#71 - Would We Have Been Friends?
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November 18, 2024
TLDR: Smosh co-founders Amanda and Shayne revisit their past with Ian, discussing Smosh's early years, best and worst moments, and reminiscing about being 19.
In the latest episode of the Smosh Podcast, titled Would We Have Been Friends?, hosts Amanda, Shayne, and Ian take a nostalgic stroll down memory lane, reflecting on Smosh's 19 years of existence. The episode covers a range of topics that delve into their shared experiences and personal anecdotes during their teenage years.
Introduction to the Podcast
The episode kicks off with a humorous introduction from the trio, highlighting their dynamic and camaraderie. The tone is light-hearted, setting the stage for an engaging discussion.
Reflecting on Smosh's Anniversary
Smosh is 19!
The hosts celebrate Smosh turning 19 years old, openly expressing their disbelief at how long they've been creating content together. Ian shares insights on how much of his life has been spent working with Smosh since they started in 2005. Shayne humorously remarks on reaching a milestone age, comparing Smosh's maturation to their own.
Early Days of Smosh
The discussion shifts to what the Smosh creators were doing in 2005, reminiscing about their childhood activities. Ian shares that they started with a webcam and a simple concept - creating silly videos to entertain themselves and friends. This innocent start laid the foundation for what would become a major digital platform.
Smosh at 19: A Look Back at Their Journey
As they explore what they were like at 19, the hosts discuss their past personalities, aspirations, and social lives. A few key highlights include:
- Nostalgia About Youth: Each host shares personal memories, like relationships and high school experiences, which contribute to a greater understanding of their individual journeys.
- Boredom as a Catalyst: They agree that being bored often led to creativity, a theme that resonates with their success in content creation.
- The Evolution of Social Awareness: The conversation shifts towards how social interactions have changed over the years versus their teenage experiences.
Best and Worst Moments of Smosh
Highlights of 19 Years
Ian reflects on some of the best moments, including:
- Collaborative Projects: Smosh Summer Games and the exhilaration of their first Smosh Movie premiere.
- Rebirth and Renewal: The feeling of revitalization when Anthony returned to create new content shapes the conversation around growth.
Challenges Faced
On the flip side, the hosts candidly address some of the most difficult times, such as:
- Defy Media Collapse: Discussing the struggles they faced during this tumultuous period.
- Anthony’s Departure: The emotional and professional challenges posed by Anthony leaving the Smosh collective, highlighting how pivotal this moment was for the team.
The Impact of Nostalgia on Current Content Creation
Towards the end of the episode, the hosts delve into how nostalgia influences their current creations, emphasizing that cherished memories fuel their creativity and drive. They draw a comparison between the eras of content creation, noting how the rampant access to the internet today alters the landscape drastically for younger creators compared to their early days.
Closing Thoughts
As the episode wraps up, the hosts express their gratitude for their journey, the friends they have become, and the inevitable questions of whether they would have been friends if their lives had intertwined differently during high school. The episode serves as a heartfelt reminder of the connections they’ve built over the years, both personally and through their content.
In conclusion, this episode showcases engaging dialogue between Amanda, Shayne, and Ian, filled with humor, reflection, and insights into their lives before and during their Smosh journey, resonating deeply with long-time fans and newcomers alike.
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Hi, welcome to Smosh Mouth, I'm Shane. And I'm Amanda Leehan Kanto. This is Ian. Holy crap, you got to say your whole name? Yeah, because you didn't. And I was like, I want to say all three of my names. And here's Ian. Hey, I'm Ian Ian Hecox. Is your middle name E? What?
I said Ian, Ian, he talks. Oh, oh, I thought you said Ian, Ian, Ian, he talks. What's your real mental name? It's a secret. It's a secret that you'll never know. I think I've known it some point and I've forgotten.
Richard. You'll never know unless you go on Google and it'll tell you. It's just everywhere. I can't do that because we're filming, so. My middle name is Andrew. Oh, but John was an interesting guy. Wow, gave that up so fast. Sorry. John was a good guest because Ian is Gaelic for John. Oh, oh, look at that. You're just talking about Gaelic.
We were. I was. He and I were. Yeah, because. Erlangus. Somebody said, don't call it gay. Like just call it Irish. Yeah. And I was like, that's incorrect, ma'am. I don't know. But maybe it's not. Irish fans rise up. Yeah, let us know. If you go on the plane, if you go on Erlangus to go to Ireland after they announced things to you in English, they announced things to you in what I thought was called gay. Like because that was the original language. And someone said, no, it's just called Irish.
Stupid. All right. And here we go. Dumb. I hate you. You're acting like a 19 year old right now. Oh, you know what else is 19? Smart.
What? Smosh is 19 years old. Smosh is 19. Your first baby is 19. Wow. Do you like that? Do you like that? Do you like that? Yeah, they're out of the house now. I could finally shit with the door open. Hopefully. I'm never doing that. Shane doesn't do that ever. No. Actually, I don't, all right. I do live by myself. I don't shit with the door open because I don't want the smell to escape the bathroom.
Whoa! There's another good reason. Yeah. There's so many good reasons. It's so freeing. I just like to have the door closed to be like, I'm in my capsule. Yeah. And when I leave and nobody knows what happened in there. When you, when I, when I shut up.
Nobody knows what happens. When I poop. When I poop. When I walk out of the bathroom, Courtney goes, what'd you do in there? I go, nothing. I didn't take a shit. I didn't take a shit in there. You're like a radio edit. I didn't know what that is. Like a radio edit of a rap song. I didn't take a shoot. Another thing that you do in your 19, make up fun raps.
We did, we did do that when we were 19. Yeah. You did do that. Really quick, before we get into talking about Smosh being 19, we talked about this a couple of weeks ago. We talked about it before it happened. We talked about the love is about blind reunion before it happened. Oh, I said,
I sort of made predictions. I was just venting about how I'm like, it's gonna suck. And it's gonna be the most infuriating thing ever. And it was. It was in surprising ways. They found ways to piss me off in ways I didn't expect. This is true. So I didn't watch it because so many people told me it was not worth my time. It truly, I am borderline. I hate that show enough to borderline be like, don't watch it. Like don't support that show.
And you know what, Vanessa Lachey felt that. In episode one, when she wore that intense black leather and she almost didn't speak but had the eyes of vengeance. I don't know if you saw that. Maybe she's been listening to us because she's- I think it's possible. Ian and I talked about this. She seemed- Yeah.
Really mad I think I think this one this time and I don't want to talk about it too much because it was forever ago But it was this time I wasn't I was mad at both of them Nick and live in Vanessa just because they're both like wet noodles It wasn't that they were like necessarily going after you went They just kind of let horrible shit happen and when you let horrible shit happen the worst people win because they're the ones who are gonna be the most aggressive and make Accusations I agree and they just kind of let it all fly and the people who kind of
The people who got the fingers pointed out were not the people that I needed to hear from. Who got their fingers pointed out? Nick was entirely the focus. Nick. He was entirely the focus. Oh, wait, Hannah's Nick? Yeah. And the whole, the whole, the whole basis and now we're talking about it. The whole basis was Hannah was like, yeah, you had a journal entry where you said you wanted to be famous from love his mind. It's like, hold on. You're talking about it. You're talking about it. And this, and nobody said, her and her friends, her and her friends. Well, she, she read her to-do list.
