Should Kel Cripe Be Allowed Online? | URL

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]Welcome to URL, the show about the internet, the people on it, the people in it, the people all over it, like myself, your host Courtney Miller.

[00:00:07][music] Today, our guest is Kel Kripe.

[00:00:11]Woo! The one, the only.

[00:00:13]>> [laughter] >> Probably the most wholesome creator I know. What?

[00:00:15]No, that's true. Not even cuz I'll even be freaking I'll I'll be all bad.

[00:00:20]>> Okay, that was so wholesome just that.

[00:00:21][laughter] And of course, I got Chance McCrary across the way.

[00:00:26]>> y'all? Kel, this is your first time on this set. [music] I'm so excited to be here. I freaking love you guys so much, truly. I love this show and this Am I allowed to like reference you guys' new place? Yeah. It's so cool.

[00:00:40]Thank you. To everyone at home, it's cooler than you think it is. It's crazy.

[00:00:44]It is cooler [laughter] than you think it is. I wonder how much they'll have seen at this point, mhm, you know, like of the non-stages, too. It's crazy.

[00:00:52]>> what we do for socials, I guess. Yeah, just what we do for socials. It's so awesome and congratulations to you guys.

[00:00:58]>> Thank you. Literally going to get killed.

[00:01:01]>> new flowers and Yes, yes.

[00:01:03]Kel had a rider. They needed fresh flowers of their favorite kind.

[00:01:08]Like, if there's no thistle, I'm out.

[00:01:11]>> [laughter] >> No.

[00:01:12]>> Green sweet williams or I walk. Yes, yes, yes, yes. The poofy greens, that's what I call them.

[00:01:17]>> so fun cuz they look like um Dr. Seuss flowers.

[00:01:19]>> Knew you were going to say that. Yes.

[00:01:21]Horton Hears a Who. That's why I also love billy balls. Billy balls?

[00:01:25]>> Billy balls. Okay, Kel was a florist for 4 years.

[00:01:28]>> Well, I didn't fully have the title of florist. I didn't work my way up that high, but I I maybe like assistant florist. Maybe like AF? I AF. I like I love the billy balls.

[00:01:40]Oh, the funny flower without the flower part.

[00:01:43]>> Yes, they're so fun and I also my number one favorite is hyacinth. Hyacinth, yes.

[00:01:48]>> And at the flower shop, whenever we got hyacinth in, it's such a beautiful smelling flower. Oh, those are crazy [snorts] looking. Those are from Japan, aren't they? I I guess I'm not too sure of their origins, but this is so embarrassing and a true story of mine is at the flower shop, if ever like some got cut wrong or something or fell off the arrangement, I'd take the hyacinth and put it in my pocket and bring it to parties. To parties? [laughter] I would take out the hyacinth and go smell it. Okay. Seems like a prank.

[00:02:16]>> I know, but it was it was just delightful. Smell this hyacinth from my pocket.

[00:02:21]>> [laughter] >> It was It was a hit. I also sometimes made like fresh jam at parties and biscuits.

[00:02:27]>> No, not from the hyacinth, [laughter] silly.

[00:02:29]>> Oh. That's impossible, silly.

[00:02:31]>> What?

[00:02:31]>> Our jam? If it smells good, it tastes good.

[00:02:34]>> No, not always.

[00:02:36]>> Tell me when I'm wrong.

[00:02:37]>> I'll know.

[00:02:37]>> [laughter] >> I mean, like give me an example. Tell me I'm wrong. I actually don't know if there's any flower that there's there's very few edible flowers, right?

[00:02:44]>> Yeah, even when they put edible flowers on cake, I take them off is my truth.

[00:02:48]Yeah. And I'm sorry about that. Wow, a flo- a flower hater. No. What is a florist? Wow, that's crazy.

[00:02:54]>> But I did work at a flower shop for 4 years. Shout out the Dizzy Daisy. Dizzy Daisy. Yeah. Can you believe it? How awesome. That is really cute.

[00:03:01]>> The last time I was in a flower shop It was a long time ago.

[00:03:05]Uh like like a specifically like a florist one and it was I think I told you the story recently how like I got broken up with and then I bought myself flowers like a couple days later.

[00:03:13]Sometimes people get Cameos from me for themself when they're having a hard time.

[00:03:18]>> That's super nice. If you want to do that, hey, I'm there. I'm there. I'll do that for [laughter] you.

[00:03:23]How dare you? Sorry. I did an early plug, but more so to say that it always warms my heart when people do that. I like people like looking out for themselves. Yes. No, I think Cameos that totally make sense. I think I remember posting it was red roses and then they gave me a free heart balloon. I posted on my story and I was like, this really looks like someone did this for me. So [laughter] I was like, well, my ex sees that. Cuz I I was also a delivery driver and and I think people assume everyone's always happy to receive flowers. Right.

[00:03:51]And I have some memories of like going into an office building and all the co-workers laughing and going, "He sent them again." And the girls like Oh, and like discards them to the side.

[00:04:02]I love that. There's a million ways people >> you didn't get the You're sneaky.

[00:04:07]I was I was sneaky.

[00:04:10]Cuz on that order form you could like see it and then that So then like as you're driving there you're like piecing together a story. Oh my god.

[00:04:16]>> Oh. And then it's most often the case not what you imagined. Is there any >> [laughter] >> Is there any juice to juice flower tea?

[00:04:23]Yeah.

[00:04:24]I have a sweet story. Okay, that counts, too, I guess.

[00:04:28]>> I [laughter] have a sweet story. Okay.

[00:04:31]>> tell you Okay, fine. I'll I'll smoosh it up a little bit. I'll smoosh it up. One Valentine's Day I I I was trying to get into this guy's place. He had like fences everywhere and it was supposed to deliver it. And I called it the Valentine's Day from H-E-B hockey sticks.

[00:04:46]Hell. I'll say it. I'm not scared. I'm not I'm not scared to say it. It's just fun to say. It's funny.

[00:04:51]>> [laughter] >> And so I had to like hop a fence to get in and it was like 9:00 p.m. because like we were we were small shop and over orders overflowing. And so I make my way down and I I knock on the door and I hear like scurrying and a guy opens the door in a white tank top, like red in the face, like clearly it was coming from the bedroom. And he just went, "Oh, thank you. Thank you. Thank you." and like threw $5 at me and it was the only tip I got that day.

[00:05:19]>> [laughter] >> Woah.

[00:05:21]>> But the the flowers didn't even matter at that point. Woah. [snorts] [laughter] And they never did.

[00:05:26]I always imagine like if I had social media at the level that it is now back when I was at my previous jobs, I wonder if I would have been one of those influencers that was like, "Get ready with me while I work at a play place for children." Like [laughter] Do you know what I mean? I knew exactly what you mean. Like would you have made content with during previous jobs? Like without If you hadn't done acting like in a service job, do you would have Do you think you would have been No, I just don't treat content like that. Even on my Instagram, like I'm very much like I treat it like a Facebook kind of way.

[00:05:55]It's barely Yeah.

[00:05:57]>> Mhm. I also worked out like a build-your-own-pizza place. Oh my god, like Pizza Rev vibes?

[00:06:02]>> It was uh called like Pizza Press. Nice.

[00:06:04]>> And Oh, I know Pizza Press.

[00:06:06]>> Press?

[00:06:06]>> I know Pizza Press.

[00:06:07]>> wore newsie boy caps.

[00:06:10]Wait, [laughter] what? We had to That was your uniform?

[00:06:12]>> Yeah, it was like newsie boy caps.

[00:06:14]>> Oh, because it's like >> Oh, hot off the press. Yeah.

[00:06:17]>> Hear ye, hear ye. And >> [laughter] >> And I I feel like that one maybe would have made for the best style of content.

[00:06:25]>> Oh, yeah.

[00:06:26]>> Pizza Press?

[00:06:26]>> Do you guys ever watch those like lives of people just like making like at their job making sandwiches and stuff?

[00:06:32]>> Yeah, I like that.

[00:06:34]>> get the appeal.

[00:06:35]>> lady, too. Mhm.

[00:06:36]>> She does the ice cream scoops.

[00:06:37]>> It's so interesting because like they're at work and we're like opting in Right.

[00:06:42]>> being at work. Yeah.

[00:06:44]>> [laughter] >> We're like a little mouse on their shoulder.

[00:06:46]>> Roblox. You know how there's so many simulators? Oh, I love the hospital in Roblox. I watch so many streams of like people They like make a hospital and people like come in and they're like are like sick. Yes. Oh, or like Grand Theft Auto where people do like the most serious role play in Grand Theft Auto.

[00:07:04]Like really trying not to be funny.

[00:07:06]>> Yeah.

[00:07:07]>> videos out there of like people people like clowning on the people that choose to like be cops in Grand Theft >> Oh my god. Yeah. And it's so funny cuz like why would you choose to Right. Like >> [laughter] >> Right. They're like, "We've got a code blah blah blah." You would get stopped.

