Your Favorite Thing with Wells & Brandi - Brother Wells and his Tin Fish

Episode Date: July 26, 2023

Wells has returned from his motherland with shocking news that a lot of people over there look like him. Joe and Serena dropped the big news that they’re the couple Wells will be marrying (on a podcast that wasn’t this one, rude) but Wells isn’t upset, because he’s one of God’s people now and the world finally knows. Calm, kind, Brother Wells then gives Brandi kudos for her episode with Olivia last week! He also dives into the waters of Portugal with a full-on travel-blog style recap filled with the best recommendations. Your hosts then discuss the SAG strike, The Bachelorette, and more! 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:  Integra — For more information check them out at integra-products.com or @integraherbal on Instagram. Use code YFT at checkout for 15% off your next online purchase at www.integraboost.com ShipStation — Go to ShipStation.com and use code yourfavoritething today and sign up for your FREE 60-day trial  BetterHelp — Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/favoritething and get on your way to being your best self  Jenni Kayne — Find your forever pieces @jennikayne and get 15% off with promo code YFT at jennikayne.com/YFT! #jennikaynepartner 

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Do it. Way down here, you need a reason to go. Lujolo, an interstate side game. Oh, Portugal. I've never really been, so I think I should go. Oh, Portugal. I'm back from Portugal. This is going to be a Portugal heavy episode because your boy experienced the world and it was beautiful and it was gorgeous. And I want to go back. I even changed the lyrics to a famous James Taylor song because I loved it so much. Crazy, but true feeling good. I'm not sure if it's like the delirium of jet lag or the revitalization of my soul

after a trip to my motherland to find my roots. I'll tell you one thing, though, boys and girls. You go to Portugal, you're going to see a lot of motherfuckers that look like me. I just blend it in. Everyone has my haircut. Their hair is a little straighter sometimes. So I don't know. Everyone's got my haircut, skin tone. Everyone was trying to talk to me in Portuguese and I'd be like, nah, I can't speak it. But I am you and you are me. We are the same.

You and I. Anyways, we'll get into it because I'm sure Brandy's going to be like, don't talk too much about it because I want to hear about it. Or she doesn't give a shit. Actually, I think she does because I think she's never been there and she wants to go. So let's call her up. Let's call her up. Time to talk to the brandy. What to call?

I beat you? You got here first. That never happens. Well, I was doing like the intro thing that I always do. Oh. Yeah. And I was having to make Instagram stories. Because Joe and Serena decided to announce that I'm going to be marrying them.

I saw that. And here's the thing, Joe. I already texted him. I was like, Joe, I'm so glad that you announced this. He announced it on Chicks in the Office, which is a great podcast, and I love those girls. Rhea and Fran, shout out. They're the best. But? Which is a great podcast, and I love those girls. Rhea and Fran, shout out. They're the best. But.

But I said, hey, Joe, you know that I have a podcast, and you have a podcast. Why wouldn't you just announce it on, well, probably your podcast, but then if you don't want to do it on yours, then why not on mine? You're giving someone else a story. This is facts. These are facts. No one ever said that Joe was a business mogul, even though he is selling some sauces. So anyways, I had to show everyone my credentials. Yeah, I saw that.

It looks pretty fake. Well, might be. I don't know. It came with a lot of stuff, though. Really? Like what? It came with a wedding certificate because it's like, oh, you're going to be doing one soon. Here's the wedding certificate.

Oh. So I fill that in. Okay. I have a clip-on badge. That you're not going to wear, right? I might put it on the inside of my jacket my jacket Just in case people want to be like I don't think you're real Then I go

I like it What do you think this is? This is the universal This is the universal church of Christ Or something I don't even know what it's called Right Hold on let me go get it

Let's see it Universal life church ministries I probably should know what I am Definitely So let's just go through what you get for like the low price of $39.99 online. Okay, so I get

my Universal Life Church Ministries credentials of ministry. This is a certify that the bearer hereof on this day, the 7th of July in the year 2023, Wells Adams is ordained by the Universal Life Church Ministries. If you use the word hereof, you know that shit's legit.

This makes you ordained for the rest of time, right? For the rest. You don't have to renew this thing. No. Wow, one time. I'm one of God's people, you know? So I got this. This goes in my wallet.

And anytime anyone wants a question, anytime anything bad happens, anytime anyone needs to be exercised. Oh, it works for that too? Whip this bitch out. Everyone calm down, calm down, calm down. I'm here. I can fix the problem. All right. I am ordained by the Universal Life Church Ministries.

Okay? Wow. And do you know how much I had to do, how much work I had to do studying the lost texts, the Dead Sea Scrolls? Did I have to go to Notre Dame to study theology for 17 years to get this, bad boy? No, I didn't. I didn't do any of that.

You did nothing but fill out a form online and insert your credit card information that's right i also here's here's my little this my little clip on clergy thing oh this is the sketchiest thing i've ever seen it's legit okay don't try to rain on my parade because you're not ordained by universal life church this just proves that marriage is a farce like it just it just proves like no yeah did i get a sticker yes is it gonna go on my thermos you know it by the power vested in you a pamphlet that marry motherfuckers. Which, am I going to read this? No. No.

No way. Then, for some reason, the human timeline of mythology and religion. A whole chart. Oh, wow. So I don't know where we are on here. I don't know where the Heroes of Life Church is. But, you know, it's something. Wow.

And then more stuff. Oh, and then you can buy fucking swag. Of course you can. So, okay. I almost did this. Oh boy.

I don't know if you can see this, but you can buy a corduroy shirt with the collar. Ah, you know, I'm going to the rehearsal dinner and I think I have to like maybe say a prayer or something. I don't know. A prayer? I'm going to the rehearsal dinner, and I think I have to maybe say a prayer or something. I don't know. A prayer?

