Smosh Mouth - S2: #85 - American Horror Story: Adulting

Episode Date: October 21, 2020

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that now I'm just like, yeah, that's who I am. Oh, yeah, I can be indecisive. That's not the end of the world. And now I can just adjust. Self-care is a lot like car care. You aren't just going to be nice to your car and just be with it. You need to put the work in, change the oil. You know, my mom was always like, cut things down on a cutting board and never lift it up.

And I'm like, mom, it's fine. I didn't know what to do. And like now here, a long time later, I like sliced my thumb clean open. I was like, oh, this is what she meant with the, I need to go to the hospital. Yeah, because in high school, they're like, you have a flaw.

You can't admit that. You're a loser. You mean people talk to y'all in high school? That's dope. Welcome back to the Smoshcast, everybody. We got good stuff today. Welcome. It is 75 degrees. No, it's

not. Yeah, welcome back to 98.7 The Sturge. We got a new kind of sound for you today. Welcome back to Hardcore Smosh. Smosh, but hardcore. We're talking about the history of Smosh and its hardcore nature.

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I love you. Did you guys ever listen to Big Boy's Neighborhood? What? It was on Power 106 or it used to be on Power 106. But it was that morning show where it'd be like, Big Boy's Neighborhood and everyone would be like, woo, and you hear the cowbell like, like it was the only, it was only the morning, it was the only morning show I listened to. I do love, I do miss those. I don't listen to the radio, but I do miss be like, woo, and you hear the cowbell like, digging, digging, digging, like it was the only, it was only the morning, it was the only morning show I listened to.

Dude, all those noises. I do love, I do miss those. I don't listen to the radio, but I do miss the like, it's Bean and Ballsack in the morning.

So Bean, I've been looking at this thing. These kids are on a talk, talk. You see, you're looking at this. You're the talk, talk,

talk, talk, talk. That's pretty crazy, I had this sketch I wanted to do forever ago where it's like, the DJ does more of his, his sounds for his own name than actual music.

It's like, DJ Floppy Boy, DJ Floppy Boy, DJ Floppy Boy. There's one in Los Angeles that actually does do that on the radio. It's obnoxious. I'm calling it out. You know what? I'm not going to call out the name because people probably know this person. But let's say their name is Poopy. And literally in the middle of a song, you'll hear Ariana Grande singing,

and all of a sudden in the middle, you'll just hear her voice go, Poopy, like in the middle of a song, like three times. Oh, wow, they ruin songs by just putting their stuff in the middle of it. But they're not even doing DJ stuff. It's literally like someone whispering their voice like,

Poopy, Poopy. It's a radio person. They didn't even make the song. Oh, that's stupid. I think I've heard that. Anyways, welcome to the Smoshcast, you crazy sons of bitches. It's the Smoshcast, and it's me, your host, Shane Topp. I'm here with some special guests, Courtney Miller.

Hi, welcome back. And Damien Howes. Hey, everyone, I'm Damien Howes. I'm a three-quarters way through a sugar-free Red Bull. You did a pretty good job. That's my favorite new voice. It makes me very happy that y'all like that. Literally in Australia, we were at the beach and you just started talking like that.

Pretty windy day today. For those at home, you have to talk by only what you kind of like breathe out as you talk. It's kind of like a laugh cough. Yeah. Like you cough all your words. I have menstrual cramps.

Yeah. I have menstrual cramps today. Really quick. I want to take a second. Damien, I listened to the podcast from last week. Oh, what'd you think about it?

Yeah. I thought it was, you know, interesting that you and Effie are now best friends, you know. Well, you know, Shane, I listened to your podcast maybe a month prior. Richard prior. No. Where you and Jackie became such good friends. Yeah.

And I just, I don't know if you're the type of person that expects me to wait around for you forever, but I had to move on. Okay. Okay, that's fair um you know i think i think listeners can listen to those podcasts and determine listeners can listen good job shania yes stupid that was pretty good i've harped in your ears That's fine You know what? We're all best friends Great I think that's fine Courtney, batter up

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Guys, today we're talking about being an adult We're talking about growing up Talking about adultery What's Yeah We're talking about being an adult. We're talking about growing up. Talking about adultery. Yeah. We're talking about affairs. We're talking about what it's like being an adult, how to become an adult, how we're doing as adults.

And we took a bunch of questions from listeners on any concerns about being an adult. And it's tough, man. It's especially tough in 2020. I think 2020 has made being an adult, being a person, significantly more challenging. Yeah. Well, I think every generation has its own hardships when it comes to adulthood. This just happens to be ours. It's a weird sense of isolation that hasn't been felt before. As opposed to like, we're not going to get drafted to go to NAMM, but you got to stay home forever and never talk to a person. Right. Yeah, that's true it's tough to know exactly what i mean you can you can know to a certain degree but it's

tough to know what life was like for our parents and stuff when they were our age because all we have is their memories to really talk about it whereas now we've got so much social media like evidence of stuff being talked about you can't go back got so much social media like evidence of stuff being talked about you can't go back and look at social media from back then like you just hear i just hear what my parents said they thought it was like back then and i feel like some parents and children or parents and their their kids their relationship like isn't in a place all the time where they'll just like tell you a lot about their life like for me i didn't learn a lot about my parents personal lives when they're younger like i have to know to ask and like when you're younger you don't know what to ask and so when you don't know what to learn like it's also

tough because like i think about when i'm in my 50s and stuff and my children or grandchildren ask me about when i was younger i'm probably gonna leave things out not out of like trying to sugarcoat things but just out of like trying to sugarcoat things, but just out of like pure, just like embarrassment maybe. Like my biggest like failures are like just dumb stuff. You're just not gonna tell them cause it also feels like inappropriate to tell them that stuff.

Well, it's also hard to like think about it full scale, like everything, like you're gonna leave stuff out by mistake. Kids are gonna be like, what were Heelys? And I'm like, oh, I never even mentioned Heelys to you cause I didn't think about it. Like COVID might be that for us in a decade I'm like, oh, I never even mentioned Heelys to you because I didn't think about it. Like COVID might be that for us in a decade or so,

or God, I don't know. I don't want to have kids too soon. It's also tough because inevitably, and this is a thing in psychology, is you do look back fondly on the past because your brain naturally will filter out a lot of negative, boring things. Not always like the worst things you'll probably remember, but a lot of just the mundane things you'll remove.

