#156 - Smosh Mouth For Men

hello welcome to smosh mouth for men i'm shane and i'm joined by two other men damian and trevor yeah sup fellow man i know everybody's been asking for a smosh mouth for men yeah finally a podcast for men people have been clamoring for this the ladies and the ladies have gone so us will play now yeah the dudes amanda is in boston so boston pretty manly For that lady convention. But hey, if anyone's upset about an episode for men, don't worry. Because in the coming weeks, we're going to do the opposite. So it'll be Amanda, and I'll be gone. And then it'll be Smosh Mouth for women. So don't worry. Don't worry. Don't worry. I heard this recently on a comment on a TikTok somewhere. But I've adopted it as my own. I am a straight man in the way that a tomato is a fruit. Where you're like, really? Oh, shit. And you're sort of like, oh, yeah. Nope. That's a man, and he's straight, and there you go. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like being at Smosh, people are probably like, really? You're straight? Yeah. It's just like, yeah. I'm a straight man in the way that Little Caesar's Crazy Bread is bread. Yeah. So you're like man plus. You know, Crazy Bread is kind of just like normal bread to a guy like me. That's how deranged your twisted brain. Twisted brain. Twisted brain. I like that we've all got our sports here. Yeah. So I've got football. I've got basketball. And I've got Pokemon, both training and catching and friendship and battles. Lots of walking and bike riding, too. Lots of that, which I do while sitting down and playing it on a screen. Yeah. But you could. But you can. I have been Poco-ping it up again. Really? I restarted it like a month ago. It's a good time. I'm hooked, man. It's a problem for me. Dude, I got back on just for this. It's a Jirachi event. Oh, yeah. And I was playing and I was like, this is good. Like, I might have to hop back in. It's addictive. It's very addictive. For those not in the know, it's a Pokemon game that like if Minecraft and Animal Crossing had a little Babbo and raised that Babbo well to lead a good life, it would be Pocopia. Yeah. It's a good time. It's a really good game. The Spartanellis hits. Yeah? It does. It really hits. What's the vintage? It is nice. It's a 97. It is very bad. Ooh, the Year of the Yankees one. Yes. Oh, that actually is delicious. As a juice drinker myself, it's incredible. Anything with cranberry, I'm all in. Yeah. You are immune to UTIs. Yeah. Therefore. Can't get them. I drink cranberry juice even if I don't have a UTI. It's delicious. Yeah. Because I love like a real intense tartness. Oh, I love a tartness. I like a tart juice. Tartness is one of the manliest kind of flavor notes, I think. Tartness is next to fartness. Smoky, umami, tartness. Tartness. Yeah. Yeah. And also blackberry. Indeed. That's the fourth. Yeah. I had to slow down on the juice, fellas. What? Yeah, I had to slow down on the juice. Because I don't know if you know this. You probably do since you're, you know, fellas. Costco, they have Capri Sun, but hold on for a minute. They got 100% juice Capri Sun. So it's not that baby stuff where they're watering it down. This is the straight up. Wait, in the pouches? In the pouches. And it's 100% juice? 100% juice, Michael. Whoa. And it's Capri Sun branding? Yeah, it's Capri Sun. It's literally Capri Sun 100% juice. 100% juice. And this is hashtag not sponsored. But, like, if you have, like, three or four of those a day, you end up having to be like, maybe that's a lot of juice. Yeah. Maybe that is a lot of juice. I'm getting reports that's a lot of juice. Hold on. My doctor's like, you have how many Capri Sun? 100%. Oh, God. You're not even diluting it. Yeah. That's intense. What flavor is it? What flavor juice? Oh, I mean, obviously, berry is my favorite. Mixed berry. But they got fruit punch, which tastes like a Pacific cooler. And then two apple ones come in the pack. Wow. I never, as a kid, because I drank so many Capri Suns. Yeah. Oh, you have to. Yeah. Legally, yeah. I never, like, knew what flavor I was about to drink. Yeah, well, they always. You grab them, you pop that straw in, and you go. Yeah. They had, like, names that weren't, like, actual flavors. Yeah, like Pacific cooler. I think probably because they're not juice. So I don't think they can legally be, like, cherry. The only one that was honest was lemonade, and it was terrible. I don't know if I ever even had lemonade. The lemonade one was so bad. I've never had lemonade in that. Bro, we tried to do that Guinness World Records thing, where we drink, how fast can you drink a Capri Sun? And the record was, like, six seconds or something, right? Six seconds? Yeah. Yeah. Six seconds? Don't! Dude, I was doing so. Hold on. I was doing so much six seconds. No, no, no, wait! I was doing hella six, seven before I got here. Selena just flipped over a big zero on the days since six, seven joke. It's like, it's like, can I use the bathroom really quick? And we just can feel you doing it. Yeah. Just in the mirror, like, you got this, Trevor. But I. So we could not do it. We could not even break, like, 15 seconds. Do you have to use the straw? Is that the thing? So it's. Once the timer started, you had to get the straw out, get it out of its wrapping, get it into the pouch, and then drink it all. But through the straw. Through the straw. Because I feel like there could be a technique where you pierce it with the straw, but then as soon as you remove it, you just. Through the straw. Yeah. Crazy. But what's crazy is we couldn't do it, and I. Obviously, it's my childhood memories, but I feel like in my memories as a kid, I drank them in under three seconds. Oh, yeah. Once the straw is in, I feel like as a kid, I was just like. But maybe it's because I had a tiny little child mouth that I could do it faster. Oh, yeah. It's Pascal's theory of pressure. Yeah. Where if you. He literally writes out, if you have a tiny little child mouth, you can have that. And it's my favorite thing Pedro Pascal's ever done. Yeah. And that's, like, probably my favorite theory of pressure. And the most manly theory of pressure, I think, is Pascal's. 100%. Well, Pascal sort of stole what was already done somewhere in the Middle East a long, long time before that in terms of, like, pressure theory. So, like, by stealing somebody else's work and just talking about it louder, Pascal truly made the manly move. Pretty manly thing to do. He actually was a man. Think about the idea I just had, though. Yeah, but. I pitched this. What about this? I'm an ideas guy. Um. Shit. All right. What's other manly stuff? What's the. Okay, actually. Actually, I genuinely want to ask this because I wouldn't consider myself to be a very, like, masculine person as it's traditionally defined. What's, like, the most manly thing that you guys do on a regular basis? I. Weirdly, I've been thinking about this a lot because we did an Assumptions video forever ago, me, Spencer, and then Ludwig was on. Oh, yeah. And these types of questions were coming up and since then it's kind of. I think about it a lot of, like. Like, what does quantify as, like, manly or. Because, like, so much is just, like, culturally defined. Yeah. Decidally defined. So it's really, like, completely meaningless and it changes culture to culture. But I'm just kind of like, what is just, like. What do I just consider, like, adult? And what is, like, defined as, like, a positive, masculine, manly. I think you hit the nail on the head where it's, like, this is. You're kind of just doing an adult thing. Yeah. And it was never that, like, other genders couldn't do something. It's just the, like, no, it's not your role. I do this. And so. Right. I think, like, the most, like, what I would say is, like, manly, masculine thing that I, like, find myself doing is I love, like, carrying lots of things. Like, if it's, like, I'm moving a piece of furniture, it's, like, I can lift this chair by myself. Like, I'm capable. Yeah. Or, like, bringing groceries in, I'm, like, I'm gonna get them all. Like, I can carry everything. I'm strong enough. I'm not taking two trips. Yeah, I'm not taking two trips. I have also gotten a sofa into a small apartment by myself. Yeah. Like, back in the day, I was, like, I'm not calling someone for this. I'm just gonna get it out of my car and walk it on in. I relate to that. To me, I attribute that, in my head, I believe that's, like, I think it's lazy. Like, I'm, like, or impatience. I'm, like, I'm, I don't want to go through the hassle of taking two trips, so I'm gonna burden myself for one. And here's the thing is, I don't even take this, if I can't do it, I don't take the second trip. I've literally had two 12-packs of Diet Coke in my trunk that have been there for, like, a week, and I keep driving and hearing them, like, move around back there, and I'm, like, I never, I never went back for the second trip. I just, I just, I couldn't, I couldn't carry all of them. Ralph's was having a great deal on 12-packs, and I got, like, six of them. And there's gonna be, like, and I could only carry four. Chunks of shrapnel floating in there after a few weeks of not selling. It's like, I got my ingredients for my potato and leek soup, and then I got my four 12-packs. And I got two of them. And the amount of times that I do that, sorry, stupid. The amount of times I do that specifically with my trunk, where I have something in my trunk, and every time I turn, it's just like, and every time I'm driving, I'm like, I really should fucking figure that out. And then I never do, and it'll be there for a year. I've got the secret. I finally handled all that stuff because I got a new car. And they're like, you can't leave all this in when you're trading in your Prius. You can't do that. And I'm like, okay. So I put it all in a bag, and I was like, hey, I'm gonna put this bag in my home, and it's gonna stay in that bag. And if I needed something for my car, maybe I'd put it back in. But otherwise, I'm just gonna have my car now. I see. It's a big deal. It's a perennial problem for me because I keep my basketball and my basketball