[00:07:23]>> But it's like a video game, so you can just like hack your way out of it. I don't know. I No. [laughter] And it's You know, it's it's a video game with the most free will. Um it was so fun showing Amanda and Angela that game for the first time. Uh I Amanda wanted to know how to talk to a person. I told her to press B and she accidentally hit a woman. That [laughter] was really funny.

[00:07:41]That was really funny. Not that laughing at that.

[00:07:43]>> Yeah, you are, Kel. No, no. Kel is not as wholesome as you think.

[00:07:47]>> Yeah, I'm here to dispel that rumor. No, I thought you were going to send me to hit women. No, I'm here to hit women.

[00:07:52]No. No, but Kel Kel comes from a great a great lineage of just their life of very funny. I'm just trying to Okay, now back to now back to URL show.

[00:08:01]Okay. [laughter] Kel, you are a comedian and you have Are you do be doing writing and acting?

[00:08:07]Those things. Are you writing anything fun right now? Um yes, a variety of of fun things trying to stay I'm like I don't Not to be this guy, but I'm like, "Oh, I don't know what I can talk about."

[00:08:19]>> but I love that for you. That [laughter] means things are going well, however the case, you Yeah, it's it's really fun.

[00:08:24]I'm uh I've got a comedy group Babe Motel where we've been writing a show. I'm doing working on a children's book right now.

[00:08:33]>> that. Yeah, which is like a big dream of mine. Um tried to make a scram children's book.

[00:08:38]What's a scram?

[00:08:39]>> Scram. Like, you know, oh well, not to spoil it. Kel went viral for that silly video where they're like, "Scram. Leave her alone."

[00:08:46]>> Yeah. Great impression. Didn't hurt my feelings at all.

[00:08:49]>> [laughter] >> It's awesome.

[00:08:52]Um I'm going to do an impression of you.

[00:08:55]>> [laughter] >> THE MOST SHRILL I'M A DORK.

[00:09:02]>> [laughter] >> NO, IT WAS IT WAS MEANT TO BE DORKY. NO, it was great. It was like Borderline Chosen Coded, if I do say so myself. Oh, wow. Um but yeah, so you're making a children's book based off of that?

[00:09:14]>> I was I tried to. It didn't really get picked up. If anyone out there wants to pick it up. But kind of like uh telling the bullies in your life to scram. I love it. And then yeah, like writing TV and I do sketch for um StapleView. Do stand-up.

[00:09:29]>> sketch that you've written that you can think of off the top of your head? I can describe one that hasn't gotten picked to be made, though. Yeah, give it to me.

[00:09:37]Just give it to me. Um I call it the it's the onset tutor but it's like to and they kind of their role on set is to kind of come into a room and pass gas to clear everyone and get them back to work and then and then Sammy made a pitched a DP could be like duty poop get out >> [laughter] >> duty poop duty poop yes duty poop and then and then there's the tutor and like it just kind of like a parody of a a set where everyone's roles is okay what's the PA Pat poop ass >> [laughter] >> get a PA in here and AD what are they the don't say ass director >> [laughter] >> assistant diaper like the they carry the diapers around yeah and maybe there's like a fun reveal in the end that it's like for a diaper company yeah like Pampers but it won't get picked continuously [laughter] one of those ones that when you like talk about it everyone giggles and then they're like there's no chance that's going anywhere yeah like that only lives in your head >> [laughter] >> no that's a good one that's a good one this episode of URL is sponsored by Reddit I normally don't do scary movies but I am a little horror curious there are a ton of different sub genres and some are way more intense than others Gore thriller suspense [music] camp and my least favorite body horror so when I hear people gushing about their new favorite scary movies around the office I pop onto Reddit to see what I'm [music] really getting into that's why I turn to my favorite subreddit r/horror now that I know that there's a skin crawling scene halfway through this movie I can excuse myself to refill my popcorn the only thing I want to hear gurgling is my popcorn list belly you sick [music] freaks thank you fellow redditors Reddit is the place to go when gaining insight on pop culture or hearing what the community is saying and I know what you're thinking.

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[00:12:03]Download the Reddit app today. [music] Back to the show. You've written some We You guys did a episode of Smosh Mouth Sammy recently where you guys talked about rejected sketches.

[00:12:13]>> Mhm. You had one about a college class or >> Oh, yeah, the four one. The four, the number four.

[00:12:18]>> yeah. Do you have a lore of like what So, the sketch is these college students are like, "Well, this class is really hard, we heard." And the professor walks in, writes a four on the board, and then leaves.

[00:12:28]>> [laughter] >> So, they're all trying to like figure out why they're freaking >> freaking out. Do you have the lore in your head of what the four was?

[00:12:33]>> No. That's awesome.

[00:12:34]>> But I saw some great comments pitching on like what it was and how the sketch should have ended, and I didn't end it like that, but the pitches were good.

[00:12:42]>> Oh. You know me and my girlfriend's number is four. Huh. Our like our like universe number we see everywhere.

[00:12:48]That's your angel number? Yeah, it is.

[00:12:50]Do you [laughter] know what it What does it do? Well, we just see it all the time. We like on our second date, I think, we went to a restaurant and got the number four like served to us. Our first Our first date also was number four served to us. A week later, three different part of town, we get four again.

[00:13:06]>> Oh, for like your table number thing?

[00:13:07]>> the table number. Out of all the numbers in the world, that's wild. And then Well, there's 10 of them. Yeah. Wait.

[00:13:12]Oh, for angel numbers. I was like, "There's more than 10 numbers out there."

[00:13:16]>> many numbers. [laughter] Like they all compile of the same 10 numbers, right? But no, please continue.

[00:13:20]I I love this stuff.

[00:13:22]And then we like got little matching rings that say 444. Cute. And we just like everywhere we'd go, we'd see the number four everywhere and I looked it up and 444 is like stability, comfort, safety and those were like three of our words we used to describe what we wanted in from love.

[00:13:41]It's so interesting.

[00:13:44]It was so crazy. I was shaking it up FOR A SECOND.

[00:13:47]>> [laughter] >> HOW DARE you do that on my set? That was wild wild work.

[00:13:52]>> [laughter] >> I don't know in case anyone got like uncomfortable with the earnestness. I had to give them something. To break the tension a little bit. Flex on them. Just flex on them. It's so interesting cuz I think the number four it's like different in different cultures where Olivia talks about it being bad luck.

[00:14:06]Why would you say that?

[00:14:07]>> [laughter] >> Good luck. Why? Yeah, wait. It's going great for you. You're in love and happy.

[00:14:12]So funny. I'm like this thing means so much to me. You're like well actually it's the devil. Oh, that I'm born on the fourth, too. Oh. October 4th, I'm a Libra.

[00:14:21]Are you a Libra?

[00:14:22]Why would you [laughter] guess that? I don't know. We both I I We're like cool and chill. cool and chill. I was literally about to say we both have brown eyes. Kel, guess what?

[00:14:31]Uh yes. We're both the same sign. We're flanked by Geminis right now. There's four of us in the room. Four Geminis?

[00:14:36]But Libras and Geminis get along. Well, cuz Angela's a Libra, isn't she? Wow.

[00:14:41]And you guys are just like You guys are just the most powerful duo. Arch enemies. It's like you guys make it through like the most powerful duo and that you guys get through anything and everything. Come out on top. But that's really cool. Geminis and Libras.

[00:14:54]And I And I come on top.

[00:14:57]I didn't mean that. I didn't mean that.

[00:14:59]I didn't I didn't mean it. YOU'RE SHAKING IT UP.

[00:15:03]>> [laughter] [laughter] >> KEL, WHAT IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE internet right now? I am in a very like grateful spot where um >> [clears throat] >> I have like for the first time feel like I've kind of like built an audience that has been like very supportive of me trying new things. Um, but I'm also in this spot of like I built a lot of my following with a lot of like short-form 10-second or less videos, and I'm really curious about like honestly after doing JFL Creators with Smosh last year in in Montreal was so like inspired about the idea of like trying longer-format things and like Oh, yeah. pushing myself, but whenever you try something new, you're kind of like guaranteed to lose people along the way, but then people that but like you get stronger people like physically stronger people >> [laughter] >> that stick around. Physically stronger.

[00:16:03]>> Um, but uh people that like are willing like it's so cool to me that like Match your frequency. And match your freak. Wait, that's a good Okay. Match your frequency.

[00:16:14]>> podcast is now called Match Your Freak when see because you're finding audience that match your freak.

[00:16:19]>> You guys >> literally.

[00:16:21]That was so cool. That was like You were gone in the in the desert and you came back with gold.

[00:16:27]>> [laughter] >> I'm transcending.

