Smosh Mouth - S1: #8 - We Almost Killed Our Director

Episode Date: April 10, 2019

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He was just, like, prepared for it. Snoring's such a comforting sound to me. My dad snored. So, like, any snoring is just like, it's like a ocean sound. Uh, guys, don't want to freak you out, but there's a lot of blood. There's some fur laying around. Can't find the cup.

You've been a part of Smosh for so long, and you're such a huge detrimental, I hope that's the right word, part of it. Nope. What's detrimental mean? That's a bad. You're crap. That's not what I meant at all. Welcome back to Courtney Doesn't Know Words. We're going to bum these. Yeah Yeah that's okay with me. Well that's right we'll say something funny about Ian and be like right? Don't make any jokes about me please. Please I'm a very fragile man. Hello everyone welcome to

Smoshcast. Today I am joined by the very lovely Courtney Ruth Miller. Hello again. And Ryan, I don't know. Ruth. Ruth Todd. Ryan Ruth Todd. My middle name's also Ruth. Yeah.

I love it. That's lovely. My middle name's Edward. And we're here with Ian. Do we have time to take a dump, Hecox? Yeah, I took a dump right before this, just so you guys know. And we did have time. Yeah, starting the podcast off strong, talking about our dumps. Yo.

Yo, how was your dumps? I always enjoy mine. Good. For those of you that are listening or might not have watched Smosh videos from two or three years past, Ryan, you uh well you've you've been our director for 10 years now uh i started directing i've been with you guys for 10 years but i don't think i started directing until 2010 or 11 one of those that's true because because at that point yeah because before that it was like myself and then sometimes Anthony, like, kind of doing, like, a little co-directing thing.

Right. And then we realized, like, oh, this is a lot of work. And we're maybe not the best at it. Didn't when he first, like, started helping you guys, you were still recording on tape or something? Oh, yeah. And then you had to, like, tell him, like, no. That was the first day we started shooting. The first thing I shot for you guys, you guys handed me a Panasonic DVX-100

that still shot on DV tape. And I was like, no, I'm not going to shoot on this. So then I borrowed a friend's HVX, and then that was, like, the first digital shoot you guys had where you didn't, like, actually shoot on tape, which actually kind of bit me in the ass because since i did that i had i was the guy that had to download everything on set so then that shoot day was like the longest shoot day because i'd shoot download all the footage shoot again it was awful yeah but fun you guys are such hipsters still shooting all film film what are you louis lumiere that's wow that's a that's a name um it's it's it's tape it's not so

yeah so ryan how did we how did we even come across you because it was uh we i don't even know this story so well so before before we had ryan uh we we got a producer, and it turned out they weren't that good. That's one way to put it, yeah. Yeah. They gave great first impression. Really talked themselves up. And they got us a few cool things. We got to shoot at a prison.

So that was pretty cool. But they also just didn't do their job very well. And so we needed a camera person. And that's how we got hooked up with you. Wow. And so basically they called me. Well, the long story is it's a lot of people because we were in Sacramento. So it's a very small group of people.

So the sound guy that I worked with, it was actually like the worst. It was like the worst setup for like a job interview. Like, oh, hey, this other person that we worked on on this feature film that I directed and the sound guy was the same sound guy on it. And then this person was actually our makeup person on that one. the producer was the makeup person for you. Yeah. Yeah. They wore many hats.

Yeah. Yes. Uh, but our sound guy, we were on a job and he was like, Oh, Hey, uh,

yeah. Do you want to work for this? Like, I don't know. It's like this comedy thing. And it's like, God, it's like,

I don't even know what it is. And it's, it's thing and it's like god it's like i don't even know what it is and it's it's like you know and it's that one you know and he like he wasn't a big fan of the person either he's like yeah you'd have to work for them and like i don't know and it's like long hours and like the lunch wasn't that good on the day it was like the worst setup and he was like but you know they wanted to talk to you so you know i don't know i need to sell the yeah channel and i was like you know basically i was like all right well that sounds interesting again we were coming back from like i think a commercial for a hospital or something so anything comedy or anything like that i was like i don't really care

i'm down to do whatever and then when i got the call it was actually like straight up a dark and stormy night i don't know if you remember it was like this really torrential downpour in sacramento and i came over and i'd already met you prior and then uh oh yeah we i uh i met you at there was like a weird kind of janky california like film group right right yeah yeah like i got an invite so i'd be like oh we're like a group of filmmakers in sacramento we get together and like have meetings and i went an invite so i'd be like oh we're like a group of filmmakers in sacramento we get together and like have meetings and i went out there and i think it was like it was you me and like two other people on like a panel and maybe 20 people in in the audience i was like okay your first panel i guess so yeah was that probably yeah i mean at that point for

sure and it was nice and just to be, they're very spirited, lovely people. Everyone was very lovely. Yeah, they're very nice. But yeah, it's a small group. Yeah. Very small. Because Sacramento is not the most popping in the entertainment side of things. It's mainly commercial, industrial, a lot of political production.

Yeah. But that's how we met. What year was that? Do you know? It would have been like 2008 or something. Yeah. I think. Because that meeting i had with you guys was 2009 and that meeting was like five months prior to that yeah but then i came and met you know again i'd already met you prior i was like did the whole like oh yeah we met at this thing yada yada and then met anthony and then had the interview and then it was like after that it was like cool we shoot next week

and then yeah i think i shot for you guys like, after that it was like, cool, we shoot next week. And then, yeah, I think I shot for you guys two or three different things before it became a regular thing. Cause you guys at that time didn't have a schedule. It was like, you shot kind of once a month or something. You guys weren't putting out stuff regularly, like at all.

No, I mean like we had our one main channel video we put out every week, but that was it. And we weren't disciplined in in filming like there were definitely times when uh we would shoot or we would plan on shooting and then we'd wake up and like eat breakfast and then just kind of like hang out talk about the video and be like let's get some lunch and then we get lunch and we'd be like i don't know do you want to just shoot this tomorrow oh my god yeah one of One of the camera people that we had before you, Ryan, I recall, definitely showed up, like, hungover or possibly still drunk from the night before.

Like, I remember several times he took breaks from shooting to go throw up in the bathroom. Oh, my gosh. I'm like, this is great. So, yeah, not a lot of discipline in our first few years of filming. I think we've kept that consistency. We like to have at least one hungover and or drunk person on set. Yes. It just sounds like college.

It just keeps things fresh. It's very much like college. Yeah. Well, I like to have that drunk person with their life not in order so i feel better about myself you know actually i have a funny story about that when we were when we started we were in the swing of things shooting in sacramento we had another that was a makeup one of our makeup uh uh artists uh she came on set one day and was like you know i'm really not feeling good and blah blah i'm sick and i remember we're like okay and so we were like treating her we're like really nice and being like cool in between each setup go

lay down yada yada somebody else i think was like a pa on our set was like and this i think was before instagram so you didn't have like instagram stories but it was like facebook you could post videos or whatever and she came up to me and was like did you see her video from last night i'm like what are you talking about she showed me the video and she had literally filmed herself uh up drinking till like three or four in the morning and i remember just getting so mad and she was in it was when we shot at my old office yeah and she was sleeping in my office and i remember just kicking the door open and being like get up like we need you to like it was like my god all niceties were gone after that i was so mad you were being so nice to her yeah because we thought she was sick yeah that's that's not cool

yeah that's pretty irresponsible and yeah i've i've definitely like always made it a thing to to never to never drink to anything that could be considered excess the night before shoot. I mean, it's, I mean like I, the way that I see like shoots is like you're, you're showing up to war and,

and you gotta, you gotta be prepared. You gotta be well rested. You know, you don't, you don't show up to the battlefield with, with an empty gun and you know, yeah, you don't show it. Yeah. I don't know where I was going with that, gun and, you know.

