S1: #44 - The SmoshCast Christmas Special

Summary

Podcast Summary: Smosh Mouth – S1: #44 - The SmoshCast Christmas Special

Introduction

In the festive "SmoshCast Christmas Special," hosts Ian Hecox, Shane Madej, and Courtney Miller delve into holiday traditions, favorite Christmas movies, personal reflections on the past year, and their aspirations for the new year. The episode, released on December 25, 2019, offers listeners an engaging blend of humor, heartfelt moments, and relatable discussions surrounding the holiday season.

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1. Favorite Christmas Movies

The conversation kicks off with the trio sharing their top Christmas movie picks, sparking a lively debate on classic favorites versus unconventional choices.

• Shane Madej lauds the movie "Elf," expressing enduring admiration:
  “Honestly, like I watched it last Christmas and I always forget how perfect of a movie it is. Yeah, Elf. It is so good.” [00:43]

• Courtney Miller concurs, highlighting the film's wholesome and funny scenes:
  “It is so good. It's so wholesome and it has so many funny scenes in a row.” [11:53]

• Ian Hecox touches on the unconventional debate around "Die Hard" being a Christmas movie:
  “I mean, technically, yeah, I'm so sick of people being like, Die Hard is the best Christmas movie.” [09:58]

The hosts also explore more niche holiday films, including "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and the controversial yet intriguing "Wookiee Christmas Special" from the Star Wars universe.

• Shane Madej expresses his excitement for the "Wookiee Christmas Special":
  “Pretty pumped for that.” [06:53]

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2. Holiday Traditions and Personal Experiences

Transitioning from movies, the hosts delve into their Christmas traditions and memorable holiday experiences.

• Shane Madej shares his annual tradition of spending Christmas in Colorado with family, emphasizing the joy of gift-giving to his nieces and nephews:
  “There's now that I have nieces and nephew, it's very fun to watch how excited they are to get them gifts.” [05:30]

• Courtney Miller reminisces about her unique Christmas decorations involving toy medieval swords and the resulting playful chaos with siblings:
  “One year, just remember in her apartment, the Christmas tree, she stuck a bunch of toy medieval swords through it.” [22:22]

The discussion also touches on childhood gifts, highlighting the contrast between traditional toys like Barbies and more personalized items like "my scene dolls."

• Courtney Miller nostalgically recalls her preference for Scene Dolls over traditional Barbies:
  “I was obsessed with my scene dolls. And, like, the male dolls were way better looking than just their basic Ken doll.” [26:08]

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3. Year in Review and Resolutions

As the episode progresses, the hosts reflect on their personal and professional milestones from 2019 and outline their goals for the upcoming year.

• Ian Hecox opens up about his challenging year and his plans to take a trip to Iceland:
  “I have a trip to Iceland planned out. I've also got a trip doing like, a Subaru winter driving event.” [40:25]

• Courtney Miller discusses her journey towards self-care and her ambition to prioritize her well-being in the new year:
  “I focused a lot on me and my me time and like my own time, like at home, self care and stuff like that.” [55:27]

• Shane Madej emphasizes the importance of building a life outside of work and maintaining strong personal relationships:
  “I need to get better about keeping in touch with people.” [53:02]

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4. Mental Health and Work-Life Balance

The hosts candidly address the pressures of their roles within Smosh, discussing the importance of mental health and the necessity of taking breaks to prevent burnout.

• Ian Hecox underscores the significance of balancing work with personal time:
  “You can’t just work forever non-stop until you die. You gotta pepper in some you time.” [00:35]

• Courtney Miller shares her experience with burnout, highlighting the relentless pace of content creation:
  “The Internet, it never stops. Everything is always happening, and it makes me terrified.” [62:58]

• Shane Madej concurs, stressing the need to find moments of presence and gratitude amidst their busy schedules:
  “Trying to find something that I can be positive about just finding. Being more grateful.” [53:02]

The trio also discusses implementing "dark weeks," periods where they intentionally take breaks from content production to recharge.

• Courtney Miller explains their initiative to incorporate dark weeks for self-care:
  “We're gonna Dolan Twin it a couple times a year.” [44:54]

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5. Highlights and Personal Growth

Towards the end of the episode, the hosts reflect on standout moments from the year that contributed to their personal and professional growth.

• Shane Madej recalls the surprise of his graduation event, highlighting it as a meaningful family-like moment:
  “I walked into what I thought was going to be a meeting and then had that all thrown at me. It was so cool.” [67:09]

• Ian Hecox discusses his role expansion within Smosh and the accompanying challenges:
  “It's a lot of different roles to balance and I don't ever want to feel like I'm betraying anyone.” [63:25]

• Courtney Miller celebrates personal milestones, including coming out and participating in a Shane Dawson documentary:
  “I came out as not straight in February. March. That's pretty crazy.” [58:08]

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Conclusion

The "SmoshCast Christmas Special" wraps up with heartfelt holiday wishes and reflections on the importance of recognizing and cherishing good moments amidst life's chaos. The hosts emphasize the value of self-care, maintaining personal relationships, and finding joy in both professional achievements and personal growth.

• Ian Hecox concludes with an inspiring message on seeking happiness and purpose:
  “Find something that I can be positive about just finding. Being more grateful.” [53:42]

• Courtney Miller and Shane Madej join in with festive greetings, reinforcing their appreciation for their listeners and their community:
  “Merry Holidays. We love you. Hope you had a blessed day.” [70:13]

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Notable Quotes:

• “You can't just work forever non-stop until you die. You gotta pepper in some you time.” – Ian Hecox [00:35]

• “Honestly, like I watched it last Christmas and I always forget how perfect of a movie it is. Yeah, Elf. It is so good.” – Shane Madej [00:43]

• “We're gonna dolan twin it a couple times a year.” – Courtney Miller [44:54]

• “I came out as not straight in February. March. That's pretty crazy.” – Courtney Miller [58:08]

This episode of Smosh Mouth provides a blend of humor and sincere conversation, offering listeners both entertainment and relatable insights into balancing life’s demands with personal well-being during the holiday season.

Transcript

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[Ian Hecox]

You can't just work forever non stop until you die. You gotta pepper in. You gotta pepper in some you time.

[Shane Madej]

What? Honestly, like I watched it last Christmas and I always forget how perfect of a movie it is. Yeah, is elf.

[Courtney Miller]

Yes.

[Shane Madej]

It is so good.

[Courtney Miller]

I focused a lot on me and my me time. I did all my healing and care within and now it's time to get out of here.

[Ian Hecox]

I love you guys. I love. You know I love Christmas. And you know what else I love?

[Shane Madej]

Oh God, I love New York.

[Ian Hecox]

Do I look thoughty? Yes.

[Courtney Miller]

Yes.

[Ian Hecox]

Thoughty too.

[Courtney Miller]

Thought to be thoughty so I can put some thoughts in your brain. Thought provoking.

[Shane Madej]

Thoughty hippos.

[Courtney Miller]

Thought provoking. That's funny.

[Ian Hecox]

Do you provoke thoughts?

[Courtney Miller]

I should tweet that. Should I provoke thoughts?

[Ian Hecox]

Do you like on the.

[Courtney Miller]

Do I? Yeah, I did provoke a thought on a dance floor.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, you did.

[Courtney Miller]

At the bar.

[Shane Madej]

Thought o bots roll out.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh my God. Yeah. That was a weird night.

[Ian Hecox]

Put my car into thaw o matic.

[Courtney Miller]

Wow.

[Shane Madej]

Nice. That's pretty cool. Thotty Pippin is still my favorite. Thotty Pippin, Thotty Pippin.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, man, I wish I could think of more.

[Ian Hecox]

You got the thotty or nice list.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, thotty or nice.

[Shane Madej]

Ho ho h.

[Courtney Miller]

Guys, have you been thotty this year is all you're gonna say.

[Ian Hecox]

I was trying to think of an ice rhyme. Thotty thotty or ice Thotty or thotty or. Let's just get to it.

[Courtney Miller]

Okay. Welcome guys, to another episode of the Smoshcast. Have you been thotty or nice? Well, we'll find out because it's Christmas day.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

Did you get cold? Cause that means you were thotty. Ooh. I am hosting today. You got the Courtney cast with my boys.

[Ian Hecox]

Hello, I'm Ian Hecox.

[Shane Madej]

And I'm Shane. Happy holidays all around.

[Courtney Miller]

Happy holidays.

[Ian Hecox]

Wow.

[Shane Madej]

Just a cheery old time.

[Courtney Miller]

You guys look so cozy.

[Shane Madej]

I'M very cozy right now.

[Ian Hecox]

Thank you. We had to be very cozy. We came in here into the podcast room on Christmas day to record this live.

[Courtney Miller]

It's snowing outside in la.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

You guys look very good in the winter. Smosh merch.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, thank you. Jingle Jingle Beach.

[Courtney Miller]

The red Beanie sold out. But I think we might restock it in navy beach blue as well as red.

[Ian Hecox]

By this point, it'll probably be restocked. Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

Okay, cool.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. So, I mean, but checksmash store. If beanie's there, check us out.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

Or at the end of this podcast.

[Courtney Miller]

At the end of this podcast, or if you're just listening while you're online shopping, like what I do, then you could do that at the same time. And if you don't want to buy clothes, that's okay. We also have tickets to certain shows. Was it Sacramento, Oregon and Phoenix?

[Ian Hecox]

The state of Oregon.

[Courtney Miller]

State of Oregon.

[Damien Haas]

Sacramento and Phoenix.

[Courtney Miller]

Portland and Phoenix. Those shows. We still have some tickets left if you guys want to come join the party.

[Shane Madej]

Phoenix show up. My hometown. Come on, guys.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, yeah. My hometown. Sacramento guys, come on. Let's all talk about Sacramento things.

[Courtney Miller]

We. Well, trains.

[Shane Madej]

Let's talk about Phoenix things.

[Ian Hecox]

Rocks dying of dehydration.

[Shane Madej]

Scorpions underneath those rocks.

[Courtney Miller]

What are Portland things?

