Your Favorite Thing with Wells & Brandi - Brandi in Paradise

Episode Date: November 9, 2022

Wells is living in a construction zone and has it out for tractors, so, added to his list of existing audio problems, he is not a happy camper. In the vein of bad vibes, he also shares that the BIP reunion is quite dark, so brace yourselves. Brandi explains her ideal BIP entrance situation, and the two discuss getting her on the show. If there were BIP hometowns, that would be some diamond status content. Speaking of the Cyrus fam, Wells tries to get the tea on MT and Blood, but Brandi pleads the fifth. He also shares an unpopular opinion that Heidi Klum’s Halloween costumes are not all they’re cracked up to be...sorry not sorry. Lastly, we hear some excellent voicemails from the YFTers who are really hyping up the audio books today, and Brandi shares her new holiday Starbucks drink hack that puts Wells right to sleep. Enjoy!  Don’t forget to rate, review, and follow Your Favorite Podcast! Plus, keep up with us between episodes on our Instagram page, @yftpodcast and be sure to leave us a voicemail with your fave things at 858-630-1856!  Thanks to our awesome sponsors for making this episode possible! Check out these deals just for you, YFTers:  Green Chef — Go to greenchef.com/yft135 and use code yft135 for $135 off across five boxes and your first box ships free  ShipStation — Go to shipstation.com and use promo code YFT to sign up for your FREE 60-day trial  BetterHelp — Go to BetterHelp.com/favoritething today to get 10% off your first month  Nutrafol — Go to Nutrafol.com and enter the promo code YFT to save $15 off your first month’s subscription. This is their best offer ANYWHERE and it is only available to US customers for a limited time. Plus FREE shipping on EVERY order

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at 8am, they got a big ol' bulldozer next door just fucking beep, beep, beep, and you know it's fucked up, so they're not allowed to start demolishing or digging or anything until 8am, but you know what those motherf up, so they're not allowed to start demolishing or digging or anything until 8 a.m. But you know what those motherfuckers do?

Oh, do you hear it? They turn on the tractor at like 7.30 to warm her up. Yeah, they're not doing any work, but it's still rumbling and bumbling and stumbling, goddammit, through my window. So this is what I live with now it's fine but i apologize if you hear some background noise it's annoying i admit it should we call the brand da let's see what she's up to what's up, dude? Oh, man.

They're still freaking demolishing this house next door, which is super fun. I can hear it. It's so annoying. So, yeah, I'm going to be hitting this mute switch a lot. How long does it take to knock down a house, I wonder? Longer than it should, I guess. I don't know.

I feel like you just take a crane and put a wrecking ball on it and just hammer it down. It should take a day, really. That's what I what i thought i mean they knocked the actual house down pretty quickly but now it's taken a while to get like the foundation ripped up and whatever they sent over a note saying hey listen we're gonna build a basement six feet from your property line we're like oh i don't know if we want that can we we fight that? Is that legal? I don't know. But like, can we fight that at City Hall? I think you should look up the rules for sure.

Yeah, I think we're going to have to look up the rules. Because in Tennessee, you can't build any closer than 100 feet to your property line or something. Well, this is Los Angeles. I know. I'm just saying there are rules. Yeah, I know. How are you doing? I mean, pretty good.

Can't complain, you know? Yeah. What were you doing this morning? Hanging this beautiful white curtain that's hanging behind me. Yeah. Yeah. Looks good. Yeah, I steamed it this morning. What's the secret to steaming? Because I steamed mine and mine's still wrinkly.

I mean, I think the secret to steaming is for it to be against a hard surface. So you really have to press it up against the wall as you go. Yeah, but the problem that I have is I have, like, this soundproofing behind me. Oh, that's why. So, well, it looks good. I think our set is finally starting to look good. We're getting there. You've got your new microphone on.

Do you have your new camera in? I don't. No? All right. Well. I feel like this one looks pretty good. Looks fine. Looks fine.

Looks great. But I'm still working on the camera aspect. I just feel like when I see our little video clips on Instagram, I'm looking just as clear as you. I know. I'm really annoyed, too, because for whatever reason, my audio is like never matched up on our videos. Oh, yeah. I wonder why. I don't know.

So I've complained to people. To people. Someone's heard about it. The podcast gods have gotten a near full. Yeah. So we're going to, we're going back to our original. We were using this program called Riverside, which I'm not sure if I'm into. You paid a lot of money for it.

We're just not going to use it. I paid a lot. Well, I'm going to ask for my money back because my audio doesn't match up. And now we're gonna go back we're going back to skype we're going back to this because this was great you know we're the only people that still use skype right yeah you know but skype is free there's no time limit on how long we can do it for like that's that's the problem with zoom is it's always like your hour's almost up and you're like fuck okay that's because we're cheap

and don't pay for zoom yeah but i paid for the other one that's what i should do i should just pay for like the best zoom yeah maybe that's what i do yeah anyways what have you been doing a whole lot i uh actually that's not true i've been doing a lot i we so we just did the i would assume everyone knows why like all of bachelor in paradise people were together recently for the reunion show or whatever yeah so we filmed that and let me just say boy oh boy is it dark it is it's it's a tough one not gonna lie to you about i'm not gonna sheer coat it all right really is some, I don't know how much they're going to keep him, but man, there was some sadness out there.

Damn. There was some anger. Well, I feel like, what's the girl Michael is dating in the beginning? Sierra. I feel like Sierra is going to have some feelings about Michael not necessarily being ready with her, but was ready for Danielle. Yeah. Just judging on the way this week ended, I have a feeling Rodney is going to have some feelings.

