S1: #26 - Leaks, Cheating, and Other Summer Games Secrets

Summary

Podcast Summary: Smosh Mouth - S1: #26 - Leaks, Cheating, and Other Summer Games Secrets

Release Date: August 16, 2019

Hosts:

• Courtney Miller
• Ian Hecox (Lasercorn)
• Keith Leak
• Matt Robbins
• Damien Haas
• Sarah Whittle
• Mari Takahashi
• Shane Topp
• Ryan Todd

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1. Introduction to the Retropective Episode

Courtney Miller kicks off the episode with enthusiasm, highlighting its special nature as a retrospective of the Smosh Summer Games. She teases upcoming spoilers for Smosh Summer Games Apocalypse, urging listeners to watch all previous episodes to stay ahead.

Courtney Miller [00:01]: "This is a Smosh Summer Games retrospective episode where we brought in, I think, nine people. So it's a very special episode."

2. Overview of the Summer Games

The hosts reminisce about the challenges and activities during the Summer Games, emphasizing the extreme conditions they endured in the desert. They reflect on the primal conditions, such as "sitting on a toilet completely naked" and "showering completely clothed," questioning their own decisions.

Courtney Miller [00:36]: "What was going on with our brains?"

3. Team Dynamics and Cheating Controversies

A significant portion of the discussion centers around accusations of cheating, particularly involving Wes. Ian (Lasercorn) accuses Wes of using an auto-trigger paintball gun, giving his team an unfair advantage.

Lasercorn (Ian Hecox) [00:43]: "Let's talk about how Wes cheated in the trivia thing."

Damien Haas elaborates on how Jovan assisted Wes by discreetly signaling answers during trivia challenges, further fueling the cheating narrative.

Damien Haas [14:53]: "What he'll do is he sits next to Wes, and then he writes, like, a number or a letter on his thigh to help him out."

Shane Topp defends Wes initially but acknowledges the disruptions caused during competitions.

Shane Topp [02:19]: "I will say Wes brought his own paintball gun. And he was like, yeah, it's an auto trigger, whatever."

4. Memorable Moments and Highlights

The hosts recount several standout moments from the games, including chaotic parties and intense competitions:

• Instant Party Incident [08:00]: A spontaneous party erupted when everyone converged on a motel balcony, creating an "insta party" atmosphere.

  Mari Takahashi [08:24]: "It felt like you transported yourself into a party that had been going for two hours."

• Belly Flop Competition [31:02]: The competitive spirit peaked during the belly flop events, with intricate judging criteria discussed and laughter over mishaps.

  Matt Robbins [31:02]: "That's because, like, we never know about these things until we are in the moment."

• Operation Chaos [74:34]: Damien Haas highlights the stress and excitement of participating as an operator in the slime-covered competitions.

  Damien Haas [74:34]: "As stressful as it was, it was really fun to play that giant operation."

5. Logistical Challenges: Heat and Environment

The intense desert environment posed significant challenges, including extreme heat that led to heat strokes and allergic reactions among the team members.

Damien Haas [05:34]: "I have a conditioned thing that, like, apparently for a lot of people, just pops up when you're, like, mid to late 20s. It just... sets it off."

Shane Topp shares his experience of suffering from heat stroke during the paintball activities, highlighting the physical toll of the games.

Shane Topp [13:48]: "I sprinted to the middle of the field, unloaded, needed to reload... And I just was. I can't breathe in that mask."

6. Social Media Blackout and Leaks

Keith Leak discusses the challenges of maintaining a social media blackout, which was intended to create a surprise during the VidCon trailer unveiling. Unfortunately, Keith inadvertently spoiled the games by posting on his Instagram story.

Keith Leak [45:00]: "Keith spoiled Summer Games on his Instagram story."

The team brainstorms strategies to prevent future leaks, considering tactics like using green screens or decoy events.

Lasercorn (Ian Hecox) [49:17]: "We make a bunch of Fake shirts and take pictures in front of green screens."

7. Competition Breakdown and Reflections

The hosts delve into specific competitions, analyzing what went well and what didn’t:

• Paintball Challenge: Wes's use of a modified gun caused frustration among team members, leading to heated exchanges and strategic responses.

  Wes's Gun Incident [14:27]: "He brought a professional level paintball gun and was on auto mode."

• Red Light, Green Light: Sarah Whittle reveals that Wes seemed to have an uncanny ability to predict movements, raising suspicions about his participation.

  Sarah Whittle [18:37]: "Wes knew exactly where everyone on the field was."

• Try Not to Laugh Segments: Mari Takahashi and others reflect on hilarious moments captured during these segments, enhancing the entertainment value.

  Mari Takahashi [75:31]: "It was weird. I don't know where that voice came from."

8. Fan Engagement and Future Plans

The discussion shifts to the importance of fan support and the impact of social media engagement. The team expresses gratitude towards their fans for their unwavering support and positive feedback.

Matt Robbins [84:02]: "We can't do any of this stuff without the fans."

Looking ahead, the hosts brainstorm themes for future Summer Games, considering options like medieval settings, pirate themes, and even cruise ship adventures.

Mari Takahashi [63:34]: "I think next year should be Smosh Summer Games Antarctica."

9. Acknowledgments and Shout-Outs

The episode concludes with heartfelt shout-outs to key contributors behind the scenes, including producers like Garrett and editors like Spencer, who play crucial roles in shaping the Summer Games.

Courtney Miller [68:14]: "Big shout outs go to you guys for setting that whole thing up."

Additionally, the team highlights the collaborative efforts and creativity that make each Summer Games unique and memorable.

Keith Leak [67:02]: "I've never been on one [cruise]."

10. Closing Remarks

Courtney Miller wraps up the podcast by encouraging listeners to watch the Summer Games videos on YouTube and express her heartfelt thanks to the team and fans alike.

Courtney Miller [86:34]: "Thank you guys so much for coming on this podcast. Thank you guys for watching. We're gonna leave some links for Smosh Summer Games in this video on YouTube."

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Notable Quotes:

• Courtney Miller [00:01]: "This is a Smosh Summer Games retrospective episode where we brought in, I think, nine people."

• Lasercorn (Ian Hecox) [00:43]: "Let's talk about how Wes cheated in the trivia thing."

• Mari Takahashi [08:24]: "It felt like you transported yourself into a party that had been going for two hours."

• Damien Haas [14:53]: "What he'll do is he sits next to Wes, and then he writes, like, a number or a letter on his thigh to help him out."

• Shane Topp [13:48]: "I sprinted to the middle of the field, unloaded, needed to reload... And I just was. I can't breathe in that mask."

• Keith Leak [45:00]: "Keith spoiled Summer Games on his Instagram story."

• Matt Robbins [84:02]: "We can't do any of this stuff without the fans."

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Conclusion

This episode of Smosh Mouth provides an in-depth look into the behind-the-scenes happenings of the Smosh Summer Games. From intense competitions and cheating controversies to memorable moments and logistical nightmares, the hosts offer a candid and entertaining retrospective. Notably, the discussion on social media leaks underscores the challenges of maintaining secrecy in the digital age. The camaraderie and humor among the team members shine through, highlighting the show's enduring appeal to its dedicated fanbase.

For those who haven't experienced the chaos and fun of the Summer Games, this podcast serves as a comprehensive guide, capturing the essence of what makes these events a staple of Smosh's content creation. Whether it's navigating the sweltering desert heat, dealing with overzealous competitors, or enjoying the collective laughter, Smosh Mouth delivers an engaging and insightful summary that both long-time fans and newcomers will appreciate.

Transcript

[Mari Takahashi]

Ramble.

[Courtney Miller]

Well, hey, hey, howdy. Welcome to a very special podcast. This is a Smosh Summer Games retrospective episode where we brought in, I think, nine people. So it's a very special episode. By the way, there will be spoilers at Smosh Summer Games Apocalypse. So if you haven't watched all those episodes, go freaking watch them right now, you dum dum. Let's get right into it. So what Summer Games this year comprised of was sitting on a toilet completely naked and. And showering completely clothed. What was going on with our brains?

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Ian doesn't wanna talk about Wes cheating in the paintball thing yet, so let's talk about how Wes cheated in the trivia thing.

[Keith Leak]

Keith spoiled Summer Games on his Instagram story. This is the only year we actually had a social media blackout, like, set in stone.

[Courtney Miller]

The best nickname for Lasercorn ever. Wow. Which we cannot repeat.

[Sarah Whittle]

I feel like we could repeat it here more than it made in the video. Alright, ready?

[Matt Robbins]

1, 2, 3.

[Damien Haas]

Lasercom.

[Keith Leak]

Love that.

[Damien Haas]

Cause he only has one kid. One. And.

[Matt Robbins]

Yeah, we're doing podcasts. We each say one word at a time. Right? For the whole hour?

[Courtney Miller]

Yep. Whoa. My goodness. Welcome to the Smosh Summer Games retrospective.

[Keith Leak]

Woo.

[Matt Robbins]

The room is haunted.

[Courtney Miller]

So today I'm joined by a myriad of people from Team Toxicity, the Mushroom Clouts, and some refs. So let's all sound, y'all.

[Damien Haas]

Um, hello. My name is Damien Haas and I'm representing Mushroom Clout.

[Keith Leak]

Hello. Courtney Miller in the gang, specifically Mushroom Clout Gang.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

This is Lasercorn for Team Mushroom Clout.

[Matt Robbins]

And this is Sarah Whittle, also known as the best ref.

[Courtney Miller]

Ooh.

[Matt Robbins]

Ooh.

[Keith Leak]

Hi.

[Ryan Todd]

This is Ryan Todd, affectionately known as Trash Panda.

[Sarah Whittle]

This is Matt Robbins, Sarah Whittle's dirty liar, also the better ref.

[Mari Takahashi]

This is Mari Ra, Yellow Ranger on Team Green. Toxicity does have a stroke.

[Courtney Miller]

Love that.

[Keith Leak]

No, you don't get it.

[Mari Takahashi]

There's a lot of words there. This is also not how you do a podcast.

[Shane Topp]

And I'm Shane Topp of the team Toxicitea, the Champions.

[Courtney Miller]

That's right. That's right.

[Matt Robbins]

There's the TV spoilers already.

[Courtney Miller]

Wow. So this podcast could be a complete disaster. We really don't know yet, but. But we'll see. Let's get into it.

[Keith Leak]

Would you say it would be a disaster of the apocalyptic kind?

[Courtney Miller]

Yes.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

It was.

[Courtney Miller]

So, guys, we were out in the desert for several days. We somehow survived four, five, I don't know. We lost track of time. We reverted back to our basest human needs. And I think I feel like you.

[Matt Robbins]

Are like a bassist. Good guy. Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

Dude, that was pretty. Bassist.

[Matt Robbins]

Yeah.

[Sarah Whittle]

You canceled Hashtag Ian as a bassist.

[Shane Topp]

It was one Fish concert.

[Matt Robbins]

Ian's not happy.

[Courtney Miller]

Is this. Just give Ian shit for an hour.

[Keith Leak]

I would love an hour.

[Sarah Whittle]

We've been working on a year.

[Courtney Miller]

Okay, Swash. Summer games.

[Damien Haas]

Ian sucks.

[Courtney Miller]

That would actually be a good theme.

[Sarah Whittle]

Can we do that next year? What's the theme for next year?

[Courtney Miller]

It's everybody versus me. It's like the Mario party levels where.

[Damien Haas]

Everyone versus one person, but you get God tier powers as the president of the company. So it'll be like, all right, Wes wins and you just go, no, he doesn't. And we're like, no, he doesn't. You got it, boss.

[Sarah Whittle]

Sorry.

[Keith Leak]

Okay. Yeah, no wonder you guys win. You got Wes. Speaking of Wes really carrying you guys helping you win via.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, she's just jumping right into that.

[Matt Robbins]

I'm salty.

[Keith Leak]

I'm salty, man.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Yeah, why are you salty? Just because he brought a professional level paintball gun and was on auto mode.

[Damien Haas]

Lighting up our targets accidentally. Oh, he accidentally switched to auto mode.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Oh, his finger must have slipped.

[Keith Leak]

I got shot in the crotch so many times to risk for the team win and I still freaking lost because 80% of those shots were Wes at my crotch.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Well, to be fair, you were jumping and like making him hit your.

[Keith Leak]

I was standing in front of the target like, that's why I definitely shouldn't have done that.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, yeah. Wes. Wes may have cheated a couple times.

[Keith Leak]

I seen. Isn't he on your team, Ian?

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, well, I, I, I, I, I mean, look, I was fooled because he. Well, okay, man, I feel like we're going into the tea too soon. Let's go back to that later.

[Damien Haas]

Ian's just lining through all of his topics there. Crying like, no, great, we'll talk about the tea. Fine.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

She's out of order. I have bullet points.

[Sarah Whittle]

Brain, no work.

[Courtney Miller]

Well, let's talk about. What was your favorite part about filming in the desert?

[Shane Topp]

Guys, my favorite part was when Wes cheated.

[Damien Haas]

I don't know.

[Matt Robbins]

Go on for your win.

[Damien Haas]

I don't do so great in the heat, which is no surprise to anybody. But I think once you're in the desert with no true source of comfort, you get into this place of like, alright, I'm gonna be dirty, messy and uncomfortable. Let's have some fun. And actually, I was much more able to let go and have fun than I even was in the. We blew it. Which was like just down the street from where we'd film normal stuff. So I don't know. I got into it more, which I liked.

[Courtney Miller]

I like. I like that you said that you don't do well in the heat because you were sweating on the car ride to the desert.

[Damien Haas]

Correct.

[Courtney Miller]

Which had AC and everything, so.

[Damien Haas]

Dude, I'm built for the cold. I love t shirts in 50 degree weather. I do not belong in the desert. I should not have survived.

