S2: #63 - Ranking Our Top 5 Favorite YouTubers

Summary

Smosh Mouth Podcast Summary: S2 Episode #63 - "Ranking Our Top 5 Favorite YouTubers"

Release Date: May 13, 2020
Hosts: Shayne Topp (Damien), Amanda Lehan-Canto (Courtney), and rotating Smosh friend Shane Dawson
Podcast Description: Join Shayne Topp, Amanda Lehan-Canto, and a rotating Smosh friend as they discuss what's on their minds, discoveries from the internet, and other quirky ideas they're brewing.

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1. Introduction to the Episode

The episode kicks off with Courtney Miller introducing the central theme: ranking their top five favorite YouTubers. This is a continuation of their previous top-five discussions, aiming to highlight influential and entertaining content creators on the platform.

Courtney Miller [04:12]: "We're gonna do our top five YouTubers today."

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2. Damien’s Number Five: Video Game Dunkey

Video Game Dunkey (Dunkey) claims the fifth spot on Damien's list. Dunkey is celebrated for his unique humor, gaming prowess, and consistently entertaining content.

Damien [08:10]: "Video game Donkey, he's just so silly. I laugh at every single video."

The hosts discuss Dunkey's ability to blend gameplay with comedic commentary, making his content both informative and highly entertaining. They also touch upon his occasional forays into video game criticism, which, while sparking debates, don't detract from his overall quality.

Damien [09:13]: "Dunkey loves to just shit on Final Fantasy 7 and stuff... it's a heated debate about video games, which is fine."

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3. Number Four: Primik and The Right Opinion

Primik and The Right Opinion emerge as tied favorites in the fourth position. These channels are lauded for their in-depth analysis of YouTube drama and controversies, offering viewers well-researched perspectives.

Courtney Miller [12:14]: "The Right Opinion... explain dramas with depth and research."

These creators delve into complex situations with a blend of seriousness and humor, providing balanced viewpoints without becoming embroiled in the drama themselves. Their ability to dissect controversies thoughtfully makes them standout channels in the crowded landscape of YouTube.

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4. Number Three: Cody Ko & Noel Miller and Danny Gonzalez & Drew Gooden

A three-way tie places Cody Ko & Noel Miller (Tiny Meat Gang) and Danny Gonzalez & Drew Gooden in the third spot. These duos are praised for their sharp wit, relatable humor, and engaging content that resonates with a broad audience.

Shane Dawson [25:24]: "Cody and Noel are super talented."

The discussion highlights how each pair brings a distinctive flavor to their videos—Cody and Noel with their podcast and music projects, and Danny and Drew with their commentary and deep dives into various topics. Their collaborative efforts amplify their individual strengths, making them beloved figures among viewers.

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5. Honorable Mentions

Several channels receive honorable mentions for their significant impact and unique content:

• Sorrow TV (Damien’s Friend): A voice-acting channel that brings Reddit posts to life with humor and creativity.
• NikkieTutorials (Courtney’s Mention): Celebrated for transforming Courtney's approach to makeup and inspiring her personal creativity.

Courtney Miller [46:13]: "NikkieTutorials taught me how to do my makeup."

Other honorable mentions include Gus Johnson, Terminal Montage, Primitive Technology, and Jenna Marbles. These creators are recognized for their innovative content, whether through sketch comedy, educational videos, or heartfelt storytelling.

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6. Number One: Tiny Meat Gang (Cody Ko & Noel Miller)

Tiny Meat Gang (Cody Ko & Noel Miller) secures the top spot on Courtney’s list. Their multifaceted content—from hilarious podcasts and music videos to candid discussions—exemplifies the best of what YouTube has to offer.

Courtney Miller [58:26]: "Tiny Meat Gang are my number one favorite, by far and for many reasons."

Damien and Courtney commend Tiny Meat Gang for their authenticity, creativity, and ability to maintain a strong connection with their audience. Their venture into music with well-produced videos showcases their versatility and dedication to their craft.

Shane Dawson [60:21]: "Aaron and Danny... they're just so funny and they're a big consistent thing in my life."

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7. Reflections on YouTube’s Evolution

Throughout the episode, the hosts reflect on how YouTube has transformed over the years. They note that while the platform once thrived on absurd and original sketch comedy, the current algorithm favors more polished and produced content. This shift has made it challenging for original sketch groups to sustain popularity, leading to a nostalgic yearning for the "old YouTube."

Damien [40:41]: "The old Smosh isn't around anymore because it's harder now to make that sketch comedy."

They emphasize that while channels have evolved to adapt to changing trends and algorithms, the essence of what they love about YouTube—creativity, humor, and community—remains strong.

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8. Conclusion and Final Thoughts

As the discussion wraps up, the hosts express mutual appreciation for the diverse range of YouTubers they enjoy. They encourage listeners to explore the channels mentioned and share their own favorite content creators. The episode concludes with a playful invitation to send in "shoot dude" stories, blending humor with community engagement.

Courtney Miller [70:21]: "Spread your love."

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Notable Quotes

• Courtney Miller [04:12]: "We're gonna do our top five YouTubers today."
• Damien [08:10]: "Video game Donkey, he's just so silly. I laugh at every single video."
• Courtney Miller [12:14]: "The Right Opinion... explain dramas with depth and research."
• Shane Dawson [25:24]: "Cody and Noel are super talented."
• Courtney Miller [58:26]: "Tiny Meat Gang are my number one favorite, by far and for many reasons."
• Damien [40:41]: "The old Smosh isn't around anymore because it's harder now to make that sketch comedy."
• Courtney Miller [70:21]: "Spread your love."

Honorable Mentions

• Sorrow TV: A voice-acting channel turning Reddit posts into humorous skits.
• NikkieTutorials: Inspiring makeup transformations and creativity.
• Gus Johnson: Known for sharp, fast-paced sketch comedy.
• Terminal Montage: An animation channel parodying classic video games.
• Primitive Technology: Silent, mesmerizing videos of creating tools and structures from scratch.
• Jenna Marbles: Iconic for her relatable and humorous content.

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Conclusion

Episode #63 of Smosh Mouth provides an insightful and entertaining dive into the hosts' favorite YouTubers, blending personal anecdotes with thoughtful critiques of YouTube’s evolving landscape. The discussion not only highlights beloved creators but also reflects on the broader changes within the platform, offering listeners both nostalgia and fresh recommendations.

Transcript

[Ryan Seacrest]

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[Courtney Miller]

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[Damien]

You still get comments where like, I miss the old smosh. This isn't as good as the old smosh. And what I think those people are don't realize what they're saying is they miss the old YouTube.

[Shane Dawson]

Shane Dawson. I don't generally care about makeup. That's never something I've cared about before. And yet his series of working with Jeffree star is one of my favorite bits of content for years.

[Damien]

Damian. I realize we. We dip into donkey quotes all the time. Like when I defeat an enemy, I'm like, now this, this is the most probably tough for anyone to do scatting after Scatman. Like, you can't. You can't do it. After a guy who's literally named Scatman becomes like, the guy doing it.

[Shane Dawson]

I thought he was named after the term for poop that you use when you're hiking.

[Damien]

Yeah.

[Shane Dawson]

Hey, I'm recording, by the way. Whenever we're.

[Damien]

I think we are all live on the air.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, live.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, God.

[Courtney Miller]

Hide your titties. We're live. Wow. Are we doing this? Are we doing this?

[Damien]

I think we're. I think we're doing this.

[Shane Dawson]

We can.

[Courtney Miller]

Okay, I guess we're doing this.

[Damien]

If we want to do this, we can.

[Courtney Miller]

I would love to do this.

[Damien]

Those listening. What if we were just like, you know what? Not this time. No, just stop.

[Courtney Miller]

And then you just.

[Damien]

Pod just stops.

[Courtney Miller]

Pod just stopped for an hour, three minutes. You just hear us going about our day in the kitchen, like hearing music. Just our day. You know, there's podcasts that like, are on Spotify that are made by like, young children. Just poorly made. Like, you'll hear like 30 minutes of like, the kid is not even near his computer and he's like talking to his parents. Like, like, this exists. Jay Cyrus, my Friend from vine, like, found them. And it's so funny. Just like, a kid who was, like, playing with his toys and then just, like, forgot he was recording stuff and still, like, posted it. It's great.

[Shane Dawson]

I've done that kind of stuff before. I've taken a break on a Twitch stream and, like, forgot to mute my mic. And then everyone was like, oh, is he peeing? Yeah, he's peeing. And then you hear, like, the hand washing. They come back and everyone's just like. And I'm like, well, all it takes is one and now forever.

[Damien]

That's the government. The government doesn't need to listen in on us because we already just put our stuff out there. I was broadcasting everything.

[Shane Dawson]

I expected Noah to just burst through your window just now. Be like, actually, hold on, I got to talk about that. Sorry.

[Courtney Miller]

I just heard you say I used to be scared of, like, people hearing me pee. Like, if, if, if I was at vidcon and a Smosh fan happened to hear me p. It's like, great. Now that person knows.

[Shane Dawson]

Yes.

[Courtney Miller]

Sounds like, totally.

[Damien]

As. As I've gotten older and I think it's from working in the office with a bunch of people, I have gotten less and less insecure about just, just, just letting it all out in a public restroom. You know, I'm like, at a certain point, you know what? If you're making an effort to listen in, go ahead, you win. You get it.

[Shane Dawson]

You get all the peepee sounds.

[Courtney Miller]

Exactly. All right, well, let's. Let's get into the reason we're casting this pod today. What up, smosh Simps? It's Courtney and her boys. Jesus, Simps. It's a good term.

[Shane Dawson]

It's short for Simpsons. I'm the Bart.