She posted his journal entry on her social media. I'm like, wait, nobody's talking about how this is an invasion of privacy. And also Hannah quit her job. And now is in LA with an agent trying to be an actor. And I'm like, you literally did the thing that you're accusing him of, but nobody,
He journaled that he journaled that he wanted to be the most famous. Was it the one of the most famous contestants on Love Is Blind? But no, he was he had a list of like three goals and he's clearly someone who's trying to write goals. He's like pineapple lover, my mom's best friend. He was a little bit of a manifesting thing. Yeah, kind of like he said sell to homes. Yeah, be in the best shape of my life for two weeks. I don't know. Come on, bro.
Clear off that game table that I have downstairs in my room with all the saints everywhere, but for his room, I was like- The pool table? She's like, you say it, you had a pool table, and it's just like a pool table that's shoved into a closet. He's like, well, yeah, I mean, like, I gotta, I don't want you to- That was really awkward. Anyways, it sucked ass.
It was not good. It sucked ass. I hate that show. There's a lot of, there's a lot of issues with the show. I think, you know, being rehearsed with Salt Lake City, girly, I think the way that they do reunions is so much better. It's three, it's three parts. They stretch their reunion out into three parts. But with that, they're actually able to go into each thing that happened and say, let's talk about it.
Yeah. And the host, Andy, actually holds. He's great. That's the key. And watching someone do it badly is when you realize how hard something is. And being a reality show host is something that probably at some point I was like, oh, that can't be that hard. But now watching, I'm like, oh my God, you are juggling so much bullshit. You really are. Yeah. That's crazy.
Anyways, the reunion was kind of a bummer and they had like all this stupid filler like I don't care about the alumni like sitting there like the council of love like beings like stop I hated it anyways, but you watch the whole thing I watch well and I end up watching the whole thing I always am like I'm not gonna do this Courtney will be like well I'm gonna watch the first episode and then I end up watching it Yeah, because it's the the formula of how bad it is is so good mm-hmm
But I end up every time being like, I hated this. I hate what the show, I feel like it's promoting. I hate everybody. I feel like it's a very, I feel like it promotes gender war too. And then they bring their friends and they're like, all right, I want y'all to meet Nick. And then all the friends are like, that's not what she's doing. She's saying this. And it's like, dude, of course your friends are going to like stick up for you. Like I just, I hate the meaning of the friends and the meaning of the mom. Remember that mother?
Ooh, I'll cut your balls off. She honestly, she honestly at their Indian was the only one who kind of like was pointing anything. Like you wanted her to host it. Right, yeah. But she actually was like pointing things out. Anyways, I'm done talking about Love is Blind. Yeah, I think half the people stopped listening. Yeah. Nobody's listening. Like I came here to talk about Smosh. Smosh turned 19. So Love is Blind. Cut back to Love is Blind conversation. So Smosh is 19 years old. Yeah. And did you think that it would last this long?
No. Why would I? I mean, I've officially done, I've lived more of my life working, doing Smosh than not doing Smosh. That is crazy. That's insane. Because how old were you when you first started Smosh? 17. 17. Wow. So a senior in high school.
Yeah, we were just out of high school. And how serious, I mean, like when you first started, it was just, it wasn't like a plan. It was just kind of you're messing around. Yeah. And then you said, you told me that you were like bored and you were just making videos. Bored. You were bored. Bored. Wow. This is suburbia. Didn't have a lot of like money to like do stuff. So it was just like, yeah, I don't know, this is silly. What did you film things on?
started with a webcam. Like an Android. Like a shitty webcam that was wired to the computer. So like, we had to shoot everything within like a radius of like three feet from the computer. At the beginning. So funny. Yeah. So funny. That's amazing. I pitched to you guys the idea of trying to recreate a sketch with all the same equipment from back then. Which would be so much harder now because it's hard to just get that equipment. How do you get a webcam? Getting the equipment now.
Yeah, like a Windows Movie Maker from 2005. Yeah, you'd need all the same software, all the same hardware. That would actually be really funny, though. It would be really impressive, but a lot of the stuff's probably lost. Lost it. Lost technology. Nobody knows how they made it. It's kind of like the pyramids. It was not that long ago, guys. You don't know how Ian and Anthony made the Pokemon lip sync video. It's similar to Stonehenge. It's like a VCR, like how does it work? Yeah, nobody really knows. People in their 30s, you guys keep thinking that we're just so old. We're not.
Right? Your ancient technology of laser disc. Did you ever have laser disc? No, but Spencer's been talking about collecting laser disc. I had a floppy disc. Whoa, talking about old. It's cool. It's cool.
I was aware of floppy disks. We had floppy disks. Yeah. I'm trying to remember if Chex Quest was on floppy or if it was on C. Chex Quest. Chex Quest. I always got to shout out Chex Quest, which was, do you know Chex, the serial? Of course. Do you know Doom, the video game?
Really? I think maybe. Yes. Okay, so the original Doom was like this weird kind of like 3D shooters weren't, they were like just starting to become a thing. And Doom was this very popular hyper violent shooter game. Okay, I think I know, I think I know. You're like shooting these like kind of like zombie held spawn people. You're on Mars. There's a lot of blood. So,
something I wouldn't be allowed to play. Right, exactly. And I wouldn't be able to play it either. However, Chex created like a, like a, they made like a mod to, to
Doom, and made it like a kid's version of Doom, and you're playing this Chex guy, and you're like shooting these snot guys. And it was sick. With guns? Well, they weren't guns. Yeah, they were, yeah. So it was like, it was like the only way that I could play like a violent shooter game. And it was free. Came in a fucking box of Chex.
That's insane. That is so wrong. Dude, shout out Chexqua. I've never played Doom, but it's such a fascinating game on a kind of software level, on a programming level, because people will program Doom into weird shit. It's the benchmark. It'll be like, I think this is wrong, but someone programmed it into something weird like a...
a pregnancy test or something, where you can play Doom on... Wait, wait, wait, wait. How do you play Doom on a pregnancy test? Exactly. It's such an old game that all of our technology now is so far from where it was then that there's enough memory on random-ass things to play, like have it run. It's always like, can I play Doom on it? Why?
People do it as a challenge, right? So you guys are sitting on the toilet after you. I'm not doing this, Amanda, but maybe I thought about it with the door closed. Have you ever seen that? With the door closed, that's why I closed the door so I can play doom on my pregnancy quest. Pregnancy quest? That's awesome.
You know, anyone else on their pregnancy quest? That's actually awesome. That's adventurous females trying to get pregnant. That's a pregnancy quest. That's a way better way of asking somebody like if they're like planning or having a kid. Are you in the quest? Yo, how far are you on your pregnancy quest? Do you have any side quests? I actually kind of love that.
Because it makes us feel like bad-ass. I could never fathom asking someone if they're trying. And you shouldn't. Some of those questions that parents ask that are like, I guess we're normal at some point of like, are you trying for a kid? I'm like, what the fuck kind of creepy question is that? They have no respect. They don't care. Have you seen the Tim Allen Doom mod?
