucking year.

[Amanda Lehan]

No, wait. Ashley Simpson got caught lip syncing. Oh, snl.

[Ian Hecox]

Dude, that was the best.

[Shane Madej]

Can you imagine if that happened today?

[Ian Hecox]

Nobody would care.

[Shane Madej]

It would be actually, you know what? It would just be another day.

[Amanda Lehan]

You know what she would do? She wouldn't go. She would be like, I need to take a mental day to not go. And we'd all be like, get it, girl.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Amanda Lehan]

It was so crazy that she was forced to do it. And I get it. I get it. It's snl, but like, still.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah, because it came out like she. She lost her voice.

[Amanda Lehan]

Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah.

[Amanda Lehan]

Hey, I asked you a question, Mr. Ian, sir.

[Ian Hecox]

Katrina. Hurricane Katrina happened.

[Shane Madej]

That's why I said nothing awesome happened that year.

[Ian Hecox]

You're right.

[Shane Madej]

It was a bad year. Nothing exciting.

[Ian Hecox]

Andrew Stimpson, a 25 year old Scottish man, is reported as the first person proven to have been cured of hiv.

[Shane Madej]

Oh, that's. That's.

[Amanda Lehan]

That is great.

[Shane Madej]

That's cool.

[Amanda Lehan]

Okay, now put your phone.

[Shane Madej]

That's.

[Ian Hecox]

I'll put it down now that.

[Amanda Lehan]

That's what?

[Shane Madej]

Oh.

[Ian Hecox]

Microsoft releases Xbox 360.

[Shane Madej]

Okay. Xbox 360.

[Amanda Lehan]

This is what you were like as a kid. I literally see.

[Shane Madej]

It's Xbox 360. That old.

[Amanda Lehan]

No, no, don't ask him questions. Because then he just opened his phone up.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, yeah. Xbox 360.

[Shane Madej]

Like, I'm in the Indiana Jones rides. Like, look into my eyes. Pull out your phone.

[Ian Hecox]

Anyway, I had to find at least one thing that was interesting about 2000.

[Amanda Lehan]

I don't even remember my question.

[Shane Madej]

Do you think if you guys went to high school together, you'd been friends because you were the. You were then the same?

[Amanda Lehan]

Like him and I be friends in high school? Are you kidding?

[Ian Hecox]

Ew. She's a girl.

[Amanda Lehan]

I mean, hello.

[Ian Hecox]

Holy.

[Shane Madej]

We just got a glimpse of you at 17. Gross.

[Amanda Lehan]

Oh, guys, come on. No, no. Anyways, guys, I don't know.

[Ian Hecox]

Absolutely not.

[Amanda Lehan]

Here's the thing. Like, here's the thing. I don't know.

[Shane Madej]

Did you have any friends who had a bowl cut?

[Amanda Lehan]

Absolutely not. No.

[Shane Madej]

Oh, well, then I feel like that.

[Amanda Lehan]

No, I mean, I was kind of wild when I was 17. I was literally wild. I didn't. I wasn't, like, part of, like, the popular.

[Ian Hecox]

I was wild.

[Amanda Lehan]

You were.

[Ian Hecox]

No.

[Amanda Lehan]

You and Anthony were doing, like, filming yourselves on webcam, being bored. I was. I like how there's physical proof that.

[Shane Madej]

He was not crazy by making sketches.

[Ian Hecox]

It's true.

[Amanda Lehan]

Listen, I'm so.

[Ian Hecox]

I'm not trying to say I really fucked up. I shouldn't have started this channel with my friend that employs all you motherfuckers. You're right. You know what? My childhood was a disaster.

[Amanda Lehan]

Okay, listen, Ian, maybe we would be friends. I don't know. Okay? I had a life. I was working. I was. No, here's the thing. I literally. I was in a job, and I had, like, a bunch of sports and I was in a play. Like, I was so effing busy. I mean, I still had a lot of friends, but, like, you know what? I'm not going down this road anymore, Ian.

[Ian Hecox]

No, let's go down that.

[Amanda Lehan]

Definitely. I don't know. I actually can't say that. I know.

[Ian Hecox]

I'm not sure. I'm not sure if we party.

[Shane Madej]

Sorry.

[Ian Hecox]

Sorry.

[Shane Madej]

Ian and I weren't living your kind of life. We were both starting our careers. Okay? We were. We were.

[Ian Hecox]

We were focused on the grind set.

[Shane Madej]

No, you guys, I was on. I was about to be on icarly in two years now, and he was.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. What do you do? Drinking and boofing.

[Amanda Lehan]

Boofing. I can't say that anymore because I was underage. Here's the deal. What's boofing?

[Ian Hecox]

We don't need to get.

[Amanda Lehan]

Actually, I don't want to know. Here's the deal. I was from the East Coast. The east coast doesn't look at your careers as, like, possibilities.

[Ian Hecox]

Do you think. Do you think people looked at what I was doing as a possibility, but.

[Amanda Lehan]

They still let you do it. I didn't have time to, like, your parents.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh.

[Amanda Lehan]

I didn't have, like. My mom was like, you need to, like, work and get a job and make money and buy a car, then you need to go to college, and then you need to get a job. So it was like, I didn't really have that, like, freedom. I don't know. So maybe we would have been friends.

[Ian Hecox]

I don't know.

[Amanda Lehan]

Down this road.

[Ian Hecox]

I don't think.

[Amanda Lehan]

I don't like theater. Were you in plays?

[Ian Hecox]

No.

[Amanda Lehan]

Exactly.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. I don't think we would have been in the same group.

[Amanda Lehan]

No, definitely not.

[Shane Madej]

That's usually why I was like.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, with, like. We were all like. It was like, kind of like indie kids.

[Shane Madej]

Okay.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

Like some indie.

[Ian Hecox]

Kind of like emo indie kids.

[Shane Madej]

That's right.

[Amanda Lehan]

I know some emo kids.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. The theater.

[Shane Madej]

You were never, though. No, I wasn't.

[Amanda Lehan]

I was not emo. I dressed like I was going to Spain on a trip. Like, I don't know why. Every time I look back on pictures, I'm wearing, like, these long skirts or, like, these low ris jeans and, like, some Hollister shirts. And then, like, random, like, scarves. I'm like, who dressed me? But it was all hammy.

[Ian Hecox]

It was. It was that era, though.

[Amanda Lehan]

It was that era scarf. The scarf era.

[Shane Madej]

I forgot about the scar.

[Amanda Lehan]

Great straight hair. I had thin eyebrows.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah.

[Amanda Lehan]

Full on.

[Shane Madej]

Did you see clips of that movie where. There. It's like. It's that Netflix movie where she's like. She goes back to 2003 and she's, like, looking around, but. But people have been talking about how it's like. It's just not quite there, but someone pointed out it's like none of their eyebrows are thin.

[Amanda Lehan]

None of their eyebrows are thin.

[Shane Madej]

And it's just like. You missed that. And that is so crucial. Yep.

[Amanda Lehan]

The thin eyebrows were huge. I even looked back on my senior picture, and I was like, woman, what did you do?

