Smosh Mouth - #4 - Lying Is Fun w/ Arasha Lalani
Episode Date: July 17, 2023Shayne, Amanda, and Arasha talk about playing the Smosh villain, who are the best people to troll, and how to pull off the best prank at Smosh. SUBSCRIBE: https://smo.sh/Sub2SmoshCast WEAR OUR JOK...ES: https://smosh.com WHO YOU SEE Amanda Lehan-Canto // https://www.instagram.com/filmingamanda/ Shayne Topp // https://www.instagram.com/shaynetopp/ Arasha Lalani // https://www.instagram.com/arashalalani_/ 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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Hi, welcome to the Smoshcast. I'm Shane Topp.
And I'm Amanda Lee Hincanto.
And today we are talking all about villainry.
Every kind of villain, everyday villains.
How to mess with people.
You know, the good stuff.
Yeah, just get right under their skin. And to help us, we have a special guest, Arasha Lalani.
The most innocent person
at Smosh. See,
I devised this theme
because I feel like by
this point, Arasha, you've kind of
I feel like
you've positioned yourself as
the villain at Smosh in a lot of ways.
Yes, your character type is the villain.
Thank you. Yeah.
Is it true?
I think so, I think so.
You know, people were quick to kind of see the ways
that I was essentially trolling a lot of people
on the channel, and they, like me, enjoyed it.
And they found great pleasure in it,
so I think it became a game
that I was more than happy to keep playing.
Spoken like a true villain.
Yeah, really, really committed.
Obviously, you've done your stunts
on our videos.
Where you did convince everyone here
that you booked a Marvel movie for a week.
And that's become your magnum opus so far here at Smosh.
I would say so.
You're going to top it at some point.
You're going to do something bigger.
I know that's going to happen.
I don't know if I'm going to enjoy it.
Like, I think it's going to be a bummer for everyone here.
Probably.
But it'll be funny.
Well, you know, actually, that's a lot of the reception I've been getting
from the Revenge episode, actually. A lot of people have said that that has actually topped uh the lies because
what what greater harm can you cause than unleashing people's mothers on themselves
my own mother calling me on the phone amanda that voice like triggered my
teenage it brought you to tears it did i would say you were actually the champion of Let's Do This.
I don't think anyone did Let's Do This better than you did.
Wow.
Out of that entire series.
Thank you.
I think we put it to bed, and you won it.
I will wholeheartedly agree with that, because I look back on my episodes, and it was me
learning what Ligma balls mean.
Yeah.
Right. The easiest person to troll here. Using a fart machine. on my episodes and it was me learning what Ligma balls mean yeah and
the easiest person
to troll
here
using a fart machine
and getting
Peter to be
my doppelganger
like I did
I did fake feet
like I did
the dumbest
dumbest things
which is art
in itself
and I respect it
oh he's such a villain
you
you got into this
pretty quickly
and I have to
I have to ask like have you always messed with people in this way?
Because you do it constantly.
I want to point out, it's not just these stunts.
But I'll be talking to you.
And I'll just be like, oh, yeah, do you like that movie?
And you'll be like, I don't know, maybe.
I'll be like, what?
You'll be like, what do you think?
And I'm like, this is weird, OK?
Why can't you just be honest here? Why can't you just be a person? I'll figure like what? You're like what do you think? And I'm like this is weird okay? Why can't you just be honest here?
And you're like you'll figure it out.
Yeah.
I think you might not like this answer but I'm bored.
Sometimes it's just more fun to change up the storyline a little bit and play pretend.
I mean we're all actors here.
Like, I feel like it's just fun
to almost enter this different environment
and just pretend, just pick what you actually want
the true answer to be.
And I find it so fascinating
that you are living a different reality
than the people around you because they are thinking something is going on.
But you're like, no, everyone died because she was bored.
When did you start doing this?
When did you start?
Would you say that the stuff you've done on Smosh is your biggest pranks in life?
Or have you have you messed with or trolled someone in a bigger way before?
Have you topped Smosh pranks?
I mean, Smosh has definitely given me
a platform to prank.
As a kid, I was actually a pretty bad kid.
Yeah? Weird.
Yeah.
I was often called to like principal's offices and stuff,
not because I was like causing harm on anybody's account,
but it was because I would just be disruptive
or distracting in class.
And so people would just be like, shut up and go away.
Disruptive how?
Yeah, disruptive how?
Just being like, I don't know.
People are like, give me the math test answers.
I don't know.
More or less, I mean definitely less smart
or less clever, I would say, than the pranks here.
Mostly as a kid, it was like,
it was like the teacher would say something
and I just had to toss my joke in after.
I just had to be like, oh, punchline.
You're a mom?
Yeah.
Oh, that makes so much sense.
Balls?
Yep.
I got it.
Would you get laughs?
Oh, yeah.
The class loved me.
So it worked.
Class clown.
Class clown.
Oh, my God.
But you probably drove teachers insane.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Now, why did you feel the need to always get your joke in there?
I I don't know. I guess there was always a calling for me to perform at a young age.
It was always let me let me test out my talent. Let me see if these skills are real.
Again, like the the kid word, I think, for what I've been doing is to call it a troll.
Like, just trolling people and being dumb because I think it's funny, even if other people don't really find it funny.
And again, like, I want to say, like, I was tame through high school.
And, like, I definitely was, like.
You became a good person for a little bit.
Yeah, I was good for a little bit.
And then it got boring.
So you started fucking with people again.
And then I was like,
I gotta switch things back up.
I gotta go back to my old ways.
So you were more like a little fun troll
when you were a kid
and now you're like a full on villain in real life
or is it just when you're in group settings?
Are you a villain to your mom?
Oh yeah. Well, as many people also learned at small,, are you a villain to your mom? Oh, yeah.
Well, as many people also learned at small, she is also a villain.
She is very much a troll as well.
Your mom is?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
We were-
Sweet woman that I met.
Oh, my gosh.
No.
I realized it, too, when we were just traveling in Canada.
We had had people over, we had like catered some food
and these people had come over and my mom was like,
have some food, I cooked everybody.
And everyone was like, no she didn't,
she's a big liar, don't trust her,
she does this. And I was like,
I'm my mother.
I am my mother. Wait, she said
she cooked but she didn't? Oh no, we had
catered a bunch of food and she was like, I cooked everybody,
have some food, like enjoy my delicious food. How serious did she say that? Oh, no, we had catered a bunch of food. And she was like, I cooked, everybody. Have some food.
Like, enjoy my delicious food.
How serious did she say that?
Like, what could you tell?
Was she like, was it clearly a joke?
Or was she like, no, guys, I actually made this food.
She probably didn't commit as much as I would maybe.
You commit.
Yeah, I commit.
And you do not stop.
Even when people are like, I know you're joking.
Please, just say you're joking.
Shane has clearly been through some trauma right now.
We were filming something, and we were all sitting there,
and you were just committed to a bit,
and everyone was like, wait, I can't tell if she's serious or not.
And I got to the point where I was just like,
she's just trolling you.
Just ignore it.
It was about the year I was born.
Yeah, you refused to answer.
