Smosh Mouth - #92 - Reviewing Our IMDb Pages

Episode Date: May 5, 2025

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So we've already announced that I'm pregnant on the last episode. Woo! On the subreddits you announced it? Yeah. So you say I'm pregnant and then you read Long Island subreddit? Uh-huh. Hi, welcome to Smosh Mouth. I'm Shane.

Hi, I'm Amanda. And we have a very special guest with us today. Angela Giratani. Tana? Giratana. You know my last name. Giratana. Giratana. Is that right? Giratani. Giratani. No.? You know my last name. Giratana. Giratana.

Is that right? Ghirardelli. Ghirardelli. No. How do you say it? Guys, I'm nervous for this. Yeah? We've done a lot of things on Smosh that's vulnerable.

This. This is one of them. Yeah. Today we are diving into our IMDBs, which if you're not familiar with IMDb, it's just a list of all of our acting credits. A little like LinkedIn, but for actors in a sense that anything you've ever touched, they could put on there. Yeah. And list it in an official way. And you might not have any say of what's put on there.

You might not have any say of what's written on there, too. That's true. It's kind of like Wikipedia where people go and they can do stuff. So there might be stuff that's inaccurate. We'll correct it here. Are you okay? You're looking around a lot. You're looking at the set? I haven't been on the new set.

Have you not been on the new set? This is crazy, Shane. It's been a long time since you've been on, huh? Yeah, it's been a hot second. This is crazy. Harambe. Look at that. That is crazy.

What's weird is, yeah, every time behind Shane, there is an R.I.P. grave in the pool behind him. Never forget. Literally never forget. I can't believe it's been that long. Yeah. Wow. Well, welcome back. But thank you so much. Yeah. Anyway, I wasn't believe it's been that long. Yeah. Wow. Well, welcome back. But thank you so much. Yeah, anyway, I wasn't trying to change the subject or anything. But you're really nervous about looking at your acting credits. I think this is

like, I don't know, for like people who aren't in this industry, I'd say that like early on, you kind of want to say yes to just anything and everything. Always. And that's like how you get your foot in the door. And so having like a roster of every single thing you've ever done sometimes is pretty it's it's and during the pandemic me and my

friends made some wild weird stuff just to just feel something and then you put it on imdb my friends would put it on imdb so you have like a lot of credits yeah but then at some point it's just like it's like an underwear drawer where it's like, it's accumulating some like weird shit. It's like, remember when you would do acting class and they're like, guys get in student films to make your reel. And you were like,

absolutely. A terrible. And then people find it and you're like, I don't know, man. I don't know, man. I know.

I know. But that's, that's kind of how it goes I mean when you start It's so hard To find any work That When work comes your way

You're like yeah You gotta do it And a real is your life You also wanna practice Yeah You know like you don't It's like That's what makes it such a weird job

Is it's a job where like You don't get to do your job When you want to You need permission to do it Yeah Like as an artist You you have to be granted, like how a guitarist could just pick up a guitar and play guitar.

Like you can't, I mean, you can pick up a monologue and do it, but like you need to be given the permission. What also, we're kind of of the last era, I think of actors before like social media is what it is now where, yeah, you can now make content online so easily, right? Like Tik TOK,

YouTube, Instagram, you can be making sketches, you can be making shorts, just putting them out there. When I first started acting, there was no means of putting anything out there. You had to hope that someone was making something and you got on board with

it. A hundred percent. Whereas nowadays, yeah, like we're making stuff all the time. I could go home and make a short film in my home tonight. Yeah. I mean,

I think actors are still kind of doing it, but we're kind of phasing out of it where like actors have a website where it lists all their credits and stuff and then their IMDB. Yeah. And now it's kind of like your socials. Your social media kind of has replaced it. And resumes aren't really a big thing. Like there are so many things that aren't big anymore.

Like postcards, bringing your headshot and resume staples to the back. That doesn't really exist anymore. I went in for a musical, I want to say like a year and a half ago. Oh, they asked for that. And someone was like, you have to print your headshot and resume. And I was like, what are we in the 50s? Yeah. Theater, definitely with like theater shit.

I feel like they still do that. Yeah. Oh, 100%. You have to have it printed out. Funny. And then your resume is just like things you list. It's just so funny because our digital footprint now is a bigger, even if you're not an online person,

I think that's a bigger indication of what you do. And so now they have these like sites where agents and all that and casting directors go to these sites and you already have everything there. You have like your measurements, your face clips, resume. That's still a thing. There's also a bio that I don't know who cultivates the bio,

but we'll get into it because they're funny. Yeah. Oh, for IMDb. Yeah. Oh God. It's got all of our facts and everything. It's kind of like we're going through like old lockers that we haven't opened.

Like, you know what I mean? They're just like old fashioned and they're I guess first what we should do is Oh yeah, I did not write this. We should go through and make sure that all the information is correct.

Should we? My bio, Shane Topp was born on 14 September 1991 in Florida, USA. He is an actor and writer known for Dear Lemon Lima The Big What If, which was a 1991 in Florida, USA. He is an actor and writer known for Dear Lemon Lima, The Big What If, which was a series we did back in 2016 on Smosh, and Every Blank Ever.

Every Blank Ever. Yeah, I know that series. I know that series. So you're at a party, right? And you're like, oh, what's your name? And you're like, I know that guy. What's that guy from? And you Google him and you go, oh, he's from Lemon Lima. Alright, guys. Dude.

Someone did something diabolical. Did they go into your bio? Born September 14th, 1991. Height, five, two and a half. That's not true. Someone said that I am 5'2 and a half Yeah Hey bud

There's plenty of pay There's nothing wrong with that Shakira's 4'11 You're right there There's nothing wrong with that It's just not true I don't like that That misinformation is out there

You don't tell lies here So how tall are you? I'm not 5'2 and a half Can I guess how tall you are? Maybe I shouldn't You know how tall I am Do I? Yeah 5'2.5. Can I guess how tall you are? Maybe I shouldn't. You know how tall I am. Do I? Yeah. 5'8. 5'9. I think I'm somewhere between 5'7 and 5'8.

I was going to say 5'8. I didn't know exactly how tall you were. How tall are you? 6 feet. And they got that right. Let me tell you that. They wrote 6 feet. 1.3. They wrote it in all caps. 6 feet. Huge bitch. Huge. just says all it says next to height huge bitch saying i'm represented by i'm a huge bitch

okay wow let me see my bio read your bio because mine only says mini bio. Is there a larger bio that I'm supposed to be aware of? I also have trivia. Shut up. This website is crazy. You have trivia? I want trivia. That's the thing about IMDb, guys, is you don't add anything to it. It gets added for you. I want trivia.

Okay, now I'm jealous. Sorry. I'll read my mini bio. A man in Leehancanto is known for reopening which is a full improvised movie that i did whoa smosh yeah it was okay really fun that's cool i was at the groundlings and i played a stage director okay and uh she was a hoot and uh and bigfoot famous which is a movie that Steph did. Okay. She has been married to Gara Zay Petapetchka since May 4th, 2023. Is that correct, the date?

