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5:22 Punch the Monkey our beloved
9:25 Sponsor!
10:54 Gathering of 100 Chosens
15:32 Amanda’s Birthday in the Philippines
20:42 Pokopia
22:11 Resident Evil Requiem
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Hi, welcome to Smoshmouth.
I'm Shane.
And I'm Amanda and we have a very wonderful guest for this today.
Trevor!
Oh, I'm wonderful.
You're one, I think.
I said special before and now I'm saying wonderful.
Because we're in a different place.
Yeah, look at this place.
It's wonderful.
We feel like a normal podcast, I feel like.
It's so beautiful.
Look at all the two cans.
Oh my god.
Yeah.
You can't everywhere.
I actually didn't know that just right now.
My tiny picture.
We had to bring him.
Of course.
I had to bring him.
Rambe is everywhere with me.
For those who don't know,
Smosh is moving its studios
from Rancho Cucamonga to Oxnard.
Oxnard is a really cool place.
I've actually never been to Oxnard.
It's crazy.
I've been there so many times.
My parents, that's where my parents are from.
Really?
Yeah, Ventura and Oxnard.
They went to high school there.
That's crazy.
I've heard it's gorgeous,
which the name doesn't sound gorgeous.
Oxnard.
Oxford in England.
So that's what's helping me.
But Nard?
Nard?
Nard?
It's a beautiful place.
That's crazy.
I love it.
It doesn't sound like a beach town.
Ventura.
Ventura sounds so much more.
Ventura sounds more like a long beach.
Ventura!
Yeah, Ventura.
Ventura.
Oxnard sounds like it's in the middle of nowhere.
It sounds like there's a lot of universities around.
Yeah.
We're not vibing on Oxnard.
Like, I have Oxnard is different in my head than you guys.
That's true.
I think so.
Okay.
I don't, you're thinking of it as academic.
Well, yes.
And I just see like a bunch of card dealership.
It's an academic school that people are fighting for their lives
and they have to bond with a dragon.
And if they don't bond with a dragon, they will die.
That's just forefling.
See, I see it as the place that I would go
sometimes when I was a kid to visit family.
Yeah, you're too close to it.
Yeah, I'm too close.
I can't have an opinion on Oxnard to connect.
Yeah, you shouldn't have an opinion on that.
But anyways, moving our studios.
So in the meantime,
we're here at just a temporary.
It's so cute.
Yeah, this chair.
It's very nice.
This chair is actually predatory.
I'm so comfy.
I am excited to get a new chair for Reddit stories.
Whoa, I need you in chair and having problems.
Well, that chair.
I sat in Shane's chair for two seconds during a live stream.
What is wrong with that chair?
I don't actually know.
It's like consistent.
You want to go backwards, but that's not the point of it.
It's far more leaned back than it looks.
And it doesn't have arm rests.
No, it's not really.
It was just the chair we had.
And we just threw it out there back in the day.
And then we just didn't change it.
Because it was just like, yeah, sit there for out.
Shane sometimes sleeps in that chair.
That's how long he does this for his body.
Yeah, we stopped down for a little bit.
I'm like, let me just take a nap right here.
Sometimes overnight, you know, but.
Yeah, I don't want you to do that.
In the new space, you can't do that.
Yeah, we're getting a new chair.
I don't know exactly what the new chair is going to be like.
I hope it's something like this.
This is one of the most comfortable chairs I've ever sat in.
Can I just say I just got so conscious of the fact
that now people can see my lower half.
Because normally we're sitting at the table.
And I'm like, it doesn't matter what I'm doing with my legs.
And I just thought about it.
And I just immediately started fidgeting.
And I'm like, does my, do my legs look weird?
It's great.
That's why I'm using socks.
No, you're wearing your shoes match the top.
Okay, it's great.
Thank you.
I do when we're filming like a couple episodes of Smoshmouth,
I, it is nice that I don't have to worry about what pants I'm wearing.
If it like works.
Oh, yeah, there's a whole outfit.
Sometimes I'll just go winning the poo.
Yeah, yeah, no at the table.
I have noticed that it's tough for me.
It is really tough.
It's hard to ignore.
Wow.
He comes in and just strips.
Yeah, I was wearing pants, but I take them off.
To sit on that little tiny school chair.
Yeah.
The new set will show your lower halves.
The new set's going to show our lower halves.
Why?
But, you know, why do they find with that?
Because I always wear nice lower halves.
I always put on my nicest lower halves.
Yeah.
My lower halves, everybody loves my lower halves.
That's crazy.
I got to get new pants.
I need to go.
I was saying tonight, never change our pants for a Smash Mouth.
Well, just change our shirt.
I try not to wear one pair of pants for a whole shoot day.
It does make outfits tough.
I do end up wearing just white t-shirt and something over it.
Pretty much every day.
Because I'm like, what else works with four different variations?
Like, there's nothing wrong with wearing a white t-shirt.
If I could wear a white t-shirt every day, I would.
But me and a white t-shirt is weird.
Like, me and like a, I don't know.
It just makes me feel like I went to gym class and I forgot my gym.
You got to try it out sometime.
I guess.
I'll try it.
I'll wear it with a gold chain.
It depends on what type of white t-shirt to.
We should do a video and we just all like wear white t-shirts and jeans
and then pretend that it was an accident and be like, what?
Whoa, can't believe we all did this.
This is wild.
I just spoiled it.
Now, everybody knows.
So, we haven't actually recorded a new episode of this show in a minute.
Because we kind of batched a bunch of episodes before we left our old studio.
It's been almost a month.
It's been like a month and a lot has happened in a month.
Angela, Angela, and Chance and Olivia played us.
Yeah, yeah, that was so fun.
That was a great, also.
It was unbelievable.
A loved, very fun episode.
But yeah, so much happened maybe in our lives.
Just in general, and as well, a punch.
I hate that video.
Don't talk to me about punch.
Every video.
I do not like those videos.
So, Courtney had a prediction for this year.
And it was that monkeys are going to do something new.
And reject their own.
Yeah, yeah.
Be a huge loser.
Yeah.
His punch.
Punch.
Whoa, whoa, are you saying punch is a loser?
He just everybody hates him.
Like, he's kind of stupid.
He's like, okay, be crazy.
He's just a kidding.
I'm not punching down right now.
Everybody hates him.
That means you hate him, Shane.
No, I'm saying the monkey's.
In the monkey world.
So, do you agree with that?
No.
But I am a homo sapien.
I am far, far more intelligent.
He's a homo, all right.
Yeah.
No, the punch videos, they are brutal.
But then you'll see a video where it's like,
oh, one of the monkeys likes him and is hugging him.
And then in like the next video, it's like
that monkey doesn't like him anymore.
What is?
Fuck is going on.
That first day I learned about punches,
such a roller coaster.
Because I saw, I was like, oh my god,
this monkey is getting bullied and I wanted to cry.
20 minutes later, I see a video.
Actually, the monkey has a friend now.
And I was like, yes!
And then another video comes and it's the monkey's being mean again.
What's going on?
All I can think about is like, you know,
fuck those other monkeys.
Like, punch is awesome.
He's clearly awesome and ahead of his time.
That's how I look at that situation.
Yeah, he's a renaissance man.
Yeah, exactly.
It's really hard for me to know.
I really, that story needs to turn out well.
Like, like, he needs to inevitably,
I just, I'm like, if he never gets accepted fully into that.
Why do you think, what is the possible reason
why a monkey would not be accepted?
Is it their scent?
Like, what is it?
I'm not.
I'm not.
No, I know this.
Sure.
It's just a penny.
Okay, okay, we are assumptions.
Yeah, I think it's like kind of power dynamics
in the animal kingdom.
Like, one monkey's kind of being mean to be like,
yeah, I'm a big dog.
Like, it's kind of like very human
of like, I'm going to bully this kid
because I want people to see that I'm strong.
But everyone is, everyone's fooling him.
Everyone's, yeah.
I wonder if it's just a hierarchy thing.
