Smosh Mouth - S2: #75 - How Courtney & Shayne Feel About Being Shipped Together

Episode Date: August 12, 2020

Courtney and Shayne talk about how the pandemic changed their workout routines, why journaling is underrated, and how they really feel about Shartney shippers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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When I watched Smosh, I recognized that Anthony was the cute one, but I would stand Ian because he was the funny one. T. The Chardonnay conspiracies are pretty enjoyable, I will say. I, for years, have gotten DMs being like, I know you and Courtney are dating.

I see the signs. If I ever look cute or sexy in a photo, they'll be like, how does Shane feel about this? Dude, on that tip of, we were joking about Kevin's actually secretly being behind a green screen this whole time. There's this Twitch streamer who had a refrigerator in the background forever,

and everyone wanted to know it was inside the fridge right and then one day he moves it and it's just a cardboard cut out of the fridge. So awesome I saw that that was so great. Oh I love that stuff. Yeah it's fun to know thanks um to the podcast listeners for pointing out that apparently my microwave is haunted. Yeah what I never noticed that. I I haven't either. Now I will be watching. I'm terrified. You know, I don't trust technology. So maybe it is possessed by the devil. Yeah, or maybe just the technology

just doesn't like trust you or something. That probably, does it look like, it doesn't have demon eyes right now. I don't see any demon eyes anywhere other than yours. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Well, your keyboard is possessed. Damn right. So take that.

You need someone to sage your house again? Duh. Duh. Ha. I had my place saged. I think I talked about that, though. It didn't do anything. Didn't do anything?

I mean, maybe placebo effect made me feel nice for a few days. staged i think i talked about that though how did it didn't do anything didn't do anything i mean maybe maybe placebo effect made me feel like nice for a few days sure but you know like i i have a little incense thing that i burn up there sometimes i just light 1500 candles you do always that always works i have so many candles yeah how many candles do you think you could count them right now? In this room, I have one, two, three. I just have three, but I also have some incense sticks over there. And then I have a candle in my bathroom

and some more incense. I just love like good smells, man. I think it's good to have candles. Like there should always be one in the bathroom. Always something smelling good near your bedroom. Kitchen. I mean, unless you're cooking something nice. But then living room area, definitely.

I used to feel so weird about having different smelling candles on though. I get that. I think that's fine. That makes sense. Unless it's a good cocktail of smells, you know. I mean, you know, you get that teakwood and tobacco. You mix that with some amber and I don't know, like.

I'm conflicted because I love smells like red apple, but I feel like that's very much attached to like the holidays. So I have all my red apple candles like hidden away for when Christmas time comes up. Yeah, yeah. You're talking Yankee candle Christmas memories sent right there. Which is great. Sure, my guy. But it's always going to remind me of my grandma's house. Aw.

Dude, can I actually talk about, I'm so shocked and concerned at how invasive my spiders in my apartment are. Oh, really? Like, it's just, it just felt like never in my life have I felt like I'm in their space. Like, they, these spiders. They've conquered it. They're just like, I'm just like the audacity because they're putting webs in areas that I'm like, I'm clearly walking through this area all the time. And yet they're just like, yeah, I'm just going to set up camp right here in front of your freaking doorway. Those motherfuckers.

I just don't know what I'm doing differently. How many spiders do you have? Would you guess? I just am constantly walking through webs. And I haven't seen anything. But they are web building spiders. Yes. See, I have zero issue with web building spiders.

Because they pick a location. I am aware of where they're at. We can have a truce. And I know that they're going to be catching flies and fruit flies and stuff. So I say, hey, you've picked your corner. You're fine with that. I'm giving you a permit to stay there and work there. But don't be showing up in weird locations.

I mean, my logic is if I see you, if you're in my way, if you're in a space that I'd like, if I see you, you've basically lost survival of the fittest. You failed as a spider in your stealth and ability to remain unseen and I'm like well you lose sometimes I'll be like well if you're really not in my way I'll let you be there but as soon as you get too close for comfort I have to get rid of you one time when I was getting ready for bed

I saw in the corner of my room right by my trash can not one but two huge ass daddy long legs had set up camp right next to my bed and i was like bro you guys i was like i guess they're fine because they're daddy long legs but they were i don't think daddy long legs are technically spiders either i think they're they're classified as something else but they look like spiders and they're creepy what are they so whatever um i don't know there's something i be wrong, but I'm pretty sure they're not technically a spider. Doesn't matter, right? We're talking about just bugs that crawl around. For me, it's spiders specifically that I will let live, that I will let live. Even if they are the type that are walking around, if I'm like, okay, look, man, you're cool. Just kind of like you. I'm like, just don't be sneaking up too close to me.

Yeah. I found a pretty decent sized jumping spider, which are my favorite. They're probably my favorite bug. I love jumping spiders. They're super nice. They're super nice. They'll crawl on your hands.

They won't bite you and stuff. That's good. I just get nervous they're going to jump at my eye. No, they're not going to jump at your eye. Why would they jump at your eye They jump around and it's like they don't know what I don't want You just see a jumping spider and she's like Hey man we're cool

But I'm gonna get that eye I'm gonna get your eyes Courtney I should probably intro this cast As we cast this pod Oh I guess Yeah you can notice it's pretty empty today Just hear two voices. It is just me and Shane.

Damon was supposed to be in it, but he's moving. Well, he moved and the spectrum internet or his internet is giving him problems. So he might pop in later, but it's just me and this little dumb bitch right now. Oh, thanks. Great.

So you like spiders? I love spiders. I love spiders. I love spiders. I don't get too many bugs in my place and I don't know why, but I rarely do. Yeah, because you're on the first floor or I don't know. Yeah, let's give my location away. Sorry. Just kidding.

