Your Favorite Thing with Wells & Brandi - Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda....

Episode Date: May 25, 2022

What temperature do you like while sleeping? And would you sleep on a mattress with a fan in it? Your hosts explore this and more, then Wells opens up about an unfortunate pee situation. They then get into the many Bachelor Nation updates, and Wells tells us all about his New York trip, including a very special birthday serenade, some behind the scenes of SNL, and his dislike for the relentless pace of the big city. They discuss whether or not kids these days get yearbooks or if that is somehow now digital. Wells has lots to say about treasure hunting movies, and Brandi shares her plans for her bday! Happy bday Brand-eye! We love you!  Don’t forget to rate, review, and follow Your Favorite Podcast! Plus, keep up with us between episodes on our Instagram page, @yftpodcast.   Thanks to our awesome sponsors for making this episode possible! Check out these deals just for you, YFTers:  Framebridge — Go to Framebridge.com and use promo code FAVORITETHING to save an additional 15% off your first order  Dooney & Bourke — Go to Dooney.com/YFT and use the code YFT before April 30, 2022 for 20% off your first order  Storyworth — Go to StoryWorth.com/yft to save $10 on your first purchase  Betterhelp — Go to betterhelp.com/favoritething for 10% off your first month  ShipStation — Go to ShipStation.com, click on the microphone at the top of the page, and type in YFT for a FREE 60-day trial 

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Check. Ding dong doom. Hi. What's up? Nothing. What's up with you? Oh, you know, just hanging out. Do you ever have those nights where you, like, sweat a lot?

No. You don't have that? No. I keep my house at a cool 66 degrees. Dude, don't get me started right now. Oh, my God. I think Sarah's part lizard because we have a nest. Not an ad. Not an ad.

Should be. I have one also. Yeah. It really should be an ad. I have it scheduled so around 930, we get the temp down to around 70 degrees for my sleeping. temp down to around 70 degrees for my sleeping because scientists have proven that your brain needs to cool two degrees to be able to fall asleep, and that's why it's really hard to fall asleep when it's really warm out.

My lizard fiancé over here needs it at a balmy 85 to be able to sleep. Oh, my God. That has to be an exaggeration. That is an exaggeration, but she'll get upstairs and be like. Oh, my God. That has to be an exaggeration. That is an exaggeration. But, like, she'll get upstairs and be like, oh, my God, it's freezing. I'm like, it's 70 degrees. This is, like, kind of baseline for everyone. It is baseline, yeah.

And so I'm over here sweating my nutsack off every single night. And she's just sleeping, like, snug as a bug in a rug. But you know what? Something's going to give here. All right. And you know, it's really sad because I've started thinking about it. We might be one of those families that like I go sleep in a different room. I think that's fine.

I kind of do too. You know, like there's not a lot of things from like the 40s that I think are good for any marriage. But that one might be one of them you know yeah I'll ask my mom if I need to cut this but my parents slept in separate rooms like basically my whole life really I just like to sleep cold but Miley is the same as Sarah anytime I go to Miley's house even if it's the dead of summer the heat is on yeah Miley's house, even if it's the dead of summer, the heat is on. Yeah. But Miley likes her house at literally 78 degrees. I just don't understand. Like, I don't want to be sweaty.

No. I want to be, I want to be so cold that I have to like curl up into the comforters. You know? Yeah, same. Oh, God. So anyways, yeah. Well, they do make mattress pads that cool down the bed. You know this, right? You know, it's funny. When I was a kid, I thought I was an inventor. And I had this idea for a bed that had a big fan in the mattress and then had – and I drew out like schematics and what have you.

schematics and what and what have you and and then the the fan had hoses that went up into different parts of the mattress and blew cold air into the mattress this was my big idea and i remember telling people about it and i think i told my parents and they were like that's never gonna work like you know people people are gonna be too cold or whatever and now i see that that's a thing like that's a real thing oh yeah, yeah. Fuck, I could have been a billionaire. Coulda, shoulda, woulda. Yeah. That should be the name of this podcast. Coulda, shoulda, woulda.

