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#150 - The East Coast Episode w/ The Basement Yard

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#150 - The East Coast Episode w/ The Basement Yard

The episode features a lively, humorous conversation between Shane, Amanda, and guests Frank and Joe from the Basement, centering on their shared childhood memories, family dynamics, and pranks. They recall growing up in different regions—Arizona, Massachusetts, and Colorado—offering contrasting views on culture, family, and urban life. A major highlight is the story of their infamous fart bag prank, where Joe accidentally filled Frank’s apartment with foul-smelling gas, leading to lasting laughter and nostalgia. The group also reflects on early internet content creation, inspired by Jackass-era stunts and DIY videos. Childhood memories are peppered with absurdity, such as playing manhunt in church yards, sneaking into fairies’ houses, and engaging in pranks involving balls, guns, and trash cans. They discuss parenting styles, with Frank and Joe highlighting strong-minded, emotionally reserved families that contrast with more open, expressive ones. The conversation reveals deep bonds forged through shared vulnerability, humor, and the thrill of improvisation. Ultimately, the episode blends personal storytelling with comedic reflection, celebrating the influence of family, pranks, and nostalgia in building lasting friendships.

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Hi, welcome to Smoshmouth. I'm Shane and I'm Amanda and we have two very special guests with us today We have Frank and Joe from the basement. Yeah, that's right. Thanks for having us excited to have you guys here because it's the East Coast episode Okay, you get these coast of Arizona. Yeah, I don't even think that's right Phoenix. I think it's square in the middle Yeah, and you guys said that Boston was your favorite place. No, that place sucks That's what you guys said you guys have been talking shit all more Already I haven't no Frank's been crazy I mean If you just you just need to ask him about watch the clips are these coasters love to like boast and shit on other places Like a lot of like if it's just like this place or that place. It's not a calm like it's not a calm conversation No, if you ask him about Philly he'll go off about Philly, but like Ask me about it. You like Philly It's a bathroom I think that's true. I think like the streets were made to be like like urinals. I don't think I've ever been Philly Yeah, I've never been it's a I could see the light in your eyes still yeah My soul is here jokes jokes aside Boston as a place. I'm whatever the people No Boston as a place. Okay, you don't have to do it again. The people have been very kind to us the sports teams though Yeah, I agree with that. No, absolutely. What? Yeah, of course I agree that the red socks are incredible. They are like dog water Yeah, I don't know what is delicious. I don't follow baseball, but what was that now? That's me defending any way that I can dog water is yummy. What I don't continue the conversation Okay, I was gonna say that I think that Boston like being in the city is like it's a cool city Yeah, I don't like the teams. Yeah, I don't like that's fine You know, I love the accent. I think it's the funniest. I've ever heard you know, it's weird is like I Don't really have a big so you have it in my dad. Don't you fucking Here you get back earlier. She was like, oh, yeah, I go back all the time. I'm like how often she's like twice a year To travel all the way across the country Joe. That is a lot. What do you counts as a lot? Four times every Christmas I know four times at least once a quarter. Okay, that doesn't help your argument If it's just for like Christmas, it's like no, I know I know I know you would go back more if you could if I could Yeah, and and my my dad has a very thick accent does he? Yes, it's very thick Amanda, you know, there's there's so many things going on in our so Netflix is a crazy place So so Pam and I finished Netflix. We finished it. I'm waiting. Is that your mom's name? No, okay, okay? That's my dad's wife You're a former child. I'm a divorce child Your parents love each other and you're from Arizona Like being from Arizona is like man you lucky son of a bitch You've been shamed for your parents figure it out. How about this? How you wear your grandparents? Well, one one set of grandparents are dead The ones that were in Colorado and then my grandparents were in Tampa are both still alive my grandpa's 90 One or 92 It's getting crazy Basically, but so my grandmother is She's like 80s. My that was like 80s my grandma 2012 is when she died. Yeah, and they were all dead before that. Yeah, I'm a former former grandchild, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah They've been gone. Yeah, they've been gone. They're so dead. They're so Super good question or the divorce. I mean, you know, the the they both Not both, but my grandmother's you know, she had died years prior, but because she had like Dementia, so she was gone for a while. No, your grandma died after your parents got divorced. Yeah I mean the divorce probably it started when they got married if you think about it. It's all downhill for me Did you hear did you hear the leading cause of like it's like a new thing a leading cause a divorce in the country A hundred a hundred percent of people close a hundred percent of people that get divorced had gotten married Wait, what the fuck I know divorce Say it yeah, so people get divorced because they got married Not because, but shut up Joe. Don't start Can I can I say sorry changes of it slightly? No fine But like I had watched you guys podcast before and we did a recording of Reddit stories yesterday and within literally two minutes of Start I was like I was like oh man. I'm such a fan like they do their thing I wonder if they're gonna do like their thing, you know, and they're here you said something and immediately you did the like And I literally I paused for say I was like wow, they're they're they're hopping right how we are. Yeah, literally you are doing this off camera too Like it's non-stop. I love it. I love it. When do you know that the like when you first meet a person that you could also be like that with them? Oh, that's a good question. I think you know, we just met today. Yeah, and I feel very comfortable. Yeah, I think you like Immediately sat down and I told you my family and I were going to Turks and Kaka and you were like I would bone Turks and Kaka I said okay, I said fuck I don't She said yeah But I think you know you can just get a vibe from the person like and it just click and it's like an un it's an unspoken thing Like it kind of just clicks at a certain point. Yeah There's also like a line you can tow with people in your first meet them where it's like it's not that you're being rude It's cuz you you're but it's like a loving sort of joking with someone That's not like if you meet someone who's overly polite. You're like, okay I don't know if I could do the riffing thing. No, yeah, it's like I don't know yet But when there is that like I can make a dig at you type of thing like that would make you super Yeah, it's a it's a vulnerability. I feel like we do that a lot. That's much and sometimes our fans Don't don't get a read on it. And so they'll be like they're really into Angela right now and it's like that happen Oh, yeah, cuz we are producer and once we put them on the thing they were like, you know, they're so fucked up to him. Oh Fuck this kid first of all. He's so funny. It's so funny. You the three of you guys your relationship It's so funny like you rag on him and it's so but like I Yeah, I called him because I felt bad cuz you know the last thing I want is like to him to actually think that like it's a real And he's like I actually like I take it as like you're inviting me in you know like to like the the hangout and stuff like that Yeah, all right. Yeah, that's right. Fuck you. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, then you hung up. Yeah, I slammed it He he reels me back though Joey reels me back because I could get a little I sometimes I don't know where the line is Are you meaner than Joey? Oh my god. I don't know if meaner is the word my interpretation from watching you guys is that It's unfortunately. I feel like I know you're the yeah, but that's the that's the thing that happens because it's like oh Frank's this whimsy guy and then I have to reel him in all the time just bulge it No, I feel like that's I feel like Amanda and I's thing, but I think it's just like I'm the one who I make fun of you more than you make fun of me I don't know you make fun of me a lot too am I whimsical am I the whimsy one you're definitely whimsical. Yeah, I'm definitely there's there I'm sensing whimsy in the room from a general whimsy. Yes. Yeah, cuz from your clips It does feel like you're like I I did this thing today and Joe's like oh, let's hear it. I don't care I don't give a fuck but meeting you guys. It's kind of different like you are so mean to Joe I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Oh, wait. No, I'm kidding. It's I think it's just like the like playful banter like we know kind of like what story is coming so like we know like yeah Oh, here we go. Yeah, and um it's not like neither of us are me I would never say that either of us are mean, but like it's definitely like I will commit to a bit to the point where it's just like yeah real back a little bit He also loves pranks. He's like a nineties teen Yeah, cuz you were talking about fart bags. Yeah, did you have fart bags? So I didn't have fart bags We had like fart like stink Things that we would do in the hallway. You know what? What was he saying? Sometimes I start a story and I wish I'd never do this like thing stink Out of butts No, they were the they were the little like a foil like packs and you would pop something in it and it would explode and it just smelled like A dumpster. I know I didn't have that we have like literally like a little smoke bomb and it was farts and you'd put it in the hallway You're talking see what goes out of Massachusetts. It's crazy. Massachusetts is crazy. Yeah, they were yeah, it sounds like yeah Everything but you'll mention things about Massachusetts and then I'll see comments being like I'm from Massachusetts, and I've never fucking heard this before Yeah, maybe it's just I think it's also like a different generation like we all grew up in the generation where like stuff like that was like Farts were pranks now. They're like you smell the fart in the hallway. I imagine they're just like lock the doors down Something is going on. There's a gas more serious all the time. Yeah, it's like the worst prank that you've pulled on Joe Oh, do you pull any pranks on Joe? Is it just like you do pranks to your life? He just does like You're your wife. No, like um, he just he did the fart bag thing to me. Yeah, like we were recording a show a show in this at this point I was I had to set up in my apartment so he threw a fart bag in my apartment And he was hit and he's like throwing us and I were throwing it back and forth because it takes time to like so we're throwing it back and forth and then it got knocked off the table. I broke like a mug or something and then it went off in my whole apartment smell like shit. - For how long? - A couple minutes. It was not bad. - Oh, just a couple minutes? - It was a couple minutes. - Oh, 'cause that's not that bad. - It's not a couple minutes. - It was also like a nostalgic smell. Like it didn't smell at all. - Oh shit! - It smelled like shit! - You're like, don't do it. - But also like, I remember that stink. - I mean, I didn't enjoy it. - I know part of me smells that. I mean, we'll get into this 'cause I know how you feel. But like, no part of me smells that smell and goes like, what the hell this brings me back? But I will tell you what. I don't know how you guys feel about this. Me and Frank love it. Horset is a good smell. - I love horset. - Horset is fantastic. - I couldn't agree. I like grew up down the street from a farm. My mom made me ride horses. - So horseshtrike me as a horse girl. - Yeah, you do. - Don't even use fan art of me and it is horrific. - I could see you in one of those helmets. - It's terrific. - I could see you in a helmet. - No. - In the tall boots with a whip. - Yeah. - A small equestrian. - Hey, I'm down. - Yeah. - Horset me as a horse in my normal clothes. - Okay. - Yeah, they love me out there. - Me as a horse. - They love me out there. - Horset is definitely like, I understand what you're saying. 