Your Favorite Thing with Wells & Brandi - Livin the Pura Vida

Episode Date: May 21, 2025

Nothing but the pure life for Wells this week. Sun tans, surprise birthday decorations, spanish TV, and wait…back pain? Dammit. Side effect of turning 41 we guess. But hey, no complaints when you’re in paradise, right? Meanwhile, Brandi just wrapped up at Sand In My Boots Festival where by all accounts her sets were straight litty kitty, and now she’s got The Sphere in her sights as she preps for 5 weeks in Vegas w/ country music guy Kenny Chesney! Your hosts then debate the merits of street vs book smarts, wonder if you can watch a TV show AND read the book at the same time, and dive deep into an Aladdin revision theory that actually kinda makes sense…speaking of The Sphere, have you been? And have you ‘enhanced’ your experience with anything? We wanna know! Hit us up in the VMs with your thoughts. Till next week…ok byeeee. Favorite Things this week: The Eternaut (en Español!) Assassin in Paradise (game) The Order Handmaid’s Tale Sunset on the Reaping (book) The Stand (book) Thanks to our awesome sponsors for supporting this episode!  Mood: Get 20% off your first order at Mood.com/YFT with promo code YFT. Hungryroot: For a limited time get 40% off your first box PLUS get a free item in every box for life. Go to Hungryroot.com/yft and use code yft. Happy Mammoth: For a limited time get 15% off on your entire first order at happymammoth.com and use the code YFT. Prolon: Visit ProlonLife.com/YFT to claim your 15% discount sitewide plus a $40 bonus gift when you subscribe to their 5-Day Program! Quince: Treat your closet to a little summer glow-up with Quince. Go to Quince.com/yft for free shipping on your order and 365 day returns. Article: Visit article.com/yft for $50 off your first purchase of $100 or more. Betterhelp: Visit BetterHelp.com/favoritething to get 10% off your first month. Don’t forget to rate, review, and follow Your Favorite Podcast! Plus, keep up with us between episodes on our Instagram pages, @yftpodcast @wellsadams and @brandicyrus and be sure to leave us a voicemail with your fave things at 858-630-1856!  This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation.

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That's pretty great. Also, there's balloons everywhere. So many balloons everywhere that I go out, take a pee at night and I'm stepping on balloons, popping balloons, terrifying balloons everywhere. I don't want to get a needle and start popping because that's going to freak me out. It's too loud. That's what's happening over here. Yeah, it was my birthday not too long ago. I'm 41 now. I'm just in my 40s, dude. Look at me. I look like I'm in my 40s. I don't think I look like I'm in my 20s anymore, but 40s? But I got say dude, like, I've been feeling good, I haven't been sick in a while, knock on wood.

My back's been kinda hurting, I think I slept on it weird, and that's something that a 40 year old would say. That's a 40 year old issue. Anyways, that's what's happening in my half time right now. I'm done in paradise. We're almost done. But I gotta say guys, it's looking like a pretty good season. You know, I usually can tell they have the middle of these things. If I think they're pretty good. This one I got to say, and this isn't me just like trying to promote like I'm just saying I think it's

going to be good. Now am I going to be on the show? No. Won the lottery on gigs really did. But I'm happy to be here. Rica is freaking beautiful, dude boy. Oh boy Oh one of my favorite things that they say here everything like they're like aloha is pure of either the pure life They just say pure of either day everything you say like can I get some breakfast and they're like absolutely But I mean then you're like what I don't know what that means Why is my purpose I didn't do live the pure life? But I'm gonna probably bring back that back to my lifestyle and just have people being like, hey man, how you doing?

Pure Vida baby. I don't know if I'm doing it right. Probably not, but still fun to say. So that's what I'm doing. I'm living in Costa Rica. I'm living Pure Vida. I'm living the Pure Vida loca and I'm just having the best time in the world. I had a day off today, so I didn't do anything.

