Smosh Mouth - #130 - Everyone Wants Us To Talk About This

Episode Date: February 9, 2026

Our cast and crew have a lot of interests and Shayne and Amanda dig into them! Go to https://DRINKAG1.com/SMOSHMOUTH to get a FREE AG1 Flavor Sampler and AGZ Sampler to try all the flavors, plus FREE Vitamin D3+K2 and AG1 Welcome Kit with your first AG1 subscription order! Smalls New Year’s Special - get 60% off your first order, plus free shipping, when you head to https://Smalls.com/SMOSHMOUTH. For a limited time, save up to $300 on the Tovala smart oven when you order meals 6+ times, by visiting https://Tovala.com/SMOSHMOUTH and using code SMOSHMOUTH.PODCAST:https://bit.ly/SmoshMouthSpotifyhttps://smo.sh/SmoshMouthiHearthttps://bit.ly/SmoshMouthApple 0:00 Intro5:04 Kpop!12:09 Sponsor!13:40 Pirates20:09 The Montauk Project22:31 Spoiler Alert: Stranger Things22:56 Spoiler Alert end23:56 What conspiracy theories do we believe in?28:09 HEATED RIVALRY!30:16 Sponsor!31:46 Favorite TV/movie tropes40:30 Lost43:09 Keeping my career in tact45:45 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine48:28 Smiling Friends50:06 Bidets52:17 Sponsor!53:45 Johnny Appleseed56:25 Water bottle wars57:54 The Curse of the Billy Goat1:00:39 Rubik’s cube1:01:45 Walmart1:04:47 Dueling weapons1:05:58 I Love Lucy1:08:31 High School Musical1:10:21 10 years ago1:11:38 Alexcina solving a Rubik’s cube & Dance Moms1:13:46 PrimalSUBSCRIBE: https://smo.sh/Sub2SmoshCastWEAR OUR JOKES: https://smosh.com WHO YOU HEARShayne Topp // https://www.instagram.com/shaynetopp/Amanda Lehan-Canto // https://www.instagram.com/filmingamanda/WHO YOU DON’T HEAR (usually)Director: Selina GarciaEditor: Rock ColemanProducer: Amanda Lehan-Canto, Shayne Topp, Selina GarciaProduction Designer: Cassie VanceArt Director: Erin Kuschner, Josie BellerbyAssistant Art Director: Courtney ChapmanProp Master: Abby SchmidtStage Manager: Alex AguilarSet Dresser: Alex MolloAudio Mixer: Scott NeffAudio Utility: Dina RamliDirector of Photography: Brennan IketaniVideographer: Eric Wann, James HullPodcasts Producer: Selina GarciaAssistant Director: Jonathan HyonExecutive Vice President of Production: Amanda BarnesDirector of Production: Alexcina FigueroaProduction Manager: Jonathan HyonProduction Coordinator: Oliver Wehlander, Zianne HooverProduction Assistant: Caroline SmithDirector of Post Production: Luke BakerDIT/Lead AE: Matt DuranDIT/AE: Beni KimuenePost Production Coordinator: Ariana MartinezIT: Tim BakerIT & Equipment Coordinator: Lopati Ho CheeSound Editor: Gareth HirdDirector of Design: Ness CardanoSenior Motion & Branding Designer: Christie HauckGraphic Designer: Monica RavitchDirector of Channel Operations: Lizzy JonesChannel Operations Manager: Audrey CarganillaChannel Operations Coordinator: Sabrina LiebermanDirector of Social Media: Erica NoboaSocial Media Associate Producer: Peter DitzlerSocial Media Manager: Kim WilbornSocial Media Coordinator: Margaux BernalesSocial Editor: Vida RobbinsMerchandising Manager: Mallory MyersBrand Partnership Manager: Chloe MaysBrand Partnerships Coordinating Producer: Liz KummerOperations Manager: Marshall PeaseFinancial Operations Specialist: Natalie LewisTalent Coordinator: Danielle MosesPeople & Culture Manager: Katie FinkFront Office Assistant: Sara FaltersackCEO: Alessandra CataneseExecutive Producers: Anthony Padilla, Ian HecoxEVP of Programming: Kiana ParkerAssociate Producer, Special Projects: Rachel CollisExecutive Assistant: Katelyn HempsteadOTHER SMOSHES:Smosh: https://smo.sh/Sub2SmoshSmosh Pit: https://smo.sh/Sub2SmoshPitSmosh Games: https://smo.sh/Sub2SmoshGamesSmosh Alike: https://bit.ly/SubToSmoshAlikeFOLLOW US:TikTok: https://smo.sh/TikTokInstagram: https://instagram.com/smoshFacebook: https://facebook.com/smosh

Book club on Monday. Gym on Tuesday. Date night on Wednesday. Out on the town on Thursday. Quiet night in on Friday. It's good to have a routine. And it's good for your eyes too. Because with regular comprehensive eye exams at Specsavers,

you'll know just how healthy they are. Visit Spexsavers.cavers.cai to book your next eye exam. I exams provided by independent optometrists. Hi, welcome to Smosh Mouth. I'm Shane. And I'm Amanda, just Amanda. Our special guest today is actually kind of everyone at Smosh in a way. Yeah, that's so true. Because what we have today is a curated episode where Selena reached out to everyone who works at Smosh and asked them, hey, what do you want us to talk about? And we got a list here of a bunch of varying topics.

Yeah. If you guys want to see one of the other curated episodes we've done, we did one for Kiana's birthday where Courtney presented the episode that Kiana curated for us, and it was so much fun. And I think pretty soon we're going to do a Courtney episode, where Courtney's going to come on, and all of the topics are her pitches. Spoiler! Yeah. But we have a bunch here today, but before we get into this, how are you doing?

We're doing great. Nice. I was just saying, I feel, I don't know why January feels like the busiest month on the... It's like everyone in the world is like, okay, we rested. So we have to get back to everything. Like it feels like everyone is trying to do it all in January. It's kind of funny that you say that because January and February for me are always very slow empty months for me. What?

Whereas the summer and fall, October is always hell. Yeah, yeah. It is the busiest month of my life. Same with September. September, October are nuts. And then January, February, it feels kind of like. there's like a weird, like, it feels like low tide. And then, and then March, it starts to pick up.

And by May, it's like, okay, things are busy. And then my summers are always so busy. Whoa. I don't know why. It's not like I, it's not like I can foresee it. Maybe it's just my energy. Yeah. Because I really slow down in December.

Like, I'm like, peace out night. I want to, but sometimes I can't. See, I think December and then early January, we're crazy because we did our Smosh Hospital live show. that I was creative director for. So, like, I'd been working on that. So cool. I've been working on that. How long were you working on that for?

I came up with the story pitch in June, and I was talking to George Primavera back then, and he was writing the script. I was, like, giving notes on it all throughout June and July, and then started working on production of it, and, like, all the improv elements I was coming up with for, like, all of last year, and meeting with Jeremy to, like, punch up the script and add things. Yeah. It was so much fun. It was really fun. You guys were doctors. If you haven't seen it, you guys were doctors, you guys were switching off with other castmates who were basically like your doppelganger, like you guys became one. And then there were just surprised improv elements and I got to be one of them. Keith and Noah and Anthony and Damien and Chance. We all got to be like surprise. We're here and you guys didn't know it. And that was actually really thrilling for us. I'll let you guys know if it becomes available again. I'm sure it will be available at some point.

But to all those who watched it, thank you. I mean so much. Yeah, the letterboxed reviews are... Yeah. Perfect. And then, but yeah, things are pretty chill right now. As of this airing, the Super Bowl was yesterday. Oh, my God, I'm so glad they won.

I know. I can't believe they won. Truthfully, realistically. If I'm a betting man, the Seahawks won. The Seahawks won. won the Super Bowl. What? If the Seahawks didn't win the Super Bowl, it was an upset and it was kind of crazy.

What are you going to do if they didn't win? Well, if the Broncos one, I'm getting a perm. We know. If the Patriots won, I'm just really bummed out. So by this time, when this comes out, you're going to have a perm. Maybe not yet. I maybe need to grow my hair out more, but it's on its way. It's going to happen soon.

