Your Favorite Thing with Wells & Brandi - BIP’s Makeover & AI’s Takeover

Episode Date: July 9, 2025

Bachelor in Paradise is BACK with sexy new cameras, fresh format twists, and a HUGE change... no more “Almost Paradise” theme song?! Wells is sharing all the behind-the-scenes from his return as the Bartender this season. Good Morning America might not have remembered his name, but after this season’s BIP interviews… no one will forget him! Today is a special one because not only is Brandi in town recording from Wells’ new Masters-themed studio, but Wells’ mom is also visiting and getting her first taste of ChatGPT — aka “Smarty Pants,” the 14-year-old AI boy who is way too friendly. We also get Wells' take on things we should and shouldn’t be taught to worry about and a certain 2025 phrase that must be stopped! They’ve even got some favorite things, bros! Brandi finished The Better Sister, started We Were Liars, and Wells’ stepdad discovered a sleeper classic called Tortilla Soup. And the cherry on top? We’re blessed with a sneak peek of Brandi’s remix of Kelsea Ballerini’s song, Penthouse. Thank you to our sponsors: Article: Go to ⁠article.com/yft⁠ for $50 off your first purchase of $100 or more. Function Health: Function is offering 160+ Lab Tests for $365 to anyone who signs up between July 7th and July 11th. To learn more and get started, visit www.functionhealth.com/FAVORITETHING  Happy Mammoth: For a limited time get 15% off on your entire first order at ⁠happymammoth.com⁠ and use the code YFT.   Hungryroot: For a limited time get 40% off your first box PLUS get a free item in every box for life. Go to ⁠Hungryroot.com/yft⁠ and use code yft.  Mood: Get 20% off your first order at ⁠Mood.com⁠ with promo code YFT.  Quince: Treat your closet to a little summer glow-up with Quince. Go to ⁠Quince.com/yft⁠ for free shipping on your order and 365 day returns.   Skims: Shop SKIMS best intimates including the Fits Everybody Collection and more at SKIMS.com. 

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It's great, you know? She's staying here. Oh wow. It's so funny for parents, they raised you and they taught you everything. And then they get to this age where they can't do anything. The roles reverse. They do.

Wild. It's crazy. Your parents, like the roles reverse and like parents turning back into children as they get older. Yes. And then we're going to do that. I know it's gonna. It's fucking scary.

It's probably already happening to me. Oh, it's definitely happening to me. Yeah. Especially with the technology. You have to go in it with a little bit of grace because you know it's just coming down the pipe for you. Yep. But I taught them chat GPT. Oh, you did? My mom, first of you. But I taught them chat GPT. Oh, you did?

My mom, first of all, she's like chat, it would be GPT, she can't remember the name, which is fine, whatever. But like I showed her how to put it like on the slide down home screen. And then you can get three different of the icons. And then the one that I have is the voice one. So then it just talks to you.

Look, I'll just do it right now. What voice do you have on your chat GPT? So I can't change the voice. I tried to change the voice. Cause there's a bunch of different ones. Well, I don just do it right now. This is what voice do you have on your chat? So I can't change the voice. I tried to change the voice. There's a bunch of different ones. Well, I don't know how to do that. But hey, what's your name? Hey, there, you can call me smarty pants. What can I do for you today? I named him. Sorry, is your chat dpt a 14 year old

boy? I don't know. Hey, can I change your voice? Of course. You can choose a different voice if you'd like. Let me know how you'd like me to sound and I'll do my best to match it. Can you sound like Gandalf the Grey from Lord of the Rings? I can't do impressions, but I can definitely keep the conversation engaging and fun. How can I assist you today? Can you sound like a older man? Sure thing. I can adjust my tone to sound a bit more

like an older gentleman. That kind of sounds like Anna of the Gray. That kind of sounds like you trying to do the impersonation, an accent. Okay, I like this. Okay. Do you have any questions for chat, Chibi-T, or prefer smarty pants?

I'm here to help with whatever you need. Oh. Just let me know how I can assist you. Could you ask him to be less friendly? It's freaking me out. Can you dial down the friendliness of your responses? Understood. I'll keep it straightforward. Oh, that's way better. Way better. Nothing. Thank you so much. Marty pants.

Ask him what the best smoothie is. Air one. Take care. Okay. Hey, smarty pants. What's the best smoothie at Air one? Air one market has a variety of great smoothies. Popular choices include the glowing green smoothie with spinach, kale, apple, and lemon. And the immunity smoothie with fruits and adaptogens. It really depends on what you're looking for. Whether it's something refreshing, energizing, or detoxifying. Both those sound great.

Why aren't you sounding like an older gentleman like you were before you went back to sounding like a kid? I can adjust my tone again. Let's continue with the smoothie discussion. Okay, can you talk like an older gentleman like you were before? Certainly. Let us proceed with the discussion. Can you set this setting as your voice forever? I understand your preference.

Damn it. You sound like the young kid again. I'll keep it consistent for you. Let me know how I can assist further. That is better. Yeah, but sound more old. Of course. I shall maintain this tone. Thanks.