[00:16:29]>> That's amazing. But yes, so >> You're curating your audience as you grow. And yeah, you you lose some and you gain some especially as long as you're doing what you want to do and like to do.

[00:16:37]>> Yes, I've been like trying fun new stuff, longer stuff, and like it's an interesting point where like it's not necessarily like blowing up like Scram was, but I feel myself growing a lot and like meeting a lot of people and like I just love collaborating. I think it's the best way to like not get too in your head or too burnt out with stuff is to and like especially with comedy I just think it's like >> [laughter] >> I always joke I'm like not bringing anything new to the table. I'm not saying anything new here, but like comedy is awesome with friends. Who are two people that you're learning from right now? Ooh.

[00:17:09]>> Woah. Yeah, cuz I want to know your your relationship with the internet as a creator is one thing, but as an observer, as a consumer as well. That's so interesting. I feel like that's a question tonight at 3:00 a.m. I'm going to wake up and realize >> [laughter] >> who I should have who I should have told you. Okay, this is my boring earnest answer for right now and then maybe I can give a a script note for the episode when I think of it.

[00:17:34]>> we'll decide if it's boring or not.

[00:17:35]Okay, is um uh truly just my friends that are trying to start new things. Like it's I feel like when we all see each other trying it really up lifts us but I'm really also just motivated by people that choose to create like positive content.

[00:17:52]That makes me feel like the darkness of the internet hasn't swallowed everyone whole yet. Like we can keep fighting, pushing back against it.

[00:18:02]>> Yeah, I mean it is crazy how rage bait has become like the biggest thing. Like they they used to say sex sells but people joke that it's like no, rage sells now. Like it is way more. It's so true. That's what'll blow up something so fast. It's like when people are arguing in the comments.

[00:18:17]>> And also Justin Bieber. And also Justin Bieber.

[00:18:20]>> [laughter] >> People just go mad about pop culture. He posts Oh, I meant as my inspo. Oh, oh.

[00:18:26]>> [laughter] >> Sorry.

[00:18:27]I was saying he's also my inspo. Like cuz he just posts. Yeah. He just posts for fun. You know who else just posts?

[00:18:33]Halle Berry.

[00:18:35]Oh, I'm not on that.

[00:18:36]>> Okay, you got to get on that. It is so normal. [laughter] It is so like Say more. It is so like I'm a normal person posting on Instagram. Here's a dump.

[00:18:45]Yes, okay. It's 2012.

[00:18:48]>> That's awesome. This is just some trees.

[00:18:50]I love it.

[00:18:51]>> Some flowers. Like that is so normal.

[00:18:53]That is the most normal photo I've ever seen.

[00:18:54]>> My friend also a shout out my friend Maddie Hart curates incredible dumps.

[00:18:59]That's awesome.

[00:19:00]>> And all of our guy friends go to her now also for help for dumps. For for dumping. And then my friend literally today was like I want to try to start dumping. And I was like Your old dumps saved my Instagram. And I was like go to Maddie, she'll teach you how to dump.

[00:19:14]>> [laughter] >> Shout out Maddie.

[00:19:16]That's awesome. Another celebrity who's just posting on Instagram, Michelle Pfeiffer. She posted Go to her Instagram. She posted a picture where it was like, it has been a day. And she just looks >> [laughter] >> Oh [ __ ] Yeah. Having a day.

[00:19:32]Like, yes. We need to be using like social media like this, honestly. I also I I joke about My sister and I laugh at my mom a lot because like she'll always ask for help on like captions for her photos.

[00:19:48]And we'll pitch fun cheeky ideas, puns, word play.

[00:19:51]>> Nice.

[00:19:52]>> And then she'll be like, I've got it.

[00:19:53]Had a great day with my two kids getting lunch in Los Angeles. And I think like that is the best way to use Mhm.

[00:20:02]>> Instagram. And same thing with my phone, I'm trying to >> Yeah. But just being so just like not flashy, this is what happened in my life. And I uh >> [laughter] >> Oh no.

[00:20:15]What? I forgot what I was going to say, but I just remembered.

[00:20:18]>> [laughter] >> Um I'm trying to do that with my phone, too, with like mini games. Like trying to bring my phone back to the days when it was like Doodle Jump. Right.

[00:20:28]>> Temple Run, like crossword.

[00:20:30]>> Okay, so what are you playing? A lot of Sudoku. Okay.

[00:20:33]>> A lot of crossword.

[00:20:35]Oh my god, I am legally addicted to Tiny Wings. Oh my gosh, what's Tiny Wings again? Which one is that?

[00:20:41]>> [laughter] >> Isn't that the one that made people want to like commit crimes?

[00:20:44]>> No. That was Flappy Bird.

[00:20:45]>> Okay, yeah.

[00:20:47]Flappy Bird had people were committing crimes.

[00:20:49]>> seeing it is making my like heart race a little Oh, yeah, where you like zoom on the hill and you kind of you've got to get you've got to get in the pocket. I paid $2.99 for it. And and like why play it every day? Guess we're having billionaires on URL. [laughter] Let's go. I'm the 1%. Yeah. Cuz I bought Tiny Wings. Tiny Wings is a fun That's an old one. I had to ask my But it's so crazy how quickly that happened was I just saw a Tik Tok of one person playing that game. I was like I I miss that game. I get it and now I like I have to ask my girlfriend to take my phone out of my hands. That [laughter] is so funny. Stop playing it.

[00:21:23]That's me and Remember 2048? Yeah. You still play it? I still play it. It is so important to me. It is right next to Shane's face on my home page.

[00:21:31]>> [laughter] >> It is right It is right there. That's so funny.

[00:21:34]>> But I I do it I put it I open it up and it's like I'm playing it. It's like a nice organizing game but I'll also like when I need to have a think. Like I was saying this on Smosh Mouth where I There was something in the house that was broken and I was like how am I going to fix that thing? And then I'm playing 2048 and then I'm like scheming. Like oh yeah if I use this part and I like do this thing I'm think I'm going to be able to fix it. And then I one and it didn't work. I didn't fix it. But There's those games games like 2048 make you think you're getting smarter as you're doing them. Mhm.

[00:22:03]>> not. They're not and that's what I'm learning and that's why I started doing IRL puzzles. Yeah. Physical media at the end of the day.

[00:22:11]>> get you a URL puzzle? Oh a URL puzzle.

[00:22:15]Oh this.

[00:22:16]I'd do that. What are the games on your phone Chance?

[00:22:19]Bing.

[00:22:20]What was that?

[00:22:21]>> Cuz I said I do that. And so like in a way that could be like I could be like I Yo I'd do that. Yo Kel would do that.

[00:22:28]No. [laughter] No.

[00:22:31]For those who are on the listening version of this oh Kel [laughter] just keeps flexing.

[00:22:35]>> Flexing. Doing both arms flexing and even one time stuck a tongue out a little bit.

[00:22:40]>> [laughter] >> So just so you know. What was your life like in the when you were first getting access to the internet? What was that like? What was your experience? I feel like very lucky to be one of the like last few generations who remembers pre-technology.

[00:22:56]Playing outside with my friends and post. And so like I I the day me and all my neighbors like all got an iPod touch like for Christmas the same year and I remember still going outside but then playing Doodle Jump for like hours just like this.

[00:23:12]>> That's a vibe. Bring that back. Sit on the Sit on the electrical box. Just like sitting outside.

[00:23:18]A good tree branch.

[00:23:19]>> Oh, I have this weird [laughter] I have this app I have this app that was like 99 cents and it was like >> [laughter] >> 99 cents app? And it was like um it was like jelly and you could like move the jelly around. I remember those.

[00:23:35]You remember the apps where you could like drink beer? Yeah. Yes. Oh, the Zippo. Life was so good. The Zippo.

[00:23:42]Yes.

[00:23:43]>> And the flashlight app? Yeah.

[00:23:45]>> Yeah. What the hell? Why were we >> What the hell? Why did they take that from us? You used to be able to get a flashlight app that could change the color of the flashlight because the technology of the light on the iPhone could do that.

[00:23:56]>> Oh. And now they just don't let you.

[00:23:59]Yeah. There's probably so much they can do that they just they're they're waiting to release it little by little.

[00:24:03]>> Yeah.

[00:24:04]>> Yeah, but that was in 2006 and I'm mad.

[00:24:07]It was 20 years ago that that you were able to have >> different color flashlight.

[00:24:12]>> the flashlight app and change it to be [ __ ] purple. Like you and it only could change colors because the light on the old iPhones could just do that. It's almost like going from Sims 2 to Sims 4 where you're like, "What happened all my amazing cheats? Like why can't I do all this weird stuff anymore? You cut my penis off." Oh, oh.

[00:24:29]>> [laughter] >> What was that? WHAT WAS IT SORRY, WHAT WAS THE LAST PART?