So if the Broncos one, look forward to that. I can't wait. If the Patriots one, you're going full platinum, you're trimming your eyebrows off. No. Getting a spray tan. No, but I'll do like a little fun slit in this eyebrow. You're going to do that? And then I'll make this one really, really thin, and then I'll be really tan.

And then I'll just wear silver. Okay, great. Yeah. So if the Patriots won, you're doing that. And low-cut jeans. Great. Show up my tan. If the Rams won, Scott's going to make all of our content boom only.

Wow. No more microphones, no more loaves, only booms. Yeah. I love that. And then if Seahawks win, Selena, I don't know. What are you going to do? She's going to shave her head?

Yep. No, she's not. She has beautiful hair. She's not going to shave her head. Actually, we can't have that happen. Yeah, we cannot have that happen. We can't have that happen. Guys, the Broncos have to win.

But no matter what, bad bunny, crushed it. Crushed. Absolutely crushed. Yeah. Killed it. Do we want to get into some of these topics? We have a lot of topics to talk about. Okay, so we asked everyone who were,

Everyone. And some are anonymous. Some said their names, so we know where some of the topics came from. But I have all the topic pitches right here on the side. Yay. All right. Let's get into it. First one, K-pop.

It just says K-P. I wonder who. Guess who you think it was. It was Ollie. Okay. They wrote, BTS coming back from the military and having a music comeback and what their general opinions are on K-pop music as a whole. What are general opinions are on K-P as a whole.

about K-pop. BTS has been gone for five years. Because they had to go to the military. They had to do military service. That's wild. They were literally BTS Army. That's so wild. And now the BTS Army gets to come back.

It was kind of, it had to be insane to be like the number one, like, musicians in the world. And they'd be like, we have to leave and go do something else. Crazy thought. Is that why they release K-pop Demon Hunter so people could feel a little bit satisfied in the moment? Oh, well, Capeop is still. On. K-pop is still gigantic. Yeah, huge.

But, I mean, that movie did rock. Yeah. And I will admit, when I was scrolling through Netflix one day and I came across K-pop demon hunters, I was like, oh, this is for kids, whatever. That's what I thought too. Oh, my God. And then a couple friends of mine, my friend Shelby Young was like, have you watched K-pop demon hunters?

And I was like, no. And she's like, I've watched it five times. And I was like, five? I was like, okay, at that point, she's probably watched it 20 times by now. And then I was talking about it here at work And Ian was like, oh, I've watched it twice People were like, everyone's obsessed with it It does make sense to me

And I finally watched it and I was like, damn, this This slaps, it's fun I can't wait I've not seen it yet K-pop rocks I've been listening to K-pop for a long time I think I started listening to it occasionally At the gym

I want to say like eight years ago Whoa Just off and on I'm more of like a singles person I don't listen to like an album but I kind of in particular love the first K-pop song that really I was like, damn this hits is that song by Twice T-T.

The music video is psychotic. Like they're just, it just hits different. There's a type of energy. What it reminds me of, what K-pop reminds me of, is pop music in America back in like 2000. Yes, yes. Like in sync when it was like choreographed dances, it was flashy, it was shiny.

Insync, Backstreet Boys, Spice Girl. It was like that vibe. And we kind of have lost that a little. I think it's coming back now because of K-pop. I think we thought it was like, I think we were like, oh, we've moved on from that because it's not cool. But it was so cool. I got served a video, and I forgot about this, when InSink did the National Anthem for the World Series back in 2000. And they're all sitting there.

And now to sing the national anthem, it's in sync. And there's booze in the crowd because it's a sports crowd. And they're like, in sync, this boy band. And they start singing. We slayed it. And everybody silences. Of course. And then by the end, everyone's like, yeah!

Because they were that good. They were my boy band. Oh, I loved insane. No strings attached. I fucking had that CD. I had that album too. I was listening to that shit. Do you remember that music video with the model, like running around?

Like, whoa. Music videos were crazy back then. Music videos were, they were your resume. They were like, they were everything. Yeah. It's the slow, like, the slow fade in. And then you just hear, hey, hey. It's actually one of my favorite.

karaoke songs to do like, hey, hey, hey. I miss how campy, like, people would sing back then. Or, or, like, um, J.C. J.C. would come in and he's like, yeah, yeah. Like, he sings so, but Justin's like, yeah, yeah. What are your thoughts on Chris Kirkpatrick Patrick? Chris Kirkpatrick. You, you almost forgot.

You mean Google? Google, goggles? You mean Google? You mean Google? You mean Google, goggles? So, he's there. He just got off the ski trip. He got off the ski list. And he came in the back and it was like, yeah.

Do you think the goggles were his choice? I definitely think he was like, I got to figure out some way. No, wardrobe was like, we have nothing for you. Put on the goggles now. Your goggles, man. Like. Your guy who's going fast. I.

Or swimming. But Joey. Joey Fatone. Joey's doing well. Yeah, a lot of them are doing well. I don't know how. Actually, you know what? I say a lot of them are doing well.

I have not checked up. Lance Bass is doing well. I've not checked up on a lot of them in a long time. JT had some had some. It thinks, but he's, I will forever love JT. I'm sorry, I love him. Like that era of JT. No, but I still, I still love Justin Timberlake.

Like, that album Mirrors, I think it was called. It was so good. Like, he's just an excellent, amazing performer, but. Wasn't he, but he was awful to Brittany, though. That, that came out. He was awful to Britney. And like, and like, so tough. That's, I would say Britney Spears, like, that's the biggest, like, the biggest L of millennials

when it comes to pop culture. Like, we completely let her down. And she rocked. I was such a Britney fan too. Of course. When her and J.T. showed up in all denim. That was the hit. But anyways, K-pop.

But anyways, all right. So back to K.A. You guys know in sync members. Can you name any BTS members? I cannot. I can name it. Junk is one of them, right? Is that BTS?

Yeah. Yeah. So Ali says, Yes, that's BTS. The Junk Cook is the only BTS member I know because he had a single that was a big, big hit.

But I don't know all of them. Do you want to know how I knew? I don't listen to a lot of BTS. I'll be honest, the K-pop that I love are the girl groups. I think the music just hits different. I think like twice, new jeans.

Katzai? Katzai is Katzai K-pop? They're, eh. It's like modeled after K-pop. Okay, okay. Do you want to know how I first heard about BTS? What's up? in a Smosh video when we were doing a sketch,

remember, BTS Army, like the sketch that we did, and I was playing like this general. We did a sketch forever going out. And I was like, I didn't know anything about it. I didn't know anything. And people like, I stand BTS, and I was like, I don't know what you're saying.

I don't know. What is it? I have located the most powerful army in the world. Not only have they disrupted political rallies. They have also thwarted bigoted online campaigns, but they're also capable of mobilizing millions in a matter of minutes. Who is it?

The BTS Army. These are just a bunch of teenage girls. And Derek. And me. Technically, I'm 36. Anyways. Oh, and Black Pink. Black Pink.

That's the shit I love. Like, the sound is just a little different. Yeah. I feel like. And I rock with it. You rock with it? It's super good, man. You Ashanti rock with it?

Yeah, dude. I do. Is that Ashanti? Or is that Alchanti? Alia. Oh my gosh. I'm now transported into this other universe. I know. We're back in time. Okay. Okay. Moving on.

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Great. He said not really, actually. This meant no. Our next topic is pirates and how they are incredibly gay. Parenthesis, the TV show Black Sales. You better make sure black sales. Oh, my God. So you love Black Sales?

Okay. I will say, I watch a lot of Black Sales. and then I couldn't finish it because it just got so, like, sad. Really? Yeah, it did, but it is. Gay? Gay.

Yeah, I mean, you got a bunch of sweaty, half-naked men on a boat out in the middle of nowhere. What do you think is going to happen? I don't know, tell me. Some gay stuff. Yeah, totally. Agreed.

