Smosh Mouth - S1: #21 - Being A Woman In The Smosh Boys Club

Episode Date: July 10, 2019

Ian, Courtney, and Sarah recap their 4th of July adventures, open up about the struggle of being a woman on the Smosh team, and talk about being literally shook by the recent Southern California earthquakes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With auditioning, it's even worse. You could nail that audition. You could be the best possible fit, but your face reminds the casting director of their cousin that they hate. Exactly. Spencer and Matt had actually texted me afterwards, and they were like, Sarah, you didn't tweet about the earthquake.

Are you okay? Oh, my God. And then Spencer's like, She's fucking dead, bro. You have to get more creative with your killing dude I had a house I had Matt Robb in a room three fireplaces going wooden chairs rugs everywhere Nothing. They had like a pool and stuff. So like oh, let's get like a swimsuit See if you want to like go swimming. You were gonna swim at this random party? Jesus Christ Courtney!

It was a night of exploration. This is so... Okay, how could I... I'm sure it'll get worse. Go on. I'd say the jacket's probably fine as long as you're not doing much of this. Yeah, I don't have a whole lot I'm doing. This is how you talk? Like a rock'em sock'em robot?

I was at a party and I talked to my party. So Courtney decided to wear the loudest jacket in the universe. So she's going to be completely told. She's going to be completely immobile the entire time. She's a floating head. Welcome everyone to the Smoshcast. I am Ian Hecox and today I am joined by Sarah Whittle, our social expert. Expelliarmus. expelliarmus person, and Courtney Miller.

Do you guys want to hear a story or two stories, I guess, about my crazy weekend? Wow, she is so excited to talk about this. Yeah, I actually still feel kind of crappy from Saturday. Like it was a pretty crazy night. Well, I saw that you took... My sis to our favorite place. No. My Carrie. Stop. You took my Carrie.

Don't refer to my sister or any woman as my and their name. I just want to put it out there. I was not the first person to say that. That was our writer, Ryan. He's like, oh yeah, Ian's Carrie. Oh boy. So Courtney's sister, Carrie,

my future wife. Dude. I'm so glad I don't have a sister. Claudio, my future husband. Mine. No. All of ours. Everyone loves that. you you blew up our spot i did you showed her our secret spot courtney oh yeah our secret spot you've brought literally everyone at mythical everyone i haven't been though oh you what i haven't we have a special restaurant that we love to go to uh ian shane and i used to go there a lot like just to touch base

and like hang out i remember when i first went through my breakup we wentane and i used to go there a lot like just to touch base and like hang out i remember when i first went through my breakup we went there and i told them about it it's a very special place yeah we commiserate over spicy margs yeah they have crazy spicy margs um way too strong spicy margaritas for those yes that gives me heartburn oh it's so good what What pill helps that? I don't know. Nothing. Yo, did you see Pepto-Bismol does a pill form now? Oh, hell yeah. But yeah, I took her there. She wanted to take me for my birthday somewhere, and it had just taken forever because we were doing so much work.

And so we took her there. Okay, so we're going to tell this story. This is the crazy Saturday story, and then I have like a 4th of July story if we want to go into that one. But like, so yeah, my sister and I were just kind of going to go do dinner and then go back to my place and watch Iron Giant because we love that movie. After we finished dinner, I was like, well, why don't we walk to the nearby pub? Because that place is pretty cool, too. And we went there and played Yahtzee. And then we decided we went back to my place and then we were like, you know what, Let's go to the liquor store and grab some snacks and then head back to the house before we watch the movie. Is this the same Spicy Marg night? Same Spicy Marg night.

Damn. So you guys already, you slammed the Spicy Margs. Yeah. She got a Skinny Marg. And they made that one literally, I think it was 80% tequila. That's how you, that's you they do it there they don't mess around there so so you guys you you guys you guys each had one of those spicy margs you split another one right yes the waiter was like oh this is strawberry margarita nobody it was a mistake

it's free you want it we're like all right cool so we had we had one and a half each and then we each had a cider because we love cider um and we played yahtzee that was fun and then but yeah so we're at this liquor store and we were buying like powdered donuts and stuff and right as we are about to turn the register at a liquor store as one does it always seems like a good idea to get powdered donuts and it never it just looked like a crackhead immediately the journey that these donuts ended up going on to is so weird. Okay. So all of a sudden we're about to, we like are looking at other snacks and then we hear

this dude go like, what's up ladies? How you guys doing? We're like, good. Oh, good story. Always starts with a stranger man saying, what's up ladies? Didn't that happen in Mexico with you too, too, or something like that? Oh, that was, yeah, that was like a weird kid tourist who's probably like 18 but like this was like a fully like a fully grown dude he was in like jordans and skinny jeans that were like acid wash like okay this guy is like

out for the night yeah there's an suv outside and um detail and he was like what's up ladies like were you guys done for the night like we have there's a party nearby if you want to go and all of a sudden I was like

I bet I know where this party is because every time I drive home from my dad's house or from the valley I always pass this one house

and I see it and I'm like dude this is either like a YouTuber house or a party house like this house you can tell and so I was kind of curious and we were like no there's a party house like this house you can tell and so i was kind

of curious and we were like no there's a party and i was like no courtney this is bad this is a bad thing to teach her crazy story ends with saying no so wait wait wait yeah yeah no and then i said no and then we went home and watched iron giant that's my story is that we want the story to be in that's what i wish the story was now i'm worried while you're alive i'm literally sitting right in front of you one One of her legs is fake though. You don't know that. That's what happened. But Courtney, what about my Carrie?

Is she okay? Bro. Is she safe? She dead, dude. That's okay. She's got other sisters. Hey, other boss. Stop.

So yeah, disclaimer, don't do this. Oh my God. Don't. Did you get't did you get let me finish my disclaimer no let me finish my disclaimer also let me tell the story okay yes i'm alive and well i get lucky i get very lucky let's knock on some wood right quick but yeah don't do this don't go to strangers houses or go to anywhere that a stranger tells you to go don't give them your number don't don't do this don't go to strangers houses or go to anywhere that a stranger tells you to go don't give them your number don't don't do anything with strangers like that but we're like that's funny like and it was literally walking distance from my apartment like i knew exactly where this party was and i'd already always seen this house so i was curious and this

dude was like yeah yeah uh like come check it out we our party on the fourth went viral like like you should you should come check it out dude and we're like all right well we'll let you know and then and then he like left in his suv i think he wanted us to like get in his car and go with but we were like no no like we got to stop by my place really fast because we were like in very like lazy like comfortable clothing we're like let's let's go home. Let's change. Let's go check out this party. Oh, my God. It was just me and my sister out on the town.

We wanted to check it out. Okay? So we ran back to my place. They had a pool and stuff. So we're like, oh, let's get a swimsuit and see if we want to go swimming. You were going to swim at this random party? Jesus Christ, Courtney. It was a night of exploration.

I don't know why this sounds that crazy. No. I'm literally alive. I would not. I don't. This is terrible that crazy. No! I'm literally alive. I would not, I don't, I don't. This is terrible. Okay, what else? Why is it terrible? This is so, it can't, okay, how could I, all right.

I'm sure it'll get worse. Go on. I feel like I don't want to tell the story now. You're not making it very fun for me. Then he also offered me like just these random pills. I was like, ah! Yeah, YOLO. It's time for exploration.

