Brooke and Connor Make A Podcast - Giving In To Peer Pressure

Episode Date: October 13, 2022

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There was a girl at ACL that had dropped her phone into the twelet into like the blue waters of a porta potty. At the end of the day, like it's your phone plans up. Her friend was holding the door open for her and everyone, it was like more interesting than the Dixie Chicks. This girl put her almost full body. No. She was getting her phone full body like you could only see her waist. And I was like, there's no effing way. Pulls it out.

It looks like what you would think it would look like. And then she gets her friend's wall. water bottle. No. And dumps it on it and like washes it on. I'm like, so the phone's broken first and then the phone's more broken now. But at least there's no poop on it. But now you just put it in your pocket. I'm saying goodbye. I'm saying goodbye to the phone. With your poopy little phone. Yeah. Oh my God. Poopy little phone. She's pulling out her poopy little phone to fill the tipsy chick. Sorry. This pumpkin's feeling really good on my lap. Isn't it just like weighted blanket times 10? It's kind of making my, I'm going to sleep with a pumpkin on me. I'm my also. It's kind of, it's kind of

It's kind of making my ovaries tingle. I kind of want like a baby. Oh, you're getting baby fever from the pumpkin. I'm more so just getting like total relaxation mode. This baby, I mean pumpkin. Well, we should do a challenge on this episode to only call each other by words. Words that start with the first letter of our name but aren't our name. We used to do that all the time.

Like that was our running bit when we first kind of met. Yeah. I would call you like compost bin. I would call you Brooks and Dunn. corner's office bag colored pencil okay fun that's a fun challenge

I feel like I don't say your name that much I know I was just thinking about it I guess we're not just chatting yeah um hey guys welcome back to Brooke and Kelsey make a podcast I'm so happy to have you on thank you yeah thanks how was the drive it was easy it was so easy good good I was making out with Cody this morning really that's amazing

Yep. That's so sweet. It's really cool to just make out with Cody. Yeah, I bet. Thank you guys for having me back. I am Connor. If you forgot, it was nice to have Kelsey. I watched that episode.

It made me sick to my stomach. The first, like, the opener because I was like, damn, this is really good. They should make a podcast. These girls should be making a podcast. But it was fun with her. It was so fun to have Kelsey on. It was great to have Kelsey.

You know, it's some girl time. Of course. Sister, sister. But so glad you're back. Thanks. Missed you so much. I missed you. I missed this set.

Yeah. It just feels, it kind of feels like a fresh start, to be honest, you know? Yeah. Before we get into everything, I want to hear all about your weekend. We have a few just like announcements. We have housekeeping. Housekeeping.

That's what I want to say. Ooh. Incredible itch on my ass cheek. I wasn't going to let you move forward. Okay. Totally. Glad you took care of that. Okay.

Really quick note. Next week, our episode is coming out on Wednesday. That's going to go ahead and be episode 39. Jeez. Crazy to think about. That's coming out on Wednesday instead of Thursday. Yeah. Yeah.

So next week, Wednesday. Wednesday. Episode 39, it's freaky. We have so much, so much that's going to happen in the next, like, two months with this podcast. Isn't it crazy to think, just like thinking in terms of time? Yeah. That, like, probably you haven't experienced the best day and the worst day of your life yet. Ew.

Ew. Yeah. Yeah. I don't. don't like to think about that. No. But I guess I do. The worst. That's horrible.

Wants, won't, yeah. That really, that really does suck. Every day I think I experience. The worst day. At least something. Yeah. No, think about the worst of your life so far and know that like it's going to get worse. At one point.

I always think about that. That's good perspective to have. That's a good way to start off. But that being said, think about the best day of your life so far, you're going to experience something even better. Yeah. We should start doing Rose and Dorn. Oh.

We can keep track of stuff like that. Good point. Then we can have like those things that they have in factories where it's like six days since last tragic accident. And then we could cross it off to zero after you have your new worst day. I went through a phase when my family would do rose butthorn at dinner. And I would always say I have no rose. I'm just a kid. Yeah, exactly, exactly.

Another note is that some of you may know by now we have bonus content. Yep. Close friends. That's the name of our bonus. episode. We have a blast on it. It's a shoes off space. And we'll give you more details on this later, especially in the close friends episode. Yeah. But we're making a close friends Instagram story on B&C, our regular Instagram, our main Instagram, for the people that are subscribed to close friends. So you'll get exclusive close friends like content, Instagram content from us. Yeah, true.

We're basically never before seen. Yeah. Unhinged. We use that a lot of Shoes off. Right now it's just, I think it's just broken eye and a couple others on the close friends and we kind of joke around and kind of do bits and we kind of post nudes and things like that on that close friends account. And genuinely we do. We're kind of just like addicted horn dogs for close friends for bonus content. Yeah.

I love BoneCon. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's fun. So we'll have more details on how to join the Instagram close friends on the close friends on the close the bonus content episode for today, which is available at TMG studios.com.

Yes. You guys know that. And the Brooke and Connor tier. Well, we can talk about me defeating Zach at the last second of fantasy football after you tell us about your weekend. Well, no, I was just going to say, I met a lot of people this weekend when I was in Austin

that listen to close friends, probably more so than that came up to me for just standard episodes. Really? It's cool to hear that the bonus content is really coming through for those folks. It's reaching. Yeah.

Oh, as I've said, it's a shoes off space. Yeah. So I encourage you to join it. I know. It's awesome. Yeah, but Brooke, if anyone's keeping on with our fantasy league, I'm fighting for last. No, I think you're like right below me and I'm fourth. There's six of us.

There's eight of us. You might be in sixth. I think I'm in six and then, let's see here. I think I'm in six and then, Waleed and then Noel. Let's see. Yep. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, go. But I'm in fourth, which is very exciting because that's, if you divide everything in half, I'm in the top half. And it. Which is amazing for the girls. That's what I was going to say. Yeah. I'm three wins and two losses. Right?

Yeah. Yeah, you are. Nice. This week. And I was supposed to lose this week. I only like understand how fantasy works through the percent. that it says. So it said that Zach was winning like 89% and I was winning 11% which I don't exactly know what that means but it's not good for me is what I can understand. Right. So I and I

thought fantasy ended on Sunday night. So basically Sunday night I was looking really bad. I forgot about Monday. I forgot about I didn't know. I didn't know about Monday football to be quite honest. So I had accepted my loss and clearly Zach had accepted my loss because he went on foul tip when they record on Monday and said, I beat Brooke, which is like, yeah, you did as far as I'm concerned. Here's him saying it, by the way. So far, I even have, I have two, five and oh, someone step up to the plate. So that was him saying it. That was him saying it. And then he had to do it. And then he had to breaking news, apologize to me because Monday, I had two teams, two players that still hadn't played on two different teams.

This is my understanding of the situation. And in order for me to win, the only way I could win is if both of those players did something absolutely incredible. Totally. Each of them did something

absolutely incredible. What did they do? They got me the points. Yeah. Like, really, there was a very slim chance of me winning. And they did it. They came out and said,

women's stories are important. Exactly. And they stood up for you and they made it happen. And they, it was just, you wouldn't believe it at the end of the day. That's awesome.