[Damien]

Hi. And I'm Peter Griffin.

[Courtney Miller]

Wow, Peter.

[Shane Dawson]

Wow. That was a good Alex Borstein or Bornsteiner. I don't know how to say her name.

[Courtney Miller]

Okay, well, we're doing this podcast today. This is actually Shane's idea. We're gonna do another top five. Bada Bing, bada boom. Wouldn't you believe it? I'm sure you guys have seen the title or something already, but we're gonna do our top five YouTubers today. How are you boys feeling? You got your list finalized?

[Shane Dawson]

I have a giant list of names. It's sure not a final list, and I will be changing it as we go because it is a hard one today.

[Damien]

I, I. Yeah, last night we were talking, like, what we. What should we do a top five of TV shows, movies, whatever. And I was like, oh, maybe YouTubers. And at first I was like, that's probably easy. I know my top five. And I kept listing out YouTubers and YouTube channels that I've loved over the years, and I was like, oh, I forgot about that one. Oh, yeah. I went through a phase where I loved that channel the most. Oh. I mean, it's been around for, you know, 14 years. And I've been very active on the channel for 14 years. So I have. There are a million channels that I love that are not on this list, that may not even be honorable mentions that are just as good as the ones I'm listening.

[Courtney Miller]

I tried to do, like, my top five or, like, my top YouTubers that I've been obsessed with or really into in the last year.

[Shane Dawson]

That's.

[Damien]

That's smart. You narrowed it down. See, mine's. Mine's. Mine's all over the place.

[Courtney Miller]

The YouTube channels that raised me, however.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah, exactly.

[Courtney Miller]

I'm on one of them. First of all.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah, ain't that something?

[Courtney Miller]

I actually posted a clip from one of my old favorite YouTube channels the other day.

[Shane Dawson]

Balloon Shop posted, yes, it was the snack Snack Derek. So trying to have my treat, Derek.

[Courtney Miller]

I've seen a few of those. And Owen Rogers, who's like, who's. He's been on, like, you posted that and stuff. He, like, replied. I remember I tried to, like, introduce myself to Owen, and I don't think he realized I worked at Smosh or something, because he was like, who are you? And I was like, I love your. I love you. I watched Balloon Shop, and he's like. I was like, okay, I gotta go. Wow.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, no.

[Damien]

I snuck into the building.

[Courtney Miller]

Bad first impression.

[Damien]

Well, do we want to get into this? Because I think it's going to take us a minute.

[Shane Dawson]

I'm like, I'm still looking at my list. I did not pay attention to half of that because I'm just like, huh? Yeah. I'm just going through my.

[Courtney Miller]

Dude, should we. Should we start with honorable mentions or have the honorable mentions at the end?

[Damien]

I say we start. I say we start with number five and do honorable mentions before number one.

[Courtney Miller]

Frick.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay, that's hard, dude.

[Courtney Miller]

I'm going to eat what I'm gonna do. There's some. There's some, like, really, really big YouTubers on here, and I think I'll just keep those in the honorable mentions because they, like, go without saying. Like, obviously they're dope, so.

[Damien]

All right, whatever. Whatever you want. I say we do honorable mentions later also, because I have a feeling we're gonna remember a bunch, I'm sure, as we're talking, and then we can add them to the honorable mention.

[Courtney Miller]

So I'm changing my number.

[Damien]

All right.

[Shane Dawson]

I just changed a bunch of things. And since, Shane, you're having ties, I'm putting people in categories. I'm like, number two. Comes into this category of tie. These.

[Courtney Miller]

No, I have multiple ties here because they go umbrella for sure.

[Damien]

All right. Okay. Who wants to start?

[Courtney Miller]

Also, really quick, I do want to disclaim if there are fans that are upset that we. We are a fan of certain channels. It's okay. It's okay if we like different things. Don't get upset. It's. We're all. We all have our different tastes and our different stance.

[Shane Dawson]

That's true.

[Courtney Miller]

Don't hate our taste.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah. My fear is that I'm not, like, going to be up to date on everybody and be like, There was a YouTuber I loved, like, from five years ago, and they were my absolute favorite. Comments are going to be like, they burned down an orphanage. And I'm like, oh, I didn't. I didn't. I don't follow.

[Courtney Miller]

No, that's all I check.

[Damien]

2010.

[Courtney Miller]

Our job. Our job is to literally cast.

[Damien]

Well, I'll. I'll. I'll start if you guys want.

[Courtney Miller]

Or do you get it going?

[Damien]

All right, number five. All right, so my number five. This is a safe one for me, this channel. I've been. I've been watching pretty consistently for a couple years now. I love his stuff. He's just so silly. I laugh at every single video. And his videos are very unique, I think. Got to give it to Video game Donkey. I mean.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, crap. I forgot about Dunkey.

[Courtney Miller]

Well, Shane has mentioned it, and we agree. Video game Donkey, he's my number three.

[Damien]

Well, don't, Courtney.

[Courtney Miller]

I'll change it now.

[Damien]

Okay.

[Shane Dawson]

No, it's going to be a mess. We're just going to change everything.

[Damien]

I think it's okay if we have the same ones on our list. It's okay because we are all ranking them differently. Dunkey is just awesome. Like, I love how just his videos are so just balls to the wall, but I can often tell that he's really good at video games. At least he's far better video games than me. Like, watching him. His Overwatch videos are just incredible. Like, they're just so good. And I like his style. I like that he clearly. He clearly plays the game a bunch and then cuts that up and then voices over that a lot, I think. And he's Just, it's just so poppy. Like you got some just solid like 5 minute. Just videos that are packed with jokes.

[Courtney Miller]

He puts a lot of effort into it.

[Damien]

I love it. And it's just so different. Like, he stayed so consistent with just this weird, weird style. And I, you know, so. Speaking of controversy, I didn't think of Dunkey as being a controversial figure, but apparently the RPG community, just because he.

[Courtney Miller]

Comes out, they hated it.

[Damien]

And he makes. So occasionally Dunkey does videos where he like, actually critiques.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah, critiques the dunk, views the dunk.

[Damien]

And, and, and Damien and I are huge JRPG fans. But, but Donkey loves to just shit on. On Final Fantasy 7 and stuff. Yeah, it always like, there's always like this uproar. I think it's fine.

[Courtney Miller]

I think it's funny that he's hated them. And then like in a recent video he said it again and the people like, oh, it's like, dude, we've been new. Like, yeah, so he doesn't have to love what you love.

[Damien]

But also too.

[Shane Dawson]

It's like, he's also not wrong half the time. Like, I love JRPGs, but everything he said about Final Fantasy VII, that was like, quote, unquote wrong. I was like, yeah, I still love the game. I still love the genre. But you are correct about everything you're saying and it didn't ruin the game for me. And I didn't tweet anybody. Look at me. Let me go.

[Damien]

It's fine. It's a very. It's not controversial. It's just a. It's just a heated debate about video games, which is fine. The video game community, we always do that.

[Courtney Miller]

Like, no, he's great because. And you don't even have to like, even know the video games he's talking about because he's either already teaching you about them or just, just. It's just funny. It's just so funny. And, and the fact that he is good at the video games.

[Shane Dawson]

Yes.

[Courtney Miller]

So much.

[Shane Dawson]

Him doing Mario Maker. Incredible. The kind of glitches he finds and things. Like, I think his original Red Dead video was like the thing that made me discover him like years and years ago. In fact, I think I was in your apartment, your old, like the old, old place before Roommates.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, I think you showed me him, Shane. I'm not sure.

[Damien]

Did I? I've just. I don't know how. I just would come across his videos and they were so good. Every single one. Like his metal gear solid 5 stuff is just legendary.

[Shane Dawson]

Incredible.

[Damien]

Every. Every single time a Video game comes out. I am waiting for him to get on there and just any. He does always, like, find the thing. Like, Witcher 3 was a game that I thought was just perfect and he managed to find, like, glitches in the game that he was just exploiting. And I was like, God, it's so funny. It's so good.

[Courtney Miller]

I love wife or his fiance. I can't remember which.

[Damien]

She's so cute.

[Shane Dawson]

Leah, I think her name is.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Shane Dawson]

Her voice is always like this.

[Damien]

Like, are you going to do that thing? Oh, my God, yeah. D And I realized we. We dip into donkey quotes all the time. Like, whenever I'm playing a video game, even if I'm by myself, when I defeat an enemy, I'm like, now this is the most killed guy.

[Shane Dawson]

He's the most kill. This so good. No, because I'm going to kill him in one hit. That doesn't count because my brother was playing. Like he said, it's like, also, I was blindfolded.

[Courtney Miller]

Do you want me to go next? You want to be the. You want to be the third. Third guy?

[Shane Dawson]

Dame I. I'd be happy to be the third wheel.

[Courtney Miller]

My number five is a tie. I know I'm starting off real weak sauce, but it is. They both are so similar and I think they actually kind of are. They know each other in this space, but then they're also faceless youtubers. Prim Ink Prim. And the Right Opinion.

[Shane Dawson]

You showed me this.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, yeah. They're both pretty. Like, in a way they're controversial because they're speaking opinions, like, a lot. And especially the guy who has his channel is called the Right Opinion. They dive into controversies from either forever ago, like, it's this old legend and they, like, tell you the whole story and they do the research, like, really, really well. And they also, like, they explain, like, the psychological reasoning of things. And like, it's not like ignorant opinions. It's. It's. It's really. It feels. I feel like I'm learning a lot. Like, Like, I would. If there was all these YouTube channels about drama, like, I. I would ditch Drama Alert all those other places in a heartbeat. Because these people explain it in such depth and get every side of the story, all the sources, and they try to be, like, kind of unbiased, but then they have their. And at the end they do have their opinion on, like, whether this person is like a shitty person or. And they're really good videos. Like, the Right Opinion.

