Smosh Mouth - #66 - Teaching Amanda Internet Lore

Episode Date: October 14, 2024

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Hey, welcome to Smosh Mouth. I'm Shane. And I'm Amanda. What's up? We have a very special guest with us, Trevor. Hey, I'm Trevor. Trevor is here. Before we get into just talking some smack at the beginning, this episode is one I've been very excited about for a while. We're doing internet school. As some of you remember, one of the last times Trevor was here, we discovered that Amanda didn't know what or who Harambe was. Oh my god, yeah.

It became its own viral meme. You became the offline queen of the internet. I know, and I never saw myself like that, but then I was like, yeah, I guess that makes sense in the YouTube world. But ever since these months after I've been thinking about all the past internet stories and events

that were huge that you may not know about, I've created a catalog and I've broken a bunch of the stories down. We're going to go through and see which ones you don't know and then we're going to get to tell you about them. It's so much fun. I will say that is very fun.

It's great. It's hard when people start talking about something and I just go, and then they look at me and go, you don't know what we're talking about. Well, you're about to know it all. You're going to know it all. That was me two minutes ago when you guys were talking about credit. Yeah, we were talking about adult things. We were talking about credit cards before.

Yeah. I was like, I don't know. I don't get it. We'll explain that to you next time on Credit Card School. We didn't talk about this last week, but Amanda, part of the reason why we had a bunch of episodes without you in these past months was because you were off in Greece. I was off in Greece.

So cool. I had my own Mamma Mia experience, minus all the dads. Okay. No dads were there. No Pierce Brosnan. No, which would have been sick. That would have been cool. My mom decided to organize a trip with me and all my sisters together.

I have three sisters. And we haven't done a trip with us. No partners, no kids, no anyone. Just five women. Wow. On a plane to Greece. Wow. It was unbelievable.

I think we all had anxieties before because, I mean, we all have our own lives. All the sisters haven't traveled together like on an airplane yeah the airplane is like 12 hours we haven't been on an airplane together in so long it's many many personalities yeah any but my sisters were incredible like my sisters were like it's like we all have the same conversations with the people we cared about we're like what if this happens what if this happens what if a fight blows up what if we can't choose dinner which was the hardest part of the whole choosing dinner all of us because everything is good everything is good but some is like very touristy right and and i

heard that touristy places don't cook fish well anyways that's just like a whole other thing everything is so good but choosing dinner at night was like the hardest thing I've ever done in my life. Because it would be one person would say one thing and we'd all be like, well, we don't know where we're going. It'd be like, I just don't want to be on this strip because it feels very touristy. And then we're like, well, we're fucked. Did you guys not have an agenda? My mom had things planned. Like we had an e-bike tour planned

We had a boat A little motorboat Planned She had things planned I got a motorboat planned for this Saturday No No No

Trevor Every time you come on What's up dude every time you come on. What's up, dude? Yeah, all right. Every time Trevor comes on, he turns into such a dick. Am I right? What? Am I right?

Oh, my God. All right, all right. He's just sitting there waiting. He's just sitting there waiting. He's like, I got a motor plan. I got a motor plan. He like almost screamed it. Oh, man.

Okay. Yeah, so me and all my sisters went on a motorboat. Yep. It was pretty amazing. It was pretty funny walking through Greece because people were like, sisters, oh, thank the gods. I was like, what? The gods. Zeus was a real vibe vibe there really oh everyone i always i

guess i wondered how big like because we love greek mythology in america like we talk about it but i wonder there if it's actually like it's everything really the places that i went to so i went to naxos which is a small island island. And then I went to Athens for two days. Cool. Which it is there. Everything that is looming over the city, like whether it's a mountain or an ancient ruin or whatever, is all Greek mythology. And it's all. I will say, like, yes, it could be for the tourist for them to play it up a little bit.

But like it is part of their life. There are ancient ruins all over all these places. And I did learn that a lot of people will find ancient ruins and not. And just kind of like there's a whole like war about it. Like who found the ancient ruin? What kind of people are they connected with that they can actually make money off of it? Interesting. It's so wild there.

Wow. There's probably so much shit that people are just finding all the time. Oh, yeah. So much. Like, Naxos was very, I feel like, old school. Like, they still had shepherd houses, which I didn't understand what that was. It's like men who spend the entire season, they build this little house out of stone, and they have one window and another window.

There's no light, there's no bathroom, nothing. And they stay there in the hills and they like frickin' get goats and they herd goats and they're just actual shepherds. And he's like, I think it's a dying off thing because women don't wanna live there and mate with them. And I was like, well, it's a dying off thing because women don't want to live there and mate with them. And I was like, well, oh, yeah. Yeah, probably.

Yeah, eight months in the dark without a toilet? I'm sorry. Hello? That's a little rough. But, yeah, he was – the guy who gave us this e-bike tour was very – wanted to bring back a lot of traditions and keep the music alive. And then they had a harvest. I learned that the harvest there for the olive oil could only be done by certain families.

Whoa. You had to be generational in order to do the specific olive oil harvest. By the way, olive oil. I'm sure it's crazy there. I learned so much. Extra virgin olive oil should be green, and it should be spicy.

Spicy? And it should be spicy in the back of your throat. And it goes away. When the color goes to yellow, it starts to be virgin olive oil. And then it starts to be olive oil. And you shouldn't keep it for longer than like a year. Maybe even like five months. Wow.

It should be spicy. Huh. I eat olive oil every day. I bet. Drink it? Just drink it. Yep. It was incredible. Grease was amazing. My sisters were amazing. A lot of personalities.

Yeah. A lot of energy. No, you sent me the photo of your sister wearing a Chosen shirt. Not like a Chosen shirt. She was organically wearing a gas station like wolf shirt. Yep. That's awesome. My younger sister showed up in a straight up chosen shirt. Badass. And I was like, oh my God, it's a chosen shirt.

She's like, what? The fuck are you talking about? She was like, this is my girlfriend's shirt. Okay, back up. Get out of my face. She wore it all the time. She actually, I will say when we went to Greece, the person who got the most flirted with was my little sister.

Really? They loved it. She was like an undershave. She wore like a backwards hat. They were like so into it. They'd be like, you're nice. You're nice. But your sister, your little sister.

I was like, okay. That was like their vibe. So funny. It was so funny. They were so great. Everyone in Naxos was so unbelievably sweet. Wow. It was so funny. They were so great. Everyone in Naxos was so unbelievably sweet. Wow. It was wonderful.

And we went swimming. And we did stumble into a bar that my sister was like, let's go to this place. And we're like, okay. Where we danced. And they lit the floor on fire. You showed me footage. And threw plates at us. What?

Which sounds fake. Sounds like an American fake tale. It sounds like they were trying to get you out of there. Well, the owner danced the whole time, and I asked them, I was like, do you guys just do this for tourists? They're like, no, we've been doing it every night for five months.

What? And they just go through plates, and you'll be dancing, and then a woman in this leopard outfit will have a stack of plates, and she's staring you in the eye, and then it's just like this leopard outfit will have a stack of plates and she's staring you in the eye and then it's just like throws it at you and it crashes on the ground.

