Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla from the trailblazing internet comedy channel Smosh join WIRED to answer their most searched questions from Google.Check out the Smosh YouTube channel as well as Anthony Padilla’s series, “I Spent A Day With...”. New episodes of both are available weekly on YouTube.
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00:00 - Hey, I'm Anthony Padilla.
00:01 - I'm Ian Hecox.
00:02 - Together we are Smosh.
00:03 - And you're watching the Wired Autocomplete Interview.
00:06 (upbeat music)
00:08 - Friendship always wins.
00:10 - Okay, where is the old Smosh?
00:17 Oh, we're right here, baby.
00:18 - We're right here.
00:20 - There's a second, I'm stripped.
00:21 - Oh my gosh.
00:22 - Oh my God.
00:23 - Where is the old Smosh house?
00:27 - That is in Sacramento.
00:29 - The address leaked.
00:31 A lot of people started showing up to our house
00:32 and we were living there.
00:33 People found it on Google Maps
00:35 and then labeled it as a place of worship.
00:39 It doesn't anymore, but I'm sure some of you at home
00:41 could change that, make it a place of worship again.
00:44 - Why is Smosh house blockered?
00:47 - Whoa.
00:48 - Because we had many a stalker.
00:51 Well, not technically stalker.
00:53 - There was a couple.
00:54 - Do you remember the one time
00:55 when we were editing Food Battle
00:56 and there were like 10 or 20 people outside and around
01:00 and about the house and they were ringing the doorbell,
01:01 ding, dong, ding, dong, ding, dong, ding, dong.
01:03 I remember you went around the house while I was editing
01:06 and you were closing all the blinds.
01:08 - Oh yeah, I think a lot of the people
01:09 that showed up to our house were completely harmless.
01:12 It was just like a lot of bored teens.
01:15 And when you're a teenager growing up in Sacramento
01:18 and you have a bike, it's like, yeah,
01:20 why not just go try to say hi to the Smosh boys?
01:24 - Yeah, it was probably harmless, but also a little scary.
01:27 - A little scary, a little scary, a little bit.
01:30 - When was Smosh's first video?
01:32 The first video that we uploaded to YouTube
01:34 was November 19th, 2005, but we didn't know YouTube existed.
01:39 - Yeah.
01:40 - At all, it was just uploaded to Smosh.com.
01:42 That was the Power Rangers theme song music video.
01:46 - And somebody stole our video, put it on YouTube
01:48 and that's how we found out about it.
01:49 So thank you, piracy.
01:51 When was Smosh the most subscribed?
01:53 - Three separate times.
01:54 - Three separate times.
01:56 - We were the most subscribed.
01:57 We got passed up and then we took it back
01:59 and then we got passed up and then we took it back
02:01 and then PewDiePie passed us
02:03 and then it was just over from there.
02:05 Sorry, I thought it was gonna be way cooler.
02:09 - Okay, you know this is gonna be a good one.
02:11 - Oh no.
02:12 - Who is Ian Hecox's mom?
02:15 - Who is Ian Hecox's mom?
02:18 Little backstory, one of the most popular recurring--
02:22 - Iconic.
02:23 - Iconic OG characters from the old Smosh days
02:28 was my mom, who is actually played by my mom.
02:33 She's not an actor, in fact, she hates acting.
02:36 We generally have my mom just say the worst things to me.
02:41 - Call you a dumbass.
02:42 - Yeah.
02:43 - Recently she called you an emaciated cuck.
02:45 - Yeah, and it's just fun to make my mom curse.
02:47 - Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla still friends?
02:52 With no question mark or anything.
02:53 - I mean, yeah, I mean that was a legitimate question
02:56 for many years.
02:57 We were friends in the sixth grade
03:00 and then started this whole Smosh adventure together.
03:04 We did that for about 12 years
03:07 and in that time of becoming friends,
03:09 then becoming roommates, but also being business partners,
03:13 it kind of put a strain on our friendship
03:15 and for a good while after Anthony left Smosh,
03:18 we actually weren't friends.
03:20 - We would communicate,
03:20 but there was always something that felt
03:22 a little bit distant about it.
03:24 - Like little awkies.
03:26 - Little awks.
03:27 We started reconnecting last year.
03:31 Hashed it out, learned how to communicate like adults
03:34 rather than 17 year olds.
03:35 - It's pretty dope.
03:36 - Seems like things are chill.
03:37 - Yeah, adult friendships are sweet.
03:40 - Friendship always wins.
03:41 Where is Ian Hecox from?
03:45 - Like Anthony, I'm from Sacramento, California,
03:48 the 9-1 sickness.
03:50 - Representing the 9-1-6.
