S1: #41 - Smosh: 2005 vs. 2019

Summary

Podcast Summary: Smosh Mouth – S1: #41 - Smosh: 2005 vs. 2019

Release Date: November 27, 2019
Hosts: Shayne Topp (Short), Amanda Lehan-Canto (Tall), and rotating Smosh friends
Description: Join Shayne, Amanda, and guests as they delve into their thoughts, internet discoveries, and quirky ideas.

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Introduction

In the forty-first episode of Smosh Mouth, titled "Smosh: 2005 vs. 2019," the hosts reflect on their incredible 14-year journey with Smosh. The conversation spans personal anecdotes, the evolution of Smosh Games, social media trends, movie discussions, and humorous takes on Elon Musk’s Cybertruck announcement. The episode is a nostalgic yet forward-looking celebration of Smosh’s enduring presence on YouTube.

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Evolution of Smosh Games

Matt Rob shares his experiences joining Smosh Games approximately six years prior to the episode's release. He reminisces about the chaotic early days when content production lacked structure, leading to burnout and a hectic workflow.

[00:26] Matt Rob: "Games is the one where we, like, got to actually go out and do crazy shit and get in stunt planes and go to Egypt and go to drive race cars in the French Alps. Like, there's so many weird, crazy things that we've done that I'm like, this is insane."

As Matt Rob took on the role of VP of Unscripted, he spearheaded the creation of Summer Games, bringing cohesion and infrastructure to the team. This shift allowed for more organized and high-quality content production.

[12:28] Matt Rob: "She [Mari] came down once a month from SF... it was us making content and chasing our tail and editing videos up until like locking videos at like 8:00 am the morning of."

Tommy Bo discusses his transition from a freelancer to a more integral part of the team, handling social media and meme creation. His efforts contributed significantly to the community engagement and visual branding of Smosh Games.

[13:01] Tommy Bo: "I started doing memes for the... basically making custom memes depending on what was trending in the games world."

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Personal Growth and Experiences

The hosts delve into their personal journeys, particularly focusing on physical changes and self-acceptance over the years.

[02:05] Tommy Bo: "It was just like this forever journey into being. Like, oh, okay. Now I'm like, fine with how I look and I enjoy it."

Ian Hecox reflects on his youth, sharing a humorous account of how his tweet about Elon Musk’s Cybertruck went viral, comparing it to his childhood drawings.

[24:50] Ian Hecox: "I tweeted that. I just said, finally, my boy Elon Musk made the car I always drew when I was 5 because that's legit what it looks like."

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Social Media and Internet Trends

The conversation shifts to the role of social media, particularly Twitter, in shaping their public interactions and content:

[37:46] Ian Hecox: "They're like, uh. And I'm like, it's just. Don't. If you don't like it, then why are you making such a big fuss about it? So you know that's why Twitter exists."

They discuss the transformation of Twitter from a platform for personal expression to a joke factory, emphasizing the evolving nature of online communities.

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Movie Discussions

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to discussing various movies, highlighting differing opinions on critically acclaimed films.

Matt Rob expresses his thoughts on "Crash", critiquing its depth and character development, despite its Best Picture win.

[39:12] Ian Hecox: "Crash was... like these characters that were like very one-dimensional, just being like, I'm the racist guy."

Conversely, they praise films like "Parasite" and "Brokeback Mountain" for their impactful storytelling and emotional depth.

[05:16] Matt Rob: "Parasite, it's all right. It's okay."

[40:50] Tommy Bo: "Brokeback Mountain. That movie did some shit to me. I was like, yeah, like a little half-closeted kid. I was like, do that."

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Elon Musk’s Cybertruck: A Humorous Take

The hosts engage in a playful critique of Elon Musk’s Cybertruck, blending genuine interest with comedic skepticism.

[29:35] Matt Rob: "They're totally gonna use a. The Cybertruck 100%."

[33:21] Ian Hecox: "There’s rumors that he was going to be making a pickup truck for years. And it's like we've all seen what all pickup trucks look like. They all look like the same goddamn thing."

They humorously speculate on the Cybertruck’s practical applications and exaggerated features, reflecting their characteristic mix of humor and genuine curiosity.

[37:09] Matt Rob: "Cybertruck 2020. That's dope."

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Reflecting on 14 Years with Smosh

As the episode draws to a close, the hosts share their favorite moments and milestones from their time with Smosh, highlighting events like "Summer Games Camp" and adventures in Egypt.

[41:27] Tommy Bo: "Doing the Girls or Gross remix just for the hell of it and then being able to post it. That was freaking great."

Matt Rob recounts their surreal trip to Egypt for the "Operation Open World" series, emphasizing the unique and unforgettable experiences it provided.

[43:15] Matt Rob: "We literally went inside of a pyramid and just, like, hung out... It was very weird. But I think that's probably one of the coolest, most surreal things I've done in six years."

They also touch upon the challenges of maintaining consistency in content production over such a long period.

[23:46] Matt Rob: "Turning 15 minutes of fame into 14 years. What can I say?"

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Memes and Nostalgia

In a light-hearted segment, Tommy Bo shares old photos and memes, reflecting on their growth over the years. This nostalgic look serves as a humorous reminder of their early days.

[46:43] Tommy Bo: "I went to a theater middle... I was in Flowers for Algernon... I was one of the doctors."

His transformation from a theater kid to a meme maestro encapsulates the personal growth alongside Smosh’s evolution.

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Conclusion

The episode wraps up with anticipatory remarks about future projects and ongoing community engagement. The hosts express gratitude toward their listeners and hint at upcoming content that continues to flip conventional ideas on their heads.

[51:59] Ian Hecox: "Thank you guys so much for watching. Thank you, Matt and Tommy Bones, for coming on this episode. It's been a weird one, but when is it not true? Thank you and I love you."

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• [00:26] Matt Rob: "Games is the one where we... this is insane."
• [02:05] Tommy Bo: "It was just like this forever journey into being."
• [24:50] Ian Hecox: "I tweeted that. I just said, finally, my boy Elon Musk made the car I always drew when I was 5..."
• [39:12] Ian Hecox: "Crash was... these characters that were like very one-dimensional."
• [37:46] Ian Hecox: "If you don't like it, then why are you making such a big fuss about it?"
• [43:15] Matt Rob: "We literally went inside of a pyramid..."
• [51:59] Ian Hecox: "Thank you guys so much for watching..."

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Final Thoughts

"Smosh: 2005 vs. 2019" serves as a heartfelt and humorous reflection on Smosh’s long-standing legacy. The episode effectively balances nostalgia with contemporary topics, offering listeners both laughs and meaningful insights into the creators' journey. From chaotic content creation to embracing new trends and technologies, Shayne, Amanda, and their friends provide an engaging narrative of growth, resilience, and unabashed fun.

Transcript

[Ian Hecox]

Ramble. Finally, my boy Elon Musk made the car I always drew when I was 5, because that's legit what it looks like.

[Tommy Bo]

I agree 100%.

[Matt Rob]

Games is the one where we, like, got to actually go out and do crazy shit and get in stunt planes and go to Egypt and go to drive race cars in the French Alps. Like, there's so many weird, crazy things that we've done that I'm like, this is insane.

[Tommy Bo]

It was the most gradual shift. It's not like I just was like.

[Ian Hecox]

And now I'm this.

[Tommy Bo]

It was just like this forever journey into being. Like, oh, okay. Now I'm like, fine with how I look and I enjoy it.

[Ian Hecox]

All right, everybody, let's all do the circle. And they're just like, what? And they're like, what? You never done the pie circle before?

[Matt Rob]

Isn't that just gaslighting? Yeah, it's literally just gaslighting.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, sick.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

This is all an illusion. There is a gas leak.

[Matt Rob]

That's gas leaking. It's separate gas leaking.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, that weird, like, throat singing thing.

[Matt Rob]

That cell phones are on and loud. Yes. This microphone smells like burps.

[Ian Hecox]

Hey, everyone. Welcome to the smoshcast. Today I am Ian, by the way.

[Tommy Bo]

Today you're Ian.

[Ian Hecox]

Today I am Ian. Tomorrow, who knows? Who knows? And today I'm joined by. Who am I joined by?

[Matt Rob]

Me.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay. They can't see your people that are listening.

[Matt Rob]

Okay. All right. Hey, it's me, Matt Rob. Hi, guys.

[Ian Hecox]

What do you do? What do you do at Smosh, Matt?

[Matt Rob]

I. I do. I'm the VP of Unscripted here at Smosh. Woo woo woo, woo, woo woo. I do the games. I do voices. And that's it.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Matt Rob]

No, you know, for those of you who don't know me, you can see me on the Games Channel. I do a lot of stuff over there. I've been with the brand for many years. I like long walks on the beach. Is that it?

