Smosh Mouth - #24 - What Vibes Do We Give Off? w/ Tommy Bowe

Episode Date: December 11, 2023

What are we serving? Tommy joins Amanda and Shayne to discuss their vibes, his show, and how best to serve bundt ;) 0:00-1:14 Intro 1:15-3:12 "Tommy's phrase" 3:13-24:00 What it means to you 24:01-3...3:12 Times we've served 33:13-49:24 What we serve 49:25-1:02:48 Tommy's show process 1:02:49-1:08:02 Spilling our tea SUBSCRIBE: https://smo.sh/Sub2SmoshCast WEAR OUR JOKES: https://smosh.com WHO YOU HEAR Shayne Topp // https://www.instagram.com/shaynetopp/ Amanda Lehan-Canto // https://www.instagram.com/filmingamanda/ Tommy Bowe // https://www.instagram.com/tomeybones/ OTHER SMOSHES: Smosh: https://smo.sh/Sub2Smosh Smosh Pit: https://smo.sh/Sub2SmoshPit Smosh Games: https://smo.sh/Sub2SmoshGames El Smosh (Spanish Dub): https://smo.sh/Sub2ElSmosh FOLLOW US: TikTok: https://smo.sh/TikTok Snapchat: http://smo.sh/OnSnapchat Instagram: https://instagram.com/smosh Facebook: https://facebook.com/smosh Twitter: https://twitter.com/smosh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:43 Hi, welcome to Smosh Mouth. I'm Shane. Hi, welcome to Smosh Mouth. I'm Shane. And I'm Amanda. And you know what? Shane and I have been really trying to figure out how we can best serve ourselves and how we can best be confident in this world. And really, like, how we can really have a good vibe. Yeah, today's all about our own vibes and our own confidence and how to exude the best of ourselves. A term some people use.
Starting point is 00:01:11 Yeah. This is a morning show. People, Amanda, have you heard? People are using a term called serving cunt. Yeah, people on the streets of Los Angeles, California are really using this new term. And we decided to pop it over to our man on the street to tell us how to best serve cunt. I'm a man on the street because I have no home.
Starting point is 00:01:38 Yeah. Here with us is Tommy. Tommy, so you basically created this term. No. What? Tommy, you basically invented the words. I don't know if this is Amanda or if this is the talk show's character.
Starting point is 00:01:56 So you invented the words serving and cunt. Which, by the way, so our editor doesn't murder us. We're going to say bunt or hunt or whatever we want, except for the word cunt, so we don't have to get it bleeped out all the time. Well, and we probably will inevitably say the word.
Starting point is 00:02:14 So Tommy, we'll preface this a little bit later, but Tommy, could you give us a sound for when we accidentally do say the word? Oh my God. Yeah, this is great to be on this side of this question. Wow. I have never thought about it. It's good to do a vowel.
Starting point is 00:02:33 That I know. It has to be short and quick. OK. So I'm going to go. Oh! I love it. I'm going to give some options just in case, as I do in my show,
Starting point is 00:02:45 which is why if it ever cuts to them and they're sitting differently, it's because we took like three minutes where I'm like, faster. And then I'm like, how about this? Whoa. Whoa. All right, there we go. I like that. So should we say serving?
Starting point is 00:02:59 That was not right. It's going to be okay. Okay. For those of you listening who might be confused, we are referring to the term serving cunt, which I feel like everyone's got to have heard it by now. It's big on Twitter. I feel like it's big on Twitter.
Starting point is 00:03:15 Yeah. And Tommy, you have a show on your own YouTube channel. That's correct. Called Serving Cunt. And you judge different things on whether they are or are not serving. Absolutely.
Starting point is 00:03:30 And you bring guests on there. You brought Angela on. You brought Courtney on. Rachel. When did it start? Give us the lowdown. You want the full story? Front to back? What are you looking for? Yeah, dude.
Starting point is 00:03:48 Yeah, you motherfucking cunt. Tell me on the street. Tell us what's going on. We're anchors, so we're going to say. So, Tommy, please tell us a little bit about how your show started and what's it all about? What's it serving?
Starting point is 00:04:03 I wanted you to cue me up in the anchor as the news person. And here today, we're here with Tommy on the street. We wanna know exactly what your show is all about. Give us a little bit of the details and what was the origin date of your show? Origin date, okay. Thank you so much.
Starting point is 00:04:24 You're welcome. Okay, so about the show first, I'll hop into that. It's basically like, go and watch it please. Please! It's like the runway portion of RuPaul's Drag Race, and that's it, with objects and things and creatures, and no people. That's a hard rule I have things and creatures and no people. That's a hard rule I have where it's like no people.
Starting point is 00:04:49 At one point I was gonna do Sims characters and I'm like but those are people. So it's like, it's a exercise in imagination and being critical for no reason. It's like the stupidest show I could possibly come up with. And it's a definition, it's a term that I still, I think I know it, but I sent you a video the other day of a koi fish that people were saying serves,
Starting point is 00:05:17 and I was like, yeah, this fish does, and you were like, no, no it's not. She served royalty, class, and elegance. It was this koi fish that had, it was this white koi fish with long, flowy fins. And it was gorgeous. And I was like, oh, is this? And I was like, oh, it's not.
Starting point is 00:05:33 So I'm still figuring it out. My take, because I've asked, Courtney has tried to describe it to me. Yeah, Shane, give us your hot take on what you think serving is. Here's the definition of serving bunt cake. It is a borderline, you're exuding a confidence that is perhaps almost offensive to some, but you don't care. I don't know. You're very close.
Starting point is 00:06:04 Can I give my hot take? Yeah, please. I don't know. It's, yeah, you're very close. And correct. Can we have my hot take? Yeah, please. So at VidCon, Tommy said that I was, I had this really wild jumper that was like all the way buttoned up and it was blue and it had like these big ruffle sleeves. And then, yes, and then like squiggly lines and patterns.
Starting point is 00:06:23 But it was like, yeah, it was like snatched at the same time. And then it was snatched at the waist. And he said I was serving clunt. Serving clunt. Clown cunt. Clown cunt. And I loved that because it was really the first time anyone had ever said that to me with, you know, the clown part in it. And I felt so seen in that moment because I'm like, maybe that is just me. Maybe, maybe, maybe not even just in that moment. Maybe that's just me
Starting point is 00:06:49 at my best. And so my hot take of serving is it's kind of like when you tap into this part of yourself, that's like, yes. And you don't give a, you don't give a shite who cares what people are saying about you as long as you are feeling yourself and being like, this is 100% me and I know I look good. To me, that is serving. I agree with that. That's what it seems to be. It seems to be like 100% confident. Yeah. And it's exaggerated and it's borderline over the top.
Starting point is 00:07:24 Well, it can be. Yeah, yeah. So what is your definition of serving bunt cake? So a fun part of this journey of this little show is everyone's got their own take on it. It's kind of like the word awesome. It's like anything can be awesome or kind of awesome. But if you're in Boston, awesome is the word. Wicked awesome.
Starting point is 00:07:47 Or if you're in the UK or Australia, they're just saying it all the time. You're both hitting on the piece of it that's important, and it's that unabashedness. It's like, damn, you just commit to yourself. And it's also like you have your own sense of Bundt cake. It's like you have your own version of serving cut. And you have your own version of serving cut.
Starting point is 00:08:19 Everyone has, because it's like, it's you. You serve cut, you know what I mean? It's not like, it's not a You serve Khan. You know what I mean? It's not like, it's not a fashion. It's not a fashion thing. It's not a term that's universal that works for everyone. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:08:32 Got it. It's how you exude your own self. It's a power. It's an energy. It also seems to be very much a choice that someone has to make. It's not,
Starting point is 00:08:42 nobody like, it's not based on your actual looks. There's no, no, this person is actively making this decision in this moment and with how they started their day. It's how you're showing up to work.