Yeah, it was awesome. Seriously. It's cool to see the NFL. I cannot stress enough how much I love fantasy. And I never saw this coming for me. Yeah. Yeah. Do you think you'll watch the Super Bowl now?

I do. Yeah. I would really love to understand the connection between the game and my fantasy. Like, I would like to know, like, what's getting me the points. Who's kind of up there and on my screen? I think that's the next step for me. Yeah, totally. I just keep watching the percentages on the.

the app. Numbers are good too. Yeah. You're just a numbers girl at the end of the day. I know. That's what I've always said. But yeah, congrats. Yeah, thank you.

That was really exciting. This is a new week. I won as well, but it just was like a given. Who did I play? Noel. Oh yeah. Noel's toast. And I think all of his players are out and injured.

Yeah. And they're, but he still has them in. It's hard to win when you have two plays. Yeah. God bless him, though. Anyways, yeah. So it's good to be back. Yeah.

We're getting back in the swing of things. I'm a little rusty, I feel like. Really? Yeah, I'm having trouble kind of not being shy. Oh, don't worry. It's okay to be shy. Yeah. And if you need to take a break, we can take breaks.

That's the thing. Yeah. Don't be shy. Well, I've been gone for a long time. Yeah, you've been gone for a few weeks. I left. I went to my parents' house, went to that wedding. Yeah.

How was a wedding? Good. Can I tell you two really embarrassing things that I did? Yeah, please. Okay, so I was in Houston for this wedding. And I had a great time. Got to see all my high school friends. haven't really been back in a long time to go see my eyes with friends.

I don't know if I'm very, very, oh, I don't want to say this. Basically, like, no, I can't say this. Say it. No, I can't say this. Because I think that they'll probably hear this. But basically, I kind of, like, forced my way into one of my friends' weddings that's at the end of the month. And when you say into it, you mean, like. I'm a groomsman now, and it's at the end of the month.

And it was, you know, it was kind of like, I was like, oh, again, I can't believe you didn't invite me to be a groomsman. And he's like, right. Like backed him into a corner like a rat. And then he's like, would you totally do it? And I was like, okay, give me the website for the ducks. And then I signed up and now I'm in the wedding. Yeah.

You know, so that happens. I also had another thing. If you listen to close friends, you'd know this. But when we were at the actual wedding, it was a Catholic wedding. I'm not super familiar with the ins and outs of Catholicism. I dabble here and there. But mostly when I'm in church, I'm kind of thinking about stuff. Yeah.

You know, I need to do me. when is the tax deadline. Yeah. When is it? You already missed it. No, it is in three days. We just paid them. It's in three days.

I filed for extension. Oh, okay. You know, I'm thinking about all this, all my to-do list stuff. Anyways, they get to the part where you actually take communion at a wedding. And that's... That's the blood of Jesus Christ as well as his body.

Yes. So just munching on... Wine and bread. In the highest of senses, we're going full cannibal on Jesus's... Obviously, his, it's a metaphorical. Right. Cannibal situation.

So it's metaphorical. It's a metaphor. No, it's not. No, no, that's fine. It literally has, like, I mean, whatever. Sorry, we're going full carnivore inside the house of God. Right. On Jesus, but in a metaphorical sense.

So I didn't know what the protocol was. I'm sitting next to one of my friends' moms. I'm doing this every four seconds. Father's Son Holy Spirit Father's in the Holy Spirit, but I'm mostly just kind of like keep my peripherals open to make sure everyone thinks

that I know what I'm doing. We're kneeling, we're standing, we're kneeling, we're up, we're crossing our hearts. And then he goes, the pastor goes, come up, we're going to do communion if like, whatever.

And I was like, okay, here we go. I was on the aisle, so I went out first and everyone followed me. And I'm like, I don't know what, so I go up and the person behind me, my friend's mom goes, cross your arms.

when you go up there and like bow. I'm like, no one else is crossing the arms or bowing. Is she setting me up for a joke? And I do it and he's just staring at me and I was like, are you not going to feed me? Right, you were starving. I was hungry for one of those little crackers. He was like, no.

And I was like, how come everyone else? And he was like kind of like go and I was like, peace be with you, I guess, because we had said that a hundred times. But I was kind of bitter. And that was probably not the move to do. Totally. It all caught on the mic. So the whole mass of people heard that little interaction.

So that was awesome. But I learned that the reason I bowed is because my friend's mom knew that I wasn't Catholic. So she was like, that's what you do and you're not Catholic just to serve. So I just look like a brat. Right. And not a nominational brat. I don't think you look like a brat. Yeah.

I think that's just like it's probably standard if you're not Catholic. I wouldn't know. Yeah. Well, anyways. Now you live and you learn. live and you learn. I'm trying to, I'm trying to think we haven't, like, what I haven't told you. Well, how was ACL? ACL was awesome. We saw the Dixie Chicks on Friday, which was great. We got like, randomly,

one of our friends was like, come to the front of the stage. And as I, because I had to go to the bathroom, which was a horrible experience. I can't even imagine. Yeah, you would hate it. Yeah, I bet. Yeah. There was a girl at ACL that had dropped her phone into the twillette into like the blue waters of a porta potty. the end of the day like it's your phone plans up her friend was holding the door open for her and everyone it was like more interesting than the dixie chicks this girl put her almost full body no in like a as if as if she was it was with the same intensity that like what's that dog that he told the whole town that there was someone that had fallen in the well i'm not familiar with that story are you boy who cried wolf No. Okay. Because that's a wolf.

And I was talking about a border collie. Okay, I don't know him. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Lassie? Lassie. Lassie. Lassie. In the same intensity that she was going to save the person that Lassie was warning the town about.

She was getting her phone full body like you could only see her waist. And I was like, there's no effing way. Pulls it out. It looked like what you would think it would look like. And then she gets her friend's water bottle. No. And dumps it on it and like washes it off. I'm like, so the phone's broken first and then the phone's more broken.

and now, but at least there's no poop on it, but now you just put it in your pocket. I'm saying goodbye. I'm saying goodbye to the phone. With your poopy little phone? Yeah. Oh my God, poopy little phone. She's pulling out her poopy little phone to fill the tips chick. I'm saying poopy little phone.

Sorry. That is so rough. Shitty little phone. Anyway, so I watched that happen, which was cool. I mean, it was just fascinating and see the depths of. Yeah, the depths of people will go where we'll go for their little devices. Yeah. To show people you're at ACL.

Wow. Yeah, but when I was walking up, it was Cowboy Take Me Away. Oh my God. And I was walking down the middle part because you kind of like walked down the middle part We're like, you know, and I want to touch the earth.

To think of that girl having that experience While that song is playing. While it was playing. But I was like torn. Do I watch this poopy little girl Get her poopy little phone out of this situation? Or should I watch the sexy chicks? and at the end of the day, I had to make an executive decision to go watch the kick.

Oh, yeah, I think you watch. Instead of the poopie chick. I think you watch. Go on, sorry. I think you watch the poopie chick while that song is playing. Like, that's like the perfect soundtrack for that experience. Yeah. At the end of the day, Cowboy take me away.

