Your Favorite Thing with Wells & Brandi - Discovering New Music

Episode Date: May 11, 2018

This week on YFT, Wells and Brandi share some of the new music they are digging on! Wells shares his thoughts on the new Harry Potter Broadway play "The Cursed Child." The duo also rip on Kanye, Westworld, and Avengers Infinity Wars. Enjoy!

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Are you sad? Why would I be sad? Because I saw today that Olivia is leaving Nashville. Oh. Yeah. I mean, we both travel so much, I feel like I'll still see her as much as I see her now. She was here for like a hot minute,

by the way. Yeah, she did not give Nashville a chance. No, not at all. Not at all. But to be fair, I never really felt like she fit in here. I don't really feel like I fit in here. I don't really feel like I fit in here most of the time. You're from here. But I'm from here, and that's why I stay. But I think, I don't know that Seattle's going to be really the fit for her either,

but I think that's a good step in figuring out where she wants to be. It's quite a drive. She's an idiot. She do it all by herself? By herself. Good. Stupid. Yeah.

I've done the LA to Nashville drive a legitimate six times. Yeah. I've done the LA to Nashville drive like a legitimate six times. Yeah. I've always had a buddy and I can't imagine even doing that drive alone. Yeah. Much less like Seattle. God. Okay. Well, can we talk about real quick my new favorite toothbrush?

Please. Have you heard about the Quip toothbrush? You know what? I hadn't until Ben Hagen stayed at my house this week and he was like, look at my cool new toothbrush. Well, he's a purveyor of the finer things in life. This makes sense. For starters, it's an electric toothbrush that is a fraction of the cost of

the really big, expensive ones, you know? Right, which I've lost so many times traveling that I could die. Here's what I like about this one. It's like the size of a normal toothbrush, which makes it easy for travel. You can't travel with the big ones. No, you cannot. You know?

No, such with all these weight limits and stuff on the plane, please. So Wells was kind enough to get me one of these toothbrushes. And you know what? I got to say, brushing my teeth is the last thing I do before I go to bed. And I'm always so tired that brushing my teeth for the full two minutes is real tough. But this little toothbrush, my favorite thing about it is that it actually has a built in timer so that you know when you're brushing your teeth for the

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Clean teeth. You want to start the show? Yeah. Me or you? You. Bros and hoes. It's time for your favorite thing podcast with. Wells and Brandy

Back in the studio Dude, I like recording in my house, I'm not gonna lie I don't like going on a location I know, the sound isn't as good It doesn't sound as good I know But we had the game on, we had Mexican food I know

We were winning last week We had a guest I know, good old Ben That episode's funny to me because- I can't wait to listen back. Yeah. That episode's really funny to me because Ben is such a serious soul. Uh-huh.

You know? Yeah. Even just how he talks is so serious. Well, it's just so correct. Yeah. He can't talk without- No. Turning into a politician.

We didn't have it on the podcast. I think we had stopped recording, but I think Ben should be a politician. He almost was one. Yeah, he wanted to. And then I think ABC was like, hold on a second. He's one of those guys that connects with everybody, but it was fun having him on our show, which is so slapstick, jerk-off

show, where we were talking about... I wanted to do it to him, too. He came in because I knew what I wanted to talk about on a couple things that like made me laugh and I wanted to open up with manscaping because right off the bat he's like shit okay well he tried to pull some serious crap asking me why I don't mooch off my parents I was like uh excuse me it's my podcast yeah don't ask me questions uh but no you I feel like you did a good job getting him to loosen up pretty quick. Yeah. It was fun.

I like having Ben on. It's funny because after we left your place... Oh yeah. We went to a dive bar. He was pretty adamant about meeting up with Brady Toops. Brady, that's right. He was the guy

that was on Caitlyn and Whitney. The season where they had to choose the girl. Brady, that's right. Yeah. Who was all, he was, he was the guy that was on Caitlyn and Whitney's. I don't know. The season where they had to choose the girl. Oh, oh. Well, Caitlyn. It ended up being Caitlyn's season. Yeah. Brady's thing was he was like, I came for the other girl and he left night one.

Yeah. But it was like a part of the show because they were always like tracking like their relationship. Yeah. Anyways. I met Brady like completely unrelated to Bachelor stuff years ago. Yeah. And now he's seeing one of my friends.

Really? Yeah. They were both at the event. Really? That you missed. I know. We'll get into that in a second. But anyways, so we went out.

Which bar? Mickey's. Mickey's Tavern? Yeah. They donated alcohol to my event. Really? Love Mickey's. Total dive bar.

Yeah. Which I felt was a perfect place to take Ben. Because no one gave two fucks that Ben walked in that bar. But if we had gone to anywhere like downtown or onto Mumbrium. That's the problem is they always want to go to places like that. Like if they go over to East, nobody would care. Yeah, it was great. And then, oh, so the best

thing in the world happened. I've never looked cool. I very rarely look cool. I feel like you do look cool. Recently, but it's like sexually transmitted, I think. With the bike and like the badass car. I'm trying. I'm so cool. I'm Wells. Hey.

So we were at Mickey's and we were playing darts. It was me and Brady and Ben Higgins and we went back to play darts and there was like a board open and then so we went out to go get the darts from the bartender. Right.

So we went and got darts. We walked back. And right when we walked back, this group of girls, like these three girls, walked up. And they had darts too. And so it was like, oh, who's first? You know? So we were like, we're catching up. You guys play around.

