Smosh Mouth - S2: #78 - Advice for Our Younger Selves

Episode Date: September 2, 2020

Courtney & Damien bask in childhood nostalgia this episode, from Courtney’s Neopets adventures to Damien’s first ever video game. They even throw in a little bit of sage advice for their younger selves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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BetMGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with iGaming Ontario. Ramble. Johnny Bravo, I did watch quite a bit. I loved all the sexy girls that he would come across and hit on. Like, how did I ever think I was straight, honestly? I remember playing like RuneScape and that was my first like game

where there was a lot of other people. And I immediately just got kind of like shat on for like being new at the game. I wish I could tell my younger self, hey, these girls are putting you down because they're threatened by you and they don't want you to look prettier than them. Fuck them.

Wear and look however you want. Hated Jimmy Neutron with a passion. Why did you hate it? He's an asshole. He doesn't learn anything ever. Sound sync for me real quick. Sound sync for Damien. He's an asshole. He doesn't learn anything ever. Sound sync for me real quick. Sound sync for Damien. I'm kidding, I don't need to sing.

Well done, Damien. Thank you, thank you. I think, did I just hear Kevin? Was that, Kevin, get out of here. Kevin, get out. Stop it. Go on, get. Go on, get out of here.

Don't you see we can't keep you anymore, boy? Boy? Boy? Oh, my gosh. I just realized you're wearing your What Are Those shirt. Actually, it's How Much in the World Money Is It Does It Cost? That's the name of the shirt that we made up. Excellent.

Thank you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't... Sorry. world money is it does it cost uh that's the name of the the shirt that we made up thank you yeah yeah i didn't uh sorry that's okay i'm assuming that we've already started and that this whole minute and a half is already in i'd like that very much kevin's a sure kevin kevin uh for those who itchiest nose sorry no it's fine for people who watch or listen we usually record uh on our own computers but then we go through zoom and uh kevin is sometimes able to hit us up in the chat on zoom and either remind us tell us if their sound is bad which usually is what he has to tell me and so so, yeah, that's usually what we're referring to. But hello, welcome to another casting of a pod.

We are Tizai, Courtney, mayor of Smosh, alongside my right-hand man, Damaman House. Hi, it's me, Damaman House. I am known as friend of Courtney and employee of Smosh. Employee of Smosh. So Olivia is CEO smosh um ian is president of smosh i'm a mayor what what would the government official position would you like to take for smosh i would like to be the viceroy of the principality of smosh's colonies what is is that? I don't know. A vice rose with some kind of official. Sorry.

I'm in like the goofiest headspace today. I've been like all over the place this morning. Do you ever just like wake up and you're like, ah, I feel dumb and cranky like all at once. Like I feel like I'm there. Yeah. I just want to be honest. What did you eat before bed?

I didn't. That's the thing. So I had a very bad stomach last night. And although I ordered some delicious Mediterranean food, it remains in my fridge to this day. Because I was like, no food for me. Not on this day. Did you eat this morning? I did.

I postmated some Starbucks as a treat. Oh, nice. So I had some cafe and then I had some of their sous vide egg bites, which is a brilliant marketing technique by them. Because they're like, how can we just like rapid fire crack some eggs and like, you know, 20 cents worth of eggs charge some idiot $6. Like, no, I'm that idiot. Hi. Yes, please. I always get those little bagel balls.

Oh, the bagel balls. The bagel balls. Oh, I bagel balls. The bagel balls. Oh, I wonder, wonder whom I do my whom. What's in a bagel ball? Well, it's like an everything bagel,

but it's like a little sphere. And inside is like this veggie cream cheese. Ooh. Um, what's the like ratio of bagel to cream? Cause I feel like it's actually pretty good. Um, and I usually,

I strategically will bite certain spots. So I'll get some extra cream cheese there and I'll nibble on some bread there. So it's like a soup dumpling. You bite it first, blow on it for whatever reason. Yeah, it's a good like on the way to work treat. Nice, well, back when we used to leave our homes. Dude, I used to like feel so good

whenever on our way to work, on our way to the office, I would go through the drive-through at that Starbucks near me. The workers there are so sweet and friendly and it's not like the annoying sweet and friendly, you know, where it's like, it puts a bad taste in your mouth. It's like genuine kindness.

And I'm like, I'm literally as they're like, okay, you have a good day, okay? And I'm like, yes. And I'm driving away and I'm like, I'm literally as they're like, okay, you have a good day. Okay. And I'm like, yes. Yeah. And I'm driving away and I'm like, fuck yeah, that was so nice. Yes. Niceness. And then I have a good day.

I didn't really realize it until you just said that, but I think I defined different points in my life by which coffee shop I would go to and how the employees were. So before I ever moved like near Smosh Mythical in the first place, there was a coffee shop on the way that I'd stop at and it was like just the nicest people. They'd be like so happy to see me again. And they'd be like, no, I'm gonna spell your name right one of these days. But they'd like remember the order and all that stuff.

And then after that, I started going to a closer one that was a drive-through like you're saying, and they're very nice, but they did have a little bit of that like saccharine like i'm so happy to take your order today and i'm like i don't know if you are and it's nice that you're saying that but like yeah you can just give me the bean water and we'll be we'll be polite but you don't have to be like this is the best moment hot bean worder hot bean water and you were the first person to ever say that to me and i i think it's so funny that's hot bean water and you were the first person to ever say that to me and i i think it's

so funny that's hot bean water yeah i'm really excited about this episode of the podcast because we're diving into our childhoods a little bit uh we need therapy am i right i know it's weird because i've actually been taking this time in quarantining like i still do video chat therapy and i've been just taking this time to like dive into my past and like really digging out the issues that have affected me today that's huge it's a lot i feel like it's also made me kind of extra sensitive in these last few weeks because like those wounds are open um yeah but i'm getting, I think I'm finally at a point where I'm like, okay, I've gone through all of that dirty laundry and I think it's good.

I don't need to, I can go now. I can definitely relate to that. I had a lot of rough patches as a youngin, like a lot of weird, difficult circumstances that yeah, everybody's got their struggles, but like mine were weird. I feel like I've done a good job of like capping them and being a lot of weird, difficult circumstances that everybody's got their struggles, but like mine were weird. I feel like I've done a good job of like capping them and being like, all right, it's that's in the back

of my brain, we're good and all that stuff. And I can go through life being just fine. So it's like, you're saying like, do I open the wounds again and be like, all right, time to deal with this and what is there to deal with? You know, but. I know. I think one thing I've learned is like you have no idea

how much these small things that happen in your childhood affect you when you're a 40 year old like it is even the smallest things like i realize i have entirely built this entire construct in my head of how i look at everything in my life. But also, it's also the positive things that affect our lives, like toys and video games that really shape our creativity. I like that. Good segue. Thank you. I do my best.

I'm going to call out every like producer-y thing that we do here. I'll be like, hey, I see what you... That's going to be a good edit. Yeah, it's going to be great. Why edit at all? But yeah, so we got questions on Twitter from all you guys asking, basically wanted to know what your questions were

or references to things that we had growing up, whether it was video games, memories, cartoons, you know, stuff like that. So- I'm gonna say toys too. I saw a lot of responses about toys. So I might slip that in there too. Cause our notifications were fricking like so much. And just just pictures a lot of them were just pictures of toys so yeah i'm down to to do some mentions of those as well nice are you ready to get right into it my guy are you ready to get

right into it my guy yeah you are too good at that let me try are you ready to get right into it that was how did i say it twice wow you did the same thing you did the same thing we did it okay all right the first question comes from at tropic breeze breezes at tropic breezes uh what were your favorite games growing up i didn't have a console so the first game that really stuck with me was the sims 2 did you play sims i did you know i i only did at like a friend's house um because my parents my parents were like open to video game stuff like right off the bat so nice i remember like we had like an old Mac and I tried to play like Sim City on that, like the original, I think Sim City. So I was familiar with it there. And I

really liked the like city building aspect of the game. My first video game memory was, I was in Germany still. So I must've been three years younger. And my family got a Super Nintendo, which is like really lucky. Like I don. Like I can't even imagine like inflation wise how much that would have been a hit to a family back then. So I was really grateful to have it. So I remember watching my sister play Super Mario World and then when she was done, I would play Super Mario World. And like, I must've been two and a half or three.