I don't want to be here anymore. No, Cowboys taking her away. Yeah. So I walked up, we watched. It was freaking awesome. And then that night. went to like, natural party,

whatever. But it was every night, we kind of stayed out until three in the morning, four in the morning, but it was like everybody, like adults, that's how the kind of thing goes.

So I'll go to and Kelsey Saturday night. They were at the bar that I used to go to in college. I texted, Kelsey text me and goes, if you're from Austin, you know this, Kelsey text me, come meet this at the ranch.

I go, the ranch, like, on 36th Street, which is a street and Austin with all the bars. She goes, yeah. And I was like, no way.

So we did that. I don't think we saw anyone else really. of notoriety. But Pink played, she soared through the air. Oh, wow. Like Pink does. I thought it was, I thought ICL was on the country. No.

That's stagecoach. Oh, wow, oh. No, like Red Hot Chili Peppers were there. That's it. I guess I don't have any good stories. I met a lot of people. Oh, yeah, let's see. Pink, we saw Flume on Saturday.

That's who we saw. But Diplo and Lil Nasaks came out. That was cool. Red Hot Chili Peppers. Aramore came. Oh, barry came and brought back that song that they said that they would never play again.

Which one? Misery business. Oh. Nah, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na. No. Oh. Yeah. Yeah, same one.

By the way, that's exactly good for you by Olivia Rodriguez. Yeah. It's the exact same. Yeah, that's a thing on TikTok where people are like seeing exactly. I was shocked. I was,

is Olivia Rodriguez? Yeah. No. No. It was Paramore. So I've got to watch her, which is cool. And that's straight up all I have for you,

and I'm so sorry, I have really nothing. No, that's okay. I've just never been to a music festival. Yeah. And that's something that I would love to continue not going to. Well, let's keep talking. I want to pull up the notes of that TikTok that I was going to make because I want to see if this, go ahead, sorry.

Okay, I just like, there's nothing that appeals to me, like, at all. Like, day drinking can't do it. Concert's limit is like an hour and a half. Need to be sitting. I don't think there are chairs at music. festivals. I could sit on the ground, but I'd get trampled. Yeah. Dehydration? Yeah. No. Sleeping not in my own bed by 9.30? Not interested. Yeah. Not interested. It's fascinating. You had a good word for it yesterday and circling back to the Dixie Chicks gaslighting. You're right.

We've all gassed ourselves into being like music festivals are awesome. Music festivals, what they're going to go ahead and do is combine the worst parts of concerts with the worst parts of going to the airport with the worst parts of camping and then sell you a ticket for $400 and be like, this is going to be the time of your life. Meanwhile, the whole time you're kind of just like fighting to stay, it's almost like, it's literally almost like lost or survivor.

I agree. I almost feel proud of myself that I haven't paid to put myself in that experience ever. I mean, it's essentially, like you can call any of these festivals. They're just Zara festival. Right. It's just getting dressed to take an Instagram photo at this thing. You're not going to have good seats.

Say your goodbyes to your friends. You'll never see them again once you enter the gates or go to drop your phone in the shitty poo-boom machine. And that's it. And then you pay $12 for a warm beer or you can share your hydroflask with your eight friends that you're going to get mono from. It'll be on your feet for 12 hours.

It's just like all together, like a pretty gnarly experience. Yeah, totally. I'm totally uninterested. I had the best time this year because I didn't know I was even going, so I didn't look at the lineup. And I only went with three of my friends.

Men's met up with people there, but we weren't like attached to the hip like previously. And we'd go in at 4 or 5 p.m. Be gone by 8 and we see like two shows at the back. That sounds okay. And it was awesome. That sounds okay. We fully ate meals before. Like in college, we'd go to a festival.

I'd sneak in a water bottle of vodka in between my butt cheeks. Drink the entire thing, not eat a single meal. Like a cliff bar. Be like sucking on a chocolate macadamia cliff bar. Somehow survive. and then like the next day I would just run it back. Yeah, see, there's no running it back in my vocabulary. It was crazy to think about it, but that's growth.

Yeah, congratulations. Thank you. Maybe I'm really curious if one day maybe I'll go to Coachella and that connects back to our conversation earlier. It's crazy to think that the best day of your life and the worst day of your life are out there or yet to come. And maybe one of those could be me at a music festival one day and we'll never know. I will tell you this right now. Yes. Yes.

Um, people shit on me for this decision. Okay. First of all, I'll say to anyone wondering, ACL is the best festival you could ever go to. The city is right there. You're in the city. So when you leave, there's no Coachella, which you leave Coachella, and it's like an hour and a half to get home,

even if you're a mile away because just straight up foot traffic and then getting a ride out. Versus you could walk, but like it's so hard to get anywhere. Here, you're already in the city. The worst case scenario, You'd have to walk like a half mile and then you're in an actual city that's like not going to, you know, no one's going to kill you in it. Well, knock on wood. But, oh, the worst decision everyone will say I ever made was we were walking by a couple of years ago to go see the killers, which is coming out of my cage. You know that song's about Matthew Gray Goopler?

Huh. Dead serious. Would not make that up. He. Kissing the girl. Yes, he's kissing the girl. Wow. Yeah.

I guess I need the Reddit link. Yeah, I'd love to read that Because I don't see him really Fitting the bill for those lyrics Yeah, that's all, that's him It's been debunked, but Yeah It is like a very popular theory

That I choose to still believe Even though it's fully been debunked By both Matthew and the singer of the band But how cool that that's a rumor Yeah Rumors are awesome Yeah What was I gonna say?

Sorry Oh, so on the way to the killers I saw the silent disco Oh, very fun. Talk about Rosendorne, that might have been the best experience. I was laughing so hard. I was with some of my friends from college, literally just like seeing someone at Silent Disco,

there isn't screaming their heart out, listening to a different song you're listening to. Have you been to a Silent Disco? I think I went to one with, like, a party. Yeah. And it wasn't like a silent disco, but the party had a silent disco area. Area, yeah.

That I participated in for about four hours. This one was like a tent, and it was like, 500 people at a silent disco That is so fun And it was like One was a rap channel One was a rock channel

One was like a EDM channel And it was like I was busting out laughing And like couldn't Wouldn't have changed to see the killers For anything I feel like that would be fun to take an edible At Speaking of

I did I have some edibles that I feel like you might as well take now Because how fun would that be to be high In the bonus app Taking that like while we're recording Yeah take them Where? They're in here. Is that what these are?

Yeah. So there's a few different options for you that I'm going to present to you. This is Desert Gold, which fits with the music festival vibe. But these are like a tiny, these are 2.5 milligrams, which that's not going to get you where I want you to be. What do you mean where you want me to be? I want you to be like soaring, flying, not a star in heaven that you can't reach. So maybe take two of these fives. I'm not going to take 10 milligrams of weed while we're shooting a recording episode of our podcast. No, but it won't hit you until the bonus episode. Okay, I'll take one of these. Yeah. And one of these, because these are only, like, a little bit.

Are you going to do any? No. I'll take a half of one. Take one of those as well. We'll see how I feel in about it. No, just take one. You'll be fine. I'm not a big weed guy.

Yeah, but that's, like, very light. Light. Why did I just listen to you and didn't even blink an eye? Just take that one. Look, I'll take this one with you. All right, let's move on. I don't know how this ended up going from silent disco. me.