But I've gotten spiders a couple times and I always let them live and they always kind of just disappear after a day. That's good. I don't know what's up. I'm almost offended that they don't find my apartment. They're like, yeah, this party's lame. That they don't want to stay here. This party's lame. I'm a dip.

Hey, this place fucking sucks. I'm out of here. Is that how spiders sound to you? Yeah, this is what spiders sound like. Shut up. I'll just be asleep in my bed late at night, and all of a sudden I'll hear a spider catch a fly in the other room. It's like, egg, I fucking got you.

Hey, you get your fucking hands off. I'm not going to get my hands off you. I'm a fucking spider. Oh, my God. That's the conversation. That sounds like that character where it's like someone standing in front of the pyramids going, hey, these are older

than you think they are. Hey, these are older than you think. I got a phone. It's a Nokia. I used to sometimes get a random bee that came into my apartment.

That's awesome. Yeah. In apartment 23. Stop. See, a bee, so I think I've told this story before. The only insect that I am just absolutely

unforgiving towards is wasps. If I see a wasp and you get near me, it is to the death immediately. Or hornets though. Well, sure, but wasps, if your legs are dangling as you're flying, that's too cocky. You're going down. And I had a wasp fly into my apartment years ago. And this one, I lived in a one bedroom with a loft.

So the ceiling was huge. And this wasp was flying all over the place. And I had a broom and a Nerf football. And I was just running around the room trying to throw the football at the wasp. That is the most Shane way to deal with an insect. It would swoop down at me, and I'd have the broom swinging around at it.

It was a boss battle. It was Dark Souls. Well, that's the thing. God, Dark Souls. It took like a half hour. It was a half hour battle. I was bloody and beaten at the end of it dude wasps are territorial that's why that's why they're so aggressive inside my apartment well i'm territorial

inside my apartment okay valid uh yeah i'm terrified of bees and i have like no reason to be it's weird i love bees i love bees and my mom has an obsession with bees because they're so cute and they do such good things. But I'm also I'm like, you're so good. Stay away from me. I really am scared that I'm going to get stung. Stay away from me and let me eat your spit. That's got to be weird for them that they like spit all this stuff everywhere. And then occasionally these giant creatures come and steal all their spit.

Dude, I have this obsession with bee TikTok. There are people that get called to places where it's like, oh, there's a hive being built in my wall. And they go into the wall, take it out, get them, find the queen. I've been on YouTube. I've been on the YouTube. Damn, that's a commitment.

And it's 30 minute videos of them like uncovering just massive hives inside people's walls. I mean, hives that weigh like 15 pounds. It's crazy. Like some of those bee people will like not even have gloves on dealing with the bees. Yeah, they're so casual. So casual. So what's up?

What else? What else? What else? What else going on? I didn't shower before this podcast. Ew! This day has gone pretty fast. Ew! And I didn't shower before this podcast. Ew! This day has gone pretty fast. Ew!

And I didn't have time. So I worked out right before this. And so I'm all gross and sweaty right now. Stinky pod. But I'm glad that nobody can smell me through YouTube and or whatever podcast network you're listening to this on. Not yet. We'll get there technology wise. Dude, I've been like on a health kick lately. I'm i'm trying to like yeah you've been like cooking healthy and shit like what the

hell oh man i i just i don't know like it's easy with quarantine to kind of like falter and just kind of resort to ordering food a lot and not eating as healthy but um i i'm on a kick. I'm just like, I'm viewing food as a means of making myself stronger. So I'm trying to just put as much good stuff in my body as possible. I'm like eating tons of fruits and vegetables and I immediately feel so much better because of it. It's-

You sound like a video game character that's like Literally, it feels like it feels like when mario eats the mushroom and gets bigger that's how i feel after eating asparagus so what's like so what do you yeah what are like your favorite things the healthy things to cook right now so my diet's been insanely simple uh because i'm i love to cook um and i will cook like i will attempt to cook fancier more more complicated things. But when I'm just cooking for myself, I am very often super not lazy, but I'm just as basic as possible.

My go to thing is I saute either like, usually it's a chicken breast, maybe it's a salmon filet, or very occasionally a steak. Then I steam up some broccoli, or I throw some asparagus in the oven, or carrots or radishes or some form of vegetable, right? You gotta have that. And then my favorite is throw some quinoa in the rice cooker, bam, that's dinner. And I do that 90% of the time.

That's fancy as hell. Besides that, I've never had a diet. I've never followed diets. I know it works for some people, but for me, my mindset has always been a matter of like, I'm gonna try to, I need to eat these things every day, so i'm like okay what what are all the what are the healthiest foods okay i'm gonna eat at least one of each of those today you know so like greek yogurt a bunch of fruits and vegetables um on top of whatever i have for for dinner and lunch uh

oh nuts are incredible nuts dude walnuts eh? Dude, walnuts, almonds. Yeah, dude. You're sounding like a lot like when I went, because I'm the same way where I don't really follow diets, except for the time when I went vegan for almost a year. Right. And ultimately, it was like it just caused me to snack less. And I lost my baby fat so quickly my friends even were like dude you

look really skinny it's kind of scary and i just straight up was it was just because it wasn't snacks weren't accessible because my dad's house was filled with just cheese and stuff and like interesting but yeah it makes a difference when you really it's off that's an obvious statement to say but i just think i think a lot of people for sure. Cause I think a lot of people are very focused on not eating a lot of stuff, like not eating sweets, not drinking soda.

And my mindset's always been the opposite of like, okay, I need to drink a hundred ounces of water today. I need to eat an orange and an apple and some celery and some asparagus and some spinach. And then by the time you've focused on eating all that stuff, you're so distracted that you don't end up eating sweets because you've been eating all this other stuff. To be fair, I'm not trying to lose weight. So I know the mindset's very different probably. And I know every body is different. Like I'm not a nutrition expert.