And then when you're done, just make sure you hit us up so we are up next. Right? So we're just kind of in that little room where we're playing darts and the girls at some point, like halfway through their game they just stop playing and they're just having a conversation, right? Which is fine, but I was just like... But you're like, I'm trying to play darts.

Yeah. So the girl was holding them, like three of them in her hand and we hadn't spoken other than like, oh you guys go and we'll be next. Uh-huh. So I don't even talk to her. I just walk up to her, take one dart out of her hand. No. And I throw it from like where we are, which is further back.

And you nailed it. Bullseye. No. And Ben's like, what the fuck? You just hit a bullseye? That's incredible. Yeah. Like if you were single, that would have been like a really solid, like you just sealed the deal on that. Totally. Yeah. I know. That's incredible. Yeah. Like, if you were single, that would have been, like, a really solid, like, you just sealed the deal on that.

Totally. Yeah. I know. That's so funny. But anyways, so that was that night. And then we ended up going back to my place. And I think Ben is a lot cooler than people give him credit for. I've always said that.

Yeah, like, we pull up into my house, and he's, like, going through my records. And he's, like, pulling out records. I'm like... Really? Yeah, he was like, oh, he's like, oh, man. Because's like pulling out records. I'm like, really? Yeah, he was like, he's like, oh man, because like he stayed in my house that night and in my guest room I've got all these like signed You do have a guest room?

No, at first I thought it was just the one bedroom apartment. No, it's a house. Whatever. You've been there. It's kind of small. I just thought it was just like anyway. No, two bedroom. But anyways, I've got a bunch of signed vinyl

from art artists that I've had on my shows and stuff. And so he starts talking about that and then he's going through my records and he's like, oh man, you're like tallest man on earth. And I was like,

I love tallest man on earth, but no one knows who tallest man on earth is. I don't even know. Exactly. Yeah. So he's like, oh man, he threw that record on my record player,

like Ben. And then he poured some whiskey. I'm like, who is this guy? He loves his whiskey. Yeah. That's one thing I do know record player. Like, Ben. And then he poured some whiskey. I'm like, who is this guy? He loves his whiskey. That's one thing I do know. That's funny. I'm glad you guys had a good little bro moment.

One of my favorite guys. And I feel terrible that I missed the event. Tell me all about it. It was epic. I'm not going to lie. Was it? It really, truly was. I was super stressed just because I'm the one that planned the whole thing.

And we had such a short amount of time to plan this like to put into perspective my friend Natalie who threw the masquerade event that I all I did was DJ for in February she spent six months planning that event and it was for her non-profit Caring Hearts so I had six weeks to plan this one yeah and it just there and then like last minute like I'm gonna put them on freaking blast now that this is over. So we had a liquor sponsor, an exclusive liquor sponsor, George Dickel, came on. And it was a friend of a friend connecting with them, and they were super excited. And one of the first things we solidified was this liquor company is going to come on and be our exclusive sponsor. And they were like, we're in. All we need is proof of a liquor license from you guys, like a temporary liquor license, and we're good to go. So a week later, we get the liquor license.

We send to them. Is this you about to put George Dickel on blast? Yeah. Fuck yeah. Okay, cool. Keep going. Because they were on board. It was the one thing we had going for us that we were so excited about.

That's a big deal, a liquor sponsor. Totally. That's expensive. Yeah. And that's something like, if we can sell our own drinks and didn't have the cost of the liquor, then every penny from the drink sold goes to the charity, which is great. So anyway, we thought it was set in stone, and then two weeks from the event, my event coordinator is trying to reach out to them and communicate with them,

and it's just radio silence. And then we start getting an email bounce back saying, I'm out of the office until such and such, and that date was Tuesday before my event. So we were like, I mean, they said they were in. We were trying to figure out how to pick up liquor and how much they were going to give us and where we were getting it from and stuff. And then finally, I flew home from L.A.

what, Tuesday afternoon? Tuesday morning. He finally hits my friend back and is like, yeah, due to some budget restraints and the fact that your organization works with children, we can't follow through with this sponsorship or whatever the hell. Works with children? First of all, there's kids in some of the pictures on Humanity in Hope's website, but the whole purpose of this event is to help create jobs for women.

Yeah. Like, nothing was ever said about children, so that right there tells you that that was the cop-out for them. Yeah. That's them trying to justify the fact that their budget restraints or whatever. But how shitty to pull out four days before a charity event after telling me for five and a half weeks that you're on board with this. I think that's shitty. And I will never drink George Dickle ever again. Not that I ever did to begin with, to be honest with you. Least favorite thing right now. All right. Quick PSA for those of you out there who rent. If you haven't heard

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Do it. But aside from that, so then I'll shout out my sponsor that came in clutch, Big Machine, which is the record label here in town, Country Music. They have a vodka. Who knew? Yeah. Taylor's, Swift's record label. Whatever.

I'm going to overlook that. It's not really hers. Her dad, like, what, invested in it? It doesn Taylor Swift's record label. Whatever. I'm going to overlook that. It's not really hers. Her dad, like, what, invested in it? It doesn't mean it's hers. I feel like her dad started it so he could create her career. Correct. The proper word there is invested in. Ah, okay.

Just so you know, to get your facts clear. Anyway, four days before, they were so excited. Huge Bachelor fans. Come on. How perfect. So they came through and were our exclusive vodka sponsor. And then we had a couple other places around town like

Mickey's Tavern that you went to. I think that's badass that My Little Dive Bar was donating booze. Well, randomly one of the girls that volunteers for Humanity and Hope works there. She's a bartender. Well, that's who we were hanging out with that night. It was so... This is so weird. This is so weird because we showed up and I made the joke.

