Ian Hecox & Anthony Padilla of Smosh

You're full now. You're one, you're one full boy now. Your second half isn't here, but they were, they you, you fused together again. Right. Yeah. And he's, he's coming. He's coming. He's coming to the podcast. Yeah. Yeah. So you're not just like sitting closer to Ted because you're throwing off by me or something. No, I mean, there's multiple reasons. I mean, we got to talk about, you know, the first thing you did when he walked to the door, you know. And I do when I walk to the door, did I do something to off put you? I mean, does he always? I slept every one of us. I mean, yeah, I mean, an opening ask grab is, you know, maybe in in your culture, that's like normal things, it is well played. And then he, and then he bit me right on the nape of my neck. It's quite vampiric in nature. Yeah, then he carried me around like it was a little kitten. Yeah. Okay. Well, maybe next time don't give me the fuck me eyes right when you walk in. Bro, I just said it's nice to meet you. But he's, I mean, he is a lot. So yeah, I'm very empathetic. And I understand what people are really trying to say. Oh, okay. You're right. I was, I, you're right. I was asking for it. Welcome to Chuckle sandwich. Ian, we've never had Ian. I like how your voice went up three octaves. That's what happens when I'm locked. That's good. That's my locking in voice on the podcast, I think. Would you agree, shall I? No, that's my, I'm like, yeah. So yeah, you're acting strange right now. I'm not acting strange. I'm not a gallon of sea salt in your hair. Let's not talk about the sea salt. Okay. I'm in a sea salt spray now. So I'm into like taking my hair down low probably. Yeah, I'll probably figure it out at some point. But, you know, I'm not into the, I'm trying to move away from the quaff that I used to. I'm so well known for. Did it just feel too manicured or what? Well, I'm at the beginning of this year, I entered my fashion era. I started wings. I see, yeah, I see the rings. I do see the rings. Do you like them other than seeing them? I see them aware of them. I appreciate them. Okay. Wow. I like that. You've, you know, you've matched the, the pedals. Yeah. You know, it's all silver. Okay. You got any gold on you or is you just, it's just kind of brass. Yeah, I used to have a, they're dirtiest shit right now. Actually, actually, you can see the spray from the show because I didn't take my glasses off when I put the sea salt spray on. So it looks like I just went to Santa Monica. But I used to have another pair of these that were silver. And I don't know where they are. But you're in your hot boy era. That's what I'm trying to be into in your hot boy. Yeah. I'm trying to enter my hot boy era. Is it working? And take all the time you need. Um, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Look at that. I mean, that upper left one. That's my, that's my newest hot boy photo right there flash photography. Like I'm a, like an Instagram girl. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, there's more. Yeah. There are like there. I got a muing face coming up here. Okay. It's great for this. Next one. Boom. Look at that. Mew. Oh. Yeah. Okay. That's, that's a pretty good one. Yeah. That's a pretty good one. I'm in my, because I, you can see I've been, I've been going with that, that hair, that quaff for so many, to be honest, to be honest, I don't really see much of a difference. Oh, it's big. It's a big difference. I'm not seeing, like I guess it's falling forward a little bit more now. Yeah. Yeah. You know, you should, you should get, you should get the broccoli head, you know, just like embrace your inner Z. I should do the, yeah. I mean, I'd like the younger part of my generation. Yeah. Yeah. The inner Gen Z or even Gen Alpha. I mean, that is, I've seen videos on TikTok of like moms giving their children like curling their hairs in the morning before school. That's crazy. Yeah. They're in their salon era. Kids are getting, people are getting perms now. I love that. Perms. It's all bad. Yeah. It's either you go perm or mullet. There's no, there's no other way. So which one are you going with? Uh, I don't know. Yeah. I used to growing up, all the kids, all the cool kids used to have lettuce. They used to call it the, yeah, the lettuce. Flow. Yeah. They used to have flow and lettuce. Those were the two words. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I would grow my hair out, but it would kind of look like what yours used to. Oh, like a, like a loaf of bread. Yeah. I mean, you got hot. I was going to bring this up. You went through your hot boy era. Yeah. Sure. Yeah. This one. I mean, you age quite well. Thank you. Lord. Thank you. I, uh, I had, uh, really bad diarrhea for several months. And, uh, that really helped me drop a couple pounds. And I feel like that, um, you know, it was, it was, it was a rough couple of months, but damn, it, uh, I look good after that. So it's, it's solely just weight is what you did. I'm not saying it's just weight, but, you know, like the thing is like, it really doesn't take much, like, like, as, as guys, like, we kind of have it easy because it really doesn't take that much to go from like a disgusting, like, slob to like pretty good looking. Yeah. It's like most, most, uh, most able bodied dudes, uh, yeah, it really doesn't take much. So you say and just stop eating. Just stop eating. Yeah. That'll be the advice that I'm giving on this podcast is stop. You know, get some kind of, um, parasite, uh, oh, okay. See, I used to be big. I've been stopping eating recently. Okay. You've just switched to the liquor diet. Yeah. Yeah. This is all a guy like me needs. Okay. Great. He went through his long hair phase. There was a period where he went through every phase from like the early 2000s to now. So there was a, there was a, there was a man bun phase. I had a man bun for a while. Really? I tried. See, me and that yellow hoodie, that's when I had lettuce. I like that. You do? Yeah. I like it. I actually really do. Thank you. It was a little annoying. I would have to wear a headband because I hate when it gets in front of my eyes. I just can't deal with it. Yeah. No, I, I couldn't. Yeah. Oh, this is weird. My half of these photos are like edited to make my hair longer. Oh, really? Yeah. That one in the middle. That Pinterest one in the middle. That's, my hair just didn't look like, I don't ever remember your hair being like that. Never looked like that. That's strange. So they're trying to make something. They're trying, this is AI. This is why they are taking over. I had a pink hair era for a while. I wore that. You looked really good in that. That was, I think probably my favorite era of yours was confused for a minute. Why, flat era. Oh, yeah. I was deeply, deeply confused. Did you ever go from, because you had the, you had the, yeah, the, the, the, yeah, and then now you have the, was there, was there anything in between these two or there? Yeah. There was definitely like a rough awkward in between phase, which was unfortunately documented in our second movie, Ghostmates, because it was like, okay, like I am like five years past the point of, of having, you know, I should have cut this, this, like, emo hair a long, long time ago. But there was, there was, you know, a lot of pressure from our audience to keep it. A lot of people had a lot of ownership. Yeah. Yeah. There's a, that picture, Dean Coons, famous author. That's basically what I was going to look like if I kept Dean Coons. Yeah. Yeah. You know, Dean Coons. Coons. Coons. I don't know. Dean Coons. He's a famous, what is he? A sci-fi author, I think. Wow. Yeah. Dean Coons. He, see, he kept the bowl alive. This motherfucker is. Yeah. No, he could be really committed to this. Yeah. He's still alive. Was this maybe came out of like, what, Beetlemania or something? That's a good question. He's 79 years old. And he still rocks the, still rocks the bowl. He dropped around the same time as those bombs. Yep. Yeah. Then are you talking about the new killer bombs? Yeah. The nooks. So he's a, he's a pretty famous author. So it's, it's pretty easy to like, there's a lot of photos of him with that bowl cut. So I'm able to kind of like see what my life would have been like. Yeah. Had I continued down that path? I think you made the right choice. Did you say that ownership was pressuring you to keep your hair? No. Some of our audience felt a certain ownership towards the hair. Like, yeah, like, you know, it was like, don't you dare. Right. And I, you know, caved to the pressure for a long time. And then yeah, then it was kind of like sure. And then like, and then yeah, then it went up and you had blonde. Yeah. I a lot, I thought I lost the bet. No. It was if we got 500 people to register to vote, I would dye my hair blonde. Oh, wow. For who? Oh, just registering to vote. Then they can figure out who they wanted to vote for after the fact. But yeah Unfortunately, that happened during the pandemic. So as you could see, it just kind of grew back out 'cause I couldn't get my hair cut. - Yeah. - So it was definitely a moment where like, my hair just naturally went back to the bowl. It was kind of crazy. Like it just had this memory of its own. - Oh my God. - Yeah. - It knew what it used to be and it was like, it was like, take me back to my womb father. - Exactly. Anthony had a couple phases with his hair. I mean, I wish he was here to talk about it. - Yeah. - Yeah, well he's coming. - He's coming. - He's on his way. - Are we sure? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Last time I got a text from you said, speeding R.N. - Yeah, he's really on his like, he's really on like a one wheel kick right now. - Oh yeah. - He's on the one wheel. - Oh yeah. - Yeah, he's taking a one wheel here. - Yeah, so he's over in Santa Monica right now or he was. So it's gonna take a little while to get over here. - I just imagine him right now, just like kind of torpedo position leaning forward on the one wheel. Just zoom in. - Yeah. - Oh, you don't lean forward on the one. You lean to the side on the one wheel. - Oh, you're really? - Oh, well there, I get. - You think a hoverboard, man? - 'Cause there's, I think there's also like knockoffs that you can lean in. - Well, you know what I'm thinking of right now? I'm thinking of like that one that is like, is it a segue way? It's like a, it's like a armless set. Look at that. - Oh, that one. - Yeah, that's not a one wheel. - That's not a one wheel. - Oh, he's right, he's right. - The one wheel is the one that ran from corridor digital uses a lot. - Right, man. - It's crazy that, and he had a bad accident on it too. - I apparently like, everybody has a bad accident on a one wheel. - Makes you wonder why they still use it sometimes. - Yeah. - I saw Ludwig yesterday, and he's just coming off like a terrible accident he had on his Vespa. - Oh no. - And his Vespa, you got hit by a car. - Oh, that's not good if you're in a Vespa. - No, yeah. - And I went to his warehouse, and the Vespa was parked right there, so he would leave it. - Yeah, also wasn't that bad of an accident. - Did you know that the person who invented segue, the guy who started a company, he died because he drove off a cliff while demonstrating a segue way. - I'm not joking, I'm not joking, this is a real thing. - Jamie pulled that up. - James William, Jimmy, he's a former coal miner. - A former coal miner. - He came while he was a man. Manufacturer for the Hesco Bastion Barrier System. 2009 he bought segue incorporated. I guess he didn't invent it, but he was the owner of segue. He died in 2010 from injuries and sustained from falling from a cliff while riding his own segue. - He bought segue a year prior. He was like super bullish on this idea. - Yeah, because like segue, like so many people thought it was going to revolutionize the transport industry. - Yeah, and it did not at all, it flopped hard. But there was like weird people that were like really into it, like Steve Wozniak, who was like one of the Apple founder guys. He was super into it and they made a segue polo league. - Yeah, yeah, so like there was like a really old video that I made on our second channel, which was me going to the segue polo like World Cup, which is randomly in Sacramento. - That's real. - And there was like people from multiple countries and they were all there to compete. - That's polo. - It was, yeah, it was interesting. Oh yeah, here it is. Here's the video. - Freaking secret. - He'd polo World Cup. - Look at that text impact font. - Yeah. Oh wow, they're good. Oh wow. - Right. - Oh my god. - Wow, that is a crazy fall. - Look at that sportsmanship. - Yeah, you got to make sure they're okay. - Yeah. So. - I also, it's a song that I made. (laughing) - What are you doing? - Fucking leader, Joseon. I'm just in a warf suit. - So, were they mad at you for being there? - No, I think they were just happy to have people in war. - Yeah, there was like maybe 20 people in the stands. And they were all probably family members of the people that were playing. - So, can the people who competing this can they like not walk or something? - Why are they not like regular polo? - Yeah, that's what they're saying. - Can they not walk? - 'Cause this feels. - It feels like a mobility thing. - No, we know that. - I don't know. - I mean, I think. - Or do they refuse to? - I think like with any kind of thing that makes you go zoom, like naturally. - It is an ego thing for those who are able-bodied. - Yeah, I mean, you can go fat. I mean, have you ever read Rhoda's segue before? - No, I don't know what we'll. - It's actually very fun. - Really? - Yeah, it's like you look like an idiot, but it is actually fun. - It is something that seems to be exclusively for mall cops and for those that are going on like tours in like a, like wherever there is like not more than a 45 degree angle, I suppose. - Right, yeah. Yeah, I remember there used to be like a segue tour that would go past our old office. - Yeah. - And it was just like, and yeah, people would see people crash 'em and stuff. Like they're not safe at all. - No, I would say that, yeah, oh yeah, the segue lost to Angeles, that's. - Yeah, no, I mean, that seeing those would probably give me the same anger that I get, have you ever done the hike to the Hollywood sign? - Yeah. - Whenever I see those horse tour groups. - Oh yeah. - I get mad because they're doing it faster than you. - The ego of it, you know? - The ego of what? - If you're, I don't know, I find the horse tour. - If I see someone on a horse tour, when they're sitting up there, they're riding it. And they're moving back and forth. And they kind of just have, they got their helmet on and they've just kind of kind of got like a vibe to them where they're like, yeah, I'm on my horse and you have to walk. Like that's what I feel like I'm being told. - Interesting. I don't get that. I just don't like that they leave horse shit all over the trail. - That's another problem. They're leaving the horses are pooping everywhere. And they're like, and also when you have to go, you have to walk around the horse. And then it's like, nobody wants to walk around a horse. 'Cause you know that they have, they're like guns. - Oh my goodness. - Anthony's here. - Oh my God, it's Segway. - Oh man. - It's so good to see you. Oh my God. - Oh, dude. - It's great. - Wait, we gotta get another microphone in here. - Oh no, we got one right here. - Oh. - We got one right here. - Yeah. - Wow. - Oh, it's okay. - Wow. - Anthony, it's so good to see you again. I mean, we had you on like about a year ago and it's good to have everybody. - Yeah, yeah. No, I mean, and obviously I spend a day with both you guys. - Oh yeah. - So cool, you know, usually I don't hang out with people too much more than I get to hang out with people for a day. - Right. - And usually that's it. - Right. - And that was only a couple of hours when we feel. - Right. - And like you said, it was a whole day and I was like, I don't really flew to you when we must have been having a lot of fun. And through meditation, I'm able to make days happen a lot faster. So I live many days for what is one day for you and is many days for me. - So again, it's like in Red Diverdemption 2 and you like go to sleep at a campsite, you can like just choose what time you want to wake up. - Exactly Ian. - Wow. - My best friend, is that a new tattoo? You have a new cheek? - Oh yeah. - I just came from the tattoo. - Parlor right now. You know, I like to get tattoos that mean a lot to me. That's why I have. - I believe there are incredible. - I have of course, the wandering eye. - The eye, so that I can see out of it. - Really? - Yeah. - So I can see, at any time, I can see anything. - Okay. - I'm looking at the ground right now. - Yeah. - I guess it would be nice to, just when you got your hands on your pockets, just make sure. - I know my keys are there. - Yeah, it's a good defense against pickpocketers, I imagine too. - Exactly. - Yeah, 'cause I, and if I'm in the jungle, tigers, you know, if you're looking at a tiger, they're not gonna attack you. - Yeah. - So I, I kind of can always be doing that. And they know. - Wow. - Yeah. - They do. - That's why they have the, some animals have the, like the eye, the eye, the eye, the eye, the eyes. - You have fake eyes. - Yeah, like some of the moths have eyes. - Moths, yeah. - Certain caterpillars make themselves looks like snakes. - Oh my god. - I know all these things, 'cause I've spent a lot of time in nature. - Yeah. - So you're a spiritual god. - Very spiritual, yeah. - Oh my god, this is, well, this is incredible. We've got the, we've got the whole, we've got the whole Smosh duo here. - Exactly. - Yeah. - The whole food battle right here. - Exactly. - Oh no. - I had a pink frosted sprinkle donut for breakfasts. - Oh, wow. - Will you eat? - Yeah. - That's great. (laughing) - So, so this is great. So the last time that we had you guys, or we had, we had Anthony on, there was a whole scenario where, I think I, I think I honestly asked him. If, like, 'cause I didn't even know at the time, I asked him if he'd still talk to Ian, 'cause I don't think I had ever really seen you guys in the same place. And he had a, I think it was maybe like weeks before, weeks before you guys announced it. - Yeah. - Yeah. - And he had to just lie. - Oh no, he was lying to us. - You were lying to us the whole time. - Yeah, I