[Shane Dawson]

He.

[Courtney Miller]

He goes about it, like, as a college lecture, and it's like sometimes his videos are like an hour plus long.

[Damien]

Wow.

[Courtney Miller]

Really diving into stuff and then primming. He's like a little more silly. He's like this young guy. He. He adds little jokes and in between his are much more short and sweet. So you can get either one like the right opinion. Did a whole. A long ass video about like everything that was wrong with 13 Reasons why, like crazy stuff like that. But going into like oh. Onision's drama and it's like a four parter. It's cr. Because they do that much research, like from literally the beginning of time.

[Damien]

Yeah. I think I watched a couple of them and I like them because they're not. You know, there's a lot of channels that just are them talking crap. Right. And you're. You're talking about ones that are almost like they're explaining to you what the drama is as opposed to being part of the drama.

[Courtney Miller]

Exactly.

[Damien]

Which I think is really cool. I think that's. I would rather watch that than watch these channels that are just trying to be a part of it.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah.

[Damien]

Make fun of certain people apart. Exactly.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. Primik blew up really quickly in this past year. Like, like insanely like he was getting like only like 100,000 views or so. And now he's getting like millions.

[Damien]

Wow.

[Courtney Miller]

In this last year because.

[Shane Dawson]

How do you spell that?

[Courtney Miller]

Great priming. It's prim. I N K pr. I got it. And then the right opinion is the other guy. But yeah, I love them. I recommend them to a lot of people. If you ever want to just catch up on the history of all YouTube drama, just check them out.

[Damien]

Cool. I love channels.

[Courtney Miller]

All right. Dame.

[Shane Dawson]

All right. Daimo. I have so many things listed. I think I'm gonna make my top five. Just the things that I watch most regularly with like a couple shout outs for like days of future past. You know what I mean?

[Damien]

Got it.

[Shane Dawson]

So number. Number five coming in is a channel called Special books by special kids. It is one of my favorites. It's this guy and his wife who go around interviewing people who have special conditions that they deal with every day. Maybe they were born with a condition or they like acquired it throughout. But he just interviews them and he interviews them as he would anybody else. It's very like, you know, hi, like, what do you like to do in your day? And sometimes they're like, you know, nonverbal. And so like a parent will be holding them, like answering for them or. But it's just things like what do you, you know, want people to know about your son or if you could say hi to everybody in the world, what would you want to tell them about you? And also, you know, if somebody has, like, a condition that is, like, visibly you're able to see that they have that condition, it's questions like, how do you want someone to say hi to you? Is it okay for people to ask about your cond. And things like that? So it's just very honest, cool conversations that, like, just sort of open your eyes about humanity and, like, what people struggle with. And, like, there are certain people who, like, I've been interviewed where they're like, hey, this is one. She's one of 20 cases in the world. She wasn't supposed to make it past a baby, and now she's like my adult daughter. We love her very much. This is what our family is like. You know, it's. It's just interesting stuff.

[Damien]

That's the most. I don't know. That's. It's the most. Like, Damien and like, top five of just like. Well, there's this super heartfelt channel. That's the most.

[Shane Dawson]

It is.

[Damien]

It's. Those are the types of channels. I come across those occasionally, and those are the channels that I'll fall down a rabbit hole, and you end up at, like, 2am Just sobbing on your couch, just being like, this is the best channel.

[Shane Dawson]

It's so nice.

[Damien]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

Like, learning about people that have different lives than you.

[Damien]

I hope people. I hope people show that channel to their kids. That feels like a great channel.

[Shane Dawson]

For.

[Damien]

It's absolutely. Is it designed for. For. I would assume that was almost designed for.

[Shane Dawson]

It's designed for everyone to listen to. I don't know if they do this aspect of it anymore, but the reason it's called special books by special kids is during that interview process, they would have the kid, like, write a book, maybe just drawing or, like, you know, have their parents help them, like, tell a story or something. And then they sort of, like, put that book together or they compile them all. I forget exactly how they did it, but then it's like, look, this is your book that you wrote, and you get to get this message to the world, which is pretty darn cool. And the other cool thing about it is all the comments are super positive. So maybe there's someone who has a condition that makes it difficult to, like, be out and be social. But then it's like a million messages of being like, I would love to be your friend. Nice to meet you. And like, oh, it's so cool.

[Damien]

That's so cool.

[Courtney Miller]

I feel like Anthony tries to kind of do that for, like, an older audience as well. Like with interviewing, having a day in the life of all these different kinds of.

[Shane Dawson]

Got it from different backgrounds.

[Damien]

I'm digging that style of stuff. It reminds me of essentially, like, humans of New York type.

[Shane Dawson]

Yes, very much.

[Damien]

Where it's just kind of like, hey, we're not trying to put an angle on this. Here is. Here is this person.

[Courtney Miller]

And here feeding into curiosity. Just genuinely.

[Damien]

Yeah, but, you know, because with. With media, so many interviews are so skewed. Like, they're trying to get. They're trying to get an answer. Whereas with those, it's just, hey, here's your chance to say whatever you want. And I love that.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah, it's very cool. Go show them some love. For sure. Special kids.

[Damien]

I might tell my. I might. I might have my brothers show my nieces that channel.

[Shane Dawson]

Yes.

[Damien]

They're like more wonderful kids. I might. They're like 5 and 6, so I feel like that'd be great. I feel like my one niece would love that channel.

[Shane Dawson]

That's so cool. I'd love that. Yay.

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[Courtney Miller]

All right, that's round one.

[Damien]

Okay, round one.

[Shane Dawson]

Now we're doing it, y'all. This is four.

[Damien]

All right, so you guys are keeping it present day, which I respect. That was smarter. I'm gonna dip into old school here. Okay, this is a channel. This was a channel that for a long time was my absolute favorite. But a long time ago, I would wait for him to post new videos. And it meant a lot because I lived in LA and so much of his stuff was about Californians opinions on things. I'm of course talking about Cassie. Yes, Kassim was awesome.

[Courtney Miller]

And yes.

[Damien]

I mean, back in the day, back in, like, 2009, it was. People didn't subscribe to channels as much. People weren't as much like, oh, I follow this channel and I wait for them to upload. You kind of went to YouTube and would just do Your thing. But Kassim, I would go in and I would look for his stuff. Oh, my gosh.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Damien]

And his California on. He would go to Venice, which, if you live in la, you know, Venice beach is the most insane place in California. It is a stretch of a boardwalk where you just have all sorts of people and all sorts of crazy people. And he would interview them about any topic, and it was always gold. And he would cut it together so. Well, he would do that. He would also. He would also. What was also probably the biggest was he would go to Comic Con. Yes. He would interview.

[Shane Dawson]

Yes. Comic Con on.

[Damien]

Comic Con on stuff. And he would just roast these people. Just get the best stuff.

[Courtney Miller]

I believe that's so fun.

[Damien]

I think she obviously blew up on her own, but I think that's kind of where Jessica Negri, like, she. Because he would. He would interview.

[Shane Dawson]

I know.

[Courtney Miller]

That's how I know who she was.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah.

[Damien]

He would interview her every year, but they're just a joy. And then he also did. What is it? It's the. He would interview porn stars and.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, yeah. Going deep. Which is going deep with copy by Logan Paul.

[Damien]

Yeah. Logan's just blatantly.

[Shane Dawson]

He literally called it going deep too. Yep.

[Damien]

But. But I highly recommend going back and watching a lot of those California on Comic Con ons.

[Courtney Miller]

I wonder how they've aged or from a different. I'm curious, too, because I'm pretty sure a little. A few of the things are a little.

[Damien]

I should point out. I should point out. I have not watched. I didn't rewatch these videos, but I just remember how much I loved them when I was a teenager. Obviously, there's probably a lot of stuff that's not okay. So forgive me if it's slightly. I think the Comic Con. The Comic Con ons are. I would check those out.

[Courtney Miller]

Those ones were the most fun. I feel like I remember he. Yeah, there's. There might be some dodgy stuff in those. Oh, I'm sure of those videos. Were there.

[Damien]

His brand. His brand was also making the situation as awkward as possible.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah, very much.

[Damien]

He would interview people on the street and he would say the things that would try to make things uncomfortable.

[Courtney Miller]

Dude, I was such a big Cassim G fan. Like, he had that one series called Ask Kassim.

[Shane Dawson]

Yes.

[Courtney Miller]

And I. Literally. One of my questions is on it. I asked him. He was like, courtney Ruth Miller asks, what is your ideal sandwich? And he, like, made some jokes.

[Shane Dawson]

Whoa.

[Damien]

Yeah. And I was like, oh, my gosh, that's so fun. So great. That's great.

[Shane Dawson]

That's a good one. The hard hitting questions from reporter Courtney Mill. I know.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, that's a good question. Like if I was a fan, I would have killed it on show with no name, you know what I mean? Like I would ask all the greatest questions.

[Shane Dawson]

So good. Boom.

[Damien]

Nice.

[Courtney Miller]

That's a good one. That's a really good one. That whole, that whole generation of YouTubers like the sedation. Remember the station.

[Damien]

No.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

All those YouTubers like came together.

[Shane Dawson]

It was a Shay, Carl, I, Justine.

[Courtney Miller]

A bunch of them all together. Like they were probably like Lisa.

[Damien]

Lisa Nova.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, yeah. And then that became that.

[Damien]

Maker. Maker.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, that became maker.

[Shane Dawson]

Wow.

