Your Favorite Thing with Wells & Brandi - Mercury is Retrograding and Men Are Liars
Episode Date: January 19, 2022If Wells seems a bit off this week, it’s because he’s sedated himself on account of some terrible old man pain. Brandi has also done nothing but "horse showed" this week, so bear with us fam. Well...s has some bracelet shopping drama, which, on top of some other things has got him thinking that Mercury in retrograde is actually really f**king with him. Your hosts then talk Bachelor, 1883, and some more fave things, and Wells concludes that it would be hella not fun to live in the Middle Ages. He is also very excited for his big golf thing. Plus, the moment you’ve all been waiting for: Brandi tells her Men Are Trash story. Lastly, don’t watch Netflix and drive, K?! Don’t forget to rate, review, and follow Your Favorite Podcast! Plus, keep up with us between episodes on our Instagram page, @yftpodcast.  Thanks to our awesome sponsors for making this episode possible! Check out these deals just for you, YFTers: Article — Go to article.com/yft to get $50 off your first purchase of $100 or more Canva — Go to canva.me/yftpodcast to get your free 45-day extended trial Nutrafol — Go to Nutrafol.com and enter promo code YFT to save $15 off your first month’s subscription plus free shipping on every order. Only available to US customers for a limited time SKYN — Shop SKYN.com now and get free shipping on orders over $30 in the contiguous US or explore SKYN on Amazon nowÂ
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That's ShipStation.com. Code YOURFAVORITETHING. Do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This is going to be kind of a weird episode,
and I'm going to tell you why. I took a pain pill today because I've been having back problems,
which turned into a migraine because getting old. And so finally I was like, you know what?
I got some pain pills from when I was in Mexico. And so I'm just really mellow today. So this is going to
be a mellow episode, bro. I don't know how that's going to go because I feel like a lot of my
persona derives from chaotic, fast-paced energy. And that might be lacking in this one. Or it might be hilarious because I'm going to be just really chill.
Either way, listen, I have to do the podcast.
This is what you're getting.
You're getting, it's not low energy, it's chill energy that you're getting today.
So maybe this is more of a, like, let's just chill and have some fun, guys.
I don't know what's going to happen.
Let's roll.
Bing bong boom.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Hi.
What's up?
Hold on a second.
Okay.
I got to fix my audio.
Fix the audio.
There we go.
Ooh, that sounds nice.
Oh, I love to hear you say that.
What microphone is that?
I can't see you, though. Oh, really? to hear you say that. What microphone is that? I can't see you though.
Oh, really?
Oh, sorry.
My shade was down.
You have a shade?
What are you scared people are watching you?
Isn't that funny that like the self-indulgence that people have, they're like, they're hackers
that are definitely like looking into like what I'm doing is a little self-absorbed,
but you know, maybe they are.
You think it's happening to you?
No, but like I got a new camera and it has little flap and you know.
So you're like, I might as well use it.
Exactly.
Like, why not?
You know, I don't know.
Gary from Indiana, who's been checking in on me, might be watching me edit audio and google stupid shit on imdb and i can't let him see that anymore
gary sorry tragedy you know yeah sure but what microphone is that it's just a little usb mic
samson i'm gonna venture to say that that mic's better than the one that you got at home. Oh, I can start using this at home.
It has a stand.
I just didn't bring it.
Yeah.
I don't know.
The compression on it's great.
I love it.
Oh, wow.
Wow.
If it's Wells approved, it must be great.
I am a microphone dork.
I will admit that.
I was just telling the wire a few years before I called you.
So I don't know if I told you.
I don't know.
Maybe I didn't.
But like I've been having like back pain because your boy's old.
Okay.
And it started at the lower back and then it moved up to the middle back.
And then I think it got into like the neck area.
And then yesterday I've gotten like three of them in my life.
Have you ever had an
ocular migraine? No. I'm assuming that means like behind your eyes. From what I have deduced from
WebMD, what happens to me is I'll have like a blind spot in my eye. Like I can't see some things.
Okay. That's terrifying. Totally. When it first happened, I WebMD'd it and they're like, yeah,
this happens. And it usually lasts for about like 30 to 60 minutes. Then it turns happened, I WebMD'd it. And they're like, yeah, this happens.
And it usually lasts for about like 30 to 60 minutes.
Then it turns into a migraine, which is kind of what happens to me.
Like I don't have a headache, but I'm noticing something's not right in my eye.
And then after that kind of subsides, then I've got like this like neck migraine.
But it's not really bad.
It's not like the migraines that I hear about where people
are like, I have to go sit in a dark room and like no loud noises or like light really affects.
It's not like that. It's just kind of like a dull pain. And I was like trying to figure out what,
what it was. And I was like, you know, maybe something like eight, you know, like maybe I
would go, my blood sugar was low, yada, yada, yada. And then it all came together this morning
where I was like, my back still hurts.
And now it's moved like from my lower back up to my neck.
And maybe that's what's happened.
So then I went and did I ever tell you the story when I was in Mexico and I almost died in a wave?
And I got like my buddy Trevor like pulled me out of like the roaring surf and my neck was all fucked up.
And then how great Mexico is.
We had like a doctor come over and he's like gave me pain pills and like completely.
It's like Mexico.
Gotta love it.
Was this during Paradise or?
No, this was we were out there like Sarah's 30th.
So this was this was a while ago.
I'm scared of pain pills and just like all that kind of stuff. But I was like was like, you know what? I'm going to take a bath, which I'm not a bath guy.
No, not a bath guy, but I, I can't sit in it for very long, which is interesting because I love
sitting in a sauna, but I can't sit in a hot bath for a while. I get like restless or whatnot,
but I put some bath salts in there. I took one of those pain pills and i'm just
gonna let you know right off the bat this is gonna be a very chill episode because your boy is feeling
oh mellow you did this today i did today i'm just i'm just oh wow yeah i'm feeling a bit mellow bro
I'm feeling a bit mellow, bro.
Wow.
Would you ever like get in the bath and turn on a show?
Well, I turned on the book I'm listening to and that was kind of enjoyable. I still got like restless and like hot and I was like, I don't know what I'm doing here.
I feel very exposed in there, you know?
Vulnerable?
Very vulnerable, you know? my twig and berries are
just out for the world to see gary from indiana is probably watching bubbles no bubbles no but i
that helps because then you're like under the cover of bubbles yeah yeah i love yeah i love
the cover of bubbles but i didn't do that because i put in bath salts and wow no one told me about bath salts
like very very chilling effect in their lavender scents were happening do you know what kind of
bath salts you were using it was a purple bag i want to say is it dr teals yep that's what it is
yeah it's my favorite bath salts give me a ding Dr. Teal's, they make a lot of different bath products.
