Your Favorite Thing with Wells & Brandi - Christmas bros and grumpy ho ho hos

Episode Date: December 21, 2022

Merry Chrysler, happy holidays, and joyous winter greetings re: whatever it is you celebrate this time of year. Wells starts us off with some good news, bad news. Good news: all his shopping is done and he witnessed the best game of soccer ever played. Bad news: he’s sick and thinks he needs to stop drinking. Brandi has decided that she will not be doing anything on Christmas, but Wells tries to get her into the holiday spirit by asking about her fave present ever (it’s all about the material things, you know?). Wells briefly touches on the horrific Idaho murders, but quickly goes back to what he knows best: television. So far White Lotus season 1 is not as good as season 2, and he thinks Sarah Hyland would be a wonderful addition to season 3. They chat about their fave subscription services and the Illuminati. Which, if anyone has more info on what the heck that is, we’d love to hear it…  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:  Faherty — Go to FAHERTYBRAND.com/yourfavoritething and use code yourfavoritething at checkout to get 20% off  Zocdoc — Go to Zocdoc.com/YFT and download the Zocdoc app for FREE  BetterHelp — Go to BetterHelp.com/favoritething today to get 10% off your first month  Storyworth — Go to StoryWorth.com/yft and save $10 on your first purchase 

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It's never easy getting, you know, everyone the best gift ever. How about that World Cup yesterday, though, guys? Yeah, so if that was your first ever time watching a soccer game or a football game, if the first time you ever watched a football game or a football game. If the first time you ever watched a football game or a soccer game was the World Cup final, you should never watch another soccer game again because that's as good as it gets, guys. It will never be better than that. Mark it. Around noon on December 18th, 2022, the greatest soccer game ever was played. And that's that.

And those are just the facts of life. And I'm sorry if you don't agree. But if you don't agree, you're wrong. Because it's a fact. It's a fact of life. Anyways, let's call Brandi. Calling the Brandi. Up right now. Oh, there she is Brandi. Calling the Brandi. Up right now.

Oh, there she is. Hello. Hello. What's up with you? Oh, nothing really. Look at my bell and my little frame here. No? No.

That's it? That's all you got for me? Nada. Cool. That's all I got. I mean, it's the time of year where, like, nothing's happening. Yeah, it's true. You know, we're just, like, in the lull before Christmas.

It's just weird. Dude, I am sick. I think I'm sick. Oh, no. Yeah, right before. It's a Christmas miracle. Everyone is sick. I don't know.

You know, I thought that taking cold plunges every day was going to stop me from being sick for the rest of my life. But that is not the case. The voodoo didn't work the way you wanted it to, does it? It didn't. It might have something to do with the fact that I take terrible care of my body. Do you? You kind of. What do you mean?

Like, you run, you cold plunge, you sauna. That's true. You don't eat bad. I don't. So what are you talking't. I just. What are you talking about? I drink. Well, I feel like it's the important thing is how you detox after drinking.

Well, I am a great detoxer. That's for sure. See, so you're fine. I just think I need to quit drinking. I just don't know if I can do it. What are you drinking when you do drink? All the things. Everything.

Okay, well, that's your issue. I think you need to pick one. I know. But as the night goes on, I get, oh, you know, old-fashioned sounds good. Oh, a martini sounds good. Oh, a glass of wine sounds good. Oh, a beer sounds great. That's your issue.

I know. I know it. I know it to be true. I got a lot of problems, but that's one of them. I wish I could just not drink anymore. But then would I be boring? Would life be boring? I wish I could just not drink anymore.

But then would I be boring? Would life be boring? So I've had a couple of friends recently do like a long stint of sobriety. Yeah. Like I'm talking like one of them did like six months and one did a year. Okay. And they both were like loved it. Great for me.

Great for my health. Great for my mental health. Great for all the things. But they're back drinking because they're like, it's boring not to. Yeah, I know. That's the problem. Anyways, do you have all your Christmas gifts purchased? I don't do Christmas gifts.

Oh, wow, okay. Tell everybody, don't buy me anything. Let's not do gifts. It's a waste of money. Don't love it. Like, go donate to the charity of your choice instead. What do you do on Christmas morning there, Ebenezer? Oh, would you like to know? I schlep down to the barn where it's going to be a hot nine degrees on Christmas day and I shovel manure for about an hour after I've fed every

animal on the property. And then I come up and thaw out just in time to go back down and do it again in the evening. You know what you should ask for for Christmas? What's that? A barn hand. Oh well I have one but I have to give her Christmas off. She works her ass off all year. I feel like the least I could do is let her go home for Christmas and you know. So are you not going to be with any family on Christmas? I don't think so. You're just gonna be by yourself at your house? Doesn't that sound great to you? No. It sounds like a dream. I don't have to talk to anyone. I don't have to get all dressed up. I don't have to put on makeup that day.

Like, I don't have to do anything. It sounds so sad. But, no, I think it sounds great. Brandy. It sounds fantastic. Do you want to come out here and spend Christmas with us? No, absolutely. That's the last place I want to go.

That's hurtful. Is LA. It's beautiful here. No. It's a balmy 56. Ew. Oh, sorry. Nine degrees. It's a balmy 56. Ew. Oh, sorry. Nine degrees sounds so much more appealing these days. I'm sorry. Balmy 56 does not sound

nice for Christmas. Like, it should be cold on Christmas. 48 right now. It's gonna get up to 64. What a day! No. I'm gonna stay here. I'm gonna do my thing. I will see some friends, hopefully, if I have time, if the weather's not too crazy and, you know, get away from here. But I honestly, I think being by myself in my house doing whatever I want sounds freaking phenomenal.