And then from there, like all the Super Nintendo things like Donkey Kong Country, Super Ghouls and Ghosts, which I think influenced my love for Dark Souls because it was hard as hell and very spooky. Star Fox, F-Zero, all those games, I loved them. And then the first game that was ever mine was, we had a poetry competition in my like school system from like kindergarten to high school.

And so the first year I did it, it was all recitation. It wasn't like writing anything. So the first year I did it, my parents told me that like, you know, if you do a good job, we'll get you a treat. And I'm like, oh, okay. And I had been playing this demo disc of Diablo, which was an incredibly mature and terrifying game. I was five years old. And so my parents, like after I, I ended up winning it, but my parents were like, Hey, we wanted to get something for you either way because you tried your best. And I'm just looking back really lucky. So they got me Diablo. So that was the first game that was ever mine. And it was like, I was like five and it was a very mature game, but I loved it. Is that like with Lara Croft in it, right? No, you're thinking of a Tomb Raider,

which is still a mature game. Diablo is the one where like, literally looking back, it's sort of like a, almost like a D&D style thing, but it's like a top down, it's an isometric view. Oh, okay, yeah.

I think I've played one of the newer ones. Probably, and it's much more like Arcadia nowadays, but back then it was like incredibly dark. You couldn't even really see what was going on in the game. And there were just like monsters around you. And like there's the walls are covered in pixelated blood and horrifying, but amazing. And I loved it.

How about you, Cornelia? What was your first game? What did you do? Oh man, so my household, we didn't have any kind of council. I think growing up, my mom was very fixated. We were all, a lot of us were homeschooled. My older siblings were homeschooled up until like middle school, high school, some of them. I was just homeschooled for like the first couple of years.

But I was in a way kind of raised by homeschool kids. So I feel like I see fans making edits of like, Courtney has homeschool energy. And I think I do. That's funny. So a lot of our games were like computer games that were like Reader Rabbit and like math games. Right? I loved them too. They were definitely very fun, but that was all I had for a while.

Yeah. And then when we would visit my cousins who lived in Utah, they had a Nintendo and we played James Bond Goldeneye. Goldeneye. That was great. Yeah. I was always so bad at it, but I loved it. And that was the only one I ever wanted to play. That was always the game that it, but I loved it. And that was the only one I ever wanted to play. That was always the game that like, like you, your cousins had, it was always like every friend had, I did not have it. It was that turtles in time. Those were the two that every friend had.

And I didn't. Oh, turtle in time. I haven't heard of that one. And I didn't even see the James Bond movies. I didn't even know what James Bond was. It was just the video game. And then my mom had Sims, the very first one and okay me and my sisters like because you know i had a lot of siblings so it was always fighting over getting time on the computer and my mom loved it too because she would like do coding and try and like put pictures of people's faces on the sims but it was actually really terrifying looking yeah that's that's yeah yeah uh and And then we finally got an Xbox. And the first games we played that I love to this day, Halo.

All the Halo games. Sure. Played so much of that. And then Dead or Alive 3. I've heard you bring up Dead or Alive many a time. I feel like it's really influenced you. Yes, it has. Creatively, sexually.

I feel like the second one is true for a lot of people who play Dead or Alive. Yes. I did not, but I know. It's a very sexy game. This is very, even like Xbox era, which is interesting because like, how many years are between us, Courtney? Four or five? Five, I think. Five.

So that's like, especially like the 90s to mid 2000s, like there's a lot of technological leaps just moment to moment there. Like you describing Xbox as childhood, I'm like, oh yeah, that's right. Like that's interesting. Whereas Xbox for me is like, I'm a little bit older, like preteen. So that's funny.

I can't imagine what it would have been like for me to play Dead or Alive at that point. I know. But my first, like my game, oh, and we had dance, we had DDR, we had Dance Dance Revolution. Love DDR. We had two of those pads,

we'd like hide them in the garage. They're in my car right now. I have those pads. In your car? Yeah, well, I don't clean my car very much and we had done a video with them at Defy. And so I had put them in like a garage storage unit at some point, but then I just moved again.

So like now they're back in there and Lord knows when I'm actually going to like pull them out and do anything. Yeah, it's a whole thing. But now they have the space. It's going to be, that could like, they could like look cool in your office or something. I'm literally thinking I want to find a way to put a TV up there and like have a PS2 connected so I can do DDR. And also I want to get a VR headset. Ooh, yeah, yeah. I think that's a good idea.

My very first game that was mine, I remember some other cousins in Arizona were like, Oh, this game is really great because you can actually beat it. Cause like I wasn't good. I don't have very good motor skills. So they told me, they're basically telling me it was easy and it was Fable 2. Fable,'t good. I don't have very good motor skills. So they told me, they're basically telling me it was easy. And it was Fable 2.

Fable! So good! So good. I loved it so much. The graphics blew my mind at the time. And then I went on to play the other Fables as well. Like Fable 2 I think was the best one. Three is pretty good.

Three is pretty good. I haven't played Fable 4, I don't think. But if there is one. Wait, then maybe I played 4. I think I played the most recent one, whether it's three or four, and then they just announced a new one with a teaser trailer. I think there's something to be said since you brought up graphics. I think there's something to be said about games that go for the fantastical as opposed to the realistic. Because there was a big push, like take Gears of War, for example. A lot of people love that game for good reason.

But when it first came out, people made fun of it for being like, oh, how many browns and grays can we jam into a texture? And it's all like, bleh, and sad. Whereas with something like Fable, even if you're looking back several console generations, if they're trying to do a babbling brook next to this pretty green grass tuft of bushes in a fairy meadow, it holds up,

and you still get that same feeling of like, I wanna explore, I wanna feel. Yes, dude, it's so nice. I remember in Fable 2, I think, at a certain point in the game, you'll all of a sudden just start getting like heckled and roasted by this voice that's in the trees. And for years, I could never find

where this voice could be like, ah, you think you're good at that? You're never gonna blah, blah, blah. And I i was like where the frick is this coming from and apparently recently it's like some i think it's like a dwarf or like like like like snow white style dwarf um but or like a gnome type thing but my little brother recently went back to play it and he found one in a tree and killed it and never heard the voice again. Oh my gosh, I love stuff like that. Oh my God. Yeah, good stuff.

What I do love about Fable, for better or for worse, and anything made by, so Peter Molyneux is I think the dude who originally pitched it and made it. And he's very much like a dreamer. He is the kind of guy that's like, this game is gonna change everything. Like every choice you make in the game matters

and will affect the rest of the games forever. And like looking back, it's like, no, you choose if you wanna be good or evil and that's gonna change the storyline. But like, he's such a big pitch kind of person that like, sure, there might be a little gnome in the game chilling in a tree that you can kill. Like those are the good things that come out of it.