I mean, realistically, pirates. It's such a crazy. Well, you know what's wild about the era of pirates is it's such a short little period of time. But. And it's because there was a big war, I think it was between, was it England and France,

but there was a big naval war. And then after that war, you had a bunch of sailors who were out of a job. And so it's like, what are we going to do? So, like, the era of pirates wouldn't work

because it's not easy to learn how to run a ship. But there's still pirates to this day. Oh, yes, but it's not like the era, that era of pirates was crazy. I mean, there's always going to be, pirates there always was there's pirates back in ancient times what's uh what's the main pirates

name again black beard the other guy oh i don't know black sails that well there's black beard there's what is it i mean davy jones is the myth jack sparrow well that's johnny dev that's johnny dep that's drunk johnny death yeah jack sparrow um wow pirates i i do love pirates i feel like i feel like we also as a Kid, pirates were a huge deal. Oh, yeah. Well, it's because Pirates of the Caribbean came out when we were kids. No, it didn't. It's not like 2003, 2001.

Honey, I was freaking not a kid. Was I? Was I a kid? I was still my last years of being a kid. Oh, yeah. Maybe I guess. I guess you're right. You're right.

I love those. I love pirates. Oh, I love pirates. Oh, I love pirates. Because every summer when I was a kid, I would go to Key West. and so we would be out on a boat out in the ocean in Key West and I'm like this is prime pirate territory. And I was just like, I was like, it would be so sick to be a pirate.

Obviously it wouldn't be. It would be awful. It would be awful. But in the Goonies, I remember watching the Goonies and I was like, oh my God, these pirates are dead here, down here and they're stuck. Oh, that sucks. Yeah, in Oregon or wherever the hell that is. It feels like a, it is, it is an Oregon. No, they weren't there.

No, they weren't there. Pirates were not in Oregon. No. But pirate to me was always like this mysterious, like living out on the sea. Like I always really, really excited me and scared me. It's really crazy. Like, ships, like being on a ship, on a wooden ship back in that time, you're going to die. Do you get seasick?

No. Same. Not at all. I had a, Courtney threw me a birthday party once. On this open sea? On a sailboat. And she surprised me with a sailboat and with a bunch of friends. And it was awesome.

But boy, did I learn how many of my friends get seasick? Because it's a sailboat, which is moving everywhere. I was having a great time. Of course. This is shortly after I'd broken my ankle. So I couldn't move around that much. So I kind of like was planted at one part of the boat. But I mean, lots of people were throwing up over the side of the boat.

I felt bad. But I had a great time. I mean, you had a great time. You're like, yay. People were like, oh. I was singing sea shanties. But yeah, there's an incredible book I read last year. It's not pirates, but it's called The Wager.

And it's a true story about how back in the 1700s, England was sending basically like hired pirates. They weren't pirates, but they were sent to go and basically rob Spanish galleons. Because they were against Spain and they were like, we got a bunch of Spanish galleons on the Pacific side. of South America, we want to sneak these boats over there to go steal a cold from them. I think it's something along those lines,

but one of their boats, shipwrecks at the bottom of South America, and they get stranded on an island down there, and nobody in the world knows about them because it was a secret. And so they were stuck for months on this stranded island, and there's a mutiny, and eventually multiple different parties try to escape, and survivors from it are found. One is found on the western side of South America.

A couple others were found on the eastern side. Months later, they had been out at sea. It's a crazy story. And this is all in like the 1700s. Just nuts. I'm low-key obsessed with shipwrecks. You should read it. It's incredible.

I really should. Because it's devastating. Yeah. The funniest part, and this isn't spoilt. It's not like, oh, here's some big crazy twists. But there's a part where they're down there. And all of a sudden these natives show up, like people who are indigenous to the area. And they talk about how these people were wearing, like, no clothing.

They would cover themselves in seal fat. And that's, in like oils. And that's how they stayed warm. So they're like, these people showed up. They didn't have shirts or anything. And it's freezing out. And immediately they caught a ton of food and had a ton of stuff ready when they were trying to help these shipwreck guys. It took, like, one day for some of these dudes to be like, we should kill these fucking

people and like steal from them. And so the indigenous people quickly were like, we need to get the fuck out of here. Yeah, because they're smart and they're helping them. Left them alone and then they were screwed. It's like, you dumb asses. Yeah, come on. These people are covered in oil trying to offer you food. Take it. Yeah. If someone shows up covered in oil helping me, I'm trusting them. Yeah, what is wrong with people? It's an amazing, it's an amazing story. I love that. A wager. Really cool. Okay. Really cool. And it follows all these real written accounts from back then. Wow. Because they kept like out at sea. they'd keep logs. Yeah, of course.

Like you, that was the only record of anything. It was why it was so important to keep logs back then because otherwise just like what happened, we don't know.

So, especially if there was a shipwreck or if people died. Yeah. All right, moving on from Sort of pirates. Sort of pirates.

The next topic is the Montauk project. This was written multiple times. Like in Montau, New York? So, yeah, this, there is a conspiracy theory. The Montau project,

I looked it up last night. I think it was in Montauk, New York. It was back in like the 40s. It's this conspiracy that the government was holding experiments on telepathy and mind control and mind reading and all this stuff. It's the basis of Stranger Things. It's what Stranger Things was inspired from. Really?

Because the government apparently. Was this also, I might be wrong, was the Montauk Project also the men who stare at goats? Is that a different, the movie? Is that a different telepathy experiment that the government has? had. There's been stories about the government having, like, I'm sure the government's tried. That makes sense to me.

Have you ever been to Montauk? No. I've not been, I've only been to Manhattan. And like a little bit of Brooklyn, I've not, I've not been. I'm not, like, a big East Coast. I don't know East Coast that well. Shane. Been to New Jersey a couple times.

Shane. We got to get you to like. I know. It's crazy, too. The Berkshires, I mean. It's crazy because my first memories are of, Virginia and a couple of DC, but that's as most East Coast as I

have memories of. Wow. Yeah, I know. I'm not an East Coast guy. I will say I haven't been to Montauk, but I've always wanted to go. Because you can read minds. Because I can read minds, and I've seen the show The Affair, obviously.

Yeah. Who's ever seen the show The Affair? It's all Montauk. Nice. Yeah, pretty cool. But this makes sense to me. Do they think, I know you only looked up quickly.

Did they think this like stopped at a certain time because people shut it down or that it's still going? Maybe. I mean, maybe it's like, oh, we haven't heard more about it because they did discover it's real. Is this anonymous? The Montock. It's Alyssa, one of our editors.

Oh my God. We're not doing Elisa justice right now because we don't have theories. I don't know enough. I don't know enough. If you guys know about the Montauk theory, let us now. Because, I mean, if it's based off stranger things, Well, Stranger Things was based off the Montock project.

Can I ask this question? But maybe I shouldn't because it's kind of a spoiler of the last episode of Stranger Things. All right. All right. Skip 30 seconds ahead. Spoiler alert. Do we think 11 died at the end of Stranger Things? Or do we think she is alive and she like went to like a place with two waterfalls? I think it's your choice.

I think it's whatever you choose to believe. I think Mike thinks that she's dead and he's. he's making up this beautiful story. And that's my decision. Anyways, Montock. Okay. I, yeah, I mean, look, this stuff is fun and interesting. I mean, my, I'm sure they ran experiments, they're like, yeah, it's not, we're not finding anything.

Here's my deal with conspiracy theories. I sometimes struggle because I get really into them and then sometimes the further I go, I go, hmm. I think my unfortunate, really abysmal take with conspiracy theories when it comes to government stuff is I'm like, government doesn't need mind control and telepathy. Propagandas worked pretty damn well for them. Whoa! Knowledge jar. They're just doing shit and we're just like seeing it.

They're not even hiding it. The government's dumb as fuck. I guarantee they get away with this shit. They do. I guarantee they've had people in like doing experiments on them. Oh, they've done, they probably, oh, they have. They've done some. They have.

In studying psychology, there's some atrocious experiments that have happened on people. Cool. Moving on to the next fun topic. Next one. What conspiracy theory theories do we believe in? Oh, my God. The government said they were going to release papers about JFK and Marilyn Monroe. And I'm waiting.

I am waiting. They're true. Apparently, they need to release a lot of papers right now. Yeah, they do. And they're not doing that shit. They need to release a lot of files. They do. Do you know what I'm...

Okay. There's a theory that I heard about JFK recently that I don't know is true. Because I am watching a conspiracy show on Netflix right now. Okay. Anyways. There is a theory that JFK was actually shot by his driver. Have you heard this theory? I have never heard that.

