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#135 - Our Fans Are WILD

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#135 - Our Fans Are WILD

Smosh discusses its studio relocation to Oxnard, California, while celebrating a fan-organized "Chosen" gathering that brought together fans in character, showcasing deep community engagement. The team highlights how fans have created global events, such as a birthday celebration in the Philippines, and how these interactions foster emotional connections to Smosh characters. A segment on video games like Pokopia emphasizes community-building through creative design and shared environments. The discussion shifts to reading preferences, with members favoring smut books that build tension and character depth over direct, rushed content. Fans’ comments, including a humorous "woker" joke and imaginative fan art, reflect the playful, inclusive nature of the Smosh community. The episode concludes with a suggestion to launch a collaborative book review series, promoting humor, storytelling, and shared experiences, underscoring the value of audience participation and creative expression.

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like a normal podcast I feel like it's so beautiful look at all the toucans oh my goodness it's so beautiful look at all the toucans oh my god yeah I have cans everywhere I actually didn't know my tiny picture we had to bring him yeah of course Rombey is everywhere with me um for those who don't know um Smosh is moving its studios uh from Rancho Cucamonga to Oxnard so Oxnard is a really cool place I've actually never been to Oxnard oh that's crazy I've been there so many times my parents that's where my parents are um really yeah Ventura and Oxnard they went to they went to high school there uh it's crazy I've heard it's gorgeous which it doesn't the name doesn't sound gorgeous it sounds like Oxford in England so that's what's helping me but Nard Nard Nard it's a beautiful place it's crazy I love it it doesn't sound like a beach town Ventura Ventura sounds so much better it sounds more like a like Long Beach obviously yeah Ventura Oxnard sounds like it's in the middle of nowhere it sounds like there's a lot of universities around yeah are we we're not vibing on Oxnard like I have Oxnard is different in my head than you guys I think so okay I don't you're thinking of it as academic well yes and I just see like a bunch of car dealerships 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 fourth wing 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 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 um so in the meantime we're we're here here at just a temporary so cute yeah this chair it's very nice this chair is actually I gotta say I'm so comfy I am excited to get a new chair for Reddit stories whoa okay I need you in chairs I've been 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 assistant you want to go backwards but that's not the point of it it's far more leaned back than it looks um yeah and uh it doesn't have arm rest no um it's 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 we were just like yeah sit there for out in that chair that's how long he does yeah yeah we stopped down for a little bit I'm like let me just take a nap right here um sometimes overnight yeah um you know but uh 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 gonna 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 I'm like does my do my legs look weird it's great yeah socks no and you're wearing your shoes match the the top okay it's great thank you I do when we're filming like a couple episodes of Smosh Mouth I it is nice that I don't have to worry about what pants I'm wearing if it like works oh yeah as a whole outfit sometimes I'll just go Winnie the Pooh yeah yeah no at the table I have noticed that it's tough for me it is really tough it's it's hard to ignore well he comes in and says yeah I was wearing pants but I take them off to sit on that little tiny school chair the new set's gonna show our lower halves what you know what I'm fine 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 that's crazy I gotta get new pants I need to go Shane and I never change our pants for Smosh Mouth we'll just change our I try not to I try to wear one pair of pants for a whole shoot it does make outfits tough um 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 wrong with that 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 in a white t-shirt is weird like me and like a I don't know it just makes me feel like I I went to gym class and I forgot you gotta 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 too 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 oh can't believe how did we all do this this is wild I just spoiled it now everybody knows um 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 almost a month it's been like a month and a lot of Angela Angela and Chance and Olivia played us yeah yeah that was so fun that was a great episode very fun episode but yeah so much happened maybe in our lives just in general and as well um uh punch oh I hate that video don't talk to me about pun every video I do not like those videos so Courtney uh 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 um because punch like whoa whoa are you saying punch is a loser just everybody hates him like he's kind of okay crazy just kidding I'm not punching down right now whoa everybody hates him that means you hate him Shane no I'm saying the monkeys hate him in the monkey world so do you agree with them no but I am a homo sapien I am far more intelligent he's a homo all right yeah um 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 like the next video is like that monkey doesn't like him anymore what the is going on that first day I learned about punch was 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 gun now and I was like yes and then another video comes and it's the monkeys being mean again what's going on all I can think about is like you know those other monkeys like punch is awesome he's clearly awesome and ahead of his time that's that's how I look at that situation yeah he's a renaissance man yeah exactly it's really hard for me to I really that that story needs to turn out well like like I he needs to inevitably I just I'm like if he never gets accepted fully into that why 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 opinion okay okay our assumptions yeah I think it's like 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 gonna bully this kid because I want people to see