Smosh Mouth - Courtney's New Obsession | Smosh Mouth 132
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Hello and welcome to Smoshmouth. I'm Shane.
Hello, I'm Amanda.
And we have a wonderful guest with us today.
Court.
Hi.
I don't know why.
You do this every time you come on.
Yeah, every time.
We're like talking normally and then we're like, all right, we're rolling.
Okay, we're going to intro.
And then you're like, I don't know why I get up.
You cringe away.
I do.
I don't know why.
Okay, I was watching this, I was watching this TikTok crazy of this guy just doing an impression.
Yeah, Gracie.
Of this guy just doing an impression.
of a woman who's excited and she's just like,
oh,
the outrageous woman in the kitchen?
Oh my.
That's you right now,
court.
I don't know.
I suddenly got the feeling of like,
you know when like,
like when you're a kid and your parents are like,
okay,
come out and show everyone your trick.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I suddenly got that feeling just now.
Yeah.
So I don't know.
Hi.
Thanks for having me.
Of course.
I love being here very much.
Yeah,
because you got to pick all the topics for this episode.
Amanda and I have no idea what we're going to talk about.
Zero.
And you know.
everything. And you love how you called it special interests. It's your special interests.
That does feel very apparent. Like, okay, show everyone your special interests. What are you into?
Whose idea was this to put me here? Well, we did this with Keanu a long time ago, where Keanu got to
format the whole episode, and it was really fun. And then we did it recently with all the crew picking
stuff. And so, yeah. So we thought you. That's so nice. Yeah. I think you have a lot of things that you know you
love and you love to talk about them.
It was fun when Selena sent me a little message about it.
I was like, oh, I got to, like, write out my interests.
And it was interesting to, like, dig into my own brain of, like, the things that I
spend a lot of time thinking about.
What do I look like my special interests are?
Well, first of all, you look incredible.
Your hair is incredible.
Thank you.
You look like you pay attention to detail currently.
Thank you.
The jewelry, like, you're wearing all silver right now.
And I saw you yesterday and you were in your gold.
So now you're in your silver and everything's.
matching, everything's connected, and the hair.
Thank you.
Yeah.
I do love details.
That is one of my special interests.
It is.
Details.
Details.
We actually brought up in last week's episode with Noah, it came up organically.
We talked about burlesque.
Oh, shit.
So I don't know if that's going to come up later in this episode.
We'll watch you shit.
I made him watch that.
I made him watch that recently.
It's the best movie on the planet.
It's an amazing piece of work.
You must watch it every single.
single year. And as Shane said, that I'm essentially
shared. You are share in that movie.
Why, I want to say.
That, her song is insane.
Oh, I'm bad.
Oh, my news.
Yeah, I can't. I can't with her song. But I do love her. My club, I got to, I will
never, ever get rid of this club. You got to show me you belong up there and that no one can
get you off that stage.
Tess, Tess.
You know all the music?
Tell me which one you want to see.
We can see the whole movie, I feel.
You remember it all the parts?
You guys are just doing the entire movie right now.
Just tell me which one you want to see.
Wrake and we're watching.
Did anybody ever give you a chance?
I'm trying to be up here.
Just give me one chance.
One chance, Tess.
What's wrong with a little male attention?
Yeah, seriously.
And Kristen Bell, bitch.
Oh, yeah.
She's a hot bitch in it.
She's a hot bitch.
And she's a hot bitch, and she gets really wasted.
She's a hot drunk bitch.
She really is.
God, that movie's incredible.
How did I not know I was queer when I was watching that movie?
You know?
Well, I watched that movie so many times I was like, I just love this movie.
Why do I like this movie so much?
What does that say about me?
I also love it too.
Yeah, what is it?
Queer, curious.
Queerious.
Seriously, though.
Anyways, special interest.
So, burlesque.
great, we've got it.
Well, women,
speaking of women dancing,
okay.
Selena, I feel like you should read
what I wrote for the first special interest.
Okay, we got our number one here.
Okay, I've been very into looking
at Sabrina Carpenter.
Do I want to be her? No.
Do I want to meet her? No.
I simply like looking, sometimes even listening.
But nothing else. I spend a lot of time
simply looking and nothing else.
Okay.
Okay. Let's break that.
that down.
Yeah, let's break that down, shall we?
So, you don't want to be Sabrina Carpenter.
No.
You don't want to meet her?
No.
You just want to look at her.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know what?
I fully accept that.
Shane likes to watch football.
I like to watch.
I like to look at Sabrina Carpenter.
Dancing around.
Looking and looking.
Here's a deal.
Whenever she has a music video drop, you're like, oh, we got to watch this.
I kind of can't take my eyes off of her, though.
To be completely real, like,
She's so, there's something, it's like,
magnetic.
Yeah, she's magnetic.
And also like, you know, like, when you see like a squishy little thing,
you're just like, oh my God, you're so freaking cute.
That's how I feel about her.
People talk about how small she is.
She doesn't, like, I guess because I'm only seeing her in my phone,
she doesn't look small.
She just looks like a normal woman.
Yeah.
But she's always so sparkly.
And like, I can tell where she gets a lot of her inspo from.
And it's all like the same shit.
Like in her SNL performance where she's,
She's in a bedroom and just a t-shirt with a hairbrush.
She does this one dance move that I talk about all the time.
I literally want to tattooed on me,
which is when Cameron Diaz and Charlie's Angels is dancing in the mirror
with her Spider-Man underwear on.
That's the best scene.
It's iconic.
Like that's who, that embodies so many of us.
And then the guy like delivers that package.
And she's like, oh, she's like, whoa.
She's like, you can just put it in my slot.
That's what she says.
And the guy's like, okay, bye.
She has a retainer in, right?
Yeah, and I can tell she, she,
She knows Betty and Veronica, the OG Riverdale comics, like all the, all the classic girly pop stuff of like mid-century modern and 90s and so on.
But like she just creates a silhouette and she's so loved it.
Yes.
It's just, it's that feeling when you're watching like an amazing ASMR video or like, are someone doing like perfect lipstick or like someone getting really excited about a color.
You just feel that like you're like excited, like glitter.
I think it's like it's great to see like just a really great performer.
Like, and she really is.
Like she's hitting every mark.
And it's also with like the expression and everything.
Like she's really in it and doing such a great job.
And she like leans into the Barbie doll of it all of like, here's the outfit today on each show.
I love that.
So Barbie.
It's so Barbie.
Yeah, that was kind of a joke one.
But it's real.
What?
No, that one's real.
That one's real for me.
It's real for me.
No one's asking.
Is there anyone you like to look at?
Do you like to look at anyone?
You like to look at butts playing football?
Why do I always say butts when you're wrong.
I look at the butts.
Yeah.
Only looking at the butts.
Yeah, who do you like to look at?
Who do you like to look at, Shane?
I don't know.
He's stressed out.
You put me on the spot.
Yeah, sorry.