shoes in my trunk. That sounds manly. And what I do is I try and wedge the ball into the corner of the trunk and then the shoes so it doesn't roll around. But then occasionally, it gets dislodged, and then that's so annoying because then I'm just hearing this like, bum, bum, bum, like ball rolling around in my trunk. I'm like, oh. You gotta start using towels because towels are good to have anywhere. You never know if you got a spill. Oh, yeah, that's true. I think my most stereotypically manly thing is I, I handle the spiders and bugs, by which I mean I capture them gently and put them outside. i will do that dude that's tough having to become the bug guy is tough because i was scared about my whole life i was like bugs i don't want to touch it i don't want to get near it someone else take care of it and then like it is like kind of like i you know started dating my fiance raven and i was like i had to overcome that i had to become the guy that takes care of the bugs and gets the little cup and piece of paper and i'm like holding it like please don't escape somehow please don't escape and i'm like throwing it outside and closing the door really quick and i'm like all right like you're off to safety like shaking out the cup get out get out uh it reminds me of what i've i've talked about before but the time that there was a praying mantis inside courtney's bathroom oh that's a big big praying mantis and how i solved that was opening the door really quickly throwing one of our cats in there and shutting the door oh and being like you figure that out so you're like a roman caesar where you're like i bring in the lions and then i open the door later and it was just birdie our cat and then the praying mantis was on like a bottle of hairspray on one side of the bottle of hairspray and our cat was on the other side and they were just trading jab they're just truly and she like failed to kill the the thing and i felt really bad and then i i couldn't capture that that was too much for me and it sucks because praying mantises are one of my favorite bugs but i had to yeah i didn't have like a means to capture it yeah because it's too like tactile it's too like occasionally there is a bug that i'm like i don't know if i'm capable of getting you outside safely and i have to squish and then i'm like i felt really bad i need to get one of those have you seen those like capture bug things yeah it's like a bunch of prongs that it just like perfectly like they're just like oh what i haven't seen that one the one i'm talking about looks like a little vacuum and it's it's like the cup but it automatically closes the lid and it has like a little chamber in there so it's like welcome to your new little house for like three minutes and oh and then you put that so i did do that we had a cockroach in our those you can kill and i didn't kill that oh i had a hand vac and i vacuumed it up and then it was just in the canister yeah it'll crawling around and then i went to our apartments like trash chute and i just opened it up into the trash chute and it like flew down the trash chute i was like i sent him to heaven you said exactly where he wants to be in a trash bin that's so much stuff where he belongs yeah no i will i don't like to kill anything even a cockroach um i'll try to avoid it yeah yeah it feels so bad man it just sucks it's the kind of thing where like if you grew up with a family that's just like oh kill the bug you're like got it kill the bug and then the moment you sort of like come online mentally you're like kill the bug why yeah friend the bug and yeah and then you see a little jumping spider on tiktok and you're like oh it's like waving and it's so happy and i think if i came across a spider that if it's bite really would mess you up i would maybe have to there are a lot of black widows in my area it was like and especially if it's a spiders that make a web cool with your chill you have your you have your home i know where your location is yeah spiders who crawl around and are just constantly moving around different crevices i'm like i'm sorry man like yeah i can't expect your next move so i have no choice so it's fear of the unknown so like brown recluses i'm like got to yeah no i don't like it when i see a bug and i'm like i'm gonna try and handle this and i go and get the necessary tools and then i come back and that bug is gone i'm like i can't i'm freaking and then you just hear like don't turn around and you're like he's right behind me isn't he i did i genuinely had that happen to me when i was when i was like in my early 20s i was in an apartment and um i see a spider on the wall and i go all right i'm not gonna kill you man you chill right there by the way trevor has a grape and it's a good looking that's that's uh that one wanted to grow up to be an eggplant this is a manly grape yeah that is a manly grape yeah that's uh um god delicious some asmr right there uh but i see the spider on the wall and then a second later i'm watching tv i look it's gone and i go okay where is he and i don't know where he is like an hour goes by i'm watching tv i get up from the couch and i shit you not it was like right behind where i was sitting on the couch like that sheldon is so fucking funny i was like you managed to go to the one place like why'd you go there and then i had to i had to probably well because he trespassed on your boundaries okay actually and i've i have told this story the only thing that i will kill and i feel zero guilt actually feel a little good wasps you're like it's the only thing that turns me on anymore and wasps can go fuck themselves they can't i'm sorry they get they don't even make honey oh and mosquitoes okay i i will smack the crap out of a mosquito but uh but a wasp i one time had a wasp in my apartment when i was younger and i had like a truly like a 20 minute battle with it i had a broom in one hand and i had like a foam basketball in the other and so like when it was far distance i was using my aerial combat by trying to like throw the ball and then it would like swoop at me and i would like try to hit it with the broom we had like a genuine dark souls what music were you playing it was dark souls okay there you go it was like it's like oh like red health bar pops up for like a mosquito i literally did the same thing uh at my old apartment i i don't remember why there was a reason but we basically had like a ton of flies that got in the house just like house flies and they were pissing me off and i couldn't get them out the door and so what we did is it was nighttime we turned off all the lights and then i opened the bathroom door and turned the bathroom light on and basically lured all of them in there smart then closed the door and i just had like two dish towels and you lit it on fire and i straight up was just like in the bathroom just like and like smacking all these flies and i literally felt like a gladiator that's what it man must feel like living at a power fancy no it's like attack on titan yeah uh the one thing that i do feel really bad about when it comes to bugs is every once in a while especially like in the summer i'll open up a door that leads to outside and just like i'm like oh my god i'm like oh my god i'm like oh my god i'm like oh my god i'm like oh my god i'm like oh my god i'm like oh my god i'm like oh my god i'm like slip out real quick but when i'm back in i'll notice that like something has gotten in that's the size of like a couple hummingbirds and it's always like it's always like that massive bug that's like like you can hear it against the ceiling with tapping those huge wings and i'm like i don't have any way to get you outside and then like a day later it's just nowhere to be found and i'm like did you die like where did you go i don't think you found a way outside did you this can't be it for you yeah buddy do you ever like withhold bug from you know like i don't know bug from your partner oh like like like you find a bug over there no like you find a bug in the house like i did this the other day i'm really sorry if you're watching this oh but there was like some clothes that she had left on the floor and i was like okay i'm gonna like do the laundry and i picked up this pile of clothes and there was a spider underneath and then i'm like that's terrifying because then what if there's spiders in the clothes everywhere and i was like i'm gonna deal with it quietly and not say anything about it you dealt with the spider i dealt with the spider i thought you meant like you just saw a spider and you're like wow well there it goes you're like raven's the other one she's the one that's in that other room get her no i like dealt with but i was like if i tell her that there was a spider in her pile of clothes it's just i don't want her to have to like you know deal with that like i can handle the spider i think that's fair yeah okay so i felt bad about it i was like i feel like i'm now just so i'm in your mindset a little bit you feel bad because like she's supposed to know about the spider or like what what's she what's she missing there it's like when you're withholding information sometimes it feels like you're lying you're like not lying i'm not being dishonest but i'm like i didn't tell you about this thing that like maybe i should i think there's a good fact that you dealt with it means like it's not there it's not an it's like a non-issue it'd be more of an issue if you saw a spider you didn't kill it or you didn't take it outside and it's like oh by the way i didn't tell you there's a spider just lurking around our vicinity right yeah yeah i think the difference is like uh you know i took care of a spider on my own versus like hey i took care of a spider on my own and then the corner of my eye like your long-lost sister stopped by and asked about you but i didn't want to say anything that would yeah you know it's like i didn't want to mention the spider and then it was kind of all connected you know what that weirdly okay this is not a tangent but it makes me think about how um if i ever especially in my home experience anything weird that i can't explain like no i