had to, I told him that, you know, that we don't, talk that it's, it's a rift that is filled with malice and hatred. Yeah. And as it had been for six years, so and I told you guys that, but meanwhile, you know, we were hanging out, having a great time planning our videos, doing like planning our sketches. I'm glad it worked out. Yeah. Cause I mean, when you made that video, you seemed like you were harboring a lot of hatred for Ian. I was. Yeah. He does that. Yeah. So just for Ian, you know, I spent a day with pretty much every kind of person at this point and I've had no issues with almost everyone. What's, what's the craziest kind of person you've spent a day with? Oh, man, um, Tucker Paul, his, let's pull up and he's a question I also have for you. Have you ever thought about spending nights in response? Oh, like you cuddling up with someone and getting to know them far better than Anthony ever could. You know, don't take my ideas, you know, that's. That's pretty bad. See, he spent a day with me a califa. That was good. That was cool. Yeah. I want to spend a day with the guy who invented segues, but then I found out he died. Yeah. Yeah. Crazy. I was just reading about this. I don't like it. You guys have heard about this. Um, yeah, I spent what's it like spending a day with asexuals? Pretty crazy. Not a lot of sex can no sex. Usually he fucks everybody that goes on show you guys know, yeah, you guys know, it's part of it. You know, and it's, it's like it's, you got to, you got to do it. It's part of the job. It's why I'm not looking for it. It's spending a day with Asman Gold. It's going to be awful. I did. It's going to be a lot of blood. You know, I don't want to be looking at the wall. What it's happening. It's sort of like entering the devil's chamber. Yeah. It's resident evil nine. I think we should move on to the next topic. Yeah. Well, it's the business. He's an OTK. Part owner of OTK. No. He wasn't bloody at any of the meetings. That's great. Yeah. Hey, it feels like the bare minimum though, to say that he wasn't for a twitch dreamer. But you can't assure us that he was not bloody at any other time of the day with him. So I haven't spent a day with him so I can't judge until I look at him. In the face, I don't know. Yeah, that's true. Until then, I'm going to believe that he's a good person. You know, we'll see. What's the best man that you guys have of each other? You know, this one time, this one time we went down to Mexico. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And some different type of frosted donuts down there. That's right. What is that man? You figure it out. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Cooking donut. Yeah. Yep. Yep. We just kind of like spun the globe and just kind of pointed and what we do. And it was a wahaka. Yeah. That's the stuff. That's the stuff that wasn't on camera. You know, everything else was. Right. Right. We're filming almost like 18 hours a day and the other six hours we're going to Mexico or wherever else. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of trouble back then. Yeah. Wow. A lot of trouble. Yeah. Have you guys, have you guys gone on a trip? Two of you? Yeah. What have you guys done? I can barely get them to come out here. I mean, but we would love to. You know, we were talking about, you know, our great, we called our good tundra time or good tundra time. Yeah. Yeah. But everything. It was just, so we were going to go to the tundra in Russia. Cool. That's where they found Otze. Oh. You know, Otze. Yeah. I haven't spent a day with him. So I don't know. What? That would make it. Yeah. I'm not familiar. Oh, okay. Oh, this guy. Yeah. You know that guy? The first ever. The first ever. He was there. It was a work in progress. He hadn't figured out the. He was clutching a guy. That's how I sleep. Yeah. It's a, it's a good position, because it's like it prevents you from you. Yeah. They stood him up like that. Yeah. They moved them. Wow. Yeah. It's not respectful. There is original intentions, like the intentions of the artist weren't crazy. You're as old as mummy, but not the world's oldest mummy, right? No. Yeah. We were going to go to the tundra time and check that out, but then, um, then I can't, I mean, I canceled. Yeah, he canceled. I said, I, I don't want to do that. Yeah. Well, Russia's kind of canceled, right? Russia's canceled. Yeah. The day of the day. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. I really know. Yeah. Their ballet is too intense. Yeah. They got some good authors out of it though. Yeah. Dostoyevsky. Bulgakkov. You know? Those greats. I went to community college, so I don't know that. I dropped out. I just kind of read it on my own, uh, little time. Good for you. Well. You guys like reading? Uh, I prefer to, you know, learn from my surroundings. Okay. Interesting. You become somewhere holiday. It's more holistic than the one. Yeah. No. I, you know, I think I'm really in tune with the, with the present moment. Yeah. You know, it's great. It'll talk about reading and you get to travel to other worlds. I think there's so much to learn in this world. Yeah. Wow. I'd rather stay here. So say, Jane, learn about it. Thank you, Ian. I feel like Ian, you must be a, you, you strike me as someone that has a lot of general knowledge about things. Nothing that's really helpful to my life, sure, but I just, uh, I'm just a sponge for the most useless shit. Yeah. Yeah. But then it's fun. It's good conversations. So it's good. You can just bust it out. Oh, yeah. I can, I can make conversation with most anybody. Um, it's not going to be like a worthwhile conversation, maybe, but I could keep the conversation going. Okay. Yeah. I like that. People might not, I don't know if they enjoy it or not, but I'm loving this. But I can, you know, at least, uh, stave my, uh, anxiety, uh, you know, for that time being. I just don't like silence. Yeah. Have you heard of Mr. Hans? I was about that. That was about. Yeah. I think I spent it. I think I'm going to spend a day with him. You gonna? Mr. Hands though. Yeah. Did he die? No, Mr. Hands is the horse. Oh, the horse. Not the horse was Mr. Hands. The horse was Mr. Hands. The horse was Mr. Hands. I didn't know that. I didn't know that either. I thought the guy was Mr. Hands. I've heard him talk about that a hundred times. Not a joke number. I've never spent a day with the horse. So I didn't, didn't Mr. Hands, like, change, uh, was that, was that up in Washington? Inham, claw Washington. You're specific. I am. Didn't that change the beastiality laws? Oh, exact. Cause I think, cause I think in. I did. Anthony. You got, yeah. You know that too well. He was a Boeing engineer. Yeah. He was Kenneth pinion. You know, he knows. Wow. If you asked him the coordinates, he could tell you. I used to be on the trivia section of this Wikipedia page. See as BCLity was legal in Washington state at the time. Oh, rock on. Yeah. So they, I think the laws are changed after Mr. Hands because of that. It's kind of crazy that like Washington state was like, wait, this was legal. Yeah. Oh, wait. No. Look at participants. No, they specified Kenneth as Mr. Hands. I was wrong. Oh. Oh. Yeah. We don't know the name. No. No. Here's a question. Who is Douglas Spink? Let's find out. That he's got like an old age. American advocate for sufiliens. So this guy was. No, no, no. That's like, that's why. Hey, you know, everyone's an advocate for something. After declaring bankruptcy in 2002. Thanks, Drew. Jesus Christ. Spink was strangely protective of a female German shepherd that was with him said commander. Steve Klopp. Oh, I thought that was the end of the segment. With commander Steve Klopp. Steve Klopp. Steve Klopp. Yeah. It doesn't sound like these. Oh, the most important. Wait, wait, wait. This is especially bad for me because I'm a vegan. And I hate this. Also clarifying they didn't bother with the more. I'll be ever do their more pressing concerns. The most important of which was the 372 pounds of cocaine in the car. How do you fit 372 pounds of cocaine in? We know. Yeah. Yeah. Little times in many months. No, but actually, that's crazy. He rated 19 SWAT team members rated his house after the eat them claw horse sex case. That's crazy, man. Wow. Wow. Is he still in prison? Is he in prison? You want a drink Anthony? Oh, I don't drink. You don't? I don't drink any sort of liquids. He drinks life. I use bertharianism. You know, in many ways, though, air is a liquid. So I guess I'm drinking that. Oh, yeah. But no, I survive without any sort of liquids. And I am a vegan. So no animal products. Sure. I survive entirely off of vegan protein bars. Those are really. That's the crickets. Wait, no, they're not. Oh, that wouldn't. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. That's okay. That's okay. That's okay. That's okay. That's okay. So what sort of like now that Smosh is back together. It's been a year now, right? About a year. Yeah. Yeah, it's been a year. And you've got that little house. And you got the, you're doing the skits again. How are those going? one. Generally, how those going? Well, we've we've recently pivoted. So now we're doing a thing called bit city. Yeah. So it's like a variety show. Yeah. Well, bit city. It's, yeah, it's this awesome show that, you know, Shane pitched the general idea, which was fucking awesome of just like a kind of variety. Yeah, Shane, we had them on the show before really. Yeah. Oh, that's awesome. That's had to have been like your best episode. Yeah, and what you guys have talked for so long. You know, you know, you know, you know, it's crazy. It was a long episode. And I am very familiar with actually with Shane's voice, which is crazy. As I'm listening, like, you can correct me if I'm wrong here. But I've seen it. Shane and I have to sound very similar kind of I think maybe they grew up in like a similar area of the area. Yeah. Yeah. I never really thought about that. Well, you're really focused on me right now. Guys, all right. What's wrong with me? What's wrong? Guys, I'm, I'm sorry. I'm not actually Anthony. What? What? What? Huh? It's me. Shane. Shane. Shane. Wait a minute. Hold on. Hold on. Wait a second. Have you? Okay. Wait a minute. Is Anthony, is Anthony a real person at all? Have you always been Anthony or you're just playing Anthony this time at this point? I don't even know Ian. Wait, but the, but I know I wouldn't, I wouldn't got these tattoos. I wouldn't got these tattoos. And that and yeah, you've got all the wavy. These are real tattoos that I got the wavy sexy man tattoos. And I honestly, I, I wanted to come back and be on the podcast. So I, you know, and I told Anthony, hey, they actually canceled the episode. And so Anthony didn't show. And then I went and got these tattoos. And just in general just became handsome or showed up here. I feel hoodwinked. I'm sorry. You'll betrayed. I lied to you. I didn't think the podcast was that good for you to be really awesome through all those. I really wanted to come back addicted to, I'm addicted to being on truck, we'll see which a very sad. I got some bad news for you. I have to, we, we're going to have to, is this is going to go over your last year. Just ending. What? It's over. It's like, we've got like two more recordings in order. Maybe you could like just come in. Oh no, in reality, I was sitting over there for 15 minutes while Charlie went. We couldn't get this. I also like this. This is a bit that was pitched many days ago. Okay, last week. Okay, to get the way. I'm sorry. We don't do that to me. Oh, I don't have a ring. I'm so sorry. You know, you're like, you could just pretend to be. He knows like, what? I'll just sit. You know, the week ended up being so. Anthony, man. No, the weekend. Anthony's on vacation right now. So when they reached out there, Ted was like, Oh, yeah, you and Anthony come on. And I was like, Oh, Anthony's out of the country right now. And you're like, okay, then then Shane could come in and just as Anthony was like, okay. I thought it would be a funny bit. I don't know. Do we have fun? I had fun. It was fun. Yeah. It was interesting. Yeah. It was interesting. Did you, what did you wind up liking that? Anthony, more than you seem a little. You seem a little pissed off about this. Well, now that I now that I understand that Anthony is a real person and it wasn't always Shane and a wig. Right. I feel a little bit better about this. Yeah. No, he is real. And he is out there. We don't know where he is. We don't know where he's posting pictures of like the jungle. Oh, okay. Yeah. And rivers. So you see I did my research. Yeah, rivers. Yeah, I didn't know what I was talking about. He's on a globe and he just, yeah, just chose. Yeah. So I guess you get to know the question I had. I mean, so it's, you guys have started bit city. This is a, this is a new. Yeah, because you started with the, with the, the skits. Yep. You did some workings with the, I was one of the first skits. You did some workings with the devil. Yeah. That was the first one. Was that the first one? Yeah, because I watched the first one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We, uh, cause when, when Anthony and I started talking again, we were like, we started talking about like sketches and like started getting really excited. Yeah. And so like we really wanted to do kind of like, it was kind of like a really fun exercise to see, like, can we do these sketches again and, and, and feel the same kind of, uh, you know, spark. Right. And it was really fun. Um, but also like with smosh being what it is. Right. It felt very much on an island compared to everything else we were doing. Right. And so like, our goal has always been to try to make smosh feel like one thing rather than like, Oh, it's like, it's like a whole bunch of, like everyone's like friends and coming together for this thing. And then it's eating an Anthony over here. Yeah. And that felt kind of weird. Yeah. Like it was like this sort of like little passion probably. It was like, Oh, there go the owners and they're just not for their machinations again. Yeah. And it just felt like kind of selfish to be like, Oh, we're going to do like our thing here. Like, yeah. So it's, it's fun. Like we're still able to do this sort of like sketch comedy, but in a way that includes everybody. Yeah. That is so cool. I mean, I was saying this to Shane and Courtney the other day when they were on, I just think it's so cool. How, first of all, that smosh has been around for so long, but then I feel like that you guys coming in and like, buying the company back was like, felt like a such a collective victory for just obviously was, you guys, it was such a cool victory for you guys. But I feel like everyone who had watched you guys for so long, we were like, the world is kind of healing in one category. And like, um, I don't know, like it is the, even though every, like the stuff is different and it's like, maybe you can do that island sort of of doing a sketch of stuff. Is it, is it just like cool to be working with Anthony again? And like, I guess they haven't a blast and like, I mean, it's, it's very cool. Like I think, I think that feeling that you're kind of describing of like, you know, the world is healing. Like was also felt at the company. So like, it's, it's been great to, to work with Anthony again, but also like for everyone else to be able to, to work with Anthony and, and to feel like the company is ours again. And, and I think like, it's in the best, I think smosh is in the best place that it's ever been. Yeah. Um, and, you know, we kind of like have this, and it's, you know, it's, I know it's like kind of cringed to have like, you know, company core values, but like, like we, we do have this like, uh, core value or like mission statement of, uh, um, comedy rooted in friendship. So like, everything that we, everything that we do is like kind of like filter through that. So like whenever we have a pitch for like a new kind of like series or video, it's like, okay, but is it comedy rooted in friendship? And that's, I like that, such like a wholesome, like cool way to go about it. Yeah. And it just like, it just kind of helps like, give us a North star for like where we're going with the content rather than like, just being like, oh, this is a trend. Let's just do it because everyone else is doing it. It's like, okay, is it a trend that we can do in our way? And, and that's how we kind of like figure out the, the sort of videos that we do now. And that's, and that all started from, you know, the core of what Anthony and I started the YouTube channel, which, with, which was just me and him, okay, having a good time, like, and like, you know, the, the kind of motto from like the early Smosh stuff was friendship always wins. Right. So just kind of like taking that and kind of bringing it to like the, the broader company. Damn. That's so like, I love that, dude. I could, and I, you know, I could have swore from some of those food battles. You guys didn't like each other. That the battles were real. The, yeah, that it was real rivalry. Yeah. It's really wrapped up in fiction. Yeah. He's like, he just gets a bit grossed and it's like, I get it. What do you mean? You guys like had a relationship beyond the, the Smosh. It's crazy, right? Right. It's crazy. I think you actually confused. Did you? So that cat that you stuffed in the microwave? Yeah, for cats soup. Yeah. Yeah. Did you? So that was fake? Yeah, it wasn't a real cat. For legal purposes, I have to say it was fake. Okay. 2009. The rules were different. Did you, did you see Disney on ice after? Wow. I forgot. That was a part of the video. Is that a punchline? I'm like, I'm going to go see Disney on ice. You know this better than I do. It was, okay. So it started. with fuck. All I remember from cat soup is that you stuffed the cat in a microwave and cooked it. Yeah. And then Disney on Isles also is mentioned. Oh, there it is. Wow. Wow, this is old school. Yeah, it's the highest quality, uh, I don't like video quality at this time. Actually, I think it was 360. The other day. It's crazy to how our eyes have adjusted. Crossed it's sprinkled donut. There was a little. Oh, yeah, you debated about that shirt. I just don't understand. That was movie magic. That was blue. Wow, you guys know, it's the five things are a tourist. No, no, it's, you know, it's the five minute rule. It looks it up on Wikipedia. Wow. What