S2: #58 - Quarantine Q&A!

Summary

Podcast Summary: Smosh Mouth – S2: #58 "Quarantine Q&A!"

Episode Overview Released on April 8, 2020, "Quarantine Q&A!" is Season 2, Episode 58 of the Smosh Mouth podcast. Hosted by Smosh members Ian Hecox, Damien Haas, Shane Tatum, and Keith Leak Jr., along with guest Courtney Miller, the episode delves into their experiences and adjustments during the early months of the COVID-19 quarantine. Through a mix of humor, personal anecdotes, and interactive Q&A segments, the hosts share insights into remote content creation, personal routines, and their coping mechanisms during isolation.

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1. Navigating Quarantine Life

Road Work and Free Massages The episode kicks off with Ian discussing the unexpected road work near his home, leading to vibrations that unsettled his entire building.

• Ian Hecox [03:00]: "I'm scared today because they're doing road work... it's shaking my entire building."

Damien and Keith humorously counterbalance Ian's worry by suggesting the shaking equates to a free massage, adding levity to the situation.

• Damien Haas [03:05]: "You're getting a free massage."
• Keith Leak Jr. [03:07]: "It's a free body massage."

Personal Adjustments and Routines Damien shares how his sleep patterns have improved, while Shane reveals his unwavering preference for structured clothing despite quarantine comfort trends.

• Damien Haas [03:44]: "I've been thinking about how much sleep I've been getting. It's nice. It's really nice."
• Shane Tatum [04:38]: "I don't wear sweatpants or any sort of comfort clothing."

Keith humorously laments his struggle with different types of pants, emphasizing his disdain for styles that threaten his waistline.

• Keith Leak Jr. [01:59]: "Every other type of pants is like an aggressive assault on your waistline."

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2. Challenges of Remote Content Creation

Adapting to Home Studios The hosts discuss the difficulties of transitioning from a collaborative studio environment to isolated home setups. They highlight technical challenges, such as lighting, soundproofing, and camera angles, which were previously managed by a team on set.

• Shane Tatum [31:05]: "I'm not a very technically savvy person, so that's been a huge adjustment for me..."
• Damien Haas [28:23]: "Normally, we'll shoot like six sketches in one week... now we're just shooting as we go."

Maintaining Creativity and Quality Despite the hurdles, the hosts express optimism about the increased frequency of content production, allowing them to stay topical and relevant.

• Keith Leak Jr. [29:08]: "Having to figure out camera angles and what works... but I do think the major benefit is we can finally be more timely with our content."

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3. Binge-Watching and Entertainment

Favorite Shows During Quarantine The conversation shifts to the hosts' binge-watching habits, with debates over popular reality shows and critically acclaimed series.

• Keith Leak Jr. [32:59]: "JO2 Love Island... five sexy guys, five sexy girls on an island. Will they find love or will they fight about it?"
• Damien Haas [37:01]: "BoJack Horseman... it's such a great show. One episode is just a monologue."

Impact of Television on Mental Health They reflect on how certain shows, like "BoJack Horseman," can evoke deep emotional responses, contrasting them with lighter fare like "Love Island."

• Damien Haas [37:15]: "There's one part where they talk about... There are no happy endings. It's just, it's really great."
• Shane Tatum [37:57]: "I have to stop watching it because it was making me depressed."

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4. Interactive Q&A Segment

Rapid-Fire Questions Engaging with their audience, the hosts answer rapid-fire questions about their quarantine habits and personal preferences.

• Question: "Crunchy or smooth Peanut butter? [57:21]"
  • Shane Tatum: "Smooth."
  • Keith Leak Jr.: "Smooth."
  • Damien Haas: "It depends on the application."

Hypothetical Combat Scenarios A humorous segment where the hosts debate which animals they could hypothetically defeat in hand-to-hand combat.

• Keith Leak Jr. [58:52]: "I don't think at all."
• Damien Haas [61:07]: "Mordays... they are mammals."
• Shane Tatum [60:23]: "How do you beat a cow with your bare hands?"

Notable Quote:

• Damien Haas [59:40]: "Manatees. The cows of the sea. Do not kill a manatee."

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5. Anecdotes and Storytelling

Restaurant Drama One of the listeners shares a dramatic encounter at a restaurant, where a woman publicly confronts her husband, disrupting another couple's dining experience.

• Ian Hecox [62:16]: "A woman burst through the door... left the girl with a two hundred dollar dinner bill."

Observing Public Conflicts The hosts discuss the discomfort of witnessing public arguments, sharing personal stories of similar experiences.

• Shane Tatum [63:55]: "That's such a rough. That's such a weird situation to be near."
• Damien Haas [65:10]: "Nobody at the restaurant knows either party."

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6. Personal Reflections and Closing Remarks

Influence of Literature Shane and Ian reflect on how reading during their youth shaped their personalities, contrasting their experiences with assigned reading in school versus personal exploration.

• Shane Tatum [45:12]: "Reading on your own is different... It made me open-minded."
• Ian Hecox [45:04]: "Pretty Little Liars... taught me how to be a confident young woman."

Final Thoughts As the episode wraps up, the hosts express their appreciation for maintaining their podcast during quarantine, highlighting their resilience and adaptability.

• Ian Hecox [67:20]: "We're going to keep doing this as long as it takes being in our rooms. Our rooms are now studios."
• Damien Haas [67:22]: "Love you guys. Bye."

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps

1. Shane Tatum [04:38]: "I don't wear sweatpants or any sort of comfort clothing."
2. Keith Leak Jr. [24:46]: "I've been wearing my wean is just too big."
3. Damien Haas [37:43]: "It's really funny, but then it also has a lot of heart."
4. Shane Tatum [61:53]: "What really is a Monday? A Monday is all time. We measure all of time through Monday."
5. Damien Haas [59:40]: "Manatees. The cows of the sea. Do not kill a manatee."

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Conclusion

"Quarantine Q&A!" offers a candid and humorous glimpse into the lives of the Smosh cast members as they navigate the challenges of creating content from home. Through relatable discussions, witty banter, and engaging interactions, the episode captures the essence of adapting to unprecedented times while maintaining creativity and camaraderie. For fans and newcomers alike, this episode serves as both an entertaining and insightful exploration of life during quarantine.

Transcript

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[Ian Hecox]

We'Re definitely learning a lot. I mean, I used to do this all the time when I was in like middle school and high school making those silly videos in my room.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah, you're in your element a little bit.

[Ian Hecox]

But I'm rusty.

[Shane Tatum]

I had to set up a camera and then kind of move Bee away from my camera as I'm running around just yelling that there's bees. And I'm like, if there's people nearby, this is a problem because everyone else is gonna run too.

[Damien Haas]

I don't think I had a book that I read as a kid that inspired me to be who I am today. I didn't ever apply any sort of like life lessons from Harry Potter into my life. Like, I would never go like, ooh, what would Hermione do in this situation?

[Shane Tatum]

I don't wear sweatpants or any sort of comfort clothing.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Every other type of pants is like an aggressive assault on your waistline and they're like, how long can you stand us digging in?

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, oh, oh. You. Welcome back to me and my boy, Smosh Cast. It's me. I am Anada Boy and I'm with my three boys. Here is a Smosh Cast. Welcome. Yeah.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Presented by Smosh. From the makers of Smosh comes hello Kitty, the Smosh edition. Someone cut me off. I'm not ready to do that yet.

[Ian Hecox]

That was Ready to be funny yet? No, that was great.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

I just, I just, I'm not feeling it.

[Ian Hecox]

Guys, we are back at it. Same back on our bullshit. Same in our rooms. I'm actually scared today because they're doing road work. They're like, repaving the streets in front of my place, and it's shaking my entire building. And I'm scared.

[Damien Haas]

You're getting a free massage.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

It's true. It's a free massage, Corey.

[Ian Hecox]

It's a free body massage.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

It's just usually you have to walk down a creepy alleyway for that. And then someone says, anyone want a massage? And then you go, yes, I would. But then you have to go somewhere for that. And we're in quarantine, so.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah, so you have the. You had the massage brought to you. So what's the big D?

[Ian Hecox]

You guys are right. I'm sorry. I shouldn't be so ungrateful.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Yeah, you ungrateful, ungrateful human.

[Damien Haas]

And also, you're gonna have a brand new spanking road outside. So that's pretty dope, you know, once we're actually able to, you know, travel for next March.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Yeah, boy.

[Ian Hecox]

I'm just a selfish, aren't I?

[Keith Leak Jr.]

You're not.

[Damien Haas]

Just look at the bright side of things, Court.

[Ian Hecox]

How are you guys doing?

[Damien Haas]

I'm doing awesome, man. I was just thinking about how much sleep I've been getting.

[Ian Hecox]

Really?

[Keith Leak Jr.]

What's that like? Hi, baby hands.