that everyone is everyone's bullying 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 added who is above you and who's below you yeah well it's like Planet of the Apes you know it's like they they hated they hated Caesar when and you know Planet of the Apes is crazy because rude because it's like because Caesar was mean I didn't like Caesar either Caesar was mean in Planet 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 yeah I'm forgetting I'm but like the whole thing is like you know they're all those monkeys are so mad they want to break out because there's no space you know in the enclosure it's 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 gonna fix it maybe he has a maybe he has a different scent on him and they feel like he's not I wonder 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 hates him like truly hates him and then suddenly one day is normal um I don't I just don't know how monkeys work yeah um maybe how do monkeys work guys how do monkeys work how do monkeys work you know actually that happens to me when I come home from a small shoot Raven hates me for like a few hours I don't think it's how you Hey. what the fuck is it my scent oh it's your scent it's Shane and Amanda's scent it's cause I smell different she doesn't recognize me um maybe give Punch a little tiny uh like Porsche gun give him a gun could you imagine take away the stuffed animal give him a gun the next video it's just Punch with a gun and he's just holding it up all right you're cool I like it okay so that prediction we could kind of mark that off yeah but another prediction that I think came true effectively I said there'd be a gathering of a hundred Chosens oh my god and within a month and one Sarah Christ and one Sarah Christ there was one Sarah Christ yeah so so talk to us about it within a month uh within like January of this year after making that prediction uh some fans here in LA started organizing a gathering of Chosens that would happen at a park and um it was like oh this is picking up steam like they're they're really organizing this there was posters around uh like Echo Park and stuff for it it was awesome and um we started talking about it and then uh our head of social team Erica was like should we should we like send you should you go and I was like sure like absolutely like and you know when I saw it was happening I was like yeah like I would be down to go um and I was like well I need to go as the Chosen like I of course like the Chosen goes and uh 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 um 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 gonna need it but yeah yeah and so we had this like huge like six foot five guy probably taller what? have we met him before? huge bodyguard and uh we put him in a Chosen shirt and I was trying to explain the character this is this 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 and I was like not really but he just is like he just likes wolves on his shirt but you know whatever and I he could howl he was like so am I part of the wolf pack now I was like yeah man sure um he's like guarded presidents before yeah like you know normally I guard people who need protection I love how he's really trying to get the backstory he's like okay what's his motivation so there's enemies that I need to look out for I love that but uh so we show up to this park and um everybody stayed in character and it was awesome uh I truly was just kind of blown away I actually genuinely felt like I was like intruding on like an event right yeah so I was like oh I didn't technically that's epic I didn't say I was coming on Partiful 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 okay perfect and I start walking hopefully on Blu-ray they truly kind of like everybody kind of like parts like and like opens up and I'm like suddenly in the middle of the crowd and they're all just kind of staring at me and I was like I did not prepare a speech like I was just going to show up and say hey and like hang out but as the Chosen and then I was like I gotta say something and um I was just saying like truly it was like so cool I was like this is I was kind of blown away were 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 um and like even we were getting like a group photo like one of the Chosen's turned to me and he had like a scythe which is one of those sick like Ninja Turtles uh knives and he was like Chosen do you need a weapon and I was like no I'm okay thank you like I was like this is incredible um it was so much fun that is so cool I saw the video and I was just like this is epic it was genuinely so sick like I was like I can't believe this um so I really like shout out to everybody who organized it and went um and I'm sure there's gonna be more gatherings throughout this year I think I've heard about others happening and uh it's really so cool like I uh I love that people find joy in that character it's it's so cool I I I think it's so epic that you like predicted that and then they all you know people have people are busy and doing their thing but they all came together and I love that they all stayed in character yeah that's incredible one of the chosen's uh towards the end of the gathering uh stopped me as I was like leaving they're just like chosen they're like uh just so you know uh as an actual virgin stolen valor and I was like that's the funniest shit I've ever been said I was like dude these people rock so much that was like incredible I was like yeah chosen you're busy that's that's really good it was so awesome that's so cool it was the best we gotta try to like I don't know challenge our fans to more things cause they they do it I will say uh I guess I can like speak about this but our fans are incredible people were sending me this so apparently in the Philippines yes there was a billboard of me mhm because it was my birthday yeah in the Philippines incredible yeah and they these fans are amazing they've reached out to me they're so sweet they're so amazing they had a 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 know incredible this year I went like really like minimal for my birthday and they and they sent me um pictures and videos and I reposted and it was just so so it's unbelievable to me like people on Slack were being like do you see me 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 Tinky well maybe not Tinky Winky 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 um Selena was just in the Philippines as well which is crazy because that's where she's from she was visiting her family and she didn't