[Damien]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh my gosh. Yeah, we can dive in after we keep going. Number four. Number four. All right. My number four. This YouTuber. I feel like I've talked to you guys about him a little bit, maybe shown you guys videos. It's this guy named Ramsey, totally not well known at all. He literally posts Rust videos and he's. I think he's from Switzerland or like he has that accent. What's the. Which one? Which country? I'm very dumb. Hello, welcome to I am very dumb. Which accent is like, sounds like Australian, but it's a little different.

[Damien]

Oh, New Zealand.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, New Zealand, I think. Or somewhere around there. He's from around there and he plays Rust on like local.

[Damien]

It could, it could also be. It's. It's tough to decipher. A lot of like, there's a lot of European accents that I don't fully recognize.

[Courtney Miller]

So he, he creates these Rust videos, but it's like, it's not just like normal gameplay. He'll like find really cool. He like will play for weeks and then he'll edit it all together and he'll have like a crazy storyline and sometimes he'll go into the deepest deep like meanings of like, why online gaming. Like those games can be really toxic and like unfriendly to new gamers and. And then he'll have like a crazy storyline where they find hackers and like infiltrate their whole base and like get rid of them all and edits them. He'll have a score and he'll edit to the beat of the score, like building and shooting and all this stuff.

[Shane Dawson]

That's pretty cool.

[Courtney Miller]

And he puts so much work into his videos. The thing is, I don't think he's uploaded in like a year because he, he works so hard that he literally had to take a break. I remember I tweeted at him a while back just being like, hey, dude, like, you're really talented. And he like, he like responded and was like really sweet. But I, I don't play Rust. I probably would suck at it if I tried. But like, I love watching him play it because he's.

[Shane Dawson]

For anybody who doesn't know what Rust is listening to the podcast. Can you give us a. Like, it's Minecraft. It's like.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, it's like where you start like a naked guy and then you, you find supplies and.

[Shane Dawson]

Got it.

[Courtney Miller]

It's like Minecraft. Yeah. Where you find supplies and eventually build weapons and then your own base and then get to the point where you have high tech weapons and like locks on your, on your bases and stuff like that. I love watching gameplay. It's so weird. Like, even when I haven't played a video game in a while, even in this quarantine, I just love watching people play.

[Shane Dawson]

Well, it's kind of how our generation has been conditioned because we always watched the sibling, the cousin, the neighbor play the game, or even going to a friend's house. Like, do you have any two player games? Well, no, but we can take turns playing the one player. You're still invested. So, you know, we grew up with that being a source of entertainment. So here we are. My number four, I'm assuming is going to be on some of yalls lists already. So I'm not going to go super deep on it because you guys know this person more than I do. But maybe a year ago you guys introduced me to Cody Ko and Noel Miller.

[Damien]

Yes.

[Shane Dawson]

Gosh, they're funny. They are two guys that just sort of comment on specific situations. Maybe they'll like get their weirdest DMS and read about that. Or they'll just find a specific creator and do a sort of a deep dive and just commentary on what's going on. Some of his biggest videos had to do with him making fun of kombucha guy. Like GT Dave.

[Damien]

Yes.

[Shane Dawson]

And then like eventually was invited to go to GT Dave's compound and learn about kombucha. It's just, I don't know, there's nothing particularly crazy or different or special about the videos other than they just sort of hit the formula. Right. It just, it just sort of clicks with both of them and their style of commentary. It just works. It's fun.

[Damien]

Yeah, absolutely. I love Cody's videos on his own, but when he and Noel are together, it's. There's. It's kind of like you're getting to watch two friends laugh at something and they don't Realize they're being filmed and they're just great. They're just laughing about it. They're not like, they're not even that. I don't think they're that mean. Like a lot of people think not really. I don't think so. I think they're just having fun, like having a good laugh. And like whenever people have like they had their one where they, they make fun of that Mark McGrath video. It's my favorite one. And Mark McGrath like tweeted @ them. They tweeted back me, like, yeah, let's.

[Courtney Miller]

Like, like, yeah, he was together.

[Shane Dawson]

That's.

[Damien]

He was on the podcast. Oh, I need to listen to that. It's like, I love that they do that. I love like GT Dave. When they made, after they made that video about GT GT Dave, GT Dave was like, hey, come to my house and I will show you around. And they're like, okay, we're gonna get murdered.

[Shane Dawson]

But sure.

[Damien]

I love it, dude.

[Shane Dawson]

Like, amazing.

[Courtney Miller]

So good.

[Damien]

Yeah, like, I don't know. They're just so good, man. And Noel can just. Noel sometimes comes out with a joke that just kills Roys me. Like, Cody will like do it. Like he'll like assist and Noel will just slam dunk it.

[Shane Dawson]

It's so set up in spike.

[Damien]

Exactly. Yeah. They're a great duo. They're great duo. And then that's my number four, obviously. All right, well, my number three. Number three is a three way tie and I'm glad we just knocked out one of them. My three way tie is between Cody Ko and Noel. Danny Gonzalez and Drew Gooden.

[Courtney Miller]

Wow.

[Damien]

The three heads of the hydra. Yes, they are all similar, but there is a spectrum to it. Right. Cody and Noel, I think are just purely having fun making jokes. Danny Gonzalez is making a lot of jokes, but there's also a lot of really good, like, commentary there. And Drew Gooden, while he's obviously hilarious, has videos where he really breaks things down in an awesome way. And I love it.

[Courtney Miller]

He's just brutally honest sometimes.

[Damien]

He's just so good and he's so smart. I mean, obviously all of them on vine were really smart, but now seeing them make full videos is great.

[Courtney Miller]

And it can be hard to like get into that precedent of being able to really speak that way, speak that strongly and that opinionated without being like, dragged by people who.

[Damien]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

Differently than you.

[Damien]

With all of them. There's such an element of self deprecation too. Like they always are down to make fun of themselves.

[Shane Dawson]

That's probably what it is.

[Damien]

And call Themselves out a lot. Yeah, it's. It's. Yeah, man. I'll binge occasionally. Like, I think lately I've been watching a lot of Danny Gonzalez ones. Those ones are so great. He finds like just the weirdest indie movies and just.

[Shane Dawson]

I gotta subscribe to him.

[Damien]

Oh my God, it's so good. He did one about a mermaid movie that was made like 2011.

[Courtney Miller]

Danny. I love the bad movie ones, dude.

[Damien]

So good.

[Courtney Miller]

They also like a rat tattooing. Weird B. Oh, yeah. Remakes. All those bad movies.

[Damien]

Hey. And he does such a good job of breaking it down. And then occasionally they'll all make a video about the same thing. And it's fun to see all the.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, because it's all different jokes. It's pretty good.

[Shane Dawson]

I'm subscribing to all of these people on either list as we go. Do I will.

[Damien]

Otherwise, those ones are solid. Those ones are so solid. Cody did one about. There's this channel that I actually love called the Cut where they do these like weird experimental social type games. And there's this game called the Button where it's like a speed dating type thing. And as you're talking to other person, a button in the middle will occasionally flash red and you can press it to send them away and bring in a new person.

[Shane Dawson]

Brutal.

[Damien]

And Cody's. Cody's commentary on it is so good. It's so good.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, I'm excited. Okay, I'm gonna watch that just like.

[Courtney Miller]

Thinking out loud stuff. I love it.

[Damien]

Yeah, it's just great. It's great. Anyways, that's the three way tie.

[Courtney Miller]

Nice.

[Damien]

The high.

[Shane Dawson]

Nice. Hydra is Noel Miller. The tail or the butt?

[Damien]

Cody and Noel are like one head. So it's like.

[Shane Dawson]

It's like two heads on one stock. And then the other ones have one.

[Damien]

It's one neck, but two heads come out of that neck.

[Shane Dawson]

Got it.

[Damien]

And then Danny and Drew have their own there.

[Shane Dawson]

If they were in a Disney movie, they'd be the ones with like the more cockney accent. Be like, mom likes me best. No, she likes me best. And they're like knocking off you too.

[Damien]

Yeah, exactly. Exactly.

[Courtney Miller]

Okay, I'm going to change. So my number three was video game donkey, but we covered it and I think I want to give it to somebody else now.

[Damien]

Okay, you can.

[Courtney Miller]

I don't know if you guys know. I feel like you guys don't know a lot of these ones. This one, his. His YouTube channel is called Sad World. Wait, no, no, no, wait. That's your friend. That's your friend. Also a great channel.

[Damien]

My friend has a channel. Yeah, sorry.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, that's a great channel.

[Damien]

I'll talk about that later.

[Courtney Miller]

Honorable mention, Sorrow tv. See, as you can see, those are a little similar names, but yeah, Sorrow tv, he's this guy. And Damien, I think you'd really like him.

[Shane Dawson]

Okay. He. Check it out.

[Courtney Miller]

Basically he's a Faithless, another faceless YouTuber, but a very like, talented. I think he would be a voice actor if he's not already. But he goes through Reddit posts, posts like, of like, he'll go like to our nice guys or are you tried or like really like funny, like top posts of the Reddit page. And he'll like voice them out and like, and put them all together and it's. It's really funny. Like, just hearing him do all the funny voices and stuff, I feel like. I feel like I'm not explaining it that well.

[Shane Dawson]

No, I feel like I know what you're talking about.

[Damien]

I really respect that you like all these very specific channels.

