Brooke and Connor Make A Podcast - The Advocate and Her Devil

Episode Date: October 10, 2024

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Have you ever had chopped liver? No. Okay, Connor, get this. This is like a classic Jewish deli food that has always been, because it was Rosh Hashanah this weekend. Yeah. Oh, happy Rosh Hashanah. Thanks, Connor. Thank you.

So there's always chopped liver at these type of events with my family. And I'm always like, ew, like that's so disgusting that, like you guys are eating that. It's literally like chopped up chicken livers. in like a moose, kind of. So my whole life I've been very anti-chop liver, and like my whole family loves it, and I just, like, wouldn't even go near it. But this weekend, I was like, you know what?

I'm a grown woman. And I might, it might be time for me to try the chopped liver. And I tried the chopped liver, Connor? Delicious. A delicacy. Oh, my gosh. what they were saying this whole like I just like sometimes want to kick myself for being so stubborn it reminds me of when I wouldn't watch Nathan for you and curb it's like you deprived yourself for so long because what because why well I think chopped up because it's mashed up chopped up inside of an animal because it's chopped because it's chopped it's a organ that's been chopped up and absolutely just bust it's the bloody a bloody organ that's been mashed up what just because it comes from it's literally innards it's what that's what that's

what they describe it as innards and it's just in a moose. What gives? What the hell it gives? Also, like, the English language really has not helped because, what am I chopped liver? It makes it sound like a piece of crap meal. Right. Also, it would. I wouldn't touch it.

I wouldn't be against calling it something else. I think chopped liver is really, like, things don't need to be called what they literally are. Right. It's not an orange. Like, what's paté? Who, like, do you know, you're looking at me and you're asking me what patte is? I have an aunt's patay. He lives in Idaho.

Oh, no, I don't, that, that's not something I want. That looks like shit. Patte is very, uh, what is it? That is just shit from my butt. Various ingredients. Okay, so what isn't various ingredients? Well, patte is a forced meat. It's a forced meat.

It's called a forced meat. It's meat from pork, poultry. Okay, I was going to say, like, call it, paté or something because like obviously we're not like hey does anyone want a cracker with forced meat on it you know like patte did what it needed to do and called itself patte this literally feels blasphemous to read out loud various ingredients are used which may include may include it's mystery meat patte is mystery meat yeah this this this is a meat who got rebranded into pete no right and that's like worse than being chopped liver is being forced meat so I'm just saying

to be honestly but like chopped liver really is just being honest and that's all we could ever ask. It's being transparent. It's being so transparent. So I don't know. I'm actually torn between it. Maybe it should just be who it is and maybe it should be someone else entirely. Listen, I agree.

Anyway, moral of the stories, it was delicious. And moral of the story is take off your mask and just be chopped liver maybe sometimes. Yeah. October is the month for it. I'm so sorry. So is Pate like? It's like spam, I think. It's spam.

Okay. because I was going to ask, what is spam? Spam is delicious. Spam is another forced meat. Spam is one that, obviously, it's probably got like the most preservatives in it out of any food ever because it's like canned. Spam is pork and ham meat, salt, water, potato starch, sugar. Okay, so salt. Spam is pork and ham.

Is that forced? Pardon my, pardon my French. What is the difference between pork and ham? Yeah, it's an awesome question. Okay. Oh my God, and that was the first thing that came up on Google. There's different cuts. Ham it, okay.

So what cuts is it? I would say that this is not a forced meat. No, this is not a forced meat at all. This is kind of like a voluntary meat. And I don't want to be like the person I used to be who wouldn't try chopped liver, but I do think I'm anti-forced meat. Forced meat does feel a little bit forced. Wait, Izzy, can we look up what exactly?

have forced meat. It doesn't mean like more than one animal in in like low. I'm not loving this. Yeah, a mixture. Yeah. Oh, you could also you might be wondering what forced air heating is too. Yeah, forced air heating is just going to be an AC, an HVAC situation. Um, forced meat I think is multiple. Okay. Oh, that's like a damn. That is a damn sham. That's, I can't believe I'm alive during the same time as forced meat. Yeah. Mm-mm-mm. That's something that I'll probably... Ideally, Pate will never cross my desk. No, I am. I'm hoping that as well. Is there any foods that are like a meat on meat that we don't like that we have like...

I was thinking a bacon wrap date, but like a date's not meat. Are there any things like that? What do you mean? Yeah, like a BLT. Or like literally like... Oh my God, Connor. Our turkey BLTs are forced meat. Well, they're not ground up into a pace And then put in a can for us to squeeze into our gullets Yeah, but I'm saying we are eating like pig and turkey together which

Yeah, I mean if you go to one of my favorite delis in in New York, Fico's and I get Freaking the Italian special which is so big I almost split my lip trying to take one single bite of it Actually, it's impossible like you gotta like eat it in a spiral because it's got every type of meat on it, which genuinely when I, when I think about that too much, no. Okay. You know. Never mind. A lot of things are actually multiple meat.

No, no, no, no. But they're not forced meat. They're not all ground. I couldn't eat it in a, you know, like they're all separately. Yeah, I understand. I guess maybe like everything we eat ends up being forced meat in our bellies. Yeah. Yeah.

Unfortunately, most things, yeah, get ground up. Yeah. Oh my gosh. We are forced meat vessels. I'm forced meat, you're forced meat. We, she, he, are forced meat. And welcome back to Brooke and Connor make a podcast. If you're sipping on a patte cocktail right now, apologies for making you realize what's in that joint.