03:51 Can Ian Hecox speak Spanish?
03:53 What do you think that's from?
03:54 - Un poquito.
03:55 I mean, people gotta know if I'm bilingual.
03:58 You know, it's very important.
03:59 - It's because of El Smosh, the Smosh.
04:01 - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
04:02 Our Spanish language dub channel,
04:05 they wanna know if I'm the one doing the dubbing.
04:08 - The answer is no.
04:09 - Couldn't be me.
04:10 - Ian Hecox, Creator Clash.
04:13 - No!
04:14 So Creator Clash is a charity influencer boxing match.
04:18 They get a bunch of creators and they have them box.
04:21 - Like real hitting.
04:22 - Yeah, they all trained for months.
04:25 They got ripped.
04:26 I attended the second one.
04:28 - But you did not fight?
04:29 - You know, I don't really like
04:32 getting head trauma for clout.
04:34 - How about this?
04:35 If this video gets 250,000 likes,
04:39 Ian will fight someone.
04:41 - Okay, I'll fight like a child.
04:44 Whoa, okay.
04:48 - Oh, okay.
04:49 - Was Anthony Padilla emo?
04:53 - Yes.
04:54 - Yes.
04:55 - Depending on what your definition of emo is.
04:57 Hair wise, especially, yes.
04:59 - Yeah.
05:00 - Aura, energy wise, not so much.
05:03 I was heavily influenced by emo culture.
05:06 - There you go.
05:07 What do Anthony Padilla tattoos mean?
05:10 - I get that question a lot.
05:11 Someone yesterday, I was at the airport,
05:13 this really weird look on their face.
05:14 They're like, "Does it mean something?"
05:16 I thought about saying, "No."
05:18 But honestly, I know you're looking for an answer,
05:21 but I feel like it would take a very long time
05:23 for me to get into.
05:24 They mean a lot to me,
05:26 and there's a lot of hidden messages in there
05:28 that are really just for me.
05:30 I feel like I'm kind of doing this thing
05:31 where I give messages to my future self,
05:34 things that I never want to forget,
05:36 and things that I hope to continue living with
05:40 for the rest of my life.
05:41 - He hid a live, laugh, love in there.
05:43 - You'll never find it.
05:45 - Does Anthony Padilla know what Corpse looks like?
05:50 - Yes, Corpse is a faceless musician.
05:54 Yes, I do know what he looks like.
05:55 I've interviewed him.
05:56 He would not want me to say this,
05:57 but he looks just as cool as people draw him.
05:59 That's all I'll say.
06:01 That's all I'll say.
06:02 - Who plays Anthony Padilla?
06:03 - So there's this guy. - Mario Lopez.
06:05 - Yeah, there's this guy named Mario Lopez
06:08 that I hired to act out my roles sometimes.
06:11 Actually, it's funny 'cause my mom used to always say
06:13 that she thought when I was younger
06:14 that I was gonna grow up to look like Mario Lopez.
06:17 - I mean, I see the resemblance.
06:18 - What's a famous thing he says?
06:20 - Saved by the bell.
06:23 I don't know.
06:24 - Let's see if I look like, saved by the bell.
06:26 - Whoa.
06:27 - Guys, I think it's Mario Lopez.
06:29 All right.
06:32 How to get on Smosh?
06:35 - To be like talent on it?
06:37 I don't know.
06:38 Be in LA and be funny.
06:40 - And probably wait for one of the other cast members
06:42 to die of old age.
06:43 - So give it, I mean, I don't know.
06:46 Shane's not long for this world,
06:49 so probably like five years.
06:52 - Smosh beef and go.
06:54 We can't avoid talking about beef and go.
06:57 Beef and go is the number one most viewed
07:00 Smosh video of all time,
07:02 which is crazy because the video's really mid.
07:06 Smosh fanfic.
07:08 - Oh, there's a lot out there.
07:09 I think there would be less now about us
07:13 because we're not like floppy haired emo boys.
07:17 So like they don't really want to see us make out
07:19 as much as they used to.
07:20 - And we won't talk about the milk fanfic.
07:22 Anyway.
07:23 - He brought it up again.
07:24 He can't mention the milk fanfic.
07:25 - Anyway, we don't mention
07:26 the infamous milk fanfic anymore.
07:28 Smosh Legend of Zelda rap lyrics.
07:30 So we made a Legend of Zelda rap.
07:33 Spent a lot of time writing that.
07:34 Ian played Link.
07:36 He got his elf ears.
07:38 And I played the boss, Ganondorf.
07:41 - That was like our first big music video.
07:45 We had a professional cosplayer make us--
07:49 - The costumes by him.
