Brooke and Connor Make A Podcast - Chorizo In An Indian Summer w/ Hunter Bell

Episode Date: May 1, 2025

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keep it real. Look for the seal. Real California milk by real California farm families. Hello there. Yo ho. Welcome back to Brooke and Connor make a podcast. Right off the bat, we are one woman short today because Brooke is in the hospital with her cat, Rob. She has told me that I can share that.

she's not no updates right as of now Wednesday but we are praying for her and wishing her the best so that so today we have a special guest a stand-in

my friend Hunter he's my neighbor I don't know him that well but he lives down the street and he could get here in time to record so hey Hunter hey hey

So welcome out, everybody. I have not... This is the first time recording in my home office. This is my first podcast. It is your first podcast. Yeah. Well... I'm a little nervous, but not really.

Because I know you so... Yeah. Hunter and I worked at Bumble together, and we also went to college together, but we were not friends. In college. In college. Yeah.

And then we both got fired from Bumble at the exact same time. I was a little delayed after you. but same time. Yeah. Same time. Hunter was interviewing just now. He ran over here.

To be frank, I wasn't sure if Brooke was going to make it in today. So I was like, yeah, like I'll have some people on call. That being said, like I did make some empty promises. I did say that I'd have some people on call last night after my third spicy margarita. No worries. I will have, I'll get some people on the horn and I'll see who can do it. and then I like didn't even send a tech. So this morning I was like,

hi, is anyone available and unemployed enough to come do the podcast on a Wednesday at noon? E.T. I'm not unemployed, by the way. He's not unemployed, but he did just, like I said, he finished that interview with that, with the TV show. How'd it go? It went really well.

It went good. Yeah, it was quick, but it was the final hurrah until I know the verdict. So we'll see. Speaking of knowing the verdict, a bird hit my window last week while I were recording really loudly and with force,

with Swiss force, and it did pass. Aw. Away. There's too many birds. I hate to say it. Yeah. There's a lot of birds.

There's a lot of birds. It wasn't a pigeon, though. And I also have like a soft spot in my heart for pigeons. Because you know that pigeons were all at one point domesticated. Now, when I say that, that's just something that's been told to me. Don't know what it means. By your mom.

What do you mean all by my mom? My mom would never touch up any bird. I'm confused what people mean by domestic. They were all at one point domesticated because at this point, they've undomesticated. They're laying eggs in the sewer, you know, and then they're coming out. And that's not a domesticated bird by any means. The sewer, I thought it was a tree. I mean trees.

Same thing. Not really. No one's, yeah, no one's well. My dog, Max, does. I peed on a tree. People, yeah, people. But I'm just saying that the birds

that are out and about right now are not domesticated by anyone. They don't like people. But this bird did run into my window and it did die and it died right there on my, there's like a ledge right there that and it died on the ledge. I couldn't reach it.

But after it was sitting there for like a day and a half, I was like, it's not in shock. It has passed on now. And I was like, it can't die right there because it's right next to it. You can see my AC unit. There's like a little bit of a gap

to where like if bugs and things start like gathering around this feast because they're going to eat the bird. for sure as they should. They'll feel my aura and my warmth and my ability to love. And they'll need to come into my living room. And I was like, that's something that I can't deal with. So I did get a broom and I pushed it off of my ledge and it landed on my neighbor's doorstep. Fine.

And for that, I'm sorry. But I, like, that is like kind of the natural progression of things. Things do fall down. things, what goes up must come down. And what had to come down at this time was a dead bird onto your front door. So, listen, I never met my neighbors in L.A. Ever, ever met them. That's a thing.

Here I met all of mine very quickly. But then that's it. And then that's it. But I do know that they would do me a favor. Now, I'm sure that they thought I would do the same. and they probably thought I would never throw a dead bird at their door. But if you want the best for me, which I know that they do after meeting me one time, then you do know that I needed to push that dead bird onto your door.

And they understand because that's the New Yorkers. How did they move? How did they move it? I don't know. It didn't like splat or anything. It just like landed. It had it had it had it did hit the ground and go thud. Yeah.

But we should move on from that. Just let it rest is peace. You know what? Let the bird fall where it may. Yeah. Now, my other issue is that that's the same neighbor that I got a lockbox to put my spare key in. Lockbox gate. And then I locked myself out.

Of the lockbox. You know that no one can let you into a lockbox randomly. But how do you lock yourself out of your own lockbox that you say your own code to? Yes. Easily, I did it almost immediately. I never even once unlocked it correctly. Yeah. So maybe I don't know how to use a lockbox.

My spare key is sitting there just helplessly in that dark, dark lockbox. But do you know what Torizo is? Trezzo? Yeah. Like the meat? Is it meat? Do you know what chorizo is? I think it's like pig.

Is it like a sausage? Yeah. Okay. Allegedly it's pork. So. It's really good. No, I know it's really good. Like a breakfast taco?

Until today, until today, I didn't, I've never even wondered. I just said, Terezo, I'll take Torezo. Treso is a type of pork sausage widely used in both Spanish and Mexican cuisines, right?

It's known for its bold, spicy flavor, often seasoned with paprika or chili peppers. Wait, did you get a breakfast burrito from the elk? No, I got from a secret third place that I'm not, I'm not going to talk about. Okay. But yeah, I go in.

You know what? With reckless abandoned, I order chorizo. Because chorizo could be spiders, and I'm ordering it every single time I get a burrito because it tastes good. And at some point, it's too late to ask. So I'm not going to say, I'll take chorizo also.

What is that? I just know what chorizo is and it's good. It is good. It's good for the heart. It's good for the soul. I like a little kick. It has like a fiery color to it. It's red.

It's red. Yeah. It's like, okay, queen. You're, you're colorful today. You might have I eat you up.

Okay, the breedo I had was so greasy, though. It was like a greasy little newborn baby. It had weight to it. It almost, it had a similar, if I were to push it off

onto my neighbor's door from my ledge, it would make the same sound that that dead bird did. Okay, well, don't ruin Treeso for everyone. Oh my gosh, the bird that died, it is always, it's always such a shame that when, when beautiful things die. There I said it.