The bad things are like the just the shattered expectations when like, I'm sorry, you were about to start. No, no, no. And that was the first that was the first game that was open world that I ever experienced. Sure. Dude, open world is my favorite. Within reason, I like it a lot. To this day. Yeah, I think I think it's maybe the add in me uh that is just

like oh i can go over and do this thing and i can finish that task later i didn't know you had add um it's undiagnosed but it's just so apparent in in my being stimulated and and everything i'm sure if i like wanted to to get it officially diagnosed i could but it's like i wouldn't want to take medication anyway because i'm just i just prefer not to take that stuff but uh no i was just related because like i got the ocd label later in life and it was just like like i understand why i'm like this now so yes no i yeah i've had i've had a little bit of that but with something else that maybe we can talk about off the podcast because it's really odd. But yeah. And then Knights of the Old Republic was another one of those games that I was obsessed with.

And it's like, it's so sad. It's also like I tried playing it recently and it's like kind of a bad game. The story is good, but the maps are so insanely large for no reason. Yeah. What a beautiful time though in gaming where like you didn't have the capacity or maybe we were just young enough, but you didn't have the capacity to be like,

this is a bad game, I don't get it. I know. Like you just have beautiful memories of it. Like I remember being a teenager and getting Digimon World for the PlayStation 1. It is universally despised as a wretchedly bad game. Wait, which game? Digimon World.

Oh, okay, I was like, what? So, oh no, not KOTOR, not. So I remember like playing it and having a really hard time and just constantly thinking to myself, wow, this game is really hard, I need to get better at it. As opposed to being like, this is trash. And I'm like, what a nice little gift of ignorance i kind of wish i had that naivete still i know and when when we got to that age where you

start hearing people criticizing games like that i was like what like yeah yeah i don't understand but i i kind of do now when you look at certain games and how they're how they're done but i think i love like it's cool because i was obsessed with Halo growing up and now there's Destiny which is like kind of an open world Halo universe game. It's a spiritual successor made by the same people,

Bungie. Exactly. Bungie is great. Yeah, Knights of the Old Republic. I heard that they were going to try and make a series out of that era.

That'd be cool. And I was like, oh my God, that would be so cool to be like in that. You ever just like hear about projects that are like

literally your soul and you just wish you could be a part of it but you don't know how oh yeah Courtney I'm a voice actor that's I constantly get emails for auditions where I'm like all my dreams are right in front of me am I gonna go for it or let it slip and then if you don't book it you have to be like that's okay everything's chill I got time oh what was I gonna Well, right before the project thing you were talking about, um, I still remember. Oh yeah.

That's always been sort of my problem with star Wars in general. And it's gotten better. I like star Wars a lot, but I'm not a fan that gets like upset about things. If something is off of my expectations, I don't care, but I get why people do. Um,

but I think star Wars historically has been a very much like a tell don't show kind of series where like someone will show up and they'll be like, that's General Parkus, don't you know? He did the beat bop run in 48 bleples. And he once battled all the bleeples. And I'm like, show me the battle with the bleeples and show him doing all that stuff. They just like show a dude in robes like,

yes, you have heard of my tales. And I'm like, there's only so much that you can do and still have me go like, uh-huh, so I guess he's really cool, I can hit it. So. I'm trying to think of other video games. I mean, Final Fantasy was huge for me. Yeah, that's right.

Love Final Fantasy and it was my sister's game. So I remember it being the kind of thing where it was like, I was never allowed to play it at first because it would be like, no, you're gonna overwrite her saves, you can't do that. But my sister and I had our own individual memory cards. And so I remember one day being like, hey, I now have enough knowledge

to know how this console works. Like, I'm gonna go ahead and play this game if that's cool. Cause this is nothing to do with her memory card and changed my life. I also was of the age to rent Super Nintendo games from Blockbuster. Oh, Blockbuster. So many bad games, so many good games.

God, I miss it. God, I miss Blockbuster. That was the coolest store. It's really sad that it's not a thing anymore. I mean, I get that the business model itself was kind of not the best, but the fact that you could go into a store and like literally plan an entire weekend, like the snacks, the candy, the movies, the video games, the best, but the fact that you could go into a store and like literally plan an entire weekend,

like the snacks, the candy, the movies, the video games, the posters, like the toys were all there. Loved it, yeah. It was a party going to Blockbuster. I remember if I heard my mom was going, I'd be like, oh, I wanna go with you. Same, I would always be like, oh, can I come? And can I pick something out?

Like, yeah. It's such a fun place. We used to have one really close to me. Same, same. It's gone now. It was one of the few places I could go on a bike. Did you like bike around your neighborhood and stuff? Yes, I could have biked to Blockbuster.

I usually bike to Carl's Jr. after a sleepover. Oh, that's cool. I never did food stuff as a kid, but it would always be like, do you want to go to Kmart and just look at the toys? Yep. Okay. So, yeah, I guess that kind of carried into the next question, which was at the Pixel Punch thing.

First video game memories, perhaps. So, yeah, I hope that answered the question, Pixel Punch. Oh, this is a cute one. This isn't so much about games or anything. This is from at Chelsea Graham. And the question is not to be cliche, but what would you tell your younger self? Do you have anything in the barrel ready to go? I mean, there's a lot of things. I mean, there's also things where actually one of the things that I was working through in therapy

was like growing up, the popular girls would kind of shame anyone that tried in terms of looking cute. And and like, I had been friends with those girls in elementary school and into middle school and every time I tried to like curl my hair or wear cute boots or dress up like they would kind of heckle me and tease me about having curly hair or wow why are you dressed so like that for just school what the hell like when they're obviously dressing so nice and so pretty you can see pictures of me all through like senior year junior all through high school i was always wearing hoodies jeans or like track pants and and like maybe a razorback like tank top similar to this and if i curled my

hair they they just like would glare at you and it was very subtle sometimes and they would be like they would like laugh at a girl who once would like to wear high heels sometimes and so like to this day i have a really hard time looking pretty at things where i don't need to look pretty like vidcon and stuff i'm like yeah it's fun i can dress up and it's a show and it's a good time. But yeah, like I ultimately I dress for comfort and it's not just physical comfort, like emotional comfort. So I wish I could tell my younger self, hey, these girls are putting you down because they're threatened by you and they don't want you to look prettier than them. Fuck them. Wear and look however you want. What weak humans they are. Absolutely. I straight up pity people who like can't raise themselves up so they keep others down. Like that's the lowest form of like, I don't know.

It's just so animal to me. It's not human. It's crazy how like people need to shake the idea like other humans don't exist for you like we are all existing in our own space and we can all do whatever we want with our own space as long as we're not hurting anyone exactly yeah so i even to this day i struggle with i i own skirts i rarely wear them i own nice high heels and boots and i did have a period of time where i would try and wear those sometimes but then i'd be like i feel ridiculous because i'm like wow some someone in the corner is going wow why is she trying so hard like that is that voice that I was always afraid of and I wish I could tell

yeah my younger self hey it's okay yeah that's that's really sweet I'm sorry you had to go through that it's all right I think it's just like I think a lot of girls unfortunately maybe went through that but what about you what what What would you tell younger you? I was trying to think, and I feel like I've answered this question before, like it's in some interview or some something, but honestly today I kind of feel like it may be a cop-out answer, but I don't think I, I don't think I would do that. I don't think I would say anything because for all my struggles, all of, and this goes for anybody, like all your mental turmoil, anything you go through, it does make the person you are. And the mistakes very much included. So I don't know what my life

would be like had I had any extra knowledge. Um, and I like where I'm at now. I really do. So if anything, if anything, I might say something to the effect of like, hey, you have OCD, you need to like lighten up a little bit and learn that like it's okay to stray off the straight and narrow every now and then. I can relate to that and not so much in OCD sense,

but I get that. And yeah, ultimately there are no regrets in life. But I mean, if I guess I would frame the question more so like if I were to find someone who's clearly on the same path. I lately really wanted to like I've gotten more and more intrigued by becoming a high school film teacher because I just really want to help kids like that, like that are dealing with that stuff. And also just giving them good taste in movies and games and stuff because we have good taste, I think. I think so, yeah. I think I've had the like fantasy of being a teacher as well.

