Smosh Mouth - #52 - Amanda Is Haunted

Episode Date: July 1, 2024

Shayne and Amanda reflect on the last year of the podcast! 0:00-0:42 Intro 0:43-19:08 Amanda's night terrors 19:09-23:09 Smosh office ghost 23:10-29:29 1 year of Smosh Mouth! 29:30-50:18 Looking back on our 2024 predictions 50:19-1:06:15 Amanda and Shayne's mid-year reviews! 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/ WHO YOU DON’T HEAR (usually) Director: Selina Garcia Editor: Luke Baker Producer: Amanda Lehan-Canto, Shayne Topp, Selina Garcia Production Designer: Cassie Vance Art Director: Erin Kuschner Art Coordinator: Alex Aguilar, Josie Bellerby Prop Master: Luke Brau Prop Assistant: Adam Mustafa Audio Mixer: Scott Neff Director of Photography: Brennan Iketani Videographer: James Hull Assistant Director: Marcus Munguia Director of Production: Amanda Barnes Production Manager: Alexcina Figueroa Production Coordinator: Marcus Munguia Operations & Production Coordinator: Oliver Wehlander Production Assistant: Ovsana Tsaturian Post Production Manager: Luke Baker DIT/Lead AE: Matt Duran IT: Tim Baker Director of Design: Brittany Hobbs Senior Manager, Channel & Strategy: Lizzy Jones Channel Operations Coordinator: Audrey Carganilla Social Creative Producer: Peter Ditzler, Tommy Bowe Social Strategist: Erica Noboa, Mallory Myers Social Media Coordinator: Kim Wilborn Talent Coordinator: Selina Garcia Operations PA: Katie Fink CEO: Alessandra Catanese EVP of Programming: Kiana Parker Executive Coordinator: Rachel Collis 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Oh! Yeah, yeah. Welcome to Smosh Mouth. I'm Shane. And I'm Amanda. And today we have a very special guest. Nobody. Nobody. Welcome back to... It's been a minute since we've done one just you and I.

I know. I miss it. I miss us. Yeah. Same. We always have Spencer, some asshole here. Such an asshole. Putting his drinks on the table and we're not allowed to. Such a douchebag. Yeah. That is just us again.

Dude, before we started this, you were telling me about your nightmares lately. Yeah. That was wild. Yeah. It's funny because I don't often talk about that, but I grew up having night terrors, and I sleepwalk, and I sleep talk. How often do you sleepwalk now? Honestly, it's been a minute, and I haven't actually had a night terror in a minute.

By in a minute, do you mean like a year? I mean like months. Okay. Yeah, I would say like six or seven months. Oh, that's good. I haven't had one in a while, but lately, and I would say it's more sleep talking now than sleepwalking. When I was a kid, I used to sleepwalk a lot. Like in other, like out on the street.

Whoa. Like not bueno. Holy shit. Yeah, my mom's like, you're sick. I don't know what to do about this. You're sick. And I was like, uh? Oh my God. So I don't know what to do about this. You're sick. And I was like, uh? Oh, my God.

So I don't sleepwalk as much, I think because I'm scared. I'm more scared. Oh, so you're staying still. So I'm staying very still. I learned what I would do if I got really scared, and it would be still, like stiff as a board. That's a normal response. But I do talk a lot. But this week, I have had some really bad night terrors.

And usually they are the same person, and it feels like I'm getting haunted. And I've talked to a therapist about it. I've talked to a medium about it. And I've learned how to kind of shut it down. Yeah. Have you felt like you've shut it down? Not this one. Whoa.

It like came back so intensely this week because I was telling you that because I have crazy energy right now. It's, I don't know what's going on, but my husband reminds me because I'll wake up and sometimes forget that it even happened because I'm sleeping. Yeah. I'm sleeping, but then I wake up a little bit or at least I think I'm awake,

but I'm pretty positive I'm sleeping the whole time, but I'm sitting up and talking. You're sitting up. I'm sitting up and talking to a person. That's your, your husband is so like, he's a saint, unafraid of stuff. Cause if, if I woke up in the middle of the night and Courtney was sitting up talking, I would be terrified. No, no. He's a saint. I did do this with one of my friends. And she cannot stop telling this story.

She's like, I'm never sleeping next to Amanda again. I woke up and I was like, I don't know. Shaking my hand and being like, they're everywhere. They're everywhere. And she was like, bitch, I'm not sleeping next to you again. Oh, my God. Yeah, my husband's a saint. And what's great is now he knows what's going on.

So he'll be like, all right, where is she? Where is she? And then he goes and hits the air. Took care of her. Usually it's like my closet. So we actually moved our bed so i couldn't look directly into my closet wow but so now it's on the side but still so so if i shut the door fine it's it's okay but if i somehow leave the door cracked you there's always are you sitting up with your eyes open yes wow

yes i guess that makes sense i know fully eyes open. People sleepwalk, they have to have their eyes open. But that concept is so wild to me of like. I know. And I think when I was younger, I never wanted to talk about it because I was like, this is going to freak people out. So I didn't. I just like, it was just a thing that my mom was like, all right, we're not going to talk about this. I don't think it's super uncommon, though. But I don't. Like, I see Instagram videos where people are, like, sleepwalking and having a whole thing where they're going in the fridge or whatever.

Right. Eating. And, like, that does not happen to me. You just walk around and talk. I walk around and talk, but mainly it's because someone is telling me to, like, come in the other room or something. Interesting. And this one specifically, she's like a little bit younger. She's wearing red.

I don't know. Like a red dress? Like a red dress kind of. And she doesn't have like a hood on. She doesn't look like a sci-fi creature. Yeah. I think what's scary is they look like normal people in my house.

That is, I get why that's scary. It's really, really scary. And she was in the closet like staring at me. And they're always kind of calling me in. Like calling me into the closet or calling me into the living room. Because I can see the living room through my bedroom. Interesting.

Or the other night she was building something in front of me. Building just something. I don't know. But apparently I told H, like, oh, she's trying to impress me right now. She's trying to impress me right now. She's trying to impress me? Yeah. Weird. A medium told me, and I'm very glad I double checked with a therapist, a medium told me to like open up the door.

She was like, you should open up this door. You should open up this door, and you should ask them what they want, and blah, blah, blah. And I did. I did once. I was like, okay, I'll open up this door. This was like four years ago. Big mistake. Huge mistake.

What happened when you opened the door? I opened up the door and then four people showed up the next night all like crying and asking for my help. And then they started like putting things on the wall that was like coming towards me. It was really bad. Also mirrors. I told you this. Mirrors.

Yeah. You told me about the mirrors. Huh. That's. People are going to be like, who is Amanda? That's the other thing is like, I think a lot of people think they know me, but there's so many aspects of me that I don't talk about. Yeah.

But this one, I'm trying to be open about it because I'm trying to like find solutions. And then so you talked to the therapist and the therapist was like, do not open that door. The therapist was, do not open that door. Huh. Do not open that door. Because when I did, I would wake up exhausted every day. Like it was like I was getting energy. And then you're going to laugh at me,

but I got my astrology reading. I'm not going to laugh at it. I don't, I don't, you know, but I was, it was very helpful. Apparently there's some, there's some things in my chart that I was like, huh? She was like, the woman looked at it. She was like, uh, are you very connected with like death? And I was like, yes, I am. Like I've lost a lot of people in my life. But in my chart, apparently Neptune, which is dreams, is in the chart with the underworld and death. And my mother.