Everyone was thinking and I said it. It was a gorgeous bird. I think it was a little bit of a hawk. At least it wasn't a bald eagle. If a bald eagle ran into my window, it would go through it. I think that they're so big. For sure. I had always, but then you'd be in trouble.

That's why my realtor said, stop leaving your windows, like, stop leaving all 12 of your windows completely wide open from the, thought to the bottom and I said, I like a breeze to me. And I didn't realize there were bugs in New York. Where? They are coming. I swear to heavens, the vibe that I put out into the universe to all beings is come to Papa. Come to Nussle in my bosoms. I feel like that's why I love New York because there's no bugs. There's ants. Or mosquitoes. Ants spiders, flies. The flies that came into my house. I haven't seen an aunt in like 10 years. There's an ants in my kitchen this morning. I had not seen an in 10 years. There is an ant in my kitchen right now. Ants remind me of dogs, so they don't freak me out at all. They remind me of dogs. They remind me of Pluto, the cartoon dog.

Yeah. Do they also, are you just agreeing to be, to agree or do you agree? No, I don't agree. I don't agree. I don't agree because I feel like ants in my childhood were so scary. Well, ants in Texas and the South are fire ants and they bite you. Yeah. And normally, Ants are literally just like, hey, I have a job. So I have to go to work and you kind of do your thing and I'll do mine and I say, go for it. I just haven't seen an aunt in 10 years. Like, I really have not. I saw an aunt today that had the three parts that an aunt has.

Head, like stomach, I guess, and fat, fat ass. And a fat ass. Yeah. They do have a fat out. And it came into my house and said, like, I literally was looking at it. And in my head, I was like, good for you. Go to work. Work, work.

We go to work. Like, that's what I was thinking in my head when I saw it. I was like, oh, my God, that guy's busy. They make themselves feel at home, and I love that for them. Like, I really do. Like, think about it. Yes. And not in a way that's like a spider's like, this is my corner now, bitch.

Don't look at me. I'll disappear. You know what I mean? It's like, where did you go? Answer, like, hey, I'm just cleaning up. I'm here. I'm just here. I have no interest in your shins.

I'm not going to bite you. I literally am just here to work. I'm clocking in, I'm clocking out. Yeah, I got a fat ass. Yeah, I got a fat ass. Sue me. I am here to carry 10x my weight. I'm here to worship my queen.

Spiders and ants have different agendas. Spiders agendas are to, you know, make a camp and attack things and attack you. And then ants are just like here to take care of business. They're here to clean. Yeah. up your food and then they're going to go to the next apartment. A lot like dogs.

Dogs are also here to clean up your food. Yeah. I was at. Okay. I'm aligned now. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

Cool. It took us a second. But also, like, I am not pro spider anymore. I was really big time pro spider. If you mind your business and you're outside, great. My issue I have is when you're in my room. Because this is a man's room. Yeah.

You know, there's no real. We need to set boundaries. We need to set boundaries. Yeah, I agree. And one of them is, stand in my house. Mm-hmm. Like, I promise you there's more stuff for you to eat outside. For especially in New York.

And especially in New York. And it's probably good shit, too. It's like probably, you know, via Corota and, I don't know, Jeffreys. Spiders don't eat. Oysters. Italian. Or oysters. They might.

I don't know what spiders. It's an aphrodisi. No, it actually does not. It actually lowers your... Oysters make you drive, push your sex drive up. I thought it pushes it down. Oh, no, it pushes that up. It does, it does.

It does. It's an aphrodisiac. Yeah, yeah. Okay, I was right. Blod moment. Okay, so yesterday, everyone will be really excited to know and care a lot that I went... Hunter told me there's outlets in Brooklyn

in New York to go, you can go get furniture there. Great outlets. Like pottery barn. So I like, hell yeah. Let's go get a couch. Let's go over there. I find the perfect couch. So glad we didn't give it.

Excuse me. And I get back here, measure two feet too big to even fit into my door. That wasn't even an issue. It was final sale. I'm sure everyone was loving this. into your ear. Is that awesome for you?

All right, I'm done. Okay. I will say, I'll circle back to the furniture. So last week when I was very, very sick, I did get on Lexapro. Sorry,

TAM, I flew. I'm like, you did not get on Lexa Pro. I'm not on Lexa Pro. You're on session two of your therapist out of... I don't need Lexa. I'm not depressed. Like,

you're not depressed. Are you depressed? No. Okay. Because I addressed it. Like, when I thought I was depressed. And then I... Did you think you were depressed and you weren't actually depressed?

No, I was depressed, but I did other ways to avoid taking medication. Like what? I did TMS therapy. What's that? It's like trans-mat. I don't know. You are going to come from here for this, but it's like you put on this. cap and it like zaps like certain parts of your brain.

You did you did the electric chair? Not for that reason. But yeah, and it worked and I did other therapy and treatments and I don't need. And I'm not a license anything or no no no one's claiming. Yeah, no one's claiming. But it worked for me and I don't I feel great.

So yeah, I didn't have to get on antidepressants. That's great. And it's partially covered by insurance. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. I want to do, I want to do acupuncture. My sister did that for her pregnancy.

Yeah, I heard it's really good for pregnant people. Yeah. I would like to do that for my back. You need that for that, your back, yeah. Yeah, I know. Because like at this point, I've gotten body scans. It's not a tumor. it doesn't really make sense to me that it's not a tumor like it's to me i'm like i wake up in the

morning i'm like how are you tumor like that's in my head i'm like i definitely have sometimes it's like the way you sleep so if you sleep sideways i sleep every way that there it is because when i was sleeping in like funky positions i was having the worst back problem it's like i'm not going to change the way i sleep well i agree sleep is more important for your like might you have to go through my toes is, and the only way to go through my to my toast is to be completely zonked. And I'm not going to, I'm not going to adjust the way I sleep for my physical body.