You're like a character in one of those Hallmark Christmas movies. in one of those Hallmark Christmas movies. By the end of it, your cold, dead heart is going to thaw and nice young ranch hand is going to sweep you off your feet with a nice hot cup of cocoa. I don't think so. I think so. No. You know that's not normal, right, Brandy?

Here's the thing, though. It isn't, but that's what bothers me, is that we're expected to buy into this hogwash bullshit. That you have to, on holidays, get together with the whole family just so that you guys can fucking fist fight and argue and whatever else happens. Instead of just doing what you want and being in your own house with your own animals and doing your own thing, not having to answer to anybody. It just sounds great. Let's normalize doing what you actually want on the holidays. I do want to, like, have a big dinner

and, like, drink fancy wines and open gifts. Yeah, I do. I don't want to do any of that. I hate opening gifts. So you didn't get anybody a gift? I did. Did you get me a gift? I did a group gift for um like the uh people that work

at the barn okay my horse yeah it's like i participated in that but yeah like friends like my best friends just know like we don't do gifts family like last year we tried white elephant okay but honestly like it was fine but mike miley didn't listen and ended up getting everybody gifts anyway. Okay, and that's not the point. The point is, like, one gift only, and we play the game. So it's like, this year, I just feel like I'm not participating. Wow. Well, not me.

And I've said, don't buy me a gift. Man. Well, not me. I celebrate Christmas because I am not a sad old angry grinch here's my problem wrapping presents is a fucking racket i hate it i'm not that's the part i actually like i'm not good at it i feel like there's so much wasted you know like you like they even have like a little grid now so you can figure out exactly how long how big it's got to be but then it's always like i'm throwing out all this paper. It's very,

very frustrating. So I have come up with an idea. Okay. I want some sort of machine, some engineer YFT out there make this and then give me all the credit and all the money. I want a machine. It's like a big cylindrical machine, right? You take the gift in the box or whatever, and you put it inside the cylindrical machine and then using suction or gravity or some sort of mechanism, wrapping paper around the cylindrical thing and then the suction cup suctions down onto it and it perfectly form fits the thing. And it's like,

almost like, you know when you get like your car wrapped? Yes. It's like that. But somebody does that by hand. Well, I feel like the robots can do this. Anyways,

wouldn't that be great if you just had this machine and you just put it in and it went, and it was like, boom, bing, bong. What? If we just did away with gifts completely. What's the best gift you've ever gotten?

What's your favorite gift ever? My favorite gift was from my dad. Gosh, this was, I guess, 10 years ago. I bought my horse ever with my hard-earned money. And it was a very big deal for me. It was like the first horse that I personally bought on my own, like without my parents' help and whatnot. And it was also at the time where I was like in a struggling, you know, band making no money. Yeah. And whatever.

So I saved up some money, bought this horse. And then for Christmas that year, my dad was like, I want to gift you like a check. You fill it in for however much it costs to like upkeep that horse for six months. So her board, her shoes, her feed, like all the things that to me is just like the best gift because A, that's something that I can, that helps me so much. Like it's so practical. And B, it's just so thoughtful because my dad knows me well enough to know that I would appreciate that more than just some like stupid knickknack gift that he could go get me. You know what I mean? Yeah.

Loved it. You don't like my wrapping gift mechanism? I feel like that's a great idea. We're still wasting paper by wrapping the gifts in general. Yes, but it'll be less waste. It will, but like even less waste would be just like to do with gift giving because it's like a stupid thing. Yeah. We just buy gifts for people all throughout the year if you think of them.

My family is big in the bag world. We throw a lot of things in bags with some tissue paper on top. Also wasting paper, but yeah. Yeah, but you can reuse the bags. You can. I definitely reuse the bags. I'm a big bag guy. But a lot of people don't like the bag guy because it's kind of lazy.

It is, but I don't mind. I like the bags. Good to know. Also because it cuts down the embarrassment time of having to open the gift yeah that's the most embarrassing do you know what sarah does it's fucking maddening she has to like unwrap it like perfectly not like rip it she like takes the little tape off and then like slowly takes it out oh my god i'm'm like, just rip it. Rip it. Yeah.

What are we doing here? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Anyways, we should start the show. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Is it you or me? I have no clue. Go for it.

Is this our Christmas episode? I think so. Oh, no. Wait, yeah. Well, this comes out on Wednesday and Christmas is on Saturday, right? Yeah. So technically this is our Christmas episode. This is our Christmas episode. Bros and hoes. Ho, ho, hoes. A holly jolly time. You're listening to your favorite thing podcast with Wells and Brandy. All right. Quick PSA for those of you out there

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Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Happy Hanukkah. Happy holidays. Happy holidays. You live in Nashville. Are people saying you can't say Merry Christmas anymore in this PC world? You know, it's a little more conservative here.

But, yeah, I think the general consensus these days is you can't just say Merry Christmas. That's not true. In no place in the world is that a true statement. What do you mean? You can totally say Merry Christmas. I mean, you can, but then you're only really celebrating

people that celebrate Christmas, and there are other religions that celebrate other holidays, and so you're kind of leaving them out, which is kind of not PC. No, I understand that and I do understand how Happy Holidays is more inclusive for people who are,

you know, Jewish or Muslim or Buddhist. I get that. But this whole like, Christmas is under fire and you can't say Merry, of course you can.

No one ever said you can't say Merry Christmas. People are just trying to be more inclusive, which is a great thing. It's not a bad thing. But this whole dialogue that people like, my parents like watch Fox News and like, that'll be a fucking topic.

I'm like, no, you can totally still say Merry Christmas. 100%. You should just, you should say both. You should say whatever the fuck you want to say. If you're, here's the thing. If you don't know somebody, yeah, great. But like to my Jewish friends, my manager, I said happy Hanukkah yesterday. Yesterday was the first day of Hanukkah.

