Smosh Mouth - #155 - They said, "Talk about whatever you want." Ok bet

Episode Date: August 3, 2026

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There's no shortcut for saving time, but saving money is simple. Just combine your car and home insurance with Bel Air Direct and save. Get a quote at bellairdirect.com. Hello, welcome to Smoshmouth. I'm Shane. And today I'm joined by two wonderful guests. I'm joined by Olivia and Spencer. What's up? That's right.

Amanda's gone. I'm so sorry. I should stop. It's so immature. Just mocking me? immediately? No. Just immediately making fun of me. Yeah.

So Amanda's gone for the next, for this week and next week. Because she's in Boston. She's shipped up to Boston. She shipped off to Boston. I'm so excited to go to the town. Yeah, we're about to go to Boston tomorrow. Yeah. We're recording this.

By the time this airs, we'll be back. We're doing our last tour dates. But we're heading to Boston tomorrow. I've never been to Boston. With me. Yeah. Have you ever been to Boston before? I don't think so.

I get Boston and Philly kind of confused. I've never been to... Oh, you just went to Philly. I did just go to Philly. And now I know where they are. Can we ask about that Philly experience? That was crazy. What was Philly like?

All I know about Philly is we had the basement yard on recently and they said it's a bathroom. So... I have no idea what you just said. There are two guys that we're friends with. Oh, and they're from Philly. They're from Brooklyn or from New York. What are you... We're talking about Philly right now.

I know, but they just said they think Philly is a bathroom. So I'm like, that's the only... Philly is really cool. Okay. I went to Philly because I went to the World Cup. Whoa, yeah, yeah. I saw the footage of that. I know, yeah.

I was a stadium captain. Who were the teams that were playing? Paraguay and... Was it France? France. That's awesome, dude. Mbapé. You got to be out there with Mbapé.

I did. So cool. Sick, dude. So the experience was I went with my very good friend Esty and we went with Adidas. And our sort of our dream was to take our dads to the World Cup. And so they're like, would you like, well, Esty was like, let's go to the one on July 4th. Like, could be really fun. So we go to Philly and then like two hours before the game, someone texted us and was like crazy ass.

Crazy ass. It was FIFA. It was Mr. FIFA. Mr. FIFA texted us and was like, crazy question. Would you guys want to be the stadium? captains for this match. And we're like, we don't know what that is. I don't know what soccer is. Sorry, football. I don't know what this is. And they sent us a photo of like Samuel L. Jackson putting a ball on a stand. Like, he's just like me for real. And he was like,

I was like, they sent us a photo from Samuel L. Jackson from Black Snake Bone. And they're like, you, have you seen this movie? Have you seen this movie? And you're like, yeah, it was pretty crazy. Yeah, it was a weird movie. So I was like, okay, sold. And then I was like, great. And then we just had like, they're like, FIFA was like walking us out. And they'll, like, you have 60 seconds to put the ball on the thing. And we're like, what is the significance? And they're like, well, this is the ball that they're going to play with. I was like, okay, that's pretty sick.

And then so we like- Did you like, put some pine tar on it? Yeah. I like buttered it up. Yeah. You buttered it up. I like poked holes in it. Yeah.

And that's why Paraguay. Hey, yeah. Lost. No, I'm just kidding. I didn't do it. I didn't do that. I don't know, FIFA. You didn't do. FIFA's going to come for you.

No, no, I didn't do any of that. This is, this. You're fine. Both of those teams, by the time we're recording this, both those teams are out. Like, I feel like you would have licked it or something. Licked it? Yeah. Because then Mbapé would have licked it later.

Yeah. It's like, oh, because they all lick the balls after the game. I think it's part of them. At least France does that. Yeah. But yeah, it was really fun. And then, yeah. That's awesome.

Did you guys get into the World Cup? It's not over right now as we're recording this, but. It was like me personally? Like, no, I was not invited. Well, no, like, did you watch? I'm saying, did you watch the game? Yeah, I watched enough. Well, I, I'm a DoorDash member.

So, like, you know, they were like, hey, who do you want to bet on? Oh, right. In the Dorcas app. What? What? So I Googled. I was like, who's going to win the World Cup? And Google was like, probably France.

So I bet France. Sorry, sorry. DoorDash, the food delivery. DoorDash, the food delivery. When you signed in, it was like, hey, pick your team to win the World Cup. And we're going to split five million DoorDash bucks amongst everyone who picked Is that illegal? Every single app is becoming a gambling app at this point.

And like, you know, if it comes, like, you know, what if we got into it? Timothy Chalamey said it's okay. Timothy Chalami says gambling is cool now. I don't know if I told the story like, but, you know, when everyone's like, oh, the, you know, Timothy Shalome made the ad for like the Kalshi thing or Kalshi. I was like, I genuinely, I was like, I don't get what the big deal is. Like, the cereal's okay. And like, I fully thought that.

Like, people were like, I was like, is there like a controversy with that cereal? That's so funny. Have you had Kalshi crunch? Yeah? Yeah. No, it's like Kashi. Kashi, yeah. Okay, yeah.

I just. You thought, I thought it too. It sounds like a cereal. I was like, yeah, it's the cereal. Yeah. Timothy Shalamey, like, you know. I don't know what's going on. I've been off of social media this whole week.

You're totally fine. This has been years of buildup, right? Like, gambling apps have just gotten out of control. And you can now gamble on. things you shouldn't be able to gamble on, right? Like political shit. And then Love Island was on this. And there was so much gambling around that.

And people were like, hey, wait, like, there are producers who know info ahead of time. How is this working? No, I love people reinventing insider trading. Yeah, I'm just like. Poly markets. Yeah. Yeah, it's ridiculous. The markets are poly.

The markets are all poly. Yeah. No, but like that, do you guys remember when Martha Stewart got arrested and stuff like that? What did she get arrested for again? Was it not insider trading? It was insider trading. But like, I remember insider trading being explained to me at the time. And I was like, and I was like, that sounds smart as hell.

Like, why are more people doing this? And then I was explaining to me, they were like, well, it's a crime. And I was like, okay. Like, okay. It's kind of like the more you learn about tax evasion. It's kind of like, oh, I kind of get why. Oh, that sounds really cool. Like people do it.

And money laundering, too. Yeah, yeah. Like, I get it. I'm starting to, I'm like, starting to get white color crime more. I love that Selena, Selena, before we started this episode, was like, so basically this episode, you guys can talk about whatever you want. And we got into how we love insider trading. We don't love it. I didn't say we understand it.

No, you love money. I'm just saying if I were in the position to insider trade, like, I would think about it. Like, would you guys not? I get what you're saying. It's like, you basically get the like, it's kind of a deal with the devil situation where it's like, hey, do you want a million dollars? Yeah. It's like, oh, well, if I could have a million dollars right now, sure. Yeah.

It must feel, I bet for people who are in it, they must feel, they must feel, they must feel so good. But it also must be like, to them, they make it make sense in their head. Oh, yeah. Of like, oh, I'm already doing. Oh, no, it's just, it's just that I, they probably convince themselves like, no, I'm just good at predicting the market. Yeah, I'm so good. No, man, your friend tells me. You literally, yeah.