Yeah, that is correct. There you go. That's a little wild. And then My Only Family is My Spouse. Thank God. That's your only family. And thank God. Keep it clean like that.

Keep it clean. Angela Gerritana was born October 1st, 1993 in Santa Clara. That's not true. Okay, that's good. She is known for Minx, ABC, Discovers, and Maggie. We'll get into all of these. Look at that. All right.

Maggie. And we're off to the fucking races. And we're off to the races. Also, and then you go and you scroll lower and it goes, other people that have clicked on her. And then you see like Courtney. You see, this website is weird, man. It's like a weird Google.

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Support the show by mentioning us at checkout. Terms and conditions apply. All right, back to the show. Let's go. Beginning at the beginning. Let's go all the way to the beginning. What was everyone's first job they ever did? Like, first official project.

This is vulnerable. But here's the thing. I know this isn't my first job. What do you mean? It's like, what's listed? Oh, that's okay. If it's not on there, then... I've done...

I noticed that something that I did isn't on here, and I'm kind of shocked. Same. Like, there was stuff that I did that was before this. But I guess mine was a... It was a TV miniseries, and I know fans know about it because they've been commenting about it recently 2016 uh i was just in this guy's series

super sweet guy it's called lonely together okay and it was it was really fun but i remember it being like a very big it's a very big acting thing like it was like his face, my face, his face, my face. Wow. And it was short? I think it was a short. I haven't re-watched it in forever. I haven't watched a lot of stuff. But I remember really enjoying it.

How long after you had moved out here did you get that? I think that was like three years. Because I was doing student films and people shorts like right when i got out here i did that and then i met steph and we did vine like a year and a half in cool to being here and that's what i was doing a lot i was doing a lot of vine and a lot of instagram videos and then youtube stuff and then from, that's where this guy found me. That's cool.

And then we did Lonely together. What was your first, what was your first student film or short film? Like how soon, like you moved out here and like, how soon did you do a project? Do you know what I mean? No,

I talked about this one. Okay. I did a student film and it was literally, it was, it was the scene from Erin Brockovich. Right. Oh my God. Oh my God.

Wait, I have to see it. Remember, someone found the footage and I cannot bring myself to watch it because it was such a weird experience for me. Wait, is it the one where she's doing the monologue and she's like... It's the one where she's like, their boobs, Ed, or whatever. Oh, that one. And she's going around. I think she might be doing the monologue. I can't remember which scene.

We have to do Erin Brockovich sometime. I love Erin Brockovich. It's my favorite. It's so good. But here's the thing. And I learned this the hard way. The student, I was like, he wasn't giving me enough enough direction and I had already been working with Steph forever and we were always directing each other so I like kind of got in trouble

because I'm like an actor and I came on the student film and it's in the college and they have like a whole setup and there was an older professor like over watching the whole thing and this guy is like really really shy really awkward he's like uh okay uh not gonna and I was like do you want me to sit over here because I can just sit over here and I'll probably like play with the files and I'll probably like grab the files and if I could like I'll be a little bit rude here and the professor was this older guy who was like super LA he was like hey can I talk to you for a second? No. Yeah. No, yeah. And I was, I was brand new to LA and I was like,

yeah, sure. What's up? Like thinking we were going to collab and he was like, don't give the director notes ever. This is not your project.

And I remember being like, and I was like, that's. And then you turned into Erin Brockovich what the boobs and I became Aaron Brockovich that's a while

but I remember that was like my first like no and and I will say it definitely I definitely have were on was on set like yes ma'am for like a few years. But it's hard.

It's hard when you're making your own videos a bunch because you're constantly directing each other. You're like, oh, do this, do this. You're like, oh, I know exactly your vision. Here, let me work on this. But then it was just like, but I get it. He's a professor. It's truly like one of those things where you only, the more you're on set, the more you understand the line of the chain of command and stuff and if you aren't you can like i used to do early i used to like with my best friend she was a production designer and i think i've talked about this i used to like

um be her second and assist her a lot and it was so obvious to me the people who hadn't been like and we would just do like short films a lot most of the time yeah and and you would see like people who don't know kind of what to do. Yeah. And I was that as well. And the only way to do it is still keep going and showing up. You have to keep doing it. But it was like an actor would ask me like, where's the, like, can I, where can I get

a water? Or like, and I was like, oh, that's not my department. You know what I mean? And being like, oh, you learn like kind of each department who talks to who. But it's when you're young, you're like, I don't know't know especially when you're doing short films most of the time it's like but it was like so not the right thing for me to do and did i learn that lesson early and it was like oh yeah of course yeah a fucking actor's like oh yeah i'll just do this and you just and of course like the director you that's the thing is you can only learn that shit by doing it by doing it and being

on set and having those weird moments it's why um i feel like i see this pattern where when people come out and they become like overnight successes very quickly they're often the ones who are like i hear are awful to work with right because they come out here and they don't learn anything whereas like the steve carells of the world you only hear that they're the nicest, but he was acting for like 20 years or so before he even started working a lot. Or it's like, I don't know. Some of my favorite people are all started out as PAs. Yeah. And I used to PA because I was just obsessed with like being around it and seeing it. That's smart, Angela. No, but it's hard and you get paid fucking nothing but you see i think it's so smart as an actor to like see everything that's going on and you're

not an actor you're just on set because on set is a totally different vibe especially like when you go to school for theater like i was like i had no idea what a dp does when i was like all i was working on was like my freakingicking body awareness. You know what I mean? It's like so different. Being in your body and monologues. Yeah. Yeah. No, it's so true.

And like when you start acting, you start, you think about it like it's going to be on stage and you watch movies and you're like, oh wow, I could do this. But then you don't, you forget that like when you're on set, you're delivering your lines to a piece of tape on the side of a camera. You're not actually delivering your lines to another person and you're delivering your lines to a piece of tape on the side of a camera. You're not actually delivering your lines to another person. And you're just kind of taking like pieces of a line and saying it. You're not getting to like perform. You're kind of just doing these weird.

Your direction is hitting your mark in the exact part of the camera. Turn your body a little bit. Wardrobe's at you. Makeup's coming in. And then you deliver your line. All right, moving on. But then here's my thing is because if we're going back to the beginning of our filmography here there's indie filmmaking which is so so different especially in the hands of young 20 year olds

and you are doing everything oh yeah you are like i i have so many stories so many short films I've done where it's like, you're using someone's house and they go, you can't use our trash bins. So you have everyone's crafty and you have to put the trash in your car. And then you got to drive somewhere that says, do not dump. And you got to dump and you got to run for your life because you have all this trash. Like, it's just like little things that people don't realize where you're like oh yeah like the amount of times i said i would run sound and i was like and the only thing i had to do was listen to see yeah i'm like it was just like oh this is blah blah kit and just make sure you don't hear anything so you'd be like i think i heard a plane which is crazy take that again you don't know if you're peeking. You don't know. It's huge.