[Shane Madej]

What's kind of a funny thing that I'm thinking about is that I didn't have sisters. And so growing up back then, I think I maybe thought that's what everybody's eyebrows looked like naturally.

[Amanda Lehan]

Oh, no.

[Shane Madej]

I just was like, that's just what eyebrows look like. Cause I didn't have, like, any.

[Amanda Lehan]

Oh. Uh. Oh.

[Shane Madej]

I'm trying to think back on what I probably thought back then.

[Amanda Lehan]

Trust me. Mine was one big, large eyebrow that was, like, super thick. And my sister was like, yikes, you gotta get rid of that. And I remember feeling so insecure. So we went on a trip, and I shaved down the center of my eyebrow. And then I slipped and shaved the.

[Ian Hecox]

Second half of my eyebrow like a Charlie Puth.

[Amanda Lehan]

Off. This part was off. And I.

[Ian Hecox]

Half of your eyebrow was missing, so.

[Amanda Lehan]

I only had this much of my eyebrow there.

[Ian Hecox]

How do you fuck up that bad?

[Shane Madej]

Oh, this half Was Lex Luthor.

[Amanda Lehan]

Because when you're an insecure girl and your sisters are like, what are you literally doing, you idiot? So I was like, I did it super fast. I was so upset. And I remember coming out and my sisters were like, oh, my God, you look hideous.

[Shane Madej]

How long does that take to grow back?

[Amanda Lehan]

Back forever. Because my mom's like, girls, are there photos of you with this? I don't remember. I have to look. Here's the thing. I fucked up a lot of my appearance, but that's for another story. I. My mom was like, I will take care of it. Don't worry about it. And she put black eyeliner in the spot, so I had a full half eyebrow, black eyeliner. But I kept smearing it so it was like, yet. And my. I mean, I.

[Shane Madej]

How old were you when this happened?

[Amanda Lehan]

I don't remember. Old enough.

[Ian Hecox]

Seven.

[Amanda Lehan]

Old enough for me to be mortified.

[Shane Madej]

Oh, yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

You thought your life was over.

[Amanda Lehan]

Oh, my life was over. And then I cut my bangs too short, and they were like. Like my life was fucked. I once, like, curled my hair up in a. In a brush, and it wasn't a curling brush, so it got stuck.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, no.

[Shane Madej]

When mothers would walk past, they'd. They'd blind their children. They're like, don't. Don't look at her.

[Amanda Lehan]

It got stuck. And I was trying to curl it. How do you curl it without heat? So I tried to take it out, and my mom had to cut it out. So I had bangs that were literally here, like, half an inch for a long time. A long time.

[Ian Hecox]

Sound like a mess.

[Amanda Lehan]

You can't bobby pin those.

[Shane Madej]

I don't think Ian would have been friends with you.

[Amanda Lehan]

That's the thing. No, I wasn't even trying to be an asshole. I wasn't even trying to be an asshole. Like, I was wild.

[Ian Hecox]

You sound like a mess.

[Amanda Lehan]

I was wild, man.

[Ian Hecox]

Do you have boyfriends?

[Amanda Lehan]

Yes.

[Ian Hecox]

In high school?

[Amanda Lehan]

Yes.

[Ian Hecox]

You say that like there was a. There was a waiting list.

[Amanda Lehan]

No, I mean. Well, I don't know. That's for. I. I was boy crazy. Yes. I had. I had. I had a. I had a boyfriend in high school. I had a long boyfriend throughout junior to high school. And then I had. Shut up. And then I had another. I had a boyfriend who was a skateboarder.

[Shane Madej]

Usually called them tall.

[Ian Hecox]

You don't call them long.

[Amanda Lehan]

No, I didn't mean long. I meant a long time. We were together. None of them were really that tall.

[Ian Hecox]

Huh.

[Shane Madej]

Huh?

[Amanda Lehan]

Yeah, There was a skateboarder who had a skateboard tattooed on the side of his body and it was broken.

[Ian Hecox]

That's so cool.

[Amanda Lehan]

And, oh, my God.

[Ian Hecox]

And you were like.

[Amanda Lehan]

Literally, I was like, I love you. Wow. I was like, I love you. Yep. I was. I don't know. I was just figuring it out.

[Ian Hecox]

The things that appeal to us when we.

[Amanda Lehan]

Did you have a girlfriend in school?

[Shane Madej]

No.

[Ian Hecox]

No.

[Amanda Lehan]

You keep proving my point that we wouldn't hang out anyway.

[Ian Hecox]

I did not either, but I was also boy crazy.

[Amanda Lehan]

You were boy crazy? Anthony crazy. You were home. You didn't have the opportunity.

[Shane Madej]

No, I mean, I was out. I kind of had a, like, pseudo high school experience of just, like, actor kids, you know, it kind of replicated. I've talked about this before, where it was similar to high school, except the cool kids were, like, on TV shows. So it's kind of like they had a basis for being cool. I mean, it was the entire Zoey 101 cast. They were. They ran in the same circles as all of us. And it was like, well, they're fucking cool because they're on Zoey 101.

[Amanda Lehan]

That's too hard. Mine are just, like, skateboarders and dirt bikers who are just wearing jean shorts past their knees. And I'm like, I'm into you. You have, like, really hot people on camera.

[Shane Madej]

That's true.

[Amanda Lehan]

That's just crazy. And you have. You know.

[Shane Madej]

And you're there.

[Amanda Lehan]

You have Anthony in Sacramento and your cool ass mom who calls you a dumbass.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah, Ian's mom.

[Amanda Lehan]

Ian's mom.

[Shane Madej]

No, I wouldn't have had. I wouldn't have had a girlfriend if I went to high school. I know that.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay, but you got a girlfriend.

[Shane Madej]

I didn't have a girlfriend until I was in my 20s.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. Wow.

[Shane Madej]

It took me forever, man.

[Ian Hecox]

Wait, when was your first kiss?

[Shane Madej]

Oh, I was. I was. I was 14.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh. Oh.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah. That was like. It was like truth or. It was a truth situation.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh.

[Shane Madej]

But then I did have my first kiss when I was. I still had it when I was 14 or 15.

[Ian Hecox]

Got it. Wow.

[Amanda Lehan]

Nice.

[Shane Madej]

But then, like, then everything else. 20s.

[Ian Hecox]

Gotcha.

[Amanda Lehan]

Did you say lucky? When was your first kiss?

[Ian Hecox]

I was, like, 17.

[Amanda Lehan]

That's great.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah, I think. I think nowadays it's. That's, like, far more.

[Ian Hecox]

Well, nowadays, like, young. Young people just aren't doing anything.

[Amanda Lehan]

No.

[Shane Madej]

It's fucking hard. I feel like. I feel like the Internet. I feel like the Internet has just made social connection.

[Amanda Lehan]

It makes me so sad, bad, because.

[Shane Madej]

Back when I honestly, you know, what it is, is, like, back then, 2005 people were just bored more often. And when you're just. When everything's a little more boring, connection just kind of happens because you're bored. And it's like, oh, smosh started.