Yeah. Same. Except when I watched this show on Netflix called the Octopus Murders. But he's... Right. Right. Right. Well, they're saying that the video that we've all seen is fake. It's fake. Because how they're saying...

And here's the thing. This is when I heard this, I was like, I don't know if this is true. I don't know if this is true. Because tons of people were... Like, what? People were there. But they're saying the video that you see of JFK going down, the tree in the background is floating. So it looks like it's floating and there's nothing there.

So that's where, like, this is a botched video. Oh. That, see, that's what I do. I go, whoa, and then I go, is it true? I feel like, and this is, this is, this is ignorance. This is not me claiming anything. Yeah. I have not personally heard many firsthand accounts of people who were there, like, in that

video talking about what it was like to be there. I mean, what a horrible event to witness. Horrible, horrible event. But there, those are like where my theories are. You love the, like, JFK. Marilyn Monroe, JFK, what was going on there. Unfortunately, when you dig it. into a lot of true crime, the most plausible answer usually is the answer, but we don't want to

accept that. Occam's Razor, yeah. Yeah. I know, it's like we want something to be really interesting and stuff, but oftentimes that answer is not. I think like, I don't know what conspiracy theories I believe in. I'm not quick to believe in. People have theories that Elvis is still alive. Like, there's, there's, guys, there's theory. People, yeah. I love hearing when they get really insane.

Like, and with the internet, it's gotten really bad, right? Like, because flat earth, it's like, how did we bring this back? Yeah. I started hearing ones where people were saying that gravity isn't real. And I was like, damn, we're getting to really fun place. Have they seen the movie Gravity? There's people on TikTok who say that actually sunscreen is bad for you and that we need to get way more sun. And I was like, this isn't even serving any, like, I believe the.

conspiracies of like, oh, big tobacco, like, hushed all the research that smoking is bad for you. That's been proven true, right? Like, those things are real because it makes sense. Like, there's, there's, like, a simplicity of, like, yeah, there was money to be made. Yeah. Like, Dick Cheney made money on the Iraq War. Like, that's, like, not a conspiracy. It's like, okay, you can put those. But when it starts getting to places where it's, like, flat earth, I'm like, who makes money on this? And, like, that's my shitty reason for being, like, I don't believe in it because who... I don't know.

Bloggers, podcasters, people who have like a following, who have a hot take. I mean, now attention makes money so you can just say shit. And people just say shit. People can believe what they need to believe, but once it starts to get like really dangerous

and harmful, that's where I get worried. For some reason, it's so interesting to, especially when it comes to online conspiracies, why is it that all conspiracy theories lead to racism? Like every time it's like, oh, this person's a flower, earth or I'm like and they probably believe other things too and it always is true it's not it's not

like oh I'm just a flat earth or it's like oh and you also yep somehow it leads to white supremacy uh-huh yep why is that always the case it's I need to I want a psychologist on to talk about or a sociologist to be like here's why it's always racist actually yeah um we'll probably have some comments that can shine some light on it yeah yeah I hope so next topic heated rivalry oh my god have you seen it Have you binged it? This was pitched by Sarah. I have not watched it yet. I plan on watching it.

Get in your car. I know. Go home. Okay. Look, here's the thing. Our viewers, our DMs, every one of us on Smosh. It's been all asking us if we watch.

Here's the deal. Okay. First of all, Heated Rivary is a book. It's a New York Times bestseller, pretty positive. So a lot of people are like, have you seen it?

Have you seen it? Which always makes me go, I don't now want to watch it. I watched it. The first episode, yeah, is like, whoa, okay. But the story is so good. The story is so good. It's kind of like, like, when do we hear about hockey players,

like gay hockey players who are not allowed to come out? And then I just think the story's lovely. The story's wonderful. The acting is incredible. To be honest, I started watching it because I was watching TikToks of the two actors, and their chemistry is fire. Like, they're friendship chemistry. They're just really supportive of each other.

And yes, okay, the first two episodes is softcore porn. Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah, man. But gay pirates are out. Gay hockey players are in. Yes. Do you know how many people are going to be like, do you want to go to a hockey game?

Hockey's going to see a surge. Yeah. But I will say heat of rivalry is very, very good. Everyone's talking about it. It's very good. I got to watch it. I am going to watch it. I've been meaning to.

There's just a lot of shows. Yeah. The first episode, you're going to be like, we're in, and I'm in, and they're in. Everyone's, everyone is in, each other. Yeah. Everybody's in. Yeah, and that's how hockey goes. Hmm.

Yeah. Watch them puck each other. Nice. No. Don't. Now there's all these TikToks of hockey players stretching, which is the best stretch ever, but it's them stretching on the ice with their hips. And they're like, and someone put, like, the song, Pony to it.

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I tried it. And it worked. For me. Okay. I think you're going to love this next topic. Okay. This was pitched by Rain, another one of our editors. An editor that...

Slays it every time. You know when it's a Rain video because all the comments are like, The Rain Slated on this one. Yeah. Favorite TV slash movie tropes. Rain wrote, I like knowing why people enjoy the content they consume to give good recommendations. Personally, I've been obsessed with the trope.

pretends to be boy since watching Oron High School Host Club and have watched every piece of media that has this trope I can find. Personally love when men have gay panic, but also love everything else that comes with the trope. It makes me think of the Amanda Bynes movie. Yeah, she's the man. That's a very specific trope.

Very specific trope. And I think they used to do it a lot more. They don't really do it that often now. No. Which I kind of get. Yeah. I kind of get. But Troops. Do you have a favorite movie? Do you have a trope that it's like every time that happens, you love it? personally love, and I'm just going to

this is not what it's called, but I'm just going to say like the enough trope, the J-Lo enough trope where it's like the woman has been beaten down and she's like, enough. I'm going to rig up this house and I'm going to catch your ass. And I'm going to learn martial arts. I'm going to have a bunch of cut scenes where I'm

training with a teacher. I'm going to have a burner phone and I'm going to lure you and you are going to try to abuse me one more time and then I'm going to take you down. Okay. I just created, I coined this term, enough, whatever. I don't know what it's called, but it's like... Enough.

Like, she's had enough. It's like revenge, like female. Yeah. Double Jeopardy. Yeah. Double Jeopardy. One of my favorite, like, back in the day movies. So it's kind of vengeance.

It's, it's... You like a little bit of revenge? It's specific, though. It's like abusive relationship vengeance. Yeah. Okay. That's a very specific trope. Yes. There is a new subreddit that I've been getting served a lot, which is just movie tropes.

And it goes into very specific ones that I love. And it had one recently. and what they do is they give a couple examples in the post and then people in the comments, all they comment is other examples of the trope. Oh, I want to hear. And there was a great one recently where it was like, main character has a weakness

that gives them an advantage against the opposition. And the example they used is the episode of Futurama where they go up against these super brain alien monsters. And Philip J. Fry, the main character, he's the only person who can go into their planet and is a threat to them because he's so stupid that his brain is unaffected by them because they can mind control other people.

I love that. But his brain is so stupid that there's nothing for them to control. It's fucking awesome. Wait, okay, so this is kind of a protagonist's trope in like every Romanticy book is these, they call them half breeds. So they're half human, half magical.

So in the fantasy world, pure breed is like the best, right? We can relate it to a lot of things. Yes. These half breeds are always looked down upon, right? Because they don't have all 100% magic or whatever. Right. But they always have something that the others don't, right? It's always their underdog story.

They actually are always meant for something greater because they have to dig deep. Yeah. And it's basically the theme is like it's always been in you vibes. That's what I feel like. That's what I do like those tropes. I love a lot of like these are kind of. of like very anime tropes, but I always love an underdog story.

Me too. It's the thing, it's anime and it's sports movies. It's like, you don't have enough kid, you're not able to make it. And then they do it. I love also when like, in like superhero or fantasy context, when the person does not have powers

when everybody else does, but they just find a way to overcome and do it. This person doesn't have powers. The main character, the protagonist does not have powers, but just works so hard and goes so hard. That's kind of like the half-breed theory. slightly. There's an anime called My Hero Academia,

where it's a world where the majority of the world has powers of some varying degrees, and this main character wants to be a hero so bad. And at a certain age, you find out if you're going to get powers or not. And he finds out he doesn't. And then more stuff happens, but he's just so determined to, like, become a hero. I love that.