I think my fear is that like, I think a lot of teachers start out super gung ho and happy and then like the meanness of youth just beats it out of them. Yeah, dude. You're like, ah. I believe it, and you're not getting paid enough. So how can you feel happy about anything?

It's insane, yeah. I would hope that if it's an elective, I would feel okay. Yeah, but I think I like that answer though, that you wouldn't tell them anything, it makes sense. Thanks. The next question is from ChloeDT100, or ChloeDT00. Favorite childhood cartoons,

and did they shape the type of humor you have today? Yeah, I was a big Nicktoons and Cartoon Network kind of person. Didn't ever do the Disney stuff, to be honest with you, which is why it was so ironic that I ended up working on the Disney channel. But Nickelodeon stuff, I loved. The Angry Beavers.

I loved Invader Zim, which definitely influenced my humor. It's dark as hell for a children's show. Cartoon Network stuff, I loved. Ed, Edd n Eddy. Courage the Cowardly Dog. Again, a spooky, funny show. Dexter's Lab was like, eh, for me. Loved Powerpuff Girls.

Oh, yeah. Hated Jimmy Neutron with a passion. Why did you hate it? Oh, it just is so nestled in that uncanny valley of like everybody looks horrible and disgusting and their heads are horrifically misshapen. Yeah, it's just, there's no shading on their bodies and his head is the size of a peanut and also somehow like a medium sized dog.

And he's also, we can curse on this podcast, he's an asshole. He doesn't learn anything ever. He's just like, that's my latest invention, Goddard! And then he ruins everything for 30 minutes and then wonders why everyone has a problem with him. And I'm like, I hate this kid just as much as the villains do.

His voice, what was his voice? Ah, Goddard, what are we? What do we have today, Goddard? It's, I think that's- Brain blast! And like the voice actress who plays him is great. She's awesome. I just, I hate the character.

Yeah. How about you, Courtney? What are your favorite cartoons? Well, I watched a lot of SpongeBob. Yes, how could I forget? Yeah, that's classic. I think Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network I watched a lot of SpongeBob. Yes. How could I forget? Yeah. That's classic.

I think Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network definitely did cartoons better. Definitely did cartoons better than Disney. Johnny Bravo, I did watch quite a bit. I loved all the sexy girls that he would come across and hit on. Like, how did I ever think I was straight? Honestly, how? I don't know. Because when you're a little kid, you probably have like ideas and thoughts and feelings but you're not sitting down and contemplating like so sexuality is a river

that i'm rafting down yeah you're like that's a spectrum let me think about this i'm three you know i loved i loved dexter's lab because it totally reminded me of my relationship with my siblings i'm like don't touch my face stay out of my space with my siblings. I was like, don't touch my things. Stay out of my space. What else? I actually loved Jimmy Neutron at the time, though I was bothered by the proportions. They're nightmarish. When they had to try, like, romance stories

between these children, it felt weird. It definitely was like, this isn't, I don't believe this. I don't know why i liked it so much do you know why they uh they canceled it why because the same studio uh spent a bunch of money to work on a film called the ant bully which was equally hard to look at and it was a cinematic failure oh it also made no money and they spent so much and lost so much on it that the entire studio is like, well, we don't make cartoons anymore, which sucks. But I do remember the Jimmy Neutron movie, which was kind of iconic from what I remember. That was OK. That was OK for me.

But yeah, the animation I for one, I remember Fairly Oddparents was a good concept and great story. But the Timmy's voice, I just remember, I think I've told this story before where I would be watching George Lopez till three in the morning and then I'd fall asleep and then wake up to Cosmo, Wanda. And I hated his voice so much that it was hard to get past sometimes.

Because the voice actress is also in literally everything you've ever heard, ever. Oh, I'm sure. Because I see the pictures of like, I voice all of these characters and that's like everything I've ever watched. That's funny. Do you remember that show? I don't know. Maybe it was on Disney.

Like about being 16. And it was like a group of kids at the mall. And they would just always sit at that table and drink smoothies and like talk about drama. Oh, wait. Are you talking like Daria? Not Weekenders. Not Daria. I think it was called like 16 or something. smoothies and like talk about drama oh wait are you talking like daria not weekenders not daria i think it was called like 16 or something um where one girl worked at like a lemon booth and

she sold it was like kind of like a hot dog on a stick why does that sound so familiar and they're always at the mall there was one skater dude like the girls were pretty and this might be the generational thing because this is after my time, but are you talking about Total Drama Island? No, but that was the same animators. Okay, well, because that's what I'm, like, I did, that missed me entirely. In the meantime, while you're thinking of that, I want to give special shout outs to, like, the weird Saturday morning cartoons, like the one Saturday morning. Recess.

Recess was really good. The Weekenders, which Kevin just typed, was really good. Oh, Kevin just sent us a message, y'all. It's in court, the show you're talking about. It is called 16. 16. Oh, I've never even seen that. I'm showing the picture in the video right now,

but yeah, like the number six and then teen. And it was so, it's kind of cool how the cast is like pretty diverse-ish. Yeah, it's just like a bunch of cool teenagers at the mall. I think that's probably the kind of show that you didn't watch as a teenager though. You watched it maybe like a 12 year old in excitement for being like, yeah, I'm an older kid. I'm watching this older kid show. Yeah. It's like when you're like a little kid and you get your first Barbie, like clearly this is an adult female doll. It's aspirational.

That was super controversial. But you're talking about Saturday morning cartoons. Sorry. No, that's totally fine. In fact, I got so excited to talk about it, but I can't really think of any anymore. I will say Doug was better on Nickelodeon than the Disney version slash Saturday morning cartoon version. Even in being in Germany, watching the Saturday morning version of Sonic the Hedgehog. Not the not the tune Disney one. Not the like, whoa, chili dogs and whatever. There was like a very like gritty one that was kind of dope. And I loved watching that. Yeah. I never, I never got hugely into Sonic cartoons. I, but like sometimes you just turn

it on and be like, what is this? And you like watch the episode and then you move on. Teen Titans. Teen Titans was good. The original Teen Titans. Especially when it got like really dark sometimes with like Robin and Slade. Dude, that storyline was incredible. I loved their group too. Yeah. And I gotta say, I kind of hated the relaunch where Raven was like this cutesy character.

Really upsetting, really, really upsetting. They're doing a really good job with that show though. The difficulty is that they're suffering from their own success as a franchise because the first time they nailed the style. For people to watch teenage versions of DC superheroes and care about it even if you don't care about superheroes, they flip and nailed it. They did it. And Teen Titans Go, the new one, could have on its own been just as good and just as fine, even though it's an extremely different style. But now you can't help but compare the two. And if you truly love one more than the other, you're always going to have this little bit of a, just a little bit of a rub.

Not feeling it. Speaking of dark shows, there is one more. Oh, Kevin's asking about Invader Zim. I never got into invader zim it was just a really dark show that was made by a comic book writer that had previously done like only very adult comics i don't i don't know if they were i don't think they were like sexual but i think it was just the humor was just so dark and how did it shape my humor i think my humor was already kind of there um but i was like oh this show is is here for me and you, finding humor in the darkness of things. And like the show would frame humans as being like these horribly gross creatures.

And it was just kind of funny to be like an angsty teen and like laugh at that. But the thing I did want to say before Kevin had suggested that, which is in the same vein, this is going to be a generational thing for us. Did you ever know the show Mighty Max? Mighty Max sounds really familiar. I might have talked about it before. Maybe a similar one. No, I think I'm going to look it up. I just like seeing visually.

