Smosh Mouth - S1: #20 - Side Yard Hookups and The Case Of The Mystery Pooper

Episode Date: July 3, 2019

Courtney, Shayne, and Damien break down all of the pros and cons of having roommates— from sketchy side yard hookups, to living with “dirty hippies.” Shayne talks about what it was like living in Damien’s garage and Courtney opens up about her curious case of the Mystery Pooper. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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On recording, I'd be like, nope, I have hair, emotions, everything. I'm a human. Then I come home and like some roommates are home.

I open my bathroom door and it's like, someone destroyed my bathroom You've got yourself a poopy ghost Poopy ghost Those are the worst ones Walking by Shane And for whatever reason

I know this sounds corny But for whatever reason I felt like I'm gonna know that dude Interesting I had Demi's old dressing room I believe Really?

I believe mine was Demi Lovato? Was it haunted? It was haunted by Demi Lovato. You're still very much alive. Cool. Guys, I'm really excited. Burp.

I'm going to burp. And I don't want to... This is your brand? It's okay. Okay, it was a false alarm. That was gross. Whoa. What a way to start this beautiful podcast.

Oh, I hope we haven't started yet. We have. Oh, damn it, God. Welcome to another episode of the Smoshcast. It is Courtney hosting today with my boys, Shane Topp and Damien Heng. I'm the second one. Damien Heng. Damien Heng.

I'm so excited to do this with you guys today. Me too. I just love spending time with you guys. I do too. Yeah. I woke up this morning and forgot about it for the first part of my morning. So I was ready to roll in completely five days unshaven, a sloppy shirt, just my glasses. And I was just like, oh, wait, I am going to have to be on camera today.

I should probably give a crap about my. I love rugged Damien. Oh, yeah. I love rugged Smosh boys. You don't say. Thank you. Colonel. Colonel, I'm dummy thick.

Would you grow a mustache? Never just a mustache. It doesn't compliment my face very well. I did once for a short film that my friends were doing, but beyond that, no. Really? But you have darker hair. See, I feel like for me, I can't, because with blondish hair, a mustache would look like I'd end up on some sort of Netflix documentary about how I'm the worst person.

Mm-hmm. You know? Yeah. That's like- We're calling you out, Gus Johnson. Oh, no. Those with blonde mustaches. Blonde mustaches make you a criminal. They make you, like, literally's like... We're calling you out, Gus Johnson. Oh, no. Those with blonde mustaches. Blonde mustaches make you a criminal.

They make you, like, literally. Are you saying Gus Johnson's a criminal? Yeah, dude. It makes him look like, possibly. I think he would agree. Maybe. I feel like our number one comment is going to be from Gus Johnson being like,

Hey, don't speak for me anymore. Don't do that. Hey, man. I, you know, I help you guys out a lot. And wow. Okay. That's my Gus Johnson impression. I want to see everyone in this because we have a lot of bearded and like facially hairy men in this in this Smosh staff.

We do. I would just love to have one mustache Monday just for me. Well, yeah, that was the joy of when we had Joe Beretta around You know Matt Robb and Ian both have beards I say Ian needs to go mustache Ian soon I would love to see that Because we've seen beard Ian a lot We need mustache Ian

Yeah but not like handlebar mustache Like he's done in the past I think like reverse Hitler Like just missing here Just missing in the middle Mustache around but not under the nostrils I feel like Shane Hitler, like just missing here. Just missing in the middle. Mustache around, but not under the nostrils. I feel like Shane, you could totally just rock like the simple, like the simple upper lip.

The like the hipster mustache. I think you could totally do it. I see it. Your hair's not that blonde. It's salt and peppery. But it's visible though. Like you can see it, right? Yeah. Yeah.

I don't know. I just, I don't know. Every time I've done it i'm like it's not visible enough it's kind of just like oh just just did you get a tan right there mustache monday guys okay i want mustache monday i'll do it too you know what if tinder for hot dogs gets 10 000 likes we'll do oh that's right that's out today ladies and gentlemen tinder for hot dogs hot dogs you're wearing the smosh, and speaking of which. Tinder for hot dogs. Hot dogs.

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My roommate was listening to that video last night and i just came downstairs hearing like what were you learning i was like oh yeah you're my roommate huh that's my favorite video dude how's that been how's it been living with mark it's great uh for those of you that don't know um my roommate is mark rob also known as matt rob our boss's little brother and they look exactly the same they look look the same. Their speech patterns are the same, but Mark is a certified weeb like myself, so we're always just talking about

video games and we watched the My Hero Academia movie last night. It's good. He's coming from Matt Rob's place. They're big on family. Family is important to them, so when we moved in together, he was like, you know, I'm reclusive. I stay in my room even though I've. Family is important to them. So when we moved in together, he was like, you know, I,

you know, I'm a, I'm reclusive. Like I stay in my room, even though I've got this whole apartment to myself. I am. And then he is too. So he was like,

you know, the only thing I ask is that once a week we have some form of like family time, whether we make a dinner together or we watch a movie or something like that. I was like, fly kite at the park. Fly kite at the park. And I'm the kite. Play catch. Play catch. And I'm the ball.

But, you know, I like it a lot. It feels good. It feels like, you know, I don't have a lot of connections that I hold on to necessarily. So it's important to have that in the home space.

That's really awesome. Yeah, that's really sweet. I had no idea that he did that. I think that's something really nice. He's a good dude. I've always liked Mark. Yeah, he has a very like meme type humor.

He is a meme. He literally is a meme lord. He has a very meme-type humor. He is a meme. He literally is a meme lord. I think he was one of the first meme lords in our office. He was making memes for the Smosh Games Instagram for a while. He was taking a pretty big part in some of the Smosh Games content when Matt Robb was in our office. He was the originator of Munch. That's right.

He was off-camera saying Munch, and then it became a Shane thing. Well, what happened was we were, I think it's in the footage of the MariCraft, is you hear off camera, because I'm trying to come up with words. I'm like, what's a word for this? And off camera, Mark Robb just yells, Munch. And I start laughing, and I'm like, great. And I just started using it a ton. So that voice that's off camera that you hear is Mark Robb.

And we've come full circle. Yep. That's great. Now he's my roomie. I miss having roommates. I'm not going to lie. Yeah? Yeah.

I feel like I like living alone. But after we had that Smosh party over the weekend. Oh, the Smosh summer party. The Smosh summer party. Yeah, that was just a fun little night. And seeing our crew's house was so sick. And that's how my previous roommates, that's how we wanted our place to look when we lived together. Oh, man.

But we were all too poor and couldn't make it happen. Yeah. And it was also three guys. It was their first time living away from home. Oh, no. That's tough. I love you, but Mama Fairy is gone is gone yep the dishes don't disappear anymore also shame on you if you already made your mom do all the dishes yeah pull some weight kids dude coming from a lot of siblings we all

had those chores i came from doing my favorite chore growing up was sweeping and doing the floors so i and i was the only one really doing that for the most part at the apartment. Oh snap. You hear that apartment? Oh, I think there's just a lot. People forget that need to be cleaned in an apartment, like floors.

It's also a tough thing with roommates. Cause I feel like I live alone and I have for most of my life and I will go through phases where I'm bad at doing the dishes or whatever or taking out the trash. And you go in and out of those. But when you live with roommates, you really notice when your roommates are going through that phase, but you're unaware of when you're going through that phase. Yeah. So that can be tough. There's less pressure because you know if you're okay with it.

Yeah. And you don't have to worry about like, you know, Mark and I being roommates last night, like there were a ton of dishes piled up and I was like, Hey, what's the deal with the dishwasher? He's like, Oh, it's full.

I'll deal with it later. And I was like, great. As soon as you do that, I'll do the dishes and put them in and reload it. And it's like, great. So as long as there's open communication,

it's fine. But if there wasn't that, it would be an issue. I think when, when Damien and I lived together, what's, what's tough is when you have more than three roommates. Because that communication becomes impossible.

Yeah, it's harder to place blame and stuff. We sometimes, we filtered through a lot of roommates in that year. Really? It was a total, how many people overall? There was four at a time, right? It was the four of us to start. Then one of our roommates left out of town or moved out. And so we had another girl that I knew from college come live with us.