I need my, on a cellular level, I need them to be. Well, yeah, I think it's how I adjusted it was because the way I was falling asleep. So I would be lined up against one side of my bed. And then I would fall asleep onto the left side, like my head on my left side pillow. Yeah. And so, like, I think that was causing, like,

the shift. And so I stopped. falling asleep on my left side and falling to sleep on my right side. Sometimes I flipped my mattress too because like when you like fall into your mattress, it can kind of create. Yeah, yeah. You do have to, like, PSA flip your mattress, of course, like orient your mattress in a different way. You should get a water bed.

I'm not going to get a water bed. I know, I agree. But like, it's just, it's such a funny concept. It is a funny concept. Like when I'm like old and rich and like have like a home, I want a room that just has a water mattress in it for like sheds and gigs. So I had this grandpa that had half of a finger, and he would put it into my armpit and be like,

I lost my finger in your armpit. He had a waterbed. I hate that. Now, I equate waterbeds to my grandpa's nub. And it was like, get your nub out of me. Get your nub out of me, grandpa. He also would be like, take his teeth out and be, and I think I put them in, my mouth at one point.

Now, that's not weird. That's not weird. No, it's not weird because he didn't put his teeth in my mouth. I put his teeth in my mouth. The last two minutes was weird. Okay, my grandpa was not forcing his nab on me. It seems like it. It seems like he was.

No, no, no, that's force. No, it's not forced. Tickling is. Okay, tickling, by the way, is force. Now, tickling your grandpa, tickling a grandson with his nub. like as as horrific and how much it has stuck with me like come on that was out of love totally he has passed away since well karma oh my god so he had a water bed and I remember him having the

water bed and I used to think they were fish in it like a clear one would be cool like a coy pond yeah well those poor fish though well they couldn't they wouldn't what if you're like having like intercourse. It'd be like, there's a storm. They'd be like tsunami. Or a pool. Slitterbond. Six flags.

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Same. I did acid. How did it? I know. It was high school. It was senior year. We all did acid for... That's insane for your... your trip. Well, and then you got on a school bus and went home on acid? And then we bought a hamster. We made the bus driver pull over at a Petsmart and bought a hamster. I went to a really weird high school. Yeah, you did go to a weird high school. And I didn't fit in, but it's okay.

Maybe it's because, maybe you didn't fit in because you were doing acid at senior trip. I would have never done that, but you wanted to fit in? I wanted to fit in. Well, it was senior year and you were graduating. You didn't need to do acid your last day of school. Went in Rome. Or Slitterbond. Went in Schlittorvon. We went and get this. Get this.

That was my first hard drug, by the way. I had never done anything. And I think that's actually my last time. I did ask. For you to start doing drugs with acid, like the fact that acid is. I did weed. But like that's not, I don't think that hard, I don't think that that would constitute a hard job.

No. I agree. Acid to me is called acid, you know? Yeah. Like, acid is a chemical substance that they kill, like, cartoon villains with. Like, they pour acid on them. No, but I got, okay, I'll let you roll with that. I'm not rolling with anything.

You're the one rolling at Schlitterbond. Okay, let's move on. Okay. So, so. So I'm at Schlitterbond, my senior year, and basically Schlitterbond, by the way, it's like a water, it's a water park. It's so much fun. And it's, we didn't go to Slitterbond Galvest and we went to Slitterbond, New Brons. You have to talk into the mic. Which is way better. Do me favor in talking to the mic for the podcast. It is way better. It's on a river in Texas. And the river, there's rides that flow into the river. There's rides that flow into the river. but they're all blocked off and it's within the park. We left the park because there were college kids in the river tubing. And basically what tubing is is you sit in into a tube and you drink a gallon of liquor.

And that is tubing and you basically sit there in the tube the whole time and you drink all your slop. It's like an OG Borg. It's like Borg. Yeah. Like we're OG Borgs, but it wasn't Borgs. we were OG Borg. We were OG Borging it. And basically we snuck out

and we were like, it'll be so cool. Connor has a GoPro that he got for a senior year. And my parents, so my parents give me this GoPro, we go down into the river. And all we do is like jump off of this wall. We were in the river in New Bronfels.

And then we go back in the park. But the day, the morning of graduation, we are feeling hot. Okay? we are feeling sexy. No one could tell me personally, shit. I'm a senior. I'm graduating today.

Go ahead and hand me in my diploma, please, bitch. And so I'm getting ready to go. And that morning, one of the girls in our friend group had posted a picture from the river. And it was like a selfie and said, what did you say? we are invincible. That was the caption on the Instagram post.

And I get pulled, by the way, like 700, 800 people in my class, I'm graduating number 11, some in the front row. Yeah, I used to be good at math. I used to be good at everything. I was so smart. I also cheated a lot.

But I was graduating 11. I was top 10% in my class, et cetera. And they come and they pull me out of, the front row and they say, we're not giving you your diploma today. You can walk across the stage. There will be nothing in your folder. Okay. I finished. I'm going to UT. So they go, we're taking your diploma. I go, if you even try to take my diploma today, if you pull one thing, I will see you in court. I said that to them word for word. And they go, oh, now you're shy.

Walk across the age. Yeah, I guess you had a diploma in their folder. And I was bluffing too. We didn't have a, my parents, we didn't have a lawyer. We didn't have anybody. I was like, I'll see you in court. Yeah, we take it. We take our diploma. Yeah, we're taking it.

Thank you. And then nothing ever happened after that. But I did think it was funny because we truly did think we were invincible at the time. And I'll, 100%. I'll take beef with teachers from high school with me to my grave. Same. There's no recovering.

Like if you get to like live vicariously through being a bit, to 16-year-olds. Like, I get to live in my, in my late 20s by being a dick to you. I don't hold grudges, but I'll hold grudge for high school engineer high teachers. Me too. Faculty. Me too. Because you think, you think it's cool to be rude as an adult person to a kid?

Like, oh, you have the superior, like, congratulations. I hope your house gets broken into. But we love teachers. No, I'm outspoken about how much I love teachers. Yeah, but like not the ones that are overused of power. Yeah. Like there are certain teachers that I freaking love for my high school. And there's some that I'm just like, you're overusing your power.

Well, you don't realize how like fundamental those years of your life are until you're holding a grudge against a Spanish teacher in your 20s. You know, it's like almost the age she was when she was a bitch to me. and I've taken that with me until now. And it's like, I don't even remember, I don't remember what I did. I don't remember this morning, you know? Like, I don't remember time issues. I do remember words that were said to me.