I went on two walks up and down the beach, watched some golf, just happened to really live in the Pura Vida lifestyle. I can't watch anything. So me doing this show is hard because I don't have the ability to watch the shows that are available in the United States. So I'm watching weird freaking Argentinian shows. So I'm going to have that today to talk to you guys about but hopefully bring brandy is going to bring some of the

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Hi. Oh, disheveled. I just caught Astra digging holes in the yard. She is a bad girl Was she going after moles probably but it's no excuse, you know, she knows better. Does she the dog? No, she does know what is she a bad girl about digging holes? That's it. That's the one thing Yeah, did you send her to like some sort of like training camp? Oh, yeah, she's a good. Oh, yeah That's why she knows, you know Yeah, yeah, yeah, so we can't be having that. I Mean, I can't believe you haven't seen anything about my background here

Oh, well, I made a reaction face. So I think when I first logged on here, this is um, this is really something It's pretty nice, right? I'm gonna widen my screen so I can see more of it. Yeah, you want to see exactly I want to see as much of it as that, wow. It's extravagant. It is. From Sarah? Yeah, what's really funny is that, so for all the listeners out there,

that's not, you can't see this, but I have all these balloons around me that says happy birthday with silver streamers, gold balloons, gold lettering. I got 41 right here. Woof. Right there. Yeah, I got balloons everywhere.

Anyways, I came in, I went on a run on my birthday, and then I came in and this room was like this. And I was like, oh my God. And I just assumed it was production, you know? Because like they all knew it was my birthday. The art department would have this crap, you know? Yeah. So I like did a video and I'm like, oh my God, so sweet. Thank you to Bachelor Nation fam for like doing this.

This is so great. And then I immediately get a phone call from my wife being like, that's not fucking them. I did that. I'm like, oh. That's a fair. That's a fair mistake, though, to make. Yeah. So I was like, how did you know? Who did you talk to? And she was talking to Jesse's producer or something. That's how, because I was like,

you didn't even know where I'm staying, you know? Oh really? No, I don't know if I've been like, this is the name of the hotel that I'm staying at. Does Sarah have your location? Do you guys share a location? No. Really?

Do you? Yes. Why? You know, I don't know. I think, I don't know. We just started doing it so early and it is kind of nice to know like, sometimes I think I'm like, especially if we're, if Matt's in Australia and I'm like, I'm going to call him.

I can look and see if he's driving or riding his bike before I call because the problem is he will answer even if he is driving or on the bike, which is so dangerous. So I make the executive decision, if I see him on the road, I just wait. One, it's a little bit of an invasion of anyone's privacy. Like, I don't know, you don't need to know where I am all the time. I mean, I guess, but also like I have nothing to hide.

Like I'm either at the barn or I'm at home. True, but sometimes you're doing stuff that is for them that you don't want them to know about like getting them a gift or something you know but yeah anyway so 41 brandy 41 years old how does it feel any different does it feel no my back hurts a little bit my back hurts all the time I didn't look pretty good you know Matt said that actually he was. He was like, Well, it's handsome. Yeah, I guess he saw you post about being 41. I don't know. And he was like, what 41? And I was like, yeah, he's old. And he was like, damn,

he looks good. How old is Matt 36? You're younger than me. By the way, people loved the mad episode. I'm not sure if you were able to check on any of that. I read some comments on Spotify that people left. Some very nice comments I shared with him. I actually listened to half of the podcast. Oh my God, you listened to your own podcast for the first time? Yeah, only half.

And what did you think? I thought it was really good. I could tell you edited it very nicely. It was much more concise and efficient than I remember. So that was good for you, Wells. I do that for every episode. Well, that's great. I love that.

But I think I liked listening to this one because it wasn't a whole lot of me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was not a lot of me either. Yeah, no, it was mostly Matt, which was good. Matt got a very good talking voice. Well, he's Australian and Australians sound cool no matter what. Yeah. But no, I loved that the YFTAers loved it because I wasn't sure. I didn't know. They come here to listen to Dirty Grandpa for some insane reason and about TV shows. So I just wasn't sure they would be into it. But I'm glad that they enjoyed it. You want me to read some of these?

Sure. Okay, Amy Finkeldee. Finkeldee. Amy Finkeldee loved hearing that story. Lauren mud. Wow, such a cool listen sat at my desk at work and was locked in unable to even work because I was so focused on the story. Wow. Dragonfly 11. That episode was great. Matt's journey was incredible. I hope they make the film. Hillary Allen Peschel. He seems so cool. I feel so lucky to have heard a bit of his story. Thanks Brandy and Matt

for opening up so much. Mary Gleason. Absolutely love this episode. Really interesting to hear Matt's story and found it very insightful Suzy Waller. Okay, I love Brandy's boyfriend. He is awesome. Really enjoyed this episode and hearing about his trip. He's so incredible. So happy for you, Brandy. I mean, that's kind of make you feel pretty good. I love that people love him. Even though you fought him every step of the way on this trip.