Did Ben not know she worked there? I don't even know if that's the woman, but we showed up and I made the joke that like no one knew who he was, which is true. Like no one in the bar, it's all musicians there anyways. But we walked in and she, I'm a local. So she was like, do you want a Shiner? Which is what I usually drink. And I'm like, yep.

And she was like, what about you, Mr. Higgins? What would you like? And I was like, whoa. It had to be, what about you, Mr. Higgins? What would you like? And I was like, whoa! It had to be Danica. Yeah, I don't know. Okay, well, yeah, she was on my little team helping me do all this. And so she got Mickey's to donate some liquor. So some local places donated a case here or there.

Cinema Nashville, they donated some as well. Corsair, I think, is local. They donated gin. They are. I love Corsair. Oh, do you really? Yeah, I used to work with those guys way back in the day. Super nice guys. Name's Chris. Hooked me up with a ton of gin for the event. So, do you really? Yeah, I used to work with those guys way back in the day. Super nice guys.

His name's Chris. Hooked me up with a ton of gin for the event. So anyway, everyone really came through. Big machine in a huge way, obviously, which is super cool, and I'm super thankful. Nice. Well, congratulations. Can you say, like, how much did you raise? What happened?

I don't know. I don't know that we have an exact number. We're throwing around the number 15K. All right. Which is not bad. I mean, we were not doing a great job promoting and doing it so last minute like our ticket sales weren't awesome but the room was full all night and the people that were there had a blast and everyone was super lit including ben's parents

who may have been the most lit of the entire night to be honest it was so awesome i gotta meet these people how have you not i don't know i mean oh gosh. I have to show you the photos from the event. In fact, I should just post a link because they're all so good. To be fair, I've never met your dad. No one's met mine. He's like a recluse. All right. That's fine.

But anyway, Amy was like double fisting like a coffee cocktail and like a cranberry vodka like all night long. She was super turnt. Dave got behind the DJ booth and we just had a blast. It was so much fun. Dave and Amy. Dave and Amy. Higgins.

Yeah. Everybody like desperately wants them to adopt them. Like our whole crew is like please adopt me. That's awesome. They're incredible. We did miss you. Your presence was missed. I know. I felt bad. I tried to do what I could. I found out that Leslie didn't have a place to stay. I know. It was so

nice of you. Although she slept in my guest room the last night and got locked out the night before. I know. I think she stayed there one night, maybe. So, Leslie, what's Leslie's last name? Murphy. Leslie Murphy, the girl that was dating Dean. I hope she's doing good. I don't know, whatever.

Is she okay? Yeah. Okay, whatever. Shocker! That one didn't work. Dean fucked something up! I can't believe it! No! So, you were like She needs a place to stay So I was like Well I'm going to New York

So no worries She can have my place This is the code I have like one of those Like keypads To get into my house Yeah everybody has those These days

And then I had written out this Or actually I used my typewriter Your hipster typewriter Yeah and I typed out like Hey when you leave Right Just press the lock button and it'll lock and she didn't see that little note. I know.

So she couldn't, she somehow like locked herself out. Well, she locked probably like the wrong thing on the door. Yeah, she like thumbed the door. Yeah. And then she couldn't get back in. So then I get a text message like the next day being like, hey, by the way, I locked myself out, but it's really easy to break into your house with a credit card. They broke into the credit card, yeah.

And I never, so then I get back home. She got me got me like she was so nice she got me like a bottle of wine and was like thank you for letting my bag stay here and never actually stayed here never stayed there I was like I felt bad which is really funny because Ben had stayed there the night before and didn't have time to change his sheets like in the note in the note I was like just so you know Ben slept here I didn't have a chance to change the sheets, but I feel like half of America's ladies would be like, oh, that's Ben smell. But anyway, yeah. And it was really, really great.

Well, I can't believe Leslie came in for it, honestly. But we had so much fun. We went out to Barcelona. You ever been to Barcelona? It's like right down here, right down the street here. Is it like bar slash Salona? Oh, no. Oh.

It's just Barcelona. It's a restaurant. It's bomb. Oh, no, I haven't been there. But it'd be really cool to have a bar called Bar and then like Salona. No. Oh. It's just Barcelona. It's a restaurant. It's bomb. Oh. No, I haven't been there, but it'd be really cool to have a bar called Bar and then like Salona.

I guess. No? It's a restaurant though. It's not a bar. I'm just spitballing ideas here for my next bar adventure. I love that idea. I think you can do better.

Really? We went to Barcelona one night and the GM there, his name's Drew, he's such a gem. He like sat with us and made us like these dessert cocktails all night.

He's so great. We had the best time. All right, cool. Missed you. I know. I'm sorry. I was busy going to the premiere of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. I feel like I need to hear about what this was like.

It's four acts, two shows, five and a half hours long. Oh, my gosh. It's a lot of Harry Potter. Yeah. And they pass out these buttons in between shows. Hashtag keep the secret. They don't want people talking about what this is. But the book's out so I can kind of like give you like a

kind of a CliffsNotes version of what's going on. Okay. Basically Harry and Ron and Hermione are all grown up. Oh. And they use a time turner to go back in time to fix something that was not right from the beginning. It's like Back to the Future meets Wizards.

Weird. It's pretty fucking badass. Okay. That sounds cool. Okay. So here's why it's got like a $35 million budget. It's crazy. It's a lot of stage magic.