[Shane Madej]

Portland has a lot of things.

[Ian Hecox]

Beer.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah. Portland's got beer, coffee.

[Ian Hecox]

It's got, like, homeless people that look like hipsters. Hipsters that look like homeless people.

[Shane Madej]

Good music, elephant seals.

[Courtney Miller]

Will we be selling, like, our coffee with us on tour?

[Ian Hecox]

I don't know. Probably not really. I don't know.

[Courtney Miller]

I see someone to get a bag after the show. That'd be cool. Well, if we're not, you can get it on my favorite.com coffee.com, my favorite coffee.com.

[Ian Hecox]

And it's great for the holidays. You know, it's cold. You want to sit inside, sip on a nice cup of coffee?

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. If you guys are sitting by the fire right now, listen to this mosh cast when it's snowing outside, drinking my favorite coffee.

[Ian Hecox]

Are you neglecting your family right now and you're just listening to a podcast in your room? That's dope.

[Courtney Miller]

What do you guys do for holidays growing up? What do you guys typically do for Christmas or whatever you celebrate?

[Shane Madej]

I'll be doing what I do almost every year. I'll be in Colorado with almost all my family. It's very fun.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, my gosh, it's so nice. It's gonna be snowy.

[Shane Madej]

It's always great. Yeah. There's often Snow. And now that I have nieces and nephew, it's very fun to watch. How excited they are to get them gifts is really fun. It's great. It's a lot of fun. Yeah. Just to hang out and chill is great. There's always some good movies in that time. This year. Amping myself up for the final Star wars movie.

[Ian Hecox]

Amped the final Star wars movie for about a year until the next one comes out.

[Shane Madej]

I. So I'm. I'm starting this now. I will be done by the time Rise of Skywalker comes out, but I'm going to watch every single Star wars movie and probably some of the shows leading up to it.

[Courtney Miller]

Wow.

[Ian Hecox]

You got to find the, the, the. The Wookiee Christmas special.

[Shane Madej]

Oh, I heard about that. Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

There's a Wookie Christmas special.

[Ian Hecox]

It's known as like, one of the worst pieces of garbage ever made.

[Courtney Miller]

Amazing.

[Ian Hecox]

It was like. It was a TV special and it's really, really hard to find because, like Lucas Arts or they buried it. Lucasfilm, like, tried to bury it.

[Courtney Miller]

Wow. I love stuff like that, guys.

[Ian Hecox]

But it's like, it's like a three camera, like, sitcom kind of thing.

[Shane Madej]

It's freaking great.

[Ian Hecox]

But it's just Wookies talking in Wookie language. And I don't think that's all you hear. That's all you hear. I don't think there's any subtitles or anything. The video is available to watch on YouTube currently.

[Courtney Miller]

Amazing. Amazing.

[Ian Hecox]

It's an hour and 40 minutes long.

[Shane Madej]

Well, I'm watching that too.

[Courtney Miller]

Imagine just hearing someone watching it in the other room. And you just hear and then just hear.

[Ian Hecox]

They just like sing Christmas songs. I don't know if. I don't think they sing Christmas songs.

[Courtney Miller]

I hope they do.

[Ian Hecox]

Wookies. Wookies don't sing. Celebrate. Christ.

[Shane Madej]

Pretty pumped for that.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. Carrie Fisher sings a Christmas song.

[Courtney Miller]

Star Wars Christmas.

[Shane Madej]

Carrie Fisher. Wait, is the entire cast in it?

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

It's not a Wookiee.

[Shane Madej]

Oh, my God. Are you serious?

[Courtney Miller]

We have to watch this?

[Shane Madej]

Oh, Harrison Ford. Reluctantly there.

[Damien Haas]

Well, everyone in it feels like they want to die. But it's not all Wookiees. There's just a Wookiee part. There's a lot of wookiee parts. But the whole thing is really, really bad. But also really incredible.

[Shane Madej]

That's awesome.

[Ian Hecox]

It's basically an anthology series with the wookiees as the core. Oh, sorry.

[Shane Madej]

That's my bad. Nice. Well, I'm gonna watch that too. I'm gonna watch all of them.

[Courtney Miller]

I thought you were talking About Christmas movies that, like, you watch every year for the holidays.

[Shane Madej]

No, no, I'm gonna watch every Star wars movie leading up to this. Star Wars? Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

Do you guys have Christmas movies like that, though?

[Shane Madej]

Home Alone. I watch. I end up watching it at some point every year.

[Courtney Miller]

You know those, like, claymation ones?

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, yeah.

[Shane Madej]

Those ones are creepy.

[Courtney Miller]

Little Drummer Boy.

[Shane Madej]

Those ones are. Some of those are scary.

[Courtney Miller]

Extremely creepy.

[Shane Madej]

What's the one? There's the like, story of St Nicholas when he' teenager and he like, is fighting demons.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

And like, it's. It's nuts.

[Courtney Miller]

He fights a warlock who then becomes. Nice.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah. There's some crazy shit in those.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. And like, like musical stuff. It's really fun just watching a claymation, like, sing. It's so weird.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

I do enjoy Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. That's the only claymation one that I.

[Courtney Miller]

That one's a really good one. Land of Mysterious Santa. Eat.

[Shane Madej]

Who wants a skinny Santa?

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, yeah, he was very skinny in the beginning.

[Shane Madej]

Yukon Cornelius. The best.

[Courtney Miller]

Yukon Cornelius.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah, he's the best.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. And then Burgermeister Meister Bumbles Bounce.

[Shane Madej]

If you think. If you think my insane best. Be careful character is fun in any sort of capacity. Watch Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. Every character in it is that character.

[Courtney Miller]

Like Yukon Cornelius is very much that.

[Shane Madej]

Every character in Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer speaks like in some sort of insane way.

[Ian Hecox]

Because I think they must have made that at the height of cocaine.

[Shane Madej]

No, that was made in like the height. 40s.

[Ian Hecox]

Are you sure?

[Shane Madej]

Yes. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer was made. Yeah. It's a super old.

[Ian Hecox]

But it's like, it's in color and everything. Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

So is wizard of Oz.

[Ian Hecox]

Well, wizard of Oz was like one of the first movies in color.

[Shane Madej]

I want to say Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. It also has Burl Ives as the snowman, which means it's definitely at the latest. It's in the 60s.

[Damien Haas]

It's 1964.

[Shane Madej]

Not the height of cocaine. 1964.

[Courtney Miller]

What was the height of cocaine?

[Ian Hecox]

80S.

[Damien Haas]

1982.

[Ian Hecox]

November 80s.

[Shane Madej]

At some point in the early 80s was the height.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay, sorry, sorry. So I guess height of drugs, but 64 is still. That's. That's pushing it.

[Damien Haas]

It's still pre drugs.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, that's pre. That's pre.

[Courtney Miller]

I think it's like alcohol, maybe.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah, it's a bunch of drunk people.

[Courtney Miller]

The 20s was the peak of alcohol.

[Shane Madej]

It's very 60s. The music in Rudolph Red Nosed Reindeer. Very 60s.

[Courtney Miller]

Yes. In the St. Nicholas one, there's like a random song. You don't even know what they're singing about sometimes.

[Shane Madej]

Oh yeah. They don't make sense.

[Courtney Miller]

It's awesome.

[Shane Madej]

But they are fun.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

I'm trying to think like. Yeah. Because I don't. I don't have any like traditions of like watching movies. I'm trying to think like, what's the best Christmas movie? And I. I'm so sick of people being like, die Hard. It's the best Christmas movie.

[Shane Madej]

It has to. Christmas has to be like a huge element of it. And Die Hard is an action movie that takes place during. Just because it takes place during Christmas time.

[Courtney Miller]

I think some movies just throw in a Christmas scene just to save themselves. Like.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

And then just in case this is a Christmas movie.

[Shane Madej]

But I. Okay, here's my controversial opinion though. I do think they're not. They're not Christmas movies, but I do think Harry Potter and Star wars both are movies that are even better to watch around Christmas.

[Courtney Miller]

The first Harry Potter is a Christmas movie.

[Ian Hecox]

The first Harry Potter is.

[Courtney Miller]

Does feel very Christmas movie.

[Shane Madej]

I just think those, those series because around the holiday season you end up with a little bit more time to binge a movie series like that. And it's so fun.

[Courtney Miller]

They're in scarves and shit. Of course it's freakin winter movie.

[Shane Madej]

There is usually a holiday section of every Harry Potter movie.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. It's like a whole school year happening.

[Ian Hecox]

Christmas vacation's really good.

[Shane Madej]

I love Christmas vacation.

[Ian Hecox]

It's so wacky.

[Shane Madej]

It's so good. It's so funny, dude.

[Courtney Miller]

Love.

[Shane Madej]

Actually, I do enjoy love actually that.

[Courtney Miller]

First person I just saw the first time I first saw that. Yeah, that. Well, how recently?

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

How did you feel?

[Ian Hecox]

It's. It's all great. Except for Rick Grimes and his stupid like cards holding at the door. Ugh. Ugh.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

You know what? Really?

[Ian Hecox]

There's something in my pocket or whatever that song is.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah, it's so good.

[Ian Hecox]

I feel it in my fingers. Fingers.

[Shane Madej]

Whatever. It's so good. What? Honestly, like, I watched it last Christmas and I always forget how perfect of a movie it is.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

Is Elf. It is. It is so good. It's so wholesome and it has so many funny scenes in a row.

[Courtney Miller]

It's a good cast.

[Ian Hecox]

I feel like a lot of. A lot of people wrote that off because that was like in the height of people complaining about Will Ferrell just playing man child roles.

[Shane Madej]

No, because Elf is before Anchorman.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

And that's before. That's before. Like I gotta rewatch it. It's actually at the high. It's at the beginning of Will Ferre acting career. Like it's the beginning of his peak.

[Courtney Miller]

It was his spike because I want.

[Shane Madej]

To say elf was 2004 and anchorman was 2005.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, no, I think Elf was like the first thing. They're like, oh, we love him as this. And then I'm sure a bunch of roles came after that where they were like, okay, enough. God, so good.