Then another roommate of mine that was a friend from college left for a while and had a couple move in and take his space. And then they left, he came back, and then his boyfriend moved in. And that was tricky for me because living with a couple is very difficult. We had two different couples. Two different couples. And both times, look, I'll throw shade because I don't know them that well. Both times, we weren't aware it was going to be a couple.

I wasn't aware that it was going to be a couple. And so suddenly, I think the second time. The second time, he asked my permission. He's like, would you be comfortable if my boyfriend moved in? And I was like, let me think about that. That's right. The second time was a little bit more known. The first time, I didn't know.

And I was like, what is this? And yeah, it was a lot of cars in our driveway. So that would sometimes be a thing. You'd get up, I'd get up six in the morning. I'd be like, well, got to wake up three people. To move their cars? To get out, to get out. And that would happen sometimes yeah it

was uh it was a thing and then sometimes the dishes were just there oh yeah they ruined a pan of mine because they scrubbed it with like steel wool and on the bottom of it was extremely scratched so i had to like hit up my the actual friend that i knew um and i was like hey man like the friends you had move in they just destroyed a lot of my like cookware. And I don't really know how to bring it up. They were messy. They were messy people. We delightfully and lovingly call them. They were a couple of dirty hippies.

Dude, when they first moved in, I pretty quickly was like, they're kind of dirty. And Damien was giving the benefit of the doubt. He was like, no, man, they're great. Like they're good people. Like, you know, I think they're great. Like, they're good people. Like, you know, I think they're just getting used to it. Maybe they're just like adjusting, whatever. And then like cut to two months later, Damien's just like, oh, my God.

Oh, no. Should I tell the gross story? Oh, yeah. I mean, I got a face full of the gross story. Oh, God. Oh, wait. Oh, there's several. You have a worse gross story. I have a different gross story. All right. You go first. So this is's several. You have a worse gross story. The bathroom one. I have a different gross story.

All right. You go first. So this is really rough, y'all. Prepare yourselves. Skip to like a minute and a half from now. Gross things ain't your thing. Yeah. So I just opened the door one day to the bathroom that was shared.

There were two bathrooms. One was me and this couple. And the first couple, the hippie one. Not the ones that i actually knew um and so i open up the door and i'm just hit with this ungodly smell and i realized um the girl in the couple was uh on her period she had uh taken out a tampon and wrapped it in a toilet paper roll uh to be like i'll deal with this later left it on the counter and wasn't running the fan, was running the heater. So it was a full day of hot air cooked period blonde.

Baked tamp? That was just like, ah, ah. Bro. It was, oh my. That is not cool, man. It was not particularly hygienic. That is, that. That was.

But she must have been so embarrassed. I didn't bring it up. You just threw it away and moved on? Also, I can't stress, they seemed like people that didn't care. That's the only reason. They were nice, too. They were really nice.

Look, I have relatives who are like this. People who just aren't bothered by messiness at all so their apartments will be messy their homes will be super messy and it doesn't bother them that's fine but when you live with roommates that gets really tough because i'm super bothered by that like living alone i i can handle disorganization i can't handle like if a piece of food is just on a on a counter i'm like i gotta get that's gross that's slimy and gross and it'll start to smell unless it's bananas unless it's bananas which i got all over the place uh no uh

so my gross story was after they moved out they uh they they were really bad they would leave food all over the place they like our fridge was gross when they were there because they would just like leave unopened food all over and like not, not throwing things away. But after they, it was like a month after they left, after they moved out and I was like, oh, we're like, thank God they're gone. Like nice people. But God, I'm so like, not good roommates.

Nice people, not good roommates. Right. We were getting a lot of fruit flies and I was like, what is up with this? I'm like, we're cleaning. I'm like, and, and we were all, us all being roommates, we all had our specific cupboards and like shelves that were ours. So we knew to clean those, take care of those. And we're getting so many fruit flies. I'm like, where are these coming from?

They're not coming from the fridge. There's no food out on the counter that I see. Eventually, one night, I look at a cupboard that I'm like, whose cupboard is that? None of us have been using that for a while. So I go and I open it and I'm talking like a horror movie, just a swarm of fruit flies. Winnie the Pooh style. Like a cloud of black flies out. And I think Damien probably heard from his room

me just going oh my god and he comes out to the kitchen he's like flies everywhere and what they had left was like

honest to god we don't know some fruit it was a literal black sludge it wasn't even the shape of a fruit or anything anymore

it was just black and it was high up it was high up in one't even the shape of a fruit or anything anymore. It was just black. And it was high up. It was high up in one of the top shelves of a cupboard. So we just didn't see it and somehow didn't smell it. And it just rotted. And I mean, it was awful. We threw that away and then set up a ton of fruit fly traps and just had

just, Oh God. Oh, no. So this brings us all back to the original point. Courtney, you miss having roommates? You miss having roommates, Courtney? I think if I were to go back into the roommate game, it'd have to be in a house like the crew did, and it has to be people that I know,

and I don't want to be with people that are moving out of their mommy's house for the first time. Yeah. So Noah, sorry, you're out of the race if we were ever to become roommates because you still live with your mommy. But yeah, that's awful. I never got bad like that for me.

Well, and also for the crew living together, they're all a little bit older. And just cooler. Because, you know, like I look back on what I was even like when we were still roommates, whatever. And I was 22, 23. Yeah. I mean, I am much more organized and clean now than I was then.

Yeah. I mean, that's just the fact of the matter, I think. Yeah. I had a mystery pooper, though. No. matter i think yeah i had a mystery pooper though um so when i when i first moved into my our place i was like guys sorry like i need the master because i need my bedroom connected to my bathroom because like i'm the only girl in the house and i think that's totally fair you know i like to walk from between my bathroom my bedroom and don't have clothes on yet is that how you presented it though like sorry guys it's just the way it is. I have to.

No, I just, and I said, I was like, well, I paid more for it and stuff. But like, so I had my own bathroom and I had a squatty potty, a nice one. It's to this day, I still have it. It's like a nice wooden one. Squatty potties, guys, get them. They're, they help you with your poops and they're very comfortable. I don't need help. I have a pull-up bar above my toilet and I hang upside down. You don't even poop.

You just lift once and it stays in the same spot. The poop just suspends in air. I hang like a bat from my ceiling. Oh my God. Just poop down my, just trails down my back. It's only natural, you guys. It's how we were designed. Guys, it's new age medicine.

It's how you rid your body of toxins. I do a pull-up, and then I kiss a little essential oil right at the top, which also helps me poop. Oh, my God. What is this? Squatty Potties? What are you, in the 70s? Is that a 70s thing?

No. I was just trying to make Squatty Potties sound old. Okay, so I had a Squatty Potty, and this is a commodity, you know? Some people need the commodity. Sorry, had to. So sometimes, like, after a day of being away, I leave my apartments clean, smelling normal, and I come home, and, like, some roommates are home,

and I open my bathroom door, and it's like, someone destroyed my bathroom while I was away. Ooh, there's been a murder. This happened more than once? Uh-huh. And we'd had a group chat, and I'd be like, hey, guys, please ask me before you enter my space and use my bathroom.

If you need to use my bathroom, go for it. But I feel uncomfortable when people open my door that's shut, go through my bedroom into the bathroom, and not my bathroom. Like, if you need to use my bathroom, go for it. But, like, I feel uncomfortable when people go through my, open my door that's shut, go through my bedroom into the bathroom and not say anything. Totally, totally. So, like, they would all be like, yeah, for sure, totally. And then it happens again. One of them's a liar.

I was like, dude, unless there's some, the landlord's coming. And they just wouldn't flush? No, they would flush. It would just smell awful or, like like clearly things that were moved around. You've got yourself a poopy ghost. Poopy ghost. Those are the worst ones. And then it got to the point where like two of the roommates were like, dude, I seriously don't know what the hell is going on.

One of them had their own bathroom as well. Like they were attached to a bathroom. There was no reason for them to go into mine. There was three total bathrooms? There was two. So it was like a one that was connected to another bedroom and connected to the kitchen. What probably happened is one of them was using it and the other one had to take a just massive dump and was like, I got to, you know what, I got to enter the lair.