So like, it's like how I already look back on So Random and I'm like, God, what an amazing time. But I knew there were days on So Random where we were just bored or just not having a great time. Or exhausted or I had a costume that cut off my circulation. Yeah, it wasn't, but it's so easy to look back on 10 years ago and especially in the future, like to look back 30 years and just go, oh man. See, things were easier

back then. It's like, no, it wasn't necessarily. And that's why every generation looks down on the young generation and goes, man, this generation's going to hell. And it's just like every generation does that. And I'm trying to remember, I'm not going to do that because... You'll do it. You'll do it. No, I swear I'm not going to do it. And I'll tell you what-

You already shop at Tommy Bahama. You're so close to becoming that dude. Me and my Hawaiian shirt and khaki shorts. I had a Lyft driver once who really, I was just, I admired this guy and I was like, this is who I want to be like. He was probably in his early seventies, maybe late sixties. And I was asking him like, why are you a Lyft driver? Because he said like, he's retired. He's got plenty of money, has a nice house. He's like, I love talking to people. And he's just like, you know, people my age, they really look down on millennials and these younger generations. But I'll tell you what, driving around, driving these people, these young people are so smart and they're so great. And he's just like, I'm learning

so much from them. And I was just like, that's so cool. I was like this guy. And he seemed there was like a liveliness and a youth to this guy. That's awesome. Because I'm like, you are still actively learning. And I'm like, by saying the younger generations are crappy and going to hell and stuff means your generation failed at raising them. And I'm like, you don't you want to like admit. You guys gave us participation trophies and then made fun of us for it. Yeah, exactly. I'm like, don't you want to like,

it's what blows me away this year with so many parents being mad at their kids for their kids, disagreeing with them. And I'm like, don't you want to believe that your kid became an adult who was smarter than you? I will. I hope when I have a kid and they turn 18, I'm like, I hope I'm now, I now get to go, you know what? I'm learning from you. I raised you. I gave you all the tools. Hopefully you're now super smart and wiser than me. I think it's also safe to say there's no mission complete in becoming an adult. For sure. There's no mission complete in a lot of self-improving. So even when someone is like, it's great that that Uber driver was just still willing to learn. Like you didn't, even when I was 13, I thought I had it all figured out.

So no, you're far from it. And you kind of, I think it's good to always understand that you aren't done. No, you're never done. You're always a student. What I'm stoked about is like the lighter side of that. We're like, look at our generation right now. Toys, games, they used to be viewed as kid things. Now we're mid to late 20 twenties and we're still just like,

oh, there's a new Pokemon coming out. I understand it's not necessarily for me. They make it with kids in mind, but I'm stoked for that. I'm excited for this generation to get old and be that late sixties, early seventies, and like be a Lyft driver or whatever we've got then. And then like two younger people in the background having their version of like a Pokemon card battle

and be like, yo, you guys collect Pokemon cards? You guys want to trade while I drive? Dude, no, that's one of my life goals. I'm stoked. That's one of my goals is to school my grandchildren at video games. Be like, oh, what's this game? Smash Bros?

I guess I'll try it for the first time. Already, already I got my work cut out for me because I think my niece is getting really good at Mario Kart. Dude, you gotta stop her. Oh, I love Mario Kart. She's getting good already, I think. You've got to lie to her or something.

You've got to start early if you want to win, man. So let's get into these questions. Today we are going to be your parents. And we are going to be who? We are your dad. Okay. Kevin, okay. Okay, so we're already dad. Okay. Kevin. Okay. Okay.

So, we're already getting into it. We've got some questions here. And I really like this first question. At Ring Tarnish asks, how do I learn to be independent on decisions? It's becoming harder to make decisions for myself without having a second opinion or feeling guilty because I think I did something selfish. Man, that's good. I like that one. That's good for this crowd. That's good for this crew for sure. Yeah. I can start something selfish. Man, that's good. And that's good for this. That's good for this crowd.

That's good for this crew for sure. Yeah. I can start off with some stuff if that's cool. I had to practice learning how to fail and knowing that every decision isn't going to lead to something perfect. You figure something out on your own, you stick to it

and you don't second guess your instincts necessarily. I remember when we were roommates, anytime I was texting a girl, I would literally come to you and be like, Hey man, does this, does this sound okay? And it would literally be like, Hey, thinking about you, how's your day? I'd be like, I'd be like, is this, is this good? Or should I, I mean, what should I say? Should I bring up that thing that she said two weeks ago? Like, and I would do that for every text. And I didn't even know, I didn't know how to have a conversation without some help. And eventually it had to be like,

hey man, if you're not going to be able to talk to this girl on your own anyway, maybe it's not supposed to be a thing. It's okay to quote unquote fail. It reminds me of that SpongeBob scene where he writes furious. He's writing a letter and he writes furiously for like a whole minute.

And it just says the. The, yeah. Did you know they changed that episode by the way? No. He had like an acid trip in the original basically you know they changed that episode by the way no he had like an acid trip in the original basically where like things were coming out of the woodwork in his house freaking him out now they completely changed it to him looking outside uh and seeing his friends play because they got too scared for the kids so that's like being an adult courtney what

how do you feel about decision making i actually struggle with it a lot sometimes especially when it's like i have to decide between two like equally fine things especially even lately when i'm directing videos like our our dp brandon will be like well we could do this shot or like we have this other shot option i'm like i literally feel like i'm a horse with blinds on and i'm expecting i'm expecting to be able to be led to the right decision and i just don't know where to go. I don't know what gender this person identifies as, but I know that sometimes I feel like I kind of grew up not fully being able to trust my own opinion on things because you're expect because you always expect someone else

in the room to interject and either confirm or completely deny your opinion. I also think that you should your opinion has value. And I understand like, sometimes I am afraid to make a decision because I want so badly to please the other people in the room and make everyone happy with my decision. But in that, I'm kind of like not thinking about myself as much. I honestly struggle with this a lot. Like I still haven't figured it out. Sure. It's a constant struggle. I think like you said, there's no mission complete, even with that. This is definitely something that you keep working on your entire life. And, you know, the fact that you're already worrying about being selfish means you're probably never

and I can't say never, but you're not going to be because you're considering it so heavily. I think it's about knowing, like really listening to yourself going, well well this is where I'm what I'm feeling am I holding myself back because I feel others would disagree and I think it's also important to always be open to other people's opinions to really listen to them but to not let them live your life and decide your mindset while also simultaneously not going screw other people and what they think, you know, because we see so much of that. We see that. I think we do see that in a lot of older generations. And I mean, young generations, too. I mean, there's people like that. And it's not good to cut everyone off. But at the same time, you have to make it's OK to give yourself like a little

taste of that. Like, yeah, you know, sit down and flip it on yourself. Think about is everybody else that, you know, more qualified to make that on yourself. Think about is everybody else that you know more qualified to make that decision? Why are they more qualified than you? Well, if they're not, then maybe you do know what you need to do. And actually what I used to do in my early 20s, especially, I used to flip a coin and be like, all right, if I'm not qualified to make this decision and I truly don't know what to do, I will flip a coin and go with it no matter what. And I was like, I will leave this decision up to chaos. If I can't make this decision, then I leave it up to chaos.

And I would do it. Often flipping a coin will just reveal how you feel about it. Yeah. You flip a coin, you go, okay, do I wanna go do this thing? Heads, I go do it, tails, I don't. Flip it, it's tails and you're like,

well, I feel like I kinda wanna, and it's like, okay, that's what I wanna do. That's true. If it's a flat or a squeal, a wobble or peel, your tread's worn down or you need a new wheel, wherever you go, you can get it from our tread experts. Toyo's open country family of tires will get you through tough weather in a variety of terrains.