Starting point is 00:08:55 If there is serving Bundt cake, it sounds like there's a lot of other servings. Oh, yeah. Like the koi fish served like elegance, royalty, like glamour matron like wow everybody's always serving something right like it's it's like i i'm serving uncle right now
Starting point is 00:09:11 really i was gonna say daddy okay i was gonna have a kid i was gonna say office daddy i would say i would say amanda is serving uh b Boston light right now. Be light. Boston light. Like it's not over the top. It's not over the top, but there's some Boston-ish vibes going on here. The hoop earrings, the denim lined jacket. And boots.
Starting point is 00:09:40 And boots. Like you look like you're East Coast. Okay, I will take that. I don't think that's a bad thing. Boston Light. No, I think that's great. Boston Light, also kind of 80s. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:09:52 The big bangs. Well, this kind of also feels like when forever ago Noah told me that I'm the human version of an acoustic guitar. And I was like, all right, I get that. Wait, that's the cutest thing I've ever heard. That's actually pretty legit. Can you call me an umbrella that wishes he was a real boy? Yeah. That's pretty good.
Starting point is 00:10:12 Pretty good. Noah's got it. Okay. I've moved the grosses over the years. To me, you're serving outdoor seating at a decently nice cocktail bar. Oh, okay. Daytime. Austin Light.
Starting point is 00:10:27 And what is Shane serving right now? He's wearing a t-shirt, a chain, and a jean jacket. Actually, Shane and I look pretty similar right now. We're very similar right now. I'm wearing a Broncos t-shirt, jeans, denim jacket. I'm wearing a pumpkin spice colored shirt. Yeah. You're serving sedan.
Starting point is 00:10:45 Sedan? I think so. Yes, what year's sedan? Oh, it's a good like 2008. Oh, fuck it. A little beat up? Cool. No, no, no.
Starting point is 00:10:53 It's well kept. It's well kept. It's a classic. You know what I mean? We all know what we're serving. So when people come on your show, do you guys figure out if something's serving together yeah it's it's kind of different per episode which is why it's a blast is because each person that comes on has their own idea of what serving is uh they read the brief that i gave them but we
Starting point is 00:11:17 filmed all of the episodes in one day which is why i'm wearing the same outfit the whole time i had a bunch of different outfits planned and i was like i can't do this. I'm gonna be in the same outfit the whole, I can't be changing. But I did change my bandana in every episode. I'll take it and keep it interesting. It's a smart thing to do. Yeah, that was the tail end of my bandana era. When you film future episodes,
Starting point is 00:11:35 are you gonna wear the same outfit now? No, it'll be a different outfit if I do another season. The plan right now is to do a season one, part two, and then do like an all stars and then an all winners and then have that be like the package. And then if I want to do another, if I want to do that, I'll wear the same thing probably.
Starting point is 00:11:55 Uh, but if I want to do another season, it'll be a different outfit. Got it. So you bring them on and you kind of, and they get their own idea of serving. Right. And so what,
Starting point is 00:12:03 I mean, what you see in the show is what happens for the most part. Although the way we film it is we do all of the serving stuff first and then we do the games last. So how the show works is you come in, there's the intro, we dive right in
Starting point is 00:12:17 and we decide out of five pictures which one is serving the most. And then we take that one and they go to the finals. Then we play a game, a little stupid game. And then we do it again for round two, so that's the second finalist, another game. Then there's the third finalist, then we go into the finals and we eliminate one of them,
Starting point is 00:12:36 which is dramatic. Very dramatic. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they're eliminated with a whip sound and they get ripped in half. Oh my god. It's very fun. And then we choose a winner
Starting point is 00:12:48 and then that's the end of the episode. It's very fun. 20 minutes. It's great. I have to admit, I think I've watched every episode. Yeah, I've watched most of the episodes and I remember watching the one with Angela
Starting point is 00:12:59 and I think it was fish. Did you guys do fish or was it? I did fish with Rachel. Rachel. No, what was the? There was one with. Was it pasta? I think it was lamps.
Starting point is 00:13:11 There was one that I. Angel had lamps. I remember there was one where I. It hit a point where I'm like, okay, I'm learning what this is. And then there's some times where I'm like, I absolutely disagree. Yeah. I disagree with your decision do you ever do you ever um read like the comments and kind of debate on seeing different sides of it absolutely i do i love that i that's the point
Starting point is 00:13:35 of this like me when i wanted to do this show i was like okay i moved to la to like you know do comedy and it's like great i'm here i'm know, doing comedy. I checkmarked my thing. Doing comedy. Right. Ding, ding. Um, and so I kind of, I've been like knocking at windows, walking into walls, just like boom, boom. And finally I'm like, okay, I'm on a YouTube channel. People know me from YouTube now. Like that's what the thing is. So I'll just do a YouTube show. And I'm like, okay, what, what in this crazy ass world we're in right now what is a good youtube show something that's like escapist and like fun and light and like not really not not a lot of brain juice happening right and people love drag race and i was like okay well what could what could i do that's like in that same realm and then i was like on twitter one day and there was just, it was about Megan.
Starting point is 00:14:25 The horror movie. Yeah, I remember you talking to me about that months ago. You were like, oh yeah, everyone online is saying that she serves bun. I was like, what? She absolutely serves bun cake. I mean, my God. I was like, she's so cool.
Starting point is 00:14:41 Exactly. Does not give a shit. Does not care. And so I was just like, that's so cool. Exactly. Doesn't give a shit. Does not care. So cool. And so I was just like, that's a fun phrase. And that's a phrase that's been around in gay culture, and all gay phrases in gay culture start with black, trans, queer, LGBT people, and then it gets passed forward
Starting point is 00:15:01 until we're talking about it on a show. Look at us. But that's how it always, that's just, that's how it goes. And so I was like, damn, that's a great idea. And so I just started like, when I was like with friends, I would just be like at a bar and they would have little like tincture bottles for like bitters. And I'd be like, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, everyone come here. Look at these bottles.
Starting point is 00:15:22 Which one is serving cunt? And then we'd like start doing that. And then I'm like, this is a blast., everyone come here. Look at these bottles. Which one is serving cunt? And then we'd start doing that, and then I'm like, this is a blast. The one that looks like the genie lamp. The genie lamp, the bitters that look like a genie lamp is always serving. I catch myself, too, nowadays. Now, having watched your show,
Starting point is 00:15:36 I catch myself kind of just like, I sometimes find myself interpreting it. Like, does that? I can't imagine Shane pulling up to a bar and going like, hello, sir, your bit's bottle is serving cunt. Sorry, I'll have a Manhattan. Nothing. It's not offensive for me to say that. Your Ford F-150.
Starting point is 00:15:56 Is serving. Serving cunt, man. I just want you to know that. No, I'm a big fan. Hey, thanks. I appreciate it has me also thinking constantly
Starting point is 00:16:07 we talked about our vibe right now yeah but you at one point then at VidCon did serve oh absolutely a little bit
Starting point is 00:16:16 yeah I served I served clown cunt and I was clunty and I remember when you gave that to me I was like oh
Starting point is 00:16:24 to me it's so fun to have a word for something that I'm feeling, right? Because I was feeling a little bit like, ooh, I don't know if I should be doing this. When I put on that jumper, I was like, I don't know. This feels a little dangerous, like a little faux pas. I don't know. If you don't have the confidence you're scared you're scared you're you're it doesn't work and it doesn't work but if you do if you're like yep yes yeah i'm wearing this and people are like oh and i felt so i felt so good at vidcon wearing that and also around
Starting point is 00:16:57 your presence because i feel like you and me are attached to the hip at vidCon always. You're my husband at VidCon. My wonderful gay husband. Drinking Aperol spritzes. Yes. Oh my God. Do you think that's, do you think there's ever been a time in your life where you served more
Starting point is 00:17:13 Helen Hunt than that? Helen Hunt? I was like, Helen Hunt, oh wait, my brain went to a weird place. Do you think that was your peak confidence?