Why? You showed me footage. I didn't believe you and then you showed me footage of the owner of this bar dancing on the ground that's on fire. Yes. Correct. Like they're just spraying oil onto the ground and lighting it on fire. Wow. Yeah. It was unbelievable.

And this guy wanted to teach us to dance. I felt so welcomed and loved. And it was so, so wonderful. And apparently, in September is not their touristy season. It's like the beginning of the end of their touristy season. But get this. I walked into this little tiny mart, very small, with my sister. And she was like, oh very small, with my sister. And she called.

She was like, oh, Amanda, grab a water. Because the tap water isn't bueno to drink. Oh. So you have to buy these big bottles. And she called me Amanda. And this guy was like, are you Amanda from Smosh? No way. I'm not kidding.

Really? I'm not kidding. Oh, my god. Because I was like, there's not a chance anyone in greece what which was great i got to walk around and just be like whoo this man his name was nick demos i wonder if he's listening right now if he's listening he's amazing his name is nick the most which he told me that a lot of uh greek men are named after um saints okay they all have very religious saint names there's a church like in every second and he was like i watch you amanda from smosh that's awesome my fucking sister's like do you

want a picture and he's like no no no okay no why why would i want a picture yeah my sister's like okay i suck uh but he was so nice wow and i was like was like, have you ever been to the States? He's like, he's like New York. They all, I'm like, New York to anyone who's not in the United States. There's like New York city is, is America. Yeah.

But, um, he was so sweet. He was so sweet. And, uh, it was just an unbelievable experience. I've never swam in the sea.

It was so salty and beautiful. You didn't have to do anything. You just floated to the top. That's awesome. It was incredible. The photos you showed me are unbelievable. It was incredible. That's crazy. I can't imagine going, I mean, I was in Idaho recently, and I was just like Reese.

Motorboat? No, I was going to say, and I spent an entire day golfing with my brother, like 12 hours of golfing. And I didn't want to see him for like three months afterward. I can't imagine going on a trip with your sisters like that. Trevor, I know. I understand. Truly, all of us apparently, like we all had worked out all the many scenarios that could possibly happen but we were like oh yeah i'm gonna be with you for eight days straight including 10 to 12 hour flights

sitting next to you while you watch your like movie like it there was definitely times where it was like i need space but we got to the place where we was like, I need space. But we got to the place where we'd be like, I need space. And we'd be like, and you take that space. And we all had books. But then after day six, you're just like in it. Then you're like, hey, where's my sister? It's like, good morning, where's my sisters?

No, the photos, you showed me a photo of all of your your sisters and your mom and it looks like a rom-com like it looks like a like some sort of like sweet movie except you didn't know what happened before that so yeah okay there's just many conversations it would be like yeah i don't i'm good okay are you good me and my sister made up this whole thing that we were like frustrated with my mom and she was in the backseat. And we were like trying to drive with a map because no GPS works in Nexus. So you have to have a big map and there's all one ways. What's that? I'm kidding. I hate you.

And we would be driving. And because my mom was mad at us, we decided. So if someone was mad in the group, then you decided to be extra kind to the others. So we had this whole thing where we were driving. My mom was so mad at us because we kept getting lost and like trying to go through these crazy streets. And so we were trying to be kind to each other. And I'd be like,

thank you sister for getting me to the destination. She'd be like, no, thank you sister for being such an excellent driver. No, thank you sister for being able to hold up the map. No, thank you sister. It was to hold up the map no thank you sister it was like a whole

fucking thing it was like dynamics dynamics it was like oh that's so funny and now i just like wake up in the morning with my husband i'm like hey he's like hey i'm like you're not mad at me i'm like do you want orange juice or not no problem you make your decision all good that's so funny because when I hang out with my brothers it's like the complete opposite we're all so chill that like nothing oh that sounds fun

my brother just projects his insecurities onto me does he watch the show I don't care if he does Shane can't handle it Shane can't handle it he needs to hear it I don't care if he does. Shane can't handle it. Shane can't handle it. He does. He needs to hear it. Oh, my God.

He just bullies me endlessly. And I love him. And I love my nephews. And he's great. But my brother needs to learn how to deal with his problems. Oh, my God. Damn, Trevor. Keep this in.

And we will clip this. Yeah, no. Feel free, Matt. Dude, grow up. Calling him out! I will say, calling out your siblings, it can be kind of good in a way, but then you have to,

it could be years until you smooth it out. That's a commitment. It's a commitment. So well done. No, he's just gonna do it again. If he's just gonna he's just gonna do it again you know if he watches this he's just gonna be like yeah okay buddy no i think that you're stupid and you know how old is he uh he's two years older than me uh okay very close see i don't have siblings my brothers aren't close in age that's why so they're more like it's it's probably

more of a dynamic of like really cool uncles um. We're brothers, but even between them, we're all chill. We just don't have issues. But people who have siblings that are right next to each other. Mine's like two, four years older. I know it can be a lot crazier. Yeah. Anyways. Anyways, wow.

So that was Greece, and I'm back now. Well, I want to get into some internet school things, but really quick before that uh trevor you're i saw an announcement for something that's really cool that you're part of on the mythical side of things uh they're doing dnd oh yeah no i'm i'm pumped about it because i haven't played dnd in a long time but now everyone is like paid to be there so they have to be there it's not like a thing where people are going to like, it's slowly going to Peter out.

I actually get to, you know, have a D and D campaign. Are you the DM? No, no. Uh, so TJ,

um, who works on the retin link channel, he works really closely with retin link. He's the DM. Um, and he's a big D and D nerd. And I'm actually the only person in the group that has played D and D before. So link,

are we playing it for the first time? Oh my God. that's amazing. It's actually cool though. So we have, it's myself, Emily, Lily, and Michaela. And then we have one character. The first session is Rhett played him and then Link played him, but he's gonna be played by like a new guest every week

or every session that we do. So Damien's coming on. Really? Yeah, so that'll be fun. Amazing. Hell yeah. No, it's going to be a good time. It's interesting playing D&D with people

that have never played before, but it's a lot of fun because we're just kind of doing it. I understand it. None of us had played it. Really? Yeah, except for Damien. Okay. Oh, Angela had played some.

And Chance. Chance and Anja actually they've actually played but Amanda and I were the fresh completely fresh yeah my character's awesome

I'm playing a bard and his name is Plengowl yep and when I excellent name yeah well exactly what you were

doing with that one because when they were they were like we're gonna do art of the character so what do you want your character to look like so I just sent a picture of

Glenn Powell, and I was like, my character's name is going to be planned out. What is everyone's obsession with Glenn Powell? You watch Twisters as well? We watched it together. I know. Did you know that Trevor and I stood in the front of the stage? So we went to Twisters. Yeah. Him and I in a group,

and we went in front of the stage and pretended to be twisters while everyone was sitting there well that's awesome did anyone think you guys were? I think a couple people I think a couple people ran for their lives and went into a barn door

where did that barn appear from? yeah it just appeared Raven was like you should go up to the front and then just spin in a circle it was actually Raven's idea did Glenn see? Glenn, well he could have you should go up to the front and then just spin in a circle. It was actually Raven's idea. And then, yeah. And then it was like, Mandy. Did Glenn see?

