The Viall Files - E74 New Year with Wells Adams

Episode Date: January 1, 2020

Wells Adams, bartender from Bachelor in Paradise and good friend, joins Nick for a special New Year’s Day episode! Nick and Wells reflect on 2019, they share their favorite New Year’s Eve memories, and they discuss their theories on why Wells attracts so many great things into his life. What's your New Year's resolution? Happy New Year! THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS: MTV SIESTA KEY: http://www.mtv.com/shows/siesta-key RITUAL: https://ritual.com/viall ATHLETIC GREENS: https://athleticgreens.com/viall BEST FIENDS: https://download.bestfiends.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

you're crazy happy new year everybody 2020 2020 we made it you know just wanted to get to 2020 you did it i did it yay you know when I was a kid, I thought we'd have flying cars by now. Back to the future style. And yet, no, we're still- We're close. We got that Tesla truck.

Still wearing denim shirts. Good point. Anyways, I hope you guys had a great New Year's Eve. I hope you didn't spend too much money. I hope you didn't cry. I hope it wasn't like the worst. Anyways, if it was, it's fine. New year, same you.

Baby steps. Yeah. Anyways, the exciting news about this new year is we're only a few days away from finally watching Robbie Hayes on Siesta Key. Oh, boy. My dreams.

I never thought I'd be so excited about this. I'm surprised by how excited you are, to be honest. Yes. I'm not a huge Robbie Hayes fan. I'm just going to put it out there. You did come to my show, and I appreciate that. I don't think this is going to go well for him in a great way. Well, from the trailers, it's absolutely not going to go well.

It seems like it won't go well. He's, no, there's a lot of crying, a lot of like, she's getting fooled by Robbie. And I'm not trying to age shame because, hey, I'm on the older side of things. But Siesta Keys seems like it's like the older guy, like Siesta Keys is a bunch of people who like just graduated college. Yeah. If that. Beautiful people.

Really good looking young people. But like they would make the young bachelor people seem like old people. And then Robbie's like showing up as the guy. Hey guys. The old guy who's just like got invited to the party. But anyways, it's going to be fun to watch. I think he's going to give Alex a run for his money. Yes.

Anyways, I'm really looking forward to it. So dive in to the new season of Siesta Key on Tuesday, January 7th at 8 p.m. Eastern and Pacific on MTV. Check it out. I literally can't wait. We love to hate. Robbie Hayes. Well, I do. I don't want to speak for Rochelle.

He did come to our show. My New Year's got started off great because I'm still taking athletic greens. So no matter what happened on New Year's Eve last night. Didn't matter. I woke up, had some very refreshing athletic greens. Got my vitamins. Got my minerals. Got my prebiotics.

Got my probiotics. I thought to myself while drinking it, what a great year so far. You know, this is like the best start to a year I've had ever. Nick loves all of our sponsors, but he especially loves Athletic Greens. It's great. So it's just powder that you mix in with water. It's super easy. They also have travel packs you can take with you.

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I don't even know if majoring in radio in general is common knowledge. You can do that, right? Yeah, broadcasting. Yeah, I guess. I guess. Yeah, I guess. I guess. Yeah, I just never thought about it. Anyways, if you're looking for something to do, obviously, hopefully, thanks for tuning in.

And I think Wells and I will just put New Year's into perspective. I don't know. Did we put it in perspective? I feel like we just had a fun, lighthearted conversation. Exactly. Yeah, just nurse that hangover gently. Nurse it gently. Anyways, I quite liked it. Yeah. I hope you do too. As always, thanks for listening.

Happy New Year, guys. We do very much appreciate you tuning in. It's been a hell of a 2019. We hope 2020 is even better and obviously a great time to once again, thank you guys for listening. even better. And obviously a great time to once again, thank you guys for listening. Obviously we had a fantastic 2019, the vile files family, and you guys were a big part of it.

So we do appreciate it as always. Happy new year to you all. Love you. Keep, keep those goals strong for a couple more days before you give up on them all. Anyways, enjoy this episode and yeah, happy new year.

Happy new year as well. Whoa. Whoa whoa came in with a lot of energy i was not ready it's new year's i'm so excited for 2020 actually are you being sincere or facetious right now i'm almost always facetious that's you said it right first first first i just want to like say New Year's resolution number one. Talk a little slower so my SHs are slightly more enunciated. Rochelle got us some champagne. What would we go with? Chandon? I just brought something someone brought to my house.

Oh, wow. That thing's about to go by itself. I was about to be like, oh, that's... And then you can't say that anymore. You can't say what? Never mind. What are you talking about? 2020.

By the way, 2019 flew by. Yeah. Hold on. I can't hear me. Why do people always complain about the year we're in do you find that to be true because people are just negative in general i suppose uh we are recording this in full disclosure before new year's day in anticipation for new year's day because wells will probably be on vacation with his lovely fiance that's the radio magic boys and girls but i anticipate. That's the radio magic, boys and girls. But I anticipate-

Hollywood, kids. I anticipate on the days between Christmas and New Year's, a litany of tweets from people saying something to the effect of, oh my God, so ready to say goodbye to 2019. Can't wait for 2020. Yeah. And those are the same people

who next year will complain about 2020 and looking forward to 2021. Do you notice that? Or is that just me? No, yeah. I think people are just negative in general. But here, you poured some champagne. So, Rochelle, do you want some champagne?

Do you want some champagne? Oh, I didn't get a cup for myself. Oh. It's fine. Cheers, you guys. Cheers. Happy New Year. Happy New Year.

Yeah. 2019 is over. 2020 is... Dude, what's weird about the whole thing, and I will go back to your point of like, people are just negative and just gonna bitch because that's what Twitter is for, I suppose. But the weird thing is that we've ripped through a decade.

That's crazy to me. The decade's over. We're relatively the same age. Yes. How do you feel about like birthdays and New Year's now that you're getting older? Are you still at that point in your life where like you appreciate time passing

because you get older, you get excited and now you're at a point in your life where you're just like fucking just, I don't want to age at all. I just want to stop right now i'm in the prime of my life yeah physically feel pretty good like i'm not as athletic as i was when i was 22 but i don't do it i don't need to be that athletic yeah yeah but i know a lot more so like just stop are you there yes but okay so like you and i are i think blessed though we look a lot

younger than we really are and i like i think for the most part a lot of people would be surprised to know how old we really are if they had never seen us on tv it is a is it happens every it's about a 90 second discussion on many episodes where the person isn't aware yeah yeah exactly i get carded it's wild yeah no right um but i know yeah yeah but but here's a way and not to get like um get into like astrophysics or whatever but time is relative right so at the older you get the more that time flies by because your perception of time is now warped right like when you're five years old a year takes forever because that's one-fifth of your life that's

taking place right couldn't agree more so now when you're, but for me, I'm 35 years old. That's nothing. That's a, it's over. That year's over, you know? So it's like, I can't imagine when you're 80 years old, time must be just flying by. You blink and half your family's dead. You had a good year though. Dude, 2019, I killed 2019.

Yeah, you did. I really did. Tell us why. I mean, you got engaged. I got engaged to my beautiful fiance. Is it fiance or fiance? Fiance. I like to call him.

Do you introduce her as your fiance? I tell you what, the hardest thing about getting engaged, and well, you've been engaged so well you have kind of okay it happened um i've never planned a wedding i have i mean i you know like we're starting that but like um the hardest thing about getting engaged is remembering to say fiance and not girlfriend. And I would say even vice versa for Sarah, saying fiance and not boyfriend, just because all of a sudden it's like this new word.

