Your Favorite Thing with Wells & Brandi - Farmers, Dragons, and Hawk Tua Girl

Episode Date: July 3, 2024

Wells is back in his studio and all is right in his world, but thanks to American Airlines and their LIES, Brandi did not get to go to Greece with her friends and all is not right in her world. Your hosts briefly touch on the debate (yikes) before Wells enlightens us on his weird TikTok algorithm. They also do a serious deep dive on House of the Dragon before discussing how many poo particles they think exist in the world.   Favorite things mentioned:  House of the Dragon (Hulu)  Dark Matter (Apple)  Eruption by Michael Crichton and James Patterson  A Family Affair (Netflix)  Roots So Deep  865 by Cece Coakley  Change Your Mind by Rui Gabriel  Twin Size Mattress by The Front Bottoms  Cowgirl Ride by Trace Cyrus and Kaylee Rose    Thanks to our awesome sponsors for supporting this episode!   Fiji Water: Visit your local retailer to pick up some FIJI Water today for your next backyard party, beach or pool day, hike, or even your home office. It’s not just water. It’s FIJI Water.  SKIMS: Shop the SKIMS Soft Lounge Collection at SKIMS.com. Now available in sizes XXS - 4X. If you haven't yet, be sure to let them know we sent you! After you place your order, select "Your Favorite Thing with Wells & Brandi" in the survey and select our show in the dropdown menu that follows.  Boll & Branch: Go to bollandbranch.com/favorite for 15% off your first sheet set plus free shipping! Exclusions apply. See site for details.  Nutrafol: For a limited time, Nutrafol is offering our listeners ten dollars off your first month’s subscription and free shipping when you go to Nutrafol.com and enter the promo code YFT.  Article: Go to ARTICLE.COM/yft for $50 off your first purchase of $100 or more     Don’t forget to rate, review, and follow Your Favorite Podcast! Plus, keep up with us between episodes on our Instagram pages, @yftpodcast @wellsadams and @brandicyrus and be sure to leave us a voicemail with your fave things at 858-630-1856!  This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation 

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And I've just missed it. Anywho, slept weird last night. Took enough melatonin to kill a small walrus. Back feels a little funky. But, you know, whatever. I got i got some sleep caught up on game of thrones yesterday it does anyone know what the fuck is going on on that show sorry house of dragons because i'm watching it and i'm like who is this person what's going on what where are they going but maybe I'm stupid that makes more that makes more sense um anyways how's everyone doing good great grand wonderful I'm back in Los Angeles by the I'm gonna be here

for a couple weeks and I go back to New York City you know Brandy was supposed to go to Greece remember she told this out in the last episode and then she texted me being like, hey, I didn't go to Greece. So let's get the tea on that. You know, because why would you not go to Greece? What's going on? Why wouldn't you go get some from a hairy Grecian? Is that what they are? Grecian? A Greekian? A Greekian? No, a Grecian. A Grecian. It's egregious that she didn't go get some deep digging from a grecian a greekian a greekian no a grecian a grecian it's egregious that she didn't go get some deep digging from a grecian a gregarious grecian completely egregious that he didn't get some deep digging from a gregarious grecian say that 10 times fast all right let's let's call her up let's let's see let's get to the bottom of this it's time to call her up. Hello. What's up?

Oh, hi. How you doing? I'm pretty good, actually. You? I'm doing great. I'm just, I'm confused. Oh, great. Wow.

I'm confused. Why? Because when I talked to you last, you were going to go get some deep dicking from a gregarious Grecian, and now it's egregious that you haven't gotten any deep dicking from a gregarious Grecian. So you definitely prepared for that. We kind of worked it out together, the YFTers and I did. We workshopped it together. And then now that you're here, yes.

How do you feel about it? Sounds very rehearsed. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was. I like it. It's good. Yeah. Yeah, it's a good opening.

Yes, to everyone's dismay, especially mine, I did not go to greece because american fucking airlines oh america's worst airline they are getting so much hate right now via social media and it is well fucking deserved let me tell you interesting okay have you not seen no like for weeks i've been seeing people on tiktok just go ham on american airlines everyone's flights are getting canceled. Everyone's trips are getting ruined. American Airlines is like, oh, weather, not doing anything about it. And people are shitting on them. So leading up to this trip,

I was worried. I was like, fuck, of course I'm flying American. And I just really hope my trip is okay. You know, lo and behold, Sunday morning, I get up at five in the morning to go ride my horse so that I like get it in, get to ride before I leave. And then hopefully I'm tired enough to fall asleep on the 6 PM red eye, you know, from New York to Athens or whatever. That was like my whole game plan. So I'd had like a whole day, you know, Ubered to the airport since I'm gone for so long, spent like 80 bucks on the Uber. Got there early, had some lunch, you know, and was just so prepared for this trip. Get to the gate. The plane arrives early from wherever it came from. They get everybody off of there. And I'm like, man, this is great. Like,

I'm going to get to New York and it's going to be great. And then like, I'm going to get to Athens. It's going to be great. It's going to be so good. No. Boarding time comes and goes. No one's boarding. No one's boarding. No one's doing anything. A flight crew shows up and they get turned away from the gate, which I thought was odd. And then 1240 rolls around and the plane's supposed to take off in six minutes and I'm concerned. And a few minutes later they come on and they say, this plane is now delayed until 2.45 p.m PM because of weather in New York. And I was immediately pulled up my radar app because I have that.