I think so. Do you know how to do that? I don't know how to do it. You should learn. You should call Ben Higgins. I feel like he would know how to do that. I know. If anyone should be doing this, it should be Ben.

It shouldn't be me. That's probably true. I'm going to make a joke of all this. I really wanted to get this and then go to the rehearsal dinner and be like, All right, everyone bow your heads, my children you know and be wearing it and then i was like maybe that's a little sacrilege you know like it's taking it a little a little too far but like i can get a minister stole stole um and that is a stole is a staple in any minister's wardrobe. Dress up your next ceremony with one of these vivid garments featuring high-quality gold stitching and tassels. These stoles are available in blue, green, white, red, purple, and ivory.

I mean, there's a world in which I've got to get one of these fuckers, you know? That could just be like a scarf. So that's that. And then here's the certificate of marriage. Huh. How do you get more of those? Oh, wait. This is a certificate of marriage.

And then I got another one. I got a certificate of marriage. And this one's got a crest on it from the Universal Church Monastery, whatever the fuck I am. Very official. Yeah. Oh, I got two of them. Dude, I got three of them, bro. Oh, what did I get?

Oh, this is great. And then Brother G. Martin Freeman sent me a letter. Oh, are you Brother Wells? Brother Wells. I feel like for sure, right? Yeah. Oh, and then here it is. Credentials of Ministry.

This is to certify that Wells Adams, that the bearer hereof, has been ordained on this day, the 7th of July 2023, and it's recognized by Chaplain Brother Martin. So it's official. You should frame that for the studio, honestly. I should. So, you know, I know the wire viewers are wondering,

hey, Wells, we know you do weddings, obviously, but do you do first communions? Yes. Will I throw your ass into a pool during a pool party and then say something and then you are risen? Yes, I'll do that. That's called baptism.

Well, that's a baptism. That wasn't even right. Damn it. No, but I'm doing shit different. Right. Here at the Universal Life Church Ministries, we don't do this antiquated stuff, all right? We do shit different. So you get baptized and you get First Holy Communion all in one fucking swoop.

We're all about, hey, listen, time is money. Money is power. Power is well-being ordained by the Universal Life Church Ministries. That's what I am. Just for knowledge purposes here, you give communion. It's not something you get. Oh, you get it from – you're going to get it from me. Also, real talk, you should just start a church.

It's a great tax write-off. That's how Kris Jenner makes all her money. I just feel like it's too close to becoming a cult i just feel like i i could very easily see myself going down the road of like making it a cult and i don't want to do that right brother wells would never do that you know brother wells well they all say that in the beginning they do don't they brother wells would never do that and then all of a sudden it's like 20 years down the road. There's like four documentaries about me. I got 17 wives. Oh, no, we can't have that.

We're drinking the Kool-Aid. Poor Sarah. But I mean, like, what else do I do? Do I do bar mitzvahs? Shalom. Yeah. I think it's a different religion. Bat mitzvahs.

We'll do it. Okay? Hey, you going to get in your quinceanera? I'll fucking show up. All right? With a piñata and some vino? We have to cut all this. Why?

I don't perform a breast, though. All right? Or a brie. A breast. A bris. A what? That's where they circumcise a penis in the... Oh. Your schmeckle is safe with me, everybody.

So yes, I am... You want to know the best part of waking up is Folgers in your cup? You want to know the best part of this whole thing? What? Joe and Serena are already married. Okay. Oh yeah. I think I knew that.

Right. They went to the courthouse. They were caught going to the courthouse like during the pandemic. So did I need to do any of this? No, absolutely not. But you know what? I don't do things half ass. Okay.

True. And if I'm going to do this, it this it's gotta be legit are they already legally married and am i really just a figurehead is this just hollywood all over again you know is it all smoke and mirrors and nothing's really happening but we're just paying for a big party yes that's what's happening but am i gonna take it seriously no i'm still not gonna do that but i still can't believe that joe announced that on one podcast that's not even either of ours. It's beautiful. It hurts my feelings, honestly.

And I've only met Joe like twice. I know. I listened to I think maybe a third of the episode with you and Olivia. That's more than I listened to. So tell me how it was. Oh, that was good. Oh, really? It was good.

Good, good. Yeah, much better than when your mom comes on. Well. No offense, Tish. I mean. But she does great, and I think it's very funny

because I've heard you do the episodes without me before, and you have this anxiety of doing it without me. You do great. Well, I don't know how far you listened, but at one point I did say,

I talked exactly about that. I was like, I don't know how far you listened, but at one point I did say I talked exactly about that. I was like I don't know why. I think I I like to have no issues doing Sorry We're Stoned, which is all on me because Tish is useless. Yeah. And I do that podcast, but the minute you leave I like have complete panic attack. Well, I mean, I get it.

I am an ordained minister now, so people take me pretty carefully. We did talk about some good things, though, about our illegal activity of forging prescriptions and a lot of juicy dating stuff. Yeah, I think it's funny. One, I heard that you were like, I'm going to set up Olivia with Nicholas Braun, who's cousin Craig. You didn't know his name.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't know his name. Yeah, they'd be great together. Sarah and Nick did a movie together where they played love interests or a show or something. He's a very wonderful man. Oh, okay. I mean, I think they look great together, honestly. Well, I mean, she'd come up to his, like, nipple.

He's a very tall gentleman. She's tall, though. She's almost six feet tall. She is tall. Yeah. But I do think that, you know, I think he's living his best life right now. I don't know that for sure, but I would assume if you're, you know, up for an Emmy, you're probably... Probably doing that.

