Your Favorite Thing with Wells & Brandi - A Blue Currrakkko cocktail and a pathetic Men Tell All

Episode Date: December 16, 2020

This week we bring back “Tips to Living Wells” for the sake of some bomb tortilla soup, and we get an update on Young Nikki, who happens to be in love with Ivan from The Bachelorette (he now officially has an open invitation to call her up if things don’t work out with Tayshia). Then, your hosts talk about buying gifts for people who have everything, a problem they both obviously have, and we learn that all Wells really wants for Christmas this year is a solid ice machine. Plus, we get a Bachelorette recap and of course, a long list of favorite things, including everyone’s fave movies that almost didn’t get made!! To wrap it all up, Brandi shares her fave Blue Currrrakkko cocktail, and her least fave Christmas song. Until next time, YFTers! Thanks to our awesome sponsors for making this episode possible! Check out these deals just for you, YFTers: BETTERHELP - Go to betterhelp.com/favoritething to get 10% off your first month HEADSPACE – Go to headspace.com/yft for a free one month trial SHIPSTATION – Go to shipstation.com and enter code YFT for a free 60 day trial  STORYWORTH - Go to storyworth.com/yft for $10 off your first purchase

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because I'm going to get focused. I'm doing the show and I'm not going to enjoy the soup. Then I'm going to take it downstairs and I'm going to heat it back up and have some old soup. It's fine. It's my own fault. Got to eat as much of this soup before it's time. I got to call Brandy. Damn, it's good. It's my own fault. Got to eat as much of this soup before it's time. I got to call Brandy.

Damn, it's good. All right, call her. Bing, bong, boom, ding-a-lang-a-dang-a-doom, dong, doom, ding, ding-dong-doom, dong, soon. I wonder if you can change the song that plays when... Hello. Hi. What are you doing? Eating. I got some soup.

Wow, that actually looks really good. Can I give you and all the YFTers out there just a little piece of advice? Remember I used to do a segment that was like tips to living wells? Yeah. Whatever happened to that? I don't know. We got to bring it back. Bring it back.

Here's my tips to living wells. When you can go back to restaurants, I don't know when that's going to be, but when you can go back to restaurants, if chicken tortilla is on the menu, you get that shit every single time. Okay. Have you ever had bad chicken tortilla soup? Come to think of it, no. Either have I.

I've never ever once in my life come across bad chicken tortilla soup. I don't think it's possible. You're right, actually. If you're in Nashville, my favorite chicken tortilla soup is at Taco Mamacita. Oh, yeah. All the fresh ingredients and then you pour it into the bowl yourself. It's so cool. That recipe's online.

Oh, I'm sure it's super easy. And I've made it before and I made it for dinner party that we had for our quarantine crew. And huge hit. I bet. Like I fucking invented a soup. Everyone's mind was blown. Like, holy shit, what did you just do here? You just invented soup?

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Like she'll start talking. And then after like rambling for a full three to four minutes, she's like, wait, what was the question? And then I have to like bring it all back around and keep her on track. It's honestly a full three to four minutes. She's like, wait, what was the question? And then I have to like bring it all back around and keep her on track. It's honestly a full time job. Yeah. Have you learned a little bit of respect for me having to keep this show on the on the rails? You know what the difference is? Well, what is that? I don't know if you've listened to so I were stoned, but there's no way that it's as like professional as this podcast.

And this podcast is not professional. So that's saying a lot. I listen to a lot of podcasts. I think our sounds really good. And that's a nod to you. Yeah. Tap yourself on the back there. No, no, no.

Not like that. Well, I think we have good equipment. You have a good microphone and I have a good microphone. So I think it sounds good. I think what I'm talking about is like fidelity wise. And it flows really well. I just, I listen to a lot of shitty. It's pretty profesh.

Okay, cool. Well, sorry we're stoned, isn't it? Yeah. Well. Because it's me who doesn't know what they're doing and Tish who really doesn't know what they're doing. The show's called Sorry We're Stoned. If it was professional, I'd be a little confused.

Oh yeah. So that was good. It was cute. Noah gave, actually Noah gave a lot of really good advice. Give me a little nug, a little Noah nug of advice. Noah nug. Well, you know, Noah is very passionate about mental health awareness, and she's very outspoken about her own struggles with mental health. And she's very pro like therapy and all this stuff. So her podcast in my feels is like all about that, like your feelings and

dealing with them and all that. So this was nice because usually our advice segment is really like lighthearted and it's all questions from my mom. And usually they're kind of funny or sometimes they're interior design related to this one. We kind of like went deep and a lot of listeners reached out to Noah and asked for advice on, you know, when you do get down, like how do you bring yourself back up and what brings you back to feeling better about yourself and all that stuff. And I don't know why I'm always surprised. I guess I just see view Noah as like my baby sister.