And then we would just like all drop the cards to the one guy who knows how to do everything and be like, here you go. And they're like, thanks. And you're like, okay. And it's been 18 hours, like a 30 minute break and all the fucking crafty is bread. The amount of times I did production design and sound at the same time and I would hold the moon and be like, I don't know if I'm getting it. Yep. That's so funny.

And there's like there's just so many hours of that. It's always a journey. Every single film is a trash fire at some point. There's never an indie film that doesn't have It's not smooth, really, ever. It's insane every time. Yeah, and we're talking about like, I think some point yeah like there's never an indie film that doesn't have like smooth really no it's

insane every time yeah and we're talking about like i think with indie films it's like sure it's like we're not talking about marvel movies but we're also talking about like like student films like people who are like okay i have a budget of a hundred dollars or i want to make this for fun or it is kind of when i hear like like young YouTubers and creators, it is the closest thing that I go, oh, I remember like when I would do everything with my friends. And that is kind of the medium. Yeah. It's also super satisfying to like do everything, edit it all, and then put it together. And you're like, holy shit, we did this for like less than 100 bucks.

Right. But you work, but you do so much and then when you finally if you are lucky enough to get to a set and you're like it takes a village oh my god run this one scene yeah and everyone has specific jobs and you're like whoa you're like hey i've i've held the boom before what's up and there's like nothing like when you do your first short or you do shorts and then you watch it in the edit and you go, what? Yeah. What is that? It's really hard.

Yeah. What was your first project? Like, that wasn't just like, oh, I'm making this with some friends. Do you remember the first one you went on? I was like a, when I was like 12, I was like an iMovie girly. And I was doing a bunch of stuff on iMovie. So it's hard to find what's my first thing. What was the first thing you auditioned for and got?

Whoa. Oh, that's a good one. That's kind of like, you know, because yeah, I think most actors do make a bunch of stuff with friends. What's the first thing I auditioned for and got? Is that not on your IMDb? When did you start auditioning? When did you start... I started...

Oh, yeah, my first... This is actually kind of lame. Okay, here are the first two. That's funny. I auditioned. I started auditioning. I did an audition before I went to UCLA. I like had met a casting director through my mom's church. Awesome.

Hell yeah. Awesome. And I was like, hi. And I was about to go to UCLA. And she was just being sweet and being nice. And she was just like, and I was just asking her questions. And I emailed her and I asked her to get coffee. And this was like before I was like really knew anything.

You're like 14. I'm like truly like 17 being like, uh- uh-huh wow it's so nice to meet you and i must have just been so fucking annoying that she was like i'll send her out for one thing and that was my two broke girls hipster number two i mean i think she didn't just send you out for one thing she was probably sending you out no that was it was one thing and i had to and i remember like printing out the sides and i had to say vagina and i was like oh my god this is crazy um and then i got sag eligible from that but then that was like it's never like that because then after that it was a dark dark hole i my next credit which was my next audition that I remember.

And sometimes people find this and just drop it. Just drop it. It was a Discovery ID show. Where those shows that reenact crime. Oh, fun! Not fun. What happened to you in this crime? It was

one of those, like, you're not speaking and it was like, and then Miranda goes and kills her boyfriend. So we weren't, like, rolling sound. You were just doing interactions. Were you Miranda? I was this, like,

weird killer girl. Don't even want to bring that much attention to it because it's so bad and embarrassing. But that's, like, what we're doing. You know what I mean?

It's like bad shit. I love watching reenactments. Me too. And now I watch them and I'm like, I love all those actors those actors are hard working but that was my next one I'm trying to

think honestly after that it started it was like short film mania which was like which I could talk about forever because me and my friends got addicted to these things called these 24 hour film festivals 48 hours where you don't sleep and you fucking write it and then shoot it

and then put it together they're so insane that is like you actually kind of make good shit in a weird way you really do wait what's your first credit

my first one is back in Arizona I got I got an agent because I like did it Arizona

stop and it's not me. It's me. Guys, bingo has happened. Real quick. Sorry to interrupt. So Shane. Whoa. I got you for bingo. Hell yeah.

Arizona was the last one that I needed. I had to mention Arizona and it happened. So what I have is looks to the side when something crazy gets brought up. Okay. I always do. Arizona mentioned so funny but not actually

laughing. You do that a lot. Yeah. To me. To everyone. A sports reference. We've said it. Of course. Of course. And then covers your face with your hands. You do that. Oh, you do that a lot. Yeah. All right. Oh my God.

Bingo. I'm shocked you got bingo before me. I'm sure I've missed some just because like it's a lot to keep track of. But yeah, hell yeah. Yeah, baby. So what does that mean? Nothing. It's funny. Guys, Shane got bingo before me, and I feel, like, incredible right now.

I can't believe it. Shane got bingo, so now he has to shit in a cup. Shit in a cup. I don't know. You have to shit in a cup now, dude. What does that mean? It means you have to shit in a cup. Because you mentioned Arizona.

So back in Arizona, my acting career kind of, happened out of nowhere and it like happened fast, right? Because I was not into acting whatsoever. And then in fifth grade, we did a play. We did Willy Wonka and the Chaka Factory. And I was the only one who auditioned for Willy Wonka. And it was just in a classroom. And I loved it. I had so much fun.

I've mentioned this before how we wanted to do the play in the auditorium, like a school would. And our principal said there's no educational merit to theater. And so. Ew. Give us his address. Yeah, we'll find him for you. So we did it in the classroom, just in a tiny little classroom. We did the whole play.

What? I'm a fucking loser. You can't do a play in a classroom. We managed. You can do a play anywhere, Amanda. But I had so much fun doing it. I became obsessed with it. And then afterwards, you know, people were like, oh, you should get him into theater.

He's like, he seems to love this. And I was a very quiet kid. Like, I was not like some big, loud entertainer. But I got really into it. And they got me into a community theater play. And then I did one community theater play. And then it was like, Oh,

we'll get you into an acting class. And it happened to just so be an acting class that was very like audition and film focused and improv. So I just like by accident, they diverted me into like this type of stuff. And this is back in 2003. Right. But they would have a camera in the class and they were teaching you how to they diverted me into like this type of stuff. And this is back in 2003, right? But they would have a camera in the class and they were teaching you how to like act

in front of a camera and how to do auditions and things. And also we're doing improv. And they quickly were like, oh, you should get them an agent. You should have them go. And so like within like a year of doing that classroom play, I then was like getting an agent and auditioning. So I went from never acting in my life to that.

And I went out, I went out for two, this has never happened since, right? This, this guy gave me the wrong impression of the industry. I had two things. You both first two auditions.

I went out for, I booked now granted. I mean, same, but this is, this is part of why, like, I don't recommend it. I don't promote this. But like they say, like the whole gist of why they motivate people to take their kids out to be actors is that it's a lot easier to book work when you're a kid because there's less competition and they don't expect you to have credits and a resume when you're 13 years old. And I was in Arizona, so it was an even smaller market.

