S2: #48 - It’s Time To Cancel Karens

Summary

Smosh Mouth Podcast Summary

Episode: S2: #48 - It’s Time To Cancel Karens
Release Date: January 29, 2020
Hosts: Shayne Topp (Shane), Amanda Lehan-Canto (Courtney), and Damien Haas (Damien)

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1. Addressing Online Negativity and Cancel Culture

The episode opens with Courtney expressing her frustration with the pervasive negativity online, particularly focusing on the surge of "Karen" videos. She states, "It feels like the Internet's super, super negative right now" (00:37). Shane echoes this sentiment, highlighting how these videos trigger his anxiety due to his past retail experiences: "I get so much anxiety from watching those videos... I can't see them anymore" (60:58). The hosts discuss the psychological impact of such negative content and express a collective desire to "cancel" these types of videos to promote a more positive online environment.

2. Preparing for the Upcoming Tour and Managing Anxiety

A significant portion of the discussion centers around the hosts' preparations for their upcoming tour. Damien shares his struggles with anticipatory anxiety, especially concerning new experiences, saying, "I have a huge fear of the unknown" (08:37). Courtney, on the other hand, embraces potential mishaps as comedic opportunities: "I'm actually excited for things to go wrong during a show. Cause that's when the funniest stuff happens." (09:05). Shane offers support by acknowledging his own lifelong battle with anxiety and commending Courtney's progress: "You seem to go roll with the punches a little bit more" (09:11).

3. Experiences with Road Trips and Living Arrangements

The conversation shifts to past road trips and living situations. Damien reminisces about childhood road trips in a large Suburban, complete with makeshift entertainment setups: "We'd wrap it... we didn't have a desk" (18:01). Shane humorously shares his ability to sleep anywhere, recounting an incident where he fell asleep in a laundromat during a movie shoot (17:35). The trio discusses the challenges and humorous aspects of sharing living spaces, such as dealing with snoring roommates and maintaining personal space.

4. Transitioning to the Bullpen Workspace

A notable topic is the transition from their current shared workspace to individual desks in the bullpen. Courtney expresses excitement about having dedicated workspaces: "I'm excited to have a desk because... it's designed... now I'm gonna have a desk" (26:35). Shane and Damien discuss the potential benefits, such as increased productivity and personalization, while also acknowledging possible drawbacks like reduced camaraderie. Shane humorously mentions personalizing his desk with items like Funko Pops: "I can put, like, a little funko pop there or something" (28:11).

5. Interactions with Guests and Handling Expectations

The hosts delve into their experiences hosting guests, particularly YouTubers and actors, on their podcast segments like "Try Not to Laugh." They emphasize the unpredictability of meeting idols and the challenge of maintaining genuine interactions: "When you meet them and they're just being a regular person, it's different." (37:05). Courtney shares her goal to collaborate with a diverse range of creators, highlighting the complexities of managing expectations from both sides.

6. The Influence of Social Media Algorithms

Towards the end, the discussion shifts to the impact of social media algorithms on content visibility and creator-viewer relationships. Shane critiques platforms like Instagram for favoring numbers over genuine engagement: "If you aren't paying attention to someone's content... it just straight up stops showing up in your feed" (44:20). Damien reflects on the overwhelming presence of numerous platforms and the difficulty creators face in maintaining authenticity across them: "Am I supposed to be in YouTube video being like, hi, I'm Courtney. Be sure to follow me on here..." (45:31).

7. Humor and On-the-Fly Content Creation

Throughout the episode, the hosts showcase their comedic chemistry, often improvising jokes and playful banter. Courtney discusses her method of spontaneously generating humor, labeling herself a "slow cooker" when it comes to delivering jokes: "It's rarely on the fly. I'll be sitting there, you'll see me kind of smirk to myself, and then I say..." (50:14). Shane and Damien contribute with humorous anecdotes about snoring and roommate interactions, adding a light-hearted tone to the conversation.

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Courtney: "It feels like the Internet's super, super negative right now." (00:37)
• Shane: "I get so much anxiety from watching those videos... I can't see them anymore." (60:58)
• Damien: "I have a huge fear of the unknown." (08:37)
• Courtney: "I'm actually excited for things to go wrong during a show. Cause that's when the funniest stuff happens." (09:05)
• Shane: "You seem to go roll with the punches a little bit more." (09:11)
• Damien: "We'd wrap it... we didn't have a desk." (18:01)
• Courtney: "I'm excited to have a desk because... it's designed... now I'm gonna have a desk." (26:35)
• Shane: "I can put, like, a little funko pop there or something." (28:11)
• Courtney: "When you meet them and they're just being a regular person, it's different." (37:05)
• Shane: "If you aren't paying attention to someone's content... it just straight up stops showing up in your feed." (44:20)
• Courtney: "It's rarely on the fly. I'll be sitting there, you'll see me kind of smirk to myself, and then I say..." (50:14)

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Conclusion

In this episode of Smosh Mouth, the hosts candidly discuss the challenges of maintaining positivity in an increasingly negative online landscape, preparing for their upcoming tour amidst personal anxieties, and navigating the complexities of content creation across multiple platforms. Their engaging and humorous dialogue offers listeners an insightful look into the behind-the-scenes dynamics of the Smosh team, highlighting both their personal struggles and their collective resilience.

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Timestamps

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• 00:37: Courtney on online negativity
• 60:58: Shane expresses anxiety over "Karen" videos
• 08:37: Damien discusses anticipatory anxiety about the tour
• 09:05: Courtney on embracing tour mishaps
• 09:11: Shane supports Courtney's anxiety management
• 18:01: Damien reminisces about childhood road trips
• 26:35: Courtney excited about individual desks
• 28:11: Shane on personalizing his workspace
• 37:05: Courtney on interacting with guests
• 44:20: Shane critiques social media algorithms
• 50:14: Courtney's approach to humor and content creation

Transcript

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[Courtney]

This is gonna sound so obvious, but it feels like the Internet's super, super negative right now.

[Damien]

We had some actors on.

[Shane]

Yes.

[Damien]

It makes me wonder, like, who I would and wouldn't want to have on the. Try not to. Laughs. Your idea of them is either gonna be made even more great or just shattered completely.

[Shane]

I'm gonna cancel Karen's or just Karen videos. I get so much anxiety from watching those videos. I don. I don't know if they're real or staged, but it doesn't matter. It hits me the same.

[Courtney]

So I recorded something yesterday, and I think it perfectly sums up what our tour is gonna be like now.

[Damien]

Oh, my God.

[Courtney]

Wow.

[Damien]

Abandon your God, because it's time for the Smoshcast.

[Courtney]

Abandon your God.

[Shane]

Abandon your God. Man. If they haven't seen that sketch, they're confused.

[Damien]

That's okay. Then they can watch it.

[Courtney]

They still can do it if they want.

[Damien]

I think. I think that's my favorite every blank in a while.

[Shane]

Wow.

[Damien]

Did you write it?

[Courtney]

But Damien's. Damien's part was almost entirely improvised.

[Damien]

Oh, my gosh. So much improvis. So freaking good.

[Shane]

I appreciate that.

[Damien]

Loved it, dude.

[Shane]

Thank you.

[Damien]

Loved it.

[Shane]

It was every substitute ever for those that are in in the Dark.

[Courtney]

Yeah, it's a solid one.

[Damien]

I wonder if anybody listens to our podcast, in the Dark.

[Shane]

Ooh, I don't listen to our podcast at all, so I didn't know where I was going with that.

[Courtney]

I don't know what we're recording right now.

[Damien]

Well, welcome to another episode of the podcast. Oh, it's your main girl, Courtney, and the host seat with my two boys, Shania and Demeena.

[Shane]

That is a demeaning title for me, whose name is Shane, and me, Damien House. Just kidding. We switched. Speaking of switched, I wore this shirt today. I planned to wear this shirt today. This shirt was all I was wearing today. And then you all of a sudden out of left. Field flipping. Nowhere. Match me.

[Damien]

It's a popular color.

[Courtney]

That's what we do for those at home.

[Shane]

Listening but not watching. What?

[Damien]

What are you guys wearing?

[Courtney]

We're wearing yellow long sleeves. I'm wearing a yellow hoodie.

[Shane]

It's a dandelion. Yellow. Dandelion yellow. Mine has Naruto on the front. It's an Ichiraku Ramen, I believe. Or Ichiran.

[Damien]

Nice.

[Courtney]

Pretty cool.

[Damien]

Yeah, I love ramen, dude.

[Shane]

Yeah, I love Naruto.

[Courtney]

Is Naruto in your top 10 favorite animes or.

[Shane]

Probably not, but I think I just really enjoyed it at a very specific time in my teenager. It was when I was doing like distance learning. So I watched it all day and then sometimes did schoolwork.

[Courtney]

Nice.

[Damien]

It was the first manga I'd ever read. My sister used to read it on a website. Like it looked like the pages were scanned into the computer and that's how he read it.

[Shane]

I remember I was in the allergist's office where I used to get allergy shots, and I saw an issue of Shonen Jump that had Yu Gi oh on the front. And I was like, oh, this is cool. And I didn't realize you're supposed to read right to left at first. But once I figured it out, it was awesome and they let me take it home. I must have been like 13. And I read the Yu Gi oh stuff because I was into that at the time and it was super dark. Like the people don't realize the manga is like totally different than the cartoon. So like, Yugi basically kills a person in that episode through like a tricksy like saw style. Crack, smokes crack and kills a man.

[Damien]

In those manga books, it would remind you to go that way, go this way.

[Shane]

So it was like, I don't know, it was dope. And so in that same issue, I ended up being introduced to Shaman King Naruto. One Piece.

[Damien]

One Piece.

[Shane]

I don't know if Dragon Ball Z was in it at the time. It might have been.

[Damien]

I was into the cartoons, probably more so.

[Courtney]

But I only watched Dragon Ball Z. I didn't read any mangas. I never. I never. I don't think I really have read a manga. I read Akira. But that's. That's a little. It's a little different, you know, cuz that's a. That's a more compact series and you know, it's older, but. But watching. I watched a ton of Dragon Ball Z when I was a kid.

