Your Favorite Thing with Wells & Brandi - Identify Theft and A New Bachelorette
Episode Date: July 10, 2024This week Brandi is up in the Great White North but it’s reminding her of the warm barren south. Wells has a bone to pick with the process of acquiring new personal identification and Brandi has a b...one to pick with American Airlines, which he cuts from the episode, because it’s a tale as old as time. Your hosts then deep dive into the first episode of Jenn’s Bachelorette season-on-a-budget. Lastly, Wells talks about his new journey of becoming like the ancient stoics. Best of luck!  Favorite things mentioned: The Bachelorette (ABC) Presumed Innocent (Apple) Dark Matter (Apple) Taylor Swift vs Scooter Braun: Bad Blood (HBO Max) House of the Dragon (Hulu) Relentless (HBO Max) Worst Roommate Ever (Netflix) Hi Ren by Ren Gill 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. Fungies: You can find these yummy gummies in the Vitamin section at your local Walmart or conveniently shop on their website, eatfungies.com. Plus, enjoy free shipping and 20% off with code YFT. Boll & Branch: Go to bollandbranch.com/favorite for 15% off your first sheet set plus free shipping! Exclusions apply. See site for details. BetterHelp: Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/favoritething and get on your way to being your best self 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 NationÂ
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Watch The Bachelor this morning.
The Bachelorette, excuse me.
I mean, obviously we're going to talk about it when Brandy gets on,
but like, real quick,
what happened to all the crazy limo
exit gimmicks? No one
showed up in like a stupid car
that was like decorated like a Thanksgiving Day parade float? No one showed up in like a stupid car that was like decorated like a Thanksgiving
Day parade float. No one showed up in like a Harley Davidson with a sidecar. I mean, we got
guy with the bandaged face, balloon dude. Did I miss it's shot o'clock? Did that happen on
The Bachelor and I missed it. How's everybody doing?
Great.
Anywho, let's call the brandy-licious.
It's time to call her up.
Hi.
Hi.
Your microphone sounds like shit.
Where are you?
What's going on?
Well, I'm on shitty Wi-Fi with a shitty microphone. Wonderful. You but i am in a beautiful city i'm back in calgary ah calgary the canucks
that's right is that where kb is from calgary no she's from edmonton which is very close
got it got it got it i gotta love KB, Edmonton.
Nah, not for me.
You've been there?
Yeah.
What for?
I did like a bachelor meet and greet at some bar or something.
Oh.
Very rural. I would say Edmonton reminded me a lot of like Alabama.
Jeez, okay.
But Alabama's great.
You know, Kentucky, maybe.
Texas.
It is.
It's for being so far north, it is a very southern place.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's the south, but with northern accents, which is very confusing.
Speaking of Bachelor stuff, The Bachelorette aired.
It did.
We all want to get into it.
Get into it. I want to get. it get into it i want to get i got
i got to go get that soundbite and put it on the board that's i was thinking about that i was like
i when i was editing last week i was like i need to put this in because we're now using it so often
we should have that girl on i became friends with her after i made fun of her on tiktok
and right we should have her on yeah Yeah, I play her finance remix often.
Can you play that for us?
Right this second?
No, like one day.
Or send it to me and I'll put it in the show.
I mean, yeah, I probably have it on my iPad, to be honest.
I want to hear it one day.
I mean, at the end of the show, I'll give it a look-see.
Okay.
Yeah.
So yeah, I do want to talk about Bachelorette.
Why are you in Calgary?
Playing a show, baby. I'm on the road. I'm. Okay. So yeah, I do want to talk about Bachelorette. Why are you in Calgary? Playing a show, baby.
I'm on the road.
I'm out here paying the bills, you know, bringing home the bacon.
How much do you charge for a show?
I'm not telling you.
Why not?
What if I want to book you for a show?
50K for a show.
Really?
No, it's a lie.
That's how much I'm charging you.
I don't get the friends and family discount? No, it's a lie. But that's how much I'm charging you. I don't get the friends and family discount?
No.
I got a new ID sent to me, finally.
ID?
Yeah, like a driver's license.
Oh.
So my driver's license expired on May 16th because that's my birthday, right?
Uh-huh.
And then I had to go to Film film traders kind of like a week later and
so i hadn't gotten my id yet and like leaving the country without your id is kind of terrifying
yeah but you have your passport yeah so but i was just like living with my passport like when i came
back i was in new york i was just like going to bars my passport being like look at this even
though no one was was carting me because i look like an old fuck so so then so what so what they do is by the way so dmv sucks hard so i went so bad i went online
and i i've ordered three new ids i don't know where they're getting sent i don't know there
might be other people named wells walking around with my id. Okay? That seems like a security issue.
Seems like, yeah. Seems like
identity theft problem.
It does. It does.
Truly. They're like, hey, listen,
while you're waiting for your new ID, we're going to
write you a little
piece of paper you print out and you sign
and now this is legal tender.
If you get pulled over, this is what you show to the cops.
Right? Okay.
So I'm walking around with an expired ID and this piece of paper and just hoping that this is what gets me by.
I'm not sure if it does.
And I go to a gas station, a Chevron in Carmel.
I go get some White Claws because I am a 20-year-old boy trapped in a 40-year-old's body.
Okay.
Denied.