My seventh grade teacher, English teacher, like texted my dad last week or this week. Whoa. About applying for a job at his company. Oh, wow. And my dad texted me like, hey, do you remember her? I was like, yeah, she was really nice, but like I couldn't, I couldn't put a face.

to her. And I just thought that was like so... You remember that she's very... She was very nice. And she was a sweetheart. But like I was like, I can't give you anymore. Like I was like, it's been 15... But you do...

17 years. What you remember is her character. Character. Yeah. She was great. She's like an Indian summer in the middle of the winter. We're moving on from this. Hard candy with a Zerbride.

I heard this like 15 times just today when he has helped me move out. I cannot get this Katie Perry song out of my head. I need to have a bit of a referendum on KP. My fucking bad, we do owe her a lot, okay? She has given us like a lot of hits. She has, she has, no. And I, so I put on, I had never heard that song. And then I, like everyone's making TikToks with it.

You're like an Indian summer in the middle of the winter and a iron candy with the brisendan. Facts, by the way. How am I supposed to get? I'm about to bust my head on that roadcaster. That's a good song. It's a good son. Okay.

Okay. Okay. Anyways. So is teenage dream. So is teenage dream. So is waking. up in Vegas. So is I kissed a girl. So is hot and cold. So is. Um, E.T. The thing is, like, if she would have gone to space and saying, you're so hypnotizing infect me with your penis, hit me with

your penis. That makes like my hair. That would have been so great. Like, if she would have just been funny with it. I'm turned on. Did I give you chills? I have chills. If, she would have just gone up and made like been funny and been like I'm rich as hell like this is not for those little girls fuck them little girls then it would have been like okay cool like enjoy space you know enjoy her being like this is for women in tech guess what you're not in tech like like 500 million women just just applied to be not in tech because you went to space so you have set women back 20 years minimum and I hope it was worth it to go zero zero Gs for 20 seconds now that's not to say we can't separate the art from the artist because she's talented and

she has created a lot like I said like a lot of hits oh my god that was treizo whoa that was that was that was T that was it like an Indian summer in the middle of of winter. But, oh my gosh, I had a lot of stuff to tell Brooke. So I'm just going to do my best to tell you, but you're just going to have to embrace without context, without previous context, if you're okay with that. That's our friendship. That's my day to day. When I tell you, Trezio came up back again, back into my mouth. just now, I need you to know that I mean it. So, first of all, something that I had to say, one, I was in Omaha, Nebraska, and I was in Kansas City this past weekend.

I heart the Midwest. I thought we weren't doing that. So I can't stop doing this now because I'm like an Indian summer in the middle of the winter. We were against that like six months ago. I know. I can't sound doing it now. I got better at it. It's hard at first, but then it becomes second nature.

Now I don't want to do this because I don't need to use all my fingers. I just want to do it. Yeah. I want to do the Gen Z heart. I love the Midwest. After hitting Omaha and Kansas City, bang, bang, I. It was like the same places, right? No, they're very, very different places.

Oh. They're three hours, three and a half hours away. No, two and a half hours away from each other. Now, I do. have like my I left my heart in in Ohio for sure I could see myself living laughing and loving in Ohio in a big way like I think that I could I could see myself getting like settling down in in the Midwest I'm serious I don't know if it's because yeah I love it I love it so much I had such a good time the shows were so much fun okay I was sick as a an effing

dog when I got to Omaha. So the last episode you can see right here sitting all around my desk right now is cough drops diabetic tussin. Literally. Which is the first time I've read that at last. Tussin, that's not even a word. It's very distracting with my

ADHD. Yeah, there's medicine all over my table. And it's because I was seriously very, very sick. I had the flu, type B confirmed. It went away. It was no longer I was no longer testing positive

before I left, like the day before I left. But I felt so gross. So I masked up. I went there. I got to the hotel and I walk in and I'm feeling like crap, but I'm like, I'm going to push through. I have a show Thursday. I have two shows Friday. I have two shows Saturday.

I have two shows Sunday. So we had seven shows over the weekend. I'm feeling gross when I walk into the hotel. Feeling very sick. and I walk in and they go, I go, hi, I'd like to chat. And they say, go, sir, and I go, yes, fibula, that's me.

Yes, we can get a photo after I check in. It's going to be under Connor Wood. And they go, sir, your nose is bleeding onto your shirt. Your nose bleeds like every, like three hours. It doesn't. And I go, thank you so much. I look down. It has, it looks like I've been shot.

like 11 I start floating over the desk check me in they obviously like I got there so I left so early in the morning I left on like that 8 a.m. flight to Omaha and so I land at like 10 30 a.m. in Omaha

and they're like we don't have a room for you I'm just sitting bleeding out in the lobby of my hotel room and I was like I really need you guys to give me a room. Give me a room. Come on. Give me a room.

Come on. And they finally give me a room. And I go do the show. It was fabulous. I really think that I'm going to end up posting my first ever stand-up clip from one of these shows that I was so close to killing myself at just because I was so sick. But I do again, I love the Midwest in Kansas City, which I effing love. I love Kansas City.

I got called out. Because long ago on this specific podcast, I had said, and it was a random poll, I can't think of a more random city than Kansas City. When I think about people that live in Kansas City, I get sad. And someone said, hey, bitch, like, do you remember saying talking crap about our city? And I said, oh my God, yeah, I do. And I can't believe I was talking about this place. it is heaven on earth.

I adore it. I can't wait to go back. Did you see Taylor Swift? I didn't see Taylor Swift, but I understand why she's drawn there as someone who is so worldly. So it makes sense now. Because it didn't make sense for me

that she would like... It's a gorgeous town. It's like, it's cool. I went out. I went out one night and we went to the club and we went to this place called Mosaic and I

well West Wilson was there with us and we were going out love West love him to death and he was like we're going to go to this club because a lot of my buddies got drafted today and I go oh my god dark like whoa they're going to war and they're at the club an NFL draft God I don't understand that I thought that they had I thought that they were going off overseas and I go ooh, like, why are they? They should be, like, home with their families.