[Damien Haas]

It's nice. It's really nice.

[Ian Hecox]

What is going on?

[Shane Tatum]

Oh. Oh, hi. Yeah, I'm also doing good. I'm here. I've just been doing a lot of, like, thinking, reading. It's. It's been good, you know?

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Wait a minute, Shane, you have two left hands. That's so weird.

[Ian Hecox]

That's gonna be. You got me say that's gonna be a treat for the. For the viewers. And they see that Shane has tiny hands on.

[Shane Tatum]

I just have little tiny hands. It's not a big deal. You know, I think spending a lot of time by myself has had. I've gone through some changes, particularly having little tiny hands. Um, it's not weird, Shane.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Honestly, what I thought was going on until a second ago and you explained is that your hands stayed normal. The rest of you grew, and your apartment grew because it's all a matter of perspective. I think we've all learned a little something today.

[Shane Tatum]

Damien, you present a great point.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Thank you, Damian.

[Shane Tatum]

This just reminded me of. You know, what I always forget about is your big hands.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Me and my big hands.

[Shane Tatum]

I. I'm going to rewatch that sketch as soon as so random comes back to come.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Oh, it's going to Be on Disney plus. Yeah, yeah. Me and Shane's show that we never shut the hell up about is on Disney plus.

[Shane Tatum]

But that sketch, I always forget about that sketch. We talk about Zombie man and Mr.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

MacNamer stuff was very good and very forgettable.

[Damien Haas]

Sounds like my love life, right?

[Shane Tatum]

Nice.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

I forgot about that.

[Ian Hecox]

Well, Shane, speaking of big changes, I'm just going to put myself on blast real quick. I'm blonde again.

[Damien Haas]

Oh, shit. Blonde born. Everyone back in the court.

[Shane Tatum]

Too much time in the sun.

[Ian Hecox]

So back literally feels like went back in time.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

How's. What spurred that on? Did you need just, like, some kind of change while in quarantine, or were you. Have you been feeling this for a while?

[Ian Hecox]

I was planning to go back to blonde after Australia, like, as soon as we got back from Australia. And then all this crazy wacko stuff happened.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

And then like, oh, yeah, the germs.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, the germs happened.

[Damien Haas]

And you did also need a change after Australia, after you. Bridge broke up with that koala.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, Was too clingy. Too clingy all the time.

[Shane Tatum]

You broke up with.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

When you found out that they eat their mom's poop at birth, you went, whoa.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. I was like, nothing. No thanks, icky cookie.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

I really wanted to get my blue redone after Australia too. And sadly, that ain't happening for a while. But now, more than anything, I just need a haircut. I'm getting all shaggy, and you guys convinced me to do quarantine beard, so I'm doing that too. And now I'm wearing, like, this hippie ass hoodie. And so I'm just like, hey, guys, I'm doing fine in quarantine. Like, I just feel like a mess. I got a pimple on my forehead. My tummy hurts. Let's see what else? No, it's fine.

[Ian Hecox]

No, you're doing a corn beard. You are. He's doing the quarantine beard. Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

Oh, shoot.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

I don't know. Maybe. But also, we are filming sketches every week, so it's like, how much do I really want to commit to that? Also, this is specifically the time where having a beard is less healthy due to Covid stuff. So it's like a little bit spitting in nature's eye to be like, I'm going to grow.

[Shane Tatum]

So it is that actually.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. Why is your allergies staying in your mustache longer, Shane, or something?

[Shane Tatum]

Yeah, my allergies have been horrible. And it's because when I go to the park, I've been noticing as soon as I go to the park and Sit down to, like, write or whatever. I start sneezing, like, immediately. Whatever's in the trees right now is killing me. And I get home, I blow my nose. I feel sort of fine. But then throughout the day, I'm sneezing and stuff, and I'm like, oh, it's because it's in my facial hair.

[Damien Haas]

You should stop snarfing on those flowers.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Yeah. Have you thought about that, Shane?

[Shane Tatum]

Yeah, I need to stop snarfing on those flowers.

[Ian Hecox]

Quit snarfing. Lilies. Shane.

[Shane Tatum]

Yeah, I need to stop doing cocaine.

[Damien Haas]

Have you ever tried, like, a neti pot?

[Shane Tatum]

I owned one for a second and I tried and I failed miserably. I don't know. That stuff kind of. It freaked me out a little bit.

[Damien Haas]

Because I, like, it's the trippiest. A little bit. But then I read this thing. I was like. It was like, you must use distilled water. Not in the tap. And I was like, oh, why is that? And they're like, oh, because there could be this brain eating amoeba in untreated tap water. And it'll eat your brain.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, you boil it and boil all the badness out of it.

[Shane Tatum]

See, that explains a lot.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

When I think about how many. When I think about how many people just, like, aren't that big on, like, hygiene stuff, like, don't wash certain things. Aren't, like, super meticulous about, like, with their hands and stuff. And then I also know that, like, you're putting things inside your sinuses that could go to your brain. I've seen a lot of people just sort of do it, and they're like, no, it's fine. I've never had a problem. And I'm like, yeah, because you're still here. But like, yeah, doing the thing you're.

[Damien Haas]

Doing, it's literally like 40 people that have died from it in all the time. It's not huge risk.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

But that's also the rest story.

[Ian Hecox]

Don't. Also the risk in your brain.

[Shane Tatum]

No, Nettie, pot is not a thing that I'm willing to die for. Like, it's just not a process that I'm willing to. There's things that I'm willing to take risks on. If it's like, oh, one person might have had a bed, I'd be like, okay, but a neti pot, I just don't care. It's also just trippy whether I'm using distilled water or not. Just the fact that I'm having water into my brain and out my one.

[Damien Haas]

Nostril and then it comes out the other nostril. For people that don't know what a pot is, you, like, tip your head sideways, you pour water into this nose, and then out of this nose, the water comes out. It's like, what it actually. The body works that way.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Once you get used to it, it actually feels pretty damn good. And at least it's both nose stuff. Like, if you put it in your nose and it, like, shot out your ear, like, I'd get that. That's weird. But nose be nose.

[Ian Hecox]

You know, do you ever feel like when you're drinking soup or eating that, it goes. When you're chewing, it goes into your ears.

[Shane Tatum]

Hey, guys, can we. Can we start a separate. Can we get a separate pod really quick? I just need to talk to you.

[Ian Hecox]

No, that's illegal. I'm hosting.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Oh, yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Which. Speaking of which, I want to get into the. The reason we're doing this episode today.

[Damien Haas]

Oh.

[Ian Hecox]

The reason why I begged and pleaded and threw a fit to have just a. Not an advice cast, but a good old Q A cast. I. I emphasized on Twitter I wanted some show with no name vibes. I want. I want the good old dummy dummy questions, the cues, so we can give the dummy dummy A's. So how do you guys feel about that? You guys ready for this? You want to.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Is that the first cue dumb? Because my answer is, who sent that question?

[Ian Hecox]

I feel good boss Me, the host of the Me and my Boys cast.

[Damien Haas]

Whoa.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay. Do you guys want to begin? Because some of these, I think we can just blow right through, be, like, easy, one word answer, next one. Or some of them we can really get into. You know what I mean?

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

All right.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

What if we challenged ourselves to answer everything in one word?

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. You know, it's crazy. I can't remember if Ian or Damien was on the show with no name more.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

I was only on there, like, three or four times, tops. Tippy top.

[Ian Hecox]

But how many.

[Damien Haas]

I was only on there, like, three or four times tops or tippy tops.

[Shane Tatum]

You guys are probably around the same number.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

What that was, I got to say, coming into, like. Sorry, this is a side note. Coming into, like, from games to get to do, like, pit stuff. Show with no name was always, like, the rarest treat because it was just so fun. Like, I loved the quick little segments. I loved just how, like, boom, boom, boom, the show was, and it was just like, plug and play. It was modular, and I could plug in and just totally be a part of it. It was. I don't know, it was fun, so I'm excited for this.

[Ian Hecox]

It is really fun. Yeah. We always. We have a lot of shows like that where it's like, we had a lot of fun doing them, but they just. Not everyone loved them. They didn't get the views that we were hoping, but.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Damien Shane show. Cough, cough, cough Cough day show.

[Ian Hecox]

Well, nature show. First question. Are you guys ready?

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Yes.

[Ian Hecox]

Is Fromthair asks what has been the weirdest thing you have done in quarantine? So, for me, it's probably bleaching my hair or downloading Just dance to exercise. But I realized since you're only holding a controller in one arm, one arm gets slightly stronger than the other arm. So then I stopped.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

You're like that dude from lady in the Water, which only eight people saw.

[Ian Hecox]

There you go.

