The Perfect Episode w/ Miles Bonsignore | Smosh Mouth 145
Smosh Mouth hosts Shayne and Amanda welcome guest Miles Bonsignore for a wide-ranging, chaotic conversation featuring a live soundboard operated by Selina. Topics range from embarrassing public YouTube stunts and middle school dance memories to coffee brewing methods, ice cream preferences, and Miles' late-night food show 'Graveyard Shift.'
Summary
The episode opens with hosts Shayne and Amanda welcoming Miles Bonsignore, a Try Guys creator and host of the 'Perfect Person' podcast. The conversation immediately becomes chaotic as they introduce a live soundboard operated off-camera by Selina, which features fart sounds, air horns, and various other effects with a noticeable delay — a recurring source of humor throughout the episode.
A significant portion of the early conversation revolves around embarrassing things the guests have done for YouTube videos. Miles recounts going nude (in body paint) at a Cheesecake Factory for a Try Guys stunt, being dressed in full goth makeup to conceal a GoPro choker necklace while filming covert restaurant videos, and pushing Zach Kornfeld around in a hidden stroller while dressed goth. Shayne shares that he once ate a full tarantula on Mythical Kitchen and was dressed in full Nicholas Cage prosthetic makeup at Comic-Con. The group also discusses their appearance on the Try Guys' 'Trial By Trolley' and the 'Wheel You Be Mine' dating show on Smosh's main channel.
The conversation shifts to middle school memories, with Miles describing himself as the center of grind lines at school dances held at a Knights of Columbus veterans club, supervised by lunch ladies. In contrast, Shayne admits he was booed out of a dance circle and once scored in the wrong basketball hoop at camp, while Amanda says she had zero romantic interactions at dances.
The group spends considerable time discussing coffee, with Miles revealing he sells 'Perfect Person Coffee' — two single-origin light roast coffees. They debate Chemex vs. V60 pour-over methods, Moka pots, espresso machines, and Miles shares a 'poor man's affogato' hack involving vanilla ice cream, instant coffee granules, and sea salt flakes. Ice cream also becomes a topic, with discussion of Handel's ice cream pints, dip cones, and Cold Stone Creamery.
Miles reveals the contents of his pockets: phone, wallet, AirPods, Old Spice hair pomade (in case of a 'hair moment'), and Aquaphor lip balm — which he keeps in the front left pocket of every pair of pants he owns. The group also introduces a new segment called 'Word of Mouth' (or 'Tongue Tied'), where each person shares a word they've been overusing: Miles says 'beautiful,' Shayne shares 'sonder' (the feeling of realizing every passerby has a full, complex life), and Amanda says 'sick.'
Miles discusses his YouTube show 'Graveyard Shift,' a late-night food series where he visits 24-hour restaurants after midnight, interviews staff and patrons, and eats the food. He describes memorable moments including a server who opened up about a recent breakup and her struggles as an aspiring actor. He also mentions 'Justice Miles,' another YouTube format where real people with disagreements are given comedian lawyers to argue their cases before Miles as judge. The episode closes with the group laughing about the dying soundboard, toucans as a fan-favorite Smosh Mouth inside joke, and a Harambe plushie in the studio.
Key Insights
- Miles reveals that his goth makeup in Try Guys videos originated purely as a practical solution to disguise a GoPro choker necklace for covert filming in restaurants — the costume logic being that a stud collar wouldn't look suspicious on a goth person.
- Miles describes going fully body-painted (except underwear) at a Cheesecake Factory for a Try Guys stunt, and notes that when he stood up, sweat had wiped away part of the painted clothing, causing security to ask them to leave.
- Shayne recounts that he once ate an entire tarantula on Mythical Kitchen with Josh, describing it as one of the craziest things he's done for a YouTube video, and noting he didn't know what they were doing going into it.
- Miles explains that his 'Perfect Person Coffee' features two single-origin light roast coffees, and that dark roasting single-origin beans is undesirable because it masks the origin flavor.
- Miles shares a 'poor man's affogato' recipe: vanilla ice cream topped with instant coffee granules and sea salt flakes, which melts together in the mouth to approximate the experience of a traditional affogato without hot espresso.
- Miles describes his 'Graveyard Shift' YouTube show where he arrives at 24-hour restaurants around 11:30 PM, films until around 3 AM, drives home, and often can't sleep until 4 AM — all while having young children at home whose morning care his wife covers.
- Miles argues that people are unusually open and vulnerable when interviewed at late-night diners, citing a server who spontaneously opened up about a recent breakup and her struggles as an aspiring actor during filming.
- Shayne shares that he was genuinely booed out of a dance circle at a middle school dance, which he frames as part of his motivation for eventually entering the entertainment industry.
- Miles describes his middle school dances as personally thriving social events held at a Knights of Columbus veterans club, where he would wet his hair in the bathroom before joining grind lines, with lunch ladies enthusiastically participating.
- Shayne shares the word 'sonder' as his current favorite — describing it as the profound realization that every passerby has a full, complex inner life equal to your own — and connects it to his experience interviewing strangers for a late-night food segment.
- Miles reveals he carries Aquaphor lip balm in the front left pocket of every single pair of pants he owns, having accumulated them over time by repeatedly buying new ones when he couldn't find his existing supply.
- Shayne mentions learning that an American cheetah existed until roughly 10,000–15,000 years ago, and argues this is why the pronghorn sheep is the second-fastest animal in the world — it evolved speed to outrun a predator that no longer exists.
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