It's also kind of fun to say, but yeah, 2019 killed for me. I, yeah, we got engaged. What else happened though? I don't know. Nothing else. Oh, I moved to LA. Very sweet that you thought 19 2019 killed and it really comes down to your loving relationship yeah well i also like left

nashville no knock on nashville i loved living there and working there but i had gotten to a point where i was like there's nothing else for me to do here you know like my girlfriend's out in los angeles it's my fiance is out in los angeles it's time for me to go experience life over there and so that was just a lot of things changed and a lot of things changed for the better how was your 2019 it was it was fantastic well let's stick on you for a second because i have a question before we get to me yeah you did do you feel that way hearing you talk? Because I remember when you lived in Nashville and I was like, Wells, why don't you move to LA?

And you were like, yeah, I mean, I've thought about it. And you kind of did this whole thing. Do you feel like in addition to getting engaged to Sarah, really good about it because it all kind of worked out? And not that you really doubted it would, but I think anytime in lives we we make a big jump or you i mean you know you and sarah had been dating long enough but oh we're gonna live together is this gonna work am i can i really make la work i'm i i'm living large in nashville it was a risk and here you come and you move and you settle in and you're like you know what i took that risk it all feels great and on move and you settle in and you're like, you know what? I took that risk. It all feels great.

And onward and upward. And I still like, there's more to come for me as opposed to like regretting moving to LA. And does that feel very kind of fulfilling in that regard? I mean, is that where kind of that excitement comes from? Well, just to be clear, I didn't move to LA because of Sarah. That was a decision I had made beforehand. But that's what I mean. Kind of like all of it no for sure like my whole thing was i'm going to spend 10 years in nashville if i'm not married with kids and have roots in nashville that i'm going to go experience something else

my contract with iheart expired effectively after 11 years there was nothing that i was able to do as much radio as i wanted in nashville and that was wonderful but like the tv opportunities really only was cmt for me to work at and that was the one format and radio country music was one that i didn't do so it was like it makes the most sense for me to go back to california i'm from this state it made the most sense for me to go back to california um but i will say it was scary because one, it's much more expensive to live here. You know, I owned a house in Nashville. Like I, I knew everyone there. So, so I see what you're saying. And I would say, yes, like, I think the reason why 2019 felt really good is because

I did take a risk coming out here. Everyone's trying to do what we're doing out here, you know, like the entertainment industry. And I do feel like it was successful. So I feel like it was a win for sure. Right. I mean, I could,

yeah, I felt like hearing you talk, it's anytime I moved to a city, it was always like, can I really do this? Is this like the worst idea of all time? Like, and you,

and, and, and, you know And moving to a bigger city, especially if you're from a smaller town, a lot of people move back for all the reasons, like making friends is harder as you get older and maybe the job didn't work out the way you had hoped. And so to feel like it worked out for you as a personal, if it's a feel-good thing so i don't

know and i also think feel like it's it doesn't always work out for everyone but we kind of psych ourselves out about making big risks or feeling like it's a big risk but that's not always as big as sometimes we get we see like ourselves out to be yeah i think everyone also does the thing of when's it gonna work out when's it gonna happen when am i gonna make it that type of thing sometimes we get we still like ourselves out to be yeah i think everyone also does the thing of when's it going to work out when's it going to happen when am i going to make it that type of thing and you're never the problem with goals and success is that you're never going to reach what you want to because as you continue to like take steps forward in your career or your personal life, then your goals get augmented a little bit to a little loftier and it happens naturally. You don't even know what's happening.

And so you're always trying to chase and attain this thing that's not really realistic, you know? I know. I mean, but my personality is such that, I mean, it's a blessing and a curse. I never feel satisfied. Yeah. I would say that's the common denominator for a lot of really successful people. I always find a way to feel like I'm not doing enough. Yeah. And again, I'm thankful for that because it keeps me motivated, but I sometimes wish I could just-

Relax. Relax. Yeah. And chill out. Well, maybe 2020 is that year for you where you can just chill. Maybe. Gratitude practice. Pardon me?

You could practice gratitude in the mornings. Yeah, I could probably do a better job of that. I've taken a few moments. I mean, I know I, I don't, I certainly am aware. Like I am, I constantly am thankful and grateful. I was lecturing my parents over Thanksgiving about like, we're a really fucking lucky family. You know, like, you know,

sometimes it's just easy to get in our own way and thoughts and feeling like it's not enough or little things that we don't want or wishing certain things were different. You know, every family has that. Every parent has that about their kids. Every kid has it about their parents. Every person has it about their job. But when you sit back, our good friend, Alon,

kind of reminded me of this. It's just like, we're all, I mean, our Americans are generally pretty lucky. And I know our family, health-wise, my parents are still in a loving relationship. But there's just so much that we have to be grateful for. We just need to be careful how much we complain. Yeah.

And you also need to like know your audience too. Like you, you can't be complaining about your life in front of people who have things not going as well, you know? Yeah. That's a hard thing to remember to do. And it's interesting because also perspective, like my parents, for example, my parents are

kids, parents of 11 kids, right? They started having kids in the early 20s. They've literally sacrificed so much of their personal lives for their children. They truly have. To the point where now as they're older, they're kind of projecting a little bit of like missing out on some of the things that for them personally you know my mom was a stay-at-home mom and busted her ass uh taking care of us kids 11 kids 11 kids now she's working uh a little bit but like she i think she always personally felt like she could accomplish more uh wanting more excitement and again sometimes i talk about my mom saying

like here i am in my life you know uh very arguably selfish life i've done a lot of interesting and crazy things and i've met a lot of cool people and i look at my parents and awful often very envious of the family that they've created and what they've had and i don't have that yet i hope too and it's just like you know you just it's very easy to have what I don't have that yet. I hope to. And it's just like, you know, you just, it's very easy to have what you don't, it's very easy to want what you don't have. Yeah, it's a grass is greener type. 100%. And so.

Yeah. And I also think that that is our generation. The millennial generation is very much like, do what you want to do, attack your goals and get married. You know, I mean mean i think i'm sarah and i are actually like the perfect example of this i'm gonna be 36 when i get married you know like we're probably not gonna start thinking about kids until i'm like in my 40s which is crazy you guys are waiting for you like you've've discussed that? I would assume that, like, you know, well, the conversation that you have with a lot of people is they're like, enjoy being married for a couple of years,

you know? So, and you're like, yeah, okay. That makes total sense. So you don't feel any pressure to... I don't. You don't, okay. I'm similar to you, but like not to the extent. I'm the youngest of five kids.

So I came from a really big family too. So I have nine nieces and nephews, so I want family as well. But when you start doing the math, it's like, okay, I'm going to be 36 when we get married, and then we're going to have a couple of years of enjoying the honeymoon experience and working on our career. You start thinking about it, I'm going to be 40 by the time all that stuff happens, which is totally fine. But that's where we are like as a generation i think like millennials that's what we're doing unless you're not on the bachelor you're getting married later in life but yeah they've skewed younger like if you're 19 you're getting engaged now uh but if you're on the bachelor you're gonna get you're getting engaged

early you might not be getting married and that That is, yeah, that's true. Sorry. But I also, yes, I also had a great 2019. Professionally, I felt like I've accomplished a lot and very grateful for what, you know, this show has become. And we just kind of started on the fly and it's been a lot of fun. Yeah, I wanted to congratulate you.