Yeah, you don't show, yeah. I don't know where I was going with that, but basically. With an empty gun? Yeah. You don't want to do that, you know? I mean, what are you going to do, throw your gun at somebody? Well, you could scare them. Like, I'm going to shoot you.

I swear there's bullets in here. Yeah, that works. I've, like, it's very rare to see you have to be, like ever be like angry or like you know like because you're pretty you're a pretty chill like person generally it was like I feel like because I I've this job was really like my first time being on set like super regularly like I was on that music video production set and like those people were yelling at each other like in front of clients and stuff like that but like when you're mad you either like you always like take a step out for like five seconds or like you'll throw an f-bomb in a sentence like that's that's like the the equivalent of like when

you can tell like you're stressed out but like that's like about it except for there have been moments that like of other things that have caused you to have to be like that the um that time on set that guy that was it a homeless guy who came on set one time and that's the fruit cup story yeah do you want to tell the fruit cup story i would love i love hearing this story because i wasn't i wasn't there you weren't there no i was because that was like an every blank ever that i wasn't in oh yeah so i just heard the story secondhand it's very rare to see you like i don't know what do you call it like not like come alive but like when you have to like bring out that inner like tough guy i don't i don't know yeah yeah yeah i mean i'm glad that it doesn't come out because on the

inside i'm just an angry little man so i'm good i'm glad that i've like hit it uh no it's so the story was it was i remember it was the it was the uh day of the uh the election to to vote um for the governor the california governor and so we were shooting at a church that day for every funeral ever that was one of the things we were shooting. And we had all our crafty out. And I don't think he was like a homeless guy. He was a young kid, probably like, I mean, maybe early 20s. No, he looked older. He was just grizzled. Yeah.

Like, I think he was like a young dude, like maybe mid-20s or something like that. But he had no shirt on, just pants. But he was kind of like a, like i don't know like a graffiti kid or like you know i mean like because he definitely had a backpack a gutter punk well he had a backpack and you could like literally hear the spray cans rattling and his back was pretty locked up but anyways he walked up we were all like just just hanging out and he was like what are you guys doing and you know usual usual answer for things we're always just like oh we're shooting comedy thing you know no big deal we don't try to like say exactly what it is or didn't our producer at

the time she would say like oh we're filming a thing you know no big deal we don't try to like say exactly what it is or didn't our producer at the time she would say like oh we're filming a mayonnaise commercial that's always that's always the general response is you say you're filming a mayonnaise commercial which usually works it usually gets people to just you know go away because it's uninteresting yeah except for the time that we were shooting in this park and this this like dude like rolls up on a bicycle and he's like and he he's like, Oh, what are you guys shooting? We're like, ah, mayonnaise commercial.

He's like, Oh, I like mayonnaise. What kind? And I was like, I was like, uh, taste good foods.

Cause I was just trying to think of like a generic brand that would like, and he's like, Oh, never heard of that. He was legitimately the only person in my entire career that ever challenged that. No, that was ever psyched about mayonnaise.

Everybody else did the thing where they're like, Oh yeah. That ever challenged that? No, that was ever psyched about mayonnaise. Everybody else did the thing where they're like, oh, gross. Okay, but this time we said comedy thing? So yeah, so we're just shooting a little YouTube thing

or whatever. I think sometimes we'd say like a college video or something. Sometimes that was like a standard. College project. Yeah, college project. So I said that to him.

I said, oh yeah, we're just shooting this thing and he was like, oh, what's up with all this food because all our crafty was out and I let him know like, oh, hey, we have a large crew. We keep them, we're just shooting this thing. And he was like, oh, what's up with all this food? Because all our crafty was out. Yeah. And I let him know, like, oh, hey, we have a large crew. We keep them fed, blah, blah, blah.

And he's like, oh, can I have some? And I politely said, no, man, this is for our crew. We're paying people to be here. And he was really jovial. So he kind of like sarcastic. He was like, well, what are you going to do if I take one? So I was just kidding around. I was like, oh, I guess I'd punch you in the face.

Because we were just joking. And he literally just like kind of like changed his tone right there got like stone face walked up to we had these little fruit cups that were just filled with like melons and shit and uh grabbed the fruit cup and then held it up to his face like right in front of me and just started eating it in like the most defiant way jeez and i always describe it it's like kill bill like everything like that kill bill like went off and everything kind of went black and white and went and i just smacked the fruit cup from the bottom up into his face and just started screaming get you know get the f out or whatever and again i and i i barely remember it so a lot of it's like and then ad and ad or somebody like well our i'm out of there real quick or something right he immediately got pissed off went to his bag and pulled out two box cutters oh that's right

like he had these two box cutters and pull and literally like pulls them out he was ready like though these two freaking blades like you just like prepared for it. Like a ninja turtle. Pretty much, yeah. Or like Blade. With a backpack and... Or like Blade. Yeah. And our art department, art director, Lindsay. Oh, Lindsay, yes. She was a badass. Who was super cool and very tough

and could definitely beat me up. She could beat us all up. Yeah, grabbed him. Well, kind of like came up to him and was like, hey bro, why don't we take a walk and just kind of defuse the situation.

And then the cops came and I felt bad at that point. So I was like, you know, man, just like, I think he was just having a bad day. Cause what I didn't know after the fact was the church we were shooting at,

that was a common practice. They would have food out. Oh, and so people could, yeah, homeless or whoever could come and get food. So I just, yeah.

In retrospect from that situation, I'm actually the, the asshole. But you explained to him, he asked what it was and you said, I still feel bad retrospect from that situation, I'm actually the asshole. But you explained to him. He asked what it was and you said. I still feel bad. At least you didn't get your ass cut. Yeah, no.

That's crazy. You almost got opened like a FedEx box, man. Truth. Nobody's ever pulled a knife out on me or something. I've seen a girl stabbed. That was weird. What happened then? We were at a house party and then suddenly something. I seen a girl stabbed. That was weird. What happened then? We were at like a house party

and then suddenly the house party turned very not cool. And then somebody was like, oh, the cops are coming. We walked out of the place and there's just a girl just kind of like sitting there and there's just blood all over the ground. Oh, so you didn't see her get stabbed. You saw the stabber man.

Oh, stabbed woman. And I was just like, oh, dang. Was this in Sacramento or LA? Yeah, in Sacramento. Wow. Yeah. It was like, you know when you have those friends that you probably shouldn't be friends with and they take you to all the really dumb things?

Oh, yeah. Yeah, it was one of those things. It was a friend's girlfriend that she was kind of scrappy, shall we say. And we would, she brought us this party and it's like, nah. Oh, my God. So, yeah, it was weird. I think the person probably survived. You know, there's. Just a flesh wound?

Just a flesh wound. Because, like, you know, a little bit of blood on the ground looks like a lot of blood. Yeah. You know? So, anyway. I remember I was, I think I was in the dressing room or in the makeup room, like, and I saw some of the craziness of that day happen through a window. Yeah, because the way that it was set up was the craft service was right in front of us,

and then that window was where you guys were, so you guys were, you guys had, like, a front row seat through the window. Yeah, I remember seeing, like, when your eyes, when, like, things got serious, I was like, oh my goodness, what just happened? Cause I remember Shane talking about that. It was like, you guys thought I was just talking to some dude or something and you had no idea until I started yelling or whatever. And then you realize it was like a different situation. Yeah. So what was your, what was your first impression of me?