It was an older like Saturday morning cartoon back in the days where a lot of people don't know this probably this generation. Cartoons used to be made in conjunction with toys at the same time so that you could sell those toys. He-Man. It's exactly the same thing. So Mighty Max was the quote unquote boy version, and I know that's not what we would generally say, but that's how they marketed it. The boy version of Polly Pocket. So they would sell these little play sets

where you could open it up. Yeah, it's like a little dungeon. You'd be like, I'm Mighty Max. But it was about this kid that got a hat, and it was a very special hat that had these amazing universal powers. It's like the hat of power or something like that. And it warped him to this crazy D&D style world

where his companions are like this huge barbarian guy. I think his name was Victor. And then this like foul, like bird man wizard thing, but it's so dark. I remember the last episode, I'm gonna spoil it because it's from like the 80s, early 90s. Everyone dies.

They fail, they fail. And the thing that they leave you on is the last minute, the hat sends Max back in time so that he can start the whole adventure over again. And it's kind of like stuck in a time loop that ends with his friends dying. It's like, this is for children. Holy smokes.

I loved it. So good. So dark. Crazy Infinity War stole that premise. That's true. It's the time machine by, I think, H.G. Wells. That was definitely came from Mighty Max. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Is that? I have to look up who did the time machine. Yeah think H.G. Wells. That was definitely came from Mighty Man. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Is that? I have to look up who did the Time Machine. Yeah, H.G. Wells. Okay, cool. I'm not dumb. I really loved actually a weird cartoon that I was super into, but only existed online or unless you found the DVD. Or sometimes if you bought the doll, you get the DVD with it.

Because I was super. Is that familiar already? Well, it was a kind of girly thing. It was my scene dolls, which were, so Barbie was a thing, right? And then this other company came out with Bratz, which was like kind of for older, like, like more preteen kids. And then, so Barbie tried to come up with Flava.

What's your Flava? Basically copying Bratz. Dude, toy companies were low key savage with their copying of each other. Absolutely. But then Barbie came out with my scene, which was kind of like Bratz and Barbie were married together, where it was the same height and Barbie doll, but their lips were bigger and their hair was more voluptuous. That's Bratz.

And multiracial cast. And they had these movies on Barbie.com because you could go to Barbie.com and then you could switch to the Polly Pocket side or the My Scene side. And you can watch animations and cartoons of these 16 year olds that somehow go to Jamaica by themselves.

Before the time of being an influencer. No, I can't now. I mean, yeah, I guess you're right. But yeah, so I was very much into those cartoons. They had like a Jammin' in Jamaica. They masquerade, all these crazy little cartoons that came with the dolls. Was that a success as a toy?

Because I know Bratz just blew up because like you said. Bratz blew up. Bratz was definitely more diverse because like with Barbie, it was like, oh, don't worry, she has a black friend. Whereas with Bratz, it more diverse, because with Barbie it was like, oh don't worry, she has a black friend. Whereas with Bratz it's like, hey, whatever you look like, that is the normal. We're advertising all of this.

There was straight up a very strong period of time where being a brunette was diverse. Because straight up in the whole cast of my scene, you couldn't even tell like this one girl her name was noly or no lay and was like is she asian i don't know you kind of just it's like they made them like on androgynously different looking interesting just like playing it as safe as it was like it was made by like a boardroom of like white men probably without consulting anybody else.

And like all the boys, they had the weirdest names like Sutton. Sutton? That dude plays lacrosse. I've never even seen Sutton and that dude plays lacrosse. And he had a shell necklace. Oh, we all did though. Speaking of toys, were there ever any toys that like maybe even ones that you didn't have, but just like 90s toys or early 2000s toys

that you would just see commercials for that like stick with you to this day? Yeah, dude. The immediate one that goes to my head is the robot dinosaur that can move by itself and walk around. Is that Zoomer Dino or is Zoomer Dino too recent? Let me see.

But what were you saying? I remember there would always be these like, not board games, but like self-contained games, like bullseye ball, where it would be like, go, there's a trampoline on the whatever, and you've got to throw these balls to get them, but make sure you do it before the timer, or you get sprayed, and be like, water, ugh!

But then in reality, when you play it, it's just like, dink, dink, ah, shit, it's in my eye. It's never as cool as the like- The commercials were so epic. They were like, they wanted you to feel that adrenaline of like, open up, mousetrap, good luck. Yeah, dude. For me, so it was called the RoboRaptor.

RoboRaptor. I'll show you the picture. Please do. No, no, I don't want it on eBay. Don't want it on eBay, get it out of there. They were like this. Oh! I'm showing a picture to Damien right now.

It basically looks like a robotic raptor. And I just thought that was the coolest thing. Because we couldn't have pets. We had our cats, but then they got eaten by coyotes. And then I couldn't even have anything else after that. Those were the coolest. And for real pets, I always used animatronics were always so interesting to me. So like having your own animatronic pet was the coolest thing.

You just blew my mind. I think the first one of those that was like readily available during our childhood was that dog with the like almost emoji, like LCD screen eyes or LED eyes. I can't even remember what that was called, but like, holy crap. Yeah, dude.

My favorite was also Beast Wars. Do you ever do Beast Wars? It was made by Transformers, except they were all animals. Because I don't care about like, this one's an 18-wheeler. This one has 16 wheels. Yeah, I know. Instead, it was like, this is a cheetah with a water gun. No, this is a polar bear that turns into a bat.

And you're like. I think my brothers had the cheetah. Oh, the cheetah was great. Because you could actually fill it with water. Yeah, I can't remember. And like laser people. So I had Barbies. And I was super obsessed with Barbies. was great because you could actually fill it with water um yeah i can't remember laser people so i had barbies and i was super obsessed with barbies and then my older brother and he had gi joes like

a ton of them he had so many i think because my mom loved them too so like if she liked them she would buy you a ton of them so i would mix those with my barbies and stuff but then also my little brothers had hundreds i think of hot wheels cars hot wheels were where it's at for sure like do they have the tracks yeah yes we build crazy tracks and then there's this even there's a movie the entire movie is on youtube uh called world race and it was like these really weird looking cars with superpowers and you have to race and you go you have to go 300 miles per hour in order to activate the portal. And then you go into this different world that has this track.

But it's all on YouTube and it's so, so dorky. That sounds amazing. Do you remember which tracks you had for Hot Wheels? I remember I got the car wash one at a garage sale. And then I had Criss Cross Crash where you just make the track and like a four leaf clover pattern and it's like they're gonna go until they don't and then they hit each other you got crisscross crash yes so good crisscross crash and then like my dad when you get like the thing that speeds them up that's the coolest little device yeah the crisscross crash one was

like I remember it had a dial for the amount of speed that you wanted and if you wanted it like too fast usually it would just fly straight off the track and probably hit something and then a parent would yell from the other room like what was that and you're like nothing yeah i think the biggest disappointment when i had was called metal molder um it was another one where it was just like an awesome like commercial of like people hammering things with metal and it's like you can make real crap out of metal kids and. And, you know, they'd show like, oh, cool. I made jewelry, like a cool skull ring. And so I ended up getting it for Christmas.

And it didn't work. Like, I guess my version was broken. But like, you would get these like little pellets of like, quote unquote, metal. I think it was plastic. And you would like pour it into these molds. It was like an easy bake oven. But like for future blacksmiths, I guess. Wow, that's awesome.

I never had the Easy Bake Oven. That was the one that my friends had. I would be like, oh my God, that's amazing. Just like so weird. They're like basically microwaving little baby cakes, I guess, I don't know. But it's not even a microwave. It's done with like a 10 watt light bulb.