It was about literally nothing important.
It was nothing important
but everyone was like
what year were you born?
And I was just giving looks
around the room.
You were just like
you just figured it out.
1976.
I was like come on
just say it.
But it's so funny.
See?
It's because people
get involved.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean
commitment I think is
again like it parallels with acting and
it parallels with these pranks and these lies like it's it's just about fully committing to
the reality that you are putting yourself in and obviously there's a line because people don't like
to be manipulated you know the only it's harmful. You always keep it contained to yourself and you're just being a little devious.
No one ever feels threatened or in danger,
but they also know that they're extremely confused.
Absolutely.
And that is always,
and that's where my nice person era blends
with my devious era,
is that I obviously don't
want to cause anybody actual harm um and the best way that i can talk about it is again with the
revenge episode like had either of them not had great relationships with their mothers like i
absolutely would not have done this like there's there is a lot of uh insight that i would say i
get first and then i'm like, okay, great.
And,
and the,
the fun there was all of us like at the beginning of that day being like,
I'm in your head.
Yeah.
We were,
we were so paranoid.
Angela was so paranoid.
She thought everything was fake.
She thought that he,
she thought like the announcement,
she thought everything,
the Smosh announcement,
she thought everything was fake and a lie.
Which I was honored.
I wish that that was me.
I wish that I had done something even of that standard.
I was like, you're giving me a lot of power.
We were like, is this all fake?
So you're kind of like Maleficent as a villain.
The Angelina Jolie Maleficent, right?
Thank you.
She helps out the little girl.
But we all realized she got fucked over by that guy
because he stole one of her wings.
So maybe.
Were you ever fucked over?
I've definitely been wronged, as we've all been wronged.
What?
Were your wings stolen?
I was never wronged in my entire life.
We've all been wronged.
And this is a great way of getting back to the universe.
By wronging other people um by slowly lying but it
really started because you were like bored and wanted to have fun yeah pretty much i mean the
the marvel lie is definitely the biggest one that had happened on the channel but before that you
know we all played uh that card game and that i feel like was such a natural way of showing you all that I like to lie.
Secret Hitler?
No, no, Let's Get Talking.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh.
That's right.
Yeah.
It just did a lot of videos.
You'll just tell a big lie.
Yeah.
It was back then, that was a lie.
Do you ever feel bad?
No.
No.
Again, no harm caused.
Lying is just super fun. It's super fun. Obviously, again, no harm caused. Lying is just super fun.
It's super fun.
Obviously, again, under the right circumstances,
like after the video, we all hugged,
and I was like, I'm sorry, was that okay?
You have never, I've never felt like wronged by you at all.
I think it's all fun.
You are doing it for fun, we know that,
but it's still people, especially like Angela,
on edge all the time.
She was about to pull out every strand of hair that she has.
Angela is terrified constantly nowadays.
She is certain she's going to get pranked every day.
Every day.
I would say maybe you've wronged Angela's grounded.
Her feet are not on the ground.
She's just like.
If there were a fourth chair and Angela were here, she'd be like, I feel wronged.
I feel wronged hard.
Yeah. She would definitely be very upset.
She'd be mad.
But again, all within the fun.
Like never to actually damage anybody's lives.
Just to shake it up.
Are you the main villain of your family?
Because you said your mom's a bit of a villain.
But like of your siblings and everything, are you number one?
Yeah.
Yeah, definitely.
Yeah.
And my family kind of knows that place that I fit in as well.
Again, like when my mom came beforehand too,
she was like, do I need to know anything?
And I was like, well, at Smosh, you know,
my reputation is to kind of lie.
And so a lot of people when they meet you are going to be like,
Arash is evil, right?
So don't be like, what did she do?
Like, it's all in good fun.
And she was like, oh, okay, yeah,
I figured that it was something about that.
And I was like, oh, okay, cool.
I figured that's what you do.
That's my daughter lying to everyone.
My mom would be so like, what's going on?
She would not be okay with that.
I could never lie to my mom, though.
She always knew everything.
I mean, again, you gotta remember that my mom is the original liar.
She's the OG.
Okay, so your mom's lying to you saying she wouldn't be able to tell a lie,
but your mom would know immediately.
Is that even your mom, Raj?
Yeah.
That was my aunt.
Oh, shit.
Oh, God.
That's right.
This is the big reveal.
Okay, so is your mom the OG or are you the OG?
What we said in the episode, actually, I feel pretty good about.
She is the queen of lies and I'm the princess of lies.
That's pretty sweet.
That's pretty sweet.
I've taken after her a lot.
Again, you guys will get to know her so much better and then you will be like like as all of my friends do like they meet her
and then they're like
that is your mom.
That is your mom.
Oh my God.
For sure.
They're like
hi Arash's mom
and she's like
I'm not Arash's mom.
And you don't know
where you are right now.
She's like
when was I born?
I don't know.
I don't know.
You're like whoa.
That stuff stresses me out.
I feel like that's
a Black Mirror episode.
Like that stuff
stresses me out.
Like I
I just don't have it in me. I just feel so guilty when I lie. Like that stuff stresses me out. Like I I just don't have it in me.
I just feel so guilty
when I lie.
Like
maybe like a white lie.
Like yeah
you look
you look great.
You look great.
Oh yeah.
I'm bad about that shit.
Yeah.
I
if I have a situation
where I need to say something
that's rude
or gonna hurt someone
I'm gonna back down
and I'm gonna lie.
I'll be like
yeah for sure. You do that to me all the time Shane. Yeah you just said that she looked back down and I'm gonna lie. I'll be like, yeah, for sure.
You do that to me
all the time, Shane.
Yeah, you just said
that she looks great.
That's not a lie, though.
That's not a lie.
Okay.
No, I...
I can give you some tips.
It's my pinned tweet,
but it's also very true
that if a magician
did a card trick in front of me
and he fucked it up,
I'd be like,
yeah, man,
that's my card.
Good job.
I would not be able
to be like... To escape the awkwardness. I would not be able to be like, oh, sorry, man, that's not my card Good job. I would not be able to be like,
I would not be able to be like,
oh, sorry, man, that's not my card.
I'd be like, you got it.
But you know what?
Woo!
That sounds like a lie.
It is a lie.
I'm saying I would lie.
So you're on board.
To support me.
If it's a situation where I'm like,
fuck, this is about to be awkward,
and I'm gonna make someone feel bad.
But you lie in ways that make someone feel bad but you lie
in ways that make people
feel confused
and scared
you lie for the sport
and fun of it
yeah yeah yeah
you're having fun
I'm having so much fun
I'm having a great time
I lie out of necessity
and I feel bad about it
and I don't want to do it
you see
I want to stop
yeah the magician thing
is like
dude what if you were like for me I would just be like, is everything okay?
Like, you didn't do the trick.
Like, I would be like, let's improve this.
Oh, wow.
And then he fucking cries.
And then he cries so hard.
He's like, what the fuck?
And then I throw it in his face.
Oh, hold on, I'm getting a call.
It's his wife, she divorces him.
Because he just fucked up that trick.
We're done, the show is live.