No. Were they replaced? So this is... Tim Allen and the Santa Claus are Tim Allen and home improvement. Oh, home improvement. So it's home improvement. I would like how I know that it's home improvement. And have you seen this? I've seen this. Okay, this is classic. So somebody modded Doom and they just replaced all the assets with Tim Allen and ugh. You see, they're all coming at you. They're all doing the thing. And it's good stuff, right? Yeah. Wait, that's so funny.
I love dome improvement. Well, then you're going to love. What was the man behind the law? I hate that. I got to hate that. Damn, I missed out on such a funny, funny world. I bet your dad does programming and stuff. My dad, he was a computer engineer. Your dad knows all about this. He used to read like Microsoft. Your dad probably has programmed doom into weird shit.
I don't think he was never a video game guy. I bet if you had a Tamagotchi as a kid, he would have programmed doom. I had a Tamagotchi as a kid and that Tamagotchi was fed. I never let that baby die ever. Whereas my sister, it died every fucking day. Can you run doom on Tamagotchi? I bet you could run doom on a Tamagotchi.
This is so cool. You kept your Tamagotchi alive? Of course I did. For how long? What do you think I am? Well, where is it now? A monster? Oh, I threw it away when I was like a certain age. You threw it away? Yeah, after I played um, what's that? That's somehow worse than letting it die. You abandoned it. What are those bones called? Funny bones? Silly bones? Is it silly bones?
I feel like I was asleep in a pod, like an alien going through a part of space and missed out on so much. There is a YouTube video. It's one of my favorites called myhouse.wad, right?
It's a really creepy, creepy, where nobody knows who this person is who made this program, but someone programmed Doom, and it seems like it's normal, and then you make this one move, and then all of a sudden it replays, but it's a little different, and then...
People who know this know like, oh, this is one of the creepiest, coolest things. I'll send you this video and you'll watch it and you'll be fascinated. We should make a man to play PT. Oh my God. PT. Physical therapy. PT is one of the best games ever made. It was a trailer. Paul Thomas. It was a trailer for... It's called, it was, it stood for playable trailer. Yeah. But it was, but it was like a horror game. It's very similar to Resident Evil.
but it never got finished but this trailer was made and it was like one of the best like little tiny horror games. It kind of like changed the horror game. Yeah. Like Raoul. Big deal. Huge deal. Scary as fuck. So Smosh was made in 2005. Yeah. So Smosh was made in 2005. That's five. You were 17. I was 17. How old were you? I was 17. Wow. Right?
I just did this math. 2005, I was 14. Okay. Great. Good for you. I was 17. Yep. Okay. Yeah. Pretty cool. Yeah. 2005, I feel like, is not that memorable of a year. Right? It's just kind of a, what was going on? Yeah. 17, high school, high school, senior in high school. High school, musical hadn't come out yet.
Oh yeah, here's about that. Napoleon Dynamite was already out. It was already been out for a couple of years. No, I don't think anything happened in 2005. Which is why I think Smosh like really hit, you know? Like nothing else is happening. Nothing fun, nothing awesome happened in 2005. Back checkers? Not really.
I put my Nano on, okay. I put Nano was my shit. Okay. Because I was running with a disc man forever. And when you're running with a disc man and you have a CD in there, to run with it means it skips your whole run. Well, that's what you have memory for. Like the CD players would have like memory, but it'd be like 10 seconds of memory. So you have to like. Yeah, it sucked. I basically ran like this. Dude, it was ass. And when I got the Nano, I was like, this is sick.
I had the OG iPod for a long time. Oh, Pope John Paul died in 2005. Oh, that's right, we got him. Jesus Christ. Are we gonna have to cut like 90% of this episode? I think we might. When you were 17, what were you up to? I was a senior in high school and every, I think, what was I doing? I was definitely in a play. Can't remember which play.
Ian's just on his phone, just looking around at stuff. It wasn't important. I was looking at births and deaths. I don't know if this is a death from 2005 or as a birth, but it was a Canadian Senator representing Newfoundland and Labrador, and his name is C. William Doody.
Look at it. Not even that crazy. Look how it spelled. Yes. It's crazy that Smosh turned 19 and we're acting like little frickin' teenagers. Did you imagine having your last name? I can tell you what I was doing in 2005. Tell me. This is more so 2006, but it began in 2005. World of Warcraft.
Oh, wait. Yeah. There is a documentary you should watch called The Secret Life of Iblin, and you are going to add it to the list. You're going to sob. Wait, why? I don't even... Kid who fell into World of Warcraft because he played something. It's actually beautiful. It's actually a beautiful story. I don't want to go into it too much, but it's an incredible dude who played World of Warcraft.
And it's a gorgeous story. But I was so into it, man. I played high school. So I was beginning high school, but I was homeschooled because I was not. Oh, yeah. Acting. And that year actually doesn't fight sucked because I was just riddled with anxiety and stress because I was because I was so stressed by the idea of not going to high school. And it'd been a thing that I like kind of
believed in the fantasy of it my whole life. You know, when you're a kid and you see all these movies and stuff about high school, it's like, whoa, high school's gonna be crazy and my brothers were in college by this point and, or even past college by this point and talked it up so much. And we're like, oh, high school's awesome, college is awesome. And so I was like, no. High school's fine. I was not gonna go do it. I had, so I was gonna be homeschooled.
because I was pursuing acting, which I was also very excited about, but I was like, what if acting doesn't work out, and then I give up high school, and then I also don't get the acting dream, and then I just have neither. That is so much pressure for a frickin' 17-year-old. For 14-year-old. I was 14. That's crazy. It sucked. Oh yeah, you were 14. It sucked, but I played a lot of World of Warcraft.
And that helps soothe your anxieties. Yeah. You know what else happened in 2005? What? YouTube. Well, yeah, you guys were right there at the start. Yeah. You literally. So YouTube came out. You guys were making videos before YouTube came out or when YouTube came out because you were making videos. That's a great question.
I guess YouTube had already come out when we started making videos. We didn't know about YouTube yet. So you're just making them for fun. We were just making them, Anthony was hosting them on his website, and then we were uploading them onto MySpace. Oh yes, I knew that. And then when did you get the idea to start putting them on YouTube? Wait, when your MySpace started blowing up, right? Were you in school? Stop looking at your phone.
I'm looking at other events. I'm going to kill him. English whiskey is reestablished in English. The fact that you had to look this far for events it does in five and that's the best. No, this is like literally this is the most boring fucking year. No wait, Ashley Simpson got caught lip syncing. Oh, dude, that was the best. Can you imagine if that happened today?
Nobody would care. Actually, you know what? It would just be another day. You know what she would do? She wouldn't go. She would be like, I need to take a mental day to not go. And we'd all be like, get it, girl. Yeah. It was so crazy that she was forced to do it. And I get it, I get it. It's SNL, but like still. Yeah, because it's came out like she, she lost her voice. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, I asked you a question, Mr. Ian, sir. Oh, Katrina, Hurricane Katrina happened.
