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SHOENICE: Hi.
My name is Shoenice Shoenice, a.k.a., Shoenice22.
A lot of people think I'm a complete idiot.
But actually I'm a professional idiot with
decades of experience.
On your marks, get set, Shoenice.
And I just open up my throat and just something happens,
and I just know.
It's like Evel Knievel jumping over them 20 buses.
He knows he can die.
But once he gets over it, it's epic for life.
Here's to you.
People must think I'm nuts.
I'm in the right place at the right time to
do whatever I want.
I don't want to be president of the United States.
I'll save the world from the number one YouTube channel.
It's a nice day today.
A nice day to go swimming.
Maybe we'll go swimming later on.
All I do is travel around the world, you know?
My family threw me out two years ago.
Because they just didn't understand my YouTube career
and what it's all about.
It always seems like I stay in a hotel near a cemetery.
I don't know why.
But like the last four hotels I've been in, I come out in
the morning, and it's daylight, there's a cemetery.
I don't know if God's trying to tell me something.
But either way, Lake George, New York, just
spreading the word.
We had a great house, great family.
My father and mom had me and my two brothers.
Really good times.
And then just things started changing in the house.
My father wasn't home every night.
And eventually there was a for sale sign out.
And we went from a nice, everybody had their own
bedroom, to like a one-bedroom with my mom who literally just
started drinking from all the problems.
It's been about 35 years.
Nothing's changed.
We just bounced from apartment to apartment.
Because me and my brothers were so crazy that literally
landlords would just say, you're a great lady, but your
kids are psycho.
What's going on, buddy?
MIKE: How you doing?
SHOENICE: I used to live here as a kid.
Now I'm famous on YouTube, so we're doing a documentary
about my life.
My name's Chris, by the way.
Nice to meet you.
You own this property?
SHOENICE: Yeah, we played around the garage.
I just always remember we weren't
supposed to go somewhere.
And finally the landlord, maybe it's the one who owned
it, and just said listen, you got three great sons, but
they're animals.
You got to move out.
We weren't bad kids, but we just spray painted the sides
of people's houses.
We don't know why.
We were only seven.
But never did anything bad.
It was nice meeting you.
All right.
Take it easy, man.
Oh, the old neighborhood--
never changes.
As far back as I can remember, I just was always the kid on
the playground or outside in the yard.
And just everybody in the neighborhood knew I would eat
crazy things.
So I was eating grass at first,
and I'd swallow pebbles.
Then my home economics class, I just started eating the
salt, the baking soda.
And actually, it became such a trending thing in home
economics that they always knew that our group would
never be able to finish the cake or
the muffins or whatever.
Because I already ate half the ingredients.
And then it became just like something that I knew I could
make money off of.
I got three guys from England that don't believe I can drink
three bottles of Budweiser with the tops on them in under
a minute with no hands.
On your mark, get set, Shoenice!
So I was in a high school with gangs and the principal got
his ear half cut-off.
So I knew it was time to go.
My mom said, if you want to quit high school, you have to
join the Army.
And I said, no problem.
So I joined the Army.
I did my basic training.
I did all this other stuff.
Eventually, Baghdad was being bombed in 1991.
I'm watching it with my roommates.
Wow, man, they're tearing *** up.
The phone rings.
Is this Christopher Thomas Schewe, 097 B, B, B, B, B?
So I knew once they said my social security number they
were coming off the IOR list.
So I went out there.
I was food supply.
I basically just fed all the troops food and water as they
came through.
One day there was a sandstorm.
And I found these two little kids buried in
this little sand dune.
I gave them some ravioli and Dinty Moore beef stew.
You could see just the energy come back in them, too.
And just things like that are why I want to make sure no kid
goes to bed hungry anymore in the world.
Now the YouTube community has allowed me to take that next
level into what I've always believed in-- stopping global
hunger for good.
I'm going to explain to you something, to everybody, and
this is the way it is.
My mom told me that someday, Chris, you're
going to save the world.
And she knew it, too, because that's what I'm going to do.
Actually, my son signed me up for YouTube when he
was eight years old.
I didn't even know that you could have a YouTube channel.
So he was actually the one that signed me up.
And then he said, Dad, the only way you're really going
to let people know that you're on
YouTube is to join Facebook.
So once I posted a YouTube in, and there was 40 views the
next day, I was sold.
I just knew that was the best advertising for whatever you
wanted to sell or believe in.