[Ian Hecox]

Yep. Great.

[Tommy Bo]

That's it.

[Ian Hecox]

And the other person I'm joined by today is.

[Tommy Bo]

Oh, yeah, okay. It's me, Tommy Bo. Hello.

[Matt Rob]

He forgot your name again.

[Ian Hecox]

Damn. Tommy Bo is our memester, I guess you could say.

[Tommy Bo]

Yeah, Social media editor slash poster. Sometimes slash talent, sometimes slash garbage creator. One time I ate a bunch of snacks and then Olivia walked in and looked at my trash can and goes, someone likes to snack. And I'll never forget it.

[Ian Hecox]

Whoa. See, that's the thing about Olivia. Like, she is the sweetest person. It was a wake up call that ever did live. And then Sometimes she could just throw a little dagger that just cuts deep.

[Tommy Bo]

It started a good health journey that I needed. So I'm actually in debt to her.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, yeah.

[Matt Rob]

Wow. It worked.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. She's like Arya Stark. She's got needle.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Very small, but it just pierces.

[Tommy Bo]

Yes.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. Today we're celebrating 14 heckin years.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah. We are.

[Ian Hecox]

Of Smosh being around and me spending almost half of my life doing YouTube. I guess. Cause. Yeah. I mean. Yeah. A few more years, I'll be able to say half my. Is that how it works?

[Matt Rob]

Half of your life? Yeah. It'll catch up to you. Half of your life will be when.

[Tommy Bo]

You finally turn 28.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah. Dang it.

[Ian Hecox]

When is that gonna happen? Yeah. I mean, I'm so glad that I'm 24 still.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Everyone is just a young, spry 24 year old.

[Matt Rob]

As he coughs in the microphone.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, my hair just falls out.

[Matt Rob]

His coughs are coming out.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, yeah. You guys worried about hair loss at all?

[Tommy Bo]

Yeah, no, I had a moment earlier this year. Cause like my hair's super thin. It's a little baby little.

[Matt Rob]

Oh, same.

[Tommy Bo]

Yeah. No, and so as soon as it gets greasy, it likes to clump up. And then I can just see all of my scalp. So I had longer hair. Longisher. Ha. And then I just like, you know, didn't shower a day or two. And then I was like, oh, the back of my head is like fully bald. So I was like, I have to discover if I'm going bald. And I just shaved all my hair off. Like, I didn't shave it off, but I like buzzed it. Cause I was like, I just need to. It's like, if it's happening, I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna be short haired. And then as soon as I did, I was like, nah, I'm fine.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. There's one light in my house that beams directly down.

[Tommy Bo]

Oh, no.

[Ian Hecox]

From the top. I figured out that's the worst light to have if you have like a hairstyle where your hair is like upwards because then the light shines down and you can just see your scalp as far back as possible. And you're like, oh, God. I feel like. Yeah, I mean, like, I've definitely. I've definitely lost a lot of hair, but I feel like at some point just kind of stopped. It was like toot, toot. Male pattern baldness train coming through. And then it just like kind of just like stopped midway. And I don't know. I don't know what that was.

[Matt Rob]

Sometimes it just Stops also science. You just take pills and stuff and it'll stop it.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Matt Rob]

Don't use the massage Y stuff. What is it? It's called a masseuse. Don't use a masseuse ever. Your hair will fall out. No, the Rogaine stuff. But whatever the chemical is in Rogaine. I was told if you use Rogaine, you have to use it for the rest of your life.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, it works. Yeah, that's the thing.

[Tommy Bo]

Dependent on it.

[Ian Hecox]

It does work, but the moment you stop using it, everything falls out. Then it's like your hair's like. All right, peace.

[Matt Rob]

It's that scene in the craft, just all clumps out of your hair. Yeah, no, it's never good. It's never good.

[Ian Hecox]

We haven't seen that.

[Matt Rob]

Oh, come on. I can't make my references around you.

[Ian Hecox]

You kill me because you just watch bad movies.

[Matt Rob]

Wow. All right. Parasite.

[Ian Hecox]

Parasites.

[Tommy Bo]

Great.

[Matt Rob]

It's all right. It's okay.

[Ian Hecox]

See, this is the weird thing in that route. I don't trust any of his movie opinions. Well, no, not all of.

[Matt Rob]

No, not every hot Tucker proxy you just watched recently. You said you love this. One of my top five. Yeah, there are movies that I like.

[Ian Hecox]

That's true. That's true. I feel like.

[Tommy Bo]

Fight.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah, Fight. Yeah, we should also fight.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah. Yeah. You know what?

[Tommy Bo]

Let's fight.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, I'm okay with that.

[Matt Rob]

You like over hyped movies. That's your whole bag.

[Ian Hecox]

That's not true.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah, it is. It is. You like movies that, like, everybody loves and is, like, the greatest movie ever made.

[Ian Hecox]

Excuse me, motherfucker, but.

[Matt Rob]

Whoa, whoa. We're doing it, all right?

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, God. Look, I was hyped. I was hyped on Parasite before. People were hyped on that shit. I've been following that director for years, and I've been pimping out his name for. For years.

[Matt Rob]

What's his name?

[Ian Hecox]

All right. Bong Joon Ho, bitch.

[Matt Rob]

Wow, he got it right.

[Tommy Bo]

Good test.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah, no, he did it. All right, that's fine. That's fine. Look, I enjoyed it. It was fine. I just feel like it was a little overhyped. It was like Crash.

[Ian Hecox]

I mean, that is. Oh, my. Crash is a bad movie. Well, okay, but when I saw Crash, I was like. I was like, wow, bro, this is deep.

[Tommy Bo]

Exactly.

[Matt Rob]

See, you're that guy. You're that guy who's like. Everyone says this movie's amazing, so I really gotta love this movie.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, No, I didn't see it when it came out, and I Didn't really know anything about it. I think we watched it in our skin screenwriting class or something.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah, it sounds about right.

[Ian Hecox]

And our. Our screenwriting teacher, I think, hated that movie.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

But I think he was also just. I don't know, like, sometimes it came off as, like, a little bit bitter. Oh. Because I know he would always. He, like. I remember him, like, shitting on, like, Nicholas Sparks, the guy that wrote the Notebook. Walk to remember. I think when you're. When you're a writer and, I don't know, I feel like it's. It's hard to not feel a little jaded when you see something that you don't think is good that becomes massively successful.

[Matt Rob]

Could we fact check that affinity?

[Tommy Bo]

Thoughts?

[Ian Hecox]

I remember Crash, like, being like. When I first. I was like, wow, this is, like, really emotional.

[Matt Rob]

Exactly.

[Ian Hecox]

And then I'm pretty sure you said.

[Matt Rob]

The exact same thing about Parasite. You're like, so great.

[Ian Hecox]

Parasite's an incredible movie.

[Tommy Bo]

I agree.

[Matt Rob]

It's fine. It's fine.

[Tommy Bo]

I got over hyped because I said, because. Okay, so you were like, who wants to go see Parasite? And I was like. And I was one of the people who were like, yeah, maybe. And then that, like. Like a week or two later, I was like, you know, they brought that up. I didn't anything about it.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah, yeah.

[Tommy Bo]

And I went to go see it, and I was stunned. But after that, everyone's like. They're like, so it's a horror movie? And I'm like, no, it's not. I don't know.

[Matt Rob]

It's about bug people.

[Tommy Bo]

It's about.

[Ian Hecox]

It's really weird. Yeah. For some reason, I guess it's just the title. Like, everyone assumes it's a horror movie, right?

[Tommy Bo]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Well, I guess it's also just like. They're like, oh, it's like this, like, Asian movie. And, like, I feel like. No, but, like, I feel like most people, like, the only, like, Asian movies that they hear about are like, the, like, the Ring, like, like scary movies. Like the Raid. Yeah, yeah.

[Matt Rob]

This is basically the rain.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Matt Rob]

See, Parasite, it's basically the Raid.

[Ian Hecox]

It's basically the Raid, but, like, upside down.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

I don't know how we got on the subject.

[Matt Rob]

But you like bad movies?

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, yes.

[Matt Rob]

For the past 14 years, you've liked bad movies.

[Ian Hecox]

Just for the point that I. That I created Smosh.

[Matt Rob]

Yes. With it was.

[Tommy Bo]

That was the intention.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, that's true. That's true. Yeah, I know, man. 14 years. It's crazy. It's been quite a Ride this year has. Has especially been very interesting, like, how does it feel for you guys? Because, I mean, Matt, you. You joined on to Smosh like what, like six years ago?