She's like, how'd the trick go? He's like, I failed. She's like, I'm divorcing you, fuck you. I'm getting a call. It's his wife. She divorces him because he just fucked up that trick.
The show is live.
She's like, how'd the trick go?
He's like, I failed.
She's like, I'm divorcing you.
Fuck you.
I'm out.
Meanwhile, there's a whole audience watching all of this go down.
Yeah, this is at the Magic Castle on stage.
Everyone starts laughing.
They're throwing tomatoes at him.
Is this something I think you should leave sketched right now?
It feels like it.
I think you should leave sketched.
I can see it.
So I also wanted to, since you're kind of the master of it, I was curious.
I think something that would be fun, because I've been trying to experiment with messing with people a little bit more here at the office.
On camera, off camera.
And I want to devise more ways to do that.
Something I was doing earlier this year that I felt pretty proud of is I slowly hid bananas in Ian's office.
Fake bananas.
They were styrofoam bananas, but they were the size of a regular banana.
And every day I would hide another one in his office.
And I got up to about like 25 bananas in there.
Because he probably didn't even know.
No, he's in his office.
He'd be sitting down at his desk, and I had a bunch taped to the underside of his chair.
I had them taped underneath his desk. I had them taped underneath his desk.
I had them taped underneath every single surface.
This is great.
I stuffed a bunch in the couch.
Good.
I had a, you know, he has a big, you know, tall mirror in there, and I had bananas taped
all along the backside of it.
There were bananas everywhere.
Did he know?
No, he never found out until I told him.
And we did a video.
We posted it on Instagram of me telling him and him going through and finding all these bananas.
I love that.
That had been there for weeks.
He didn't even know?
I mean, no, I hid them really well.
That's great.
That sounds like a perfect prank.
I'm messing with him and he didn't even know it.
But it's so harmless and you made sure to get styrofoam bananas
so that they wouldn't go bad too
I could have done real bananas and really ruined his life
but he also would have figured it out sooner
maybe
unless he opened it one day and there's just fruit flies everywhere
which would have been really funny
super funny
but it also would have affected me too
because I work right outside of his office, and I don't
want to deal with that.
I don't want to hurt myself.
See, that's a very sweet, sweet thing to do.
I would want to bring back the fart machine.
Interesting.
I love the fart machine.
I was thinking about taping it underneath his chair.
Yeah, didn't we talk about this in a meeting?
Wait, what?
Wait, didn't somebody do this?
I think they actually, maybe they got arrested.
It was the announcers at, like, a soccer game, like a FIFA game or something,
and they put, like, moaning sounds underneath their chair
while they were announcing things.
Oh, my God.
This is a real, like, news story that came out.
And I think, like, they got in trouble.
Of course.
I forget what it is.
But, like, they would do, like, moaning sex noises as they were doing the announcement.
That is so funny.
Like, they were doing them.
They had a machine.
They had a machine.
A machine was doing it.
Like, going off.
They'd be like, and he shoots the goal.
Oh, God.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
I'll look it up and find it.
Bug there, fire.
I do want to start hiding the fart machine places
and taping it underneath places,
and I think I'll start right now.
I knew it.
I knew it.
Oh, my God.
I freaking knew it.
I was like, this is giving.
You guys are about to prank me.
Amanda didn't know that I did that.
I didn't know.
See, I just got pranked with you.
Bring it on. It's fine. God, I am the most
gullible human being.
I swear to God I'm cool. I swear to God
I'm cool. Okay, but do you see how much fun
he is having? Like, I can't help
but just be like, I'm so happy I was the target
of that. This is just like the revenge episode all over again.
But you have to go like this. Oh, whoa.
Oh, whoa.
Yikes. Sorry. Sorry. Stinky girl. Oh, wow. Yikes. Sorry.
Sorry.
Stinky girl.
Yeah.
Sorry.
Just clearing it out.
What did you eat?
I love what an investment that machine has been.
Oh, yeah.
I spent like $10 on it.
That's it?
It's not that expensive.
It's pretty solid.
It does some like big, long farts.
They're all different.
I don't know how well you can hear it.
Greg, how well can we hear it?
Pretty decent. Pretty decent. Yeah. So don't know how well you can hear it. Greg, how well can we hear it?
Pretty decent.
Pretty decent, yeah.
So like sometimes you'll get ones like this.
Where you're like,
check your underwear.
That's like,
that's like you've had bad food
and it was unexpected
and you need to change
and shower immediately.
This one's not so bad.
I shit myself.
There's one that,
the funniest one is the one that's like tiny.
Quick.
It's like quick. It's like, hold on.
Maybe it's this one.
Not that one.
Hold on.
That one's heavy.
We're about to get lucky.
It's the same one.
Okay, hold on.
Hold on.
Okay, that one's like attacking.
You're sitting on a fucking wood chair.
There's more.
There's more.
It's gotta be.
No.
Come on. There's more. There's more. It's got to be. No. Come on.
There we go.
It's just like, oh, quick one.
That's the one where you cough at the same time.
You go.
Yeah.
Except you miss the timing completely.
You're like.
And you're like, fuck.
I don't know if we've laughed this hard on this episode.
I love it.
Farts are so funny.
It makes me laugh every time.
Farts are the funniest.
They're the funniest thing.
Who doesn't laugh at a fart?
I need to.
I wish I had the.
OK.
I can take that thing to a public restroom
and just have fun with it.
Oh, yeah.
And just be there being like, oh my god.
Should we take it to VidCon?
Well, I don't know if they have public restrooms.
I think those are more like...
What if it's during the Q&A?
Oh, we should bring this to the Q&A. Okay, who are we gonna get?
Well, by the time this episode
of the Smoshcast airs,
VidCon's already been weeks
behind. So now they'll
remember it. They'll be like, oh, the time.
We just do it when Ian and Anthony are having their big moment.
Like someone asks a really wonderful question.
No, the fart machine should be specifically for very intense, serious moments.
I should have it in a meeting, and we should wait until we're discussing something very serious.
I wish we could choose which one it was, though,
because that quick one could be inserted into so many.
I like the surprise.
Yeah, because you don't know what you're going to get.
It's just like, guys, we need to talk.
So that video that came out, a lot of people
are super offended by what was said in it.
And we need to talk strategy.
We lost his father.
But, you know, our views are going down.
People are unsubscribing.
It's so dumb and I love it so much.
It helps define what was just said before a little bit.
I love it so much.
Okay, so Fart Machine is away.
Fart Machine, absolute win.
I'm trying to...
Like, what?
So something that I know I could do
that I know people have done at Smosh before
is slowly moving someone's desk inch by inch.
I love it.
Like, you do it by like half an inch every day.
And you slowly let their desk migrate.
And then they'll suddenly be like,
what the fuck?
So funny.
Like, you know. See, and what I love about little pranks like that too Slowly let their desk migrate. And then they'll suddenly be like, what the fuck? So funny.
Like, you know.
See, and what I love about little pranks like that, too, is the long game.
I love that it isn't revealed right away, which, of course, love the fart machine.
Right away, you get the laugh.
But it's not your favorite.