I walk up and they're like, can we see your ID?
And I, I give them my ID and they scan it, you know, they can scan it now. I don't know how
these kids get fake IDs anymore. I don't either. So they're like, this is expired. And I go, yeah,
no, here's the piece of paper that they gave me. And they're like, yeah, we can't do that.
And I was like, but yeah, but you can. And they're like, no, we can't do that. And I was like but yeah but you can and they're like no we can't do that and I was like but you can
you could you can you can absolutely
do it we can't we can't well here's the piece
of paper that says I can I can do it
and I was like obviously I am 40 years
old okay I can I can
buy these this gray hair
and these crow's feet aren't
like part of the whole shtick
for me to pull on the
wool over your eyes Chevron of Carmel to get six white claws.
White claws.
And I'm like, yeah, we can.
And I was like, this paper says that it is, you got to do it.
And they're like, we can't.
And I was like, if the police came in here right now, they would accept this.
And then they said, well, we're not the police.
And I said, no shit.
So they probably did me a favor because i probably
didn't need white claws obviously with this blood pressure going off but um so i finally got a new
one but then that's like what do you do do you do you keep your old ids i mean i think i stick
mine in a drawer somewhere but mostly because i don't have a shredder of any kind and i don't
yeah necessarily want to toss it in the trash because identity theft. It's funny you bring up this topic. I was just told by my sister
who's at home driving my car that my registration tags expired in November.
So November was a while. We're looping back around here, sister.
I know. I'm almost out of here. And what's crazy is like recently i've had a couple
i mean there's so many cops in franklin like you probably know that you've been there like i've
been i've been driving with cops behind me a few times since november yeah and no one's pulled me
over it's it's a miracle to be honest because my windows are also very illegally tented like
i have many i've just red flags just popping up here left and right out of my jeep for you to pull me over and nobody has pulled me over so i was like okay well fuck like
i got that new car what a year and a half ago and the other car i would just get sent emails hey
it's time to renew your registration you know so i just assumed i would get those same emails for
this new car to remind me that hey your registration's expired guess i didn't so i go online you know to the little uh online dmv and to put in my plate number and renew
if you're over 90 months or sorry 90 days expired you can't do it online so i have to fucking schlep
into the fucking tennessee county clerk when i get home to renew my tags. But here's the catch.
If I drive over to the county clerk and get pulled over on the way on expired tags, I'm going to be like, well, what the fuck?
I tried to do this online and here I am forced to drive on said expired tags to get them renewed.
Yeah.
It's a real conundrum.
Seems unfair.
Yeah.
It's like the gift of the magi.
Yeah.
Expired tags for so long.
I know.
How you're breaking the law, breaking the law.
It's pretty incredible, honestly.
So Calgary is good.
Yeah.
I mean, well, getting here wasn't good because you know what?
Blue American Airlines, because I had bought that ticket before they fucked me over on my Greece trip.
God, here we go.
And, you know, the first flight was okay.
You know, it's difficult to get to the Ozarks, by the way.
Let me tell you.
Traveled all day to get there.
Traveled all day to get out.
So I had to take a little hopper flight.
I first tried to drive two hours to an airport from the Ozarks
and then flew to Dallas.
And then in Dallas, you know, we get there and the plane arrives
at the gate on time.
They unload everybody.
It's kind of similar to the grief story.
I'm going to break in here.
This is future Wells.
I'm going to stop her right here because she goes and complains about a flight again.
And I feel like we've heard this story.
So I'm just going to go ahead and fast forward through all this shit.
I hope that's okay with you guys.
Okay. And like, oh with you guys. Okay.
And like, oh, looks good.
Okay, we can go now.
But they sat us on the...
So that turned a four-hour flight into a five-and-a-half-hour flight.
And boy, oh boy, was it fucking miserable.
Every episode is you bitching about airlines and...
No, no, American Airlines.
I even think it's Boeing.
Did you see Boeing just...
Some.
Boeing is... They're having some problems right now.
I know.
They scare me.
Anyways, I'm going to cut a lot of that because I am just exhausted from your freaking travel issues.
American Airlines needs to hear my frustration.
They know they suck.
This doesn't really matter.
Fuck you, American Airlines.
Okay.
Wow.
We just started the show.
Yeah.
Well, I asked you how Calgary was, and you were like,
well, let me tell you about getting to Calgary.
Well, because I haven't left the hotel room.
All right, let's start the show, actually.
I don't give a shit.
Amir, you.
You?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bachelorette. Jen is back back we are getting gentrified
i'm just jumping on the pun train yeah everybody else on that episode i mean listen if you're
gonna make bad puns don't don't do it yeah that's a good that's a good that's a good life lesson i
should write that in my journal yes i should tattoo that one on the old arm there. Yeah.
I want to start by saying she's gorgeous.
You've been saying that.
I think she is so beautiful.
Okay.
I think she's one of the more beautiful bachelorettes we've had in a very long time.
Oh, wow.
But why are we adding so much hair to her hair is my question.
I know.
She looks like Lisa Marie Presley over here from the 60s. It's so much hair. It's too much hair to her hair is my question. I know. She looks like Lisa Marie Presley over here from the 60s.
It's so much hair.
It's too much hair.
Way too much hair.
It was someone not there to be like, hey.