[Matt Rob]

Yeah, yeah, about six years ago in the. The. The golden era of defy, when things were booming and we were just burning money on making shows that didn't end badly at all. And it was. It was crazy because literally it was just. At the time it was. There was no editing team, there was no producer for Smosh games. There was no nothing. It was Jovan Lasercorn. So hinky. And sometimes Mari, because she come. She came down once a month from sf.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, that's right. She didn't live in la.

[Matt Rob]

She didn't live in la. And it was just kind of like, oh, yeah, I guess I'll meet Mari eventually. And it was just us making content and chasing our tail and editing videos up until like locking videos at like 8:00am the morning of.

[Tommy Bo]

Oh, wow.

[Matt Rob]

It was a. It was a nightmare. It was a lot.

[Ian Hecox]

Smosh games was pretty aimless before you came on. There was nobody that we really had that was really sort of like taking the reins because it was like Anthony and I had our hands full with like regular Smosh stuff. So it's like we could contribute to Smosh games, but we couldn't really like run the day to day.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah, because you guys were also not living in LA at the time.

[Ian Hecox]

No.

[Matt Rob]

So you guys would come down once a month and we would shoot like seven game bangs in a day?

[Ian Hecox]

Well, no, they would come down to Sacramento. They come up to Sacramento right when.

[Matt Rob]

By the time I joined, you guys were coming down. Yeah, you guys were coming down. We're shooting in that really sweaty room.

[Tommy Bo]

God, wouldn't you get burnt out from doing that many shoots in a day?

[Matt Rob]

It's crazy that we think about it now when we're like, man, we can't do more than three. And it's like we used to do seven. And it.

[Ian Hecox]

Honestly, it was terrible.

[Matt Rob]

It was. It was a lot. But I don't remember the burnout factor being that bad.

[Ian Hecox]

Like doing like, I remember doing six game bangs. This is going to get flagged. Yeah.

[Matt Rob]

In 2013, we did six or seven game bangs in a day and it was great.

[Ian Hecox]

I do have to say, like, when we launched and by the way, we were saying game bang. For anyone that doesn't. Doesn't know that the old Smosh games.

[Matt Rob]

Show, I think they know, but it's.

[Ian Hecox]

Like we came out the frickin most fire names for all of our shows, we had Smosh Action games, News entertainment.

[Matt Rob]

Today.

[Ian Hecox]

No, Update.

[Matt Rob]

Update Today.

[Ian Hecox]

Today. So that the abbreviation. The acronym was Sagnut. There was.

[Matt Rob]

That's a lasercorn, baby.

[Tommy Bo]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Was.

[Tommy Bo]

It sounds. Yeah.

[Matt Rob]

We had why We're Single, which was just a green screen talking head show. We had top five, because that was back when the Internet cared about top five lists.

[Ian Hecox]

I have a raging bonus.

[Matt Rob]

I have a raging bonus, which is just our whatever nonsense Sunday video.

[Ian Hecox]

It was a bonus kind of episode.

[Matt Rob]

You had game time with Smosh, which is just you and Anthony playing games.

[Ian Hecox]

Boss fight.

[Matt Rob]

Boss fight. Yeah, Boss fight Friday. Which I don't really remember what that was.

[Ian Hecox]

That was just. They just fought a boss every Friday.

[Matt Rob]

Cool.

[Ian Hecox]

That was like, they. They would play a random game. Oh, oh. And Dope or Nope?

[Matt Rob]

Dope or Nope? That's right. We had a little show called Dope or Nope?

[Ian Hecox]

Which I feel like there's been multiple channels that have used that name since. It's like. Okay. It's, like, not the most, like, original name.

[Matt Rob]

No. We're the first ones to rhyme. In the history of the Internet, we're the first ones to rhyme.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Matt Rob]

But, I mean, it was. It was chaos. It really was. Like, we had literally no editor. There was no Spencer. There was two other editors that were burnt out. They hated it. There were three guys coming up with ideas that were us shooting bulk stuff and just kind of churning stuff out. But it was also. It was after the time, because when Smosh Games launched, it was 14 uploads a week.

[Tommy Bo]

God.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Matt Rob]

14. By the time I came along, it was seven.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. And I was like, still. Because Defy was like, more videos equals more money. Right?

[Matt Rob]

Yeah.

[Tommy Bo]

You know?

[Matt Rob]

Yeah.

[Tommy Bo]

Unicycles.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah, exactly. Look at all the money. It was. It was a nightmare. It really was in every video. But at the time, because it was so fresh and so new, all those videos are doing well.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Matt Rob]

So they're like, well, we can't not do this anymore. I then came on, and then I hired a producer, and then we, like, actually started to build an infrastructure, and then Joe Barrett and I created Summer Games because that was when the squad came along, and it was. It became a little more cohesive, and then.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, we've just been kind of trucking ever since.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

On Smosh Games.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah, man.

[Ian Hecox]

What about you, Tommy? Because they. Because you were hired on as like. Like a social kind of like.

[Tommy Bo]

Yeah. So I was. I was a freelancer. Permal. I was. I was in the Defy. The beautiful Defy loophole. Of permalancer.

[Ian Hecox]

Yes. An illegal loophole, mind you. Very super illegal.

[Tommy Bo]

It's chill. I still got crap health insurance. Yeah, no, I got hired on. I don't. What was the title? I have to, like, churn my brain. Associate social producer. Very, very niche title. But, yeah, I basically worked with Marisa, and at the beginning, I was just like. We were making. Cause Facebook just had this setup thing where it's just like, you know, give us a minute video, and we'll give you some money. And so we would just, like, pump out these things of, like, trending and all that stuff. And so smosh games on Facebook was just kind of like this gaming update culture page for a while.

[Matt Rob]

Hodgepodge.

[Tommy Bo]

It was hodgepodge.

[Matt Rob]

It was so much content. Cause you were making way more than 14 pieces of content a week. Like you were doing.

[Tommy Bo]

Oh, we were doing, like, two or three a day.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah.

[Tommy Bo]

Like, at minimum.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Tommy Bo]

So, yeah, it was crazy. But Facebook, my job changed, like, eight times because Facebook continually changed eight times. So it just became like, okay, now what? Now what do we make Tommy do?

[Matt Rob]

Yeah.

[Tommy Bo]

So I went from just, like, writing stuff and sending it to, like, one of the editors, and they just, like, put it together, and I'm like, looks good. To basically, like, uploading some stuff. We did our streams, which I miss. Hey, that was my start.

[Ian Hecox]

That's right.

[Tommy Bo]

We had our daily gaming streams. That's where I, like, got to know all the games crew really well.

[Matt Rob]

Yep. Yep.

[Tommy Bo]

That was so much fun and bizarre and fun.

[Matt Rob]

But at the time, we hated it.

[Ian Hecox]

We hated it.

[Tommy Bo]

Looking back, I'm like, yeah, it's pretty cool.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah, it was pretty cool. But, like, it's one of those things. We're like, yeah. Why would anyone hate streamers? It's so easy. Just play video games, like, every day. And it's like, every single day, we're like. We had to stop everything, Stop literally everything for, like, two to three hours and just stream and sit and it was a lot.

[Tommy Bo]

It was a lot.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah.

[Tommy Bo]

But it was cool. I got to meet a lot of the fans that way. Just through, like, the. The mod chat or whatever. Yeah. And so I did that and then got my. Got my meme start by to meme Jesus.

[Matt Rob]

That was.

[Ian Hecox]

Mises for those listening. He just gave a really offensive salute up into the clouds.

[Matt Rob]

No, it wasn't offensive. It was to meme Jesus.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, it was the meme salute.

[Tommy Bo]

Thank you so much for recognizing the meme.

[Ian Hecox]

There was, like, two hands to the chest, and then the peace sign up. Top.

[Tommy Bo]

Yeah.

[Matt Rob]

But, like, like, only offensive to boomers.

[Ian Hecox]

Ha ha. I haven't heard that before.

[Tommy Bo]

I have ears for the first time today. Yeah. So I started doing memes for the. Well, basically it was just like, here, do the Instagram for Smosh games. And I was like, okay. So I just started, like, making custom memes depending on what was trending in the games world. And that was super fun. And I got to, like, learn how to use Photoshop really well. And just like. I don't know. I like, all of the. All of my, like, little nuggets of talent came from just being, like, I don't know, Tommy, do something today. And that was. Yeah. And now it's totally different in another cool way.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. Cause I feel like when. When you came on, like, I didn't even know what exactly you did there. I didn't even, like, really, like, know you.