[Matt Robbins]

Wasn't it last year at we blew it that you just had hives for, like, days?

[Damien Haas]

I have a conditioned thing that, like, apparently for a lot of people, just pops up when you're, like, mid to late 20s. It just. And they don't know why, but heat sets it off. So I was literally just coated in, like, swollen, gross hives.

[Keith Leak]

Those pictures you had were so crazy, where it's like you were more hive than normal skin.

[Damien Haas]

My arm just looked like a red, red bubble. It was gross.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Crazy idea if it's triggered by heat. What if you built yourself a Mr. Freeze style suit and then permanently controlled your temperature? Always.

[Damien Haas]

I see where you going with this? I could be the next Frozone.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Yes.

[Damien Haas]

Yes.

[Keith Leak]

Love that.

[Damien Haas]

Love it.

[Courtney Miller]

All right.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Is that like a Mr. Freeze knockoff?

[Damien Haas]

It's from the Increable.

[Courtney Miller]

You have a freaking kid. Lasercorn. You should know about the Incredibles.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

He just watches into the spider verse. I'm repeating.

[Damien Haas]

Oh, you're doing well then.

[Courtney Miller]

You're doing it right.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

I can't get him to watch anything else. He loves Miles Morales.

[Courtney Miller]

This was one thing that I think I realized at Smosh Summer Games. You haven't watched Toy Story.

[Keith Leak]

What?

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

I've watched the original Toy Story. I haven't watched any of the new ones is what I said.

[Courtney Miller]

And I'm like, you have a kid.

[Shane Topp]

The second one came out in the 90s.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

I haven't seen any of the new ones. After the first one, I'm like, this isn't for me.

[Damien Haas]

Interesting.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Yeah.

[Sarah Whittle]

He just hasn't had the time to get to a theater in 30 minutes.

[Mari Takahashi]

There's literally a kid who takes apart dolls and sets them on fire and stuff. This should really relate to you.

[Courtney Miller]

That's true.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

I mean, I guess maybe the fact.

[Keith Leak]

That that kid lost.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

What's his name, Tim Allen, got busted for coke, and it really left a sour taste.

[Damien Haas]

Wait, really?

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

That's the true fact?

[Sarah Whittle]

That was years ago.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

That's a true fact. Yeah. And he rolled on his friends, and that's all I could think about during to.

[Sarah Whittle]

Man, really? Red flag.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Look at this snitch pretending he's a good guy. Wow.

[Courtney Miller]

So, Mari, what Was your favorite part about being in the desert?

[Mari Takahashi]

Okay, so this is something that didn't happen on camera. It lives in my mind. One of my favorite things about summer games is always, like, the camaraderie we share outside of being in an office. It was the instant party, which happened this one night.

[Courtney Miller]

It's so great.

[Mari Takahashi]

And jump in if I'm missing any details, but. So there was one night we were all staying at this motel, and we were standing on the second story balcony, and we're like, what do we do? The pool's closed. We have nowhere else to hang out. There's no common room, so we're all just kind of standing on the balcony. All of a sudden, somebody knocks on. Was it you?

[Matt Robbins]

Well, it was Shane. Damien and I were just hanging out in Shane and Damien's room, just talking.

[Mari Takahashi]

And we were standing in front of.

[Matt Robbins]

That room, and we were all talking, us three. We were like, what are we gonna do tonight? Cause close the pool. The pool's kind of sketchy.

[Sarah Whittle]

When I texted you and I asked you where you were.

[Matt Robbins]

Yeah. And I was like, oh, I'm just hanging out with Shane and Damian right now. And then, like, two seconds later, there's a knock on the door.

[Mari Takahashi]

And so when this knock happens, there's probably, like, maybe four people on this balcony area in front of their door. So this knock happens, and I'm like, oh, someone's knocking on a door. So I look behind, and I see Shane, Damien, and Sarah in their room. And so I walk in. I think Joven walks in after me.

[Keith Leak]

Kimmy and I happen to be walking by as well. We just kind of followed the flow of Terry.

[Mari Takahashi]

They followed in.

[Courtney Miller]

I was hanging outside. So when you opened the door, I was like, well, people are walking in, so I guess I'll walk in too.

[Mari Takahashi]

And then Kevin walks in with a guitar and immediately starts playing something.

[Keith Leak]

We all slowly just start yelling.

[Matt Robbins]

And then there was instantly, like, 30 people in this tiny ass. This hallway.

[Damien Haas]

It was like a clown car emptied into our front door. It was just like, oh, more people. Okay. Okay. Holy.

[Courtney Miller]

All right.

[Matt Robbins]

From my perspective, it just looked like the longest line of people, like, constantly entering the room. And then, of course, Kevin's, like, immediately playing Wonderwall, and I'm like, how did we get here?

[Shane Topp]

It was incredible.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

The funniest thing was you guys didn't say, like, oh, come in or anything. It was just knocking. We were like, oh, hey, what's up? We're coming in. And, like, everyone just kind of followed suit. It was really cool.

[Mari Takahashi]

Within 10 seconds. It felt like you transported yourself into a party that had been going for two hours.

[Matt Robbins]

Exactly. So we were all like, it's an insta party. We should start charging people for just creating this insta party of train line.

[Mari Takahashi]

Mambo line Conversations were happening, like, mid conversation through. I was just like, okay. So that movie. And it's like, there's just so much happening in such a short amount of time.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Thank you guys for letting us invade you. Yeah, of course.

[Shane Topp]

I loved it. It was great.

[Damien Haas]

It was great.

[Shane Topp]

Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

I'm an OCD boy, legitimately. So it was a big, like, test for me where I was like, there's six people sitting on my bed. That's fine.

[Sarah Whittle]

It's fine. I just remember you muttering to yourself, just, shoes off, shoes off.

[Damien Haas]

Shoes.

[Sarah Whittle]

No, shoes off.

[Damien Haas]

Like, just don't put shoes on my bed.

[Sarah Whittle]

There's a line.

[Matt Robbins]

The shoes on the bed is crazy.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

He's like, screaming internally.

[Matt Robbins]

That's gross.

[Courtney Miller]

Come on.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

No one put shoes on your bed.

[Damien Haas]

Not after I mutter.

[Matt Robbins]

That was a great moment. I would say that was my favorite moment.

[Mari Takahashi]

Someday I want that moment to be animated because I feel like we all remember it in our minds, but it's like, it's.

[Matt Robbins]

I think Brendan has a picture of it.

[Courtney Miller]

We shouldn't see Shane. Yeah.

[Matt Robbins]

There's a film called He Stood on Shane's Bed to Take a picture of shoes on.

[Shane Topp]

People were peeing on my bed. Matt took a fat dump on it. You know, whatever.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, it was fun.

[Mari Takahashi]

Typical party.

[Sarah Whittle]

He didn't say not to.

[Keith Leak]

Yeah, Me and Kimmy, we just decided to walk out of the room, see what everyone was doing, and we walk out and, like, we were just like, oh, what's going on here? And all of a sudden you just hear, hey. As everyone just slowly filtered in. And there was no, like.

[Courtney Miller]

And then I seem to recall every time somebody else entered the room, everyone was like, well, that's just a thing.

[Sarah Whittle]

We do literally everywhere in public. We do it at Buka. We do it anytime anyone walks into a room. Waiter, stranger, the police, we just scream at them.

[Keith Leak]

Yay.

[Mari Takahashi]

Like a nice scream. It's a welcoming scream.

[Matt Robbins]

Exactly. But then at some point, I was like, there are other people in this motel. It is a motel. So the door is directly to the public. So by the fourth entrance of a person, we'd be like, yeah, yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

We all try to be like, hey.

[Matt Robbins]

Welcome to our party.

[Shane Topp]

It was the will to be seen from Lion King.

[Damien Haas]

Wow. Long live.

[Sarah Whittle]

Have you seen Lion King? Lasercorn?

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Yeah, I saw the original My son actually demanded to leave the live action movie. Yeah, I took him to the live action. He's like, can we go home? Can we? It was. It's terrible. The live action is terrible.

[Keith Leak]

All right, strong minded boy.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

But enough about me crapping all over Disney movies.

[Keith Leak]

And speaking of parties, I really loved the wrap party we had after. And surprisingly, after all those days in the desert, I did not burn at all. But when we did the 45 minutes in that backyard of a house in LA, I burned like hell.

[Sarah Whittle]

We all did. I feel like every one of us survived the desert fine. And then the moment we all got to LA and shot in a backyard, every one of us got burnt.

[Damien Haas]

We got too comfortable. You made it through the desert.

[Sarah Whittle]

Burn in the desert.

[Mari Takahashi]

No, I don't burn. I'm. Well, I'm just darker than you guys.

[Courtney Miller]

But Shane. But Shane, like, so. So we were very careful about. We're very careful about, like, taking care of ourselves in the desert, making sure we don't get heat stroke, all that kind of stuff. And then we get back to la, we're shooting the paint. We shot the paintball thing in la. And freaking Shane gets like, heat stroke at the paintball park.

[Shane Topp]

Okay. Yeah, I didn't know that. It's because I didn't get heat stroke.

[Mari Takahashi]

You look bad, dude.

[Shane Topp]

I just went really crazy. And we. I was talking to Wes and Mari and we were like, alright, so we're just gonna sprint out there. And I sprinted to the middle of the field, unloaded, needed to reload, sprinted back to the base, sprinted back to the middle of the field. Then I eventually sprinted back to the base and I just was. I can't breathe in that mask. And I was just like, I am out. And I was like, you know what? I don't even need to be here. Wes has literally a machine gun. I can just sit down and I needed to take a breather. I was running too much.

[Mari Takahashi]

Yeah, you look like a rag doll just sitting on the floor.

[Shane Topp]

I was dead. But I also was fully aware that I didn't have to do anything at that point. I was like, Wes could do this alone.

[Sarah Whittle]

And he did.

[Shane Topp]

He kind of did.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, he come full circle.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

He doesn't want to talk about Wes cheating in the paintball thing yet. So let's talk about how Wes cheated in the trivia thing. Joven was running the trivia thing.

[Matt Robbins]

He cheated.

[Courtney Miller]

I don't think he really cheated.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Yeah, he did.

[Damien Haas]

Jovan has done one.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

I don't think Jovan has done this two years in A row. He did this in the Winter Games as well. What he'll do is he sits next to Wes, and then he writes, like, a number or a letter on his thigh to help him out. Like, one was Friday the 13th, and he wrote, like, a 13. This one, I think, was Fifth Element. And he wrote a 5. 5.

[Damien Haas]

So isn't that Jovan cheating, then? Isn't that Joven cheating?

[Sarah Whittle]

Wes should have been a good guy and said he admit it.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah, fair enough.

[Matt Robbins]

This is the thing. This is the thing. When you cheat in smosh Summer Games, because these are very serious games, we find you, and we actually kill the other team that loses. So sorry, but if you cheat for camera, it's entertaining. Like, Joven tried to cheat in the slippery snakes challenge by pulling out a snake and be like, oh, I have a snake, or whatever. But if you're cheating just to cheat, like, that's a little slimy. Like, it's just not fun.

[Damien Haas]

I will say, in the paintball, Joven also cheated.

[Matt Robbins]

He did.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah. They cut it out. But it's at the very end when, like, my gun jams, and then someone ends up bringing me another gun. And then Joven's standing way far off, shooting the target, and mostly me. Cause I'm right in front of it, and I'm like, I just want to take him out from here. And I'm, like, firing all around him. He's really far away. Finally, one hits him right on the arm, and I'm like, yes. Awesome. And I was so excited, and the adrenaline was pumping, where I'm like, yes, I actually got him. And then he looks at it, and he just keeps going. That's when he yells, Mr. Platinum. And they cut this out thankfully. But I was like, these are all fun and games. But again, adrenaline was going. I was getting shot with faint falls. I hit him. He cheats. And then I yells, oh, of course. If anyone's gonna cheat, it's gonna be effing Joven. Just, like, walk away. And I was like, oh, that was a part of me I didn't love.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

But why did we cut that out? Cause that seems like it.

[Shane Topp]

I will say Wes brought his own paintball gun. And he was like, yeah, it's an auto trigger, whatever. But I have that turned off, so it's not gonna be a problem. It's whatever. And obviously, it just goes off in the middle of the game, and it's just, like, destroying the other team.

[Damien Haas]

You can see the first time our target gets hit is not just, like, random hits. It's like.

[Sarah Whittle]

When Spencer was showing me in the edit, he sent me an export, and he's like, wes's gun is so fast. The came couldn't pick up the paintballs leaving the barrel. Oh, my gosh.

[Ryan Todd]

It was literally.

[Sarah Whittle]

It looked like it was going in because it was so fast that it couldn't register.

[Shane Topp]

And I was kinda. Afterwards, Damian comes up to me, and she's like, well, that was fun. And I was just like, yeah. You know, I think Wes, he said it was. You know, I think it was by accident. Like, I don't know. And then Wes comes up, and he's talking to me and Damian, and I was there just defending Wes. And he looks at us and he goes, yeah, no, my auto, like, accidentally went off. And I was like, by accident. And I look at Damian, and then I just turn and walked away. I was like, ah, son of a bitch.

[Matt Robbins]

So I think, like, that I will say that we refs fucked up, but honestly, I didn't notice. I didn't notice the difference. It is a massive difference.

[Sarah Whittle]

I have a text message from Wes saying, hey, can I bring the gun? Cause we did Call of Duty last year. Can I bring the gun from Call of Duty? It's identical to everybody else's gun. I was like, yeah, all right. If it's identical to everybody else. And then I was so worried because, you know, back when we did Call of Duty, Courtney got hit, and it was not fun. So I was more worried about people getting physically hurt than I was worried about people cheating at Summer Games, which doesn't matter. Cause it doesn't matter. But I have something to say. I was getting a lot of heat for cheating in red light, green light.