When I first met you? So I'm just smiling at it. For the people listening, I'm just smiling at them like I'm an Angela. What was it like working with these new people? And it's like, were you doing YouTube stuff before then? Well, it's interesting because I experienced it later on in the same way. So obviously the early days of YouTube was such a trip to a lot of people I think because especially me like I was you know I just directed a feature I was trying to do short films like I thought my career path was very like I'm gonna have to like hustle to try to

like get into film or television or whatever and I was making short films and so before I met you guys I was like am I just wasting my time? Because like there was no outlet for these things. Like I was doing a lot of like film festival things where I would do a 48-hour film festival where I would make a film in, you know, 48 hours and put it out. Or there was other ones where you'd make a 10-minute film in 10 days. And I remember thinking like, is this a skill set that's even worth anything little did i know that it was exactly what youtube was going to become because it was that skill set to turn things around really fast was is a huge asset obviously so when i first met you guys and again that very

very awesome introduction was like yeah this comedy thing i looked at it and again this it was so 180 of anything i was so i was like who the hell are what the hell is this like what why are people watching this like what i also wondered the same thing yeah about your own stuff yeah no and that's the thing and it's kind of like okay so then when i met you guys was like oh these guys are really cool um so i obviously got along with you guys very quickly and then you kind of like grow into the comedy right and then once i was like kind of in it with you guys then i'd meet other people um uh where you have the same experience where you're kind of like oh hey like especially people were hiring yeah like hey check this thing out and they'd be

like what is this yeah and then they start working with us and then they kind of get into it and go oh okay uh obviously ryan finnerty was one of the the main people that we brought on the first and that was like the same experience was like you know hey check this out and it's like kind of like okay what is this i was like you'll get it and then we just kind of jumped in it because we worked on ask charlie that was like the first thing we started working on together so yeah again at least that was like interesting because we got to like work on it kind of from the ground up with you um and create it and that experience was really fun but yeah i mean i think the first impression was that which is like i don't understand why this is so popular but this is awesome that it is let's just jump into it um

and then when i first met anthony he was just so pretty that i was just you know really uh embarrassed because i just wanted to impress him and make sure he liked me. And you were embarrassed for me because I didn't hold up aesthetically compared to him. It was just easy being around you because I didn't feel threatened at all. Yeah, I get that.

That bowl cut is very disarming. Yeah, not get that. That bowl cut is very disarming. Yeah. Yeah. Not to me. Not to me. You guys, I met both of you at the same time in my callback audition. I didn't meet you in the first time. You were not in that room? No. My first interaction with you was great.

Oh, it was in Sacramento? Yeah. Oh. You showed up. I had known who you were, obviously. I saw the pictures and I knew you were slated and we got you on the emails and stuff. And then you showed up at the door. I remember this. Showed up at the door of the Smosh house. And saw the pictures, and I knew you were slated, and we got you on the emails and stuff. And then you showed up at the door. I remember this.

Showed up at the door to the Smosh house, and I opened the door, and I was like, Courtney? And you're like, yeah. I was like, oh, it's so great to meet you. I'm Ryan. I'm the director. And you were like, oh, thanks.

And I was like, cool. Let's get this girl into makeup, make her a meth head, and let's go. That was the first interaction I had with you. And I didn't see you. You went and got into makeup, and you came back, and you were just all methed out oh my god

and you killed it the performance was so funny aww it was great thank you I remember I just remember

like cause the scene was I meet Ian and I'm like I'm your tinder date and like I hurl myself against the screen door and like hit a crash pad

yeah and I remember like I was standing there at the door and you were like okay so what's gonna happen is and you start directing me and telling me what we're gonna do need to do and i

was like oh my god this is the first time i've ever done anything like this in my life like and i was like dude all these thoughts i was like does he know i have zero experience in acting do they know i don't know what the heck and then i just committed it's okay because uh all the other actors that we had in sacramento also apparently had zero acting experience we uh that can be so mean that's not true i mean i mean it's not true but like 90 of it's true but 10 there are some people yeah there's people who we yeah we had a we had a word for for them and i i don't know who coined Um, but I think it just happened like a nickname. It just kind of happened. We, we started referring to the actors in Sacramento as SACters. SACters. Because with, with the proximity to Los Angeles, if you were serious about acting and pursuing an

acting career, you would just move to LA. You wouldn't stay in Los Angeles. So a lot of the people, a lot of the people that, that wanted to be actors in Sacramento, it's nothing, it's nothing against them. Like it's, it's a lot of people like, uh, they kind of, they already, they have a job and they're just doing it as like, oh, it's like a fun thing. I'm trying it out, whatever. Or they're, they're thinking about getting into acting. So it's kind of a nice little like step in. I mean, I think it, I think it provided kind of a nice little like step in i mean i think it i think it provided kind of like a fun little quality to our old videos where it's like these people are all kind of like terrible we found some gems we found some absolute gems like our old yeah he was a guy that we used

we always use as like our old man his name is was Tom Hart. He was the landlord. Yeah. In the Charlie videos. Always got stabbed in the chest. Yep. So good. He was great. And just because, yeah, he had just a certain style to him. It was very endearing. But I could say that about a lot of our actors.

Well, and that's the thing. I think the perception was, and that's the problem when you're trying to cast in Sacramento, like I was saying before, Sacramento is very, uh, you, you do industrials or you do politicals or you do just like straight commercials. And a lot of it was print. So a lot of these people were actors, but they never had, they weren't entertainment actors and they certainly weren't comedy actors. So we leaned into obviously getting a lot of, there's a lot of really great theater actors in Sacramento, which would work for us sometimes,

not all the times, because sometimes even the theater side of the acting would be a little too much, but thankfully we're doing a lot of comedy. So it really, you know, more often than not, we got some really great people from there.

And then, um, you know, just off the top of my head, it was like Brittany, Stephanie, um, trying to think who else was really good.

Those were like the two top girls that we used a lot. Yeah. Brittany. We had, we had one, we had one that who else was really good. Those were like the two top girls that we used a lot. Yeah, Brittany. Isn't she Elena? We had one that we really liked, and then we found out that she had a lot of furry porn on her Tumblr. So we kind of started easing off of her. That's a weird way to put it, but yeah. Also, I actually see her on the

flight quite a bit back and forth from sacramento to la i've seen her a couple times and uh it's crazy because she's one of the nicest people oh yeah she's incredibly nice she's like such a sweetheart but yeah she is in she she's got she's got a um she's she's got a side that's very very open yeah i mean you know because we're just trying to do a fun thing here. And then it's like, and it's like, oh, yeah. It's just a little strange if you're working with somebody

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Or you could text smosh to 500-500. That's S-M-O-S-H to 500-500. And listen for a change. Now back to us talking about a bunch of stuff that doesn't matter. So yeah, Sactors. They're a rare breed. I miss them from time to time, but I also

like people nailing their lines on the first go. True. Yeah, so do I. Okay, shut up. I haven't gotten away from that. Okay, that's true. Unfortunately, no matter what city we're in. What is, what are you, okay. So I'm going to put you in the spotlight here.

Like, how do you feel about how you have to deal with like me or Ian on set? Like, have we grown over time? Have I gotten better? Or was, have I always been bad? Do you hate working with me? No, I don't. I don't hate working with you either. It's too, there's two very distinct things, just like I obviously have my own very specific tics.