He goes, their families are at the club with them. And I go, lovely. I'm confused. I didn't even know we were drafted. Like, who is the president that's drafting people? It is the NFL that's drafting people. And it's too, it's a great thing to be drafted. I've been, like, low-key, like, kind of crying at, like, the happy videos of, like, people

getting drafted with their families. It's great. It's like emotional. I can't imagine getting a text being like you've been drafted and it's either like. And like all the families are so excited. It's just so beautiful. World War III or the Broncos, you know. Yeah.

Two very different drafts. I have a draft in my house right now and it's just the wind and I can't figure out what windows open. I see that window. It's like, I've been like literally looking at that for the best hour and a half. I have a window that doesn't shut from the top. The top. You need to cock it.

It doesn't shut from the top. The bottom is pulled down and shut, but the top doesn't shut. Yeah. So West came out during my shows. And guess who popped in for a special cameo? Caleb Heerun. Love, he's so funny. He is generational talent.

He texted me like, hey, if I have time, I might stop by. And I was just like, how could this man find time to come to my show? Wait, why was he in Kansas City? He's from Kansas City. Oh, really? Yeah. And he pulled T.F. up. And he's like, I'm not doing time.

He was just coming to say hi. But then he was like, I'm like, do you want me to bring out Xavier, who was also on the show? Xavier Phillips, please look him up, follow him. He's so funny. He's like, I'll all introduce Xavier. And it's funny, Xavier is touring with me right now. And he told me that his first show he ever did, his first ever stand-up show, Caleb booked him on. So he goes, I will introduce Xavier. And that's it. I'm not doing any time. And I was like, you don't have to do any, like, any time at all. He goes out, crowd. It was the loudest the crowd was the whole, weekend and he does 10 minutes on the show, which is so cool.

Wait, that's iconic. It was just, it was him riffing. Improv. Well, yeah, it was like crowd work and things like that. Like he took questions and stuff. And he just carries himself with such a natural aura. Yeah. And it's just like, hey, fuckers, I'm here that it's like, it draws you in and he's so funny.

So that was really, really cool for me to have had. him. I mean, that crowd must be just like over the moon. Like, you'll never see a better show. Sorry, like everybody else, but. No, I'd also. I'm here. And coming and opening up. And then Xavier Phillips and then Maggie Winters and then West Wilson and then

Maggie is the funniest person. She is so funny. She is so. So, yeah. So it was an amazing weekend. And I truly like, can't wait to go back to the Midwest. I can't wait to go back to Ohio. that I keep talking about Ohio. I can't wait for Ohio again. I don't even have Ohio plans. If you are in, if you're listening and you're in Hawaii, by the way, I have a show June

6th that has sold almost zero tickets. I would love if you came and I would love if you told your friends to come to. That'd be epic. Otherwise, I'm going to be in Oklahoma City for the next show. Cool. Yeah, and I'm very excited. That's the Midwest as well. So I'm excited for that. So do you watch any Marvel movies?

I dabble. Izzy, do you? Sure. You do? Yeah. I don't like watch them in order. Yeah, I'm not like a super fan. I watch them like, you know, when they come out.

Are Transformers Marvel or no? No. I don't think so. No. Okay, well, I guess I've never seen a Marvel movie. No, you have. Guardians of the Galaxy is Marvel, right? Yes.

No. Is it? Yes. Yes, it is because they were in the, like, yes, they are. Yes, they are. Here's the thing. It's so easy to dog on people that enjoy Marvel movies, but like, I think I'm out of my dogging era.

Wait, remember when OJ made that Marvel video? Yeah, that was funny. That was so funny. I'm out of my dogging era. If you enjoy Marvel movies, like if you enjoy an animated raccoon voiced by Chris Pratt, like that is your prerogative

and that's your right as an American citizen. Chris Pratt's in it, but there is it animated. You need to speak into the mic. Does he play both? No. Oh. It's Bradley.

Okay, if you enjoy an animated rodent voiced by Bradley Cooper who's dating Gigi Hadid, that's just. You're right. That's you're right. And you're allowed to enjoy that and have fun. And guess what? I'm allowed to hate on you. I'm allowed to say what happened to cinema. I'm allowed to say, why can't they make another Titanic? I'm allowed to say, stop rebooting stuff. I'm allowed to say, you know what? This is done and it looks like it was created by AI. That being said, enjoy it. Have fun. That being said, Julie Louis Dreyfis, joining the Marvel universe, my life's over. What is the point of continuing on? I don't know if I love that. I hate it. And I love her.

And I love her so much. She's so funny. But I didn't love that. But I haven't seen the movie here. Here's, here's, here, let me lay it all out for everybody. The fact of the matter is joining the Marvel universe is a mark of success on any actor's career in terms of money. Because you're getting paid so much money to join the Marvel universe. Enjoy more ways to save at Ralph's like low prices in every aisle.

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are spending a lot of money to go out and watch movies, cartoons essentially. And it's all CGI. And I'm going to say it, not a ton of artistry, not a ton of talent, and it's a lot of AI now. And I think a lot of people in the industry would agree with me.

But guess what? I would do it too for a check. I'm not better than that. I'm not proud. If you have a role for me in a Marvel universe, even like someone that dies immediately, sign me up, please. Period.

I would love to. I don't like them taking JLD from from real TV and real movies. Like let's bring bring back VIP, but you can't reboot VIP. Yeah. Oh, I was actually talking about that the other day. Bring back VEep. Bring back VEP. I watched four episodes last night.

That's probably, I need to apologize really quick. Asie just side-texted me and said, please talk into the mic when you're talking to Hunter. and I've been yelling at you to talk in the mic. Yeah, fuck you. My bad. My bad. This checks. Yeah.

Yeah, I would love a show of the same elk as Veep. I don't think that we'll ever get one. Some shows I'm excited about. Adults on FX. So we have friends of the show on adults. Jack Inan is on adults. And Owen Thiel is on adults. There are others that I'm newly friends with on adults.