That's nice and personalized. Because I fucking know the person. So just know who you're talking to. Or if you're Brandy, say happy Saturday because she doesn't celebrate Christmas. I do celebrate it. I just don't celebrate it in a textbook fashion that we are brainwashed to believe Christmas should be celebrated. Oh, my God. Did you feel the same way about Valentine's Day and how Hallmark created this stupid –

Yeah, it's bullshit. Yeah. It's bullshit. I agree. I don't like that one because I shouldn't be told when I'm supposed to be romantic. I should be romantic whenever I want to be. And that's usually when I'm in trouble and I'm trying to get out of it. Are you keeping up with this whole like Idaho college kids that got murdered story?

I'm not, but my best friend Kirsten is obsessed with it. I wish I could call her, but she's in Iceland because she would be able to tell you every detail that's been released about this. But here's the thing. There is no details. They don't know who did this. Crazy Mormons. I don't even know if they're Mormon. I just assume they are.

It is adjacent to Mormon country. In Moscow. Idaho, I think. Anyways. Crazy. Also, really sad. The girls were really cute. Not to say that it wouldn't be as really sad the girls were like really cute not to say that like

it wouldn't be as sad if the girls were ugly but i i immediately realized what i said was terrible immediate regret from what i said but the awareness is there yeah yeah yeah but it's like oh they're cute it's too bad they got murdered and no one, how do you not know? I assume it's like another college kid that did it. Right. And like, there's no college kid that's smart enough to be able to get away with it. I finally started watching white Lotus season one. Oh my gosh. And I got to say, I think the problem is, is that season two is so much better than season one. So now I have something to, to, to like compare compare it to but season one is nowhere near as good as season two i agree it's like not even in the same ballpark it's not even like people are

like hatching plans against one another and like it's not it's just like two shitty teenagers who are all fucking ketamine what they're kind of annoying and like ungrateful and whatever steve zahn's pretty funny with his balls thing is pretty fucking great. But really the only redeeming person on the entire show is the guy who's pissed about the fucking pineapple sweet and the pineapple bit. It's so funny, but it's like the only bit they have on that show. I felt like season one, it was just so weird,

you know, like it was just, I mean, like a little weird is great and like quirky and weird, but like the whole thing was just too quirky for me. Like I liked it, but I like season two way better because it just wasn't as much of that. Yeah. Alexandria Daddario's character, she's terrible. The character, I don't like, you knew what you were getting yourself into.

You were marrying this rich guy. Like you can't do this. I feel so, and it's so funny because he's so entitled and so privileged. And like, but I feel so bad for him. He's like, all the guy wants is the fucking room that he booked or his mom booked. The manager's fucking with him. His wife doesn't really like to have sex with him. And then decides in the middle of their honeymoon, the first part of their honeymoon, before they go to Fiji or whatever,

Tahiti, that she wants to divorce him. This poor fucking guy. You know, yes, he's rich and, you know, I guess he wanted a trophy wife or whatever, but she should have known that. I hate the teenagers so much. I know. I don't even know which one I hate more. They're so

annoying. Also, that Sydney Sweeney, is that her name? Sydney Sweeney? Yeah yeah she looks a little bit like a bastard hound i'm just gonna be honest with you about that huh she's got like real sad eyes you know okay the other girl that not sydney sweeney she might be the worst person in the whole entire show she thinks she's so much better because she is seized through the bullshit of the rich white family or whatnot, but she fucks over the, she literally fucks over that guy so hard. How far in are you? I think only like one or two episodes left. Okay, okay, okay, okay.

You know, like she gives him the, also, how dumb are you? Everyone's going to figure out it was you that like gave the code. If I'm the parents, I'm like, interesting. The day that we get robbed is the one day that the fucking kid asked to put some seashell necklace in here? Come on. I'm no Sherlock Holmes over here. But I feel like I would have been able to connect the dots on this. Like, I guess the only thing that's cool about this is the, wow, Greg really was doing a long con.

Like, this was a very long con. Very long. And you wonder like, you never know if you're getting a second season. So you're not writing a show with the thought of getting a second season, I would assume. I would assume you wrote the show

and then it was highly popular, very successful. So they started writing another one and they were like, okay, so what do we do here? The Greg storyline is just like this really long con, right? Or do you think that like they always thought that? I think there was probably always like hope that there would be a season two and like pretty and confidence about there going to be a season two. But I think you're right. Like there's no guarantee. Like when a show gets picked up, they only pick it up for one

season until they see how it does. So I think you you can i think you can go into it like planning for a few seasons but not like being sure you're gonna get them yeah yeah i saw some something of like when it's i think it's daphne is like cheersing to everyone on the last night of season two and they're like she's like next up maldives so like, maybe that's where the next season is going to be the Maldives. And to that, I say, is it Mike White? Is that the guy?

I think so. Mike White, my beautiful wife would love to be in season three. She would be very good on that show. Yeah. Very good. My beautiful wife would love to be on it. And I would like to be,

I would, I would just come and, you know, I don't know. Well, he does a lot of cameos. Yeah, I could do a cameo. He does, I guess he was on Survivor. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, of course. So he brings people, the contestants from Survivor and puts them in and gives them like one line and does like some cameo spots with them.

So I feel like you could weasel yourself in it. I might get in there. Yeah. Yeah. That's not a bad idea. Yeah. Anyways, season one of White Lotus, not as good as season two. I know.

It's not. But I haven't seen the ending, so maybe it redeemed itself at the end, but I just hope. It's good, but season two was great. That's how I feel. Yeah. Okay. Season two was great. That's how I feel.

Yeah. Okay. Well, speaking of not knowing if things are going to come back for a season two. Yeah. Oh, my God. Okay. I don't even know where to start. So the Charlie Hunnam show on Apple Plus.