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See, I'm a very much an overthinker, as you can see, but thinking of the best case and worst case for each of those decisions and which costs more to me emotionally. Sometimes it really comes down to, because no matter of, no amount of thinking is going to maybe make your decision at a certain point. And sometimes it just comes to, well, I'm making, I'm, here's what I'm going to do. And you know what? It could go bad. It could go well, but I'm doing it. And you just keep, you just got to start working on that muscle of just doing it. So often, because I am the most overthinky it can get. And a lot of times it comes down to just doing it. You just do it. Like, and it's as simple as that. And I can't remember where this quote came from, but it's one of my favorites is someone was talking about like, you don't need motivation. There's this idea that it's like, well, I got to build up the motivation to do. It's like, man, you're looking for another, that's an excuse is that you need that motivation. Sometimes you just got to do it. Maybe you don't

have the motivation. You don't, maybe you don't have the, like the thing thought out and you're never going to think it out enough. Just go do it. No, one's going to give you the, the answer. There's a lot of concepts like that, that are made up like motivation, closure, all those things like start, start looking at things in your life that might just kind of be made up. Most of those things are, are honestly just, they're a concept in your own head.

Yeah. They just, you, you're making that up. You just, there is action and there is the reality. I think sometimes with those, when you're having trouble,

trouble making decision, it's sometimes just about grounding yourself, taking a deep breath, looking around the room going, here's where I'm at. All right, let's just do this. Just go. And man, it doesn't get easier. It doesn't really get easier. But also, I think one thing that gets easier is like, for me, if I'm in between two tough decisions and like, I feel really anxious because I'm like worried I'm going to make the wrong choice, confiding that and the people that you're close with can be very helpful you're like hey listen I can't choose what's going on right now like it makes me really anxious like then I'm going to not pick the right

thing like can you help me out like that's totally okay totally it's okay to lean on people sometimes just if you don't have the ability to ever make a decision for yourself then practice it and I think that's it yeah you know actually that, I will say I was, you know, what does get easier is kind of what you were saying is as you get older, I do think a lot of things get easier because you start to just recognize and accept so many aspects of yourself that you're uncomfortable with when you're a teenager and younger is, there's so many things that I was just so deeply insecure about when I was a teenager that now I'm just like,

yeah, that's, that's who I am. Yeah. And I'm just like, that's, Oh, like I used to hate that I was indecisive and I wouldn't admit that.

And I would be like, Oh yeah, I'm not like, you know, and now I'm just like, Oh yeah, I can be indecisive. Oh,

I'm okay. Like that's not the end of the world. And now I can just adjust. Cause in high school, they're like, you have a fly. You can't admit that you're a loser. Because in high school, they're like, you have a fly. You can't admit that you're a loser. No, you just.

You mean people talk to y'all in high school? That's dope. I think we can move on. Yes. Yes. Our next question comes from at. Drill. Oh God, my favorite Twitter account.

At Woodland Unicorn asks, I hate talking on the phone at all, but especially if it's with someone that like, isn't my mom. LMAO, it's at the point where I can't even apply to a job because phone calls are part of it. So any advice on that mess? LMAO. Oh my gosh.

LMAO. LMAO. LMAO. Somebody go. Talking on the phone sucks. Let's be honest. I love, there was a tweet that was just like, I like how we invented the phone,

used it for a while. And then when texts came back, it's like, you know what? Let's go back to the written word. Oh my God. I can't wait for the little hashes and dots. Can't wait for us to go back to Morse code. I don't know. Go for it.

No, you go for it. I just got to say, I don't, I've never felt, maybe I felt it for a little bit in the beginning of like growing up, of being anxious of talking to strangers on the phone. But I love it. I actually love like the opportunity to talk to people who are either, it's like the nurse at a front desk and stuff. When I was a senior in high school, I had like an extra period where i would sit in the office and answer phones i think that

was my first experience and then when i worked at the pharmacy it was my job to call every single patient and let them know their prescription was ready sometimes i was just leaving messages i just found it as like great practice every every conversation with somebody you don't know in in a way is just practice for the next one they are people granted so be nice to them but the fact that you may never meet this person or talk to them ever again really rest on that because like i when i have these phone conversations or i'm like about to talk to someone who probably gets hundreds of calls a day probably deals with not the nicest people. I have an opportunity.

I need some information, but I can also be nice to this person and like make their day a little bit better by just being a nice customer on the phone. And like and then it's just a good experience of just talking to a stranger. You need information. It's their job to give it to you. Like, I think I think I don't know. It's just something to think about to change your mindset on it I used to work a customer support for a larger streaming service it was really tough I was very anxious the whole time but I was good at it I was good with you know chatting with people and fixing their problems and I think looking at it now what may be applicable to what you need to

do is have a goal in mind whether it's something as simple as I need a doctor's appointment and take away the societal pressure of like, you don't need, I mean, obviously be very nice to the person if you can, but you don't need them to walk away from the conversation being like, that conversation changed my life. It's like, they're doing their job. So you can literally be like, hi, my name is Dutra. I need an appointment. These are the days available. I choose this day. Thank you. Goodbye. Like that's it. And then you can build from there.

But, you know, and the same with customer support. Like my goal is always to get something fixed. But that in that because I used to work customer support. My goal as a customer now is to make sure that this is the nicest call they've had today. That's the goal. They're like, hi, I'm Amanda. Can I help you? I'm just like, Amanda, thank you so much. I hope you're having a good day. Amanda, here's my problem.

Say their name back to them, like make it personal, make it human. It really is almost just like practice for talking to people you don't know, because it's just like phone calls with people who that's their job is to just talk to you on the phone and you can just. It's also important to remember how insane most of the people they probably talk to every day oh yeah like the amount of stuff they deal with dude that you're you're they're not gonna remember you at the end of the day like they're just not because they're they have a thousand phone calls a day they're just not no one is gonna have a phone call with you and then get off and be like yeah well everybody listen this is what I just talked to you. But also, you know, I don't

know where this dislike of phone calls coming from. If you just generally dislike them or if there's anxiety, once again, just do it. Like, like you got to apply to a job. You just got to do it. You just call them and like, they're not going to like make fun of you. It's not gonna be some big deal. You know, if it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out. You just do it. You just literally have to do it. I actually, I was talking to my therapist about my fear of emails, which is very similar. I get so afraid if my emails pile up, I get afraid to look at it.

I literally avoid my inbox because I'm just so afraid there's some big, big thing I missed. So I do with mail. And I'm just like, I'm like, do the same with mail. Like I'm just always assuming the worst. I do the same with phone calls. I do it. I just, I'm afraid of I do the same with mail. Like I'm just always assuming the worst. I do the same with phone calls. I do it.