[Tommy Bo]

Oh, yeah.

[Matt Rob]

At all.

[Ian Hecox]

For, like, the first. At all year. I just, like. Because you would. You would be, like, in a cubicle and you would. You'd actually be sitting, like, right by where, like, our writer room was, which is where at that time. That's where I was most of the time. But I was just like. I didn't really, really, really know what you did because Defy would occasionally just kind of, like, cycle people through with, like, different jobs. I was just like, oh, it's just, like, guy just, like, doing a thing.

[Tommy Bo]

That's about right.

[Ian Hecox]

So I apologize that I didn't get to know you.

[Matt Rob]

Fine.

[Tommy Bo]

No, I was tucked, like, in a corner.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Tommy Bo]

I was like. I was, like, buried in a computer or locked in the stream room. So it just, like. I also. I also, like, in my, like, life was very much, like, at that time.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Tommy Bo]

So. Yeah. So it's fine. But that's how. By sitting by the writer's room is how I met Finnerty. We got to, like, chat and stuff.

[Ian Hecox]

So it was cool.

[Tommy Bo]

And Monica.

[Matt Rob]

But I mean, like, honestly, it's interesting that you say that you were, like, kind of thrown around and all these different things, and now you're, like, on camera a lot more. Like, it's a testament to what. How we do what we do. It really is. Because it's like, it really shows. Like, you. You have such an amazing voice and such awesome talent at all the things we've thrown you at. So we keep giving you more things. Hoping you'll fail. No, we keep giving you more things. We gotta break them. But, I mean, that's really what it is. Like, honestly, every single one of Us, like, that has been here for a while. Like, the reason why we're here is because we're like, oh, well, they're really good at this. Let's do more. You know what I mean? Like, Sarah started off as an associate producer on Pitt, and it was like, oh, my God. She actually really likes this, and she's really good at it and does a lot more. And, like, that's really kind of what we've done. And it's kind of this, like. It's this machine that we've created of, like, people. It's almost like a talent factory of, like, these people that, like, start really small and, like, grow. Grow their way up. We've been. Garrett, perfect example. Garrett was a pa. Literally a pa. He was a PA for me on games, working under one of my, at the time, associate producers. And he was just this nervous pa, and he was. He was very diligent, and he did a really good job. And he worked his way up to ap, and then he worked his way up to producer, and now he's production manager, and, like, he's great. And that's the thing. It's like, we really. We take these people and that are really, really talented, and just. We just keep wanting to just break them every single day.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, that's the goal.

[Tommy Bo]

Baseball Bat Fridays are usually. Usually breaking.

[Matt Rob]

I love baseball bat Fridays.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. You know, it is Friday right now.

[Matt Rob]

What, guys? Kevin, get the baseball.

[Ian Hecox]

Get the bats. Get the bats. It's time to bat the new guy. We should just. The next time we hire on a new person, we should just make them. We should just make them think there's some kind of, like, really strange ritual that happens at a certain time called hazing.

[Matt Rob]

I don't think it's okay.

[Ian Hecox]

But is it, though? No, but. But we'll be like, but we'll make it not something, like, scary, like, we're not going to beat them. But I'm saying, like, if, like, we're suddenly, like, we just all pull out a pie and put it on our head. We're like, all right, everybody, let's all do the circle. And they're just like, what? And they're like, what? You've never done the pie circle before?

[Matt Rob]

Isn't that just gaslighting? Yeah, it's literally just gaslighting. You just defined gaslighting.

[Tommy Bo]

It's another form of hazing.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, sick.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah.

[Tommy Bo]

Gaslighting would be like, we don't have pies on our heads.

[Ian Hecox]

You're crazy. And we're like, this is all an Illusion. There is a gas leak.

[Matt Rob]

That's gas leaking. It's separate gas leaking. Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, that's what we'll call it. Yeah. We're not gaslighting. We're gas leaking.

[Matt Rob]

We're gas leaking. It's just a little bit of a leak. It's fine.

[Tommy Bo]

Got lost for a second.

[Ian Hecox]

I did my brain.

[Matt Rob]

One of those micronauts. How about you? How do you think it's evolved over the last 14 years from just two young boys in the basement?

[Ian Hecox]

It's funny because I feel like there's a lot of people that. There's a lot of people that were from that era at the beginning of YouTube that look back on that time being like, oh, it's way better. And there's like, community. And like, now there's like. And it's like, it hasn't. I don't think it's gotten better and I don't think it's gotten worse. Like, this was just the. The sort of, like, natural direction it was going to go. As it get as. As things get bigger, it stops becoming a community, or at least not a tight one. Yeah.

[Matt Rob]

Still a community. There are just several communities now.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, for sure.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah. There are like six or seven smosh communities. There's different communities. It's just. There's not one cohesive community.

[Ian Hecox]

Right. It's not like a YouTuber community. It's like. It's like, oh, you have like the beauty guru community.

[Matt Rob]

It's not you and Fred and Michael Buckley sitting in a room being like, man, we made videos this week. It's a different group now.

[Ian Hecox]

Which, yeah, that did happen, actually. No, not Fred. I never. I talked with Lucas a couple times, but never. He was never. He never went to, like, any of, like, the big gatherings because I think people probably just hated on him a lot or. I don't know, like, I feel like.

[Matt Rob]

Well, I mean, it was. It was part of that era where he wasn't really a personality, he was a character.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Matt Rob]

So he wasn't really able to be himself. Like, you guys were yourselves from the get go. You did characters, but you guys were Ian and Anthony. Yeah, he was. I mean, Fred isn't even his name. It was a character he did. It was Lucas. And that's why even, like, later on in life, he didn't even know who the hell he was because he's like, am I Fred? You're not Fred.

[Ian Hecox]

What's funny, because he came because, like. Because he came. So Fred was a character that. That he, like, created in this. In this YouTube group called JKL Productions or something like that. And so it was like him and his, like two cousins and they had this channel and he did. Fred is like one of the. One of like the series inside it. Then Fred got like, way bigger than the other videos and then he's like, all right, peace. And then started his own channel. And then obviously, like, Fred became the biggest, the most subscribed channel for. For a good while. For those that don't know Fred, it was this high pitched, screaming kid.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

It's really, it's really fascinating to go and watch and be like, this was the most popular thing on YouTube.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah. And John Cena is canonically his father in the Fred universe. John Cena is his father.

[Tommy Bo]

Wow. It's true.

[Matt Rob]

Before he was even a meme, just when he was like a popular wrestler, Fred started.

[Ian Hecox]

I think Fred. I think Fred made Cena a meme.

[Matt Rob]

Fred created John Cena.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Matt Rob]

There's your clip. That's great.

[Ian Hecox]

It was so. It was so different and I feel like I don't. I don't look back at any specific time on YouTube and be like, oh, that was the best time.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Like, I. And also I feel like we. We don't ever, like, really get a chance to just kind of like stop everything and then think about what we've done. It's just like, it's just a never ending kind of thing. Like, I was talking about it with. With someone yesterday on our shoot and. And she was like, oh, how long have you been making these? Making videos?

[Matt Rob]

I was like, well, Courtney, you know how long I've been making videos.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, it was Courtney. She. She.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah, she forgets.

[Ian Hecox]

She hit her head.

[Tommy Bo]

We have those videotapes for her to watch.

[Ian Hecox]

Well, it was, it was the Bat Friday.

[Matt Rob]

Oh, you just got a jump start on Bad Friday. Got it.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. It was a little too exciting.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah, that's fair.

[Ian Hecox]

But I was explaining that, like, we've been. We've been making a video every single week for probably since. Because at the beginning, we. There was no, There was no mandate to, you know, be consistent with your content. So it was like we go like three weeks without making a video, but by maybe 2008, maybe 2008, 2009, you know, everyone started realizing, like, oh, you have to, like, consistently upload and like, make a schedule because then people know when to watch. Come back and watch your stuff. And then at that point, we never missed a week for. I mean, like, we might have gone like maybe a year or two ago. We, like, skipped A week. Once, maybe. But it's like we've been consistently making content. It's like if Saturday Night Live never had a season break and just continued to go on forever and ever and ever and ever.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah. Keenan would still be there.

[Ian Hecox]

I feel like for me, it's just always been just kind of like looking forward, never really looking back, except to make nostalgia memes about. About myself having bredhead. It's been a wild ride. I don't know why we brought this up. Oh, 14 years. Yeah.

[Tommy Bo]

Oh, right, right.

[Matt Rob]

Oh, yeah. Oh, I'm on a podcast.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Tommy Bo]

Ian, wake up.