I like how his version of older is just talking slower. Slower. Of course. Of course. I shall do it. So anyways, I showed them chat GPT and then you get the questions of like, how do you think it works?

There's not like someone that's like seeing all the questions and then answering them, right? And I was like, no, it's the internet. They're scanning the internet. It's AI. She was like, oh yeah, but how do you know it's true? I think, well, I think that they probably finds a bunch of different answers and cross-references them

and to find out like the best answer. I don't know if your parents like this, but my mom, which she's very upset about, is she's realizing that nothing really on the internet's true. Oh, for sure. And so she's always like, I just wanna know the truth. You know, and I'm like, so.

Don't we all. I think you can't think that you found the truth on Instagram. Definitely not. On Facebook. See, my mom still thinks that everything on Instagram is the truth. Yeah.

Yeah. And now that AI is happening, like the videos of AI and stuff, that's gonna throw the boomers for a loop, dude. Oh, totally. I mean, throwing me for a loop. I was gonna say, sometimes it throws me for a loop. I am on the side of Instagram and TikTok.

They keep showing me these like sick prefab modular homes, but they look sickening. Like they look like something you'd see in like Iceland or Norway or something, you know? I was showing Matt and I was like, oh my God, should we put some of these on the farm? They're so sick, they're only 20 grand each. And he was like, let me see it.

And he hit the video and he was like, this is all AI. I thought they were walking through one of them. And he was like, none of this is real. I was fucked. I do like those little modular homes that I see all the time. But he says they're made in China and that they'll show up being a piece of shit.

It's probably true, but it's like 10 grand. You're like, this is a pretty good deal. It's pretty good. Yeah. I don't so know, you like lay down a foundation. How does that work? Probably. And then yeah, you have to run,

if you don't have water and power already, you have to run it. And then also he said like, he would have to assemble the entire thing. And I was like, and? Yeah. Yeah. Yes. You could build a motorcycle, you could build I was like, and? Yeah. Yeah. Yes.

You could build a motorcycle, you could build a house. It'll be fine, yeah. It'll be fine. Totally. Well, I'm glad that you are here in the studio. This is, what do you think of the new studio? It's great. I'm sensing a master's theme.

Yes, well, cause we do the golf podcast in here. I mean, the walls are even like master's green. Yes, but this was the color of the old studio. Yeah. But yes, it's supposed to look very country club. It's definitely giving country clubs. It's definitely giving country club. Yeah, definitely.

It's nice though. Yeah. Look at all these golf flags. Yeah. What significance do those have, would you say? They are all really famous golf courses. So the one that says all the old course, St. Andrews, that's the oldest golf course ever.

It's the first golf course ever. You know what you should do? What's that? The plastic piece that's covering your cable, you should paint green. Yeah, you're right. So it blends into the wall. It's a good call.

Yeah. Anyway, what are you doing in town? Oh, I don't know. Yeah. I don't know anything. Are you doing a show here? No, I got here like a week ago. Yeah. I came in town to shoot

something that I can't talk about yet. Okay. With some of my family. Okay. That's all I can say. Wow. And it's cool and it's going to come out in September. So I came in town for that and then I had a show in Vegas on Friday and that shoot was on Monday. So I was like, well, fuck, I'm not going to fly all the way back home. That would be silly. So I stayed here and did podcasts with my mom all week. And then Friday, I went to Vegas. Thursday, I had my fourth of July because I had to work on the fourth of July.

So on the third of July, I had the fourth of July and I laid by the pool with my mom and my sister, which was really nice to have a pool day. And then on the fourth, I woke up Friday morning. I flew to Las Vegas. I played at Encore Beach Club with Dustin Lynch on Friday. And then I went straight back to the airport, got on a plane and came back here.

Today is Sunday and we're podcasting. And then I'm getting on a plane tonight and going to Calgary because I'm playing Calgary Stampede on Monday. Geez Louise. And then I go home for two days and then I leave again and I play El Paso and Jersey Shore and Long Island all in one weekend.

I'm just going where the wind takes me Wells. Yeah, geez Louise. Well, I just got back from New York. We keep swapping places. I know, I had to go out there for press for Bachelor in Paradise. Yep, how was it? Fucking hilarious.

Was it? And let me tell you why. Okay. So the first thing we have to do is good morning America. I'm gonna call them out because it happened. I was just like, wow, this is appropriate, I guess. So it's hand and I kind of doing press together and we sit down and juju is the main host that's like introducing us and talking to us but like but

there's like two other hosts, you know. So juju sits down and she's like, welcome back to Good Morning America. You know, today we're joined by two time bestselling author, The Bachelorette was on Dancing with the Stars and the new, you know, public relations director in Paradise, Hannah Brown. You're so accomplished and congratulations on the release of your new book. It was like all really well done, right? And then she turns to me and she goes, and we're also joined by Wells Adams.

And I'm like, yep. The bartender, yep. All right, so Hannah back to you. I was like, holy shit. It was one of those where like, I didn't know if I should be like, well, Adams is last name, Wells Adams, you know? But I didn't wanna do it

because I thought that that would be kind of rude. And first of all, I'm like, why isn't a producer in your ear being like, Adams, Adams is last name to Adams. But also you've done some shit. I know. Best in Dough. Yeah.