[Shane]

Oh yeah.

[Courtney]

Love that. And that was like. It was like a sports event. Yeah, between me and my friends. Because, like, did you watch the Frieza fight?

[Shane]

I was always left out of that. Maybe that's why I like Dragon Ball Z so much now, because I never could as a kid. Because on Thursday afternoons when it came on, that's when I went to karate.

[Courtney]

You were doing actual Dragon Ball?

[Shane]

Yeah, I was just living it. Like, so even now I just like Dragon Ball Z stuff, but I still don't watch it. I just like the idea.

[Courtney]

It's a fun. It's a fun just thing.

[Damien]

My sister, one of my older sisters, she was like the huge nerd of the family. She had like a full body cardboard cut out of Legolas.

[Shane]

Oh, cool. In a room.

[Damien]

And like whenever, whatever my family is watching, I'll just kind of sit down and watch whatever they're watching. So a lot of it was one piece. Naruto. Dragon Ball Z. A lot of Dragon Ball. I was sexually awakened by one of the characters in Dragon Ball Z. She's like blonde.

[Shane]

Android 17. Huh?

[Courtney]

Oh, Android.

[Shane]

Android 18. I knew.

[Courtney]

You literally nailed it. Yeah.

[Shane]

The second you said sexually awakened, I was like, I got this.

[Courtney]

Got really straight.

[Shane]

I forget her name, but the straight blonde hair.

[Damien]

Straight blonde hair.

[Shane]

She got the jean jacket. Mary's Krillin.

[Damien]

Yeah. And then there was like one episode where she had to wash her clothes and the only thing available to wear was like a Playboy bunny bodice thing.

[Courtney]

Sounds like Dragon Ball Z.

[Shane]

Maybe that was Bulma.

[Courtney]

No, no, no, that I think that is Android because, like, her personality was super, like stoic. So it's funny to put her in that.

[Shane]

Got it.

[Courtney]

And also very Dragon Ball Z esque.

[Shane]

Got it.

[Courtney]

Hashtag Master Roshi is cancelled.

[Shane]

Yeah, Master Roshi is a Bulma.

[Courtney]

He's canceled. Hardcore.

[Damien]

Oh, my God.

[Courtney]

He does not. Does not work in the year 2020. Nope.

[Damien]

How are you guys tummies feeling after that lunch?

[Courtney]

I'm feeling okay. Spicy rumbling we ate a ton of McDonald's before this.

[Damien]

It's a busy day, so we had to make it quick.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Damien]

Get some Mickey D's. I'm like breathing heavily from it still.

[Shane]

It's the kind of thing where, like, I know for a fact, no shade at McDonald's, but just for the way my specific body works and the type of food I'm used to, it will make me feel bad when you guys were like, we're getting McDonald's. We only have time for that. Do you want anything? I literally had to weigh, like, do I want to wait like six hours to eat or do I want to have a tummy ache but be full. So here we are.

[Damien]

Yeah. I rarely ever eat fast food, so it's definitely like a plunge out of my normal stuff.

[Shane]

Plunge.

[Courtney]

Like toilet.

[Shane]

Which you will soon visit.

[Damien]

Oh, already dead. It's handled. She happened.

[Courtney]

Yeah. I'm feeling okay.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Courtney]

You know? Yeah. I think maybe in a way it feels good because I feel like my system's very. Like my system moves at a constant pace. When I eat McDonald's, I get to finally have things stop for a minute.

[Shane]

Oh, yeah.

[Courtney]

And it's not nice. It's nice to have, you know, just everything all. You know, the.

[Shane]

Oh, it makes you stop.

[Courtney]

Everything stops.

[Damien]

I was gonna say. I was like, what does your stomach lining have abs? So like, even that you can freaking.

[Courtney]

No, I don't think it's that. It's just that it's like my body's like, what is this? Can we call.

[Damien]

Hold up.

[Courtney]

Call in the supervisor. We have to figure out what the. Hey, Mark, what is this? It's like. I don't know what that is. I've. I haven't seen that. And wait, is this like the Tales of Ode?

[Damien]

Is this rubber French fries?

[Shane]

So we've analyzed it. One of these Cows is over 100 years old and the other brand new. It's all part of the same burger. There's over 16,000 cows in a single patty.

[Courtney]

Oh, my God.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Courtney]

Yeah, I think that's. I think that's honestly nice. Sometimes, literally when I drink soda or whatever, it, like, it helps.

[Damien]

Yeah. I usually try and order the McDonald's Sprite is like. It hit different, you know, But I didn't get it this time. So my tummy was like.

[Courtney]

It's so good when you're a kid, because when you're a little kid, it just doesn't affect you. Your body's just crazy.

[Shane]

Or when you're a kid, you just. You hurt all the time.

[Courtney]

Anyway, that could be it.

[Damien]

It could be. You don't know.

[Courtney]

Constant pain feels like.

[Damien]

Yeah.

[Courtney]

Children are in constant pain. Right.

[Shane]

By the way, today's episode is brought to you by Burger King.

[Damien]

Yeah. Thanks to Burger King.

[Courtney]

Burger King.

[Damien]

Burger King. Smosh. It's not actually. Sorry.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Damien]

That wasn't an ad read.

[Shane]

That's Kevin, by the way. Everyone say hi to Kevin.

[Courtney]

This pod brought to you by Burger King. Burger King. Get back to work, peasant.

[Shane]

Welcome to Burger Surf Burger Fifdom.

[Damien]

I think also I'm feeling is like, we're really getting into preparing for tour. I know you guys talked about that.

[Shane]

Last week, you got that tummy anxiety.

[Damien]

I do. My anxiety has been like, guess what? I exist, like, all the time lately. And it's kind of a bummer. But I think the tour stuff, it's like excitement and nervousness. Cause, like, I have a habit of being, like, when something. When a lot of stuff is happening in a day or in a week, it's like a lot of opportunities for things to go wrong. So brace yourself.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Damien]

And that's what I feel.

[Courtney]

I'm actually excited for things to go wrong during a show. Cause that's when the funniest stuff happens.

[Shane]

Ladies and gentlemen, the two opposite sides.

[Courtney]

Oh, man, that stuff. That's so, so funny.

[Shane]

I don't know, Courtney. I think. I think anxiety is obviously like a lifelong thing, and I've got some years on you, age wise, but I've been dealing with anxiety my whole life as well. I've noticed, like, a market improvement, I think, in how you deal with things. Yeah, you just seem to. You just seem to go roll with the punches a little bit more. So, like, this is a new experience. You can't expect yourself to be perfect with it right off the bat. But, like, you're kicking butt.

[Damien]

That's the thing, though. That's very sweet. And I feel like. I know what you mean. Like, I've definitely gotten better. Like, I think I have, like a. What is the word? Anticipatory anxiety.

[Shane]

Totally.

[Damien]

I have a huge fear of the unknown, of, like, I don't know what's gonna happen. This is a new experience. I don't know how to mentally prepare for something I've never done before. Like, if we're going to Disneyland, like, that's a big day of a lot of things. I'm like, oh, I gotta. I kinda need to mentally prepare for, like, all the energy and stuff. But, like, this is something I've never done. I've done live shows. We did Smosh Live. I did school plays and stuff. We had like, six weeks of rehearsals for that stuff. So I'm like, I don't know.

[Shane]

I think once. Then we hop into. Because we are, you know, I think we talked about this last cast. We're just now sort of starting rehearsals. We've been writing and, like, planning things out for a long time, but now we're, like, getting it up on its feet. So I think once we're, like, more into that, that's when you'll have a concrete experience to attach your anxiety to. And you'll say, ah, maybe it's not so bad. It's okay.

[Damien]

What if there was like a YouTube tour critic that would like, specifically go to YouTubers tours and just critique their performances in their shows? What do you think they'd be like?

[Shane]

I think they'd be a little something like this.

[Damien]

I'm not sure their T shirts were mildly adequate.

[Courtney]

I wish we'd get like a Drew Gooden breakdown. Because when Drew Gooden went to the Jake Paul show.

[Damien]

Yeah, I haven't seen that.

[Courtney]

And he broke it all down. It's so great. It's from a while ago, but.

[Shane]

Is that when he was like, you're a bully. Is that why he did that? Was that Cody?

[Courtney]

Cody Co. Yeah, this is Drew Gooden literally went and like filmed a lot of the show. And like.

[Damien]

And I need to see that video. But tell me about it.

[Courtney]

It's really great. It's really funny.

[Damien]

Does he go.

[Courtney]

Does he watch? He went through. Yeah.

[Damien]

Like, did Jake call him a bully?

[Courtney]

Did what?

[Damien]

Did Jake call Drew a bully?

[Courtney]

No. No, not at all.

[Damien]

Wow.

[Courtney]

I don't think Jake was aware of. Cause if this was still like, Jake.

[Shane]

Wasn'T entirely sure where he was.

[Courtney]

This was like over a year ago. And this was in Florida. Like, Drew went to his show in Florida.

[Damien]

Wow. A Jake Paul show in Florida. That sounds like it was magical.

[Courtney]

Yeah. I mean, Jake Paul's not the same as what he was then, but this was when he was at the height.

[Damien]

Wow.

[Courtney]

It's crazy. But yeah, we'll get something like that. Someone will break it down and just absolutely ruin our lives.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Damien]

I low key have been just like not wanting it, but kind of just waiting for someone to be like, hey, what have these people been doing? And like really dissecting our content. Like, no YouTuber seems to come at us.

[Courtney]

There's not really. Well, that's because we're not doing anything. You know, there's nothing crazy about what we're doing. Like, the people that break down are the people who are like, are very opinionated online or like doing stuff that's really fake. Our stuff is we're just doing genuine and we're just like playing games and having fun. Like, what can you really pick apart about it?