happened to your face? Oh, this? Yeah, it's weird. How do we remember these old videos being such a better video quality? Yeah, that's what I like. I think it was because of the screens that we had too. Yeah, probably. Yeah, a lot of things. No way. Better quality back then. And then just we kind of like we should have played that 64 game on a flat screen. Yeah, it's like we had like the CR like, I met some people who are watching this. They don't know like a CR piece. And we had like a hook up with their computer. And watching. Smosh. Well, you watching this whole thing. We've got to see, we've got to see and put it in a microwave. That's right. That's good. That's good. Good. Yes. So you actually microwave that. Yep. Yep. Oh, it's still alive. I would take it out of the microwave. I guess he thought it was done. When does that happen? I don't know, like 10 minutes ago. 10 minutes ago? Yeah, I'm just trying to hear me out. In the hot right there. Well, I'll go right here. Yeah. What year was this? This come out 2007? Wow, 16 years ago. 2018. Wow. Wow. It was crashing around. You guys. Oh, yeah. We didn't know Obama pre pre Obama. Real bomb. Yeah. Yeah. We went through. Yeah. Yeah. Because we had a we had a whole video as Boxman for president. That was when Obama was running against McCain. Wow. Holy crap. And I think that video is why we weren't allowed to meet Obama. It was 2008 that you were invited to meet. No, it was like 2000. I think it was like 2012 or something. Got it. It was the next conversation. I feel like every YouTube was meeting the president. Yeah. Cause of I think it was jazz. Jazz. Which was like a like a comedy network that was started by like Sarah Silverman and some other comedy people. Like they had this weird like political connection. And so like they would they invited like a bunch of YouTubers to, yeah, start with Tim Heidecker, Eric Warren, hi, Sarah and Reggie Watts. Wow. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. It was, it was, I think like one of the things is like they were, yeah, they were one of the channel initiatives, which was YouTube giving like a million dollars to different areas and being like source fed. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. And we got, we got some of that money to do a cartoon thing. But yeah. So we got invited to the White House and they, they got back to us and said, you can come to the White House. But you can go to the White House. But you can't meet Obama. What? That's so rude. The theory, what I was told and I don't know if it's true, but we might not have passed like a security screening. Tristan. That's, that's been the, so I, and I think it was maybe because of Boxman for President, because we called Obama fat, maybe, yeah. Like that was it. Yeah. So they, they said that you can come to the White House. They said, you can't meet Obama, but you can meet Biden. And we were like, no, thanks. That's insane. That's insane. War. He said no. Thanks to me. And Biden was like, I don't know. He was, he was actually like, it was like a home phone. He was also on the line. He's listening. He's like, oh, he was like, who's going to win? Pink Donut. Oh, come on. Come on. Come on. Folks. They got the salary. But they can't put the camera. This year, it's a journal. The microwave and making a soup. I love a side smile where he's just like, I know. He'll, he'll, if someone just bring that, he'll just like give him a, he'll like, choose a match. Like, wait, hold on, cat soup. You could say that I was eating the cats. In spring. Oh, showing Trump like old smosh videos. That'd be hilarious. Was it, was there? Oh, I would just, I'm sorry. One of them has a donut. There's a teleporting factor. You don't know where he is. There's a neighbor. He's a piece of shit. Oh my God. They often tell me to shut up. I don't like it. I don't like it. Not nice, frankly, not nice. This is Guy Box, man. Is he a box? Is he a man? I don't know. It seems like a battle break. And people are saying, smosh was good until they brought these new people in. I don't like them. I don't like them. That's great. Oh, Jesus. I think we just started on both episodes that I've been in. It's, it's, we've been working on it, honestly. And this, and so you improved differently depending on how it went. You reminded me when you just did the impression that he does the, like, he like works up to like, so he has no idea what he's about to say. I think he's got a limited amount of spit in his body. I mean, give a moment and he has to collect it all with that. So he's like, he's always harnessing. Yeah. It's like he's warming up a laser in his mouth. Yeah. Yeah. Just like that. Dude, I'm a fire in my laser. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. You really know everything. Yeah. We actually, we were looking something up the other day. And there was a video from like 2015 that was using that. No, it was 2019. It was, it was about, was it salt? It was about Salt Lake. It ever heard of a Salt Lake? Yeah. For deer. You know about a Salt Lake. Yeah. He's never heard about a Salt Lake before. Just telling Ian about a Salt Lake. Tim is boy. Yeah. Because he's now he's Salt Lake hyperfixated. Look at that. Look at that. 2019. We're like, what is that doing there? It's the laser collection face. Wow. That is. Yeah. He's about to fire his laser. Yeah. My God. Um, so you're on like a Salt Lake kind of like moment right now. Yeah. I am. But I'm having a research Salt Lake to find out which was the best. You need to get one with minerals. It can't just be Salt. There has to be other minerals. There's other stuff that the Himalayan Salt Lake for Deers. It's, uh, is Deers the proper deer? I think it's definitely just deer. But, but for plural, I think it's deer. Deer because I've heard, you know, it's one, one interesting thing that I learned when you're referring to, uh, multiple species of fish. It's fish make your choice. Fish, fishes. You have chosen wisely. Yeah. Wow. And that was one of that was one of your little little nuggets. Yeah. Yeah. Cause I, cause I met somebody who is, who is, uh, head of fishes at, uh, at a museum. Yeah. That doesn't sound. Yeah. That like you'd hear someone say they'd be like, that, that's unfortunate. I feel like there's nothing you can do about that. And if someone said, Oh, I'm head of fishes, they're, you're gonna look at them and be like, Oh, they're not that smart. I think it's, I think it's, yeah, well, yeah, you might not think that. Yeah. I think octopuses is the same octopuses. I think it's a misnomer. Octopi. Octopi. Octopi. Deers. Octopus. I don't think it's octopuses. Octopuses. Oh, it's octopuses. Oh, it's octopuses. Yep. Yeah. You're right. It was a misnomer. The pusses. Oh, Octopi is susceptible. It's not like the AI summary said. Oh, and AI is okay. Yeah. I really think this is a common mistake. And then the quick summary right below it says that they're correct from dictionary.com. And dictionary is going to be one of those where it's like if people are saying enough, I get that's the funny thing about the English language. I feel like some other languages are like, we have rules. Yeah. And you can't just make stuff up. Whatever you want to say, man. Yeah, it's like, it's like if a word has enough votes, it becomes real. Yeah. Which is crazy. I think that's fair. I think that's fair. We live in a democracy. Yeah. It is. Yeah. Democratic language for a democratic, but there's a little more structured other languages. Like when I, like in the few attempts, I've had it learning Spanish. It's like, oh, that's how that vowel sounds. Always. Yeah. It doesn't And change, whereas English is kind of like, well, sometimes that vowel just goes sound different. Yeah. Sometimes it's gonna be French. Yeah. Have you seen guys seen that a new SNL skit with the George Washington? Yeah, with the George Washington rules that they have. That's so funny. That's probably one of my favorite skits I've seen on one. It's a good one. It's a really good one. It's like super super new, right? Uh, it's not it's like from the year like past year, like maybe it's yeah, it's with the stand up. Uh, stand up. Uh, my god, I forget his name. He's really funny. Yeah, it's like Nate or something or Nate or Gatsy. Yeah. Yeah. You guys literally just watched the stand up last night. He's really funny. Delivery's incredible. Stand up so hard to watch at home by yourself. Really? Yeah, because like you got your phone and like the moment you look away from then you're lost in your lost and are you are you more of a a second like a I think they call it a second watcher or something? Second screen. Second screen. Like there's like this whole thing. Um, I forget who I was hearing this from, but uh, it was a whole thing about, Oh, you know what? I think it was it came from, um, Drew, Drew Goodin's new video. Oh, the attention. I thought it was a conversation. I had with some of them. No, I was just watching Drew's video where it was about, uh, Netflix. A, I know, right. Um, Netflix has like rules for their documentaries where they want to make it, it, it's acceptable for like a second screen. It's like they have this whole concept of like someone should be able to put it on and be like doing their laundry or like doing other stuff and like not lose that much information. So they go really like something that could be like a four episode series is like eight or 12 episodes, because they're just releasing information. So slow. Yeah. Yeah. Um, no, I mean, it's very real because people are on their phones and then they add something else up. Yeah. It's probably really bad for us. Yeah. We're probably melting internally. Sometimes I feel like it's not great that they're, that this is like their initiatives though. Right. Like that, that, because I saw that video too, that Drew did and it's like, like, yeah, it's, it's all bullshit. And it's like designed in this way to, to melt your mind is all about watch time. You know, like I have a series where I react to, to TikToks, which I love doing. And every, every, every, so every subsequent video I'd make, I'd make a little bit longer. And they would always get more views. And I made a video in between these. That was like 12 minutes long. Yeah. It's got like half of them. Yeah. Interesting. So this 38 minute long. Oh, that probably got 15 million views. Yeah. 12 million views in a year. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So like, yeah, 22 minutes. Did you find this meta of, of putting an animal on the right side and doing a red circle around that kind of is and half of their head is behind the circle? Yeah. That's crazy. Like you're not going to know where the animal is until you circle it. It's very 20 times. It's very 20 times YouTube. 15 million views. Yeah. Why would I change the formula? Sure. Oh, there's an animal that you didn't draw a circle. Yeah. That one's a red arrow. Wait, did it? Did it? Did it? Yeah. There was an animal. That one did good. The cam with a graham cracker. 13. Yeah. You should have circled it, bro. Yeah. That was only 10. That was a, that was probably a 10 out of 10 on, you drank your scuffed TikToks. And then look, ranking your cursed cooking is only 11 minutes. And it's only got 7.6. That's like, what the hell? Man, baby numbers, pathetic numbers, pathetic numbers, pathetic numbers. I will say what you're saying, shall I, though, about having like recording alone and then having like a thing you say and then moving on? That gets, that gets sort of somewhat close to what I do with like a commentary video where I like have a terrible movie. And then I like write a script for it. But then I'm like going through the video and order. And sometimes like rewatching and then reacting. But like a lot of what I say is just a script of, you know, there was a video sniper wolf where allegedly in her glasses, you, you couldn't even see the video on screen. You just go, oh my god. You just saw a white Google doc. That feels like allegedly, that feels like more work than actually watching and reacting to things. I think this was just a room. I never saw in my own eyes, but I'd been told that there was a deleted sniper wolf video where you could see the script. That's awesome. That is, that is. That's why that's something. That's something. Yeah. Look, just reading a script that says, oh my god, what is that guy doing? Oh my goodness. Get out of here. Yeah. What are you doing in my home? Put that away. And see, look how fat is sick. Only three and a half million views. No one cared that my cat was sick at all. Yeah. Well, you should have drawn a red circle around your cat. I should have gone on with his ears should have like overlapped the red circle. You should have made him green, but that was a bit more than it was sick. Oh true. Yeah. I'm going to film, I'm going to film like 12 hours of me just going, what? What? What? What? That'll be every video I do. I haven't also have to release a 10, that 10 hour footage of you doing that. It's Shane Top saying what? It reaches reacting to nothing. It does, it does sound like a 2000 black screen. It does sound like a, like a 2000. Well, it gets probably 2012 Mr. Beast video. Yeah. So what I'm going to do. You want some? Oh, I'm okay. Okay. You were just looking at the cup. We thrust it into a very close. What I'm going to do soon, because I just can't bring myself to film those reaction videos anymore. Yeah. I'm going to do something similar where I just do a bunch of reactions to nothing. Mm hmm. Like hours and hours of fake just reactions to nothing. Yeah. Yeah. Release them online and let people make them let people make the reaction videos. And then I whichever ones are good. And you claim them post them. Okay. And then we'll do some revenue share with whoever edited it. Sure. But I'll are you going to be the winner? Yes. That's crazy. If you want to be like really, yeah. If you want to be really craven, you know, just find a way to just like get AI, to guess how you should react to this. Yeah. Not that I'm saying you should do this because I think that'd be terrible. That would be morally bankrupt. Yes. But I would say, no, it would be it would be very funny. How is how is Smosh leveraging AI in this changing climate? Dude, there was a guy. Oh, my gosh. These guys, these guys ran up to me at VidCon during. So they have those like those nights where you can like walk around the floor after all the the fans are out of the expo. Yeah. And these like, and it's supposed to be a time for creators to like creeps are out of the but it's supposed to be a time for creators to like see the floor and stuff. And yeah. And I've never gone to one. I finally went to one. And and then these like three like bros like walked up to me and they're like filming. They're like, so like, what do you what do you think about? What do you think about AI? What do you what do you do you think AI is like great? I was like, no, I don't I don't think it's good. Where do you think you should use AI? I was like, I don't think anything you should do. They were already filming when they came up to you. Yeah. Well, they were like, hey, can we film with them with the thing with you really quick? I was like, okay, sure. Yeah. And then they were like, what what what do you use AI for your videos? And I was like, we don't. And they're like, they're like, what? They're of shock. Wait, what? How do you make anything? We I mean, we use like a plug-in sometimes for like, I mean, we use it. We use it. I mean, look, I mean, we use it. We just don't say that we just don't say. Our podcast is fully chat GPT. There's like, there's like some like plug-ins for like editing. Yeah, but we're like cuts the dead like the dead space between. I think people were talking about generative AI. Yeah, that's the big thing. But it's like, it's yeah, I mean, we've we've been like very I think the word is almost the slur now though. You know, like people hear it and they're like, well, some people, but some people are like stoked about it. Oh, yeah. We go on how big there is a love it there on the public square. The public. Fuck yeah. Some dudes that they've made it their whole personality. Yeah, AI. I think they think they're going to get rich. Oh, yeah. These are these are these are second tier movers though. These are people thinking they're going to catch up. They're like, they're far down the totem pole on the on the thing. Hey, Chat, I've got my friend Ian here who doesn't really agree with using chat GPT for creative purposes. I mean, what would you say to him to convince him that it could actually be really useful and also use a sick use a sick sick New York accent while you're saying this. Alrighty, and listen up. Think of chat GPT. No, that's sicker, sicker, and more stereotypical, please. Alrighty, and check it out. You got writer's block? Forget about it. A brainstorming buddy who never gets tired. It spits out ideas, helps you fine tune your plots. Even throws in a wisecracker too. It's like having a cup of coffee with a genius. So why not give it a shot, eh? It seems like he's doing the Yeah, I really hated that and I hate you Can you Please just I'm gonna kill you first Divide yourself by zero. I get it that accent isn't for everyone We are a little bit of fun Can you ask him to do a Trump impression? Yeah See he's so useful. I have him on my lock screen That's crazy Sometimes he doesn't load and I pay $20 a month for this. Oh, man Well, somebody I'm curious about for in terms of smash though um is Like for the future of the smash like I just feel like it's going in such a cool direction where you guys have like a whole like cast of people you're doing like it's uh like I just I don't know I just love where where you guys are taking it right now And I'm just curious like what are what are your like dreams for what it could become in the future like what I obviously your north star is comedy amongst friends, but like I don't know vision in terms of like a visual of like what that maybe looks like in the future like I don't even know if you guys have like a fucking vibe of your plan or anything like that like yeah, I don't know What is that what does that look like for mr. Ian um? I think like ultimately is like providing opportunities for the What time is it in L.A. Sorry, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I just like the dude time it is like deep conversation You're over you're