Your Favorite Thing with Wells & Brandi - New Year, Same Brandi

Episode Date: January 9, 2019

YFT is back for 2019! It's a new year but apparently its the same old Brandi...This week on the show, Wells complains about not getting invited to Miley and Liam's wedding and Brandi dishes on how the wedding photos were leaked. The two talk about their new favorite shows, like, "You" and "Ex On The Beach." Of course, they break down "Birdbox", suggest some new books and of course new music. Enjoy!

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Really? Yeah. Yeah. You're not even going to pretend that you're going to turn over a new leaf? I don't think so. No? You're just going to be like, you know what? We're just going to roll with this shit. I like the leaf I have, I think. Oh, yeah? Yeah. I guess we got to talk about it. Do you want to start the show first? Yeah, let's start the show. All right. You or me? I'll start. Go for it.

Bros and hoes, you're listening to your favorite thing podcast with... Wells and Branday! Woo-hoo! We back, baby! New year, same old Brandy, apparently. Same BC. I ain't changing. Let's be real.

We're going to start the show with it because i'm upset i'm hurt i feel just unloved by the cyrus clan and listen oh yeah i get it you know it was a hot ticket but i thought i was closer i mean your dad and i i've got a nickname for your dad that no one else calls them i mean what happened to Wells and Blood? Apparently- Crago was there too, man. Crago was there, Liam's dad, who I thought I had a really good connection with when we went bowling. I wasn't invited to Miles's wedding and it hurts my soul. I had to find out from the Daily Mail.

Okay. I have a few arguments to defend myself here okay so the first one is that obviously it was very top secret obviously and you know last episode gotten a lot of trouble for spilling a secret that i didn't know was a secret about why we were traveling uh in africa so i tried to be very careful this time about not spilling secrets. And also, let's be honest here. Miley and Liam have done this before where they're like, yeah, I think we'll get married

like next month or something. And then it doesn't happen. So I was like, I don't want to be the idiot that is like, oh yeah, my sister's going to get married and then she doesn't. And then I look stupid.

I get that. I totally get it. Also, I'm not really close with miley so i'm not really upset so i will let me just say this favorite thing they finally freaking got married at 10 they did gosh dang uh you you are close though let's be real here you get invited to birthday parties and bowling nights you're pretty close you're you're in all right i was getting interviewed yesterday they were asking me about the wedding and i was like you know i'm just a little hurt that i wasn't invited you know

and uh and well they were like well when you and sarah get married are you going to invite miley and and liam and i was like no i'm of course One, they would never come to this. Two, we're not that close. I really can't be upset. But of course, Brandy, Tish, and Blood will be invited. Oh, duh. Duh. Oh, duh. Did they jump on you and say, so you're getting married?

You're saying you guys are getting married. Already saw the post, man. Freaking Us Weekly or whatever. It was, ugh. There's no right way to answer that question, you know? I know. Okay, so here's what happened. By the way, do you want to keep on talking about...

I want to circle back around to Miley's wedding. We can circle back. Okay. So here's what happened. Sarah and I went on vacation for the new year, right? We were trying to just, like, fix the bad mojo that we had from our last trip right i saw i saw that and this i was gonna ask you about this if this was a better trip yeah it was better i mean it was all inclusive resort which is always fun because you just like

eat and drink like a fat pig you know yeah you know like well i mean i don't know how what girls do but like we went like claire's before we went on the trip, you know? So she had, like, a bunch of, like, jewelry that, like, I guess she didn't care if she lost or whatever. I don't really know. Right. So she had, like, a bunch of, like, you know, bracelets and anklets and whatever, like, on her person. And there was one story where she had put one of, like, some new ring, and it didn't fit on, like, her middle finger. So she'd put it on her

ring finger like just so it wouldn't fall out and i did some story and then all of a sudden everyone's like they're engaged it's secret engagement oh my gosh and i was like oh shit okay you know what are you gonna do so then i'm getting interviewed yesterday they're like everyone thinks you're engaged and i was like i promise you we're not. Like, that's not a thing. You know, that was like faux jewelry. I don't know what to tell you, but if I was, I wouldn't be telling you in this interview right now. So that's whatever. Well, they're like, well, are, are you going to get engaged? You know, like you can't answer that question correctly without sounding like a dick, you know? No, I know. Cause if you say no, they're like, so you don't love her?