Okay. Yeah. I don't know what it is about older women. I know I'm not the only one About this But my mother's always like Did you hear Someone died again And I'm like

Yes Okay mom She's been like that Since I was a kid So I don't know If that's connected To the night terrors Or if it's anxiety

Or if I actually Have an open connection But But the therapist was like Shut that door Yeah I mean i don't know uh i i don't think anything's silly when you're talking about something like going on internally like introspection like whatever whatever matters to you does matter in because this is your own internal

look i'm not saying ghosts aren't real that this this may not be a haunting, whatever. But I also think that whatever's going on is also an internal thing. And in your own internal world, what matters to you does matter in that world. Yeah. So anything that you're, that's why, like, frankly, like, placebo effect stuff works really, really well. Because it's like, yes, because it's, you're believing it. And in your world, that's going to affect you. I'm not saying that's the case here but i also would say like just on a very surface level of of you telling me about this like you are a very empathetic and giving person i feel

like you are someone who gives too much to people probably a lot and so i think that's why the therapist was like probably opening it up of like this is probably like guilt and feeling of like you need to give a bunch to people so it might be yes your mom it might be connected to just was like probably opening it up of like, this is probably like guilt and feeling of like, you need to give a bunch to people. So it might be your mom. It might be connected to just the world in general, your own emotions, your own past, your own like feelings towards things of just like, don't open that door. Cause that's, that's something inside of you telling you need to give, you need to give this. And it's like, no, not opening that, that door is that boundary. And you're not setting those boundaries for yourself internally. Yeah.

Like maybe. I think, I think you're exactly right. And I think what's tricky is that like, I think a lot of people have lost people, but mine come in my dreams a lot to talk to me. Yeah. And I've, I've been visited by a lot of them a lot and they always have something to say. They're always saying, I'm sorry, or I want to talk, or I miss you, or I'm so happy for you, or they always have something to say and it's full conversations. And you know, it's, it's very upsetting to wake up with that, but those I've worked out those I'm like, Oh, those are mirrors

to me. So those are actually my sadness and my guilt and what I haven't let go and I haven't forgiven myself maybe something with a relationship. And when I start to actually work on that, they stop visiting me. But the other things, the hauntings, are real people that I've never seen in my life

that are coming and they're either like tricky they like they want something out of me they want me to like go with them somewhere they want to show me something or they're crying and they want help from me and a person was like that could be people who have moved on who are like visiting your room because you've opened up the door kind of mentally yeah and they they're coming to you for comfort and so when you open up the door you get exhausted trust me i've like researched this and gone over it but but sometimes i'll be visited by something that i'm just like that's too too scary, bro. Like, no.

Do you ever tell him in your dreams, like, no? Like, that lady in red shows up and you're just like, hey, fuck off. I don't say fuck off because, Shane, in the moment. Well, it's so scary. It's so scary. Yeah. I'm not able. I'm telling you this. I've never in my dreams had the ability to control my dreams.

So I would sit there and just watch. I do wake up h usually or he wakes up because i'm having a full conversation with nobody or somebody and he's like just tell her to go back in the closet i'm like i'm trying and he's like just tell hey just go you gotta go back in the closet and then and then he'll get up and he'll check the closet and be like no one's there and then he'll shut the door and he'll go go back to bed and he's never upset he's never mad at me

he like fully is invested that this is just a part of my life he's so like just cause even as a skeptic still if I woke up and someone was like yeah I don't know there's a ghost I saw someone in that closet I'd be like that's cool so to get up and go Someone was like, yeah, I don't know. There's a ghost. I saw someone in that closet. I'd be like, that's cool.

So to get up and go, I'm going to go check that closet is crazy. I think if it was like Courtney or someone you've been living with forever. You have to do it. I think in the beginning he was like, what the fuck? Probably. But after a minute, after a minute, you go, okay. You get used to it. If that happened to me in bed and someone woke up and went, there's someone in the closet, I would be like, get the fuck away from me.

Yeah, and I mean, look, even if it is, look, if ghosts are real, I do think the way that they would do everything is emotionally. I don't know if I necessarily believe when it gets to the point of like, yes, this goes physically did stuff. I'm like, yeah, I don't know.

Cause I think like, yeah, I've never felt like, but it's, it's kind of, to me, it feels like either way, whether it's ghosts or not,

it's the same thing of like, you don't owe this. And you know, but, but internal, like, it's kind of like whether it's ghosts or not it's like it's the same deal like people deal with internal demons the same way and it's just this stuff or people who are alive you've got that same pull and of course there's

there's walking demons everywhere yeah and i will say i feel like i can sense an energy sometimes they're not always demons and And I have met older people. You know when you're like walking down the street and maybe this just happens to me. But like I have met older people that will be like, hey, do you have nightmares? Like people will be like, hey. Just randomly? Have you ever done medium stuff? Just randomly.

And I'm like, no. And my sister's a hypnotherapist she's taking a break from it now but she had a business for a while and she's always like been like dude what you can connect with is crazy do all all of your sisters have this same type of stuff no not at all my little sister has like the the appreciation for it and the study for it but i'm the only one that has ever had like the night terrors or the nightmares and nobody else in your family no one else my family but we do have like a weird kindred thing where i will feel physically like hurt or sick or like have a headache and usually i'll text a sister and something bad is happening. Apparently my mom said my grandma had like,

she was like, oh yeah, there's stuff there. What? And apparently when my mom was giving birth to one of my brothers, my grandma just immediately knew from states away. It was just like, oh, I think she's probably, yeah. That's cool. There was some stuff. There was some stuff.

Yeah. I don't know.'t know never heard you say that talk about that i i don't i'll maybe i'll maybe think of it and talk about it later but there was some stuff with um her and my mom stories of uh having dreams and things happening and then and then you know the whole story i think i've i've told this where when i drowned in the pool my mom heard a voice. And then that's what drove her to go check on me. Oh, my God.

You told me this story a long time ago. Yeah, yeah. That's so cool. They were in the opposite side of the house, and I was supposed to be behind a baby gate, but I got out and got in the pool. And then, like, in the middle of a conversation or something, my mom said she just heard, like, a man's voice say my name. And she was like, and she, and she ran and found me. See, I believe in that. I believe in a mother-daughter crazy kinetic connection, and I believe it with sisters, too.

There's something there. I don't know if it's quantum physics or some crazy connection. Look, yeah, the thing that happened happened. I believe her, so I don't know. But it's wild stuff. I also think, yeah, there's probably a lot like the human mind. There's just an endless amount of stuff. Yeah, and I think that's why people want to believe in something and give it a name.

Totally. You know, because they're like, but I do think the universe is just like wild and there's crazy things that are happening and synchronicities. Oh, yeah. I mean. I just don't know why I have night terror. That really sucks. I was telling you that I rarely dream. Like very rarely.

I can see that. You just knock out. I truly. And the reality is I don't remember my dreams, right? Because we all dream. You just don't remember them. I just rarely remember mine. Most of mine make zero sense.

I'm always in like a combo of two places I've lived in where I like turn and it's an apartment I lived in at one point. And then I turn and it's like my grandparents' house. It's kind of a combo of them. And then like it's always like it's more like a sequence of several small little dreams that none of them make sense it's almost like kind of like a stream of consciousness like you're sitting there just thinking you're bored it's kind of like that um and the only nightmares i ever have are never like i'm scared for my life i'm scared it's always like oh shit i fucked up or like oh i'm guilty or like oh i i did something wrong. Or like, Oh, I, I did something wrong.