You're probably just taking down some chicks. Yeah, I would assume so. And that's what that's about, I guess. And then what else did I hear you guys talking about? Oh, Love Island. Oh, yeah. about i guess and then what else did i hear you guys talking about uh oh love island at no point were you like hey you know that sarah hosts the u.s version which you can watch without having a vpn that i know but olivia doesn't olivia listen olivia's paying like a hundred dollars a year for

a vpn to watch love island on her phone where she could just watch it on Peacock, the US version, which they started up. I did see Sarah's promo this morning. She looks gorge. She looks good. She looks great. Okay, we should start the show. Yeah. Because we gotta talk. I got a lot of Portugal stuff. Okay, and then

before we dive into Portugal, we gotta talk one thing. Okay. Okay, start the show though. It's you. Okay. Bros and hoes, you're listening to your favorite thing podcast with? Wells and Brandy. Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me. Oh, Brother Wells. Thank you.

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Cue when doves cry. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Don't do that at the wedding. Hallelujah, hallelujah, immeitentia. Hallelujah, hallelujah, immeitentia. Is that Latin? Yeah.

Do I know it? Do I know Latin music now from church? When you become a brother in the Universal Church Ministries, you just know Latin now. And you fucking can sing it like a badass. Alright. Speaking of things that are going to turn into a show. Do you know about this New York

State serial killer? No. You don't? I saw something. Did they find him? Yeah, I think they did. You should look into this. I feel like you would really be into this. Maybe you could do some research and we could something that they they did they find him they found him right yeah i think they did and um you should look into this i feel like you would really be into this maybe you could do some research and we could uh circle back next week because i don't really know shit because i don't watch the news

but somebody was telling me yesterday all about it sounds super juicy it sounds perfect for a tv series and yeah i guess the guy was like really careless about throwing like a sandwich in a public trash can and somehow they traced his dna back to it and that's how he got caught? A sand wedge? Yeah. Like a golf club? No, like a sandwich. Oh, a sand witch.

Yeah. Is this guy murdering with golf clubs? I mean, maybe. Detectives on Long Island are hunting for fresh clues about the architect arrested in connection with a string of slayings known as the Glingo Beach Killings. Is this what you're talking about? Yes. They're combing through storage units linked to Rex Heuermann and using DNA evidence to see if he's connected to other cold cases. Oh, he is. The ongoing work Monday marks an important new phase in a multi-agency investigation that after

years of dead ends and frustrations, led prosecutors to charge Heuermann with murder last Friday in the deaths of three of eleven women whose remains were found buried along a remote beach highway in 2010

and 2011. Whoa. I can't wait for the limited series. Dude. And the documentary. He's an architect? Yeah. You know, it's the ones you just wouldn't think.

Yeah. It reminds me of the staircase guy. Just an average guy. You know? I think the owl did it. I don't think that guy killed his wife. I'm still on the fence. That guy was too nice. I don't think that guy killed his wife. I'm still on the fence. That guy was too nice.

I don't think he killed her. But I tell you who's never the murderer. Someone who is ordained in the Universal Life Church Ministries. That I don't believe. Brother Wells. Actually. Will I kill Satan in your life? Yes, I will.

But that's it. Okay, did you have something else that you wanted to talk about, though? That's fine. That's it. That was it? I mean, sure. I'm into it. Have you started watching based on a true story?

Nope. You should watch it because it's kind of like, I think, what you, in, like, your twisted world of like what could be where like you know a serial killer and you're fascinated by them and you start a podcast with them while the killings are still going on. Genius. It is a smart play. Yeah.

Okay, should I just dive into Portugal or do you want to do other stuff? What do you want to do? No, let's take a dive into the waters of, you know, Portugal. Into the crystal blue. Is it the Aegean or is it a different sea over there? Iberian Peninsula. Oh, the Iberian Sea maybe. Yes.

Let me just start by saying this. I have been to a lot of places in Europe. I've been to Italy. I've been to Cinque Terre, so that's like, you know, beautiful water meets land situation. I've been to Barcelona. I've been to Cinque Terre, so that's like, you know, beautiful water meets land situation. I've been to Barcelona. I've been all over France.

I've been, you know, all over Spain. So I've been kind of in this area, but I've never been to Portugal. And it's a travesty because I am Portuguese. I'm half Portuguese. So for my mother's 75th birthday, she took our entire family, 25 people out there to go, like, experience Portugal. And none of us had been there, which is insane. I now obviously I have a bias, but I will say this. I think that now that I've been there and I've been to all these other places.

Now, granted, I haven't been to like Lake Como or Nice or like a lot of those like French Riviera, Italian Riviera. I haven't really done a lot of that. So maybe that would change my perspective. But I had done Cinque Terre, which I think is similar, and it is beautiful. I say all that to say this. I think that Portugal is my new favorite place

in all of that kind of part of Western Europe. So I know that's a bold statement to say. Mm-hmm. I think the thing that you love about Italy or France or Spain is, like, this, like, antiquated feeling, like this old-style world. It's just so much history and stuff.

There's castles and old architecture. Mm-hmm. And here's the thing. Portugal has all of that stuff. But the thing that, like, Portugal beats out definitely France, a little bit of Italy, and a little bit of Spain, is the people are so nice. Like, the Portuguese people are so kind and nice.

Everyone speaks English for the most part. Everyone speaks English, and they'll say, hey, listen, we would rather you speak to us in English. We like English. Don't try to speak to us in Spanish. And that sucked for me because I can speak Spanish pretty well. They know Spanish,

but it's a little bit of like a fuck you to them to speak Spanish because they're like, we're not Spain and we can speak English. But the people there are so lovely. And there's so much like old, cool shit. And not to mention like this, it's a crazy meeting of land and sea. You know, it's the furthest western point in Europe. The Atlantic is just like crashing into, you know, the coastline of Portugal.

So we flew into Lisbon. First of all, Lisbon just looks like San Francisco. So much so that they have a Golden Gate Bridge. Oh, interesting. And I think... Did we have it? We didn't have it first. It's the same architect.