Bath salts are like it, that's like the it product.
But they also make this like foaming bath, bubble bath, I guess, makes the bubbles in
the tub, right?
And they have all these different ones.
You can get like lavender for like sleepy time, right?
And like eucalyptus and all these things.
They make one that's called like vapor something.
Yeah.
That's, it's the same stuff that's like in Vicks Vapor Rub, you know, that clears your
sinuses and everything.
When you're sick, it is incredible to sit in the bath with that vapor stuff from Dr.
Teals.
I'm telling you guys.
Okay.
Gotta get it.
Gotta get it.
All right.
Not an ad should be.
Should be.
Dr. Teals, let's talk.
Because you know they're banking. I mean, they're in Ulta, Walgreens, Walmart. They're everywhere. Should be. Should be. Dr. Teals, let's talk. Because you know they're
banking. I mean, they're in Ulta, Walgreens, Walmart. They're everywhere. Yeah. They're in
my bathroom. I didn't even, I never bought it. It's just, we have it. So anyway, it's going to
be a mellow episode. And so I don't know how people are going to react to it. Because, you
know, I was talking about it before I called you. Like, I feel like a lot of what this show is,
is like my chaotic energy. Yeah. And if i don't have it like what am i you
know boring yeah exactly like this is an existential crisis that we're having right here so i'm hoping
that like as we get going i'm gonna kind of liven up but okay well i hope so because i gotta tell
you i've done nothing but horse show for a full six days. So not a whole lot of content
coming from me. Unless you want to hear about how Astra ran away yesterday, which was fun.
Cool. You find her?
I did. Thanks to also not an ad, but that Fi GPS collar. I've got it on her. And you know,
I bought those to use at home, right? Because on the farm that way, like little dog, the beagle,
she loves to escape and wander off for hours on end. So at least if she's on GPS, I can know that she's on
property. So I usually only use them at home, but I was walking out the door and I was like, you
know what? I'm going to grab this because you just never know when you're, when you need GPS on your
dog, you know, especially Astra, because the thing about as a girl, she's passed out right now beside me. She is so smart. She, I swear she waits. Like if I'm watching her, like it's like,
if I have one eye on Astra, you know, she's so good. She stays nearby. And if I, if she's around
the corner and I call her, she comes right back because she knows I'm paying attention to her.
But the, the second I get distracted doing something else, like I was cleaning my tack
yesterday and I just started and kind of forgot that I'd taken her off leash in the barn aisle
and the barns have these huge garage doors at the end. So it's like indoor outdoor.
I had just started doing something and two minutes go by, maybe two minutes. And I'm like,
oh shit, Astra's off leash. Astra. And she's nowhere to be found. I call her name like 10
times. I'm like, gosh,
dang it. And the property is huge. Like this place is massive. I would have had no clue where to even
look for her if it wasn't for this five collar. Like, I don't know what I would have done. I
would have for sure been in a panic. I would have definitely started crying and I probably would
have called 911 and demand that someone come help me find my dog because I was seriously, I was so
scared. There's like roads everywhere. There's cars everywhere. Like she hit by a car here. Like it was crazy. But thanks to my trusty
GPS, I pull her up. It shows me, it shows Astra. She's very far away. She's, but thankfully she's
like not near people because one time at a horse show, she, she wandered off and was down by the
arenas where people are horse showing. And I'm like, Oh my God, how embarrassing would it be
if she wandered into the ring while somebody was competing? Like that would just be so,
so bad. I can't even tell you. Or like, God forbid she starts chasing a horse in the ring. Like,
Oh, so many nightmare possibilities. But thankfully she was like off in like in the pastures area. So
the horses were in turnout down there, sleep less dangerous. She was so far. And she had chased this stupid dog that was also off leash.
And he must have just ran by the barn.
And on my walk out, I had to ask people, I was like, have you seen a husky?
And they're like, yeah.
And I'm like, I'm so embarrassed.
Which way did she go?
And they're pointing at us, like six people.
Finally found her like a solid half mile away.
Yeah.
But if I hadn't had the thigh, I wouldn't have even known where to look.
I know.
Well, Apple has those now.
Those little-
The Apple tags.
Yeah.
I don't like those things.
And I knew by the price point
that those weren't going to be worth shit
because they're like $39.
And I was like,
there has to be a catch here.
There's no way Apple makes a $40 product
that actually works well
or has its own cell reception.
It doesn't.
Unless that Apple tag is near your phone, it's not going to tell you where it is.
It's going to tell you where it was last.
It's going to tell you where it was the last time it was near your phone.
Got it.
But that's not helpful when your Husky is half a mile away.
Not to freak everyone out, but I've been hearing there are stories of like, you know, people like tracking other people's cars by, you know, like attaching those things
to them. And I read a story the other day where like, I think what happens is like,
like, let's say I'm grocery shopping and have my purse like slung over my shoulder.
Somebody could just slip one of those in there in my purse and then follow me home,
like know exactly where I'm going to kidnap me or rape me or do something
else psychotic. Like it is kind of scary. Someone could put one of those on you. You
wouldn't even know. Yeah. Gary from Indiana. That's what he's doing. That's what he's doing.
He's, he's kidnapping women and watching you edit your videos. Yes, exactly. He lives a
very exciting life. Apple tags, not worth it. So we start the show? Yeah, okay, let's do it.
You start because I can't do anything, right?
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retrograde and all you know all this stuff you know obvi yeah and if i'm being honest i don't
believe that stuff you know like oh my god i know how are you guys in a relationship no like but i respect her
and like it just seems so crazy like the you know like the orbits of the planets are affecting
it's a very idiosyncratic way of looking at the world that like my life is being affected by like
mercury doing something and it's like that's crazy to me but then things happen where i'm like
fuck she might be
right. You know, like, what do I know? What do I know? What do any of us know? You know, like
that whole, I don't know what I don't know thing. And so she told me that like Mercury is in
retrograde and I'm like, okay, whatever. You know, it's like, she was like, be careful, you know,
okay. I'm going to continue with my life, but like, whatever. So I had gotten her this tennis bracelet for Christmas.
I went to the store and I was like, hey, listen, she's very little.
If this is too big, can I come back and get it resized?
And they were like, yes, totally.
I'm like, great.
Give it to her on Christmas.
She loves it.
But she's like, this is way too big.
Like it falls off my wrist.
No worries.