Okay. Pretty sure I've been saying it wrong the whole time. I watched an interview that he did. And granted, he's Australian, so he could be saying it differently than an American would say it. But he pronounces it Shonaram. Got it. Shonaram. I've been saying it totally wrong. What have you been saying?

Shantaram, I think, is what I've been saying. Not even close. Shonaram. Love it. Very different. Okay. Oh, my God. Watched the season finale.

Maybe, like, fast forward 30 seconds if you haven't seen it yet and you don't want me to ruin anything ready go i am fucking crushed crushed the ending crushed my soul it is so sad and i get it like you can't end a show like that and it'd be predictable. Everybody can't have a happy ending. It's like they took, you know, the note from Nicholas Sparks, you know, like we're like Nicholas Sparks loves to kill somebody at the end of every book. Like everyone can't live. Everyone can't live happily ever after. I get it. But I am so crushed by the way this show ended. And then at the last scene that they show, I'm trying not to ruin anything just in case no one fast forwarded, but at the very last scene, they end it with the screen going black and it says to be continued.

And so I was like, oh, God. OK, well, I'm fucking crushed. But at least there's going to be another part of this, whether it's an extension of season one or season two or whatever it is. And I was like, all right, at least there's hope that like maybe they'll come back and redeem themselves. Then I get on Google and I do a quick Google search. google apple canceled the show there is no season oh apple what the fuck okay so i did a deep dive after i was like why the fuck would they cancel this the show really hasn't gotten good reviews and i'm confused by that like call me crazy but this was one of my favorite shows i've seen in a really long time and yeah it was a bit chaotic and I and I do agree with some of the critics where they were like you

know there were just one too many characters and one too many storylines to try to keep track of and there were moments in the series where I was like a teeny bit confused but by the end of it it all kind of does come full circle and you do get very invested in specific characters and I don't know I'm just shocked I thought like, I liked a lot of the actors and actresses. I thought they did a good job, and the show kept me hanging on, and like I said, the finale was just so emotional. Like, it was one of those, it's one of those shows

where like, I mean, they come this close to getting their happy ending, they really do, and it's just so heartbreaking. And so I didn't understand why it's not back for season two. So I am here to plea to like HBO or Netflix, like can someone please pick this up like they did for Manifest and do at least one more season? Like we deserve answers.

We deserve Charlie's character, Lynn. He deserves redemption. He's such a good guy deep down. Yes, he's done some bad things and he is flawed, but he has a very sweet soul and I think he deserves redemption and obviously Charlie Huddim is incredible

and I just think somebody else needs to pick this up for one more season. Alright. Heads of studios, you listen? Brandy wants something. Please. Also, how do you get away with putting to be continued at the end when it's canceled yeah

that's false advertising yeah so just for that reason they need to get their shit together they do fair enough i know that you hate christmas and you're you have a cold dead heart but um i do not hate christmas you do i hate the expectations that christmas brings okay you hate christmas but boy oh boy do i have a great christmas movie for you so we finally watched a christmas story I hate the expectations that Christmas brings. Okay. You hate Christmas. But boy, oh boy, do I have a great Christmas movie for you. So we finally watched A Christmas Story Christmas, which is the follow-up to A Christmas Story. You'll shoot your eye out. You know that movie, right?

Yeah. Ralphie and Fragile. Ooh, it must be French. I was like, I don't know if this is going to be any good. One, it's a sequel to arguably the greatest Christmas movie ever. You can't live up to how great that movie is and how much that movie, I feel like, shaped us millennials growing up. But I watched it and I got to say, boy, oh boy, it is fantastic. Really? Fucking fantastic. Follows the now adult Ralphie as he returns to the house on Cleveland Street to give his kids a magical Christmas like the one he had as a child,

reconnecting with childhood friends and reconciling the passing of his old man, A Christmas Story Christmas. So it took me a while to kind of figure out why this movie was so fantastic, and I pinpointed it. Okay. Story Christmas. So it took me a while to kind of figure out why this movie was so fantastic. And I pinpointed it. Okay. The reason why we love the original one is because we relate to Ralphie. Or we did at that time.

We were kids at that time watching that movie. There was this gift that we wanted, whether it was a BB gun or something else, that we wanted so badly that we didn't think we were going to get. And like the weirdness of like going to see Santa Claus and dealing with bullies and all this, all this shit that we could relate to, you know, like our dad being crazy and all that stuff. Like I feel like kids could relate to. And then what this movie did was it didn't try to like redo the whole thing to like relate to the kids. It realized that the kids grew up and then made a movie for us again so it's all about Ralphie who now has two kids it's like him going to the bar seeing his old friends we get to do it all over again with Ralphie and it's so fucking good it must have been so scary for that guy what's's his name? Peter Billingsley to do this again, because it's like so iconic. You can't, you can't make it make a better movie.

And I don't know if he made a better one, but it's so good. It makes you cry at the end because the dad's dead and Ralphie's now a writer and he's trying to get published. He ends up writing this like absolutely amazing obituary that gets put out in the paper. And it's so heartwarming. Him going to the bar and seeing Flick and seeing Schwartz. And it's all the same people. Like the little kids that were in that movie are in the movies now. And they're just grown up.

And we're like, is that the same guy that we looked up? And he's like, fuck it it is like even the bully i feel like that's the key to some of those sequels that that are that come out after so long it's like you've got to have the same actors and actresses in there yeah like farkas the bully that he beats up in the first one he's a cop in the second one which is hilarious every bully becomes a cop i feel like even that storyline which is very small is like so fucking good I gotta say like absolutely blown away go watch it and it's a little slow in the beginning

because I think of trying to get everyone kind of into like what's happening or what not so it's a little slow in the beginning but then it really gets going it's fantastic go check it out love that love that for me speaking of sequels yeah I don't think it's out yet but you know Avatar 2 is coming in think it's out yet, but Avatar 2 is coming in hot.