I don't know. Dumpers got to dump, dude. Dumpers got to dump. But it got to the point where I was like finding evidence of like which roommate it was. Like a specific kind of... Steven. Like there was a specific kind of hair and I was like, I know which roommate this is. Like, a specific kind of... Steven! Like, there was a specific kind of hair, and I was like,

I know which roommate this is. Oh, my God. Well, only one of my roommates takes hairy poops. Oh, it's like, curly. This is... I've seen all your crotches. I know which poofs this was.

No, it was... They each had very distinct hairstyles, so it was very obvious, and just, like, it never got addressed. Oh, man, that sucks. Yeah. There is literally nothing better than, I think the number one perk of living alone

is taking dumps in your home alone is the greatest thing of all time. With the door open. Oh, no. See, I love full-on security. Like I wish I had a compound, like Area 51, where I'm like, well, I got to use the bathroom. I go, there's an elevator. Welcome back, sir. Heading down to level 50.

It's like, good thing, sir. See you in a month. And I take this elevator down to the core of the earth. And it's an airtight cell. Like, nothing's getting in there. Nukes could not affect this place. And there is a single toilet. And I can use that.

But if you die there, no one would find you. Oh, what's up? What is your ideal bathroom? Like what would you keep in there? In that bathroom in the core of the earth that if you died, you'd probably be lost. You know, probably some nice essential oils, like some nice scents, a candle or two. Wow. One of those old school bathtubs that are kind of like out in the open, not attached to a

wall. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The claw. The claw bathtub. Yeah, it's one of those. Just right next to it. I would never use it, but it's just there for decoration. Inside of it is a harpist.

Yeah. No, but see, that ruins the vibe. It'd be a robot harpist, because I can't have a human. Can't have a human there. I thought that was implied. And yet somehow, if I had a cat, that cat would still find its way to the doorway of that cell and just be like clawing underneath it.

They love rubbing up against my legs when I'm taking a duke. Oh my God. There is something cats just despise when you close the door and take a dump. They're like, no. What are you doing? What are you doing in there? It's weird, actually,

because I was helping someone who had gotten a cat, and it's actually good to put their litter boxes in more social places, instead of hiding it away. So I wonder if they're like, why are you hiding your poops? You got to be social with your poops. Cats love to give a show.

All right, everyone. If you would look towards the foyer, I'm going to drop several dukes. What are you staring for? It's a party. Oh, God. Oh, God. Anyways. Did you have a bathroom connected to the guest house?

No. When I lived with Damien, I lived in this back house area. That was really not meant to be lived in. Let's just call it a sunroom attached to a garage. That's really what it was. It had cement walls, terracotta floor. Your back wall was the neighbor's fence. Yes.

The back wall was the cement wall that the other side was another person's backyard. Also, another wall was just the wall for the garage, and it had a window into the garage even though it would be pitch black at night

so I'm like I ran an extension cord through so you could use power you're welcome Damien was super useful in like setting up because it really wasn't meant to be lived in

it had one outlet and we were like trying to figure out but so I put my wardrobe up against that window even though late at night like I'd be sleeping and I would see the light

go on if people were doing laundry or whatever oh my god it was not ideal and that garage was also just kind of creepy because it was just dirty Late at night, like I'd be sleeping and I would see the light go on if people were doing laundry or whatever. Oh my God. It was not ideal, huh? And that garage was also just kind of creepy because it was just dirty and like weird. Yeah. I had a stray cat get in there once. That was an adventure.

We had a bunch. So we had a bunch of stray cats. We had a family of stray cats in our backyard. And they would chill on my sunroof a lot of the times. So I'd wake up and just see a couple like laying on it. Speaking of laying around your guest house, you had an interesting thing happen. Oh, yeah. I want to hear this story.

So, yeah, the guest house had a sliding glass door, which when I first moved in didn't have curtains or anything. So it's just kind of like, here I am. Here's my whole room. So I had to put up curtains. But they were kind of like I could see shadows moving back and forth on the other side of it. And, you know, people would go in and out. We didn't use our front door a lot because I think it was kind of broken, right? Was it?

Oh, that sounds right. The front door was broken. So you had to use the back door. So people would enter and exit through the back door. And so I got very used to that. And one day I'm at home and all of a sudden I see a couple figures walk past. And I'm like, who is that? And they just go to our backyard.

But they're walking slowly. And I'm like, what is this? What time of day was it? Middle of the day. What? Middle of the day. I just want to say 2 or 3 o'clock p.m. Damien's not home.

I'm home. And one of our other roommates is home. And she was inside the main house. So I kind of like look out one of my other roommates is home. And she was inside the main house. So I kind of like look out one of my windows and I see it's just two teenagers. Clearly like a couple. Like, I don't know how old. I'm assuming teenagers.

They look like teenagers. And they're kind of like walking around. And I'm just like, what the hell are they doing trespassing in our backyard? And they go around our corner to the other side where it's just an at like- The side yard? Side yard or whatever. And they walk back there and I'm like, what are they doing back there? And suddenly I see his feet just like laying out from the side.

And I'm like, all right, I don't know what they're doing. I become like an old man here. I'm like, what are these teams doing back here? Well, you texted me. I texted Damien and as they were walking back, I sent them a photo of just these people in our backyard. I'm just like, there are people in our backyard.

I don't know what they're doing here. They didn't do anything because I opened up my sunglass door, I run into the house, shut the door kind of hard so that I'm like, they'll hear that. And I talked to my other roommate, I'm like, there are some teens in our backyard. There are teens in our backyard

and they're up to mischief. And she kind of walks out and we're in the kitchen and we're just like, she's like, what are they doing? I'm like, I don't know what they're doing. And all of a sudden they come back around and they're just in the backyard and they're kind of looking through our window. They probably saw us just looking at them

and they just slowly make their way back and just leave. Oh, my God. And I'm like, yeah, whatever. I don't know if they're trying to, like, I mean. I think they were trying to, like, find a nice secluded spot to make whoopee, if we're going to keep sounding like elderly folks. Yeah. I mean, whatever.

Because I'm assuming, like, they probably live on the street with their family, so they have no privacy or whatever. And so they thought, you know what? You family. So they have no privacy or whatever. And so they thought, let's, you know what? You know, the best place to find privacy, someone else's backyard. Where there are several cars in the driveway. Like obvious people are home. And I'm like, what are you thinking?

And also they're lucky. Like, I'm like, there's a lot of crazy people that lived on that street. I'm like, if you would have been a territorial person who's like, get off my property. I have a gun. Like that could have gone south real quick. And that street. I'm like, if you would have been a territorial person who's like, get off my property. I have a gun. Like that could have gone south real quick. Dude, and that happens. Like there are crazy people

who are excited about the idea of someone entering their property unwanted. Yeah, they're ready to go. I'm like, lucky that I was like, just leave, please.

I'm glad I didn't have to confront them. I'm glad they just left. I can't believe it was in the middle of the day. Yeah. It was, a lot of it made no sense.

And you mean like, were they like young teens or like 16, 17? Yeah, probably more like that. They could have been 20 for all I know. I had no idea, but he looked like a young skater dude and his skater girlfriend. Like, that's what they looked like.

Sick. Oh, sick, dude. It was one of the weirdest instances there. And we also had, uh, yeah, I was also, wasn't sure if it would be, we had a neighbor who was a elderly man who had a little bit of dementia.

I think he was suffering from sometimes would kind of enter our property as well. Like bring in our trash cans or whatever. He was, he was a really sweet guy, but so I was used, I wasn't like, I was kind of used to that idea of, oh, there might be,

it could be a number of people. That's wild. Yeah. It was weird. That's scary, man. Like, living alone, I think the one thing that, other than, like, the fact that you don't have roommates that are, like, around, chumming around, being buddies. Yeah, pooping in your toilet.

Yeah. Pooping in my stuff. Yeah, pooping everywhere. The fear factor. Like, because when I had Django, there was one time when someone, like, entered my little yard area, and, like, that scared the shit out of me. I was, like, middle of the night. I woke up to Django growling, which he always does.