[Amanda Lehan]

That's what you said.

[Shane Madej]

I mean, truly. I think. I think the lack of boredom is what everyone's just so. I don't know, it just. I think it messes things up.

[Ian Hecox]

You gotta be bored and horny.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah.

[Amanda Lehan]

And you and Anthony started your own.

[Shane Madej]

And that's why.

[Ian Hecox]

And we channeled that bored and horny into Mortal Kombat theme song music video.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Where you can see my bare ass in the background.

[Shane Madej]

People often say food battle is the most bored and horny series of all time.

[Amanda Lehan]

Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

This is why I shut the door when I'm in the bathroom.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay.

[Amanda Lehan]

To what?

[Shane Madej]

So that I'm in there by myself long enough to get bored and horny.

[Amanda Lehan]

Wow. That's a long time.

[Ian Hecox]

I urge everybody, like, when do people usually listen to this?

[Shane Madej]

What.

[Ian Hecox]

What days does this come out? I don't know if people listen to this on Mondays. Okay. All right, so here's a little homework for you guys that are over the age of 18. You know, just like lock yourself in a room and just get bored and horny.

[Amanda Lehan]

Trust me, I think people are doing that.

[Shane Madej]

I don't think people. I don't think people are bored.

[Amanda Lehan]

Oh, you're right. They're not bored. They're overstimulated.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. They need to.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah. The horny part is not. I don't think it's necessary. I think we're talking about just getting.

[Ian Hecox]

Take the distractions out of your life. Let the boredom come, the horny will follow.

[Amanda Lehan]

So true.

[Ian Hecox]

I'm starting a cult.

[Amanda Lehan]

Wow. What is it called?

[Ian Hecox]

I don't know. But that's going to be the tenant.

[Amanda Lehan]

Bored and Horny by Ian BNH Best.

[Ian Hecox]

I'll call it B and H. I don't think that's taken.

[Shane Madej]

Okay. Yeah, go ahead. Smoshes.

[Amanda Lehan]

This is our best episode, guys.

[Ian Hecox]

You think so? Wow. Thanks.

[Shane Madej]

This reminds me of the Spencer episode.

[Amanda Lehan]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Where?

[Amanda Lehan]

Gas Again.

[Shane Madej]

Everything we're saying, I'm like, can you keep this in? I don't know, but we're going to. What do you think smosh would be like as a person? So It'd be a 19 year old.

[Amanda Lehan]

Oh, a 19 year old in 2005.

[Shane Madej]

I don't think it'd be. No, no. A 19 year old now. Oh, what do you think Smosh would be?

[Amanda Lehan]

Oh, yeah, they just turned 19.

[Shane Madej]

I think. Smosh. I think Smosh would be. I'm getting, like, I was saying, gonna be like, a kind of emo skater vibe from it. But no, no, no.

[Ian Hecox]

More theater.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah, more theater.

[Amanda Lehan]

But, like. But it would be cool.

[Shane Madej]

It'd have to be all the eras kind of combined. So, like, a theater skater kid.

[Amanda Lehan]

A theater skater.

[Shane Madej]

I like where he's into cinema.

[Amanda Lehan]

Oh, he's super into cinema.

[Shane Madej]

Super into cinema.

[Amanda Lehan]

He has a lot of books. He reads a lot. He's not afraid to get a little bit vulnerable. Just a little.

[Shane Madej]

You think he's a boy?

[Amanda Lehan]

I kind of do.

[Ian Hecox]

I kind of think I could see that. I could see that.

[Amanda Lehan]

But maybe as a best friend who's a girl. Oh, and she does, like, parkour, and she has, like, big headphones, and she's got tattoos everywhere, and her hair's, like, a little bit pink.

[Ian Hecox]

Is it platonic or is it. Or is there.

[Amanda Lehan]

Well, we don't know yet. We have to get to the end of the.

[Shane Madej]

Smosh doesn't fuck.

[Ian Hecox]

Smosh's ace. Are we calling it. Is Smosh Ace?

[Shane Madej]

No, I don't think Smosh is Ace. I think Smosh is chosen.

[Amanda Lehan]

No, I disagree. I think Smosh is getting into its.

[Ian Hecox]

Era where it's like, Smosh is incel.

[Shane Madej]

You think Smosh fucks. Okay, the chosen is not incel. The chosen is cell.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay, but you just. That's fair.

[Shane Madej]

Chosen is actually the opposite of an incel. I've talked about that before.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay.

[Shane Madej]

All right. At least internally, he chooses the path. He chooses it. And Incel says it's involuntary.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

Chosen is like he chooses the path.

[Amanda Lehan]

To never touch another person. Like that.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah.

[Amanda Lehan]

Okay.

[Shane Madej]

Unless he's too focused. He has. He has priority war.

[Amanda Lehan]

Oh, for war. If. If you still.

[Ian Hecox]

You still need to see. You still need to see God. What's the name of that? It's a Forest Whitaker movie.

[Shane Madej]

Has a really panic room lasting in Scotland. I've seen it.

[Ian Hecox]

No, I'm gonna pull it out. No, it's the most rogue one. It's the most. No, it's like, literally the most chosen movie.

[Amanda Lehan]

You know what I think this is What, Smosh at 19, to be honest.

[Shane Madej]

It'S a combination of Ian and Anthony. Is. What's Smosh?

[Amanda Lehan]

Just Ian. It's going like, oh, my God. Have you seen this thing? Let me show you real quick.

[Shane Madej]

Covered in tattoos.

[Amanda Lehan]

And he's covered in tattoos.

[Shane Madej]

I'm gonna find every time I see Anthony, he has more tattoos.

[Amanda Lehan]

Yeah, he does. He had another new tattoo.

[Shane Madej]

It's incredible.

[Amanda Lehan]

When are you gonna get A tattoo.

[Shane Madej]

It's so painful. Do you not have a single tattoo?

[Ian Hecox]

I don't have any tattoos.

[Shane Madej]

That's so funny. Yeah, I don't either. So I don't know why I'm like.

[Amanda Lehan]

Well, what the fuck?

[Shane Madej]

You have tattooed?

[Amanda Lehan]

Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah.

[Amanda Lehan]

All on the bottom of my feet. They just say, what's up, girl?

[Shane Madej]

It just says, andy, down your foot, Andy.

[Amanda Lehan]

I'm like, I love Woody. I love Toy Story so much. No, I don't have any tattoos.

[Ian Hecox]

So this is the most chosen movie.

[Shane Madej]

Okay.

[Ian Hecox]

It's called Ghost the Way of the Samurai.

[Amanda Lehan]

Oh, wait. Oh, yeah, I think I've seen this.

[Ian Hecox]

It's the most chosen movie. It's for Whitaker, and he is the chosen. I'm not kidding you. He. He lives by a samurai code and he's a hitman.

[Shane Madej]

Okay.

[Amanda Lehan]

Okay. I love that, though. I don't think the chosen. Yeah. Chosen wouldn't be like, the chosen, like, is in his room and killing someone.