But we are a little bit, we're visited by the ghosts of Brooke past, present and future here on my left. Brooke, where are you the hell? Right now? Yeah. Um, I'm in Philly. Ooh, spooky. I'm also in the studio as computer wife. Yeah, welcome.

What am I wearing? You're wearing a beautiful, all-black skims. Oh, I'm in the skim set. Wait, are these skims? Oh, your skim set is gorgeous. I've never seen. It's actually legitimately a skim's top and bottom set. I must feel so buttery and soft.

Oh, it actually feels really good. Oh, great. It also is like exactly what a waiter would wear. A skims waiter at the skims cafe. Have you been to the skims cafe? Yeah. Oh my God, awesome. Wait, I went to the Capitol One cafe before my show.

Genuinely, like, it was six people standing to the right of the cafe area, like ready to sign you up for credit cards. They had a cornhole. And they were like, hey, what's up? but I was like, hey, I'm just going to get a coffee. They're like, great. I go up to the huge barista counter. And I was like, hey, I'm just going to get like a latte. And then I made the mistake of ordering breakfast at the Capital One Cafe.

Like you order? I got the avocado toast. The guy was like, oh, my God, like, no one's ever ordered the avocado toast here before. He was like, I don't even know how to, I want to be honest. I don't know how to, I don't know the first thing about it. He put just a full on blown half of an avocado, like cut it and like put it in a to go box, a piece of bread, untosted, and some radishes on the side. And then my latte. Yeah.

I think I would like that more than the way that most cafes are making avocado toast nowadays. I want to, like, it was fully like not a ripe avocado. It was just like a hard as rock avocado because they were not expecting. I don't even know if he knew it was like a real avocado or if it was fake. You could throw it through a window and loot a store with this avocado. Sure. I was just trying to get at the fact that like we've gone so far from the simplicity of what avocado toast used to be. And that was why it was so amazing because it was simply just avocado toast.

And we've flown too far away from the sun. I agree. And I want to take it one step further that the quality of avocados that we're receiving now have rapidly declined. and there's a quality control issue because they're just pumping out these little prematurely born avocados now. I used to get a fat-ass avocado and it would last me a week, one avocado.

Because they were jumbo-tron. I used to only eat avocados like from birth to age 25 and for whatever reason now I think I overdosed. I think that, yeah, it's one of those things that kind of almost could have

the consistency of eggs, scrambled eggs. Yeah, it gets to that point where it's like, exactly well said thank you we used to in Hawaii we used to go smack them down with PVC pipes out of trees and then eat them with a fork and hot sauce

hey there was someone sitting next to me at the Capital One Cafe that fully brought a full meal in from another restaurant but there was there was seats at the Capital One Cafe Am I supposed to know about the Capital One Cafe? Have you never heard of the Capital One Cafe? it's the credit card company has opened locations I think to get people in there to sign up for cards and they like are everywhere I see them all the time why would you why would you walk in because there's never a line and it's kind of like a big welcoming cafe so there'd be no reason

not to they've cornhole after all and I was just saying it was funny how it took I went to order a smooth and he's like I don't know why that's on the menu we don't have any of the ingredients and like didn't know how to make the latte. I think it was just coffee with like a splash of milk. And it was funny because it took this guy so long to make everything. And there was a line of people. And then there's six people trying to sign people up for credit card just like hanging out playing cornhole. And this poor barris is...

What? Do you have a capital one card? Yeah, of course I do. I got 10% off my avocado test, which was $12. Actually? Yeah, so it was... Yeah, I do. that. That's a great incentive. Yeah. I think that they can maybe

hire or like provide resources for the barista to order things to make things that are on the menu. That was my one qualm. Yeah. But otherwise it was a great experience at the Capital One Cafe. Oh my God. I bet a hot chocolate at the Capital One Cafe is great. I don't think that they would know how, I think that they would heat up a Hershey's bar and hand you it if you ordered a hot chocolate. Like a... That's what I'm. like about the Capital One Cafe from what I've heard they're going back to simplicity.

They're doing things their own way. And I like it. I like like it. Yeah, that was. Oh, you should have done the Croke-Monsieur. What's that? It's like that fancy kind of ham sandwich. Oh, I promise you that was not in the wheelhouse or the brief.

It's on the menu. I would have liked to see what they came up with. I liked how he was just like, no, we don't order that. We don't have any ingredients for it. and he was making a smoothie and I was like, do you have smoothies? And he's like, no. I was like, what are you doing? What are you making back there?

Well, how's, how's Philly been? You went to a wedding this weekend? Yes, I'm sorry that I'm like a little bit off kilter. I really, I had a great weekend, but a draining weekend. Yeah. Yeah, so I'm a little bit pooped. But yeah, I'm here for a wedding. The wedding happened.

I was very anxious. for the wedding because it was like a friend from like kindergarten through high school. And like I haven't seen so many of those people since I graduated. Yeah. High school. So I was obviously like, oh my God, like everyone's going to be looking at me, blah, blah, blah. Believe it or not, most people were actually looking at the bride. Yeah.

So it ended up that no one was looking at me. And then I got a little bit, a little bit perturbed by that. So it was like you win some, you lose some at the end of the day. But it was great. Obviously, like I had no reason to be anxious. No one cared about anyone but the bride, which is great. She's so gorgeous and perfect. And it was a lovely wedding.

