S2: #50 - Courtney Got The WORST Valentine’s Gift

Summary

Introduction and Milestone Celebration

In the 50th episode of Smosh Mouth, hosts Shayne Topp (short), Amanda Lehan-Canto (tall), and rotating friend Tommy Obomi celebrate this significant milestone with humor and camaraderie. The hosts kick off the episode by humorously discussing personal Valentine's Day experiences, setting a lighthearted tone for the conversation.

Journey to Iceland: Adventures and Experiences

Tommy shares his adventurous trip to Iceland with friends, highlighting both the scenic beauty and unexpected experiences.

"Iceland was really cool. It's just kind of funny because when you go to another country, you think you're going to be interacting with the people that are from that place." – Tommy Obomi [06:03]

The group recounts encounters with unique Icelandic architecture, such as turf houses, and a mysterious incident involving animal bones near a cave.

"So we went in. It's like, really creepy. It's, like, wet and muddy, and we're just, like, going into this, like, random cave that's, like, built and got a little creeped out." – Tommy Obomi [07:24]

They also discuss local wildlife, including reindeer and puffins, and share amusing anecdotes about trying traditional Icelandic dishes like reindeer and whale meat.

"It's a mix between steak and sashimi." – Tommy Obomi [11:59]

Office Dynamics and Post-Production

The conversation shifts to the dynamics within the Smosh Cast office, affectionately referred to as "The Cave." They describe the post-production team's environment, likening it to a "foxhole" where the editors work tirelessly to refine content.

"The cave is its own little secret hole that has, let's see, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. And then freelancer 8. So, like, eight people in there." – Ian Hecox [33:00]

Tommy humorously critiques the podcast's editing process, emphasizing the crucial role of the post team in maintaining the show's quality.

"We need them to make us look good. Ian, be nice." – Courtney Miller [34:15]

Music Production and Future Plans

Ian discusses his newfound passion for music production, inspired by collaborations with Tommy and Courtney. They explore their favorite artists and the importance of experimentation in music creation.

"My favorite producer on the planet is Sophie. Sophie is an amazing trans woman, goddess, alien creature person who is making hypertextural industrial pop experiments." – Ian Hecox [26:54]

The hosts express excitement about creating their own music, with plans to incorporate unique sounds inspired by their favorite producers.

"Let's try to throw one of those Sophie clanks into the next song." – Tommy Obomi [32:18]

Valentine's Day Stories and Opinions

The hosts delve into their personal experiences and philosophies surrounding Valentine's Day. Courtney shares a poignant story about a mismatched Valentine's gift exchange, highlighting the complexities of modern relationships.

"I got them an Apple Watch for Valentine's Day. Oh, and they got me a haircut." – Courtney Miller [58:18]

Ian reflects on his own views on Valentine's Day, expressing his uncertainty about love and his plans to approach the day differently this year.

"I don't think I've ever been in love before." – Ian Hecox [56:38]

The discussion touches on varying perspectives on gift-giving, the pressure it can create, and the importance of acts of service over material gifts.

"Valentine's Day should be less about giving a gift and more about some sort of act of service, like little smoochies." – Tommy Obomi [60:25]

Cancel of the Week: Wax Figures and More

In their regular segment, "Cancel of the Week," the hosts express their disdain for wax figures, citing the uncanny valley effect and lack of authenticity.

"Sometimes they're very poorly made." – Courtney Miller [63:02]

They also highlight personal pet peeves, such as messy bathroom habits and lack of awareness in public spaces, humorously advocating for accountability and respect.

"I'm canceling wax figures, messy pee peers, and people that aren't aware of their surroundings." – Tommy Obomi [63:53]

Conclusion

Wrapping up the episode, the hosts reflect on their journey, express gratitude to their listeners, and tease future content, including new merchandise and collaborative projects. They maintain their signature humor and camaraderie, ensuring listeners leave with a smile.

"Thank you guys for allowing us to reach number 50 on Smoshcast." – Courtney Miller [71:32]

The episode concludes with playful banter and heartfelt thanks, celebrating both the podcast's milestone and the enduring spirit of the Smosh community.

Transcript

[Courtney Miller]

Ramble. I got them an apple watch for Valentine's Day. Oh, and they got me. They got a haircut.

[Ian Hecox]

They got a haircut.

[Tommy Obomi]

They got their own haircut.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Ew.

[Tommy Obomi]

Oh, boy. And we might want to cut this.

[Courtney Miller]

One out, but he ate a person.

[Tommy Obomi]

Another thing I ate was whale.

[Ian Hecox]

I'm sorry if any of my exes are watching this. This sucks.

[Courtney Miller]

I hope they are.

[Ian Hecox]

I don't think I've ever been in love before.

[Courtney Miller]

I've been following Rich Brian for a while, and suddenly he followed me and DM'd me and was just like, hey, you're awesome. And I was like, what the fuck? What did I do? What did I do?

[Tommy Obomi]

Whoa. Is boy trying to slide in?

[Courtney Miller]

No.

[Tommy Obomi]

Is he trying to slide in?

[Courtney Miller]

Go slide in.

[Tommy Obomi]

Trying to slide in.

[Ian Hecox]

Go slide in.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, my God. Oh, my God. We're rolling. I'm rolling. I'm rolling.

[Tommy Obomi]

Is that an impression of Marisa?

[Courtney Miller]

No, don't doxx her.

[Ian Hecox]

The virus.

[Courtney Miller]

No, my friend. Oh, she doesn't do that. She's in it for the music.

[Ian Hecox]

How do you spell it? M R, C A M, R, S. And Marissa.

[Courtney Miller]

Marissa.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, Marissa. I thought you said mrsa.

[Tommy Obomi]

Marsa.

[Courtney Miller]

That's a name, isn't it? Marsa.

[Tommy Obomi]

That's a deadly virus.

[Ian Hecox]

That's a deadly virus.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh.

[Tommy Obomi]

Or bacterial infection.

[Ian Hecox]

Before we get into this, Ian, did you know that this is gonna be the 50th episode?

[Tommy Obomi]

Wow. Well, happy fifth 50th episode of the Smosh Cast, guys. Our Smosh cast can almost get the senior discount at Denny's. Our.

[Ian Hecox]

This. This podcast is going through the big change right now.

[Tommy Obomi]

Oh, the big change.

[Courtney Miller]

Menopause.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah. Getting hot flashes, feeling nauseous, losing bone density.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, such.

[Courtney Miller]

I thought you said losing bones. You know, just like, just wolf femur just pops out.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah, it happens. You know, menopause is crazy, y'all.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. When my mom was going through it, just like. Just little pieces of skeleton everywhere.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah. Mom, did you leave the femur?

[Ian Hecox]

She's like, yeah.

[Tommy Obomi]

Everyone just turns to goo.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah. So, kids, if your mom hasn't gone through menopause yet, just wait. She's going to turn to goo.

[Courtney Miller]

You have to call her Goo Mom.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, you can always. You can tell when she is, like, going through the process, when she's done, when she's just truly a pink puddle on the ground. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Be careful or gentle with her. Don't sweep her up.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah, yeah. Don't try to eat her.

[Courtney Miller]

No.

[Tommy Obomi]

Well, because then you gain the powers of the menopause. And then you too will become the goo Goo.

[Courtney Miller]

Become the goo. What the hell?

[Tommy Obomi]

And this has been The Science Podcast.

[Courtney Miller]

50Th episode of our science podcast.

[Tommy Obomi]

So today I am joined by good old boy Tommy. Hello, Tommy. Tommy Obami.

[Ian Hecox]

Tommy Obami.

[Tommy Obomi]

Tommy Obami.

[Ian Hecox]

Thank you for Tommy Bahama.

[Tommy Obomi]

Tommy.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. Oh, my God. My brand. Thank you. You know, I got great shirts, great blankets, you know, very overpriced. Macy's only Courtney.

[Tommy Obomi]

And also joined by Courtney Obortney. Fifi. Faux Fortney. Fortnite.

[Ian Hecox]

Fortnite.

[Courtney Miller]

Nice.

[Ian Hecox]

Where are you dropping Courtney?

[Courtney Miller]

I'm plopping.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, I feel that anywhere.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah, she don't drop.

[Courtney Miller]

Am I a good little boy? Am I a good boy? You said Tommy was a good old boy. Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Ian, what's the deal?

[Tommy Obomi]

You just a bad little rascal.

[Ian Hecox]

Hey, that's kinda cool.

[Courtney Miller]

Speaking of boys, though, got that no more Boys shirt on.

[Tommy Obomi]

Ay. Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

I'm so excited, guys.

[Tommy Obomi]

What's the story behind this shirt that you got on?

[Courtney Miller]

So this is the actual entry of the actual writing from one of my diary entries. No more boys. No more boys. No more boys. Bye.

[Tommy Obomi]

Did you actually say bye right after that?

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

This is the.

[Tommy Obomi]

This is photograph verbatim.

[Courtney Miller]

This is it.

[Tommy Obomi]

Oh, my God. And did you actually write no more boys in red on that last one?

[Courtney Miller]

No, we did the red to make it pop.

[Tommy Obomi]

Nice. I like it.

[Ian Hecox]

You had really good handwriting.

[Courtney Miller]

Thank you. It hasn't changed much. I think it's gotten a little more, like, adult, but. Yeah.

[Tommy Obomi]

And now people can also rep that teen angst for themselves at Smosh store.

[Courtney Miller]

I'm so excited for this.

[Tommy Obomi]

I'm excited for you.

[Courtney Miller]

And you're wearing something special, too.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Tommy Obomi]

Oh, what the hell? Oh, my goodness.

[Courtney Miller]

Do you know that's kind of a. I keep saying this. It's kind of similar to a merch we used to have.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah. It's kind of.

[Courtney Miller]

Remember that?

[Tommy Obomi]

It's a little bit of a throwback.

[Courtney Miller]

Yes. Nobody else remembers them.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

I don't.

[Tommy Obomi]

I d. I dust. I think it was pink flowers.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. And it was like a crop top.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah. So now we also got a hoodie. It's. It's got the Smosh logo with some very pretty flowers on it.

[Courtney Miller]

Pretty flowers.

[Tommy Obomi]

It is gender neutral, as you could tell, because I am wearing it. You don't have to be a girl to wear flowers.

[Courtney Miller]

Same with my shirt. My shirt is also gender neutral. Anyone can say, no more boys.

[Tommy Obomi]

That's right. And I believe in it, too. No more boys.

[Courtney Miller]

Thank you.

[Ian Hecox]

I will I'll. I'll go. Kevin, let's go. Okay.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Tommy Obomi]

I didn't say. I didn't say no more cool dudes.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, ch. All right, I'm back in.

[Courtney Miller]

Dude, you were gone for a while. I was Mr. Travel Boy.

[Tommy Obomi]

That's why I'm so. I'm so Zen right now.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. Who. Oh, my gosh. Okay, so just give us the low down.