Like, you add one monkey to the chain.
And it's just like, all right,
where do you fit in here?
Because there's an order to things.
So if you're at it, who is above you
and who's below you?
Well, it's like playing in the apes, you know?
It's like they, they hated, they hated Caesar when,
and you know, playing in the apes is crazy.
Because it's like, what?
Because Caesar was mean.
I didn't like Caesar either.
Caesar was mean in plan of the apes.
Wasn't he? Am I crazy?
I don't think so.
I feel like he just was kind of a monkey.
It's been a minute since I watched all the plan of the apes.
Yeah, I'm forgetting.
I'm, but like, the whole thing is like,
you know, there are all those monkeys are so mad
they want to break out because there's no space,
you know, in the enclosures.
And it's like, you'd think they'd just build a bigger.
So you think maybe the little one
is just taking up a little bit too much space.
The bigger one.
Get a fix it.
Give them maybe he has a,
maybe he has a different scent on him
and they feel like he's not a part of them.
My cats are that way,
but that cats are obviously so different.
But like, when my one cat goes to the vet
and he comes back, our other cat hates him for days.
Because a different scent hates him.
Like truly hates him.
I'm sticking with it.
And then suddenly one day is normal.
I don't, I just don't know how monkeys work.
Maybe, how do monkeys work?
Guys, how do monkeys work?
How do monkeys work?
Actually, that happens to me
when I come home from a smashoot.
Raven hates me for like a few hours.
I don't think it's how you smell.
Hey.
What the fuck did it my scent?
Oh, it's a scent.
It's shaming away the scent.
Because I smell different.
It just recognize me.
Maybe give punch a little tiny, like,
poor gun.
Give him a gun.
Could you imagine that?
Take away the stuffed animal.
Give him a gun.
The next video, it's just punch with a gun.
He's just holding it off.
Oh, right.
You're cool.
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I liked that.
What is going on?
I don't know.
I don't know, but I like it.
Okay, so that prediction, we could kind of mark that off.
Yeah, we did.
But another prediction that I think came true effectively.
I said there'd be a gathering of 100 Chosen's.
Oh, my God.
And within a month.
One Cera Christ.
And one Cera Christ.
There was one Cera Christ.
Yeah, so talk to us about it.
Within a month, within like January of this year,
after making that prediction,
some fans here in LA started organizing a gathering of Chosen's.
That would happen at a park.
And it was like, oh, this is picking up steam.
Like they're really organizing this.
There was posters around like Echo Park and stuff for it.
It was awesome.
And we started talking about it.
And then our head of social team,
Erica was like, should we, should we send you?
Should you go?
And I was like, churn?
Like, absolutely.
And when I saw it, it was happening.
I was like, yeah, like I would be down to go.
And I was like, well, I need to go as the Chosen.
Like, I can't do it.
Yeah, like the Chosen goes.
And my dream was to kind of just show up
and just try to like sneak in and just be like part of the crowd.
Like, what's up?
I'm another Chosen here.
But they were like, okay, it's protocol here at Smosh.
Like, you need to have like a bodyguard.
Just in case, I was like, we're not going to need it.
But yeah, yeah.
And so we had this like huge like six foot five
probably color.
What?
Have we been in before?
Huge bodyguard.
And we put him in a Chosen shirt.
And I was trying to blame the character.
This is guy who's worked for like 40 years as a bodyguard.
And he's like, so what's his deal?
Like, what's the Chosen's deal?
Does he like, does he like howl and stuff?
I was like, not really.
But he just is like, he just like wolves on a shirt,
but you know, whatever.
And he was like, he was like, he's like,
so am I part of the wolf pack now?
I was like, yeah, man.
He's like guarded precedents before.
Yeah.
Like normally I guard people who need protect.
I love I was really trying to get the back story.
He's like, yeah, he's like, what's his motivation?
I have enemies that I need to look out for.
I love that.
But so we show up to this park and everybody stayed in character.
And it was awesome.
I truly was just kind of blown away.
I actually genuinely felt like I was like intruding
on like an event.
Right.
So I was like, oh, I didn't technically.
That's epic.
I was coming on part of full.
You know, I showed up.
And so I walk up and they're in the middle
of doing a Chosen competition.
What does that look like?
Just like different skills, different skills
to establish that you're a Chosen.
There's many skills.
The winner gets a copy of Blade 2.
Okay.
Perfect.
And I start walking on Blu-ray.
They truly kind of like every kind of like parts
like and like opens up and I'm like suddenly
in the middle of the crowd.
And then I'll just kind of staring at me and I was like,
I did not prepare a speech.
Like I'm just going to show up and say, hey,
and like hang out.
That was the Chosen.
And then I was like, I got to say something.
And I was just saying like truly it was like so cool.
I was like, this is I was kind of blown away.
Are you saying it as Shane or in the Chosen?
I was trying to stay in Chosen.
But it was hard.
I was like, this is trippy because I'm not performing.
I'm just here hanging out.
But I am this character and everybody else is this character.
And like even when we were getting like a group photo,
like one of the Chosen's turned to me
and he had like a sigh, which is one of those sick
like Ninja Turtles knives.
And he was like, it's like,
Chosen, do you need a weapon?
And I was like, no, I'm okay.
Like, oh, this is incredible.
Yeah.
It was so much fun.
That is so cool.
I saw a video and I was just like, this is epic.
It was genuinely so sick.
Like I was like, I can't believe this.
So I really like shout out to everybody
who organized it and went.
And I'm sure there's going to be more gatherings
throughout this year.
I think they've heard about others happening.
And it's really so cool.
Like I love it.
I love that people find joy in that character.
Yeah.
It's so cool.
I think it's so epic that you like predicted that.
And then they all, you know, people are busy
in doing their thing, but they all came together.
And I love that they all stayed in character.
Yeah, that's incredible.
One of the chosens towards the end of the gathering,
stopping as I was like leaving, they're just like chosen.
They're like, just so you know,
as an actual virgin, stolen valor.
And I was like, that's the funniest shit.
That's the best thing.
I was like, dude, these people rock.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
That was like incredible.
I was like, yeah, you're busy.
That's really good.
It was so awesome.
That's so cool.
It was the best.
We got to try to like, I don't know,
challenge our fans to more things because they do it.
I will say, I guess I can like speak about this,
but our fans are incredible.
People were sending me this.
So apparently in the Philippines,
there was a billboard of me
because it was my birthday in the Philippines.
Incredible.
And these fans are amazing.
They've reached out to me.
They're so sweet.
They're so amazing.
They had a full gathering
to celebrate my birthday after my birthday
of all different characters I play.
They had a bigger celebration for your birthday than you did.
I was like, I know.
Incredible.
Here I went like really like minimal for my birthday.
And they and they sent me pictures and videos
and I reposted.
And it was just so unbelievable to me.
Like people on Slack were being like,
do you see this happening?
And I was like, it makes me want to go to the Philippines
and be like, hey guys and show up as like,
think you, well, maybe not take you in.
That's a hard costume to like walk around in.
But like Sarah Christ, like it was just,
I'm so honored because you come up with these characters
and you're like, you get joy from them.
And then when people get joy and then wanna dress up as them,
it was just, and Selena was just in the Philippines as well,
which is crazy because that's where she's from.
She's visiting her family.
And she didn't see the billboard
also because there's a lot of traffic.
But like, she did get invited to one of these events
and she couldn't go, but like, I just think that's,
she got it back to your birthday party.
Incredible.
Yeah.
In the Philippines.
In the Philippines.
Did you get invited to your birthday party in the Philippines?
No.
Here's the thing.
Oh no.
Big might of, but thank you.
That's an epic horrible prank is to have a birthday party
for someone and not invite them.
Feel like it's your birthday and we're like,
oh Trevor, it's your birthday party this weekend.
You're not.
You can, but we are having your birthday party.
I mean, I've never been to the Philippines,
but I would love to go.
Yeah.
Our Pinot brothers and sisters do not mess around.
Yeah.
They're incredible.