[Shane Madej]

And his character is incredible. I wish they would make more movies like that.

[Courtney Miller]

That's one of those movies that I know every single line.

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[Shane Madej]

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[Ian Hecox]

Best Best Christmas Movie Scrooged.

[Shane Madej]

Scrooged is low key.

[Courtney Miller]

Is that with Bill Murray?

[Shane Madej]

Yeah, yeah. It's very good. And it's got some creepy parts.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, I got to reelect that.

[Courtney Miller]

Have you guys seen the Christmas Carol? The Muppets one?

[Shane Madej]

I actually haven't seen.

[Courtney Miller]

You got to watch that one.

[Shane Madej]

I haven't seen most of the Muppets movies.

[Courtney Miller]

That one's.

[Shane Madej]

I've seen the Muppets movie and I saw the one that came out like 10 years ago that was low key, really good, but kind of forgotten about. But I haven't seen like all the special Muppet movies.

[Courtney Miller]

The Christmas one, like that one I've seen so many times.

[Shane Madej]

Really good.

[Courtney Miller]

It's scary. And there's a lot of people in it, Like a lot of people, like the majority of it.

[Shane Madej]

Everyone's willing to work with the Muppets.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, they're really easy to work.

[Shane Madej]

I hear they're. I hear they're very super nice. Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Except for Kermit. Yeah, He. When we're talking about height of cocaine, I mean, like Kermit.

[Shane Madej]

Kermit. Kermit was around. He's got problems.

[Ian Hecox]

He's got problems.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. He used to look like a normal frog.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. He was like.

[Courtney Miller]

And then drugs.

[Ian Hecox]

He's a fat old bullfrog.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

That coke hit him hard.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

That's why he's always like so horny for Miss Piggy. Sorry.

[Shane Madej]

God damn.

[Courtney Miller]

I feel like Miss Piggy's more horny for him than she is.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, sorry. I get a mix. I've never seen a Muppets movie.

[Courtney Miller]

Shoot, dude, you better. You gotta watch the Muppets movie.

[Ian Hecox]

It's.

[Shane Madej]

Muppets are great.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay, well. Okay. Sorry. So. So, yeah, it's because he's always high. Because he's always high on coke, his dick don't work. Fun Coke fact.

[Courtney Miller]

Let's title this podcast Kermit's Dick.

[Shane Madej]

I like how we're trying to talk about Christmas movies we like. And you keep trying to bring it back to when was the height of cocaine and cocaine facts.

[Ian Hecox]

Cocaine fact number two, your dick don't work.

[Courtney Miller]

Your dick don't work.

[Ian Hecox]

Have you heard that, Jim Jeffries? We're getting way too hot.

[Courtney Miller]

I love this.

[Shane Madej]

I do think this year also I'm gonna watch a bunch of the crappy netfl Christmas movies.

[Courtney Miller]

Nice.

[Shane Madej]

Because Christmas movies are the only thing that are allowed to be absolutely awful. But you can still enjoy it.

[Courtney Miller]

Do you see the Princess Switch?

[Shane Madej]

I have not watched. I have not watched A Christmas Prince, the Princess Switch, The Christmas or a Christmas. There's.

[Ian Hecox]

There's several Christmas Chronicle, which is that one that finally got me on frickin Netflix or Chill. That was such BS I'm still salty about.

[Shane Madej]

I remember it. Then there's one that's coming out to theaters with. With Khaleesi. It's Like a Christmas.

[Courtney Miller]

Emilia Clarke.

[Damien Haas]

It's out already. It's come and gone. It's came out. A couple people saw it and it's gone.

[Shane Madej]

Was it Let it Snow? It's Like a Christmas. It's Like a Christmas.

[Damien Haas]

It's last Christmas. They used the George Michael song to get you with it. Let it Snow came out two.

[Ian Hecox]

Two weeks ago.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, that's right. Yeah. I've been seeing ads on TikTok for it.

[Shane Madej]

So there's Let it Snow, there's Last Christmas. Boy, I really missed it.

[Courtney Miller]

You know, you can still watch it somewhere.

[Ian Hecox]

No, it's hard. It's hard to get me to watch Emilia Clarke outside of Khaleesi.

[Courtney Miller]

But she's a really talented actress. She's in the Stephen Hawking movie.

[Shane Madej]

She is? Really?

[Ian Hecox]

No, wait.

[Courtney Miller]

No, no, no.

[Shane Madej]

You're thinking of the other girl who was in the other Star wars movie.

[Courtney Miller]

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. There's.

[Shane Madej]

You think of the girl from Rogue One.

[Courtney Miller]

No, she was in thinking about Emilia Clarke, but there's a movie where she's in love with a Man in a wheelchair.

[Damien Haas]

Yep.

[Courtney Miller]

You know, I've seen clips of the movie. No, I'm Psycho.

[Damien Haas]

It's a real movie. It's another one that kind of came and went.

[Courtney Miller]

It exists.

[Ian Hecox]

I don't think. I don't think. No, I think.

[Damien Haas]

Sorry, I'm this dude. It's me before you.

[Shane Madej]

That is funny that she also had that when. Also, what's her name from Rogue One was in Theory of Everything.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. Felicity Jones.

[Shane Madej]

Yes.

[Ian Hecox]

She's great.

[Shane Madej]

She is really.

[Courtney Miller]

I like her.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

Ian, what do you think?

[Ian Hecox]

I cried. In Theory of Everything.

[Courtney Miller]

What do you do for Christmas, my guy?

[Ian Hecox]

I go. I go see my fam. And then we always, after Christmas, go up to the mountains and we have like, we stay up in the mountains through. Through New Year's, like, snowy area. Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

Wow, that's so cool.

[Ian Hecox]

My parents engage in the widest sporting activity ever called cross country skiing. It is the most bullshit activity ever invented.

[Courtney Miller]

How come?

[Ian Hecox]

Because. Well, let me explain. It's, you know, walking, right?

[Shane Madej]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

So it's like walking, but with skis on your feet.

[Shane Madej]

Oh, this is where you're on flat ground.

[Ian Hecox]

You're on flat ground.

[Courtney Miller]

It's like. It's like scootering, but it's skiing.

[Ian Hecox]

No, it's not like scootering, because scootering is fun.

[Courtney Miller]

But don't you, like, see amazing things?

[Shane Madej]

What do your parents enjoy about it? About this?

[Ian Hecox]

Well, because it's like getting out in the outdoors, like. Yeah. You're going through, like, the forest and stuff.

[Courtney Miller]

Like a snow hike.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, it's like a snow hike. Yeah. Yeah. It's like. I mean, there's. There's definitely things that are nice about it, but when you think skiing, you're thinking going downhill and having fun. And this is. This is like. It can be an actual workout. And it can also just be. I mean, like, when you see. When you've seen 50 trees, you've seen them all.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

Do you. Do you go. You go do this with them?

[Ian Hecox]

I do. I've been doing. I mean, I've been cross country skiing since I've been a little tot.

[Courtney Miller]

I didn't know that.

[Shane Madej]

One year old they gave you little skis.

[Ian Hecox]

Well, there's.

[Courtney Miller]

They're just rulers.

[Shane Madej]

Keep up or the grizzly bears will get you.

[Ian Hecox]

There's. There's, like, old photos of, like. Because we do it with, like, our family friends, and they all had kids, like, around our age, and there's one kid that was younger. And so when we were doing it and they started their kids like really young. Like one of them would tire out and then he would sit in the sled and he would get pulled along by them. So there's these really adorable photos. But I mean, it's like, it's fun, but it's like cross country skiing. A lot of it's like going up hills is, is a pain in the ass because you're on skis. So when you try to go up the hill, physics wants to just pull you back down the hill. Then you get like, maybe like 15 minutes of fun when you get like a little downhill and you're like, and I'm done. But it's nice, like get out in the woods, breathe some fresh cold air.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

You know, dust off a log and have a sandwich. You know, it's. Yeah, no, I mean, I talk a lot of shit, but, you know, it's. It's nice to get out and see. See nature stuff. I think that's important.

[Shane Madej]

Oh, hell yeah. I love pine trees. And especially like around Christmas time, being out in the forest is so fun.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. You throw a log on the fire, you know, wrap yourself up.

[Shane Madej]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Have yourself a hot cocoa. And also just like, the air is nice out there. Yeah. When it's not fire season, cold, crisp.

[Courtney Miller]

Air is the best.

[Ian Hecox]

And the stars. Oh, my God, the stars.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. Yeah. When you're out there. Yeah, I can imagine.

[Ian Hecox]

So I'll be looking forward to that. Yeah. It's really weird because like, with like Christmas, like on my mom's side, like her parents had multiple kids. They had many kids, but my mom was the only one from that family that actually ever had kids of her own. So it's like, it's like kind of this weird thing like on, on that side of the family. Like, it's always been like kind of a weird Christmas because it's. It was really only me and my sister were the kids and there was just a bunch of old people or older people. But, you know, when you're a child, when you're a child, everyone's 25 is.

[Courtney Miller]

Old when you're a kid.

[Ian Hecox]

That's why everyone in, you know, in the comments calls me dad.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, there he is. Papa Ian. Santa Ian.

[Ian Hecox]

I feel like my, my Christmas experience is probably a little bit different from, from, from others since usually people tend to pop out a lot of babies.

[Shane Madej]

I mean, for me, Christmases growing up, my brothers were a lot. Are a lot older than me, but we still had a few Christmases where they were still young enough. They were teenagers. And so there was still some stuff that they got, but I was like, the kid. And so I was freaking out on another level. But it was still fun because it was still, like, a family Christmas thing. There's one that really sticks out that just, like, my parents just did a great, awesome job with, like, not just, like, the presents they got me, but the way they laid it out all around the tree. So cool. And I very specifically, like, they perfectly splayed out three Pokemon safari packs.

[Ian Hecox]

Damn.