So I booked the first two jobs that I got. One was a student film, which was crazy. We filmed a bunch of scenes, and then it was a year later we filmed a couple more. Okay, of course. And I look back, and at the time I was just like, you know what, this is acting. There's a scene where they have like a gun pointed at me

and I'm like yeah there was really no like safety on that on that set like a kid I was just a kid and it was just like alright we have a scene where like this guy's gonna point a gun at you and I'm just like alright like dude and I'm like okay yeah probably should have thought about that a little

more um I survived um but then the other movie I booked was this movie called Probably should have thought about that a little more. Damn. I survived. Yeah. But then the other movie I booked was this movie called Moon Pie, which had several actors from, from Mad TV in it. And it was, and it was direct. Mad TV.

So it was directed by Drake Doremus, who later directed the movie Like Crazy in 2011. It's, it was a movie with, it had Anton Yelchin, Felicity Jones, Jennifer Lawrence. Yeah, so like he

but this was his debut as a director. But this movie had like Michael McDonald and Stephanie Weir from Mad TV. Like crazy. I remember that. But anyway, so I was a huge Mad TV fan. And so then I booked this movie with Michael McDonald. And I was just like, Oh my god, I'm working. This is so cool. But

I was like a small, like weird bully character. Yeah. And I, I am in like a class, like an elementary school classroom. And my character is just so much older than everyone else. Yeah, that it's really, really stands out and is funny but um i had a lot of fun i mean it was my first like movie working on and it was like a you know an independent uh low budget film but pretty friggin big for like a first project michael mcdonald was huge yeah but what was funny like my first experience with acting was okay we're gonna drive to set and it was like a good like hour and a half from our house in Arizona. So we drive out there and it's the middle of summer. So it's blazing hot. Yeah, we get there at 6am, 6am call time. And I'm there and like, you know, just kind of random crafty. We're just hanging out. There's a lot of kids on set and uh i was there until i want to say like 6 p.m and i never got used that day oh my god and i was like this is my first experience with acting

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I went like this Back to the show You talking about like your first acting jobs I'm like oh of course I did Like my first acting wasn't to broke girls It was a bunch of plays and schools and stuff But I hardly To go straight from it

I hardly did and That's wild So it's It's really weird. Like, it just, so many people were motivating my parents and me to be like, oh, you should do this. You should do this. And so I think within, like, two years of doing my very first play in a classroom, I then was going out to L.A. and auditioning for stuff in L.A. You were just thrown into the deep end. I do think that the time in the industry is like, of course, you always go like, damn, I wish this opportunity came when I just knew a little bit more. But that's not how it happens.

Yeah. I mean, and I don't bother with like thinking about what I would have done differently. But it would have been fun for it to be my own journey. Like I definitely anyone asking or anyone who would ever say like, oh, I'm thinking about getting my kids into it. I would say like, no, like let them do it on their own someday. And also, but now we're also in a,

such a different beast where it's like, hey, like kids are just making their own content and like making their own sketches and short films. Like you can just, even as an adult, I would say like, you honestly might just want to make your own stuff right now yeah i know it's like i'm grateful that i got to just like mess around and you didn't have to like show up for work because i was like making a lot of weird weird stuff on i movie and i later on i love my movie and obviously later on i i was of course

of course but i think this is how it started yeah as it started was so intense like to go and it's it's so intense and the child actor world coming out here and like me and all these other 14 year olds who are all saying like yeah we need to make it by the time we're 18 like the goal is to become successful by the time you're 18 i'm like dude oh my god i look back and i'm like pressure like what're 18. I'm like, dude, oh my God. I look back and I'm like, I'm like, what was that mindset? I'm like, oh my God. I'm, you know, cause now I'm like, oh, I'm 33. And I'm like, you know, I think it's normal to be still working your way up in your career at 33, but I'm like 14 to think like by 18, you got to make it. And then you turn eight and it was, you have adults telling you like, yeah, like you need to get some credits by the time to having having adults pressure you.

Yeah. It's such a weird thing as a teenager that child actors experience on such a crazy level. Yeah. And I I don't think I experienced it nearly as bad as a lot of people. I think, you know, so many of the girls I knew. Yeah. No, dude, it is brutal because you believe adults when you're a kid you're like well yeah of course i have to do that thing and then you you miss out on so much of like your weird quirky childhood where you're figuring

shit out and like having crushes and it's it's awful and you know i know in high school and middle school like you have your peers commenting and critiquing your body and so much stuff but to to see like when i was a teenager to see all these teenage girls and and guys having like adults like critiquing how you look and they're not your parents they're not even relatives they're just people and they're critiquing you not in like a bullying trying to make you just in a fully like just telling you something as a business person it's like no wonder so many end up so messed up later on yeah no for sure awful wow but um anyways those are my first those are before i moved out to la wow those are my very first jobs wow yeah wow

yeah which gave me a very misguided idea of how the industry was going to work. Because I was like, whoa, went out for two auditions, I booked them. Obviously, I moved out to L.A. and then I was like, oh, I'm not going to be booking much at all. Going from Arizona to L.A. Different market. Totally different market. And that was the thing to realize is like, oh, you're the hotshot of Glendale, Arizona. But like, you're going to move out to L. arizona but like you're gonna move out to la

and everybody's the hot shot from their town from wherever they've moved from uh so wow i unfortunately got to the point of mine i'm in the short film part hell yes am i hell yes why all shorts where i'm like oh yeah and go, I forgot about that long afternoon. Yeah, yeah. Where you were just like, the whole day you're like, oh God. What's something of note? Okay, so I was talking about those 48 hour film festivals.

Me and my friends, we were obsessed. And it was like to the point where I remember being like, oh, like I just, I think it's because, so what they are is like, it's like a film festival. It's like a challenge where they're like, OK, here's the subject or here's a line of dialogue you have to put into your film. And now here's 48 hours. And by the end of these two days, you have to deliver a film and then you get to watch them. So cool. And I've seen people just do them on their own or like big festivals where then you get to watch them all in like a movie theater or whatever. And me and my friends got addicted to it because it's like you can't you can't sit and think you can't be like, oh, it was like right before the pandemic. I want to say. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And we were like it was still like every piece of art and every choice you make is every is like so important rather than like

quantity over quality right and um we did our first one called oh my god I will never forget it was in the pandemic so we were like we can't be together we have to but me and all my friends wanted to write something but we were like we should not separate So I remember being like, what can we write that is people on the phone? And I wrote this crazy thing with my friend called, and it was called Chloe Mary Lydia. Okay. To sound like chlamydia. And it was about a phone call that just kept going through different people who have hooked up. Being like, did you give me chlamydia and um it was about a phone call that just kept going through different people who have hooked up being like did you give me chlamydia that's awesome wow and we got to

shoot it because just the camera girl and our sound guy just went to everyone's house outside filmed it and then that's smart actually that's kind of smart but then it made me and my friends addicted that specific group. And we started to make stuff like constantly that summer. And it was like every week we made something new. That's awesome. But now I look back at them and I'm like, what were we thinking? There is a short film that I actually am very proud of it.

