Your Favorite Thing with Wells & Brandi - Check your Christmas cheer

Episode Date: December 20, 2023

Hey ho ho hoes and bros, tis the week before Christmas! This week your hosts share their incredibly relatable Christmas lists and discuss some issues with the Catholic religion. Wells has a bone to pick with news outlets and SportsCenter, and Brandi has details on a gruesome murder to share with the class to keep us in the holiday spirit. They discuss the differences between Dirty Santa, White Elephant, and Secret Santa, and chat through the 10 oddest Guinness World Records. Lastly, they listen to your voicemails to end the episode with some holiday cheer.  Fave things mentioned:   Exmas  Family Switch  May December  The Crown  School Spirits  Run Rudolph Run by Chuck Berry  Thanks to our awesome sponsors for supporting this episode! Check out these deals just for you, YFTers:  Article — Go to ARTICLE.COM/YFT for $50 off your first purchase of $100 or more  BÉIS — Right now, BÉIS is offering our listeners 15% off your first purchase by visiting BEISTRAVEL.com/YFT  Storyworth — Go to StoryWorth.com/yft and save $10 on your first purchase  Don’t forget to rate, review, and follow Your Favorite Podcast! Plus, keep up with us between episodes on our Instagram pages, @yftpodcast @wellsadams and @brandicyrus and be sure to leave us a voicemail with your fave things at 858-630-1856! 

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It was the week before Christmas, and all through the town, no one was working, but the podcasts were abound. That was dumb. I'm embarrassed by that. I'm sorry that happened. They can't all be gold, guys. Don't know if you know that, but I have found that out. Should we go ahead and call the brand eye?

Let's do it. Men are garbage. Oh, sorry, wrong button. Wells, you are incorrigible. Let's call the brand. Let's call her up right now. With this time, Christmas is here. Hello.

Hello. How's it going? Well, my mother didn't have Chrome downloaded, so I had to deal with that. Give me a check. Check, check, check, check, check, check. I mean, talk like you normally would talk. Don't do check, check, check, check, check. I hate when you say that because I don't know how I normally talk. I know, but you don't normally do this.

I'll tell you what, when I talk in the DJ booth, I don't know who I am anymore. We need that. That's the energy we need. No, we don't. My voice drops like two octaves for some reason. Oh, yeah. You turn into like a Cyrus with the real deep voice. I don't know, but I definitely like

don't sound like me. It's very strange. Do you like DJ Octave Brandy or not? I don't know. It's just weird. Okay. A little odd. Are you seam stoned right now?

Are you stoned? Probably contact stoned because my mom has literally been so high all day and like i am so over her ass i don't know how she gets anything done well she doesn't that's the problem yeah i don't know how she functions without me here because she's out of it what is what is this does dom is dom like hey let's go let's go. No. Wake up. He's not. No.

He lets her do her crazy thing. Yeah. Wow. Oh, well. I can't believe it, but Christmas is right around the corner. Christmas is nigh. Christmas is nigh? Christmas is nigh.

Who are you? Who are you? Hark, the herald angel sings. Christmas is nigh. The star of Bethlehem shines down upon us very soon christmas and jesus yeah we got my mom and i got into like well not just me and my mom i guess we had some other people involved we're like talking about oh no dom it was dom last night on the ride from lax to taluka um we got into like a religion discussion a little bit.

God, I wish I was there. And we started talking about Catholicism and I was like, ooh, you know who grew up Catholic? Wells. I was like, we should ask Wells some of these questions. What were some of the questions?

I'll answer them for you. Okay, so Dom was saying that Catholics have, they have heaven, but they also have purgatory. Yep. That's true. And then there was something else called like limbo or something for a minute or something like that, where it's not purgatory, it's not hell, it's not heaven yet. And you go there. But then like at some point the Catholics decided that was just too crazy to believe.

So they just got rid of it. Is that true? I don't know if, I don't know if that's true, but there is purgatory where you go, you wait in judgment of your life, I suppose, and then they decide if you, who they are, but they decide if you're going to the good place or to the bad place. Yeah. It seems crazy. It seems like we're giving people too much power in this religion. Yeah. It seems a little, you know, it seems? It seems like there's a lot of bureaucracy. It seems like a lot of just like hanging out like the DMV here.

It's like, what's going on, guys? I waited my entire life to get to this point and now I'm waiting for you guys to do some sort of judgment. And I love it. That's all life is really, just waiting. That's it.

Life and death, I guess. It's just another DMV line. You're going through customs's just, it's just another DMV line. It's, you're going through customs of life or death, I suppose. What were some other questions about Catholicism that I could answer for you from the 12 years of Catholic school that I went to? There was also talk of like how the Catholic religion has like a lot of pedophiles. Well, yes, that is true, unfortunately. And stuff. I think a lot of religions do, but Catholics specifically.