We did our episode where we were speaking,
trying to read other languages.
To go.
And people were talking about you with Tagalog.
Yeah.
Wait, I don't know this.
So my basketball team, when I was in high school,
we went over to the Philippines in the summer
for a few weeks to play basketball.
And so I was just in the Philippines with my friends
for a few weeks and we had friends
and they taught me this song called Basketball Basketball.
And it's funny because it was so clear
that it was like an inappropriate double meaning song.
And they're like, we have to show you this song
about basketball.
Like you're gonna love it.
It's about basketball.
It won't mean it.
Yeah.
And then they're like, the song is like,
basketball, basketball.
And the song's set up, set up, basketball.
And the song's set up, I believe, means like,
tasty or something, tasty basketball.
And it's like, it's like about sex.
And so the whole time they're like,
they're like, you gotta learn this song too.
Like you gotta, I was like, guys,
are you gonna tell us what it means?
Like, it's clearly like basketball.
But it is truly stuck in my head since 2016
or whenever I went, it's been just like in my head.
But it was so much fun.
I love the Philippines.
You all didn't think a white boy could speak a little Tagalog.
I from the Philippines, boy, basketball, basketball.
Ang set up, set up, my basketball.
Anyone from the Philippines for that one?
For that dirty song, that dirty song
that I was pranked into singing by my Filipino friends.
And they said, no, it's just about basketball, buddy.
And I went, okay, let me sing it.
Sing it with my whole chest.
How do I know that song?
Cause I'm him.
Yeah, you all didn't think a white boy had that in him, did you?
I think it's, it was like some of the most fun
I've ever had on a trip there.
I would love to go.
I would love to go.
I went to, there was a Filipino festival here in L.A.
Cause we have a couple Filipino friends
and I went and it was unbelievable.
It was, where was it?
Filipino town, I guess.
Yeah, obviously.
It was so, so amazing.
Such a huge community in L.A., massive.
Yeah.
Anyways, I guess we all have to go to the Philippines.
I feel like I'd love that.
Sing basketball.
Would love that.
It'd be fun to go and do a show in the Philippines.
I would literally love it.
Yeah.
I've literally wanted to go back.
We don't have any plans.
We don't have any plans.
But I'm saying it would be, we would be, it'd be cool.
Be cool.
I'm saying it'd be cool to do that.
It'd be cool.
And I am a working mom.
I have help, I have care.
My husband's incredible.
I can, I can, I can get on a plane without my son.
Guys, I can go to the Philippines.
Okay.
Guys, guys.
I can't do it.
I have a passport.
I can go.
I can go.
It won't be upset with me years later.
No.
If I missed a bedtime, even though that's what I think, I'm like, I missed a bedtime.
He's going to remember the next day.
He won't.
I could go to the chicken and do it right now.
Oh my god.
Sorry.
Chicken and do it.
Sorry.
I just, I'm just thinking about food now.
Me too.
I'm always thinking about food.
Anyways.
I'm not.
Anyways.
That's so wild.
That's really sad.
I think about playing polcopia.
Dude.
I don't know what you just said.
Okay.
It's a game.
Hey, let's talk about earlier.
Let's let the men talk for a second.
Oh my god.
Oh my god.
I forgot.
Trevor's back on the pod.
And I hate you.
I like you, Trevor.
And then you get on the pod and something snaps.
Gentlemen, shall we go to the cigar lounge and talk about polcopia?
Polcopia.
Hey.
Don't tell me what this is.
Is this?
I.
Yeah.
The more I try to explain it, the dumber it's going to sound.
And I love that.
Let's.
It's just like it's like a community builder.
It's like a stardew valley type animal crossing type.
You go into a world and it's all about just like you've got kind of this blank slate
and then you make it your own and it's like, but this sounds fun.
You can build homes.
Decorating.
Decorating.
Water the grass.
Yeah.
Fine.
But it's really fun because it's Pokemon.
So it's like, you know, you can find Pokemon and they join your community and you and it's
cute because instead of like catching the Pokemon, you build little habitats for them.
So it's like each Pokemon is like, oh, you want to build like grass under a shaded tree
and then you build that and then a Pokemon comes and lives there.
Oh, wait, that's really cute.
Yeah.
It's awesome.
I don't think you guys are like the town mayor or town construction worker.
Pretty much.
Pretty much.
Yeah.
Pretty much your ditto.
Yeah.
Ditto.
Yeah.
You know, like when Patrick Swazie said it in ghost when she said, I love you and he said
ditto.
Yeah.
I love that.
I love that pottery scene.
Woo.
Speaking of video games though.
A new Resident Evil came out.
Oh, I know.
Trust me.
And it sucks that we're in the middle of a move because I know Spencer is dying.
It's going to happen.
To play it with Angela ordered t-shirts for us.
I'm actually not kidding.
What?
Yep.
What do you mean t-shirts?
So we're on a really cool group text.
It's a Resident Evil group text.
Me, Spencer and Ando.
Sorry.
Angela ordered us all Resident Evil t-shirts.
What did they have on it?
Does it just say Resident Evil?
Does it just say Resident Evil?
No, no, no.
No, I can't remember.
I could like literally pull to the picture.
Do you own it yet?
I don't own it yet.
She's ordered it.
She's ordered it.
She told us to Venmo her.
I'm not sure.
Did she ask?
That's the funniest thing ordering something for someone without telling them.
I mean, like, can you Venmo me for that?
And you need to spot me for this.
It's possible that we're not going to Venmo her.
I don't think I would.
I don't think I would.
Okay.
Here it is.
It's so good.
It literally says girl dinner on it.
Bro.
And it's just Leon Kennedy.
Look at all the versions of him.
Nice.
Because you know we did the video on games where Spencer had a PowerPoint and
explained all of the lore of Resident Evil, which I was like, this is epic.
Yeah.
I knew.
Hmm.
Crazy.
So the iterations of him is all it's like he becomes like a batty.
Like later.
The funniest part about that is that I guarantee you Spencer will wear that shirt more than
either of you.
No.
He will because girl dinner is fun, but it's like.
I kind of reject the term.
He's wearing the funniest.
The Spencer wearing girl dinner is the greatest.
He's going to have that thing tucked in denim jacket over it with the boots on with his
mug.
Can I?
Can I clear the air real quick about the mug situation?
Okay.
So remember when we did a guess who walked?
Yeah.
And I did impression of Spencer.
And you did.
And you had a lean to him.
And everyone's like, what's wrong with you?
Why would you do that?
You monster.
I was leaning because he and I brought it up to Spencer and he agreed.
It's because he has a mug and it's you're saying he's leaning because it's more of a choice.
He's leaning because he's kind of like the way he walked is he leans into a conversation.
That's why I walked with such an aggressive feeling.
I see what you're saying.
I overdid it.
No, I think you nailed it.
But I did nail it like in here.
Oh.
Ooh.
What?
Hold on.
What?
Keep going.
Can you keep?
Oh, dammit.
You just wanted it.
I want to do this one justice so much.
Can you do it a little bit more than a couple steps?
I think I have it.
Keep going, keep going.
Oh.
And it doesn't say Sadie.
Am I not killing this?
God.
I see it.
I'm getting some vibes.
Or also this.
You're walking very good in that video.
Yeah.
You gave people a lot to think about.
That video was a thinker.
That's what I was saying.
If I'm going to do an impression of you,
I'm going to do it honestly from my point of view.
Just, yeah.
You go.
I just went on.
I don't think I did.
I didn't do you.
No, I don't think.
No, I didn't do you.
I don't know.
I'd love to see that.
People pointed out that a lot of your impressions
of people's walks, they're like looking up.
And that's because from your perspective,
everyone is probably looking up.
Yeah, I didn't.
That's so good.
I didn't realize that.
Yeah.
Some of them, I think it's the case.
Like, I think you did an impression of no one.
And no one knows very much like that.
But you're talking to me.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And that's one.
I got one.
But you didn't do.
No Trevor wasn't in that.
