Shane Topp’s birthday episode of Smoshmouth blends humor and heartfelt reflection, celebrating his 45th year with a focus on embracing change and self-acceptance. The conversation explores how aging brings new possibilities—like white hair, shaved heads, or bold new identities—challenging the fear of growing older. The hosts share personal anecdotes, such as Shane’s dramatic sneezes that trigger public reactions, and discuss the often-overlooked realities of public bathroom behavior, including loud noises and social dynamics. They also dive into the cultural significance of birthstones, with Shane expressing admiration for sapphire and humorously comparing it to his own sense of self. A deeper theme emerges around psychology, where the hosts reflect on personal growth, self-awareness, and how little we truly know about ourselves. Drawing from their experiences in Reddit stories and therapy, they emphasize humility, emotional intelligence, and the importance of listening to one’s inner voice. The episode ends with playful predictions about the NFL season and a lighthearted discussion on audiobooks, fantasy literature, and the joy of reading. Ultimately, it's a celebration of individuality, vulnerability, and the ongoing journey of self-discovery.
- Hello, and welcome to Smoshmouth. I'm Shane Topp. Oh, I'm Courtney Miller. Hello, I am Amanda Lee Hencanto and it is someone's very special birthday, can you tell? His name is Shane Topp. - Shane Topp, happy birthday. - Happy birthday. - It's my birthday. - It's your birthday. - It is September 14th today. - And you look happy. Look at you. Yay boy. - Okay, now I'm gonna be serious. - Whoa, whoa, he's taking off the hat immediately. Look at all that. Hey, you both weren't cowboy boots. - Yeah. - Where's the horse parked? Am I right? - We don't share a horse, the horse shares us. - I love that. - Anyways. - I can see that happening. - It's my birthday, so I was told. - 45. - Yep, 45, that's true. - Hey, I like it. - Hey. - You look fantastic. - I'm actually, I'm kind of excited to someday be 45. - I kind of agree. - I think I feel good about me. - I think you were born to be 45. - Yeah. - I think I was born to be like 65. - Honestly, no, I think about this a lot. I think you are going to be at your, your acting career will be at its peak in your 60s. - Oh, 100%. I'm Helen Mirren. - Like watching, watching like so many shows. I'm just like, you're gonna be able to play so many insane characters in your 60s. - Oh, I can't wait. White hair. Maybe I'll be Dale Dickie. - I was thinking of the same thing. White hair, the world is gonna lose it, thanks. - People talk so much about being afraid of aging. I'm just like, dude, like you just have to embrace the evolution, like the new characters you get to be, the versions of yourself you get to be. - We have to grieve the maiden. We have to move on from the maiden. - We have to make the maiden. - We have to turn into, it goes maiden, something crown. - Have you used the crown? - I'm gonna say goddess, whatever. I'm in my goddess era and you know what? I'm so ready, I cannot wait to be white hair. - Wow, yeah. - Or like, imagine if it comes in as streaks. - Wow, I love that. - Are you gonna let your hair go white? - Yeah, I would. I think it looks awesome. - I love it too. - When do you tell us? - We were also talking on the podcast of the week about how there might come a time too, where if I'm older and I'm like, oh, my hair lines, receding or whatever, I'm like, I would love to try like shaved head vibes. - Yeah. - Shaved head and then like a graying beard? - This is what I said. Shaved head, long beard, but like trimmed a little here, so it took a little bit longer. - Vikings. - Oh, right, right, right. - That'd be super cool. - I just love that bodies do their thing. You know, like, your hair just starts to change in color. It's so cool. - I'm ready for it. I have like some white strands just like around here. - That ass. - Yeah. - Pretty cool. So, yes, Liam told me that I get to pick all the topics and choose what we talk about. - I'm actually really excited about that. - Yeah, I mean, to be fair to a certain degree, every episode is a bit of you and I getting to do that. - Yeah, our topic. - So I was kind of like, what am I gonna talk about that we don't talk about all the time? Let's see, oh, I have my-- - Oh, do you have your notebook? - I have my phone. - Oh, your phone. - I thought about like, I was like, do I have the iPad? I'm like, no, I'll just have my phone. - No, that's Reddit Shane. This is Smoshmouth Shane. - Yeah, so I was like, think about like, oh, what are all the things I love to talk about? - Your wife. - Yes, my wife. - You like talking about me? - I talk about you. - Are you kidding me? - Yeah. - You talk about you all the time. - Yes, actually. - He says my wife. - We did, we did, and I did tell you about it. I made a joke about your sneezes. That did have us all laughing really hard. - You were laughing so hard. - Sometimes you sneeze and it's a burst and it is intense and I made a joke that it's like a grenade going off in a war movie. It's like, it's like, we're it's all silent. - Oh, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, no, you gotta go. - It was so funny and the thing is that him acting it out was so funny. - Hey, and then I said, when H sneezes is he screams. - Really? - Yes. - And we get in like a little bit of some fights about it. - Yeah, it's scary. - Because it's in public. - You know, cringe that is for me? - Well, like across the street, about to cross the street, and he screams and people are like, what happened to that man? Like he's dying or something. - Yeah. - The response is horrible. - That's true. If it sounds like someone's in trouble, he woke up cold once and I was like, you're done and he was like, I'm done. (laughing) - And was he able to stop? - Yes. - So it was a choice all along. - Dude, he, no, he likes to do it, but he leans in. - It is. - It's good for you. - It is satisfying. I do that sometimes with yawns. - I mean, any bodily function deserves the time to be loud. Hell yeah. A massive fart. - Loud pissing. - Oh my god. - Look at the urinal just going, ah! - Okay. - Now. - There are, I will say unfortunately, at some public bathrooms, there are guys who are making too much noise. - Oh, you're kidding me. - It's gross, it's gross. - It's gross. - All we got is you're nodding. There'll be a guy and he'll walk up to the urinal and you're kind of minding your own business. And you just hear like, ah, you're just kind of like, come on man. - And I have to ask you, do you ever look over, or are you just like, oh, you got to stay looking at the tiles. - Oh wait, look at the tiles. - You do not look to the sides because you just, you don't want to look. - Wait. - Because they want to start a conversation, you think? - Ah, no. - No. - But I am not able to talk while at the urinal, some dudes will be talking at the urinal. - No, no, no, no. - Well. - It's fine, like, I just cannot do that. I'm not a multi-tasker in that way. But all you talk, you're like, are you feeling okay? - Oh god, I'm just talking. You hear me stop peeing. Yeah, so anyways, so many ways. Like, with the music turned down. Reveal the talk. - One time I was at a movie theater and after the movie, the urinals are just packed, right? So like, I'm at the urinal, but I hear a guy, like, as he's trying to zip up, he says pretty audibly, he just goes, oh, fuck, I pissed myself. (laughing) Me and my buddy walked out of the bed, and we were just dying, laughing. - So we filmed a sketch called every bathroom ever, forever ago, like a long time ago where we were in a, and you guys had me in this crazy costume as a guy, like, yelling at the urinal. And I was like, this is funny, but that never happened. - That's an exaggeration, but no, some guys are like, kind of loud. They're like, kind of like, they needed to pee really bad. So I guess it, they're feeling relief and they're-- - That's so funny to me, because women are another level. - Yeah. - They're trying to, like, keep it quiet. - But what comes out? - Oh, it's not. - Why? - I see like, click, click, click, click, click, click. There she is, they go, and it's like, "Yo, boy." - That's right. - It's frying chicken. - It's fucking hot. - And they're like, "Oh, God." - Oh, God. (laughing) - Oh, God. - Oh, God. - Does anyone have a tampon? - Oh, God. - Oh, man, duh. - Do people make requests like that? - Um, not often, if someone's out of toilet paper though, I will say there is like a really awesome thing that happens where it's just like, "Oh no, I'm sorry. Hey, in the next stall, is there any toilet paper?" And it's like, "Yeah, of course." - It gives you like a fat star. - Yeah, and if someone needed a tampon, and I don't often get asked that in a bathroom, I, if I had one, I would happily give it to them. - Nice. - I kind of want one to feel more free, but the bathroom is the place that they're sending it down. - I'm like, "Oh my God, this is delicious. Thank you so much. I'll have another wine. I just have to go to the bathroom one second." (laughing) - Oh my God. - Oh my God. - Oh my God. - What is happening? - Oh my God. - Oh, I pissed myself. - The absolute worst. I love that this is what we're talking about for my birthday. - Have a birthday. - You wanted it. - Have a birthday. Let's talk about "Ping" is the troughs at men's life. - Ew. - Sports stadiums are like to know. - Very grateful. - We went to a music festival once, and they had like a big public bathroom area, which was nice. Like just a bunch of porta-potties. But like, there was just this massive like and you're peeing into a river. - I've never seen that. - And it's gross. And you see how dehydrated other people are. - Ew. - Do you think you've created a being together in there? Like, do you think everything's together? - The pee monster. - The pee monster. - He's like, "I'm dehydrated." (laughing) - Do you think so many things coming out of your bodies, like what could happen? What could be made? - Just pee. - It's just waste. - Just pee in the trough. - Hey. - Please, hey. - It's shitting in the trough. I did not see. But if you have to go. - There are toilets. There were also toilets. - This is awful. - Anyways, let's move on. - We have to move on. - We must move on. - We must move on. - I have a list of things that I love. - Happy birthday, Shane. - All right, first off, my birthday, September 14th. So, Sapphire, how do we feel about it? - I love a Sapphire. - A Sapphire? - A Sapphire. - A