Catholics really seem to like take the cake on that one. And then I was saying that it seems to me, but like, I don't know shit, but like, seems to me like the Catholic religion specifically is a lot of like violence in the name of the Lord. And I just don't like the violence. Yeah, there were a lot of crusades, if you will. A lot of beating people into submission and things. I just don't know about that. Yeah, but I feel like, you know, the Salem witch trials, I don't think those were Catholics saying those were Protestants

or those were pilgrims. I don't know. Yeah. I did hear kind of an interesting fact about why priests went from like really, really great to not that great. And it all had to do with the plague. So back in the day, like Europe was basically like the Roman Empire. So like everyone was Catholic. And when the plague happened, all the people who were priests were the smartest people. They were the only people who could actually read, right? When the plague happened, all of those priests

had to go serve last rites to all the people who were dying of the plague. And of course they were, you know, in contact with a bunch of people who were sick so that they ended up getting sick so then all of a sudden there was this giant need for priests but no they were no longer like the smartest people in europe they were just like whoever we could get and then it was a steady decline of you know kind of poor decisions on who should become priest. And the whole, the whole like a diddling thing is just not great. Not, it's not a good look. It's not a good look. No, not at all. No, but you know, not to get on another religion talk, but I just, yeah. You love religion talk. Love it. Yeah. I also i also i just like there is a part of me somewhere deep

down that like really likes upsetting people really like causing chaos wow i know just a small just a tiny tiny little piece of me down there that's like i kind of like pissing people off and upsetting people and like getting them all riled up. I can see that with you actually. That does not surprise me one iota actually. Sometimes I think about like, I think about like the current state of just like the world in general and like crazy Christians that we have in our country. And then like everything's happening in like the Middle East and everything. And I just, I just think like if Jesus was real or if God is real, whatever, I imagine they're looking

down and being like, Jesus Christ, they fucked this up. Didn't they? Like we're not even close, not even close to the messaging that we were, we were going for. No, nowhere near. Honestly, honestly, like I do think, I think you think about this a lot. Like if Jesus did come back, I do think a lot of the really, really, really religious people in our country would reject him as like a woke liberal fucking communist. And, and the exact same thing would happen again to him. True. Oh man. Merry Christmas, everybody. thing would happen again to him true oh man merry christmas everybody but i can't believe christmas is already nigh um what did you ask for this year nothing i want nothing same i want some things but i didn't ask for some things what do you want a lot of shit okay and then tell me what it is what do you want but like okay so i'm at the point where like as as any adult i'm sure i'm at the point where like

if i want it i just buy it for myself like immediately yeah so it's like all the thing or or like i've got like a wish list of things that like i can't afford yet but like when i can i'm gonna buy so right now you want to hear what i'm on right now tell me what you're on i'm on a watch kick oh okay i've never owned a watch i've never been a watch girly but all of a sudden i've decided that i'm an adult and i need a nice watch yeah so what do you want so i want a cartier okay um i think i like the tank it's a little heavy. So like I could be convinced to go with the, I forget the other style that I tried on that I liked. It's a little bit less heavy,

but it doesn't look as expensive and I want to look expensive. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Of course, I want the gold because the silver is cheap and I don't want that. Okay. I don't need the diamonds. I would take the diamonds,

but I just want like a gold Cartier tank, I think. Yeah. Okay. You should get it. So when I can afford to buy myself that watch. Can I ask how much that is? I think it's $22,000. Okay.

I mean, that's- It's somewhere in that range. It's a lot of money, though. Yeah. It's like somewhere in the $20,000 range. Yeah. Like $22,000 to $26,000, something like that. Sarah got me a Rolex for my wedding gift. And I've never been a watch guy. I don't

care about, I just don't like, I'm not even like a jewelry guy. I recently started wearing a bracelet and I don't even know how I feel about that. That's just like really getting out there. But then all of a sudden I had this like really nice watch. And so I started like looking up other watch brands and all of a sudden like tiktoks are figuring out that i was looking up watches and then like all of a sudden i was on like watch talk i think and that's a lot the only thing that's scary about having such a fine time piece on your wrist is like you are a target to get for sure fucking nailed so there's a part of me that wants to get my exact watch that I have and I get a fake one

and wear that one everywhere. Then what's the point of having the real one? Well, I'll wear that to like the opera or like weddings and stuff. But you know, like if I'm going, the other day we went to a concert. You insure it. It's insured, right?

For sure. But I don't, that's also like just asking for attention. Well, so is a fake one. Yeah. But I say, OK, I say, OK, take it. It's fake. You fucking idiot. I don't care. Take it. Get the fuck away from me. Well, even if it was real and you could say take it and those interns will replace. That's true. But I would probably. OK, so you're going to get a watch when I can afford it.

But is Tish not dropping down? Absolutely not. No, Tish is like, here's an Amazon blanket. Merry Christmas. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So what else are you asking for? I would always take another horse, you know?

Jesus Christ, lady. Let's go with things that are less than $1,000. But if they're less than $1,000, I just buy it for myself. I know, but... So it's like I don't need it because I already have it if it's less than $1,000. But if they're less than $1,000, I just buy it for myself. I know, but. So it's like I don't need it because I already have it if it's less than $1,000. Fair enough. Do you want to know what I asked for? I also want a new suitcase, but the one I want is like $1,500.

What does that one do? They're so nice. I'm just telling you, it's like there's something about the wheels, the wheel mechanism on those suitcases. It is smooth as freaking butter butter no matter the flooring and once you have that and you go there there ain't no going back so that's what i have now um but i have the was it polycarbonate like the really light material one and i do like that but i want they have the ones that like look like steel but they're lightweight i want that one

okay no one's buying me that i'm about to buy that for myself. Do you want to know what I asked for? What? I asked, this is big. Big time. New year new wells. I've never owned Birkenstocks before. You're going to wear Birkenstocks? Well, I want some house shoes.