I wouldn't know.
I would pick a Trevor.
I feel like you've got a pretty like.
His is bouncy.
Bouncy.
A little bouncy.
And like, limber and like.
It's really fun.
Yeah.
Look, for listeners and viewers,
impersonate your friends' walks.
That's crazy.
I never thought about how I walk.
I walk way too fast.
That is one thing is I have to consciously slow myself.
I walk fast too.
That's really fast.
It's because when I was young,
and I wasn't tall, my dad never slowed down.
Like my dad's tall.
And so as a kid, I was like,
I had to book it to keep up with him.
Yeah.
And then I carried that,
and now I have long legs,
and I haven't adjusted.
I like that.
So I just end my family.
My family's fast walkers to yeah.
My dad.
Same.
Moves.
I don't know what it is about those gen exers or whatever.
They had places to be.
No, my mom too.
She's like,
do we want to go get a coffee?
I'm like, yeah.
But I don't even...
She's gone.
Like this is a cloud of dust.
No, literally.
Like it's like an image flashes through my eyes,
and she is booking it.
It's crazy.
And she doesn't stop.
Sometimes I'm like,
mom, there is an actual
do-not-walk sign.
And she will not stop.
It's like she's programmed.
I think if she stops,
she's afraid it'll be done.
Like it'll be over with.
It's also not just walking.
Like my dad,
I'll be home,
and he'll be like,
hey, you want to leave it like 530 to go to dinner?
I'm like, yeah, that's great.
And then he'll text me at 520.
He's like, I'm in the car whenever you're ready.
Yes.
Like, dude, what do you mean?
Yeah.
What are you sitting in the car?
And he's probably already been in there for like five minutes.
Like he's been sitting there for 15 minutes.
Oh, yeah.
Right, dad, we meet up from the airport.
He's been there for two hours.
Yeah.
He has Dunkin' Donuts.
His second Dunkin' Donuts coffee.
And he's like, yeah.
You know, I parked...
He parked in the same spot.
And he explains it to me every time.
You know, I parked...
We got to take the elevator.
I'm like, I know where you parked, dad.
I know where you parked.
I know where you'll be.
You've been here.
He's like, I got up at four in the morning.
What is with older people who just wake up at four?
And that's it.
They wake up at four.
They're always like...
They're always my dad's 15 minutes early
to the movies without fail.
Like, we'll go see a movie.
I love it.
And I'm like, dude,
genuinely, the previews are starting five minutes late.
Like, AMC in the app has a thing that says,
they have push the previews back.
They have push the previews back.
They have push the previews back.
It's not going to start until 25 to 30 minutes after the time it says.
I'm like, what are we doing here?
I got to sit in the chair for an hour before the movie starts.
Yeah, but I like that.
I don't like the new previews that they have.
They have like, they have like weird little
dumber previews before the actual previews.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Tell me why.
I don't know.
They just have like, it's just AMC's own little things.
I don't know.
I went to go see Weathering Heights on my birthday.
And we were literally four minutes late, which was a crime awful.
I hate being late for the movies.
I liked it too.
I walked into the middle of a scene that I was like, what?
Wait, you were late for the movie itself or the previews?
I was literally, I thought the, so we got there five minutes.
So they said the movie starts at, you know, one or whatever.
Right.
We got a 105, which was a crime.
Okay.
But there were no previews.
It was straight into the movie.
And you already missed a little bit.
You already missed a little bit of the movie.
I would leave.
I can't do that.
I can't do that.
If you know what the opening scene is, I walked into.
Do you guys, have you seen it?
No.
That's fine.
If you have seen it, I walked into that opening scene where they're above
and you see that.
Well, now I'm not going to see it.
Yeah.
Now I know everything.
Yeah.
No, I would not be able to handle that.
I don't know.
I've hated that movie.
I freaking loved it.
Yeah.
I love the things that I'm like, I wish, but I loved it.
I heard a lot about that movie.
I loved it.
And everyone's like, it's not weathering heights.
I'm like, do you really want weathering heights?
No.
Do you want the story?
Yeah.
But it is.
I haven't seen it, but I feel like it happens with every book
adaption.
It's not the book.
Nowadays where everyone's really mad.
But I'm like, what I did because I would be pissed off about
movies adapted from books.
And then I started being like, you know what?
It's a whole new thing.
I just treated it as like, this is a whole new story.
It's literally a full story.
It's a loosely based on this book.
Yeah.
I like, but if I want the book, then it's good.
I'm going to be disappointed every time.
Yeah.
I agree.
But it's hard.
It's hard when you read a book.
It's really hard.
Really, really into it.
Especially if you listen to the audio, I remember listening to
a girl who was trying to audio book.
And then I watched the movie and I was like, they're not even
British.
What?
An epsilon was lead and she wasn't even, she was speaking
English.
Like American.
Yeah.
And I was like, yeah.
Huh?
So I get the upset, but there's so many iterations of
Withering Heights.
You can literally see Tom Hardy meet his wife in real life in
Withering Heights.
There you go.
That's how they met.
Like Ray Finds in Withering Heights.
Like there's so many iterations.
Yeah.
And they're not.
Ray Finds and Tom Hardy have both been in Withering Heights.
Yes.
I didn't know that.
Yes.
I didn't write a passage.
I don't have Withering Heights ball knowledge.
Like that, I guess.
Oh, I've seen them all.
I've seen them all.
Whoa.
Literally.
I love the story.
So it's like a Romeo and Juliet.
It's very tragic.
I think I tried to read Withering Heights a long time ago.
And I got like 20 pages in and I was like, no.
I read it in high school.
But I'll give it a shot again.
Yeah.
I read it in high school.
This is a different.
This is a similar iteration.
It's just basically like a love that like you literally can't
breathe without them.
But it's just this like.
I need to, uh, I'm going to get into some more classics soon.
Really?
I've been kind of behind on reading.
But for the past couple of years, I've been reading a lot of like
what's coming out this year, right?
What are you most excited about?
That I bought recently?
Yeah.
Um, uh, let's see.
A lot, uh, east of Eden.
I have been meaning to read that for forever.
People who've read it are like, it's one of the best books of all time.
Um, I bought Beloved by Tony Morrison, which I've also heard is like,
that's one of the best.
I need to read that book.
Yeah.
And then crime and punishment is one of those like classic classics.
I'm like, I got to read this at some point in a movie.
Oh, there's been movies made up about almost all of those, I think.
But, um, yeah, just classics are, they're, you know, it's an undertaking.
It's not like it's like, oh, I'm just going to have a good time and read this.
It's like, all right.
There are intense themes here and, and a lot to think about.
And you know, I end up rereading pages and a lot of rereading pages.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's a little bit more of a challenge as opposed to like a relaxing enjoyment thing.
Yeah.
So that's why I haven't, I feel that way.
But that many a long time.
I know my nonfiction grind and the reading.
And there's a lot of rereading pages where I'm like, I gotta make sure I, I caught all that.
There's a lot of words here.
I do audio books for nonfiction because, uh, with fiction, with audiobooks,
I have a really hard time with like, staying focused sometimes.
Especially if I'm like doing something while I'm listening to it.
And if I miss like a minute or two, I'm like,
the fuck just happened?
Yeah.
Yeah.
And it's hard to like rewind it all the time.
I feel books are tough.
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I do nonfiction for audiobooks because you can miss a little bit and it's okay.
For me, it really depends on the reader.
I need like, I enjoy reading so my voice.
It's not like Amanda reading.
It's like, I change my voice according to the characters or whatever's going on.
Sometimes the reader can be really distracting to me.
But I love, I listen to this other one where there's three readers, three different readers.
And they all have this like really intense Irish accent.
And I was so into it really, really into that.
But like, yeah, audiobooks, it's all about the reader for me.
It has to have a period that makes sense to the book for me.
I get that.
I don't mind.
Do you ever do like an audiobook and then also have the physical book?
Like a listen read along?
I've never done that.
But I've never done it.
Find it nice.