And I did I did and didn't. I was clear that I wasn't thrilled about it, but I also could have been a lot more negative about it, I think. Yeah. That's true. I tried to be as cool about it as I could without acting like I was excited about it. But that's his life, man, Tiger can't change his stripes. I know. So it is what it is.

Yeah. Yeah. It's fine. He's such a trooper. He went with me to sand in my boots this weekend. So that's what hangout used to be. I have a feeling hangout will be back. Oh really?

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I think I remember there being a middle stage at Hangout Festival, but everything else was essentially the exact same. This one was packed. We stayed Friday night to watch Post Malone and the crowd was insane. I mean, it went all the way back to the other stage, just about, like it was insane.

Have you seen Posty live? Yeah, at Saturday Night Live. Oh, well that's cool. He's very good. He's very quirky. He puts on like a very unique show, I think. And I don't know, I've been a Post fan for a long time. I saw Post perform at like an offsite Coachella party,

like 12 years ago or something insane when nobody knew who he was. So I've like, I don't know, been a fan for a long time and it was crazy to like hear him. He like for a minute, he started talking on stage and was like, yeah, I'm about to turn 30 and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I was like, holy shit, he's so young, you know?

And has such an insane career, has a baby. Like Posty's lived a lot of life in, in 29 years. Was that your favorite thing you saw? Ding ding. That was really, I'll give it a ding because I did love it. Um, that was the only other show I got to see. Unfortunately, I played Friday evening. It was Litty, Litty Kitty on the beach at five o'clock PM.

But the cool thing about playing the first day is that everyone isn't hung over yet. So everyone was partying, everyone felt great, you know what I mean? Like the party was just getting started. So that was cool. And then we stuck around. Oh, I did see a little bit of a Hardy set. I've seen him before. I like Hardy and then Post Malone.

And then the next morning we got up early and I was the first set of the day on one of the main stages, which is a tough slot to play in itself. I've done this slot at other festivals. I've opened Perry's stage at Lollapalooza last year. I opened the main stage at Electric Forest last year. And being the first act is hard because everyone's starting to come in. So when you start playing, there's literally no one there. And then by the time it's done, you've got a huge crowd waiting to see whoever's after you. And in my case, it was Big X the Plug was on after me.

So- I'm not familiar with Big X the Plug. What? You don't know Big X? No. The largest? Does anyone know who this person is? Oh yeah, they do. Big X is like totally having a moment right now. Is he a DJ?

No, he's a hip hop artist. Well, I'm a 41 year old middle-aged man, so I don't know about Big X the butt plug, but he sounds great. He actually is pretty good. I wish we could play a little bit of his song, but I guess we'll get sued. I don't know. Anyway, so I was opening for Big X, which makes zero sense that I would be doing that. So it was interesting. Not only was I playing to no crowd in the beginning, as the set went on, it was filling up, but it was filling up with Big X fans.

So they were taking one look at me and I feel like they just weren't having it. I had a group of girls in the very front that were there for me and thank God they were just like my saving grace the whole set. I just kind of like channeled my people. But you could tell it was definitely like a lot of people there to just see hip hop. And we're like, okay, this girl can get off stage now. And it was so fucking hot, like so hot. I was just sweating balls up there. Sun in my face. Can't really see my decks. Like it was, you know. It was something. And then we literally split. I went off from the stage into the car and got dropped off at my car and we drove seven hours home because I had to come home to unpack so that I can repack and go to Vegas.

You drove? We drove. Why didn't you just fly? Because it was the exact same amount of travel time to fly than drive. And that was barring no delays, you know what I mean? Which is these days very common. We were going to get home at the same time if we drove or flew, again, barring no delays. And I was like, I just would rather drive and know I'm going to get home and leave right away. And it was fine except for Matt and I argued both ways. We got an argument on the way down and we got an argument on the way home.

About what? Just stupid stuff. Let me hear the argument and then I wanna decide. Then I wanna decide who I think is right, who I think was wrong. I'll tell you offline. Okay. But it's just funny that like being in a car causes arguments.