Glenn, well, he could have. He could have. He wasn't there yet, but he did show up. Yeah. Glenn Powell was there. He was there. And then there was a lady that was screaming, that ran up to the front and was screaming with a sign

that then had to be escorted out of the theater. Yes, because there's a rodeo scene in Twisters and they don't like how they mistreat animals, which is true. So she ran up, but it was a long time of her yelling before anyone did anything. So it's just Glenn Powell,

Daisy Edgar Jones, kind of standing there looking like very nice. And I almost felt like I wanted to join her in the fight, but then I was like, I can't. I thought she was protesting for the Twisters. then I was like, I can't. Yeah. I thought she was protesting for the Twisters. Like, hey, they mistreated the Twisters. They're giving Twisters a bad name.

Yeah. No, that would have been awesome. That would have been crazy. Yeah. So anyways, Glenn Powell. Yeah. Yeah, Glenn Powell. That's awesome.

I just want to be Glenn Powell. Yeah, it's on, well, not unfortunately. It's on Mythical Society. Right. It won't be on the main channel or anything like that. But it's been fun so far, what we've done. That's great, man. Yeah. Well, sick.

Shall we get into internet school? I would love to. That's just what we're calling it. I don't know what we're, internet university, just internet lectures. Yeah. IU. IU. IU. Internet University Duluth. IUD. internet university just internet iu lectures yeah iu iu internet university duluth iud i was gonna say you get your that's awesome you get your interview

going in sucks going out also sucks duluth was the first city i thought of that started with d okay i'm gonna do a list here off the bat, Amanda. Okay. I'm going to list out a bunch of huge internet events, and I'm going to see how much of them you are aware of. I want you to be honest, because I think it's great if you don't,

because then we get to talk about it. Yes. Yeah. But these are some that we're not going to talk about today, but I just want to see if you're aware of them. I just want you to know also I'm a visual person, so sometimes you'll say something something and I might not know. You may not know.

Okay, that's fine. That's fine. Are you aware of Dramageddon? No, sir. Are you aware of Gamergate? I've heard about it. You've heard? Probably in this office.

Why do I feel like I'm on the stand right now? You've probably heard of Gamergate. I have. Ian has been talking about it a lot. It was a big deal, and we're in the gaming sphere, so people are aware of it. Do you know about Leroy Jenkins? This sounds really familiar.

Yeah? It actually genuinely does. Leroy Jenkins sounds familiar? It does sound familiar. Okay. That's a good one. Have you ever heard of the world record egg? No, 0%.

Wow. Do you know who Salt Bae is? Yeah, okay. You know Salt Bae. I do. We got a hint. Honey, I do. You know Salt Bae.

Do you know about the GameStop meme stalker? Is it when everything went to shit with that guy from GameStop? I think you might be sort of. Yeah, there's a guy who did the whole GameStop crazy thing where he's making a bunch of money and stuff like that. Okay, yeah. Is that kind of it? I think you're aware of it, yes.

Have you ever heard of West Elm Caleb? No. That was a cool one. No, sir. I'll cover that some other time. That one blew my mind. Okay. I'm sad we aren't getting into all of these.

These are all great ones. We could. We could. If we have time at the end, maybe we'll cover one of them. You have to have known about Kony 2012. No. You don't know Kony 2012? Oh my god.

If you show me a picture, maybe. No, I think Kony 2012. No. Okay. Dude, okay. But wait, wait, wait. I remember being in my eighth grade geography class and watching a Kony 2012 video. Wait a second.

Maybe, maybe if you show me the video. Okay, it's totally fine. No, it's totally fine. Okay. Okay. This one, Amanda, you will be such a fan. I can't wait. I don't think we could show the whole video.

We would do this on our TikTok or something where we'd show you this. Have you watched or are you aware of Rebecca Black's Friday? Of course. Okay, great. Friday, Friday, of course. There we go. 100%. Didn't her dad pay for that music video or something?

Probably. I know about that. My friend showed me that video before it blew up because we had a lot of friends who were like kind of in that sphere of music. We had a lot of friends who were in that sphere of music. We had a lot of friends who were trying to get in the music industry. That was a production company that a lot of people were in.

She showed me that video when it had 20,000 views. She was like, bro, watch this. I was like, oh my god, this is crazy. Then it became the biggest thing. You thought it was crazy good or crazy bad? It's bad. There's no defending it.

It's so bad. But I think Rebecca Black leveraged it so well. She owned it. And she has a remix of it that's a hit right now. Jesus. Yeah, she's crushing it. OK, have you ever heard of bronies? Like jabronies no okay bronies no no no do you know who do you know about damn daniel yes of course damn daniel with the shoes okay i. I know about this. Damn Daniel. I actually love Damn Daniel. Back at it again with his shoes.

I love Damn Daniel. Here's one that I do not think you will know, and I think you'll love it, is Don't Hug Me, I'm Scared. That's on my list. That's on your list? No. Amanda, you're going to love this shit so much. Awesome. You're going to be obsessed with this.

I can't wait to show you. All right. Those were some that I listed. Now we're going to get into some that I'm gonna tell you about. And even if you are aware of them, I think it'll be fun to talk about them again.

Can I go through my list really quick and see? I don't know, there might be some overlap. So mine are like very kind of a little bit more like YouTube. I feel like I have

a lot of YouTube web series on here. Okay. Okay, Salad Fingers. I know Salad Fingers. Okay, okay. I actually watched a lot of YouTube in college. Okay, all right. I hated Salad. I actually watched a lot of YouTube in college.

Okay, all right. I hated salad fingers and also couldn't stop watching it. I was never. The creepy little hands. I do a pretty good salad finger. The feeling of rust against my salad fingers is almost orgasmic. Wow, that's actually really good. Like it's 10 years ago when everyone was doing salad fingers impressions.

Loss? I don't think I know what this is. You guys don't know loss? No. Loss? Loss. No. Oh, man.

I don't know if I can explain loss. I don't know if I know this. Okay. We don't know if they get into loss. Happy tree friends? Yeah. No. No?

Okay. Charlie the unicorn? Yeah. No. Of course. Wow. You don't know Charlie the unicorn? I don't think I do. Like I said, visual. If I saw it, maybe? Okay. Charlie the Unicorn? Yeah. No. Of course. Wow. You don't know Charlie the Unicorn? I don't think I do.

Like I said, visual. If I saw it, maybe. Okay. There were like challenges that went around that were like very dangerous. Like people were dying from them. So there's like the cinnamon challenge. I know about the cinnamon challenge. Okay.

What about Tide Pods? People eating Tide Pods? I have heard about Tide Pods. Okay. What about the Benadryl challenge? I haven't heard about the Benadryl Challenge. That's a recent one. Kids are just eating a bunch of Benadryl.