It's very much like, that's so many animas. It's just, I want to do this thing. You can't. But I'm going to work so hard that it's going to happen. Right. And I love that shit. Yeah, it's like that theme, that lesson, that it's like, it's in you. Yes.

You don't have to, it's, the outside world is not going to give you your power. It's in you. Or that, and also that you're going to find your own version of your power. Yes. There's another show that was like that too, and I forget what it was called. It was a story where it's like this, the main character is like a prince. And, but he's like literally the week. person in the world. He finds out it's like you are the weakest person on planet Earth,

but he finds his own way of being like of overcoming obstacles in his own. Is this not also Lord of the Rings? Yeah. I mean, Frodo, Frodo, there's a lot of things, but like. Frodo's a perfect example because Frodo's a hobbit, but his willpower is stronger than him. But ultimately, the real power is Sam wise Gamji. Sam's that love. Love and loyalty conquers all. Mr. Frodo. Mr. Frodo. Mr. Frodo.

Sam. No, I can't carry it, but I can't carry you. Sam! That movie. I watched all three of those movies on a flight on the way back from Japan. I was like, all right, it's time. I watched them every Christmas. They're perfect Christmas.

Every single Christmas. Oh, I do have to say, the other tropes that I love, really quick. I love any version of enemies to lovers or rivals or rivals to friends. I was just going to say that. That's another very anime one. That's another romanticistie one. Vegeta and Goku, come on. Yeah.

Yeah. Right. Sand and Fahra? Come on. Enemies to lovers is fucking awesome. Enemies to lovers is my absolute favorite, but there is a way to do it right. I think some people rush the storyline. The best enemies to lovers is like that perfect mix of like, we don't like each other. We're getting a relationship. We're forced to work together somehow

We're forced to be together, forced proximity There's something going on But it has to have enough time To really let it settle. And they have to hate them But they can't be like super crazy mean Yeah Because that it's like it's tricky

It has to be justifiable And that's hard to do right You have to kind of like support both of them Yes They need to both have their legitimate reasons Enemies to lovers is my absolute favorite Yeah I mean to me to me.

me with most stories, because it kind of makes me think of just enemies and rivals, I think almost all stories, how good they are, depends upon the antagonist. A bad antagonist makes the story mean nothing, right? And you think about so many movies and TV shows that are incredible, and it's because the antagonist was perfect, right? Like, this is why people talk about... You have an example? Thanos in Marvel, right? Thanos, so many Marvel movies are kind of nothing, and they kind of have been forgotten. But Avengers is so awesome because Thanos, had such a like, you believed him in his commitment. He's like the dad that's like, let me talk to you real quick.

He wasn't evil for being evil. Like he truly believed his own shit. Which is the best villain? And he was such a like kind of human villain for being such a crazy fantastical being. Best villain. It makes him so engaging and entertaining. I'm trying to think of other really good villains on a more subtle scale. Maleficent.

Yeah, I was also going to say a weird one is like Devil Wears Prada. Oh, yes. Merrill Streep in that, like, is such a perfect villain because it's like, holy shit, like I have to go against you, but I also love you. Oh, and Darth Vader. You have to kind of love the villain.

You have to, like, really enjoy seeing them on screen, but also. So much of Star Wars. Yeah. Kylo Ren. Like, towards the end of, what was that movie that he's in? Like, that last movie that he was in?

Oh. Is that the Last Jedi? No. Rise of Skywalker. No. It was something else. Ray, Star Wars. Yeah, like Glup Shitto in Star Wars.

Gluck? Okay, glub. Okay, moving on. I could go on forever about this. But moving on. Because we have to. We have a Reddit episode we're going to do soon, and I will bring up the character trope thing.

Okay. The next topic is another TV show. The ABC Primetime Television show Lost, which I was obsessed with. I was obsessed with Lost. would they push the button in the hatch? Man of science or man of faith Would you do well in a plane crash

On a deserted island situation? Here's the deal. I did not watch Lost, but I read an article about all of it And then the ending. But I heard about it from my cousin once. Nope, I read like a whole deep dive article About the ending.

And I was like... See, I was... I watched Lost when it was airing. And I were like caught up to it. When it first aired, that it was such a like cultural phenomenon. Yeah. Because that pilot is, I would argue that

that is maybe the best pilot in television history. Really? That first episode is amazing. It sets up a million characters, which is such a hard feat. It ends like, I mean, okay, I'm gonna spoil the first episode. I think it's okay.

Right? Like, you know, like, you're like, okay, they're crashing, all you know is like, they're crashing on this island and this is crazy. And then you're kind of just like, all these kids are, characters are kind of like finding their way to each other and figuring out what's going on. Because they don't know each other.

But the episode kind of has this big climactic moment where Locke, the guy who's, you find out, was in a wheelchair on the plane, he's standing up and walking on the beach. And it's like, that's all you needed to just set up like, this island is weird. And that's kind of the premise of the whole show. Can I tell you what the theory of that I read is? Can I tell you? Yeah. Well, I don't know if this is the answer.

Okay. I don't know what the answer is. They never, a lot just kind of never got answered. Okay, this person's theory or the article that I read's theory was that they died that first episode. Well, and the rest is all, uh, which, which. That was like the theory while we were watching it and it kind of, but it's the main theory. That's the main theory was that it was purgatory, that they're kind of in a weird. What do you think?

I, I think the writers got in over their heads. I think they didn't know. I think they truly didn't know. They ended it and didn't know. Well, this was network television. I think originally they wanted it to be one season, then they wanted it to be three seasons, but they kept getting pushed for more seasons.

How many seasons? Six seasons. And there's a lot of seasons where it's like, this season wasn't necessary. Seasons one through three are some of the most engaging television I've ever watched. And then four through six is kind of like, they're figuring it out. Is this anonymous? This was Caroline.

Oh, my God. Who was two years old when Lost came back. Um, our next one, this one's great. I needed to get to this one. This person writes in, my special interest is keeping my career intact. My career and reputation is taking a major hit from my Mr. Chips branding, and now I need a PR team to fix it.

So Jonathan, uh, when Damien co-hosted with me, it was a rough time for Jonathan. I'm glad that I wasn't here actually, so I don't, I don't have to take any blame. Well, Jonathan needed you here, uh, because he did because I would have, I would have supported him. He was on his own with Damien. And stuck up with him. So tell me.

There was an episode where Damien and I were hosting, and Jonathan was trying desperately to open up a package of something. And Damian was like, I'm sorry, is there an old lady opening a, where there's original somewhere in the studio? God damn. And I look over and I see Jonathan across the room just kind of like. And then later on, Damien, I think this was, oh, this was Angela was here. Jonathan's phone went off and then Damien goes, oh, if it isn't Mr. Chips.

You know what? Jonathan, don't feel bad. Those were the two times that Jonathan had. Damien does this. Yeah, it's a Damian thing. Damian could be talking and then all of a sudden he goes, did you guys hear that pin drop? Like he, oh yeah. He hears it all.

Nothing escapes Damian. Listen, Jonathan is an icon, okay? Mr. Chips, that name is dead and gone. Ladies and gentlemen. Yes. Jonathan's loving this. It's Jonathan. Okay, it's...

It's... Okay, can we get you on set? Jonathan. Am I right? Jonathan. Okay. Snatched. Snatched.

Mr. Chips? Mr. Chips is dead. Mr. Chips is gone. Also, Wothers are delicious. And old people do love them. So we got a bunch of packs of Wothers' originals to pull a prank on Damien. I remember.

And ever since, has a couple packages on her desk, and I'll sneak one of them every now and then, and they are amazing. Do you know what they look like? What? Troll bellies. What the fuck are you talking about? You guys? I just can't get over. There's a Nick Kroll joke from, oh, hello on Broadway, where they say, where there's originals are the amber alert of caramels. It's all I think about. It's one of the funniest jokes of all time. No, they're troll bellies. Okay. Did you ever have those Norwegian trolls going up? I know what you're talking about.

ones with a crazy hair and the little... The troll movies. The cute little belly. Trolls, too. This is three trolls movie. Okay. Okay. Okay. That's what they look like.