I just, it's, I'm afraid of this insane worst thing. And, you know, every time I do it, it's just not bad. It's that, it's an exchange. The what if is often worse than reality. It's just an exchange of information. And, you know, if the worst happens, you just do it. It's not going to be some crazy nightmare fueled thing. It's going to be just, oh, you have to put down some information

or get some information or have a phone call or whatever. I do wanna hop on what you said about how they probably deal with way worse people. As someone who used to work customer support, we do. Even if your phone call is like six degrees off of normal, you're still doing way better than most people. There's so much weirdness or difficulty or in general,

like this isn't even like a bad one that this was this person's fault. It was just like one call I had was, and I could do a whole podcast about customer support days, but one call I had is this person who was just like, hi, I'm paralyzed from the neck down. I just had surgery and maybe like a stroke or something. So they're like, I'm having to use speech software

and also look at these things in order to like type in a password and I can't get into my account. Can you get me into my account? And I was like, for sure, let's do this. And it took like a literal hour and I'm supposed to take like, I was supposed to take like 14 calls an hour.

I was on this one for like an hour and that's obviously not his fault. And I was happy to work with him and, you know, get, get that taken care of. But my point is that was a very challenging process. You are going to be doing okay. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah. At the same, at the same time, just like that, it's just like that guy knew he's just like, well, I got to do this. Yep. Like, and I, and he did it and he like, he got through it and he did it. And picturing also like, what's the worst case scenario of what that phone call is going to be if it is if what are you like what are you anxious about i mean the other day i was trying to find a a doctor to

just get an appointment because i've been dealing with some shit i call and i was like hey i was wondering if i can get appointment with this doctor i'm dealing with this thing and she's and the the lady was like this doctor looks at tumors i was like oh like i was looking for somebody about my upset stomach and she's like this person looks at tumors they're an optometrist or like something optologist why are you calling here and i was like oh i didn't know i saw that he worked in an internal medicine so i didn't know if maybe that applied she's like no that's not it at all i was like okay okay bye she's like goodbye like that like that sucked but i think that's about as worse as it can get.

But I think that's, they're not mad probably. It's just that like Damien said, they've gotten to the point where they just deliver the information. They're just going, no, they don't do that. And maybe they're weird too. Like sometimes I- Maybe it was a weirdo.

It was an angry lady, it was, but. I believe that though too. I've met a lot of people like that. I have a doctor that I love, but sometimes when I call to make an appointment, I'm like, hi, I would like to make an appointment for doctor last name. And they're like, is that doctor first name, last name?

And I'm like, yes. There's no other doctor with that last name in the practice. So like they always clarify. I'm like, that's weird. That's super flipping weird that you do that all the time you don't know

yeah they're like what if what if suddenly another one shows up what do we do then you never they're everywhere no I look

I look in the building I've looked before at the like directory I'm like are they on like the fifth floor is there another there's never been another so it's just like

they're weird that's a really weird thing that you just did there ma'am so those mundane little things like phone calls and everything are honestly, they're always just annoying and tough. You just got to do it, dude.

Applying for jobs is also scary. The more you do it, the easier it'll be. And I will say, like, I think with calling for jobs and stuff, I don't know where this person's from, but like growing up applying for jobs, I learned that when you put it in an application, if you call in a couple of days later or a day or two later, it makes a huge difference. Some, some companies look for that. They look for that initiative that you want this job. So calling in and just being like, hi, my name is this. I submitted an application a couple of days ago. I just wanted to see if you guys were still interested in getting together for an interview. Like something like that.

Or go in person. It goes a long way. Or do it in person even. If you feel like you're better in person, like last retail job I had, I went in person to apply and I was like, hey, is the manager here?

I'd love to like meet them. I'm going to submit an application. I just wanted to say hi and introduce myself. And the assistant manager was like, no, she's not going to be here for a while, but do you have 15 minutes? Come on back.

I see something in you. Like he was a very eccentric man, but I got hired. It was great. That's so funny. On the tip of just job applications, I obviously I've applied for countless jobs being an actor, just auditioning.

And auditioning sucks because you're being judged on absolutely everything. And it's face to face. And also I was 14, like you're a 14 year old who's nervous about their acne and everything. And it's face to face. And also I was 14. Like you're a 14 year old who's nervous about their acne and everything. And then you're going in

knowing that these, this room of adults is judging you for it. Like literally and may even point it out. But I had an acting coach say probably the best advice. And so,

cause someone was doing a scene and they were kind of like clearly nervous and just like not getting the scene done right. And he's just like, you're focusing so hard on avoiding it going wrong. You're trying to avoid failure more than you're focused on doing what you want and getting what you want. Focus on what you want.

Like, you know what? Address what could go wrong. Be like, oh, that could go wrong. I'm going to focus on what I want. I'm going to, that's my number one thing. I want this job. I want this job. Why do I want this job?

For all these reasons. That's what I'm going to focus. That's all I'm going to think about. Or it's what I'm going to, that's consciously, I'm going to make the effort to only think about that. It definitely drives you more. I'm not going to think about what can go wrong. I'm not going to make that my primary focus.

Because then your brain kind of does gravitate towards what you're thinking about. Focus on, think about what you want. Please, you should credit Oprah when you quote her. That's the secret right there. That's the secret right there. That's the secret right there. That's the secret right there. We're just slowly becoming Banjo-Kazooie characters.

This next question comes from Obama. At Obama, at Kele Dokai, how do you get everything done, you're supposed work-wise, and still do other things like self-care and making time to hang out with friends without it negatively affecting the quality of your work? Ah, work-life balance. Like I want what I put out to the best,

if possible can be, but I also need to human. Okay, so yes, work-life balance. How do you have time to do work? Also have time for self-care and hanging out with friends, having a good time while that not affecting your work. That's a good question, especially because it feels like life only gets busier and busier and busier. Yeah, I'll let you know when I figure it out. Yeah. Because damn. You know what frustrates

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I like wake up early to edit it, to submit it by nine in the morning. I have a very hard time learning how to relax anymore. Like yesterday I wasn't in the stream because I was like, hey, I've been a little busy lately. I would just love a break. But during the two to three hours that you guys streamed, I just sat there being anxious the whole time. I was like, I don't know how to relax. So the thing that has been helping me is, and I know this sounds like it takes a little bit of the fun out of it. You got to schedule everything. You got to write it down. You got to literally write down, even if it seems obvious and mundane. I've got work from these hours after work. I've got to get this thing done. I'm going to give myself one hour to do it after that. No matter what uninterrupted. I want 90 minutes of me time. That's enough time to watch my show, do a little exercise, play a video game, like whatever you want to do, because we are taught that work is the most important thing. And I don't think I will ever break that mindset for myself, unfortunately. But you have to acknowledge that self-care and giving yourself time to socialize or just even do nothing and relax.

That is equally, if not more important to you as a human being. You need to. In the same way that you'd be like, I have to eat today. You have to have some time to decompress. So to not let it affect the quality of your work, just do the most like bullish gung ho best job you can during the time that you've allotted. And if you can't get the thing done in the time that you've allotted, well, then maybe you've bitten off a little bit more than you can chew. Yeah. I will say like, I do have a planner that I'll use sometimes like the night before I will just for myself because I feel like I have a hard time focusing and remembering that I do have stuff to do. So the night before I'll write down like my Google calendar has the meetings we have to do that day.

