Smosh Mouth - S1: #28 - Rescue Cats, Hypnotism, & Rejected Smosh Jokes w/ Podcast But Outside
Episode Date: August 28, 2019Ian and Courtney invite Podcast But Outside co-hosts Andrew Michaan & Cole Hersch indoors to talk about Cole’s time working as a writer for Smosh during the Defy era, conquering your fears via h...ypnotism, and the crazy way Cole rescued his cat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Ramble.
I got hypnotized by a hypnotherapist to get rid of my fear of flying and it worked.
I want to figure out what the phobia term is for my fear.
I have this like actual fear that my belly button is going to be reopened.
I did try out a dating app.
I came across Courtney's sister's profile.
My sister never saw him because she has a height minimum.
Is that ridiculous or what?
I'm not even that short.
You don't seem short at all.
She dropped the cat off and then left,
and then that was kind of the last we heard from her.
Okay.
Oh, well, hello, everybody.
Welcome to another Smoshcast. We're going to start it with that cough.
Oh, okay.
So today I am joined by Courtney and the lovable fellas from a podcast called Podcast But Outside.
Cole Hirsch and Andrew, I don't know your last name.
Oh, it's Michonne.
Andrew Michonne.
Yeah, thank you.
Andrew Michonne, yeah. I like that last name.
He's thinking of taking on my last name.
Yeah, I might take on his last name.
Wait, so are you guys going to get married so you have his last name?
No, you can just take last names.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He's taking a lot from me.
And I'm going to take it and he won't have it anymore.
Is that how it works?
Yeah, he won't have a last name.
I'll just be Andrew Hirsch and he'll just be Cole.
Wow.
Oh.
Can I have your old last name?
It does get donated. Oh. Like a low be Cole. Wow. Oh. Can I have your old last name? It does get donated.
Oh.
Like a low-income family.
Yeah.
Oh.
It gets donated.
If no one wants it, though, it gets put down.
It does get put down, unfortunately, yeah.
Do you want mine?
No, I'm good.
Okay.
It's pretty unique.
It's the same as a beer.
What's your middle name, or is that too private?
No, everybody knows.
It's Ruth.
Oh, that's right. Why, or is that too private? No, everybody knows. It's Ruth. Oh, that's right.
Why did you say that like that?
I like Ruth.
You're like, oh, that's right.
What is yours?
Andrew?
That's a stupid name.
Wait a second.
Wait a second.
You could change your middle name to Light, and it'd be Light Miller.
Kind of like Miller Light.
Oh.
Yeah.
That's not a good idea.
Or L-I-G-H-T, just meaning like you're not heavy.
Yeah, I'm a light.
Not heavy.
So the podcast that you guys do, you've had to explain it to every single person that has ever sat down in your chair.
But can you explain it for the 15,000th time?
We'd love to.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So it's called Podcasts But Outside.
And Cole and I set up a table on the sidewalk at different locations around Los Angeles
and the world to interview anyone who walks by.
Yeah, we have a sign on our table that says, hi, be a guest on our podcast, and we will
pay you $1.
We are the only ethical podcast.
Wait, are we, sorry, are we getting paid today?
Um.
A dollar.
Yeah, so we are the only ethical podcast that pays $1.
Because if you asked us that question, the answer is definitely yes, $1.
Honestly, I can't think of any podcast that actually pay to have their guests on.
Now that I think about it.
I know.
That's what we're changing.
Yeah.
That's good.
I think start a standard here.
Yeah.
Pay your guests a dollar.
It's really all it takes.
The difference between $0 and $1 is immense.
It is.
Did you guys try doing the podcast, but outside without the dollar?
No.
No, it was always part of it.
Yeah, we've never been evil or corrupt like most corporations.
Yeah, and maybe when we get big enough, we might become corrupt.
But for now, we're pretty reasonable.
Yeah, that is very reasonable.
Thank you.
What was the reasoning behind the dollar?
Was it a sort of like a legal thing?
No, we just had too much money, and we had to get rid of it.
It sounds very enticing, the dollar.
Sometimes you just have all this money and it's kind of just annoying
and you just kind of want to be like, get out of here.
Yeah.
So that's what happened.
But no, the ultimate thing with the podcast is just talking to strangers
and hearing their weird stories.
And it's folks who would never otherwise be on a podcast.
I feel like, you know, podcasts are pretty populated by people
in the entertainment industry or creative types. And we're just talking to like random people who were never otherwise be on a podcast. I feel like, you know, podcasts are pretty populated by people in the entertainment industry or creative types.
And we're just talking to like random people
who were never planning on doing that.
And the stories that we get are, I think, very interesting.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, I've listened to several of them.
And I think the first one that I listened to,
well, the first like full one,
because I've seen the clips and like, you know,
you guys had the first sort of like, the first like full one because I've seen the clips and like you know you guys had
the first sort of
like the first
big blow up
was the
the old lady
that you guys
talked to
that was like
oh yeah
I had a husband
but he
he died
and you're like
oh like
what was his deal
we dug deeper
to find out that
so cool
he was a doctor
but he was also
a crack addict
yeah secret crack addict
for like decades
and she didn't know until he died.
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
And she was like an old Jewish woman in her 80s, like very funny about it, had a very good sense of humor, and it was a really interesting conversation.
Was it you, Cole, that was like, how did he die?
Was it from the crack?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I said, did he die from crack?
She said, yes, and she laughed.
And then Andrew asked, he's like, how did he get addicted to crack?
And then she just has a perfect pause and says, he started smoking it.
It was like so good.
I love that.
And then you guys got like, you evaded being like kicked off that park.
Yeah, we evaded.
So we found a filming permit loophole
because usually you need permits to film in public.
Yeah.
In Santa Monica.
You were in Santa Monica.
And they're really like,
they're assholes about people filming.
Yeah, yeah.
But we figured out,
I mean, this has been our plan
since before we even recorded the first episode.
Really?
Yeah, yeah.
Like you're allowed to film something
if you're just on the street.
You're not allowed to film a production. So our plan was just being like, we don't know that guy. He just Yeah, yeah. Like you're allowed to film something if you're just on the street. You're not allowed to film a production.
So our plan was just being like, we don't know that
guy. He just started filming us. Yeah, but we're only
recording audio and you're allowed
to do that, I guess. Exactly, yeah. So we
kind of just tried it and the security guy was
like, okay, good enough for me and he walked away.
But what you didn't see in that minute clip
is that immediately after
another security guard comes by
he says, what did that guy say?
He said it was cool.
And then that guy walked away.
It happens twice in a row.
So I think another loophole then is when one of those guys comes up,
you say, oh, well, another guy came before you and said it was okay.
We thought about that.
Even if a business tells us to leave, we're just like,
oh, we talked to the manager.
He said we could be here.
I mean, what are they going to say?
These are just people being paid to, I don't know.
But we do, I mean,
the best filming
spots are like, we do search for
abandoned storefronts to film
in front of. Yeah, that way there's just no concern.
We can just be there and no one cares.
But to be honest, we've recorded like, you know,
22 episodes so far, and we've never been
like fully kicked out and shut down. We've had to move slightly, like, you know, 10 feet away or something, but we've never like you know 22 episodes so far and we've never been like fully kicked out and shut down we've had to like move slightly like you know 10 feet away or something but we've never
like you can't do this and we have to like call it yeah because you guys because you guys also
filmed in vegas where they're very very yeah particular about because they don't want street
performers because that takes away from the actual money making things so you guys had to like the
the laws that you can't have anything on the ground anything stationary we found out this magician who was our guest he happened but he happened to be arrested
seven times for street performing and he so he so we got shut down and then he advised us this
is when what episode what 20 something like that uh he told us that we had to um as long as we
didn't have anything stationary,
like no table, nothing touching the ground, no chairs, then we were fine.
So we just carried all our equipment, put all the mics in our pockets,
and it was very, very sketchy.
Oh, my goodness.
But people came by.
We had a ton of guests.
There was a whole crowd forming around us.
It became like a real show.
Yeah.
It was fun.
Andrew flashed everyone.
I did, yeah.
It was pretty cool.
Nice. Yeah, it was nice. Your pee-pee i did yeah it was pretty cool nice yeah it was
nice your peepee i kind of just did it all yeah yeah my peepee cole's peepee i kind of flashed
everything yeah i'm like i said he takes a lot for me yeah exactly yeah vegas must have been
very interesting because um i don't i don't know if the people at home know, but everybody on the street of Vegas is either drunk, crazy, or a little mix of both.
Yeah, it really is like a no consequences, no rules zone.
At least at the nightlife.
I mean, because, I mean, daytime, it's a lot of tourists, right?
Well, that's what we mean, tourists.
I mean, at night, the tourists are just like, they don't care.
They're just like doing whatever.
I think it's very strange that people take their families to Vegas.
It's not.
I went, my first time there was, I think I was 10.
And I couldn't do anything.
I had to be escorted because we were staying in a casino at the MGM.
I had to be escorted.
Anytime I entered the hotel, I had to be escorted through the casino.
You're not allowed on a certain colored carpet.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
There's like lanes that you have to stay in. You're not allowed to step out of the lanes within the casino if you're a certain colored carpet. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. There's like lanes that you have to stay in.
You're not allowed to step out of the lanes
within the casino if you're a certain age.
And did anyone give you one of those booby cards?
Oh, yeah, as a kid we called them...
What?
We called them Yugiho cards.
Yugiho?
Oh, my God, that's amazing.
Yeah, and we'd trade them
and collect them.
What?
Yu-Gi-Oh!
What do you mean?
Pokemon?
Pokemon works too.
Oh, that works too, yeah.
What do you mean, we?
Who were you trading?
You and your dad.
Yeah, me and my dad.
Yeah, my mom hated that game.
Did your dad coin Yu-Gi-Oh?
No, I think that was me.
I think I was pretty proud of that.
But it was me and my brother and then a couple of family friends as well.
Dude, that's awesome.
Yeah.
That's the best.
And you were 10 when you did this?
Yeah.
Nice, dude.
I would have been so stoked if I saw a boob when I was 10.
Well, they have little stars over the nipples.
Like real life, right?
Yeah, like real life.
Yeah, exactly.
We are planets and our nipples are stars.
I feel like when I went to Vegas, the only fun thing I did because I was like 15.
And we just did Madame Tussauds.