[Matt Rob]

Is this where the flashback montage comes in?

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Probably wondering how I got here. Well, me too.

[Matt Rob]

Where am I?

[Ian Hecox]

What's my name? Are you my mommy? Bat Fridays, this Sunday on abc.

[Matt Rob]

It was like a misstep. They should have aired it on Fridays.

[Tommy Bo]

Yeah. As well. Look, it's. They're booked on Fridays.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah, I guess so. Yeah, they got Blackish all day, every day. It's the Blackish marathon.

[Ian Hecox]

I had a tweet blow up.

[Tommy Bo]

Oh, wow.

[Ian Hecox]

Yesterday.

[Tommy Bo]

Tell us about it.

[Ian Hecox]

I don't. My. My tweet game is real weak, guys. It's like my Twitter. I pretty much just. Just make tweets for myself. Mm.

[Matt Rob]

Because you should be making it for.

[Ian Hecox]

I apparently don't understand what. What trends on. On Twitter because I just. I can't for the life of me ever to get like a sort of like, viral tweet. But yesterday, Elon Musk announced the Tesla cybertruck cyber truck, which is sort of like a triangle, I would say, so it's like stainless steel triangle truck. I. I tweeted that. I just said, finally, my boy, Elon Musk made the car. I always drew when I was 5 because that's legit what it looks like.

[Tommy Bo]

I agree 100%.

[Ian Hecox]

Like, the wheel, like, the wheelbase is super long, and like, it's literally like, shaped like a triangle. It's incredible.

[Matt Rob]

It's weird cuz I'm like, on paper, it's super stupid.

[Tommy Bo]

Oh, yeah.

[Matt Rob]

But I'm really fucking into it.

[Ian Hecox]

It was really weird because last night I was watching the documentary on John DeLorean, who's the guy that created the Back to the future car, the DeLorean. It's Doc Brown, but that's fine. Yeah, yeah, sure. That guy, he wasn't necessarily, like a genius when it came to cars, but he was a genius marketer, right? Like, he's essentially the guy that created this sort of like, muscle car era. Like, he was like, oh, what if we Just take this smaller car. Because he worked at gm and he's like, what if we take this, like, smaller car? He was. He was at the Pontiac division, which was kind of like an old person brand. And he's like, let's put the biggest engine in that. And GM was like, no, that's not safe to put the big engine. We're against that. And he's like, oh, no, no. It'll just be an options package. And they're like, okay, fine. But they're like, we're not gonna like, offer more than like, 5,000.

[Matt Rob]

Totally.

[Ian Hecox]

And so he put it out as an option. Whatever. They advertised it, and they sold like 40,000 within the first year.

[Tommy Bo]

Wow.

[Ian Hecox]

So he was kind of like. He was kind of a baller.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

And then obviously he was.

[Matt Rob]

Lots of cocaine, probably, according to that doc, or at least the biopic he did a lot of cocaine.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, there might have been some cocaine.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

I mean, it was the late 70s, so.

[Tommy Bo]

Levanties. Yeah, good for him.

[Ian Hecox]

But I mean, like, he was. He was more so a marketer. He knew what would get people talking.

[Matt Rob]

Right.

[Ian Hecox]

And Elon Musk is very much that way with a little bit of, like, culty vibes. Like, obviously there's like, it's. Elon Musk is kind of like a DeLorean Steve Jobs mashup.

[Matt Rob]

That's fair.

[Ian Hecox]

Like, obviously a very smart guy.

[Matt Rob]

Totally.

[Ian Hecox]

So he's not. It's not just smoke and mirrors.

[Matt Rob]

Right.

[Ian Hecox]

But.

[Matt Rob]

But at the end of the day, I mean, and this is the crazy thing. I'm not a car guy. You're a car guy. Are you a car guy?

[Tommy Bo]

I'm not a car guy.

[Matt Rob]

I'm not a car guy. We've had this conversation. I drive a very safe Toyota Camry. And Same.

[Tommy Bo]

I didn't know we were Camry friends.

[Matt Rob]

Oh, I didn't either.

[Ian Hecox]

I couldn't have guessed you guys weren't car guys by driving the Toyota Camry.

[Matt Rob]

Okay, let's just rewind it. Like two weeks ago, we were like, no, your car's fine. I'm not gonna give you credit card.

[Ian Hecox]

It is. It's a perfectly great car.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah. Okay, so it's a fine car. And I've had to take it the shop once.

[Tommy Bo]

Same.

[Matt Rob]

How many times have you taken your. Your thing into the shop? What is it, a Porsche?

[Ian Hecox]

How many times have I taken the shop for breaking something or something?

[Matt Rob]

Are you having to do anything for.

[Ian Hecox]

Its service, for its normal service?

[Matt Rob]

Toyotas don't need service. They run forever. So take that. But the crazy Thing about cars to me is at the end of the day, it's probably the most expensive thing that a average human will buy multiple times in their life.

[Tommy Bo]

Yep.

[Matt Rob]

You're probably gonna buy a house once, maybe twice.

[Ian Hecox]

Right.

[Matt Rob]

You're not. It's the most expensive consumerism there is. So at the end of the day, you just need to be a really good marketer. You don't need to have the craziest technological car in the world. Now you do, because that's something that people care about. But at the end of the day, as long as you market the hell out of a car, people are gonna buy it and you're gonna make a shitload of money.

[Tommy Bo]

As long as it drives you, as long as it moves. That's really all you need, right?

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Matt Rob]

And status is such a thing. I mean literally anybody, anybody who's. Or in a big city, like you're going to want a fancy, cool looking car, something that's going to turn heads, whatever the case may be. And that is definitely going to turn heads.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, one hundo. I mean, there's rumors that he was going to be making a pickup truck for years. And it's like we've all seen what all pickup trucks look like. They all look like the same goddamn thing. You know, they got a thing in the front and they got like a long tail and then that's it.

[Matt Rob]

I reserved mine. I did. I'm excited. I'm down.

[Ian Hecox]

It's just. There's just so many like just the angles on it.

[Tommy Bo]

It's so cool.

[Ian Hecox]

Like the wheel wells are like trapezoids. I do love the tailgate though. The tailgate's badass.

[Matt Rob]

That's pretty cool.

[Ian Hecox]

It like folds down and then forms into like a ramp.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah. So little clown cars can jump up on you.

[Tommy Bo]

Run up into it. Exactly.

[Ian Hecox]

Or you know, great action movie. Somebody just ramps off of that over the truck.

[Matt Rob]

Oh, wait for that next Fast and the Furious scene.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, God.

[Matt Rob]

Brought to you by Tesla.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, they're totally gonna use A. The Cybertruck 100%.

[Matt Rob]

They use a smart car. And Expendables, they're just trying to. It's product placement. It's just a really nice product.

[Tommy Bo]

Would either of you guys drive a smart car? I want one so bad.

[Matt Rob]

Really?

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, it's so little.

[Tommy Bo]

I mean, will I get. If I. If I even like tap a curve, will the car just go and I'm dead? Yes. But it's so tiny.

[Ian Hecox]

It won't. They're like a steel cage. So you'll be fine. In it.

[Matt Rob]

It just feels like a little prison.

[Tommy Bo]

The problem is every day feeling like you're in a little prison. I want my car to reflect that.

[Matt Rob]

You know, that's fair.

[Ian Hecox]

That's fair. I mean, the only benefit to. To driving a smart car is the fact that it's very small, so you can fit in tiny spaces.

[Tommy Bo]

Right. That's what I'm talking about.

[Ian Hecox]

However, it's a terrible car.

[Tommy Bo]

Is it really?

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, it's. It's unreliable.

[Matt Rob]

Learn us.

[Ian Hecox]

It doesn't even get good gas mileage.

[Tommy Bo]

Get good?

[Matt Rob]

Like, get good to.

[Ian Hecox]

Like, a Toyota Yaris gets better gas mileage than that. So all you're getting. All you're getting out of it is. It's a smaller package.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

So you can't put anything in it.

[Matt Rob]

Great things come in Toyota Yaris's.

[Ian Hecox]

It's not a good car.

[Matt Rob]

All right. That's right.

[Tommy Bo]

I can fit, like, two grocery bags in the trunk.

[Matt Rob]

Wow.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Matt Rob]

You know, that's great.

[Ian Hecox]

It's a great car for if you don't have any friends because you can't put anyone else in it, aside from.

[Matt Rob]

One other person called Ride Shares. No one gives people rides anymore anywhere.

[Ian Hecox]

True. We're all drunk all the time.

[Matt Rob]

All the time.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. Sorry.

[Tommy Bo]

Don't talk about me that way.