And I think they had theirs first. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I mean, makes sense. Like, we think that we have so much cool shit and they're like, no, we already did this. We did this. Yeah, so you what I was thinking. I mean, makes sense. Like, we think that we have so much cool shit, and they're like, no, we already did this. We did this. Yeah. So you fly in there.

It looks exactly like San Francisco, except let me tell you something that's crazy about Lisbon. Granted, we were in a nice part of town, but we had to drive from the airport to the place that we were staying. I never saw a single homeless person. I never saw really any trash on the street. I don't know what they're doing. I assume that they have some sort of universal health care that's helping homeless people, and that's the thing that we don't have, and that's frustrating. But they do have a lot of pride in keeping their shit clean.

I never saw any trash. Driving down the highway, no trash. Wow. Every time you're looking around, you're like, Jesus Christ, there's a tire over there. There's a bed over there. There's something to dump. Highways are ugly. Yeah.

But anyways, we fly into Lisbon, and I'm there a day early before everyone gets there with my brother, who's setting everything up. And if you have an opportunity to go to a little restaurant called genesee quoi which i know is french go do it there's genesee qua and then there's the genesee qua asian we did the genesee qua one and it was portuguese fair and the little restaurant is so cool absolutely amazing it was like kind of like flavors of like italy and french and portugal all combined they have have a DJ in the bathroom. When you go down to the bathroom, there's someone that's just DJing, and then there's the men's and the women's.

And people are just dancing outside of the bathroom. Okay. They have this cool private lounge and dancing and stuff. The food was fantastic. It was probably the best meal I had the entire time. But anyways, Genesee Cua in Lisbon, go do it. So then after that, we went to a town called Alenquise, which I would say you probably don't need to go there unless you want to get married. Because we stayed in this absolutely amazing, I think it was a 17th century winery that is still a working winery.

So it was built like 16-something or other. So you drive in and at some point, I'll make a working winery. So it was built like 16 something or other. So you drive in and at some point I like make a video of everything you drive in and it's like this tunnel that like really fits a carriage for horses and you ride into this. Then you see like the old they turned it into a wine cellar, but I think it was their catacombs. They turned it into a wine cellar, but I think it was their catacombs. You can see that. And then you walk up these stairs, and the stairs are slanted, and they're huge. And they're like, this place is so old, it's hundreds of years old, that people's feet have made the stairs slanted. They used to be level.

That's crazy. And they're like, just so you know, like kings and queens have walked on these stairs. It's owned by, I think he's a duke in like what the Portuguese monarchy was back in the day. So then you get up to the house. Super old school, but absolutely gorgeous. There's this big courtyard where they do their weddings and stuff. So we stared there. Was it haunted? Absolutely. There was a church in it. God, if only I had my universal life and stuff. So we stared there. Was it haunted? Absolutely. There was a church in it.

God, if only I had my Universal Life Church stuff. If only. But they had this beautiful church, and it was crazy. We'd sit outside in the courtyard, and the church door would open and slam all the time. And we were trying to lock it and everything. And we would lock it, and it would still open. And we were like, whatever we're talking about, we've got to change the subject because the ghost doesn't like it anyways it was dope

so if you need like a big wedding venue there's a place in allen keeson you can someone can dm me and i can um that's cool send you the info it's absolutely gorgeous the first day we go to a town called sintra okay okay and so we drive up to this little area there's a huge museum and there's like these small like little cafes and stuff. And so we like walk over to the museum and we're like looking around and all of a sudden someone's like, look up there. There is a huge castle on the top of a mountain. And like I'm not saying like a little hill. Oh, no. Like it's thousands of feet up in the air.

Like if I was an invader, like the Moors invaded Portugal and stuff, if I was an invader, I'd be like, let's go to the next town, dude. Fuck this. This is super high. Like, I don't even want to deal with this. Yeah. So we're walking around and we're going up these very steep streets, right? And people start peeling off because they're like, fuck this. This is too steep and we can't get up there and i'm like there with my nephews and

stuff i'm like we're going we're going we're going so we get up to this this kind of like one area and there's all these little tut-tuts you know what tut-tut is nope it's like a three-wheeled um it's like a motorcycle with like two seats in the back oh and it's kind of enclosed i know what you're talking about yeah and so my brother's like let's take these tut-tuts up there and i was like no yes so it's like like we so there's like five of them my entire family takes all the tut-tuts and we are jamming up this fucking road that's like it's it's it's we're going straight uphill okay that's insane and we're overlooking the portuguese countryside and we're, what the fuck is this? We get to this natural – this fountain that's fed by a natural spring where all the old-timers still go with their buckets and their jugs every morning to fill up their water.

That's so cool. I just so happen to have my thermos, and I'm like, I got to try it out. So we start drinking the water. It was amazing. So we were tutting up, and we are – I mean, there are giant buses just zipping past us. And we're fucking cruising around. And our Portuguese guide's like, this, this, this, this, this. And we get up to the top. And if it isn't the most beautiful fucking castle I've ever seen.

And it's on top of a mountain. Like, you've got to look it up. It is insane. It's so high up. And we were sitting there being like the people who built this must be like fuck this king too can we do it down there a little bit our tut-tut guy was like well actually they did a lot with horses and it took them like 200 years to do and i was like well i bet the horses were like fuck this king man can't we go down there a

little bit anyway so we go up to the top. We're looking all over Portugal and stuff. And there's cathedrals and everything. It was beautiful. We go down and I walk into my first little shop of tin fish. Now, I don't know if the YFTers out there are into tin fish TikTok, but I am for some reason. And I've always loved tin fish because I'm Portuguese, so I grew up with my mother and my grandfather always

like for, when you ever have a charcuterie board and cheeses, you'd always put down smoked mussels and sardines and pate. I don't know, whatever. So that gets normal to me. And so I've been seeing on TikTok that this is becoming,

Tin Fish TikTok is like a whole thing. And there's a guy who's in Spain right now who's doing 30 days of Tin Fish. So I walk into this room, into this store, and it's nothing but Tin Fish everywhere. And I'm like, I'm in heaven. I'm in heaven. Heaven. I got octopus.