And there are, is no weather in New York at all. No clouds, no storms, no nothing. So that's a fucking lie. Um, and yeah,

so I missed, I would have missed my connection. Of course, there's only one flight a day from JFK to Athens. So I stood in a line for 45 minutes, you know, with everyone else to try and find out how I can get there. To be told that I could either fly the next day through London, where I would then take a coach flight in a middle seat from London to Athens, which is four and a half or five hours. I'll let you I'll have you know. for five hours. I'll let you, I'll have, you know, and I had paid for a business class ticket. So I wasn't pleased about that. And it would have gotten me to Athens, like basically two days late and I had to leave on Friday and I just didn't think it was worth it after that. I was like, so I'm going to do all that schlepping fly in the middle seat, even though I spent a fortune

on this fucking business class ticket to go be there for three days that doesn't sound great to me what sucks you know so what happens there do you get like reimbursed so thank god i booked through amex travel okay and because i booked through them amex gave me a flight credit yeah but i think if i had booked straight for the airline i don't think they would have done shit because of weather really yeah i think i would have just lost it like how crazy is that i don't think that's true i don't think they would have done shit because of weather. Yeah. I think I would have just lost it. Like how crazy is that? I don't think that's true. I don't.

According to TikTok, it's happening to a lot of people. Well. Oh, don't even get me started. Like I had checked a bag, which I never do. And I didn't want to do. And all my friends peer pressured me into checking a bag. So the bag's loaded. And I'm like, well, can I get my bag back?

And they're like, yeah, it might be a while. And I was like, so I'm just a fucking sit here in the airport that I've already been in for two hours and like maybe get my bag back sometime. Like you guys are fucking stupid. Like it's just all complete shit show. And you know what I hate about airlines is like, we depend on them so much and there's, there's no checks and balances. Like the airlines can just do whatever they want with zero consequences. And it's very frustrating. Yeah. I mean, I guess to American airlines,

but in Brandy's case, in Brandy's case. Yeah. It's like a huge one. Huge one. Yeah. So anyways, I didn't go. So I've had a, like, you know, it's case, yeah. It's like a huge one. Huge one. Yeah. So anyways, I didn't go. So I've had a, like, you know, it's bittersweet.

I would have loved to be in Greece and meet a hottie and get a tan and be with my girlfriends. But I have had a lovely week at home. Not meant to be, you know. I guess not. You know, like Garth Brooks said it best, you know, some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. You know, maybe, maybe you're not meant to be in Greece because something better is waiting for you here or something worse is waiting for you in Greece. That might be the case because I would be coming home today and nothing that exciting has happened. Yeah.

So. Like with the other girls there? Nothing exciting happened for them either. I'm saying nothing exciting happened at home where I was like, thank God I didn't go, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was just like, it's been fine. It's been lovely, but, you know. Well, I'm very sorry.

I mean, that sucks, you know? But that's also happened to a lot of people. You know, here's the thing. It's all trash. They're all trash. Yeah. And that's why I am advocating for a high-speed rail system here in America. I don't know why we don't do it.

At least competition breeds lower prices. Totally. So at least we would have, travel would be more reasonable. These fucking airlines that got us by the ball, so you know it's a monopoly. But you know what, if you gave me a high-speed train, and I guess they're going to do it in California, but it's taking forever. They're trying to do the first route, it's going to like to San Francisco and then to Vegas, which would be great. I would love that. I would like to do that.

But let's get it together. Let's be more like Europe. I know. Maybe our new president can figure this out. Well, based on the debate, I'm not going to hold my breath. I mean, could it have been more of a dumpster fire, do you think? No. By the way, do you remember what i said i

said i had a theory that michelle obama was going to replace him at the last second i mean i would love that more than anything i don't think that's what's going to happen i don't think it's michelle obama i think it's going to be like gavin newsom not to get too political or whatever but like so here's the thing i don't really care what anyone's politics are. So I don't want anyone to get all up in arms. And you know what? Believe what you want to believe. Let me believe what I want to believe.

If you ask me, they're both kind of trash. Both sides. Kind of. Everyone's making bad decisions. But my thing is, you know, I lean more progressive. Okay? I do. My thing is, hey, Democrats.

You couldn't foresee that this motherfucker is way too old to be doing this. And then adversely, Republicans, you couldn't be like, hey, there's a good chance this guy's gonna get like nailed for like a bunch of felonies. We should guess. Okay, can you answer me this? Yeah. How can he be nailed for a bunch of felonies and still run for office? Because there's nothing in the Constitution that says you can't. what's amazing is that he won't be able to vote for himself because as a felon you can't vote but you can be the fucking president as a felon i don't like either of these options can we just have someone who's somewhat fucking with it intelligent i know anyways i'll probably have to cut most of that but uh i don't know i mean i could be wrong but a lot of what i'm seeing is people saying the same thing um so now we've lost our entire audience because we started talking about politics should we start the show

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that's shipstation.com code your favorite thing do it i don't mean this i'll run for great democrat okay you can run as like a moderate no republican no i'm busy you're busy okay i'm busy fair enough Republican. No, I'm busy. You're busy? Okay. I'm busy. Fair enough. Tish, though. Tish is a great option. Yeah? No, she's not. No. What do you mean? She smokes way too much weed. Okay? Okay.