I mean, she is my baby sister. But then sometimes like when I hear her speak, I'm like, oh, my God, you're an adult and you're really actually really wise. And I'm just really old. Yeah. What is one of the things that she does to bring herself back up when she's feeling down? Her advice about that, I should say listen to the podcast and you'll find out. That's why I was just going to be one thing.

I just want one like little nugget, little soundbite to promo. You know what? She had a couple of like good suggestions. I think a lot of people were feeling the struggle with being quarantined all year. And like where do you find the inspiration to create and how do you get out of this like rut when you can't go anywhere and you can't see anyone and she had a lot of like really good little tidbits like you know it get in the car and take a drive and put on some music that's inspiring and stuff like that that I thought was

really really good but she also is really working on growing personally and instead of depending on other people, whereas like she even mentioned, you know, in the past I've called my mom and my mom helps me get out of the rut or I call a friend and make them come over and cheer me up. And she's like, and that's nice and it's great to have those people. But she goes, I've really been working on learning how to bring myself out of it and how to be alone and still come out of the rut and and like heal my own self instead of depending on other people and i thought that that was very mature and very cool and very inspiring nice all right well this week on sorry you're stoned

noah cyrus gives them noah nugs and smokes some noah nugs she gives noah nugs of advice and smokes some noah nugs of weed exactly nice do you want to start probably should bros and hoes wow you're listening to your favorite thing podcast with wells and brandy oh this year the the Christmas season is fucking difficult for Wells because he's buying gifts for someone who has literally everything. How do you buy gifts for someone who has everything? Welcome to my life. My notes are up from my phone. Yeah. And I'm on the Sarah's gifts notes.

Ah. And I'm looking at it being like, God damn it, this is not. And you got the one sentimental. You got the one like for the house gift. You got the cute gadget. You got the vinyl. You got the thing that she's going to doesn't know that she needs, but she needs. And then it's just a bunch of just like tchotchkes.

Because you can't. I don't know what you get. This is what happened. The other day, we were at a buddy's house and they had an amazing. Dude, I am a sucker. One of my favorite things. Sucker for a good ice machine. Do you know about a good ice machine?

A good ice machine? Yeah. Not an ice machine in your refrigerator. It's straight up. It's like in the bar. The machine only makes ice. I have one of these. You do? Does yours make cubed ice or like sonic ice or what? They're square, but they're like thin squares of ice, like almost flat. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what I love. So we were at my friend's house and I was making a, and I was like, God damn it. This is fucking heaven right here.

This is the perfect ice to drink ratio. So I yell out, Santa, I know what I want for Christmas. And she goes, what? I go, I ice my shade. And she goes, pulls out her phone, goes, beep, bop, boop, bop, bop, bop. And she turns to my brother, and she goes, fucking done. And I was like, damn it. Oh, my God.

It's so easy. I was just like, that's what I want. Done. And then I'm like, hey, babe, what do you want? And I was like, damn it. Oh, my God. It's so easy. I was just like, that's what I want. Done. And then I'm like, hey, babe, what do you want? She's like, oh, I don't know. You got to help me out. Remember the ice machine story? Remember how easy that was for you?

So my family, thank goodness, because gifts stress me out. We've decided this year, no gifts, period. We are going to focus on spending quality time with each other, playing games and just having family time and not stressing about gifts. And I could not be more thrilled because I'm not a big gift guy. You're not a big gift guy? Gifts stress me. I mean, I feel like I stress so much about the gifts and like put so much like freaking time and like turmoil into buying gifts. And then they're not even that great

because i just suck at gifts and then when i receive gifts it just makes me feel awkward and i hate unwrapping them in front of people makes me feel very uncomfortable just not a gift person good to know christmas ever i didn't get you anything i hope you didn't get me anything um well just kidding no i didn't you did all right guys a lot has changed over the last years and if you're growing your e-commerce business yeah yeah, you can relate. Whether you're looking for better efficiency during the hectic holiday season, or your business has outgrown your old shipping solutions, you need ShipStation to help you scale your business. ShipStation helps you achieve exceptional shipping efficiency with a robust all-in-one fulfillment system that integrates with over 180

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The Bachelor at two nights special this week. And next week. And next week? Yeah. Dude, I never work at Ben's, bro. Well, it does end next week, actually. Oh, it does? Seems fast.

Yeah. I've said it before and I'll say it again. We're at the point of the season where I don't care anymore. It's like serious now and it's not fun for me. The Mintelol. Okay. First of all, only half of them were there. Yeah.

Where's Raisin? Chasen? Laser? Where is he? Chasen was not there and neither was Easy. Where was Easy? Where's Easy? What's going on?