And yeah, I do want to let you know that I feel like I'm going to be moving back here eventually. To Philly? I think so. Wow. Why? I don't know. I kind of just realized like, oh, every time I come back here, it's like, yeah, I'm like home. Yeah.

And that feels nice. You know? I don't share that about like where I grew up. But I understand. I think there's also this thing that when you go to a wedding where a bunch of your like high school college friends are, it feels like, oh my gosh. Like a final episode of a season of like a bunch of friends going through stuff. it's like, oh, it's just like, feels good. Yeah, that's true.

And it's so fast. Like, every time I get off the plane, it's like, oh, okay, thank God, I'm back. Hmm. Yeah, and like, I always thought, like, I would just stay in California. But now I'm like, wait, fall is so beautiful here, no? Fall is beautiful. Autumn is here, no? Yeah.

No, I want to give you, like, a five-year warning. Oh, good, good, okay. When I'm back in falafel, I feel it. I was going to try to... When I'm not, I feel it. I was going to try to make Philadelphia into something that fit that song, but I could not. But I'm back and fall... Like, I don't necessarily need to be in Philly.

Like, I'd like to be in New York, but I don't like New York. So I was like, oh, what about, like, could you... Like, what... I could end up doing New Jersey. Yeah. And then you have options. everywhere. This is going to spread like wildfire as soon as you say that you're interested in moving to New Jersey. Guys, I might be moving to New Jersey. No, I don't see that happening, but who knows, honestly. I could see you in, like, Brooklyn. No, I really don't like New York. Well, that's, like, outside of Manhattan, so I feel like, I feel like you don't like Manhattan.

No, I don't like Brooklyn either. You don't? No. Oh, wow. I don't like any of the boroughs. Okay, damn. Two City E for me. She's anti-Borrow Brook. Who would have thought? Don't spread that around. You said it, girl, not me. I just labeled it.

I said I don't like the burrows, and then you said you're anti-Burrow-Brook, which feels a lot more intense. Are you not ready to take on a strong opinion? No, I feel you. I'm excited to get to New York in November. I'm so excited. I'm going tomorrow, actually.

For what? I need to see the outsiders. Oh, right, right, right, right, right. That'll be fun. By the time you see me next, you guys, I will have seen the outsiders, and we live in time. So say goodbye to the Brooke that you know right now

because she can't come to the phone anymore by next week. Bye, Brooke. Bye, Antiburow Brooke. See ya. I can't wait. Everyone's saying it's really nice over there right now on that side of the on that side of the country.

It really is gorgeous. Like it's going to be like 68 degrees. Wow, Brooke. The way it sucks. The biggest balls that have ever existed in California right now. It's crazy. You look outside and it's just white.

It literally looks like we're in purgatory. Like because the sun is shining so much? No. We have the most dense fog. You open your window and you're like, oh my God. It's over. Like it looks like Truman Show. They like opened up the curtain and like,

I've been on a set the whole time. It's in that, it's in those five months of the year where it's not sunny and it's not cloudy. It's just dense ass fog. Oh, I can't wait until it rains there. Oh. I'm sorry. Like I usually am so,

I do love L.A. I have loved my life in L.A. But for whatever reason right now, I'm feeling very anti-L.A. weather. Yeah, I'm, I'm preaching about how fucking bad it sucks. so you're good. Yeah.

It's just like there's nothing. It makes you feel sick all day when it's like cloudy. I don't know how people like live in places where it's foggy all the time. You just like can't really win with the seasons. Like you think you're winning when you move to L.A. And it's like, oh, there are no season sunny at the time. And then you come back here and you're like kissing the autumn leaves on the ground. It's just like.

No. People also forget that L.A. has. Literally, it's half the year is really, really nice. And I think it's literally like six months that are, like, it's cloudy the whole time. Is that new? Is that like a new thing that started happening? Yeah. I'm making myself nervous that I'm becoming like schizophrenic.

No, you're not. Who put the clouds there recently? Where did the clouds come from? You're all good, but I am like, if I ever. like reach a level of like rich rich. The first thing I'm doing is becoming a bicostal young woman. Yeah, that would be my ideal situation.

But I want to be tri-coastal. I want to be dim, I want to be pan-coast. I literally was just about to call myself a demisexual, bi-coastal, ju-as. By, wait, demisexual,

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That's my name. Don't wear it out. Oh, my gosh. Wait, what fry coast are you doing? I want, like, a Texas facility compound in Austin. Three coasts in Texas? No, just like three points across the country. You keep saying just tech.

You haven't said anything besides Texas. New York, L.A., Texas. Oh, okay. Tricycline. I'll do, I think I want to do a cabin in Maine during the summer. but I haven't ever been to Maine. Okay, Ernest Hemingway. Yeah, genuinely.

I want to do that. Well, I want... The Stephen King says it really doesn't matter where, where you are when you write, as long as the door is closed and you're focused. You know what I mean? Yeah. Exactly.

I'm always saying that too. I accidentally took my vitamins last night, which I... It's my wellness pills that I take, which probably raises so many red flags for people. What do you mean wellness? General wellness pills. I took these right before I went to bed because I was like,

I want to wake up feeling good. I want these vitamins to get into my body and start working through my system while I sleep. I thought I was like being really smart, full-blown Adderall situation, staring at the ceiling, writing in my notes. I'm like blasting my eyes with blue light at midnight.

I got in bed at 10, midnight. And I'm working away. So I'll never do that again. So I'm a little bit out of it too. No, Connor, the same thing happened to me on Saturday night. But a little bit different. But I had a cup of coffee at the wedding. Yeah.