Starting point is 00:17:23 Like your most badass? I think my wedding day was pretty serving. That's a good day to do it. And what's crazy is I went for a dress, and I'll soon share the pictures online, but I went for a dress that is a little bit out of my comfort zone, but also is very much serving. Bless you.
Starting point is 00:17:42 It just doesn't have a bottom. You're completely nude from the waist down. It has no bottom. It just has two nipple stars. You're completely nude from the waist down. It has no bottom. It just has two nipple stars right here, and that's it. And just two veils. And I walked down the aisle
Starting point is 00:17:52 with my dad. And I was like, bye, Dad. Thanks for giving me LA. Bye, Dad. I promise you'll meet him soon. Hi, honey. Hi, honey. Hi, honey. I promise you'll meet him soon hi honey hi honey
Starting point is 00:18:06 hi baby hi baby this is me as a bride if I stayed in Boston no my dress was like really low cut all the way down to here and it was just all lace
Starting point is 00:18:23 in the back and it was like cinched and sn. And it was just all lace in the back. And it was like cinched and snatched and it was so beautiful, but also so beautiful, slightly a little bit traditional too, but romantic and like fairy-like. And I felt like I was serving that day. And then some days I'll come into Smosh and be like,
Starting point is 00:18:42 I feel like I look pretty good. And then like people will be like oh i love your outfit i'm like oh thanks yeah no worries and inside i'm like yes fuck yes because it feels good like if i'm wearing an outfit that i like i feel good the whole day no and i feel like i can tell now nowadays what i'm just like oh that person they're at a hundred percent they're at a hundred they're going for it and there's nothing that's going to stop them. I think my hot take is I don't think I ever have. That is so not true.
Starting point is 00:19:11 No, but by definition. No, I mean, I don't mean like I've never had days where I feel good or look good. I just mean like that specific vibe. You know? And I mean, not even that I haven't tried at some points in my life. I just feel like I don't know.
Starting point is 00:19:25 I've seen you at work before in these outfits, and I'm like, serving. But is it serving, or is it a different vibe? Because like we talked about. Let's ask the professional. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tommy, what do you think? The inventor of serving pancake.
Starting point is 00:19:40 Yeah, yeah. I'm less of a professional. I'm more of like the Jane Goodall of serving cut. Oh, my God. It's like I've had a lot of like the Jane Goodall of serving cut. Oh my God. It's like I've had a lot of experience, but like there's still more to learn. So serving's just a bunch of gorillas and you're Jane Goodall. Yes, exactly. And you're on the poster being like, she hasn't aged a day.
Starting point is 00:19:55 Swear to God. Okay, keep going. It's because she started old. She started old and she just had old to go to. It's the Betty White thing. It's like, oh, you never age. It's like, no, she just was old at 40. And that's what I'm going to do.
Starting point is 00:20:07 Like Helen Mirren. Yeah. Oh, no, you definitely have. You also are like, you're like a humble, confident person. You're not walking around like, I'm the fucking shot guy. I feel like serving Helen Hunt is very like, almost like you're on a runway, but there's no runway there. But if you demand attention, you then lose. You then lose.
Starting point is 00:20:27 You then lose your effect. Yeah, because you're not desperate. Right, desperation is out. You just, people see you and go, wow, it looks like she's on a runway, but you don't know it. Is it an arrogance? Is there arrogance involved in this?
Starting point is 00:20:39 No, because as soon as there's like, that negativity involved, you know, then it gets like, ew. Out. But it's like negativity involved, then it gets like, ew. Out. But it's like arrogance without me putting it on you. People have to be in, you want people to be in awe of you.
Starting point is 00:20:54 Yes. But you're not seeking that. No, no. You're doing it for yourself. It feels very self-fulfilled. That's true. It feels very like, it's like a divine embodiment.
Starting point is 00:21:04 It's like I'm embodying divinity. Hello? It feels like too that it's, a person who's serving, they can be sexy and attractive, but it doesn't feel like it's about that. It's more of an ethereal thing. It's more of like, it's, yeah. It's a vibe.
Starting point is 00:21:22 It's a vibe. I wanna really quick, you said that you come into Smosh sometimes wearing like an outfit and you're feeling great and then people are like, oh my God, I love your outfit. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:21:31 I just got this really nice, and I think everyone's seen it, this really nice trench coat with this shoulder. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Serving. And I was a very London look and I came in and everyone,
Starting point is 00:21:45 and some of the editors were in the kitchen. They all went, whoa, why are you on the case? They're like, why are you doing that? What? Okay. I was like, all right. I'm so glad we're talking about this because this is the biggest issue with serving
Starting point is 00:22:04 is there is a group of people who just are blind to it. They don't see it. In fact, they feel so uncomfortable in the serving that they make you feel like shit because I swear to God, if I was wearing that jacket, the same thing would happen to me. Like, what are you on, a case? What are you doing?
Starting point is 00:22:28 My sisters would do that, except my sisters would do it in a very loving way but my little sister would probably do that she'd be like are you on the case sherlock like where is the fucking murderer i i love when people dress like when they go for it and i also like when people dress really nice even for no occasion i'm like that's badass unless it's a ball gown at work or like a tuxedo you know but at here oh no at smosh it's like can you really dress that weird like we're we're always dressed crazy for something we got we got to do whatever we want here we got i can't believe they said that what was your so what is your response when you know you're serving and you get a response that like shoots it down? Oh, I went, okay.
Starting point is 00:23:11 I was like, sure, yeah. In a way that I was just like, you know, I'm like, okay. I get that I showed up today. Yeah. But like, don't. Or you could be like, I'm about to solve the case.
Starting point is 00:23:22 And if you guys. I did that. I was just like, okay, yeah, let me get my magnifying glass out. Let me solve the case. Go, go, gadget cunt. I am about to solve the case. I did that. I was just like, okay, let me get my magnifying glass out. Let me solve the case. Go, go, gadget, cunt. I am about to solve the case of your piss-poor attitude. And then they shut up and they left.
Starting point is 00:23:35 Yes. They left work. And now we're behind on our shoot schedule. And now we can't edit anything. It sucks. So I have a question. Can you say out loud that you're serving? Or is that...
Starting point is 00:23:51 That you yourself are? Yes. Would that defeat the purpose? Or would that defeat the purpose? I feel like this is up for debate, but I think if you are telling yourself that you are serving cunt, you then destiny yourself to serve more cunt. Whoa. Because if you're like, I are serving cunt, you then like destiny yourself to serve more cunt.
Starting point is 00:24:07 Whoa. I'm serving cunt. Then it's like, you're right. I am. I'm right. I am. So yourself. Manifest it.
Starting point is 00:24:14 Yeah. But telling others like, good morning, guys. Can you guys see that I'm serving? Then you're not. Correct. No way. Get out of here. Get out of here.
Starting point is 00:24:23 That's the arrogance. I'm like, how dare you? How dare you? Do you have a time in your life where you think you served the most? And you're not. Correct. No way. Get out of here. Get out of here. That's the arrogance. Go solve the case. I'm like, how dare you? How dare you? Tommy, do you have a time in your life where you think you served the most? Or times recently where you're like, yep, I was on it. I was there. That jacket was definitely.
Starting point is 00:24:38 Yeah, I mean, that trench slayed, absolutely. But I don't know if I have a a specific memory in mind where I, where I like truly did, I will say the, the, that shoot day when we shot the show, it was one of those things where it's like, you know, you put in a month's work of pre-production and planning and finding the pictures and making up the games and hiring people and scheduling it. And, you know, people dropped out and hiring, you know, finding new talent to be on the thing. And so it's like all of that work. And then it's like, I'm gonna put on my little black vest
Starting point is 00:25:09 and my little bandana and my hair looked perfect. And then it was like, all right, PA, let's get the, and I was just like, oh, I'm running a production. And I look like this. So probably on that day I was serving cunt. Except for, I think like maybe after lunch I was like, all right, we got three more of these, all right. Serving exhausted.