Traders. Yeah. Thereaders. Yeah. There was something else. I've been eight seasons of this fucking TV show. Also, hello podcast host. Yeah. Not one, not two, but three. That's right.

Like someone didn't do their research. A little bit. That's a little bit how I felt. I was so, I was like, this is so appropriate. I guess like I've never taken seriously. No one ever fucking remembers me. It's fine. That's not true.

And I just, I was laughing about it. And this, we were walking, you know, we do the segment, you know, and then we're walking off and Hannah's like, that was really fun. And I was like, yeah, for you, they know your name at least. And she started dying laughing. She's like, I didn't think she was gonna get your name out. Oh man. Anyways. You need to get your name out. Oh, man.

Anyways, you need to write a book, Wells. I guess. No, I don't. I don't have anything good to say. So then we go back to the green room and we've got to do like, you know, basically like every ABC affiliate. Right. So we've got like 15 things that we've got to do when they've set the whole thing up. And we're sitting there and we're doing like 15 things that we've got to do when they've set the whole thing up and we're sitting there and we're doing like the first ABC affiliate Tampa hit and we're doing that and you know, lovely and nice to see and then you know, on laptops, notifications pop up like on the side.

Yeah, all of a sudden I see on the side pops up Sean Diddy combs. Found guilty on one count and not guilty or whatever on two counts. And so I'm sitting there, I'm like, oh, breaking news is happening while I'm doing this thing. So then we finish doing that interview. So you have like this, you know, like a PR liaison with you and he comes up and he's like, okay, so all the other outlets that you are supposed to be doing have canceled because they are gonna focus on Sean Diddy Comes. And I'm like, got it. You're like, yep, that sounds right.

This checks out perfect. So I'm like, yeah, okay. I was like, well, it's good news is that like, then the other hosts won't forget my name. So, you know, that was good. So anyway, so I got bumped from by Sean Diddy Comes. Damn. Which was good. So anyway, so I got bumped by Sean Diddy Combs. Damn. Which was great. So then we had to go do,

we did like a bunch of like a viral, whatever, social media things, Jessie and I did, and then we had to go to this mixer with like a ton of outlets, right? ESPN and you know, whatever. Reuters and Decider and what, all this stuff. It's like a round table of like, they're bringing you in asking you questions.

Yeah, it was fine. It was like everyone really likes the show. A lot of people are like, well, it looks a lot like Love Island because we have changed a lot about it. And it's really the cameras. We're now filming with like really, these really, really nice cameras.

So it's like really slick looking, which is what Love Island looks like. It's like beautiful slow-mos, you know, and like just really sexy. Whereas the old cameras, we were on, we were filming on these, they were such antiquated cameras that they filmed on DVD. And we used to have to send, fly someone back to LA

with like a suitcase full of DVDs to then start like the editing process. Now, of course, it then start like the editing process. Now, of course it's digital and all this stuff. And so everyone was like, you know, this, it's great, but it looks a lot like Love Island. And I think the sub context was like, you know, you guys kind of stealing Love Island's idea.

And I had to be like, they stole our idea first. Totally. We did the beach show with hot singles years before you guys did. And now what we're copycats, cause we got new cameras. Screw you. You know, so I had,

it was a lot of me being like, they stole our idea. Well, I'm sure ABC appreciates that. Cause they can't say it. Yeah, but I can say it. But you can say it. Yeah. Yeah, of course.

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Does she? Yeah, and it's annoying because it means that I have to. Call three times to get it to go through. Yes. I know, my mother does this. I might start doing it too. I just worry like, I mean, I get it. They can call three times and get through,

but like if there's an emergency and I miss it, I would, that wouldn't be good. Yeah, I'm gonna do it just out of spite because I have to call her multiple times. Can you set do not disturb for certain people? I ask, let wouldn't be good. Yeah. I'm going to do it just out of spite because I have to call her multiple times. Can you set do not disturb for certain people? I ask, let's ask smarty pants. Ask smarty pants. Hey smarty pants, can you set do not disturb off for some people on an iPhone?

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What do you mean like only put do not disturb on for like a handful of people and let everybody else's calls come through group text chains I Mute you yeah, but I wish I could just like a mute a certain person. He probably could you can also just do I'm calling or anything Why don't you just cut them out of your life for good? No, that's dramatic. Is it? Yeah. Okay. We haven't started the show yet. Yeah, you wanna start? We're like 20 minutes in.

Yeah, go for it. Bros and hoes, we're coming at you live from Wells' new studio. You're listening to your Favorite Thing podcast with Wells and Brandy. So paradise is back, baby. Paradise is back, baby. I regret to inform everyone that I have not seen the first episode yet.

I sent you the screener. No, but there was like a crazy, like 24 hour expiration on it. It was a 48 hour expiration. Okay, but in the past, I've been able to watch it like the night before. I know, they've got a new system now. Well, fuck the new system.