googling. What time is it? You you googled what time it is We have there's like clock at the bottom of it. It's not an accurate clock Don't have to google the time I mean it is in like military time Military time eastern standard time military time is it? Yeah, all right I really love this conversation man. How much time is it? I don't want to have to sit here and listen to this Yeah, no, I mean like I think I mean one of one of the One of the initial goals for Anthony and I like God like in Eight two thousand nine was like we wanted to be kind of like the Saturday night live of the internet Um, and I think what that means for us now is like just finding really fucking funny people I think you're getting there. Honestly, I think it's something similar to that Dishaine the other day about how like it was like because I feel like there's also a lot of people that have There's a just general different opinions about saturday night live So like you should as a comparison is um is such a weighted thing that it's like hard to Because saturday night live to a lot of people is like very cringey Yeah, cringey I was testing to talk about the content of it as much as just the structure Of like finding like being a place that funny people want to be a part of it So it's like so it's like finding opportunities for for like Funny people to be able to show their talents and then like You know if they get so big that they outgrow us and and move on to something else like great Like we want to be a place that people like aspire to be Involved with smosh and like oh like I'm an aspiring comedian. I want to I want to be in the cast. Yeah So Yeah, I mean that's that's kind of that's been our goal and like just being able to provide opportunities for the people that are within the company Um, and also just like even behind the camera like like We've we've had people that you know started as like For instance Kiana who's like our head of programming started as our channel manager Right, so it's like being able to provide like opportunities for like growth within the companies also really cool Yeah, but yeah, I mean like it's like we Casted like Angela and chance and Arasha like two years ago or three years ago Two years and like they're so fucking funny. Yeah, and and like smosh For some reason we getting like stuffed up smosh was Is changing for the better because they're there right so it's not like It's not like oh like we're gonna hire you And you're just gonna be in our shit like they're Transforming what smosh is um because they're involvement. So I think that's really awesome because I don't want this to be the I don't want it to be the Ian show right like I know that not everything I think Is funny is the funniest thing Um so yeah, I mean you have chat gpt right the Ian show. Yeah sure I want to hear I want to hear his trumpet impersonation though. I can combine it to hey chat uh pitch me a show idea called the Ian show which is based around smosh Founder Ian hecox, but do it in a trump accent, please I can definitely A show idea called the Ian show for no. Where's the trump accent use a trump accent? Please don't impression do an impression of trump I can't do a trump impression, but I'm more than happy to pitch the Ian show for you Can you do it in I can't imitate voices, but I'd love to keep discussing the Ian show or any other ideas And now is a crocker shit maybe not people specifically just like do the like describe what Trump does maybe pretend Like you're doing a Trump impression By understand what you're asking, but I can't do voice impressions. Okay, do do okay do Really stereotypical Chinese accent hog I can't imitate accents I wish I wish I wish I responded being like slap that's fucked up I'm not doing that. Okay, so he can't it is even like you fuck out. He did New York. Okay, let's see what I'll with what other accents What other accents can we get him to do doing like a really thick Russian yeah Russian hi chat Pitch me the Ian show starring smosh founder Ian hecox with a thick Russian accent, please I can pitch you the Ian show, but I'll skip the accent what he was doing for a second You you were just doing it. I see what you mean But I'm gonna keep it in my usual voice. No, I take $20 a month for you What do you mean you're gonna do it your way? Oh, he's gonna create the singularity I understand where you're coming from No, yeah, I'll keep things engaging without the accent So back to the Ian show where Ian hecox stars into wild scenario Ian just told me he doesn't want to hear it He doesn't want to hear it anymore because you're not doing the accent I understand no worries. If there's anything else you'd like to chat about just let me know Ask him which accents he's comfortable doing because he already did like New York accent he started to do a Russian one do yeah He answered that he wasn't gonna do a Russian accent in a Russian accent. Yeah, so what accents are you comfortable doing because 10 minutes ago you did a New York accent for me I don't actually do accents if it seemed like I did one before it was just a coincidence Oh my god, wow, I don't trust it one thing. He's like you must have imagined that because I never did that Terrifying. It's fucked up. Oh, yeah. No, that did not that did not persuade me. Oh, no, no That actually scared me more. I actually I'm more visually again stay I than it was before But that I like Google what time it is again Yeah, I wonder what it is fresh Pretty cool. All right, what are you gonna ask? I was just gonna say what you were saying earlier though I've really liked that. It sounded like a cool direction for squash and I was happy to hear about it Thank you, and I also love whenever you guys ask me to come on. I love coming on Please ask me to come on again. I'm joking. Do you do you remember do you remember when I was late? Yes. Oh, yeah, you didn't show up I didn't show up No, I actually wasn't gonna mention that I was gonna mention Do you remember at the streamies when you were you were a little drunk And you decided you were gonna give us like unsolicited advice really on like for our channel What did I say what did I mention? I don't know You're like you're like hey, it's great, but like I got some really That night at the streamies. I was like probably the drunkest I had ever been you were pretty blitz yeah, and I I'm sorry See if they find footage I know I I apologize that I Was that inebriated at the streamies? You probably thought you were sitting next to critical - We put together a lot. - So sweet. - You should share it. (laughing) Yeah, no, there was also this moment with with with that same night where I was like He I had like an apple watch on I was like dude take it out my already it's 120. Oh, I remember that yeah I remember that I was like I think you might have pots. Yeah, and I also totally mirrors myself I was like I was like I love the Billy button song and I was like you know this song Yeah, no, I was a mess that night. I guess Yikes every conversation I have with Rhett and Link I always felt like I made an ass of myself It's not because they're just so they're always so calm and collected. Yeah, that it's hard to gauge on like am I'm like Do you think I'm cool or are they joining with it or are they? You'll say a bunch of shit like yeah, but you know working on this stuff lately. They're like that's cool, man That's cool. That's cool. Yeah, keeping up keep on up on them in all right I'll see later and they like walk away super tall and you're just like all right. So I'll find out if you have pots What's pot missus pots? Postural orthostatic Tachycardia syndrome. I think it was just my ADHD meds They just they just increase my heart rate a lot But here's the question so all these new things that you're doing with Smosh those came from the stuff I totally this came from the stuff I told you that when I was Maybe maybe not I don't know. I don't know. Oh, man. I'm gonna be thinking about that. I'm gonna I'm gonna kill myself I think I think the craziest thing if we can go about yeah about Smosh right now is that like we had all these multiple channels And I felt like they all kind of perfectly like kind of righted themselves and hit like a success point like at the same time But individually yeah like because over the years like one channel will be doing like really badly Yeah, well another one's doing really well, and it's kind of tipped back and forth and finally They all suddenly like kind of we figured it all out at once. It's really cool. Right. It's like sometimes Smosh games was like not doing well And it's like oh fuck, but like Smosh pit was doing well or like Smosh pit would be doing really badly But like Smosh main was doing really well and then yeah Yeah, there's always like a time where like one channel is kind of floating together. Yeah Like back in the day Smosh pit when it was still like Smosh second channel getting like we had videos that got like under 100,000 views Which like for some people if you're an individual out there doing it by yourself. That's great. Yeah, when it's like a big team It's like this is not gonna sustain us. We are gonna die. Obviously I would never ask for like the specifics of it But I've always been