Are you just taking a little nibble of that, a little edible that you have? A little nibble. Mm. Wildberry. Okay, well. Well, I'm going to be a freak in about 10 minutes. Take that one?

I'll open it for you. This is like a condom. Yeah, it does. I can open it for you. No, I got it. Okay. Let's move on. Perfect.

Well, well, you were gone. Yeah. I'm trying to think of what I did. It's like I immediately freak myself out after one little bite that I'm high. But I'm not. Oh, I got to go pick up a dog in a little bit. Do you want to tell everyone about it? Yeah.

Okay, that's what I was going to say. So I went home to see my parents last week. And my dog was on Charlene Shepherd in Susaki. He's just a lumpy beast at this point. He's old as fuck. Like, I respect the hell out of him. I respect the hell out of this guy. For everything he's done.

Yeah, he's really put in the work, but he is a lumpy beast. And I always looked at people with old lumpy dogs, and I was like, ugh, what are you doing? Right. And that's because my last dog was hit by a school bus full of kids. So you never made it. Yeah, I never had to see an old dog. You know, and like, old dogs are gross. And then you have one, and you're like, damn, this old lumpy bitch.

Like, I love him to death. Yeah. I don't want to touch that, like, part on your butt that has the lumps on it. Well, that one would. Yeah. Yeah. Essentially, he is like fully cancerous. But he doesn't, I don't think he knows.

He knows. He fully eats. He runs around and he acts like a puppy. And my parents made a decision to be like, well, he's happy or he could do chemo. Right. Or we can cut off his leg and he could do chemo. He just like went to the vet and they were like a can'ts. Can'ts, Kance, McGee.

Yeah. But funny story about my dog that was split in half by the school bus. It was full of kids. And it's just like a straight up. dead right away so I'm not really worried about it but um that's it that's like the funny part actually the kids all and you saw it uh my my whole family did and they didn't tell me you weren't you didn't see it no no i was already at school oh i had to go early for stock i'm glad you don't have that image yeah me too but the bus driver got out and and and scooped up his body and like i was like

oh no yeah i was like oof why'd you do that that's so tough yeah but he went out really quick and Young doing what he loved. He always used to get on the school bus in the morning and all the kids liked him and he would go to the front of the neighborhood and get off and run home. So that's why he was doing it. I'm trying to turn this into a joke. This is one of those things where you kind of tell someone and everyone's going to be like, ugh, ugh, guys, I'm fine. I know. And it's funny.

I hate those things when you're like, oh, look at this really depressive, depressing thing that happened to me and you like expect to laugh and people are like, I'm so sorry. I'm not pro splitting dogs in half via school bus, but it happened. You have to find, you have to laugh. you'll cry. No, I, I always like, I think my worst fear in the world would be hitting a dog with my car. Like, I'd rather, I'd rather be the dog in that

situation, 100%. Yeah. Yeah. Anyways, this dog was a replacement dog. Didn't have to get an old dog. So then I went home, saw my parents' dog, and then this woman reach out, well, I'm not going to give details just in case it doesn't work down. But anyways, there's a dog waiting for me right now. His name's Sunny. He's so sweet. He's so gorgeous.

You can change his name. He doesn't give a shit. But right now, sunny. Yeah. That's honestly, like, as far as, like, adopting a dog and their names, that's a good one. Well, yeah, the other one that I got reached out to, his name was Jimothy. Yeah. And I talk way too much shit about other people's dog names to have a dog named Jimothy. So.

My mom's dog, Tucker, his name is now, but his name when we adopted him, when we adopted him was Groot. And then my other dog, Gabe, was Blackie. Oh, that's a good one. I don't, and I don't, Cleo was cinnamon. just like that's like to yeah yeah

but like we kept the sea to respect yeah where she came from I don't think I've ever called one of my pets by the name that we named them originally

you end up going like yeah yeah yeah totally so anyways I brought something back from my parents' house

were you going to move on to something completely different because I was just going to tell you about my weekend I'm so sorry talk about mine for a day No, it was pretty uneventful. I went to a comedy show, though.

I went to see Meg Stalter. Love Meg Stalter. Who is just like such a genius that it's like scary to be in the same room as her. Yeah. But it's like marketed as a stand-up show and I guess it's kind of stand-up, but it's mostly improv,

which I didn't know and is very scary to me because my like, my biggest fear besides running over a dog would be like being called on in a crowd and being crowd sourced. So I had my mask like over my eyes. the entire show. But it was Meg Stalter and Friends.

So she brought out... Who else was... Well, she brought out three people. Okay. And here is who they are. First girl? Not actually quite sure. So we'll move on.

Second boy? Benny Drama. Benny Drama came out. Third boy. And this is where it got dicey for me. It was Judd Apatow. Right. And so Judd, in keeping with the theme of the night,

which was interacting with the crowd. crowdsourcing. He did like one minute of standup and then was like, okay, I'm over that. Does anybody want to pitch me a screenplay? And so I think like if you were to just like take a room full of people that live in L.A. and are at a standup show like eight out of 10 like their screenplay pitches are going to be tough to sit through. That being said, the people that in that room that go ahead and volunteer to pitch their screenplays to Judd, 10 out of 10 going to be going to be tough to sit through. And let me just say, Connor, incredibly tough to hear people pitch their screenplay ideas.

You're like 0 for five for your past comedy shows you've gone to. I was having a really tough time. Comedy Jam Night. Comedy Jam Night as well was tough. Who was the other person that came out? Judd? So was Judd, it was Judd, Benny and a girl that I don't know. but I would say hearing those people who willingly put themselves on the stage, one of the toughest things I've ever. They should be on a watch list for voluntarily. I've ever had to sit through. Volunteering to pitch a screenplay while other people paid for a ticket.

Yeah. That's a really. Yeah. And the first guy that was pitching was pitching like the first. It wasn't a comedy, but he was pitching like the first ever romance. Like, I don't really know exactly. what he was getting at, but it was just like a trans romance, which is great. But I think Judd, like, didn't know what to do with that or where to go. So he kept just saying, well, I produce bros.

Just to cover his basis. Just to kind of cover his basis. And that was his response to every single pitch from that one guy. And then the next girl pitched, uh, an astrology film about a podcaster who was really into astrology. And at that point, I had disassociated fully. Brilliant. Yeah. Yeah. associated. Who would have ever thought a podcast or would be into astrology? No, not me. That's what I'm doing. Sure.

Yeah. But that was, and then the third guy at that point I had gotten some air. But yeah, that was really like, I think like the only. I would have loved this yet. That would be good. The only thing I did this weekend, really. But you went home. I'm so excited.

You went home and you brought something back. Yes, I went home and I brought something back. I think we talked about it last week. My idea journal. By the way, someone damned me when I talked about my awesome professor last week that I hated and said he was fired from the university for being creepy

I was like I goes like when you get a gut feeling about somebody you're always right I agree yeah and I was like this guy thinks he's God and needs to be seated we need to take a seat and man oh man my gut feeling was correct

Sianara Wow congratulations See you on the other side yeah he did something I wish I mean I can't read specifics because if it gets back, I don't know. It's fax, but whatever. Thank you to the person that sent me the inside scoop. But this is the assignment.