The wax museum.
The wax museum, yeah.
So weird.
I mean, yeah,
the only thing,
because we couldn't do anything
really as kids in Vegas.
So the way my parents
compensated for that
was they took us
indoor skydiving.
And we were like in a tube.
Yeah.
I feel like the people
that work there
make it look really awesome
and like good.
And then like you get in there and it's, does it work?
Did you have fun?
Yeah, I thought it was pretty cool.
Drools coming out of your mouth like crazy.
Oh, really?
Oh, yeah.
I always remembered, one thing that's always stuck with me from the tutorial was that, like, the guy, like, before you do it, you have to, like, you know, listen to his dumb spiel to be safe and stuff.
But he said we have to have everything out of our pockets
because one time he was, because you're on, it's like,
below you is just like a giant jet.
And so like, he said, you have to have everything out of your pockets
because one time someone had a loose coin and it went,
it fell, hit the jet, came back up at such a speed
that it went through his foot.
Whoa.
What?
And so that's what I've always remembered.
But I don't understand.
Why would it have fell down and then gone up?
I guess it was off maybe, and then it came up.
What was it?
A coin.
A coin.
So is the jet blowing air towards you,
or is it moving the earth down?
It moves the earth down.
Cool.
Yeah, that's cool.
I like that.
You just kind of stay there.
Oh, my gosh, what if it went in your eye?
Could have gone in your eye.
I feel like it didn't.
I feel like that didn't happen.
I'm assuming it's just like a horror story.
That's like one of his.
He's like, wouldn't that be crazy?
He just tells it to kids now.
I think he just wanted us to have empty pockets.
And Cole loves his foot.
It's like his favorite part of his body.
Yeah, it's my favorite part of my body.
So it was definitely a big threat.
Yeah, yeah.
And he knew that.
He knew that.
My parents told him.
Well, it's part of the intake form.
It's his favorite part of your body.
I actually heard, right before going in, I heard my dad whisper to the guy, threaten
his feet.
He says that to like everyone, right?
He said it to me.
Yeah.
That's pretty typical.
Yeah.
You did the indoor skydiving thing too, right?
Yeah, we did it for a squad vlog.
That was like one of our first squad vlogs ever.
And yeah, my teeth are just getting dry and drools coming out the sides.
Have you done actual skydiving?
No.
That was the only time I've ever done anything like that.
But it seems so cool.
You did it, right?
I did it, yeah.
Is it the same?
Yeah, it's the same, but it's like outside.
Oh, wait.
That sounds good.
Sounds better. Skydiving, but outside. That's great. Yeah. Wow, holy smokes? Yeah, it's the same, but it's like outside. Oh, that sounds good.
Sounds better.
Skydiving, but outside. That's great.
Yeah.
Wow, holy smokes.
Yeah.
Any interest in skydiving?
I want to, yeah.
I just haven't.
I don't like planes, so that's actually the scariest part for me.
It's just being on this old plane.
Because you said, because I saw in one of the podcasts about outsides, you said you
were hypnotized.
Oh, you are a listener.
Oh, I love that.
Thank you, Ian.
You know, I try to do my research.
I got hypnotized, yeah, by a hypnotherapist to get rid of my fear of flying, and it worked.
What?
That's wild.
It's crazy.
Yeah, it straight up worked.
I did it like two years ago.
And it was just one session?
One session.
It was like a three-hour session.
And then she makes you an audio tape that you then listen to.
She says every night for like a few months, so I listen to it every night and then I don't listen to it anymore.
But when I get on a plane,
I will listen to it.
And I'm just not straight up,
not afraid of it anymore.
But doesn't,
doesn't the fact that,
you know,
you're hypnotized about it.
Like,
no,
she actually says that she says in like the first few months,
don't talk about being hypnotized.
Don't tell your friends.
Don't really think about it.
Like at first,
cause you kind of have to let it set in,
but now that it's been a while and it just totally worked i don't i think it's okay yeah i feel like i can't i don't think i can be hypnotized i don't know i feel like i'm
just too neurotic well that's i think you're too smart for that shit like my brain i'm just like
too self-aware my brain's too it's evolved well it's true i'm like not into like astrology or
any of these kind of i don't know like I'm not into that world very much.
And I feel like hypnotism is a little different.
Like she explained it to me very thoroughly in terms of scientific terms.
Yeah.
It's basically just like your brain has this like fear thing that was designed to like make us afraid of, you know, lions or whatever sort of threats passed, you know, thousands of years ago.
But then now, or even millions of years ago, but then now that same fear complex is being ascribed
to things that it shouldn't be like a plane isn't i mean it is weird obviously but statistically it's
not unsafe but i've created this relationship in my brain between that fear drive and an airplane
and she's basically just decoupling that relationship so that they're no longer connected
wow that's awesome yeah so she's very scientific about it and so it actually like
i don't know i'm i was very skeptical and it totally worked.
Would that work for something like fear of commitment?
Yes, it works for everything, honestly.
Like, if you have, like, body image issues, you're trying to quit smoking, like, anything.
It's really crazy.
So she can make me hot?
Yeah, she will make you hot.
Or at least believe that you're hot, which is kind of nice.
Oh, wait, it's like that one movie, right?
Yeah, Shallow House.
Yeah, Shallow House.
You know what you should do, Cole?
You should ask a girl out.
She'll say no, and then you say, go to this hypnotist.
And she'll convince her that you're hot.
Yeah.
Just convince the girl that Cole's hot.
Yeah.
It's a good idea.
It's good.
Or just convince me that she said yes.
Yeah.
Or you should, like, I don't know, pitch a TV show or something and get it picked up.
And then the first episode, you do a bait and switch, and it's actually just the hypnotist convincing the world that you're hot.
Oh, my gosh. It's a good idea.ist convincing the world that you're hot. Oh my gosh.
It's a good idea.
Genius.
I like that.
Sometimes he gives.
Yeah.
And he takes,
but sometimes he gives.
But anyway,
the hypnotism worked
if you guys want her name,
I can give it to you.
Oh yeah,
what would you get
hypnotized for Ian?
I don't,
yeah,
because like flying,
I'm like,
I'm okay on,
except for like
when the turbulence hits.
Yeah,
what's your fear?
I mean,
oh,
well I don't like,
I'm weird about
like deep water stuff.
Like deep open water where I can't see the bottom or I see something below me, but I can't see what it is clearly.
Yeah, I'm not about that life.
I forget what they call it.
There's, you know, one of those, like, BuzzFeed lists where they're like, if this makes you feel weird, you have this fear.
Yeah, they had all these photos of, like, whales, like, deep underwater, like, where you can't, like, if this makes you feel weird, you have this fear. Yeah, they had all these photos of whales deep underwater where you can't quite see them.
And it kind of made me go like, ugh.
Or oil rigs.
They have these stands that go deep into the water to see them disappear.
And that makes me feel icky.
I don't know.
It's thalassophobia.
Thalassophobia.
Thalassophobia.
I want to figure out what the
phobia term is for my fear,
which is, I have this
actual fear that my belly button
is going to be reopened.
Like something's going to open it up,
and I'm just so terrified that
it will be reopened.
Do you think the hypnotist can
cure that? Yeah, can you help me?
She might just say you're a freak and tell you to walk away.
She just laughs.
She'd take your money.
She sends you a recording of her just laughing at you.
It's like, you're dumb.
Courtney, that is called omphalophobia.
What?
Omphalophobia?
Omphalophobia?
I have that.
That's your new identity.
I didn't know that there was a phobia for it.
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Yeah, I had this idea for like a, it's like a device.
It's called Unbreakable, U-M, breakable.
And it's like, it's an umbilical cord that you reattach to your mother.
Okay.
Unbreakable.
Yeah, it's like the bond that was never meant to be broken.
That's nice.
Yeah. And do you do that all the time or just like when you go home for a week? Oh, I haven't made it yet. Unbreakable Yeah It's like the bond That was never meant To be broken That's nice Yeah
And do you do that
All the time
Or just like
When you go home
For a week
Oh I haven't made it yet
I need a prototype
But I think it would be smart
To just
But is it temporary
Like what I'm saying
Is you go home
Visit your mom
No it's permanent
Okay
Does it actually do anything
Yeah
It reattaches you
To your mother
Are fluids connected though
That's what I'm asking
Yeah exactly
Like if she gets drunk
Yeah if mommy eats she gets drunk?
Yeah, if mommy eats or gets drunk, do you get a little drunk?
You get little tips.
Okay.
Yeah.
Does it come with custom clothes?
No.
So it's just nude?
Well, this was in part to push my clothing brand, which is just a line of shirts with a hole in the center.
Or it'd be cool if it's two shirts that are connected with cloth in the middle.
Like you buy the two shirts together.
So it's a little mommy,
sunny kind of setup.
I hate to tell you,
it wouldn't be a shirt for the mother.
It'd be pants,
right?
I mean,
cause it's got to come from the,
Oh yeah.
We don't connect to the belly button.
It goes up in her womb.
I didn't think about that. Do we all need to go back to sixth grade sex ed?
Did you think about that? I did. think about that. Do we all need to go back to sixth grade sex ed? Did you think about that?
I did.
Oh, my God.
It's funny that we both just assumed that it would be belly button to belly button.
Nope.
No.
Sorry.
It goes into her butt.
Yeah.
Yep.
Into the butt.
No.
That's funny.
I like this.
Your idea is a little more sexual now, though, in a way that I'm not sure.
Yeah, it's a little strange.
No, it's pure.
Okay.
And is there an age limit to this?
No.
Or your mom could be like 70.
You could be 40.
She could be, you know, 41.
I don't know.
Okay, so she's one year older than you?
Yeah.
Can you do it with people that are not your mom?
Sure.
Ooh.
I mean, it's not recommended.
Why?
It's just, that's weird. That recommended why? that's weird
that's weird?
he's right
I know there are people who have like baby fetish
like they want to be treated like a baby
Cole you might have just given them like a really good idea
that's going to blow up in that world
yeah I went to school with somebody that was
they became a man baby
they still do it now?
well I don't know about not man baby
they became yeah they went and they became a baby.
They were on that documentary, right?
Yeah, they're on a show.
They're on Strange Addiction or something?
I don't want to like out them too much, but yeah.
Well, it's just someone new.
They're on TV.
I mean, come on.
