Smosh Mouth - S2: #68 - Ghosts, Queer Icons, and a Shoot Dood in the Club

Episode Date: June 24, 2020

Courtney, Monica and Tommy revisit the pride pod one year later and discuss how their lives have (or haven’t) changed since then. Courtney talks about now identifying with a label, Monica opens up about raising a child with two moms, and Tommy shares his clubbing shoot dood horror story.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It's like, oh, you're a human? Okay, you deserve to be treated like a human. That's not a political statement. Has anything changed for you guys? I mean, I'm like, I'm just somebody's mom. human. That's not a political statement. Has anything changed for you guys? I mean, I'm like, I'm just somebody's mom. Like that's where I'm at. And we all went out to Ackbar, which is a club out here. Ackbar has a pretty cool selection of like selection.

That's gross. Variety of people. That's what gay bars are though, am I right? A selection of people. So what's the deal? Every few weeks changing my sheets, what's the big deal? Okay, one, you're disgusting. No.

Okay, I'm guilty of having gone a long time, but at least I acknowledge it's disgusting. But I change my sheets once a week because I'm like sweating. I'm crying almost nightly and your tears smell like shit mom well do you have your own laundry set up yeah i do but okay but before i did when i was taking my laundry to a laundromat i still change my sheets once a week god damn that's you would

go to okay i've never had to go to a laundromat but what like like the one i go to the complex laundry but i've never gone to like a establishment oh it's good it i mean probably not right now but in general like it's nice to have nothing else to do. Like, to just sit there. It is weirdly meditative to just, like, sit there and watch everyone else be like, as they, you know, spend three or four hours doing all of their laundry. I do my sheets every two weeks, only because I'm lazy. It's not the best. I wish it was every week but like i gotta

use quarters i gotta go downstairs it's a whole thing and it's also every two to three weeks sometimes because like i'm just i don't be getting that dirty bro like i'm sorry also if it's just me in there like for the most part like i'm not really like worried and i change my pillowcases like much more often i think the actual question is do we shower before bed or do we shower in the morning because if you wash before you get in the bed then that bed is not going to get nearly as dirty as it would on the way around i shower in the morning and i go to bed sweaty but i think it's fine because i think it's fine so we're all nasty that's good if i if i shower at night my hair is wrong like and it's not that it's ever fully right but it's closer to right i will say though that i share my bed with my wife and then my two dogs

yeah during a break from work i walked into my bedroom and my dog dexter Yeah. During a break from work, I walked into my bedroom and my dog Dexter just had like a big old boner just like standing on the bed. Hell yeah. And I was like, yep, time to change. Woo! Change the...

Oh my God. I don't know what he was doing with that. He just looked at me real guilty and then I like kind of looked at him and like walked to the bathroom and he just his eyes followed me and he was like, embarrassed, but also mad that I walked in on whatever. Oh my god.

This is truly a 12 year old child. Like that's just a 12 year old discovering everything. It is actually his 11th birthday today. Oh, yeah. Okay. All right. Then enough to tell about how disgusting we are and plus our dogs yes um welcome to the smosh cast i'm sorry my burps are out of control this morning but i am joined today by monica vasandani and tommy bow hey gang gang gang gang gang gang gang um monica's wearing our new merch that i'm actually very excited about. Heck yeah. Tizai, lesbian at this table, which came from the fan fiction reading.

Yes. And we have the shirt in two colors on the Smosh store now. And actually, I'm pretty sure we don't have a Smosh.store anymore. It's all on Smosh.com, baby. Yeah, we have the shirt in black and we have the shirt in a nice light blue. I also have the light blue here. I want to get the black one. I feel like that's like more me, you know, like sad boy. Sad boy.

I pushed hard for the light blue because personally, I own a ton of black shirts. Yeah, I know. So this was like just for me. I think two colors isn't that crazy. You know, there's also like different styles. People got different tastes. They may want the Tazai, but I really hate that color.

Yeah. Wait, let me write this down. People have different style. Yeah. So, so this is the pride guests. You know what it is.

In case you guys forgot, we're still here and we're still queer. Nothing has changed. Can you believe it? Yeah, the world's crazy right now, but the pride march had just happened a couple days ago. The big old pride march with BLM. Everybody was marching.

I'm really bummed that we couldn't go, but gotta stay safe out here. Did you guys, did you go? No you go no no i'm in the same boat as you yeah yeah i mean for everyone that's listening or to clarify because we're filming and we're going to be with a lot of people we're taking the unfortunate but safe choice of not marching because we don't want to accidentally catch the roans and give it up to everyone at once. Absolutely. Like when some of us, the Sposh cast went protesting, that was obviously a huge risk. Luckily, a bunch of us got tested and came back negative. It is dangerous. And some people were

actually upset in the comments of the photos supposed to being like, what the frick you guys, you guys are like, at high risk right now. But but you know there was there was a lot at stake yeah i mean there are a lot of people who are constantly at high risk so yeah when it comes to human rights do what you got to do the stores near me are open like it's so wild it makes me nervous it makes me nervous too there's people are not wearing masks no everyone's just kind of like okay well doopie doop and it's eating in restaurants just like hey let me how many people have drank out of this glass today because i would like to put my lips on that glass this glass right here there's like there's these two girls outside the store like holding their