Yeah, Rodney's going to have some feelings. And from what I've seen on Instagram, I think Johnny is going to have some feelings. This one was, first of all, it took us so long to film. So long to freaking film. Because there's just so many people on the beach we got to cover so many stories i say it's dark but it's also juicy so you kind of get everything so i did that and then we all like went out afterwards got wasty faced real fun and then yesterday sarah went to her we went to her uh squished premiere and it was really cute it was

at the movie theater in the mall so all these kids went and watched the first episode in the movie theater and they were all really excited so yeah that's it love that i feel like next year i need to plan on being there for the bachelor in paradise reunion it was so funny because i was talking to a bunch of the audience members someone was like hey you need to get brandy on the show i don't know if i can do that and they're like why and i was like well because you have to go on the bachelor you may have to like do one of those shows before you get to come to paradise you can't just like skip the line and they were like you know if anyone can get her on it's you and i was like that's actually not

not true i know so do you want to go on Paradise one year? I would go. You would? I would have to cover my ass because I have cellulite unlike all these other girls. But yeah. The secret is you just wear a really skimpy bikini and they black box you. I've actually thought that before. There have been a couple of people. The one I can really remember is Ashley's sister got to go. Like what? That's very true. You know? And then um demi demi's demi's girlfriend yeah yeah so like there have been some exceptions there have been i'm happy to go to bat for you and get you on the show i think that the schedule would annoy you and you'd be like guys oh for sure leave me the fuck alone i want to sleep you know oh for sure and like me with no air conditioning is just like

asking for you know misery here's here's what with no air conditioning is just like asking for measure you know misery here's here's what i think hear me out here let me just produce my own segment here okay perfect bring me in for um like you know how the one year maybe it was last year they did like the prom type party or whatever yeah bring me in for something like that have me be the like guest dj and then then twist one of the guys is like, well, can I ask Brandy on a date? And one of the guys asks me on a date, even though I'm not technically there to date. I'm there to DJ. But, like, some hottie asks me out, and I'm like, fuck yeah, I want to go on a date.

And then I get a couple episodes in where I go on a date and have a little situation. And then I can bail if it sucks. The problem is, I like that. The problem is, one, the music music's gonna be an issue because you gotta pay you know what i talked to my manager about this and he said it's actually not as big of an issue as you would think we try to sing happy birthday and we can't get that i think well that's a tough one yeah that's a tough one he ryan ryan was talking about other tv op he was like it's actually not as hard as you think and we give a lot of music away for like basically free just for the promotion so yeah yeah anyway all right well i'll pitch it but i do think

that like if you want to have like an actual coming in late and doing that one you're confined to like the the guys who are single at that moment you want to be there kind of in the beginning so you get to meet everybody so you actually have an opportunity to make a but you know sometimes i think it's the opposite like think about eliza she came in so late yeah rodney bricks up with lace for her you know like there's always going to be a couple of people that are just dating people to stay on to see who's coming and then eliza's over here with like two great guys fighting over her. I don't know. Yeah, all right.

Well, I'll pitch it. I'll go talk to the peeps high up at ABC and I'll see if I can get you on there. Let me know. It's a bummer. Alon's not still there. I'd be a shoo-in. That's very true.

He loves me. He does love you. But he's doing some other show. He's doing like some cougar show. Oh, that sounds right up my alley. It's like a bunch of like older women dating young guys and it's gonna it's like we do a we do promo for it in the after show so oh okay i'll have to keep an eye out yeah so um all right too bad tish can't go on that show no kidding tish would be perfect on that

is does tish have a boyfriend oh i plead Huh. I plead the fifth. Wow. Not to get too personal, but is your dad engaged? Because it seems like that on Instagram. Yeah, it does seem that way, doesn't it? It seems like that a lot. It's like those pictures of her hands up a lot. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Yeah. I would say if you're interested in that tea, give Reddit a good search. Oh, no. There's a Cyrus Reddit thread. There's some tea on Reddit. That's for sure. Oh, man. Reddit's a very, very dark place. It's so dark. All right. Should we start the show?

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Do it. So, I mean, we started talking about Bachelor in Paradise, but really it was just about getting Brandy on, which I like this idea. The clock has taken, honey. I'm 35'm 35 that's true give me on there that's true next season but michael's 38 and danielle's like 33 or something like that so i think danielle's close to my age might be a little younger um but i think it's it sucks that it's this, but I do feel like it's a bit different for guys. Yeah, I agree. But also, not to like wrong reasons it, but like you come in with a little more cachet than everybody else would, you know?

True, yeah. So like, yeah, you might be a little bit older, but you're not like a personal trainer at Equinox. No, I'm not. So you got a little more to offer. I like to think so. Yeah. And also, they always say,

if you want to see what your wife is going to look like when you get older, look at your mom, look at their mom, and boy, oh boy. Oh, yeah. Taste the dish.

Could you imagine if I got into some sort of crazy, crazy shit and they had to call my mom in to come make a guest appearance? Oh, my God. That would be great. It would be great. Great TV. Yeah, we got to get you on just for like a hometown. Just for a hometown.

Just purely to get my mom on screen, honestly. Yeah. One of your sisters. That would be funny, too. I can't see Miley doing it, but I could see Noah doing it and being like, let's say the guy's name is like Gary. Like, all right, Gary, can we go chat? And then she like brings him over to like an altar where there's like a candle lit and it's like very, very dark and sad. And she's like, you know that life is fleeting, right?