[Shane Dawson]

I didn't expect that. I don't know. I joined Smosh after you guys had already been there for a while. And I watched a lot of YouTube, but there's. So there's all these like, if somebody is not in your like, network of people that you watch, how do you find them? So I find that more and more often you guys are stoked on a specific creator and I'm like, oh, I don't. I've never even heard of them. So I expected like the top tier ones that I just like.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, yeah. But yeah, he's really cool. He hasn't uploaded in a while, I feel like. Or maybe his stuff just hasn't come up, but. But yeah, he has. He's like a very talented voice actor and singer. And the way he like, voices out all these like Reddit posts of like screenshots of really dumb conversations or like Craigslist ads and stuff.

[Damien]

That's a smart. That's a smart channel idea.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, like that.

[Damien]

That's really great. I like that.

[Courtney Miller]

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[Damien]

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[Courtney Miller]

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[Shane Dawson]

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[Damien]

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[Shane Dawson]

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[Courtney Miller]

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[Damien]

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[Courtney Miller]

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[Shane Dawson]

All right. My number three is also a three way tie. This, this section goes to the YouTubers who I started out with and then had a journey and I'm still with. So it's a three way tie between Philip DeFranco, Smosh and Shane Dawson because they are the first three YouTubers that I ever subscribed to. Philip DeFranco being, I think the first. I watched Philip DeFranco and you know, back then and still do like consistently all the way till now. So it's been cool watching him grow. Smosh and Shane Dawson I both watched for like a year or two when I was a teenager and then sort of fell off when I went to college and then came back to Shane. I'm incredibly impressed with his journey and the type of content that he's putting out now. You know, completely different from what he did back in the day. And I think it's a really cool growth and we've gotten a lot of cool content out of it. And then smash. Like I would have put this here even if I didn't work here. I don't know. I watched them back in the day, really enjoyed it and you know, sort of like, well, I guess maybe I could do sketch comedy on YouTube too. Maybe I could do a channel or something and that just sort of planted that seed and now, lo and behold, we're here.

[Courtney Miller]

That's great.

[Damien]

It's, it's fascinating. Philip DeFranco has, he's one of the only YouTubers I know who's really kept a very similar format the whole time like everyone else. Like most channels have had, they've had to change but Philip DeFranco has stayed pretty consistent. It's pretty interesting.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

And like you become kind of the first person like that comes to someone's mind when they think of like a current events or like a news based YouTuber. Like it's interesting those where you're like, oh yeah, that one.

[Damien]

He's always had a mock. Yeah.

[Shane Dawson]

Any changes he's made, I feel like he's done to garner more like respect from people who wouldn't necessarily watch YouTube otherwise.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Shane Dawson]

Like, you know, he started off with the name Sxe Phil, Sexy Phil. And it's like, you know, eventually he's like, I can't be taken seriously with this. I'm going to change to Philip DeFranco. And then he launched like DeFranco News and he was the start of SourceFed. He did, you know.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, I remember that.

[Shane Dawson]

Like, yeah, when.

[Courtney Miller]

When YouTube names stopped being like usernames and it started being like actual names.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah, exactly.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, yeah, because. Because damn. I remember I watched a ton of smosh in, like 2008. Me and my friend would sit after school on my sister's laptop and just watched all of them ever. Just click, click, click. And then I got to the point. I feel like I've said this maybe before, but I used to. I got to the point where I only watched the bts. I would go to the website and only watch behind the scenes because I liked it almost more than the sketches. It was fun to just see them. Be silly. I didn't even know about the Smosh, the Ian is bored channel at all. Yeah. And then Shane Dawson. I was also. I think I was in the same boat with you. Like, way back when. I didn't really watch his, like, food videos era. And none of that. It was like the really early stuff, like, Ask Shane.

[Shane Dawson]

Yes.

[Courtney Miller]

Like all the character based stuff. And then like, he. He had all those characters and then he started doing like poop jokes and it, like, made me stop watching.

[Shane Dawson]

You know what?

[Courtney Miller]

Get gross.

[Shane Dawson]

I think that was the same thing with me. There would be, like, specific, like, I. I enjoyed his stuff when I first saw it. And then there were certain characters that he did that even then I was like, oh, I don't know about this one, chief. And then started getting all like, poop jokey. And I was like, okay.

[Damien]

Yeah.

[Shane Dawson]

For me it'd be like, that's why I'm saying like that. Yeah. And I'm like, not for me. But then, like, you know, watching his evolution and seeing him come back into the limelight with his new style, I've just been like, so impressed.

[Damien]

It's really fascinating.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah.

[Damien]

Because his channel is a. It's a completely different channel. I've never seen a 180 like that on YouTube. I mean, completely different.

[Courtney Miller]

I love watching now having a makeup line. Like, seriously?

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah.

[Damien]

Yeah, man. Yeah. Really interesting. It's really interesting.

[Courtney Miller]

He's kind of a genius in that way. Like, as much controversy and as whatever opinions you can have about him. There are a lot of YouTubers that, like, they have all that controversy, but at the end of the day, they're doing something right if they're being able to be successful. And I don't even know what the word to use, but, like, the fact that he's still like one of the top YouTubers and he's definitely.

[Damien]

Yeah, there's an element of respect that I have for him because being on working in this industry, it's so hard. Like there's no way of guaranteeing a video is going to get views, right? Like not even. There's no way. Not. You can't guarantee that controversy is going to work for you. Can't guarantee that funny or drama or a documentary is going to work. Like you don't know. But Shane has so consistently lately, like consistently made the biggest YouTube videos and he like takes risks. He'll take huge risks where he's like, I'm not going to make a video for three months and then I'm going to drop a four part, four hour series. And like anyone else on YouTube would be terrified and would never do that.

[Courtney Miller]

And that's the thing that's different. Different. Even if it's a video that's different from his other videos, he'll be able to edit it in a similar way. Even like the sponsored segments he makes it fit into the style that people are coming to him for.

[Damien]

It's, it's, it's fascinating.

[Shane Dawson]

It's such an engaging style too because I'll stop like harping on him in a second. But like I, I don't generally care about makeup. That's never something I've cared about before. And yet his series of working with Jeffree star to make his own line is one of my favorite bits of content. For years I remember just like watching it and having it on in the background while I played like the outer, Outer worlds or outer. Yeah, outer worlds. And it was just such a good like binge session of like video game and content and just good memory.

[Damien]

And we even made a sketch. I forget which is it every vlogger, every vlog ever where we make fun of like his editing style where like a thing will happen. It's like, wait, worse.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah, we're out of half and half.

[Damien]

It's like, it's like, oh my God. Oh my God. And I like, we can make fun of it, but the editing in his documentaries is great. Stellar. It's still so good. It's so good. All right, back. Is it back to me?

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. Is it number two now?

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, number two.

[Damien]

So this one's, this one's a big I, I. So I have a pick, but then I have a big old thing. Okay, so my number two goes to Baratz and Beretta. Whoa. Bratz and Beretta was probably, it was the reason I started watching YouTube. Because I would find their videos on. I would find their videos on Ebaum's World, and I'd be like, this is so funny. Oh, my God, I just loved it. It was just really, like, sharp, fast sketch comedy. And then so I would go to YouTube and just watch all of their stuff, and they stayed so consistent for so long. And obviously, like, Joe eventually became my boss, and now he's a peer, and it's really awesome, and he's really kept that same energy. But I also wanted to throw in just sketch comedy from back in the day on YouTube. And there's so many that aren't around anymore. Britannic Derek comedy, obviously. Donald Glover coming out of. Out of it.

[Shane Dawson]

Wow.

[Damien]

And another one. So my favorite YouTube video of all time is a video called Eat Randy by Julian Smith and Julian Smith. Oh, my God, Julian Smith, legendary in that time. And his sketches. His sketches hold up so hard. They are. They are not problematic. They are. They are pure good.

[Courtney Miller]

Give them the malk, Josh.

[Shane Dawson]

I was gonna say malk, dude.

[Damien]

The man wants a glass of malk. Just. Just like, they were so well shot. And, like, they are perfect.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, my gosh.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

Like, there's no fat on those sketches. He'll pan over and he's arm wrestling with himself. Like.

[Damien]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

And you're like, how did he do that?

[Damien]

He put in. He put in so much effort for so good videos being made back in 2010. They look. They look incredible by today's standards.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah.

[Damien]

And I'm sure I'm forgetting a bunch, but just those sketch groups around that time were so good.

[Courtney Miller]

And there was comedy. Was it.

[Damien]

And there's something I. Something I did want to say is, you know, there's an element when we still. We still get comments lately. It's rare, though, but we still get comments. We're like, I missed the old smash. This isn't as good as the old smosh. Whatever. And what I think those people are. Don't realize what they're saying is they miss the old YouTube. And it's like, yeah, man. There was an era of YouTube that was where weird, dumb, like, absurd sketch comedy that wasn't necessarily making fun of a specific thing. It was just a weird scenario. Those videos were always number one because the way YouTube was and the algorithm and the front page, it favored that that stuff could make it to the front and people doing that could do that and be successful. The reason most of those channels I named either had to move on or are no longer making stuff is because it's so Much harder to make that now. It really, like. Yeah, like, it's a good point, dude. And we'll make a sketch. We'll make a sketch that get. The comments were like, this reminds me of old Smosh. This is awesome. Those videos often get the least amount of views because. And it's not because people don't like them or whatever. It's because it's just the way YouTube.

[Courtney Miller]

Is designed now that stuff sketches, like, unless they're along. Like, we've. We've started to write our sketches longer and then including outtakes and stuff. Long enough to. Because otherwise, if it's just a couple minute video, it's not substantial. Like on YouTube. Like, if you want to try and support yourself or support a team of people, it's just not gonna work. You have to be purely doing it for fun. Like, Gus still puts out those 30 second bangers.

[Damien]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

But he's also. He has his podcast and like, other things that he's doing because at the end of the day, like, just doesn't. It doesn't.