I got sardines. I got smoked salmon. I went and got I got sardines. I got smoked salmon. I went and got a bunch of tin fish. Did you make a TikTok? I'm going to, for sure. I was going to say missed opportunity if you did not. Don't worry, I'm going to do it. Obviously. After that, we went

down to Kashkai, which is down on the water. And we had this amazing meal with lobster and sea bass and giant tiger prawns. Obviously, their seafood there is just

killer, right? So let's go off the chain. Then we went over to this town called Nazarene. I think I'm saying that right? And that's where the biggest waves in the world are. There's a 100-foot wave that you can go surf. And there's a documentary that was actually on the plane that you should watch about this guy who did the hundred foot wave at Nazarene in Portugal. Okay.

So then I was like, there's no way anything's beating Central. Like this place is sick. So anyways, everyone, if you're going to Portugal, write it down. Go there, please. is sick. So anyways, everyone, if you're going to Portugal, write it down. Go there, please. So my family is from a town called Obidos, which is a huge,

huge medieval town that is a walled city with a castle in it. Oh, sick. And so remember I did that Ancestry.com ad with Sarah? We got a lot more information than I think you normally get if you just like the basic

package. So we went back and I was like because I always said I was from Lisbon because I didn't know, you know, but I knew some people were from Obidos, but I didn't know. Come to find out three of my four great grandparents were from Obidos. So I'm like, cool, let's go to, we're going to Obidos. I get to see where I'm from. So you get

there and it's a huge walled city like and it's like it looks like Game of Thrones. Like it just looks like Game of Thrones. So you get there and it's a huge walled city. And it's like it looks like Game of Thrones. It just looks like Game of Thrones. So you walk into the entrance. Absolutely breathtaking. Awe inspiring. The streets are all cobblestone. There's

just these little shops everywhere. It just looks like fucking Game of Thrones. You get, right when we got there, they have this drink called Jinja. And it's like a cherry liqueur. So you took a shot of that, boom. Having great times. So we keep on walking up, buying knickknacks and stuff.

And then you get up to, there's a cathedral there that's beautiful, right? And it's just amazing. And there's street performers and a lot of tourists and whatnot. And then you can climb up to the top of the wall and overlook all of Portugal and then overlook the city as well. And, like, it's, you know, for, like, archers, there's, like, little holes cut out, you know, like out for the bow and arrow people and stuff. Bow and arrow people. The bow and arrow people, the archers. Bow and arrow people.

So then my mom's like, I want to find my grandfather's house. I know where it is. Wow. So we go down, and it's like right at the entrance. And they sold wine. They made wine and sold wine. And so it's not this anymore, but you could see that one part went down into a cellar

and that's where they made the wine and they sold it outside of that. And then right next door, I'll show you a picture at some point, is like where their house was and it's two stories. So now they're selling like plates and stuff, but I ended up going in there and we were like, this was our great-grandparents' house.

Which by the way, my dad, it was up for sale like whatever it was 20 years ago and my dad was gonna go buy it but he's an idiot and like doesn't do math even though he's a doctor and he was off by decimal point so instead of like fifty thousand dollars it was five hundred thousand dollars something like that you know yeah if we had bought it, like, you would have a place in the historic, like, city center of Obidos, which is amazing. So, and then after that, like, Brett and I, my brother and I went to get drunk in, like, the little pubs in there. Fun. And it was the coolest. If you ever, like, and it's just such an old school cool city, right? Did I rent scooters?

And did we scoot around the vineyards? That's the best. Yeah, we did, bro. Did I drive on the right side of the road? Yes. So you're not scared. You know, you're just tutting around, just having the best time of your life. After that, we went down to the Algarves.

Oh, by the way, so then I played golf. Oh. I played golf up in Lisbon. I think it was called Quinta do Rei. And it was a top five my favorite golf courses I've ever played. Wow. Really, really hard in the front. And the back is just beautiful.

It overlooks the ocean. There's like these old like castle ruins like on the golf course. It's just, you know, it's so cool. That is cool. So then after that, we went down to the Algarve. And Algarve is like, it's where all the rich people are. Like Cristiano Ronaldo's boat is there, and we saw it. You know, it's like rich and famous.

Everyone's down there. Super cool. My brother-in-law, he has a boat that's in the Mediterranean, and he brought it over. And we went out in the ocean, that was really cool the food there was like really really good and rich and we went to yeah there's a restaurant called uh ggs which uh i highly suggest if you go down to the algarves i will say that the algarve is great but it's very much like it's like new money you know it's like malibu. Oh, really? You know, it's, yeah. Interesting. But it's very, like, hoity-toity. If you're rich, this is where you go.

Got it. But for me, for my money, being up north was cooler. All around Lisbon, all those little castles and cities and towns and stuff was so cool. Anyways, long diatribe about Portugal. But, yeah, it was the coolest experience ever so you didn't do porto you just did lisbon we did not do porto yeah we did lisbon kind of around lisbon and then we went down south to the algarve got it you'd love it you gotta go yeah it's it's high on my list because sarah's obviously filming love island so she couldn't come, and I was like, I have to take you back here. Like, we have to come there.

Yeah. I've had a lot of friends go to Marrakesh lately also, and it's like right there. Like, you could knock out both of those in one trip. Oh, yeah. You can do the Azores, which is right there, and even you can do Morocco. That's Marrakesh. Yeah. I've been dying to go to Tenerife, which is a little island.

