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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 lighthearted, deep-dive conversation between Smosh hosts Shane and Amanda and guests Frank and Joe, centered on their personal memories and comedic roots. The discussion begins with playful regional jabs—especially targeting Boston and Philadelphia—before shifting to nostalgic childhood experiences. Central themes include early pranks, like the infamous "guillotine" prank involving balls and a fart bag, which reflects their shared sense of humor and reckless fun. They recall growing up in different places—Arizona, Virginia, and Colorado—highlighting contrasting environments, traditions, and family dynamics. A recurring thread is the importance of vulnerability and inside jokes in building trust and connection, both with each other and with audiences. The hosts also reflect on generational differences in parenting, where strict rules and censorship were common, contrasting with today’s openness. Emotional moments, such as a mother’s grief on New Year’s Eve or the awkwardness of a prank involving family, underscore the personal depth behind the humor. Ultimately, the episode blends humor, nostalgia, and heartfelt reflections on family, friendship, and the lasting impact of childhood pranks and shared experiences, showing how personal memories fuel their comedic style and connection with fans.

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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 yard. - That's right. - That's right, thanks for having us. - I'm excited to have you guys here because it's the East Coast episode. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Okay, you get, yeah. The East Coast of Arizona? - The East, yeah. - I don't even think that's right. - Probably not. - Yeah, probably not. Phoenix, I think, is square in the middle. - 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 morning already. - I haven't, no. - Joe has been talking a lot of things. - Frank's been crazy. - I mean, really. - What's most of all, if you just need to ask him about-- - Well watch, the clips are very, very-- - East 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, calm conversation. - No. - If you ask him about Philly, he'll go off about Philly, but like, I don't have any issue. - I don't-- - Ask me about it. - You like Philly. - It's a bathroom. (all laughing) - 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 a Philly. - I've never been. - I could see the light in your eyes still, yeah. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - My soul is here. - Joe's aside, Boston as a place, I'm whatever. The people? (all laughing) - So great. - That was the good part of this all jokes aside. - Pretty bad. - I thought a compliment was coming. - That's still the best thing to do. - 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. - Don't, I agree with that. - No, absolutely not. - What? Of course, I agree with that. - The red socks are incredible. - They are really good. - Dog water. - Yeah. - Dog water is delicious. - I don't follow baseball, but. - What was that? - No. - That's mean defending any way that I can. Dog water is yummy. - What? - 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. - No. - Yeah, I don't like the boat. - That's fine. - It's okay guys. - I love the accent. I think it's the funniest accent. - It is a very funny accent. - You know what's weird is like, I don't really have a boat. - You don't, so you're like faking Boston. - Well, my dad, don't you fucking do it. - Ooh. (laughing) - You're gonna get fucking good. - Earlier, she was like, oh yeah, I go back all the time. I'm like, how often? She's like twice a year. (laughing) - That's not all that done. - That's not all that done. - It's a good amount to travel all the way across the country. - Joe, that is a lot. - What do you, counts as a lot? - Four times a lot. - Every Christmas. - Oh, okay. - Every Christmas. I feel like four times at least. - That actually wants a quarter. - Okay. - That doesn't help your argument. If it's just for like Christmas, it's like, I don't know. - No, I know, I know. - You would go back more if you could. - If I could, yeah. - Yeah, it's just busy. - And my dad has a very thick accent. - Does he? - Yes, it's very thick. A man tell you know, there's so many things going on and not. So Netflix is a crazy place. So, Pam and I finished Netflix, we finished it. - Wait, is that your mom's name? - No. - Oh, okay, okay. - That's my dad's wife. - Oh, you're a former child. - I'm a divorce child. - Dog. - You too? - As a baby. - Your parents love each other, and you're from Arizona? - Yeah. - Fuck you. - Like being from Arizona is like, man, you lucky son of a bitch. You're from Arizona? - You've been shamed for your parents figuring out. - How about this? How about this? How, where are your grandparents? - Well, 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 91 or 92. - Sure. - It's getting crazy now. - No, you said basically. - So, my grandmother is, she's like 80s. My father's like 80s. - My grandma, 2012 is when she died. And they were all dead before that. - Yeah. - I'm a former grandchild, right? - Yeah, yeah. Yeah, they've been gone. - Gone? - Yeah, they've been gone for a long time. - They're so dead. - Oh, the divorce? - Super dead. - Oh, great question. - Or the divorce. - I mean, you know, they both, not both, but my grandmother's, you know, she had died years prior 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, it started when they got married if you think about it. It's all downhill for now. - Oh, yeah. - Oh, yeah. - Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. - You know what I'm saying, man. - Yeah. - Did you hear, did you hear the leading cause of, like, it's like a new thing. A leading cause of divorce in the country. - It's married. - 100% of people close. - It's 100% of people that get divorced had gotten married. - Wait, what the fuck? - I know. I just, say it. - Yeah. - So people get divorced because they got married? - Not because, but-- - Shut up, Joe, don't start. - What? - What are you talking about? - Can I say, sorry, change subject slightly. - No, fine. - But like, I had watched your 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 this 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, I literally, I paused for a second, I was like, wow, they're, they're hopping right into it. - Just how we are. - Yeah, just literally you are doing this off camera too. - Absolutely. - It's non-stop. - It really is. - I love it. - 100% of the time. - When do you know that the, like, when you first meet a person that you could also be like that with them? - Ooh, that's a good question. - I think you know. - I mean, because 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 touch and kick us and you were like, I would bone, touch and kick us. - I said fuck. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - I said fuck. - I said fuck. - I said fuck, I don't fucking think. - She said, yeah. - Whatever. - Whatever one of that. - I was like, let me stop. - 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 unspoken thing. Like, and it just clicks at a certain point. - Yeah. - There's also like a line you can toe with people when you first meet them, where it's like, it's not that you're being rude. It's because 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 with this person. - No. - Yeah. - This is 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 comfortable. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - It's a comfortable, yeah, it's a vulnerability. I feel like we do that a lot at Smosh. And sometimes our fans 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 happened to us. - Yeah, 'cause our producer, and once we put him on the thing, they were like, "Yo, they're so fucked up to him." - Oh, it's so funny. - How the fuck this get first of all? - It's so funny. It's so funny. The three of you guys, your relationship, it's so funny. Like you rag on him and it's so funny. - But like, I called him. - I called him. - Boy, he's out, yeah. - I called him because I felt bad. 