I saw recently that you were like number eight on the, was it Washington Post, like best? It was the Associated Press, which got syndicated kind of all over, and the Washington Post selected that one. Thank you, Wells. I've been doing this fucking job since I was 16 years old. Did you get jealous when you saw?

I mean, a little. I mean, like, Jesus Christ, this guy just like fell into it last week. It means a lot that Wells is jealous of you saw? I mean, a little. I mean, like, Jesus Christ, this guy just, like, fell into it last week. It means a lot that Wells is jealous of this podcast. I understand. This asshole comes in here. No, I'm really, I'm really, I've actually, I remember you were

talking about, I think you asked me years ago, you're like, I don't know, should I do this or should I not do this? And I was like, dude, do it. Everyone should, if you have a platform you should you should go and do it and so I started listening in the beginning being like all right I want to judge you a little bit and I gotta say like the show is really really good you have uh an amazing perspective and really good tone and you have a good guest like it's a great show you've done a really good

job with it so i'm proud of you man i appreciate that and you know rochelle has uh done a great job helping produce the show and it's a team effort cast media also um our great friends who help produce this show uh it's been a lot of fun and then natural habits has really taken off so for me personally it's really like i feel for the And then natural habits has really taken off. So for me personally, it's really like, I feel for the first time in my life, I'm doing things professionally that I have a passion for. And then I am proud of, like I've been fortunate in my life in a previous life.

I had some great jobs, but it was, they were jobs. Yeah. You know, I was lucky to have them. I was making great money, but it was like,

do I want to sling software for corporate America my whole life? And you always feel like you want something. And I don't know where this is going to go, but I'm doing something I'm really proud of. That feels really good. And at the beginning of the year, I think you had maybe some pent up, there's that insecurity of I'm a bachelor person, but I don't want to be a bachelor person.

I'm more than that. And I think you've let some of that go yeah a little bit and i think there's also just an anxiety of that we all kind of feel uh you might be a little bit different because you were in the entertainment business before you were on the bachelor and where i was selling software and so i i'm always forward thinking so it's like, this is great. And I'm making great money now. But I need like a plan, right? Like, I need to figure out what I'm doing. Yeah, I'm looking at I've been working on my acting skills. But like, who the fuck knows about that, right? Like really talented actors never get a break. Yeah. So for me, that's a passion project. That's not my retirement plan, so to speak. And so, yeah, just kind of figuring out what you're doing. And yeah, 2019 for me was very much, I'm now doing things that I hope to be able to do for a while now. And now I can, I feel like I have like a sustainable thing going that I can hopefully continue to build. And so that is something I'm very thankful for and very proud of 2019.

Yeah. I also think for you, like, now that like this is kind of taking off and other things are taking off, it's easier to lean back into the bachelor thing. Yes. Because then it's like, yeah, that's what I did and whatever. It's fine. Like, you know, I have all these other things. It's when you don't have anything else going on that you feel really like sleazy about always talking about the bachelor yeah there's there's it's a constant

juggling act of like like yeah you're i lean into it all the time because i think it's great about i think it's hilarious like yeah it was a crazy weird experience it was funny for me like and now i get to like continue to do it as a bartender on the show. But anyway, so I'm happy for you. This show is great. And I've been complaining to you about wanting to be on it for a while. So thank you for letting me come on and drink champagne with you today. You never complained about coming on. Such a bullshit.

New Year's in general for people. Do you think people, kind of how I began the show, like it's great to have these moments of reflection and be thankful and setting goals, but there's always that big question of, why the fuck do we wait to this point of every year to do that? Okay, I will tell you. So you know how the big thing is is weight loss

right yeah like it's always weight loss it's always weight loss and you know and it's like all right this is we're gonna do it you know like if you like i remember working in radio a lot and there would be um there would be a big uptick in uh gym advertisements around the end of the year because inevitably everyone's going to try to join a gym. Or no, sorry, the big uptick would be the gym advertisements like a month after the new year because there's a big uptick right beforehand

and then everyone stops going and then they eat. Overeat, yeah. No, no, no. You don't do anything during the holidays. No, no, no. That's all I'm saying. I'm saying everyone right on New Year's Day, they start working out. And then like February 3rd comes along and no one's in those gyms anymore. Everyone's given up the thing, right?

Yeah. They go in the gym. They bust their ass. They can't move on the second. They haven't worked out in six months. That's the thing. They go balls to the walls. Holidays destroy you in calorie count you know like yeah because if you're not from like a warm weather climate you go home like i go home to wisconsin and i live in a cave for four days

and just eat it's like 10 degrees outside all my friends are at their families out there's literally nothing to fucking do yeah you can maybe go see a movie and what do you do in a movie it's like 10 degrees outside all my friends are at their families out there's literally nothing to fucking do yeah you can maybe go see a movie and what do you do in a movie it's just like well i guess i'll get dots and milk duds yeah like i don't really want them but i'm here how do you emerge from your cave like oh my god there's sun and also like because it's cold and shitty uh it's dark at five it gets dark so you're sleeping way too much but it's also cold so you're wearing like really fluffy clothing so people can't tell that you really like let yourself go i mean like i think it's just it's a it's a like a convergence of just terrible decisions that after you know christmas is over you're like oh my god look what i've done to myself i really

do i need to work on this you know so i think that is part of it and then there's a reason for it's like new year new me whatever that stupid thing is you know new year new me nah you're still like literally the same maybe worse i don't know you're much worse you're probably poor having wasted all your money on a new year's eve party. You definitely had less fun than last Friday. Could we talk about the racket that is the New Year's Eve party? It's right up there with weddings. I would say it's worse than weddings. Okay, so let's go through it.

I don't know. I'm sure you've done these way back in the day where it's like- All you can drink. Yes. So you pay like like 500 or whatever it is and you get dressed up unlimited food and drinks and it's like dj blazer's gonna be there and you're like i never fucking heard of that hottest club in town and they're like they do this great sizzle and you're like that's a party i definitely want to be at i definitely want to be

at this party there's hot chicks in this promo. I'm going to meet my wife. It's going to be great. I might make out with five hot chicks tonight. And then you get there and you're just in line for drinks all night. That's all you do. Because there's three bartenders. It is an open bar, but they have a finite number of alcohol.

It taps out at about 1130. To your point, you've waited in line all night long yep uh you've gotten four drinks uh unless you showed up really early and you rip a bunch of shots the unlimited food that's there is like a totally fine buffet that's the equivalent of like a ponderosa quality yeah um are there hot chicks no no no because you know there might be a hot chick but yeah all the hot chicks that show up right you're like, ooh, hot chick. And then five seconds later, her boyfriend rolls up behind her and comes up to him like, hey, baby. And you're like, why are you guys even here?

You don't need this. You know? And then you spend, and then at like 1030, 1045, 11 o'clock rolls around. And that last hour, you're pretty much just pissed off because you're not as drunk as you want to be. You haven't made out with the person you want to make out. And you just start thinking about all the money you spent and how much fun you're not having.