Okay. Okay. Yeah. I feel like dumb shit like that has happened forever where it's just like, oh, how can I die? Yeah. No, literally. And then like...

No, literally. Anyways, I did it. Now Benadryl is gonna be behind a glass box like Tide Pods are. They are? Tide Pods are 100% behind light. And a lot of places they're behind glass because

people were doing dumb shit. The last one I had was like, are you familiar with what a creepypasta is? Oh, well, I am only because of Shane. We did an episode. Oh, you did an episode. And we're going to do another. Sorry, not a fan of the show. I need to get your recs. I need to get your creepypasta recs because we read a couple last year.

We're going to read more this year. Okay, no, there's some really good ones. Okay. Let's get into some of mine that I have that we can get into. Okay. Ready? And I think you'll probably be aware of some of these things, but we're going to talk about it regardless. Okay.

It'll be fun to go back memory lane. The first thing I want to talk about is a meme, but it's also a term used for people on the internet. And it is called milkshake duck. I know about this. You know about this? I know about this. Okay, you probably know about it because I brought it up a lot. Kiana brought it up.

Kiana brings it up. It's a term that's used. It's like someone becomes a milkshake duck, someone's milkshake ducked type of thing. It all stems from this tweet from 2016 by this account named Pixelated Boat, a really funny account. But they tweeted this joke, this is June 2016. They tweet, the whole internet loves milkshake duck.

A lovely duck that drinks milkshakes. Five seconds later, we regret to inform you the duck is racist. That is the whole joke. And the idea is that whenever someone becomes a viral sensation. They are basically canceled. They immediately get canceled because we discover all of their past. One of the most recent ones is, well, actually, what's crazy.

We'll go back even further. That was tweeted in June of 2016. Then October of 2016, Ken Bone, who I've talked about several times. Now I know about Ken Bone. He became instantly famous as this sweet, endearing, impartial guy who's undecided on the election. And then he did a Reddit AMA, and then people discovered his Redditdit history and it was crazy um he had a lot of questionable stuff but some other instances of this uh there was zoom cat lawyer in 2021 uh in 2021 when people were doing zoom meetings and stuff there was these lawyers that were that were uh talking It was probably over like a case or something. And he had a filter of a kitten over his camera.

And he's freaking out in the Zoom call. He's like, guys, I'm not a cat. I'm not a cat. He's freaking out. He doesn't know how to get the filter off. You know how you can have filters on Zoom? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Mr. Ponton, I believe you have a filter turned on in the video settings.

You might want to take a look. Steve, you have a filter turned on in the video settings. You might want to take a look. Can you hear me, Judge? I can hear you. I think it's a filter. It is, and I don't know how to remove it. I've got my assistant here. She's trying to, but I'm prepared to go forward with it. I'm here live. I'm not to go forward with it. I'm here live.

I'm not a cat. I can see that. It became huge. Everyone was like, this is so funny. And then within 24 hours, people learned, it came out that he had used federal agents to torment a former lover with drug raids

and bogus charges back in 2014. Oh my God. That's diabolical. It's crazy. Yes, so he became... So the universe purposely put the kitten on him. I think that kitten thing was there to expose him. Not only is it just like,

oh, he tweeted some crazy stuff. It's like, oh, you full-on were a psycho. Wait, you think a hacker did that on purpose? No, no, no, stuff. It's like, oh, you full on were a psycho. You think a hacker like did that on purpose? No, no, no, no. I think it was all an accident. But it shows like becoming super famous, you better not have dirt. Yeah.

Another one that I, this is probably one of the most play-by-play internet events that I was like there for. I was there all day for this. And you know about it, is Cinnamon Toast Shrimp Guy. Oh my god. I was there for every tweet. So first, he was a comedian

and a podcast host, minor following on Twitter. He posts this photo of him with the shrimp tails in his Cinnamon Toast Crunch. He's like, guys, I found shrimp in my Cinnamon Toast Crunch. What's the deal? It becomes huge. He's giving a whole thread of how he's trying to contact them. Their response was really bad.

This whole thing's playing out. People are just losing their minds over it. But what happened was it became huge, and then every person from his life and past came out being like, hey, this guy's just a huge liar and a piece of shit. Now it never got fully proven, from my research, it never got fully proven that there wasn't shrimp in the Cinnamon Toast Crunch, as much as just his character was just destroyed, because friends were like, or not friends, but people were like, he's awful,

and a lot of his exes came out being like, he's the worst human. And so within 24 hours, this all blows up, and then his social media is basically scrubbed. He has to leave the internet and everything, because people are... What is wrong? I mean, it's like they don't understand

that if they go out and do this crazy thing, well, I mean, he didn't know he was going to be viral. No, people were like, he just wants attention so bad. Yikes. This dude just wants attention. So it became questionable whether this was real or not. That was a crazy one because, you know, in the Mythical Kitchen, when that was all happening,

we're like, we gotta do a Cinnamon Toast Crunch Shrimp recipe. Funny. We gotta make, like, a recipe to be like, hey, actually, Cinnamon Toast Crunch Shrimp is good. And so we made a TikTok. Like, literally that day, I think we went out and got like, shrimp and Josh made something. Was it good?

Yeah. That's awesome. We make good food. That's so sick. Thank you. Yeah, it was good. Yeah. Did I tell you I met a chef YouTuber?

I don't think he'd mind me saying this because it was all joking. I met a chef YouTuber recently named Nick. He's a really great chef. Does awesome, awesome stuff. And I was talking to him about Mythical Kitchen. I was like, yeah, I know the Mythical Kitchen. They're the only chefs I know otherwise. He's like, yeah, man. He's like, they're crazy.

They're a crazy bunch. I was like, yeah, they. He's like, they're crazy. They're a crazy bunch. I was like, yeah, they are. Is it Nick DiGiovanni? Yeah. Yeah. No, Nick DiGiovanni's awesome. He's so cool. He's the sweetest guy and most sort of mild-mannered.

He came in and did a video with us, and I made a Beef Wellington for him, actually. That was the first ever Beef Wellington I made, fun fact. I've heard this story, I think. No, Gordon Ramsay. Oh, I this story, I think. No, Gordon Ramsay. Oh, I'm talking about Gordon Ramsay. Never mind. No, Nick DiGiovanni.

That was the first Beef Wellington I made. And yeah, he was just this kind of sheepish, just super nice guy. And then just being on camera with Josh, it was just the funniest thing. He almost won MasterChef. Yeah. Whoa.

Yeah, it was wild. It was cool to meet him. No, he's a great guy. But yeah, he was like, they're crazy. He was like, well, wild. It was cool to meet him. No, he's a great guy. But, yeah, he was like. Crazy bunch. He's like, they're crazy. Yeah. I was like, well, yeah.

Do you see yourself as crazy? Well, I think Josh is all the crazy for you guys. Yeah, and it, like, seeps over. I think, like, it's so funny because you get so many comments of people like, everyone's just morphing into Josh. I think we're all crazy, you know, in our own ways. But you guys are also comedy focused, which a lot of other chefs aren't. Yeah, but Josh is far and away the craziest. He's a psycho.