[00:24:33]>> [screaming] [laughter] >> NO, but yeah, anyway, I don't know how I got there, but iPhone apps. And then and then I was a big YouTube YouTube okay.

[00:24:42]classic in the like the family computer room just watching hours and hours of YouTube and then Club Penguin was my jam. Oh, wow. I love that piano music in the in the pizza parlor. That's going to be my funeral song. I It is beautiful. Did you know like I just know like so many hacks about Club Penguin that are so useless now? Okay, tell me.

[00:25:05]>> Okay, give us a song. Well, just like in games like for example in the pizza parlor when you go to play Pizzatron 3000 >> Yes. there's a there's a handle it before you press play like in the image of it and if you switch it you get a different version of the game >> And what?

[00:25:19]>> candy pizza. What?

[00:25:20]>> Exactly. Like a dessert pizza. Like so like instead of hot sauce you do chocolate sauce, sprinkles instead of cheese. Holy >> to get on there now. Um [laughter] I'm going to.

[00:25:30]>> Everyone race to Club Penguin cuz they brought it back.

[00:25:32]>> God, that game was so fun. Did you ever play Club Penguin or do you have any >> a Neopets boy.

[00:25:36]>> Neopets was awesome. Did you have a favorite Neopet? It was like a dragon looking one with a triangle tail.

[00:25:43]>> Yes! I loved that one and there was like a horsey looking one.

[00:25:46]>> Yes. And um Webkinz. Webkinz? I never got to do Webkinz cuz like that just required purchasing a real stuffed animal and I remember my my parents wouldn't do that.

[00:25:57]Do you want to hear my a a story in my life when I was a bully? Yes. Kel cry bully story?

[00:26:04]>> I was a bully. I had these two neighbors growing up. They got to the street a little later than me and the homies the OGs did. So they were you know it was it was right there.

[00:26:16]>> [laughter] >> And um I found out their Webkinz password. How?

[00:26:25]I think I like got them to tell me.

[00:26:27]I like I was a little bit like haha let's all share it. And >> [laughter] >> let's all share our passwords and then side note pin in that is that I think it's really fun at parties to get in a small circle with your friends and all say your social security number at the same time. No. Wow, what a rush.

[00:26:45]>> But just picture it. Picture everyone in this room saying it at the same time and no one's writing it down. No one's being weird. Anyways >> [laughter] >> Well, off camera >> off camera. I think it's freeing. Every time I've had my friends tell me their social security number, they feel very free. But anyways, I found out their Webkinz password.

[00:27:01]I would wake up early. I would log in and I'd play the games you could only play once.

[00:27:06]So that they couldn't?

[00:27:07]>> Yeah.

[00:27:08]>> [laughter] >> You thief.

[00:27:09]That is crazy, bro.

[00:27:11]>> mastermind. And I'm really sorry about it to this day, Sophie and Emily. I'm sorry. But But they would be like >> they knew? Oh, yeah. Well, they didn't know it was me. They thought it They were sad about it.

[00:27:22]>> Like, gee, I wonder if it's that bully who asked what my password was. No. No, because we were friends. And I don't know why I did it. They were just like newer to the group, so >> [laughter] >> They were Okay, they were Yeah. And they're They're probably like It's so funny to think of them as adults now cuz in my mind they're permanently like two little British girls.

[00:27:41]So they'd go >> actually British?

[00:27:42]>> Yeah. And So they'd go Apologies for the accent here, but I have to.

[00:27:46]>> Okay, let's hear it.

[00:27:47]>> They'd go like, "Why can't I spin the daily wheel?"

[00:27:50]And I'd be like, "I don't know. I don't know. Must be a hack.

[00:27:54]>> I don't know. Must be a glitch in your system. Or maybe you could stop freaking like not wanting to play basketball when we want to play basketball.

[00:28:03]>> Yeah.

[00:28:04]>> [laughter] >> Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Don't you hate it when your friends don't want to play basketball when you want to play basketball, so you take their password and you ruin their life every morning for a year? [laughter] I'm healed. I'm healed now. That was a thing growing up was like At least for me, it was four of us. And if like it was like basketball, soccer, tag, like And if you you could you could lose what you wanted to play that day. Damn. It was tough out there. You had to fight for what you wanted. Yeah, I mean, when you got a group and you want to play a game. Did you have like a neighborhood group of kids?

[00:28:34]>> [laughter] >> Yeah. We like went to war with each other with the other neighborhoods.

[00:28:39]Dude, it would be crazy.

[00:28:40]>> war, like beating the [ __ ] out of each other with sticks and >> Oh. Oh. hockey sticks.

[00:28:45]>> Oh. Oh my god.

[00:28:47]>> I remember um uh I won't say it drop a name in case they're embarrassed, but I remember one of the neighborhood kids got tied to a tree for like 4 hours.

[00:28:56]>> [gasps] [laughter] >> We were >> I didn't tie him to the tree, but >> It's honestly good that they gave us phones, you know?

[00:29:03]>> Yeah, [laughter] yeah.

[00:29:05]We also used to hike up the mountain.

[00:29:07]There was a mountain behind our neighborhood, and at the top of it was um I think it's Kid Rock's place or something.

[00:29:14]And so we used to like jump the fence and like go over.

[00:29:16]>> Lib.

[00:29:17]I [laughter] love this. I love this. You jump and go up into there?

[00:29:20]>> Yeah, we would go like explore while it was being built.

[00:29:23]>> Woah. Our childhoods are very similar.

[00:29:26]Really? Yes, cuz we >> logged into Webkinz every day?

[00:29:30]>> [laughter] >> Well, yes, no.

[00:29:31]I I literally had a group of kids where there'd be feuds. We wouldn't get to be physical. We were I think we're all too scared.

[00:29:38]>> Mhm. But we would be on our scooters like kind of chasing each other, but running away from each other. And then when we'd finally like cross paths, we'd just be like >> [gasps] >> and then pass, [laughter] and then it wouldn't happen, but um we would totally There was a we called it mini mountain Yeah. that was like a hill behind us that we'd go and then like we would just be exploring and going where we shouldn't go. If there was a construction site, I was getting over the fence and sitting in a tractor that was just sitting there.

[00:30:03]>> Definitely. Cuz they would leave [snorts] the keys in there.

[00:30:05]>> the keys, yeah. Yeah, always trying to find the keys. I once Did you ever find the keys? No.

[00:30:10]>> I never They They They probably had them somewhere like I don't even know.

[00:30:14]>> Makes sense. had [laughter] them somewhere, but but yeah, that was that was such a wild time before phones.

[00:30:19]>> play um cars.

[00:30:22]And where if [clears throat] a car's going by, you have to hide? Oh. No, unfortunately, but that sounds fun. We should play that after this.

[00:30:28]>> [laughter] >> Hey, let's go play.

[00:30:30]>> [gasps] >> Um where it was so funny we just would ride our bikes like cars, but speed bumps were stop lights, entrances to cul-de-sacs were stop signs, and then mailboxes were fast food windows, and we would just for hours ride around on our bikes just following Grand Theft Auto but real life.

[00:30:47]training. Yeah, we were just training and it was like also we couldn't go past the two speed bumps in front of our [laughter] house so it was just riding in circles and then we'd go like run and pretend to be working at like McDonald's and like and just serve it was just so much like physical play pretend. Yeah, wanting to be an adult. Yeah. Wow, and wanting to be in control and steal passwords. So Webkinz, Club Penguin you said Neopets.

[00:31:10]Anything else? addictinggames.com Oh yeah. Woah, what is that?

[00:31:14]>> Monster Truck Curfew. Did you ever play that? Oh wow, no there was like literally hundreds. So it was like a really old website where you could just play games for free all day.

[00:31:23]>> Okay. And [snorts] >> Oh, I played Ninja Chess. Ooh, oh wow.

[00:31:27]Sounds like something we would create on Smosh Games. It's not turns. Like each piece has a timer and you can just keep moving. It's like Scrabble Slam but chess. Sounds like it would double stress me out.

[00:31:37]>> any games or any like parts of video games that had a timer and you need to get there in time always stressed me out.

[00:31:44]>> was Monster Truck Curfew. You had 10 minutes to get home. Oh wow. And then you're like a little you're in a monster truck and you're like trying to drive home but you're like accidentally crushing cars as you go. Yeah. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, anyone? What about that?

[00:31:56]Isn't that a book?

[00:31:57]>> Games, they had games. Wait, that's a book. So it's a book? It's a book. It's a book and movies. I think for some reason addictinggames.com had an option to read Diary of a Wimpy Kid on [laughter] the computer and I like I'm like this is a really fun game.

[00:32:08]>> It's a Kindle. Anyway, we talked about early social websites and things like that. What were you guys' first usernames? Oh.

[00:32:16]>> [clears throat] >> Do you remember yours? Well, I know my Club Penguin like >> Okay. like this. Um purple hoops. Purple hoops basketball? Yep. I was a big basketball kid um and purple hoops I think I just one time was had purple in the in the in the colors.