I'm so excited. Oh, this is his class too. This is his class. He seems to have influenced your life a lot for someone you hated. I think that's usually how it goes. Actually, you're right. Because you can't shake it. And you almost hate that this person that you hate had that on you.

So it actually sticks with you. Like, I think that I'm going to be. be quoting my landlord a lot after I move out. Yeah. No, that happened to me with... In English... In English teacher I hated.

Like, inspired me to start loving to read. Because I was like in your face. Yeah. And guess what? I'm only going to read trashy romances. That'll teach you. At least you're reading. Yeah.

Totally. Yeah. There's a lot of quotes now that I like have in my docket that are like... It's in a notes app or a notes page called sayings I hate. Uh-huh. Because they've become true. Yeah. Do you have any on the top, the tipit to be top of your head? Yeah, I'll find them while we go. Okay. So essentially this, this assignment was that one that I talked about last week, or two weeks ago, if you listen. And it was the Idea Journal, which is incredible that I was an adult paying tens of thousands of dollars to attend a top tier school to go pick out a blue notebook from Target because he said pick your favorite color and then write down some ideas. And just so you get a gist of,

what this is like it is straight up there was no rules it was just put 100 ideas in this book and i'm gonna grade you and i got an 85 so if you're wondering why i hated this guy because he put a subjective grade based on and it's not anonymous yeah we had our names in this and he did not like me yeah i was very outspoken about how big of a douchebag this guy was so i got an 85 oh you know what sucks is these things come full circle like if i was a professor i'd probably act like him i don't want to believe that I would, but there'd probably be like some underground buried things that I would do. Anyways. Yeah, I think as a professor, if I hated a student, I would have a hard time giving them an A. I think everything would have to be anonymous or your RA did it. So here's the idea.

Oh my God, it's like stuff to the brim with fun little AICD-85 front and center. Did I say that this whole thing was just like a thought process? Oh, there's that. It's a thought process thing. It's like come up with campaigns, come up with ideas, inventions, whatever. I'm like POV. I'm your professor right now. So what we have here in the first page is I'll show you kind of visual watchers. And I'll try to explain it for just the audio listeners. It's like a watercolor blob of red running down the page.

A watercolor blob of brown running down the page. And then a watercolor blob of like more of a cream. And the text that Connor had written is blood runs thicker, coffee quicker beer's just along for the ride awesome this is 19 year old Connor can I was this one beer

this like white stain okay that's what beer looks like when you spill it on yourself okay yeah but basically this is a poem and originally when I did this one I actually made a little prick on my finger

so I would bleed on the page spilled coffee and then did beer that actually might be blood is this little piece blood yeah I might have put a little bit of blood on there just so that he'd have to contract something. Oh, I'm worried about this one.

On the eighth day and this is, Connery, did you do this? Yeah. Totally by yourself? Yeah. No tracing. No. Look at these hands.

Yeah, so. That's so good. Wow, okay. So he has two hands reaching towards one another. And on one of the hands on the index finger, there's a little pair of conference dangling from it. Well, because it's like when you throw like shoes up on the power line. Yeah.

Yeah. But it's the hands of creation and the shoes are kind of. on the eighth day. Let's keep going to one that's more audibly. Okay. No, no, no. That's not a good one. Okay.

Sorry, sorry. Ooh, very cool. This is going to be just a page of black scribbles on the, like every inch covered with black scribbles. But if you look closely enough, if you kind of open the page, there's a cutout of a person, like a little gingerbread person. Oh. we're going to want to skip that page.

A lot twist on the other side. That's very edgy that we'll skip. We'll skip out of respect. I don't know what that means. So basically I'm understanding that I got 85 now. I feel bad about why I was so rude about this dude. Oh, that's good. Oh, hello, Connor.

Oh my gosh. We need to skip that page as well. Yes. Wow. Okay, defrosting meat sucks. College solution. And then Connor's illustrating the college solution to defrosting meat as following. So what we're seeing here is an outlet plugged into the outlet.

Hair curler, he's called it. Fully looks like a penis coming. So that hair curler is going to be next to a log labeled beef. And Connor has labeled the beef. frozen. Is this going to get through to the people watching? I think this one will. I think this one will touch a lot of people.

Let's do one more. Ooh, that's actually good. That's good. Okay, this is cool. Oh, that's a good one. So Connor's taped in a cigarette. He drew a gun, taped a cigarette onto the gun,

and it's shooting a pair of lungs. Very cool. Very cool. I can't believe you. got an 85. Oh, this is nice. He's taped into Advils. And...

Oh, that's good. Here's one. One of my best ideas was tearing this one out. And the page is ripped and there's like a little... This is bad. Let's... No, it's not bad. It's not bad.

Thank you for sharing. Thanks. Here's a piece of tinfoil. And it says this page is from the future. Thank you for sharing. Wow. Here's a Q-tip. Okay, I want to like go on record and think Connor was really complaining about the 85.

But this says only you, Q-tip, hot glute on the page, can prevent ear infections. Here's a visual. Oh, I'm sweating so bad. Wow, this is. Wow. Oh, that's really funny. He cut out like a big, like, flask shape in the pages. And then the text is wasn't deep enough for a flask.

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Use us directed. Father, I have a confession. I stole my roommates' raisin brand this morning. You are one of a kind, Connor. What does it say? They're just super good, okay. I agree with that, actually. Maybe I'll revisit some of these ideas and see what I can...

Oh. Photosynthesis. Very nice, and that's a leaf. What would that mean? I think I know exactly what. what you were going for here. So he's taped in a leaf and in the leaf, in the middle of the leaf,

it looks like an Instagram notification. These are the old Instagram notification. Yeah, it looks like zero, like zero likes. Zero likes, but why photo synthesis? Because there's a leaf. So no one likes photosynthesis.

Maybe you're saying like this is the modern day photosynthesis. Like instead of caring about nature, we care about likes. This is the new. Yeah, of course you do. Yeah. I love likes. Yeah.

Here's some glass. You are. You are art. I take a broken mirror in this page and said, you are art. I should have gone straight to jail. I shouldn't have even gotten a grade. What is falling out of this page? This looks like a gum wrapper.

Oh, this one looks cool. It's a little astronaut falling out. Oh, here it is. Here's a good one. I think I'm like, you were on to something. I was on to something with a lot of these, but I was clearly doing it. So here's a little astronaut. That's cool.

Do you want me to hold your mic? And it says, out of ideas, starting to relate more and more to Sandra Bullock and gravity. Hopeless. Stressed. Extremely aware of the weight of my existence and approaching demise. That's good. Yeah, well, I thought that was going to prevent an 85. I guess not.

Okay, I guess there's no condom in here. I feel like that was my saving grace for this little segment. Thank you for sharing that with us. It's not. Didn't you say that you brought something similar? Well, back in the day when I used to just like read my old diaries on TikTok, talk I just was going through all my childhood belongings and I must have thought this one was funny because I took a picture of it. And it's an old report card from my fifth grade PE teacher. So I was just going to read that to you so we could see if what he said kind of still holds up today. You ready? I'm so ready. Sorry, I'm done. This is from June 8th, 2007. Grade five. Yeah. Okay. Brooke is a quiet, pleasant individual with a big. heart.