[Shane Madej]

For money is just not.

[Ian Hecox]

But, but, but. But, you know, maybe he, like, has, like, a turn of like.

[Shane Madej]

I think he does have a conscience. He has a code.

[Ian Hecox]

He has a code.

[Shane Madej]

He follows a code for sure.

[Amanda Lehan]

Yeah. But his mom's like, honey, I made a sandwich for you. He's like, mom, hold on one second.

[Shane Madej]

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[Amanda Lehan]

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[Shane Madej]

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[Amanda Lehan]

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[Shane Madej]

Back to the show.

[Amanda Lehan]

Let's go.

[Shane Madej]

Okay. Earlier, what were you like at 19? What were we doing at 19?

[Ian Hecox]

Was I doing at 19?

[Shane Madej]

Yeah, yeah. Because that was a couple more years later.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

So Smosh was up. Smosh round for two years.

[Ian Hecox]

Smosh was. Is starting to.

[Shane Madej]

Because smosh at 19 has accomplished a lot. Let's be real. Smosh at 19.

[Ian Hecox]

For sure. Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

Done far more than most 19 year olds.

[Amanda Lehan]

Yep.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. Except for like Greta Turnberg, I would say she's probably.

[Amanda Lehan]

Oh, yeah. Has not caused that ship to America. It's fine.

[Ian Hecox]

What?

[Amanda Lehan]

She didn't want to fly?

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, right.

[Amanda Lehan]

She took like a ship.

[Ian Hecox]

I'm like, hey, good for you.

[Shane Madej]

Sailboat.

[Ian Hecox]

Yes. She did not sail. She sailed.

[Amanda Lehan]

I think she did.

[Ian Hecox]

She got. She said, I need to be in America. I'm going to get on a sailboat.

[Amanda Lehan]

You didn't want to waste any.

[Ian Hecox]

I mean, I think. I think ships. I don't think she went to the US In a boat. I think she. I think she.

[Shane Madej]

Either way.

[Amanda Lehan]

Either way.

[Shane Madej]

Okay.

[Amanda Lehan]

So no one is hurt.

[Shane Madej]

Smash is impressive. Not as impressive as Greta, but.

[Ian Hecox]

Right.

[Shane Madej]

Smosh is. Smosh made an impact.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Amanda Lehan]

So you were 19.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay.

[Shane Madej]

So 19. 19. Are you guys fully doing Smosh or you still have side jobs?

[Amanda Lehan]

2007.

[Ian Hecox]

That was 2007. That was like just as the YouTube partnership program was like, we. I think around the time that we had been invited into YouTube partnership program as one of the first 10 channels to earn money.

[Shane Madej]

Crazy.

[Ian Hecox]

On uploading videos.

[Amanda Lehan]

What were the other channels that were earning money? Do you remember a few of them?

[Ian Hecox]

I remember a few of them. Like Lisa Nova, I. She was in there. There's this guy Renetto. He was this like bald guy who was out of his mind, I think. I don't know if Philip DeFranco was. Was also in that first hand. I don't think he was. He was called Sexy Phil back then.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah.

[Amanda Lehan]

Wow.

[Shane Madej]

Lisa Nova is such a callback.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, I bet.

[Shane Madej]

I don't know how many people know about her now. I watched her content.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. I mean, she did like. So Lisa Nova did like sketch comedy and was one of the founders of Maker Studios, so. So, you know, she exited with a few Millie in her pocket, I think when Disney bought it. But yeah, she was also on Mad TV for like one season.

[Shane Madej]

Crazy.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Amanda Lehan]

Really?

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. Yeah. She was like the first person to go from like Internet to like mainstream.

[Shane Madej]

It's crazy.

[Amanda Lehan]

That's really hard to do.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

What were you doing in 19?

[Amanda Lehan]

19 was my sophomore year in college.

[Shane Madej]

Okay.

[Ian Hecox]

Um, were you still wearing long dresses and weird bangs?

[Amanda Lehan]

I was pretty cool.

[Shane Madej]

Okay.

[Amanda Lehan]

I actually did have bangs when I was 19, only. Cause I looked last night, I was.

[Shane Madej]

Like, what did I only cause Pushing daisies.

[Amanda Lehan]

What was I looking like when I was 19? I had a very serious boyfriend.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay.

[Shane Madej]

Oh.

[Amanda Lehan]

I was in a play. I was also wild. I was like, really figuring out what I wanted to do. I was living in a different part of campus. Yeah, I was. I was. I was just like figuring out my life.

[Shane Madej]

Did you have a girlfriend at 19?

[Ian Hecox]

Probably.

[Shane Madej]

Damn.

[Ian Hecox]

Because. Yeah. Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

Me married, like. God, that's so.

[Amanda Lehan]

Let me tell you, Shane, it is wild when you're 19 and you have a boyfriend. Your emotions are. Everything is life and death. When we broke up, I was on the floor every night sobbing. Like, I was so dramatic.

[Ian Hecox]

Nobody's ever done that to me.

[Amanda Lehan]

Really. Whoa.

[Ian Hecox]

Not on the floor.

[Amanda Lehan]

Oh, well, that's happened to me quite a bit. I think I open up my heart.

[Shane Madej]

19. I'd still do that.

[Amanda Lehan]

No, I disagree with you.

[Shane Madej]

19. I'd still never been in a relationship of any kind. Like, truly just doing my thing.

[Ian Hecox]

Honestly, like, and this is just coming from my point of view. So I'm probably wrong and I'm. And I'm probably. This is probably just cope. But I think like, all the relationships like before, like your 20s are just like, just not worth it.

[Amanda Lehan]

The best.

[Ian Hecox]

What?

[Shane Madej]

They're the best we have opposite.

[Amanda Lehan]

Literally. I was like, they're of wild, romantic.

[Ian Hecox]

They are of no consequence.

[Amanda Lehan]

No, they are literally the best. There's nothing better than being like, mom, I'm going to my friend Britney's house. And then you're on the back of a dirt bike going through a quarry.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay.

[Amanda Lehan]

Almost about to flip over. And you're like, I don't know who I am right now.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay. Okay. I could see. I could see.

[Shane Madej]

That sounds so. That's cool. I didn't experience that.

[Ian Hecox]

It's a great conduit. Well, I suppose it's like a great conduit for like, fun experiences, but I don't think.

[Amanda Lehan]

Fun. Yeah, more than fun.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, okay.

[Shane Madej]

Wild.

[Amanda Lehan]

Life changing.

[Ian Hecox]

But like, I don't think. I don't think ever. I don't think you're having any. I don't think. Hell, not a lot of healthy relationships are coming out of a. I don't think. Eric. Oh, the crying on the bathroom floor. Well, that, that was.

[Shane Madej]

That was just speaking relationships that age. But like, I think A lot of people learn from those.

[Amanda Lehan]

Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

I mean, I didn't have heartbreaks. I was completely on my own until I was in my 20s, which I look back and I know I'm not mad about it. I'm like, okay, I wish. I don't regret not being in relationships for all my teenage years and stuff. I regret beating myself up about it and being so obsessed over it back then. If I went and relived it, I don't even know if I'd go and be like, oh, I'm gonna try to be in relationships. I think I would just be like, oh, I'm just gonna enjoy this time more.