Just because you guys got new cameras. I know, listen. Doesn't mean we need a new fucking screen. Well, fuck the new system. Just because you guys got new cameras. I know, listen. Doesn't mean we need a new fucking screener system, ABC. So it's- Some of us have a life. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, anyways, this comes out,

everyone will have seen Paradise. So I can kind of talk about it. And listen, yes, it does look a lot different. So it opens with Jessie Sunburnt, like laying on a lawn chair. And then like you see like my legs walking by and like picking up bottles and cans and stuff from like a huge party.

He gets a call and it's like kind of like the hangover where he gets a call and it's like, hey Jesse, we need you to film one more thing. And he's like, what are you talking about? We had the rap party last night. Like we're done. And he was like, no, we forgot to film the intro. And then he's like, ah, shit, you know, or whatever.

And then gets up and then films the intro. Very funny. The like almost paradise song is gone basically. Except yeah, it's gone. Gone, gone? Gone. Like there's one part where it's, where it says like, almost paradise.

And like that's it. But like the whole thing, like the whole intro of every button. I mean, maybe that'll change. Cause the first episode you can't have the intros for everyone because they haven't been introduced yet. Right. So maybe that'll change. But because I knew that this was going to happen. I was always like I wonder if bad tarnation is going to be annoyed that the song is gone. And we'll see. I don't know. But the show is very sexy. it's very funny. I wish you could watch it, or you could watch it. You know, the big problem that we always had

is that you'd be like, you're not in this fucking show. Which is still kind of the case. But. It hasn't changed that much. I am in it more than like, I think I have been in the past. But it's in a different context. Now we're doing all these exercises, right? Like compatibility tests and stuff.

So like, it's kind of all hands on deck where like, we need Hannah, we need myself, we need Jesse all coming out there and be like, I'll take the guys and she takes the girls and Jesse's kind of running the show and all this kind of stuff. So there's a lot of that. And there is some funny moments of me at the bar,

but mainly the funny stuff for me is I'm in the interview. Okay. And like talking like, here, I can show you one clip. It's interesting to see like the different strategies everyone's taking. Like you have Ricky who comes on so strong, like a guy's got way too much clone in an elevator. You gotta hear that.

Then you got Kyle who he's just like so passive and just like, I'll be waiting when you're ready. I love love, like seeing people happy. Bailey and Jeremy. Am I the only one that's thinking that Bailey is way out of his league? I mean, the guy is redder than a tomato. You're a little burnt.

But it'll turn into a tan. We got a good little love triangle happening. JS and Sam and Spencer. I do like Sam. I think her heart is saying Sam. And I think her brain is being like, we got to stay with the golden retriever here that looks like Clark Kent.

Chill. It's a hard one. It's a good look for you. So it's a lot of that, actually. So you're almost, like, narrating. Yeah it's a lot of that actually. You're almost like narrating. Yeah, which is what I was originally. And I remember going in the meeting with these new showrunners and producers.

And I was like, listen, I think I was the most useful when I was helping narrate the show, whether it was with puppets or not. Oh yeah, the puppets. I did a good bit of narrating, but like I wasn't in the chair a lot. Yeah, I don't know how much how much it's going to be. But like the showrunner texted me and he was like, dude, he texted me like a couple of weeks ago and he was like,

every interview I've watched of you, I've died laughing. I wish we had more of you. And I was like, I told you tried to tell you, I tried to tell you. Listen, I've told the team that we need to have as much of your stuff in there as possible because every time when we test it, it gets the biggest laughs. And I was like, thank you.

You're like about damn time, someone recognized. Yeah, someone finally sees me, you know? Not Juju from Good Morning America, but Scott, the new showrunner for Ratcher in Paradise. Oh God. So I wasn't like angry about that. I have this funny interaction with Sam, who was kind of, he was like the,

do you remember he was, make the main thing the main thing? Oh, yes. That guy. Who like, who hated Devin. Yes. And so then he was like the villain. Turns out that Devin was a total piece of garbage and like Sam was kind of right and everyone kind of-

Yeah, but is Sam also not garbage or what? I mean, maybe, you know, two things can be true at the same time, but Sam wasn't wrong. I will say that. Oh, yeah, that is right. OK, that is true. It's been so long since I've seen these people. So he comes in- Is Devin in Paradise?

No. Oh. So he comes in on like an old motorcycle. So he comes to the bar and I'm like, hey, welcome to Paradise. Good to see you. And he's like, hey, what's up? I'm Sam. And I saw I was like, so, you know, how did you roll in?

And he goes, I wrote in on a 1967 Harley and he goes, it's the oldest thing I've ever been on. And I said, well, good news for you. The Goldens are coming in. So that might change. That's funny. Really good joke. That's a great joke.

And Jess is in there. She's standing right next to him and she goes, yeah, I can't wait for them to get here. And I was like, oh my God, that joke went right over her head. And Sam's clocked it and is like, oh, yeah, good joke. And it was just so funny. I was like, oh man. And I even say, I'm like, they cut it.