don't know i don't know i don't know i'm not saying paranormal but if i like something happened like if i heard a voice or like saw a shadow or something i'd have the ultimate i'd have to be damn sure before i tell courtney because like i'm such a like skeptical person who's like not if i came to courtney i was like yeah so i saw like a shadow i it she would never sleep again you know what i oh sorry no no please i am i'm not a paranormal believer myself but i did see something the other day and this is a tangent i did see something the other day that i was like that might be have been a skinwalker really so i um i hear the doorbell ring and i'm like not expecting anybody but i'm like right next to the door and i'm like if it's like a solicitor or something like i don't want to hear it like if anybody needs me like a friend will call usually first um but i hear the person outside the door just like rifling it off literally just going like hello hola hello hola hello hola hello hello hola hello hola hello hola hello hola hello and it was just like you don't know what you're saying like this is not language you you're mimicking the human speech to try to get me it was so creepy and i like ended up looking outside the window and it was like a guy holding a pamphlet and he's just sort of like hello hola, hello, hola, hola, hello, hola, hello, hello, hola. Is it a guy maybe who's just working through the social interaction? He's just practicing. I don't know. Literally probably. The problem is there's certain scenarios where a human being becomes twice as scary. Yeah. At your front door, ten times as scary. I walk in on the street, you come across a person, they go, hey, how's it going? I'm not scared of them. The second my doorbell rings and someone is standing right there, I'm like. It's terrifying. Dude, do you know YouTuber Chad Chad? Yeah. Chad Chad and someone else whose name I forgot and I feel really bad about it, just did a video about the door-to-door solicitors and they have their own training videos on TikTok and stuff, but they're talking about like, I mean, and also like both people hosting it are women. So they're like, do you understand how terrifying this is and how scary it is that like core concept, you're trying to get me out of the house. Like. It's scary for anybody, but especially women, it's like, I'm not going to answer the door and I'm not going to like, when they're like, is your husband home? It's like, I'm not going to fucking tell. No, he's right here. Like. Yeah. It's another one of those weird things too, where, uh, back when I was a kid, back in like the day, it was far more common because like there wasn't as many ways to like talk to people, right? Like there was cold calling, but you only had a home phone. So you had far more people coming to your front door. Like as a, when I was a kid, it felt like there were people at our front door. All the time. Really? Um, it just felt like compared to now, nowadays, if someone's at your front door, it's like, why are you, why are you here? Immediately? I'm like, something's wrong. There aren't anyone here. Like you're going to be contacted a million ways before someone comes to your door unannounced. So I'm, I am super like freaked out about it every time. If you'll allow me to backpedal a little bit, because I want to go back to the paranormal of it all, uh, because I literally got obsessioned by Raven. Uh, like a cut, like a month ago, it was so wish you broke your willow. No. So we're like, it's like the middle of the night. I hear there's like a lamp in the corner of the room and I hear it get bumped and I look up and there's just straight up a shadowy figure next to the lamp. And I just like, and I'm like, I don't know what's going on. And I'm just like looking at it and it starts to move across the bed. And I was like, and it's just like, all I see is just a shadowy blob. And I, I literally was like, there's like the hat man is like in my room. Like there's a shadow person and then like gets in front of like the, and like opens like the door to my room, like starts to open. And then I see there's like a little bit of like ambient light coming out from like our living room. And I see that it's Raven. And I like genuinely, my heart was beating so fast. I hadn't, she got up and I didn't hear her. And then you turn over and Raven's right there in bed. She's right there in bed. No, but yeah, I like turned over and checked and she wasn't there. And I like let out, like, a sigh of relief where I was like, and like, I was prepared to like tell Raven the next day and be like, I saw a shadow monster last night in the room. I don't want to tell her about the spider, but the shadow monster, she should know, but she like bumped the lamp and then like froze. So all I hear is the lamp bump. And then I just see a figure just standing in the corner. And I was genuinely like, so scared. You know, what is a good thing to have both by front door and maybe by bed, you have a baseball bat, but what you do is you put a tube sock on the end of it, because that way, if someone's trying to get you and they try to like, grab the bat from you, the tube sock slips right off and you get an extra little, and they like jerk it off. Yeah. They, they jerk off the bat a little bit. Yeah. You're not really expecting that. You're not expecting that. You pull out a little vampire bat. You're like, they're like, well, I'm just going to go now. So that's probably the main thing about this. When I was a kid, my, I remember my dad had a couple of baseball bats in his office. Like, I think they were like signed by one of the like, uh, by Steve, the Arizona Diamondbacks. And, um, like, someone had given them to him. And, uh, whenever at night I would hear a noise, I would definitely go and just grab one of them and just be like, and the most, I was very chosen. Like when I would hear a noise, I would always go up to like the corner of a wall and like position myself against the wall to like look around the corner as if I'm like strategically looking over there. And I would have my, my dog would walk out and he'd be like, what the fuck? And I'd be like, check, check around the corner for me. Go get help boys. He's like, fucking leave. Like you're going to your own dad. I remember, uh, one time with an ex girlfriend, um, we were in bed at her place and I hear like three huge bangs that sound like they're at, you know, her front door. And it's not the biggest apartment. And we're both just like, what the fuck? And I'm in the position of like, Oh, I'm going to have to go check this. And I'm like, I'm not equipped or qualified to do this. Like shit. So I check and you know, everything's fine. But, um, it turned out, uh, seeing a news article the next day, there was like a drive by shooting on the freeway. Which is close to like the window where our heads were. And so like what I heard was just the sound coming through like that, but like the, the gunshots happened right there. And it made me realize I'm like, yeah, I super wasn't equipped for anything. Like that was the idea of a gunshot and I wasn't equipped for that. But like anybody actually being there. Yeah. It's pretty scary. Do you keep, do you guys keep anything by the bed? Like actually, cause I kind of have a little metal rod that I don't know where it's from. Oh, I'm pretty sure it's like from like, okay, no, I do remember what it's from. It was from very long ago. We got like an outdoor, like patio set and it had like this metal supporting bar that I forgot to put in, but that like, wasn't really necessary. And smash cuts are like someone trapped in the fucking seat. It was basically like this tiny little support. And I was like, okay, it doesn't actually, it's like not actually super necessary, but it kind of has like, it's just like a really like stiff metal rod that has like this little thing on the end. That's kind of a handle. And I was like, well, I guess I'll just keep it under there. Under my bed. Cause who knows? This is my beat you up stick. Literally. I have a beat you up stick. It's your tally wacker. It's like, Oh, uh, I have a, I have a karambit. It's like a curved knife thing. And I keep it just in the drawer by the bed. Like, not that I'm going to be like in the perfect presence of mind to be like, open the drawer, open the sub, take off the cover. But like, is it a marble fade or is it like a Doppler? Yeah. It's a pretty good, like CS go skin. Yeah. Yeah. It's pretty sick. It's a, what's the one you like? Yeah. It's that one black ice. Yeah. That's yeah. Rainbow six CS go. Oh, is that it? I don't know. I'm joking. No, I was joking. I don't, I don't have any CS go knives. Unfortunately, I don't have any drip in CS go. So I, uh, I'm a LARPer. I typically do carry like, like I have like a pepper spray near my, my, my bed, which is like, I know it's like, Oh, that's going to fuck up everything. But it's like, it's something I always have my like plan. Right. Cause like for me, I'm like, all right, if someone were to come into my apartment, I would hear them coming up the stairs. And so I'd get to the top of the stairs and just spray down and then be like, all right, that hopefully AC. So it blows it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then I have paint cans on strings. Yeah. Um, easily kill them for the longest time too. I had, um, I think I still have it somewhere. Um, uh, I did have like a taser and that shit scared me. Like I would, cause I'd be like, I need to test this out to make sure it works. And so I'd like press the button. It's just like, you know, like, like, Oh, like it's freaks me out. One of them too. Um, I keep giving them away though. Like anytime a femme friend is like this creepy guy said something to me at a thing. I'm just like, well, I've got an extra one of these and here you go. Like you should have this and please take it. But it doesn't work on ghosts. Yeah. I see. I would, I would wonder if it does because like ghostbusters shot electricity out of their backpacks and whatnot. Maybe a taser could, I mean, it's probably better than a punch. I think it could. Yeah. I thought