Your Favorite Thing with Wells & Brandi - Feral cats, toasty nips and free energy

Episode Date: December 28, 2022

Not even a polar vortex could stop Wells and Brandi from bringing you one last episode in 2022. On this episode of MTV Farms, Wells learns even more about Brandi’s barn and the many animals with questionable names that she is trying to keep warm. The two chat about NYE plans, and offer another installment of “Brandi will not move to LA no matter the weather.” Wells has lots to say about artificial intelligence, fusion creating plasma, the future of free energy, and global warming... Brandi tunes him back in just in time to start the show! She admits that not only does she not listen back, but she barely listens while they’re recording. A true professional. The two talk about their fave and least fave shipping providers (because holiday packages), dive further into the Harry and Meghan doc, and then listen to your voicemails! We hope you’re cozy around a fire because they also tell the most magical story of how they first met… See you in 2023 YFTers, we freakin’ love ya.  Don’t forget to rate, review, and follow Your Favorite Podcast! Plus, keep up with us between episodes on our Instagram page, @yftpodcast and be sure to leave us a voicemail with your fave things at 858-630-1856!  Thanks to our awesome sponsors for making this episode possible! Check out these deals just for you, YFTers:  Prose — Go to Prose.com/yft for your FREE in-depth hair consultation and 15% off 

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the like weather part of the news well i follow like the local weather because that's all i need to know i have like there's a twitter account here nashville nashville severe weather twitter account and they're always on it they're so accurate and so like i like heavily follow the twitter feed like i get alerts and all the things because they're so accurate and i think they started talking about this like maybe max a week ago which is really i don't need to know three weeks in advance because that's two more weeks of anxiety i'm gonna have about the polar vortex you know yeah it wouldn't be having as much anxiety if it wasn't for all the animals oh the animals are cold they're gonna be fucking freezing so what do you gotta do you gotta go get blankets for these horses and stuff?

The horses already have blankets because we're well prepared here. Okay. I will tell you, though, I made the decision that I'm going to bring the feral cats inside and lock them in a bathroom in my house. You've got feral cats? I've got feral cats that live in my barn. And I'm sorry, but negative four with a wind chill of negative 20, it's too cold for the cats to be outside. So I'm going to lock them in

the bathroom. They're probably going to destroy it, but you know, I will sleep better at night knowing they're not frozen to death or in the hood of someone's car and they're going to die because people turn their cars on and kill cats all the time. It's very tragic. Wait, hold on. Do you feed these cats? Yes. So they're not, they're just like your cats. But they're not house cats. Like you can't really touch them unless it's on their own terms. And they're, they're very difficult to be caught. I do feed them, but mostly they just kill the mice in the barn. They're very useful. Yeah. So you've got them in there just to kill. They're working. They're assassins. They're assassins. Do they have names?

Yes. Boots and Bling. Like Puss in Boots? Yeah. Miley named one and I named the other. That was the deal. Did you name Boots? I did not.

I named Bling. Oh, because there's already Puss in Boots. I know, but she wanted Boots. Does it have like different colored feet or something? No, he's just a barn cat, you know? Little orange daddy. Well, then why is his name Boots? Because that's what she wanted.

Listen, better than AJ, BJ, CJ, and DJ, which are the donkey names that I left up to her, you know? What? It's an upgrade. Why are the donkeys named AJ, BJ, CJ, and EJ? I feel like maybe it was supposed to be a joke, but it just stuck because no one came up with other names. So that's their names.

So is it A.J. for like Andrew James and then B.J. for like Blowjob? Blowjob, yes. And then C.J. for Clitjob? And then E.J. for Ejaculation? D.J. It's alphabetical. D.J. Got it. Like D.J. D.J. ejaculation. DJ. It's alphabetical. DJ.

Got it. Like DJ. DJ. Like Dustin Johnson. Yeah. Yeah. Man, I learn more about your barn every day that we do this. Lots to learn here, you know?

Seriously. Stressful. A little bit. Yeah. Did you have a nice Christmas? Christmas hasn't happened. Are we going gonna fake it yeah because this is gonna come out when christmas has already happened that's cheating you can't

fake like you've already had christmas this is how hollywood works okay hollywood's bullshit and i refuse to partake in the fabrication of things just for the sake of entertainment i haven't had christmas yet i don't know what's gonna happen to Christmas. Maybe one of my animals freezes to death and it's a tragic Christmas or maybe not. Maybe somehow like someone, you know, anonymous sends me a million dollar check and it's the greatest Christmas ever. Like, I just don't know yet. Well, let's do both. And then whatever actually happens, I'll edit it in that way. Absolutely not. I had the best Christmas of my life, and I'll tell you why. I got three new jobs. I got a new car.

And Carl came back to life. It was the best Christmas ever. That would be the best Christmas ever. Yeah. See, but now you're just going to be let down next week when you hear this back, and you're like, none of that should happen. I know. But all right.

Well, now I can't edit it. So now the YFTers know, yes, we were recording this before Christmas again. Sorry, guys. It wasn't up to us. Blame the producers. Well, yeah, it's true. They wanted to get this before the end of the week, which is totally understandable. It is.

