#43 - Explaining Our Characters' Backstories
Smosh Mouth
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🗓️ 22 April 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Sarah Christ, The Chosen, Courtney Freaking Miller, Karen...where do they come from? Amanda and Shayne discuss their character creation process and what inspires them.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Smosh Mouth. I'm Shane. And I'm Amanda. And we don't have a guess. |
| 0:07.0 | We don't have a guess today. Today is just Amanda and I and we're talking all about characters. |
| 0:12.0 | Yep. |
| 0:12.7 | People I think they like our characters. |
| 0:15.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:16.7 | And we do a lot of them. |
| 0:18.0 | We do a lot of them and they randomly pop up or we think about them for a long time and they're just in random spots all over |
| 0:25.3 | Smosh and we never talk about how they were created. |
| 0:29.4 | We don't really talk about our characters. |
| 0:32.4 | We just do them a lot. |
| 0:34.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:35.3 | So I figured it'd be nice to take a whole episode and talk about them. |
| 0:39.6 | I love it. |
| 0:40.6 | Talk about maybe their origins, or their backstories, like what inspires us, what inspired them from our lives. |
| 0:46.5 | Yeah. I realize I do a lot of characters and I realize like in hindsight like, oh that's where it came from yes yes me too like some |
| 0:55.3 | most of them are people that I know but sometimes they're prompted I feel like a lot of |
| 0:59.9 | characters are born in TNT&TL. Totally. |
| 1:03.0 | But then, which we don't really do anymore, a lot of them were born for funerals. |
| 1:08.2 | Like, that was like the main ones. |
| 1:11.6 | True, it's true. Yeah, a lot of them. |
| 1:13.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:14.7 | Before we get into that, how have you been? |
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