you were talking about the pepper spray. I was like, I think the pepper spray would go through the ghost. It probably would go through the ghost. Probably go through the taser. Unless it's Danny Phantom, in which case he's just like, ow, fuck. Yeah. You're going to catch them all. I, he's Danny Phantom. I'm very grateful that I have not ever experienced anything remotely like pepper spray because people talk about it like it is the worst shit. Oh my God. Ever. I chop an onion that's a little too pungent and I'm bawling. Same. Dude, pepper spray directly to the eyes. I, I got bamboozled by a Tik Tok where I was like, cooking tip. Uh, if you're cutting an onion, keep a wet paper towel near it because the moisture is what draws in that stuff from the onions. And that's why it goes directly to your eyes. And so I was just like, yeah, I got this. Watch this. Cut an onion immediately. I'm like, hot. That didn't work at all. It didn't work at all. Every chef I've ever asked is just like, Hey, there's just like a funny, like, Hey, do you have any like tips for like cutting like onion, like, or not crying while you cut onions? And every person ever is just like, I just cry until you, until you stop. Yeah. Just like, just deal with it. It's a really bad onion. You just, you just kind of isn't, isn't legitimately the, the way to avoid it. The best is to have a better knife. Like the sharper, the knife, the less spray you're going to get. Like, cause it's slicing through and not smashing as much. Like that is theoretically, I mean like a cleaner, the best, the best version since we have, I, we've posed this before, but, uh, what is your ranking? Cause, okay. Some, some, uh, backstory here forever ago, we had Angela on and we were talking about, we were talking about ranking dessert cat. Ooh. Oh yeah. I saw that. And there was a lot of crazy shit said there. Yeah. You guys all slander is cake. Everyone's slandered pie by the way. Oh, I didn't slander pie. Everyone else, but you slandered pie. I respect pie. Now I don't know where it ranks on my list, but it, I, I would rank it. I think I would rank it above cake. I feel like every couple of months in this office, someone says, someone asks me is pie cake. And every time I'm like, pie's not cake. No, not at all. We, we, I think the argument was pie cake. Pie is closer to pastry, but Angela was there and she was like, no, absolutely not. Yeah. Ridiculous. Yeah. Angela, I don't know why, when this topic comes up, she wants to be so wrong. Angela has some, like, really hard opinions that are just, like, set, and they're firm, and they're not going to change. And they're just sometimes, like, you just gotta. It's like, pie is cake, and Canada shouldn't be a country. No, I'm just kidding. It's like, Angela, stop. It's like, I hate the Magna Carta. That sucks. Like, whoa. No, okay. So, because for me, I was saying ice cream number one. Ice cream is number one. I'd maybe put cookie number two. And then I'm not sure, like, then it's like, kind of, it kind of blends in, like, you know, you think, like, brownies, delicious. Yeah. It's tough, because, I mean, so much of it comes down to, like, yeah, what are your categories? Like, really, what are. Kind of anything. Because there's so many desserts. I love cookies. Cookies are big ones for me. I do also love ice cream. I love custard-based desserts. I do, too. Like, a creme brulee? Your creme brulees and your flans. You do. I love a custard. Flan is. Okay, so can we agree flan is number one? Can we just say that? No, I'm kidding. Flan could be high up. Flan is high up, for sure. I made flan once. Really? And I did okay. Flan is tough. I made flan recently. It is a tricky little. I messed up a little bit on the sugar. Like, the timing of it. Yeah. But it was still delicious. Yeah. The flan itself. The custard. I worked. That consistency was good. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's the one thing I can make well. Yeah. It is. That's true. Selena, you've made it before for the audience. I don't even. Yeah. I don't even believe you, Selena. You'd have to. You'd have to bring that in if I were to believe you. And you made it differently than how I saw a recipe for it, because you make it in, like, a steamer, whereas I made it in the oven. Yeah. Like, with a pan with, like, water on it. Yeah, bain-marie. You can do it in. It's essentially the same thing. Yeah. Yeah. It's just, like, getting a lot of, like, moisture in there as it's cooking so that it doesn't, like, dry out and it stays, like, creamy and soft. I love a custard, man. Yeah. I do, too. I really like custard-based things. I like. I liked. I really like baked goods. Like, I grew up, you know, one town over from this bakery of, like, this guy from Germany just moved to a small town in Georgia and made this awesome bakery, and it's, like, little. Like, a key lime tart. Mm. Or, like, a petit four. Yeah. Or a little eclair. Or a cannoli. Cannoli. Like, any of those. And a cannoli. Is a cannoli a pastry? That's a. Cannoli. Yeah, I'd probably qualify it as a pastry just because of the wrapper. It's, like, a. It's, like, a. I would say it's pastry adjacent. Closer to anything else. Yeah. And to be clear, in my daily life, I don't care what something's being categorized. Sure. When I. This is fun for the debate. In my day-to-day life, when I'm walking around and I see something that looks delicious, I just eat it. Yeah. I eat it and I ask questions later. No. I'll grab it, I'll slam it, I'll go, what was that? Yeah. And they'll be like, I don't know, but you need to pay for it. And I go, absolutely not. They're like, that was the bleach that we used to clean this shit. And you're like. It was spicy and good. That was a towel, bro. There's never been a dessert menu where I'm like, God, I wish they had a cake option. I'm like, I'll take one, I. You want one, I want one, we'll split, we'll share. I think cake, for me, can be very, very high up, but the problem is that it's got the biggest range of desserts in terms of. It has the highest variability. There is some shitty cake, and then there's also cakes where I'm like, this is changing my life. Yeah. Cake has such a possibility of being dry in a way that ruins it, and I think that's why I like ice cream so much, is that it's. The floor is so high. It's so high for ice cream. That's fair. It's hard for ice cream to be bad. The median tastiness of ice cream is still going to be pretty high. The cheapest, shittiest ice cream is still going to be pretty good. And I mean, also, if you're going to restaurants with cake specifically, it's probably pretty rare that a restaurant is making their cakes from scratch. Most of the time, restaurants are getting frozen cakes and then having those and serving those. And there are a lot of really good cakes that I've had that I know for a fact. they're like oh this is frozen like i used to work at a restaurant that we would get these they were really good cakes but they they did come frozen and we'd serve those and so it's more often than not that something like a custard or like that is getting made in-house um or like a souffle like you have to make those fresh so cake specifically you're you're you have more of a chance of getting something that isn't being made from scratch or because cake is such an ordeal yeah it's like they they don't have room to do that while also cooking everything else i would also guess that it's probably an issue that like i hope you sell out of the whole cake for that night otherwise you are going to be serving someone leftover cake or throwing it away like the profit margin is probably not great yeah interesting yeah man that's the stuff i think about that i would never want to be in the restaurant industry that's what a nightmare yeah kitchen nightmares kitchen nightmares and things like cookie dough you can just make a fuck ton of it and then store it like and you can keep it for a while and just like oh ball it up and just like throw cookies in when you're whenever you need or throw it in that skillet for a little pizookie i don't know how they're doing it at the bjs whoa just throw it in that little mouth and have just some cookie dough and just you throw it in that little mouth throw it in my little mouth um i i have trouble with uh i know this is a hot take but i really like baked goods when they've cooled down a lot like i love a relatively chilled cookie like not cold necessarily but like it's been out of the fridge for like 10 minutes but like a fresh hot like i think very warm chocolate whether it's like hot chocolate on a souffle or even on a sundae or like in half melted chocolate chip cookie doughs i think it overpowers everything else and i just kind of taste the melty chocolate that is a hot take i think no and you know what damien i think you're onto something there because i mean i think this also might be a hot take i'm not a big like chocolate lava cake i am never gunning for the chocolate lava cake on a dessert menu i'm like this is chocolate on chocolate i don't need molten chocolate coming out of my bread chocolate a hundred percent it's like that's just too much chocolate for me i'll get in a couple head shakes getting a selena you're a chocolate lava cake fan i can do chocolate lava cake but it needs the vanilla ice cream yeah to make it but i don't even taste the vanilla when it's something like that like it's just gone vanilla ice cream or a nice creme anglaise you want to put a little creme anglaise on a chocolate lava cake i'm more inclined you've got to have cream on your glaze otherwise it's not good and you're always saying that i've always said i know it's i know it's cream english i get it but see i love a warm soft cookie oh yeah like that's the that's the ideal version yeah well you eat yours now i'll let mine cool down and then i'll have mine later and you can watch and then we'll get to my hot take which is how long do you microwave your ice cream for i watched this podcast and i was screaming so you're upset by this yeah i watched it because i was there i watched it back too i got a clip of it wait so we're going round two i