[Damien Haas]

Or you're like, Quagmire in that one.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. The fap arm.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah. Single guys be leaving quarantine.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Like, probably. For me, the two weirdest things have been just filming for Smosh Honestly, trying to figure out, like, I'm not the cleanest person. I don't know what my deal is, because when I'm in a public space, I'm like, everything needs to be orderly and fine. And then when I'm home, I'm like, I'm the trash man. So, like, it's very difficult, like, setting up shooting spaces. I'm very, like, specific about my angles and stuff. I've never done anything like that before. I didn't do Vine. I was not a TikTok guy. Like, that's been really hard. And then also for voiceover during this quarantine, so many things are going to home studios, which I do not have. My closet is not really set up so that it could work. And even my outdoor balcony, like, there's car traffic outside, so I can't use it. So I'm completely redoing my downstairs closet to, like, be a little studio space, which Mark, my roommate, has immediately was like, oh, yeah, totally do it. So I'm.

[Damien Haas]

Do you want to steal some of my soundproofing that I don't use?

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Wait, legitimately? Yes. That will save me a crap ton of time and money.

[Ian Hecox]

To the walls. Like, if you take it off, there's gonna be, like, pieces left.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Don't ruin that, Courtney. You just ruined a really good thing for me. I could have had a ceiling finally.

[Shane Tatum]

A ceiling. That's awesome that you're getting into the rap game.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Thanks, man. I do. I am dressed for it right now a little bit.

[Ian Hecox]

That's funny. Headphones with the hoodie over it.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Yeah, I'm. I don't know. I'm pre Malone.

[Ian Hecox]

I like this. I'm going to do this.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Do that. Yeah. Join us guys. Ian, can I have that soundproofing?

[Damien Haas]

If you could find a way to take off all the frickin spray on adhesive that was used to put those spray on.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Adhesive barely works. I'm shocked it's still up.

[Ian Hecox]

Anyway, Shane, what's the weirdest thing you've done? Ian, do you have one do court.

[Damien Haas]

You look so ridiculous.

[Ian Hecox]

What do you mean? I look great. You look like.

[Damien Haas]

You look like Katamari Damacy.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane Tatum]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Look adorable. Moving on.

[Damien Haas]

All right, the weirdest thing I've done. So my neighborhood has now taken it upon themselves. Every time the clock strikes 8:00 at night, everyone goes like outside of their house and starts like cheering like woo. Woo.

[Ian Hecox]

Was that the video?

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Yeah. You sent us that, right?

[Damien Haas]

Yeah, yeah, I sent you guys a video. Yeah. So I found out like what it is. It's people showing like solidarity for like medical workers and other essential service people. So everyone like goes out onto their like balconies and just like starts like shouting and like cheering and like banging pots and stuff.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

That's cool.

[Damien Haas]

So. So now I.

[Ian Hecox]

It's really fun.

[Damien Haas]

It is kind of fun.

[Shane Tatum]

Are they doing it because. Because there are health workers and emergency workers nearby. Are they just doing it out into the. To the void?

[Damien Haas]

Just out of the void, hoping somewhere.

[Shane Tatum]

Out there they hear it?

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

I'm wondering because my neighbors were howling like, like coyotes.

[Damien Haas]

Was it at 8 o'clock?

[Ian Hecox]

I don't remember what time it was at.

[Damien Haas]

Are you guys going to do what you guys got to do in your individual places at 8 o'clock? You guys got to start doing it.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

Try to, try to get everyone going.

[Shane Tatum]

That's what I do to LAPD when they're nearby. I bang pots and pans and bark at them. And they love it.

[Damien Haas]

Well, that's how you get rid of bears. So.

[Shane Tatum]

Yeah. Treat paramedics and cops like bears. They love it.

[Damien Haas]

Oh my God.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Come on.

[Ian Hecox]

That's really. Hey, bear. Hey, bear.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Is anybody else just watching Kevin? By the way, this has been delightful.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, Kevin in Google Hangout. I can't see him.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

What?

[Shane Tatum]

For those who are watching, you know, we see each other and talk to each other through Google Hangouts and Kevin is in there to make sure everything's going all right. So we just see him watching and enjoying the show.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

He's our Jan Brady.

[Damien Haas]

Everyone's frozen except for when everybody froze for a second. So Kevin is just.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Yeah, that doesn't make sense to me. I have the worst Internet of us all. And I can see you crystal clear. I can see your pores. I can tell you which of you need to exfoliate.

[Shane Tatum]

I can see your aura.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

I can see.

[Damien Haas]

Ooh, that's cute.

[Ian Hecox]

Shane, what's the weirdest thing you've done in quarantine my guy?

[Shane Tatum]

I. Non smosh related. I don't know, probably. Honestly, when I work out, I have such a small apartment. I mean, really, like over here is like my whole apartment, right. So when I work out, I have to kind of like move furniture and I set up my own little workout space. But because the lighting is so bad in my apartment, I have my blinds pretty much open. So people walking past can just see me shirtless, just like working out or like a jumping rope or whatever. Just.

[Damien Haas]

All right.

[Shane Tatum]

Looking insane. Whoa. Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

From now on, Shane, whenever somebody sees you and you lock eyes at them, just whisper, welcome to the gun show.

[Ian Hecox]

And they won't hear you because you're inside.

[Shane Tatum]

Unless they're a paramedic or a firefighter or cop. And then I immediately grab my pants and start yelling, but smosh related. We had to shoot that animal crossing video and for that I had to go to the park and I had to shoot a scene where I'm running away from bees. Yeah. So, you know, luckily the park was. Which was shocking. The park was rather empty.

[Damien Haas]

Okay.

[Shane Tatum]

Still, still. I had to set up a camera and then kind of move be away from my camera as I'm running around just yelling that there's bees. And I'm like, if there's people nearby, this is a problem. Because people are going to think, oh, if there's one person running, swatting at the air, saying, bees, bees, everyone else is gonna run too. So I was like, this is a real challenge. But I got away with it. It was fine. And then I had some other scenes that I had to shoot where it's just me talking to the camera, just being stupid. And of course, a father and his like 5 year old son come and decide to play catch right next to where I'm filming. And I was just like, come on. Like, why'd you do this? I have to say, and in this, like, I just felt. I just feel like a psycho myself. Out in public especially.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

I don't like doing stuff like that at all. Well, like that. And like, I once, very briefly was going to work with a different YouTube channel, like seven years ago and they wanted to become like a prank channel where they're like just start saying things to people in a, in the mall. And I'm like, I will never do that. I will never, I literally cannot.

[Shane Tatum]

So I have so much respect for Eric, Andre and people like that who can just do that.

[Ian Hecox]

But I feel like, I feel like I somewhat have that ability. I would never, I'm never trying to be aggressive or yelling someone in some, something in someone's face. But like I'm definitely able to just pretend that people aren't there and be crazy.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

That's great. I wish I could. That's a super.

[Damien Haas]

Despite making, building my whole life around making an ass out of myself in front of millions of people online, I have a lot of trouble doing that out in public. Like and like inconveniencing people or bothering people or like being weird out in public so hard.

[Ian Hecox]

I feel like I get a thrill out of it because it's like I'm a lot of these people I'm never going to see again. Like who gives? They don't, I don't care about what they think of me. I don't care, I don't think anything of them. They could scream in front of me and I'll be like, nice.

[Shane Tatum]

So Courtney, you're saying you could film scenes where it's isolated, where you are just doing your bit within itself. I'm also saying like people who go up and fuck with people.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, no, that's what I said. That's what I said from the get go. I can't do yelling.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Oh, that's what we're more talking about I think.

[Ian Hecox]

No, I, I, I disclaimer that. Like right.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Oh God.

[Ian Hecox]

Saying that like I could never be the person yelling in people's face or like that's, that's, that's invasive and like got it. But if I'm just like breakdancing in the middle of a ball, you know.

[Shane Tatum]

Like, or like you can be in your own.

[Ian Hecox]

Or like, or just gently caress and kiss a mannequin. I'm not saying I've never done that.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Right. So I would never say that you didn't do that.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. So that's fine.

[Courtney Miller]

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[Ian Hecox]

Well, okay. Well, that's good to know. Guys, do you want to go to the next question?

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Sure.

[Ian Hecox]

Sure. All right, so this is another stay at home type question from Ncomfya Alley. And she asks, have you. Or they ask, have you been washing your clothes at all, or are you just living in the same shirts and pants? That's a good question.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

I will say I'm definitely reusing things a little bit more than I would. I've worn this hoodie a couple times and. Hoodies. I know you do it, but there's not, like, a shirt under there. Same with, like, comfy PJ pants. But everything else has been laundry as usual. I got to have some normalcy, Right?

[Damien Haas]

Yeah. All the undergarments that I wear are. Are washed.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

Clean. But. But as far as, like, PJ pants. PJ pants, sweaters. Yeah. I reuse those. I would say I'm just about. I'm almost as hygienic as I was before the fall of mankind.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

But that happened way before the coronavirus.