[Shane Madej]

Like, like, out in the center of it. And it just looked so cool. And like, one safari pack when I was a kid would have been. I would have been like, oh, my God.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

What's it like to be getting three packs of Pokemon cards when you're a kid? Blew my mind. I was like, I get to finish opening one, and then there's another, and then another. Oh, my God. And I think that was the. My brothers that. So I got that some awesome gifts like that. And then my brothers got an N64, which meant I got to play an N64. No, that was. That was earlier, but we got Diddy Kong racing that year.

[Ian Hecox]

Must be pretty nice to be in the 1%.

[Shane Madej]

It was pretty dope getting Pokemon cards and Diddy Kong racing.

[Courtney Miller]

I remember an awesome year. It wasn't, like, for me specifically, but I. Well, maybe I got some cool stuff too. Like, there was some crazy years where, like, we come out. One year, there was a Kawasaki little motorcycle for my little brothers. Like, just in the living room, and there's, like, all those big boxes everywhere.

[Ian Hecox]

A little mini bike?

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. It was just like a little motorcycle. They did. My little brothers and my. And some of my sisters, well, they did like bicycle racing, but my little brothers did like dirt bike racing. I know. I wish I could have had that too. Like, I think I'm gonna do that at some point in my life.

[Ian Hecox]

But you should ask your dad to get you a little motorcycle.

[Courtney Miller]

Just a little baby Kawasaki.

[Ian Hecox]

Make up for it.

[Courtney Miller]

My own mini bike. Yeah, I think I'm gonna get my own motorcycle soon.

[Ian Hecox]

I'd like you alive. I'd prefer.

[Courtney Miller]

You mean, like, dirt biking?

[Shane Madej]

You mean like a dirt bike to.

[Ian Hecox]

Ride off, but it would be a.

[Courtney Miller]

Dual sport, so it'd be street legal. So that it, like, hey, if I wanted to, like, ride somewhere really quick or like, oh, I want to take it to Parker, Arizona. Ride that long ass. Oh, be too hot. I can't do that. But something cool like that. I think just having one and dirt biking is so fun. I might even, like, want to try? No, probably not racing, but it's still cool. It's still really cool. And just like, it's like horseback riding, except for you're not hurting an animal and you feel like. Because when you're on a horse or on a motorcycle, you feel so, like, powerful and like just the world's under your feet.

[Shane Madej]

You're just going, yeah, just don't drive it on the highway.

[Courtney Miller]

I'll do whatever I want.

[Shane Madej]

Oh, God, it makes me so nervous.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, I wouldn't, I wouldn't.

[Ian Hecox]

Courtney. Just doing a wheelie, like down the highway 100 miles I go, just.

[Shane Madej]

It's just the most dangerous.

[Courtney Miller]

You don't do, don't do anything on a motorcycle you wouldn't do, like with a bicycle, you know, like, I won't, I won't do like a wheelie on a motorcycle if I don't know how to do it on a bicycle, you know?

[Shane Madej]

That makes sense.

[Courtney Miller]

Like, God damn. Got to learn step. Baby steps, boys.

[Ian Hecox]

Baby steps.

[Courtney Miller]

But yeah, that was really cool. My mom also really goes hard. So like I had Christmases at different houses each year with the divorced parents situation, which was actually kinda dope. Yeah, Two Christmas newsflash is actually sick. My mom one year, she sometimes had themes where she had. One year. Just remember in her apartment, the Christmas tree, she stuck a bunch of toy medieval swords through it. And so it was all decorated like that. And we got a lot of kind of medieval style gifts, but we used those swords all the time and hurt our hands all the time. Hitting each other's hands.

[Ian Hecox]

I'm convinced that both of your parents are trying to kill you.

[Courtney Miller]

Cuz they're plastic.

[Shane Madej]

Cuz your dad.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay.

[Courtney Miller]

What you think I. I said toy swords?

[Ian Hecox]

You said medieval swords.

[Courtney Miller]

I said toy swords.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay. Cuz your dad's buying like motorcycles. Your mom's buying swords.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

Here's a Komodo. Komodo dragon.

[Courtney Miller]

Go. Kids live on the edge.

[Ian Hecox]

Here's a smell bomb. Knock yourself out.

[Shane Madej]

Here's a flashbang. Figure it out.

[Ian Hecox]

Hey, here's a claymore.

[Courtney Miller]

No.

[Ian Hecox]

Have fun. Point it in that direction. Not at your face.

[Shane Madej]

Point it away.

[Courtney Miller]

Most of my gifts were like dolls or like toy makeup or like dollhouses or. My scene dolls.

[Ian Hecox]

My scene dolls.

[Courtney Miller]

My scene dolls. Okay, so there was Barbie and then there was Bratz.

[Ian Hecox]

Bratz.

[Courtney Miller]

And he was like, oh, shit, this is really cool. Teen preteen girls. And then Barbie was like, oh, well, we gotta compete with that. So they had like, what's your flava? Type of dolls. That totally tanked and they had my scene dolls that were Barbies with, like, slightly larger eyes, larger lips. Their hair was, like, chemically different the way it laid and was styled and stuff. And they had movies, cartoons. They were my favorite. I liked them more than Barbies. And I actually. My mom recently gave me an old backpack from my childhood, and it had a bunch of old, little household pieces from the my scene dolls. Like a tiki bar, little tiny drinks.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, this is, like, so it was.

[Courtney Miller]

Definitely Barbie's take on Bratz.

[Ian Hecox]

This is so obviously them trying to, like, shut down Bratz. That's so funny.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. Oh, it was all coming, dude. The toy industry is so, like, copycats. Like, Hasbro was, like, taking toys from Mattel and just, like, remolding them. Or it could be the other company ways around, but, like, toys go after that stuff.

[Shane Madej]

It's an insane industry.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

But I was obsessed with my scene dolls. And, like, the. The male dolls were way better looking than just their basic Ken doll, you know?

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, shh.

[Courtney Miller]

They had one guy named, like, Sutton, and he had, like, a little soul patch.

[Ian Hecox]

Like a huge doll.

[Courtney Miller]

They would have. Those were the. Those. Those were big dick energy Barbies, for sure.

[Ian Hecox]

He had a soul patch.

[Courtney Miller]

One of them did, but it wasn't, like, textured.

[Shane Madej]

They all just look like a cast of any season of Real World.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, my God. I will. I will show you pictures of the. Of the whole cast of my scene dolls. Like, because there was, like, all these different guys. There was noly Chelsea Barbie, and then there was, like, another blonde girl who was, like, the sporty blonde girl, and I was like, I relate to her. And then Sutton, there was a Ken, and the guys were all in a band together.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, that's amazing. This is, like. This is, like, Justin. From Justin to Kelly.

[Shane Madej]

That is literally Justin.

[Courtney Miller]

That's Bryant. Yeah. Yeah, they made him, like, Bryant.

[Shane Madej]

That character, the T. Oh, that sucks.

[Ian Hecox]

I love how they all have this ball chain necklace with doll tags. This is Sutton. Yep.

[Shane Madej]

This is all the most early 2000s thing I've ever seen.

[Courtney Miller]

They were dope, though. And, like, the pieces, like, I think that was the coolest thing about Barbies was, like, the little pieces you'd get with them. Like, the tiny cash register, the little computer. What are you laughing at? Who does it look like to you? Just whispered into the mic.

[Ian Hecox]

All right, we'll bleep it out. Sutton looks like the kind of guy that refuses to go down on a.

[Courtney Miller]

Bleep that. Don't bleep that.

[Ian Hecox]

We're not bleeping that out.

[Courtney Miller]

That's.

[Ian Hecox]

That's standard.

[Courtney Miller]

That's in. That is in.

[Shane Madej]

Yes. Sutton would be the one to refuse that and be like you. I'm not gay.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. Yeah. Bryant, though. Bryant definitely.

[Courtney Miller]

Hang on. I want to see.

[Ian Hecox]

Bryant is all about it.

[Courtney Miller]

Go to, like, search my scene dolls. Bryant, because it looks like. I think that character.

[Ian Hecox]

Did he changed.

[Courtney Miller]

No, it looks like they whitewashed him a lot. I think that they definitely did that with characters. Chelsea. No. Cause there was, like, Chelsea. The cast was really cool. There were 16 years old, and, like, they had a whole thing where they raised money by walking dogs and selling bracelets, and somehow they were able to pay for a trip to Jamaica. Sixteen by themselves.

[Shane Madej]

Every single Barbie doll, Disney character. All of them are super, super rich.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. But have you.

[Ian Hecox]

It's like, friends, you know?

[Courtney Miller]

Dude, those bar. They're so cool, man.

[Shane Madej]

I want a Barbie doll that drives a Honda Civic that she bought used.

[Ian Hecox]

Somebody did a drag. Did a drag of Brian.

[Courtney Miller]

That's awesome.

[Shane Madej]

Oh, that's really fun. I never thought about that.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, that's cool.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, that's the whole thing where they'll repaint them. Those were my life. I kept them until I was about 13, 14, and I never really played with them. You just, like, have them. Barbies were super controversial when they came out. Barbies were the first toy that was, like, anything that wasn't a baby for girls. It was, like, so controversial to have with boobs and, like, what kind of looks like a vagina butt, but, like, not really. They're just a ghost of one.

[Ian Hecox]

It's nearly enough to get. Get past.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. And when they were making the Ken dolls, I guess there was, like, multiple drafts of the male crotch and, like, some were, like, way too graphic. But, yeah, those. Those, like, shape a lot of girls, like, growing up with, like, style and, like, femininity and everything. Yeah. Like. So Pokemon Safari, Was that your favorite toy?

[Shane Madej]

It was just. It was just that I was, like, pumped about it that year because when they. When they were all the rage, they were the shit. They sold them everywhere. There was, you know, the vending machines for them all over the place. And I was all about it, but it was. It was a big deal. I remember going to game stores and, like.

[Courtney Miller]

Yep.

[Shane Madej]

And there'd be a line out the shop for Pokemon cards.

[Ian Hecox]

What was the big, like. Cause it seems like every, like, Christmas, there's, like, the gotta have it toy. What was the. What was the one this last year? I know, like, tsum Tsums, I feel like, were pretty.