wasn't there and i didn't watch it so all right you're microwaving it in are you talking about in the tub so it's this is specifically on the microwave you can't bring that in your tub you'll get electrocuted you can't bring the microwave in the tub specifically this is specifically when you have a pint of ice cream that is in your own personal freezer and you bring it out of the freezer and before you spoon it up you put it in the microwave but you do it twice okay hold on i i specifically do it for five seconds i take it out kind of see if the consistency is good and then i typically will put it in for five seconds more i don't want to spend because for some reason 10 seconds straight up in the microwave is hotter than five seconds to take a break right right different scientifically it kind of like multiplies upon itself i don't know how microwaves work i don't ask questions but it speeds up the molecules in there like and heats it up oh sorry that's the magic for me i know that it's like what it's like the water of it all like right isn't it or is it just i think it's all the molecules i mean probably the water does most of the heavy lifting but yeah i think it's all just like and just yeah badass and see i like my ice cream fast yeah you like it fast i think there are certain ice creams that could use that like you get a pint of ice cream not all pints are the same hardness true sometimes you get a pint of ice cream and that shit is soft as hell right out of the tub and i'm like when i get it from when i like order it or i bring it home it's the perfect texture yeah but once i have it in the freezer for a night then it's way too hard it's just not fun i like the hard cold ice cream i don't get it man i i really but i really like the cold though i will like i've been traveling a lot and every time i go to the hotel i'm like how far will the thermostat allow me to lower this uh i don't like it on my teeth if my teeth hurt well that part hurts yeah i won't have to bite ice cream it's kind of why i'm not going to i guess another hot take is i don't like ice cream like bars no anything that comes on a popsicle stick same i'm not too interested in it unless it's a funny little joke unless it's silly yeah no i think i'm i'm less inclined to microwave than i am to pull it out and let it sit for a few minutes like you're a man of patience watching where's all this patience coming i was there were so many comments people were upset and so many people were like why don't you someone said like leave it out like an adult for like a half an hour and i was like what is it that putting it in the microwave is worse than letting it sit out like isn't it the same i don't think it's the same result no i mean you're just getting like with a microwave you're going to be getting unequal level yeah unequal level also here's what i'll say i feel like it's manlier to put something in the microwave because you're tall kids are short and can't put stuff in the microwave they have to wait microwaves are for adults only here's here's the power move put it in an easy bake oven for 25 minutes maybe 20 and then that'll start to melt a little bit or just get a hot light bulb and just hold it over yeah get your iphone flashlight out and just hold it on get your laser pointer just like focus on one spot really hold it there it really works i open up the pint and i just go yeah yeah like a man yeah can i can i tell you guys a a deep dark secret yeah okay all right next topic yeah uh when i was a kid uh my parents were obviously very like fiscally minded when it came to not turning on the ac but it was hot as fuck in georgia growing up yeah and um and like the ac was on but like just not i needed it like blowing because i was so you know hot all the time anyway and so i would sneak out of bed go up to the thermostat and not change it i just go against it to make the temperature rise i'd be like okay that's gonna buy me like 10 minutes of cooling you're manipulating your ac yeah that's like i didn't i didn't touch it but that's so funny you found a workaround i did that's awesome thanks man i'm kind of a renegade that's incredible that's so smart that's wow do you remember what temperature you guys had it set at my parents had it set at like a reasonable temperature i think it was somewhere between 72 and 74 yeah i don't know but it was also like humid and i'm like bad no dude in heat in florida like whenever i would visit there it's crazy how like the air is thick yeah so when you're asleep at night it kind of feels like you already have a blanket on yeah before you get under a blanket and now me sleeping in a sleeping bag for a long time starting to make sense huh a little damien you would love my parents they keep the house i probably would they raised a good lead yeah well mostly for the cold part of the house cold part it's so every time i go home and visit i'm like i i just have to ask for like three extra blankets even in the winter time the key the thermostat's just at like six seven what a dream wow 60s that's that's why yeah it's crazy they just are always blowing that cold easy i think i think uh i have a hot household now like we're we have it consistently really a lot of times it's at like 74 yeah you and courtney you're i'd say you're pretty beautiful people thanks yeah yeah yeah birdie and bones drag it down a little bit little bit when i lived in that back house when we were roommates together and i lived in that because the ac didn't really work in our entire house right but i lived i lived in the back house that had no ac and it was cement walls i got i was kind of like i prided myself on for that like year i got so good at handling extreme pressure definitely bad uh but like in summer because it had a skylight and no ac and cement walls it was actually an oven you're kind of just an experiment for the greenhouse effect in that you kind of live in the greenhouse and it would genuinely it would be like 90 degrees in my room and i would be in there with just like i had like three different fans just blowing directly on me and i was just there just drenched in sweat what was the you got to be like past the wet bulb temperature there what was going on you're like close to death i somehow and i got through but since then i could handle because before that i think in my apartments i kept it cold sure and then after that i've been able like i'm like 75 this feels amazing in here i think uh i think you transcended yeah and also to be clear we did have ac and it worked great none of the other roommates wanted to pay for it because all of us were broke i was still like this will be the one luxury i pay for please but everybody sort of had to be in agreement because we were splitting the costs yeah that's tough i had that before with a roommate where they were like yeah it's summertime it's it's 85 degrees out let's just set that that shit at 77 and i'm like can we at least get it to like 72 like i will pick up some extra but and it also sucked because my room had direct sunlight for like over half the day and and his didn't his didn't have any direct sunlight and so i'm like my room is getting baked through my window and i'm like this was literally like a roommate conflict that i did uh miles bonsignore's uh like losh uh justice miles oh yeah that was one of the like roommate things that we had to like debate against and yeah it's it's hard to find what works for everybody i will say something that people don't always realize is it takes more energy to cool something down than it does to keep it maintained so like i it's worse when people are like no we have to like turn it off overnight and then we can turn it on again at this point it's like no just let it be at like if you wanted to be 74 great but like turning it down to 77 and then having to deal with it up and down is worse yeah um thermostats that's all that's all my manly stuff very man we did talk about we did talk about thermostats yeah thermostats are pretty manly yeah i think leather crafting which i used to do is maybe stereotypically manly but most of the people i worked with almost all the other people i worked with were women so what's the manliest thing you've leather crafted um when i first got my own uh like scraps from the shop and you know just tried to fiddle around with stuff and see what i could do oh two two things one like an assassin's creed gauntlet it's not good at all but it's my first time trying to make a thing it was just pretty sick manly but the other one was an anniversary gift for my then girlfriend i like crafted a book cover for her and it wasn't good but i like still it was like i'm gonna make this about your favorite book and i'm gonna make a little book cover and that's all that felt doing something special and kind for your partner that you know they'll appreciate that's maybe one of the manliest things that you can extremely manly i agree with you yeah um so we got some uh 10 uh reddit posts dude selena found a bunch of uh hell yeah hey i thought this was smosh mouth not lettuce stories oh yeah but actually here we're gonna be just answering questions hey so you know that's pretty proactive of you thanks for being so manly for our show wow give up for selena for the number one guy in the world that's a manly guy um uh actually i did have the only like question that i had for this episode i've been thinking about this lately um is amanda's not here but is there an anime that you think amanda would like i think amanda would legitimately she likes spooky stuff i think she'd be down for like the first season of attack on titan i think when it gets into all the politics stuff she might be like what is going on but like what no no it's just like i'm not gonna be down for like the first season of attack on titan i think when it gets into i my brain went in a completely different direction okay just because amanda likes smut and so i was like oh something a little smutty give her some fucked up stuff i haven't seen this so if it's actually terrible please just i haven't seen it but food wars i know that's the one where they're like cooking but it makes them