A troll's belly. All right. Moving on. Great. We're going to skip down a couple because someone brought up heated rivalry again. Caitlin brought up another TV show. Star Trek Deep Space Nine.

She says, my favorite TV show, and I believe it created the blueprint for a lot of private-type prestige dramas that followed. It would be hard to discuss it without watching all 176 episodes. But I would love if they could watch the pilot if they are willing to do that. Or just, I don't know, look at pictures of the characters and try to figure out who they are and what their deal is. I just wish more people would talk about this show at all. Well, I think your quark.

Show me a picture. If cork looks like Grinch, you're dead, buddy. Okay, I'm going to show you quark. If cork looks like baby Grinch, I'm just like... They look like this. What is wrong with you? Okay. What is actually...

Can we put on cork here? It was the only name I knew. from the show. You think I look like that? No. Thank you. Um, I heard. So I was, I was Googling. I was, I looked at that. I did some Googling last night. And a lot of lists put deep space nine is the best Star Trek show of all time. Whoa. Yeah. Star Trek is just such a commitment, man. They're, it's so, it's such a commitment. I, are, I don't know if you're like this, but I am someone that I'm like, if I'm going to get into a new show or an IP and it's committing, people go, oh, you can start on season four or, oh, you can start with the season.

series. I'm like, I can't. Nope. I need to know everything. I am going to Google from the person who created it, the order to watch it in, read it in, whatever. That's me. See, like, if I'm going to watch Star Trek, I'm like, I got to start with the 60s one. I have to. Especially Star Trek. It compounds on itself. With, um, what's his name? William Shatner. Yeah. And, uh, and, uh, that guy.

Leonard, Leonard Nimoy. Yes. Wasn't he in Star Wars too? No. Thank you. I'd have to start here That was Captain Kirk Do that impression anywhere Oh I do people would love it I do that all the time Oh wow

Smoke we've encountered a strange planet Whoa Captain Kirk When I was a kid that was one of my first Impressions where my parents and other people would be like Oh he's so good in impressions He should get into acting I'm over here just quoting family guy

Do you know what mine was was Marilyn Monroe Mr. President You're like You're eight years old. Amanda, come on over and I'm like, Happy birthday to you. I'm not even kidding. To you.

That was mine. Oh. Pretty cool. That's pretty cool. Yeah. And then you talk about the JFK assassination. Like she's eight years old. Who killed JFK, guys?

Yeah, you'd be like, all right, enough of that impression. Who do we think killed JFK? All right. The next one, we have all these TV shows. Okay. Someone said smiling friends. I know you watched that. I have not seen it.

Funny or terrifying. is it the adult SpongeBob? This is anonymous. I am obsessed with smiling friends. But here's the thing. I was obsessed with the animator when he was just making stuff on YouTube like 14 years ago.

Whoa. Yeah, I was a big fan. His name was Psychic Pebbles and he would make these wacky, wacky sticks. Like imagine how insane, like, when you watch old smosh sketches from like 2010 and you're like, whoa,

this is crazy. That era was nuts. Times that by a mess. million and that was animation on YouTube. And I was obsessed with with animation. Was that Salad Fingers? Salad Fingers was one of them. This is even crazier. This was like, because Salad Fingers made me go, because Salad Fingers like truly that like kids were watching that stuff. This was not appropriate for kids at all. In fact, a lot of old animation when I pull it up, it's same with any old YouTube video. You'd be like, oh my God, my favorite YouTube video from 2009.

And you pull it up and you're going, oh my God, I forgot what they're saying in this. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. There's a lot of that. Yeah. Um, but, uh, smiling friends, the TV show is so funny. Um, I don't know if you'd find it funny. You would find, I think you would find anything funny.

You would, you would, not true. But I think if something is really funny, even if it's not your style of comedy, you would appreciate it. I would, yes. It's very, like, quick-paced. It's a lot of, like, big, loud. Comedy has to surprise me. It's smiling friends would surprise it. Okay.

It would 100% surprise you. All right. Then I'm in. All right. Next. Bidays. Why are they so controversial? How is everyone not immediately team bidet?

If you got poop on your hand, you wouldn't just wipe it off with paper, you'd wash it. Shane just went to Japan and probably met a top tier bidet and maybe has a strong opinion on this. Maybe we should get Tushy to sponsor this episode. This is anonymous. Here's the deal. Why are you getting poop on your hand first?

Two, we got to talk about something else. I have a Tushy. I'm obsessed with it. We have bidetes. I love them. They are everything. Yeah. Stop getting poop on your hand. I just have to say that again.

So she's the best. It is, it is, it is affordable. It is easy. It is perfect. Yeah. Like you just clean it out. This is a free ad read for them. No, seriously.

I, uh, I, I, I was a toxic American and I scoffed at them for a long time. I was like, how dare you? And then I, I got one and I used it. I was like, this is life changing. Isn't it life changing? Isn't it life changing. The first time I ever saw a bidet was when I was, I was a teenager and my mom. and I went to Italy on like a special trip.

We fought maybe 95% of the time. But it was really fun. I was an asshole. I'm not even kidding. I was like, I want to talk to my boyfriend. Nightmare. No, awful. I really, I do regret it.

I tell her this. I'm like, I regret that. And she was like, thank you for saying that. Wow. But there was a bidet in where we were staying. And I just flipped it on and I was like, wow. And it was just like, I had no idea.

Yeah. It's, oh, and so I went to Japan, and they are insane there. Oh, seat warmers. Seat warm. Not only, not only bidets, but also like a dryer. Oh, I love. If you, there's like one restaurant in L.A. that has like one of those toilets. It's insane. Yeah.

You have like a whole mainframe on the wall. It's, it's, you're like pressing all these buttons. They're expensive as hell. You get a free BBL. How? Moving on. No, no, no, I'm just kidding. Oh, is that where you're just. It's truly incredible.

It's like, man, this is so much cheaper than having all this toilet paper all the time. You make this investment. You just hit the thing. It's like, it's like, it's so great. It dries you. I know. Pretty cool. This episode of Smoshmouth is sponsored by Tovalla.

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Do you feel better? Back to the show. Our next topic, they wrote Johnny Appleseed. This is anonymous, but we know that it's got to be Luke. His sweat, okay, especially because they wrote, his Swedborgianism, the fact

that he would keep dry rust in his pocket to hand to children, the fact that his apples were not domesticated and couldn't be eaten, but could be used to make liquor, kept a pot on his goddamn head. Yeah, Johnny Appleseed, I guess, was a real guy. Yeah. So I walked one time at lunch, I walked over and was hanging out with Luke and Marcus and Matt Duran and Alexina. And they were all laughing.

And Luke was like, no, Johnny Appleseed is a real guy. And I was like, this is what you guys are talking about. And he was going on a rant about how Johnny Appleseed was a real person. Who just spread seeds and that's where the trees. Planted seeds, but they were cider apples. They weren't apples. They were alcoholic. They were for making cider.

I think cider was a bigger deal back in the day. Courtney's so bummed. That cider's not a bigger thing. It's her favorite thing. It's kind of going away. I know it is, which is so sad because I love cider. I know. You know what she should just do really dry orange wine.

It kind of tastes like cider in a very small way. Yeah. But you know, that's kind of similar with beer. IPAs were created because they were coming from India or something on ships and they needed the beer to last so they added more hops so that the beers would last longer. That's actually a true fact. That's why it's called an India Paleo. Yeah. Because I never understood that. Yes. So they added more hops to make it last the voyage.

And I can't remember where they were headed to, but that's why it's called India Paleo. I feel like IPAs are on the out. Am I wrong? I feel like they're kind of on the out. IPAs, sours are my fay of Adath. I feel like they're kind of on the out. Because you worked at a... Well, microbrewer on the out.

You worked at a bar that... 72 taps. Wow. I had to take the Ciceroon beer test. Wow. I was really into beer. I learned so much about beer, like the color, the taste. So cool.