[Ian Hecox]

I made that tweet about. About Elon Musk, and. And it blew up, I guess.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

I mean, it's not. It's not like that, but, like, PewDiePie will make it.

[Tommy Bo]

Any.

[Ian Hecox]

Any tweet he puts out gets. Gets way more attention than this.

[Tommy Bo]

Well, sure, but that's, like, not genuine interaction. This is, like, legit.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah. People actually found you. You were on Good Morning America. When's the last time PewDiePie was on good Morning? Well, don't Google that, but other than that, that's great. You were everyone's moms now. Saw you.

[Ian Hecox]

You know my favorite. My favorite thing that came out of it, Guys? Ryan. Philippe liked it.

[Matt Rob]

It's Philippe.

[Ian Hecox]

Is it Philippe?

[Matt Rob]

It's Philippe.

[Ian Hecox]

All right, Ryan. Philippe Philippi.

[Matt Rob]

Nope.

[Ian Hecox]

Ryan Phillippe, star of MacGruber. Yes.

[Matt Rob]

Wow. And Cruel Intention.

[Ian Hecox]

Cruel Intentions.

[Matt Rob]

Yes.

[Ian Hecox]

And Antitrust. What's that? Lawyer movie.

[Tommy Bo]

Movie reference. Oh, sorry. I just wanted to be part of it.

[Ian Hecox]

The Lincoln Lawyer.

[Matt Rob]

He's in the Lincoln Lawyer.

[Ian Hecox]

He's actually great.

[Matt Rob]

Oh, crazy.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, Anthony Padilla liked it, too. Hey, that's funny.

[Tommy Bo]

He's the star of Anthony.

[Matt Rob]

No, let him finish. Let him finish.

[Tommy Bo]

Cool. So how do you feel about it blowing up?

[Matt Rob]

Let's just go through and read all the people that liked it, name after name.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay, I got this guy. He's a husband, father, builder, co founder of Block Inc. Spacechain and others. Proud son of a USMC F4 pilot.

[Tommy Bo]

Whoa. We got a plane child.

[Matt Rob]

Plane baby.

[Ian Hecox]

We got plane babies like this tweet. Oh, got this guy, Edward Upson. He's a football at Bristol Rovers. Football.

[Tommy Bo]

He is a football.

[Matt Rob]

One whole football.

[Ian Hecox]

He's a football.

[Matt Rob]

Football with a face. You should put it on a shirt and then sell it. And then you will not buy a Tesla unless it makes enough money for you to buy a Tesla.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah.

[Tommy Bo]

Doable, achievable.

[Matt Rob]

I think this is all very doable. I think if you put it on a shirt and we sold that shirt with the tweet. Not, not in, like in text. Literally a screenshot of the tweet.

[Ian Hecox]

I'm going to go. I'm going to go to. Because we all know where Space X is.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

It's like right down the street.

[Tommy Bo]

It's up in the space.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, we'll just go sell the shirts out front.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah. Stand out front. We'll have a little pop up. Yeah. Like a lemonade stand. We'll just have shirts with a backwards S written in paint on a sign. It'll be great. I'm into this.

[Tommy Bo]

All right, great. I'm there.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

But I'm, I'm. I'm very excited. I also am still wondering if it's a troll. If the. If the cybertruck is a troll.

[Matt Rob]

I don't think so. Because he announced a bunch of stuff last night.

[Tommy Bo]

Did you not. Remind me, was the flamethrower a troll?

[Matt Rob]

I mean, not in the sense that it was made.

[Tommy Bo]

Okay, well then there you go.

[Ian Hecox]

The flamethrower was not a troll. Is just kind of a marketing thing. And it was also not technically a flamethrower. It was. It was like a roofing torch.

[Tommy Bo]

Okay.

[Matt Rob]

One of those roofy torches.

[Tommy Bo]

Classic.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Because they couldn't. You can't sell a flamethrower. That's illegal.

[Matt Rob]

Right. It's called not a flamethrower.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Matt Rob]

And it didn't really. It was like, what? Like, like a foot and a half flame. The flames weren't that big.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. It's a roofing torch, I guess.

[Tommy Bo]

Yeah.

[Matt Rob]

Roofing torch, I guess.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. So if you ever need to, you know, tar some roofs, boom. You're not. A flamethrower.

[Matt Rob]

Will work great for that.

[Ian Hecox]

Or if you're an influencer that, you know, just looking to burn 600 bucks.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah, yeah. We almost did. We almost bought it for a video. And I'm glad we didn't, because it would have just sat there and Joven would have hurt himself somehow.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, somebody would have burned it down for sure.

[Tommy Bo]

It would have been Joven.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. It would have been Jovan.

[Tommy Bo]

Yeah. He's. Yeah.

[Matt Rob]

Easily.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, yeah. I'm very excited to see on the road. Oh, that reminds me. They also were showing off how it was. It's bulletproof, apparently, which is important because.

[Matt Rob]

Anyone that has a Tesla is definitely going to be driving through neighborhoods that have a lot of stray bullets.

[Ian Hecox]

Well, I mean, you know, the rich got to protect themselves for the revolt.

[Matt Rob]

Of course. The purge that's coming.

[Ian Hecox]

Yes.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

But then they also tried to show off how the glass was, like, armored, and they had a guy throw something at the glass.

[Matt Rob]

Was it a guy from the audience, like a plant, or was it like.

[Ian Hecox]

No, it was like their. It was like their professional thrower guy. And he threw a thing at that window.

[Matt Rob]

$100,000 a year annual salary.

[Tommy Bo]

God.

[Matt Rob]

Tesla's professional thrower.

[Ian Hecox]

He threw this thing at the window, and the window broke.

[Matt Rob]

Whoa. Like, shattered? Or like car broke.

[Ian Hecox]

It shattered. And so it doesn't even have that.

[Matt Rob]

Type of, like, plastic that all car windows have where it doesn't really shatter. It just kind of sits there.

[Ian Hecox]

I think it was like that.

[Matt Rob]

Oh, okay. Okay.

[Ian Hecox]

It. And then he threw it at the other window and it broke again. So then, like, a lot of the presentation, like, you could just see the. The windows are just broken in the background.

[Matt Rob]

Nice.

[Tommy Bo]

Oh, that's so cool.

[Matt Rob]

And it's only 39 grand, so.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, the, the, the, the. The lowest one starts at $39,000.

[Matt Rob]

That's insane.

[Tommy Bo]

That's the broken window, right?

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Matt Rob]

That's selling, that one. Yeah. Otherwise $200,000.

[Tommy Bo]

Yes.

[Ian Hecox]

The rear drive, single motor version. 39, 900. So it's 40,000. And then.

[Matt Rob]

No, it's 39, 900. That changes everything.

[Ian Hecox]

You're right. And 9, 10, and then the, the most expensive one, 69, 900. Which, which if you, if you've ever seen, like, somebody that spends money on a pickup truck, like a. For like a tricked out, like, Ford F150, those things are rolling off the lot around that amount.

[Matt Rob]

Interesting.

[Ian Hecox]

Like Ford makes and, and, well, anyone that makes pickup truck, they make so much money. It's the only. It's. It's like the only thing that keeps, like, Ford afloat.

[Matt Rob]

I kind of want one. I'm not a pickup guy. And it doesn't look Like a pickup. It looks like a future car. That's a future tank in gta. Yeah, I'm all about it. Like, I kind of want one because I need to upgrade because I'm tired of you give me crap about my super safe Toyota. So maybe I should just. I mean, I signed up. I added my name to the list.

[Ian Hecox]

Did you really?

[Matt Rob]

Yeah, why not? What am I going to lose?

[Ian Hecox]

Did you reserve?

[Matt Rob]

Yeah.

[Tommy Bo]

You're going to lose.

[Ian Hecox]

You reserved?

[Matt Rob]

Yeah, no, I just put my credit card and it's fine. What happens?

[Tommy Bo]

What happens? Yeah, what happens? I actually don't know.

[Matt Rob]

I don't. Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Would you actually put money down?

[Matt Rob]

No. You just put a name down? Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah, I was like, I'm not going to actually put money.

[Ian Hecox]

Did they say when it's coming out?

[Matt Rob]

I don't think so.

[Ian Hecox]

I'm stoked for it. But the future, it's so. It's so dumb. And I love that somebody's willing to make such a dumb car. I'm all for dumb, dumb cars. Being on the road.

[Matt Rob]

Except for the Smart Car, which Ian hates.

[Ian Hecox]

Except for the Smart Car. That's just dumb in all the worst ways.

[Tommy Bo]

Okay.