I'm saying, like, on the scale of crime, though. Probably not that bad. And that's why they, I don't know. Go to. Those things, those massive, like. white collar things actually I think fuck the world up so much more. Yeah, true. But like if I were benefiting from it. It's like it's, the problem

is that it doesn't look like it doesn't look like a guy actively killing a guy. But you're, you are theoretically robbing you're like fucking up the market so much that you are robbing people and I guess. We're like convincing him that it's not no sense or you really should

be a bummer about it. Yeah. Yeah. It'd be kind of, what if we started to see that there were bets for Smosh. Like, that's what I'm saying. Would you not like... It'd be like, Shane's going to lose Flip 7. It's like, and I get so close to flipping 7, and I'm like, but I bet

50 grand on myself. That's what I'm saying! You're talking about like back in the day when the mafia used to fix boxing matches. Yes? Oh, yeah. It's like, go down in the 5th. I'm trying to think. There were other, like, matches that people were getting in trouble for... Everything...

Every, almost every professional sport has had moments where it was fully fixed. There was a major. You ever seen speed racer? I don't know if I have Scott here. But there was a big one back in the day in the like 20s, I think. One of the like big baseball teams like fixed their, one of their matches. And it was like a big deal.

Or like they like lost on purpose or something. Maybe I'm completely wrong. No, no, I think you're right. I did hear about baseball being one of those sports where people were like the baseball players would be involved in the mafia. Oh, sure. Right? Am I making this up?

Back in the 20s, my assumption is every famous person you had to deal with the mafia. And that's something I could probably research and find out is probably not true. But I won't. But I enjoy thinking about how crazy the world was in the 20s. I mean, you talk, well, you talk about like Vegas. I think like even past the 20s, but like, you know, the history of Vegas, the

history, like the early history of Los Angeles, like with the water and stuff like that, like the water rackets. I don't know much about the water rackets. You've seen Chinatown. Yeah. I have not watched Chinatown. You got to read the book about Chinatown. Oh, shit.

One of my favorite books. Okay. Big goodbye. Big goodbye? Yeah. Oh. It's about the making of Chinatown. Wow.

I always forget, is it the last goodbye or the big goodbye? I don't know. It's one of them. And I love the book so much. Also, I'm reading East of Eden right now. Speaking of. Steinbeck. I have had that book on my bookshelf truly.

I'm shocked. My entire adult life and I've never read it. What? I read Grapes of Wrath. Shane has it for when he has women over. Yeah, whenever people are over, I'm like, oh, yeah, I'm reading East of No, but people constantly have that in their top three. I know it's incredible.

And it's like about the early people who moved to California. Yeah. Yeah. No, Steinbeck's incredible. Like, I love his writing. I just haven't read that one because it's a big book. It's a bit of a daunting task.

It is a big book, but I'm like, I'm not ready for it to be over. I just know this is going to be one of the books where I'm like, I'm never going to read another book like this. No, it consistently is like, people are like, that is a top 10 book of all time. That's how I felt about Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Secret History.

Oh, Secret History, yeah, I read that this year. I know I saw. And I also read one of your favorites on Earth were briefly gorgeous, right? Oh, my God. How did you feel? It's beautiful. That was poetry.

Crushed my soul. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. But truly wonderful writing. Have you guys read Ready Player 1? Yeah. No. I have.

Have you guys ever read We Sports? You throwing that ball and me going, yeah, I have read it. Have you ever read Mario Party? I've read the manual. Yeah, I've read the manual. Yeah. Read about it on Game Informer.

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We're briefly gorgeous, did you cry? There's no shortcut for saving time, but saving money is simple. Just combine your car and home insurance with Bel Air Direct and save. Get a quote at bellair direct.com. I didn't cry, but it was... I laughed. I don't cry too often with books. Especially if they're not like...

For some reason, it has to be narratived in a way to get me, Whereas on Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is written so, like, poetically where it bounces back and forth between memories that it doesn't, it's not going to get me in that way, but I was kind of more mesmerized by how good the writing was and how perfectly he was capturing moments. He's a prose guy. I mean, truly, some books I read, I'm like, the prose is just amazing. Yeah. Whereas I story will get my emotions more. Pros, I'm more like, oh, this is amazing. Like I'm kind of like

fascinated by like how smart some people can write Like how well they write Whereas yeah it has to like have a story with like the right type of arc Will then get me Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow left me sobbing Yeah that part has that that has an intense part Because it has the prose but mostly story Yeah it has one of my favorite quotes

Which is the Emily Dickinson quote That love is all that there is as love is like the freight should be I'm sure I know what you're talking about The freight should be Selina can you pull up Emily Dickinson Famous quote?

El Fanning as Emily Dickinson Yeah like thank you Wait was she Emily Dickinson? No she was She played Mary Shelley That's my bad Did she play Mary Shelley? I think El Fanning played Mary Shelley Oh cool

She does a lot She does so much stuff The freight should be... Yes. Yeah. The freight should be proportioned to the groove. I love that. Me too.

What is that? Whatever you think love is. Like cargo? Yeah. Love is cargo, man. Love is cargo. Cargo fast? Cargo fast.

Cargo fast. Gone in 60 seconds. Yes. Yeah. No, that book is incredible. I've read in this book about, you know, this parasite that kind of takes over human bodies and, you know, can kind of replicate their...

It's like an old sci-fi book. I want to say it's Philip K. Dick or something like that. Nice. It might be Heinlein. I don't know. You read a lot of messed up shit. Yeah, I try. I feel like whenever you're reading like concepts. I'm like a concept. I need like a good log line where it's like, oh, it's about if like

if like there was a group of people who figured out how to use their feet for evil or something like that. Yeah. You can write that. I feel like you could write A book. Yeah. Oh, I love, like, genre, like, you know, I need a hook like that.

Yeah, I don't need that. Like, like, if you're, like, if you say slice of life, I'm like, okay, what's the, like, slicing into life with a knife? You are a big sci-fi guy. I feel like when you're talking about reading, like, yeah, sci-fi and horror, like, because you love Frankenstein, the book. Oh. Like, you were obsessed with that book, I feel like.

Oh, yeah. Should I read Frankenstein? It's an incredible book. book. Pros or story? Both. I think it's one of the greatest stories ever told.

It is incredible. And it is like, it's the creation of science. You're gonna catch me reading that on the plane tomorrow. It's good. It's got great. Yeah.

And like, pros on point. Okay. Yeah. No, Mary Shelley was a freak. She kept her lover's heart in her desk for like years, right? I don't know. That's true.

Can we fact check on that? I'll be doing bullshit like that. She had like a human heart in her desk. That was like her stress ball. What? I'm just kidding. Not about that part. But she had a human heart in her desk, I think.

Apparently it's a calcified heart of her husband, Percy Bish. Honestly, romance. Yeah. A heart can calcify. What's that? Like, does it get like chalky? Does this get smelly? Oh, I imagine.

I saw a coyote carcass yesterday. Oh, shit. Oh, this is the thing that I was supposed to save and not. Okay, yeah. Hit us. Hit us. And this is what Selena was like, save it, save it. And I'm like, but I'm just talking to Spenny. And she was like, save it. Okay. So the past week, I was in this place called Sea Ranch.