That's why you should have flown. I guess so. And also it's weird to get into a fight on a plane with everyone else there, you can't do that. That's why you should have flown. I guess so. And also it's weird to get into a fight on a plane with everyone else there. You can't do that. That's true. Well, I think the funny thing about for us was like, when we're on a plane, when we're flying somewhere,

I feel like Matt has on headphones and like does his own thing, but when we're in the car, he wants to chit chat. Oh yeah. And you don't love the chit chat. You're not a big chit chat. You know, I was, I was okay not chit chatting. I was okay just chilling. Totally. Oh jeez. But we survived. Our relationship survived and we're home and we leave tomorrow for Vegas, which is insane.

Is this the Sphere start? Yeah. Oh my gosh. Are you just going to live in Vegas? Yeah, for five weeks. Five weeks you're going to be in Vegas. I got to come out to this thing. You do. Pick a show, any show.

Who is it? Kenny Chesney? That's right. She thinks my tractor's sexy. It gives me weird doing like acid to Kenny Chesney. I don't know. It might be sick. It might be really cool.

I might like totally fall in love with it, you know, or like might send me into a whole different realm and I will, you know, see the face of God. Because I feel like if you're going to the spirit, you have to do drugs, right? Like that's the thing. I think so, yeah. Drugs or mushrooms or... Yeah, well, mushrooms are drugs. Are they?

I think they're from the earth. Everything's from the earth. No, some drugs are manmade. Right? Yeah. Yeah. from the earth? No, some drugs are manmade. Right? Yeah. It's not from Mars.

You know, everything is from the earth. You know? No, some things are synthetic. Like made in a lab. All right, well I'm excited. I'm gonna come, I'm gonna go stay at the Wynn. Where are you staying? I have an Airbnb.

No more than welcome to stay. Is it fancy? No, it's not, but it does have a pool. And I have two spare rooms, so let me know. You do? Yeah. And so is Matt gonna live with you? Yeah. How does he feel about going to Vegas?

He's excited. Oh, that's what, see, I got off track. I got off track talking about our arguments and forgot to, I was trying to say, I was trying to brag on Matt for coming with me this weekend. So let me tell you, so my second set, the one that was rough, opening for Big X, we show up to the stage and the setup is a bunch of LED screens in front of the DJ booth that

are taller than me. So I'm standing up there and no one can see me. And Matt was like, they have to change this. And I was like, I'm such a people pleaser. I was like, no, no, let's not ruffle any feathers. It's fine. No one's here. They don't need to see me because no one's here. So we'll just start and we'll just do it. And Matt was like, absolutely fucking not. No one can see you. Like he went

down there and took a photo and you literally could see like the very tip of my hat and that's it. This has happened to me one time before at another festival and my manager was there and she made them move the LED screens. But what kills me is that these, you know, six to eight men that are up there on the stage supposed to be handling shit, looked at this and thought that this was a good idea. They looked at this and knew there was supposed to be a DJ standing back there and thought, they don't need to be seen. You know what I mean? And somebody had played before me and played and behind those screens and I looked and you can barely see them. You can see like their foreheads. Like it's fucking wild. So Matt got out there, put his TM hat

on and he was like, we're moving these screens. And so he made them move everything off stage so that you could see me. His TM hat? Yeah. Tour manager. Tour manager hat. Got it. Got it. Got it. You know, seven foot tall Australian guy being like, Oh, you might, we got to move this shit raw now. You know, that's what makes shit happen. Yeah, it's how they just like it. So anyway, I would have played a whole hour and 20 minute set and nobody would have been able to see me if it wasn't for Matt.

You know, he's the greatest. He's pretty good, yeah. I don't know why you're getting into fights with him. You shouldn't get into fights with him, you know? He's just so opinionated. Yeah, mm-hmm. You're opinionated. Yeah. You're opinionated too though. That's the problem.

Yeah. Yeah. Santa my boots. A plus. Should we start the show? Yeah. Me or you? Me.

Go for it. Bros and hoes. You're listening to your favorite thing podcast with? Bettles and Bronle. So I'm just gonna go ahead and hoes. You're listening to your favorite thing podcast with? Bettles and Brandy! So I'm just gonna go ahead and say it. Nothing's changed down here in Paradise. I still can't watch it, you know? I don't know what's happening on Last of Us. Me either. And all this stuff I can watch is like Spanish, popular in South America.

I did watch this like one Argentinian show. That you said you liked. Yeah, did I tell you about this last time? You mentioned it. I don't think, because we didn't really do favorite things. And you said you were watching on subtitles or something? Yeah. Yeah. It's called the Aeronaut, the Aeronaut.