[Amanda Lehan]

Exactly.

[Shane Madej]

And enjoy my hobbies and enjoy hanging out with my friends and doing that.

[Amanda Lehan]

I don't think it matters if you did that or not. That was just, like, my experience. I remember I had two older sisters who went through school, and I was always their younger sister, for sure. So, like, I just.

[Shane Madej]

Everyone has a different experience.

[Amanda Lehan]

That was just me. I was just like. I was just wild. Like, I loved, like, meeting people and talking to people. And even when I was a kid at, like, camp, like, I always wanted to, like, talk to the freaking people, like, running it or, like, have a crush on a guy. Like, my mom was on a baseball team for all older women and a, like, a younger kid of one of the moms, him. And I would just, like, hang out in the playground forever. And my mom was like, what are you doing? I was like, we're probably going to get married. I don't. I don't know. Something's going to happen. I don't know.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah, I think we're going to get married for sure.

[Amanda Lehan]

But I didn't even care about marriage. I just, like, loved, like, romance.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Amanda Lehan]

I don't know. I, like, I loved it. And all of my friends around me did as well, so it never felt, like, weird. And all my sisters did.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. Interesting. Did you ever think you were going to get that Mystic Pizza moment, you know?

[Amanda Lehan]

Oh, my God, I love Mystic Pizza. My aunt lives in Mystic, Connecticut.

[Shane Madej]

Did you ever.

[Amanda Lehan]

Mystic Pizzas. Which part?

[Shane Madej]

What's the Mystic Pizza moment?

[Amanda Lehan]

Wait, not the.

[Ian Hecox]

I actually don't really remember anything about Mystic.

[Amanda Lehan]

It's about a bunch of sisters.

[Ian Hecox]

No, I know that part. A bunch of sisters.

[Amanda Lehan]

Julia Roberts, like, falls in love with this rich guy and then the other sister nannies and then falls in love with the dad who's married, so.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh.

[Amanda Lehan]

Honestly, neither.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay. I. I forgot that was the plot of.

[Amanda Lehan]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

I just knew it was like, Julia Roberts has A bunch of sisters. And they're in, you know, the east coast.

[Amanda Lehan]

Yeah, they're at Mystic Pizza, which is a real place in Mystic, Connecticut.

[Shane Madej]

Okay.

[Amanda Lehan]

Apparently it's amazing.

[Shane Madej]

That's pretty cool.

[Amanda Lehan]

It's really cool. They're all Portuguese anyways. Super cool stuff. I think when you live in a house with four girls though, too.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Amanda Lehan]

It's kind of crazy.

[Ian Hecox]

And they're all older, so you're seeing them get boyfriends.

[Amanda Lehan]

Two older and one younger.

[Ian Hecox]

Got it. But the older ones, you would see them get boyfriends. And you were like, I want one of those.

[Amanda Lehan]

No, no, I more just. I remember writing my journal when they. When they were like, sleeping over a friend's house or whatever. I remember being like, I wish they were here so I could hang out with them.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, I don't know.

[Amanda Lehan]

I was just like. I was an emotional, little wild everyone. Yeah, exactly.

[Ian Hecox]

Not me.

[Amanda Lehan]

Yeah. Were you like, hard as a rock?

[Ian Hecox]

Like rock. Stone can't get through me. Don't laugh. It hard as a rock. Get your head up. Pull your head out of the gut.

[Amanda Lehan]

It's such a fucked up episode.

[Ian Hecox]

I mean, I was a teenager, so, you know, that was also possible.

[Amanda Lehan]

Okay. Okay.

[Ian Hecox]

You know, you always go.

[Amanda Lehan]

You always go there.

[Ian Hecox]

Just happens, you know, you're in computer lab one day.

[Amanda Lehan]

Nope.

[Ian Hecox]

You're playing 3D pinball.

[Amanda Lehan]

Nope.

[Ian Hecox]

And you know, you just get excited because you just, you know, hit some new high score.

[Shane Madej]

Whoa.

[Amanda Lehan]

Yeah. Another reason why I don't think we would have been friends.

[Ian Hecox]

I remember my friend, we. We had a. We had a teen center and I've.

[Shane Madej]

Heard about teen centers. It sounds insane.

[Ian Hecox]

I know.

[Amanda Lehan]

Teen center.

[Shane Madej]

They exist out there. I don't know if they exist anymore. When you're a teenager, it's a place you can go.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, it was a place you can go if you were a teen.

[Amanda Lehan]

What are you doing? Well, what are you getting giggly about?

[Ian Hecox]

I mean, I was just. Just on the subject. And we met these girls at the teen center and my friend, you know, got a little excited and he had to, like, hide it behind the pool table and he had to just, like, awkwardly. He had to just like awkwardly just stand against the pool table like this while he was talking to them.

[Amanda Lehan]

Jesus Christ.

[Shane Madej]

It's. It's unfortunately such a funny and real factor of, like.

[Amanda Lehan]

That does suck for you guys, but.

[Shane Madej]

No, I remember in middle school, for me, it was just like, anytime I just. You sit down and it's just like, come. Come the fuck on. I'd be in, like, you'd be like in social studies class, you'd be like, all right. And you'd sit down and just like, go. And then be like, hey, can you stand up and come and present? I'm like, I can't. No, I can't.

[Ian Hecox]

I got a charley horse.

[Shane Madej]

We're talking about geography right now. I'm like, and I love states so much.

[Amanda Lehan]

Wow. I thought I had it hard and weird.

[Ian Hecox]

You.

[Amanda Lehan]

Wait, wait, you didn't.

[Shane Madej]

We did.

[Ian Hecox]

I think we need to outlaw the word hard.

[Amanda Lehan]

I don't know why I keep saying it in the wrong spot. Because I'm not meaning it like that. I thought you guys had it difficult. I thought I had it difficult. You guys had a difficult time.

[Shane Madej]

Every teenager has it difficult. That shit sucks. Yeah, being a teenager sucks ass.

[Amanda Lehan]

Yeah, it sucks.

[Shane Madej]

Even if everything is going right in your life, it just. Your brain just hates you.

[Amanda Lehan]

Well, you just feel so dramatic. And I think when you're 19, I think what's hard about that is, like, either you're in college or you're not in college, but you definitely have pressures from the outside world or your parents or anybody being like, what are you doing? What are you gonna do? I remember at 19 feeling, like, always that, like, anxiety of, like, what am I gonna do? What am I gonna do? What am I gonna do?

[Shane Madej]

You mention being 19 now. No, I would hate it.

[Amanda Lehan]

Really hard.

[Shane Madej]

I'd hate it. No, I think 19 year olds now I'm like, I. I wouldn't be able to handle it because we didn't have.

[Amanda Lehan]

We didn't have.

[Shane Madej]

I'm so glad I had far less shit like.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

To have the Internet as we have it now.