I'm not a fitness expert. And what works for me may not work for other people. So I'm not trying to preach this. And you don't have to clarify that. It's not like you're telling people like, you guys all should eat like me. You never said that. So don't worry about it.

For sure, but I don't want it to be insinuated. Dude, earlier in quarantine, I like started to gain weight. And I gained weight in like very specific places on my body. It's not like it's a like throughout thing because I was like, well, I'm always home and I want to be happy and like food makes me happy. So I just was constantly buying donuts, cookies, sweets, all types of candy. I was ordering food all the time. But I did eventually like get into cooking more like I totally love getting broccoli. I saute it in some frickin garlic and, and salt

and pepper and stuff and butter. I like using butter. Nice. But yeah, I was really bad. I'm still and I'm getting better. I think what I like to do is I try and replace things in my diet. So instead of the donuts and stuff, I was like, okay, I want something sweet. So I'm gonna just get some fruits instead. And I literally only give myself those options like replacing soda or alcohol with kombucha.

So. I think that totally works. Yeah. For me, for me, the motivation, cause like, I think so many people are motivated entirely by appearance. And I think there's nothing wrong with desiring to look a certain way. But if it's your entire motivation, for me personally, that always crumbles at a certain point.

For me, the motivation is like, like I said, when I have a day where I eat super healthy and I work out and I'm doing all this stuff, the next day I always just feel so much better. And that's my motivation is that I'm like, I'm gonna be stronger. And by eating this, I will be stronger. That kind of mindset keeps me going better, but.

Yeah, I just, I don't think being hot is a personality trait. Like sorry, a lot of times, obviously, I when I work out, whether I notice a difference in my how I look or not, I just feel more confident. And I feel like it also exercise gives you endorphins and all those things like it and like when people are sad, sometimes they can go work out and feel a little bit better. Like that's what my therapist has told me to do. Exercising and taking care of yourself isn't like because you shouldn't do it because you feel like gross if you don't. I don't know. I don't know.

No, no. So I know exactly what you're saying. And there's a specific reason I've been so motivated or just been doing a great job of doing these things lately. And it's because I recognized that I was measuring my life in achievements. And I dropped that because before my mindset was off and I don't do it too much with fitness, but it still was affecting me where I'm thinking I need to achieve this or I need to achieve this, or I need to achieve this weight, or I need to achieve this appearance in order to feel happy. And that's always gonna screw you over.

It's why I'm so about body positivity is because if you feel, if you recognize that you are worth it as you are, you deserve to be happy as you are, then doing these things becomes a gift to yourself. Yeah, it's even more frosting on the cake. As opposed to I need to work out and eat healthy because I'm a piece of shit. It's holy crap. I love myself and I can give myself the gift of feeling better and becoming stronger if I do this for myself. Totally. Like I miss personal training so much because I was not only able to like make myself feel stronger,

but having someone there who believed in me and supported me and was helping push me further in person like was awesome. And it's hard working out at home man i don't know how you have done it so consistently like you know no i feel like no no fans or listeners know like your like your secrets your how you've gotten to uh this i think it's really more consistency. I don't work, I don't feel like I work out like crazy. There's a lot of people I know. You do though. I mean like when they work out they are lifting far

more than me. They're like doing intense workouts. I just feel like I'm just constantly, I just like to do something every day. And it doesn't have to be that much. But for me, my quarantine workouts, because I'm not at a gym, I don't have access to weights. A lot of times I'm just doing push-ups and pull-ups and crunches and stuff like that. One of the things, my dad was the one who told me about this, but I think it works is if you get a

deck of cards and you keep flipping cards and whatever the number is on that card, you do that many pushups and you just keep flipping cards and it just kind of keeps you motivated, keeps you going. I don't have like a set routine of like, okay, I'm going to do three sets of 10 of this and this and this and this. I often just work out until I can't anymore. I'm just like, all right, I'm going to push myself as hard as I can. Yeah. I used to at the gym be like, okay, six sets of 10 of everything, 30 minutes of core, like just unnecessary stuff. But yeah, I'm to the point now where I pretty much just work out my arm until I'm like, okay, that's fine. Like I was going to do like, I even even I even tweeted about it. I was thinking about

posting my workout routines because I even told you I have like my crazy butt workout that I call the mountain, which is very it definitely works. And I'm very happy that I have that. So I could be like, Okay, I'm gonna do two mountains today. That's a solid butt workout. It was like I tweeted it and then literally like the protests and everything started happening and i was like this is not the time to like make my own content in any way and like now i'm and then and now we're working again like in the studio and stuff social distance style so like i just don't know if i'll ever i'll ever get around to it um but yeah it's yeah you're right just like working out until you feel good i like there's there's yoga YouTube channels that I follow that I'm like, if I'm too lazy to push myself, at least playing a video to like, do some shit. My mom was a fitness trainer for like, most of my life. And her what she always

said was the best workout is the one that you're gonna do. I think it's whatever that you're motivated and you have fun doing, do that. Like if you love rock climbing, rock climb. If you love jogging, jog. If you like playing tennis, play tennis. Whatever physical activity you love, you can just do that. And that's going to be enough.

Like you just need to be moving every day for a certain amount of time. I think setting goals like, okay, I want to be able to do 20 pushups in a row is going to be a great one because then you're working towards something and then you can get that accomplishment. Appearance is weird because you can, regardless of if you actually do look good or not, you can wake up one day and just be like, I hate how I look today. Yeah. And then that motivation's gone because it's just based on such a fickle thing. Whereas if there's a number, if there's like an accomplishment

that you're working towards. I commend you for your consistency. I think I was in this, like, it's crazy, dude. I asked Alexa the other day, it's been 135 days since our first day of quarantine. Oh my God. Can you believe that? 135 days since we like got back from Australia.

