Brooke and Connor Make A Podcast - Friend Walk With Me w/ Julian Shapiro-Barnum

Episode Date: June 4, 2026

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Hey guys, it's Connor. I'm here. What is it? Today's Thursday. So we recorded yesterday. And this is the week of, and this will be on next week's episode. I want everyone to know. In two weeks, this will be on whatever. I want everyone to know I walked in today and Izzy said, you are tan. I know that everyone's going to think I had an artificial tan. And I'm going to come clean. I did yesterday. I know. I did yesterday. And that's why I was, you'll notice. in the episode, I was clenching my fish so you guys wouldn't see that I forget to wash my hand. So all my calluses turn like a burnt orange from my alma mater, University of Texas at Austin are Longhorns. That's because I bleed burnt orange and that's where I'm from and that's what I ride till I die. Well, I don't ride it till I die. I ride for them and I die on top of them,

whatever. But I'm coming clean. I've been at the beach now. I at least get an hour of sun. So this is real now. And this is who I am. I get tan pretty easily. I'm very lucky for that. And I watched remarkably, I watched remarkably bright creatures last night. That's hard.

That's a time. I watched remarkably bright creatures last night. Everyone dogged on me. I think Kat, when did we talk about that? Two weeks. Last week. Okay. And everyone, they kind of agreed.

Well, I had heard that it was kind of like a throwaway book. And I don't know who I heard that from. Yeah, I cried. I did not cry at Manchester by the sea. They could not, gun to my head. Maybe if there was a gun to my head watching Manchester by the sea, I would be bawling because I'd be like, why are you here? Who are you?

How'd you get in my hotel room? But it would be unrelated to the storyline of Manchester by the sea because that didn't really affect me at all. Remarkably bright creatures. It's a tongue twisters. Try to say it. You try to say it. Remarkably, ooh.

Remarkably bright creatures. Remarkably, Remarkably bright, Remarkably bright creatures that, I'll tell you, I can almost time-simp when I started crying, and I did not stop till it got into credits. I started crying when,

what's her name? Sally Field starts wheeling, oh my gosh, sorry, spoiler alert. Skip ahead, 30 seconds, and then I'll be done. We just, let's just keep this in the episode that we can have less next week. Okay. I started crying when,

and she starts wheeling out this octopus. Did you see it yet? But I read the book. Okay. I don't know how accurate it is to the book, but... The book did not make me cry, personally. Okay, well, so I'm about Sally Field being so fragile when she was in... What was she in?

Like 50 first? No, cheaper by the dozen or something? Yes. No, was she that woman? Was she the mom? Mrs. Doubtfire. Oh, this has just been like... the mom forever.

And then now she's this older woman and she's like, me and this octopus are like, brethren in this octopus, I'm going to like release it. And so then I started crying. So it was like, oh, she's like genuinely on last day of work.

Like, fuck it. I'm going to release the octopus, which like would get her virus. But she's like, it's like last day of school vibes. Let's just let it go. And I started,

I don't know why that affected me. Hashtag affected me. in such a huge way. But it did. And then I didn't really stop. First of all, that's the ring. I was like, make it, just like leave it in your tank. The octopus is risking it all to keep it in that bucket,

which is not realistic because she dumped sack into the ocean. It's like that ring weighed so much. There's no way that you left it in there octopus. Like with all your might, you left the ring in there. And anyways, that didn't totally like land for me. I think that it would have been better if he like threw it at her forehead or something. but no he left it in the tank or in the bucket and I liked that and then I didn't stop crying until the very end I liked that she was just whole time wondering if her son was happy because she was like blaming it

on herself like the death um so did he commit suicide or was it like an accident did we figure that out um from what I remember I think it was still an accident okay but we don't know yeah but It did flashback in the movie to him. It was an accident. I think that that was the... I think, because Brooks said something like, it answered questions. The book didn't...

I think that they're throwing everyone like a feel good bone by being like, look, he's like, this was an accident. Yeah. Which is good. I was kind of... Eh, it doesn't matter. But Lewis Pullman did a really good job,

and I'm a fan. That was great. I've never seen him in anything and I don't know who he is. Besides, in paparazzi photos with Jake Shane and Guy, Guy, Gerber, in Mexico. That's the only thing I've seen him in. Lewis Pullman

He was really good And I've never seen someone that looks like him I think this is the first original Looking face I've seen in years Or maybe in my life I don't know anyone he looks like I don't know where he came from I don't know where he's going

But I really was a fan I'm a fan of Lewis Pullman now Let me see if there was anything else That I should just get off my church Before I leave No No. Um, and no.

I have nothing that isn't evergreen and I have nothing that isn't timely. So thank you for having me. This is a natural tan. The other tan that was fake, washed off. This is real. I do get tan and it will probably be gone by the next time you see me. But know that it was here at one point. It's going to be so shocking to cut from this version of me to like that sick, pale version

of me that should be at the doctor. but this is what I look like when I live in California I also got in the sea today for a second there's a ton of jellyfish that are washing up right now it happens like once or twice a year those blue ones with the sails and they look like used condoms when they roll up and die but they're all over the ocean and I was in the water I walked right past the minute it's just like I thought it was trash

at Santa Monica so I was like people are fucking right now and it was not it's it's wildlife and I didn't realize so I was in there. They're the ones that float on the top and they have the sail that pushes them in to the beach. And they were everywhere

and I was wondering, I was in the water being like, why is no one else swimming right now? This is the nicest day. It's that first top left one. Those. It's like, what a horrible design to have a sail that's pushing you onto the sand

when you're an aquatic creature. You don't want that. So I'm bobbing around like a cauliflower with all these jellyfish. I'm like, weird. Why is my wild? my neck so itchy, but Santa Monica just makes you itchy anyways, whether there's jellyfish in there or not. Okay, I guess that's all I got. And thank you guys. And I don't know who like

surprise. I'm having a guest on it. I liked that on the last episode. I was like, you guys are in for a treat. I have no clue who the guest is about to be. We're going to cut to some guest. It could be someone I found outside right before, or it could be someone that hasn't responded to my texts or emails. But looking forward to seeing who they are. I'll be as surprise as you are. See ya. And now enjoyed this episode. So we're jumping off of an incredible week.

No, I had a cold open that I've already done. Oh, okay. And so, like, I'm not sure. I was actually talking about incredibly remarkably bright creatures. They're incredible as well. But then I jump to here. And I just want to really quickly say, welcome back to BNC MAP.