And I wrote it with my friends. And we did it in 48 hours. And it's called The Haunting of Dolly Parton. This sounds awesome. it with my friends and we did it in 48 hours and it's called the haunting of dolly parton oh and i actually i actually like stand by this being like this actually has pretty good legs but the whole thing is like put together scotch tape my grandmother had just taken a mighty fall and had to be moved into a mighty fall a mighty fall had to be moved into a living facility that was like full-time care and it was like, okay we have to move grandma out of her little shoe

box apartment. And before we were moving her out, I was like is this just empty? And it was a spooky house. You're like, how can I benefit from this? Yeah, and I was like, what if me and my friends went in there and made cinema? And we went in there and

absolutely trashed it when i tell you there what we put blood everywhere fake blood yeah because we wrote a horror because it was like wait the genre we were given i'll say i'll send it to you guys i actually think it's really good um we it was a horror and that was the uh. They give you each a genre, and we were given horror. And I knew nothing about horror movies, and me and my friends wrote it. And we were like, what if this woman's obsessed with Dolly Parton? And then she gets haunted by a thousand of them. And then all of our friends get to play Dolly.

Wait, that's pretty sick. I love that. I actually stand by it. But my grandma's house was her apartment. Were you able to clean it? Yeah. And then me and my friends cleaned it for like four days after. But I don't know why we thought, let's trash it.

And then I was like, oh my God, guys, there's blood, like fake blood all over the carpet. We have to clean this up. Did she own this apartment or rent it? No, she rented it. No. I don't actually remember the details, But like I had to clean it for weeks Dude And I like trashed it

That would stress me out But it probably looked sick Yeah and that was in the Phase where I learned that everything you could return From Amazon Everything you bought from Amazon I bought like 15 dolly wigs

They returned anyway That's incredible I bought like 15 dolly wigs. You're still in that phase. They returned. Anyway, so. That's incredible. Dude. So that was like one of the earlier projects. Yeah, it was that. We also wrote another thing about a girl who died and all of her friends go to her funeral

and wanted to change her outfit in her casket because her outfit was bad. That's so funny you say that because I have a short film that I made with some people, with Damien and some other people that is of a similar kind of plot. They're always like one location. Wait, okay, so we'll get to this later, but I'll tell you about it now just because that's so funny. We have a short film that Damien, another friend of mine, a couple of other friends of mine, we made where we come home and our roommate has left us a note letting us know that he has ended his life and we're all we're all reading it and we go oh my god this has so many spelling errors and stuff and then it's a montage of us like punching it up

be like here's how here's what we oh we should punch it up with that like oh we're like it's called rewrites and it's's us rewriting this whole thing. At the end, he walks out because he hasn't done it. And he's like, what is wrong with you guys? Oh, my God. I forget specifically how it ends. But I'm like, it's like dark, very dark humor. Very dark. And I think when you're young, you're like, this is hilarious.

Yes, one location. One location, one fucking joke. We took my friend's bookcase and we laid it down and made it a casket and had our friend lay in this bookcase and then we were all like this is so sad she looks really ugly doesn't she and then we change her clothes wait that's fucking funny yeah that's so and that's so classic like the shorts young short film where you're like, it's dark comedy. It's also of that era, because I want to say this was like 2014. Yeah. That we did ours.

And it's just like, I don't know. That was just the vibe. Super dark comedy. It is so funny. I love that. What people think of when they're like, okay, we have a living room. What can we do? Well, 48 Hours is is i remember we did a

we did 48 hour short films and one time we did a 48 hour full hour sketch show i don't know if you remember this it was um when um second city was still there yeah and was it second city wait what was the one by popeyes what was it no what was It was IO. Yeah. And they had a 24 hour sketch fest and we had to write it one hour sketch show. And this was, this was what got me onto the 48 hour short film. Sounds like a TNTL. It was first the sketch show and it was, you had to stay up all night.

And I remember we did like Scooby do a like uh like talk show or some shit and i played of course scooby oh yeah who barely you're very scooby-coded who barely talks and i remember being like of course i played scooby and you know you know i played scooby your family's checking in on you the lead your family's checking in you're like mom it's crazy i can't talk right now i'm getting been up for 24 hours and I'm Scooby. And then you go and you perform it after 24 hours. I'm imagining you on the phone with your mom and your mom's like, how's

the acting career in LA going? Cut over to you, painted over, dressed like Scooby-Doo. It's going really good, Mom. We're really cranking some good work out. It was years of that. It still is. It's still what we're doing. I'm a fucking spud.

I'm like a potato. You're so right. It's the same thing. Over 12 years in LA and I'm a fucking spud. After everything I've done in this industry and especially on Smosh, I've realized I'm like, nobody can ever blackmail me because I've

done everything to embarrass myself. I know. That's why I'm like, nobody can ever blackmail me because like, I've done everything to embarrass myself. I know. That's why I was like talking about embarrassing things on here. I'm like, if someone finds the footage of me on a discovery ID show, like good luck, bury me. Like, you know what I mean? Like, yeah, I'm gonna say that. Like when someone finds your weird, disgusting, cringe videos of you, you're like, okay, man, there's a mountain of those. A mountain.

I saw there was a short of me on Sid and Olivia's podcast where we're all doing our makeup and I'm like sitting there doing my like makeup on it. And some of the comments were like, wow, he's so comfortable with his like masculinity and stuff. I'm like, do you know the shit I've done online? Like there's a million videos you could find of me doing way cringier shit than this. That's so true. I cannot be, I cannot be embarrassed anymore.

I remember on Facebook telling friends, please untag me because I don't look cute in that picture. Of course. We are so past that. Pick a thumbnail. Like literally pick anything. That is actually true. Pick a thumbnail.

There was one recent thumbnail of you that me and Tommy, of you specifically, me and Tommy were like, what the fuck? Smosh pit theater. I'm like. You look, you don't look like yourself. Wait, put it next to me. You don't look like yourself. You look like a cartoon dad from like the Jetsons and it's not good.

It's incredible. You look like you've been sitting on the couch for a month. We are emotionally bulletproof at this point. Like, truly. I will say, I'm going back on these credits, and I'm pretty proud of myself. Yeah, I'm like, wow, there's a lot of shit. Okay, the only thing that I think is embarrassing, I guess it's not embarrassing, is what's the oldest date on your credits? Oldest date?

Like, Moonlight, this was when it was released, but 2006. Well, here's the thing. I feel like I'm missing some things because my oldest one

is 2016, which doesn't make any sense. I'm so sorry. Did you beat me? No. Were you in something as a kid? I zoomed out.

I'm scrolling through. There's a part where it lists your roles and it's like self, self, because I got to the Smosh part. And then it says, bug, nine episodes. Nice.

I'm like, when did I play a bug? Oh, yeah. I don't have anything. Mine's Dolores Paradise for nine episodes. Hell, yeah. Yeah, I have Tater, one episode, the Spud Hunt. Wait. Smosh puts all your roles?