And then I'll also write down the chores that need to be done. And then if I have a workout that I want to do, here's what I should do. And then also at the top, we'll just be like, hey, have like a fucking good day. One thing I realized was like very, in season one of quarantine, we had kind of a chance to get away from this job in a way. Like we weren't in the office every single day anymore.

Filming was very different. So I had a chance to like appreciate my outside of work life, like my me time and my self-care. I had a chance to like appreciate my outside of work life like my me time and my self-care I had a chance to like where that kind of was more important in a way because I was around and by myself more so I had a chance to understand like because before that and like even as we've gotten back into working I've already been overextending myself work-wise but in that time i realized like okay i was putting a lot i was giving i was giving an unfair amount of my life to work because where we're from like working they want everyone

to just fucking work like damien you have three jobs that is crazy that is absolutely crazy i and it's a kudos like mad kudos because i I literally get invited to be a guest on people's podcasts. And I'm like, I can't. That's like, I don't have the capacity to do that right now. But like, I think once I got that chance to appreciate the outside of work stuff, like, because you do want to do your best job at work. But sometimes we really do push ourselves too hard. So understanding that can really help you.

I think going off of that, though, I think the reason I'm like this, if I can just get personal for a second, is like I had a after so random, you know, that money runs out quickly in L.A. And so I worked all kinds of jobs and I would still audition and I wouldn't book anything. And, you know, you put in so much work and so much work and so much work and you wouldn't really get anything for it necessarily. It'd just be like, all right, well, on to the next one. Next step, I'll try another audition.

Same was for voiceover. You know, I'd have bookings here and there, but it wouldn't fully pay the bills or anything like that. And so for so long, I worked so hard and didn't get anything for it that now that I'm in a position where, you know, the harder I work, the longer I work, I get stuff out of it. It's hard not to take advantage of that. Even now I acknowledge like I need to take a break sometimes. It's just hard to do, you know? I think it is part of a bigger thing. And obviously it comes down to personal levels too. I mean, I'm a workaholic, but I think more so I just have work anxiety. I have this, even if I'm not working all day, I have this idea that I need to be working.

It's literally probably the main thing I talk about with my therapist is just that I always have this thing in the back of my head of being like, how am I being productive right now? And it's just so destructive. It's so destructive and it actually has prevented me from getting a lot of things done. I've like, throughout all of quarantine,

I've just wanted, all I've really wanted is to write something. Like I wanted to write some sort of project, just, and really just for me, like not even, I don't have this big goal of like selling a TV show or whatever. I'm like, I would just love to write a story. It'd be fun because I have this ever present thing in the back of my head being like, you need to do that. You haven't done that.

You need to, you need to do that. It makes it this awful thing that I then avoid the things that are self-care, the entertainment, whatever. It all doesn't become entertainment. It becomes distraction from those thoughts. And then you're never relaxing because you're just distracting yourself. I think a lot of us get self-care.

It is my opinion. I think a lot of us get self-care wrong. And at least I do, is that I have to recognize when my me time or whatever is me just distracting myself. And then it doesn't do anything. Then I go, then I, then it's three hours and I just come back to where I was as opposed to sometimes self self-care is work. It is, it is, you know, a self-care thing I've been

trying to do this year that I've been not great at is, is I'm just like, I'm just going to stretch every day, but it is work because you've got to kind of like focus for 20 minutes and stretch, but that is self-care. You're doing something good for yourself. And a lot of times it is those grounding things. But I think part of the bigger issue is I do think in the world, but especially in America, we really have this grind culture. And honestly, I look back on when I was a kid, I remember posters everywhere and I'm sure they're still out there It's just like shoot for the moon You can be whatever you want Be the best that you can be

I guarantee you everyone in this classroom will be president Yes literally like You would hear that stuff as like you can be president if you want to And then you get older and you start to see people Getting really sick Especially on social media especially Instagram I think where people really pump out Like I'm in Spain now.

Everyone needs to travel. Oh, I just got promoted. And oh man, just bought my first house. And just like, there's this idea that you need to be achieving more. And it's always going to be that. And once you achieve more, the idea persists. You need to be achieving more. And it's this idea that happiness is in that next thing.

And that's always the case. You never can be content. America, and I think the world, has this war on the idea of contentment. We hate that idea of being content, of being happy with very little, or being happy with less, and just being like, oh, you know,

what's your dream in life? Oh, I would just like to have a small house and just like that. And be like, really, that's it? Like, you're just going to settle? The idea of settling is so bad, but it's like, no, that's okay. You know, I think a lot of us feel very uncontent with life because we're like, I don't know what I want

because we've set our goals beyond what we want. And now we're lost. It's not even a tangible thing to point to and be like, I want that amazing thing. It's like, I want something past that and then past that. Like you said, it's, you can't. It's this endless thing.

It's also being feeling conflicted with like what society around you has said, what you should look toward and want. On the self-care tip, it's like, it is like taking care of, it's like self-care is a lot like car care. You aren't just going to be nice to your car and just be with it.

Like you need to put the work in, change the oil, do the things. So like self-care is like you need to maybe if you want to practice self-care is giving yourself better sleep. Go to bed early and wake up earlier. I've been trying. I've been trying. I've been actively this week trying really hard. But then in those moments where like people, a lot of people think is like self-care days like a face mask and like just being dressing comfy and stuff like watching tv for eight hours yeah no that's the thing too is

like i think okay this will be my me time to do whatever i want and then i'm like okay video games uh drawing i could work on that script i was doing or i can play sims i never use that computer and then i get overwhelmed and then i'm on tiktok for three hours because i can't distract yourself because it's too much. Yeah. Because that's a very normal thing for people with anxiety to do is like they get overwhelmed and they just want to withdraw and be numb for a while. Yeah. I think when it comes to self-care, even in your normal schedule, it's just being more present in those moments. Like when you're in the shower, don't always just be, okay, I got to do this fucking thing. Like be in there for a moment.

Appreciate the warmth of the water. Think about your day or about the people in your life that you haven't talked about in a while. I learned that from Jonathan Van Ness. Yeah. But yeah, it's just being more present in those moments where you are just doing things for yourself. Like and making those chores and things more enjoyable by doing other, like we were talking about earlier, like listening to a podcast that you like while doing dishes. But yeah, it's self-work.

We've been made to feel guilty for slowing down. I think that's a big thing is we feel uncomfortable slowing down, but it's so important to slow down. Slow down, anytime that you're feeling overwhelmed, just be like, I'm allowed to slow down. Yeah. I'm allowed to stop right now.