Oh wait, I think I've seen, is it on Netflix? Yeah. I think I've seen the preview for this and because it was overdubbed, I was like, no. Well, it's the closest thing I'm getting to something that's happening in the rest of the world as I'm watching it. Follows Juan Salvo along with a group of survivors

as they battle an alien threat that is under the direction of an invisible force after a horrific snowfall claims the lives of millions of people. The air knot. So I think it happens in Argentina. There's like this crazy like, or Borealis solar storm that's happening in the atmosphere. And everyone's like watching it. And it's like, Oh, it's cool. And then all of a sudden, it starts to snow. And it's like not supposed to snow at this

time. It's like summertime for them. The snow starts falling down. And then like once it starts falling down, everyone dies. If you get tired of the snow, you are fucking dead. So that the streets are just full of dead people. And the show is about this like group of people they were like, they were like playing poker, like hanging out. So they're all like friends, you know, but they're not like related. And then some wives and stuff. They were inside and so and they were like drinking

so they didn't get the snow to kill them or whatever. And then, then it's just like them trying to figure out what the fuck to do. So like someone had a, like a gas mask, you know, like a World War II relic thing. So they put that on and they completely covered themselves. And someone was able to go outside because the snow wasn't getting on them

and start to explore. It's kind of like silo. That's what I was thinking. Silo meets maybe like stranger things. It's dubbed, which is annoying, but it's pretty awesome. I really like it. Especially if you're into apocalyptic shows, like I feel like we are.

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Not on the show. It's happening behind the scenes of the show. It's the crew. They're playing this assassin's game. So we're all in this, it's like 30 of us are in this WhatsApp text chain. Everyone gets given a knife with their name on it. Oh. And the game maker individually

texts you and says who you're supposed to assassinate and then you have to assassinate them. You want to hear the rules? How do you assassinate them? With your little plastic knife. You actually go and yeah. All right official rules of assassin in Paradise. Safe zones. No kills allowed. You can't do it in catering. You can't kill in the control room. You can't kill a fish bowl cast eating area. So like, I'm sad basically. Can't kill in the audio room, like where you get mic'd up. You can't kill on set when cast is present, including the daybed area in front of the set. Even if all the cast members are at the pool or whatever, you still can't do it. Important rules.

Do not mention or play the game in front of the contestants. This game should not interfere with the show or your job. You must use the signed knife given to you. If lost or broken, Alex will issue a replacement Kills with another items will not count do not throw your weapon at the target Do not enter anyone's living quarters unless invited kills made in safe zones are invalid Kills witnessed by others are invalid after a successful kill Take a photo of the crime scene and send it to Alex. Be creative, but do not post it yourself.

Alex will post it to the main thread. If you're killed, you're out. Immediately give the killer the name of your current target. That becomes their next target. How to win. The game ends when we wrap the show. The last player standing wins the prize pot if multiple players remain The assassin with the most kills will be declared the winner happy hunting Assassin in paradise. Let me show you the logo. So you guys are super bored is what you're saying look at the logo Oh, wow, that's nice Did chat GPT make that I don't know Anyways, it's so fun. So now I'm? I don't know. Anyways, it's so fun. So now I'm like, I don't trust anyone.

I went on a walk and someone was like walking behind me and I was like, Oh, you fucking try to kill me. I start walking real fast. I'm sure he's like, just like, what's, um, is there a prize for whoever wins? I don't know. Huh? It's just being the winner, you know? Oh, okay.

Anyways, it's a fun thing. It's what we're playing. It's a game within totally show. Yeah Well, I hope you win, you know, I hope you win since you didn't win the other the other game you played I probably will be killed immediately probably. Yeah Bummer you got some things. Yeah, I watched a movie. What'd you watch? It's called the order with Jude Law Have you seen it? This is about priests No, it's about white supremacists. Oh, yeah, it's

actually a true story. It's giving Waco if you liked Waco, you would probably like this. It's very fucking sad and depressing. A series of bank robberies and car heists, frightened communities in the Pacific Northwest. A lone FBI agent believes the crimes were not the work of financially motivated criminals, but rather a group of dangerous domestic terrorists. The Order starring Jude Law, Nicholas Holtz, Ty Sheridan.

Oh, did Tyler Sheridan write this? No, Ty Sheridan, I think, is different. Is that a different person? Yeah. Oh yeah, that is a different person. So you liked it, huh? I did. It's definitely dark, especially knowing that it's true

and that there are so many, there were, slash are, so many people out there with that mentality is fucking terrifying. Also just fucking crazy to me that all those people had access to all those weapons. Very insane. But a good watch, like if you like that kind of stuff, like the wake-up thing. Really sad though, you know who else is in it that I love is, I don. Like if you like that kind of stuff, like the wake up thing, really sad though.

