Your Favorite Thing with Wells & Brandi - Martinis, Expensive Shades and Mild Bouncer Beef

Episode Date: June 18, 2025

Wells kicks off the show this week wearing some designer shades because…martinis y’all. They get ya every time. On the plus side, he’s well rested thanks to some accidental sleep divorce. Meanwhile, Brandi is nearing the end of her time at the Sphere but isn’t slowing down anytime soon - more gigs in LA, Nashville, Calgary, then back to Vegas, we’re talking serious frequent flyer points, YFT’ers. Wells had a minor dust-up with a nightclub bouncer in NYC - is the city getting to him?? Maybe the chill vibes of LA are what he really needs right now. But first stop is Maine to golf with McDreamy…not a bad detour if you ask us. Lotsa good faves this week and a frank discussion on how ChatGPT is just a little too friendly…tata for now!! Favorite things this week: Mountain Head Good Night, Good Luck (On Broadway!) Cabaret (On Broadway!) Death Becomes Her (On Broadway!) Postcard from Earth Ginny & Georgia Dept Q The Survivors 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. 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. Shipstation: Go to shipstation.com and use code YOURFAVORITETHING to sign up for your FREE trial. 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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I don't know, we'll see how this works. For all you gear heads out there, I'm a big mic guy. And I gotta say, shout out to Zoom. I've been using this H6 for a while. It is a great little recording device. Honestly, if you're doing a podcast, I would highly recommend this little Zoom. It's got four outputs,

then you can change like the top one into two more. So you can get six outputs. You can technically have six people on your podcast, but it also comes with like a little microphone top, which is what I'm trying out today. I've never used, usually I just use like a little SM58 and I hold it. But the thing that annoys me is that that when I hold it it makes a noise it makes this

noise so I'm trying this out today even though I won't be like really on top of the mic I'm wondering if this will sound better I'm also wearing sunglasses for those of you watching on the socials I got new sunglasses they're Tom Ford they were expensive as fuck. I don't know why I spent so much money on these sunglasses, but I like them. And since I spent so much money on them, I want to wear them all the time. So I've like made my money's worth. Shout out to my Maui gyms though. I had those Maui gyms for two years. I treated them like a redheaded stepchild and they never scratched. And then finally on my first day in paradise,

I stepped on them and then cracked if you watch so you're gonna watch Paradise this season there's a new production company so that the rules that we had from before didn't Really apply this time which is like a big like you never wear sunglasses when we film like never never do it And then this production company was like yeah, do it every every day. I don't care. Sure, you look good in sunglasses, why not? So I wear my Maui gyms in the show a lot and I'm not sure if you're gonna be able to see it. Like, I'm not sure if it's gonna be like up close enough, but if it is, you're gonna see that I'm wearing sunglasses

but it's a huge crack in it, which I think is hilarious. And I probably should have just bought some more Maui gyms, but I went to the Nordstroms and I got an upsell on these. So, you know Anyways, they're pretty cool Bit hungover today to be honest another reason why I'm wearing the glasses because last night was Sarah's last show on Broadway for the great Gatsby and it was

Lovely and beautiful and I really loved this show It was a really good like one of my favorite things, Ding Ding, was Grave Gatsby. And even though she's not going to be in it anymore, and if you didn't get to see it, if you go to New York, you should go see the show, because it's just a really good show. Like, the music, the dancing, the acting, like the whole thing is good. And Ryan McCartan, I got nothing but like amazing things to say about this kid. I didn't really know of him. I know he was like a Disney Channel guy, but I was too old to like know the show he was on. But man, can that fucker sing dude, like one of the best voices. And then the girl that

plays Jordan Baker, her name's Sam. God, she's got an amazing voice. Go see the show. It's fantastic. And then of course, we went up there's you know, there's always like a post show party that you go to and we went to that and well, that's where I had too many martinis and I'll tell you what martinis are becoming like my new favorite drink and they are dangerous my dad used to say one martini two martini three martini floor and that's the truth hey google so you know in gmail you get an email and it like obviously google reads it and then it like gives a suggestion like yep works for me like

sounds good or whatever that's fine I love that you do that. But can we stop putting the exclamation point on everything? Because it's a little too thirsty. I love what you're saying. I love I want that's what I want to say. I want to like change the settings to be like, hey, let's not try to be such like a pick me girl for my answers, you know, let's be a little more surly like I am, you know, be more like me. Yep. Looks good. Why? Why would I say I would never say that Be more like me. Yep, looks good. Why would I say that? I would never say that. I would say, yeah, looks good. Period. You need to know that like

I'm fine with the answer but I'm not over the moon about it because I'm on my email answering work questions. I don't get up in the morning and think let's go check the emails and I'm so excited. I reserve my exclamation points for the things that make me happy. Art, sports, a good martini. I'm gonna go ahead and say this. You shouldn't buy a house.