Sea Ranch. Sea Ranch, up north. Okay. I flew into Sonoma. I rented a car and I drove like an hour and 40 minutes to this place called Sea Ranch. And I just spent a few days there. not on social media, just sort of abandoned my phone. Cool. And I walked a lot,

meditated, reading, worked a little bit, and that was what I was saving to tell you guys. She's been offline. I've been offline. And so I was like looking at Instagram

through his phone and Andrew's phone because I'm like, oh my God, this is what I've been missing. Nothing. Yeah. I told her about Lindsay Graham. Oh, that's awesome.

Yeah. Yeah, and I... That had to be really hard for you. Yeah. You were probably really bummed about that. I actually knew about the Lindsay Graham stuff because when I was... Because you felt it. Yeah, I felt it.

You're like, a disturbance is that. I'm like, whoa. Oh! I almost fell off the cliff. You were on a cliff? Yes. Damn. It's up there.

It's like, it's like, it's a, she was showing me pictures of it. Whoa. It's a gorgeous, like, it's renowned kind of for its architectural. That's sick. I encourage you at home to look at pictures. S-E-A ranch. Okay. It's really beautiful.

There's no town. There's like one grocery store that's 10 miles away. So you're just really isolated. I was really isolated. There's nothing really to do besides walk, go to the beach. But you don't really go in the water. You're just like hanging out. Out at the beach.

Yeah. It's kind of in the zone. There is definitely a euphoria. You get when you can avoid your phone and then you get bored. you push past that boredom. Yes. And it's like, it is boredom, right?

Like, because boredom is where like creativity is spurned from. And so like, when I'm able to avoid it enough, I feel so good. And that's when I suddenly have ideas and stuff. Can I be honest with you guys? What's up?

Not being on my phone, not being on social media has made me go, do you, do I think I can do this job, the job that we do without being on social media? Um, because I find that, It's such a distraction for me. And as much as I know that this is our job and we have to be online, like, I really, sometimes I'm like, I don't want to be.

You don't want to be online? Yeah. No. I don't know. I don't think you have to be online. Like, can I do this job without having a social media presence? I think so. I think you can.

There's something really interesting. I have a few thoughts on this. One is, there's a quote, I was listening to Caleb Heeran's podcast once. And he was talking about how like his podcast blew up when he kind of like stopped doing a ton of stuff on social media and just fully just was like all in on his podcast. And it kind of made like the focus was just there. But I think that that can work for some people and not work for others. But in his case, like kind of being off of other social media has helped him. I also think what I'm trying to work on because I am a very like, I don't post that often.

but I am online a lot I think it's about being intentional with what you do online, right? It's like scrolling I do think is bad for me. I'm like, what is this? What am I doing? But going on to Instagram to look at people's stories to see what people are up to,

if I'm like, hey, for the next five minutes, I'm going to go check what all my friends are posting on their stories. And I'm doing that very intentionally and then I'm getting off. Like I'm doing a task or I'm doing a thing as opposed to just like being on my phone. I think just being on social media is bad because it's kind of like mindless and it is just distraction.

But if it's like, oh, I'm going to go on TikTok and I'm going to post a TikTok or like I'm going to go on there and search for a thing. But that's like going with a purpose. But oftentimes we pull it up and it's like, why am I pulling it up right now? It's purely so I can stop thinking right now because I can't handle being alone with my thoughts for a second. That's speaking just for myself. Yeah. Yeah, I think it's certainly different for everyone. Because for me, I find a lot of inspiration from being online.

Like, you know, a lot of our ideas for, like, games videos or even, like, discussion topics. Yeah. Just kind of in day to day, to me, I get from online. Yeah. And there's a lot of humor online that I really enjoy. For sure. Like Twitter, like, I know. You find the good.

gold on Twitter. Like, I think my Twitter fees just, it's like, I think I get served all the really funny stuff and I really enjoy it. Sure. Maybe in a week? I honestly sometimes feel like I don't need to look at Twitter because you send me the funny stuff. Thank you. And I'm like, great, thank you. I don't have to look through all the

horrible stuff. You need to send it to me. Yeah, yeah. I don't think I, I'm trying to think of like what stuff, you know, because I definitely have like Chance and I'll send each other's stuff. you know, Anders and I'll send each other's stuff. You know, I'll send stuff to Shane or Trevor. And it's like, you know, some stuff I will know, I'm like, oh, I could send this to all of them. Or some of them's like, oh, this is like just for Trevor.

Yeah. Just for Shane. Just niche. You wouldn't get it. Yeah. You wouldn't get it. You wouldn't get it. No.

But like, there are definitely things that I think you would like that they probably wouldn't like. And it's just, right now I'm probably not getting served those because I'm not, I think it'll show me stuff that is akin to. what I am sending out. But now that our phones are listening in on this conversation, it'll start serving you that stuff. Yeah, yeah. So you're going to be, you'll have some stuff. I'm not going to really be on my phone until Saturday.

Okay. After I have a lobster roll. Oh. And then? All right. Scroll, scroll, scroll. Scroll City. Scroll City.

I still think about something because Eddie Burbach did this great video where he locked up his phone for a month. he's like was off he put it into like a safe like time safe and he but what he talked about like why he wanted to try it was he's like if you're scrolling for like half an hour to an hour on your phone on Reddit Twitter TikTok whatever

he's like after you're done scrolling ask yourself what did you just watch and consume and I realize I'm like man most of the time I can't like I don't retain any information I'm not retaining this isn't like beneficial but it's hitting that part of your brain that's the like reward

board complex of like, oh yeah, like, oh, yes, I need that another hit. The B spot. But it's not, the brain spot. But, yeah, I have to ask myself that sometimes. And I think it's okay for things to not be productive, but I'm just like, it's asking myself, what am I being entertained, though? Because I've made the joke of like, what do my cats think of my phone? And they were like, oh, he looks at the mirror that pisses him off.

Like, that's what it is. It's like, oh, he picks up that rock that makes him mad. Totally. Because that's often what it is. I'm just like, I look, and I'm like, this isn't, I'm not reading the news. I'm like, if I'm scrolling through Reddit, I'm reading. Oh, see if I read the news, I'm getting pissed off. I'll get pissed off.

But I think, like, I think there is importance to reading the news, right? But it's important to read the news. I don't need to read everyone's breakdown of the news or interpretation of the news. I'm like, the news is the news. I need Tucker. I'm like, I'm like, yeah. There's a diarrhea parasite. I don't need to read a million.

See, I need all the, I need. But there's a lot of great jokes on them. I need all the diarrhea meme. And the jokes are good. Oh, that's what I missed. I actually did hear about this diarrhea parasite. Which hopefully by the time this airs... What if we all died from it?

I don't think anybody's died from it. I don't think anyone's dying from it. Yet, it just sucks really bad. Yeah. It's just real. I had diarrhea a couple days ago. Oh. But I don't think it was that.

No, you would know if it was that. But like, it was pretty bad, but it was like... It was just like one... No, man. That was just all you. That was all me. That was your choices. Yeah, it was my, it was my choices.