That's on the same plane for sure. So we go back to my place. We get changed into like some cuter outfits. And we walk to this house. And it was the exact house I knew. It was the exact house that I thought it was going to be. And we walk up. We go in the house.

It's like 20 people. The back door is like fully open. There's the pool. And it's just like oh we were also we were the only white girls white people there this at this whole party we roll in we're like oh sick okay and they were like nice they had they had lemonade catered to this party and there was like music everyone was just like chilling there was some people in the pool and uh lemonade for those of you that don't know is a restaurant it's like a not literally it's

like yeah it's like a healthy pasta place. Yeah, it's like deli sides almost. Yeah, they weren't just serving up lemonade drinks to people. No, no, yeah. Lemonade is like a, yeah, it was like there's pasta and rice and stuff like that. Well, that's cool. Yeah, they're nice. And they're like, what music do you guys want to listen to? We're like, all right, whatever.

How many people were there? Like 20, 25. But it was a big house, so spread out. It was like very empty. Cavernous. Intimate. Yeah. Yeah.

And so we were just there. And it was just me and Carrie just chilling. And the guy, he offered us some shots of Patron. And we made sure to watch it happen. Don't worry. We were being pretty responsible. And then we found a dog, pet the dog for a long time. Oh, dope. Always find the dog. Hell yeah. Yeah. And then we got in the, pet the dog for a long time. Aw, dope.

Always find the dog. Hell yeah. Yeah, and then we got in the jacuzzi for a little bit. And the dudes were all, like, feeling flirty. Like, they definitely, like, wanted a lot of girls to be at this party. And there were. There were a lot of really cute girls, like, in the jacuzzi having a good time. And then me and Carrie noticed that there was, like, a half court behind the pool, like, with basketballs and stuff.

And so we decided to go over there and start playing were you still in your swimsuits while you're playing we were in one pieces but yeah um we were playing basketball and these two dudes and a girl joined us and like i wanted to be good at basketball so bad but like i was you know i'd had a couple drinks at that point it was just not happening just the biggest air balls in the planet um and then this guy this guy dude he started being like really creepy he was like hey man like whoa like you're so hot as I'm like missing every basketball shot and like running around and this is where it gets weird I was like this is where it gets weird Not when a random guy Hits you up in a liquor store

And says come to this house I feel like you should go out more Courtney how often does this happen To you In Courtney's life all the time She has a crazy life I don't understand how she gets into her situation I said to her the other day

She had a very sexual upbringing And I was kind of jealous No one has to make out with me ever and she's like yo just girls and boys though it's making out with me i'm so jealous i don't know man all right okay so this is guy so this is when it gets creepy okay we okay so this point like the we're starting to feel the tequila or whatever and like we're trying to after we had taken shots point like the we're starting to feel the tequila or whatever and like we're trying to after we had taken shots tequila we're taking shots shots of the b-ball and missing so bad um i wanted to be so good but then so this guy was like yo you're so hot whoa and i was like okay dude and then he goes like yo check this out oh no he grabs my hand and puts it on his boner no no and then i my first

thought was like why is this dude hard on the court right now yo dude air balls you're a freaking poet i'll tell you what yeah dude when i see a girl air ball and totally totally miss that hoop damn i was like what the hell and carrie at this point I was like, what the hell? And Carrie, at this point, she was back in the jacuzzi or something. I was like, yo, we're leaving. And I got our shit back together. We ran home back to my apartment. I'm glad you finally did something rational.

Yeah. That whole time, though, I had those powdered white donuts in my pocket, and they were just completely smushed and the next morning i was feeling like shit and tried to eat some and they weren't good of the powdered donuts it all came back around yeah but we we we ran back home and i told her the next day like what happened she was like oh my god dude i literally didn't ask her any of that that's not good but literally the best case scenario in that in that situation i'm just glad i got to confirm like what that house was because i had been so curious for so long i remember that that day i

was driving home before the party i like saw there was like tons of trash and red cups outside of that house and i was like okay. I bet I could touch a random boner in that house. And I did. Dude that dude who does that? Who just I like to imagine that he was like wearing basketball shorts and boxers so it was just like full on pitch in the tent just like

walking around. Running trying to shoot baskets. Oh my god. Was he one of the people that was playing with you guys or was he yeah he joined in he's just watching on the sidelines we were just running there was no organization to our basketball game like they were just trying to shoot and miss and you couldn't see that he was like pitching a tent before that no he's wearing very baggy clothes good for him um no not good for him i'm kidding it was so weird that is terrible those most of the people at that party

were really nice like i was a little was that the guy that that hit you guys up no okay no the guy that invited me and then like the other guys that lived at the house were really nice like we talked to them about like music and like and what we do for fun and they're really cool it was just then it got like really weird i was. Did you yell at him? I was like, oh, my God, dude. And then, like, I just. Not okay. There's just a lot going on.

Gee, I wonder why they're desperate for women at that party. Because that dude just keeps grabbing girls' hands and forcing them on his dick. Yeah, that's not how you approach women at all. And I just, you catch me at a certain time i like i will either react very angrily or just be like okay dude you got some issues yeah i mean if i was in that situation i wouldn't know how to react i would i would probably laugh it off and then be like all right i'm peacing out yeah i think i would have been so shocked like one time i was at a bar and a guy like i was talking to this guy not flirting it was just a bar and a guy, like, I was talking to this guy, not flirting. It was just a normal conversation. And he started touching my hair, like, doing that to my hair.

And I was like, excuse me, what are you doing? And he's like, you're batting your eyes at me. You're flirting with me. And I was like, excuse me, sir. It's called blinking? Yeah, that's exactly what I said. I was like, it's called blinking. And I'm sorry you forgot what, like, a normal conversation is.

Like, I got so triggered. But I think that is so extreme that I would just run away. I think Carrie and I were just in such a good mood just messing around and being silly that it couldn't help but feel like a comedic moment of just like, is this dude for real? I'd say it's more of a rapey moment, but in hindsight.

I mean, yeah, definitely don't do that don't grab a girl's hand and show her the goods maybe maybe a wink would be like the good first step yeah or like hey yeah arm touch i'm mark yeah so like you're telling me he didn't stroke your hair before he did that no oh. Oh, my God. Oh, you blinked at him. I was blinking really fast. You were blinking at him. Yeah, I was trying to make sure I could see the hoop real good. And he was like, oh.

She's batting her eyelashes. Actually makes me think about, though, like, because I feel like in previous episodes we've talked about, like, flirting and, like, how it's kind of hard to, like, see signs of flirtation or like show that you're interested and like obviously what that guy did is not how you do it say you're hot and then make her touch peen yeah um but like i always wonder like because it just didn't seem like we talked about in previous episodes like what flirting would be like in showing signs because like literally you wait for a girl to text you and be like i wanted you to kiss me obviously yeah that's that's a nicer way of going about it than you could definitely have better game than that but there's a big difference between you know that and yeah forcing a girl to touch your peen and that's that is like if you want to put it in

the scariest light like yes he grabbed my hand and forced me to grope him. And like, that's super inappropriate. But when you're in a circumstance like that, like, I don't know. I feel like I personally have had worse experiences with men. So like that is just like laughable to me. And like, I don't feel scared by it. He wasn't an intimidating man. They're all my height.

Short kings. Like, I don't feel scared by it. He wasn't an intimidating man. They're all my height. Short kings. Like, they weren't. Half of them were wearing the exact same outfit. White shirt, acid wash jeans, and Jordan. Like, literally. Well, you got out of it safely. And they were all nice people. We're like, hey, we'll leave.