The reason why you shouldn't buy a house is because fucking realtors get your number somehow and then won't stop calling you about trying to sell the house. If I wanted to sell it, I would call a relator. Why are you calling me every single day about my investment? How do I get my phone number off this list? And also Sarah's been sick. She got the flu 102 degree fever. So I've been sleeping in

a different bed and I feel like in a marriage from like the 40s where you sleep in different beds, you know, like I love Lucy or like, I feel like Trump probably sleeps in different bed than Melania. But anyways, so it's really weird. But I do think that I am sleeping pretty good. I don't know what that means. So yeah, my time in New York is is coming to an end, which is good. I'm ready to go back to California. It's time. But before we do that, we must call the brand I let's call her up

ding, ding, dong, a little bong bong bing a little bit of being down don't Talk to me. Yo, yo, this is not my ideal situation What's going on? I'm just at my mother's and I brought my microphone, but she doesn't have the adapter for my computer Also still sick and my nose is so fucking fucked. Cause of the cocaine use? Yes. And my fucking humidifier that I went to great lengths to have just won't work.

Maybe it's out of water. No, I think it might have too much water. Is that a thing? I don't know. I didn't study humidifiers in college. Like I need it might have too much water. Is that a thing? I don't know. I didn't study humidifiers in college. Like I need it. I need it. I've been sick for like two and a half weeks.

Oh my God. Sarah's been sick too. I saw that. What does Sarah have? The flu. She had some. When you're on Broadway, you're so like needed to be there

that they send a doctor to you to be like, fix them immediately. That should be just how it goes everywhere. I feel like. For anyone? Yeah. You know, like back in the day, doctors used to do house calls. Not even anything. You can't even get in an appointment now. That's true. I just need urgent care. You'd be like.

I don't even know if those are doctors though. They're not. they're like nurses. Yeah, which no shade on nurses. They are heroes. But why do I pay all this money for insurance? Well, to not even get to talk to a fucking doctor. Anyway, so I guess I need to be on Broadway now because they send the doctor to you immediately like the medication that she had. They did a flu test. She has the flu. And then I walked up to 58th to the CVS got it we had it all within like five

minutes. I'm like, this is the dream here. That is nice. But anyway, she's been sick. That's awful. They can test for the flu. Has that always been a thing? Yeah, it's like the same test. It's a COVID test effectively. Before the COVID test. Do they have a flu test? I'm sure. Like, I don't know if I needed that test to know that she had the flu. She had 102 fever and she was achy. That's what a flu is. But anyways.

COVID is right. COVID is a flu. Yeah, but how do you know if it's just a flu flu or like the COVID flu, you know? But what does it matter? I guess the same. I would assume you treat it the same way with like steroids and no doctor. But I feel like with COVID nothing, none of that works with COVID right like if all that shit worked with COVID I wouldn't have been sick for two fucking weeks when I had it you know what I mean I think that COVID is the flu but it's a bad flu yeah it's like a different one yeah all the all the all the drugs don't work on it at the

same I don't think yeah is she feeling any better yeah she's feeling a little bit better, but I've been sleeping, as on the YFTS, I've been sleeping in a different bed and I feel like I'm living in the 40s. Matt did that for one night when he had pneumonia. Yeah. And he slept all upstairs and it was fucking weird.

I know, but not for nothing. I've been sleeping great, I gotta be honest. We said the same thing. Matt was like, it's great up here. I have my own TV. I watch whatever shows I want. I control the thermostat. He was like, this is nice. Yeah, there's an argument to be made

that like this might be the way to do it. I think I've told you this before. My entire childhood, my parents had their own rooms. Yeah, but that doesn't shock me with like knowing your parents and like seeing where they are now. Yeah, but that doesn't shock me with like knowing your parents and like seeing where they are now. Yeah, but I tell you what, God, he knew he was gonna pick this up if we leave it in. I swear to you, it was when they started

sharing a room that things started to go downhill. Oh, yeah, I'm sure. I'm serious. I mean, maybe I don't know, Sarah wouldn't stand for this. But like, what if there was like some sort of bargaining here? Like, two days, I get to go sleep in my room you know just let me recharge I'm the one that would want that in my relationship and Matt would be like no yeah but that's because he sleeps like a fucking baby he's the one snoring

and sleeping and I'm the one you know Brandy it's too bad things didn't work out between us. It really is. We would have had such a loveless but comfortable marriage. True. You like my sunglasses? They're new. They're very nice actually. What are they? Tom Ford. Oh my God, they're Tom Ford.

Yeah. I just, I wanted to tell you that. Did you pick these out? I did. I was telling the wife here before I called you, I had these Maui gyms and then shout out to Maui gyms. So anyways, I needed new sunglasses and I went to Nordstrom's somehow I decided to pick out the most expensive pair of sunglasses

Now that I have them I'm gonna use them because they were expensive. So I'm wearing them on the show How much are we talking? I think five sixty I know you paid that much for sunglasses that shocks me I know I know shocks I wanted to do like 200 and then nothing I put on I liked and then I put these on and then the girl was like oh shit She got she is like hooks in Got him. Ah She knew how to do it. Yeah the shitty ones first. Yeah, and she was like, in, got him. Uh-huh, she knew how to do it. Put on the shitty ones first.