So it's like, oh yeah, I would love to make a tiny cake over the course of eight hours. Yeah, it even a microwave. It's done with like a 10 watt light bulb. So it's like, oh yeah, I would love to make a tiny cake over the course of eight hours. Yeah. It took a while. Yeah. Oh my gosh. So let's go to this next one.

I'm gonna roll this one from at C.E. Carantit instead. What are some of the movies you watched at too young of an age? I remember watching things like Predator and Seven when I was a child, which probably explains why gore horror has no effect on me as opposed to suspense horror. I mean, I didn't really have any restrictions

when it came to movies and stuff. Yeah, my parents were dope. Oh my God. But I mean, if there was like a nude scene or whatever, they'd tell me to like close my eyes and all that stuff, which is probably why I thought sex or anything mentally relating to sex was bad for a very long time. It took a long time for me to be like, oh, it's not actually bad. You just had to close your eyes because you were a kid. But yeah, I remember like we would watch our movies and I was always there for it.

And maybe I'd play a handheld game at the same time, but it was like movie night. And so I remember, I don't, I don't even remember what the movie was, but I remember hearing my teachers talk about something one time and I like overheard them and I walked over and I was like, oh yeah, I saw that movie. That was good. And they were like, I don't think your parents would let you watch that one. I'm like, no, then this happens. And this guy's there. And they're like, do your parents know you watched it? I'm like, yeah, I was, I was like with them. It was a good, can we talk about this? Like adults that we are like, you know, I was that kid. Oh my gosh.

Yeah. How about you? What was your situation like? So I was very restricted to actually like very restricted. Even like this weird thing on Sundays, I wasn't allowed to watch TV or movies or anything unless it was like the Book of Mormon stories that were weird, weird cartoons, basically explaining the Book of Mormon and the Holy Bible stories, which I wonder if I like went back and watched some of those,

like if there was anything weird or not okay. But a lot of them was like, oh, lying is bad, like stuff like that. Or like David and Goliath, like weird claymation. Yeah, lying's fine. Lie, whatever. Just lie. But I remember watching Mars mars attacks when i was way too young yeah that was a good one that one was weird and like still kind of when i think back

on it it was really scary to me yeah i think i was a little scared of that one actually just because yeah and then i wasn't allowed to watch really like scary movies ever because my mom my mom instilled in me. And I think I've mentioned this a little bit where it's like you can't watch those and humor the idea of dark spirits in your home because dark spirits will be in your home. Wow. That's a lot of pressure. So I wasn't really watching scary movies until I was in like my late teens. Even then I like maybe watched a thriller.

What was your first one? I remember the first like scary movie but it was a thriller was the knowing that nicholas cage movie where that one it's so weird it is so weird i can't even explain to you what's happening basically the world's ending and he like somehow knows it's ending then i think in high school i finally finally watched The Ring. That one was scary. Wow. Yeah. And then, like, which one's the one that's, like, seven days?

That's The Ring. Yes. Yeah. And then, like, I watched Signs. I think Signs, when I was really little, freaked me the fuck out. Really? And I had nightmares and couldn't sleep for months and was just, like, scared of aliens coming. Yeah. I think that one was the one that turned me off from scary movies for months and was just like scared of aliens coming yeah i think

that one was the one that turned me off from scary movies for years and years and years and like so i still to this day i can't watch them alone even like murder stuff i'm like kind of okay with but i'm usually i have to watch with somebody it's usually the opposite for a lot of people because like you know believe in what you're going to believe in some people do acknowledge you know ghosts spirits they are real or could be real. But murders are definitely real. So I know a lot of people who watch something with a goblin or a monster and they're like, who cares? And with the murder, it's like, yeah, people are evil.

They can do that. Yeah. I don't know why I would rather watch a murder movie than a ghost movie. Even though one is much more likely than the other. Well, maybe it's because you already deal with the possibility of like, that's a real dark thing that exists in the world directly in front of your eyes

and it's demonstrable and all that stuff. So you already have sort of walls built up to be like, I deal with this all the time. Whereas like ghosts and stuff, your imagination runs away and you don't have the toolkit to actually rationalize like well if there was a ghost i would just you know do like those those spooky

fucked up video games where it's like there's ghosts in the halls and you open a door and you see a face i'm like no sir i see clips of those on twitter and stuff and i'm like absolutely fruitly no do you know which one you're talking about because i kind of want to play it i love i don't know i really do i'm like so disinterested one you're talking about? Because I kind of want to play it. I love horror stuff. I don't know. I really do. I'm like so disinterested when I see those clips that I don't even want to know what they were.

The only time I ever could watch someone play them was PewDiePie because he was so silly back in the day. I was literally about to say that, Courtney. Yeah. That's crazy. Because that's the whole reason I found PewDiePie. Because he was playing some like terrifying Japanese horror game for the PS3. It was like Blood Parasite or something.

It was horrifying and I loved it. And I was like, who is this guy? This is fun. I would always watch his like funny moments compilations. And it was always so much of those spooky. So that's probably why I didn't know what the games are called. Because they were always like in a compilation. He was famous for doing amnesia the dark descent where like yep he'd like have a statue he'd call it stefano and he'd be like stefano and that's where like

barrels barrels stefano those old days those were the days yeah i think in terms of movies i was fairly restricted and when i finally i think it was like when my parents got divorced and i had a different support system in my life at that time like new like my dad was seeing someone who they were married for a while and i still consider her like a member of my family she was like an awesome stepmom and was basically the one who loosened helped loosen the reins on my life of like I was allowed to wear, I wouldn't be allowed to wear this shirt, like stuff like that.

But when we were with her, like then my dad, I think more my dad was the careless one. So like then we were allowed to watch Superbad or Pineapple Express, all those movies. But those were later on. I'm trying to think of other vivid movies. I had so much Disney shoved down my throat.

And I don't really complain but uh because since my grandmother was an animator for forever which is so cool so i had to watch it um it was do you think it also came from like was that a safer bet from your mom that like you can watch disney because we know disney's okay or was it still your dad letting you no that was for my mom my mom had a lot of dictation like she probably let me buy fable too because she liked the artwork on the cover um but like she she didn't she wasn't a huge fan of harry potter because of the magic um because that's like not real i know a lot of people because i grew up in georgia same thing where people be like you're allowed to read those books

and i'm like what is what is life like for you yeah no disrespect but like wow so odd a lot of stuff i had to watch was like educational or whatever she wanted me to watch so sorry that just unlocked a memory because we were talking about video game stuff i think i had one before diablo even though it wasn't like mine but um my dad would play doom or doom 2 on the computer every night or dukekem or Wolfenstein, all those like, you know, first person shooters, like very primitive ones. He loved those. And so I'd watch him every single night. It was like a very special ritual. And then as I got a little bit older, probably starting like five or six, I would like play after he was done. I'd be like,

can I try? Like, can I do it? And I remember like I had some neighbors that were pretty religious and they were like shocked that I could play that. They'd be like, you actually play those games? They're devil games. And I remember, but I remember being so surprised by that because I didn't have the scope of understanding of like why people believe what they believe.

And I always knew to be respectful, but I didn't, I just didn't get it. And I tried to like reason with them by being like, well, no, in this game, you're killing demons. You are defeating the devil. Isn't that a good thing? And they were like, no, it's the imagery. And I was like, I don't, okay, well, I don't get it.

But you know. And again, if that's how someone feels, that's how they feel. But I just didn't have a toolkit as like a six year old to be like, oh, yeah, you know. I agree. I have weirdly vivid memories of my older brother. He would play like games where it was like you're in a SWAT team and it was like a mix of video

and like, I have no idea what it was called, but it was very strange, like just hunting for someone in a house that was under arrest. Wait, did your brother play Night Trap? Maybe. That was the game that like made there be game ratings because similarly, like again,

you're watching these like girls have a party and you're in the police trying to stop the killers by looking at different cameras of like actual like video footage and stuff. But it was like a political thing where I think some like senator was like, there's a game

where you're trying to trap women in a house. And it was like, that's not what the game is about. And they were like, no, we need to get this out of the hands of our kids.