[Tommy Obomi]

Why did you go? Who are you with?

[Courtney Miller]

Did.

[Tommy Obomi]

So I went with my neighbor and another neighbor.

[Ian Hecox]

How well do you know these neighbors?

[Tommy Obomi]

And another guy that lives down the street. Yeah, strangely, I met my neighbor in Atlanta at an event, and we found out that we lived literally, like, three houses down from each other.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, crap.

[Courtney Miller]

That's la. Never knowing who you're living around.

[Tommy Obomi]

And I never met her before. And then we just kind of hit it off and just became good friends. And it was her birthday, so she was like, I want to go to Iceland. And then. So she knew another neighbor down the street. It was three of us, all single peeps in our 30s. Total platonic. There was not an orgy. Just putting that out there.

[Courtney Miller]

Emphasis on the play and. Platonic.

[Tommy Obomi]

Platonic. And, yeah, it was. It was. It was dope. So we all went to Iceland and had a great time.

[Courtney Miller]

I mean, any scary things? Any.

[Ian Hecox]

Almost any yetis.

[Tommy Obomi]

Okay. There was a scary part.

[Courtney Miller]

Really?

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah. Okay. Not. Not scary. Spooky. In Iceland, there's these. There's these, like, turf houses. They're like houses that have, like. They put, like, grass and stuff on the roof.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, yeah.

[Tommy Obomi]

Part of the earth. I think it helps insulate the houses. Some of them are, like, very, very ancient.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay. Not, like. Not like the Hobbit.

[Tommy Obomi]

They're similar.

[Ian Hecox]

Similar.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah, similar.

[Ian Hecox]

All right. Cute.

[Tommy Obomi]

But there was one house that was built into, like, a Clif. We could walk in there. Like, the sign said we could go in, but there was, like, nobody else around. And, like, we walk in and it's dark because we're basically in a cave. And before I walk in, I notice there's, like, a bone sitting just on the ground at the entrance.

[Ian Hecox]

Someone having menopause outside of this cave.

[Tommy Obomi]

I know. I know.

[Courtney Miller]

How big was the bone? Actually, it was. It was like chicken bone or like a.

[Tommy Obomi]

No, it wasn't a chicken bone. It was something bigger. It was. It was maybe, like, maybe five inches or something.

[Courtney Miller]

Penis bone.

[Tommy Obomi]

Penis bone?

[Courtney Miller]

No. Average penis bone.

[Tommy Obomi]

Well, we don't know what the average size is in Iceland. Anyway.

[Courtney Miller]

Okay, sorry. Anyway, average boner. Got it.

[Tommy Obomi]

So we went in. It's like, really creepy. It's, like, wet and muddy, and we're just, like, going into this, like, random cave that's, like, built and got a little creeped out. So we turned around and then we kind of, like, walked up the hillside right there. And I'm, like, walking around and, like, I have a friend that's, like, walking in front of me. And I looked down and I was like, oh, there's a jawbone. And then I look, like two feet over. I was like. And there's the rest of the animal.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, my God. What kind of animal was it?

[Tommy Obomi]

It might have goat or something. A sheep maybe. It was hard to tell. It was just this clump of, like, I don't know how long ago. So Iceland doesn't have any sort of, like, predators. Like, they have birds and they have the cutest freaking ponies. Well, they're not ponies. Technically they're horses, but they're so gosh dang adorable. And they have, like, sheep and cows and stuff.

[Ian Hecox]

So when animals lie, they just kind of go clomp. And then they're little skeletons.

[Courtney Miller]

They go through menopause.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Tommy Obomi]

So what I'm confused about is if there's no predators, right? What was taking this animal apart? Yeah, I mean, it could have been birds.

[Courtney Miller]

Like, what if there was some other tourists and a kid was like, whoa, a bone. This is cool. But, like, I'm trying to just, like, understanding what the bone looked like. Was it, like, fleshy? This is so gross. Sorry, listeners.

[Tommy Obomi]

And this wasn't like. It wasn't a skeleton of an animal. It was still animal, all fur and everything.

[Courtney Miller]

Is there any kind of scavengers in. In Iceland?

[Tommy Obomi]

I mean, there's birds, so I'd imagine, you know, maybe they're picking away at it, but. But it was like the jawbone is, like, sitting over by itself, and then there's that bone perfectly in the doorway, just, like, right at the doorway. I'm like, I don't know, man. This is some real pagan shit.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, that's weird. I'd say in the comments. What you think that was?

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah, please.

[Courtney Miller]

What do you think that was?

[Ian Hecox]

Well, you know, there's always the yeti. You know, I'm just going to.

[Tommy Obomi]

That's true.

[Ian Hecox]

I just. My. My favorite scapegoat. Yeti. Late yeti. Homework on yeti. Animal ripped apart on top of a house Yeti. Got that yeti.

[Courtney Miller]

So weird.

[Tommy Obomi]

That's true.

[Ian Hecox]

That is bizarro. But anyway, any other fun things that aren't scary?

[Tommy Obomi]

Ripped animals, good food, I ate some food.

[Ian Hecox]

Good.

[Courtney Miller]

Okay, Ian, you ate.

[Tommy Obomi]

Thank you.

[Courtney Miller]

And. Good boy.

[Tommy Obomi]

Iceland. I forgot another animal that exists in Iceland. Reindeer.

[Ian Hecox]

Is it alive? Is it ripped apart too?

[Tommy Obomi]

No, I actually saw some. They were just. They're just chilling. They're chilling on the plains. Like they, they don't hunt them during the winter, so they just kind of know that they are just. They could just chill around. And then summer comes around, they start. They start shooting them. So they go up into the hills. I ate some reindeer.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh. Literally last night.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

Hold on. Okay, so you were stuck there because of a storm, Right? When did you actually get home?

[Tommy Obomi]

So we got. We got stuck there for an extra day.

[Courtney Miller]

Okay.

[Tommy Obomi]

And one of my friends had been there before, was like, oh, we got to go to this restaurant. So. Well, another animal that they have in Iceland is puffin.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh. So little characters in Star wars they had to hide.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

[Courtney Miller]

Porgs.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah. So I ate some of that too.

[Courtney Miller]

Wow.

[Ian Hecox]

Feeling, feeling.

[Courtney Miller]

How's your tum tum?

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah, it was pretty good. The reindeer was really good, but I'm sure it just tastes anything like venison.

[Courtney Miller]

It's pretty good. I've never had deer or like horse or anything.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, I'm a chicky boy.

[Tommy Obomi]

And we might want to cut this.

[Courtney Miller]

One out, but he ate a person.

[Tommy Obomi]

Another thing I ate. What was whale.

[Courtney Miller]

And why did you eat it?

[Tommy Obomi]

Because it was there. We can't eat whale here.

[Ian Hecox]

Hmm.

[Tommy Obomi]

You'll probably cut that out.

[Courtney Miller]

Why?

[Tommy Obomi]

So it's not a threatened species of whale.

[Courtney Miller]

Uh huh.

[Tommy Obomi]

It's a mink whale, which is not a threatened species. And I can sadly report it was fucking delicious.

[Courtney Miller]

I say it's cool that you're trying new things and saying yes to rare opportunities.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah, I'm definitely not gonna go eating whale everywhere.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. It's not like this. You've tasted blood now you're.

[Tommy Obomi]

And I was.

[Ian Hecox]

I did notice you started a change.org thing to reverse the illegality of whales.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. So much. Yeah.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

You've got my signature, buddy.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah, I got. I got your signature. I got Japan's signature, like.

[Ian Hecox]

And we're under arrest apparently. Japan signature. That just hit me.

[Courtney Miller]

Yikes.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah, I mean, I'm not, I'm not for. I'm not for, you know, overfishing of, you know, whales and stuff, but. Oh boy. It was like. It was like. Okay, can I explain, Can I explain whale for a second?

[Courtney Miller]

Okay.

[Tommy Obomi]

Oof.

[Ian Hecox]

Yes.

[Courtney Miller]

How did you eat it? Like sushi or like. Or like grilled.

[Tommy Obomi]

Okay. So it was a small like, piece and little chunk. It was cooked, like, medium rare. Had this little, like, little thing of like, like a garlic soy sauce on the side. It was cooked medium rare, and it was sliced thinly. And the only way I could. I can explain is it's like steak. It's like a mix between steak and sashimi.

[Ian Hecox]

Whoa.

[Courtney Miller]

Okay, so it's kind of, like, seared.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah, it was, like, seared. Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

So it was, like, squishy, flavorful, meaty.

[Tommy Obomi]

Because it's a mammal.

[Ian Hecox]

Watering in the mouth right now because it's a mammal. Yeah, it has a brain.

[Tommy Obomi]

Because one of my neighbors was like. She was kind of in the. Little bummed for some reason, and I gave her a little piece of whale, and she was like, cheer right up. She was like, oh, my God.

[Courtney Miller]

Whoa.

[Tommy Obomi]

That is so good. This podcast is gonna end up, like, killing the whale species. No, no, we can't get whale in the U.S. apparently, it's not allowed here for a good reason.

[Courtney Miller]

I've lived through you. I don't think I'd ever take the opportunity myself to try it. But now that I know that your experience, I'm like, okay, cool. Good to know. So I think it's good. Good knowledge, then.

[Tommy Obomi]

We ate a person.

[Courtney Miller]

Love that.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

Jawbone.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. But we've all. We've all kind of.

[Tommy Obomi]

It's the ultimate.

[Courtney Miller]

Sorry, me after being a person.

[Tommy Obomi]

But, yeah, no, Iceland was. Iceland was really cool. It's just kind of funny because when you go to another country, you think you're going to be, you know, interacting with the people that are from that. From that place.

[Ian Hecox]

Right.

[Tommy Obomi]

But the thing that's happened with Iceland is Iceland's only a country of 360,000 people. And what happened is, like, in the last 10 years, their tourism has exploded, probably due in part to Instagram and whale. So they found themselves not having enough people to basically support the tourism industry. So a lot of the service workers, the sort of like the grocery baggers or the waiters or the people working at the hotels, they're not from Iceland. And a lot of them can't even speak the language.

[Ian Hecox]

Where are they from?

[Tommy Obomi]

All over Europe.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh. So just whomever.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Cool.

[Tommy Obomi]

So it's like. I mean, I think it's easier for, like, certain people in the Scandinavian countries.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Tommy Obomi]

To. Because they kind of have, like a. They kind of have their own sort of European Union. We had some people that were from, like, Romania, like, other. Other, like, random parts. Germany, like, other parts of Europe. But it's so weird because, like, we watched. We Were. We were sitting in this bar. It was a big Lebowski themed bar.

[Courtney Miller]

Wow.

[Ian Hecox]

In Iceland.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Good for them.

[Tommy Obomi]

It was called Bar Lebowski.

[Courtney Miller]

Bar Lebowski.

[Tommy Obomi]

I kind of like that slight. Slight tangent. There was also. And I didn't go in there, but there was also a Chuck Norris themed restaurant.