Is that a bad thing? Yes. Maybe it's not. For sure. The anxiety level that she would have if she had to go speak in front of a bunch of people or like meeting. Those are big parts of it i think did you ever see like the the hawk to a girl on tiktok okay so i didn't know what it was until yesterday people were like did you guys see hawk to a girl at zach bryan's concert and everyone

was talking about how she didn't know the words and that she was terrible but um i had to google what she was because i didn't know now i do know yeah and for those of you that don't know it was this girl who's very very cute and she's getting interviewed on the street in nashville and i guess the guy says maybe i should maybe i should find a video of it yeah let's play it okay what's one move in bed that makes a man go crazy every time oh you gotta give him that hawk it's so funny that you just saw this i've seen this for the past like and man go crazy every time. Oh, you gotta give him that hock too and spit on that thing. It's so funny that you just saw this. I've seen this for the past, like,

a month, I want to say. Three weeks. Month? Yeah. Let's just break it down. What she's saying is, is that the thing that guys really like is when you spit on our wieners before you get a bit of blowy, you know? Correct. You gotta give it that... That's the hock too, right right which is so funny and she's so cute doing it but also she's talking about giving blowies you know yeah so she's not becoming famous

so here's the thing she was like has no social media presence right all these crazy rumors about her were going around that um that she has no social media because she was really embarrassed by this that um she got rid of all her social media because she was really embarrassed by this, that she got rid of all her social media because her father's a preacher. She got rid of all her social media because she's a teacher and she got fired. Yada, yada, yada. Everyone on TikTok has been trying to find this girl, right? And then she finally kind of emerges at the Zach Bryan show in Nashville.

I saw that she— Well, that was just a couple nights ago. I know. She's finally been found, basically. And she does an interview with Brianna Chicken Fry, who's Zach Bryan's girlfriend, and who's on the Best Friend, the BFS podcast, and all that kind of stuff. I listened to a lot of the interview, and I also

have found out that I think that she's now being represented by UTA. Like, she has a manager and an agent and all this stuff. What? After watching the interview and stuff, I want her just to be that thing forever. You know, like I feel like getting to know her more or like listening to her interviews

or like knowing that she doesn't know any of the Zach Bryan words on stage. It's taking away from the magic that was this moment in time, this Hawk Tua moment, you know? And now I don't think it's sustainable. Oh yeah, I mean, it's not. It's not. And I just want her to stay that thing.

I don't want her to become like shoved down our throats, you know? I don't know. What are your thoughts? I mean, I don't have i think i thought it was funny as hell and like that's it she said something else too she was like she was like do you want to give a shout out to anybody he was like yeah pookie i love you you knock the cobwebs off this stank and that's so funny like she's got great one-liners you know but like it's it's going to be as good as just, like, the Hak Tua thing. And that makes me sad. She peaked at Hak Tua.

Yeah. You know? It's okay. You know? Speaking of, like, things that I love on TikTok, okay? Have you seen the little farm boy who talks about tractors? Nope. Oh, my God.

This little farm boy. Let me see if I can find the video. Pull it up. This little farm boy who talks about tractors? Nope. Oh my God. This little farm boy. Let me see if I can find a video. Pull it up. This little farm boy who talks about tractors, he's a 75-year-old man trapped in a 9-year-old's body. And he has this little southern accent and he's just like, man, let me tell you about the 4400. I like this

one a little bit better than I like the 4700 because of this windshield's bent around. He's like, knows all this stuff about tractors. And he's like the biggest little farmer you've ever seen. And he's just so fucking cute. But also I feel bad for the old man who's stuck inside this prepubescent body

just wanting to get out. Anyways, you got to see a little bit of little farm boy. I think his name is Jackson. And this is Jackson's thoughts on autonomous technology and why it can be helpful and a quick overview about autonomous technology

when it comes to farming. This is a real life thing. I can't believe he knows what any of these words mean. No kidding. You know? I mean, autonomy is cool because farmers,

they can't get any help anymore, which is the sad thing about nowadays because if farming was easy, everybody would do it, but it ain't easy. Not a lot of people want to do it. I'm dead. So they're making these autonomous tractors to where they can run them, to where the tractor can run itself. Uh-huh.

Yeah. It's like a second set of hands for a farmer. The tractor can be, say, running a 30-foot cultivator, and he can be behind planting. A lot easier to do stuff. You just gotta map out the whole field. What? Like what they're gonna do here is map it out. Lando Norris commenting on this is everything.

Those trees. Worked with him back in 74. Legend with duels. This is amazing. His little style is so cute. Oh, I know. I want to find the one where he talks about his favorite tractor. As you see, because the door is in the corner of the cab, you have to split to hold the cab up.

International, on the other hand, had the door on the side. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I love that. The International was better. Yeah. Big curve. Okay. Back when you were 47?

Uh-huh? Yeah. Uh huh. Yeah. Yeah, the 8000 is good. It's in decent shape. This kid's a star. So what would you take? 7R or the 4430? For power reasons, I would take this. Yeah, well, for power reasons. For power reasons.