They're on TV.
They're out.
Yeah, I went to high school with them.
And then, yeah, they were on this show where they were a baby.
They liked having the diaper and stuff, right?
Yeah, they also had a show where they were a baby. They liked having the diaper and stuff, right? Yeah, they also had a website, too.
Nice.
Yeah.
And that website, it does what?
Baby stuff.
No, I don't like that.
I mean, it's not my thing, but for the people out there that like it, do your thing.
Yeah, check out Squarespace.
You can easily design your own.
Do they have a romantic partner?
I would, I mean... I think in the
documentary he did.
I don't know. Because I just feel like that's such a,
I mean, how are you going to find someone to match with?
I mean, it's got to be very specific.
The internet's a wide, wonderful place.
Yeah, I guess so. I think he had someone come in
and change his diaper in that doc.
I remember that episode. Was it dirty?
Was the diaper dirty? I think it was wet.
That's probably for the website only content.
They probably have a Patreon.
I mean, honestly,
Patreon would be the way to go.
If you're trying to get into man-baby content,
Patreon.
Your whole Patreon is just like, I am baby.
It's really poorly written.
It's a really poorly put together site.
Yeah.
You can buy his baby bathwater.
Oh, no.
It's just baby diapers.
See, now you're just giving them an idea.
The whole bathwater thing, I bought so much of that,
and I'm not even convinced that it was her bathwater.
It's like I just have these bottles of water now,
and I feel like I got so ripped off.
Well, I heard somebody DNA tested the bathwater.
Really? And they're like, well, technically off. Well, I heard somebody DNA testing the bath water. Really?
And they're like,
well,
technically,
it should have
some of their DNA in it
because if you take a bath,
like,
you know,
your skin,
whatever.
No,
I didn't taste any.
Yeah,
because he's been drinking it
and my house comes over.
Well,
they claim that there was
zero DNA in it.
Wow.
So,
she might be liable
for like a class action
lawsuit or something.
I love that.
I don't know.
If I were to sell my bathwater,
it wouldn't be actually my DNA
because I just don't need to be cloned right now,
but I would definitely put in some stuff,
like a couple drops of rose or something.
Oh, yeah.
So it smells like something,
so they're like, oh, this isn't just regular water.
I would rent a pig and put it in the bath.
So like if they DNA test it, they're like, it came back pig.
There's just like this mythology around you.
Yeah.
And then you sue them for like slander.
Yeah.
Yeah.
How dare you?
Yeah.
Wow.
Fat shaming.
So Cole, I mean, it's kind of funny.
We haven't mentioned this yet, but Cole, you used to write for us.
Oh, that's right. That is how we know you. Or yet but Cole you used to write for us oh that's right
that is how we know you or at least how you two know each other
yeah how did
that happen?
I think that happened through
because I knew Anthony and Mielle
a little bit
and I think
you guys were looking for a writer and I think
Anthony pitched you guys to me
yeah because you came from the Vine world, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then I came in, had a little, I don't know, I guess it was a test.
I didn't know it then, but it was a test.
It's always a test.
Was it a writing test or was it a spelling test?
I think it was sort of just a chemistry vibe, maybe.
I'm not sure.
Either that or just maybe a writing style.
I don't know.
Do you pass the chemistry vibe?
I guess so.
Yeah, I think immediately after getting hired, they regretted it for a brief time.
Wasn't one of the tests like we did a read-through with one of your scripts or something?
Yeah, I think so.
Well, it was just a pitch meeting.
I just pitched a bunch of ideas. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. That was pretty much my process, I think so. Well, it was just a pitch meeting. I just pitched a bunch of ideas.
okay,
yeah,
yeah.
That was pretty much
my process too.
Yeah.
Just pitching ideas.
Yeah.
I mean,
you wrote with us
for,
I mean,
probably like a year
and a half.
A year and a few months.
Yeah.
That's a pretty long time.
It was.
I love seeing my world
collide
when that became a thing
because that's,
I met you from Vine, hung out with you a few times.
Miel and I used to be like really close friends, like just grow apart.
That was wild.
So you guys knew each other before he came on to Smosh?
Yeah. Yeah.
Like a few years, like 2013, no, 14?
Yeah, probably 2014, yeah.
Yeah, you, like, we texted briefly.
Oh!
Wow.
We did?
Yeah, it was very brief.
Who was first?
Who slid in?
I don't know.
Well, because we probably were Vine messaging first.
Probably, yeah.
That's usually how it went, when Vine nerds were first like,
yo, you're dope, yo, you're dope, and then conversation.
But with us, it was strictly hate mail.
Oh, okay.
It was like, please yeah okay please quit yeah
you slid in the dms with the hate yeah yeah i was like you're a yugi ho yeah i called her a ho come
on yeah yeah do you do you miss vine at all yeah i miss it but i mean i have it again yeah you're
on tiktok now oh yeah yeah right your stuff's funny um but no it's very different but yeah i mean i was i was
running you know three years straight of one-liners you can only do so much right i was i was my tank
was empty pretty much by the time it died i mean i think yeah that sounds about right i mean with
i feel like you know people figured out the format and then obviously some people
exploited the format i mean but that's
what always happens so okay so you guys knew each other for a couple years then yeah like we didn't
like hang out a whole lot like we would see each other like parties and stuff because i also didn't
live here yeah yeah you were east coast yeah i was in chicago but right when i moved here i pretty
much got the job within the first few months of being here.
So good.
Wow. White privilege.
Vine privilege, probably.
I was not good at first.
At writing?
Ryan's laughing.
Ryan is the head writer. He is my boss.
I don't know. He gave me so many second chances.
I was not good.
What were you messing up on? Yes, you were. I was just know. He gave me so many second chances. I was not good. What were you messing
up on? Yes, you were. I was, no, I was just, I, well, I wasn't, there's just like, there's just
like, I'd check out real hard. Like in meetings? Yeah. Well, I just, I would, I realized what it
was anxiety. I just get so overwhelmed about wanting to do good that I would like be in my
head. I'm like, pay attention, pay attention. And then I wouldn't pay attention. And then I just
get caught up in this loop of like. I mean, you do that on our podcast a lot. Yeah.
I totally get that.
I check out for, you know, hours at a time.
Our podcast is only an hour long.
Totally an hour.
Sometimes I say nothing.
Yeah.
So I don't know why I was given so many second chances.
I think it's probably because you're funny.
Yeah, dude.
That's the kind of thing like...
Or the white privilege thing, maybe.
Yeah.
Could be that.
But I don't know.
If you're not productive in a work setting, then you shouldn't be working.
But I don't know.
I did get a lot better towards the end.
I got more comfortable.
We made your first sketch.
The sketch you came in and pitched us was shot like in a month or something.
Which one was it?
What sketch was it?
It was the one where it was so funny.
It was the fall asleep one.
And then this whole life happens.
Oh, the prank one.
Oh.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, it was a sketch where Anthony was sleeping.
Sleeping.
And then.
Oh, yeah.
It's like, oh, my roommate's sleeping.
I'm going to prank him.
And then you do a bunch of stuff and put him in a bunch of like you like you secretly like
make him get a job
and then get married
and then have kids
and then like
his whole life
then he's old
and then like
he wakes up
like on his deathbed
and you're still young
right?
I think he wins
like two purple hearts
in the war
or something like that
yeah
he goes to war
I love that
the video bombed
oh really?
I don't think it did well
all of our favorites do I feel like yeah that tends to be thebed. Oh, really? I don't think it did well. All of our favorites do, I feel like.
Yeah, that tends to be the case.
Whenever we really like a sketch, it never does well.
So we always call them, it's a one for us kind of thing.
I tell girls with anything, though.
Everyone hates our podcast, but we love it.
I know.
My mom likes it.
Yeah, that's good.
Have you guys ever had guests or like or anything happen where it's like
this is too much
like we have to cut it?
Yeah, I mean,
no, not cut.
There's a couple things
where it just gets
like political in a way
where we're kind of
just like,
I don't know,
talking about Mexicans
and stuff
and we're just like,
well, let me just
cut this part.
Not even in a bad way
but just kind of like
we don't want to go
down this road.
Sometimes we just
can't stop ourselves.
Yeah, I know,
but we just,
exactly, we just kind of have opinions. Do you want to say it? No, some of the, we don't want to go down this road. Sometimes we just can't stop ourselves. Yeah, I know. But we just kind of have opinions.
Do you want to say it?
No, it's usually older white men who bring up...
It just always comes up?
It just has happened a few times where it's like slightly Trumpy,
but in a way that's just kind of like, I don't want to open this can of worms.
Not that we're trying to stifle people's opinions,
but like, you know, talking about Mexicans' work ethic and stuff, and we're
just like, we don't want to go down this road.
Wow. Not even
in a bad way. He was actually complimenting
the Mexican community, but it just
was icky. I get that.
And is it just out of the blue?
You're like, what's this podcast about? You can talk
about anything. He's like, great. Well, anyway, on to
Mexicans. Pretty much.
He probably thought it was a safe space. He's like us whites can talk about this no this this dude was hard to
wrangle but we eventually got him yeah but for the most part i mean yeah people like the most
interesting thing about it to us is it's like you talk to someone for like 60 seconds and you kind
of get a vibe like you get their vibe you know like you get their essence and that's just kind
of fun to just like i don know, like figure out what someone's
personality is in a really short amount of time.
Didn't like two guys threaten to like sue you guys or something?
Or was that a joke?
Oh, I mean, I feel like they will.
There was these two frat bros.
Love that.
And it was what, like 3 p.m. on a Monday?
And they were like wasted.
They were wasted.
And was that downtown? Yeah. It was downtown in the jewelry district. And they were like wasted. They were wasted. And was that downtown?
It was downtown in the jewelry district.
And they were like catcalling every,
like every single girl that walked by.
He would just go,
look at her butt.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
It was crazy.
And so we just,
we couldn't get them to leave.
We had to turn off their mics.
Is that all in it,
in the episode?
Yeah, yeah.
It's all in there.
Oh my God.
And they ran after the camera
like dancing and stuff.
They were harassing our cameraman.
We're like, just don't pay attention to him.
Like, just talk to us.
That's the only time that something like that has happened.
For the most part, people are very chill and responsible and nice.
I think that's awesome though that like you guys get to show that side of the world.
Totally.