[Courtney Miller]

That's funny.

[Ian Hecox]

What was the name?

[Tommy Obomi]

I think it was called Norris Cafe Chuck Norris or Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris Grill, I think. And it had his. I think it had his face on it. I don't know.

[Ian Hecox]

I'm back in.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Tommy Obomi]

But I don't understand. I don't know if there's some sort of fascination with Chuck Norris there or if that's just like. They're like, oh, there's American tourists. And what do Americans like? I think Chuck Norris.

[Ian Hecox]

He is our. He basically is the American eagle, part two.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

He's got the flag, the eagle. Chuckles.

[Tommy Obomi]

Right.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, I see it.

[Tommy Obomi]

But we're. We're in this bar, and then we watched this, like, Icelandic person come in to, like, the host, and they said something to him in the language, and the guy just, like, put his hand up. He's like, no.

[Courtney Miller]

And we weren't taking locals.

[Tommy Obomi]

No, no. He just was like, don't talk to me.

[Ian Hecox]

Like, within the business, they don't understand that language. Like, hey, it's time for a break. No, I don't.

[Tommy Obomi]

So then she had to be. Had to be, like, waiting for someone, and he's like, okay.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, my God. That's.

[Tommy Obomi]

That's gotta be so strange to, like, in your, like, grow up in your own, like, country. And then. And then, like, suddenly people are like, no, no, no, no, no, no, I don't. I don't. No. English. English. Speak English.

[Courtney Miller]

So that's weird. So then, like, more people, like, the common language is, like, kind of English. Nothing between other countries. English. Jesus, that'd be so weird. Imagine, like, you walk in your local. Local grocery store, and, like, the first.

[Ian Hecox]

Person there is, like, Russian.

[Tommy Obomi]

Speak Russian?

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. Whoa. That's wild.

[Tommy Obomi]

It's wild and crazy.

[Courtney Miller]

Well, it's like. Because a lot of countries in Europe, like, they require 12 years of English to graduate high school or high school or college. Yeah, I think. What was this guy, our pole vault assistant coach, he was from near Russia or something like that, and he. He had to learn 12 years of English to graduate.

[Ian Hecox]

Just.

[Tommy Obomi]

Wow.

[Ian Hecox]

Just to teach polls.

[Courtney Miller]

Just to get out and teach about polls.

[Ian Hecox]

Wow.

[Courtney Miller]

I was. He polished a lot.

[Tommy Obomi]

Was he Polish?

[Ian Hecox]

Nice. Nice.

[Courtney Miller]

It was, like, nice. Ukraine. It wasn't. Was It. Ukraine. I don't know.

[Tommy Obomi]

That's a. That's a place near Russia.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, it was around there. But, yeah, they. They teach a lot more English out there than we do. Like, what? Minimum two years of Spanish to get out of high school.

[Ian Hecox]

I barely learned English.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Tommy Obomi]

I mean, some. Some countries, they, like, kids learn, like, four languages.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. Dude. Such a talent. I've been seeing this one person on TikTok. He's been posting where he goes to Chinese restaurants, or I think, is he in China? But he starts talking to the people who work in the restaurants in English.

[Ian Hecox]

I recently saw this too.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. And then he'll all sudden start speaking Mandarin to them, and the people around them are like.

[Ian Hecox]

He's like, what is this? And then they're like, ugh. All right. It's this thing. And then he'll be like, bam. And just, like, throw Chinese at them. It's so good. Or Mandarin, rather.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, he's, like, perfectly fluent.

[Ian Hecox]

So good at.

[Tommy Obomi]

And they're just like.

[Courtney Miller]

People will just be, oh, okay. They shouldn't be laughing at him. Like, oh, geez.

[Ian Hecox]

But then they'll always end up asking him, like, when did you study? How long have you studied? And then they're interested in, like, the education of it all because it's so rare.

[Courtney Miller]

It's hard work.

[Ian Hecox]

For American. It's just a white dude. Yep.

[Courtney Miller]

Like, cookie cutter white dude.

[Ian Hecox]

Yep. That's why it's shocking.

[Courtney Miller]

Olivia's friend Sheila, she speaks four languages.

[Ian Hecox]

I think so cool.

[Courtney Miller]

Like Mandarin.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

English and then. And then German or Russian. One of those. Or something.

[Ian Hecox]

So cool. Dang, bro, My brain can't do nothing.

[Tommy Obomi]

My favorite. My favorite part about talking about somebody that speaks. What is it, five languages is you get to use the word polyglot.

[Courtney Miller]

Polyglot. Someone who speaks multiple languages. Polyglot.

[Tommy Obomi]

Isn't that something?

[Courtney Miller]

I'm a Minecraft.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. Polyglot sounds like a blood condition.

[Tommy Obomi]

Oh, I can't fly. I got.

[Ian Hecox]

I got polyglot.

[Courtney Miller]

I really want to learn a second language. I thought about learning Farsi for a little bit because of the previous boyfriend. And then, I mean, I. I was really good at speaking Spanish, especially when I went to Mexico. Like, it. Everything, all the memory you had, like, comes back. So Spanish would be probably the closest one, but it'd be really cool to learn, like, Mandarin or, like, Arabic's hard, and there's so many different kinds. Such a big language.

[Ian Hecox]

I just want to, like, learn how electricity works. Like, people have been trying to tell me still. Nope.

[Tommy Obomi]

See what I want to know when you're trying to speak the language in the country that you're in, at what point is it respectful and at what point is it patronizing? Like if you're like, if you go to Mexico and you're like a. Por favor, dos tacos.

[Ian Hecox]

Right?

[Courtney Miller]

That's stupid.

[Ian Hecox]

I think when you're doing that, it's dumb.

[Courtney Miller]

Hola. Soy de California. Como estas?

[Tommy Obomi]

It's gross, but it's like, try or it's like when you're. If you go to like a restaurant, you're like, coma sidice.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. Just wasting time.

[Tommy Obomi]

And the guy's just like, can you please just fucking speak?

[Courtney Miller]

Like, everyone comes here, they're not even trying at that point. The other night I was trying to meet Sarah and Matt Rob for like some drinks and I got there and I forgot my id, So I was like, crap, I gotta go back and then come again. And I got into the Uber and I was like, hey, is it okay if we go to my place and then come back here? And he was like, I don't speak English. And I was like, oh, abba espanol. Cause I totally would have been able to say, go back to my place and come back here. But he was like, no, Persian. I was like, oh, fuck. Okay. I tried. I would have been real proud of.

[Tommy Obomi]

Myself, but just busted out some Farsi.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, that would have been so cool. Farsi specific language.

[Tommy Obomi]

That would have been the coolest, like, random thing ever. If you just busted out something and he's like, oh, cool. Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

I feel like there's a level of respect for someone who has put that effort in or has. Cause some people, they live in multi language household and they just completely ignore one language. And I had a friend, she was bilingual, Spanish, English, and like her dad would be speaking Spanish at her and she would just respond in English. Like, wouldn't even try.

[Ian Hecox]

And I was like, oh, dumb.

[Tommy Obomi]

I love, I love hearing, I love hearing like the different, the different kind. Like, because you know about like Spanglish, where in a multi language, like family, like oftentimes they'll just like flip flop between English and Spanish. I've heard Olivia do that.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh yeah.

[Tommy Obomi]

With. With her mom. With Mandarin in English. I've heard a little bit of like Mari doing in Japanese and English with her mom. And it's like, it's so fun to watch, like, just like, which words?

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, yeah. Because I think certain phrases in English are just faster to say than in the other one. Like, yeah, it's. I thought I Think that's very cool too.

[Ian Hecox]

Nice.

[Courtney Miller]

So fast.

[Ian Hecox]

So Iceland. A little bit of a culture shock, A little bit of a food extravaganza.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah, it was just a. It's a cool. It's a cool place that humans probably shouldn't inhabit it because there's no there's there. I mean, why are we there?

[Courtney Miller]

Did you see the northern lights at all?

[Tommy Obomi]

I did.

[Courtney Miller]

Wow.

[Ian Hecox]

And.

[Tommy Obomi]

And I will say the photos came out incredible, but it is not exactly how the photos show it. I mean, I've heard that sometimes it's a little bit more green than what I saw, but what I saw was like, it was like light in the sky. Yeah, it's like, okay, yeah, it's. There's a lot of it and it was really cool. But it's not like this crazy vibrant green that you always see in like the photos or.

[Ian Hecox]

So the photos are making it more extreme than it actually is.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay.

[Courtney Miller]

Cool. How like light travels.

[Tommy Obomi]

But yeah, versus yeah, we went like. Because it was. It was stormy. It was stormy a few times. It was cloudy and we. There's like an aurora tracker. You can see where like the northern lights are most likely to appear. And we'd see it like all over Iceland. We go outside, clouds like, fuck. And then. So luckily the last day, the last night we were there, the last night we were supposed to be there, we were. We. We stayed in this like Airbnb out in the middle of nowhere, like kind of like at the, like where the last big volcano erupted. We were there and it was like 2am and then we were all kind of like about to go, to go to sleep. And they were like, okay, just check the. Check the aurora thing. And it was over us. And we're like, what? And we ran out. And by the way, it's like this is the big storm that's coming in. So it's like 30 mile an hour winds, hail. And we like walked outside. And I made the dumbest noise. I was just like. Cause like, that's the one thing that I like really wanted to do. That's like the one thing that I wanted. Like go to Iceland. Like, that's the one thing I had on my list that I wanted to see was the northern lights. And I saw a little bit on the plane actually on the way there.

[Courtney Miller]

That's so cool above it.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah, yeah, it was like. It was kind of had to like look through the plane window, but to be there and like see it was. Was really, really awesome. We took a photo and you couldn't Tell that we were, like, freezing our asses off and trying to not get blown over, but, yeah, it was. It was really cool.

[Ian Hecox]

Nice. Yeah, thanks for sharing all that.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, dude. Heck yeah.

[Tommy Obomi]

But enough about me. Tommy, I see you got that little necklace on with a little ox plug in.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, yeah.

[Tommy Obomi]

Heck yeah, Little music boy. Tommy, you've been. You've been making some music for us, right?

[Ian Hecox]

Yes, I have. Yeah. So y'all just got back from the tour by the time this comes out, and. Yeah. So I guess I can talk about it, right?

[Tommy Obomi]

Sure, yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. So Damien had. Basically, Damien had a little song that you two are a part of, and you both did so well, right?

[Courtney Miller]

Fingers crossed.

[Ian Hecox]

Just like, the best performance. So, yeah, it was like a musical theater style song. And Fennerty knew from doing the Girls Are Gross remix that I had so much fun making, that I had some music knowledge and. Yeah, so I had never done a musical theater composition before, let alone.