Like, he'll just hear a noise, and he'll growl a little bit, and I'll, like, calm him down, go back to sleep. But, like, I don't calm him down too much because I actually, like, like that behavior. Like, I was very lucky that he happened to be a really good watchdog. But one night he was really growling and I heard a gate open and I couldn't tell if it was mine

or the person next to me. But then next thing you know, I hear my motion detecting camera go off, like on my phone, like seconds after my dog detected the person. And I look at the video and this man like busted through. And it looked like he was drunk,

but I couldn't tell if he noticed the camera and ran away or like didn't even mean to push my door open. But at the time, the gate was like really hard to open. Like I've had to adjust it and fix it to make it easier. So I think it took a little bit of work for him to get that thing open. I was terrified. Luckily, the neighbor above me, I texted her. I was like, hey, do you know what's going on?

And she sent her gladiator giant boyfriend out. He closed my gate for me and even walked around. I called the police and reported it and stuff since I had the video. But that stuff freaks me the hell out. Of course. If I didn't have the roommate to text, I wouldn't have been, I didn't sleep very good that night anyway. Of course, man. That stuff's scary, dude.

And that's why it's cool. I grew up being surrounded by people my whole life. Well, that's what's nice about living. That is a perk also of living in an apartment complex. It's like there are people who are generally in the room next to you who will hear stuff. Like I live in a very busy apartment complex and there are constantly people right, like walking past, like you're never going to get a chance to like,

there will be people around. My landlord lives in the room next to mine, which it's the only perk I would say. Your landlord lives next to you? She lives in the, or she's, yeah, she's often in the apartment,

like right next to mine, which usually sucks the Or she's Yeah she's often in the apartment Like right next to mine Wow Which usually sucks Cause it's just like I can't make too much noise probably Yeah But she's often like Out and about So she would see anything

Wow Suspicious Sorry I had something weird Kind of happen the other day That you reminded me of Oh my god yeah dude I think I mentioned this to you Apartment life

So I was I was streaming on Saturday And then When i finally finished up i looked at my phone and i had like a bunch of missed texts and calls from my roommate and it was only like 15 minutes before the end of my stream so i just missed it but it was all like hey man a little urgent can you come down here hey dude super urgent check your phone dude cops are here and it was like whoa and so apparently the uh lady that lived next to me who was a little older and you know I only met her because I moved in pretty recently so I'd only met her once or twice she had just

gotten out of the hospital apparently she passed away and had been there for quite some time um which is you know there's dying alone is incredibly sad but for like no one to notice for a long time, that really sucks. And so they wanted to talk to me because I had seen an ambulance outside of our place leaving her area like a few weeks back. So I honestly thought she had passed away then. You told me about that. I remember it was a few weeks ago. You were like, I think my neighbor passed away. And I was like, oh my God, I'm so sorry.

I thought it happened. So I came home from work. Right. And I see a firefighter, a slash paramedic come out of her place. And I like nod and smile. And he sort of gives a look like, you know,

like a solemn nod in her lips. And then another guy comes out and I nod and smile. And he does the same kind of like grim look. And so I thought she'd passed then, but for her to, I guess she passed after that. And so whatever whatever but either way it was just it kind of screwed me up all weekend

because one the idea of it is very sad but two like there's this very thin wall you know separating me from a person decaying for like a week two weeks I don't know but it was just like oof that's sad

that's so scary I'm surprised if she was having like recurring things like that that she wasn't in hospice or uh well she had like a lot of helpers like i'd often see people leaving her place who look like they just made like a delivery and she'd be like all right thank you very much thank you goodbye and so i think like can you deliver this and also help me reach this light bulb kind of situation yeah yeah There's like hospice type stuff where someone will come by for a few hours a day. I think it happens a lot. And I think with, you know, with elderly people who live alone, I mean, it just, it just happens, man.

I mean, I certainly hope, you know, she might've just passed away in her sleep or something like that. Well, they also wanted to talk to me and Rumi Mark because they were saying like, yeah, we have to make sure it's not a murder. And I'm like, oh my God. What my god like you think she like maybe she fell i think it was probably a slip and fall situation that was my guess i don't know anything about it and it even feels weird to you know but still it's so crazy like when it's real like because you hear about it or see it in movies and you're like oh this thing but then when it's real it's like yeah not the same at all it

happens all the time i've read i honestly it's weird because in these past couple weeks i've read several stories about that where it much worse where it left like people for years are oh you were mentioning that there was one some story i read i i don't have the link or anything but i think it happened in sweden a an elderly, it was like 10 years in her place. And she had automatic payments set up for everything, so no bills racked up. And somehow the smell or whatever didn't get around. So it is really sad, though, because a lot of elderly people,

maybe they just don't have family or whatever. That sucks that they were just eating away at her funds, too, like, as for years. Well, yeah, because that means those payments shouldn't have been a thing. Yeah. Because it's not a, yeah. Should have stopped. It's tough, man. It's so tough.

I don't think she was watching Black Mirror in her afterlife, you know, paying for that Netflix. I think also there's a lot of my my grandmother was you know she lived alone up until the very end and like a lot of a lot of people are just very proud and and they don't want to go live in a home or whatever so they want to live live by themselves but at that age anything can happen i mean it just sucks but sorry to make this a downer no it's okay and like i will say it also reminds me forever ago and I've thought about it myself too because I'm always like if I

in my apartment by myself if I ever start choking my immediate thing before I even try to get it out is I'm like I'm going to open up my front door or at least leave the front door open so that I'm like if I choke whatever my people will like you should have a little metal pipe by your door so that I'm like, if I choke, whatever, my people will like, you should have a little metal pipe by your door so that you can go out to

like a gate or something and be like, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding,

ding, ding, ding, And like really, yeah, everyone should just have a bell. Not like in the old West when they would avoid getting buried alive. So they'd have a bell attached to the coffin.

Oh my God. I can't believe that that's a thing that people would have the bell. I wonder if it was effective. I don't think it, I think you'd probably suffocate. No, I think there are stories of that. Is that really? Wow.

Hey. God, that would be the worst. Yeah, dude. That sucks. Just ringing the bell over and over again. Nobody hears you. Someone's like, hey, that's a very lively skeleton.

Better leave him be. Goddamn hears you. Someone's like, hey, that's a very lively skeleton. Better leave him be. Goddamn, dude. That's adorable. Have you ever lived alone, Damien? I have. My first ever bachelor pad after Shane and I were on Disney, I lived alone.

It was, looking back, the prices nine years ago, I was just like, I paid that for my own apartment with laundry? Like, oh man, I miss those days.

It was a great apartment. I really enjoyed it. I was a great apartment. I really enjoyed it. I became too reclusive because that's my natural state. And I think that's why it's good for me to live with people. Like I realized other than like recording voiceover auditions, cause that's right. When I started that out, I would go like literal days without talking to or seeing another human being. And I was like, Ooh, I like this too much. I need to not do this for my health probably yeah dang it was a great apartment I would never have left uh except for you know I wanted to live

with roommates again and that's when I moved into that house with Shane and my other buddies and uh roots often grew into the pipe system so sometimes it would back up and me being on the bottom floor I often had um poop tornadoes come out of my tub. No. Yeah. And I was like, I ended up cleaning it up myself because I'm like, I'm not going to hire some poor old lady to be like, hey, can you come on by and clean the crap out of my tub? Oh my God. Don't worry. None of it's mine.

I swear it's not mine. I swear it's not my poop. I know my poop. It's not my poop. I love smelling my poop. It definitely doesn't smell like this. I just remembered the smell. That's brutal.

Nope. Oh, God. Bathroom was nice, though. We're talking, like, all black stone countertops and black stone floor and original crown molding. It was great. How long did you guys live together? About a year. Only a year?

A little longer, right? Like maybe a month or two longer. I think at that time, that's when I started dating an ex-girlfriend. And I ended up spending most of my time at her place as those things go. So we were still roommates for a big chunk of it. But I would only check in once every couple of weeks and be like, hi, I live here. Yeah, also, yeah, you were connected. Shane's thing was connected to the place. So wait, did you have to go like when

you had to go to the bathroom i'd have to leave i'd have to open up my sliding if it was in the middle of the night i would have to open up my sliding glass door take walk out like past like kind of just up some steps to the back door unlock it get inside then use the bathroom then get back out lock re-lock the door, go back, open up my sliding glass door, and then... Would you ever just be like, I'll hold it, fuck it? Sometimes, I mean, yeah, it sucked, man. That was probably the worst part about it.