Bad. Over expectation. And then it becomes an allegory for your entire year. You start getting super introspective being like, not only did 2019 suck, but the end of 2019 was just like the entire year i'm doing the same thing yeah this is terrible like oh my god and then you start crying in the corner and this is men yeah yeah well it's so true i've been to those those parties

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I'm trying to think, what's the best New Year's... Kiss. Eve or kiss that you've ever had? A couple years back, Sarah and i went to this place in mexico that actually i'm at i'm hoping i'm at right now we haven't we haven't really ironed out the details that where you got engaged no we got engaged in fiji oh um but there's this place in mexico that is dope and we you know it's like one of those like all-inclusive resorts that you go to and um and they always have like a there's always like we're having the band playing you know on the

beach tonight come on down folks it's like always like every single night and for whatever reason this one particular new year's eve we got super wasted. And I remember making out and someone, we had like, we'd like made friends at the bar and we were like, take our picture as much as you can when this is happening. And there are fireworks happening above us. It was like very, like we were like the next morning, like, oh my God, look at these pictures.

We were so wasted, but it looks so good. And like so tan, you know morning like oh my god look at these pictures we were so wasted but it's so good and like so tan you know that was my best do you have a do you have one not really no okay i'm sorry uh i'm trying to think like i've had some good ones but i don't have that one that's that was really great yeah i i the ones that come to mind, quite honestly, are always the ones where I didn't expect to. There was a New Year's Eve that I had that was like two months removed from my first engagement that didn't go well, that she had cheated on me.

And then she basically immediately started dating her soon-to-be husband. Your fiance cheated on you? Yeah. I didn't realize that. We were was again like before the show yes i was 28 okay um she ended up dating a club owner in like milwaukee small and i was part of the whole like social scene so it was that felt like club owner in milwaukee yeah right you can only imagine the nightmare he went no he actually isn't fine guy. And so I had a lot of anxiety of like,

do I even want to go out? My instinct was to hibernate and not deal with it. And he owned a popular bar slash club that a lot of my friends wanted to go to. And I was just like, I don't want to do this. And then I ended up going out. We ended up not going there. And I had a really great time. And one of those things, because I really, even like waking up New Year's Eve, I wasn't sure if I was going to go out.

And I was really deciding. And I decided to just man up and just stop being a baby about it and stop feeling sorry for myself. And so I had the lowest of expectations and I had like a totally fine night. It wasn't wild or crazy. I had a friend who like we kissed and she's beautiful and we just never really connected. But like, you know, I had a nice like moment with her

and you know, it was like fine, but I wasn't like over, like I wasn't over the past relationship. So I didn't really, I couldn't enjoy it, but it was this all around kind of totally fun night. And so I think about that. And so, and then like that time of my life, and then I had a girlfriend the next year. And, you know, I was with like, that's when you're at the time of your life where your friends are, they're all in relationships, but no one's married yet. No one has kids.

You're all kind of having fun. And it it was like we had a good group of friends and so that was it was easy to have fun with your group of friends and those were nice but there were nothing really special and then like we were in milwaukee so we knew enough of people where you weren't have to we didn't have to blow 500 and we weren't trying to go to chicago to live it up and because i had done that where it's just like you're in milwaukee we're gonna go to chicago live it up. Because I had done that where it's just like you're in Milwaukee. We're going to go to Chicago for this New Year's Eve. And you drop. That's when you you're the Milwaukeean who doesn't know anything about Chicago.

You don't know anyone. You pay for the privilege to say you were in Chicago. And you drop like $300 for three drinks. So the moral of this story, boys and girls, is to really lower your expectations. Seriously.

I firmly believe that about birthdays and New Year's Eve. Yeah. Because you, especially birthdays, birthdays are harder because it's a day that's about you. Yeah. It's such a narcissistic day. And it's such a day where you're just like, well, I don't care about my birthday. I don't want to get older. I don't even want people to wish me a happy birthday but like it's like one o'clock in the afternoon you're like why doesn't anyone wish me a happy birthday yeah like why yeah it's just

like it's so hard even if you have perspective to like not feel like you're supposed to get this extra validation and then it's it's just very easy to feel disappointed on your birthday because you've everyone's telling you you're supposed to feel special. Yeah. So if you don't feel special, then... And then New Year's Eve is like this day where everyone feels like it's supposed to be a special day, but everyone's trying to have the most special day ever. There's almost... There's only so much special to go around.

I know. And it's the Earth's birthday on New Year's Eve, right? And Earth's like, no one gives a shit about me. All you guys want to do is make out with each other. Wait, what do you mean it's the Earth's birthday? Is it? In a way, I guess.

Sure. What do you mean? Well, because it represents like a full year around the sun, which is what our birthdays are, right? I've never thought of it like that. That's an interesting perspective. I've also drunk on Chandon right now.

You did strangely drink that whole glass? Good for you, i mean i don't i thought it's new year's i thought we were in the trust tree in the next do you like champagne no but i like alcohol so wait what about you do you have a like a best well my friend so i have a friend who has cystic fibrosis and he's like the coolest person i know you really you're gonna do this to us no no but you're starting off with you're going to have the best story ever. No, no. It's not the best story ever. But the listeners know like Nick raised a lot of money for CF because

my sister has it. Rochelle raised a lot of money for cystic fibrosis. I just said sure we can use the show. You do a lot. He does a lot. But anyway, this it's so crazy like because he was born and they were like you might not live very long basically. So he's like no, I'm serious. I know. It's a crazy way like, because he was born, and they were like, you might not live very long, basically.

So he's like, no, I'm serious. I know. It's a crazy way to approach life. Totally. So he, like, does the, he has the coolest life. He does the most amazing things, and he throws this, like, New Year's party that's every year. It's insane. Like, you don't have to wait in line for drinks.

There's tons of alcohol in cool places. I fall in love every year. I've gotten to know- Where is this party? It's downtown. You're welcome to come. I've gotten to know the cystic fibrosis community

a little bit through Rochelle. And into that regard, truly is, well, it's a lot of things and sad, but it's wild and fascinating to the perspective they have on life

simply because they are told at such an early age that they should expect a shorter life. And their mentality is, I mean, it's wild. And so we probably can learn a lot from those people. But yes, they seem to appreciate life much more than the average person. Although the guy last year, he was like, I chose you because you were the only one wearing glasses at the new year's party i was like maybe you didn't need to say that but what does that i don't know what that means you know what that meant you know what that was what sucks for you to hear because well knowing you you're getting

your whole head about it whatever but that's just a guy being, not knowing what to say or do. Yeah. And he doesn't want to feel like he... And so it's a little neg. It's a neg. Oh, it worked. It did work. It did work. Yeah. But that's not why he picked you.

It was a total neg. I'm trying to find those pictures of you and Sarah when you were drunk on New Year's. I know. Just a giant TV of just pictures of Sarah. And I, God, there's so many of paparazzi photos where I just look wasted, by the way. No, that one I thought looked good. You look like Orlando Bloom. Oh, thank you.

No, it's on my Instagram. We posted it on our Instagram. I remember my caption. My caption was, two Americans who literally American't, which I felt was a good one. That was good. Yeah. What are your goals?

For 2020? Yeah. Do you believe in goal setting like that? I mean... I mean, I like the idea of a clean slate, and I do like the idea of self-betterment. a clean slate and i do like the idea of like self-betterment um i've never been able to do a resolution though like i've never been able to finish it same with like lent i've never been able to get through lent without really never that's only 40 days i know i don't think i've

i've done that have you yeah i gave up soda for a year twice soda soda from milwaukee soda um okay so i tell you the one i do i want to do last year i didn't do but i still like this idea and i want to do it i want to learn the piano oh that's bold and that's tough at 35 like you know like that's a that's a seven-year-old can do you really gotta follow you really gotta be dedicated and willing to be discouraged

but like so but hear me out guys okay that'll be sexy exactly but that's not the point oh what I want is

have you ever been at a party and there's a piano no and there there's two ways this party goes you wanna be

Bill Murray from Groundhog's Day that's what you wanna be I see it and trust me me too but that Bill Murray from Groundhog's Day. That's what you want to be. I see it. And trust me, me too. But that's your... Yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes.