When I first did YouTube, I just did a joke.
It builds up, and people were suggesting, why don't you do
what you did in high school at the cafeteria table?
You used to take the toilet paper, the napkins, and you'd
eat it all.
I go, OK, I'll do that.
So I did a three-part series where I ate a whole roll of
1,000 sheets of toilet paper in like 10 minutes.
That literally is what blew me up.
And all my eating stunts after Elmer's glue were all requests
from my fans.
Go to my buddy Nathan's diner, Wakin' Bacon.
I was just here the other day.
I set a new challenge for his menu.
Hey, there's my buddy Ian!
We know everybody in the town.
How you doing, Ian?
I'm going to come have some breakfast.
How you doing?
IAN: Awesome.
SHOENICE: All right.
What are you looking at?
[INAUDIBLE]
a [INAUDIBLE] drive by.
We just kid around.
The town knows us around here that we don't play games.
Hey everyone, Shoenice again.
Well, basically this is my first
interview as a famous YouTuber--
glazed420, otherwise known as Ian.
Dude's no joke.
Helped me out a lot, he's my friend.
IAN: And then I found out that he was in [INAUDIBLE]
or something.
He's walking down Lake George, the road.
And I'm like Shoenice!
And then we basically immediately hit it off.
I have a separate YouTube.
It's called glazed420.
I do things like working out, because I do calisthenics.
So I'll do like a minute and a half handstand.
I'll do a bunch of pull-ups.
I do a bunch of goofy videos.
I have one that's pretty viral where I'm getting tased by a
cop at a fish show.
The video went viral-- has about 40,000 views.
SHOENICE: I can't do it anymore!
I can't do it!
I can't do it, Ian!
I can't do it!
Thank you.
Thank you.
Took the breath right out of me.
I might have looked like a little ***, but you do it.
Oh my God, my room keys are in my pants, bro.
JIM: I've known Chris for years.
On and off for 11 years.
And he just recently started staying at the motel and
telling me of his success on YouTube.
People just living at the hotel, it
don't happen too often.
We're against it.
But Chris can stay here any time right now.
Because he'll bring a smile to my face when I'm
having a bad day.
You can't go wrong with that.
IAN: With Shoenice, his style on YouTube, he likes it to be
very simple.
He doesn't want any intro with the letterheads and all that.
He wants it simple and down to the point.
SHOENICE: All right, all right.
I'm ready.
Let's eat some glue today.
Hey, everyone.
Shoenice again.
Well, basically, you're probably wondering why I'm
wearing a microphone right now.
Well, the Vice documentary crew, they actually showed up
here today.
And they're videotaping me right now.
And we got my man Dan.
He's got a bottle of wood glue, and he's going to open
up the top and he's going to pour it in my mouth.
Somebody's actually testing it out.
DAN: Yeah.
SHOENICE: It's glue.
I love you, bro.
On your mark, get set, don't kill me, Shoenice.
All right, keep going, bro.
Uh huh, all right, go.
Oh man, is it almost done?
DAN: Uh uh.
SHOENICE: Oh, God.
Oh man, not in the face, bro!
Now [INAUDIBLE] is going to want my job!
I got to go out later!
Hold on.
It's coming out of my nose, hold on.
Water's for ***, but glue isn't.
All right, man.
Let's finish this up, bro.
OK, I'd say it's good enough.
I'd say that's good enough, don't you?
DAN: Yeah.
SHOENICE: Time.
Time.
Thank you.
Bomb.
That's how we do a Shoenice vid.
I'm going to go clean myself up.
How you doing?
Either way, basically what I do is medicinal marijuana.
I've got Crohn's disease.
So either way, this is what I do for my medications instead
of spending thousands of dollars on medicines that give
you more side effects than the actual Crohn's disease.
And I've been in remission for 25 years just smoking
something that comes out of the ground.
So either way, how you doing?
A lot of people probably don't like me smoking weed and doing
videos for teenage kids.
But I'd rather see a kid smoke a tree than get
wrapped around one.
Let's get rid of the alcohol, you know what I mean?
But then the prisons would be only about 30% full.
This is one of my secrets.
Cranberry juice solves all problems.
All right, all right, let's get this loaded up to YouTube.
Vice documentary on location.
When I started YouTube, I never had an enemy in my life.
So I don't know what it was like to
be like a Rush Limbaugh.