see the 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 invited to your birthday party incredible yeah in the Philippines in the Philippines did you get invited to your birthday party in the Philippines no I oh here's the thing oh no they might have but they didn't that's kind of an epic horrible prank is to have a birthday party for someone and not invite them be like it's your birthday and we're like oh Trevor it's your birthday party this weekend you're not invited but we are having your birthday party I've never been to the Philippines but I would love to go yeah yeah our Pinoy brothers and sisters do not mess around yeah they're incredible we did our episode where we were speaking trying to read other languages 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 like 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 double meaning yeah and then they're like the song is like basketball basketball ang sarap sarap mag basketball and ang sarap sarap ang sarap 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 you gotta learn this song dude I was like guys are you gonna tell us what it means like it's clearly you're like basketball but it is truly stuck in my head since 2016 or whenever I went it was it's been just like in my head but it was so much fun I love the Philippines y'all didn't think a white boy could speak a little Tagalog hi from the Philippines oy basketball basketball ang sarap sarap mag 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 like on a trip there I would love there love to go I went to there was a Filipino festival here in LA cause we have a couple Filipino friends and I went and it was unbelievable I think it was where was it Filipino town I guess yeah obviously it was so so amazing such a huge community in LA 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 ever since then 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 yes 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 I could go I can do it I have a passport I can go my son won't remember and won't be upset with me years later no If I miss a bedtime, even though that's what I think, I'm like, I missed a bedtime. he's gonna remember the next day he won't i could go for some chicken adobo right now oh my god sorry i just i'm just thinking about food now me too i'm always thinking about food anyways that's so wild that's really sad about playing pokopia dude i don't know what you just said okay it's a game hey let's let's talk about earlier let's let the men talk for a second oh wait 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 pokopia tell me what this is is this uh i i yeah the more i try to explain it the dumber it's gonna sound and i love that 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 this sounds fun build you can build homes you can build things decorate water the grass yeah find poke 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 tree that's really cute yeah it's awesome sounds like you guys are like the town mayor or town construction pretty much yeah pretty much you're a ditto yeah ditto yeah you know like when patrick swayze said it in ghost when she said i love you and he said ditto yeah i love that i love that pottery scene speaking of video games though speaking of video games though um a new resident evil came out oh i know trust me and it sucks that we're in the middle of a movie and we're in the middle of a movie and we're in the middle of a movie because i know spencer is dying it's gonna happen to play it with you angela ordered t-shirts for us i'm actually not kidding what yep what do you mean t-shirts so we're we're on a really cool group text it's a resident evil group text me's um spencer and angela sorry um angela ordered us all resident evil t-shirts what do they have on what does it just say resident evil does it say no i can't remember uh i could like literally pull up the picture do you own it yet or i don't own it yet she's she ordered it and she's ordered okay she told us to venmo her i'm not sure that's the funniest thing ordering something for someone without telling them i mean like and can you venmo me for that and you you need to spot me for this it's possible that we're not going to venmo her i don't think 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 this well it's all the versions of him nice because you know we did the video on games yeah spencer had a powerpoint and explained all of the lore of resident evil which i was like this is epic i wish i knew crazy so the iterations of him is all it's like he becomes like a baddie like later the funniest part about that is that i guarantee you spencer will wear that shirt more than either of you no 100 he will because girl dinner is fun but it's like i kind of reject the term in a way the funniest spencer wearing girl dinner is the greatest he's gonna have that thing tucked in denim jacket over it with the boots on with his with his uh mug with his mug full of kickstart can i can i clear the air real quick about the mug situation so remember when we did uh guess who walked yeah and i did impression of spencer and everyone's like 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 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 walks is he leans into a conversation that's why i walked with such an aggressive i see what you're saying i overdid it no i think you nailed it but i i did nail it like in here oh what hold on what keep going keep can you keep oh damn it you find it i want to do this one justice so much can you can you do a little bit more than a couple steps huh hey i think i have it keep going oh and it doesn't say sadie am i not killing this god i see it it's the i'm getting some vibes or also this your walks were very good in that video yeah you gave people you gave people a lot to think about that video that video was a thinker i'm that's what i was saying i if i'm gonna 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 so i don't know i'd love to see that people pointed out that um 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 uh that's so good yeah i didn't realize that yeah some of them i think it's the case like i think you did an impression of noah and noah noah is very much like that but you're taller than me yeah yeah and that's one i got one but you didn't do uh no trevor wasn't in that i wouldn't know pick a trevor i feel like you've got a pretty like his is bouncy bouncy a little your friend's 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 my walk down 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 i haven't adjusted