And we're taking next week off, I think. I think so. Yeah. Because let me tell you i plan on being so hungover yeah for a couple days after new year's eve what are you gonna do for new year's eve um i think i maybe mentioned this but i'm going to miami i leave on monday that's right miley hosts her live nbc show from there so they, you know, to prep for rehearsals and camera blocking and all the things because it's a live show. And I usually just go and like sit on the beach for a few days and call it quality family time. And then I have a gig on New Year's Eve in Miami this year,

which is really nice. So I don't have to leave. So I get like six full days in Florida. And typically it would be 80 and sunny and I would leave with a suntan and now because of this effing polar vortex the high is like 68 in Miami who's like that's unheard of well I mean I feel like we do this thing every couple weeks and you like fight it but I would just like to say it's 71 degrees here in Los Angeles I played golf yesterday in shorts I played golf yesterday in shorts Listen You can make fun of me all you like But I tell you what

My nips aren't nipping Okay I'm living the life over here I'm wearing this sweater right now Are you so hot? I'm sweating so much I'm doing it purely because I feel like it's like Christmas-y Oh I guess i should

have worn something christmas i'm like trying to get in the spirit don't need it could be in a tank top because it's 71 degrees here in los angeles move to la what are you thinking no i don't want to you're crazy i'm not gonna sell my soul just for better temps okay if that's not a reason to sell your soul i don't know what is that's why my mom sold her. She refuses to live anywhere where the temperature is not between 65 and 85 year round. What are the reasons to sell your soul? Happiness, right? I refuse to sell mine. I sold it long ago for happiness. And happiness to me is playing golf on December 21st in shorts. Fair. Yeah.

It's fair. You do have to breathe smog, though, whilst playing golf. I'm fine with that. Yeah, I don't care. Which, by the way, I feel like we're about to embark on a different time for humanity. We are. I'm scared, but I'm also very excited. We're going to see.

So obviously the chat GPT thing, the AI is a little scary, but it's also going to make a lot of jobs easier. And well, it's also going to make a lot of jobs not necessary, which is going to leave people without income. Maybe so people are going to figure out other ways of making money. I suppose the other thing is, I don't know if you saw, but they finally figured out fusion. Did you see that? I did not. So what they were able to do is, okay, I'm not a scientist. I know that might shock some of you. I'm not a physicist, but I kind of understand what's happening with fusion. So what they were able to do is they were able to take a molecule or an atom and they put it in like this little like capsule, right? And then they shot a bunch of laser beams at it and they heated it up so much that like two atoms fused into one atom.

And when that happens, the atom or the molecule becomes lighter. And the difference in the weight from the two to one, that difference is expelled vis-a-vis energy. And that's like where E equals mc squared comes from. Mass plus the speed of light equals energy. And so that's effectively what's happening on our sun. Like our sun's not like on fire, it's fusing. The molecules are fusing together and then radiating a bunch of heat. In theory, we've known that we could do this. And so when you do that, you get net positive energy. You can get more energy out than what you're putting in effectively, right?

Like, so they were able to do this where they shot these laser beams at it and they were able to create fusion. And they put in about like, I think like two gigajoules or something like that of energy and they got out 3.5, which means they net positive 1.5 joules of energy. They've never been able to do before, which means that like proof of concept, like you can create fusion to make energy. And now it's just really kind of an engineering problem. It's no longer a physics problem. So now they have to have the engineers come in and figure out how you can do this on a large scale. Because once you start fusion, it'll just keep on going forever. It'll continue to create plasma.

It'll like be in a plasma state where it'll just be like constantly just making energy. All that to be said, we're probably 10, 15 years away from it, but we are on like the precipice of free energy, which, I mean, how great will that be? You won't need to pay- No, no, no.

Nothing in life is free. They will find a way to charge us for said energy trust. Yeah,, no. Nothing in life is free. They will find a way to charge us for said energy. Trust. Yeah, maybe so. But I will say this. They will find a way. It's really clean energy, though. That's nice.

At least the positive is that I won't be breathing in so much smog later. I guarantee you that clean energy is going to come at a high price. Well, maybe so. I mean, yeah, nothing in this life is free. It is not. Love that for science, though. Go science. Pretty cool, yeah, nothing in this life is free. It is not. But anyways. Love that for science, though. Go science. Pretty cool, right?

Very. Figured out fusion. We got AI here. So I don't know. I don't know what else. I don't know what to say. Well, we also have intense global warming, which is what's causing the polar vortex that is hitting us right now.

And I was just talking to my mom about this. And, you know, when everyone thinks of global warming, we just all think about how hot it's getting right the earth is hotter than it's ever been our summers are hotter and longer than blah blah but no one thinks about how that affects the shit up by the north pole that's now coming for us guys this is how the ice age happened this is how just more extreme i just feel i just i'm just here to say that maybe not in our lifetimes but i feel like another ice age is is heading our way maybe so or maybe we're just in like a cycle of which like the earth is just getting warmer or colder or whatever but we're definitely

fucking shit up a little bit and yeah it's not really i think that like global warming was a bad moniker i think climate change is the right one like that we're like the climate's getting fucked up a lot of people are like yeah it's how is it global warming it's so cold out well actually i guess like one of the things that i was reading about was snow levels were down a couple years ago but it was colder i guess because it is warmer it's not able like the like the snow off the rocky i'm gonna cut this because i don't know what the but it was colder. I guess because it is warmer, it's not able, like the snow off the rocky, I'm going to cut this because I don't know

what the fuck I'm talking about. You're like, I don't know. Yeah. Anyways. Can we get a scientist on here? An expert, please? Yeah, we need an expert. I mean, I just kind of

explain fusion to everybody, but like whatever, it's fine. Super cool. Yeah, man. Should we start the show? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is it me or you?

I don't know. You? I think it's you. Hold on. So this is going to come out after Christmas. After Christmas. So the 28th. Before New Year's. So this is the last episode of 2022.

Sure is. Boy oh boy what a year it was. What a whirlwind. What a whirlwind. What a whirlwind. All right. Bros and hoes, you're listening to Your Favorite Thing Podcast with... Wells and Brandy. Also, I really feel like you missed an opportunity there for a ho, ho, ho. I did it in the last episode.