Yeah, and she was like, you know what, I think that this might be the last pair. No, I think I've got one brand new pair. It's the last one I've got. They always say that. Yeah, sure, buddy. They literally always say that. You've got a million back there.

For sure. And also it's New York, I can just go across the street to the other Nordstroms. True. I gotta give a shout out to ShipStation because they are one of my favorite things, Ding Ding, and they are the best and they're helping me out right now, especially we're in New York.

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I have not, no. Well, I got into a kerfuffle with a bouncer. This is, so this, let me just tell you what happened, okay? Okay. And then tell me if I was wrong or not. Oh, okay. It was one of Sarah's co-stars Lex's birthday. So they're like, come to this bar. They sent me the name. And so I looked it up on maps and I walked over there and I went to where the map said it was and I went to go pull the glass door and I went to pull the door and it

was locked, right? Like it wouldn't open. But there was like a guy inside and I said, hey, is this whatever the name of the bar was? And he goes, I can't hear you. I can't hear you. And so I yelled at us, hey, is this this party? I can't hear you through the glass. So I'm like, okay, obviously, this isn't it. Okay, whatever. And then I saw I walked away. And I went to the to the restaurant next door. And I was like, hey, where is this bar? They're like, oh, it's next door. And I was like, it's locked. I can't get in there. Like it shouldn't be locked. It's it's open, I think. And so then I called Sarah. And so she came out. And she opens the door that was locked. And I was like, what the fucks I came

in and she's like, what's what is going on? What? Why do you have a hard time finding this place? And I was like, the door was locked. So that's when the bouncer was like, No, it wasn't locked. And I was like, Yeah, it. So that's when the bouncer was like no it wasn't locked and I was like yeah it was I pulled on it and he goes well that one's locked but that one's not. Why didn't you tell me to use the other other door and he was like it's not my job and I was like I was yelling through the glass is this the bar and he was like I couldn't hear you through the glass and I was like I know but you're the door guy and you're supposed to help me try to come in there and spend money and he was was like, dude, stop having an attitude. And I was like,

me have an attitude. Why didn't you try to help me get in this place? At that point, Sarah pops back in and she was like, what's going on here? What's going on here? She said something like, just let him in the bar. It's our friend's birthday. And he was like, am I talking to you or am I talking to him? And he did that. Right when I did that, I go, you're not talking to her, you're talking to me. Don't fucking talk to my wife like that. Like that pissed me off. Like it got me. Yeah, got me going. You know? Uh huh. He was like, you know, I'll let you in here. And I was like, I don't

have to come in here. I don't care. I don't care to be here. But you're an asshole. Because you saw me struggling with the door. And you didn't say, hey, do the other one. Try the other one. You know, he's like, it's not my job to do that. And I was like, you're the door guy. Try the other one. You know, and he's like, not my job to do that. And I was like, you're the door guy. I think that is your job to help people get in the door. So anyways, I left and I was very Wow. Which was that wrong?

I mean, you're not wrong that like he should have just pointed to the other fucking door. Yeah. Okay. But also like that guy probably gets paid like 10 bucks an hour and doesn't give a fuck. So totally. That's that's the other thing I left I was like I don't know what this guy's going through and I made his night worse And that makes me feel bad. You never know what people are going through. I was just like why Why are you making this difficult for me? Life is hard enough? All right I know but just tell me that you use the other door. You can obviously see that I'm using the wrong one

I know. But just tell me that you use the other door. You can obviously see that I'm using the wrong one. Anyways. So yeah. I just think people everywhere want to do the absolute bare minimum. Yeah, I know. And so for him, like the bare minimum is to just stand there.

I know. But the whole like, I can't hear you through the glass thing. I was like, what is this, bullproof glass? What's going on? Insane. Wait, I have a question. How could you hear him through the glass? Exactly.

It was bullshit. A thing lied to. Yeah, you were. You absolutely were. So what I said to him, I was like, are you fucking with me? He was like, no, I couldn't hear you. I was like, I think you're fucking with me.

And that's when Sarah came in. She was like, what's going on? And I was like, I think this guy's fucking with me. Wow. Yeah. Anyways, I gotta get out of this city. This city, I think this guy's fucking with me. Wow. Yeah. Anyways, I got to get out of this city. This city is starting to say it's bleeding into me, like the anger and the yelling and the screaming

and the honking and the walking fast. Even how I'm talking right now, I sound New York. I got you do sound nuts. I got to go back. I got to go back to sunny California where the vibes are chill. Yeah, yeah, yeah. How much longer are you in New York?