At like 11.30. And then, because I thought I was like, oh, I'm going to be out very late. I went home at around 1145. Okay. And then was hit with like, I was like drinking at weird times during the day. so I got like a hangover or like scaries at night. Yeah. So I was experiencing the type of anxiety and sleeping on my brother's couch,

which like when you're having this type of anxiety, like you need to be in your own bed. But I was actually having that experience on a couch that wasn't mine. So I was like truly like I don't think I'll make it to the morning. Yeah. And at around 3.30, I was like, I can only think of like one thing that I can do. And it was like, you know, like last resort when you like drive to Maldo in journal. Yeah.

My last resort was spending $70 for the yearly subscription of the Calm app. Yeah, it's really expensive. Because I was like that, like there's got to be something that's going to fix the way I am right now. And so when you open the app, it says take a deep breath, and that did help a little bit. But there's this one called Love Letter from an Englishman narrated by Jonathan Bailey. So I was like, oh, this will fix me. Like, if anything has fixed me before, like, it didn't because this is what's going to be what fixes me. Right.

It says, join Jonathan Bailey as he sails in a tropical paradise, a sea captain writing to his beloved. Perfect. Like, what could be better than, like, that and male yearning, you know? Please listen to what it was. Do you mind if I play you an excerpt? Are we allowed? Will that? Okay.

Yeah, please. I'm going to fall asleep. And it as far as the eye could see. before dissolving into a haze of green. And to the west, enormous boulders towered like marbles, sprouted over with spiky yellows and tufts of grass. I love tuft, the word tuft.

It was all about the like ecological climate where I was under the impression that it was going to be about him yearning for his beloved. Oh, you got smut brain, girl. It was 45 minutes of just like the landscape of the boulders. But yeah, it was $70. That sounds really relaxing. You might really like it, but I was looking for something a little bit different.

And I do think the marketing, like if you're, if a captain is at sea and hasn't seen his beloved and is writing specifically to his beloved, he's going to be talking about more than the boulders, IRL, but not in the call map. Maybe she's really into landscaping That's true Back then I'm sure that they had gardens That's landscaping But I'm sure that they needed it to live So I don't know if it's landscaping for the joy of it

As much as it is landscaping for survival and necessity But I found something crazy on my red eye going to Florida And I was like looking for something to listen to It's like a five hour flight, you know It was overnight and I was like, I want to listen

to something that puts me to bed in the same way. I come across the transcripts from the survivors of the Titanic, the people that survived

and it's re-read in accent, like the same thing. It's like reread and they're reading the transcripts like post-game interviews of the Titanic and they're reading through

what people are saying fascinating stuff. And it was an angle of like the Titanic that I had not really listened to yet and it was interesting and so that was something that I kind of got a little bit addicted to for a second oh my god it's called I guess I should read it off because people are going to ask um hello I don't even know how I would find what I was listening to a week

ago so I apologize no that sounds interesting it was really brings me to I really think we should read a book together. Yeah. Do you have one in mind that you're pitching right now? Yeah, I think you should read that Stephen King one. What is it about? Can you remind me? Did I say that I tell everyone here that I have a crush on Stephen King?

Yes. And before you freak out, like, when I say crush, I just like love him. Because everyone was being really mean to me when I said that on my Instagram. I just, I love, I feel very deeply towards Stephen King. and I think he's... You admire Stephen King. What? You admire Stephen King.

Yeah, that doesn't feel strong enough, though. You have a deep admiration for Stephen King. Yeah, but I just feel more comfortable with the word crush. Do you want to have sex with Stephen King? No, that's not what I'm saying. So it's somewhere in between admiration and sexual. Yeah. A crush is romantic, though.

So that's where I'm... But that's not the same thing as sexual. I would marry Stephen King. And never have sex with him. He also is so in love with his wife. If you read his memoir, it's very beautiful. I actually think he should write a romance. And I'm not sure why he hasn't,

because the way that he is able to articulate the love that he has for his wife is bone-chillingly gorgeous. I'm sure he's probably pretty open to receiving feedback about what he should write about. He's Stephen King, after all. I'll be hard to let him know But I think that He's Stephen He's Stephen Lufor King

Stephen Lufor King But What was he saying Oh yeah I think we should read that one Because it's the perfect mix of like It's historical fiction I would read it

Yeah Is it huge though? No It's huge It's massive It's got volume to it But think about how nice That would look on your shelf

That's true Think about how great that would be like To hold up a book that's about a thousand pages and say I read all of these pages. Thousand. You don't want to start with one that's like maybe in the hundreds, 200 pages? You're asking someone who hasn't read a book since high school, I'm pretty sure, which is embarrassing. But I just don't have the tensions, man.

Would you read a spooky short story? Is it 500 page short story? No, it's less than 200. Oh yeah, I would do that. It's also Stephen King. Perfect. I would do that. I would rather do that.

And I like historical fiction, but a thousand pages is a big commitment for this, you know, man. That makes total sense. But you didn't answer me. Do you like spooky? What? Would you like something spooky? Yeah, I read like, I read like some mysterious, but like the box car children. I read all those.

I read, oh, I read the magic tree house. I read all the oaths. I'm, okay, I'm thinking more of like, okay, totally. I'll work with it. What is, what is so spooky about Stephen King's mystery? You're a horror writer. Horror? Oh, I don't like horror.