And I was in the beginning I was like I was obviously I was in the best shape of my life when we got home from Australia or around Australia time and so I was desperate I was working out every day doing everything I could I was like just want to maintain what I have and then I was I was running every day everything and like then I just like I've started to lose motivation. And I, but I think I'm kind of grateful in the way it's like, I don't have to do that every day, man. What am I pushing myself for? For sure. And also beating yourself up is only going to keep you down. Exactly. Like I totally appreciate working out because it like when, when you're pet have pent up stress or anxiety about what's going on in the world exercise is an excellent way of getting that energy out of your system for sure

and that's something like my therapist told me she's like well know that it is benefiting so yeah but like ultimately it's like i don't need to be buffed to sit on my couch all day. You know, like I don't need, like, I don't need those things. I think it's good to feel it's, it's whatever you want to do to make you feel good. Like you said, yeah. Rock climbing or just fricking sitting down and drawing all day.

Like as long as you're stimulating yourself in a way that helps you like, dude, I finally finished a diary for the first time since middle school. Oh, snap. And it's really cute. I tweeted the other day or yesterday or something about it. And like I asked all the fans to show me what their diaries looked like. Having something like that to like journaling because you journal a little bit, right?

I do. Yeah. Not as consistently as you. Yeah. I'm like I'm almost every day as you. Yeah, I'm like, I'm almost every day I try. Yeah, I don't. And when I do, it's rarely, I rarely write about myself. Mine's more like thoughts on things. So I'm not talking about my day. There's not much information on myself in it. It's more like, this is my thought on love. And this is what I think love is.

That's an example. That's a good example. It's a valid example. Occasionally when things are really bad or really good, I'll write a letter to myself of like, if it was someone like treating it, like it was a friend of like, Hey, you need to know this right now. You need to hear this right now. Sometimes I even write, like, I love you to me just to myself, because like, I think it's important to tell yourself that whether it's in writing or out loud. I think that's great. I remember, I remember, uh, it was like a decade ago, the secret and all those types of books. And it was a lot about like gratitude journaling and all this stuff. And it obviously was based on this idea that it's like, if, if you write about your intentions, they will magically come to you. I don't personally believe

that there's some magic force that's drawing everything you want to you. But I do think writing down what makes you happy in life is going to make you happier. And also writing down goals is going to help you focus on those goals and get them so i think a lot of those things really are beneficial on like a psychological level it makes perfect sense and it's nice because it's more than just 160 characters on twitter where you just kind of like tweet your feelings and it's also for yourself it's yeah for yourself and you feel it because you feel, you know, it's true. Your words are just as valid in an empty room. Yeah, because I, well, but also I often question myself whenever I'm posting something on social,

as genuine as it feels, there's always a part of me that's questioning whether or not I was genuine about it. You know what I mean? Like, cause I'm tweeting about something. So I'm like, is how much of me is looking for affirmation from other people with this? Whereas when you write it entirely for yourself, it's totally private. You know, that's your real intentions. And there's, it helps you learn about yourself in that way.

Agreed. get you can really dive into what you're feeling and i feel like one of the one of the fans was like oh yeah my therapist um wants me to get a journal and i'm like dude therapy and journaling that's like such a group that is and i said i was like that's excellent self-love because that's the healthiest way to um organize your thoughts and like and i feel the same way about twitter like because sometimes i feel like i'm not saying enough and so people will misconstrue literally anything that i say and at the end of the day like i like i think you feel the same way too like i like to be able to especially it's harder right now but like Twitter used to

be like this really fun, silly place where I get to make people laugh with just like funny content. It's, it's obviously been a vehicle for other things lately, but yeah, we haven't really been the type to always put out our thoughts on everything that's going on in the world because it's like, just also like, I'm not trying to make everything about me you know I don't put my personal thoughts out there that often because I also don't think that I'm that smart so I I don't I don't ever feel comfortable putting my opinions out there because I'm always questioning whether I'm wrong I think that's good to have that though I it's hard for me to adamantly fight for a lot of things I'll retweet people who word them perfectly and I'm wrong. I think that's good to have that though. It's hard for me to adamantly fight

for a lot of things. I'll retweet people who word them perfectly and I'm like, this is the person we should listen to. Amplify those voices. But I mean when I'm talking

myself, my own POV, I'm constantly questioning it. I'm constantly changing it. Agreed. Even like now, talking about this health stuff. Like I said,

I'm not an expert and I'm often going to question. I'm like, oh, can my workouts be better? Probably. Am I doing something wrong? Maybe. Am I working out too hard? And is that hurting me? Possibly. I'm constantly asking that. I just, whatever. But anyways, going back, journaling stuff is great because I think it, it really, for me, I often even notice that when I'm journaling by myself, I'm still not asking the tough questions. You learn a lot there. Like your inability to tell yourself that you love yourself is always an interesting one. And just how immediately, whether it becomes negative or positive when you're journaling, there's a lot that you can

learn. Yeah. You like, even just when you're talking to a therapist, like there's this really cool picture I saw where it's two people, one per a person and a therapist. And what the person is saying is this tangle of thread. And then it's going across to the therapist and the therapist, what they're doing is organizing your thoughts into a ball of yarn. Like, because when you're just, when you're able to just like let it all out and just talk about your feelings, you'll sometimes just figure it out on your own. If you just keep it all inside and just think you're dealing with it internally, that's like you're, you're stopping halfway.