[Shane]

We're in a great position with that too, because we do still end up trending. Like, people do know who smosh is, but we're not like poking anybody's buttons. We're not like making. I mean, if we make fun of people, we do it politely. It's out of like love, not hate usually. Cause that's the best way to Parody someone. So, like, we're not starting beef. We don't have, like, here's the tea on Smosh. So, like, right. It wouldn't really make sense. Someone would, like, legit have to go really out of their way to be like, here's the thing about Smosh. You know, no one's.

[Courtney]

No one's picking apart Jack's films or Gus because, like, they're not really, you know, we're doing comedy. Like, no one's breaking down, like, comedy accounts. You know, it's. It's. It's more in the line of, like, you know, if you're gonna be accusing someone of something or whatever, that's when you're getting into that realm. And we just don't. We don't do that.

[Damien]

Yeah, it's true. Yeah. Like, Brianna Boho started as a Tana Mongeau parody, like, so strongly, but she's become her own thing now, which is kind of funny.

[Courtney]

And even making fun of people. It's such a. Like, I don't know. We come at it from such a different angle. You know, we're not trying to be mean. We're trying to just make comedy out of a situation.

[Damien]

And, yeah, like, it seems like people, for the most part, take it really positively. Like, Tana Mongeau was, like, one of the people that would just, like. I don't know if she's seen it, actually. I know she's seen pictures of, like, the costumes and stuff, but she's the type that's like, oh, my God, I love this. This is so funny.

[Shane]

And if you do something that's not, like, totally ripping someone apart and you're just playfully poking fun at them, and then they take it like, whoa, what are you doing? That's kind of on them. It's like, you know, I say, like, if you're big enough to be parodied by, like, a. Like, we're a comedy channel, we have to write comment content that, like, maybe you haven't seen before, but is also relatable enough that people are gonna actually know about it. So if we're doing something on somebo, then it means, like, congratulations, you're big enough to be parodied. Isn't that cool?

[Damien]

We're basically the Simpsons. I mean, no, I mean, we are.

[Shane]

The Simpsons of YouTube. I won't say it, but everybody else can. Everyone's thinking, I'll be the damn Castellaneta. Kevin, cut the.

[Courtney]

You know. You know what? I'll give my opinion, though, on what I think our tour is gonna be like, so I recorded something yesterday, and I think it perfectly sums up what our tour is going to be like. So just give the. Give this. Give this a listen.

[Shane]

Oh, God, I'm scared.

[Damien]

I'm scared.

[Courtney]

Now.

[Damien]

Where were you?

[Courtney]

So you guys were out of the office yesterday? So I was just chilling and I decided, you know, I was like, you know what? I've got some good content that I can.

[Damien]

Some good content and get an air in your ass, dude.

[Shane]

If you. The sad reality is, if you were to post that, it would still get more likes than anybody else's shit.

[Damien]

I hate that. Yeah, Hate that. Were you just in the room? I hate that.

[Shane]

I can tell.

[Damien]

That was against our blue sofa.

[Shane]

That was against our blue sofa.

[Courtney]

It's turquoise.

[Damien]

I can't believe you're reading my diaries and farting into your phone.

[Courtney]

You never, never let out gas.

[Shane]

I do it all the time. I'm saying. I'm saying I could tell. I did it while I was making direct eye contact with Finnerty, like, mere moments ago. He's like, hey, let me talk to you about something real quick. And I was like. And then he's just sort of like.

[Courtney]

Yeah, man, we've been mid conversation. You've just been like. You'd be like, yeah, so sorry. I just let out a massive fart while staring you in the eyes.

[Shane]

Yeah. Anyways, I don't do it like that. I say, like, yeah, man, it's pretty cool that you went to the place the other day. Like, you have to give it its moment. This is going to be the second podcast in a row, and we're talking about poops and farts.

[Damien]

I don't want that fart. This is the Smash Cast, Tiny Meat Gang. They had multiple episodes because they were talking about diarrhea attacks. Because apparently there's just, like, a thing that's happening where people are taking buckets of, you know, and dumping it on people. It's like a new form of terrorism.

[Courtney]

Yeah, I heard about the one on Hollywood Boulevard. It was that they called it hot diarrhea.

[Damien]

I don't want to hear that. No, we're not gonna talk about it. Don't worry. Go to Tiny Meat Gang to hear about hot buckets of that.

[Courtney]

Yeah.

[Damien]

Oh, thank you.

[Shane]

Hey, by the way, speaking of how tour is gonna be like, I did get a tip from somebody the other day about how to sleep on a tour bus. You sleep with your feet facing the front of the bus because apparently if there's ever an issue that jolts you forward, you, like, have your Feet to brace you or like maybe you break your legs or something. But it's better than breaking your skin.

[Damien]

My knees come out my eyes.

[Shane]

Yes, that's true.

[Courtney]

That's really smart, right? Oh, good to know.

[Shane]

There you go. So thank you. I forget who that was, but thank you.

[Ryan]

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[Courtney]

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[Damien]

I wonder how comfortable will be.

[Shane]

Not at all. Not like not.

[Courtney]

I'm not. I'm not preparing for sleep.

[Damien]

Have you guys done a lot of road trips?

[Courtney]

I haven't slept on a moving car.

[Shane]

I can sleep straight up anywhere, which is nice. I will. No joke, y'all. I filmed a movie like way back in the day that was like a week of night shoots. And literally like in between scenes, I was like, looks like there's a laundromat right there outside of where we're filming. I'm gonna hop in real quick and I just would like lay on the counter and like fall asleep in the. At like three in the morning in the middle of Atlanta, freezing cold. I'm just like, yep, this is where I sleep now. So.

[Damien]

Wow.

[Courtney]

I'll be able to sleep on the bus for sure. But I don't think it's gonna be like the best sleep ever.

[Damien]

You know, my dad, my family did road trips all the time.

[Shane]

Really.

[Damien]

Flying was not a thing. And we. My dad had like this.

[Shane]

But your dad was a helicopterist.

[Damien]

He was a helic. That wasn't until a few years ago, my boy. But what he did have was a big red Suburban with three rows.

[Shane]

Whoa.

[Damien]

And what he would do is he'd put down the middle row and then the far back row is where we'd sit. And so it was like a big limo and we could sleep on the floor. And then he also. This is how dated this is. Okay, guys. He had the little square, like cube tv, wedge it between the driver's seat and the passenger seat.

[Shane]

That's awesome.

[Damien]

And then we put VHS's or plug in a DVD portable DVD player. And we'd watch.

[Courtney]

We had one of those. But we had a bunch of those bungee cords.

[Damien]

So we'd wrap it.

[Courtney]

We'd strap it to the passenger seat and watch stuff.

[Damien]

Yeah. The TV would perfectly fit in between, so we didn't have to wedge it in too much. I think one time we went over some rough train tracks, and it fel down.

[Courtney]

Ooh, that's tough.

[Damien]

Matilda.

[Shane]

But it looks like it took out your Hilda. Yeah.

[Damien]

Milo and Otis, we always.

[Shane]

What is specific?

[Courtney]

That's a. It's like we're getting a double feature. We are back. Followed by Milo and Otis.

[Shane]

We're back at Dinosaur Story.

[Courtney]

Dinosaur Story.

[Damien]

My dad, we always watched Matilda. And, like, there's so many movies that my dad would only hear the movie and had never, like, for years had never seen, like, Matilda or some other movie. And he finally watched Matilda, like, recently. And it was so different from how it was in his head, never listening to it.

[Shane]

It's great.

[Damien]

Matilda.

[Shane]

It's what I would love about, like, that generation of movies, especially ones aims toward. Aimed toward kids where, like, every bit of action had, like, an orchestration to it. So I don't remember exactly how it goes, but if the kid was like, here, have a carrot. You would hear the, like, the music, like, doo, doo, doo, doo. Like that kind of almost early Harry Potter style, too. So I'm just like, I wonder what imagery he. In his head with that.

[Damien]

Yeah. I'm very curious. Like, the voices of the characters, like the wife and stuff. Yeah. I. I love road trips. I. I love the. The camaraderie that comes along with it. I. I'm very excited. Like, have summer parties with you guys. And should I bring movies?

[Shane]

Yes.

[Damien]

Should I bring Matilda?

[Shane]

But also, I'm an introvert and we'll need me time. And so I'm gonna make a little fortress out of my bed.

[Damien]

Just like duct tape the outer edges of your bunk.

[Courtney]

I'm really curious because we have. We have at least seven people.

[Shane]

I think there are only three bunks, and everybody else has to just sleep standing up like a bat.

[Damien]

Oh, bats don't sleep standing up.

[Shane]

Yeah, but they do if you flip them upside down.

[Damien]

That's true.

[Shane]

Shane, I'm actually interested in you. And I have roomed together a lot. Oh, yeah. So I feel like I'm used to everything. But you're a little bit of a snorer.

[Courtney]

I am.

[Shane]

I'm interested in seeing if anybody hates that.

[Courtney]

Is it consistent? I feel like I'm sure they will.

[Damien]

Aww.

[Shane]

Oh, no. I not, like, hated, but I'm just like that.

[Courtney]

The problem is that, you know, I live alone, so I don't. I don't ever know, like, how consistent it is. I don't know the schedule of it. I don't know if what. What ways I can not snore. You know, you get one of those.

[Shane]

Breathe Right strips, and you shove it way up your butt chain.

[Damien]

You know what? I never. When we were in Sacramento, I never heard snoring ever.

[Courtney]

Yeah, that's what's weird is sometimes we'll be like, yeah, you weren't snoring at all. And then sometimes it's like, yeah, that was the loudest thing I've ever heard in my entire life.

[Shane]

Hope it's okay that I mentioned that, too.

[Courtney]

I just said, no, that'd be fine. It's definitely true. It's not something I try to hide or I'm embarrassed about.

[Damien]

You know, I grew up with snoring, like, my dad snoring down the hall. So I feel like I'll probably just. My brain will be like, yep, I know what this is. And I'll probably be able to keep sleeping.