Today it's BNJ. Wait, not, it's JNCMAP. We have Julian here today. Okay, let's get it right in. Okay, so I'm really good at this. Connor, thank you guys for having me on the show. You're the person that I don't need to intro. Like everybody knows Julian.

You guys know, obviously, resists therapy outside tonight is coming out. I'm plugging. Thank you, Connor. I'm plugging everything like right at the. the very beginning of the episode. Well, Connor, I wanted to come in hot with some Brooke Averick lore. Can I do that? Yeah, please.

So I went to middle school, high school, and college with Brooke. And we maybe spoke once. Can I also say something? Yeah. I feel like every time you've told me you've added like another two years to how long you've known. I have known Brooke my entire life and we did not speak until recently, which I think says a lot about both of us. Yeah.

How did that even happen? Did you go to the school that she always talks about that? like very unique practices. Yeah, I can give some more. So we went to Friend Central, which is the school that Deervin Hanson's based off of, which is not something to brag about if you know anything about that musical.

Do you? It's a musical about, I don't know the politically correct terms here. The horrible thing here is also like, they know our heart, so like our intentions are pure and that's how we go into this. It's a musical about someone who takes. their own life and then someone pretends to be that kid's best friend. So that's what our high school was.

But our school was a Quaker school. So we had to sit in silence all the time. And my favorite fun facts about it was that so you had to sit in silence every week on Wednesday. And there were two things that could happen. If you were being inappropriate, an elder could stand up and say, friend walk with me. Okay. And if you get friend walked with me, that's like, you're done. And if you're talking for too long, an elder could stand up and say, friend, you've been heard. How old are you guys? How old are we? Yeah.

Middle school and high school. So, oh, that went into high school? So you guys would be 15. Like 11 through 50. And you'd get friend walk with me. It never happened to me. Of course, why would it happen to you? I was like very well behaved.

Did you go to high school? Yeah. They let you? They let me go to high school. Our high school is very different. A lot of hand stuff. What? Oh.

Yeah. Oh, I know what that means. Yeah. But so we weren't getting friend walked with me. Like Guacted Lioso? Oh, we were doing down by the river by the Hanky Pank. Great. That hand stuff.

Bullfrog jumped from bank to bank. I love those games. But we didn't have elders. We had people that were held back for several years. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Super, super senior. Yeah. Oh, super, super, super.

And then. we had the people that they were super elders and they were just people that would graduate and then just still come out on the weekends with everybody. Coming to baseball games and things. But we didn't have any elders. The way, so

it's a Quaker school. We have so many kids get expelled and so many teachers get fired. Did you have that? We had a kid put cameras in the girls' locker room. We had like a lot of bad stuff going out at our high school. But Brooke and Julianne,

came out from escaped. Wow, yeah, really. How many people went there? How did you guys get by without ever interacting? We were both weird. There's no way. Yeah. We didn't, we weren't, we both didn't take up.

Well, I took up a lot of space, but I was also, she, we didn't overlap too much. She's three years older than me. Okay. So I was like coming in and then she was on her way out and I was like, oh my God, broke average. That's brilliant. Let's start this, Laura. I just had the.

biggest crush on her. Oh, you did it. No, I didn't. I just every, you know, I got to middle school and I was like, here's my chance. And then she went to high school. And then I got to high school and I was like, now is my chance. And then I was like, damn it. So then I went to be you to follow her. And then I got to be you and then I missed my chance. Really? Walk with me. Okay. Friend walk with me over here. No, that's incredible. It's just like so, so bizarre because I thought you guys were, were messing with me the first time I heard that. No, I mean, I don't know her that well, but we have been around each other our whole lives, which is very strange. I love, I've been around, I've been with her twice. You've met her. Where I know her pretty well. Yeah. I've been with her twice when you've

facetimed her. And I think she's been with me twice when you've face timed me. And the takeaway is. I don't remember what the end goal of me sharing that was, but I think it's funny. You are like a FaceTimeer. Like, you're just like a call from Julian? Connor, can I ask you my first question? Yeah. What's your earliest memory of using Snapchat? So Julian brought questions for me to the podcast because, like, I brought in nine questions

for Connor. I think that he was, like, worried about how this would go, which I love. No, I was in the car over. I was like, oh, we haven't gotten to the one that started this all. I want to ask you about your body. That's how this started. Yes. Oh, my God.

My body. Thank you. Thank you for reading that up. Well, yeah, my first question that I wrote, we'll get back to the subject, was, what do you love most about your body, Connor? That's what I just wanted to know. What do I love most about my body? It's constantly surprising me. Yeah.

Yeah. But like if you had to narrow it down, like right now, what's, yeah, let's have some put-ups. Physically, what's my favorite thing about my body? Yeah. Like my physical, like, what is the body? The body. Front-facing. Yeah, nothing on the inside.

There's nothing like going on. No, I don't need to know about the end part. Okay. Your favorite front-facing public part of your body? Well, like, everyone, one that people see. Well, Brooke and I talk about it all the time. I think I have pretty nice feet. I needed, like, I wasn't expecting.

Well, I wasn't expecting to do this. Well, it's like 8 a.m. And I just stub my toe really bad. Oh, come on. Well, people have such an issue with my feet. They're like, oh, yuck, I'm going to vomit. I'm gonna throw up, I'm gonna kill myself. I'm like, you are going to?

Okay, I guess I will too. We're here. Oh, you have nice feet too. Oh, we're gonna show the bottom of the feet on the, okay. Let's compare feet Connor on the pod. Brooke, no worries, we got it held down while you're working. No, let me just double check that I'm, yeah, I'm good. Wow.

Oh, well, don't look at that toe. Wait, can you get, can I see the top though? Yeah. You do have nice. They're smooth. What's your tattoo said? I got it. It said right place, right time.

I would say a bad quality of mine is I overcut my toenails. Okay. No, I think that's a good quality. Want to go foot to foot? You do. Yeah, but I'm taller than you. This is intimate. This is really good.

This has never been done on a podcast. No one's doing it like us. No one's doing it like. Oh, Brooke. When you hear about this. What was I going to say about my feet? The shame of putting your socks back on. Yeah, I know.

It's like. Post foot clarity. Um, no, I don't show that toe very often because, and this is my troubled toe because I, when I go get a pedicure, I have to be like, please, please, please, just like, I know that toe is, right. Sorry. That, I know that toe like looks like it really like needs some attention. like it's a lost cause that toe.