But I was like, that was such a good joke for you not to, for you not to pick up on. Yeah, it's such a bummer. And she immediately is like, let's go talk, Sam. And then they leave. At the end of the episode, Jesse teases this thing about like, everything's going to change. And of course he does. And you know, kind of implies that like, there might be some sort of financial situation at the end. Interesting. Like a too hot to handle kind of thing? Maybe so. Might be, you know, there was a show called

Bansher Pad way back in the day. Oh, I never saw that. Yeah, so that was right before we started doing Paradise. And Bansher Pad had, yes, there was a kind of at the end, you know, you choose love or money kind of a thing, you know? Everyone's choosing money, let's be real. We'll see what happens, I guess.

So I don't really know. I was really surprised that they included that in the super tease because if that's true, that's a big thing that's gonna happen in the season. For sure. So anyways, everything's gonna be a lot different. The first episode is a three hour premiere. If you ask me, it's way too long.

And then I heard that they wanna do two hour back to back nights. And I'm like, ah. That's too much. Too much TV. Also, like the show's gonna. I'm like, ah. That's too much. Too much TV. Also like the show's gonna be over in like four weeks. Yeah. If you have any questions about Bachelor in Paradise.

I'm just really interested because we're recording this before the show airs. I know, and so you don't know what people are saying yet. I don't know how people are gonna feel. Yeah. I think the show looks good. Uh-huh. I think the show needed a facelift.

Yeah. The IP is too strong to get rid of. But listen, you know, at the end of the day, the landscape for reality TV dating shows has changed and Bachelor has kind of stayed the same. That's true. I don't know if you can change the Bachelor the Bachelorette or even the Golden Bachelor the Golden Bachelorette, but I do think you can change up paradise a little bit to be more modern, which is what it looks

like. So yeah, I'm just excited to see what people think maybe people people won't like it. I think it's gonna be one is gonna be really sexy. The first episode, not a whole lot happens in terms of drama in comparison to what happens down the pike. But I still was like very interested in I thought it was compelling first episode. You know, the rose ceremony, nothing crazy happens. The big kind of thing is that Jess chooses Spencer over Sam. Like that's the big one.

But it seemed to me like it was very funny. It seemed to me it looks really cool. And knowing what happens in the coming rose ceremonies, like that first rose ceremony, I remember being like, this is boring, no offense. But I was like, eh, nothing's really happening. And then the next one's I was like, holy shit. And then it gets really crazy. And then the gold show up and then turns on its head

and all this stuff. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, I'm gonna watch it this week. I hope you do. As soon as I can find three hours of free time. Well, it's only two hours without commercials. Oh.

Yeah. Okay. That's crazy. An hour of commercials? I was doing the math on it. Right. So it used to be that a 30 minute show was really a 22 minute runtime. Yeah, that would be eight minutes of commercials, right. So that's a half an hour, then an hour would be 16. So if I could, let's say 20. And then two hours would be 4040. And

then three hours would be 60. Wow. And then three hours would be 60. Wow. You know? Yeah. Cause I thought the same thing. I was like, dude, that's an hour of commercials. That's wild. I know, but it's true.

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Yes. Did you, you probably didn't finish it, but I finished the better sister. You love it? I fucking loved it. Did you finish it? No. I think you should.

I got my mom in town, dude. What's that mean? I just, I can't do anything. What do you mean? I gotta drive them around. Oh my God. Okay. Well, it's, it's great. Great show, great cast.

I think I said before, like the thing that was so good about this show is that every episode, it was near the end of the episode and you would kind of think you started figuring things out and then like wham, they would hit you with something that just totally flipped it on its head and left you on a cliffhanger for the next one.

So spoiler alert, if you haven't seen the ending of The Better Sister, let's fast forward 60 seconds because I don't wanna ruin it for you. But it's so crazy because Elizabeth Banks' character, Nikki, was the killer. You find that out, like the second to last episode. It's almost like it was so obvious that you didn't see it.

I mean, that's so obvious that it's Nikki. You know what I mean? But it was interesting, like, I had to keep reminding myself throughout the series, little tiny things they showed so early on that would be so easy to forget. Like the knife, like literally in episode one, Jessica Beale, she finds the knife under the car

and throws it in the fucking glove box. And it's like all this stuff starts to happen and you're like, you almost forget like, wait, there was a knife, you know? And then Nikki finds the knife like half the way through the series and bleaches it and puts it away. And then you never see it again. But it's like, you have to keep reminding yourself, like, no one's talking about

the fucking knife, you know, they kind of reveal that it's Nikki who is the killer. And you're seeing it and you're like, this is also obvious. Why did I not know this? But they did such a good job of making you still a little shocked when you find out who it is, even though it's really obvious. Does Nikki go to jail for it? No, she gets away with the genius thing. So there were just so many great layers to this show. Does Nikki go to jail for it? No, she gets away with it. That's the genius thing. So there were just so many great layers to this show. Did the kid go to jail? He would, no, he