[00:32:34]>> in their >> and purple hoops and I was like a boy and I was like hot.

[00:32:39]Woah. That's awesome. Yeah. Hot boy penguin? Yeah. Yeah, like the blue the not the blue the the brown spiked hair >> Oh yeah, cuz you could pull on like a wig on your penguin. Oh. Oh. Oh honey, yes. [laughter] You put a and I'd be like I'm going to be in a sexy dress.

[00:32:54]>> Yeah, they have a there's a lot of options on there and I was stunting.

[00:32:59]Yeah, there is.

[00:33:00]>> [laughter] >> And you're just like this ugly triangle.

[00:33:03]Yeah, it never like looked as good. No.

[00:33:06]Like you had to like really click on me to like see me as beautiful which there's a metaphor in there. Wow.

[00:33:10][laughter] You got to click on me. Let's dive into that.

[00:33:14]FroBro777 FroBro >> my first Gmail.

[00:33:18]>> Aw, that is so cute.

[00:33:20]>> old fro, too. You did?

[00:33:22]>> had an afro pick, too. Aw, that's awesome. What color was your afro pick?

[00:33:25]Purple. Purple?

[00:33:26]>> [gasps] >> Parallels.

[00:33:31]So close.

[00:33:35]A a Doctor Strange, okay. I'm trying to remember what my first email was. I don't even remember. I I've talked about my first usernames was like dashgirl10 cm You are a dashgirl. I was fast, but I also every username I ever had dashgirl copying another person's to to be cool like them or to get their attention.

[00:33:56]Like dashgirl was because the boy who was the fastest in our grade, he would run the fastest mile time in our in PE.

[00:34:02]His was like speedy guy Matt or something, you know. So I was like I'm a dashgirl.

[00:34:08]No. Choose me. dashgirl10 >> Race me. I was 10 years old.

[00:34:13]>> [laughter] >> Yeah, race me.

[00:34:16]Catch me.

[00:34:17]That was so awesome. Yeah, I don't remember the penguin names. The I always just loved I started a new one all the time. I think one of the first things I spent money on after having a first job was I was freaking 17 years old, Club Penguin VIP.

[00:34:33]That's right, $8 a month. That's amazing.

[00:34:35]>> For it basically my first NFT, if you really [laughter] think about it. And only. That's amazing.

[00:34:41]>> when I was 16, the first thing I bought with my paycheck was a white cello. Did I know how to play cello? No. Wow. But it was during the age of um those two cellists who were doing covers all the time. Oh.

[00:34:57]>> And they were on Glee. I do remember that.

[00:35:00]>> da-ding-ding, da-ka-ding-ding, da-ka-ding-ding. Did they also do Thousand Years?

[00:35:04]A cover of a Thousand Years?

[00:35:06]>> Thousand Years or Wait. What does that song sound like? Every day I have died waiting for you.

[00:35:17]Cello's. Yeah, like I think they did Thousand Years cuz I would watch that, too. Okay, are they kind of hot?

[00:35:23]>> Okay, supernatural but cello? Wait.

[00:35:26]>> [laughter] >> Okay, do let us not forget in Heroes, there was the woman with synesthesia.

[00:35:34]Synesthesia. Synesthesia, and she could play the cello and shoot like lasers out of the cello. Woah.

[00:35:40]>> Energy waves, yeah.

[00:35:41]>> That's amazing.

[00:35:42]>> that. I did also one time make, genuinely, I think 150 fake emails.

[00:35:49]And I didn't get caught. What what >> up a little about that.

[00:35:52]>> Well, like I don't know. Well, now you have to like attach it to a phone number. My neighbors, the same neighbors that I was mentioning earlier, we they knocked on my door one day and they were like "Want to make a million dollars?"

[00:36:01]Oh, yes. I go, "What?" And they go, "Aflac's doing a competition where you can like make a video for Aflac and like we're going to make the next winning video." And we made a video that's horrible. Like, we're literally in sixth grade.

[00:36:14]>> Right.

[00:36:15]>> And I made 150 fake emails and I log in every day and vote for us on the fake emails and it got us to the front page.

[00:36:23]>> Oh. I'm like and then I think guilt kicked in or like they or they like realized and I like I like we fell behind, but we were like >> [laughter] >> I was like >> moment.

[00:36:33]>> I was like sitting on a secret.

[00:36:35]>> That's really smart. Yeah. Oh, no, Aflac.

[00:36:39]>> Yeah.

[00:36:39]>> Sorry, why did I say that? That's weird.

[00:36:40]>> No, you said it perfect. Like you're Ben Affleck.

[00:36:43]>> Ben Affleck. Woah, that's a good character. [laughter] I think they did a commercial together.

[00:36:48]>> Oh, really?

[00:36:49]>> they did. I think they Yeah, they did it first. Just missed it. We just missed it.

[00:36:54]>> That's so funny.

[00:36:55]>> [laughter] >> I remember my sister submitted a video to meet the cast of Lord of the Rings, and we had to help film help her like just film around the house just like why she would be the best candidate, and it was the nerdiest thing I ever did.

[00:37:08]>> one of those. I did I did one of those for the Zack and Cody one. What was it?

[00:37:12]Was it Danimals?

[00:37:13]>> Was it partnered with Danimals, maybe?

[00:37:14]Yeah, it was the Danimals cruise.

[00:37:16]>> Oh.

[00:37:16]>> Yeah, there's a lot of mystery surrounding it. Oh, yeah, they they talked about that. That was a spicy There was controversy about it.

[00:37:21]>> What?

[00:37:21]>> It like never really happened or something.

[00:37:23]>> What do you mean?

[00:37:24]>> It's like the ultimate um Berenstain Bears.

[00:37:27]>> [snorts] >> Well, not really.

[00:37:29]>> No, cuz like I think they recently talked about it in a podcast or on the Royal Court or something, where it was like, "Yeah, that that damn cruise."

[00:37:37]Never happened. What? That is wrong.

[00:37:40]>> I know. I I deserve to be reimbursed for my time and energy.

[00:37:45]>> Yes.

[00:37:45]>> And hope.

[00:37:46]>> How do you reimburse hope? Exactly.

[00:37:49]>> How does one reimburse [laughter] Well, let's start with a paycheck, okay?

[00:37:52]Let's start with that, yeah. Uh, that's crazy. I think I once tried to submit um to like a Teen Vogue contest of like my outfit, but my outfit mostly consisted of Mormon church clothes and hand-me-downs.

[00:38:06]I did my best. I don't even know if I knew how to send a letter.

[00:38:10]>> [laughter] >> But we I remember feeling passionate about it.

[00:38:13]>> letter? Uh, sweepstakes They used to be so cool. Now it's just like giveaways and like Remember Box Tops? Yes. Woah. I think we could change the world. With Box Tops?

[00:38:24]>> Yeah. Box Tops really made me feel like I was doing something, like making [laughter] a change. And you were just eating cereal. Right. I'm trying to find the box bottoms. Where are the box bottoms? Oof.

[00:38:38]>> [laughter] >> Box Tops, I think I gaslit my dad into buying us more cereal thanks to Box Tops. They were really tricking us a lot.

[00:38:46]>> you get? Like what was the reason?

[00:38:49]>> environment?

[00:38:50]>> you would bring it to your school and then your school GOT LIKE FUNDING.

[00:38:53]>> [laughter] >> SO, EXTRA TAXES SOMEHOW.

[00:38:58]>> YEAH. SO.

[00:38:59]>> Nothing makes sense and everything's a lie.

[00:39:01]>> No, and I remember like they would have children sell magazines. Yeah. I did that [ __ ] except for >> cookie dough. Yeah, cookie dough, gift wrapping.

[00:39:11]Yes.

[00:39:12]>> paper, magazine subscriptions. I remember I sold a bunch of magazine subscriptions and then I decided to say [ __ ] it and I just pocketed the cash.

[00:39:20]And I never I was 11.

[00:39:23]>> We got her.

[00:39:23]>> [laughter] >> And the neighbors all were like, "Did she?"

[00:39:26]to my dad and my dad WAS LIKE, "I YEAH."

[00:39:29]AND I I mean, some of them were checks, so it's like I just threw the checks away and kept like $20 out of it.

[00:39:34]>> my mom used to have Bunco nights. I love Bunco nights. But they would all have the Pampered [laughter] Chef like it's like not the MLM but the MLM where they all like her trying to sell each other the like she's greater like Oh, I know what you're saying.

[00:39:46]>> They're all trying to sell each other stuff. It's so funny.

[00:39:50]>> those those nights.

[00:39:52]Not that I was like one of the moms there, but I remember [clears throat] them but I could have been. Yeah. I still have time. One day. Me, too.