And now I got to like, that's always the ones where I wake up and I'm like, Oh, thank God. That was a dream. Oh, I thought I was going to have to have this hard conversation. That's your,

that's your like, Oh yeah. I'm such a guilty person. I deep down. It's just like, yep. Like everything I do is could be wrong. So like,

don't, I so badly want to dig into that and dig that up but i won't i i want i i we could talk about it sometime i i've i think i know most of it at this point or i know where a lot of it comes from but i'm just a guilty person yeah i get i get that and i think for me, I think I have a lot of fear that I just push through a lot. And maybe at night, my brain's like, hey, you didn't let this out during the day as much. So here it is. But my sister always thinks it's because I watch too many horror movies.

But the thing is, yes, yes and no. Okay. And I listen to a lot of crime. This actually feels like something connected to something else. Because you watch a bunch of true crime, but that would then be like scary men. That would be like men coming in like, you know, house, you know. Yeah, a serial killer is a different type of vibe. These are like.

This sounds creepy. They live in my closet. Yeah. And then the mirror thing, I physically cannot have any mirrors that are antique. And I will say I have a friend who gets a lot of stuff from an estate sale and I walked in and felt visibly, I felt physically ill and I was like, Ooh, I don't feel good in this house. And, uh, I was just walking around. I was like, Oh, where'd you get this mirror? Where'd you get this or whatever? She's like a state sale. It's probably like 500 years old. And I was like, oh, where'd you get this mirror? Or where'd you get this? Or whatever. She's like, estate sale. It's probably like 500 years old.

And I'm like, ooh. Like, I'm very, I've been affected like that since I was a kid. Wild. My aunt lived in this old farmhouse. And I was like, as a kid, I was sick every night. Wow. Like, throwing up sick. And my mom was like, oh, she's just homesick.

Homesick. Like, she just wants to be home. And my aunt, who's so cool, was like, there's ghosts here. I was like, dude. Yeah, that's a nice thing to say. No, because she's very cool. You got demons in you, kid. She was like, no, she's like, this farmhouse is haunted.

I didn't want to tell you guys that, but it's clear that you can tell. And I was like, okay. I was like seven. Damn. That's a wild thing to say to a seven year old Who's like going through it That's just her vibe That's wild man That's just her vibe I love her

She doesn't give a shit what anyone thinks about her We've talked about I think this year could be the year where we Stay the night at this studio Can we? I've heard Since we joked about that about i think this year could be the year where we stay the night at this studio because i thought i i've heard uh since since we like joked about that i've then heard people say that apparently there is a ghost in this studio what i thought someone said that didn't they i'm looking at marcus maybe i'm wrong also has the touch i mean look it's it's LA and so, like, most buildings are old and they're repurposed several times

over. Yeah, where we film in Rancho Cucamonga. No, I swear someone was like, oh, yeah, I thought I saw... No, maybe this is just people trying to stay... I'm down. I want to hear it all. But I think it'd be cool to stay the night.

Can we? We have to have, like, flashlights, though. Oh, we gotta get all the stuff. We gotta get all Can we? We have to have like flashlights though. Oh, we got to get all the stuff. We got to get all the stuff. We have to get all the ghost hunters. I'm not, and I get to be the skeptic. And I get to be the believer. You're the medium.

You sure you want to be with me? Yeah, dude, why not? Okay, I've opened up the door. As long as, we'll have your husband stay with us too. He's just, he's passed out the whole time. He's just asleep. And I'm like, great, he's really helping. And then we tap on the shoulder. We go, there's passed out the whole time He's just asleep and I'm like great He's really helping

And then we tap on the shoulder and we go There's someone in the corner He goes alright let me go talk to them real quick Oh god I'm down I'd be down I would do it I'd fully do it Let's just do a podcast overnight here

Yeah we'll record it at midnight here All the lights off. We'll see what crew... So this is actually an idea I pitched like two years ago. And Kiana, who was in charge of the Pit Channel at the time, was like, no, we're not doing that because I cannot.

I can't. And I was like, fair enough. But now Kiana's been promoted so she doesn't have to be involved. Kiana's been promoted so she doesn't have to be involved and Kiana's promoted Kiana now far too powerful to have to deal with our ghost

adventures so we would just make Emily or someone Selena will be there if we do it on Smosh Mouth it could be us I think this group that's in this room now would all be down. Yeah. I think Brennan,

Brennan, Brennan was like, all right. Yeah. But you know, Marcus, but Marcus is also haunted. That's what I'm saying.

Marcus is haunted for sure. People who are haunted. And then me, he was just like, all right, whatever. Marcus has the touch. But I've died.

So like, what? Yeah. Oh, you died in the pool yeah so you're a different person who goes before ghosts are like whatever dude you're like half ghost oh see that's why they don't come to you whereas i'm like ghost i'm like huh oh my god are you a ghost that's my joke about astrology is that uh i'm like, I'm not a Virgo because when I died, are you technically, when you leave your body for a little bit and come back, are you?

What would you be now? I don't know. I forget when I, I think I, was it summertime? Was it around this time? Oh my God. Is this the anniversary of your death? Maybe. I'm not sure.

We should celebrate. You need to ask the date. I think I asked my parents once what the date was, and they're like, I don't know. I'm like, you don't remember the date I died? And your mom's like, I never want to talk about that. Yeah, I also get that. I'm like, it is probably traumatic.

But you should. You should do something special on the day that you died. I mean, I don't remember it. It's more of an event for the rest of my family. Watch me have a fucking dream where a person's like, I know Shane's death. I know for the rest of my family. Watch me have a fucking dream where a person's like, I know Shane's death. I know that idiot. That stupid idiot.

And I'm like, she's trying to impress me. Here's the thing. He was brain dead before. He's brain dead after. Yeah, that makes sense. There's zero thoughts in there. That makes sense. I died and I went up to heaven for a second.

God's like, I guess I'll make you an improviser. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Comedian, go. We had actually no plan for you so uh you're gonna have to improvise comedian and then i took that to heart head out um well for people listening boy we really made your morning already yeah sorry we were just talking about it and we thought why not talk about on the pod yeah um but basically we're just talking about these past few months we just kind of and also like the past year of the podcast, because I think it's around

a year. It's, it's our one year anniversary. Roughly. Roughly. Yeah. Um, and also kind of, the problem is it ties in with the one year of Anthony coming back. It's like around the same time that they started. Didn't you do it a little bit before that?

Did we start it right before? Well, so this is the thing. We recorded our very first episode of this, I think, once Anthony did come back. But we didn't announce that he was back yet. You're right. And so it's kind of like, it's kind of around. It's wrapped in that. June, July is just kind of like a crazy time.

Yeah. That's around the time when. That's crazy, Shane. It got crazy last year. That's around the time when. That's crazy Shane. It got crazy last year. It's our one year anniversary. I know man. And it's really cool. I will be completely honest with you.

It is doing so much better than I was expecting. Well we just had no idea. And I didn't have high expectations because we had done Smoshcast before. Yeah. Yeah. And Smoshcast before. After a year we were kind of struggling with it we're just like what is it what's the identity of it um the views were inconsistent like we didn't have a

strong audience and it was just like what it what and the tone felt all over the place whereas this time it just feels easier feels easier i think because you and i i don't think we realize that we can talk about so much. It's so funny. Yeah, the other day we were hanging out with Courtney and stuff. And something got brought up and you and I just started riffing about it. And Courtney was like, okay, I see the whole podcast dynamic. She was like, whoa, I now see it in person that you guys actually just do it on and off the camera.