[Matt Robbins]

True.

[Keith Leak]

Yeah.

[Mari Takahashi]

Which you did.

[Sarah Whittle]

Here's I'm gonna unveil right now.

[Damien Haas]

Whoa.

[Sarah Whittle]

So I had control of the music. Yes. But we three refs noticed halfway through the game. Miraculously, Wes knew exactly where everyone on the field was, no matter whether they were standing still or they were moving or where the refs were or where the cameras were. So I was like. Literally, he would walk directly at somebody, be like, okay, well, that's not fair. So I'd pause the music and give everybody an advantage. And they'd move around, and then you'd go, no, they're going that way. It's like, how do you know, Wes? You're blindfolded.

[Keith Leak]

Also, nobody knows where you're pointing. Cause they can't see.

[Sarah Whittle]

And it was like, come on, man.

[Courtney Miller]

Cause everyone.

[Sarah Whittle]

I mean, Ian, you could admit you could kind of like a Sliver. If you look down like that.

[Courtney Miller]

I didn't look. That's why I didn't touch a single person. Except for probably all the times I was gonna touch Keith. But then you kept stopping the music.

[Damien Haas]

Okay.

[Ryan Todd]

All right.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

But I'm just saying, I think Wes's. If he were here, his defense to that would be like, I heard him.

[Damien Haas]

That's how I knew where everyone was going.

[Sarah Whittle]

Yeah, well, next time we need to do. If we do blindfolded, we have to wrap Wes and give him earplugs and leave him in a box somewhere.

[Damien Haas]

In the interest of full disclosure, I had, I. I think the same mask that Wes did. And I did see a little sliver. And at the very end, I did see Wes shadow and then touch him. So in my mind, I was like, all right, turnabout is fair play.

[Matt Robbins]

Oh, so Damian cheated as well?

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

I guess so.

[Shane Topp]

See, I knew Wes was cheating, which is why I tried to even things for our team by ramming my head into his balls.

[Ryan Todd]

That's what I was gonna say. So did he try to basically cover his cheating by allowing you to ram your head into his balls?

[Shane Topp]

He definitely probably could have seen me coming.

[Ryan Todd]

Cause that's really noble.

[Shane Topp]

I could see a little bit, but, boy, it sure didn't help me at all. Cause I was running into so many people.

[Matt Robbins]

Yeah, you really sucked these games.

[Shane Topp]

I really did.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Next year, let's just blind everyone with, like, a hot iron. Just right into their eyes, and then it'll be completely fair.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, I definitely saw a clip that I think was cut out of the video, but I certainly groped you, Mari, in the deadlight. Green light. You didn't have to. I was like, what is this? And you're like, that's me. I was like, oh, shit.

[Mari Takahashi]

Oh, yeah. I was gonna. I wanted to talk to you about that. Where did you grope me? Front or back?

[Courtney Miller]

I don't know.

[Keith Leak]

When you say grope, do you mean just pawed at?

[Courtney Miller]

Well, I mean, just like, my. My hand. My hand touched something, and I was like. And I paused for a second. I was like, what is this?

[Keith Leak]

Groping is like.

[Sarah Whittle]

Groping is with your fists.

[Courtney Miller]

I might have done, like, the TSA pat, you know, I might have gone.

[Matt Robbins]

Like, what is that kosher to think so much.

[Keith Leak]

I test so many.

[Mari Takahashi]

It's not even that you're feeling.

[Courtney Miller]

One.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Other thing about red light, green. They're like, what? Dead light, green light. In defense of the refs, I got out really fast, and I think, like, two of us got out really Fast. And I thought the reason you were doing that is like, oh, man, this video's gonna be like 30 seconds. Cause I was out immediately I thought I was gonna be slick by running towards the exterior. And I'm like, if I could get on the outside, they won't be expecting that. But then I, like, got caught in a weird position and Olivia immediately got me. So I think there was a fear that the video was gonna be over too quick.

[Sarah Whittle]

100%. And it goes back to what Sarah was saying. It's like there's a difference between cheating to win and cheating to make a good video. Joven hiding snakes in his pants. He was doing a bit us. Me cheating in the video by making it longer than three minutes long was just something I was trying to go for. Guys, I feel like it was round two when half of you got eliminated in the first three seconds.

[Matt Robbins]

Yeah, that's what I said.

[Sarah Whittle]

Yeah, it's ridicul.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

I was being slick. I was not. Olivia turned into the fucking predator.

[Sarah Whittle]

Just like, he detected me.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

I was trying to dodge. It didn't work. I was immediately eliminated.

[Courtney Miller]

Look, we can't help it if we're just better at the game. I'm sorry.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

I'm sorry.

[Keith Leak]

I love in the video when who decided to hold hands? Two people decided to hold hands. And then Olivia's like, anybody wanna hold hands with me? And then nobody said anymore.

[Damien Haas]

Poor baby.

[Shane Topp]

Also, there's really no reason for the to actively cheat for any other reason. Because I can't stress this enough. The refs hate all of us equally.

[Sarah Whittle]

Equal opportunity hatred. Guys, it's important.

[Ryan Todd]

Almost as much as we hate ourselves, but. Yeah.

[Keith Leak]

Dude. How was your first Summer Games? Trash panda?

[Ryan Todd]

Yeah, it was lovely.

[Keith Leak]

It's your first time experiencing that. I feel like that side of our production world, like, is the Summer Games.

[Courtney Miller]

And you can. Ryan, you came closest to dying on set because you were out in the sun for that whole first day, right?

[Ryan Todd]

Yeah. So when we shot the trailer, I tried to go hard. It was, I don't know, 110. 110. I think it was like 105. But, yeah.

[Matt Robbins]

Oh, different.

[Sarah Whittle]

It felt like 110. Yeah.

[Ryan Todd]

There was a humidity level. No, it was very dry. Yeah. So I tried to go hard. I think me and our dp, we were out in the sun for four and a half hours without getting shade, which we told ourselves we wouldn't do. And. Yeah, so I tried to get to the very end and I didn't make it. And basically what I did is I had A PA drive me back to the house. And I don't know if I told you guys this, but I went to the bathroom at the house and just stripped down to nothing and just sat on the toilet and wrote it out. Felt better.

[Damien Haas]

You straight Donald Ducking it, dude.

[Sarah Whittle]

Not even Donald Duck. Just naked all the way. So wait, there was somewhere in the house there was this sweaty man with banding makeup, completely naked, just breathing heavy like.

[Shane Topp]

Like a scene from the Shiny.

[Ryan Todd]

And I was actively scared because that bathroom didn't have a lock.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Ryan Todd]

But I didn't care. Cause I was hurting so bad. So I was just sitting there waiting for someone to find me.

[Damien Haas]

Wait, were you kidding me? That bathroom definitely had a lock.

[Ryan Todd]

No, I was just. And you know, for video, for the audio, I was just literally sitting there just like this, just kind of sitting on the toilet. So if anybody would have opened the door, they would have just gotten the.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Best view or something.

[Ryan Todd]

Yeah, I was just in there sweating and chugging water.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

I was just sitting naked waiting to die.

[Ryan Todd]

I've gotten heat stroke before and that worked the last time I got it, so I just wrote it out. It was great.

[Matt Robbins]

Naked toilet water time.

[Keith Leak]

Naked toilet water time.

[Sarah Whittle]

Sarah and I just took a nap in the van. It was great.

[Ryan Todd]

Traditional.

[Matt Robbins]

Yeah. There was a lot of times where Matt, Rob and I just went to the nearest car, blasted the AC and died. Like we would take. I took so many naps because I was just heat stroking the entire time. Anytime that our words are a little flubbed is cause our brains were frying.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Yeah.

[Sarah Whittle]

That's why.

[Damien Haas]

Speaking of the vans too, like everyone in production was very aware this time. Like, we gotta keep everyone cool and relaxed and stuff. So they would often, you know, as soon as we get to set, they'd be like, all right, guys, stay in the van. We're not ready for you yet. But with 10 hot, sweaty people in a van.

[Courtney Miller]

A black van.

[Damien Haas]

A black van sitting still in the desert. It was incred. It was way hotter than it was outside.

[Shane Topp]

Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

So we kept going like, yeah, can we leave? Can we please get out? They're like, guys, just stay in here. You gotta stay cool. And I was like, leaving the van. And they're like, all right, but it's cool. And it was.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, see, this is. This was the trick. You convince everyone to leave the van and then you go back in the van and it's better.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah, yeah, of course.

[Sarah Whittle]

It's called kill your friends.

[Matt Robbins]

I do have a funny story. So talking about Shane, like heat stroking during the Paintball. So you guys were, like, either hanging out in the house or hanging out in the van as the cast until, like, camera and crew were ready. And Shane just decides to go to the basketball court in the middle of this desert. Did you have a basketball court?

[Shane Topp]

No, I had a football. I invented a new game called Football Basketball, and it is so much fun. I was out there for a solid two hours.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

How long did it take you to come up with that name? Football Basketball?

[Shane Topp]

A couple hours.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. That's what you did the whole time. You didn't actually play. You were just trying to think of the name.

[Matt Robbins]

So Matt and I, we were driving back to the house, and we see Shane alone playing football basketball or basketball football. And he just. He always, you know, tosses water bottles into trash and always misses, and he just has a terrible shot. So he just starts and he throws this football and it immediately makes it in the basket. And we were all like, whoa. So we're all freaking out, and then we're like, do it again. And Matt and I stood there in the car for, like, five more minutes waiting for him to do it again, and he never did it again.

[Sarah Whittle]

I have a lot of you missing on my phone.

[Courtney Miller]

Sure.

[Keith Leak]

Yeah. Weren't you, like, making it, like, crazy and then as soon as the cameras came out, you, like, missed.

[Sarah Whittle]

That's exactly what happened.

[Keith Leak]

Love that.

[Shane Topp]

Yeah, that is literally what happened.

[Ryan Todd]

Yeah, I remember it was like, kind of like a. You were like a little kid, like, and we were the parents, so you were like, look what I can do. And you nailed it on the first one. And then it just.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, and then you're just a disappointment for the rest of the time.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Just like with your real parents. Right.

[Courtney Miller]

Wow.

[Damien Haas]

Happy moderation.

[Shane Topp]

I want to call out. Sarah bullied me throughout this entire summer games. It was like game two where she was like, well, you're on track to get lvp. And then that just continued. And I was so psyched out. And so every game I was like, don't get lvp. And I just was ruined. I sucked.

[Courtney Miller]

Shane, I have to say more in this game. Yeah. I have to say, like, yeah, in the. Catch your meal, you know, we had so much money on you. And then. And then you didn't catch a single one, did you?

[Shane Topp]

Oh, they slipped through my hand, man.

[Courtney Miller]

And right into my hands.

[Shane Topp]

I carried that. But I. God, I got that squirrel. And also, I will say, Courtney freakin Miller. That was the most I've ever done in that. Like, I nearly lost my voice doing that.

[Keith Leak]

Oh, you did Courtney freakin Miller during Catcher meal.

[Sarah Whittle]

In belly flop.

[Shane Topp]

Belly flop.

[Keith Leak]

Oh, in belly flop.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Keith Leak]

That was insane.

[Shane Topp]

First time I've ever gotten a swimsuit top.

[Courtney Miller]

That was. Yeah, that was intense. And the best nickname for Lasercorn ever, which we cannot repeat. We can't on this project.

[Sarah Whittle]

I feel like we can repeat it here more than it made in the video.

[Keith Leak]

Ready?

[Matt Robbins]

1, 2, 3.

[Damien Haas]

Laser.

[Keith Leak]

Love it.

[Damien Haas]

Because he only has one kid. One. And done.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

I love it. I'm gonna get a T shirt made with that on it.

[Matt Robbins]

Yeah.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Owning it. Yeah. Courtney almost died in the belly flop competition.

[Matt Robbins]

Yeah.

[Mari Takahashi]

Oh, my gosh.

[Damien Haas]

Yes.

[Keith Leak]

She ends.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

What? Yeah, I will kinda. I kind of got you to the edge of the pool, and then, like, I did kind of stutter, step backwards, and that's when you went off and your feet were like, maybe you can't see just listening to the podcast, but it was very. It was very close to hitting the pool. But you did tell me afterwards that you're very good with judging distances and that you could make it.

[Keith Leak]

I grew up with a pool and doing weird jumps and dives all the time. And I kept asking, are you sure you can do this? Are you sure you can hold me? Are you sure? Like, I'm not too heavy? And you were like, yes, yes, yes. But, like, I don't know.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

I mean, I did hold you. I didn't fall over or trip anything. I just took a half step backwards to correct my balance, and it was at the wrong time to do that, but I. Yeah, that's okay.

[Keith Leak]

No, we did it. We still did it. I'm always bummed because, like, when I do a crazy flop like that, I come up and it's not like, yeah.

[Sarah Whittle]

It'S like, every year we scare the.

[Ryan Todd]

Hell out of me.

[Keith Leak]

Like, enjoy it. It's a video. Because I don't want you to die.

[Ryan Todd]

No, I have to say, I was standing. I was on the. Your side for that video. And your toes were. I don't think we can measure it. Your toes were like a millimeter from just scraping off.

[Keith Leak]

I've never been afraid of that, but it.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Look, you should be.

[Courtney Miller]

My feet.

[Damien Haas]

I think the reason we were all concerned is it. It continued on. Like, when you watch your friend do something like, oh, I'm gonna take this bike off a ramp. Watch. Then they crash horribly. And you're like, are you okay? And they're like, yeah, I'm fine. They're like, you're missing an arm and you're bleeding profusely. No, it's cool. And it came across like that. We all thought you hit that stuff, but you're like. You always put on a tough show. Like, you never want to be injured or whatever. So it could have been like your toes were falling off and you'd be like, no.

