Brooke and Connor Make A Podcast - It’s Great To Be Drained

Episode Date: April 23, 2026

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That was easy. Hey, Brooke. Hey, Connor. Let out one more big sigh for me so we can get. Yeah. Hey, man. Hey, girl. What are you doing?

Oh, duh. I've got my heating pad on today. Yeah. And it smells like fire. You think it's maybe short-circuiting while it's on your belly? Could. Tell me about the heating pad. Why does everyone, everyone really loves their heating pad?

It's amazing. This is my first time using this one, so it could be faulty. don't know, but I need it today. Who gives a shit? For my tongue. Yeah. What's going on with your, should I even ask? I have my monthly.

Oh, okay. So, um, I need my heating pad and shit like that. Were you the one that had that stinky little animal that you'd put in the microwave and it was like heavy? Yes. Like, did you ever smell my stinky little animal? Yeah, I smelled your stinky animal. I think you brought it to California.

Like the time we met, you brought your stinky animal that you might. Okay, for those you don't know, I had this like microwaveable. Stinky little animal. I don't remember even what type of animal it was. Maybe like. I think it was a duck. It was not a duck at all. It was definitely like mouse adjacent.

What was my stinky? Oh, no, it was a pizza. Oh, yeah, it was a pizza. It was my heatable pizza. And it just like when you heated it up, you know, it had those little like beads in it. It had bean and legumes in there. No, bead. It was full of beans, I promise.

Beads. No, they fill those up with beans because you can heat up beans. No, it's beads. It's heatable beads. There's no such thing as a heatable bead. You don't just heat up beads. There's no such thing it's heatable beans. All beans are heated.

Yeah, but to eat. Not garbanzo. No, these were not beans. Actually, what is inside of, like, what's inside of a warmie? When it's beans. It was like a warmie. And there was just like, it smelled like just. Computer, show me beans.

a really burnt popcorn. Yeah, it was really... It's lavender scented, but what? It was not lavender scented. What are those? What are those? It was not lavender scented. It smelled like grandpa's feet.

Flaxseed and dried French lavender. That is so not true. You weren't like wrong. That's a farce. It's flaxseed. Well, I want to know why it smelled like old, like... It was like really burnt popcorn. In between someone's toes.

No, it was not that at all. Brooke, it was suspicious. Yeah, but it wasn't like a bad smell. It was just like, hi, honey, there's my pizza. It was just like, and mine wasn't a warmie. So I don't, this is nothing against warmies. I love warmies. Warmies smell great.

I feel bad about putting my warmies in the microwave because they're cute. They're actually cute little animals. I have a chick and a duck. I know. It's kind of like putting them into the. I know. I don't like to watch. I won't listen to the microwave.

But anyway, hello, hello. We make a Sylvia Blath warmie. That's not funny at all. I didn't even smile when I said that. If you're listening on audio only let the record show, I did not smile. Dude, I'm so tired, man. What a two weeks it's been. I know.

Tired in an amazing way. Tired in like a blessed way. Yeah. I'm so lucky to have been doing so many things, so many amazing things that have drained me in an amazing way. It's great to be drained in a positive way. Yeah, it is. What's that quote that's like I'm complaining about...

Yes. I'm so lucky to be complaining about the things that I would have killed to do. I really feel that. That's awesome. Thanks. So happy for you. Yeah, we... Wait, can we do the recap?

Can we do the recap after we... Of the last week. I guess we start with last week. I think we need to recap our live shows. Okay. Yes. So I think we already Recapped San Diego

And then I'm moving to La Jolla Yes, we did We talked about La Jollaia And then we had Irvine Yes Which like I don't have much to say to you I love Irvine And everyone came to the Irvine show

That was so much fun It was amazing Um Yeah that was great And then Should we tell everyone What the structure of the show was Yeah

I guess, yeah. Basically, we just came out and we kind of shot the shit for a little bit, like a podcast. And then Izzy made this amazing presentation, and they were different at each stop. And it was basically each slide was something that we have learned over the course of the five years that we've been doing this podcast. So, for example, one slide could have been NATO. Another slide could have been internet cables. and we would teach the audience what we had learned. Sometimes we were so spot on.

Sometimes we needed Izzy's help. But yeah, it was a learning opportunity for everyone. Izzy was able to join us on stage. Izzy was amazing. And it would be our guiding light. Yeah, Izzy was our spirit guide. It was so much fun. And it brought up like fun conversation.

It really was. It really was, Brooke, a live podcast in many ways. It was. It was amazing. I had a blast. I feel very comfortable on stage. Yes, you crushed it. Connor, you freaking crushed it.

You better, you better hop back on your high horse because you should be up there, riding off into the sunset. You should be up there with me. You freaking held it. We are both sidesaddling our high horse and riding away. Yeah, bound to be like. The British are coming and the British us. The British equal us.

Okay. So we did amazing. And then Sacramento was so unique. Sax City was a unique experience. Sac City was so unique. The show itself, love. Adored. The city is a unique thing.

It was a unique thing. And I think that that's like when I tell you about sometimes I go on tour and many times they say, you are performing in XYZ. And so that's what I announced when I'm performing in Miami. And then what they don't tell you. is that the venue many times is one hour outside of where you announced that you're performing. Right. And people get so mad when you do that, I learned.

That happened to me with my Phoebe San Francisco tour stop. Because I said San Francisco and everyone is like, this is not San Francisco. I'm sorry. I do want to request some grace because when we receive it, like I'm not Googling the venue. I'm just excited to go to someplace that's adjacent to the city. and listen, many times those places are not in like the most, how you say, desirable areas. And many would even say, don't walk alone in these areas. But it's fun.

It's a fun experience. It's so unique and you make the best of it. And that's what we did. And it was so much fun. Sack was in Sack. Our Sack Vennie was very much in Sack. No, I know. I know.