Putting it out there is so huge because you don't, you often don't realize how, for lack of a better word, how stupid thought can be until you put it on paper or you tell someone and you go, holy crap, I was telling myself that. I was telling myself I wasn't worth it because of some dumb reason. Yeah, it's all communication. As soon as you say it out loud or put it on paper,

it really puts it into perspective. Yeah, it's communicating with yourself. Yeah, because you're the only one who has full access to your brain. Nobody else does. So it's communicating with yourself yeah because you're the only one who has full access to your brain nobody else does so it's an important responsibility to like at least look inward every now and again i think it's like i it sounds stressful the way you said it shane of like i am i stupid am i being dumb enough do i not am i not being smart enough with everything that i'm saying like it's it's that sounds stressful but I think it's also important for people to always look inward at least once in every situation. Yeah. And it's it's sort of stressful sometimes if I have to make a decision or if I, you know, deciding whether it's the right thing or not.

But it's saying like, oh, I love myself for who I am and that I don't have to be super smart and I don't have the answers for me to love myself it's okay to be dumb well sometimes yeah on certain things yeah yeah yeah and you like also recognizing that your own voice you you deserve to be listened to even if it's just you listening to yourself and like what your true intentions are and stuff. I will say, so this is something that I don't think I've told anyone. Ooh. This is okay, this is Shane Topps.

Shane Topps secret. Shane Topps secret time. I don't think I brought this up before, but so I have a bunch of journals for different things, right? Some that are more like silly, brought this up before but so i have a bunch of journals for different things right uh some that are more like silly uh where i'll write down joke ideas and stuff like that and then i have some that are like gratitude type journals or whatever but i have one that um i don't it's sometimes

tough to write in it but i have had it for a long time i've've put in a few entries and I call it a book of praise. And every time I write in it, every time I write in it, I pick, usually I pick a person. I pick a person that I know. And for now in general, it's always, it's usually a friend or someone, a coworker, or just someone I know. And I write about what makes them awesome.

Oh, I started a book like that forever ago. You write about like what makes them, what's so incredible about them. And you just, you go down that. And I think the ultimate challenge with it is as you keep writing entries is you run through all the people that you know you love and you start getting to people

that it's a little more conflicted. And it's about picking people that it's like i really don't like this person all right though let's try to see what's great about them like like like what's what is like try to find that and sometimes i'll pick like a thing and i'll just praise that thing like i'll i'll be like uh doing the laundry and I'll write about what's so awesome about doing the laundry. But yeah, I have one of those. That's good. Cause then if you like,

if you've written a page about somebody and then you're like in a fight with them, you can like go back and read the page and be like, oh, I gotta remember what's more important. For sure. But yeah, I think I've tried that a couple of times. I think that's a good idea. I definitely want to do that.

And on a selfish note, it's great because it gets me out of my own head and it gets me focused on other people. Absolutely. So. Cool. Yeah, dude. Pretty sick. That's really tight.

It's honestly very tight. Whoa. Mega dope. Holy crap. Ultra sweet. Just make these text these text sounds like a gum now uber cool uber cool sounds like a gum sick as fuck yeah what else going on i've been playing ghost of tsushima yeah nonstop. That's all I've been doing. That's awesome. That's been my self-care is being a samurai warrior. It looks really cool. Thank God video games have been off the chain

this year. It has helped me get through this quarantine. Yeah. I started playing Uncharted and I want to go play The Last of Us games again. And then I also, what other game do I really want to play again? I don't know. I just like, that's the thing with my motivation thing. Why are you smirking? Why are you smirking? I was just laughing at what possible video game. You want to play, you're looking to play one of the Putt-Putt games again?

No, I've never played a fucking Putt-Putt game. I have Sims on my computer. Oh, remember when I bought my computer and I was like, I'm gonna learn Premiere and I didn't. There's time. There's plenty of time. I will do it. There's plenty of time.

I've been learning other things like directing full on sketches, shit like that. But yeah, Sims was fun for a while. Just making people's babies, seeing what their babies look like quarantine has gone on so long that like yeah like what do we do so another thing i've done i'm just starting to get creative now like i think i fully realized i'm like whatever i'm living my introvert life and i'm just going for all in because i was having difficulty finding tv shows and movies to watch. And I ended up not watching anything

because I would turn on Netflix and I'd just be like, there's too many things. Yeah. And I would turn it off. So I've been picking a director. Oh, yeah. And then I started their first movie they ever made and I watch all their movies.

So smart. So smart. I need to do that with like Wes Anderson or something. Or you could do it with like an actor too. That could be fun. Oh, dude. To just start with like Brad Pitt and just watch his first movie

and watch him grow older through all his movies. Pretty cool. I was on like a corny rom-com type kick where what did I start with? The first one I watched was Legally, it went Legally Blonde, Clueless, Uptown Girls um then another uh a weird Reese Witherspoon movie where it's like Owen Wilson's in it and Paul Rudd Owen Wilson and uh Paul Rudd and Reese Witherspoon have been in a few movies

together they're an odd duo anyway the what was the movie was called how do you know it was such a weird movie dude it was Reese Witherspoon and Paul Rudd and Owen Wilson is like this other side dude in it and it's like these two people's lives who are so separate the only thing that they have in common is they both know people who live in the same luxury apartment building and like it's the most dialogue heavy wordy neurotic script and it's like you literally have to be physically unable to change the channel or get off your couch to be able to want to sit and watch this whole movie but at the end there's this like random scene that didn't even have anything to do with the main characters that you just like watch and it made me fucking

cry it was like it's like this single mother's giving birth and then her boyfriend comes in and proposes to her and they like happen to be in the room and i'm and then and then they like i have a stroke right now the entire movie goes and it none of it makes sense and at the very end nothing happens the whole movie it's just dialogue and at the very end owen wilson has to take marley to the vet to get put down. Fuck! Dude, I hate, can I yell hot take? I hate the movie Marley and Me. Those movies, you know exactly what you're gonna get

with those movies. You never get out of one of those movies without shedding a tear, no matter how hard you try. It's like, oh, you wanna go watch my dog Skip? Nuh-uh, I know what's gonna happen. It's so weird. you try it's like oh you want to go watch my dog skip no i know what's gonna happen so even if it's even if it's the best even the best possible outcome is always gonna be the dog dies every time it's like literally a trailer that's like hey are you in need of a good cry come on in it's just brutal they are always always brutal. I just, ugh. Like, literally, My Dog Skip.