I'm going to take it back. They said they could fix it. I had taken it back and they're like, well, I don't know if we could fix it. And I was like, well, you guys kind of said that you
could, but okay. And they're like, well, we're going to send it back to the manufacturer and
see if they can do it. And then they call me and they were like, hey, listen, we can't do it.
And I was like, okay, well, I'm going to go back in there and see if there's a different
bracelet for me to get, or I'm just going to return it and
go find something else. I drive out to the place that I'd gotten it and I go in there and I give
them all the things, the receipt, the box, the little pink slip that they give me. Well, um,
Adam, uh, we, Adam, we don't have you in the system. And I was like, okay. And they're like, where's the bracelet?
And I was like, I just got finished explaining to you
that like you guys took it and sent it to some place
and you have it.
And they're like, well, where is it?
And I said, I don't know.
You got it, I think.
And they're like, well, we don't even have you in your system.
There is no Adam Wells here.
And I was like, well well right off the bat not
my name my first name is wells my last name is adams and they're like oh okay oh you are in the
system but in the box there's no bracelet and i said yeah i know i just explained to you that you
have the bracelet so then some other guy comes out and he goes oh we have the bracelet i go yeah no
i know i said that to you and then he goes what, what's the problem? And I said, what do you mean, what's the problem?
You told me that you sent it and you couldn't get it fixed.
Oh, yeah, it can't be fixed.
I said, just know, I know all this information.
So then they're like, well, what do you want to do?
And I said, well, let's look around for other things like this, you know, in the price range.
Okay, great.
this, you know, in the price range. Okay, great. So they go and show me some of the bracelets and, you know, one's $12,000 more than what I bought. And I'm like, yeah, I don't know about this one.
They're like, well, what do you want? I said, well, I want something similar. I want something
that's a tennis bracelet with a bunch of diamonds around it, you know. They're like, okay, great.
So they show me a couple of things and they're just like way out of the price range. And then the guy goes and he finds this gold bracelet. It's very pretty. And he goes,
what about this one? It's around the same price. And I said, yeah, but there are no diamonds in
it. And I kind of wanted a tennis bracelet. This seems more like a, just a bracelet bracelet.
And he goes, yes, but it's the same price range. And I said, yes, I know that, but I
want the diamond part of it. This is just a gold bracelet. And he goes, yes, I know that, but I want the diamond part of it. This is just a gold
bracelet. And he goes, yes, but it's the same price. And I go, oh my God, no, I want a diamond
bracelet. Then there's like another woman helping me and she goes, he wants diamonds. And I go,
yeah, I want something similar. And he goes, oh, okay, well, we can get this bracelet. Going back
to the one that's like $10,000 more. And he's like, well, here's what we can do. And so then, and I told him the,
like how long it needed to be the right size.
And he goes, well, this is too big.
And I go, yes, I know this is too big.
This is the problem.
And he goes, well, this is what we'll do.
We'll take some off.
I said, okay, if you take some of these diamonds off,
does it become cheaper
and then closer to like the price range?
Well, no, what we do is we'll take a couple of those diamonds
and we'll make some earrings out of it and a necklace out of it. And so I was like, okay,
it's still $10,000 more than I want to just pay. I can't do this. And he goes, well, what do you
want to do? And I go, well, let's just return it and I'll just go to a different store and find
something similar or whatever. And I understand that they totally want to like keep my sale and
like keep the commission. And I'm fine with that. But I was like, listen, guys, we just couldn't find anything.
So then the guy goes, yeah, but hold on. This golden bracelet is similar. And I was like,
okay, I got to go, guys. Got to go. So then I'm walking out of that store. I'm like, man,
that didn't work. So then I get to the Apple store. Now, Apple, love your shit. All right.
Big Apple guy over here. I got the watch. I got the phone. I got the iPad. I got the computer.
I got all the things. There's like two lines at the Apple store, a line for people that want to
come in and buy something. And then there's a line for the pickup, right? Now there is probably 15
customers in the store and there's got to be 30 Apple employees in there, right? Wow.
And there's a guy that's in the front with like a clipboard or whatever, or an iPad.
And, and I go, Hey man, cause I've, I've been wanting to get a new watch band.
I go, Hey man, can I just go and browse?
I don't even know if I want to buy anything.
Can I just go and browse or do I got to sit in that line?
He goes, no, no, no.
You can go, you can go browse.
Hold on, come with me.
And I go, okay.
And he takes me over to the line and I go, wait, hold on. I just
want to go browse. He goes, we got to check you in. So you got to be in the line. Of course,
it's like 30 people long. And I was like, no, no, no, no, no. So I can't go browse. He goes,
no, you can't go browse. I said, why did you tell me I couldn't go browse? I go browse all the time
in there. Not over here, man. They got fucking strict laws in apple they are running that thing like a
i don't like north korea so i just walk in and do my own thing oh yeah not not in la sister so i was
like why did you say i could go browse if i can't go browse and he goes well you got to go sit in
line i go that's not browsing that's me waiting to get oh i gotta get my own genius guys want to
look around maybe whatever so so i was like i gotta. So I walk out of there and I'm like, oh, two for two.
All right.
And so.
Right, Mercury.
Yeah, so I was like, fuck, Mercury is happening, man.
It's retrograding all over my fucking face.
So then I come home, right?
And we get a bing bong.
Dogs go crazy.
I walk outside.
The Turman X guy's here.
Great.
And he's like, hey, man, you know, it's like our monthly thing.
I go, great. Come on in know, it's like our monthly thing.
I go, great.
Come on in.
I'll open the gates for you.
And I go, hey, just so you know, I've seen a bunch of Black Widows over by the mailbox and by the gate for the cars to come in.
Okay, that's terrifying.
Yeah, so exactly. So I was like, so maybe that's focused where I've seen the Black Widows.
so exactly so i was like so maybe that's focused where i've seen the black widows and he goes oh yeah you know um i'm not allowed to spray over where the mailbox is because it's like the we
don't want to like get the post office guys the mailman sick so i'm like yeah okay and but i was
like but also by the gates which are not by the mailboxes like i was like i see them like on the
scent like by the sensors they always build nests over by the sensors so like maybe spray it over there and he goes hey man
does it rain a lot and they get like wet in there and i go yeah he goes that's that's why like the
spider the spiders you know like they hide underneath the thing and then they have safety
or whatnot he's like i can't i can't uh i can't spray over there because the sensors, whatever.
And I was like, okay.
So I don't know.
I'm just telling you where I've seen the thing that I think that you're here to kill.
And I'm telling you where they are.
And you don't want to do that.