'Cause you know, the last thing I want is like, to him to actually think that, like, it's real. And he's like, I actually, like, I take it as like, you're inviting me in, you know, like to like the hang out. And stuff like that. - Yeah, that's right, fuck you. - Yeah, yeah. - Okay, then you hung up. - Yeah, I slammed it. - He reels me back though. Joey reels me back because I could get a little, I sometimes don't know where the line is. - Are you meaner than Joey? - Oh my God. - I don't know if meaner's been the word. - My interpretation from watching you guys is that, unfortunately, I feel like you're the, yeah. - 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 in. - No, I feel like, I feel like Amanda and I is 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. - So I'm, 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, I'm sensing whimsy in the room from a general whimsy guy. - Yeah, 'cause from your clips, it does feel like you're like, I did this thing today and Joe's like, oh, let's hear it. I don't care. What's happening? - I don't give a fuck. - But meeting you guys, it's kind of different. Like you are so mean to Joe. It's weird. (laughing) - I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I'm kidding. - I think it's just like the playful banter. Like we know kind of like what story is coming. So like we know like, oh here we go, we know. And 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 90s teen boy. (laughing) - 'Cause you were talking about fart bags. - 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 the good thing there? - Sometimes I start a story and I wish I never bought it. - We do this like stink stink out of butts. - You would just take a shit. - No, 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. - No, I didn't have that. - I had like literally like a little smoke bomb and it was farts and you'd put it in the hallway. - It was smoke. - See what goes on in Massachusetts. - Yeah, that's crazy. - Massachusetts is crazy. - Yeah, there were like that. - Yeah, it sounds like it. - Yeah. - 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 of this before." - Yeah. - Maybe it's just for now. - 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. - Farts were pranks. - Totally. - Now they're like, "You smell the fart in the hallway, "and they're just like, lock the doors down." Something is going on. - Yeah, there's a gas. - There's more serious all the time. - Yeah. - It's like the worst prank that you've pulled on Joe. - Ooh. - Do you pull any pranks on Joe? Is it just like you do pranks to your life? - He just does like your wife. - No, like he just, he did the fart bag thing to me. Like we were recording a show in this, at this point, I was, I had the setup in my apartment. So he threw a fart bag in my apartment. - No, no. - And he's like throwing it, so now we're throwing it back and forth 'cause it takes time to like, so we're throwing it back. back and forth and then it got knocked off the table. I broke like a mug or something and then it went off and my whole apartment smelled like shit. - For how long? - A couple minutes. It wasn't that 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. - He's like, oh shit. - You're like, don't shoot. - 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 horses. - Horset is fantastic, dude. - 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. - You're a fan art of me and it is horrific. - I could see you in one of those helmets. - It's horrific. (laughing) - I could see you in a helmet. - No. - In the tall boots with a whip? - No. - In a questrian? - Hey, I'm down. - Yeah. - But like, fan art of me is a horse in my normal clothes. (laughing) - 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, 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 in Jurassic Park where this was like a big part? - 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 like it's crazy. - We also grew up, like, we hung out and played like manhunt and like, streets and alleyways and stuff. - Stayed with both sides. - 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. - Our lives were shit. - Yeah. - We lived in shit. - We lived in squalas. - So like, there's like, I'll, like, you know, you pass the Bay and you'll just be like, ew. - You're like, ew, I like ew. - Ew, that stinks, right, yeah, exactly. - I also really like the smell. I don't know why of gasoline. - Yeah. - Almost, yeah. Okay, 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. - The family trips when you're like sleeping in the van, you wake up and you're like, oh, we're at the gas station. - That makes sense. - I'd like it in a way that I would probably think about drinking it. - I, yeah. - 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? - And you know, like basement, like basement yard, so it makes sense. - I mean, you're kind of a dirty bastard. - Yes. Like a real smell. - 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. - Yeah. - It was so fun because it was like controlled chaos down there. 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. - There's one room that someone stays down there sometimes, you know what I'm saying? - 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 a mildew basement. - Oh, it's good. It's a good one. - Do you know what I kind of like though? Like an empty apartment smell. - Like new apartment. - No, no. I'm talking about like-- - The apartment. - Live in, like 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 here. - 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 say-- - It's like a room set. - Yeah, like a swamp air kind of thing. - Like a stale air. - It's not. - No, it's kind of clean. - But it's 'cause it's stagnant. - Stagnant air. - It's got like the wood in it. - Yeah. - I know what you're saying. - Yeah. - It's 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. - No, no, no, no. - You need-- - And they'll be like, did you see everything? You'd be like, 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-- (laughs) - Yeah. - I'm kind of on all fours on the ground. - Letting it rip. (laughs) - 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. - Uh-huh. - 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? - Yeah. - Why did I have you? - His workers are there. - Yeah, exactly. - Built in help. - Yeah. - And then if you're a friend, it's like, well then-- - Of course. - What do you have to do? - You think dinner you're fucking-- - Exactly. - Yeah. - Uh, so we were moving all my grandma's 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 oldest grandma's walls smell good. You know what I mean? - Before we got all of the furniture out here-- - Let him cook in this. - No, let's-- - Careful. I'm picturing the will Smith in the room alone. - Yes, exactly. The Indifressivance. - I know where this is going, and I'm just gonna sit here and see what's going on. - You're grandma's house. It's completely empty. - At this point, it's not empty yet, like-- - There's like a couple pieces. - So yeah, right? - Yeah. - And my dad's in the car in a van. - He's like, wait-- - Yeah, come out. - 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. - Yeah, yeah. - I can't believe you're telling this. - Put the drawer in 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. This is worse. - Oh, it's not that bad. - Yeah, it's so much 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 idiot. - Yeah. - It's 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 in everything, dude. - Why, this is why you're like, don't tell this story. - I mean, I don't care. We've told enough stories on the board. - Why would you guys want? - Why would you want your balls in jail? - Well, what would we guys? - I have the executioner. - No, no, no, no, no. - How many stories do you have that, what are your balls in a guillotine is the one that you're-- - 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? - Different place. - Like, I was an Arizona student. - We also grew up in the time of like, you know, jackass was so-- - We grew up in the show. - No, that's what I get what you're saying there. No, my brother told me he was 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'd be able to exercise balls. His mom in like 2004, 2005, God, him a camera. And we started making videos together. - Okay. - 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 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. We showed our friends a family, and we went to-- - Yeah, no. - Family, too? - We took-- - Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. - We made them sit through and we were like, what do you think? - Yeah. - So when you think of Frank's balls getting geared to me. 