curious about like how a YouTube company like works and how like I mean obviously you guys release a lot of of like videos But I mean that that is so interesting that you guys have been able to like make it work and and like run up basically a whole production company That's that it has employees and everything like that's I don't know It's a lot of some of the first to do it too. Yeah, I mean, it's it's it's a lot of it's a lot about momentum Yeah, like you you kind of have to like have like a high rate of output and like never falter Because you know, we do have like a high overhead. You know, we do have 50 and 50 little over 50 full-time employees that were Employing in Los Angeles. So it's it's it's it's a high overhead, but yeah We have such a killer team and everybody's just on it and Yeah, I think we hit like a really good rhythm and I think I think we've like we've kind of like reached kind of a good place where like Burnout isn't isn't really the the top Issue. Yeah, there's definitely like times we would go through It's that the stuff is doing well too Like when you work your ass off on a sketch and then it gets like not enough views to like make sense for how much work You put into it that like is a bummer. Yeah, and then you're kind of like all right Let's do it again and hope it does better and then it like does and you're like ah so like I think Anthony coming back Did get a lot of eyes on Smosh obviously and then a lot of people stayed because they're like oh this stuff is really cool Yeah, so that was that was nice But there was there was years where it was like this sucks a little bit just to like we were enjoying what we were doing But it's a lot of work and when it's like oh is nobody watching this or do they not like it? Then it's then it doesn't make it as fulfilling sometimes. Yeah, we should have just made a reaction channel Circle to cat's head. I can give you some pointers on that. I love some pointers. Oh, you love some coming for your shit. Okay, that's fine That's okay. I'm gonna take I'm gonna take it over. I can give you everything you need to know. Oh, that'd be so funny If you just had one I was just you Reaction start with this fireball. Is that is that what it takes? That's where it starts. Oh, it was we go from there It was Benedictine the other time Fucking kill that bottle I'm almost dead when you brought it out. I know. I know we had a bunch of shit to begin with We had a table full of food a drawer full of bacon. Ian would you rather have unlimited bacon? But no more video games or games unlimited games But no games Unlimited games, but no games. Yeah They posed this question to me and it's yeah, haunted me Yes, man Did I say it all I think you're really nice. I feel like you're a really great crystal crystal clear. I think you said okay Unlimited bacon or no games or unlimited games, but no games Yeah, well games unlimited games, but no games Games unlimited games. Yeah, but no games Games unlimited games, but no games. Yeah Yeah, yeah, I mean, I'm pretty sure this was in the Bible It was in my Bible and I think You know, I think I get pretty sick of bacon, so I think I'm gonna have to go with games unlimited games, but no games Okay, and you're sure. Yeah, yeah, I'm pretty positive. I did eat bacon this morning And the more and the more before I won towards the the former. I know, but I it's I don't want to make a thing Okay, I don't want to make a thing. Yeah, I don't want to make a thing. I know I respect that. I respect the cover variety is gonna have Ian Then the quotes it's like no games. The games unlimited games, but no games. Yeah, yeah, um and we are as Shane This one he was on the pod, but for you we ask every new guest that we have on yeah, um What we have this ever-growing sandwich of ingredients of condiments of everything. Yes. What would you like to add to that chuckle sandwich? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Um Probably the Exxon Valdez Hmm Exxon Valdez is this is a car or this is a no is a ship that it was a well-tanker that a Wow, all right, so you guys got to get that Yeah, no, we got a random target. Can you look up? How much that is how much can you go buy that real quick with our? Well, it's spilled so you know, it's probably cheaper now. Yeah, gotta be you could just probably get some oil Uh, you want the is the metal part that we're thinking about oil oil. Oh yeah, sure. Let's just say some crude oil. Okay. Oh nice. Yeah I yeah That's good. I like that. What did he add to it? Um, he made you so you added some was it butter chips? I said olives. Oh, you said butter chips. The Bubbies, so we added food. Oh, like real things Okay, you honestly I would have accepted the Exxon Valdez. Yeah, we could put that on We also a one that you gotta make a guess put on reaction that he knows you know I'm cutting grass on at a during sunset with a scythe that was Danny Thomas. Dude, that's sick Yeah, that's very clever. That's a vibe. If you want my Unsolicited advice. Okay. I think We do the ship. I think we say Ian is the Exxon Valdez part. Absolutely. Locked The chuckle Sam. Yeah, I mean, we might as well. I wonder the one that got stuck in the Suez canal because That one that was great. Oh, yeah. I wouldn't is that for Halloween one year You have really good at Halloween costumes, by the way. Thank you. When you had that you had the Um, call me Jacob. Call Jacob. Yeah, and uh, that one was great. I saw I think I The Jarvis is I think I turned you on I was like that's awesome. Thank you. The local And I wasn't sure if it is a local I didn't give you advice. Oh, yeah, billboard guy. Yeah, Bill. He's a billboard guy I was actually thinking this year because I I have to I actually hate costumes But I was thinking maybe as going as the accident test guy. That's pretty good. He's what it does it upside down a lot of times Does he do upside down? Call Jacob. We're doing upside down. It was a call Jacob. I'm thinking Maybe you're right. Call Jacob's one who does it upside down. This is just the guy with the mustache and it says Accident is he's been around a long time. Yeah, and they're both trying it upside down. I think it's just I think it's just call Jacob Can we see the billboards upside down, but the phone number is correct. Oh, okay. Yeah, Juan Dominguez I was thinking there was like a injury attorney billboard meta that I think that's like That is kind of the idea. Yeah, that's a good one. Yeah, I think I think next year maybe I'll do a Rihanna's insurance The the woman that has the German shepherd with the sunglasses. Can we see that one? No, so we're just so we're sick of AI, a Veronica. Sorry, Veronica's insurance. Sorry, I get I get a mix of the so I know Veronica's insurance. Oh, yeah, yeah. That's okay. So would you be the would you be Veronica or would you be the dot? I would be I would be Veronica for sure. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I feel like we look similar. Sure. And then I probably have like a little stuffed like German shepherd. I used to have a real one. But she's dead. Oh, so I'm probably like a fake German shepherd on my shoulder. That's not great with a little mini sunglass. Yeah. Yeah, well, I'm looking forward to seeing it, man. Okay. Well, I guess I'll see you at Halloween. Yeah, I hope to I hope to see you at Halloween. Sober. Yeah, dude. Thanks guys for coming on this. This is actually an intervention. So happy to have you guys here. Man, this was such a delight to have you time. I enjoyed my time. Okay. Was this was this one better than the first one? Shane? You like more you know, you must choose. Look, they're both a great time. I believe they're both great episodes. Or is that according to his episode went like for four hours though? Yeah, it was long. Why? Just kept talking. That's cute. Yeah. For God, we were here talking. Yeah. We had we forgot to Google the time and that's why that's why. Yeah. Yeah. Well, let the commenters decide which episode they enjoyed more. Well, I suppose is there any sort of big project that's coming out in the like I guess like December, January zone that people should look out for? The problem is we don't know when this is going to air. December, January, probably. Well, we might have a we might have the live podcast. Yeah, but that might be done already by the time you're out. They might even be able to do it. We are doing our podcast live for the first time. Oh, actually, or we have done it. And it was hopefully good. Yeah. By this point. But yeah, we're so that'll happen in December, December 14. I think I did like a type five before. Before for the podcast. And how we wonder how that went? Gosh. God. I hope it was okay. As of recording this, do you got something cooked up already? Yeah. I cooked. Oh, shit. Yeah. Well, check out. Smosh, and Smosh, and Smosh, and Smosh, and Smosh games, and Anthony, Anthony, and the new channel Smosh React and Smosh React. We're taking ownership stake and would guide that thing to a crazy peak. He's always looking for it. Okay. And Ted can also give advice. Yeah. I can do that. Yeah, thank you guys so much for watching. We'll see you next time. Fuck it. All right. [BLANK_AUDIO] [BLANK_AUDIO] [BLANK_AUDIO] [BLANK_AUDIO]