This is not going to end well, is it? Why? Because if you're introing like that. Just like setting me up. Yeah. For failure? Where's the butt? I think the only, Brooke is a quiet.

I don't think I was quiet. I think I was probably nonverbal in PE class. Dude, either like the physical strain of it all or just being absolutely miss. Gonna take the other half of this thing. Okay. I want to go along. Wow. Are you feeling any effects yet?

I don't know. That idea journal really sobered me out. Okay. Her willingness to participate, listen, and do what is asked of her is truly appreciated. That's sweet. It's really nice. Yeah. Brooke may not be the strongest or most athletic person, but her striving to do her best is what matters.

True. That's literally all we could ask for. Brooke has developed into a young lady who knows her strengths and her weaknesses. And I would like to say that's still true today. So aware of my weaknesses. Some signs of this development are her performances in the pool. This is my autobiography. Yeah.

Where she continues to work on her strokes and has knocked over 17 seconds of her 50-yard challenge time. That's a lot. That's like 50 yards is back and full. That's one lap across and one back. So that's a back and forth. It's incredible. 17 seconds to knock off of that, I don't know why he's like not like stoked on me. Yeah.

Yeah. Weird. I'm curious where this is... I think that was it. Going to take it down? Well, 17 seconds, were you drowning the first couple times you did it? Like, were your hands tied together? I think I was working really hard in the pool.

Like, I think I just, like, got that much better. Oh, that's incredible. That's something that you should be really proud of. So overall, I don't know why I thought that was so funny and kind of having a similar experience to what you had with your idea, journal. I'm starting to think we both should have reviewed these beforehand to see if they would have been. Totally. I just liked when he said she's not the most athletic.

person but she knows her strengths and weaknesses. And I was like, you know what? So true. Yeah. So true. It's true. Yeah. I'd like something like that. I'd like to read my all of my reports home were Connor keeps correcting me. Oh, you're one of those. Yeah. Did you raise her hand a lot? No, I just talked. That makes sense. Holds true. Yeah. Yeah. I just want to take a little break and tell everyone, Thanks for listening. Because I know if you're still here, it really means a lot. That's really sweet. Of course.

So are you sweating? No. I got to take my pumpkin off. Okay. Take your pumpkin off. Starting to weigh down on my legs a little. Totally. I'm going to look at.

Oh, this is what I wanted to tell you all weekend. And I was actively not texting you about it because I wanted to wait to tell you here. Tell me here. You know, how people say break a leg in theater? Yeah. Do you know why? No. This is going to blow your mind. They say break a leg because they hope you get in the cast. That's awesome. Isn't that insane? Yeah.

Like because when you break your leg, you would get a cast. So they're saying break a leg, like, good luck. We hope you get in the cast of the show. That's really good. Isn't that beyond? Yeah, but now you don't get a cast or bring your leg, you to boot now. So you could get if it's a really bad break, which we hope you would get a big break. Oh my. God, there's more. Yeah. This is layered. Oh my God.

We hope you get a big break. I would probably say, so that you get a cast. This is your big break in theater. Break a wrist, I would say now probably. Like break a. Break a rib. No, you wouldn't get a cast for that.

Yeah. Yeah. We should make more of those up. Wow. So I just, that's kind of what's been. Yeah, really, really weighing you down this week. Really adding those 17 seconds back on your mind this week. Yeah.

Also, I've been really into. Facebook groups recently. Yeah. By the way, we have a BNC Facebook group. Yeah, wait. We should remind everybody about that. We have a BNC Facebook group. It's called Brooklyn Connor make a podcast.

And I think like I kind of forget how Facebook works. Because I haven't been on it in a few years except to be on these groups now. But it's join it. I think you literally just look at Brooklyn Connor make a podcast and we can just discuss things all Brooklyn Connor make a podcast related. Related. in like a forum type way. All things.

Yeah, totally. I had to report some on the other day. On the page? Yeah, because they kept like advertising their product. That's one of the rules for a lot of those groups is you can't, you know, if you look for a house or something, they're like, you can't promote your own stuff on here. It's just like bad. It's a not good etiquette.

It's bad. It's bad. It's bad. Yeah, for sure. But the only other, I'm a part of three Facebook groups. Brooklyn Connor make a podcast. A knitting group where these like sweet little old women. share their knitting, which is just like the sweetest thing in the world.

And a survivor group that I joined in March 2020, because I was one of the first people in Philly to get COVID. You were ground zero. I was one. Patience zero. And so at that point, I thought it, like, I was fully dying. Like, you thought, like, this was the time where you thought if you got COVID, like, you're going to die.

Yeah. So I joined a survivor group on Facebook. And I'm still in it. And these people that had COVID in March 2020 are still posting like about their long COVID and just the symptoms that they still have. And it is like a little bit concerning to me because I think like what they're posting is actually not long COVID. It's like chronic illness. It's like like terminal. And they should move forward with like going to the ER like immediately.

I'm sorry. It's not funny. But it's just like every single post in this group this morning around 4 a.m. Period. I walked from the kitchen to where I was sleeping. I collapsed. My legs just gave out. I cut the door frame. Could not hold myself up. Has anyone experienced this? And I'm just like, I don't think that's the March 2020 COVID. And I think you should get checked out. And it's every post in this group. Can you give me another one? Yeah. Is this enjoyable? Yeah, it is. It makes me wonder because sometimes like if I'm grabbing the doorframe and falling over, I wouldn't be like, oh, long COVID. I'd be like, damn. I'm, yeah. Damn. Yeah. Or like,

Shit. I forgot out of walk. Shoot. Like, I'm going to take myself to the hospital. I still wouldn't. I don't think. Well, give me another one.

If I was, if, I don't know. I'm looking for a good one. I mean, my brain fog, I could just. Brain fog? That's probably a long-toded. Yeah. I got to blame it on something.

Okay. But. Sorry, I'm looking for a real good one. You want to practice your stand-up while I look for a good one? I had a really funny idea. Well, no, I don't want to give any of that. away actually now that I'm thinking about it. Are you guys having fun listening? Sorry, I'm like, I don't know why, like, all of a sudden they're like not that,

they're not that bad anymore. Did you guys not answer about having fun listening because you're not having fun listening? Ew, we're having so much fun. Okay. Well, I'll tell you while you're looking for that, that when I got home from my trip this week that your cougal was still in my fridge. Yes. And it had grown almost legs to walk out because my fridge power went out while I was gone, which is just such a blessing in disguise because I had to clean out my fridge because everything... No, the cougal's gone?

Yeah, it had grown like a second cougal on the side of it. I guess like that's a tough one to go bad because of all the dairy products in it. Yeah, it was really gnarly. Sorry. If you can imagine what cougal would smell like after what I think must have been 10 days

with no power in that fridge. Wow. I'm so sorry to have participated that in some small way. No, I should have taken a picture but I really couldn't bear it to the side of it. I'm sorry. Damn. Let me try to.

That's sad to think of the, that the Kogel had to come to that end. That Kogel never knew that, like, the best day and the worst day of its life was coming, and that was the worst day for it. It was foul. Damn. Okay, you ready for another long COVID? Yeah. I've lost two molars in the last few years, just completely crumbled and broke off.