Did you? Yeah. I don't remember that. Well, if you listen to it back, you'd notice. I don't think I listened to you at all, even while we were going. Yeah. I don't think you do either. Cause I remember doing it being like, that was funny. And I got, I got nothing. I got nothing in return. You know what? I feel like I, I've lived a thousand lives since Monday. I don't know. Yeah. Oh, well. All right. Quick PSA for

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Do it. Let's just start real quick with, hey, FedEx, could you work any slower? Don't think you could. When you go into the store, they are the slowest people in the world. And I know why. They're not making extra money for getting customers in and out. It doesn't matter to them. But when you got 17 people deep and you're taking your jolly ass time to fucking pack up some shit, fuck you, man. And also,

also, there's like six other people in the back hey guess what it's christmas time no one needs to be making photocopies right now okay let's shut down the paper shredding department for just a second and get some more bodies here into shipping because guess what we're not here because of our tax documents need to be shredded We're here because we got to send fucking Aunt Casey and Aunt Flip some fucking socks for Christmas. Okay? So let's get a couple more bodies in here and let's fucking speed it up. All right? And maybe, here's a thought.

Let's incentivize these people to not be fucking sloths up there. Let's say if you get someone in and out, within five minutes, $2 extra. I'll pay $2 extra. Let's get going here. I don't have all day to be sitting here. I'm also holding these fucking boxes

like a schmuck, waiting for these people to get done. I just don't understand. Or, well, let's... Why don't we do it like fucking the checkout line at CVS, where I can do it myself? Well, that's what I was about to say.

I love the bit, but why aren't you packing all this shit and printing your labels at home and just dropping it? Because you're an amateur and I'm a professional. Is that why? Yeah. I don't have a scale. Also, hot take. UPS is so much better than FedEx. No.

UPS is on our shit list right now. Sarah bought some jewelry from a nice company or whatever. And this is what happened with UPS. She got an email saying, we tried to reach you, but you weren't home. So we sent the jewelry back to the store. Guess what? We work in the entertainment industry. We ain't got dick to do during this time. We're at home all day. They did not stop. I don't know if that's true. They did not. We have a security system. We know every time the doorbell gets rung. It was never rung. All right. All right. So then we tried to call UPS. Hey, what store is it at? Like where, what's, where do we go? Finally get them on the phone. They're like, oh, it's reported as missing. What? What does that mean? And it was like subcontext, the guy stole it. So then we had to put in a claim and then you get screwed because you don't get the tax back. Anyways, here's the thing. Here's, here's the thing. Here's, here's the thing. If you ask for a signature, they know that it's something expensive.

You know? The trick is to not ask for the signature. It could be anything. Socks for on Flip and on Casey. Could be. Anyways, UPS, they're on my shit list right now. They're on the naughty list. But also FedEx.

Let's speed it up, guys. I love UPS. My UPS man, he's the bomb because he drives up my driveway to drop my packages, and FedEx is known to be lazy and just leave them down by the mailbox instead of just driving them up the hill. It's like, not

that bad. Like, take the extra step, bruh. Why don't you just make your mailbox be up by the house, then? Well, I don't think you can do that. Why not? I mean, you wouldn't be able to see it from the street. You put a little sign that says, mailbox up the street. I don't know if that's allowed.

Well, I don't know what the rules are. I feel like mailboxes are at street level, like street side for a reason. So the little mail truck can just ride around, you know, and just not even have to get out of the car and just mail like USPS. You know, they have to be able to just stick your mail in there.

However, FedEx, UPS, we pay you extra to drive up the hill. Okay. That shipping is more expensive. I expect my packages to be dropped at the front door. All right. Well, I'll pay more money. Can we just get the people to work a little bit faster? Can I just go check out myself?

Here's the box. Put it on the where, you know, print. All right. The answer to your problem is do this all online before you leave the house and then you just drop it off in the box put it on the the where you know the print all right the answer to your problem is do this all online before you leave the house and then you just drop it off in the box it says i already got a label i know ship station ship stations and is a advertiser of ours i should be i should be using it more i know it's clutch i can't tell you last time i've had to wait in line i print everything off at home package it all myself myself. I've got tape. I've got all the things. I reuse boxes because recycling.

And I just toss it in the tub at the post office. All right. Well, I'm done doing my rant. Okay. That was a long one. Yeah. Do you have any favorite things, bro? Bro.

Oh, great. I went down a deep, dark dive into Harry and Meghan, or Meghan and Harry, or whatever it's called. Yeah. Okay, I have some questions. Okay, I'll give you the answers. Number one, I was just, this is like one of these things that really gets in my head, and I really overthink it a lot for some reason. Okay. Which is funny, because I really wasn't into this when it was happening.

I don't really remember paying attention to much of it. I definitely didn't watch the wedding on TV. Like I just didn't really care. And it just did seem like a lot of drama. You know, they're just like name calling her in the press, dragging her through the freaking British press and American press just talking trash. Like I just hate that shit. I don't like feeding into it. So I just didn't really read anything or pay attention.

But now I'm very invested. So I was thinking to myself, I was just thinking, and I was like, what's Harry's last name? You know, what's Harry's last name? Windsor. I don't think he has one. Isn't he Windsor? Google it.

There's no last name on Wikipedia. And then I looked at his dad. I was like, what's his dad's last name? No last name. They all, all of them, William, Harry, Charles, they all have like four first names, but no last name no last name they all all of them william harry charles they all have like four first names but no last name full name henry charles albert david those are all first names that's true go now look up the brother look up william his are all first names and they're all different and why do they need four charles philip arthur george whoa how fucking weird is this yeah how how are we supposed

to know that you guys are the rightful heir if we're you guys don't all have the same surname also so megan gets married and like can't change her last name to his because he doesn't have one that's true she has to always be markel it's very weird but she she was for a second the Duchess of Suckitch. Suckitch? Sussex. The Duchess of Suckit. Good try. That's funny, though. How crazy is this last name thing?

Yeah. All right. Is that the only questions you've got? No, no, no. There's a lot more. Okay, so you've watched like one or two episodes or whatever, but like what's your consensus? Do you like her? Are you pro-Meghan or no?