And it's just all just happening and not like planned.
Yeah.
I mean, we've had some really crazy stuff happen and it's totally not planned.
I need to watch.
Yeah.
Check out the clips.
Go to Instagram or Twitter.
There's, like, one-minute clips.
It's an easy way to see some best clips.
Or just, no, you should watch the whole episode.
Okay, watch every episode.
Yeah, no, I definitely want to watch the whole episode.
I actually saw the one where the cop, like, was like, oh, you guys are fine.
You're good.
I saw that in, like, it went, did it go, like, viral for you guys?
It went kind of viral.
Okay, I definitely saw it.
And, like, there's, like, the Daily Dose of Internet channel.
Oh, yeah, we were on that.
It was in there, yeah. Oh, wait, have you, did you guys? We're kind of viral. Okay, I definitely saw it and like there's like the Daily Dose of Internet channel. Oh yeah, we were on that. It was in there, yeah.
Oh wait,
did you guys see
the giraffe man?
Did you see the viral
giraffe video
of the guy spinning
a giraffe in his car
on Twitter at all?
No.
No?
Okay.
Well, I did this video.
I just...
He filmed this guy.
I filmed this video
of this guy
spinning a giraffe.
It went viral.
It got like 5 million views
or something on Twitter.
Like it went really viral
and then that guy
reached out to me
and then we interviewed him
on our podcast
and like got a little
it was kind of fun
it was like a cool little moment
we did a special
like 20 minute episode
and it all happened
in like 48 hours
from the time I posted it
to it going viral
to us interviewing him
to the interview going live
it was like very quick
and he was the first
like we were the first
people to interview him
and like by that time
like that day this was like it was the first day of him being viral.
This was last week.
This was last week.
He had already been recognized three times that day.
What?
And he's just spinning a giraffe toy?
He's spinning a giraffe in his car, in his convertible.
He's spinning a metal giraffe.
And then he'll place the giraffe on the hood of the car at the stoplight.
And then he'll drive really fast.
And the giraffe will fall.
And he'll catch it in a really cool way.
What? It's very weird.
Just look at my Twitter. It's there.
It kind of sounds like a dream when you're explaining it.
But it was really bizarre because I was like on the
phone with my mom and I was like, I just saw this guy
spinning this metal giraffe in his
Mustang convertible and I was like,
this is so weird. And I was like, Mom, I have to go.
And I just followed him
for like 10 minutes and filmed him from all these different angles
and just cut it together
into a 40 second clip.
Yeah.
But now I get tweeted at
every day with videos of him
because he's around Hollywood
doing it.
And every day
someone will tweet,
respond to my tweet
with a video of him
like saw him on Melrose
or whatever.
Spotted.
Yeah.
And you invited him
on the podcast
or he just like locked by?
No,
he DM'd me
and was like,
hey,
that's me. And I was like, hey, that's me.
And I was like, oh, you want to do our podcast?
Like it might be fun to kind of chat with you a little bit.
He ended up being a very cool guy and it was a fun little, it was like a, you know, the
internet is obviously can be a very toxic place, but this was like, everyone responded
to this video because it was like positive and fun.
It was wholesome.
Yeah, wholesome.
And then we had an interview with him and he was a nice, cool guy.
And then he's like, I want to talk about Mexicans.
Exactly.
Yeah. You never know with like people that are eccentric like that.
I know.
Like, oh, let's hear about it.
And then you're like, oh.
He was not eccentric.
He was pretty normal.
He was very cool.
So he just loves to spin giraffes.
That's what he does.
Giraffy.
Yeah.
You guys have had some pretty random run-ins on the show, right?
Like you, there was like a girl that you dated.
Yeah.
Well, a girl, yeah, a girl that I literally did, like we had gone on like a couple dates.
Best nights of their life though.
Best nights of their life, yeah.
Both of them.
Yeah.
So I did an episode, we did an episode where I was blindfolded the whole time because I
wanted to experience the podcast as a listener because I had a little sight privilege.
Because like yours, we're on YouTube and podcast apps.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's a bit of both.
Nice.
Yeah.
So I wanted to just, you know, I felt some sight privilege.
So I wanted to blindfold myself.
So I did it all blindfolded.
She came up to me.
She was like, I know you.
And then I was like, oh, let's play a game and have Cole guess who it is.
So then she sat down and like answered some questions and Cole. And like I was like, oh, let's play a game and have Cole guess who it is. So then she sat down and answered some questions
and Cole... And we hadn't dated
for over a year.
How did she recognize you? Because you had a giant blindfold
over your face. I had my glasses over
the blindfold. So she recognized
the glasses. So I guess she just knew
my hair and my face.
Had she been following you the whole time? No.
She didn't know what the podcast was.
She just saw... They had unfollowed each other on social media.
Yeah.
Oh.
That's what I was going to ask.
Did the two dates, like, did it end poorly?
Did you ghost her?
No, no, no.
We just, when we started talking, we were both out of a relationship.
And then when we, and then we just went, we just went into our own different relationships after that.
But you had a good time talking?
Yeah, it was fun. She was really cool. Yeah, she was she was really cool did you guys re-follow each other on social media
we did yeah nice i'm even in there now following yeah oh really i'm even part of it now yeah
yeah we're gonna do like a three-way type you tried to weasel his way in there yeah
she followed me first and i was like you know what oh okay so um where's that going
we talk a lot about dating on this podcast.
Oh, really?
About our dating lives.
Oh, what's up with you guys?
I'm sure you talked about it a lot on here.
I'm a career woman.
Okay.
I don't have time for love.
Got it.
Career woman as well?
I'm singling but mingling.
Okay.
Yeah, he's following leads.
Oh, going leads.
That's what we call them.
Yeah, I refer to it as following leads.
Cool. Following leads to eventually as following leads. Cool.
Following leads to eventually slang dong.
Oh, he slangs dong?
That is the end goal.
Slang dong.
So he slings dong and you slay dong?
I slay dong.
Oh, that's cool.
I like that.
Yes, I slay dong and you slang.
Yes.
Slang and dong.
Yeah, that's cool.
I like that, yeah.
Cool.
Love that.
Yeah, following a strong lead. Oh, you got one? It's a suspect. You got one suspect right now? Yeah, it's cool. I like that, yeah. Cool. Yeah, so. Love that. Yeah, following a strong lead.
Oh, you got one?
It's a suspect.
You got one suspect right now?
Yeah, it's a suspect.
Yeah, one suspect.
Oh.
Is it Courtney?
No, but he was after my sister for a bit.
Really?
No, no, no.
I mean, look, look.
I'm following this suspect.
I'm following the lead.
I know that the end game is that I will be marrying Courtney's sister.
No.
Oh, that's good.
That's nice.
But it's good to make her jealous and stuff.
Oh, gosh. It's been so long since we've good. That's nice. But it's good to make her jealous and stuff.
Gosh, it's been so long since we've just had a normal podcast.
So much has happened.
I know, dude.
Get into it.
I won't get all the way into it because I feel like I got to save it for a more normal podcast.
Yeah, because this is freaking weird. Are we not normal enough for you?
Yeah, fuck this.
We're weirdos.
I want to give you guys the proper attention that you deserve.
Thank you.
I'll take it.
But I did try out a
dating app. Oh. And
on the first day
Raya. Swipe right ladies.
On the first
day
I came across Courtney's sister's
profile. Wow. You guys want to know what
happened to that? What? Apparently my sister
never saw him because she has
a height minimum. What?
Is that ridiculous or what? I'm not even that short.
You don't seem short at all. How tall are you?
5'8". Oh, you are very, very short.
You're not 5'8".
You're 5'8". I'm 5'6". I feel like
you're taller than me. I'm 5'6".
We're the same height. 5'8 is taller than 5'6".
No, but even more. I feel like you're
5'9". I usually wear heels.
Oh, yeah. Wait, what app has more. I feel like you're like 5'9". I usually wear heels. Oh, yeah.
Wait, what app has a height minimum?
All of them.
Really?
Well, you can set a preference.
There's the option, too.
I'm on a dating app.
I don't even think I ever put in my height.
Yeah, you can go into like special preferences.
What app is this?
I mean, I don't want to say this.
I don't want people to... Raya.
Shame the app.
I tried to get into Raya, but I didn't have any recs.
Really?
I'll be a rec.
I can get you in.
It's too late.
I already...
It's too late.
I had it for a bit, but I was like, I can't.
It's silly.
I made one really funny joke on my Raya profile that I'm pretty excited about.
Yeah.
So on Raya, you have to choose a song.
For those that don't know, Raya is like an exclusive...
They call it a dating app for
celebrities, but it's truly not anymore.
It's like anyone can get in. I don't understand what happened
with you. Okay, that's fine.
It really is like, it's all just like yoga
teachers and stuff now. I think it used
to be years ago. It used to be more a famous person. I'm
not famous at all and I got on, so I don't think it's like that
anymore. But you have to choose a song for your profile
which is like very cheesy. Yeah, it's like
MySpace. Yeah, you push a button and all your pictures play in a slideshow and you have to choose a song for your profile, which is like very cheesy. Yeah, it's like MySpace. Yeah, you push a button and all your pictures play in a slideshow and you
have to choose a song through Spotify. Like they make you do it. But I was thinking, I'm like,
well, I couldn't think of a song because it's just like so cheesy to pick a song to profile
your life or whatever. But I know that Spotify has podcasts. So when you click on my profile,
it plays the Dane Cook episode of WTF with Mark Maron. What?
But it's like just the intro.
So it's just Mark like talking about his cats in Highland Park.
It's so funny.
It just like plays through and he's just like, I don't know what the fuck's going on, man.
It's so funny.
Dude, I would have thought you put your own podcast on. No, I thought about that, but it's just so funny.
No, I love that.
Mark Maron rambling on.
Yeah.
Well, dude, if I ever get on Raya, I'm still waiting for them to accept my application
and I don't think it's really worth it.
I haven't used it.
I've never used it.
Really?
Yeah.
Well, the song I would do is El Sonidito.
Okay.
Do you think I would get copyright claim for that?
Yeah, that's probably true.
Wow. Guys, well, after this podcast, listen to the song called El Sonidito.
Okay.
It's a good time.
It's a good party song.
It's the theme song that we had when we were filming a lot of Smosh Summer Games stuff.
Yeah.