But it's not my favorite because of the long con. If you are able to really drag something out, that's, I think, where the humor comes in.
Because you are living in the lie.
You are living in, again, that reality while everyone else is just kind of going along with it.
And you're like, I just cannot wait for this to be revealed.
And you just wait it out.
And the satisfaction is just palpable.
Okay, you really are a villain.
Like, I feel like I just, like,
went into, like, a vortex of you
and now I'm like, what's my name?
Like, who am I?
Yeah, when were you born?
Don't tell her.
I don't know.
I literally was about to be like, 1988.
See, that's why,
this is why, let's do this, it's a great, the triple A, because I'm just like, yeah, sure.
I answer questions honestly.
And then Angela just loses her mind.
And then you're just like in the background like.
What they really meant by that question was this.
Exactly.
I've been the victim of pranks on Smosh over the years.
I have not been the pranker
and it's a bummer
you've pranked me
I did once on Let's Do This but it was not
like a super epic prank
was it the breakup one?
yeah where I just left
and I filmed that video
Let's Do This was really a hub for pranks
so we gotta find ways to just
we just gotta start doing it it doesn't even need to be for videos Let's Do This was really a hub for pranks. So we've got to find ways to just... I know.
We've just got to start doing it.
It doesn't even need to be for videos.
That's what I'm saying right now.
And look, if people pull off successful pranks,
they can come here and brag about it.
Okay, but who can we not prank?
I think there's a lot of people that you don't want to prank.
But it's also like just what's, hmm.
Other than myself?
Like who are the best people to prank?
And I'm not saying name names.
Like who are the best type of people to do pranks on?
I think Noah and Keith are both people you could prank.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I feel like they'd be like, okay.
Frankly, because of, this is the problem. The way Angela has reacted To pranks
Makes her now the best target
Because she freaks the fuck out
But she's also so paranoid
So it's really hard to prank her
She now is
It's going to be difficult
Yes
I also
I want to take actually this moment to say
Originally I had a different idea
For how to get revenge
and the reason i didn't do it was because i knew that you guys would be too suspect of it
but what was it i wanted to somehow prank you guys and say that because of the marvel lie scam
i was actually reached out to by somebody from Marvel.
And I started planning.
I wouldn't have believed you.
I started creating fake email threads.
I started creating just like all. You did this just as a prototype.
You weren't even like.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
This is how far she goes.
Yeah.
Well, once I hatched the plan, I knew that I was like,
okay, this is going to have to be like two months in advance.
Like this is going to have to be like two months in advance. Like this is going to have to be like,
I need to tap on somebody who is going to do the job for me
in terms of telling you.
And then you and Angela will tell each other.
Like I need it to be so well put together.
But ultimately it was like.
I was gone for a month.
Yeah, ultimately you were gone,
which is also why it made it hard to get your mom's phone number,
but I got it anyways.
I know.
Selena asked for emergency contacts,
and my mom is not on there.
Because she barely picks up her phone.
Yeah.
If I was dying, my mom would be like...
She picked it up for Arasha.
Oh, well.
Well, she...
She did not.
I reached out to Selena and Heidi and was like,
I need Amanda's mom's phone number.
Work your magic and
get it for me please i love you get it get it get that number they were like mission failed like she
only gave us her sister's number and i was like i can work with this so then i spoke with atlas
and i was like hey sis uh need your help i need your mom's phone number and this is the whole scam
and we need your help um and she doesn't even talk number and this is the whole scam and we need your help.
She doesn't even talk to me about that. Oh yeah and she was like here you go good luck let me
know what else I can do. And I was like do we bring Atlas on too? Atlas is the best. Yes yes.
So ultimately that prank proved to be a little more of a surprise because I knew that you guys
would be like nope I don't buy it. I don't buy it for a second. And so I needed to stick to something that you guys could believe. So in a way, Angela,
yes, is an ideal person to prank because of the reaction, but also because of the paranoia.
You got to dodge it or you got to be extra smart about it so that they'll believe you.
She's always thinking that she's about to get pranked. I'm telling you, her soul is rocked. But maybe without, maybe now with this new pivot
to the whole brand and everything,
and let's do this being sunset,
maybe Angela will let her guard down
because there's no show where you can really get pranked right now.
I mean, you can.
Try not to laugh.
Eat it or yeet it.
I think these are prime arenas for it. We just have not taken advantage of it. Eat it or yeet laugh. Eat it or yeet it. I think these are prime arenas for it.
We just have not taken advantage of it.
Eat it or yeet it.
Eat it or yeet it.
Oh, okay.
I did ruin Angela's life when I did the eat it or yeet it
where it was only good things.
The just desserts.
And she lost it.
And it is so funny because, like, so much energy from Angela.
She's just like, what's going on?
What's happening? Yeah. Oh's going on? What's happening?
Oh my God, what's happening?
I don't trust it.
She was fed cat food.
That's true.
Angela has really gotten screwed over here.
Her soul has been rocked.
In the span of like a year,
she's dealt with more shit than most of us
have dealt with in a long time here.
But eat it or eat it is a really good way.
Yeah, we have not taken advantage.
I am so down to do more pranks.
I honestly, I want to pitch a show that centers around pranks or revenge and or rumors like gossip, all of that kind of stuff.
I again, like with the reception of how the whole lying and revenge has gone,
it feels like that's kind of what people want to see in a way, again, that isn't harming anybody.
It'd be funny if every month, like throughout the whole month, or just throughout like a couple,
yeah, every month, we know that everyone's trying to like
pull some sort of stunt on each other
or some sort of lie or some sort of rumor
or some sort of trick.
And then you have a show that you film
at the end of the month where you all get together
and you finally reveal the plans
that you've been working on the past month.
And you show all the footage,
you show what you've been doing,
you show your work to show and tell
of what deviousness
you've been up to and we see which one's successful what's unsuccessful i like that idea yeah i like
that idea look at us we're in early brainstorming stages here yeah yeah just a prank show but just
amongst us all here yeah yeah yeah not going out there and fucking with people in real life i hate
that shit yeah i hate that shit when people are like at a Walmart or Target messing with people.
I'm like, no, don't mess with people who are just out.
It's so cringy.
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But they're actually acting out a movie in public.
That's different.
But for the most part, I could never do that stuff.
I could never be a public prankster. I don't like it. I don't think it's different. Yes. But for the most part, I could never do that stuff. I could never be a public prankster.
I don't like it.
I don't think it's respectable.
No, I also don't love the public scene like that.
I don't like, because again, like, yes, you guys aren't expecting my pranks, but we also
are.
Know each other.
We know each other.
We're also on camera.
So we're kind of prepared for some kind of like tomfoolery
for the content
as opposed to
being in a public place
shopping for groceries
like
you're not trying to be
exposed
it's gotta be fair game
right
yeah
like it's
we all are aware
that here
stuff might be going on
yeah
exactly
you might be you might get yeah. You might be, you might
get. Yeah. I feel like
villains also deal with,
I feel like villains have a confidence
that can deal with like the cringe
factor of being a villain. Like,
that's probably why I feel like I'm not a villain
because I can't stand
the cringe when people are like, what are you,
what? What's going on? Like,
people being pranked or people being lied to.