[Shane]

I just. I always listen to, like, waterfall or rain sounds when I sleep. So I'm just gonna bring some good headphones and plop them on. And then if you. If I can hear the snoring through that, I'll probably just smother you.

[Courtney]

Hey, welcome to the Smosh tour.

[Shane]

Shane is dead, and nobody knows how it happened.

[Courtney]

How did it happen?

[Shane]

Speaking of which. Not the smothering fart. My roommate fart. My roommate. Smothering fort. My roommate in college, we bunked our beds so that, like, we had more space in the room, which most people didn't do, but it had, like, the ability to do that. So we, like, used extra duct tape to, like, make sure it was safe. But the mattresses were, like, super, super thin and malleable. So he slept above me, and he would snore wicked hard. So I would literally, like, put my foot and, like, aim it toward the smallest back and just go kaom. And, like, he would literally, like, boom, like, arches, back sit, bolt up, right? And then fall back, and then wouldn't. He wouldn't wake up, but he would stop snor. So I would literally kick him squat in the back every night.

[Damien]

I used to snore when I was a kid, and my mom. Not my mom, my sister, would throw, like, a stuffed animal at me, and that was all it took.

[Shane]

Yeah, I wonder.

[Courtney]

We don't know who else Is snorers.

[Shane]

I've started a little bit.

[Damien]

It depends on my position.

[Courtney]

How do you know?

[Shane]

Because I've woken myself up a couple times recently. Not like full on from sleep, but like, when I'm starting to drift off, I'll just have a moment of like, yeah, you're so. And then I'll hear that and I'll be like, what was that? Oh, that was me.

[Courtney]

See, I wouldn't know. I don't sound. Doesn't wake me up. Really.

[Shane]

Oh, you lucky.

[Damien]

That's crazy.

[Shane]

So.

[Courtney]

So when we've roomed together, I have no idea if you ever did.

[Shane]

I don't. But I'm a sleep toots.

[Damien]

I think toots all the time. Like audible.

[Shane]

Oh, audible.com. brought to you by Damian Hazes farts.

[Damien]

Yes.

[Shane]

No, that was a dumb joke.

[Courtney]

Yeah, we have a lot of people. Like, because we have more people that aren't just like the cast that. I'm like. I'm curious. I don't know.

[Shane]

Are they gonna be sleeping on the bus with us?

[Courtney]

I. We're all on the bus.

[Shane]

I'm not comfortable with that.

[Damien]

I think. I don't know if there's gonna be multiple or like a little motor. I don't know. We do. We are. We have a roof.

[Courtney]

We have to be the store happening.

[Shane]

We have a roof. Let them sleep on the roof.

[Courtney]

Just tie it to the roof of the bus.

[Shane]

I demand the nicest bed closest to the bathroom.

[Damien]

Oh, yeah.

[Shane]

I'm just kidding. Everybody who can't see my face. I'm being sarcastic.

[Damien]

I call the bed furthest from the.

[Courtney]

Bathroom because Ian already called that.

[Damien]

Screw him.

[Courtney]

I. Realistically, because I do snore, I should probably be as far away from everyone as I can.

[Damien]

I don't. God, I don't wanna be near the potty.

[Shane]

Why not?

[Damien]

Because certain people have expressed their habits around the toiletries.

[Shane]

Damien, we've already talked about this last podcast. I know. Ian was the only one who had an issue with it before. And even he bent and was like, damien, you are correct. I'm sorry I was such a shitbird.

[Damien]

I'm not trying to be a shitbird.

[Courtney]

You can just open the door and just sit out on the highway.

[Shane]

Tell you what, I'm gonna go to the bathroom whenever I feel like it.

[Damien]

We just gotta have some poo pourri.

[Shane]

Thank you. Thank you. It's so easy.

[Damien]

It's just gonna fit.

[Courtney]

This is my impression of Midnight on the Bus.

[Shane]

God damn it, Shane.

[Damien]

I hate that it's two. I hate that it's two.

[Shane]

Dude, what happened there is. You started it. There was not enough force and your cheeks closed back up. And then you were like, no. And then you were like, here comes the second. Like, get out of there.

[Courtney]

It's a double jump.

[Damien]

I hate this.

[Courtney]

Anyways.

[Damien]

Yeah, I'm just nervous that I'm gonna have, like, time to do my makeup and stuff.

[Courtney]

I have no doubt. But, like, the shows, we're all gonna be like, oh, man, the shows are gonna be awesome. But the bus. By the end of that week, I think we're all gonna hate each other.

[Shane]

What if we start there?

[Damien]

Perfect.

[Courtney]

And then it's. It's a redemption.

[Damien]

Then when Shirley dies, my dad's going to multiple shows.

[Shane]

That's great.

[Courtney]

My family's coming to one of them.

[Shane]

Is he having his own meet and greet so I can finally meet him?

[Damien]

You've met my pup up.

[Shane]

I don't know if that's true. Yeah, multiple times.

[Damien]

Yeah. You called him Kurt.

[Shane]

Yeah, good old Kurt. I know. It's carlor.

[Damien]

It's Carlor Miller. Also some crazy stuff that's gonna be happening. We just. We just, you know, we've been in that one room for a year now. We're. We're getting kicked out. We're not really kicked out.

[Shane]

No, definitely say kicked out.

[Damien]

But now we're gonna be out with everybody and we're gonna have desks, our own little desks out in the. In the. What do we call that area?

[Courtney]

It's writer's island.

[Shane]

The bullpen.

[Damien]

Well, we are the bullpen. We are the rider's island within the bullpen.

[Courtney]

Yeah, it's called the bullpen. It's this big, you know, it's kind of almost looks like us. That's just what, aircraft hanger or like. Like, I don't know, like, it's sort.

[Shane]

Of like a high ceiling warehouse situation. Yeah.

[Courtney]

But it's pretty and, like, it's a very cool. I mean, you guys have seen it stories and everything.

[Damien]

I feel like bullpen is just what you define as, like, the cubicle area.

[Shane]

You know what? I was, I think, the biggest opponent to this happening. And even I've sort of come around and I'm kind of stoked about it.

[Courtney]

I'm excited to have a desk.

[Shane]

Yeah, I'm excited to have a desk because we have that, like, weird little one in the Castroom right now that we share. But even that isn't the most. You know, the chairs look nice, but it's not the most comfortable. It doesn't feel like it's Your space.

[Courtney]

And ours are standing desk. They can. They can be standing.

[Shane]

Yes, I will be standing all the time.

[Courtney]

Yeah.

[Damien]

I'm excited for me to, like, my. My space is where my mess is, and I don't have to worry about anybody else's mess in my space.

[Shane]

Anybody else's mess.

[Damien]

Nobody else leave mess. Diet cokes. What?

[Shane]

That one wasn't. That one wasn't mine. And you're referring to one I never leave. Diet Cokes.

[Damien]

Oh, I might. Should I not have called?

[Shane]

No.

[Courtney]

Are we doing call outs? Are we calling each other out for this past year now that it's over?

[Damien]

We all left messes and like, we. That. I think that's what's tough about the room is what's that face date?

[Shane]

I'm just like, hey, if we're calling out, then we'll call out, but let's do.

[Damien]

But it's like, it's a big room that we. When we have shoe weeks and stuff, it's just everyone in there bringing in their stuff. We have meals in there.

[Courtney]

The irony is that the three of us probably made the least mess because people would come for one day and leave all the mess.

[Shane]

I would literally have, like, my computer set up at that mini desk and be like, all right, this, like, two by two foot area is my space where I'm gonna get my work done. I would leave for three minutes, and then someone else would show up and there'd be a pil of shirts on top of the computer. I'd be like, that was the one spot you chose that you needed. That one spot where my computer. There's hangers. There's on the wall you could do.

[Damien]

Yeah, no, that's not how we do it here.

[Shane]

No.

[Damien]

Even I, like, I have a hard time keeping all my stuff together. Like, you guys should see my room on shoot Weeks.

[Shane]

I refuse.

[Damien]

It's a disaster. Because I'm like, what do I. What will I wear? And I'm like, I don't know. And then my makeup's all over one place, and I'm like, when I feel frazzled, you see it in my space. So I'm just. I'm excited that, like, it's my responsibility and, like, I won't be a bother to anybody else as well.

[Shane]

I'm excited too, because I get to, like, personalize my space a little bit. Like, the room is fun, but it doesn't have any of our specific personalities. But now that I have a desk, I can put, like, a little funko pop there or something.

[Courtney]

Yeah, exactly.

[Damien]

I can Have a fondue pop.

[Shane]

You could have a. Yeah, like. Or something else. Uh huh.

[Damien]

Like a choco fountain. Yeah.

[Courtney]

Like a little tiny cannon that I will shoot at your desk.

[Damien]

No, no.

[Shane]

Yeah. Or like something else.

[Damien]

No. Yeah. That was quite a year, though, in that room.

[Shane]

It was fun.

[Courtney]

It was cool.

[Damien]

Yeah. I think it's crazy how much it's changed since we started. I have so many videos in my phone from, like, when it was just like, just that table and y'all acting cray cray.

[Shane]

Yeah, we were pretty cray cray back then.

[Courtney]

Pretty cray cray back then.

[Damien]

We were pretty cray.

[Shane]

We're pretty cray.

[Courtney]

Gone through a lot of rooms.

[Damien]

Yeah.

[Courtney]

The cast never can really stay in a place.

[Damien]

That first defy room in that corner, that was like, just barely not close enough to a pokestop. And then.

[Courtney]

Yeah.

[Damien]

And then we got moved to the other side of that office where there was a pokestop.

[Shane]

That was the whole thing, actually. You would have to come into the smosh games room to do the pokestop.

[Damien]

That was one of them.

[Shane]

Yeah. Smosh games shout out to those rooms.

[Courtney]

Those rooms were sweet. They were huge. But they were the messiest. Like, stuff would just show up.

[Damien]

Yeah. People just, like, dump things there and we'd be like, okay. And then also your charger's stolen. You're like, oh, yeah.

[Courtney]

Your charges would get stolen every day.