Where it comes from, like, I was really into, like, sours and monk beers and, like, wheat beers because they would just leave the top off and then have... They would have... It would be called, like, a barnyard strain, a barnyard strain in these, like, sour beers, because they'd leave the top off and let the yeast naturally. That's where you're getting that funky. Interesting.

I like it because it's connected to wine in that way where you're just like the location, the weather, where you're planted. All of that matters. I love food and drinks have so much culture to them. It's so fun. I used to drink a lot of beer. Anyways, Johnny Appleseed, fuck you.

Moving on. Water bottle wars, everyone seems to have really strong feelings about why their brand of water bottle is the best. That's you. Insulated. Well, see, I'm trying to, I finally am done. I'm bringing my own water bottle to work.

And I'm trying to do that. At home. Good. Save the planet. I actually don't care. Totally. I don't care. Wow.

I'm kidding. I have a water bottle that I use all the time. I'll drink whatever water. I don't give a crap. What? I don't give a crap. No. I don't really care.

I think, I think because I have a son and I was breastfeeding, I had to like, I was really freaking on it. But also, I don't know, drinking good water matters. For sure. But I think a lot of it's good for you. It's just like people have these ideas that it tastes different. Right. Especially like really fancy bottle brands. I'm like,

your Voss water, I'm like, it's fine. It's fine. Just get some filtered water, some spring water. Have you ever though been like to like a cabin or something where it's like, the water's safe, but it's like, oh yeah, it's kind of a sulfuric and you drink it and you're like, whoa. Yeah. We're picking up.

some stuff from the soil and this. Yeah. I will say my friend's place on the East Coast was like, oh yeah, the water's really fresh hour. It comes from like this stream or whatever. And it is like yummy. Really? It is delicious. Wow. And maybe it's the placebo effect. Maybe it's your mind. Maybe it's the amoebas that are in it. Moving on. Moving on. Someone said the curse of the billy goat. This is the infamous curse that kept the Cubs from winning a world series for 108 years. Yes, I've heard it. There's a few, because there's also the curse of the Bambino.

Of course. There's, sports are so superstitious. Yes. You want to know a funny one? Yes. So I don't know much about baseball curses and stuff. But I would just say maybe it's just bad ownership.

You think? Look, there's a lot of, when it comes to football, there's a lot of teams just like, this team just can. can't win it. I'm like, yeah, because the owners suck. Yeah. They're bad at investing in the right shit. Yeah. That's why some teams just keep winning. Like, the Patriots just like, they make some good calls. They hire good coaches. Like, I don't know. And then they also got Tom Brady.

And that's just lucky. Tom Brady's gone. Yeah. Bill Belichick is also gone. You guys have Mike Frable and Drake May, who are really good. Whoa. I really, I really believe. It's like, it's like when you're watching something, you're like, oh, my God, this isn't good. It's like, well, what was the director like? Yeah. And that's a very much of football thing and sports thing. But there is a football curse that is very funny that I know about. And it's called The Simpsons.

It's the Simpsons curse in relation to the Broncos and the Cowboys. So there's an episode of The Simpsons back in the 90s where Homer Simpson, all he wanted was to be the owner of the Dallas Cowboys. That was his dream in this episode. And at the end of the episode, Marge is like, oh, homie, we got you a gift. And it's like, pretty good. And they're like, he's like, your own football team. And he runs out in the front yard. He's like, oh, I got the Denver Broncos.

And he goes out. He's like, oh, I got the Dallas Cowboys. And he walks outside and it's the Denver Broncos. And he's like, oh, the Denver Broncos. And they like suck like half the lawn's on fire. They're like hitting each other in the back of the head with the football. They like made a huge dis towards the Broncos. It's like they suck.

Since that episode of The Simpsons came out in the 90s, the Cowboys have not beaten the Broncos. They have a complete losing streak against the Broncos. What? For how many, it's been like 30 something years now. What? Or almost 30 years since. And now, to be fair, the Cowboys and the Broncos only play each other every few years. But they've lost every time.

This superstition is real. It's kind of funny. It's kind of like with baseball. It'll get broken at some point. When? Probably when Jerry Jones dies and the Cowboys can finally go to get again. Oh, Jerry Jones. They are cursed until,

Man, Jerry. until Jerry Jones is the reason they can't win. Oh, yeah. No, of course. I wonder if there's any Cowboys fans in the comments if they would agree with that. I feel like they will. Comment Jerry Jones. Comment if you like Jerry Jones.

Actually, really quick. Someone wrote Rubik's Cube solving slash cubing. This was by Audrey. And they said, it's one of my New Year's resolutions to learn how to solve a Rubik's cube. And I learned pretty fast how to solve the first two layers. But essentially, cubing is just people solving Rubik's cube super fast and remembering algorithms.

I learned recently that Alex Sina used to compete in that. We can cut this out if she doesn't want this. What? But I believe Alex Sina... Jonathan has no idea about that. Could we slack Alexina and ask if she competed in Rubik's Cube solving competitions?

That is incredible if that's true. I'm pretty sure. And I think she's not the first person to work at Smosh who does that. I think we had someone... Heidi also used to compete. We've had multiple Rubik's Cube solvers here at Smosh. She said, yes.

I said WTF. And she said, when I was in middle school, why? When I was in middle school. Yes. I remember Alexina told us about this. So Audrey needs to talk to Alexina about Rubik's Q's. The master. Yeah.

All right. Next. Someone wrote Walmart. So this is written by Gareth, who lives in South Africa. Yep. he said, I've had this weird obsession with Walmart. It sounds like a place you could buy baby items and motor oil in the same aisle. Now as an adult, I have been able to go to a few Walmarts across the U.S.,

and I have to say my impressions of it matched that of the Walmarts on the East Coast, but not of the West Coast. It's just an L.A. thing where the Walmart feels normal? Why is there such a difference? Asking as a foreigner, that being said, Walmart has opened two stores here in South Africa, but they're not as good as the ones in the U.S., in my opinion. Whoa! I haven't been a big Walmart person.

Same. But I've been to Walmart plenty of times. I don't know the main difference between the East Coast and the West Coast because I would say if I've been to Walmart, it's more on the East Coast. Yeah. I would say the Walmarts that I've been to here in the West Coast, because Arizona and stuff, they were always similar-ish to other stores like it. But it is kind of its own thing. you know a store where you can go and get everything Everything my family was see

I grew up like We were in a military family So we would go to the base for everything We'd go to the BX or the commissary And you'd get shit for so cheap The base has their own The base has everything It's its own city effectively

So if you are not military You can't go to the base Can't go in there but because my dad My whole family had military IDs Because my dad was a lieutenant colonel So we could go in And uh... it's crazy You drive to the base, drive through the gates, and then you go and, like, you go get your groceries there.

You go get everything there. And it was... Where is all that coming from? Everywhere. Everywhere? Yeah. No, they're stock. Is it in one, like, warehouse, or is it multiple stores in one area?

They have multiple. I would go get my haircut there. I would go, there was restaurants, there's everything. Like, they've, because the base... Because military bases have tons of people in them. What was it like? growing up, leaving the base and having to shop and choose places all over that you had to go to. Yeah, when my dad was out of the military, or we just, my dad has access to go to him forever, same with my mom.

Yeah. But at a certain point, we would sometimes not go, but it was kind of weird. Like, I grew up not going to, like, regular grocery stores as often. We'd go to the commissary. So that was just my norm. Wow. But that's why we didn't do Walmart as much because we would go to the BX and that shit had everything. Yeah, and we didn't really.

have a Walmart near us. It wasn't like down the street or something. Yeah. We had like shaws and stop and shop and. But Walmart's crazy. I mean, it's got everything. It's stacked. It really does.

I'm sure as someone from another country, Walmart's got to be this crazy American thing. Yeah, I'd love to know what Walmart has in South Africa. Like, what's the biggest difference there? I know. What's the setup of it? I'm sure there's a lot of differences. I'm very curious. Chance wrote one.

What do you think Chance wrote? What do you think the topic? Something about a butthole. I don't know. I'm just kidding. No. Chance wrote... Something about Broadway?

No. He wrote bladed weapons. Oh, of course. The other thing. Specifically, what weapon are you specializing in for one-on-one duel? Okay. I want a bunch of knives. I was going to say...