How's everything going with you? It's trucking along, you know? Yeah. How was Florida? Oh, just amazing. Yeah. I love it down there. I hate to even talk about it because I don't want more people to start going there because

it's so crowded already. Yeah. But the Panhandle, it definitely is like the clearest water I've seen in the United States. I mean, it's like Bahamas status, clear water. Yeah. Did you go to the Floribama? No, I went to 38. Yeah. Well, the Floribama is not too far from there no it's not no it's not and i used to go there in college a lot and i actually got kicked out of there once oh that doesn't shock me at all well it's surprising like that of all like the degenerates and just like grommets that live down there that i an upstanding citizen of the law and a well-mannered boy from Carmel, California, would get kicked out of the floor of Bama. But I did.

But what happened was that my buddies got into a fight and then I was just like there and then I got thrown out too. But yeah. I think there's a show on MTV called like The Floor of Bama or something like that. Well, if there's not, there should be. I bet it's fascinating. Yeah. I have an amazing story about The Floribama. Oh my God. Okay. So I won't name

names, but so if you've ever been to the Floribama, there's, it's like two levels. On the second level, you can like look down upon the dance floor. And we had a buddy in college who I think everyone was like super blacked out there. So we're there, we're partying spring break. I'm up on the second level, looking down on my buddy who has found some, cougar is not the right word because, you know, cougars are hot. This was just an older lady. I don't know how many teeth she had, if I'm being perfectly honest with you. Sounds right.

There might have been a meth addiction going on. Not really sure what was happening, but he was grinding on this girl. Listen, on this woman, on this seasoned lady. And he was grinding on her and making out with her. And I remember thinking like, oh, it's got to taste like Paul Mall and just like regret. This is terrible. So they're grinding on each other and they're kind of grinding at each other. And then finally she kind of turns around, you know, to put the old caboose up into the old crotchal region for him. And then turns around. I'm with my buddies and we're watching it.

And we've noticed that she has peed her pants. And he had been grinding on a pee-pee pant. And it was just the great. Not only was this woman 30 years older than him, not only did she have... She must have had some sort of a major arrest record,

but he had been grinding on her and then she had peed her pants and because they were front face grinding, oh, you know my boy had a wet thigh. And it was just so great. So that's why you should go to the Floribama. Just for that. That's why you should absolutely never go there.

30A is very nice. Go there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a difference between Gulf Shores and 30A, I feel like. Oh, yeah. Major difference. I've forgotten about that story. How do you forget that?

Well, you know, you try to block those ones out. Too good. Oh, God. All right. Well, with that, do you want to start the show? Yeah. Is it you or me? I have no idea.

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Do it. My brain, it's on the struggle bus these days. Why? I think it's because I'm getting old. Yeah, well. I think I'm starting to lose, I don't know, some brain cells maybe or something. Yeah. You know, you need to get on. You need to get on the mushrooms.

I've been hearing this. Yeah. I get them from Amazon. There's one called Genius Mushrooms and they're little capsules. We've talked about this before. But I do feel like that brings some clarity to my life really yeah and they're not like magic mushrooms it's like lion's mane and ones that are totally legal and don't do anything weird to you but i think it does i think it's helpful interesting or if not do it it's a placebo

and that's just as good as most things it's true you know yeah big news in bachelor world by the way want to say big congratulations and a long time coming to becca tilly and and hayley it's been a tough thing because uh you know like we've known this for a long time and i'm not gonna keep my secrets you know so i just i'm really happy for them okay yeah the other news is uh well they announced i'm going back to paradise yeah that's where i thought you're going i thought there is kind of a lot of like news in batch nation though right now you've got you got becca's announcement which we love we do love that favorite thing going on jojo and jordan finally got. That's all over Instagram. I know.

And we were supposed to go to the wedding and we had to bail out because Sarah and I had to go to upfronts. Right. Yeah. So that happened. And then they finally dropped the trailer for the new Bachelorette season, announced the date for it, all that. And then on top of that, yes, we got the Bachelor in Paradise news that you will be back as a bartender.

Yeah. Thank God. Thank God. No one could do that job. I don't want to say too much about it other than I'm really happy to go back. And I did see like there's a lot of Batch Nation people saying things like, you know, well, I should be the host and all that kind of stuff. And to that, I say that's very nice of you guys to say that kind of stuff.

And maybe one day I'll talk about my journey in this whole thing. But today is not that day. I'm just excited to get back out there and make some drinks and watch that dumpster fire burn. And get a nice tan. It's not a bad gig. Dude, I got to get a base tan going on though. I was thinking about that today.