Four more days. Oh, that's it? Yeah. Okay. I got to Maine after this and then I'm back home, so. Okay, love that. I know, I'm excited to go back. I bet, it's really nice here.

I just got to LA last night. It's always nice in LA. That's like the thing about LA. That's not true, but it is very nice today. I mean, when it's not on fire. Sometimes it's cold here. When you say cold, that's like the thing about LA. That's not true, but it is very nice today. I mean, when it's not on fire. Sometimes it's cold here. When you say cold, that's like 50 degrees. I like it, that temperature,

but I know Californians don't. Like they're out here in fucking puffer coats and Birkenstocks, or not Birkenstocks, Uggs, in 50 degree weather, and it's ridiculous. Why are you in LA? Are you recording Sorry We're Stunned? Tomorrow, yeah. You know, I had really great intentions

of staying put in Vegas for the five week run. Yeah. But I'm allergic to the whole place. So that didn't work out for me. So every Sunday, because we have Sunday, Monday and Tuesday off, every Sunday, I've been flying to LA. And then I fly back Wednesday morning

for the Wednesday night show. And this is the last week. This is the last week. Isn't that fucking nuts? Are last week. It's not fucking nuts. Are you sad? It's flown by. I've mixed emotions. Tell me all about them.

I am very homesick, to be completely honest with you. I was telling Matt last night that this is the most I've worked and been away from home in a condensed period of time probably since I was like in a band back in the day, like in Franken Daryl. I'm used to weekend gigs, right? Or like flying to LA and working for a week.

I'm not used to like five weeks working constantly being away from home. And it's hard for me, I'm such a homebody. So I'm very homesick. Like I just like want to pet a horse so bad. You know what I mean? Yeah, like I'm in the wrong line of business because I feel like the business is traveling My business is really like traveling for a day or a weekend

You know like that for me to take on a tour like this is very different like this is not a normal DJ gig Necessarily so and the thing is this job pays for the horses. So it is it is the job. But yeah, I would like to like pet a horse and you know, touch some grass. All that to say, although I've had to be away from home and work multiple nights in a week, everyone on Kenny's crew has been very nice and lovely to me. And I've made friends with people and so bittersweet. Matt before you, I think it's cool that you got to play the Sphere.

Oh, guess what? They told me last week that I'm the first woman resident to play the Sphere ever. Wow. Artist, like as an artist. Isn't that wild? Yeah, you beat out, well, your sister or Taylor Swift or- Everyone. I'm the first one. Katy Perry. Pretty crazy. You should get some sort of plaque or something.

I know, I was like- To commemorate this. Can I get in the Guinness Book of World Records or something, you know? Yeah, the picture that Matt posted or that you posted with Matt behind you where you can't see- This has become a huge thing. I like that I was the one who picked it out.

So for everyone that doesn't know, there's this picture on Brandy's Instagram. You got to go a couple pictures into the carousel to find it where you're taking a picture with a bunch of people like your mom, your stepdad, friends or whatever, and then Matt's behind everyone. For some reason, like the way it works is like you can't see either of his legs. So he looks like a floating body. So I responded with where is

Matt's legs? And then of course, he saw that. And then everybody was like, Yeah, where are they? And then he posted a picture where he blacked all of you out. So it looks like your legs are his legs and that's really funny. Anyways. It was very funny. Oh yeah, he got a big kick out of that. Good.

He loved it. That's what I'm here for. I'm here to just make people's days better unless you're a doorman. Unless you're a doorman. Unless you're a doorman at some fucking Mexican restaurant on 54th. We should start the show though. We should. I think it's you. Okay

Bros and hoes you're listening to your favorite thing podcast with? Wills and Brandy No one has a bell. Yeah, we really just both road dogs. We're on the road. We are road dogging it I'm not even working. Well, I guess I'm technically working right now. Just quick shout out to chat GPT I used it yesterday. It's now like on my home screen. It used to be like in my utilities folder in my thing. I've now just gotten on the home screen. It is now just my search engine. I'm no longer asking Google shit. I'm just asking chat GPT. I get such better results. It's polite to me. Yeah. But also you can go

down like a kind of a weird dark rabbit hole when you start asking introspective questions about yourself to it. Yeah. But also you can go down like a kind of a weird dark rabbit hole when you start asking introspective questions about yourself to it. Don't do that. Don't do that. Don't get drunk or stoned and start asking it like, who am I? And like, what can I do to be better? The computer does have some good suggestions for me. One of my favorite things just wanted to throw that out there. When does Paradise come out?

July 7th. Oh, so kind of soon. Very soon. The executive producer texted me the other day and he was like, dude, I'm listening to all your interviews. These are fucking hilarious. I need to put you in the show more. And I was like, that's what everyone always says to me that never happens. I was like, do it you won't. And he's like, Yeah, I probably won't. And he's like, yeah, I probably won't. I'll probably cut you. Oh my God.