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Okay, well, basically I jumped off a rock. My junior of high school, or college, we went to Hawaii, and we were all like, jumping out of the Rock on the North Shore and I was mostly trying to film my friends. North Shore of Hawaii. North Shore Hawaii. Okay. And jump off and I was like mostly like trying to get, trying to be Jay Alvarez and like try to get a clip.

And I landed just like straight up on a rock and I came up. And it was one of those things where it's like, okay. Yep. Ow. Yeah. That's going to be like a larger issue than an immediate fix. And I'm swimming back to shore. The squeamish should skip 15 seconds ahead.

I'm swimming back to shore and I didn't feel any like pain right away but I was like that's gonna like come in a huge way and I could feel like the skin of my foot like dragging

as I was swimming and I turn around and it's just red behind me oh really? Yeah and the worst part is it's like a the worst thing that could happen to me as a 18, 19 year old is the lifeguards had to come like help me

Did that? And they couldn't even give me stitches because it was like so shredded. So they just had to wrap it up. It gets worse. I go back to college. This is like primetime making friends, like making long time, lifetime friends. Sophomore year, I think, actually. And I have to wear flip-lops.

I have to wear one flip-flop. Where'd you go? Oh, you go because you couldn't wear shoes. Because, well, I couldn't wear one shoe. But I was like trying to like show everybody. like, this is not who I am, so I'd wear like one normal shoe and one flip-flop. The only thing that sucked is like I had to wrap my one big toe in a cartoonishly huge, like dropped an anvil on your foot, woo-boop-woom-woom, like that style wrap.

Yeah. So it was like normal foot, normal gorgeous foot, huge honking big toe wrapped. And it would like, it would like soak through in calculus and I'd have to like step out and rewrap it so there was one day when I got on yikakak which was the thing that like you would not know what that is because you I've...

I do know what that is I've never used it yeah circling back to your question about how long I've been on Snapchat I was around so yikak came out and there was just someone that yikaked like there is this disgusting guy with his like old

bloody toe out every day in my calculus class and he like won't put it away and I'll calmed it back and I was like maybe he can't put it into a shoe maybe you can't wear a normal shoe so I was this guy with like flip flops on and nobody liked the flip flop. Connor I have a really

similar trauma. Do you really? So like really similar when I was in high school I had to walk my dog every day hear me out but one time it was the winter and I wanted to walk my dog and I stepped outside to do it

only to realize that it was freezing out door slams behind me I don't have shoes or socks on there's snow on the ground I'm locked out of my house with no shoes or socks on for like 20, 30 minutes

and I got frostbite on my feet you got actual frostbite on my feet I was stuck outside for like so long my mom had to come home from work. I was like freaking out. I was like in so much pain. I was crying. It was bad.

It was my fault. And then I couldn't wear shoes or socks for a while. So every, because it like, these burns all over my feet from the cold. And so in math class and Spanish class, I had to be no shoes, no socks for like a really long time.

And people didn't like it. No shoes, no socks, nothing. Just toes spread. And were they like covered in red sores? Sorry that I've only seen. Frostbite in the movies, but were your feet like black? They were like burn, like red dots everywhere. No way.

And I'm trying to decide if I want to tell the funny, the bad part of this story. I think you tell the funny part. I really do think that like I don't think it was that much of a shock to the thing, the other things that were happening at your school. Like I feel like friend come walk with me. Like that kind of goes with like, like, one should, I didn't expect anyone to have shoes on it. That's cool. So, yeah, I have a, I have frostbite.

And it still affects me this day. You have frostbite? Well, like, I have some nerve damage on my feet, and so whenever it gets really cold, it acts up, and it, like, tingles and burns, and sometimes I have to take my shoes and socks off. But I'm okay. I'm okay.

I live with this every day. I have it right now. Afflicted. You're cross-fair. I'm afflicted with the frostbite. It's actually what I have is chill blains, which is, like, not as intense. Just for those out there, for those medics out there.

Wait, I want to hear the embarrassing. The not funny part that's like a little bit weird that I do think is worth saying is I had, no, I'm gonna edit myself. I'll tell you later. Okay. I think it'll open a door that is it not, doesn't need to go down. Okay.

But it's funny. I believe you. I'll tell you later. It's okay. That's good. Do you want my second question? Yeah, we could go into that. And it's, is it like a good transition?

Yeah. Okay. I don't want to force you to use your question. No, I like, I like, okay. This question two is, how often do you look at your own reflection? That is so weird that you said that. And I'm so glad you read that up. I'm like having a thing right now where, like, you know how people are trying to limit screen time?

I'm trying to limit mirror time. And I'm not even like, I feel like we're really exposed to our own reflection so often now. I be glancing car windows, storefront windows. You unlock your phone and your front cameras open and it's like, oh, like, that's what I. Like, I feel like I am seeing myself too often. I don't know what effects that's having on me. Do you ever go to the bathroom? You're out with friends.

You go to the bathroom just to remember what you look like? The way that I don't do it consciously, but if they don't have a mirror, I'm like, I hate this place. Yeah. This bathroom is bad. Yeah. Like, where are we? Because part of bathroom time is remembering your face time. That's the only reason I wash my hands.

I was in the bathroom yesterday, and this guy beeline it from a stall to out, missed the sink. I wanted to kill him. Yeah, that's tough. From stall to outdoor. That'll change the way you view someone. It was somebody in the office building and work out whose dog I like.

Miranda's dad. Do you want to bleed that? No. Okay. Miranda the dog's dad. You should be washing your hands. There's a lot going on right now. It's a lot going on,

especially in your own bathroom stall. 100%. And it's always, there's people that walk among us. I feel like the more I look at myself the more I notice things. What are you noticing? Changes, changes? Do you think you look, do you think you're,

do you think you're ever going to look older than you do today? I don't know because I haven't really aged in like 15 years. I think you look young. A lot of people do. But not too young. You look like an adult. Two things have happened recently.

One, we were doing a show somewhere and there was a prom at our hotel and they were like, are you a child? Are you checking in? like alone and I was like yeah they're like you're not they thought I was there for the prom that's awful um and I was like low key I could have a kid at this prom kind of no but um and then there was there was uh I was getting on flight and they were like are you traveling alone I was like I don't

what do you mean they thought you were a teenager minor they thought it was like below 18 people constantly think I'm in my people constantly think I'm like six years older than I am what Yeah. Oh, I don't see that. I'm 26, people always think I'm like 32. It's a really weird time from 26 to 32. I feel like that's when that's kind of like no man's land. I'm 60.