What if it was raining? It never rains. There was a little awning over the way at the walk. Yeah, it wouldn't bother, but we also... It was like a covered driveway. This was during the 50 little awning over the, uh, yeah, it wouldn't bother, but we also covered driveway. This was during the, uh, 50 year drought that we were in.

So rain's not a problem. Yeah. That, that was probably the toughest part. And then also during summer, Oh God. So sun would go through the sunroof, heat up that room.

It's cement and terracotta. And it would be, I think it was around in the 90s in my room it was a little greenhouse effect because it was a green it was a it was essentially a greenhouse and it was so hot that i would be dripping sweat in the middle of the night and it was dope it was really off and then in the winter it would be the opposite where it'd be like 50 degrees in that room and i would wake up and just immediately throw a fur blanket around and just like be watching TV in a fur blanket. That sounds nice.

It made me really, honestly, before that, I lived in an apartment with great AC and everything and had become very sensitive to temperatures. After that, I could handle anything. I still don't use my AC that often. Wow. I just am like, yeah, I can handle it. What I did love though, I'm just getting a lot of like sense memories right now. There was something about your room, the way it was set up, like you've always taken great care of your space, right? Like if you have any extra money, you're like, I want to live in a good

organized space or I want to buy some clothes that make me feel good about myself. So anyway, going into your room, I remember the smell of like that wardrobe that you bought that was pine. And so it was like a nice pine smell with the heat mixed with the fabric of like a new sofa, things like that. And I just, I don't know. I really loved being in that space.

It was nice to visit. When the temperature was nice, it was actually, I felt really proud of the room because I had made what was essentially a non-livable space livable. And that was cool. I mean, there was a lot of things that did suck. I'd get a lot of like daddy long legs spiders in there.

But those are friendly. Those are friendly, but they're just so creepy looking. So when I'm trying to sleep, the thought of one crawling across my face was not cool. Damien, your room was really cool. I liked your room a lot. I liked it a lot too it was the master thank you

because I'm a reclusive person if my room functions as a studio apartment I'm happy and I also worked out of there because I worked customer support at the time so I had my computer set up which I built I had a nice bed

I had a couch and a TV TV almost was like a separate seating area. And because everything was a very square layout, you could fit everything. So I really liked that space. I didn't like that the walls were so thin. You could hear everything all the time forever. See, that was nice for me living out in the, that was a benefit because I was separated. So I felt like I had privacy in that weird way. Yeah.

But I would wake up some mornings and I would hear Damien doing customer support already. Like you start super early. So like five 30 in the morning or would it be like six? It would be like six or seven, I think. But pretty, pretty early, especially if I had voiceover to get done first. And I, I tried, I did a little game with myself. I don't think I can say the company I worked for, cause I don't want to give away like trade secrets or whatever. So I'll just go like bop bop.

And so, so I would try to make my voice sound not necessarily robotic, but like a recording and just, it would really disarm people so that when they figured out I was a real person, they'd be like, Oh, I forgot that I was pissed off. So I'd be like, thank you for calling bop bop customer support. My name is Damien. How can I help you today? They'd be like, oh, I forgot that I was pissed off. So I'd be like, thank you for calling Bop Bop Customer Support. My name is Damien. How can I help you today? They'd be like, oh, great.

Another recording. I'm like, no, I'm a real person. I promise. You can trust me. You really, you're a real person, not a recording. I'd be like, nope. I have hair, emotions, everything. I'm a human.

Did you really say that? I would say that all the time. I have hair, emotions, everything. Hair, emotions. That is really what makes a person not a robot. Hair, emotions, everything. I have the top customer support rating in the whole gosh dang thing. Wow, did they have your picture somewhere?

That's really cool. I don't think they do because I almost got fired from that job. So when I first started there, they were super, um, that face is incredible. So when I first started there, they were super like, you know what? We do customer support differently. We want to be the place that'll like fix it no matter what. So if someone needs like a refund, great. If somebody needs a couple free, this great, like whatever you do can make to make them happy. We want to keep that reputation. And like great and then slowly but surely that became like all right guys we're a corporation and we need more numbers better numbers bigger numbers do it faster do it better and so i was

still in the mindset of like i want to help people like people would call in and be like you know hi i'm wheelchair bound i can't move anything but my neck I will be using voice to speech to type in things today and I can't get into my account that call might take me an hour to try to get that person into their account and I'm gonna do that so my numbers started to dwindle when it was like hey you didn't answer 16 emails this hour and you're like that's correct I was helping a disabled old man I was like wow that's great and everything but you gotta so I was just like I'm gonna keep doing this I will try my best to do what you guys want but I was hired, well, that's great and everything, but you got to. So I was just like, I'm going to keep doing this. I will try my best to do what you guys want. But I was hired with the mindset of like, let's help people.

That's what makes me enjoy this job. So by the end of it, I quit. And my direct supervisor was like, I'm glad you came to this decision on your own. I was just like, yeah, well, peace. So, yeah, that's wild. Jeez. Dang. That's wild. I remember one time, somehow you hurt your neck at one point. So I remember you doing, you had like that, one of those like neck pillow things. And like you were doing customer support, like this statue with this neck pillow.

Just like, thanks for calling. My name's Damien. How can I help you today? I have hair emotions everything it would be so funny though waking up sometimes at like

six in the morning like getting ready to go to the gym or whatever and just hearing this faint like thanks for calling so and so

my name's Damien how can I help you today from wherever it's so funny and then like you'd immediately get off the clock and immediately

charge up Dark Souls 2 or something like that. Oh, yeah, absolutely. You'd be like, all right, it's gamer time. It's time for videos. It's finally, I can go home from work and stay in the exact same chair and just, oh, I was so happy. I also took long bathroom breaks.

Yeah, it was great. Honestly, that house, like, looking back, there's so many stories. Do you have pictures? I have some photos of my room. Oh, really? Yeah. It doesn't look as bad because what made it tough was not how it looked. What made it tough was just literally like what it was made of.

Like it was some elementary elements. Yeah, it was what it was. But it looked okay. But of the actual house, I don't think I have any, but I'm sure you do. I don't. Wow. I did. I think the day we moved in,

I was very, again, I was having stomach problems. I don't know if, I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but I battled like major stomach issues for a long time and sometimes had trouble eating.

Sometimes it would be like a day or two until I could do that again. So I, like we moved and I hadn't eaten in a long time and I was very out of it. So I was just moving my car for whatever reason. And I took out this like brick structure leading to one of our staircases.

And I was like, well, great. First day. There goes security deposit. I should probably take a picture of this. So I got it. I'm sure I got a picture of that somewhere. Oh, my God. Yeah.

What a bummer. I've messed up a couple of security deposits. I still somehow get them back. The place where I live with the guys, the roommate one was fine, but Django chewed up the doors of my current one. And the one I was living in previously, the one I hated, it was basically just like a little, it was so small. You were there for like 15 minutes. Yeah, I know. I think I was there for like three months.

Django did work. Yeah, I tried to fix it myself. I used that paste to kind of like shape it, and I sanded it back down, but I never repainted it. It was white, but yeah, I still got the deposit back and more because they were actually – What? That place was terrible. They lied about what my rent was. They lied about a lot of things.

It was crazy. That place is known for – I don't think we can say the name, but in LA, that place is known for being shady as hell. It was a place I lived at when I was a teenager when I first moved out here. It's an infamous place. You probably can guess it. If you're in LA, you know what this is. But they gave you more money? Okay, yeah.

So, well, first of all, for the people listening or watching, if you're getting an apartment, try to find ones that are more like mom and pop vibes of the ownership or management. Sometimes that's better than a corporation because it's not as well- There's trade-offs, but corporate ones, you know your rent is probably going to get raised by at least $100 every year. Yeah. It's been my experience. These people, they said in an email and on the tour, they said what my rent was going to be. And then when I started making those payments online, I started seeing like the base rent was like $100 more than what they said.

And normally, like first of all, they never responded to emails ever. Like until I moved. Like they were super quick when I was getting in the process of moving in. Of course they were super quick when I was getting in the process of moving in. Of course they were. Yeah. Once I was in there, it was like you'd never get a response. And I had one specific person that I was always like trying to keep my work consistent with. Like, okay, I always talk to this guy.