That's why I said nothing awesome happened that year. It was a bad year. Nothing exciting. Andrew Stimson, a 25 year old Scottish man, is reported as the first person proven to have been cured of HIV. Oh, that's great. That's cool. Okay, now put your phone down. I'll put it down now. Oh, Microsoft releases Xbox 360. Okay, Xbox 360. This is what you were like as a kid. I literally see it. Is Xbox 360 that old? No, no, don't ask him questions because then he just opened his phone up.
Oh, yeah, Xbox 360. It's like I'm in the Indiana Jones, right? It's like, look into my eyes, pull out your phone. Anyways, I had to find at least one thing that was interesting about 2005. I don't even remember my question. Do you think if you guys went to high school together, you'd have been friends? Because you were the same, like... Him and Ivy friends in high school? Are you kidding? You! She's a girl!
Holy shit. We just got a glimpse of you at 17. Oh, gross. No, guys, come on. No. Anyways, guys. Stop. Absolutely not. Here's the thing. Like, here's the thing. I don't know. Did you have any friends who had a bull cut?
Absolutely not, no. Oh, well, then I feel like that sounds good. No. I mean, I was kind of wild when I was 17. I was literally wild. I didn't, I wasn't like part of like the popular. You don't think I was wild? You were?
No. You and Anthony were doing, like, filming yourselves on webcam being born. I... I like how there's physical proof that Ian was not crazy. It's true. By making sketches. It's true. Listen. I'm so... I'm not trying to say... You're right. I really fucked up. I shouldn't have started a channel with my friend that employs all you motherfuckers. You're right. You know what? My childhood was a disaster, okay?
Listen, Ian, maybe we would be friends. I don't know, okay? I had a life. I was working. I was, no, here's the thing, I literally, I was in a job and I had like a bunch of sports and I was in a play, like I was so effing busy. I mean, I still had a lot of friends, but like, you know what? I'm not going down this road anymore. Ian? No, let's go down that road. Definitely, I don't know.
I actually can't say that I know. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Ian and I weren't living your life. We were both starting our careers. Yeah. We were. We were. We were focused on the crisis. I was on. I was about to be on iCarly in two years. No. And he was. Yeah. What do you do? Drinking and boofing. Boofing. I can't say that anymore because I was underage. Here's the deal. What's boofing?
We don't need to get into it. Actually, I don't wanna know. Here's the deal. I was from the East Coast. The East Coast doesn't look at your careers as like possibilities. Do you think, do you think people looked at what I was doing as a possibility? But they still let you do it. I didn't have time to just like your parents. Oh. I didn't have to, like my mom was like, you need to like work and get a job and make money and buy a car, then you need to go to college, and then you need to get in a job. So it was like, I didn't really have that like freedom. I don't know.
So maybe we would have been friends. I don't know. I can make a dent in this row that you are. I don't think. I don't. Do you like theater? Were you in place? No. Exactly. Yeah. I don't think we would have been in the same group. No, definitely not. That's usually why I was thinking with like, we were all like, it was like kind of like indie kids. Okay. Yeah. Like some indie, kind of like emo indie kids. That's right. I don't know. Some emo kids.
Yeah. Yeah. The theater of life. You were never emo though. No. I wasn't emo. I was not emo. I dressed like I was going to Spain on a trip. Like, I don't know why. Every time I look back on pictures, I'm wearing like these long skirts or like these low-rise jeans and like some Hollister shirts and then like random like scarves. I'm like, who dressed me? But it was all hand-me-outs. It was that era though. It was that era. Scarf.
The scarf era. I forgot about the scarf. Straight straight hair. I had thin eyebrows. Yeah. Full on. Did you see clips of that movie where it's like, it's that Netflix movie where she's like, she goes back to 2003 and she's like looking around, but people have been talking about how it's like, it's just not quite there, but someone pointed out it's like none of their eyebrows are thin. None of their eyebrows are thin enough. And it's just like, you missed that. Yeah. And that is so crucial. Yep.
But then eyebrows were cute. I even looked back on my senior picture and I was like, woman, what did you do? What's kind of a funny thing that I'm thinking about is that I didn't have sisters. And so growing up back then, I think I maybe thought that's what everybody's eyebrows looked like naturally. Oh, no. I just was like, that's just what eyebrows look like. Because I didn't have any, oh.
Uh-oh. I'm trying to think back on what I probably thought back then. Frost me, mine was one big large eyebrow that was like super thick. And my sister was like, yikes, you gotta get rid of that. And I remember feeling so insecure. So we went on a trip and I shaved down the center of my eyebrow. And then I slipped and shaved the second half of my eyebrow. Like a Charlie Puth.
This part was off and I- Half of your eyebrow was missing. Yes, so I only had this much of my eyebrow there. How do you fuck up that bad? This half was Lex Luthor. Yes, because when you're an insecure girl and your sisters are like, what are you literally doing, you idiot? So I was like, huh, I did it super fast. I was so upset and I remember coming out and my sisters were like, oh my God, you look idiot. How long did that take to go back?
forever because my mom was like, are there photos of you with this? I don't remember. I have to look. Here's the thing. I fucked up a lot of my appearance, but that's for another story. I, my mom was like, I will take care of it. Don't worry about it. And she put black eyeliner in the spot. So I had a full half eyebrow, black eyeliner, but I kept smearing it. And my, I mean, I don't remember old enough.
Old enough for me to be mortified. Oh, yeah. You thought your life was over. Oh, my life was over. And then I cut my bangs too short, and they were like, like, my life was fucked. I once like curled my hair up in a brush, and it wasn't a curling brush, so it got stuck. Oh, no. When mothers would walk past, they'd blind their children. They'd be like, don't look at her.
I got stuck and I was trying to curl it. How do you curl it without heat? So I tried to take it out and my mom had to cut it out. So my, I had things that were literally here, like half an inch for a long time, a long time. You sound like a mess. I can't bobby pin those. I don't think Ian would have been friends with you. That's the thing. I wasn't even trying, I wasn't even trying to be an asshole. I wasn't even trying to be an asshole. Like I was wild. You sound like a mess.
I was wild, man. Did you have boyfriends? Yes. In high school? Yes. You say that like there's a waiting list.
No, I mean, well, I don't know. That's for. I was boy crazy. Yes, I had a boyfriend in high school. I had a long boyfriend through out junior to high school. And then I had, shut up. And then I had another. I had a boyfriend who was a skateboarder. You don't call them tall. You don't call them long. No, I didn't mean long. I meant a long time we were together. None of them were really that tall.
Yeah, there was a skateboarder who had a skateboard tattooed on the side of his body and it was broken. That's so cool. And you were like, literally, I was like, I love you. I was like, I love you. Yep. I was, I don't know. I was just thinking about the things that appeal to us. Yeah. Do you have a girlfriend in school? No.
You keep proving my point that we wouldn't hang out. Anyway. I did not either. But I was also boy crazy. You were boy crazy, Anthony crazy? You were home, you didn't have the opportunity. I know, I mean, I was out, I kind of had a like pseudo high school experience of just like actor kids.
You know, it kind of replicated. I've talked about this before where it was similar to high school except the cool kids were like on TV shows. So it's kind of like they had a basis for being cool. It was the entire Zoey 101 cast. They ran in the same circles as all of us. And it was like, well, they're fucking cool because they're on Zoey 101.