[Courtney Miller]

You held it. That was your first.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. Let alone composition at all. I mean, like, I've done. I helped score a podcast a long time ago that they never ended up using any of the music for, but that was my first. Like, I'll use, like, a violin synth. And so this was my first time doing something like, actually like that. Yeah, well, that reaction's good for me. Like that.

[Courtney Miller]

No, dude. Yeah. Cause it sounds amazing. Like, I always think that I'm like, wow, we've really been sleeping on Tommy. And, like, you seem like you have a ton of experience. I mean, you surprised us all with the girls, the Gross Remix. And if you haven't heard it or seen, like, a little video on Twitter, just go check out the Girls Are Gross remix. It's. It's dope.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, dope.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Apparently we're gonna be doing some more musicy videosy, stuffies, even.

[Courtney Miller]

I am. I'm, like, trying to get a piece. I'm like, can you help me make some music?

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, I want to as well.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. I actually alluded to it on a live stream recently. I was like, yeah, me and Tommy are gonna try to make some music. Cool. I can't do by myself.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

No.

[Ian Hecox]

And I can't sing or write lyrics, so this is perfect.

[Courtney Miller]

Hey, look at us.

[Ian Hecox]

Hey, look at us.

[Courtney Miller]

Look at us.

[Ian Hecox]

Hey, look at us. So, yeah, I mean, like, did I study music? Not a chance. Do I listen to music all the time and know how it works? Yeah. I mean, I feel like many people do. And truly, like, anyone listening at home, if you're interested in music, hop on GarageBand or if you have logic got, you know, cool if you do or whatever system you have that has like a music program, just futz around in there. It's so easy to learn and then once you know what you're doing, it's just like, oh crap. I just taught myself over like four or five years.

[Tommy Obomi]

I'd say it's probably most DJs. Yeah, most like learning producers.

[Ian Hecox]

Bedroom producers for sure. Yeah.

[Tommy Obomi]

Just it's all just self taught. Like you don't really need to go to school or go to an art school or somewhere to exactly learn that kind of stuff.

[Ian Hecox]

It's also why there's so many artists making music now is because anyone can do it.

[Courtney Miller]

That's what's so crazy. Anyone can do the technology allowing people to do whatever they want. What's your favorite music like? What do you. Who do you like?

[Ian Hecox]

Gotcha. Okay, this is great, by the way, great question. So my favorite producer on the planet is Sophie. Sophie is a amazing trans woman, goddess, alien creature person who is.

[Tommy Obomi]

How do you spell it?

[Ian Hecox]

Sophie? S O, P, H, I, E. It is just the one name she made a bunch of really. I would call them like hypertextural industrial pop experiments.

[Courtney Miller]

Did I listen to this album? Did you have an album come out recently?

[Ian Hecox]

Well, Product. Product was the first collection of singles and it's just like one of the songs like sounds like diarrhea at the beginning just because it sounds like it.

[Tommy Obomi]

Would give me anxiety for the music.

[Courtney Miller]

Yes, I need a love story.

[Ian Hecox]

Yes, it's extremely anxiety inducing for sure.

[Courtney Miller]

If I happen to listen to it.

[Ian Hecox]

As a little dum dum with a cute little kiss of add. I love music that screams at me and like basically incapacitates me because it fulfills my brain in a way where I'm just like love it. But yeah, Sophie, she's making music for herself. It's really experimental. Her second album is really dark and spooky and like donkey gon bing bink kind of stuff. And you're like, it's like dubstep but rhythmic and not stupid. Sorry if you like dubstep. But anyway, she also produces pop music for regular people, so. Regular people. So she's working on Lady Gaga's album right now. She did a collab with Rihanna that never came out. She's done. She's collabed with like Brooke Candy with Charli Xex. Oh, you might know the song. You know. Vroom vroom. Charli XCX. The probably bitches know they call kotch me vroom vroom.

[Courtney Miller]

That's on TikTok.

[Ian Hecox]

That weird production is Sophie. That's like straight up Sophie style.

[Courtney Miller]

That's cool.

[Ian Hecox]

That's my favorite producer. She does a bunch of crazy crap, but I just like, every time I go into music, I'm like, what would Sophie do with this? Because she's constantly thinking outside the box, pushing the boundaries. And at all of her shows, she's like, yeah, I'm tired of my own. She's like, what do you want to hear? I'm tired of my own crap. What do you want? So much fun.

[Courtney Miller]

That's awesome.

[Tommy Obomi]

That's very much like an artist.

[Ian Hecox]

Mm, exactly. It's like, I don't wanna listen to my same crap again.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

I feel like a lot of popular artists like Childish Gambino, Kendrick, and then Tyler, the creator, their albums have a lot more of that experimental, like, crazy, random sounds. It's definitely becoming a more popular thing. I love it. I love music. I wish I knew more about it.

[Ian Hecox]

Like, I mean, same. I know some stuff, but I still wish I knew more about it.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah. And it's also like, sometimes they make something that sounds weird, but then it becomes the norm.

[Ian Hecox]

Exactly.

[Courtney Miller]

Yes.

[Ian Hecox]

Like, and that's really what's happening. If you've heard a lot of metal clang as like a hi hat or something. Just like a clang clang as part of the song. That's a Sophie thing that, like, got. So anyway, let's keep an ear out for that.

[Courtney Miller]

I'm really into Rich Brian.

[Ian Hecox]

Rich Brian?

[Courtney Miller]

I've never heard of him. Yeah, he used to be called Rich Chiga, but he changed it because it.

[Ian Hecox]

Was a little offensive.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, but he. He's awesome, dude. I'm pretty sure he does a lot of his own producing and his most recent album has, like, orchestral type stuff and I think. I can't. I don't know if he actually got an orchestra to do it, but, like.

[Tommy Obomi]

Maybe he's one of the 88 rising dudes. Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

Such a cool 88 rising. I'm trying to. Like, it consists of a lot of. It focuses a lot on Asian artists and helping bringing them up. Like, Joji's a part of it as well, and Joji used to be a YouTuber and same with Rich Brian, I think. Yeah. I couldn't believe recently I'd been following Rich Brian for a while and suddenly he followed me and DM'd me and was just like, hey, you're awesome. And I was like, what the fuck? What did I do? What did I do?

[Tommy Obomi]

Whoa. Is boy trying to slide in?

[Courtney Miller]

No.

[Tommy Obomi]

Is he trying to slide in?

[Courtney Miller]

Go slide in.

[Tommy Obomi]

Trying to slide in.

[Courtney Miller]

Doing the weirdest T pose wiggles right now. Cause I was like, thanks, dude. You're awesome. Like, that's the only way I knew how to respond. And we didn't message after that. I have no idea what provoked this. No clue. And I wish I knew. But did you post about him?

[Ian Hecox]

Maybe.

[Courtney Miller]

I talk about him semi regularly. He's on my. I have a ton of his music on my public playlist that fans listen to, which I'm rearranging, by the way, and making different playlists. So like your stuff that you like in the playlist while you still can. It might be gone.

[Ian Hecox]

Ooh, ooh, ooh.

[Courtney Miller]

But yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Tommy Obomi]

So when are you guys gonna hang out?

[Courtney Miller]

Now.

[Tommy Obomi]

Why not?

[Courtney Miller]

Because I don't think that's a thing.

[Tommy Obomi]

You can't. What? He dmed. That means you guys can hang out. That means you're best friends.

[Ian Hecox]

You can be rich. Courtney.

[Courtney Miller]

That's not how it works, Ian.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah, rich and then some other word that sounds slightly, you know, offensive.

[Courtney Miller]

His music is. You should check him out, dude. He's an.

[Tommy Obomi]

I've heard some of this stuff. It's great.

[Ian Hecox]

Cool.

[Courtney Miller]

I'm like his whole. That's it. That's all I feel. I love it.

[Tommy Obomi]

Nice. Yeah. No, I think. I think this is something. I think this is something really fun that we've. We've all stumbled into with, you know, your music talents. And I can't wait to see what we make.

[Ian Hecox]

Stoked. We're gonna put out some fun stuff.

[Courtney Miller]

Yes.

[Ian Hecox]

And apparently I can do whatever genre, so I'm. Whatever y'all want to do. I guess. I know how to do it.

[Tommy Obomi]

Let's do some clanky pan things.

[Ian Hecox]

I'd love clanky things.

[Tommy Obomi]

Let's. Let's try to throw one of those Sophie clanks into the next song.

[Ian Hecox]

I will do that.

[Courtney Miller]

Smosh does stomp the yard.

[Ian Hecox]

Sweet.

[Courtney Miller]

Stomp up to the yard.

[Tommy Obomi]

But Tommy, you are one of the as. As. I don't know if this is a self. If this is a self titled name. I don't know if this is the name you guys gave each other, but you are one of the Cave Kids.

[Ian Hecox]

Cave kids. That's correct.

[Tommy Obomi]

Is that.

[Courtney Miller]

I've never heard that term.

[Tommy Obomi]

It's like a Burger King kids club kind of thing.

[Ian Hecox]

I mean, it certainly feels like it on a day to day basis. The Cave kids are the post room.

[Courtney Miller]

Which post means like people who work on the videos and content after it's been filmed. Right.

[Ian Hecox]

Yes. Sorry.

[Courtney Miller]

Just for those loon.

[Ian Hecox]

We're the mailman. Yeah. So we are the post production. We're basically the editors.

[Courtney Miller]

Nice.

[Ian Hecox]

And yeah, so we've got. It's very much like every single day in there. So let me explain. As you both know, because you have eyes and are alive. Our office has the bullpen, which is just like a bunch of people working in an open space. There's a little side offices for, like, Ian Affinity, and, like, Matt, Rob, and Sarah. And all these people just have their little, like, closets. And then the cave is its own little secret hole that has, let's see, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. And then freelancer 8. So, like, eight people in there. And a foxhole. It is a foxhole. It is by far the coolest place. We are the coolest people.

[Tommy Obomi]

Sometimes the hottest.

[Ian Hecox]

Sometimes the hottest place and sometimes the coldest place.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah, sometimes the coldest place.

[Ian Hecox]

Very unregulated.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah. Yes. The temperature control in that room can get a little funky.

[Courtney Miller]

Even the whole office is always cold.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, it's tough when you have a giant open space. You gotta, like, blast so much air in there.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Every day in there feels like. I mean, like we're working hard, you know, we're making stuff funnier. We're cutting out hours of time.

[Tommy Obomi]

Oh, you're saying we're not funny, so you have to make it funnier.

[Courtney Miller]

We need them to make us look good. Ian, be nice.

[Ian Hecox]

Well, me specifically do social, so I'm not the one who's make. Who's saying that? Who's making you funny or whatever. But yeah, it's. I mean, Kevin's a part of it. I would say it's very much like a Parks and Rec, Veep office type thing where it's just like an ensemble of, like, rando, extreme characters all bouncing off each other. It's really just eccentric people so funny in there. Sometimes it gets really wild in there.

[Tommy Obomi]

Do you think that's because due to the lack of sunlight into that room?