Yeah. Lady D. Old Lady. Luigi. Smosh puts all your roles? Yeah. Lady D. Old Lady. Luigi. Ian's Date. Tinky Winky. Babe Ruth. What?

Public student. People are putting that shit on there. My earliest thing is 2018. Wow. Yeah. Prime Minister? My old ass. Working back in the Stone Age of 2006.

Working in film. I love it. What sucks is so my second, my first job I ever booked in LA is not on here. Oh. But my first ever pilot season, I came out here and I was like, I just want to, I hope I book something. And I got, I think, you know, it was either the first or second pilot season. There was a pilot season where I came out

and I didn't book anything and it felt like defeating. It was just like, oh shit. But one of them, I booked a guest star on a show called Eli Stone and it was just this random pilot. I think they cut my scene. It was just a flashback scene

where I played like an older brother to the main character, but it was terrifying. Yeah. And it was cool to go do and it was just like whoa i'm booking work in la this is so crazy but i did that and then i and then i didn't book anything for like a couple years and then i moved out here in 2007 you did the thing for real i moved we we were like we need to move out here so So we move out here in 2007. And after a couple months was when I booked iCarly.

And that felt huge. And it is huge. Because in everything I had done up until that point was, like, very small little roles where I don't have, like, scenes. You know, where I just kind of have lines here and there. So this was the first time where I had, like, a scene. Yeah. And it's still pretty small. It's a small guest starring part,

but it's still like, oh, you're going to be in the opening scene of this episode and you're going to talk with the main character and you have like a bunch of lions here. And it was absolutely terrifying. Oh yeah. And I was there for the whole week of that, that episode.

And it was just a lot. But I don't know. It was more terrifying for me. Cause I remember the first time I had like multiple scenes and it was like, lot. That's so wild. See, but I don't know. It was more terrifying for me because I remember the first time I had multiple scenes and it was like, oh, this is scary and cool. It's the one lines that I would... It's like how the triangle player is the most nervous in the orchestra

when you have the least to do. It's true. I remember I did a... I had one line on this sitcom that I don't think ever went. No, it did. It was called Call Your Mother with Rachel Sennett. Whoa. Oh.

And yeah, who was on it? There were so many famous people on it. I had one line. I just had to like say happy anniversary. And my God, I was in the back going like... If it's a flat or a squeal, a wobble or peel, your tread's worn down or you need a new wheel, wherever you go, you can get a pro at Tread Experts.

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It was so hard. Wait, side question. Can I ask, what, if ever, do you remember like your first audition where you're like, that went horrible? Yeah. I bombed that audition so bad. I would say I had one that wasn't my first audition where you're like that went horrible yeah i bombed that audition so bad i would say i had one that wasn't my first audition it was when i had been auditioning for years

and it was a really really bad day it was a i still think about it and i cringe so hard luckily the casting director was like it's good. Let's just forget this ever happened. And she brought me back in again. But it was, I still, you know when you wake up in the middle of the night and you're just like, it still comes to me? It was after I'd already been

auditioning for a while. It was for Barry, season one. Season one and it was supposed to be a detective. No, sorry. Season two. So the original, the original detective who they made an older woman was they had like younger people.

It was a big role and I fucking prepped so hard for it, but too hard where I kind of, I think I lost my mind. i think my soul went away i know exactly what you're talking about and i lost my mind and i had been in for this woman before they're super sweet and i'd gone in and it was like her assistant and the other it's two casting directors that work together her other casting director came in abed isn't even the right word for how this audition went. It was, I wanted to be in a spaceship and never return to Earth.

It was so bad. I couldn't. I had memorized the lines so well that I wasn't there. I fucked it up. I was saying gibberish. I was like, yeah. I'm not kidding.

I'm not kidding. I know. I came in and I was like, yeah. Yeah. You. I was like, yeah. Wait, did the cat director like look at you for what? The cat director went.

And they went all right let's just let's take that again but the the assistant was like trying not to laugh and i was like no no no i'm not this person no i'm not this person i'm not this person so i was like i was like hey guys i was like, yeah, don't worry. Like, I'll just do it again. Like, I don't know what happened then. Trying to make a joke. They didn't laugh. And I did it again. No, no, no, like, jimmy, jimmy. But I said the lines all bugged up.

And I was supposed to be upset. I was supposed to be like, I was like, I was supposed to be like, what are you doing? What's going on with you? And I was like, you went over the fence. And I just said random words i i died and then the casting director and the assistant burst out laughing and the casting director went i needed that oh my god i needed that that was really bad and you were like you she said that was really bad like that was really bad. And you were like, she said that was really bad. She's like, that was really bad. And I needed that. You didn't get any of the lines right. She said that was really bad.

And then they called me in again, like four more times. Okay. That's. And she was super sweet about it. And she was just like, it's all good. I was like,

Hey, so sorry about last time. But I, I, I almost never wanted to see her again. You know that feeling? Oh, my God. Amanda.

I genuinely was like, I should actually go back to the East Coast now. You know what's so funny? Like, this is the thing. Like, auditioning sucks so much. And you can just have a bad day. Because I'm sitting here thinking, and I know all the people watching, like, you would have killed on Barry. Like, you would have crushed on that show. And she was so sweet.

She was like, I want to find a role for you because you're so funny. But that, I mean, she should have never called me. I was like, do you want it? Do you want it? The next audition I ever get for anything, I'm doing

that. So what brings you here? Do you want it? With so much get for anything, I'm doing that. So what brings you here? I'm a swin. Swin. With so much attitude is what makes it so funny. I'm a cop. You wasn't. Here's the thing. It was like someone,

like your parents saw talent, someone was like, oh, I see this talent. You're going out for these big things. And I know for a fact i wasn't ready it's like if i went out then i could have been like hold on can i take a moment yeah my brain i'm so sorry i need to go but then i was like get through it a minute get through it run a train through it honestly no this reminds me of one of my first tapes i ever had oh it's It's bad. It was, and honestly, it's kind of similar to a Barry where you go, I can't believe this was for this show.

And I got close. It was for the second season or the third season of Stranger Things. What? It was Maya Hawke's character, the ice cream. And I had so good at that. I think I even went to like, think I had a call back a second two callbacks and my tape okay so it was before I learned how to like do self tapes and there weren't resources like they are now now it's like everyone just has like a thing and they could put

it up and you could just do it right like a backdrop and you just do it in your room but self-taping back in the day sucked it was like I was like oh what I do? And I couldn't get anyone to do it with me. So my mom read it with me. No. Hell yes. And I was like 24 years old. Of course. And your mom was probably in it. And I worked so hard on this.

And it was the scene where she like has like a board. Like it's like her famous scene. And I saw, like. I think I remember. And my mom botched it so bad. She jumps my line each time. She goes, oh. All right, keep going. Go. And then I'm like, you each time. She goes, oh, alright, keep going.