And I would call the office and be like, hey, I sent you an email. And he'd be like, yeah, what's up? I'd be like, read's up I'd be like read the email right now yeah and like he would

and like a lot of times if it wasn't something like I was lucky that in the email they said that my rent was going to be lower than what they were charging me

otherwise they would have been like well sorry you agreed to it on your contract so you have to pay that they also on the tour were like

oh yeah no security's great here. We're going to keep you super safe. Nobody gets in. Everyone gets in. Yeah, dude. All I have to say is like, oh, I'm an Uber. And then they don't even check any credentials.

Like nothing. They just let you in. And like when I went back in my contract and in your contract, it says like, we did not tell you that we could keep you safe from anything. We are, we have, we have no responsibility over your security and we did not tell you that we could keep you safe. Get out of here.

Like literally protecting their own people like that. in super fine text. It's very small. It just says, uh, we have tremors. Don't worry about it. What's this thing about tremors?

What? Just don't put your boom box on the ground. Haven't heard of tremors in a long ass time. I thought it was a perfect time for about tremors what just don't put your boom box on the ground haven't heard of tremors in a long ass time I thought it was a perfect time for a tremors reference tremors is an awesome

movie about giant monster worms that live underground that react to sound and will eat anything tremors 2 is better just so everyone knows which is the one

with Chuck Norris is that there's one with Chuck Norris am I completely making that up is that a weird childhood memory where like I

I made something up cause I've seen maybe I am I completely making that up? Is that a weird childhood memory where I made something up? Because I've seen, maybe I am making it up. It was Kevin Bacon in the first Tremors. I saw a tweet the other day that was like. I thought Chuck Norris was in one of them. But I think I'm completely wrong. I think that's my memory. Yeah, you saw.

From when I was like six watching a movie making things up. I saw a tweet the other day that was like. Chuck Norris Infinity's got it. While you're looking for that Jamie pull that up. I saw a tweet the other day that was like was this a real animated movie

or just a childhood fever dream starter kit? I saw that. Rock-a-doodle-doo, Once Upon a Forest We're Back We're Back, A Dinosaur Story and then Rover Danger Rodney Dangerfield. Not Rodney Dangerfield. Yeah.

Rover Dangerfield. Rover Dangerfield. So Chuck Norris is not in them, but there is an assistant editor named Charles Norris who did Tremors 5 Blood. You're probably thinking of the assistant editor. I'm thinking of the assistant editor. You silly thing made that mistake. Oh, this is changing the subject kind of,

but I remember watching Tremors when I was staying with my grandparents in Florida. I would stay with them for like a month or so in the summers when I was a kid, when I was like 7 to 12 years old. And back then, you know, there wasn't Netflix. There wasn't any. Back in my day. So I would end up watching so many weird random movies. And one time I was watching a Chuck Norris movie with my grandpa and there comes a part in this movie.

It's some cheesy, cheesy, like random Chuck Norris movie where like Chuck Norris and this other guy have like each other at a standoff. They both have their guns pointed at each other and they both drop their guns and like lift up their hands and they start, you know, roundhouse kicks whatever and my grandpa like in all earnest just just goes now see they drop their guns because they want to they want to test each other's kung fu abilities like dead serious like he was just teaching he thought it was a teaching moment for his son now see what they you're going to have to do as a male, Shane. See, what they're doing here, grandson, is they're dropping their guns because they need to test each other in Kung Fu. See, Chuck Norris knows Wushu Quan, whereas this other guy is more of like a Shaolin Kung Fu style. They're like legitimately breaking down a Chuck Norris movie. That is so funny.

It was honestly very cute. It's adorable. Like adorable moment. That's a good memory. Yeah, it's very funny. You know what my grandpa used to do? He used to pirate DVDs and give them to us by the stack. Hell yeah.

My grandpa is the most honorable man. He could not break a single law. He's not like a dirty rogue like you, Grandpa. Like your Grandpa. He would download the movies, cut out all the inappropriate parts, and then give them to us. And he would even somehow get the cover of the DVD on the disc. Now it's much more adorable.

That's great. I like to think he recut movies so they'd have happy endings. Like, I'm pretty sure. They're all friends at the end. It's just the dancing. It's just the dancing. That's the problem. I don't think I saw the sex scene in Titanic until I was like 13.

Wow. Because I don't think I knew. Because Marissa had, because Titanic was so long. If you got it on VHS, it was in two tapes. Right. Yeah. So you'd have to take out the first one, put in the next one. And I was like, what? There's two tapes?

I miss, I miss that, that sort of stuff. Because I was the same with video games too. There'd be some where you'd have to take out the first disc. Oh yeah. Oh, I just got chills thinking of a boss you fight in Final Fantasy 7 and they're like, please enter disc 2. And I'm like, I finally did it! It was always my sister's game

so I could only get so far. And then when I finally made it to disc 2, I was like, we killed Aerith, now put in disc 2. Dude, spoiler! You have to cut that out. They're doing the remake. So many people don't know. If you don't know that by now you're not a true gamer

a lot of people out there aren't true gamers I guess that's fair that hurts what you didn't know about that is you're not some kind of true gamer I'm not a true gamer what's your thoughts

on Final Fantasy 8 better or worse than 7 I haven't played a single Final Fantasy but I've played lots of Lego and lots of Dead or Alive and lots of Star Wars, buddy. They're the same.

They're like three video games. What do you think? Squall, Tidus, or a cloud? Which one's best? Obviously cloud. Shane? Fair answer? Sun.

Okay, let's... Guys, thank you for joining us for Smoshcast today. This is over. Gamercast is not happening. Gamercast? Dang it! The answer was Ramza from Final Fantasy Tactics, by the way.

Final Fantasy, that's like the anime of video games, isn't it? No, I wouldn't. There's more than more anime than that. Like the Tales series? Yeah, and that's the first RPG I ever played. Tales of Symphonia, baby. That shit changed my life. That was a great game. Demon Frang!

Yeah, Kevin knows what I'm talking about. He's nodding. Yeah, it's a great game. Really, really cool because you're trying to save the planet. You're trying to bring back happiness and joy to your world and halfway through the game you realize by doing so... Courtney's yawning but listen up. And halfway through the game, you realize by doing so Courtney's yawning,

but, but listen, listen up halfway through the game. You realize by bringing light and everything back to your world, you're sucking it out of a parallel like dimension. So yeah, it was funny. Cause back on the days of Shane and I being on so random,

my dressing room was the one where we set up some game systems. So we could actually, I used to be, I don't know why I wasn't reclusive back then, but this, at that point I was like, everyone come hang out. So we played tales of symphonia together and it only took like one or two boss

fights where like, I remember watching something happen. I'm like, there looks like there was a shadow in that portal. Like there's someone on the other side. We're doing bad stuff right now. Aren't we? We're going to end up being the bad guys.

Like we're doing the bad thing. And like, that's the, and I was like, damn it. That took me so long to figure out! We were also like 10, what? You had your own dressing room?

Yeah, we all did. Yeah, we all had our own dressing rooms. That's so, what were they like? How big were they? They were pretty decent size. How about the size of this room? I had Demi's old dressing room, I believe. Really?

I believe mine was- Demi Lovato? Was it haunted? It was haunted by Demi Lovato. They still very much alive. Oh my gosh. No, they were very cool. It was Haunted by Demi Lovato. They still very much alive. Oh my gosh. No, they were very cool. It was a sweet setup.

God, I remember one time playing Doug. I was playing our castmate Doug Brochu at Super Smash Brothers. And I just, I was on a winning streak and he got so mad. He slammed his feet down so hard that everyone in the entire hallway of dressing rooms heard. And like some people came to our room and was like, is everything okay? Oh my God. Yeah, we're just kicking some arse.

Don't even worry about it. And I would save every, I started saving every script. And we would go through four different scripts every week because we'd have several writer's drafts, production drafts, whatever, and final drafts. And by the end of my stint on, on so random, that stack was like six feet tall, lots of paper.

And that wasn't all of them. That was just from when I started, which was like halfway through. I wish I still had those. I don't believe I have. I have a couple of scripts. I've kept, I've kept a lot of scripts.

I have a script from my guest star on I Carly. Uh, every guest or ever did. I kept the script. I kept a script from the indie film I did in 2008. That's so cute! Kept some So Random ones. I did that for my Cartoon Network. I do it for voiceover stuff.