[Damien]

Yeah.

[Shane Dawson]

And. And beyond that, like, you know, beyond the business aspect, nobody took away Old Smosh. Those videos are still up. And that goes for any channel. But like, I think from a creative aspect, like, I've only been doing this for a few years now, but, you know, for someone like Ian who's been doing this from the start, you can't do the same type of thing every day for 10 years and not lose your damn mind. Like, you gotta. You gotta grow. Whatever growth means to you, you gotta do that.

[Damien]

So. But yeah, basically just, you know, to all those people saying, like, I miss the old this, I miss you. I miss the old stuff too. Like, I loved that era, man. But it can't be that era anymore.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah.

[Damien]

Because it doesn't. It doesn't work. If it did, there would be a ton of sketch groups like that that are super popular.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah.

[Damien]

But that there's. They're not. The most popular channels now are not absurd, weird original sketch channels.

[Courtney Miller]

They're not even Gus, like, he. He has his sketches, but they're dispersed amongst, like, commentary and things.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah.

[Damien]

It's impossible to just survive off that alone. Yeah. It's really tough. It's a miracle, honestly, that we continue to make original sketches sometimes. Like, it's, it's, It's.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Damien]

Not easy to do. But. But that era, all of those people were good. Just so good.

[Courtney Miller]

Good, number two. Good, number two.

[Shane Dawson]

Well done.

[Courtney Miller]

Well done Quarterly number two. My number two was Danny Gonzalez and Drew Gooden.

[Damien]

Hell yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

But you covered it really well, honestly, because they're so great and they're both great in their own ways, but are so all like, very similar. But I'm going to throw it to an honorable mention anyway. This youtuber helped my life a lot. In a weird way, it's NikkieTutorials. She is the person who taught me like how to do my makeup. When I first started at Smosh, I had no clue what I was doing. And also my skin was like really fucking bad. So. And then the makeup artist, it just like it wasn't working and I knew, I knew that especially for like pit videos when we were still shooting in la, I needed to get better at makeup. Other otherwise like, camera is just not going to like me or that's just how I felt at the time. And I wasn't really like into beauty at all until I started watching her videos and like, opened up my mind to like, all this because it's a really creative thing and I learned to love makeup and it is like, it's my hour long meditation now. It's like 30 minutes because I wear less, but used to be like an hour, two minutes of just like our two hours of me just like quietly just like painting a canvas that was my face. And like. And then she came out as trans in the last year, she like. Because some people were trying to leak that and really sucked for her, but. But she came out as that and she's like, still, obviously still Nikki and like, she's killing it. I'm really proud of her. She's. She's got her hands in all the right, right places.

[Damien]

You know, I have a lot of respect for all the beauty channels on YouTube. I don't watch them because I don't, you know, wear makeup. There's no practical purpose for me watching them, but it's a, it's an aspect of it that I really respect and I have no problem. I think it's like, it's like the number one thing on YouTube at this point and I, I think it's well deserved. Like, I didn't think about that, about how like, makeup isn't something if you're a girl growing up and like, if you don't have anyone to teach you, YouTube is so great. Like, it's really awesome that there's so much and, and it's also a thing, in order to be successful at it on YouTube, you have to be good at it. Like, you can't. There's so much you have to be actually talented at. It.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. And if you see, like, there's clips of, like, her first videos and, like, Bretman rock, dude, he's also a huge honorable mention for me. Like, I would put him right up there with Nikki as number two. Because, like, they both started, like, their videos are, like, super low quality. Them just, like, doing it because they thought it was fun. And now they're these huge, like, huge people in the world that are, like, getting collabs with, like, the biggest makeup companies and stuff like that. And it's all because they dedicated their time to learning and getting better.

[Damien]

It's hard, man. When we did that video where I tried to do Olivia's makeup up.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, yeah, that never. That never went out.

[Damien]

Oh, that never went out.

[Shane Dawson]

Really?

[Damien]

Right.

[Courtney Miller]

We had the boys do full face on the girls. Yeah.

[Shane Dawson]

Whoa. Why didn't it go out? Can I ask?

[Damien]

I think we lost. We lost. The footage shut down when. When Smosh. When Defy went under and we shut down, we lost that video. But I did Olivia's. I did Olivia's makeup, and I tried my damnedest.

[Courtney Miller]

You were so frustrated, and I was.

[Damien]

So mad because I was like, this is so much harder than I thought. Like, I was like. I thought, like, it would apply super easily, and I picked. I decided to try to pick, like, a crazy color, and it looked awful, and everything was ruined. I was like, this sucks. I'm never doing makeup again.

[Courtney Miller]

But. But I will say it is. It is significantly harder to do someone else's makeup than your own. So, like, it's okay. Don't be so hard on yourself.

[Damien]

I was so. I really. I tried.

[Shane Dawson]

Shane, don't worry, dude. Everybody is really, really bad at something. Just so bad.

[Courtney Miller]

We're confident when I do my makeup, but then when we did the video where I randomly did Damien, I was so insecure.

[Damien]

I looked great.

[Shane Dawson]

I love that we have to do that again. We have to do that again. It was so fun.

[Damien]

It made me have a lot of respect for the people who do, like, crazy colors, because that stuff. There's a science to it.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah.

[Damien]

Like, you can't just be like, yeah, I'm going to use yellow on your eyelids. Like, no, that just doesn't work for some people, and I don't know that.

[Courtney Miller]

And there's certain products that just, like, the yellow won't cake on the way you want it to. It's hard.

[Shane Dawson]

It's always so impressive when working with a makeup person because they are, like. They always say to me, like, oh, you have olive tones in your skin. And I'M like, I'm as pale as freshly fallen snow. How did you get that? How do you know? Yes, I am Italian and that's how.

[Damien]

I have olive and then don't know any of it. It's all foreign language to me.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, Nancy used to work at Sephora for a long time and she was, she, she worked out there and helping people with their makeup and stuff like that. She, she works, she's on the Smosh team.

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[Shane Dawson]

But yeah, kudos number two.

[Courtney Miller]

Number two. That's it. Oh no, it's your number two.

[Shane Dawson]

I'm my number two. Okay, there's another three way tie. The category is experiential things through someone else. So it's three way tie between hot ones, the Try guys and good mythical morning.

[Damien]

That's a solid one. That's a solid one.

[Shane Dawson]

Thank you. So good mythical morning. I. I think I've mentioned this before. I got super, super into them during the defy shutdown. I content before and enjoyed it. But I started watching everything before there were ever any rumbles about. Like maybe mythical buying Smosh had no idea. But it was all I would do until I was like, you know, getting ready to get some work done for the day. But for the most part I was only watching Rhett and Link. So that was crazy that that ended up working out that way. Hot ones the same way I enjoy experiencing stuff through others. I think that's a major genre on YouTube and there's just something about watching someone undertake a challenge, really fight through it and then just ask yourself, I wonder how I would do with that. I really want to do that. I don't know when I'd be good. I don't. It's just. It makes you.

[Damien]

Yeah, for sure.

[Shane Dawson]

Self in their shoes. And then the Try guys are the same. I mean we just got back from Australia and tried a bunch of amazing things but now they are uploading their footage of when they went to Australia and tried a bunch of amazing things. Half the stuff they're doing we've already done, and I'm still watching it being like, what's it like for these guys to experience this? Like, they're just so good at getting you through it. I don't know.

[Courtney Miller]

It's really well done. For sure, it is. They know how to put on a show. Like when they hosted the Streamys. I don't know if you guys were there or who was there that year, but that was the coolest thing. Eugene and his, like, alter ego. So dope.

[Damien]

Yeah, they're all. And Rhett and Link and all of them. They're just so. They're all very polished. Yeah, I'll say that about all the three of those channels. They're very polished channels. There's a lot of channels that I love that are very chaotic, and I love them for being chaotic. And Rhett and Link and Hot Ones are. And Try Guys, even, but are so the opposite, in my opinion. They're so, like, they. They know exactly what they're doing, and they're following their process and it works. And it's. They're easy watches. Like, they're easy watches.

[Shane Dawson]

There's something about those channels, specifically, I think you, like, nailed it, Shane. Is that, like, they're very produced in a good way. It's like, what YouTube would. It's YouTube's answer to, like, television. Like, half of the charm of YouTube is, like, ads. Two buddies in their basement with terrible lighting and just having fun and uploading. But there's also such respect that I have for the channels that are like, this is our show. This is our set. We've booked guests. We've done it. All right? And even the try guys who are just going, like, maybe restaurant to restaurant or experience to experience, they don't have the luxury of having a set. It still just looks so nice. There's almost like a glow about their videos where it's like. It's dreamy. You want to be in that dream with them? I don't know.

[Damien]

Yeah, I think it's great, man. Yeah, that's very solid.

[Shane Dawson]

I get lost in those for sure. Are we the honor boys?

[Damien]

I think we're on to the honor boys.

[Courtney Miller]

Wait, what about number one?

[Damien]

We're doing honorable honorable mentions before number one.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, okay. Okay. Cool, cool, cool. Six, six, six, six. All right.

[Damien]

Okay. So my honorable mentions are. I have a bunch here, but obviously, Gus Johnson. Love that guy. Internet comment etiquette. His channel's fantastic. One that I. I wanted to add to be more of A serious one that I do watch all the videos of is. I don't know how to pronounce it. Kurt's Gat. Or it's in a nutshell. It's that it's a channel. Oh, kurzgesagt. Yeah. They do really great breakdowns of some of life's like, biggest questions. Or they'll just. They'll do a video on wormholes. Right. But they animate it all and they try to break it down in the most factual, just like straightforward way.