And they're like, we have another party tomorrow if you want to come. It's just like, there's always going to be that one weirdo. You're like, is that guy going to be there? Yeah. Because if he is, I'm coming back for more b-ball. I wonder if that's just always his move. He's like, I think I got a nice wiener. So at some point, some girl's going to like that.

Has that worked for that guy? Yeah. I don't know. I think it takes a lot of balls to do a move like that or just complete oblivion i don't want to believe that it's worked successfully before for him to try it again but you never know there's a reason he was that sexually frustrated to do that that's true that's true boys be desperate sometimes and it's i could have i could have smacked him and it would have been fully validated. Like all that shit.

But I just thought it was funny. And we just put my jeans on with my donuts in the pocket and left. Big old yikes. Big old yikes. It was a funny night though. Like I just remember me and my sister just sprinting home being like, oh my God, that was so weird. That puppy was really cute though. I have footage on my security camera of us running into the apartment

being like, yeah, let's go watch movies. So don't do that anymore, Courtney. No, no. I got to explore what I wanted to explore,

which was that house and then got too much exploration in there. Yeah. But, yeah, I've done crazier things in my life.

What kind of puppy was it? It was a little Frenchie. Oh. It was a little gray Frenchie. She was so sweet. They had her leashed up. I guess she was kind of puppy was it? It was a little Frenchie. Oh. It was a little gray Frenchie. She was so sweet. They had her leashed up. I guess she was kind of being bad, so they had her leashed inside. But we came up to her, and she was so sweet and petting her.

If somebody told me that I could hang out with a little French bulldog, but as payment I had to have some guy force me to touch his wiener what would you do i guess i'd probably accept we were there like maybe an hour yeah and most of that was with the puppy or with the girls in the jacuzzi the girls in the jacuzzi were so nice we were talking about our signs that's the most LA thing ever. Yeah. And it's so funny. My sister like saw one of these girls. She's like,

Oh my God, your eyes are so pretty. And I look and it's like, you know, like when a girl wears like fake eye contacts. I think my sister thought they were real. Sorry, Carrie. I don't think they were real.

I also didn't ask Carrie if it was okay to tell the story, but I think it's fine. Well, she wasn't the one that forced you to touch her penis. So I think it's probably fine fine weird night though yeah that sounds that sounds your your saturday was um your your sort of fourth of july weekend was much crazier than mine i i hung out with a bunch of old people yeah where did you go on like fourth of july and like labor day memorial day like my parents have always like gone up to the mountains and we go there with like a bunch of uh our family

friends they're all people that my dad uh used to hang glide with back back before he got in like a big old hang gliding accident but so like he's he's known these people for like 30, 40 years. His hang gang? Yeah, his hang gang. So like they all had kids at the same time my parents did. So I always grew up with like all these like family friends. They're all my age. They're all cool.

Now we're all, you know, adults. And you never really know who's going to be up there on these sort of trips. And these past two times, I've been the only kid that's come up what so like these past two times it's just been me and a bunch and like my parents and a bunch of other old people and we're all just like we go on the like hikes and and like ride bikes and hikes and bikes and they all they they all you know they like to party okay let's party you know you know i like older people partying because it's it's much more chill yeah and and the next day is not a total wash like i much prefer like i prefer like old people vegas where i just walk

around that's gamble a little bit drink a little bit no dancing, no heels, no getting wasted, no shots. Yeah. Like I prefer that. I prefer old people party. No hands going put on boners, yeah. Yeah, no hands on boners. I saw none of that there. That would have been weird because I've known them

since I was a little tiny toddler. No HOBs, hands on boners at that party. That's good. No, they strictly said on their party invite, no HOo.b. no h.o.b. exactly that's awesome so yeah just uh we played catchphrases oh love it family stuff yeah love it what did you do sarah um i fourth of july went to to Claudio's best friend's house. So they both moved to the U.S. together. And they both got married here. And so they have a house with a pool.

So we were like, yeah, we're going to do that. And then the rosé caught up with me about six hours later, and I took a two-hour nap in the guest room. And then woke up, and Claudio was like, time to go home. And I was like, yup, time to go home. And I put on sunglasses because it's midnight, and I could feel my eyeballs going in different directions. Yeah, that's not good. The rose hit hard. So I was like, it's time to go home.

Do Claudio and his best friend ever talk shit about you guys in Italian? You notice they're saying something about you? You catch a couple words? No, they don't talk shit about me because they love me. And plus they go out of their way to not speak Italian around me because it's very alienating when you're the only one that speaks English and everyone's speaking Italian and I can only pick up like every third word. So they're very, very nice about it.

Hell yeah. Did you guys see some fireworks? Yeah, I got to – I went to the beach for fireworks i hadn't done that since i was literally like a little kid with my family did you were you did you guys get to see some i died remember oh yeah you're dead yeah um well the so the lake would that they always shoot the fireworks off of up in the mountains um because they had like record snow melt and like rain. The lake was so full that the place that they usually launch the fireworks off of was flooded. So they weren't able to do the fireworks.

So that was weird. Aw. Yeah. So I saw no fireworks. I just saw. But, dude, I saw so many freaking stars. That's great. Oh, yeah, the wilderness is great.

Dude, I saw the gosh dang. Nature's fireworks. Exactly. I saw so many freaking stars. That's great. Oh, yeah, the wilderness is great. Dude, I saw the gosh dang. Nature's fireworks. Exactly. I saw the freaking Milky Way. When's the last time you guys saw the freaking Milky Way? I see it every time I go to Wyoming. Okay, fine. We get it.

Hey, I don't see. I maybe seen them like once, bro. And that was like a Milky Way midnight. Snack size. Snack size from the liquor store. Yeah, next to the powdered donuts shane i think said he didn't see fireworks but the earthquakes oh my god i missed the freaking earthquakes quaking dude i was in a movie theater when the earthquake happened the first one or the second one uh

the big one the second one i was it was the climactic part of spider-man and i was like 4d seats i've done 4d seats before and it kind of felt like that i was like wait whoa whoa and it kept going and it was just like everyone was looking around people started to get up but then it's like we're on the second floor of a building it would have taken much longer to get somewhere safe than just stay put and like if it were to get crazier it would have just like sat in between the aisles of the seats below seat level if anything fell and like it was so crazy

that even Tom Holland stopped in the middle of the movie he's like whoa is that an earthquake I better tweet about this yeah except for Peter

so it would have been like whoa is that an earthquake well he still is Peter Parker true he stayed in character Mr. Stark is that an earthquake

exactly yeah that was not fun LA had two pretty intense i think the first one was 6.9 and the second one was a 7.1 i didn't feel the first one the first one i felt because i was asleep and like it just felt like the bed was shaking and i immediately like opened up my eyes and i was like claudio earthquake and he was like when Claudio, earthquake. And he was like, when was it? Still asleep. When was it? It was the 4th of July. It was the 4th of July at like 10. AM or PM? AM. Yeah. It was 10 AM. Cause I woke up. Yeah. I must've been sleeping. And yeah, it didn't feel that, it didn't feel very big because it was like very far away. It was like 50 miles away from three hours ago or something like that. Yeah. it was like very far away it was like 50 miles away from three hours ago or something

like that yeah it was like 150 miles northeast yeah i may have felt the second one i was at a mall oh buying my dope new sketchers with rhinestones show dude show shoe dude dude show mom shoes hello sequin there's kitty hairs in between the sequins love that for you there's cat hair all over it. They gave me three children and a stroller as soon as I bought these. It came as like a. The train stroller. That's like three of them.