So go spray where the spiders aren't.
Fine.
But I don't think that you're doing the thing that I think I need you to do.
You know?
The thing you're paying for them to do.
So I was like, so let me get this straight.
So I'm telling you where the Black Widows are and you won't go spray there.
I go, I can't because of the censors.
I was like, oh, my God.
So I was like, do what you got to do.
Go in there.
Go whatever.
And then I walk in and Sarah's sitting there. And I visibly like, what the fuck?
You know?
And she's like, what's going on?
And I was like, Mercury's in fucking retrograde, sister.
And she's like, I told you.
Like, I am a believer.
You talked with your hands so much in the past 10 minutes.
I can't even tell you.
I know.
Oh, God.
Did we talk about this?
Oh, you talked about how annoying jesse jesse talks with
his hands and i was like that's so annoying it's still a problem i know there was a post about it
where you chris harrison's talking with his hands and jesse's talking with his hands and then i'm
talking my hands are down by my side and they're like well we guess we know why wells didn't get
the job because he doesn't talk with his hands like man if only you knew sure do yeah
you know maybe there is a planet that's orbiting um this sun that is fucking with my shopping
experience and that's what mercury retrograde is and that's what's happening i could get down with
it i don't know there is something to it you know sometimes things that just aren't working
you know and i don't know why that is yeah it's mercury it's retrograding all over yeah
did you win your horse showings i did not i did this horse show last year and it was the first
year it was open so it was still a lot of people but um nothing like this year. There are 60 people in my classes. That's so many.
Damn.
Normally there's more like 20, you know, 60. You have to go so fast to get in the ribbons. And
my horse star girl, she's like, um, it's like turning like a wide load truck, you know? So
she's just not the fastest. She's a very big step and she can eat up the ground but the turns get us and these people i was watching some of them go earlier in the class
today they are whipping like they are they give zero fucks if they slide if they slip
they are in it to win it and i don't know it's very competitive but i'm happy to be here you
know we just moved star girl up to the meter 20 and 25 division.
It's only our second show there.
And she's been really, really good.
A very grown up girl.
And I'm very happy with her.
But haven't been in the ribbons yet.
But that's okay.
Because we've had really great rounds.
We're here for another week, though.
So this week, you know, I'm kind of thinking like this is going to be like a practice.
Like just getting into our groove. You know, getting our feet wet in this big division.
And then next week, we're going to come to party, hopefully. I was watching this thing on TikTok
and listen. I think I got to get TikTok. You got to get TikTok. This is how to never be nervous.
Okay. Okay. So they put people in control groups in like karaoke competition and negotiation competition, a standardized test and a track meet.
And there were only,
the only difference between the groups
is one group was taught in a situation
that made them nervous to simply say,
as dumb as this sounds, I'm so excited.
I'm so excited to run this race.
I'm so excited to take this test.
I'm so excited to get out there and sing.
Even though they felt nervous, I'm so excited. And the test. I'm so excited to get out there and sing. Even though they felt nervous, I'm so excited.
And the people that were taught to say, I'm so excited, outperformed the people who had
no tools.
And the reason can be explained by chemistry and physiology and neurology.
Isn't that crazy?
I want to know more.
I know.
Well, that's all I got.
There's things that make us all nervous.
I always like the feeling of nerves, especially when it comes to like doing things live or
on stage or whatever, or like even if I'm filming something, because that means it matters
to me.
Like if it didn't matter to me, I wouldn't have any nerves because I'd be like, I don't
give a fuck.
For sure.
You know?
But when I do have nerves, it means I give a fuck and I want to do well because it means something to me.
I think that we all have these stupid lizard brains where we can very easily trick ourselves.
And nerves is just an emotion.
And if you can trick the emotion from basically being scared to being excited, obviously it affects how you perform.
being excited, obviously it affects how you perform. And I'm going to start doing that a lot where like when I do feel nervous and be like, I'm just excited, you know, like I'm, even though
I know that I'm not excited, I'm fucking terrified, but maybe it works, you know,
I'm going to try it tomorrow. You should. I'm so fucking excited, you know? Yeah. For my big
classic tomorrow. Do it. Tell me how it goes. I want it because I'm going to go play in this golf tournament next week.
Yeah.
And so this will come out the day
before we start playing.
And I know I'm going to be nervous
because I'm one,
I'm going to,
there's going to be a gallery there
where I'm going to be like,
I'm going to shank a ball
and kill Gary from Indiana, probably.
But I'm going to go there and be like,
I'm so excited.
I'm so excited to do this. And Ben Higgins is playing it with me. And so I sent to go there and be like, I'm so excited. I'm so excited to do this.
And Ben Higgins is playing it with me.
And so I sent that to him to be like, we got to remind ourselves.
We're excited.
This is exciting.
And we'll see how it goes.
So I'm going to come back with some information.
You come back with some information.
We'll see if it works.
Okay.
Love that.
I do too.
I'm all for that.
Do you have some fave things, bro?
Yeah.
Wow.
40 minutes and no fave things.
So good. So good.
So good.
Well, okay.
So I know we're like a week.
This is going to be a week behind, right?
Because we hadn't seen Bachelor when we recorded last week and we haven't seen this coming weeks yet.
But we have to talk about the psycho blondes that look identical.
Yeah, the ones that were talking to each other?
Yeah.
And in my story, I was like, this is the same person.
Yeah, they're the same person.
And it's funny because you said, was it Cassidy?
Was Cassidy the one you said reminds you of Olivia?
Yeah, maybe so.
Well, the other girl really looks like Olivia.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like she has the same look and she kind of acts the same too.
Who do you think is the worst one?
Do you think Cassidy is worse or do you think – what's the other girl's name?
Sinead.
Sinead.
Is that what she was calling herself?
Sinead?
I don't know.
They're the same person.
Okay.
Let me just – anybody out there that's trying to get on The Bachelor or Bachelorette, anyone out there that's casting, whatever, and gets to be on this show, let me tell you one thing.
The minute you start talking in third person, you're a psychopath. Done. Like don't start that shit. Quit, quit
calling yourself by your own name. That's stupid. Don't talk in third person. You look and seem
crazy. Yeah, for sure. Especially when you're talking about yourself and you call yourself
Sinead. Is that not her name? It's Sinead. Oh, okay. Yeah.
And then she's like, I was Sinead when I first got here, but now I'm Sinead and I'm here to win.
I know. I went and had dinner with a someone from the Bachelor world that's very high up in production.
Okay.
And so we were talking about it and I was just like, this is fun.