Right. It's a lot of like trap doors and people like disappearing all of a sudden because they're having to do all this magical stuff within the construct of like a stage. Yeah, which is pretty small, those stages. So they completely retrofitted, redid this entire theater

specifically for Harry Potter. There's like multiple treadmills or whatever, like on stage, so people like walking but like not going anywhere, you know, like and like the way that they do traveling in time, it's so badass. I wanna see.

I'm, seriously. I don't know if I can sit through that long. It doesn't seem long at all, cause it's so like, holy shit. Watching any movie or play or anything with the Highland because they're all freaking. With the Highland? Yeah because I was with her brother, her mother

and Sarah. And they're all actors and they're all breaking down like plot and storyline and who they think is the bad person and I'm like what? How did they disappear like that? What are you talking about? That's funny. So they kind of ruined it for me because they're like, you know who I think is a bad

guy? That's true. And I was like, I haven't thought about that. You're like, quit writing it. I was just like, how did they do it? I'm here for the magic. I'm just a muggle here for the magic. Alright. You like that? I do like that. Anyways, highly recommend going to see. It's amazing what they can do.

Very cool. Yeah, I loved it. I really, really, really loved it. Tell you what's kind of weirding me out, though. Kanye West right now. Why is everyone talking about him? I know nothing. What has happened?

All I know is he came back on Twitter. Yeah, he's back on Twitter. And he's causing a bunch of drama. He came back on Twitter and just been saying weird shit. Yeah. And then now he's like, Team Trump again. Explain this. What's he saying?

Well, the whole thing was like, I support Trump. We both have dragon's blood in us. It's like weird stuff. Wait, who started the dragon's blood thing? Charlie Sheen? That's tiger's blood. Tiger's blood. Well.

It's just so. Sounds the same. And I feel so bad. I can't believe I'm saying this out loud You feel bad for Trump? I feel bad for Kim Kardashian Oh I was gonna say that Cause I'm sure she's like

Shut the fuck up For sure This is not okay But then again I don't feel bad for her Cause she's married to Kanye West so She walked into it but like Let's just be real Her brand is much bigger than Kanye West's brand

Major She married down And this guy is But let's just be real. Her brand is much bigger than Kanye West's brand. Major. She married down. And this guy is ruining something that that entire Chris built from the ground up. I know. It's pretty crazy. They used OJ Simpson and got here. I don't know how it happened. They really did.

But that's what happened. It is truly exactly what happened. And now you got Kanye West coming in there just spouting off weird shit. And I'm sure Chris is like. But I mean, I think he does it to make people talk about him. Because he doesn't have anything else for people to talk about. Yeah, because he's got no music out. Here's the thing.

And his clothing line is like, it's like done. Yeah. Like no one cares anymore. No one cares. Now he's like talking about like he wanted to run for president in 2024, which is like, okay, whatever, dude. He's all about the publicity stunt, which is all well and good. But do you think there's a part of Kim that's like, was I your publicity stunt as well?

Oh, of course. And like, okay, it was one thing if like you're using each other. If I'm Kim, I'm like, I was always a bigger deal than you. I know. And now if I'm having that realization, like, ugh, fuck you, man. I don't know. That's my whole thought on that. And then, like, I don't know what Khloe's still doing with Tristan.

Can you believe? I cannot believe. Like, what an idiot. I know we've talked about this already, but I just can't believe what a freaking idiot he is. I'm not surprised that a professional athlete's cheating on his wife. I know. But you think she would have learned. You think she would have learned.

Lamar, James Harden. Yeah, I know. Come on now. Let's mix it up a little. Why don't you just not date athletes that can sleep with anybody they want to? Yeah, totally. Or like, I don't know, don't get pregnant with them. And Tristan's already got one kid.

I know. There's like red flags everywhere. With a lady that I'm pretty sure that he left for Chloe. Yeah, I think I heard that too. The optics of it are so bad on his part. I know. He's also 25 years old, maybe 26 now. He's so young.

You forget how young those kids are to play. Oof. I know. What do I really care? I don't really care. I'm not really. I kind of care. I kind of care.

I was making the correlation between the royal family and the Kardashians. And it's really sad, but I feel like they're the same thing. Yeah, sadly. It used to be the Kennedys. We had the Kennedys. I know. That's not a thing anymore. No.

Because they're cursed. They keep dying. So you have the royal family. Think about it. Pippa just had a kid. And then Kate just had a kid. I know. And then Harry's about to get married.

So they're always in the fucking news. Yeah. And then it's like, Khloe's getting cheated on. She just had a kid. Kim. Kylie hides baby for 10 months and now. Yeah. Kylie had a kid.

Kim, dating a crazy guy, had a kid. You know? It's true. It's like, they're our royal family, which is really sad. It's so pathetic. Like, the only difference is that the Kardashians have so much more money than they do. And the Kardashians do nothing. Well, so do the royal family.

I don't know. I feel like they do a lot of charity work. Yeah, yeah. They're philanthropic. Exactly. The Kardashians just suck life from everybody. Yeah, exactly. They do the opposite. Yeah. Oh, man. You got any favorite things? I do have a new favorite artist I've been listening to. Oh, who is it?

His name's Gavin James. Gavin DeGraw? No. Do you know who Gavin James is? No. Okay, so this is why I love Spotify. Spotify is just, gosh, it's just so great. And, like, let's not talk about, like, what they do or don't pay artists.

Like, I can't get into that. But what I do know about it is I've discovered so much great music through Spotify. They do these, like, Discover Weekly playlists. do these Discover Weekly playlists that are curated for you. The Release Radar is curated for you. The Daily Mix is so cool. So this guy Gavin James, his song comes on my Summon playlist, and it's called Hard To Do. And it's freaking phenomenal. I listen to it, and I'm like, ah, this is so great.