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, that's definitely part of it.

[Tommy Obomi]

The vitamin D deficiency is.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, yeah. No, we're. We're pale little. We can barely see anymore.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah, we got to get more D in there.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, we definitely do. I mean, sometimes you could, like. You can, like, throw a raw. A raw steak in there. We all go ravage over in the center.

[Tommy Obomi]

I have thrown. I have thrown random food in there for you guys to ravage, and we.

[Ian Hecox]

Do actually all stand up and go, oh, what do you Got here. Am I wrong?

[Tommy Obomi]

Whenever I have, like, extra food or. Or something that I need to give away, I can always count on the cave team.

[Ian Hecox]

Thank you.

[Tommy Obomi]

To take it.

[Ian Hecox]

We have enough people in there. It's usually gonna be me, Spencer, and Brittany who are like, hey. And then Kevin too, if he's in there. But Kevin's doing seven things, so. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

I like to just go in there and just see the vibes.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

I always feel like sometimes when I go in there, people will be like, yes. I'm like, no, no, no.

[Ian Hecox]

I'm just here.

[Courtney Miller]

I'm not gonna bother you. I just wanna. Just wanna vibe. But, yeah, I love it.

[Tommy Obomi]

You know the vibes.

[Courtney Miller]

You know the fucking vibes.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

I am a single queen.

[Ian Hecox]

Rich Courtney.

[Courtney Miller]

I love it in there. I love. Just because you get a taste of it, even if they're in there for a few minutes, you're like, ah, yeah, this is the place.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, it's cool. Meme lords in there. Solid.

[Ian Hecox]

For me, it's all about Spencer and Brittany throwing out, like, little one liners that make me, like, I'm facing away from everybody. We're all facing away from everybody.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Tommy Obomi]

Spencer being the editor of Smosh Games, Brittany being our. Our graphics extraordinaire.

[Ian Hecox]

And she is an extraordinaire at that. But yeah, I'll just, like, we'll be having, like, a conversation or whatever. Or, like, someone will say something and then one of them will just say a one liner that's just truly borderline outrageous. Like, and the room has to. Everyone has to, like, pause and, like, turn around and go like, oh, my God. It's just, like, just so much fun to have that little bit of, like, fun break in your, you know, monotony. That's great.

[Courtney Miller]

I wonder what that would be like if. If everyone in a circle, they were having conversations and just turn their backs to each other and see what that would be like if no one was looking at each other in a conversation.

[Ian Hecox]

That is a very interesting. Well, should. What if?

[Courtney Miller]

Can you hear us?

[Ian Hecox]

Hello?

[Tommy Obomi]

I can't turn.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay.

[Courtney Miller]

Hello.

[Tommy Obomi]

I can't.

[Courtney Miller]

I wonder if that'd be a cool, like, social experiment to see if people cut each other off less if they're not facing each other. Or maybe it's more.

[Ian Hecox]

Sounds like a smosh. Games exercise.

[Tommy Obomi]

Ooh.

[Courtney Miller]

Shall we? We could use that. We could use that. Yeah. Because you editors know you have to be splicing up our chatty asses all the time and cutting out the awkward silences like this one.

[Tommy Obomi]

He's not gonna cut this one out.

[Courtney Miller]

Damn it.

[Tommy Obomi]

Kevin's like. Kevin's like, I ain't doing that shit.

[Courtney Miller]

I just add a minute to his workload just by sitting here.

[Tommy Obomi]

No, you guys. You guys don't have any idea how much more awkward and bad and annoying sounding this.

[Ian Hecox]

This podcast would be or all of our content.

[Tommy Obomi]

Well, but this podcast in particular would be without Kevin. Without his. Without his sort of the work that he does on. On just. Even the sound, like, cutting out, like the.

[Courtney Miller]

Ew. No, no. Minimal amounts of that, please.

[Tommy Obomi]

I'm sorry, what? What are you talking about? Sorry.

[Ian Hecox]

Kevin's crying. Kevin.

[Tommy Obomi]

These podcasts are never. Are never just solid all the way through. There's always. There's always something weird, or I talk about, you know, eating whale or something, and then we gotta cut that out.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. I mean, listening to other podcasts, there's like a lot, like, lot lower touch. Like, there's always an audio problem being mentioned or. Or something going wrong. Like, if you weren't in this room right now. You know how even.

[Tommy Obomi]

Even like when in a podcast when somebody pauses for like two seconds.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, yeah, you're like.

[Tommy Obomi]

You're like, hello. What the fuck just happened?

[Courtney Miller]

They'll have like 30 seconds where they're looking for a clip on TMG, which I'm fine with. It doesn't bother me. But we definitely. We streamline our stuff very well. I mean, I shouldn't say we. Cause it's literally. Kevin. Thank you, Kevin. I think it's very underappreciated how hard you guys work. Like, all of the post team. I mean, on every step of our production. I can't be more proud of the team that I'm working with. Cause sometimes I see negative comments of people thinking they understand how a specific system works. And like, you need a better marketing team or you need. I'm like, you, literally. That doesn't even. What you're talking about has nothing to do with marketing. Like, people just like to say marketing. Like, I can't express enough how much I admire how hard you guys work. Like, God damn.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

What got me first into videos in general when I was younger was editing. I would just film random shit just to edit it because it was just fun. Since this job has taken over, I don't edit as much. I feel like I'm out of touch and I can't do it as much. It's something I feel sad about. I miss it.

[Ian Hecox]

I'll just hop on back in.

[Courtney Miller]

But I do final cut. I don't Do Premiere.

[Ian Hecox]

Final Cut's fine. Premiere. I mean, like, Premiere sucks, too. It all kind of sucks. Premiere is just like, the one that I like. Listen, I did not go. So in college, I was a theater major. And then I was like, this sucks ass. I hate the people. I hate all of it. So I quit. And then I was a cinema studies major, which means cinema studies is like.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, you wanna do film? Okay, you do it.

[Ian Hecox]

It's like, not intense at all. And so I had one class, one class, one semester class that was like, you're gonna film something and edit it. And I was like, oh, you mean.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, you mean film. Cool.

[Ian Hecox]

So one single class in my entire college career set me up for what I'm doing now. They taught me Premiere. They taught me, like, you know, how to piece things together and, like, tell a story and film. So anyway, that was just me saying Premiere was that easy that I thought.

[Courtney Miller]

About getting, like, a lesson. Like, I don't know, some.

[Ian Hecox]

Some class thing.

[Courtney Miller]

Like, I don't know, Apple Store offers that sometimes, but that'd be kind of weird. I don't know.

[Ian Hecox]

Just, like, shadow one of us one day. Honestly, sit behind and, like, honestly, somebody's.

[Tommy Obomi]

Saying the Final Cut got better because. Because, like, I used. Back when I edited, I used Final Cut. And then it got really shitty, like this. They tried to, like, streamline it, and then I think everybody just kind of, like, moved off of Final Cut on a Premiere. But then somebody said recently that Final Cut's good again.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, it's. Yeah. I think they, like, simplified what they did or, like. Or found, like, a middle ground because I was able to, like, I was using Imovie up until I started working at Smosh. But I was really resourceful because I could do a lot of the things that most. Like, I was able to figure out how to do that you couldn't do on Imovie. Like, on it by, like, janky, weird hacks. And then I was able to move to Final Cut seamlessly and was like, I could even. All the shortcuts were the same. I love it. I'm still. I'm editing a video right now, trying to, like, do a little Life Update thing on my channel. And it's just. I'm a little rusty.

[Ian Hecox]

You'll de rust.

[Courtney Miller]

I'll de rust.

[Tommy Obomi]

I mean, that's really the thing. Like. And, you know, with any sort of craft with editing, you. You do just get better at it as you go. And you. You learn. You learn all the hotkeys and everything. You're like, Rather than like, right. Clicking every time going, yeah, cut. And then paste. You're like, no, I'm gonna do I and then I'm gonna do O and then.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. Which is ideal when you're working on a laptop because you do not want to be dragging that well.

[Tommy Obomi]

Also, you shouldn't be doing that on a laptop.

[Courtney Miller]

I got very used to it.

[Tommy Obomi]

I've done it for years with the trackpad.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. But I was using mostly keys.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah. Yeah. Kevin's having a heart attack right now.

[Ian Hecox]

Kevin, are you crying?

[Courtney Miller]

No, I think it's a skill that I'm able to do that. So.

[Tommy Obomi]

I mean, yeah, it's.

[Courtney Miller]

IPad never.

[Tommy Obomi]

It's a skill. But that's. It's a skill in the same way that running a marathon with your legs tied together would be a skill.

[Courtney Miller]

That's a damn good skill.

[Tommy Obomi]

Well, yeah, but you're not gonna be as fast.

[Courtney Miller]

You don't know.

[Ian Hecox]

I mean, you can hop pretty quick. You ever tried hopping?

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah. You ever tried hopping, Courtney?

[Ian Hecox]

Hey, Courtney, Ever tried hopping?

[Tommy Obomi]

Sounds like a. Sounds like a drug thing.

[Ian Hecox]

Yo, yo.

[Tommy Obomi]

You ever hopped before?

[Ian Hecox]

You ever hopped before?

[Tommy Obomi]

Yo, you guys want to hop after this? I got some jinkum in my car.

[Ian Hecox]

What?

[Courtney Miller]

And you took it there?

[Tommy Obomi]

Sorry, I just have. I always have to throw back.

[Courtney Miller]

You just gotta take it there.

[Tommy Obomi]

I always have to throw back to jenkum.

[Courtney Miller]

I don't even know what that word means.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, can we take a moment and explain what that is?

[Tommy Obomi]

You wanna know what jenkum is?

[Courtney Miller]

Okay, Kevin's shaking his head no. What is it? Just explain it like what you think it is.

[Tommy Obomi]

So that was always. That was the urban myth. Myth of back in the day. It was like the urban myth where like. Did you hear that, like, there's this drug that people make that. I think it was like people put their own, like feces and urine into a jar and then put a balloon over the top and then let it firm and then they huff the fumes. Fumes. And that's apparently a drug, but I don't think anyone ever actually did it. It was just a joke.

[Courtney Miller]

Just smells so bad that you almost die.

[Tommy Obomi]

But it would be pretty funn funny to convince somebody to try it. Somebody that's stupid enough to do that.

[Courtney Miller]

And I think that's funny for a very specific type of person.

[Ian Hecox]

Middle schooler.

[Courtney Miller]

Me.

[Tommy Obomi]

Me always as a 32 year old male.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, God damn.

[Tommy Obomi]

That's an. That's the next smosh movie. 32 year old middle schooler.

[Ian Hecox]

Because Jacob was a. Was a rumor that was spread through MySpace. That's how old that drug is.

[Tommy Obomi]

Oh, nice.

[Courtney Miller]

I could have gone my whole life not knowing what that was.

[Ian Hecox]

I'm gonna do a quick labat afterwards so I don't have.