Yeah, it was a sale. Anyway, literally I was checking out, like inserted my card. And then Claudia was like, earthquake? And I was like, don't be dramatic. It's been just a day since the last earthquake and then it was like the whole store was like moving and the little like glasses stand was shaking and then we looked out and i looked across and the store across they had like metal beams and frames that shit was shaking and we were like oh my god and every earthquake you're like is this happening what is happening how bad is it

gonna get what should i do so you're literally frozen for like 30 seconds like freaking out and then claudio just books it out of the store and so i like go to and we stand outside and then it ended and we were like holy fucking holy fucking shit. Like that was super. That was actually very scary. And Spencer and Matt had actually texted me afterwards. And they were like, Sarah, you didn't tweet about the earthquake. Are you okay? Oh, my God.

And then Spencer's like, she's fucking dead, bro. Yeah, it was legitimately scary. Is it the meme lord group chat or something? Yeah, it's just me and Matt and Spencer, we send each other memes and stuff. We all have group chats with each other, different groups. I still haven't felt an earthquake really in LA. I felt like a little teeny tiny one. Yeah, what a lit down, man.

Everyone's like, oh, moving to LA. That's the big one. But I felt more of an earthquake in Sacramento than I've ever felt in LA. Really? Yeah. Well, that was like the first time I felt an earthquake was when I first moved here in 2015. And that one just felt like a washing machine was like unbalanced. So it was just like boom, boom.

And then that was it. It was like it didn't feel any more than if I went like that. Yeah, it was like two bomb bombs. Yeah, two bomb bombs. You know, like you're doing like a little like salsa dance. Yeah. Whereas the one on Saturday was like, the Portland area. Really? Yeah, that one has, what's that one called? The Cascadia Subduction Zone or whatever. They said like literally like

Portland's gonna fall into the ocean. So that won't be good. Yeah, I read a statistic that was like every 250 years, a big one happens and we haven't had a big one in 161. Yeah, there's no exact science there's no way to predict it's just statistics so we could go you know another century or two without having one but these smaller ones i think relieve pressure on the on the plates so you know

having these but it's not the same fault. So, yeah. So we're still possibly screwed. Natural disasters are really, really frightening. It's just so funny because it's like Midwest gets like the tornadoes. And we're over here like, ha ha, no tornadoes, no hurricanes. Eat it. But it's like, oh, but then we also have, we get the earthquakes. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Do you guys have emergency kits? I don't. I have emergency kits I don't I do not I need to get in on that we need to do you know Weezer sells one it has like

it's a backpack with the Weezer W on it and it has like all the stuff you need in it and it's just Weezer that's so weird unfortunately

every single piece when you open it plays Beverly yeah Beverly Hills but it's only the chorus yeah

just over and over and over again and it never stops you're like I would rather die I would rather die in this earthquake than have this

yeah but it's like 60 bucks it's always sold out I really want it that's such an interesting maybe Smosh Smosh should come out with a earthquake kit

yeah that'd be cute that'd be so cute like comes with a hoodie a little water bottle a little hat and like a flashlight and a gun a smosh and it's colored like that it's like tie-dye pink blue and purple it'd be so cute each bullet has a face of the member of each of the squad yeah um i think julian salamita posted on this story the other day like what he keeps in his kit and he showed a whole picture and like labeled everything i screenshot it i was like this will help me i'm gonna i need to get one i was actually really disappointed in myself like during the earthquake i didn't know what to do

didn't even think about the emergency exits like literally a firefighter's daughter i was pretty bummed at myself well that stuff is like you read so many articles and there's so many things out there that they're conflicting because like some i read were like stand in doorways and some were like don't stand in doorways and then some were like get under tables and it's like don't get under next to table go outside but don't go outside it's really confusing. I don't know what to believe. It just has to depend on where you're at. The thing I was saying was like, yeah, if there's like a sturdy table or something, you know, go there first.

And they said like cover your neck or head. Yeah. I guess like most people don't die from a building collapse. They die from items falling off and hitting them in the head. Yeah, I read that too so like the most important things to like protect your your sort of head and neck get under something like hold on and then if you can like find an exit but the most important part is just protect your noggin yeah yeah and they said to like bang bang on something instead of shouting like if you do

get trapped in a building bang on something and constantly be banging so that people can hear it instead of screaming because you're wasting oxygen and energy. Spooky. Yep. Apparently if you're outside, if you're near buildings, obviously it's skyscrapers, you're kind of screwed. But you got to stay the height of the building. You need to stay that amount of feet away from the building because that makes a wall panel could fall or like bricks come tumbling at you my dad's pool was sloshing you've seen all those videos i know and i was like in la there

was two types of people one was showing the pool like and then two was people in selfie mode being like oh my god an earthquake's my god, an earthquake's happening. Guys, an earthquake's happening. And you're like, this is the most boring video because selfie video is already shaky. Like, I'm not, this is not helping me at all. So many people are going to die just selfie-ing themselves in the big earthquake. They're going to be like, wow, this is so crazy, guys. I'm right in the middle of the earthquake.

Boom! All on video. Boom! Oh, no. We're all going to die, probably. We're all dying. I think statistically we'll all probably die. Maybe.

Yeah. Unless, like, robots come and help us out. So, Courtney. Yeah. Why? What? He's so sad and deflated. Why didn't you make me in Sims?

Oh, no. Spill the tea, bitch. Oh, my God. So, the Sims series has been real fun. It's on Smosh Games. However, okay. So, like, sometimes you can't really tell but like sometimes we shoot videos in bulk and we'll shoot like a few episodes at a time i feel like i kind of explained on an episode

where i hosted by why i didn't make you wasn't on purpose i really hope you know it wasn't on purpose i made you first and then was practicing with you but I think it was on the steam version you were practicing with me? yeah how to get money for the first time you were my Ian that was so threatening she pointed and she was like you were my Ian you were everyone's

make out practice in high school and I'm your sims practice you're my life practice you couldn't pee unless I let you. No. But I think it was in the Steam version, which people who use Steam, it's like a subscription. You could use the game through Steam. But then they bought Sims, so you weren't there. But for some reason, I thought you were still in the neighborhood and that you would come around at some point.

But you never did. So I didn't make you. And then four episodes go by without you, dude. It sucks. Well, I mean. I think it'd be funny. I mean, part of me wants you to just keep teasing that I'm coming. Yeah.

And then I just never, I never actually join. I want to make you. I want to make everybody. Do you want Claudio in The Sims? Oh, that'd be nice. Because I feel like it'd be weird when you're when you were like we're gonna get people pregnant i was like well i don't think i want to be impregnated who would you want to be impregnated by if you had to for the sims yes sarah who do you want to impregnate you i think apparently you can make it so girls can

impregnate girls oh really boys i think so boys can impregnate boys. I think so. That's very progressive. I think Courtney freaking Miller. I was going to say that. I knew it. I was going to say that. I think Courtney freaking Miller. Yep. Okay, I can make that happen.

Oh, let's do it. And I'll make Klaviyo. I thought Brianna Boho and Courtney freaking. Yeah, but we got to see the different combos and see how the genes mesh and see what the babies look like. So the babies do come out and they are like a combination of their features or is it random? I think the babies are typically

a default baby look. Got it. But once they start to get older, so it's going to take some time. I'm debating on like literally just shooting an episode where it's like I just do all the work and like you don't see like the annoying having to wait for the baby, wait for the baby to grow up.