I want like knives in each pocket. I was going to say since I'm completely untrained, I would go knives. Yeah. So you could throw up... A sword, you need expertise. You... And they're heavy as hell. And they're heavy.

You need to work on your arm strength. If I had time to train and become a master at any of them, I would choose that one, a sword that's also like a whip. Like in Killville? What's it from? It's like, I think it's a weapon in India or something. A sword that's also a whip. It's kind of like this big, like curly metal.

It's crazy. But you're likely to kill yourself by trying to wield it. See, I don't want that. But it's fucking awesome. I don't want that. Urumi? I think it's called. It's sick.

I should show you some videos. Yeah, sure. Definitely. I'll find you later tonight. All right. One last one that we have. And I'm curious what your thoughts on this. Amanda Barnes, who runs our whole production, Amanda Barnes wants us to talk about I Love Lucy

and how it revolutionized TV. First time it was filmed on film instead of live, which developed the process of syndication. First mainstream representation of interracial couple. Desi invented the multi-camera system. Lucy and Desi ran the studio, Desilu Studios, women in the writer's room. When they got their awards for the show,

they campaigned for writers' awards. It's still funny. Longest live audience laughter ever recorded is on this show. Round-breaking show. I've watched a couple episodes, and I remember watching it and being like, this is so good. It's so well executed, so well done.

A fun fact about I Love Lucy is that when Damien and I were on so random on Disney Channel, It was shot at Hollywood Center Studios. And at lunch, we would go to a different set to eat lunch. And all the catering was there. And I found out, like, halfway through filming on that show that I was like, oh, this is the I Love Lucy set. That's where we go. And it's a very small studio.

Yeah. It's kind of shocking that they fit it all into this small studio with a studio audience. What's wild to me is they're married in real life. Yeah. They're married in real life. And they're also running a business together. and they're also like starting the first sitcom. Yeah.

I can't believe too because she was so... It's still so funny. And she was, I think she was 40 in that show. Yeah. Like, yeah. And she was just so incredible. I need to watch more of it. But I've seen the like really famous one with the like vitamins and stuff with the factory.

It's like such good. It's their perfect, it literally perfect mini sketches also perfect like physical comedy. Yeah. Incredible physical comedy. I think. like physical comedy is so eternal and universal. Always. Like,

I love shows that don't, like, you don't need to speak. If you cannot speak and make people laugh, it's why I pitched our TNTL mimes back in the day. Yes. So I was like, I want us to try to see if we can do this.

You should do that again. Oh, we should. It's so much fun. I mean, to me, it's, you have such a talent if you can get across, like,

the human interaction by not speaking. Because to be honest, The truth is, is like, writing jokes are great. They're great. But like watching people in earnest interact with each other in a scenario is genuinely funny. It's so great. It's really funny. Selena has a pitch.

Selena has a pitch. And she wants us to talk about high school musical and how it was 20 years ago. Can I be honest? It was, I didn't really watch a lot of high school musical. I really, every time our cast wants to sing the songs, I'm just like. Salina was wearing a Wildcats jersey this week. For the 20th anniversary. Selena's big fan.

It was so massive. I mean, I was a teenager when it came out. And I remember so many of those shows, because that was when I was first acting. So like, all these shows were things where I was like, oh, man, like, what do I need to be doing to become successful? And I was like, damn, everyone can sing and dance. I'm screwed.

Yeah. It was such a big, big show. Courtney's shown me a lot of high school musical. Courtney likes to show you nostalgic things that she loved from the past and shows you. And Courtney was into high school musical. I think I was like a year, I don't even want to say I was a year too old.

I think it was just like I didn't really watch it. Yeah, that's fair. I was watching anime. Zach Efron. You're so cool. I was watching Lost and Anime. You're so cool. Sorry, I'm a little busy guys.

I was watching like six feet under on HBO with my family. I think that should explain a lot about me. Did you finish that show? Yes. The last song is Sia. Apparently, people say that's the greatest finale of any show of all time. Have you seen it? No.

I've never seen an episode. But it's the best finale of all time, right? It is what I will say, H. rewatched it all. And rewatching the finale, you're just like, it, I can't even say anything more. All I know is, Cia is the last, the whole, like, last episode is one of her songs. And it is so good. It's so dark. It's such a dark show.

Damn. Speaking of nostalgia, there's a trend going on 2016. 2016, you posting yourself from 2016. Where were you guys 10 years ago? 2016, you know, we just did our Smosh Hospital live show. I remember in 2016, we did Smosh Live. And it was this big live show and it was such a different beast back then. That's so wild.

We didn't do a live show for a long time after that. But that was, I was here for less than a year at Smosh and then we did that show. And it was in front of a huge audience. Whoa. It was live streamed like on YouTube. It was crazy. Whoa. So I remember that from 2016.

2016 was actually a, I was looking back because I heard this trend. I was looking back and I was like, oh, 2016 year, 2016 was a huge year for me. I met my husband that year. Wow. Doing karaoke. I went to the Azores for the first time ever with my entire family. and then I was in groundlings, like not my first class, but like my third class.

So I was like committed. And I was posting videos all the time, comedy videos, all the time on my YouTube. That was 2016. It was like a wild time. 2016 was a weird year. And then Harambe died. Alexina is just doing her freaking.

Alexina is solving a Rubik's cube. Yeah. No? Okay, she doesn't. She doesn't want anyone to know. Alexina. Alexina, I can't do it. Mix it up, mix it.

Okay, I'm going to mix it up. So I'm mixing up the Rubik's Cube for our champion, Alexina. I'm scared. Don't be scared. No pressure. You don't have to solve it quickly. No, I do. You used to, what was your best time?

58 seconds. 58 seconds. Okay. All right, Alexina is currently solving the Rubik's cube. But can we like talk about it? We can talk. Do you have a topic you want to talk about Amanda? I want to talk about dance moms.

You do want to talk. You wrote dance moms down here. I have still never seen dance moms. Oh, I've seen some dance moms. But I am fascinated by the character of Abby Lee Miller. Tommy's alter ego. Tommy's hero slash villain. What's crazy is like that's, it's like, are they a villain?

Are they a hero? We don't know because they were put in that. role. When I see people like Abby Lee Miller, it's where I realized like, oh, this industry I'm in has such horrible people because I'm like, oh, she's just a normal person in so many ways for like us. Being a like being a teen actor, I met like 50 Abby Lee Miller's a month. Of course. That just was the vibe. Adults were just like that. And speaking of Sia, the girl that was always in her music videos was also on dance moms. Wow. Thomas and Togles and Tierra's was also a A spin-off show.

I don't even... That's a horrific show. That's a whole other thing. What about you, Amanda? We got a few minutes. Got a few seconds. Do we have a few minutes? Well, you can talk about...

I've got a show that I want you to... It's solved. It's solved. It is solved. I couldn't think of something because I knew she was so close. Wow. Thank you so much, Alexina.

There's a show that I think you would love that I'm obsessed with. Tell me. But it's a very niche. show that not many people are talking about. Chair company? No. Chair company is amazing. Okay. There's a show and we, because we were talking about like no dialogue and how amazing that is. There is a show that I'm obsessed with that has zero dialogue. And it's on its third season. Not a line is spoken throughout the whole show. It's an animated show. It's called primal. Yeah. I love primal.

Yes. Okay. I've already seen. So I've only seen season one. I have not seen the other seasons. I love that show. That show is amazing. It's so good because there's, you don't need words in it. It's just art. You're watching it and it's just, And for some reason, it feels like nostalgic anime to me. I don't know why. Well, it's the guy who did Dexter's Laboratory and Samurai Jack. I don't know if you watch those. Okay.

Samurai Jack was my shit. But I've heard of it. I'm sure a lot of the Chosen comes from me watching Samurai Jack as a kid. Anyways. Yeah. All right. Got my interest in there. All right.

Guys, stay tuned because we're actually going to try to like talk to cast. And we do have Courtney coming up soon who's going to do a special interest whole episode on their interests. That's right. Thank you all for watching. Let us know down below if you have a very specific show or interest or topic that you love. Or conspiracy theory.

Yeah, or that, or the Montauk project or Johnny Appleseed. Thank you for watching. We'll see you later. Bye.