like horny to cook yeah i think yeah see some shit like that i think she would find like kind of a sick and twisted enjoyment in like i don't know what amanda's opinion but do you think that she kind of do you think she'd be like a huge i just i don't know if the way that anime goes about like horny stuff if that would be her vibe yeah i don't know because like i know the books that she reads the way she describes those i'm like i don't know if it's the way it's gone about yeah but there's a few that i've been thinking about one is genuinely like the the classic version of death note i think she would actually like death note a lot you're right she loves true crime and that's such a fun like twist on it you are a hundred percent um but then anything that deals with the supernatural i i genuinely wonder if she would like um like jujutsu kaisen because it's just i know that it's mostly action but it's like the fact that it's like oh we're cursed we see demons like all this i think she'd like that part but i think when the fight goes on i could literally see her going like i don't know what those boys are doing okay what's going on where's the one with the white hair i want to talk to him yeah i think uh she could legitimately like maybe some tokyo ghoul um i think oh sorry i think i figured i think i figured out my number one but go ahead i just finished the first season of witch hat atelier which i recommend to anybody yeah i think it's great so i've heard vinland saga yes you are correct big big viking men yeah so which she'd be like okay i'm interested in that and then it's also just very like it feels more like it reads like an hbo show like it's well written it's about this person's journey from like being a warrior to like you know what happens when that's over like who are you and what do you do and what do you leave in the world like it's i think that's my number one pick uh definitely let me know in the comments freerun freerun i thought about freerun too yeah oh i guess i'm seeing some nods from eric freerun that that's for i i have only seen the first season but i talked to you about it i thought that was incredible freerun is just i think a masterpiece of a show it's for the for the quickest do you know it at all no it's a beautiful premise the quickest breakdown possible is it's about like uh like a group of warriors fighting the demon king and the show starts when they are done like they've succeeded in their quest the world is saved so what do you do afterwards and freerun is an elf so all her human companions like grow old and eventually pass away and she's an elf sort of looking around being like well what what's left what are the connections i make what matters you know with the time that i have which is so much longer than everyone else so it's literally about grief and finding joy in little things and like it's it's beautiful it's insanely existential it's so watching it i was like this is without it's not even episodes aren't even heavy in like it's dialogue or experience but the meaning behind it all feels so heavy there was this one anime that i watched when i was in high school and it was like it was it was like big big big anime booby vampires and i don't remember the name rosario vampire yeah that's the one there we go which to be clear i also haven't seen but you just know the name. - It wasn't good, but it was like, But if I did watch it, by the way, none of your fucking business. But yeah, let me do that. Yeah, it wasn't good, but I watched it, and I was like, yeah, that's an anime. Sick. Boku no Yabos. Last thing is, I think Delicious in Dungeon Amanda would really like, but it would probably be weird for her to hear my voice. But I think that's a show I recommend to anybody, whether you watch it in English or not. It's got such a fan base. I think it's really good. Like, I've read it all. Again, take my part in it completely out. Listen to it in a different language. I think it's a great show. Oh, which reminds me. I don't know, because I don't know, like, the NDAs of it all, but if I could be specific, I did do my first anime dubbing. Yeah. Congratulations. Thank you. It was a small little role, but I got to go and do the whole experience, and it was so much fun. It was trippy. Like, it's trippy. Like, the way that they do it, I had no idea, kind of. I think I was picturing, like, classic voiceover, where it's like you're there with your little podium and your sides, and you're just reading them. And then I'm like, I get there, and I'm like, oh, right, it's anime. So it's already been filmed. It's already been voiced over technically, so I have to watch the show while matching to the mouth. And it was such a cool experience. So you have, like, a teleprompter. But you're basically just watching the show and just saying the lines at the same time. Yeah. It was very fun. And I kind of, like, as I was going, I was, like, understanding more and more of, like, the anime voice of it all. Yeah. The anime tone of it. And I found myself getting more. Because there was a line where it was just, like, something like, you know, it's like, wait, you can't do that or something like that. And, like, she's like, the director was like, can you give a little bit more of, like, this emotion or something? And, like, I found myself in a more genuine way, but, like, sounding more and more like the, I was like, oh, I'm sounding like an anime character. Yeah. Like, I have to in order to, like, get this point across and get this emotion across. That's awesome. And it's really cool. And, like, the layer of translation also makes you understand, like, oh, we're trying to, like, switch languages while still getting the point across, matching it to the mouths. Yeah, they used to just match time. And now a lot of things, like, match mouths where they're like, oh, you can't say popcorn because their mouth is, like, open wide the whole time. And there's no, like, they're not making, like, a P shape for popcorn. So let's instead say, like, oh, snacks where your mouth is, like, fully open. So it's a really interesting vibe. The other part of this is that, again, I don't know the NDA stuff yet, but I know the show is out. So look on our socials for the info. You probably already know it. But Shane and I get to play, like, off of each other as a little duo. It's, like, a small role in the show, but it's a really cool thing. So awesome. It was really cool because when I did my session, you had already gone in and recorded your lines. And so I got to hear, like, in between my lines, I got to hear Damien's talking. That's so funny. It was really cool. That's awesome. I had a lot of fun, and I hope to do more of it. It was kind of a spur-of-the-moment thing. Like, it wasn't, it's not something I was, like, actively trying to seek out, but it was such a cool opportunity, and I'm so grateful for it. The director, do you mind if I share the part? Yeah, please. So the director is somebody that directed me on a season of a show previously, and, like, through our time together, she was like, so I looked up this stuff, like, this Smosh stuff that you do, like, that looks like a lot of fun. I'm like, oh, yeah, I've been doing it for, like, a long time, and the people are great. And she's like, that's so cool. Like, yeah, I saw a couple videos pop up, and I was like, this is really fun. And so eventually when, like, this happens and we're, you know, working as a duo in this thing, she was like, yeah, I saw these two characters in the show, and I, like, remembered watching you and your friend Shane on Smosh, and I was like, well, this is the kind of dynamic that I think would really work. And so, you know, so she made it happen. It's so cool. And that was, like, it's funny how things like that work. Yeah. It was really sick. I'm really stoked about it. So I haven't. I haven't watched it yet, but I'm excited to. Oh, yeah. We reserve the right to cut all this if we're assing it. Yeah, yeah. If we suck, you got to let us know. But it was hard. It was definitely a challenge. I was like, damn. Well, I heard you did fantastically well. Thanks, man. Yeah. Anyways, do we want to move on to some advice? Yeah. Yeah. Advice. All right. A lot of it. Okay. First question that was asked is, what's one thing that you've gotten better at with age that you didn't expect? Jacking off. Good one. Sorry. I can get you another five seconds. Like a quick draw cowboy. Sorry. That wasn't a manly joke. That was a boyish joke, and I apologize. Oh, fair. I apologize. I think the idea of letting someone have an emotion or an idea about you without it being in your control at all. Yeah. I used to be really, you know, worried about, like, I have to over-explain and, you know, no, no, no, this isn't what I meant. Or like, wait, why does that person think that about me? I've never even met them. Oh, this person said that thing. I've gotten to the point where I'm like, hey, you know, sometimes people are going to have their opinions. Not everyone is going to like you, even if they do know you well and understand you. It's just maybe you don't vibe. Or if someone is like, I heard a rumor about them. It's like, well, that's kind of not, I certainly can't control what kind of conversations happen in the privacy between two people. Like, I get that's just how it is, I guess. And not letting that take over. Not letting that take over my brain. Yeah. I think a lot of, I'm sure what a lot of the replies on this are, and a lot of what, like, comes to mind is more of, like, emotion regulation. Yeah. Like, when I was, dude, when I was in my early, when I was just a kid and then my teenage years and early 20s, like, I remember anxiety and nervousness paralyzing me. Like, to the point where it was truly, like, I've talked about it a lot where I'm like, a lot of auditions back when I was a teenager, I'm like, I basically would black out. Same. I was so nervous that I wouldn't. And then I, like, this was like, it hasn't changed much in, like, the past 10 years, but I reached a point, I think, eventually, maybe a lot of it helped with Smosh, like, doing so much here. Yeah. That I'm