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. - Holy fuck. - 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 purged. - Sure, sure. - A rat inside of me. - Yeah. - Like I actively remember being in there and seeing like white jelly. And I was like, "Jelly, is it white?" And then getting kicked. - White jelly. - This reminds me of-- Didn't I bring up Stevo 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-- - Yeah, stuff like that, but like an idol. - Yeah, so much of it was like the jackass era, where like-- - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - 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 context. - It was just like guys doing something, getting hurt and everyone could-- - It was a lot of like skateboarder. - 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, fall. - I can't watch like sports injuries. - I just can't-- - Neither like, beat going the other way. - No, I don't like that stuff. - Yeah, that's bad. - I don't 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. - Me too. I'm like, yeah, yeah. - Yeah, no, can't handle that. - Yeah, that's for sure. - Okay, so guillotine falls, let's get back to that. - Yeah, you have all of that to have all of the information. You just I don't have - 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 me. - So it's really, really weird. - It was like, you could look at it and you'd be like, "I stink, those are balls." - 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. - Sounds like it was 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 have some fun. - Yeah, there, there, that was fun. - 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. - Do you agree with that, too? - I was thinking about that. - Yeah, we're going to that one, do you? (laughing) - You're gonna get a guess on that. - Did 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 it was like half wanted to kind of just be behind the scenes and like just like, it would be funny if you did this and the other half like, "All right, all right, fuck that." - I'm the director, I tell you how to hurt you. - And that was the dynamic that we had where like he would be like, "I had 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 like, backed up intersection, 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. - He'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. - Just slide across it. - That's actually brilliant. - Yeah, I don't know. - Oh no. - You got to figure out what to do. - 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 I 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 not snow. - 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 it part of my life, man? - I don't know. - We're up in Richmond. - It's just a shit. - And they loved each other for a while. - No, it's because 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, ain't promise. - It comes down. It's like half broken off. It's dangling. - It's literally what it is though. - It's just Ragged. - It's fucking Ragged Mountain. - 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 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, there's like a little bump. And you're all trying to go off at the same time. So you're like, your fucking skis are pizzaing and one time my little sister was like, I don't even want to do it. And she stayed on the chairlift and went all the way around. - Just dumb. - 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. - I've done it like as an adult, but like growing up, I had only done that one time. You know that, 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 paying attention. - My parents were paying attention. - But literally, me and him would be walking to school in 4th grade. - 4th grade. - Oh yeah, yeah. - Well, no, no, that's not true. - Which is kind of crazy. - Which is crazy because like now being a parent, I know it is. - No fucking shit, that's insane. - They're not leaving my site. Like they're in the backyard. - I'm gonna be right there with them. - Yeah, of course. - But 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 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. - Yeah. - Slightly. - 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. - And he would come out in life. - Why? - I don't know, he would come out all the time and he'd be in the priest thing. I'm like, you know, at 11, for real. - Does he sleep there? - I think they have a half, they have a thing. - They lived. - Was I called a rectory or something? - Whoa. - It's got it. - I'm not even gonna, it's about the devil. - That's what I was gonna say. - I don't know what it's called, but it's called something like that. - It's called a rect. - No, don't say that either. - But I think they lived there. - But they lived up on top. - They explored them. - Yeah, come on. - They're on the campus. - They have the bell there. - Yeah, it's like a quasi-mode. - Yeah, come on back. - They're just up there? - No, we, it was like, what we, - They got to ring the bell. - We didn't ring the bell in the morning. - We know why he didn't like it. 'Cause we were climbing onto the building, that's the first thing God. - Who's trying to pray, whatever they do. - Come up with a sermon. - Yeah, exactly. - And then we're out there screaming like, "I fucking got you, dude. "I got you, Ollie, Ollie, oxygen cream." - Show me your balls! - Well done, that part. - Like children, we can't play here. - No more. - No more. - Say so, who's showing their balls? (laughing) - Well, you said, you said earlier, balls. - You grew up in the church, like Irish Catholic, right? - My church was called the Immaculate Conception. - There was one of those in Ireland. - There was one of those by us, yeah. - I thought it was just our church. - Wait, you know, what the fuck? - I thought it was just our special church. - It's the bell taco of churches. - I know, we got two. - Yeah, yeah, there's a bunch of those. - It's like, what? - Turned out it's a shit. - That was my special church. - It's like McDonald's of church. - Oh, we got it back in the church too. - We got it back in the church too. - What did they think with the most precious blood? - Did you guys do like a Sunday school or like? - I did that. - Me too. - Did you learn anything? - God. - Yeah. - Also the grades, I would get graded. - Me too. - Same. - But the grades were like yes or no. - Yeah. - You were going to report? - Totally. - Like a why or an end. 