he's the one on trial the whole fucking series. And then like two episodes before the end, they find him not guilty. Okay. And they kind of make you think like there's the guy that Jessica Beale was having an affair with, you kind of start to think like, oh fuck, is it him? And then the cool thing they do at the very, very end is, again, spoiler alert, big time here, the husband turns out to not be that great of a guy. Like they start revealing that the husband's not a good guy and then you're like, well fuck. And then, you know, this whole series,

they kind of create a lot of negativity towards the detect, the lesbian detective, right? Like she's just kind of a piece of shit. And then towards the end, it's like they make her out to be such a bad guy that you're almost happy that Nikki gets off, you know what I mean? Cause it kind of turns into like, I forget her name, but her against Nikki kind of thing towards the end,

you know, and like the detective is just such a fucking bitch that you're kind of like, you know what, fuck, yeah, great show. All right, now that you've ruined it for me. I did ruin it for you, but it's still good. But now I wanna watch it. You should watch it, it's good. I know.

Yeah. I just assumed it was the kid. Yeah. I know. I think they're probably gonna do, I think they could do a season two. Who else are they gonna cue? I don't know.

But I think there's, to me, there was more left like unturned about kind of the crooked detective and the boss that was sketchy and like just all the shit going down at the law firm that he worked at, the husband. Like there was a lot of stuff going on there that I felt like wasn't really resolved that you could totally turn into a season two probably.

Yeah, all right, I'll go watch it. And then sticking with Amazon Prime, I have been seeing all over TikTok, girls talking about a show called, We Were Liars, do you know about this? No. Pull this up for me. Kind of what everyone's saying on TikTok that hooked me

was like, I turned on this show thinking it was gonna be some like sweet YA love story show and everyone's like, but it broke my heart and like ripped it to shreds. And I was like, oh, that sounds right up my alley. So I have two episodes into this if you wanna read the synopsis. The story of a 17 year old girl from a wealthy family,

Cady Sinclair spends her summers on a private island. After suffering a terrible accident, she struggles to remember events that happened in her past. We Were Liars on Amazon Prime, starring Emily Allen Lind Caitlin Fitzgerald and Mamie Gummer the kids in this show I don't recognize like the younger actors But all of the actors playing like the moms and that age are all definitely familiar faces

So Candice King is also in it. She was in vampire vampire diaries. I believe yeah, I never watched that show But people fucking loved it. So Candace, people will know for sure. I like her character a lot. And then who's the other? Emily Allen Lind. She's in one of my favorite movies. Is that the younger girl?

She's the blonde, which I assume looks like the lead. Yeah, she's the younger. What's she in? Well, she was in Doctor Sleep that I loved. Oh, I never saw that. Oh, she's so good in Doctor Sleep. And then is it Caitlin something? Yeah, she's the younger. What's she in? Well, she was in Doctor Sleep that I love. Oh, she's so good in Doctor Sleep. And then is it Caitlin something or? Yeah, Caitlin. She's the one I know from other things. Caitlin Fitzgerald. Caitlin Fitzgerald. She's my favorite so far. I fucking love her. I was I looked at her IMDB

I was trying to figure out what it is that I remember her so vividly from. Masters of Sex? I think it's it's an older movie called It's Complicated with Meryl Streep. Yep, that's a season that. I loved that movie. 2009. And I think that's what I remember her from. Okay.

That I loved her in so much, but I love her character. So it's kind of like, it's kind of a stacked cast, but like you don't really realize it until you start watching it. Now listen, some of the acting's pretty cheesy, some of the writing's pretty cheesy. Especially in episode one. Like it's a little cheese ball, but I, I feel like if I stick with it, it's going to have a big payoff just based on what everyone on TikTok saying about it. Um, so I think you have to go into it knowing like, listen, it's not like a

work of art by any means, but I think it's going to be a good little show. Well, like I said, I got my mom and her new husband in town. So they have kind of been in charge of- They're dictating the television. Yeah, which is fine. What do they like to watch? Well, we watched a movie last night from 2001 called Tortilla Soup.

Oh, never heard of it. A Mexican-American master chef and father to three daughters has lost his taste for food, but not life, Tortilla Soup. Oh, Jesus Christ. I mean, it not life. Tortilla soup. Jesus Christ. I mean, it's cute. It's like- How much longer are they in town? Too long.

That's too good. You know, the dad is a good, he's a good chef. It's a lot of, if you're like a foodie- I'm sorry, lost their taste for food, but not life is insane. So it's like the three daughters, you're like, you're like a foodie. I'm sorry, lost their taste for food, but that life is insane. So it's like three daughters who are in different places. One's like the prude, never gets laid. One's like the slut, and one's like the young college girl

trying to discover herself. And they all have to go over to their father's house for Sunday dinner, and he cooks these amazing meals. And it's a lot of like, it's a lot, if you're a foodie, it's a lot of gratuitous shots of cooking and stuff, which is cool. Like I enjoyed it, especially cause it's Mexican food. It's like the most stereotypical like early 2000s movie,

but it's fine. So I don't know, I liked it. It wasn't- Bling twice if don't know. I liked it. It wasn't. Blink twice if you need help. I am concerned. I mean, I don't know if you need to go see it, but. That's so funny. Yeah.