And then on my Release Radar this week, another one popped up called Always, which is even better, and that's the one you should probably play, because I like it better. But anyway, I'm sitting here thinking, like, man, this guy is so good. And then I start feeling like, I feel like his voice sounds so familiar to me. Like, do I know this guy? And then I realized

Noah played Coachella a couple weeks ago. She came out with Alan Walker. This guy came out on the song before her because he has a huge hit song with Alan Walker. Cool. So cool. This song tears my heart out. In two million pieces.

His voice. He sounds like someone. I feel like you probably know the Alan Walker song. Maybe. Maybe. A little bit of a James Bay thing. Go into the chorus. Pre-chorus? Oh. Whoa, it's a little Coldplay. You're in my head Pretty chorus.

Always Oh. Always Whoa, it's a little cold play. A little bit, yeah. That's what it is. Chris Martin. But like a better, vocally.

Yeah, like a relevant. I'd rather choke on my bad decisions than just carry them to my grave. You're in my head. Always, always, always. So good. Love it. His voice is just crystal clear. You don't hear that very often. It's crystal clear. It's so good. He sounded like that live at Coachella. I've been posting about him on my stories and stuff and some somebody like screenshot it and tweeted it at him so we we've actually been tweeting back and

forth for days and then i just yesterday was like i just realized that i saw you sing at coachella right before my little sister and so like we connect he's super nice i like him a lot can i promote like one of my friends but someone someone that I am so confused as to why they are not famous? Sure. Paul McDonald has some new music. Is my dad's old manager managing him? Dave? Downey? I don't know. I think so.

Okay, so Paul McDonald has been a friend of mine from before he was ever on American Idol. And he's a guy that like, he's a phenomenal songwriter. He's a great singer and he sounds like fucking Rod Stewart, you know? But the thing that is different from him than everybody else is that Paul is the best performer I've ever seen.

Like on stage. And there's also like no, no show that, like, he half-asses. Yeah. Like, I went to a show where there was, like, 15 people there because he was, like,

a late ad. And he fucking was like, you know, I'm going to fuck everyone's ears right now. And I didn't give a fuck and I was like, you know what, dude?

If you don't make it, then no one should. Yeah. Anyways, this is a new song, Wild Card. Love it. Now you're just breaking my heart. So darling, you're wild card. Yeah, you tell me I should let you go.

But then you're reaching for my hand to hold on. I don't know. Fucking Paul's great, you know? Anyways. We have to make a Spotify playlist for people. I've gotten so many. Oh, I know. We gotta start it like today.

Well, and Spotify hit me up. Oh. And here's the problem. I work for iHeart. I know. So like me being like, I'm gonna start making a Spotify playlist isn't the greatest idea,

but you know what? But people love it. Okay, so I got another one for you. Okay. Have you heard of Rex Orange County? No. Really? All right.

I really like this song. Loving is easy. You have me fucked up. It used to be so hard to see. Yeah, loving is easy. I don't know. It's got like a... I like it.

It's like easy listening. It's got like an old vibe to it. It does. With like a very new vocal. It's good. Yeah, I don't know. Something about it, I was like, oh, I kind of like it. How did you discover this?

Right? Yeah. Oh? I have another one. I still get worked on records. So if people don't know how the radio works, you have what's called a label rep. And so someone from Atlantic or someone from Capital or whatever will every week send you emails. They'll come visit you and they work you on things that they're like spending a lot of money to get played like miley and noah probably

have who they signed to by the way miley's on rca yeah noah is on um records okay indie label that is kind of under rca now got it well anyways so like a record label person will call you and be like hey we're really working this thing and And someone hit me up for this Rex Orange County. And I was like, fuck, I like this. So anyways, what else you got? The new Zayn track. Have you heard it? I think we're playing.

It shocked me how fast it got on the radio from coming out. Usually it takes like a month or two for a song to get some traction on radio once it gets released. What song? It's called Let Me. Yeah, we started playing this on the river recently. That's great. Zayn really kills it.

His stuff is just so sexy. All right. Yeah. Is this part of your hookup mix? If I had a hook up mix It would definitely be on it Yeah baby Alright

Okay also what about the new Billie Eilish with Khalid Have you heard that one No I haven't It's called Lovely and I'm not a Khalid fan, but I really like this song. It's very ethereal sounding. Have you listened to Billie Eilish at all? No. She's cool.

I'm about to, though. She's very cool. That's the piano for Colorblind from... I thought it sounded familiar when I first heard it. What's it called? Connie Crowe's... Is it really? I mean, there's two notes. I know, but I thought it did sound familiar.

Let's pick up. They can sing, man. I like the way they layered their vocals. I do, too. Where his is just way on top. Yeah. I like it though. That's beautiful.

Because her voice is already that breathy, like ethereal sounding voice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So like under his, I don't know. I just think it's epic. It makes me feel lots of things. Wait, I want to see if it's the same. I know. Right?

It's pretty similar. It's pretty know. Right? It's pretty similar. It's pretty similar. Yeah, that's pretty crazy. Have you ever heard this song? I feel like I have because it sounds familiar to me. I am colorblind. I used to get down on some cat and crows, dude. I did too, back in the day. Fuck, August and Everything After,

that still is one of the best records ever put out. That's a great song, anyways. Makes you feel some type of way. Yeah. What else came out? The J. Cole record. Everyone's digging on that. Yeah, it's expected to be good, you know?