I remember watching that in theaters. And you think it gets towards the very end. It's the last. And I'm sorry, I'm spoiling it, so. Spoilers for My Dog Skipper warning. If you don't want My Dog Skip spoiled for you, the whole thing plays out. And you're like, this was great.

This was a happy story. And then it goes to a montage at the end where the boy goes off to college. then it's like this this voiceover and just like and then eventually i got word that skip died and all this stuff and i'm just like yeah fuck you we were almost out of here i was almost out of the theater see i just hated marley and me because i was stressed out at how they hold on i think someone's banging on my door one second talk and entertain them yeah yeah okay um hey guys welcome to shane alone cast uh now the fun thing about shane alone cast is that it's just me. I hope you're doing really nice on this Wednesday or Friday

or whatever day you're listening to this. I hope you have a nice cup of tea with you. Is it cameraman? Is it sleepy time? Green, perhaps? Hi, all right. What's going on? What was up?

What were you saying? Someone threw a package at my door, like physically threw it. That's awesome. That's really cool. Yeah, but it's like my Barnes & Noble books on female leadership. Was it a Frisbee in a package?

It's just a round box. No, it's my books that I ordered. Unboxing. I'm a woman who can read. Witch. Anyway. Anyway. I'm a woman who can read. Witch. Anyway. Anyway. I'm not a witch.

I know. You're a witch. A sandwich. Yeah. I am 100% a sandwich. That's my brand. That's all right. Kevin says, this is the first ever podcast just us two

yeah we never we like very rarely do anything just us two we rarely talk we rarely talk because if we so much as say hi to each other Shartney fans poop themselves I was gonna say

Shartney fans actually shart themselves in this video Courtney says hi to Shane. Clearly they're married. The Shartney conspiracies are pretty enjoyable, I will say. I, for years, have gotten DMs being like, I know you and Courtney are dating. I see the signs. Yeah, I think the weird ones that I get are like,

if I ever look like cute or sexy in a photo, they'll be like, how does Shane feel about this? Like as if I need your permission. I want that comment. I want that comment on every single thing

that ever happens. Any news headline is just like, oh yeah. A swarm of locusts have hit India and people be like wonder how shane feels about this just anything just wonder how shane feels about that i love that yeah i mean i've been started this the court me and has started to rise and there's a there's a version of almost everything yeah um i've seen you and olivia get shipped together is it yeah i used to i used to

like talk a lot about like or i think forever ago in a youtube video i was like oh like it's you can't ship us it's weird like we're basically brother and sister but like i don't feel like i agree with that now like that feels weird to say in the sense of like, I doesn't like, like you said, like these ship videos are funny to me. It's not invading on my life. I'm not saying please ship us at all. You know, we've like, we're professionals and we literally have to like kiss in videos and stuff.

It's not something that, I don't know. I feel bad because a lot of Chardonnay fans get bullied is what I'm getting at. Like, and like. Like, like people are like, you're making it weird. Or yeah, like stop, you're obsessing over something that's not real, which is like, whatever. People are allowed to ship me with anyone they want

or anything, ship me with bananas. Cause I love bananas. Yeah, you do. I view it as content. People are making content. They make videos where it's like, this is the two of them. This is highlighting this possible scenario or theoretical. They're able to get creative and like, and especially like edits or things like that. Like I've seen, we've seen and talked about edits where it's like they make an entire storyline out of our footage, like creating a new story. I am begging you, please make a ship edit

of me and Kathy Bates. Make my dreams come true. But to be real, like I will say, I think the reason it doesn't really make me uncomfortable because it's like, it's just another one of those things. Like you said this before, a lot of sometimes fans think that like we are all best friends and that we actually all do hang out every day and and they just there's a lot that that goes on behind the scenes that people just

don't know and our our youtube life is a very separate thing from our home and our personal lives um And like, obviously some of us hang out a lot, but like others, like it's, it's, it's really no one's business, but also just ultimately people,

it's just, it's a reminder of like, yeah, people really have no clue what goes on and it doesn't, I think it's since it's so, it's not something that hurts me. As long as it's something that doesn't hurt me. I'm like,

yeah. Ultimately. Yeah. They're not saying negative things. And so it's hard for me to have like a problem with it. Yeah. When it's ultimately positive. My first time I was ever in a Smosh second channel video

was with me and Ian and Anthony drawing Star Wars characters from memory. And like, I was immediately getting comments that I was blowing them under the table. Like literally in that video that I was blowing them under the table. Like literally in that video that I was doing that kind of things. It's like, yeah, that stuff made me uncomfortable. That stuff's weird.

Rough, yeah. But I used to ship Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson. Like I get it. Like I was a directioner for like two months. Wait, what was your mindset when you were shipping them? Like, did you think it shipping them like did you think it was did you want that to be real did you think it was real so i discovered one direction on tumblr and then like once you go down the rabbit hole you see the larry stylinson edits and i was like what is this and it's basically just like it was like the sharpie edits where it's like my first time ever seeing anything like this, where any time,

cause they were, they were filmed all the time. They were documented. They were vlogged from the moment they were on America's got talent to onto their other stuff. While he was shitting, just while they were shitting, like Harry shitting on the YouTubes,

but like literally. So fans would find every second where they looked at each other or touched each other or anything that alluded to like sexual tension was put there. And it's like so easy to believe and be like, whoa, that's crazy. Like. So you believed it was real? I was something that I would like to entertain my mind with.