I think she's very smart i think she is pretty calculated you do i do i think it was fucked up what they did to her like i do think i do think the press like really fucked with her and i don't think that that's right and i also think that like the family's kind of fucked up or like the the comms teams when they were started realizing that like megan was getting like a lot of love and then they were like, this can't be, she's not gonna be the queen

at some point. Like we need to get Kate Middleton some good press at the cost of the other ones. I think that's kind of fucked up. I do think that she does a thing that is insincere where she will tell a story

about something that happened to her that I don't think actually happened to her, but is able to illustrate what she thinks of herself. The story, I don't know if you've gotten to this part. I'm pretty far. Okay. So there's a part where she's like, so I'm flying back home. I'm flying back to the United States and we've decided to, you know, finally leave the family. And the pilot walks back to me and he kneels down. And I completely remember. And he said, thank you for all you've done for this country.

I don't believe that that fucking ever happened. Okay? I think that's what she thinks that she wishes they had done. But maybe the pilot should be flying the fucking plane is my thought. I think that she tells these stories because that's what she wishes happened or wants to say, but she can't say it about herself. So if she says this story that someone said it to her, then it makes it true. But I don't know if it is, you know, that's the part where I'm like, I don't know. But listen, at the end of the day, who I feel the worst for is Harry and who like, come on, he's the most privileged person probably ever in the world.

But I do feel bad for him and he's had to give up so much. And that's also got to be tough on Meghan because it's pretty obvious that he has given everything up for her. And there's a little bit of like, oh, you're kind of like a little bitch. Societal wise. Yeah, I do think he's very pussy whipped. Yeah. The one thing I will say watching this,

it's like he is very much in love with her. Like he is just like so in love with her. And so like I do think like to an extent, like their love is obviously real and he would obviously do anything for her. But I just like, I just go back and forth on her like she's just for some reason just not very likable and I want to like her like as I watch it I'm like I want to like you so much and I just like there's something that's hard to like I don't

know and I don't know but I I will say like the whole documentary does seem too polished and I get it they're like royals and it needs to be polished and whatever but it's just like I don't know it's just like a tad bit try hard for me as far as like trying to sell you on you know changing your opinion of her changing the way you think about her whatever like it just like for me it's like a little too try hardy we talked about this like I think when we when this all came out originally, like not the documentary but like when they left and I made the joke of like, that just goes to show you

how great Santa Barbara is you know, or like Montecito, wherever they live that like you could live you could be in a castle but you've decided to live in Southern California you know? Yeah, yeah The other thing no one talks about that I didn't

even know, and they, they don't even really talk about on the show. It's very breezed over. Did you know she was married before? I see. I didn't. I mean, I did that like comes out, right? Like on the documentary. Barely though. It's like said in Pat, like, I think that for me, like, that's the craziest part about the whole thing. Like like i think that's more controversial than any of the other things they're saying about her being american you know her race like any of that stuff like i blah blah blah blah the fact that she was married before is for me where i go whoa like you're divorced and married into the royal family like not that it's not okay to be divorced but it's just crazy you know what i mean good for her her. I mean, yeah, I guess. I don't know. They're going to be fine.

Also, the other ick for me, you know, they bring on all her best friends. Serena Williams is there. Love Serena. And you know what? Maybe they are best friends. Maybe they're best friends. Maybe that's great. But I'm like, really?

You're trying to come off relatable and get people to like you and one of your best friends is Serena Williams. Yeah. Like, it's just a little, a little ick. I can see that,

but maybe they are friends. Maybe they are. Yeah. Also, like, I'm sure they are. But, because I, when, how they met was she was at

Wimbledon. Wimbledon. Yeah. In the box across from him. And that's how they met. So I'm sure she was there to see Serena. Like, whatever. But that just goes to show you

that it's not like some just, you know, normal L.A. girl married this guy. Like, if she hadn't had famous friends and whatever, she wouldn't have been in a place to meet somebody like that. And it is very much like, it wasn't really just by like super chance of like somebody just totally random happening to be somewhere where he was you know what i mean yeah

fascinating though i'm shocked that i am fascinated by the show as much as i am yeah i mean it's good it's a big puff piece for them for sure it's an indictment on the press over there when it's explained to you where it's like they need to have public opinion be positive for them to be able to continue to do this thing there is no real need for them for their listen i'm not british but it doesn't seem like they're they're serving a big purpose other than like they're kind of like figureheads and they kind of just go around and go to like their poor colonies and like meet people i yeah i think the saddest part about all of it just the whole expectation for them of like well taxpayers are paying paying for you to live this lifestyle so you have to be

their like monkey you know what i mean their little press monkey and that's pretty gross to me and so i do respect the hell out of har for being able to be like, you know what? We don't want any of their money anymore. We'll still do the work or whatever, but I don't want another dime because I don't want to have that string attached. And I think that was great of him. All right.

You got anything else? Emily in Paris season three just came out, but I haven't allowed myself to watch it yet because I know when I do, it's all I'm going to watch. I'm just going to cruise through it. So I'm planning on starting that tomorrow because I love that show. Have you watched anything? No.

Really? What have you been doing? We recorded like three days ago. I know, but I spent the whole day watching television. Well, I've been working and stuff. Also, remember the idea for this episode was you're going to do a bunch of calls? Yes, yes, yes. Bunch of calls.

Should we do that? Yeah. Let's do it. Let's do it. I guess we have so many calls into the hotline that we are going to try to get through all of them before the end of the year. Whoa. And see what you guys are digging on. Cool.