I guess it's a skill I feel like I've developed. Because I remember when we started the podcast there was Tommy's roast of Shane's hosting the podcast to see if he can hold a regular conversation for an hour and I thought that roast was so good

but it's also something I genuinely felt of like it conversation is sometimes weird for me. So interesting. So I think I've gotten better at conversation.

I've never really felt that from you. I've always felt maybe because I just come in and go, want to listen to this crazy shit that just happened? Yeah. And then we dive in. I don't know. I don't know. Maybe you have gotten better at it.

Yeah, because I don't know. But things are really good. The audience, like, they like it. Yeah, our episodes have been really fun. We have some kind of thematic episodes. We do Try Not to Laugh. The Try Not to Laugh episodes are really fun. The character episodes are so fun, too.

Yeah. Well, we only did the one, right? No, we've done our characters, and then we've done real-life characters. Oh, yeah, talking about characters, but also doing the Chosen Sarah Christ episode. So, oh, my God. doing the Chosen Sarah Christ episode. So, oh my God.

Maybe we need to do that again. That one was like the most love-hate episode. There was a lot of people who it was like their favorite episode and then a lot of people

were like, I don't know how I feel about it. Yeah, they're like, what are you guys doing? Which I also get because I'm like, you're listening to a podcast

so just kind of listen to his vibe. I honestly feel like that episode was fun and it was for us. It was just a fever dream. It was a fever dream. It's crazy to sit and be in a character for an hour and not be like doing some big performance,

but just be like talking. Yeah. It's really trippy. I would say that that's hard because a lot of the characters is like full body with like a prop or something. Right, right. So to sit here-

I think I have my phone though. Have to just be in your head or just kind of be mellow about it. I have a prop or something. Right, right. So to sit here and have to just be in your head or just kind of be mellow about it. I have a question for you. Do you find that you can stay in a character longer if you have something in your hand that's theirs? I guess I haven't really thought about that, but a lot of my characters,

some of my characters have like props because the Chosen has a sword and he has things and then Dumpster Wizard has his pan flute. So they always kind of have props but not all of them because courtney freaking miller didn't um right i don't think a lot of them necessarily needed it i learned i learned when i was at groundlings that my director called it out she was like you do so much better you connect immediately when you have a prop in your hand that's theirs and i was like so that's a cigarette for sarah yeah and then i and then i realized it's true it's a cigarette something you can focus on something that you can focus on that is theirs that can you know like when you kind of switch into an accent you need that one word to like go into sure sure like right

right right um it's kind of like that that's cool yeah that's awesome but i love i loved that episode so much yeah what was your favorite episode that we've done favorite episode we've ever done oof um uh honestly there was that episode with olivia where what were we talking about? Reddit stories? Yes, the weird subreddits, the first one was really fun and just a weird vibe in like a good, good way. I will say the episode that I,

you know this, the episode that we recorded and I was like, I don't know how I feel about this episode was the one with Spencer, the Try Not To Laugh one. Same. And then looking back,

I'm like, it's so funny, and people loved it. But we did record that, like, after 6 p.m. That episode was a fever dream. It was such a fever dream. And I remember just being like, what was that? It felt weird. I just, I foresaw people being like, I don't know, I don't know if I like this vibe. You said small penis 42 times, which someone told me.

Yeah, but people loved the vibe, and they loved us saying small penis over and over again. So, okay. We'll do a little bit more of that. Yeah, I loved that episode. I don't know what my favorite one was. We've had a lot of good ones. We've had so many good ones. They're always good.

I think the Tommy one was really amazing. Which one? Oh, yeah, of course. The real-life characters? The real-life characters because I was able to really sit and just be fully entertained by Tommy. I was just able to just enjoy. I love that there's not too many rules on this podcast,

that we have an episode where Tommy just gets to riff about Abby Lee Miller for 20 minutes. It was so exciting. Yeah. I think this podcast, as we develop it even more, is really just about We're just hanging out. What's important to people here. Exactly.

Just us getting to talk about anything that matters to us. Yeah, I agree. And this year has been solid. We did start the year with a bunch of resolutions. Or predictions. Predictions. We should with a bunch of resolutions. Or predictions. Predictions. We should go over some of them. Some of them have come true. Yeah, do you want to pull up yours?

Yeah, mine is very far-fetched. Not many people may remember the episode, but at the start of this year, our episode, we made a bunch of predictions. What's funny is we have the episode where we're literally talking about it, and then clearly a lot of people hadn't seen that episode because there was so many,

um, so many clips I've seen where people are like, uh, hold on the other side. There you go. Um, where people are like, what's that behind Shane?

It's like, we've talked about, uh, so you marked off. So Angela marked off because I said there was going to be a smart, you should mark off another one Sarah Christ will fall in love With a good guy

And hate it Oh yeah But then remember from Smosh Pit Theater Sarah Christ and Redacted Had that story Where they fell in love Hate it

But then love it Yeah And I think that was Definitely the vibe Definitely the vibe And then there was a Smosh baby There was Baby Cho Chosen

Baby Cho Shane will do a split. No, but you did. But I did a split. You did the split. I told you that like over the weekend, I finally got down into a split. And maybe one day I'll take a video of it and post it. But it was thrilling.

That sounds so cool. Johnny Cage over here. Johnny Cage. What the fuck is that? Johnny Cage from Mortal Kombat. Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally. Uh-huh. Okay.

Okay, so Shane did not do a split, but Amanda did. Should I cross off your name and write me? No. No, we'll save it. I don't know if I'm going to be able to do the splits this year, but I'm trying to stretch. I'm trying. I will say I didn't plan to do a split, but the best way I got into a split was holding pigeon pose for a long time and holding frog for a long time.

Have you ever done frog? I think I know. It's like literally opening your hips on the ground. Yeah. It's very hard for me to get even close to that. Also, Muay Thai is a ton of hip openers. I'm sure. Angela will book something. that's my finishing move just

angela will book something very big could happen could happen she's had a big year she's had a big year that's the thing is like her short film went to sundance like that's kind of a big booking and then you guys did a short film we did a short film and we posted about it Patrick and I just filmed a Q&A for that Which I'm super We had over 200 questions from fans Asking us about it Which was cool Will Smith will come out saying the slap was fake

No Well he came out with Bad Boys A new Bad Boys movie A new Bad Boys movie is coming out No No Anthony will shave his head A new Bad Boys movie. A new Bad Boys movie's coming out. I, no. No. No.

No. Okay. Anthony will shave his head. That was such a good prediction. It still could happen, man. I don't know. His hair is so beautiful, and I think that he loves it, too. But I could see him, Anthony, I could just see him. Really?

Well, he's going to need more real estate for tattoos. And he's got to shave it and then have that all. I almost like love, I love his hair so much, but, but I do see that that could be a possibility. I think it's entirely possible.

Okay. Smosh mouth will gain over a million subs. No, we did. We did have a million over a million views in a week. We have 2.4 million. Uh, was that in a week?

No, that's not in a week. Oh, I think that episode's at 2.9. Oh my God. And that episode is when you got married. You got married on that episode. Yeah, yeah. People don't realize we actually officially got married in that episode.