With Ian, if you don't mind me saying this, I've always said Ian is the biggest stoner that doesn't smoke weed. I believe that. That's so accurate. Meaning if you've ever hung out with a stoner that just kind of zones out, you'll do a very specific thing. So a lot of times that'll happen, and I have a good workaround with that. The other thing too is you're very,

you know exactly what you want, and it's very specific. So sometimes when we're doing a scene, I'll want to get just like a different like i always say i want as much ammunition going into the edit as possible yeah so we'll have nailed a performance and i'll go okay that's awesome let's try this and you'll kind of go but no we but that's not how it's supposed to be done and and we'll always have the argument which is like yeah dude but do this do this for me. Yeah, I can definitely be a pissy little bee

about some notes. It's definitely something that I've had to, that I'm still working on is being able to take notes because yeah, I do have a very specific idea of how I think this scene should go. But I also understand that, you know, I might not have the best ideas. So I always try to stay open to, you know,

getting alts and, you know, trying new things. So I'm working on it. It's really good. I mean, again, and I think most of the time it's always random. Because a lot of times you're just kind of, because we do so much. It'll be just that one or two on a shoot day where you've really laser focused on that one. And like I said, our usual thing is you get to that moment.

I go, yeah, man, but I got that. Like we're solid. I will use that in the edit. Can I have this? And then my default is always like – and if you don't like it, well, then cool. We got like a fun blooper or a fun alternate scene or whatever, which whatever which is always you know back in the day when we used to show alternate scenes and the bloopers that we shot um for the bts videos and stuff like that and then now with our bloopers that we run at the end um courtney uh and we've worked it out actually like so there's

on set there's some stuff and we actually just had this just recently where you'll get so focused on something that sometimes i think you're like mad and so we'll sidebar and we did it you know a few shoots ago where i said can we can we develop like a signal like and i don't even think we thought of a word we should create the word yeah we should come in with a safety word yeah where i'm like are you mad or are you just focused and this is this was something from uh actually on the feature that i had done it was a similar thing where there was an actress that she got so focused on what she was doing and i would talk to her um on set and we developed the same thing because i wouldn't know if she was actually pissed off or mad because her role was like really like kind of

crazy um so that's that's the only that's the only thing i also sometimes i mean i'm worried that like because sometimes i'll work on deliveries in my head and i'll like make faces like if my character has to like give attitude or something like you're talking and i do like an eye roll or something like when i'm doing my delivery man i'm like oh my god i hope that didn't seem like i was rolling my because i'm like literally working out the stuff in my head but and it's crazy too because when you're on set I'm literally looking at a camera that's like my face on your face all the time yeah so and that's no I'm aware of that but it's like yeah it's and I feel like I I feel like I've come a long way though too in a lot of ways like when I first started like I definitely didn't have a full grasp on like not the hierarchy well but like Lily who makes the certain calls and like when you need to shut up

and it's not your job you know like I remember when we did every vine ever that was super early on in my like career with you guys and like I remember I be I like I didn't power tripping the word not even but like i definitely was like well you are a resident yeah you are a resident vine expert as is uh noted on your collar uh you have a vine pen but we're also like yeah i mean like it's quote unquote vines but we're definitely shooting over six seconds and we're not really like sticking to it. Yeah. I don't remember you being, I don't, I remember that being pretty positive.

So if you were, I don't remember. It's not a lasting thing in my head that it's like the most I remember from vine. I think, wasn't that Shane's shirtless oiled up scene? The thirst trap scene. Or was that Snapchat? That was Snapchat. That was Snapchat. Okay. the thirst trap scene. Or was that Snapchat? That was Snapchat. That was Snapchat, okay. There was like a weird creepy scene

for every Vine ever that I was like, we gotta cover those thirst trap boys that like do the grind with me. Oh, I hated shooting that scene. Yeah.

That was the grossest scene to shoot. Yeah, and yeah, that was really hard to get through because like, and because you guys have your way of shooting it

and I was like, no, I see it totally different but it's like you guys were already camera up, lights up, like filmed a couple takes already and I was like no I see it totally different but it's like you guys were already camera up lights up like like filmed a couple takes already and I was just like ah I remember I came in and I was like it's not supposed to be

like that like I literally and then like you were like you just don't you're very like you're very composed you're a very composed person and I he conceals it well he's very much frozen it conceal don't well no he does feel no yeah that's the thing after knowing you after a few years it's like i and i

feel like you and i are very similar people like in a lot of ways and so i know like you probably feel those emotions very strongly but you have like you're very good at staying composed regardless of what the feeling is. Yeah. I mean, I think directing, especially at the amount and level that we do, it's an extremely stressful environment. You're working with a lot of people and not everybody is completely there. Some people are comfortable in the whole process and they're not treating it. I mean, it's easy for us to just be like, yeah, I'm just coming to work, whatever.

Like I'm just doing my thing. And it's easy to forget like, to treat this like you're coming to a film every time. If we're ever falling behind, that's just further stress on Ryan. Yeah. And, you know, the amount of restraint that I've seen Ryan have to exercise

throughout this entire decade of him working with us is incomparable. So in other words, who's your favorite? Anthony Padilla. Yeah, right. incomparable uh so in other words who's your favorite anthony padilla yeah right uh it actually always shifts and the one thing i can say too about like before i talk about favorites and scissors everyone's got their pros and cons it's an ego trip on set as especially as the director because i mean the one thing i've noticed these last few years is it's kind of a coveted position in a way, like a lot of people want to do it, you know, because it's like a really fun thing to do,

especially if you've written the script, which is a hard part, and that's a big collaborative thing, like working with whoever's joke it is. It's like you obviously want to make sure you're working with them to know what the actual joke is and you're really understanding it, because if they happen to be the actor on set and for some sure you're working with them to know what the actual joke is and you're really understanding it. Because if they happen to be the actor on set and for some reason you're coming at it from a 180, that's going to be obviously really hard for them if they wrote the joke and they're performing. So you have to be on top of that. And then also it's such a collaborative thing. Like sure you're the director, but you're really collaborating with everybody. So you have to, I always have to check myself of being like, am I saying, am I, am I arguing this point or discussing this point?

Um, because I want to just be the person to make the note or am I arguing the point because I don't want to like collaborate. And again, my head always goes there and I go, no, you always want to collaborate. So make sure everyone's being heard. And that's why we do a lot of those situations where it's like able to go, hey, do this one for me. You know what I mean? Or like, oh, we got that one you did. That was great. Let's try it a different way. And then you can get – because that's the coolest thing about what we do is you can try multiple ways and you can play with it in post.

And then whatever one you choose, then there's a bunch of options to make sure that really funny thing doesn't just get lost. You can throw it on social media, you can throw it on our Instagram, you can throw it on Facebook, you can throw it at the end of our bloopers. And that's why, I mean,

I, you know, I do miss our like BTS videos. Cause that's where we can put a lot of that, but just, you know, with Instagram stories and a lot of stuff, like obviously that stuff's so immediate now.

So it makes more sense to go there. It didn't, you know, it doesn't really transcend as much on YouTube. I remember when I was a Smosh fan, by the way, I was Team Ian. I was.

You better have been. I actually was. Good. But to knock you back down, I was the girl that was like, I'm going to like the one that is the less popular.

The ugly one. The ugly one. You could just say it. Everyone loves Harry Styles. I was like, I love Niall. Oh. Niall's great. Niall's the best. Now I'm questioning your taste. But I would,. I was like, I love Niall. Oh. What do you do? Niall's great.

Niall's the best. Now I'm questioning your taste. But back in the day, I would click the link to go to Smosh.com and watch the BTS. Yeah. That was fun. Yeah, that was back in the days when websites existed. Like nowadays, no, like nowadays. There's no internet now.

Yeah, there's literally just social media and YouTube. And websites aren't a thing anymore. I used to go to so many websites, and now it's literally just Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube. If you do have that website, though, you're stoked. People just don't go, though. They don't care. We've got to make more fun stuff.