It's out. Okay, so it's out. I am really excited about that. Yeah, we're going to go see it. I haven't been to the theater since pre-COVID, and I think that this is going to be what gets me back to the movie theater. Yeah, we were talking about it yesterday. We're going to go and watch that.

And I heard it's really good. Way of the Water. Sarah and I were talking about it. We need to watch the first one again before we go. So we're just like, we're ready for it. I got another Christmas suggestion. Do you remember me talking about Murderville to you? Yes.

How does this segue into a Christmas thing? Because Murderville did a Christmas episode. If you don't remember, it's Will Arnett, who is in like Arrested Development. He plays Detective Terry Seattle. Every episode, they bring a famous person in to be his new partner. Now, it's completely scripted for everyone on the show, except for the famous person that they bring in. And they're completely just improvising and doing the show without any lines. And then they have to kind of like figure out who the murderer is at the end of it.

For this Christmas special, it's who killed Santa, a murderville murder mystery with Jason Bateman and Maya Rudolph. So they both don't know what's going on. They both come in to be the partners. Sean Hayes plays a partner as well. Pete Davidson's in it marshall lynch is in it like it's so fucking funny wow okay jason bateman is just he just is like marty

he just is jason bateman and my rudolph like kick is constantly breaking the entire time like she can't keep a straight face it It's so good. Incredible. Anyways, go watch that. Love that. Did you ever finish Peripheral? No. What? I know.

I got to get back on that. How are you sleeping on that? A wife here DM'd me. Her name is Kelsey. And she was upset that we hadn't talked about the finale. And I remember thinking to myself, I think that's because Wells hasn't seen it. Yeah. Okay. You need to watch that so that we can talk about it the finale. And I remember thinking to myself, I think that's because Wells hasn't seen it. Yeah, okay. You need to watch that so that we can talk about it. Yeah, I'll watch it and then next week

we'll do it. Yeah. I'm gonna get on that. I'm gonna get right on that one, coach. Did you watch the World Cup final? Finale? No. What? Soccer's just the one sport I just like don't know about. Wow. I know. It's tough for me.

That one in baseball. They're a little tough. Yeah. It was the greatest soccer football game in the history of sport. That's what I've heard. Yep. And I just don't know what else to say. I was saying before we called you to the Y of Tears.

Like if that was your first game ever in soccer, like watching one, you should never watch another one again. Because it's never going to be as good as that. Yeah. And I will say this. I'm a Portuguese man, okay? So obviously I love Cristiano Ronaldo. And for a long time I've said that he was the greatest soccer player of all time. Sorry, Pele.

Sorry, Maradona. Sorry, Messi. But Cristiano Ronaldo. Portuguese. This hurts me to say, but I think we now can say that Messi is the greatest soccer player of all time.

Wow. Because they're pretty, like their stats are pretty even, but now Messi has a World Cup. And Cristiano Ronaldo does not have one of those. And he's not going to because I don't think he's gonna, he's too old now. Yeah, he's getting up there. So that was tough.

It was a tough thing for me to stomach. But, you know, we have the second best soccer player of all time, arguably. And he's much more attractive, which I think is more important, really, in the long run. Very important. Yeah. I mean, Messi's short, you know. But he's damn good, and that was really good.

I watched the entire third season of Too Hot to Handle yesterday. Oh, did you like it? I did. I love that show. Yeah. I do. That one, like of all the trashy, you know, dating shows, that one just really gets me. Did you, I know you watched a couple episodes, but did you not finish it?

No. Well, I watched a couple episodes, so I got to catch up. Here's my thing about this show. Tell me. My one complaint. All right. We're three seasons in and I get it. You guys have figured out how to do a TV show

without spending a whole lot of money, right? It's like so cheap to do. Can we at least just get some better microphones for season four? Like, do they need to be walking around with like the thick black elastic strap around their waist and all the outfits with the big fuzzy mic hanging between the girl's boobs for the whole season? Like, i just feel like there's a better way to do that i feel

like on paradise like i don't notice the mics as much it's like a little choker necklace the boys wear it's not as distracting you know for season one maybe even two like i get it we're cheap you know we just gotta work with what we got but like you're three seasons in you know the show's good you know it's getting picked up like let's let's splurge a little on the mic thing. I agree. I hate the waistband thing. And there's just so many wires. They wear this huge necklace with the puffy mic

and then all the wires on the waistband. It's just too much. I agree. Let's do better, guys. Yeah. Even when they're doing their interviews in studio, what do you guys call them, OTFs? ITMs. Even then, they're wearing the crazy necklace. I'm like, guys call them? OTFs? ITMs.

Even then, they're wearing the crazy necklace. I'm like, can't we get a boom mic for the studio? Really? On Bachelor, they have a boom mic and you're miked. You have two. I had the little fancy clip-on mic when I did my Bravo show. You didn't have a pack? Yeah, the little clip-on, the teeny tiny one you can't see,

it clips on and then the wires go through my clothes to the pack. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what I wear on the show tiny one you can't see it clips on and then it goes the wires go through my clothes to the pack yeah yeah that's what i that's what i wear on the show as well i will say this season i felt like was the most tame as far as like normally all these people come in you know wanting to just fuck everybody and they hop around a whole lot and like they're hard to pin down and whatever there was really only one guy that kind of did that this season. Everyone else kind of locked in on one person after the second episode,

which was fine. I actually kind of liked that more because then I was more invested in their relationships and the whole ins and outs of it. But I just thought it was quite tame for how that show is typically supposed to go. Do better, guys. They do such a great job.