You had time to think about this.
It's your job to be on the spot.
You're on a podcast.
Yeah, you're on a podcast.
We're improvising right now.
We're a little improvised.
Get up on that stage.
You're on there.
Cher.
Share, I do love to look at Cher.
I love Cher.
It is crazy, like, because I'm watching that burlesque, and I'm just like, she's in her, like, late 60s there.
It's crazy.
She?
Yeah, she's been around forever.
Hey, be nice.
Relax.
Hey, slow down.
I think it's amazing.
Yeah, it is amazing.
She is amazing.
And she did it, too.
She was like, check out this outfit today.
And she claps and go down the stairs in her outfit.
Who?
Share.
When she would on.
on stage, she'd have the outfit, and it would always have a reveal outfit.
And she would take it off, and then she always claps and then goes down the stairs,
because she's trying to act casual about it.
Yeah.
She goes, whom, all right, let's go down the stairs.
She's brilliant.
Yeah.
Okay, so women.
Women?
Okay.
Sabrina Carpenter, like, scratches a brain itch, and I would never want to meet her because
I simply would not know how to act.
I don't want to break that.
Don't.
Don't, no.
Is that like, do you not want to meet people that you're, like, you're like,
your heroes.
I'm not saying she's your hero, but you know what I'm saying.
I think as someone who's like forced to experience that early on in this career when I had
to slow dance with Chris Pratt, that's, that's, I've been through it.
I've seen war.
Yeah.
I've seen war in the best ways.
And best ways.
And slow dance with it.
No, it's just, I think it's like an attraction thing.
Like I'm going to, I feel like a, I don't know how to talk.
I can't even speak right now.
No, I get it.
I'm like, don't.
We don't need to do this.
It's not my same.
It's not my dream to meet someone that I, like, really am into on the screen.
I think I recognize from what we do, like, it goes in a million ways, right?
Like, you talk about attraction.
You also talk about, like, who you respect.
But I'm like, what I am into isn't technically real.
Like, it's a projection, right?
Right, like the idea, yeah.
And so I'm like, I don't want to meet my heroes because I'm like,
you're probably not what I think you are
and I'm inspired by
what they've created
that's what I like
so I don't want to meet the real thing
because I don't know
who they are really right
I think I've talked about this when like
we see comments
and whether they're right or wrong but when I see
comments when they're like they're like oh Shane
seems like a great guy I'm like you don't know
you don't know because I'm also a piece of shit
because you're not he's a brat where like
there's people that I'm like
I think they're incredible and I'm like so inspired by them, but I'm like, if I met them,
they may not be that.
But what I am seeing is what motivates me to be better and is inspiring to me.
And I want to hold on to that.
Agreed.
And so I don't need more than that.
Agreed.
I like that.
I also just like, if I were, there was like a hot, like, male celebrity that I wasn't married to
that I, like, met.
Like, I care about the woman's opinion of me more.
Do you know what I mean?
A thousand million percent.
So.
A thousand guys can, whatever, a thousand million percent.
And here's the thing, I enjoy, I'm married to a man, but like, a woman's opinion matters so much.
Like the guy, like, Shane, whatever he says, I'm just like, dude, nobody cares.
I bury it.
I'm just like, I don't care.
What you say doesn't matter.
No, I'm just kidding.
For sure, for sure.
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No.
No, we're going, we're going, back to the show.
You go ahead.
Oh, buddy, don't do this.
I'm going to stay here.
All right, well, I'm heading out.
Okay.
Going to bring my stuff with me.
All right.
All right.
See ya.
See you later.
That's not my only special interest.
Uh-huh.
Anyways, I forget what else I put.
I love it.
I love finding new music that isn't served on TikTok or top charts.
I used to treat Spotify's Discover Weekly,
my fortune teller. I love music so much, how it can take our emotions by the throat in movies,
music videos, or just simply the note being played. In high school, I used to spend evenings
hunting through websites and forums for unique music that was usually free to download,
and I would make a bunch of CDs with songs to hand out to friends.
That was you. So I had friends like that who would make CDs, and I thought it was the best
gift ever. Someone who can make a playlist has this like specific, like, specific, like,
creative part of their brain.
Someone who makes playlist, like...
Curation.
Yeah, exactly.
My friend Sam, you guys know Sam.
Sam makes playlist, that's her thing, and it always tells a story.
That's cool.
And I just think it's just such an amazing way to express your stuff.
I think that's a very underrated and missing element from, like, current day.
I know I've talked about this, but, like, how algorithms have kind of, like, killed a lot of culture.
Mm-hmm.
Because we lack, like, curators who are, like, like, like, curators who are, like, like, like, like,
like leading the like oh here's what we should like here's here's here's the good stuff to listen to
here's all this it's just algorithms just kind of feeding you a loop of like oh this is what you listen
to so here's more of that yeah so you're not discovering new things and it's not branching out and
it's not based on anything it's just kind of like right and it's really bad for me because i'm
like Tommy where i listen to a lot of singles yeah like single song my song and i'm not listening to
an album and so it just kind of starts giving me the same thing over and over again so for me
a lot of times for music, it's been hard.
So I kind of have to just go and just find an album
and just listen to it.
Yeah.
Do you share your findings with him?
Yeah, I mean, he has to.
He's forced to because, like,
riding in the car at the same time,
I'll be like, oh, I found this new one,
and I crank it up too loud.
I love it.
Do you guys have a Discover Weekly playlist
that you check on?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
One of those.
I literally used to treat it like,
I was, like, it was like,
oh, this song is telling me
I should go back to my ex.
Oh, no, this song actually means, okay, so I should actually be doing my own thing, and I really should be.
Uh-huh.
It was like your, it was like your cards.
Yeah.
It was like you're pulling cards.
It was like tarot for a bit.
That was like 2014 era.
What, uh, what like new music did you just discover now?
I've been really into Hemlock Springs, who's a super unique artist.
Such good music.
It's so different.
It's so fun.
like a musician's musician.
Like, I bet they're respected
by, like, other musicians.
Oh, yeah. She, I think, falls into
like a category of, like, where it's like your favorite
artist's favorite artist. Yeah.
I love that. I love
where are you finding these?
So I love Discover Weekly
still. Yeah. It's sometimes
skewed. I actually had to like turn. I have a bunch
of playlists that I use for like to
practice singing or like to
specifically help me like think of ideas
and I don't want them to skew my algorithm,
so I have to, like, turn those off.
But the Discover Weekly, I love it
because it's like, it just gives me something different,
even if it's not new.
Yeah.
And so, yeah, Hamlock Springs.
I found one of her songs through that.
And then, like, someone mentioned her,
and I was like, okay, so I need to go to her artist page.
I need to go to artist pages more when,
because I'm a song by song person too.
Yeah.
Same.
Yeah, like there was these websites called, like,
fresh new tracks.