Like, babe, like, I do, like, go to the, like, that's, it's not, I don't think that's a symptom of long COVID at the end of the day. Did she did this person say has anyone else experience this? I could tell her I was all just like checking in about long COVID. I could tell her that I lost a molar at that Mexican restaurant because I put it down on my plate. This person gets fevers every single night. This person has shortness of breath and dry nasal passages, which like that's fine. That feels fine.

Every Sunday. Yeah. Wow. People are like literally like you should maybe make a post and take take one for the team and say you all need to go to the doctor for like a physical small hard purple clots like whoa i don't even know what that could possibly mean they should add a doctor to the group ongoing nose scabs drop in testosterone wow third time in the er whoa this is really dark i know isn't it yeah whoa it's just like okay yeah scary but I think a lot of that is just like go to the doctor as well as the ER in addition 100

percent yeah that's a scary group of people that'd be that'd be like um I don't want to say anything negative totally but just like based on what they're telling me their symptoms are giving zombie no yeah I and I fully like I don't want this to come off like I'm a long non-belie I trust me brain fog I'm I'm almost brain dead like fully like if you attach me to a machine it would just be kind of be yeah be flatlined so I get it like I've I'm suffering from long COVID as well I just think like when you start to collapse in the kitchen go to see someone go to the doc yeah um well there not a lot happen in pop culture yeah this week except did you hear what happened with the orange M&M no okay basically the thing about the we're back to

talking about the M&M. Yeah, the orange M&M is now Gen Z's icon. It's now a Gen Z icon because of its extreme anxiety. Before I give my take... Does JNZ need another icon? Is that, yeah. No, I don't think they do. No.

I have kind of like a take that I'm nervous to share because it's going to sound insensitive. I think I'll be able to back you up. Okay. And I think everyone knows this, but I have pretty severe anxiety and always have. I just don't think every single person needs anxiety at this at this time. I agree. I think that people almost feel like they have to have anxiety because it's a great thing that we've normalized talking about mental health so much. I think that's amazing.

But now I think people almost feel bad for not have anxiety. I get that. And I'm just like, no, like that's fine. I also think we just normalize a lot. Like people say like I have anxiety as in like I have an anxiety disorder. when they're just feeling feelings of just like you have anxious feelings and you're worrying. Like that doesn't necessarily mean you have an anxiety disorder. Yeah.

You know? Yeah. And that's something that I've always thought about because it used to kind of get on my nerves when people would say like, oh, I'm having a panic attack like in high school. And I was like, bitch, no, you're not. Yeah, you'd be curled up in like a little ball. Yeah. Yeah.

But I've gotten over that because I used to be really bad about like telling my siblings, like you guys, you don't have. anxiety because I'm the only one in the world that can have anxiety and then my parents were like you have to stop that immediately yeah because other people that aren't you can also have anxiety and I was like okay that's an interesting point I guess you're right so I do acknowledge that other people besides me can have anxiety yeah I just feel like it doesn't have to be every single person totally um I was like oh I have anxiety and then everyone started getting and I was like I don't want to be a part of this anymore so I don't say it anymore but just my mom and parents are always like

I don't want to Like of course you can say you have anxiety And of course you do have anxiety I don't want to I don't mean to I don't mean to police that It's just sometimes I'm just like Not everyone needs to say It needs to have it

Well it's not to say you don't have it Yeah no I don't care But My mom was always like A big like Oh I'm having anxiety That's not real Have a banana and go for a walk

Go get some sunlight It actually helps Sometimes I wish. There's a lot of stuff like that that helps. Sometimes I never know. Like sometimes I wish and this is like a serious conversation. It's not like a funny conversation if that's okay. No?

I'll try to make a joke out of it. Okay. Go ahead. No, I just sometimes wish like because when I was little like my parents are like, oh my God, like this bitch is crazy. Ready? We'll put this music in the background to make this funny. Dan, dun dun, da, da, nan, da.

And then you like your parents said this bitch is crazy. they were like, oh my God, like, she needs help, which is great because they did. And it's like, I'm so thankful that I was like in therapy so young. But on the other hand, it's like, what if I had just gotten the message that like, it's okay. Like this is normal. Yeah. People worry. It happens instead of like, oh my God, like she needs help.

Yeah. Like I wonder if I would be maybe a little different today. But it's hard because like grass is always greener because I bet if my parents are like, oh, you're fine. She would not be fine. Yeah. You know. So I know, you know.

Totally. Totally. So that's what I think about. I don't know. I can't answer that. I agree. I think like, it's probably just like a spectrum. Just like everything else. Everything else is spectrum. It's crazy.

Like I can't really think of one thing that's not a spectrum. I can't either. It's so weird you said that. But like looking back, I'm like, I'm not like a depressed person. Right. But like looking back, I have had a like depression, you know, before. Yeah. And it's like, it's this time you're like.

Totally. Yeah. That was rough. It's always hard to. to look back on those kinds of things. But anyways, let's say something funny. Yeah, but I'm just like the orange M&M like has brought up a lot of feelings for me.

Just like in terms of my childhood and just the way I think about how mental health has talked about now, which I don't think was the intention of everyone in talking about the green Eminem. I think everyone's like, how this is funny. I'm going through the goddamn ringer thinking about my whole experience growing up with anxiety. Did they? did the M&M incorporated come out and be like guess what we now have an M&M that has anxiety? I don't know if it was like Eminem LLC that came up. Give him a show.

Like at this point there's a whole show to be written and this guy it's going to be the 12 dwarves, the seven dwarves. I don't know. Like I think this is just like my tron, like hate to use the T word, but like my childhood trauma like coming out and like this Eminem's pissing you the fuck off. like looking at him like oh linkum like oh i'm having a panic attack like i want to see an m&m like hooked up to a anesthesia monitor like needing to be knocked out because it's panic attack is so bad like that's what i want to see like give that bitch some zoloft you know remember the orange m&m apparently he's a jinzy icon now see that's what i'm saying it's just like we're almost like sorry i don't i don't need to like keep going on this it's just like i don't know it's bringing

up something in me. No, look at this last sentence. Yes, the green lady Eminem got new shoes, while the orange Eminem is grappling with his mental health, exclamation point. It's like anxiety. It's like not trendy. That's, I guess that's what I'm going to say. Oh, no, but it is trendy. It is trendy now and I think it pisses me off. Because I'm like, guess what, it's not fun? Your feelings are valid. I'm going to get in trouble for all the ways that I made this a joke, but I just also made a joke out of my dog. No, I think both of us feel more comfortable, talking about those things. Yeah. With joking. Yeah. So I, well, every now and then like I've never taken medication for anxiety

but every now and then when I'm like feeling my head's gonna explode I'll take a colon up in and be like you're fucking weird for ever panicking about how totally fine everything is that's also sucks when like those like good moments when you're like oh my god like what why were you ever stressed and then when you're stressed again you can't remember like why you felt those good moments whoa B&C just got had a breakthrough had a breakthrough yeah and C make a B and C make a B

I honestly cannot wait to talk about the orange M&M with my therapist tomorrow because I think that brought up a lot of valuable stuff. Did you ever figure out if your therapist listens to this? I don't think she does. Okay, well she sent me like two of her. No, no, no, no, no, no.