That's too hard. Mine are just like skateboarders and dirt bikers who are just wearing jean shorts past their knees. And I'm like, I'm into you. You have like really hot people on camera. That's true. That's just crazy. And you have, you know, and you're there. And you have Anthony in Sacramento. And you're cool as mom, because you're dumb as. Yeah. Ian's mom. Ian's mom. No, I wouldn't have had a girlfriend. I wouldn't have had a girlfriend if I went to high school. I know that.
Okay, but you got a girlfriend. I didn't have a girlfriend until I was in my 20s. Yeah, wow. It took me forever, man. Wait, when was your first kiss? I was 14. Oh, oh, yeah. It was like truth or it was a true situation. But then I did have my first kiss when I was, I still had it when I was 14 or 15. Got it. Nice. But then like then everything else 20s got you. You say lucky when was your first kiss? I was like 17. That's great. Yeah.
I think nowadays it's that's like far more. Well nowadays young people just aren't doing anything.
No. It's fucking hard. I feel like the internet, I feel like the internet has just made social connections. It makes me so sad. Bad. Because back when, I honestly, you know what it is? It's like back then, 2005, people are just bored more often. And when you're just, when everything's a little more boring, connection just kind of happens because you're bored and it's like, oh. A smosh started. That's what you said. I mean, truly, I think the lack of boredom is what everyone's just so, I don't know, I just, I think it messes things up. You gotta be bored and horny.
Yeah. And you and Anthony started here. And that's why. And that's why. And we channeled that board in Horny into Mortal Kombat theme song music video. Yeah. Where you can see. Food battle. Bear ass in the figure out.
People often say food battle is the most bored and horny series of all time. This is why I shut the door when I'm in the bathroom. Two, what? So I'm in there by myself long enough to get bored and horny. Wow, that's a long time. Like I urge everybody, like when do people usually listen to this?
What what days does this come out? I don't know if people listen on Mondays. Okay. All right, so here's a little homework for you guys That are over the age of 18 You know just like lock your lock yourself in a room and just get bored and horny
Trust me, I think people are doing that. I don't think people are bored. Oh, you're right. They're not bored. They're overstimulated. Yeah. The horny part is not, I don't think it's necessary. Take the distractions out of your life. Let the boredom come. The horny will follow. So true. I'm starting a cult. Wow, what is it called? I don't know, but that's going to be the tenant. Bored and horny by Ian.
B&H. I'll call it B&H. I don't think that's taken. Okay. Yeah. Go ahead. Smosh. This is our best episode, guys. You think so? Wow. Thanks. This reminds me of the Spencer episode.
Yeah, we're gasoline. Everything we're saying, I'm like, can you keep this in? I don't know, but we're going to. What do you think Smosh would be like as a person? So it'd be a 19 year old. Oh, a 19 year old in 2005. I don't think it'd be a no, no, a 19 year old now. Oh, what do you think Smosh would? Oh, yeah, they just turned 19. I think Smosh, I think Smosh would be, I'm getting like
I was saying gonna be like kind of emo skater vibe from it, but no. No. No. More theater. Yeah. More theater, but like, cool. But it would be cool. It had to be all the eras kind of combined. So like a theater skater kid. I see it. I like where he's into cinema. Oh, he's super into cinema. Super into cinema. He has a lot of books. He reads a lot. He's not afraid to get a little bit vulnerable. Just a little bit. You think he's a boy?
I kind of do. I kind of think. I can see that. I can see that. But maybe he's a best friend who's a girl. Oh. And she does like parkour and she has like big headphones and she's got tattoos everywhere and her hair is like a little bit pink. Is it platonic or is it? Well, we don't know yet. We have to get to the end of the chapter. Smosh doesn't fuck. Smosh is ace. Are we calling it? Is Smosh ace? No, I don't think Smosh is ace. I think Smosh is chosen. No.
I disagree. I think Smosh is getting into its error words. Smosh is incel? I could. Smosh fucks. Okay, the chosen is not incel. The chosen is sell. Okay. But you just... That's fair. Chosen is actually the opposite of it incel. I've talked about that before. Okay. At least internal law. He chooses the path. He chooses it. And incel says it's involuntary. Yeah.
You choose the path to never touch another person like that. Yeah. Unless too focused, he has priority. Oh, for war? You still need to see... God, what's the name of that? It's a Forest Whitaker movie. Has it really taken her? Panic Room? Lasting Scotland, I've seen it.
No, I'm gonna pull it outside. No, it's the most rogue one. I've seen it. No, it's like literally the most chosen movie. You know what? I think this is what Smosh at 19 is. To be honest, it's a combination of being an Anthony is what Smosh is. It's going like, oh my God, have you seen this thing? Let me show you real quick. He's covered in tattoos. And he's covered in tattoos. I'm gonna find that. Every time I see Anthony, he has more tattoos. Yeah, he does. He had another new tattoo.
It's incredible. When are you gonna get a tattoo? I'm still painful. Do you not have a single tattoo? I don't have any tattoos. That's so funny. Whoa. Yeah. I don't either, so I don't know why I'm like. Well, what the fuck? You have tattoos. Yeah. Yeah. All on the bottom of my feet. They just say, what's up, girl? It just says Andy. You're both. Andy. I'm like, I love Woody. I love Toy Story so much. No, I don't have any tattoos.
This is the most chosen movie. It's called Ghost Dog, the way of the samurai. Oh, wait. I think I've seen this. It's the most chosen movie. It's Force Whittaker, and he is the chosen. I'm not kidding you. He lives by a samurai code, and he's a hitman.
Okay. Okay, I love that though. I don't think the chosen, yeah. The chosen one would be like the chosen like is in his own and his mom's like someone for money is just not but but but but you know, maybe he like has like a turn of like I think he does have a code. He has a code. He has a code. He falls a code for sure. Yeah, but his mom's like honey. I made a sandwich for you. He's like mom. Hold on one second. Don't need to make me anything. We have uncrustables.
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Yeah, so Smosh is up off rounds. For two years. Smosh was starting to cause Smosh at 19 has accomplished a lot. Let's be real. Smosh at 19. For sure. Yeah. Done far more than most 19 year olds. Yep. Yeah. Except for like Greta Turnberg, I would say. Oh, yeah. Smosh has not caused that much change. It's like a ship to America. It's fine. What? She didn't want to fly.
She took like a ship. A sailboat. She did not sail. She sailed. I think she did. She said, I need to be in America. I'm going to get on a sailboat. She didn't want to waste any gas. I think ships, I don't think she went to the US and about. I think she
I think she, either way. Either way. Either way. You know what is her. Smosh is impressive, not as impressive as Greta, but Smosh has, Smosh made an impact. Yeah, so you were 19.
Okay. So 19, 19, are you guys fully doing Smosh or you still have side jobs? 2007. That was 2007. That was like just as the YouTube partnership program was like we, I think around the time that we had been invited into YouTube partnership program is one of the first 10 channels to earn money. Crazy. On uploading videos.