It gets you hype.
So Raya's not worth it.
Good to know.
Yeah, it's fine.
All dating apps are fine.
I didn't bother with Tinder.
It's just too much of a hookup app i wouldn't yeah i just i feel that one in specific
like not to like i mean i'm sorry we we it we i don't have to worry about like that right
it tinder definitely is just like set up your profile and you're on your own but i guess like
there's other dating apps that help you a lot more with like figuring out what you want and
what you want and what you
want to do and stuff like that well i think it's like tinder's just they've just garnered this
image of themselves being like a hookup it's like hot or not yeah it's like grinder for straights
yes well also i mean like gay people could use Tinder as well, right? Nope. Nope. They actually say, like, are you a straight when you download Tinder?
Yeah.
It's like, how hot does this image make you?
And it shows you, like, opposite gender porn.
Love that.
Well, no, it makes you have sex with someone to see, to decide after.
They turn the camera and they have to show you having straight sex.
It's part of the thing.
Instead of the, are you a robot, it's are you straight.
Yeah, exactly.
Andrew and Cole, have you guys used Tinder at all?
I have.
I've used it, yeah.
Yeah, how is it?
That's how we met.
That's how we met, yeah.
Wait a second.
I know, which is crazy because it's not for gay people.
Somehow we matched.
Wow. No, it's fine. gay people. Somehow we matched. Wow.
No, it's fine.
I think your assessment of it is accurate.
Yeah.
What's your favorite dating app?
I mean, I've only used Tinder and Raya.
And yeah, Tinder seems to be for hooking up with people.
Raya, I've met a couple people on it and it's been fine.
Yoga instructors?
Yeah,
actually,
yeah.
Nice.
Hey,
nice.
I've heard Bumble does like parties
and stuff
like around all over the place
like to get people
to just meet in group settings.
Oh,
they have like a space.
I've seen their space.
Or they'll like get venues
and stuff like that.
It's wild.
They just like message
like hot people on their app
like come on.
Come on.
And then if you show that you have the app that you get like free drinks. Oh, that's weird. I never message hot people on their app? Probably.
And then if you show that you have the app, you get free drinks.
I never got one of those messages.
I don't know.
I got a hypnotized bumble.
Nice.
Good callback. What's your dating experience been, Cole?
I've only done Tinder.
I don't have any of them right now.
Just because I don't know.
Because you don't need it.
You don't need it.
And I don't want to Because you don't need it. You don't need it. Because from, and I don't want to out you too much, Cole,
but from what we've gathered, Cole slangs dong.
Wow.
Do I?
Cole, like, he's very unassuming, but it's Cole slangs.
Cole's got big slang dong energy.
Yeah.
Wow.
I wouldn't have pegged myself for that, or ever.
Or ever, yeah.
That's the energy.
That's cool, this unassuming dong slinger.
That's why a girl walks down the street,
sees half your face, and knows exactly who you are.
Because she remembers.
She remembers.
I don't want to ask too private.
I was going to say, did you guys kiss?
Me and the girl?
No, we didn't.
It was literally the most platonic date.
You guys got ice cream, right?
Yeah, we got fro-yo. Oh. Yeah platonic. You guys got ice cream, right? We got fro-yo.
Oh.
Yeah.
Like not even real ice cream.
Yeah.
Wow.
You really sent a message there.
Do you want to get some like kid ice cream?
Yeah.
That's fro-yo.
Yeah, that's fro-yo.
What did she get on her fro-yo?
Did she put gummy bears on her fro-yo?
I don't know.
Maybe gummy worms.
Yo, gummies are so good on ice cream or fro-yo because they get like hard.
Yeah, it's kind of nice.
Yeah.
I'm hard for hard gummies, dude.
All right.
A lot of different textures there.
I'm not in for gummies on ice cream.
It's just the texture just doesn't match up.
What do you get on your fro-yo?
Oh, I usually stick with like chocolatey things.
Sprinkles, brownies, fudge, that kind of stuff. Nothing like fruit? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, I usually stick with like chocolatey things. Sprinkles, brownies, fudge, that kind of stuff.
Nothing like fruit?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sometimes I'll do like the strawberry situation.
Kiwi, maybe?
Ooh.
I feel like they have that at some places.
Dude.
The little tang in there.
I've seen it.
It makes sense.
Yeah.
I've done like, I love doing on Troyeo.
That was pronounced Kai-wai.
No.
Kai-wai.
It's not.
I've only seen it written, I guess.
They did cheesecake bits on some of those.
Yeah.
And do that on like some raspberries.
Guys, we should get some Froyo after this.
Okay.
Sorry if we made all the listeners and viewers hungry.
So one of our writers, Monica, she got to know you pretty well, Cole.
Yeah.
She said for me to try to get you to laugh about something. I don't
know if I'll be able to, but she says you're the most fun person to watch laugh because you get
really giggly. Oh yeah. I feel like I've only seen that once. Really giggly and you turn red.
Oh, when I laugh? Yeah. Maybe I do. So I don't know what we can do. Have you seen this, Andrew?
I've seen him giggle and stuff. I don't know about the can do. Have you seen this, Andrew? I've seen him giggle and stuff.
I don't know about the turning red thing.
I remember a specific time where I turned red and it like ruined everything.
Yes.
What?
It smashed.
Are you referring to when we had the...
The prank?
Yeah.
Wait, yeah.
I don't know this story actually.
Okay.
Go ahead and explain it, Cole.
Well, I, uh, who was it?
We, it was, it was me and Monica and I think you or someone else. I think Ryan might have been involved. Yeah, it was me and Monica, and I think you, or someone else.
I think Ryan might have been involved.
Yeah, it was me, Monica, and Ryan.
There's this guy named Chris, right?
Yeah, we can bleep out his last name or whatever.
There's a guy named Chris who worked in the office,
and we worked, in the writer's room, there was this big window
so we could see outside.
I guess that's how windows work.
And we saw him just walking to and from lunch.
And for some reason, we decided to take a bunch of pictures of him as he was doing it.
And then we were like, let's escalate this.
Let's heighten this.
So we printed out each of the photos.
And they're all from different days.
They're all from different days. They're all from different days.
Yeah.
And like it looked kind of incriminating, but for no real reason.
So we decided to print them all out in like, you know, full size pages.
And then we put them into a manila envelope.
And then we put it on his desk when he was gone for lunch.
Oh my God.
And then he came back. And I was he was gone for lunch. Oh, my God. And then he came back.
And I was, so, like, I hid somewhere.
I forget who.
It was either me or Monica who hid somewhere and filmed him as he came back to his desk.
I forget what we wrote on it.
Do you remember what we wrote on it?
Did you just put, like, the address of the office on it to make it look like?
Yeah, like it was sent to the office.
We tried to make it look creepy and also it was really funny.
Yeah, it was very creepy.
It looked very incriminating.
Because all the shots of him were like we've been stalking.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Different outfits, yeah.
So there's a video of him like opening this envelope and just super confused.
And then, I don't know, I guess he, I don't know what he thought,
but he didn't know who it was, obviously.
I think he knew it was someone in the office because it was coming from the office building.
He had to check the angles.
He had to check the angles.
He was like walking around the building, like looking, like, where can you see me?
Did he know he was being filmed for this video doing all that stuff?
No.
Wow.
We like hid behind him.
So for like, well, it was like a couple of days, right? Where he, he, he put up the photos on his desk. No. We hid behind him. It was like a couple days, right?
Where he put up the photos on
his desk. He displayed them.
He put them on his thing.
He was doing a hardcore investigation
and he started asking suspects, right?
He started asking suspects and
I just thought it was so funny
so I put it on my Instagram story.
I documented the whole thing and that was the
fault because somehow another employee, I think, tipped him off that it was me.
And then I deleted it before he had a chance to see it.
But then he came in and started interviewing us.
He was, like, trying to get to the bottom.
You're in the middle of a meeting.
You're in the middle of a meeting.
And he grilled all of us.
All of us held up.
Was he upset?
No, no.
He's a comedian, so he gets it.
But he was asking every single person.
Everybody was doing a great job at hiding the secret,
except for Cole.
Really?
I kept laughing.
I turned bright red.
He started talking to me about my Instagram.
I was trying to play dumb. I Instagram and I was like I was trying
to play dumb I forget what I said it was something really ah I forgot yeah I folded real quick and
then you just giggled yeah oh that's but it was how long did it last it lasted like like what like
four days maybe yeah it lasted a while we got him got him good. And I think he kept those photos up there until the collapse of Defy.
Yeah, they were there until the end.
Andrew, you weren't doing this podcast like a year or so or maybe two years ago, were you, by yourself?
The podcast by outside?
Yeah.
No, no, it was Cole's idea.
Okay.
All right.
Because, yeah, because I saw, I was just running through Griffith Park one day.
I want to say it was like a year or two ago.
And there was a guy on a table, like doing a podcast outside.
Uh-oh.
Uh-oh.
I don't, well, I mean, clearly it didn't work.
It could have been a radio show.
Clearly it didn't work out.
I didn't talk to him.
Don't worry.
It's all right.
I was just very confused.
We do get a lot of messages, by the way, of people who are like, we love your show.
I love your show.
I'm going to do it too.
And we're like, please don't.
Oh, yeah. No. It's so weird. We get so many messages. And we're just like, in one episode we love your show. I love your show. I'm going to do it too. And we're like, please don't. It's so weird.
We get so many messages and we're just like,
on one episode we just said it.
We're just like, hey, we appreciate you guys liking the show,
but we're trying to build this into a thing.
Please don't copy it.
I don't know.
I don't know.
It's so weird, actually, that people would want to like,
yeah, it's just strange.
People can't really copy our show because we just talk.
It's just a basic
podcast we're copying every podcast yeah exactly yeah i feel like your podcast probably just makes
people want to talk to people they don't know yeah it's fun i get it i understand it is like
it has a hook and you know and i've been doing comedy for like 10 years and i never started a
podcast because i was i was always like well i don't know what i i want it to be unique i want
to just like i don't know i just feel I want it to be unique. I want to just like,
I don't know.
I just feel like
the market's saturated
with people talking to people.
This is fun,
but you know,
I just was kind of like,
I don't know.
I don't have an interest in that.
And then Cole had this idea
and then I was like,
oh, that's like unique
and it has its own angle.