No, the episode where Courtney and I talk about the prank and getting married, by this point, maybe has 3 million views. That was really cool. It's our biggest episode. It was very cool. Did very well in a week. But we haven, maybe has three million views. That was really cool. It's our biggest episode. It was very cool. Did very well in a week, but we haven't gained

over a million subs. We have gained a lot of subscribers. Yeah, we have. We have like 550. I'm really grateful for all the people listening. We really...

Oh, dude. It's awesome. It's so cool. I will meet Keith Morrison. Keith Morrison from Dateline, yeah. Not happened yet. It hasn't happened yet. We'll make it happen.

Well, how? The only way to meet him is to be involved in a murder. That's true. Maybe we should swap it to I will never meet Keith Morrison because that's... Because then I... Well, no. If you're meeting Keith Morrison, things are okay. Maybe I'll just cold email.

You don't want Keith Morrison talking about you. No, I do not. No, you don't want him to know who you are unless you're meeting him. Correct. I will cold email him. And finally, you had the JFK Marilyn Monroe truth exposed. What do you think? You think the truth hasn't already been exposed?

I thought people knew that they had an affair. I think there's conspiracy theories. It's not about the affair. It's about who killed her. They think JFK was involved in her death? They think one of the Kennedys was. Whoa. Yeah.

Because she apparently, this is all conspiracy theories, she apparently had an affair with Bobby Kennedy too. The brother. Damn. These files will be released soon. I feel like maybe they won't be released soon. I think they might. Didn't JFK's wife wrote an autobiography

that will get released in 2070 or 2080 or something? Something like that. Like 100 years? There's a lot of secrets. I'm sure, man. I want to just believe that that's not what happened, but we still don't know who killed Marilyn Monroe. Or if it was herself. Poor Marilyn Monroe.

Seriously, we can't even let her rest. I feel so bad for her, man. Me too. She was a really good actress. You know what's sad, I think, of everything? She's actually a really great entertainer. She was an incredible entertainer. And it just gets so overlooked.

She was such a great actor and entertainer, and all we see her as is like a sex symbol. Yeah. Okay, well, those are mine, so it looks like I only have two. Still pretty good. Pretty good. I don't think I have any. And some of mine are pretty tame, I would say. My first one was, I will shake Markiplier's hand.

That's all. I will shake Markiplier's hand. I think that could happen. I know. I think it could happen, too. Still hasn't happened yet. Okay. I mean, as of recording this.

Maybe it'll happen before this episode. Keep your hopes high, because it could. You know, we just finished FNAF. Like maybe. Yeah, we finished that series. He's played all of FNAF 2. Maybe he'll hear about it and be like, hey, shake your hand. I want to shake your hand.

I want to shake your hand. Um, Smosh will be on Good Morning America. I, I think we had our opportunity when you didn't know about Harambe for that. Yeah. That went viral. 15 seconds of fame. You know what we should do okay hear me out we will put a weather balloon up in the air oh and we'll say oh my god shane

from smosh is stuck in that weather balloon and you're hiding here in the office and then i'm actually here in the office and then we'll get on good morning america and then i'll be like yeah you told me you told me to say i was in that balloon. And they were like, shut up. Shut up, son. Similar to Harambe, I wonder if anyone listening has no idea about Falcon. I remember that. Oh, Falcon was the funniest shit of all time. It was so funny. And why did the parents want to do that?

Just to go viral. Literally? I think it's truly for fame. Was it money? I think it was for fame. I think truly like clout chasers. Where was it again? Early on clout chasers. I don't know where it was.

For those of you who... To recap this story, it's such a funny story. There was this viral, viral situation where there was a weather balloon up in the air, and supposedly this little five-year-old kid was in the weather balloon. Stuck.

Fort Collins, Colorado. So everyone's freaking out for this day or two because they're like, oh my God, this kid is stuck in this weather balloon. And then,

I forget what happens. It turns out he wasn't in the weather balloon. They brought it down. He wasn't in there. He was actually hiding in his house. He was hiding in his house.

So it's like, oh, they all thought he was in there, but he was actually hiding and so nobody knew where he was. And then they, this still continues

to blow up. They go on Good Morning America, and on air, on live TV, this kid blows their cover of like, yeah, you told me to hide in this room. The parents had planned it. They had told him to hide.

It was all a big scam just to go viral. So cringy. And now I feel like that type of shit happens every day on tiktok all the time it's just a common occurrence but back then this was like one of the first this was big and it was before tiktok it was nuts but it was the fact that this kid blew their cover on live tv so fucking funny he's just a kid oh he's just a kid he has no idea it's so funny though um it's so good you can see the dad just be like, oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Stop. A famous cereal

will change their mascot. I felt very confident about this. I still feel confident. Like, what if suddenly Honey Smacks is just like, yeah, we have a buffalo now. We killed the frog. Rather than a frog? We killed the frog. Who eats Honey Smacks anymore? Some people eat Honey Smacks.

Actually, maybe I could argue that I am sort of correct because lately Reese's Puffs has had Goku on their box. And I will tell you. Is that a guest appearance? I will tell you that marketing has worked on me. Every time I see it, I buy it. You eat cereal? At night. At night.

You eat cereal? Okay, don't do this. Here's the thing. I love cereal, but we can't eat cereal anymore as adults. Why not? Because it's very bad for you. Oh, yeah. It's a dessert.

I have it at night as, like, dessert. How many bowls? One. What are you... Don't lie to my face. How many bowls? You can't just have one bowl? Don't lie to my face. How many bowls? You can't just have one bowl of cereal. Everyone knows that.

Yes, you can. That's why I don't have it. That's why it's bad for you because you're having five bowls of it. I have three and that's not a problem. Holy shit. What cereal are you eating? Corn pops or honey bunches of oats. Okay.

Quaker oatmeal squares. Squares Yum Yum Yum I used to be obsessed with Grape Nuts Jesus you love the most boring ones Well my mom was crazy Those aren't even bad for you I think those are like the healthy ones My mom was crazy she was a health nut So we weren't allowed to have fun cereal

I like to put granola in a bowl But don't have too many Or peanut butter balls? Peanut butter puffs? That's Reese's Puffs. You've come full circle to eating what I eat and you're making fun of me for it. Well, I'm just saying, I can't believe you're doing that.

Just like, oh, well, have you had peanut butter balls? Reese's Puffs. I can't. Yeah, but I don't do Reese's Puffs. I do like the nicer, healthier version. They're probably the same. Hear me out. It's wild I can't Yeah but I don't do Reese's Puffs I do like the Like the nicer Like healthier version The nicer They're probably the same

Hear me out You know it's just different marketing It's wild that you're eating cereal I hadn't in a long time And then I decided one day I was like you know what I'm gonna have some cereal And I went through a bunch of different kinds

I would go to the store And I would be like I'm gonna get a different cereal this time Just to try them all out Well I'm jealous I'm jealous Have cereal I can't

You're allowed to eat cereal. This body is going to fall apart if I have a bowl of cereal. Okay, it's no different than like having like a dessert of any kind. It's a dessert. I'm not saying I wake up and I have it in the morning.

I'm like, there I had breakfast. It's a cocaine to me, Shane. If I have it, I go nuts. I literally have three full bowls and I cannot stop. I will fill up the next bowl before it's done And then your dreams at night, the ghost walks up and they're like Oh shit! And then they leave and you're like

What's going on? I had my peanut butter bowls I'm ready to go Get over here! And you're like Come here! So now you know I love cereal Not to feed you cereal after midnight

No, please do. Please do. I wrote, Timothy Chalamet, breakdances. You missed? Oh, Bigfoot is proven to be real, but went extinct decades ago.