Yeah, he's a psycho. No, Josh is fully insane. He owns that fast. Yeah. Anyways, back to Milkshake Duck and viral people. Yes. Sometimes people go super viral and they aren't Milkshake Ducked. But what's also really interesting is when people go viral when they don't milkshake ducked. But what's also really interesting is when people go viral

when they don't even realize they're going viral or they didn't do anything themselves to go viral. Yeah. And the most recent one that you're definitely aware of is Hawk to a Girl. It's hard to avoid Hawk to a Girl. Hey, spit on that thing.

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She was not a person who was in the entertainment industry, not trying to become famous. Street interview, Just kind of says a quick thing, just like, yeah, Hak Tua spit on that thing. And everyone loves it. Referencing fellatio, of course. Becomes the hugest thing. She's now got a podcast. She's doing all sorts of shit. Talk Tua.

Stop. That's actually brilliant. It actually is. I think it's pretty smart. What are we gonna, what is she gonna talk about? Unclear. Hak Tua. That's actually brilliant. It actually is. I think it's pretty smart. What are we gonna, what is she gonna talk about? They, Unclear. Hawk Tua?

Anyways. Sounds awesome. So she's become huge for this small little tidbit of a thing. What's crazy is, this is not the first time this has happened. It's probably happened many times, but there is an instance that is even,

I think, wilder than this, and it happened 10 years ago. Basically, what happened was, there's this teenage dude working at Target. He is minding his business. He's working the checkout counter, just checking out someone's items.

And a teenage girl who thinks he's cute takes a photo of him without him realizing. Yeah. And in the photo, he's not even looking. Here's the photo. Looks like kind of Justin Bieber, you know, kind of vibe. He's so young.

His name tag says Alex. He's just a young 16-year-old dude. She posts this on Twitter just saying, yo, like, look at this cute guy, like, kind of thing. Oh, really? That's brave. I know. So she posts this on

twitter and that photo becomes insanely viral super huge and people find his account because they know that it's it's alex from target who's alex from target he becomes the biggest celebrity they find his twitter account he gets 650,000 followers within a week without having done anything without even knowing that a photo was taken and posted of him. Is it illegal to take a photo and post it? I guess not no. Okay.

Ethnically I do think it's strange I think that's a conversation there was a photo recently of a guy at an airport who had a huge backpack and someone posted it and that kind of went viral too. But it also is still the conversation of like, Hey, don't take photos of people without them. Yeah. Anyways.

So this goes so viral that within a week he is invited to go on the Ellen show. On Ellen. As Alex from Target. He goes on Ellen in just his kind of uniform from Target and he's just there and he's like, yeah, I'm Alex from Target.

That's what I do. I don't know what's going on. He becomes the biggest celebrity. Is insane. Alex from Target. How long ago was this? 10 years ago. Where is he now?

So, glad you asked that because I did some research. I did some research because I actually wasn't too familiar with Alex from Target. 2014, I wasn't super online now so glad you asked that because i did some research i did some research because i i actually wasn't too familiar with alex from target 2014 i wasn't super online uh at least not on twitter and this was just the biggest deal whoa um but he did an interview with people this year how have you not heard why haven't they talked to me about this? How have you not heard? Why haven't they checked in with their source, me? Oh my goodness.

So he talked about it. And what happened was, so he didn't know the photo was taken. I have a bunch of notes from this article. He didn't know the photo was taken. Within 24 hours, his number was leaked. Oh no. And his phone got blown up so much by people texting him, by messages. The phone went on fire.

That basically his phone, he's like, my phone basically stopped working. Like, it was just so insane. This is someone who's not, this is also 2014. Like, being a social media personality is not really as much of a thing. Yeah. Yeah. And he admits in the interview, he's like, I was not a very online person. You know, similar to Hawk Twitter.

Like, not an online person. Not really caring about that that and so he doesn't know what's happening to him he goes to ellen but uh at his school he's 16 there were like news outlets would be waiting outside of his school uh people started treating him obviously so differently that he eventually had to drop out of school and do homeschooling because it was so so insane. Oh my god. Oh, this is just bad. And he then, and I was thinking about this, because, you know, Hawk to a Girl doing all these things, and everyone's joking, like, oh, she's doing a podcast. But he's talking about how immediately,

he had so many people pressuring him, being like, you need to take advantage of this. If you don't take advantage of this, what are you doing? He's like, I don't want to. He's like, I hate this. He said he immediately hated just trying to be an entertainer. He's like, I don't want to. He's like, I hate this. He said he immediately hated just trying to be an entertainer. He's like, I'm not an entertainer. Yeah, don't force that on people.

But he had a management team suddenly, you know, because it was like, yeah, you've got all this stuff. Vultures. I need to do brand deals. I need to do all these things. And so I think he tried to do YouTube for like two years. He was trying to leverage this thing because he was being told to, but he said he hated it the whole time.

And then eventually he just was like, I'm done. I'm leaving it. I'm stopping. And he has no social media anymore. He deleted his Twitter account. In it he did say, he said this in the article, that he works at UPS now. So he's now Alex from UPS.

But he's a lot happier now, it seems. He seems like he's a chill dude who likes being off grid. Where's this chick who posted the photo? I don't know. It was also, I guess, it was said in the article that she, the person who posted on Twitter, wasn't the one who took the photo. Dude, that honestly is scary. It's all weird. That's scary.

I think it's weird behavior to post a photo of someone, to take a photo of someone without them knowing. And especially posted online, I think you're the weird person. I agree. I always think you're the weird one. I had a friend, because I remember this happening, and my friend TJ worked at Target, and then I went to Target, and I took a picture of him, and I tweeted TJ from Target as a joke.

I can't believe it. Not in an intent to go viral or anything. I just thought it was funny. I just can't believe it's just so funny, man. It's weird. That's a world I cannot understand. Like, I cannot understand why that photo makes people

go, whoa, and it's the biggest thing in the world. I know. Once something becomes popular, then people are just into it because it's what everybody's into. Once that avalanche starts, it's hard to stop it. But it is interesting. Wow. So that's some wild shit. But he didn't get milkshake ducked.

He did not get milkshake ducked. No. No. He was fine. He was clean because he was 16 for one. He also just didn't really have a presenceed. He did not get milkshake ducked. No, he was fine. He was clean because, well, he's 16 for one. He also just didn't really have a presence. Same with Hawk to a Girl. Just no internet presence to judge.

So it's just like, here's this brand new person on the internet. This is insane. Yeah. I would not want to blow up like that. I would not want to get my name like that. That must be. No. Working at Smosh, because when I worked on Disney,

I got recognized a little bit, but surprisingly not much at all. Smosh has been nice because it's been a very gradual. Yeah. You'll slowly, your numbers just slowly rise. For the first couple years at Smosh, I would see my numbers just. Yeah. And so I'm like, okay, I would see my numbers just... Yeah. And so I'm like, okay, I can lean into this as opposed to just... All at once?