Like Clayton seems boring as all fuck.
it and I was just like this is fun like Clayton seems boring as all fuck but like everyone says that the greatest bachelor that we've ever had is Ben Higgins who is boring as all fuck so like
it's all about the girls and like I'm excited that's not a diss on him that is no Ben's great
I know and also like being boring means you're kind of normal you know like you were totally
yeah and that's why you're boring is because everyone's like crazy you know like talk at their person ben and he won't do it he's normal you know so like clinton's
boring but like i think he's probably just very normal uh but the girls seem a little unhinged
which i love and so i was talking to him about and he was like man i just gotta tell you the end of
the show is amazing you are going to love it.
And like, it's just going to keep on getting, ratcheting up, getting better and better and better.
And I was like, hell yeah, I cannot wait.
That's what we like to hear.
Yes.
And this is also something that would be very honest and be like, I don't know about this season.
He would tell me that and that's not what he said.
So I'm excited.
Love that. We're still too early in for me to have like distinct lines in the sand about what I feel about these people.
That's true.
And we're also so early in that storylines are going towards people who are not going to be around very long because they are going to leave.
We need to understand their character arc sooner.
Right. So that we can feel invested when they go to paradise yes exactly ding ding ding i just could
not believe like i mean i can because i just everything on this show is believable at this
point but this freaking cassidy girl who's a nut pretty much like amps this shanae girl up right
she's like you on this date, like,
and I don't know why, cause she, Cassie wants to wince about, I'm like, why are you helping Sinead
out? You know, and telling her your quote unquote secrets that you think are working for you.
If you, if you know, if you're so competitive, but whatever, she gets the Sinead girl all wound up,
turns her into Sinead and sends her out on this date and tells her like, make your mark,
get your man, you know, um, be a pro like make your mark get your man you know um be a
like whatever go get it and creates a monster okay then the monster comes back for the cocktail
party where they're all together and then she's sitting there shenanigans sitting there like
like telling all her shit i don't know like complaining about something because she what
'd she do like oh she like lied about she literally literally just told a lie about the girl that was doing the
best on the group date whose name i can't remember the blonde girl who honestly like i could i don't
really care too much about her anyway but i did feel bad for her because it was literally like
this girl was just like yeah elizabeth or whatever her name is is uh is two-faced like just pulled it
out of thin air complete bald face lie like what and then comes back and tells the group this cassie turns on her so fast she's like yeah nah dog like your side like you're not you're
not right here like i i can't back you up here and it's like what what you just created me you
just told me to do all this and now you're gonna sit here in front of all these girls and literally
drop me yeah but she's not even bad she made the Sinead's not even present enough to realize that the girl is doing this to her.
It is absolutely insane.
God, the things that I would do different if I got to go back on that show,
I would be the biggest pot stirrer in the world.
And that's why I loved Evan so much.
And I know a lot of people didn't like him and thought he was weird or whatever,
but Evan was the best pot stirrer ever.
I wish I had done that.
Like looking back, like I wish I had been like trying to manipulate people into doing some weird shit just for my own entertainment.
I kind of wish you could get a do over because we did not get to see all of Wells' flying colors on that show.
Absolutely did not.
No.
Not even a handful of them. No. I would have played it very...
Not even a handful of them.
No.
I played it very close to the best.
I thought it was just...
Yes, you did.
Listen, I think I did it right
because everything worked out pretty well for me,
but like, yeah, the world was denied such gold.
So much.
So much gold.
Oh, man.
Anyways, I am excited about this season.
I think everyone that's like a little on the fence about it, I would say stick with it.
I think this one's going to get really good.
Yeah, I do too.
Yeah.
Is that enough Bash Talk?
I think so.
Yeah.
Yeah, you know, I'm caught up on 1883.
Same.
It's just so good.
This episode was hard for me to watch, the river episode.
Yeah.
so good. I, this episode was hard for me to watch the river episode. I just think so much about,
you know, yeah, this is fiction, but like, God, this really happened. And to think about these people doing this is just so fricking crazy to me. And just, you know, to watch them crossing
this river and like all the people that died, I'm sure horses died, which, you know, breaks my heart
and like, they just lost so much stuff.
And it's just so, so heartbreaking and so crazy to think about people actually doing this in the freaking 1800s.
What annoyed me the most about this episode was.
So for people that aren't watching us, this is basically the game Oregon Trail, but on TV.
And so they have to cross a river.
Two things.
All these people from like Finland or Switzerland,
wherever they're from,
that they're taking to Portland,
can't swim because it's like,
which is like illegal in their society to swim or whatever.
If I were the people leading them before we left,
first question would have been like,
can we all swim? And the second they said, before we left, first question would have been like, can we all swim?
And the second they said no, we'd be like, guess what we're going to go do?
We're going to take swimming lessons real quick, you know, just real quick.
We're going to learn how to dog paddle, you know, or maybe get some floaties, some sort of buoyant material just in case this happens. But the fact that we got to a river and then they were like, you guys can't swim?
That's a little bit on the leaders
of just not knowing that, you know?
Yeah.
The other thing is, Sam Elliott,
is like, you guys got to lose everything.
You can't have all this stuff in your wagons
because it's going to sink to the bottom.
And so you need to get rid of everything.
You're telling me,
you guys have been traveling
for like the past like three months and no one walked around was like wow you guys got a lot of pianos back there like you can't have that you know like they should have had a meeting in
the beginning which i think they did but like maybe they didn't understand like the gravity of
it like hey that piano before we start going just sell it here just sell it here get as much money
you can so when you get to portland you can buy another one you know i know that's that was the saddest part was like
that they could have sold it and at least gotten something for it in fort worth i mean i think the
language barrier is probably a huge roadblock yeah right like with that kind of thing but yeah
oh man the show's so good so good i love how tim mcgraw was like we're all going in the morning
and then he's like fuck you guys we're going in the middle of the night because i thought he was just gonna be like peace out
we're leaving uh you guys are all effed and we're gonna keep on going uh because we've crossed the
river but he's stuck around so that's that's nice yeah of him yeah he did i also love like the uh
the invention of pants happened in that episode which was great i kept thinking like when is this
girl gonna get out of this dress?
Yeah.
We got it.
We got to get her in some riding clothes was just been my thoughts
throughout the whole thing.
She got a lot of gold.
I know.
And I feel like this is going to come back around to bite her in the
ass.
She's told somebody she's got all this money on her wrist.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I feel like that's going to end badly.
Yeah.
Anyways,
1883.
Great show.
Great show. Really, really badly. Yeah. Anyways, 1883, great show. Great show.