Shining or it. See, here's a thing. I, I do, that's not for me. It's not my cup of hot chocolate from the Capitol One Cafe. No, I don't like that stuff. I don't want to see the shine. Like at the shining too much. No, Connor, I'm not asking you about the shining.

I'm saying he has short stories because we're looking at something short. He has short stories that are like 150 pages, but they are spooky. But they're not the shining. I'm just telling you that he also wrote the shining. I want to say when I think of spooky, I think mystery and like what's happening, not like blood, gore and guts and like a clown living in a gutter. Like that's not what I want to look at it. Shining is also like not blood gore and guts.

When I picture the Shining, I picture Jack Nicholson covered in blood with a knife, right? Sure. So I think that... That's like very brief at the end. Oh. And isn't there blood flowing down an entire hallway? I think...

I don't remember. I read the book so long ago, but that might have been an artistic liberty that the movie took. And remind me, who was the actress in that? Oh. Lisa? Shelly Duvall. Shelly Duvall said she was so disturbed from that movie that she never worked in Hollywood again.

I'm pretty sure. Okay, I'm talking about the book. Oh, the book. And I'm not even talking about the book. I'm just telling you that he also wrote The Shining. Oh, okay. I'll try it because I keep an open mind. I do want to say I watched that, speaking of movies, I watched that new Brad Pitt,

George Clooney movie because it just like started playing last night in my house. Have you seen that? No. It's pretty good. I do want to say, um, what is it called?

They're like, wolves. And it's wolf. Are they shifter? Yes. No. They are like the people that, they're like,

they're guys that come in to take, to make things disappear. Like after someone's murdered, they're like, we'll take care of it. It's for rich people, like rich people. I do want to say,

I also watch the AMAs. I do want to say, we should be a little bit alarmed that people like Brad Pitt, George Clooney, and Mariah Carey are working. That's an economic indicator that things are about to go south.

These people do not work and have not worked in so long and now they're putting out like feature films and singing at the AMAs. Brad Pitt's been in tons of stuff. Has he? George, yes.

I mean, coming out with a film together, I think it's just like pulling a lot of people to the movies. That's just something that my ears perked up about. I think they've been working. He was just in, Brad was just in Bullet Train. George was just in that movie. I'm sorry, Brad was just in Bullet Train. That was three years ago. Okay, but that was a big movie.

Like, actors like that don't, like having a big movie three years ago is still working. Raise your hand if you saw Bullet Train. Okay, everyone in this room. Thank you guys so much for listening today. My rides here. Yeah, see, yeah. I just think that there's something there. Mariah Carey also just...

No, let me have to do it, January way out. Mariah Carey also doesn't work. I don't know. I think there's some truth here. I think that they've been doing stuff, and it's just because it's stuff that you haven't seen. Well, if it's stuff that I haven't seen, that it hasn't reached the masses.

That's not true. You're not the masses. You go to the movies all the time. I don't. Like, I wouldn't even see a poster for something. Right, they're targeting people that watch movies. I'm so confused. Don't be.

I think it's just, we've got Princess Diaries three coming out too, confirmed. I'm so excited. They're scraping the bottom of the barrel. What are you talking about? Anna Hathaway was sitting on that until she saw that there's going to be a housing crisis. No, she also sees the beauty of the Princess Ari's franchise. and she's honored to return to a story that's touched so many in women's lives.

Are you really, really nervous about... No, I'm being so dead serious. Me making predictions about the economy? No, I'm being so dead serious. Like, having the word princess diaries and bottom of the barrel in the same sentence. I didn't mean bottom of the barrel. I mean like they're pulling out the big guns.

That's what I meant. That was a bigger... Oh, but I'm feeling like so uplifted by this. Yeah. That's good. They want you to be uplifted so you go to the movies and spend money so Anna Athaway can dive into her Acorn S-saving account to make sure she has an nest egg before the housing crisis. Flaught.

I think it's going to be a great movie. I think it's going to be a great movie. I'm so excited. But we don't know if Chris Pine is coming back yet. And can I be completely honest? Who is he in that movie? Can I be completely honest? I don't give a shit if he comes back.

bring back Michael Moskowitz. He's the piano player. You know what I'm saying? So he was in the second movie. Oh, yeah, yeah. But the first movie. That's so crazy that's Chris Pine compared to the Chris Pine that exists right now. What?

It's crazy that this is Chris Pine compared to the Chris Pine that exists right now with his beard and he. Yeah, but he could shave it. But I'm saying that the love interest from the first movie of Princess Diaries, Michael Moskowitz, is so far superior. that I know it wouldn't be aligned with the books, but if they just brought him back instead of Chris Pine, a lot of people would be much happier. Where is he now?

I don't think in much. Well, if he comes back, that's an economic indicator because he has no workout. What would it indicate? I already said it. Well, can you say it again? that if these people are working again that means things aren't looking great

and they're trying to get make some money oh he's 5-9 perfect perfect um speaking of the economy did you see Tupperware as a full-blown brand

filed for bankruptcy that's so sad to me for some reason Tupperware is Tupperware is over party Tupper got canceled What happened? Do you have any Tupperware? They're just not making any money. People aren't buying Tupperware, I guess.

Um, yeah, I have Tupperware, but it's Ziploc. So is that not Tupperware? I don't know. I don't think it's Tepperware in general. I don't think it's like all to-go food boxes are gone. I just, I don't know. Makes me sad. I love having Tupperware.