What were the other channels that were earning money? Do you remember a few of them? I remember a few of them, like Lisa Nova, I think she was in there. There's this guy, Reneto. He was this like bald guy who was out of his mind. I think I don't know if Philip DeFranco was also in that first hand. I don't think he was. He was called sexy Phil back then. Yeah. Wow. Lisa Nova is such a callback. Yeah. I bet I don't know how many people know about her nowadays. I don't. I watched her content.
Yeah, I mean, she did like, so Lisa Nova did like sketch comedy and was one of the founders of Maker Studios. So, you know, she exited with a few Millie in her pocket, I think, when Disney bought it. But yeah, she was also on Mad TV for like one season. Crazy. Yeah. Really? Yeah, yeah. She was like the first person to go from like internet to like mainstream. It's crazy. That's really hard to do.
Yeah. What were you doing at 19? 19 was my sophomore year in college. OK.
Were you still wearing long dresses and weird bangs? No, I was pretty cool. I actually did have bangs when I was 19, only because I looked last night. I was like, what did I do? Only because pushing days was a long year. What was I looking like when I was 19? I had a very serious boyfriend. I was in a play. I was also wild. I was really figuring out what I wanted to do.
I was living in a different part of campus. Yeah, I was just like figuring out my life. Did you have a girlfriend at 19? Probably. Damn. Yeah.
Yeah, me married like God, that's so easy. Let me tell you, Shane, it is wild. When you're 19 and you have a boyfriend, your emotions are, everything is life and death. When we broke up, I was on the floor every night, solving like a God. I was so dramatic. It's nobody's ever done that to me. Really? Whoa. No, not on the floor. Oh, well, let's happen to me quite a bit. I think I opened up my heart.
19 I'd still never do that. No, I disagree with you. 19 I'd still never been in a relationship of any kind, like truly just do my thing. Honestly, like, and this is just coming from my point of view, so I'm probably wrong and I'm probably, this is probably just cope, but I think like all the relationships like before like your 20s are just like just not worth it. The best. What?
They're the best. They are literally, I was like a wild romantic. They are of no consequence. No, they are literally the best. There's nothing better than being like, Mom, I'm going to my friend Britney's house, and then you're on the back of a dirt bike, going through a quarry, almost about to flip over, and you're like, I don't know who I am right now. Okay, okay, I could see, I could see. That sounds so, that's cool, I didn't experience that at all. It's a great conduit to have that.
I suppose it's like a great conduit for like fun experiences, but I don't think.
Yeah, more than fun. Oh, okay. Wild, life change. But I don't think you're having any, I don't think hell, not a lot of healthy relationships are coming out of a, ergo the crying on the bathroom floor. Well, that was just speaking those relationships that age, but I think a lot of you'll learn from those. Yeah. I mean, I didn't have any. Or breaks. I was completely on my own until I was in my 20s.
which I look back and I'm not mad about it. I'm like, okay, I wish I don't regret not being in relationships for so for all my teenage years. I regret beating myself up about it and being so upset. If I went and relived it, I don't even know if I'd go and be like, oh, I'm going to try to be in relationships. I think I would just be like, oh, I'm just going to enjoy this time more and enjoy my hobbies and enjoy hanging out with my friends and doing that.
I don't think it matters if you did that or not. That was just like my experience. I remember I had two older sisters who went through school and I was always their younger sister. Oh, for sure. So like I just- Everyone has a different experience. That was just me. I was just like, I was just wild. Like I loved like meeting people and talking to people and even when I was a kid at like camp, like I always wanted to like talk to the frickin
people running it or have a crush on a guy. My mom was on a baseball team for all older women and a younger kid of one of the moms. Him and I would just hang out in the playground forever and my mom was like, what are you doing? I was like, we're probably going to get married. I don't know.
Something's gonna happen. I don't know. Yeah, I think we're gonna get married for sure. But I didn't even care about marriage. I just like loved like romance. Yeah. I don't know. I like, I loved it. And all of my friends around me did as well. So it never felt like weird and all my sisters did. Yeah. Interesting. Did you ever think you were gonna get that mystic pizza moment, you know? Oh my God, I love mystic pizza. My aunt lives in Mystic, Connecticut. Did you have mystic pizzas? Which part? What's the mystic pizza moment? Wait, not the...
I actually don't really remember anything about Misty. It's about a bunch of sisters. No, no, no, no. A bunch of sisters. Julie Roberts falls in love with this rich guy, and then the other sister, Nanny's, and then falls in love with the dad who's married. So honestly, neither. OK, I forgot that was the plot of Misty. I just knew it was like, Julie Roberts has a bunch of sisters, and they're in the East Coast. Yeah, they're at Mystic Pizza, which is a real place in Mystic Connecticut.
Apparently it's amazing. That's pretty cool. It's really cool. They're all Portuguese Anyways super cool stuff. I think when you live in a house with four girls though, too Yeah, it's kind of crazy and they're all older So you're seeing them get my friends too older and one younger got it But the older ones you would see them get boyfriends and you're like
I bought one of those. No. No. No. I'm more just, I remember writing my journal when they were like sleeping over a friend's house or whatever. I remember being like, I wish they were here so I could hang out with them. No, I was just like, I was an emotional little boy. Everyone. Yeah. Exactly. Not me. Yeah, were you like hard as a rock? Hard as a rock.
Stone can't get through me, don't laugh at hard as a rock. Get your head up, pull your head out of the gutter. This is such a bugged up episode. I mean, I was a teenager, so, you know, that was also possible. Okay, okay, okay. You know, it just happens. You always go, you always go there. It just happens, you know, you're in computer lab one day. Nope. You're playing 3D pinball. Nope. And, you know, you just get excited because you just, you know, hit some new high score.
Whoa, yeah. Another reason why I don't think we would have been around. I remember my friend. We had a teen center. I've heard about teen centers. It sounds insane. I know. A teen center. They exist out there. I don't know if they exist anymore. But when you're a teenager, unless you can go.
Yeah, it was a place you can go if you were a teen. What are you doing? What are you getting giggly about? I mean, I was just on the subject, and we met these girls at the teen center, and my friend got a little excited, and he had to hide it behind the pool table.
And he had to just like awkwardly, he had to just like awkwardly just stand against the pool table like this while he was talking about me. So it's crazy. It's unfortunately such a funny and real factor of like, that does suck for you guys. I remember in middle school, for me it was just like anytime I just, you sit down and it's just like, come, come the fuck off. I'd be like, you'd be like in social studies class, you'd be like, all right, and you'd sit down and just like,
Go! Hey, can you stand up and come and present? I'm like, I can't. I can't. I got a lot of Charlie Horst. We're talking about geography right now. I'm like, and I love states so much. Wow, I thought I had it hard and weird. Wait, wait. You didn't. We did. I think we need to outlaw the word hard. I don't know why I keep saying it in the wrong spot because I'm not meaning it like that.
You guys had it difficult. I thought I had it difficult You guys had a difficult time every teenager has it has a difficult that shit sucks. Yeah being a teenager sucks ass Yeah, it sucks even if everything is going right in your life. It's just your your brain just hates you
but you just feel so dramatic. And I think when you're 19, I think what's hard about that is like either you're in college or you're not in college, but you definitely have pressures from the outside world or your parents or anybody being like, what are you doing? What are you gonna do? I remember at 19 feeling like, always that like anxiety of like, what am I gonna do? What am I gonna do? What am I gonna do? You mentioned being 19 now.
