Smosh Answers the Web's Most Searched Questions

Hey there, I'm Mari.

I'm Ian Hecox.

I'm Courtney.

And we're some of the people that make up Smosh.

And today, we're doing the WIRED Autocomplete Interview.

[upbeat pop music]

You don't have to worry about it.

Just let me [bleep] up.

Yeah.

[Ian & Mari] What is Smosh doing now?

We're doing this.

Doing a video.

Right now we're doing this, yeah.

[Mari] What is Smosh's most viewed video?

Our most viewed video was the Beef 'n Go video.

It was a video that featured a tube of meat

that you could take on the go and eat on the go.

But the reason it got the most views is because

there was a very inappropriate thing that was in

the thumbnail, it was a complete accident,

but it was a very inappropriate image

that I won't say what it was.

And I think it's since been changed.

But also, it's impossible to find the video

'cause YouTube buried it.

[Courtney] What is the Smosh logo?

That's something that Anthony designed

before we even started making videos.

And it's just two arrows moving forward

with an S in between.

Wait, that's an S in between?

Yeah. Yeah.

You didn't know that?

No, I did not know that.

What? No!

I thought it was a squiggley, but I always thought

it was cute because it's not perfectly designed.

It's almost like there's a little flaw in it.

You crappin' on Anthony's design skills?

No,

it's very wholesome.

Well, he did make it in high school--

Whoah, I didn't know it was an S.

Next one.

Does Ian Hecox own Smosh?

Ooh, at one point I did, but being the business boy

that I was, I was like, oh, lets sell Smosh

and try to make it into something bigger

than just two guys.

So technically, no, I don't own Smosh.

When was Smosh born?

Two thousand...

Well, the name Smosh, was that 2002?

Yeah, the website was 2002.

Website, but then the channel was two thousand...

2005. Channel was 2005.

Yep, yep.

What is Smosh phone number?

555

696

424. No, no, no, no.

It's 911--

No!

That's worse!

That's a weird question to ask, don't ask that question.

If we don't give you our phone number,

don't go looking for it.

That's not nice.

Also, don't call, text first.

Yeah, and be like, hey, is it cool?

[Ian] Does Smosh

swear?

[bleep] Yeah.

Yeah, we, yeah.

Yeah.

Smosh has always been kinda seen as,

we always wanna keep things PG13.

So we swear, but anything that's worse than

what you would see maybe on TV, we always bleep out.

But we've never really been afraid to swear.

It's like, yeah, whatever you're feeling,

just throw it out there and we can censor it later

if we feel like it.

Ian!

Oh, we got an Ian one.

I mean, we don't need to know about me.

Let's see.

I'm gonna guess it's, am I Ian Hecox?

[Courtney & Mari] Who is?

[Ian] Who is Ian Hecox?

He voiced a bird in Angry Birds, and that's it.

Yeah, and they didn't invite me back for the second one,

thanks guys. [laughter]

I was going to community college,

didn't know what I wanted to do.

I worked at Chuck E. Cheese when Smosh was getting started.

I was Chuck E.

So if you were kicking Chuck E. Cheese

at the Chuck E. Cheese over in Sacramento

in the leg, around the year of 2005, that was my leg.

Luckily Smosh worked out.

Yeah, you were gonna work at the Chuck E. Cheese

for the rest of your life, you said.

What is, what is Hecox [laughs]?

Human, human man.

Hooman. [laughter]

Hooman, doe not have super powers yet.

Who did Ian Hecox, oh, God.

Bang, with 10 A's.

[laughs] Yeah, I hope so.

[Ian & Courtney] Play in Angry Birds.

Wow, just rub it in.

Do you know your characters name?

Did your character have a name?

Yeah, he was Bubbles.

Aww. Bubbles.

Yeah, he's the bird that gets big.

And I was really excited when they announced

the second one, and I was sitting there by the phone

just waiting for that phone call.