[Shane Tatum]

Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

But I guess I probably shower less. I probably shower a little bit less. And my house is. I leave. I leave things, like, out on tables longer because I'm like, well, nobody's gonna come to my house, so who cares?

[Shane Tatum]

My routine is very unchanged, I realize, like, keeping things organized and clean and showering and cleaning my clothes is very much something I do for myself. I like, I'll get up. My system's pretty bad right now. I'll get up, I'll shower, get ready to, like, do stuff like this, like the pod, whatever. But then I'll end up working out later. And so I will be going through two pairs of underwear a day.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Yeah.

[Shane Tatum]

Because that's not good. You know, I'll rewear, like, a shirt, but.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Sure.

[Shane Tatum]

But for the most part, I'm. My. My routine is very much the same as before.

[Ian Hecox]

I. Weirdly, in high school, I used to have such a weird thing with how my clothes fit me. Like, even if I tried on a pair of shorts in the morning, I'd throw them in the laundry and wash them and dry them again because they weren't that fresh.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

They weren't, like, tight or that fit. So weird. But nowadays, like, I mean, especially during the quarantine, like, I'll. I'll have a pair of, like, Nike leggings that all I ran and worked out in. I will set them aside and be like, I barely Use them. I'm gonna use them again tomorrow. It's just me and like, same with like a sports bra. I'll like wear it for two days if I decide not to shower. I'm kind of. I'm kind of. Girls are gross, dude.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Dude, you should write another song if.

[Shane Tatum]

You should write a song about that.

[Ian Hecox]

I definitely should. Oh, and dude, Tommy made that Animal Crossing remix of it so good.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

I haven't seen that.

[Shane Tatum]

He made KK sliders. Girls are gross.

[Ian Hecox]

Literally.

[Shane Tatum]

Can I something weird? I realize I don't wear sweatpants or any sort of comfort clothing when I'm home. If I'm by myself, I still put on jean. I still put on this. I put on a plaid shirt, jeans, like belt.

[Ian Hecox]

I'm wearing my high school gym shorts right now.

[Damien Haas]

You're wearing a belt?

[Shane Tatum]

Yeah, I get fully dressed.

[Damien Haas]

Shane, you gotta get on the comfort train.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

You should try getting just really doughy as a person and then you don't really have a choice. Cause like, I don't know, you're very like trim and fit. I feel like you are fitting into clothes exactly as the designer intended for the model in Nicole's catalog. Like when you got a little extra pudge, pudge around the middle, these pants are like, oh, thank God. This is all I wanted in my day, in my life. I needed this. Because then every other type of pants is like an aggressive assault on your waistline. And they're like, how long can you stand us digging in?

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, that's funny.

[Shane Tatum]

The literal battle of the bulge.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

That's right. I've been wearing my wean is just too big.

[Shane Tatum]

I never wear sweatpants. I never.

[Ian Hecox]

Do you just not like them?

[Shane Tatum]

Yeah, I don't really like loose fitting clothing. I like. And not necessarily like, my pants aren't necessarily tight, but I just don't like soft materials on my legs. I like there to feel like there's a little element of protection, structure, you know, I don't know why. Like, like if a bee landed on me, I'd have a layer that you.

[Ian Hecox]

Have to be prepared for battle at all times.

[Damien Haas]

Have you guys, have you guys worn. I think, I think Damien's worn it. Have you guys worn the, the YouTube robe that, like at home?

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Oh, yeah.

[Shane Tatum]

I have worn that occasionally, but not too much.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

It's an interesting thing. It's not like it's a robe that they mixed with like a comforter on your bed. So it's very specific. You're like, is it cold as hell? And I'm not going to see People. But I'm only cold. Cool, then, great. I will wear this. Otherwise, it's like, let's wear a blanket. But thank you for giving us the thing.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, I gave it to my sister. She's been using it a lot.

[Damien Haas]

I wore it. I wore it to Iceland, and I wore it, like, in the airports and on the plane. I saw that, and I got so freaking sweaty. But, like, dude, I got. I got, like, legit compliments at the airport. People being like, that's a sick robe. I was like, cool.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Was it. Was it like, that sick robe? Or was it like, huh, sick robe, dude.

[Damien Haas]

No, I definitely got some, like, weird looks. And people were trying to, like, figure out what the fuck it was, because you don't ever see people just rocking a robe. Except for Olivia, like, out in public.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane Tatum]

It's an Olivia move.

[Damien Haas]

That's why I felt comfortable to do it. If Olivia's done it, then I feel like I have the confidence to do it.

[Ian Hecox]

And the fans, I think the listeners actually know what we're talking about because we made that TikTok with the.

[Shane Tatum]

Yeah, we're all in the robes. Yeah, yeah.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

With the Dolce Vita. Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. That song is. I feel like that's, like, our song. Dolce does like our song, you know.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah. No one's ever done it before.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

I made my first TikTok on my own account.

[Ian Hecox]

Dude. I saw Holy Smokes.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

I felt so silly because I made it thinking I would be able to save it to my phone, send it along, and make it for Smosh. And, like, that's clearly a smosh TikTok. And then that's not a thing you can do in TikTok. You can't save your drafts. You have to publish. And even if you publish privately, it puts your tag on it. So I. You know, we kept trying to find ways to skirt around it, and eventually I was like, can I just make a different TikTok later? And who runs our social Was just like, you know what? This was meant to be your first TikTok. This is your account. You do it. And I was like, okay.

[Ian Hecox]

And so, yeah, TikTok's weird with the. With the saving and stuff. It's like, anyone can save anyone's TikTok, but God forbid you save your own.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

You can't do it.

[Damien Haas]

What?

[Keith Leak Jr.]

I get it, though, because they want you to post on their platform because they have. There's the Snapchat problem, right. Because everybody uses Snapchat for the filters, and then they. I don't know a single person who's still on Snapchat, myself included. You take those filters and you post them elsewhere and that's what TikTok's doing. They're like, nope, none of that, please.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, the watermark was. It's a really smart, like marketing business move to be like, yes, save our stuff, put it wherever you want, but our watermarks on it and.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah, but I mean, it also like helps promote that person as well.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Exactly. It's a double edged sword.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah, the watermark is genius.

[Ian Hecox]

It is really good. Okay, are you guys ready for the next one?

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay. I'm gonna keep it on this at home stuff for a little bit longer. So at Lovers, Larson asks explain the difference of making videos in your separate homes than in being the studio. So it's obviously harder.

[Damien Haas]

So normally the only way to make these, these like sketches work is we'll shoot like six in one week. And then that's all it's. So it's like a batch shoot and now we're shooting like one a week. Like, we're all given our own assignments and like, okay, you're gonna shoot this scene, you're gonna shoot this scene, you're gonna shoot this scene and you kind of get the day to like shoot it and then we'll come back. So like, we haven't been doing like a batch shoot. Instead we've just been kind of shooting as we go. So that's like the big difference for me. But it's like, it's like you. I mean, we're able to get more stuff done in a short amount of time because we're all shooting our own thing. Like, we're not all waiting around for like one person to shoot a thing then.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

So I think for me the big thing is like, I. Everybody's good at a lot of different things. And I think Smosh is this really interesting space where so many people are good at all the things. Like Courtney, for example, you can write, you can direct. Your funny sells in acting, like with scripted. And you're funny as hell and unscripted. You've got all the four things. I feel like I can do the acting stuff. I really enjoy the writing stuff. The directing thing not built in. So having to figure out camera angles and figuring out what works. And there's like a line and there's a rule in filming where you can't cross this 180 degree line. It just doesn't. It just doesn't click. It doesn't work. So it's, it's a lot more like effortful now, not having all those, like, experts there to, like, take care of everything for you. But I do think the one major benefit is because we're filming things weekly, we can finally be more timely with our content. Sometimes when these trends are happening, we. We miss them. We're like, well, by the time we film it in a couple of weeks, then edit it, we'll get it out two months after the trend has happened.

[Ian Hecox]

We can't let it be more topical.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now we're like, quarantine. Sure, let's do it. You know, so.

[Ian Hecox]

Mm. I agree. I definitely, like. I miss how things were because it was nice when you could just, like. I appreciate the compliment, Damien. It's really sweet, I think, but I feel it's so nice when you can just. Okay, I'm just gonna focus on acting, and, like, that's my thing that I'm gonna do today. We're definitely learning a lot. I mean, I used to do this all the time when I was in, like, middle school and high school making those silly videos in my room.

[Damien Haas]

You're in your apartment?

[Ian Hecox]

A little bit, but I'm rusty, and I mean, now we're getting sent equipment to us now so that we can make things look a little better and make things easier for the editors and stuff. I think I just mostly miss. There's just so many moments that we have on set. We're just, like, having fun and enjoying it together. And I think that's, like, what I miss most is just, like, being in the same room with you guys on the homie Lonely.