You're 60. And I feel good. Are you 28? You 29? It doesn't matter here. Here, in this room? No. In here?

This room can be any age you want. In here, family can look like anything here. What are your body goals right now? My body goals. You're working out? Yeah. I'm working out. Do you do more pushing or pulling?

Probably more pushing because I'll skip pull day a lot, but I wish that I... I'm wearing a sweater. Do you see it through the sweater, kind of? That's good. Thanks. You hear Julian say that's good. I mean, you're just really... You're toned and you're lean.

That's what I want. That's my body goal. See more toned and lean. Here's what you've got to do. Okay. CrossFit. No, I'd rather do it. I'd rather...

I'd rather be... be right where I am today. Here's what you got to do. CrossFit every day. You got to be doing snatches. You got to be getting up every day, 4 a.m., and you got to be hitting the free weights.

It's just not what I think. It's just really not a realistic thing for me. And I'm on Instagram every day. The thing you just said about the gym, 4 a.m. every day? Instagram. Oh, you're like in the Insta gym. What kind of gym are you at?

Well, right now I'm at hotel gyms because I don't have an apartment. Are you trying to? I don't think I don't think I have the discipline that Jake has he saw he he he locked in and he locked in yeah yeah um he looks awesome he looks amazing yeah i have a i have a screenshot of that in my save folder yeah no it's i went good for that i have an instagram saved in my workouts folder that i don't ever opened again but um yeah i have all these workouts but i i join this gym i actually like this is like not a flex but kind of is like I did get invited to the aloe gym really and like and

they're gonna someone will probably hear this but like I did get invited and in my head I said I want to work to a base level and then go to the alo gym so I'm not showing up and I'm just like working on that base level right now still but I'm okay with that I feel good but um I'd like never really worked out ever until like three years ago. Like I was just running. And then I felt so weak all the time. Yeah. And then I started working out just a little bit.

What made you feel weak? I stopped you on the street. Nice outfit. What makes you feel weak? I couldn't even do like a push-up. I couldn't do a single pull-up. I couldn't do a single dip. Okay.

And I just wanted to be able to do that. My goal is a little different. Okay. I do not care about physically getting stronger. I have not found myself in a situation where like, I wish I could lift this. Okay. I simply want to want to look better. It's 100%.

I told them, they're like, what are your goals? You want to get stronger? I don't care. Oh, really? Mine was that, like, I was a very malnourished child. Okay. I was raised by two very small women, my mom's, and they didn't feed me enough growing up. In general?

Yeah, the doctor was like, your, not feeding this kid enough. No. They were like, you're feeding him. They're like, what are you feeding him? They're like, what we eat? And they're like, well, you're, you need to feed him more. And then you're six four.

Yeah. And then, two, let's not spread rumors here. You can't be six two if I'm six foot. You're six foot. Something's wrong. And then when I got to college, I was like, oh, food? I could feed myself. Yeah.

And then that's when the eating started. And then things got better. Good. Yeah. It's good to start eating. It's so great. Because, you know, then you have autonomy over what you put in your mouth. Yeah. I was so, like, cheap.

I actually had, when I went to college, I was trying my best to be, like, healthy. So I just, like, would not eat. That's the best way to be healthy. Yeah. Well, because I was like, okay, if I'm going to go drink beers, you know, I'm not going to eat. Which is just like it's not tip for tat. You know, it's like, you should probably eat if you're going to eat. going to go have drinks but um i went to ut austin great welcome so yeah it was it was it was fun time

but i remember there was one place i would go every day that would like really really good um and it was healthy it was a rap place and i went every day so like um the young one behind the counter and i had some rapport and there was one time when she she and she would always give me a lot like extra protein and extra hummus and like I was like, this is awesome. Like, we've such like a good thing going. And then one day she wrote her number on my, on the rap that she wrapped my rap in. Okay.

And for me, it was just like, you're my rap girl, you know? Yeah, you've ruined this. And then I never went back. Because I was like, I don't want to, I don't want to text. You never healthy again. Well, then it was all downhill. No, that was. It's like, it's one of those things

and it happens to me a lot because I think that we're lacking, like, in general, like as a larger population, we're lacking general kindness. So when I show kindness to people, people are like, you know, a waiter pulls up a chair to the table at dinner. I'm like, okay,

now we cross the line, because I was just like being, you know, like we're having fun, but like. One time when I was a waiter, I was, there was this couple and I was being super, friendly with them and I was like, just like chatting them up. I love being aware.

I love chatting with people. And the guy, this is when I was in college. And the guy was like, I run a swimsuit company and I was like, oh my God, if you ever need a model for it, I could do that. Yeah. He was like, great, great, great, great. I was like, cool, cool. They left.

They checked out. He came back in like a minute later. He's like, oh, my God, I forgot to get your information. I was like, oh yeah, sure. We exchanged information. I gave him my number. That night he texts me. He was like, you should totally come model for the company.

I was like, great. I would love to model for the company. He says, what are you doing tomorrow morning? I was like, oh, let's do it. He was like, great, let's talk about it. Do you want to get coffee? I was like, great. He's like, great, I'll come right by you.

I was like, wow, this is all happening so fast. So I meet up with this guy As an older gentleman And I go to the coffee shop And I walk up and he's pacing outside And I'm like hey And he's like Oh my God, I'm really nervous

I'm really nervous I'm sorry I smoked a little bit of weed I was so stressed and I was like What's going on? He's like I have not Stop thinking about you since yesterday And I was like Oh

He's like I just I was on a date last night But the second I saw you that's all I've been able to think about. I was in a relationship. I was married for 35 years. Okay. But my wife realized I was gay

and got a divorce for me and she's right. And I realized that you are my type. And you'd think maybe I would be scared, but I was in the power position in this situation. Right. Yeah.

And he was like, do you want to maybe go back to your house or maybe to my car? And this is what? This is morning? This is like 7.30. Head to my car, 7.30? Yeah, this is like 7.30.