I could probably say it's been a long time for me. It's been a good. I definitely don't get it often. So we've gone from talking about gambling to diarrhea. Well, insider trading. Insider trading to insider. Insider poop. And locking up our phones.

Yeah. But also I just. I would get fired so fast if I locked up my phone. Same. Well, yeah, we do. I was still on Slack. Like, I was still, I was like, hey, Selena, how does Instagram look right now?

Can you take some screenshots? Yeah, just scroll and just screen record. How does Instagram look? But I do think, like, being out by yourself in nature, you definitely have, I definitely gain nothing. Fuck that place. Like, I should have been insider trading. I should have been inside trading.

I should have been inside insider trading. Have you guys gone outside recently? It's dumb out there. Nothing interesting. It's windy, 64 degrees. Boring. cider trading? Whoa. I, but like being alone, you, you, you hear like other couples, like, not being alone.

You're just eavesdropping? No, I, they were talking very loudly, okay? You're somehow doing, like, you're just on social media, but outside. Well, also, okay, can I also just say something that's actually, okay, the social media aspect of it is like, because we are, we have this public presence, it feels so strange to post a picture of yourself and get so many comments being like, wow, yes. Like, I just don't think, I don't know,

I think there's something like cool to step away from that, you know, and like realize like that's not really normal. I do think, I, it's like so early on that there's probably not enough like studies on this stuff, but I don't necessarily think our brains were built to handle the, this stuff, right? of like thousands of people talking about you immediately, right? It's just, it's impossible to comprehend. Maybe I think that's what it is for me.

I can't comprehend it. Yeah, it's absolutely bizarre. I mean, like, look, social media is absolutely bizarre, a crazy, crazy thing. Also, I think the constant validation of people either disliking you or praising you through social media is, maybe a little unhealthy and you really have to like check your I have to check myself and be like oh like it's not real I mean it is real but it's also like you have to kind of have a layer of of of like awareness remove yourself a little bit from it right yeah because you see creators who get two in it both either in the hate or the praise and it's like hey that this this is different

like you cannot have that be your reality because it's a weird other place but yeah i mean the real world i mean this is gonna sound so fucking stonery but it's like the real world just feels so real like sitting and talking with like another human being i'm like what's what's more real and normal than that yeah like a comment's just like i think what i think really turned social media in a different direction what is like the the algorithmic nature of it nowadays whereas back in the day the internet used to be like you all checked and it's like we're all seeing the same thing we're all coming to the same thing we're all coming to the same place. Whereas now because it's it's kind of sequestering people to their different bubbles and it's like

algorithmically making this thing for you, I think it's twisting it. And now it's become more like a matrix than it used to be. It used to be like, oh, we're all coming together communicating here. But now there's something like it is, it is actively influencing you. Right. And I think that's what I'm realizing. I'm like, this is what's scary is that it's trying to show me what I want. But now that's a bad feedback loop as opposed to you go on a. like you're not going to ever be like seeing something and be like we all we all saw the same thing i don't know it's there but like i like even like on twitter and you know this is a dangerous topic to discuss you know smosh twitter stuff like that but any of those you are essentially

seeing such a small microcosm but if it gets served you a lot you think oh that's reflective of an entire fan base but it's like no this is you put that number in the context of like who actually watches or something like that and it is so I'm not saying it's a voice that doesn't matter it's just it is a relatively small voice and I remember learning about the fucking the silent minority

when learning about like American history and like politics throughout the ages and that was always such a fascinating where it's like you know you have this outspoken people who are like you know we want this we want like X and Y in terms of you know someone to run for

a candidate or something like that. But you have like 70 plus percent of people just sitting at home, not engaging on that level, but still having opinions. And then I think is what we have with Smosh, where it's like, you know, we can do something and there will be 5% of the audience has this really outspoken opinion. But there is 95% who, you know, is never going to comment on a video, never going to comment on any of our pages, not going to engage with it on a level beyond watching it and being like oh that was fun yeah it's what's heartbreaking when we make something that we're like all of us here like this is like the best thing we've ever made and all the comments are like this is the best thing you've ever made but it gets so many less views than typical it's like oh that

it sucks because then we have to interpret like oh a majority of people didn't care for this but they're not saying anything but they didn't watch it like they didn't or maybe they didn't hate it but they just didn't care to watch it or they started it and so it's like oh but the people who watched it loved it more than anything else and that's hard and sometimes

you know it's that fucking one for me one for them or whatever for us one for them which is always such a funny

yeah and I do think we do make things plenty of the time where we're like this maybe won't be a hit but we are passionate oh I'll definitely selfishly do

things like that's kind of yeah that was kind of how the whole Resident Evil thing started I was like look like this is some I really like

and you know when I'm gonna take advantage of the opportunity that I have to, you know, what a unique, cool thing to just be able to like, oh, like, I get to choose the game we play and who I play it with. And then when that resonates with people, it's like, holy shit. Yeah.

I think the big thing that I think I feel so sad about with social media, and this is always the case with the internet, but I think really now more than ever is like, it's just not a place where I feel like discourse and, like, genuine conversation can happen. It's just not designed that. way. It is actively designed counter to that.

It's designed I think it's designed to make arguments happen because they know arguments are going to keep people there but it's not going to resolve anything so they just have to stay there. Like it's impossible to have a real good like actual like back and forth

on it. I just think it just keeps continuing feeding the beast. Yeah, exactly. They want the beast to keep growing. Yeah, it's like you stay on the app longer and you're arguing with some person. Well, being pissed off is addictive. Yeah. We saw it with Fox News for so long. And then, like, I caught myself a couple times with social media where I'm like, oh, I'm no different than like the people that I've criticized who like just watch the 24 hour news cycle and are just mad all day.

I'm like I'm kind of doing the same thing where you get kind of hooked on like. And that is why the World Cup is so cool. It brings people together. Yeah. And there's no controversy ever. Ever. Everyone's having a good time. It's all good.

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I don't microwave my ice cream. Yeah. That's a white people. I also don't have a microwave. You don't have a microwave? I believe that. I didn't have a microwave in college for... I...

Okay. So, we did have a microwave, okay? and I would store it in the guest room closet, and every time I needed it, I would bring it out. And then when I finished using it, I would put it back in the guest room closet. They're unsightly machines. They're ugly.

Yeah. But then I was like, you know what? Fuck this. It's just going to go on the counter. So you do have a microwave? Not anymore, no. You got bit of it. To me, like, I would keep a microwave around for, like, popcorn.

My friend gave me a microwave for my birthday. That was so sweet. Microwaves are perfect for leftovers. I love leftovers. Because I meal prep, and so then I throw it all in the microwave. How long? You heat it up for. For meal prep stuff, it's anywhere, like, because I don't need shit to be piping hot.

Oh, I needed to be scalding hot. It's never more than a minute. Yes, is it an Asian thing? I've got a little baby mouth when it comes to hot. Oh, stop. You guys. I cannot handle hot. I can, like.

Agreed. Actually, I have like a semi like thermos, you know, cup for coffee, and I kind of hate it. I hate thermos a little bit because when I pour hot liquid into there, it stays hot. I'm mad. I'm mad because I'm like an hour later and I still can't drink this. Oh, I hate burning my tongue. I don't. Oh my God, my tongue, 99% time is burnt. I love scalding hot foods.