Sapphire. - Yeah. - Whoa. - A Sapphire feels very like queen, queen like. - Yeah. - Sapphire. - I'm pretty happy with my birthstone. - I think you have a good one. - I hate mine. - I'm excited about it when it got brought up. - Yeah, she hates hers, but we learned that. - I learned that one too. - What's yours? - Mine gorgeous. - I always was like, it's pearl, it's boring. It's like, pearl is beautiful, but it's not like a cut gem on cut gem. - I think pearl is what you mean. - Yeah, but you have, but you turns out I have Alexander, right? - Yeah, Alexander. - And Stone. - And Stone, which is gorgeous. - Do months have like multiple? - This is a moonstone. - Well, maybe look up. Maybe September has multiple. - Months do not have multiple. - But June has multiple. - June. - Gemini's, Gemini's, they have to. - June. - Oh yeah, 'cause yeah. - 'Cause yeah. - But you are a Virgo and you are Sapphire. - Sapphire gives like magic for me tonight. - Yeah, it is multiple here. - Sapphire gives me like the unique. - June has three official birthstones. The classic pearl, the rare color changing Alexander right and the glowing moonstone. - Yeah, gorgeous. - Very cool. - Mine's Amethyst, it's like purple. - Amethyst is beautiful. I love the Amethyst. - I know, but as my millennial, I feel like I went through a big purple phase and I'm like purple means something else. - Do you know, purple feels very nice. - Purple is 90s. - Really? - Purple and green are horny colors, apparently. - They are. - What? - Can you, Selena, can you look up? It's apparently green and purple are together are colors that are red. I thought red is colors. - I thought red is colors. - You're saying Barney is horny. - Hey. - I thought red was kind of like the horny color. - Me too. - Yeah, it's like red dress, red nails. - Purple is not like a red lipstick.
it's on the internet, internet culture. - Oh. - It's so, the purple is porny greener. - I look at purple and I go, it's an eggplant. - Eggplant. - Oh, well, yeah. - Oh, that's why. - Well, no, because I was in middle school high school and like this girl was like, yeah, in any room, green and purple and apparently there's like the horny colors. - Well, I think your friend was just a liar. - Yeah, your friend lied. Yeah, she had a lot going on. - 'Cause I always thought purple was royal. It's like a royal. - Yeah, purple is like, I think maybe back in the day too many people use it in like their weddings. You know that purple, yellow colors or it feels also like high school mascot purple. Purple is a campy color. - Yes, it's very campy. And I think I need to like reinvent purple 'cause Amethyst is my birthstone. - Yeah, I mean, you could go more of like a lavender. Like lavender is really nice. - I love lavender. - Yeah. - That is so pretty. - I literally used to wish and pretend my birthstone was Amethyst. So. - When I was younger, I wanted it to be my color so bad. - I mean, it can be you. - You can wear it. - You can wear it. - I do. She does. - Relax. - Okay. - But I'm curious, so this Alexandra, rare color changing, you said? - Maybe it changes in the sun. - Come on. - Do you care more about color or like texture or like tone? 'Cause I realize like, when people ask me what's my favorite color, I'm like, it kind of just depends on-- - Isn't it orange or yellow? - I would say like overall, like, I would pick orange, but really what matters to me is more like-- - Tone. - Kind of the shade, but more the texture, like the texture of things like-- - Whoa. - Like, you know, red can be really nice, but like a red gemstone versus like a red paint job on a car, like some-- - I like the car paint job rather than the gemstone. - Yeah, like I like earth tones a lot. So I almost like any color if it's an earth tone. You know, I like that a lot. - I like reddish orange. So I to answer your question, mine's tone. Mine is like the shade. But I prefer more earthy tones of certain colors, or more like paler colors, like a red, like a bright red. Like, I don't love that bright red, but I would love like that mixed with that orange. - Okay. - Yum. - Cool. - I love red, everything except for-- - You do, you love red. - Can't wear red hats anymore. - Yeah. - It's sad, 'cause it could be a jump scare from the back. - Oh, yeah. - I did have a hat, I got like a red corduroy hat, and I wasn't thinking about it. - It's such a good vintage hat. - It's a really cool hat, and I walk in, and Keanu looks at me and she goes, "Oh, jump scare." And I go, "Oh, oh, fuck, yeah." - It's so sad, it's bad. - It's like, "Oh, dang." And we laughed about it, but I was like, "Yeah, no." - Yeah. - But she didn't laugh about it later. - No. - When she wrote a report. (laughing) - We had a company-wide meeting. This episode of Smoshmouth is sponsored by Fabletics. - I have not been feeling very comfortable in my active wear lately. I have these yoga pants. They just keep rolling down, and I'm constantly yanking them up, and they never feel tight enough. 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Now, back to the show. - Let's go. - I love that. I never see you wear sapphire. Would you ever wear like a plain ring? - No, I'm not like a big jewelry guy. I mean, I know I wear some rings now, but like-- - Well, they're all, they're either legally bound or functioning properly. - They're like purposeful. I sometimes wear wear a necklace, but it's a minimal necklace. I can get used to it over time, but at first it's really hard for me. Like, I don't like the new thing on me. - I love when men wear like a thin kind of gold bracelet or a thick one, or I actually don't mind like a little earring. - I think all that stuff's cool. There's so much stuff that I think is so cool, but I either feel weird about on myself, or like, I'm too-- - You don't know if I would. - I'm too particular with myself. Like, I've talked about this a lot with tattoos. Like, I think tattoos are so cool. I love tattoos on people. I don't have any because I'm like, so particular, and I'm so like, well, what would I get? Well, where would it be? What would it be? Yeah, so I haven't had one yet, but-- - When you're pretty fave, when you're pretty fave. - And pretty fave. - You're gonna be-- - I'm pretty fave. - Just earringed up. You have hoops all the way up to your-- - You'll find reports filled with earrings and tattoos. - Hoops all the way up. - Oh my god, shades head hoops all the way up. Honey. - Hell yeah, dude. - My god. - That's me. - Women are gonna flock. - Hey, yes. - Sorry. - I'm gonna be so jacked by then and tied it up. So women are gonna flock. (laughing) - We're both just fighting. - We're not gonna do it. - And then I also with my birthday, I'm a Virgo. And I know my joke I make is that I'm a Virgo so I don't believe in astrology. You know, 'cause-- - You are so my mom. - Because of a Virgo thing. - Let's-- - Should we check out patterns? Should we check out his-- - Honestly. - Tell me who I am. - Well, all I know about a Virgo is like, they care deeply about their work. They're very hard working. But without their work, they feel a little bit lost. - Yeah, that is true. - That is definitely true. - That's the main thing that I know. They're loyal, they're kind, they're very practical. They're very critical of themselves. - Yeah, that's true. - They worry and they have a deep desire to be very helpful and solve problems. - Yeah, I struggle sometimes with work where I'm like, what is the purpose of this work? I really struggle with that. I think a lot of things with me can go back to that, right? 'Cause I've talked a lot about things that I enjoy doing, right? Like watching TV shows or playing video games or even trying to pick up new hobbies, like drawing or something, I tend to go like, what's this lead to? What's the purpose, what is this serve? - You need to have a purpose and I'm like, if there's a community thing that it leads to, right? Like if I was like, oh, I'm gonna pick up knitting and then I'm like, what am I doing this for? But then it was like, what if it was like, oh, there's a shortage of blankets in the community? Yours has to be big. - And then you need people to knit. I'd be like, oh, great. So I'm doing this thing for a thing. - Connected to solving problems. You don't want mindless work. I, the only Virgo I have to compare this to is my mom. - And we're so alike. - You guys. (laughing) - Honestly, it's hard to tell. - Honestly, you kind of are a little bit. - You kind of are. - She is hilarious. - You do get to meet her. - I met her a few times and she said, hilarious shit to me. - Yeah, you met her a few times. - She says the funniest stuff that I cannot repeat here. - No. - Everyone's like, did you ever want your mom on? And I was, honestly, I would. There might be a lot of edits. - Yeah, I want our viewers to think about like how unhinged you are Amanda and then dial it up by a thousand. - Literally, literally a thousand. Like when I was interviewing the moms of Smosh, right? I was like, wow, how wonderful are they? And my mom is so wonderful. I love her so much. - Oh, she's incredible. - She says whatever the F. - There's also something 'cause your mom has been such a giving person throughout her life. Like her career and everything. She's such a conscientious person. But sometimes those people are the ones that say the craziest shit. - Yeah, they say the craziest thing. And also my mom, this is how my mom thinks about a job is she'll work until 10 at night, which she did pretty much every night of my childhood so that we could go on a trip. That's how she thinks about work. It's like, I'm only doing this so I can get cash for this. - Right. - Like that's what she would do. She would massage all night and then if I needed cash for like a school, things like, here's the cash. - Right. - Like that's just-- - That's very sweet. - But she also is just like, she works really hard and she plays really hard. - Yes. - Like she plays really hard. - You were telling me about stuff. She's doing now at 70 and I was like, dude. - She's not 70 yet. - Two years. - Oh shit. - She's almost there. - She's the same age as my mom. - No way. - Wow. - Yeah, my mom's 68. - Yeah, she's almost 70. - Wow. - And she wants to do a big thing. - But she's like my mom where she's talking about like, well, for my 70th, I want to do that. And I'm like, that's two years away. Why are you-- - Yeah, no, my mom's like on her way to Sicily too. - That's awesome. - It's nice to have things to look for. - She's too. - Because she just works so hard. - She'll never retire. She works so hard to do. She doesn't do materialistic things. She like works to. - That's awesome. - But yeah, you guys are similar, man. - Yeah. - I would say like, sometimes you can just do things for you and you is enough. - I know. And like, you know this, 'cause you're there for me like every day, every week where I'm like, yeah, I just don't know what I should do. I'm like, and I'm like overthinking everything. And you're just always like, you should just be yourself. But I'm like, I know I should. - I think the craziest thing was when Smosh, you're doing Smosh, and when you were a regular on the Goldbergs and other stuff you were doing. And you're like, I don't know if I'm doing enough. I was like, bro, you have two full-on jobs right now. I'm like, you do more in a month than some people do in their whole life. - I still really struggled though. Like I, 'cause like I love working here and like we put in so many hours here and do so much stuff here. But like, I am still sad. And I really want to, and it is a genuine goal to like upload more on my own channel. - Yeah. - And just like not worry about it, but obviously, 'cause the video I made last year was like on perfectionism 'cause that was me trying to get past it. But I still am like, oh, if I'm gonna make a video, It has to be good.