so i like that my family my family's fast walkers too yeah my dad same moves i don't or whatever they had places to be no i my mom too she's like do we want to go uh get a coffee i'm like yeah but i don't even i turned she's gone like there's 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 she will not stop it's like she's she's um 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 like leave at like 5 30 to like go to dinner i'm like yeah that's great and then he'll like text me at 5 20 he's like i'm in the car whenever you're ready yes i'm like dude what do you mean like what you're 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 my dad picked me up from the airport he's been there for two hours yeah he has duncan donuts his second duncan donuts coffee and he's like yeah you know i i parked he parks 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 i know where you parked i know where you'll be you've been here he's like i get 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 or my they're always my dad's 15 minutes early to the movies without fail like we'll go see a movie and i'm like dude genuinely the previews are starting five minutes late like amc in the start until 25 to 30 minutes after the time it says i'm like what are we doing here i gotta sit in the chair for an hour before the movie starts i don't like the new previews that they have though they have like they have like weird like little dumber previews before the actual previews yeah i i don't know tell me why i don't know they just have like it's it's just amc's own little things i don't know i i went to go see withering heights on my birthday and we were literally four minutes late which was a crime awful i hate being late for the movies we walked in 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 we got 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 mean 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 gonna see it yeah now i know everything yeah no i would not be able to handle that if i don't know why people hated that movie i freaking loved it yeah there are there are 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 do you want that 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 treat it as like this is a whole new story it's loosely based on this book i like but if i want the book i'm gonna be disappointed every time agreed 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 girl on the train audiobook and then i watched the movie and i was like they're not even british what and emily blunt was the lead and she wasn't even she was speaking english like american yeah i was like well huh so i get the up 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 like that's how they met like ray fines and withering heads like there's so many iterations yeah they're not it's it's the artist and tom hardy have both been into withering heights yeah i didn't know that yes i didn't i didn't write a passage i guess i don't have withering heights ball knowledge like that i guess them all i've seen them all whoa literally i i love the stories 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 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 like a love that like you literally can't breathe without them but it's just this like i need to uh i'm gonna get into some more classics soon i've been kind of behind on reading but for the past couple years i've been reading a lot of like what's coming out this year right uh 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 read that book yeah and then crime and punishment is one of those like yep classic classics i'm like i gotta read this at some point a movie oh there's been movies made 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 as like oh i'm just gonna have a good time and read this it's like all right there are yeah 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 that many a long time on my non-fiction 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 audiobooks for non-fiction 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 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brands you want at the prices that let you do it all from athletic to athletic sierra's got it i do non-fiction for audiobooks because you can miss a little bit and it's it's okay just for me for me it really depends on the reader i oh yeah i need the i need like i 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 yeah to me um but i love i i listen to this this other one where there's three readers three different readers and they all have this 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 um that makes sense to the book for me i get that i don't mind i do you ever do like an audio book and then also have the physical book like a listen read along i've never done that but i find it nice i think when there's times where a book i've like struggled with reading a book whether 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 uh i 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 audio book 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 um have you ever heard of covenant of water it's like a very thick book he also wrote uh 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 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 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 two two speed yeah i need to get i'm just like damn happening okay i love fantasy and i can't do it fantasy because if i'm like really locked on a book i read too fast for an audiobook i'm like i i'm flipping pages too fast and the voice yeah i love an audiobook and i've done fantasy books on audio like with an audiobook but there's times where 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 yes or or i'm sorry but sometimes the audio is like and then he took his hand and they're always like it's like they're walking uphill and they're talking and i'm like they're performing it too much it's like you gotta gotta move yeah yeah to me i i don't read fantasy i don't have this voice in my head when i'm reading he thrusts his you know i'm not like yeah reading in in a in a in a lord of the rings voice i'm reading in my voice especially with the type of book you're reading yeah did i say fantasy to be clear you started that that sentence my head was like yeah he thrusts his sword sentence 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 you 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 uh like word or or synonym or phrase is for a penis oh my god i love this is it like like i hate it i love member i think member