So you look like Dolly Parton from the 70s,
and this is a lot of hair.
Well, it's probably not her fault.
It's probably her makeup's fault.
Well, hair and makeup.
What are you doing? What are you doing? What are you doing she and it's not like she has like thin
hair that she needs it doesn't look like that you know no no her hair looks great on the last season
yeah yeah are you excited about this season no no over it yeah i'm over it was it was very boring
episode yeah but i'm just like going into it i into it. I mean, yeah, not really.
I mean, a lot of things changed, you know?
Yeah, the house.
What's the deal?
The mansion.
They start charging too much money or what?
I guess so, but I can't believe it.
And, you know, that's a character.
I know, but I do think this house looks better.
I agree, but we know the bachelor mansion.
Like, we know the pool.
Yeah, yeah.
They picked a house very similar though
you know there's been rumors floating around that we're gonna go somewhere else for paradise
and that hurts my soul too because paradise the location is a main character let's hope for
somewhere with some air conditioning in the rooms yeah no let's torture these fucks i'm just kidding okay so the show starts with some ominous music and she's putting
the rose back and then walking barefoot down a hotel hallway and then knocking on a door
and jesse's saying something like no one's ever done this before in bachelor nation which classic
jesse really you know okay so what they're painting it to be is she doesn't choose anybody
right like that's the vibe that i got yeah but that's been done before jesse jesse do you know
who did that you did you did that so not only has it been done, but it was done by the host.
I'm too young to have watched his season.
I didn't.
I'd say I didn't know that either.
But I remember when they hired him, I were talking to a producer and I was like, tell me about Jesse's season.
I don't remember this.
And they were like, oh, we hated him. He freaking went and had a producer go buy a plane ticket for the girl.
And instead of giving her a ring, he gave her a plane ticket and said,
hey, let's go hang out after this,
which is so funny.
But surely she chooses someone, right?
Like that's misdirection.
Yeah, I mean, they're not going to paint it the way it is.
Yeah.
Their MO is to make you think
something else is going to happen.
Yeah, which I'm fine with.
But it does look like she didn't choose anybody.
And then we find out that we're going to a new mansion,
which I hate.
I'm good with it.
I think it's very beautiful.
Yeah?
It looks nicer than the other house.
Like, I'm down.
Okay.
Okay, so, like, one of the first guys that comes is a guy named Marvin, who is speaking French, I think.
He keeps on saying achante a lot.
But it seems like he just started Duolingo, like, yesterday.
Like, it doesn't seem like he knows French.
Absolutely not.
He's like, hola, como estas?
Muy bien, y tu?
Donde esta la biblioteca?
Hey, I don't Spanish.
I'll see you en la casa.
Does she speak French?
Is that why he's trying to do that?
I don't know.
But I know who does speak French is Jesse.
And I'm sure Jesse's in the control room going, the fuck is this guy doing?
And then like the second guy you see is a guy named Sam who's a virgin.
A love virgin.
Yeah.
I truly don't know which is worse.
Great misdirection, Sam.
You had us there.
I imagine like this is the pitch to the producers, right?
Hey man, have you ever been in love?
I haven't.
Oh, so you're a love virgin.
Yeah, I guess so.
This is your bit.
When you go up to meet her, be like, hey, I'm a virgin.
I'm a love virgin.
Okay, that's kind of interesting.
But if I'm that guy, I'm thinking,
so the subcontext here is I fuck chicks,
but I don't like them at all.
Well, exactly.
Yes, that's one takeaway
see my takeaway was oh so you've never been in love or been fucked
well no my takeaway was that he's not a virgin I don't know he's giving virgin energy is he
giving virgin energy yeah he is my well anyways I I think I think he's a anyways I think he's a virgin.
I think he's not.
I think he's had sex.
You do? Yes. I just think
he's had a lot of like
meaningless sex.
Which can be great too.
I'm okay with it.
No judgment here.
And then you got a guy named Grant who comes up
and starts beatboxing and singing. Yeah hated that. Hated it. No judgment here. And then you got a guy named Grant who comes up and starts beatboxing and singing.
Yeah, hated that.
Hated it.
Hated it.
Don't do that.
Don't.
But here's the thing.
Here's the thing that annoyed me about that.
That was weird, but I didn't get the weird music with it.
I need the weird music, editors.
I see.
Yeah.
Where's Tim Warner in story?
Tim, I need the... Let that weird music they start playing, you know yeah where's tim warner in story tim i need the let that weird music they start playing
you know yep and then you meet this guy named sam who's a contractor he's handsome i suppose
she thinks he's a cowboy i don't think that's what he is i didn't really understand that i think he's
i like his tattoos they're hot yeah but he he also, when they start doing his background package, I'm thinking, this guy's important.
Because I don't need to know about his background as a contractor to get into this story.
Like the guy who's a veteran who got hit by a bomb.
Great.
I want to hear that story.
That's interesting.
Or the guy who's also Vietnamese.
Kind of need to know that one.
But the contractor?
I don't need to know this at all.
I don't care.
Didn't he say he was engaged before?
I don't even know if I picked up on that.
I feel like he said that.
But it was a weird vibe.
Anyways, once I saw that backstory, I was like,
this guy's important because it's way too much information for me and I don't care.
That's true.
And then he is important.
He gets the first impression rose.
Yep.