[Damien]

Yeah, that was. I think that's what's cool is we. It doesn't seem as much like that anymore that. That old office. We'd see an accident every other month on that street.

[Shane]

Yeah. That was a dangerous street corner. It was literally like, no matter what day it was of the week or no matter what time, you would just guarantee at one point you would hear a skr. And then you'd wait for the. Oh, no impact that time. All right. They got okay. They're okay.

[Damien]

And there was always drama. Like, there was a hit and run and there was a one where there was a bunch of k. Kids were starting to run away from their car, but there was a cop right behind their car. So they all got caught like crazy.

[Courtney]

It was really crazy.

[Damien]

A bunch of hit and runs.

[Shane]

Insane.

[Courtney]

Yeah. It was a. It was a crazy road. It's much more chill.

[Damien]

Yeah.

[Courtney]

Here in this. In this building.

[Damien]

A little more incognito.

[Courtney]

Yeah.

[Damien]

Our website doesn't have our address advertised on it like the previous. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Courtney]

It's just. It's just better.

[Shane]

Safety first.

[Courtney]

Yeah. But I'm excited. I'm excited to be out in the bullpen. Because I walk around the bullpen a lot. Anyways. I like bigger spaces. I don't like being in a small room.

[Damien]

I enjoy both. I like. I appreciate both because we could go out there and be social, and, like, there's lots of. I'm using camaraderie that word a lot today. But then you could go in that room, and it's just kind of quiet, and I can be in there with myself. But, like, I'm excited to. I feel like I'm gonna be more productive and, like, focusing on my.

[Courtney]

For sure, because we're gonna have a professional space. Caus that we've been in for this past year is designed. It looks more like a lounge space. There's a couch. There's, like, a coffee table, and then, like, this. Like, it's not a desk. It's a. It's a table with, like, a conference table. But it's designed. You know, when I'm sitting on a couch, I'm not, like. I think for me, psychologically, I'm not thinking like, oh, I'm gonna get work done. I'm thinking like, oh, I'm loud. Like, I'm sitting down on a couch with friends. Whereas I'm gonna have a desk. Like, when I'm here, I'm doing work, and I'll leave it. And I. You know, I feel like they're gonna.

[Shane]

Be benefits and drawbacks, though. And again, I'm. I am excited for this now, so I'm more leaning toward the benefits, but, like, yeah, we're gonna be productive getting scripts done and stuff like that. But I think we lose out a little bit of, like, you know, it was a room where it was just us three, and we would talk and joke all the time, get our work done. Yeah. But, like, be like, oh, dude, that could be a TikTok. Oh, we've got to turn this. Can I get a story real quick? If we're out in the bullpen with everybody, there can be some talking, but we're not gonna be able to do the thing of, like, let me show you this video on full volume now. And let me. Oh, dude, you hear about that, like, people have, like, almost sassily, in a way before, like, shut our door to be like, you gotta stay quiet. So now we're out there with them. We have to be quiet.

[Damien]

I think. Yeah, it was the foxhole, I feel like, because it would just be us three, and like, sometimes that was all it was for an entire day. It's gotten different now. Like, Ian hangs Out with us more. And he's not, like, holed up in his office as much. Yeah, I'm excited. I actually bought my own headphones for my computer.

[Shane]

Already.

[Damien]

Cause I know I'm not.

[Courtney]

I just need to get some.

[Damien]

But the one thing that bothers me, though, is when we give notes on, like, pit videos and stuff. I like to hear it from the laptop speakers because then you can hear the real levels of the music versus the voices.

[Shane]

Well, it's not like we can't go out into, like, a outdoor area or into that room if it's not busy.

[Courtney]

I go outside to check notes on.

[Damien]

But then there's, like, all this wild sound that you're, like, competing with. To hear this video, you can go.

[Shane]

Back into the old cast room. If it's.

[Damien]

No one's using it. Yes. And if some. No, if no one's using it, like, because I. Sometimes I'll. I'll notice even on videos that are released. And it's no one's fault because literally the editing headphones are, like, so nice that the music and the audio, like, from people talking, it sounds good to them. And then when it goes into a different device, it sounds different.

[Shane]

I run into that a lot, especially.

[Damien]

With games, videos, and it's like, literally, like, because to their ears, it sounds good. But then when it goes to, like, my phone or the laptop, it's like, oh, just a little too loud. So I like to keep an eye on out for that. But we'll see. I think it should be fine. Yeah, we'll be okay.

[Courtney]

We'll figure it out.

[Shane]

We'll be fine. I just. I just wanted to talk about the benefits and drawback. I still think there will be more benefits. I am very excited to have a desk. I need to be able. Like, even, like you said, this lounge area has a sofa where y'all sit every day. But I post up at the desk and have my back to you because I still need that kind of, like, structure to it.

[Courtney]

For those listening. What's your favorite kind of desk?

[Shane]

Mine is.

[Damien]

I love desk.

[Shane]

I didn't have anything.

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[Damien]

I actually have a bad history with desks and moving them.

[Courtney]

Uh oh.

[Damien]

So you guys better watch out.

[Shane]

As soon as you have desks, they're.

[Damien]

Gonna be in random corners.

[Courtney]

I loved back then when we had desks and we didn't do anything. No, nobody needed a desk because nobody did any work. Yeah, we were just hanging out.

[Damien]

I didn't even have a desk at one point. I was, like, working on.

[Courtney]

You were working at Vanity. Yeah, Vanity.

[Damien]

I wonder if people thought that was weird. I'm just, like, not even looking at my computer. I'm just looking at myself.

[Shane]

Yeah, I'm a little nervous, but I'll be. I think it'll be okay.

[Courtney]

Yeah, but the desks, I think it's great. I think because we'll have our own spaces, you know, and I do think that was for me.

[Damien]

You're a little isolated.

[Shane]

Very much so.

[Damien]

It'll be fun, though. We'll still make TikToks and stuff.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Courtney]

Yeah.

[Damien]

And we're literally gonna be next to each other out there.

[Shane]

That's the problem.

[Courtney]

Yeah.

[Damien]

I wanted to be further away from you guys.

[Shane]

Yeah, I know.

[Damien]

I wanted to be on the mythical.

[Shane]

I would love that. I would love that. Please, please.

[Courtney]

I wanted to work from the defy office.

[Damien]

Yeah.

[Shane]

The abandoned conc.

[Damien]

Sweet.

[Courtney]

This is nice.

[Shane]

Burned out insides of the decoration.

[Courtney]

Hey, we're doing the pod in an hour. Okay. Yeah, I'll drive from Beverly Hills.

[Shane]

Oh, my God.

[Damien]

That's what I do not miss.

[Courtney]

Oh, my God. That drive killed me.

[Damien]

No, thank you, sir. All right, so, yeah, we just had the craziest try not to laugh. Like, smosh pit shoot, smosh game shoot. We've ever done.

[Shane]

24 videos in five days.

[Damien]

24 videos in five days, plus podcast. Plus podcast. So 24 plus. That's. But, like, for how. For on paper, how crazy it sounds. We did okay. Like, I felt like I didn't feel as dead and delirious as I thought I would.

[Shane]

My energy was pretty damn good too.

[Damien]

We're doing this in preparation for Tor and stuff and all the other traveling we're gonna be doing. And we do. Like, it's not something we really try to hide. Like, we shoot multiple videos in a day and then we release them when they need to come out. But this was the most unscripted content we'd shot by far, including having some gas guests on try not to laugh.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Damien]

Which was. We had some YouTubers on. We had some actors on.

[Shane]

Yeah, some big names.

[Damien]

Yeah, we're excited. The Try not to laugh that came out, we shot with Thomas Lennon and Jack. What's his last name?

[Courtney]

Jack Robbins.

[Damien]

Jack Robbins. That one was shot this last week.

[Shane]

Quick turnaround from when we're recording that.

[Courtney]

Quick turnaround.

[Damien]

Yeah, that was a really cool experience. Like, I watched a lot of Reno911. Well, kinda.

[Courtney]

My goal is to work with every single one of them. Wendy, youngsters, Thomas and Gotta work with all of them. That's my goal.

[Damien]

It's crazy, like meeting these people in person after seeing so much of them on a screen, acting a certain way. It also, like, it makes me wonder like, who I would and wouldn't want to have. On the. On the. Try not to laughs because it's like you're meeting your idols. So your idea of them is either gonna be made even more great or just shattered completely or you never know.

[Courtney]

Yeah, we've had guests in the past and no one's ever been a jerk, no one's ever been bad. But we've definitely gotten people who just don't know much about the YouTube world and are kind of like, they come into it and they're just like, what is this? What are we doing? You know, and it's like, like, are.

[Damien]

You guys a comedy troupe or.

[Shane]

You know what I think it is, is like when someone is a bigger name actor, like that they do these kinds of things as like part of a press circuit usually. So it is a very. Like, it's not cold, but it's professional. Like, they show up and it's like, all right, so what are we doing? And you know, any other show be like, all right, we're gonna interview you for 10 minutes. Then we're gonna have one segment where a caller calls in and gets to ask you a question. Then we're done. They're like, great. So this is so much more involved than that average everyday interview. It's like a Jimmy Fallon kind of deal, but maybe even a little more.

[Courtney]

It is a lot.

[Shane]

Do you want to play a game with us for an hour?

[Courtney]

Think of some bits.

[Damien]

Yeah, well, even, even like bigger YouTubers too. We have. I don't know when the other one's gonna come out with the other guests, but it's also people that you've been just watching their videos for a long time and then you're getting to meet them in person. So it's like, like, I if like say we. Well, it's like, because we talked about this earlier, like if we were to get Dwayne the Rock Johnson, obviously we'd want to do that. Like, are you kidding? It's him.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Damien]

But it's like, then we're meeting our idol. Like, are we. Are we shattering this vision, this idea of this person?

[Courtney]

It does happen, man.

[Damien]

Yeah, it does happen.

[Shane]

It's a double challenge for us, too, because that happens to everybody. But now it's like, we are working with them, too. So you have that sort of twist on what you're expecting, and you have to put out something good.