I'm saying like when I tell you like my Miami location was like genuinely one hour outside of Miami. mean so like completely different county and city and people were like i you know like that's just an example but it was just like no this was in sacramento yeah yeah it was i i i divulged a little bit from the sacramento i divulged um i like sacramano that was my first time there it was pouring rain and thunder we stayed in a government themed hotel which was amazing okay so like we probably should have known because that it was called the citizen hotel i would never assume that just because hotels called the citizen, it would mean it's government themed. It was like cool.

It was like definitely on the right side of history. No, you say that and then like I was looking closer at the quotes in the elevator and they were all Ronald Reagan. So I'm confused. No, I think it was. Oh, they were. Yeah. I guess I wasn't reading closely.

But I took it all as kind of like warning signs. No, it was all. It was all like a warning sign. Like be careful. It was all very much like the people like. throw over the government. Like, like, we need to create a coup right now in the lobby and overthrow the government. Which to me right now feels like, yeah.

Yeah, but then it was like, or you guys just like this all the time, you know, like, it didn't seem like a newer, rebranded hotel based on like who's currently in office. It was like, no, this is like our whole thing. Like, we just like love the idea, the theme of toppling like a, a, a high, a, a, a, an oligarchy, but like just in general. Sure. I think it was just like kind of almost even like American history in a way. Kind of, but it was, it was, I like, I was, I guess basically like I was having trouble like figuring out what, like who was the designer, like the choreographer of all of the like quotes, I guess mostly. But it was, I guess, his citizen hotel like in bonus maybe.

The history of the citizen hotel and sat. Oh, yeah, we should. I'm really curious. Because that was like the citizen hotel, they have started to make hotels that are almost personified into like a type of person like that. It was like a type of person.

And then the moxie hotel is like such a little. You know I love the moxies. It's so funny that you love the moxies. The moxies like absolutely like you're allowed to. One of the ones I know you're allowed to get for like a couple hours during the day, which is like definitely like so that you can like go have sex. That's not my moxy.

That's not my moxy. It was one that I went to. But like, that's the, the, the, the, the moxies, the one that I stayed at in Ireland when it was, like, want to go to third base. And it was like, the elevator asking me if I want to go to third base. And I was like, no, elevator, I'll take the stairs. It's not my moxie. My moxie is definitely more modest. Which moxie are you talking about?

I love the, it's hard for me to always, I don't know the difference between the lower east side and the East Village. Because I always put the wrong one in and I always go to the wrong moxie. Oh yeah, there's two. It's one of them. Okay. But when I was just in New York, I stayed at a hotel that was exercise workout themed. Huh. Which wasn't a match.

Each room had its own medicine ball. They put a medicine ball in the room, yeah. And those like stretchy bands that you pull were coming out of the wall. It does make you wonder if that was, like, those bands are expensive. I have some of, I have some personal bands. And they're not super cheap. To put those in each room, like it almost seems like they could have just built a gym. Oh, they had a gym.

Huh. Yeah, it was very, it was a workout based hotel. You can really, I guess you can really do whatever, whatever theme you feel like doing for the hotel, you can just do kind of. There's book themed hotels that I want to stay at. Oh, that's interesting. And there will be one in my town that you create. It will be booking cats.

Which, by the way, is going to be the name of me and cats bookstore. Brooklyn cats, books, and cats. Is that not insane? Oh, that's really good. Oh, that's really good. Is that not crazy how that worked out? It's like we were born to do this. You just let the universe figure out.

Let the universe talk. Yeah, for a second, if you don't mind. Let them lead and you will follow. chatting out for a bit so the universe can speak. Okay, Sack City. I had a real almost pee my pants moment. IRL on the stage. So yeah, our live shows are pretty fun.

You could say that again. Yeah. And I know a lot of people were asking about merch. I think we did sell out of merch, right? In Sacramento, but we will be selling online. Okay. So we will be putting the tour merch online and then watch a space. And then you, I mean, you were just like a little tour tour bird this week.

Because then you hit Phoebe right after. I did. I had a little mini Phoebeie. press tour in New York, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, four day, four day run. Yeah. Let me go through that briefly. Yeah, hit it. On Wednesday, I did something so out of my comfort zone.

It was a press opportunity that will be posted, so you will see it. Let's just say so out of my comfort zone, so cute, not a match. And y'all will be able to see that. And so cute not a match. Then, yeah, I mean, I just went on a lot of podcasts. And all these podcasts were very much like they had a theme. Yep. And so they wanted to stick to the subjects, which makes sense.

Of course, like that's what podcasts do. Connor, I'd have very hard time staying on topic and not doing what we do. Yeah. And God bless the hosts. Like I could, I think they may have gotten a little bit frustrated with me. They do. And I, that's why I, I'm like a one and done podcaster because I don't get invited back on it. Right. They like, have wanted to talk to me about dating. And I was like, I have nothing to say there? But have y'all heard of the internet cables that run across the Mariana trend?

It's Brooke. Yeah. Brooke, it's hard. We are a matchmate in heaven. This, no, we really do. And also, like, this is my milking farm. Like, I have to go, like, have this release once a week, you know, like, so that I can continue my day to day and I don't put that on to someone else. Like, I have to put that here. Completely. I didn't realize. I just really truly didn't realize that like we are meant to podcast together because I was having a very hard time not doing what we do on other podcasts. Oh, Brooke, I'm so happy you have felt like me too. It's it's really something. And people, yeah, I'm sorry if I pissed anyone off.

I'm trying to, I'm trying to think who I think it was on Tanks's last time I went on. She was like, we didn't do any of the stuff that I had planned. And I was like, I'm really sorry. And then the comments were very much like, I mean, you guys didn't even finish one sentence. And I was like, that's really my bad. Yeah. No, it's not your fault. And also all of these podcasts were very like dating forward because I wrote a rom-com.