Really, really good.
Speaking of horses, we watched a movie called The Last Duel.
Have you seen that?
No.
So the cast is insane, by the way.
Where do you watch this?
It was on HBO Max, but it was also in theaters.
It was on HBO Max, but it was also in theaters. King Charles VI declares that Knight Jean de Caroux settled his dispute with his squire by challenging him to a duel.
So Ridley Scott directed this.
Love.
Starring, wait for it, Matt Damon.
Love.
Adam Driver.
Love. Ben Affleck. Love. And Jodie Comer, who's in Killing Eve. Oh, I haven't seen that actually. Oh, that's a great show. Yeah, I've heard that.
I will say this, like as good of actors as Matt Damon and Ben Affleck and Adam Driver are,
they're supposed to be French and they have British accents, which is confusing.
Not the greatest period piece actors.
If we got a movie that's taking place in Southie,
they're great.
But maybe the medieval world of France,
not their thing.
All to be said, the story is really, really compelling.
So it all kind of predicates around these two squires, Adam Driver and Matt Damon, who basically fight for the king.
They become friends, but Matt Damon is like not easy to get along with.
And Adam Driver is really good friends with, I think he's the Count, which is Ben Affleck's character.
I think he's the Count, which is Ben Affleck's character.
And so Matt Damon's kind of all the things that happen for Matt Damon are bad.
And all the bad things that's happening to Matt are good things that are happening for Adam Driver's character.
Matt Damon's character starts to kind of hate Adam Driver's character. Matt Damon gets married to this beautiful woman whose family is like not in great standing with the king or whatnot.
And that's Jodie Comer.
And then it all kind of predicates around Jodie Comer's character accusing Adam Driver
of raping her to her husband, Matt Damon.
So you see Matt Damon's side of the story and goes through the entire thing, which ends
in like them dueling, but you don't see how it ends. And then it goes to Adam Driver's perception of the story,
which is much different than Matt Damon's perspective.
And then it goes into Jodie Comer's perspective of it.
So you get the three perspectives of this one transgression,
which is her getting raped.
And then the duel happens at the end, which is very,
very interesting to see the little micro nuances of how people were perceiving the things that
were happening. And then it also goes back to that thing that everyone talks about. The truth is
there's one person's truth. There's another person's truth. And then there's the actual
truth, which is so like the concept of the movie is phenomenal.
I would say the execution of it isn't like super great,
but the story is compelling enough, giving it a ding.
It's also, if you have HBO Max, go ahead and watch it.
But my big takeaway was,
it looks like it fucking sucked to live in the middle ages, dude.
Sucks so hard.
And here's my thing that's what
i was bringing up to sarah and i know that because i'm on painkillers right now like
i'm kind of all over the place but i was thinking about this last night i was like
so they're in france and it's like the duel happens like on this like snowy day right and
everyone looks so fucking cold and they're in this metal armor which i'm sure is fucking freezing
and also so heavy and chain link i'm like
first of all these guys there's no way that you guys can wield swords and stuff with all this
stuff on them i bet you watching fights with everyone in like armor was hilarious because
everyone's moving at like a snail's pace and so i'll pick shit up and like move shit around
stab and everything but it seems so miserable to live at that time in a place that was like snowing.
And then I went to it.
I was like, why did the settlers of America decide to build New York City in New York?
I love New York, but New York's fucking cold a lot of the time, you know?
Like that seems like it sucked.
Like why is it like our biggest city in Cuba, you know?
Like where it's like always beautiful and nice all the time.
I don't understand.
You guys, you guys got all the way over here.
I know you knew those islands existed.
You know, why are you building way up there when you could build down there?
It doesn't make any sense to me.
Very true.
If I went all the way over across the sea and I was like, it's fucking cold six months
out of year here.
No, thank you.
But I know that Florida exists.
Let's go to Florida.
It's always nice down there.
Anyways, I know it's kind of a sidebar,
but what's my thought?
Sidebar.
It's a good thought.
Yeah.
Like, and I get why people didn't go to California
because like-
So far.
So far.
And like, you know,
you're protected by South America
to travel all the way down there
or like get in a wagon train,
you know, learn how to swim.
But like New York, man, it's cold up there.
It's a cold.
And so I brought this up to Sarah and she was like, well, I was like, why wouldn't you
go to Florida?
She was like, well, alligators.
And I was like, yeah, I guess.
She's like, yeah, but place hurricanes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was just alligators protected by dinosaurs.
And I was like, yeah, I guess.
But like, anyways, I'm sure there's like some actual like civil
engineering reason as to why they did that i'm sure like florida was like a lot more swamps then
i don't know maybe not a deep harbor i get it but still you know there's warm places down there guys
what's going on priorities yes but yeah i really like Duel. We started watching Hawkeye, which I thought was kind of like a Christmas show.
So it's part of the MCU.
Do you know this show?
Mm-mm.
It's Jeremy Renner's character
from Marvel Cinematic Universe,
but now this is a show on Disney+.
Hailee Steinfeld is now a part of this world
where she's like an archer and kind of like
teaming up with Jeremy Renner. And it happens during Christmas time. So that's why there's
like a lot of Christmas theme. And it came out, I think, right before that. So that makes sense
why I was like, oh, this is like a Christmas movie. It's really a Christmas show, but it's
like really not. It's just another MCU thing that just so happened to happen during the Christmas time.
Anyways, really, really good.
I wouldn't say it's as good as like Loki, but it's fantastic.
And Disney's doing such a smart thing because they are getting to make all of these different shows
that's all predicated around the same thing.
I know.
And they're just raking in all this money.
But like Florence Pugh's in this
and she's great from like her other movie
that she did with Scarlett Johansson.
And they're just like bringing everyone together.
And so I'm bummed because we haven't gone to the movies
because Omicron, we're scared to of go outside and everything but i haven't gotten
to go see spider-man and i want to go see spider-man and i know what spider-man's doing i
well i don't know and this might be a spoiler but i know they're bringing in all the other spider-men
to create the spider verse oh and so you're now not only are they like using all of the different
characters for like their own things but they've now figured out a way to bring in characters from like past movies just being like, well, it's a different universe, which is genius and so fun.
And I just feel like Disney is just making so much money.
They've always been making so much money.
I know. They're smart over there making so much money. I know.
They're smart over there.
The Imagineers.
I know.
So Hawkeye's great.
Go check that out.
The other one is Only Murders in the Building.
Have you watched that?
No, but I've come across that.
What's that on?
It's on Hulu.
It's a fun whodunit.
Again, the cast is so good that it can't be bad.