to be all these things and then I put too much pressure on it and then I don't do it. I'm kind of similar to that but I think when I say that it's like oh I want to do more things like I recognize deep down like I want to do more things for me and just for the process of making which is really hard nowadays in our society that's just we're so like everything's so scrutinized and we're all everybody's judging themselves so hard unlike the quality of work whatever and but I'm like I want to get past that I want to be someone who is like free and just making stuff for fun so that's that's been a goal for a long time be free I know be free what if you just filmed yourself like tending to your plants and you were just talking about this recent book you read I think I my my plan and I even filmed a whole video last year that I then scrapped of me talking about my favorite books and that's probably going to be the next thing I think truly I will record myself for like you know 10 minutes to 30 minutes like talking about something and then like I can't help but think I'm like why would anybody want to watch this like that's the voice in my head going like why the fuck I have it too would anyone want to listen to this or watch this like it's just me talking um but then again I then go on YouTube and I watch people talking but I I in my head I'm going well these people are so interesting and they have such an interesting point of view unlike me but then like it's tough when I'm also by myself like I do so well putting off of people that's what I've gotten good at so but it's another muscle that I want to work on and it's such a skill that I'm so impressed by youtubers who are just alone in a room talking I'm like that's such a skill that is a skill and I'm very impressed by it and um but they just do it for hours and hours and hours so you get past that because sometimes we'll bring in youtubers to hear where we're such an ensemble and you can tell there's like that layer of discomfort and like you're crushing it you can tell they're just like not used to this yes and it's like yeah it's a different muscle but uh really quick have you seen all the pictures of you around in this room oh yeah have you looked at them all though no like there's new ones for you oh my god I didn't see them oh wow why what is this clip of you on is that Henry danger in your inside that is Henry danger where I was obsessed with socks these pictures are so cute yeah I know you have a sock you have a sock she has a blind box sock yeah I do have a blind box sock um I do have my own sock how old are you in that um that has to be I don't know actually post drowning that's post drowning that's got to be post drowning yeah you look a lot like I can see what they're worried about you can't handle that story anymore oh it's too sad I know it is it is genuinely it's so sad like what's the cork uh Angela popped a bottle for our first episode here in the new studio yep and it broke and then we have that yeah cute um which I also have a cork from when we were in uh Boston uh that I need to bring up to our to our we have a bunch of like and dinner we have a bunch of little uh we think it's for each show it's from each uh live show of reddit stories that we did this year every location so cute we have the we have the little Netflix is a joke little block we have a little bear from uh Denver we have a piece of the pot that Angela broke on stage in London cork and then I actually don't know what we have from Montreal uh oh but we have we gotta have something oh yeah we searched we searched it's sometimes hard to find anyways last thing I'll say uh I want to go back to the Virgo thing last thing I'll say is I revel the in um Zendaya and Tom Holland's relationship because they are like the top celebrity couple and they're a Gemini Virgo couple wait really yeah who's the Gemini Tom Holland's the Gemini Zendaya's the Virgo which I think like um whoa I like I'm the Zendaya of our relationship I saw some comment recently that said people are saying we give that energy I'm like that is the biggest compliment to ever give anyone on this and I think you're the Tom Holland because you're like you're the fun silly one and like outside of work like you're the sexy one and I'm kind of there I'm kind of they're like yeah you're a fashion icon yeah sure um but no I I'm just like Zendaya did have a Disney Channel teenage time whoa and she was there at the same time that we were filming so random wasn't she a spy what what what was it was uh shake it up shake it up your dancers but wait didn't she have her own show where she was like a spy oh yeah she also Casey undercover yeah Casey undercover that was a short lift one but yes her lift yeah but they were on the same studio lot as us when we're coming I never seen her matter yeah and I'm Tom Holland you're Tom Holland your Spider-Man I heard that Tom Holland is so was so did you know me this he's so like booty stacked up that he had to get a double to be in that suit because it looked so like intense in the suit that's you boo and that is actually Courtney like literally did they need Bri Larson this is what I heard and I heard it from somebody and maybe it's not true but I heard that him in the Spider-Man suit he actually had to get someone else wearing it in shots because he is so that that yeah I mean wait what do you mean that someone else wearing it like they needed to do but erasure it'd be too ridiculous yes damn because he'd be swinging around uh swinging around me you're gonna be like damn Spider-Man holy shit no seriously and they'd be like I think that's Peter Parker do look at this give me that phone look at that photo shopped but well remember that one where it was that one meme of Spider-Man with the big butt on the top of the building he is stacked up he is stacked up that booty is that's oh my god yeah okay I think he's like taking notes like oh cuz that looks like padding he looks incredible now I heard that he has to get like a double in some shots so it doesn't look so like yeah booty rock but erasure that's fucked up I'm not giving this phone back oh you know that thing when you're like hey look at this photo and you give it to your mom to look at and she goes oh and then she keeps your phone for so long and she looks through all your photos she goes when was this when did I take did I take this and you go mom don't look through my phone there could be other photos there oh when was this will you send we post a semi wall you send this to me well I'm glad my mom is not like that whoo so that's you you have to give me back okay it's my birthday yeah tell her it's my birthday and I get to look at Tom Holland's butt okay okay look at it it is insane he's athletic you're athletic you're not far off Shane he does like back flip he's he's all he's flipping around Spider-Man style stunt um I love athletic build but no I'm sorry I keep going whatever you want to do too um but I'm very happy that they are representing I don't usually care when celebrities break up or get divorced I'm like whatever but I would be sad because I'm like dude they're not going to they have shifted the narrative because before that I felt like people always said Gemini's and Virgo's don't aren't compatible can I say something crazy yeah listen when we announced our wedding it made a little bit of a splash yeah splash do you think there is a world where a speck of our information crossed their minds when planning their secret wedding I don't know do you think they've always been very secretive I don't know they have they have they have you're right but you know weddings when wedding happen the day was like oh my god Courtney and Shane did this so Tom we're doing this but they didn't tell and they didn't show anybody they really they don't know what I'm saying and law roaches just like y'all missed it I love him so much that Dias designer he's just like mmm y'all miss it it's done it already happened I mean hey maybe maybe they were just like secret weddings is it but like I don't think we'll ever see a picture no and I respect that and I I love that I love that for them I really love that credible we kept our engagement photos a secret for a very long time and then you guys kept your relationship for a secret for years right from from everybody that's right forgot about that y'all I think when I first met you I you you mentioned it to me we were definitely not keeping a secret for a long time with everybody here yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah after a certain point we started telling people especially sometimes an occasional new coworker will be like hey is Shane single I'd be like well no that was my first question I was like oh man I was like is this guy you sitting out loud at your you walked in the building I went hey you this guy you single and pretty was like he's not and then you're like okay and then you turned and picked a different okay what about that guy you H would be very upset we were already dating for like six years this episode of 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One last time that's by one get one 50% off when you head to the number three DAY blinds.com slash smash mouth now back to the show. Let's