Still hasn't happened. And I feel like we keep making headway on aliens. The government keeps releasing more documents on aliens. But they are real. My dad told me, UFOs are real. The government and the aliens have been talking for years. They dad told me, UFOs are real. The government and the aliens have been talking for years.

They've been sharing information for decades, Amanda. Everybody knows this. The government doesn't want people to know. It's very weird why they're covering this up,

but aliens and, you know, the government, they're on the same page about this kind of stuff. Not kidding. These are normal conversations I have

with my dad. Anyways, I'll have a bagel with smear and... He a bagel with smear He loves bagel with smear The man The guy at the deli is like yeah okay for sure man He goes girls I got bagels the size of your head

We're gonna have a great Christmas That's probably awesome Is he like a true east coaster where it's just 100% It's like the layer of cream cheese is the same width as the bagel. And the bagels are the size of your head and I'll show two bags of bagels

and extra large Dunkin' Donuts. He is a Massachusetts man through and through. That's awesome. He loves pubs. He loves Irish pubs. That's awesome. Yeah, we got some good friends watching a game at the Irish pub. We're hanging out with them. I'm like, great. That's awesome. That sounds awesome. Yeah, we got some good friends watching a game at the Irish pub. You know, we're hanging out with them.

I'm like, great. That's awesome. That sounds awesome. No, it is awesome. No, the first time I was in New York and I got a bagel with schmear there, I was like, oh. The best thing in the world. You don't fuck around.

But you also need it because you're walking all day. Bagels are, yeah. I was like, I need this energy. Yeah, necessity. If you have that in LA and then you're driving everywhere, you die. Good night. Cereal Yeah

No I need my Reese's Puffs I also just simultaneously wish we could air Just watching an episode of Dragon Ball Z with you It would be so funny I think you'd love it I think I've seen an episode of Dragon Ball Z Probably Probably

Oh my god It's just a box Timothee Chalamet breakdances Hasn't he? I feel like maybe there's old footage of him He's just the funniest dude Because you watch him in movies And he's the most like sullen

Like serious guy Always moping Yeah But then in real life he's just like What's up guys? Like it's me, Timothee Chalamet I think he did on SNL, didn't he? Maybe

You know that he had a YouTube channel back in the day, right? He had a YouTube channel where he was customizing Xbox controllers. Stop! He would mod Xbox controllers. Yep. And now he's in Dune. Now he's in Dune 2. Yeah.

Now he's in every movie. So, wait. Did he have a big following on his YouTube? Not really. What was it called? Timothy and Xbox? You never actually saw his face. It would just be his hands and he would be showing off Xbox controllers that he modded.

Yeah. We'll try to get him on Smosh Games. Yeah, totally. Actually, that would be so freaking funny. What if we got him on darts and we just have him play a character and we don't address who he is. I really, that's my dream is to get the biggest like celebrity on but not capitalize off of them at all. Like not even have them

in the thumbnail. That's actually brilliant. Just have them show up and just. And all the comments are is that Timothee Chalamet? Is that fucking Timothee Chalamet there?

I don't know what you're talking about. I don't know what you're talking about. Have you guys never heard of Timmy Tim? Timmy Tim? What's that? Selena is bringing up Timmy Tim? What's that? Selena is bringing up Timmy Tim.

Oh, is that the play? It's like his hip hop performance. Yes. I have seen this. He did do a hip hop performance and that's why I felt this prediction

but I was like, I think modern day Timothee Chalamet is going to break dance at some event. I have seen this. He's wearing a backpack in this video.

I think it makes sense why he's such a good actor is because that dude has zero shame. No. He does not give a fuck. I love that. And I respect it. I respect it a lot. Same. I wrote Mario and Luigi kiss officially.

I know they're brothers, but maybe it's a Game of Thrones situation. Whoa. The last people who were Mario and Luigi was Anthony and I, so. Damn. We had the chance. I could have done it. We had the... I should have just dipped him and then... Oops. I'm so sorry. I should have just

dipped him in his Mario costume and then kissed him. That would have been really funny. And then we would have been able to mark that off. And I would have said, this is for the pod. So sad. Amanda books a role as a mom. So Lady D is a mom.

Is basically a mom. She has her three kind of daughters. And look at any commercial I've done in the past. It's already done. There we go. Mark that off. I think we'll mark that off. I feel like. I think we will. Do you need a pen? I feel like, um, yeah. Lady D is the wildest mom you've ever had she's a mom that

lives in like vegas we'll say that uh i will do the splits no has not happened yet i don't know if it will i will be completely don't say that i will be completely honest i had a bunch of goals that i set up for myself at the beginning of the year people now know that in january when i'm saying all these things that i wanted to try to do this year that i know that in january when i'm saying all these things that i wanted to try to do this year that i was also in the midst of getting engaged and getting married and also then before this is before but then planning a live show and creative directing there was nothing you could get done this year other than i fully lost track of everything these past few months um we haven't have we have an episode that hits a million in a week. That is so, so cool.

So thank God you didn't do the splits because we wouldn't have that episode that hit a million in a week. I also marked off, the one that's not there is the Denver Broncos lose the AFC championship game. No, they lost way before that. Why'd you cross it off so intensely? Because I was pissed. Yeah, that seems like an

aggressive. They sucked very badly. And then, well, what's sad is that they kind of had a moment where it was like, oh, maybe they can do this. And then they didn't do it. You really were upset. It's okay. It's a thick marker. Yeah. All right.

Well, this is pretty cool. We got some stuff done. This is very cool. Yeah, I feel pretty solid. But, yeah, I'll keep working on the splits. I know also for some people listening, I was getting really into Taiwanese cooking at the start of the year.

That proved to be way too difficult. That was, that's a type of cuisine that I can't take on right now. It is really intense. It was restaurant. Also getting the ingredients was really hard. And I was like, every time I get the ingredients, I have to like drive a ways and find like very specific markets for it. And I was like, this is, I need to start smaller and start like easier

recipes and keep doing that. I fell off of cooking in general, which is one of my favorite hobbies, but I was very much just like meal prepping because I'd get home. We were working so hard for a while that I would get home and I'm like, I got to just throw something in an air fryer. You'll get back to it. Yeah, I'm already getting back. I made a Korean stew last night. That was delicious.

Wow. Yeah. Hell yeah. Which is actually so easy. Yummy. Give me a recipe. Korean stew is super easy. I kind of fell off cooking too.

I actually, so you gifted me a Turkish cookbook. Yeah, yeah. And it was unbelievable. And I cooked probably five meals from that. And I was obsessed with it. You can always then set it aside and come back to it. I really want to make the drinks that they have, like a sumac drink. And they make, they're non-alcoholic.

They're just like these amazing cordials and stuff. Nice. I really want to do that. I, um, that's awesome. That's, yeah, that's really cool. No, I'm back into the zone of like, oh, I want to try a bunch of new things. I want to cook new things.

Yeah. You know a drink that I really want to try that I've never had? What? There's that Indian mango drink. Mango lassi? Yeah. I've never had it.

You haven't? Never had it. Fucking delicious. I know. I've never had it. You haven't? Never had it. Fucking delicious. I know. I keep hearing about it. It's the best thing ever. Like, I gotta try it sometime. I know I could easily go

I'll buy one for you. I know I could easily go and get it in like the next hour. Yeah. It's just something I haven't gotten around to doing. So, okay. I could get it for you.