No, I would hate it. I'd hate it. I'd hate it. No, I think 19 year olds now, I'm like, I can't, I wouldn't be able to handle it. Because we didn't have it. I'm so glad, I'm so glad I had far less shit. Like, yeah. To have the internet, as we have it now, I'd probably be much, I'd probably be much better at TikTok. Oh, well, sure. Well, definitely. Because I just can't handle it, man. But the problem, I actually, you know what, they've pointed this out, like 19 year olds are,
Like almost, people at a much younger age have like things figured out in a better ways. Like, you know, fashion and makeup and stuff. Like, people figured out a lot sooner because there's tutorials online. People don't really go through the blunder years like we used to. But I kind of think that's good when you have it because everyone's like ridiculous. And now it's like, oh no, you're a teenager, you have to be already.
Have it all figured out. It's hard. I think it's more pressure. It's more pressure, especially in like the vanity sense. Like it's more pressure to look as person. And no wonder super young people are more lonely than ever because, oh my God, the pressures are just crazy. Like, when everybody's a little ridiculous, it's a little easier to like kind of come together and just hang out. Yeah, like you could easily be just like a weird girl who's wild and doing theater and people are like, yeah, whatever, that's just Amanda. Like it's not like,
Oh my God. There's no barometer. See her outfit. Yeah. Like it doesn't... No, I definitely think that they have it way harder. There's so much stress and pressure. And also when you're on your phone that much too, I'm not saying that all 19-year-olds are on their phone right now, but like...
I think about it, I'm like, holy shit, just teenagers, it's past like decade, it's been just a fucking Looney Tunes. And I'm like, do you be a teenager through that? Yeah. That's your barometer for reality? Yeah. Well, at least when I was a teenager, things were kind of, as we said, kind of boring compared to now. Oh yeah. That's where we're a lot more chill. There was like nothing going on until like 2008. Yeah, I don't think anything happened ever. Or if it did.
We didn't really know about it. It's just like, and without the internet, you just truly, you didn't hear about things. Like the fact that like, Numa Numa guy was a meme for like a whole year. Nowadays, he wouldn't even go viral nowadays. Cause that's like one of a million people on TikTok. That was the biggest thing. Well, and it wasn't ironic. Yeah. So it just wouldn't hit. No. Like always being sincere, what a loser.
What a dumbass. What was he being? Yeah, I don't know. I was thinking Star Wars Kid. Star Wars Kid was being very sincere. Wait, Star Wars Kid is a chosen. That one actually makes sense. That's a chosen right there. That's an OG chosen. I love that guy. That was one of my first introductions to the internet. This is such a joy.
That was viral videos before YouTube. So the only way you could really watch it was like on file sharing, like sites. God, I remember I watched so much YouTube in college. We watched so much weird stuff, salad fingers. I still need to show you, don't hug me, I'm scared. Oh, yes. I need to show you that. I don't think we can watch it on camera because that would be like copyrighted, but your reaction to it would be incredible.
Yeah. They showed, because they made a whole TV pilot. Oh, really? For don't hug me, I'm scared. Yeah, and it got canned, and they are not allowed to air it, but they showed it at this festival at 200 times speed. And it just finished. Funny. I think it's deep, funny. And other people are like, oh, it's really scary. I'm like, it's really funny. Like, all of it is really funny. It's really funny. Yeah. Anyways, I'll show it to you. You're going to love it. OK.
And what do you think, 19 years, what do you think are some of the best moments and some of the worst moments of Smosh's 19 years of life? Oh my God. Oh my God. I mean the best moments were like definitely times when we were able to just like do something we never thought we'd be able to do.
So when we did the first big Smosh Summer Games like camp, and we did camp, that was such a unique experience where Summer Games was originally created because Smosh Games and the other parts of Smosh didn't really interact very much. So it was like, oh, this would be a fun way to bring all the channels together, but also
a bonding exercise with everybody. It's crazy to think back on Summer Games, too, where nowadays, this big stunts are normal on Smosh, where it's like, we got 100 people and put them in this place. But back then, I don't feel like it was as common. I think it was more interesting nuanced thing back then. You didn't see it as often, whereas now I don't know if it's
It was more like vlogs at that time where we're really big. People weren't really doing large production stuff. It was so much fun. But then doing Smosh the Movie was a really cool milestone and having the premiere at this legitimate theater where they do legitimate movie premieres like the Fox Theater in Westwood.
They closed down a road, had a red carpet. We had our wax figures there. Oh yeah, I've seen those pictures. It was so wild, because that was in my first month or two. I was like, I have joined a craze. There's fetus photos of the whole squad. They're super young.
Oh, I think I've seen them because I remember seeing you with your wax figure. And is it true that you don't know where your wax figure is? Don't know where it is. That's so weird to me. We have to find it. Terrifying. And the last time it was seen, he was separate from Anthony. Why would anyone separate you guys? I don't know. That's so fucked up from them, dude, because they're a bonded pair. I know, I know. They're a mated pair. And they put a VR headset on my head.
So your trap, so your part of your soul is trapped somewhere where the VR headset ends. Like Tron. Like Tron. Like the matrix. Which Tron, the old one? The old one, okay.
Um, and yeah, I mean, like, obviously, like, yeah, one of, I mean, being able to buy Smosh back and like see the way that like, it's like reenergized everything and like that, like we'll always be like one of like the coolest moments for sure. Cause it wasn't.
It was a gamble. We don't know for sure if this will work, but it seemed like the right thing to do. Things were just a little bit off before that. I was really confident in the content, and I was really confident in the people that were working here, but something just was not connecting. When Anthony came back into the fold and we made the big announcement,
I think that brought a lot of attention back to the channels, and they were like, oh, wait, this is good? Yeah. And so, yeah, it was just kind of like right place, right time. And I think, yeah, I mean, that'll always be like... I mean, it's huge. Super highlight. Yeah, it's huge. It was so cool to be a part of, too. Those are all some good...
Yeah. Good reference. You have worst ones. Oh, worse ones. Sure. The defy collapse. I would count. Anthony leaving. Anthony leaving. That was that was kind of a nightmare.
And those were two years apart, basically. Anthony leaving and the Defy Claps were about a roughly a little over a year, a year and a half apart. So that was like a really shitty year and a half. It was just like, wow, all right. Yeah, we're trying new things. And for me, it was like, okay, I need to redefine what Smosh is and bring the attention to like,
everybody and like make it very clear like this isn't like an Ian and Anthony thing, which it already wasn't before he. Right. But I think people still had that idea that that's what Smosh was. I guess as you say, it wasn't shitty. It just was like every year I kind of had this like chaotic moment to it. Yeah, it was scary at times. It was scary. It was definitely precarious. And it was just hard. It was really hard to make
sketch comedy in LA because of the cost. So like in Sacramento, it was, it was easy because like our crew was, it was cheaper to produce content there. We had like a studio that we could create stuff and we can go outside and get like permits for like a hundred bucks. We can get a house for like 200 bucks.