So what's your fave thing, bro? Hi, my name is Erica from Jersey. Hey, Erica. My thing this part of the year is the song Carol of the Bells, but remixed with the Imperial March from Star Wars. It's super nerdy, but really good to blast in the car my niece and nephew are like obsessed with it also i have a request okay um i am a female yft listener however i'm dating a very nerdy boy who i feel like likes a lot of the things that wells

likes and so i was wondering, Wells, what is like a really good gift to get a guy? Like what's a gift that maybe you got that you really liked so I can get some good Christmas ideas? And Brandy, I'm sure you're a really good gift giver. So maybe a gift you've given in the past that really went over well would be great. All right, thanks.

Love you guys. Well, we're cutting it a little close. Yeah. Little close. My thing is I personally like experiences. I'm not a materialistic person in general. I don't care about clothes so much.

I don't care about cars and phones. I like old cars. I will say that. But really kind of still leans to experience and experience. So I really love experiences. So like, obviously I like golf. So I don't know what your guy's into.

He's probably not into golf. But like, here's an example. Like if Sarah were to get me like a round of golf at Pebble Beach or like some fancy golf course, be like, we're going to drive up there together and stay and you're going to play. And like, to me, that would be the most fucking amazing experience. Like, that'd be so fun. Or like a, like my band, a band that I like, or, you know, that kind of stuff I think is so much cooler because it's twofold. You get the experience,

which is great. And then you also get the memory of the experience forever that you can talk about. I'm all for experiences. Love that. I'm a terrible gift giver because I don't really like do gifts. So maybe don't take my advice. But when hard pressed to buy a man a gift, I usually go for a really, really nice bottle of bourbon because usually that's a big hit. Yeah. Bourbon's always good. Great gift.

I'm trying to think of something else that is materialistic that guys are into though. Okay. And I will say this. I am a firm believer in, you don't have to have a lot of nice clothes, but you need to have one or two really nice items that will last you forever.

Like every man I think should own a very nice, cool leather jacket. And those are going to be a thousand dollars or $800. They're fucking expensive, but like you buy that and that's good forever. Like that's never going out of style. Like a good black leather jacket. You should have like a really good pair of jeans.

You should have a very nice brown belt that's handmade that will last forever. You should buy your guy really nice leather boots that will, like, I have three pairs of leather boots. Two of them are from the 70s that I found in, like, old leather shops and stuff that I, like, just keep on re-soling. Good quality made shit lasts forever. That's also a vibe. I'm sorry, there's nothing worse than like H&M shit that like fucking disintegrates after like three wears. What about a super nice watch? Another thing.

That's what Sarah got me for my wedding was a really nice watch. I never need to have another watch again. Yeah. And then it's also like figure out like what your style is and then that's just your style forever. Like when we were going over rings, I was like, I think I'm a silver guy. You know, like I'm not gold guy.

Like the watch is silver with a black face. Like that'll go with every suit I'll ever wear for the rest of my life. Yep. So anyways, there you go. I'll get off my soapbox on clothes. What's your favorite thing, bro? Hi, welcome Brandy. My name is Tasha from Seattle.

And I wanted to share my favorite and not-so-favorite things with you guys. Okay. To start off my not-so-favorite thing, Brandy, I'm sure you're going to back me up on this. I was on a girl's trip to Slovene this last weekend and opted to upgrade myself to a premium on the way down to Santa Barbara. Usually I don't splurge on upgrades, but I thought, what the hell? To preface, I'm a nervous flyer, so I need to sit in the aisle seat.

A woman with a lap baby just so happened to be sitting in the middle seat next to me and asked me to switch with her and I kindly said no the rest of the fight not only did I have a screaming baby next to me but a mother the mother caught a major attitude with me the entire flight and all I could think about was how we should be able to know as passengers where babies are sitting on a plane that's mine now circling back to my thing, I was going to this beautiful winery called Sunstone, and I was so freaking excited to find out that's where Will got married to the gorgeous Sarah Hyland this summer with Brandy in attendance as well. I had no idea this was the winery that they got married at, and I continued to tell everyone

on the trip that I listened to the pod and, of course, was a huge fan. Thanks for listening to my rant. I love the pod. I've been listening since the beginning. Okay. Love you. Bye. Nothing would make me more awkward and annoyed if a mom was like, will you switch me into a middle seat and then was mad at me the rest of the time.

Why would you voluntarily be more miserable than you're already going to be with a child next to you? No. No thanks. Not only does this suck because I'm sitting next to a fucking kid, now it sucks because I've got fucking no room in the middle seat. No thank you. Love her though and totally agree Sunstone is

obviously so magical and so beautiful and Wells' wedding was fantastic. Best wedding I've ever been to. Probably best wedding I will ever attend. Yeah, same. But yeah, you can go to Sunstone and it's like, it's got an odd, like a dope little wine tasting thing

where they have like food trucks and cornhole and like a little live jazz band and you can try all their wines and stuff. Sunstone's dope. And it's also in this weird little town called Solvang, which is like this little Dutch town. It's so cute. I highly recommend Solvang. Apparently

it's poppin' during Christmas time. Oh, I totally can see that. They've got one store that's a Christmas store all year round. Yeah, I think the whole little town just transforms during Christmas as a vibe, supposedly. Yeah, go check it out. Another one of my favorite things that's in that area is a place called Alisal Ranch.

Have you ever heard of that? No, but that sounds cool. You should check it. I mean, it's so brandy, but I guess your life is this, but it's a ranch where you and your family go. You can go horseback riding. You can go fishing.

You can do archery. There's a golf course. It's like a dude ranch thing. And then they have like, you know, like this huge ballroom that is like animal heads. And, you know, it's like just very, it's like Montana, but you're in fucking Southern California. It's dope. That place was awesome.

I like that place. You got some fave things, bro. Oh my God. I am dead. I just paused your podcast about bagpiping because I am laughing so hard. And Wells, you being obsessed with Mormons is my favorite thing because so am I. And I want to listen to you talk about it all the time because you crack me up. Brandy, love how much you make fun of Wells, another one of my favorite things.