[Sarah Whittle]

Why?

[Damien Haas]

Why is everybody worried? It's fine.

[Ryan Todd]

It's funny. And not to mention that when you guys got set up, there was that moment where you got on his shoulders and you guys wavered backwards, waving. I think he would have just gone through, like, a plate glass window or something like that.

[Keith Leak]

Some bushes and then a window.

[Ryan Todd]

And then you started walking, and it's like, oh, we're too high for this deck that's above us. And then you had to, like, you almost smacked. So it was just like a series of possible injuries, but great belly flop.

[Sarah Whittle]

Yeah.

[Matt Robbins]

Solid, solid, solid.

[Ryan Todd]

Thanks.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Pulled it off.

[Matt Robbins]

That got you the award, right?

[Courtney Miller]

Hey, you guys remember when I made that orca pun?

[Sarah Whittle]

Yeah. You mean in 2014? I totally remember that.

[Courtney Miller]

Okay. I actually have one issue with. With the flop voting. Okay, can I just say this right now?

[Sarah Whittle]

No.

[Courtney Miller]

I don't think you should be awarded high points by. For not jumping. Because I've seen a lot of. Through the years, I've seen a lot of belly flops where they just lean forward.

[Damien Haas]

Well, the first time, just say me.

[Keith Leak]

So I mean. No, I mean, I did that. I did the classic flop.

[Courtney Miller]

I've seen it so many times.

[Keith Leak]

Score. And then the next year, someone did that same exact flop and got an incredible score. I think it's just based on the mood.

[Ryan Todd]

It's not called jumping belly flop.

[Sarah Whittle]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

How are you supposed to get a good flop by just, like, just leaning forward?

[Damien Haas]

Discipline.

[Sarah Whittle]

I feel like that's hard because you don't brace yourself. Like, jumping is one thing. Cause it's an action and it's seconds. But the lean in to not want to stop yourself, like, that takes more dedication.

[Courtney Miller]

I don't know. I think points have to be awarded to airtime. Right?

[Matt Robbins]

That's like dying.

[Shane Topp]

That's never been criteria.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, I know.

[Matt Robbins]

Yeah.

[Keith Leak]

We still don't know what a pun.

[Courtney Miller]

Is, but I've seen so many. I've seen so many. All right, look, the orca pun is never gonna die. I'm sorry, but never gonna get points.

[Matt Robbins]

Well, as the flop judge, I always. I just look for, like, that flat contact on water, whether it's six feet up or, like, six inches down. Kind of like that Christ pose going down. That's what I look for, is like that flat smack. And so that redness. Yeah, the redness is like something. You're gonna be red no matter what. It's like where that redness is. So that's my perspective.

[Shane Topp]

There's a pitch that I feel like you hear when you know that someone nails it, and it doesn't really matter if they're falling into it or jumping. You hear it, and everyone does that collective.

[Matt Robbins]

Oh, it's like a span. Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

I'm just saying if you give.

[Mari Takahashi]

This is really the hill you're gonna die on.

[Courtney Miller]

This is what I've always been bothered by. The lean into the. It just doesn't seem like enough of a commitment.

[Mari Takahashi]

I do that every year.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah, me too.

[Shane Topp]

I will also say, though, there's not many options. Like, yeah, you can jump. I mean, I try to get air, but I don't think that's.

[Keith Leak]

Yeah, when you try and get creative, you almost almost die like me when you try. And.

[Sarah Whittle]

Do you just want us to compliment your calves? Is that what this is? Because you want. You have good air. Do you feel like you have better air than.

[Courtney Miller]

No, I definitely don't have as good of air as I've seen other people. I just. I just, you know, I want people to go. I want people to send it, man.

[Damien Haas]

All right, Next year, it should be style, pun, and, like, sea mammal based pun. Those are the three criteria.

[Courtney Miller]

Yes, I agree.

[Damien Haas]

Okay.

[Sarah Whittle]

We have yet to do high dive pieces. Belly flop, and I feel like would be awesome.

[Mari Takahashi]

I pitched that the night before, and that's horrifying.

[Sarah Whittle]

Yeah, I remember. And it was amazing.

[Matt Robbins]

Not like. Not like more than, like, 10ft.

[Courtney Miller]

What?

[Matt Robbins]

It'd be so cool.

[Courtney Miller]

I'm down to break.

[Damien Haas]

That's for the judge's years.

[Courtney Miller]

You know what we should do, though? Oh, wait, no. Because everyone cheers. I was gonna say we should get a decibel meter.

[Keith Leak]

Nobody cheers for mine. They're all just like.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, we're just legitimately worried for you, Courtney.

[Matt Robbins]

Don't worry. Sorry for worrying about you, Courtney.

[Keith Leak]

No. So annoying.

[Ryan Todd]

Yeah, I know.

[Damien Haas]

We suck for the decibel.

[Ryan Todd]

That wouldn't work is like, you could straight cannonball, and it would probably be louder than a smack.

[Shane Topp]

Yeah, I'll just scream.

[Sarah Whittle]

Yeah.

[Keith Leak]

Screaming air bonus. Like an air bonus.

[Matt Robbins]

Yeah, there could be an air bonus. I think if you have better puns, that'll probably raise your score up Possible.

[Courtney Miller]

Okay, so you're saying. Yeah, more.

[Keith Leak]

Just be better.

[Courtney Miller]

More mammal.

[Matt Robbins]

I will say, though, that I think I've been a part of every belly flop except for the first one in the Venice beach house this year was, like, next level. I feel like everyone put in a lot of. A lot more creativity.

[Sarah Whittle]

You were there.

[Courtney Miller]

Camp was the first one.

[Sarah Whittle]

Camp was the first one.

[Matt Robbins]

Oh. So I've been there for all of them. Yeah. This was the best year, I think, for belly flops.

[Shane Topp]

It was insane.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. People really surprised me with the things they pulled out. I was very impressed.

[Shane Topp]

Joven literally ripped his shirt off, and he completed it. We were all sitting there being like, he's gonna rip off half of it. He did it great.

[Keith Leak]

Yeah. Olivia's flop was dope. She just stayed dead.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Yeah.

[Matt Robbins]

That was great.

[Ryan Todd]

I have to say, I agree with you. I think belly flop's really a fun competition to judge, and it would be, I don't know, kind of awesome to actually be able to judge said belly flop. You don't want the heat, man.

[Sarah Whittle]

You don't want the heat.

[Damien Haas]

It's like we're flopping in the salt water.

[Ryan Todd]

What was the reason why. I can't remember. Why couldn't I be a part of belly Flop? What was the reason?

[Matt Robbins]

You got murdered.

[Sarah Whittle]

Oh, yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

You got murdered.

[Keith Leak]

Yeah, By Joe Burrito.

[Sarah Whittle]

You got killed by Drew Berber.

[Ryan Todd]

That's right.

[Matt Robbins]

Drew Herbert.

[Ryan Todd]

But very exciting to have a very special person there. Correct?

[Courtney Miller]

Yes.

[Matt Robbins]

Yeah.

[Sarah Whittle]

It's the gift that keeps on giving. Every year, we feel like bringing him back, for one thing. And this year, I got to dress him up like an idiot. And it worked out great.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

And he got to shamelessly sorry. He apologized to me, like, five times for licking my face, and I was like, it was funny. I went along with it. He's like, all right. I just feel like I don't want to offend you. I'm like, it was fine. Like, what are you doing? He's like, I just, you know. I know you're weird about being touched. And I'm like, so it was okay.

[Sarah Whittle]

That might have been me. I might have gotten in his head.

[Damien Haas]

Oh, really, dude?

[Sarah Whittle]

Damian's really upset. You really gotta go say something.

[Ryan Todd]

Also, Joe has really bad gingivitis, so there's a good chance.

[Damien Haas]

Oh, I smelled that.

[Sarah Whittle]

You got that back there?

[Ryan Todd]

Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

It's weird. Cause I didn't think I'd ever, like, have a reason to have smelly eyes, but I do now.

[Ryan Todd]

Smelly eyes are in.

[Shane Topp]

Yeah.

[Ryan Todd]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

I just love the shameless self promotion. The valley folk on his.

[Sarah Whittle]

Oh, that was my idea.

[Damien Haas]

That's right. The valley folk.

[Sarah Whittle]

Yeah. I thought it was great. It was. I really wanted him to look like A war boy. He ended up looking like the I like turtles kid in my head. I was like, oh, it's gonna look so bad. It's gonna be shirtless. Gonna have all this stuff. And then, like, Margot, who was there helping us with makeup, she did it, and I was like, okay, it's fine. It'll look great. Like, she couldn't have done a better job. It was perfect. But I was just like, wow, you really look like the. I like turtles.

[Courtney Miller]

I never thought about that until just now. Oh, my God.

[Ryan Todd]

Cause he didn't have the shaved head.

[Sarah Whittle]

I know. He needed the shaved.

[Keith Leak]

Shaved head.

[Sarah Whittle]

I just needed to do it. He just looked like a tortoise.

[Matt Robbins]

Well, that was kind of what happened with you, right? Like, trash panda. Were you going for, like, a skull? And then you just ended up looking like an adorable panda.

[Ryan Todd]

I told everyone I wanted to look tough, but really deep. Deep cut. Yeah, I just wanted to look adorable because I want cutestref. That's my whole goal.

[Courtney Miller]

That's true. That's what I'm going for. And also deadestref at the end.

[Ryan Todd]

Deadest. Oh, dead. Best resurrected ref, too.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, true.

[Ryan Todd]

Yeah. I just defy all logics of mortality, which is really cool.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. Which is why you're sitting on the toilet naked.

[Ryan Todd]

I actually died on the first day.

[Damien Haas]

And no one knew.

[Sarah Whittle]

No one knew.

[Damien Haas]

That was your vision quest.

[Sarah Whittle]

And I came back.

[Shane Topp]

I live in the realm of spirit.

[Ryan Todd]

Several times, and no one was any wiser.

[Keith Leak]

Nudistreph.

[Ryan Todd]

Nudist ref.

[Keith Leak]

Yeah, a lot of people. I think, like, a lot of people were like, dude, just want to say kudos to Sarah for her awesome, like, outfit, the holographic pink. That might be competition as cutest ref. I don't know.

[Matt Robbins]

Thank you. I would also agree.

[Sarah Whittle]

You can't get one, Ryan.

[Ryan Todd]

Yeah, come on.

[Sarah Whittle]

You can't get one.

[Ryan Todd]

Thanks, Courtney.

[Keith Leak]

I guess there can only be one first ref, though.

[Courtney Miller]

Also shout out to.

[Shane Topp]

That's me.

[Courtney Miller]

Also shout out to Lindsay for, like, bringing, like, a whole. So Lindsay, who. Who's done a bunch of costume stuff for us, helped us out with the costumes on this one, and a lot of the stuff was just her own stock. Like, Courtney, your outfit was. Was, like, her wasteland weekend outfit. Yeah, that.

[Keith Leak]

That jumpsuit was hers. Yeah, that thing was, like, lined with. With fabric. It was definitely meant for winter time, and she, like, hemmed it into shorts, so it. I was a very sweaty. You know, I wish I'd done the Ryan Todd and naked toileted it after.

[Ryan Todd]

Highly suggested.

[Courtney Miller]

When's the last time you guys took a shit completely naked.

[Sarah Whittle]

I mean, here we are, Summer games.

[Courtney Miller]

It's very strange just sitting completely naked on a toilet. Sorry. Let's go.

[Sarah Whittle]

Like, in the shower.

[Keith Leak]

I feel like when you have boobs, it's even weirder. Collagen shower.

[Shane Topp]

Brian Finnerty's over in the corner. Just, like, looking around, confused, like, we.

[Matt Robbins]

Didn'T agree to this topic.

[Shane Topp]

Welcome to the Summer Games podcast. So who's taking a shit naked, everyone?

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, I'm sure we all have, but we can all agree it's strange, right?

[Damien Haas]

Well, it's the pre shower shit, isn't it?

[Shane Topp]

Yeah, it's primal.

[Matt Robbins]

Oh, no. Oh, I wasn't thinking that. I was like, you know, sometimes when you have a, you know, you gotta do a lot of business and you're like, I just gotta take off all my clothes right now.

[Keith Leak]

Doesn't even have a jumpsuit or a dress.

[Matt Robbins]

Oh, yeah, that's what it is. Or if you're wearing a romper, just naked for a romper.

[Ryan Todd]

You have to do that, right?

[Matt Robbins]

You have to let the flap on your onesie.

[Keith Leak]

I feel like pooping naked as a girl is, like, a lot weirder. Cause it's like, a lot more like, out.

[Shane Topp]

What?

[Ryan Todd]

What?

[Courtney Miller]

There's a lot of stuff hanging.

[Mari Takahashi]

There's two more things out than boys.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

One more thing out than boys.

[Shane Topp]

No guys have to worry about laying anchor.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah, you don't want to dip your boys in the water.

[Sarah Whittle]

Tattoo.

[Keith Leak]

Stop.

[Sarah Whittle]

No, they all pop by laying anch.

[Ryan Todd]

No, you're saying top half.

[Mari Takahashi]

Yeah, top half, dude.

[Keith Leak]

Top half. What else are you talking about? Oh, our second butt.

[Sarah Whittle]

Yeah. Everybody knows ladies got two butts and four vaginas.

[Mari Takahashi]

My problem with the pre shower poop is that I feel like the poop particles stay in the air, and then you start the shower, and then it's like a poo sauna.

[Damien Haas]

That's the point.

[Mari Takahashi]

I hate that. I can't hate it.

[Shane Topp]

I think, well, especially if you shit like a mister.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Then it's.

[Sarah Whittle]

What's up, bro?