I think by the time they're like kids, you'll be like, oh, that's a cute kid. Like, oh, what the heck happened there? But it's been a fun series. I feel bad. A lot of people keep commenting, being like, you're doing this wrong. You could have done this. Custom content. You know you can click on the toilet and check if you're pregnant with a pregnancy test right and i'm like dude it

already happened weeks ago like yeah i have well it's also like i mean the luxury of sims is you don't have to do it one way or the other it's like it's open world so you can do it however you want and discover whatever you want so so you can go into a toilet that somebody just peed in and check to see if they're pregnant it's like you you click you click the toilet and you're like take pregnancy test i think ah but i'm pretty sure it's like if a sim peed in there and just left it and then it's like you just had another sim walk up and check yeah no i don't know the game is so thorough though with like every detail. Like, Olivia, I made some characters have, like, hot-headed as their traits. A few of the Smosh gang have hot-headed as a trait.

And so they'd come home from work, like, really angry. And they have this mood. And then I can have Keith go to Olivia and, like, either cheer her up or rile her up and make it worse. Oh, I love that. Like, it's so weird because that's like real life too yeah like if i really wanted to just like straight up play role play of like how things would actually go like it could be it's so accurate it's so accurate the things that people do like matt rob and joven just decided to separately go into a room and hang out just

them too that is crazy it's bizarre like. Like the AI, I don't know. They know. They know. They know. When they know, they know. They know. You got crazy eyes right now, Courtney. I'm a god.

And I'm watching. I'm creating life. She's thirsty with power. Wow, I'm not thirsty. I'm full up. I got it all. And I got the cheat codes to prove it that's really the only way to play sims is the cheat codes dude sims 4 it's a lot harder sims 2 you could literally do the

weirdest shit with cheats like make vampire death by flies a swarm of flies you can just make them come and eat eat your sim what uh you could cheat the system, somehow get pregnant with the Grim Reaper. What? A death baby? Weird stuff, dude. So cool. I just haven't seen any cool stuff like that. And it's a lot harder to kill people in Sims 4, right?

So much harder. Did you see how he tried to kill Matt Robb? Yeah. It's so hard, dude. He just popped out of the pool. No big deal. I was like, they can do that? I just like the idea of like that.

Cause that's how we would always kill the Sims before. Like in Sims two, you just put them in a pool and take out the ladder. Yeah. Like, haha, you stupid person. You can't get out of the pool.

And then somebody in Sims, it took them like years until like some software engineer was like, but what if they just climbed out of the pool without the ladder? And they're like, we didn't think of that. Whoa. That's crazy. I bet they had it in mind, like, you know,

those people playing are going to lose their shit when they see this little man climb out. Damn straight. I want the ability to kill my Sims whenever I damn well please. Like, that was the beauty of it. You have to get more creative with your killing. Yeah. Creative killing.

Dude, I had a house. I had Matt Robb in a room, three fireplaces going, wooden chairs, rugs everywhere, nothing. Damn. Did he have his cooking skill low and made him cook a bunch of hot dogs? I should have tried that. Because when I first got one of the houses going, I didn't up their skills or have them practice anything yet. I'm pretty sure Olivia set the kitchen on fire immediately.

Well, that doesn't make sense because Olivia's a great cook. Maybe it wasn't her then. Maybe it was like Keith or something. One time she made spam fried rice during a winter game. Dude. It was bomb.com.

I'm terrified of spam normally. You haven't. She made it taste good. She made it taste real good. Yeah, you shouldn't trust meat out of a can.com. I'm terrified of spam normally. You have it. She made it taste good. She made it taste real good. Yeah, you shouldn't trust meat out of a can. Never. No, I think I'm, as the Asian representative here, don't hate against spam. It's very good.

You don't eat it raw out of the freaking can. That's like you're not an animal. You cooked it. Yeah, you cook it in the flavors of the fried rice and it was so good. You kind of like pan sear it. I've only had spam musubi and that's what's that baller it's like well i mean imagine like uh like a like a sushi roll yeah but it's it's rice it's rice and a little cube of spam and it's wrapped

in seaweed that's cute it's good it's very good yeah I did hear years ago, I don't know if it's true, but it's on the internet, so it must be, that like back in the day, they would drop off spam, like, you know, food kits to indigenous tribes. And so they gave these like packages to this indigenous tribe that was cannibalistic. And they loved spam because they said it was the most similar to human meat. No, that can't. I don't know if that's true. I don't know if it's true. Could you imagine?

It's just a fun fact that I don't know if it's true. Yo, that's so crazy because, like, oh, my God, people are spam. We are spamming the earth. We're a virus. We're a spam. we're spam wow literally that's so crazy ian's fact checking right now for me i love that i'm spam we're all made of spam everywhere we are everything we hate in our emails that's awesome oh that's weird why is it called spam i don't know it's all the junk it's an

acronym oh got it got it got it what's it what's that check that i can't find the one but uh well i guess then it's just fact if you can't find it it's just fact so spam is oh god yeah you don't want to read what spam is just gonna it's no no no it's a special processed American meat. That makes it worse. Yeah, definitely keeping it as spam. Is better. Is much better. Special processed American meat. Gosh dang.

Yeah, I think ignorance is bliss when you're reading up on spam. Yeah. I Googled spam tastes like human. And the first paragraph is like taste of human flesh. According to the testimony of people who have actually eaten other people the taste the taste of human meat does not reflect its beef like appearance both serial killers and polynesian cannibals have described human as being most akin to pork akin to pork akin to pork yeah but most spam's like mostly pork, too. Whoa. Yeah, we're pretty similar to pigs, I'd say.

Spam tastes like human flesh. Urban legends. All right. Well. The truth's out. I'm Spam, bro. That's been busted. I'm American meat.

Human tastes like pigs. If you like pig, you might as well become a cannibal. What is it? Special processed American meat? Yeah. I'm special processed. We are all special processed. We are.

Except for, were you born in Lima? I was born in the U.S., yes. I thought you said you went, no, you went to Germany for a while? Yeah, I moved to Korea and Germany. For a little bit, okay. Outside of the U.S., yes. Okay, nice. She just felt like, you know, seeing the world.

Just a little bit. Just as a baby. She just decided, yeah, I'm going to be born into a family where my dad's in the military. Exactly. I'm just going to choose that. Just going to globe trot. Cute. How old were you when you were in Germany?

It was from the second grade, first, second grade to seventh grade. Did you ever get to do any German things? Yeah, I just got wasted on beer all the time. As a child. Well, the drinking age is like very young. I don't even know if they have a drinking age, but I did not drink. No, we traveled a lot. That's the luxury of living in Europe is, you know, France is right there and England's right there and Italy is there.

So we would, our weekend road trips was to a different country. So it was so much fun. And anyone that hasn't left the United States, do it because your mind is blown. It's just, the world is amazing and beautiful. Seeing other people in different walks of life is very important. And I wouldn't trade it for anything. I loved how I grew up. That's so cool. See a lot of castles when you're there. Oh yeah. So many castles. And we used to like for dinner, we'd go to Luxembourg and it was like a tiny town with a castle and have dinner by the river. Like it was so much fun. Dude, I have yet to like explore other continents. You have to, have to. Italy, I would say honestly, like non-biasedly, like Italy is the you have to have to italy i would say honestly like non-biasedly

like italy is the best country to go to whoa she said it i said it olivia is there until the night or the night before vidcon yeah she loves italy she she just she just left she's now in mallorca yeah but spain yeah she going to be so jet lagged for VidCon. Super jet lagged. Yeah. Like, yep. Yeah, this is, well, by the time this podcast comes out, we'll be driving our little butts over to VidCon.