And my absolute all-time favorite thing is every time Wells is talking so dang fast, I have to check my phone to make sure I didn't hit double time. Too good. By the way, I'm Mikayla from Heart, Michigan. Love you guys. Been a listener from day one, and I want to listen every week. Can't wait for more. Aw, Kayla. I thought guys. Been a listener from day one and I want to listen every week. Can't wait for more. Aw. Kayla. I thought I heard that

northern accent in there. A Michigander. Is she a yooper? God, I bet she's fucking freezing right now. Oh my God. Can you imagine? No.

Dang. No thank you. We'll pray for you. We will pray for you, Michaela, from Michigan. You got some fave things, bro. Oh, my gosh.

Okay, first of all, you guys having a San Diego number just made my day. I am from San Diego. My name's Randa. I've been a day one listener of YFT. Such a fan. I listen every week. You guys should do a show in San Diego or LA. I'll come up to either.

But Brandy, I thought that Theo James being in White Lotus was going to be one of my favorite things. But he's a freaking asshole in it. Like, men are literally trash, trash, trash. Wait, wait, hold on. You know he's playing a part, right? You know that's not really him. You know? Yeah.

Talking about the other week, how maybe you should just be with a woman. So my proposition to you is that we should be together, but we can hook up with guys. We'll just have a soulmate relationship because i just love you and yeah my favorite thing right now has been season two of sex lives of college girls i don't know if i talked about this on here or not i can't remember but it's so good it's like a little corny and cheesy, but it's just so cute. And it has Mindy Kaling written all over it. And I just love her.

But yeah, love you guys. Bye. Love her. Yeah. Men are garbage. Are we shocked? Love Theo James.

Honestly, he's trash on that show, but it's kind of hot. I mean, he's not as bad as Ethan on that show. Ethan's just such a bad. They're both trash. Honestly, I'm on that show. Ethan's just such a bitch. They're both trash, honestly.

All the men on that show. I have a funny question to ask you that we were talking about a lot playing golf the other day. So I'll kind of like tell you how we got there. A buddy of ours was telling this story about how his wife was angry at him. So he hadn't been like at home a lot recently because he was worried that she was going to kill him. This is a joke, like not really kill him.

But and then he was saying like he was like, so I took my handgun and I put I took the pistol and I put it on in like one side of the house. And I took the bullets out and I put on the other side of the house. So if she goes to get the gun, at least I know it's time to run because she's got to go to the other side of the house and get the bullets. Anyways, of course, none of this is true. I don't even think there was a gun. It was just like an antidote of he was scared of his wife to go home because he was like at the golf course. He like didn't want to leave. Got it.

But here's the problem. I can't hide all the knives, you know. So we started talking. What would you rather? Would you rather be shot by a gun or stabbed by your like significant other? Do I have to pick one? Yeah, I think so. I think maybe shot.

A lot of people said shot. Because I feel like there's a better chance that it'll just be over quick if you get shot in the right place versus if you get stabbed. Sounds like a slow, painful death. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I initially was like stabbed like a bullet hole. That's going to go through you, you know, and like a bullet hole is going to be a big circle through your body. Whereas a knife is a very thin, you know, you know, in there. knife is a very thin, you know, you know, in there.

I've seen like one too many really traumatizing stabbing scenes in movies. Yeah. So then what happened was there's a doctor at our golf club. So we brought the doctor over like, okay, what do you think? And he's like, you guys are fucked. Yeah, he was like, you guys are just fucking idiots. But he was like, well, here's what's crazy about getting shot. And we're like, tell us, Doc. We got to know.

Because you're made of water, when you get shot, your body kind of ripples. And so, like, the bullet comes in your skin kind of ripples, and the veins and arteries and muscle kind of moves out of the way. Because it's almost like when you throw a rock into a pond, you know, it makes like ripples everything out, you know? So he's like, with a knife, that's not what happens. Like everything gets cut that, you know, you go through, you know? The other thing I have learned from like ER or whatnot is that if you get stabbed, you got to keep the knife in. Because if you pull it out, that's when like everything comes out.

You got to keep it in there, you know? Anyways, I thought that was a funny conversation. So here's what we'll do. We'll throw a poll on the old Insta. What would you rather? Would you rather be stabbed by your significant other or shot by a significant other? I don't know if this is PC enough for the gram. No?

I don't know. I think it's fine. Merry Christmas. Merry Chrysler. Let's get back into the old calls. my name is Brianna and I'm from Missouri and I've been listening since the beginning of the podcast It's one of my favorite things

but I'm calling in for the first time because my favorite thing is my two chickens Well you need to get chickens, they're so easy We have a coop from Tractor Supply Company, it's awesome. Their names are Hennifer Aniston and Feather Locklear. That's funny. You have to get chicken wells and I DM'd you about them and a book that really helped us. So I hope you get chickens because they are awesome. Bye guys.

I want chickens. Do it. I do think Boo will eat the chickens. Oh, yeah. See, that's my issue with Azzy girl. Yeah. But I do like the idea of having fresh eggs all the time. That sounds lovely.

It does. But do I have to like let them out of the coop? I think some do, but I don't think you have to. And if you get a big enough coop, they're fine. Yeah. So if you're really interested in this, one of my mom's best friends has a little mini farm not even but like up in malibu she's got a big chicken coop chickens are like her main thing up there yeah and if you if you want some insight she's the person to call okay

so you let me know my thing is is like what if we leave town to like can we just throw a bunch of seed out and they good for like a week or like what how does that work i think you should probably find someone to come toss some seed. Or is there like an automatic feeder, you know? Maybe. All right. That's possible. But like whoever's watching the dogs can just like throw a little food.

That's true. Yeah. All right. What else we got? Hi, Wells and Brandy. My name's Lauren and I'm from Colorado. And you both are my favorite thing. Oh.