[Courtney]

Yeah, yeah. It can be weird. They're all just people. It doesn't hit you until you're there. And you're like, oh, you're just a person. Like, every single one of them, or like a basic person. The star aspect of them is a marketed commercial thing that a team of people has created for the screen. Then when you meet them in person, you're like, oh, you're a regular person. You're not a superhuman. Like, you are made to look like on. On camera. And that's the case for so many.

[Shane]

Actors, except for the Rock, who is actually just a superhuman.

[Damien]

I wonder if he would make you laugh. Do you think doing the rock toss would make you laughing?

[Shane]

I would laugh out of fear because.

[Courtney]

He was a wrestler. I think he would bring great energy to it because when we brought the WWE wrestlers, they. They were just so into it because they were just like, yeah, let's just go.

[Damien]

They were. That was a really funny episode.

[Courtney]

Like, they were just very committed and excited, you know?

[Shane]

Did I ever tell you my friends the Rock story?

[Damien]

No, it's.

[Shane]

It's my friend's story, so take it or leave it. I didn't happen to me. But he lived in a very, very wealthy part of California, and he said that, like, one day in his backyard sort of has, like, a cliff going up. Like, his neighborhood is, like, very hilly, so. But his backyard is, like a cliff face or whatever. So he said he, like, came outside one day and just heard, like. And he was like, what? And he, like, kept going closer to the sound, and it gets louder and louder and, like, all these different inflections of can you smell what the Rock is cooking? Or whatever. And he looks up on the cliff, and it's Dwayne the Rock Johnson practicing his catchphrase out on top of a cliff to the world. And he's like, oh, I live in this very wealthy part of California that my neighbor is the Rock.

[Courtney]

Oh, that's hilarious.

[Damien]

Oh, my goodness. Was he naked?

[Shane]

I don't know, sure. Imagine. Yes. For the sake of the story. Yes. And again, happened to my friend. I don't think he would ever lie. But you don't.

[Courtney]

But. But you also brought up a good point though. Like, a lot of times when you meet these big, big actors or musicians or whatever, they're constantly so busy. They're also constantly dealing with every person being like, oh my God, are you that guy? Oh, my God. And like, they just. It's on re. So it's like a broken record every day. So you meet them and they're just kind of just like tired. So they're not being a jerk, they're just tired.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Courtney]

You know, that's a lot that has been the case. I've definitely, definitely dealt with celebrities where I was like, oh, they're a jerk. And I'm like, no, looking at this situation, I think they're probably just extremely tired.

[Shane]

It was a. There was a tweet going around like months back of like Rami malek who's like, Mr. Robot signing all these things in the middle of the street. And he definitely seems tired. And then as he's signing something for someone, they're like, hey, can I get you on video saying hello to tessa for her 29th birthday? Or something like that? He's like, no, no, but I can definitely take a picture with you. And then she was like, oh, yeah, okay. And all the comments were like, what a jerk, not doing that video. And I'm like, like, come on, man. Maybe he's busy. And you're asking for three different things.

[Courtney]

That's his day. All day, every day.

[Damien]

There was video of Harry Styles. He was in some random town. And these girls were like, you're rich. We traveled this far to come see you. We needed a picture with you. And you could just see this defeated look on Harry Styles face. And he did it. But it's like, that's so sad. They are just people that entitlement.

[Shane]

Nobody owes you anything. If you paid a certain amount of money to see a show, the thing you got in exchange for that money.

[Damien]

Was, was the show in the creator, viewer relationship. Neither owes anybody anything. Like, as a creator, I wanna create because I feel good doing it. Like making my own YouTube videos on my own channel. I love editing. That's my favorite part of all of it. And then I'm obviously, if I'm making something funny, then it's like, yes, I'm doing this. Cause I'm spreading what I think is funny. I'm spreading joy or whatever. And if People like it. That's awesome. Then I gave them that joy, and they can feel that joy. And that's kind of of the transactions.

[Shane]

Yeah, totally.

[Damien]

And then if they. If they want to leave a comment or like, that is totally. Like, you have the keyboard, not me. Like, I'm not trying to. We're definitely in an era where it's kind of like the world is readjusting and figuring that out. Because there's like, Marilyn Monroe. She was the most famous person of her time, and she was the first person to ever be that famous. And nowadays you can know 10 famous people, and then a group of people would have no idea who they are because there's so many famous people in the world. Like, in a way, there really is.

[Courtney]

A lot of famous people.

[Damien]

Yeah. And it's because. It's because Internet. And there's just straight. The population is bigger. There are more platforms to become famous, some more easily than others. That is TikTok. Somehow, people with zero talent have millions of followers and they are having meet and greets and et cetera.

[Courtney]

I wonder how many people on Instagram have over a million followers.

[Shane]

I think a lot. And it's people you don't always expect. But sometimes I wonder, and this might be too much of a tangent. I think there's a lot of bots, especially when they're like, famous, famous people. Because I'm like, yeah, I don't know if this person is truly the case or not, but if, like, say, for example, Joseph Gordon Levitt, if you look at him, I'm assuming he has millions of followers. But I also know if you look at his posts and stuff like that on Twitter, he gets like 200 likes per post. I'm like, all right, so either you've bought your followers or you are so uninteresting that only zero. Zero. Maybe. Zero. I didn't do the math. 2% of people actually care what you say.

[Damien]

And I think there's the third option, because we're now at an age where the Internet has been around so that there are old followers that like. Like, even Ian, we talk about it. We talk about it with Ian all the time. He's like, he has the amount of followers he has, but it's like the likes don't correlate with that at all. And it's just because it's been a long time.

[Shane]

I don't understand that. Like, who's no longer using Instagram? They're like, I'm 25, I don't want to use Instagram anymore. It's more like, I think when people are like, I want to make 20 Stan accounts, it's like, Damien Haas, Hart and I love Haas, and Haas are 1, 2, 3, and all that stuff. That's the same person. So I think they just Forget about those 20 extra accounts that they made.

[Damien]

And then the Instagram algorithm kind of is the nail in the coffin for creators in a way. Because if you aren't paying attention to someone's content for a while and you aren't liking or commenting their stuff, it just goes away. It just straight up stops showing up in your feed. It happens to people all the time. I'm like, oh, I follow you, but I haven't seen your stuff. And I go to their profile and they have 10 new posts I haven't seen. I'm like, you got married.

[Shane]

And then all of a sudden, it's in your feed again. Once you visited their page, it's all over the place.

[Damien]

And when you follow someone, they have four, four posts in a row on your feed the next time you go to the homepage. It's crazy.

[Shane]

It's interesting. I think that's why it's important to, like, you know, I'm on TikTok, but I have no posts or anything yet, but I still have a presence there. That's why it's important to diversify what you're on. Because if you were like, I don't care about Twitter, I don't care about YouTube. I'm fully an Instagram creator. The second Instagram's algorithm works in a way that doesn't favor you. It's like everything you've built is gone.

[Damien]

That's also a struggle, too, is when there's so many platforms. Am I supposed to be in YouTube video being like, hi, I'm Courtney. Be sure to follow me on here. Follow me on Instagram and TikTok and Twitter and Reddit and Discord and all these things. And it's like, at that point, then what is the relationship with the viewer? Why am I giving you this responsibility to, like, I don't know. It's a lot. It's a lot, dude. I don't know how creators do it successfully in every platform.

[Shane]

It's hard because for me, it's also about authenticity. It's hard to sit there and be like, I want you to follow me on this and this and this and this and this. It'd be cooler to say, like, I would like to offer you something unique and cool if you go to this one where I can only offer you that thing there. But there's only so much that goes because you only have so much time in the day to make stuff.

[Damien]

I remember when I was on vine and like, I got to a point where I had a second vine account that was called like, I think it was called Crotch Ni and it was for the stuff. And I was like, I just want to post this because I like it. It's not funny. It's maybe artistic or whatever because I felt like pressure to keep the main account to be a specific type of content. And I feel that with every platform now. I mean, TikTok, I'm like, I don't even know what this is. So when I'm posting, I don't post on my own at all. I should more.

[Shane]

But I should too. I'm just nervous. What do you do if you start doing one of those dance things? Is like, am I doing it ironically? And now do people expect that there's a lot of anime Weeb content? Do I start doing that? I don't wanna just do everything. I don't know.

[Damien]

And I see a lot of people trying to do the ironic danc and it doesn't play like it's not funny. You're like, mm. And now I'm seeing a lot of female creators that like, I've known and kind of interacted with a lot for a while on Twitter and stuff. Now they're starting to legitimately do the TikTok dances. And I'm like, oh, you're there now. Yeah, okay.

[Shane]

But hey, you're diversifying what you're doing. You're changing with the times.

[Damien]

I think what I like about our brand is we take those things and we make them weird or we make them crazy. We smoshify them.

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[Damien]

So like, yeah, like we talked about that one TikTok idea that I probably shouldn't. I mean, well, we have done it by the time this podcast, I guess.

[Shane]

We have to now.

[Damien]

Yeah, I guess we have to. But, yeah, we're just taking one and changing the audio into a crazy voice.

[Shane]

Oh, that's right. Yeah, got it.

[Damien]

Yeah.

[Shane]

Yeah, we can do that. Let's do it.

[Damien]

Let's do it.

[Shane]

Let's commit. 3, 2, 1. Believe in your dreams. Believe in your dreams.

[Damien]

Believe in your streams.

[Shane]

Do the fart sound effect. Do the fart sound effect.

[Courtney]

Hold on, hold on. I got it. I got it. Don't worry. Don't worry. Oh, my God.

[Damien]

Make a text tone.

[Courtney]

Nice.

[Shane]

I wish I had one prepared because I wanted to do it over.

[Courtney]

Dude, I'm gonna keep doing this. I'll tell you why I'm doing this is because I need to find. I'm searching for the joke that'll make Gus Johnson laugh on. Try not to laugh.

[Shane]

It's not gonna happen.