[Shane Madej]

No I don't keep up on.

[Courtney Miller]

For real pets were so huge. Yeah, I don't keep up on that first, like, robot dragon dinosaur toy that, like, was, like, black and white and just, like, didn't even look like a dinosaur. Just like. Oh, yeah. Like, the animatronic toys were so cool when I was a kid.

[Shane Madej]

They were never that good, though. I remember there was the year where the. There was a couple years where, like, animatronic pet dogs were, like, all the rage. But then I think I did get one one year, but they were. It didn't do anything.

[Courtney Miller]

No. In your head, you think that they're just like a real dog, but it's a robot. You want them to be.

[Shane Madej]

You know what I had? You know what I had at one point? I got it for Christmas, and I wish I still had it because I would use it all the time. Now is I got a little RC car that was the Stuart Little car. And it had a little Stuart Little in the car. And I think now, and I'm like, God, if I had that. The amount of content we would film using little Stuart Little in his little car that I could drive around, it.

[Courtney Miller]

Was a mob control car.

[Shane Madej]

It was a remote control car that was. And had Stuart Little in it.

[Ian Hecox]

It was like a red car.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, the red convertible.

[Shane Madej]

I'm sure I could look it up now on Amazon. It's probably like a thousand dollars.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, that's iconic.

[Shane Madej]

It's.

[Courtney Miller]

I gotta be.

[Shane Madej]

I don't see it anymore. And it sold for, like, a year.

[Courtney Miller]

It's expensive because, like, they, you know, that they, like, that was what the. The time period where, like, they would put a lot of effort and, like, detail, like, attention to detail on toys. They were, like, good quality. So I don't. Oh, man, that'd be so cool to have.

[Shane Madej]

It'd just be so funny. Like.

[Courtney Miller]

And I put my Barbie next to me.

[Shane Madej]

I can tell you there's. We'd already have shot a video in there. I would have shot a video already where it's just. It's just me in my car. And then he pulls up next to mine, and I'm just like, fuck, that's.

[Courtney Miller]

A great Twitter video.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah, there's a lot of. There's a lot of tweets making fun of Stuart Little in his little red car. And I'm like, God, if only I had it.

[Courtney Miller]

Remember when he fell in love with a bird in the sequel?

[Shane Madej]

Remember how, like, they just didn't. The mom, like, gave birth to him, right?

[Courtney Miller]

No, they adopted him.

[Shane Madej]

They Adopted him.

[Courtney Miller]

They found him. They were looking for a kid at the orphanage and, like, and then they found a mouse and they see him reading a book in the corner.

[Shane Madej]

All these other kids at the orphanage are like, oh, great. Guess I don't get a family. That mouse did, though. Yep. That mouse got adopted. And I didn't.

[Ian Hecox]

Maybe those kids should have been reading.

[Courtney Miller]

And he sounded like middle aged. He's like a 20.

[Shane Madej]

Oh, it's Michael J.

[Courtney Miller]

Fox. Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, God.

[Shane Madej]

Hey, how old are you? 8.

[Ian Hecox]

Have you seen that? Have you seen that video of, like, the bus driver, like, throwing the kid out, the little person out of the.

[Courtney Miller]

Bus, and it's just, it ends up being a man.

[Ian Hecox]

It's a man dressed as a child.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah, I saw it.

[Courtney Miller]

It was planned. It had to be planned.

[Shane Madej]

A plan?

[Ian Hecox]

You think it was planned?

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, yeah. Like, the camera reveal everything.

[Ian Hecox]

I thought it was like, just some pervert.

[Courtney Miller]

I, I, that's what, that's what, like, the story makes sense, but, like, the camera reveal when they're like, that's not a kid. And he just like, is there just presenting.

[Ian Hecox]

I don't think you can plan. I don't think you could plan that, man. I don't know either way. What I'm trying to get at is Stuart Little is a pervert.

[Courtney Miller]

Stuart Little is a pervert.

[Ian Hecox]

He's posing as a child.

[Courtney Miller]

A family goes into an orphanage looking for a child. They look over, they see this mouse smoking a cigarette and he's like, hey, this is grown man compared to all these kids. That's how I envision it.

[Ian Hecox]

And how did he get his car?

[Courtney Miller]

They got him, like a remote control car, but he could also somehow drive it. It was like. And then the boat. Remember the boat?

[Shane Madej]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

So cool.

[Ian Hecox]

Is Paddington a Christmas movie?

[Shane Madej]

I don't know, but I hear they're like, the best movies ever made.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, I hear they're spectacular.

[Shane Madej]

I've never seen them, but people say that Paddington 2 was arguably the best movie.

[Courtney Miller]

Have you seen it?

[Damien Haas]

Yeah, they're really good.

[Courtney Miller]

Really?

[Shane Madej]

I've heard they're super good.

[Courtney Miller]

I can't get into it.

[Shane Madej]

Have you started it one? No, no, I just got a shot.

[Courtney Miller]

Like, the marketing. I'm just like, what is he? Okay.

[Shane Madej]

It's a kids movie, but apparently, like, really solid plot, though.

[Ian Hecox]

Hmm. How does one get a rain jacket that small?

[Shane Madej]

I just want him to be added to the Fast and Furious universe.

[Courtney Miller]

Put him in smash.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, yeah. Paddington in smash.

[Shane Madej]

Arguably, Stuart Little and his little red car could be in Fast and the Furious. Just be Honest.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, yeah.

[Shane Madej]

They could really use him. He could get into places, you know, go undetected.

[Courtney Miller]

I would love a Frankenstein ass movie with just everything in it.

[Shane Madej]

It'd be pretty cool. They should just do, like, the fan. The fan fiction movie. Yeah, Everything happens. Well, I guess. I guess Ready? Player one was attempting.

[Courtney Miller]

Well, that was. But also there's movies like. Like. Like, you know, like, scary movie, like the comedies, where they, like, kind of Frankenstein. A lot of stuff together. Referencing stuff.

[Ian Hecox]

Disney can do it since they own practically everything.

[Courtney Miller]

Imagine like, Transformers, Fast and Furious. Stuart Little.

[Shane Madej]

Well, I've been. I've been fighting for a Transformers Slash Fast and Furious crossover that makes perfect sense. But I am. I am actually surprised that Disney has not started to make a Disney Princess universe because they've established that a lot of them are in the same universe. I'm like, why don't you make up if they came up with a movie that they're like, hey, here's our next movie. It's gonna be Elsa teams up with Rapunzel. Yeah, no, I bet everybody be like, I would go see it.

[Courtney Miller]

There's a lot of references in the Frozen two. I heard that there's, like, a lot of stuff that, like, kind of ties their universe with the tangled universe even more.

[Ian Hecox]

I wonder if they're gonna need to probably pretty soon because they're running out of their live actions to cover. Like.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, they don't need it. They don't need to. They don't need to keep doing the live actions.

[Shane Madej]

I just think it'd be. I just think it'd be cool for them to start connecting those.

[Ian Hecox]

Those universes.

[Courtney Miller]

They have those. Disney has those phases where they mash up things. Like, you know, like the Disney shows where it's like, that's so Raven, Hannah Montana, and all those shows kind of have an episode where everyone's together.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, like, yeah.

[Shane Madej]

Disney Channel.

[Ian Hecox]

Disney Channel.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. So they done it and they did, you know, wreck It Ralph breaks the Internet.

[Shane Madej]

I think with Disney plus, they're more likely, I feel like, now to do it than ever.

[Courtney Miller]

I would love that Christmas special because.

[Shane Madej]

Their whole thing now is connected universes, because Marvel's a whole connected universe now. They're kind of doing it with Star Wars. I think they're gonna. They're gonna do it with. It makes sense for them to do it with Disney or a Pixar connected universe.

[Courtney Miller]

I mean, or we. We can make one.

[Shane Madej]

Wow. Smosh. Connecting universe. I want you smoke making bamboo.

[Courtney Miller]

It makes you kind of me.

[Shane Madej]

I know.

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[Courtney Miller]

How dare you say hoohoo at me in my hoohoo beanie.

[Ian Hecox]

Smash that store.

[Courtney Miller]

Smash that store. Go. Shane. You. Shane. Smash that store.

[Ian Hecox]

Did you just say smash Go.

[Shane Madej]

Hey, Smosh Go fuck Shane.

[Ian Hecox]

Available now at Smosh store. Shane, you can fuck him.

[Courtney Miller]

The bundle package. You get a beanie, a hoodie, and you get to fuck a free.

[Ian Hecox]

Shane. Fuck.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah, this is.

[Courtney Miller]

I'm sorry. It was an accident.

[Damien Haas]

How much would that cost?

[Ian Hecox]

Shane, how much would it cost? Shane, how much would your body cost?

[Courtney Miller]

You wouldn't ask me that.

[Ian Hecox]

No, but I will.

[Courtney Miller]

30,000 guys.

[Ian Hecox]

Shane, how much do you think you'd be worth?

[Shane Madej]

Just my nude body just standing awkwardly in the smosh door. You just go through, it's like, there's the beanie, there's the hoodie. There's Shane's entire me just standing awkwardly naked.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh my God.

[Ian Hecox]

Shane, do you think you'd be worth more now or as a virgin?

[Courtney Miller]

What? What is that? What the fuck? Again, wouldn't ask me that question. Yeah, let's ask Shane the piece of meat.

[Shane Madej]

Look, we can have me on there, but you have to be right. Also like scroll down and there's Ian's naked.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, it's got like a price, but then it's crossed out. And then in red. It's on sale.

[Ian Hecox]

It's on clearance.

[Shane Madej]

Christmas special.

[Courtney Miller]

Special editions.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, you can. You can even like there's a little drop down menu of like how much body hair you want.

[Courtney Miller]

Black. Black Friday sale.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, Black hole sale.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh my God. Is getting worse. Why are we encouraging him?

[Shane Madej]

It's Christmas day.

[Courtney Miller]

It's Christmas day. Merry Christmas. Your gift. Our bodies.