[00:39:59]>> [laughter] >> Did you guys ever get um I'm trying to hold it >> Oh, that's beautiful. Um >> [laughter] >> do you have a cat? I do have a cat.

[00:40:10]Um I have two. Okay.

[00:40:12]>> They're two of the best boys in the world.

[00:40:14]>> I do have scratchies. is >> what you noticed? Mhm. Oh, yeah. That is That is them and they're That's cute.

[00:40:20]>> It is cute. I look down and I think, oh, what a good guy.

[00:40:23]What a good guy. That's what you That's so funny. Orange cat? Orange cat and a tuxedo cat.

[00:40:28]>> from the scratches.

[00:40:29]>> Yeah. [laughter] Orange cat is a That's Orange cat's going to scratch. And I I my my friend laughed one time cuz he was sitting there and and my cat just starts like kind of going for him and I go, "Don't worry, he's not mad at you." And my friend was like, "Well, yeah, I hope so.

[00:40:43]I didn't [laughter] do anything." But their names are Stink and Lasagna. Not Lasagna? No way.

[00:40:49]>> No, Lasagna.

[00:40:50]>> Not Lasaga? No, real G's move in silence.

[00:40:52]>> Do you own a lunchbox? Um That's so Raven. Play something and make it funky. Oh, yeah.

[00:41:00]>> to the rest.

[00:41:01]>> own a lunchbox? Chelsea was the fake She's She's here. celebrity. Oh, yes.

[00:41:06]No, that episode actually reminded me, oh, I comedy. I should comedy.

[00:41:11]What?

[00:41:13]>> [laughter] >> That was just one of I think that was one of the times where like my like started having a conscious sense of humor as a child and going, oh, now that's comedy.

[00:41:23]>> No, Raven's funny as f Yeah, but that specific episode where it was like random lines.

[00:41:27]>> Mhm. Do you remember the first time you got a big laugh? I did improv in middle school. Wow.

[00:41:34]>> And we had a big like show at the end of our class.

[00:41:38]And I remember I did a scene and I made like a Forrest Gump joke. Classic.

[00:41:42]>> Killed with the parents. [laughter] Absolutely murdered.

[00:41:45]>> Oh, hell yeah. There was someone named Jenny, I think, in a scene. I can't believe I remember this. There was someone named Jenny in a scene and it was like genre roller coaster.

[00:41:53]And then it was like got to war. And I was like, "Run, Jenny." That's awesome.

[00:41:59]And you were hooked from that moment on.

[00:42:01]>> going to be a comedian now."

[00:42:03]>> That's so good. I don't remember the first time I made anybody laugh. You know, maybe my family loved to like active watch TV, like joke with the TV.

[00:42:13]Like you know Mystery Science Theater 3000?

[00:42:15]>> Yes, yes. Where it'd be like four comedians, like as puppets or characters, you could see their silhouette as if they were in the movie theater in front of you on an old black and white movie. It's so cool.

[00:42:26]>> And then they'd be making jokes in between the lines, like It was a whole >> a whole series.

[00:42:31]>> My dream is to watch that with friends and do the same thing.

[00:42:33]>> That's a great idea. We should do that.

[00:42:36]The jokes are really good.

[00:42:37]>> [laughter] >> Have you never seen these? Uh-uh. Oh, it's so fun. You got to watch Have you seen the Eegah one or like the This Island Earth? They're really weird old movies that they pick and it's like they're all it's the whole thing is like there's these people stuck in a spaceship that are forced to watch movies and It's also kind of like >> ideal. It's kind of like the OG, like how we have like one video on top in Subway Surfer, you know? Where it's kind of like you feel like you're doing two things at once cuz you're watching an a real old movie, but then you're like watching those silhouettes make jokes and it perfectly splits your brain in two. Yeah, so my family tried to be that in our household [laughter] with like other movies and all just it feel it feels like when we have a big Smosh meeting and everyone's trying to do stand-up in a in a big meeting. But like I I do remember if you said something and the whole dark living room laughed, it was like best feeling in the world.

[00:43:29]>> I just got an idea. I actually had it over the weekend and so I'm going to share it now cuz I just thought about it. Not not a tight [laughter] five.

[00:43:37]Let's hear it. So instead of a music festival, it's a movie festival and it's like outdoor movies everywhere on the campgrounds and you can like go >> Woah. AND WATCH THE MOVIES WITH A BUNCH OF PEOPLE. Is that kind of like South by Southwest? Is that what it is?

[00:43:50]>> like like a movie festival. Is it all at once? Oh, but you're saying playing it all at once?

[00:43:55]There's like different stages playing different movies.

[00:43:57]>> went to to Phoenix.

[00:43:59]>> It's a real thing. And there was an outdoor movie theater that had a bunch of them all playing at once.

[00:44:03]We should go. Yes.

[00:44:04]>> [laughter] >> Wait, that's awesome though. Like making it like a whole day of like and the food and everything.

[00:44:09]>> I'm going to go see like The Departed.

[00:44:12]>> [laughter] >> Check out The Departed at 3:00 on the main movie screen. I can't believe they're playing it at 3:00. It surely should have been a 6:00 movie.

[00:44:19]>> god. The Incredibles and then like >> Oh, yeah. At that place, the big outdoor movie theater, I saw Wuthering Heights with my girlfriend and her mom and sister and we were No, we were all in a car and I was like "Cam, I'm pretty sure this movie is supposed to be like very sexual." She was like, "Oh, I just my mom used to be an English teacher, so I thought she'd like this movie."

[00:44:44]>> the book.

[00:44:45]>> And then we're sitting in the car and I go, "Is the audio going to play from the car?" Is it Oh, is it drive-in? I forgot to say this. So, we're in a small car.

[00:44:52]>> into a radio station to hear the movie in your car, right?

[00:44:55]>> And so, we're sitting there and we like all can't get comfortable. We're like watching this big screen.

[00:45:00]>> Yeah. It's outside and it's the lighting is so bad. I like don't know if it counts if I saw Wuthering Heights because That's funny.

[00:45:07]>> her mom's in the front seat and it starts getting like you know, sexual sounds and she just so calmly goes Oh, yeah.

[00:45:16]>> the volume down and then we look to the right and Anaconda was playing over here.

[00:45:21]So, we would just kind of every time a sex scene happened, we just watch Anaconda for a little. That's a tight space for a movie like that.

[00:45:28]>> Yeah, but it was so fun. Wouldn't watch it any other way. Okay, Kel, we're going to do some verifying questions with you.

[00:45:34]Boom, boom. We're getting down to it.

[00:45:36]Kel, I want to know the last text that went to the group chat.

[00:45:39]Or last text that was in the group chat.

[00:45:41]>> pull it out.

[00:45:41]>> Yes, pull it out.

[00:45:44]>> [laughter] >> Um okay, this is a good one. Yesterday at 7:03 to the Stapleview group chat, I said, "Thinking about how much I love my friends."

[00:45:54]>> [laughter] >> Is that okay? Yeah, it's just not you're not fighting the wholesome allegations.

[00:46:01]>> I know, I'm sorry. And I put in parentheses you guys because they didn't [laughter] know I was talking to them.

[00:46:07]Okay, that's a little funny.

[00:46:10]Okay, that's a little funny. It's a little funny. Okay, that's a little funny.

[00:46:12]>> That was actually a little funny.

[00:46:13]>> You watch I Love LA or no? And then did you watch I Love LA?

[00:46:16]>> Yeah, I love it.

[00:46:17]>> There's that the Christian group of friends that are really supportive of each other.

[00:46:21]The [laughter] goon text.

[00:46:22]>> Yeah, where it's like thinking about gooning but I won't. Thank you guys.

[00:46:25]>> That is I love you boys.

[00:46:27]>> I love you boys. And then it's like a shirtless pic. Yep. I just sometimes randomly it hits me and I just feel such a flood of gratitude and I want to tell my friends.

[00:46:35]>> I know. I almost I was seeing Project Hail Mary and I got emotional thinking about them.

[00:46:40]>> sweet.

[00:46:40]>> And I almost sent them a long text.

[00:46:43]Please >> [laughter] >> I haven't seen it. I don't want to know anything, please. Dude, why would you do that?

[00:46:48]>> It's in the trailer.

[00:46:49]>> I'm sorry.

[00:46:50]>> [laughter] >> I actually I like to avoid trailers.

[00:46:52]>> Me, too. Isn't it so fun to get through?

[00:46:55]Okay, what's your bedtime phone routine?

[00:46:58]>> [sighs] >> Horrible. Needs to change. How do you say this? I I ask my girlfriend to like make sure I have my phone down because I've been staying up for hours like on my phone playing Tiny Wings and Sudoku. Do you have time limers? Time >> Whoa. I just stopped with those time limers because >> [laughter] >> because it's so easy to exit out of them. So I was just like, what's the point of me even trying like this? I need to work on self-moderation. And so I kind of like she The problem with me asking her to hold me accountable with putting my phone down at night is she falls asleep in milliseconds. It's so she's not like awake to hold me accountable. So I I I it's basically like getting into bed and then opening up Tiny Wings and then just hopping islands. Hopping islands till the sun comes up.