And life means nothing, right? He's like, Jesus Christ, you're dark. That would definitely scare them away. Also, I would never date someone named Gary. So, cool, cool, cool. What's wrong with Gary? That's so nerdy. I know.

This is the first thing that I came up with. Bachelor in Paradise. This episode, this is episode 12. Why was there only one this week? Because of the election on Tuesday. Oh, I respect that. They don't want to distract the voters. Yeah.

So we've got two more episodes next week. That gets us to 13 and 14. And then we've got a two-night finale, which is 15 and 16, I believe. And does that include the reunion show? Yes. Oh, it does. That is a lot to fit into just two episodes, I feel. The reunion show is going to be exhausting, but it is pretty crazy.

And there are some funny moments, too. But about this episode, what were your thoughts? My first thought, I don't want to say Kate sucks, but Kate kind of sucks in this episode. She doesn't seem great. Kate, like, what are you doing? Okay, I've always liked Kate actually. And I think one of the things I like about her is like, I can relate because she is like around my age. I think she's like a year younger than me. Here's the thing, Kate, it's not a bad thing to care about

wanting someone that can provide for you and that you don't write that you're not like their sugar mama. Like that's not a bad thing. I can relate to that. I don't want to take care of someone either. I can provide for myself, but it would be really nice to have somebody that can also provide. However, if that's how you feel and you knew Logan couldn't do that off the jump, you shouldn't have led the guy on. Cause right now, like the guy is led on, like the guy thought you were head over heels, like fully in. And now you're stringing him along and saying it's purely because he doesn't make enough money. And I just feel like that sucks. So the problem that she has with Logan is that Logan isn't established career wise. And she is right. She can take care of herself. And she wants a man that also could take care of

himself and take care of her. The blatant hypocrisy of it all is you don't have enough money to take care of me because I don't want to work anymore. I'm tired of it and I want you to do it. That's kind of the subtext, right? It's time for someone to take care of me. But the funny thing is, is that like what you are saying you don't like about him is that like he's not established. It doesn't work is what you want for yourself to be not established and not working anymore which is bonkers i could see that yeah i can see that angle i just wish she'd been up front in the beginning about how important that is to her you know what i mean i just don't think it's fair at all to logan i'm always amazed that like they

don't realize that they're on camera when they're doing their makeup. You know? Yeah. Like, have you ever been to the hairdresser? That's where women talk the most shit. Yes. Of course we're filming there. Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah.

I mean, the one line she says that's so funny to me is she's like, Hayden has six figures lying around to just spend on Rambo. He's got money. We love that. Listen, I'm guilty of saying that in those exact words. Oh, he's got money. We love that. I love that for me. You know what I mean?

Like, we love that. Yeah. And that's fine at your age. I get it. It's totally fine to want that. I just think you led Logan on and I think you're being a bitch about it. Yeah, she doesn't look right. No.

And then what else? Like the whole, I guess you have the whole like Eliza issue. I know. That's the biggest issue, I think, of the whole episode. I mean, if she was running for office, all her opposition would be calling her a flip-flopper. It's not sticking to the message here. I think that from my perspective, it's almost like she didn't want to disappoint everyone on the beach because everyone loves

Rodney so much. Thinks that Justin's edgier and probably just sexier in general but Rodney's really the guy you should settle down with. I just wish that she would have just chosen Elaine and rolled. Now it's so weird

when she goes out of paradise to go get him. Very strange. First of all, he just left the night before. Was he really all the way back in Baltimore? No, I don't think so. Right? So why not just bring him back to the beach? I just didn't understand that.

Because he had already come back. I know. I know. Yeah, they should have just filmed her going to his hotel room. Exactly. Yeah. I don't like leaving the world. The world we live in is paradise. We can't leave there. is that she was not Justin's first choice, right? Like he came down to the beach, he's dated several girls and like it just to me looked a little skeezy

that he came back and set his sights on Eliza. To me, it was like that was his golden ticket to like stay and get back on the beach. And it's unfortunate that she kind of can't see that. But I just think it's like one of the, like we've all done it. Like girls love a bad boy, right? Like you always want what's bad for you.

And that's just so awful. And all the other girls can see Rodney's better for her and that you know like Victoria was cracking me up in her little interview she was like um I want Eliza to choose whoever is gonna make her happiest but it's Rodney you know what I mean like everybody else can see that he's the right choice that he he like is so invested and that she was his number one and she is just blinded by the bad boy vibes that is Justin I know and is he like such a bad boy or like does he have like a good beard I mean he's like a little bit of a player he's very attractive he has a great beard we love that um and I think

just like having like this hot guy that's also a hot commodity like come down and just be like I'm here for you to someone like Eliza, who's younger. And like, I think she's kind of sad. Like I'm just not used to like being liked by multiple guys. It's just, you know, she just is, I don't know, like deer in the headlights about it, which is unfortunate because it's obviously not going to go well long term. It does seem like Rodney is like the sad sack and really, really heartbroken and everything.

And I know this is no consolation in the moment, but I was like, Rodney, this is the best thing that could ever happen to you. And he's like, how so? The entire universe is going to love you. Yeah. Oh, one girl doesn't like you? Okay. How about 40 billion? How about that?