That's what you want. Yes. Or Chevy Chase from... Yeah, Caddy Shepard. From Caddy Shepard. Yes. That's what you... Yes, I know exactly what you want.

Yes, it'd be totally cool. And yes, I've had these fantasies. Really? You have? 100%. But have you ever been to a party where there's a piano there's two ways this goes there's a piano and someone

can play it and then it's the best party ever cause everyone starts singing Billy Joel songs you know like it's the greatest or Elton John songs or no one can play it and then someone tries to do it and you're like oh god I can't do this and then it's like the worst thing that's ever happened.

But it's gotta be so accidental because you don't want to be the presentious guy who knows he's good and he's like pretty good. Yeah. But he's not like Elton John good. Yeah. And he goes in there and he's expecting everyone to sing along and everyone's like, all right, man, like this is not a piano bar. Yeah.

It's a fine line, but I do think it's a great goal but i you know you say that though but like if you were at that party okay actually i can see you in the corner being like this guy i can't stand but i can also see you and you've been like play tiny dancer again dude i could well if i'm being totally honest if you learn the piano and you became bill murray from groundhog's day i would be such a jealous little bitch in the corner this is fucking stupid and then i would part of me would be like that's fuck it's really cool you know um i would i would be envious i mean but uh you know if someone can i i i'm very uh in awe of the talents that people have that i i can't do but here's the thing so i can play the guitar and i can play it pretty well i'm not a great singer

but i can play enough songs where people can like sing for me or whatever um but for whatever reason that comes off so much douchier than the guy who sits down at the piano and i don't know what it is i'll tell you what it is what because wonderwall more guys decided to learn the piano as a tool to get laid then tried to learn the i mean the guitar rather yeah than the piano that's it and so it's also you have to bring your guitar piano you can be like oh look it just happened to be here yeah right where does baby grant come from it's it's exactly it's just it's just it's the same thing the guitar has been a little bit you know no pun intended overplayed yeah um and uh yeah it's a little it's a little

more subtle but literally the same thing wells what a big goal not only do you want to learn the piano you want to learn every song by heart so that you could be a jukebox yes no i know just like yeah right the best just give me a book what do you want i'm taking requests i'm taking requests it's like a better part of billy joel and elton john's catalog okay you know listen i get the dream i've had the dream i've i've every it's my favorite scene in groundhog's day dude so we went to a party uh it was modern families like holiday party and they had um they had paid for like one of the top um broadway musical singer piano player composers to be at the party like in the morning show are you watching the morning no i'm not that's one of the scenes yeah yeah great episode but we go to

this party and so you forget that like Sarah was a Broadway kid growing up. Right. And Jesse Tyler Ferguson is a Broadway guy. I saw him in Spelling Bee. Yeah. Yeah. Sarah has as good of a voice as any. Total.

So we're at this party and like drinking, you know, like fancy cocktails. And then all of a sudden Jesse's like, we got to go upstairs. She's on the piano. And I was like, I don't know what that means. But OK. So then everyone goes upstairs. And all of them are singing Broadway show tunes. And I was like, what fucking world did I walk into?

That's amazing. I never liked karaoke because I can't sing. I especially hate it in LA. Because this is not karaoke night. It's open mic audition night. For sure. Everyone goes up. Do it in Nashville, bro. That's even worse.

Yeah. But like this was so cool. And I was sitting there being like, because they end up playing like Aladdin, which I like, I know all those songs. So I was like, I can show you the world. And then I was like, oh, I'm not good at this. And I was like, come on, jump. show you the world.

And then I was like, oh, I'm not good at this. And, but I was like, I used to sing, kiss the girls to myself as like an eight year old while looking at the clouds and imagining cartoons. Oh,

that's the worst and best new year's Eve song ever, by the way. Uh, so anti me too, but whatever. Um, but anyway, so I was at that party and I was like,

you know, we know it was the coolest, the cool, the coolest job here is the chick that's playing all the, she knows all the songs. Yeah. And everyone's just, all these fancy people around her singing these songs. I was like, God, I want that. So anyways.

Oh, was that like the best night of your life? No, because I realized I was a terrible singer. But I was like, I think that this was the coolest night. It was very cool to me, which actually like, I mean like maybe 18 year old Wells would be like, Oh, everyone's singing like musical show tunes.

So cool, dude. You know, like, but like 35 year old me was like, Whoa, I wish I could do that. What about you?

Do you have any? I have a more modest goal. Okay. He's a shaving schmaker pile man. So he's always on top of his goals. What about you? Do you have any? I have a more modest goal. Okay. He's a shavings make a pile man. So he's always on top of his goals. What did you say? Shavings make a pile. Oh, shavings.

Rochelle's trying to mock me. Other than talking slower. So I enunciate my SHs a little bit better. Not saying again on the podcast and repeating myself. I want to, well, read. I want to listen to a book every week.

And I thought I, I've never read as much as I would like to read. I read every day, but it's more like sports and random, like, like just quick reading blogs or whatever, but I want to read actual books. I'm not a fast reader.

I'm not a good reader. I'm, I'm going to find out if I'm actually not a fast reader i'm not a good reader i'm i'm going to find out if i'm actually dyslexic because i'm pretty sure i am the little like tests i've done but audible not that they're uh this i mean they they sponsor my show so they have been a friend of the show yeah uh but if you're listening audible i want to like i drive a lot in la i there's no excuse for me not to not having listened to an one book a week that's a great goal i will say this i am dyslexic super add super adhd um very much of it uh a visual and

audio learner and no joke i and not to like get you your audible sponsor but whatever i list no joke listen to an audible book every single week yeah it's the easiest thing in the world and traffic in la sucks but also here's the other thing because you work out like as probably as you work out more than i do i'm on a run you know a nice run i go on runs and listen to books it is the because because then you get lost in this world that you're living in and you don't even know how much this sucks so there's like so much knowledge i can gain from like not listening to the same local sports talk show that i do that and it's just like they just literally talk about the same fucking thing over and over uh right he's done no yeah so there's just like no excuse for me not to do that and so and i you know it's a smart goal yeah smart goal what is that good what are smart

goals again do we know um the acronym sim uh no a is obtainable um m is m measurable let me look at what is a smart goal it makes a lot of sense look up smart goals yeah do you know have you heard of smart goals yeah no idea it's really good actually it's uh it's something they like use in like business a lot in terms of tony robbins talks about it's a very tony robbins kind of thing uh but it makes sense actually set goals you can accomplish like measurable achievable like so me being the next billy joel isn't i don't know might not be a smarkle maybe just like learned like a song yeah yeah uh what is a smarkle let's let's let's ask the internet smart goals smarkle is a uh specific s s for specific so be specific with your goal uh be

billy joel specific specifically be want to read a book every week specific what else Rochelle where did it go measurable measurable so like can you can you hold yourself accountable like how do you know that you are achieving this goal can you go back you know how you were going to measure your success assignable what do they mean

by assignable I think it's like on Tuesdays I need to listen to my audible count oh yeah something you can cross off relevant interesting relevant relevant what do they mean by i mean there's nothing more relevant than billy joel and elton john songs right now but i feel like that's not what they mean by right like yeah i guess maybe relevant has to do with like do you really want to is it part of the bigger picture yeah is it gonna what's it gonna help you with yeah what's gonna help you with wells yeah you know you're

getting late already yeah i i don't need it's gonna make me think i'm cool i guess i think that's you know relevancy is the that's that's where you're not gonna get this goal because you really want to do it to feel cool, but like you probably feel cool enough. Yeah. I don't know. I feel I would be more relevant if I could do this. And time-based is important where like you can't just have an open-ended goal like I want to get in shape or I want to become Billy Joel. Right.