Big players missing from Mintelol. And I'm like, what else are you guys doing yeah exactly maybe they up maybe got the roan though oh you think chasen's got the roan i don't know you're right yeah chasen's probably got the roan he also probably got a few other things you know people were sliding into his dms he got some shit. You know, it happens. Penicillin. I did see this. This was a feel-good moment for me. Rob Mills, who's the head of non-scripted at ABC, tweeted out, Riley, please come to Paradise.

And I was like, yes! That means Paradise is probably going to happen. All right. I do think it'll happen. It might not be in Mexico. By then, most everyone can have a vaccine. By June? I do think it'll happen but anyways yeah that was so weird the men tell all thing like why was everyone so spread out

did like half the room have the roan and the other half didn't have the roan it seemed like it's like you know what we spent a lot of money on covid tests this year so no covid test for you guys six feet apart is how it's going to go. Okay, bye. The whole thing I thought was silly. Okay, we get more Bennett, Noah bullshit, whatever. I mean, there was nothing really that stood out to me about that mental at all. One thing that stood out was Bennett was wearing a scarf. Doesn't he always

wear a scarf? Yeah, but it's just like... Or was that Joseph that wears a scarf? Joseph? Okay, first of all... Okay, that was the moment, I guess. That was the moment. The one standout. Yes, because listen, Chris, I love Chris. He's one of my now close friends. He loves nothing more than to watch someone fucking crash and burn. Okay.

I'm sure that is what is signing his checks. Every month is watching motherfuckers crash and burn. And even he was like, hey, I'm just going to try to help you out here, bro. Do you have anything to say? And your boy Yosef doubled down. And I kind of loved it. I know. I didn't really picture him like conceding and admitting he was wrong.

Did you? I mean, he doesn't seem like the type of guy to admit when he's wrong. The weird thing about that was he wasn't even from Tayshia's season. I know. But I mean, the moment was so big, they had to address it, I guess. For sure. But it's also kind of weird,

like, you know, Tayshia comes out, Claire doesn't. Claire didn't have to answer for all the stuff the way that Tayshia did. I didn't think that was fair. I thought that those guys deserve some answers. And if I was those guys, I'd be like, well, hold on.

Did you guys message beforehand? I want to know. I heard you did, you know? And she can give the canned answer of, no, we didn't, whatever. I swear on Did you guys message beforehand? I want to know. I heard you did, you know, and she can give the canned answer of no, we didn't. Whatever. I swear on, you know, my parents' life or whatever. I also wanted to see her and Dale because I want to read some body language. I agree.

You know, I want to know what's happening there because I got a sinking feeling. Thinking, huh? A sinking feeling that not all is perfect in paradise done done done i mean i wouldn't be shocked by that yeah i'm all about yosef though don't get me wrong he's a fucking asshole but like i loved it like everyone was after him chris was like dude let me do you a favor and he was like no no no i'm gonna go down with the ship. I mean, of all the mental laws to probably be able to get out of, I mean, clearly, like, Jason got out of it. I just can't believe the guy even showed up after the way he acted on TV.

Like, if there was ever a chance to be like, oh, no, I can't go, it would have been this mental law, and he showed up, and he just showed no remorse. Well, I can tell you, because I've seen contracts, contractually you're obligated to go to mental law, part of the show. So Jason's not there because he's got the Roan. I don't know. I guess we're done with the mental. It was just like, whatever. I do have some thoughts on the hometown. OK, before you get to hometown, Blake had his date, but it was like before mental. It was such a weird it was weird how they did all this. Yeah, he got great credit roll roll. Apparently he's got a big ass chakra around the tip of his wang.

Does he? Did you not see the credit roll? The woman was spinning the medallion over his cock and she was like, wow, look at the chakras. Oh no, somehow I missed that. Whatever. Yeah. He got dumped crying and.

Milking it. Milking it. Loved it though. Bye bye Blake. And then hometown though. Bye bye, Blake. And then hometowns. What are your thoughts? Brendan's niece, Aaliyah, is the star of the show. Oh, for sure.

And just let her be the bachelorette in 2029. Yeah, she's cute. I loved her. Here's my problem with Brendan. Okay. So he's a New Jersey commercial roofer. Mm-hmm. Salt of the earth, blue collar.

The country was built in the backs of people like this guy. And then I go on Instagram and it's nothing but model shots. Really? Go look at his. It's like, okay, Tyler Cameron, let's pump the brakes a little bit. Oh, wow. Go look at it. Oh, okay.

Confused? I don't even really look like him. I was a roofer in high school, okay? If one of my coworkers showed up to work and they posted that on their instagram the night before i'd be like oh watch out here comes zulanda down the runway the walkway here he comes everybody oh look he's giving us blue steel oh no it's magnum he looks good i know but it's like what are you are you a model or are you a construction worker? Like, what is it? You know what's really confusing about this for me is that like on the show, Brendan comes across as not super confident.