Yeah, well, for power reasons. Yeah, well, for power reasons. Yeah, well, for power reasons. Yeah, well, for power reasons. Yeah, well, for power reasons. Yeah, well, for power reasons. Yeah, well, for power reasons. Yeah, well, for power reasons. Yeah, well, for power reasons. Yeah, well, for power reasons. or the 4430 for power reasons i would take this yeah well for power for power reasons i would take this i mean maybe the cutest thing i've ever seen in my entire life

but it's so what's funny is that like this is what my algorithm is it's a it's like a 20 a 22 year old girl talking about spitting on wieners and then a seven-year-old but a 70 year old trapped in a seven-year-old's body talking about tractors and they're well-rounded and they live harmoniously in my for you page i also like i don't know if you there's there's this guy who goes around on roller skates and roasts mailboxes have you seen that happens no He just talks shit about people's mailboxes and it's so fucking funny. And it's the dumbest thing in the world, but it's amazing. Okay.

And like, that's what we're turning into is just, I am so much more well-rounded than I used to be. Yeah. Man of many interests. Yeah. Did you see Jojo Siwa get booed and her get angry? No. Oh, let me play this one for you this is just has your sister ever been booed oh i'm sure surely right i mean i'm sure everybody has at one point all right so she gets booed at her show and it like it really gets

awkward look how angry she looks which one of you she's calling out the audience which one of you it gets so awkward what's also great is that she's dressed like a complete crazy person. Literally insane. It's so not. She's got teddy bears on her head, but they look like Princess Leia buns, you know? Oh, my God. She's got teddy bears on her boobies. She's got shoulder pads on, and she's like, who the fuck booed me?

Berating her own crowd. Respectfully? Fuck you. Oh, wow. Respectfully. Respectfully? Go fuck yourself. That's too good.

Oh, man. I just love. I just, I love that. That was so amazing. That was good, yeah. You know, you'd think that after years and years of being on Dance Moms, she would take constructive criticism a little bit better. You would think.

Not the case. No. Not the case at all. Any hoot. So I got a real weird algorithm going on, but you know what? Clearly. It's making for good pod. Fave things.

Let's get into them. Let's get into it. Let's get into it. Are you all caught up on House of Dragons? I am not. I tried to start the episode last night and got halfway through. Okay. But you've seen number two.

So you got halfway through number three. Oh, yeah. Is it just me or is it so hard to keep up with what the fuck's going on in this show? I will admit I usually watch the episodes twice. Okay. Because I don't always catch everything the first time. And part of that's me being on my phone some. Fair enough. But I usually, I hate subtitles like with a passion.

Yeah. So I always want to watch it the first time without them. And then I usually later in the week when I have nothing to watch, we'll go back and watch the episode with subtitles on so that I catch everything. This is what I feel like I'm doing the entire time. Wait, who is that? Wait, where are they going? Wait, why are they doing this?

Wait, why are they cloning that person? Okay, so hold on. So this person is, okay, and they're married to that part okay and where what they're getting on a ship okay where why are they going there who is that why where are the why the eggs living what's what's happening yeah i think for people that read the books maybe things like that make more sense in the moment okay so you the dorks you know what i mean yeah i have a feeling um i also think like for a lot of it when i like i hear you know you hear familiar names even though we've never seen these characters you hear like

uh somebody um tully and somebody stark and like you you know like then you kind of think like oh what was the tully guy the chubby guy that was like John's best friend. Like that was his family's last name. So Sam, right. Tully. Was that him? I think so. Yeah. So like I, I can connect those dots to an extent where I'm like, okay, well, even though I don't really know who those people are, like I can make the connection that like that, that was his family, you know, that's like his lineage or whatever, but it is confusing. Lineage. And it's hard lineage lineage lineage it's hard to care i think about those scenes when you don't really know the characters yeah i still like it don't get me wrong but i have been very confused so like amon targaryen that's who they were trying

to i brought up all the names because i can't keep everyone, I can't keep everyone together. I can't figure it out. Okay. But so Aemon Targaryen, that's who they were trying to kill, right? Yes. And it took like, Because he killed Luke.

Because he killed Luke with his giant dragon, right? Yeah. Because Luke took his eye when they were kids. When they were kids, yes. After they kill the baby, right? Mm-hmm. his eye when they were kids when they were kids yes after they kill the baby right he's like investigating around the castle and he finds a coin and i'm like what the fuck coin is that like this is supposed to be something but i don't know was that the money that like damon paid those guys and they and they dropped some of it and also if you how bad of a criminal are you

if one you're killing the wrong person and two you're dropping the coins no i found out on tiktok it's amen figuring out that they actually came through his room and he wasn't there because the last scene you see is Eamon and Sir Kristen Cole like moving the little pieces around to try to figure out like where to go to war. And one of those pieces was those coins and those guys stole those coins off the table and dropped one. He realizes, oh, I was supposed to be in here. I could have saved my little nephew or whatever it is if I wasn't in the fetal position with the brothel owner. True, but also if you just hadn't killed Luke, you would have avoided all this as well. Totally. Dumbass. But also, Eamon in the fetal position with the brothel lady is just so great.