Yep.
where I would just be like you could just download some songs off there like and it would be
artists that nobody knew or like I found this one song that in 2012 I was obsessed with this
song and it was like a mega mashup of every song and then it went viral on TikTok last year
oh it was validating but I was also like what the fuck I I liked this song so long ago and I felt
so weird but yeah it was so fun like being up late in the night on my laptop and it would be like
weird songs that nobody knew and then like Paradise by Coldplay.
Sure.
A lot of sclerilics.
I loved, I was a dubstep girly back in the day.
Really?
Yeah.
That tracks.
But it's like a sensory thing, I think.
Dubstep is such a massage on your brain.
Mm-hmm.
It really is a massage gun turned into a sound.
It's a theragun to your head.
Yeah, truly.
That is a similar sound.
Yeah.
Wait, when you were making CDs for people, you were making them for your friends.
were they like catered to them
or were they like songs on the CDs
that you really liked that you wanted them to like as well?
So I would, okay, so it's a little different
than what Sam is doing because I love that.
What I would do is to be like,
I have found 10 plus songs,
put them in a playlist in a way that flows.
And I'd make like, I burn like 12 CDs
and have them in a Ziploc bag.
So they were probably a little scratched.
But, and then I would be like,
do you want one? Do you want one?
and then people would start going,
oh my God, I want one this week.
And that was really fun.
That's awesome.
Did you name them ever?
I think I did.
I wonder if I have any anywhere.
But I would just kind of draw on them
or write the names of the songs on it.
I miss physical media, man,
because it was like special.
The big, the big CD thing that you would have in your car.
And you're like, all right, what do we want to listen to?
It was like so precious.
I remember getting in my brother's car
because he would like,
I would go spend the days with him
he was a counselor to summer camp
or like a day summer camp thing
and I'd hop in his car
and he would be blasting punk rock
and like he had his just rack of those CDs
that you put on the mirror
and the visor and the visor
and so he's just blasting like no effects and stuff
funny but it was just like
it's like that's what we're listening to because that's what you have
and so like a new album comes out and it's like
oh sweet we have new songs and so
truly when you're a younger sibling
you're at the mercy of your older siblings
taste and everything because
I would get the CDs that they were
over and done with. So like
I randomly am super obsessed with this one
season soundtrack of the O.C.
Oh, well, that's a good
track. Just a bunch of random songs that I'm like, yeah,
those songs are ingrained in my DNA.
I mean, I loved the O.C.
I watched all of this. I need to re-watch it.
I feel like every... I could be wrong, but I feel
like a lot of people watch the O.C.
I didn't, but it was the biggest show. Or Laguna Hills.
Like, those were the shows.
Yeah. And the soundtrack?
California.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
That song, Rips!
That was that era where California was like, people were like, that's the coolest place in the world.
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
California's the sickest, all, every Disney Channel TV show was in Hollywood.
Yep.
The OC was going.
Everything was like, guys, we're all going at California.
It felt untouched.
It was like this magical place that you get to by plane.
It took less than 10 years.
I started going to be like, wait, that place sucks.
Like I need a bath just by being here
Yeah
Yeah and yeah with music like
It's so cool that something
That people have created
And as like as old as people themselves
Like can affect you in a physical way
Like make you like amplify a moment
Like I once when I was in high school
I was like on a road trip with a friend
And I had my little iPod playing music
And I was finishing a YA novel
And this one song
perfectly timed out with the ending of the book.
And because of the song, amplifying everything that I was reading, I was a wreck.
My friend was like, are you okay in the car as her dad's driving us to whatever city?
And I was just like sobbing reading the end of this like zombie book about zombies in high school.
Yeah, it's just so cool how music can do that.
And like I think I kind of try to touch into that whenever I've directed like with the funeral trailer,
making a music, like special music for it.
So good.
Music is so important, I think, to every part of art, I think.
I agree.
Like, albums can be a milestone too.
I connect albums to projects that I've done or like big life events that I have done.
And I, uh, it's like when you taste food and you're like have a memory of something,
when I hear a song, I'm like brought back to that time in my life.
And it's like, it's just.
It makes you think of movies and how most of the most famous quintessential movies of all time have a super recognizable score.
Yes.
How like score is one of the most important parts of a movie.
Or TV show.
And it's like, yeah, if you think about any super famous one, it's like, yeah, the song plays in your head.
Yeah.
And if you don't have that, it's kind of hard to make a movie that really stands out, like, truly, like all the biggest things.
Like, you say, if someone says Star Wars, like, it plays it.
It plays in your head.
Yep.
If you say the Godfather, it plays in your head.
And similarly, like, Guardians of the Galaxy, I felt like reawakened that part of movies.
Yeah, having a good-ass soundtrack.
So much because the soundtrack, yeah, the soundtrack hit.
And, like, yeah.
A lot of movies nowadays, I think it's an underrated aspect where it's just kind of all the same.
And so you're watching it, you're like, why does this movie feel the exact same as all the others?
Because it's the same song.
Lighting and score have been very just repeat, repeat, repeat.
Same song.
So things don't stand out.
But music and.
and sound just impact us so much.
Fun fact, we were going to try and license a song for the Summer Games trailer.
Like, we were trying.
We were, like, going to budget it out.
We were, like, what are the songs we'd like?
We even, like, Crazy Frog was on the list.
Oh, my God.
Like, a bunch of songs, because we were trying to find something, like, something that was
affordable in licensing that was from 2005, and it was so hard.
We couldn't do it.
It was so much money.
But one day, I should have put that on the Smosh predictions.
Like, we will license the song.
song or something.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Well, okay. So we have
we have music and women.
And they're kind of
Sabrina Carpenter embodies both.
Yeah. That's right.
Literally. That makes sense.
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Make up. You are incredible.
makeup. Thank you. And you're also, are always learning. And then you used to do special effects
makeup. Yeah. So before Smosh. Before Smosh, I for like a year, like end of high school and then
helping college students in their like films and stuff, I got really into bruising was like the
first thing I got really into. Oh, cool. And then I painted a face to be dead. And their eyes were
burned out for like a college student film. Whoa.
I find that to be so fascinating.
Simply like bruising, cuts.
It's incredible.
It's crazy, but like, it's so, man, it's so cool what people can do.
It's like the face is the canvas, just like Cher says in burlesque, you're painting a face.
But yeah, like there was, I think I've told this story before, but like I worked for this music video production company for a few months.
And then Olivia was like, hey, do you want to audition for Sommash?
And I was like, see ya.
But in those few months, there was one music video.
It was Soldier Boy.
I think the song was designer.
And I paint a broken nose on Logan Paul.
Who now gets broken noses all the time, maybe.
But yeah, and it's like, that's still on YouTube.
And I was really proud of that broken nose.
It looked really good.
So I cover my mouth as I'm talking into the mic.
But yeah, and that was really fun.
And I, like, did a lot of practicing on myself.
but I was really bad at regular makeup back then.