I think when there's times where a book I've like struggled with reading a book,
for whatever reason.
Like if I'm like, I'm just like struggling to keep focus while I'm reading this page,
being able to hear it.
And it's like, I watch everything with subtitles.
Me too.
I watch everything with subtitles because I'm like, I just like to be able to make sure
that I'm hearing and like reading along.
So it's like with an audiobook, I'm like, I'm hearing it and I'm reading it.
And it just helps me stay focused.
Wait, I did actually do this.
I did it with, have you ever heard of Covenant of Water?
It's like a very thick book.
It also wrote, it's a very, it's a very medical book, which I didn't realize,
but it like spans through all these different stories in India and the book was amazing,
but so much, so much.
So I did also tag team with audio.
And I found that that was like the best way to get through it.
But I don't often do that.
I know people, I know people who read like fantasy books who really want to get to it.
Yeah.
And they literally don't have enough time to move their hands so they'll listen to audio.
Yeah.
And they'll listen to it on like 1.5 or 2 speed.
Because they need to get like what's happening.
I love fantasy and I can't do it with fantasy because if I'm like really locked on a book,
I read too fast for an audiobook.
I'm like, I'm flipping pages too fast.
And the voice.
Yeah.
I love an audiobook and I've done fantasy books with an audiobook, but there's times where I feel like
I'm like, if I really am like into, like if it's an intense part, I'm like, I just want to go
and sometimes they're just reading too slow.
Yes, or I'm sorry, but sometimes the audio was like, and then he took his hand.
And they're always like, it's like they're walking up hill and they're talking.
And they're like, they're performing it too much.
It's like you got to get a move.
Yeah, to me, I don't read fantasy.
I don't have this voice in my head when I'm reading.
He thrust his, you know, I'm not like reading in a Lord of the Rings voice.
I'm reading it in my voice.
Especially with the type of book you're reading.
Yeah.
Did I say fantasy?
To be clear, you started that sentence.
He thrust.
My head was like, yeah, he thrust his sword.
No, God, when there's smut, I was saying this to Shane earlier in the morning.
I don't know why.
But when there's smut, there's so much, the smut has to be earned.
Those are the type of books I love because there's so much more going on.
There's like so much tension and relationship and courts and politics.
So when the smut happens, you're just like...
Can I ask what your like least favorite, like word or synonym or phrases for a penis?
Oh my God, I love this.
Is it like...
I want to detail about this.
Well, I love member.
I think member is so funny.
A member gets used a lot.
I, sorry, he asked you.
Okay.
Also Shane reads smut.
Well, I only read one recently.
I read this book called Icebreaker.
Oh, what do they say?
Because that's more of a modern book.
I don't think...
I'm trying to remember if she used like a specific word or it's just kind of like...
She just kind of would be like...
He was huge, right?
Yeah.
But the verb that she used a lot was disintegrating.
Like she disintegrated.
Like when she orgasms, she disintegrated.
What the hell are you...
Okay.
But it dropped a lot.
I'm like, that's the word you're using.
Okay.
That's crazy.
I hate that.
So I like...
I have friends who read these with me.
So I talk about this a lot in a laughing manner.
So they use words like considerable length.
Yeah.
Which I'm not kidding.
I do actually like...
Like he thrust his considerable length.
Oh, wow.
No, no.
His considerable length is straining against his leathers.
Oh, my God.
Dude, I got to start talking like that.
I'm going to go home and be like, man, my considerable length is just not doing good
in these pants right now.
Yeah, exactly.
Like considerable length hurts.
So considerable length, it's not like he's huge.
It's like what's considerable length to the reader.
Yeah, it's subjective.
What makes me laugh so hard that I kind of like...
But in a way that I'm like, why do I like this?
Velvet wrapped steel.
Velvet wrap.
Now I don't know how I feel about it.
I'm literally split.
It's outstanding.
The words are so good.
So velvet wrap steel.
I don't know how...
That's my favorite David Lindbergh.
They also use the word cock.
Yeah.
This is a great word.
Cock is classic.
They're not using penis.
They're never using penis.
No, you never going to see penis.
Why?
They don't use penis in vagina.
He got his penis out.
Yeah.
His considerable length was straining.
Or his belt, I wrap my hands around his velvet wrap steel.
Oh my, I grasped his velvet Jesus.
I like those.
Velvet wrapped steel.
Yeah.
That's a crazy thing.
I'm going to be thinking about that one.
Yeah.
I'm going to be thinking about that one.
For women, there's some that I'm like, what?
See, velvet wrap steel does not sound good
because that makes me think of like a velvet couch.
And that material, like...
It makes me think...
No.
No.
They're like, fey, and they have really incredible soft skin
over something really hard.
Yeah, for sure.
There we go.
I don't need to be embarrassed about this.
Just don't.
This is great.
I brought it up.
You're reading.
I love talking about it.
But velvet wrap steel is like one of those where I read it
and I'm like, what the hell?
Yeah.
You're like, yeah, where is that?
Well, wrap steel.
What are we going to sheath this so word?
What's happening?
I see you're saying me and my friends will get together
and we are dying laughing about talking about it.
But when we're reading it, we're of course like so into it.
But that's what I would say.
We should do that.
We should do a smash mouth where we're like, hey,
you're going to give us all a book to read
and we're going to come back and we're going to talk about it.
And we're going to book review.
I would literally...
It needs to be one that's absurd.
Like, it needs to be...
Oh, yeah.
Crazy.
There's some smart that I just won't touch.
I think there's like...
And hey, if you're into it, get it.
But there's some that's like milk, milk, mist...
Oh, yeah, yeah.
That one.
That one.
Morning glory milking farm.
Yeah, and it's this one.
I read that one.
That's the one that I read last year and I talked about it
on like five different podcasts.
That was the first sweaty book I ever read.
But he's a...
He's a...
He's a Minotaur.
He's a Minotaur.
Well, it's a world where like mythical creatures
just live alongside humans, right?
I like that.
So he's like a businessman.
Yeah.
He's like wearing a suit and tie and stuff.
But he's a Minotaur.
The cover.
The cover is what made me go.
Oh, it's insane.
Oh, it's...
Oh, it's insane.
It's ridiculous.
So I read that and then recently I read Icebreaker,
which is far more grounded.
It's a college.
It's a hockey player and a figure skater.
And one of the ice rinks gets sabotaged, whatever.
So they have to share an ice rink.
And they hate each other.
Oh.
For what a...
For no clear reason, they hate each other.
And then they bone a lot.
Wait, can I ever say bone in that?
I think they say boner.
She does say boner.
If I read boner.
He will.
It goes between her perspective and his perspective
and multiple times throughout that book.
He's like, I'm trying to hide my boner.
I see.
But imagine if he said I'm trying to hide my considerable length.
My velvet wrap seal.
Trevor, that's a mod.
Actually, I don't like modern smut that much.
Because they're saying boner.
I want them to be in a tunic.
Yes.
I want them to be his velvet wrapped boner.
I want their velvet wrapped boners to be over under a tunic.
Yes.
Yes.
I get it.
Because it's fantasy.
My craziest knot.
It wasn't like a smut book.
But when I was in like seventh grade,
I had to do like a book report.
And I had to do like,
and I was like, hey, dad.
Any good books you're reading?
Yeah, I got this great.
But he regumates me his book.
And it's like a historical fiction.
And it was, and it was all really good.
And a very good book.
But there was like two things in it where I read it.
And it was, you know, I was in seventh grade.
And there was this like very smutie section where it was just like describing.
And it was crazy because it was like,
part of it was like kind of revolutionary or like industrial revolution period.
And it was like a coal miner.
And then he like goes and like,
it gets out of the coal mine and has sex with like his,
whoever in like a bathtub.
And it was the craziest thing.
And I was reading it.
I was like, does my dad remember what was in this book?
Because I feel like he wouldn't just give me this book to read if he remembered like these scenes in it.
Probably not.
And then I was like, I'm like seventh grade.
Okay.
But the seventh grade, but conservative Christian school seventh grade.