But then also all the social media networks started punishing you and the algorithm for linking outside of their website. So, so it used to be really beneficial for us to have like a YouTube video and then link to smosh.com for the BTS. But then we found out that we started getting hit in the algorithm for linking outside because that was also seen as like a spammy thing, I guess. I remember when Facebook, it used to be super,

like when you posted a YouTube video, it was like super nice and link would play right away. Then they made it like so ugly and like hard to get to. So weird. That's been the crazy game for these last six, seven years. Yeah, because they just want to keep people on their platform. It's so gross and exclusive. Like just be, let's all just internet together.

Doesn't work like that. Capitalism doesn't allow those things. I'm sorry. Capitalism is a fickle beast. It's like my parents were getting divorced and I had to pick. It's like, don't make me go back there. Just all be, you know, www. We're all at the end of the day.

We're all just a www.facebook.com. Courtney, are you okay? I just want to. Are you all right? Can I do a quick disclaimer? Yeah. Just because we talked about BTS a lot, and in case we want to put it in, can we let people know that BTS stands for behind the scenes?

Right, we're not talking about everyone's favorite K-pop band, which I will not say anything bad about because I know that I'll get flamed online if you say anything. Flamed. Flamed. We're gonna get flamed. So flamed, bro. Yeah, don't say anything bad about BTS ever.

Ever. The band or our behind the scenes? I'd say both. Okay. I'd say both. Okay, sure. Yeah, both. Yeah.

But one comes with more people ready to kill'd say both. Okay. I'd say both. Okay, sure. Yeah, both. Yeah. But one comes with more people ready to kill you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, don't mess with K-pop fans, man. They're serious.

I feel like a lot of fans you don't want to mess with nowadays. That's true. Well, yeah, on like a YouTube front that it's still like burned in my mind

that video of Logan Paul in the fountain at YouTube those years back. That is just... Well, okay. No, I know. and that's what i'm saying he he brought that upon himself but i'm i was just looking at that being like that would just be so awful and so weird and and to to actually bring that upon yourself is is is kind of odd to me as well but that's just such a a high level of beetle-esque mania that is so weird yeah he also mentality though like when they're when a bunch of brains are near each other and like they get

excited you all amplify off each other that's like a known thing it's like yeah i mean he he totally set that up he said that he stashed like a thousand dollars somewhere in the courtyard yeah so all of his fans then went to the courtyard and then, and then, Oh, here I am right here. Of course people are going to freak out. So,

I mean, there was kind of like a weird PR move, uh, but it made for a great, um, you know, clip that he could use to show how famous he is. And it changed like the whole vibe of VidCon after that.

I felt like, like there was a very different shift after that. Right. I mean, I saw scenes like that happened naturally at VidCon a couple of years before that when security wasn't so great. Like when they didn't, cause nowadays like VidCon picks up YouTubers at this one location, takes them to the back of the place. So they never have, they're never like face to face with, with, um, fans unless they're doing meet and greets and that kind of stuff. Uh, but before they would just give you like one security guard and walk you from the hotel through the expo hall.

And, and I saw like insane scenes, like, like it looks like a zombie apocalypse. So there's like 200 screaming fans chasing after somebody and you've been to every vidcon every single one man this year's uh year number 10 yeah it's gonna be year number five for me um it's crazy when you see those fans screaming or running and you're just like we play tag like who's it well you're excited that they love you but also scared at how much they love you. Yeah, it's not safe. It's not safe.

I feel like it wasn't only in the recent years, in the last few years, that they really amped up the security. I mean, I think part of that was because of Christina Grimmie. That makes sense. And they caught a lot. That year that they increased, it was like it wasn't – it didn't go to waste. Like I remember one of the guys who worked for – I don't know. I can't remember the company that was doing VidCon that year, but he talked about like, yeah, man, we caught huge knives from coming through.

We stopped a grown man from chasing down a young girl. Like they literally – it all was like – it was worth it yeah vidcon vidcon does do a pretty good job at security um i know that if any youtuber has like a stalker or anything they they give them photos so security has photos of all the stalkers so they can stop so important yeah yeah yeah but yeah the christina gram Christina Grammy thing was really a shock to pretty much everybody on the platform. Because everyone was like, oh, yeah, like, they're just fans. Like, they're cool. It's like, some people are not quite right in the head.

I'm like, and with all of the craziness that's just been happening the last couple of years, like, I feel like I get a little more nervous about conventions and stuff. Yeah. Like, each year. Just like things where it's like it's a specific thing that is special and happening and there's so many people all so close together. It's like I get a lot more anxious now about it. Yeah. I definitely wouldn't agree to any sort of convention that I didn't trust had security as like a number one priority. I completely trust VidCon.

I think that they've done a great job with that. I wouldn't go to TanaCon. It's happening again, right? They're doing that? I hope. Did you go? I didn't. I did not go.

But I watched it on YouTube and it was very entertaining. I would say it's kind of crazy like you've been you've been a part of smosh for so long and you're such a huge detrimental hope that's the right word part of it nope what's detrimental mean that's uh that's a bad what does detrimental mean that means like you're you're a detriment yeah like i've just been killing the brand this entire no okay which is possibly not no no instrumental well you're just like like you're

crap that's not what I meant at all welcome back to Courtney doesn't know words I literally don't I don't but okay so you're literally like you're if not

like the spine the backbone of Smosh like you're the like you're very like you're a good majority of the brain of Smosh in terms of creating the. I like to think of myself as the liver that processes the alcohol of Smosh. Oh. Yeah.

But go on. Sorry, go on. But you're like such a huge part of it. And like without you, like if you just disappear,, it would be a huge impact. And so you are so important and you're such a big part of Smosh, but you, like, you haven't done, like, a lot of, like, the fan servicing or, like, haven't, like, do you feel, like, thankful that you don't have to be a part of that or, like, do you wish you got to, like, be involved more in that stuff? Well, it's interesting.

I mean, and that's been the thing with YouTube this whole time, which time which is like if you're not the person in front of the camera it's not known to the public that you're really a part of it so it's like and i think that's been the perception of samantra like i think a lot of fans like even and just people that casually watch it see it and kind of go like oh those are the people that make it and and again it's constantly youtubers yeah yeah because i mean i've honestly from a fan's perspective the most that i like people don't talk to me about being the director as much as they talk to me about being stevie yeah so when i was playing stevie back in the day that's when i would get any sort of that like oh my god you're stevie um and and you know and i i'd

even seen comments that were like directly uh uh in contrast to each other where it's like in one comment, it's like, you know, it's like, oh, God, the direction on this sucks. But that Stevie character is really good. So it's like they don't even consciously know that I'm doing both. You look so different right now. Like versus if you were to get into Stevie right now. Right. Well, this beard just pulls on and off. It's a sticker.

So when I become Stevie, I just pull the beard off. Oh, my gosh. Can you give us a quick Stevie? Do you want one? So the funny thing with Stevie is I always, to get into Stevie, it's always the very first introduction to Stevie that we did in the video. I forget the title. It was something about our new best friends or something.

Was that one where you befriend the guys with the pinball machine? And that was like the first introduction with Stevie. I don't remember any videos. But my first line is, and I see if I can do it, is, and it's always how I practice. Yeah, you got to back away. Yeah, because it fucks up. But I go, hey, Ann, I saved my peanut butter and jelly sandwich for you.

Yeah, that's my test. And so once I say that line, I can engage Stevie. It's like my Power Ranger belt buckle. As soon as I do that, I can turn into Tyrannosaurus or whatever. Yeah, I don't think that's how Power Rangers works. What do you mean? Turn into a Red Ranger. But he goes, Tyrannosaurus!