I actually could see you in them. I'm in the closed-toed Birkenstocks. The clog? Yeah, the clog. Oh, wow. Yeah, I don't know if I feel. How about the sandal? Not there yet, but the clog still looks like a shoe kind of,

especially wearing your pants. The sandal screams stoner to me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'm not anymore. I'm not one of those people. I asked for that, and that's basically, that's basically all I want. Huh? Yeah.

I don't want anything. It's cheap. They're like a hundred bucks. I know. Yeah. Well, I've already, I've already got my own Uggs. So, you know, you didn't say, you said Birkenstocks. I have those too.

They're comfy, huh? House shoe. I'm actually wearing Tish's house shoes. Yeah. House shoes are important. Yeah, they are. We're trying to become a, take your shoes off when you come inside the house house i try to do that too and nobody freaking abides by the rule what you got to do is you

got to put a bench right by the hat right by the door and then have shoes out that i have so many shoes sitting there and people just walk on in yeah or my my least favorite is when people say like they look and they see all the shoes by the door and then they look at me and they say don't we take my shoes off yeah yes yeah i do but it's the vibe of like if i say yeah then i'm an asshole yeah and i'm like and so i always like the people please during me is like i mean it's totally up to you but i'd love it if you did yeah like i'm obviously barefoot and all my shoes are by the door so like can you not chinese people really got that one right i feel like i know you know like sarah has the her like nail people come over they are always so courteous of that and they put their shoes right yeah i have a bone to pick with not you no not you no you're fine

yeah i was like what i do now no you nothing. Like news and like sports news. Okay. Anytime there's like an anchor of sorts. Here's my bone to pick. Hey, news or sports center. COVID's over. Let's stop doing Zoom interviews with people. All right.

Let's pay a little extra money. All right. Let's fly them into the studio. Let's mic them up properly. Let's light them up properly. All right. I don't want into the studio. Let's mic them up properly. Let's light them up properly. All right. I don't want to be hearing about like what's happening in Sudan or in the Gaza strip. And then the guy fucking glitches out for 25 seconds. And then they say, well, we got to come back to him. I don't have that kind of fucking energy. Do better. Throw

some money into your actual production. This is your whole business. Okay. If I wanted to fucking watch a Zoom conversation, I would fucking watch YFT on YouTube, which please go subscribe because we need more subscribers. There's a lot of feelings in that rant. But you know, I'm so right. Right? Yeah. Like every time. I mean, I don't watch the news, so i'm just assuming you're right to be

completely honest you don't ever watch the news never it scares me it's depressing it's dark i don't like it oh my god what i need to know about my mother tells me i hear from my mother whatever i need to know i'll be told i bet you she's got some weird conspiracy theories out there for sure but dom too dom watches the news the two of them they'll tell me what's up they'll tell me what i conspiracy theories out there. For sure. For sure. Oh, man. But Dom, too. Dom watches the news. The two of them, they'll tell me what's up. They'll tell me what I need to know.

I don't need to fill my spirit with that darkness. Good for you. On a daily basis. I don't like that. Freaking, well, you know what? Like, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News. I flip-flop through all of them.

That's insane. Just to know what's going on. No, I don't want to know. I'm always greeted with some fucking asshole in his study, bad lighting, low shot up the fucking jowls, ear pods in for your fucking audio. Couldn't be more annoyed with this. All right? Let's just do better, everybody. Okay.

ESPN, you guys do it too. I fucking hate it. If I had to see Schefter, whatever his name is, in his pajamas, let's get him into the studio. I know he lives like a mile down the block. Get him here.

Do better. Okay. Well, speaking of news, I saw, again, freaking freaking terrifying some girl in downtown la got murdered and they found her in her refrigerator this week this is why i don't watch the news that's terrifying there was a punky brewster episode about that it's not funny i mean it's kind of funny because um I remember they were playing hide and go seek and Punky Brewster's friend whose name

she was the black girl what was her name? Tui or something like that like went and hid in one of those old latch freezers and got trapped. She almost died. So maybe that's what happened to this lady. I don't think. They said she was violent had a violent altercation before death.

Really? That's scary. Was she frozen solid? I don't know, but she was very pretty. They said she was a model and like, what the heck? Are you looking it up? I want to know what Punky Brewster's friend's name was. Cherry.

What did I say? I don't know. Oh, man. Punky Brewster. What a great show that was, by the way. Did you ever watch that show? I don't think I did. I think that was just like a smidge before my time. Yeah, man. Punky Brewster. What a great show that was, by the way. Did you ever watch that show? I don't think I did. I think that was just like a smidge before my time.

Yeah, it was back then. Just a smidge. Yeah. Soleil Moon Frye. But they brought it back. Yeah, 84 to 88. So I was very young when this was going. Very.

Because your girl was born in 87. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It must be nice. So tell me more about this murder. I don't know else that's it that's all you got she lives in downtown la she's a model she's very pretty um she was found in the fridge violently attacked said the autopsy i read i read i heard about all this on tiktok it's the only place i've ever seen news super sad and terrifying though you know body body of a murdered LA models found inside her refrigerator. This is only KTLA.