Yeah. Like, you know, I want – I feel really attacked. If you want to get in shape, it's like – Yeah. Like that's why people have more success if it's getting into shape. in shape for a a vacation you're gonna go on time based uh if you're gonna like you have a photo shoot coming up or you know wisconsin it was like a wedding of yes of a trip you know your friends are getting married we're gonna take a bunch of pictures i want to get in shape for this yeah uh easier to do because you've set a goal a deadline uh

it's time-based it's not just so open-ended. Like, I want to get in better shape for 2020. Okay. Well, you have all year. Yeah, you always have tomorrow. Yeah, there's always tomorrow. I just had a vision of you playing the piano on the beach in Bachelor in Paradise and everyone's singing. So is Wells. With a

candelabra, you know, and I'm wearing tails, but also bathing trunks. Wells has had this vision. Oh, you know, and I'm wearing tails, but also bathing trunks. Yeah. Wells has had this vision. Oh, you don't think I've thought about this? This doesn't just happen, okay? Are you going back this year?

I don't know. It's like Nick knows as well as I do. It's always like a week beforehand. Everything's up for negotiations. Negotiations, negotiations. I just need to slow down yeah you gotta slow down you also like i heard you say that you need to stop saying again i guess and everyone has crutch words you just gotta embrace it or to a certain extent or just be like me and um edit your own show and then cut out everything that you don't like we've done that's why it's not number eight probably everything controversial

we're gone i'm like yes leave it in we've done that uh a little bit but i did it is true uh i listened to some ted talk uh part of it is like we'll have callers on the show and i'll say something and then they'll you know they'll like listen they'll be like yeah that's a good point but let me explain why i'm why i'm justified for why i think this way and my response is sure but again yeah you know but there's a risk when you are communicating with people of coming across as condescending you repeating yourself uh at its core is condescending. I can understand that.

But you're also just trying to like drive your point home. Sure. It's a small goal. It's just a little nuance. It's attainable. Self-approvement is something I'm always big on. So, you know, that's my goals. I wanted to ask you like i feel like you

draw in a lot of good people in your life and like good things happen to you and you have like a very positive energy about you is that something you've had to work on or is it just kind of have you always had that kind of outlook i don't know i think i'm i guess i'm lucky i don't know. I think I'm, I guess I'm lucky. I don't know. A lot of it comes from working in radio for so long and seeing, I talk about this a lot, but never on air. When I was doing like morning shows and stuff, that was, I was interviewing people, multiple people every single day, right? Yeah. And so a lot of times it was comedians because a lot of musicians don't have to come in on morning shows because their voice isn't ready so i did

a lot of comedians a lot of actors a lot of a lot of musicians and then like chefs and stuff um and i found that there are people who are easy to work with and there are people who aren't and people who are super easy and fun to be around and easy to work with i would always invite them back on my show because inevitably next year comes around and you're booking out talent and everything and i'd be like that guy was a fucking asshole no i don't care but he's playing the rhyming tomorrow night i don't care put him on someone else's show. I don't want him on my show. He was annoying to me.

And then someone who was like, you know, playing a small, Mercy Lounge, a smaller venue. I'd be like, yeah, book him. He was awesome. He was so much fun. He did that fun video with us. He was easy to be around.

Let's book him. And so after that, now that I've gone from like a production role of like trying to book out things and like creating a show um and then being on the other side of it i try to remember to always be the guy who wanted to be invited back and i i think that naturally i'm just like that anyways but i do make a concerted effort of like being like super agreeable and easy to be around and it goes like this is

also just not just an entertainment thing this is such a workplace thing 100 like no one ever gets fired because they are like the least liked person in the office that person gets raises and moves up if they are liked and enjoyed around the office and to that point if like if they fuck up if you make a mistake people are way more willing to like saying you know what let's let's find a way to help you out yeah and the people who are just the pain in the ass in the office are the people who get fired and so when you like look at it in in that respect of just like being like easy fun to be around uh and i if you just kind of put that out in the universe then it like just comes back at you i suppose i don't know but that's my thought process and all that kind of

stuff great answer i concur with everything you said what are some things that uh i'm always curious and since this i'll flip it around some things that you're not so good at maybe that you're insecure about or things that you think you know if on a personal level like if if wells adams looking at the mirror in the mirror and he goes like i'm just not i don't like this about myself not great at baseball you know that's it that's your big self-reflection yeah no i'm not great at baseball don't that's it that's your big self-reflection yeah no i'm not great at baseball don't i wasn't the best basketball player um you're 35 you're done playing sports unless it's in a for sure i know but isn't it funny though like i still think about

that as like the the athlete of me is like god i was i was a shitty shortstop man um uh can i ask you are you insecure that people don't see you as an athlete uh no i think but i mean maybe because i know why you're asking that question because i make a point of talking about how i was an athlete especially like you being from bachelor nation yeah you can even say this about me i was a huge jock but like compared to tyler c and josh murray like you know no one thinks of you as athletic and i don't mean that in a way but like no i think of you as a and that's almost a positive i actually see as a positive because that's like low-hanging fruit they see you as smart or funny or talented but does it bother you i know i know it doesn't bother because i understand like i was i, for lack of a better term,

that show is casting characters. And the character I was to play was the comic relief, nerdy, funny guy. I wasn't supposed to be the jock. But to be fair, I played collegiate ball. So there's a part of me that's like, that was a big part of my life. I ran collegiate track and it's like,

I'm good at sports, man. Look at me, I was good at this. But no, I'm totally fine with it. But if Tyler C wants to run a race, I'll go. Oh, let's do it. But no, but what are,

what are, let's do the, what are some things that Wells Adams isn't good at from a day to day at this point in your life thing that you, you would like to get better at? I need to be better about deadlines. I need to be better about answering emails. It's like, it's stuff that everything,

everyone has a problem with, you know, it's like the day-to-day minutiae of life. It's like getting through it, but I need to be more like accountable for that kind of stuff. And. Sounds like you need a personalist.

Yeah. I'm like, just hire someone. Yeah. I need some more money. I would love, no, I also, I wish I had more money i would love no i also i wish i had

more money how much like i i thought about i could my personality for that i'm bad at all those little things paperwork oh yeah god i can't do it but i i'm cheap enough that i don't know how much money do i need to make to justify paying someone to be my personal assistant because i am like a grinder and a worker and i grew up like not being able to like like we didn't afford that stuff and like it's hard for me and i'm not the tidiest of person but it's hard for me to hire someone to come in and clean my place i've started doing that but i think to myself fucking clean your own place nick you're an adult like you only live by yourself you can't carve out

20 minutes exactly and that see that's good upbringing right there yeah but i tell you what when i when i when i drop for the house cleaner boy i feel much better and it's she does a much better job and it's like i have a hard time with that and so um i will say this so sarah doesn't have a personal assistant she She doesn't? No. And so like, and that's someone who like is exponentially more... You would expect her to. Yes, you would expect that. So I don't think that we need personal assistants.