Is it? Yeah. It's like, oh, I never liked this guy. And now I'm like, I don't know what's going on here. But this is some, you know, I'm not going to kick shame here, but like this is some weird shit. Like this is some Freudian stuff that I feel like you need to work on. Yes. You know?

Away from the battlefield. Sir Christian Cole really turned out to be a piece of shit. Didn't he? You know what's so funny? I've never liked him. In the beginning. I think he was supposed to be like this. Like a heart throbby person.

And I never got it. I was like. One. He looks like he's 5'5". Okay. I think he is. I know. So I'm like.

You're not some big like. Handsome. You know. No. like sir harwin strong now put him to shame like yeah he was the heartthrob you know what sir whatever cole is you know what he is hot rodent summer totally that's what he is but he is a bit of a prettier face than a hot rodent summer boy but for sure yeah yeah you got like a little he looks a little italian almost or something yeah yeah i've never gotten it and i also don't understand queen hightower's relationship with him is it it's just she likes to get fucked you know yeah so it's just for the deep dick and yeah but she's starting to resent him a little bit because he's getting

power now that he's the hand of the king. Well, and he's being dumb as shit. He's making dumb decisions. For sure. And now she's like, yo, the sex appeal is going down the dumber you get. I know, yeah. She's picking up the ick for sure. Massive ick.

Yeah. Yeah. I'm hoping that as this series goes on, I'll have more of an understanding of what's going on. But I feel like I'm much more confused about this show than I ever was about Game of Thrones. Mm-hmm. But I don't know. I could be wrong.

Yeah. You got anything else you're watching? Did you watch the finale of Dark Matter? No. Oh, my God. Well, I've been gone. What the fuck, Wells? I totally forgot about it.

Oh, I was hoping you'd seen it i'm so excited now it's really good they're really good job based on this show because i was like all about it before i went to traders and then i came back and i was like what am i watching i don't you know oh my goodness it's great it is i really liked it love it yeah okay really really liked it. Love it. Yeah. Okay. Really, really liked it a lot. Is it better than the book? No, but it's like a good adaptation. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. For sure. They did a great job. I love that. Yeah. The book's just more involved, which is always better, but yeah,

I think for doing only what, what seven episodes or eight, like it's, they did a great job. I started reading a new book. Do tell. It's called eruption. That sounds familiar. So it's by Michael Crichton and James Patterson. They did a great job. I started reading a new book. Do tell. It's called Eruption.

That sounds familiar. So it's by Michael Crichton and James Patterson. Like, I don't know why they're teaming up, but I like both of their writing, you know, like whatever. They've both written amazing, like, they're great vacation books, I feel like they write know totally instant number one new york times bestseller a thriller by michael crichton and james patterson about a once in a century volcanic eruption that threatens to destroy hawaii's big island a decades-old military secret makes the volcano even more dangerous. And a group of scientists, leaders, celebrities, and billionaires must work together to save the world. A novel by two of the biggest authors, Michael Crichton and James Patterson in Eruption.

Yeah, it's great. I'm only halfway through it, so I don't know. There's got to be a twist of some sort. But yeah, it's great i'm only halfway through it so i don't know there's gotta be a twist of some sort but yeah it's pretty crazy we also don't talk about like we could totally be fucked by volcanoes totally like everyone's seen dante's peak dude i know so if half dome erupts we are fucked oh yeah not fucked in like cal like California and the West Coast is fucked. If Hafto were to go off, which they think it will eventually or will again, it'll kill the world. Damn. Like it'll put up enough ash into the atmosphere that'll kill everybody. Good, good, good.

So unlock the new fear on that, which is nice. Great. One more reason to build an underground bunker, I guess. Yeah. I could see you being a doomsday prepper. I'm too lazy, but yeah, I kind of wish I had had that situation going. Yeah. I love the idea. You know, we were talking about politics earlier today in the episode, but one thing that I don't know if you've seen like on social media where like,'s like kids sending their parents biden mailers that say like thank you for donating to the biden campaign and then filming their parents be like what the fuck is this i did not i absolutely did not and they're just like losing their minds and then they do the same thing with like liberal parents and they'll be like thank you for for donating the trump's campaign and they're like what that's actually hilarious it's so funny and what's amazing about it you do that to your mom

my only concern is that my my parents might have like an actual heart attack when that happened they'd be like i did not did you and then they'll blame me they'll be like, I did not. Did you? And then they'll blame me. They'll be like, did you do this in my name? Oh my God. It's so funny. It's so funny. I love that. But what does it say about the boomers out there? That like they are so easily triggered by such.

You really have some strong feelings about the boomers. They've got no sense of humor. They really don't. That's why they're all watching like NCIS and shit. They're watching terrible television shows because they have no sense of humor. They really don't. That's why they're all watching like NCIS and shit. They're watching terrible television shows because they have no sense of humor. You're not wrong. I know I'm not wrong. You ever try to make a boomer laugh?

Good luck, dude. The only way boomers laugh is when they hear like a racist joke and you're like, no, that's not good. I watched the new Nicole Kidman and zach efron movie i think it's called a family affair yeah have you seen it no it's pretty cute but you know what what is it these days with all these stories and movies and shows about older women women having relationships with younger men it's a very very, very trending topic right now. It's like another one, you know? Yeah, the other one was

with Anne Hathaway and the idea of you. The Anne Hathaway one showed it in a good light, whereas the May-December not so great of a light, that one. But that was like an of a light, that one.