just like, it's kind of just been beaten out of me in a way where I'm just like, I'm, I have failed enough now where failure doesn't scare me like it used to. Yeah. And. I think, yeah, no, I totally agree. I think for me, like, graduating high school and growing up and, like, getting more confident just in general, I've, like, looked back and been like, oh, like, with, like, even, like, basketball. Like, I think I'm, I'm, like, better at basketball now than I was. And I think it's, like, 90% of it is me just being more confident. And same thing with, like, singing and performing. It's like, I think that I had, like, the skills and, like, the talent, but I was just so, in high school, I was so insecure, you know, like, so focused on what other people were, like, thinking of me that, like, as I've grown up and gotten more confident and just been, like, more sure of myself, it's like, I've just gotten better. I've gotten better at those things. Yeah, I don't know. Just become more confident with age. Yeah, it's, it's making me think right now, it's, like, almost like, the, the thing back in the day used to always be, like, oh, you need to take all those opportunities and, and fail so that you're, you're, at least you're trying and, like, you're, you're gonna succeed if you keep trying at things. But I'm, like, even if you're not succeeding, like, to fail a bunch is nice so that failure doesn't hurt as hard. Like, you'll, you'll, like, build up a tolerance for it. Because in life, like, there's gonna be countless things and countless failures that's, like, part of it. But the more you avoid it, the less capable you are of handling it. Yeah. And it's very freeing to be able to handle failure. Yeah. Whenever anybody asks at a con, like, you know, what's acting advice you'd give, I always say to, like, do improv, take improv classes, learn about that because it is learning how to fail. Yeah. And I think learning how to fail is so important where it's, like, you know, you go for a big joke and not a single person laughs and then you can laugh at yourself. Like, that is such a big skill as opposed to, like, oh, fuck, I, I didn't do it right. Yeah. You know, I've botched some auditions. Like, I had an audition that I had, like, a callback for and I was, for a project I was already excited about before I even, you know, had the audition. This was, like, a few years back. And, like, I went into the callback and I'm, I walked out of it being, like, oh, that was awful. Like, I did a really bad job at this callback. Oh, well, like, you know, that's next. And that's just how it goes. Yeah, I mean, auditions in general are such a, like, it's such a cringey thing, right? Like, it is. Like, and you have to just go, like, yeah, it's what's up. And I have, I have no choice but to commit 100% to it and then leave it on the dance floor and just move on. Yeah, I mean, things, things I think are just, like, less intense as I've gotten older. Yeah. Like, things just aren't, I don't know. Just let go a little bit more. 30s are better. Trevor, you're gonna love it. The 30s are better, I think, just because that is the time when, for me, like, I stopped caring as much. Like, I, you know, one example is I grew up in a home that was very, very, like, physically fit. My parents were always in the gym all the time. I did karate as a kid, but I was always, like, a naturally larger person. Then as, like, a young adult, I was, like, so focused on, like, I have to look a certain way. I have to be a certain way. I have to exercise all the time. If I don't look this level of big in the right areas and small in the right areas, then, like, that's my whole self-esteem. And, like, in the past couple years, I've definitely gained some weight. And, like, sure, I'd like to trim down a little bit, but there's also another part of me that's, like, I haven't lost all of my confidence in who I am as a person just because I'm a little heavier now. Like, that's just kind of where I'm at. And it's not a reflection on whether or not I'm a lazy person or a valuable person in A, B, and C kind of ways. It's just, like, I don't really give a shit what people think. Do I feel healthy and good? I want to get to a place where that's the goal, not, like, I look this way for people. And that sort of extends to everything else. Like, I think that guy's cringey. Okay, then I guess I'm cringey, but that's fine. Yeah. Yeah, there's so much you can't control. And, I mean, especially nowadays, with the internet like it's just so much crazier than it ever has been it's like it is true it's like the more that you just remove like what people say about you is that's their life yeah you know um but uh yeah i feel like as i've gotten older also i've just become a lot more empathetic and i think it's like more like not that i wasn't empathetic before but it's like what is like my instinctual response to a situation yeah is it first me thinking about like how I feel or is it me trying to be like okay let me like approach this and be like what are all sides of this situation like how can I can I put myself in this other person's shoes really quick and like feel how they're feeling and then try and like go from there versus like just immediately going into like well this is how I feel about that thing or like this is what that made me feel it's like okay well let's like meet in the middle a little bit and I think that like I don't know that's something as I've gotten older it's just yeah gotten gotten better at that's good I think that's that's and that's I don't know if that's fully common because I think empathy is a weird one where I think is a lot of times as people get older it is also possible for experience to like harden you yeah in ways that are sometimes good and necessary but also it's like frankly you see some like old people and it's like dude were you ever empathetic and it's like I want I wonder maybe not but it's just like you can have bad experiences and then it makes you lose your trust for other humans I think empathy is also a muscle I think it's something that you gotta work like you said like you are actively being like well how can I look at this from another side yeah we're all going to have a natural amount of empathy and caring for other people but I think it really does you have to work on your emotional elasticity and like really let yourself like that's something that was great that came from acting classes because it's like you can sort of put yourself in these spots without too much work like you know I've I've again had people ask me like how do you act and like how do you prepare for you know these things where you're like doing this scene and you've never been in that situation before I'm like you don't have to be in that situation if you're like yeah I'm like they're like you're in space and you're protecting the space station or whatever and I've never done that it's like well yeah but you know what it's like to want to protect someone you love right or you know what it's like to have a really strong responsibility and not want to fail in that right yeah that's all you're doing and like you know I'll cry at everything now I'll cry reading something I'll cry thinking about something it's just like it's not hard to yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah be there okay so Selena found a subreddit that I've never heard of called bro pill oh no yeah I know it doesn't sound good but it's it dude I bought it's it's not it's fine okay I bought one of those from 7-eleven the other day no it just it literally sounds like oh he got bro pill and now he's super into Andrew Tate like it's you know what I mean yeah um okay so someone said uh oh top this was this was a question someone posed they said how do I know if I'm one of the good ones for lack of a better sentence I always do my best to respect women's personal space and privacy but there's always a little nagging voice in my head that tells me I'm not good enough even though a hug is the most intimate I've ever gotten it's just so annoying I feel like I'm doing a good job deep down but my brain is always saying I've messed up what do they mean by specifically like trying to be friends with someone and are they like a safe man to be around yeah I'm assuming that's I'm assuming that's what they're going for like am I like you know yeah if I'm I'm a I'm a guy that women can trust and people can trust and stuff there's a quote from I believe it's Pokemon Mystery Dungeon explorers of time uh-huh uh uh if I if I remember correctly that's what it's from but basically the quote is something like like if you if you regret something that shows that you are already a better person like if you regret something that you've done that already shows that you are a better person than you were then and I feel like that's kind of like a similar thing here it's like if you're already thinking about like I want to be a safe space like I'm going like I want to make sure that I am like being one of the good ones then you probably ought like if you're thinking about that you're probably already 90 better than most people that are not thinking about that or not trying to be like respectful I think that's a good point I think I I have I have two criteria that I think would be good for this one um are you open to notes and learning because there's one thing like wanting to defend yourself being like no no I am one of the good ones versus like oh I didn't realize I messed up or I said that thing that was wrong thank you like are you safe to talk to about things like that that's a that's a big one because it's you wanting to be better versus you needing validation from someone you're supposedly wanting to make you comfortable so you're already like please tell me I'm good um right and the other thing is are you a safe space for others but specifically women when there are no women in the room like if you're just talking to your boys or whatever is it going to be completely different than how you would act around a woman are you going to be disrespectful now that it's just the fellas talking right I think if it's actually a change