phone and the mask just like in their hand as if it's, like, an accessory, and then would walk into a store as if, like, yeah, I'm wearing a mask, it's fine. I don't get it. I don't know when I'll feel, like, fully, like, calm about going out. Oh, never. I think it'll take... Exactly. I think it'll take

a vaccine or some kind of... I heard there was, like, an antibody like, potion that they give, like, older... I don't know. There's just some kind of, I heard there was like a antibody like potion that they give like older, I don't know. There's just all sorts of like fun science fiction ideas going around. But I feel like once we've got the medic, like the medicine support. Yeah, some sort of vaccine. Extra time. Hopefully we can go back to normal. But the good and bad news about all of this is I'm stoked that the normal is different i'm stoked that everyone is a

lot more awake to our government and general injustice in that department like i know people around me and it took me for this moment to truly get pissed off which it's too it's it was too late to get pissed off but at least we're pissed off now, right? Yeah, the time is now. Exactly. So I'm stoked that that change has happened. As for like medicine, I mean, people in like China have been wearing masks. Forever.

For a while now. Yeah, I mean, Olivia has been posting on our Instagram story on planes when she was traveling. Like she's been wearing masks since 88. Yeah, and I get sick every time I fly. I'm like, I should have been doing this the whole time. Yeah.

I should have been wearing a mask. Cause I'm like a little baby when it comes to getting sick. I feel like I just have no immune system. I get everything. Yeah. A little scary to realize like how disgusting I've been. Like just like touching stuff and then touching my face I have a bad I have allergies but it's like I it's allergies where I sneeze and my eyes water and that's it and so I

have a nasty habit of touching the outer corners of my eyes like constantly but washing hands helps yeah I'm a little just uh just a heads up you guys might hear my dogs barking because they like to do that. Love that. But hopefully Kevin will be able to, you know, edit some of that out if possible and then just replace it with himself going. Kevin, delete the dogs, please. I would love if every time the dogs barked, we just heard Kevin like whispering instead. Kevin's got a nice voice. He does have a nice voice. Kevin going, hello, hello, hello, hello. Hey, hello, hey, hey. So how are you guys doing? Anything on your mind? Monica?

Honestly, close to nothing is on my mind. I feel like just super overwhelmed constantly. Yes. I'm trying to, you know, like I'm super lucky. I'm employed. I have a wonderful family. I live in a comfortable home. Both of the dogs just got baths, so everybody's smelling good. At first, the like lack of human interaction was really upsetting to me. And then I kind of got used to it, but it still sucks. And then now I feel like I'm not doing enough for the Black Lives Matter movement because I'm not able to protest. My kid is in daycare. And so I can't like risk bringing protest germs to his daycare. I also have a weakened immune system, like medically right now. So I've just been like reading a lot

of things that make me feel shitty, but I feel like are important to read. Yes, exactly. Like I'm reading Between the World and Me by, I might not say his name right, but Ta-Nehisi Coates. And that's pretty heavy. It's basically a letter from him to his 15-year-old son about what it's like to be Black in America. And then just like articles that are bummers. But I'm still, I'm kind of hopeful that things are changing. So that, I mean, just in that first week, so much, so much stuff that probably wouldn't have happened was able to happen because of the spirit that everyone had. I can, I can totally relate on not feeling like you're doing enough.

I'm very, very privileged in that I have a job and I'm able to visit my family. And I have a therapist that I talk to weekly. And I talk to her a lot about how I feel like I'm not doing enough. And it actually starts to show through in my other day-to-day life of like, I'm trying to be as best as I can at what I'm doing with this movement, trying to do it and be as knowledgeable and make sure I'm posting things that are factual and true and actually helpful. At the same time, I'm like, it's affecting my relationships as like, I'm too anxious.

I'm just anxious all the time of like, making sure everyone's okay. Because like, that's what this movement is about right now is making sure everyone is on board and everyone is informed and okay. I'm waiting on so many books to be delivered social media is especially in these last couple days it's been really scary um and like it it definitely like has affected me like last night i wasn't sure i was gonna be able to do this podcast today because like you know it's pride but it's like it's different and this i'm still like i have never been to any events to like celebrate being queer yet like still haven't i'm so lucky that i have the support system that i have and i was thinking about last night it's so important to have like a support system of people

that have different voices and are have like different things to give give you uh emotionally because if you're just surrounded by a bunch of the same people what that are just yes manning you all the time like it's not going to be helpful in the long run so i'm i'm glad we have the team that we have you know i don't think we're getting even more and more people involved that are that are awesome well said courtney yeah thanks i've been reading a lot and taking ginkgo biloba um can i tell you what uh i went down a weird rabbit hole that i just want to mention which was gays for trump on twitter yeah i it like i don't know how I saw the tweet. I think this comedian, Danny Fernandez, retweeted a tweet that was these two guys kissing on a boat with Trump flags that were like, thanks for fighting for our rights, but it wasn't satire.