We are on five times speed from what people were doing decades ago. Yeah. That is the thing, though, too. Like when you look at parents or older generations on how they work their asses off to get to a place that was just sort of sustainable for a lot of people. And now due to technology, due to opportunities, due to a lot of different things, you can get to that point sometimes a little bit easier. So then you don't have an example of how to relax and decompress. You don't have an ability to look around and be like, oh, I'm kind of maintaining in the same way they were already. And I can do more. So I should do more. Like people had no choice but to just sit around a lot back in the day. Like we have this idea and

we and it's true that there was a lot of work back then. There was nonstop work and there was less things to entertain us, but also these things that entertain us are often making us feel worse, because it's so much. Our brains aren't built, our brains were not built for all this stuff because naturally there just wasn't as much stimulation

throughout a day. You worked on the farm and then you came back and you like made dinner and you sat there and it was like, yep. Yeah. All right. The last thing I'll say is I did have a moment. I can't remember if it was just before quarantine or just around earlier this year where I was I was breaking down. I was losing my mind because I was very conflicted.

I'd recently lost a family member. I was feeling overextended at work and I didn't know how to take care of myself while trying to figure out all these things. Like I wasn't okay. Basically, and I've learned this from you, Shane, as well, is like taking my notebook out. I'm addicted to notebooks. I have a notebook for everything.

I have a work one, I have a music lyric one. Like literally, I love them. You write someone's name in one and they die 60 seconds later. But I had a page for work and a page for family and a page for my hobbies. And like I just wrote out all the things that are important to me in my life and like just prioritizing what is really important to you. Like how important is it that you are on social media for a few hours a day? Like there are things that you can really

realistically tell yourself are more important than others. And like the things that stress you out, you can write those out. And like just seeing them on paper can really help you kind of process what you need. I think all of these in many ways boil down to just really accepting yourself and being

okay. Like you can, you're human. You don't have to be something crazy. You don't like everyone in the world is trying to, or so many people are trying to be the greatest that they can be. It's like, no, you don't have to be, you don't have to be anything. You get to be whatever you want and do whatever you want. And often the problem is that it's less than what everyone's

telling you and what you're trying to tell yourself. You're trying to be something more than you even want to be. And that's a nightmare because that means you're always going to be in this conflicting zone and uncomfortable with who you are and you're uncomfortable with what you want because you feel like what you want is too little. And that makes you pathetic or whatever. I don't know. I mean, I'm talking to myself in a lot of ways, but I think it is the case for a lot of people. And I think, you know, social media and just the chaos of the world has made it so. But as we're seeing, I mean, this is dark, but as we're seeing with global warming, our desire to keep being more and more and be as great as possible is dysfunctional. It's dysfunctional.

You feel it in your own. You have your own global warming inside your head when you try to do too much and you over exhaust your own mental resources. And then you break down and then it's all pointless. It all ended up being for nothing. And we have it in our head. It's like, that's what we have to do. That's for the best. It's like, no, it's clearly not.

This metaphor, what would you consider colonizing Mars? Is that when I swap to a robot? But yeah, it's like you can't pedal to the metal with a car 24-7. But speaking of nature, and this is gonna make me sound weird, but a type of meditation I have... I grabbed a bird out of the sky and not even looked at it. Is that weird? Go.

Carry on my wayward son and I threw him off. I don't meditate regularly. I try to get into it. Sometimes I fall out. I think it's really great. Whenever I've done it, I feel benefits. But I have had this like accidental meditation, I think throughout meditate regularly. I try to get into it. Sometimes I fall out. I think it's really great. Whenever I've done it, I feel benefits. But I have had this like accidental meditation, I think, throughout my life. Whenever I'll be at the park or I'll just be around.

If I see like an animal or even a bug or something, oftentimes animals are just chilling. They're just sitting there. If they're not eating food or doing whatever, they're often just sitting there. And I'll often just like kind of sit and just stare at them and be like, you're just sitting here, huh? I was like, just, you're just, just doing that. And I'm so, I can't do that. Why am I so uncomfortable doing that? But that's what animals are doing so often. That's probably what we were doing for so long. I don't know. I think they're plotting.

I will say pigeons, pigeons are so busy. They really are. They are so busy. They are up to something. Pigeons are busy. We should make a shirt so busy They are up to something Pigeons are busy We should make a shirt That says pigeons are very busy Dude I love pigeons

Have I shown you battle pigeon? Yes you have Today though Isn't it your banner on Twitter? It's when I do my webcam introduction Yes it is my background I have a green screen For the sole purpose

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important. I think that's where you learn the most. I mean, it was interesting to see what my priorities would be when I like first before I even was roommates with Shane. I just had like a one bedroom apartment and for whatever reason, it was really cheap. Someone may have died there. I don't know. But it was really cheap. It had a washer dryer in it and it was awesome. It was everything I needed. Um, but I learned that my priorities were very low. Like, um, I had an air mattress for a long time and then you were like the meme. I was like the meme and yeah, literally like that. But I had a TV, um, and, uh, a place to put it. But, um, instead of, you know, after I got the air mattress or after I switched to like a proper mattress

with a box spring, that was also just straight up on the ground for a while. Oh my gosh. I just didn't care. I just, I was like, this doesn't matter that much to me. It was, to be completely frank with you, it was only when it was like, oh, a girl might come over to your apartment next week

that I was like, I should buy a bed frame. And yada, yada, yada. Like it was, it was like, but just, you know, boiling it down. It's like company of any kind. Like when someone else might see the state you're living in, that's when I would actually start to self-care and be like, yeah, I could hang up a mirror. Yeah. I could like put up some art there and maybe buy a plate or two, you know? I think, yeah, a lot of it is just, for me,

it's a lot of those slow things that you kind of like push off. I've gotten much better about cleaning. I was not great when I first became an adult. I would just hold it off and then it would just get bad. And then you just start to realize like, oh, if I just start doing these little things every day, it's going to be fine. Same with car maintenance and stuff like that. Do you want to hear what my first night living outside my parents' house was like?

So I obviously moved in with a coworker. They weren't home when I had moved in. I was by myself. My room didn't have lights in the ceiling. I just had lamps that one of them was very flickery and they're just, it was very dark. I remember I walked to the nearby grocery store because I had no food and I didn't want to touch my roommates because it was their food. Got like a salad box. I was also trying to be vegan at this point. So I like was struggling with that. Got back to the place. I didn't have my own dishes. So I was like scared to use and scared to use the roommates. I was like, I don't buy them. And I remember I was going to maybe just eat it out of the salad container, but there was holes in it. I was like, I don't know.

And I remember I tried popping the salad box open and all the leaves went everywhere, all over the ground. I was like, fuck, this is my food. Gathered up this kitchen floor salad. It was dirty. I rinsed it kind of and i still fucking ate kitchen floor hairy ass probably not vegan there's more skin cells and hair in that salad than croutons burger king food yeah that was rough this is where you're just scrambling i felt like like a rat in an alley just like hey

i gotta figure it out first time doing community laundry like the the can't the complex laundry there's like an there's etiquette to that as well like you do not want to leave your laundry in too long after it's done because i had a man handle my fucking laundry and touch my underwear and just take it out and so he could get in and I was pissed. I've never done that to somebody else. How long, just out of curiosity, how long was your stuff in there? Like 10 minutes.