[Ian Hecox]

This is dumb in all the right ways.

[Tommy Bo]

I agree, though.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah. That's my brand.

[Tommy Bo]

It's so 2020. It's like, hey, I'm a bajillion gazillionaire, and I want to make sharp, pointy thing you like. And we're like, yay.

[Ian Hecox]

I do. And, you know, you've created something successful. When half of Twitter is pissed off about it, there are people that are angry about it.

[Tommy Bo]

Mm.

[Ian Hecox]

They're like, uh. And I'm like, it's just. Don't. If you don't like it, then why are you making such a big fuss about it? So you know that's why Twitter exists.

[Tommy Bo]

Yeah. That's the Internet.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, baby. Remember when Twitter was just for, like. Just like, saying whatever was on your mind? I missed those days.

[Tommy Bo]

Yeah. I wasn't into Twitter those days. And then, like, I came back to it and I was like, oh, this is just a joke factory. I'm in.

[Matt Rob]

Yep.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, that's true. Jokes have gotten better on it. It's just funny that, like, people just used to be, like, eating cereal and.

[Matt Rob]

That was not Instagram. Now that's where you go for that Tesla truck.

[Ian Hecox]

I'm excited for it.

[Matt Rob]

Oh, yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Bring it on.

[Matt Rob]

Cybertruck, which is even cooler. Name.

[Ian Hecox]

It is a pretty dope name, right?

[Matt Rob]

Cybertruck 2020.

[Tommy Bo]

Wow.

[Matt Rob]

That's dope.

[Tommy Bo]

Each. Each Truck comes with a Keanu Reeves.

[Matt Rob]

Exactly. Every truck gets a Keanu.

[Ian Hecox]

Damn, they should have had Keanu out there.

[Matt Rob]

He should have enough.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, he needs a rest.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah, he's done enough.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Matt Rob]

Boy's tired. He's like building schools or whatever the fuck he's doing stuff.

[Ian Hecox]

If only we could all be as cool as Keanu.

[Tommy Bo]

We'll never be. It's fine. No, give up that dream.

[Matt Rob]

Hey, you were as cool as Alex Winter once because he directed this modest movie.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, the other guy from Bill Ted.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah, he's the other guy from Bill and Ted. See, that counts. He was the. The other half of Keanu Reeves.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, that's true.

[Matt Rob]

That counts. Yeah, that's your claim to fame. He's gonna be in the next Bill and Ted movie with Keanu.

[Ian Hecox]

That's right.

[Matt Rob]

There you go.

[Tommy Bo]

I am loving all these movie references from 1998 to 2005.

[Matt Rob]

Bill and Ted's excellent journey.

[Tommy Bo]

It was like 80s, I guess, then. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Matt Rob]

You've seen.

[Tommy Bo]

I have seen.

[Matt Rob]

Okay.

[Tommy Bo]

The other ones, I was like, no.

[Matt Rob]

We talked about Parasite. We talked about that.

[Tommy Bo]

But like, what was the other one? Crunch. Crash. Crunch Crunch.

[Matt Rob]

That movie where Matt Dillon is a racist. Baker Crunch.

[Ian Hecox]

You haven't seen Crash?

[Tommy Bo]

I've not seen Crash.

[Ian Hecox]

Crash was. Was the big controversy over Crash was that. It was like. It was a movie that was just like. Racism is bad.

[Matt Rob]

Yes.

[Tommy Bo]

Okay.

[Ian Hecox]

It's bad. All right. See that racist guy? He's being really, really racist. That's bad.

[Tommy Bo]

So it was shallow as hell.

[Ian Hecox]

It was super shallow. And it won best picture.

[Matt Rob]

And not only that, but also best song by. What was the name of. It was the Three Shit Dixie Chicks. No, no, no, no, no. It was a rap song, but it.

[Ian Hecox]

Was Three Six Mafia. No, that's Hustle and Flow. That's Hustle and Flow.

[Matt Rob]

I'm thinking of three Six Mafia. Hustle and Flow is Crash. You heard it here first. Same movie.

[Ian Hecox]

Same movie.

[Matt Rob]

Mm.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, so. So that's. That's like the biggest. Because what else was nominated that year because, like, everyone was pissed that Crash won because it was just. Wasn't exactly the best written movie. It was just like these characters that were like very one dimensional, just being like, I'm the racist guy. I'm the. And then all these people crash in a car accident and all their lives crash together. Whoa. You had Crash, you had Capote, you had Goodnight, Good Luck, you had Munich. But the one that people were most pissed off was Brokeback Mountain. Oh, yeah. Brokeback Mountain. Wow.

[Tommy Bo]

That movie did Some shit to me did it. I was like, yeah, like a little half closeted kid. I was like, do that.

[Matt Rob]

That.

[Tommy Bo]

It was pretty great.

[Matt Rob]

See, Crash didn't do that to me. See, should have broke back, should have won. It affected lives. Crash, there was nothing. You thought it was deep, but in.

[Ian Hecox]

Retrospect you're like, I was younger, younger. I was young, younger, younger.

[Matt Rob]

Keep going. No, no, no, keep saying it.

[Ian Hecox]

Basically, Crash was not great. Broke back, incredible. Munich, incredible. Everything else should have won. Except for that. Agreed. But yeah, gosh, guys, 14 years.

[Matt Rob]

14 years.

[Ian Hecox]

What would you say is like your favorite moment?

[Matt Rob]

Oh, my goodness.

[Ian Hecox]

Of your time here at the Smosh.

[Matt Rob]

Tommy, you start. You've got the freshest, youngest memory.

[Tommy Bo]

Yeah, my brain all shiny.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah.

[Tommy Bo]

Let's see. I would say probably doing the Girls or Gross remix just for the hell of it and then being able to post it. That was freaking great. I just had a blast doing that. It was like out and I was. I had like a free like 30 minutes at the end of the day and I was just like, no, just like screw around with this, blah, blah, blah. And then everyone liked it and I was like, oh, this is great. And then we, like, we posted on Spotify and I don't know, I was just cool to just be seen in that way and like my little hobby becoming like a thing I got to do at work for work. It was really cool. That was my favorite thing. Easy peas. One, two, three.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, that was. That was a surprise because, like, we didn't really know that was coming. And then it was like, oh, Tommy made a remix. Yeah, and it's awesome. It's also cool to just like be able to just kind of like get that, like, it's not instant gratification, but it's like pretty quick gratification of being like, you just kind of did it on. You're like, I'm just gonna fucking do it. And then you did it.

[Tommy Bo]

And then it was like four days later. It's like, okay, do it quick because we're. We gotta post it soon. I was like, okay, I'll master it. There's a whirlwind of super cool fulfillment. Is that enough time for you to.

[Matt Rob]

Know I'm a vamp? Anyway, I honestly, there's so many. There's so many cool things we've done. Like games is the one where we like got to actually like go out and do crazy shit and get in stunt planes and go to Egypt and go to drive race cars in the French Alps. Like, there's so many Weird, crazy things that we've done that I'm like, this is insane. I honestly, I think Egypt. Egypt is probably one of the weirdest and coolest things. Like, we literally went inside of a pyramid and just, like, hung out, like, me, Joven and Mari and Garrett and just, like, chilled. It was very weird. But I think that's probably one of the coolest, most surreal things I've done in six years.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. That was for Operation Open World.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah. For the Assassin's Creed.

[Ian Hecox]

Mari and Joven.

[Matt Rob]

Mari and Joven did a series called Operation Open World where they basically played Assassin's Creed. It took place in ancient Egypt. We then went out and explored Egypt as it is today.

[Ian Hecox]

And Joven crashed a boat.

[Matt Rob]

Joven crashed a boat. Mari. Everyone got food poisoning but me.

[Ian Hecox]

Nice.

[Tommy Bo]

Congrats.

[Matt Rob]

Because they all had tea, and I didn't want tea. The water's bad there. So they all drank tea and they all got sick. I didn't. Because I don't like tea. There's a little lesson for you kids. Don't drink tea. But it was. Yeah. Drink coffee. But it was. It was great. I had a really good time.

[Tommy Bo]

That was the very first thing I worked on when I started Egypt. Well. Yeah. I had to, like, cut down a video first for, like, the release of it, so that's fun. I don't know. That's funny.

[Matt Rob]

That's, like. What's yours? You have. Nothing really happened.

[Ian Hecox]

No, nothing really. There's, like, things here and there.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. It's really hard to cut it down to one sort of moment. I think I'm trying to think of, like, the moments where I was, like, the most, like, proud of doing what we do, I guess, like. Yeah. Like, smosh. Summer Games Camp.