I don't. Miss me with that. I literally. Oh my God. So when are you microwaving in your ice cream? So you get the ice cream out of the first. freezer. It's so friggin' hard that you can barely like get the... Change their freezer temperature.

I probably... Well, yeah, but like, even if I can dig into a little bit, I'm like, it's just sucks. I want... I love... I love it. Then go to McConnell's. Go to an ice cream shop. Yeah, McConnell's like, will just give you that. Well, when you get ice cream out of shop... When you get ice cream out of shop, it's not super hard.

It has like a softer texture. That's what I'm saying. So go to an ice cream. And you put it in your freezer, it's harder than when it... I genuinely think you have a, like, your freezer is set too cold. Yeah. It's not like rock hard. It's just like I want it to be like I want the spoon to like go in. So go to an ice cream shop. No, I'm at home. It's a ice cream shop.

What if it's midnight and I'm at home and I want some ice cream for my freezer? So I get the, I've been getting the Whole Foods have like a 50% off all their frozen stuff. This happened. I saw this last year. This was like weeks ago. So I stuck up on their

organic fudge bars. It's like, but it's basically frozen chocolate ice cream and they are so fucking good and they come out and they're like it's the perfect I'm picky about texture. Yeah. Surprise.

But it's like a Wait actually? Yeah. But it is a perfect like hardness to the chocolate ice cream. I want it. I've got like two left so come through yeah. No for real. Yeah. Can I come tonight? Sure. Really?

Yeah. What time? She's, it's, it's. I feel like when Olivia does this, she's serious. Oh, I know. She's going to show up. You haven't been to our place, right? No, I'd love to come. Yeah, we would love to have you.

Sheen and court, we're right now. Yeah, right now. You guys went over to his house? Yeah, it was awesome. I know you guys had weekend plans. You guys had like a really cool. Oh, you're, oh, well, you guys are both out this weekend. Yeah.

No, but that was the first time you guys had been to any of my places. I had never been to one of your places. Are you going to invite me over to your house this week? You've never been to any of my places. I don't think I can go to the Boston show. I have plans. You have to go hang out of Spencer. I gotta go to Spencer's house.

Sorry. That's just how is his place? Awesome. Really? Designed very well. Really? I was like, damn, like I need to take some pointers from it. How do you guys feel about someone going to a house and looking into your fridge?

I don't care. I don't care. Oh. I'm a Snoopy dude. But you wouldn't do that if you came to my, you would open my fridge? I feel like I did do that. I'm a very like, when it comes to food and drinks, like I, when people come over, I'm like, I'm like, you're allowed to have anything. No, no, but would you go do that in someone else's house open their fridge?

No. I would ask. I would maybe, but I don't care too much about what's in people's fridge. Oh, dude. Yeah, I'm going in there. You've been over to our place. Have you peeped the fridge? Yes.

What'd you think? Nice. Thanks. Great drinks. Like, you know. How does your fridge look like? I feel like, I'm pretty proud of like the amount of like fresh produce that we have. You all go to the farmer's market?

Oh, yeah. Get all this stuff. Yeah, same. But, yeah. So this parasite thing is really scary. me because I'm a fresh produce guy. Yeah, it doesn't like me at all. I love that stuff. So they're asking me

to give up the thing. I'm like, oh no, I have to eat Oreos and donuts for the next two weeks. Oh, it's in fresh produce? Isn't it only the East Coast? I think it's kind of. They say it's spreading. It's spreading. The spinach is blowing in the wind and it's no. Oh my God.

It becomes like stopping me in the face. It's like the happening. Oh, another spinach. It's the happening. It is the happening. Yeah. The bees. Nobody came about the beast? Oh no, this is happening right now.

I hope we don't get sick. There's someone who's listening to this podcast who doesn't know any of the references we've made and they're so confused. They never read Ready Player 1. They haven't seen the happening. Ready Player 1 fucking sucked, dude. But you got them with the microwave and ice cream.

I didn't mind. I listened to the audiobook. It was when we were at Defi and I would drive into Defi and I would listen to that book and I would just be like, man, this sucks. It takes a lot for me to hate a book. I think my imagination, I'll pull a lot of heavy lifting to try to like like a book.

Really? I give it up. Yeah, yeah, fuck. Think harder. No, I enjoyed, like, I think I'm good at when I'm reading a book or I'm watching a movie, I kind of quickly try to tap into him like, okay, what's the vibe of this? Yeah. Like, what is this going for here?

Like, is this, am I taking this seriously? Is this just like silly, silly time? And I think I was reading Ready Player when I was like, this is silly. This is silly time. I need to tap into my, like, You would hate it. And it's happened to my 15-year-old brain.

Just enjoy the references. Like, I do that for things. Yeah. I've talked about that. Like, I do that with Star Wars. Like, Star Wars, I'm very much like, hey, I'm here to be entertained. I'm here to see cool visuals and stuff. I'm not going to pick apart the things too much.

Did you wind up seeing back rooms? No. Dude, I watched it two nights ago. I really liked it. I'm glad you really liked it because I've heard mixed things. I went and saw it in theaters by myself. And I saw it like last minute opening weekend and I really enjoyed it. Yeah.

I love the backrooms and like talking to Kane Parsons. Which we all did. We all talked to Kane Parsons. But see like I talked to him about serious shit and you guys made him do six, seven. That's fair. The disrespect. Hey. No, but like I wish I had seen the movie before talking to him because I have so many legitimate questions about like what I saw.

Let's have him back on. Let's have him back rooms on. But I really, I even sent him a DM after I watched the movie. I was like, I was like, no, he didn't. No, he hasn't responded to me either. I think he's busy. I think he's really, really busy. I imagine he's busy or he's stuck in the backrooms.

Speaking of movies. What's up? I watched a movie by myself two weeks ago. Okay. Called the invite. I heard it was pretty good. It was so funny. Have you heard of this movie?

No. It's the new Olivia Wilde movie. Oh. Incredible. Cool. Seth Rogan. Okay. Olivia Wilde Penelopee Cruz

Ed Norton Hell yeah From Fight Club Incredible cast So good I think you would really like it Nice Okay

What is your favorite movie of the year right now Oh Because you both love I think you may be out of the whole cast Ian too Actually yes Ian It's you three in the running for Who Loves movies the most

I'd have to look at it but mine might be the drama Oh yeah The drama was so funny I'm gonna go see it tonight Really? Probably You saw The Furious right You're right

You're right Did you see The Furious? I watched The Furious also this week I didn't love it Okay Favorite movie that In theaters Well I'm still excited to see the Odyssey

I've Y'all can go in Boston I eat that shit up Okay I love it And I understand when I see That's another one my brain When I see like period pieces

Or like you know Old school stuff. I'm like, yeah, this is a retelling. This is a re. This is what Christopher Nolan pictures when he reads it. This isn't like accurate, lore accurate stuff. Wait, so you're saying you don't care to see the movie? Oh, no, I'm stoked to see it. I love Christopher Nolan. But I love, I kind of love that, the Odyssey and like these old, old tales. They are, tales of your. Yeah, they're told differently every time and they're pictured differently every time. But I love like ancient Greece and ancient mythology stuff. Same, me too. So

much. Yeah. Eat that shit up. Because my favorite books all time are, Song of Achilles. Yeah, Harry Potter.