There's whispers happening. There's planning. See, this is my trick. I bring these things up here so that the episode ends and then suddenly Mango Lassie appears. You're a nightmare.

It's so good. I've heard it's really good and it looks incredible. You can kind of, sometimes when I make a smoothie, sometimes I'm like, I just made a Mango Lassie. That's awesome.

It's like yogurt and mango and there's other things. Condensed milk, isn't it? I don't know. I don't know anything about it. I know it's mango and like's other things condensed milk isn't it i don't know i don't know anything about it yeah i know it's mango and and like a dairy so delicious i i need to take advantage more of of like living in la which is arguably one of the best places for food in the world so much good food just because there's every option i mean truly it's like oh indian

i've never had i've never had etopian food. And I've always wanted. And it's just something I've never got around to doing. I just kind of am like, oh, I need to do that. It's so delicious. And until you have it, and then... Isn't there Little Ethiopia? Yeah. So delicious. Little of everything in LA.

Oh, baby. I love Ethiopian food. Where I went to college, there was a bunch of Ethiopian food That's cool Oh shit we're at 50 minutes Oh so before we get into this next part Guys we've been doing the podcast for a year And this is also halfway through this year

And something we do at Smosh Around this time Little peek inside the curtain Is we do mid year reviews Where everyone at Smosh has either a supervisor or supervisors have their like employees like talk with them and be like, here's what I think you could improve upon. Here's what you're doing great.

Like we just kind of all circle up. Yeah. Have a little meeting. Here's what you're doing very bad at. But we thought we'd do ours here at the podcast on air. So Selena has worked on reviews of us. She's been working with us for, since the start of us. She's been working with us since the start of this, and she's been working behind the scenes.

She's been helping us produce, do everything. So she knows about how we operate as professionals, as hosts. I'm scared. I feel like I'm in high school again, but it feels good, and it's necessary. So she's going to sit down with each of us and give us our reviews one at a time. Okay. And the other person has to go out

and sit the dumb cap on. The other person will just go and stand off to the side. Okay. Who's going first? And laugh. I think you're first.

So you're going to listen to my mid-year review? Yeah, dude. Wow. We're a team. We're different. We're a unit. Okay, we're a unit.

So we're all in this together. Okay. Are you ready? Yeah, I. Wow. We're a team. We're different. We're a unit. Okay, we're a unit. So we're all in this together. Okay. Are you ready? Yeah, I'm ready. Okay. Selena, do you want to hop in? Okay. Get out of here, Shane.

Good luck. This is my mid-year review given to me by Selena. Hi, Amanda. Hi. This is very reminiscent. I just want to give a shout out to Lisa. She used to do the mid-year reviews, and we miss her. RIP. I love Lisa. No. This is very reminiscent. I just want to give a shout out to Lisa. She used to do the mid-year reviews. And we miss her.

RIP. I love Lisa. No, she's not dead. No. She's not dead. RIP. She's just not here. How are you?

I'm good. Okay, good. I'm good. There's nothing to be nervous about. Okay. I'm just going to talk about. Yeah, go ahead. I think it's that old little kid in me that's like oh a review yeah an assessment yeah meeting it's like grading i

actually thought about giving you guys like a b c oh you should markings okay yeah i have like five categories great okay um yeah so typically a supervisor would give this i'm not like i don't think i'm technically your supervisor, but like we're doing peer reviews here. You're a boss. So, well, okay. Anyway, I have five categories. There's performance, attitude, collaboration, communication, and comedy.

Oh my God. Yeah. Groundlings all over again. Here we go. Performance is A+. I think you're doing really well. I think you're very engaging on and off camera. Thank you.

So thank you for that. Thank you. For your attitude, also an A+. You're a go-getter. There's barely a time when you ever say no to anything. You're always willing to try. Yeah. Yeah.

That is true. Collaboration, also an A+. Ah!'re always willing to try. Yeah. Yeah. That is true. Collaboration, also an A+. Ah! You got that, Shane? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, pretty cool shit. I think, yeah, it goes to show, like,

people always want to work with you and are always open to talking to you. Okay. So I think that says it for itself. That's great. Communication, also A+. You're always the first one to reply to my emails and anything that I ask about and are just perfect. I am perfect.

Are you guys listening to this? Yeah. I love responding to emails. If my inbox fills up, I get so overwhelmed. So I'm like, hello? Yeah. Yeah. I get it.

I'm the same way. Yeah. And comedy, I would say also A+. Oh my God. I think that's so funny. Shane, good luck. Amanda's so funny. But yeah, I actually don't, literally I have nothing written.

For a minute. The stakes are high. This is all coming from the heart. And I mean every word of it. Thank you. Yeah. That word of it. Thank you. Yeah. That's so sweet. Thank you so much.

Yeah. How have you been feeling? Good. Yeah? I'm feeling really good. I'm very grateful that you are on this too. Not that I don't love Shane. You know, I do.

I love him so much. But like sometimes it's Shane and I are like, okay, it's so nice to have someone to help us like organize and get everything together. Yeah. You guys have the ideas. I just got to make sure that the puzzle pieces work. Yeah. I'm grateful for you. Cool.

Thank you. Awesome. Yeah. How's the experience on the pod and how's Shane? How's working with Shane? Yeah. I wanted to talk to you about that. Yeah.

Go ahead. Working with Shane is the best. It really is. I love working with Shane. I really do. Wow. Shane feels like family to me right now. Yep.

I feel like I can bring up anything to him, and he's like, oh, okay. He's not like, ah, no, okay. We can't talk about that right now that is so wow yep nice shane i love my partner wow yeah see also right there he's collaborative supportive love it thank you awesome wow i feel good yeah can i go home now yeah it's shane's turn here. It's Shane's turn? Yeah.

Good luck, Shane. Best of luck, buddy. She's tough. What's up, coach? How are you doing? This is like in Hard Knocks when someone's going to get cut. It's like, yeah, what's up? How are you doing?

I'm good. How are you, Selena? I'm good. You ready for this? Yeah. I overheard through the door how Amanda's was going. It was sounding tough. Through the door.

Okay. Yeah, through the door. I was right outside. Yeah, it sounded brutal. Okay. So for you, I actually have something written down, but we're going to go over all the five categories. It'll be encompassed in the review.

Got it. Okay. Ready? Ready? Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's go. It's going to be fine. Okay. Yeah. It'll be encompassed in the review. Got it. Okay, ready? Yeah, let's go. It's going to be fine. Okay. Yeah, it'll be fine. Yes, cool.

Great. Ready? So it starts out, Shane is an impeccable coworker. That's pretty good. Okay. No, actually it says Shane is an insufferable coworker. Got it. He's constantly screaming, disrupting the peace of the office, and hiding behind everyone during their lunch break when they're supposed to not be working, all for your stupid little Where's Waldo wannabe photos.

Okay. Some of those were Tommy's ideas. Well, okay, I see the collaboration, but we the collaboration, but we got to talk about respecting people's boundaries. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. What are you hiding from when you do that? Or what are you hiding? Oh. Like what's in that little tote bag of yours that you're always lugging around? I never actually have seen you pull anything out of it. I have knickknacks and silly things and treats. I want a treat! I have my Goku Reese's Puffs in my tote bag.

But I do have to applaud you for taking initiative and being proactive in cuffing your own jeans so that Josie can go and do other things other than hem your pants. Now she has more time to do other things. Yeah. And I know you've been acting since you were a teenager. Yeah. But it boggles the mind that you can't get your act together. Like, can you answer your emails?