[Courtney]

Look, I know there's. I. I think he's coming. Like, we're gonna have one with him soon. Gonna be coming out and look, I'm gonna bring everything.

[Damien]

Bring everything you got.

[Shane]

I don't think you can do it. I think it's nothing against you. I think you're funny as hell. I think Gus has a very powerful jaw. I think he's going to laugh, but no water will leave his face.

[Courtney]

We'll see. We will see. I will defeat him. I believe in me. When I think about jokes, I will sit up at night thinking about what I could do to make just Johnson laugh. I put on fight Song, and I just sit there, think about, what can I do to make this guy laugh.

[Damien]

Nice.

[Courtney]

Yeah. My method's very different from you guys. Cause it's not that I plan it out entirely, but I think I'm like, what's. Like, I'll have a thought. I'm like, that's funny. All right, I'm gonna do that. Like, for instance, like, sassy leg. Sassy leg. Infantry. It was just earlier in the week, I was getting out of the shower, and I just started, like, dancing around naked. And I was like, this is really silly. I was like, oh. Oh. I'll make a bit out of this.

[Shane]

Okay.

[Damien]

This is really silly. Were you in the mirror? How did you know it was silly?

[Courtney]

I just was. I saw myself, like, just moving my legs all silly, and I was like, you know what? Sassy legs. That's funny.

[Damien]

Sassy legs infantry is genius. I can't do that behind enemy lines. What? Look in the mirror.

[Shane]

Yeah. Ever. No, it's like, if I. Things for me are, like, so in the moment that, like, if I were to like, even sometimes I'll come in with, like, a one word thought for myself where I'm like, this word reminds me of something I said to Shane to make him laugh once. And I'll like, write that down on my phone. Like, I can't make things funny if I'm like, oh, I could build a character out of this throughout the week. Because when I get up there, I get so nervous that I'm, like, trying to get into that moment of, like, explaining the character within a second. I overdo it and I just. It doesn't. Yeah, I can't make it funny.

[Courtney]

The, like, I feel like whenever we're in situations where we're coming up with stuff on the fly, that's when I'm like, I'm laughing so hard at what you're saying, and I don't. I don't feel like I contribute as much in those situations. But with. Try not to laugh when it's like, okay, if I. I can plan just like. Even if it's just like five minutes, then I can think of something really funny. But I do need to say I. And you notice it. People probably notice it in videos, like, when I say jokes, it's never just like, it's rarely on the fly. I'll be sitting there, you'll see me kind of smirk to myself, and then I say, it's like, it just takes a second for me to. You know, I'm a slow cooker.

[Shane]

Are we okay talking about this, by the way? Sorry. I know it's sort of calling out, like, sometimes planned.

[Courtney]

There's a lot I won't say which ones are planned and which ones aren't. And it's not planned. Like, okay, we all talked beforehand. It's like, there's just times where I come in and I'm like, okay, I got something that I know is gonna make Damien laugh.

[Damien]

Well, like, record something on our phone, like, shortly before. Like, I have a notepad. If I think of something. Like how I came up with Boneless was one sound that I thought was funny. And it was. It was ya, ya da da da da da. And that was. That was the voice. And I was like, okay, I'm just gonna use that voice. And this became the name.

[Shane]

I can definitely do stuff like that. Like, in my phone, on that notes page, I had, like, the word base is ball written down. And where it was like, I bet Shane will laugh at baseball, bases, ball. And then I saw, like, the costume backstage, and I was like, oh, I can totally put this together. And Be like, ooh, basses ball. It's that kind of stuff. Or I'll write, like, poetry and I'll be like, oh, that's right. I could say a poem and then I'll put on the hat and I'll be like, I'm the burger man. And then say a poem.

[Damien]

The first duel was like. I think it was the most proud I was of my brain on the fly. Because that's where Goth horse girl.

[Shane]

Oh, I like this.

[Damien]

And Gemini Hogwarts student.

[Courtney]

Yes, those.

[Damien]

I was like, I'm kind of a legend.

[Courtney]

God.

[Shane]

Well, trust that. I don't know.

[Damien]

Just trust that was quoting a weird.

[Courtney]

Incident that I'm from a party.

[Damien]

Yeah.

[Courtney]

What was it?

[Shane]

God.

[Courtney]

What was that?

[Damien]

Where were we?

[Courtney]

It was something. We were at a barcade and there was something like. You were talking about, like an arcade thing?

[Damien]

No, I was like. Because we had had a couple drinks and I was like, yeah, I'm not feeling anything. And they're like, wow. Yeah, you don't really seem to, like, feel alcohol that much. And I was like, yeah, I'm kind of election.

[Courtney]

And then Yasmine, one of our set designers, was like, what did you just say?

[Damien]

And then he was like, yeah, you're drunk. Wait, was this my birthday?

[Courtney]

I think it was at your birthday.

[Damien]

Yeah, it was definitely at that.

[Courtney]

You were nearby and only people, I don't think.

[Damien]

Because I didn't get to make it to your birthday. But it was a work event that everyone was there.

[Courtney]

Yeah, it was that one, but it.

[Damien]

Was at the same time.

[Shane]

I didn't get to that one. No, it's. No, I already knew where our friendship lied, so.

[Damien]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm fake.

[Shane]

Mm, girl, you're faker than veneers. Teeth.

[Damien]

Anybody here have veneers?

[Courtney]

Called out? Called out.

[Damien]

One time I was at a dentist's office, and I was just there to, like, fix a chipped tooth and, like, get a cleaning. And he was, like, looking at me and my teeth, and he was like, ah, you'll get veneers. It's fine. I was like, oh.

[Shane]

He was trying to, like, I like my teeth and insult you into buying expensive crap.

[Damien]

I don't know.

[Courtney]

Yeah, get rid of these. You don't need these ones.

[Shane]

Pop them on out.

[Damien]

And then when he fixed the chipped tooth that it broke when I got home. So I was like, okay, I'm not going to this dentist.

[Shane]

Yeah. Piece of crap. I hate that.

[Damien]

Yeah, don't insult. Like. I've had doctors insult my body multiple times. Remember? I Told you. Okay, so remember I told you guys about how I had to get a steroid shot? And the doctor was like, you got no ass. And I was like, what?

[Courtney]

Oh, my God, that's probably a lawsuit.

[Shane]

Yeah. No, you.

[Courtney]

I don't know.

[Shane]

People suck.

[Courtney]

Yeah, most people just suck.

[Damien]

Oh, no. Did I cancel a doctor?

[Shane]

No, you're fine. Speaking of cancel.

[Damien]

Oh, yeah, do we want to do cancel a week? Shane, you got something. You gotta cancel the week.

[Courtney]

So Ian pitched this idea called cancel of the week, where we cancel something. Something that's just gone too far. We're done with it. We're canceling it. For instance, for me. You know what I'm canceling? I'm trying to cancel it. The second alarm I set in the morning, I set two alarms, right? Or I set sometimes two or three. I set the first one. That's like me waking up. Second one is there as a backup in case I don't get up and I fall back asleep. The problem, why it's getting canceled is because it decides perfectly. Not my plan, not my fault. It decides to go off perfectly once I've gotten in the shower.

[Shane]

Yep.

[Courtney]

And then it's across the room, and I have to dance naked cold at 5:00am to my. And shut off my desk.

[Damien]

God, 5:00am yeah. You know, that's what I like, Alexa, because, like, if I hear that second alarm going off and I go. I just go, alexa, stop. And then it stops, and I don't have to even get out of the shower and do sassy leg infantry. I just. I just keep on going s'mores. You should utilize your Alexa. You kind of just have her in a corner and aren't really talking.

[Courtney]

Never use Alexa. I never.

[Shane]

She listens to you quite a bit.

[Courtney]

But this is my iPhone. That's. Oh, yeah.

[Damien]

So I just keep. I keep mine by the bed and, like, I've caught myself, like, treating her too much like a human, where, like, the alarm will go off and I'll be like, sorry for the people who have Alexa's. By the way, if I'm saying it.

[Shane]

Out, also change its name so this never becomes an issue. That's what I did.

[Damien]

I was like, alexa, five more minutes. She's like, I'm sorry. I don't understand. I was like, damn it, you're not my mom.

[Shane]

Well, you could say, alexa, snooze five minutes.

[Damien]

Oh, well, yeah. I say, wake me up in 10 minutes or wake me up in 30.

[Shane]

I'm actually very polite to my. To my Alexa. I'm always Like, I always say thank you because I know it's listening. Mine's rude, and I'll add some sentence structure.

[Courtney]

You know, Jeff Bezos is listening.

[Damien]

Yeah.

[Shane]

And just rock hard.

[Damien]

I'm all about that.

[Shane]

Bezos.

[Courtney]

Just so rock hard on the other end.

[Shane]

But no, I'm very polite to Maya because when the robots uprise, I want them to know I'm one of the good ones.

[Damien]

I want them to know not to mess with me because my girl, she doesn't listen to me sometimes. I actually had this really cool setup. I have, like, a space heater in my room, and I hooked it up to a wifi plug, and it was dope. Cause it connected to Alexa, and I could tell her to turn it on and off so I didn't have to get out of bed. Or I could do it from when I'm not home and I want my bedroom to be warm. But then all of a sudden, the plug started having a mind of its own. So I would tell her to turn it off, and she'd do the little doo doo to show me she did it and it was not off. Uh oh, Fire hazard maybe. So that's not a thing anymore. Yeah, don't trust her.

[Shane]

I have it hooked up to my ceiling fan lights, and I have it hooked up to my Roomba style vacuum.

[Damien]

Oh, cool.

[Shane]

So I'm just like, but. But that one you can't be polite with. I'm gonna be like. If I'm like, alexa, sweep the floor. It's like, I'm sorry I'm dumb as hell. And then I go like, okay, Alexa, ask deebot to sweep floor.

[Damien]

Yeah, so.

[Shane]

And then it gets caught on my sofa life support.

[Damien]

Alexa, kill me.