Song of Achilles and Circee. I love those books so much. That made me cry. Song of Achilles. Anyways. Favorite movie? Favorite movie this year?

You guys. Yeah. Favorite movie this year? That's the drama, I think. I would have to look back. I realize I have not, I've not been good about seeing movies this year. Oh.

I mean, the big one this year, obsession was probably... I still not seen it. Whoa. I know. Did you see it? I didn't. I've not seen it yet, and I'm really dying to.

It's streaming. I know. I need to watch it. I think it's coming on a peacock experience. I think this is tough because I don't know if I'll have time to watch it tonight, and then I'm leaving for two weeks. Go see it in Boston. Courtney will be mad if I see it without her, I feel like.

I don't think Courtney would like it. You don't think so? It's got weird. It's got some, like, weird body stuff. Oh. Oh, yeah, it does. I don't mind body horror. There's a, like, a kind of like a loose body horror moment in the backrooms that was.

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I told Courtney, I was like, she was like, how was it? I was like, there's one part you'd have to look away. The best part is. He is the main guy, one of like my favorite performances, like possibly, like, he's so good, man.

I loved it. I was like, I've never seen a movie like this. Exactly. That was kind of my taking. And I respect that. Whenever I see a movie or a TV show and I'm like, this is the first kind of this that I've ever seen,

even if it's objectively bad, I still am like, hey, I enjoyed this. this. Thank you for trying this. Okay. I've chosen. Chosen. Chosen. I think it would be Hamnet. I said this year? Or I still haven't seen. Train dreams.

Oh, I didn't like either of those. You hate it. It's this year, right? These movies were... I think both of those were last year. 20-25. But if you saw it this year, I'd say it counts. Okay. I read Hamnet last year, but I still haven't seen it. but I hear the movies People say the movies better than the book

Whatever What were the movies that came out this year I don't fucking hate Shakespeare What movies? Low key Not a big Shakespeare guy It's not about like I feel like you know

You're not reward I mean I don't know It's not really about Shakespeare Oh Project Hail Mary came out this year Oh I did see That's probably that's You know what that's probably my favorite of the year So really interesting

But I loved I loved that book So much I love that story I think it's really fun Did you fucking quay? Did you cry? I maybe cried reading the book. You might have cried it.

Maybe I'd have teared up a little bit. I would have teared up if I saw Project Hell Mary in a theater, I think. Happy stuff makes me cry more than sad stuff. Happy feet. Happy feet. I heard the Minions movie is good. Yeah, I guess I'd put that, but I haven't seen many movies this year. I've seen backrooms in Project Hail Mary so different from each other.

But Project Hell Mary was really fun. It's a dog movie. It's a man and a dog movie. It's what? It's a man with a dog. Yeah. Man Dog movie. It's just like a, it's a positive movie.

And I'm like, I'm kind of, I kind of love things that make me feel good right now. Because so many TV shows and movies for the longest time were just like, everyone sucks. Look at how shitty these people are. It's like, all right. Succession is still the best show. Succession. Yeah. That's.

I cannot believe you just did that. Who. That was part of two. I didn't. I saw that. I have not seen it. I saw that. I finally saw Mama Mia for the first time.

Oh. Oh. Pretty good Pretty good That's awesome I gotta see the second one now though Oh my god Oh yeah

How did you about my mom Yeah that was great Did you like the way she smelled I didn't clock her smell You didn't She's an incredible lady huh What is she yeah yeah Sorry I was I was still thinking about the smell

But I was like you know what does she wear Do you know what she No but what was your like The first word you can think of When you saw my mom Kind Oh Just like

Maybe normal normal's a weird way, but like, you know, she was very like down to earth and, you know, also just kind of down to do whatever, which was, you know, I think I was nervous for her coming in because I was like, you know, what if she, you know, thinks all this is stupid or, or. Oh my God, never. My mom is the least judgmental person. Yeah, and I think that's just, that was great. That's what I need. She liked you. Okay, good.

Yeah. She was, she was great. No. She said, well, her and Arasha's mom, when they were sitting in our holding room, they were just like, wow. we didn't realize how hard they worked here. Yeah. They were just like, you think they're just making videos and laughing and playing games. She was like, but when we're here, they're like, you guys are exhausted.

Yeah. Yeah, because it was also the week when we were shooting a lot. Oh, yeah. And they really got a glimpse. She was like, we just didn't expect you guys to be doing this type, like this much work. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, it's almost the weird thing. Like, when we're here recording is actually like, the chillest part of the day. Like this is almost the break sometimes, it feels like. Oh my God, I forgot. And then you're bustling and hustling in between shoots and stuff. Last week, I was Michael for a whole week. Yeah.

That wig. I don't know if that's out yet, but yeah. Some good bit city stuff coming. Michael? Yeah, dude. The movie? That was this year. This episode of Smoshmouth is sponsored by Casper.

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Do you guys have anything exciting, like upcoming exciting things? I might be going back to my hometown for the first time in, like... Florida. Yeah, like seven years or something like that. Going down to Florida. Why? I'm down to Florida. My cousin's getting married.

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Massachusetts. Okay. Mass. Masshole. Yeah. You guys got to watch, you're going to watch, what's that fucking movie? Martin Scorsese. The Departed.

The Departed. Love that movie. So good. The original. Chinese. No, it was Japanese. Cantonese. Wait, really? Yes.

I had no idea. Inferral affairs. No, Infernal Affairs. City on Fire is a different movie. Whoa, I had no clue. Yeah. Incredible movie. It might go home and see that.

Nope, Camp, going to... Is Martin Scorset? Yeah, we watch it tonight. The town. Should I watch the town? I don't know. The town. You know, I have it on Blu-ray.

I love it so much. I love Affleck. I don't think I know how much you love Affleck. You guys. You ever seen The accountant? Of course. too, of course. Have you watched every Ben Affleck movie?

Except for, is he in clerks? I didn't see, is he in clerks? No, he's not in clerks. He's not in clerks. He's not in clerks. He's in Chasing. He's in Chasing. He is chasing Amy.

He's chasing Amy. He's the eponymous chaser of Amy. I think he's Um, chasing Amy's pretty good. I haven't seen this in college. Isn't it really problematic? Yeah, so it's about, uh, he meets a lesbian woman and he's basically like, oh, I love her.

Like, she just like, and he, like, and he, like, He like tries to get her to fall in love with him. The most 90 shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ever. I'm not going to watch that, but I love. I see mall rats. Oh, that's what I'm talking about.

I watched that forever ago. I fucking love mall rats. I mean, when you're in high school, mallrats, it's kind of the best movie. It's hard to picture a mall being like that nowadays. Oh. I don't think they've changed too. Like, there's the essence of a mall.