Yeah.
Yeah, I was reading that.
No, I know he read it.
And I was like, well, I'm too far gone now to like change books.
And then I did the book report on it.
I was like, I had this like fear in the back of my head.
I was like, surely like the teacher isn't going to like go look at the book.
And then be like, he read a weird book.
I was like very scared of that.
But that was the first time I read anything.
I do actually relate to that really like my dad recommended true blood when I was younger.
Whoa.
And he was like true blood is such an amazing show.
Like you and you're like, your dad contains multitudes.
You need to.
My dad was fascinating, amazing man.
And me and my younger sister and we weren't that young.
But we were watching true blood.
And my mom walks in on this very specific scene where it's two vampires going at it.
And he snaps her head.
He's going from behind and he snaps her head to face him so that he could look at her.
And my mom goes, what are you guys watching?
And she wasn't judging because my mom also watches what she wants to watch.
So she goes, and we're like, this is dad's favorite.
He loves you.
And it didn't kill the vampire, right?
It's just like he was doing her from behind and he wanted to see her face.
So of course he snapped her head back.
Yeah.
That's the natural.
But like, who's got time to flip over?
You know, he's got time.
And my dad is just like, he just loves watching things like that.
And so he'll still to the stage.
Like you got to watch a show.
It's such a good show.
And I'm like, yes.
Damn.
But I'm just like, you know what?
It's, it's, it's.
Yeah, whatever.
Whatever.
Let's normalize it.
Oh, yeah.
But I will say in these books, this is why I struggle with modern smut.
Because I just like, I don't want to read about a guy's boner.
Because boner just makes me feel like I'm in high school.
Yeah.
So I'm glad you're enjoying the book.
I mean, they are, they're in college in this book.
Okay.
But I just struggled because there was really kind of no plot.
That that was like, that there needs to be a plot.
If the smut comes, the first 300 pages, I'm like, uh-oh.
You need, you need it to a slow build full plot, full tension.
You have to read 300 pages before you get to the smut.
One series, I read four books to get to the smut.
Whoa.
Yeah, see?
I need to know that.
It's not just about the smut.
I mean, the smut is amazing, of course.
But like, I love the tension.
Like, I can be turned on just by, like, looks and glances.
Yeah.
That's why modern smut isn't my favorite, because I feel like they like-
Just get right to it.
Get.
It happens at, like, page 50 of Icebreaker.
Fuck.
And I was kind of like, I was like, this is crazy.
Like, what?
Like, all right.
Come on.
Apparently, I met the character.
I hardly even know.
There are people out there already having sex in the ice.
Yeah.
It's like, I need to know.
Yeah.
For sure.
I need to know what their wants are.
Yeah.
They are before.
Yeah.
They have a little world building.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You need a lot.
What college are they at?
Do they have other choices?
It's a made up college.
Do they not get accepted to their first choice?
It's a made up college.
We don't know what that means.
We don't know what that means.
I'm associated with college university.
It's truly not far off from that.
It was actually fascinating though, because even though it's modern day, it takes place in
the college in California.
It was a fantasy book, right?
Because it's a college hockey team of a bunch of six, five jock dudes, but they're all
so respectful of women.
Even though they're like douchey, but multiple times throughout the book, it's like, they're
perfect.
Going through text book of, here's the most respectful way to handle this situation.
All right.
Like there's a part where like she's drunk and he's just like, he's like, no, you're
drunk.
I'm not going to do anything like whatever.
And then like, just throughout it, I'm like, oh, this is the dream world where like even
when guys are being douchey, they're still being so respectful.
It was really interesting to read in that way.
Yeah, we, that's, that's an amazing, we would love that.
Right.
I feel like that's how it should be.
But what I love about the characters is like the author isn't afraid to make these characters
flawed.
Totally.
They deal with that.
Oh, totally.
I'm like, you can still have this.
They still could have had a plot because throughout the book, she's just like, I fucking hate
this guy.
And it's like, why?
He's perfect.
Like, he's only doing perfect things.
She's like, oh, I'm so annoyed by him.
I'm like, why?
Like, give us a good reason.
Right.
There's not enough world building because there's nothing better than enemies to lovers
for me.
Totally.
But it's like, if the person doesn't like them, I want, I really need to know why it needs
to be justified.
It needs to be justified.
Yeah.
And that's been my, of the only couple smuddy books I've read.
I've been like, they're just needs to be more plot, like to, to, there needs to be more
tension, more struggle.
Yeah.
So that when it happens, it's like, hell yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think that's a reasonable request.
Reasonable request.
Anyways.
Sort of a length.
That's our views on smut.
Not all of them.
Not all of them.
Yeah, not all of them.
Yeah, not all of them.
Should we, you know, check in with some comments?
Oh, yeah.
We have a little segment you want to do today where we read some comments.
We mainly pulled from one of the more recent episodes, a few weeks back.
It was you, Angela and Chance, or actually, no, sorry.
It was, I'm, I'm, I forgot.
It's okay.
Smut.
A couple, a couple of weeks ago, Angela and Chance and Olivia played you and I and Spencer.
Yes.
And Selena found a bunch of comments from that episode that were very funny.
The comments on it were just incredible.
They're so.
And I read a lot of our Smoshmouth comments.
Yeah.
And they're gold.
They are.
I pulled up some of my favorites from, from recent episodes, price-pilled, commented.
They basically made Amanda the battered wife to two broke back mountain men who can't stop
wanting each other.
This is the one I sent to Selena because I was like, wow, and yeah, yeah, because Chance
has this full, I mean, Chance wasn't even there.
It was, he literally became a version of me, a version of me.
You know, he killed it, but he has this whole thing where he's telling a story and they're
just throwing around by baby.
And it is this, they're having like this whole love affair.
And he's just like, so in Boston, like, yeah, so good.
I saw some comments being like, oh, you know, they could have dropped the act like halfway
through and we could have just gotten them.
It's like, we, I think we actually said that to them.
I think we were like, yeah, feel free to like break character at a certain point, they,
they forget who they are.
They committed.
Why would they ever drop, I, I can't drop an act if I'm in a wig, like, I don't want
to.
Chance is someone else.
When we, I think when we like cut for a minute or so, he was like, he's just in character.
At DJB music said, like the halfway mark, Amanda recording what is already being recorded,
never change.
Yeah.
I also sent that.
You were filming it.
And I was like, he's mean, oh, because you were filming the episode while we were recording
the episode.
It was already recording.
Nice.
Hey, you know, posterity.
It was like, look at them.
You and Angela have, Angela, especially has such an instinct for filming things.
She and I'm like amazed by it because I'm so the opposite.
I do not think to pull out my phone and record stuff or take photos.
I know.
She'll be in the middle of like, if you ever having like dinner lunch with Angela, she'll
just be kind of in the middle of it.
She'll just be like, huh?
Yes.
And then like put her phone away.
Yes.
Just take a photo.
It's crazy.
She does do that a lot.
It's such an instinct.
At GWO put it out said, my favorite part of chance playing female characters is that the
mustache is always present.
I forget that he has a mustache in those moments.
Same.
But you truly forget.
Hannah Onegley said, Amanda is the Sophia Vigara of Smosh.
That's a high praise.
I would say so.
I did not.
I pray.
That's incredible.
Wow.
Yeah.
Sophia Vigara in Modern Family or just her?
This is very in general.
What's her husband's name in Modern Family?
Oh, I forget.
J.
J.
J.
J.
J.
J.
J.
She is so funny.
I'm honestly so honored.
Yeah.
There you go.
I mean speaking of True Blood, that was her ex-husband.
Oh.
The guy who played the main wolf.
Oh.
Whatever his name was.
I don't know.
I never watched True Blood.
Don't tell your dad.
What?
The funniest show's ever.
It's so funny.
It's the hilarious show.
It's so funny.
Um, at the O-Siren O of O-Night, there's zeroes.
What even is this?
I love that.
Spencer said, what is Smosh even about in the chosen competition?