Like I can't stand that cringe factor.
Sure, sure.
And again, you're going to get a lot of that when you're in public because you don't know
the reaction that you're going to get.
I mean, and again, like as a woman, as a woman of color, if I'm going out in public, people
could get violent.
People could get angry. People could get angry.
People could threaten me.
Like, I definitely don't feel safe to be the villain.
But even here, even here, like, you just don't know, like, how people will react.
Well, it's almost the flip side of it.
It's people that you know and care about.
So seeing them squirm and be uncomfortable could make you feel a certain way clearly not a
rasha like a true villain does not care you guys were like appallant like you guys were consoling
her during the marvel week you guys were like hey it's okay like because you thought people were
leaking the news that you booked it and you were making a big deal out of it and amanda was getting
pissed at people i was yeah. I went up to Erin
and I was like,
Erin, this is not right.
This is not right.
And she goes,
I don't know,
she like booked something
or whatever.
She was like,
DC, Marvel, whatever.
Yeah, she was like,
DC, Marvel, same thing.
Who cares?
And I was like,
Erin, you have no regard
for humans.
Okay, and that,
I admit,
I don't know if I remember
if this was in the video or not, but that was the hardest part of the break.
You almost said, did you almost break?
Did you almost?
Oh, no, no, no.
That was the hardest part, but I was never going to ruin the break.
No, I was never going to break at that point.
I mean, because, again, it had been, like, a few weeks in at that point.
Like, this was not going to shatter because of this.
But that moment that Angela and Amanda
just come to my side by wardrobe,
I was just doing my makeup
and just, it actually did feel real.
It felt like that was the reality
because I had these two friends,
these two good friends of mine
who were ready to back me up
and they were like, like hey it's gonna be
okay and we have your back and what they did was not okay but you did not do anything wrong
and I had to just lean into that and I was like crying to them I know I was like I know I just
I don't know and I was channeling the emotion that I was feeling hurt like lying to you guys
I was channeling it into the urgency
of needing you guys to believe it.
But I was like, we are so close.
We are about to film this video in 10 minutes.
Oh my God.
I know we can just write it out for another 10.
And I was like, where are you going?
You were like, I signed an NDA.
And you were like, when are you leaving?
And I was like, tomorrow.
And I was like, oh.
Tomorrow. I was like, oh I was like oh tomorrow I was like
oh my god
they need me tomorrow
they need me tomorrow
and then I'm gonna disappear
for a while
I'm going to Georgia
tomorrow
I know
I was like
oh wow
it was so real
it was real
like I told my husband
I was like
Rasha booked Marvel
and super proud of her
yeah
it'll happen
for
yeah
you know
and Sarah Whittle
had come in as well
and she participated in it as well
when she had come in and we were doing the whole conference meeting she was a part of all of that
too so she messages me and she was like i told i told people i was like oh my gosh i'm so happy
that this is happening that's why it worked is that people really leaked the news oh yeah everyone
told everyone i found out through other people like like Courtney told me, and she was like, yeah, did you hear?
She booked like a Marvel thing.
And I guess I believed, I didn't have that big of a reaction to both elements of it,
because I think both were believable to me.
I 100% believe you could book a role in a Marvel film.
I was not surprised.
When she told me, I was like, oh, that's awesome.
And I don't think I understood the
scope of maybe that you were trying to push.
I thought you booked like, you know,
I don't know, a speaking part, but
I didn't think that you were like the next
Ant-Man. Ant-Man.
That angel was like, she's the next Ant-Man. I was like,
that's Paul Rudd. What are we
talking about? I fully believed like, oh yeah, you booked a part
and we'll get to go and see you in this movie.
So I believed it. I was like, that's awesome. That's so cool.
And then later on, Courtney came up to me and she was just like, oh, it was a lie.
It was it was all a prank for Let's Do This. And I was like, I was like, oh, that makes sense.
That's awesome. I was like, I was like, I believe that I've been so desensitized from being at Smosh for so long that like nothing surprises me anymore.
I'm like, OK, yeah, for sure.
I mean, really, what I was doing was a commentary on gossip around the office.
So have you heard about what happened to me years ago?
The prank that that happened to me?
I don't think so.
So this video didn't even do.
I don't know if it did huge numbers.
So it's one that's kind of forgotten about this back in like 20.
God, I don't know when this was. 2018?
2017?
It was when the second Pacific Rim movie was coming out.
And what if it had nothing to do with the thing?
So it was around when Pacific Rim 2 was coming out.
Anyways, we go to Sahara Desert in Africa.
No.
So Pacific Rim 2 is coming out starring John Boyega.
And it's got Charlie Day and Scott Eastwood and whatever.
They're the cast.
They're the main cast.
Yeah.
And they're doing press at Universal Studios.
And I get pulled to help do this prank on Ian.
And so Ian has done this before.
I know this.
Where Ian has an earpiece in
and he has people behind the scenes
like feeding him lines on what to say
and he has to say this to them.
So I get called kind of like the day of
to be like, hey, can you come and help out?
So we're gonna have,
some of the other cast of this movie
is gonna be in this room.
You're gonna be there with them
feeding lines to Ian
who's gonna be interviewing John Boyega.
And I'm like, all right, cool.
And so I'm kind of just hanging out.
I'm like, you know, it's really very chill,
like a chill day.
I just show up there with them and hanging out.
And we get to, and they're like, oh, yeah,
we're going to put him into a kaiju suit,
like a big Godzilla-looking suit.
We're going to have him have to interview them.
And so we get to the tent
to where it's at
and I'm standing there
just kind of like,
all right, cool,
I'm being part of this.
And all of a sudden,
Ian and all of them
look at me
and they're like,
all right, Shane,
get the suit on.
And I was like,
oh my God.
Shoot.
Oh no.
And I am the one
being sent in
to interview John Boyega.
The whole time I was being convinced like we're about to do this to ian no and then it gets flipped last second and i'm like oh my god i was mentally
not in the space to be like i'm part of this i didn't think i was really like in this video
featured that i would have had a panic attack and so so I just am like, alright, I put on this whole kaiju outfit,
this green, stupid suit,
and I get sent in,
and I've never done an interview before.
I've never interviewed someone, I've never...
Was your face protected? No, it was, my face was out
in the open. Oh no. It just was like a hat.
Oh no. And I go
and I enter the room and
John Boyega's there, and he's, his reactions
were incredible.
It's like Angela level being like freaked out and just being like, what the fuck?
He's laughing, but it's also like confusion.
And I'm sitting down.
They're feeding me insane shit.
And I'm saying it.
I'm like, I'm just having an out-of-body experience.
Oh, yeah.
It comes to the end of the interview.
And so one, it's like, give him a hug. I give him a hug at one point.
It's like all this crazy stuff.
Luckily, he reacted really well.
But then at the end, they're like,
all right, Shane, run.
Now, mind you, my mic pack
was kind of like tucked into the chair
and not into just my suit.
I get up to run and I get caught
and I'm like, I just run.
I get stuck.
I get thrown back at my chair.
And then I'm just like, oh, oh, oh, oh.