Starting point is 00:25:34 I will say a moment where I don't think I was, but I think everyone else was for the most part, the promo for Anthony's funeral. And we are recording this we are also recording this episode before shooting the live show but this episode is going to air after yep the live show and the promo is already out we'll see how what we served on the live show which you can still probably go see uh the vod of but But I know at least that in the promo, I thought everyone was.
Starting point is 00:26:08 Oh. You, Amanda? Yeah, I think Amanda, that was definitely. Wow. Stunned. I think you were stunned to be there. I think that's Ian said he didn't recognize me. And I was like, does that mean I look like absolute poop poop
Starting point is 00:26:23 every other day? No, I didn't recognize Ian. He was giving father. And I was like, does that mean I look like absolute poop poop every other day? No, I didn't recognize Ian. He was giving father. And I was like, how'd that happen? When that tablecloth comes down. And he's like this. That was pretty intense. I'm like, put it away.
Starting point is 00:26:37 I was like, why am I? Go away, Ian. I'm like, yeah, very serious. I was like, huh? No, it was the first time. The booger guy? I don't know. I told Courtney this, but I was like, that's the first time Smosh has ever done something where I'm like, we looked cool.
Starting point is 00:26:52 Yes. And I was like, that's weird. Because we've done big promos before, but we're always silly. Yeah, we're always dumb. Our content was always making us look stupid. And that was what we went for. But this was the first time where Kourtney was determined to make us look really good.
Starting point is 00:27:07 Yeah. I was like, damn, this is so weird. Which is, Kourtney is literally serving all the time, in my opinion. So I am so glad
Starting point is 00:27:14 that she was the director of this promo because I think it's so good for Smosh to be seen as serving once in a while because it's like, it's like when you watch a show, you're like,
Starting point is 00:27:23 okay, this is fun, there's a crime, there's silliness, where's the sex, man? Like, we need a little bit of that, like, edge. Yeah, and it was fun to see us all in that, while playing characters that seemed like us. So. Well, I think my character is me.
Starting point is 00:27:41 Your character is you. I'm the only one that is me. It's a different version of you, though. It's a different version of you, though. Right. It's a darker version of you. It's like... Is it darker? It's a living in the shadows version.
Starting point is 00:27:50 It's almost like you haven't slept in days version of you. But that's just me. That's just actually you. Well, you cover it up pretty well. Hey, thanks. Yay. Yay. Okay, so...
Starting point is 00:28:02 Us. Oh. Us. Okay, so us oh us okay so us okay so us you go you go you go
Starting point is 00:28:10 you go no no you go see I still thinking back I just feel like I didn't think I served as the chosen in that
Starting point is 00:28:18 I think it was like a different vibe though I think I looked I think it was cool you were serving something yeah that's what I'm saying what I'm saying overall even going back to myself is I'm's what I'm saying. What I'm saying overall, even going back to myself,
Starting point is 00:28:26 is I'm not saying I'm not serving anything. I just feel like I'm not serving specifically bunt. Bunt cake. And I guess, dare I say, I don't know if this is a wild opinion, but how often are cis straight dudes like myself serving? I feel like it's just often not our vibe. I would say it's a rarer thing. I think more experimental clothing styles
Starting point is 00:28:54 usually open the door to doing something. Like Timothee Chalamet maybe sometimes does? He gives off one of those little pencils you use at the lottery stand. So it's like, I don't know if like, there's no like power in that. You know what I mean? What about Harry Styles?
Starting point is 00:29:17 Harry Styles, I'm sure we could find somewhere where he served God. But like I. He's trying a little too hard. Is that what you're thinking? Sometimes I'm like, I... He's trying a little too hard. Is that what you're thinking? Sometimes I'm like, okay, good for you. But there's so many times.
Starting point is 00:29:31 You know who I bet is at some point is, maybe I'm wrong on this, Willem Dafoe? Honestly, probably somewhere. I feel like that guy, that guy doesn't give a shit. Like, honestly,
Starting point is 00:29:41 I'm not kidding. Him in moments as Green Goblin in the Spider-Man movie. Kind of cunty. Yeah, like there's moments where hei he's just so like you know i'm something of a scientist myself you're like okay you're doing it man he's absolutely serving yeah like i feel like that's that's a good indicator of it that's that's is there like like a top person out in this world on the internet that you think is serving? The king or queen of cunt. It feels like a...
Starting point is 00:30:08 Other than RuPaul. RuPaul doesn't serve cunt all that much. Sometimes. Well, I mean, it depends on the runway. Sometimes it's mother, sometimes it's cunty. Mother. It's very mother. It's usually like how much leg do you got going on.
Starting point is 00:30:23 But anyway, it feels like a cop-out, but I think Tilda Swinton serves cunt all the time. 100, that is not a cop-out, 100%. It's just, I mean, I even mentioned it in the show at one point. Tilda is 100% serving because she is unapologetically, completely herself. She has such a unique look, but it's not even her look. No.
Starting point is 00:30:47 Swear to God, she could, like, what was it, 300 years of longing? She dresses kind of like an old, frumpier woman, and I'm like, you're still serving. Yeah. It's just something about her. She has this air of art and power and timelessness to her that's so cool. Yes, it's just unique and, yeah. Yeah, and she looks like a throwing star as a person.
Starting point is 00:31:07 What is a throwing star? You know, like a little ninja throwing star. Oh, my God. To me, she looks like a vase, like a marble vase that has little iridescent vibes to it. Little pearly chips. Yeah, pearly chips. Pearly chips. She's a pearly chip.
Starting point is 00:31:27 I'm hungry. I'm hungry. Okay, I respect that. Yeah. I really respect that. Damn, okay. Do you have a white cis male in your mind
Starting point is 00:31:36 that you think is serving? I mean, I... On the internet? I'm guessing. I don't really know. Willem Dafoe was probably my number one. And I would say,
Starting point is 00:31:44 when I think say like, when I think of it, I just think of like, who are the most confident people who are themselves? And honestly, like another one that comes to my mind is like Danny DeVito. But I'm also not kidding.
Starting point is 00:31:54 I can't, I can't, I can't. I'm not kidding though. I can't, I can't. I can't, I can't. See, I am still learning. I am still learning. I am still learning. I 100% have thought this from the day.
Starting point is 00:32:09 Monica Bellucci. Don't know who that is. Oh, yeah, yeah. I know who you're talking about. I'm googling her. It's just a picture of a woman. Yeah. It's a woman. Monica Bellucci. Okay. I get that. I don't know if I know her from things. What? What movies is she? She's now with Tim Burton. Oh, well, that's...
Starting point is 00:32:25 Which is so interesting. She's been in The Matrix. She's been in Spectre. Matrix Reloaded. Okay. That would be my female. She's the, my husband doesn't touch me, but if you kiss me in the bathroom.
Starting point is 00:32:40 Correct. Neo to Neo. Yes, correct, correct, correct. She's kind of serving in that. I also think that Trinity is always serving. Oh, correct, correct, correct. She's kind of serving in that. I also think that Trinity is always serving. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, okay. What about Neo in the Matrix?
Starting point is 00:32:53 Honestly, kind of, yeah. Like later on. Like at the end of the first Matrix when he flies away. Morpheus is serving. Is he? Oh. In that jacket.
Starting point is 00:33:04 Matrix 1, the first one. When he calls. In that jacket, when he's just. And when he calls him, he's just telling him what to do. He's like. Yeah, but I feel like Morpheus serves the most when he's on top of that big truck with the swords, the sword fight.
Starting point is 00:33:19 Matrix 2. Oh, 2, 2, 2. Matrix 2, we got the two squiggly ghost people. The twins. Yes, yes, yes. All right, the twins. And then he's on top of the thing and he's like, he's got his little glasses.
Starting point is 00:33:28 So cool. So how do we serve better? The science is not in yet. We're still learning in science. What do you think holds you back most days? My mind, probably confidence. Because you've acknowledged that some days you're super confident. Honestly, as a female, some days I wake up feeling like I am feeling good.