Yeah. So no surprise there. We're going to start- Eventually, we're going to make a playlist for you guys because I am down with that. Oh, I just read a book. And by read a book, I mean I listened to it. Right. Because that's what you do.

Loved it. Freaking loved it. Sci-fi dork book called Infinite. Ooh. I like the title. I'll give you the quick Cliff's Notes version. Okay. Or just like the beginning of it, all right?

Guy is on a spaceship going from Mars to Cognata, which is like Kelpler 451. Earth is dead. Mars is dying. They're sending this ship with like 40 of our best to this crazy planet to try to save the human race. They're in cryo sleep because it's, you know, a 10-year voyage or whatever. He wakes up. His best friend wakes him up out of cryo sleep, jams a screwdriver into his heart. He dies.

What? He wakes up a couple minutes later to realize that he's like able to heal, like almost like Wolverine style. So then he starts fighting the guy. Able to kill the guy who tried to kill him. Come to find out that guy woke up a year before everybody else and killed everybody except for one other woman. And he's in the middle of space and- It sounds like Passenger a little.

A little bit. I loved that movie. Yeah. I liked that movie too. One of my favorite movies. Yeah. Good movie. We've talked about this on the pod.

Great movie. Anyways, it's like a lot of like virtual reality, coding, faster than light travel. I feel like this is going to end up being a movie. Probably. Definitely. Super dope. And then like almost like mutants, like almost like superheroes. Yeah.

Because the thing is that he doesn't die. Like they've bioengineered him to not die. Interesting. For the sake of the human race. Yeah. Because the thing is that he doesn't die. They've bioengineered him to not die. Interesting. For the sake of the human race. Right. I want to read it. Oh, it's good, man. Okay.

I love a good space movie. Do you? Oh, yeah. The book or anything, yeah. Get in on it. Into it. Speaking of, isn't there a Netflix series, something about space? Lost in Space.

Lost in Space. Have you seen that? I watched the first couple episodes. That's like a remake of an old, like, 70s show. Oh, decent or no? I just watched the first episode, and I was like, oh, oh, oh. Westworld? I did not like the first episode.

I didn't either. Okay, thank you. Good. I was worried about it, that you were going to be like, well, you're crazy. No, I know. I'm hoping it picks up. It better. It has to.

What was wrong with it? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Was it too much shit going on where you're like, where am I in this world? Yeah, and I do think, too, so much happened in the last episode of season one, and it's been so long since then that it just seemed a little all over the place when it came back. I feel like they needed to make this first episode a little simpler. Yeah, it was like all of a sudden Rachel Evan Wood is like a badass murderer.

Because you didn't really see that full transition in the finale of the last season. Like you saw a glimpse of it. Yeah. And then all of a sudden she's like full fledged. I know. And it's confusing. I don't know what's going on with that shit. Yeah.

It's crazy. I'm happy to see that Luke's character survived. Well, I knew it would, but. Who's Luke? Liam's brother's in it. Is? Yeah. He's the blonde guy walking around the beach with him the whole episode.

Oh, he's like the. Trying to find the robots. The bald guy? No. He looks so much like Liam. Oh, he's like the cop. Yeah. I don't think that's the right term, but yeah.

But he's a cop. He's like West like Liam. Oh, he's like the cop. Yeah. I don't think that's the right term, but yeah. But he's a cop. He's like Westworld cop. The one thing that got me excited about the Westworld episode was that it reveals in the end, sorry, but this is going to come out. Sorry for spoiling this. We're warning you. What excited me was that all the parks are like bordering one another. Yeah.

You find that out because there's like a Bengal tiger that shows up in Westworld and they're like, how did that get over across the fence or whatever? You know, she's like, oh,

it's not going to be a thing without having to go in the real world and like go to like Japan. It's like a Hong Kong Westworld, right? Something like that. So they're all going to be

like in the same area so it's going to be easy to go back and forth which I like that idea. I do too. But I don't know, man. I need, what's his name?

What's his name? The old man. Hello, Grace. I need him back. Yeah, I know. I liked his character the most. I know. Yeah. I don't know. I'm curious to see what they end up doing with it because right now I'm like, I don't know what's going on. But surely they're going to redeem it. You think Infinity War is going to

be any good? What's that? It's like the new Marvel with everybody. Oh, I don't know and i've i love marvel more than anyone and i had a really hard time watching the last thor ragnarok i didn't think it was great yeah okay chris was great but like i just the movie as a whole why are there so many hensworths in everything i watch uh no but i i didn't keep my attention. I wasn't a fan. And so I don't know. We'll see. Yeah.

I just feel like they're getting too like, it's becoming so shallow, all of it. It's exciting, I guess, to have all of the characters in one thing. But there's also part of me that's like, are you guys just like running out of ideas? And you're like, let's just get everyone together, I guess. That's kind of what I think. That's what I'm saying. It's like losing its depth. They're like, let's just get everyone together, I guess. That's kind of what I think. That's what I'm saying. It's like losing its depth. They're running out of good ideas, so they're like,

let's just make more, I don't know, pyro. More pyro. Distract you from how shallow this movie is. You know what I mean? Yeah, and the things I like about some movies I don't like about others. I like Guardians of the Galaxy because it's funny. You know? Yeah.