You know who else is in it that I love is, I don't know if I'm saying her name correct, but Journey Smollet, I think is how you say it. She was in Friday Night Lights back in the day. That was like her first thing, but I love her. And she plays like an FBI agent or something in this. And she's very good. And Jude Law is very good.

The cast is great. So yeah, I don't know where I watched it. Maybe Hulu? Streaming on Hulu, you can rent on Prime. There you go. Yeah, all right. I might check that out when I get home. I think you'd like it.

Okay. Yeah, I think so. Okay. I don't think I'm caught up yet quite on Handmaid's Tale because Matt won't let me watch it. So I have to watch it when he's sleeping or in the shower. I don't know. That's kind of meta, you know, a man not letting a woman.

Right, thank you, I know. He says it's a dumb show. I don't know. That's kind of meta, you know, a man not letting a woman. Right? Thank you. I know. He says it's a dumb show. I said it's not. It's just a show about how terrible men are. So of course you don't like it. And so I'm not completely caught up. However, I feel like the last time I discussed this show on our show, I was sitting here singing Nick's praises, saying that I was team Nick in June

and that I wanted them to be together. And lo and behold, the very next episode, spoiler alert. singing Nick's praises, saying that I was team Nick in June and that I wanted them to be together. And lo and behold, the very next episode, spoiler alert. Say it ain't so. Nick fucks up so royally. Damn it, Nick. It was fucking devastating. And- We were rooting for you, Nick.

I had literally just talked about how much I was rooting for him and he went and fucking ruined everything. It turns out he is just like the fucking rest of them and it is so sad to me damn it Well, I really liked him. Yeah, it happens, you know So that's where we are. I finished Sunset on the reaping and Fantastic really loved it. Okay, no complaints. It's a Hunger Games book, but I liked it a lot better than the one that was about President Snow, you know. Zero complaints. Hamich Abernathy can get it. Freaking great book. And also, Suzanne Collins, I think that's her name. Keep doing it.

Like, we're running out of characters that we know, but like, go to the fourth Hunger Games. Let's hear that one. Who's in that one? What's going on? You know? It is kind of funny though reading that book, which is about a reality TV show where they're like really making people do terrible things

while doing a reality TV show. It's very meta. I bet. Sometimes I'm like, am I a game maker? Is that what I am? Am I blue talk? Is Jesse says our flicker? I don't know how much are you guys meddling down there? Very little. So I started a new book. Oh, I don't know. I'm a huge Stephen King fan. How I I don't know how I hadn't heard of this.

It's called The Stand. They made it into a TV show. The Stand is an epic post-apocalyptic dark fantasy novel written by American author Stephen King and published in 1978. The plot centers around a deadly pandemic of weaponized influenza and its aftermath in which some of the few surviving humans gather into factions and

are led by a personification of either good or evil and seem fated to clash with one another the stand. It's messed up because it's like, Oh my god, we lived through this. COVID happened. We did this. It's great. It's fucked up, but it's great. Okay, dude Stephen King, dude You don't need to write the books so long This one's like 37 hours. I got a read. Are you gonna watch the show after yes. Oh What's the show on starring whoopie Goldberg Alexander scars, Alexander Skarsgard, and James Marsden. Interesting. It's on Paramount Plus, so you get it.

I might try to watch that while reading it. Is that weird? Oh, well, maybe. Yeah. I was trying to catch up last night on your friends and neighbors, and it's gotten a little slow, which is devastating, because I really liked it in the beginning. Well, we got sent stuff by some listeners. They want us to add a new soundboard thing. Thought I would show you guys that. Let's hear it. Bitch, bitch, what the fuck?

Bitch, what the fuck? Bitch, what the fuck? What the fuck? What the fuck? Bitch, what the fuck? Jimmy Fallon liked it. That's how you know it's good. That's how you know. That's how you know it's good. That's how you know. That's how you know it is good.

Oh, I just got a message from the Assassin's thing. Oh. Meet me on the beach in 10 minutes and I'll show you a secret technique. Come alone. Oh, he's trying so hard, dude. This is insane. Everyone got that text or?