'Cause it's reminiscent of a lot of different things. - It brings you back. - You know. - Yeah, I don't love it though. - But like, here's like a thing that I don't know if anyone's on my team. But you remember when Jurassic Park where this was like a big pile? - Yes. - And then, yes. - And I'm like, all right. Part of me wants to put my hand in that shit. - Yeah. - And a big pile? - And it looks crazy. - We also grew up like, we hung out and played like manhunt and like streets and alleyways. - Yeah, it was fun. - So like, we, we, it smelled like shit. Well, we did, we did do that. But like, it also smelled like piss and shit. And like, where we played Little League Baseball was right next to the bay. And like, so like, bad smells were just kind of a part of our childhood. - Yep, yep, yep, yep. - Our lives were shit. - Yeah. - We lived in shit. - We lived in squalas. - So like, there's a, like, I'll, like, you know, you passed the bay and you'll just be like, ill. - You're like, ill, I like, ill. - Yeah, that stinks, right? Yeah, exactly. - I also really like the smell. I don't know why of gasoline. - Yeah. - Well, yeah, I always say, okay. That's a, that's a thing. - I'm quirky. - I like gasoline. - I don't know why is that. - I don't actually know why that is. - Is that family trips when you're like sleeping in the bed and you wake up and you're like, oh, we're at the gas station. - That makes sense. - I mean, I'd like it in a way that I would probably think about drinking it. - Okay, well that's a good one. - There was a commercial when I was a kid where Homer is like filling up his gas and then like taking, he's like, some for you, some for me, some for you, some for me. And I was like, that looks amazing. - It does. - I don't want to do that. - I don't want that. - You know what I love? - Basement smell. - You know what I'm talking about? - Well, kind of basement, like-- - Basement Yard, so I make sense. - I mean, you're kinda a dirty bastard. - Yes. Like a mildewy basement, it smells good. - We don't, we just hardly have basements. I never, I didn't grow up with basements. - Oh, basements are good. - My basements are good. - We don't really let it every goddamn month where they're going. - It was so fun because it was like controlled chaos down there. - Yes. - And just the smell of just like, you know, it's a little mildewy, it's a little wet, but it's also just like the dirt. - Yeah, I don't like it. - I like it. - There's one room that someone stays down there sometimes. - Yeah, like cousin Ryan stays in the back room. And you know, it smells like that. - That's your actual cousin? - Yeah. (laughing) - I don't like the smell of mildew basement. - Oh, it's good, it's a good one. - You know what I kinda like though? Like an empty apartment smell. - Like new apartment? - No, no. I'm talking about empty apartment. - Lived in. - You're looking for a new apartment. You're going visiting apartments and they're empty. - Oh. - But they're not brand new. - They're not brand new, but they're empty. - But you're like, it smells like nothing in there. - I, you know what I mean? (laughing) - It's like it just smells like it. Like no one has cracked the window on a bit. - Oh. - Oh, just like stale air. - Some people's like a room. - Yeah, like a stale. - Like a stale. - It's a swamp air kind of thing. - Like a stale air. - It's not swamp air. - No, it's kinda clean. - But it's cause it's stagnant, stagnant air. - Yeah. - It's got like the wood in it. - Yeah. - I know what you're saying. - Yeah. - I'm like a wall, like smelling a wall. - Smells are great. - I love smells. - Just general smells. - Now I visually picture you in an apartment by yourself. Just like, I'm not above that. - I'm not above that. - You're like, oh, here's the new apartment. You want to check it out? It's like, I'm good. - I don't want to be like, did you see everything? Do you mind if I go check out the bedroom one more time by myself without you listening? - Just let it rip. - Yeah, just in there, just like, yeah. - I'm kinda, I'm on all fours on the ground. - Letting it rip? - Oh, you guys wanna hear a fun? Dude, this is so funny. I don't know if we've ever told a story before. My grandma was moving out of her apartment. And so my dad, my dad is like a typical dad. And he's like, you'd get all your friends and you're helping us to move the apartment. - Of course, of course. He never hired anyone when he has children. He said, why do I have to hire people? Why did I have you? - His workers are there. - Exactly. - Built in help. - Yeah. - And then if you're a friend, it's like, well, then what do you have to do? - Of course, you think. - You think, then you're fucking helping. - Exactly, yeah. So we were moving all my grandma stuff out. And I do remember, as it pertains to this conversation, like before, like I was the last one to leave. So I was like, in there, it was empty. And I was like, I fucking love this. Like my old-ass grandma, Zwalls, smell good. You know what I mean? Before we got all of the furniture out here, let him cook all this. - Beautiful, careful. I'm picturing the Will Smith in the room alone. - Yes, exactly the underpressed Prince. - I know where this is going and I'm just gonna sit here and say, you're grandma's house, it's completely empty. - At this point, it's not empty yet. Like-- - There's like a couple of pieces. - So yeah, right. And my dad's in the car in a van. Like waiting for me and him. - Yeah. - So we had to take apart this dresser. And when you take a part of dresser, you're like, I can't take the whole dresser down. I gotta take each thing out. - Each drawer. - I can't believe you're telling this. - Put the drawer at the bottom of it. - I do. - He knows he was there. The bottom of the drawer was like particle board or something. - It's like where you have to like, slide it in and like lock it on the back. - Yeah. - Do you have a guess what I'm about to say? 'Cause you may be. - I don't think so. If you do have a guess. - What's written on the board? Or is there something hidden in there? - Oh, no, no, no. This is worse. - Oh, it's not that bad. It's worse than that. - Okay. - I don't know that you would ever guess this. And if you did, that's a problem for you. Okay. So what we decided would be fun because you're young and idious is like, I'm holding this thing up and I'm dropping it. I'm like, yo, this is kind of like a guillotine. And Frank's like, what if I put my balls in there? - Oh. Why would I guess this? - I would never guess that. - Why would I-- - You're everything. - Dude. - This is why you're like, don't tell this story. - I mean, I don't care. We've told enough stories on this. - Why would you guys want? Why would you want your balls in there? - Well, we guys-- - I have the execution. - No, no. - How many stories do you have that you want your balls in a guillotine is the one that you want? - What year are you born? - 91. - Okay. You and you were in prime like hanging with 92. You were in prime like hanging out with your friends and balls were around age. Don't sit there and pretend like balls were around. - It was like, yeah. It was just like a thing. And like, it was always like, oh, like prank. Like, ha ha, look, it's a picture of his nuts or something like that. - Okay. - You know? - We also grew up-- - You know? - A different place. - Like, I was in Arizona. - We also grew up in your balls out. - We also grew up in the time of like, you know, jackass was-- - We grew up in the show. - Oh, that's what I'm just gonna say. - I get what you're saying there. No, my brother told me he was like, he's like, oh, my friends, and I played this game where we just try to see who can hurt themselves the most. - Well, most of so-- - It's just like, what? They've got me the exercise ball. - Venus play. - His mom in like 2004, 2005, got him a camera. And we started making videos together. - Okay. - And we called them 'cause we lived near the park by us. It was the 48th Street. So we called them the 48th Street Files. And-- - Love it. - Most of those videos were just like, jackass stunts. Like him picking me or like someone punching me in the face. Or like-- - We did one. That was like our most famous one. Famous meaning we showed our friends of family and we wanted to-- - Yeah, no. - Family too? - We made them sit through and we were like, what do you think? - Yeah. - So we think of Frank's balls getting teetased. We took my mom's garbage can and put it over Frank's head. And then my brother ran and dropped kicked him in the face with both feet, in my front yard. - Yeah. - That's awesome. - Why did you need the garbage top on your head? - So I didn't get kicked directly in the face. I had this-- - Yeah. - And by the way, you guessed it, a regular New York City garbage can. Not like cleaned or newly purchased. - Sure, sure. - A rat inside of it. - Yeah. - Like I actively remember being in there and seeing like white jelly. And I was like, jelly isn't white. And then getting kicked. White jelly. - Did some of us bring up Steve in the Porter Potty when they flipped him around and he had to be filled with poop? I was like, that was the one. - We never got into poop. - No, we never did. - But like that was like the inception of us making videos. And then like we would do like skits of us like, you know, stuff like that but like an idol. - Yeah, so much of it was like the jackass era. Where like, what was fun. I mean, you remember the TV show on MTV SCARD? - Yeah, I didn't watch, I could not watch SCARD. - It was all that concept. - Yeah, that's too much. - Where it was just like guys doing something, getting hurt and everyone could-- - There was a lot of like skate, skateboarder. - Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. - I don't like the skateboarder videos when they like, break their fucking. - Oh, biking is worse when they like, fall, fall. - I can't watch like sports injuries. - Me neither like, beat going the other way. - Yeah, I don't like that stuff, I like that stuff. - Would they call it the scorpion when like they're like, like the like-- - Yeah, heels. - Yeah, I can't even watch any videos of like on Instagram. If I see a video of someone like working out, like I'm too afraid that if they're gonna get hurt and I can't-- - Me too, yeah. - Like a light crash injury, I'm like, yeah. - Yeah. - Yeah, no, can't handle that. - Yeah, for sure, discuss it. - Okay, so guillotine balls, let's get back to that. - Yeah, you have all the information for me. - You just-- - I don't have all the information. - You just posed it, you didn't actually go for it. - No, no, no, we did it. - We did, but it was filmed on a flip phone at the time. It didn't get shown to like really, really, really. - It was like, you could look at it and you'd be like, "I think those are big." - Exactly, yeah, yeah, that was kind of it. - It was on a Motorola Razer, probably. - Yeah. - We kind of had like a red Nokia, that was my sister's. - So it was like on its left. - It was like, you know, you're young, you're dumb, you're stupid. - My grandma's about to die, let's ask her who we are. - Yeah, man, that was a fun one. - That was probably, that was probably, like she was pumped at the idea that there was like balls in her apartment. And who knows when the last time they had been there? - Yeah. - She didn't agree with that too, she didn't agree with that too. - She didn't agree with that too. - Go into that one, do you think? (laughing) - You're gonna educate a guest. - Yeah. - On that. - You guys ever think like, "Oh, I'll be so great "one day to do Jackass." - I did, because it was like a dream of a lot of people. - And like, I mean, I loved Jackass. - The dynamic that we had, it really was similar where we had a big group of friends. And there, it was like half wanted to kind of just like be behind the scenes and like, just like, it would be funny, it would be like this. And the other half like, all right, all right, fuck that. - I'm the director, I tell you how to hurt Jackass. - And that was the dynamic that we had where like, he would be like, "I have this idea." And I would just be like, "Yeah, let's, like, I don't just do it." We did one where, there was like a busy intersection by his house, and I was on crutches, 'cause I had hurt my knee during football. And they ran over at a, like, backed up intersection. - Okay. - Him and my friends kicked the crutches out from under me and beat me up, and like, people are getting out there. - Oh, okay, so like, that's like in public scenario. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - I don't know how people do that. I get so cringed out, like, I don't know if I could do that. - By the way, we didn't film any of that. (laughing) - We're just doing it. - We fully just did that. - We just did that. - Once we figured out the intersection thing, we're like, this is a whole new level of fun. - My brother was also like, he would jump into a bush off of a building if he wanted to. - Sure. - It's just like nuts like that. And I remember when it would snow, a car would pull up to the intersection and be at a red light, and my brother Keith would just run and just slide across their hood. (laughing) 'Cause there would be like, the people that, like, didn't fully clean off the hood of their car yet, so they're still, like, compacted snow. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - Just like slide across it. - That's actually brilliant. - Yeah, I don't know. - So funny. - I gotta figure out how to do that. - You didn't grow up with snow, so you don't get it, dude. - I mean, okay, I've experienced snow, though. - What was the first time you saw snow in your life? - Well, I lived in Virginia when I was from four to six, or two to six years old. So, snow was, like, some of my first memories actually. - Oh, okay, cool. - So I know it. - I know snow. - I know snow. - I know snow. - And then my grandparents and all my family live in Colorado, so I'd go there for Christmas ever. - Oh, that's snow. - That's snow. - No, everywhere. - That's just so better than us, probably. - That Rocky Mountain snow. - Did you guys, like, when you were kids, you know, have to go skiing and all that, was that, like, part of your life? - Uh, no. - Why was that part of my life, man? - I don't know. - We're up in Richmond, go to a shop. - It's a shit. - And they love each other for a while. - No, it's 'cause my uncle worked at Ragged Mountain. - Ragged Mountain. - I don't even know what that is. - What? - It's a new hipster. - Ragged Mountain. - Ragged Mountain. - Yeah. (laughing) - That's literally what it is. - It's safe, hey, promise. - It comes down. It's, like, half broken off. It's dangling. - It was ragged. - It's fucking ragged. - Ragged Mountain. - Every one person we'd lose one person per year. - I don't know what it was. It was, like, I turned a certain agent and I was like, "Okay, now's your time. "You have to ski." And, like, going on a chairlift with all your sisters is, like, a life or death situation. - Yeah. - 'Cause you're all on the chairlift and you're not, you're, like, having fun. But if someone says the wrong thing, you're not having fun. And so, like, you're about to go off and there's, like, a little bump. And you're all trying to go off at the same time. So you're, like, you're fucking skis are pizzaing in your, and one time my little sister was like, "I don't even wanna do it." And she stayed on the chairlift and went all the way around. - Just stuck. - And they were like, "We have to bring her back." Like, skiing once, but I was, like, seven. Or maybe I was a little older than that, actually. - You got everybody. - No. - I've done skiing, I've done snowboarding, but when I was, like, younger, seven, eight. - I've done it, like, as an adult, but, like, growing up, I had only done that one time. - You know that, you know, I don't know. Maybe that's just my parents, but I felt like, as a kid, I had to, like, they made me do everything. - Yeah, my parents were doing it. - My parents were paying attention. - Literally, me and him would be walking to school in fourth grade. - Fourth grade. - Fourth grade. - Oh, yeah, yeah. - Well, no, no, that's not true. - Which is kind of crazy. - Oh, it's crazy. - Which is crazy, because, like, now being a parent. - No, it is. - No fucking shit, it's insane. - Like, they're not leaving my site. - Yeah, I'm not- - Like, they're in the backyard. I'm gonna be right there with them. - Yeah, of course. - Our parents would be like, like, in the summer, I remember I would leave the house at, like, eight in the morning. I would go to the park. And then I had to be home at six for dinner. And then I had to be home at, like, 11. And I'd, like- - You would just, like, check in at home and eat. - Yeah, and if I didn't check in, they'd be so pissed. - And it got a little easier once, like, cell phones started becoming a thing, because, like, then we could just be like, "Oh, we're at the park, we'll, you know, talk to you later." But we were, like, pigeons. It was just, like, they leave, and then they'll eventually come back. - Yeah, that was pretty much the same. - That was the same. - Especially when it was, like, manhunt nights. We would be in a random neighborhood, and we would be out in the dark, and there was always, like, one house that was kind of, not abandoned, but, you know, slightly. - It was. - That's where you'd hide. - Slightly abandoned. - Slightly. - Someone checked in and out. - Someone's in there, they're like, "Who the fuck are you?" - We didn't like it. - In Arizona, yeah, up until I was, like, 13 or 14, I didn't have a phone. So, like, you would walk out, but I would leave for the day, and it's, like, 115 degrees outside. So, not only is it like, "Oh, am I gonna die?" It's like, "Will I get heatstroke?" It's just like, "I don't know, figure it out, man." - Yeah, we used to play manhunt also, like, around a church. - Of course. - And, like, the priest was, like, not happy with him. - Yeah, I mean, I'm sure. - And he would come out and laugh, though. - I don't know, he would come out all the time, and he'd be in the priest thing. I'm like, "Yo, at 11, for real?" - Does he sleep there? - Yeah, I think that was one of them. - They have a habit. - They have a thing. - They lived right out of rectory or something? - Whoa, well. - It's got it. - Don't, don't, manhunt, I'm not even gonna. - That's what I was gonna say. - I don't know what it's called, but it's called something like that. - It's a color record. - No, don't say that either. - But they live up on top. - They explored them. - Yeah, I feel like it's, I was up there. - They're on the campus. - They have the bell, they're, yeah. - Yeah, it's like, quasi-model. - They're on the back. - They're just up there. - No, we, it was like, well, we- - They got to ring the bell. - We know why he didn't like it. 'Cause we were, like, climbing the, like, onto the building. - Sure, it got to, like, here's the first thing God. - Who's trying to, like, you know, pray, whatever you do. - Come up with a sermon, pray, right? - Exactly, and then we're out there screaming, like, I fucking got you, dude. I got you, Ollie, Ollie, Oxford. - Show me your balls. - Well done, that part. - Like, children, we can't play here. - No more. - He sucks. - He's so, who's showing their balls? (laughing) - Well, you, you said it. - You said earlier. - Uh, balls. - You grew up in the church. Like, I was happy, right? - My church was called the Immaculate Conception. - It was one of those, and I heard it. - It was one of those by us, yeah. - Are those? - Turns out it's a chain. - Oh, wait, no. - What the fuck? - I thought it was just our special church. - It's the delta of churches. - What? - I know, we got two. - Yeah, there's a bunch of those. - It's like, what? - That was my special church. - It's like McDonald's of church. - Oh, we got a bucket of churches, too. - They put out a video and they're like, we have now expanded. 14 states. (laughing) - We had most precious blood. - It was one of them. - Holy shit. - Crazy one, yeah. - That's a crazy one. - Because, what did that thing-- - What did they think? - What did they think? - That's the most precious blood, you know what I mean? - Someone in history was saying stuff like that, too. - Yeah. - Was that Catholic? - Yes. - Yeah. - That's crazy. Ars was just like Holy Cross, and then, I guess, apparently. - We had the same Francis, St. Catharines, but St. Catharines and St. Irene's were Greek churches. They were Greek orthodox churches. - Yeah. - The same Francis was the one that we were like most, like, we were near. - Yeah. - Did you guys do, like, a Sunday school or like-- - I did that. - Me, too. - Yeah. - Did you learn anything? - Oh, god. - Yeah. - I, also, the grades, I would get graded. - Me, too. - Same. - But the grades were like, yes or no. (laughing) - You were getting a report card. - Holy. - Like, a Y or an N, like, literally something like that. - No, I'm not going to have it. - My CCD teacher actually lived in the building of a girl that we knew growing up, and we were at her house, and I guess she heard me curse. And she had this vent down against me. - It's a wrap. - And when I went to a Sunday school, she gave this whole speech about how, like, oh, some people in here, like, some shit like that, and I was like, this bitch is crazy. - Yes. - What curse word did you say? - Fuck. (laughing) - That's a good one. - You're done. - You're the good ones, the good ones. - Yeah, yeah. But she was like, not happy at all. And I was like, dude, just give me my Y or a report card. - I remember as a kid when I was like, going to church and stuff, and like, curse words and everything. And I was like, these words didn't exist 2,000 years ago. Why is this bad? - Yeah. - Why is this bad? - Because they were so every CCD teacher I had, literally had it out for everybody. I remember a girl in our class got her period, and the CCD teacher was like, you are an abomination. Like, you need to get someone to shut the fuck up. - Yes, she did not want to talk about it. She made her go home early. There was like no discussion about it. - Well, our generation, we were taught by the biggest fucking prudes on the planet. - Oh, literally. - Like literally, like, in the 50s, they would be like, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Like, their idea of being raunchy was like, I have a poodle on my skirt. It's like, you know, have sex in a car. You know, do something fun. - Yeah, I have a poodle on my skirt. - Well, they would do that. Like, people would have sex in cars. - Yeah, level's lane. - Yeah, I think it kills. - Was that like a real play? I always thought it was like jokes from like movies and stuff where they'd be like, we're gonna go make out at like, you know, titty point or something. - There's never a titty point in my cake. - Titty point. - Yeah, you guys have a titty point? We had the duh. Turns out it's a franchise You know we had the quarry the quarry that sounds more dangerous than it is from Lord the race We may out and but amongst the answer We have like a lot of a lot of kids from my town would dirt bikes You want to go down to morrigan's bog and bake out and then go to ragged mountains We if we can climb ragged mountains. She has been caught by Thelonius Piles of dirt that people would dirt bike on you tell me you you were the one told me that you had like fairies in your in neighborhood growing up You're like oh, yes, fairy house. Oh fairy houses. Yeah Crazy what's it? What's a fair? I'm shocked a place like Massachusetts had a place called a fairy house and they didn't burn it Okay, no they they're well their secret. They're like little fairy houses everywhere It's where the secret hippies want to you know, do the little fairy houses. You