It's like I'm not where I need to be right now. Yeah, you're looking a little pacey for sure. I am for sure. Like if I'm more tan than you, something's wrong. Yeah, it's New York did it to me, man. New York did it. How was New York, by the way? Dude, we got to go through it. We had such an amazing time, but it was just too much. New York is it. How was New York, by the way? Dude, we got to go through it.

We had such an amazing time, but it was just too much. New York is just too much, okay? It's a lot. Could you imagine living there? I could not. Couldn't imagine living there. It's bing, bang, boom all the time. It's like, do you guys ever fucking chill out?

No, you don't. We got to go here. We got to go there. We got to jump on the train. We got to go to this. Jump in the car. Don't ever sleep. Don't ever sleep.

We went out there for upfronts. And easiest way that I can explain what upfronts is, is it is a cattle call for every network to bring in all of their talent for their upcoming schedule of television shows to basically parade them in front of potential advertisers to buy commercial space on said networks for specific shows. That's a great explanation. Yeah, so Sarah was there for the NBC upfronts because NBCUniversal owns Peacock, which is where Bumper in Berlin,

her new show that she just did with Adam Devine from the Pitch Perfect series, which is now going into this limited series run, is going to be airing. so we had to go to that and then of course my new show on Hulu Best in Doe is Hulu's part of ABC and of course I'm also part of ABC with Bachelor in Paradise so I was kind of doing double duty for ABC so Sarah and I had to go do up fronts for both networks which is just a lot. Okay. And I'm not complaining, but it's just a lot of going to parties and schmoozing a lot. You know?

Yeah. We jump on a plane. We land in New York City on Saturday at like 3.30. We have to be at 30 Rock a couple hours later for SNL. And can I just say, SNL is so fucking fun to go to. It's the best thing I've ever been to ever. And here's the thing that I think that I took away from SNL from going there. Everyone's always heard like it's much smaller in person than you think it is,

which is totally true. Every set that's in 30 Rock is fucking tiny because it's in a skyscraper. You know, it's not like a huge studio lot here in Studio City. The thing that I took away from SNL, what's the most amazing thing is not the acting, albeit very good. It's not the comedy, albeit fantastic. It's not the writing, albeit amazing. fantastic. It's not the writing, albeit amazing. It's the logistics of the stage crew that's able to move around those sets in commercial break. It's fucking insane how they're able to do that.

Yeah, it really is. They're building little worlds, new scenes in a one minute commercial break. It's bonkers. and the other thing is so we went it was selena was the host and post malone was the musical guest by the way i'll be the first to admit like i'm not a huge post malone fan i'm not a fan of his music like that's just not kind of the thing that i'm generally drawn to i think that post malone might be the fucking nicest guy i've ever been around in Hollywood. Yeah, he's super nice.

The most wonderful person. So, you know, it's a lot of like, once you're done with your bit, like, get the fuck out of here. We got to set up. Post Malone brought in this choir, right? Which I'm sure he's like not really super tight with anyone in the choir. He sings his song and then, you know know it finishes and it goes to commercial and he proceeds to hug every person from the choir and the stage director is going hey you can fucking hug off stage go go go and post malone's like fuck you man i'm hugging out here like you know this is their opportunity to be on stage like this is you know, you know, fuck you. So I saw that and I was like, wow, that guy is so awesome. That's cool. The other thing is there's a woman, I don't know her

name. I want to get it though. There's a woman who is in charge of whoever is hosting to go and change for the next bit, next sketch or whatever. And she runs in there like fucking usain bolt she grabs she grabs selena and they are off to the races stripping down while they're like being pulled off there's cameras on these huge like cranes and booms and there's wires everywhere and they are dipping and diving and ducking and weaving through all this shit and i'm like someone's get clotheslined and just get knocked the fuck out and not be able to finish you know but no this woman knows all of like the footfalls and and trap doors and shit and it was just amazing to sit there and just watch like how watch the show they do it like I know and like politics aside comedy aside you have to appreciate how amazing there is to be able to do that show every week with really no hiccups in that time period.