No, he didn't say that part, but that's what I heard. We'll see, I guess. I've been running into fans of the show from like going to Sarah's show and stuff. And a lot of people are really apprehensive about the Goldens being there. And I feel like this is as good a place as any to like kind of like talk about it and explain it. Like I saw that like Jesse was getting a lot of hate because because he said it would be great if the Goldens and the young the youngs there was a relationship there

just because like it's funny and it's also like real life. How many times do you see an older man dating a young beautiful woman or a older beautiful woman dating a young man. It happens all the time. Everyone's like, that's cringe, that's cringe or whatever. And I think you need to think of it as the Goldens bring so much energy and like fun into the show. And don't be feel like cringed out by it. That's not what's going to happen. If you asked me what I think that you your perception of the Goldens will be after the show, it will be higher than it is now.

They're lovely. They've lived life. They've got experiences, willing to take chances and be silly, whereas other people won't. Seeing that, hearing a lot of negativity towards the Goldens being on Paradise, and I would say you're way off. You're going to love them on the show.

OK, sick. I'm cool with it it I think it'll make it more interesting. When they're like cringe like that's so gross dude there's a show called MILF MANNER where young boys go and date older women like that's the thing about that show but, my buddy, my buddy produced it. Wow. It's fantastic name, by the way. But also like it's not MILF manner. All right, it's paradise. All right, guys, everyone has something going on these days. I call this the busy season. I don't have a lot of time to go grocery shopping right now. Let me well I've been in paradise for a while. But when I'm back in New York with Sarah, like shopping is such a pain in

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I just don't post much. I'm really bad. Yeah, you are bad. Well anyways, the reason why I talk about this AI- Tricia Yearwood just reposted my story. Ah! Why? Because I made a little edit of my favorite song of hers for the Sphere. Yeah. I like mashed up, she's in love with a boy in a Fisher song. Yeah.

And I tagged her in it yesterday and she reposted it. I love her. So do you have to pay her to do that? How does that work? Not to play it out live. Like when you're playing, it's like somebody that's going to cover a song. You know what I mean? Like you don't have to to play it live at a concert. You don't have to do that. Anybody can cover

anybody's song or like play anybody's song or whatever. Yeah, but you put it on social media. Yeah, but I don't think I think because it's a live concert, it's the same thing. But if I wanted to put it on like Spotify and Apple Music or release it in any way, I would have to either, I mean, I would have to pay her or get their permission to use it and like, yada, yada, yada, which is why I would love for it to come out, but we'll see.

It's just a long process. Yeah. Well, that's cool. Anyways, back to AI and like kind of fucking up my algorithm and I'm starting to like not trust anything. And there's a new movie out on HBO called Mountainhead. Have you heard of this? No, the tagline is not very informative. But four friends reunite during worldwide economic turmoil. Mountainhead on Max, or HBO. Also, HBO, why

did you change your name to Max HBO was so much cooler. That was the dumbest thing in the world. Okay, so the guy who wrote this is a guy who also wrote succession. So it's very much about like the richest people in the world. So it's like a bunch of billionaires come to this like mountain estate, apparently supposed to come play poker. But really, it's just them like, kind of like beating their chests about how rich they are. Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Rami Youssef, and Corey Michael Smith. Jason

Schwartzman plays soup and he's the poorest of the rich guys. Everyone's a billionaire and he's like 100 millionaires. So they call him soup because he's soup line like a, like a homeless person. So the hundred millionaire is a poor person. Yes. And they call him soup for's soup line like a homeless person. So the hundred millionaire is a poor person. Yes, and they call him soup for the soup line or soup kitchen, which is hilarious. Anyway, so one of the guys has created this AI causing massive upwards because people are making videos with the AI that seem real genocide and beheadings

and stuff, but it's not real, but it's like causing actual turmoil in the world because people are thinking it's real, and it's causing bombings and fires and all this kind of stuff. Rami's character, he has an AI that could identify what's real and what's not. And so the guy who created the AI is trying to buy that from him, but he doesn't want to buy it anyways. So the world is like starting to crumble and then being the richest men in

the world, they start trying to hatch a plan to like basically take over the world, which seems ridiculous. But then when you are sitting there like watching it, you're like, I guess this could happen if you're, if you have this much money and this much pool with the government and all this stuff. And then things kind of go crazy. It gets a little out of hand, but it's super interesting. And if you like succession,

go check out Mountainhead. Okay. It's also terrifying because you're like, this is crazy. But also maybe not like maybe this could happen. Yeah. A little too realistic. Yeah. Kind of how I feel about Handmaid's Tale. Yeah. Speaking of, we went and saw Good Night and Good Luck, the George Clooney Broadway show. How was it? Fantastic. Did you have to ever study about the McCarthyism of it all? I don't think so.