We'll get to that.
First complaint of the season thus far.
Okay.
No, second, because they got rid of the mansion.
Right, right.
And I'm sure that this came down from ABC top brass.
They've gone away from the gimmicky entrances. Have they?
No one's showing up in like
a cupcake car or like a go-kart
or like a sidecar on a motorcycle.
What about the fucking balloon shit?
And like, there were a few. Yeah, but not
a lot. Like, it was the guy with the bandage
around his face, which actually
was a good bit. I like that.
It was. The balloon bit was really
the only, like only gimmicky bit.
And it was hilarious.
It was fine.
It popping in the trees.
He tried to get through doors and shit.
Yeah.
Genius.
More of that, please.
I feel like there's been a lot of budget cuts.
Yeah, I'm feeling that.
They're like, oh, a horse?
No, we can't afford that.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, but then they're like, let's send 27 of you fucking assholes to Melbourne, Australia.
I know.
Shocking.
If you've got budget cuts, man, go down to Reseda.
What are you doing here?
Not Reseda.
Damn.
The guy who eats the habanero peppers?
What was that about? Okay, first of all, I don't know if you've ever eaten like an adrenaline rush i wouldn't call it that have you ever eaten
habanero pepper no i don't like spicy hot things okay i like spicy hot things that is
one of that's like seven million on the scoville meter that's that's your butthole will never be the same again
shit and i don't even know if that guy lasted i hope he did but you know that guy was in
fight or flight mode when he when he did that he was like oh god i gotta go inside she's like do
you want some milk he's like i need some water mean, I definitely don't think that was worth it.
No.
That didn't make a good enough impression to be worth it.
Not at all.
One guy pops champagne, but he has safety goggles on?
What is that?
Well, in case you take your eye out.
What?
Yeah, yeah.
That's an ick for me.
I mean, I didn't love it.
If you can't aim a champagne bottle, what's your aim going to be like in the fantasy suite?
Ooh, good point.
We spray it all over these walls like a Rorschach painting in here with a black light.
Jeremy coming in with the, like, I know the car makes me seem like I'm making up for something, but I have a really big penis.
Loved it. Oh, you big penis. Loved it.
Oh, you liked that?
Loved it.
Yeah.
I'm sure this guy's annoying, but I loved that.
Yes.
A hundred percent.
Like he did it.
He stuck to it.
Are there any other entrances that like that got you?
Like I said, I thought it was pretty boring, pretty lackluster first episode.
It seemed like they hustled through it for sure i did i tell
you what i did like i liked truth or dare yeah that was cool so the problem that you have and
you still had it in this in this episode is that you run out of time and following storylines and
stuff and you know the sun comes up and everything and so then a lot of people just don't get an
opportunity just to like show who they are.
Right. And so like at least that got, that gave people an opportunity to stand out a bit, which I thought was a good bit that they did.
Yeah, for sure.
Brian stealing Jeremy's car was.
Awkward as fuck.
Chef's kiss.
I loved it.
I'm sure you loved it.
I loved it.
I mean, it was, was i mean like he was just
gonna sit there yeah he's like no get out yeah like it was just poor jen like i felt awkward
for her for sure like it was a little much let's say like we keep this guy around because we want
this feud to go for a little bit you know but the poor guy he gets kind of emasculated it's his it's
not his car obviously but like no i know it's like his prop then he gets kind of emasculated it's his it's not his car obviously
but like no i know it's like his prop then he gets stolen and then he like has to kind of eat it i
felt bad for him i know i did too i thought it was and like if i were jen i would i would get a
major ick from the guy that came and took the car for sure i'd be like really dude you're gonna put
me in that position just so you can have some camera time. Don't love it. Yeah. But that's what I'm saying.
Like, like he'll probably stay around because we want, you know.
Yeah.
Dramedy from them.
Sure.
Sam gets the first impression rose, which makes sense because we got a whole background story of him being a contractor.
So, yep.
Now he is important.
Also, he's like the one he's like the pretty boy.
Yeah.
First of all, i'm very proud of
jen for only kissing one guy yeah and she and those boys though like like yeah i'm proud of
her but also like those boys were kind of like not that ballsy like i it kind of sucks that she
had to kiss them yeah like him like i would want that i would want to be kissed like i would want
to be the one to make the move. Yeah. Well,
she is the lead.
It is her show.
The body language that she had with him.
I was like,
if I was in that position,
I'd be like,
well,
we're going in for a kiss because like,
she's like in my face,
you know?
Yeah.
Totally.
But also who knows if that's really what happened.
You can have revisionist history there.
And it's like,
we want her to look like that.
She's taking the initiative.
So let's say that she did it.
You know, I could see that being flip flopped but i will say this good kiss yeah steamy yeah agreed
so we go from first impression rose to total makeout sesh straight into rose ceremony and
i'm sitting there thinking god i would love nothing more than for her to walk out, her giant hair all disheveled, lipstick just everywhere.
She's like, all right, let's fucking start this thing.
And all the guys would be like, oh, no, she made out with Sam.
That didn't happen.
But a boy can dream.
They cut seven guys.
Is that a lot?
It felt like a lot.