Waking up one day and you have a million followers? Yeah. No. Especially if you never wanted to be in the entertainment industry. Exactly. Awful. Yeah. Okay.

So that was a Twitter thing. Here's another Twitter thing. And this is someone who basically milkshake ducked themselves. Canceled. This is another phenomenon is people basically sharing things they just shouldn't share. And canceling themselves. If you're very online on Twitter

it's also a very millennial meme I feel like. I don't know if you've heard of Bean Dad. Yeah. You've heard of Bean Dad? I'm gonna keep saying that sounds familiar because it's true. Okay. Bean Dad. Bean Dad is a very specific story, but people on Twitter will reference it a lot. So Bean Dad, basically there was this guy. He was in a band.

He's this older guy. He's a dad. He was a podcaster. He was kind of a podcaster, but he was in a band. So he had a minor following on Twitter. But he, one day, decides to post a thread on Twitter. And he wanted this to be like a charming, like learning story for people.

Like a story that people will read and go, oh, that's so cute. And he tells this story about how it was a rainy day and he was at home doing a puzzle. And his daughter, who's nine years old, was hungry and he said, oh, eat some beans. Eat a can of beans. And she goes, I don't know how to open it. And instead of teaching her, he wants her to figure out how to open the beans herself.

And here is the saga because I have the entire thread with us. Here's what gets me. Why are we spending our time on this? Okay. Because it's entertaining. Because it's awesome. Here we go. So it was a guy named John Roderick.

He had a verified account, so he was a cool name. Big deal. Okay. So yesterday my daughter, nine, was hungry and I was doing a jigsaw puzzle. So I said over my shoulder, make some baked beans. She said, how? Like all kids do when they want you to do it.

So I said, open a can and put it in a pot. She brought me the can and said, open it how? With a can opener, I said, incredulous. She brought me the can opener and we both stared at it. I realized I'd never taught her to use it. Most cans now have pull tops. Ew. She struggled for a while and with a big, dramatic sigh said, Will you please just open the can? Apocalypse Dad was overjoyed. A teaching moment just dropped in my lap. I said, The little device is designed to do one thing, open cans. Study the parts, study the can, figure out what the can opener inventor was thinking when they tried to solve this problem. The can opener is also a bottle opener, but I explained that part wasn't relevant.

I went back to my jigsaw puzzle. She was next to me grunting and groaning, trying to get the thing. The can opener is also a bottle opener, but I explained that part wasn't relevant. I went back to my jigsaw puzzle. She was next to me grunting and groaning, trying to get the thing. I should say that spatial orientation, process visualization, and order of operation are not things she dot dot dot intuits. She's nine. I knew this would be a challenge, but it was a rainy weekend. Eventually, she collapsed in a frustrated heap. I said, explain the parts. She said, this little wheel is meant to cut. These gears turn the wheel when you spin the handle. This other wheel looks like a gear, but isn't. She couldn't figure out

the clamping step, a key element. I said, the tool is made to be pleasing, but it doesn't have any... Hold on. This line is crazy. I said, She said, I hate you. Yeah, I'm with her. I'm with her. I'm sure she believes that she does. I said, She sighed. At this does. I said, you understand everything except how the tool addresses the can.

She sighed. At this point, she said, I don't want baked beans and marched off. Apocalypse Dad went into full The Road mode. Sweetheart, neither of us will eat another bite today until we get into this can of beans. She screamed, ah, like Lucy Van Pelt. She read a book for a while. Soon she was back at the can. The top was all dented now. The lip of the can

practically serrated from failed attempts. We studied the tool some more. She really wanted it to be oriented up and down or across the top of the can. The sideways orientation is very counterintuitive. She was fixated on orienting the tool in a few configurations and couldn't imagine other possibilities.

I compared the can opener to other tools. By now we were working on anger management and perseverance too. She suggested she opened the can with a hammer. There were tears. Okay. Next part. I am sick. I know.

I can't wait to treat my child like this. Stop. I told her stories of some of the great cans I'd opened over the years. She rolled her eyes. We talked about industrial design and what a funny little device the opener is. I showed how I opened cans with a buck knife. I rhapsodized about cold SpaghettiOs straight from the can. Eventually, she had it all figured out.

She had the placement of the tool. She could turn the handle and the can would spin. We were down on the floor by this point, but the kachunk of puncturing the lid still eluded us. We'd been at it for six hours on and off. We were hungry. I'd been tempted many times along the way to guide her hand. I wanted her to experience the magnificence of the can opener so much I couldn't stand the suspense. Neither of us liked baked beans that much.

The cupboards are bare, so it seemed like a paltry reward for this work. I'd forgotten how finicky the tool really is, particularly when it comes to the puncture. She had it all lined up, but the cutting wheel is a little wobbly by design, and you have to really get on top of it to clamp it

down. You know the feeling? You can misfire the damn thing. Finally, she squeezed down on it, and although it was a misfire, a light went off in her head. Many times throughout the day, she'd yelled at me, My brain is fuzzy. I can't think of anything else to try. And I'd say, When your brain doesn't work,

trust your hands. She felt the tool click over the lip of the can. I saw it in her hands. By this point, she'd developed a little ritual of addressing the tool click over the lip of the can i saw it in her hands by this point she developed a little ritual of addressing the tool to the can starting with it in a vertical axis and rotating it to the horizontal while clamping down in a single motion a choreography she looked at me expectantly excitedly after six hours of trying you don't want to express too much hope was this another blind alley the can had been through hell, label ripped off,

dented, sharpened, and burned. A veteran of a thousand psychic wars, she knew though. She set up again, carefully, and brought the swing away to bear on the can of S&W baked beans with the meticulousness of Roger Moore extracting a detonator from

an ICBM in The Spy Who Loved Me. A soft pop resounded in the room, so different from all the other sounds we'd made. She didn't look up. She knew the action. A little baked bean sauce appeared. She savored each twist until the lid, as I hoped it would, rewarded her by standing perfectly at attention, saluting her effort and ingenuity. She was elated and carried it to the kitchen in both hands. She knew this was a commonplace task and a common tool, but also that this was serious business. She knows her dad and the stock I put in these things. A more

mechanically inclined kid might have figured it out in minutes. She factored the scale, but was rightfully proud. I'm proud of her too. I know I'm infuriating. I know this is parenting theater in some ways. I suffer from a lack of perseverance myself. And like all parents throughout history, I'm trying to correct my own mistakes in the way I educate my child. She sees through this. The swing away can opener is a little voodoo doll for us now.

It will reappear as an allegory many more times in her life, you can be sure. She knows this too, but this is an allegory of triumph. I wish I had more of those for myself. I wish I had more stories like this. The only problem is now she wants to open every fucking can in the house and that's

Bean Dad. Isn't that insane? I never ever needed to experience that. Ever. So naturally the response to this is you're a psycho you need to that was all of twitter you need to lose crazy your child needs to be taken immediately from your hands oh my what a psycho also clearly wants to be a writer and thinks he's like a writer and it's like, dude, you're a psycho.