Starting point is 00:33:55 And then some days I wake up feeling like I got hit by a truck. And I'm just like, ugh. And nothing fits. I mean, I relate to that. Some days I'm like, ugh, everything feels good. I feel light. And some days it's like, what happened
Starting point is 00:34:10 to me? Especially with bangs. Bangs are tough. In the morning, you put your hair through your bangs and it's up and you're just like, I look like a woman from the 80s and I live in a park and I'm just like, my son's out back. Sometimes I'm just like, my son's out back. Sometimes
Starting point is 00:34:26 I'm just like, who am I? You've been really, they've been slowly... Your bangs are banging. My bangs are coming back. I'm growing them out though. Are you going to keep growing them out forever? Yeah, I'm going to grow them out forever. Really long in the front and short in the back? Yeah, really long
Starting point is 00:34:42 in the front. And then I'm going to do the Boston haircut where I shave the whole back up to here and then I just keep this long that sounds great that's really cool serving I saw a photo recently of you from like I don't know a year or so ago
Starting point is 00:34:58 where I was like damn your bangs were at one point super short my wedding photos my roast of you having the haircut of a 13th century crusader actually was very accurate yeah my my wedding photos were micro bangs and i remember and i loved them and i still love them and i've been like having those nights where i'm like i'm just gonna cut them but my mom i remember before i got married she was like are you gonna keep the bangs for your wedding and i was like mother your mom was gonna shave them, she was like, are you going to keep the bangs for your wedding? And I was like, mother.
Starting point is 00:35:26 You're going to shave them off? I was like, no, I'm going to let them grow out in one week. Huh? And I love my bangs. I think in that moment, your mom was serving. Yeah, she was definitely serving cunt. I think. In that way.
Starting point is 00:35:41 In the way that Instagram takes down my posts about it. Not in that way. Please the way that Instagram takes down my posts about it. Not in that way, please. She was serving. Yeah. Can serving be in a word? Or is it all? Is it more of a look? Is it more look or is it more attitude?
Starting point is 00:35:57 It's more attitude than it is the look. The look is definitely part of it. When you say a word, do you mean like if we looked at the word sentence and we were like, is the word sentence serving? Is that what you're saying? That's like a big brain stretch, but we could. That's intense. We could stretch the imagination there. I wasn't saying that, but I was
Starting point is 00:36:14 thinking. You're going to get to that episode eventually. Yeah, maybe that. So, okay. I'm trying to think of who we know also because like, I don't think okay, who if you had to vote, like who out of people you know who work here at Smosh okay who if you had to vote like who out of people you know who work here at Smosh who would you say maybe serves the most
Starting point is 00:36:30 Courtney hands down really Courtney's gonna freak out I completely agree 100% she's always serving there's always they've always got a fit going on hair done even when it's just like a scraggly time it's just like Courtney so Courtney you know and's just like courtney's so courtney you know
Starting point is 00:36:45 yes and that's like part of it completely i'm not gonna disagree with it but i i think the the name that comes to my head is chance because i just feel like chance is just always so confident chance chance is one of the most confident people ever absolutely but i also i that's tough that's enough that's tough i feel like i don't know that that's enough. That's tough. I feel like, I don't know. That's really hard. That is interesting, though. Courtney's going to freak out. Okay, so both of them are kind of up there.
Starting point is 00:37:12 I do feel like Olivia is serving sometimes. I feel like she's usually serving, but sometimes when she's coming in late and getting ready, she's on her way to serving. I feel like she naturally is serving, Olivia. Who of the dudes in this office do you think?
Starting point is 00:37:38 Because let's see, there's me. Alex. Alex and games. It's Alex. Alex and games is serving. A man that can tuck his sweater into his pants, I am in. I am impressed by Alex's ability to tuck full-on sweaters into his pants.
Starting point is 00:37:53 It doesn't matter how much fabric. It doesn't look bad. It doesn't matter how much fabric. He looks amazing. His earrings are always unique and different, and his hair is beautiful. It's that effort you put into yourself before you go outside that adds to it also. See, serving cots, it's kind of like a smoothie. There's a lot of pieces to it.
Starting point is 00:38:12 Got a lot of factors. It's not ever just one thing. It's the accumulation of, wow, I had something in my eye, sorry. It's the accumulation of a bunch of different factors that altogether give you this this power i love it so so if if if there's serving cunt there's other things what what are other things that shane and i could be serving not just today but in general like if you thought of us in your mind what is amanda serving you're you
Starting point is 00:38:47 you know you'll hate this you'll hate it no i won't but you you are you have a uh uh supportive energy and very like comfortable uh but you're also like a little haughty and so there's this like there's's this like, like aunt, young, young, hot aunt. See, I told you you'd hate it.
Starting point is 00:39:09 I told you you'd hate it. Amanda, you constantly complain about being like, Oh, I'm like a mother. I don't want to be like, but mother is fine. Mom is.
Starting point is 00:39:16 Yeah. You're not mom. You're not mommy. Well, I'm not upset. I'm not upset. I think that this is great. I like to know
Starting point is 00:39:25 because I am comforting someone the other day said that I give off top energy yeah that I'm like a top do you know what I mean by that Shane
Starting point is 00:39:35 he's learned he's okay I know very well from our fans I'm like top energy and I I kind of fucking love that
Starting point is 00:39:42 and I told my husband that I'm like babe I'm like top energy he's like that's why I married you and I was like top energy. And I kind of fucking love that. And I told my husband that. I'm like, babe, I'm like top energy. He's like, that's why I married you. And I was like, okay, cool. Sit down! And that's the one thing you said to each other that week. You're like, now do the dishes.
Starting point is 00:39:54 And then I slapped him so hard across the face. His head went through the door. People, our fans love to call me Shane Bottom. How do you feel about that? I don't care. I think it's funny. I am completely unbothered by it, truly. And yeah, no, I think anything is fine.
Starting point is 00:40:14 Why are you crying right now? Why are you tearing up? It's fine. It doesn't matter to me. Okay, so if I'm top and Shane's bottom, what else is Shane? I'm mommy, auntie, comforting, hottie. I heard that. Top, auntie, hottie, like, yeah, mother.
Starting point is 00:40:33 Love, love. Let us know in the comments, too, what other nouns or adjectives. I feel like it's always nouns. When you're saying you serve, it's a noun. You never use an adjective. Also, auntie is cool. Auntie's the type of person that picks you up from the party and is like,
Starting point is 00:40:47 I wanna tell your mom, sit down. You're like stoked to see. Yeah, exactly. Who is okay if you get into some trouble and might get into some trouble with you. But then also, I definitely have mommy. I definitely have some mommy vibes too. But like, good, like, mm, mommy.
Starting point is 00:41:00 Mommy. Not like,. Not like Not like Mommy Mommy Honey Okay so then what is Shane? We already know he's bottom Hmm
Starting point is 00:41:15 He doesn't give off father energy to me No People can't make a decision I would say he gives off more uncle, but then not. No. No, it's the vibe is sexless in an okay way. What? No, it's like.
Starting point is 00:41:39 What? Tommy, continue. Not that you don't have. I'm sure you do. Yes, I do. But it's like, that's not what you're like, you're not like, I'm trying to be sexy, or I'm trying to be like a hottie.
Starting point is 00:41:56 Right, I'm not trying. No, keep going. I had mine, you keep going. Let's see, What do you serve? It's like, that's what I mean. It's like, it's not,
Starting point is 00:42:07 it's not like, it's not like father. It's not top. It's not bottom. It's like, that's not, that's not what. He serves hometown.
Starting point is 00:42:12 Is that a thing? You serve, you serve like best friend, like, like, like buddy, like, like confidant,
Starting point is 00:42:19 like, like. Yeah. Yeah. Sedan. Yes. Sedan. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:42:24 It'll get you there. It might run out of gas once in a while, but it's going to get you there. I'm serving Corolla right now. No. Toyota Corolla. No, sedan is way cooler. Dependable, awesome, well-known, go-to. Like a rock.