Grace Kuhn-Schmidt is on adults. And Benny Drama's new show is out. Can't wait. Wait, is it out? It is not out yet. Oh. I think it comes out at the end of the month. I'm so excited for that.

What is it? I think it's May 1st. May 1st. Oh. Oh, tomorrow. So the beginning of the month. Is there only 30 days in April? Yeah, that's weird.

Mother of Pearl. I can't believe I pay rent tomorrow. Please, if anyone has a gun, come to my month. my house and shoot me. You're fine. No, that's horrible. I don't even have a couch. What am I paying for? Well, it comes on Saturday. A roof over my head. His couch comes Saturday. Thanks to me. Yeah. Some friends that, some friends that I keep are pushers. They push you to, one, go to Brooklyn and get a couch that's two feet too big for your living room. And then two, they push you to measure to double check. And then three, they push you to get a couch. Now, I want to just,

I want to apologize to the people. I am getting a cloud couch or a cloud adjacent couch. It's not cloud. It's not cloud. No, it's not the expensive. It's from crate and barrel. Yeah, it's crate and barrel. It's on sale.

I do want to say like I'm a. You're frugal. I am frugal, but I would say that I am not like a cloud couch person. No, they look horrible. They look horrible in living rooms. It's only for movie rooms. Okay, well, it's my living room. The thing is, like, I had to get a couch that is modular and that could fit into my door.

It's gorgeous. It's a couch. It's structured. It's a couch. It's not a cloud. I don't, I wouldn't categorize it as. I really, really wanted to get like a long couch. I was like leather, but it can't.

The way my apartment is, I'm catching myself in so many lives. So a long time ago, I said that I didn't like the railroad style apartment. I'm fully living in a railroad-style apartment, like 100% like a textbook railroad. Mm-hmm. Like. But it has character. It's very New York.

I'm surprised at a train in my apartment. Yeah, no, it's very cool. I can't wait to show people when I do like a... Yeah, you can't show people right now. No. You have a beanbag. I did post the TikTok. And the podcast set up is on a beer pong table.

Hey. Evan's really, Evan loves this table. No shame on Evan. No shame on Evan. Evan loves his beer pong table. Me too. I love beer pong table. No, I do too.

And I'm gonna, everyone will see down the line when I put all of the, all of these things together into it like a little kind of unit. I'm gonna make sure. Yeah, you could help me a little bit instead of just dogging on the beer pong table. I do help you. Yeah. I sent you a nice chair yesterday. Yeah, you did. My mom said she hated it. Well, let's be real.

My mom has been, has been outspokenly attracted to things that belong in a dentist's waiting office recently. So I... That chair does not belong in a dentist's waiting office. No, she doesn't like it, so I know. But like, okay, I'm not going to go there. Did you see Chloe Kardashian released protein popcorn? I did. And I clocked it when I saw it prior to the launch.

I saw it in like their Easter baskets on Instagram. And I was like, that's the next product. But what are your thoughts on it? And then I'll give my thoughts. I really like, here's the thing. Credit where credits do? It's just like, do you guys need another company that bad? I would love this is like, this is of the same elk as Katie Perry going to space to me.

It's like, congrats. Like, what do you do? I'm not dogging on the product. Protein popcorn, epic. Sign me out. Seven grams of protein per serving. I'm eating the whole bag, by the way. I'm going to split my lip trying to get an extra kernel into my mouth.

But stop. I know. I get it. Like this is, this is, so Tina Faye came out and said, like, to Amy Poehler on, on Amy Poller's podcast, which I fall asleep to, by the way. It's such a good podcast. Amy Poller laughing. pump that into my veins like heroin.

I just watched her podcast with Paige and Hannah. Hannah, it was really good. Really? That's awesome. She said, she went on and said, my pet peeve. Like, I've had it with A-list celebrities, like, starting a company, starting a side. Why do you need a side hustle as? I see both sides, but what, what, what, what, how do you, like, how do you see, do you think that this product is, like,

creating enough, like, incidental good that... I need to read the ingredients first. You're talking about ingredients? I'm talking about the actual concept of a Kardashian having another company. But she's such like a health, like, guru protein chika. And like, if it makes sense for her to, you know,

want to create this... Popcorn, milk, protein, isolate. I don't know what isolate is. Cain, sugar, olive oil, coconut oil, mineral salt. Objectively, very healthy. That's very healthy. Okay, period.

I don't know what isolate is. Can we isolate, like, protein? But my thing is, like, what they're going to do is, like, if they're going to create something, they're not going to just create shit. Someone, someone alone. That's what it said. So the popcorn includes a person by themselves. The context of food, isolate refers to a protein that has been extracted from a food source

and strip of most non-protein components, like carbs, fat, and fiber. But, like, I'm for it because. I know if, like, Chloe's behind it and it's revolving around health and wellness, like, it is going to be good and it is going to be beneficial. Because, like, think about how, like, Courtney is. But Courtney and Simon are behind Lemmy. And, like, let me sleep. Let me tell you that shit works. No, let me tell you something about Lemmy.

I think it works and I love the product. Simon, friend of the program. Now, let me. needs to reel it the fucking. I took Lemmy Fiber. If you thought, the city of New York City was safe by any means from my farts all day,

guess what? My whole family took Lemmy Fiber. We were, Connor what? No, Connor Schitts. It was, we were like the fart family. Walking down the street, everyone's crossing to the other side of the sidewalk.

We could not stop fart. My mom is walking around. It sounded like she had a box of jelly beans in her back pocket. It was like, fart, fart, fart, fart, fart, fart, fart. We couldn't go to a restaurant and sit down. Let me fiber. Who takes... Chill!

Why is the serving size three? Who takes fire pills before you go walking around? I didn't know what it was or that it was to help your gut. Why are we all shooting? Let me number two? I have one bathroom. In my apartment, it was... It was not usable.

I take them before, I take, I take them before bed and then it's all up the next morning. What? You can poop in your bed. No, the next morning, the next morning. And then like,

God, you're fine, but like I wouldn't take them and then go on a stroll. No. And then go, go like to dinner. I would take them.

In a city with no public bathrooms, we're banned from the Starbucks next to my house. Well, you're missing the point because that means it works. No, I'm not missing. It is not lost on me that Lemmy fiber works. I'm just telling everyone, like, be completely careful.