And so that was really hard because they were like, oh, tell me about your last ex. Like how did that relationship end? And it's like, oh, baby, like wrong person. I love you though. Baby, I'm the only car in the parking lot. Oh, baby. if my ex is driving the bus Who's driving the plane?

Then it's a Waymo. So. Maybe there is no plane. Maybe there was never a plane. So that was amazing. That's very funny. Hey guys. We want to take a quick break to thank you sponsor today's episode.

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And then, so did a lot of that. Oh, I saw O'Mary. Yeah. So here's the thing. Wait, who did you? Who was the Mary? Mary was John Cameron Mitchell, who I had not really heard of before.

But he was amazing. And I, like, I didn't want to say this before, but I did not think I was going to like O'Mary. because it's one, I'm not really into plays. I'm a musical girl. Two, I'm not really into like, can't be theatrical humor. I like dry humor. And so I just wasn't expecting to like it.

I did, which was great. I was so happy. It was so smart. And I didn't really know anything about it. And it was just brilliant. And so, and the length was perfect. It was like an hour. Wow.

Yeah. No intermission or anything. I think, I don't know if you will like it. I'm so curious. Because it really is like theater humor. Like, just like theatrical, I guess. I feel like if I'm going to the theater to go see a play, like I can just shift into that mode. Yeah.

You know, like the things that I don't like are like, I go to a movie and then I find out 10 minutes into the movie, it's a musical. And I'm like, oh, Jesus Christ. Like I'm stuck. You didn't tell me. You know? Um, that's like showing up somewhere in a sweater.

You don't have like an undershirt and you're like, wow, I'm just about to sweat for like an hour and a half. Right. You know? So, but like I feel like I could, I don't know. I kind of want to go when Maya Rudolph is Mary. I think, yeah. How could you not love that? I know.

I just like in the presence of Mrs. Rudolph. Like, I feel like I'll be okay. Yeah. We will all be okay. Well, just in the, in the, in the, the, the, the, the, the, the camp of both. books right now. I do want to like announce with my chest. Yeah. I finished a book. I finished reading a book. I can't believe. I, yes, I can't believe out of all of the books that you've started, this is the one that you finished. I know. I take back everything I said. I mean, and you know what's crazy is I finished it.

Once I sat down and I started reading, I finished it in three days. And just to clarify, this is stoner, correct? This is stoner. I have it here with me. Give a book report. Yeah, so this was a devastating book. Tell us about the themes, too. I know you love those. I mean, to be totally

fair, and I'm not going to give any spoilers. Like, just know I'm a hater. Like, I, for each specific reason, I hated every single character in this book. I hate the main character. I hate his wife. I hate his child. You're supposed to know, right? I don't really know.

I don't really know. The interesting thing is like, you know Manchester by the sea where I was like, I couldn't even feel sad for this guy because his life is so horrible and he does nothing to fix it. You know, he's like in a prison of his own making. And so that was a lot like this book. And this author, before he passed, he's from Europe somewhere.

I don't know. And I guess that this didn't really gain popularity in the United States because Americans were like, so upset. It was so upsetting for them because of how depressing this book was because of this guy's life because it's, you know, he had this everything that made him happy. Like, there were very high highs and very low lows for him. And it was like a very unremarkable life that he had. And he didn't get as far in his career as he had wanted to and whatever. And so he gets, this, this author gets reported back that like, that's how Americans feel by this book. And he's like,

oh, really. Well, like, I, I, I'm shocked by that because I think this is most people's lives. Like, this is a very typical life. And so, I don't know. Americans had, like, a hard time swallowing that pill, that nut. And, um, no, but I finish it. And I, I mean, it's hard to talk about it because, like, there's no way for me explaining this, but just, like, everyone in this book made me mad. And I really want to, I really quickly want to also say, so, like, I finish this book. Yes. And I'm immediately, like, disgusted by my phone because I was, like, so enthralled. with this storyline. And like, not that I was like even really enjoying it.

I just like needed to, I needed to finish it. Yeah. So I finish this book. I want to really, and then guess what? Like I drive down to Barnes and I drive down to Barnes and I pick up dungeon crawler Carl. A right away, same day. I want to really quickly read to you. I want to show you how I ended this book, shot chaser.

I'm going to read the last passage of Stoner and then I'm going to read the opening passage of dungeon crawler Kyle. Okay. Start with the shot. Here we go. He let his fingers rifle through the pages and felt the tingling if those pages were alive. The tingling came through his fingers and coursed through his flesh and his bone. He was minutely aware of it and he waited until it contained him until the old

until the old excitement that was like terror fixed on him where he lay. The sunlight passed into his window shown up on the page and he could not see what was written there. The fingers loosened and the book they held. had held, moved slowly, and then swiftly across the still body and fell into the silence of the room. Did he just pass? I was holding a crying, scratching, squirming, and spitting cat named Princess Donut, Queen, and Chunk.

That sounds amazing. Hi, Princess Chunk Donut. It's just like... People love Princess Donut. I'm having a hard time with dungeon crawler car now. How far did you get past that first sentence? Yeah, I'm on page eight. You're having a hard time?

Yeah, it's just like, You read about this, this guy with this, like, horrible, horrible life and it, like, goes through World War I and two in this book. And then Carl is, like, talking to a troll and being like, hey, man, back off troll. I'm holding, I'm holding Princess Donut Chunk. I didn't realize that dungeon crawler is based off a video game. Oh, so that would, I mean, that totally makes sense. It's completely, it is video game-esque. Like, it's like, he has levels.