do it. All right. Next topic. Yay. I love that you have topics. It's so fun big surprise Big surprise books. We've kind of brought books have come up a few times in the past big surprise books No, big surprise. I want to talk about books. Oh, I thought you meant like big surprise. I don't know if that's Like a semicolon colon or something. Yeah, I love books. I feel like it's been coming up a lot of books I'm reading, but I really love books. I'm trying my goal this year is to read 52 books last year was 50 50 And I was like, can I read a book a week? I am behind by eight books right now. I know it's tough and you the problem is more So I at this stage think book goals are kind of stupid because books vary in length. So it's like You pick I'm like I'm reading 52 books, but what if I read a book that's 500 pages? What is the typical length of a book that you Enjoy probably averages between 300 and 400 like that's kind of the average novel length But I've been talking about I've been reading this series called Dungeon Crawler Carl, which is awesome But these books now are like 500 600 pages, right? And they are like you can kind of read them fast because they are you know It's like it's a story that's moving along at a certain pace Which makes it easier sometimes literary fiction like something that's a little more character-focused even if it's like 200 pages It can take a while because it's not like oh, you're just following a story. It's kind of like Delving into a character, so you can use your place a little bit easier Like a lot of like classic fiction, right? Like you know, you read like something like old school It's it's it's like okay. You got to really follow along You know what I like because smooth books. I swear to God there they're way too long I love them, but they're like 800 pages damn you know what I like with some of them is the first like three pages They'll have almost like a glossary of characters. I love the glossary dungeon color Carl my biggest my biggest Grype with it is that it really doesn't have enough of that and not only are they're like five million characters It's kind of in within a video game, which means everybody's kind of got a bunch of items on them I and that stuff comes back up a lot see that would be like and it's really cool that in the book They're like going along. It's like oh they found this like the stick of dynamite and he's like oh I put it in my pocket and then it's like it doesn't get brought up and then suddenly like two books later It's like oh we're facing this monster. Oh throw the dynamite that we have it's a fun little surprise I know, but it's like I wish I could keep track of it because I see Um in like come truly I need to like be writing stuff down and I'm still it's a habit I've not gotten good at is like annotating not necessarily to go back and look at my notes But to annotate while you're reading like just helps you remember stuff. Yeah, like if you write stuff down or just circle And it's just like okay, I'm just I was doing a bit with the book I was just reading where I'm like kind of just highlighting names. I'm just like okay. I'm just keeping track of that name And then as I move on, I'm like okay now I remember the name a little better, but I wish there was a little bit like of an Inventory stuff. They should have like a mini workbook in the book. I I love that like with fancy books. I don't want to work. I'm already reading sometimes that's fine. I do. But with some fantasy books and and sci-fi You need it because my I bet there's so many this is why I like almost every single fantasy book that I've ever read Has a map which I enjoy. Yeah, I'm like a beautiful map. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, or they'll have like how you say things But I think a glossary Did it Cersei have a glossary? I think she does I was gonna bring her up So Madeline Miller is probably my favorite author. She wrote song of Achilles and Cersei, which um she majored in like History Greek mythology and Greek history. So she knows all of the Iliad the Odyssey and all the myths But she kind of retells them and fills in a lot of gaps or like in the best way in the best way um and so she tells the story of Cersei who is a sorceress Probably that's probably like a very her father Minimum explanation of her, but I haven't read it in a long time. It's God of the Sun I think it's her but she keeps like she has all the like info of these gods and heroes and stuff in the back I love those books so much. I know she has a short story out now, and I know I think she's working her next book is on Persephone That's what I read right now. I need to read Cersei style. Dude Cersei song of Achilles. Song of Achilles I think is the better story, but I think Cersei is a better book if that makes sense Yes, your opinion. She was really fun. My opinion. That's my view Cersei and so they're both incredible. I'm reading receiver of many. I don't know if many people have heard it but it's not well It's it's it's not but it's like I know it sounds but no that's Hades one of his names is receiver of many I know sounds muddy, but it is God of the underworld receiver of many so it's Hades and Persephone's story But she originally started as Corey which means maiden cool and her mom What's her mom's name Demetres or damn it. Oh, no, you're thinking harrah. No, damn it. Her Demeter's not Zeus's wife though. Heros is one of Zeus's lovers that he had a baby with Many Persephone is promised to Hades receiver of many could mean double things But that's what I'm reading about and I I don't know a lot of information on Persephone actually most my info from For Greek mythology is from those books and then Hades and Hades too, so it's probably not accurate I have very like I am listening to and I listen to the previous ones a long time ago, but Stephen fry has a bunch of books of retellings of The Greek mythology Greek heroes and then I'm listening to his telling of Troy of the Ilya out of which has been incredible He tells it in like the most simplistic way possible which I love and then he has the next one which is the Odyssey That's great, but it's it's a blast. I love it because in his telling like in all of Greek mythology like the gods are there But they're just it's kind of like a reality show like they're all these jealous assholes who are also just affecting Yeah, people are dealing. Yeah, reading is so important and I like I forget who has said it But it's like if you've read many books you've lived many lives and like Shane will be reading so many books like I'll see like every day I feel like I see a different book in his hand and I'm almost like feel like I'm missing out on a like a part of your life You know, like you should give you a book review. I mean he does sometimes sometimes Sometimes so I love you sometimes I love you. I know what you're gonna bring up I know I would be eating a meal or doing something and then I'll hear something and I'll look up. It's only he's explaining a book to me Oh, I've seen this occur. I've seen this occur at lunch. Yeah, but also Simulta. Yeah, like I'll just it's oftentimes. I'm just talking out loud because no because it helps you remember the Yeah, I'm like yeah, that's crazy. It's good and I want and I should I want to listen But sometimes it's like oh, okay, I'm on a rollercoaster. I didn't want to get. No, do you know what? I I actually relate to this so much because I'm similar. I'll go up to age and just talk about something that's happening Yes, I do. I started to go hey, do you have a second? This right now I will have to do that because sometimes it's like he's in the middle of something and he he's very narrow focus like when he's focused Yeah, me too. And so I have to and it's totally fine But I'm like do you have a second to talk about this and then it's like then I get the attention Because I do similar things. Yeah, and and to bounce back like there's plenty of times Courtney where you're calling You're calling me and you're like telling me about your day and I'm like that's so crazy And then like you're like are you playing video games right now? I'm like, yeah So I also relate to that rage goes. Yeah, click click click click. Oh Uh-huh. Yeah, and and for people listening though Like you and I are kind of almost in a constant dialogue because like we're together all day every day So it's like those moments happen you did the other day though We were eating I remember and you were asking me about the book that I was reading and like it's a very literary fiction book And I was truly like I remember just being like yeah, it's crazy. You're like what's it about? I'm just like it's just this crazy book and I was truly because I was like I still don't know what I'm reading I don't know what I was like do you like it and I was like yeah And now that I finished it like I thought about so it's called audition by Katie Hitamura it's getting all sorts of awards and stuff for this year and it is a really good book It's short, but it's hard to follow and basically it's a woman meets this young man who claims to like I don't want to actually explain too much is so short Yeah, yeah, but the book is basically split into two narratives and two completely competing realities and by the end of the book You're trying to be like which one's real like what is her real art? It's kind of interesting Because it it's like I said this is one where it's not a straightforward story A little bit more of like a challenging literary Experiment and um it kind of Challenges you on like what your judgments and assessments of our of people. Oh, I like that what lies we tell ourselves and what It's it's a fascinating book. I wonder what it would be if it was audio. I wonder if they would have two different audio maybe I don't know I'm always listening to an audio book and reading a book at the same time and usually I do audio I got the same time, but like you like like you'll switch back. I listened to audio books for nonfiction mostly But I have people were telling me to listen to audio books for dungeon crawler and I have been listening to that and it is insane They do so many sound effects so many. Oh, it's kind of like dnd guys the guy immersive the guy who does the narration for the um for the books Who reads them he just got cast