And I'm like, he's just staring at me, freaked out.
And I run out of the room.
And I was like, oh my god.
I leave and I'm like, what the hell?
And then we actually did, and Ian didn't know this,
we flipped the prank back on him.
And he then did have to do an interview with charlie day and scott
eastwood wow and they were they were not as stoked they didn't like as john boyega john boyega stoked
having a great time laughing charlie day and scott eastwood were a little tired i think from a long
day of interviews and they were like all right we're done wow and i was like whoo i need to know
who was behind this because that is such
a mastermind
to plot twist,
throw it on you,
plot twist,
back to Ian,
get him to,
I love it,
no notes.
Yeah, yeah.
It was master work.
Your prank worked out
better than Ian's
because the worst thing
is to have them
hate you
and be so tired.
They didn't hate him,
but they just,
you could just tell they were like,
all right, man, we know what this is.
We've had this.
I'm sure they've had... How many prank interviews do you think
celebrities deal with on every single press circuit?
I can't watch those interviews.
See, the cringe factor.
I can't handle it.
It sucked.
I just can't.
Killeen Murphy, I watch a lot of his interviews,
and he's not on
the internet and he knows nothing about social media like someone's like oh have you seen this
uh disappointed meme of you and he's like what's a meme i love it what's a meme he's like i don't
try to care he's like i don't yeah he's from ireland he's like okay i don't care yeah what's
a meme uh i don't like watching those interview things.
They're crazy.
Yeah, no, we, it was funny.
Why it's funny is because it's mostly on us being embarrassed
and we're not making the celebrity look bad.
We just look stupid.
Well, in a way though, you are catching somebody off guard.
And I think sometimes people don't like that.
Maybe, even though I was the one being pranked,
maybe I was the villain. Maybe. You were definitely the villain. Okay, even though I was the one being pranked, maybe I was the villain.
Maybe.
You were definitely the villain.
Okay, I guess I'm the villain.
That was established.
In that fact, I mean, you ran off,
your mic pack was the villain at the end.
Yeah, switched it up on you real quick there.
Arasha, have you ever had villains in your life?
Have you been out-villained by anyone?
Other than your mom.
Other than your mom.
Your mom doesn't count.
I mean,
certainly on a deeper level,
absolutely.
I mean, I, of course,
went through
some hardships growing up
and stuff,
and that has only ever served
to toughen me up,
get me some character.
Those are like,
you're talking like legit bad people.
I'm talking like villains just kind of like,
we were talking earlier about-
Everyday villains.
We were talking about everyday villains.
Like, I would say-
Like trolls on the internet.
Trolls on the internet.
Karens are kind of like, they teeter.
They can become real, legitimate villains.
Yeah.
But sometimes they're just kind of everyday villains.
People who put the toilet paper the wrong way,
that to me is a villain.
Ooh, yeah.
You mean upward or downward?
They put it upward.
Oh, okay.
Which is just horrendous.
Okay.
Upward that you have to search for it.
You know though, I've accidentally done it before.
I don't think it's too bad.
Yeah, I don't think it's too different. Because you get to just, you just kind of like, you just do a it before. I don't think it's too bad. Yeah, I don't think you do difference. Because you get to just kind of like, you just do a little tap.
I don't want to flick.
I don't want to flick the beam.
You just flick it up, and then you just grab it.
You're not flicking that.
You're not flicking that.
It's the toilet paper roll that you're flicking.
Let's be clear.
What are we talking about here?
Well, the real thing that matters to me more is if people fold or people scrunch.
I do not understand the scrunch.
That's a villain.
Wait, what do you mean scrunch?
Anyone who scrunches their toilet paper is a villain.
They scrunch it up and then use it to clean instead of folding it.
Like into a weird ball.
Oh, I love scrunch.
You are not a scrunch.
I like to scrunch and really just wipe from the back to the front.
You're a scrunch?
You're a scrunch?
Wow.
Yeah, sometimes I'm in a rush, y'all.
Sometimes you really don't know people.
That's just weird.
It just doesn't seem efficient.
Yeah.
I feel like, no, the fold is far better.
The scrunch is for chaotic villains.
The fold covers your hand, basically.
There's all different types of villains.
Altogether.
Okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yes.
I guess I'm a villain in the scrunch land.
In the toilet community.
So who has out-villained you as an everyday villain?
I can't say.
No one's beaten you at your game?
I can't say.
I know anybody else who really does constant deception.
Nasty stuff.
Just stupid, mean shit.
Stupid, mean shit.
No.
Again, like, it's just, it's, I find that the humor that I really have, like, my comedy,
I think, is so specific
sometimes. And I find the funny in some things in a completely different way.
Like someone might laugh at something because of this, but I'm thinking about
the concept of it and I'm laughing to myself because that is what tickles me.
Like that's what fun that's what's funny to me. So, I feel like that's what I do a
lot of the times here where everyone's like, why would you lie there?
Like that makes no sense.
And I'm like, no, but I think it's hilarious.
I think it's so funny.
So no one is on that
because your villainry is connected to your comedy also.
I believe so, yes.
And again, like I had kind of started in the beginning as well, the thematic journey is also the parallel of acting, right?
I love this. I pursued acting and being on camera and all of that stuff was, you know, obviously a huge
sense of diversity and representation.
But, you know, I would be lying if I was saying that I was a pioneer for South Asians, South
Asian women.
Like, there are already some out there.
And it's fantastic to see that. My goal, though, is to change the narrative a little bit. Because what I see
for South Asian women right now on TV is that a lot of the times they are losers. They are like
this high schooler who can't fit in. It's like this virgin girl. It's this immigrant who doesn't know what she's doing.
All of these, I shouldn't say all,
but many of these South Asian women
that I've watched on TV suggest that narrative.
But a long time ago, I thought,
how much more influencing would it be
if the Indian girl was the mean girl? If she was the popular
girl? If she was the one who didn't have to fight for friends or find friends or fit in? She just
was already. And the story doesn't even have to be about that because then subconsciously audiences worldwide start to think South Asian
women can also be mean. They can also be funny. They can be popular. Yes. So a little bit of
this reputation that I've kind of built is because I kind of do want to play a villain.
And you want it to be seen. Yeah.
I love that.
Yeah.
I absolutely love that.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Your villainry, in a way, is a form of good.
Yes, you're, see, Maleficent.
You're actually a hero.
Maleficent.
I mean, I didn't say it.
Your villainry is actually very, very good.
And you're right, I don't see many women like you as that character type.
I feel like the mean popular girl is always the blonde white girl.
And it's always like, okay, but women can be multiple different things.
Absolutely.
The villain can also be the wonderful woman whose wing got cut off
and she helped the little girl become a princess.
That's what I'm saying.
Maleficent.
Yes.
I think it could be just,
I think it could be new and unique.
And again, it would shed light on
South Asian women who aren't like that.
Because I'm sure there's a lot of us
who are funny and devious a little bit.
Like there's fun in that.