[Matt Robbins]

Speaking of bathroom air, I have to tell you what happened, like, five minutes before we started this podcast, Ms. Courtney Miller.

[Keith Leak]

So because we're nothing poo related, because.

[Matt Robbins]

We'Re shooting this podcast, I was like, oh, I need to go to the bathroom. And all our bathroom stalls were filled. So I was like, I'm gonna wait for the next person to step out.

[Sarah Whittle]

Sink again.

[Matt Robbins]

Someone stepped. One bathroom door opens, and it's Courtney with a full cup of coffee.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh.

[Matt Robbins]

Just walking. And I was like, don't judge me.

[Damien Haas]

That is not kosher anymore.

[Matt Robbins]

And that's all she said. And then I was like, were you sitting on the toilet sipping coffee? And she's like, no, I put it on the tank.

[Sarah Whittle]

Don't judge me.

[Matt Robbins]

Don't judge me.

[Mari Takahashi]

Oh, yeah, the tank. That's too close to all the particles.

[Keith Leak]

Yeah, I just peed.

[Sarah Whittle]

Guys, the tank is the cleanest part of the toilet, just so y'all know.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Hey, do you guys remember when this podcast was about summer days?

[Sarah Whittle]

Ryan Finnerty does it.

[Keith Leak]

Don't judge me. I didn't want to leave my coffee unattended for one of y'alls to poison me.

[Sarah Whittle]

I do remember, and I hope you're okay with me telling this story. Courtney, the summer games, what happened? Because we had, like, two working bathrooms, and one of them that didn't really work all the way.

[Keith Leak]

Oh, yeah. What I had to do after.

[Sarah Whittle]

You had to do. Yeah, you had to, like, scoot. Because we had one that wasn't. The water wasn't going. Cause there was, like, no water. We were in the middle of the desert, and you had to, like, scoop water from the tub and put it in the tank.

[Keith Leak]

Fill the upper tank.

[Sarah Whittle]

Fill the upper tank. Because you're.

[Keith Leak]

Cause the well, like, this place was so old, it ran through a well, and the well was empty. And the upper tanks of the toilets would just, like, take hours to fill. So I just straight up decided there was, like, an empty bin in there. I was like, this must be what it's for. So I took the empty bin and would, like, fill it with water and fill the upper tank.

[Sarah Whittle]

Whoa.

[Keith Leak]

So that the bathroom would work.

[Ryan Todd]

So you just learned how toilets work at the beginning of the game?

[Keith Leak]

I've always known that. I've just never had access to a bin.

[Courtney Miller]

That's true.

[Keith Leak]

A water bin.

[Courtney Miller]

That's true. That was very. That was very resourceful.

[Sarah Whittle]

Yeah.

[Ryan Todd]

I'm impressed.

[Keith Leak]

So the bathroom. Yeah, it's like a toilet.

[Sarah Whittle]

MacGyver.

[Keith Leak]

Yeah, I thought you were talking about. I thought you were talking about. After the slime competition. I, like, showered fully clothed with shoes on.

[Shane Topp]

I did, too. There was no option. Really?

[Keith Leak]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

So this. So what summer games this year comprised of was sitting on a toilet completely naked and showering completely clothed. What was going on with our brains?

[Damien Haas]

The apocalypse. All rules are off.

[Sarah Whittle]

And we were so close to that orgy house, too.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. Oh, yeah, the orgy house.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Was that Lucille Balls orgy house.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's. Yeah, there's this strange, like, dome yurt house on the Top of this, like.

[Sarah Whittle]

Volcano, which if you look closely in most of the shots, you could see it in the distance.

[Matt Robbins]

In Summer Games, it looks like Epcot. Like a planetara on the side of a mountain.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. And it belonged to this one like TV personality. And apparently orgies happened.

[Damien Haas]

I thought that was a rumor we started.

[Sarah Whittle]

No, no, no, no. The medic said it. He's from there. So it's a local rumor.

[Damien Haas]

Got it.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Some say you can still hear Lucille gang banging away.

[Sarah Whittle]

Ricky.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Ricky.

[Keith Leak]

You know what else was out there? The first Del Taco.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Really?

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, yeah.

[Ryan Todd]

I didn't know that.

[Damien Haas]

If you look close, you can see it in the background of most of our shots. We get no business at all.

[Ryan Todd]

I loved seeing the yurt in the background because it just looked like a super villain lair.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Yeah.

[Ryan Todd]

Especially for the apocalypse. It just felt like some crazy supervillain down there.

[Sarah Whittle]

Speaking of Del Taco, we have to settle this, Ian, because last time we talked about this, you had issues. How was the food this year?

[Courtney Miller]

The food was amazing.

[Sarah Whittle]

You know, everyone, no racism.

[Courtney Miller]

No racism. Because there was nobody serving the food and deciding how much. How many portions go to each person. That's a.

[Sarah Whittle]

Hell yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

The food was. The food was. Was awesome. It varied from Mexican to barbecue to pizza and sometimes all at once.

[Sarah Whittle]

And one of them was just a big ass potato.

[Keith Leak]

That's the biggest baby potato. Baby, like actual human baby sized potatoes.

[Mari Takahashi]

There were like 84 potatoes for 30 people.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. And not one person could finish an entire potato.

[Keith Leak]

Keith ate three. What? Keith went in on that night. That was three.

[Shane Topp]

And made sure the rest of us had one.

[Sarah Whittle]

It never. That never happened. No, it didn't happen.

[Matt Robbins]

I remember it happening.

[Keith Leak]

No, dude, I got fat shamed that year.

[Courtney Miller]

But Keith. But hold on. But Keith confirmed in the podcast, right? That the. The servers from the other. From the other smosh Summer games, they.

[Sarah Whittle]

Took care of me too. But probably cuz I hired them.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, probably.

[Sarah Whittle]

Okay, well then it's not racism. It's just favoritism.

[Courtney Miller]

What?

[Sarah Whittle]

There you go. They must have liked him. He's got a winning smile.

[Shane Topp]

He really sucks, huh?

[Ryan Todd]

I think it's a general attitude that you gave off, Ian.

[Sarah Whittle]

I think that's what's happening.

[Courtney Miller]

I was always very thankful. Also, everyone else didn't get. No, all of you.

[Matt Robbins]

I agree with. I agree with Ian.

[Courtney Miller]

Thank you.

[Keith Leak]

I literally got like three beans.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Shane Topp]

I think out of all Keith deserved to double it up. I think he deserved it considering he.

[Sarah Whittle]

Is the only person every year going who is. Was spoiled. Summer games on social Media.

[Matt Robbins]

Oh, my God.

[Courtney Miller]

Every year.

[Keith Leak]

This was the only year. This is the only year we actually had a social media blackout, like, set in stone.

[Sarah Whittle]

Yes.

[Keith Leak]

And I will say, like, I'm just gonna stick up for him right now. Yes. Keith spoiled Summer Games on his Instagram story. I feel really bad because throughout the whole previous days, he was recording stuff, saving it and making sure he deleted it. I was watching him. He was very good about it. And then this one time, he recorded it, and it's like, you don't need to record.

[Courtney Miller]

You don't need to record video on Snapchat or on Instagram, because then it's.

[Keith Leak]

Good content for when Summer Games is out there.

[Courtney Miller]

No, no, no. You go to your camera.

[Keith Leak]

What if there's filters or certain. What if you want to do a boomerang zooming. I know, but there's a reason why people specifically go into Instagram to record the content, because also, it's something looks different. Like, there's a lot of stuff like that. But the point is, that's such a quick, like, mechanical thing to post on Instagram stories. Especially when you do it as often as we do. Like, I feel really bad. And he genuinely felt terrible.

[Sarah Whittle]

And was it a. Was it a snap of just the random desert? No, it was every one of you in your team shirts jumping up and down.

[Shane Topp]

We are filming Summer Games Apocalypse.

[Mari Takahashi]

And for context, if you don't know, we were on a social media blackout because we wanted it all to hit at the same time. Yeah, big surprise. We talked about it every single day, multiple times.

[Courtney Miller]

We even made it a meme where we're like, and it's what? Social media blackout?

[Sarah Whittle]

This is the first year that we were in complete control. There was no defy. There was no one telling us, like, oh, we gotta tease it. We had complete control of the narrative. We wanted to have that moment at VidCon, and we got it. But still, it was that moment where it was just like an alert. Like, we were at the house.

[Matt Robbins]

Yeah, we were at the house. And actually, Nancy from. She was here in la, so she had much better coverage than all of us. She goes, keith just uploaded to his Instagram story. And I'm like, oh, great, let's see. And so I look, and it's all of you guys having the best time of your life.

[Keith Leak]

You know what the moment was? David was playing our ag. He was playing. No, he was playing the Indiana Jones theme from the ride of Disneyland. And we were riding really fast off roading, and we were all like, yeah.

[Matt Robbins]

So it Was up for, like, 12 minutes.

[Keith Leak]

12 minutes.

[Sarah Whittle]

It was up for 12 minutes, and people were already making memes at a pink team or green team and, like, the whole thing.

[Keith Leak]

Yeah.

[Matt Robbins]

And so I. I texted Matt, and then I texted you and Shane, and then he texted Mari. We were like, please get him to take it down now.

[Courtney Miller]

And meanwhile, we're just, like.

[Matt Robbins]

Creepiest clip I've ever seen everyone in. And it was. I was like, oh, no, this is it.

[Shane Topp]

He did feel really bad when we told him.

[Matt Robbins]

Yeah.

[Ryan Todd]

What was the tone in the van once the information got.

[Sarah Whittle]

He felt bad.

[Shane Topp]

He literally was like, oh, my. Oh, my God.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, what?

[Shane Topp]

Like, it was not a. I kind.

[Ryan Todd]

Of wish you guys would have filmed that moment.

[Courtney Miller]

Like, when you shame a dog for, like, eating something.

[Mari Takahashi]

We didn't have to.

[Sarah Whittle]

Not quite that, but just, you know.

[Ryan Todd]

To get a vibe.

[Sarah Whittle]

This is the thing. Like, I. I was upset, and then he came up to me, and it's that thing where you're like, you're mad at somebody, but they know that they're more mad at themselves. I'm like, well, I can't be mad at you. Cause you're more mad at your. You're beating yourself up more than I ever could, so.

[Matt Robbins]

Yeah, I understand.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

But then he punched him anyway.

[Sarah Whittle]

Yeah, not like that.

[Matt Robbins]

Yeah, like, I understand those brain farts. Like, it just happens. And, like, there's. It was. I understand it, but it's like, in those moments, like, I was so cautious, like, to just use my camera for that so that we. Cause we really wanted it to feel special during Vidcon. It didn't ruin anything by any means.

[Sarah Whittle]

It's also a little strange that it's been Keith every time. It'd be one thing if it was like, oh, my God, Kimmy. Okay, well, like, she didn't know, but, like, every single time it's been leaked.

[Courtney Miller]

What are the times?

[Sarah Whittle]

He did it for winter, too. He did it for camp, and I think he did it for west. Because people who are watching his stuff, they're like, oh, he leaked it again. And they were like, talking about the.

[Matt Robbins]

Last time he's done it.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Oh, that's why he's got it.

[Sarah Whittle]

Yes. Keys.

[Matt Robbins]

Because when we were at West, I remember we were like, hey, everyone, please don't post the teams of you in your shirt and also you in cowboy gear. Like, please don't. And it was the first day, and there were just cowboy hats in everyone's stories.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Guys, I got it. I know how to Keith proof the next games. We make a bunch of Fake shirts and take pictures in front of green screen. Like the Antarctic games, the volcano games. And we have just like a bunch of of different color shirts. And that way the moment he leaks, we all also leak a bunch of awesome stuff. That's a really good this year Summer games. It's in Antarctica. No, it's not. I saw it in a volcanic like and then they'll never know.

[Courtney Miller]

I have a better figured it out. I have a better solution actually. We send Keith on a decoy Smosh Summer games with a bunch of people that are look alikes of us and we send them off to a.

[Sarah Whittle]

We almost did that last year by accident where he went to the wrong location.

[Keith Leak]

Oh my God.

[Sarah Whittle]

We shot at two different locations and we shot a location A on day one and location B on day two. I made sure everyone knew that. And yet on day two, we all get a text from Keith where he's like, I'm at the park. Where is everybody? Like, nobody knows. We did it. It worked.

[Ryan Todd]

And that's classic Keith because I don't know how many times we've shot. Literally when we used to shoot in Sacramento, Keith would like get on a flight on the wrong day and start flying to Sacramento.

[Keith Leak]

He'd go to the airport a day early.

[Ryan Todd]

Yeah, I mean he would just.

[Shane Topp]

The airport on Easter day. He just sent us a photo like, guys, I'm at the airport. I thought we were flying out today. I'm like, it's Easter.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

What are you doing?

[Sarah Whittle]

He's really dedicated to finding those eggs.

[Ryan Todd]

He's excited to shoot.

[Courtney Miller]

Well, and the worst part is like where he got dropped off on location A in the last Smosh Summer games, he was taking an Uber. So the Uber just left him in this random place in the middle of nowhere.

[Sarah Whittle]

Random park, which I believe two weeks prior to us shooting, they found a dead body there.

[Matt Robbins]

Hey, I didn't know I was.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Someone told us that.

[Sarah Whittle]

I venture not to tell you guys.

[Damien Haas]

Good.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, great.

[Sarah Whittle]

Yeah, it was like, because I guess it's somewhere up in like deep valley. And like, I guess like a week before we filmed, we had already got the permit. We had already locked it. They like found a corpse there.

[Matt Robbins]

Oh my God.

[Damien Haas]

That's why I got hives. I'm allergic to the dead.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, that was Smosh Haunted games.

[Sarah Whittle]

But I was like, we cannot tell the cast because they're going to lose their mind.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Was it like foul play or like natural causes?