And I tripped out hard on that. Oh, my gosh i feel like when you when you stumble across right like right wing people's content i feel like i'm finding someone else's underwear and i'm like oh oh my goodness is this why does this have skid marks what is this why is it ripped up i always feel so strained and you like feel like you're getting into in on a secret just hearing other people's opinions because like on social media i feel like i'm always just being fed stuff that i agree with yeah yeah good news in the gay world i guess since yeah we're since we since we are the topic um i don't have all my details straight because i've been in an editing

hole but i had a brief hour yesterday where i was like oh hey something good happened uh the supreme court i believe correct me if i'm wrong passed or decided i don't know what the court i don't know what the term is lgbt people uh and it's actually like inclusionary and and trans with trans people which is i think the most important part of this yes can no longer be fired from their jobs yes because they are trans or because you are gay or because whatever lgbt right it was it was still legal in i think 26 states but now federally it is no longer legal and that's wonderful it just it's so crazy that news coming like hot on the heels of uh the news about um health care specialists being able to discriminate and elect to not treat uh transgender people the obama administration had like in the in the language of like gender they have defined it like not just as

biological sex the trump administration has pushed for that to be uh just biological sex like in terms of certain coverage and that's not like necessarily just gender reaffirming or gender affirming treatments. People can be, transgender people can be denied healthcare at all. Yeah. So yeah, the New York Times says Supreme Court rules civil rights law protects gay and transgender workers. Trump was doing all this stuff with trans rights. And I was like, damn, he's really trying to go out with the bang, huh? Like with all that stuff. But I'm sure like I don't know how long those things take in the legal system to move.

I mean, he's doing executive orders left and right. I don't know what the speed on those is. But this is the most in my life I've ever felt like close to or like physically or emotionally affected by politics. And like a lot of this stuff isn't even political it's like it's just straight up human rights like it's not yeah exactly it's not it's not a matter of politics at all it's like oh you're a human okay you deserve to be treated like a human doesn't that's not a political statement like yeah that's the one thing i've been uh debating a lot with family or at least trying to because you know twitter and instagram i'm like yeah these kids get it or if there's people that disagree the community's handling it but

i've had family that are trying to nitpick so many things and just ignoring the big picture and i've had some rough arguments of family to the point where people are hanging up on each other like relationships are changing like different opinions they were like you know we're entitled to our different opinions and i was like you know racism isn't really something that you can have an opinion on like i just as long as we can agree that racism is bad yeah um that like and it's hard for me to say because like i'm just like there's so much that needs to be done but i'm like as long as we can agree on that then we'll be okay like that's like ultimately long term we'll be okay yeah i've's like ultimately long-term we'll be okay.

Yeah, I've had some rough conversations with family where I end up feeling defeated and I didn't feel good about the conversation. And I obviously didn't win. I mean, you're not gonna win. It's not, you're never gonna win. Like even if it ends poorly and you feel like you've lost,

that person that you talk to is gonna go to sleep thinking about the things you said. It's battles within a war. You might lose the battle, but the war could be won over time. Yeah. It's so hard though to have a productive conversation with somebody who believes that only the things they already believe are true and everything else is just a lie like rather than being like oh here are two sets of what i believe are facts like it's it's you can't you know argue with someone who's just gonna be like everything you tell me is fake all media is fake unless it's coming from the people that i trust and then if they say something that I don't believe in, then, you know, they're fake as well. Yeah, it's like confirmation bias has been up the wall lately. Hey, Tommy, is your closet a little bit open? It is a little back there. It is that is what's

happening back there. Is that a choice you made? It's I mean, at the end of the day, yes, but no, because I have a problem where I am gifted a lot of clothes and I buy a lot of clothes and by gift, by, by, it's like Goodwill stuff or whatever. So I just never throw anything away or donate anything or, so there's just, I can't, I i mean try and imagine the most laundry you've ever imagined double it and stuff it back there that can't close because it can't close vibes yeah i was really hoping that that was the situation yeah there was some physical thing in the way that is literally that it is a my fourth laundry hamper. I have four buckets of laundry that are about four feet tall. That one is all the way full and sticking out of my closet. Thank you for pointing that out. If it's a flat or a squeal, a wobble or peel, your dread's worn down or you need a new wheel, wherever you go, you can get it from our tread experts. Until May 30th, purchase four new Michelin passenger or light truck tires and receive up to $70 by prepaid MasterCard.

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I just leave shit open. It would be great if your apartment was haunted, but you were like, oh, I guess I'm just dumb. And I leave it open. But the ghost is like trying to do everything they can. They're like, oh, I guess I left all the chairs stacked upside down. I was just about to say that. It's like, hey, I don't have to stack all the chairs upside down again. Oh my gosh, my couch is on the ceiling

again. I'm so silly. Aw, there's goo everywhere. Mysterious goo. Oops. My lotion, I guess. Yeah, no, I actually had my sister my sister saged my apartment recently because I wasn't sure if my

apartment was haunted, but i also just was i'm just like getting sick of my place and just needed to refresh the energy i see that smirk monica sorry i forgot you could see me i don't i don't hardcore like believe in that stuff but i'm not opposed to it and if i if it's like not gonna hurt me then like i'm down like i use incense incense yeah it's up there no incense doesn't i don't think incense does anything for ghosts it makes i'm in the same boat as like you know i won't spin your head around instead i'll take a breather this girl has great taste sorry go no no i'm in the same boat as you where i don't like

where i'm not like yes ghosts are real but i'm not like, yes, ghosts are real, but I'm not like, nah, there's some I mean, this specifically this current room that I'm in this apartment has had some some stuff happen. Don't know the cause. Yeah. So there has been a moment where me and my roommate went and followed the thing with the Palo Santo and the sage and went through every corner and like said, this is not your space.