that you've made in yourself or like a trait that you have in yourself to you know have that actual mindset as opposed to like act properly around someone right that's probably a good criteria for that yeah yeah it's like only you know your truest deep down intentions and and POV right it's like hey man you know deep down if you don't have respect for people then that's the reality he's asking like how am I perceived and it's like there's so much you can't control in so many ways but if you know your deep down intentions you and you know them then like that's all you can really do and then beyond that is like you know asking people their boundaries talking to people like just genuinely having conversations with people and and and being honest with them and listening to them and and I think by the sheer fact if you are listening and really like taking in what people are saying that's probably going to be the the criteria that's already going to set you apart that's what they said in Pokemon I got the I got the quote on my phone or something I wish I that's great I've seen that it's like I think it's Grovyle I think it's damn it's Grovyle at the end of the game because primal Dialga is like I feel bad maybe maybe it's Dialga I don't know those mystery dungeon games I never ended up playing them but I keep seeing screenshots and it's one of those where like is that really in the game like same thing with the Final Fantasy Tactics there's always screenshots that you see and it's just like holy that's pertinent like yeah there's a quote that's like um if the punishment for a crime is merely a fine then it is only a punishment for the poor yeah or that it's only a crime for the poor and you're like oh like it's all that really good social commentary yeah yeah there's some uh there's a crazy quote and it's it's quoting someone else and I don't know who it is uh but I'm reading those dungeon crawler Carl books yeah um they're they are extremely like about like anti-capitalism uh vibes and um there's a quote at the beginning of one of the books from someone and it goes uh capital punishment just means those without capital are punished something like that I was like damn okay like true there's not a whole lot of yeah yeah it's like oh yeah you if you're if you're a high up powerful person you're never gonna face capital punishment but uh um crazy stuff um okay so let's get to a couple of questions Selena has oh this one comes from I just saw this category okay so Selena goes what's your actual Roman Empire so you know that meme right like yeah what do you think about every day is that what that meant because I I always yes it started with a TikTok where uh someone was saying like oh guys think about the Roman Empire every day that makes and this one girl like asked her boyfriend she's like do you think about the Roman how often do you think about the Roman Empire and he's like every day yeah it was like and so they started tons of girlfriends were asking their boyfriends and they were all saying that and I'm like I don't think about it every day I don't think about it every day at least once a week uh but um the Byzantines maybe but the Romans yeah no way um I don't know if I have something I think about every day I mean I care about like the voiceover auditions I have the well-being of my cats I probably think about something video game like Pokemon related Magic the Gathering related every day but I don't know if I have like a I feel like it changes like I will always love Dark Souls and Dark Souls lore and that's like something I would hugely deep dive into but like not every day yeah no I mean I feel the same way like probably for me just like pirates but yeah I don't yeah well I I to be fair probably in the last few months I've been thinking about pirates every day because there's been a lot of pirate themes going on in my life not like I'm not like killing anyone or anything it's huge into life you're doing a lot of pillaging though I haven't I've been doing some pillaging no killing some light pillaging do you guys want to take a boy strip to Nassau dude that would be sick so new Providence Island yeah heck yeah dude um I guess maybe like shit trying to think like shit is your Roman Empire like I think about making it historically I don't know but uh I don't know man maybe like animals in nature I was gonna say animal like animal facts are fun I love animals yeah like they're just all they're just always up there I didn't know the the exact origin of the Roman Empire thing that's interesting that it's like Yeah like animal facts are fun I love animals yeah like they're just all they're just always up there I didn't know the the exact origin of the Roman Empire thing that's interesting that it's like oh what do you think about the Roman Empire every day I was under the impression when I saw it it's like this is a very this is like kind of a specific like topic or thing that I really like and have a lot of knowledge about that is what it has come to mean yeah I just remember that from that's what I thought yeah came from but uh maybe I'm wrong I think it kind of boils down to the same thing and yeah I guess uh like Dark Souls lore like animal facts okay when I fly now on planes even if I don't have my headphones in I'm like I'll find whatever like animal related documentary they have and I'll just have it on closed captions that stuff is good I'll look at that like there was a four episode thing about a pangolin and I'm like pangolins those guys are sick aren't they bipedal no they got four legs they have four legs but don't they like they effectively walk on their back their hind legs I think I feel like you're right I feel like you're right but like in a velociraptor kind of way not like standing up like a really creepy in like a Bowser kind of way in a Bowser way oh celebrity boy crush oh celebrity boy crush I've been very open about this in the past and I don't think it's changed I think it's still Austin Butler okay yeah Elvis yeah Elvis I love Elvis Austin Butler Glenn Powell I love Glenn Powell you're a Glenn Powell fan I do love Glenn Powell for better or worse and RP been really into Robert Pattinson lately oh Robert Pattinson rocks I love him he has to be one of the craziest turnarounds I've ever seen because when I was a teenager when he was when he was Edward dudes like it was normal for like teenage dudes similar to me to be like oh that guy that loser friggin the vampire guy the sparkly vampire but nowadays every dude loves him like he is maybe the most universally loved like every woman and every guy is like he's awesome I've been on my Robert Pattinson shit just so we're clear though I didn't I'm not I'm an early adopter you're an OG I never was a hater of Robert Pattinson you're an OG I've always fucked with him shoot I don't know yeah this is tough this is really hard cause even even if it's like the gender preference that I would want to date I don't have like celeb crushes I've never been a huge celeb crush guy but I'm just trying to think of people that I'm just like whoa they are awesome I think I have more male celebrity crushes yeah I can't like if you ask me like who my like female celebrity crushes I'd be like like I'd have to probably think about it for a sec but when you said guy I was like well which one am I on right now specifically specifically in Mission Impossible Fallout when Henry Cavill loads his biceps when he reloads his biceps in that brief two seconds I'm like that's the coolest guy on the planet yeah like that in that very moment I'm like alright hell yeah you know I think I think Keanu Reeves in like any interview where he's like gonna really like gently give you some wisdom and feels and everyone's like whoa yeah that's good stuff that's a big one yeah Ryan Gosling in Project Hail Mary holy shit still haven't seen it oh incredibly hot actually I will say cause like people talk about like male gaze versus female gaze right yeah there was a there was a we're bringing it full circle I'm bringing up Penelope Cruz Penelope Cruz had a photo shoot that she did where she took the photos of Javier Bardem who's her husband I'm pretty sure and in these photos I was generally like oh this is female gaze I get this I get it I see it in this and I talked to Amanda about it cause like that's her biggest celebrity crush and I was like okay I see it he's hot he's really hot here and I understand I think I get it Javier Bardem sometimes definitely yeah yeah as Anton Chigurh I was oh yeah he's got that like fuck ass bob and he keeps blasting people's brains yeah good stuff messed up in Skyfall yeah he looked no no he looked gnarly he looked he looked bad in Skyfall that hair was not for him it was not and then like yeah I mean the cyanide pill like messed up his face so like I can't blame him for that but the hair we could've been doing something better yeah it's true but he's a good looking guy anyways well gentlemen hey we did it it's been a pleasure wow I feel manly I feel pretty manly too I feel really manly right now I feel like we never fully defined manliness but whatever it is I feel it cause I'm here with my friends hey and that's that's all that matters what being a man is about is caring about others and treating you know your fellow man with kindness look here's the situation for the duration that you are listening or watching this podcast you're a full grown man we're never gonna tell you what gender you're supposed to be except for this except for right now you're a man you're a full grown man right now and then once this is over no longer to be a man you must have honor end of list end of list that is it thank you both for joining me and thank you for watching we'll see you next Monday well actually I won't see you next Monday Amanda will see you next Monday I won't see you next so Amanda will see you next so guys handing it off Amanda will see you next Monday guys I don't know who I'm gonna see next Monday oh I'll be in your room yep he'll be there I'm the shadow blob that's right that's the hat name I'm Raven bye hey Shane hit hit me hit it nice thanks dog we did it Thank you.