And it's like, like, okay. first eight pages. I don't know what happens. Okay. Like, I don't know what's going to happen. Obviously, I'm texting Dylan about this book. Good. I was going to say text Dylan. I'm texting Dylan too. He's reading Crescent City right now. What a great guy. He said, he said, he said, he said he was, let me just read what he said. Yeah, Dylan's a big audiobook guy. It was a really easy read. Author doesn't waste too much time. World building, like relates everything to modern day. So he says, the inside kind of looks like, a target kind of thing, but then he's really good at building a climax and big action scenes where you don't know what's going to happen. But it is genuinely so fictional that it's like trolls and goblins and like a little rat man, a man that looks, a man that is a rat. Yeah. I'm having a hard time with that. I don't play. I never. Sometimes it's real like whiplash to go from stoner to something

like dungeon crawler. Do you want to read a sort of bridge first? Yeah, I think I have to because like I'm really not like it's not, I like the like more. historical fiction things because it's like, okay. Let's find you a bridge. But I think this is amazing. I'm so proud of you. Would you consider downloading Goodreads? Yeah.

Oh my gosh. You're right. I need to put that my thoughts somewhere and like talk to a community of people. Please download Goodreads. I want you're going to log the stoneer as your first book of 2026. I want to see your review. I'll engage, like comment. And then you can start building your to read shelf.

My repertoire. Yeah. I'm so excited for you and very proud of you. Thanks. I'm pretty excited about that. That was just like the whiplash is a good way to put it. Yeah. We'll find you. It just bumped me out. I was like, oh, I was like so in this zone. Like now I'm not in this zone anymore. You could also text Matt. I should text Matt. Matt's a great reader. Matt has a book club. I won't speak on his behalf, but there's definitely a lot of drama happening there. We went to Barnes & Noble yesterday. Matt and I like have such a. an amazing friendship and we do really fun things together. Tomorrow we're going to a few different libraries across Los Angeles and collecting unique stamps. But he, you could join his book club. I don't know if I will right now. You can talk to him about it.

You can talk to him about it. They're definitely in a state of, of, they're in a flex state right now for sure. They won't speak on it too much, but. The hierarchy is a little fragile right now. Yes. The hierarchy is fragile. Yeah. So they're thinking about new members.

So they're considering it? Considering new members, I would reach out if I were you. That's fabulous. Yeah. Good for you guys. Enjoy your stamp collecting. Send me updates. Yeah.

Oh, I will send you updates. But this will be my first L.A. library card, which is long overdue. Wow. I got a New York library card before you get an L.A. library card. I know it's so dumb of me. Oh, my God.

But, um. Colleenieuvers coming out with a book. And Alex Cooper is, or not, not a book, a movie. Alex Cooper's in the movie. Yeah, Verity,

right? Yeah, isn't that crazy? Um, yeah. Alex Cooper's in the movie. But as herself, right?

Like, as her fictional self. Like, yeah. That makes sense. No, but call her daddy is in the movie. Mm-hmm.

Is it call her daddy in the book? No. Okay. That's, to me, like, am I the only one who, when there's something

that like, they try to throw in for relevancy to, like, So today, like, are you not pulled out of the TV or movie that you're watching? A lot of people are. I'm so confused, like, how, I know it keeps happening because now you've, now you have

this person on board that is going to be like, I'm stoked to be a part of this project, post, post, post. And like, that will increase viewership to see that moment. But like, wow. I don't know. I'm not a fan of that. No, I don't really like that either. But.

That's like when people are like, oh, I watched euphoria. Did you watch Euphoria? No. It is so bad. I'm not going to because I love the first two seasons and that's my euphoria and this is just going to be a different show that I don't feel interested in. I mean, you truly have people that were in a contract and then took some time off and became like actual despians like Jacob Allorty is like such an incredible actor.

And then you see him do this thing he's talking about only fans and like TikTok and it's like, no, go, run. It's so bad. Sam Levinson needs to get. and Ryan Murphy, like all of these people that are like pumping out so much TV like need to go

do whatever drugs they were doing. What? Moking farm derogatory. Yeah. I mean, it's just, it's very, it's very like, you know, those things that always pop up in between people's Snapchat stories

and it's like an app that you download to watch short, dramatic video stories. Yeah. It feels like one of those, you know? That's a good comparison. Yeah, I'm not gonna watch. I know.

Which is a shame, but. You're truly not missing. I was watching with your people. I'm looking around at the room. I'm like, I'm just jaw on the floor. It seems like a parody. Yeah.

It's really, really crazy. And Loki became narcos. Like, I don't know. It's like very drug. I mean, I know it was always kind of drug heavy. Like, that was the whole thing. But now it's like crossing borders with. Is it like following what?

the plot from season two or Rue got like into whatever situation she got herself into. It's, I'm kind of unclear, but yeah, she still owes that that young woman some cash. Yeah. Okay. But like they're fully like crossing borders with cocaine and their ass. Yeah. It's like this was this was low key fun because you guys were like like this was all happening wrong side of the tracks high school. You know, like I didn't sign up for this.

Yeah. This part. I am going to. pass on it. You know, it was good that I also watched big mistakes. I was so right about that. It's so good. What's that one? Did I talk about? The one with Dan Levy. Okay. And Taylor Ritega. I watch it and Jack in and it. It is so good. Really? It is so good. Yeah. Okay. This is the kind of like writing and acting where like I can tell that they had fun with it. Like when they do the scenes, they're like, it's almost improv. They're like, you have to get from here to here in this scene, but they're like kind

of talking over each other and like having fun with it. it's really good okay i watch yeah i kind of didn't know that every show this year was going to be like have some like um level of gang and like cartel level to it i don't i guess that's what we're doing favorite kind of show really yeah or at least like because there have been so many shows i love i guess like breaking the ad and weeds and like once it gets into the like smud struggling cartel, like politics of the cartel. I kind of, they lose me. I know.