Starting point is 00:42:40 Like a rock. You know that commercial? Like a rock. I probably can't sing in here. You can probably get away with just that. It's the truck commercial. I also feel like hometown boy vibes. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:42:54 Like that guy who's in your hometown. That's just Shane in general. That's just Shane in general. Yeah. Yeah. Those are really good vibes. They're good vibes. No, sexless is great.
Starting point is 00:43:04 That's absolutely what you want to hear. I did not say sexless. Amanda didn't sign off on that. I didn't sign off on sexless. And I further explained what I meant. Yeah, yeah, for sure. I think all you said was no sex. I think it's really awesome.
Starting point is 00:43:16 Tommy, you're serving huge loser idiot. No, can we do Tommy serving? Okay, I think I have an idea. I think I have a thought. Okay, now without the glasses it's different with the glasses on I think you're serving I was gonna say
Starting point is 00:43:32 I'm not seeing scientist I'm seeing scholar we need to decipher something an ancient presence is known I know an expert who might be able to help us out you're serving. You're serving university. You're serving university like boy in the
Starting point is 00:43:50 shadows. Like the guy who's like, have you been in this house yet? Watch. Let me show you. You're serving like... Senior talking to freshman. Let me show you the rope spots. No. No. Nope. Like, no. I see like assistant professor.
Starting point is 00:44:04 Like he's new to the university the ones that has to grade all the papers see I see the guy who's on the side who has a cigarette and is smoking and is like hey do you know about the house on the hill come with me guy in the shadows at the university who's just like I see that okay okay okay
Starting point is 00:44:19 I see it sometimes now without the glasses it's very different okay um stupid little boy not at all not at all nothing there's nothing here you're giving nothing no no no i can't even see you all um i don't know it's it's hard you're giving you're giving like first of all, to me, you're always giving 80s, funky, quirky vibes. Cool, cool. But also, valedictorian, a little bit university, but then also Boy in the Shadow.
Starting point is 00:44:54 See, you're giving me a lot of different things. But it's hard because I know you. Yeah, that's true. It is hard. I know your personality. So I guess just by your looks, it's tough. What it makes me think about is, yeah, it's hard for me to say specifically right now, but compared to when I first met you years ago, back when we were working at Defy,
Starting point is 00:45:11 I feel like you have so much more confidence now than back then. That it is crazy. Like, I compare you now to then, and I'm like, well, whatever it is, you're serving far more of it now than back then back then you served only anxiety I know that because you would say it
Starting point is 00:45:32 I'm not well you would say something like that you're serving less anxiety more like what is this not royal but like hmm like a like a prissy confidence regal uh uh not regal just you're serving like um professional your class valedictorian yeah valedictorian. Yeah, valedictorian. Actually, I did say that.
Starting point is 00:46:05 You're serving very university, very valedictorian, very in the know. Very big brain. Very big brain. You're serving like a little bit of like queenie, like a little queenie energy, like a little like, hmm.
Starting point is 00:46:19 Is it mean though? Is it mean? No, it's more like in the know. Okay. Like you're in the know. You have, I told you, you're the boy in the, it's more like in the know. Okay. Like you're in the know. You have told you, you're the boy in the shadows. It's just like, you know about this place, you know what's going on here? Oh, I know, come with me.
Starting point is 00:46:33 Okay. More like that. I'll take it. That's what I think. I've got a question. I've got an answer. Who's got a better, who's got a more confident vibe? Who's serving more of the two, Ian or Anthony?
Starting point is 00:46:46 Oh. I think that's tough. Serving vibe? Who's serving more of the two, Ian or Anthony? Oh. I think that's tough. Serving Hunt? Serving Helen Hunt. I feel like that's tough. It's tough. I feel like it's tougher than people think because I think people are going to just initially go Anthony.
Starting point is 00:46:56 But knowing them, I don't know. I think it's really hard and it's different in every scenario. Ian's also very much lately been more like confident and happy with himself and like did a wardrobe shift. And like he's got like a different vibe than he used to have. So I feel like they're like. And Anthony's more of like the new guy here. So he's still like figuring things out. Giving timid when he's here.
Starting point is 00:47:20 Yes, exactly. Their confidences are in such different. Realms. Realms, you know, because Anthony really, I think, puts a lot of effort. when he's dead. Yes, exactly. Their confidences are in such different realms, you know, because Anthony really, I think, puts a lot of effort. Ian does too, and especially lately. But Anthony really puts a lot of effort into how he dresses and he's got all these
Starting point is 00:47:34 cool tattoos and piercings and all this stuff. He's putting a lot of work there that I think Ian just doesn't care about. I'm not sure that that's serving. But Ian's personality sometimes. Ian really can be unfazed in a way that's like, oh, you actually just won't let that hurt you or won't let that affect you.
Starting point is 00:47:54 And going back to that promo, there's moments in it where it's just like, damn, to see him all confident like this. Yeah, I had a crush. When he was the father, I was like... In that promo, Ian served maybe the most in that promo. That was probably him at his peak. I think Ian's definitely serving.
Starting point is 00:48:10 I really do. I think Anthony definitely serves, but I think right now as being more of the new kid in this building, which is where we see him the most, I think Ian is serving because he's just got that like air of like, I don't care. You know what I mean? That's what I'm thinking. It's so interesting though how
Starting point is 00:48:29 they are confident in such different ways. They really are. Yeah, I feel like it flip-flops. See, this is what the show's like. There's no right opinion. You just kind of look at a thing and go, yeah, maybe. That is. Go watch Tommy's show.
Starting point is 00:48:45 Yeah, definitely go watch it. Hopefully at this point, all five episodes will be out. We shot a sixth episode, shh, but it turned out really bad, maybe. I haven't looked at, in on set, it felt very, we tried something, because that was the whole point of it, is we had the day, and so each person who came on,
Starting point is 00:49:04 we had the thing that's kind of tailored to them and their vibe, and so each person who came on, we like had the thing that's like kind of tailored to them and like their vibe and so each episode has its own like very unique vibe to it which is cool and like the way it's edited also by me is very like structured and uniformed so that there's at least something. Because you know, you go to a YouTube show, you want the same thing over and over again
Starting point is 00:49:20 but in different fonts. And one of the episodes turned out a little too off the tracks in a way that like, maybe if the other episodes do really well, I'll release the sixth episode as a little surprise. But yeah, I think by now all five episodes will be out and I think Courtney's is probably one of my favorites. Ooh, fantastic.
Starting point is 00:49:43 How much work, because you do so much on it, how much work was it, and how long of a process was it from start to finish? Oh, oh, oh. I thought of the idea probably like four or five months before we started filming, but that was right before my friend Alex and I did the Everything's Getting Worse here at Smosh.
Starting point is 00:50:07 So we had to throw that aside and just dive into adapting that to a streamed thing as opposed to a live show. Anyway, and so after that was done, I needed help in producing all of it, so I went back to Alex and we worked on it and like produced, you know, like built it out and all that. And that probably took like a month and a half, maybe two months-ish.
Starting point is 00:50:33 And filming was a day, crazy. And then right after that, I had a little, it's a little shake up in life. And so I took a few weeks to kind of like have some fun and recenter. And then I dove in to edit. And yeah, the first episode was crazy because it's like when you're diving into something that isn't made yet. And it's like we recorded a bunch of extra stuff like on the day, little catchphrases and things like that in case we wanted to use it.
Starting point is 00:51:05 And also like after the day was over and we realized that we didn't want to use that episode, which then also canceled out another thing that we filmed. It was only gonna be five. So anyway, building out like making the sound effects, choose making the music, because I've made the music and the sound effects so I don't have to do a deal with copyright crap.
Starting point is 00:51:23 Editing, the graphics. It's all me. It's all me, front to back. Crazy. The end, to and fro. So it's like I leave Smosh, I go home, I work out, I sit down, I chill out, and then I open my laptop and I work for three or four hours. That's crazy.