So anyways, it was bonkers. And then afterwards we went to the after party and that was kind of crazy. So they're so fun. If I'm being honest, like Lorne Michaels was just like hanging out there and Selena and Cara Delevingne. Cara Delevingne. Cara Delevingne. And I mean, obviously the entire cast was there and all the writers. Post Malone was just in there. We were inside. He was just ripping darts. And I was like, God, that's, you shouldn't smoke cigarettes. But like, that's, if you get to the level

where you're just like, I can smoke anywhere I want to. These are the rules now. Good for you, man. Get it. So anyways. I mean, I feel like it's a pretty baseline thing to say that most of the time celebrities and artists and stuff, you don't want to go to the after parties of things. Going to parties is kind of like a chore more than something you actually want to go do but not the snl after party like it's like such an honor to be there just in general and it is so just genuinely fun and awesome that people want to go it's like the only after party

i've ever been to where like everybody actually shows up and stays and wants to be there you know what i mean oh yeah sarah was excited to talk to Keenan and all the cast. But I ended up meeting a bunch of writers. And it was funny, like, as the night went on. So I don't know if I've ever even told you this, but like my superlative in high school was like most likely to be a writer on SNL. It was like something I really wanted to do. There was a bunch of writers that came up to me and they were like, fuck, dude, tell me about like, you know, I'm sure it's like I've been thinking about doing, you know, a Bachelor bit or a Bachelor in Paradise that came up to me and they were like fuck dude tell me about like you know i'm sure it's like i've been thinking about doing you know a bachelor bit or a bachelor in paradise but like tell me about like everything but then of course i'm like tell me about your

job because this is that you do what i always wanted to do anyways it was just a lot of fun we see the sun come up see the sun come up are you kidding me who am I I mean of course we were on LA time but like we we got back to the hotel and I was like oh my god it's it's morning time this is bonker town so then after that my second favorite thing now probably my first because SNL was great but the thing that I really loved we went to go see Jesse Tyler Ferguson's new Broadway show called Take Me Out it's about a baseball team I I think kind of loosely based on the Yankees during the 2002 season. Jesse Williams, who's in a bunch of things. He's a very attractive man. You know who I'm talking about? That sounds familiar. He's from Grey's Anatomy. You should

know this. Oh, Dr. Avery, Dr. Jackson Avery. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I know you're talking about. So yeah, so Jesse Williams is kind of like the lead. Even on SNL, they made fun of it. It's the show where you just see a lot of dicks. Like just a lot of Wang Chung. Just flip-flopping around. Wow, okay. Just a lot of Wang.

It's to prove a point because it's this baseball team that's dealing with their main character, played by Jesse Williams, who is the best player in the league coming out as gay and how that affects everyone in the team. And obviously the shower is an issue for a lot of these men, especially the Hispanic men on the team who are very religious. And so it's like that dichotomy and the southerners who are like good old boys who

weirded out by this and if you can kind of separate yourself from like all the dongs you see which by the way you know what if i was jesse williams i'd be showing that hog off too dude good for you you know like dear lord i don't know but go see it... Go see it. Well, it's going to end soon, unfortunately, but dear Lord, good for him, man. Anyways, the play is so freaking good, especially as someone who was on organized sports in college and understands the team dynamic. And the narrator of this play is character Kippy, and he's someone I really related to. And I just cried a lot in the end of it. It's a really related to. And I just like cried a lot in the end of it. It's a really sad

story. You're never really sure who the good guy is and who the bad guy is. And it's just really well done. And Jesse Tyler Ferguson is so funny in it. He's great. I hope he wins a Tony. Anyways, if you are in New York and you have a chance to go see Take Me Out, it's going to be ending, I believe, in mid-June. So go see it. It's phenomenal. And this is weird to say. Okay, so Sarah's dad is in Cursed Child, the Harry Potter thing.

And that's kind of been my favorite one on Broadway. I think this one might be my new favorite one just because it was something that really resonated with me as someone who played organized sports as an adult. I think a lot of guys might be shying away from it because it's known as seeing a lot of dongs. But if you were an athlete or something, it really, really resonates. Phenomenal play.

All right. And then, you know, we schmoozed everyone at NBC and ABC. And that was that. There's not really much to talk about other than my birthday fell on the day that we were doing the NBC up fronts. It was kind of like late at night. And I was like, no one has sung me happy birthday today. Like, what the fuck is happening? Like, this is a weird thing.