Hector Alonzo, Orlando, he's the father, but he's been in a lot of stuff. He was in like Runaway Bride, Beverly Hills Cop, Pretty Woman. Like, so he's been in a lot of stuff. He's good. And then, yeah, that's basically the cast. Also, this is what's so funny to me is like,

how did they, like my mom's husband, his name is Jim, he was like, we should watch Tortilla Soup tonight. And I'm like, all right, how did you find this? How did you find this movie? Where did this come from? And then this morning I was like, so how, I didn't finish it. I went to bed a little bit early. I was like, how was the movie? He was like, oh, it was okay. And I was like, so how, I didn't finish it. I went to bed a little bit early.

I was like, how was the movie? He was like, oh, it was okay. And I was like, did someone tell you about this? Like, how did you find this? It was so, it was such a random poll. And he also didn't know where it was. He had to go look on IMDB to like find out where it was. And I was like, oh, it's on Prime

and it's also on Paramount Plus or whatever or Peacock. I don't know where they find this stuff. I don't know. I have a question for you. Okay. When you were in middle school, did you have to watch a lot of movies and documentaries about cults getting deprogrammed if you get stuck in a cult?

I don't think so. Okay, so this must've been like a very big fear in like the early 90s for people, or maybe it was like just happening. I feel like there were a lot of cults in the early 90s. So we had to, I remember watching these videos, and I want to go find them now. We had to watch these videos in school

about like what happens when you get stuck in a cult and like how you get deprogrammed, how like you get someone who was in a cult, when you get them out, you got to deprogram because they've lost it, you know, they've lost the plot. I remember thinking like being terrified of getting sucked in. Yeah. Getting an occult. There's a lot of things that like people scared us about when we were younger, like AIDS. Aids is a big fear. I remember just like, you know, you kiss somebody and

you both have them cut in your lip and you can get AIDS. Lo and behold, like- What was the other, not as deep as AIDS, but like with the kissing disease or the kissing- Mono? Mononucleosis? Mono, I was fucking terrified of mono. Oh, I got mono. I never did. Maybe it made me fail algebra.

So I was like out for three months. Was it worth it? Here's the thing, you know what's funny about mono? It's the kissing disease, right? I think I got it like freshman year of high school. How come we don't hear about mono anymore? I think we do. Do we?

I don't know. But anyways, I got it and I remember my dad was like, who are you kissing? And everyone was like, oh, now who you making out with? And I don't think I made out with anybody. What do you mean? I mean, I had kissed a couple of people. How'd you get it?

I kissed Arletta Anderson and Megan Johnson, the girl that lived down the street from me, Anna Rydell. Sorry if I'm calling you guys all out, but we did make out, middle school. I'm sure I went through the thing of like, when you have an, when you get an STD, and you're like, the doctor's like, you should probably tell your friends.

Who tell the people. They did do that to us. Yeah. Yeah. That like, hey, you've got like the clap or something. You've got chlamydia. So I think that like I had to tell them and they were all like, well, I don't have mono, I'm fine, I'm like, who gave this to me?

So maybe I was in the cults and you know, like I have blocked it out, like trauma blocked. Someone gave me mononucleosis, or I just got it from someone else, I don't know. But anyways, yeah, mono was a thing. It was. I'm glad that people aren't like getting stuck in cults anymore, I guess.

Well, but they still are. There's a lot of things that we were... that they made us scared of. Like, I mean, we all thought that Quicksand was gonna be like a real problem in our lives. This is true. I've never even seen... I don't even know if it's real. I mean, I'm sure it is real, but like, I've never... Like, sinkholes are real. Yeah. There are things that you need to be more terrified of than quicksand taxes. You're

telling me you know, back issues. True. Anyhow, one thing. Can we stop saying in 2025? Hey, I didn't have X, Y or Z on my bingo card in 2025. Can we stop saying that? I can't stand hearing it. I'm sure that Gen X is Y, Z, Alpha, whatever the fuck it is. What's the newest one? But I think in Alpha, Alpha, what's what's amazing is the next one's Gen Beta, which is, no one probably wants to be beta. No, definitely not.

Okay, gen alpha. I'm sure gen alpha will come up with something new next week, you know? Yeah. Can't keep up. Wasn't on my bingo card, shut up, dude. Shut up. I'll tell you why, shut up.

Cause you don't play bingo. No. No one plays bingo. No. And also there's only one thing on bingo cards, and that's numbers. OK, and letters. There isn't skydiving in 2025. I didn't have that on my bingo card this year. Anyways, that really just really grinds my gears.

Next time you hear it, though, you're going to be like, shut up, dude. I think I said my gears. Next time you hear it though, you're gonna be like, shut up, dude. I think I said it once. I've said it. Oh, I know I've said it when it first got cool. When it first got cool. But now I tell you what's not my bingo card in 2025 saying what's on my bingo card in 2025.

I do have a favorite thing that's not a film or a movie or a podcast or a book. I got a new camera. Oh, and it is the coolest fucking thing in the world. What kind of camera? A Fuji X100 VI. Film camera? It is digital.