[Ian Hecox]

I'd probably be much. I'd probably be much better at TikTok.

[Shane Madej]

Oh, well, sure.

[Amanda Lehan]

Well, definitely.

[Ian Hecox]

Because I just can't handle it, man.

[Shane Madej]

But the problem, I actually, you know what? They've pointed this out. Like, 19 year olds are like, almost. People at a much younger age have, like, things figured out in a better ways. Like, you know, fashion and makeup and stuff. Like, people figure it out a lot sooner. Cause there's tutorials online. People don't really go through the blunder years like we used to.

[Amanda Lehan]

Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

But I kind of think that's good when you have it because everyone's like, ridiculous. And now it's like, oh, no, you're a teenager. You have to be. Already have it all figured out.

[Amanda Lehan]

It's hard. I think it's more pressure. It's more pressure. Especially in the vanity sense. It's more pressure to look a specific.

[Shane Madej]

And no wonder super young people are more lonely than ever because, oh my God, the pressures are just crazy.

[Amanda Lehan]

Yep.

[Shane Madej]

When everybody's a little ridiculous, it's a little easier to like, kind of come together and just hang out.

[Amanda Lehan]

You could easily be just like a weird girl who's wild and doing theater and people are like, yeah, whatever, that's just Amanda. Like, it's not like, oh, my God, I see her outfit. Like, it doesn't. No, I definitely think that they have it way harder. There's so much stress and pressure. And also when you're on your phone that much too. I'm not saying that all 19 year olds are on their phone right now.

[Shane Madej]

But like, I think about it, I'm like, holy shit. Like just teenagers. This past like decade has been just a fucking Looney Tunes. And I'm like, to be a teenager through that.

[Amanda Lehan]

Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

That's your barometer for reality.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

I'm like, at least when I was a teenager, things were kind of, as we said, kind of boring compared to now. Very boring compared to now.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, yeah.

[Amanda Lehan]

They were a lot more chill.

[Ian Hecox]

There was like nothing going on until like 2008.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah. I don't think anything happened ever.

[Amanda Lehan]

Or if it did, we didn't really know about it.

[Shane Madej]

It's just like. And without the Internet, you just truly. You didn't hear about things like the fact that like, Numa. Numa guy was a meme for like a whole year.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

Years nowadays. He wouldn't even go viral nowadays because that's like one of a million people on TikTok. But that was the biggest thing.

[Ian Hecox]

Well, and it wasn't ironic.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah. It was just like.

[Ian Hecox]

So it just wouldn't hit.

[Shane Madej]

No.

[Ian Hecox]

Like, oh, he's being sincere. What a loser.

[Shane Madej]

What a dumbass.

[Amanda Lehan]

Right?

[Ian Hecox]

What was he being? Yeah, I don't know who is. I guess I was thinking Star Wars Kid. Star Wars Kid was being very sincere.

[Amanda Lehan]

Wait, Star Wars.

[Shane Madej]

Star Wars Kid is a chosen one.

[Amanda Lehan]

Actually Makes sense.

[Shane Madej]

That's a chosen right there. That's one of the. That's an OG chosen.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

Ah, love that guy.

[Amanda Lehan]

I don't know.

[Shane Madej]

That was one of my first introductions to the Internet. It was such a joy.

[Ian Hecox]

That was. That was viral videos before YouTube. So the only way you could really watch it was like on file sharing, like, sites.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah.

[Amanda Lehan]

God, I remember. I remember I watched so much YouTube in college. We watch so much weird stuff. Salad fingers.

[Shane Madej]

And I still need to show you. Don't hug me. I'm scared.

[Amanda Lehan]

Oh, yes.

[Shane Madej]

I need to show you that I Don't think we can watch it on camera because that would be copyrighted. But your reaction to it would be incredible.

[Amanda Lehan]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

They showed because they made a whole TV pilot. Oh, really?

[Shane Madej]

For don't hug me. I'm scared.

[Amanda Lehan]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

And it got canned, and they are not allowed to air it, but they showed it at this festival at 200 times speed, and it just, like, finished.

[Shane Madej]

Funny. That's. I think it's crazy funny. And other people are like, oh, it's really scary. I'm like, it's really funny. Like, all of it is really funny to me.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

Anyways, I'll show it to you. You're gonna love it. Okay. Ian, what do you think? 19 years. What do you think are some of the best moments and some of the worst moments of Smosh's 19 years of life?

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, my God.

[Amanda Lehan]

Oh, my God.

[Ian Hecox]

I mean, the best moments were, like, definitely times when we were able to just, like, do something we never thought we'd be able to do. So, like, you know, like, when we did the first. The first big Smosh Summer Games, like, camp.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

And we did camp. Like, that was such a unique experience where, you know, Summer Games was originally created because Smosh Games and the other parts of Smosh didn't really, like, interact very much. So it was like, oh, this will be, like, a fun way to bring all the channels together, but also, like, a bonding exercise with everybody.

[Shane Madej]

It's crazy to think back on Summer Games, too, where nowadays, like, this kind of, like, big stunts are kind of normal on Smosh, like, where it's like, we got 100 people and put them in this place. But back then, I don't feel like it was as common. I think it was kind of, like, more interesting, nuanced thing back then.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

You didn't see it as often. Whereas now, I don't know if it's.

[Ian Hecox]

It was more like vlog. Like, vlogs at that time.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

We're really big.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

People weren't really doing, like, large production stuff.

[Shane Madej]

No. It was so much fun.

[Ian Hecox]

But then, like, you know, like, doing. Doing, like, Smosh the movie was, like, a really cool milestone. And having the premiere, like, at this, like, legitimate, like, theater where they do, like, legitimate, like, movie premieres. Like the Fox Theater in Westwood, they, like, closed down a road, had a red carpet.

[Shane Madej]

It was.

[Ian Hecox]

We had. We had our wax figures there.

[Amanda Lehan]

Oh, yeah. I've seen those pictures.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah. It was so wild because that was in my first, like, month or two.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

So I was like, I have joined a crazy.

[Ian Hecox]

There's like, there's fetus photos of the whole, like, like, squad. Yeah, like. Like, they're, like, super young.

[Amanda Lehan]

Oh, I think I've seen them because I remember seeing you with your wax figure and. Is it true that you don't know where your wax figure is?

[Ian Hecox]

Don't know where it is.

[Amanda Lehan]

That's so weird to me. We have to find it terrifying.

[Ian Hecox]

And. And the last time. The last time it was seen, he was separate from Anthony.

[Amanda Lehan]

Why would anyone separate you guys?

[Ian Hecox]

I don't know.

[Shane Madej]

That's so up from the dude. Because they're a bonded pair.

[Ian Hecox]

I know, I know, I know.

[Amanda Lehan]

They're a mated pair.

[Ian Hecox]

And. And they put a VR headset on my head.

[Amanda Lehan]

So you're trapped. So your part of your soul is trapped somewhere with a VR headset in it.

[Shane Madej]

Like Tron.

[Ian Hecox]

Like Tron. Like the Matrix.