I actually have a question for the both of you. Well, I'm wondering if when you go on other podcasts, like as a guest, do you have to hide your bell? How does that work? How do you not just automatically start smacking your desk when you talk about cool things?

It's actually very funny because there have been times when I have been on other people's podcasts and I've said something funny or I'm like talking about something I like and I'm like, oh, I can't, I can't read. Like that would be weird. Like why? Like I was doing. They'll be like this freak. Yeah.

Can't ever come back. Why do you have a bell? What are you? What's going on here? It was, it was funny. I was doing Nick Swisher's podcast, which hasn't come out yet. I was telling like a very funny story, one of my favorite memories, and I went to go hit it. And then I was like, Oh, no, that would be weird. That's very funny.

That's a good question. Brandy, my question for you. How did you and walls meet? And I apologize if you guys have talked about this, but I don't know. And I've been a longtime listener. Y'all are amazing. I absolutely love you. You guys are high up on my Spotify wrapped, maybe only beat out by office ladies, but I think it's just because their podcasts are longer than yours. If you ever do a show in Denver, I will 110% be there. Love you. Bye. Denver's a hot market for us, I feel like. I love Denver so much. Yeah. Do you want to tell the story of how we met? Well, we have told this story, I feel like, several times, but that's okay okay you don't listen to us i don't listen to wells it's like that's how it works um so wells got wells we've known each other for so long so long i was like

looking through some old photos yesterday actually and one popped up of you and me and it was so random and i was like i can't believe i've known wells for that long i know like it was like 2016 i think that's like six years ago it sounds sounds right. Might've been before. It might've been 2015. Might've been 2015. Anyway. It was before I went on The Bachelor. Yeah, it was. Because you told me not to do it. I know. And look at us now. I know. Thank God you went. Well, I went on The Bachelor in 2016. So I think that, I think it was probably 2015 that we met. Yeah. So we had a mutual friend try to set us up.

Yeah. Do you remember her name? Sarah Lai? Yeah. Yeah. Sarah Lai, who I think lives in LA now. Do you still talk to her? No.

No. Sarah Lai tried to set us up and Wells came over. I think the first time we hung out, you came over to my house when I had that kickball party in the backyard. I think so. The slip and slide kickball. Yeah. Was that the first time we hung out, you came over to my house when I had that kickball party in the backyard. I think so. The slip and slide kickball. Yeah. Was that the first time we hung?

I think so. I think so. I was blacked out drunk the whole time. Yeah, I remember that you had jello shots. Oh, yeah, those really get me. Those really get me. And like the entire band, Hotshell Ray. Oh, yeah, they've been friends of mine forever.

Yeah, but I remember being like, oh, all the boys from Hotshell Ray are here. All right, this is gonna be fun. Yeah, yeah, yeah, they've been friends of mine forever. Yeah, but I remember being like, oh, all the boys from Hot Shell Ray are here. Alright, this is gonna be fun. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're fun. Yeah, Nash, Kord's Brothers Band. And then after that though, I don't know how we got, I don't know how you got my number or how we ended up going to Mexican.

Do you? Yeah, we went to that place in 12 South, right? Yeah, but how did that happen? Did you like text me? Yeah, I think I was like, yeah, I'll ask her. I asked you out or whatnot. I guess so. And then we went, I don't know. I'm fuzzy on that.

What's the name of that restaurant? Taco Mamacita. Okay, so we went to Taco Mamacita. Right, is that the one? I think so. It's the one on 12 South on the same side, on the opposite side of the street of Imogen and Willie. Oh, Bar Taco.

Bar Taco. That's where I think we went. Bar Taco. You weren't impressed with my antics, I't think and so yeah also i'm not a five foot brunette girl so true yeah yeah the odds were against us that's all i know they were against us we never hooked up no no no no i don't know we never got close to doing that we did did. Did we go out a second time? And is that when we started talking about radio stuff and podcasts? Maybe so. I think so.

Because remember, I just remember we have this selfie of us at Taco Mamacita, which is in Edge Hill. Yeah, that was later though. Yeah, after we decided to do the podcast. Because I had started getting you on to do my radio show for 107.5 The River. Uh-huh. And so you were coming and doing that a lot with me, actually. I was getting you to come in like once a week, I think. Yeah.

But I think right around that time is when you were like, so I'm supposed to go on The Bachelorette or something. And I was like, don't do it. It'll ruin your life. But you did decide to do it. And then it actually changed your life forever in the best way. Ding, ding, Sarah. But we were like, all right, let's like pause. Because we were talking about the podcast.

And you were like, let me go do the show and then come back. No, no, that's not how it happened. Really? No. So you were doing my radio show before I went on the show. And then when I got back from doing the show, before it started airing, I was like, I have a feeling there's going to be a lot of people like, because I knew it had happened to me

and I think I also knew it happened to me in Paradise because that all kind of happened at the same time. And when I got back, I was like, we need to start this podcast before like, I'm on TV all the time. So yeah yeah i had gone and done the show come back and been like we need to do this a podcast yeah yep that's it all right there you go the rest is history the rest is as they say history that was stupid um i don't know what that was all right you got some favorite things bro hi welcome brandy welcome, Brandy. This is Kelsey.

I am a longtime listener. I have two favorite things for you. Great. The first is His Dark Materials. It is on HBO. It is a remake of a young adult novel. If you've ever read The Golden Compass, and it's a series of three books, and they just did. This is now in the third season.

Highly recommend. Really, really well done. Much better done than when they tried to make a movie out of it a little while back. So it's action, it's fantasy. James McAvoy is in it. Lin-Manuel Miranda is weirdly in it,

but really love it. Acting's great. Highly recommend his dark materials on HBO. And then my other favorite thing is called Taskmaster. It is a British comedy series, and it is the funniest show you'll ever watch. It is huge in the UK. It is on its 14th season, and it is my husband and I's favorite thing in the entire world. Anyone that we've shown it to thinks it's absolutely hilarious. If you're into British comedy, you have to watch Taskmaster.