You definitely don't need one. Yeah. But there's that balance of like, if I could afford it. I do know that I would be more productive and I would be better at managing. I could justify that would make me more successful because where I'm kind of similar, I'm not organized. I'm not... Organization is not a strength.

If I get organized, it's because I have invested a lot of my energy to make sure I'm organized. You know, it's harder for me. But I'll say working with you, you're not like a hot mess at all. Like you're very dependable. And I appreciate you don't make me do stuff that you can do yourself, which is like very rare. Yeah, and that's something I've had to, I remember early in my career,

I would think to myself, my first thought was, I don't know how to do this, right? That would be a first, whatever it was. And I would immediately ask my boss, well, how do I do this? And I realized that started annoying him. And then I kind of got kind of a suggestion by him, which was, before you keep asking me, can you figure it out? Like, how much can you do on your own? It's okay if you don't know. And it's also okay to ask, but have you tried to figure this out? And I, to this day, I try to get better at that. Especially with the things like the internet. I mean, there's a YouTube video out there for literally everything. And sometimes I try to

just say, well, can I figure this out um well i'm not organized i being uh reliable is yes something that's important to me and i i i i very much it's an expectation of mine to myself and for the people i work with so yeah i don't i don't like to expect things from others that i don't expect of myself. But organization is something I struggle with. So having someone to help me, that would be nice. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

As someone who like used to, I was a boss of a lot of people. At the radio station. Yeah. And they would come and be like, what, you know, they ask that question. And I was that jerk of like did you google it yet and honestly like to your point like there is a youtube video for literally everything yeah there's probably a youtube video for me to learn the piano so musician one of our sponsors musician well there you go there you go all right you need to get musician wells what's the what's

the code do i put in v-i-a-l-l all right yeah gonna use it 10 uh yeah i mean it for those for those of you listening you in work you can go a long way of being someone who everyone loves uh an employee who can get shit done yeah and you'll get more responsibilities if you can be counted on to figure it out yeah and then if you don't really so then when you do ask people are more willing to help you out. When someone gets the impression that you're not trying to figure it out, and they're just like coming to you like, I don't know how to do this. Can you show me how? It's like, and again, I've been as guilty as that before.

We've all done that thing. Also, don't be a martyr. I don't care how bad- Could you elaborate? also don't be a martyr i don't care how bad you elaborate because you yeah in the you know in the business sense of like oh my god you don't understand how hard this was and then they go through the entire thing and you're like yeah but that was the thing everybody's doing this yeah like that's the that's the job i'm so sorry but like i don't care like that's don't be the martyr be the person that was like dude sucked got it done yeah that person fucking raise right now also there's a you know it's don't be in a sense the george costanza in a sense and they're for a lot of because but let me be specific is uh if you're giving a lot

of rope and you're giving a lot of responsibility and the person you're working for kind of trust you to figure it out almost to the point where you think that they don't know how to do it, don't overstate what you're doing. Because they eventually might figure out what you're doing and how easy it was for them. I've had that happen a couple of times where a couple of situations, there were some tasks and I was counting on this person to do it. And they came back to me and were like,

I can do this, but it's going to take me X number of hours. And then they actually asked for- More money. In essence, more money. Yeah. And they did it even before we were given some things we need to get done. And before we even finished the conversation, they asked.

And it just felt off to me. And I was kind kind of already frustrated this person for kind of similar things and so they went out of town and so like hey by the way when i get back i'll start doing this and i had free time so i thought you know what i'm gonna figure out how to do this and they made it seem like this was gonna take them months to do. It literally took me a Saturday afternoon. Now, I pulled in some resources. I asked some people how to get it done. And in that moment, I knew I needed to separate this working relationship because it was like, I don't trust this person

because I feel like now they're overstating and making me think that they're working harder than they are. And if you get kind of busted on that, that's a great way to have someone say, I don't trust you or I don't want to work with you. Because in essence, you're being dishonest about what it's taking you. Or you're just really inefficient. Yeah. There's only two options in that scenario is you suck at your job or you're a liar. So don't do that.

Yeah. Which are all the same thing by the way being inefficient being sucky at your job are the two of the same things yeah lying is worse yes that's true will you guys wear the new year's stuff i bought for the game the glasses you gotta wear your head's too big there you go i do have an oversized head we're to ask some questions. Don't answer them aloud. Let us guess. Okay. Feel free to tell a funny anecdote about your answer.

If there is one, don't force it. If there's not. Do you know me? With Wells Adams. Special guest. New Year's Day. You went into radio voice right there. I like to do that from time to time, and I

channel... Well, the new set of Rebel Radio. Here we go. Nick, you look ridiculous. I can only imagine. I can't see anything. Alright. Question number one. Does Wells know what the J

in Donald J Trump stands for? Does Wells Adam know what the J in Donald J. Trump stands for? Does Wells Adams know what the J in Donald J. Trump stands for? Immediately I wonder if I know. Am I supposed to play coy here? Yeah, play coy. I'm going to say you don't know. Okay.

I'm going to say he does. He listens to a book a week. Yeah, but it's like... Sci-fi. I'm going to guess James. Sci-fi? I'm going to say he does. He listens to a book a week. Yeah, but it's like, I was a sci-fi. I'm going to guess James. I'm going to guess James. No. Do you know what it is, Rochelle? Wait, am I supposed to go first?

How does this work? You need to Google this. Wait, we both, he guessed that you didn't. I guessed that you did. So now you have to answer. I think it's Joseph. Mine's Joseph. It's John.

It's John. Is that what you guessed? So he doesn't know. Right. Sorry. One's Joseph. It's John. It's John. Is that what you guessed? So he doesn't know. Oh. Right. Sorry. One. Nothing.

No, this is a game just how stupid is Wells. No. No. No, there's only one knowledge question. Okay. Question number two. Has Wells ever had a crush on a friend's sibling? Has Wells Adams ever had a crush on a friend's sibling as well as adams ever had a crush on a friend's siblings did he want to

fuck his best friend's sister i can't take you seriously looking like that also his glasses are much cooler than mine i tried to get a variety uh yeah yeah uh he has older brothers uh definitely it was an older woman um oh because i was gonna go yeah that's smart it was an older woman i gotta think about it he was a freshman or sophomore and he like you know his 18 year old brother came in it might even have been his other brother's girlfriend that would count by the way because that is a friend no a friend sibling a friend's sibling oh okay not a friend no a friend sibling a friend's sibling oh okay not a friend's so like his best friend's sister also still older yeah you think

older it was she was older yeah 100 it was when he was younger okay okay i say yes to okay but can you can you consider a friend being the sibling oh i mean yeah sure you're not friends with them and but you also wanted yeah because i would say no to how i originally heard it but my sister one of her friends i thought was so hot so worse so if if my friend is my sister her friend yeah makes sense yeah yeah i think that applies to this question okay so then yes did uh anything happen she was older was she older yeah she was much older yeah yeah once you said that i was because initially i was like no none of like my when you are a freshman a sophomore in high school like any girl who's like three or four years older yeah you're just

obsessed with for sure i know i was my sister was a senior when I was a sophomore, and all her friends I thought were just so hot. I know. Question number two, three. Has Wells Adams gotten food poisoning in the past year? Yes. I mean, with the amount of time he spends in Mexico, hell yes. That was my logic.

No, I have not. Oh, good for you. He's built up that Mexican immunity. I guess so. Bartending down there. I feel like food poisoning is throwing up. Yes. Now, yes, I have explosive diarrhea every day at Pli-S.