How about 40 billion people like you compared to one? You're going to be just fine, buddy. Yeah. So, and then what else happened? about 40 billion how about that how about 40 billion people like you compared to one you're gonna be just fine buddy yeah so and then what else happened you rode a donkey that you were absolutely too big for i know i love that donkey his name is philemon geez he was such a good donkey you're insane he was very easy i i'm a big donkey guy remember i told you this a while ago when after we filmed a big donkey guy horses you can I told you this a while ago after we filmed it. Big donkey guy. Horses, you can't maneuver them. They don't listen.

They don't listen. They always stop and shit and piss everywhere. But let me tell you what. Donkeys, they're like, where do you want to go now? Okay. They were great. Love that for you. I really handed up on the running on the cobblestones.

Like that. Oh, I know. With your the running on the cobblestones of like that. Oh, I know. With your little hat. It was very cute. It's great. Great stuff. Great moment. Yeah.

Obviously, it's a rip off of the Chris Harrison date in Palm Springs where he's like kind of always there and like third wheeling it. That's the whole bit. Obviously, we've stolen that from before, but also we're always stealing old bits to revive them because there's only so many things you can do. Yeah, I thought it was great. It was a fun day. There is some subcontext there that I think that a lot of the audience doesn't really realize. So when I first started doing the show, I lived in Sayulita and they would send a car for me whenever they needed me. Now I live on set just because it's like they just use me a whole lot more.

But the joke was with crew was that I was the mayor of Sayulita because I had so much downtime that like I would just be like in the town. So everyone got to know me. I knew every bartender. I knew every dance club. I knew all the surf teachers, the coffee shop, everyone. So when crew would come down they would be like wells where should we go and i'd be like oh and i'd show them around they'd be like you fucking know everybody here like i live here for a month every year so that was the bit was like trying to show that like i was the mayor of sayulita but not really they were so cute i'm

really glad they kept in our conversation on the beach at the end. Yeah. Wasn't sure if they were going to. Because I feel like this whole season I've just been kind of funny guy and not like a lot of good advice guy. Mm-hmm. Well, they've cut a lot of that. And so that was nice. And they look really cute.

Oh, they're so freaking cute. Yeah. I mean, I guess the cat's out of the bag. Now we can finally kind of circle back and talk about it. You can cut it if we shouldn't. But it was funny to me when you were like, yeah, and like you can come to the wedding, you know? And what's funny is they were at the wedding. Yeah, and I feel like they kept that part in because that became like a story with reality.

Steve, they picked up that like they were there. Well, you know, who knows if they were there together? Yeah, who knows? But they were both there, you know? knows if they were there together yeah who knows but they were both there you know they're both invited to the wedding yeah there's a lot of people in the cast are very upset that they did not get the invite but i know it was a hot ticket it's a tough ticket to get you know i know i do we're on the the home stretch here home stretch yeah it's gonna be good i don't there anything, was there anything else that was like, Oh, Aaron and Genevieve had the, the, I love you talk or whatnot. Aaron kills me. He's like, like I was, I thought the same thing as Genevieve. Like I thought he was trying to be funny by

scaring her, you know, he was like, I was just in the heat of the moment. And like, it seemed like he was going to take it back, you know? And then he's like, I have a love with you. And it was like, oh, that's so cute. But ha ha, you got me. And he's like, what? What? I didn't mean to get you. Aaron and I do.

I hope they keep it in. Aaron and I do a really funny thing in the reunion that I think people are really going to like. I love that guy. I've always liked Aaron. Here's what I'm going to say about Aaron and Genevieve. I think they're perfect for each other. Now, regardless of what happens with them, I think they're perfect for each other now regardless of what happens with them i think they're perfect for each other and i'll tell you why they have such good

chemistry they have a lot of passion and fire and stuff and where they lack with each other is communication right but the truth of the matter is is that both of them have trouble communicating with everybody when you talk to them you're like i don't know what the fuck you guys are talking about they're both just kind of wackadoos i'm married now and of course i'm so in love with my wife and everything but that doesn't mean that like we are exactly perfect with everything right a marriage or a relationship or whatever you're always working on something and like also like accepting the challenges that you have in a relationship but if you have like a couple things that are really really important which. But if you have like a couple of things that are really, really important,

which is like a lot of passion, a lot of fire, that goes a long way. And I think communication is something that's obviously very important, but something that people can work on very easily with a therapist or something like that. Sure. Yeah.

I just love those two crazy kids and I want to be together forever. I know. I really like them together a lot. Yeah. All right. Is that enough batch? I think, I think so. Dude, have you ever gone to a chiropractor? forever. I know. I really like them together a lot. Yeah. Alright. Is that enough, Batch? I think so. Dude, have you ever gone to a chiropractor? Yeah, I have. You have?

We talked about this last week. I know. I've always been scared of the chiropractor because I feel like you're one snap away from being paralyzed, but my neck is so bad that I am going now to one. And I am so scared. No, it's fine. I see those to take talk this it seems very

aggressive it's not it's gonna be scary the sounds are scary maybe put your airpods in and like listen to some music so you can hear the snap crackle and pop i'm gonna feel it oh man anyways i'm gonna have a full report back after going to go see this doctor. Can't wait. Is he a doctor? Yeah. Are they? I think.

I don't think so. I don't think you go to medical school for this. I think you go like it's like a seminar. No, no. I think you have to have some sort of medical credential. I don't know. You got to take freaking anatomy and shit. I don't know.