had fairies. I didn't know but the fairy houses by the way We had fairies to my dad usually my dad called me and him. Yeah, of course. Yeah, yeah, fairies get in the cards I put you dicks in the Exactly take your balls out of your grandmother's drawers All right, you know, you guys done making out. We're gonna go flip a dock You guys got to have all this exciting shit That is so real the core. Yeah, you had you had the quarry you probably had Arizona all we had was like a gun slide With the fuck that's kind of fire. What is a gun slide? I mean it's pretty self explanatory. Yeah, no, it's not a slide that is shaped like a gun Oh, is that what it is? Please tell me that's not what it is of what a gun slide. I'm a gun slide these nuts in your mouth Amanda you almost Messed it up I did we talked about this right before the episode. He's like this is what I'm gonna do and I went hell yeah I went you have a gun slide and then he was acting all weird and I was like why is he acting so fucking Son of a bitch go hit him with the got him got him Across country got him is so cross country got him and it was we didn't it was Totally on it was too lost around you had moments. I feel like betrayed nowhere on the call sheet Did I see be prepared for it? Yeah, I would have come prepared you guys warn each other. No, okay, we should definitely hit it And with that when we get home He's quick and quick with it. So right now. I got it. I don't Got it. No, I got we got locked and we uh, I literally walked up to Selena like last week and I was like We got to get him like I was like we don't need to prepare anything for this. We just got to get and you got him and you got us And but do you see what I mean about like balls being part of like male culture jokes and stuff? Yeah, you just showed us your balls of the joke You're right. You're right. I did I did your guns Crazy, does he know does he because Joey's like this does he listen to this? Does he know whisper does she like people like falling over him like compliments? Yeah, he doesn't love it. Although although he's gotten a little bit better like with me I can be like like yesterday. I was like I like your shirt. He's like thanks so much that bad like that That yeah, okay Frank thinks that I don't like compliments because he compliments me like a T ball coach He's like, hey man. You should really be proud of yourself. I'm like that feels a little a little You're on this couch. I think when it's not thrown out casually when it's like said really earnestly with like Hey, buddy I would say that's my dynamic. That's my dynamic with our friend Damian Damian's been like one of my best friends for a long time and he'll give like really like he'll make a moment of And it's it's like like okay, like it's very sweet. It's incredibly sweet He's like I heard that you really liked you know predator So I went to Japan and I got you this He gave it to me and I was like oh my god fucking that's awesome. Yeah, yeah Thank you. Yes, and I was like this. This is awesome. Yeah, yeah, but like I took it in and then I felt like oh I should get him something, but I don't think that's why he does it. Yeah Well, no, I just I'm I think I am very much so like you know I've been putting a position now where I can like do what I've always wanted to do and like provide for my families because of him And I'm always like feeling the need to just be like dude. You've made my dreams come true You know what I mean like thank you so much and then he'll like we're gonna say that Let's get to sound I absolutely have said that to you before the way the way that what he's describing though is like we'll do a show Like we when we did MSG When we did MSG like afterwards he'll he'll be like Like you should be proud and it's like bro. We did that. Yeah, but like also like so I'm like Not that I thought that I think about it from the perspective that I had We're like you were making videos and content very early on and like 2015 and then you came on. No, no, no. He was making videos like 2010. Whoa 2010, but you started the podcast in one 2015 and then you came on in 2020. Yeah But like so I look at the time that he had like doing it by himself, and I'm just like you should reflect on that Which I know you do, but like I want to tell you to do it. Oh, here's what he's a father. Yeah, I know He's a father, but this is I'm your father. He's your father, but that's that's what it when it comes and I'm like okay Is it because it's like this is too much pressure like I think he I don't know sometimes it's like it's maybe it's just not Like I'm not ready for that yet. It's a little it's a little existential. Yeah, I'm like positive It's a little like a process. Yeah, cuz I think I take a little longer to do that cuz like I spent even something like that You get off stage and immediately I'm like all right. I got to figure out what that was Well, you have to process like okay, you have to process like pretty much everything you said You're like okay, so I said that thing to that that works that didn't work. Wait. Why didn't that work? That was weird. Okay, did we choose the wrong person? I don't know. That's what I do It was more of like for that show specifically like there was a lot leading up to it obviously and a lot of things Had to go right and then we had a good show and then it was like afterwards and there's just a lot to go through before you can be like Okay, I know yeah, how I feel about it now Yeah, it's it we're almost a year away from it and I'm still processing like the shows from the year before still You know what I mean because it's such a weird thing But like I get that and I also like so when you come off stage you kind of you like automatically want to kind of like connect and be like Hey, I mean not necessarily like we do like it's very quiet after a show backstage like we kind of just sit down and Beacup press, you know, there's like the adrenaline dump but like big shows that we've done whether whatever they were I'll be like dude like I hope you take a minute to realize like you did something crazy and they're like well talking Yeah, but like it it takes it's not like every single show if it was I would punch myself in the face One day Joe is gonna wake up and just be like and he's just gonna sob because everything you said, it's just gonna hit him Oh, I cry all the time like this was the Was it the day after I think it was the day after and it's like a weird way, but Because like I saw my mom afterwards and you know whatever all our friends and family had like a little party afterwards But then I was in my bed the next morning and I saw like a tiktok that someone posted of like the view of it And it was like confetti at the end of it and then I was just like I'll I lost Because yeah, we always we've talked about this a lot, but Being on the stage is so different than sitting in the crowd Yeah, like and when I see photos of Definitely that show, but like any of the shows we've done. I'm like holy shit like that was fire Yes, it's it feels different maybe because you're You're kind of behind the curtain and you know like oh, it's just a bunch of wires and shit behind here But then it looks like a show so it just it feels like It's hard to feel the magnitude until you see the photos. Yes, it's true And if I saw the photo of like MSG filled with people beforehand, I'd be like oh fuck. Yeah Yeah, no when we did ducks the close we have as we did the Chicago theater last year for reddit stories And it was like oh, it's 3,500 people. It's like holy shit But when you're on stage the lighting you can't really No, so you're just like I know there's a lot of people out there, but it's I can't really gauge it And then it wasn't till we were leaving and we were getting into our car and there was just like a crowd like the people The crowd was leaving and you're just like oh my god. Yeah, all of those people were in there. Yeah, it's nuts Our photographer is awesome Zach shadow mount and he takes pictures at the venues where he goes to like the top Back of it and takes like a shot from over. I love that. So like I'll see that and I'll just be like You know like it's it's it's like you see that and it kind of puts it in perspective But also the marquees are cool. You're like Well, the Chicago theater freaked us out in particular I know it definitely freaked me out the first time we did it We were backstage in the green room and we're hanging out and like they had like everyone wrote on the walls and backstage Did you guys sign the wall? Oh, yeah, I wasn't out there Chicago when I was giving but yeah, we did sign the wall You're okay or later don't you haven't that more impressive crazy? It's crazy more impressive Hey, that honestly shame on you for not me when you for not giving No, you're right. I believe we've been giving yeah, I'm really sorry. I'm really sorry about that blood No, but like the you sign the wall and stuff like that and And then we're like, "Oh, we're gonna have a good show." We're still like the first round of stuff. We're still like getting our rhythm down. And then we see like next to the door, it says like, "Have a swell time." I sure did, and it Frank Sinatra, and I was just like, holy shit. Frank Sinatra performed here, and I'm about to go talk about my balls on the street. - Yeah, I'm being a teen ball, yeah. - But like for me, I see that, and I'm just like, "Who the fuck am I?" You know what I mean? Like a moment like that, where like that person's there, and then you look around and you see other names, and you're just like, no, I definitely have the same thought whenever we do our shows. I come out and I'm like, "Whoa, hey, what's up Chicago?" And then I pull out my iPad and start reading Reddit. I'm like, "I feel stupid now." - I feel the same way, like after we did the Denver show, I was like, "Oh, like we just read Reddit." It wasn't enough, like I loved to perform. I was like, "We need to like do a full performance." And then I realized when fans talk to me about it, they're like, "You're someone that is like comforting to me. Like I go to you to feel connected to someone." - A specific viewing experience for you. And so I'm like, "Oh, to get that in such a big magnitude with all those people kind of feel the same way, it's pretty fucking cool." - It's pretty cool. - I just like, I always want to feel like I want to offer them, like whenever we do Reddit, like I always, I just want to like offer them something really amazing. Like I'm just like, I want to perform for them. So it's weird for me to like not have any like wigs or anything. I'm just sitting here like, "This is just me." - Yeah. - Oh yeah, I love to wear wigs. - That's the song and dance. - Yeah, that's your thing. - That. - Hey, we do it sometimes. We did a whole episode where we just played, we made up ants. - Oh yeah, Shane and I were not ants like on the floor, like our ants. - On, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. - Yeah. - This is ants. - Oh, okay. - This is ants too, but yeah, yeah. 'Cause I'm busy. - Is that the episode when you did the Bob? - Yeah, I did an East Coast on and he did a Key West on. And we blacked out, we don't remember. - Were you joking? - No, we just blacked out completely and we, I don't know what happened. We filmed for 80 minutes and we did another character. - I mean, we did an episode where we put on wigs and we were like long island medium moms. - Oh, and it was the same. - Long Island medium. - We were like, oh my God, the video games, they're making the kids gay. - Yeah. (laughing) - It was the same thing, but like. - That's true. - Completely lost in the show. Isn't it like, how do you say, how do you do that? - Well, you're on long island, you have your daughter. - They do, what are you doing? - They do Long Island. - Long Island. - Long Island. - Long Island. - Long Island. - Long Island. - And everything is in your daughter. - It's kind of like the character of, if you guys watch The Prennos. - Yes, of course. - You know how like, you know, she walks around, like Carmella walks around like this, like that's the Long Island mom. - That's the Long Island mom. - Like a T-Rex. - Yeah, yeah. - Just like over here. - What do you do? - You need anything? - You know what I mean? - Every thing's a concern. - Water. - Everything's a concern. - The water? - Well, it's making, I heard it's making the frogs gays, it's making the kids gay. - And you're gay. - Everyone's gay, you know what I mean? - Okay. - They want us to be gay now. - So then did you watch YouTube series back in the day? It was like, my son moved to New York and now he's gay. - Oh, was that the, take a picture next to the tree? - Yeah, take a picture next to the mother's day. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - I'm not kidding. The mother's day one and the Christmas one, we send it in like my, if you have a group chat, like this is my mom. - Yeah. - Like the scene right around a telephone cord. Like, oh my god, did you hear that? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - My mom doesn't have like an accent, like there's certain words. But like the scene where, in that video specifically, it always stands in my mind, I'm like literally I've seen my mom do it a thousand times. But it's like Mother's Day and it's like, she goes to pick something up and she goes, what am I doing this? - I'm not doing this. - The dishes, I'm not doing the dishes. It's Mother's Day. - Forget this, I'm getting Mother's Day. - My mom was the on Christmas where it's like, something gets opened and it's just like, she needs to tell you how it's not enough. But like, we hope you like it. So it's just like, yeah, I thought you would like an Xbox and if you don't like whatever, I mean it's, I tried, you know, I really tried my hardest. - I tried my hardest to get you the Nintendo Wii and it's like, you did good, you did good. - Those fucking videos were weird. - But you know, they're sold out every way so I didn't know. - Like, I was literally like that is, it's not really my mom, but like it is like my aunts and everything and like just the whole thing of like, her dropping her off at the mall is like, I'm gonna drop you for the mall. What are you doing tonight? You hang out with your friend? No, you're hanging out with me. Fine, go hang out with your friend if you want. It's just like a precious moment. Like, it's so weird to hear about this 'cause my family is so like non-confrontational. Like, 'cause like-- - Shane, I come from a completely different way. - No, like hearing that, like my family is so just like, okay, yeah, whatever, like, okay, great, like, okay, like that's the vibe. - Yeah. - So whenever I hear like East Coast people and it's just like, bam, in the face. - We came from like, families that were strong-minded and like, my mom like struggled with like, I like that, we're going with that. - That's a good word for the podcast, strong-minded. - Strong-minded. - Like, some of my uncles are extremely strong-minded. She like would like do the thing where it would be like, you know, like, I love you. Motherfucker. - I love you so much, she's fucking idiot. - I love you. - I don't think I've ever heard my mom say the word fuck. - Oh, dude. - I don't think I've ever heard it. - His mom has cursed me out. - Yeah. - Like, and she, like, put like in like a loving way. This woman would cry every single new year's, like one of her children got shot in the face 10 times. (laughing) - I'm not kidding. - Every year. - Why? - Like, we would have the years ending? - Yeah, just of course. - Just of course. - Because you're flexing. - Of course. - But every year he would have a New Year's Eve party and I would go there and we would sell where he knew he was there. And then it would be three to one. We would, you know, pop champagne and whatever. And then we would like spill out into the front yard. - Of course. - And she would be on the stoop, just inconsolable. - Yeah. - And I'm like, I'd be like, oh, you know, happy New Year, Nancy, and she'd just grab you. - And then, but it would be that, and then it would immediately, it would be a hug and then it'd be like, you're getting older, like hitting me or something. - How dare you? - How fucking dare you? - Yeah, exactly. - She was just like, say things. She'd be like, you look after him. And I'm like, yeah, like we're two in here. - Yeah, we're really, I can't remember. - I put a trash can on his head and someone kicked him. - I can't look after him. - Do you know what she probably thought of? - Did you not see the video of his balls in a guillotine? - Yeah. - She knows about that one now, yeah. - She probably thought of like the worst thing that could, it all flashed before her eyes, all the stoop, the worst thing that could happen. - I have come to since, you know, now that I'm married and I have kids, my wife tells me she's just like, it's all like every moment is just like how bad it can be. - I know. - Because like mom guilt and stuff like that. - It's like intrusive thoughts. I, I like totally experienced when I had my son. It was just like, we're all like hanging out. That's a great, like my husband was playing with our son on the floor and it was so cute and I had this big bowl. You know how you mix your salad and the mixer? - Hell yeah. - So I took out the whole mixer and I just kept the salad in there. - Got you, okay. - It's like a big bowl. And like our wedding song came up or something and I'm watching them play and I am sobbing. - What's the wedding song? - We're gonna make fun of it if it's not bad. - And Morrison into the mystic. - Don't, I can't think of that song on the side of my head. It's all right. - Oh, you wouldn't need it. - I'll do something. - I can do it. - That's like a real thing in my husband. - I just thought of it all the whole, like I was like, I can read it all. - Oh yeah, the whole thing. - Because you're picturing in the future. - I can read it all. - I could lose it all. - You have the vision from Terminator 2. (laughing) - Oh my God, a bomb can hit my head. - Oh, no, nuclear war. - So I'm gonna be your mama near Zeeve. - Yeah. - You probably will, yeah. - I do that, but like it could be just videos of strangers. - Oh yeah. - And I was like, oh yeah. - Yeah, no, me too. - I like crying. Like I'll try and, like I'll find something and it'll get me a little bit and be like, let me pull on the string and I'll be sobbing about something. - I used to be afraid of turning into my parents, but then it's like, I'm giving that to my kids so they can make fun of me. It's like a gift to them. - Oh. - You know. - Oh. - How nice of you. - I will give them this curse. - This is how selfless I am, man. - It's gonna be a strong-minded parent for you all. - The curse is yours. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, but our parents are like a big part of like, it's just kind of the personality and the dynamic we had because it's so like, they're just characters. - Of course. - And like, you don't know, like if other people have the, like my dad, I've told this story before, but like when I was younger, I like asked my dad to buy me condoms. - Oh, brave man. - And my dad, that's crazy. - I gotta set the scene. - Whoa. - My dad is like a five foot eight Colombian electrician. So like. - I don't think my parents know that I've ever had sex. - That's horrible. - I've been married. - I don't think they know. - My parents told me, my family doesn't talk about sex. - I mean, you know, my family definitely talks about sex except for my dad. - We don't, we don't talk. - You don't talk about sex. - I mean, you said you have several sisters, right? - Yeah. - So, different dynamics. - My siblings, we don't talk about it. - Oh yeah. - Oh yeah. - We get in all of it. - Okay, well, see you now. - All right. - That's easy. - See you in the beginning. - You're poor father. - All right, continue. - Well, no, it was like, it was just like that moment where he's just like, this is my time to be a dad. I'm like, just seeing how old were you? Can I ask? - That's an inappropriate question. - No, I want to hear it. - Never ask a lady her age. - Yeah, how dare you? - I was 16. - I was probably about 16 or something like that. - I do. - But like, me 16, like, I'd buy them if I need them, but, you know, it's all right. - You're saying good for you. Like, it didn't sit in my drawer for eight years. - But it's good that you, you know, wanted to be protected. - No, but like, you're a smart 16 year old. - He took it and he was just like. - Okay, Shane. It's okay, Shane. It's okay. - That's same. - I would have asked my dad for sure. - No, that's a good thing. - I would have dreamed of saying that to my dad. - No, I would have never. - My dad never brought up sex. Well, one time my dad, all he said was, and I had no idea what the fuck he meant, until I like really put it together afterwards. But I think I was like, I think a girl was meeting me at the house, and then we were like going out somewhere, and I forgot how old I was, but he just like pulled me to the side and he just goes, Listen. You could be green, you could be blue, you could be yellow. And I was like, what the fuck is that? (laughing) But he was talking about condoms. What? Oh, I thought he was going with like-- That is like such-- Yeah, you could be any-- He turned into a doctor's friend. You could be any guy you want. He's like, you could be green, you could be blue, you could be yellow, you could be whatever. What's blue? And I was like, what the fuck are you talking about? What's yellow? Yeah. Imagine my dad said that to me. He was like, listen, you got the blue ones, you got this one. You could get ribbed. You could get the ones that turn you dick into an icy hot. You could get corkscrew. Let me tell you-- Nobody likes that. Yeah. Nobody likes the ice hot hot hot. How could that possibly be anything? I can't imagine. It's insane. So you didn't know what he was saying. Did you ask? I believe I did. I was just like, what the fuck are you saying? He's like, you know, just get, you know. If you need money for condoms. And I was like, that's what this is all about. Oh, so your dad came to you. Your dad offered to you. And then-- Out of nowhere. And there was never like a bird's in the bee. He's like, hey, you got to be careful. Do you think Frank's dad talked to him? And he was like, oh, Frank's absolutely not. Absolutely not. There's no fucking way. There's no shit. If him and my dad were ever talking to each other, it was about nails and drills. Oh, yeah. Are you parents like friends at all? Or do they-- They were like-- They thought we were younger. 