All right. Love you guys. Bye. Taskmaster. Never heard of it. Yeah. Did you get into that HBO show? A little bit.

I read The Golden Compass. I really like that book, even though it's for children. But I'm also a child. I feel like I watched a couple episodes when it first came out and it didn't grasp me, but maybe I need to give it another shot. I think Sarah and I watched the first season. I think that maybe there's a second

season of it now. She said there's three. Yeah, so I'm behind on it, but I will agree that the series was better than the movies they tried to put out a while back.

We've got a couple more here. Hey, it's Chelsea in Nashville. I am calling in with one of my favorite things being small music venues. Big stadium arenas can be great for some performers, but there's just something about an intimate, small music venue.

And throwing it back to Nashville, Wells, I don't know if you've heard about Exit Inn, unfortunately, is coming to an end. And I was curious, what are your favorite small venues that you have visited or attended, whether it was with Lightning 100 or not. And along with those lines, my favorite kind of niche artist, maybe he's niche, I don't know, Rayland Baxter. Oh, yeah. If you want to play a song, Yellow Eyes. He is amazing through Spotify or recorded, but, I mean, definitely go to one of his live shows.

So, people, we've got to support live music so that we can keep these venues open. Thanks. Love you. Bye. First of all, I think Raylan was wanting to be on the show. I've known Raylan for a very long time. He actually dated my ex before I dated her, so I couldn't be mad at him about it. He's awesome.

And yeah, it always is a great song. He's got new music that we played on this show. I did hear about Exit In. It's a fucking travesty, and it's one of the problems that Nashville has been facing for a while and is going to continue to face. Oh. The thing is, is that the thing that makes people want to move to the city is the thing

you can't get rid of because then people won't want to move to your city. And Exit Inn and all those little niche, cool, kitschy venues going away is very, very bad. I was really good friends with Chris Cobb, who was the owner of Exit In. He also is the owner of Marathon Music Works. And he was like fighting the good fight for that. And I agree with you, you got to support like small little venues, because usually the people that like run those places don't own the building. It's a lease situation and they can go away very easily. Case in point, Exit In. To answer your question, I don't even know if it's still there, but there was a venue

right across the street from the Exit Inn called The End. I love that place. It was dirty and fucking gross, and they only sold beer and only accepted cash. I loved that place. Me too. Is Mercy Lounge still around? Not anymore.

Even canneries. I never liked the cannery because I didn't like the layout of it. Me too. Is Mercy Lounge still around? Not anymore. See? Even Cannery. The Cannery's gone. I never liked the Cannery because I didn't like the layout of it. Yeah, but Mercy Lounge was sick. And like High Watt, all that stuff, is that all gone? Gone. Where the fuck do you go see music now? I think Marathon Music Works.

But that's a big venue. It is, yeah. But that's kind of like, I feel like where all the smaller bands play. That's crazy to me. Aside from that, you've got War Memorial, which is huge. And it sounds like shit. Actually, no, War Memorial sounds good. Ascend.

Yeah, that's an outdoor venue. Wait, what about Third and Lindsley? Is that still there? I think that might still be there. And you know what else is? The Basement is still there. Thank God. Basement East is still there, too. Yeah, they're both still there. And you know what else is? The basement is still there. Thank God. Basement East is still there too.

Yeah, they're both still there. Yeah. Yeah. Shout out to fucking Mike Grimes and Grimes and Doyle Davis, those guys who own the basement. And then they also own Grimes, which is the records that are connected to it. I saw so many amazing things at the basement that if that place ever goes, that town's fucked.

Yeah, I agree. I hate to say it. Wait, how about this one? What was that? 12th and Porter. Do you remember that one? Oh, God, yeah, I do. Is that still there? That was a shit venue, but like... It was shitty, yeah. That one's gone. Is it gone? Oh, that's too bad. That one was shitty. Yeah, it was. That's so funny. Man, I could talk about

those old days. Alright, well, I think we did it. Yeah. You got anything else? I'm about to be, I don't know what to say. My life is over for the next 72 hours. I just, this polar vortex and the farm. Just really.

Cozy up with a hot cup of cocoa. You know, a nice book. A little Jane Austen read. I don't know. i ordered heated gloves smart because last winter and the winter before that was the one thing that i really had trouble like i can bundle pretty well and have like ski pants you know that i wear down there and all the things but my hands just get so cold i have to go sit in the car warm them up get back out like so i got heated gloves so i'm gonna let you guys know how those go for me and if I would recommend them because they weren't cheap.

Okay. But hopefully they saved my hands for the next three days. Good to know. Yeah. I'm going to go invest in some shorts because it's 71 degrees here and I got to yeah.

I guess we should probably go out on some Rayleigh and Baxter right? Sure. He's got new music out but man oh man did I like the should probably go out on some Rayleigh and Baxter, right? Sure. He's got new music out, but man, oh man, did I like the record he put out in 2012 called Feathers and Fish Hooks. Let's go out on Willie's song. This was always one of my favorites. Well, another year of YFT in the books. We love you guys so much.

And hopefully we can keep doing this. I think 2023, I'm saying saying it we'll do the live tour oh i love that for us yeah my um station yeah i don't know how much work i got looking forward to so we're gonna do that i think you know yeah yeah all right we love you guys If you guys want to call in Please do 858-630-1856 Have a happy new year Get fucked up Not too fucked up The thing I wouldn't do

I'm going to be blackout Yeah, me too I might take some Some mushies Oh, I thought you were going to say something else What did you think I was going to say something else. What did you think I was going to say? Molly or something.

No, but maybe. Who knows? We're too old for that. We are too old for that, yeah. We'll see all you guys in 2023. Love y'all. Later on the men's chat. Bye.

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