Give it to me, KTLA. I know you will. A newly released autopsy report shows the 31 year old was found bound, beaten and wedged inside the refrigerator of her downtown LA apartment. We have been investigating this story for weeks. KTLA's Mary Beth McDade live in the newsroom with the latest on the new details. MB yes and Mike and Sandy. I can tell you the autopsy results really are hard to read and we're

learning for the first time just how badly Melissa Mooney was beaten and then bound and gagged and stuffed into a refrigerator. Her killer still on the loose tonight. The disturbing details revealed in the just-released autopsy results of the 31-year-old model. The medical examiner has ruled the cause of death as homicidal violence. The report indicates that Mooney was last seen alive on surveillance video

at her downtown L.A. apartment complex on September 6th. Police found her badly beaten body six days later, and we now know her body was found inside a refrigerator in her luxury apartment. Her family had asked police to do a welfare check when they hadn't heard from her. Police then found the model's body brutally beaten, her head and body with traumatic injuries, her wrists and ankles bound and tied together behind her back with electric cords and clothing.

A gag stuffed in her mouth. Her body then wedged into a refrigerator with pooled blood below it. The investigator believes what many had suspected, that she was likely involved in a violent struggle before her death. Well, no shit. In a recent interview, the model's sister said the mortician told her family in tears that he had to put her sister back together again. Oh! The mortician said they had to put her back together again. Ew.

Ugh. Well, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Murders on every block. Yikes. This is terrible, but this is what happens when I really can't stay.

If you don't, I'm going to murder you and cut you up. Oh my gosh. Baby, it's cold outside. Is that too much? It's colder in the refrigerator. Baby, it's cold in the fridge.

Jesus Christ. This might be the darkest episode we've ever done. I was going to say, we've got to turn it around. Wow, you did this. I know. Well, it's just rare that I know about any current events whatsoever, so I had to share. You know, I think that the problem is that everyone is so cheerful and so happy this time of year. That's a problem?

We need to check everybody. Bring them down a peg. Yeah. Let them live. Nope. They got to come down to us. Baby, it's cold in the fridge. Don't we always say that YFT is just to be the light of positivity in the world?

That's what it started out to be, but now we're old and jaded. Should we start the show? Yes, and then we have to make a pact to turn it around. Okay, we will turn it around. I promise. Okay. I promise. Why don't you

you start it you start this happiness rewind okay okay bros and hoes you're listening to a very happy episode of your favorite thing podcast with wells and brandy baby it's cold it's warm outside not cold yeah the sun shining yeah we're both in los angeles it's 70 outside, not cold. Yeah. The sun shining. Yeah, we're both in Los Angeles. It's 70 degrees outside right now. It's actually not, it's freezing. What are you talking about? Oh, it's cold in this house.

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But let me just tell you. Let me just tell you. We show up last night and I come to my guest house and try to turn the heat on because it's freaking cold last night. And the thermostat says that it's 61 degrees in here. And I was like, you know, I like it cold, but like 61 is a little quicker. I don't need to be getting sick. So I try to turn the heat on.

Won't come on. Doesn't turn on. Heat doesn't work. i was like mom i think your heat's broken no it's not you're just not doing it right i brought her over here and i was like turned to see and so there's no heat so i had it's like i'm camping i had to sleep in 60 degrees last night and the low was 52 i bet it got down to 52 in here yeah but you like it cold not that cold yeah 66 is my happy number um also i just feel like i've just been on the go go go go and i feel like my immune system is not up to up to its usual standards and so i can't be getting sick you know i know that's why we're

not together right now because sarah's sick right now i know i know and i don't want to give it to anybody else i know so i've been sleeping in the cold well i'm sorry to hear that but okay we're being a downer again we gotta yeah yeah yeah all right it's 70 it's sunny the sun's shining what is tell me some of your favorite things about that my family came to visit last week i think we talked about a smidge um i survived okay that's good um we know we had a lovely time and it's funny funny, Christmas hasn't happened yet. But I feel like Christmas did happen because I feel like that was my Christmas. And we had the cutest little Christmas party on Friday night. And it was such a good time. And

we did Dirty Santa. Okay. So when you see on an invite, when you see like Dirty Santa gift exchange, you know, $25 or whatever it is. In your mind, what does that mean? Is it Dirty Santa? Dirty Santa is what's on the invite. Or is it Secret Santa? Or is it White Elephant? The invite says Dirty Santa. Okay.

Then it needs to be like funny gifts. Like dirty gifts or just funny? Yeah. needs to be like funny gifts like dirty gifts or just funny yeah i mean that you could get like someone like a porn or like fuzzy handcuffs or something like that that could be dirty but then i think you can also get a bottle of everclear or something you know like some gross liquor i think that that also works yeah that's what you would think maybe some lingerie oh i don't know edible underwear okay okay so before you mentioned dirty santa secret santa and white elephant are those three things different in your mind or are they all the same secret santa is everyone has a different person one designated person yes about that okay

white elephant is you bring a gift and then you figure out like what the order is. People go and pick out a gift and then they pick out a gift, they open it and then it can only be stolen three times, I think, or taken two more times. And I think dirty Santa is white elephant, but dirty. I don't know.