Starting point is 00:51:40 And then I come back here the next morning. How do you – so as a person who, I'm a very collaborative person and this seems like a project that is very much you on your own. How do you stay self-motivated to continue to work a full-time job and then come home and do your passion project by yourself?
Starting point is 00:52:01 Like no one's telling you to get it done. How do you stay self-motivated? Fear. Oh, fear, Amanda. Oh, Amanda, the answer would be fear. Serving. Serving fear. Serving fear.
Starting point is 00:52:11 That's actually, I think, what I serve the most. And what are you like fearing? Oh, just it's, for me, it was like having those three weeks off. It's like, wow, it's been almost a month since we filmed it. I need to get this done. What am I doing? You know, it's like, it's been almost a month since we filmed it i need to get this done what am i doing you know it's like time for i'm always scared of uh time like going by too fast and then
Starting point is 00:52:31 i'm old and then i'm dead yeah like that's like always in the background that's like the driving force of my person which is why like if you waste my time i'm gonna be fucking pissed off at you right time matters stole my life that's how i see it it's very stark. That's how I see it. It's very stark, but it's how I see it. So it's like, there's only so much time left in the year. Right now, as we're sitting down, I have three episodes out. I just kind of finished the fourth one at my lunch hour. Oh, I also work on my lunch hour when I'm here for the most part. I don't know how you do that.
Starting point is 00:53:01 Well, I don't. It's this one time that I've been doing this. Otherwise, I don't. Well, it's this one time that I've been doing this. Otherwise, like I don't feel. I think it was also all the effort leading up to it. That's like, well, we got to finish. We got to finish the story. We got to finish the job. Got to finish the story.
Starting point is 00:53:16 And it sounds like you've given yourself deadlines. Tried to. Absolutely tried to. So tried to give yourself. Because when you're self-motivating and you're it's your own passion project there's no one saying hey hey tommy this is due except for yourself right so setting deadlines is really good to kind of give yourself um a basis of like when this needs to get done and a bit more of a hurry yeah right but Right? But then also the other side of that coin,
Starting point is 00:53:45 which is a great thing, is like I put out the first episode on a Saturday. I put out the second episode the next Saturday. And then I realized I'm too far behind and I can't make the next Saturday. Like I can't, that deadline just couldn't be done. And so like I was just like, oh, I can do whatever I want actually.
Starting point is 00:54:02 And so I was like, see you in two weeks. Oh, it's my channel. Yeah. And then I did the two weeks, and there's that one. And then I ran into a humongous roadblock. And so it's going to be two more weeks until the next episode's out. But whatever. Who cares?
Starting point is 00:54:16 You are your own boss. I'm going to watch it. You are your own boss. You are your own CEO. Yeah. Would you rather be on your own in that sense, or would you rather have a team being like, no, that's not okay, Tommy, but then also help you with deadlines and stuff.
Starting point is 00:54:30 It would be different if I was getting like also paid to do this work, even though it's like my thing. You know what I mean? Like if there was like, for me, the motivation is just, I want to get it out and get it done. But like, I, if a team was like, Tommy, you need to do this Like if there was like, for me, the motivation's just I wanna get it out and get it done. But like, if a team was like, Tommy, you need to do this, I'd be like, well, who produced the show? Who's editing the show? You know, I'd be like, get off my ass!
Starting point is 00:54:54 So let's like, I'm glad no one's doing that right now. But like if it was more official, like let's say this turns into like a chicken shop date kind of thing, which is like the idea. It's just like I want any person to come on and sit down with me and have a blast. That's the idea.
Starting point is 00:55:07 So fun. So fun. So it's like if that were to happen, then I'd want a bigger team, and then it would be like, hopefully by then I would have an editor who can see the format and just do that. Right. But you're not doing this with any,
Starting point is 00:55:22 you talked to me about it a little bit over the months, and you're doing this ultimately for fun. Yep. Like, you're doing it for the passion of it and the joy of it, and that's probably why it turned out so great, and probably part of why you actually were able to do it. Because, like, if you're going about this, like, I need to be doing my own projects. I need to, because that's my line of thinking when i'm trying to do stuff outside of smosh and it's why i feel like i haven't succeeded is because i'm coming from this place of obligation of like oh i should yeah i should be doing other things and i yeah i got to find something to do and i i make it more work and then i just hate it and i'm exhausted because we we film long days here and it's a lot of work what we do and so I
Starting point is 00:56:06 get home and I'm like the thought of expending more creative energy I just don't have it but if it was something that was purely for fun yeah then it's a little different a passion project has to be something that's fun and I also see it as like a fire that's inside of you that if you don't tend to it you're gonna burn up you're gonna burst that's how I see passion projects like when I wrote my one woman show it I literally wasn't like and now I will write my one woman show it like bursts out of anger and sadness and excitement and fear and joy until I was like listening to music that I was obsessed with and just writing. Like I feel like passion projects have to birth
Starting point is 00:56:51 from this big magic moment. I love Elizabeth Gilbert and that book is amazing. But that big magic moment where you're like, bing, light bulb and then if you gotta, it's almost like if you don't jump on it, you're gonna combust. Yeah, yeah. And the fun part is the most important part.
Starting point is 00:57:11 Like as much as it is work and it is stuff like that, it's like trying to have fun during the whole process as much as you can. You have to remind yourself of that because sometimes you can get to a place where you're like, I've gotten so far,
Starting point is 00:57:22 I feel sick right before I'm about to perform. Why am I doing this? Literally. And some parts of anything are just not fun. Nothing is fun through and through. And you have to accept that. It's like, okay, well, parts of this are going to suck. Yeah, parts of this are going to suck.
Starting point is 00:57:37 But most of it will be fun. Yeah, exactly. If you think about it and there is that level of fun, it is what's going to drive you. But if it's not fun if you're doing it for someone else or if you signed on to a project with another collaborative person who you almost like oh then those are things that i just think nowadays are just not worth it yeah time is precious yeah but maybe that's because we're all 30 yeah i just think
Starting point is 00:58:03 it's so cool that you're doing this it's really cool is there added pressure it's done very well thank you I don't know what you were expecting when you put it out does it add more pressure
Starting point is 00:58:19 has it changed your point of view on making it now that a decent audience has watched it and likes it yeah i mean the mac episode has like 200k views which is like that's really great when you're doing it all yourself yeah and that's like some of your first episodes on a channel that's actually insane it is crazy you know so thank you you think about it like most youtubers truly go years getting hardly any views. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:58:47 And so by the time you're getting views, it's like, well, I've been doing this so long that it's one thing, but this is your first. Yeah. I mean, it adds pressure in a way where it's just like, I want to get them out. You know, it's like if it's already, if the audience is there and is hungry for it, then it's like, like, damn, this extra week that I have to take to edit it. I'm like, it's not my favorite thing. But so that's like the only pressure. Otherwise, it's like, I feel like with most things, you just have to like convince someone to like buy into your idea. And then once they're bought in, they're bought in.
Starting point is 00:59:21 So it's like even if one episode like doesn't hit the same way or whatever, it's like you'll still enjoy it. You're still in. There's still part of it, yeah. But yeah, there's no big – I literally was like this will get 30K views total. I literally was like all the episodes total will get – and then that'll be that. And that'll be fun. Fun and low expectations are also part of a passion project. If you do it for fun and low expectations,
Starting point is 00:59:47 like I'm just doing this because it's fun, and then something bigger happens. That's how you do it. The best. Someone said this recently. I want to say it was Alex said something. There's like a saying at some university of like they have a no masterpiece policy.
Starting point is 01:00:04 And when i heard that i was like oh that's really great because what's held me back over the years is my perfectionism and uh it's something that i've thought about for the my entire time at smosh it's been like a oh well i should make my own videos i should work on my own channel and it's just so hard but i think a part of that is that i i put this pressure of like what it needs to be as opposed to like i could literally film some bullshit and upload it to a channel yeah and that might be better than nothing um it's certainly something i am i have been pondering and would love to try and do at some point, which is making my own channel and making my own stuff.