Please leave. Oh. Are you willing to talk about what's happened? Oh my God. I'm trying to like make sure I hit all the points and condense it and don't just ramble on because I can. So it started off with, we had one of those trash cans that has the top that swings you know the little swingy tops yeah every once in a while my roommate and i would just hear a and then would

look over and it would just be swinging so we're like that's interesting that no one touched it but it's swinging huh so we're just we logged away. And then standing in my kitchen, if you're facing, you can like face out in the living room, stand in my kitchen to the back, right. Is the stairs to go upstairs. My roommates, both of their bedrooms are upstairs. Mine's downstairs with the kitchen and living room. So I have my friend over my roommates also in the kitchen with me, we're talking. And I'm like, every once in a while, Brandon, my roommate's Brandon. And I was like, Brandon, do you feel the same way every once in a while when you're in the kitchen? You think you see someone standing in the stairs over there, like over in the corner.

And he goes, yeah, I do. And then my friend in the living room goes, oh, you mean the person that stands in the stairs over there? And I was like, oh! I got chills just now. I know. So there's that. And then fast forward, middle of the night. No.

Yep. Oh, this is cliche. Middle of the night. I'm in my bed. My room's a little, I changed how it's set up, so don't reference this. I'm in my bed and then I hear what sounds like maybe 15 pound rat or something scampering in like the corner of my room in the ceiling, which doesn't make sense because of how the layout of the vents are. And so I like opened my door and there was nothing there. And it was

still going like, and I was like, that's so weird. and so i was just kind of like all right and so i'm laying in my bed staring at where the sound is coming from the sound travels diagonally which is not a vent toward me in my room the sound stops and i'm like okay and then my bathroom door goes. No. Yup. Yup. Yup. So the next day and my roommate Brandon was like, what was that sound? And I was like, okay, so I'm not insane.

No. So then we saged and did the thing and we were like, please leave. You know, like this is not your space. And I tried to be very polite. I was like, hey, I'm sorry. I know this sucks, but like you're dead. And like, this is my space now. I'm like sorry the following day the picture frames in my living room were off the wall what since then there has

not been a lot of ghost activity oh my gosh however every once in a while thank you every once in a while when i'm on my computer and i have my headphones in and i'm editing i feel there's i feel like there's something over there. But that's it. How long has it been since you did the procedure? Probably. Procedure.

The procedure, probably a year now. Okay. Yeah. It's probably due for a refresh. Oh, so you have renewed the lease. Oh, yeah. No, it's okay. I'm paying low, low price for this big white room i'm not

leaving oh my gosh dude that's terrifying see for me i i don't know what it was my mom ingrained in me like telling ghost stories or doing ouija boards or rituals or anything he's like not okay even talking about them is not okay because that encourages the spirits to come in and hurt you like she's like it's bad to talk about spirits that way and so like i get nervous even talking about them i cannot watch ghost movies i've talked about that before i can't i can't watch paranormal activity none of that shit i can't do it because it's just like you don't know if it's real i'm pretty sure spirits spirits are real, dude. I'm just, I believe it. Like, Shane's a very smart dude.

He's had some scary experiences. And yet he still is like, there's science. And I'm like, yeah, there's science. But also there's ghosts. I'm lucky. I've never really had to think anything spooky happen to me like that in my life. Knocking on wood for myself now. Monica, have you ever had anything like that? No, but I'm oblivious to things like that in my life knocking on wood for myself now monica have you ever had anything like that no but i'm oblivious to things like that but also like i'm this in this weird space

where i'm like no i don't believe that but like if there is a weird sound then i'm like oh no i'm so scared um like i'm a big baby but i don't know like what i'm afraid of yeah but also like my wife will often point out to me like oh there's a weird sound and i'm like huh like what weird sound and so i'm maybe too dumb to be haunted interesting i mean if you're having the reaction you're having a fight or flight to weird sounds. You at least have that ingrained in you. Right. Or like sometimes she doesn't do this anymore, but she used to like fuck with me a little bit

and be like, oh, there's, you know, like something, something like the old woman ghost. And I'm like, what? What old woman ghost? Oh my God. I'm in this, I'm in the same boat as you with the no Ouija board, Courtney. Yeah, no.

Never. There's never a reason to play with the Ouija board. Why? Exactly. It is an open invitation. So what if it might not be real? It doesn't matter. Yeah, it's just a game.

Yeah, there's like a 1% chance I could fall off my balcony. This is a horrible metaphor. I'm just not realizing. But if there was a 1% chance I could fall off my balcony, I'm not going to go up on my balcony. You know what I mean? Why take that chance? Nobody's ever like, hey, I did a Ouija board

and then this like ghost left me all this money and like made me a smoothie. And like, they're not helping you out. Yeah. Exactly. Shane has said like it was literally like a game, like a toy. He did it? Game.

No, no, no. Like he's just saying the way it was invented as just like a gag, like a gag game. But like, you know how there's like some horror stories or horror movies where it's like, yeah started as a story but the story manifested it to be real like if you put that intention and energy towards something i used to watch long island medium and i've heard this is actually garbage i've heard i've heard that it's actually a lot of it can be garbage yeah but she was like i can't this tattoo parlor what's wrong i feel something is wrong here and then she's like oh there's a ouija board on the wall over there that's a portal you need to get rid of it like it's like a portal to the other side i mean maybe it's like you know when uh you don't

see or think of a thing until like someone points it out to you then you see it everywhere yeah so maybe it's like everybody is occupying this space of being too dumb to like notice and too oblivious and then they're like oh now that i've done the ouija board i'm paying attention to everything and so now i'm hearing the weird footstep sounds and like i noticed that all the cabinets are open spooky i love spooky stuff that's why i don't that's why i'm like so what if the ghost is here? Like there's part of me that's like, is this fun? I don't know.