I think I pitched it here.
Maybe.
Oh, right.
Actually.
Really?
I think so.
I don't know.
I think you were looking
for like other things to do.
I'm not pretty sure.
I pitched it to definitely companies.
I'm not sure if I pitched it to Smosh,
but they're all too dumb. Yeah. Well, I got a lot of stuff do. I'm not pretty sure. I pitch it to definitely companies. I'm not sure if I pitch it to Smosh, but they're all too dumb.
Yeah.
Well, I got a lot of stuff done.
I actually,
I actually,
because I knew I'd be on here,
I brought a joke
that didn't get,
didn't make the cut.
Didn't make the cut.
In a sketch?
In a sketch, yeah.
Oh my God, yes.
It's just like a three line joke.
Love it.
But I did bring it
and I wanted to.
Do you need like people to read it?
I found it.
I was cleaning out my computer like a few weeks ago and I found like it and I wanted to... Do you need people to read it? I was cleaning out my computer a few weeks ago
and I found screenshots
that I took.
And it was one of these.
Here, I can't find it.
I actually applied to be a writer on Smosh years and years ago.
Really?
How many years?
Honestly, five or six years ago.
I just moved to LA and my friend Brent,
who knows you guys, he was like,
oh, there's a writing position. I'm just curious if there's anything
on my end too.
Now I'm not sure if this is a bit.
No, I'm serious. I'm serious.
I don't know if I can even find it.
So I have it.
I'm assuming
this was from
if internet trends in real life or something like that.
Or if internet trends were real.
Oh yeah, we did that. Memes in real life? No. I. Okay. If internet trends were real. Oh, yeah. We did that.
Memes in real life?
No.
I think we did some.
I don't know.
Yeah.
Oh, I'm in this.
Oh, it's me and Ian.
Oh, and Shane.
It's you and Ian and Shane.
I kind of want Ian to read Shane.
Cole has a screenshot from a script he wrote, and so now we're passing it around so that
we can all-
Cold read it.
Cold read it together.
Don't read it.
I'm not reading it.
Don't read it.
You're looking at it.
I'm not reading it. Okay. So this. You're looking at it. I'm not reading it.
Okay.
So this is a rejected Smosh sketch that you had written.
Yes.
A rejected joke.
I'm assuming it's internet trends in real life.
Okay.
That's what it was.
Are you going to read stage directions?
Yeah, so interior doctor's office day.
A couple, Clarissa, Courtney, and Ryan, Ian, are talking to the doctor, and I'll be the doctor.
Yeah, we have no idea how we got pregnant.
Did you use a condom? Yep, used it
correctly in everything. Filled it with water,
dropped it on her head, then came in her pussy.
Yo!
That didn't make the cut.
I remember that joke.
That's so funny and it's probably just because
of the P word.
Yeah, because we can't unmute.
Then change it to something else.
Coochie.
But I guarantee we laughed really fucking hard.
That's incredible.
Well, we did get away with calling Laser Corn Lazy Cum in Smosh Summer Games.
Wow.
Who knows?
That's a good joke, Cole.
I'm sorry.
It's okay. Was it for a video that did come out, but that joke didn't make it's a good joke, Cole. I'm sorry. It's okay.
Was it for a video
that did come out
but that joke didn't make it?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then you had the foresight
to screen cap it
and say,
I'm going to...
Yeah, I liked it.
As I was reading it,
I was like,
oh, god damn it.
Did you find your...
I did find it
but I don't know
how entertaining it'll be
but I'll just...
Is that like your one page
on the front?
But the response from Ryan
said,
awesome, thanks.
We'll check these out ASAP.
2014.
Oh, no.
For all...
Holy crap.
I don't know.
And I guarantee I read them.
I know.
I know.
I'm not mad at all.
I mean, I applied to lots of jobs.
I get it.
It actually sounds like an email I'd send.
Yeah, no, I believe it.
ASAP.
That's not an email.
That's so funny.
Five years later.
Five years ago.
Yeah, that's funny, yeah.
I mean, that would have been like around, around the time that, like, Squad was coming on.
Yeah, I mean, I've been on for four years and, like, a couple months.
Man, if things could have been so different, I could have been pranked by Cole in the office.
Yeah, man.
Everything worked out, but it's funny.
It's crazy that we both got hired onto Smosh through people we met from Vine.
Yeah.
That's how I've gotten all my jobs pretty much.
I just missed the boat on Vine.
I think I was just a little too old.
For whatever reason, I just didn't get on it.
What was your main creative outlet?
I've been doing stand-up for 10 years.
I think that's also part of it.
People in the stand-up world aren't as good at the internet.
They're different worlds for whatever reason. Do you feel like a lot of people in the stand-up world aren't as good at the internet. And it's just like they're different worlds for whatever reason.
Do you feel like a lot of people in the stand-up world kind of look down on things like Vine?
I think at the time, maybe so.
Yeah.
But then Chris D'Elia hopped on.
But there's also plenty of stand-up people who are good at it.
I don't know.
There's a bit of both, I guess.
How's the stand-up life?
It's good.
It's fun.
I mean, it's definitely like all entertainment stuff. It's very difficult to, I don't know, just like there's so many things out of your control in the entertainment world. It's good. Yeah, it's fun. I mean, it's definitely, you know, like all entertainment stuff, it's very difficult
to, I don't know, just like, there's so many
things out of your control in the entertainment world. Oh, yeah.
That's why stuff like what you guys are doing and kind of what we're doing,
that's why that stuff is so cool, because
you can just, you know, you just started this with your friend
however long ago. It's like, you just kind of wanted
to take control and do this thing, and
there's no, you know, like,
there's no, like, gatekeepers or people
telling you you can't.
And I think that's what's awesome about the internet and stuff like this is it really gives people a voice where no one can say no to them, really.
Because even with stand-up comedy, you're doing it yourself, but it is very clicky and there are gatekeepers of people keeping you out.
Totally.
The actual act of doing stand-up I like and I feel like I'm good at, and I feel good about that. But, like, you know, getting a late-night set or, like, getting on TV, it's just, like, those aspects are so out of your control that it can be very frustrating.
But even, like, the person running the comedy club has to like you, right?
Yeah, there's so many. I mean, there's just so many steps and stuff.
But it's going well, and I'm doing well, and it's fun.
That's awesome.
Yeah.
And, obviously, like, podcasts but outside has to be, like, helping you guys.
Totally, yeah.
Every time I, like, go on the road now, like, a lot of fans come out from the podcast.
Oh, nice.
And it's kind of cool.
Yeah, it's exciting.
Yeah.
Sweet.
I mean, that's got to be helping you quite a bit because, like, you're going around the sort of, like, typical mainstream avenues to build your stand-up career.
Yeah, a little bit.
And we also want to go on our tour with our podcast, too.
Like, we have visions of doing a live version of the show and then doing other episodes in the city.
So that's definitely a thing for the near future.
Podcast, but outside, but inside.
Exactly.
Okay, because I was going to say,
I was thinking you guys sell tickets to a show,
but the show is outside on a sidewalk,
and you have an audience of 200 on the street
just watching you as people walking by.
We have thought about that,
but we ultimately do have a way that we are going to do it.
Maybe we shouldn't say here.
You don't need to say here.
Yeah, you don't need to.
I kind of want to keep it
a surprise.
Okay, but it'll be cool.
We have a workaround
that will make a very cool way
to do our show.
Yeah, in cities.
Are you going to have
like a backdrop of the sky?
I can't say.
Okay.
Well, there you can
have that idea.
We'll take that.
We'll take that.
Oh, I know what
they're going to do.
They're going to have
avatars of themselves. Yeah, we are going to do avatar style. Oh, I know what they're going to do. They're going to have avatars of themselves.
Yeah, we are going to
do avatar style.
And then we are going
to be connected to
our mom via her pussy.
Yeah.
It's going to be great.
Are we allowed to say
any of that on this podcast?
Podcast?
We can say everything
on the podcast.
Even if it's on YouTube?
But not on YouTube.
It'll be beeped.
Just that word.
I hear you.
It's just, it's so. Yeah. It's icky. When you're saying it in a normal is just it's so
when you're saying it in a normal
conversation, it's very icky.
When you're referring to the actual body part, I feel like
it's weirder when you're referring to the actual body part.
Can you imagine if a doctor said that?
Oh my god.
He's like, so we're just gonna, you know, use the
what are the
speculum?
He's like, I don't even want to say it.
It's too gross.
That's called the coochie wrench.
Oh, the coochie wrench, right.
You're going to put the coochie wrench
in your...
I don't want to say it.
See, yeah, it's gross.
It's too gross to say
and it's a casual conversation.
It's just,
I feel like that
with every curse word
or dirty word,
it feels wrong
until you like...
You're in the heat of the moment.
Right.
Heat of the moment
or like you say it enough that it doesn't feel weird to say it anymore.
There's changes in context,
you know,
all that stuff.
It's an acquired word.
A friend of mine,
Whitmer Thomas,
he's a standup comedian.
He has a joke where he's like,
he just says,
he says,
my therapist refers to sex as fucking and it's shocking every time.
It's just like the context is weird.
It's like,
so have you been doing any fucking lately?
Yeah,
that is strange. It's weird. Yeah. I been doing any fucking lately? Yeah, that is strange.
It's weird.
Yeah, I would feel weird about that.
Yeah, it's weird.
I'd be like, I'm sorry.
We just need to pause this therapy for a moment.
What did you just call it?
Yeah, yeah.
What's up?
What's up?
Oh, no.
What's up?
What's up, guys?
Do you do stand-up calls?
I do stage stuff.
Actually, Monica and Shane both helped me audio record
a bit that I do. Not character
stuff. It's more like one-man sketches.
Like your CVS mascot you've been
trying to pump out there.
Right. Fuck ass?
That's the best thing.
Can you explain
this mascot? The CVS mascot
you've been trying to pitch CVS?
And you're pitching it inside a CVS.
It's in a Walgreens.
You're in a Walgreens?
It's for Walgreens.
Fuck ass.
He's a purple monster
man who dresses in
teen clothes and rides around on a longboard
and tries to give all the customers hickeys.
He's basically just like a cool
guy. I think he would make Walgreens a little more hip, a little more like.
Edgy.
Just edgy.
Yeah, it's like how Colonel Sanders hosted, was it EDC?