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And I was like, no. He was like, okay. He was like, do you have any friends who look like you? I was like, hmm. He was like, what do I do? And I was like, wait, I have got. it. Have you ever heard of Fire Island? He was like, what's that? I was like, wait, go to Fire

Island. He was like, okay. And then I was like, I'm going to go. And he's like, I gave you a hug. And I was like, no. And then I left. And then two weeks later, I get a call from his number, which I hadn't saved. And I go, hello. And he goes, hi, it's whatever his name was. I went to Fire Island. You saved my life. Everyone here looks like you. It's amazing here. And I said, Hi, please never call me again, but I'm really happy. And then I hung up. So you can't be nice to anybody. Yeah, I think you did a really good thing.

I handled it well. Yeah, I think you did a really good thing. And you might have, like, rerouted his whole life. Him from, like, something that, like, he was on a bad path. Yeah. I like this wife realized he was gay and she was right. So she's right.

And you're just like, yeah, of course. I was like, great. You know, we're heading. Let's figure this out. We were going to head back to your car. Was that the plan? How was the tip? I don't remember

Probably fine I just feel sad that he was on a date With this woman But the second he saw me He was done Her And she was a lovely Yeah lovely young lady

Brooke's next book It's about that's gonna be about that Yeah I mean yeah I think she's already working on it But that is like a great storyline I don't know what it I mean like you can't tell me anything Because I'll tell everybody

But Oh My book. Yes. How to Grow Up without becoming a grown-up is out August 4th where all books are sold. It's a little like Phoebe, but not about sex or having it, but about how to connect with your, how to be more like a kid again. I need to read that. Really bad.

It's actually good. despite what they say. What are they saying? Oh, don't read the reviews. Okay. I'll put that there. There we go. And this is a misprint.

It's not going to be this small. I like the size of it. That's what I said and they said no. Well, I've been traveling with Phoebe for months in my backpack. It's like, I'm sure it's like completely fine, but I like to have it in my backpack. This is. And I'm like scared I'm going to mess it up, you know? Because the copy I have is also, it's a, not hard back.

The proof. Yeah. Yeah. But she just, she'd launched in New York the other day. I know. And she had her big, her big one. It was so fun. The Barnes Noble one?

Well, she had, she had her first, like, live show, and it was so good. What was the live show? It was kind of like a moderated Q&A with another author. Oh, another author. It's basing on her name, but she was so awesome. I got to talk to her after her, too. And she's an author. her and she's just it was really really good i had so much fun if you haven't gotten brooke's book yet

yeah you should get check that out definitely go check it out hers is so good a lot of people are reading there and finishing it now and they're passing me i've told her i finished it but i'm i are you a slow reader i just like when i read i lock in for a long time but i have to it's letter by letter for you it's incredible what reading does to my brain it like immediately it reminds me of 10 things i have do and I have to do them now expeditiously. So it'll be like, you know, I'll start doing it. And then I'm like, oh my God, I didn't do X, like my housing application for my next apartment and I'm sitting in a hotel reading Phoebe, but it's so good.

It's really good. That's how I thought about writing a book, which was so painful and hard. How long did it take you? Years. Years. I didn't, so I didn't, so they were like, you should do like a book because you've interviewed like thousands of kids and I was like, Yeah, sure, sure, sure.

And then I met with the penguin people, and they were like, great, let's do the book. And then they were like, do you want someone to write it for you? And I was like, how dare you? Yeah. I was like, write a book, write my book for me? I couldn't possibly. I'll do it myself. And I did.

But oh, boy, I've never done that. Good for you. That's every word in there is a word I picked. And the thing about that is that if I'm not working on it, if I wasn't working on it, nobody else was. And so I had to like turn my phone off, which I don't like to do, and actually work on it, which I don't like to do. That's, right. Well, that's like a...

Yeah, when it goes from being something that's, like, fun and really fun to being work, it's like, I actually... I was like, oh, I stopped having to do this in college. But then I'm very proud of it and I really liked it. It just was a lot of work, and it wasn't like all just chill all the time. Right. because then it's like there has to be like some level of comfort too

with it being like okay if I'm not working on this nobody else is because you have such a unique entry way into this because you have done all the work so like you're the only one that could write this I get worried all the time things that I'm working on behind the scenes I'm like oh every day I wake up like waiting to open my phone

and see a deadline article and it's like something I've been working on has now that's how I feel with and announced by someone else I'm going to be like, oh my God, should have worked faster. But then when you're really spending time on it and you want to get it right and you don't want other people to do it for you. No one can do it like you, Connor.

Right. Your take on your comedy about five best friends living in New York trying to get started. No one will do it like that, like you. That is not directed. That is not directed, directive, whatever way to put it. Yeah, right. Your pilot. No, the way that I see about five young kids.

people living in Queens and the message I'm sending oh the message I'm sending um no it's it's the parallel thinking has gotten like I think it which it's so incredible for people in our world too it's so cool like I feel like I was talking to Brooke about this I think our last episode that came out I think we took a week off actually um but which we don't do very often but um I think the last when we talked, we were just talking about how like everybody in our like direct circle is like coming out with like very legitimate real world wins that are tangible. I feel like everyone's leveling up right now. It's crazy. I feel like everyone kind of I talk about. I know, chill out. Well, I talk about this a lot. I feel like everyone kind of like, well, I feel like our class of people

or our grade of people if you want to talk about it like that. Everyone like came out with their thing. Yeah. Like everyone got known for what they were doing or everyone like. became known and now I feel like everyone's like like fighting for their next thing or like coming out with their next thing or like staking their claim on their next endeavor and that's very exciting and interesting. It is interesting and it's like exciting too.

I found a very interesting thing about myself is that I want everyone's when I want. Yeah, I want your book. I want my friends baby. I want my other friends failing company that I just want to be like I tried it and failed. Like, I want everybody's thing. Oh, you're, you, you want it all yourself.

Yeah, but I also, like, am excited for my friends. It's just, you know, like, I, I need to, I want to do everything, you know? Well, that's the thing you can't. Yeah. By the way, when I said, I want your book. And I was joking. Oh, no, man. No, you can put your, we can add your name.

We could probably. I did text her. I did text her. I did. Like, little. It's very, like, if you just went and. Consultation from. A little like darker font than the background color

Just so that if you hold it under a black light, you can see it I literally texted one of my friends jokingly Who is like a songwriter Who won a Grammy? And I was like, can I just give you like the word the For one in front of one of your next song So I can just like, you know, I'm not working on a Grammy. I want it though.