There's something like exciting about it all. Yeah, dude. It's, it's interesting. As long as they're not trying to hurt you. I've been scared of like waking up with scratches or something. If it's a flat or a squeal, a wobble or peel, your dread's worn down or you need a new wheel. Wherever you go, you can get a pro at Tread Experts. Until May 30th, purchase four new Michelin passenger or light truck tires

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Huh? Congrats on the freaking change of title, by the way. Oh, yeah. Mrs. Head Writer now. Yeah. Do you refer yourself to a Mrs.?

I guess if somebody were to ask. Nobody asks. Yeah. Hey, Monica. I got something to ask you. What's your abbreviation? Yeah, that's what it is when you like fill out

those legal documents. Doctor. Yeah, that's right. That's not true. out those legal documents. A doctor. Yeah, that's right. That's not true. That's right. Doctor head writer over here. I want to be a duke. A duke.

You want to be a little dukey? What happened to you? You want to be a little dukey? What's up with me, little dukey? What happened to royal titles, you know, like Esquire and stuff? What's up, Kevin? Hey, I'm here. I actually had a topic I wanted

to have discussed a little bit so this is a one year anniversary by the way for you guys from last year's uh podcast so I think it'd be great if you guys talked about that and how things have changed from that podcast and the conversations you had to now I can't even remember what we talked about back then yeah I did not I remember I was very new to the community a year ago. And you've put a label on yourself now, right? Like you've identified with something. Pansexual, yes. And then when we first, thanks.

When I first came out, I don't, like, labels is not something. For me personally, like, if someone were to accidentally call me a he or, like, or refer to me as someone said to Zai, the lesbian at this table, I am, like, I'm just, like, fully, I don't care. Like, labels don't matter to me. And then, like, you can call me whatever you want. You know, like, there are people on the you can call me whatever you want you know like there are people on the internet who call me a a bitch like you know like i don't like people are gonna refer to me however they want to refer to me like i know where i am and like even that i'm still like figuring out all the time but it's just when people want to understand people like to try

and understand or sometimes people just really want to be respectful and refer to you the way that you want to be referred, which like makes complete sense. And there are people who stand for being referred to in the way that they specifically want to be referred to. And that's okay too. I think that there's a level of forgiveness that needs to be there.

But yeah, I officially, I tweeted, I said I came out as pansexual year ago because you know because bisexual is two sexes like being attracted to two sexes male and female um but pansexual is like apparently like a sub like sub level of that of saying like i multiple sexes like including gender fluid and and right right and not multiple sexes multiple genders multiple genders yes yes yeah i mean there are okay there are people with multiple sexes on their body too i don't know that's true yeah yeah yeah sex people for sure i might if i met one who knows i might think they're very hot i don't know i'm just like i i think

i've just like officially left that door open because i it's crazy like looking back when you when you look on your past you're like oh yeah now that i know this about myself so many things about my past make sense but yeah i've officially said pansexual because bisexual doesn't quite fit it realizing like pansexuality is it's like i'm attracted to the energy um there's obviously like physical features that i think are sexy and things like that. But like it's something I also realized with like when I was in school and this might I might not be fully educated in these thoughts. It's just something that I've been thinking about is like I didn't like really recognize until like after the fact that I I had a lot of friends of color. And I like it's not that I didn't see color.

It was that I wasn't aware of cultural differences. I was friends with the people because of their energy. And I didn't recognize like, something I realized about my life is like the culture I was raised in the culture I had was being unaware of other people's cultures. Like being in the Mormon religion, like it's very one type of person. And like, I realized it wasn't that I didn't see color it's like i assumed everyone had the same privilege as me every everyone has the same life opportunities as me everyone's the same like i never i didn't recognize that until like when i joined the real world and like left my bubble of a hometown but i was friends with people or i'm attracted to people because of the

energy they give off still trying to figure it out. I also, maybe some of those things were very naive that I said, but, you know, still got books to read. But, yeah. Has anything changed for you guys? Do you want to go, Monica, or do you want me to go? All right, nothing has changed. Time has.

I mean, your child is older. Oh, I thought you meant in terms of, like, your sexuality. Of, like, my identity identity i'm even more gay now i mean i'm like i'm just somebody's mom like that's where i'm at i feel like that's what i feel like most of the time because now i'm like i just like i'm like toddlers um that's just where my head is at all the time what has changed for me in the last year? I moved. You're in a home.

You're a house lady. Yeah. Yeah. We bought a house. I only got to do it because I had help from my parents. That's made me think a lot about generational poverty, how lucky I am. Everything's different,

but the same. Same, same, but different. Yeah. I actually have a, not a question, just like a kind of an idea or like a thing to explore specifically with your universe, Monica. I am a homosexual, but my parents are both.