Yeah, picking up passes. And you've been to every single one. I've been to every single gosh dang VidCon. What is the biggest difference from, like like the first couple of years to now? Definitely. And I'll probably, we're going to be doing a live podcast at VidCon, by the way. So I'll be talking, we'll be talking more about VidCon probably at VidCon for the VidCon podcast, VidCon, VidCon. But yeah, I think the biggest difference is the amount of creators.

Like the first VidCon second vidcon third vidcon vidcon vidcon uh i knew pretty much all the creators that were there and now you know youtube throws a party one night where they invite a bunch of the creators and i know maybe 20 people there yeah it's hard to keep up, honestly. There's so many like random, like who's this teen that everyone's screaming at? Well, and people blow up so quickly now too. And it's more than YouTube now.

So it's, you know, TikTok and is Live.me still a thing? Live.me? Maybe. Instagram. Live. Is it lively? What do you mean? I don't even want to promote it because it looks like crap.

Well, I think that was Musical.ly's live platform. I don't think. It was like Live. Live. Is it lively? I don't want to promote it because it looks like crap. Well, I think, I think that was musically is live platform. I don't think it was like live. Don't mean there was a bunch of live platform. There's a lot of, yeah, just brands that are like,

that's okay. We'll save it. And everyone's a great big star on all those platforms. Now they all come to VidCon and I don't know who they are. Yeah. I will have gone to half of them. Heck yeah. Not for VidCon.

Really? This is your fifth. This is my fifth. I will have gone to half of them. Heck yeah. Half of VidCon. Really? This is your fifth? This is my fifth. I was hired May, like April, April 2015. So I went to 2015 VidCon, 2016, 2017, 2018, and now 2019. Me too. That was my first one, 2015. Really?

Yeah. Oh, heck yeah. I remember sneaking into the Defy Lounge. Because they were like, they got an open bar. And I was like, dope, let's get in. And so I went and I hung out. And that was the year I met Mark Ruffalo. And I think I met you, Ian, but I'm not sure.

Mark Ruffalo came by. Yeah, I didn't remember you. I didn't remember you either. It's fine. Oh, because you worked at Clever, right? No, I worked at Game Show Network at that point. So when I first moved to LA, I worked at Game Show Network at that point. So when I first moved to L.A., I worked at Game Show Network as a producer host for their YouTube channel. Oh, yeah.

And they shut that down like three months after I started that job because they were like, we're not getting millions of views. You have been through multiple shutdowns then. Multiple shutdowns. I believe it's an L.A. thing. You start on something, it gets canceled. You start on a show, it gets canceled. So for me, I was very glad when that happened. So you moved to L.A.?

In 2015, in May of 2015. And were you pursuing acting then? Yeah. So everyone moves to L.A. I lived in New York. I had planned to move to L.A. to become a planned, I lived in New York. I had planned to move to LA to become like a writer, producer, actor,

host, like, you know, someone who's behind the camera. It sounds like a thing that everybody says they are in LA. Yeah. So it was all those slashes. I'm a slash model,

actor, writer, producer. So I had come like many of us do to LA to do that kind of behind the camera in front of the camera kind of a Tina Fey type of model so that's what I had done but like I would say a couple years ago I gave up on that dream I just gave up on my dreams did you say gave up or like well I didn't I did and I didn't so I moved to LA and I went through all those struggles of being unemployed and doing freelance and everything like that and auditioning. And it's really hard.

Like people say it's hard, but it is really hard. And auditioning for me is extremely difficult because I don't, I'm not good at them. I, every job I've ever booked, I booked through a friend, like, because they were like, oh, I know Sarah's talented. Like, can you do this? Can you do that? So I don't like auditioning because I feel like I put myself out there, but I also think I'm not super memorable, like at the beginning or anything like that. And I don't look a certain way and I don't talk a certain way and my body's not this size like I I don't have a good time auditioning and so it's hard to book jobs and so that's why I always kind of had producing in my back pocket because I knew I was good at that

and I always thought like well a talent should be more than just a face that can read a prompter or someone that can read a script. So that's what I pursued. And then I started at Defy. I was hosting on Clever, doing like celebrity news and stuff like that, and then producing for Smosh. And eventually the need for me to be at Smosh outweighed my need to be at Clever. There wasn't really a place for me on camera there. So I had moved over to Smosh full-time and produced and I would say I like officially gave up on my dream of like being on camera I know it's so dramatic but was when I went on my blues clues audition oh so it was a huge casting call hundreds thousands of people everyone wants this freaking gig and I was like you know what Sarah let's just try it let's do it you're gonna be annoyed the

entire time but like let's just you know let's just try it let's do it you're gonna be annoyed the entire time but like let's just you know let's just try it let's just see what happens so waited in line for many hours i practiced this how many hours it was like i think it was like two hours but you had to you had to sign up for a slot too it was on the nickelodeon like grounds it was really really cool and uh it was like five lines of a script so i like rehearsed rehearsed rehearsed and then you're brought into this other room with hundreds of people and then you're brought into this tiny room almost the size of this with like one casting person i guess from nickelodeon i didn't even know and like two other people you do your thing they're like

thank you bye that's it what they have you do though it was a script so it was like it was like oh today's clues are i can't remember ice and a cup of water and what do you think it is lemonade so you were trying you were auditioning for the host the new steve yeah the new steve so they did they did women and men yeah they did women and men any age any race like they were just kind of looking to be inspired i think just to see what kind of talent was out there so you could have been a steve i think it would have been a great dude blues was my favorite show growing up and it's way younger than i was i used to watch it up until college i watched it till college because it was so enjoyable and i always just like like innocent things sometimes yeah very wholesome and so um

I was very very excited and I felt very good about my audition and then of course I didn't hear anything yeah from them and I just kind of like made me realign my priorities and my dreams actually it wasn't that I necessarily was a failure I was just like this maybe this isn't for me yeah and that takes a lot to say to yourself because you know I dreamed of being an actor and being in a movie and and being on SNL I I wanted to I would always imagine my name in the credits like I would always watch the credits and it's not necessarily that I gave always imagine my name in the credits. Like I would always watch the credits. And it's not necessarily that I gave up on my dreams. I just was like, this is mentally not healthy for me because it ruins me every time I don't book a job. Right.

And I'm actually very good at a lot of different things. Like what if I just concentrated on something else? So I switched my dreams around. And I was like, I just want to be known for being smart I want to be known for knowing my shit I want to be a creative expert like I want to be a great producer like yeah so that's why I gave up on that dream but I found new dreams it's kind of like you know you could have been wasting your time falling one dream when you're already super talented at this other thing exactly so it's like adjusting to my strengths yeah rather than really hoping for this one thing that probably won't work

out i'm not saying it won't work for everyone yeah but the people that you see are successful they're the one percent like it's uh simply neological she's one of my favorite youtubers she says taking career advice from a youtuber is like taking money advice from someone who won the lottery. Yeah, which is totally spot on. How many people started when you started, maybe blew up, maybe didn't, and haven't seen a level of success that's huge? Yeah, I mean, I'd say it's it's five to ten percent talent and then the rest is timing and luck and with auditioning it's even worse because you're you could just you could nail that audition you could be the best possible fit but uh the your face reminds the casting director of their cousin that exactly and they're

like ah i just don't there's just something about her i don't like and they and it can be a completely subjective thing unfair yeah or like someone who is actually a little bit more famous than you just can get it because they have the clout and i was losing jobs to people with more influencers oh yeah i've i had so many even my friends be like, sorry, we couldn't book you because this person has 100,000 Snapchat followers. And I'm like, well, then I'm never fucking going to win. It's really difficult. And, you know, I like performing and I like doing videos with you guys. I really enjoy it.