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 vendent against me. - Right. - When it went to 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. - That's a good one. - You're done. - 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 why or report. - 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. - Whoa. - 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, like their idea of being raunchy was like, I have a poodle on my skirt and it's like, you know, have sex in a car, you know, do something fun. - Yeah, I have a poodle on my skirt. - Oh, they would do that. Like people have sex in cars. - Yeah. - And they get killed. - Yeah. - 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 going to go make out at like, you know, titty point or something. - There's never a titty point. - Titty point. - Okay. - Oh boy. - Thank you. - You guys have a titty point? It turns out it's a franchise You know we have the quarry the quarry that sounds more dangerous than it is from Lord the Race No worry we may out him but amongst the ants in the It wasn't that cool. We have like a lot of a lot of kids from my town would dirt bikes Do you want to go down to Morgan's bog and bake out and then go to ragged mountain? We can climb ragged mountains. She has been caught by Thelonius I was just like piles of dirt that people would dirt bike on you tell me you you were the one telling me that you had like fairies in your Neighborhood growing up. You're like oh, yes fairy houses. Oh fairy houses. Yeah What is that even? Oh, yeah? Oh, yeah 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 down 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 fairy houses you had fairies It's cursed in no but the fairy houses by the way we have fairies to my dad usually would call me in him. Yeah, of course Of course, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, fairies get in the cards. I put in your dicks in them Exactly take your balls out of your grandmother's drawers All right, you know then 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 court 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 a 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 before the episode. He's like this is what I'm gonna do and I went Hell yeah 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 Completely it was too lost around you had moments. I feel like betrayed No, we're 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 with that when we get home He's quick ants quick with it, so we're right now. I got it. I don't 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 you're guns No, does he cuz Joey's like this does he let's just Does he a whisper does she is like people like falling over him like compliments? Yeah, he doesn't love it although although no, he's gotten a little bit better like with me I can be like like yesterday. I was like I like your shirt. He was like thanks so much With 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 That feels a little a little You're on this couch. I think what it's not thrown out casually when it's like said really earnestly with like Yeah, I'm like hustling my hair shit. Hey, yeah, hey buddy Like get under me. I would say that's my dynamic. That's my dynamic with our friend Damien Damien's been like one of my best friends for a long time and he'll give like really like he'll make a moment a full And 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 yes 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 put in a position now where I can like do what I've always wanted to do and like provide for my family It's 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 saying say that Let's get to sound like I absolutely have said that to you before It's a sweet the way the way that what he's describing though is like we'll do a show like we 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 and one 2015 and then you came on in 2020. Yeah 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 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 what 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 you think about your whole life Yeah, cuz I think I'd take a little longer to do that cuz like I spent even something like that you get off stage in a melee 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 decompress 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 what we'll talk again But like it takes it's not like every single show if it was I would punch myself in the face Gonna wake up and just be like and he's just gonna solve because everything you said. Oh, I've just gonna hit him 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 tick-tock that someone posted of like the view of it and was like confetti at the end of it And then I was just like oh, I lost it. Yeah, I was like whoa cuz 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 when I see photos of this definitely that show but like any of the shows we've done I'm like holy shit like that was fire. Yeah, yes, it's it feels different. Maybe cuz 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 No, when we did ducks the closer we have is we did the Chicago theater Last year also 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 right. 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 until 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, yeah, it's nuts our photographer is awesome Zach shout-out 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 fuck 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 yes Well the Chicago theater freaked us out in particular. I know it definitely freaked me out the first time we did it We we're backstage in the green room and we're hanging out and like they have like everyone wrote on the walls and Backstage. Did you guys sign the wall? Oh, yeah, I was an author Chicago when I was giving but yeah, we did sign the wall Or later. Don't you have in that more impressive crazy? It's crazy. It's crazy more impressive And hey that honestly shame on you for not 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 like, 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 like 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 stage. (laughing) And I'm getting a teen ball. But like for me, I see that. And I'm just like, who the fuck am I? 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. - The specific viewing experience. 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 there like, this is just me. - Yeah. - Oh yeah, I love to wear wigs. - What's the song in dance? - Yeah, that's your thing. - That. - Hey, we do it sometimes. We did a whole episode where we've just played, we made up ants. - Oh yeah, Shane and I were not ants, like on the floor, like our ants. - On, on. - Oh, like on. - Yeah. - He says ants. - Okay. - We say ants too, but yeah, yeah. 'Cause I'm busy. - Is that the episode when you did the Bob? - Yeah. - Yeah, I did an East Coast on and he did a Key West on. - Yep. - 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 not figure. - Straight. - I mean, with that episode, 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 own long Island, you have your daughter. - They do what are, they do long Island. - Long Island. - Long Island. - Long Island. Long Island. - Yeah. - And everything is the daughter. - It's kind of like the character of, if you guys watched the perennos. - 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. - Just like over here. - You need anything. - Ever has the water? - Everything's a concern. - Water. - The water? - Well, it's making, I heard it's making the frogs gay. It's making the kids gay. - And you're gay. - And everyone's gay now, they want us to be gay now. - So then, do you watch YouTube series back in the day? It was like, my son moved to New York and now he's gay. - Oh, is 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 family group chat. Like, this is my mom. - Yeah. - Like, the scene around a telephone cord. Like, oh my God, did you hear that? - Yeah, yeah. - My mom doesn't have like an accident in the certain words, but like the scene where, in that video, it always stands in my mind. Like literally, my mom does 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 good Mother's Day. - My mom was on Christmas or 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, and it's really tried my hardest. - I really tried my hardest to get you the Nintendo Wii and it's like, it's good. You're too good. - Those fucking videos were really-- - 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 at the mall. What are you doing tonight? You hanging out with your friend? No, you're