But that was like an older woman and a younger guy. I don't know. It just seems to be a hot topic these days. An unexpected romance triggers comic consequences for a young woman, her mother, and her boss, grappling with the complications of love, sex, and identity. A family affair on Netflix. So it's Nicole Kidman, Zac zach efron and joey king is the daughter i suppose yeah she's really good in it she's very funny she's great i liked it it's an easy watch nothing groundbreaking just very cute why doesn't zach efron get with joey king that seems like that makes more sense well in the movie she is his assistant basically and he like treats her like shit so that's the

whole thing is like he's the epitome of a narcissistic celebrity that thinks the world revolves around him and treats everyone like garbage you know that's his character which is fucking hilarious and then he treats joey so badly i don't know what her name is the movie and then meets her mom and starts having sex with her mom and so joey's character is like no he's the fuck he's fucking scum of the earth like you can't love him you know like he's he's fake like i know what he how he treats women and whatever so that's the whole storyline but it's very cute um and i think just like being in the entertainment industry it like it's just funny like seeing the over exaggeration of zach's character portraying that is hilarious.

And Joey's great in it. So it's a good watch. All right. Check it out. I recommend. Netflix. So I watched, it's kind of a documentary about ranching. Oh. And how we've been kind of dealing with cattle like very, very wrong.

And I thought it was super interesting. So it's four episodes and it's called Roots So Deep. You Can See the Devil Down There. Oh, shit. Guided by director and wrangler of Scientist Peter Bayek, Roots So Deep, You Can See the Devil Down There is a four-part documentary series that exposes the world of adaptive cattle farmers

and their conventional farming neighbors. Alongside this journey, a team of pioneering scientists conduct groundbreaking research, investigating the costs and benefits of grazing practices in harmony with nature versus those in conflict with it. Roots So Deep, you can see the devil down there. So you got to watch it like online. So it's at roots so deep dot org. But it's fascinating. So and I'm going to kind of butcher this and be wrong about a lot

of things. But like I'll kind of give you like the 30,000 foot view. So the way that we have been dealing with cattle and raising cattle in this country has has been wrong. And it's obviously causing a lot of issues with global warming and carbon emissions and methane emissions and all that kind of stuff. And so what this documentary is kind of about and ascertains is we're grazing our cattle incorrectly. So right now what we'll do is we'll farm these huge pieces of land to make a bunch of hay, right? And then we'll get that hay and maybe even corn, and then they even like ferment it and stuff.

So like the cattle get drunk off of this stuff and then they'll feed them all in one place, right? We've all probably been driving on the road and you see these huge cattle farms. You're like, that's the fucking saddest thing you risked in your entire life, right? I know. So what it did basically is it made it so you could kind of do this ranch all these

things in a smaller on a smaller scale but you're having to do a bunch more steps like you're having to own land to grow that hay to then cut it down and then bring it to the cattle and and so when you're growing all that hay and stuff you're having to use pesticides and herbicides and stuff like that, which is not great for the environment. And you're also kind of like wrecking that piece of ground. And so what the documentary is talking about is like, so our country used to be a huge in the middle of it, especially in the plains was this huge grazing area for buffalo. So like large, large herbivores. The premise is, is that we have been doing this all wrong. And if we went back to what it originally was, which is spot grazing. So what

they're doing is they're saying, okay, we're going to, the entire piece of land that we were growing the hay on, right? And we're going to put these cattle in this piece of land, but we're going to fence it off in sections. So they can only graze this one piece of the land. And then when they eat all that, then they move on to the next piece and they start eating that. This is exactly what I do with my horses at home. Yeah. And so what they were talking about, they're like, so what that does is their hooves and their manure and all that stuff kind of like chews up the ground and then it makes it so the water retention is much much higher so you don't have to worry about drought as much

because it'll just grow naturally because the cattle have like churned up all this earth and they put all this fertilizer back into the ground and then they move along and while doing that the grass then is able to grow at a much faster rate, which absorbs a lot more of the methane and the carbon dioxide, which is better for the planet. And they're like, if everyone did this, our carbon dioxide levels and everything would plummet. And it was just like so interesting. So it's all of these younger farmers,ers excuse me who are like i can't convince my grandpa of this you know and it's like you got to show them this stuff you got to like kind of explain to them that like we we tried to like turn ranching into an assembly line instead

of just letting it happen naturally people wanted to start producing more stuff to make more profit and doing it faster. So then they start doing things that seem like a quick fix, like just feeding the hay instead of letting them grow. Because land management in general is a big, big job. And like, I mean, I have barely 10 acres and it's a very large job. So I can't imagine like having a massive cattle farm. It is a lot of work. So I think probably initially people thought it was like a quick, easy fix to do it this other way. And now we're in deep shit because of it, you know? Yeah. So anyways, if you're into that kind of stuff, uh, root so deep.org, go check it out. It's only four part series. Yeah. I'd love to watch it actually. I'm very into all that. I think you'd like it. We have to do a quick

shout to the Mormons out there. Oh boy oh boy okay so there's this guy i think he went to duke his name is kyle filipowski okay 22 years old he's been dating a girl who's like six six or seven years older than him which is totally fine you know i think i'm six years old trendy right now yeah um but apparently she started grooming him at like 14. Uh, she was his tutor and yeah, they're Mormon. Of course she convinced him to like completely separate himself from his family. So then his family, his mom and his brother started tweeting out. She was grooming him at a young age. So then he's going off in the draft.