I love making extra food and having leftovers. I love eating food out of a Tupperware cold. I like when I make spaghetti in a Tupperware that's been stained by the Spaghetti's of your and I'm eating it out of it. It tastes so good when it's been leached with plastic for days. Leftovers are better. If I could, I would order, if I went out to a nice Italian dinner tonight, I would love for there to be an option for me to order the aged spaghetti and meatballs.

Yes. I'll do the aged spaghetti and meatballs in the plastic. classic Tupperware. Brooke, one million percent? Yeah. Me too. I'll do that as well. It's nice to be back on the on footing.

I know, seriously. I went for the first time last night in my ugs and my in my ugs and my and a flannel and a hoodie and went and got chili from whole foods. Oh, wow. It's been foggy for temperature at night over there. What? What's the temperature at night over there? Well, where I am, it's like 60. Oh my God, that's lovely.

So it's back to like having windows open and stuff. But like right inland, like this weekend I went to this polo match with Vuv, the champagne. Wait, was that what Rob and Suki were at? Yeah. Did you see them? Yes, they were right next to me. You're kidding. No.

Why didn't you start the episode with that? You let me go on about chopped liver and you were next to Robert Pattinson and Suki Waterhouse this weekend. Well, nothing happened. It was just it was like a It was an amazing event The thing was like I am so Talking about conspiracy theories

How come how come like people like that don't sweat It's it's fascinating Like I had to tie I had to wear my sweater Even though I was sweating So that people wouldn't see how bad I was sweating Right It was

Well they're caked in like Settings powder Oh okay Well like on their on their bot Like on their back and front Did you have that close visual access to Rob's back? Yeah. What color shirt was he wearing?

He's wearing like a blue suit. I don't, could you sweat through a blue suit like that? I could. Yeah, Robert Pattinson, I guess not. He doesn't have his active pores as Uncle Phibbs. Also, I think this is like maybe wrong completely. But I think the older, no. I literally was just about to spit something out

that I have literally never heard said before. The older you get, the less you sweat. I've seen some sweaty old. But I'm thinking like, just sweat has something to do with hormones. Yeah, right? So maybe the more they calm down,

the less you sweat, I do not know. The more you calm down. I don't know, you're barking up the lawn tree. Your body's hormones. Even out. It's fascinating. I was sweating.

so much. People tend to sweat less than young people. Oh, interesting. Sometimes you just got to click those dots that you've had in your head that are separate and bring them together. That's such an interesting. Sometimes someone less effective with age. Wow.

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and it won't impact your future fertility. That's Freedom to Be. Use us directed. What was I talking about the reason I went to... Oh, sorry. Oh, because I left the house and it was freezing cold, and then I went 20 minutes, and it was 150 degrees. It was crazy.

It was crazy I think I want to start wearing kilts I don't That might be cultural appropriation If you're not Scottish But I don't know I feel okay with that Do you

Like wearing a kid Like people wear kilts all the time No I don't know Why do you feel like you want to start wearing a kilt Because I would love a breeze And my undercare What about just an athletic sport

Once Skim starts making Plaid athletic athletic sports. Why does it have to be glad? Because I want to wear a kilt. I already said that. I know. I'm trying to get to the deeper meaning.

I don't know. I think someone was wearing one. This guy was wearing one. Okay. That's the answer. And I was like, that looks cool. And it's like, it's like, the reason I want to wear a kilt, I guess, is because you can, it's like, it's like formal attire.

So, like, you can wear it to like an event and be like, that guy's probably naked under there, but he's still fine because it's, I was jealous with the breeze he was probably getting. Are there built in some things under the kilt or is it really just? No, I think you're probably wear underwear, but I wouldn't. We know you wouldn't. I mean, if I was on this podcast wearing my kilt on this podcast, I would have to because of the angle of the cameras and the flow cam.

Sure. Hey, start your online. Oh my gosh, Conner's Kiltz. Yes. Would you do Kilt with a C or Connor with a K? Kilt with a C. Because it'll be like a Kardashian. That is like so close to Connors Clits.

It is literally one mythprint away from Connors Clit. Cootersclits. Dot org.gov. Oh, I also need to share this. small detail about my weekend. While I was away in Florida, my bathroom flooded. Completely, I had like an inch

of water in my bathroom that, and I don't even know where it had come from, both the toilet and the bathtub had what, I don't know what it was. It was like a sludge adjacent material.

It's never just water, is it? Well, no, because it's coming up from somewhere. And so I, like, of course. And it's just like, and listen to this. I had gotten back from the Voo, the, the V-Champaign event, the Vubh, it's called Vub, apparently, but it's like, it takes everything in me, not just be like VU, it's VU. But, and I had a couple glasses of champagne during the day. And I, you know me. I love a cocktail.

Champagne is not for me. It's never been for me. I can usually have one glass. but like we were there for so long and there was nothing else to drink so I had like a couple glasses and I got home and I had to tell my landlord

I was like I am leaving it smells bad in here like I'll leave the door open have your way with my bathroom and I told her I was going to a wedding because I was like I just need to be like what is something that's timely I literally lie why do I lie

or what doesn't matter it smells bad No that makes complete sense to me I'm like, I'm going to a wedding. I think it's because I saw you were at a wedding. I was like, I'm going to a wedding. And she was like, you look great. I love your outfit. And then I was like, you look great.

Like, are you wearing? Like, did you get her? I'm like, drunk from the champagne of it. And I'm like, no, girl, you look great. Look at you. What? And I'm like, what? I snapped out of it halfway through.