[Shane Tatum]

Yeah. I'm not a very technically savvy person, so that's been a huge adjustment for me because before on set, yeah, I just had to act. I literally got to go to set, stand in front of the camera, sound. You know, everything would get set up before we were even there. They would do their job, then we'd come and do our job, you know, like, it was that combo. Whereas now, like, I'm. We're filming a. I'm filming a big sketch next week, and, yeah, we're playing director, sound, camera, lighting. Like, I have to fill all those departments that I know nothing about. And it's. It's interesting. I think the benefit for me is my apartment is so small, I'm given so few options that the decisions are easy because I'm kind of like, well, this corner is the only place where I have lighting, so I guess I'm shooting here. But, yeah, it's trippy. And there's. It's Small things that I get worried about, like, oh, how long should I roll for before I should cut again? Or whatever. Like, it's the. Or what you said the 180 degree line. You know, stuff like that. That I'm just like, I need to keep all these small things in mind.

[Ian Hecox]

While I'm just trying to be funny. Eyeline stuff is hard. Like when I had to film the. That animal crossing scene where I'm in my bed, like, talking to a character I totally like. They did their best, but, like, you can tell I'm looking way above the racc.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Sure. The same thing happened with the ones where I'm like talking to that text bubble. It was like what we landed on was like, well, look down at the text bubble first, but then you can just sort of talk out to the world. And I was like, okay. So I literally like, whoa. What do you mean? I don't know. The. And I like, I didn't even just.

[Ian Hecox]

Pick a spot, I guess, like, it didn't look like it suffered. The content suffered too bad. But I definitely know what you're talking about.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Yeah, that's tricky.

[Ian Hecox]

All right. For the next one game.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Yeah, man.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay. All right, let's just. This will be a quick one. What's. What's been your go to quarantine binge Show? That's from ads.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

JO2 Love island, if you guys don't know. Yes. So Love island is a British reality TV show. And I think I started on. I started on the most recent season, which is sort of an outlier because, like, everyone is really polite and there's no drama. But I'm on season five now, the previous one, and basically it's a reality show where it's like, if you're interested in accents and voiceover and learning that it's a flipping gold mine.

[Damien Haas]

It's absolutely all of the UK smashed together. Right.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

You need subtitles. Like, you literally. Do you speak English, but you don't speak that English, so. But it's just like five sexy guys, five sexy girls on an island. Will they find love or will they fight about it? And it's like, that's. It's so self aware. It is like Bachelor times 10. And it's. I don't know. I don't know how to explain it. It's trashy reality TV shows, but nose.

[Damien Haas]

I've heard great things about love.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. Everyone's talking about it.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Everyone loves it. It's all on Hulu and it's terrible, but it's.

[Damien Haas]

Oh, it's on Hulu Hell yeah.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

I'm the one I started with.

[Shane Tatum]

Oh, I might check it out.

[Damien Haas]

I'm gonna watch it.

[Ian Hecox]

Me and Ian and Sarah have been chatting even though we've all finished watching it.

[Damien Haas]

I haven't finished it.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, you haven't finished it. But love is blind.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

I need to start.

[Ian Hecox]

Ugh, you gotta. I guess you would really like that. And you too.

[Shane Tatum]

I haven't started it.

[Damien Haas]

It's so, it's so frustrating. Like, like literally I went in being like these all seem like kind of normal people and, and I'm. I think I'm at episode seven or eight and I'm now convinced that aside from one woman, all the women are crazy. Like they are psychopaths. Like they all.

[Ian Hecox]

It's wild.

[Shane Tatum]

You have to think about the type of person who sends an audition tape for a reality show, right?

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Yeah.

[Shane Tatum]

Your sample size is psychos from the start. And then producers are going to look through those audition tapes and go, who is the craziest?

[Ian Hecox]

This one isn't so much. Like, I'm sure, like maybe there is some element of like just trying to get clout, but like this isn't like you can't really win. I mean there's a bunch of different couples trying to find their husband and there are people like, I won't spoil anything, but like it's cool cuz it's like it's, it's not all about one person, which I like because it's like everyone's just trying to do well in their own lane. But yeah, but there's some frustrating ass characters. Dude. What a hell of a first season.

[Damien Haas]

Dude. I, yeah, I think I'm, I think I finished episode seven. I think there's ten episodes. Basically the, the whole gist of the show is that everyone's put in these pods and they can't see the other person and they go on all these dates with all these different people and then they have to decide if they want to propose to one of the people.

[Ian Hecox]

And then if that person they propose to says yes, then they meet, then they finally.

[Damien Haas]

And then they go.

[Ian Hecox]

Walk away or stay.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

That's insane.

[Damien Haas]

And then they go. And then from there then they have.

[Ian Hecox]

Like two weeks that they get to. Okay, so they, they've seen each other and if they stay like together that they go to this island off Mexico and they're on vacation for two weeks, right? And then, then they have like. Because from the moment they get engaged and they are going to get married in a month and I think that they have a rule where you can't walk away in. In that month. You have to wait until the wedding, and that's when you decide yes or no.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Holy crap.

[Damien Haas]

There is a person that walked away.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Spoilers.

[Ian Hecox]

I don't. I. Oh, yeah, yeah. No, you're right. No, you're right. That one was impossible. Okay, I won't spoil anymore. But that. It's a really good show. Shane, why are you laughing?

[Shane Tatum]

I'm just imagining a show where it's all Stevie Wonder in different wigs.

[Damien Haas]

What?

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Called Love Blind. Shane.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, my God. Shane, We've been.

[Damien Haas]

We've been over this. Stevie Wonder isn't blind. He could see.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

I mean, that's a well edited YouTube video. I don't know. Is that a thing?

[Damien Haas]

It's real. It's real. So I was. I binged the rest of BoJack Horseman because I think I stopped, like, I think I stopped around, like, season four and a half.

[Ian Hecox]

That's one of those shows.

[Damien Haas]

And so I was like, all right, I'm gonna. I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna finish this. And it's such a great show. But, like, there is one part where they. They talk about the fact that, like, yeah, in television shows, there. There aren't happy endings. Like, there has to be drama, because that's what keeps the show going. But holy damn, is that. That.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

It's just depressing.

[Ian Hecox]

But I do. I do love when a silly show can get dark and real like that. I do, like, apprec.

[Shane Tatum]

But I've been. I've avoided that show because whenever people watch it, they're like, yeah, I went through definitely a little bit of a crisis watching the show. Or. Yeah, I had, like, a week where I was like, oh, I've heard BoJack Horseman, especially for us in the entertainment industry, it's going to, like.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

It'll make you a lot.

[Shane Tatum]

Give you a week where you are literally in your head, depressed.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, I don't know if I'm down for that. I couldn't. I watched a couple episodes, and I was like, yeah. And I stopped. I wasn't watching.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

BoJack is kind of a red pill or blue pill situation. It's like, do you just want to keep being happy, or do you want to have a mirror held up to you?

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, my God.

[Damien Haas]

I think if you. I don't know. Like, I never had, like, a crisis moment watching the show. I think it's like some people that maybe haven't done enough self reflection. Maybe it revealed something about them, but it's an incredible show. Like, it's some of the best television I've ever watched. They have one episode called Free Churro where it's literally just BoJack the horse man doing a monologue for the entire episode. It's the only show that's made that, like, an episode has ended and I've. And I'm laughing, but also crying.

[Ian Hecox]

I guess I can't help but, like, apply what I'm watching to myself. How would I react? Or how do I feel about that? Like, I can't.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

I think that's also what a lot of. Like, there's TV that's supposed to be mindless that you can have on in the background, like Love island, but then there's other stuff that's like, you know, it has a message or it has a little bit of something to make you think it's. I think that's a good thing in general if you, if you walk away from something a little bit better for the experience, you know.

[Ian Hecox]

Shane, what's your show?

[Shane Tatum]

Well, besides Tiger King, which I obviously. Everybody watched.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, dude.

[Shane Tatum]

Besides that, I haven't been watching much TV because I've been so addicted to Animal Crossing, and I try to watch TV while I play a video game, and it doesn't. I just, just, I'm. There's no point. I don't.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Oh, there's nothing better in the world.

[Shane Tatum]

I don't catch any of the show. I cannot. I, I. Yeah, it's just completely.

[Damien Haas]

I'm a single. I'm a single track person.

[Shane Tatum]

I am, I am too. And I go through my cycle, right. I. I go through a phase where I play a ton of video games, play it non stop. Then I go through a phase where I'm watching TV shows and movies, and then I go through a phase where I'm reading books and I'm rarely doing two at the same time.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane Tatum]

And so I'm in a video game phase right now, and I really cannot stop.