[Shane Madej]

The old one or the old one.

[Amanda Lehan]

Okay.

[Ian Hecox]

And. Yeah, I mean, like, obviously, Obviously. Like, yeah, one of. I mean, being able to buy smosh back and, like. Like, see the way that, like, it's, like, re. Energized everything and, like, that, like, will always be, like, one of, like, the coolest moments for sure. Because it wasn't. It was a gamble, you know, it was like, we don't know for sure if this will work, but it seemed like the right thing to do.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

And things weren't like, things. Things were just, like, a little bit off before that. And I. And I was really confident in the content, and I was really confident in the people that were working here, but, like, something just, like, was not connecting. And when Anthony came back into the fold and we made the big announcement, like, I think that brought a lot of, like, attention back to the channels, and they were like, oh, wait, like, this is good.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

And so, yeah, it was just kind of like, right place, right time, and I think. Yeah, I mean, that'll always be like. I mean, it's super. Super, like, highlight.

[Amanda Lehan]

Yeah, it's huge. It was so cool to be a part of, too.

[Shane Madej]

Those are all some good.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

Good references.

[Amanda Lehan]

You have worst ones.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, worst ones. Sure. The Defy Collapse.

[Shane Madej]

I would count Anthony leaving.

[Ian Hecox]

Anthony leaving. That was kind of a nightmare.

[Shane Madej]

And those were. Those were two years apart, basically. Anthony leaving and the Defy collapse were about a. Roughly a little over a year, a year and a half apart. So that was, like, a really shitty.

[Ian Hecox]

It was a rough year.

[Shane Madej]

Year and a half. Yeah. It was just like, wow, all right. Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

We're trying new things. And, like. And, like, for me, it was like, okay, I I need to, like, redefine what Smosh is and, like, bring the attention to, like, everybody and, like, make it very clear, like, this isn't, like, an Ian and Anthony thing, which it already wasn't before he left.

[Shane Madej]

Right.

[Ian Hecox]

But I think people still had that idea that that's what Smosh was.

[Shane Madej]

I guess I should say it wasn't shitty. It just was, like, every year kind of had this, like, chaotic moment to it.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, it was scary at times.

[Shane Madej]

It was scary. It was definitely precarious.

[Ian Hecox]

And it was just hard. It was really hard to make sketch comedy in LA because of the cost. So, like, in Sacramento, it was easy because, like, our crew was. It was cheaper to produce content there. We had, like, a studio that we could create stuff and we can go outside and get, like, permits for, like, a hundred bucks. We can get a house for, like, 200 bucks.

[Amanda Lehan]

Amazing.

[Ian Hecox]

And you come to LA and people are like, we want, like, $3,000 for a day rental at a house or 2,000.

[Amanda Lehan]

Impossible.

[Ian Hecox]

And, like, permits would be insane. And so, like, then we were, like, relegated to, like, shooting all our sketches, like, in the offices or in, like, the. On the stage at. At Defy, which was tiny.

[Shane Madej]

It was crazy. Some of those early. Try not to laughs are in a room. Yeah, that's. I. I don't even know. It's like a fraction of the size of this room. Like, truly. Truly a little tiny closet that. We were shooting some of those. Yeah, but we did it.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. And I always felt like, you know, we'd eventually wind up, you know, with our own studio. I was always, like, pushing, like, when are we going to get our own studio? When are we going to get our own studio? And I was. I kept pointing to this area of LA that was not where we were because that. That time we were at the Defy offices, which were in Beverly Hills for some dumbass reason. So we had. So everyone had. And nobody lives in Beverly Hills.

[Shane Madej]

So it was a old rich dude.

[Amanda Lehan]

The old rich.

[Shane Madej]

And now we film here in Barstow.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, Rancho Cucamonga.

[Shane Madej]

And Rancho Cucamonga.

[Ian Hecox]

And it's. And it's great. So I, like, it really feels like. Yeah, so. So that was. That was a bad time. What else is. What else was? Shit. I would count this as. I would count this as worst time, but also good time, which was the celebrity prank interviews. I hate, hated doing them.

[Amanda Lehan]

I was not here during that time, but I've definitely seen those videos.

[Shane Madej]

I did one, and it was. That's probably one of the biggest rushes of my Life.

[Amanda Lehan]

Cause it's cringy.

[Shane Madej]

It's. It's. You're. You actively know that you are. You know that your job is to make someone kind of uncomfortable and weirded out. And they're a celebrity that you are meeting for the first time.

[Amanda Lehan]

I wouldn't, I could never do that.

[Shane Madej]

And when I did it, I didn't know I was going to be doing it. It. So they, they literally were like, yeah, put on this, this Kaiju outfit.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh yeah.

[Amanda Lehan]

Oh, yeah, I've heard this.

[Shane Madej]

You're about to go interview him. And I was like, it was such a trip. And I got very lucky and they were really cool. But it was still. I was.

[Amanda Lehan]

They must have been prepped.

[Shane Madej]

No. Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

I mean, they, they always knew that we were going to be asking them like, weird questions.

[Amanda Lehan]

Did you. So you didn't like it either?

[Ian Hecox]

I. No, because I get really, really nervous.

[Shane Madej]

And you had to do it with the Rock.

[Ian Hecox]

I did it with the Rock. I did with Jennifer Lawrence. I did it with Tom Hiddleston.

[Amanda Lehan]

Oh my God.

[Ian Hecox]

Did with Chris Pratt. Nope. And it was just like nerve wracking. And I, and I hated the lead up to it. And I was so freaking nervous. And like, I just kind of black out like during, during the actual like performance. And like whenever I heard like, oh, yeah, like, Universal reached out. They want, they want to do a video with this celebrity. I was just like, guys, I don't know. I don't know. And even back in the mythical era that kept getting pitched and I was like, no, I struggle to watch those.

[Amanda Lehan]

Interviews even when they're normal, because I'm like, yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

And I think also audience sentiment has changed where cringe content isn't really preferred anymore. They want you to be the avatar for them, like being there with the celebrity. And if you're being like a cringy disaster, that makes the, the viewer feel bad.

[Shane Madej]

Interesting.

[Ian Hecox]

So I feel like we, we saw a shift in like audience reception to those prank interviews where people are like, I'm. This is too uncomfortable for me to watch.

[Shane Madej]

Interesting.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

So I'm happy to see it dead and gone and I don't want to do another one.

[Shane Madej]

Okay.

[Ian Hecox]

You won't putting it out there right now. I'm not doing another one.

[Shane Madej]

And now we know. And now we know because we had one planned.

[Ian Hecox]

It's probably gonna happen. We did.

[Shane Madej]

We were gonna have you interview Chalamet.

[Ian Hecox]

Dressed as bring Barack Obama in. Actually, I would do. I would do a break interview.

[Amanda Lehan]

Awesome.

[Ian Hecox]

With Barack Obama.

[Shane Madej]

I feel like he was so Cool. He'd be prepped. Secret Service would prep him.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Amanda Lehan]

Secret Service.

[Shane Madej]

Timothy Chalamet would be funny.