[00:47:46]>> Yeah. Luckily it's I like it's not social media as much anymore because ever since social media kind of like became more of my job, I find less uh joy on it.

[00:47:57]>> Mhm. for like what's that word?

[00:47:59]Dopamine. Yeah. I I feel it now in many games. Getting back to basics. I get it.

[00:48:04]I get it. Chance, what was your bed routine when you went to bed last? Cuz that wasn't last night.

[00:48:09]>> I don't think I'm that bad. I'm usually like watch TV before I go to bed. Oh, I love that. Do you have a Do you have a TV in your room or are you a >> I have a TV in my room, but I have the sound bar purposefully downstairs.

[00:48:22]Um because I'll be more inclined to watch downstairs and then retire up to bed to be like done. Like the sound quality is not as You're saying you have a better your system in the living room and that.

[00:48:34]>> I have a maybe hot take, which is that we're in a time right now where people are trying to hide their TVs. And I think TVs are where all the stories are. Okay.

[00:48:45]>> [laughter] >> And I don't get why we're trying to hide them. Like Because it's so much screen time already, I think.

[00:48:50]>> But like it's watching a movie is not screen time.

[00:48:54]People would disagree. Wow, I think this is a This is a hot take. People would disagree. Watching TV is not screen time. I think it's different.

[00:49:01]>> too, like if you think about kids and >> Well, I'm not talking about like Cocomelon. I'm [laughter] talking about like watching a Like >> Well, there's something to me where watching TV require Like I try to practice putting my phone down to watch a whole movie.

[00:49:14]>> Yes, of course.

[00:49:15]>> count that as screen time and I feel like I'm like learning something. But I just feel like when I see a TV my So much growing up was my family gathered around the TV watching TV.

[00:49:25]>> see it as like a communal fireplace, but where everything in the world is.

[00:49:30]It's [laughter] 100% one of my love languages sitting down and watching something with me. And I'm like I don't know, to me you see a black rectangle.

[00:49:38]To me I see wonderland. I don't know.

[00:49:43]>> [laughter] >> You were You were almost there. You were You were close.

[00:49:47]Yeah, try it again. Go ahead. We'll take it back. We'll take it back.

[00:49:50]You see to you you see just a black square rectangle >> [laughter] >> depending on the shape of your TV. To me I see infinite possibility of love romance action adventure mystery thriller horror. Yeah, let me try.

[00:50:08]>> [laughter] >> T To you you see a onyx rhombus.

[00:50:14]To me I see I don't know. I see the world.

[00:50:19]>> to see anything.

[00:50:20]>> Yeah, it's hard. [laughter] Do you want to try Courtney?

[00:50:22]>> Yeah, you know what this is giving?

[00:50:25]Julio Julio [laughter] >> Wake up. WAKE UP.

[00:50:31]SOME PEOPLE CALL IT JUNK. ME, I call it treasure treasures. But it's hard. I'm [laughter] telling you guys. I was so bad. I was so bad.

[00:50:39]>> I was Skyrim so maybe it was a little bit cooler. We're like almost there.

[00:50:44]>> [laughter] >> It's each of it. But yeah, I think I have a big TV in my room and my living room and I'm not ashamed of it. Yes, cuz so you're saying like people like to get that like painting ass looking ass TV.

[00:50:54]>> when you That's what Anthony has. Yeah, and no shame no shame. I get I get like aesthetic. Call him out. Call him out.

[00:51:01]I get aesthetic but I'm like to me sometimes if I just see a painting of course it's pretty but it's not necessarily thought-provoking to me.

[00:51:07]When I see a a blank TV I'm I'm like there's so much stuff I got to watch.

[00:51:11][laughter] And I can watch it with my friends.

[00:51:15]100% A blank canvas. That's true. I mean I I just love the idea I'm learning now like our other sound guy Scott likes to put on cool movies and like dinosaur documentaries on mute while he's writing music and stuff.

[00:51:31]>> Oh, that's awesome.

[00:51:31]>> I'm like that's a great [ __ ] idea.

[00:51:34]I'm going to put all the Barbie movies on on mute just when I'm at home like cleaning or something. That's awesome.

[00:51:40]>> think I've ever seen a Barbie movie except for the Barbie movie.

[00:51:43]>> And that's what exactly I was Oh, they're funny. A lot of the Barbie movies the old animated ones, you would get a kick out of.

[00:51:49]>> So, are they dolls or are they real?

[00:51:51]They're women. Yeah, bro. But they're toys in the Barbie movie. Are they toys in It's as if Barbie the toy was an actress and these are her projects that she's >> Do they have hinges? No. They move like people.

[00:52:04]>> They are real women. No, it is so meta in that it is a char- oh You're useless.

[00:52:08]Give him to me.

[00:52:12]>> [laughter] >> Wait, so what was that? Was that a horny weasel? Rapunzel Barbie Barbie Rapunzel.

[00:52:18]So, the thing with Barbie is and I actually think it's really I think it's [laughter] really important we talk about this. It's actually crazy in that Barbie is a character playing a character. What?

[00:52:28]>> Barbie is a character of doll, but but the doll is of Barbie the character. And that character plays Rapunzel in a movie.

[00:52:38]>> [laughter] >> So, it's like BARBIE BUT RAPUNZEL.

[00:52:41]WOAH.

[00:52:41]>> AND IT'S the story of Rapunzel but it's Barbie playing her.

[00:52:46]That's awesome.

[00:52:47]>> Right?

[00:52:47]And if you think [laughter] about it, yeah.

[00:52:49]Without me?

[00:52:51]And then Princess and the Pauper is Prince and the Pauper but Barbie. What's Prince and the Pauper? [laughter] We're moving on.

[00:52:58]>> Okay. Woah, there was still some left, dude. [laughter] Pauper is p a p a u p e r which is basically another word for like >> p a u p Sorry. Pooper? Pooper. We need the doody doody pooper and >> Oh god, we're back. All right, so bring the onset to here. Please come to stage.

[00:53:17]Ask him.

[00:53:19]I'm not good at it.

[00:53:20]>> Don't do that. I'm Did it scare you?

[00:53:22]>> [laughter] >> My friend Sammy does that and I always think it's me and he laughs. That's insane. To I freak out. I'm like, I don't know. Was that me? That's crazy.

[00:53:31][laughter] Okay, what apps do you have docked at the bottom of your phone? Oh, this is so awesome. I have something I I would love to shout out. I have phone.

[00:53:41]>> [laughter] >> Phone. I have phone. People who audition and do jobs in LA, I learned a lot of them have the phone app down at the bottom. I'm realizing how I don't use it though. I could swap that out, but I just have never thought to. I have phone, text message, >> Luckily I have purse. I have purse.

[00:53:56]>> [laughter] >> I have I have shoe. I have hat on head.

[00:54:00]I have phone, text message, calendar, and then Libby. Somebody gasped.

[00:54:06]>> I know, I heard a gasp. Um but I think public libraries are so incredible, so wonderful. We should all be freaking supporting them because they are so awesome and the more we support them, the more they can support us. I kind of swapped out when all the Spotify stuff was going on, I kind of was like, I'm just going to actually listen to books instead and I just put Libby in the spot Nice. [laughter] That app was. She's been cut.

[00:54:34]>> Yeah. Spotify cut from the roster.

[00:54:37]>> like this joke. I just told it on um TNT open Mike, but I'll try it here.

[00:54:42]Coachella this, Coachella that. Why don't you go check out a book from the library? The literacy rates are abhorrent in this country. Wow.

[00:54:50]>> I just got a little standing O. Everyone is standing right now. I just got >> god. I just got my library card for the first time since high school. But I've been listening to a lot of audiobooks.

[00:55:00]I've been doing I've been like in a weird habit listening to like music in a long time, which is confusing to my friends, but like I kind of have been doing podcasts and um uh audiobooks. That's great. I mean, your public libraries, if you like want to try out reading a manga and you don't want to own a bunch of manga in your place, you don't have room for it, public libraries have it all. And and >> And you can also read them digitally.

[00:55:24]And I used to freaking do Audible. Mhm.

[00:55:27]>> And the thing is, it's free. Like it's just at the library. Like it's just the same as using an app on your phone and selecting and picking. And sometimes you have to wait. Sometimes you have to go on hold and guess what? That's fun because then in 5 weeks you get notified a present. Your copy of Julia Fox's memoir is available and you're like, "Whoa, that's awesome now." And now that's going to be my life.

[00:55:49]>> read the oldest text message on your phone. Whoa.

[00:55:53]Are you scared?