Oh, yeah, yeah, but he doesn't turn into a Tyrannosaurus. Well, he ain't, man. I wish he would. I wish he would turn into a Tyrannosaurus. Well, he didn't. Man. I wish he would. I wish he would turn into a Tyrannosaurus. But he's like the power of the Tyrannosaurus, like Red Ranger. I think being the liver of Smosh is a perfect description of your sort of role. Right. You know, I think the liver is a very underappreciated organ of the body.

Oh, it is. But also you, like, really need it to survive. And when you're having liver problems, you can see it in your face. So you can see it on our faces. If we're having director problems, yeah. Well, that's the thing. Spine? Yeah, you can live without that.

But your liver? Jellyfish? Let's be real. And so the alcohol are our ideas, right? The alcohol are you guys. You guys are the spirits. And I have to filter said spirits through the body are our ideas. Yes. The alcohol are you guys. Like you guys are the spirits. And I have to filter said spirits through the body of Smosh. But to your point, which is I think we've built up such a great crew. So I 100% appreciate the comment that it's like without me, there would be this gap or whatever we have to fill.

However. We'd be on dialysis. Yeah. You can go on dialysis. Wait, that's kidneys. Welcome to Ian doesn't know fill. However, We'd be on dialysis. Yeah, you can go on dialysis. No, he's like, wait, that's kidneys. Look into Ian doesn't know body. Oh, no. But the point is,

is there's such a great group of people and that was kind of my point of like, there is so many people that are here now and in the past have been behind the scenes that there are plenty of people that can pop into the role.

And we have such, and in the past, I mean, the first, I'd say five years it was such an aggressive amount of work because uh not only was i directing but i was producing everything so uh it was just so much stuff i mean you know at one point i even like processed payroll and did like all the paperwork and and did the time cards and did like all these things. It was crazy. Um, and so little

by little, we've been able to much like a, you know, more of like a kind of indie film production or a television production, uh, partitioned new people to come in to produce and coordinate and manage. And, um, you know, even back in the day when, uh, again, I was producing and directing a lot, you, you know, were editing all at the time. Ian is bored. And Anthony was editing all of the Smosh sketches. And like I had mentioned before, before we brought on Ryan Finnerty, you were also writing everything. So, you know, until we brought on Ryan,

there was a lot of stuff that we were having to do. So it was really this like seven day a week. Because remember the first god three or four years I I worked every weekend practically it was so much work to get everything done because we'd shoot every week and then I can't remember when we did it we finally got smart and started being like all right at least let's take one week off and shoot double. Are you single then? No. No. He popped a baby out like right when we met. I forgot.

Yeah. I was pregnant for nine months and I popped a baby out. It was like that movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. But that's also been wild because your daughter was literally just a little teeny tiny baby when we first met or did you even have her no i did so you did yeah the first i mean when i'd work with you guys when we didn't have any sort of like office or any situation she was in the little yeah little baby carrier yeah i totally remember that yeah i remember one day too i like uh i don't think

i ever told you this uh one day i was there with her and it was i think she was like young and uh you guys had these like couches before i replaced them remember and they were like the shittiest couch yeah they were garbage like uh like hand-me-down couches yeah they were and they had stains on them and i remember my daughter i was there working and i had set her on the couch and she was just like hanging out or whatever and i did a bunch of stuff and you guys were in the back and i was like all right i'm gonna take off and then i picked her up and she had definitely like peed and leaked out the diaper and so i was like oh no and then i thought about it and i was like they won't know they won't notice and i just left and let it dry and no one ever said

and i am a terrible person whoa but i don't feel bad uh that's amazing what yeah and it was like i'd say maybe a softball size little wet spot a little piddle yeah your son of a beach yeah what are you gonna do i mean nothing we threw the couches but those couches were really comfy i do say they were comfy over time and again i made up for it because i i literally got you guys new couches i was the one that brought in the new one that's so so funny. Thanks, man. I love that. Because you felt guilty for allowing your daughter to pee all over our furniture. Nah, he told her to.

He told her to. Did you even try to like mop it up at all? I think I took like a wet wiper or some shit. Oh, thanks. Yeah, something. Thanks. I mean, again, the other thing too was it was just like, I think, like I said, our schedule was so aggressive.

And I remember my first car, My first car was actually my first. The two cars I had for the bulk of production in Sacramento were just destroyed on the inside from small shoots because I would throw gear in there. We'd use them on set and they would often be the picture car that we would use. So they would get little things. I mean, I remember, again, pretty early on. be the picture car that we would use so they would get little things i mean i remember again pretty early on it was right after i got my car uh we drove to la to do a shoot it was the lou ferigno shoot yeah and he had to have that big boulder that he threw for the thing yep right and i had to go pick up that boulder in my car and it didn't fit so i was like trying to wedge it i had a i had

a jetta gli jetta gli and i was trying to like shove it. I had a Jetta GLI. Jetta GLI. And I was trying to like shove it into the thing. And it was the little speaker cabinet in the back seat was cracked because I shut the door on it and it cracked my speaker little encasement. Yeah. Two days after I bought the car or whatever. Maybe like a week. But yeah. But I mean, it just, you know.

So I don't feel bad. I don't feel bad at all. All right. Ryan still lives in Sacramento. Yeah, dude. Because he's a crazy man. Sacramento represent. So he actually flies down here every gall darn week to work with us.

I think it's crazy, but I also completely understand. I'm so dedicated. Sacramento's a nice place to raise a family and stuff. And L.A., not quite. So because of that and to save you some costs so you could send your daughter to college, he stays at my house for every other week. Yeah, I do a combo. Yeah. I shack with you, and then I do like an Airbnb situation.

Every now and again? I kind of hop back and forth yeah so it's been nice enough to let me let me crash kind of every other week where do you sleep with ian in his bed yeah i really no no i would do that you guys should do that would you guys why well because i mean girls are more comfortable yeah girls can do it when they're close friends it's like i had a twin bed when I was a kid, and it was like me and my three friends would try and, like, all sleep in it. We'd be like, some people have heads on other sides and stuff, but, like, come on, guys. That's adorable. You were also, like, how old?

Fifteen. Okay, so you're already big people. Big people. You're already big people. You're already big people big people you're already big people you're already big people i've done it though i mean i i'm not i'm not i just snore really loud so it's like i feel i even feel bad for for you know the people that my family because i'm i definitely have some sort of deviated septum situation yeah then i need to which is funny because sometimes you'll let me know like i sleep you know on your is, you know, far away from your room.

But he'll come in the morning. We'll wake up in the morning sometimes and he'll be, like, very nice about it. But just kind of slide in there like, yeah, man, like, you were definitely snoring last night. And I feel terrible. That's comforting to me. I don't think I've ever been woken up by it. I just, like, I'll wake up and I'll be like, oh, I hear him snoring. I guess he's sleeping.

Right. Oh, I see. But it's never been too bad. Snoring is such a comforting sound to me. My dad snored. So, like, any snoring is just like, it's like ocean sounds. Oh, really? You like the sound of snore?

I don't. I'm not like, yes, snoring. But, like, when I hear it, I'm like, all right. So tell me if this is soothing to you because this is what it sounds like. Oh, no. You know, that might wake me up. That's what I thought. I'd like to apologize to anyone that that triggered on the podcast.

That triggered so many people. My dad's more like. Oh, that just sounds like the ocean. Like an ocean crash. Yeah. That's really sexy. That makes me like your dad even more. I already met your dad and I really like him.

Now I like him that much more. He's the best guy. He's a sweet guy. He's basically the perfect man. So do you guys like, you guys are just like two guys hanging out in your house. Do you guys like watch movies together? Yeah, so we basically say that we're like what, a divorced? We're like divorced.