[Amanda Lehan]

I don't know if he has Secret Secret Service.

[Shane Madej]

Timothy Chalamet doesn't.

[Ian Hecox]

When you're. Yeah, you have.

[Shane Madej]

You have it forever.

[Amanda Lehan]

For life.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah.

[Amanda Lehan]

Wow.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah.

[Amanda Lehan]

So cool.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah, it's pretty cool.

[Ian Hecox]

Did you see. Did you see the. The picture? Jimmy Carter?

[Shane Madej]

Yes. Oh, man. Jimmy Carter's like 500 years old.

[Ian Hecox]

Have you seen this photo of him?

[Amanda Lehan]

I think I know who Jimmy Carter is. What? What's the photo?

[Ian Hecox]

You said you think you know who Jimmy Carter is.

[Amanda Lehan]

Yeah, I know who Jimmy Carter is, but if you asked me to give you a definition of him right now, I would probably be like.

[Shane Madej]

A definition of him.

[Amanda Lehan]

He was a president.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah, yeah.

[Amanda Lehan]

No, I know who he is, but I don't know anything about him.

[Shane Madej]

You don't know, like what? You wouldn't know what he looks like and stuff? No, that's okay.

[Amanda Lehan]

I know. I know what.

[Ian Hecox]

George Washington.

[Shane Madej]

No, don't let her see him in his golden age first.

[Amanda Lehan]

Show me. He's just so photo.

[Shane Madej]

You know when people are, like, so old.

[Amanda Lehan]

Oh, no. Like, I don't want to see one of those photos.

[Shane Madej]

Like, you know, everyone has that. At some point in your life, you have that one relative where it's like, oh, and. And Grandma Judy's here. And you look over and Grandma Judy's.

[Ian Hecox]

Just like, yeah, he's at that stage.

[Shane Madej]

Grandma Judy, Shane's here.

[Amanda Lehan]

It's like. It's like. It's like. It's like Clint Eastwood when you're like, oh, my God, Clint Eastwood, who's always looked old, even though he looks great, whatever. And now you see a picture of him. Even Tommy Lee Jones. I can't.

[Shane Madej]

I promise you, I can't look old. This is something that I've internalized since I was young, is when I am that old. And I like, you know. Cause you just don't have many faculties left.

[Amanda Lehan]

I'll get rid of you. Don't worry.

[Shane Madej]

No, no, no. Don't get rid of me yet. Cause I just wanna be silly. I just wanna. With the last ounces of my strength. Strength and. And mental fortitude, I'm gonna use it to be silly. So it'll be like. So when I'm like that, when I look like that. Oh, when I look like that, dead in this, you think, he is. But he's. He's still here.

[Ian Hecox]

He's still with us.

[Shane Madej]

But when I'm like, I look like that.

[Amanda Lehan]

End it.

[Shane Madej]

No.

[Amanda Lehan]

Yes. Just push the.

[Shane Madej]

When I'm 90, if I live to be a hundred years old. And they're like, oh, here's Grandpa Shane. Like, say hi. I'm going to make sure with my last willpower, I'm just gonna be like. Because that'll be funny.

[Ian Hecox]

This is. These pictures are ruining Amanda right now.

[Amanda Lehan]

I cannot.

[Shane Madej]

But he was president.

[Amanda Lehan]

Thank you.

[Shane Madej]

He was also.

[Amanda Lehan]

He was president.

[Shane Madej]

He's a hundred years old.

[Amanda Lehan]

No, I know.

[Ian Hecox]

He also.

[Shane Madej]

He was he president forever ago. Several presidents, or at least one president after him, has already passed away.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Shane Madej]

Just one prep.

[Ian Hecox]

I think he's the oldest. I think he's the oldest living.

[Shane Madej]

He's the oldest living president.

[Amanda Lehan]

Those pictures are horrendous.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Amanda Lehan]

Because the tough part is, like, maybe it's a picnic and you have to show up, and you're like, I brought cheese. And then you look over and you're like.

[Shane Madej]

You're just throwing cheese puffs into his film.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, no, Shane.

[Amanda Lehan]

This is so awful. I don't know what happened to us is.

[Shane Madej]

That's why.

[Ian Hecox]

He's like a Venus fly trap, you know, you stick it. You stick it in there, it closes.

[Amanda Lehan]

It's like watching people at hibachi. You know people at Hibachi where they just open their mouth.

[Ian Hecox]

He flipped a little egg into his.

[Shane Madej]

Can we write a sketch where I'm the guy at a hibachi girl who, once I sit down, I open my mouth and I'm waiting the entire time for the trim.

[Ian Hecox]

We're going to tell them.

[Shane Madej]

And they're like, we. We haven't even started cooking. I haven't gotten your order yet. I'm just like, I'm hungry, dude.

[Ian Hecox]

I was in San Diego, and they had. This isn't about Jimmy Carter, so I can talk about it. Okay, Shut up.

[Amanda Lehan]

Don't you dare.

[Ian Hecox]

And these people, like, rented a hibachi chef on the beach. That's like. They had a table set up, and he was throwing eggs in their mouth on the beach.

[Shane Madej]

He hadn't even cooked them yet.

[Ian Hecox]

I was like, that's sick.

[Amanda Lehan]

It's all the yolk. They're like, yolk.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, just.

[Shane Madej]

Ian. It has been a joy.

[Ian Hecox]

This is how we're ending it.

[Amanda Lehan]

We're out of time, and half of this is gonna be cut.

[Shane Madej]

Smosh is 19 years old.

[Amanda Lehan]

And we decided to bring Ian.

[Shane Madej]

Next year's gonna be huge. 20 years. 20.

[Ian Hecox]

20 years.

[Shane Madej]

We gotta make sure we make it. It.

[Amanda Lehan]

We're gonna make it.

[Ian Hecox]

You're gonna make it, Amanda.

[Amanda Lehan]

We gotta make sure.

[Shane Madej]

Smash doesn't go under again.

[Amanda Lehan]

Hopefully, if you keep me around.

[Shane Madej]

I'm saying Smosh. Smosh has to make it to 20.

[Amanda Lehan]

Smosh will make it.

[Ian Hecox]

Absolutely.

[Amanda Lehan]

And this episode will prove that we will make it.

[Ian Hecox]

All right.

[Shane Madej]

After this episode comes out, we have 0 subscribers.

[Amanda Lehan]

They all fall.

[Ian Hecox]

Do you think Jimmy Carter is gonna make it?

[Shane Madej]

All right, guys, thank you so much for watching this absolutely unhinged episode. Code. We love you.

[Ian Hecox]

We subscribe. Subscribe.

[Shane Madej]

Like and subscribe.

[Ian Hecox]

Subscribe to Smosh.

[Shane Madej]

Subscribe to Smosh. Get those subscribers.

[Amanda Lehan]

We love you guys. Thanks for letting us have become a member.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah.

[Amanda Lehan]

Episode.

[Shane Madej]

Okay, bye.

[Amanda Lehan]

All right. Bye. Bye.

[Ian Hecox]

Happy 19.