The junior senator from Wisconsin? I don't think so. So McCarthy was a guy that basically was accusing everyone and their mother of being a communist in the United States during the Cold War and was ruining people's careers. And this really terrifying thing of basically the government the Cold War and was like ruining people's careers. And this like really terrifying thing of like basically the government was like just going and like being like you, you're a communist and like ruining, you know, like an actor's career or whatever. And they couldn't work again because all of a sudden they're a communist. Because so it's all

about that. And it's all about how like Joseph McCarthy is just kind of a piece of shit. Eventually, like he gets dethroned and it all gets kind of thrown out. But it's like a scary time in American history. And it's obviously very, very like parallel with what could be happening right now and too much power in people's hands and accusing people and rounding them up and sending them away and all this kind of stuff.

And so it's very timely. It's really, really well done. George Cooney is freaking fantastic. The run's over on Broadway, so you can't go see it. But I know that they aired it on HBO and on CNN, so you can go watch it there. I would highly suggest going to see it. It's really, really good.

That's cool. Yeah. It's beyond like HBO Max, like you can watch it? Well, I know they aired it there. I don't know if it was just like a live airing. I imagine there's going to be someplace you can go find it. Surely, I know they aired it there. I don't know if it was just like a live airing. I imagine there's gonna be someplace you can go find it. Surely, right? Yeah. My buddy Grant has love who's an actor is the producer. And he directed

this one they put on TV. So anyways, go check it out. But also be scared because I feel like history is repeating itself. Yikes. Yeah. Yeah. Scary times, huh? Mm hmm. You know what I want to go see? But thephere has a show during the day called Postcard from Earth. Uh-huh. You know about this? No. All I knew about it was that it was some sort of like nature show, like I just kept calling it the nature show, you know. It's a little more than a nature show, but essentially it's like the first film that they've ever shown and that's what that was created to be shown like in The Sphere. It's a short film. It's like the first film that they've ever shown and that was created to be shown like in the sphere.

It's a short film. It's like 50 minutes. Listen, the narration, not good. They could have done better with the narration. The storyline, very cheesy. However, the visuals are fucking insane. The ticket prices for this are steep. It's like $1.15 a ticket to go to see this movie in the sphere. But if you got some money to spend you know, spend in Vegas, and you're looking for something to do during the day, highly recommend. I'm somebody that like, I don't get like motion sick, and I don't get vertigo. And like, usually things like that don't really affect me. Some of the shots of like, the very first

shot they show where you're you're like, it feels like you're flying over the mountains. It looks like frickin Mount Everest, it's snow-capped mountains. Like I felt like I was falling. It was crazy, it was so cool. And then it's also like, it reminded me so much of Soarin' over California at Disneyland. I was gonna say, this just sounds like Soarin' to me.

It's literally like somebody rode that ride and was like, oh my God, I'm gonna turn this into like, make a whole venue out of this. You know what I mean? And because they do the smells like they do. And they do like the wind in your face and they do like the seats move and stuff like it's pretty fucking cool. But you just have to tune out like the cheese ball near narration like you have to go into it knowing it's cheesy. But to go see some of the visuals is cool. And a lot of their visuals they use were places I've been

which was really cool horseshoe Bend in Utah was one. There's this huge arch in Moab that's really iconic. And I've done that hike before and they did that. There was a huge, no, it wasn't in arches because I took Astra and there's no dogs allowed in the park. So it's right outside of the national park in Moab. I'll have to look it up. And then the other place that I'd been just recently was one of the huge cathedrals. Cathedrals? Is that what they call them in Italy? The big churches?

Yes. The cathedral? Yeah. Yeah, and just one of the little like towns right outside of Rome that my mom and I had just been to. And it was that same church and it was sick. So yeah, it's not just nature, right? Like they show, they show different things.

It's just very cool. I loved it. Matt and I both went and we were like, okay, that was sick. Like, definitely worth it. Who's the narrator? Seems like they should have gotten Werner Herzog or, you know, they should have gotten someone good. Yeah, I don't I don't know the who the narrator is. And then there's like two actors in

it. I don't like ruin it for anybody. But like, there's like this teeny little storyline, it like starts and ends with these two actors. And there's a storyline. The majority of the film is, you know, showing you all the all the sick epic like aerial shots of like the landscapes and the different things. I feel like they could have made it a lot cooler, but all that to say it just made me think like if this is the first thing that they're doing in here, the possibilities are fucking endless. They could do some of the sickest shit there. And I just have a feeling like this is the tip of the iceberg with what the spheres got in store for us. Yeah, as far as like films go. It's very

cool. So I assume they filmed it on like a 360 camera or like the whole thing. They had to write. Yeah. That's sick. Yeah, it's very cool. I know. I gotta go. I really want to go to the sphere. You know, the Backstreet Boys are the next resident if you wanna go with me. No, I don't wanna see that one. Everybody, yeah. Yeah, rock your body. Yeah.

Backstreet's back. All right. It could be fun. I think that you could see anything in that place and it would be fun. Yeah, I do too. No offense to you. But like, I feel like that's it's just such a experience. Yeah.