You know, you want people to sing happy birthday, right? No, I do not want anyone to sing happy birthday to me ever. Okay. Well, I don't know if I was upset other than I just had mentioned like no one has sung me happy birthday. Oh, God. So for whatever reason, we are now adopted by the Lopez family. George Lopez, Ann Lopez, Mayan Lopez. We hung out with them like basically the entire time for the NBC Upfronts.

Mrs. Lopez was the one who came out and sang happy birthday to me. Oh, yeah. out and sang happy birthday to you. So anyways, that was amazing. That was really great. I had a really good time with that. Saw a lot of old friends, made some new ones, drank too much alcohol. And so that was kind of New York.

And then we had a nice day in Central Park one day. Saw some buddies who are not in the industry. That was fun. We flew back, got in at one o'clock. The next morning, we had to drive like an hour and a half for our engagement shoot. Ooh. And I can't wait for you guys to see these pictures, guys.

That's exciting. We have a prop. Wait until you see the prop, Brandy. Oh, I can't wait for you guys to see these pictures, guys. That's exciting. We have a prop. Wait until you see the prop, Brandy. Oh, I can't wait. It's going to blow your mind. So anyways, that's like half the show. I just burnt by telling you my New York story. Sorry. Literally.

I can't believe you didn't run into my sister at all. Well, so Sarah was presenting at the NBC Upfronts. And once she was done, she was like, you guys wanna go? And Miley, I think, was the closer of the show. Yeah, Miley performed. She sang a couple songs. Yeah. I will say this, though, because we got to go to these Upfronts,

we got to see what all the new shows are coming, and... Anything good? Well, there's one called Fleischman is in Trouble that the cast looks fucking crazy. Ooh. Claire Danes, Lizzie Kaplan, Christian Slater. Oh, wow.

Jesse Eisenberg. Dang. Adam Brody. What? Yeah, like, we were like, oh, my God, everyone's in this. It's called Fleischman is in Trouble. It looks, like, it can't be bad with this cast. Wow, yeah, you're right, oh my God, everyone's in this. It's called Fleischman is in Trouble. It looks like it can't be bad with this cast. Wow.

Yeah, you're right. It can't. Yeah. Anyways, you got any favorite things? Yeah, I've been watching a few new things. The Lincoln Lawyer is on Netflix. It's a series based on, it was originally a book, and then there was a movie with Matthew McConaughey forever ago. Yeah.

I'm sure you've seen it. No, I never saw it, but I know he's a lawyer that works out of his Lincoln. You never saw it? No. It's so good, and Matthew McConaughey is phenomenal. All right, well, I'll go watch it. Okay, well, go back and watch that immediately

because the movie is great. And so it's like, wow, to be cast in this show and have to like live up to Matthew McConaughey, like big shoes to fill. I would be very intimidated, but the show is good. I'm on like, I'm only like episode six. I was cranking it out yesterday. Um, the, I, I, I don't know anyone, I forget everybody's name, but the actress that plays his first wife, she's in a lot of things and I love her. Oh, it's Neve Campbell.

Yes. From Party of Five. Yes. She's amazing. Yeah. And then the other show that just came out on HBO Max is The Time Traveler's Wife, which was originally a book and then a movie with Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana. I mean, those are two of my favorite actor, actresses of all time. Like, they're phenomenal.

And that movie was one of my favorite movies of all time. I've seen it probably 12 times. I'm obsessed with it. It was a great movie. And so I, when I saw this on HBO max, I was like, they're like, why would they make this a show? This is so stupid. The movie was so great. I'm not going to watch this. And then I clicked on it and I saw who was playing the lead, Henry to Tambo, none other than Theo James, who I would dare say is the very top of my celebrity crush list. Really? Oh, he's so

hot. Wasn't he in Hunger Games? He was in Divergent. Divergent, yeah, yeah, yeah. Divergent was like his big thing, and he's done a few things since that I've watched, and he is so gorge. He's British, so he has an accent, but not in this and so I saw Theo James and I was like holy fuck I'm watching this obvi so there's only two episodes

out it comes out weekly but it's Theo James and then you know who plays his girlfriend who was Rachel McAdams in the movie you know nothing Jon Snow yes Rose is it Rose Leslie yeah her name yeah Rose Leslie who is a phenomenal actress and obviously I love her from Game of Thrones. So I was like, all right, all right. I loved the movie. I don't think it can get better than Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana. But this is a great close second, you know? Yeah.