is so funny gets used a lot i uh sorry he asked you but also shane reads smut i i well i only read one recently i read this book called icebreaker and oh what do they say because that's more of a modern book i i 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 like that was kind of but but the the verb that she used a lot was uh disintegrating like like she disintegrated like when she like orgasm like disintegrated and i'm like what the hell are you okay but it gets brought up a lot i'm like that's the word you're you're using okay that's crazy i hate that um so i i like i have friends who read these with me so i talk about this a lot and like in a laughing manner yeah 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 he's his considerable length is straining against his leathers oh my god dude i gotta start talking like that i'm gonna go home and be like man my considerable length is just not doing good in these pants right now yeah exactly my considerable length hurts so considerable length it's not like he's huge it's like what's the considerable length to the reader yeah it's subjective one that 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 wrapped now i don't know how i feel about it i'm literally split it's outstanding the words are so good so velvet wrapped steel i i don't know how i feel but that's my favorite david lynch movie um they also use the word cock yeah yeah it's a great word cock is a classic they're not using penis they're never you know you're never gonna see why they don't use penis and vagina you've got his penis out yeah his considerable length was straining or his belt i wrap my hands around his velvet wrapped steel oh my i grasp his velvet jesus i like those wow velvet wrapped steel yeah that's a crazy i'm gonna be thinking about that one yeah yeah i'm gonna be thinking about for women there's some that i that i'm like like what see velvet wrapped 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. You don't need to be embarrassed about this. This is great. I brought it up. You're reading. I love talking about it, but Velvet Wrapped Steel is like one of those where I read it and I'm like, what the hell? And then after you read it, you're like, yeah, where is that Velvet Wrapped Steel? When are we going to sheath this sword? Like, what's happening? Seriously, 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 Smosh 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 do a book review. It needs to be one that's absurd. Like it needs to be the craziest thing. There's some smut that I just won't touch. Like I think there's like, and hey, if you're into it, get it. But there's some that's like, like milk, milk, Mr. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. That one. Mr. Milky? Morning Glory Milking Farm. Yeah, and it's this one. I read that one. I was really into like, oh. That's the one that I read last year and I talked about it on like five different podcasts. Yeah. That was the first smutty book I ever read. But he's a, he's um. He's a minotaur. He's a minotaur. Well, it's a, 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. Okay. The cover, the cover is what, made me go, I don't want to read this. 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, they hate each other. Oh. It's literally cutting edge. For no clear reason, they hate each other. And then they bone a lot. A lot. Wait, did they ever say bone in that? I think they say boner. She does say boner. Dude, if I read boner, I'm just. 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 hate that. See, but imagine if he said, I'm trying to hide my considerable length. My velvet wrapped seal. Trevor, that's a mod. I don't actually, I realize I don't like modern smut that much. You like some old school. Because they're saying like 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 a, under a tunic. Yes. Yes. I get it. I want like. Because it's fantasy. My craziest not, it wasn't like, 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, are any good books you're reading? Because I was. I got this porno. Milk and. But he recommends me this 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 smutty section where it was just like describing like, and it was crazy because it was like, part of it was like kind of revolutionary or like industrial revolution period and this guy was like a coal miner and then he like goes and like 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 and I was like, 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, how old were you? Like seventh grade. Oh, okay. But seventh grade, but conservative Christian school, seventh grade. Yeah. Your dad was reading that. No, I know he read it, but, and I was like, well, I'm too far gone now to like change books and then I did the book report on it and 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 your, your dad contains multitudes. You need to, my dad has been a 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, but she goes, and we were like, this is dad's favorite show. He loves this. 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. Cause that's how you do that. That's the natural. But like, who's got time to flip over? You know? Who's got time? My dad is just like, he just loves watching things like that. And so he'll, still to this day, he's like, you gotta watch a show. It's such a good show. And I'm like, yes. Okay. Damn. But I'm just like, you know what? Let'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. Cause I just like, I don't want to read about a guy's boner. Cause boner just makes me feel like I'm in high school. Yeah. So yeah. I'm glad you're enjoying the book. I mean, they are, they're in college in this book. Okay. But I just struggled cause there was really kind of no plot. To me. And I 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 to, a slow build. I need 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 didn't 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 cause I feel like they like, they just get right to it. get. It happens at like, page 50 of Icebreaker. Fuck that. And I was kind of like, I was like, this is crazy. Like, what, what? Like, all right. Come on. Barely met the character. I hardly even know who these people are. They're already having sex It's like, I need to know. Yeah. I need to know what their wants are, what they are before. Yeah. You need a little world building. Absolutely. Yeah. 