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(floor thuds)
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(Anthony sighs)
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- Well, you've seen this
type of video before.
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Yeah, that's right.
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I am not retiring.
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Sorry, I know I've got gray in my beard
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and I look like I should be,
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but I'm sorry, you're stuck with me.
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But changes are coming.
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They've already been coming,
and there's more on the way.
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You've seen the tone of
this channel evolve with me
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and kind of match wherever I'm at.
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Silly, funny, lighthearted, goofy,
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very dark, very somber, very serious.
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And we're at a new place
now. It's time for a new era.
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This channel has evolved so much
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since I first created
it like 19 years ago.
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It started off as something
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where I would just upload
random little clips.
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I think the first thing
I uploaded was just
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literally me spinning in a chair.
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No goal, no idea what I was doing with it.
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And I didn't really start
getting serious uploading on it
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until I left Smosh in 2017,
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and I still didn't know what I was doing.
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But then I slowly found this
channel was such a good place
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to connect with people,
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to show that you can have
a lighthearted conversation
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with people without judgment
to get to know them.
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You know, like this channel first started
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off interviewing people
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that were considered strange in society.
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Furries, for example.
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I think the "FURRIES" episode
is when I first realized that,
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you know, even while
people might seem strange
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from the outside, you get
to know them and you see
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that there's so many reasons
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that they do the things that they do.
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And I realized I can
relate so much to that.
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And I think that's why that video
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and why so many people
connected with that episode,
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and then I changed the tone
of the channel to match that.
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I think one of the most interesting parts
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about this channel is it
made me not only realize
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that I like connecting with other people,
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but it also allowed me to
start connecting with myself
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and healing a lot of suppressed emotions
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that I had been holding on
to for a really long time.
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And you know, connecting,
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like reconnecting with people in my life
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that I thought I would
never connect with again.
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You know, and then that led
to reconnecting with Ian,
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and ultimately reconnecting with him led
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to us buying back Smosh, which
you've heard a million times,
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so I won't get into that.
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But that is all very
important to this story
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because I started to
realize that there were
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so many elements there at
Smosh that we were doing
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that I wanted to bring in
over here on this channel.
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That's why you've seen so many
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of the Smosh cast make
appearances on this channel,
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interviewing people for "Assumptions"
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or maybe some new shows
coming up in the future.
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You've seen some very
comedic takes on that,
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like "Assumptions" with The Chosen.
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You've seen them hosting
some one-on-one interviews,
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like with Linus Tech Tips and Kane Pixels,
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which were amazing.
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And all of this is a taste of
where this channel is going.
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And I'm most excited about the fact
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that the channel is now going to evolve
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with this Smosh-centric flare to it.
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A little bit more lighthearted,
a little bit more fun,
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but still very much so
about the connection,
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the human connection between people.
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And a lot of those
moments are still funny.
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When I think back to
my favorite interviews
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that I've done on this channel,
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they all have this lighthearted
sense of humor in there,
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this kind of silliness.
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So even when we get into
those serious discussions,
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there's still like a sense of playfulness,
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or you know, just like a connection
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that you might have with a friend.
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And that's what I'm really excited about,
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is honing in on that in this new era
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with a little bit more of that Smosh tone.
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So what I've been doing behind the scenes
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while you've been seeing
so many new faces here
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in front of the camera is
reconnecting with that part of me
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that loves overseeing big projects
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and contributing myself creatively
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to these overall bigger picture ideas.
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So with all that said,
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the thing that I am most excited
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to announce in this video,
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Pressalike is officially part of Smosh.
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So I've seen you in the
comments, speculating,
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trying to figure out what's
going on with this channel.
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This is it.
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It's part of Smosh now,
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just like so many of
you already had guessed.
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So we've got a lot of
new stuff in the works.
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So that means that you
can expect new shows
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with familiar faces from Smosh.
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And in terms of the shows
that you already love
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on this channel, you're
gonna keep seeing them too.
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Hello, Tony.
- Hey.
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- Howie Mandel.
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Brittany Broski.
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Hello, Schlatt.
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(screams) Open those (censored) eyes!
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- No, I'm blind already.
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This is so (censored)
scary here. Holy shit!
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No, hit him!
- I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
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- It sounds bad, but it feels good.
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I am not getting out of this.
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- A thousand characters!
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- I'm so glad I don't have to
do character impersonation.
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I suck at those.
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All right man, let's do this.
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Let's get this done! Woo!
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Yeah, it's just the
middle of the interview.
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Everyone's kinda getting hungry,
enjoying a afternoon snack.
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- Do you think that you're
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like a little jokester or something?
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Do you think that like you're
like a little funny guy?
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- Why?
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(Shayne and Anthony laughing)
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- So why don't we start
with some assumptions, guys?
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And there's a lot of them.
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- You know, I'm just trying to get pegged.
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(Courtney laughs)
Have you ever
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like taken a shit before?
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Like I'm sure it's gonna feel good.
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- You may not believe this,
but I'm something of a weeb.
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- Oh no, not a weeb.
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- That is so gross.
- Hubba, hubba.
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- Eugh.
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Become a thing?
- Doing some of that shit.
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- The Chosen has a crit spot.
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- The critoris?
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(Shayne and Trevor chuckle)
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The crit's not real. I'm
confident in saying that.
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- Tease, teasing teased.
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Teaser? Leaked even?
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(suspenseful music)