as one of the main characters in the TV show. - Yo! - 'Cause he does it so well. 'Cause there's so many characters. - It's gonna be like a peacock original or something. - Yeah, there's so many characters that aren't. Basically, it's a guy, I don't know how to describe it, it's basically like a giant alien civilization comes to Earth, turns Earth into a giant hunger game situation. And this guy and his cat. - And it's cat. - And so. - Are going through it. - And there's cat who can talk now. - 10 books or something like that. - There's gonna be 10 books probably. - There's gonna be 10 books. - But there's eight right now, it's nuts. That's awesome. - I love audiobooks. The weirdest thing happened, I also listened to audio and then read, but I like more thriller audio books 'cause I find the reading is so awesome. And I was listening to one. And I watched, I was watching the beast in me. And I was like, this woman was in the scene for maybe two minutes. And I was like, her voice, I was like, that voice sounds so familiar. I paused it, I looked it up to see if she was the audiobook reader of my last book. Yup. - That's awesome. - And I was like, that's so, it was so trippy to see because I feel like a lot of these narrators, some are like narrators, that's what they do. They're audio narrators, but like some are acting on camera and doing audio. - Yeah. - I think people who read audiobooks are so talented. - Oh my god. - How you, especially with multiple characters are like fantasy audio, like how you're able to switch - It's so impressive. - And you don't need to do crazy different voices, but like you need to follow like their emotions and a few of you. - Yeah. - And it's a lot. - It is a very impressive thing. I'm extremely impressed by it. I actually, you know, people talk about the debate of audiobooks versus reading like physical books. And I'm kind of like, I don't ultimately care. Well, we've had plenty of comments that by professionals and librarians who say there is no difference for your brain. I truly struggle with audiobooks. And I'm like, I need to do that more often because that's where I struggle with focus. And so like for me, that's more the practice 'cause I'm like, for me, that is more challenging for me. - Well, it's hard. I tend to multitask with audiobooks. - I do it a lot when I'm driving, but even then I just, my brain can wander. And so, not have a good audiobook. - No, it's, it can be great. I just can get lost in a thought, but that's why I do non-fiction 'cause I can come back to it. It's that I haven't lost my place too bad. I get, less is why I like thrillers 'cause I get lost too with audios, but if it's like a thriller and it's like an awesome voice that I'm into, then I'm like, I'm in. - Yeah, I guess that for my own channel, I'll probably be uploading a video where I just talk about my favorite books. 'Cause I get a lot of DMs and lessons. - You should. - So people are like, "Oh, you should read this book "and it's already one of my favorite books." So I'm like, I need to get the load up of what I love. - Get it on TikTok or something. - But moving on. - Moving on, okay, moving on Shane. - Moving on. - Really quick, NFL, the season has already started by this point. - Hell yeah. - What team do you think's gonna win Super Bowl? That's all this segment is. Pick a pick a team. - Not the Chiefs. - Fair. - De Blancos. - Okay, you're the Broncos. - The Bills. - I was gonna say, like, people are saying this is probably not their year, but I'm gonna go with the Bills. - That's what I'm just said. - No, it's what you said. - Why are people saying it's not their year? - 'Cause it was kinda like this last year was probably their year. Like, they were making a push. I mean, this is a problem with that team. - Wasn't they like the last team? Didn't they lose? - So they lost to the Broncos. The Broncos beat them in the playoffs and it was kind of a heartbreaking situation. - And it was the Broncos. - The Broncos beat them, but then the quarterback of the Broncos broke his ankle in the same game. So then the Broncos go off to play the Patriots. That was the game that I was at. And the Patriots won. The Patriots were really good, but they just weren't ready for a Super Bowl. And then the Seahawks just kind of. - Nobody could stop them. - I think the Seahawks will be really good again this year, but it's rare that a team wins the Super Bowl and goes back and makes it again. The cheats were such a outlier. I think the bills, I think because it doesn't look like that it's their year, I think it might happen. But I don't know. - Who do you end up in my question? Which team do you think is gonna have the funniest mic-dub moments? - Ooh. - Ooh. - Oh man. - The Chiefs. - No, I don't think it'll be the Chiefs. - I love those videos. - I don't think it'll be the Chiefs. - Travis Kelsey. - He's back. - He's back. - Look. - Okay. - He's back. - He's no longer on Marital Leaf. - He's done. - Actually don't know. - They got married at Madison Square Garden, right? - Not dude. - Insane. - What? - I don't know. - I remember reading that Taylor Swift was like, I'm gonna invite everybody I know pretty much, except Blake Live, drama, continuous. - All right. - Anyway, it's NFL. - So Bronco's bills. - Yeah. - Right. - I hope I'm wrong. - It's gonna be then. - And I hope Courtney's right. Moving on to. - Oh, NFL is such a short, I think that's it. - Yeah, well I wanna get to some different things. Really quick, I wanted to bring up psychology, which I love. - Love, please. - Let's talk about it all day, every day. - And I mean, it's so funny, like people, it's obviously become more of a meme, but people bring up so often, like, oh, Shane's psychology degree is showing up. Most, like almost never, it's never applied to anything. - I was gonna say, I don't feel like. - Not really. Most of, like, with Reddit stories and stuff, that's just me going off of vibes and just human experience. - Your psychology degree is like when we're talking off camera. - Honestly. But I also think, I think you continued to exercise that part of the brain, speaking of reading. Like, you've been reading some really interesting books about, like, just the human brain. - Yeah, I'm trying to read more books on, I talked about, I mentioned it the other week, but I'm trying to read more books on, like, you know, autism, OCD, like, I wanna get more into the field, like, understanding those, because it actually didn't get covered a lot, right? Like, when you get a bachelor's degree, you're getting the general of, like, everything in that field. So, like, those were often just, like, a chapter in a thing. And a lot of those classes, I took, like, 10 years ago, and so much understanding is so different. So many diagnoses are so different. But I'm really fascinated by it, because, you know, so many people who watch this stuff have different things, and so many stories we come across have possibilities of different things. And I just wanna understand it more. Like, I don't wanna be any sort of spokesperson or professional on any of it, but just understanding it, so that I can avoid, I wanna avoid speaking on things that I shouldn't, you know what I mean? Like, and it's hard to know, there's so much going on, but I'm still also fascinated by psychology. But I think I love the most is behavioral psychology. I love couples, like, I love couples therapy stuff. - Because Orna is a psychotherapist. - Is she, she's like, yeah. - She's a psychotherapist. I don't think I know the exact definition between a psychotherapist and, like, a behavioral therapist. - There's many different categories, right? There's clinical therapists. There are clinical social workers. There's, you know, there's different types of degrees, but they all fall into a similar category. And then there's, you know, psychiatrists, which is more of a doctor. - I think our sound person, Dina, she has a degree in behavioral psychology. - Oh, cool. - I believe so. - But there's so many different aspects of it, but I'm really fascinated by it. I'm fascinated by how humans work, and you can even branch up, I even like sociology and stuff, but there's just too much to keep up with. - It's wild. - I was like, I recently cracked open, and I haven't gone very far in it, but there's a book that's, like, women with ADHD. And, like, one of the first things it says in it, it sounds like such an obvious thing, but I think I needed to hear it, like, from a book that was recommended by my therapist. It was like, there is no perfect brain, like sitting in a drawer somewhere that is perfect, unaffected, has nothing. 'Cause every single person in this world has had some kind of trauma, some kind of something that has affected them in some way. And, like, yeah, I don't know why I was like, we're always striving to be that brain that doesn't exist, I feel like, or comparing each other, or judging each other to try and, like, you don't have that. And so, yeah, I just thought that was interesting. It's better to work with, I feel like the best, we were talking about self-help the other day. I feel like the best thing is to work with your brain, figure out your understands, figure out your triggers, figure out your beliefs, figure out your behavioral things, like, how you respond to certain things and how that's connected to past trauma, past relationships, or relationships that you have right now. I mean, some people, you know, might be with someone, or friends with someone that, this dynamic is actually bringing out either really great things or not really great things. So, it's bringing out triggering things all the time. It's like, that's my favorite thing to think about. I love relationships as in friendships, or sisterhood, or parents, or I love digging into that so, so much. - V2. - Yeah. - And what I really love and, you know, springs back to reading, too, is like, everything I learned kind of always highlights how little I know. And I kind of love that. And I think the psychology, the main thing I learned from studying it was how little you know yourself. And that's very scary, right? But it's very true. It's just like, people who think they know themselves, you often know that person, right? And that person is someone where you go, they don't know themselves. - Yeah. - They're like, well, I know I'm a very kind, giving person, it's like, you're not. - Why are you saying it's a person? - Yeah, it's like, but I'm just thinking of like, you know, I'm a kind, giving person. - I just, I've known so many people, and almost the more assured you are in who you are in your behavior, sometimes the more far away from it you can be, but that goes just kind of for everything, so there's a sense of humility. And honestly doing reddit.com/doday.