[Tommy Obomi]

Just a little.

[Ian Hecox]

Just a little.

[Courtney Miller]

Speaking of poop.

[Tommy Obomi]

Speaking of poop. Yes, Courtney? I don't know what this is about, but I wrote in there. Yeah, you had a panic attack and a porta potty.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Give us a quick lowdown.

[Courtney Miller]

So I told this story on the podcast, but outside, because this happened right before I went. Yeah, dude. So what happened was I had to go to the bathroom, as one does.

[Tommy Obomi]

Usually when they're in a porta potty.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. We were outside the vegan street fair, and I was waiting for them because they said, don't come in yet. Like, wait a little bit till after we're started.

[Ian Hecox]

They're talking from inside the porta Potty?

[Courtney Miller]

No, they were texting me.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, gotcha.

[Courtney Miller]

And I was like, okay, cool, I'm gonna walk around. And I saw a porta potty. I was like, oh, I need to use the bathroom. It was a mess. So I, like, go. And I'm like, cleaning it up just so that I can, like.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah. Cause people don't live in.

[Courtney Miller]

Make it okay. And then, like, I'm like. I sit down and then the door opens.

[Tommy Obomi]

Oh, no.

[Courtney Miller]

And a guy's like, oh, sheesh. And shuts the door.

[Ian Hecox]

Were you.

[Tommy Obomi]

Were you pants down at this moment?

[Courtney Miller]

I was sitting. They didn't see anything, but I was sitting down.

[Tommy Obomi]

And you not lock it.

[Courtney Miller]

I was so distracted from cleaning the show of the show. Literal show.

[Tommy Obomi]

Did he say sheesh?

[Courtney Miller]

He said sheesh.

[Ian Hecox]

Sheesh.

[Tommy Obomi]

Which may be vegans.

[Courtney Miller]

I don't know.

[Ian Hecox]

Sounds like a cartoon.

[Courtney Miller]

I feel like they say sheesh when they see a hot girl.

[Tommy Obomi]

Oh, sheesh, girl.

[Courtney Miller]

Do you guys follow Summerlla? She's an IG comedian, and she says she has this guy who goes, sheesh when he sees a hot girl.

[Ian Hecox]

No, but I'm going to now.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. So that happened. And all I did was go, oh.

[Tommy Obomi]

Are you a sim?

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. Oh, hello, Barca. The door shuts. I obviously lock it. I'm terrified. And I'm like, I'm not gonna get out anytime soon because I don't wanna see him out there. So I. And my heart's pounding and I'm just like. I'm, like, just waiting in there. Then all of a sudden, just the thing. Boom. Someone just about tips over the entire porta potty. Someone was like, hurry up. But there's so many stalls out there.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

I was like. And I like. And I get it. I'm like, oh, my goodness. And there was no crazy person out there. There was just, like a couple normal people standing there being like, oh, maybe.

[Tommy Obomi]

That was a ghost of the vegan street fair.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, my God.

[Ian Hecox]

Same ghost that ripped up your sheep in Iceland.

[Tommy Obomi]

Sheep, probably.

[Ian Hecox]

Wow. Oh, sheep.

[Courtney Miller]

Sheep.

[Tommy Obomi]

Oh, sheep, Sheep, Dude. Sheesh, dude.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, well, that would give anybody a panic attack.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Because you're trapped in a box full of shit.

[Courtney Miller]

And then. Yeah, it's a good thing I was sitting on a toilet because I just about shit myself. That was terrifying. And that. That was. I was like, wow, I don't get out much in la because that was going in hot. You're going to a street fair, there's porta Potties, people. I just experienced a lot in a very short amount of time. And I was like, this is why I don't go out much.

[Tommy Obomi]

I just walked in on a dude finishing up in a stall. He didn't lock the door.

[Ian Hecox]

He didn't go, whoa.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, no.

[Ian Hecox]

He didn't go.

[Tommy Obomi]

Oh. He was just like, sorry.

[Ian Hecox]

I was like, ah, Very long eye contact.

[Tommy Obomi]

He was finishing up. He was like. I don't know.

[Ian Hecox]

He was doing the jostling.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, he was standing up.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah, he was up.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, so he's a number one.

[Tommy Obomi]

He. I. I don't know. I should have asked him. I really should have asked him.

[Ian Hecox]

I'm so. It's like, I'm so sorry. Before I go, one or two.

[Tommy Obomi]

I was in a rush because. Not to throw back to Iceland, but they don't have a lot of fruits and vegetables in Iceland. And so my. My. My poops were not. My poops were not, you know, regular. And so, you know, I'm trying to get back on. Get back on the. Get back on the train now that I'm back in the States. Should eat a lot of fruits, veggies, kombucha, Greek yogurt, all that stuff.

[Courtney Miller]

And then who be calling?

[Ian Hecox]

Hello?

[Tommy Obomi]

God, is that you? So, dude, I have another toilet. I was. I was driving. I was driving back from Calabasas. Suddenly my body, like, my body's like, it's happening now.

[Courtney Miller]

I love that feeling. It's like gravity is, like, inside you.

[Tommy Obomi]

And I checked the. Checked the traffic, and it was like 30 minutes to my house, and I was like.

[Ian Hecox]

Decision.

[Tommy Obomi]

And I was. I was with a friend, and, like, we were having a conversation, and I was. And I was the one driving. So I'm just Trying to stay as still as possible and answer and, like, really dripping smile. I'm like, yes, yes, I agree. And just trying to keep things as, like, as, like, low key as possible. No stressing, nothing. And I was just like, okay, I can't do this. I can't do this. So I pulled off off somewhere near. Somewhere near, like, where you used to live. I've never had this happen before. But I went to the gas station and they didn't have a bathroom.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh. I mean, it's kind of a thing, I think.

[Tommy Obomi]

And they.

[Courtney Miller]

Not very accessible, at least.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah, they had a sign that said out of order. And I think that was a lie because I think maybe there's. There's like a homeless population around there, so they don't want them using the bathrooms. So it just said out of order. And I was like. I, like, ran in. I was like, hi. And I looked over at the bathroom. I was like, oh, no. I was like, do you have bathrooms for customers? And the guy was like, no. I was like, okay. And I ran across the street to the other bathroom, to the other gas station. And I was like, hi, do you have a bathroom? He's like, no, bathroom. And I was like, what the hell?

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, no, buddy.

[Tommy Obomi]

And then I looked across to the other corner. I was like, whole Foods. All right, here we go.

[Ian Hecox]

Great.

[Tommy Obomi]

And then I ran in there, and that's where I ran into the game. And then I took the longest poop in the world.

[Ian Hecox]

Congratulations.

[Tommy Obomi]

Have you ever been, like, shocked and also, like, really happy with yourself for taking a very long continuous poop?

[Ian Hecox]

Listen, there's nothing better in the world.

[Tommy Obomi]

Thank you.

[Ian Hecox]

Than a good bm. I will scream this from any rooftop. Just let me upstairs and I'll do it. Yeah, I. There's truly long, short, immediate, prolonged. I'm in for the ride. Listen, when you're finished and you're feeling light as hell, you're like, did I just lose five pounds on top of the world? Every day my world is frozen until I'm free from my bms.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, Love that.

[Tommy Obomi]

I'm just impressed when I can get like a one long, one, like, continuous. Just like, I don't even know how that fit in my body.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, you know you're healthy.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Tommy Obomi]

Dude, that was just all of Iceland pouring out of me.

[Courtney Miller]

I will say this is a pee story. So the same day that the Porta Potty thing happened to me, I was like, may as well keep living this LA life. So I ran some errands after. I remember seeing this dude with a. Like a skater hat on or like a trucker hat kind of look sketchy. And then, like, go in before me and I pick up a prescription. I'm like, oh, I should pee. And it was definitely. I had seen him go into one of the bathrooms. They're both like. It's like, gender neutral. And the other one was locked. So I went in that one that he clearly gone in. And dude literally had to have purposefully peed all over the seat, all over the floor in front. Like, just happened. I had half a mind to go outside and find him and be like, I hope you don't treat your mother the way you treated that toilet, because God damn, that was disrespectful. And I cleaned it up, thick toweled, you know.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, I got the bunch of stuff.

[Courtney Miller]

Someone's gotta do that shit and someone who works too hard every day doesn't need to deal with that. And I also had to pee right then.

[Tommy Obomi]

Do you think he, like. I had bad bathroom laugh maybe it's.

[Courtney Miller]

Like, he didn't seem like that urgent. Also, when you go to pee, like, the after, like, when, like, it's the beginning part that's urgent. Like, you didn't. He didn't need to do all that. He did not need to do all that.

[Ian Hecox]

Maybe he had to get some, like, you know, calisthenics in while he was peeing.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah, maybe, like, system of a Down came on.

[Courtney Miller]

Like, he didn't. He. There was nothing in, like. And also, he didn't flush.

[Tommy Obomi]

Oh, come on, bro.

[Courtney Miller]

Do not disrespect the toilet like that, bro.

[Tommy Obomi]

Gross.

[Courtney Miller]

I yelled at him in my mind. I imagined that I went after him and yelled at him and I was like, good job, Cor.

[Ian Hecox]

See, I'm doing that right now with my career.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Good job me.

[Courtney Miller]

You guys got some interior arguments. You do.

[Ian Hecox]

I just got my egot. Good job me.

[Courtney Miller]

Good job me?

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. Any. Any brain arguments? Is that what you're asking?

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, yeah. When you, like, fight with someone in your head. Not like your head, like you're.

[Ian Hecox]

You.

[Courtney Miller]

Like, you have an argument with someone you wish you could have an argument with.

[Ian Hecox]

I mean, yes, I try not to sometimes, but sometimes.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. Not like, sometimes I don't, like, spend my time doing it, but, like, when those moments arise.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

Like the pee pee men.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

If I ever see that guy.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah. There's some people. There's some people that I really wanted to just, like, scream at in Iceland because they were going off the trail and I was getting really mad like.

[Courtney Miller]

Because it was unsafe for them.

[Tommy Obomi]

It's a delicate environment. So they, they make it very clear that tourists.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, so they're stepping on vegetation. Yeah.

[Tommy Obomi]

Tourists are not supposed to go off trails. And there's these people that, you know, for, for the Graham going off, like, into the grass and like taking a photo. And it's like, you literally are gonna get the same photo if you just stayed on the trail. A lot of people with nice shoes, so they didn't wanna step in, like, the mud. So they would go, like, off the trail to, like, go around the mud. I'm like, you.

[Ian Hecox]

Why are you wearing nice shoes?

[Tommy Obomi]

You're in a volcanic hellscape. Just wear appropriate clothing.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. When you go off path, that's when you get snatched. That's when you get lost.

[Tommy Obomi]

No, some people definitely went there just to get Instagram photos. Like, I saw these tourists. I'm not going to further describe who they are, but they clearly went with very nice clothes and nice shoes just to get the photo at like, either the crashed plane or at like the black sand beach. And then they wrap their boots in plastic.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, my God.