And I will say, I read the book. I've seen the movie. And I will say, with the show, they're able to go more in detail about things than they were in the movie. You just get more of the story, which I really appreciate. And they've done a really good job so far and done it differently than the movie, which makes sense because the movie was made so long ago,

I'm sure like with technology and stuff nowadays, they can make some of the time travel stuff a lot cooler. And so it's really good. Highly recommend. Even if you've read the book, seen the movie, it's a really good show with great acting. All right.

Did you ever get into Barry? No. Oh, God, man. So the new season's out on HBO. Sarah and I are caught up. I think this is the third season they've got of it. And it is just so freaking good. I think I like it better than Ozark.

I know that's a crazy thing to say. Really? Yeah, I think I do. Because it's... The thing that I think Oz like it better than Ozark. I know that's a crazy thing to say. Really? Yeah, I think I do. Because it's, the thing that I think Ozark was missing was the comedy. It was just always very serious. Barry is a hit man, but he is also wanting to be, he's an aspiring actor. There are opportunities for a lot of comedy. And Bill Hader is just so freaking good in it.

Anthony Kerrigan, I think he's one of the funniest people in the world right now. Like his, his character as NoHo Hank is so freaking funny. Steven Root's amazing in it. Henry Winkler is fantastic. If you haven't gotten into Barry, just start right now. Start season one, episode one, and just catch up. It's so good. Yeah. I've never, I never watched that, but I do love Bill Hader. So maybe I need to give it a shot. Yeah. The other thing that we started and we have caught up on, which was, by the way, one of my favorite books from I don't know, 15 years ago, John Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven. It's now been made into a TV show on FX, also on Hulu. Andrew Garfield is the lead,

and literally I think everything this man has done recently has been fucking a home run. Mm-hmm. Do you ever read Under the Banner of Heaven? I didn't, no. Oh, my God. You need to. Okay.

You would absolutely love it. And read the book before you start watching the show, because the book is one of my favorite ones by one of my favorite authors who's written some amazing fucking books, one of which that is I know is one of your favorites, which is Into the Wild. But then he also wrote Into Thin Air and and a couple others that are just fantastic. But Under the Banner of Heaven is a fucked up true story that you're like, dude I can't believe this happened here's the tag a devout detective's faith is tested as he investigates a brutal murder seemingly connected to an esteemed Utah family spiral into LDS fundamentalism and their distrust in the

government it opens with Andrew Garfield's character who is the lead detective in Utah coming on a crime scene where a infant has been beheaded and the wife has been, I think, strangled. And the husband is covered in blood. The husband's like, I didn't do this. I didn't do this. These bearded men did this. They are people after me and my family. And everyone's like, okay, buddy, we know you killed her. And you know, we know you killed them both. Like what happened? It's a true story.

It goes deep into like the craziness of Mormon fundamentalism. Just whoa. Read the book. Once you finish the book, go watch the show. So good. Sounds great. I don't want to ruin it too much, but obviously it's a murder case. The book rolls into the trial of it all.

Where the waters get muddy is, in the Mormon religion, is kind of predicated around how God can speak directly to you. You know, John Smith getting the plates and looking at the hat. Like there's a lot of like their theology rooted in like God can be like, Brandy, you should go to the store today. And God told me to do that. Whereas like in Catholic religion, there are conduits to God. There's popes and bishops and all that kind of stuff. And so where it gets muddy in this, especially in this story,

is that what happens if God tells you to do something that's very illegal? Yeah. Interesting. Crazy, man. I have a question. Do kids still have yearbooks these days? I think so. Or do they get like a PDF on an iPad and like they still write things like stay cool, you know?

Stay cool. L-Y-L-A-S. I love you so much love you like a sister oh that's a thing oh it was a big thing yeah mine was a lot of like uh have a cool summer always stay cool here's my number no one's gonna call it what am i what are we doing here oh my god i'm trying to think if i know any kids that are still in school and i don't yeah and maybe we shouldn't know any kids in school right now that's probably true my one high school age friend she rides horses with me she's homeschooled so that this doesn't apply to her so i can't call

her for for an answer yeah so i don't know yeah i don't know anyways if there's any yf tears i'm like what's happening now are people still writing in yearbooks or i hope so because that was just like the like best part of the whole year was the whole end of the year signing yearbooks celebration i know but what who do we think we we were did did everyone think that they were a celebrity that deserved to get autographs from everybody else like why yes i don't know i i don't know why that became a thing but and there was always like there was always like someone who would write like a page and you're like bro what what are you doing right now you know those people grew up to write books i guess yeah became authors yeah it's like Wells. I remember it just like it was yesterday.