[00:55:54]A little, but >> dude. I look scared because I'm someone that doesn't delete my messages. So, I'm going back to like 2016 right now. I might be scrolling for a while.

[00:56:03]>> Epic. How do I How do I even go back?

[00:56:06]>> all that? Yeah, I don't even know how much is on this phone.

[00:56:09]>> after like 60 days or 90 days.

[00:56:11]>> there's like some hack on my phone where I for sure should be out of storage and for some reason I'm not.

[00:56:16]>> Wow.

[00:56:17]>> photos. Oh, yeah. I think I have you beat.

[00:56:20]>> I think that's a lot personally.

[00:56:20]>> I think I have probably 90,000. I don't know how many I have. What have you got?

[00:56:24]I've got March 8th, 2017. Okay. From my friend Cammie. Hi loves, happy International Women's Day. Love you all, such great and amazing women. Keep doing you.

[00:56:35]That's kind of [laughter] funny.

[00:56:38]I I still I still ride for that.

[00:56:40]>> That's great.

[00:56:42]I should. [laughter] I would hope so.

[00:56:44]Amazing, amazing.

[00:56:47]I wonder what mine would be.

[00:56:49]I don't know mine. Mine This phone's weird because when I bought it I like when I upgraded my phone, it like it's like my text and then it just jumps from 2026 to 2020. And it's like conversations with people that I do not speak to anymore.

[00:57:03]Um So, share them. [laughter] So cool.

[00:57:06]Let's go.

[00:57:08]Um >> Read them word for word. Someone and Sam and Colby are having a party at their house tonight if you're trying to go.

[00:57:13]That sounds fun.

[00:57:14]>> Dude, we should go.

[00:57:16]>> Sam and Colby? Those are the YouTubers, right?

[00:57:19]>> Oh, that's sick. Those are the YouTubers? Yeah, they like ghost hunt now? Whoa. They've done a lot of things.

[00:57:24]Yeah, it's what time? Say what time?

[00:57:26]What time? [laughter] >> I'm almost there.

[00:57:29]The person I can't talk to. Cal, >> the worst excuse you've texted someone to avoid going out? Oh.

[00:57:36]>> Be honest.

[00:57:37]>> Be honest. I can't because then my secrets will be getting away. [laughter] That's valid.

[00:57:43]>> think like I feel bad that after living in LA all these years, I still use the excuse of like ran into traffic. Oh, like It's like obviously there's traffic.

[00:57:54]>> Yeah. So like I am someone that will text that I'm leaving with the hope it motivates me to get out like to do things.

[00:58:03]And then I and I I I've had I have had a lot of friends that time is really valuable and important to them and they've taught me, you know, how to be better about that, but I'm someone like my whole family is like a late family. I love [laughter] learning like the family like the regulations of like My family always woke up early and so when I tried to call my friend one morning on a Saturday morning, her whole family slept till 11.

[00:58:30]Mhm. And I was like, "Wow." Yeah. What?

[00:58:33]If I ever had to call my mom, I grew up with a single mom and she worked late, so she'd sleep in late. And if ever something happened at school, I'd have to just like wait for hours till she woke up.

[00:58:45]>> So I would I'd become good friends with the school nurses. Aw, sleeping beauty. [laughter] Wow. Okay, Cal, what's your most recent saved post? It was this video someone edited uh I have a privacy screen, [music] so this might be >> I was like, "I can't see it."

[00:59:01]>> I know.

[00:59:02]>> [laughter] >> It's I can see it. You can see it? Um of this person who edited this video cutting in like pictures from when they were younger.

[00:59:10]>> WOW. WOW.

[00:59:12]That's insane.

[00:59:13]>> That's awesome.

[00:59:15]>> very beautiful and it also inspired me for um maybe a show poster. Okay, this time I am plugging. Um of a show I'm working on that I'm going to be doing at the LA LGBT Center uh in June. Um That's kind of a little bit of a digital reflection. Hell yeah. And I think very special and sweet and kind of like reconnecting with my younger self. I think like with I don't know if you feel this way too at all like when you had like had looked so different for so long of your life and it's like really there's like a long period of disconnect and then kind of trying to go back and like realize that person was still always you and kind of like be a little bit forgiving to that person.

[01:00:00]And so I thought that video was beautiful and I thought maybe I could.

[01:00:04]So maybe you'll see the inspo for the show poster. I'm working on it with Mitra Mitra Jouhari. She's an amazing comedian and writer.

[01:00:12]And that is called a promo. Wow.

[01:00:16]>> [laughter] >> Well, no, that's awesome.

[01:00:18]>> benefits the LA LGBT Center. Like everything's going to them. So that's cool.

[01:00:22]>> Yeah, I I showed a video on this channel called to be a girl. And it was a video I made in high school on my old private YouTube channel that was just like it was cringe city but but some there was truth to it.

[01:00:34]>> That's where I was born. To be a girl?

[01:00:36]No, cringe [laughter] city. Cringe city.

[01:00:40]What a funny way to talk about being trans.

[01:00:42]>> Yeah, that's where I was >> [laughter] >> born in cringe city. I was being born. Wow. No. I really wish I had some like non-earnest answers for you for these questions. Like wouldn't it be awesome if it was like hottest hottest chicks in the world.

[01:00:57]Yeah, yeah. No, it's [laughter] fine.

[01:00:58]Oh, hottest chicks in the world. It's just my girlfriend. I made the video. It goes back to earnest.

[01:01:04]Okay, I'm going to do one more. How many texts/unread sorry, unread texts/DMs do you have? I used to be a zero all the time.

[01:01:13]>> That's me. And I'm a zero. now I'm My waist maybe.

[01:01:19]My waist is on the right.

[01:01:21]>> [laughter] >> I'm 11 texts right now. That's not bad.

[01:01:27]And and I got three while here. Damn.

[01:01:30]Whoa, OKAY. NOT TO BRAG.

[01:01:33]Not to brag. Texts from your girlfriend DO NOT COUNT. NO, IT was for work. It was [laughter] my work chat. Um and then Instagram, I have 10 DMs except it's probably actually literally like a hundred because I've fallen behind on there and I feel if I owe you a reply, I'm really sorry. That's okay. Yeah, you can apologize to everybody you've never that you have currently on on unread right now. Go for it. To everyone I have on unread both [music] in DMs and text messages, it's not that I don't love you.

[01:02:04]I just get really distracted and [music] I want to give you the best reply I can and I don't always feel in the best place [music] to do that.

[01:02:15]So, it leads to inaction.

[01:02:17]And for that, I'm sorry. Your message is important [music] and I'll get back to you soon.

[01:02:26]Thank you.

[01:02:27]>> [laughter] >> Thank you. I'm now going to just record that and then how That's how I'm going to answer to everybody that I can't reply to. Thank you.

[01:02:33]>> Some people have said Scram is their voicemail. Oh, that's good. Leave her alone. That's great. Yeah, don't leave a voicemail. Leave me alone. Well, thank you so much Kel for hanging out with us.

[01:02:42]I hate the ends of shows cuz I don't want this to end.

[01:02:46]>> Sure.

[01:02:46]>> No, but that's [laughter] awesome. Thank you for everything ever ends. Thanks so much for sharing everything that you're doing right now, all the awesome stuff that's coming up. Uh everybody make sure to check out Kel Kripe on social media, see what they're up to if you want to check out the future stuff. And thank you Chance for always bringing your wonderful wonderful frequency.

[01:03:02]And check Chance out and things and and and Mike, too. And Eric's stuff. Check out Jonathan. Check out everyone's all the time.

[01:03:10]>> Everybody's stuff always.

[01:03:11]>> And to anyone watch you know, watching like just make sure you tell people I'm really tough and >> Okay. I'm like badass. Right. And like I do And I I'm like so freaking mean. Yes.

[01:03:23]No. No.

[01:03:24]>> No, I don't want to be mean. But I would like to be known To be being like Kel like behind the scenes.

[01:03:31]Mhm. [ __ ] Yeah.

[01:03:33]>> [laughter] >> You said the viewer.

[01:03:37]Imagine. Imagine if this is how you are on camera and then people are like, oh, they're actually a nightmare.

[01:03:41]>> off. I'm like, I need fresh flowers in the green room.

[01:03:44]I love that, [laughter] Laura. Ugh. All right. Well, thanks again for hanging out. We'll We'll bring it back.

[01:03:49]>> I love you guys. This show is amazing. I love Smosh. Thank you. We love you.

[01:03:54]>> And that's a a throwback to Moose Masters also. I still get comments every single day. I love Smosh. Yeah. That's good. All right. Well, thank you guys for hanging out with us. Always a pleasure. See you in the comments. Let us know who else you want to come back and what else you should talk about with Kel next time.

[01:04:09]Leave the internet feeling better than when you opened it this morning. Aw. Aw.

[01:04:13]Bye.