I'm just saying to be like the hub. Yeah. Where it's like everybody goes to the mall. Like that's where you're going to meet up with everyone. I fucking love that's what the internet is now But like you're a mall guy Oh my god, mall guys Mall guys

Have you seen a deal like yeah I love malls I enjoy a mall You want to go to the mall? We can go to the mall The Boston Mall I just feel like so many times I go to the mall And maybe it's when I'm going to the mall

It just has like such a Different feeling from when I was a kid Like malls used to be like crazy It used to just feel like whoa That's how the arcade mall feels like Yeah it's like a slice of They feel like emptier And not necessarily that it's like there's not people there, but they just feel like...

I rewatch Jackie Brown recently. Have you guys seen Jackie Brown? A lot of it takes place at the Del Amo Mall, I want to say. In Torrance? Yeah. And it's in the 90s, so it's just bursting with life. Wow. And it's just, you know, it pops off the screen.

And it's also just like the design of the, like, it's so slate gray. It's so marble now. Whereas like, back of the day, there was so much color. There's so much, like, vibrancy. Spencer's. Spencer's what was the like Sam Goody It felt kooky like back in the 90s going to the mall I think they still have sugar factory

It used to feel what I mean It's sugar This is also maybe me as a kid Thinking back putting my kid glasses on It used to feel like there used to be like spectacle to it Yeah You go to the mall and it was like whoa Because it was like these shops were like putting on a show

They still got pretzels man They do still have pretzels Pretzels like carry for me Really quick who makes the best pretzel Antie Wetzels Thank you

Olivia is correct Well so here's what I do at Wetzels I get the almond pretzel And you ask for like a cup of frosting Oh so you do the sweet pretzel Well that's to say You know I think Wetzel bits are better than

No it's too hard Sometimes the Wetzel bits Sometimes the Wetzel bits Some of them The Wetzel bits Some of them Lack any seasoning Like you're not

The seasoning mean butter? No, well, I get the salted. I like salted stuff. So sometimes some of them just have no salt on them. Some of them have no. I don't have that problem. I don't have that problem. Anti-Anz makes the best salted pretzel. Anti-ans is so good. I just feel like anti-ans is a rarity. Like, you know. It is true. It is hard to find. I did go on a, yeah. I went on a first date one time, and we went to the mall. Hey. Yeah, it is. This is a long time ago. And, you know, we, one of us went to Wetzel's one or we went to Wetzels and auntie anns and we like did a taste test and it was really cute Oh how old were you?

It was like 20 and she liked the Antians and you like the Wetzel so you're like this date is all. Yeah, yeah. You know, I would love to go on a date at the mall. Oh, you can't. I love a mall date. I don't think it's happening these days. Everyone's always going to get drinks. You can go to like the dintai fung if you go to the gallery.

Oh my God, the century, a day at the Century City Mall or the even better the Arcadia Mall. Whoa. We can do a friend. Wait, you can do a friend date there. That's so cute. Let's do that. When do you want to do that? I don't know, because I would love to see this mall that you speak of.

And we can bring Shane. Do you want to come? Yeah. Okay, this is what we're going to do. Third wheeling of friend date is really funny. That's really fun. It's like, hey, like, we're friends, but like you're not like, you're not like as. You're an acquaintance.

There's wetzels. Yeah. There's wetsles and anti-ans. Let's do that. And a G&C for you. For you, dude. And me all. I'll go get my vitamins.

Yeah, there's fault on some of these vitamins, but not all of them. And then we'll hit up dintai. Did they have a dinti there? Of course. There's a DTF inside the mall. Wow, next to Kelly's cookies. Kelly's cookies. Man.

And then they have that, you know, the glasses. You know, the glasses. Gins. I want to go to gins there. There's a gins there right across from Dentai. I've never had. You don't need to go to Boston. You want to go this weekend?

Yes. You're going to skip out on Boston. I'd be like, why? There are only one person. Shipping off to Arcadia. I'd be like, guys, please welcome Tommy. Wait, do we go nobody else? A 1V1 Reddit stories where it's just

you reading a story to one person. It would be fine. I think it would be okay. I'm not scared of that. Do you think our audience would even care if I didn't go to Boston? I think they'd care. I don't. I think they're excited.

They know that you're going, so they're going to be sad. But they're like, they're like, okay, well, she's also accompanying Spencer to the mall. I'd have to explain that on stage tomorrow. though at Boston. I need to be like, hey guys, so Olivia's not here, but don't worry, she's at the Arcadia mall with Spencer. And like,

they're booing and then they're like, oh yeah, like they... I think they would understand that, but no, I think they'd be bummed with like, I think an Olivia live show is going to be so fun. It's going to hit. Because people know it's hard to, it's hard to expect what you're going to say.

This is real. These aren't comments. This is real people. This is social media. No, and you pop off sometimes. on Reddit and it's hilarious. Thanks guys. Go hard. Well, let's set up the mall next weekend. It's so down. Should we do? Oh my God. Do you want to do like a Friday or a Saturday or a Sunday?

Well, then have fun. I'll be gone still. Oh, yeah. Shane's. So sorry. Shane's going to be in Canada. What are they, Poutine? Poutine. I like Poutine. It's good. Ficked up fries. Tim Hortons.

What? Tim Hortons is. I feel like they have that here. They do. It's called animal fries. Dude For viewers at home Do you guys ever Do you guys Do you guys fuck with Dutch bros?

I've never had Dutch bros Dude So it's like a drive-thru Coffee place But they also have like Red Bull concoctions Ew Can I?

I think I've talked about this Something I really respect About you genuinely Is like You will hear about Or see like Fast food places They're like

Oh they have this new item Or like Oh they do this crazy new thing And you're like I got to go try it Yeah And I really respect that. Is that not exciting to you?

I just, no, honestly, when it comes to fast food, I've ordered the same thing my entire thing. Oh, I'll get the same thing. But like, when Taco Bell's like, we've got this new enchilada, double smack taco. I'm like, nah. And I'm trying it. I'm not trying it. No. To me, it's a, I'm going to go get the same thing.

It's experiential to me. Interesting. You know, but it's experiential in a low, especially with fast food, it is low stakes, where it's like, if you go to a. nice restaurant. They're like, oh, we have this new dish. At that point, I'm like, fun, however, I'm going to stick with all-reliable. But in a fast food context, it's like, well, I can get both. True. What's your fast food order? Which place? One place. Pick. Pick one place is real. I feel like the ones are like Jack in the Box, where they serve everything. So Jack in the Box, I like trying their new concoctions, but like my fallback is typically they're loaded tiny

tacos, which are delicious. They're like the, their little beef tacos and they put them in like a, essentially like a Chinese takeout thing. I don't know. Chinese? Yeah, yeah. How Jack in the Box works. Like, but you know, like what do you call this container? Like a Chinese takeout container? The, yeah, the little, yeah. Like, you know, the, the white, it's Jack in the Box branded, but like I don't know what else you would call it container. Is it good? Yeah, and so they... I did try one once. They throw it in there and then they put like nacho cheese in there, like this other sauce.

and then lettuce, rest of piece. And then you shake it up, and then it's every taco, you eat with a fork, and they're these crispy little, beefy, cheesy, saucy tacos. You should get some today and hope maybe you'll get the diarrhea.

See, I think I was going to say with the way that your choices of food and the way that you eat food at fast food places, I think if you ate the parasite, I think they would forgive you, and they would move on. Yeah. They would be like, our work is done.