hanging out with me. Fine, go hang out with your friend if you want. And she's like, a precious moment. It's so weird to hear about this because my family is so like non-confrontational. Like, 'cause like-- - Jane, I come from 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 face. - We came from like, families that were strong-minded and like-- - My mom, like, struggled-- - That's a good word. - Like, struggled with like, yeah. - I like that. That's a good word for the podcast, strong-minded. - Strong-minded. - 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 it 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) - Like, I'm not kidding. I'm like, why? - Like, because the year's ending? - Yeah, just because. - Of course. - Of course. - But every year he would have a New Year's Eve party and I would go there and we would tell 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. And she would be on the stoop just inconsolable. - Yeah. - And I'd be like, oh, you know, happy New Year, Nancy, and she'd just grab me, please. (laughing) And then, but it would be that. And then it would immediately, it would be a hug. And then it would be like, you're getting older and like hitting me or something like that. - How dare you? How fucking dare you? - Yeah, exactly. - And 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. (laughing) - 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? - Do you not see the video of his balls and a guillotine? - Yeah. - She probably thought like. - She knows about that one now. - She probably thought of like the worst thing that could all flash 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 like, totally experienced when I had my son. It was just like, we're all like hanging out. It's a great, 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. - Van Morrison into the mystic. - Don't, can't think of that song on the top of my head. It's all right. - Oh, you wouldn't need to. - I'll do something. I'm so happy. - No, but like, that's like a real thing. - I just thought of it all the whole, like I was like, I can read it all. - Because you're picturing in the future. - I can lose it all. - I could lose it all. - You have the vision from Terminator 2. (all laughing) - Oh my God, a bomb can hit right now. - Oh, no, nuclear war. - So I'm gonna be your mama near Zeeve. - You definitely will, yeah. - I do that, but like, it could be just videos of strangers. - Oh, yeah. - And I was like, yeah, no, me too. - I like crying. - Like, I'll try. - Same. - Like, I'll find something and it'll get me a little bit, and I'm like, let me pull on the string. - And I'll be sobbing about the feeling. - 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, you know? - Oh. - How nice of you. - I will give them this courage. - This is how selfless I am, man. - It's gonna be a strong-minded parent for you. - The person's yours. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, but our parents are like a big part of like, 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's crazy. - I got to set the same age. - Whoa. - My dad is like a five foot eight Colombian electrician. - I don't think my parents know that I've ever had sex. - That's cool. - I've been married. I don't think they know. - My parents told me, we don't, my family doesn't talk about sex. - No, no, no, no. - I mean, you know, my family definitely talks about sex except for my dad. We don't, we don't, I mean, you said you have several sisters, right? - Yeah. - So, different dynamics. - My siblings, we don't talk about it. - Oh yeah. - We get in the all of it. - Okay, well, see that. - All right. - That's easy. - That's easy. - You're poor, Bob. - 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. And like, it just seeing how old were you? Can I ask? - That's an inappropriate question. - No, I wanna hear it. - Never ask a lady her age. - Yeah, there you go. - 16? - Probably around 16 or something like that. - Yeah. - But like, me 16, like, I'd buy 'em if I need 'em, but, dude, it's not like that. - 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, he was smart 16-year-old. - He took it and he was just like. - Okay, Shane, it's okay, Shane, it's okay. - Yeah, no, that's same. - I would have definitely, I would have asked my dad, for sure. - No, that's a great 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 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? But he was talking about condoms. - What? - Oh, I thought he was going with like such, yeah, you could be any-- - And he turned into a doctor, he's rhyme. - You could be any guy that 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, ribbed. - 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 get this one, you get ribbed. - You could get ribbed. - You get the ones that turn you dick into an icy hot. - Yeah, you can get corkscrew. - Let me tell you, nobody likes that. - Yeah. - Nobody likes the ice hot. - How could that possibly be anything? - I can't lie to him, yeah. - 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 it is. - Oh, so your dad came to you, 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. - I think Frank's dad talked to him. And he was like, oh, Frank got to-- - Absolutely not, no fucking way. - No shit. - If him and my dad were ever talking to each other, it was about nails and drills. - Oh yeah, are your parents like friends at all, or do they-- - They were like, like, 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. - Is that crazy? - Yeah. - Kismet. - Kismet, I know. - Yeah, really weird. - But then like, I think as just like being parents, and then like, my parents getting the whole stuff right now, they were just like, we don't have time for other people. - Right, no. - We don't have time. - We barely have time for each other. - Both of our dad's, my dad was a fireman and also like worked construction and his dad was a nutrition. So they like-- - Oh, they were talking about-- - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - Like, yeah, well, you gotta see the fucking pipes in his fucking place. It's just like, yo, I need it, yo, 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-- - He talks about that. - Yeah, it was like that connection. - I don't even 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. - 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? We always like-- - We went to, we only, 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. I went to a different middle school. - That's what happened to my town. - In a different high school? - In a different middle school. - Well, no, he went, you 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. - Which it was. - You have 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. - No, 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 I don't get that. - It was really what 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. - That's a toss. - Yeah, you didn't need a phone 'cause it's like everyone's gonna be there. - Yeah, we're gonna be there. - That's so cool. And then, and then, I mean, even pass out like me, I went to college, he's, you know, kind of stayed in our neighborhood and stuff like that. And then, oh. - He stayed in the neighborhood. - You know, I dropped that. - Hey, it's okay. - I mean, he's doing all right for himself. - He's also dead. - 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, (laughs) - Other people weren't his, he weren't his first. - Should you be 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. Like, you know, like get a job, 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. - Oh, hey. - Well, you know how to move people. You were forced to do it as a kid. - Yeah, I mean, I was bored. - No bloggers were involved in this one. - Yeah. - Oh, 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 gonna come to Jersey. So now like, we have like different branches of our life. But like, the show has kind of brought us back together in this episode. - I think it's probably better that you guys separated and had your own life so that you can be together. - Yeah. - I mean, we've said it all the time, but like, our relationship even growing up is kind of like that too. Like, I have like friends that I see more often than I see Frank. - Yeah. - But like, that was the case like all through high school 'cause 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 at 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 I never saw them. - They saw. - They saw, I'm not saying that. I think they're nice people. - No, 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 the hell. - No, but actually, no. - 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-year-old apartment. - Like I would. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. (laughing) We dug up some old beer. - We have moved shot. (laughing) - Serious, that's the double line. - In really fast. - Don't say a word. - Stop. - We're spinning around really fast. You kind of feel woozy. - Did you guys ever do Edward 40 hands? - Did we? - It's actually easy. - We actually are currently scheduling to do it for him. - Yeah, we are. - Holy. - So you know you have to have them both and you can't pee. - Yeah, you know what I mean. - I've never heard about you. - You need a lot. - Born yesterday, listen, I'll piss my pants if I'm playing, okay? - I'm a peed a lot. - You're not an Edward 40 hands. - I've never Edward 40 hands. - Oh, it's fun, dude. - I personally have never done it, but I've been - I've done it a thousand times. - It does sound that fun. - 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. (laughing) - Really, really. - It's still, we'll run outside, HR. - Yeah, I'm like 33 years old and I'm like, listen, honey, I gotta go to work for the day. - Yeah. - Yeah. - You know, and I'm there taping 40s of course light to my hands and I gotta go home for the kids. - Of course light, nice. - You know, is course light allowed? I thought it wasn't a specific type of beer. - English. - Oh, oh, he's not even. - Oh my god. - Nobody has that. - I thought it was a malt liquor, but. - I mean, it could be whatever's 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 has given it too much thought. (laughing) - Your brother has done it more than once. - You gotta 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 14, 15. - He was acting. - So like they were giving you the beer in the green room. - Yeah. - Yeah. So just straight to cocaine. (laughing) - Straight to the hard work. - Never played beer pong, but I did rip. - Rails. (laughing) - 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, 'cause I was like, oh shit, if I get caught doing something, my mom's gonna make me move back to Arizona and I have to give up on my dream. - There's the thing about Shane is that people don't offer him. - Also people didn't offer-- - 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 wanna do cocaine, but I was like, but nobody offered. - No one asked me to do cocaine. - Nobody thought to ask me. - No one offered Shane anything. - I would have said no, but you could have asked. - I could see you having like a, I'm gonna tell on you face at that point. - I would never tell. - First of all. - 'Cause 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 said, good for you. - Because I'm saving their lives. - Honestly. - Good for you. - 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. All of them smoked like frickin' chimneys. - No. - I'm like insane. Like they were buying cartons. Marborough was sending my father like merch. - Yes, seriously. 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 and 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. - You didn't want to do that. - Or you were just fully pranked. - 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. Like these are our parents. We want them to be around. 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 'cause they're like, oh my god. And then they're like, where are my five thousand dollars of Marborough lights? - I'm so stressed about my child being missing. - But we're also on the list. - He's a cigarette. - But like that was a bad combo. [BLANK_AUDIO] like prime children of the dare program. Yeah, we never, never did drugs around it. Every time I bring up dare program, everyone's like, "What is that?" I went to dare camp. - That was the exact intent. - Oh, not your chance. - 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, she, oh, I didn't, I didn't know where to, no where to go. - Oh, I fucked. (laughing) - Well, I fucked a dare officer. - Everyone. - No, I didn't. I'm just kidding. - I fucked a sheriff of this guy. - The sheriff of an ass. - The sheriff of 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 enough. - Ragged. - My sisters were gonna watch us and be like, "It wasn't ragged before I got there." - Professor Plum and I fucked on ragged. - Okay, yeah, we never like 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. - He has a lot on the pod. (laughing) - His eyes get wet. - I've been crying laughing all day. (laughing) - Yeah, he has. - You're welcome. - Yeah, I, I, (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 say no. - 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 take me." (laughing) - That is so fucking funny. - Yeah, that'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. - I'm really like a fourth grade. - It increased. - They were so young. - It was bad, like it helped drugs in the war on drugs. - Yeah, I think it was like, I think statistically, dare increased drug use. - That's crazy. - Well, it's like the same thing where like, you know, sex head made like a pivot into like, you know, like you're gonna have sex and die and it's like, or teach safe sex. Not that like, safe drug use is the way, but like, like complete, don't do it. - Absence causes, yeah, absences like. - It causes anal, right. (laughing) - What? (laughing) - Where? (laughing) - No, you know what I was gonna say. - I'm going for it. - I'm gonna say, sex head being old, absences only increases teen pregnancies. - Right, right. - So they're not teaching safe sex. - That's right, that's right. - That's literally what. - How you meant? - No, I'm saying like, being anal about it is what I mean. - No. - Right, right, right, right, right. - No, no, I got you there. - That's exactly what you meant. - That's exactly what you meant to do. - Sex head 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 at like 10 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 remember, 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 already 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. - He was lying. - No, I was like, oh, I imagine like you're honest. - I mean, 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 it. - We had one computer too, but I would use it at night. - My mom was super strict about internet and TV stuff. - So we, but your parents go to sleep. - You had a view of the world. - No, don't start with me. I also, I would-- - 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. - What? - 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. - Yeah, that's true. - That's really what it was. - They'd be like, check this out. It'd be like this weird kind of blurry image. - There was like a pixelated picture. - And me, 11 is like, so is, okay, okay, 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 there. - It's not a movie, is this the first time? - It really was, it was an outsider's 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. - And we put it down right in the home. - You left it there. - Yes, we were in the back. - We were in the back communal play. - You went back to, 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 our teachers walked by, he's like, oh, oh. I'm gonna keep on walking down. - Oh my God, this is fucking it. And it was all like fucked up from the rain and shit. - Oh, it's from like 1973. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - It's a lot of hair in here. (laughing) - Crazy. - Did he look like that? (laughing) - Wait, that's, so I don't know if you guys ever heard of this, but do you remember the, I don't know if you remember this, but my mom had this big book, like an encyclopedia book called The Joy of Sex. - Wow. - 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. - No. - And it was full, like-- - It's the owner of Ragged Mountain. (laughing) - Uncle Murrell. - Wait, that's not-- - Fuck out. - 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. - Really get like the never ending story. - Yeah, literally, but they were like hippies. It was like, The Joy of Sex. - No, wow. - It really was, it really was like, that was the only like magazine we found, but it really was like, the early internet. 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 like-- - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - But then like, the computer would freeze, so we would have to like, yank the power out of there. - To turn it off, yeah, yeah, yeah, dude, one, do you know what we used to do? That was like, this is, I mean, this feels like, now we're ancient basically, but because you didn't have access to the computer, but you're like, Laura, we gotta put this corner and energy somewhere, we would go to a pay phone, and you would just dial 1-800, but sex. (laughing) - Or anything, like, you can still do it. - 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, yeah, the credit card. - Did you, did you, did you, did you have the credit card? - No, we would hear that, and be like, oh my God, and hang up and replace it. - Wait, that's amazing. - Do you know that? - I wish I tried 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 letters, 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. - What 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, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. She's like, hello. How do you know 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 have to hang up quick, because then you'll get, if you stayed on the line, it would like charge you, like, eight dollars for a minute or something like that. - Yeah. - How would you pay out of it? - Yeah, it was a pay for it. - 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. - Yeah. - This is so funny. - Dude, thinking about these stories now is 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? - I've never been in 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 miracle of life. - Yes. - Y'all have to watch it in. - Have you, Jim. - Is that a big one? - Have you seen, you know, shout out to her? - 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. - Yeah, she did. - Oh my gosh. I don't know. - 'Cause it's a bit, you don't have to watch. 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 want to 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 like, 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, I'm so protected. - A 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 baiting us. Like, she was signing-- - Oh, yeah, 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 within seconds. - Yeah, she kicked me out. - Yeah, that's tough. - And before anything? - The penis is a miracle out of this woman. Are you kidding me? (laughing) So 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. - Yeah, 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-- I can't remember. But-- - Show us how much we were taking. - The education did not stick. - Well, I think you're just, you're way too young. - You know what's funny about that too? And 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 and forth. - 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. - Tiny room. - 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 have like mesothelioma. - Yeah, seriously. - You get there and you get back to class, you have the black lung or whatever the fuck minors get. - That's insane. (all laughing) - You're like, all right, no. - That's all-- - We did not have that. - Yeah. - It's just chalk. - Covered. - Yeah. - People with kids today, they don't have an age ruffage we have. - No, they don't. - These kids don't know. - Yeah. - Get a white uphill. - Back uphill. - Yeah. - Uphill both ways. We had a clean and get coughs. - Yeah. - They don't have any shit. - Uphill both ways. - I don't think you know how hills work. - Yeah, shut up. - Yeah, that doesn't work. - Wow, sex sad. - Yeah. - Well, I think I've learned everything I need to learn when I had a baby. You know what I'm saying? - Yeah. - Actually, I don't know. - I mean, who are we to say what you have and haven't learned, right guys? - Yeah, that's right. - No. - Like us. - Yeah. - I did from afar. (laughing) - Yep. - Yeah. How about that? - Hold 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, we have lunch. - We're serving breakfast for lunch. - Yeah. - That's a lot of dough. - One treat. Pancakes. - That's enough guys. - Guys, have those over there? - Huge. Loved pancakes or dinner. - All right. - Love to that. - We'll ask you guys, 'cause 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. Easy. I love all of them, by the way. - Yeah. - Yeah, of course. - Yeah, of course. - Okay. - Ready? - Yeah. - Yeah. - I'll judge with mine. - Yeah, you can go first. - Pancakes, French toast, waffles. - Ooh. - Pancakes, one. - Oh. - Pancakes. - That's instant. - Pancakes, number one. - French toast is incredible, too. And then waffles are great, but they're just, they're, they're, they're, they're great. - Can I ask a question about the French toast? Is it like Texas toast vibes? - However you. - Regular. - The perfect version of it. - For you. - Ooh. - Pancakes. - Wow. You guys are cakes. - French toast and waffle. - Yeah. - Yeah. - I remember you got your answer. - Mine was waffles French toast pancakes. - Whoa. - Pancakes last? - Yeah. - Pancakes you have? - I love pancakes. - Pancakes are so easy to mess up. - That's why. - That's why. - They are so easy to mess up. - Of course. - A good 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. - You do butter on everything. - No. I mean, are you like that? - Maybe. - Ooh. - Like butter. - 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. - The syrup. - Yeah. - Yeah. - What's your rank? - I think French toast might be my number one. - Wow. - That's not bad. Look, I'm not mad about anyone. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - And it's like stuffed with shit. - Oh no. - I don't think it needs to be stuffed. - You don't have one. - It doesn't need to be. - Hey. - And it's stuffed. - What is going on? - What is going on, everyone? - What are you doing? - Oh, it's stuck. - It's not a stuffed with French toast. - It needs a stuffed with French toast. - Oh. - There was a diner that I went to one time that they would have pancakes and then next to it was just like every ingredient you could think of. - Yeah. - And they would put it in the pancakes. - Oh yeah. - Fuck yeah. - I love this. - Savory stuff. - Sounds like you like pancakes. - Whatever. - You can do it on it. - Sounds like that's the number one type of feeling. - And the podcast where you showed a photo of a bunch of wings. - Oh yeah. - Oh yeah. - And which wing you grabbed. - 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 that. - 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. - It's 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 that like the ones here are crazy. - Like her sister's like a professional medieval battle. - Yeah, like night fighting. Like an armor and shit. - That is so awesome. - My dream is to wear legit chain nails. - The bolt. - Yes. - And have someone stab me. - And we just go. - No, no, no. - We could work on me. - We could do it. - We could do it. - And I just spin and cut it off. - You guys could do a whole live show about that. - Yeah, we could do that. - We could do that. We'll bring a chain mail and a dagger to a show. - And you'd be on a horse. - Yeah. - We'll