But it was nice to give up on that dream yeah because i really got to relax a weight off your shoulders i think it's also like it's it's completely reasonable to something was falling on me no you're good also i think it's completely reasonable to completely shift what your dreams are you don't have to keep the same dream that you had when you were younger you became a different person so to to have the same dream for you had when you were younger, you became a different person. So to, to have the same dream for, you know, 15 years, it might not be, it might not make sense anymore. I totally agree. I totally agree. And I think, I think that's what life's about is, is shifting to the changing course. Like, yeah, I can strive for a goal and I can strive for

something, but it doesn't have to be exactly the same as I thought it was in high school. And it's actually not healthy for that to be the same thing as it was in high school because real life is different than your dreams. And I, I, I find myself more at peace now that I've kind of given that up. Yeah. Yeah. When you're also crushing it at what you're doing right now. Thank you.

You've come up so much, I feel like, from where you started here. Yeah, Smosh is the longest job I've ever had, actually. Me too. Weird. We have so much in common. Me too. Actually, me too, yeah um and it's kind of weird to think that i've been here almost four years like that's a lot and um i just started kind of

like as a coordinator in like just doing bitch work because you have to you know in the beginning and now i've i've built myself up at at sm Smosh and, and I love it. And I, I love the team and it's been a lot of growing, I think from all angles. And I think that's, I think that's also another thing where you didn't, you didn't start in the position you're in now, you worked your way up. That's, and that's the thing with a lot of production. Like a lot of people do have to start as a PA, doing all the sort of grunt work, running coffee, doing that kind of stuff. You can't just walk in and, you know, one day with zero experience and say, I want to be the head of social media for Smosh. And then we're like, okay, what have you done?

Well, I went to college. And I have a Twitter. So it's like you, it's, you know, it's a totally different, it's a totally different thing. Like you worked your way up, you gained experience as you were going, and you proved yourself. That's totally opposite of an audition where you're going in with, it doesn't matter how much experience you have.

And I think that's a luxury, or like that's the like pretty sparkle of of the acting industry is you're like it just takes one it just you know you always hear the stories of like oh well i was on this was going to be my last audition and then i was going to quit acting but then i booked the marvel movie you know and so you that that for me was like oh i just need to find one person that like finds me exciting and one person to cast me and you know maybe i was a little young to give up on it but i was like you know i'm exhausted like i don't i'm spending an hour driving to an audition i'm parking i'm paying for parking i'm getting my headshot printed out i'm going to the audition i'm standing in a room with everyone that looks like me like and I'm not the prettiest and I'm not the skinniest and I'm not the best dressed

and then I'm going in and I'm having a total panic attack and then I don't book it and you're like yeah is this really worth my time yeah I have I have some friends that I've known like since early Vine days that are like on that grind still like auditioning every day but they have like the side job and and it's like it's a bummer to see because it can you can tell it takes a toll on people for sure like and it just reminds me of like yeah I love I loved school and I love learning stuff but I'm bad at tests so like yeah that was my downfall so it's like stupid auditions and you can't prove your value in five minutes always exactly so you that's why i did a pageant once just to like oh just like a beauty pageant i did a beauty pageant one time i did miss arizona usa just because i was like let's just fucking try this like let's see if i can hide myself in like i just didn't want to look like oh why is that girl here and then i i i really liked wearing a dress i really liked you know

being glammed up and wearing a gown wearing a dress i know and something sparkly who would have known but i really hated that it was just i stared at myself in the mirror too long because i was putting on all the makeup i I was in a swimsuit. I had a two-minute interview. Like, who are you going to know in two minutes? You're not going to know anybody. So I was just like, this just isn't for me. For some people, that's great for them.

But for me, I'm worth so much more than just all those little glimpses. And, you know, maybe I'm a slow burn type of personality. I maybe don't pack a punch right away. But I like to think I'm a pretty good person. I think, like you said, you can't get to know somebody in two minutes. And, like, I think you're a badass. And, like, you've proven yourself over time. And you don't need to wait for someone else to discover you because you discovered your own value.

Aw, that's very very sweet thank you she's so much cooler than me like you're so much cooler than me like she you like say such nice things to me sarah but like you're so much cooler than me oh no don't say that i mean i mean yes say that but no i feel i will say a part of my success here at smosh is because i've felt inspired by everyone. I wouldn't hang around here if I wasn't inspired. And honestly, that's why I left the first time. Because I felt like I had reached where I was going to reach.

And some people at that old Smosh were just going to keep me there. And so that was a big stipulation of me coming back. Oh, Courtney. I love you, dude you dude i know i love you so much wait are there tears yeah she's tearing up but i was just like you're gonna make me cry now too but like they you guys really inspire me to be better as a person better comedically and like i remember in the very beginning seeing the squad because we did a lot of videos with the squad in the beginning, like, Courtney and Olivia especially, like, I was so proud of them as women in comedy.

Like, the shit you guys do sometimes is so fucking funny, and you're so young. Shit, do I need to start crying too? Yeah, Ian, cry with us. Okay, all right. But, like, Courtney inspires me every day courtney's a boss ass bitch before smosh came back her and i had a lot of conversations about like what it was going to look like because from the outside smosh is a boys club like there's a lot of people

on the team but if you kind of looked at the top, you only saw guys. And so her and I would have a lot of conversations about what this new Smosh could look like and everything like that. And, and, and, you know,

us being more involved and stuff like that. And it's exciting. It's exciting. And, and yeah, I just i i think that's why i've stayed so long is because i just feel inspired i think that i mean sketch comedy in general has always been not just a guy's club but a white guy's club like it's it's so like sketch comedy is so fucking white it's ridiculous it is and there's like and there's new perspectives because like not only

the female perspective but you know i'm half korean so there's like that asian perspective and there's yeah you know i'm a military brat too and and we all have these different like parts of our personalities that like can add to just a more well-rounded voice absolutely i mean that's that's why like you know monica we've had monica as our writer for three years now something like that four years so she's our longest i mean aside from ryan uh she's our longest writer that we've that we've had just because she does provide that different perspective perspective and i think you know with comedy that's so important it's crazy to think so like smosh pretty much started the thumbnail game right like that was that's what uh somebody at defy had told me that like you guys were one of the first to like have

designed thumbnails that like had graphics and text and like yeah we were all i mean everybody that was that was playing the youtube game was was you know gaming the thumbnails as as hard as they could but yeah we were certainly we were certainly uh offenders of that yeah i don't i just bring that up because it's like it's such like a subtle example of like how women are used in comedy and i feel like we've gotten away from it a little bit better um because i just remember when i first started like even not on just like sketch but like how you one day i would like i feel like was this a weird segue no no okay uh sorry the um i remember like you'd be in a video right and then the video comes out and like all of a sudden you see the title is like getting wet with this person.