You got to know what's going on in there. Yeah, I guess. Yeah. take freaking anatomy and shit i don't know you gotta know what's going on in there yeah i guess yeah my favorite is when they um pull your legs and pop your hips oh yeah get your hips right oh it's the best no it's gonna get my my neck needs to be fixed dude i'm over here like a stone figure um you are you are looking a little hunched dude my posture is just ms i mean no one's as good anymore like we're all like on our phones like this all the time. I need to sit like this. I know Halloween's kind of over, but this is something I wanted to talk about.

Mm-hmm. Heidi Klum and her costumes. Am I the only one that thinks that Heidi Klum's costumes suck every year? Yeah, I feel like people think she's pretty good. No, I know. She's, like, always regarded as, like, the best. And to me, it's like you are such a try hard. You're trying way too hard for this.

Did you see her costume this year? Well, I don't think so. What was it this year? She was a giant worm. And then like some guy was like a fisherman. Look it up. She took up Heidi Klum costume. Oh, God.

What? It's just. So then she was crawling on the ground all night. And it's just. You try too hard dude Here's the thing about costumes if you have an unlimited amount of money to spend on something of course you can look fucking awesome But that's kind of not what Halloween is Halloween's about being like clever. This is disgusting. It's too much Way too much every year. It's too much

I'm like you just spent thousands and thousands of dollars. Like, I don't even understand why it's clever. It's not clever. You're just a worm? I don't love the worm. I don't love the worm either. Anyways, I'm just, I just need her to pump the brakes a little bit. Yeah.

Okay. Anyways, you got some favorite things, bro? Do I have some favorite things, bro? I have to. Okay. I just don't think I've watched anything things? Burrow. I have to. Okay. I just don't think I've watched anything new. Right. I think I'm not any like, oh, the first episode of a new series type thing.

Manifest is back. Did you watch any of that? I saw. I haven't started it yet. Have you? We watched a little bit of it last night. And? You hate it? No, Manifest is great.

I feel like you didn't love Manifest last season. I think you were hating on it a little. Not hating on it. I kind of fell off a little bit. But Sarah loves it, and so I'm just there supporting. I'm the supportive king over here. But no, it's good. And I think this is the last season, so there is an ending in sight, and I'm great with it.

Okay. All right. Yeah, I'm going to jump on that. last season so like there is an ending in sight and i'm great with it okay all right yeah i'm gonna jump on that i am caught up on handmaid's tale which i know you're not into but i was talking to my mom about it because my mom never loved the show i think it was just like a little too dark for her she's more of a rom-com gal like she doesn't really like these dark dramas the way i do but i convinced her to get back onto it just because I think like if anybody out there started watching it and it was too dark for them in the first season or two, I think you could come back to it and not – I don't think you really necessarily need to have seen all the seasons as long as you kind of know the premise. Because now it's not filmed in Gilead anymore. Like spoiler alert.

So if you do want to watch it and you're not caught up, you know, maybe skip ahead 30 seconds. But now they're in Canada. You know, June has escaped Gilead. She's in Canada with her husband and her one daughter. And so now, and so is Serena. Serena is out of Gilead too. And so now it's like more set in Canada. It's not so much about like the hangings and the rape and all those like really dark scenes that are really hard to watch. Um,

and just more about like the kind of the fight against the society. And, you know, um, Zune is still trying to get her, her first oldest daughter out or whatnot, but it's still just so good. And the acting's just phenomenal. The actors that play as Serena, they, there was a scene a couple of weeks ago ago like a pregnancy scene she like has a baby in a barn and it is insane and it's just the acting's just so good it's unreal so i don't know if you fell off of that one i feel like you could get back onto it because it's it's a great show worth the watch all right i did do love is blind season three i had a hard time getting into this season here Here's my problem with it. And I'm friends with the producer of the show, so I hate to like kind of bad mouth it.

But it's dumb because love is not blind like this. I know you can't do it. There's always one person that like comes out and is like, oh, you know, obviously there are some like nice relationships or whatnot. But I have some thoughts. Alexa, who's dating Brennan. Brennan seems like such a sweet guy. Water treatment engineer, super authentic, does so well at Alexa's house. But I feel like she's going to eat him alive, and I'm scared for him.

You know? Yep. Scared for him. I can see that. Yep. Andrew, the guy that puts the eye drops in to make it look like he's crying. Oh, my God. Could you believe that shit I mean

what I can't talk shit because I have done that but I've done it like in a joking way you know no he was dead serious like holy shit you're a psychopath bro like you yeah and he's like my eyes are dry I love the producer being like hey if your eyes are dry

your eyes are dry the producer is sitting there being like oh my god we're, we're going to fucking destroy this guy. This is going to be great. But what a dipshit that he thinks he's going to get away with that. Yeah. That's insane to me that you think that you're going to get away with that. Insane. Bartice, when he's having the conversation about reproductive rights, he was just like, stranger danger.

I'm in trouble. I got to get out of this somehow. That was pretty funny to me cole is a child and yep i don't know what you're doing also dude clean your fucking house man what the fuck is happening i mean listen i was a young 27 year old person too but like i didn't live in just filth and squalor like that ew hey colleen are you a ballet dancer for the seventh millionth time but you're a ballet dancer hey are you a ballet dancer we get it that you're a ballet dancer okay cool great don't care raven kind of scared of and sk way over his head he is way over his head with raven yep the poor guy's like you know i'm going to school and like i live a different life and i've got debt you know and you know i'm trying to get my master's yada yada yada and raven's like i'm not changing my life

this is why love isn't blind i know there are so many things that you need to fucking come together on for it to work. Time and place in your life. Okay, you're 29 and have a career and this guy's in college. What are you talking about? Not even set aside the fact that you don't even know if you want to fuck this person because you've never seen him. Not even the most blaring thing of like just physical attraction to somebody, but also the, oh, you're still in college. So that's going to be tough.