But Thor used to be pretty funny. Yeah. There was a lot of humor in that. Ragnarok was pretty funny. You know? Yeah. But Thor used to be pretty funny. Yeah. There was a lot of humor in that. Ragnarok was pretty funny. It was okay. It was as funny as like... Yeah. You know, it's like... And I haven't even seen Spider-Man. I could do like some serious research to like get ready for this. Like I haven't seen the new Spider-Man because

you know what? There's way too many Spider-Mans. Yeah, I don't love the Spider-Man series. Why couldn't Tobey stay Spider-Man? I know. I don't understand. I don't either. Yeah, I haven't watched any of the new Spider-Mans. Yeah, I don't love the Spider-Man series. Why couldn't Toby stay Spider-Man? I know. I don't understand. I don't either. Yeah, I haven't watched any of the new Spider-Mans. Not into it.

I don't know. I'm going to watch it, obviously, but. Yeah. Did you see Ready Player One? No. Really? I tried to get people to go with me in Denver, and no one would go. Did you ever read the book?

No. I wanted to watch the movie first. Oh, yeah, yeah. That's what I told you. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. One of these days. I have no free time until June

though, so. What are you doing? You're leaving tomorrow. I know. Where are you going? Stage coach. I don't want to go. Oh, by the way, I don't even know if I should keep this on the podcast, but someone reached out to me asking to interview you at stage coach and I was just like I don't even know. Who?

I don't know. That's weird. They were like wanting me to connect. Okay. Well, that's weird. No, so I wasn't even know. Who? I don't know. That's weird. They were like wanting me to connect. Okay. Well, that's weird. No, so I wasn't. This was supposed to be my week off. This was supposed to be a horse showing all week long. And so I horse showed earlier in the week so that I have to get on a plane tomorrow morning at 7 a.m., just 5 a.m. L.A. time.

I land at L.A.X. at 9.30, drive to Burbank Airport, get on a jet suite flight to the desert at noon, land in the desert, go straight to the Florida Georgia Line party, then I get to chill for a second, and then I have to go to the festival, and then Saturday, I'm like, host, not hosting, I'm like, I gotta go to the Boots on Stage party and, like, do stuff for them, and then I'm doing a deal with True Religion over the weekend, so I'm like, it's a job, like, I had to say yes to it

because it's jobs, and, like, I can't turn down money, I'm like, not that rich yet, to where I say no to money, you know? Yeah. So I just gotta go. And then I had to say yes to it because it's jobs and like I can't turn down money I'm like not that rich yet to where I say no to money you know yeah so I just gotta go and then I have to stay the whole week

because then I'm DJing so my friend Tiffany who's my roommate in Honduras her and her husband he has CF and they're getting married next weekend and instead of doing

like a regular wedding I think I may have told you this they're doing a humongous like gala and concert that's a huge benefit for five different charities that they like work with, which is so cool. So she asked me to DJ it.

Ben and Dean are on the flyer. I'm not, not really sure why Dean's on there. I saw that. Ben's on there cause they're doing like a generous coffee bar, I guess, or generous is doing something. But I'm like,

how'd Dean get on this flyer? What's Dean's role here? I would like the idea that Dean's like not even going to be there. They're just like, throw them on there. More girls will come. I promise you. Oh God. No, he's going to be there. He's just like, throw him on there. More girls will come. I promise you. Oh, my God.

No, he's going to be there. He's best friends with Tiffany. They knew each other way before. Really? But it's just hilarious to me that he's on the flyer because I'm pretty sure he doesn't really have a role. He's just going to be there. Yeah, his role is to get chicks there.

That's it. Yeah, but it should be a fun time. I'm supposed to play 90s stuff. That's cool. I'm supposed to play 90s cover, band on before me, and then a bunch of other people. I don't know. It should be a fun time. I'm supposed to play 90s stuff. That's cool. And there's an 80s cover band on before me. And then a bunch of other people. I don't know. It should be fun.

Speaking of Stagecoach and country stars, and Florida Georgia Line for that matter, can I ask, stop doing the combination of the country star and the pop star. That's a thing right now. I know. It's like you got Florida Georgia Line with Bebe Rexha. I just saw that Camila Cabello's doing something with Kaden Brown. Did you hear- Maren Morris.

Oh, that song is a banger. The middle. That song is a smash. I know. And it's so freaking annoying because it's too much. It's so good though. And then you got like Justin Timberlake and Chris Stapleton. That's a different animal though. I know. I'm just trying to think of other ones that are like annoying. It's like good though. And then you got like Justin Timberlake and Chris Stapleton. That's a different animal though.

I know. I'm just trying to think of other ones that are like annoying. It's like, I get it. All right. Like what do you, why is there this crossover? It's just happening. I swear Sam like led the trail for this cause his music all crossed over to pop radio. Yeah.

Oh yeah. You know? Sam Hunt. Body Bike and Back Road did just as well. Freaking pop radio and then does Country. That song offended me. Oh, my God. Why?

Because only Sam Hunt, only a guy that looks like that can be like, I'm going to compare your body to a dirt road and you bitches are going to eat it up. Where's my flat bill hat? He doesn't wear those anymore. It's all about the dad hat now. I was trying to tell him this the other day. I think it was Ben actually. Ben was like, what's trendy for guys right now?

What is the style? And somebody said flat bill, and I was like, no, we are past the flat bill. We're past that, yeah. We're on to the dad hat. How come you haven't gotten Sam on the show yet? On the show? Yeah. I can't get Sam to do anything.

I tried to get him to come to my fundraiser. His wife came. His wife and her sister and her sister's husband all came to support me. I mean, that's great and all, but his wife ain't getting freaking bodies in that door. Well, I don't know that Sam would either. He would hide in the corner the whole time. Hannah's great, though. I think she's going to come to Honduras with us in November.