Like I was mostly special effects,
and then this music video production company
would have me come in,
and I did not have shade range.
And so, like, it was not good.
I think I talked about this on another podcast,
but, like, I had, like, two shades of foundation
because it was, like, my shades that I just, like, bought
when I, like, had extra of.
And, like, there was people of color on these sets
that I was like, I'll do my best.
And I had bronzer.
And it was just like so, I was, I think I was like 18.
Yeah.
And it was such a wild experience.
But it was because we don't have like, or like definitely when we first started me and
Olivia at Smosh, we didn't have a makeup artist for like Smosh second channel, which
is now Smosh Pit.
And so I was like, okay, I'm going to learn how to get good at makeup.
And so like, it's so crazy, like how much of a science it is.
Oh, such a science.
you're like making a cake every time.
Like this exact amount, how long you let it sit, let it rest,
color correcting, different shades for different people, tones, cool and warm tones.
Like I still feel like I'm scratching the surface of makeup.
Still, sometimes I'll go and I'll be like, oh, I'll be like, oh, this color doesn't look good on me.
And a makeup artist will be like, have you, what?
Yeah.
Let's try that.
Because like for me, I have very specific colors that don't look good on me.
like pinks, like light pinks, don't really look good on me.
And like cherry red.
So like light pink, cherry red.
Right.
Like, yeah, those colors just don't look good on me.
No, I think when I first started getting my makeup done in Sacramento on sketch,
I was getting told that my found, they're like, oh, your skin tone, you need like warm tone
foundation.
So I was like getting yellow undertone.
Oh no, no, no, no.
And it didn't work on me.
I'm like a neutral, maybe slightly cool tone.
but it's also crazy how like where you put blush on your face completely changes the depth and shape of your face like and I finally have found the color blush and I'm like this is my color and like yeah and it's so funny like the things that we don't think about when like I think someone here the other day asked me like hey like I'm trying to figure out like where to put my like this this contour this bronzer and I was like okay what are you trying to highlight and they were like what?
Because every face is custom
It's not like you just slap it on
It's like are you trying to accentuate your cheekbones
Are you trying to reduce the depth of your cheekbones
Like everybody has different goals for their face
It's like oh do you want something to do that's easy
Do you want to have something you never have to touch again
Throughout the day?
I love that it's like such a custom skill
That you're not just learning a skill
You're learning your face and how to do it with yourself
And then to do it on another person is like also so hard
Like I've done people's makeup on smosh so many times.
It's not, it's hard as hell.
Yeah.
I used to, I used to do like some friends makeup, but I'll do like my mom's, but I don't,
I'm just like, I've just decided that that's not the route.
I'm going to go.
I want to just try my own.
But my friends and I have this like back and forth thing.
So when my friend really, really loves makeup and she discovers all these new makeups.
So she'll do like a trial run and put it on, not post it, just send it to like us on this group text.
And it's, it helps me learn so much about her face, but also like what might look good on me.
And there's like a thousand products.
So it's almost like you're getting product reviews.
Because at first I was like, oh yeah, you just get one line of products.
Yeah.
No.
No.
Mix and match.
I love your eyeliner today, by the way.
I love the color shift in it.
Violet foot.
Yes, it shifts.
Yes, it does.
It, like, changes colors.
And I'm obsessed with these liners because they pop the best outside.
Ooh.
They pop the best in, like, nature, which is, like, we're not filming outside.
But for me, for me, a big deal for me is, like, I like makeup, yes, that you can wear all day.
But if you're outside and it looks crazy, I'm not interested.
I do not want.
Livable.
I want it to be livable.
I do not, like, like, crusted over.
Full coverage, yeah.
Yes, I don't enjoy it.
I don't feel good in it.
I want to take it off immediately.
I was a 2016 full coverage baddie.
I had it on.
I was caked up.
Yeah.
And then just gradually use less and less.
Because I had really bad acne back in the day.
And so I was learning how you like cover that shit up.
Yeah, right.
And yeah, I've gotten older and I guess the acne kind of just goes away.
or at least it feels like it has at a certain age.
For some people.
For some people.
But what was I going to say?
Oh, have you heard of pre-shower makeup?
No.
You got to get into pre-shower makeup.
Tell me.
What is this?
Pre-shower makeup is when you're organizing your vanity or going through your makeup bag or whatever
and you've got products.
You're like, oh, I forgot I had this bright purple lip liner.
What's this look like again?
Oh, yeah.
Let's put that on.
Okay.
Oh, I forgot I have this blue eye shadow.
I haven't even tried that.
I should just put that on.
You just try all your crazy shit.
before and then you're like well
I'll go get in the shower or it's gone
but it's pre-shower makeup it's huge on TikTok
oh you're just trying things out
you're trying things out and then you take a shower
and wash it off you can also experiment
yeah like if you know you're going to be taking a shower
you could go just like fuck around
play around yeah yeah yeah that makes sense
it really is like an art form for you
like you it's like a true hobby
for you it's really fun I think
I joke about this where it's like oh thank you
it's the only thing in my life I can control
you said that and that has stuck with me forever
because I'm kind of with you on that.
I also think, I don't think people clock it within themselves.
Like if you do makeup, if you spend time doing your makeup or doing your hair,
you actually have a lot more meditative time in your day.
More than a lot of people do that don't do those things.
And like, because I don't, sometimes I don't put videos on or music or anything.
And I'm just like with myself and my thoughts doing my makeup.
But like, that's an important time that I'm like taking for granted and not even realizing how I have that.
It's actually my favorite time.
That's why I don't come here and do my makeup here.
I love doing my makeup at home.
I do it like an hour before.
I do all my makeup.
And it's like sometimes I'll listen to music.
Sometimes I'll listen to like my book or like a podcast or whatever.
Or it's just dead ass silent.
It's just nonverbal time.
Yes.
And then you're like enjoying and you're getting ready.
And then it's just like from then on it's just chaos.
I have a lot of respect for it.
You know, and there was, I think there's a lot of narratives about fashion
and makeup and stuff as being, you know, covering up insecurity or just vanity.
And I think what I really see it as with so many is just truly honest expression, right?
Like, it's a form of communication to express who you are, like, and to communicate who you are.
And that goes to so many different things.
But I think I've really appreciated that with, like, style and stuff, you know.
And I used to dress fully out of insecurity, like trying to just cover up everything.
But now I'm like, it's so cool to see, like, there's ways to, like, tell people who you are through how you dress and being proud of who you are and, like, trying new things and stuff.
And I think that's really interesting.
And I really love it.
So, and I see that, like, I think with makeup, especially nowadays, like, it's kind of this way to communicate confidence and communicate like, hey, this is who I am and I'm proud of being who I am.
And I think that's really interesting.
And, like, an expression, too, of, I was talking to court about this yesterday, just like,
you wake up and you, I don't know, I feel different every day when I wake up.
So sometimes I want to be more femme.