No, maybe dirty elephant is what is secret Santa, but just dirty. Yeah. Okay. So we put dirty Santa on the invite. Cause to me, dirty Santa is but just dirty. Yeah. Okay. So we put dirty Santa on the invite. Cause to me, dirty Santa is it's white. To me, it's the same thing as white elephant, but like, I don't feel

like people have the connotation that with white elephant, you steal to me, like dirty Santa is like stealing from each other and like fist fighting over what you want and like, whatever, like it wasn't necessarily like dirty, dirty Santa. Um, and so that's kind of like, you know, you put like $25 on there as the limit. So like and so that's kind of like you know you put like 25 on there as the limit so like obviously it's silly gifts like you're not gonna go get buy anything like serious so we did dirty santa it was a huge hit but there was one person one person took it as like dirty dirty santa yeah and and the gift was a cup that was a man's ball. I love it.

Like a coffee cup. Just one ball? Just one giant ball covered in hair. It was hilarious. And she was so embarrassed, I think, because she was the only one that kind of went that route. But it actually was like the hot commodity gift, you know? That's what I said should have been.

Yeah. So I think maybe that's the play. I feel like lingerie is a step too far maybe. I don't know. Well, that's good stuff. And then a couple other people did kind of go that route, I guess, because there were a couple of gifts that were like a joint and some male enhancement.

You know what I mean? Or like some gummies and some female enhancement or whatever it was. That was funny, I thought. But yeah, I was just curious what your take was on that. Becauseiley and i went back and forth on like what to put on the invite like do we put white elephant do we put 30 santa and i was like all people know we're stealing you know so i was like put 30 santa on there or whatever um but anyway we had a great time i feel like i already had my christmas and then i am in la right now but i'm working and then i go back home to do christmas on my own because that's what I want to do. That's the saddest thing I've ever heard in my entire life.

It's not. It's absolutely lovely. All right. Sarah and I started watching Christmas movies. Oh. So I've got two new ones that I loved. I've got a bad one. Okay.

I'll go first. Then you give me the bad one. You go first because we're being positive. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The first one is on Prime vis-a-vis Freebie. I don't know if you know that there's like, there's kind of like, yeah. I'm up on the Freebie.

You understand Freebie? Okay, so the way you get into Freebie is from Prime, and then once you get into Prime, then Freebie is a free app. So there's commercials, but whatever. The movie is called X-mas. Original. but whatever the movie is called x miss original but it's spelled e x and then miss okay okay graham surprises his family at christmas only to discover his ex-fiancee is already celebrating the holiday with his family when he arrives x missmas, stream free on Freebie.

It's my buddy, Robbie Amell. It's the only reason why I even found out about it was because I was playing golf with him the other day. And I love his show, Upload. And he was like, oh, I have a new, like a holiday movie. And I was like, oh, are you the guy who never left and still owns a coffee shop? And he's like, no, no, no, it's not like that.

It's, I mean, it is a holiday like rom-com, but it's not like that. And I was like, oh, so tell me what it's about. And he's like, well, so I get engaged to this girl who's played by, you'd love this, Leighton Meester. Love her. I know. So they get engaged. Something goes wrong. At some point they become unengaged, but she's still like really, really close with his family. He calls his family and he's like, I can't make it home. I got a deadline. I can't come. And then like last second, he's like, this is depressing. I'm going to go home. So he like flies home, kind of surprises the family. And once he gets home, who's there but his ex-fiance. And then all sorts of things happen. He starts playing a game to see if he can make his family hate her, right? So they like play like a board game night. And she gets really competitive.

And like the mom's like, she's a little crazy, you know, like whatever. So they kind of go back and forth. And then obviously, you know like whatever so they kind of go back and forth and then obviously you know things change and it turns into a beautiful love story and the family's really really good in it the dad is michael hitchcock who's in like a lot of christopher guest movies like a wedding for guffman and um estined Show and you know all those movies Mighty Wind and then his sister is this girl named Veronica

Slowikowskia and only reason why I'm recognizing her is because she's someone who's like big on TikTok and she does like this kind of funny skit bit on TikTok and so I always see her she's so good in it so funny in it anyways highly recommend in it. Anyways, highly recommend

Xmas on freebie. Okay. Yeah. So it's a movie. It's a movie. Yes. All right. What's the movie that you do not like? Okay. So we watched two Christmas movies. Okay. One I'd already seen. Apparently she's going to kill me. Okay. Miley, guess what miley's favorite christmas movie is that she's seen like 30 times the holiday absolutely not is it gonna be one that i hate it's so unexpected okay then tell me it's the lindsey lohan movie that court is oh yeah i think that was good i talked about it last year i liked it the fact that that's the movie she's seen 30 times absolutely kills me. She loves it. So she made us watch it. It's good.

And it is. It's so cute. And, you know, I love cord. So we love that. So we did watch that. And then we watched I think it's Netflix. There's a new Christmas movie that Brandy is in, you know, the singer Brandy. Yes.

I don't know what it's called. You have to look it up. It wells bad. Good. It's really bad. And like, here's the thing. The Lindsey Kord movie is also bad, but it's good because they know it's bad

and they like lean into that, you know? And so it's funny. This is not the case. They're dead serious. Best Christmas ever. It's not good. Oh yeah, with Heather Graham and Jason Biggs. Horrible. And like Jason Biggs. Horrible.