[Sarah Whittle]

I don't remember. I don't remember at all. But I remember they were interesting.

[Damien Haas]

You have no Alibi.

[Sarah Whittle]

Yeah. I don't know why I was there and I wasn't there. No, I think it was like, a drug thing or something. Apparently, a lot of people do drugs in that park too.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Yeah. Because there's a big difference between, like, someone had a heart attack and it's like, oh, it's that, you know, Valley Park Killer.

[Sarah Whittle]

Yeah. Well, yeah.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

One was more concerning than the other.

[Shane Topp]

The Valley Park Killer.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Tell us more.

[Matt Robbins]

Serious problem.

[Damien Haas]

The dead person was a balloon salesman. He's like, there's nothing that sets me off. Like balloons. Small summer games.

[Courtney Miller]

We. Courtney, we forgot to get a butt picture this year.

[Keith Leak]

I know, dude.

[Courtney Miller]

Every year we were doing.

[Keith Leak]

We didn't get a girl pic. Well, we didn't.

[Courtney Miller]

We.

[Mari Takahashi]

We got a couple girls picks, but we didn't do one in the bathtub. We usually do one in the bath.

[Courtney Miller]

And I was just sitting there on the corner like, what about my girl?

[Mari Takahashi]

Pick the butt picture. Either.

[Keith Leak]

We. Yeah, we could keep it going.

[Courtney Miller]

I worked in my butt all year.

[Keith Leak]

You did.

[Courtney Miller]

I did. Yeah.

[Keith Leak]

Same.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah, you do have a pretty wicked dumper.

[Matt Robbins]

Is that how you talk?

[Ryan Todd]

Got a wicked dumper.

[Damien Haas]

I was away from the mic. I'm pretty sure nobody heard that.

[Matt Robbins]

You shouted it into Ian's mic.

[Courtney Miller]

So let's see. So. So. So we. We had a lot of cheaters this year. So we had Matt. We already went over that.

[Sarah Whittle]

Didn't cheat.

[Courtney Miller]

We had Wes. We had Joven. Noah. Tried to cheat.

[Keith Leak]

Yeah. It was in catch your meal. We didn't really make a moment out of it in the edit. Like, he. He grabbed a snake off the ground and just decided to throw it in our bucket, as if we were gonna, like, count him up and, like, hoping that it would count as an extra point. But we didn't. It didn't.

[Courtney Miller]

But the. The historical cheater did not cheat. Surprisingly, Keith did not cheat.

[Matt Robbins]

That we could catch.

[Sarah Whittle]

That we could catch.

[Damien Haas]

People were trying to call him out in the comments for Deadlight Greenlight, where they're like, he walked too fast, and that was against the rules. I'm like, no, I was running.

[Ryan Todd]

I loved him in Deadlight green light.

[Damien Haas]

He's great.

[Ryan Todd]

He did an interpretive dance that was inspirational.

[Matt Robbins]

He was trolling.

[Mari Takahashi]

Oh.

[Damien Haas]

He didn't cheat at all. But people were trying. They were like, oh, there it is. Look. Too fast.

[Keith Leak]

Have we ever had moments that were like, we didn't realize how happened until the edit? Like a cheat or. Or something like that?

[Sarah Whittle]

I think Wes and the gun. Yeah. I legitimately, like. Like, Sarah and I were watching that cutback. And I was like. We were mad at ourselves because in the moment, we were just, like, so much was going on, we didn't think it was an issue. And, like, we heard mumblings of, like, oh, he, like, walked the trigger. But, like, in the edit, I was like, oh, God damn it.

[Matt Robbins]

Like, when he's walking. Yeah.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

When he was walking around out there getting shot at. Knew that that wasn't.

[Matt Robbins]

I wish you guys had tattled to us because we. Because, like, as refs, we have a lot on our minds. We're trying to actually ref the game, but we're also.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

We are being pinned down by rapid fire.

[Damien Haas]

You can literally hear us say, where.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Is that coming from?

[Matt Robbins]

You're not on the ground. I was on a second level. I couldn't hear you guys shouting us.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

In, like, fancy chairs, like, eating more grapes. There appears to be some commotion down among the peasants.

[Sarah Whittle]

Let the plan Caribbean's play.

[Keith Leak]

Because you guys are, like, directing the video and camera people making sure no one's getting hurt.

[Shane Topp]

Tons of camera people are getting shot.

[Keith Leak]

Because one of our girls, Jackie, she got shot, like, hit in the chest, or at least it, like, ricocheted off something and hit her.

[Ryan Todd]

Yeah, I gotta say that, too. Our camera guys.

[Matt Robbins]

Yeah.

[Ryan Todd]

Went crazy. Like, Nick and Darren both were, like, straight war photographers.

[Courtney Miller]

Darren wanted to get shot. He said that. He's like. He's like, I want to feel the pain.

[Sarah Whittle]

Yeah.

[Matt Robbins]

He's an insane person.

[Damien Haas]

I was in that little bridge thing at one point, and this mostly got cut. And it was, like, the only time I was able to make it far enough to actually, like, try to advance on their target. And Ian comes from the side, and Darren is to my right, like, basically blocking me just to film it. And so Darren just gets completely decked out in pain. And that's when I also got shot under my mask, like, on the jaw, where the jaw meets the meat of your face.

[Courtney Miller]

And I took. I took my time to line up my shot, make sure I didn't hit Darren.

[Damien Haas]

You thought about it.

[Courtney Miller]

You did. And I pulled off one shot and just went to Darren. He just went, bam. Just right in the freaking head.

[Damien Haas]

Shot the poor boy.

[Courtney Miller]

The first shot just nailed Darren right in the side of the head.

[Damien Haas]

Squat in the dome.

[Keith Leak]

I don't know how people are accurate with those things. Like, the wind, it's just like, all.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, you have to have a. You have to have Wes's gun.

[Keith Leak]

Oh, right, right, right.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ryan Todd]

I shot Wes's gun afterwards. And it's a very nice Piece of machinery.

[Matt Robbins]

Yeah.

[Ryan Todd]

In hindsight, we should have taken it from him.

[Courtney Miller]

I asked him about it.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Appreciate the craftsmanship. A gun that was obliterating.

[Shane Topp]

I will say, I am of the opinion that even if he had a regular gun, Wes is also nuts out on the field. He used to play in tournaments and stuff. I mean, I think Wes alone could probably beat all of us together in a paintball match. But giving him a supercharged weapon was.

[Keith Leak]

We didn't give him.

[Shane Topp]

He's probably not the best of those guns.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

If that's the case, we gave it to him. He brought him from home.

[Sarah Whittle]

What are you gonna do? And that's the thing.

[Mari Takahashi]

Fly under the radar. Because he's lost so many of these that you guys are like, ah, just give him one.

[Matt Robbins]

Well, wait, it's not like, when you guys went to the field, we were like, let's see your guns. Let's see your goggles. Let's, like, do a check of all they've brought.

[Mari Takahashi]

No one else had guns that they brought.

[Sarah Whittle]

He texted me and said, it's an identical gun to everybody else's. It should be.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

And you took his word for it?

[Sarah Whittle]

That's on you for trusting west, who I've known for a decade.

[Damien Haas]

I'm sorry, if it's identical, why bother going through all the trouble of hauling it down in your car? Like, you gotta pick out those words, man.

[Sarah Whittle]

That's weird. I just thought he was a weird guy.

[Mari Takahashi]

He brought paintballing pants.

[Courtney Miller]

Also. Also, like, not just his gun, but his hopper, the thing that holds the paintballs. He has an electric hopper that basically forces the balls down faster so you could shoot a lot faster. I won. And I was, like, talking about a.

[Shane Topp]

Police dog and grenades.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. And I was like, can you turn that off? And so it's just like ours. And he's like, oh, everybody's is like the same. And I was like, he just lied to us.

[Matt Robbins]

He just lied.

[Shane Topp]

I think it's a good opportunity to point out, though, that, yes, the refs are aware that these are just games. It's whatever. When we're playing them, we get serious about it. While we're filming it, we are dead serious. We get so competitive, as soon as it's over, we generally let it go.

[Sarah Whittle]

Oh, dude, Kickball.

[Shane Topp]

But in the moments we get so into it, you are watching real competition kickball.

[Sarah Whittle]

I feel like kickball almost ended smosh.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. No, it did.

[Sarah Whittle]

Kickball legitimately almost ended smosh.

[Courtney Miller]

It was because everyone thought they understood how kickball is played. It turns out we all played by different rules when we grew up, apparently, because we couldn't agree on a single rule. Once we started playing, it was brutal.

[Shane Topp]

I got mad.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

I was having fun.

[Courtney Miller]

And you operate in chaos.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Well, yeah. And I grew up, we would play some, like, family softball games at my grandma's house, and my uncles and my cousins would all play together. And it was exactly like that. Everyone's just yelling at each other like, you can't do that, blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, this is great. This reminds me of home. And I was like. Like, I was having a blast. I was like, ah, the ref. What are you doing that call. And I was having fun. And then all of a sudden, someone's like, shut it down. The game's over. We can't play anymore. Everyone's too mad. I'm like, oh, really? I thought this was great.

[Matt Robbins]

I just get ready.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

I'm like, yelling's coming. Well, like, when I played with my family, it's like yelling's kind of part of the game. It's just like, what happens. And so I didn't understand that people were genuinely upset.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. Yeah. That was probably the roughest. That was definitely the roughest point in summer games, and I hope we never get to that point. It never felt too overly competitive. We never had any sort of, like, angry moments in this summer games. Do you guys remember any sort of, like, rough points?

[Keith Leak]

No, not with each other. Like, during the operation, like, the bees and the stress of. Of all that, I just like contact sports in general make me very anxious. Like, I ran track. I like to stay in my lane and just do my best by myself. So when we did those games, like kickball and stuff, and people are starting to get mad. I once with a past boyfriend, I played basketball with him and his cousins, and they start yelling at me because I did a bad pass. And I was like, oh, my God, I can't do this at all. It's just scary when you're physically against each other like that.

[Courtney Miller]

So I think I spoke too soon. The real life operation actually was. Was a rough moment because we didn't realize. And I don't put the blame on the people who scattered locations. Apparently the desert is just home to hundreds of wasps.

[Keith Leak]

It's like those bees that live in the sand, like the ones in burrow sand bees.

[Shane Topp]

They're like yellowjackets or wasps and in greater numbers.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, it was. So they decided to really show up when we were all sitting there covered in sleep. And the worry was that the bees were gonna get stuck in the slime, start freaking out, start stinging us. Luckily, they didn't sting anyone. I did a lot of running around avoiding them. But actually, One of the PAs did get stung, and I'm real glad I didn't. Cause she had this huge red welt on her.

[Damien Haas]

Really?

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Keith Leak]

That sucks.

[Sarah Whittle]

I mean, she was wearing a crop top in the desert. Like, you're gonna get stung.

[Keith Leak]

We were all wearing crop tops. I'm pretty sure. Yeah.

[Mari Takahashi]

Lisa, we're wearing a crop top.

[Matt Robbins]

That's definitely desert. Were.

[Sarah Whittle]

Yeah. That's fair, I guess.

[Courtney Miller]

Are you. Wait, Matt, are you saying that a woman. Sorry I'm asking for that stink.

[Sarah Whittle]

I'm not.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Matt was saying.

[Sarah Whittle]

I'm not.

[Ryan Todd]

I honestly think you guys are in the best position being covered in slime, because I don't think wasps or bees can function in a slime.

[Matt Robbins]

You could just flick them around.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

But they did want that slime.

[Ryan Todd]

It's like they're crawling to their deaths.

[Sarah Whittle]

And this is something, I guess we should have made clear. The slime was not like a gelatinous. Like, it wasn't like a Nickelodeon box slime. It was thick water, which is just thick water. There's no sugar or glucose. And the powdered holly powder that we used to slap. That's all it was. That's literally all it was. There's nothing that would have attracted the wasps or made the wasps sting you. It would have been fine if you got.

[Matt Robbins]

I think it was just boring in the desert. So they were like, ooh, bodies.

[Sarah Whittle]

What are these?

[Matt Robbins]

What's happening?

[Ryan Todd]

I think they could smell your fear.

[Keith Leak]

I mean, bc, like, color and stuff like that, and they get attracted. And we weren't worried about, like, they were gonna come and, like, eat us because we were covered in slime. It was just literally, if they. It was sticky, and it was, like, also hardening and making it harder for us to move. And, like, if the bee. I was. I'm just scared of bees.

[Shane Topp]

Bees don't enjoy competition.

[Matt Robbins]

Yeah. That's the one thing is, like, we never know about these things until we are in the. In the moment.

[Keith Leak]

Oh, yeah. How can you replicate that for practice?

[Matt Robbins]

Exactly. How can we test these things out? And so it's like, we're all in this together. No one's on vacation.

[Courtney Miller]

I think. I think the ref should have gone out there.

[Ryan Todd]

No, we talked about this. So next time, because Matt and I and Garrett and Mitch all went out and scouted the location, next time we go anywhere, whether it's summer or winter Games, we're going to cover ourselves in the slime.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Yes.

[Sarah Whittle]

And make sure he's going to be naked on the.

[Ryan Todd]

I'm going to go naked. I'm going to test that out for sure.

[Sarah Whittle]

Yeah, yeah. This is good. This is good.

[Courtney Miller]

Bring a toilet. Bring a toilet out wherever you go and just sit there naked.

[Ryan Todd]

I'm gonna check all the backs of the toilets. Make sure there's water in there. And if there's not water, I'm gonna make sure I can take them to the tank.

[Courtney Miller]

Make sure you get a bed.

[Shane Topp]

I think next year should be smosh summer games. 68° even for the entirety of the game.

[Courtney Miller]

That'll be great.