We were walking together to music class and you tripped on a rock. And that's when I knew you were cool. Stay cool. Pony boy. Thought about the other day. And I was like, do people, I wonder if people still do that.

Oh, the other, um, the other thing people would write is hags. H A G S. Have a great summer. Oh, no.

See, I, we didn't have this. We didn't have all these acronyms. L-Y-L-A-S, big one. I feel like there's another one, but yeah, great times. You know what's like a big popular thing in the movies right now? What is it? I feel like it's a lot of Indiana Jones movies happening, like a lot of treasure hunting movies happening.

I just watched The Lost City on the plane with Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum, which is great, by the way. Is it? It's great. It's so fun. It's funny. Channing Tatum is a really, really good actor. I love him. He's very funny. It's like Ryan Reynolds. You shouldn't get to be that good looking and then also funny. No, you get one or the other. That's how God works. Okay. So anyways, I saw Lost City. It was great.

We watched another one last night, which is called Uncharted. Have you heard of that? I think, yeah, who's in it? I have heard of it though. Well, it's Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg. Oh. And Antonio Banderas. Oh, what a throwback.

This one, not as good as The Lost City, but still kind of fun. But here's my thing after watching that. Every treasure hunting movie is exactly the same. Every single time. There are one or two people that are trying to go find this thing. And then there's a rich guy that also wants to find the thing. And that rich guy is evil. Every single time the rich guy is evil.

And the rich guy is going to end up trying to kill you and double cross you at the end. But don't worry. The rich guy is going to die because everyone wants him or her to die. There's always like a really hot chick that's going to turn on you. And then there's also a less hot chick, but she still is hot that will never turn on you. And she is the person that you gotta be with forever. Like there's this weird formula,

which I think is great. Like ain't broke, don't fix, I guess. But my whole fucking problem with every treasure hunting movie, Indiana Jones, Uncharted, The Lost City, we could go on for a while. It's all predicated around going into these ruins, right? Like these really old buildings and stuff and finding secret passageways. And my thing is, is like these like 400, 500 sometimes year old passageways that are opened up by like gears and pulley systems that like i'm sorry like

in no way shape or form that things still work there's no way that the pulley system like the ropes would have would have molded and snapped by now you know like maybe at the time it would have kind of worked but 500 years in the future and you're telling me that this this gear and fucking pulley system that they they constructed hundreds of years ago is still going to work when the elevator at the hotel that I was just staying at didn't work? No, I'm sorry. How are these gear and counterweight mechanisms still working? Your rants are unreal.

You know? It's pretend Wells. I know, I know. Speaking of Ryan Reynolds. Yeah. real you know it's pretend wells i know i know speaking of ryan reynolds yeah uh you know what i watched is i it's i think this is on they're on like season four of this but have you ever watched any of um david letterman's netflix series i think it's called my next guest oh yeah or my next guest needs no introduction with david letterman i just looked it up he just released they just released like season four and i watched and I watched Ryan Reynolds episode and it's really good. I've never really watched any interviews or anything with Ryan Reynolds. Like, so I don't really know like

real life Ryan Reynolds. I just know movie star Ryan Reynolds. And he's just so different than than on you know, than on screen. So it was like a fascinating watch if you're a Ryan Reynolds fan at all and then I also I'm gonna watch there's an episode with Kevin Durant which I'm sure is great and there's also one with Cardi B which I have to watch that one that sounds fascinating wow I know so that's a good easy if you're like multitasking or something it's a good show to watch I came across that with billy eilish uh-huh it was interesting to find out that she has like ticks and she has one during the interview and letterman's like is everything okay like did i offend you and she was like oh no

i'm having i was having a tick or whatever and i didn't no idea. I didn't know that about her. And then she kind of goes into like what brings on these ticks and stuff. And that was really interesting. I just didn't know that about her. Yeah, I didn't either. It's crazy. Yeah.