07:50 - Costumes.
07:51 - We also paid someone to make the beat, the instrumental.
07:55 - And then we went out to the mountains.
07:57 We drove two hours to go film in that field.
08:00 - And it was a two day shoot I think.
08:02 Smosh, we summoned a demon.
08:05 - So this is our first sketch back.
08:09 And I'm so proud of it.
08:10 It was the first video that we fully wrote
08:14 after deciding that we wanted to buy Smosh back.
08:17 But we didn't know if our plan to buy Smosh back
08:21 and start making classic style sketches again
08:23 was gonna work.
08:24 I set a date.
08:25 I was like, next weekend,
08:26 you're coming back over to my place
08:28 and we're gonna write our first sketch
08:30 and we're gonna see if we still click.
08:32 - If we still have it.
08:33 - Yeah.
08:34 - Juice.
08:35 - Whoa.
08:37 - All right.
08:38 How did Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox meet?
08:41 - Aw, so that was in sixth grade.
08:45 We were doing a science project.
08:47 I didn't have any friends.
08:48 So the teacher kind of assigned us
08:51 to work on something together
08:52 'cause I think everyone else had picked someone.
08:54 - We were the losers.
08:55 Funny how things just don't change.
08:57 How old was Anthony Padilla when he started Smosh?
09:02 - Oh, okay.
09:04 I can't remember if I was 13 or 14
09:06 when I made the first Smosh website.
09:09 But I do know for a fact that I was 14 years old
09:12 when I made the Smosh logo.
09:13 I remember looking up what makes a good logo,
09:16 doing a little fast forward sign,
09:19 picking my favorite band, Linkin Park,
09:21 finding their font and putting a little S in between.
09:24 - Can you like believe that we're still using
09:26 that ass logo for like this long?
09:30 We have actually honestly tried to change it.
09:33 It just doesn't hit like the OG logo.
09:35 - Nothing hits like that logo.
09:36 - How did Anthony Padilla and Mikey meet?
09:39 (laughing)
09:41 - That's actually very funny.
09:42 My girlfriend, Mikey, and I officially met
09:47 for the first time on a Smosh collab.
09:49 We were promoting Smosh the movie.
09:52 She and I did not connect at all
09:53 because I had many a worry on my mind.
09:57 She actually thought I didn't like her at all.
09:58 And then four years later to the day,
10:01 we re-met up again at VidCon of all places.
10:05 I was like, what's up, girl?
10:08 - I'm Smosh guy.
10:11 - Perfect impression actually.
10:14 - Anthony Padilla, Daily Dose of Internet.
10:16 - I just interviewed Daily Dose of Internet.
10:18 Many people haven't seen his face.
10:21 I think that's where most people are seeing
10:23 what Daily Dose of Internet looks like.
10:24 I interviewed him on another channel, not related to Smosh.
10:28 This is a show that I started doing
10:31 right after I left Smosh.
10:32 - The first time.
10:33 - The first time, the only time, motherfucker.
10:36 - Yeah, you're right.
10:36 - Trying to force me out already?
10:39 I haven't been here a month.
10:40 - It's your first time so far.
10:42 - Ian Hecox, Lil Toe.
10:48 - Okay, I was like--
10:49 - Is this a reference?
10:50 - Yeah, it's a video reference.
10:52 There's a video where I play a mumble rapper.
10:55 It was a joke on Lil Pump back when he was popping off.
11:00 - I thought it was literally about your toe.
11:01 - No, I thought so too.
11:02 I thought it was about my toe for a second.
11:04 I was like, is there something wrong with my toes?
11:07 - We don't talk about Ian's deformed little toe.
11:08 - I mean, check WikiFeet, you'll know there.
11:10 - Ian Hecox, Old Hair.
11:13 - I used to have, it wasn't an actual bowl cut.
11:16 - No.
11:17 - But that was the best way to describe what it was.
11:20 - It looked more like a loaf of bread.
11:22 - Yeah, a lot of people would call me Breadhead.
11:23 But people felt like a certain attachment to the bowl hair.
11:28 Do you remember when you cut your hair?
11:30 - Yeah.
11:31 - And people were like, he's not funny anymore.
11:33 - Yeah.
11:33 - Now he cut his hair.
11:34 - People used to say that Smosh stopped being funny
11:37 when I cut my hair.
11:38 And a lot of people on our new videos now are like,
11:40 it's not the same without Ian's bowl or Breadhead.
11:44 - Yeah, yeah.
11:45 That's fine.
11:46 - Ian Hecox, Madame Tussauds.
11:48 - We got wax figures of the both of us.