Whatever happened, I having fun. Yeah. No one's having fun anymore. I like more of like a small town dealer than a like big drug circle. There goes. Yeah. I like when the drug dealers keep it like in the family type of shit. Yeah.

Once we start getting political and there's like drug lords involved, I'm, you lose me. What I was going to tell you this morning before I forgot was there's just really, really, really, mean girl that makes smoothies at this store down the street. She works every single day. And she hates me so much. Like really, really, truly, like, won't look at me, won't talk to me. Maybe she likes you.

I don't think it's like that because she, like, hates me. And it's, like, visceral. Like, I can see it. And I'm like, hey, I get it. Like, if, and I'm just kind of like, what can I do here? because when something like that presents itself to me like a challenge, I'm like, I'm going to overcome this and I'm going to, we will be friends. It has been a climb to get her, but today she smiled and kind of laughed.

Oh my God. You've got her wrapped around your finger. No, I really do. When I go order my clean, my clean green smoothie, I saw her on a smoke break one day. So I know that she is love cigarettes. And so one time I brought cigarettes like in my pocket and I let them hang out a little bit. And you know, I don't even smoke cigarettes. Good thinking.

Thanks. And I was just like, look, like, I'm going to, by all means necessary. Like, I'm going to get her on my side. I don't even know why. But I got her to smile today. And I'll continue to work on that. Very good. Before I move in two weeks somehow.

Oh, do you have an apartment? Oh, God, no. But my landlord did ask if I can move out a week early because they have a new person that's going to move in. I said, I don't really understand what you mean by, do you think it'd be possible for me to vacate a week early? How, like, make that make sense to you? Make that make sense to you.

I get that. She wants you to leave a week early. I know, but like, I know it makes sense to her. Like, in what world can you ask someone that signed a lease to move out a week early? Do you say no? Yeah, I said, I don't have a place to live, but if anything changes, on my end, I'll let you know and we can figure out what that looks like. So now I've left it. Like you can pay me back one fourth of my rent. Good job. Thanks. I was proud of myself for that.

That's good. That's a good thing. I toured my second place. That was so, so, so awesome. Such cool vibe. And they said, you're not allowed to have anyone over to your apartment. And I said at all. And they said, 100% at all. The neighbors are very specific. I go, what they have what do you mean they're like yeah they're just very specific and I was like why are the neighbors ruling the entire place I don't know and I didn't even bring up like can I have I wasn't like oh can I entertain here they're like just heads up like you can't bring anyone over to your apartment and I was like I'm confused like why a broker is telling me that right what happened here before me by the way no fridge there oh my god that just happened Marshall's moving to New York

and he sent a video of his new apartment and he was like, this is my new apartment. He wasn't there. He was just getting the video from a realtor. And I said, Marshall, there's no fridge. And he didn't, he had not realized that. Two apartments.

Not even a place for a fridge. Unless he wanted it in his bedroom. It was also, it's a studio. So it was one small room and the kitchen that I don't think I would have even fit in. I think just for like a few thousand dollars. and like the fridge genuinely if you wanted you could either pick one fridge or bed what would you prefer definitely bed yeah um two places I've toured no fridge and then one place I

toured one place I toured mini fridge because like everyone needs a fridge it is kind of funny that that's not like a requirement everyone needs a fridge the same way everyone I would say it's like it's right below shower, but like it is like kind of up there. People in Ireland, and I think London somewhere, they don't put anything in the fridge. They have pantries. What about eggs in the fridge?

What about food they need to put in the fridge? What about food they need to put in the fridge? I don't think that, I mean, they, if you're over there in Ireland or, you know, no offense, I know that some people from there listen to this, your food sucks. What if they need to buy meat? I think that they just eat it right away.

I don't know about that. It's really bad. No offense to you guys. Like, sorry. I did not, I was not, like, I was pretty much, like, withering away while I was over there. I want to go to Ireland one day. It was bad. I told you that one night where, like, finally I'm going to go, I'm going to go have, like, a meal.

Like, I need to have a meal. I need to have, like, a big steak. I was, like, out of nutrients. Like, I was low in iron. My blood sugar was plummeting. And I was like, I'm going to go have. a steak and a Caesar salad. Like, that's what I need to have right now. Like, that's going to bring me out in a Diet Coke. No ice. My steak comes out. It's Carpaccio. So it's paper then.

The steak. They cut it up like this. And there's paper then. Raw? And I don't know. Room temp. And then the Caesar salad comes out just like it looked like they had just cast a net until a very shallow pond and caught every little fish they could find and stack them up almost like yeah almost like cartoon style stack of fish on top of the salad and so like one by one I moved I removed these like little metallic anchovies just like off my plate and I'm like maybe maybe like now that I've removed them no I mean the whole thing was like and I know that there's I know that there's anchovies and seizure salad but like the less I know the better like seeing that pile and then just moving them over to the plate like I could taste it then you know like I don't want to taste no I don't want to

taste fish on a seizure salad I get it man I wouldn't want that either did you hear that is my stomach what's going on at your stomach it's making tooting sounds your subscription was renewed this week my subscription to your monthly oh nice I think this is separate. Oh. I mean, there's so many things going on. It's incredible.

It's incredible how many things can go on in the same body. Yeah, I agree. Yeah. Maybe you could read Lena Dunham's. I bought it. I have it. I just started listening to the audiobook.

It's incredible. Mine came in. It came in yesterday. Okay. I'm pretty excited. I've heard it's like, I heard it's crazy. I'm so excited.