We're trying to see all the Broadway shows before we leave. So like I said, I saw a fellow, I saw a good night, good luck. We saw Cabaret. Have you ever seen Cabaret? I have not now. Oh my God. Okay, so I didn't really know what it was and I'm a boy. It's like the most theater-y thing in the world I feel like. But you know who is

the MC of the show which is I found is basically the star. Who? Orville Peck. Oh, that's cool. So it takes place in right before World War Two Berlin at a cabaret like a topless dance place. And it's all predicated around this British dancer named Sally Bowles. And it's theme is like Nazi and like, you know, anti semitism and but it's all like taking place in like a little bit of like the sex sexual revival in Berlin right before it's about to get fucking hairy there. So it's just like really interesting and really

colorful and flamboyant and like it's like the most musical theater thing that I can that I've ever been to but I absolutely loved it and I will say this. I love oral pecs music. I think he is a fantastic singer. And I think that like what he does is so cool in the realm of country, which is probably not easy for you to kind of like be out there and wearing a mask and like, but having this like, beautiful deep voice. I love what he does in music. But this man is meant to

be on the fucking stage performing as an actor. Like he is so good. That's awesome. I think he's like representative of what Germany is and then what Germany turns into. I was just blown away with like how good he is. I didn't know if he was like a musical theater kid that like became a country star or whatever, but like the man needs to be doing more acting. Really, really good. Wow. All right. That's cool. He didn't know our besties. I know that I I forgot to bring that up to him So we went backstage and I got to talk to him. He's also ripped. Yeah, he is but I see him on Singing country. He's like wearing a suit, you know, you can't I couldn't but like in this he's wearing almost like nothing and he is

Jacked up. He's very good. I was just blown away with how talented that guy is very good. I was just blown away with how talented that guy is. Very cool. Have a chance goes, go see it. And then it's actually interesting. Eva, who played Daisy Buchanan on Gatsby right before Sarah is Sally Bowles. Oh, cool. So and then I went and saw you know who Jonathan Groff is? Yeah, he's been like everything. He was the king in Hamilton and you know, he's in Frozen and I think he was in Glee. He's got a new show

called Just In Time. It's all about Bobby Darin, who was like a singer way back in the day. He's like kind of a best known for Splish Splash. Splish Splash I was taking a bath. But then also like Mack the Knife and Beyond the Sea. Jonathan plays Bobby Darin and he's this singer who like died at like 37. Doctors told him he wasn't gonna like live past 22 or like 19 or something like that and turns out he had this amazing voice but he lived kind of lived fast and hard because he knew he didn't have like a lot of time. That's the name, I guess. And it's great.

Especially like if you want, if you come to a show with like a parent grew up in that time, kind of similar to like the Four Seasons. You ever see that with like Frankie Valli? It's really good. And it's really fun. He does this thing.

He narrates it himself, but then also plays himself. So he does this thing where he, he breaks the fourth wall a lot and he'll snap and then be like, and then address because it's, it's in Circle in the Square. So it's basically the crowd is all around the stage. Oh, that's cool. And then you can you can buy tickets where like you are sitting at a table where they like serve you drinks and you

like at the Copa. He does this fun thing where he like snaps his fingers, pauses time and then like kind of like Ferris Bueller's day off then addresses the audience, which is very fun. Yeah, like that. Yeah. Great story. Jonathan Groff is Tony Award winning, amazing actor. He was lovely. So go see it. Wow, you're just really seeing all the shows. I know. And I'm gonna I'm gonna see Nick Jonas's show tomorrow. Yeah. Okay. So excited about that. And you know what show I really want to see? I'm gonna see Nick Jonas' show tomorrow. Yeah. Okay. So excited about that.

And you know what show I really wanna see? I'm not sure if we'll have enough time is Death Becomes Her. Have you heard about that one? It was in that. It was a movie with like Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn was in it. Alec Baldwin too.

From the famous TikTok sound, which is like, that was rude. That was really fucking rude. So I wanna go see that. And then I'll be done with Broadway. The famous TikTok sound. Which by the way I use for something in paradise, but I can't put it out yet.

I was told I can't release anything until the show starts Cheeks I know yeah and just a quick shout out like I'm not like a video game guy but one of my favorite things right now is Mario Odyssey on Switch it's fantastic it is a great game it's so much fun okay like Nintendo Switch yeah I like Okay. Yeah, I get switch and twitch confused, you know Which is like a streaming platform streaming. Yeah, but it's isn't it a lot of video game like gamers. Yeah Oh, you know, I'm obsessed with Jenny and Georgia the Netflix series Oh, yeah, the new season came out it is back. It is just so fucking good. Like listen I know some of its cheesy and I know that like Georgia over like I know that her character like her whole schtick is like overacting

But I just love it and I just think it's so fucking good. So I've watched the first like three episodes of that That's what I watched yesterday and it's just as good as it ever was. Have you started department Q? No, because I was waiting for Matt to start. He just drove up. Yeah, that's one I wanted to watch with Matt. Okay, so I'm almost done with it. One of the best shows out there right now. Wow, yeah, you've been raving about it.