Yeah. Did anyone get any money at the end, or was there no money? Yes, they gave the money to, I guess I'm not ruining anything, but they gave it to a couple this time. Okay. They gave it to eight couples, which is different. And it's just funny to me i and this is another reason why i like the show so much better at the at the very end you know when couples like decide to be

boyfriend girlfriend it's it's so funny to me how excited they are like their excitement level about like calling someone their boyfriend is like equivalent to how excited girls are on paradise when they get engaged like it's that exciting to settle down and like put a label on something to these people because they're so against that you know and i'm like you know what this is great we should be this excited when we find somebody we want to put a label on like that's great the expectation of engagement is insane yeah maybe we need to like bring it back a little bit on paradise like i think so yeah the stakes are too high if you're leaving together as boyfriend and girlfriend you are winning you know yeah but you might get a free

ring out of the deal i mean that is nice i guess and let me tell you someone who's bought one of them they also also if you are the couple that wins the money that's your ring and then some depending on the ring. That's true. Yeah. I mean, I saw that one couple, they fucked in the shower. I mean, that must have been a lot of money. It was. I love them so much, though. They're my favorite couple of the whole season. Yeah. Do you have anything else? Oh, I have one more. What do you got? Called Senior Year. Rebel Wilson. So my sister texted me last night and said – and I've never heard her be so excited about watching a television show.

Like I've begged her to watch White Lotus, begged her to watch anything and everything. And she's always like, I don't like watching stuff. Like I'm just such a tough critic, whatever. And she was like, this is the best thing I've ever seen. You will laugh out loud the whole movie. She goes, you've got to watch it. And I was like, all right, I'm going to watch this for you. This is not something I would normally click on and want to watch,

but I'm going to do it. Man, was she right. Really? It's so bad it's good. It's kind of like a Hallmark movie in that way, where like it's so bad, it's so good. They lean into how bad it is so much. And Reno Rebel Wilson, like she's so great at playing that role

it is so fucking good if you are anybody that is like 30 to 40 i would say you'll probably really appreciate this movie it takes you right back to high school all the references the fashion choices the music like it is everything it's absolutely hilarious but, don't get me wrong. It's a terrible movie, but it's so good. A cheerleading stunt gone wrong landed her in a 20-year coma. Now she's 37, newly awake and ready to live out her high school dream of becoming prom queen. Senior year with Rebel Wilson on Netflix. Okay, I believe you. I just, I don't love Rebel Wilson's comedy.

I don't know why, but it just doesn't. I can see that. And if you don't, you might not love this because she does kind of play the same character. Yeah. For sure. In that sense of comedy. But I don't know.

It's just so nostalgic. And it's just so, it's so hilarious to kind of see them lay out. So much of it is so true. Like, so when she's in high school, you know, pre-accident, right? It's like she's on the cheer squad. She's cheer captain there. There's a run for prom king and queen.

And like, you know, high school is all about being popular. And there's bullies and there's this and there's that. And then you fast forward to when she wakes up and it's all different. And the principal has like done away with prom king and queen because they've tried to do away with popularity contests. And the cheer squad like isn't even a cheer squad anymore. It's like tool to like talk about like inclusivity and just like crazy stuff

where it's just like, it's like so overly politically correct and everything that you're like, man, they really did take a lot of the fun out of high school. And like I said, it's all extremes, right? You're seeing like one extreme and another, but it is hilarious. And Justin Hartley is in it. He plays her high school boyfriend, the adult version, and he's hilarious. Like sometimes I don't really love him. Like he's

hit or miss for me. I do like him in This Is Us, but like I, in other things I've seen him in, I'm not crazy about it, but he does a really good job with this and he's very funny. Okay. I might watch it. Sarah is going to make me watch it. Let's be honest. Sarah will probably like it. Yeah.

Unless she like really doesn't love Rebel Wilson. No, she does. I think she would like it. All right. Let's listen to some voicemails, yeah? Let's do it. What's up, Weldon Brandy? My name is Mallory.

What up? I'm a longtime listener, huge fan. I'm calling in with a movie recommendation and then a question for you guys. Okay. The movie is called 13 Lives. It's on Amazon Prime. Ron Howard directed it, and it came out this summer. Let's be honest.

Anything Ron Howard makes is amazing. I mean, Cinderella Man, fantastic movie. Also one of my favorite things. Anyway, 13 Lives is a true story. Can't remember if you guys have talked about this or not, but it's based on the boy soccer team in Thailand that got stuck in a cave

back in 2018. And it just goes over their rescue attempts. I'm not going to give you anything away, but it is a fantastic watch. It's one of those where you turn it on and you just can't blink through the whole thing. It's so good.

So definitely recommend checking that out. My question for you guys, I feel like there are so many streaming services now with Netflix and Hulu and HBO Max and everything. If you had to pick three or four to actually subscribe to, which ones would you get and which ones would you let go of? Thanks, guys. I mean, you got to do Netflix.

Got to do Netflix. Got to do HBO. Here's the other thing. Amazon Prime. Yeah. You can get HBO, Showtime, Paramount, all those things through Amazon Prime. Okay. So you could play your cards right and get rid of all those, keep Amazon Prime, and then get the subscriptions through Amazon Prime, and then it's like five and one. Okay.

Netflix, HBO, and yeah, Prime. But you can get HBO through Prime. So do you want to swap that one? Okay. So then Netflix, Prime, Hulu? I would be torn between Hulu and Apple Plus because Apple Plus doesn't come out with a lot of shows, but when they do, they're usually very good.

Yeah. I don't know. That's tough. That's a toughie. That's a toughie. By the way, 13 Lives is on Prime. I think I've seen the preview for that. It does look good.

That sounds great. A rescue mission is assembled in Thailand where a group of young boys and their soccer coach are trapped in a system of underground caves that are flooding. 13 Lives. The cast is crazy, dude. Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell, Joel Egerton. All right. Those are people I've heard of. Hey, Wells and Brandy.