stories has been such a gift. I've mentioned this before of like kind of like I read these stories of situations I've never heard of before and then it's seen by so many people around the world that then kind of get back to me and highlight when I've missed something or when I don't understand something and I'm like that's fascinating that I don't know that. Or highlight how you respond to something. I think the other thing is cool and also tricky when your friends are dating someone or whatever they tend to call out things about you like oh you always do this you always do that and sometimes it can be really helpful like oh I never noticed I did that and then if you can go back to past experiences goes oh I do do that or sometimes people call out things oh you always do this but it could be a projection. You miss this thing and then it's like I always am like how do you decipher the truth from what is put up on you right yeah that's what like I have loved therapy so much I've been in it for like seven years now with like a few months breaking between therapists but like that has helped me learn myself and so when things like that happen I feel like I can better discern like when things are being put on me versus like that gut and it's also like how do you do the work to listen to your gut how do you really start to listen to your gut because then if you get to a place your gut will automatically be like that doesn't feel right like that doesn't feel like something I can I can put on and then you have to be like why is this being put on me like this what did I do to trigger that person that they're looking at me like I'm their mom or something or I'm their sister or something that's why I'm like I'm so fascinated with that stuff but I think my my journey in in this is why like some self-help books or psychology is why do I respond to like that why do I feel like that why when someone says that that makes me so angry or sad or like I really have to ask myself these questions that's been like lately my journey is I was so like focused on others like oh why did my sister why did my sister have this relationship why did my sisters why does my mom and my sister have this and now I'm like why do I feel this with you know person A or whatever right it's like I think if you start to like go down that journey of yourself yeah then you could be like but what's tricky is you are on camera millions of people are listening to Reddit stories yeah and then it's like they're listening to your response to and it's it's it's a it's very scary because it's a immediate response and you know people call me out plenty of times on on biases and stuff and my only response is that correct like you know I and I watching it back it's fascinating and it's such a gift to get to see my biases and yeah my things come out and you know that's something that is true for everyone so it's like oh it's nice to see it so I can you know kind of yeah come about it with a sense of curiosity of like why why do I do that why do I respond that way and and to continue to evolve and I've mentioned before that like you know for red stories fascinating often where by the time and episodes come out like my view on that story has shifted yeah drastically I remember like seeing a comment when someone's like oh he said that I wonder I wonder which story and I'm like it's kind of every story and it might not be that my opinion has changed it's just like how I viewed it like over time to think about it and just also I'm changing day by day with experiences and sometimes even it's the comments that I read and I go oh like that they offered a new thought about that that I didn't have and I like so it's just a constant you're reading a story with not a ton of context sure and it's like it's it's interesting to see when I put context in that wasn't there you know I see that plenty of times but it's I do I'm a borderline like psychic like I do it all the time it sounds like and what's really a problem now with that show is that I've read so many stories that now all these stories I've read are impacting how I feel right stories and I got to sometimes be like do this as if it was the first episode hard but it's a very very fun challenging show in that way our job is vulnerable in that way like if you look at us when we first started smash all of us like it has been a like journey of growth and evolving and like it's vulnerable to have all of that online people to watch and see us grow and change and just like yeah and I've mentioned before like it's I'm so grateful for it but it's also um scary for me to have such a we have such a diverse audience of people like from different places different different more than ever different backgrounds different uh different minds you know a lot of neurodivergent people watch the shows and and I'm like oh shit like that's why I'm that's why I'm like I want to do my best but no I will spend the rest of my life uh trying to read up and and learn things and I will still not know well that's what makes anything yeah thing is you you're your own person with your own opinions your own POV sure you can't be this this oh that's the person for everybody that's but that's what makes it interesting you spark debate you spark absolutely thoughts of like absolutely well I feel this oh wait why do I feel this yeah that yeah I think if people were blindly I mean listen I have a lot of really positive influence YouTubers that I listen to and I'm like I believe whatever you believe because I know you are but I think it is what the show like ours we are taking the stories of all different types of people too and like yes it is nice to hear your own opinion on the show but also like that learning yourself of I don't apply that opinion to me like know yourself like that's what's so great to yeah absolutely this episode of Smoshmoth is sponsored by Zachdok some are feels like prime moving time and in LA even though you're moving within the city it feels like you're moving to another state because everything is so spread out I hate moving it's so frustrating because you have to find your doctors all over again and I don't know who to go to who's in my network where they are you should you Zachdok Zachdok lets you search and compare high quality in network doctors that way you can find your dentist dermatologist general physician and so much more with ease they have more than 150,000 providers within 200 plus specialties across all 50 states sounds like Zachdok makes everything very efficient Zachdok's website has tons of reviews from real patients and detailed doctor profiles I love that it really is the best I was delaying doctor's appointments for so long until I downloaded the app and it is so easy I had everything set up within a week wow thanks Shane now I can finally move wait you haven't moved because you didn't want to change doctors right already your health matters and taking care of yourself shouldn't be complicated ready to be seen head to Zachdok.com/smoshmouth to get started and check that appointment off your to-do list that's zocdoc.com/smoshmouth back to the show was that the right timing yeah what's a dumb one you have a topic on top of a topic like none uh there's a Virgo okay I wanted to let's move on this is a very fun section just video games let's go let's start off what's H's build in Diablo 2 yeah no idea oh wow wow wow listen listen this man has been trying to get me to play Dota with him Diablo with him and here's the deal I actually said that they're just such intense games I know I know I know he watched the fucking whole Dota like a championship situation forever go what is Dota Dota is kind of I'm what is the stand for people who love it are going to be just that I say this but it's probably more in the lines of like a League of Legends I don't know of the stands for is it dawn of the dark glow like what is Dota dawn of the arc light but here's the deal I said to anybody in this room know what Dota is defense of the ancients yeah it's kind of like a you know one of those overhead like types of games are units I think he would be so he'd be so sad here's the deal I am going to play with him but I was telling Anthony in Montreal I was like oh yeah during covid like I played age of empires with yeah with uh with age and he was like what do you talk about like that's so he was saying that that was like an inspiration for him to start Smosh he had a there was a build that had a custom build an age of empires to that was called like small land of mythology or whatever yes the one of those games where he was called like Smosh and it was popular in the multiplayer realm yeah and he was like what and I was like I actually loved age of empires yeah like I I loved it so much but I was not very good at like attacking I was so interested in my people of course my my more a peaceful queen whereas like I look up you are trying to rule your nation thank you I look up and age has already built like castles around me for battle to just what the hell he's like you're taking way too long feeding and that's history and you know what that probably happened in history history sounds like fuck they built their whole kingdom around us yeah all right what do you ask what's his build in Diablo like yeah does he play as a paladin does he play as a sorcerer does he play wait I I've seen basically everything that he's that he's he has multiple characters okay what's what's his like what's his what's the one you've seen lately one yeah one he has named after our dog which is very sweet Sonia um Sonia that sounds like a sorceress she I think that or the one that he has so there's like a archer she's hot she's a sorceress looking person there's a guy who's like really badass and he has wings I think and pretty