So I did it for my Cartoon Network stuff. Was there a lot of downtime when you guys were on So Random? Yeah, I remember it was one of our final weeks on So Random, and me, Damien, and Matthew Scott watched the final episode of Oprah. Remember that? It was one of our final days on So Random and we me, Damien and Matthew Scott watched the final episode of Oprah remember that? It was one of our

final days on So Random and so we all watched the final episode of Oprah and yeah I remember that that was like kind of a very sad moment because we were just like wow Oprah's ending and so is this there's no TV left you guys knew it was going to be the final we knew the season was ending

and I mean some of us we all had different hopes of if the show would get renewed or not. I had a feeling that it wasn't. I was very, like, pessimistic about it. I think you were... I was very hopeful. Because here's the thing about it. Disney shows usually go three or four seasons. Because that's enough.

A generation grows up with that show, loving that show. Then they age out of it. And then the show is done by the time they like age out of it. Also like, you know, you make more money each year with your contract. So they don't always let things go too far. It's,

it's a smart money making move for Disney TV. Our show was a spinoff of Demi Lovato show. It was sunny with a chance. And it became loved that show. Exactly. But like after four or five years, you wouldn't have probably been into it. Right.

So like it was a spinoff where they took the sketch show that was within that show and made its own thing called So Random. But contractually, it was not a new thing. It was the fourth year of Sunny with a Chance. And you had a lot of those actors who had been there for all four years. So it had kind of run its course. And on top of that, part of their like business model, at least as I understand it, is if you look like something like bella thorne show uh shake it up or kicking it or something like that they can sell the lunch boxes they have the bella thorne clothing line at walmart that you can buy they have all that you don't get to do that with a sketch show yeah and so there was

just yeah i think probably one of the weirdest things in my life has been when I joined Smosh and just hearing all the same exact things being said about me that I had heard years prior on So Random. What do you mean? Which is, I hate all these new people. Oh. It was better when Demi was on.

And then it became, I hate when Smosh added all these new people. And then it was better when Anthony was on. And I'm just like, it's the same exact situation. It's hard, man. People are just resistant to change, I think. But it's necessary. There's no option.

With So Random, there was no choice. That's just what both parties wanted. What was your guys' first encounter with each other? I know the exact moment. Oops, sorry. I bumped the table. How dare you? Shane had already been on the show for a week or so.

By the time I joined, they were adding people very slowly. And so I remember getting on a set, not knowing exactly where I was going, but walking by Shane. And for whatever reason, I know this sounds corny, but for whatever reason, I felt like I'm going to know that dude. Aw. Interesting. And so, yeah, then I went up for the table read and he was there. We introduced ourselves and there you go. Look at that. I remember, yeah, it was the table read that I really like saw him.

And I was nervous at first because I had done one episode. So they brought me on for one episode and I had assumed because it was me and like two or three other new people on top of this new cast. So I was like, oh, cool. Like we're the new cast that they're adding.

And then so I was like, I'm doing a good job. Like I felt pretty good about how I did that episode. The next week I see Damien and I go, oh God, I did a terrible job and they're replacing me. That was my initial thought. It was nothing to do with you. I was just like and I go oh god I did a terrible job and they're replacing me

that was my initial thought it was nothing to do with you I was just like oh god like I would have thought the same thing oh crap

like whatever and then you were in the table read you were crushing it because you had like they all kind of like took characters some characters

that we'd kind of done in our auditions or whatever so you had like what was it that you did was it what was your character was it that you did? Was it, what was your character?

The ones that I did in the table read, they all wrote for me. It wasn't anything I brought in, I don't think. What was the one that you did first? It was like something kid in school. Zombie Man or Olaf Glutella. Olaf Glutella was the one. Okay. Olaf Glutella. He was a fake foreign exchange student.

It was really great. Yeah. Oh my gosh. And then kind of the same thing happened the following week which is when our friend Matthew Scott joined I thought he joined before me I thought it was you and Matthew Scott and then I came on were you the third week? I think so then I'm getting things mixed up because both times then I was like oh god this person's replaced me

Matthew Scott was after because I thought the same thing I was like he's funny as hell because matthew scott came in and matthew scott just has a presence about him and he did this character that did become a huge hit on the show if i had known like and i eventually realized after like week four that i was like we're all just staying on that's awesome here's the problem they they brought us on as guest stars right and so the way things are organized for tv if you're like a main you know cast member then you're there you're pretty much there every week if you're a co-star it's like a guest situation and that's sort of what they kept us at so they were like hey we're gonna bring you on for like

two to three weeks at a time and then you know nothing else and be like great so we would do those two weeks and be like i don't know and then they'd be like oh yeah we're gonna bring you on for a couple more and it'd be like oh great finally more work that's awesome and so it wasn't until pretty much near the end of it that I was like oh we're doing a full season of a show but people ask like

what was it like getting the news that you were on this show and I'm like I never got that news I literally thought like okay cool one more week of work

yeah one more week they would let us know every week if we were on the next episode that's crazy it's kind of savage we all missed we all they would all make sure that we missed one episode each so that they could keep us as guest stars.

Is that why they did that? That is why, because legally speaking, you can't be a regular. I don't think, but they was very specific that we all were in 25 out of 26 episodes. That's crazy, dude. Pretty brutal. Disgusting. Because I remember it was also they i don't know if it was on purpose or not but my manager at one point because it was like week

seven my manager was like hey what are the chances of him becoming a regular and they're like it's not possible and also we don't need him for next week's episode and i was just like all right they are uh going for it um and i remember that week just sucked because I'm just like, because at that point we were all friends, whatever. So I'm like, great, they're all there filming an episode and I'm at home. Like, you're not even, I'm not even a regular, so I don't have any way to get on set. That week I am literally not allowed to go on that lot.

Like, I'm not allowed there. So I'm just like, oh, I'm forbidden now for this week and then I'll be back. It was weird, man. Eight straight months on that show, but we were never officially on it. It was really trippy. It's a trippy experience. We even went to D23. We did.

We went to D23. The Disney convention. Disney's VidCon. But the show had not premiered by that time yet, I don't think. So, especially for us new cast, people never knew who we were. We would have a live audience taping and they'd be like, Oh, we got one of the stars of the show. Bring out Shane Topp and Damien Haas.

And all the kids would be like, who? Where's Denim? Bring out Denim La Bamba. So it was very weird. And so again, I talked about this the other day with someone but like because we never filmed at a time when the show had already premiered and because i became sort of a recluse after that and went to the gym during the day when kids are in school went to the grocery store during the day when kids are in school i didn't get recognized for so random for like

years and so i assumed like, nobody watched that show. So it wasn't until we joined Smosh that people were like, I didn't put that together that those were, he's zombie man and those were the anime bros. Which characters shame and I pitched. Yeah, you guys were just, I happened to show that video this morning. Someone tweeted it to me today.

It's so good. Which is cool. Yeah, anime brothers. I will say I was obsessed with Sunny with a Chance. I was a big, I watched a lot of Disney Channel when I was growing up. And, like, I was obsessed with that show, that first episode where Sunny comes in. I feel like that was exactly how I was when I came into Smosh. Just like, ah, I'm here.

Who's that? Who's that? And, like, I remember eventually seeing, like, oh, what's this? So random. Okay. I wonder what it, that's, it's probably the same thing, right? Oh, so you saw that. and like I remember eventually seeing like oh what's this so random okay I wonder what it that's it's probably the same thing right? Oh she saw it oh I think I saw like a couple episodes and I was like what's this

I was like oh I get it okay so this was the sketch show that they were making okay click you actually just reminded me of something kind of funny. Years before Sunny with a Chance was the thing, the original pitch name was Sketchpad.

And I know that because when I was a teenager, I auditioned for that. I auditioned for that too. What? I heard about it and I couldn't get an audition for it somehow. I auditioned for it and went back for like three rounds. And this was when I was still in Atlanta. And I didn't end up booking it, but it was for one of the like main, I don't know if it was like Sterling Knight's part or whatever. But, um, when I walked into the audition room years later for So Random, I was like, this sounds like the same thing. Like Sketchpad was supposed to be

a sketch show. It became Sunny with a Chance and then it became Back So Random. So when I walk in, it's the same casting director. And she says, oh my gosh, I remember you. I'm so glad you're here. I can't wait to see what you've got. And I was like, that's the best way ever to start an audition. That's awesome. And I flippin' booked it. So I was like, casting directors have the most insane memory. They do. They really do. They'll remember. Shout out Cheryl Levine. Can I say that?