And by the way, do not take it with those groans, um, power greens, uh, gummies as well. That's full of anti. Unless you don't care about any of your clothes because you will be throwing them away. But where I'm getting at is that I am

excited to try her product because I think Bailey Kardashian could do a collab with Lockheed Martin, a bomb. and you would be buy it people would buy it yeah okay well i i i okay okay i disagree you know what here's the thing this is like this my my feeling towards this is like when an a list celebrity like a like a i don't want to say it because like i feel like i'm about to be friends with this person but like how glen powell is in every fucking movie all the sudden it's like yeah let an act let another actor be in a movie for once. Like, I don't like when these people are taking all of these

opportunities from people that could have a big break. Someone out there was probably making protein popcorn and it's like, I like, like the founder of Poppy that's like making it in her garage like Allison. They could have, and she sold that company for $2 billion to Pepsi. Like that could have been someone in their garage right now in the Midwest, in Ohio, my hometown of Ohio and they could be making protein popcorn and then all of a sudden they're like, oh my God, Chloe Kardashian just like cornered the market. Yeah. That would be frustrating, especially for someone that has good American, the clothing company,

they have the cleaning company. They have, like, they have enough companies. Yeah. If your family had one of the nine companies that they have, you would be set for life and they keep pumping out companies like they're printing money. I'm not, I'm not dogging on the product and I'm not dogging on the drive of a young businesswoman. They're definitely pushing women forward a lot more than Katie Perry is, but I just like give someone else a chance. Let the girls breathe a little bit.

Let them breathe. Now I will be buying this popcorn and I will be eating it and I will be enjoying it. That's not to say. I love popcorn. I love popcorn almost as much as I love Ohio. I want to eat puffburn in Ohio this summer. Do you love it more than pop-homs? Okay, there's a new product on the market that came across my personal desk.

And then I let, so when I was crashing at Hunter's Place, when I was looking for an apartment. Now everyone will remember Hunter's Place because I filmed what it went down in history is the worst episode of our lives at Hunter's House. And everyone made it very well known that it was the worst. And I was on every medication known demand. That was the last time I was sick. By now you know that I get very, very sick. and I take every medication so as not to miss a day of work. But I'm at Hunter's Place and this company came across my desk.

I don't know what the parent company is, but they have this product called Pop-ums. And it's like little, it's like corn nuts. If people remember corn nuts, like this is Pop-ums. They were like, hey, we would love to work together. And I was like, listen, I take pride in my work. I don't, I have not heard of you guys. They're pretzels.

I'll try out your product and we'll see how it goes. You guys, they're so good. Pop-ums are so fucking good. So good. Like, I don't, he left them in my apartment. I accidentally left them. Claude Kardashian, say the fuck away from Pop-ums. These are so good.

They're by snack factory. Pop-ums. Golden Mustard Barbecue, White cheddar, and sea salt. Oh. Which one? was your favorite. Golden mustard. Me too. Yeah. Me too. Well, like, I don't, not an ad. But I don't buy snacks because I'm going to eat it when I'm bored. And so when Connor gets PR when he was staying with me, it was just like, you know, finance way to my pantry.

And then I'm now like snacking constantly. It was probably like two months of like, pop. Like these won't run out. The bag doesn't end. The bag doesn't end. I kept in it. I was like, I can't stop eating them between like meals. And they're so. They finally ran out. And I'm like, I can't buy them again, but I want to. I have a theory. I think if you want a successful snack company, make them like randomly small and round. It is so addicting to eat something that's small and round.

Nerds clusters, pop-ums, dipping dots, the gum that is in a cube for some reason. Like it's addicting to eat things like that. And they nailed the name, pop-ums. I do want to pop it. I do want to pop them. I'm going to order some on Amazon.

I'm going to get some right now. too. Fuck, that sounds so good right now. When we get off the horn, I'm going to get some pop-ups. I adore. I think there's so good. I can't wait. I can't wait to have some problems.

Mm-hmm. My grocery cabinet right now, like I just went and got groceries. I met someone at the grocery store. Young man, if you're listening, apologies. Get business done with the new American Express Graphite Business Cash Unlimited Card. With unlimited 2% cashback on all eligible purchases.

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I love Whole Foods so much. I go, there's, there's none like close to where, super close to where I am. So I walked over to this one. The thing about New York grocery stores is that they're all fucking hell on earth. Like, it's, this Whole Foods is three stories. I go to the first story. It's just, like, flowers.

And so I go to the second story, and it's just like the hot bar where you go, like, make a box of food. and this young man is like, hey, I listen to the podcast. So hi, young man. And he had to take me by the hand and take me downstairs to find the actual groceries. It was so bad. And then I had my basket all the way full. I got all my groceries. And then I had to, I took the lemmy fiber. Okay. So I was like, it was dire straits, to be frank. And I was like, do you have a restroom? And they were like, no. I was like, where's the closest restroom? They go in the park. across the street. So I had to put my basket down full of groceries that I had just taken like 25 minutes across this godforsaken grocery store that like nothing makes sense. It's just like nothing's intuitive sometimes at grocery stores where it's like, okay, I need saracha but I also need like carrots.

They're just in completely opposite. Anyways, that's beside the point. I run to the park, okay? I want everyone to picture what they think that the bathroom at the park would look like, at the public park would look like. Yeah. So I have syphilis now and I'm heading back to Whole Foods. They took my fucking basket and they put everything back.

So I gave up on groceries. So the only groceries I have right now are Black Forest ham. Vanilla wafers. Oh my God. Whoa. Okay. So, I wish we had these right here. One good outcome.

Inside your cop drops. You can't eat on a podcast I found out. People try to kill me. I was checking out and at the checkout there were these things called, there were wafer cookies. So it's like the, it looks like little tiny waffle. It's like laird.

And then there's like cream, you know, and then wafer and then cream and then wafer and then cream and then wave it. It's like stack, stack, stack, stack. And they're so effing good. They're so good. I need to tell a story about those cookies.