Sometimes I want to be more like more aggressive.
Sarah Christ.
More Sarah Christ.
Well, I always want to be Sarah Christ.
But like that's in my makeup.
Totally.
Sometimes I want to have more fun.
Sometimes I want to be playful.
Sometimes I want to be like clean-faced.
Right.
And I feel like it's the best way to express yourself.
You feel like cozy in your body when you're able to put on the clothes that you want.
want and the makeup that you want.
Right.
Yeah.
You guys have seen me through some eras.
Yeah.
Me too.
It's crazy to look back.
It's crazy to look back on so many, like, eight years ago watch videos.
It's just interesting.
Like you've really like evolved.
Yeah.
I feel like I'm boring now, but it's like, I, it's like simple.
I completely disagree.
I feel like you have refined, refined, refined.
And you're like,
You're popping.
I don't think interesting always relates to just complicated or big.
Like, I think there's ways to be really interesting in very subtle ways.
Thank you guys.
You're so welcome.
Okay, music, make up women.
Music, make up women.
Wow, we've been a very femme territory.
Music, makeup, women.
What else?
The idea of being small and interacting with food.
Oh, yes.
Okay, so being small and-acrient.
Interacting with food, not culinary crimes.
I first talked about this in a games video when we were playing a card game.
They were talking, you shush.
You, no, I'm just like.
How dare you?
You guys ever would want to be small
and be interacting with food?
Explain this to me.
Hour on Smosh games.
Imagine you are six inches tall
and there's a cold jar of pickles,
spears, and you climb up
and it's cold and crisp
and you get in and your arms are out on the sides
like it's a jacuzzi and it's cold
and it smells good and you bite
one of them on just the tip of them.
Do I want to get in a bath of vinegar?
Yeah.
You know what?
No.
It's like that feeling when you go...
That would be awful.
When you go to museum and there's like large cups, there's like large like coffee cups and you go to museum and you're like, I'm so tiny.
Look at that big cup of coffee.
This is real.
Imagine being in the pickle jar and then you just dip your head down and you go, shh.
Nobody can be mad at me.
I'm so tiny.
I'm so tiny.
And then you get out of the pickle jar and you dry yourself off and then you.
and then you go roll around on a sour cream and onion pringle.
What, okay.
You had me and now I'm gone.
Oh my gosh.
And then you go in, you just lick the sour cream and onion pringle.
And there's so much of the flavor powder on the pringle.
I think, I think this would not turn out how you want it to turn out.
The texture would be so different because when you're that small, those salt crystals, gigantic.
No, no, they're huge.
They're like going to be this big.
You underestimate me, Shane.
Hey, you guys could do this if you want.
You could get a big thing of vinegar.
No, no, no.
Shog Courtney in the vinegar and then take her out and roll her.
It's not the same.
We'll fill our bathtub with vinegar.
Be around the pickles.
And, okay, guys, I talked about this.
Okay, hold on.
Imagine there's a lovely, lovely piece of garlic bread in front of you.
And it's this big in front of you.
You can't even gutter it, like, bumper it with your hands.
You can't even so big.
Take a big bite of it up.
bread, a big bite, and then slam your head against it also.
Slam your head against the garlic bread.
So much flavor.
It smells so good and there's so much of it.
And then you could take a nap on it.
I don't want that.
I'm not going to take a greasy nap.
Yeah, yeah.
Are you wearing clothes?
A greasy cheesy nap.
You're small.
So your naked little pies.
Or like a loaf.
They cut a loaf of sourdough bread in half and they prop it up.
and you get up in and you start digging with your hands and it smells so good and soft.
I think you just want to be a mouse really bad.
And what's wrong with that?
This is what it's like to be a mouse.
I want to walk through Swiss cheese and climb through bubbles and bite it and hit my head against it.
I think I know like what Quartz next birthday is.
We just make things big.
We got to make some big cheese.
I need Charlie in the Tocin factory to be real.
Yeah, honestly.
We wrap.
We go, good night, Courtney.
and it's just a sub-roll and we're just like, good night, Courtney.
Oh my gosh, oh my gosh.
Get out of the shower and then the fruit roll up, the big one, the wide one.
Wow.
Wrap it around me so sweet and smelling so good and then bite it and bite it.
And I get the tattoo on me from the fruit roll up and it's big on me.
You wear it like a dress?
It's like a dress.
Yes.
Oh, my God, fruit roll up dress.
I am so into this because I'm,
I'm just, it's such a surprise for me.
Take a nap in a hot dog bun.
Do you feel this?
No.
Slap.
No, food is, you know, the ideal size.
Because we've made food the ideal size for us.
You come across a hot dog.
You are smaller than the hot dog.
Smacking a hot dog weiner, smacking it with your hand.
Slapping the hot dog weaner really hard with your hand, smelling it and then taking
a bite and I got it.
As much ketchup and mustard as you want because it's not that much for you.
I got it.
First of all, I'm visually picturing all of this.
Like Courtney on top of a hot tuck bump and be like...
This is just the plot of Rattoe.
I'm small.
I'm small.
I'm so, so small.
This is just the plot.
This is just Ratatouille.
No, Courtney, this is how they connect with things.
They need to touch them.
I do.
Feel the texture.
They need to do a couple little hits, little slaps.
They need to wrap, they need to envelop in the texture of something to connect with it.
A jar of salsa, sit in a jar of salsa, and then slap your arms on it.
Couldn't be me.
Splash around in it.
And then someone puts a chip, and then someone puts a chip in the salsa, and then I climb up the chip.
And you go, whoa!
You want a skimboard across it?
You get on a tortilla chip and...
Oh, and my favorite one that I said, jelly donut.
Jelly donut.
No.
Open on one side of where the jelly is because they injected the jelly.
They put your feet in.
Pull yourself in.
So your head is sticking out of the jelly donut.
The listeners know.
That is actually my nightmare.
I don't think they do.
I'm in it.
It smells so good.
Someone is actively throwing up on their commute.
No, I think there are going to be a lot of people who go, yes, yes, yes.
But the jeff, I was kind of with you, but the jelly.
I was kind of with you, but the jelly part, I don't like things that get too messy.
You can take a bath, and the bath is all so small, and it's tea.
And the tea bag, you can sit on it and you scrub, scrub, and you could, like, use a broccoli as a lufa.
And, and, and you cut a cherry tomato in half.
Did you know this?
Put the other side on your head as a hat.
And imagine peas.
I've said this on the video too.
Peas in your hand so big.
Eat it.
These are all like, this is all cartoons from like the 40s.
Peas in your hand, so big.
Eat it.
Life is so simple.
Wow.
I think mice would tell you life is not so simple.
No, I think mice would be like, get in here, girl.
This is a controlled setting.
I am safe.
You are so safe.
You're not a mouse.
I literally picture you in a white room with all this stuff and you're like and then you go into all these things and you eat peas and you eat.
Corn on the cob.