Do you have any Muzaks? Oh, I mean, you're going to be like, we're not playing that. But Harry Styles dropped a new album and it is good. We talked about a couple of episodes ago. I was like, I really like this song, but this is an indie song.

You're a pop singer, guy. You can't be jumping into this world. I hit up my buddy, Daniel Ellsworth, who's in a band called Daniel Ellsworth and Great Lakes. And I was like, this sounds like your band. Exactly like your band. And then also a little bit like the strokes in the chord progressions of like minor

fifths and stuff. Anyways, but it's a really good song. I do. I'll play some of it. I'll play some of it. I mean, do you think Harry's going to sue us? Maybe. Maybe we shouldn't play it.

Also, if you haven't heard this song, where you been, kid? Yeah. We know it's not the same Answer the phone Harry, you're no good alone Why are you sitting? Yeah, it's really good. Like, I wasn't a big fan of Watermelon Sugar High. I'm being honest with you. Why not?

Watermelon Sugar High! Like, it was just like, it was too much for me. Yeah, that's exactly how it sounded. It's not because it was about cunnilingus. I'm all for cunnilingus, okay? Uh-huh. You know? Yeah.

And I love that he wrote a song about Eaton Beave. You know, good for you, man. I just didn't like the song. I think this guy's a Nashville guy because I saw it on my old radio stations, like Instagram, Lightning 100's Instagram. His name's Jake Wesley Rogers.

Have you ever heard of him? No, I haven't. This is a song called Pluto that I heard him play live on this old station I worked on. And I was like, what the fuck is this? This is so good. Okay. Okay. Maybe at the end of the day You and me are both the same

We just wanna be in love We just wanna be in love I think of my mom She loves me no matter what And that really fucks me up Anyways, that was really good. I've never heard of him, but I like that. Yeah, really, really good.

And then I also saw that Beach House has some new music out. They were on, I think, Colbert recently, and I was like, oh, I've missed you, Beach House. Yeah, for real. This is a song called Once Twice Melody. Days go by In her eyes Once, twice, melody.

Good driving music. Might put me to sleep, but yeah. Yeah. A good passenger music then. Yeah. You got anything anything else i think that's all i've got what's coming up for you that's a great question um more showing this week nice during the week and then i oh actually i'm heading to san diego on I'll be there Sunday playing at the Pendry Hotel rooftop pool for Memorial Day weekend. Yeah.

So if any of there are any YFTers in San Diego that want to come have a little pool party get a little day drunk celebrate the holiday weekend. I'll be there and my mom actually might come down and hang. What? We'll see.

Yeah I know. Tis? Yeah. I mean, I don't need anyone to sing or anything, but my birthday is this week, so I'm trying to convince her to come down so we can celebrate my birthday on the weekend. Yeah, actually, does this come out?

No, your birthday is on Thursday, yes? Yes. It does look about the day before. Well. The big three five like what wow yeah I am not okay but you got to do something fun well I feel like I'm horse showing this week that's that's what I wanted to do for my birthday I was being a horse show so that's my present to myself and then um you know this week uh this it'll be fun. I've got some friends coming down. Hopefully my mom comes down. I love a daytime party like I playing nightclubs is fun and all, but I thrive at a daytime pool party. I like to get day drunk, go to bed early

and not feel like complete shit the next day. So it's going to be fun. So if anybody in SoCal or the surrounding area wants to come and hang, come on down. And I think my mom and sister and I are going to take a little girls trip in June. We're trying to pick a place to go and just do like a week-long girls trip. So I'm excited about that. You want to go to paradise? No, I do not. I can get you in there.

No, thanks. All right. Well, good times. Happy early birthday to you. Thanks. We're getting old. I know. I hate it.

I'm already old, actually. Yeah, you are. Sarah's like, what do you want to do for your birthday? I was like, pretend like it's not happening. Yeah, exactly. I definitely don't want anyone to sing. Yeah. Well, if anyone's going to sing, it could be Ann Lopez because that's pretty great.

Yeah, that was pretty cool. Yeah. All right, dude. We'll have an amazing week. Thanks. You too. And who knows? sing it could be Ann Lopez because that's pretty great yeah that was pretty cool yeah all right dude we'll have an amazing week thanks you too and who knows maybe I'll come to

San Diego and chill come on down we'd love to have you all right yeah all right YF2ers

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