And so I feel grateful
that I was able to bring that
at least to our digital platform i love it great thank you i love being around it personally it is
very see how i just manipulated both of you oh my god is she lying i'm not even an actor
oh god i can't see i can't handle that I was your postmates driver and then I convinced you
South Asian?
well you didn't even
technically get the audition
for
you're not Italian
you accidentally got the audition
for Smosh
oh yeah
which is still mind blowing
to me
yeah I cannot believe
I didn't share that story
earlier too
it's so weird
you were gone
but I feel like I caught you
up on that
yeah yeah yeah
which is crazy
it's just
you just found your way into it.
Just weaseled my way in.
Oh, my God.
It makes me feel good because I feel like I've been seen,
because I'm like taller, I don't know,
darker looking that people are like, oh, you're a bitch.
Like, you're kind of a bitch, right?
Okay.
Like, people are always like, you're intimidating.
You're kind of a bitch and so
i'm like but actually i have a good soul it's fun to be a little bit angry you have a great soul but
it's fun to like not be i could see you playing that role oh yeah yes it's very fun to play but
it's nice to like i think you bring out a different side of me that is always there, like the kind of goofy, gullible, like, what's happening side that I don't often get to do around other women.
And I'm so glad to hear that because just as we've been saying, there can be many dimensions to people.
We're layered.
We're layered.
Like two, three, even four things can be true at the same time.
Yeah. layered like two three even four things can be true at the same time yeah um and instead at least
in my experience what i've seen in tv is because of the shortage of how much we are seeing indian
families or or really i'm sure this is across the board for many cultures in many communities
because we're seeing so few we're like oh okay so that's every so that's every Indian family then. Yeah. And you're like,
no, no, no, no, no.
That's one.
Exactly.
But take a look at this one
and there's this one
and there's this one
and it's all nuanced.
Yeah, exactly.
We need to represent
other,
we need to show the world
that we are all layered.
Yes.
All of us.
That every single person
on the planet is a villain.
Everybody's got a little bit
of a villain in them.
Everybody's a little bit
of a villain. All of it. We've got a villain in them. A little bit of a villain.
All of it.
We've got it.
It's okay.
We're all villains here.
Everyday villains.
Oh, God.
Are you getting a message from...
No, I was going to make a pun.
What's the...
Oh, civilian
is what I was thinking of.
And inside of civilian
is villain.
Civilian is not...
Civilian.
A word.
Yes, you just made up.
I think it is.
Amanda, didn't you hear?
You can't make up words.
You're not Shakespeare.
You can't just invent a new word right now.
No, guys, literally ask anybody else in the room that is a word right now.
So they all agree with me.
Thank you.
Is civilian a word?
Did you guys see that?
But it's not spelled like villain.
No, it is.
No.
You know what I think?
Oh, my God.
I actually forgot about that.
I just really didn't get that.
You have to let it sit for a while.
He's really letting it loose today.
You gotta let it go.
He's been farting so much on the podcast.
Oh, good.
All he does is fart.
That's great.
What are you eating?
Oh, just...
Trash.
I can't eat from the trash can. He eats from the trash. Okay, actually eating? Oh, just... Trash. I can eat from the trash
can. He eats from the trash. Okay, actually
really funny way to fuck with people.
If you empty out the trash can, you put a fresh trash
bag in, and then you dump
some fresh food in there, you could
just eat out of the trash can and pretend
that it's trash, right? That's a fun way to prank
someone. Wait, we should totally do that
prank. That's a really funny one. Let's do it.
Oh my god, this is so good. During lunch. And you just start eating from the trash. Wait a we should totally do that prank. That's a really funny one. Let's do it. To be like, oh my God, this is so good.
During lunch.
And you just start eating
from the trash.
Wait a second.
It's all during lunch.
Everyone's gotten in line,
gotten their food,
and sit down.
And then it's just,
you look over and you're like,
you wanted to throw it out,
but you're like, ah, damn.
And then you go into the trash
and you start eating it.
You don't call attention to it,
so just one person notices you.
Yeah.
And then they spread the rumor
that you eat trash.
That's actually so true.
That's the key to really mess with people is, you do it, you commit to it, even when no one's you. Yeah. And then they spread the rumor that you eat trash. That's actually so true. That's the key to really mess with people
is you do it,
you commit to it
even when no one's watching.
Yep.
So that you hope that they catch you.
That, again,
was huge in the Marvel lie scam.
If you go around,
like,
there's, like,
specific people
that I did tiny,
tiny,
tiny baby bits to
in the case
that it would need to come up
like I think Selena
was a big target of it too
that morning I like went over
and I was like
do you know where this is
and she was like
yeah like over there
and then after the bit
she was like Arasha this morning
when you were like
kind of mean to me
and I was like
I'm so sorry
it was just in case
Amanda and Angela were watching
like it's just
the smallest thing
you did it to me
and I did not pick up on it you were
like talking about your business and i was just cream cheesing a bagel like i'm not gonna involve
myself yes yes and then the morning meeting like i was pissed but again not calling attention to it
that is exactly what it is yeah you have to just fly under the radar and hope that other people
are watching and just continue to do that.
That's a good prank.
So we can trash eat.
Trash eat.
We can eat trash.
So we know that's a prank we can do.
We can just prank Selena all day long until she just falls apart because poor Selena.
We could keep coming up with multiple pranks and just get people.
Yeah, we've just announced it all here.
Yeah, but we're going to...
Stay tuned for our launch.
This is where we really test out if people listen to our podcast or not.
That's the whole point of it.
It's actually research to make sure the team is focused and respecting us.
Yes, exactly.
So if they listen to this, they can be prepared.
I wonder if Angela is going to listen to this podcast on a regular basis so we can really we can really mess with her let's just come up with all angela let's
do a few let's do a few and then we'll come back and then we'll revisit yeah yeah we should okay
let's start pitching them here and then we can we can revisit on this podcast and let people know
if we've done them successfully or not yeah Yeah. Obviously, I'm gonna, like, post this shit online if I do it. Yeah.
But here's where I'll reassess.
Yeah, trash eating.
Trash eating is a good one.
Fart machine.
I liked what you did with the bananas,
and I think we can keep doing stuff like that.
Yeah, slowly hiding things, places.
You know, I sit right next to Damien and Spencer.
I could really start messing with them.
Moving their desks.
You could even just, like,
switch things on their desks.
Yeah, I think switch or, like like just, yeah, swap things in.
Or what if I start adding little tiny things to their desk
and that they may not notice and then over time or.
Yeah, could like crumb up their keyboard.
You know, Spencer would feel so bad.
That's like vandalism.
So maybe he would hate that.
You know what's a really good one?
And I don't know if this is a thing anymore,
but when I was a teenager, I was obsessed with prank calls.
Like, obsessed. And we would
do conference prank calls. So it
was where we
would call someone and have them
call the other person. So they'd
both pick up and go, hello, hello.
And we could listen in on the third line
and have them
talk to each other and be like, you called
me. No, you called me.
Oh my God, yeah.
And then they either hang up or they keep talking.
Is that still available or is that only on landline?
That might be tough.
That's really funny.
Oh, I used to do it forever.
That's very funny.
Prank calls are so, I feel like that's too obvious.
I think people are going to figure that out.