So long ago, my parents never let me have candy. And I wouldn't let you have candy either. No, they didn't. Even though we- We do get our sweet treats on Sundays. Sweet treat. Sweet treat. I had never had candy before, right?

So I go and I go to my friend's house. And my mom said I came home from my friend's house. and I had had these cookies, and they were saying that I had gone over and had something that had the best skin ever. And it was the wafer cookie. I was talking about like the wafer. I called it skin because I was used to eating fruit. Fruit. Fruit.

Fruit of the loom. Okay. So this guy, what's the guy that's playing Fire Fest? Billy. Billy Reed. Billy McFarland. Why did I know that? Why did you know that?

I hate that. Fire Festival is co-founded by American businessman. That's a stretch. Billy McFarlane and American rapper Joe Rule. It was intended to be a luxury music festival on the island of Great Exuma in the Bahamas. But event was, yeah. Okay, so they planned a second one. You know, they planned a second one.

Did you know Kylie was supposed to go to that? Like the second one or the first one? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, they all worst. He paid them all to go. No, Kylie Lane. Our best friend, our best friend, Kylie Lane. Whoa, I didn't know that.

Yes, I remember in college when she was supposed to go. And then, like, last minute, they backed out for some whatever reason. I think she broke up with her boyfriend and she didn't go, which I wish she went because I would love that insight from her. That would have been really on brand for her to have gone to this and been stuck on great exuma. Here's the thing. like festivals to me,

and I'm so sorry to festival goers and festival fans are already hell on earth. Like the fact that they went and got bread. Brad, they got bread, bread, bread. Bread. They had bread. He said Brad. I'm like, who the fuck's Brad?

Brad Pitt? To me, this would be more fun than seeing Kaigo, Dipla, whatever. Like, it would be more fun for me to be like what the hell is going on and I'm with my best friends and I'm, I'm in the Bahamas. Go swimming. It's so funny. Like, I just like, when people were like, we're mad. It's a funny bit.

You're going to make a killing on the, on the, um, settlement because you're trapped. You're still in the Bahamas. Make the best of it. And I think we would. I would be having so much fun. We would, we would laugh our asses off. I would be rolling around in the mud. I would be like making friends with locals.

I would be swimming in the ocean in the Bahamas like road to the beach. Drinking like make the best of it. I know that great Exuma is like a legit. Like there's other things on the island. But like their demographic and clientele like that's not their vibe. I feel like they're just like very much like I want to be pampered and I want. That's what I'm. Yeah.

Like but you also signed up to camp and camp. That's like Coachella camping. On an island that you've never been to. At least Coachella has like, like, I don't know. They're grounded in that. You know, like they have it structured. But I still wouldn't camp at Coachella. Okay.

So first of all, I don't feel sorry for anyone involved. I don't feel like I don't, did Billy go to jail? He did. Why did he go to jail, by the way? Like what was the legal ramifications of his festival falling apart? Stealing money, I think. False, like false. He was sentenced to six years in prisons for defrauding investors.

Six years is a lot. No, I don't think he was in for six years. Maybe like close. Ended out being a disaster with many attendees arriving to find FEMA tents and poor conditions instead of promised accommodation. Okay, so basically. It was behind the scenes of... Oh, sentenced to six years.

No, so he did do six years? No, he did four. He did four. Okay. Like Jen Shaw vibes. Yeah. So my, so his whole thing was defrauding events. So he, I think essentially he was like, we've sold this many, we will sell this many tickets.

And I think he used the investor money to pay like Gigi Hadee to be like, I'm on a jet ski. Look at me. So, and then they didn't end up coming, you know? And it's like, what was Gigi did you going to perform? The thing is, the thing is, I don't feel bad for anyone involved. I don't feel bad for Billy McFarland. I do feel bad for Billy McFarland, actually. I've changed my mind.

I watched a documentary. He tried. He did try. Like, I don't think his intention was to defraud investors. I think his intention was to sell a dream. And it ended up literally. It wasn't for him. He should have had a more powerful team of people that can execute.

And knows what they're doing. Because he's an idea guy. And I really, I do stand with idea guys. Now, J-Rul, I don't know why. He got involved, like probably just retire and sit down, but I do think that he left him hanging him doing this again with, okay, okay. Like, I mean, you, you fall off, you get, you fall off sick, you get back up, you know, like you get back up.

You need to get back up. I do think, like, maybe if you went to jail for four years, maybe like do some research and, and bring on some people that can execute this time. Do you think they had like books on like how to throw a festival in prison? Obviously not. Fire is what not one of the most powerful attention engines in the world. In addition, the challenges we face in Mexico are approached by several Caribbean destinations eager to host fire festival too. We dove into the process meeting with national officials.

I can't risk a repeat of what happened in Playa Del Carmen. What happened in Playa Del Carmen? where support quickly turned into distancing once media attention intensified. Is it not happening or is it happening? No, he called it off. Interested buyers can learn more at fire.m.x. We will pick the new group based on their ability

to execute the vision of fire in a transparent, grand, an expeditious manner. The next chapter of fire will be bigger, better and built to last without me at the helm. Well, no one wants to get in bed with Billy McFarland. No. But the thing is he's selling the company. That's what this announcement is. So, and then that's all I have over here, actually. Everyone say a quick prayer for Brooke, wherever you are. Brooke, we wish you the best. We're thinking of Rob right now. So this episode,

in honor of Rob, and we hope to see, we will see Brooke next week. An important and fun announcement. I will be in person next week. which is a new development. So looking forward to that and I will see everyone next week. Hunter, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you for having me. We'll have you back on when you get approved for TV. Yeah.

Which will probably happen either this afternoon or tomorrow. Yes. So everyone say a little prayer. Another prayer. Yeah, add that into the... But by the time people watch us, it'll already be decided. Yeah. That's crazy.

Awesome. Well, thank you guys so much. Thank you, Izzy. Thank you, Evan. Thank you, everyone in L.A. for the patience. And I will see everyone next week in person or hashtag in the bonus. Thank you and that I'm doing solo. So let's see how that goes. All right. Thank you guys so much for listening. We will see you. Your heart's up. Next week. Hope you had fun. Thank you as always.