They're going to do drugs because of it. I'm so thankful that we were raised with this technology and with these things around us because we, with,

with being able to understand them, we are not those people. Like, because, because these people don't understand them, we are not those people. Like, because these people don't understand something, they are opposed to it. And instead of wanting to understand it, they just think it doesn't make sense. I wonder if we'll ever become those people though.

I wonder if there's gonna be a leap in technology where like we, without even realizing it, we just sort of missed the boat. And I don't mean like in the next five to 10 years, I mean like if we're 50, 60. Yeah, I mean, I hatedok when it first was a thing i was so opposed to it i hope that we never become those people i like to think that we're just in general very open-minded people so we'll at least have that in our advantage uh and like being tech savvy that

we could at least try and figure those things out. But I think we're also in the age where like consumption, a lot of it was surrounded around kids and like fun stuff. Games was about kids. Whereas all those kids have now grown up and these adults are playing video games and video games are all about like older people playing them. And we have disposable income now. Yeah. Whereas like before it would be like, you know, and even,

even at best you're marketing to their parents. Yeah. It's a new age. So it's all sort of pointed at adults in a way, which is really interesting. Exactly. The one thing that I think is bizarre though about that is when I was a kid and I played whatever game I wanted, the most I'd use the internet for would be to like look up cheat codes and that would be fun. But there wasn't that social aspect to it. Whereas I remember playing like RuneScape and that was my first like game where there was a lot of other people. And I immediately just got kind of like shat on

for like being new at the game. And I'm like, there aren't too many interactions in life or too many situations where like a 10 year old and a 30 year old would be like on the same plane and playing field. And so it's interesting where like a 10 year old and a 30 year old would be like on the same plane and playing field and so it's interesting where like socially you're like how does that affect people like kids over xbox live are toxic as hell like where's that coming from and what's that gonna do to the psyche yeah i mean that's still like a thing yeah in rust and stuff there's just like toxicity

and in the gameplay did you ever play was there really something you could play? Or maybe there was games, but I never did them. Did you ever hear about Gaia Online? I didn't do Gaia. I did Ragnarok. I don't know Ragnarok. Similar, similar. Gaia, for those who don't know, it was like a very, I'm sure tons of weebs played it and used it.

It was basically where, it was like Club Penguin, but with none of the games. You just were this pretty anime character that would walk around towns and chat with people. And then there was forums, people would role play and stuff like that. That was my first time ever seeing anything like that. Gaia and Ragnarok, I'm looking it up now, they basically look the same. That's crazy.

And then Club Penguin, I was very into Club Penguin. Wow, I didn't do that one. I did Neopets. And then Neopets a little bit. Neopets! What was your Neopet? There was a unicorn that I loved very much. I don't remember the names, but I always tried different ones.

And I was not very good at maintaining them because I wasn't allowed to go on the computer very much. So they would always be famished and things like that. My favorite one was, I did the griffin at first and I think its name was just griffin. But I ended up switching to a cara. A cara was cool because it was a little like, it was like a little cat looking thing,

but it had like these tendril ears. Oh, I do remember. I do remember. But there was like a really thin, live cat looking one with tendrils. I'm not talking about that one. I'm talking about the fluffy one. Like, I feel like for Neopets,

they would end up designing like three different concepts for the same one. And then some executive would be like, great, print them all. And you're like, well, no. Oh my gosh.

This is the tendril cat. They're like, nope, we got three tendril cats. Get them out of there. Oh my God. All right. We're running a little short on time. No, I'm having so much fun.

I know. This is good stuff. Good childhood stuff. Like maybe we can do more episodes with other people. Sorry if I've talked too much. I've just been so excited. Absolutely not, my guy. So the next segment we have planned is a new segment that's basically called What I'm Watching.

What I'm Watching. We watch things. Want to know what we're watching. Oops. I accidentally opened FaceTime. Hold on. I am going to not say a show. Oops, accidentally opened FaceTime, hold on. I am gonna not say a show. Actually, no, there's so many things.

Same on. I've been hooked on a YouTube channel lately called Extra History. It's really fun. They've been doing it for a few years now. So it's like really sort of rudimentary drawings, but fun and like a lot of personality to just sort of they'll basically narrate in a very digestible way something that happened in history that maybe you just need more context about. Nice.

And they'll just like show and like act it out with these little like not quite stick men, but like. Is it cartoon animation or? It's not quite animation. It's like they might do like little like bits here and there um but i i discovered it like maybe a month or two ago where i like was just sitting around it was like midnight but i wasn't ready to go to sleep and i just thought to myself i don't know enough about hawaii and i'd like to and i don't really know about its history before it was like straight up ruined by and fetishized and fetishized by european culture

and american culture yeah um so i was like i'd like to know about this so i just googled like history of hawaii and then like one of the first things that came up was like the legacy of kamehameha who was the uh person that sort of unified all the islands to make it hawaii as like one unit and it was just like a four-part series and i was just like hooked. And I was like, this is great. And then the next one I clicked on was like, yeah, right. Then the next one I clicked on was like about Mansa Musa, who was like the richest man to ever live ever. Like even by today's standards, the richest person,

like he would travel and just by tipping people, change the economy and like make there be inflation. Like people would kind of be mad when he visited because they're like our entire economy is in shambles because you just dropped our yearly GDP in like a minute. It's just like interesting because I'm like, I missed out on that history because I, you know, I'm of European descent

and I feel like a lot of American textbooks really focus on that. So it's like a black man was the richest man to ever live. Like that's awesome to hear about. And then I was like, I don't know enough about the Byzantines. So right now I like learning about justinian and uh that's really cool like there's so much good educational stuff on youtube that isn't like it doesn't i don't know why i got such a bad emotional attachment with with educational stuff growing up but like there is some really

cool stuff shane has showed me a lot of different things like this is what happens if you drink an entire bottle of soy sauce uh like weird weird stories about like this man got a 7-eleven hot dog and it was it spread a virus through whatever like weird stories like that are real history like that but i want to i want to check out what you're watching as well yeah extra history extra extra history. Extra history. My YouTube has been kind of garbage. I always watch on my TV and it's like harder to navigate. And I swear to God. It sure is. I watched one drama tea spill video and my homepage is literally, okay, because I use lo-fi hip hop live streams a lot.

And then I watched one fucking drama video. And now it's like, it's literally like live stream drama live stream lo-fi drama tea spill spill here's the tea drama like all these different channels and i'm like god i don't now i don't even want to go on youtube anymore so i need to vet it it's it's so interesting how long the apps have been out for things like xbox ps4 phone and how difficult it still is to navigate we'll get there i think it's hard because you can only do so much with a controller you know and when they're remote yeah i haven't what you're watching yeah i haven't been watching like a ton i've been in a weird rut where i just watched i've

been watching a lot of netflix i love that series it's a series called glow up where it's like basically america's next top model but it's like with makeup artists and being given a prompt and, and doing like crazy, like, Oh, you need to do this, the makeup for this play tonight on Broadway. Okay.

Now you need to do this editorial, um, photo shoot. And it's really cool. Cause I love makeup. And then there was next in fashion, which was like a, a fashion.

I did watch next in fashion. Yeah. So good. And I'm sad. I're not making another season. I think it was probably because it was too expensive and probably exhausting for people. But that was really good. I also think it was kind of weird the way they did teams sometimes. Like I feel like they wanted drama.