A lot of it is just how he writes it. No, him being like, like, uh, uh, she was, she was trying to open this can with the meticulousness of Roger Moore, extracting a detonator from the ICBM and the spy who loved me.

I'm like, dude, stop, just stop. You know, also he didn't say half of that shit to her, you know, it just like,

he was probably just like figured out. Like I can't, I don't to her. You know, just like he was probably just like, figure it out. Like, I don't have time. Like, all this shit that he's saying, like, this is what I said to her, and this is how she responded. Like, there's no way. Yeah, exactly. It's the line. It's, hold on. There's the line that's absolutely, fully insane.

I hate this guy so much. Which is, the tool was made to be pleasing. Like, it's like, what are you saying, man? Uh, he wants to be a writer. He's not. He said that he said this to his nine year old daughter.

The tool is made to be pleasing, but it doesn't have any superfluous qualities. Everything that moves does so for a reason. It's so nine year old me would have been like, what? I would have packed a backpack, got my sheet, tied it over the window and been like what i would have packed a backpack got my sheet tied it over the window and been like fuck off now i should say he doubled down on this shit like so what happened to him so

ultimately he deleted his twitter account he had to he had to fucking go he he had to leave because everyone was on everyone yeah he's bean dad he's Dad. Yeah. He is known to this day as Bean Dad. It's been years, and people still talk about Bean Dad. Do we have an update on where he is now? I don't know. He's gone. I can't wait for one day when my child accidentally cuts themselves. I don't want to be playing Fortnite and be like, there's a needle and thread in the drawer.

Figure it out, buddy. You've got to learn how to sew it back yourself. You've got to learn how to sew it. Daddy's got to get a Vic Roy. No, the amount of memes that came about were crazy. But, yeah. Did anyone in his life, like, come out and say anything? Like, the wife or the ex-wife or ex-husband?

I don't think so. I think naturally he also did get milkshake ducked. There were old tweets of his that were pretty offensive that surfaced. So that just kind of further, not that people needed it, but it was just, you don't see it much anymore. I think people are far more cautious on Twitter. But this was probably the last instance of someone really tweeting out a whole story that just makes him look bad. I think he probably thought a manager was like, wow, do you see the writings of this man? We need to get him a book deal.

He really thought he was the most charming man. Because wasn't Twilight written in a chat forum? Didn't she write Stephanie Meyer? You're thinking of, isn't that E.L. James Fifty Shades of Grey oh Fifty Shades was a fan fiction of Twilight

yeah and then she reworked it to make Fifty Shades of Grey and also Sarah J. Moss Throne of Glass I think was like written online

I'm so deep in that book series Shane told me to read Court of Thorns and Roses and I was like alright and I did and now I'm addicted I don't want to sleep I just want to read it imagine just like abusing your child

for six hours and then being like alright let me grab my thesaurus and head to Twitter that's actually true literally insane so why are your cabinets bare man get some food it's so funny though like it's such a specific type of agonizing that this guy and he wasn't working he was working

on a jigsaw he was doing a jigsaw puzzle he's like he's like i could tell this was gonna take a lot of time but it's a rainy weekend i'm like he's like the guy in saw who rolls out on a fucking wheelchair and he's like her shaw i mean it's like the whole point Saw who rolls out on a fucking wheelchair, and he's like, her Shaw. I mean, it's like the whole point is to be like, hey, let me teach you how to do this. Let me show you how. It's like, let me show you how, and then you do it yourself. Right?

That's fair. I actually can't. In the smallest way, I can't stand when men do that. My uncle, I love him so much, but we were playing backgammon, and he's like, ask the question. Like when I would play the next round, me and my husband were playing, and he was right next to me, and I was like, I want to get the next role.

And he goes, ask yourself the question. And I was like, I don't know what the question is. He's like, ask the question about where your next role should be. And he kept saying it the whole day. My sister was like, hey, we need more burgers on the grill. He was like, ask the question. And she's like, we need more burgers

because we're hungry, bro. So like, dudes like that, if they stepped one second into my family, they would be annihilated. I think people like that, because you meet people like that who are so smug, and you can tell that they think that what they're saying is like a movie moment. Exactly.

I'm saying the thing that you're going to remember forever. Exactly. I'm saying the thing to you right now that 20 years from now you're going to go, a wise man once said, ask the question. Ask the question. And I thought, yeah. Ask the question. I'll never forget when my dad said, the device is pleasing by nature, but superfluous by design.

He never even said that. He was like, please, Amy, please just open it. I love that he wrote it. She said, I hate you. She said, I hate you. Yeah, I think you were speaking to her. Understandably so. Honestly, the one thing that I was really excited to do

was Don't Hug Me, I'm Scared. So if you want to talk about that, or I'd love to do Kony 2012. I think that's so funny. I can't believe you don't know Kony 2012. That's one that like I feel like we can do Kony 2012. Yeah. We can talk about Kony 2012.

I'll save. I will say. I'll pull up some quick things. We're clearly going to do this again. The last one that I had and we'll see if you know it or not. Are you aware of Dashcon? No. Okay.

We have that for another time. Nope. Kony 2012. Is there a picture? Any reference? It's not about a picture. I mean, I could. Well, it was a short film, basically. Yeah.

Okay, so go ahead. Launch into it. Okay, so I'll just read the Wikipedia cliff note right here. Okay, so Kony 2012 is a 2012 American short documentary film produced by Invisible Children. The film's purpose was to make Ugandan cult leader, war criminal, and ICC fugitive Joseph Kony globally known so as to have him arrested by the end of 2012. So the whole thing was like there's this really terrible person. He's like, you know, like he's creating a child army. Like we have to stop him.

Kony 2012. We need him arrested. Like that was the whole thing. And it went very big. I mean, especially in, you know, the conservative Christian circles. Like I was learning about it in school. It wasn't just conservative circles. It was every circle.

Okay. I didn't know how big it was outside of that. It was a thing that really nobody was against. It was like, hey, this guy's using child soldiers. It was like, everyone's like, oh my God, I didn't know about this. And it was like, yeah. And the documentary was so like emotionally gripping. I will say this 30 minutes was intense.

My friend was like, have you heard about Kony 2012? And I was like, what is this? And she shows it to me, and she's like, oh my god, we gotta do something about this. Wait, the child soldiers in Uganda, right? I don't know where it was. Yeah, he was Ugandan. Because this, the child soldiers do sound familiar, but I don't know what this is. It is a real thing. That is a real thing. That is a real thing. The thing is not with

Kony. The thing is with this campaign. This campaign is huge, and it's just like we gotta make him the most famous person, and so everyone is donating to Kony 2012. Everyone's getting these packs of things and merch of Kony 2012.

It's so huge. It's everyone's main focus. Like, global warming is out the window. It's Kony 2012. Now, the issue that starts to arise is, okay, we're going to make him famous. Then what? What do we do?

There's also questions of if Kony's even alive. Because he hasn't been seen in years. So you're donating to who? This campaign. This guy who's American. This white dude in America. Yeah. Right?