It's technically Spain, I think, but it's off the coast there of Africa. It's in the Canary Islands, I think. It looks unbelievable. Yeah, we just need to move there, I think. A lot of people are doing that, I think. Sounds great. Let me just say this. My last thing, tinfish.

I'm telling you guys, it's so good. It's so tasty. It's not like shitty, like tuna from a can that we get in America. It's like a whole thing. Like we tried one that was prawns in green pesto. And they were like,

just, just make up some, boil up some spaghetti and just put that on top and mix it all up. It was like one of the best bowls of spaghetti I ever had in my entire life

and it was the easiest thing I've ever done. You're not into it? No, I don't eat prawns. Okay. You know that's shrimp, right? Yeah, I don't like shrimp. You know that's

a crazy thing to say because shrimp are delicious. I know, I just don't like it. The texture's freaky. Dude. I took a bite of a fucking sushi roll last week because the menu said it was a salmon roll. And I took a bite and I took one bite and I was like, hmm, what's on the inside of this salmon roll? And they were like, oh, shrimp.

And I was like, why the fuck doesn't the menu say that? I don't like shrimp. Are you allergic to it? No, I just don't like it. You're crazy. Texture's weird. I think we gotta talk about the SAG strike a little bit. Oh, we definitely do.

That's like my whole TikTok feed right now is this strike. I think how I wanted to talk about it was, I think explain it to the YFTers in a way that makes them understand that it's not like a bunch of rich actors wanting more money right because i think that that's that's what i see the most of like when i see you know our actor friends who are like picketing you know and it's just like wow millionaires wanting more money what the fuck is wrong with you totally understand why people would think that but that's not what the the argument is or the fight is.

It's just that those people have a much bigger voice to be able to speak for the people who I think help make the product of Hollywood. Obviously, I'm a SAG member. Are you SAG? Same. Yeah. Okay. So I'm SAG-AFTRA, and I'm not part of the Writers Guild. SAG joined in at first, I think, to be in solidarity with the writers who are saying, hey, listen, you guys are not paying us residuals for streaming shows. know a 22 episode sitcom for mbc and then it would they would sell it to usa and every time it aired on tv we would get some money back and now you guys are putting all this stuff on streamers we're not making any money from residuals plus these episodes this episode run is always much shorter

now it's like eight episodes or 10 episodes compared to back in the day sitcoms were 22 episodes they were like hey you guys need to be able to pay us we can't live on without these residuals for these shows and the problem also with with the industry is this thing called exclusivity where like if you go right for a show for mbc like you can't go right for another show for abc or for peacock or whatever and so it hog ties these poor writers who like generally only get like one show a year that they can go work on and then they're just not making residual checks after the fact because it's going to a streamer so they're not able to like do it and the whole kind of argument was well you know we're scared of what ai can do because ai can start writing this stuff for these writers

and then it kind of takes the humanity out of it all that kind of stuff and then it's like well then who's making this stuff anyways and i think originally the actors came be like okay if you're gonna fuck over the writers you're also fucking over the actors because the actors need the writers to be able to make this stuff the more that i've like learned about it and read about it is it's kind of a couple things it is the residuals from streamers and those those things are making a lot of money and it's really just going back into shareholders and i think like ceo's pockets and not really being trickled down to everybody right when i say everybody i mean like the lighting guy and the sound engineer i was about to say you know nobody watches the credits yeah but if you would sit and watch the credits it's

one of my favorite things to do after watching a movie or a show that i love because i think something i love about film and tv is how many people come together to make one thing and it takes everybody to make it happen i don't know like i like to sit there and let it sink in like how many people like put put their like heart and soul into like a show or a movie and because it's art for them right and so it's yeah, all these A-list actors are making great money, and like you said, they're not the ones that really need to do their picketing, but they're doing it because that's what's getting the attention, but they're doing it for all the other names in those credits

that help make this movie that no one's really thinking about, and those people aren't making A-list salaries. No. So I can really speak to what it takes to make Bachelor in Paradise. Our crew's over 200 people. Like if you think about that, it's that's employing over, over 200 people to go make one show. Yes, of course, there's the art department, which are doing crazy things and painting things and making all this stuff, you know, and making sure everything looks beautiful. And you have the sound guys who are micing everybody up or even mixing it.

You have editors. You have producers that are helping with cast. You have people that are helping producers, which are PAs. You have handlers that are helping the cast move around. You have transpo who are driving people to and from. people to and from you have people in the logistical side of like flying people where they need to go and making sure that like the camera guys aren't working too long because they're going into overtime like you have no idea the amount of people it takes to make a show and when you start cutting all that money away from them they you can't make it anymore right

like it doesn't make any sense so that's one thing the other thing that i didn't realize which is fucking scary is that what they were trying to do was take a picture of a famous actor's face and pay you for one day of your face your name and likeness and then they were able to use ai to have you act in things that you're not even acting for. So you would just get paid one time to give your face, your likeness to a studio or whatnot, and then you would never have to even go to work or act, and they'd pay you $5,000 for that, and then they could forever have Brad Pitt be in these movies and never even really be in those movies because you can't really tell.

When you see those deep fakes and stuff. It's insane. And so that's a very scary thing, I'm sure, for actors to be like, wait, hold on. Hold on. You can just replace. It's like the writers were scared about AI replacing their creative outlet, which is their writing.

And then the actors or the hosts or whatever were like, hold on. You can just take my likeness and then you can make a movie with me and I'm never even in it. And I don't get paid for it. As a radio DJ, that also falls underneath the broadcasting part of SAG-AFTRA. They can listen to one radio show of mine and then use my voice to make a radio show for the rest of time. I wouldn't get paid for it.