And I was like, I'm doing like drunk girls in the bathroom thing with my landlord who's here to like fix my pipes. And we're like compliment. We're having a compliment off in my kitchen. Like, all right. get to work over here because I need to get to the wedding. So that's what happened. It's actually still flooded.

I've been having to pee outside. So you can leave legally that apartment. Well, I think that I'm not going to pay rent this month if it's not fixed today. Like that's so insane. Yeah, it is insane. Oh, it's completely bonkers even. But like your living conditions have just not been. And when I encourage you to take space from the Los Angeles, like, housing market and just, like, take time away and really find a place with, like, a normal landlord and, like, a normal living conditions.

Yeah. I mean, it apparently is you said than done. I guess has been my experience. I feel like this isn't happening to a lot of other people, though. But this is my, this is my life. This is the life I've been given. Yeah, that's a good point. I posted on my story this weekend and then I'm like, of course, my flight from Florida,

my 8 a.m. flight that I woke up at 6 a.m. to go to has been canceled. And the next one, 2 p.m. So I'll be getting home at 11. And I just posted on it was like, God gives me such interesting struggles so that I experience new people. And I get into Ubers that are so scary. and I sign leases with landlords that have me sign india's and like it's just all these things that are so funny that like I need to experience those things to one grow in character because when I have a landlord that's awesome down the road and and they just like really accept my rent and that's the only thing that goes back and forth between us and they ask me if I'm okay and safe every now and then that will be the greatest day of my life and I'll really appreciate that.

But until then... Can I make a special advocate? It's jokes. Yeah. I have had two great landlords. I'm so jealous. And I feel like I can appreciate them without the sewage of it all. I know, I know, man.

I just want you to be in a nice living situation. And I don't think that you have to just accept what you are dealing with. Yeah. also send to my room boom what was that TV fell off the wall

shattered it's still off the wall just sitting on the ground and half of it works so I did watch like TV on half of it last night yeah totally

at least that wasn't your landlord's fault that somehow is I don't know wow but do you want to hear something that could make you feel a little better

yes um I went to see Book of Mormon last night in Philly And I went with my brother and his girlfriend And I was like, don't worry you guys Like I can be in charge of buying the tickets

All good. I do this all the time. And they scan our tickets. And obviously the young man let me know These tickets have already been returned. Yeah. Did you go to Ticketmaster or Step Hub? Actually, I don't even

want to say. Facebook marketplace? Big Hub. A big hub, Live Nation? Nope, Big Hub was the name. Oh, it's like, okay. Like fully third party. No, I think that's fourth party, I would say,

because I would say, fourth bordering on fifth party. Yeah. Big Hub. But luckily they had worse seats available at the box office for triple the price. Yeah.

So thank God for that. So we were still able to see the show. but just another scam and down my knickers and never hurt anyone. It never hurt to just be scammed out constantly. No, it makes me appreciate when you're not. Like, God willing, when I'm able to walk into the outsiders, I'll say, yay, I'm thankful for the opportunity. Right.

Can I play devil's advocate? Many times make me stronger. Can I play devil's advocate? Yeah. This is a message to everyone. people someone DM me the other day and was like oh like why are your tickets $200 to your show I'm like

let's take a step back there is no world in which I would ever sell a $200 ticket to my show you're being scammed always double check if you're buying from even Stubhub and Ticketmaster like I guess that they can sell fake tickets now which is insane

but it sucks because like obviously the ones on Stubhubbub not even now Like Stubhubb is honestly like the same prices. What's it called the main seller? Face value. Yeah. I shouldn't, I definitely should have known with Big Stub.

Definitely. And they're also randomly not answering my emails. So Big Stub now is your chance. Like unless I'd be happy to like clear your name on the next episode. If you're willing to get to. Is it Big Stub or Big Hub? Great question. Or is it stub of Bubba?

It's big stub. Big stub, sorry. Yeah, I'd be totally happy to clear your name on the next episode if you're willing to respond to any. Oh, yeah, Brooke, this looks like a fake website. It's not. It completely looks like a fake website. It's not. It literally looks like I went on Chad GPT and was like create a ticket website.

It is real. So. Oh, my gosh. Speaking of Chat, GBT, GBT. Jeff Dunham is still up and at it That's crazy And the picture is like the most racist bit he does It's with that like fake terrorist doll

That is crazy Speaking of chat, GBT Google made like an AI podcast Explaner Did you guys see this? And someone on Reddit typed in Fart poop and then like had Google AI make a podcast about it It's our podcast

That reminds me we should call our podcast To play devil's advocate Devil and Advocate make a podcast The devil and his advocate Make a podcast Yeah Or how about the advocate and his devil Excuse me, the advocate and her devil

Yeah, that could be, yeah The devil's a woman The devil's a woman I know the devil's a woman Wow Okay I do want to talk about the crumble cookies thing. It's so funny.

Okay. Tell me about it. Did you hear there was a crumble cookies. You know crumble cookies. Of course. There's a crumble cookies pop up in Sydney, Australia. And everyone was like, these are absolutely vile. Like, these are so disgusting.

What the hell is going on? And so they started, like, reaching out to these people that had the pop up And they're like, are you, like, of the crumble, these tastes stale? Like, are you guys a part of Crumble Incorporated? And they're like, no, we're just big fans. We flew to America and bought like 700 crumble cookies, brought them back, rented a place, sold them for $18 a piece, $18 a cookie. And they're all from like weeks ago. They're all like weeks old.