What happened to Ian Hecox?

I get it.

I ask the same question myself.

Once you cut that bowl cut off they're like,

poof, where'd he go?

Well, yeah, maybe when I cut off my bowl haircut,

which was like two years too late

into make the decision to cut it.

I got noticed way less after that point.

All right, here we go.

Where does Ian Hecox live?

I will tell you.

Creepy.

420.

69 Avenue.

Courtney! Oh, my gosh, Courtney.

Courtney!

Come to our party tonight.

[sighs] I live in beautiful Los Angeles

and I will not elaborate on that question [laughs].

Is Ian Hecox--

Related to Abraham Lincoln?

The world needs to know!

I don't even know where that question comes from.

It's your beard, that's an Abraham Lincoln beard.

That's what it is.

I've asked this question on Google like 18 times.

And there is no definitive answer.

Yeah.

Ooh, here we go. Mari!

Mari Takahashi.

Do you want us to hold it for you?

Sure. All right.

[Mari] Who is, no, where is?

Where is she? Where in the world

is Mari Takahashi?

That's so weird, why is that the first question?

What is, where, who is, and what is?

I don't know, I guess I travel a lot, too, so,

when I'm in LA it's rare sometimes.

But otherwise I'm here.

[Ian] Mari Takahashi.

[Courtney & Mari] Eye patch?

[laughter]

When did that happen?

Was that a thing?

Okay, there's this string of videos on Smosh in order,

where I have an eye patch because I scratched my eye

that morning and I didn't know what else to do.

So I got an eye patch at CVS.

A pirate one or a bandage one?

It looked more like a pirate one.

Every eye patch looks like a pirate one.

I know many different kinds of eye patches.

At least it wasn't pink eye, it wasn't pink eye.

It wasn't pink eye.

It was probably pink eye.

Mari Takahashi.

Chipped tooth, I was there for that.

Why are these all moments?

I think I look cute with a chipped tooth.

Every does. I look like

girl Jim Carey from Dumb and Dumber,

is what I think I looked like.

Quick background on this story.

We were on the Queen Mary ghost ship,

we were told that it was a haunted ship,

I thought it was complete BS.

So we're messin' around and decide

to have a piggyback ride--

As one does on a haunted ship.

Yeah, it was a race, piggyback ride race.

I slip outta no where, it came out of nowhere,

I swear to God, this is when I was like, okay,

ghosts you got it.

I chip my tooth, all of this was gone,

it was about half gone.

You shoulda had that and the eye patch,

that would've been.

Did Mari Takahasi win Survivor.

Ooh.

Ooh.

She salty. Ooh.

Uh-oh.

You made it pretty far, right?

Shut up.

[laughter]

No, I was second out and I'm still salty about it.

I got so hot, I got a hot flash thinking about it.

Mari Takahasi quotes.

All time favorite quotes.

I'll give you two.

One is, done is better than perfect.

Because, you know what?

We can't strive for perfection, you just gotta do

what you can and you just gotta do it.

And then the other one is my quote,

which I like to say, which is,

show up and don't be an ass [bleep].

I don't think that's your quote.

Definitely Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson.

If he says that he says it, that's fine.

He can have it then.

Mari Takahasi tattoo.

Oh, yeah right. Do you have any?

I actually have zero tattoos.

I have zero, we all have zero.

Oh, my good.

Oh, my good.

Let's go get one now.

Also, your parents would murder you.

My dad would for sure disown me,

because tattoos in my culture, Japanese culture,

is tied with Yakuza, and he's still very old school

about that stuff.

And I also feel like if I get one little tiny tattoo

on my arm, I would end up with a full sleeve

by the end of the year.

'Cause you're an over achiever.

I think I'm a completionist.

[Ian] Who is Courtney Miller?

A weirdo that was found on the internet

and is destined to make you laugh uncomfortably.

[Ian] Next up.

[Ian & Mari] What breed is Courtney Miller?