[Ian Hecox]

I would prefer a boot wrap plastic than going off path and crunching all that. That cute vegetation.

[Tommy Obomi]

Sure, sure.

[Ian Hecox]

But that's, that's commitment.

[Tommy Obomi]

I think they found that millennials will spend money on experiences.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Tommy Obomi]

Rather than things. So what you're seeing now is a reflection of that. It's, it's. It's not so much about getting the best car or having the best purse. It's about having the coolest experience that you know is going to make other people wish that they had a. As cool of it as an experience as you.

[Ian Hecox]

Exactly.

[Tommy Obomi]

It's not about having the best thing, but having the best time. I mean, look, I went to a lot of cool places and you bet your fucking ass. I took pictures. I took pictures all over the place and I'm totally gonna post them Instagram. Look. How fucking sick, baby.

[Courtney Miller]

That's so sick.

[Ian Hecox]

So sick.

[Tommy Obomi]

Right?

[Courtney Miller]

That's so cool.

[Tommy Obomi]

Right?

[Courtney Miller]

Okay, I get it.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay. What are the listeners?

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, this is some Walter MIDI ads. Ian. Colored, aesthetically matching the world behind him.

[Tommy Obomi]

Get this. That's not even colored.

[Ian Hecox]

So it's a great color. Gray sky with a gray ground. And then Ian also dressed in gray and profile looking.

[Tommy Obomi]

It looks like something. It looks like something out of Interstellar.

[Courtney Miller]

You look hot, dude. You look like you're on another planet.

[Tommy Obomi]

I know, dude. This one looks. This one looks more like the Martian.

[Ian Hecox]

Where could they find these if they Want to see them?

[Tommy Obomi]

Boom.

[Ian Hecox]

Wow. Wow.

[Courtney Miller]

Go to Ian.

[Tommy Obomi]

I'm gonna post. I'm post my Insta and all that. Here's. Here's me being. Being a male. Male model on. On the plane. Just being silly.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay, that's an experience. That's. See, that's exactly. That's an experience. But it's funny. Like that's an opportunity. But it's hilarious.

[Courtney Miller]

That's good. Dating profile context.

[Ian Hecox]

That actually is.

[Tommy Obomi]

I bet it is.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, boy. Speaking of, how are we doing for Valentine's?

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, how do you guys feel about Valentine's Day? Do you guys like going big or you hate it or you like doing something low key? Do you guys like being spoiled or do you like spoiling other people? What do you guys like to do?

[Ian Hecox]

Well, I've never. Well, I'm sorry if any of my exes are watching this. This sucks. I hope they are, but I don't. I'm gonna look into the camera while I say this.

[Tommy Obomi]

Oh, my God.

[Ian Hecox]

I don't think I've ever been in love before. Sorry if I told you, but I was wrong.

[Courtney Miller]

That's okay.

[Ian Hecox]

Hey, but I think. Wait. I hope I have told him by now. I might be now. Oops. Oops. Hopefully I told him by now.

[Tommy Obomi]

Oh, geez.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, so we'll see. We'll see how crazy this is. But yeah, so, yeah, I. This'll. I don't. All of my other Valentine's experience, I'm like, you gotta do the thing. You get the chocolate, you do the om.

[Courtney Miller]

Wim. Wim.

[Ian Hecox]

And then it's like, fine. And you know, I don't give a shit.

[Tommy Obomi]

But you felt like you were just going through the paces, right?

[Ian Hecox]

So now this time I'm like, wait a minute, I should do something. So, like, I don't know, it might be different this time.

[Tommy Obomi]

Wait, are you saying this time you might actually love.

[Courtney Miller]

You're keeping this relationship pretty private, though. Yeah, that's what I've seen.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. For the most part. We just finally like posted a thing together because it was like. Yeah. And I don't know, I don't like posting something unless it's like, for real. Because, you know, like, if it falls apart the next week, then you're like.

[Courtney Miller]

Well, gotta delete that.

[Tommy Obomi]

I mean, that goes back to the whole Instagram thing.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, yeah, exactly. Exactly. What about you two Valentines?

[Courtney Miller]

I feel like it's weird. I have a weird love hate relationship with corniness. I have a weird thing with dating. Cause it's such. It's this weird Thing that, like, you're supposed to get together and you're supposed to talk and get to know each other, and you might kiss at the end. And that just, like, terrifies me and, like, the norms of that stuff. But, like, holidays and things like that. I do love special occasions, and I love giving gifts and, like, receiving gifts. I think that's really sweet, and I'm kind of new to it as well. I don't wanna. I kind of wanna say this because my ex. I got them an apple watch for Valentine's Day.

[Tommy Obomi]

Oh.

[Courtney Miller]

And they got me a hair. They got a haircut. And that was a gift.

[Ian Hecox]

They got a haircut.

[Tommy Obomi]

They got it. Their own haircut.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

That was where it's like, this is for you, babe. Snip, snip.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Tommy Obomi]

Ew. Oh, boy.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. That ended.

[Tommy Obomi]

And why did. Sounds like the perfect relationship to me.

[Courtney Miller]

It's very clearly checked out very early, like, months before.

[Tommy Obomi]

I feel like he forgot it was Valentine's Day. And he's like, I got you. I got a haircut. Do you like it? This was for you. Love you.

[Courtney Miller]

No, he's very confident about it. He's like, got a haircut.

[Tommy Obomi]

I have no idea what you said, but that's okay.

[Courtney Miller]

Got a haircut.

[Ian Hecox]

Got a haircut.

[Tommy Obomi]

Got a haircut.

[Courtney Miller]

Which was. I think it stung even more because we had a very high standard of gifts for each other.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

Like, I think our first. One of. Our first.

[Tommy Obomi]

Did he get you an iPad or something?

[Courtney Miller]

He got me a Nintendo Switch one year.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, my God.

[Courtney Miller]

I got him an Xbox one year for Christmas. And then, like, one Valentine's Day, I got him, like, really nice beats, like, those headphones. And then he had gotten me a designer purse.

[Tommy Obomi]

You guys are. You guys were like. You guys are like Kim and Kanye.

[Courtney Miller]

We were trying to be that bougie life, I think I'm not, like, super fixated on that now. I just. I. I love giving gifts to people. Christmas is a great time. I'm kind of disappointed with how I. How I did on Christmas with gifts for everybody. It was mostly smosh mer, but I do. I love giving gifts. And, like, part of me does, like, the idea of, like, necklaces or special things that you can, like, keep with you and think about them.

[Ian Hecox]

I'm such the opposite with gift giving, really. I don't want. Don't give me a gift, and I'm not gonna give you a gift. Too much pressure. Too much, like, standard. It's, like, money involved. And then, like, last year, like, no, u b U I B Me. That's it.

[Tommy Obomi]

I feel like I'm a little bit in between you guys. Because you're in a relationship, right?

[Ian Hecox]

I am.

[Tommy Obomi]

Okay. So I'm just saying, hypothetically, you're in a relationship.

[Ian Hecox]

I am.

[Tommy Obomi]

You got anniversary.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Tommy Obomi]

You have birthday, you have Christmas, and you have Valentine's.

[Ian Hecox]

Too many.

[Tommy Obomi]

Do you give that person a romantic gift for every fricking one of those things?

[Ian Hecox]

No.

[Tommy Obomi]

Like, where do you. Where do you place the importance at? Do you place it at their. I mean, anniversary seems like the most important one. Yes. Their birthday seems pretty important because you gotta care about them for a birthday. Christmas is always a time for giving.

[Ian Hecox]

Sure.

[Tommy Obomi]

And you got Valentine's Day, which isn't even a real holiday. It's just a thing that was created to, you know, maybe bolster the.

[Courtney Miller]

People who have, like, a birthday or an anniversary near Valentine's Day.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, one gift.

[Courtney Miller]

What do you even do for you?

[Ian Hecox]

Bad luck. One gift.

[Tommy Obomi]

I think Valentine's Day should be less about giving a gift and more about some sort of act of service, like little smoochies. Little smoochies or just expressing love language. Or, hey, I cleaned the. The room. If you know, like, hey, I did this for you. I did something. Yes, Kevin.

[Ian Hecox]

Never mind.

[Tommy Obomi]

You were gonna brag about the fact that you. You made a.

[Ian Hecox]

That you're in love and that you have a wife.

[Tommy Obomi]

No. Wow.

[Courtney Miller]

Really?

[Tommy Obomi]

Great.

[Courtney Miller]

Wow, Kevin. Cool.

[Tommy Obomi]

It's fine. I bet you give your wife smoochies all the time. You.

[Ian Hecox]

Yes.

[Courtney Miller]

I wouldn't. If a guy. I will say if a guy was like, I cleaned for a gift, you'd be like, for like, a gift.

[Ian Hecox]

That sucks.

[Courtney Miller]

Look, I'm saying that's like, my love.

[Tommy Obomi]

Like, but if they never clean. And that was something you never. You never expected them to do.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Tommy Obomi]

And they surprised you. Like, I cleaned everything with a fricking toothbrush. It is spotless. There is nothing that is out of place. And I did this for you.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, but if it was your apartment and not their apartment, that would be cool. You know what I mean? If they, like, did a deep clean of your own apartment, she'd be nervous about that.

[Courtney Miller]

What did you find for me?

[Ian Hecox]

I think it's, like, all right. Valentine's Day. Cute little kissy. Who cares? Just like a sweet little boop, you know? We like each other. Yay. Christmas is like the. Or the holidays, I should say, is like a sweet, long lasting, like. Like a. Like a tender, like, gift. The anniversary is like, you take them somewhere. There's like an event. There's, like, a thing that's, like, romantic, and it's not, like, a physical. Like, here's an object where a birthday is like, this is stupid. You're gonna laugh your ass off. This is your fun birthday gift. That's how I would, like, categorize. But remember, no gifts, please. And you're not gonna get one from me.

[Tommy Obomi]

That's interesting.

[Courtney Miller]

I think that's a freeing agreement. Cause it's like, even if someone who likes giving gifts will be like, all right, yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Me and my best friend on the planet, we have never given each other any gifts ever. Because we first started off, we're like, I'm broke. You're broke. Screw it.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

Nice.

[Ian Hecox]

Yep.

[Tommy Obomi]

I mean, yeah. I think Valentine's Day is fucking stupid. I hate it. It's dumb.

[Courtney Miller]

And I was able to give those gifts because I was either still living at my dad's, not paying rent, or paying very little in rent. Gifts are just. I will spend every penny I have on gifts if I can, because whether it's Christmas or family and shit.

[Tommy Obomi]

That's your love language.

[Courtney Miller]

It's actually not. It's something I love doing for other people, but I don't. Like, I'm not. Like, he didn't get me anything.

[Tommy Obomi]

But you got him an Apple Watch, and he didn't give you anything. You seem pretty beat up about it.