Yeah, yeah, cause someone was like, how do you stop someone from killing you? Like, do you just yell out like, please don't kill me or something? And then someone said, meet me on the beach in 10 minutes. And I was, people were saying, you have to run, so you can't get, if the knife touches you, then you've gotten killed. You have to stay away if the knife touches you, then you've gotten killed.

You have to stay away from the knife. I see. Do you wanna see my knife? Yeah. I feel like this beach thing is an ambush. 100% not going. Oh, it's pink? It's like pink gaff tape around.

It says my name on it. That is something else. I'm walking around with this plastic pink knife everywhere I go. And where do you keep it? In my pocket? In your back pocket? Front pocket? Yeah, front pocket. Just can't have someone stealing it. I know I'm nervous that I'm gonna lose it. But if I lose it, then they give me another one. That's what's happening over here in the Assassin's Paradise, Assassin's in Paradise.

Okay. I saw this and I thought this was really interesting. It's a fan theory about the movie Aladdin. In Aladdin, Jafar might have actually been the good guy. If you think about it, Agrabah, Agrabah, Agrabah, Agrabah it Agrabah Agrabah Agrabah Agrabah Agrabah Agrabah Agrabah Agrabah was ruled by a clueless Sultan who played with toys Stuffed his face face and lived in a palace while people starved in the streets surrounded by poverty crime and

desperation his sheltered daughter thought she understood the people after what two hours outside the castle walls and as the Sultan's top advisor basically the equivalent of like a chief of staff or a secretary of state Jafar he just had enough. He tried to overthrow the incompetent ruler in an effort to save the kingdom but his plan was ruined by Aladdin, a con artist who admitted to stealing from the poor, given three wishes he didn't even help the people. He used them to become a fake prince to impress the only rich girl in town, save his own skin,

and then free the genie, probably hoping for a powerful friend. Meanwhile, Jafar was the only one actually trying to fix things. But in the end, Aladdin got the girl moved into the palace and the salt went right back to ignoring everyone else. And let's not forget the entire story was told by the genie. Of course he made himself and Aladdin look like the heroes. Classic revisionist history. Jafar was the good guy. What do you think? Okay. It's a hot take is on take. Do you like

that? I don't hate it actually. Okay. Right. The Sultan was fucking playing with toys and like everyone was poor around him and they were just living in lapse of luxury, you know? And also, Aladdin didn't do dick for anyone else. Only for himself. True. I guess there's different types of intelligence. How do you classify someone as intelligent? I've always thought of it like people are book smart intelligent

or people are street smart intelligent. Yeah. Okay. Right. Like, yeah, I think there are people who are like good at math and good at spelling engineers and, you know, like those. Yeah. And then I think there are people like me Oh, who are not good at those things. But I am like witty.

I think that takes some smarts. Definitely like quick thinking is like something I'm good at, I guess. But I think there's obviously like multiple types of smart. And this was kind of interesting. There's a book I recommend a lot of people have probably over recommended it by Howard Gardner. He said there are five forms of intelligence. This kind of a math analysis do with patterns often related to music intelligence, That's deal with dealing with people There is kinetic intelligence, which is moving the body. There's word intelligence. There's another one I can't remember what it is. Every brain has that natural inclination towards one of these intelligences

I compare it to like a grain that's inside of you and that you have to move with that and you have to find it I find that one thing and if it's, if it's dance, that's intelligence. Kobe Bryant, my idol, cause I love basketball. He's a Michelangelo on the basketball court. It's intelligence. Parents like to say, well, no, you've got to go to law school. You've got to be this, you've got to be a academic, blah, blah, blah. No, you've got to get away from this idea of intelligence as just being intellectual.

I think he's right. It's in Costa Rica. It's math. What were they? Did you remember? Mathematical was the first one. Kinetic was one. Yeah.