[Matt Rob]

Oh, yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

I forgot Smush. Summer Games because it was like. That was the second games we did.

[Matt Rob]

Camp was a good moment for you because I feel like you and Anthony were, like, locked away in your rooms working on the script, reading the script for the movie at that point.

[Ian Hecox]

On the off. On the off times, sort of. Yeah. But I mean, like, it was. Because we did. We did. The first Summer Games we did was kind of, like. I would say it's almost like a test. Yes. We went to this beach house that we kind of had, but it was like we just went there for the day, then went back home and then came back out the next day.

[Matt Rob]

No one got in a car accident.

[Ian Hecox]

One of as many. And also, like, we were. We were still kind of putting the team together.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

And this was literally.

[Matt Rob]

It was made. It was created for us to essentially get both teams to learn who they are. Like, we were. We were on the far corners of the Defy building. We.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Matt Rob]

With Never Smash Games and Smosh Squad. Yeah. So, like, this was literally. We created it as kind of like a cool, like, team building bonding thing, and then it happened to do really well. So we did, like, five of them. Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

But camp was, like, the first, like, real true.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Like, huge effort into doing it.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

And luckily, Defy approved the budget.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

And we went out to the summer camp and then stayed out there for, what, three, four days?

[Matt Rob]

Yeah, about four days.

[Ian Hecox]

And we all had bunks.

[Matt Rob]

We're all in bunk beds and, like, crazy big halls, and we would, like, stay up late and dance in the. In, like, the. The commune area. And, like, we had, like, a campfire. It was, like, a legitimate camp experience.

[Ian Hecox]

It was like a cafeteria. They had, like, different food every day. Oh, so good.

[Matt Rob]

Yep.

[Ian Hecox]

It was so good. And, like, it was just kind of like one of those moments where I was just, like. I had a moment, like, by myself, and I was just like, wow, that's really freaking cool. Like, everyone here. There's, like, 30 people here, and we're all here to just do this, like, fun thing out in the middle of nowhere. And. Yeah. So for me, I think that was probably. That was probably one of my favorite things we did.

[Matt Rob]

Nice. That's cool. Very sweet.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Matt Rob]

Cool. Well, and here we are. And we're never doing summer games again. You heard it here first.

[Tommy Bo]

Cut.

[Ian Hecox]

Don't you dare. Don't you dare. I guess. I guess one. One thing I'll. One thing I'll end with. Oh, actually, well, yeah, I don't know if we should end with this, but everyone's been posting these 2009, 2019 photos and Tommy.

[Tommy Bo]

Yeah, that's right.

[Ian Hecox]

Holy shit.

[Tommy Bo]

Yeah. T O M E Y B O N E S on Instagram Tomybones. Because there was a comment on a video that said, tomi Uncomfortable Bone Energy. And I said, sure, that's a great brand. But, yeah. Yeah. I mean, I specifically hunted for the true, worst photo that ever existed of anybody, but specifically of me. Yeah, I was a. I was in a. I went to a theater middle. Well, I went to an artist middle school in which there was a theater program and an arts high school.

[Ian Hecox]

I couldn't tell you were a theater kid.

[Tommy Bo]

Is it how loud and stupid I am all the time? Yeah. And so I was in Flowers for Algernon, which. Do you know this play?

[Matt Rob]

Oh, yeah.

[Tommy Bo]

Oh yeah, it's very. Oh, so it's full of. Oh yeah. A little bit. And I was one of the doctors. Yeah. I had like shoulder length hair. I was like quite chubby. I was. Yeah. I tried to like. There's like so few pictures of me from that era. Cause I like wouldn't let anyone. Wow. A lot of problems came from that era. A lot of cool brain problems. So. Yeah, I mean like, that's middle school though. Am I right, ladies?

[Ian Hecox]

Dude, middle school was the freaking worst chup.

[Tommy Bo]

Yeah. But I'm getting good feedback on that photo. Cause everyone can't believe that's me. But yeah, I hold a lot of cheek. Cheek weight and hair weight and. Yeah, I don't know.

[Matt Rob]

Well, you went from that to uncomfortable bone energy.

[Tommy Bo]

I think it's a pretty solid change. Yeah. And it happened over like it was the most gradual shift. It's not like I just was like. And now I'm this, it was just like this forever journey into being like, okay, now I'm like fine with how I look and I enjoy it.

[Ian Hecox]

That's good. Yeah, I think. Yeah. Because I mean like, I mean, 10 years, that still just doesn't seem like a lot of time.

[Tommy Bo]

Right.

[Ian Hecox]

And. And I can't believe that in that time you went from being a 40 year old doctor.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Woman. Woman. To, to who you are now. And I'm, I'm. I'm impressed. I'm proud of you.

[Tommy Bo]

Thanks, dad. Other dad, you want to tell me too? No, classic other dad.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. Classic.

[Matt Rob]

You can't get too much support.

[Tommy Bo]

No, that'll get an ego, but yeah. Thanks. It's, it's been a, it's been a fun 10 year ride.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

I feel like I gotta, I gotta get on that meme. I don't know what, I don't know what my 2009 would be.

[Matt Rob]

I mean there's, there's plenty of embarrassing photos of you from 2009.

[Ian Hecox]

I was thinking of doing like boxman.

[Matt Rob]

Oh, interesting.

[Ian Hecox]

And then just having like just a flattened box. I like that as a 2019.

[Tommy Bo]

That's cool.

[Ian Hecox]

Or like a. I know there's a, there's a picture of a recycling center that was on fire. There's a bunch of cardboard boxes.

[Tommy Bo]

The one near us?

[Ian Hecox]

No, not that one. Things are just lighting on fire everywhere.

[Tommy Bo]

Everywhere in California.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. Yeah. So I don't, I don't know if that's the best way to end it.

[Tommy Bo]

Who knows?

[Ian Hecox]

But. But we're just gonna, we're just gonna go with that. So, guys, There. There's so much. There's so much that's going on right now, guys. Black Friday's coming up. Black Friday, Cyber Monday. Guys, we got lots of great deals that are about to hit your faces on Smosh Store and my favorite coffee Calm. So be on the lookout for that because there are some great de Eels coming to your face. And great de Eels. And we want your money, but also you get to save a bunch, so. Yay. On top of that, we're doing a really fun month. We're gonna call it sort of like the reversal month, something like that.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Where on Smoshpit, we are flipping things on their heads and we are going to be punishing the people that have been punishing us. So we have Sarah, who's normally the host of Spelling Bikini Wax. She is now going to be in the bikini table inside of it.

[Tommy Bo]

Yeah.

[Matt Rob]

Climbing.

[Ian Hecox]

She has to see everyone's junks.

[Matt Rob]

Yep.

[Ian Hecox]

We also have Garrett will be in Eat it or Yeet It. And we made sure it's the worst one.

[Matt Rob]

Shane is actually Garrett this time.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah. So Shane helped come up with some of the foods, and it's yucky.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. Yeah. We definitely set out to destroy Garrett as much as possible. And then we have one more. Oh, yeah. The. The. Try not to laugh. We have all of the crew or a good deal of the crew come and try to make myself and the rest of the cast laugh. And it's a great time. Tim comes through.

[Matt Rob]

Oh, man.

[Tommy Bo]

He really just showed up for that one.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah, he really. He prepped. I think he had the longest. The longest, like, build to a joke, and it was. Oh, God, I love it. Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

So many things going on. 14 years. Wow. Incredible. It won't be as cool as the 15 year kind of thing, because that's like something that, like, 14 is, like, a little bit weird to talk about. But I mean, like, it's still incredible that we've made it this. This far on YouTube.

[Matt Rob]

Yes.

[Ian Hecox]

Turning 15 minutes of fame into 14 years. What can I say?

[Matt Rob]

Oh, look at that. That's a shirt.

[Ian Hecox]

Yep. I'm gonna sell that in front of SpaceX as well. Elon, hit me up. If you need a test driver for the cybertruck, I can be the crash dummy. I can give me. Give me a car.

[Matt Rob]

Hook it up.

[Ian Hecox]

And thank you guys so much for. For watching. Thank you, Matt and Tommy Bones, for. For coming on this. This episode. It's been a weird one, but when is it not true? Thank you and I love you.

[Matt Rob]

Aw.

[Ian Hecox]

Also, subscribe rate at 5 stars. 5 stars on. On all of the podcasting apps because we need the stars, guys.

[Matt Rob]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

And see you next time, Bezos.

[Matt Rob]

Bye.

[Ian Hecox]

Bye.

[Tommy Bo]

Goodbye.

[Ian Hecox]

Did you say Bezos?

[Matt Rob]

Yeah.