Starting point is 01:00:47 But I'm not making any promises to those watching. I think that's awesome because I think the best way to kind of move through that is to just make stuff that you're passionate about in that moment. And a lot of it will happen. And it happens and then it just goes. But you get used to making and then moving on and making and moving on and making. And then maybe something else comes from that. And then it's like a double meaning. It's like, oh, someone, you know, it's just if you are passionate about it, jump on it because the, I always think that when I am like old,
Starting point is 01:01:26 hopefully, in my bed, dying like the woman on the Titanic, I hope that I'm like, God, I jumped on most of my passion projects and one did well. Like, I always think back to that. That is my motivator. Like if one- It's kind of the same thing that I have, where it's like, I'm gonna be dead one day and so I better be back to that. That is my motivator. It's kind of the same thing that I have, where it's like, I'm gonna be dead one day,
Starting point is 01:01:47 and so I better be happy about that. Are you the Titanic woman, too? A thing that I, so before it did well, there was a different kind of pressure that I see what you're saying. I didn't think about, I was like, wait, this is my debut in this medium. I was like, oh, oops. I didn't think about, I was like, wait, this is my debut in this medium.
Starting point is 01:02:06 I was like, oh, oops. I didn't think about, I was just like, yeah, I'll shoot the show, it'll be fun. And we'll edit it and we'll put it up. And then as it was happening, I was like, oh my god, this is me doing, it feels actually way bigger than just like, oh yeah, I'll put it on my YouTube channel.
Starting point is 01:02:21 And then because I kind of accidentally fell into doing that, I was like, all yeah, put it on my YouTube channel. And then because I kind of like accidentally fell into doing that, I was like, all right, whatever. I was like, okay, if it does well, who cares? Or if it doesn't do well, also who cares? And who knows? I could put out five episodes of Serving Cunt and then put out a different thing on that channel or I'll disappear.
Starting point is 01:02:39 I'll do whatever I want to do, actually. And yeah, it's actually fine. You're following your passion, you know? Yeah. Yeah. And yeah. All that matters is you're following your passion. Mm-hmm. You know? Yeah. Right. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:02:48 Hell yeah. Just like letting go of that, like, the pressure of it. It's still there? Well. It's still there. Yeah. And I mean,
Starting point is 01:02:56 look, you're killing it. But it's there in like a fun way. Yeah. But we do want to have a little end segment. Yeah. Oh.
Starting point is 01:03:08 Our one for today is... We're trying new things. We're trying new things. Did we have... Okay, yeah. Lip service. Yeah, lip service. So this is our little gossip segment. This is like silly tea or gossip or things that we have insider into
Starting point is 01:03:25 that maybe you might not know. Yeah, and it can be about anything. It can be about anything you want. It doesn't have to be it doesn't have to be like celebrity gossip or even gossip about here at Smosh. It could be like anything in the whole world. Anything in the whole world. I have been thinking about it all day and I'm struggling.
Starting point is 01:03:42 This is definitely, I am not good at coming up with tea. This one's, this one's hard. This one's really tough. But I feel like you're good at coming up with tea. Here's our segment that we're putting right on you. Here's our segment.
Starting point is 01:03:54 Tommy, would you like to go first? Yeah. Yeah. I can go first. Uh, at least the tea and the bow family, uh,
Starting point is 01:04:00 right now is, uh, is, uh, my dad is working toward retirement, which is awesome. Oh, that is tea. Because Mr. Thomas Boe Jr. needs to sit down.
Starting point is 01:04:13 He needs to sit down. And he needs to have another rum drink. And you should, Tom. Yeah, that's up and coming. Okay. There's that, yeah. I like that. That's very good. Here's like that. That's very good.
Starting point is 01:04:25 Here's my tea. It's very dumb. I just thought of it right now, this moment. I kind of lied to my husband last night, but... Oh! Oh! Oh! This is tea.
Starting point is 01:04:36 So we're both kind of intermittent fasting, and I was like, yeah, I'll do it with you, absolutely. We were supposed to be done at 8, and then at 8.15, I went in the fridge, and I poured myself a little gin and soda with a lime, and I was like, oh shit, it's past intermittent fasting. And I opened the soda water and poured it in, and he went, got up and ran into the kitchen and went,
Starting point is 01:04:59 what's that? I just went, soda water. And he was like, it's after our time, and I was like, it's soda water. Damn was like it's after our time and I was like it's soda water damn to his face really and I was like yup and he was like yum can I have some and I was like
Starting point is 01:05:14 I'll make you one and I made him one he knew I was fucking lying and I was just like I'll make you one and he was like okay and I was like okay and that's my fucking nutty tea We'll make you one. And he was like, okay. And I was like, okay. And that's my fucking nutty tea.
Starting point is 01:05:28 That's some nutty tea. That's my lip service for today. Shane, you got anything? It's more confessing a secret, but I guess in a way it's tea. Back when I was, I want to say I was like 15, we were visiting, my family and I were visiting some family friends,
Starting point is 01:05:45 and they had a son who was like, had to have been like eight to 10 years old. But in their backyard, they had like a really nice backyard. And they, you know, like any, they were, you know, like a middle class, upper middle class family. They had like a bunch of nice toys and like, he had like several bikes and stuff like that, like, you know, that kids have. But he had like, they stuff like that, like kids have. But they were small little bikes. And me at 15, me still now,
Starting point is 01:06:08 if I see any form of bike, I'm going to try to see if I can ride it. What? If it's a tiny... But you know when a bike is too small for you and it's just really tempting to be like, well, can I ride this little tiny bike? And so there's a little tiny bike in their backyard
Starting point is 01:06:21 and I was kind of just alone just in the backyard and I was like, I'm going to try to ride this tiny little bike. And I get on this tiny little bike and I break the fucking seat off. Like fully. How instantly did it happen? Oh, pretty instantly.
Starting point is 01:06:33 Like I sat on it and it fucking broke off. And I was like, it like broke off from the, like the rod of the seat. The metal. But, well, it wasn't,
Starting point is 01:06:41 I don't, I forget how it broke so easily, but I was like, Oh my God. And I like kind of repositioned it back't, I forget how, it broke so easily, but I was like, oh my god. And I, like, kind of repositioned it back. And then was just like, okay. And didn't tell a soul. And just kind of, like, put it back where it was.
Starting point is 01:06:56 Maybe it was a cheap bike and it doesn't matter. Maybe they wouldn't care. They'd be able to easily get another bike. And it was also not their only bike. But I definitely was just like, okay. And I never heard anything about it since but i did that and i felt bad i think about it occasionally because i was in the window like i saw what he did she's like finally that bike's gonna be i saw you break his
Starting point is 01:07:16 bike i felt more bad that i'm like that kid's gonna try to sit on that bike she's gonna break no it wasn't it didn't break like that it didn. It didn't break like that. It didn't break like that. It broke in a way that that wouldn't be what happened, but it's still... That kid's in a full body cast from that mic accent.
Starting point is 01:07:32 You're serving asshole right now. He died. No, but I feel bad about it. Wow, lip service. The tea is on myself. The tea is on yourself. The tea is on all of ourselves.
Starting point is 01:07:43 I spilled tea all over myself. I'm wet. You're wet. Oh, great. And with that, guys, please go watch Tommy's show, Serving Cunt, aka Serving Helen Hunt. Yeah, youtube.com slash at. I think it's slash at now. Slash at.
Starting point is 01:07:59 Fun to say. Tommy Bones. T-O-M-E-Y-B-O-N-E-S. We'll attach it below. Hell yeah. And let us know what our vibes are. Yeah, what are we all serving? Give us the vibes.
Starting point is 01:08:11 Give us the nouns. What are we serving? And we'll see you later. We'll see you later. We're so proud of you, Tommy. We're proud of you, Tommy. Bye! Bye!
Starting point is 01:08:21 Love you. I love you. I mean... Sorry. Love you. I I mean can you pick me up now oh god

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