No, we're. Like two bachelors no no uh uh widowers we're widowers oh we're two widowers it's gotten kind of dark yeah so we're two old men that are widowers our wives have passed away but we found comfort with each other platonically um and we each microwave our dinners we straight up have microwave dinners that we have prepped for the week. Wait, because I know you have like your set diet thing, but what are you having? I just do the same thing to keep costs down while I'm traveling and to be efficient.

Because, again, it's like when you're traveling a lot. Because I'm doing this now, but I did it when we were at the other place too. I mean, I've been traveling down to L.A. for four years now. It's been a while now. And when you do like Postmates and eat out a lot, you just look at the cost and it's insane. It's like 500 bucks a month sometimes. Oh, it's crazy. So I try to kind of just like get all my shopping done at the beginning of the week.

And then, and again, a lot of times we're working such crazy hours. So it's by the time you get back to wherever you're staying, you just kind of want to know food's there. Yeah. And obviously it's just easier to have something like like a prep meal and uh i go to sprouts and i get their prepped prepared meals and they're very delicious and very nice they're super good i remember during this sorry and i remember during this the during the shutdown you guys i remember we had a shoot day i came in you guys were like making breakfast together oh yeah and you're like can i have some you guys were like making breakfast together. Oh, yeah. And you're like, can I have some? You guys were like making eggs and stuff. Like, let me toss you some eggs.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes we've, he's cooked me breakfast. That's been lovely. So cute. He's been a very good roommate. He cleans up after himself.

Are you a good roommate? I mean, like. I know it's your house, but like, you're sharing. Oh, he's very nice. He's not a roommate. He's a very good host. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's a house, but like you're sharing. Oh, he's very nice. He's not a roommate. He's a very good host. Yeah. Yeah.

I think that's a good way of putting it. Luckily, you have two bathrooms, so your poops are never conflict. Exactly. There's no poop conflict. Because of a tankless water heater, never run out of hot water. So that's not a problem. Shower's no conflict. I've never told you this, but I enjoy the hell out of your shower.

It's like, it's kind of like the shower head's like a little like, it's like it's a little calcified or whatever, so it doesn't come out clean. Yeah, it's a little messed up. But it almost feels like you're under like a really warm waterfall, and there's a lot of weight to it.

And the problem is, is I could straight up probably take like a 40-minute shower in your shower not even thinking about it, because I zone out. that's okay. California's out of the drought drought so use all the water you want bro but don't you still pay for that yeah that's true don't do that yeah for real like that's that's messed up yeah you don't want to bring the drought back well it's okay we got that audible sponsorship

we're good i just you know but i'm just i i i often and then also in your in your in your guest bathroom you have that really cool shower curtain that has all the different words on it. Yeah. And I zone out. You have some light reading. I just read it and I discover all these words. And then I try to like work them into like sentences throughout the day. But I often forget.

Or I get it wrong. Kind of like, you know, telling you you're a detrimental. Detrimental. Detrimental sounds like important. It sounds positive to me. No, not when you know the word detriment. Well, when you know the word, yeah, but when it's a new word. You know, I've probably been told I'm detrimental many times and was like, thank you.

Yeah, probably. You know, I do that on set quite a bit, actually. Like I will use words totally wrong. Like in Scott Pilgrim. Also, I've been teaching Ryan words. He didn't know Stan. Oh, Stalker fan. That's been the big thing.

So it was Stan. I didn't know the concept of Chekhov's gun. I apparently had never known that. And I knew the concept, but I'd never known the name. And then there was one other thing that he, so that's been the thing as roomies. I'm teaching him words. Ian's educating me quite a bit.

That's cute. Because I was like, I forget what what we were whatever we were watching i think maybe it was like we were watching killing eve and i was like we stan a psychopath queen and he's like what i was like we stan a psychopath queen and he's like what are you saying i Oh, my God. Because if you had said that to me, I love Killing Eve, too. It's so good. So if you had said that, I would have been like, yes, we stand. Yeah. I don't know if I stand her.

She's a quick Killing Eve aside. Oksana. She kind of hot, though. Oksana's the best. Yeah. I mean, other than the murderous thing, she's really good. So that's another thing that Ryan and I do. We microwave our food, and then we take it to my living room,

and we sit down at the couch and eat our dinners and watch our programs. So cute. Which I have to say is really refreshing because since we're not actually in a relationship, it's actually the best situation because like if you were to like watch a couple episodes i wouldn't get mad at you for it i'd be like oh that's cool whatever i'll catch up with them but in a relationship i feel like that's such a cliche oh yeah where it's like you watched episodes without me i hope we can actually get there one day but for right now it's really nice yeah i mean i was holding off on on watching pen 15 for for a time that we can go back to watch

the rest of that we should though because now we finished killing eve so we should go to pen 15 yeah we finished killing eve it's great because it's you know we we get home around like seven or so and so we have like you know a couple hours to like watch things you guys are so freaking cute why am i so alone and then ian's actually really nice because typically around that time is when I have, like, my nightly FaceTime call to my family. So he's, like, nice enough to pause, and he does a little pause, and then I FaceTime the fam for, you know, a little while. And then I come back, and we start our show again. Yeah. It's really lovely.

Yeah. It's a nice situation. It's couples goals is what it is. It really is. Yeah. It's a nice situation. It's couples goals is what it is. It really is. Yeah. Works out. And I get my dishes cleaned, so it works out for me. Well, that's the thing.

If I'm a guest, I do it actually at the Airbnbs too. Really? My whole thing at the Airbnbs is I want to make it, when I leave, I kind of want to make it look like I wasn't there. Oh, yeah. You still pay the cleaning fee. They're obviously still going to pay for the sheets and stuff and all the bathroom situation. But as far as like dishes and just the funny thing, too, is I always make my bed when I leave, too, even though I know they're just going to pull them off.

No, I always I just there's something about like and it's really nice. Like people are very cool and they comment. There was like I get a lot of comments like, wow, he was like the perfect guest. I couldn't even tell he was here. Aw. So, yeah, I try to do the same thing at Ian. So I'll like, you know, do whatever I can to help out because it's very nice of him to let me stay. I stan a power couple.

What's that? Stan? I don't know what that means. Stan. Stan Lee? Oh, I thought you were talking about Stan Lee Tucci. Rip. We stan Stan. I love Stan Lee. You guys talking about Stan Lee Tucci. Rip. We stan Stan.

I love Stan Lee. You guys watch the Joker trailer? Yeah. No. I don't do trailers. I don't. I know. I've lately been kind of trying to stay away from trailers.

I feel like I should have seen the trailer for us, though. But like Avengers, I'm like, keep that shit away from me. Well, you can do the first ones. I think you can do the first ones, but when they go further, like Black Panther was the big one. The first two Black Panthers were great. And then I watched the third one, and they revealed the whole, you know, villain character

of what he was going to be. And up to that point, you didn't know what Michael B. Jordan's character was going to be. And I was so pissed. So after that point, I started throttling back. I watched the first couple. But if you start to see that third, fourth, fifth, you know there's going to be so much. Yeah. And Avengers Endgame was a big one.

Yeah. Because when they're all walking to the ship. I don't know what you're talking about. Okay. I just want to see the shot in the theaters and I want to get the chills. Like I happen to come across a GIF. I'm going to say GIF. I'm very self-confident.

That's fine. No, GIF is the correct way to say it. Okay. I'm glad I'm in a safe space. Kevin behind the camera is shaking his head no. Yeah. Kevin, you're wrong. Our editors, a lot of them think it's Gif.

