Smosh Mouth - #24 - What Vibes Do We Give Off? w/ Tommy Bowe
Episode Date: December 11, 2023What 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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God, I need a haircut.
Hi, I'm Shane.
Wait, sorry.
I'm Shane.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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?
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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,
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.
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,
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
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,
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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,
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.
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
we talked about our vibe
right now
yeah
but you at one point
then at VidCon
did serve
oh absolutely
a little bit
yeah I served
I served clown
cunt
and I was clunty
and I remember
when you gave that to me
I was like
oh
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
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
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?
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.
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
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
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
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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
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?
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
Whoa.
I'm serving cunt.
Then it's like, you're right.
I am.
I'm right.
I am.
So yourself.
Manifest it.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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,
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.
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.
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...
Us.
Oh.
Us. Okay, so us oh us okay so
us
okay so us
you go
you go
you go
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
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,
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
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?
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.
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,
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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,
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.
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.
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...
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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?
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
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
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
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.
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?
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
Mommy.
Not like,.
Not like Not like Mommy
Mommy
Honey
Okay so then what is Shane?
We already know he's bottom
Hmm
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.
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.
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,
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.
Is that a thing?
You serve,
you serve like best friend,
like,
like,
like buddy,
like,
like confidant,
like,
like.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Sedan.
Yes.
Sedan.
Yeah.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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,
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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,
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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.
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.
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,
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.
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?
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.
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!
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.
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,
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
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
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.
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,
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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,
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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
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.
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.
Tommy,
would you like to go first?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I can go first.
Uh,
at least the tea and the bow family,
uh,
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.
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.
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.
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,
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
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.
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,
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,
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
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.
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,
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Love you.
I love you.
I mean...
Sorry. Love you. I I mean can you pick me up
now oh god