[Courtney Miller]

But after. And it was a special. Like, if we had already. If, like, say, you have your agreement, no gifts.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

We kind of had this thing where we got each other gifts to, like, show how much we cared about each other, which I like. That was just. That was the thing. And also, I don't want to, like, talk too much shit on this podcast about previous relationships, but, like, didn't get a whole lot of any other love language. You know what I mean? So, like, that was kind of the thing, I guess. Fuck it. Just leave it in. I don't care.

[Tommy Obomi]

You know, since we're on the topic of, you know, love languages saying fuck it to some things.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, yeah.

[Tommy Obomi]

Let's. Let's move on to our cancel of the week.

[Courtney Miller]

Ooh, yes, yes, yes.

[Tommy Obomi]

What I'd like to cancel is wax figures. Who thought wax figures would be a good idea? They're not real. Nope. They're not real people, but they look like the real people, but not quite. They're soulless. Somebody decided that this could be a business where you. It's not the actual celebrity. It is a facsimile of the celebrity.

[Courtney Miller]

Sometimes they're very Poorly made.

[Tommy Obomi]

Sometimes they are very poorly made.

[Courtney Miller]

All the Beyonce's out there. Jesus.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, not Madame Tussauds, but one of the wax museums had a Jennifer Lawrence head on a Lucille Ball body. And I'm talking old Lucille Ball. No, so it's Jennifer Lawrence's cute little young head on like this. Like wa wa, wa wa. Like old lady body. It was the funniest thing on the planet. Why? I don't know. But anyway, yes, I agree. Let's cancel.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. Also, House of Wax. Terrifying movie.

[Ian Hecox]

Terrifying. Oh, see, I can't watch that. That freaks me out.

[Tommy Obomi]

Parasyllium.

[Ian Hecox]

Uncanny valley stuff freaks me me out.

[Tommy Obomi]

And that's. And that's what it is. It's really the uncanny valley. The Madame Tissot's wax figures of Anthony and I, they did a pretty good job.

[Ian Hecox]

No, but I think the issue was.

[Tommy Obomi]

I wasn't making an animated enough face when I.

[Ian Hecox]

When I did it.

[Tommy Obomi]

So my guy looks just like a little strange, little dead. And Madame Tussauds, what did you do with our wax figures? Because somebody sent me a photo of my wax figure and it's missing. Anthony. And I'm now I have a VR headset on my head so he can't tell it's you. I don't know and I don't know what he's doing, so.

[Ian Hecox]

Living his best life.

[Tommy Obomi]

Madame Tussauds, hit us up.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. What's the deal with that? With your likeness being used like that?

[Tommy Obomi]

I don't know. But if you guys aren't using it as it's to be used, I want it back. I want it and I want it.

[Courtney Miller]

Let's take it and let's make some scented candles out of it.

[Tommy Obomi]

No, I want it in my house. I want to scare people with it.

[Courtney Miller]

It. Actually that's a good security system.

[Ian Hecox]

That is pretty good.

[Courtney Miller]

He's against a wall.

[Ian Hecox]

Right by the window. Right by the window.

[Courtney Miller]

That smirk on his face, like, huh.

[Tommy Obomi]

So, yeah, wax figures. I don't know who thought it would be a good idea. I understand. I guess it, you know, it started in, I think the 1800s before photos were popular. So you wouldn't have any way of knowing what, you know, Abraham Lincoln looked like or the Queen of England looked like. Because you don't see photos. You might have seen them in passing once or maybe not at all. So you like.

[Ian Hecox]

Wow.

[Tommy Obomi]

That's what they look like.

[Courtney Miller]

Abraham. There was some photos, but still, even then they couldn't get. Get some things.

[Tommy Obomi]

But nowadays we've, we all have social media we all have the Internet. We know what Beyonce looks like. We don't need this creepy puppet weird thing. But I guess it's good enough business. Enough people want to know, and they want to, you know, be freaked out. So wax figures canceled.

[Ian Hecox]

Canceled.

[Courtney Miller]

Remember the creepy wax museum at Bonnie Springs?

[Ian Hecox]

Yes.

[Courtney Miller]

That one had a little Abraham Lincoln. Him.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, a little ones.

[Courtney Miller]

A little guy. He just was oddly, like, smaller.

[Tommy Obomi]

I think we got a curse going through that place.

[Courtney Miller]

Well, it did burn down.

[Ian Hecox]

Hell, yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

Bonnie Springs burned down.

[Ian Hecox]

Nice.

[Tommy Obomi]

Did it burn down?

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, that smelled real good.

[Tommy Obomi]

It went out of business.

[Courtney Miller]

No.

[Ian Hecox]

Well, yeah, that will go. That will put it out of business.

[Courtney Miller]

They're. They're animal. Their zoos.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah, it was a little depressing.

[Ian Hecox]

Courtney, what are you canceling?

[Tommy Obomi]

What are you canceling, Courtney?

[Courtney Miller]

I have to cancel something, too?

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, we all got to do.

[Courtney Miller]

Ooh, messy peers. I'm canceling. Sorry. No, you're not a messy peer. Me? I'm exposing you.

[Tommy Obomi]

Messy peers or messy peers?

[Courtney Miller]

Messy pee peers. Oh, dude, I'm so done with people. Like, disrespecting a bathroom that clearly other people use and just, like, clean up after yourself. It's not that hard.

[Ian Hecox]

Yep.

[Courtney Miller]

Like, my God, what if your soulmate was, like, behind you in line?

[Tommy Obomi]

What if your mom was behind you? What would your mom think of that?

[Courtney Miller]

If my kid did that to a toilet and I saw, I'd pick him up by the ear, be like, ding, a ding, a ding. Use you to clean the toilet. But then I'd have to wash my child after.

[Tommy Obomi]

Eh, they dry out.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

Let them deal with that and be like, now you're the toilet. How do you feel now?

[Tommy Obomi]

You have gonorrhea of the eye.

[Courtney Miller]

Messy. Peter's a canceled dude.

[Ian Hecox]

Canceled.

[Tommy Obomi]

I'm okay with that.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, same.

[Tommy Obomi]

I don't understand that. Just, like, lift the freaking toilet seat at least.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Tommy Obomi]

What's wrong with you? Who raised you? Shame on you.

[Courtney Miller]

It was literally, like, so much on the floor right in front of the toilet, too. People's shoes are there.

[Ian Hecox]

Splish, splash.

[Tommy Obomi]

Maybe he just had sex. It gets a little.

[Courtney Miller]

You know, Kevin just looks exhausting.

[Ian Hecox]

Again.

[Courtney Miller]

All right, Tommy, What Are you canceling, Tommy?

[Tommy Obomi]

No, just.

[Ian Hecox]

It's all right. I guess I will cancel people who walk in a wall formation. I'm talking one or two or more people. Okay. My body is mostly leg. I know I disguise it well, but my hips end right below my shoulders.

[Courtney Miller]

You got that comic book body.

[Tommy Obomi]

You're like the Kirby with legs.

[Ian Hecox]

Yes, exactly. With the bayonetta legs. So I Walk. My stride is really long. I walk really fast. I also have a base level of anxiety and addiction to stimulus, AKA I drink a lot of coffee, so I'm always rushing.

[Tommy Obomi]

And when you get a stride going.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. And when people are like, la, la. And they have their, like, partner with them or like their kid, I'm like, just be aware of your surroundings. And so I guess I'm gonna summarize this as people who don't have an awareness of their surroundings are canceled. I'm over it. You're out.

[Courtney Miller]

Especially when they're walking on the sidewalk or anywhere, really.

[Tommy Obomi]

Like, the mall is the worst place.

[Ian Hecox]

Yep.

[Tommy Obomi]

Because it's like the entire family goes and they all decide, let's all walk in a chain. An uninterrupted chain, and cover most of the walkway and we'll walk as slow as possible.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. It's always sad when, like. Cause I learned from my mom, like, especially going through Disneyland, how to fricking beeline through people. But when you're with other people who are a little more unsure and you gotta kinda lead them. But also. And so you're just like, well.

[Tommy Obomi]

And they're just like, oh, what's that over there? Yeah, what's that over there?

[Courtney Miller]

Which they're probably enjoying their day. We gotta.

[Tommy Obomi]

That's unacceptable. We need to get places. You got things to do.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. They should have other separate walkways for people who are just enjoying their day.

[Ian Hecox]

Dummy walkways.

[Tommy Obomi]

Why are you slow in a mall? We're just here to do commerce.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Tommy Obomi]

And get out.

[Courtney Miller]

Let us. Commerce and leave.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah. Cha. Like, what is this, a theme park to you? Nah.

[Ian Hecox]

Nah.

[Tommy Obomi]

Nah.

[Ian Hecox]

Cha or nah?

[Tommy Obomi]

Cha or nah, guys? Cha or nah?

[Courtney Miller]

Cancel the week. Cha or nah?

[Tommy Obomi]

Canceled. So cha. So this. This week we've canceled wax figure. Messy peers and people that aren't aware of their surroundings.

[Ian Hecox]

Correct.

[Tommy Obomi]

I think that's. That's great.

[Courtney Miller]

Also. I'm just gonna say shoot, dude.

[Tommy Obomi]

Shoot, dude or sheesh, dude.

[Courtney Miller]

Sheesh, dude. Sh.

[Ian Hecox]

Dude.

[Courtney Miller]

Sh. Dude. To our new merch.

[Tommy Obomi]

Oh, yes.

[Courtney Miller]

Don't forget it.

[Tommy Obomi]

Shout out.

[Courtney Miller]

Very excited.

[Tommy Obomi]

Smosh store baby.

[Courtney Miller]

At the academy. A weird sound shirt as well.

[Tommy Obomi]

Oh, yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

And the throwback. Shut up tee. Ooh. Which fun fact. We all wrote the word Shut up. Shut up.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yep.

[Ian Hecox]

Everyone.

[Tommy Obomi]

Everyone in the office wrote shut up on it.

[Courtney Miller]

And some cast included. Yeah.

[Tommy Obomi]

It's really, really cool.

[Courtney Miller]

Yes.

[Tommy Obomi]

Thank you, Tommy. Thank you, Courtney, for coming on and having a wonderful conversation. As always. Much love to the people of Iceland. Thank you for taking care of such a beautiful country. Thank you for having me. Thank you for being nice. Thank you for being cold. And thank you to the Blue Lagoon. You're very warm. You like a very large bath.

[Ian Hecox]

And also, sorry to the West Whale. Just wanted to throw that out there.

[Tommy Obomi]

Not sorry. You're delicious. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

[Ian Hecox]

So yummy.

[Tommy Obomi]

And thank you guys for allowing us to reach number 50 on Smoshcast.

[Courtney Miller]

Fitty Pods.

[Ian Hecox]

Fitty pods.

[Tommy Obomi]

Fitty pods.

[Courtney Miller]

Fitty casted pods.

[Tommy Obomi]

Yeah, baby. We did it. And here's the 50 more. Bye.