No, what about conference calls?
We could do that.
What we could also do.
Shane hates my idea.
I don't hate it. I don't hate it.
I don't hate it.
But I didn't see you write it down.
How often do we have conference calls?
Listen, I don't think it exists anymore.
We don't have conference calls much.
I don't think conference calls exist anymore.
We're getting it all out there.
Yeah, just keep throwing it out there.
What if we all made fan accounts for Angela,
and we have a bunch,
and we start having them respond
to every single tweet she makes.
But then they start fighting amongst each other.
They start like, or they're like, they get mean and toxic.
Yeah.
But in like a non-harmful way.
I think we need to fuck with Angela.
I think, I hate to say it, but I think Angela's not going to be our main target.
Yeah.
No matter what.
Oh, God.
Ian's a good target. Ian's a good target i don't want to bring
him up i don't want to fuck with anthony yet no not yet give it time but also but also like he's
an easy target so you think anthony's an easy target well he's he's like everybody's gonna be
all nice and welcoming and we're gonna be like bam that is true eat out of the trash. Now is the time. Welcome to Smosh. Welcome to Smosh.
We missed you.
Sorry, I'm so hungry, sir.
Thanks for coming back, dad.
Ian hasn't fed us.
Especially to those that he doesn't really know all that well.
He could be like, what kind of ship are they running here?
He doesn't know me all that well at all.
At all.
So I can definitely be the one to eat out of the trash.
Yeah, you know what?
Man, Smosh cut their budgets.
And that might work well too
because if I do something,
he can easily catch word
and be like,
oh, Arasha lies.
Like, I'm not gonna buy that.
With Amanda, he's like,
oh my God,
Amanda's the most genuine angel
on this planet.
Why is she eating out of the trash?
Yeah, that is what people say.
Okay, no, you know,
okay, no, here's,
guys, here's the ultimate goal.
Here's an ultimate one.
Okay.
Make a Reddit account
and post a fake,
like try to devise
a very believable
am I the asshole post.
Post it on the
am I the asshole thread
and try to get it
to get picked up.
Well, can't you pick it up?
Look, I'm saying
this is an opportunity
to prank even me.
I don't select all of them. Kiana and
Kimmy and I think Courtney's
doing one. Other producers will
garner all these stories.
I usually am reading them for the first time
on the video. If someone can make
a fake one and get it posted
and then we can
point it out and be like, nope, this was actually
fake. I wrote this. That would be great great or have it be about something that happened here like
but it's i don't know i do i do like the idea that would be that would be the ultimate if
someone did that i'd have so much respect for them yeah oh my god you just set a rasha if someone
if okay no for real arasha amanda anyone if they can make an Am I the Asshole post, and it makes it onto Reddit stories, and I read it, and I don't clock it as fake and being made by someone here.
Then you pay us.
I will give you.
Donuts.
I'll give you a hundred.
I've had those.
Money.
I'll give you a hundred dollar gift card to wherever you want.
Each.
But it's got to make it onto Redditdit stories and i've got to okay i've got to read it
and i have to read the whole story and move on and not go oh wait okay we're gonna talk after
but i pitched this so i'm i'm gonna be looking out for it now right well see i was gonna say i
do like the idea of within the like that's also super funny is the three of us being like,
all right, who are we going to prank?
Like we're going to plan something.
But then internally prank one of us.
Look, that's free reign.
That's the kind of next level that I want to do.
Free reign to try to prank me.
Look.
$100 each, right, you said?
Just – no.
Whoever writes it, are you writing it together?
$1,000 each.
If both of you write it together, then that's $50 each.
And your social security number.
Yeah.
And trash.
And also, you get to eat out of the trash.
Yeah.
Guys, I'm going to do that and go, smash!
I really do.
I really do.
I really do.
Please put Arasha in a Marvel movie.
Anthony's going to be like, OK, I don't want this company back.
I actually am selling it again.
I will take my 50 back.
Oh, my god.
OK.
So we'll talk about pranks.
And we'll talk, me and myself and I,
we'll talk about pranking each other.
All right. Just don't pull one on me. I gave you guys
such a perfect setup to prank me
in a way that's fair.
Here's our prank. We're never going to prank you on Reddit
stories. That's actually funny. I'll spend
the rest of that series looking out for it.
Or do we reverse it
and actually pull that prank thinking
that you won't think that we'll do that prank?
Or when one of you guys is on Reddit stories,
and I write a fake one, and I write it out,
and you guys believe it, and I'm like, ha ha, I wrote that.
And you give yourself $100?
Yeah, you have to pay me $100.
I have every reason to believe that every story that you read to me
is going to be true under that circumstance.
So you want us to be able to pull that apart. I read every story
assuming they're true. Not the potato story.
Not the potato story. That was me.
You called that out.
Forever? Years ago? Yeah.
You wrote the potato story? No.
No, you didn't. No, I did.
It's an Andy Samberg sketch. And give me my
$100, Shane.
It's an Andy Samberg sketch. I'm not stupid.
Liar. You're a liar. Check the OP.
OP?
Original poster.
Organic pot.
Check my organic pot to figure out that I was the one who did that.
Okay, sure.
All right, fair.
All right, the prank war has begun.
Okay.
All right.
Prank war has begun.
Prank war has begun.
And every episode, at some point, Amanda and I, even when you're not the guest, we're going
to just acknowledge, have we been pranked this week?
Yes.
Have we successfully pranked someone?
Yes.
All right.
But we can't reveal that.
Well, I guess we can successfully reveal the prank if it's done.
If it's already done and been done.
Look, it's probably going to take a little bit. Yeah. It's already done and been done. Look, it's probably gonna take a little bit.
You know, it's gonna take some work.
So just for everyone watching and listening,
just keep in mind this is beginning.
This is the start.
But it might be a little quiet for a little bit.
But when it happens, it's gonna happen big.
Yeah, and you're gonna wanna be around
for all of the little Easter eggs.
You're gonna wanna pick up on every subtle hint that is dropped.
Yeah, exactly.
Okay.
Okay.
Well, Arasha, it was great having you here.
Yeah, it was great having you here, Arasha.
You guys, I had so much fun.
You were incredible.
So you're a villain that we love, that you're doing good for the world.
It seems that way.
Okay, is that a villain response?
I'm just glad to finally be recognized for what I'm doing.
Because it's more than what's on the surface.
Now I'm scared again.
You should always be scared.
Oh, God.
Just a little bit.
Okay.
Well, before we go, one last question.
Who is the best Jonas brother? Okay. Well, before we go, one last question. Who is the best Jonas brother?
Okay.
Well.
It's a limited time here, you guys.
I've been liking Joe lately.
That is incorrect.
Oh, my God.
Incorrect.
Big time.
I'm so sorry.
All right.
You guys like Nick?
We'll not be coming back.
Nope.
That's it.
All right.
Justice for Kevin.
Is that what you guys wanted?
Thank you guys for joining Smoshcast.
And come back every single Monday.
We have a new episode with a new guest.
Thank you, Arasha Lalani.
Thank you, Amanda and Shane.
Thanks.
Bye.
Bye.