And like Jason Biggs. Yeah. I would like, you know, I know he's older now, but like he was good in his day. Yeah,

American Pie? Freaking hilarious. Saving Silverman? Yeah. What happened? Like, I don't know what happened. Yeah,

I don't know. It's not good. Yeah. It's not good. Friendships are put to the ultimate test over a boastful holiday newsletter. Best Christmas ever.

It's not the best Christmas ever. No, it's the worst Christmas ever. It's not the best. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's too bad. Yeah, so maybe skip that one, guys. Yeah.

Okay, I have another one that we really liked. Okay. Okay? It's called Family Switch. I think, who's in this? Jennifer Garner. Is it new? Yes.

Oh, then I haven't seen it. Jennifer Garner, Ed Helms from The Office, and Emma Myers, who is in Wednesday. Okay. When a chance encounter with an astrological reader causes the walkers to wake up to a full-body switch, can they unite to land a promotion, college interview, record deal, and soccer tryout? Family switch. So it's 13 going on 30. Classic.

But with the whole family. Love it. And it is so good. netflix netflix all right anyway so good go watch it with your family your family will like it it's so cute i love denver gardener yeah and i tell you what this this little um emma myers from wednesday is so good like she's gonna be i think she's going to be a big star. I got a feeling. Cute.

Anything else? I am all caught up on The Crown. This past week dropped part two of the final season. I love this part. I love part two because it's all about Prince Williamiam yeah whoever the

cast is such a little cutie we love that we love that and um it's it's like it's like it's like reminds me of the young diana episodes you know like it's more of like that caliber of television um where it's not so serious all the time but i'm loving it uh so if you have not started watching new episodes of the crown highly recommend it i'm gonna be sad the show's over but thank god i have the first three seasons to go back to and prequel it you know thank god thank god because i do love it yeah okay i got one more show i like a lot okay great it's called school spirits i'm scared. I was hoping this would be a show I would like, but now I'm not. I actually think you might.

Just from hearing what it's called, School Spirits, what do you think it's about? I feel like it's a comedy. Okay. Which is not my thing. Okay. Anything else? I don't know. Yeah.

I mean, do you think it's like cheerleading documentary or something i don't know it could be yeah could be truly could be about alcohol okay don't know it's on paramount plus okay it's from the creators of pretty little liars okay maddie a teen stuck in the afterlife investigating her own disappearance goes on a crime solving mission as she adjusts to high school purgatory school spirits. Purgatory. Interesting. We've made it back, baby. Insert Catholic conversation.

Yeah. Let's talk about priests. conversation. Yeah. Let's talk about priests. Maddie is played by this girl named Megan Trinud? Trinrud? She was like, I think, a Disney Channel girl. Okay. She's in high school

and she gets murdered. Or at least we think she's murdered. Her blood is found like in the boiler room for some reason, but no one can find her body. And she is in the afterlife and so she's stuck at the school where she was murdered where there has been a bunch of other murders from like different decades right so like there's a lot of murders at the school that's what we were

sarah and i were talking about this we're like i don't think there was ever a murder at my school let alone like one every decade like one kid you, died in the 70s on the football field. He got like hit badly and like broke his neck. And then like there was another. So deaths. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just deaths. But she's been murdered.

And there's a couple other murders. But then there's just like, yeah, some deaths. I mean, kids are mean. Yeah, right? You know? Totally. So anyways, there's kind of like this like self-help, almost like Alcoholics Anonymous meeting that she goes to

with all the other dead spirits. And she's just trying to figure out what happened to how she died. Because everyone else that's dead there remembers exactly what happens, except she doesn't. And then one of her friends who is alive for some reason can see her and hear her. So then it's just a whodunit, basically. Okay. I like a whodunit.

It's very fun. It's like for kids, for a whodunit, basically. Okay. I like a whodunit. It's very fun. It's like for kids, for sure. But it is... It's not bad. I... Okay. I don't hate it. All right.

I like school spirits. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know why it's reminding me... It's giving Riverdale a little. Yeah. It's got some Riverdale vibes. Did you ever finish Riverdale?

I didn't even start Riverdale. I watched season one, maybe season two, and then I think it kept going and going and going, and I just did not keep watching. Yeah. It didn't grasp me. By the way, though, I did watch May-December. What are your thoughts? Miley hated

it. One, it's like Natalie Portman plays a lot of overly sexualized characters, which is interesting to me. It's kind of her thing. Yeah. My thought was, okay, did Natalie Portman's character the entire time just want to do this movie

so she could fuck a kid or like be sexual with a kid on set? Oh, I never went there. That was my, my thought was like, oh my, I knew immediately that she was going to sleep with the now grown up kid that got into a relationship with the teacher.

I knew that was going to happen. And then, you know, like then you start hearing her talk to the director. And so she, you know that she's like been sleeping with the director and you know that she was kind of getting her rocks off with like hooking up with the kid. And then once that last scene, it's her filming with this, with the director and you know that she was kind of getting her rocks off with like hooking up with the kid and then once that last scene it's her filming with this with the kid and she's like hold on we got to go again and it's like was this all one big ploy to do some pedo stuff

this episode brought to you by oh pedo stuff i cannot i know but that's what i was thinking the entire time is that what you were thinking i it was not what i was thinking at all but now that you bring it up it's a fair perception yeah why have tears what do you guys think go watch may december i i enjoyed it a lot i thought the from, I think he was from Riverdale. Yeah, he is, yeah. I thought he was great in that. Yeah, very good. Apparently he gained 40 pounds for it.