[Ian Hecox]

Dude. I will say, speaking of the Tiger King thing, there's this YouTuber that I've been watching called Primink, which I really. I've been binging a lot of YouTube for sure, during this time. But he. 11 months ago, because basically what his channel is, is he. He covers. Not so much. He's not a drama channel, but he'll cover all these controversies that have happened on the Internet, like, but he'll kind of tell the story as if it was like this ancient legend that happened a long time ago, except for he has all the footage, all the screenshots, like he does the work, he's got the receipts. He literally. And. But he's a really like, sweet young guy.

[Damien Haas]

What's his name?

[Ian Hecox]

Primink P R I M I N K. And 11 months ago he was like the animal rights man who ends up in a. Like, I don't. I can't spoil the show. But he literally a year ago did a thing on. On the tiger king.

[Damien Haas]

Oh, YouTuber who ran for president and hired a hitman. Yeah, I remember seeing Tiger King on like John Oliver show.

[Shane Tatum]

Right?

[Damien Haas]

Like he's. He's been.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

He's been around.

[Damien Haas]

You know, I have. I have seen this guy's YouTube channel.

[Ian Hecox]

It's really good. I recommend you guys all check it out. Like, you can binge his stuff for hours.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Sorry to the video game and TV thing. I'm curious if anybody else is out there that like, can do both at the same time and enjoys that. Because sometimes I'm a huge overthinker. Sometimes even if I'm just doing one thing, like watching a show, my mind will still be like this thing, that thing, this thing, that thing. So like doing a TV show and a video game at the same time is like noise canceling headphones for my life. It's like both tracks are finally occupied. Holy crap, this feels good. So playing Animal Crossing while watching Love island is just the best experience.

[Shane Tatum]

Some of our. Some of our co workers also do that. Nancy was saying she plays Animal Crossing while also watching stuff.

[Ian Hecox]

Having a garbage TV show that you don't have to pay attention to and just tune into while playing a very chill, lax game like Animal Crossing or Minecraft totally makes sense. I know that I have a hard time with just straight up silence in my apartment. Especially now. It's like just reminding me how by myself I am so having. Just having a YouTube channel. I let Drew Gooden or Danny Gonzalez just autoplay.

[Damien Haas]

You should like, you should get a speaker out and just play like audio of a cafeteria in your. In your place.

[Ian Hecox]

That sounds so nice. Or like a cocktail party.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah, you should do that. I'm sure there's like. I'm sure there's like a Foley of. Of.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane Tatum]

I mean that's essentially kind of like how in. Isn't it in Korea where they just footage of people just eating lunch. Oh, not necessarily even a mukbang. Just people literally eating. Yeah, like a regular lunch.

[Damien Haas]

Yes, it's super popular.

[Ian Hecox]

Those are some good stuff to watch though.

[Damien Haas]

Wait, is anyone else watching anything else? Because Love island wore me the frick out. So I was Like, I was.

[Ian Hecox]

That's why I.

[Damien Haas]

Sorry. Yeah. Love is Blind was, like, wearing me out, was making me, like, hate humanity, so I had to, like, flop between that. BoJack. Oh, Detroiters. Oh, my God.

[Ian Hecox]

What's that?

[Damien Haas]

It's.

[Shane Tatum]

That's incredible.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah, it's Tim Robinson's. It had two seasons on Comedy Central.

[Shane Tatum]

I think you should leave. Right? Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

Yep. Yeah, it's the guy that made. I think you should leave. He made a sitcom, or not really a sitcom, but it's, like a scripted. Scripted show about, like, him and a friend, like, running an advertising agency in Detroit or Detroit. I don't know how you guys say it.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

What are the. What's the other way to say it?

[Damien Haas]

Well, some people say Detroit, and some people say Detroit.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Detroit.

[Damien Haas]

Detroit.

[Shane Tatum]

Never heard.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

I don't know if I've heard that ever.

[Damien Haas]

All right, moving on. It's such a funny show because it's. It's. It's really funny, but then it also has, like, a lot of heart. And I know that's, like, what everyone says about every show, but, like. But it's. It's really great.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Nice.

[Shane Tatum]

That's awesome.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah. So highly recommend if you could find a way to watch it.

[Shane Tatum]

For those. For those of you. This is what I'm watching, just listening. Courtney is adjusting her plants.

[Ian Hecox]

I was. It has, like, you know, when it continues to grow and sprout, it'll have, like, a little dead, little, like, place where I, like.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Yeah, it was doing that right now.

[Ian Hecox]

I was peeling those off. Dude, it's gotten so long. He was such a little guy when I first got him. Okay, next question.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Yeah, yeah. Detroiters, let's talk about this.

[Ian Hecox]

So this is the last kind of, like, it's not serious, but it's. I think it's a really good question. I love that. That I love very much. I love this question very much. From that. It's from 10:1, which we say 10:1 when we have to pee on set. The question is, do you have any books you read when you were you. Oh, sorry. Do you have any books you read when you were younger that you think have shaped you as a person? They don't have to be serious or adult books.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Nope. No, I'm kidding. No, no. Next question.

[Ian Hecox]

So in high school, I started. I was basically. I sat alone for the first few months of freshman year because all my friends went to different high schools, so I'd basically either sit. Yeah, I'd pretty much. I started in the bathroom, but I was like, no, I can't eat Lunch in the bathroom every day. So then I went. So then I moved. Yeah, exactly. So then I moved to the library, where that's. I found the young adult section, and I would just find a book and literally judged a book by its cover. If the COVID looked interesting to me, I would take it home and I'd read it or read it at lunch, because freshman year, I was still getting bullied a little bit. There was that series Pretty Little Liars, and it's very, very, very different from the show, but it basically gave me this new confidence because a lot of these girls in that book are in the show are just acting a certain way just to attend, assert their dominance, or just, like, if you acted confident and all this stuff like that, you would. You were treated better. And, like, there's a character named Ally. And I was like, where's your Ally, Courtney? And I would, like, find, like, where my confidence was. And it's like, I don't care what these people are saying about me. And I just felt I had such a better attitude. Instead of when people were bullying me or spreading rumors about me online, instead of getting sad and, like, going into my dark hole and just. Just crying or whatever, I decided to, like, within myself, just fight back, be like, no. Like, it just taught me how to be a bitchy high school girl, at least on the inside, so that on the outside, it showed through. And I think I eventually became, like, got befriended by those girls that were bullying me. But, yeah, that book definitely taught me how to be a confident young woman very much.

[Shane Tatum]

I don't know if there's a specific book, as much as just reading in general shaped a lot of my personality. I hated reading when I was young because it was very, like, a forced thing. Like, you have to read a chapter a night, or you have to do this or whatever. And so I hated it because it was a chore. And then same. It was around when I was 16, and I was, you know, homeschooled because I was auditioning and stuff. And I. The homeschooling stuff was so minimal. And honestly, like, there was periods of time where I was essentially just not in school because the curriculum just wasn't great. And so I started realizing I'm like, if I don't start reading books or doing something, I'm not gonna be learning anything right now. And so I just started reading a ton. And I just started picking. I didn't know where to go, so I just kind of picked classics because I was like, well, apparently these are good. It's so different when you read on your own accord, as opposed to it being assigned to you in a reading assignment, you're given things to look for and they might be things that you don't care about. Be like, you know, like in, in Catcher in the Rye, what is the theme to the story? What is Holden Caulfield's greatest fear? Whatever. And you're not. That's the things that on your own time you wouldn't be looking for and you wouldn't care about. You'd be thinking, oh, how does this relate to me? Oh yeah, what does this book mean to me? And then it takes such a different form. So there's a ton of books. I mean that I, that I loved and continue to shape me. I think, I don't think there's a single book I read. Even if I hate it or even if it's very insignificant. It. There's something, there's even a sentence, sure. That's presented that changes my thinking in some way or another. I think if anything, it just made me open minded because every book will surprise you in some way and you'll feel dumb in some way that you're like, oh, I didn't know that things were like that. And so you're left now going, oh, I'm not going to assume things. I, I'm always going to be looking for knowledge that I don't have.

[Ian Hecox]

Let's say that that's like a lot with like the Kite Runner. That book really taught me a lot about life and just how people don't just have a couple bad things that happen in their lives. Like your entire life can be a struggle and it continues.

[Shane Tatum]

And Kite Runner is amazing.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. That book made me cry so hard. Ian, you're deep in thought. You're very deep in thought.

[Damien Haas]

Am I? Do I look very pensive? No, because I know Damian was joking when he was like, no, no book has influenced me. But like straight up, I don't think, I don't think I had a book that I read as a kid that, that inspired me to be who I am today. I don't know, like, I don't feel like I was really influenced by a lot of things. Like I feel like, oh, hell yeah, garbage truck man, take away my trash. Thank you. Good job.

[Shane Tatum]

Pots and pans. Bark at him, literally.

[Ian Hecox]

Did he wait?

[Damien Haas]

No. I don't even know if he saw me.