Like, that's crazy. It bums me out because I was looking at Nina Debrev's friend. friend and i was like she went to picketing the other day and i was looking and there's just so many people were talking shit and it's like you don't understand like it's nina's not not hurting for the money but it's like you don't understand how many people are getting fucked over and she's out there doing it because of those people, you know? Yep. And then you have like the Bob Igers of the world who like effectively technically is my boss saying crazy things like it's just not realistic all while doing it from like a giant mansion in Sun Valley, Idaho and being like it's so amazing how delusional you are about your worth in all of this like you're making hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars to a green light top gun too i know okay so you're running through analytics that's something fucking a computer can do guy you know yeah you're trying to figure out budgetary restrictions on your film?

That sounds like something a computer can do, guy. Well, and I think they know that, right? I think they actually know how fragile it is, which is why they're so protective of it, you know? That's why they're sitting up there on that high horse, because they know it's not gonna take much for that to crumble.

And so they're making it happen for everybody else so that it doesn't happen to them but i think their position is just as fragile as everybody else's when it comes to ai well and also it's a trickle down effect of if this thing strikes until let's say the end of the year that means next year there won't be any content for Netflix, for Hulu, for all the streamers. Then people are going to be like, fuck that. I'm not paying $12.99 a month for all this stuff. There's nothing on it.

Yep. And then the thing that they wouldn't pay you for won't have any money. Right. It's so short-sighted anyways. I just want to make sure that everyone realizes that it's not about Tom Cruise wanting more money. Right. It's about the sound guy being like, I can't afford to do this job anymore. Mm-hmm.

You know? Yeah. And there are plenty of other actors. I mean, the A-list actors that make that big money whose names you guys know like it's a fraction of the actors that are out there working and a lot of those actors aren't making shit you know like it's it's kind of like i don't i think there's like a big chasm in in like how much actors get paid you either get paid a shit ton and you're a-list or you're out there making like a hundred dollars a day you know and and working, what, like 10 days for something and then you don't work again for months.

It's just not as sustainable as you'd think. So without residuals, those zillions of other actors that make things happen, that make TV and movies happen, can't survive. Yeah. And like the majority of the people in the industry that Sarah and I know who are like working actors are also still waiting tables and bartending and stuff. If you try to put that into context

of like what you do, so let's say you sell insurance or you're a nurse or whatever. Imagine that you did that, but then you're like, but I also got to fucking go moonlight at the bar because I haven't gotten like a nursing gig in the last month or something. I think when you put it in those contexts, you'd be like, oh, that's pretty fucked up.

And I don't know if you heard, but one of the guys was like, we're just going to wait until they can't pay their mortgage anymore and they're homeless. Then they're going to come back to the bargaining table. And it's like, whoa, you can't say that out loud. We know that's what you want. Yeah, it's pretty insane. Yeah. Anyways, I don't want to Yeah, it's pretty insane. Yeah. Anyways, I don't want to get too deep in the weeds with it. And it's also everything, too.

UPS drivers and, like, Walmart employees. There's a lot of people who are getting fucked over by some very, very rich people. So, I don't know. We're in for a reckoning. Yeah. Do you have favorite things, though, bro? Bro, let me we're in for a reckoning yeah um do you have favorite things though bro bro let me think about that for a second i mean i don't know why i feel like i haven't talked to you in forever but i feel like i've talked about a lot of things that i've been that i've watched

and that's done that we don't need to rehash just because you're here but finished fatal attraction loved it amazing hope there's a season two. I am caught up on The Bachelorette but I feel like you're not. I'm not. Yeah, I figured. I know that Brayden got kicked off. Thank God. Did you get the TikTok I sent you this morning?

No. Oh, it's of a girl in San Diego that was like, oh yeah, I was dating him. Spent something, you know, spent holidays or whatever it was, celebrations with his family and then before I know it, he's off to film The Bachelorette.

Like, I told you that guy was cringe from day one. I need to watch it because I don't want to speak on stuff that I haven't seen, but it sounded like he was saying, you know, if she's not in the same place that I am, I'm going to leave or something, and then Aaron B. was like... I mean, he was playing the victim. He was like, it's just so hard to watch you with other guys and know that you're...

That's the fucking show, bro. Like, come on. You know, he just wanted so badly to be justified for the way he was acting. Yeah. And it's just not a good look. You just gotta own your shit. I haven't seen it, so I can't speak to it, but...

He's been so vocal this whole time about you know off camera not with charity off camera's the wrong way to say it not with charity but with the guys saying like oh yeah i definitely won't be getting engaged like definitely don't picture myself getting on one knee at the end of this like you know at best would leave here wanting to pursue things further but like didn't even say he really wanted a girlfriend out of it or anything like he just was super upfront about like to come on here and say you want to get married and however many weeks it is is crazy but it's like dude that's the show totally i see both sides of it in a regular world what he's saying makes sense sure but that's just not where we're at anyways i gotta catch up but I'll say this about Brayden.

He does make good TV. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I'm sure his ass will be in paradise for more TV time. Oh, I hope so. Uh-huh. Who are you liking and who are you not liking? I'm still Team Aaron, I think.

He's my top favorite. Everybody loves the little tennis player. What's his name? Joey? Joey. Everybody loves Joey. He's fine yeah he's not my top choice for charity but i he's fine xavier i like really liked him a lot in the beginning but i don't know like i don't know if he's just not good on camera or what it is but like his personality just falls a little flat for me like on their one-on-one she was

trying to get deep with him and he was saying all the right things but it just wasn't it was like hitting surface level for me it wasn't wasn't going deep enough for me that but i don't know if that's you know some people just on camera maybe it just doesn't come off good i'm not sure so jury's out on him you know who i actually really like that isn't getting a lot of camera time so that probably means he's leaving. I think his name's Tanner. He's still around. Haven't seen much of him, but he just seems like the sweetest

guy. So I hope we get to see more of Tanner. I like Tanner too. He's very tall, it looks like. He's tall. He's a cute kid. He looks young to me, but they're all young at this point. I'm old. But he just seems like such a sweetie. And she sent home quite a few this week.