Tommy's fucking hams over here. My parents are both, you know, just run of the mill, straight couple. Your kid is being raised in a lesbian household. That's very cool in my eyes. Do you feel that's so cool? Do you have any kind of like plans or ideas of like talking about that with him? Is it kind of just like he's kind of being raised in a world where this is more normal? There might not need to be a conversation. I mean, we have a lot of like books that talk about like all the different kinds of families and like some families

have two parents, some families just have one, some are, you know, two dads, some are two moms. So we have like three or four books that kind of talk about different types of families but i think he's already tracking that he has two moms because he gets really excited on the two moms pages and like books that have two moms um my concern is like having a positive male role model for him, especially right now when we're not seeing anyone. So I'm also like, I don't know how we're going to teach him how to pee standing up. Like, and I don't know how important that is.

So I don't know, but it's weird if I'm just like, hey, Tommy, can you come over and teach my son how to pee? Can he just watch you pee a couple times? I mean, can I give you a day rate for these things? I don't know, that feels gross. I don't wanna pay for my son to watch you pee. Oh my gosh. I was gonna say, you have time.

You have, like the first five years are like what really counts for a kid. But pee pee times, there's a window there, right? I mean, he can learn that anytime, right? Also, I only pee standing up when I'm in a public bathroom. Otherwise, I'm sitting my ass down. I'm pulling my phone out and I am chilling. Chilling out.

Yeah. Why would you not sit down when you can? Like I'm not going to stand right next to a chair to do a task yeah appreciate that yes also like then i don't know i think i poop a lot like whenever i want so it's like when you pee you can just and you're sitting down you just go away yeah because you don't know what's going to happen. You don't know what's going to happen. You're limiting your bodily functions, you know? And imagine how stupid you'll feel shitting your pants while you're standing up and peeing. Yeah, dude.

Yeah. We can cut that out. Yeah, I might want to cut out this me saying I poop a lot. I don't know. I will say, i was just looking kevin uh kevin found the topics from the previous pod the pride pod yeah um we talked about our coming out stories our first kisses kind of touched on first kisses um the smosh's unsavory history with lgbtq plus characters i still feel like we can get more into that even more.

I mean, there's no enough, you know, but I think that could be cool. We do occasionally still have like queer characters. I think we recently had a female couple. Yeah, we try to put them into a lot of the scripts. I don't know like if it's like we're trying to just get an accurate snapshot of different types of couples and trying to normalize those relationships to be like here is you know a queer couple but that's not the thing the focus yeah exactly it's just normalizing that it's a thing like yeah like that's a thing that you see and that exists and like

absolutely i like that because i don't i mean i don't know where you're at tommy but like i don't know with my wife like i i don't think about it all the time that we're like two women i'm not like constantly tracking i'm in the same boat with i guess that's what's changed in my world since our last podcast i think yeah no i definitely was single back then oh yeah i'm trying to yeah i think i think i had a quick little relationship that came and went and then i re-met kevin because we had gone on a date way way long ago really it didn't time out i i wasn't grown enough yet i didn't have my like shit together life-wise which i still don't but it's at least more yeah uh and he's always been

pretty put together but aged aged and adult kevin is is hot yeah so time feels so bizarre in quarantine because it's been like three months now or so we're hit wait is today what's today i'm gonna check on the oh oh it's today today is our not that i'm this person i am not this person however it is our seven seven month anniversary today oh cute cute and it's been three months of Yeah, that's like nine months of regular time. Exactly. Yeah. Because he's been the one person that we've been each other's person that we're like,

we will breathe at each other. And so we're both very cautious and, you know, being responsible for each other in a way. That's very sweet. Kevin's great. I really like him. He's so great. I like that he's uh more personable and talkative than i am i can just kind of like take a back seat and let him like

be the personality and i'm like haha and this thing and then they're like great it's you know to to loop it all back in like kevin and i are still white men like yes we're gay but like gay white men are just white men at this point so yeah it doesn't there's never a moment that it that i'm like wait i'm gay it's different it's so especially in la very never bounces off my radar yeah bounces on i don't know dude that's the weird thing about i won't say exactly where i live now but like like in the suburbs in the valley is when we were in the city and we would walk around, everything was like totally chill, you know, like people would wave and say hi and some people are not interested in doing that because i my neighborhood is really diverse in that like there are people of all different like ages and races but i there's i don't think there's any sort of gay community here

and there's also a lot of like old conservative white people who, you know, are not down, which is very weird because I've been in this like sheltered bubble of being in Los Angeles. Yeah. Where I'm like, nah, this is chill. And then I forgot what things are like in the suburbs. Yeah. Dang. That's wild. Yeah, I had.

So I made a sign of the the black lives matter fist for when i protested and at first i didn't think i was going to be able to protest and i was like well maybe i can like put it in my window or something but i genuinely where i live in this this like small complex i don't know if they would there are families and like people in the complex and i don't think that they would be comfortable with that. That's so crazy that saying Black Lives Matter is like, that people would be upset about that. I think they like take it as like, it's intimidating. For a while, people did a lot more people like didn't get it.