Amazing. And you come to LA and people are like, we want like $3,000 for a day rental at a house for $2,000. Impossible. And like permits would be insane. And so like then we were like relegated to like shooting all our sketches like in the offices or in like the on the stage at DeFi, which was
Tiny. It was crazy. Some of those early try not to laughs are in a room. It's like a fraction of the size of this room. Truly a little tiny closet that we were shooting some of those, but we did it.
Yeah, and I always felt like, you know, we'd eventually wind up, you know, with our own studio. I was always like pushing, like, when are we going to get our own studio? When are we going to get our own studio? And I was like, I kept pointing to this area of LA that was not where we were.
because that time we were at the Defy Offices, which were in Beverly Hills for some dumbass reason. Nobody lives in Beverly Hills. It was an old rich dude. The old rich. And now we film here in Barstow.
Yeah, Rancho Cucamonga. Rancho Cucamonga. And it's great. So it really feels like, yeah. So that was a bad time. What else was shit? I would count this as worst time, but also good time, which was the celebrity prank interviews. I hated doing them. I was not here during that time, but I've definitely seen those videos. I did one, and that's probably one of the biggest rushes of my life.
Because it's cringy. You actively know that you know that your job is to make someone kind of uncomfortable and weirded out and they're a celebrity that you are meeting for the first time. I could never do that.
And when I did it, I didn't know I was gonna be doing it. So they literally were like, yeah, put on this kaiju outfit. Oh yeah, I've heard this. You're about to go interview them. And I was like, it was such a trip and I got very lucky and they were really cool. But it was still, I was like- They must have been prepped. No? Yeah, I mean, they always knew that we were gonna be asking them weird questions. So you didn't like it either?
I know because I get really, really nervous. And you had to do it with the rock. I did it with the rock. I did it with Jennifer Lawrence. I did it with Tom Hiddleston. Oh my God. Did it with Chris Pratt. Nope. And it was just like nerve wracking and I hated the lead up to it.
And I was so freaking nervous and like I just kind of black out like during during the actual like performance. And like whenever I heard like, oh yeah, like universal reached out. They want they want to do a video with this celebrity. I was just like.
Guys, I don't know, I don't know. And even back in the mythical era, that kept getting pitched and I was like, I know. I struggled to watch those interviews even when they're normal.
Yeah. And I think like also like audience sentiment has like changed where like cringe content isn't really like preferred anymore. Like they want you to like kind of be the avatar for them like being there with the celebrity. And if you're being like a cringy disaster, that makes the viewer feel bad. Interesting. So I feel like we saw a shift in like audience reception to those prank interviews where people are like,
This is too uncomfortable for me to walk. Interesting. Yeah. I'm happy to see it dead and gone and I don't want to do another one. Okay. You won't. Putting it out there. Right now, I'm not doing another one. You won't. And now we know. And now we know. Because we had one planned. It's probably going to happen. We did have it. We were going to have you interview. All right, let's bring Barack Obama in.
Actually, I would do I would do it with Barack Obama. I feel like he would be so cool. He'd be prepped. The Secret Service would prep him. Yeah. The Secret Service. Timothy Chalamet would be funny. I don't know if he has Secret Service. Timothy Chalamet doesn't. When you're, yeah, you have the privilege for life. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. So cool. Yeah, that's pretty cool. Did you see the picture of Jimmy Carter? Yes.
Jimmy Carter is like 500 years old. Have you seen this photo of him? I think I know who Jimmy Carter is. What's the photo? You said you think you know who Jimmy Carter is? Yeah. I know who Jimmy Carter is. But if you ask me to give you a definition of him right now, I would probably be like, hmm.
A definition of him. He's a president? Yeah! Yeah! No, I know who he is, but I don't know anything about him. You don't know like what you wouldn't know what he looks like and stuff? No. It's okay. I know what George wants. For sure, the photo. No, don't let her see him in his golden age first.
Show me. He's just so photo. You know when people are like so old. Oh, no. Like, I don't want to see one of those photos. Like, you know, everyone has that at some point in your life, you have that one relative where it's like, oh, and grandma, Judy's here and you look over and grandma, Judy's just like, yeah.
He's at that stage. Yeah, it's like, you know, like Judy Shane's here. It's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, like Clint Eastwood when you're like, oh my God, Clint Eastwood, who's always looked old, even though he looks great, whatever. And now you see a picture of him, even Tommy Lee Jones, I can't, I promise you, I, I, I've,
This is something that I've internalized since I was young, is when I am that old, and I like, you know, because you just don't have any faculties left. Okay, right of you. Don't worry. No, no, no. Don't get rid of me yet, because I just want to be silly. I just want to, with the last ounces of my strength and mental fortitude, I'm going to use it to be silly. So it'll be like, so when I'm like that, when I look like that,
Oh. When I look like that. He's dead in this way. You think he is, but he's still here. He's still with us. But when I'm like- If I look like that, end it. No. Yes, just push the chair. When I'm 90, if I live to be 100 years old and they're like, oh, here's Grandpa Shane, say hi. I'm going to make sure with my last willpower, I'm just going to be like. Because that'll be funny.
These pictures are ruining Amanda right now. I cannot.
but he was president. Thank you. He was also, he was a hundred years old. No, I know. How long ago was he president? Forever ago, in the 70s. Several presidents, or at least one president after him has already passed away. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, just one president. I think he's the oldest living. He's the oldest living president. Those pictures are horrendous. Yeah. Because the tough part is like, maybe it's a picnic and you have to show up and you're like, I brought cheese. And then you look over and you're like,
You're just throwing cheese puffs into a spell. Oh, no. Shame. This is so awful. I just don't know what happened to us. That's why it's like, it's like, it's like a Venus fly trap. You know, you stick it, you stick it in there and then it closes. It's like watching people at Habachi. You know, people at Habachi where they just open their mouths? No.
You put the whole egg into it right a sketch where I'm the guy on a bocce girl who once I sit down I open my mouth that I'm waiting the entire time for the shrimp And they're like we haven't even started cooking. I've got your order yet. I'm like I'm hungry I Was in San Diego and and they had this isn't about Jimmy Carter so I can talk about it. Okay, shut up
Don't you dare. And these people rented a hibachi chef on the beach. They had a table set up and he was throwing eggs in their mouth on the beach.
He hadn't even cooked him yet. I was like, that's sick. It's all the yolk. Just... Ian, it has been a joy. This is how we're ending it. I'm cool. We're out of time and half of this is going to be cut. Smosh is 19 years old. And we decided to bring Ian up. Next year is going to be huge 20 years. 20 years.
We got to make sure we make it. We're going to make it. You're going to make it Amanda. I'm going to make sure Smosh doesn't go under again. Hopefully if you keep me around, I'm saying Smosh, Smosh has to make it to 20. Smosh. And this episode will prove that we will make it. All right. After this episode comes out, we have zero subscribers. They all fall. Do you think Jimmy Carter is going to make it?
All right, guys. Thank you so much for watching this absolutely unhinged episode. We love you. Subscribe to Smosh. Subscribe to Smosh. Get those subscribers. We love you guys. Thanks for letting us have become a member. Yeah, episode. OK, bye. All right, bye, bye. Happy 19.
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