It felt like a lot of people and i wonder if it's
because well we gotta fly fucking a bunch of people to melbourne so we gotta make a big cut
yep i'm also thinking that i don't know this for sure and i can go look at the schedule but it
it seems as though episodes have been cut so that's what i thought yeah my first thought
so i'm thinking that maybe just maybe that's why they had a big old swiperoo
the only thing i'm really sad about is the big guy i know i loved him he had like one had a good
funny joke he was like you look like you're in top gun three i was like fucking good joke guy
i know i liked him keep him around like okay this is messed up because it's not like he's like
Okay, this is messed up because it's not like he's like obese, right?
But he's like, he's just a bigger guy, right?
And so in my mind, it's like, okay, I think that she should have kept him around.
One, to be like, it's not all about muscles and whatever.
It's about like personality.
Right.
I'm kind of transferring my experience in The Bachelorette of like, yeah, I don't have upper body strength, but I was funny, you know?
Totally.
And also like, I think you need a personality hire here.
I know.
And I think that he would have been the personality hire.
Yeah.
I really liked him.
There are some bigger guys that I know who are like so, like the guys that like when they come into a room,
everyone gets so excited and just are the presence.
And then chicks are like, I want that.
That's a very attractive thing.
And I don't think she gave him the opportunity, you know?
I agree. I agree.
So that's my only thing is I want that big guy in there.
I'm hoping that he comes to paradise.
Bet he will.
If nothing else, he'll hang out with me with me totally fucking go back and forth with some jokes
anyways I'm excited for it the um like the super tease for like the future of the show looks
scary yeah it looks like there's like I will say like normally don't you say the bachelor it's not
as good because the boys aren't as, like, catty and drama?
It feels like these boys are a lot of drama.
And there's a lot of crybabies, which will probably make for a dramatic episode.
I hope so.
All right, enough Bachelorette, I guess.
Yeah, I think so.
Happy it's back.
Yeah.
Who do you got?
I don't know anyone.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
Some guy comes.
Some guy from her past.
Oh, yeah.
I hate when they do that.
Is that a red herring? Is that nothing? Probably nothing, but I just hate when they do that is that a red herring is that
nothing probably nothing but i just hate when they do that yeah yeah whatever uh who you got
sam is sam the guy no definitely not definitely not because we definitely did get a little bit
of a tease about how like he something and then some guy tells her that he's falling in love with
her in front of a bunch of other dudes not a good look but no i don't know anyone's name there's a couple there were a couple
guys that i was like oh i like him yeah but i need to get a couple weeks in before i start
yeah honing in on my faves all right well we'll try to do i'm getting screener so we can do this
and we can do like kind of a bachelor thing every episode. If, if, if the wife, if they went, if you guys hated, did let us know.
Give us a fuck you very much.
You got some favorite things, bro.
Bro, have you started presumed innocent on Apple?
No.
What's that?
Oh my God.
Okay.
I think it's an old show that I think it's a remake.
Like I think it's, I think it's already been done.
But I never saw the old version.
So this storyline is completely new to me.
I am fucking loving it.
Jake Gyllenhaal is the star.
It's a pretty stacked cast.
There's like a lot of other big names in it.
I just always forget how much I love Jake Gyllenhaal as an actor.
I truly think he's one of my favorites.
Like he is so good at playing that character that you can't tell if he's a good guy or a bad guy.
You know what I mean?
Like there's just something like in his eyes that I feel like he's like got some screws loose,
even though he like comes off as this good guy in the show.
And like I just am so torn.
I'm like, are you a good guy or bad guy?
I don't know.
And I love am so torn I'm like are you a good guy or bad guy I don't know and I love it so much it tells the story of a horrific murder that upends the Chicago prosecuting attorney's office
when one of its own is suspected of the crime presumed innocent with Jake Gyllenhaal,
Ruth Nega, Bill Camp, and others on Apple TV.
I have been seeing that on Apple TV, so I want to watch it.
I think you would really like it.
I've managed four episodes yesterday on my flight.
Basically, Jake Gyllenhaal's character is a prosecutor,
and he's like the number one, right?
He's like the star prosecutor.
They think they live in Chicago.
So he's known for putting one right like he's like the star prosecutor they think they live in chicago so he's like known for putting all these like bad people away lo and behold episode one his part he's like number two his like partner this girl gets murdered and he gets a phone call and it
says like so and so has been murdered last night whatever and we need you to try the case and so
it sets this whole scene of like you know he's the number one attorney so they want him to try it but
like obviously they were close and so it's like probably he probably shouldn't be trying it since he's got
like a personal relationship going on with her all this stuff and then like all this stuff just
starts coming out it's just so good i don't want to give anything away because it's i just think
it's been such a great show but it's it's it's pretty like graphic too like the the murder scene
images are it's giving giving like true detective vibes,
which I really liked a lot.
And then the guy,
David E. Kelly produced it.
Who's so good.
He's done so much and he's so incredible.
So great show.
I would definitely recommend watching it.
I'm obsessed.
Okay.
I want to watch that.
Speaking of Apple TV, I finally finished dark matter.
And I loved the ending.
Okay.
Here's my thing.
Is that how it ended in the book? That's a good question. I loved the ending. Okay, here's my thing. Is that how it ended in the book?
That's a good question.
I can't remember.
I can't either.
I love the way that it did end,
but I don't remember ending that way.
It's been so long since I've read it,
and now after watching this show,
I'm confused on how.