This is Jennifer from Yonkers. I'm a teacher, so I'm leaving this voicemail really quickly before my students come in for my sixth-grade class. I cannot believe y'all have never talked about the sex lives of college girls on HBO Max written by the amazing Mindy Kaling. Second season's back. There's four episodes out so far. It is phenomenal. Like, Wells, I think you would appreciate it for the comedy. Brandy, I think you would appreciate it because it really kind of like touches in on everything that like women have gone through in their lives.

Like during that weird, like, you know, early twenties, mid twenties kind of thing. Plus there's really hot guys and the girls are just beautiful and funny and amazing. And you guys have to watch it. You have to let us know what you think. Love you guys. Hope all is well. Hasta luego.

Hasta luego. Ciao. I have heard great things about that show. Yeah. Four 18 year old freshmen roommates at Essex College in Vermont. A bundle of contradictions and hormones. These sexually active college girls are equal parts lovable and infuriating. The sex lives of college girls.

All right, that sounds pretty good. It sounds a little bit like girls, but before the girls moved to New York. We're into it. And also, love a teacher. Big fan of a teacher. I assume you teach Spanish. Yeah, Osloigo. Hi, Love and Brandy. My name's Melina. I'm from North Dakota. I've been listening to you guys since the very beginning. I'm obsessed with this podcast, and it's the only reason I enjoy waking up on Wednesdays. You should tell your friends because we could use some more listeners.

So my favorite things right now are related to NewsX. First, I went to the Harry Styles concert and it was so good. He really knows how to work the crowd. He puts on a great show and quite frankly, I'm starting to work the crowd. He puts on a great show, and quite frankly,

I'm starting to get the hype. Another artist that I recently got to see was Young Nikki herself. It was an amazing concert. I already knew she had a good voice, but my goodness, hearing her in person, that girl can sing. I am obsessed. I've been in a Noah Cyrus loop ever since, and her music is just amazing. And then right now my favorite song is Thank God by Kane and Caitlin Brown. It's just so catchy. It's cute. It's about love, and who doesn't love love? So I've been listening to that song a lot too. My least favorite thing right now is that I don't have enough Wells content.

My least favorite thing right now is that I don't have enough Wells content. Happy seeing you, Wells, on TV, Bachelor in Paradise and Best in Doe, but I need more. Wow. I need you every day. I agree. Some kind of content, whether it's a comedy special, anything. I need more Wells. Yeah. You have me in tears any time you open your mouth, and it's amazing.

So that's all my favorite things. I love you guys so much i love this podcast and i look forward to listening to you guys every week okay bye bye well she was sweet well she's like the president of the wells adams fan club yeah that's actually my mom calling in hi welcome brandy my name is taja i'm calling from Michigan, and I'm just super excited to share some of my fave things. Okay. This documentary that I want to recommend is called Orgasm, Inc. It's the story of one taste.

You can also find this on Netflix. And when I say this shit is wild, it is wild. It's about this woman, and she starts a company out of San Francisco. And it's a company that's focused on, like, female orgasm and just teaching classes so people have better sex. And, like, who wouldn't want that, right? Well, the CEO, her name is Nicole Badone. She's out there doing TED Talks. She's getting the attention of people like Gwyneth Paltrow.

And so all these people are coming to learn. The company is making millions. And then you learn that it's a motherfucking cult it is so good and all the shit goes down in like 2017 so a lot of the footage is recent and the interviews are current day so like just really really good highly recommend and then the last thing i want to say this goes to brandy um usually i totally disagree with brandi's taste on TV. I mean, Succession is, like, amazing. But this time I have to give all the dings to Brandi because of the show she suggested called Shantaram on Apple TV. It is so good.

Thank you. Besides the fact that Charlie Hunnam is just so hot. So hot. And I was just watching it for the eye candy. The show has, has like drama and suspense and i'm just really hooked so thank you brandy for the awesome suggestion um anyway love your show love you guys just wanted to say that like during covid and the last couple of years the world has just felt kind of meh but you guys have like constantly been this positive force and you've

had this positive show it brings me joy every single week keep doing it and make sure that you get that live tour going we would totally come we totally buy tickets i love y'all you rock okay bye all right okay see that show's fucking great apple you got biggest mistake you guys made was canceling that show. I want to watch Orgasm Inc. I love a cult. I love a cult. You really do. I like a cult too. I just wonder, like, would I be susceptible to a cult? I don't know if I would be. No, I don't think so. I think I'd be like, these people are fucking

crazy. But I do think, like... You would, like, take part in it just for the bit. For the bit. For sure. I'd have been like, oh, I gotta stick around. We gotta see. We gotta see what's, like the bit, for sure. I'd have been like, oh, I got to stick around. We got to see. We got to see what's like, we got to do it. Okay, so do you believe in the Illuminati? No, but there was a time where I did.

And it was like when I was wrapped up into the whole, it was when I first discovered the Denver Airport conspiracy. And somehow the Illuminati was wrapped up in with that as and as uh so was the new world order i think that there probably are clubs and freemasons i know exist and from what i understand about freemasons is really is a bunch of people kind of getting together and like talking about meditation raising your vibration to be um you know one of those like kind of like whatever, trying to be a better person type of a thing. I wonder if that's what the Illuminati is too.