[Keith Leak]

Are we ever gonna do winter? Winter games?

[Damien Haas]

I've never gotten to do one.

[Courtney Miller]

Please.

[Sarah Whittle]

It's the same thing, but just cold.

[Damien Haas]

Yes, that's exactly.

[Sarah Whittle]

That's exactly what I want. Maybe not winter games. Maybe there's something really cool we could do in the winter that I think would be rad. I think there's something that we could do. But I mean, like, where do we go from here in summer?

[Courtney Miller]

I know.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

I don't know. Let me check Keith's Instagram.

[Sarah Whittle]

Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

I want medieval games. I want to rent a castle and have us have.

[Courtney Miller]

You think castles aren't hot.

[Sarah Whittle]

It's a big brick oven. Like, you think that's not gonna suck, but. What?

[Damien Haas]

Bricks are cold in the winter.

[Matt Robbins]

True. I will tell you that last year before we were like, we knew if we were gonna to do summer games or not, we did go scout a couple of castle locations because we did want that. But then our budget was $4 and.

[Damien Haas]

We couldn't make it out of the castle. And you take it. Sorry.

[Keith Leak]

$4 is so much money in medieval times.

[Courtney Miller]

That's true. She has a point.

[Keith Leak]

They got me.

[Shane Topp]

American currency was a lot during medieval times.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, I mean, medieval could be cool.

[Shane Topp]

I would love a medieval crown Cruise ship.

[Sarah Whittle]

Smosh. Madea game.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, yeah. We all dress up like Madea. Hello, Madea. Madea. I don't know.

[Damien Haas]

It's Madea. Yeah, we know it's Madea.

[Courtney Miller]

Okay. Hallelujah.

[Shane Topp]

Bees love Madea.

[Keith Leak]

Do we have any, like, rejected themes that we, like, were like, like you said we almost were gonna do Medieval Times type things.

[Sarah Whittle]

Yeah. We really wanted college.

[Matt Robbins]

Last year I pitched Smosh University. Cause I thought, like, that's like an attainable budget and we could do fraternity and so competitive tank stamp or. Yeah, the merch would have been really dope.

[Sarah Whittle]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

And then maybe Shane can finally finish college.

[Shane Topp]

Finally.

[Matt Robbins]

Was that supposed to be A roast. Cause I think it's actually awesome that.

[Ryan Todd]

He'S right now the most responsible education.

[Shane Topp]

Ha ha ha ha.

[Matt Robbins]

I'm pursuing higher education.

[Ryan Todd]

What a loser.

[Sarah Whittle]

We talked about doing pirate themed. We talked about doing Harry Potter games.

[Matt Robbins]

Wizard games.

[Keith Leak]

That's a winter thing. Literally. The first Harry Potter was a Christmas movie.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, that's good.

[Damien Haas]

The yule ball.

[Keith Leak]

Sure.

[Sarah Whittle]

All right. Damian's sick that time.

[Ryan Todd]

You talking about shipwrecked or a lost style?

[Sarah Whittle]

I mean, here's my. My goal is cruise. Cruise or tropical y. So if you're listening or watching this podcast and your mom or dad or uncle owns a cruise line, I'm gonna put Sarah's number on the screen. Call Sarah.

[Ryan Todd]

Or if they Independent cruise ship owned just by the family, we'll like that too.

[Sarah Whittle]

Yeah, we can make it work. But I think the cruise would be so fun.

[Keith Leak]

I've never been on one.

[Damien Haas]

What? Say I've never been on one.

[Keith Leak]

I've always wanted to.

[Sarah Whittle]

Cruises are dope.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

I think the way we could do this and save some money is we just. We pirate the cruise ship. Like, we show up as part of the pirate thing and throw grappling hooks and, like, silent. The captain now, James.

[Damien Haas]

We're the captain now. Shut up.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Get back on.

[Damien Haas]

Get back on deck.

[Sarah Whittle]

Yeah. I'm down. Yeah. If you can climb a rope from a grappling hook, we will do this.

[Ryan Todd]

Basically, it's Captain Phillips. We do smart savions. Captain Phillips. I want to be Tom Hanks.

[Sarah Whittle]

Super topical.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Cool.

[Matt Robbins]

That really happened.

[Keith Leak]

That was a true story.

[Sarah Whittle]

Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

Wow.

[Sarah Whittle]

Great, Sarah.

[Courtney Miller]

Thanks. What were. And I mean, we're coming up on our time here. What were some of the other apocalypse names that we. That we didn't settle?

[Keith Leak]

Oh, Toxicity was originally gonna be toxic masculinity. Send nukes.

[Sarah Whittle]

Send nukes was such a good one. I really wanted to do Send nukes.

[Courtney Miller]

What else was there? I mean, my personal favorite was Waka Flocalypse.

[Ryan Todd]

Oh, yeah.

[Sarah Whittle]

Oh, yeah. Oh, then there was the Fallout Bays.

[Damien Haas]

Yes.

[Courtney Miller]

That came close.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

I like that one.

[Courtney Miller]

Fallout Bays came really close.

[Ryan Todd]

Fallout Bays was really good.

[Damien Haas]

I liked it too.

[Matt Robbins]

Vault.

[Keith Leak]

What was it? Vault Bay, I think.

[Damien Haas]

Oh, Nuclear winners, though.

[Sarah Whittle]

The nuclear winners was good. Yeah. Yeah. There was a bunch that we. We. I can't remember. We. It was toxic masculinity was one that we were actually gonna do. And then what was the other one? Oh, Fallout Bays.

[Keith Leak]

Yeah, we've already done.

[Matt Robbins]

We've already done baes.

[Sarah Whittle]

Oh, no. It was toxic Yas Skillin.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, that's Toxicity.

[Sarah Whittle]

And Mari. We were actually like, We've already done YAs. We've already done Baez. We should really mix it up. And we did. And I actually really like what we came up with.

[Keith Leak]

Oh, these are the best.

[Courtney Miller]

I agree. Also. Also best shirts of any Summer Games, I would say.

[Mari Takahashi]

The colors are so good. They pop so well. And there's been so much like makeup tutorials that have like, happened when people are doing like both team makeup. Like all the fan art has been so amazing this year. People have been having a lot of fun.

[Keith Leak]

I do really love how much we went all out this year. I think it definitely is gonna like set a standard for future stuff. Because, I mean, Wild west, we did it a little bit. We had a trailer where we dressed up for that and then we did like cowboy hats and stuff. But this time was so cool. I dyed my hair pink that washed out like after three days. But it's fine. I'm excited for future ones to do more of that.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. I think as far as like this one went, like, I think it was the best produced, like best handled Summer Games and big shout outs go to you guys for setting that whole thing up.

[Sarah Whittle]

Yeah. Honest to Garrett. Garrett.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Sarah Whittle]

Garrett, our producer started as a pa, I think at Wild west and has been like his risen in the ranks and like he crushed it this year.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Matt Robbins]

Also big shout out to Spencer. He edits every single competition and he does for like every year.

[Sarah Whittle]

Every year we made sure Spencer's the solo editor of the competitions because he's got a certain style and it's always worked and he always does. And he takes. This is not like a gameplay video. Like he's taking some time, like three hours of footage of like 12 cameras and cutting it into like a coherent 12 minute video. And it's really solid.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Ryan Todd]

He's shooting and he shot this year.

[Sarah Whittle]

Yeah.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

What was the 80s trailer he did that was so funny.

[Sarah Whittle]

Well, we did it. We did it a couple times.

[Damien Haas]

We did it.

[Sarah Whittle]

We did it for first summer. We did it for Beach House and then we did it again for camp.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Yeah.

[Sarah Whittle]

And I just love that.

[Courtney Miller]

Whose voice is the previously on Smosh. Summer Games.

[Sarah Whittle]

That's a robot.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

What?

[Sarah Whittle]

That's a robot. There was actually an algorithm that we found not too long ago. I think at some point everyone was out of the office and we needed to do end card vo. I was like, I don't want to do it. And we're just like. We found this website that allows you to just like auto, like speak to text, like typed it in and it just works. I was like, it's so creepy. Let's use it.

[Courtney Miller]

It makes me feel so. Like every year that I hear it, it makes me feel so good. Like, it brings me back.

[Sarah Whittle]

That's great that it works.

[Courtney Miller]

I love it. Oh, also, shout out to Ryan, our trash panda for shooting the intro.

[Sarah Whittle]

The trailer was.

[Courtney Miller]

The trailer. Trailer was awesome.

[Ryan Todd]

Had a great time up until almost dying from sweating today.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Matt Robbins]

But then you had good naked toilet time.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Ryan Todd]

Which is always a good time.

[Courtney Miller]

But yeah, I feel. I feel like this. This Summer Games is really awesome. I feel like it's. It's the most. Like, we had the most control over it. Like, we finally got to like, have like full kind of say on what happened. Big shout out to Borderlands 3 for. For doing the little sponsor giving us, helping us out.

[Keith Leak]

Like. Like some people are always in the comments being like, oh, this is the third Wendy's out of scene on Summer Games. I was like, dude, like, it's not. Yeah, like, we're so thankful when we get those. Like, what was. What was the one that we got a sponsorship, like, the night before release on. On a Summer Games or something? Wasn't it.

[Matt Robbins]

Was that the Bourne Identity?

[Sarah Whittle]

Oh, it was Jason Bourne. Yeah. It was like the night before we went up, it was like we got like Universal came in. That was where everyone saw like the. Oh, my God, it's Jason Bourne. Oh, my God, it's Jason Bourne over and over again. And I get it. And look, it's not a perfect science, but at the end of the day, this thing costs $4 and we don't have $4.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Yeah, without sponsors we'd be like, welcome to Smosh Summer Games. Ian's backyard, which is literally last year.

[Sarah Whittle]

We blew it. We had no money and it was bad.

[Matt Robbins]

Yeah, that was difficult.

[Sarah Whittle]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. And I think this. I think this year did really well. It seems like. Seems like you guys at home enjoyed this one. If you haven't watched all of the videos yet, yet, highly recommend you do it. They're still on YouTube. I suggest you check them out for now. Which. Which. They're still on YouTube. Let's go down. Let's go down the row. Which. Which. Which video was your guys favorite of this year or. Yeah, of. Of this year.

[Sarah Whittle]

Okay.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, I guess I'll just start. I. I would say like, my favorite was probably the. The Smosh Family Feud.

[Mari Takahashi]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, just because. Because I like you guys. You guys told us to prepare for some tea, but y'all brought it. I know we Didn't. We didn't do one. Like, what was the question?

[Keith Leak]

Who two are the most fake? Who have the fake friendship?

[Matt Robbins]

Who have the fakest friendship? So when I pitched this idea, actually, I think I took it from Survivor. I think it's a Survivor game.

[Sarah Whittle]

It's literally a game show called Family Feud.

[Matt Robbins]

No, that's different. They pull a.

[Sarah Whittle]

Okay.

[Matt Robbins]

It's like more like Match Game, but, like, tattling on each other. But it's a Survivor game, I'm pretty sure. So when we were making these questions, we were like, how far should we go? And I had backup questions, but we're like, we should just go for it. Cause we never really go for it. This is a great way for, like, douchebag Damien and, like, Shane to give everyone shit. Like, it really turned out to be exactly what it was. Maybe we do more in the future with other squads on YouTube. That would be really, really cool.

[Sarah Whittle]

I will say, outside of Trash Panda, favorite character that came out of Summer Games was Evil Damien. Hands down, Evil Damian.

[Shane Topp]

Oh, my God.

[Sarah Whittle]

Very likable.

[Damien Haas]

Shane knows him very well. He's been slumbering for a long time, but he'll come back to dark.

[Shane Topp]

Oh, yeah. I know Dark Damien so well. We called him Dark Damien, but he just comes out at very small moments.

[Courtney Miller]

And it's almost like family therapy for us because we can all come out with our stuff. And, like, I mean, sure, a little bit is rooted in truth, but at the same time, like, we all love each other, and we know that, like, whatever we're saying, like, we're not actually saying it out of spite, and we're not trying to, like, start shit. So, I mean. Yeah. Yeah.

[Shane Topp]

And I want to. I want to give props for Joven, because it definitely became a roast Joe in Joan Jones Mavericks. It became a roast on him for the entirety of it.

[Matt Robbins]

And that's the great thing, is that, like, everyone is such a good sport. Like, because that game you could easily take personally and be mad at each other and everything like that. But. But, like, Noah and Keith, after the game, I just remember they were like, holy crap, we've never gone there before. And I was like, guys, it turned out great. And they're like, no, it was so much fun. I think it really takes a lot of confidence in all of you to be able to take that type of thing.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. And I will say that after I called out Olivia for being late, she was on time the next day, so.

[Keith Leak]

We kind of were all sleeping in the same place.

[Ryan Todd]

Also had a very positive Influence on Kimmy's social media.

[Keith Leak]

Yeah, she gained, like, 20,000 or something like that.

[Ryan Todd]

Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

Almost like everyone had something to rally against, to prove wrong so that then they would go to Kimmy's social media and follow her and show her love.

[Matt Robbins]

Are you trying to.

[Courtney Miller]

Are you taking credit for all of her success?

[Shane Topp]

Yeah, you're just being mean.

[Courtney Miller]

Sharp.

[Ryan Todd]

Damien.

[Courtney Miller]

Damien, what was Damian, what was your favorite competition for?

[Damien Haas]

As stressful as it was, it was really fun to play that giant operation. I wish everybody else had an opportunity to do so because it was fun as hell.

[Sarah Whittle]

Now, if you were not the operator and if you were sitting there with the slime on, would it have been your favorite competition?

[Damien Haas]

Absolutely not. We're asking what my favorite is.

[Courtney Miller]

I don't know.

[Keith Leak]

We wondered if you wanted to be the surgeon because you just wouldn't get slimed on.