Or even if it is Jif, they say Gif. The guy that created the Jif said it's Jif. Because it's like the peanut butter. Choosy programmers choose Jif. I saw one of a really cute shot from Endgame. And I was like, man, I would have really loved to see that in the movie and nowhere else. It hit me so hard. But it's so funny because now I just hear trailers secondhand.

Like I just hear somebody else watching it. Someone's always watching. So I'm usually able to like pinpoint like what it is because it'll be like, I mean avengers is obvious because that that orchestral theme that they have is like i got chills just hearing i didn't even have to see it yeah i just heard that orchestral like arrangement i'm like oh that's cool um and then the joker trailer like whatever it was like the music that they use or whatever like i heard it for like five seconds you were watching it ryan and i heard i was like oh is that a were watching it, Ryan. And I heard it. I was like, oh, is that a Joker trailer? And you're like, yeah. I was like, oh.

I think it was the combo too because it's the first time you hear Joaquin Phoenix's character kind of do a laugh, like a cackle. And it was like the music and that. And then like shortly after, like just a second or two, you're like, oh, is that the Joker trailer? So I think you kind of just like subconsciously put it all together. Nice. The trailer looks good. The movie looks good. I think it's really interesting, and I love Todd Phillips.

I think it's so random that the dude that did The Hangover is now doing this really dark Joker thing. Right, right. But, I mean, I guess if you know how to work a camera, maybe you could do it for comedy and for scary. Frozen trailer, I'm glad I saw, because that one i feel like i wouldn't have been super psyched to see frozen too yeah but the the trailer that they put out i mean it's the first one so they don't really tell you like anything but like i'm that one got me really excited well do you remember like the cars 3 trailer no they made it like super dark he freaking died yeah

they made it like he died and they're like they this October, Cars guy freaking dies at the racetrack. He shitted. Why did they use the VO of Cars guy? Why didn't they just call him Lightning McQueen? No, they call him Cars guy. That's weird. See, that seems like a bad choice right there. Big red Cars man.

It's like they just phone it in. Like, big car guy. And then like, you know, like, southern drawl tow truck guy. Yeah. See, I'd be in on that trailer, actually. Larry the truck guy. Yeah. Truck boy.

But, like, I wonder if they're doing the same thing where they're just trying to rope people in with this very, like, dramatic, like, dark-looking trailer. For Frozen 2? Yeah. But they also just look really good. Like, the fact that their hair is different, I'm so excited. I Frozen 2? Yeah. But they also just look really good. The fact that their hair is different, I'm so excited. I don't know why.

That's just the thing, you're like, whoa, their hair is different. That's why Barbie did so well for so long. It's a thing. Did you notice that?

Her hair. See, I didn't notice that either. Elsa puts it into a low pony? Are you kidding? That must be like a perception thing. And then Anna does something different too.

It's crazy, dude. But she put it into the pony so that she could run over water. That was the reason it changed. What was she going to do? Just run across a whole ocean? No, she's trying to surf, bro. She can. She can run across a whole ocean.

She's trying to hit that big wave. Yeah. She could probably make herself fly. She can just take the moisture out of the air and make a – she could Frozone it. Frozone. Oh, yeah. Elsa.

Elsa 3. Frozone. Frozone. That would be the most ambitious crossover. Who would win a fight? Elsa or Frozone? Depends.

Does he have a super suit? If he can find it. I think Frozone would win. I'm just going to say. I think Elsa could win. Yeah, well, I agree to disagree. All right, well, Disney, do something about it. As if to pretend like we're on a road trip,

and I'm one of the worst people to be on a road trip with because I pee every 20 minutes. Oh, no. Do you really have to pee? I have to. Literally, are you dying? I've been doing this. No, it's fine.

Let's just wrap this up with uh with some some more funny news copy funny news so today's uh funny news or what do we call it ian's funny news um is it actually funny so yeah it's i think it's hilarious i just rolled my eyes a little bit uh a jaguar was uh was recently artificially inseially inseminated at a zoo and two days later ate the baby. It was the first Jaguar born of artificial insemination. The mom ate the baby. I hate this story.

Um, it's so sad. Is it just like, this isn't natural? I'd imagine. But I was also reading that apparently this actually does happen. So it's not. They eat the cubs. Yeah. Sometimes the male lion will eat that lion cubs.

Like. Sub with that. Sub with that. I know like hamsters do it all the time. Like you have to like legit, like separate the babies. When you need your wife's attention. I think it's a Sparta thing.

I think it's like a, I think it's like they sense. This one is not worthy. And they're just, and they're doing, it's like from 300, they're just tossing that baby off the cliff. thing. I think it's like they sense. This one is not worthy. And they're just, and they're doing, it's like from 300, they're just tossing that baby off the cliff. Yeah.

That's crazy. Which is sad. It's very sad. And depressing. And I'm just not a big fan of this news thing, I'm just going to say. I think it's a really dark town. This news isn't as funny

as the teachers getting shot with airsoft guns. Still dark, but that's, you have a dark sensibility and that's fine. It's true. You should be in the universe, the Universal Dark Universe series. I think it's just funny to, it's kind of like a schadenfreude kind of situation

because they probably spent so much money and so much time making this happen. They were so proud of themselves. Oh, with the Jaguar? Yeah, and they probably had this big old party and like in the middle of them like chugging champagne, dude comes in. She's like, I'm going to eat it. Guys, don't want to freak you out, but Cub is missing.

There's a lot of blood. There's some fur laying around. Can't find the Cub. Just putting it out there. Oh, no. Don't let me hold up your party. That's fine. You guys got the hats on.

You got the streamers. You got the little finger foods. You got the champagne. You can do that. But once you guys are done, maybe come out. We all try to find the cub. I'm not saying that it definitely got eaten. Should we put up some signs?

Do we need a lost jaguar kitty? Yeah. You know what? It's probably just? Yeah. You probably, you know what? It's probably just on vacation. It's probably walked off. We just need to go find it. I'm done with you. Yeah, I'm done too.

Kimberly, you're making Ryan hold his bladder in. I derive much pleasure. Whoa, pleasure. I derive much pleasure. Ryan, once upon a time Once upon a time Oh we're doing the us thing now Yeah that's the end of that

I can't Okay well yeah I think I think that's enough For this Smosh cast Ryan thank you so much for coming on Thank you for having me I hope Thank you Thank you dude i don't

know you're very welcome and i very much enjoyed it and i love talking with you guys oh i love talking to you guys yeah yeah i i stan you boys yeah i stan it do you do you understand now you understand i understand okay okay well thank you guys so much for listening. If you want to subscribe to the Smoshcast, I highly recommend you do that. You can do it on any of the podcast apps that exist in the world. And you can also do it on YouTube if you want to see our pretty little faces. But, uh-oh, it'll be censored on YouTube, just so you know. No naughty words and no titties.

Uh-uh, uh-uh, no tid. None of this. Anyway, we'll just cut that out. Okay. We won't. Love you, guys. I'm just trying to extend this out so Ryan pees his pants. Okay, I'm leaving. You know, this is what you get for making your daughter pee on my couch. Listen, we don't want liver damage on the body that is

smosh, okay? Okay, that's true. Can I seriously just go to the bathroom real quick? Go, go, go. Just go. Okay, yeah okay yeah just go that's fine wow wow he just leaves our podcast listen ian i need to talk to you this is an approves he had to pee so bad it made me have to pee like you look what you did this is payback he let his daughter pee on my couch this is all payback because i did not know about that well he almost peed on the chair. Yeah. All right.

Our guests have to sit in that chair too, so I guess it's probably not such a good thing. I love you. And I love you, too. Love you, too. Listeners. Thank you guys so much. We'll be back next Wednesday.

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