And it just seems ridiculous. It is. And I really think like season one, everybody really loved, right? Like we loved season one and it was, it was, it's an experiment. It's like interesting, but it's just now that we're what is the season three like it's just a little repetitive and like a little bit like all right we tried this it was great for a sec but one thing i don't like about this show and i'll even admit it about kind of um the bachelor franchise is that they use engagements as a commodity and not as like a truly meaningful thing and i would be very upset if the person that i married wasn't the first

person i got down on one knee for i would feel bad about that and i think that like the person like if i had gotten engaged before sarah i think sarah wouldn't like that either you know cheapening the act of like getting engaged for sure. And I know what the, probably the, the pitches like on love is blind. It's like, you don't have to get married, just get engaged. And like, you can dump at the altar or whatnot. But to me, that's like, well, that's still a very important thing about, you know, getting engaged. That's why I like paradise because if you want to get engaged, totally can, we'll give you a ring and all that kind of stuff.

But you can leave together, take away that thing, but also still be a successful relationship that comes out of it. Right. Anyways, I'll get off my soapbox. I agree. I think I said that last season on The Bachelorette. I wish the girls weren't just so hung up on leaving engaged. It's like if you can leave in a great relationship and move that forward with somebody, I think that's just like you're winning just as much.

Absolutely. And here's the thing. You can leave together, go live together for a year, and there's a world in which you can come back. Like Jared and Ashley, you can come back, get engaged there, still get the ring. If you're really pining for that Neilil lane diamond there's ways around that you know for sure i just don't like it's like a commodity to them it's easily bought and sold and i don't like that i

think that there should be it's more important than that you know what i finished that is just as fucking sad as i thought it was going to be. What's that? That show from scratch on Netflix. Did you ever watch that? No, but I heard it said, Oh my God, it is so sad. After episode five, like you kind of know where the, where this is going. Right. I don't want to run it for anybody that hasn't seen it, but it's like by episode five, you know how this is ending.

There's no, like, there's no hope that it's going to end great, right? But I was still kind of hoping the last episode wouldn't just be as sad, and it was just still sad as fuck. I don't cry, but I was tearing up, and I was like, now I'm depressed. I finally watched Peripheral. Oh, good. I was hoping you had so you could tell me if it was worth it. Sorry, The Peripheral.

Why is that word so hard to say? Peripheral? Peripheral? Peripheral? Peripheral. The peripheral. I don't think, no, I think peripheral, right? Peripheral. Set in the future when technology has altered society,

a woman discovers a secret connection to an alternate reality as well as a dark future of her own. The peripheral. Nailed it. Chloe Grace Moretz is in it. She's great. rayner i love he's that he plays her brother and he's like kind of like a badass ex-marine he's pretty fucking awesome but he was in sing street did you ever watch the movie sing street no oh you would love it it's really oh it it's so good. Did you ever watch Once? I don't think so. You never watched Once?

What is that? That's with Glenn Hansard. Glenn Hansard's a singer. He's in the swell season. He's also in a band called The Frames. And it's him and this girl. And it's like a musical, but it's like a musical movie. Nope, didn't see that.

Whoa, dude. Okay. Number one, you need to go watch Once. Okay? Okay. Write that down. Go watch it. It's fantastic. And then after that, you need to go watch Sing Street. Sing Street is so good. It's about this young kid who wants to impress a girl. So he starts writing music and stuff. And his, his older brother is like a musician and like really cool knows music and stuff and it's like teaching him about different styles of music he does songs in like each different genre that his brother is teaching him about and it's so cute and it's so

well done and the brother is the the older brother uh i think his name is brennan in sing street he's the older brother on peripheral worldal World. Got it. It's cool, man. The premise is it takes place in 2034. Everyone's big into VR, and it's like Ready Player One type of world, right? And Chloe Moretz is kind of a badass gamer, I guess. And she and her brother are testing out this new tech for this new type of VR. And it's like super realistic. And turns out not only is it real, but it's a way for you to be able to travel. I think like 150 years into the future, into like future London and stuff.

Damn. It's like a little like Ready Player One, but then it's like a little like time traveler-y. The future is trying to like stop the past from doing this. So people are coming to try to kill them. And thank God her brother is an ex-Marine. So he's able to stop this. It's great. It's pretty good. I really like it. I think you will too.

Is there only one episode out or is the whole season out? There's four episodes out right now I believe. The fifth one comes out on November 11th. Gotcha. I need the Y of Tears to help me out on what exactly, how exactly the finale of Tell Me Lies ended. Okay. So my mom and I were talking about this also the other night because she was very confused. I guess, spoiler alert, if you haven't watched the finale, skip ahead 30 seconds.

So at the end of the last episode you know they're at um the wedding of their friend's wedding or whatever so it's like four years in the future from from the college years or whatnot lucy sees steven and they start talking and then he answers the phone and it's his fiancee and he says hello so and so whatever whatever her name was and then and it was like a like what he's engaged to that person? And the name sounds familiar, but I couldn't really place who she was. And correct me if I'm wrong, you guys. Please message me and let me know what's going on here because I really do want to know. I think it's one of Lucy's maybe high school friends.