[Courtney Miller]

Like, did we make it clear in the video that it took Damian literally an hour to do his thing?

[Damien Haas]

An hour, but a long time.

[Keith Leak]

The edit was clean.

[Sarah Whittle]

We had to cut it down. It was. There was a lot. There was a lot.

[Damien Haas]

It was a long time. But, no, I was. I don't mind the slime. And we didn't know about the bees and the hard, drying pain before then, so it was just a matter of, like, I want to play Operation. That was it.

[Keith Leak]

But, yeah, I know it doesn't count as a competition, but watching Toxicity perform for Try not to laugh was incredible. You got Mari. That's. I feel like that's the hardest I've ever laughed on that series. Like, ever was when you were that character.

[Courtney Miller]

Dude, Mari, what the hell?

[Matt Robbins]

Like, that slide is so. Is, like, the coolest thing I've ever seen.

[Keith Leak]

My favorite bit, I think.

[Mari Takahashi]

Yeah, it was weird. I don't know where that voice came from. And when it happened, it was a surprise to me as well.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Got possessed for, like, a second.

[Mari Takahashi]

It, like, came from, like, the bowels and, like, it's happening.

[Courtney Miller]

It was great. I think that was probably one of my favorite try not to laugh bits also. Fucking oops. Ooh. It doesn't matter if I say fuck.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

You're a podcast.

[Sarah Whittle]

Don't you know?

[Courtney Miller]

Joven. Joven. Doing the front flip. I was like, what is. He's not gonna. Oh, my God.

[Keith Leak]

He been practicing or something?

[Courtney Miller]

No, he said he never done it before.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

What?

[Matt Robbins]

Oh, my goodness.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Matt Robbins]

And he chose to do it almost naked.

[Shane Topp]

He did do a kip up, like, successfully. Impressive. Eventually.

[Courtney Miller]

That was impressive.

[Ryan Todd]

I got spit on, which was very enjoyable.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. Lasercorn.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Despite Wes's Overbearing gun. I really liked paintball. I just really like playing paintball in general. It's just fun, and I really get into it, and I got. You know, I was. I think I killed you when I was, like, prone under the. Under the bridge, just. Oh, you mean.

[Courtney Miller]

You mean when you were defending and you weren't supposed to go 10ft from the base, Right. When you were.

[Keith Leak]

This was after Wes stopping.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

This was after Wes had already turned on auto mode, which, by the way, it slipped. I still don't believe that. I think there was, like, an ignition sequence. He's, like, flipping eight switches. But anyway, yeah, after that, I'm just like, whatever. Yeah. So I was on defense, and I killed you guys. And I'm like, move up, attack. Move up, attack. You know, they have two walking back, and I didn't see anyone going up, and I'm just like, fuck it. And I charged up, and I was, like, lighting up your base and stuff. Yeah, I was having a blast.

[Keith Leak]

We were pretty aware, though. Like, we. When. When I saw lasercorn was going forward, I was like, okay, I'll be defense.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, it was great. We had. We had some good duels there, too, because you were. You were always on that side, and. And it was. It was me and quote, unquote, Olivia, Tommy, We. We had Operation Chaos, which is where we just kind of went around the side and just tried to screw with you guys. And, yeah, we had some good duels.

[Keith Leak]

My bruises, dude.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Yeah, I could hear you guys, and there were those, like, shipping containers over there. And I could hear you guys. Your footsteps, like, where are they? Yeah, it was very intense. I actually. We had, like, vests on underneath at first, and I'm like, I don't want to go with the vest. And I took off the vest. And then Noah's like, cut. Cut holes in your nipples again. And I'm like, maybe too far, but no vest. It'll just hit me through the shirt. But, yeah, I just love. I love playing paintball, and I had a good time. Next time, I'm bringing my own gun. See who wins then.

[Damien Haas]

Just a gun.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

I just shoot Wes.

[Matt Robbins]

We're gonna just make you guys do it by throwing the paintballs.

[Courtney Miller]

That's what we're gonna do. Wes is gonna come with a fake arm. That's a paintball gun.

[Keith Leak]

God.

[Matt Robbins]

My favorite video also was Family Feud. Cause I had a lot of fun with you guys. And also spelling bikini wax. I love shooting that video every time. I have so much fun watching you guys all in pain.

[Ryan Todd]

And the Jovan callback.

[Matt Robbins]

And the Jovan callback. Yeah. And everyone was like, didn't everyone know that Joven's bad at spelling? Yes. That's why he was on the show, dude.

[Keith Leak]

Apparently, when he was gonna do that chest wax thing, when he took his shirt off, he wasn't planning to do that. He was planning on just being fully naked for his regular wax, but I was like, oh, he's bringing it back to the chest wax. And Joven was like, yeah, so that was my bad. Oh. And that's what happened. Yeah. Apparently, he wasn't planning to do.

[Matt Robbins]

Yeah, I had no doubt. I had no clue he was gonna do that.

[Ryan Todd]

He just runs on instinct. That's just Joven. Smart.

[Keith Leak]

He's a smart man.

[Ryan Todd]

Yeah.

[Keith Leak]

Joan is very smart.

[Courtney Miller]

Joan. The first person in the history to misspell his own name.

[Keith Leak]

Well.

[Ryan Todd]

Well, probably not, but, yeah.

[Matt Robbins]

The question he had done that on was like, who's the least book smart? Was like, that is a crazy mistake.

[Ryan Todd]

So perfect. My favorite competition that we haven't talked about yet is the cross crossbow shootout. And so obviously, it was very hot when we did it. Ian, that helped you earn the worst fail, which, you know, sucks, but it was a great moment. Also, it was just a personal goal of mine to have Shane lick my armpit. So that was incredible for.

[Shane Topp]

Oh, my gosh, I'm slowly dying.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Yeah.

[Ryan Todd]

So that was a big moment for me, and I really enjoyed that. Also seeing Matt's idea for. For a punishment come to life, which is the tongue drill. What did we call it? The.

[Sarah Whittle]

It was Atomic Wet Willy.

[Ryan Todd]

Atomic Wet Willy, yeah.

[Sarah Whittle]

Which is your other handle.

[Matt Robbins]

He's now obsessed with those fake tongues.

[Ryan Todd]

I love him.

[Sarah Whittle]

You're gonna see him in a couple Smosh Games videos, so buckle up.

[Keith Leak]

Yeah. Before this podcast, he was, like, playing with one. Just having it in his mouth.

[Sarah Whittle]

That's so gross.

[Keith Leak]

I was like, is that edible? He's like, no, it just sticks in his mouth.

[Sarah Whittle]

I mean, I'm old school. My favorite air every year, which is why we bring it back. Every year's belly flop. I love it. It's so much fun. And because you guys won't let me bring back hot peppers or mousetraps is the only thing I can bring back.

[Keith Leak]

I'm down for hot peppers.

[Sarah Whittle]

Okay.

[Mari Takahashi]

I'm down for mouse mousetraps.

[Keith Leak]

Mouse.

[Matt Robbins]

Mouse peppers.

[Sarah Whittle]

Mouse peppers. Belly flop is just great because, I mean, I feel like every year, there's always kind of like. And you guys are actually really good at this, like, finding moments in the video. With 12 people all yelling at the same time. But belly flop is the only competition, I feel like, where everyone gets a showcase. Every single one of you gets a showcase, and you're able to, like, have a moment, and it really plays. And I think every this year, like you said, like, everyone brought it. Every single person brought it. Kimmy, for her first time ever, I feel like her pun was strong. Her flop was strong. Like, she did a really good job. Like, everyone brought it. Joven brought it. You're. You're almost near death. Even Keith. Keith, who last year legitimately phoned it in this year, I think he did a really good job.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, I was. I was legitimately surprised. I think this was our best belly flop.

[Keith Leak]

And those thumbnails, man.

[Ryan Todd]

And even Wes. Even Wes did the. He brought Shane up for a second. He did the faint.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Sarah Whittle]

He almost did the west rap, which I was like, I thought we killed it, but he's a good sport with it, man. That thing. We beat that dead horse back to.

[Courtney Miller]

Life.

[Mari Takahashi]

Just one year. I wish he'd do a rap, and I wish that he had gotten, like, private lessons for a year to get really good at rapping one of these years. My favorite was also paintball. I was lighting up Noah and Keith at one point as two bean poles. And, like, and that was great because they were just fooling around. So. But. And also, this one doesn't count as a competition, but I love the fact that we were able to bring back Mari Craft.

[Ryan Todd]

It was great.

[Sarah Whittle]

It was really so those four episodes were a journey.

[Damien Haas]

Long live Brunhilde.

[Keith Leak]

Mari, your hair. Your hair looks so sick.

[Mari Takahashi]

Oh, right now.

[Keith Leak]

Right now. Dude, I love it. You're doing, like, a warm blue. I love the black and the blue.

[Sarah Whittle]

Yes, 100% on purpose. She spent a lot of money on it.

[Mari Takahashi]

No, I don't know what's going on with it. My hair girl moved to Tennessee, so now it's just doing its own thing.

[Damien Haas]

Fly there.

[Keith Leak]

Fly to Tennessee.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

We had the same dude.

[Keith Leak]

It looks so good.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

We might have to start flying. Yeah, it's been problematic.

[Mari Takahashi]

But anyway, thank you, Courtney.

[Shane Topp]

Yeah, mine was also belly flop. It was really impressive how every single person brought it, but Matt basically said everything that I think on that. So I want to give a shout out to one of my favorite try not to laugh jokes ever, which is now Lasercorn's. Diphtherium medication. That was insane.

[Courtney Miller]

Was it the slide into his DMs.

[Shane Topp]

Which back in my day meant diphtherium medication, which just blew my Mind. And then Courtney also had Boneless, which is probably my favorite joke.

[Damien Haas]

She's like, oh, my God.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, Boneless.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

The sassy leg bit too was also.

[Shane Topp]

I really think those two gauntlets are like two of our best ever made.

[Keith Leak]

It's really fun when we get to get all together for those. I think the last time we all did a try not to laugh together was the Smosh Games. Try not to laugh at Defy, right?

[Ryan Todd]

Yeah.

[Shane Topp]

Oh, man. And then also Tommy had the Jamie Lee Curtis competition. There's not a bad joke in either of them. Even Wes doing his roasting is really, really funny. It was great, man.

[Courtney Miller]

It was awesome, man. I think this wrapping up Smosh Summer Games apocalypse, I'd say just big, Just big win. Overall, I'm happy, I think, with everything.

[Matt Robbins]

I also think, yeah, we talked about with the fan art, but we have to shout out the fan.

[Courtney Miller]

Like, absolutely.

[Matt Robbins]

Obviously we can't do any of this stuff without the fans. And it's like it's so important that the fandom is. And such positivity, such support. Everyone's so glad that we've been able to do this, especially compared to last year. And I really do appreciate the fandoms especially. Cause I'm in social and I see all of them talking all the time. And share, share with your friends. And so you guys have something to geek out about. Because really that's. That's like really what we need to continue to do. That's why we do it.

[Sarah Whittle]

The only reason why we do it. Sitting in the desert for four days at 115 degrees with a naked Ryan Todd is fun and all. We do it for you guys.

[Ryan Todd]

It's the best time ever. And actually the point that that really hit for me was showing the trailer at Vidcon, a huge room full of fans. That moment. I've never played in a band, like live to people, but I have to imagine that that's like a similar feeling. Like seeing everyone so excited and just chill. Like the second Matt announced. You didn't even announce it, you kind of teased it.

[Sarah Whittle]

I was like, oh, we got one more thing I wanna play.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, that roar that happened. Yeah. And then when the video starts and the trailer starts and we walk out of that door and we're like, I'm so excited for summer. People are like, woo. You haven't even heard the joke yet, dude.

[Keith Leak]

I found there was. I was tagged in a video on Instagram that a fan just recorded it from the audio. So it was really cool to listen to that because you can hear what everyone's saying. They're like, this is so fucking sick.

[Matt Robbins]

Just like screaming at like rain freaks. Shut down like so good. Yeah, well, I. You guys were on stage and luckily when we're at Vidcon, we can be a little incognito. So I was in the audience with them and just looking at some of the fans faces and I remember just one girl, her jaw was on the floor, she was standing up and she was like. And then I saw her like an hour later buying both of the team shirts. And I'm like, this is so sweet. And they even cheered when like the refs shot came up on screen. And I was like, oh my God, this is amazing. And so it's like we feel the love. We definitely feel the love always.

[Sarah Whittle]

Yeah.

[Ryan Todd]

So much this year.

[Shane Topp]

It was great.

[Courtney Miller]

So if you haven't yet gone through all the Summer Games videos, get some friends together, root on your favorite team, watch a friend from beginning to end.

[Sarah Whittle]

And if your relative owns a cruise line, tweet at us.

[Keith Leak]

Or an island.

[Sarah Whittle]

Or an island.

[Courtney Miller]

Or an island.

[Sarah Whittle]

Tropical cruise will do it all.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Mari Takahashi]

If your dad fyre fest.

[Courtney Miller]

If your dad owns Hawaii, hit us up.

[Sarah Whittle]

If your dad is Johan, Hawaii, the owner of Hawaii.

[Courtney Miller]

But again, thank you guys so much for coming on this podcast. Thank you guys for watching. We're gonna leave some links for Smosh Summer Games in this video on YouTube. And if you're listening to this on the podcast and you're driving your car right now, listening. Pull over right now. Watch all of Smosh Summer Games Apocalypse 6 hours. Thank you guys so much. This has been an honor and a pleasure, and I'll never forget it for the rest of my life.

[Damien Haas]

Are you quitting?

[Courtney Miller]

Yep. Bye.

[Keith Leak]

Love you.

[Matt Robbins]

Bye.

[Lasercorn (Ian Hecox)]

Am.