We're going for an Emmy right now. You're getting an Emmy. All right, we all know about that. You're getting an Emmy. And guess what? You can say that. I want your Emmy. And Connor, and Connor, and it would be yours too.

You know what? Maybe you should start, like, trying to get ownership rights over other people's work. Maybe you should become like a scooter brawn type figure. And you should like be a... I have like a that's so raven like look at it. You're like, I don't need to make my own work. I'll just take percentages of other people's work. Sydney, Sweeney crawls out at the back.

of my shirt. I'm here. Yeah, no, I, I, it's gonna, it's always it's like, when everyone knows, like, I'm 100% kidding and I'm being very, um, transparent right now, like vulnerable with, like, human needs and wants. No, I feel that way too.

I, I'm a, one of my, did I write this one down or did I just think it? One of my questions, um, can't get over like the questions that you came in it. I didn't write this one down, but it was something I was thinking about. I didn't know how to formulate it well, but I find that jealousy and envy are unavoidable, and I'm trying not to be hard on myself for feeling them. Yeah. Like I compare myself, I be, I be wanting what other people would be having.

Yeah. And I just am at peace with it instead of not trying to fight it. Was that one of your questions? No, I just don't want to think about. Yeah. I found that it's not as much jealousy because I'm genuinely so happy for people but I'm like...

Yes, yes, yes, yes. But I like... But no, no, actually. No, it's the comparison thing that is like so hard. Brooks had something really good the other day actually when she was talking about we get asked questions about adulting a lot

which is funny and like that was a word that kind of like phased out, but it yeah, I mean it's literally like saying dogo, you know, like puffers, you know? It's very millennial. What are you type? Like adulting. but like how people compare each other,

like you compare yourself to other people. And Brooke just said like, there's probably people comparing themselves to you. So that's a way to, that's a good way to put it. I always say like I like to compare myself to people doing worse. People compare you to crazy things. Probably don't tell me because I get a lot of DMs,

like I promise you anything you're about. No, people are always like, you don't know what I'm about to say? No. People always like, Amelia Earhart I got the other day. That's what I was gonna- Just based on the way she looked. always say like you look like crazy shit. Yeah, no, I know. You're like everything. You know, I'm every woman. I're all in me. I was going to say, I'm a mother. I'm a prematurely born

baby. Like, I know. They've said it all. I'm a terracotta pot. But I'm everything everywhere all at once. I look like a lot of butch women. I've gotten mask lesbian. Yeah, me too. Which is great. Like, that's like such a win, you know. Can I ask you one of my questions? Yeah. This is just one a quick one. I need to pull up my notes as well so you know that I have notes. Okay. Connor Okay. This is a quick one. Oh, can I say an inappropriate one? Yeah, well, here you can. I like I didn't want to say anything. No, I'm here with okay now. Okay. Okay. I've rebranded. Okay, well, this is not the inappropriate one. Yeah, I was going to say first thing I saw this morning city biking here was 8.35 a.m.

Durstrap like soaking wet with a hose, like wet t-shirt contest. Jillian outside, like... When did you film that? Like two weeks ago. Oh, I was going to say, did you do that this morning? Is that why you had to change your clothes coming in?

No, I'm going to elementary school after this. Okay, Connor. Perfect. He's dry. He's dry now. Listen, listen, carefully. If Morocco is the big thing of the dirty question? No, there's not the dirty question.

Okay. If Morocco is the Boston of Africa. What is the Boston of Europe and the Boston of Asia? I don't know enough about Morocco to like know why it's the Boston of Africa. But just based on context, because it's let me reverse engineer. Is Shanghai the Boston of Asia? Shanghai, the Boston of Asia. Like, let me see if this was taken out of context what that would look like.

Okay. No, no, no. I think I'm okay with it. If Boston's the Morocco of Africa, what else is true? That's the setup here. I don't know. I don't know what to say. Boston, okay.

Where's my phone? Freaking out. Let me think. I need to look at my own reflection. Yeah, we're good. What is it? Cool. Any more?

Was that Brexit? Okay, like, I didn't, I will be honest, like, I didn't really keep up with Brexit. I would not have been pregnant. Does my hair look crazy today? No. Okay. Yeah, Brexit wasn't really on, like, my, my radar.

Okay. Next question. Okay. When, when... So I guess my answer would be Ireland. Okay. And probably Dublin. Okay. For the same reasons as...

When Tom Cruise comes, does... Let me take that again. when when Tom Cruise comes does he shoot back or does she get shot up oh like okay I don't think Tom Cruise has sex any longer

besides with inanimate objects that they provide at his complex choice of church which I don't even like to say on the podcast because I'm genuinely pretty scared. Have you been seeing those, like, raids that they're doing on the... It's making me, like, less scared of Scientology, but it... Because it's just, like, a boring building.

It's so corporate in there. Okay, I thought that they, like, full-blown kidnap you and, like, kill you. No. They don't? No. Have you seen all the pictures of, um... I'm trying to, like, keep wanting to say choice of on, but John Travolta. Two sides of the same point.

I understand how you made that leap. Yeah, two sides of the same point. of him in his like beret doing this. Yeah, 15 times. Yeah. I saved it on my phone. It's a good picture. Yeah.

Cats, dogs, or freedom of all creatures big and small? Okay. I like want to say freedom of most creatures big and small. I do like to, you people, it's beneficial for a lot of animals to be in my home. How many animals do you have in captivity? I have had so many. Have you ever captured an animal and it's died while you've had it? Yeah.

Me too. Like a salamander or something? A bluebird. Oh, what? How'd you? It was like a sick bird, which I thought it was really like, I thought it really liked hanging onto my finger. It was like on its last couple minutes.

A couple minutes. Full-blown bird flew like on my fingers. and I'm, that's a good burn. That's a good burn. I'm Amelia Earhart. And then it died. And then it passed on. Yeah.

While, like, while you were touching it, the life left of body. Like, I have whatever, like, with green, not green thumb, like the kiss of death. The black thumb. Yeah. Like, your foot. My foot. Your foot to God's ear. Good night.