[Ian Hecox]

But you waved him. That's really sweet.

[Damien Haas]

I'm just trying to give him love, you know, Central services. I'm trying to think, like, what what things did I, like, read or watch as a kid that influenced me, I guess. Like, really just, like, watching comedy, I think probably made me realize what I found funny. And that's about it. Like, I didn't ever apply any sort of, like, life lessons from Harry Potter into my life. Like, I would never go, like, like, oh, what would Hermione do in this situation?

[Keith Leak Jr.]

That's a mistake.

[Shane Tatum]

I do that before I do anything.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

So what would Hermione do?

[Damien Haas]

I was in the same sort of place that Shane was in, where every book in school felt like it was an assignment.

[Ian Hecox]

And Fahrenheit 451, I could not do it, bro.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Hate it.

[Shane Tatum]

But then I read that book on my own, and I loved it.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. See, maybe if I went back, there are some books like that I did enjoy in school.

[Damien Haas]

But I think it's, like, especially something like Fahrenheit 451, which I admit I've never read those kinds of books. Like, you at least need a little bit of life experience.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, yeah.

[Damien Haas]

To understand the context of, like, tyranny.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

I had a really hard time with that book specifically for that reason, and that I do not. The author, Ray Bradbury, I can acknowledge that his work is well done. I am not a Ray Bradbury fan at all. And there would be all these units in school every year where it's like, now we're doing this Ray Bradbury book. And it was such a struggle because it wasn't like, how do you feel about this book? What do you think about this book? It was, why is this book so damn great? And I'd have to be like, it's not. But, okay, let me think about what you want me to say. And so it just made me good at taking the test. I was really good at taking the tests, but I didn't believe in it. I, I. Sorry, I just hijacked this from you.

[Ian Hecox]

No, no, go.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

I had sort of the same experience with reading in school because when I first learned how to read, way, like, three years ago. No. When I was just a super young baby boy, I was like, I was so in love with it. I wanted to read all the time. And I would, like, brag to people that I met. Just like, I read two books last week, and they'd be like, wowee, that's so cool. But then in my school, we had this thing called the Accelerated Reader Program, the AR program. It sucks because. Because it makes you take a test at the beginning of the year and it gives you your reading level, quote, unquote so it'd be like, you know, Stephen, what is your reading level like? Well, I'm in the first grade and I've got a third grade reading level. Isn't that great? And they'd be like, that is great. You're very advanced. Take read, get this many points in a year. So you would have to read books that were worth a certain amount of points, take tests on them and then earn those points. My friends might need 6, 7 points for the year. That's one Harry Potter book takes care of that and then you're done for the year. My reading level that they gave me, they were like, Hi, you need 36 points by the end of the year. I'm like, oh cool. White Fang by Jack London is 11. So let me figure this out. And they, so they beat the reading out of you. They don't, yeah, don't end up liking it. So it wasn't until way later that I actually enjoyed it again and discovered things like Neil Gaiman, my favorite author. Read the Sandman. I love George R.R. martin, Song of Ice and Fire. Yeah, anything, anything like fantastical. It, it wasn't that escape for me until like more modern times.

[Shane Tatum]

I will say it's a thing that's nice about college is that there is much more freedom in assignments. I mean there's freedom in, in the types of classes you pick. Like for instance, I did a class that was entirely graphic novels. So it was a class focused entirely on, you know, comic artists.

[Damien Haas]

Really?

[Keith Leak Jr.]

That's cool.

[Shane Tatum]

Comic. Yeah, it was. And I like, I'm reading a book by Chris Ware right now, which I read one of some of his stuff in that class and it's so good. And then more importantly in college you get a lot more freedom with the assignments that you're doing it. Whereas in high school it's very constricted. Like you're saying where it's like, why is this book so great in college I feel like you have the option of saying that you think it's trash. You're often given, for me, at least throughout my college experience, I was with assignments. You're choosing the topic. You are, you're not, you're not. Okay, write an essay about this, about this book being like, okay, you read the book. Write a 10 page paper on anything you choose about that book. Like it could be about why it's bad, it could be why it's about this. It's whatever it means to you as opposed to them telling you what the book means. And you have to go by Those guidelines.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

And I think that's. I think that's super important because it's using critical thinking. It's not just somebody telling you like, this book is good. And if you disagree, you're right.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. There was tests with books and stuff. There was always one critical thinking question, and it was like, so like just skimming past that, which I feel like is the most important part of those things. They shouldn't just be like, trivia. Okay.

[Damien Haas]

I want you to think critically, man. Like, the schools are just trying to. They're just trying to turn you into sheep, man.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

What I also hated about that specifically was like, in. Even in college, for me, maybe it was just, you know, the kind of classes I was taking. But like, a lot of things really need you to have sources to cite, which is understandable. But, like, they would also often have to come from, like, scholarly articles, like in. In, you know, scholarly publications and all that stuff. So it's like, all right, so you want me to read this book that's a classic that everybody has already read, come up with a brand new idea about it, but find published articles from scholars who. Who didn't quite get to where I'm getting right now so I can quote what they're saying, which is halfway to my point, and then make one beyond that, like, I just hated it. I don't understand when it comes to.

[Shane Tatum]

The arts, I don't understand scholarly articles. I don't understand that for the arts, because the arts is all opinion based. I understand it when it came to scientific classes and psychology and stuff like that. Cause it's like, yes, that is how science is supported by peer review and everything. But when it comes to reading a book and then having to find another high up, then you're getting the same opinions. It's probably getting a bunch of white.

[Damien Haas]

It's because what else are you gonna do with an English major that I.

[Ian Hecox]

And I didn't go to college. But I think what frustrated me the most was those classes where my teachers were sometimes good teachers, sometimes really bad teachers. And I would be frustrated because I'd be getting forced to read this book that I was not. Didn't feel like I could relate to or understand or comprehend at all. But then I go to the library and find all these amazing books that like, like, I really like, resonated with, like, I actually read 13 Reasons why back in, like 2014. And like, it's obviously, people look at that book now in that show, and they're like, hey, this actually glorified suicide and just like, a lot. Luckily, it didn't affect me in that way, but it's like those books that book speak. I forget the author, but I have it. I actually have it right here. All my. I've actually kept all my favorite books that have affected me, and they're on this bookcase, but.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Nice.

[Ian Hecox]

I don't know. I feel like that'd be cool if. If you could in the. If in an English class, maybe in high school or middle school, where, like, you're really trying to find yourself, like, in the beginning of the. The course, taking a quiz on, like, who you are as a person, what you want in life, or what you're unsure of, and then. Then being given books that. That would maybe help you or that would. You would resonate with or something. All right, we're gonna answer some silly ones and then we're gonna get into the shoot, dude, because we're running out of time. Are you guys ready? Are you boys ready?

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Yes. Rapid fire answer. Yes. Go.

[Ian Hecox]

Let's do it. Okay, the question is from ndignified Crunchy or smooth Peanut butter. This says a lot about you as a person.

[Shane Tatum]

Smooth.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Smooth.

[Ian Hecox]

Smooth is nice. This to spread and stuff, but I don't have a problem with crunchy.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Smooth, smooth.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay. All right.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Ian, Ian, real fast.

[Damien Haas]

It depends on the application. I won't.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Oh, my God. Faster than that, dude.

[Shane Tatum]

Peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Ian.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Jesus. Next question.

[Ian Hecox]

I feel.

[Damien Haas]

Son of a. I do. I do enjoy. I do enjoy the crouch from time to time, but. Yeah, but if I'm going to the supermarket and I'm buying a peanut butter.

[Shane Tatum]

Yes. Okay.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay. Smooth cosmic tops asks, what animal could you beat in hand to hand combat? I feel like, for me, a dog.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

You could beat one.

[Shane Tatum]

Yeah. You have to specify what kind of dog.

[Ian Hecox]

Like medium or large sized dog.

[Damien Haas]

No.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Oh, wow.

[Shane Tatum]

A pit bull is medium sized, okay.

[Ian Hecox]

Not one that has the ability to lock its jaw. Maybe a German shepherd. I think I could have been a fighter.

[Shane Tatum]

Do you think you can beat a.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

German shepherd with a German shepherd at all?

[Ian Hecox]

A running. No, no, no. Listen, if they can have a running start to my arm, sure, I'm. But if. Have you seen John Wick in the ring? I have hands, bro. If we're in the ring, we're like that. I know how to grab a dog and pin it down. Me and my dog Holly used to wrestle all the time.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Your dog? I think if your dog actually was trying to kill you, you would not even come.

[Ian Hecox]

I was combat. I don't care what you Say guys, was yours. What do you think?

[Keith Leak Jr.]

I don't think at all.