No, that's it, what breed is Courtney Miller?

Amazonian princess.

What breed is Courtney Miller's dog?

Aww.

My dog's living with my mom right now,

but Jango, the cutest little pup ever,

he's a Vietnamese ridgeback.

And it's a rare newer breed, didn't get recognized by

the AKC until

last year.

And he's incredible, they have a ridge in their back

and they're really strong.

That makes sense that he has a ridge on his back--

He's a ridgeback, he actually was born without

a ridge on his back, so.

How tall is Courtney Miller's,

Dog, please be dog, oh.

[Courtney] In feet?

How tall are your feet?

How tall are my feet?

Uh, about six and half, I don't know.

I'm five six, I think.

On the dot, maybe even just below.

Is Courtney Miller vegan?

I was for eight months.

Pretty early on in the career.

Yeah, give it the old college try.

Give it the old college try.

I was really bored with my life,

also wanted to see how it would help,

'cause I had skin issues and I wanted to see if it helped.

Didn't really effect my skin but I lost

all my baby fat which was crazy.

Yeah, not vegan anymore, I love chili.

Is Courtney Miller in Glee?

[Ian & Mari] What?

I get that sometimes.

I look like the girl who plays Brittany from Glee,

I forget the actress' name.

When I was on Vine, everyone thought that I looked like

Brittany from Glee.

Don't really get that as much anymore.

I don't see it, I don't see it at all.

Is Courtney Miller left handed?

Yes.

Whoah.

As proven by the snap.

Well. [finger snapping]

Oh, damn, she's an ambi-snapper.

What?! Ambi-snapper.

Technically I'm actually ambidextrous

because I do all my writing and little intricate stuff,

but then all my athletic stuff like throwing

and when I was pole vaulting, and eating right handed.

All your athletic stuff, eating.

Yeah, eating is super athletic for me.

Huh!

Get in there.

[Ian & Mari] Who owns Smosh 2019.

'Cause it's different from 2018.

This is true.

Previously Smosh was owned by this company called

DEFY Media, maybe you heard about them.

That's the name you shall not say.

Yeah [laughs].

Some not great things happened

and they kinda went out of business

and Smosh was recused by Mythical Entertainment,

who, if you guys don't know who that is,

that's Rhett and Link, who are also some YouTube OG's.

They came to our rescue and things couldn't be better.

Who is your Smosh

boyfriend?

Oh, is that a quiz?

Yeah, we recently did a YouTube video

where you took fan made Smosh quizzes,

and one of 'em was a quiz saying who's your Smosh boyfriend.

'Cause you got Noah, right?

And then Damien got Kieth, and I got Shayne.

I wonder who my boyfriend would be?

Who do you think would be your

OTP?

I'm gonna say Lasercorn, because I think that it would

just be this constant fighting rivalry.

And then we'll have little moments of,

aw, that was a nice thing you said,

and then we'll just fight again.

Who is in Smosh Games?

[gasping]

That's asking a lot.

Well, that's kind of a hard question to ask now,

because, now Smosh, Smosh Games, Smosh Pit,

which is our second channel,

it's all kind of one family now.

For a while Smosh Games was kind of separate from Smosh,

and we're like, why?

We're all friends.

Why are we two separate things?

Now we're an amoeba.

Yeah. Oh, long one.

What is the definition of the word smosh?

That goes way back to

2002,

when one of my friends said, smosh pit inside a mosh pit.

And it became an inside joke between myself, Anthony,

and the rest of our friends.

And then Anthony created a website,

we were like, what do we call it?

I don't know, call it Smosh.

And then we called that Smosh, and then when we started

making videos we were like, uh, what do we call our videos?

I don't know, Smosh.

So Smosh, it just kinda stuck.

Well, that's it, thank you for asking all these questions

about us, maybe less personal ones?

Don't ask where we live.

Well, thank you, guys.

Bye.

Bye. Love you, bye.