Oh, I thought you meant just in general. That's not food poisoning. That's not good, though. That's just way too many tacos, by the way. Also, I don't think I would admit to explosive diarrhea on a show, so good for you for, I don't care. Also what? So in Mexico, I don't know if you remember this from Paradise, but they don't want you to flush the toilet paper there.

Oh, that's not good. Maybe that kind of rings a bell. So there is a trash can for you to put your toilet paper. Oh. I don't remember following that rule. I'm like, I'm sorry, your pipes are just effed. You know what? Because my pipes are effed.

Oh, no. That means your pipes are just effed. You know what? Because my pipes are effed. Oh, no. That means your pipes are effed. So I never did it. But I remember being like, wow, this is a thing. Sorry, continue on. No, we love anecdotes. Yeah, there you go. To our answers.

Does Wells Adam own any Patagonia clothing? Yeah. You're such a Patagonia guy. Yes. I'm going to say no just for the funsies of it. He's an LA guy. He certainly owned it. At some point, for sure.

I don't think it's in the arsenal right now. No. I know. You don't have a good winter jacket? Is this current day? Because I kind of answered it. Yeah, I guess 10. So I won.

I got that point. Do you none you know now? I don't think I own any Patagonia stuff. Now I know what to get you for Christmas. Yeah. Too much money. Those are so expensive. I know.

Has Wells Adams bought condoms from a convenience store? Yeah. Where else do you buy condoms? Actually, last time I had dinner with Wells, I went to a convenience store after and bought condoms. That is true. I didn't buy them. You didn't. You bought them.

So why are you getting relationships is to not wear condoms. Yes, that's very true. The number one reason. It's like, fine. Sure. We'll date. God. Has Wells ever set someone up?

Wait, hold on. Did we answer the last one? I haven't. You did. Oh, yeah. Okay. Yes, I have. Yeah. Okay. Have I ever set anyone up? Oh, you ever. Did we answer the last one? I haven't. You did. Oh, yeah. Okay. Yes, I have. Yeah.

Okay. Have I ever set anyone up? Oh, you ever have. Of course you have. Yes, of course. Yes, yes, yes. Yeah. Sorry.

You answered yes to that. We didn't, but yeah. You would have. Yeah. Some people may be too embarrassed. I don't know. He just talked about explosive diarrhea. Yeah.

He's not too embarrassed for safe sex. Also, if you go on The Bachelor, The Bachelor, Bachelor on Paradise, you get such, it's such a rigorous like STD test. Yeah. That everyone that's gone on that show practices very safe sex. We're here to normalize

safe sex. You think everyone that's gone on is very conscientious? I actually don't agree with that statement, but. Well, if they weren't conscientious, then they didn't go on the show. Oh. Well, that's not necessarily true. Could you have had something and you got it cured? I guess so.

You could have syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia. Whoa. Knows them all at the top of his head, huh? So Nick is that guy that did this apparently no but i won't name names but there have been guys yeah in bachelor nation where i've seen them out and i've hung out with them for enough days in a row and seen them take girls home where i even was like a as a friend you need to chill yeah b are you wearing condoms when you're doing this and to their answer was like not really wow and i was like oh um rolling the dice so

yeah and then they showed up in mexico yeah yeah they did all right um so there you go if you can cure it you can come yeah yeah well they could come no matter what i suppose but i'm uh has wells ever set someone up i already read that yeah has wells adams ever set someone up yeah that's basically his job on the bachelor That was a bad one to pick. Yes. Well, let's say not excluding bartending. I'm talking about in life. I still say yes. Yeah. I don't know if it was successful, but I think you attempted to say, I have a friend and you have a friend.

Surely I have. I don't know. Oh, but you're not like a setter-upper type. No, I don't know. I guess, no, I am. I want people to be happy, you know? I don't know. I guess, no, I am. I want people to be happy, you know? I don't know. Have I?

Have you ever set people up? I haven't. I don't think I have. If I'm being honest, I don't think I've, yeah, I don't think I have. Very selfish of you. Yeah, you're taking everyone for yourself. Yeah, probably. Yeah.

All right. I feel like my friends always were like fine at this point in my life. I like, I do have women who ask me, do I have any guy friends? yeah all right i feel like my friends always were like fine at this point in my life i like i do have women who ask me do i have any guy friends and i the the good ones are all taken and the some other guys i know i'd be like you don't want to be set up with them yeah i had done a bunch of bumble ads so oh there you go there you go yeah was wells 15 years old was this is weird was adams uh 15 years or older when they lost broken out on us guys okay all right start again was wells uh older than I have some options. Let me think about this. Okay. Was Wells 17?

Okay. Or older when he lost his virginity? 17? Why'd you make it so old? Was Wells 15? Okay. Was Wells older or younger than 15 when he lost his virginity? Wait.

17? 17 or older is what you asked. That makes sense. So either he had it before he was 17 or after. Yes. Was he 17. 17 or older is what you were asked. That makes sense. So either he had it before he was 17 or after. Yes. I think he was. Which I think is. I think he was younger.

Yeah, because he grew up in LA. Things happen fast here. I didn't grow up in LA. I grew up in Monterey. Five hours north. I will say he was exactly 17. Oh, yeah? Is that where that show is?

Yeah, Big Little Liar. Is that accurate? I mean, there's not murderers there, but yeah. I'm going to say he was either 17 or older. I'm saying younger. Yeah, I think I was 16. Yes. I think so, yeah.

What about you? I was 17. Yeah, what about you? Like 21. She had to sign a contract. I didn't think I was going gonna kiss anyone until i was married wow really took me a while so is that it that's a game that's a game we ended with losing my virginity i guess you're kind of as basic as we are yeah kind of yeah i'm pretty

basic i just dress cool but like leather and stuff to make me seem edgy, but I'm not. I mean, you have a look. Yeah, for sure. I like the way you dress. Oh, thanks, Nick. Wells, any final thoughts to kick off 2020 for those listening? Man, it's not even like a new year new me. It's a new decade new me.

Love that. It's a new decade, people. New decade who dis? I know. 2020, fuck. I saw like a meme the other day and it was like 2000 was 20 years ago but also 1990 was 20 years ago how is that possible like right like don't you feel that way that like yeah yeah the 90s will always be 20 years yeah it was like 20 years ago yeah which is just crazy to me like we're almost that point where like music is going to

get cyclical like where you're going to be like this is a 90s ripoff you know yeah and i mean movies have gotten cyclical for sure uh you know like friends friends is yeah i think about friends or seinfeld yeah no and like and that's gonna someone's gonna make a multicam show like friends or seinfeldeld that everyone's going to fall in love with. So anyways, I don't know where I'm going with this other than I'm excited to see what, in this next decade, what comes back that I totally remember. Friends or Seinfeld was an iteration of Cheers, right? Or Three's Company. But I don't really remember that. I wasn't old enough to appreciate it. So that's going to happen again. And I'm just excited for that. I don't really know what I'm going with.

I drank a lot of this Shandone. It was delicious. You really did. Well, hey, everyone. Thank you, as always, for listening. Thanks for following along to this show throughout 2019. And we hope to bring you bigger and better things in 2020. We do appreciate you listening.

Happy New Year to everyone listening. I hope you have a great day. Drink a lot of water if you are hungover. Then give us five stars. Yeah. And may you have a very wonderful kickoff to your new year yeah wells thanks for coming thanks for having me man it's been lovely good to see you bud we will see you on monday bye