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? I'm a student at college university. It's truly not far off from that. It was actually fascinating though, cause even though it's modern day, it takes place in a college in California. It, it was a fantasy book, right? Because, it's a college hockey team of like, a bunch of 6'5 jock dudes. But they're all so respectful of women. And like, even though they're like douchey, but multiple times throughout the book, it's like, They're perfect. Like going through like, textbook of like, here's the most respectful way to handle this situation. Tall, respectful athlete. 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 gonna 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. I mean, 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. And then what, how they deal with that. Oh, totally. I'm like, you can still have this. They still could have had a plot. Cause 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 just like, oh, I'm so annoyed by him. I'm like, why? Like, give us a good reason. There's not enough world building because there's nothing better than enemies to lovers for me. But it's like, if the person doesn't like them, I want, I really need to know why. It needs to be justified. Yeah. And that's been my, of the only couple smutty books I've read. I've been like, there just needs to be more plot. Like 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. Well, anyways, considerable length. That's our views on smut. Not all of them though. Not all of them. Yeah. Velvet wrapped steel. Should we, you know, check in with some comments? Oh yeah. We have a little segment we 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. Actually, no, sorry. It was, I'm, I forgot. It's okay. Smut does that to you. A couple, a couple 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, they're so funny. And I read a lot of our Smosh Mouth comments. Yeah. And they're gold. They are really fun. I pulled up some of my favorites from recent episodes. Price Pilled commented, they basically made Amanda the battered, the wife to two brokeback 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. Yeah. Because Chance has this whole, I mean, Chance wasn't even there. It was, he literally became a version of me. Yeah. A version of me. No, he killed it. But he has this whole thing where he's telling a story and they're just throwing around my baby. And it is this, they're having like this whole love affair and he's just like, it's how, in Boston, like it's so good. some comments being like oh i 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're like yeah feel free to like break character at a certain point they they forget who they are they committed 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 um when we i think when we like cut for a minute or so he was like he's just in character at dj db music said uh 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 what does he mean oh right because you were filming the episode while we were recording the episode 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're ever having like dinner or lunch with angela she'll just be kind of in the middle of it she'll just be like yes and i put her phone away and you're like you just just take a photo it's crazy she does do that a lot it's such an instinct um at gwo pit 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 like you truly forget uh hannah one glay said amanda is the sofia vergara of smosh that's a that's high praise i would say so i did not that is high praise that's incredible wow yeah sofia vergara in modern family or just her just her in general what's her husband's name in modern family oh i forget jay jay jay she is so funny i'm honestly so honored yeah there you go i mean speaking of true blood that was her ex-husband the guy who played the main wolf oh whatever his name was i don't know i never watched i never watched true blood don't tell your dad what true blood is one of the funniest shows ever it's the hilarious show um at the o siren o of o night okay there's zeros um what even is this um i love that when uh spencer said what is smosh even about in the chosen competition people quote that all the time now and it's very true i don't know it's i couldn't tell you people ask me like my family literally is like what is smoosh i'm like it's okay we're gonna figure this out i don't know i have not had like a real answer honestly since we started doing smosh mouth and reddit stories it's nice to be like yeah we kind of do a couple podcasts 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 board af 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 hang out with my friends and i'm like but it's not really about the board games it's like i don't know nobody i don't know if anybody cares about the board games really truly boost master for for kids and we get heated yeah um on courtney's new obsession episode uh there was a comment where someone said gay joker be like why so querious and someone replied to that saying they call me the woker why so querious and then someone in quotation said the woker dude i did a woker bit i we've been doing woker i did i did a woker bit on 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 maybe that got cut because it was too woke it could have been so whoa i think it was pretty funny but i you know i'll save it i guess if and if you try not to laugh i'll save it i'll save it i save it like i'll 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 you gotta you gotta be wearing the woker yeah outfit okay what what does this comment have 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 garter like bread uh she wanted to like a jelly donut to like be inside the jelly donut with just her head sticking out of like the hole of the jelly i remember that from like a video she said like swimming in like salsa and i was like that would hurt really bad yeah that but i dude my velvet wrapped 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 what i'm saying wow all right wow okay holy holy holy shit comment i don't know 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 i do love reading the comments that are just like people saying hi to truly just like what's up i'm here hanging out um and then in the we need to talk about these subreddits episode um 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 that explains a lot to me like how was challengers the tennis was really really good at tennis that's like watching marty supreme for the ping pong yeah what i haven't seen it is there okay a beautifully designed squarespace website is the difference between thinking about photography school and selling your portraits