Like all these people just hate you.
A lot of people argue between each other
on my comment boards.
I mean, I'll go back the next day, and they've literally
argued for hours on end over the most stupidest things.
Let me just get a feel for what the people are saying in
the comment board.
I don't think it's going to be anything other than oh my God,
this is incredible.
Bad ***, you.
This is the only time I'm going to say first is best,
love the behind the scenes, Shoenice.
Vice has sunk to a new low.
Blah, whatever.
These are just people that fight over first, actually.
You look so *** baked, haha.
Awesome, haha, it sounds like you're really enjoying it.
I just think that there's a lot of people out there that
are just jealous of me.
They want to sit at home and to do what they do.
I get bottles of liquor sent to me.
And I get drunk, and I get paid for it.
It's fun to troll.
IAN: Don't feed the troll.
Don't feed the troll.
But that's what I'm saying.
SHOENICE: Trolling means you say or do things to get a
negative reaction out of someone.
You're just trying to say something just to get them
irked, you know what I mean?
You want one of these?
-Sure.
SHOENICE: You want to eat one?
-Yeah.
SHOENICE: Really?
-Yeah.
SHOENICE: You're going to eat one.
-Yeah.
SHOENICE: You're going to eat one with me?
I'm not opening it.
Oh, you got sugar *** on your lap.
I'm going like this.
-Oh, no!
OK.
SHOENICE: Well you can't eat them-- it keeps
all the sugar together.
Some people have made these fake rest in peace videos.
Like, my brother died trying to-- and it hurts me.
I'm saving a billion children before my heart stops beating.
So if we lose one to a *** stunt, I just call collateral
damage to be honest with you.
Everybody tries to impersonate their heroes sometime.
And I just have over 5,000 parody vids of people either
hating me, imitating me--
-Shoenice here again.
SHOENICE: Attempting my stunts.
Just shouting me out.
Or literally they just want to find me and kill me.
I don't understand.
-Shoenice is a fake, everybody.
I just want you guys to know that.
SHOENICE: I took all the beer out of my fridge on the 4th of
July, and I went straight for six years.
And then I started doing YouTube.
I was still straight.
My ex-wife couldn't handle the fame.
So she's like, you've got to go, and I
moved out to the garage.
You can see how I have some garage vids.
And then I just eventually just left the property.
And I knew I wasn't putting my son to bed that
night, so time to drink.
On your mark, get set.
Everclear.
Because that's the only reason why I put the bottle down, is
for family.
So without them, I was chaotic again.
I was homeless for a while.
I did Matchbook stunts.
On your mark, get set, Shoenice!
Hard!
-Look at his tongue.
-I'm all ready.
SHOENICE: Ha ha, hee haw, ***!
Every bar banned me.
I mean, I literally couldn't go anywhere.
Hello, everybody.
Shut up.
This is Shoenice22.
I'm going to eat a *** in under a minute, bro.
I've always been used to living under a roof.
So when I was like thrown out, there was nothing I could do.
I couldn't get to my bank account or whatever.
But I had that specialty of just freaking out people on
the street.
And I could go into a bar flat broke, and I'd walk out with
$400 drunk as a skunk an hour later.
So it worked for me, but there's people out there that
don't have my talent, you know?
I met this hotel owner that was
rehabbing all these hotels.
He actually fed me, gave me a place to do my laundry.
JIM: Yeah, he borrowed my car, went to the store.
And comes back and it's full of gas, and gave me money, and
this and that.
I mean, he's got a big heart.
He likes to make people happy, I guess.
SHOENICE: Basically, I'm going to save the
whole country of Africa.
So we're going to start practicing
doing donation drive-bys.
These people never seen us before behind us, and we're
going to go surprise this one lady with a $20 bill.
-You're not a--
SHOENICE: I'm serious.
I make money off of Google.
I know what it's like to be homeless.
I'm not saying you are, but what we do
is we help out people.
All I had was a $20 on me, but this guy Ian, my cameraman, is
very friendly.
-Is this going to be on TV?
SHOENICE: I've been on "Tosh.0," "World's Dumbest." I
mean, I'm just a crazy fella.
Hey, we were so poor growing up, my mom used to say, you
better finish everything on your plate.
There's people right now starving in the living room.
Get it?
I think my mom was just a woman that just was too young
to have three sons on her own.
Eventually alcohol took over.
And literally it would be like she would go
out on a Friday night.