It's so sad to me because I feel like a lot of the guys just didn't get a chance. And I do feel like they're good guys. And, you know, since there's not, like, an initial spark, like, you just have to send them home, right? Every week you got to send people home. But I felt like a few of them were just really sad and it's you know it's tough to watch guys go and you're like oh with more time like they could be so great but they just gotta go yeah are you aware of hobby horse riding oh yeah so someone sent me a video and so basically it's like in a gym, they're like – This is an actual thing in other countries. Yeah.

So they're like spectators. Oh, yeah. And it's people riding a hobby horse in like a gym. And so like a hobby horse is like a horse's head on a stick. A stick horse, yeah. And then you – and so it's like girls like are trotting around and like jumping over fences and shit. Yes. And I saw it and I thought it was a joke. No, no. are trotting around and jumping over fences and shit.

And I saw it and I thought it was a joke. No, no. Similar to when people go play Quidditch, you're like, this isn't real, but it's fun or whatever. But no, there are people in this video, I'm going to send the video, people are, I would assume, paying money Oh, for sure. to watch fucking 12 year old girls

prance around on a hobby horse and jump over I've seen this video I forget what country it is like Sweden or something random but like I this is just proof I was born in the wrong country because I would have slayed that competition when I was 12

years old I mean look at this craziness look at this craziness. Look at that form. Honestly, if I was smart, this is what I would do because I'm sick of spending money on all these fucking horses. Look at these bitches just fucking jumping around.

They look great. Get them, girls. I'd go watch. What? You know what would be really fun? You know what would be really, really fun? What? To take some mushrooms and go to one of these things and just see who can last the longest in there without without dying laughing it's too good that would be a really fun game

i'm here for it i think we should implement this what a great reality show. You give people psychedelics and you take them to really weird shit. And who can fucking not laugh? That's actually genius. It's to stay on the game show a little bit longer. You should turn that into like a TikTok thing. I feel like that would do well on TikTok. That would be so fucking funny. And then, you know, some people will be like, I gotta do it.

They find a broom in the closet. Like, I gotta do it. It's kind of fun. Oh, my God. I just love that. That's a fucking thing. And then someone sent me this and I couldn't stop laughing in the plane. I might have been delirious.

It might not be that funny. But to me, it was like one of the funniest fucking things in the world. And maybe we should do. Okay. but to me it was like one of the funniest fucking things in the world and maybe we should do okay okay so here we fucking go my boyfriend talks in his sleep and i wish it was just cute gibberish but instead it's terrifying. So far, he has grabbed me by the shoulder and put his hand over my mouth at 3 a.m. and pointed at the wall, whispering, do you see it? The barbed wire? Woken me up muttering, he's here, while staring at my bedroom door, rolled over last night and said,

you don't know what's out there. You don't know what's in the swamp. He's taken like 20 years off my life. On a less terrifying note, he once kissed me really gently and then said,

Have a great day at work, baby. And pushed me on the floor into a ham. And immediately wrapped himself in all the covers. He grabbed me by the shoulder and put his hand over my mouth at 3 a.m. and pointed at the wall whispering, Do you see it? The barbed wire. We gotta normalize couples having their own rooms. Shit. We gotta normalize that. So fucking rooms. Shit. We gotta normalize that. So fucking funny.

That one really got you. Because I can just imagine a girlfriend being like, oh my god. What? What do you see? The barbed wire. What does that mean? Yeah. I mean, can you imagine? He's here. What does that mean? Yeah.

Did you imagine? He's here. He's here. Who's here? What the fuck are you talking about? You've lost it. Oh, man. Wow. Wow.

I watched John Wick 4. Oh, God. Great film. Great film. I think it Wick 4. Oh, God. Great film. Great film. I think it's over. But anyways, I love Keanu Reeves. I love those movies. He says 17 words in the entire movie.

It's just him shooting shit and beating people up. I watched it on the plane. Great film. Big fan of John Wick. Do you have any musics? There's this song on my release radar. You know Dezza? The DJ? Yeah. They've got a song with an artist called Yellow House that I'm not

familiar with, but it's called Heavier and I love it. Do you want to go out on it? Sure. What's it called? It's like dot dot dot Heavier. I'm DJing on the Jersey Shore this weekend. Place called DJ's like dot dot dot heavier i'm djing in uh on the jersey shore okay this weekend place called djs imagine that wow uh so if you know i've had a couple people on instagram tell me that place is like crazy they're like i wouldn't be caught dead at djs but i might come for your set

i was like i like this place already. Yeah, wow. Yeah. Jersey Shore. Maybe like the situation and Pauly D will be there and stuff. You never know. You never know. I'm chilling for like a couple weeks and then I'm traveling again. Where are you going? I'm going to go visit Sarah where she's

filming Love Island USA. Jolly. Wait, why did we do this episode so early? Well, because as we speak, I am in Montana, the Lambic, with no cell reception. Oh, great. Yeah.

Well, good, then. You'll have some Montana content for us. Yeah, I'll have a lot of content, yeah. Love it. All right, well, YFTers, Brother Wells, bidding you adieu. If you need my services. I feel like Brother Wells could become a TikTok personality.

Yes. I feel like I could probably make a lot of money doing this for people. Me too. I think you should maybe think about that. Just start going marrying people? Yeah. Would that be against the SAG-AFTRA strike? I don't think so.

I don't think so. Don't film it. Yeah. All right, YFTers, we love you. So glad to be back. Go to Portugal. Love y'all. See you later.

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