But I mean, I think that's fine for a teenager to. Yeah, but then there was like, then there was fans that were like, wow. They louis is lying about having this baby this baby is fake and he's just doing this to hide the fact that he's actually with harry right now like they were like oh this baby hand in the photo is clearly a copy from this other photo like yeah that's when it gets unhealthy it gets intense well it's a conspiracy theory. It's a conspiracy theory. You're saying something is true and then pointing out to anything that proves yourself right, which is an illogical way of going about things. It's not healthy to invest your time in people who don't even know who you are, like in that unhealthy of a way. Right. Because also, like, regardless if it's true or not,

I don't know if they want to keep it private, then you're not going to know. But I don't know. Like it's a weird thing to get angry or to get that obsessed with. Because, yeah, you're never going to really know. I think it's a fine thing to have fun with. Yeah, just whatever.

I don't care. Like it's not, it doesn't, it doesn't hurt my feelings that somebody thinks I'm dating someone. It is weird. So remember the other day I was looking for cursed images and I was like, I was trying to find cursed images of you because I thought that would be funny for GDFN. But I ended up finding an article that was like talking talking about like, oh, is Shane single? Or does he have a girlfriend? If so, that girlfriend would be very lucky. That was the title of this article.

And then I got in a weird rabbit hole of like, looking at weird articles about us, because there are more and more articles every day about us. There is one that thinks that I've been married before. Well, have you? No. They found out. They found I have a second family like in Wisconsin. Yeah. There's some weird and like, I don't even know. People are spending like lots of time compiling information on my height my shoe size my my marital status um how many siblings i have

which there's there's always too many or too little or like random names in there like that i don't know who they are like that's hilarious a kent or something and i'm like ah i don't think so uh it's creepy dude you have you ever googled yourself? No. Well, not in a long time. Not in years. I don't want to find out. I'm fine with certain misinformation. Like if someone wants to say that I'm six feet tall, hey, I'm not going to say it's wrong. I might say no comment.

Yeah, that's really funny. There is a lot of like, I have seen like, there is a lot of misinformation that have seen like there is a lot of misinformation that does get thrown around though like saying that i was born in los angeles there's a lot that has been weird where one what that was on there for that was on the smosh wiki for a long time was that my favorite tv show was once upon a time what that was on smosh wiki and i was just like all right i don't know about that sure it's possible maybe you once mentioned that show and somebody was like oh that must mean he loves that show because like i will say it's interesting because coming from being a fan in in fandoms and like i was in fandoms but i never like

interacted with other people in the fandom ever i just absorbed the content and moved on but like because i remember when i was when i watched when i watched smosh i recognized that anthony was the cute one but i would stand in because he was the funny one t and i was like that's because like i was always the one i liked i liked nile because i felt like not a lot of people liked nile in one direction he was like one of the ones that was liked not as much by like you you always pick just the the one that's just left out i just picked yeah i'm like you know what i dig i dig you hey i don't know i don't know why i pity the shit out of you no i genuinely i genuinely did because it's like you know i think i naturally go towards like the

underdog you know it's like kind of like one of those situations where, I don't know why. And then I did see all the Anthony shipping stuff and that was so crazy, like photoshopping them to be kissing. Right, but it had to be weird because as you were talking about before of like, you don't ultimately know everything

that's going on behind camera. You were a huge fan of Smosh and then coming and working with them. You saw that it's like, oh yes, they are great friends, but as friendships and as relationships and everything are, it's so much, there's just so much more going on or not going on.

It's like, yeah, you know, it's so easy to, to like, to put them in as an idea or in a box because you've never met them or had a conversation with them like because the first time we met Ian and Anthony they were so chill like so down to earth like people so yeah and then so so coming

from being a fan of things and then now being something that people make fan it's about you have like when i i that's why i like i had a huge appreciation for fan art like extremely when it when it first started coming my way because like i appreciated drawing and i was i was a fan girl so like i got it i i'll never fully get used to what it feels like to be on this side of that line of the on the receiving end um yeah like i don't know like like you've seen me in the last year i just started getting like way crazy anxiety about meet and greets like yeah i had i had like my first physical panic attack in australia after our first uh uhup. That was crazy. At the end of the day, it's still a great experience. Going back a little bit, just the last thing I'd want to say on this is just to like take to take a lot of it with a grain of salt. Like there's so

much you can decipher body language and so many things in so many ways. The last instance of that that I that I experienced was the first couple podcasts when we were in quarantine. People were commenting that they were like, I'm really worried about Shane. He looks really depressed. He seems like he's in a really bad place right now. I hope he's doing okay. And the truth was, I was very quiet in those early podcasts. But the reason was, one, I was not getting enough sleep. I kept staying up late playing video games and waking up too late. But also my podcast setup, my mic was too far away from me. So I had to lean uncomfortably forward and it made speaking just more difficult.

So I often ended up just being like, I'm just going to sit back and listen a little bit more. But that was the reason. But on camera, it appeared like I was in a really dark place and I was really quiet because I was really sad. I wasn't sad at all. I was actually having great days. I just in recording that podcast with that setup, there were other factors that made me more quiet and not seem as happy. But I think that's the thing is like, there's nothing wrong with assuming something

based off a video and going, oh, Shane seemed angry there. It's also going, oh, there's a million reasons for that. Maybe he just hadn't had coffee. Maybe this is their third shoot of that day and they're burnt out, I don't know. And there's like, there's weird things where it's like, oh, you have no clue how many of the people you're watching on YouTube are currently dealing with a private investigation

with a stalker. And that can severely affect you. Like, that's just one of the examples where it's like you and like, they obviously don't want to talk about it because they don't want to bring attention to it. And that's obviously a very random example. No one is dealing with that right now. But it's things like that that it's like you really have no clue uh so do you want to get a shoot dude let's get the shoot dude shoot dude

shoot dude shoot dude shoot dude shoot dude shoot dude shoot, shoot. Shoot, dude. Dude, I love shoot dudes so much. I love shoot dude. Shoot dudes are pretty sick. Shoot dudes are pretty sick. Honestly, shoot dudes are pretty sick. That voice. Honestly, I think shoot dudes are pretty cool. Would it be okay if I got, can I get, can I get a vanilla ice cream cone, but can I also get one of the ice cream bars as well?