Like really impressive work. Yeah. Yeah, okay. Nice. I have the 10 oddest Guinness World Records of the year here. The 10 oddest? Yeah. Interesting, okay. Number 10. Fastest 5 meters

on a scooter by a parrot is 14.6 seconds. That's a long time. Okay. Longest mustache on a living person, male. The record is 63 centimeters, which is more than 2 feet. That's disgusting. Can you imagine having some guy go down

on you with a 63 centimeter mustache? That's too much. Fastest time to assemble Mr. Potato Head blindfolded is having some guy go down on you with a 63 centimeter mustache. That's too much. Fastest time to assemble Mr. Potato Head blindfolded is 11.5 seconds. I feel like these aren't impressive things to me. No, it's not that impressive. You know, when I was a kid and we'd go to the library and you'd go get the Guinness. When I was a kid. Back when I was a child, we'd go into what's called a library,

which is basically a giant Internet server. But you'd have to go use the Dewey Decimal System to find shit. And there was the Guinness Book of World Records. And we would always go find that one to go look at the fattest man alive and the tallest person ever lived. And now it's like, number seven, most couples eating a single piece of spaghetti simultaneously. That's not a thing. No, it's like, number seven, couples, most couples eating a single piece of spaghetti simultaneously. That's not a thing. That's just, it's not a thing. Number six, most magic tricks underwater in three minutes. The record is 38. It's not a thing for fish. They don't care. All right. Most spoons balance on a body. The record's 88. I can do it on my nose and that's it. Cause I fucking grew up guy.

Longest tongue on a living dog. The record is 13.9 centimeters, which is almost five and a half inches. Well, how do they know? Because they're not measuring every dog's tongue that comes to the veterinary clinic. Exactly.

That's the dumbest thing ever. It's just, you're just looking for people just want to get the, the thing that they want to get. Yeah. And I wonder if there's a Guinness book of world records for the most Guinness book of world records is my question. Probably.

You know, like who has that? I bet somebody. Fucking dork. And we're back to the negativity. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Do you want to go out on some calls? Oh yeah, we should do some calls for sure.

Okay. Definitely. I don't know if you're really here. Let me see if I can do this. Oh, probably not. Let me do this so I can do it this way. You know what else I saw on TikTok today? What's that? I never know what's real and what's not real. But apparently maybe you could fact check this for me no i want to just go ahead and just assume it's true did fiji water have a have a campaign

like an ad campaign saying something like this is their water is not bottled in cleveland or some dig at the city of cleveland because i've heard that was, I saw on TikTok that that's what they did. And so the city of Cleveland apparently tested their tap water against Fiji. And apparently there's like all this fecal matter in the Fiji water and Cleveland's water is crystal clear. Apparently.

And apparently Cleveland's tap water passed like all the taste test as being better, you know, in all the like blindfolded tests, I'm sure. And everyone said Fiji's water was garbage. Good for Cleveland. But I have no idea if any of this is true. I just saw it on TikTok. Man, still. That was, I was fascinated. As I sit here and drink like some bougie bottled water that Tish has, I'm like, is there a fecal matter in this? Who's keeping these people accountable? You know,

like, is this water even worth $3.50? I'm sure she paid for it. I don't know. I mean, if you really think about it, though, every drop of water that's on this earth has been pissed and shit out of countless other beings before us. This water I'm drinking right here is definitely dinosaur pee-pee. No.

At one time, for sure. There's only a limited amount of this stuff. So we're not going to fact check. We're just going to. I love it. Cleveland. Cleveland rocks. All right.

Let's do some. Let's do some. Let's do some calls. On to the calls. On to the calls. Well, then, Brandi. Hello. Hello. Favorite thing for you. Okay to the calls. Well, then, Brandi, hello. Hello.

I have a favorite thing for you. Okay, what do you got? Stranger Things. I know you all have a love for it. I am actually obsessed with it, one of my favorite shows. And I'm calling you today on November 6th, which, if you're a nerd like me, you know, is Stranger Things Day because Will Byers vanished in the woods 40 years ago today, which is totally real, real life. Anyway, I don't think you've covered it.

There's a show that kind of gives me Stranger Things elements. It's on Amazon Prime. It's called Harlan Coben Shelter. Whoa. There's similarities. There's a missing kid. There's intrigue. There's what the fuck is happening here.

And it definitely kind of fills the void before season five comes out for stranger things it's a ya show which i know brandy's a fan of and i really think you all would actually be kind of into it so watch it and talk about it and i'd love that and yeah so love you guys i'm leah from kn Knoxville, Tennessee. I'm a probate attorney, and I'm just thankful that as I'm doing my boring estate documents, I can listen to you all and get that mindless entertainment. And just thank you for that. Great day. Love you. Bye.

Well, she is just full of positivity and happiness, and I just love that for us because we need some of that. By the way, I could have told you that she was from Tennessee in the first seven seconds. From her accent? Yeah, that probably gives Book of World Records. What did she say the show was called? Harlan something? It's a Harlan Coben show. He's an author,

and they turn a lot of his books into series. But here's my issue with Harlan Coben stuff. It's real hit or miss. I think I've seen one, maybe two Macs that are good, and usually the rest of them are garbage, but maybe hers is a good one. Let's try to find out what she said, because I found Harlan Coben's shelter. Oh, I think that is maybe what she

said. Mickey lives with a mother in rehab, a dead father, an annoying aunt, and a new school in New Jersey when a creepy old woman tells him that his father isn't dead. Mickey thinks he's losing his mind. Harlan Colbin's Shelter on Amazon Prime.