- Pretty sure. Paladin sounds familiar. - Okay. - Listen, I'll get the answer for you and then I'll come back and tell you. I'm a good wife. - On topic of video game still, Courtney, give us the lowdown on your Tomadachi Island and let's all talk about it like it's a drama podcast. - Okay guys, I love. I have a lot of Islanders, okay? And I just recently was brave enough to start making some of you. 'Cause first, I was doing a stream on my YouTube channel where I made like the first few characters. So it was like the chosen Sarah Christ. And Professor Miller. And then I stopped streaming and I was like, I wanna make other things. And so it's literally, I have, right, the latest, I have Ariana Maddox, I have Bad Bunny. I have Chapel Row and I have Sabrina Carpenter. I have Raven and Starfire from Teen Titans. I have Nabila and Gamora from Guardians of the Galaxy. I have characters from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. And then I recently made Arasha, Tommy, Angela and Chance. Tommy and Arasha did not hit it off. They did not like each other from the get. - That's crazy. - No way. - 'Cause they love each other in person. - And then Tommy and Angela met in Angela board Tommy. And no, no, Tommy board Angela. - Oh. - Angela started cracking her neck boardly as he spoke to her. - Oh my God. - Oh, I made Bailey married Dominic. I made Dominic, my character. - Bailey married Dominic. - Bailey got married Dominic and then they divorced. She divorced him. - Married and divorced in how long? - Fast relationship. - Like they're married for a while. Like they were married for a bit. She was almost a nook was after her. Chirsten was roasting on an open fire? - A nook. (laughing) - A nook is on the island. He's now married to Starfire. And Starfire and Bailey are very similar. So clearly he has a tight. - Sarah Christ married to anybody. - Sarah Christ is married. - Oh, oh, oh. - She's married. - Courtney has shown me this whole saga. - Who was she married to? - Courtney. - Oh yeah, Sarah Christ. - So, of course. So, Sarah Christ. - I cannot believe you haven't told her this. - Got married to the Chosen. I have no control over this, by the way. - This game just operates on its own. - He wishes. (laughing) - Look, you guys had a kid. You can have kids on this island. And the kid unfortunately looked a lot like Spencer. So that's what I named him. And now Spencer's walking around hanging out with Slenderman. - Now we can never have a Chosen Sarah Christ like they team up because all we know is they're not gonna get the crime done. They're just gonna be fuckin' in some way. - No! - I've been to warehouse. - This is the Tomodachi version of it. - Well, it sounds like the Chosen. - And the Chonald is Spencer. - Hey you guys. - Even. - I can't even. - I was wild. - That's crazy. - It is wild. And Professor Miller is married to Chapel Rowan. He's not happy. - Oh. - Unfortunately, a lot of people don't like her on my island. People were constantly having issues with her. - Oh, man. - Yeah. - Was I like a fan favorite on your island, Sarah Christ? Was she? - She's one of the OGs. - She's an OG. - Bad eye. - I just feel bad. - I feel bad. - So glad. - So as they level up, they get more quirks. Like they become very custom, like their own personality, the way they walk, the way they stand, things that they say. Like, and a lot of them have like the fashionista quirks so they can change their clothes with all, 'cause you can get them new clothes all the time. I refuse to give Sarah Christ anything that isn't the law. - She can't have any other clothes. Could you imagine her in a dress? - She'd be like, "No, no, no, no." - What is this trash? (laughing) - She always has to have the red scarf, which in my mind, in my canon, the scarf is red, for Sarah Christ. So that's the island. I am married to Angel from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I'm not happy about it. - Oh no, not Angel. Angel's not my favorite. - You like Spike? - Yes. - Spike's problematic. - I hate Spike. - Spike is so hot. - Spike is a nightmare. - Six of Buffy and she hates Spike. - It is like, is problematic, but all the characters are problematic in Buffy. - He's so hot. - He was a lady. - He was a lady. - He's left an awry. - He's dead. - It is true. - But I get it. - And defend him. - Angel, I liked him, but you know who I liked more? Riley. - Which is crazy. - Riley. - If you're a fan, he was the military guy. - I liked him because of Marvel. - He's like a-- - He's so civil war like Captain America coded. I liked him. I think if people get a fresh perspective on this show now, Spike is problematic as hell. - Oh, Riley. - Angel is just fine. - Okay. - And Riley was lovely. - Spike is more-- - More. - Spike is toxic. - Oh. (laughing) - It's just wild, like-- - I do make sure all your boyfriends in Boston, like when you were a teenager, looking like Spike. - None of them look like that. They all had like the big wide, you know, jeans, or-- - Jinko jeans. - That were like this. - Oh shit. - They all look more-- - They were limbiscuit codes. - They all looked more like Italian looking. - Okay. - If that explains. No, actually, I did have someone who kind of looked like Spike with tattoos. - Okay. - A skateboarder. - It's just interesting. I like flawed characters, but there's some characters. Nowadays in TV shows, there's certain things that if a character does it, there's no going back. - They are a bad person in the show. - Murder, beating women. - Oh, beating women. Yeah, of course. - Yeah, that's a hard thing. - That's a hard, no. Dispike beat women? - Lots. - Oh, dang. - I forgot about that. - Remember when the popular girl becomes a vampire later? Like, he's just-- - Damn it. - He's just a bad bomber, man. Spike, what the hell? - I think you were watching it and you were like, oh my god, and I was like, yeah, she-- She's also a vampire, so I mean, she's strong. (laughs) - You were trying to stop because you knew what was coming, which is them, I don't want to spoil the show for other people, but the couples' change in show. - He is old, like he's a villain. He is never painted as like a full hero. He's a villain. - This is not so long. - With like old school TV shows or movies, like I have a film club with my friends, and I showed Urban Cowboy. I was like, oh, such a good movie. And then I played it and I was like, everybody is beating women and it's awful. I was like, don't Travolta. - No, you know what's wrong with that, a lot of that is too, is a lot of vertical dramas go there. It's really weird. It is really weird. - I'm like-- - No, and watching any movie pre-200-- - Hollow Man, don't watch it. - Well, nobody's gonna watch Hollow Man anyways. - What are you talking about? - Don't worry about that. - These old movies that are like, oh, classic. I put it on, I'm like, oh, what? - We started in Reddit stories. - In a Reddit stories episode that I don't know if it's aired yet or not. We somehow brought up wedding crashers. - And you were just like watching it back. You're like, oh my God. - I watched it back when I was like, multiple that whole montage of women falling in the bed going like, yay, topless. Because that's how many women these guys had sex with, like during the wedding. And it was a montage to shout, the song shout. - Yeah. - And it was just them-- - Every time the word shout happened another lady flew to bed. - I watched it recently and I went, did I just black out this whole moment like the topless, topless and they're all laying down like, having the best home like Vince von you wish, buddy. - Yeah. - And Owen Wilson, I was like, no. - No, and I like to think about how like, when they shot those of the women, those guys were home. They weren't on part, that like Vince von and Owen Wilson weren't there. - They weren't there. - So it was just like a shoot with the, just like time for a woman jumping on bed day. - Also, how hot do you really look when you fall backwards on a bed topless? Come on. - It's hot. - You feel like, you're tits like knocking you in the head. You're like, you choke. - You're like, you're like, oh my back. - Yeah, man. - I can't even. - It's not a graphic like that in Tommadeuch Island. - No. - No, you don't see any. - It's sophisticated. - So Sarah Carson chose and that was just like, it happened. - No, they literally, it goes, they have a, like if you're like viewing your town, 'cause one of the most like fun parts is you can just kind of, put your little cursor on a character and then you'll track them, like follow them like a camera through the town, then like interacting with a vending machine, talking with somebody. If a bunch of them have like a jogging quirk, they all will go on a group jog. It's really cute. But sometimes then a notification of someone wants to talk to you and then it'll take you into their house and then they have a baby and they, and I'll be like, we want to name it Geronimo. What do you think? And I'll be like, I'm gonna name something else and they go, oh, then I think you must have a better name for our child. - That's awesome. - Wait, what is the name of our child? - It looked a lot like Spencer. What's up? - Spencer. - Oh, Spencer. - Oh my god. - It's fully Spencer. - Oh my god. Olivia, Olivia, forgot me, Olivia. She's married to Anthony Bourdain. - Oh, classic. - Good for her. - They have a child. - Oh, she's gonna be on her own, you know? - She's, he's, that's crazy. - I'm so sorry. - I love him. - You really? - He's no longer with us. - I have two kids. Oh, I guess in the game he's there. I have a few people who have passed on in my island. - That's great. - But I am very good at making faces. Look, pretty alike. - You showed me, you were like, okay, guess what? And I was like, that is Tommy. - I'm pretty proud of my Tommy. - Your Tommy, Tomodachi, is one to one. - Wait, Tommy plays Tomodachi, right? - Oh, yeah. - He was showing me all. - I'm sure his island is so cursed. - He was showing me a lot of his stuff. - Everyone's just, they look just like the people. - Yeah. - It's so funny. - It's a crazy game. You know what game? Like Spencer's gotten to play Resident Evil with you guys. I think the game-- - Oh, the best. - Like, I wish there, if there was a game like that for me, and I'll throw this out there, is it would be really fun. I don't know if it would get the same views is the remake of "Ocarina of Time" is coming out this year. - Oh. - And you would think it's very cool, 'cause it's Zelda. - Let's do it. - And it's like the best Zelda ever made. - I, you were explaining Skyrim and I was actually interested in that. - Skyrim's awesome. - That sounds awesome. But Zelda falls a little bit more of a streamlined story. - Okay. - A little bit more like a, it's like Resident Evil, but like super fantasy fun time. - Love it. - But when it comes out, I will probably try to push to see if I could play it on games. - Yeah. - It sounds awesome. - 'Cause I'm sure I'll play it with you at home. - Oh, but you guys should play it. You and Andrew, it should be fun. - It's just not as like, I just don't know if it's as exciting as Resident Evil.