People quote that all the time.
No, it's very true.
I don't know.
I couldn't tell you.
People ask me, like, my family and everybody's like, what is Smosh?
I'm like, it's okay.
We're going to fix out.
No.
I don't know.
I have not had like a real answer.
It's honestly since we started doing Smosh Mouth and Reddit stories.
It's nice to be like, yeah, we kind of do a couple podcasts.
You can talk about it.
I just kind of say that.
I'm like, sum it up so people can understand.
But I'm like, trying to explain Bordea F without just being like, I mean, I guess the truth
is I play board games.
We play, yeah.
And hang out with my friends.
It's so funny because it's like, yeah, I'll say, I like play board games and I own my
friends.
And I'm like, but it's not really about the board games.
It's like I don't know if anybody cares about the board games really.
Really?
The same boost master for kids that we get heated.
Yeah.
On Courtney's Do Obsession episode, there was a comment where someone said gay Joker
be like, why so curious?
And someone replied to that saying, they call me the woker, why so curious?
And then someone in quotation said, the woker, dude, I did a woker bit.
We've been doing woker.
I did.
I did a woker bit on try not to laugh at one point.
I don't know how it went over.
I don't know if that video is out yet.
Oh, maybe it's not out.
Yeah, it might not be out.
Maybe that got cut because it was too woke.
It could have been.
It was so woke.
I think it was pretty funny, but I, you know, I'll save it.
I guess if in a few try not to laugh, I save it.
Like I don't know, I could tell you the joke here, but it doesn't feel right because I'm
not like wearing.
You're not wearing.
I'm not wearing it.
You gotta be wearing the woker outfit.
Yeah.
I'll fit.
What is this coming up to do with that episode?
It's just people having fun.
So in this episode, also, Courtney, I love everything she's posting from fan art.
Courtney does express that she wishes that she was tiny and food was big.
Yeah.
And that she could like sit in a pickle jar or like lay on garlic bread.
She wanted to like a jelly donut to like be inside the jelly donut with just her head
sticking out of like the whole of the jelly donut.
I remember that.
We're like a video.
We said like swimming in like salsa and I was like, that would hurt really bad.
Yeah.
Dude, my velvet rub steel would not be okay.
Yeah.
We would have to figure out how to get your considerable length to be clean.
I don't know.
Wow.
Wow.
Okay.
So I don't know.
Holy shit.
Comment.
I don't know.
Sometimes people just having a good time in there.
Yeah.
I love it.
And I encourage that.
You don't have to comment about the video.
You can comment whatever you want.
That's true.
We're reading the comments that are just like people saying hi to truly just like, what's
up?
I'm here hanging out.
And then in the, we need to talk about these subreddits episode at kill K L L Y E C. Someone
said Shane watching heated rivalry for the hockey is like watching challenges for the
tennis, which I also did.
And the tennis was good.
It's a lot to me.
I was.
How was challengers?
The tennis was really.
Really?
The tennis.
Really good tennis.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What?
I haven't seen it.
Is there?
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I haven't seen it either.
I haven't seen it either.
Who knows?
Maybe by the time this has come out.
I'm waiting for it to come to like a video on demand.
Yeah, me too.
In the episode where we did talk about heated rivalry.
Yeah.
Someone wants to talk about this.
At rinston said Trevor is going to be devastated when he finds out they talked about pirates
without him.
We did talk about pirates for a little bit because the crew wanted us to talk about things
and someone wanted us to talk about the golden age of pirates and we talked about black
sales.
We talked about black sales.
And all of those pirates were gay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think here's the thing and I could go on and on about pirates so I won't but it's
like pirates were really bad people and I feel like I have to preface that every time
I talk about how much I love pirates.
They did really awful things.
However, there were a lot of ways in which they were incredibly progressive as well and
a lot of pirates were gay like they were just and they were very open about that and
there was no judgement.
You're on it and D.
Yeah.
What are you going to do?
Exactly.
Yeah.
Everyone needs some love.
Get your velvet wrap steel out.
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
I'm trying to see Charles Vane's velvet wrap steel.
Are you sure?
Days at sea.
Do you have ever my considerable timbers?
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
That was fun.
Yeah.
Honestly, should we come up with something?
We should try to see who could.
We should have a competition who come up with the best terms because it has to be like
connected to the theme of the book because velvet wrap steel I think is pretty much directed
about like fake.
Yeah.
They say face skin.
Oh, dude.
We could come back.
We can circle back on this.
This might be fun.
This might be like because if we give ourselves time to like write these out.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Smut terms.
Competition would go so hard.
It would go so hard.
It would go so hard.
It would literally go so hard.
It would go so hard.
It would go so hard.
Wow.
In the trying to speak other languages episode at Die Go Swello.
They say I'm from Venezuela and I discovered Smosh many years ago.
Back then I didn't understand much English.
I even remembered there was a channel with dubbed versions.
I liked it more in English even though I didn't understand nothing.
So this feels like a full circle moment.
Many years have passed.
Now I live in the USA and a big part of my learning came from watching those videos in
English.
I see a couple of people say they use Smosh to learn, and that's why their first word
is bitch.
Yeah.
I have a few, let's see that I took screenshots of, I'm going to make a burner account
and start leaving comments and trying to get in the video that way.
So now, first of all, I ended up on rare insults.
There's a subreddit called rare insults where people comment just insults that are like
new.
Like ones that you never thought of.
Oh, fine.
Okay.
Someone posted a, one of my old TikToks like from three or four years ago.
It's me, clean shaven, whatever, and just being a white t-shirt close up.
And someone commented saying he looks kind of like a llama in the best way possible.
Hmm.
Can I see the picture?
Yeah, it's just, it's there like, I don't, I don't know.
Oh, you do.
Look at your sweet little face.
It's because you have like a long face.
I do have a long face there.
Why the long face?
I could see a llama with that haircut too.
You do have to look like a llama.
I could see.
It looks so sweet, like a llama who speaks to you.
Yeah, it felt like a, it's sort of an insult.
It's more of just a statement.
It's more of a compliment to llamas everywhere.
Yeah, but they look like me.
I've been pretty with you.
Lama's are cute.
Yeah.
Then, let's see.
I have a comment here.
I don't know which episodes these are from.
We can probably sus it out.
At Liz2182, I didn't realize how much structure Shane brought to Smoshmouth.
Oh, that's the episode with you, Angela, and Chance, when I was gone.
That was the top comment.
It had 12,000 likes.
Hey, hey, hey.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, you imagine me trying to bring structure to that episode?
That one, I didn't bring the candies.
I didn't bring any of that shit.
It was impossible, and you know what?
I had a good time.
The other top comment on that was giving you guys candy was a choice.
Yeah.
It was, it was a huge mistake.
Hey, here we have an audio medium.
Let's give you guys suckers.
It was a...
They just brought that pot of candy.
You guys brought the pot of candy?
Angela brought the pot of candy, and when Angela brings something, you can't say no because
it's done.
You're halfway through the episode, and you go, I should have said no to this, but it's
done.
I truly do.
I do feel bad about that episode because I was like, oh my god, we're a nightmare.
For listeners, what a nightmare.
How dare you?
I did feel like I was an acid that whole episode.
It's a very funny episode, though.
It's really great out about the charge.
You guys are talking about like intense shit, too.
Oh yeah, and we were talking it anyway, like, it's like, it's, we're all laughing, but
I'm like, wait, chances are about being outed by the church, which is horribly tremendous.
Yeah, but we're all laughing.
You deal with really traumatic stuff.
Yes.
It is a tough thing to be, not a tough thing, but like, we are the types, all of us at
Smosh are the types that handle the worst news in our own personal lives with jokes, but
then we got to try to pull that back when it comes to other things, because then it comes
across horrible.
It's like, no, no, that's my way of acknowledging that this is the worst possible thing.
I mean, that is truly, we like, we like really let loose on that episode, and we were just
kind of exploring some dark, dark stuff, and it was kind of like giving each other space
to be like, oh, this is how we're handling it.