And then I'm like, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. She goes, oh, sorry. They probably loved that. I don't know. I think by that point, like, they know you're a good actor. It's just kind of a matter of vibes. Oh, God. I was, I can't, but honestly

it's one of those things where you're like, I can't believe I went out for an early season of this massive show. And you're like, it's such a great opportunity, but the pressure of the show makes your body break down. I think I filmed it on a dad cam. I think I got one of those weird, small, I don't even know what I did. Did you do this thing where you wanted to get it done? Oh, I just needed to. I used to speed through my lines in auditions. Speed through, which is like, dude, I can take some time.

This is going to sound hilarious to people. My issue early on with auditioning was I would talk too fast, but I would also be so quiet. I was not good at, I was so like. That makes sense though. That was too loud. That makes sense. I feel like people, I definitely peeked camera a lot.

I'd be like, what did you say? Hey dad, get in here dad. And then your eyeline, so you're trying to like choose this eyeline and then you're like,

then you choose a different eyeline and then the other eyeline is way too far away. You're like, hey, hey get in here dad you're in the middle of a scene you're like like what are you saying and then there's a knock at the door what's going on why don't you guys try reading it with your husband who english is a second language and here's the thing i love him actually it's a good trust exercise in our relationship. He now reads with me and it's actually really fun.

But for years he'd be like what are you doing here? Here? Honestly for Barry he'd be the perfect person to read against. What are you doing here? What are you doing here? You don't know what you say here. I know.

And I'd be like Oh God. Let's see what you say here. I know. And I'd be like, oh, God. Let's see what else I have. Yeah, those obviously aren't credits on here. But also my favorite, when you book, you literally are like, I don't know how that went. That to me is always when you book. The auditions where I truly was like, this is not going to happen. My audition for the Goldbergs, I was like, that went bad.

That sucked. I did one read. I read through once and they were like, that's great. See ya. And I was like, okay. And then I left. I don't even think I got a callback.

I think I was just like, I guess that one ended. And then it was just like, hey, you got it. And I was like, what? That's wild. So confusing. Because then you'll have like

two callbacks for something and you're like, whoa, guys. I'm gonna get it. And then you kind of look back and you're like, I was never close. They just kind of were like

looking around at different people. Well, when you go in and you see the person, the other person who's going in with you and they look the opposite of you, you're like, oh. Or you see the show

and you go, that's what the tone was? Oh, whoops. That's usually what happens, right? That's my favorite thing. They have very different vibes and then they kind of go with a different character. Or there's also the commercial audition stories, because those are like. That was my first kind of, not bomb, but I made a choice.

What did you do? Well, see, you come out to LA. This is not that bad. But people are like, you got to make big choices. You got to make them remember you. There's a tons of, when you come out, at least back in the day, when you would start acting, you'd hear all these legends of how actors booked auditions.

And it was like, yeah, Danny DeVito, when he auditioned for Taxi, he walked into the casting room office and he said, this script sucks. You guys suck. This is so stupid. And then he slams the door and leaves. And then he opens it up a second later and he's like, hey, was that good? And they were like, you booked it. This is so stupid. And then he slams the door and leaves. And then he opens it up a second later. And he's like, hey, was that good?

And they were like, you booked it. Oh, my God. So people, that causes new actors to do crazy stuff. Yeah. So I had a commercial audition for Tostitos, the chips, the tortilla chips. Yeah. And I just always heard like, hey, make them remember you no matter what. And I was like, all right.

So it's us. We're gaming. And I was like, all right. So it's us, we're gaming and we're eating Tostitos and we're just gaming and having a good time. And I'm like, all right. And so I just start

grabbing handfuls and I'm just slamming them into my mouth and I'm stuffing my mouth so much that eventually my fellow actor was like, this game sure is awesome.

I go, I just cannot speak. No, no, no. My mouth is full of chips. Somebody needs to feed this actor. And I got a callback. And so I was like, got to do the same thing I did because it worked. No.

So I got to do it again. No. And so in the callback, I stuff my mouth again full of Tostitos. I look back and I'm like, commercial auditions, they don't give a shit about who you are, what you're doing. They look at your face and they're making a decision. So I'm like, I don't need to do all that. So I do all that. And then the director, who I remember was Australian, was like, or he was, I think British or Australian, but he was just like, yeah, can we do that again?

Can you not stuff your mouth with Tostitos? I was like, yeah, for sure. I can for sure do that. Then I didn't book it. Honestly, though, commercial auditions, that cracks me up. I feel like commercial agents or casting directors, once they know you really well, they're like, guys, lots of people have been shoving it in their mouth. It's disgusting, and we don't want to see it.

Hey, guys, will you grab the piece of pizza? It's cardboard, okay? I don't want any bites on this, okay? This is just this, okay? I just remembered something else. I had another commercial audition back in the day. This is years later. I'm probably like 18.

And it was like a lineup of guys. And they're going through, and they're just asking the question of like, outside of being an actor, what would be your dream job? Right. And it's just genuine answers. Right. This is not a comedy thing. It's just genuine stuff.

And I'm sitting there trying to think. And I'm like, I don't know what to answer. I'm like racking my brain. Captain of a ship? What's a good answer? People are like, oh, probably like an architect. Someone's like, oh, I'd probably be like a basketball coach. What did you say?

It comes down to me. And I truly, full, I'd probably be like a basketball coach. What did you say? It comes down to me and I truly, full improv moment, full speaking before I'm thinking and I just go, probably a prophet. And they're like,

what? And I was like, yeah, you know, you walk around with a cane and robes and just kind of talk about what you believe.

I can't do your job. I can't do your job. I can't do your job. No. Please tell me, did it not land? Yeah, you don't know. It actually made people laugh pretty hard. And I was obviously joking. What's I get into it?

And all the dudes in line were probably like, oh, fuck. I should have said prophet. Why did I say architect like an idiot? I hear a guy say prophet. I go, that guy's a red flag. Run. Yeah.

Oh, my God. That's so funny, Shane. That made me, I have a. I did a commercial audition on Zoom. This was like, I want to say literally a year ago. This was last week. I want to say literally a year ago This was last week I want to say this was so so Just happened

And I was in the waiting room And the waiting room When you're like waiting to go in for the audition And all the actors and the producers Everyone is in the waiting room waiting to go in Or whatever And I wanted to mute myself But instead I muted them Hell yes dude so i muted the

room no so they couldn't get to me but i'm on loud i mute them i mute them and have a phone call and no one can contact me during the whole phone call. No. I am the whole time going, oh my God, I know. And no one had my phone number. One girl emailed me. I'm in this Zoom call with these fucking losers.

And my friend, I finally, there was one girl I knew and on Instagram, she DMs me. She goes, girl, you're not on mute. Girl, you're not on mute.

I wasn't checking Instagram at the time. Nightmare, nightmare. And at the end, they had to kick me out of the room because they couldn't get me to be quiet. Because no one could. Everyone's going like this. Okay. And I'm on the phone.

And she told me. By the end, I had to call this girl because I was like, I am mortified. You have to tell me what I said. I don't remember anything. No, no. On this call, you guys. And it was just the waiting room, thank God. But I go like this.