11:50 It's like me kind of like pushing you
11:52 out of a stool or something.
11:54 - Yeah, we wanted it to be like a scene.
11:55 - Yeah, I think it kind of like toured around
11:57 with some Madame Tussauds.
11:58 And then it was like radio silence.
12:00 And we didn't know like where our wax figures went.
12:04 And then one day somebody sends me a photo
12:07 of my wax figure alone with like a VR headset on my face.
12:12 - Just covering up as much of his face as possible.
12:15 - And like Anthony is nowhere to be seen.
12:17 I'm just like, and it's so weird.
12:20 And that's the last I've seen of it.
12:22 And I think we had to start a campaign
12:24 to get our wax figures back.
12:25 They probably like melted it down and then use that
12:27 to build like Choi Siwon's wax figures.
12:31 - Probably.
12:31 - Yeah.
12:32 - Ian Hecox birth chart.
12:34 - Well, I'm a Sagittarius.
12:36 - What's your moon landing?
12:38 I don't know.
12:39 - My moon landing.
12:40 - I don't know what the.
12:41 - Yeah, I don't know.
12:43 So I'm just a Saggy.
12:44 - Boom.
12:45 - Who says shut up?
12:48 Smosh.
12:49 It's me.
12:50 So shut up is like an intro card thing that we do.
12:54 Almost every single video starts with some dumb soundbite.
12:58 And then it just says, shut up.
13:00 Like the worst audio quality you could ever have.
13:04 - And it's so funny.
13:05 Cause like people will ask me to say it.
13:07 - And it never sounds the same.
13:08 - And I'm like, bro,
13:09 it's not going to sound anything like it.
13:10 Cause it's, it was recorded on like a $10 microphone
13:14 17 years ago.
13:16 So that, that sound clip will outlive me.
13:20 Who works at Smosh people?
13:22 - Oh man.
13:23 - Us.
13:24 - Us.
13:25 It's interesting to kind of go down, you know,
13:27 memory lane and think about how it was literally just us
13:30 in the beginning at my mom's house,
13:32 just like messing around, making jokes for each other,
13:35 trying to just make each other laugh.
13:37 And now there's multiple sound stages and.
13:40 - Got like 35 full-time employees.
13:44 - Yeah, lots of really amazing people
13:45 help make Smosh happen.
13:47 - And everyone is so funny.
13:49 Who bought Smosh?
13:50 - Ooh, there's multiple.
13:52 - We did.
13:53 But there was first Alloy Digital, which became Defy.
13:56 Then when that company collapsed in 2018,
13:58 Rhett and Link's Mythical Entertainment purchased.
14:02 - They rescued it.
14:03 - And we say rescued because that could have went
14:06 a very different direction.
14:07 Many different companies were like,
14:09 let me get that company.
14:11 Let me buy Smosh.
14:12 Let me see what I can do to completely dismantle it.
14:15 - It was going to be ass.
14:16 Straight up.
14:17 Like if Mythical didn't get it,
14:19 I wouldn't have stayed around.
14:19 - I was going to say, you wouldn't have stayed, right?
14:21 - No, no.
14:23 - Then we bought it back.
14:24 Who is the Smosh Pit?
14:27 Yeah, the Smosh Pit was the second channel.
14:29 It was also a website for a while.
14:32 So now the Smosh Pit is this really fun,
14:36 unscripted channel that we have
14:38 that has our other castmates on it.
14:41 We do like kind of like this improv show
14:44 called Try Not To Laugh,
14:45 where you have a bunch of props in wardrobe
14:47 and you try to come out and make the person in the stool
14:49 laugh, spit out water.
14:51 It's all sorts of like fun little unscripted shows.
14:54 Who Smosh now?
14:56 - Who Smosh now?
14:57 For the main Smosh channel, we Smosh now.
15:00 For the Smosh Pit channel,
15:02 lots of cool, really funny people.
15:04 - Including us.
15:05 - And Smosh Games, lots of the same people.
15:08 Also, they Smosh now.
15:09 - Playing tabletop games, board games.
15:12 We just launched a D&D show.
15:14 So we're in that D&D game.
15:15 That's right, Critical Role.
15:16 We're coming for you.
15:17 We're not, we're not coming for you.
15:18 - We're not really coming for you.
15:19 - You're doing fine.
15:20 - You have your territory.
15:21 - We'll just do our thing.
15:22 - We will not tread there.
15:23 - We will not tread.
15:24 (yells)
15:26 - All right, we made it through the boards.
15:28 - Yeah, let us know what you thought
15:29 down below in the comments.
15:31 And we will see you on a different YouTube video.
15:36 - Bye.
15:38 (upbeat music)