How much is a crumble cookie on U.S. soil? I think like $5, right? I was going to say I don't think it's too far off from 17. It's expensive but not $17. I mean, I don't even, I, this like that these have no appeal to me to a guy like me. Oh, Connor, they are really good. Oh, my God, a three pack is $8.99. Oh, a single is $4.99.

Yeah, five bucks. So they were selling the same price. What's the one that's not crumble? For one. I don't know. This never like really rank that this never really like. Got me excited. What?

Last crumb. That's what I'm thinking of. I like, like them. Like, really, really. I don't know. I think I ended up, I think they might crumble or last crumb. I'm thinking of the one that's 140 per pack. Oh, I've had Last Crum.

It was good. Oh, my God. Last crumb was good. It's just nothing, there's nothing like having, like, the office-style box of cookies sitting in your one-bedroom apartment, and you're walking by every four minutes and taking off, like, a corner and be like, I'll just have, I'll just have one more money. How much is one last crime, Izzy?

Can you not get even get them? It's $140. Yeah, wow. That she's crazy, y'all. Levine is also, I know a lot of people don't love them, but I think maybe my favorite. I love a classic chocolate chip cookie. You really don't need to keep.

I don't have bulk in the middle. I don't need that. That's a cake. This is a cake. These cookies are cakes. It's shaped as a cookie. How amazing is that? We are lost as a nation.

We're lost. I think they'd be really good if they were small. I don't like the fact that they're massive cookies. I also like a single bite brownie. I think those are amazing. Do you like baked by Melissa? I do. Yeah, I love baked by Melissa.

Melissa could bake me into any day. Okay, you should let her know. I regret saying that. I don't even know what I meant by it, but I regret it. Wait, who is TikToker, Mr. Prada, and why was he arrested for murder? Ew, it's like a really dark story. Okay. Do you not want to get into it? No, basically, I don't really understand the details, but I guess his TikToker killed his therapist.

And it went back a couple years, and I guess a couple years ago he had accused his therapist of like groping him. I don't know what's happening with that But that is That is really scary stuff Damn, that'll be a Ryan Murphy production Yeah, oh my gosh Did you literally go to hell by the way Ryan Murphy?

Yeah Yeah, that's I'm saying That was my whole rant last Before he's come out And now he's saying like they owe me They should be thank you. I know that they should be sending him flowers He's so sick and twisted

But like obviously like we should yeah Ryan Murphy Ryan Murphy Ryan Murphy is gonna be needs to be in a Ryan Murphy

show because he seems twisted he seems twisted he is the American horror story and this whole time he was telling us that it's right under your nose it's right under your nose

I hate that he made glee oh that's telling um did you see Ellen came out with her special too no I didn't Yeah, I haven't heard anything about it, which is kind of funny.

Except it had the most dramatic trailer known to man. It's crazy. I will say that, like, I always did find, I always, I found myself chuckling when Ellen was on when I was little. So I would give it a chance. It says from the independent Ellen DeNerner's Netflix specials, Bizarre on Funny and Self-Pidying. I could be interested. Yeah, see, I had that. I was going to say it seemed smug.

Smudge and arrogant. Oh, smudge She's acting a little smudged Um No, it's just like I thought I thought her on her show was a little smug And Daisy

I did always like her show Which maybe is a I think you liked the people on her show But I don't think I don't know if you like Maybe sometimes I get confused Liked Ellen You know I I feel like

Ellen was kind of always holier than thou it felt that way. I think with her and James Corden, obviously there's something sinister happening, but I always liked the things they did outside of the show. Like, I always liked when Ellen, like, sent people in and told them what to say in certain situations,

like she did with Harry Seiles and Adele in those videos. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah. When she's them under cover. Vaguely. And, like, and James Corden's, like, crosswalk musicals. Like, I always appreciated, like, their extra stuff. even though that probably has nothing to do with them

and everything to do with the people that are working behind the scene. Writing the show, yeah. I don't know, but I guess her whole thing was like, see, let's see, what's changed since you guys saw me last? I mean, I got some chickens. And, oh, yeah, I was kicked out of the entertainment industry. It's like, okay, you were kicked out?

Yeah. Were you kicked out? I'll watch it and report back. I don't know. I don't know about all that right now. Everyone's been begging me to watch the Hot Rabbi show. I think it's called Nobody Asked for this with Adam Birdie and Kristen Bell. Oh, yeah, yeah.

Obviously so right at my alley and I will watch. I watch the first episode. It's taking, it really is taking me a second to like get into TV. I really have lost the attention span for it over the past year. But just know, I want y'all to know, like I am watching slowly but surely making my way through it. Yeah. I'm not really into TV right now because mine's. in pieces on the ground in my living room.

Totally. So I'm more into sitting on my phone. No, yeah, that's also, don't get a twisted. That's a passion project of mine as well. Yeah. But, um, well, I'll see you in the bonus. Okay. Also, I want to say I'll be in Memphis, Tennessee, and I'll be in Lansing, Michigan,

and I'll be in Grand Rapids, Michigan this weekend. And I'll be one other secret third place that I can't. can't say. Oh, really? Fourth place. Okay. All right, you guys, thank you so much for listening. We'll see you in the bonus if you even care about us at all, or we'll see you next week.

And also, please subscribe to YouTube. I need that more than air or water. Thank you guys so much. See you. Bye, thank you. Be safe if you're in Florida. I'm thinking of you guys. Bye.

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