[Shane Dawson]

Interesting.

[Damien]

Some of the videos are so beautiful. I highly recommend going to that channel and watching all of their stuff. Primitive technology is awesome. It's a dude I believe in New. I believe in New Zealand. I'm not sure where he's at. He doesn't speak. He just is out in the middle of the woods, literally building stuff with his bare hands. He builds like a hut, a chimney, an iron furnace, like everything by hand. It's incredible to watch.

[Shane Dawson]

He's Minecraft, the dude.

[Damien]

Literally. And it's just dead silent for like 10 minutes. It's such a relaxing. Watch the lo fi chill beats to relax. Study girl.

[Shane Dawson]

Yes.

[Damien]

Love that channel. And I think that's. That's it. I'm sure there's a million I'm missing, but those, those ones specifically.

[Courtney Miller]

Nice. All right.

[Shane Dawson]

Number honor.

[Courtney Miller]

Number honor. So this girl I discovered in the last several months, she's super. I think she's young. I don't know how old she is, but her name is Judy D. She's. She does beauty stuff, but she's like not a beauty guru. She like her most popular videos, she literally has dozens of them going to the worst reviewed makeup artist.

[Shane Dawson]

Yes.

[Damien]

You showed me one of these.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. She lives in Ecuador and I guess like the. The laws of like having like a sanitary or like having a beauty salon there are like very different. So like new beauty salons pop up and go out of business like all the time. So like she had like an endless supply for a while of all these different. And she, she does hides the face, doesn't show the location. So she's not trying to smear anybody, any brand, any company. And her, she edits them so funny. Like you can tell. Maybe she watches like PewDiePie because her editing style is very like meme. Meme esque. And then she'll do like serious ones where she's like, okay, I'm going to go to this place and they're going to legit do the 10, the Korean 10 step skincare routine, like with all Their products and it's like very genuine and real. And yeah, speaking of PewDiePie, like, I have to do a little bit of honorable mention for him because I've been watching him a lot in the last year. Like, obviously he's been through quite a bit of controversy, but he's very like self aware and he's, he seems to have grown from it and he, he's just very good at having like a strong community in, in setting. Like the inside jokes with, with his fans and like his style, it's just very. It's just like him being him. Gotta do shout out to Jenna Marbles. She's obviously the best. Her and Julian are so talented together. Like it's so cute when it's a clearly it's a Jenna Marbles video. But Julian's always in the back working the camera and the light and he'll pop in for a moment or two. It's like them being silly together and it's just their life. Like it's always them in their house just doing whatever they feel like doing and it's always fun. Jacksfilms deserves more credit. He's been around for so long and he has hundreds, like literally, I used to watch all that stuff. Like your grammar socks. Like he, he, he's had some legacy content, man. Obviously. Gus Johnson, Smosh Games Alliance.

[Damien]

Wow. Shout out.

[Courtney Miller]

I just saw that in my list of channels I'm subscribed to.

[Shane Dawson]

Incredible.

[Courtney Miller]

Liam Kyle Sullivan. Oh my God. Liam Kyle Sullivan is a huge shout out to mine. If you guys don't know who I'm talking about. Do you know who I'm talking about?

[Shane Dawson]

No. Oh, we were talking about Liam Kyle Sullivan, obviously.

[Damien]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

Let's get some shoes.

[Shane Dawson]

Oh, yes. Oh my God. Of course.

[Courtney Miller]

Let these shoes suck.

[Damien]

Oh, Jesus.

[Courtney Miller]

These shoes rule. Edited for Smosh Pit for a while.

[Shane Dawson]

Too, back when we were at the five.

[Damien]

Such a chill guy.

[Shane Dawson]

Amazing.

[Damien]

That's right. He was king for us.

[Courtney Miller]

He was the freaking king. That was the first YouTube video I ever saw.

[Shane Dawson]

Might be mine too.

[Courtney Miller]

Mother's Day, the Brats and better at a sketch that was my first like Ebomb's World sketch I'd ever seen. But yeah, those are my. Those are my honorable men.

[Shane Dawson]

Honor boys.

[Damien]

Nice.

[Shane Dawson]

Nice. I've got quite a handful of of honorable mentions. So I'm only gonna go like in depth on like a couple. The rest I'm just gonna like shout out. Terminal Montage is incredible. It's an animation channel. Very, very funny video game based stuff. It's the kind of stuff you'd see on like Flash Player back in the day, but made modern. So it's. They've got their something about series. So it'll be like something about Smash Bros. And it'll be like a 10 minute parody. Something about Super Mario World, something about Kirby. It's just the classic kind of stuff you'd see on those Flash websites back in the day.

[Damien]

Nice.

[Shane Dawson]

They're just so good. Check them out. Did you know Gaming. I like it. Does deep dives on gaming stuff and just trivia. Small Ant is someone I discovered recently. Small Ant is great. They do like speed runs of like. They'll be like, can I beat Breath of the Wild using only a shield? Can I beat Pokemon Gold and Silver when my Pokemon that I have change every time with the randomizer. Like can I take. Can I beat Pokemon without taking any damage? Like it's incredible.

[Damien]

Cool.

[Shane Dawson]

That kind of stuff. Super Mega. Super Mega is a duo of the Ryan and Matt. Matt and Ryan. And they're funny as hell. I've met Matt. He's awesome. They're very like game grumpy in a way. Alt Shift X does Westworld and Game of Thrones. Deep Dives.

[Damien]

He's the one. I forgot to mention. I forgot to mention all shifts.

[Shane Dawson]

He's great. Vatividya does Dark Souls and Bloodborne Deep Dives. We've got Bird, another animation channel, B, E R D, Ocular Nebula. They do electronic music and I've been following them since college and they get like 600 views and that's it. So show them some love. For sure. They're great. Mike Falzon, Jenna Marbles, Kev, Jumba, brightannick, Furious Pete, Julian, Smith, Bratz and Beretta.

[Damien]

Wow. All right.

[Shane Dawson]

Those are my folks.

[Damien]

We got to keep it moving. Yes, I know. It's okay. So Courtney, I think you should. So I'm. I have a feeling you should say you're number one first. Because I feel like Damien and I, we do.

[Courtney Miller]

Okay, cool. That's fine.

[Damien]

That's totally.

[Courtney Miller]

That's perfect. Okay. So my number one I. This is the reason why I was kind of quiet when you guys mentioned Tiny Meat Gang. They are my number one favorite, like by far and for many reasons. Obviously. Cody, Ko and Noelle are super talented. Their music videos are frickin Chef's Kiss and I listen to the songs all the time. They're really well done. I can't wait to hear more what they have. Their content is awesome. Like their. That's cringe. Which I wish they did more. Of I feel like they've dialed it back because they were under some scrutiny of like, you can't be so mean to these YouTubers and. But they're just being honest and funny and just like real. And then they come in. Cody Ko and his girlfriend have like their wholesome content together where they just like play games or make a song. Like Cody Cody is now. He streams on Twitch these days, but he'll post like basically a video of him just like making a song and then when he's done, he'll like shoot a quick little music video of that song he created. Real time with you guys making it about something stupid like grilled cheese.

[Shane Dawson]

That's awesome.

[Courtney Miller]

And so he can be hilarious, like wholesome. And then their podcast, it's like they were the first podcast I ever started listening to, like over a year ago, I think. And like, it's like my comfort, like, especially during this time. I, I like look forward to each episode coming out because it's just so great to either hear their real opinions on stuff or them just messing around doing bits of characters and like, and the fact that we got to like, like a couple of us got to go see their, their tour a while back and like, see what they do, it blew my mind just opened up to like, oh my gosh, this is like real. They're extremely talented. It's not like a stupid like magcon meet and greet show. Like they are a two man stand up, like thing. And I'm just so excited for them to continue doing what they do. And yeah, they're, they're. Mark McGrath was on their podcast and they've, they've had like Post Malone, like a lot of big people come on their pod and it's always just good to listen to.

[Damien]

Awesome.

[Courtney Miller]

I love them.

[Shane Dawson]

They're great, solid number ones.

[Damien]

All right.

[Courtney Miller]

All right, boys.

[Shane Dawson]

Since, since we have a probably the same one, mine's a three way tie, so I'll name the first two and then for the last one we'll probably.

[Damien]

Say, okay, you got it.

[Courtney Miller]

I don't recall what this might be.

[Damien]

Oh, you tough to decide.

[Shane Dawson]

So the three that take my number one spot are video game donkey Brian David Gilbert of Polygon, then the last one. But the biggest one, the biggest number one of all, Shane.

[Damien]

One, two, three. Game grumps.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah, love the game Grumps.

[Damien]

And I, I, for me, I lumped in Ninja Sex Party and just Egoraptors animation right into that whole umbrella.

[Shane Dawson]

For sure.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, that's great.

[Shane Dawson]

They're so great. I, I Don't know. I started watching them like right at the very beginning of their channel. I don't know. It was my first ever one bedroom apartment in LA right after Disney Channel. I had nothing to do all day every day. I looked forward to their uploads at 10am and 2pm every single day. It's what got me out of bed. It's what gave structure to my life. And it was Aaron and John then. Now it's Aaron and Danny and they just, they're just so funny and they're a big consistent thing in my life.

[Damien]

I only started watching when it was Aaron and Danny but I remember Damien, you telling me about Game Grumps when it first started you were like dude, you got to check this out, it's great. And I was like, yeah, I don't know because I wasn't like a consistent YouTube watcher. But when Danny joined I started watching more and then I really. It's the only channel I've ever. I had a couple years where I was watching it every day like and that's. That rarely happens for me.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, you. You turned me on to them. Shane. I have vivid memories of like when I lived with Wes, like having their highlight funny moment videos, like yeah, playing while I was like cleaning my room and doing laundry because yeah, they are super fun.