[Ian Hecox]

I feel like I'm high right now and I'm definitely not.

[Courtney Miller]

No.

[Shane Madej]

That's something high for a little on.

[Ian Hecox]

High on my favorite coffee.

[Shane Madej]

You have sparkling water in there.

[Courtney Miller]

Guys, I feel actually a little bit high on life because it's the end of the year. We got a lot to look forward to in 2020. Do you guys have any New Year's Resolutions for. For the next year.

[Ian Hecox]

Should we say that for the New Year's podcast?

[Shane Madej]

This is the New Year's podcast.

[Damien Haas]

You're gonna see anybody.

[Shane Madej]

Ian, Everything's over after this one.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, the end of the world is. And wait, what's the song? Never mind.

[Shane Madej]

REM yeah, that's a good question. Any news? Resolutions?

[Courtney Miller]

What do you guys get as you first.

[Shane Madej]

Do you have any revolutions? Do you have any revolutions? Ian?

[Ian Hecox]

I want to make more friends.

[Courtney Miller]

Me too. Hey, me too.

[Ian Hecox]

No, not you, Shane.

[Courtney Miller]

No Shane.

[Ian Hecox]

No Shane. It's just us. Yeah. Yeah. No, I think. I think that'd be a positive development for my. For my mental well being.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. Stop. Stop making work your only friend.

[Ian Hecox]

Damn, Courtney.

[Shane Madej]

Wow.

[Courtney Miller]

I didn't mean that to be mean.

[Ian Hecox]

I didn't say. I didn't.

[Courtney Miller]

I meant that in a caring.

[Ian Hecox]

I didn't say I didn't have any.

[Courtney Miller]

No, but it's like your priority friend. You know, it's the friend that you make sure all your time, or any time is dedicated to it.

[Shane Madej]

We don't want to be Scrooges.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

Just focused on.

[Ian Hecox]

I want to travel more. I got a trip. I got a trip to Iceland planned out. I've also got a trip doing like a. Like a Subaru winter driving event. So I'm be getting in some cars and doing some stupid things on the ice.

[Courtney Miller]

What if we kissed at the Subaru driving winter event? Sorry. That's a meme anyway. Sorry.

[Ian Hecox]

It's a good meme. I want to have more things. More things in my life to, like, look forward to other than just like, smosh stuff, which is great. I think there's a lot of things with smosh that I look forward to, but things that aren't directly related to, like, work.

[Shane Madej]

I definitely feel that I need to build a life outside of my work as well, because I do not have one.

[Courtney Miller]

It's tough. It's tough because we want to dedicate as much as we can to what we do. You know, a lot of people depend on it.

[Ian Hecox]

Sometimes I think there's. I mean. Yeah. I mean, you can dedicate a lot of time to it, but then. But then also, like, you. You can always make time for something. You just. You just have to be. You just have to be focused on and want it. Yeah. Yeah. And I think, you know, setting goals is. Is. Is a really big. A really big part of that. And I'm terrible at setting goals.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

I'm terrible at just like, getting things done. And I think especially with like. Oh, like setting the setting, the sort of mandate of, like, oh, I need to travel more. If I don't actually, like, set a date and buy those tickets, it'll, you know, like, that it'll be another year. So that's.

[Shane Madej]

That was this year for me.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

Well, I mean, completely went by, but.

[Ian Hecox]

I mean, Shane, you had, like, Goldbergs. You were also finishing school. Like, now you got schools out of the way. That's one thing.

[Shane Madej]

Mm. So it will be easier. Yeah. I actually. I couldn't plan anything this year. Like, I. Looking ahead, I was like, ah, there's no. There's not a week.

[Ian Hecox]

But also. But also, there is. There is a week. Like, Smosh will. Smosh will continue on if. If, you know, one of us is missing for a week. Like, if you think, like, you know, we've all been sick from time to time. We haven't been able to come into work from time to time. Is Smosh still around?

[Shane Madej]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

It's unfortunate that it worked out this way, but on the week that I'm leaving for Iceland, that's a shoot week. So I will not be in Smosh sketches for about a month or so, because I'm missing. I'm missing on the days that we are shooting that whole month of content. So I will not be in sketches for viewers.

[Courtney Miller]

No need to freak out.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. I'm just. I'm just living my best life.

[Courtney Miller]

He's getting the vacation he deserves.

[Ian Hecox]

Staring at the northern lights, sitting in some hot mineral baths.

[Shane Madej]

Oh, nice.

[Ian Hecox]

Looking at some tundras. I don't know what else you do in Iceland. Eat some, Skyr.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, eat some.

[Shane Madej]

Good. That's a skier this morning.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

Mm.

[Ian Hecox]

I'm gonna go look.

[Shane Madej]

Cross country skier.

[Ian Hecox]

I'm gonna go look for some Yule lads.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah. Find those Yule lads. Oh, skier gobbler.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, Skier gobbler. I just. I just took a DNA test.

[Shane Madej]

Turns out I'm 100% skier gobbler.

[Ian Hecox]

So we had just actually recently done spelling bikini wax. A Christmas theme. Spelling bikini wax. And we kept getting these things that were like. Like Icelandic folklore, and everything was like, a Yule lad who does this. So I just got one. I just came across this one on Twitter, and I had to show you, Shane, because you were. You were in it.

[Shane Madej]

Were you in that 41? Strange. I saw this one.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. The Yule cat. It's a monster from Icelandic folklore. A huge and vicious cat said to lurk about the snowy countryside during Christmas time and eat people who have not received any new clothes to wear before Christmas.

[Shane Madej]

Eve, I think Iceland has a bunch of really crazy demons and stuff because there's. They're just not afraid of much in Iceland because there's like no crime.

[Courtney Miller]

It's terrifying.

[Ian Hecox]

There's also just not a lot of people.

[Shane Madej]

There's like 10 people there and they're all like, ah, better be careful. That Yule cat.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, I want to travel. I really want travel this year to set a date.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, we're also, we're also going to be. Because you know we're talking about, you know, hashtag mental health and everything like self care. We're looking, we're looking ahead through this year and we're gonna find a couple like dark weeks that we're not going to put content out and we're gonna take that time for ourselves. Cause that's important.

[Courtney Miller]

It is important. We're gonna Dolan Twin it a couple times a year.

[Ian Hecox]

Dolan twin it is that they do.

[Courtney Miller]

Well. They had that hour long video come out where they announced that they're no longer gonna be uploading every week because it's been like destroying their lives.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Relatable?

[Courtney Miller]

Not really, but so they found it like as a huge deal because they've been making videos just them too. I mean they have their help and everything but it's like it's all that, it's all them too. Yeah. So they're. So they announced that they're gonna be like not uploading as often.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

For their, for their own sanity.

[Ian Hecox]

I mean I think that's important. That's why we want to do these dark weeks just so like everyone can take a break. And as a result like I think you know, you guys at home are going to get better content as a result because you can't, you can't just work forever non stop until you die. Like that's not, that's not the way to live. I'm not saying that like that's not the way don't work. But I'm just saying like you know, you gotta pepper in, you gotta pepper in some you time, some decompression time, some not work time and try to live that life that we're all. Because otherwise what are you working for?

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, I hope to get a Hawaii vacation this coming year. I want to try and get a Europe trip as well. So it's gonna be interesting figuring out when.

[Ian Hecox]

Let me know where you go in Hawaii. I got some wrecks.

[Courtney Miller]

I love Honolulu so much.

[Ian Hecox]

I got a lot of food wrecks. Mari just went there and I hit her with my list. My List of food places that I got from my rental car guy.

[Courtney Miller]

And you're on Oahu, are those.

[Ian Hecox]

Uh huh.

[Courtney Miller]

I just. I wonder if I should try a new island.

[Ian Hecox]

You should go to Kai.

[Courtney Miller]

Maui is amazing.

[Ian Hecox]

Maui's cool. Maui's got a good mix of like nature and like population.

[Courtney Miller]

But I want to go for like a week, a long time.

[Ian Hecox]

Kawaii is my favorite.

[Shane Madej]

I've heard Kauai is the chillest one.

[Ian Hecox]

It is. Well, I think like Molokai might be the like the least people, but. But Kauai is chill as heck. And the Poly coast is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen with my eyeballs. Holy crap. It's the Nepali coast on Kauai. Oh my God.

[Shane Madej]

When's the best time to go to go to Hawaii?

[Ian Hecox]

It's on the equator, so it's kind.

[Shane Madej]

Of the same all year, right?

[Courtney Miller]

I mean people go for Christmas. Actually. People go to Hawaii for Christmas.

[Ian Hecox]

Well, that's because also it's a, it's. It's a less like not as many people are traveling during, during that time, I think. So I think generally it's a better time to go.

[Shane Madej]

Maka kaliki maca. Am I right?

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. Humahuma nuka nuka apa wa.

[Courtney Miller]

That's racist.

[Ian Hecox]

No, it's the state fish.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh yeah. I look forward to a healthy year. Yeah, hopefully.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. What do you. How are you gonna make that happen?

[Courtney Miller]

Well, because I don't want to fully talk about what I went through this year yet. Not until like that stuff's over.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, yeah, sure.

[Courtney Miller]

But like I'm really looking forward to being healthy. I don't know. And I'm gonna go hard in fitness again. And I've been trying to do yoga for forever. I've been trying to get Kevin to train me. Cause this boy's strong. Kevin and Shane arm wrestled once and they were perfectly matched.

[Ian Hecox]

They were.

[Courtney Miller]

They both hurt their arms. It was crazy. Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

You guys went for like three minutes straight.

[Courtney Miller]

Boy, that was insane. Because I didn't know what to expect.

[Ian Hecox]

I just want to throw it out there.

[Shane Madej]

A crater. A crater beneath us by the end. Just.

[Courtney Miller]

It's like when what's in the movie when like Iron man and Hulk punch like that. It's like that happened, bro.

[Ian Hecox]

Or like anything from Dragon Ball Z.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah, it was very Dragon Ball Z.