Oh my gosh.
Lay on the hot butter melted on the corn on the cob.
I love.
Cluck on corn frumpsed the shuck.
I love that you just let me.
I love that chain.
Just let me logicalize whatever the fuck that word is.
I love that chain.
Just let me kind of like.
understand it and his face was like,
you're shaking your head at me.
No, I get it.
Do you?
No, you don't.
I don't.
I don't actually.
No, you don't.
Me, who doesn't put sauce on anything?
You don't?
I do sometimes.
You don't put sauce on anything?
When we go to the movies.
It's because I'm lazy.
Chain.
Is it?
It's because I'm lazy.
But if sauces are available, I will deck a hot dog.
I'm lazy, so I just deny myself happiness on a regular basis.
No.
We go to the movie theater.
we get hot dogs. I will also get whatever
on anything. Uh-huh. I'm
down to go hardcore, too.
Okay, so Shane is here. Shane is about to
fucking dump his whole
body into a donut. All right,
keep going. Mustard packet.
I sit on it and launch
someone else if they want.
Oh, you're talking about one of those
one of those like things on a lake
where every now that you see
someone get launched and you don't see him come back
down. Yeah, but
no, Shane, we get hot dogs at the movie theater
he eat that shit plain.
Yeah, because
it's just like,
it's...
Why get a hot dog?
I'm just like,
I'm not gonna unwrap this here
and then rewrap it.
Are you joking?
But if I'm out on the street
and if I'm like in another place
and I'm like, hey, load it up.
Onions relish.
It's actually crazy
that you're eating a dry hot dog
in the movie theater.
I'll eat a dry hot dog.
That's actually shocking.
I will, but I also
will get it loaded with everything.
I'll eat a hot dog with anything.
No wonder why Courtney's fantasizing
about like jumping into a thing
of salsa is because you're
Land is F.
Our fridge is stopped.
I'm easy to please, but I also will go hardcore.
I will eat anything.
You know that I will also eat anything.
That is true, but it's like, just be happy with you.
Be happy.
Make your food be happy.
I'm fine with a hot dog.
The dog itself tastes so delicious.
I don't need sauces on it for it to be good.
A movie theater hot dog is so good.
They're actually pretty good.
No, sometimes the cheapest of hot dogs are the best.
Wait, what's your guys is if you could only have one sauce forever, what would it be?
Oof, oof, oof, oof, oof, oof.
Well, for everything?
Yeah, that's what I said.
Fuck.
You have to decide.
Oh, shit.
Maybe soy sauce.
Well, this is my world.
Sooy sauce are mustard.
What are you going to pick?
Soy sauce are mustard.
A barbecue sauce could be a good pick because I'm like, it's kind of good on everything.
Like a tangy barbecue sauce.
You love barbecue sauce.
That could work on a hot dog.
What are you talking about?
Why would it not?
Why would it not work on a hot dog?
Honestly, I think like a grain mustard.
That's actually not a bad pick.
I think a grain mustard.
I was saying about like a type of like a honey mustard could also work.
Or a Dijon, are you saying?
See, here I am.
Whole grain.
Talking about sauces.
Yeah, but you.
I clearly, I clearly know.
I am a ball knower when it comes to sauces.
Ball knower.
A what?
Guy who's just watched heated rivalry,
Ball-noir.
Ball-noir.
God, you're so dumb.
P-O-V-Uro ball-nower.
You're so dumb.
Ball-noller?
Ball-knowledge.
So, Shane has watched heated rivalry.
You have not.
You watched it all?
Not all of it.
Yeah, he watched all.
I will eventually watch it.
I have abstained.
I am heated rivalry celibed
voluntarily because our audience,
you guys,
You guys have been so intense at me on social media about watching it.
People have been very intense about it.
That I'm like, great, good job. Congratulations.
I'm never watching it now.
Yeah.
But maybe, maybe one day.
In like a year, you can watch it.
Our girl, Nicole Rafi did a video on like the chronically online girl explains he did rivalry lore.
He doesn't explain the whole show, but she talks about all the culture surrounding it.
Oh.
I love her so much.
So I was like, okay, maybe I will watch it because of her.
Okay.
But not because of your bald, noor husband.
So that's my food.
All right.
It's a very specific one.
I think you need to draw.
Guys,
draw some fan art of Courtney tiny in food.
That's what I want to see.
I want to see Courtney in a salsa jar.
I also want to see her with a cherry tomato.
In a pickle jar.
Swimming, splashing.
And I want to see Shane with a dry hot dog sitting sad somewhere.
Give me the like sad Kiano treatment.
Me just with a hot dog.
Just like.
And you know what he's?
He said, he was like, I was just really hungry, guys.
I wasn't even sad.
He's chilling, man.
All right.
What's next?
Switching it up a little bit.
I watch a lot of commentary YouTubers
cover TikTok creators who pretend to have D-I-D.
It is surprising how many do it and why they do it.
Okay, yeah.
So there is, I have like, there's a couple commentary YouTubers
who cover this weird niche subject,
which is like there has been like a several year span.
span where TikTok creators are pretending to have DID, which is dissociative identity disorder.
A very real thing that I think they call it something else now because it became so notoriously
a problem of people being falsely diagnosed or pretending to be diagnosed.
And like these are, there are so many TikTok creators that would be live or are just posting
videos, almost like they're pretending they have a whole cast of people.
living within one body.
What?
And I, and one of the creators that I, I, I watch a lot of her stuff.
She, I think it's her roommate who actually has it.
Um, and who's very educated and therapist in it.
Um, and like, so she, this, this creator Michelle Manna will, like, educate you on the disorder
while also like talking about these creators.
And she doesn't do a great way where she's not like saying this person's a liar and a terrible
person and they're wrong, which he'll be like, hey, this is wrong.
rare that this can happen, but it's highly unlikely that it happens like this, where like,
there's creators that they'll be like, yeah, I'm going to film every time I switch,
each person that I switch to is going to record.
And be like, hey, what's up?
It's Trevor and it's 12 p.m.
And then it's like, hey, what's up?
This is Rune and it's 3 p.m.
And they have an entire TikTok account, like, about all the people that are within this
system, which is what people consider.
the multiple identities within one person.
It's so interesting.
I know.
It's an intense thing.
Yeah.
But you're watching, you're watching.
I'm watching commentary.
I'm watching commentary.
You're watching commentary.
You know, how someone, like, was making lots of videos doing this and then getting caught
with a fake diagnosis.
Like, they'll, they will forge a, like, paper that says they have all these disorders.
That's, like, you clearly photoshopped and used, like, the low.
that's like not the proper logo for the hospital and things like that.
And it's like...
They're kind of exposing them a little bit?
Yeah, and people, let me know in their comments if like you've seen this stuff.
Like, there's just a lot of people on TikTok who pretend to have that.
And like, there was a whole wave of creators pretending to have Tourettes.
Yeah.
That was wild.