Okay, so the reason why I say this is I would like to be in the Illuminati. How do I get into this? They're not letting you in. I know, but also how does it happen? How do you get invited? It's a great question. If anyone would be in the Illuminati, it would be your sister like i

feel like it's all like like the really really really famous people beyonce i assume obama this is obviously all conspiracy and i have no facts but that's what i when i think of the illuminati that's who i thinks in it you know yeah is your sister in the loom not would she would she tell you she was she wouldn't tell me i don't think yeah if she is in it okay you don't have to do this on the podcast but maybe ask her one time and if she is if she can get me in because i would love to check what's going on inside you know just for the bit i don't really need to be enlightened or whatnot right like have my career taken to the stratosphere i'll find out if i can yeah or maybe your dad like your dad that tracks would be up

there too who else who else is like so like like the kardashians they've got to be in the illuminati right if it's real they've got to be in it i don't know if it's real or if it's is it's real, they've got to be in it. I don't know if it's real. Or if it is, it's like a book club. It's like so much fucking dorkier than what everyone thinks it is. That's probable. That's maybe what it is. And probably except insider trading so they can stay rich. I got to get in there. If anybody has any insight on this, call us. I would.

And also, like, if you know anyone that can get me in, I would love to do it. Is that a bad thing to say? Like, I don't. When you hear about the Illuminati, are they bad or are they good? Are they bad? I think so. They're bad. Oh, maybe I don't want to be in it.

I thought that. But I don't know. Yeah. Should we Google the Illuminati? Yeah. Okay. They have a Wikipedia page. The Illuminati is a name given to several groups, both real and fictitious.

Historically, the name refers to Brevarian Illuminati, an Enlightenment-era secret society founded May 1, 1776 in Brevaria, today part of Germany. The society's goals were to oppose superstition, religious interference over public life, and abuses of state power. The order of the day, they wrote in their general statutes, is to put an end to the machinations of purveyors of injustice, to control them without dominating them. The Illuminati, along with Freemasonry and other secret societies, were outlawed through edict by Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria. But so it sounds like they were like a society to like make the world better.

Maybe that's changed. Anyways, if anyone has any information on this, I would love to come to one of your meetings. Just to check it out. Maybe it's for me. Maybe it's not. I don't know. I don't know. I'm all about stopping the injustice over abuses of power.

Yeah. If anyone knows anything about me, it's that I am that. I'm a social warrior. Social justice warrior. And I want to hang out with Queen Bee. Beyonce. Yeah. All right.

You have any musics? Luke Grimes put out a song. Uh-huh. Do you know who that is? I do. From Yellowstone? I hadimes put out a song. Uh-huh. Do you know who that is? I do. From Yellowstone. I had really high hopes for this. Really high hopes. And I hate to say that I was very disappointed by it. Is this No Horse to Ride? Yeah. And I wanted to like it because I love him, Obvi. And listen, his voice is decent.

Like his voice isn't bad. I think like he could do something, but I just don't hate that. I feel like you need to listen to the whole song. Okay, maybe I will. I mean, here's the thing. Actors do this a lot, and they shouldn't. Like, have you ever listened to, like, Johnny Depp's music or Cordy Feldman's music, you know?

Yes, I have. No. Well, don't. It's not the greatest. But you know what? Good for you. You know, my buddy Steve Lee and my other buddy Daniel Ellsworth, who are musicians, they want to start a band where I'm the singer. Oh, God. Just auto-tune the fuck out of it and have it be like this total joke. And I'm kind of into it.

Let me tell you my idea about it. Every song is going to be written by AI. All chat GDP songs. You like that? There's probably a market for that. Yeah. Honestly. If you like hip hop,

Metro Boomin put out an album that is phenomenal. It's called Heroes and Villains. It's very good. A lot of cool features. Let me look through here. John Legend, Future, Travis Scott, 21 Savage, Young Thug.

I mean, features on features on features. So if you like hip-hop, highly recommend. The whole album's really good to listen to. This is The Weeknd and 21 Savage. This is Creepin'. I gotta be honest with you. I like Luke Grimes better. That was probably the least hip hop song on the album, but yeah, that's fine.

Well, that was without the most listens. That's because it's The Weeknd, but he's not really hip-hop. I'm just playing. But anyway, also, what's with everybody sampling all these 90s songs? It's just where we are, man. Drake's doing it, The Weeknd's doing it, Post Malone did it man drake's doing it the weekend's doing it post malone did it like everyone's doing it i saw that uh phosphorescent have a new song out i love them this is called trying to get to heaven aren't we all man aren't we all Thank you. Before they close the door People on the platform

Waiting on the trains I can hear their hearts That's Phosphorescent trying to get to heaven. I like them. Nice. Yeah. I also saw that the Milk Carton Kids have some new music out, and I like them. Nice. Yeah. Oh, I also saw that the Milk Carton Kids have some new music

out, and I love them. So, here's When You're Gone. I wish, I wish I could forget And then in that heart I'll get swept. I asked you for a favor.

You ain't let me down yet. You ain't let me down yet. The songs you love to sing, they are still ringing in my ears. The love you gave to me, I am still holding on to Bill Carden, kids. When you're gone. You got anything else? No, that's all I got.

All right. Well, I'm scared to say it, but Merry Christmas. Happy Holidays. Happy Holidays. Both, you know? Yeah. Happy Hanukkah.

Happy Kwanzaa. And whatever else we don't know? Yeah. Happy Hanukkah, happy Kwanzaa, and whatever else we don't know. Yeah. And happy New Year. Will we have an episode before New Year? I think we've got one more. Okay. Good to know.

Well, anyways, I wish all the YFTers out there to have an amazing holiday. I hope you get everything you've ever wanted in your entire life. I hope you get to have sex with every person that you've always wanted to have sex with. I hope that you get every gift that you've ever wanted. I hope all the money comes into your bank account. And, you know, I hope you get into the Illuminati too.

I hope we all can get into it. Yeah. I feel like I'm going to be in trouble for saying that I want to be in the Illuminati. I don't want to be in it, so I'll let you do that. You don't? I don't think so. I'll tell you all about it. Okay, great. When I get in. Sounds good. Okay. Alright, see you guys. Love y'all. Bye.

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