[Courtney Miller]

You're both glowing.

[Ian Hecox]

I just want to put it out there. I did, did beat Damien.

[Courtney Miller]

Really?

[Shane Madej]

Whoa.

[Ian Hecox]

Just put it out there.

[Courtney Miller]

I lost.

[Ian Hecox]

What's up, Damien? Come at me. I also beat Our assistant Nancy, she.

[Courtney Miller]

She like looks like she could be my ass. She. She's strong.

[Ian Hecox]

She could be. She could beat my ass.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Easily.

[Shane Madej]

Nancy's personality is the toughest out of everybody.

[Courtney Miller]

She's a strong.

[Shane Madej]

She's like. She's. She is the most like I believe in like a certain situations. Nancy be able to be like. Like the strongest to stand up for everybody. And like I see that she's very New York City. Like you can tell she spent time in New York City because like she. I think she grew up there.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, yeah.

[Shane Madej]

So she.

[Ian Hecox]

And she's got Long Island.

[Shane Madej]

She's got that vibe.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, she's got vibes. When you go through winters like that toughens you as a person.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, dude.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, dude.

[Shane Madej]

That's what's up.

[Courtney Miller]

New York.

[Ian Hecox]

New York. New York.

[Courtney Miller]

New York. New York City, New York.

[Ian Hecox]

Hot dog.

[Courtney Miller]

New York.

[Shane Madej]

Christmas, New York.

[Courtney Miller]

Shout out to the Christmas. New York.

[Ian Hecox]

Baseball, Yankees, Star Wars.

[Courtney Miller]

Baseball.

[Ian Hecox]

The Nets.

[Shane Madej]

Ah yeah. Good old Yankees.

[Ian Hecox]

You know, nuts for nuts. The original halal guys. Isn't that where elf takes place too?

[Shane Madej]

Yeah, Elf takes place. And that's New York.

[Ian Hecox]

Home alone to New York City. Subways. Donald Trump, King Kong.

[Shane Madej]

We took him down.

[Courtney Miller]

We won.

[Ian Hecox]

You know, you don't go up against. You don't go up against New York.

[Shane Madej]

You try to take on New York, New York's gonna take you down. Home of the Teenage Mutant Home of.

[Courtney Miller]

The Turtles, Spider Man, New York.

[Shane Madej]

Any sort of animal. We got em four or more legs. Street sharks probably here.

[Ian Hecox]

Street sharks was it though?

[Shane Madej]

Maybe Suicide Squad's Gotham. Never mind The Avengers. They're here.

[Courtney Miller]

They're here. New York gangsters.

[Ian Hecox]

Only in New York.

[Shane Madej]

So only in New York. For some reason, every single villain and giant creature only attacks New York City.

[Courtney Miller]

New York City so crazy it gives Iron man panic attacks.

[Shane Madej]

Look, think about Cloverf. If that monster had come onto shore, any other part of the entire continent, it would not have been as crazy. It happened to perfectly show up. Right? Right. In New York City, New York. A couple square miles it managed to nail.

[Ian Hecox]

You wanna know how crazy New York City is? They call it the Big Apple. You ever seen an apple in New York? You ever seen an apple tree?

[Shane Madej]

They are illegal in New York City. Everybody knows that apples are illegal in New York City.

[Ian Hecox]

It's true. They got tunnels, they got bridges. But they don't got big apples.

[Shane Madej]

That's right. And if you have an Adam's apple, get at it. Only smooth. Next in New York.

[Ian Hecox]

$1 pizza.

[Courtney Miller]

$Pizza.

[Ian Hecox]

That is actually Robert de Niro eggplants.

[Shane Madej]

Are sentient in New York.

[Ian Hecox]

The original Halal guys.

[Courtney Miller]

The original Halal guys, not even based.

[Ian Hecox]

Off of a real cuisine.

[Courtney Miller]

They got a big ass. Macy's.

[Ian Hecox]

Large Macy's on Fifth Avenue. The one and only Fifth Avenue. Breakfast at Tiffany's. Nothing like New York is what I say. You just, you get a big New.

[Courtney Miller]

York will make you feel brand new. This world will inspire you.

[Ian Hecox]

The wet dream Tomato.

[Shane Madej]

New York City. The Windy City. Home of the potatoes.

[Ian Hecox]

That's right.

[Shane Madej]

New York City.

[Ian Hecox]

City of trees.

[Shane Madej]

That's right. City of trees.

[Courtney Miller]

City of Angels.

[Ian Hecox]

City of. City of stars.

[Courtney Miller]

Hey.

[Shane Madej]

Guys, this bit, best bit we've ever done.

[Courtney Miller]

Best bit we are a comedy podcast.

[Ian Hecox]

New York is the north of Jersey.

[Courtney Miller]

I love New York.

[Ian Hecox]

George Washington Bridge.

[Courtney Miller]

Do you have any New Year's resolutions, Shane?

[Shane Madej]

Yeah, after that one. God, I mean, kind of a lot of stuff Ian said. Honestly, I would say also I need. I want to get better about keeping in touch with people.

[Ian Hecox]

LaGuardia Airport. Sorry, we're done with that bit.

[Shane Madej]

No, we can keep it going. No making plans with people more. And I think just every day trying to find like, trying to find the positive. Cause there are days that are so stressful that it's just like, oh, everything is not great. And then I watch the news and everything's not great and I'm just like, okay, I gotta find something that I gotta be that I can be positive about just finding. Being more grateful.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. I feel like this year I focused a lot on me and my me time and like my own time, like at home, self care and stuff like that. I feel like now it's. Now this is the year where it's like I'm focusing on me and getting myself out there because I did all my healing and care within. And now it's time to do. Get out of here.

[Ian Hecox]

Get outta here. Hey, I'm walking here.

[Courtney Miller]

I'm walking here. Say self care.

[Shane Madej]

New York City, home of the Subaru Outback. New York City, where Bloomin onions first landed. First landed from the moon.

[Courtney Miller]

This is home of the sexiest copper woman. Statue of Liberty.

[Shane Madej]

That's right.

[Ian Hecox]

Isn't that technically in New Jersey though?

[Courtney Miller]

Nope. She's riding the Big Apple on top.

[Ian Hecox]

Of the top of the Big Apple.

[Shane Madej]

She's green, just like money. When money comes from New York City, money starts here on Money street.

[Ian Hecox]

Next to Wall Street.

[Courtney Miller]

Times Square.

[Ian Hecox]

Times Square, home of the. The place where all the prostitutes used to be and all the strip clubs and drug dealers. Times Square. Not a great place to be in the 80s.

[Courtney Miller]

Times Square, home to Ryan Seacrest once a year.

[Ian Hecox]

And Ninja doing the. The. The floss.

[Courtney Miller]

And Mariah Carey I love actually is not in New York. That's in the uk.

[Shane Madej]

Finnerty at this point is just like, wow.

[Damien Haas]

I'm just curious how long you guys can do it for.

[Ian Hecox]

Like, what?

[Damien Haas]

Do you have any music? I'm holding back because I'm curious because like right now we're probably at six minutes. Last podcast of the year. Like, fuck it, we can end it this way.

[Shane Madej]

Or if you guys.

[Damien Haas]

20 minutes in yours.

[Courtney Miller]

Hey, this podcast is a gift to you.

[Shane Madej]

New York City. Merry Christmas, New York City. If you sneeze and slap yourself in the face, you'll a nickel. New York City.

[Courtney Miller]

Welcome. Merry Christmas from New York.

[Ian Hecox]

Captain Phillips.

[Shane Madej]

New York City, the famous place where John Wilkes Booth defeated the Confederacy.

[Courtney Miller]

New York, the birthplace of the Three Musketeers bar.

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[Courtney Miller]

I'm actually crying. Can we stop?

[Shane Madej]

Yeah. I don't.

[Courtney Miller]

I don't know if this is even funny.

[Shane Madej]

Ian. For those listening on the pod. Ian's just staring off. His soul has left his body.

[Courtney Miller]

Whoa.

[Ian Hecox]

New Amsterdam. What? It was called first because it was first founded by the. The Dutch.

[Shane Madej]

It wasn't. Is that. Is that a real fact?

[Ian Hecox]

True.

[Courtney Miller]

What. What was New Hampshire's original name or something like that? There was an old name.

[Ian Hecox]

New York was New Amsterdam.

[Courtney Miller]

That's right.

[Ian Hecox]

The Dutch used to own it.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, yeah. I used to think it sounded like Hamsterdam, New York, home of the hamsters.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, you think it's called.

[Shane Madej]

I'm sorry, we're back.

[Damien Haas]

I'm sorry, do you guys have a last topic?

[Courtney Miller]

Yes.

[Ian Hecox]

You want to do? Yeah. I want to say it's not. It's not Houston, it's Hoston. Right? Guys, what was not Greenwich? It's Greenwich.

[Shane Madej]

What was like the highlight from 2019?

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. Let's get it.

[Shane Madej]

Let's go. Nice. Let's get away from New York.

[Ian Hecox]

Let's talk about what if the highlight took place in New York?

[Courtney Miller]

Hey, guess what? My favorite thing.

[Shane Madej]

What was your favorite. What was your favorite pizza place of 2019?

[Ian Hecox]

Wow. Wow. Way to keep it on break.

[Shane Madej]

That's right.

[Courtney Miller]

We had a couple things this year that I'm very happy about, very excited about, very accomplished. I came out as not straight in February. March. That's pretty crazy. This year is jam packed with events from being kind of gay to being kind of in a Shane Dawson documentary. That's my life.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

I mean, you were in it. That's pretty cool. I was smelling Shane. Shane Dawson's palette.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

In. In his doc.

[Courtney Miller]

That's a crazy highlight. That's like a. That's up there.

[Ian Hecox]

That's cool.

[Courtney Miller]

Did not expect that. What about you?

[Ian Hecox]

I mean. I mean, we. We got Smosh back this year, so. Yeah, that's pretty.

[Shane Madej]

I mean.

[Courtney Miller]

I mean. Yeah. What was the. The date that, like, what's the anniversary?