People that are good with people, people that are athletic, like move their body in certain ways. And I think it's so right. When I heard that, I was like, this is so right. And I think that that's one think it's so right. When I heard that I was like, this is so right. And I think that that's one of the biggest, you know, I'm gonna, I'm gonna fix the schooling issue that we have in these United States. Just right now, I'm gonna do it. Okay, great. But I really do feel this way is

that he's right. And everyone is intelligent in like different things. And we should cater what your schooling is to the things that you are like really good at. Like yeah I shouldn't go to math class go to math well I shouldn't like try to like get a degree as an engineer you know like I should have never done that but like I'm good talking with people so like luckily I like went into broadcast journalism where I could talk to people and like that was like my skill set right but it's like fucked up because like people who are like musical or dance or whatever, like the arts are the thing that's like kind of like going

away in school. But like if you're that's what your intelligence is, you need to have that outlet, you know. So anyways, I think they need to figure that kind of stuff out. Yeah, I agree. Do you think you're intelligent? Yeah, I guess was like in school. I made great grades. Like I was very book smart, but also because I put effort into it, you know? I don't know. I like tested well, but then like now I didn't retain a whole lot of it. You know what I mean? Yeah. I don't know that I would say I'm still book smart, but I feel like I'm more street smart. Like I have a lot of life experience that makes me smart, right?

Yeah. Who do you think the smartest person in your family is? Probably Miley. Really? She's very, even though she like, like wasn't school smart necessarily, like obviously she was very focused on set and like working. She just is now like as an adult, she's so well read.

Like she's read so much, you know what I mean? Does she read or does she listen? She reads. And she researches a lot of things. Like she wants to be knowledgeable about anything and everything. You know what I mean? She like really doesn't read her research on stuff.

What has she been researching recently? She is very into like health and fitness. She loves that stuff. So anytime I have a question about like, what supplement I should take for this, or what I should eat for that, she's got the freaking answer because she has done the research and knows her shit.

You know what I mean? What does she think about NAD and all that? I don't know if she's doing it. I wanna say she has tried it. I'm not really sure actually, but everyone's doing NAD. I think I should start NAD. I got it off the TikTok shop. I'm not sure if actually, but everyone's doing NAD. I think I should start NAD. I got it for like off like the TikTok shop. I'm not sure if it did anything to me, but.

You got it off TikTok shop? Yeah. I don't know how reliable that one is. I agree. I don't know what I was doing. Apparently like when you go and get the NAD infusions, it can be like really uncomfortable, they say. Have you heard that? Really?

Yeah. Like it can make you feel weird. And like, I guess it depends on how hard they push it and how long I get. Like you can either sit there for eight hours and get an ad or you can sit there for like two. But the faster they push it, the like more uncomfortable it is, is what I've been told. And I don't like to be uncomfortable. So I haven't tried that one. I'll just be old. But it is apparently the fountain of youth.

That's what they say. That is what they friggin' say. We've played this man before. He's one of the great lyricists of our Journey to the Generation. I tried to get you to play this man for Miley, but you didn't, which I think was rude. Anyways...

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No more you. I become horny single guy. Today say bye bye. Tonight I go cry cry. Can I fuck me then? Can I fuck me then? Go out the door. If we continue this love baby,

we won't have reason. You look like a ninja's people. So gay. Wow. Something. Isn't that lovely? Yeah. You're so tan. I know. It's really unfair. Dude, I'm only gonna get tanner.

All right. Well, that's all I got. You's really unfair. Dude, I'm only going to get Tanner. All right. Well, that's all I got. You're going to Vegas. Everyone get your tickets to the Kenny Chesney at the Sphere featuring Brandi Cyrus. Crazy. Like when this podcast comes out, it will start tomorrow night. That's insane. Come see me and let's party.

I have some very cute merch. This is the first time I've ever made merch for myself and we have the cutest merch that we're selling exclusively at the Sphere, which is super exciting. And I'm going to have some downtime since I'm like staying put in Vegas. I think I'll be watching a decent amount of TV. So hopefully I have some things for you next week. You're going to do some gambling? No. You're going to... No, no gambling. No gambling for you? No. I might like eat some good food in Vegas. Vegas has great food, you know. Matt gonna ride

his motorcycle out there? He is not, but he has a bike in California that I think he's going to have sent out to Las Vegas so that he has it, is what I've been told. Very cool. Well, good luck. Thanks. Break legs. You're gonna be great. Let me know when you wanna come do our show. I know, I'm going to.

Sounds like an awesome time. I'm just here in paradise till the end of the month, basically, and then I'm going to French Lick, Indiana with a bunch of the bachelor boys. French Lick, you say? Yeah, you know, we're playing golf. It's like Joey Grazade, Ben Higgins, grocery store Joe,

Zach Clark, myself, and then a bunch of other people. So it's gonna be a lot of fun. So you'll have some fun stories. Oh, Dean will be there. I'll have some fun stories. Maybe we'll do a YFT with all them. That'll be sick. That'll be great. Okay. Well, YFTers.

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