He's like seven, two, you know? Of course, all this is coming out. Every team is like, nope, not fucking touching that. No thank you. Until the Utah Jazz come in, baby. Oh, boy. You gotta love it, man. Oh, jeez.

A good Mormon boy who's been groomed since he was 14? Bring him on over to Salt Lake City. I cannot. Isn't that great? It is great. Actually, it's really, really very sad. It is, yeah.

But yeah, it's a real thing. It happened in the world, and I loved it. Wow. You know what I was thinking about? I used to play tables. You know the end of a shift, you know, and you're closing up, it would always be you put the chairs upside down shift you know and you're closing up it would always you put the chairs upside down on the table whatever and that's the grossest thing i've ever heard in my entire life

and do you know why that's the grossest thing you've ever heard in your entire life is because people are sitting on those chairs with shit particles and poopoo particles that are on that chair and then what you're doing is you're taking that chair with the poopoo particles on it and then you're putting it on the taking that chair with the poopoo particles on it. And then you're putting it on the surface of which I'm going to be eating tomorrow. So effectively, the entire table is just filled with poopoo particles. I have a feeling that everything is filled with poopoo particles. And, you know, it's just part of life.

This microphone? For sure, poopoo particles on there. Poopoo particles. Definitely. Doesn't smell like poopoo particles. But. It doesn't smell like poo-poo particles. But I don't know why we do that. To be able to vacuum under the table. I know why we do it. But why do we do it?

Because people don't really think. They just do things and don't really think them through. My thing is I would much rather have a little bit of a messy carpet. Uh-huh. But I know that there were no poo no poopoo particles possibly on my table. Mm-hmm. But we live in a world where poopoo particles are just part of the life. So maybe the answer is that in the morning when they pull the chairs down,

they need to disinfect all the tables in the morning. That too. That would be good. And disinfect the seats. That would also be good okay dude stay on the grocery good thing on the restaurant theme oh geez there's a i don't know if you have this in nashville but in los angeles there's a couple grocery stores that have a bar in them whole foods has like a bar in it, like a wine bar.

Yeah, I think I've seen that in LA. The Gelson's by my house has a wine bar. I don't think we have those. And I was checking out the other day and there are people there like having drinks and having a great time. Oh, yeah. How lonely do you need to be to be like, I'm going to get a drink over at the Ralph's. See you later. And who's showing up?

They're like, this is our spot. Our watering hole is this Safeway over here. I'm sure there's people that do it. I know. I'm sure they love it. They're like them. You know, it's like, well, all the other places are too pop and too crowded, so we're just going to do Ralph's.

Yeah. I killed a couple birds with one stone. I'm going to get some food. Yeah. I'm going to get fucked food yeah but get fucked up it'd be great make sense to me justin timberlake got arrested for a dui he sure did i don't know if he was leaving a safeway or ralphs i don't think so i saw some conspiracy theory about that because what he said was this is going to ruin the tour and the kid said what tour and he said world tour, which that's so funny. Two, I don't know if anyone knew that he was on tour until this happened. And now people are like, wait, he's on tour?

So everything I've seen about this is that nobody, none of the Gen Zers know who Justin Timberlake is. Which is totally understandable. Yeah. Like now the thing is to show his photo, like they're showing photos around of people and the Gen Zers are like, who is that? Yeah. And they don't know anybody. Speaking of the Gen Zers.

Yeah. Boy, oh boy. And I want to say this right off the bat. I know that I have a very unique name, but the millennials who are naming these kids. Millennials who are naming these kids. What the fuck is happening here?

Let me show you a video. Okay, so they're doing one of these videos. They're like, tell me who your crush is, you know? And then they find that person and they're like, who's your high school crush? And then they're like, oh, it's this one. That doesn't bother me. But it's the names that really grind my gears. all right all right here we go okay who's your secret senior crush um i'm gonna i'm gonna have to say bergham spins okay first of all i don't know if you picked up on that but

her name was kaya which that's fine actually But then her answer was, I'm going to have to say Burgum Spins. Burgum. Burgum Smith is a name that's a real thing. Okay, let's keep on rolling, Kaya and Burgum. Burgum, who's your senior crush? Kaden's one out. Kaden! We got KK, we got Burgum, and we got Kaden. We gotta get a Hayden coming down the pipe. Gotta. Kaden seems fine. Okay, whatever. Kaden, who's your senior crush?

That was Keenan's? Burgum's friend. Okay, so Burgum is a hot commodity. Maya, who's your senior crush? Zaylen McClary. Zaylen! Maya's high school crush is a guy named Zaylin. Okay.

Zaylin. That's yeah. Let's keep going. Derek, who's your senior crush? Camelot. Okay, that was real fast. But that guy said Camelot. Or was it Camela?

Camelot. Are you sure? I don't know. Let's listen. Let's listen. Senior crush. Camelot. My senior crush is Titan Willis.