So maybe it seems like I'm asserting a sort of dominance or something by putting that because like my apartment overlooks everyone else's and so like i'm above everyone with my sign there is the the unit below me has a bernie sign in their window so so i don't know i mean i think about that a lot because i've thought about you know putting uh some sort of sign like on our window or like a flag of some kind and i've been grappling with my fear of like okay i have a neighbor like two houses down who's like very much a cop like it's a cop family and they make me nervous they uh have like you know all of the like big trucks with like i bleed blue stickers and stuff like that and i'm like are they going to then retaliate in some way and then also how much of a coward am i for not wanting to

do that when there are people who constantly face that fear and that violence just by walking from living in their own bodies yeah yeah and then like so i think that maybe it's time to be like all right we have security cameras so let's just make this statement and then it's i can understand it being nervous because you're newer to the neighborhood it doesn't feel like it's as much like your territory yet you've entered their their neighborhood like like that says a lot like there are people who can't even do that like not even like no chance what would you put what would you put um i mean i would probably like we have a front window that faces out i would probably just want to hit like a small

rainbow flag in one corner and a small black lives matter in the other and call it a day i i want to acab and abolish ICE and like really go for it. But that's, I think, asking for my house to get vandalized. Yeah. Where who knows how many other neighbors are cops. I've thought about getting like car stickers, but I'm like, dude, I'm going to get keyed. I feel like I'm going to get keyed or something. You're going to get pulled over because they can do that for whatever reason they want to manufacture.

So then you're making yourself a target. Just put it because I have like my dad's firefighter stickers there, too. So what will that do? Because that people with firefighter stickers, it definitely affects how you're treated by cops. Dude, if you had a firefighter sticker next to an all cops or bastards sticker, I would love that. I'm thinking about it now. I officially like paid off my car during quarantine. I have the payslips and everything now.

It's mine. Good for you. So screw it if it gets keyed. Did you guys have shoot dudes that you wanted to present today? Present? Monica? Is this a present to the class? I don't know if mine qualifies as shoot dudes because I didn't realize how embarrassing they were at the time. Yeah.

So I don't know. I will say, though, I would. I know that in the past you've talked about my text exchange with Shane, the shoot dude that I sent in. Do you guys know about this? Oh, yeah. Where you accidentally sent something. Tommy, do you know about in. Do you guys know about this? Oh, yeah. Where you accidentally sent something. Tommy, do you know about this? I don't know about this.

I'll be your audience. Okay, let me actually pull up the message so that I can read it to you verbatim. But basically what happened was I was texting Shane and then also texting my wife at the same time. And so I went into the wrong thread. As a little background information, my wife and I have massage night where we listen to a specific podcast and I give her a massage, which is, you know, what you do when you're a married lesbian. So to Shane, I said, I've been avoiding listening to that noble blood,

but I want to listen. So tonight is massage night. And that was in response to Shane being like, sounds good to me when we set a meeting. And then he didn't respond for hours. And I was like, fuck, because he was on set for the Goldbergs that day. And so when I realized my mistake a couple hours later, I was like, oh, no, I realized I sent to see you instead of my wife. And now I want to die.

Bury me. And then he said that he didn't actually clock the first text because he was on set. So he just kind of looked at it and was going to worry about it later and would have definitely forgotten about it. And then he not called it out? Yep. And then he, minutes later, walked right into the office and we made eye contact. Don't say anything.

Oh my God. I'm not ready to talk about this because that is, it would be better if it were a text, but it was such a like 30 something year old mom level of intimacy. I don't want anyone being a part of yeah i get that like if i was like oh man we're gonna go for it tonight can't wait to see them titties like i that helps with the persona that i'm trying to put out into the world versus like it's massage night for my baby girl. But that's a good persona.

It's not cool. It's not cool and it's not hot. It's not black t-shirt. It's a light baby blue t-shirt. Yeah. You're embracing real Monica right now. You're a blue t-zai. Yeah. I don't have a, shoot, dude. i've been racking my brain this whole time

since yesterday trying you've been very busy yeah oh yes you have we yeah yeah i'm very excited i don't know when the video is gonna come out tommy but i think it's is it not the not next week but the week after maybe okay so by the time this is. Okay, so it will come out after this. So by the time this is out, yeah, I think it will come out after this. Okay. So, yeah, guys, Tommy and I did a video together. Very exciting. Maybe perhaps the first of several, depending. Because Tommy is a powerhouse of a person.

Both of you guys are. Monica's writing up the wall. And then Tommy's editing and producing up the wall. But yeah, Tommy and I tried out making a video with Sarah challenged us to make a song together. And I'm going to leave it at that.

I want you guys to see for yourself what the experience was, but Tommy freaking killed it. You killed it too. Yeah, you did. You did. Musically, I so thoroughly enjoy both of you. I cannot wait to see what this is.

It's pretty like for, what was it? I think like a four, like probably a four day turnaround if I'm not counting the weekend. So it's like from literally beginning to end, it was four days. So it's, the quality is pretty, pretty tight for the quick little window. Absolutely. Absolutely. I'm very excited. Music is something I've definitely wanted to pursue on Smosh, like more than anything.

So it's exciting. But yeah, so it's okay if you don't have a shoot, dude. I'm trying to think if I have anything that's happened since this last year. Because I remember last time I told the story about that girl who somehow managed to sleep over at my house because my friend ditched me. Remember? Yeah. And she like wanted to hook up and I was like, no. And at that point I was like, I'm as straight as it gets.