Oh. But it takes amazing photos. It's downstairs. I can show it to you. So it's got all the bells and whistles. It comes preloaded with a bunch of filters, like cool filters. That's cool.

Whenever you're out, like you can kind of scroll through and you can see how the filter changes the picture and you find the one that's the best. But then it also has this app called Fuji Weekly where creators put in recipes for different filters and you can go in and input them in as I think you can get eight different recipes that you can go in and put it in your camera. All these different effects from all these, you know photographers and I really think it's just like it's like

photography for like idiots like I don't know what I'm doing, but now I'm learning. It's like aperture and ISO and shutter speed. You were, weren't, didn't you take photography in college? Yeah, for a year, the year I went to college. Yeah. Do you remember any of it? Yeah, I remember some of it for sure. I took like a black and white photography class and then I took intro to photography

class or whatnot. The ISO I feel like is what is the easiest thing to play with because it's how much light it's letting in and out. Yep. Right. Shutter speed. I mean, the slower your shutter shutter speed, the more like the better you need to be at being able to like take the photo essentially. This is what I understand about it.

Yeah. ISO is just how much light you want coming into the picture so you can brighten things up. And then shutter speed. I think it matters if like if you are taking pictures of like movement, it needs to have fast shutter speed. And then if you are taking pictures of like, let's say it needs to be slower. Oh, really? But if you're gonna do that, you really need a tripod or like just something a stabilizer. Yeah, if you've got to show slutter speed, shutter

speed, and you move even like a little bit, it'll be blurry. Yeah. But then like, if you want to take a picture of like a babbling brook, you do slow shutter speed because then it has the effect of like the movement of the water, which is cool. And then aperture is interesting and it's how much light is coming into the camera in comparison to your focal point

and like what's behind it, right? So like low aperture, you get the bokeh effect where it's like blurry behind you or like effectively what you have in the iPhone is like the portrait mode. Yep. F stop. Yeah. Yeah. So anyways, I'm learning. So you're about to see a bunch of very artistic photos from me. I can't wait.

Honestly, you know who this is my birthday present from Sarah, but you know who's really gonna benefit from this? Sarah. Oh, yeah, for sure. Cause she's not gonna take pictures of me, you know? Yeah, no you're gonna take pictures of her. Yeah. So just get ready for like a lot of pictures of my wife looking beautiful and I'm a photographer now

so just deal with it. Sick. Dude, I fucking love it. Add that to the resume, Good Morning America. Yeah, juju, do you know that part of what I do? No. I've got something. I know we, I mean, we could play it

because we're not gonna, I'm not gonna sue us. Okay. But I put out a remix on Friday and it's my favorite remix I've made so far. I did this over like a year and a half ago and I've just been playing it out so much all over the place. And finally, finally, finally got all the freaking green lights from all the freaking people in the industry for it to be able to come out for you guys.

It's a Kelsey Ballerini remix. It's for her song Penthouse. So I pulled from like the original Penthouse track, but I also pulled the B section from her like live healed version because I thought the fans would really love that. And that's my favorite part of her performing it live was the change in the lyrics there. So I kind of put that into it. Feel like I've gotten more like repost and people like

saying they're listening to the song and loving the song on this one than any of the ones I've put out so far. So thank you guys. It's Penthouse? Penthouse, yeah. Okay. What do you think? It's awesome. It's the most Nashville sounding I've heard the song. Oh yeah, the song is very different sounding.

It's much like lighter and happier sounding. Yeah. Which was interesting for me because the lyrics are and the story is kind of dark. It's darker. It's about divorce, you know? So I wanted to make it darker. I like the Bachelorette smoking cigarettes at 2 a.m. Yeah. Because I've seen that.

We've seen it. We've seen it on lower Broadway in Nashville. It's true. Anyway, I love it. I love that you guys are loving it. So yeah, hopefully I would love to do more for Kelsey. Big fan of hers. Does she know that you've done this? Yeah, I mean, she had to green light it.

So she's like, or did you text her and say, hey? Yeah, I sent it to her forever ago. And what'd she say? Probably a year ago, I sent it to her and she was like, oh my God, I love it. This is so cool. And I've seen her a few times since. And that, you know, getting the artist to approve

is step one. And then you have to jump through all since and that, you know, getting the artist to approve is step one. And then you have to jump through all the hoops, the label and the publisher and just everybody. But yeah, she reposted it and everything, which was obviously a huge help. So she's been lovely and hopefully get to do more with her. Nice. Well, I hope we don't get sued for this one.

I mean, I'm not gonna sue us. I know, but it's the computers just figuring out like, whatever. The fucking computers are taking over. They are taking over. Little smarty pants over there. I know. Getting sue happy.

All right, what you got coming up? You kinda already talked about it. I did, yeah, I did, yeah. All right. Well, what do I got coming up? We're going to Sarah's brother's wedding coming up. That'd be nice. So yeah, once that's over,

I think I finally can take a breath and slow down. Love that. Well, I'll be doing that August 2nd. That's when you're done? That's when I can take a breather. All right. Yeah. ArtWiveTiers, we love you.

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