online it's the difference between giving away those cookies you just made for free and running your cookie empire a beautifully designed squarespace website is the difference between 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listeners can get an exclusive 20 off ixl membership when they sign up today at ixllearning.com audio visit ixllearning.com audio to get the most effective learning program out there at the best price i'll watch it i haven't seen it i haven't seen it who knows maybe by the time this is coming i'm gonna be like oh my god i'm gonna be like oh my god 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 uh everyone wants to talk about this uh 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 we did we mentioned you well because because the crew wanted us to talk about things and someone wanted us to talk about the golden age of pirates and we were black sales we talked about black sales black sales was all of those pirates were gay yeah yeah pirates were 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 judgment you're out at sea yeah what are you gonna do exactly yeah no one needs get your velvet wrapped steel out oh my god oh yeah yeah i'm trying to see charles vane's velvet wrapped steel you sure days at sea shiver my considerable timbers you know what i mean should we come up with smut we should try to see who could we should have a competition come up with the best terms because it has to be like connected to the theme of the book because velvet wrapped steel i think is pretty much directed about like fey yeah they say fey skin we could come back we can circle back on this this might be for a whole other episode this might be like because if we give ourselves time to like write these out yeah yeah smut smut terms competition would go so hard oh that would be it would go so hard it would literally go so hard it would go so hard um in the in the trying to speak other languages episode at die go swallow uh they say i'm from venezuela and i discovered smosh many years ago back then i didn't understand much english i even though i didn't understand nothing so this feels like a full circle moment many years have passed and now i live in the usa and a big part of my learning came from watching those videos in english i've seen a couple people say they use smosh to learn uh that's awesome and that's why their first word is bitch um i have a few um uh let's see that i took screenshots of oh i'm gonna make a burner account and start leaving comments and try and 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, fun. 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. 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 I could see a llama with that haircut, too. You do kind of look like a llama. OK. You look so sweet, like a llama. Yeah, it's not 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, that they look like me. I kind of agree with you. Llamas are cute. Yeah. Then let's see. I have a comment here. I don't know which episodes these are from. We can probably suss it out at Liz to one eight two. I didn't realize how much structure Shane brought to Smosh Mouth. Oh, that's the episode with you, Angela Chance. When I was gone, that was the top comment. It had twelve thousand likes. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Hey, imagine me trying to bring structure to that episode. I didn't bring the candies. I didn't bring any of that. 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 a huge mistake. Hey, here we have a we have a audio medium. Let's give you guys suckers. Jesus Christ. They just brought back a 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. And I truly do. I do feel bad about that episode because I was like, oh, my God, we're a nightmare. Like, for listeners, what a nightmare. How dare you? I did feel like I was an asset. That whole it's a very funny episode, though. It's really great out by the chart. You guys are talking about, like, intense shit. Oh, yeah. And we were talking like, it's like, it's we're all laughing, but I'm like, wait, chances talk about being outed by the church. I'm like, wait, Chance is talking about being outed by the church, which is horribly traumatic, but we're all laughing. Now you see how we deal with really traumatic stuff. Yes. It's a 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. Yes. Then it comes across horrible. It's like, no, no, that's that's my way of acknowledging that this is the worst. Possible thing. 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 while watching on candy, which was a huge mistake. Yeah. And I will I will take I will say sorry for that. But good structure. How in that episode? How? Yeah, it's 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. OK, 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, OK, I made the mistake of saying we're going to discover a new fish. The amount of DMs and messages across the board that I get about new fish being discovered. They're like, you're an idiot. I knew that like they're discovering new fish like really all the time, but like not at this rate. It's kind of alarming how many fish they're discovering. I see. I mean, we got it. 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. Yeah, not like a not a boring fish. It's got to be like, holy shit. We've never seen this guy. Look at this. Look at this. Fucker. Something 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 it to be. I need this fish to upstage punch. Yeah, I need I need punch to become old news. They're like, no, this fish. Yeah, he's the news now. Hey, buddy, call me when your fish is cooler. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. Stop bringing me these bum ass fish. OK, I don't care. Hard. 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 at Ruzoku said, I can't believe they're going to execute Damien backstage right after this. Oh, my God. Because it was true. 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. OK. 