It's Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez.
Oh, wow.
So you got like those two old fucking hilarious comedic actors.
And then you have Selena Gomez, who is a very talented but young comedic actress, bringing together kind of both of those worlds.
All in the like whodunit murder mystery vibe and so if you're into that
if you're like uh you know glass of wine true crime in bed by nine person only murders in the
building is great okay sarah watched incanto i didn't watch it but uh it's like the newest
pixar disney thing and she absolutely loved it. Really?
Yes. I didn't watch it just because
I was like doing something else.
You know what I'm excited for? I think it's coming out soon.
Huh? Season 2 of Bridgerton.
Oh yeah. And also
Ozark. Isn't it coming back this month?
I hope so.
I think it is. I think like maybe next week.
Let's look it up. We need some more Jason Bateman.
Mm-hmm. January 21st.
Hell yeah.
Hell to the yeah, dude.
I talked about it last week, the book that I read by Hank Green, which is called An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, which I loved so much.
called an absolutely remarkable thing, which I loved so much. And then I found out because I was talking about it. People started messaging me being like, you know, that Hank Green's brother
is John Green, who wrote The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns and Turtles All the Way Down.
Oh, yeah. And I was like, oh, my God, these these brothers are geniuses so i started so i started reading the second book
in this hank green story or a series called a beautifully foolish endeavor so good it is so
good it needs to be a show so badly it's not catcher in the rye or dovzhoievsky. It's not going to change your world. And I'm sure there's
a lot of typical novellic tropes in it. But the story is so fun and fast-paced and entertaining
that I don't care and I love it and I can't wait for it to be a show. So anyways, if you haven't
read An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, go read it and then get into
A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor. I'm only like halfway through the second book, but I just love
the whole thing. It's so good. You're cruising through them though. I am. And that is a good
example of when I like something, I just fly through that shit. Yeah. You were on like a
design show with your mom. Were you guys remodeling things
or was it just like interior design stuff? No, it was both. Yeah. Okay. We had a whole
construction crew. You did? Oh yeah. Been watching a lot of Fixer Upper and Chip and Joanna Gaines.
They've now changed. Now the network's called the Magnolia Network. I don't even know what's
going on, but those- It's crazy. They are taking over the world. But I've been watching a lot of that show, okay?
Here's my question for all those fixer-upper shows and for you. Why the fuck don't you guys
know where load-bearing walls are? Every episode, they're like, oh, we can't do it. This is a
load-bearing wall. How do you not know that? I assume that the plans are on the internet that
you could look to see where the load-bearing walls are. It's always like, oh, no, now we have to get a new beam.
It's going to cost another $5,000.
Why doesn't anyone know where the load-bearing walls are?
Need to know.
Because if we knew where they all were, there would be no story arc, no conflict, no drama, and no show.
Wells, you of all people should know this.
That was the correct answer.
Yeah, I know.
You are right.
But I swear to god every every episode
oh we can't do it can we come up with some new drama here like the load-bearing wall drama is
it's run its course every time i'm sure the producers are like all right in uh episode
three act four we gotta do the load-bearing wall problem we gotta do it again and everybody that's
actually like working on the house is like, no,
do we have to?
Yeah. Do this, Reno.
They always have to call the person. Hey, so
we're terrible at our jobs and we don't know where the load
bearing walls are, but this is going to cost you an extra 5K.
And you're like, fuck, why didn't you guys know that?
And you have to be like, what?
No, we don't have an extra 5K.
This is going to really put a
wrench in our plans.
The stress. Guess we can't do the extra 5K. This is going to really put a wrench in our plans. Yeah.
The stress.
Oh, I guess we can't do the shiplap on the wall.
No subway tiles because we've got the load-bearing wall, guys.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh, television.
Oh, television.
How great you are.
You have a long drive.
You're down in Florida, right?
Yeah. On my drive here i was like
i wish i could watch tv yeah while i'm driving i know um and what's funny is i actually was just
talking to somebody last week about road trips and they were like yeah i watch netflix on road
trips so like while you're driving they were like yeah that sounds so dangerous yeah maybe don't do that and I just like I was
like I just feel like there's no way I could like pay attention to a screen it for me it would be
like listening I would just be listening so at that point it's like what's the point of having
the screen and why not just like audio it you know well that was gonna be my suggestion like
you're on these long road trips why aren't you listening to books on tape I just can't do it
I it's like I told you it's like one in one ear out the other, like I would listen to it and not even hear it.
I just can't do that. I'm, I could just, I'm the music gal when I'm honestly, honestly,
you're love this. I got so desperate on like hour eight and a half of my 10 hour road trip that I,
I listened to the first half of our podcast from last week. What were your thoughts? I mean,
I wouldn't listen to us every week.
But I'm glad other people do.
Gotta cut that.
No, actually, I actually was like, you know what?
Wells and I are kind of funny.
Yeah.
We got a good thing going.
But I can still only make it through half.
Well, that's good to know.
Where are you in Florida?
Ocala.
How close is that to Orlando? I'm not sure. Maybe like
two and a half hours-ish?
All right. All I'm saying is you're going to be down there
when Ben and I are playing this golf
tournament. You can come hang out with us. When's your
golf tournament? It starts
on Thursday and goes through Sunday.
Oh, well, that's exactly when my horse
show classes go. I know, but what's more important? Seeing Ben and I? My horse show that I, that's exactly when my horse show classes go.
I know, but what's more important?
Seeing Ben and I?
My horse show that I'm paying out my ass to do.
I guess.
It's a bummer you're not like a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
because those are my like chill days.
Well, we are going to be there then.
We're just playing like practice rounds and stuff.
Yeah.
Maybe I'll come down and say what's up on like Tuesday.
Yeah.
And for everyone else out there,
if you live in the Orlando area, come hang out because I know that i assume they're gonna put ben and i together in the first couple like days because why not consolidate like fan fan groups of people you
know oh it's only an hour and a half see come on come hang and then i'm coming down there's a
concert with like the goo goo dollss and like Sarah Evans and stuff.
I love the Goo Goo Dolls.
Who doesn't?
It's great.
How old is John Resnick these days?
He's got to be up there.
Dude, best.
Loved him.
But yeah, if you're in the Orlando area, we are playing at Lake Nona.
I believe you can get tickets Thursday through Sunday.
And it's the Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions, if you want to look it up.
And it's going to be fun.
Okay.
Wow.
Orlando.
There's going to be a bunch of other celebrities there as well.
Not to say that Ben and I are that, but you can come hang out.
It'll be great.