She wouldn't want to, you know, forget about her kids.
But she would go into a blackout.
Obviously, go somewhere other than her home.
And then the neighbors were wondering when she'd pull in
like the next afternoon.
I always was able to suffice when we didn't
have food in the house.
If you didn't have a Miracle Whip sandwich, I'd just take
some sheets off the toilet paper roll.
I think I still do it to this day.
It fills your belly.
But my father eventually came and got us, and times went on.
See, I don't like to hang out with drunk people.
My mother was a chronic alcoholic.
She was a great lady.
But when I found her dead at 56 on the living room floor, I
knew she was out of her misery.
Because she lived off of ***.
I guess that's where I get my liquor slamming
stunts from, you know?
My mom always had that big bottle of ***, right
underneath the kitchen sink next to the dish soap.
I thought it was normal to go to eighth grade in
a blackout by lunch.
I mean, we just used to take the whole glass of *** to
the bus stop.
We'd all pass it around and go to school.
But it'll catch up to you someday.
It'll catch up to me.
They sent me a bottle of Devil's Springs, 160 proof--
30 proof less.
Now, what I'm going to do is talk to you
before I slam this bottle.
Nothing's fake about this.
I just have a really crazy tolerance for liquor.
The Devil's Springs was kind of freaky--
160 proof.
My friends were there.
I kind of like was lethargic and passing out, and they
couldn't wake me up.
So I woke up actually with a tube down my throat.
It's the only time I've ever had my stomach pumped.
And to be honest with you, I was mad.
Because I didn't have insurance, and I knew that
tube down my throat was about a $400 procedure.
Alcohol leads to bad stuff.
The only two times I ever smoked crack in my life was
when I was drunk.
I would never even think about walking down the street
looking for a bump at 4:00 in the morning going like this.
IAN: When Shoenice chugs bottles of liquor, I feel
concerned for his health.
I don't want to see the guy end up dying from one of his
drinking stunts.
And I showed my concern, and a bunch of people on Facebook
and YouTube have showed the concern.
So he did one stunt with a bottle of Everclear to end all
the drinking stunts.
He defeats death in a way.
You know what I mean?
Because some of this stuff, normal people
would die from it.
And it's just like people like that about
death-defying things.
And like wow, he must be some kind of mutant.
There's something special about Shoenice where he can
handle that kind of stuff.
JIM: It's hard for anybody to hear, but then there's smokers
and stuff like that.
Life is full of choices, and he's making a choice.
And do I agree with it?
No.
But it's getting him somewhere, isn't it?
Would I do it?
No.
But people do anything for money, they say.
So if he's getting a little money out of it, that's why
he's eating glue, and tampons, and everything else.
SHOENICE: And what I do is I'm basically trying to figure out
who can really handle being a part of my revolution.
I got Muslims hanging out with whites from southern Alabama.
I mean, I've literally had people coming and going
Shoenice, you saved me from a suicide.
You brought us back together as a couple.
And it's just, you're in our lives now, don't never leave.
Stop all the craziness, because you
will save the world.
So I mean, I'm a lot of people's higher power.
I'm their antidepressant.
It's just like, where's it going to lead to?
It scares me sometimes.
SHOENICE: I'm hoping I can stop global hunger in three
years because I'm getting tired.
But if I die, I know that there'll be
people that carry on.
I'll be a better martyr and a better human on this planet,
that's a guarantee.
Shoenice!
Na, ha, ha, hee haw, ***!
I own this town!
You heard me.
Trying to play dead in the cemetery.
All right.
It's a nice day.
[BEEP]
SHOENICE: Hi, Aaron, it's Shoenice.
Great job on the documentary.
I loved everything.
One thing I would like to take back that I said though, is
that if a child died imitating one of my stunts on YouTube it
would be collateral damage towards my revolution.
Actually, I would like to take that back.
It would be devastating to me just for me to even think that
I had any possibility in the way of somebody dying.
So, yeah, I appreciate you doing my life story.
It should help me out a lot with my hunger campaign.
But that was just the one thing I really wish I could
stick my foot in my mouth on is that comment about
collateral damage for a teenage kid to die imitating
one of my stunts.
Because that would literally break my heart.
OK.
Thanks, Aaron.
But if you keep it in, that's no problem either.
Documentary's a documentary.
Ba, ha, ha, ha, hee haw.
Thank you.