And that's actually one of the things I think is endearing about him. But his Instagram says otherwise. Yeah. So is that like a front or is the Instagram a front? I don't know. That was my only kind of like, I love this guy. He seems very genuine that I'm like,

okay, you can do a couple of these, but like maybe just pump the brakes a little bit. Like just do some normal photos. Maybe that's just someone who doesn't really understand how social media works and not say that I do,

but that's so unrelatable to people who follow you, I think. That says the guy who posted four ads in the last five posts. You got to get that money because I got to buy gifts for someone who has everything.

Get it, get it, get it. To me, Zach was whatever. And then with Ivan, I didn't care at all about that date until his brother showed up. And I was like, where has this guy been the entire time? I need more of is it Gabriel Gabriel wait you didn't love their cooking well section no because that's my they stole your bit of course they did I love their cooking date I thought it was adorable I'm obsessed with Ivan yeah I like Ivan but I need to know more about Gabriel he's got a bunch of like teardrop tattoos on his face. And I don't know what that means.

And like. He's such a sweetheart though. And then also like, why is he coming in late? You know, like what was he out doing that he had to come late to? And I had so many questions that I needed to answer. And even he was like, Tayshia was like, yeah, you know, Ivan talks about you a lot. And he was like, tell you all the bad stuff and she's like no and I'm sitting there being like what's the bad stuff I need to know what happened I love Ivan and I love how much he loves his family yeah he's all about it so much

yeah and then Ben's sister stole the show for me i loved her i thought the niece stole the show well yes the niece okay so yeah the niece alia i remember her name i actually think that's her name uh she was great but i really love ben's sister and i love ben's friend but ben's a puss because he couldn't say hey i'm falling in love with you i know because i don't know if he is i know he's like being convinced by his friend like you you love her you love you love you love her right he's like oh i guess i don't know i just have a shirt with a huge neck hole so i don't really know what's going on i know he explained that his dad's a doctor in covid and he obviously couldn't go but it was like it's kind of

just hard to not like you meet everybody else's parents, but not his. And like, I feel like when you meet the parents, you just like learn so much about somebody. So it's hard to like evaluate him the same without really meeting his parents, I feel. You still think Ben's going to win? I have never said who I think is going to win, mainly because I know who wins. Can you just pretend you don't know and just like say who you think would win if you didn't know? Can I say who I don't think is going to win?

Sure. Ivan is not going to win. I know, but I love him so much. Honestly, on Fire and Stone, Noah said if Ivan doesn't win that he could call her. He's way too sweet. Noah would destroy him. Noah is also like 12 years old. He's not that old.

Noah's going to be 21 next month. Okay. Hey, listen, Ivan, you could do a whole lot worse than Nikki Champagne. Nikki Champagne. But she would eat him for dinner. That's what I was thinking.

He's just so sweet. And also his parents would freak the fuck out if Nikki Champagne showed up at their doorstep. Flassy Tayshia. Not that they would be classy, but you know what I mean.

And Noah rolls up in her sweatpants and crop top. Hello, I'm here. No, Nikki Champagne needs to get with the brother. She loves face tattoos. It's true. She does. She does. It's a thing.

I think the top two are going to be Zach and Ben. I think that Brendan is not into it. I think he's going to be Zach and Ben. I think that Brendan is not into it. Like, I think he's going to freak out and bail. And I think that. I just don't think he's as sure as the other two. Yeah. And I don't think she's that into Ivan. And so, yeah, it's down to a really big neck hole.

And. You're terrible. And Zach. The Zach attack. Mm-hmm. I've had enough of Bachelor. Okay, fine. Can we move on? Yeah. Okay. All right,

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Give it to me. Have you seen The Flight Attendant? No, but I have been wanting to see it. What? You haven't seen it? No, but I have been wanting to see it. What? You haven't seen it? No, I know. It does look good. It's with Kaylee Cuckoo Cuckoo Choo.

Yeah, and Michelle Huseman. Michelle Huseman? Oh. Michelle Huseman is in it, yes. Oh, man. How does Rye feel about this show? Rye loves this show. Oh, yeah?

We watched it together. It's really, really, I can't believe you haven't seen it okay so i for some reason thought there were only two episodes out so i've seen two but my mom told me today there's like six episodes out so i gotta go do some research after this i'm only two episodes in um dang it i really do you know the like twist in episode one or no all i know is that she's a flight attendant that's all you know know. Okay, well, then I'm not going to ruin it for you. But I'm pretty sure like in the previews, they kind of show the twist episode one. But I'm not going to tell you.