Did he do a set?
Yeah, dude, he did a full on set at, I think it was EDC.
Wait, who did?
Colonel Sanders.
KFC boy.
Oh wait, what's the one in Miami?
It's not EDC.
It's...
Art Basel?
No.
No, it's...
Oh, man, there's so many ravers
are going to be pissed off at us
for not knowing this.
Sorry, Raven fans.
Anyway, he did one of the biggest EDM concerts,
and they did a Colonel Sanders set.
They had a giant Colonel Sanders head
on a guy
like Marshmello
or something
and he's like
I'm Colonel Sanders
I am everywhere
and he did a full
like music set
who was it?
kind of makes me
want KFC
like some DJ right?
it had to be
like some
like a couple
tiers below
Marshmello
kind of guy
yeah I mean like we don't even know if a couple tiers below Marshmello kind of guy.
I mean, we don't even know if it's the real Marshmello playing music.
That's true.
I've heard on appearances and stuff, it's not actually him.
I think they did kind of a spoof of that on The Good Place.
Oh, really?
A little bit.
Or I don't know, something like that.
Marshmello is an idea.
Exactly.
Yeah, because I know he did like a cooking show and I heard that
it wasn't actually him
and it's kind of brilliant
because like
if he just hires
a bunch of people
that are the same body type
as him
and sends them out
into the world
to do other
like pre-recorded projects
nobody will know
yeah because he doesn't talk
he literally
it's just
you gotta just have
anybody with the same
basic build
I mean honestly
it's probably a team of people
who just goes by Marshmallow.
It's kind of smart.
Why not?
That's pretty cool.
Same with Deadmau5, right?
Does Deadmau5 talk?
Well, Deadmau5, you can tell it's Deadmau5
because he's covered in tattoos.
So it's a lot harder to get.
Someone's like a hardcore, like, double, you know?
All the same tattoos.
Right, like a Saddam Hussein kind of situation
where he doubles.
Oh, is he a DJ? Yeah, he's a DJ. Yeah, big in, like, the early 2000s. Right, like a Saddam Hussein kind of situation. Yeah, exactly. Oh, is he a DJ?
Yeah, he's a DJ.
Yeah, big in the early 2000s.
Oh, cool, cool, cool.
I don't know what happened to him.
He kind of like fell off.
He went underground?
Yeah, he went underground.
Yeah, he went underground.
I hear he's kind of hanging out.
He's hanging out?
Where?
In the ocean?
Hanging out in the ocean?
No, that was bin Laden. Oh, that was bin Laden. Yeah, bin Laden. Saddam is hanging. He's hanging out? Where? The ocean? Hanging out in the ocean? No, that was Bin Laden. Oh, that was Bin Laden. Yeah.
Saddam's still hanging.
I mean, they might have cut him down.
Sorry, this is getting too grim.
I mean, I feel like it's okay to laugh
about... No. Yeah, death?
It wasn't suicide. I mean, like,
he was a dictator. I mean, we could
kind of laugh about dictators dying,
right? No? Every time I hear the word dictator,
I hear dick-tator.
Yeah.
Have you guys ever been to Burning Man?
No. Can you tell us about it?
I don't know. I'm going on Monday for the first time.
I was just curious if you had ever been.
Kevin, have you?
I haven't. I've had a lot of friends who've gone, though.
Yeah, I feel like I know a lot of people who have gone.
It's actually really cool.
I do not have an extra spot. I wish I feel like I know a lot of people who have gone. Do you have an extra spot? It's actually really cool. I do not have an extra spot.
I wish I did.
I'm like hesitant about it.
I'm like,
I'm not into like festival.
I don't really like
go to those things.
I don't really like that.
But I have so many friends
who I really trust their opinion
who like love it
and say it's the best
that I'm just like,
I got to try this.
But do they all do it on drugs?
No, I have like
one of my closest friends
who goes has been sober
for like 20 years.
Yeah, it's like
it's not even really like
like the music is like one small aspect. Yeah, that's not really. Yeah, it's like, it's not even really like, like the music is like one.
Yeah.
That's not really.
Yeah.
It's just like this weird community.
I mean,
there's a lot of,
I mean the aesthetics of it don't really appeal to me.
There's a lot of things about it that I'm like,
Ooh,
like I was just planning on kind of making fun of this forever,
not actually going,
but I'm going to go and we'll see how it goes.
I think it's probably good to go now.
I mean,
like I'm sure you'll probably hear from a lot of like the old sort of
burners that it's been sort of invaded by the sort of like wealthy elite that they fly in on a private jet for a day or two and then they leave.
Is it expensive, Burning Man?
Or is it just kind of you show up?
It is.
You have to do a lot of preparation.
So the ticket is like $450.
But then.
A day or just.
Total.
For the whole week.
Yeah.
That's not bad.
Well, there's not.
They're not trying to, like, make a ton of money. It's like trying to just, you know, create for the whole week. Yeah, that's not bad. Well, there's not they're not trying to like make a ton of money.
It's like trying to just, you know, create this community or whatever.
Yeah.
But, you know, they have 60,000 people go.
So I'm sure they make enough money to do it.
You have to bring everything.
You have to bring all your own food and water for a week.
You have to like bring a bunch of weird random supplies, like glow up light things and a bike and like, I don't know, like a mask, like all the goggles.
Just weird stuff.
Andrew got like an entire warehouse shipped to his house yesterday.
I got a lot of stuff shipped to my house yesterday.
We got to his house.
There was like, there's a stack of boxes like higher than his door.
There's like 12 packages.
Wow.
Well, cause it was like, there was like some, you know, ready to eat meal type stuff.
And then I had like a lot of battery with like a solar panel so I can have like some
power.
I don't know all these different things.
That's smart.
We'll see how it goes. That's so cool. That's an experience. I think it'll be interesting can have like some power. I don't know all these different things. That's smart.
We'll see how it goes.
I think it'll be interesting, but I'm not, I don't.
Yeah.
Cause it's like, it's like part art show, but then part like social experiment, right? Where there's, there's no currency.
There's no, like there's no money involved.
So everything is for trade, right?
It's not even trade actually.
That's a misconception.
I thought that as well.
But then I read through the whole guide.
It's not even like, I give you this, you give me that. It's like, I give you this, period. Like, everything is just free. You are also encouraged to bring stuff to give to people as well. But if you walk around, you can take anything you want from everyone and no one will say anything. It's not like a strict trade. But it is like, you know, in that process, if you bring some stuff and someone else brings some stuff, it'll all kind of work out for everyone. Yeah. I think that's pretty dope.
Yeah.
I had a friend that he like built a bar or something.
Exactly.
People do that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And then he's just like, yeah, people will just come and just drink for free.
And that's fine.
That's all part of the Burning Man experience.
It sounds cool.
And like the environment is so harsh.
It's like, you know, 100 degrees and you're in the desert.
There's dust everywhere.
The dust gets on everything.
And like the fact that the environment is so harsh and yet people like, you know, 100 degrees and you're in the desert and there's dust everywhere and the dust gets on everything. And like the fact that the environment is so
harsh and yet people still go every year
like it's a testament to how high the highs
are. Like how good some aspects of it are.
So I'm interested. I think if I went, I'd build
a Hyatt.
Well, there are people who do stuff like that.
Yeah, to build hotels.
Or just like have tons of sleeping bags and stuff
like that. But I'll let you guys know how it goes.
Yeah, let us know if you see a Kardashian there.
Oh yeah, I'll keep an eye out.
I feel like they're probably there for a day.
I feel like at this day and age, it's kind of like a spectacle.
It is, yeah.
People are like, oh, I just didn't check this out.
Like Comic-Con used to not be like this mainstream thing.
I feel like half the people that I've seen
like in those Burning Man photos,
it's like Instagram models wearing like a bikini.
I'm like.
That's going to be me.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's me.
Hardcore.
I'm like, is that really like desert attire?
I know.
It's definitely changed.
But you know what?
It'll be fun.
Yeah.
And yeah, we'll see.
You should get a blow up kiddie pool.
Okay.
Oh, yeah.
Actually, that's also part of it.
You're not allowed to let anything touch the ground.
Like no water or like nothing is allowed to let anything touch the ground. Like no water. Nothing is allowed to...
I mean, your tent and stuff,
but you're not allowed to get any matter or water on the soil.
It's kind of a huge rule.
So you can't brush your teeth outside
and spit on the ground or anything.
Because it's meant to be like you're supposed to leave it as you can.
You're supposed to leave no trace,
and it is like a very delicate, weird little...
There's something about the soil.
I don't know.
It's like a weird place.
It's like a weird... So no throwing up, huh? Yeah, you can't. I don't know. It's like a weird place. It's like a weird.
So no throwing up, huh?
Yeah, you can't throw up.
I mean, there's like toilets and stuff.
Once it's in your tent?
Yeah.
Once it's in your tent.
A yak bucket.
They recommend that, actually.
A yak bucket.
I'd have a sign that says, puke in my Hyatt.
This is kind of changing subjects.
No, please.
I hear there's a story to how you got your cat, Cole.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, this is good.
Dude.
We got like eight minutes left, so I just want to finish it off with this.
I love it.
I'll try to finish it in seven.
So last September,
wow, almost a year ago.
What's the kitty's name again?
Her name is Capri.
Oh.
It was Capri.
Oh.
I'm just kidding.
It still is.
But she is dead.
But she's dead.
So we were looking for a new roommate
for my house because we have four open rooms.
Well, one was open.
That's how roommates work.
We had a window in a house.
What is a house?
Like a small Hyatt?
A small Hyatt.
You can puke there.
Oh, great.
I'd love to come hang out.
Yes.
We met this girl through like this Facebook
group and she seemed cool and she came and visited and like, she seemed like super cool. We met her
twice. I met her, I met her girlfriend and she saw the house. She's like, I'd love this. This
would be cool. I'm like, okay. And so we, she sent in her application and like she was approved and
she was like, Hey, I'm going to come.
I'm going to move in on Sunday.
But can I drop?
Oh, I had brought up.
I was like, oh, by the way, are you allergic to cats?
She's like, no.
I was like, oh, well, we were thinking of maybe getting one.
We're not sure.
And she was like, I actually have a cat.
She's like, can I move in with her?
I'm like, yeah, of course.
She didn't mention that before.