[Shane Tatum]

I've said this before in the octagon, if I have no clothing on, no weapons, I am losing to almost anything. And. And I've had this conversation a lot with like my brothers and stuff, because if you get to larger animals that aren't necessarily even. Even if you're in the ring with a cow and the cow is not trying to kill you, how do you kill a cow with your bare hands?

[Ian Hecox]

You know, beating, beating in hand to hand combat doesn't mean kill.

[Shane Tatum]

Okay, how do you beat it?

[Keith Leak Jr.]

How do you beat it with your bear? You blow. You blow into the udder. You blow into the utter. Until it.

[Shane Tatum]

I just think. I think like when animals. Animals are so they can tap into really trying to kill.

[Ian Hecox]

You pick an animal. Unlike fish. Okay, fine.

[Damien Haas]

And we learned. We learned that a wombat. A wombat can actually crush your skull with it.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Kill you with its ass with its.

[Shane Tatum]

Animals are all demons.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

I could. I could easily beat the hell out of a panda. They just have one animal, not one.

[Shane Tatum]

Impressive animal, reaching through the bars and grab. Grabbing that guy and ripping his jacket off.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

What?

[Shane Tatum]

There's a video of a guy, he's in a denim jacket and he's sitting near some bars where there's a panda behind him. And the panda grabs him and I mean, just rag dolls him. Just starts swinging him around from behind the bars and then rips the jacket clean off of his body.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

And it's like that. They're bears, my guy. Just because they're not bears. They're. They're raccoons. They are the more closely related to raccoons. And I could also fight a raccoon.

[Shane Tatum]

I don't want to mess with a raccoon either.

[Ian Hecox]

You're acting like you're scared if they hear you talking about them that they're gonna come after you and actually try and fight.

[Shane Tatum]

We're all inside right now. What do you think they're all doing? I was at the park. I saw them all in a circle, talking.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

A squirrel, a pro panda. A panda won't even have sex with another panda to prolong its species, so sure as hell not gonna fight.

[Shane Tatum]

They're all incels. Damian, be careful.

[Ian Hecox]

Ian, who would you fight?

[Damien Haas]

Manatee.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Easy.

[Damien Haas]

Oh, I just blow it and let it suffocate.

[Shane Tatum]

Wait, you drag it off. You know, they're. You know, they're mammals.

[Damien Haas]

Oh, that's right. All right, you're right. They're mammals. Never mind. Hold on. Can I Revise.

[Shane Tatum]

Can I revise getting beat up?

[Damien Haas]

Hold on. I'm gonna revise my answer. I'm gonna grab.

[Ian Hecox]

You're so smart.

[Damien Haas]

I'm gonna dunk the manatee in water and keep its head underwater until it dies.

[Shane Tatum]

People, please draw these fights.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay?

[Damien Haas]

Manatees. Hold on, hold on. I just want to say manatees, I believe, are in danger. Don't go killing manatees.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Look, I started with pandas, so they're.

[Damien Haas]

The cows of the sea and I love them very much. Do not kill a mantis.

[Ian Hecox]

So, last question. This one's directed directly at Shane. Yeah, I'm simply biased. What really is a Monday?

[Shane Tatum]

A Monday is all time. We measure all of time through Monday. It is the circle. It is a flat circle, like Earth. Yeah. It is the present, the past, and the future. It is Monday.

[Ian Hecox]

Hell yeah, dude. Okay, now it's time for the Shoot dude.

[Shane Tatum]

Shoot, dude.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Shoot, dude.

[Ian Hecox]

Insert the Shoot dude. Theme song here. Shoot, dude.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Shoot, dude.

[Ian Hecox]

Shoot, dude.

[Shane Tatum]

Shoot, Shoot.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Do shoot.

[Damien Haas]

Shoot.

[Ian Hecox]

Shoot. Shoot. Dud.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Shoot.

[Shane Tatum]

Dud.

[Damien Haas]

Shoot.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay, so this one is from a guy named Chris. I was working as a waiter, and on this particular night, it wasn't overly busy. There was a couple off to the side and their waiter is just about to serve them their entree when this woman burst through the door, makes a beeline straight for the couple's table, points at the girl, looks at the man and goes, who the fuck is this? Turns out the very angry woman is the guy's wife, cursing out the husband. The wife takes out her phone and starts taking pictures of the girl who's trying to hide her face in her hands. The husband jumps up, grabs the phone from the wife and tries to leave while also just trying to delete the pictures. The wife, wife jumps on his back trying to get the phone from him. He shakes her off and goes outside. The wife follows him. They're now arguing in the middle of the outside tables. He storms off, she goes after him and just left the girl with a two hundred dollar dinner bill. No, in parentheses. I don't think we made her pay it. There was a dead silence in the restaurant for a good two minutes before the rest of the customers went back to eating. Definitely an interesting night, to say the least.

[Shane Tatum]

That's an. That's an insanely smart way to dine and dash. If all three of them.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

I was gonna say, yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh my God.

[Shane Tatum]

What if all three of them are just friends?

[Damien Haas]

If I was running that restaurant, I would have made her pay.

[Ian Hecox]

But it was like they didn't even get their entrees yet they didn't get the food.

[Shane Tatum]

Oh, if they didn't get the food, if they didn't eat anything, then, I mean.

[Damien Haas]

Oh, what if she's. What if she's a homewrecker? Okay, she better.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

She's a home wrecker.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Shane Tatum]

That's one of those things that it.

[Damien Haas]

Probably happens a lot.

[Shane Tatum]

Such a rough. That's such a weird situation to be near because it doesn't sound quite like something where you're. You're telling the staff there, obviously. But what can you do other than watch, you know? Like, what can you do? Like, you're just gonna kind of be like, all right, does anyone have a microwave for me to put this popcorn in?

[Ian Hecox]

It's so crazy when you get to watch a moment like that.

[Damien Haas]

Like, I feel.

[Ian Hecox]

I think we were. We were in an airport one time on our way back from, like, New York or something after, like, a new front or, like some weird event, and there was a couple just fighting at the restaurant, and we were all looking at it. We're like, oh, this is weird. And then Shane was just, like, tired. Was like, if a couple's willing to fight in public, like, I'm allowed to watch, which is so true. Imagine being a waiter and just seeing all the kinds of weird drama.

[Shane Tatum]

They see it every day.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Because that does add a lot of, like, pressure to you as an onlooker. Like, what? You have to pretend like the Mac and cheese here is really okay. Like, just, like, continue on your conversation and pretend not to listen. Like, no, you just get to also.

[Damien Haas]

To have the balls to cheat out in public like that. Damn, boy. Damn, boy. No, shoot, shoot, dude.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Nobody at the restaurant knows either party. Like, that's pretty.

[Ian Hecox]

I love people watching, like, very much. And so that makes me feel through.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Like, their windows and stuff. Yeah, yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

I just, like, through the little, like, blurry glass on those front doors of houses. I just go like this.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I look through and then you just keep whispering to yourself. People are fascinating.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. I'm like, wow, these people, these family inside is so crazy as I stand on their doorstep. All right, anyway, thanks, guys, for answering those questions with me. I really enjoyed it. It was definitely, like, a much more low key. Not exactly as kooky and crazy as a show with no name, but, you know, we'll leave that in the past. That was its own thing, so it's all good. I'm glad you brought your kitty out briefly, Damien.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Me too. She knows because of streaming. Like, if I'm Talking in this direction and focusing in this direction. If they come over, they're getting picked up. So they almost never come over until I'm done talking. And the second I finish talking, they both come over and want to say hey. So it's really funny. So that was a rare treat.

[Ian Hecox]

She's such a floofer.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

Big fat baby. I can't do anything about it. I keep trying. She eats a normal amount. I try to give her exercise, she gets fatter.

[Ian Hecox]

Whoa.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

It's just who she is.

[Damien Haas]

Hey, the body what wants what the body wants.

[Ian Hecox]

And it's, Dude, I wish I had a cat. Having a cat would be great at a time like this.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

I'll just send you a picture of mine, and you can just stare at it and say, there's my cat.

[Ian Hecox]

Can you just mail one of them to me?

[Keith Leak Jr.]

No.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay, well, thanks for being with my boys. Thanks for being my boys.

[Damien Haas]

Always and forever.

[Ian Hecox]

Thanks for the Having Fun with My Boys podcast. Come back again next time, and maybe it will be another one, but maybe not, because this is the Smosh cast, not the boys. Guest. This is why I don't host every single time, because I speak gibberish for most of it.

[Damien Haas]

Okay.

[Ian Hecox]

I love you boys. And, yeah, we're. We're going to be keep doing this as long as it takes being in our rooms. My rooms are now studios. We are all now rap gods.

[Shane Tatum]

That's right.

[Keith Leak Jr.]

I've had to go to the bathroom since the start of this.

[Damien Haas]

Hell, yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

All right, bye. Okay, love you.

[Damien Haas]

Love you guys. Bye. Look, look.