Her and her sister are. When are you going to Honduras? November. Are you coming? When in November? We and her sister are. So I don't know if I've told you. When are you going to Honduras? November. Are you coming? When in November? We don't have dates yet, but it's happening. I'm championing for a Thanksgiving trip so that I get out of Thanksgiving with my family. Yeah.

See, I like that idea too because I can work that into like, hey guys, I can't do Thanksgiving. Yeah, exactly. I do not want to go out on Thanksgiving. And I'm going to give. Yeah. I'm going to be giving. Yeah, exactly. So that's what I would love to do do a Thanksgiving trip, but we'll see.

But Hannah has for years and years gone down. She's a nurse, and she's worked as a volunteer in the hospitals down there for a long time. Yeah. So she is going to come with us, I think, and just we're going to see how she can help in the villages that we're in because we don't have a lot of medical help. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Are you going to come?

I really want to. I'd love to do that. Woo, awesome coming to Honduras. I would love to do that. I just, I Kevin Honduras! I would love to do that. I'm always like, I can't take a week off of work. You can't if it's Thanksgiving. Exactly. That works for me.

Yeah. Okay, maybe I'll push for that. You know what I need to do? I need to become a social media influencer primarily. No, you don't need to do that. Because if one of these days Instagram is going to go bye-bye. Oh, yeah. At least the money part.

Yes. I would say sooner rather than later. Well, because you know Instagram's like, why are we letting all of our users make the money when we can make the money instead? Yeah. I know. So if you guys bitch at us for selling right now, it's because we know it's going out. It's going to leave real soon. I know.

So I would say that would probably not be in your best interest to put all of your eggs in the IG basket. I know. I'm kidding. I couldn't do that. I know. I live too luxurious of a lifestyle. Just frequent flyer miles alone.

You know, to be fair, I don't know if I've ever said this out loud. The reason what I do, I used to sell Instagram ads to pay for my Airbnb because I was like this pays the mortgage on this second house I've got that's kind of going just fine now I'm selling like you know whatever diff I wear or whatever movement watches to pay for plane tickets to Los Angeles yeah got to do what I do and put every single thing you pay for on an airline credit card and just pay it off every month. I mean, I don't ever rack up my credit cards. Pay them off in full every month.

But that way, every single dollar that I would be spending, I'm getting airline miles for. And I end up never having to pay for flights, hardly. Really? It's pretty awesome. I do that. I got the Venture One Capital card. I don't think that one's the best. I know.

What do you got? What's your favorite thing credit card? My favorite airline credit card. I have the Delta. I actually have two Delta credit cards. I don't like Delta. I'm an American Airlines man. No, no, no, no.

Yeah. No, Delta's better. And I actually have two Delta credit cards. And with each one, I got one one year, and then a year later got the gold one too. And I'll probably get rid of one of them after I get all my points. But when you sign up for the credit card, they give you like 80,000 miles. Yeah, I know. That's like three flights.

You're like the fucking – Points guy, you know? Yeah, no. I'm like, I know. Every flight you get on the stewardess is like, just so you can sign up today, get 60,000 miles. There we go. Let me pass out these brochures. Because that's like three full flights per credit card.

No. That's like, yeah flights per credit card. No. Yeah, that's like six months of travel. No, you are crazy. And then between that and all the stuff I rack up by spending all the money I spend, I fly free most of the time. Really? Truly, I do. God, I don't do that at all.

Yeah. Time is it. I don't know. You got to go? No, just whatever. I'm going to go get a spray tan, you know, because stagecoach. And then I'm going to go see my little brother's playing a show tonight. Oh, yeah.

Where? Get all brazen at the high watt. It's so cute. Nice. Yeah. Are you sad Olivia's gone? She's not gone. She's coming to the show tonight.

What's the deal with Olivia? She's going for a man? No, they broke up. So then why is she going to Seattle? Well, it was, you know, she works for Delta. And Delta Nashville isn't taking seasonal workers. So she did not have a job here. And they were like, here are the

airports that are hiring. Didn't she buy a house? Yeah, her parents. I don't know what they're going to do with it. Rent it. Anyway, she like picked Seattle out of like 10 cities that were hiring. Alright, whatever. I don't know. She's like, you know, she's 26. She's having her quarter life crisis. Been there, done that. I get it. Is she going to paradise? No.

She would if they asked her. She should go. She should. She'd be great on paradise. She would be really good on paradise. Are you for sure going to paradise? If you do go to paradise, when does that start? The beginning of June is when you start filming. It's kind of soon. It's very soon. What are we going to do when you leave?

We're not going to do... I'm going to... Hiatus? Well... We've never taken one. I think... I know. Never, ever. You know, everyone always bitches at us for not having episodes, but we never stop.

We've never had a hiatus, ever. Yeah. Here's... This is what I want to do. I think that we need to start doing episodes, like, when we're not even... Like, if you're somewhere with someone cool, do a fucking episode. Totally. And same with me. If I just happen to be somewhere and we can do an episode,

let's just do it. Yeah. Because I'm going to be gone for a month. So yeah, please make an episode. I'll tell you how to put it all together, I guess. Okay. Or actually you can just send it to me because I'll have my computer. I can totally just do it. You could technically maybe podcast down there. I could, but I wouldn't be around

anybody. Oh, no, they wouldn't let anybody record with you? No way. And I also don't live with the rest of the cast. That's true. The only person I could podcast with while I was in Mexico would be Sarah, because Sarah wants to go. And just be there? I think she just wants to see what it looks like. That is so funny.

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