Yeah.
How cute.
Yeah.
So cute.
You want to do some fuck you very muches?
Is Jess coming too or just Ben? I i think jess is coming and uh ben's dad is his caddy my brother's my caddy because they live in florida now i mean they're all the way down in
sanibel yeah florida geography just really i'm just not familiar i know and just think if the
settlers had just had florida be capital, it would be great.
You want to do some fuck you very muches?
Yeah, let's do a couple.
This is from Mandino1234.
Subject line, funny stuff.
Five stars.
Thanks.
Love the banter and exotic grandpa is my favorite.
Always makes me laugh.
Don't stop erotic grandpa.
Okay.
I have to tell you, Tish, my mother, saw our Photoshop from last week on the YFT Instagram.
And she was like, what the fuck is erotic grandpa?
And I told her what it is.
And she was like, ew, that sounds awful.
And I was like, I know.
That's why he's in the casket.
This one is pretty interesting.
This is from Carissa.
Subject line, I feel tricked.
Five stars.
Thank you.
For two weeks, you tease this story about Brandy and what I'm only assuming is a douche
of a dude.
And then you're trying to act like we don't remember.
We remember.
And it's rude.
Do you think that we're dumb?
We're better than that.
Give us the goods.
Okay.
I'm finally in a place where I can give you guys the cliff notes on this.
Okay.
I'm not going to like deep dive into the story because I just can't even like go back into it.
But basically, here's what happened.
Met a guy on a dating app.
Yep.
Red flag number one.
Talked to him for like a month or two.
I don't know.
Not even two months.
Probably like a month.
And then went out with him a couple times in Nashville.
Went to dinner. Had a great time. You know, seemed like two months, probably a month. And then, um, went out with him a couple of times in Nashville, went to dinner, had a great time, you know, seemed like great guy. And then we kept talking via FaceTime for a couple of months and things are going great. And then I go visit him
and you know, after talking to somebody for like four months, you're like, I know this person,
like we talk every day, we talk for hours. Like we've just talked about so many things.
Like this isn't going to be weird at all.
It's going to be great.
Because like we just know each other so well.
We get along so well.
We have such a good connection.
Okay, get there and start catching him in all these lies.
Like the dumbest lies that like if he had just told the truth,
I wouldn't have cared about at all.
And it kind of seemed like the lies maybe
started with him just trying to impress me which I think is adorable because like I definitely want
somebody to feel like they need to impress me because I'm a queen obvi but like obviously this
just went like way too far with that and I would confront him about the lies and he would just lie
straight to my freaking face and that is where I draw the line it's like you know what if you lie
whatever but when you get caught you'd have to clean. Like if someone can look you in the
eye and just lie to your face, that is the biggest red flag that could ever exist. Even if it's about
something stupid. I don't care if you're lying about the fact that you ate a red apple instead
of a green apple. Don't lie to my face about it. Fair enough. Cause if you're going to lie about
what color the apple was, what are you going to lie about down the road? You know, it's true. It's a slippery, slippery slope. So I was just
very disappointed, very devastated because I actually really liked the guy and thought it
was going well and thought it could be something great. But you know what? I ain't got time for
liars. So moved on. Do you want to talk about like the amount of travel you did for this no no i don't
don't want to talk about that all right well we're just not going into specifics yeah all right well
i'll for the why of tears i've heard the story brandy did a lot of traveling for this guy only
to find out that there was a lot of red flags and then had to do some crazy traveling away
from him but look at who you're talking to. You're talking to the person whose previous relationship was long distance with someone in South Africa.
Yeah.
Like, I've clearly made these mistakes before.
I don't know.
I guess I don't learn my lesson.
I don't know.
Yeah.
Well, everything's a learning opportunity, you know?
I know.
I know.
I guess for me, like, I just really, I love to travel.
I do.
I definitely don't want somebody
that lives like in nashville ew then i have to see you every day no no thanks i like my space
but also like i just don't ever want to be that person that's like that would be like oh well
distance is like a deal breaker because that's stupid it's so easy to hop on a plane so easy
to get in the car like whatever yeah man so anyway that's the cliff notes yeah all right
i think that's fair enough.
I heard the entire story for the YFJ.
I heard the entire story and it's ridiculous and dumb.
And I think what I took away from it is Brandy's right.
Especially in the beginning of a relationship.
If you're lying about a bunch of shit, what are you doing?
Stop.
That's not the way to start a relationship.
Do better.
Do better. Do better.
Yeah.
I mean, because like honesty is like pretty key.
Like that.
I mean, God, if you don't have that, if you don't have like trust and honesty with somebody,
like you're screwed.
Yeah.
Exactly.
I got to say like the fuck you very much segment is just a thank you very much segment now and i i do like
the constructive criticism because it's funnier for us so i like both i do too but anyways keep
them coming go write a review on apple podcast just go five stars and then you can say whatever
the fuck you want and then we'll talk about you thank Thank you very much. All right, do you have anything else? That's all I got, bro.
All right, well, let's just go out on some goo goo.
Love it.
Which song are you choosing?
I got Iris, you know?
Oh, the classic, yeah.
Gotta go with the classics.
Classic.
Black Balloon, man, great.
That whole album was really good.
Name, slide, sympathy.
Yeah, you're right though.
If you want to come hang out with Ben and I,
we're going to be at the Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions
in Lake Nona, Orlando, Thursday through Sunday,
playing some golf, drinking some beers, having some fun.
Or you can go watch Brandy in a different place in Florida,
ride horses around.
Is there like a crowd that comes?
There is.
My classes go during the day,
so there's not as much of a crowd as the night classes,
but there are seats.
Like anybody can come and watch.
Is it free?
I think so.
Oh, cool.
Yeah, it's free.
And it's actually cool here.
There's restaurants on site.
There's Starbucks.
There's shopping.
Like it's pretty great here.
Nice.
Yeah. All right. Well, we love you
guys. Sorry that I was kind of mellow
today. I feel like I came out of it, though.
You did. Yeah. Alright. Well, drugged wells
is still a great well. Drugged wells still get
the job done. Yeah. And hey,
remember, if you're nervous about something,
no, you're not. You're just excited.
You're excited.
Alright. Bye, guys're not. You're just excited. You're excited. You're excited. All right. Bye, guys.
Bye.
All the moment of truth in your life.
When everything feels like the movies.
Just know you're alive.
Don't let the world to hear me.
Cause I don't think that they'd understand.
When everything's meant to be broken.
I just want you to know who I am.
I am so glad you didn't start a band in the butt rock area.
Not too late.
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