I don't know.
I almost want to go back and read the book now.
I do too.
But I loved the visual of that in the at the very
end do you know what i mean it's like all of them it was just crazy if you haven't seen dark matter
you need to go watch it's so so good and i don't want to talk about what we're talking about because
that spoils the ending a little bit but the ending is so cool but it's not what i remember from the
book but i like maybe it's different i like this reimagining of it the only thing is i felt bad
for all the other ones you know i'm like, they're all so fucking you're telling me that they're all all through.
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
So let's like spoiler alert real quick.
Like fast forward 60 seconds, y'all, if you don't want the ending of Dark Matter to be ruined.
So we can just say this.
Okay, go.
It's heartbreaking because they're all him.
I know.
Like, it's really not.
They're not others.
They're him. And that's the crazy thing. And like the thing that's like really hard to wrap your brain
around as a human being, because like, it's not possible, but what if it was, and like, they're
all you, it's just a really, really crazy concept. You know, the one thought that I had was, so the
original guy that comes into the guy's world to steal his life, right? Uh-huh.
Why weren't multiple versions of him doing that?
That's what I was thinking too.
I know. I wondered that too.
But I guess like in theory you could say that those Jasons never found that world or – I mean you could – I mean I agree with you.
I mean, you could, I mean, I agree with you.
I also had the same thought,
but I just wondered if because he,
that Jason led such a different life up until then,
if that Jason like didn't care as much about like finding that world or something.
I don't know.
Anyways, Dark Matter, absolutely phenomenal.
Go check it out.
Incredible, incredible.
Dude, I watched a pretty crazy documentary.
Okay.
It's on HBO Max.
It's Bad Blood.
Have you heard of this so it's a documentary about the
taylor swift scooter braun feud it's two episodes and the first episode is from her perspective
and you watch it and you're like yeah fuck you scooter braun and like kanye west like i can't
believe you did this to her like it's fucked like you know you're just sitting there you're like
yeah and then the second episode's from scooter bronze perspective and then
you're like well hold on if he's telling the truth you you could have bought it so you don't really
know who to believe really and you know it's that whole thing of like there's two sides of every
story and then there's the truth but it's super super interesting to really like get an insight
into that whole thing because it very much was everyone was like this is messed up that she doesn't have ownership of her masters you know so now she's re-recording everything
then you find out like her dad was on the board of big machine you're like well then he knew what
was going on like so it's all this stuff you're like oh i didn't know any of this anyways it's
just super interesting so yeah go check if you like are interested in any of that like the music
industry stuff i just thought it was like fascinating I didn't know a lot of the story.
I was always like,
yeah,
team Taylor,
like get your masters back or whatever.
But,
uh,
interesting to hear scooter bronze side of it.
And yeah,
bad blood on max.
Go check it out.
Interesting.
Speaking of max,
are you caught up on house of the dragon?
I'm not all caught up.
Not close or just not this past week?
Not this past week.
Okay.
Yeah.
I didn't watch last night's episode,
but I'm caught up otherwise. So we didn't talk about it last week but the whole thing of like them meeting
the two the two women meeting and she's like wait what did he say that's an old story and like why
is everyone named amen in this world can we get new names again Aegon. Aegon, whatever. That's an old story he was telling.
That's a different Aegon, you dipshit.
And she's like, well, listen, I'm kind of pot committed to this thing, guys.
Oh, yeah, she's way too far into me.
Listen, my son's the king and dragons are fine.
I can't.
My hands are tied.
I can't do anything.
She is such an idiot.
Like, I truly cannot but i thought like
it's interesting those two actresses like i was kind of thinking about it just from like an actor
standpoint of that scene the dialogue in it is pretty like modern i guess i would say and like
simple and it very easily could have been very cheesy the scene yeah and i thought that they both did a good job of like
making it not cheesy if that makes any sense yeah i don't know yeah but um i just i think it's so
good i think the season has gotten really really it just keeps getting better and better i'm a big
fan i feel like the greens are just gonna go down. Yeah. I feel like they're in for some shit. Great show.
I started watching this true crime documentary called Relentless.
Okay.
It's on Max and also Discovery Plus.
Documentary filmmakers' obsessive journey to find the truth behind the disappearance of a missing woman.
Relentless.
So this woman goes, goes missing. Right. And her fit, like she goes to a
bar, she's, she's married with a kid or she might not even be married, but like, she's got a partner.
They've got a kid. She decides to go to the bar. Like she gets like wasted. She gets kicked out
like three bars or whatever. And then all of a sudden, like the next, she never shows up the next day.
Her phone gets found on the ground, like, you know, like a hundred yards from the bar or whatnot.
And she's just missing.
And this woman is like trying to, trying to help this family, the grandparents find this woman.
And it's so messed up because everyone kind of knows where she is.
And it's so messed up because everyone kind of knows where she is.
There's this one guy who's kind of, I think he's kind of like a, that's like human trafficking or like a pimp and like is like known to beat women.
His name's like Bookie.
And like everyone's like, yeah, she's with Bookie.
She's been locked in a basement, all this.
Like everyone kind of knows that she's, she basically has been drugged and like sold into, I think, I haven't finished the thing, but it seems like she's been sold into human trafficking.
And this woman and the grandparents are calling the cops and calling the FBI.