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 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 a dancing rats, dancing rats. Sounds amazing. I feel 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 good. They're dancing 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 a nonfiction book called The Rise and Reign of the Mammals. And it's all just about how mammals are a thing. It's by the same guy. He wrote The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, which is an awesome book. Wow, that does sound fun. And 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. Oh, 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 like with paws, bovine. We're actually we are much like rats. They are our brethren. Yeah, no, I actually I feel throw up. Well, 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 In-N-Out burger over the trash can at the end of the In-N-Out burger is dripping that spread. And I'm like over the trash. I'm like, shush, shush, shush, shush, shush. It's rat behavior. Friggin splinter over here. Master splinter. Master splinter over here. Ashley Mono Moro 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 or taking a nap and in sweatshirt hoods and pockets. I'm sorry, that's adorable. I'm sorry, what? That is so sweet. Do you have a little rat on your shoulder? 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. Feral rats. That's like feral 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. Whoa. Whoa. That's awesome. Nobody's ever seen. I've never said that sentence before. I threw up five times in the theater. Do I want a 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. He's a cook. Anyone can cook. That was a hard movie for me to watch. It felt like a scary movie. Damn. Trevor, it was great having you today. Anyways. I'm dead serious. Thanks, Trevor, for coming. You said that to a chef. I love Ratatouille so much. It's got to be. You're a chef. It's got to be your favorite. It's not my favorite. It's up there. I re-watched it recently. It's an incredible movie. It is outstanding. It's a fun concept great movie thing. Great themes. How do you feel about Fiefel? Fiefel Goes West? Yeah. I really liked it because of the music. Okay. But how do you feel about Fiefel? He's cute. He's got a big hat on. 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 messed up. Fiefel's not a rat. No. Fiefel's a mouse. He's a cute little mouse with big ass ears. But if Remy from Ratatouille, if he put on an outfit, would you feel a little better? No. No. He could put on cute ass jeans. Cute ass jeans. Like he could put on apple bottom jeans and I'd be like absolutely zero. His considerable girth. Oh, God. Oh, God. And you're like, what's straining? We're not fighting against each other. We have the song. - You little rap. - Considerable language. - Oh, thanks. I said it, not me. Little rat penis. He puts on leathers and you're just like, Jesus. Has the phrase little rat penis ever been in one of your books? No, not yet. It'll happen. It's like how you describe the villain in the smut book. It's like his little rat penis. No, villains all have considerable lengths. Everybody's got huge penises. Yeah, and hey, considerable length is what's a considerable length to you. It's whatever you as the reader get to fill that in. Yeah. Thank God. They do all that and then they'll be like, and his cock. And you're like, oh, okay, well, I know what that is. Now we do. Anyways. Trevor, this has been a blast. A blast. God, I love you guys. It's good to be back. We love you too. 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 chairs like move too. That's what I heard. Yeah, it's actually a rotating. It's like the carousel of progress at Disney World. It's just constantly rotating. And then Courtney with URL comes in for like 10 minutes. I don't know how it works. Yeah, yeah. It's going to be every show. It's going to be wild. Thank you all for listening and watching. And we'll see you later. Yeah. We read your comments. Yeah, we read your comments. Bye. Bye. You are more than just a heart patient. At Trinity Health of New England, we get to know you, which can help us diagnose a problem and start treatment faster. Our cardiovascular team offers the latest imaging and device technology, testing and surgical procedures you'd expect from a national health system. With the personal touch you want from local experts. 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Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. Smosh is moving its studios from Rancho Cucamonga to Oxnard, a change noted for its scenic and academic appeal despite initial skepticism.
  2. A fan-led gathering of "Chosens" occurred in Los Angeles within a month of a prediction, featuring full character immersion and a memorable surprise involving a bodyguard dressed as a Chosen.
  3. The Smosh team was deeply impressed by the community’s dedication, highlighting fan creativity, international reach (e.g., a birthday celebration in the Philippines), and emotional connections to characters.
  4. The group discusses the appeal of video games like Pokémon Puzzle Challenge, emphasizing community-building through creativity and habitat design.
  5. A humorous segment features fans’ reactions to Smosh content, including a viral "woker" joke and fan art where Courtney imagines being tiny and eating large food.
  6. The team reflects on reading habits, particularly favoring smut books with narrative tension over direct, rushed content, and appreciating world-building and character depth.
  7. A recurring theme is the importance of community and shared experiences, from fan events to inside jokes and commentary, reinforcing a strong online bond.
  8. The episode concludes with a call to engage fans further through collaborative storytelling and book reviews, emphasizing humor, inclusivity, and shared joy.

Summary:

Smosh discusses its studio relocation to Oxnard, California, while celebrating a fan-organized "Chosen" gathering that brought together fans in character, showcasing deep community engagement. The team highlights how fans have created global events, such as a birthday celebration in the Philippines, and how these interactions foster emotional connections to Smosh characters. A segment on video games like Pokopia emphasizes community-building through creative design and shared environments.

The discussion shifts to reading preferences, with members favoring smut books that build tension and character depth over direct, rushed content. Fans’ comments, including a humorous "woker" joke and imaginative fan art, reflect the playful, inclusive nature of the Smosh community. The episode concludes with a suggestion to launch a collaborative book review series, promoting humor, storytelling, and shared experiences, underscoring the value of audience participation and creative expression.

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The team filmed a temporary episode in a new, temporary studio, where they shared their experiences, including a comfortable chair and humorous observations about their clothing and filming setup.

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