[Shane]

Alexa. Alexa, kill Felicia.

[Courtney]

Alexa, end it all.

[Damien]

Nice. But, like, honestly, you don't really need one. I mean, obviously not. But once you get one, you're like, this helps me a lot.

[Shane]

It's barely convenient. The. The vacuum thing is terrible. I would say the. The. The lights are the best thing for me so I don't have to get up in the middle of the night. But I also say Alexa lights green while I'm gaming, so my room is green, and I match it to whatever game I want.

[Courtney]

I think part of the reason I don't use mine is because my apartment's very small. It's not like I don't have to walk that far to do anything.

[Shane]

True, but you do have to walk.

[Courtney]

I like it. I mean, nice little stroll through my tiny little place.

[Damien]

Are you gonna be there long?

[Courtney]

Are you moving Maybe.

[Shane]

Really?

[Courtney]

I might move this year. I don't know.

[Shane]

No way. I don't know.

[Courtney]

I kind of want a bigger space. I kind of want. I really want, like, a patio. I want, like, something outside. I'd like that.

[Damien]

Jinx.

[Shane]

Hey, Shane. Shane.

[Courtney]

What's up?

[Shane]

How would you like it if I kicked out my roommate and you became my roommate?

[Damien]

Yeah. Well, would you guys live together again if that was a thing that came to me.

[Shane]

I tried for years, and Shane just always has excuses.

[Damien]

Maybe.

[Courtney]

I don't know. It's like, I can. I like having my own space. I do.

[Damien]

I definitely love being alone. But seeing our crew, like Taylor and Brennan and Billy and all them, how they have this gorgeous house that's all lit and they live together and it looks like just the. They're so cool. It makes me miss having roommates when I was living with my. It's definitely fun, but I've definitely gotten accustomed to living by myself. I. Yeah. Cause, like, listen, the time between getting out of the shower and putting clothes on gets longer and longer every time, and I don't want to deal with anybody seeing that.

[Shane]

And yet you were going to adopt cats? They stare. They do.

[Damien]

I just. I get to do whatever I want. I can make coffee in just a jockstrap.

[Shane]

And her other roommates would just slap her back.

[Damien]

Those would be so funny.

[Shane]

Jock straps are not comfortable.

[Courtney]

Nobody really wants to.

[Shane]

Nobody likes jock straps. No, they're very uncomfortable. They hurt.

[Damien]

They're just man thongs, right?

[Shane]

No, because they've got a couple different.

[Courtney]

They're different.

[Damien]

You have to put the cuff in the jock strap.

[Courtney]

They don't cover the buttocks either.

[Shane]

Yeah, they don't.

[Damien]

Whoa. It's like a backpack. But it's not comfortable.

[Courtney]

Yeah, essentially. Yeah.

[Shane]

Yeah, it's not comfortable. Sucks.

[Damien]

You guys should try it out.

[Shane]

No.

[Damien]

Host of the podcast.

[Shane]

Are you okay?

[Damien]

That's me. Maybe I shouldn't be alone.

[Shane]

Guys, we need a wellness check on Courtney.

[Courtney]

Guys, is Courtney okay?

[Shane]

Comment down below if we should be concerned.

[Damien]

Come on.

[Shane]

Come on.

[Damien]

Why can't I make naked jokes?

[Shane]

Because it's uncomfortable. Cause everybody's nudity should be. Bodies are gross and should be ashamed of.

[Damien]

He's playing his farts on the microphone.

[Shane]

Dude.

[Courtney]

Yeah.

[Damien]

Girls, why can't we be funny? Girls, why can't we just laugh at us being naked?

[Shane]

Naked bodies are disgusting. All humans should be ashamed of themselves.

[Courtney]

Also, you can't make coffee while wearing a jock strap. That. That messes up the aromas.

[Shane]

You'll get burned.

[Courtney]

You get burned.

[Shane]

On your peepers.

[Courtney]

Yeah, exactly.

[Shane]

Whatever burned on your peepers.

[Damien]

Kevin looks so uncomfortable right now.

[Shane]

Kevin, does the word peepers make you laugh?

[Damien]

Come on, laugh at. Laugh.

[Shane]

Is it about being peepers?

[Damien]

Yeah, shut up.

[Courtney]

Laugh.

[Shane]

Was there. Was there any other cancels that you wanted?

[Courtney]

Yeah. What are you guys canceling?

[Shane]

I'm gonna cancel Karen's or just Karen videos. I get so much anxiety from watching those videos of, like, I didn't ask for the coffee like that. Where is your manager? And there's so many of them. Especially, I'm like, I don't know if they're real or staged, but it doesn't matter. It hits me the same. I can't see them anymore. And just swiping through TikTok, all of a sudden, it's just like, yes, this has coffee in it. And I can't have that. Do you know what? Excuse me? Do you know what that means? I'm like, I can't. It just hits me so hard because I used to work in retail, and I just know that I also didn't even see half of the worst of it. Like, I can't do it. So no more Karen videos.

[Courtney]

It feels like the Internet's like, this is gonna sound so obvious, but it feels like the Internet's super, super negative right now in that those types of videos are the only things that are ever trending right now because it makes.

[Damien]

Everyone feel so good.

[Shane]

It makes us feel something, makes everybody feel so good.

[Courtney]

There's just a lot of just really bad, like, just people being awful. Like, those are the things that's like, hey, everyone, watch this person being awful. It's like, why are we always.

[Damien]

I think. I think what I want to cancel on TikTok is these videos where girls are like, this is me catching my toxic friend on camera. And it's like the worst acting, where you just see the girl being like, okay, but I wanted to wear red to the party tonight. And the girl's like, okay, well, I'm wearing pink. And I know, like, you've always, like, tried to live in, like, my shadow, like, because in all our lives and we've been friends, like, you can't do that. And then you're just like, there's all these kids that are believing this is real. I'm like, you guys don't know what acting is.

[Shane]

It's. The top comments are like, oh, my God, I can't believe that happened. And then the one after that is like, people who think this is real. And then three clown emojis.

[Damien]

Yeah.

[Shane]

And I'm like, that's the one. I. You know.

[Damien]

Yeah.

[Shane]

It's the same kind of a thing where, like, it'll be two people looking at the camera, and then it'll hear like, I know you cheated on me with Brad, or something like that. And then the one again, bad acting, like, wait, what? Caught her on camera. But also at the same time, that is another example of, like, it's teenagers, and they really want to do something scandalous and they haven't learned yet. I did notice an influx of videos, too. Sorry, I'm just talking, talking.

[Damien]

Go, go, go.

[Shane]

I did notice an influx of videos on TikTok where I'm like, it's. It's younger people who haven't made anything yet. So that's where it's coming from. But, like, you'll watch the whole video and not be entirely sure what they were even trying to do. Like, it's shot really well. Like, it'll be like a scary video. Be like, I thing in my basement. But there won't be enough parts of traditional story structure for you to be like, I'm not even sure what you were trying to make me think was in the basement, you know, but it shot so well.

[Damien]

What's in the sky? And it's like, not anything's happening in the sky. And they're like.

[Shane]

Like, for part two, so they have, like, a lot of. They have, like, a lot of raw talent and how to get you to see things and look at things, but they don't know story structure. So you're just left there. Like, how interesting to see a teenage. Be able to publish this and see, you know, you wouldn't normally see that. It's like the videos you make at home with your friends.

[Damien]

This is the stuff that makes me really excited to, like, if I could be eventually a film high school film teacher. Because I, like, I would hope that, like, those kids will be, like, maybe I could do film. And they come in and they can actually learn, like, what that's like, or, like, put the talents that they have to actual use. I don't know. It's interesting.

[Courtney]

I don't know. Movies aren't gonna exist in 10 years.

[Shane]

That's true.

[Damien]

Probably not. It's just gonna be VR.

[Courtney]

Just gonna be VR.

[Damien]

It's gonna be Shane recording I Am Spider Man.

[Courtney]

Yeah.

[Shane]

Spiderman.

[Courtney]

That's. It's gonna be this in 10 years. It's just gonna only be. That's it.

[Shane]

Kevin seems so disappointed every time that happens. Is there. Are you gonna have to bleep. That out every time, Kevin. No, it's just. Do we have to listen to this while I edit this over and over?

[Courtney]

Yeah.

[Damien]

Do you have to cut out me talking about being naked?

[Shane]

No.

[Courtney]

We're gonna have to cut this whole podcast.

[Damien]

It's not fair that Tyler Phillips can come out with no shirt on in it, and people are like, but if I did, then there's a Reddit page.

[Courtney]

I want you to cut out everything except my farts.

[Shane]

Can we get a hypercut of Shane's fart?

[Damien]

Sure. Well, boys, how you guys feeling? How did we do?

[Shane]

You know, tummy hurts.

[Courtney]

I feel really good. You know, I feel like I made a lot of great content that I've shown you guys today. I'll keep trying to make content like that. You know, keep working on my art is the big thing.

[Damien]

I think you forgot a letter on that one. Word.

[Courtney]

Nice.

[Shane]

Who arted? Am I right?

[Courtney]

That's so funny.

[Damien]

Who arted?

[Courtney]

Legend. Legend. Over here.

[Damien]

Thanks, gang. And thank you guys for listening and watching this podcast. We casted this pod. We sure did. Two boys, both wearing the same yellow shirt. That's what this was. If you guys want to keep listening or keep watching, we have the audio episodes that come out every Wednesday and that the full video episodes come out on the Smosh Cast channel every Friday. So subscribe to whichever one give us a rating, too. Rate Shane's art.

[Courtney]

Yeah.

[Shane]

Please make it a five star. It really helps us.

[Damien]

It really helps.

[Courtney]

Yeah.

[Damien]

And like we said there, between us as creators and the viewers, there is. We don't owe each other anything, but we're happy to give you the content that we give and whatever you guys want to give to us. Hey, that's sweet, too. We love you, Hepatitis. Please give us. Don't give us hepatitis.

[Courtney]

Please don't.

[Damien]

Bye.

[Courtney]

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