Okay. That's fair. Like don't touch someone's laundry after 10 minutes. Give a grace. It's gotta be like an hour. There was- It's gotta be like, I'm like, this is not coming out today.

The place I lived two times ago, we had community, excuse me, laundry. There was one lady down the hall that would like, she left her stuff in there for like literal hours. And when my roommate finally like moved it, she in like in retaliation, like threw his stuff out of the washer and like left a note

and was like, don't you do that? And it was like, well, you live in a society like you can't do this stuff. It's tough. It's tough. Like i definitely think you should give a grace but i do there is a level of discomfort it's fine 30 minutes is fine yeah laundry is a tough laundry is surprisingly easy but man it feels like this big mountain you got to climb when you become an adult yeah it's very much it's capitalism personified where it's like

only two people get the thing and everybody else. I'm telling you, if you're a teenager, listen to this, just, just learn how to do the laundry before you move out. You're going to have to learn it. Just,

just do it. Cause you're going to realize it's not that hard. And then, yeah. Okay. And when in doubt, wash everything on cold, if you're ever worried about colors and things like that.

Usually I try and make separate loads of all my dark clothing, all my pink, light pink stuff. I hang dry most things. I can't hang dry. I like, especially when it's clothes that I want to be form fitting. I pretty much dry everything.

How do you not get the little doodly doods on the shoulders for the hanger? Oh, I don't know. Good tip. Oh, I don't know. Yeah. I feel like becoming an adult,

living on your own when you're just in charge of yourself, you're just going to build up reflexes and just muscle memories off of mistakes. Like I remember, man, I was like, I was like 19 and I was on my computer. I had one of those white MacBook MacBooks back in the day. Oh, yeah. They look like toys. And I just I had it on my coffee table. I had some root beer right next to it.

And I totally- I better know where this is going. And I totally just spilled root beer all over the keyboard and it was broken. What did you think was going to happen? I thought it was going to come to life and say mean words at you. Yeah. And you know what? Since then, I'm just very, I don't keep drinks that close to my laptop.

Like it's just, you're just going to build up things like that. Yeah. And that's just what it is. That's a lot of those things that your parents scolded you for preemptively and you never really understood why. It's those reasons. You're just going to have to,

it's just going to have to happen. I had that happen to me like a month ago where, you know, my mom was always like, cut things down on a cutting board and never lift it up. And I'm like, mom, it's flat. I didn't know what to do.

And like now here, a long time later, I like sliced my thumb clean open i was like oh this is what she meant with the i need to go to the hospital it always it's always how it goes i will say like big picture wise a lot of things like adult things like when it comes to going grocery shopping or going to the post office to get stamps or like those phone calls and things like that a lot of them cooking like adult tasks like certain types of cleaning the shower or bathtub like or to the toilet or whatever like they seem scarier and like these big tasks that you're afraid to tackle and like but once you do them you really realize they're not all that bad like my first time going to a post office and needing to send a package I literally felt like a robot I was like in line like getting a vibe of the room and what other people are doing

and like how everyone's acting getting a vibe of the people at the register like oh is this going to be dmv style or like a freaking like hollister we don't know i go to the counter i'm like hello i would like to send this package to utah please she's like yeah like whatever and then once you get in you're like oh this is like not that bad this isn't weird yeah like it's fine you have patience they're just like what you wanna do what I wanna send this package to Utah why

because you can but first you must defeat the minotaur like ma'am how loud is the package how loud is the package ma'am I don't know what that means Yeah I think that's true I think a lot of things Are easier when it comes to those mundane Tasks a lot of them are easier than you think

Yeah like ordering Postmates seems so weird To me at first but once you get into it You're like oh this is easy I'm gonna do this And learning how to cook easier than it seems Learning how to cook I swear to God learning how to cook You will make mistakes but I'm how to cook. You will make mistakes, but. I'm telling you, man.

Yes, you will make mistakes, but you follow recipes. There's so much. That's where you take advantage of technology. And it's not as hard as it's not. It's not, man. Especially like,

I love that one TikTok where it's that guy talking about, he's like, here's the authentic way to make rice. And you just make, he just has a rice cooker. Yeah. It's like, dude,

it's so simple. Or literally buy a crock pot. If you don't know how to cook, buy a crock pot. You can just throw anything you want in there. It doesn't even have to be food. It'll come out food. I think that's, and we had an extra question down here

that we didn't get to. It was just talking about how to eat healthy without. And like, there are a lot of ways that you just can make things conveniently, but learning how to cook for yourself is just a quintessential skill. And you will save money. You will save money.

You will save money. There's cheap ways to make a lot of stuff and you will save money. And TikTok has helped a lot with that. You will save money. You will save money. There's cheap ways to make a lot of stuff and make it good. Especially if you're a trader just. It takes time. It just takes learning recipes

and just doing it but keep it simple. I just took a crack at making fried rice the other night and it was fucking bomb. I keep things simple. I just,

I saute chicken breasts. I make some vegetables and I have some quinoa and I make that like 80% of the time. Nice. It's always great. You use that rice cooker for the quinoa? I do. I make some vegetables and I have some quinoa. And I make that like 80% of the time. Nice. You use that rice cooker for the quinoa? I do.

I do use the rice cooker. I use the rice cooker almost every night. The nature's candy for eating healthy and also feeling savory. Sweet potato. You stab it a few times with a fork. Wrap it in like a slightly damp paper towel. Toss it in the microwave for like seven minutes. Pop it out.

Don't coat it in sugar. Coat it in things that are like spice based, like maybe a little bit of a hatch green chili or something like a chipotle pepper, mix it all up in its own skin. It's delicious. It's smoky. It's almost meaty. Spices are your friend, man. You can make everything delicious. I think it's overall, I think it's good news. I think I do think society puts pressure on you that this is a,

this idea that you need to be so much Be achieving so much more at a younger age and everything and it's okay. It's okay to slow down be patient No, you're gonna make mistakes and know that's okay and just do things if something's gonna take less than five minutes Just do it now. Yeah, like stuff like that. It's so small. It's those small things and you just do it Yeah, and trust yourself know That you're gonna do it. And maybe you're not the person who's capable of doing a lot of things,

but you're gonna become that person by doing, like just learning. A lot of those tasks aren't as big a deal. Calling to schedule an appointment, doing the laundry, registering to vote by mail or in person, either way. These things take a few minutes out of your day. And we dread them for hours sometimes when it's over in just a few moments.

The thoughts are always worse than the thing. Don't beat yourself up for not knowing something yet. You have to learn it somehow. And sometimes it's okay if you stumble in the process, that is all right. If you don't know how to do something, and I know this sounds obvious, Google it. Google everything.