I love her. She's so funny. just the way she writes stuff is just like they keep clipping things and like headlining things and it's like not the way she wrote it like she said that adam driver threw a chair at a wall next her head right but it was like and then someone was like no that's the relationship they had with their work and like they were just like very in the moment and i was like brook could you imagine we're podcasting so hard that i throw a chair at you i'm i'm excited to get to that part because i've only seen the headline so i'm wondering like what she actually said no i mean it was quoted word for

word. It was just like, no, but she was like, we were so passionate about this. Like, that's what the work was like. And like, I could see Adam Driver's character throwing a chair at her. The headline, like, painted it like, Lena, like had a big problem with him. No, but that's not what she meant. Right. So I'm excited to see what she meant. Yeah. When I got there. Um, I had something happened last week. That's pretty fun. I was home all week last week. My dad had surgery. So we were just like in and out. Just like he had to stay at the hospital for like a couple days. Right. And. And. So. So the nurses came in. It was like new nurses that I had not seen. And they come in and they're like, hey, we need, would you do us a favor to me? Because I was the only one in the room besides my dad. Would you sign as a witness? And I was like, oh my God, what are they about?

Are they about to pull? My dad's awake. I was like, you know, like, what are you about to ask me to do? They're like, can you come to another room, the patients next door? need a witness on a non-resuscitation, like a no-resuscitation. Do not resuscitate form. Yeah. And I was like, you want me? Sure. Yeah. I never get picked to, you know. And so I'm like, okay, yeah, I'll go. And like, all my way out, I was like, should we do a swap? Do they want to come in and sign for him?

About my dad? Was the person that they were signing about, like, awake? I didn't look at the person in the bed. Okay. I was just, the story is about, and I'm realizing that I haven't even heard anyone laugh or you haven't smiled or anything. Well,

I'm just like mostly curious. Yeah, I didn't want to look because, you know, like everyone's kind of naked and in bed, you know? Yeah. But I did a little,

like I was like, oh, you know, because in situations like that, like I have a hard time not being a wise guy. And like I do need to like, make light of everything, which is like not really my place when I'm signing a do not resuscitate

form for someone else as a witness. Sure. But I was like, oh, should we do a swaparoo? Should we have someone come in here and sign for him? And I was like, you want and no one not even randomly my dad didn't think that that was funny. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. That's hard. That's like a read the room situation. Yeah. No, no, no. I didn't, you know, at at that time, like, I hadn't really been talking. I had only really been reading Stoner. Right. For like days on end. So I wasn't rushed. up on the room. Right. Understood.

And I asked them, I was like, can I talk about this on my podcast? And they were like, you're not under Hippo. Only we are. So I was like, okay, cool. Can't hurt. Can't hurt. And then also last week, I saw the craziest tweet while I was at home. What?

Because, you know, when you're telling your parents who like, they've had iPhones as long as I've had an iPhone. know, like I didn't grow up with technology in the way that kids are now, you know, like, we didn't grow up with an iPhone. Right. You know what I mean? I do. Like, my parents got an iPhone the same day I got an iPhone.

We got the family. That's such a good point. Like, so when they say things, I'm like, we've had the same amount of time with these devices. Like, what do you mean, how do I screenshot this? Right. That's such a good point. And why has that never been brought up before? I don't I don't know like and I get that like yeah we're completely fried and yeah we have so I guess like the saying is probably more aimed towards social media which like they don't spend all day on but like they do because they send me reels of like dogs dancing and things and AI all day and like random vitamins I should be taking but um I read this tweet the other day are you ready for the heaviness that will that will be bestowed upon you in about T minus 10 I'm ready

Oh man, I got to read it Oh crap, that sucks Hang on, I have it That's fine Okay, because I don't want to mess it up Because it was really well written And I was like, oh wow, that's gonna be That's gonna be a banger on the pod

Let me find it I know exactly what it looks like So don't worry Um I'm gonna put my mic to my stomach So you can hear this Yeah, I would actually love you I found it

Okay, never mind my mom recently asked how to take a screenshot at first i laughed but then i remembered she taught me how to tie my shoes you know because it's like what dumb at you don't know how to tie your shoes like instead of getting frustrated you just teach them over and over and over again and i get it oh that's really sweet it is sweet full circle you have some patience have some thank you for sharing yeah yeah i'm happy to yeah i'm really happy to in like more pop culture news the casting for Emily Henry's Beach read

has come out and people are so pissed I don't think I've ever seen people as pissed over an announcement a casting announcement but it's we knew how do you say her last name Denver We knew Phoebe D was going to be in it. We did not know who was going to play Gus, who is a beloved character to many.

And it is going to go ahead and be Patrick S. Yeah. As in Patrick Schwarzenegger. And people are very upset. And you might be wondering how I'm feeling. We talked about this. Privately. Yeah.

Yeah. But you might be wondering how I'm feeling publicly. Yeah. Here's the thing Here's what I'll say about this Oh are you gonna Are you actually gonna say something right now? Yeah I'm gonna say what I just what I said to you

Okay Which I don't remember what it was necessarily But I will say that I've read four Emily Henry books And Beech Reed is my least favorite So I don't have that much skin in the game Because I'm kind of just like whatever I didn't connect to Gus as much as everyone else did

So I don't have the passion that a lot of people have about this. I started White Lotus, and I know it's different because this is a rom-com, and I also kind of have trouble seeing him as a leading man romantically. But I started White Lotus being like this fucking guy, you know, and then kind of ended like with such a soft spot for him that I have hope that the same thing could happen in this. Fingers crossed.

I do. I have hope. I'm not excited about it Like I don't really see the vision But I'm holding out hope And that's what I have to say Like I'm not calling it off completely I'm hopeful that he could surprise us

That's what I'll say I don't see it I said at all But I'm hopeful Yeah I said to you Yeah I don't think I don't I mean I just said to you I don't think he has romcom And I don't either has too much for romcom

Or not enough for me I'm coming. I don't know what it is. He could also surprise me. Right. I'm hopeful that he could surprise me like he did in White Lotus. Yeah. So. Did someone just vibrate? What? Did someone just vibrate?