Okay. So we'll wait to discuss this next week. Once you've seen an episode or two, please watch at least episode one. Okay. But it's so good. You guys know I'm obsessed with Mikio Hausmann. I just love him so much. He's so good in this. And honestly,

like I've never been that big of a Kaley Cuoco fan, but I love her in this TV show. She does such a good job. It's just so good. Like I've had a lot of people, cause I posted about it last on an Instagram and I had a few people like write and say that they didn't love the way it was shot. And then it like kind of creeped them out or something and gave them anxiety. And I thought that was very interesting that people thought that because i don't know i just i love the way it's shot i think it's very unique it's just cool i don't know i need you to watch it so we can talk more about it i'm really loving it okay i'm gonna check it out big fan so we watched a movie the other night and i was like obsessed with it which one there's so many

i want to watch right now. Oh, I know. Okay. So this was on Netflix. I do believe. It's called Midnight Special. That's not on my list. I'm sorry.

It's old. It came out in 2016. You know, it was like trending or whatever on Netflix. I was like, I got to watch this show. Listen to the cast. Michael Shannon. He was in like The Shape of Water, Revolutionary Road, Take Shelter, 99 Homes. He's been on like everything.

And then you have Joel Egerton, just one of the best, I feel like. And then Kirsten Dunst. And then Adam Driver. Love him. And so many other like really amazing actors. And I was like, I've got to see this. So here's the tagline. A father and son go on the run, pursued by the government, and a cult drawn to the child's special powers. Midnight Special.

It starts off, an estranged father has abducted his son and is like trying to run away. Okay? There's like this weird religious cult that they used to live at that's coming after them. And they start making innuendos that the kid has like special powers, like he's supernatural. The government gets involved. Adam Driver plays the head of the NSA, and they're going after the kid. And it's super sci-fi, kind of alien-esque, also weirdly religious. I absolutely loved it. I absolutely loved it. Sounds great. kind of alien-esque, also weirdly religious.

I absolutely loved it. I absolutely loved it. It sounds great. Yeah, if you're into sci-fi-y stuff, Midnight Special kills the main kid, the kid that's got the special powers. He's the kid, it's him, he's younger in this. He's the kid that's in Defending Jacob.

Oh, really? Yeah. Is he still as unlikable in this movie as he was in that one? No, he's very likable in this. He's a very good actor is what I've come to find out. Because yes, I hate. That's what that means, I guess. Yeah, I hated him in Defending Jacob. I loved him in this, so.

Interesting. Well, all of a sudden, there are so many movies on Netflix that I want to watch. They're like, they're just like so many movies and just so little time. So we can like talk about a few of them. I'm hoping you've seen some of them so you can give me like a thumbs up or thumbs down. But we started one last night and I fell asleep. I was very tired. But have you seen or seen the preview for Ava on Netflix?

I love Jessica Chastain. She's the lead in this. I haven't seen this. Oh, you haven't? Rye was really into it. He may have seen more of it than I did last night. Basically, Jessica Chastain's in this intense action movie. The premise is she plays Ava.

Ava is a deadly assassin who works for a black ops organization traveling the globe specializing in high-profile hits. When a job goes dangerously wrong she is forced to fight for her own survival if you watch the trailer it kind of seems like people that trained her are turning on her and she's like i guess like fighting for her life so i just think it looks amazing jessica chastain's my number one redhead i love her so much um also john malkovich is in this. Gotta love him. Love. It's okay. You haven't seen it.

We gotta watch this week. Have you seen Your Honor? My mom told me about this show and said it's like the best thing she's ever seen and I haven't started it yet. Oh my god. Tish is right. How far in are you? Because there aren't that many episodes.

There's only one episode. There might be a new episode now, but it's Bryan Cranston, who you know from Breaking Bad. He's the lead. Just after the first episode, Sarah and I were both like, whoa, okay, here we go.

Here's the tag. Bryan Cranston stars the judge confronting his convictions when his son is involved in a hit and run that embroils an organized crime family. He faces impossible choices and discovers how far a father will go to save his son's life. Your Honor. You find out, they're in New Orleans. You find out that Bryan Cranston is a very good judge.

You find out that Bryan Cranston is a very good judge. The first time you see Bryan Cranston as a judge, it's this poor black family being accused of something and the cops are saying that they did something. And Bryan Cranston basically exposes the cop being a dirty piece of shit and gets the poor black family off. And you're like okay i like him i'm on i'm on board and then his son has got some like health issues or something and he's driving down the street after like laying out this picture frame because it seems like his mom had passed away so he went to like where like i think his mom had passed away it was like laying down a picture frame with like some flowers or whatever. And then he's like driving away because it was like a bad part of town.

He was scared to be in the bad part of town. And he's driving away. His inhaler falls on the ground. So he's like reaching down for his inhaler. And then he hits this kid on a motorcycle and he freaks out and tells his dad. And Brian Krantz is like, you gotta confess.

We gotta go. You know, you can't do this. I'm a judge, whatever. And then come to find out who he killed. Mob kid. Damn. So good. What do you watch it on?

Showtime or do you have Amazon Prime and watch it on there? Showtime. Showtime, yeah. We got Showtime. Showtime. We got Showtime. I've heard it's great. Yeah.