Just in case. Can you cut that? We can talk about it in the bonus. Can I just give, like, I've seen so many movies recently in theaters and just ones that have come out. Yeah. Do you mind if I very quickly?

No, touch on them. Touch on those. Okay. First comes, First comes to first. Is that a saying or is it worse comes to worse? Is it worse comes to worst or worse comes to worse or worse comes to worse? Are you thinking of first things first?

First things first. Thank you, Ashley. Yeah, but just circling back to the worst comes to worse saying. Is it worse and worst or worse and worse or worse and worse? Worse comes to worse. It's worse comes to worst for everybody that was wondering. First comes to first. I saw bros.

First things first. I was so excited for bros. Yeah. Saw it on opening night. Yeah. At the end of the day, it was the Billy Eichner show. And this all comes down to if you like him or not. Because he just wrote him.

He wrote basically bros is a fan fiction. Yeah. That Billy wrote to put himself in. God bless him. I would do the same thing if I ever wrote a movie. Unfortunately, I'm not a huge fan of the, of the Billy persona. and so seeing his character only amped up about 45,000 percent. Yeah.

Unfortunately, it wasn't for me. It wasn't good. He was not. I've been on Twitter. No, I'm not ready to say it's not good because I think so many parts were valuable. I loved the other guy in it. I think he was, Billy's character was really tough to watch and he was the entire thing. Yeah.

So I was so excited. and that unfortunately was not my favorite film. However, I think there were some good parts, and I'm glad that a movie like that was made by a popular studio at the end of the day. Hope there's more. That's without Billy. Yeah, it sucks.

You can't really argue with numbers. They made half of what they projected. I know. That sucks. And I can't remember if I said this on here. I definitely said this. But it's weird that marketing must have been out of this world budget-wise for this.

movie. Yeah. And it's crazy. This is a tweet from somebody. I'm not taking this sentence, but they said that it's bizarre that this flopped because it felt like Billy Eigner was under my bed forcing me as I went to sleep to go see this movie every day. I don't know how he doesn't know.

Like when you do something like that, when you try to force someone to see something, like they're going to be oppositional. Yeah. You know what's awesome? And not see it. You know what sells. Huh. You know what sells over sex?

What? Not really caring if they go to see it or not. Like, don't worry, darling. Avatar. Don't worry, darling. them not addressing a piece of the speculation. Like, I can't even imagine how much money they made. Do we know?

Probably a billion. A lot. I don't really have a sense. Not a billion, I don't think. Five billion? I don't think they touched B. The B. The letter B.

Well, let's see. They made $19.2 million. I wonder how, and how much was the budget? Open it. Oh, they made. Okay, so that factors in the budget. Yeah. Yeah, that'll do it.

It opens to worry some 19.2 million. I think they projected more. Oh, really? Yeah, because it was worried. Because Harry Stiles and Florence Pugh probably. Oh, the budget was $35 million. So if they made $19, they still net, right? That's factoring in the budget, the 19 million.

It's not. Opening weekend was $19 million. They pay these people like Harry Stiles. Imagine what they had to pay him for him to break his hundred night in a row tour at the Madison Square Garden. Well, that was filmed about two years before the Madison Square. The budget, oh, it grossed 38. It's $2.9. Okay.

And they spent $35 million. So they made a profit. No. Right? No. Yes. No, gross income is not net income. That's the exact opposite.

After I failed finance. That's why I switch my major from business. In my head, gross is the same word as net. Is gross the same as net? Guys. Okay, we have to move on. Okay. Okay.

I can't do it. I watched where the crudad sing on the plane. Incredible. Started crying. Incredible. The interesting piece of that is we were talking about it last night and you actually like. Didn't see the beginning or the end.

So you were like, it's just okay. And then I explained the end and you said that's the best movie I've ever seen. Got to rewatch it. Got to rewatch it. So yeah, that's a great one. Believe it or not,

the beginning and the end are important pieces of the movie. The beginning and the end are key pieces of the puzzle. I saw Amsterdam and theater. Yeah. That's the one with everyone in it. Yeah. Christian Bale, Margot Robbie. It's just like insane.

Rami Malick, who I forgot. Like, he was a tier one for me at one point in my life. That, toad? No, like Freddie Mercury. That movie changed my life. I must have seen that 18 times in theaters. Remy Malik is one of the scariest people. Rami Malik is one of the scariest people that's walked.

Oh, I think he's just like exquisite inside and out. But that movie was not for me either, unfortunately. Just like incredibly boring. Did you just see that? Russia came out with like a deep fake entire TV show featuring Remy Arna Margo Robbie, Adam Driver, and it's a bunch, it's just actors from Russia and they just deep faked A-lister's from the United States onto their faces. I just don't get it. And so they don't technically have to pay like Margot Robbie, but.

But it's like, is that really going to draw people, like, if it's like, if that's targeting like Margot Robbie fans, because it's like, oh look, Margot Robbie's in this, you're going to want to see it because you love Margo Robbie. People know that's not Margot. Let me raise this question to you. Yeah. If someone deep faked, say Harry Styles wasn't actually in. Don't worry, darling. Yeah.

And we've never seen him act and it's just his face going down on Florence Pugh and scene one, act one. Would you go see it? If he was a deep fake? Yeah. Yeah. You would. You put that in. You would.

And guess what? They'd be paying him. Whoa. Nothing. because it would be me on screen and they'd just deep fake him. And I'd take like a rent. I think Harry Styles is

an extenuating circumstance in terms of deep faking. Okay. Just because he's like has such a cult following. I just think like people like Marga Robb does she have a cult? Like I don't know.

Okay. Yeah. Okay. So maybe, maybe. Like Wolf of Wall Street. People have, you know, and whatever else she said. Had to turn off MeatCute,

which is that Pete Davidson one. Yeah. And that taught me about Bull lesson that not everything Pete Davidson is in like has to be the best thing I've ever seen, which is like a tough thing to learn. Yeah. But that's a movie where you relive the same day over and over again, which is my least favorite genre of anything in the world. Are you caught up on the patient?

No, but you can tell me. I'm going to watch it anymore. Really? It's so good. Nah. It's so good. Not for me. Too slow.

Really? I think it's speedy. Just kill someone. They did. Okay, cool. They killed. They should have killed him so much. Spoiler alert, though.

I don't think that really matters. There are a lot of people that could be killed. But yeah, I love, I'm loving that. And then the last thing I saw is Lockiest Girl Live, which is like the number one movie on Netflix right now with Milakounis. That was incredible, but also so hard to watch. Interesting. Just in terms of like trigger warning sexual assault.

Like so hard to watch. And like no one knew that's what the movie was about. So I'm seeing a lot of things on TikTok. It's like I had no idea. Like that's what was going to happen because it's not marketed that way. And like people just like were kind of accosted by those scenes, which scary because they were really tough. So trigger warning if you want to watch that movie, but it was, it was really good. Anyway, that's it.

I got to go, I have to go peeve. You got to piss. Yeah. All right. Then let's end it. I got to go piss girl. Got to go piss girl. Yeah.

So we can go ahead to the bonus. Yeah, we got to roll into bonus because I am feeling insane. And we hope to see you there. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Okay.

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