Is it her BFF from high school? I feel like it's somebody very close to Lucy. And we obviously don't have any idea how Stephen knows her or gets together with her. But to me, it seems like that's what's going on. And my mom had no recollection of the girl's name whatsoever. She was like, yeah, so what? He's just engaged to some random girl? And I was like, no, I think it's somebody Lucy knows and is really close to, which is so fucking weird.

So anyway, if you guys have read Tell Me Lies or maybe just paid more attention than me and know who Steven's fiance is, please message me and let me know because I do want to know. All right. I have no idea what you're talking about, but that sounds great. Do you have anything else? The only other thing I needed to say is that, hey, Grey's Anatomy writers, how the hell can you go a whole episode with no dr marsh like i'm crushed dr marsh is what keeps me watching this show come on a whole episode without him you're losing me you're losing me i need more dr marsh guys where's dr marsh paging dr marsh you're needed in the er stat stat voicemails would love to check's see what the YFTers are into. I am pretty upset that no one, maybe they've messaged you, but I have seen zero messages regarding the TikTok video that's going viral of girls putting AirPods in their underwear.

Yeah, I think that that might just be a you thing, which is super weird. I'm going to find it right now and send it to you. All right. Hi, Wells and Brandy. This is Emily from Iowa, and your podcast is definitely one of my favorite send it to you. All right. Hi, Wells and Brandy. This is Emily from Iowa. And your podcast is definitely one of my favorite things. Thank you. I've been a listener since day one, and I absolutely love listening to you two.

Another one of my favorite things is Audible. And I know that Brandy disagrees, but I think listening to books is just as awesome as reading them. Thank you. And I have to share my favorite audio book. Oh, please do. And that is The House in the Cerulean Sea. It is so good and extra awesome as an audio book. So go ahead and give it a listen.

Thanks for all your great suggestions. Have a good day. TJ Klune, 1984 meets the Umbrella Academy with a pinch of Douglas Adams thrown in. A magical island. Dangerous task. Okay. All right. I'm into that.

Is it also a real book or is it only audio? I think it's a real book too. Okay. That's what I was thinking. Yeah. Hi, Wells and Brandy. My name's Caroline. And I just want to let y'all know my new favorite thing is fall.

So I'm from New Orleans and I just moved up to y'all know my new favorite thing is fall. So I'm from New Orleans and I just moved up to Boston for grad school. So it is turning crisp. It's like red leaves, most beautiful thing in the world. I now get the hype. Still don't like pumpkin spice, but love and fall.

Another one of my new favorite things is the graphic audiobooks on Audible, specifically for the Sarah J Maas series A Court of Thorns and Roses. Highly recommend. They're great audiobooks because they're, like, dramatized and there's, like, sound effects. So good. All right.

Well, I hope you all have a great day. Bye. We're getting a lot of audiobook wrecks. Two. We've gotten two. That's a lot. Two in a row. I'm going to check that out. Speaking of fall, also obviously love That's a lot. Two in a row.

Speaking of fall, also obviously love fall, the holiday drinks are back at Starbucks. I don't know if you know that. And let me tell you what I got yesterday. This is going to be my new favorite Starbucks drink until the holiday drinks go away. So I think everyone knows about the sugar cookie latte. Bomb as hell. It's so freaking good. Very sweet though.

Here's what I got instead and I liked it better. I get a Misto, a Cafe Misto. Get a Misto. I get it with oat milk. I'm sure almond milk's good too. Whatever milk is your preference. I just think that oat milk tastes sweeter. A Misto with oat milk and two pumps of the

sugar cookie syrup. Oh my God. Best thing I've ever had. Just FYI. That was so boring. You don't drink Starbucks. I haven't been inside a Starbucks in 10 years. That's sad.

You're missing out. No. I can get coffee at my house. No. The sugar cookie latte is so fucking good. You know that that's like 1200 calories, right? Well, it's fine. Yeah. Well, we don't all have farm bod, okay?

The Misto is actually less calories than a latte. All right. If that helps. And I only get two pumps, not four. Hey, Wells. Hey, Brandy. My name's Nicole. Love you two both so much.

Hey, Nicole. All right. Here's two of my favorite things. Tell us. First, Wells. Yeah. I got to give you mad kudos. Okay. My kids love two of my favorite things. Tell us. First, well, I've got to give you mad kudos. My kids love Best in Dome. Oh yeah. I think them alone might give you those streaming numbers forever. They'll just keep watching it on repeat. So please do that. Happy

day. Second thing, actually there's three. Okay. Second thing is I'm calling you on my birthday. I found some time on my birthday, driving to my car by myself on my way to my birthday brunch. Nice. I was like, hey, give him a shout out. First, I've been wanting to tell you guys about my third favorite thing, which is a book. So I know Wells is super into Harry Potter, and it's actually a fan fiction novel, Harry Potter. It's a Dramini. Harry Potter. The Germini. You need to read this.

Wells, if you don't read it, get Sarah to read it. It is life altering. I am not lying to you. Life altering. Germini? It is called Manifold. Manifold. And it's on, if you type it into Google, you'll find it.

Manifold by Shen Lin Yu. Okay. If you get her to read this book, I promise you it'll pay off for you. It'll pay off for you. And both of your guys' lives will forever change. It's unreal. I have recommended this book to so many.

I was recommended to it. I'll have to say you won't regret it. Anyways, love you both. Been following you along for about two, three years. You guys are amazing. Keep it up. Keep telling us all your favorite things. You guys give us so many things to look into. Try new things. I love it. Alright, well, happy birthday.