No one will respond to this family.
Like they do not give a shit.
It's so very frustrating.
And then it turns to like,
wait,
do the cops not give a shit? Or are the grandparents lying about stuff and, like, making this all up?
And now I think that she's, like, so doesn't want to be found now because she's so drugged out, I'm sure, and, like, just who knows what's going on.
I'm watching it, and I'm so angry at, like, this guy who did this to her.
But then I'm, like, more angry at the police and the FBI for, like, not doing anything.
It's like, what are these taxes doing here?
Damn.
Let's fix the potholes and let's find this woman.
Jeez Louise.
I watched another show called Worst Roommate Ever.
Oh, I've been seeing that pop up.
Yeah, it's on Netflix, I believe.
When Alex Miller let Jed Creek rent her room via Craigslist,
she had no idea that he was a notorious serial squatter and that he would use his
knowledge of tenancy laws to slowly kick her out of her own home worst roommate ever so this
happened in tennessee no tenancy laws like a tenant tenancy i see wait is this is this her
true story yeah yeah it's a documentary But that's not the story that I watched.
So like there's every episode is like a different like shitty roommate.
So the first episode.
Oh, I see.
So the first episode is this woman, two women who are living together.
And one's like real pretty, you know.
And then the other one's kind of like homely and like not as social. Okay. And the real pretty one like gets pregnant and, you know, and then the other one's kind of like homely and like not as social.
Okay.
And the real pretty one like gets pregnant and, you know, whatever.
And then the other one kind of helps raise the kid.
The not so pretty one starts to become like really, really possessive over the other woman, like single white female shit.
Single white female shit.
Yeah.
And then like also like super like possessive over the child.
So then the pretty
one with the child like has a bunch of back operations she's like back problems so she's like
you know having to be like on pills and stuff so the other woman tries get the court to like
let her steal the kid and the court calls the the mother and is like what is this about and she's
like what i just have back surgery like i'm not on i'm on drugs because
i have back surgery it's like prescribed to me and then she calls the woman she's like oh yeah i did
that and she's like what what and then all of a sudden she starts getting like really sick oh so
she has to like the back surgery things the roommate has to like clean her wounds and all of
a sudden she starts getting like these really bad infections stop it right the fuck now that is disgusting and the woman's like having to go back in the
hospital and like they think she's gonna die and she's like really bad staff infection and you're
like oh my god and well of course you're always like that roommates fucking trying to kill you
the pretty room it's like no she would never do that oh oh oh oh oh the other thing so her back's
all fucked up and then she starts having like these insulin crashes where like all of a sudden she like her blood sugar level goes down like 13.
And I guess that's like really low.
She has to go to the hospital.
And they keep thinking she's going to die.
And like the doctors are like, are you injecting yourself with like insulin?
Like what is happening with you?
And she's like, no, I don't know.
And so like every night before bed, she'd like eat a bunch of sugar because she was like, I don't want to fucking die the next morning.
This happens all the time.
And then all of a sudden the FBI gets involved because she tries to buy a bioweapon.
And it's similar to the original like a staph infection thing.
But she gets on the dark web.
And so they finally pull her in.
And guess what else she was buying on the dark web and so they finally pull her in and guess what else she was
buying the dark web what fucking insulin she was injecting her at night with insulin trying to kill
her i kind of ruined the i can't believe you watch this shit this is nuts you gotta watch it
it's great i'm not watching this why not because this is fucking crazy. I know. Don't get a roommate.
I would never. Anyways, I kind of ruined the first
one, but that was the first one.
I was like, Jesus Christ. It's a monster.
And I think she's out already.
Oh my God. Of course
she is. Of course she is.
Anyways, worst roommate ever.
So funny. That is insane.
Jeez.
Yeah. That one insane. Jeez. Yeah.
That one really got you.
Yeah, it was good, right?
Yeah.
I've been trying to be more stoic in my life.
Why? Why?
I don't know. I'm trying to turn a new leaf here, you know?
Really?
So I started following this thing on Instagram called Daily Stoic.
Uh-huh.
And I wanted to play a couple of them for you.
They're just like Marcus aurelius quotes
and stuff like that that i think that might be helpful for the yft years out there why do we
need to be more stoic i just feel like this world is crazy like going into this political turmoil of
the year and i'm like i'm getting too old to give a shit and okay so there's a couple ways you can
go about it i think one you can just like drug yourself to like numbness, you know, or drink yourself into like who gives a shit,
or you can train your body and your mind to be more stoic.
Some stoic one-liners that will change your life. Epictetus says, if you want to be beautiful,
make beautiful choices. Mark Surreal says, you're afraid of death because you won't be able to do I like that one.
You're afraid of death because you're scared you won't be able to do this anymore.
So make sure what you're doing is fucking awesome.
So it makes sense to be scared of death.
That is very true. We all suffer more in more in imagination than we do in reality.
That is very true. We all suffer more in our imaginations than we do in reality.
True.
We always build things up in our mind and be much worse than they really are.
True.
One of my favorite quotes that I don't even know if it's a stoic, like from one of these guys, but is that you'll stop caring what other people think about you
when you realize how little they actually do think about you.
True.
You know?
Mm-hmm.
Mark Cerullo says,
things are not asking to be judged by you.
You have the power of no opinion.