And we went down like this like rabbit hole of movies that made us. It's on Netflix. It's the movies that made us. And now they've got holiday movies that made us. And so it's like the behind the scenes of how these movies almost didn't get made. The one that isn't holiday, but it is. So on movies that made us that we watched was on Home Alone. Home Alone almost didn't get made, by the way.

Just just so you crazy. It was purchased by one production company and then they couldn't meet make budget. And then they were just like, the film's done. Everyone go home. It's over. Like right before they start, they started to film it. And then like another production company came in and bought it at the last second and made it. They made this movie on $15 million, which is no money, which is crazy.

John Hughes, who wrote 16 Candles and Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off and like Nash Lampoon's movies. He did everything. Every cool 80s movie ever, John Hughes was the writer and director for. And John Hughes wrote this because he had done Uncle Buck and he had had Macaulay Culkin in the movie. And he's like, you know, I want to do a Christmas movie. And this kid's perfect. So he wrote this whole movie around Macaulay Culkin. That's crazy.

John Candy, he plays the polka guy who takes the mom in the van, you know, polka, polka, polka. John Candy did that movie as a favor to john hughes and he got paid scale he made 500 to be in that film like the stuff that you find out you're just like holy shit they tried to cut so much of the movie siskel and ebert gave it two stars and said it was too unrealistic it was was like all these people were like, what? It's the highest grossing Christmas movie ever. It was number one for like 12 weeks in a row. It was absolutely bonkers.

That's on Movies That Made Us. And then now there's Holiday Movies That Made Us, which I know is confusing because that's a holiday movie. And the one that we watched for the holiday movies that made us was Elf. What's crazy is Elf so almost did not get made because no one believed that Will Ferrell was the leading man. They were like, exactly. You're like, how are you talking about Will Ferrell? But you got to remember, it was way back in the day. He was just an SNL guy or like a bit player like Austin Powers movies.

And they wrote this film. It almost didn't get made because you know how they use the stop motion stuff that looks like the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer stuff? They like totally didn't get like approval for that shit. Like that almost wasn't in the movie. The costumes were almost not approved. So they started shooting the movie. The same scenes with different color outfits. They had to change the name of the movie, all this crazy stuff.

What's the most bonkers thing that you find out is right before Elf came out, Old School came out. And all of a sudden, Will Ferrell became super fucking famous. And they were like, there's no way anyone's going to believe that Will Ferrell is this sweet and lovable elf. So they tried to cut the movie to make it more slapstick, more rated R, I guess, than what it really is. And they couldn't because it was just shot the way it was shot. Anyways, movies that made us, it's just so good. If you got some time, go check it out. Is it on Netflix? Yes. Sounds great. Yeah. I don't know if you can tell, but we've been in the Christmas spirit recently. Uh-huh.

Been watching a lot of Christmas stuff. Christmas is in 10 days, so that's fair. Have you seen Christmas Chronicles? No. Okay. I hadn't either, and we watched it last night because there's an there's the christmas chronicles two out so i haven't even gotten to that yet guys but like very excited for it christmas chronicles i guess it came out a couple years ago it's kurt russell as santa claus

it's a little girl and like a little bit older of a boy obviously the older boy like doesn't believe in santa anymore and it's like whatever and the little girl does little girl is the girl that's in big little lies by the way um on christmas eve they like run outside they see santa claus and she's like filming it and then all of a sudden she jumps in the sleigh and all hell breaks loose and santa loses his hat which gives him his magic the reindeers fly away and santa goes to prison for a little bit and starts singing with the E Street Band for some reason. I don't know what's going on. Anyways, it is phenomenal. Great new Christmas. We didn't even know it existed.

And here's my other thing, guys. Kurt Russell's so fucking cool, dude. He's just the coolest still. Okay. And then Goldie Hawn is Mrs. Claus, which is cute because they're amazing. Anyways, yeah, there's Christmas Chronicles 2, which I'm excited to see. Like, I'm about it. And here's the weird thing.

Christmas Chronicles 2 was directed by Chris Columbus, who directed, yep, you guessed it, Home Alone. Oh. I just, there's some things on my radar that are going to be watched this week that I feel like are worth noting now and talking about later. Okay. You know how much I freaking loved the first season of Manhunt. It was the Unabomber series. Oh yeah. I started that the other day. That's like the Richard Jewell thing. But you watched Unabomber, right? Yes. And I loved it. So freaking good. Okay. Yeah. So they finally put out a season two And it's about the 1996 Olympics. It was like a foiled terrorist attack. And what the FBI investigator like becomes a suspect.