Happy birthday! That was a call before she got blackout drunk. Oh, for sure. Especially at brunch. Are you kidding? Dude, brunch is a death pit. Uh-huh. You know? Oh, yeah. Especially at brunch. Are you kidding? Dude, brunch is a death pit. Uh-huh. You know? Oh, yeah.

I love brunch. I love brunch, too, but it definitely makes for an afternoon nap. Yep. You just got to know your nap and then. All right, we got one more. Hi, Walden Brand. Hi. I just wanted to share one of my favorite things and one of my least favorite things. Okay.

of my favorite things and one of my least favorite things um my favorite thing is the play-doh a show that um well and mrs wells aka sarah highland yeah did uh last year i believe it was that was um really great i watched it with my kids and they i have good news for you lady they're coming out with i I think, 10 more episodes and they all start next week. So there's a lot. And also, I didn't do, they did one episode last year and then they've got a full season coming out this year.

You can watch it on Amazon Prime through the IMDB network, but it's also on Amazon Prime. But I am in one episode. I think I'm on the finale. So yeah, you're in luck. It's coming out soon. I love it. And then my least favorite thing is on Paradise, that different version of

Almost Paradise in the beginning. Wells, can you share some light as to why they just never did the original one instead? Just curious. The newer version is my favorite. Maybe i just like the og stuff all right thanks i think it's the same song do you know i have no idea let's look up the song

yeah it's from footloose i think this is it is this not it And all my life I only needed you Is this not it? Oh, almost paradise When I get on heaven's door I think this is the song. Almost paradise Okay, so this is from Footloose.

It is the song, but I'm wondering if it's like... I swear to God Okay, so that's the song there is an abc playlist soundtrack no it's the song is it yeah i was thinking maybe they had somebody re-record it just so they don't have to pay so much for it i don't know i think you have to pay for it no matter what i mean you do just pay more for it if it's yeah maybe yeah maybe it's uh some knockoff i'm not really sure i always just thought it was the the same one Speaking of musics, do you have any? Let me check.

While I'm looking for that, you know Yellowstone premieres tonight. Ooh, are you excited about that? So freaking excited! By the way, you do know that Yellowstone is a blatant ripoff of the 1995 hit Legends of the Fall? Yes, I do. Okay, just so you know. I do know. I mean, it is like

pound for pound, word for word. Common knowledge. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. Common knowledge. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Doesn't make it any less great. True. Just, I guess my point is, if you like Yellowstone, you definitely need to go watch Legends of the Fall, starring Brad Pitt and Anthony Hopkins.

Yeah, I mean, I feel like everyone's seen that, but maybe I'm wrong. I love Ali and AJ. I've played some of their stuff on here before. They have a new song out called With Love From that I'd change, but I guess I never did. I told you that I'd change, but I guess I never did. I'm laying low in Las Vegas with nothing else to do. I like that. I just really like the direction they've taken their music.

Yeah. I've played this guy before, and I've sung his praises, this guy Josiah and the Bonnevilles, but he covered Taylor Swift's Antihero, and I gotta say, I like it better than her version. Well, I just, because it, listen, Taylor is a,

is a very good songwriter. I like the lyrically. This song is, is so good, but I just like, I like this kind of like country version that he's thrown into it. I'm the problem. It's me hi i'm the problem it's me at tea time everybody agrees i stay directly at the sun but never in the mirror it must be exhausting always rooting for

the anti-hero. Sometimes I feel like everybody is a sexist. Anyways, I dig on that. Nice. Yeah. You got anything else? That's all I got. What's coming up for you?

I'm going to New York tomorrow for a quick 24 hours. Nice. You know what? I have not been to New York since pre-COVID. Really? Isn't that crazy? Yeah. I know. So I'm kind of excited about that. It's nice weather right now. And then so I'm back. I go tomorrow, back Wednesday. And then Thursday, I'm going to Sheridan, Wyoming, which I'm not familiar with. Like I think the only part of Wyoming I've been to is Jackson Hole. So Sheridan is in the northeastern corner of Wyoming. So it's complete opposite of Jackson Hole. And I'm going for a photo shoot for a magazine cover. I'm really excited about it.

What I'm not excited about is that the high is 33 degrees on the day I'm supposed to do my photo shoot outside. So that should be interesting. But really pumped up going to Wyoming. Cause I just love getting to go out West anytime. And then I'm back for a couple of days and then I come out to LA. You got to LA? Coming out to LA. Are you staying with your mom?

Yeah. Staying with my mom. I think I said last week, one Mexico city, um, with Miley for a festival she's playing and then coming back for Thanksgiving, obviously. And then Miley's birthday is also Thanksgiving week.

So, um, just going to have some family time. Obviously I'm going to come see you well, so we can record in person and yeah, get a little, get a little LF time. Nice.

Well, that's exciting. Um, I'm going up to Monterey for a couple of days to go play golf. It's fancy golf courses with, uh, with Dino and my brother. Okay.

So I'm excited about that. And I'm supposed to go to New York at the end of the month to go see Sarah sing in the parade. That's what we got. Cute. Yeah. Oh, I got one more. Noah Khan's got a new record out. This is a song called Homesick that I

like a lot. Oh, I've heard this. It is good. Yeah. Well, we can go out on it. How about that? Perfect. All right. Well, YFTers, we love you. If you want to call into the hotline, the number is 858-630-1856. And we love you.

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