She didn't mention that before. That's odd. What? First red flag. First red flag. And I was like, can I move in with her? I'm like, yeah, of course. She didn't mention that before? She didn't mention that before.
That's odd.
What?
First red flag.
First red flag.
And I was like, okay, interesting.
I think first red flag is getting a roommate off of Facebook.
But it's like a closed group.
You have to be accepted into the group.
There's only 20,000 members, dude.
And we got, so she's like, I'm going to move in Sunday.
It would be a lot easier if I could drop the cat off Saturday.
And we're like, okay, yeah, do that.
She dropped the cat off and then left.
And then that was like kind of the last we heard from her.
Okay.
So we tried.
So like a couple days went by and like me and my other roommate were kind of waiting.
We're just like, okay, I guess we'll feed the cat.
I guess we'll clean the litter.
I don't know.
Maybe she'll like some toys.
Did she drop anything else off other than the cat?
Her and her litter, like her litter box.
And then like she just came in a basket with a towel over it.
Like a dirty towel.
Not even like a crate?
No.
We tried hitting her up and she wasn't responding to us.
And then like days go by and so we sent her a message.
We're like, hey, you can't live here anymore.
We need to fill the room.
Rent's due.
Just let us know about the cat.
And then she responded and she was like,
what did you say rent was?
Is it flexible?
And how much are utilities?
And we were like, oh, sorry.
We don't know if you saw the message above this one, but you can't live here.
Just let us know about the cat.
And then she just kept asking questions.
She's like, well, no, I'm going to move in tomorrow.
And we're like, she just wasn't like like i think she's trying to gaslight us or
something it was very bizarre yeah so we tried to tell so like we just didn't know what to do we
were like frustrated we were like i because i was convinced that like she was dead that she died
so like i would like i was like doing these manic searches online i'm like this girl's dead and i'm
the only one that knows she's missing you know so like i was so concerned for her i was like so like
i was doing all this research.
I was trying to find her.
I couldn't find her anywhere online.
I couldn't find her name.
I was like, what?
Like this is bizarre.
And then like my worry just turned to like anger so quick.
And we were like, just like talk to the landlord.
Like we don't, we can't deal with this.
And then the landlord calls like a half hour later.
And he's like, she is under no circumstances allowed back in that house.
We're like, what happened?
And he's like, she just started yelling at me.
And like she said, you told her all this stuff.
I forget what exactly it was, but like I had text proof that I said the opposite.
So like I screenshot it, sent it to him and he's like, yeah, so like don't let her back in the house.
Oh, my God.
So we're like, okay.
So then we texted her again and we're like, okay, so let her back in the house oh my god so we're like okay so then we texted her again and we're like okay so let us know about the cat we'd be happy you know to keep her but otherwise
she's yours if you want her and then how is the cat doing throughout all of this terrified she's
like shaking it alone in this empty room but like i was in there like all day with her just trying
to like calm her down and keep her company and then she texts back. She's like, hey, would it be cool if I came by in a few days to check up on Capri?
We're like, check up?
Sorry, there's no checking up. Do you want the cat or no?
And then she said, well, I'm looking at new apartments right now
I'll see what their pet policy is and I'll let you know
And we're like, okay, and then we never heard from her again
Maybe she's dead No, for real her again maybe she was dead the whole time wow that's cool and it was just the spirit of her that came yeah
that came with the cat that's crazy and but you said the cat's like awesome well she's attached
herself to me so i kind of have this cat now she sleeps with me She won't leave my side and she's pretty dependent
on me. Well, that's great that it worked out.
Yeah, I kind of got a
new best friend out of it, which is cool.
What a crazy person.
Yeah, that's so weird because she didn't bring up the cat
at first.
So it wasn't her plan because I brought up the cat.
It's odd. So just a very weird
scenario. She must have been like kicked
out of somewhere and like just needed to put that cat somewhere.
No, because she got approved.
Like, her application was approved by the land.
Like, everything checked out.
On paper, like, it checked out.
She seemed cool in person.
I don't know what it was.
But, yeah, the first text she sent after, like, she was missing, she was just like,
Hey, sorry, I was, like, a little stressed.
I'm not good at texting when I'm stressed.
We're like, okay.
Okay.
You're going to pick up your cat?
Oh, poor kitty.
I remember I was at a birthday party at Dave & Buster's once he first texted back,
and I've never been more upset in a Dave & Buster's in my life.
I'm always upset in Dave & Buster's.
Wait, I may have been there at the Dave and Buster's.
Really?
What was it for?
Do you remember?
It was for my friend's birthday.
I don't know if you know.
Okay, probably not.
Yeah.
Did you just hang out there a lot or what's going on?
No, I've been to a couple birthday parties at Dave and Buster's.
I feel like I've seen you at Dave and Buster's.
No, we have been at the same party before.
Yeah, like McKenzie.
Dave and Buster's.
Yeah, something like that.
Yeah, DMB, a little DMB action.
Well, I'm glad the cat's in a better home.
Ryan said he wanted to meet him at...
What is it?
There's a guy, we'll just bleep out his name in that,
but there's a guy, he was one of the business leader guys over at Defy.
He was, like, newly brought on board, right?
Yeah.
He was hired from within.
Like he wasn't really,
I don't think it's a job that he really wanted
and Defy just kind of hurled it on him.
Nobody really liked him.
Do you have a story about him?
Yeah, Ryan told me to tell the story of the all hands meeting.
We had a meeting.
Every month.
Every month. Every month.
And that was new, right?
Was that like a new thing you guys did?
Yeah, it's something that he kind of put on.
In that final year or something.
This like All Hands Meeting kind of situation where he would bring everyone in and try to like hype them up, you know, on the successes of Smosh and what we're going to do next.
And like, yeah, that is a good thing.
But the way that he went about it was like a dad trying to hype you up for like...
Your bar mitzvah.
Yeah.
Literally, he'd have music from his iPhone playing like dubstep one time.
Yeah, and then he had like really bad jokes that he would put in or he would like have gifs in the PowerPoint presentation.
In the PowerPoints, he'd like cut, cut, he'd, like, use photos,
like, old photos from people's Facebooks, like, in the room.
That's funny, though.
Of employees.
But, yeah, I don't know.
But he also, like, always.
I liked him.
I did like him just because he was so pure, I guess.
I don't know.
He had, like, this innocence to him.
Yeah.
He was a front.
You also would think that he was, like, much older than us. Yeah. But he a frat. You also would think that he was like much older than us.
But he was the same age as us.
He always just dressed in like a button up shirt.
Tucked his shirt in. He'd tuck a plaid
shirt into jeans. With a belt.
With a belt. Yeah. I didn't
intend to like completely overthrow
him with one thing.
But it happened. Yeah.
He emailed me the night before. He's like
hey can you like talk about
this tomorrow at the meeting like you know i was like i don't want to do that like i wasn't even
gonna go to the meeting i was gonna sleep in and then just show up for work yeah i was like okay i
guess so so like i come up and like i see the powerpoint and it's like my face like photoshopped
onto this thing with like all these talking points i don't what did i think i just you read the headline talking point and then i just kept in a
row yeah so the headline talking point was what we're writing scripts we're writing scripts so
the check-in from the writers team was we're writing scripts and there was a bunch of like
points that were like hey you can explain more to get everyone hyped. And then you... I think I just re-read them, but re-worded them.
No, you said, you skipped all the ones.
You just read the headline and re-worded
and said the same sentence eight or nine times.
Yeah.
Really?
And each time I said it,
people were laughing more and more and more.
And he was just off to the side, turning white, humiliated.
It's like creating a supervillain.
Yeah, everyone was losing their shit.
Everyone was laughing their asses off.
We dogged on him quite a lot in those meetings
and he would just be like,
ha ha ha, yeah, ha ha.
It's crazy, right?
But you could tell he was very bothered by it.
I didn't mean,
I unintentionally bullied this man.
Oh no.
I did feel really bad.
I didn't mean to.
You shouldn't feel bad.
I just was apathetic to be there,
but it like just completely undercut
everything he was trying to do.
Yeah.
I mean, you shouldn't feel too bad.
I know he was trying to fire
some of like our high level people.
Oh yeah.
Because he thought they were making too much money.
So, yeah.
I don't feel too bad about him getting
dogged on. I accidentally bullied him.
You did? Yeah, what did you do?
Because you know how every weekend he would be like,
what are you guys up to this weekend?
Or he does always the same questions.
Like, what are you guys up to this weekend?
Or, how was your weekend?
I went into my apartment on Friday and didn't come out until Monday morning.
Like, every time.
It was a little sad.
It was a little cheesy.
But I remember one time we were all at the table and he was like, what are you guys up to this weekend?
I just looked and I was like, we're all going to stare at a wall the whole weekend.
And he's like, okay, well, you guys haven't got time to walk out.
And I was like, shit, dude.
I was just trying to be sarcastic and funny, but it actually came out really mean.
Yeah.
I gave him a good chance.
And then I got tired of it because I didn't approve of the work he did.
But the thing was, before that, he was so nice to me and trying so hard
to be my friend
and then
you loved me
really?
because I was like
the other Jewish guy
in the office
I was like
I don't know
you also tucked your shirt
in occasionally
yeah I tucked my shirt in
sad
it was like
he was looking up to you
he was just like
red
just totally betrayed him
in front of everyone
oh no
and then he just didn't
he like
wouldn't make eye contact with me even in the hallway after that.
Oh, no.
It was like a complete like 180.
Like I ruined everything on accident.
It was the last person he could have expected betrayal from.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's like, I trusted you.
Oh, my God.
Man.
Yeah.
Judas of the office, Cole.
Wow. Holy crap. Well, like, I trusted you. Oh, my God. Man. Yeah. Judas of the office, Cole. Yes. Wow.
Holy crap.
Well, shoot, dude.
Shoot, dude.
Shoot, dude.
Shoot, dude.
Yeah.
That is a shoot, dude.
That's a shoot, dude right there.
That's a shoot, dude right there.
That's a real big shoot, dude.
If I ever heard of a shoot, dude, that was a shoot, dude.
That's a real shoot, dude.
Well, Cole, Andrew, thank you so much.
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Oh yeah, downtown nightlife
It's over like 1am in front of a bar
wow that's awesome
it's called
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I think it's like
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I think it's 5
that's awesome
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