And it's like this whole thing. And my mom, my mom's the one that watched it. And it's amazing. And if it's anywhere near as good as Unabomber, I'm so freaking pumped about it. Did you ever see Richard Jewell? No. Won a bunch of Oscars and stuff. And that's what

that story is about. So now it's like kind of like in depth of what really happened. And I watched the first episode. It's good. Is it good? Yeah. I'm super pumped about it. And then the other one is, have you guys seen the Netflix movie? I think I'm saying it right. It's Hillbilly Elegy. Oh, yeah. I want to see this. The Ron Howard movie. Yeah. Definitely like of everything we've talked about. I think everything else we've talked about is like besides the Manhunt series, but Pretty

Lighthearted and this one is it's based on a memoir, I think. So it's a true story, but obviously it's, you know, actors playing. But Amy Adams, Glenn um are the two leads and it's so crazy to me like amy adams is so stunning and man they have like roughed her up in this movie like she's almost unrecognizable in the coolest way it almost like reminds you of like charlie's there on yeah monster yeah and and am And Amy Adams is just such a phenomenal actress. Like, I'm so pumped about this. But it's about just growing up in, like,

I think small town Ohio. It's about, like, three different generations of a family and definitely, like, not as lighthearted as some of the other things we've talked about. But I think it's going to be really, really good. So that's also top of my list. Okay. Riot thinks he doesn't like a drama.

But, like, we've watched a few and he does like them. You know what I mean? Yeah. But he's always like, not a drama. Isn't Flight Attendant a drama? Kind of, but it's also like kind of a comedy. Like I think it's like heavy comedy actually. A dramedy.

Dramedy. I'm going to stay in the Christmas spirit because that's just where I am right now in my life. I see this. Have you seen Disney's Noel? I have not. It just came out last month. Really good cast, by the way.

Anna Kendrick's the lead. Shirley MacLaine plays an elf. Okay, Oscar winner. Bill Hader is in it. Love him. Billy Eichner is in it. Billy on the Street and Parks and Rec. Julie Haggerty, who's in the airplane movies.

A lot of big names in this so here's the tag santa's daughter must take over the family business when her father retires and her brother who is supposed to inherit the santa role gets cold feet in this world santa i think he dies i don't think he retires i don't't remember him retiring. I just remember him not being there. But anyways, he's gone. So then like the son, Bill Hader, has to be Santa and he does not want to do it. He wants to fucking lead a yoga retreat in Phoenix. And Anna Kendrick is like the most Christmassy person in the world. You can obviously see, you could see like the Disney birds birds chirping around her and shit and she's all about it and so she's trying to save christmas and and bill hater wants really

nothing to do with it so then when bill hater drops out then billy eichner has to take over and like you know his comedy which is like so loud and brash and funny he wants to fucking get rid of santa sleigh and delivering of gifts all together and just use amazon prime and an app which is so fucking funny because that's what everyone is doing this year and anna kendrick trying to save the fucking world and it's really like at first i was like this is gonna be like such a stupid which it is but i was like this be like such a stupid, which it is, but I was like, this is me such a stupid Hollywood. And at the end of it, I was like, Oh, love great holiday cheer.

So anyways, Noel thoroughly enjoyed it. Okay. Super cute. Um, you know what else I watched that was like totally stupid, but also just, you know,

kind of fun. If you guys watch the holiday, Emma Roberts is the star of it. I don't know the guy's name. No, I didn't. I didn't see. Emma Roberts and, uh, it I don't know the guy's name no I didn't I didn't see Roberts and uh some Australian dude I mean it's cheesy as all hell but it's super cute basically

she's just like single af and is sick of going to all these holidays alone like all her other siblings are married and whatever so uh I think it's like her insane aunt or somebody comes up with this idea of a holiday date so you like pick somebody to just you only see them on holidays and you go to holidays together and pretend you're together, but you're really not. And so like she drags this guy to like all her family functions. You know, who's the crazy aunt is Kristen Chenoweth. And she's really funny. Oh, yeah. But anyway, it's cheesy, but it's super cute.

And I like Emma Roberts a lot. I heard she plays a foul mouth, angry, smoking girl, which she plays in like every movie. I mean, yeah. Yeah, that's like her thing. Yeah, she's hilarious though. Yeah. So anyway, it was cute. That was my Christmas movie for the week. Alright, I like it. I did finish Ready

Player Two. First of all, I loved it, okay? And my sister who loved Ready Player One was like, okay, be honest, is it like one was like what okay be honest is it like as good as the first one or is it not as good what is it and i was like you know what it's like terminator 2 it's not as good as terminator because terminator was like groundbreaking and amazing but terminator 2 is fun exciting like different shit was going on and you left theater thinking you know what i like it i like

seeing arnold schwarzenegger now is the good terminator not the bad terminator you know it's like that it's not you're never gonna beat the first i can't beat the first one but i enjoyed it i never put it down i never stopped i was like always excited about it still thinking about it so you know like ready player one really goes down like a lot of john hughes stuff a lot of 80s stuff really big into that and then ready player two goes into it's a lot of 80s stuff but it's also like a lot of other nerdy stuff that like i also aligned with lord of the rings stuff you know which wasn't really part of the first one anyways i tweeted out ready player two is really good that's it that's a tweet and then a bunch of people were like it's getting terrible reviews

yada yada yada i tweeted back hey motherfucker Siskel and Ebert said that Home Alone was a shitty movie. Okay? Gave it two stars. So that's all I got for you. I mean, there is like a waiting list to buy the book on Amazon. So. Yeah. It's got to be decent.