I only have $2, so I hope I can get two. I only have $2, so if I could get two ice cream bars and an ice cream cone, please. Why is he Sean Connery? Excuse me, I'm a baby. If I could have an ice cream cane, please. I'm doing the Brittany Broski voice, who's like, hello, my little cat got hit by a car, so I'm coming today to pray for, I don't know, Sean Connery, baby.

Okay, are you ready? Hello, I'm a baby. Yeah. Okay. So this week's shoot dude comes from someone by the name of Percy. So this happened while I was in college. I was madly in love with this guy friend of mine and me being this closeted gay guy didn't have the guts to do something about it.

So I resorted to writing Harry Potter fan fiction where the two characters I used represented the two of us. It was basically the love story- That was his outlet. That was his outlet, yes. Get that outlet, honey. It was basically the love story in my head that I wanted us to have. I just finished a chapter update on my laptop while I was in the library when he showed up from behind me to surprise me. He saw my account and it got awkward super fast since my author name was based off him. For example, let's say my crush was Tommy Bo. The username was bowie thomas i had no choice but to admit the whole thing and how creepy it was on top of that it was also the first time i was coming out to

someone so i was freaking the hell out and ended up crying oh my god he took it pretty well but he rejected me on the spot since he was straight he asked me to change the username understandable but other than that, everything was okay. He even helped me come out to our other friends after that. I got over my crush on him about a year after that. I suck at moving on, okay? And I'm happy to say that he's still one of my best friends to this day. Oh my gosh, Percy.

That's a shoot dude followed by a, oh, shoot. That is a mega shoot dude. But that's a that's a shoot dude followed by a oh shoot that is a mega shoot dude but that's but that's ultimately so sweet that's such a good friend that's such a supportive supportive homie yeah like you were still a person to them despite all the stuff like because sometimes stuff can go south but dude i'm so glad you guys stayed friends totally relate on taking a while to get over someone as a crush um especially when them finding out did not go the way you wanted it to i'm so sorry and props props to you man because that's so many people completely regardless of orientation are so bad at accepting if a crush is not into them

and being able to remain their friend. That's such a super skill that shows so much emotional intelligence and strength of will. That's awesome. Those are two great people. Exactly. He's clearly a good friend

that he was also willing to help you come out to the rest of you guys as friends. That's a true dude. That's a true friend right there dude that's you guys are your guys friendship is probably worth so much more than i think that's the best outcome better than if he was like oh i'm attracted to you too yeah in a relationship i think i think this is the best possible outcome because friendships like that, you're gonna have each other forever. Yeah, best possible friendship outcome.

Otherwise it would have been like, are you writing fiction about me? Whoa, let's kiss. We should kiss right now. Right now. But I feel like that would have been, I feel like inevitably a romance like that would have been more short-lived

than the clearly permanent friendship that yeah totally totally so i don't know i'm all about this i'm proud of you percy dan percy and your friend it's nice to hear what percy jackson's up to have you ever been caught like in the act with a oh my god i just realized what you said uh have you ever been caught like like with something like that like oh like writing your crush's name somewhere i don't think so i don't think so because i don't i never did that i never wrote my crush's name if i had a crush i kept it so secret and tried to convince myself that i didn't have a crush because having a crush can be so uncomfortable. Especially me as a teenager thinking I had zero chance. Being like, I might as well figure out a way

to not have this crush than to get crushed. I once made a bracelet that said I heart Johnny and I wore it to school. I thought that was normal. Oh my God. You basically, you just had a wedding ring on? Be like, this is your wedding ring. I wore wedding rings to school.

Girls always wore wedding rings to school. What? That's cool. Great. Great. I'm gonna fight cool. Great. Great. I'm going to fight you. Sure. You should wear a wedding ring.

That'd be so cute. I want to see what you look like. What? I just want to see what a guy looks like putting on like a straight male, putting on a wedding ring with a gemstone and everything and going like this. I would look incredible. Yeah, that's what I'm saying i want that for you okay anyways stan larry stylinson that's that's the main takeaway is stan harry stylist and staryliliston style louis louis the stylist and harry stylist is god anyway um thanks for casting this pod with me, Shane. You're a real, you're a treat. You're a real piece of shit.

Anyways, this pod's been nice. Fuck you. You fucking, you're the worst. This has been an awful time. This has been an agonizing episode of the Smoshcast. You know where it is. Wednesdays is audio. And you know

where it is. And you don't need no building like they used to. Shut up. Wednesdays is the full audio episode. Fridays is the full video episode with bleep censor words and pretty faces. Rate us five stars if you ship us.

I don't know, or if you ship Larry Stylinson, or if you ship- Comment who you think is the most powerful ship. I think it's- Yeah, it doesn't have to be just Smosh either. Koa, well, sure, but- Okay, just do I get a Smosh? No, I think it'd be whatever.

Cause if you wanna ship me and Kathy Bates, that is the ultimate. Ship me and water. I'm a huge fan of water. I love water. Water loves me. Together, we're so powerful. But probably amongst Smosh,

Damien and I's ship is pretty powerful. Koa's up there. Koa's hard to beat. Koa might be the strongest. Core Tibia's pretty good. Core Tibia's good, but Koa is hard to beat. Koa might be the strongest. Cortibia is pretty good. Cortibia is good, but Koa is pretty good. Anyways, this was great. You know where it is.

You know where it is. Hey, you know where it is. Bye. Bye. We'll see you next time.