[Damien]

Dude, they're so good. They similar to how Cody and Noel will find a joke that they'll keep riffing on. Game Grumps will do it, but it's just weirder. Like it's more, more in line with my weird sense of humor. Well, they'll just make this weird image in their head and they'll just start riffing on that and it can go for so long because their videos allow for that. And I just. Danny, Sex Bang is just. Man, that guy.

[Shane Dawson]

Coolest dude.

[Damien]

Awesome. That guy is so awesome.

[Shane Dawson]

And I like, like I, I think we both look up to them in different ways, you and I. Shane, I don't want to speak for you, but I sort of get that vibe where like whether personally or professionally, they're just like a few years ahead where we just can look a little bit and be like, wow, maybe in a couple years I'll be there too. I also respect the hell out of them for like not changing with the times and sticking to their format of like no Face Cam for gaming. They changed up the type of games that they played because they sort of had to, you know, like we talked about the algorithm stuff but. But they've kept their style consistent for the Most part. And it just feels. Feels good. Feels really cool.

[Damien]

And Danny. Danny Sex Bang really seems like he's just having fun.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah.

[Damien]

His music videos are just ridiculous.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, that one music. The music videos are awesome.

[Damien]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

Like that one Danny don't. You know. Right.

[Damien]

Yeah.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah.

[Damien]

I mean. Yeah. The. The first thing that turned me on a Ninja Sex Party was dinosaur laser fight.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah.

[Damien]

Back in the day. And that was before Danny joined mind.

[Courtney Miller]

Isn't that something? Like what dubstep sounds like?

[Damien]

No, no. Dinosaur laser fight is him teaching a science class about how the dinosaurs died.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh.

[Damien]

And. And yeah. So I. I knew Ninja Sex Party before Danny joined.

[Shane Dawson]

Wow.

[Damien]

I was a Danny Sex Bang fan before he became part of. That's why. That's why I started watching Game Girl. So I was like, wait, I'm a fan of him. And I loved Ego Raptors.

[Shane Dawson]

I was an Egoraptor fan and that's how I found it. Yeah.

[Damien]

Everyone was it. I mean, Egoraptor was huge.

[Shane Dawson]

He did like the Metal Gear. Awesome. Yeah.

[Damien]

So good.

[Courtney Miller]

That's cool.

[Shane Dawson]

Girl Chan in paradise. That's how like our. I think us making fun of anime in the way that we do probably came from that.

[Damien]

Oh yeah. Yeah.

[Shane Dawson]

You need more train. Yeah. Like that kind of.

[Damien]

Yeah. Some solid stuff.

[Shane Dawson]

Good stuff.

[Courtney Miller]

So cute. This is a great. These are great top fives. Even though it's like top eight with all the ties and triple ties.

[Damien]

It was like more like a top 20.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. But you know, we love YouTube and that's why we're on it. We're gonna do this. Shooting time, boys. Shoot dude, Shoot dude. Shoot dude.

[Damien]

Shoot dude.

[Courtney Miller]

Shoot dude.

[Damien]

Shoot dude.

[Courtney Miller]

This is from Jeremy G. Okay, guys.

[Damien]

Okay.

[Courtney Miller]

The Jeremy G. The Jeremy G. Okay.

[Shane Dawson]

He.

[Courtney Miller]

His story begins as. So my first boyfriend played different instrument. Different instruments in high school and college. When he left for college, we tried to do long distance, which was hard for our first relationship and in hindsight we should have ended it there. About a month after he left, where we agreed to be exclusive, he's telling me stories of how he's making a lot of friends and getting along with other people greatly. I encouraged it because he was feeling lonely at first when he got there. And he then over text tells me about this girl that he wanted to take out on a date. I reminded him that we agreed to be exclusive to dating only each other. And his reply was the most pretentious response I ever read in my life, which was, you don't understand, Jeremy. I'm a musician, an artist. My love needs to Be spread. How could I deny others of my love and talents? And so.

[Damien]

Whoa.

[Courtney Miller]

So he said. So I respond with, well, then there. Well, then you can go spread your love elsewhere. We're done. He then changes his relationship status the next day to in a relationship tagged with this. This girl. Oh, goodness.

[Shane Dawson]

Tell you what.

[Courtney Miller]

My goodness.

[Shane Dawson]

You just Matrix style. Dodged a bullet.

[Damien]

Yeah, yeah. Can I say something? I don't think this counts as a shoot dude.

[Shane Dawson]

I think I'm the same boat.

[Damien]

This is a. I'm sorry dude. Like, yeah, this makes me want to shoot a dude.

[Courtney Miller]

You didn't.

[Damien]

Because to me, a shoot dude is when you mess up up. Right. That's embarrassing. My interpretation is, oh, you done messed up. You didn't realize you messed up until it happened. So shoot dude. This is. Yeah, your shoot dude was dating a jerk.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah, like, that was.

[Damien]

That was your shoot dude.

[Courtney Miller]

But yeah, I guess I can't assume gender. The name on the stories is Jeremy G. But God damn, I would still say shoot dude. Like, shoot dude. That sucks.

[Damien]

It's.

[Courtney Miller]

But you definitely handled it very well because sometimes it's just like, oh, this stuff happened to me and I don't know what to do but spreading. I need to spread my love.

[Shane Dawson]

Good for you for like sticking to your guns on like what you want in your life. Like, if you want an exclusive relationship, like, some people would have been like, well, okay, maybe like, no, like, that person sucks. And also, there's no wrong way to be in a relationship. But the communication has to be there. If you agreed on something, that's what you have to stick to. There's some people who are like, we'll do long distance, but you have your fun and just but only love me. But if that's not the case, then like, get them out of there.

[Courtney Miller]

It's good on you for holding your.

[Damien]

It's a blessing when a super toxic person gives. Gives you an open opportunity to cut them out of your life. And that was. Man, that's a pure blessing. Like, that person sucks. And they gave you a wide opening to kick them out the door. They opened the door and you get to just kick them on out. Never talk to them again.

[Shane Dawson]

You just get to jettison them out the pod bay window.

[Courtney Miller]

And it's probably somewhat easy to do that because if you're long distance anymore anyway.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah. Also, by the way, Shane, that's incredible.

[Courtney Miller]

Long space.

[Shane Dawson]

Long distance is the wrong distance. I know I'm not the first to say it, but throwing that out there.

[Damien]

You have to be insanely like I think it has to be very far along. Like.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, it has to be like the most.

[Damien]

You have to be like, we're engaged and yes, we have to be apart for or. And there also be a time. There has to be a solid timetable table of like, this is when we're going to be back together. If it's just a long distance. I don't know. That's a very opinionated thing. But I know I have a hard time believing it works. It.

[Shane Dawson]

There just has to be an end point too. Like I, I broke up with an ex girlfriend or we, you know, broke up with each other because of distance. But there was the question of like, well, what if, what if we can make it work? And I had to be like, well, why you're moving across the country. I'm not moving there. You're not moving back to here.

[Damien]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Shane Dawson]

So we just call each other forever. Like, yeah.

[Damien]

My brother, my brother and sister in law did long distance for years, but it was when she was going to college. So when she was going to college and they managed.

[Courtney Miller]

They visit regularly.

[Damien]

Yeah, they visited regularly. And they also like, they knew she knew she was coming back to where he lived. And so it was just, it was a temporary thing. Yeah, but it's tough, man.

[Shane Dawson]

It's not easy.

[Courtney Miller]

Well, anyway, I, I did long distance for like three months.

[Damien]

I've never, I've never done it. I couldn't. I couldn't.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, it didn't end well, obviously.

[Damien]

Well, certainly if people are saying, hey, I gotta spread my love, that is not an ideal situation for long distance.

[Courtney Miller]

Don't call your stinky dick your love. All right? Spread that.

[Shane Dawson]

You got a stinky wiener.

[Courtney Miller]

Stinky wee wee musician.

[Shane Dawson]

Quit playing your guitar with your stinky wiener. Spreading your guitar everywhere.

[Damien]

Don't do it.

[Courtney Miller]

Okay, well, we've had our fun.

[Damien]

Hey, you guys have good taste in YouTubers.

[Shane Dawson]

Thanks man. You taste good too.

[Courtney Miller]

You, you guys have like shown me all my favorite stuff. I feel like a lot of my favorite things are be from you guys. But yeah, if you guys have a shoot dude those listening or watching, you can send your Shoot dudes story atshoot dude smosh.com and it's shoot with two O's and dude with two O's as well. D O O D. Shoot it at SM. And if you guys love this podcast or at least mildly enjoy it, why not spread your opinions all over the Internet and rate us 5 stars on your listening app. Spread your love.

[Shane Dawson]

Yes, spread your stinky love.

[Courtney Miller]

And you know we're spreading our love. Love. Every Wednesday. The full audio episode comes out on Wednesday and the full video on Fridays.

[Damien]

So you can see my. My stupid apartment.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, I like that. You just like mild flexing with all your flannels and stuff behind you.

[Shane Dawson]

Yeah, there's so many kinds. Yeah, you could be camouflaged in Portland because all the buildings look like that. Bye.

[Damien]

Bye, guys.

[Shane Dawson]

I always. I always have to go to the bathroom after the podcast and it's always an emergency. I don't know what it is. About like 50 minutes into the podcast, my body being like, it's time. But I'm going to stop down and I'll be right back.

[Courtney Miller]

Okay. Bye. Bye.

[Damien]

Bye.

[Shane Dawson]

I'll miss you.

[Damien]

Bye.

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