But in reality, I would have just liked to have seen more cohesive ideas. There were teams that were like, oh, these people know each other and they seem great. And then there's people who literally met the day before and like that was their downfall. It's because they didn't feel each other. And they had polar opposite like styles where someone's like, well, I want something a little bit more reserved.

And then someone else was like, I would like there to be a sparkly cheetah pattern. And if we could have fire coming out of it, that'd be great. And I'm like, well, that's not, those two don't, that's not gonna work. Yeah, it's not gonna work yeah yeah but it was good and then i've been trying to watch um more movies that i've been putting off like i finally watched silence of the lambs for the first time oh nice that was really cool i thought it was amazing i i mean it was scary and super intense and luckily my friend was staying with me who had been social

like distancing quarantining and stayed with me for the weekend and got to watch it with her and i'm just like oh i'm like is she gonna die and she's like can't tell you i'm like god um oh yeah was she like a great big fat person god or like do you know what you look like to me with your good bag and your cheap shoes so good like so good so good yeah and then last night i watched 12 years a slave oh wow how was that random a random watch it always was a very sad movie but it like hit me really hard this time around because you know i saw this tweet the other day a tweet was like white people calling the protests everything going on right now it's like god damn it wow yeah with the protests and everything going on right now and there you go it hit a lot but yeah

i think it's just because we're in a huge awakening right now so that movie was like it just seems even more insane the way these people were treated anyway yeah yeah other than that i haven't been watching a ton sorry one more thing specifically relating to that um because i've always been really interested in haiti and haitian history as well um watch the extra history on haiti because it's incredible it is the only uh successful slave revolt in the history of recorded history and so they break down like how it happened and why and what all the social classes were in Haiti and how the French Revolution and American Revolution both affected that all at once. But I think it was there that I saw like a like a chart

for like how long slavery had been going on compared to like how long it wasn't. So like it was just it's just it's really eye opening. That's why I've been digging history more and more lately is just give me that, give me that context, that sweet context. Well, I think that will conclude this segment of what I'm watching. You know,

I'm glad we were talking about history. Cause I think we're going to be learning about someone named John's history in this episode of shoot dude. Hey, Courtney, that was, that was a good, that was a good segue.

Thank you. Thank you very much. Shoot dude. Shoot dude. much. Shoot, dude. Shoot, dude. Shoot, dude. Shoot, dude. Shoot, dude. Shoot, dude.

Shoot, dude. Shoot, dude. Shoot, dude. Shoot, dude. Shoot, dude. Shoot, dude. And for those of you who don't know what a shoot, dude is, these are basically viewer or listener submitted stories

that provoke a shoot, dude. They're basically embarrassing moments or yikes moments are basically viewer or listener submitted stories that provoke a shoot dude. They're basically embarrassing moments or yikes moments that really suck that they happened. So we're gonna read these stories and we are going to determine if they are indeed a shoot dude or something else. Are you guys ready?

Damien, would you like to read it or would you like me to read it? Oh, I can do it. I don't think I've read one before. I don't think I've, I didn't read it. I like to be surprised. So please read it. From John.

I was just in a call presenting two weeks of findings over the course of half a dozen meetings. I was sharing my screen to go over a spreadsheet as a group. I always remember to turn off things like push notifications and other personal apps. However, I forgot something this time. I was talking to the clients on another monitor and I saw them start cracking up.

Unsure what the issue is, I just kept going for another 10 seconds or so. Eventually, I turned to the screen I'm sharing and see an email notification saying, your receipt from manscaped. I quickly closed it and then pretended it didn't happen for the remaining 30 minutes. I have a pretty thick skin,

and so I'm already laughing about it, but it sure felt like a shoot, dude. Oh my gosh. Courtney, would you say that's a shoot, dude? I think it's a pretty mild shoot, dude. It's a mild shoot, dude. It's a shoot, dude. It's a shoot, dude.

Oh, shoot, dude. Because obviously it's embarrassing if people laugh at you for anything, even if it were something that you're super proud about. But like, manscape, let yourself be however you want to be hygienic wise or trim your hair, let it grow. Who cares?

Men, women, non-binary, who cares? Do your thing, live your life. Honestly, I feel like if I saw that, I'd be like, oh, all right, nice, cool. Yeah, be like, hey, sir, thank you for the presentation. I just want to say I'm glad to know that you keep it trimmed down there. Nice to know we have a well self-disciplined hygienic queen. Exactly.

No, I think that's great. It is a little shoot dude though. Anything personal coming up, especially if you're very aware about the notifications. And you're totally right. It sucks when you're just like laughed at in general, even if it is something you're just legit proud about. So yeah, but yeah, I can't say I've ever experienced anything like that.

Have you ever experienced something similar? It's not like an embarrassment thing or presentation thing, but I do audition for a lot of things voiceover wise that are like very confidential. Like I have to sign non-disclosure agreements to even receive the email. And so sometimes I have these panic moments where like that's the last thing left up on my screen. So I'll open my computer around friends and then immediately be like, Hey, nothing is there.

There's no new thing from that really cool property that you really like coming out. Like it's just, yeah. Yeah. I get that. I think the worst I've ever had is like showing a someone, something in my camera roll and being like, shoot, where's that other photo? And scrolling past like a few photos that parents don't need to see. I think I've done that. Yeah, just something, you know, or like, why do I have 10 Chris Pratt photos in a row? That's weird. Why do I have wonderful photos in my camera roll?

That is the thing. Working with social media as part of our job, sometimes you pull down a bunch of photos for like a purpose. And then you go back later and you're like, this looks really suspect, huh? I could say that my camera roll is very weird. It's a lot of cursed images. And I mean, I feel like that's more common nowadays. But yeah. I'm going to text you one right now.

And that'll just be for us. Thank you. I appreciate it. You got it. Well, this has been a lovely episode of the smosh cast has been quite nostalgic for me i hope that we sparked some nostalgia in those listening if you would like to submit your own shoot dude you can send an email to us at shoot dude at smosh.com that's s-h-o-o-t-d-o-o-d at smosh.com. And I received the photo. That looks pretty good from what I'm saying.

It's a pretty funny meme. And then if you want to ask questions for future episodes, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, because we, we post our prompts or questions as tweets or as Instagram stories. And if you don't want to miss them, you can put notifications on as well. But yeah,

other than that, you can just pop by to listen or watch us on any listening apps on Wednesdays and then video apps on Fridays, which is basically just YouTube. So subscribe to Smoshcast on YouTube. And always remember to go beyond plus ultra, do your best. Hell yeah.

What is it called? One for all. This was fun, Dame. This was fun. This is the most you've ever talked to me. I know. We never... We've talked more than this. I'm just kidding. What did Kevin ask? Kevin said, Damien, how did this one feel as far as Best Friends podcast

compared to last week's Best Friends episode? I feel like we probably got more legit bonding done because I didn't just look up Wikipedia articles about Courtney the whole time. Oh my God. This is fun as shit. Yeah, I like talking about childhood stuff because you really do learn about each other

and about ourselves in a way. What really makes us happy, so. And I also forget a bunch, about a bunch of shit. It's also like when you find out something that you have in common with somebody from your childhood, that feels a little more special than now. Where it's like, oh, you like Avengers? Cool, wait, you hated Jimmy Neutron?

Oh my God. Like something like that. I fucking hate Jimmy Neutron. All right, let's get out of here, shall we? Oh, I thought we were already done for like a minute. No, no. Oh shit. We are still, we are still rolling.

Please, please cut all of the things I said. Okay. Bye. No, I'm serious. No, Deem, please. No, please cut all of the food I said. Okay. Bye. No, I'm serious. No, Deem, please. No, corny. Corny. Oh, bye-bye. Oh, bye-bye. Bye. We'll see you next time.