love that. - What if you just were the gun? - Yeah, what if we had 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, that's fair. - You guys should do that. - You're building that up. - Yeah. - Or we'll stab Aunt to really like commit to it. - Oh yeah, I mean the show's over at that point. - Yeah. It's over. - Yeah, yeah. Like thank you guys he but he 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, I know these guys forever. Well 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 show. I was calling and I was like oh, they talked about me and then it was that I was like, okay I don't talk about me. Oh, I think we were just talking about like people we could beat in fights And I was the first name No, there's no I think I can't remember the exact like yeah a child Shining but I think we go We were going off of like height because we were saying like you're trying to find your weight class Yeah, and then I said I was like you and Shane would be a good fight And then I also I gave you your flowers. I was like it's good. Yeah, 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 rain. I remember it specifically To be fair, I would have said that about anybody. Yeah, for sure. It was very funny And I don't know that that's it necessarily true. It's just what I have to believe yeah, it would be not a it would be a Because there was those couple years where they were doing like the youtuber boxing. Yeah I definitely had the thought of like who would I have to fight? I was like are they gonna make me fight Markiplier if I do it? I'm like oh like it Well, that's why yeah, because we had I think it was right after he was a doctor Mike episode Oh, and he said that he was like a and he's a boxer. Yeah, he like fought on like to he's another one Six very health conscious. Yeah. Oh my god, not a smart health. 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 Believe it or not. He wasn't about it. Oh, yeah, that's how that's how we got there But you guys we've got boxing matches We we love you guys for years and just getting able to do this has been really cool Yeah, we were super high when we found out that you guys like mentioned our name. They were like Yeah, or someone like damned me or or like something and they were like oh, dude talked about you on smosh 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, so I was like, what's the time say I find it? 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, where we hardly played the game We kind of just did this all so there right and then you guys are gonna be on Reddit stories in a couple weeks And that was one of the best episodes. We shot. Thank you so much. 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 deal with each other - Yeah, thanks. - 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 that. - I want to play one of those games. Or is it kind of like a triple agent or something like that? - Sure. - A triple agent? - Probably. I think there's two agents out there. - Two agents out there. - A triple agent would just be an agent. (laughing) - I think he's just back to where he started. - Yeah, I think this time around, since this is our first time coming, we're like on our best behavior. Next time it might get like-- - You're gonna hook it up. - Yeah, it might get a little out of you. - You can get a little out of me. - We'll do it in the 40s. - Yeah. - Yeah. - It's just you, too. - Yeah, it's just a shame vomiting. (laughing) - And we realized we didn't record it. - It's like, no. - It's like a fudge card corrupted. (laughing) - Fuck. - 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 them on closest to you, come hang out with your boys and go check out TheBasemear. - Yeah. - Hell yeah. - Thank you guys so much. We'll see you next week. - Bye. - Bye.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. The hosts mock East Coast stereotypes, especially Boston and Philadelphia, highlighting regional pride and humor in their banter.
  2. Frank and Joe share nostalgic memories of pranks, like fart bags and a guillotine prank involving balls, reflecting their playful, chaotic childhoods.
  3. The group recalls growing up in different eras and locations—Arizona, Virginia, Colorado—with distinct traditions, like snowboarding, manhunt games, and church visits.
  4. They highlight how childhood pranks and shared humor, such as the "fairy houses" or "gun slide" jokes, shaped their comedic identities and friendships.
  5. A recurring theme is the comfort found in vulnerability and inside jokes, especially during live shows, where emotional connections with fans are deeply valued.
  6. The episode explores generational differences in values, such as strict parental rules and censorship, contrasted with modern openness.
  7. Memories of family life, including emotional moments like New Year’s Eve grief or a mother’s reaction to a prank, reveal deep personal bonds.
  8. The humor stems from authenticity—misadventures, awkwardness, and real-life experiences—making the conversation both relatable and heartfelt.

Summary:

The episode features a lighthearted, deep-dive conversation between Smosh hosts Shane and Amanda and guests Frank and Joe, centered on their personal memories and comedic roots. The discussion begins with playful regional jabs—especially targeting Boston and Philadelphia—before shifting to nostalgic childhood experiences. Central themes include early pranks, like the infamous "guillotine" prank involving balls and a fart bag, which reflects their shared sense of humor and reckless fun.

They recall growing up in different places—Arizona, Virginia, and Colorado—highlighting contrasting environments, traditions, and family dynamics. A recurring thread is the importance of vulnerability and inside jokes in building trust and connection, both with each other and with audiences. The hosts also reflect on generational differences in parenting, where strict rules and censorship were common, contrasting with today’s openness.

Emotional moments, such as a mother’s grief on New Year’s Eve or the awkwardness of a prank involving family, underscore the personal depth behind the humor. Ultimately, the episode blends humor, nostalgia, and heartfelt reflections on family, friendship, and the lasting impact of childhood pranks and shared experiences, showing how personal memories fuel their comedic style and connection with fans.

FAQs

The prank was a childhood joke from the 2000s when Frank and his brother made a video in which they placed a garbage can over Frank’s head and had his brother kick him in the face. The story was filmed on a flip phone and later shared as a humorous memory of their youth.

Frank and Joe have a playful, teasing dynamic where they constantly riff on each other, with Frank being more whimsical and Joe more direct. They enjoy the banter, which creates a comfortable, shared sense of humor despite their sharp jokes.

They grew up in the 1990s and 2000s, engaging in pranks like using fart bags, sliding across snow-covered car hoods, and performing stunts like dropping crutches or hiding in abandoned buildings. These activities were common among their friends and shaped their sense of humor.

They reference Massachusetts as a place of childhood memories involving pranks and quirky traditions. The smell of the city, such as the stink of dumpsters or old basements, is tied to their nostalgic view of growing up with dirt, farts, and playful chaos.

They both enjoy the smell of a mildewy basement or an empty apartment, with Frank noting it evokes memories of childhood and the smell of dirt, while Joe finds it refreshing and nostalgic, especially in contrast to modern cleanliness.

They describe families that were strong-minded and non-confrontational, with parents who rarely used profanity or discussed sensitive topics like sex. Their parents emphasized family values, which influenced their own parenting and emotional expression.

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