And making it a comedy.
What?
It's...
It is like taking this very real thing that is makes, that people struggle with and are like
dealing with in real life and making it like a funny bit.
Kind of fetishizing it in a way.
Oh.
Well, what also the problem is is we live in an era where attention is monetized so easily.
So it's like, oh, if I can fake this and make money off of it very easily, they're selling
merch.
If you're getting money off these live streams, like people will do anything.
Well, yeah.
I mean, I see this a lot.
What I infuriates me, funny enough, is rage bait, right?
Like people who purely just make fake things, fake dilemmas, fake takes, fake hot takes and
stuff, just to piss everyone off so they get more viewers.
You see this lot with Jubilee, right?
Like, I'll say it outwardly.
Like, I think Jubilee is absolute dog shit for what they're doing.
And it's just like, they're purely just making stuff that makes people angry,
so they comment on it, upset, and it does nothing.
It only makes the world worse, but it gets more attention.
But in a flip-side way, like, with people faking,
people are willing to go to such extremes and fake all sorts of shit.
And maybe with some of these people, maybe there's a kernel of truth to it.
but the exaggeration.
And it's like, I don't know, I get really frustrated because, you know, I still have a very limited understanding of psychology and what people go through.
But when people talk about it, it's like all cutesy and stuff with like DID.
And I'm just like, these are responses to horrific trauma.
This is not fun.
This is a real thing that people deal with.
And it is brutal.
And it makes life really, really hard.
And for these people to go out and fake it, then makes it only harder for those people.
Who is, are people like going and watching all their videos and then like uncovering things and then calling them out and exposing them?
Yeah.
So I think if people want to check it out for themselves, Michelle Manna is one creator who covers it where it's like, it's not just like, oh, this creator is doing this right now.
It's like here's the rise and fall of this creator doing all this and then disappearing from the internet when they got caught.
Whoa.
Because there will be likely a subreddit of people talking about it.
a lot of people who actually have this disorder
talking about like, hey, this
person made a video about how
one altar wanted to surprise
another altar with a cake.
And it's like,
it's really, the stuff is not likely
to, go into the extremes.
The problem too is like, you know,
even after getting a degree in psychology,
I know barely anything about DID.
Right. And the average person
doesn't know much.
All they know is from what they learn on the internet.
So it's easy to fake it and go,
this is what's real and everyone's going, oh, I guess, I guess so, I guess this is real.
It's easy to trick people with that.
Even the most convincing creators online have been considered to like potentially.
It's sad because when there's people faking something like this that is a very real thing,
it ruins the experience.
It takes the wind out of the sales for real people who are trying to educate others and help others people learn about it.
It's wild.
There's like so many creators.
Like TikTok was filled with creators faking this stuff.
And it's just so interesting the like mental process of that of like creating.
Like there's some ones that were like really bad faking.
Like really bad.
Like this is not this is not even close.
You can't even consider this to be real where it's like we're wearing wigs for different altars and things and doing makeup and all this stuff.
And like some people might do that in some rare cases.
But like it's just very intense and it feels like we're cosplaying at a certain point.
So I just think it's so interesting.
She'll break it down.
This one creator will break it down how these people on TikTok are doing this
and educate you on how that is or is not likely.
And I just think it's fascinating what people do on social media to get attention.
It's important, especially no more than ever with AI and everything,
is to just like be wary of everything you watch.
Like to kind of just always take that second to be like, is this what I think it is.
Also, like, the truth always comes out.
Remember that apple cider vinegar woman?
Did she get really small and sit in the vinegar?
No, I wish she did just that.
Turns out she was a mat and she died.
No, she, like, claimed that she had cancer and then created a cookbook and was like,
I ate all these foods and every single time I went to get checked out, my cancer started
to, like, disappear and go away.
Yeah, she was exposed.
So all these people were, like, aggressively following this.
But then she would post photos of her in the hospital.
being like chemo day too
and they're like, why does she look so good?
Like I had this part of my, you know, neck taken out
and I had my hair falling out.
So like people were comparing themselves.
That's, and she got so far into the lie
that she was like, no, I have cancer.
And it was like, you actually don't have cancer.
You lied.
Yeah.
But I think some people,
I don't know if this is true,
but like people want to feel like they belong
and belonging to something
where there is a lot of,
lot of attention given is what they go for.
It's not right.
But I think there's a small part of them that just feels like they want to belong.
The lengths people will go for it.
Everybody knows someone who will go to great lengths for attention.
Right.
You add social media.
You add the ability to make money off of lies and it's rampant.
I mean, we've seen there's a million, there's literally just careers right now that are
just people who lie and will destroy society in the process and they don't give a shit.
They're just, they're making money off.
It's making a lot of money off just lying.
It's wild.
It sucks.
We've really seen the return of snake oil salesman on social media.
Oh, yeah.
It's every day.
Every day on I boot up some social media platform and I'm being told something brand new,
some new product.
And I'm just like, I don't buy it because another month will go by and it's going to be
some other thing.
Yeah.
And I'm like, I wish miracles like this existed.
I know.
But you know what I love out of this is like people getting to be these like mini
reporters.
Whether,
whether, like,
I mean,
there's bias
always in the news
and always in reporting,
but like,
I love this idea
that, like,
there's, like,
many reporters
that are able to, like,
give commentary,
but it's very clear
that it's from them.
They're not coming from,
like,
a company.
It's like a personal,
like,
their researches
because they're interested.
It is a wild west.
It sucks.
It's a wild west,
but I do have so much respect
for people who do
journalism on social media,
like,
even if it's,
like,
in the niche corners of the internet.
I think it's so cool.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, so there's that.
Very specific.
That's a good one.
So, women, makeup, wanting to be tiny.
Being tiny and lies.
Big food and lies.
And then lies.
People getting caught in lies.
People getting caught in lies.
People getting caught in lies is very satisfying.
Because I hate liars.
And so seeing someone get caught.
It kind of makes me feel a little cringed.
Secondhand cringed.
It's tough.
I don't enjoy that.
I don't enjoy that.
Oh, in true crime documentaries,
when someone gets caught in that moment,
and they're like trying to scramble.
They don't know how to be.
Stuff's rough.
Yep.
What's next?
The game 2048.
Yes, so.
What?
You all know the game 2048?
Nope.
You will know,
you've played a game similar to it probably at some point.
It's a very, very old mobile game
that I downloaded a few months ago
for the first time in years,
and I was like,
is it the same?
And it's exactly the same.
It's even like pretty much ad-free until you die.
And then one ad,
and then you just close the app and open it up again,
and the ad is gone.
But it's,
I showed it to you when we were at your house the other day
and you were like, oh, H should play this game.
Oh, let me see.
Sorry, I was looking at the mythical essentials line earlier.
How old is 24?
Oh, yes, you were showing me this.
And what's the goal of the game again?
So you're sliding numbers to stack them and double them.
So twos can only stack with twos.