Like me, probably. Your phone is sounding like an, or your stomach is sounding like a notification. My phone is on silent. Oh, wow. I'm getting phantom vibrations. Obviously, there's a lot of heated rivalry lookalike content. But there was this one recently where the winners looks more like Shane and Ilya than Hudson and Connor did. And now they're dating. Yeah.

I saw that because I was confused why they were making out at a hockey game. And I was like, wait, what are they doing promo for? They won the freaking contest. And then I realized it was not them. And now they're dating. And they look more like Shane and Ilya than Shane and I did. do it's incredible and I wish them nothing but a entire lifetime of success and happiness. I heard it's for, I heard it's just for like fun.

Like I don't think they're actually dating. Yes, they are. I don't think they are. Yes, they are. Because they weren't dating before the thing. No, they weren't. This is how they met. Wow.

That's, look at them. Is that not insane? I can't, can we make them, computer. Can we make them bigger? No, it is really, like, crazy. I think they are dating. There's been interviews with them. I know.

I'm sure it would be very fun to pop off like this and then be invited and put on the jumbo. You can't fake shit like this. You just can't. I don't know. No. They are the moment. That's crazy. Did you see?

What? I said, that's crazy. No, I know. It's kind of like, um, uncanny valley yeah nice thanks um i can't believe you didn't go to cocella everyone went to cocella we had bookcon what i had book con the cochella no i know it's just weird because everyone was there oh we didn't even talk about cocella no i know it's this has been a hard

harder episode because i'm trying not to talk about stuff we've already talked about and we we recorded we because we technically did we did the three shows that were also like shooting the shit and then we recorded as well and then we took last week we just didn't do an episode so I'm confused what we did or didn't do. We didn't talk about Coachella because it didn't

Cochella because it didn't happen. What do you mean? We've been seen each other since Coachella happened. Oh, either Coachella's. Yes. Oh, that's really crazy. I think.

No. No, that's wrong. No, it's wrong. Right. We left each other on Saturday. So we left each other before Justin Bieber's first performance. Yeah. Which I loved. I can't watch a lot of it because it's making me upset that I wasn't there. But I would have killed to be there. I love Justin. A lot of people don't know that. I'm a huge believer. Yeah. I'm a huge, huge Justin Bieber fan. I've been a Justin Bieber fan. You can scroll way back in my TikTok. I have posted Justin Bieber songs over and over and over again for 2020.

like when I downloaded TikTok. I'm not a fan of this. Like I get, I get that like these catalog things. What do you mean you're not a fan of this? I wasn't a fan of playing YouTube. Like, I'm sorry. Like, I'm not.

I know that it was like performance art and whatever, but like, I'm sorry. Like, and I know that people are going to get mad at me. I'm a fan of him, okay? I think this like, this,

I don't know. These things to like, like Sabrina Carpenter goes out there and puts on a show and it's like. Well, she's a show girl. I know, but like, there's something about people okay

and I'm not talking about Justin Bieber for this but like I think this thing where celebrities are like he played the YouTube videos because he just sold his catalog and that was an out for him he didn't he wasn't technically performing the song so like he could still profit off of his performance

and not split the revenue with the people that bought his catalog of music what so like that was a loophole around him having to pay the labels for performing those songs. He sang with them.

But he wasn't like, I don't know, there was some loophole there about like playing the videos, whatever. And then the songs that he owns swag, that's why he did so many of those. Are you sure? I'm 90. Okay.

My whole thing, and again, I would call what he did performing. He sang with the YouTube songs. Well, maybe it wasn't just like all of them. I don't know. He sang with, all of them. Izzy, can we double

check? That's not true. He didn't need a loophole to perform his old Coachella material. Okay, well, I lied then. That's fine to do. What I do on this,

on this podcast is spread misinformation, then we double check, and I'm always wrong. That's okay. That's fine. Because maybe someone else thought that. And now, because that's not true,

I have more ground to stand on that I think if you're being paid $10 million, give the people a show. Sorry, I think it's a little bit like, I haven't heard anything. negative from anybody that was at Coachella. Okay.

Everybody who was there was like this was the best thing that's ever happened to me. I think we have different people on our feed. You had people at Coachella that didn't like it? Yeah. And I also think he really amped it up for Weekend 2. Yeah. I was going to say if I was at Weekend 1 versus Weekend 2, I'd be upset. Yeah.

But. Because Siza coming on and then Billy Eilish coming on. That was cool. But that's all I'll say. I would have wanted more of a show. I would want more of like a Sabrina carpenter. That's just not Justin. I know.

I know. But 10. Just like when when people get paid all this money and I know that that's the stature that they're in and all this is what they deserve. Like I just want more, you know, like, and I'm not one to like give grace to people because they are a master's celebrity. And like it's like nostalgic for people to like go see them on there. I know people have fun. Whatever. I'm sorry.

I like. It's fine. A lot of people feel that way too. I just don't. I know. I think that it could be because you, like, grew up as a believer and a fan of, like, you know what I mean? I didn't have. I did, but I wasn't like, I wasn't, I didn't feel the same way about Justin that I did about

one direction. Like, I loved Justin, but I didn't have any posters. I was just, like, more of a casual Justin fan. But I did grow up with him. Yeah. I don't know. But I don't know. I feel like you're paying.

for the name and for him to perform at Coachella, and he did. He's just, he's not a showboy. I know. I know. I would just want him more. That's fine. It's fine to want. I know. The flesh desires with the flesh desires. No. Your flesh wanted more. My, my flesh wanted more from from him. That's fair. That's why I talk now after reading Stoner. I get that. We've got to find you your bridge book. No, full-blown, if I wouldn't have started dungeon crawl, Carl, like, it's, which is, by the way, impossible to say every time I say it. Like, I skip like three three vowels. Well, actually, the first one is dungeon crawler, Carl. Do you know the names of the other one? You can't say it either. What? What? You can't say it either. Dungeon Crawler Carl.