Yeah. Shout out Cheryl Levine. I love you and miss you. Do not murder anyone in front of a casting director because they will remember your face, your name, your expressions. I always forget that I knew Sterling Knight when I was a teenager. Interesting. I knew him.

And then I ended up booking that. And it was like, oh, hey, how's it going, man? Good to see you again. What's up, dude? What's up, dude? Sup? What's up, man? Yeah, Surrandum was a weird time, man. It seems like this weird fantasy dream that happened for a little bit. It's a long time ago, but also not that long ago. Yeah, Surrandum was a weird time, man. It seems like this weird fantasy dream that happened for a little bit.

It's a long time ago, but also not that long ago. Yeah, really not. It was only when I was 20. So it was only seven years ago that it ended. Seven years. Yeah, closer to eight, but still that's not that long ago, but it feels like a different age. Wow.

So here you are doing a sketch comedy still. Here we are. Yeah. So here you are doing sketch comedy still. Here we are. And here you are hanging with the two guys from your favorite show. Courtney's favorite show. With Denim La Bamba. Denim La Bamba on some rhombus. I just love when I get DMs

that are like, were you on That's So Random? Everyone still calls it That's So Random. Oh, that's funny. It's just so random. Yeah. Dude, that's nuts. That's so random.

Yeah, and then I got the Smosh job on one of my first auditions ever. That's rad. That's nuts. How old were you? I was- You were 12. I was 19.

I was 19. Wow, crazy. I just, I was 19 about to turn 20. Couldn't even vote. Couldn't even vote. I was 35. Wow. Now I'm 19. Wow, crazy. I was 19 about to turn 20. Couldn't even vote. Couldn't even vote. I was 35. Wow. Now I'm younger.

I actually somehow, I think I do look younger now than I did when I joined. Is it the hair color? I think I looked like a dad when I joined. Also, just the way I dressed and everything. Oh, you kept your hair dark, like Courtney was saying. My hair was dark still when I just joined. But I just think I also just didn't, I don't know. I just didn't give a crap at that point.

God. So cute. What did you look like, Damien? When I first joined? Yeah. I was just coming out of my stomach issue stuff. And so I was much thinner, but not in a super healthy way. Like freaky skinny just like freaky skinny

not freaky like stephen king's thinner no i was just like a lot skinnier um had had mostly wore my glasses yeah i also was like broke as a joke for a long time before joining smosh so like new clothes what are those i'll wear hand-me-downs for my boss at the retail store that i work oh my god and they're often like stained and i'm like whatever cool thanks for the clothes New clothes, what are those? I'll wear hand-me-downs for my boss at the retail store that I work. Oh, my God. And they were often, like, stained. And I'm like, whatever, cool, thanks for the clothes. Wow. They're four-year-ago fashions, but that's dope.

I'll take them. I was wearing hand-me-downs for most, for, like, up until I was, like, 15. I started finally being able to, like, get my own clothes. Nice. I wore, my wardrobe was so small when I joined. I didn't have a ton of money, but also just that's just how I was. I had one pair of boots that I wore every day. I had one pair of jeans that I wear a lot.

That's so bad. And then just a couple shirts that I would rotate through. But that's kind of like an actor wardrobe because you just are like, well, I can't wear logos. I'm going to generally wear blue for auditions. Yeah. So I'm going to keep this blue. That's so crazy. And then what I also wore, what I started wearing a lot shortly after joining, was I would wear shorts with a tank top and like a button-up short-sleeved shirt over that and flip-flops.

And our head writer, Ryan, despised it. He hated it so much. And I would come in just with my flip flops to work and he'd be like, oh, so this is what you're, alright, this is what you're doing today. Just like, you got it. You dress like a tourist coming to California being like,

I gotta fit the part. I gotta look like a Californian. Cali. Cali, baby. Cali life. Oh my god. My fashion was weird. It was just mostly me trying to hide my crippling insec baby. Callie life. Oh, my God. My fashion was weird. It was just mostly me trying to hide my crippling insecurities. I feel that. I feel that.

It was like in between your fashion. You're like, I'm just like I wore the flannel around my hips to make my hips look bigger. But like, and that was, yeah, there's not a lot going on there. I feel like that's what people wear when they're teenagers. Because that's kind of how I dressed up until I was like, honestly, like 22. To make your hips look bigger? Yeah, to make my hips look bigger. No, but but I would just I would wear things based more on what did I want to hide yeah as opposed to now I dress in a way of like oh this looks cool that'll or this is crazy this will pop um totally yeah we're so cute now we're all just very we're all just

honestly very cute uh make sure to watch the video version of this podcast to see how cute we look. Yes, do that. And the video version comes out on Fridays if you just want to hear us, which you get to hear all the swear words, which I don't think

we said a whole lot of swear words this time around. We dropped a couple S's and one F and then you had a JC, but it's whatever. What's a JC?

Jesus Cristo. Oh, just chilling. Ha, just chilling! Oh, oh whoa do you know how many baby angels you just killed by saying that calm it down uh yeah okay but yeah the whole audio version comes out on wednesdays full video version on fridays uh or so when you just if you love us hit the bell there's a bell somewhere you'll find the bell if you love us if you don't hit the bell then that means you don't love us hitting Hitting that bell is a little equivalent to giving us a little kiss right below the right eye. On each individual cornea.

And if you also, side note, if you don't go watch Tinder for Hot Dogs right now, I don't care if you've already watched it. You need to go watch it again right now. That video, if that video doesn't get a million views, if it's not at 10 million views, if it's not the number one, if Jimmy Fallon isn't looking up to Tinder for Hot Dogs going, how do I do that?

Then I swear, the sun is going to explode. Please. Saying please never hurts. Or at the very least, if you want to check out the Tinder for Hot Dogs merch or our other Smosh merch,

we have those on Smosh.store. Check them out. Our merch is so comfy. Yeah. You can do anything Smosh merch. We have those on Smosh.store. Check them out. Our merch is so comfy. Yeah. You can do anything in our merch. If you wear our shirts, you will be more powerful. Dude.

We're going to get sued. Yeah, the FCC is going to be... You can't promise that T-shirts will make people more powerful. It'll give you plus one charisma. And plus two against ogres. Yeah, plus two against ogres. Nice. plus one charisma. And plus two against ogres. Yeah, plus two against ogres. Nice.

Plus one charisma. The water bottle gives you plus three stamina. But you have to take an exotic penalty because it's an exotic weapon. Yeah, exactly. Dang it. The Tinder for Hot Dogs shirt, though, gives you plus one at all stats. Charm. All stats.

You're in good hands. Agility. Style. Strength. I think Tinder for Hot Dogs shirt would be one of those that has like a drawback where it's like

you know you get like plus 10 strength and you're like oh but like minus 5 wisdom and you're like oh so you have to cause you know

Tinder for Hot Dogs is dumb as hell I love it it's dumb as hell but also very powerful it's no it's incredible it's the greatest thing

and the video is even better I mean that in a good way listen it's look there are haters out there there are doubters well I'm not a hater It's incredible. It's the greatest thing and the video is even better. Listen, it's... Look, there are haters out there. There are doubters. Damien is the number one doubter of Tinder for hot dogs. Prove Damien wrong.

I love Tinder for hot dogs. I just think it's lunacy. This is us going for it. Damien, you're not alone. Everyone is doubting Tinder for hot dogs it's weird that's why

it is an underdog story get out of here guys how have I not used that up until now holy crap guys it is an under hot dog story

alright we gotta get out of here I need to go watch some Sunny with Chance and I need to go take a bathroom in Courtney's bathroom hey and I need to make sure that you're all watching

Tinder for hot dogs you boys are so cute. Thanks for being on the show. Thanks for letting me host. Thanks, Courtney. Oh, my gosh. I'm so happy that this happened. Shucks.

Okay. Okay, goodbye. You gotta go. All right, we have to leave now. Gross. Bye. Oh, my eyes. Thank you.