And then it's my face, like just a big old O face. And you're like, oh, okay. Yeah. Well, I wouldn't call that comedy that's marketing. Yeah. So I'd say that like women are used, women were used in a sort of exploitative way sometimes for marketing reasons because people, you know, you got to get people in the door. Well, even in the comedy, like what was like the first if video games were real, there's just a joke where it's like 10 seconds of a woman just bouncing her own boobs and her wife beat her. Oh yeah.

Well that's, well, I mean if you dig into it, that's us making fun of the sexism of Tomb Raider and the fact that she had giant boobs and that's all that people focused on in that game. So we're making fun. That makes sense. That makes sense.

It's comedy. Oh, wait, wait, wait, this is comedy. Teach us comedy. Hold on. What? Oh, wait, wait, wait. This is comedy? Teach us comedy. Hold on, what?

Oh. No, but I do think overall, I think it always is better to have different voices. Absolutely. That just goes without saying. Yeah. It's so exciting. And the fact that we're seeing more representation, not only in comedy, but in movies and everything like that i i get teary teary-eyed

when i see like a mulan thing and like an aquafina's new movie about the grandmother who has cancer i believe like that stuff wrecks me because i didn't see that growing up and i didn't see anyone that had my experience because i did grow up asian. Like my, I spoke Korean at my house exclusively. Like, so it is so exciting and I'm so glad that Smosh is a part of that. Yeah. I guess what I meant is like the, the marketing was always targeted toward straight men, straight, usually straight white men. Yeah. That was, and so like when we have the, the content where it's like, how to not piss off Asians or how to not piss off women. It's like you said.

Yeah. The voice is different. And the targeting is different. Yeah. I mean, seven years ago, it was just written by two straight white men. Yeah. So that was the only experience that we could draw from was two suburban white boys and what we thought was funny. And now obviously that

perspective is has expanded which is awesome yeah yeah i agree i think stuff like every period ever and every pregnancy ever are huge wins yeah yeah especially on facebook they just kill it i think pregnancies at like 30 million views dude hell yeah or period or one of those yeah for the people watching or listening sarah straight up she re-edits our sketches to make them better for facebook and it's like it literally works and so she's like you're insane i'm a social media hacker well so you know what works on youtube doesn't work on facebook and so when i moved over to this initially at Defy, I got moved over to like Facebook producer. Like how can we get our videos on Facebook and do the best that they can do? So I call them, you know, Sarah makeovers.

So each sketch that you see on YouTube goes through a Sarah makeover with Tommy Boe who kills it at editing, we kind of rearrange it, give a little makeover to it, maybe start it a different way and put it on Facebook. And we did, in June, 300 million views on Facebook. Dude, insane. So crazy. 300 million views. And so, yeah, you'll start a video, like, sometimes with an entirely different scene. Yeah, yeah. So every blank ever, pretty much every time i start with a different scene

because it just different grabs eyes differently exactly because like that's all about facebook is more of a passive viewer so they're just scrolling through their news feed and they're getting fed content so you got to pack a punch in the first three seconds or you're not going to get that view youtube they're seeking you out there it might be on like a recommended page but for the most part they're a subscriber they're going to click on your next new video and have a little more patience with it they're an active viewer yeah a passive viewer you just gotta be like hey here we are watch me yeah facebook's got that auto start really fast youtube's trying to do that auto start now on mobile and it's like a little slower you have to like be stopped scrolling for a few seconds and then it'll start and it's like quiet

i don't have that yeah it's it's interesting youtube's starting to do that maybe even just testing it out i don't know but i've seen it a few times i'm like i wonder if we need to like utilize that more but it doesn't seem fast enough to like matter yeah so courtney you're on the booch the booch i'm on the booch guys kombucha kombucha yeah i i drink it now aren't i crazy guys you're crazy uh but actually though i i because like you know how you figured out your your the dairy thing yeah kombucha i think is actually helping with my skin a lot it's probiotic the probiotic yeah but like i don't know i've tried i've tried pill form and like gummy bites of probiotics i just didn't notice the difference like even after weeks um but with kombucha like because my acne it's never just one thing with your skin ever no so it is mine's a combination of hormones, stress, and then digestion, I think, is a lot of it.

I don't know exactly what it is. No, that's true. It's like anything can affect your skin. But I don't know what is going on with my digestion, but, like, when I drink kombucha, like, once every couple days, like, it seems to be, like, really helping. That as well as birth control and, like, the skin products I use. But, like, it's helping a lot it's pretty crazy i do you like him come i literally okay i just want to say if you guys didn't think this was the most californian podcast ever now you know it fucking is because we're

talking we're talking about the booch here yeah i've come in you're talking about kombucha and spilling almond cream around my avocado toast you know it's a california podcast i had a sip of my friend's kombucha um first ever um like a couple weeks ago and it was a rose flavored one oh but they're trying to make more fancy so they called it rose but it's rose so la it's just yeah yeah so it was all right it's very vinegary so it's a probiotic that has flavors and then i tried yeah i tried some of yours courtney after that the ginger berry yeah by gt dave yeah that one less but oh oh i like that you said you didn't hate it no it wasn't bad the smell is weird but like once you get past and accept like kind of the yeah except that it smells like. No, it wasn't bad. The smell is weird. But, like, once you get past and accept, like, kind of the tang.

Yeah, accept that it smells like vomit. Yeah, totally. Yeah, I mean, because I hate beer. Because that tastes like stomach bile barf to me. But kombucha. Yeah, yeah. I love beer. I'm a cider girl.

But, yeah, I don't know. Once I got past the flavor and then realized what it did for me i was like okay i need to like stick with this yeah have you done it for like 30 days or how long have you done it i do it every few days because i hear it's also like bad for your teeth to drink a lot gtd the guy who created it i think he has veneers so he's set but like because he drinks like 12 bottles a day the guy, my God. The first guy to bottle kombucha, he's tasting as it comes out to check in the factory. I bet he bleaches his asshole. Maybe.

Somebody drinks 12 bottles of kombucha a day. I think it bleaches itself. No, it just smells like ginger berries. But I will say, because the reason why i asked is if you've done it for a month um is because anything with your skin whether you put it on or eat it or anything you need to try it for at least a month like that's the thing when i i went on a tangent on my own social media about the kylie kylie cosmetics or kylie beauty um her new skincare line because because of hormones what you eat you

know you might have had a drinking weekend you might have touched your face a little more you might have dipped your face in in lard like over the course of a month you don't know how to your skin's going to react to all those different factors so if you do do something for uh your skin oh yeah yeah skin or skin care, you have to give it a month before you can really talk about its successes. Interesting. Yeah, because people were trying it and reviewing it immediately. And it's like you literally don't.

If it's an exfoliator or something like that, you're like, oh, it took the dead skin off. Yes, but long term, how is it going to affect your skin? It's important to know. Well, dang, we're ending this podcast with some great skin advice. Is it already over? Yeah, bro. Damn.

What? I feel like we had so much more to talk about. We talked about that boner for like 40 minutes. No HOB, guys. No HOB. No HOB, guys. No HOB. No HOB. No HOB. Spam tastes like human flesh, maybe, but mostly pork.

And try skin care for 30 or more days. Yeah. The more you know. But don't do Kylie's skin stuff. That apparently scrapes your face up, and it's a bad idea. Yo, no HOBs, but get some H-O-N-Bs. Hands on the notification bell. Oh!

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