That's it. Good night. And then I had a snake that I was feeding, which I was misguided by, I wrote an entire essay. To get these new pets growing up, I had to write essays to my dad and my mom on why I should have these pets. And I wanted a snake. A snake. And then I got the snake. And I don't even know what the snake was.

called but it it died because they they sold us crickets to feed a snake which didn't make sense didn't make sense and then that's right it just didn't make it very long and then when I took it back in they were like here's another one and I was like I don't feel comfortable getting another animal from you guys because I can't be killing animals painful yeah it was tough and I was like 12 and that was like a learning moment for me and then I got the pig have we talked about the pig on Craigslist. I don't know if I talked about the pig on here, but I had a pig for a little bit who I gave to a farm. There was a while that popularized teacup mini pigs were like around and everyone was, well, I don't know if everyone is getting them. In my world, everyone was getting these in the world I was living in. Everyone was getting teacup mini pigs. And so I had to get one. I had to have one. And then I got one on Craigslist because it was available. It was like I saved out. My dermatologist is begging me, begging me to pay for my appointment. Call someone else. I thought you were saying your dermatologist was part of the pig story.

The pig ring that I was running? No, just me. So I get this pig and I can't tell my parents. So it's in my room. And pigs are very, very smart. So it was potty trained very quickly. And it was summer. So the pig wasn't by itself very often at all.

No, you had friends. You were, yeah. Yeah. And so it wasn't like cooped up in a room or anything. But it was very, it was like this big. Then my mom found out. So then she started liking the pig and then it was okay. And then my dad found out. And then my dad found out.

And then they got a divorce. All my fault. But no, then someone in the neighborhood found out and called the POA on us, the property on association that we had livestock. Wow. In this like gated, like, tennis court neighborhood. And you're like, that's my sister. Yeah.

And then my parents were like, writing, you know, like tooth and nail to keep this pig. So like we were going to be like that family with the pig. Anyways, I ended up like, they were like, we got to just have to, we have to, yeah, family's got to eat. So we have to, we have to eat the pig now. His name is Iggy. His. He him.

He him. Iggy. And then I take him to a farm, not a metaphor. I took him to a farm and I dropped him off and they're like, we'd love to keep him. and I go back, six months had gone by. It was like, I think we started traveling for summer or whatever, and we come back, not six months. Sorry, I'm at high school, like six months.

But we traveled and then I started school and it was like soccer season. So it was like six months before I went back to this farm. I go back and I'm like, where's Iggy? And they're like, right there. He's giant. And I'm like, no. He is the size of a Volkswagen Jedda, a hundred nipples, 400 babies. all suckling on eat a teat,

a teat for each. And he's a chick? He's a large and in charge woman. Wow. So I used to go to a farm for fun in college when we were bored. We'd go to Drumlin farms in Massachusetts. And there were all these beautiful goats except for this one. And they had this like barn out back where they had these two 600-pound pigs that

were too big to kill. They couldn't get, they were too big to move. Yeah. They couldn't get them on the truck to kill them. So they were just waiting it out. And these things, like, you'd look at them

and it'd be like, yeah, they're, they're, like, it was a hard, it was a hard watch. Like, it was like, these things shouldn't exist. Yeah. Like, they could kill me. I, no, and they do. And they do.

And they do. So in Texas and like, in East Texas, maybe it's West Texas. I can't remember. There are very, very, very, very, very, very large feral pigs that are wild. And they, and they're bad for the environment. They're actually very detrimental to like the actual, like the plants and the wildlife

and a chain of whatever. And they genuinely blow them up with like landmines. Landmines. Like, damn. Which is crazy. They kill people though. Like they genuinely will go and mall you. I want to show, I'm going to show you a picture.

Okay. Huge pig Huge pigs Hunting East Texas You're gonna be like Oh that's like not real But I guess you won't

Because you I believe you I don't know if we can Is there a way we could Zoom Or maybe I can just share the The image But that's

One And it's running around And it's That's in America? That's, yeah, that's in West Texas. I mean, it's the size of six men. Let's see. Hold it to, yeah, you're, this camera.

Wow. Yeah, so, um, they do blow them up. As they should. No, I don't believe in violence in any shape or form. Yeah, population control is really weird because, like, I don't, I... It's with, like, the pythons and stuff, too. Yeah, that makes me sad, too. But, I mean, people eat them.

too. This goes down a complicated path. Yeah. I have something. Yeah, what'd you bring in, man? So I hand wrote. Nine question.

The way we operate here is like very not organized, but like what's beautiful is it does you and I is like you and I and Brooke like I'll have that thing or it's like that brings me here and it brings me here. That's why Brooke and I talk about. about how it's really hard for us to do other people's podcasts

because there is some sort of structure in place. And I'm like, everyone's like, should I prepare anything? I'm like, no. I know I didn't have to bring this in. I really just in the car over wrote some nonsense down. Oh, you're in a great. Well, I lost sleep over having you today. And I also, but there was several reasons why,

because one, I haven't been, like my apartment that I signed the lease on what is starts next month. So, and I moved out on May 1st. So I've been, like, couch surfing. I've had some shows and things in different places, but I've been crashing at people's houses, singing hotels. And I'm at, I am the person who sublets someone's place for nine days, which, like, I know you're like, who is, like, subletting your, listen, just pay your rent for nine days while you're enjoying Europe. I'm like, I need that place for nine days. So I'm doing that.

And so I was kind of just, like, scared last night. Where were you? Just like a friend's place, friends of friends place that's like that was up for grabs and I grabbed it and I paid for the week and a half and after this I go and I'm filming a special next week in Florida. Thanks. We're calling it a spectacle, not a special because I kind of like across the board people like don't love people specials and I think it's because we put so much emphasis on the fact that it's a special. No, it's just a spectacle. Yeah, it's just an hour of stand up and it's, you know, like there's going to be another special that comes out.

So this is going to be a little different, and it's going to be kind of Seinfeld-esque, you know, if you've watched the show, it's stand-up, cut to scenes, stand-up, cut the scenes. So it's a little bit more digestible, but I'm doing that actually. So this is my last. So anyways, I didn't sleep last night. And one thing that happens to me every now and then is a song pops into my head in the middle of the night, and I'm singing it the entire night. I get that. I got that. I don't know what. I want to shake that gene. but last night it was I'll stop the world and melt with you Oh that's a good song Which is... I'll stop the world and melt with you And manna na na na na na na na na na na da da da and that's the one That's the one

Yeah, it's a song I'll stop the world and And melt with you Yeah Yeah Well I would So then I'm thinking about that song And I'm like

I'm just going to tell you my thought process Like this is I'm just trying to get myself to go to sleep A lot of people are like count sheep. I'm like, I need to get to the most absurd, like, place I can with everything. I don't know what the song means. Like, I'll melt with you. Like, you make me melt.