She goes, I remember you saying, yeah, I mean, I had a whole bottle of wine last night. on this call you guys and it was just the waiting room thank god but i go like this she goes i remember you saying yeah i mean i had a whole bottle of wine last night and i don't know if i had the bottle or the bottle had me you know what i mean no god no and then you unmuted the room and you said is that what you guys are looking for and i was like oh i booted out of the session and then I went back in. They were like, hey, Ange, you were not on mute. That is my- Were you able to do your audition after that? I don't even remember.

No, it was for Jersey Mike's. And I remember I was just like- They probably loved it. They probably loved it. That's what Jersey Mike's is looking for. I don't know if I had a bottle of wine or the bottle had me. Not nearly as bad as that. On Zoom during Smosh, we had a meeting,

and I named my name on Zoom Butt Idiot. Just to be funny, I was like, yeah, Butt Idiot. I'm like, we can change our names, ha ha. And so it was Butt Idiot, and then I log out of Zoom. You go into another meeting? And then Goldberg's had a table read over Zoom, and I log in, I'm butt idiot. Wait, no joke.

And I'm sitting there with just everyone. And luckily, of course, I notice it. I'm like, oh shit, I'm trying to change it. And Sam Lerner goes, butt idiot. Wait, this is how funny because this happened to me with Zoom appearances. There's a button for appearances and you can change yourself.

And I gave myself on my podcast for fun. I you can change yourself. And I gave myself, on my podcast for fun, I gave myself pink eyebrows. And then I walked out of that meeting. And then the next meeting I went on was with Rhett Link for season one of Wonderhole. Yeah! Oh, my God! And then both of them go, oh, okay, Angela.

And I was like, oh, I don't know how to turn those off. They're like, no, would you look at that? And I go, I don't know how to turn those off. They go, okay. And I just had to do the reading. And I did like, oh, I don't know how to turn those off. They're like, no, would you look at that? And I go, I don't know how to turn those off. They go, okay. And I just had to do the reading and I did. Dude. Now, I've never seen someone with eyebrows fell like that. What's going on, Angela?

Now, let's talk about that. Dude, I love that shit. I feel like those auditions, you just leave and you get in your car and you go, what the hell happened? That's most, I'd say 50% at least you're walking out of auditions going, what the fuck? Especially commercials. Still to this day, they're insane. Yeah. Still to this day, you do the great one, one audition.

And then what they ask you to do is crazy. I did one yesterday and they literally were like, all right, you're going to be driving in a car and then you're going to be sewing a shirt and you're going to be doing all this stuff. And I was like, I don't, who has the time? Like, and I just, I, I stopped. And I was like, I don't know. Who has the time? And I just stopped caring. I just. I did one yesterday too and I, boy, did I phone it in.

Oh. Boy, did I phone it in. You just do the craziest thing. I walked out of there and she was like great work. And I was like, but really? But then remember when you have to like go in? I remember there was one like David Spade is going to be in this one and you are a pirate. Ooh, you're a pirate.

And here's the parrot. Parrot's right over here. Guys, if you don't look up for the eyeline, I'm going to miss it. I'm going to miss it. And they were like, and you have to learn this dance. You have to learn a full dance. And then you're with actors who like, oh, it's your first year. I get it.

They are like, okay. Oh, all right. We we gotta do the dance. When do I put my left leg to my right leg and when do I do the background spin? And you're like, I don't know. I'm sure it's gonna be fine. That's the mark of any person who's been in their industry for a long time.

It's just, they don't care. I think it happened to me a couple days ago. It was for State Farm and I showed up and I didn't read the logo and there's everyone in red and I went, fuck. I'm in white. It was a couple days ago. It was for State Farm, and I showed up, and I didn't read the logo, and there's everyone in red, and I went, fuck, I'm in white. Now you're dressed for it. Yeah, now I am. And then my friend goes like this.

My friend comes out, and it's my turn. She goes, do you want my red shirt? And I went, no. I was like, I don't fucking need it. No, I think that the moment when I realized that they don't care at all was when I had a commercial audition for Subway, and they wanted me to come in and play the saxophone. And I go in, and I learned Silent Whisper for it. On the saxophone?

On the saxophone. George Michael? Yeah, and it's really fucking hard, and I just learned recently that it's edited. It's sped up because those notes aren't possible to hit on the saxophone. So I was no wonder I was having a hard ass time with it. So this is forever ago when I still knew how to play saxophone. I didn't know you knew how to play saxophone.

I played alto sax and so I played a little bit and then I booked it and I was just a subway worker just making sandwiches. Where's the saxophone? I did all that work and all you cared about was like, this guy looks dumb enough. Throw him out there.

Come on, man. There is a commercial, it is listed on my IMDb that I did for Pizza Hut. It was my first ever big spot. I had to just be this girl's friend because it was, oh, Becky, look at that slice.

It was like a reference to Sir Mix-a-Lot. And for some reason, the take they chose of mine, I was like, she's eating the pizza and I'm like this. What? Because I remember they were like, we want Becky You to be like obsessed with the pizza And each time I did it

I'd go further and further And I'd be like So many thumbnails they got out of that I got added to like Dude I will say when you do book the commercial And you see your spot You're like oh my god Oh I can't watch anything.

I got to show you guys this pizza. You're going to love it. You're going to love it. I'm going to send it to you. It's so good. I look not there. I look like, I'm like,

look at that. She dude. Commercials are insane. I remember one time my manager was like, Whoa, they went really silly with your makeup. And I was like, I actually don't think they did.

I think that color just doesn't work on me. I did like a full commercial and she was like, damn, they went really silly with your makeup. And I was like, yeah, bright red isn't a good look on me. And to this day, I'm like, I can't watch this commercial. Are you Ronald McDonald? No, I'm the customer. I look like a woman who put on a suit

and then was like, yeah, baby. This is so weird. So many commercials like that. And then of course you send them to your family. And they're like, great. We're sending our fans on so many scavenger hunts right now. Just like, find these projects. Oh, my God.

Or don't. Don't ever find them. Don't look. Or don't. Leave it buried. Yeah, I'm trying to find. Guys, we hardly got to any of our projects. Oh, my God.

And I think we're out of time. We're out of time. There are so many more. I didn't even make it to so random. I didn't of time. There are so many more. I didn't even. I didn't even make it to so random. I didn't even touch Danger Force. God, guys. I didn't touch Diablo and Boyt. Well.

Where I play the mother. Okay. All right. I guess we'll have to do this again. I guess we'll have to do part two again because. We. And honestly. It's just way too fun.

I'll bring in some footage. Please. Let's fucking watch them. There is some. I'm not in some footage. Please. Let's fucking watch them. There is some... I'm not bringing in Erin Brockovich. We'll watch the original. No. Wow, Angela, thank you so much for being here.

This is so cool. That made me laugh so hard. Hey, it's so fun being smashed from the mouse. You want to show us? Yeah, jump events. Love it. God. Thank you for watching.

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