I know, and I've been kind of slow playing it because Sarah and I aren't sleeping in the same bed, so I don't know a lot of us watch stuff and she's not there, you know how it goes. I do, yeah. But it is very, very good. Yeah? Yeah. There's a Netflix series called Survivors

or the survivors that people are talking about. I may give that one a go once I'm done with Jenny and Georgia. We'll see. Do you watch Sirens? Oh, I've cruised through Sirens. But you haven't watched The Good Sister or The Better Sister.

No, I gotta start that. My mom's obsessed. See, why don't you listen? Just once your mom says it's good, then it's good. But when I say gotta start that. My mom's obsessed. See? Why don't you listen? Just once your mom says it's good, then it's good. But when I say it's good. My mom's obsessed. No, I've been wanting. I've always wanted to watch it.

I love Elizabeth Banks. Yeah, and Jessica Biel. You know, I've never been like a huge Jessica Biel girlie. But my mom said she's really good in this. I do want to watch it. She's a member at our club, and she's lovely. I have a feeling. Oh, I'm sure as a person, she's lovely.

I just seen as an actor, she's never been like my fave, but maybe that'll change. You know what? Seventh Heaven. Yeah, but she like wasn't my fave on that show, you know? Yeah. I get it. Seventh Heaven. If you go back and watch that show, it's a fucking weird show, dude. Like real. Yeah. And then also that, you know, that guy, the main guy guy he got nailed for like having like kiddie porn or something oh god I think let's look him up Stephen Collins who did he play the dad the

pastor oh shit he kind of gave me the creeps I could be wrong about this we're spreading rumors now. Yeah. All right. This is an article from Variety. Stephen Collins became a household name as the wholesome father on seventh heaven, but was later accused of abusing minors. Oh God. Why is it all?

I mean, I know he's not a real pastor, but why? What's happening? You know? You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I do know what you're saying. Yeah. What is happening? I don't, it's terrible.

I grew up Catholic, confirmed Catholic. I'm amazed that anyone follows religion. Are you okay? Yeah, I was an altar boy. Wow, I don't understand the religion thing. I'm all for people having faith. I'm just saying, I'm amazed that people are still going to church when like so many of these guys are like just the creepiest of the creepy.

I know. And I'm sure there are some good people. Seventh heaven. Okay, I'm done. That's all folks. What do you got coming up? You're about to be done for a while. You're gonna go chill.

Well, no. Done with the Sphere, but not done. So we have one more week of Sphere shows. RIP, so sad. And then, so the last show is Saturday. Sunday morning, I fly to Michigan, and I play Electric Forest Sunday night. And then Monday morning, I fly back to Las Vegas,

and I have a corporate event that I'm playing on Tuesday night. Ooh, corporate event pays well. It does pay well. And then Wednesday I fly back home. I'm home for two days. Then I have a gig in Nashville that weekend at Harriet's. Then I fly back to LA the next day

for something I can't talk about yet, a cool thing that I'm doing. That's on like a Monday. And I have to be in Vegas on a fucking Friday for 4th of July. So I'm like, well like well fuck I might as well just stay in LA you know for three days like there's no point in going home so you're in LA up to July up until and then I play in Vegas on the 4th of July okay so I'll be here all the first week of July fly to Vegas on the 4th I played on Corbett

Club with Dustin Lynch a day show on July 4th. And then the next day I fly to Calgary, and then I play Calgary Stampede on July 6th. And then I go home for two days, and then I have a whole nother weekend run of shows. And then finally on July 15th, I will be home for one week. All right, so you have a month effectively of work. Yeah. Well, good for you.

Someone's gotta make that money. Yeah, these horses ain't gonna pay for themselves. True. Who's gonna be choppering out zebras with no money? True. I'm going to Maine play in the Drive for Kids tournament that's being held by Patrick Dempsey. So if you're there the 19th, the 20th, the 21st, the 22nd, come hang out. And then I go back home. Thank God. Thank God.

And then, yeah, basically when I go back home, then it's like, your eyes starts. Okay, so you'll be here the first week of July? I will be. You ready? You wanna hang? Yeah. All right, bye, have tears.

We love you. Love you guys. Except for that door guy. Ooh, we don't like him. I know, but you don't know what people are going through, you know, and now I? We love you. Love you guys. Except for that door guy. Oh, we don't like him. I know, but you don't know what people are going through, you know? Now I feel bad about it. That's true. That's true.

Well, that's a good way to look at it. I want to apologize to that guy. I'm sorry. Alright? He's probably not listening, Gus. He's definitely a listener. No. Yeah, I'm probably not.

Why not? Alright, bye guys. Bye.