Fours can stack with fours.
And then you get the numbers get bigger and bigger to like 128, 256, and 512.
Yeah, I'm severance.
Yeah, show the camera.
It's literally a severance mini game.
It very much.
Whoa.
Yeah, I will every now and then look over and Courtney's just.
But I love it because.
It's like organizing.
It's like almost like ASMR in that sense.
But also it's like the one game that I can play
while having an active conversation with somebody.
And what?
I just think I, everything you're saying, I'm just picturing.
Shane like chatting with you and you're like.
This is what Bellotro is for me.
I play Bellotro on my phone.
Yeah.
And I love it.
If I need to like figure out something and like think about how I need to address something,
I will be sitting and playing this.
and scheming while playing this game.
I don't know why.
It's just like it's like an organizing game.
So it's like I'm organizing my thoughts
while I'm playing the game.
Yeah.
Like I had this, what was I trying to fix the other day?
And I was like, oh, I think I know how to fix that thing.
Oh, I had a sweatshirt that's one of those dual zipper sweatshirts that can like zip both ways.
And one of the zippers, when I opened the package of the sweatshirt, the zipper was broken off.
And I was like, I need to fix this.
Tried to fix it.
Then I had to go to the gym.
And then I was like in between sets of the gym playing 2048.
and then I was thinking about the sweatshirt and I was like,
oh, I think this is a way that I will be able to fix it.
And so then when I got home from the gym, I tried it.
It didn't work, and I returned this one.
This makes you think of bad ideas.
But it's, I be scheming and, like, thinking with this app where it's like,
oh, how do I want to go about this conversation later today
and, like, be thinking about what I want to say,
like just kind of organizing my thoughts while playing this enough game.
You're a problem solver.
You need to be doing a physical activity to figure.
out the problem that you're trying to solve. I get that.
It's good. It's good. And the leaderboard
is insane. Oh, yeah.
The leaderboard, the top number that you can get
in this game, global, top score, is
10 million.
What's your high score? What's your high score?
My high score is... How many hours do you have to
be on that to get to 10 million? I don't know.
I truly don't know. And I sometimes wonder if there's
more that I need to know about the game of like,
why numbers show up.
There's probably an algorithm.
Every time you slide, a new number shows up.
It's usually a two, but sometimes it's a four.
And I don't know why, but I need to figure that out.
But my high score is 35,476.
This is really good.
Wow.
That's a hard game.
And it's like achieving a tile.
So when numbers stack, like it has to be 16 with 16.
So it's like, oh, it's like multiples of eight usually.
And then each time it doubles.
And so like there's the, so I said, 128 tile, stack.
into 256 tile, stacks into
512, and then it's like
the 10-24.
And then it's called 2048.
Because that's like, you won, you did it. You got to
the 2048 tile. But now
at the top it says, your next goal
is to get the 40-96 tile.
I've never gotten that tile.
But I've, it's been months
and I can't beat my high score.
My brain's like, what's happening to your phone
while you're playing this? Nothing. That's
a simple little game. I think it's trying to
take my data. That's what I'm thinking. But I turned
off some features that it had,
but it is odd.
What data is it getting from you?
Passwords.
She knows multiple.
Fossi I am.
Text messages?
You all of a sudden the CIA shows up
and their makeup is impeccable.
They're like, I want to jump into a jar of pickles, bitch.
I also think it's messed up when any app doesn't have the time showing in the corner.
Yeah, they don't want you to know that.
It's pretty messed up when they hide the clock.
They don't want you to know.
Like, what do you do?
Stay there forever.
What does it say about me that that stresses me out?
It stresses me out too.
Doesn't thought me, though.
All of it.
Yeah.
All of it stresses me out.
The numbers?
I used to play this game.
It was a different version.
It was the threes.
Threes?
It was threes.
What was it called?
33, 38?
36.
But I was really bad at it.
I'm too impatient.
You know the New York Times games?
I love those.
Wordle and everything?
Wordle.
I love those.
But if I'm on my phone playing them for too long,
something in my brain like gets really overwhelmed.
I, it starts to like, I don't know, I think I get over stimulated.
What does that say about me?
Let's think about that.
That stuff's normal.
There are brains are like that.
Do you want to try?
Brains are weird.
I once let Shane's niece play and then she lost and she was like, oh no, it's done.
And I was like, it's okay.
I start over like six times a day.
I don't know how you start this.
So slide?
Don't go.
Slide to the left.
So the best thing with that game is keeping all your numbers in like one place.
So slide right and left.
Don't slide.
Oh, you already slide.
And Amanda's off to the races.
But it's okay.
We can't see what it looks like.
We don't know what's happening.
I can only assume she's winning.
It's just numbers bouncing around.
I'm not doing well.
I think probably most people know the type of game that we're talking about.
2048.
Check it out.
See, Courtney has that.
I gamble away all my money on sports.
Immediately it says game over.
So I think I did something wrong.
Oh, you have an ad.
Yeah, you lost.
Oh, that sucks, dude.
Oh, that sucks.
Guess I can't ever play it ever again.
Guess you're never allowed to play.
Whoops.
Menu.
How to play.
Challenges, new games.
So we have women, makeup.
Lying.
Lying.
And now 248.
A little tiny game that you play all the time.
And little tiny person.
Little tiny person, big food.
Yeah.
Do we have one final?
Is there any more?
Is that all of them?
Let me cook.
Wow.
I think that's literally perfect.
We're at pretty much time.
You literally timed it out perfectly.
Thank you.
Yeah, great work.
That was my plan all along.
I loved it.
That was really, really enlightening.
Imagine a martini olive, nothing in the martini olive, punch your arm into the martini olive.
And now you're Mega Man.
And now you're Mega Man.
And you have a big olive and you bite it and you punch somebody.
Here's the thing.
I can feel that excitement from you.
And I'm like, yeah, I love that.
I don't know if I want my body and food
I feel like I need to like
get it off
Yeah
Take a bath
I need to take a bath
And then go back
You take a bath and then you go back
Is the bath tiny?
It's as big as you want the tab to be
I don't care of the size of the bath
I care about the size of the food
Okay
Okay
There's specifics in this fantasy
Yeah
What the heck?
Yeah
Courtney's
Oh my god corner
Courtney
Thank you so much for sharing
your special interest with us.
Thank you.
We love you.
Thanks,
that's a lot of talking about me, guys.
We sure.
That's the point.
That's the point.
I will never get out of the image
that you have a great cherry tomato top hat.
Top hat.
Side hat.
Sit in it.
All of it.
Yeah.
I can't wait to bring this fantasy to life.
Yeah, we'll find a way.
Yeah.
No, we're going to find a way.
It's going to be amazing.
Thank you for being here.
Thanks for having me.
You guys are my favorite.
Well,
we're going to tell everybody else you said that.
I'm telling everyone.
everybody.
All right.
Okay.
Thank you guys.
Bye.