I mean, maybe. All right, let's continue on. So my favorite thing is the husbands that are loving this podcast because of their wives. My husband is one of them. Yes. And what the fuck is happening here. What the fuck is happening here? What the fuck

is happening here? Do the bye bye bye. That's it. Oh, she just loves what the fuck is happening here. Cool. Fucking A, dude. I love that. Love that for you. All right, we got another one.

Hi, Wells and Brandy. this is emily i've been listening to you guys for a while now thank you um i just was calling to reference um wells's comment on the anchorman video i will say well i have to tell you that you're wrong um it never was i'm impressed i have watched that movie so many times and that was something that my family and I would quote all the time the whore from whore island or whatever but it's all that line has always been you pooped in the refrigerator you ate the whole wheel of cheese I'm not even mad that's amazing he always said that's amazing it's never been I'm impressed no I just wanted to tell you that you're wrong but I love you guys and I listen to you guys every week and I love listening to tell you that you were wrong but I love you guys and I listen to you guys

every week and I love listening to the podcast so you guys are great bye bye I love her I was going to say I love when other people also tell you that you're wrong why do you love that I just you know

I just love it that's not something that you should love. Because I love being right. Not that I had an opinion about this whole thing, but, you know, I love her. She's great. Me being wrong makes you right in some way? Absolutely. Wow.

All right. Hey, welcome, Brandy. Yo. My name is Mandy. I'm from Michigan. And I was just calling with a couple things that I think you guys should check out. Okay. The first thing is Invasion on Apple TV.

Yeah, we've talked about that. It's kind of about like an alien invasion. And it kind of gives the perspective of a few different areas of the world. And then they're all kind of connecting. I think you both would really love that show. And then a couple book recs. Give it to us. What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall.

And then Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson. You guys should check them out. Love the show. All right, bye. Love that. Love a book rec. Me too. I need to read more.

We have talked Invasion And I gotta be honest with you, Ike almost couldn't finish it Like it just dragged on It just took forever But I like those book recs, thank you for that Last one Hi Wells and Brandy, this is Madison I'm from Memphis

So one of my favorite things that you guys have ever done Was the Christmas episode With Wells and Sarah Which also makes me very sad because while I love Sarah and I love Wells, I also love Brandy. So I think that should become a thing because then it would become one of my favorite things is a Your Favorite Thing Christmas episode where you guys just talk about all things Christmas. Christmas episode where you guys just talk about all things Christmas. My also favorite thing would be a show called Fat Man.

If we're talking Christmas, well, this is right up your alley. It's literally about a punk-ass kid who hires a hitman to kill Santa, and it is just all of the best things in the world. So that is my favorite thing.

So Fat Man and then, yeah, a Christmas episode would be awesome. Thanks. Love you guys. Wow. Fat Man is with Mel Gibson. What? A rowdy, unorthodox Santaus is fighting to save his declining business meanwhile billy a neglected and precocious 12 year old hires a hitman to kill santa after receiving a lump of coal in his stocking fat man tis the season to get even streaming on peac on Peacock, Rent and Buy, on Prime, and on Amazon. All right.

I do love the calls. We've stopped doing it. We're bringing it back. We've decided we're bringing it back. If you guys want to call in and tell us your favorite thing, please do. The number is 858-630-1856. Once again, 858-630-1856. Nice.

Is that it? Did we do a Christmas episode last year? I guess we might have, and Sarah hung in on it. I guess so. I don't really, you know me, though. I don't remember shit. We can't do that this year because this is the last episode of the year. Yeah.

By the way, yeah, so we should tell everyone that. Yeah. What song should we go out on? A Christmas song. Baby, It's Cold Outside, even though it's kind of creepy? It's too creepy. Okay. What was I singing?

I love Run, Run Rudolph myself. Chuck Berry? All right. All right, Wired of Tears, we're taking the next two weeks off because of the holiday. So, sorry about that. You know what I might do, though? I might look at some of the drunk podcasts that I have done in my house. Ooh, that's a good idea.

And maybe release some of those. That's a little bit more editing on my end, but... Well, what else are you doing? Fair enough. Fair. That is a fair... Playing some Christmas golf, I'm sure, but? Fair enough. Fair. That is a fair. Playing some Christmas golf, I'm sure. But, you know.

Yeah. I'm not doing anything, really. That could be a nice gift for the YFTers. Okay. Well, I said hard at it because it's going to be, you know. Anyways, YFTers, we love you so much. We do. We do.

I'm very thankful for the YFTers. we love you so much. We do. We do. I'm very thankful for the YFTers. Very thankful. Merry Christmas. Happy holidays to all of you YFTers out there. Have an amazing new year. Even the Catholics. We love you. Even, well, I'm a Catholic.

Jesus. Are you still? Are you still? Are you still? No I mean I am a Catholic No you're not Oh my god We love all creeds

races, religions I'm sleep deprived Alright we love you guys so much Have an amazing new year We'll see you in 2024 See you then. Bye. Bye. That was a good one. It is a good one.

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