They're like, this guy's cool. Yes. Yeah. No, we can't do this. But I don't eat like that. Like, you know, but if I go, like, that'll kind of realistically be the only thing I get there. Like, I know some people's fast food orders, you know, to be like Popeyes. Oh, Popeye's another one.

Like, I'll get the three spicy strips and the fries, the mashed potatoes, and the biscuits. So I guess that's pretty. Do you know your order for pretty much every fast food place? Don't you all? Not always. What's yours? For it. Usually it's just like I get wherever, and this is like fast food and also like Chili's level. It's like I'm getting chicken fingers or chicken nuggets. Anywhere? Yeah. Like I just, they kind of just hit no matter where you go. Right. So like I'm like, if Taco Bell served them, I'd be like maybe. But Taco Bell, I get. So they do serve them. They do? Yeah. They're pretty good.

Of course you've tried them. I get five crunchy tacos at Taco Bell. Five crunchy tacos. A lot of crunchy tacos. You eat all of them? Yeah, dude. Wow. I could eat more. I have to actively stop myself. I get a cheesy gordita crunch and the cinnamon twists. Whoa.

You've heard Taco Bell had to take off a bunch of their items, right? Why? On account of the diarrhea. Wasn't I hearing that? Because the diarrhea thing? Wherever they sourced their lettuce from maybe had the, I don't know. It's probably everywhere. Mine is McDonald's, Filo Fish, no sauce.

No cheese. Palaio fish. Flaia the fish. I've never had it. I've also never had a flaya fish. It's incredible. I had McDonald's in like 10 years. I also love diet coax from.

Okay. A fast food soda hits. Oh my gosh. It does hit. I've been getting panda a lot lately. I love panda. I get the cub meal. Like a baby panda meal?

Is it called the baby panda meal? I have to show. I have to show. show restraint at Panda Express because I do want to get the double orange chicken. When you're hungover, okay, and you order Panda Express the next day, holy shit, I just, I don't eat chicken anymore, so they did like a beyond meat. I heard their beyond orange chicken was really good. And I keep telling them to bring it back. It's, I, I wonder what their holdup is. Because I know it. I do know the holdup and we'll talk about it after. Oh, damn.

Okay. It has to be off the record. You learned about it at Taylor Swift's wedding. That I wasn't at. Wait, but I did want to ask you something. Me? Yeah. Go for it.

What's it like to be sitting with the detention degenerates? Jesus. Right. Like, does that intimidate you? Holy shit. Did you guys win? It's been over a year. No, we lost.

Who won? I don't fucking remember. This is how me with every game's video. I don't remember. I told that to Sonny. people, some people were like, ah, like it sucks, we're losing. I'm like, literally, I have been there for every iteration of every

fucking thing like this. I couldn't tell you who won a single fucking thing. Yeah, who won the banana ramas? Why didn't you? I see cursing so much. Can you tell me who won any? You've been in every game's, winter, summer? Who won any of them? Snow Rombays won the first winter games? Fuck.

I was the Yettees? Spaghetti. Yeties? I don't remember the winners of any of the games. You guys, what we have done What we have done? What we have done here. I don't know who won, but, you know, I have to say what I'm in it, I get so fucking competitive. That's me with any games video. I get in.

But as soon as we yell cut, I'm done. I'm done and I forget about it. I think about it. Okay. I think you don't. Yeah, I do. It is funny that, like, look, look, I'm going to self-insert here. We've all been in all of them.

We have. I might have been behind the game. Well, actually, and I actually, I guess, I was there. That's what I'm saying. I didn't compete in the first one. Yeah, but you were the ref. Like, you were,

and that was kind of the first time I saw Shane. I was like, this guy's like, this guy's really funny. Well, I'm so glad that we don't have to do half the shit that we used to do. That is true. I'm so. It's far less painful.

I'm so happy that we don't have to have ping pong balls hit to our stomach. Yeah. I'm so glad we don't have to make fucking snow angels in the snow. Fuck that. Yeah. There was one where I was really jealous I didn't get to do it, which. For all of the rest, didn't care.

But it was the one where we did the, you went down in a sled and knocked over the bowling pins. I remember that. I hated that. I loved that. I loved that. I loved that. Hated all of that. I loved that.

That one looked sick. That was fun. I love playing. Honestly, it was only doing it to keep my job. Yeah. I truly, there was this other thing that we had to do after summer games. We had to go to fucking six flags or whatever the water fucking. Hurricane Harbor.

I remember that. Harbor. I was so uncomfortable. I hated that shit so much. Oh, yeah, because you don't swim. I just, I don't like public water. And they just were throwing you in the water. And I remember, it's like, oh, my God, we get the Hurricane Harbor all to ourselves.

I'm like, it's like you get that anyways. Because no one is going there. You get the diarrhea disease there. Yeah, yeah, that's where it starts. My favorite games that we've done is the one that we did last. Oh. That was by far. Last year's summer games was.

In fact. Last year summer games was so fun because we didn't have to do any body stuff. Like, I didn't have to eat a hot It was really well constructed. And the crew Fantastic. We got to throw darts at Anthony. The production was on point. The next one that we do,

I'm so excited and I hope we're on the same team. No, we're bringing back tickling for this one. Yeah, we're doing the tickle games. Yeah. Sorry. The theme is tickling. Sorry, that's how it goes. Yeah. Am I going to get in trouble for saying that I hated every single games we did? No, but who. That was before Anthony came back.

You're allowed to talk whatever shit you want. I mean, he was there for the first couple. First couple, but I don't think he... Do you remember the one where they did where they didn't go and they were just like, they did commentary? And I had to edit in the commentary even though they, like, didn't even watch like a finished edit. The edit wasn't ready, but it was... Like, they couldn't watch it. They, like, couldn't watch it.

So they're just like, oh, like... Yeah. No, I think it's because one of them had to get their wisdom teeth out. No, I think Anthony booked something. Oh. I think, maybe it was both. We'll get them on and ask them. Yeah.

What the deal was. No, they're so transparent about like, like, there's no, like, that is the nice thing. There is no bad blood about any of that stuff. Like, it's purely, like, fodder or laughter. That was defy. That was a wacky world. Wacky world. Anyways, we're out of time.

Oh. Oh, no. Things were getting really juicy. It was getting juicy. I was like, I was warming up to say some crazy shit. Sorry. I got to say it all in Boston. No, unhinged me or no filter me.

I go crazy. I go crazy. I get crazy off the... I'm scared of myself. I'm scared of it. I get crazy off the friendly conversation with close friends. By the way, can we show some appreciation for this huge table? I kind of want to do...

You know, you know the kick they do in kung fu movies where they lift their foot like straight up and they kind of grab. it and they bring it down. Yeah, yeah, yeah. An axe kick. Yeah, they were doing a lot of that in The Furious and, you know, I feel like axe kicking that would be really fun. That would be really fun.

I wish I could axe kick. I feel like you could. I could bring my leg up really hot. That's what I'm saying. You could do a whole one. Bam. Yeah. Do you want to try and axe kick it right now?

No, we can't destroy this little table. I think someone would be upset. Stuart Little. My good friend. My good friends. The borrowers. Stuart Little. Thank you both for joining me.

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