[Ian Hecox]

I think it's February 2nd. Second.

[Courtney Miller]

Really?

[Ian Hecox]

I think that's when we.

[Courtney Miller]

Because my first day was February 4th.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, I think that. I think we closed on February 2nd.

[Shane Madej]

And mine was a. Was mine like a week or so later, or did we start the same day?

[Courtney Miller]

I think we all had February 4th on paper.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah. I remember when we first started because it was an empty office, like, because it was just like, oh, yeah, we're starting this thing back up. And we got back, and then slowly we started to get everybody back. It was really cool. And it's weird to now see it.

[Courtney Miller]

I have a lot of videos from those early days. I was just, like, filming you guys.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah, it's weird.

[Courtney Miller]

Look at those.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, it's been a hard year. It's. I think it's honestly been like, the.

[Courtney Miller]

Hardest year for me in terms of, like.

[Shane Madej]

But you took on a lot more responsibilities this year than ever.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, I mean, like, I think that it turned out as. As best as it possibly could. I mean, I think. I think, you know, getting so many people back and getting it to where it's at now is incredible. I mean, it's awesome, but it took a lot out of me. This has been a real, real son of a bitch of a year, but I'm glad it happened.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. I think the first year at any business, any new business, is not easy.

[Ian Hecox]

I mean, it's like the first year, but it's also our 14th year.

[Courtney Miller]

But, you know, it was your first year. Being the number one, being the president of this company. And it's like. It's not like we're at the hands of a company that just had invisible money, you know, like, this is. It's. It's been us. It's been. When you put so much of yourself into what you do and into your work, there's no doubt you're gonna feel fatigue and, like, it took a lot out of you. Like, hell yeah. If you didn't feel that way, I think something was wrong with you.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, I think it's. I think it's fatigue, but it's also just like.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, it's.

[Ian Hecox]

It's. I don't know. It's just. It took a lot. And I'm still. Still trying to find my sort of, like, happiness and stuff. But it's like, this was the first year where. Because, I mean, everything, like, obviously, like, we put. I feel like maybe I've already talked about this on the podcast, but I feel like, you know, everything. Everything before this just kind of, like, worked out. Like, I'm a pretty go with the flow kind of guy. But everything did just kind of, like, fall into place as we went along with it. It. And this was the first time that, like, I had to, like, really. I realized that, like, oh, like, this could not go. This could possibly not go the way that I could have ever imagined. And, you know, it made me really question a lot of things and question my place in life and everything. So it was. It was. It was a really rough year for me, but I think it's moving in the right direction. For sure.

[Courtney Miller]

That's good.

[Ian Hecox]

For sure. Just like, both. Both personally and professionally, I feel.

[Courtney Miller]

I feel a similar version of that where it's like, I, like, burnout was like the key word for me this year of, like, we go, go, go. Cause like, the Internet, it never stops. Everything is always happening, and it makes me terrified. Cause we, like, we want to keep up to date with comedy and what's cool. And we work every day. There's no breaks. There's no season breaks or hiatuses like TV shows. And so sometimes you. To think about yourself or put the time in that you may require. So then all of a sudden, you're in a really bad place emotionally. That's how I was. Where it's like. And you don't know why, because you've been working so hard and everything around you is going good. But all of a sudden you're like, what's wrong with me? It's like, oh, because everything's been happening so fast. I haven't stopped and taken a deep breath and been present and just enjoying what's around us because it's hard. You wanna. Because we wanna. I mean, I myself am always trying to be better and trying to like somehow be the. My best version of myself. And so it. So I'm always focusing on the negative of what can improve in me or what I can fix around me. And it's exhausting.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. I don't know, it's. I feel like also I'm just. It's just. Cause I'm just juggling different roles. Like, you know, I'm. Yeah, like technically, yeah, I'm the boss, but then also I have to be your guys co worker, but I'm also your friend. So it's like, it's a lot of, it's a lot of different, different roles to, to balance and I don't. Don't ever want to feel like I'm betraying anyone. But you know, I have, I have a job that, that I now have to do.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

So it's like, it's. It's put a. It's put a lot of pressure on, on sort of the decisions that I have to make or will have to make. And it's. Yeah, it's been, it's been really strange. But.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, because you're no longer just like a creative. You're. You're like. You're a lot more involved in like the business side, like even more so than ever.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. And it's like I, I don't. I never, I never really saw myself as being in this position, but I also in this situation don't see anyone being a better fit for.

[Courtney Miller]

For it.

[Ian Hecox]

So it's like that's, that's my justification for like, well, I need to, I need to be here.

[Courtney Miller]

Like, this is your calling.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I don't know calling. Like, it's just like. It's like this, this is the situation we've been put in and, and I'm gonna make. I'm gonna try to make the most of it and try to be a, you know, positive influence and try to, you know, do the best that I can. And that's honestly all I can really. You know, hopefully.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, you gotta make sure you're excited about what you're doing. Cause I mean, technically you're Ian. You're kinda like the Jeffree star of Smosh. You're a boss ass bitch. You run a company, you put out tons of content and product all the time. You. You're fucking leading this. No, no, let me finish. Honey, I'm gassing you up. Okay, Queen.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay.

[Courtney Miller]

You have an office that you sit in and a bunch of people that respect you. And you are learning. We're all learning. Still, one year is not enough time. And look at this.

[Ian Hecox]

I know. My favorite coffee is pretty sweet.

[Courtney Miller]

You gotta go. Look at that. Look what's on you. Look what's gonna happen in February.

[Shane Madej]

I'm your son. You made me.

[Courtney Miller]

I think that's what I need to do is stopping and looking around like what we did.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, I think that's important. I think it's important, you know, for anybody to kind of take a second and recognize like we're doing now and sort of like, recognize the good things that are around us and the things that we're proud of and try to find a purpose for yourself. Like, not like your purpose as a human being, but, like, what's your purpose in what you're doing right now and who are you doing it for and why are you doing it? Yeah, I think that's really important. That's what I've been trying to go after.

[Courtney Miller]

I mean, like I said, this job is very go, go, go. So you gotta put the effort in to stop and, like, look around.

[Ian Hecox]

So I guess you're right. I am like the Jeffree star. Except I haven't said the N word on a video.

[Courtney Miller]

No, no, Close. I'll stop, but not that. Good job. Hey, kudos. Congratulations, Ian, you didn't say the N word.

[Shane Madej]

You know, if I had to think of what Ian's greatest achievement is, it's probably never saying the N word. It's probably that he's never said that.

[Courtney Miller]

We'll make you a plaque.

[Shane Madej]

Has never said the N word.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, we're gonna throw a surprise ceremony.

[Ian Hecox]

Somebody's gonna, like, deep fake me now saying, oh, my God somewhere.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, boy. Then you would. Yeah, deep fakes are not fun.

[Ian Hecox]

So. Okay, so I said what you said.

[Courtney Miller]

What do you want to. What you wanna. You. Well, we were looking back on the highlights of this year.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, looking back at the highlights and.

[Courtney Miller]

And then you said this was kind of a lot of. There was a lot of low lights.

[Ian Hecox]

Honestly, like, I think. I think the highlight for me, the Shane graduation thing was. Was just so cool.

[Courtney Miller]

When is that out? When was that out?

[Shane Madej]

I think it's out already. It's out now. Okay. Well, dang. That was the thing I was gonna say.

[Ian Hecox]

I know. Sorry. Well, you talk about it.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, you.

[Shane Madej]

Well, obviously it was a very different perspective for me, because it was a complete surprise. I sincerely did not see it coming at all. And I've. The other times I've been pranked on the channel, I had an inkling. Like, I had a small inkling that I'm like, oh, something feels off. Whereas that day was a completely normal day. I was not expecting anything. I didn't think we were shooting a video. I didn't think anything was going on. So I walked into what I thought was going to be a meeting and then had that all thrown at me. And it was so cool. And I was so immediately just so happy by it. Like, it just cheered me up so much. And the whole thing was so cool. And it really did give me a moment to like. Because it wasn't a shoot that I was, like, planning for or I wasn't in my head about it. It was just happening. And I was able to suddenly look and be like, holy crap, look at this place that we're at and the stuff that we do and these people I work with. And it was really great. And yeah, it was cool to have that moment. And, you know, I want to. Yeah. Finding those moments more will be. Be great. And, you know, I think I wished I could have had that night last so much longer because, you know, we kind of had to go home and then get ready because then we filmed the next day and then that's the way things kind of can go sometimes is we move so fast.

[Ian Hecox]

We hung out for a little bit, had a couple drinks.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah, it was. No, it was incredible. It's just our lives are so crazy sometimes that. That I don't get to. I. For. I just. We move on so quickly.

[Courtney Miller]

We don't. We don't recognize we're in a good old day.

[Shane Madej]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

So I think that's a good way of putting it, like, to, you know. Cause, like, yeah, it's really easy to look back on things, but to recognize those things, like, while you're still doing. While you're still in the middle of it.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

And I felt that way with the graduation. Cause it's like, it was really exciting to do it, but then to see it actually in action, I was like, wow, this is actually. This is actually really cool. But I just. I really enjoyed it. I feel like, you know, you totally deserved something like that. And it was. It was cool to like, you know, to show props and appreciation to the people that we really enjoy being around.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Shane Madej]

It felt like a family moment. Like, it really felt like. And our. Try not to laugh with the crew. Also had a similar feeling to me where I was just like, this just feels like we're doing this. We're doing this for the fans, but we're also doing this for us.

[Courtney Miller]

And you know, yeah, it was really cool to see everything come to life. Everyone just did a really good job on that. And like, even the diploma, I think we probably posted pictures of it.

[Shane Madej]

It's so good, every element of it. And it was such a cool collaborative effort that as it was happening I could tell who planned what parts. And that was fun. But. But yeah. Love you guys.

[Ian Hecox]

Love you. I love you guys. I love, you know, I love Christmas. And you know what else I love?

[Shane Madej]

Oh God.

[Ian Hecox]

New York.

[Courtney Miller]

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