Like, I feel like if you stop the world, I don't want to melt. Like, I want to, like, we should do other stuff. Like, we should choplift, you know? That's a very unromantic. End of the, like, nobody's, like, come on. Like, yeah, melting doesn't sound fun to me. That sounds... But it's like you're like mixing with someone else.

Yeah, but you don't have to stop the world to do. Like everyone has... My whole, to me, it sounds like some guys like telling his girlfriend, like, babe, I would stop the world to melt with you. And she's like, I just want you to meet my parents. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like, you're doing too much. You're doing too much.

So then I'm just sitting there thinking about that song and I'm singing it in fast motion, which I'll sing it 2X. I was just like going to just like a little psychosis thing I'm saying. What do you do to get out of that? Benadryl? Drugs. Yeah, I didn't. You should get colonopin.

I have something. I have started to sweat in a way that is unnoticeable. Really? I'm going to throw my shirt away when we stopped reporting. No, I wouldn't. I've offered you the tank top. Oh, I know. We talked about it.

The tank top? I was just talking about the tank top before we started. Julian. My 360 camera. What? I don't know. Have you had that under the table? I'm wearing a skirt.

You've seen one of these? I've not seen one in person, actually. I had therapy this week, and my therapist said, what's been making you happy? And I said my 360 camera. Oh, I hate when I see my forehead in that way. Like that? This has been making me happier more than anything.

What do you use this for? I have no idea yet. I bought this so impulsively. I was like, I wanted 360. camera. I'm not going to put it anywhere. It's mostly been just moments like this. Can it see under itself? Yeah. Yeah. So for the listeners at home, I just put my 360 camera on the table. I'm going to put it away now out of respect. Oh, no. You don't have to do anything out of respect in front of me. Oh, show them how it works. I'll show them later. I'll show them later. But yeah, this is pretty cool.

I'm just going to get that just so I have something. Honestly, we are. That's pretty cool. We are. We're pretty close to... Should we... Oh. Should we do... Like, five more minutes? Should we do, like, the classic Connor thing?

What's the classic Connor thing? Let's do the... You know, the Connor Wood thing. Oh, yeah. The Connerwood thing that we always do. Where should we start? Where do you want to start? You go first.

I'm Connor Wood. Hi. Oh, are you... Okay. The Conner would wrap. I was already sweating. Yeah. We're going to start beatboxing at the end of the episode.

Oh, I can't. Like, I genuinely like... Don't do the Connor Wood Wrap. I would have prepared something. I'll do it. Okay. Okay, okay, okay, I'll do what you just did. I'm little Connor Wood.

No, I'm not doing this. Okay, good. I'm glad we wrap that. I want to say before... Before it gets like to... Sure, yeah. Before we take an avenue that, like, is way past this in the coming weeks.

I just like to get thoughts out like this but while I'm feeling them did you see obsession? No, when would I have gone to see that? Is it good? That's true.

You're so busy. I don't have much going on right now. I'm on, oh, what I can I say this? I'm on a, I'm five weeks into 10 weeks no breaks right now of filming

and I'm feeling a little bit insane. Random. Yeah. 10 weeks, no days off. I'm doing 10 weeks all days off right now. So no worries, I got the brakes covered.

Wait, is it good? I'm doing all breaks, no gas right now. How about you see movies and you tell me if I should see them? Go see backrooms for me this week. Okay, I will. I'm not like a horror guy. I want to see obsession. I'm going to write it down right now.

It was really good. I'm just, that kind of fit into our thing we talked about earlier. We're like everyone in our space, respective space. The internet as I throw up onto the mic. Are talking about it. Are just crushing. Yeah. But I also think there's a lot to be said and not to undermine Curry Baker's mind.

He's been at this a long time and has worked very hard for this. And the new medium of success and proof of concept is the internet. It's like so no-brainer. It's really refreshing to see something where it's all people new to the space. Yeah, no, it's so fun. We didn't have any bias to put on any of these people. And I don't know how much they got paid for it, but it was probably just like a low pressure thing for everybody.

And they just blew it out of the water. And everyone was so good. My brother saw it in Berlin like a month ago. Okay. And was like, this movie's going to be big. Was it in German? No. Okay.

Why would it be in German, I guess? You saw it in English, American English. Right. You want to do more acting? Yeah. We had fun. Oh, wait. Oh, wait.

Can I talk about it for two seconds? Yeah, no, please, please, please, please, please. I have this insane project. I had to put on pause because I had to go and work on this late-night thing that we're launching. When does this come out? This comes out Thursday. Oh, great. So in this Thursday, like two days?

I'm great. I think so. Today is Tuesday, January 15th? Happy New Year. 2015. No. So I have a late-night show that's launching next week. I've been working on this for a year and a half, and it's going to be really good, we hope.

Was he invited to the premiere? Great. Would it be awkward if he wasn't. I know. I have this other little secret side project that I want to put more energy into the second it finishes where we do these like half hour fully improvised comedy shorts. And Connor did one of the test ones that we were doing because we want to like pitch it and get some money for it. And it was the most insane. We got the edit and it's really.

Good. You've seen it? It is, yeah, it's been, it was like, 40 minutes. It's like 12 minutes. It's really good. And you are insane in it. No, they've not seen it. Oh my gosh.

It's a hard watch in a good way. It's a hard watch and like a this is so unhinged kind of way. Oh, I'm scared. Yeah. And you and Yvette kissing it. Perfect. And she has a boyfriend right now. And me, she did then too.

No, I'm joking. That's awesome. Yeah, we can, we can club that. Yeah, we can. And me and Anthony. from queer eye kissing it too. Yeah, you do. And he had a boyfriend.

There was a, my, my favorite part was at the tail end of that. Me, you know, had a trauma dumping, and then you guys say one thing, and we're like, what? Ew. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You guys were saying, oh, you guys are saying, oh, you guys are crazy shit. Oh, so I'm hoping it was a hard watch in a good way. It's a hard watch in a good way. I'm so nervous about what that means, but.

Okay, wait, yeah, so we'll let you go here. Hey, Conner, thank you so much for saving us. This is a goddamn pleasure. Thank you. Such a pleasure. I hope anyone. if this was usable. It's all usable.

This is a fun space. Everyone's, everyone's loving it. And thank you so much for coming on. Thank you. I have a beautiful day. You too. Thanks for listening, guys.

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