'Cause our sisters also went to school together. They were friends when they were younger. Yeah. And moms have the same fucking birthday. Yeah. Whoa. Isn't that crazy? Yeah. Kismet. Kismet. I think as just like being parents. And then like my parents get the whole separate. They were just like, we don't have time for other people. Right. We don't have time. We barely have time for each other. That's the problem. Both of our dads-- My dad was a fireman and also like worked construction. And his dad was a nutrition. So they like-- Oh, they talked about-- They were talking about-- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, yeah, well, you got to see the fucking pipes in this fucking place. It's just like, Joe, I need Joe. I can't. And then your mom was involved in our schooling. And then my mom was super involved in our schooling. So they like, you know, kind of-- They talked about that. I was like that connection. I wanted to get in there until after we graduated fifth grade. Yeah, but she was involved when your sister and my sister were in middle school together too. Oh, yeah, yeah. So-- It hasn't been friend since. Freaky. Four years old. Holy shit. Yeah. Now, did you like have your separating moments like in high school? Yeah. We always like-- We went to-- Well, I mean, like schooling-wise, we only went to school together from first grade until fifth grade. And then he went to a different middle school. That's what happened in my town. Different high school. It stood up our middle schools. Well, no. He went to like a-- No, man. What even was that school? I don't even know. My mom thought that it would be better than our zone school. Which it was. She had to go to that. Yeah. And so she was like-- She worked in a school. So she was trying to like pull strings. Oh, I got it. And like got me into a different school. It wasn't like a specialized school or anything. Yeah. It was just a different school. That was further away, which was super fucking annoying. So you guys like split up during your middle school. But no, we were still like friends in the neighborhood. We lived three blocks from each other. So it would be like-- I imagine you're like, hey, Arnold. That's why-- It was like-- It was really what it was. It was really what it was. And after school, we would be like, all right. Everyone's just going to the park. So we'll meet at the park or like-- That's awesome. Yeah, you didn't need a phone because it's like everyone's going to be there. Yeah, that's so cool. Yeah. Yeah. And then-- I mean, even Pasa, like me, I went to college. She's, you know, kind of stayed in our neighborhood and stuff like that. And then-- Oh. She stayed in the neighborhood. You know, I dropped that. Hey, it's okay. I mean, you do it all right for yourself. He also did. I think you're fine. Yeah. I think it's okay. So then after that, did you guys like come together before? Like when he was doing the pod with other people? Yeah, he-- Other people were in his-- You weren't his first. Should you be-- I was angry. I went to college. And like, my parents beat it in my head like-- You know, they did the whole like, chase your dreams. But like, that's kind of stupid. Yeah, get a job. Yeah. Get a degree. Get a job. Like, that's what success is. So I went to school and then after-- I went to undergrad and grad school and then stayed up there for work. And like, I was working up there, living up there. He was doing his thing, like the videos and the podcast. And then I got fired. He actually came and picked me up and like helped me pack my stuff for my apartment. Hey. Well, you know how to move people. You were forced to do it as a kid. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I was involved. Yeah. Well, thank God. But then like, I came back to New York, but my wife and I were dating at the time. And she was living in Jersey. And I was like, all right, I'm going to come to Jersey. So now, like, we have like different branches of our life. Yeah. But like, the show has kind of brought us back together, in a sense. I think it's probably better that you guys separated and had your own lives. Yeah. So that you can get together. Yeah. I mean, we've said it all the time. But like, our relationship to be even growing up is kind of like that, too. I have like friends that I see more often than I see Frank. But like, that was the case like all through high school, because we had, he had his own friends in high school. I had mine. But we also like mostly hung out with the neighborhood kids. Yeah. So even in high school, I went fourth years through high school. I hung out with my high school friends maybe like three times. Whoa. Like that was it. You just mostly hung out with them at school. Yeah. Outside of school, you never saw them. They saw. They saw. I'm not saying that. They're nice people. They're probably nice people. They're nice people. But they were like, they lived in like the like, well, or like better off part of Queen. I had no way of getting there. Kind of like Amanda with Boston. That's not how I live. They'd be like, oh, we're having a house party. My parents bought us a cake. And we're like, we found a 40 out of four. Yeah. Yeah. We dug up some old beer. Yes. We have moved shop. We have moved shop. We have moved shop. We have moved shop. We have moved shop. We are splitting a cigarette. Yeah. Yeah. Don't say it worse. Stop. We're splitting around really fast. You kind of feel woozy. Did you guys ever do Edward 40 hands? Did we? It's actually easy. We are currently scheduling to do it for. Yeah. We are. Holy. So you know you have to have them both and you can't pee. Yeah. I never heard about the people in the yesterday list. And I'll piss my pants if I'm playing. I don't care. You beat a lot. You're, I never heard you get an Edward 40 hands. I've never Edward 40 hands. Oh. It's fun. I personally have never done it. But I've been at a thousand. I don't think at 34 years old I should be doing it for the first time. Yes, you can. They're doing it. I mean, you have cameras here. You can do them in front of a camera and then it makes it less sad. Not really our typical content. But sure. You know. Really. Really. It's still bull runnels. I hate y'all. I'm like 33 years old and I'm like, listen. Honey. I got to go to work for the day. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm there taping 40s of course light to my hands. And I got to go home and put three kids. You know. Is course light allowed? I thought it wasn't a specific type of beer. English. Oh. Oh, he's not even. That's malt. Nobody has that. I thought it was a malt liquor. I was told it was like a malt liquor. I mean, it could be whatever is in a 40. I don't think the parameters are really that. Yeah. Well, look at you setting the rules. You've never done it. My brother did it and he told me about it. And he was like, yeah. He's like, the technique is actually to do a little bit of both at the same. Like, he's like, you don't want people drink all of one. And then you have a whole other one. He's like, obviously it's the same amount of liquid no matter what. I would find this not to be a good idea. You go back and forth. Your brother sounds like he's given it too much thought. Your brother has done it more than once. You got to tip it. You guys growing up didn't do like, you know, like fun, crazy drinking games. Oh, yeah. I did. I did beer pong. I did flip cup. I love playing beer pong. I was on the beer pong table all night long. I was, I became like a child actor at like 1415. He was acting. Like they were getting you to be in the green room. Yeah. Yeah. So just straight to cocaine. Straight to the hard work. Never played beer pong, but I did rip rails. I would bump in rails with Amanda Bines. I was actually around people doing crazy shit, but I myself was kind of like nervous too. Because I was like, oh shit, if I get caught doing something, my mom's going to make me move back to Arizona. And I have to give up on my dream. There's a thing about Shane is that people don't offer him. Also, people didn't ever offer. I actually got, throughout most of my teen years and 20s, whenever I was at a party, and I'd like leave. And like one of my friends would be like, oh yeah, I did cocaine. I was like, I don't want to do cocaine, but I was like, but nobody offered. No one asked me to do cocaine. Nobody asked me. Nobody thought to ask. No one offered Shane anything. I wouldn't have said no, but you could have asked. I could see you having like a, I'm going to tell on you face at that point. I would never tell. First of all, because my friends would tell me that they did drugs. And I'd be like, that's cool. You're gonna tell, not tell. I'm not gonna tell. First of all, you ripped up people's cigarettes before I've watched you. I have, because I'm saving them. I would have. I could for you. Because I'm saving their lives. Honestly. Good for you. Yeah. I remember ripping out one of my mom's packs, and I thought I was gonna die that day. Yeah. It's like $200 basically. I literally was like, oh, I'm on my deathbed. So my family has a cabin on a lake in Connecticut. And all the parents up there, there was like 20 houses up there. And all of them smoked like freaking chimneys. No. And I'm like insane. Like they were buying cartons. Marbara was sending my father like merch. Yes, seriously. No. And my brother and our buddy once took all of their cigarettes and hid them. I'm like thousands of dollars. Hid them. And then like themselves went like hid. So like. Did they have like the big boxes? Yes. Was this done out of like benevolence? Like was this done with? I mean, we were little pieces of shit. Or you were just fully pranked. I mean, no, no, no, no. It wasn't me. Truly fully was not me. But like they did it because we always had the approach of just like don't smoke cigarettes. Yeah. These are our parents. We want them to be around. Yeah. And it was like the parents were like double mad because it's a lake. They can't find two of the kids and they're freaking out because they're like, oh my god. And then they're like, where are my $5,000 of Marbara lights? I'm so stressed about my child being missing. They're all so on the list. like prime children of the dare program. - Yeah, we never did drugs or anything. - Every time I bring up dare program, everyone's like, "What is that?" - I went to dare camp. - That was the exact intent. - Oh, no. - That is in such a nerve. - Guys, shut up, I didn't, I didn't choose it. My sisters were like, you know, um, - The church dare camp. - Did you do anything fun? - A life. - Yeah, she, oh, I didn't, I didn't know what it was. - Oh, I fucked. (laughing) - Well, I fucked a dare officer. - Yeah, every other way. - I did, and I'm just kidding. - I fucked a sheriff of the show. - The sheriff and I. - The sheriff, the baker, the mail man. (laughing) - The candlestick maker. (laughing) - The cobbler and I, we got fucking damn. - We went out to Ragged Mountain and we just ragged each other and up. - Ragged. - My sisters were gonna watch this to be like. (laughing) - It wasn't ragged before I got there. - Professor Plum and I fucked on ragged. - Okay, yeah, we never, we're doing any sort of drugs or anything though. - Okay, that's cool. - Yeah, we just, we're trying again. - Like, we're all establishing. - We try to love the pod. - It's okay. - His eyes get wet. - I've been crying laughing all day. (laughing) - Yeah, he has. - You're welcome. - But yeah. (laughing) - Our teacher's growing up. We would do like, when we had the dare program, which was basically you'd go into the basement and legitimate of the basement school. And then they would be like, yeah, drugs, nah. And we'd be like, okay. - Eight ways to stay down. - And then they would give you a ribbon, like a red ribbon to wear. And it was like symbolic of like no drugs. And then we would do like a march, but you would just walk around the block of the school. And on the walk, sometimes the teachers were supposed to say, - Stop! - It's swear to God. - Stop! - It was like these Greek women and they're like, yeah, don't do fucking drugs. It's got to be. (laughing) - That is so fucking funny. - Yeah, it's great. - Did they also have the briefcase full of drugs? - Oh, that's a good question. - Did they brought drugs? - They brought a briefcase to be like, these are all the drugs that are bad. This one make you do this. And people were like, - They were like, how much for that? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - No, they're like, are you selling? - Are you selling? - No, I don't remember that. - But we were like, fourth grade. - It increased. - They were so young. - It was bad, like it helped drugs in the war on drugs. - I think it was like, I think statistically - Yeah. - Dare increased drug use. - That's crazy. - Well, it's like the same thing where like, you know, sex ed made like a pivot into like, you know, like, you're gonna have sex and die. And it's like, we're teach safe sex. Not that like, safe drug use is the way. But like. - Right, right, right. - The like, complete don't do it. - Absence causes, yeah, absences like. - It causes anal, right. (laughing) - What? (laughing) - Where? (laughing) - That's what you were saying. - No, you know what I was gonna say. - Goin for it. - I don't know what you're saying. - Sex ed being old, absences only increases teen pregnancies. - Right, right. - So they're not teaching safe sex. - That's literally what she meant. - No, I'm saying like, being anal about it is what I mean. (laughing) - Right, right, right, right, right, right. - No, no, I got you there. That's exactly what you meant. - I can't do sex ed for the first time. - Oh my God. My mom brought me to like, mother, daughter night. I wanted to die. - What, what? - Well, you and your sisters were smoking cigarettes and like, tan and talking about it. - No, my sister did make me go up to my dad and be like, what are testicles and it was awful. - My parents, my parents, like I said, we did not talk about sex at all. Like, but it was a household where if there was a mild sex scene in a movie, my mom would be like, close your eyes. - Call your mom right now and be like, hey mom. - Absolutely. - I've had sex. - I've had sex this month. - Just letting you know, but I think my parents had the talk, they're version of it. I want to say I was like 13 or 14. - Yeah. - So they walk up to me, I'm scrolling E-bombs world. - Hell yeah, nice. - So like, I've seen things. - I've seen things. - I've seen things. And they truly were just like, they kind of were like, so you know, and I was like, yeah, I already know. - Did you know? - Yes. By the time I was 13 or 14, he was lying. - No, I was like, oh, I imagine like you're honest. - I'm in, unlike you, I actually used the internet as a child. - Listen, what did you use? - We had one. - She was outside talking to trees. - We had one computer. My mom was super strict about that. - We had one computer too, but I would use it at night. - My mom was super strict about internet and TV stuff. - So we, when your parents go to sleep, you had a view of the world. - No, don't start with me. I also-- - I would also be at friends' houses. They'd be like, dude, I found a photo of a vagina. And you'd be like, what? They'd be like, you want to see it? I'm like, yes. - Well, we were in second grade. - They'd be like, on some website, they're like, check this out. And it's like-- - I downloaded porn online wire. It's going to be done in five days. - Yeah. - That's really what it was. - They'd be like, check this out. It'd be like this weird kind of blurring image. - It was like a pixelated picture. - And me 11 is like, so is, okay, okay, yeah, for sure. - Well, we found a playboy in second grade. - Whoa. - We did. It was in the alleyway behind his house. It was like between the chain link fence and garage. And we were just small enough to slip back in. - I don't know if the movie is this. - It really was. - What if outsiders look, what's happening? - And we like, slip back there and we're like this. And he's just like, look. And we were like, whoa. - Put it down right in the hole. - You left it there. - You left it there. - We were in the back of it. - You were in your back. - What was everyone about? - It was your spot. - Yeah, it was at the top of my block. And like Frank said, it was a driveway that had a fence. And then there was a gap between the next garage and this garage that you could walk through. And at the end, it was shoved into a crack. And it was just like a playboy. - It was like a communal playboy. Taking it would have been so different. - One of the days when your teacher's walks by he's just like, oh, oh. I'm gonna keep on walking now. (laughing) It's like, oh my god, this fuck it. And it was all fucked up from the rain and shit. - Ah, it's from like 1973. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - That's a lot of hair in here. (laughing) - Do they look like that? (laughing) - Wait, that's, so I like, I don't know if you guys have ever heard of this, but do you remember the, I don't know if you'll remember this, but my mom had this big book, like an encyclopedia book called The Joy of Sex. - Whoa. - Have you ever heard of this? - Your mom got after it. - No, this sounds like a fairy tale. - It's like a 70s, it's like a 70s book with like, sex drawn sex positions of like, like the guy looked like Chris Christopher's in. - Like, hell yeah. - Deeds. - And no, it was full. - It's the owner of Ragged Mountain. (laughing) - Uncle Murl. - Wait, that's not that fuck up. - No, it was like, full 70s drawn out pictures like, explain sex positions, and me and my friends would go up to my mom's room and like, really sneak attack and steal it. - Reading it like the never ending story. - Yeah, literally. - But there were like, hippies, it was like. - The joy. - No, wow. - No, literally. - It really was. Like, that was the only like magazine we found, but it really was like, the early internet. - Whoa. - We're like, you'd go on Kaza. And like, you would be like, I'm gonna download the new, you know, 50 cent album, but it was just like, a picture of like a top, just some random top. - But then like, the computer would freeze, so we would have to like, yank the power out of it. - To turn it off. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Dude, you know what we used to do? That was like, this feels like now we're ancient basically, but because we didn't have access to the computer, we were like, Laura, we got to put this corny energy somewhere. We would go to a pay phone, and you would just dial 1-800- - Butt sex. (laughing) - Or anything, like you can still do it. - If you could call 1-800, like big tits or something, like it'll just pick up and it'll be a girl being like, it's like a recording. And she's like, hi, big boy. You want to bounce around these big boobs? Oh yeah, all you have to do is pull out that big credit card. - Yeah. - You have to put it in. - Yeah. - Put it in. - Did you have a credit card? - No, we would hear that. - Oh my god, and hang up. (laughing) - Wait, that's amazing. - We know that, I would say try that. - Do it right now. - A very early episode. Do you remember we did that on the podcast? - Yes. - We were calling all types of things. - Yeah, because it's anything that like, it's the seven letter, so it could be like, you know, like sex fuck or like, tits, like anything like that. They have cornered the market on the website right now and now it's on my work laptop. (laughing) - Yeah. - Yeah. - You guys messed up Selena now. - Well, are you Selena? - I'm telling you if you call the number, it's a recording. It's like, it's like very like old-school like 80s. It's like, didn't, didn't, she's like, hello. I didn't like, this is her day. - Yeah. - So that was how we would like, we'd be like, oh my god. - Oh my god. - But you'd have to hang up quick because then you'll get, if you stayed on the line, it would like charge you like, $8 for a minute or something like that. - Yeah. - How would you pay out of that? - Yeah, it was a pay phone. - Well, I mean, if it was, but like, if you called from like a cell phone or a house phone or something like that. - Oh. - Oh. - Yeah. - This is so funny. - It's tough. Dude, thinking about these stories, now it's so funny. I feel like I haven't told that. - Yeah. - The magazine is hilarious. - You got, your fans are probably like, what the fuck is going on? (laughing) - I've never been to New York. - No. - No, they're fine. - You said some crazy shit. - Yeah, we have, I've never told the joy of sex story because nobody knows what it is. - Yeah. - I'm like, have you seen the miracle of sex, the video? - No, the miracle of life. - The miracle of life. - Yes. - You all had to watch it and-- - Have you, Jim. - Is that a big award? - Have you seen, you know, show everything about that? - Do you know what that is? - No, I remember we, I had to watch like a birth video when I was pregnant and it was really hard. - Yeah. - It made me so, I don't know if your wife did, but like, it made me so scared. - Oh my gosh. - I don't have a thing you have to watch. - You don't have, but like your insurance, your insurance will like send these videos and your OBGYN will like be like, oh, you should watch us to get educated. And you don't have to, but I love to know everything. I'm like, I wanna know it all. And some of the videos are very, very medieval. Like the things they need to use, like if your baby gets stuck, they have to suction or clamp them out of there. Anyways, so that was fucking wild. To watch that as an adult, as a kid, you're like, "Yeah!" Well, the first time we were introduced to sex ed, we had, it was fifth grade, and our parents had to sign a waiver. And our fifth grade teacher, the one that taught it, was just like an old, raggedy German woman. So like, she was like four foot four, but had pipes that could, she would scream, and you could hear it from blocks away. - Oh, the sonic boom of the boom. - Yeah. And so it was like, you know, she sat us down, and it was just like, if you laugh, you're out. - Whoa. - And like, it's very-- - You don't learn about sex. - Very serious. Like, they took, and like-- - I love that. - And we're like, okay, all right. And then the first, like, she opened up the very first class. Like, she was, she was baiting us. Like, she was signing it through. - She was ready. - The very first thing that she said was, the penis is just a miracle. And you hear this out of an old German woman's name, and him and one of our other buddies were gone with insiders. - Yeah, she kicked me out. - Yeah, that's tough. - You were out before anything? - The penis is a miracle out of this woman. Are you kidding me? It's like, you can't even write this kind of shit. The penis is a miracle. I was like, come on. I think I may have looked over at Frank, and he was just like, yeah, all right. - I'm losing it now. - That's really tough. So they kicked you out, and you just didn't get to learn about sex at all. - Yeah, I think that you just can't do the class anymore. Or maybe I was able to do the class. I can't remember. - But-- - Show how much we retained. - The education did not stick. - Well, I think you're just, you're way too young. - You know what's funny about that too? - When we were in fifth grade, I don't know if you guys had this at this age, but first of all, chalkboards. - Yeah, back in the year. - Oh, yeah, of course. - But we had a room. - We talked about this recently, and as we were talking about it, we were like, "Wait, what the fuck?" She would send two kids to go clean the erasers, and there was a dedicated room that was like one by one. - Time in room. - Yeah, room is generous. It was a closet. - What? - And there was a machine that had bristles like this. - Oh. - And you would turn it on, and it would just go like that. And it was a tiny room. So we'd be in the small room that I think had like a one watt. It was like very dark, and you're just cleaning, and the whole thing was filled with chalk, and by the time you get back to your classroom, - You're covered in chalk. - We had like mesothelioma. - Yeah, seriously. - You get back to class, you have the black lung, or whatever the fuck minors get. - That's insane. - And you're like, you're like, "All right, here you go." - That's all we did not have. - Your face is just chalk. - Covered. - Yeah. - Well, kids today, they don't have any roughish we had. - No, they don't have a lot of these kids don't have a lot of-- - Get my uphill. - Back uphill. - Yeah. - Uphill both ways. We had a clean and get coughs. - Yeah. - They don't know. - Uphill both ways. - I don't think you know how hills work. - Yeah, shut up. - That doesn't work. - Wow, sex ed. - Yeah. - Well, I think I've learned everything I need to learn when I had a baby. You know what I'm saying? - Yeah, I say I don't know. - I mean, who are we to say what you have and haven't learned? Right guys? - Yeah, that's right. - Like us. - Yeah. - Yeah. - From afar. - Yep. - Yeah. - How about that? - Well, your hands for the rest of the episode. - And get what? - Yeah. - I'm not giving you guys anything. - So why, you don't get gifts for that? - I was specifically told we were getting gifts. - Oh. - Yeah, do I get anything from being here? - We will get you guys back. - We have one check for this, so if you guys want lunch. - Yeah, we have lunch. - We're serving breakfast for lunch. - Yeah, that's what we want to know. - One treat, pancakes. - That's enough. - You guys have those over there? - Huge, loved pancakes or dinner. - All right. - Love to that. - We'll ask you guys, because this is a conversation. - Ooh, yeah, yeah, hit us. - Okay. - Rank them, best of these three, one, two, three, one being the best. French toast, pancakes, waffles. - Okay, busy. - Done. - I love all of them, by the way. - Yeah, yeah, of course, everybody know that. - All right, yeah. - Yeah, of course. - Okay. - Okay. - Ready? - Yeah. - Yeah. - I'll judge with mine. - Yeah, you can go first. - Pancakes, French toast, waffles. - Ooh. - Pancakes, one. - Pancakes, one. - Ooh. - That's instant. - Pancakes, number one. - French toast is incredible, too. And then waffles are great, but they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're. - Can I ask a question about the French toast? Is it like Texas toast vibes? - However you. - Regular. - The perfect version of it. - It is going to be best for you. - Ooh. - Pancakes. - Wow, you guys are cakes. - French toast and waffles. - Yeah. - Yeah. - I really like your answer. - Mine was waffles, French toast pancakes. - Whoa, pancakes last. - Yeah. - I think pancakes, yeah. - I love pancakes. - I think pancakes are so easy to mess up. - That's like, what? - They are so easy to mess up, a good, what dry. - What helps with waffles, too, is that you can have them sweet or savory. You can do like a chicken and waffles or something. - That is true. Chicken and waffles is legendary. - It is, but I, let's take a lot. - Are you doing butter on everything? - No, I mean, are you like that maybe? Like butter on like, if you get pancakes, you're like, let me get a butter and with butter. - A little bit, I'm not like going nuts. It's more, the syrup is the party. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the syrup. - What's your rank? - Um, I think French toast might be my number one French toast. - That's not bad, look, I'm not mad about anyone. - How does it go in strawberries? Yeah. - Oh, and it's like stuffed with shit. - Oh, no, I don't know how to stop. - I don't know how to stop. - You know what, it doesn't need to be. - Hey. - And it's stuck with it. - What is going on? - What is going on? - What is going on? - I love this. - Savory stuff, whatever. - Sounds like that's the number one type of feeling. You guys had a thing recently on your podcast where you showed a photo of a bunch of wings. - Oh yeah, and which wing you'd grab. - And I picked the same one as you. I was like, that one, because I'm like, flats are so much better. - Yes, we agree on this. - Yes, yes. - The big bulbous ones, not my face. - Yeah, I'm like, okay, I do like eating it. - I mean, I'm eating them all. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - I like eating those because it makes me feel like a man. - Like a medieval. - Yeah, like a medieval. - Oh. - Like a man for once. - Like a man for once, you little boy. - I want to go to a Renfair too. - Yeah. - I think. - I really dress up. - What are you saying? - The ones here. - Yeah. - Crazy. - Like her sister's like a professional medieval. - Medieval battle. - Yeah, like night fighting. Like an armor and shit. - That is so awesome. - That's awesome. - My dream is to wear legit chain nails. - The fault, yes. - And have someone say that, man. - And me just go, how? - No, no, no. - No, we work on me. - We can do that. - We can do that. - And I just spin and cut it off. - Hey, you guys could do a whole live show about that. - Yeah, we can do that. Just, we'll bring a chain mail and a dagger to a show. - And she would just like, - And you'd be on a horse. - And you'd be on a horse. - Yeah. - And we'll love that. - What if you just, we're the gun. - Yeah, what if we got to shot each other? - Yeah, guns. - You guys are from New York. - We should commit to it though. Like, I'll wear the chain mail and you stab me. So let's be like, he's so mean to Frankie. - Yeah, and it's just very, you guys should be building that up. Or we'll stab Aunt to really, like, commit to it. - Oh yeah, I mean, the show's over at that. - Yeah, it's over, it's done. - Yeah, yeah. - Can't happen. - Oh my god. - This was a literal dream. Like, thank you guys. - He was like, oh my god, I'm watching Basement Yard. I'm listening to Basement Yard. You have to watch someone. He's like, you'd love them. And then I did and I was like, do I know these guys? - Yeah. - Do I know these guys forever? - Well, the last time we spoke about Shane, we said that Joey would like whoop his ass in a fight. So, we were like on our toes. - I was on a show. - I was scrolling and I was like, oh, they talked about me. And then it was that. I was like, okay, that was like cool. - They talked about me. - Oh, oh, oh. - I was like, hop up. - I think we were just talking about, like, people we could beat in fights. (laughing) - And I was the first name. - No, there's no way. - I think, I can't remember the exact answer. - You're like, yeah, a child. - Shane. - But I think we were going off of, like, hype. Because we were saying, like, you're trying to find your weight class. - Yeah, and then I said, like, you and Shane would be a good fight. And then I also, I gave you your flowers. I was like, it's true. - I did, you know, but I don't remember what I said to be fair. - You said, I think you said, you said, I would drag him around the ring. (laughing) I remember it specifically. - Okay, to be fair, I would have said that about anybody. - Yeah, for sure. It was very funny. - That's very easy. - And I don't know that that's necessarily true. It's just what I have to, I believe. - Yeah. - It would be not a, it would be a fun, fun time. - No, I'm jealous. - Because there was those couple of years where they were doing, like, the YouTuber boxing. - Yeah. - I definitely had the thought of, like, who would I have to fight? And I was like, are they gonna make me fight Markiplier if I do it? - Oh my God. - Well, that's why, yeah, because we had, I think it was right after we did a Dr. Mike episode. - Oh, and he said that he was like a, - And he's a boxer. - Whoa. - Yeah. - And he, like, fought on like two. - He's another one. Six people. - A very health conscious person. - Yeah. - Oh my God. - Not a smart health person. - Well, we said during the episode, we were like, punch me in the face and then like, help me if I need help. You know? (laughing) Even or not, he wasn't about it, but yeah, that's how, that's how we got there. But we, that's how we got the boxing matches. - We, uh, we'd love you guys for years and just getting able to do this has been really, really cool. - Yeah, we were super hyped when we found out that you guys like mentioned our name. They were like, you, or someone like DM'd me or like something and they were like, oh dude, talk to about you on Smosh. And I was like, what? - Yeah. - Trying to find it. And then I was like, I get the episode. And I'm like, how am I gonna fucking find this in here? - Yeah. - What's the time? - Oh, I know. - We just did an episode. - Yeah, I can't find it. - Yeah. - We just like bounce all over. - No, this has been fantastic. And I don't know which videos are getting uploaded first, but we just shot a games video with you before this. - Yeah, that was fun. - Yeah. - Where we hardly played the game. - Hang on to your seats for that one. - We kind of just did this also there. - Right. - And then you guys are gonna be on Reddit stories in a couple of weeks and that was one of the best episodes we shot last time. - Yeah, thank you so much. It's really, really, really cool. - Truly, this has been like very fun to do all of these. It's awesome. - It's been so easy. I feel like your guys dynamic. It is similar to how we have with each others. - Thanks, guys. - Yeah, thanks. - And we'll come back whenever you want us. - Okay. - Hey, yeah, for sure. - Honestly, I really want you guys for wearable. I really want-- - I want to play one of those games. Or is it kind of like a triple agent or something like that? - Sure. - Triple agent? - Probably. I think there's two agents-- - Oh, yes. - A triple agent would just be an agent. (laughing) - I think he's just back to where he started. - I think this time around, since this is our first time coming and we're on our best behavior next time, it might get like-- - You're gonna fuck it up. - Yeah, it might get a little-- - We could get a little aroundy. - We'll do it in the 40s. - In the 40s, yeah. - Yeah. (laughing) - It's just you, too. - Yeah, it's just-- - It's just a shame vomiting. - And we realized we didn't record it. - It's like, no. - So you have Fud card corrupted. - I can't. (laughing) - Anyways, well, thank you guys. - And-- - Oh, yeah. You guys have anything that you want to shout out? - Shout out. - Oh, yeah, you guys can catch us on tour. We'll be going out in September, but you can go to TheBasemear.com, look at all the dates there, find the one closest to you, come hang out with your boys and go check out TheBasemear. - Yeah. - Really, yeah. - Thank you guys so much, we'll see you next week. - Bye. - Bye.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. Frank and Joe from the Basement share humorous anecdotes about their childhood, travel, and pranks, including a notorious fart bag prank on each other.
  2. They reminisce about growing up in different locations—Arizona, Massachusetts, and Colorado—highlighting contrasting cultural and suburban experiences.
  3. Family dynamics, including parental influence, are central, with discussions on strong-minded parenting, childhood pranks, and taboo topics like sex and family secrets.
  4. A recurring theme is the playful banter and camaraderie among the group, emphasizing trust, shared humor, and vulnerability in their interactions.
  5. They reflect on early internet content creation, drawing from memories of Jackass-era stunts, homemade videos, and fan engagement through Reddit.
  6. The episode blends nostalgia, personal stories, and humor, showcasing how childhood memories, family, and pranks shape identity and friendship.

Summary:

The episode features a lively, humorous conversation between Shane, Amanda, and guests Frank and Joe from the Basement, centering on their shared childhood memories, family dynamics, and pranks. They recall growing up in different regions—Arizona, Massachusetts, and Colorado—offering contrasting views on culture, family, and urban life. A major highlight is the story of their infamous fart bag prank, where Joe accidentally filled Frank’s apartment with foul-smelling gas, leading to lasting laughter and nostalgia.

The group also reflects on early internet content creation, inspired by Jackass-era stunts and DIY videos. Childhood memories are peppered with absurdity, such as playing manhunt in church yards, sneaking into fairies’ houses, and engaging in pranks involving balls, guns, and trash cans. They discuss parenting styles, with Frank and Joe highlighting strong-minded, emotionally reserved families that contrast with more open, expressive ones.

The conversation reveals deep bonds forged through shared vulnerability, humor, and the thrill of improvisation. Ultimately, the episode blends personal storytelling with comedic reflection, celebrating the influence of family, pranks, and nostalgia in building lasting friendships.

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They shared stories of pranks like a fart bag thrown into an apartment that spread a strong smell for several minutes, and a prank where someone dropped-kicked a friend in the face with a garbage can covering their head.

They recall growing up in a time when pranks like fart bags and stink bombs were common, and they often played games like manhunt in neighborhoods, sometimes involving sneaky or daring actions.

They have contrasting opinions—some love the smell of a mildewy basement, while others enjoy the quiet, stale air of an empty apartment, describing it as a nostalgic, almost peaceful scent.

Yes, one guest grew up in Arizona and recalled a childhood tradition of playing manhunt near churches, while another grew up in Colorado and had memories of fairies and hidden fairy houses in the neighborhood.

It's a humorous anecdote about a prank where someone suggested putting balls in a guillotine, filmed on a flip phone, symbolizing their early, reckless, and fun-loving days with friends.

They note their parents’ strong-minded, sometimes strict, personalities shaped their upbringing, with one guest recalling how his parents never discussed sex, while another shared how his dad bought him condoms at 16.

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