I liked it. I want to read it. You should. I'm going to. We had a couple of like my super close friends over this weekend, played some Yahtzee, but we also made some holiday cocktails. And we made these Christmas slushes, but there's vodka in it, and Prosecco, but they're blue. And they were blue because you mixed in this thing.

It's kind of like triple sec, but it's blue. And it's called like blue, like- Curacao? Do you know what it is? That, Curacao. Yeah. So my dumb ass goes to the liquor store and I'm like, do you guys have blue Caraco?

I can't find it anywhere. I looked right next to the triple sec and it's just not there. And he's like, you mean blue, say it? Curacao? Curacao. You mean blue Curacao? And I'm like, yeah, that one. Oh my God. He acted like I was the dumbest person on the planet that but you know what yummy drink yeah so blue blue curacao

yeah which makes no sense if you look at the word it looks like croco uh vodka prosecco lemonade and i think that was it and then like a little lemon on the rim with a little sugar yeah bomb it sounds very sugary it's very good actually the drink itself was not overly sweet and that's why we liked it but then like you know me i like coated that sugar on the rim yeah well it's bomb bomb man blue curacao who knew man i want to get that Blue Caraco drink, and then maybe before dinner have some Ors Devor's. That would be good. Some what? Some Ors Devor's.

What's that? I believe it's pronounced Or-derves, but it's not spelled the same. I see what you did there. I see what you did there. So the next time we come at you folks, what day will it be? It's going to be like right before Christmas, yeah? Yeah, like right before Christmas.

Maybe the 23rd. My family gets here. Actually, the day this podcast comes out, my family will be here. So hopefully I have some really good stories for you guys next week, like some Cyrus family drama. Can we just start fucking lining them up and bring them on the show, you know?

Might as well. Just some, like, season's greetings from every Cyrus. Sure. And just have them come in, Billy Ray be like, season's greetings from blood. My goal is to get at least one family pick during the holidays. Yeah, that'd be nice.

So my mom and I always try to like manipulate everybody into that at least once. Do you have any music? Not really this week, I don't think. I don't really either. Let's do our favorite Christmas songs. There actually is a new Ryan Adams song out that I like. We can save it till next week. Okay. Do you have a favorite Christmas song? Do I have a favorite Christmas song? I don't know if I do. I'll tell you which Christmas song I don't like. Santa Baby creeps me out every single time I hear it.

Santa Baby. It's creepy. But you know what that song's about? Something creepy. No, it's about a married couple and the dad dresses up as Santa. And then they do some role play. Creepy as hell.

Well, my favorite Christmas song is The Kinks' Father Christmas. Huh. Do you know this song? I don't think. I think I played it last year. It's all about robbing Santa Claus for all his toys and money. It's such a well.

Huh? It's a very well-sounding Christmas song. When I was small, I believed in Santa Claus. No one knew it was my dad. Huh? It's a very well-sounding Christmas song. outside the department store. A gang of kids came over and bugged me and knocked my ring into the floor. They said, Father Christmas, bring me somebody and I'll mess around with old silly toys. We'll beat you up if you don't hand it over. We want your bread so don't make us annoyed.

Give all the toys to the little rich boys. Wait, by the way, so I just looked up Santa Baby. There's a Santa Baby done by Nathaniel Roitliff and the Night Sweats, which got me really excited. Yes, and also by Volfpeck. What would you rather hear? Because I love both these bands. Nathaniel Roitliff and the Night Sweats. Yeah.

Here we go. Let's hear that one. So creepy. I kind of agree. And have you ever seen Nathaniel Raitliff? He looks like he would be a creepy Santa, actually. He's a creepy Santa. Yeah.

All right. Let's get out of here. I got to go to sleep. Yeah. Tell the fam I say hi. What are you playing? I'm playing some music to walk us out on. Is it Santa Baby?

Yeah. All right. Bye, Brandi. Goodbye, Wells. Dude, you should get Rye to dress up like Santa and then, you know. Absolutely not. Yeah, and you could see what's in his big old bag. Absolutely. And by big old bag. Absolutely.

And by big old bag, I mean his testicles. Yeah, I've seen that. Bye! Goodbye. One little thing I really need. The deed. Ooh. To a platinum mine.

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