Titan. Titan. We went from Camelot to Titan. I cannot. This can't be real. Is it real? And I blame myself, you know? Do you?

Well, I'm a millennial. I was going to say, you're literally talking to the person whose siblings are named Brazen and Miley. Okay, but Miley's not a real name. But, like, they're weird as fuck. Hey, listen, my name's Wells. I have a brother named Cord. Anyways, let's keep going because... What was that last one? Trident? Titan.

Titan. Titan, who's your senior crush? Senior crush. Go with Hadley. Hadley, who's your senior crush? Alright, that's fine. Did she just say Crispy? that has to be a nickname let's go back to see if she said crispy that has to be a nickname crispy christian who is your senior crush christian christian anyways wow i hate the boomers

i hate the millennials for naming the gen We are the millennials I know, I'm self-loathing here I hate my group of people for naming their kids these names You want them to just name them Emily and Rachel and just all the normal names? Chris, Matt, Zach, like we've got a bigazillion of those Titan? I think it's fine Titan

I'm good with it. Camelot? That one's a little weird. That was a little strange. That's all I got. I got a bunch of musics though. Okay, great. Do you have any musics or no? Maybe. You don't ever have musics. You know, I just don't really think about it ahead of time.

You don't listen to music and then put it in your like folder to be like oh no i just you know i just live in the moment i just listen that's a nice way of saying i'm lazy no yeah maybe absolutely not do you know who cc coakley is the name does sound familiar but i don't i don't really think so. This is a song called 865 that I really liked a lot. You lose yourself or does your self esteem? Are you doing well? Can you feel nothing If I'm here for another minute Nothing good could possibly happen Moments away from a crime

Cece Coakley, the song is called 865. I like her voice a lot. Right? Mm-hmm. I do have one, but I want to go out on it. Okay, I'll do one more. This is Rue Gabriel, a song called Change Your Mind that I liked a lot. it rue gabriel and kate teague change your mind very chill Rue Gabriel and Kate Teague.

Change your mind. That is very chill. Yeah, it's very like driving down the coast. Mm-hmm. Wait, I got one more. This is called the Front Bottoms Twin Size Mattress. For the friends I've made, for the sleepless nights, for the warning signs I've completely ignored,

there's an amount to take, reasons to take more It's no big surprise you turned out this way When they closed their eyes and prayed you would change And they cut your hair and sent you away You stopped by my house the night you escaped With tears in my eyes, I begged you to stay You said, hey man, I love you, but no fucking way. We could find something for you to do on stage.

Maybe shake a tambourine or whatever. I think the record's called Talent of the Hawk. The Front Bottoms. That's a song called Twin Size Mattress. It had like emo vibes. Yeah, it reminded me of a band that i liked a lot called the weaker thans who were from canada but then it also had like a little bit of like some 41 blink 182 late 90s vibes and i love totally i love that very blink yeah are you

ready for mine i am my brother trace put out a new song this week oh cool you're gonna love it cowgirl ride oh yeah uh what do you got coming up oh it's fourth of july weekend yeah i'm playing in nashville on friday nice it's a surprise show they're not advertising it but i'm here to let the wife tears know that it is at friends bar on broadway yeah why is it a secret i don't understand you You know, Friends Bar, that's their whole shtick, is they do all these surprise sets on their rooftop. They don't really advertise

anybody. They want it to always be a surprise of like, you never know who's going to show up at Friends Bar. That's like their whole shtick. Fair enough. So anyway, I'm showing up Friday night. Actually, I think it's a day show. I'm not really sure. But I will post it on my social media later this week.

Great. Then the Ozarks on Saturday. Fun. Super pumped about that. Saturday night show. And then Monday, I'm playing in Calgary. It's during the Stampede. So even though it's a Monday, I think it'll be pretty lit. Litty kitty in the city, baby.

Litty kitty. And then after that, I'm going to Bant for a few days. God, I'm so jealous of that. I'm so pumped. I'm sure that somehow my algorithm heard you say Bant and all of a sudden I was seeing videos of it on TikTok and Instagram. I was like, I want to go there. Can I come?

Sure. I can. I'm staying at the Fairmont. It's beautiful. It's like a castle, you know? I'm very excited. Come join. I'm actually at the Fairmont. It's beautiful. It's like a castle, you know? I'm very excited. Come join. I'm actually going next week.

I'm going to Jackson Hole. Oh, I'm jealous. Well, I mean, Wyoming, Montana. Isn't that where Banff is? Montana? No, it's in Canada. Oh, it is?

Yes. I don't know anything about anything. Right outside of Calgary, actually. All right. You should go say hi to my friends at Diamond Cross Ranch while you're there. What do they do there? Beautiful. I mean, they're a working ranch, but they also have little cabins you can stay at.

Love it. And they're just super cool people. All right. Well, YFTers, we love you. How much do you love Trace's song? I know. That's why I wanted

to wrap us up so we'd hear it. Video dropping soon. Cameo by yours truly. Ooh. Why didn't he ask me to be in it? Don't live here.

Fair enough. Trace is going country. He is. Everybody is I know well Beyonce did it Everybody's doing it Everyone's doing it

That's good That's all Yeah Alright See you later Love you guys Okay bye Bye bye

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