And then Epictetus says,
it's not things that upset us.
It's our judgment about things.
And then finally, one more memento mori line from Mark
Sebelius says you could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.
Okay. I really like the one that you don't have to have an opinion.
That one's good.
And that's the one that like made me want to play it. Things aren't asking you to have an opinion about them.
Right.
And we do that in our,
in our daily lives.
We have opinions about everything and you don't have to have an opinion about
anything.
That's very true.
And especially like with like politics,
everyone wants you to have a stance.
Everyone wants you to have an opinion.
I don't,
you don't have to,
there's no law that says you have to give a shit about any of that,
you know?
So anyways,
I'm trying to get more stoic. Okay. I love that for you have to give a shit about any of that, you know? So anyways,
I'm trying to be more stoic. Okay. I love that for you. You like that? Yeah. Okay. I do. Good.
There are some things that I do want to watch that I think are going to be on the docket coming up.
Okay. I want to watch the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Have you seen that?
No. That's with Henry Cavill and then the guy who was in Reacher, that really big guy.
It looks like a fun movie.
I think it's a Guy Ritchie film.
Okay.
And then I also want to watch this show called Fantasmus, I think it's called.
Anyways, I'll get back to you on that.
All right.
Before we go, do you want to end on a joke?
I would love to.
You would? I love jokes.
Yeah.
Okay.
What did the Buddhist say to the hot dog vendor?
I don't know.
Make me one with everything.
That's so bad.
So the vendor makes him a hot dog and the Buddhist gives him a 20.
The vendor pockets the 20 and goes on to the next customer.
And the Buddhist says, what about my change?
And the vendor says, change comes from within.
Hey, that's me trying to be stoic, still telling jokes.
Fascinating.
Change comes from within, Brandy.
Okay.
You know, you don't have to have an opinion about that joke.
You're right.
But I do.
I know you do. You got some Muzak's? Let's
see here. I don't know if I have anything good this week. Okay. I got something that I really,
really liked. Are you familiar with Ren? I don't think so. Okay. I kind of want to play like a lot
of this just so you guys can get a sense of it the video is so good too
i like really really want you to watch the video if you can okay the artist name is ren this is a
song called hi ren and okay it's really good listen to it i think you'll like it
hi there and it's been a little while did you miss me you thought you buried me didn't you
risky because i always come back deep down you know that deep down you know mom always in Hi there, Ren. It's been a little while. Did you miss me? You thought you buried me, didn't you? Risky.
Cos I always come back. Deep down you know that. Deep down you know I'm always in periphery.
Ren, aren't you pleased to see me? It's been weeks since we spoke, bro. I know you need me.
You're the sheep, I'm the shepherd. Not your place to lead me. Not your place to be batting off the hand that feeds me.
Hi, Ren. I've been taking some time to be distant. I've been taking some time to be still.
I've been taking some time to be by myself since my therapist told me i'm ill and i've been making some progress lately and i've learned some new coping skills
so i haven't really needed you much man i think we need to just step back and chill
rent you sound more insane than i do you think that those doctors are really there to guide you
been through this a million times so anyways it's it's this back and forth between, you know, the good and the bad side of his psyche.
And it's a little bit like that Eminem song, you know, with the letter or whatever.
He even makes reference in it, like in the song about it.
It's kind of meta.
Anyways, it's amazing lyricism.
This kid, I can't believe I hadn't heard of him, but I really, really like it.
His name's Ren.
Hi, Ren is the name of the song. Okay.
What do you got coming up? What do I have coming up?
Well, I'm in Calgary now.
I'm super pumped.
I think I told you this. I'm going to Banff this week
after my show. I'm so excited.
God willing, American Airlines gets you there.
Well, it's an hour drive from where I am,
so there'll be no flying.
And then, after that, I fly to Las Vegas for a show this weekend on Sunday.
Not flying American, but flying WestJet.
So still could use some prayers on that.
And then I go home for like two days.
And then I'll actually be in LA for a day next week.
And then I have a show in Vancouver.
So, yeah, this is a busy travel month for me.
I'm on the go.
Nice.
What about Yale?
I'm going to Jackson Hole for a little bit.
Who are you going with, your brother?
No, like buddies from high school and stuff.
Oh.
And then I'm coming back here, and then I go to New York.
Then I'll be in New York for a while.
Can we tease it that we've been thinking about, talking about,
and just maybe doing a live show?
Oh, sure. Let's tease away.
It could be happening. It could be coming to a city near you.
That city will be Nashville.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Let's just tell it like it is. Okay, yes. We're going to do it in Nashville. The first one's going to be in Nashville, just so you Nashville. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's just tell it like it is.
Okay, yes.
We're going to do it in Nashville.
The first one's going to be in Nashville, just so you know.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
Tears in the making.
Yeah.
And we'll see.
However this one goes, we'll see how it goes afterwards.
Yeah, we'll have more details for you guys on that soon.
All right, YFTers.
We haven't done a Fuck You Very Much, and we haven't done voicemails,
so if you want to hit us up,
please do.
You know what I did yesterday? I had
a couple drinks, and I just went through our
Instagram reels.
A couple drinks, yeah.
And I went back almost
years on it. It's so
funny. Really?
Yeah.
I mean, me
mainly, but you know like
right but like
it's it's such a
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