- But. - Wrestling evils a different beast. Like, it's a horror. - Yeah, it's that scary, where it's. - It's scary, I personally, I would love to play like a fantasy video game. - Okay, well we'll see. Anyways, on that note, we're out of time. - No, was there any topics that you didn't get to? - Not really. The only other thing that I was gonna say, I was gonna say I had a beef with some comments I've been seeing over the past like years. It's been building up. - That's what you saved. - I saved this for the end, it's kind of funny. It's not a big deal, but I just wanted to address this is people talk about me being a homeschooled kid and it's getting out of hand, right? Like, people talk about me, like, some comments you'd think that I was homeschooled my entire life. - Yeah. - Mine you, I didn't go to high school. I was homeschooled throughout high school, and more of a high school drop out than homeschooled. - That's way hotter than homeschooled kid. - Exactly, but I'll see some comments with them like, oh Shane didn't know this thing. Well, he was homeschooled. And I'm like, oh, I went to elementary and middle school. - Middle school is the trenches. - That is the one that matters most. - I was there. - Commenters, I love you guys. - It's not that many comments by the way. - You don't know us that well. - It's like a thick people. - It's the majority of our audience, not commenting that, but it's like how those couple comments they get ya. - Oh yeah. - And for some reason, that's what I'm like, like, I'll pass by a comment and be like, "Shane's not funny." And I'm like, whatever, man. And then I'll come to someone and be like, "Shane was homeschooled his whole life." And I'm like, "Hey, hey, hey, hey, that's just not true." - I just don't like when, I don't like when commenters and they're very sweet usually. But when they say facts that they are like, "This is a fact." And I'm like, "It's actually not a fact." (laughing) - Well, I always bring up my favorite is someone be like. - You don't know me that well. - My favorite is someone being like, "I think Amanda's Puerto Rican." - Oh. - That was my favorite comment ever. - And I was like, "I'll take it." Honestly, I was like, "Hey, that, you can keep." (laughing) Commenters, keep it going. I'll take it. - But anyways, just wanted to set that record straight. - I love only school throughout high school. So let's not-- - I'm very glad. - And school meeting, you were also like having job experience, working on sets and working with other life. You were home school, nothing wrong with that. Shane just wasn't homeschooled his whole life. He was, he was a high school dropout. - Only a little bit. He was a badass high school dropout. - Yeah. - Bad ass. That's so cool. You can, you can put that in the comments. - Well, I got my GED so technically. - And you can put like hot, hot, hot Puerto Rican for me. - Okay. - It's much better. - All right. - I don't know. - All right. Anyways. - Happy birthday. - Happy birthday. - Happy birthday. - Thank you. - Take time. - Eat your cake. - Oh, no thanks. - No, no, no. Bite it. - What is that, Tres Leches? - Yeah. - Eat your cake. No, it's berries and crepe. - Strawberry shake cake. - No, it's your favorite. Cheesecake. - Oh. Okay. - That's not your favorite. - Yeah, I don't eat it. - No, but thank you both. This was very sweet. - Oh my God, of course. I have to be here. - We love you. - All right, we love you. - They bring in a horse. It's like, here we go. - Would you, could you get on a pony? - I'd get on a horse. I am scared getting on horses. It's always a scary experience. 'Cause I'm not very flexible. - Yeah, 'cause they're incredible. - So like, you're trying to get off and they're like, "Make sure when you get off, you get off swiftly." And like, I'm trying to do it. And they're like, "Get off in one go." And I'm like, "I can't." They're like, "It's gonna gallop off and kill you." And I'm like, "Well, God." - Oh, I love that. I love horses so much. - I love horses so much too. - I struggle. - Beautiful creatures. - So beautiful. And my goal is to get H on a horse. - He would look cool on a horse. - I mean, he said he's never been on one of them. And I said, "You've never been on one, right?" And he said, "I never said that." And I was like, "What the hell?" - I told a lie. - When you don't know your partner, you know? (laughs) - Shayne, we got something for you. - Whoa. - Yeah! - Oh my God! - Oh my God! - Oh my God! - Oh my God! - Oh my God! - He said, "I'm central station." - Oh my God! - Okay! - Graham Central Station, your favorite ice cream? - This is so cool. So this is probably my favorite ice cream flavor at handles. It's called Graham Central Station. - I never tried it. - It is, I don't know how to describe it. It's a Graham Cracker flavored ice cream. - Mm-hmm. - So good. - Oh my God. - What the hell? - Whoa! - And it's got stuff in it. I forget what the stuff is. - I need to read the description again. - I think it's-- - It's so good. - It's cinnamon. - Mm-hmm. - Apparently it's chocolate-covered honeycomb. - Chocolate-covered honeycomb in it. - Holy shit! - And I believe it's Graham Cracker flavored ice cream. - Oh my God! - It's just amazing. And I'm normally not the type. - This is so sweet. This is like-- - You guys know me. I'm normally the type that like simple flavors. Some about this is perfect. Wow, it really is my birthday. - It really is. - It's a birthday chain. - Thank you, everyone. And thank you, Selena. Thank you for getting me this. This is incredible. Thank you for listening and watching. - Thanks, everyone. - Hey, have a good September 14th. - Love you, guys. - Okay, play Earth Wind and Fire. We can't play it, but play that in the background right now. - That's his favorite song. - It is actually one of-- it's probably a top three song. I could say that's my favorite song of all time. - Wow. - It's incredible. All right. - Bye. - Bye. (gentle music)
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
Shane Topp celebrates his 45th birthday, reflecting on aging, embracing personal transformation, and the excitement of future life stages.
The group discusses the joy of self-acceptance, including embracing white hair, shaved heads, and evolving identities, while challenging societal fears of aging.
A humorous and insightful conversation explores bodily functions in public, such as loud sneezes, urination, and bathroom etiquette, highlighting differences in male and female experiences.
Summary:
Shane Topp’s birthday episode of Smoshmouth blends humor and heartfelt reflection, celebrating his 45th year with a focus on embracing change and self-acceptance. The conversation explores how aging brings new possibilities—like white hair, shaved heads, or bold new identities—challenging the fear of growing older. The hosts share personal anecdotes, such as Shane’s dramatic sneezes that trigger public reactions, and discuss the often-overlooked realities of public bathroom behavior, including loud noises and social dynamics.
They also dive into the cultural significance of birthstones, with Shane expressing admiration for sapphire and humorously comparing it to his own sense of self. A deeper theme emerges around psychology, where the hosts reflect on personal growth, self-awareness, and how little we truly know about ourselves. Drawing from their experiences in Reddit stories and therapy, they emphasize humility, emotional intelligence, and the importance of listening to one’s inner voice.
The episode ends with playful predictions about the NFL season and a lighthearted discussion on audiobooks, fantasy literature, and the joy of reading. Ultimately, it's a celebration of individuality, vulnerability, and the ongoing journey of self-discovery.
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Shane Topp's birthstone is sapphire, which he finds magical and queenly. He particularly likes the unique qualities of sapphire, especially as it is associated with September, the month of his birth.
September has three official birthstones: pearl, the rare color-changing Alexander stone, and moonstone. The classic pearl is seen as traditional, Alexander stone changes color in sunlight, and moonstone is known for its glowing effect, making them all unique and special.
Amanda prefers amethyst, a purple gemstone, which she associates with a personal and nostalgic past. While she acknowledges purple is often linked to 90s culture or campy aesthetics, she still finds it meaningful and expressive.
The hosts believe in embracing aging and welcome personal evolution, including physical changes like white hair or a shaved head. They see these changes as natural and exciting, allowing for new roles and expressions in life.
The hosts share funny anecdotes about loud sneezes, excessive urination, and people accidentally peeing themselves in public. They also joke about how women often keep sounds quiet, creating a contrast with men’s louder habits.
Shane aims to read 52 books a year, though he acknowledges the difficulty due to varying book lengths. He emphasizes the importance of annotation and tracking characters, especially in fantasy and sci-fi genres.
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