I can't tell you how many times, like in my very early twenties, I would just Google something and then know it forever., Google it. Google everything. I can't tell you how many times like in my very early 20s, I would just Google something and then know it forever. Then a friend would be like, oh, I've got red wine and this kind of shoe. And I'd be like, oh, you pour this on it. And they'd be like, how'd you know? And I'm like, I ran into that problem and I Googled it.

It's just research stuff. Just do it. Yeah, research things. And know that everybody else is in the same boat as you. Yeah. Know that. Everyone's going to make it seem like they've got things figured out. Everyone is faking it until they make it.

Yeah. And maybe someone has something figured out, but you have something figured out that they don't. Yeah. It's a, trust me, you're not alone. People are going to make it seem like that's not the case, but you're not alone. Everyone's learning forever. Anyways, so that concludes that. But let's get on to, we've got a shoot dude here.

We've got someone who's already, they probably learned a lesson from this, I'm guessing. I have not read this, so it's a surprise for me as well. But let's get into this. Shoot dude. Shoot dude. Shoot dude. Shoot dude.

Shoot dude. Shoot dude. Shoot dude. Shoot dude. Shoot dude. Shoot dude. Shoot, dude. and I was near Santa Monica walking around, waiting for a friend to pick me up after strolling around. She got stuck in traffic, classic. And I decided to go buy something to drink and waited a coffee shop in the meanwhile. Here I am walking down the street,

looking like a flaming dumpster truck from hell. And on the opposite sidewalk, I see either Shane or his literal doppelganger. I was staring very hard, trying to distinguish whether it was just another white dude or him. And he obviously noticed and actually smiled at me politely, which made me incredibly nervous and caused disaster to strike. I wasn't looking at where I was going.

And let's say theoretically that I may or may not have tripped and eaten absolute shit against the asphalt. Thankfully, my hands got to the floor before my face did, but I destroyed my knees and my palms completely. Regardless of whether or not it was Shane, I still embarrassed myself entirely in front of a handsome stranger. And I'm still not sure if he saw me wipe out

because as soon as I got up, I just sprinted my ass away. A part of me hopes he at least got a laugh out of my shame if he saw. Oh my God. Wow. Well, this is, um, I do not recall. I've recalled watching people eat shit.

You've never been to Santa Monica. I was gonna say, in February? Yeah, were you walking in Santa Monica? It's possible. I don't know. It's... February we were on tour and then in Australia. That was all happening at that same time. Australia was March.

Yeah, but we were on tour right before that. Australia was early March, February. For a week. You would use your little bit of time in LA to go to Santa Monica? No, that was the thing because we did tour and then we went right into the hell week. I know, but sometime in... I mean, look, it probably wasn't me because I don't recall this. Yeah.

I also, typically I don't make much eye contact with strangers. I'm very like shy and whatever, but. You don't even make eye contact in the office. If a new, if an intern makes eye contact with you, they get fired. Yes. You're not allowed to look at me. I'm very sorry. That sounds rough.

That sounds like that one story where you and Keith watched that girl fall and she ran away. Yeah, me, Noah, and Keith read a restaurant in Beverly Hills and a lady, oh man. You told this story on here, so they do have it on the blog. I know, but I can say it again. She ate. She ran away right afterwards? She ate incredible shit and she got up and she kind of hustled away. And Keith immediately was laughing.

I don't know if I believe the shoot dude this time. You don't believe it? and she kind of hustled away and Keith immediately was laughing. I don't know if I believe, I believe you. I don't know if I believe the shoot dude this time. You don't believe it? You think it's us? I don't think it's, it's not that crazy. And that's why I think it is like,

I don't know. It almost reads a little bit like WordPress. Like the time I met Shane and if you just sort of change it to maybe it was him. I don't know. I feel like I'm always such a pessimist on these. No, it's possible. I don't need to say that like I'm always such a pessimist on these. No, maybe I don't need to say that. I will say falling in front of your faves is embarrassing.

I would say that's a shoot, dude. If I had eaten shit that day that I went out back when I was like super obsessed with Chris Pratt, if I'd eaten shit on that stage, that would have fucking sucked. I believe it. And I believe it all happened probably a lot faster than this makes it seem. You know, she's making it seem like, oh, we made eye contact and we had a moment and then she tripped and fell. I think it was probably just like, wait, is that her?

Oh, and then like fell. Like I think it was probably all, I think it all probably happened within two seconds. Sometimes those moments happen in slow motion. Yeah. But enough time to register across the street and they smiled across the street and then they fell and then you didn't notice?

I don't know oh wow damien thinks it's sus i'm just saying i'm i always think it's a little i don't know if there's enough information here for me to it doesn't there's not enough information it's not like the one where the the guy was going through his friend's mom's underwear drawer yeah that one was definitely i was like this is weird this is too, this is a very believable situation. I think. Too believable. Making eye contact with someone and then falling.

Yeah. It's very believable. I think if I was out trying to have a nice day by myself and I ate shit in front of a bunch of people I didn't know, I'd probably be traumatized and never want to go out by myself ever again. So. Whoever you are, anonymous person, you made eye contact with what it sounds like to be an average white dude. Dude, that was Tom Cruise. I could probably be any white guy like let's be honest especially from across the street any white dude could be me i have the ability to become any white guy

that's my worst x-men that's my x-men ability is just i get tweeted like oh this person looks courtney looks just like this one actress and it like it'll be a picture of some commercial actress and i'm like this person looks nothing like me I don't think I don't think I've ever gotten a tweet where it's like did you know you look like this person and had it not be like a little offensive like it's always like it's always like some like kind of like doughy dumpy dude in the background of a shot like that's not even and I'm like it's you And I'm like, it's you. And I'm like, thanks. Thanks, man. Appreciate it. I look like when you just get

the general settings for an Imperial on Skyrim. Just like, yeah, it's just there. Anyways, thank you guys. This has been a lot of fun. I hope you learned something. If you have a shoot dude to submit to the Smosh cast,

we have an email you can send them to. It's shootdude at smosh.com. That's S-H-O-O-T-D-O-O-D at smosh.com. Send us your shoot dudes. It can be anonymous or put your name there. Any silly, embarrassing story. We don't want to scare people with like, if you go ahead and have some serious traumatic stuff.

We don't want traumatic. We want embarrassing. We want, it needs to be, I think the perfect shoot dude, and I've said this before, is you, it's a perfect Seinfeld or Kirby enthusiasm type of situation where you did something and you got yourself into a bad situation or you embarrassed yourself and you're going, shoot, dude.

Like, I think it has to be your fault. I think it has to be your fault. I don't know. I feel like just definitely embarrassing stuff. Like, I'm down to hear it all. But anyway, I'm going to call you a liar no matter what. Send it to us. Even if you're not sure, send it to us.

You know, we might put it on. We love it. Anyways, and guys, the audio version of this podcast comes out on Wednesdays. You know that because you're listening to it. But also the video comes out on Fridays on the Smoshcast YouTube channel. So check it out so you can see our faces because we do all sorts of crazy physical stuff. While you're listening to this, we're dancing while we're talking.

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