Wow.
While watching on Candy, which was a huge mistake.
Yeah.
And I will, I will take, I will say sorry for that, but, but, but structure, how, in
that episode, how, how, I think it's sometimes good that we don't.
You were gone, and it was just like, yeah, man.
We let loose.
Hell yeah.
Um, okay, this comes from our predictions episode from earlier this year, and it's someone
clocked it.
Someone clocked me on this one.
They said, I feel like Shane's predictions are either Smosh will post at least one video
this year, or humankind will discover time travel.
Dude, okay, I made the mistake of saying we're going to discover a new fish, and the
amount of DMs and messages across the board that I get about new fish being discovered.
I feel like you're knitting.
I knew that, like, they're discovering new fish, like, all the time, but, like, not at
this rate.
It's kind of alarming how many fish they're discovering.
I thought that worries me.
That worries me.
We got to slow down.
Now, what I was saying, too, is I'm like, I want like a brand new, like, real brand new
fish, not a new classification, not like a, and not a boring fish.
It's got to be like, holy shit.
We've never seen this guy.
Hi, Jesse.
Look at this fucker.
He's saying crazy.
Like, they went, like, we've gone, you know, they say, however much of the ocean hasn't
been explored, they went to that part, and they found something completely new.
And I'm getting that people are like, no, they're discovering new fish, and they're showing
me photos, and I'm like, yeah, that's a new, I've never seen that fish, but I need this
fish to upstage punch.
Yeah.
I need, I need punch to become old news.
They're like, no, this fish.
He's the news now.
Hey, buddy, call me when your fish is cooler.
Yeah.
Yeah, wow.
These bum ass fish, okay, I don't care.
Hard.
Um, another comment from another one of the videos, oh, this is from the episode where
you came back.
It was me, Damien, and you, this, this comment made me laugh so hard.
I remember seeing it back in the day, uh, at Ruzoku said, I can't believe they're going
to execute Damien backstage right after this fuck.
Oh, my God, because it went through, it was like, you're in my seat.
All right.
And now we have to kill you.
And I was like, get out of my seat.
Get out of here.
I played it so hard.
Last comment I have.
Okay.
And this, because I remember a few episodes ago, we were talking about rats.
Remember?
Somehow rats got brought up.
I did tell a story about Sam.
We didn't know that you despise rats.
I, I, I do not like them.
Wow.
Maybe it's from being from the East Coast and, you know, going to Boston where like, you
go in an alleyway and you're like, oh, here are a thousand rats dancing.
Like, here are a thousand rats.
And they purposely want to get on a date.
Yeah.
Dancing rats.
Dancing rats.
So it makes me like, I don't know if I would be cool with a thousand rats, but if all
of them were dancing, I'd be like, that's, that's on your foot.
But I was trying to convince you that pet rats, pet rats are like a thing.
And people have pet rats.
And they're actually very sweet.
They're super cute.
I also, before I get to this comment, I was going to say, I'm reading a book.
I'm reading an onfiction book called The Rise and Rain of the Mammals.
And it's all just about how mammals are a thing.
Oh, okay.
It's by the same guy he wrote The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, which is an awesome.
Wow.
That does sound fun.
I mean, now he's writing this book.
And I didn't realize that rodents and apes are like kind of on the same, like, we're
closer to, we're more similar than other branch-like carnivores.
Wow.
Interesting.
Well, you think about, I was thinking about it, and I was like, oh, right, rodents, like,
rats and stuff can grab things with their hands.
Yeah.
I was like, whoa, we are not as far off as I thought.
We were compared to, like, things with hooves and things with, like, with paws, bovine.
We're actually, we are much like rats.
There are brethren.
Yeah.
No.
I actually, I feel grow up.
Look, there's a lot of times in my life where I'll be doing something, and I'm like,
I could see a rat doing this.
Yeah.
I'm like eating an out burger over the trash can.
The end of the in-and-out burger is dripping that spread, and I'm like over the trash
can, like...
It's rat behavior.
It's freaking splinter over here.
Master splinter.
That's just splinter over here.
Um, Ashley Morrow said, I've had four pet rats in my lifetime, and they are genuinely
the sweetest little dudes, like tiny dogs.
My very first rat, Fluffernutter, liked to go on walks, had a little harness and leash.
I would walk him outside the apartments I was living in at the time.
He also loved hanging out on your shoulder while you did literally anything.
That's right.
Or taking a nap and in sweatshirt hoods and pockets.
I'm sorry, that's a door.
I'm sorry.
That is so sweet.
Do you have a little rat on your shoulder?
Look.
Maybe I've watched too much medieval shit, but don't they, like, burrow inside your stomach
and then eat your organs?
You're referencing Game of Thrones.
Yeah.
You're referencing, like, torture methods.
Barrel rats.
That's, like, barrel cats and dogs are a different thing than...
Do you fuck with Stuart Little?
Well, he's a mouse.
Yeah, but it's like...
You didn't have a problem with mice, right?
Ratatouille was hard for me to watch.
Buh!
Whoa!
That's awesome!
Nobody's ever said that sentence before.
I think...
What five times in the theater?
I think that I want to rat making my food.
Ratatouille was really hard for me to watch.
You know what, soup?
They make anything could drop in there.
He washes his hands!
I don't care.
That's the whole thing!
If he's a good...
Anyone can hear it?
It's hard for me to watch.
It felt like a scary movie.
Damn.
Trevor was great having you today.
Dead serious.
Thanks, Trevor, for coming.
You said that to a chef.
I love Ratatouille so much.
It's got to be your chef.
It's got to be your favorite.
It's not my favorite.
It's out there.
I rewatched it recently.
It's an incredible movie.
It is about...
It's outstanding.
The concept, great movie thing.
Great themes.
How do you feel about Fifele?
How do you feel about Fifele?
Fifele goes west.
Yeah.
I really liked it because of the music.
Okay, but how do you feel about Fifele?
He's cute.
He's got a big hat.
Okay, so mice are fine.
He's got like a cute...
Like he's cute.
Oh, because he's got clothes on.
But he's not a rat.
This is really nice stuff.
Fifele's not a rat.
No, Fifele's a mouse.
He's a cute little mouse with big ass ears.
But if Remi from Ratatouille,
if he put on an outfit,
would you feel a little better?
No.
No.
He could put on Q-dass jeans.
With your ass jeans.
Like he could put on apple bottom jeans
and I'd be like,
Absolutely.
It's considerable occur.
Oh God.
Oh God.
Oh God.
You're like, what's straining against you?
We have a dog.
He's got a little rat.
He's got a little rat.
He's got a little rat.
Hey, you said it.
Not me.
Little rat.
He puts on leathers.
And you're just like...
Oh.
It's the phrase a little rat penis
ever been in one of your books.
No, not yet.
And I...
It'll happen.
It's like I even described the villain
in the smut book.
It's like his little rat penis.
No.
It was all have considerable legs.
Everybody's got huge penises.
Yeah.
And hey, considerable length is
what's a considerable length to you.
It's whatever it's you as the reader
get to fill that in.
Yeah.
Thank God.
They do all that and then they'll be like
at his cock and you're like,
Oh, okay.
Well, I'll deal with that.
Now we share.
Um...
Anyways.
Trevor, this has been a blast.
A blast.
God, I love you guys.
It's going to be back.
We love you too.
It's going to be back.
I'm excited for us to be in the new studio.
I know.
It'll be a few weeks from now.
I think.
I don't know.
Yeah.
It'll happen when it happens.
It's going to be fun.
The chair is like move too.
Yeah.
It's actually a rotating.
It's like the carousel of progress.
Yeah.
But just constantly rotating.
What we do.
And then Courtney with URL comes in
for like 10 minutes.
No, it works.
Yeah, yeah.
It's going to be every show every time.
In a while.
Um, thank you all for listening and watching.
And um...
See you later.
Yeah.
We read your comments.
Yeah, we read your comments.
Bye.
Bye.
I'll come back.
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