Like, I fully believe this is the reason why it took you 10 years to get your degree. They were probably just waiting for an email. Like, yeah. Yeah. Also, you're not funny. And also, you broke my fidget toy, you stupid bitch. I did break your fidget toy. I will fully take responsibility for that. I broke it, and I ordered a new one right on the spot,

because I knew that was fully on me. Well, before that, he came to my desk and was like, whoa, this is cool, and started playing with it. And he immediately dropped it on the ground. It was like one of those things that you spin, and it like... It was so cute. And I literally go like, awesome! And I go like, and I just like launched it like 10 feet and it just busted i was like and i turn i go i am so

sorry i will get you a new one that's not what happened i had to ask i had to beg for it that is not true that is not true i had to beg for it the comments will decide who's telling the truth yeah that's the end of your review wow so there was no grades on there oh I heard the A pluses um you know what don't tell me no I don't think you want to know

don't tell me Selena thank you Selena you have been wonderful thank you even after that? That's crazy. Even after that. No, this is very funny. It shows you really help out with the comedy of this podcast.

Awesome. So we've formed a great team. Yeah. No, actually, part of it is I've learned a lot about you and about Amanda, but I actually find myself very similar to you. Really? I hate that. Similar to me how?

Like, I also eat cereal at night. I also eat Reese's Puffs. Have you had the mini version? They have like the smaller version. The mini versions don't seem interesting to me. The mouth feel. Really? Yeah.

See, I like the size of Reese's Puffs. Okay, but it doesn't, if you eat enough of it, it scratches the top of your mouth. And this mini ones doesn't do that. Okay. I really want you to try it. Alright. Okay. I'll give them a shot and I'll let you know. Yeah, I'll bump your grade up if you do it. Okay. Yeah. All I have to do is eat

Reese's Puffs and then I get a better grade. Easy. Easiest thing in my life. Yeah. Well, thank you, Selena. Yeah. I'm sorry that you're so similar to me. Yeah. That sucks. you, Selena. Yeah. I'm sorry that you're so similar to me. Yeah. That sucks. I got to work on that.

You got to stop eating cereal, I guess. Yeah. Anyway, Amanda, you can hop back on here. Wow. Wow. Selena, everyone. How do you guys? Thanks, Selena.

Yeah. How'd yours go? Really, really good. Yeah, mine went great. Did it? Yeah, it was so good. I'm so glad because I was worried. Yeah, but what grades?

Did she give you grades? Yeah, I got grades. Yeah, same. Yeah, you got grades? Yeah, yeah. What'd you get? I probably, yeah, it's like, you know, probably like the basic

thing. Like an A plus? Oh, that's the basic? I feel like that's probably what she was giving everybody. Oh, damn. I thought I was with honors. No, you probably are. Yeah.

I got probably like an A. She was screaming to herself when she left your meeting, so I just didn't know A She was screaming You know To herself when she left your meeting So I just didn't know if it was good Yeah I don't know she probably got like a text She kept saying like I don't want to be like him Yeah

Over and over and over She's quoting a movie Oh really? I don't want to be like him I don't know She never talked to me about movies I guess we're not that close Guess not No she said that she and to me about movies. I guess we're not that close. Guess not. No, she said that she and I are exactly alike. I guess since we're

exactly alike, if she gave me a bad grade, then she would also be getting a bad grade. But I thought you said you got the basic grade. But I got a good grade. So it's all fine. Yay! So you're going to move to the next level? Yeah, for sure. I'm going to move to Superhost next. I'm going to get a promotion. Oh, good. I was so worried because they mentioned I would get a replacement, but I don't think

that's in the books. Yeah, probably not. Well, I'm glad. Yeah, I'm so happy for us. You too. Okay, actually, truthfully, Amanda, you have crushed it this past year. This has been so dope. It's really cool.

It's really been awesome. Thanks, Shane. Yeah, I feel like fans have also really gotten to know you through this. Because you've been around for so long. I've been around for so long, but there's never really an opportunity to actually talk and get to know me. And I do feel such a shift when I post or when I'm in videos. I actually feel like I'm coming with this knowing. It's such a scary thing to kind of just

be a little more genuine on here because you're like, it doesn't feel entertaining. Yeah. Doing it. And then people, but people's response has been, and I can't tell people the amount of times where we put out something where I'm like, this isn't good, this isn't entertaining.

And then they're like, this is incredible. I loved listening to this. And I'm like, oh. And so it's such a challenge then because I'm like, I can't go always with what I think is the most, like what people want. But it's also nice because this is easier. It's relatable. Easy and fun for us is what people are liking to be honest if i if my people that i loved on a show had a podcast and i could listen to their daily thoughts and like what they were doing or try things out

i would be psyched it's yeah you're so right but it's tough because we become entertainers, I think, in some ways because we, I mean, at least speaking for myself, out of like an insecurity of like, oh, my regular just being myself isn't enough. I need to be entertaining. I need to do stuff. So to pull that back a little bit more and still be enough is trippy. It's even harder. It's trippy and it's even harder.

But we've been doing it for a year. I know. It's really wild. It's trippy and it's even harder, but we've been doing it for a year. I know, it's really wild. It's kind of scary. I will say that doing the first 10 episodes, I would go home and go, I said too much. I revealed too much. Now everyone knows too much.

And I'm starting to learn like, it is okay to share what's going on because you never know someone that you are connecting with that is also like, I have that too and I never know when to talk about it. And honestly, mundane things

are entertaining to talk about. Yeah, for people. You can talk about Reese's Puffs for a whole hour and people will probably be super into it. Okay, I was thinking, crackling oat bran. Okay. Big one.

Still not surprised. Still not surprised. Big one. Those are the brands you're doing. Meanwhile, when I was going through my cycle of cereals, it was Reese's Puffs, Frosted Flakes, Honeycombs. Honeycombs are delicious.

So good. The best still I think is Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Cinnamon Toast Crunch is delicious. It's unbelievable. But it is loaded with sugar. Yeah. It's just stupid. I just don't like the soggy ones. Like, Fruity Pebbles can fuck off. Frosted Flakes can fuck off.

I thought Fruity Pebbles, I will say, Fruity Pebbles I thought were super overrated. Yeah, and Trix. Or not Fruity Pebbles. I'm sorry, I got it wrong. Fruit Loops. Fruit Loops, super overrated. Fruity Pebbles, incredible. Cocoa Pebbles are so delicious, but they are basically a joke.

No. You might as well eat a candy bar. Yeah. That is just pure sugar and chocolate, but it is unbelievably delicious. Have you ever had crackling old bran? Probably. Those are the ones that my mom had growing up. Yeah, me too.

I'm still doing it. I'm going to buy cereal because you did this. Cashy Goline Crunch. I'm like, get it out of here. My mom had that too. Goline Crunch. I hate that stuff. What's the thing?

I hate it. And it tasted like styrofoam. Yeah, I was the thing. I hate that stuff. I hate it. And it tasted like styrofoam. Yeah, I think it might be. And grape nuts. When you ate grape nuts, you literally shit pellets. It turns you into a deer. Yep.

Turns out. It's pretty cool. Well, awesome. On that note, thank you guys for celebrating our one-year anniversary of the pod. And thank you, Selena, for the reviews. I'm so glad we both got good reviews. Yes. Perfect reviews.

Thank you, guys. We'll see you later. See you later. Bye. Bye.