Little did I know that was incorrect. I just thought of a shoot, dude, but it's just about me. It's very quick. I was with, um, it's not really a shoot dude. I don't know what I'm talking about. I was with a few gay friends of mine and we all went out to Ackbar, which is a club out here. And Ackbar has a pretty cool selection of like selection. That's gross. Like variety of people. that's what gay bars are though am i right yeah yeah it's a buffet it's a buffet and i think within five minutes maybe six minutes of being there i farted but it was a full shart and so i had to wait for the bathroom

line because there is one bathroom and the line is long because it's a bunch of people so i had to wait with um with poopy pants with my oopy doopies and then once i got into uh the restroom you know classic threw away the underwear cleaned up little dookie little dookie and the person who came in after me uh for sure knew for sure new and not the best yeah not too exciting but oopy doopy kevin says yeah that's for sure a shoot dude that is a shoot dude little dookie dude little dookie dude wow that's crazy i still have yet to go to any kind of a gay bar haven't done that never experienced dude i just like haven't done i haven't like pursued my queerness yet. I mean, that's why so many queer people, like as soon as they come out and realize who they are, they have that like second adolescence in their 20s where they're like all the shit that straight people did in middle school and high school is like the shit that 20 something year old gays do. Yeah. For now, it's just like it's all in here.

I feel like except for like my style i feel like has has evolved more this last year um with like how i was dressing in videos and stuff but i know i now look back on like old photos of me in high school where i'm like oh i was trying extra hard to dress super straight that time. I was definitely like a time in my life where I was feeling insecure about myself. And like, I would part my hair in the middle and like wear a skirt and like, and like goddess, like Greek sandals and like, like, I can find a photo of like us going to a concert and I'm doing the whole thing.

I hate it. I hate it. I found so many photos where I'm like doing the street sorority girl shit. And it's so, I just look at that. I'm like, who is that? I was going to ask, I guess one last thing. I wanted to know if you guys had any LGBTQ plus icons or anybody that you really appreciate on social media or

just any icons or public figures that you guys really appreciate? Right now, I'm really enjoying Brittany Nichols. She is a comedian, but right now she is tweeting a lot of stuff

about Black Lives Matter. She's a Black woman. Her takes are excellent, especially because she's very passionate. And I think she's very smart in terms of how she analyzes things that are happening. And she's an LA local. And I've for the first time really been involved in la local politics and so to you know get her view on those things is great and then it's like sprinkled in with a little bit of comedy so nice yeah i don't iconize anybody i kind of have like an aversion to being like all in like but i've been paying attention to or at trying, like I'm populating my empty hours with focusing on Black trans people

who have, I guess, more of a reach than an everyday person like us or whatever. But Peppermint, who was on RuPaul's Drag Race, she's been very vocal and talking about, you know, just, I'm just like, truly just like absorbing everything and just letting it all,

you know, set in. I think there's a podcast that, uh, Bob, the drag queen did with Peppermint. That was, it was either a podcast or a video.

I can't remember now, but they had a whole discussion. It was very insightful. So I video. I can't remember now, but they had a whole discussion. It was very insightful. So I recommend looking through peppermint stuff. What about you, Courtney? I've been very much appreciating, well, Bretman Rock. A lot of people know who he is. He's a beauty guru from Hawaii.

It was great because very early in this movement, this year, or like a few weeks, like before a lot of the influencers were saying anything, he called out influencers being like, hey, if you're being afraid of brand deals or what followers are gonna, what's gonna happen, like that's why you're not saying anything because you're worried about your brand, then you're doing something wrong.

And he very vocally called that out and that the video of him, he just did it on his Instagram story, but someone took it and posted it. And it like blew up because it was like, it's so important right now as an influencer to use that voice. So I appreciated that. I've always just appreciated him because I love how he, he goes about his sexuality and how puts out whether his femininity or his

masculinity, like any day like i i love that so much about him then eugene lee yang um from try guys really appreciated what he's been doing on social media just a musical artist that i very much enjoy lp and also my other favorite people of l. You guys bitch. Lil Dookie. Oh, Lil Dookie. Well, thank you guys for coming on. I think that's about our time, right?

I'd say so. I don't know. Yeah. Tommy, you're just pulling this out of your ass. Yeah, that seems about right. Yeah, so that was great. This made me feel good. I wasn't sure I was going to be able to do this today,

but I appreciate being able to talk to you guys and using our platform to do shit. I don't know. Like for more than just making silly videos that ignore the world, you know, because we aren't doing that. It's not, it's happening. I'm proud of us too.

I'm proud of you monica mrs doctor doctor head writer thank you uh-huh what's the what's the first thing you guys are gonna do after this ends i my back of my knees are really sweaty so i'll probably air those out um and then maybe make some food i'm gonna walk to the corner store and buy a jug of water because i haven't had any water today and my body feels like it's shutting down. Oh, it is shutting down. Bad boy. Oh, I am going to pee.

I've had to pee for so long. I hope you don't have a stone because of it. Oh, should I just hold it and make a little? Yeah, make a little. Would you wear it around your neck? Yes, I would. Okay, then I'll do it. Well, good luck with that peepee diamond

monica thank you and good luck staying hydrated tommy thank you guys for listening and for those watching thanks for looking at us and also peeping that tis i t-shirt monica's wearing it is on smosh.com on our in our store In black and in light blue. And a portion of the proceeds will go to. Center for Black Equity. Which is a non-profit organization. Supporting black LGBTQ plus communities. So. So.

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