The campaign, I think, probably got a little bit out of hand from what he was expecting. It culminates, and the end of this whole campaign is when he gets arrested in San Diego because he is on the streets naked jacking off. Yes, I caught it. High on cocaine. Partially sad, but also this was all clearly not thought out, this whole campaign. But I'm telling you, Kony 2012 was the thing in 2012. Why are you laughing so hard? Just because it was so insane.

And imagine me as a 12-year-old being in school watching this documentary being like, this is huge. And we're having fundraisers in our school. We're doing things. And then as a 12-year-old to be like, this guy got caught naked jacking on his feet. And we have all my teachers backpedaling this thing.

And we're like, no, it's okay. He had a moment and he's repented and he's going back and there was just this moment of weakness. But the ultimate problem was nobody knows, where did the money go? Like, what was it? Nothing happened. Like, that's the issue. Everyone, everyone

in, I think everyone can agree that child soldiers are bad. Selena spent $10 on a bracelet. Sounds like you lucked out. Sounds like people spent a lot. I'm telling you, it was hard to find people who weren't invested in this. So we never, ever had this in our school. The biggest thing we had in our school was Livestrong bracelets, which-

Those were big, too. Which got fucked over. But we- Yeah. If we had Kony 20- And my mom was a teacher. I had never- I don't think our school-

It maybe didn't- Reached us? Not every sphere, but it was big amongst my friends. Unless I forget it completely. It was huge, man. How old were you?. Unless I forget it completely. It was huge. How old were you? I was. You said 14?

I was 12. I mean, I was 12. I was like 21. I was like 21. 12 and 21? Yeah. Let's see. A baby.

Yeah, because I'm like nine years older than you. Okay. So if you were 21, then I was definitely not in school. Yeah. We're still best friends. But it was wild, man. It was huge still best friends um but uh god but it was it was wild man it was huge it was so big that i remember it was kind of funny because for the years leading up to that i fun fact i was actually kind of obsessed with the whole mayan calendar

ending in 2012 yeah it was like the end of the world 2012 and i was like what if it's the end of the world and coney 2012 kind of just like we were all like i don't give a shit if it's the end of the world we gotta we gotta make coney famous like, we were all like, I don't give a shit if it's the end of the world. We got to make Kony famous. That was, it was everything. So the point was to make him famous so he would get exposed. So where did the money go? I don't know. We don't know.

I mean. I don't actually know. That's like the crazy thing, though, is it's like from the beginning, it's sort of like if you want to take down, you know, this Ugandan warlord making a child army. Like, yeah, you can raise a ton of of money but how do you actually go get him where's the money it brought up you send in an assassin like what like do you just pay for an assassin yeah like it's it's so funny from the get-go and it's also like the thing of like we're gonna make him famous i'm like i'm pretty sure the international, I'm pretty sure countries know who he is. It's not like the American government didn't know who he was. So what happened to this guy after he had a psychotic break?

I actually don't know. That's kind of where it ended. Like, truthfully, it kind of fizzled out. It was actually one of those situations where it was the biggest thing, everyone's all in, and then suddenly we're all like, we were never into it, and we're going to pretend like that never happened. But it raised millions of dollars.

Oh, tens of millions. Insane amounts of money. Do we have a number on how much it probably raised? $12.6 million. And we don't know where that money... Trevor and I don't know. Yeah, I'm sure someone knows.

Look at your Wikipedia. I'm just kidding. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. So isn't this insane when a whole thing sweeps over the country and we're all in? So is this guy, Kony, still alive? Do we know anything about him?

I don't know. I don't personally know um and i will say also like sadly uh he's one of many horrible oh yeah people out in the world so but it was just more the phenomenon in america it was more the like societal uh obsession with it like we were all so in riveted by it and then suddenly it was like like, oh, yeah, this campaign's a little sketchy. That's what's tricky about documentaries because they can be extremely biased. Yes.

Extremely biased. It's important when you watch a documentary to also kind of... Right, right. Because a documentary by nature is a persuasive essay and you have to kind of be like, all right, what are the facts?

And then music that they're putting in the background, all right, what are the facts? And then music like that, they're putting in the background, the score, the way they're filming it, the like lighting, those things affect you psychologically. And the Coney 30 minute documentary is so like truly it's really well made because you watch it and it's hard not to be like,

Oh my God. So it looks like invisible children, the people that made the documentary invested 13.7 million dollars um to their on-the-ground programs in central and east africa um so yeah just kind of like to help like um i don't know like anti-war efforts okay so it did get invested well that's good news yeah good news is that it did go to hopefully a good cause, but the internet aspect of it was this guy who was running it. Because he was the one voicing over the campaign. He was the one who kind of like...

Can I see what he looks like? I'm just going to look up Kony2012guy. Yeah, Kony2012, dude. This is him! That's even funnier. I feel like if you shaved your face and made that little face, you could kind of look like him a little bit. I would play him in the dark.

It was wild, man. Now imagine that guy just like, and he's like, yeah. He's jacking off in the street. Naked. It's crazy. It's so funny. Why is it when celebrity men have breakdowns, they always go naked through the street?

It was wild. Like, I didn't prepare stuff for Kony 2012. I didn't do my research on it, but I remember that was like that year. Yeah. Yeah. Did they ever get him? Oh yeah.

Here's the, Oh, so rough, man. I mean, you have to be at a, you really have to have a psychotic break when you go outside. Like that's when it gets to the place where it's like,

how much was he holding onto his shoulders? How much was actually going on? Whether he ignited it or not, that's too much for one person. I got the video. Do you guys want to watch it? Well, I don't know if we can show the video. Maybe later. It's just for me.

You're just going to watch the video? Okay. Okay, lastly, before we go, before we go, Amanda, do you know about Mudang? No. You don't know about Mudang? What? Come on.

See, here at Smosh, we have our finger on the pulse. We know about Mudang. Mudang is happening right now. Mudang is happening currently right now. He's a little baby hippo. Mudeng's a baby hippo. Oh, baby. And seems to be just a rambunctious little rascal.

Oh, baby. Just a sweet little baby hippo. That's all. That's it. So he's in a zoo? Well, yeah. But he's always biting people or getting sprayed with water. It's awesome.

Good. You should bite people so you can get out of that zoo. Yeah. Free Mudeng mood you know how i feel i don't know if that works actually did you just say tits out for mood dang listen i said it and i i i regret it everybody tits out for me guys he's a baby guys dicks out for Moudang. And Kony2012, go donate. We're reviving. I can't handle this. He's still out there.

God dang it. Guys, open up a can of beans. I hate that dad so much. All right. Sounds like we need a part two of this. Oh, we have so many. We didn't get to DashCon, which I have a bunch of research on. And what's the other one?

Don't hug me, I'm scared. Don't hug me, I'm scared. I don't know how we... That wouldn't be tough because there's a lot of videos. We just got to show you. We'll offline about that. Okay. Let's offline about that.

We'll offline about that. My favorite thing to do. Okay. Thank you guys for watching. We'll see you later. Thanks, Trevor, for joining us as always. Thank you for having me. This is awesome. I love this shit that's great this is great great alright bye guys

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