Oh, now you can. But listen to the names of the other ones in the series. You ready? Yeah. First is Dungeon Crawler Carl. Then two, Carl's doomsday. scenario. That's fine. Then three, the dungeon anarchist cookbook. Okay. Four is the gate of the feral gods. Five, I love, which is the butcher's masquerade. Six is the eye of the bedlam bride. I don't like these. Like, I shouldn't, why did I do this? Seven is the inevitable ruin. And eight is a parade of horribles. What did I get myself into? Um, I, it could be amazing. I don't know, man. It sounds like something inferno.

What's it called? Dante's Inferno. Dante's Inferno. I think it's very different. It's like levels to this shit. It was a video game. Dante's Inferno was levels of hell. Right.

How many? Seven. Seven. This is eight. Oh, I don't think this is based off of the levels of hell. I'm not double check. because it is like demons and it's like demons and gargles

and stuff and Princess Donut I know I know that Princess Donut isn't it like biblically accurate for Dante's Inferno Dante's Inferno dungeon crawler Carl this Reddit thread So is dungeon crawler Carl

Someone inspired by a weird commentary in dungeons Dante's Inferner So So is dungeon crawler Carl somewhat inspired or a weird commentary on Dante's Inferno answer? I don't know. Derntero's Inferno. It features an 18-level post-apocalyptic dungeon that draws inspiration for Dante's Inferno. I feel like maybe you just try hell instead of Dante's Inferno.

It's saying it. Dante's Inferno. No, but I tried Googling like is Dungeon Crawler Carl based off of hell? I did. The structure. like Dante's journey, Carl and Dunna descend through increasingly dangerous levels, levels of hell, parentheses, rather than traversing a flat landscape with Mordecai acting like a Virgil like guide. Who's Mordecai? Oh, the rat man.

Oh. It's really reminding me of Gregor the Overlander. Ugh. Did you read those? No. These were so good, Connor. That was like a cartoon book, right? No, it was Suzanne Collins' books before Hunger Games.

Oh my God. I've like, Oh, yeah, I did. I did for a second. Wow. Maybe you could read the new Hunger Games book. Did you see, oh yeah, I could. Did you see they just, they, wait, hey. Hi.

They were selling Aragon in the front of Barnes & Noble when I went. Really? Yeah, how crazy is that? You read Aragon. You read Aragon, right? Yeah. I never read Aragon. And I really like the movies.

There's no Aragon movies, is there? Help. There's no Aragon movies, which is kind of crazy, unless there are. Totally is. There are. Appreciate it. And it was good. Who is the, who plays the guy?

Who's that boy? Oh, Ed Spleerrers? Ed Spleers? I don't know him. He looks like Taryn Edgerton. He totally does. And then this just reminded me too, because this just came out over the weekend. and this was supposed to be

I was going to put this in with the Colleen Hoover thing. They just announced the new Meet the Falkers. I can't wait. And it's them and Ariana Grande. And I do,

this gets a pass from me because I do think Ariana Grande is like extremely funny and she's like a obviously good actress but like she's funny. Like I always forget that about her. But it does pull me out a little bit and Meet the Falkers is like so one of my my favorites.

Brilliant. I love Ben Stiller so much. He was my first age and appropriate crush. Ben Stiller? Yeah. How old were you when you had a crush on Ben?

Like 12? And he was... Older. Like 40s, 50s? I don't know. Wait. You know what's crazy? What?

Did you watch Full House? Yeah, of course. Did you know that if they filmed it today, Uncle Jesse would have been born in 2003? What do you mean? Uncle Jesse was 23 in that show. No. So he would have been more in 2003.

Uncle Jesse was 23. Yeah. No. Tough not to swallow. That's making me sick. Yeah. What's stressing me out now is you know how there's all those TikToks? It's like, don't stress.

You're only in season one of friends. No, you're not. No, I'm saying like that those used to comfort me. and now it's like, no, I'm like season eight now. Baby, I'm moving out of the city. Baby, like what happens once I'm past season 10? Guess what, baby? What baby?

You're on the first season of Grey's Anatomy. That's true, baby. And then everyone dies in that show. Yep. Everyone dies everywhere all the time. Nice. Let's call it how to wrap and the podcast for today. Can I give myself a pat on the back that I did not bring?

bring up anything doom and gloom today? Oh my God, pat yourself on the back. No war. I didn't talk about UFOs at all. Thank you. It's really hard because I went into a comment spiral recently, as in I was reading them, which I am really good at not doing, but slept recently. And we can't win because sometimes it's like I need Connor to stop talking about this.

This is not why I watch the podcast. And sometimes it's Brooke really needs to let Connor talk about this. he's so politically aware woke king and she's really like damping putting a damper on him him being a woke king and it's like I'm just you can't win here's what I'm getting drafted we can't win and so we just truly have to do it feels good and so if you want to talk about doom and gloom then you can is what I'm saying well only talk about it if it comes across my desk and I'm really worried about something yeah guess what I'm also going to put a funny light spin on it So if that's upsetting, I do encourage you to press forward by 30 seconds.

Okay. And I, I, it is, it is everyone's, it is everyone's right to not like a bit of what we do. That's totally okay. That's so true, Connor. Yeah. And thank you guys for watching. Okay. Well, I'll see you later.

Negative feedback is not welcome or construction criticism. Never welcome. So we'll see you next week, unless you're watching the bonus and we'll see you in right now. See yeah. See you.