Exactly. Yes. And it's like, yeah, it's like a dick you know i know because if you say no they're like so you don't love her exactly yes and it's like yeah it's like a whole thing i was doing the interview with steph pratt because we're doing another show when because she's on the hills that it's just gonna be all about the hills right and and so they and they asked me a question and i'm like and i try to answer it like as intelligently as i can and like as rationally as I can being like guys we just moved in together like a couple months ago we are in a whirlwind of like shotgun weddings out here and like really quick engagements like we're both smart patient people and we're taking it slowly you know which I think is the healthy way to go through a relationship. Totally. And Steph Pratt's like, that sounded so unromantic.

And I was like, I'm getting it from you too? Yeah. Like, there's no way you can answer that correctly. And I was like, yeah, of course it's going to happen. It just, like, it didn't happen over this trip we went on, I promise you that. And it's not going to, I mean, it's going to be a little bit, you know. One, I've got to save some freaking money. It's just like really frustrating to me how people can twist your words no matter what

you say. Yeah, exactly. Like it's very frustrating. Yeah. And of course the headline, the headline is like, well, this is going to get engaged. And it's like, well, what I said was, yeah, eventually, but like, I don't know, right now we're just enjoying our company together and living together and seeing how that's working out and figuring out how the dog, whatever. So, anyways, that's the thing.

Well, I applaud your guys' mature decision to take it slow. I think it's great. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. I appreciate what you said there. It's a ding.

Hey, why didn't you get me a bell for Christmas? Like, why didn't you ship it to my apartment? What's the deal? You know, it's actually funny. I felt bad. I got you a card and everything. And then I just forgot to send it. So I gotta give that to you.

Well, I'll get it when I'm in LA in a few weeks. How about that? Perfect. Circling back to Miley and Liam's wedding. Can we talk about the... So you got into a bunch of trouble because you said something about what Miley was doing in South Africa.

Uh-huh. Was your family like, no one's allowed to come to this wedding? Well, no. I mean, that whole thing hasn't been talked about since it happened. Miley doesn't really care. But with the wedding just in general i mean when they've whenever they've talked about getting married they've always wanted to keep it very small and it just

be the family and it be at the house that's just always been what they wanted honestly like miley's only friend that was there was her best friend jesse and liam had like a handful of his friends there that were from aust. So it really was a like very, very, very small tight knit group of people. And even with the with family and close friends, like they still made a point to say like, Hey, guys, like, we're this is a private thing for a reason. Like we love you all, but please don't take photos. Liam had a handful of his really close friends from Australia that he's, you know, been buddies with for a really long time. So it was I thought it was really cool. Like if I ever get married, I think I would probably do the same thing. And

maybe, you know, I would maybe throw like a reception that's, you know, that's more of a party like for all my friends and stuff. But I really like that they kept it small. I saw that it was one of Liam's friends that kind of fucked it up. Yeah, it was. And he feels really bad. And I didn't really ask like what happened. But I think from what he says, like no one told him not to post about it. So he feels really bad and i didn't really ask like what happened but i think from what he says like no one told him not to post about it so he just didn't know i feel like that should have been like when everyone walked in the door be like all right guys uh here's a basket put your fucking phone i know well i think because it was just so few of us i think they just assumed everybody was smart enough to know. Never assume that.

I know. And I, like, he feels really bad. But it was just one of those things where, like, I didn't even have my phone the whole night. Like, I made a point to put it in my bag and I didn't take one picture. I didn't do anything. Like, and it was honestly really nice to just be present and there for, like, that event. You know what I mean? It looked like everyone was in, like like jeans and a t-shirt well it's so funny as everybody was

calling my mom out for having jeans on but she actually changed clothes once we started to like have you know like hang and do more of the like party time after dinner but you know for the ceremony and stuff she had on black pants but honestly like it was at the house and it didn't feel like everybody needed to dress up which was kind of nice like it was very laid back yeah which is which is very miley and liam so i totally understand because like their lives are in the spotlight that you'd want like the most unspotlighted uh event for your wedding yeah but there's also a part of me that's like and i guess it's just like when you just have fuck you money that you just don't need

it but i assume that like people magazine was like we'll give you a million dollars to uh cover your wedding you know well i mean i'm i mean i don't obviously i don't think people knew about it like because they didn't announce it or anything but but I'm sure they would have. But it's just one of those things where like, you know, like some things like money just can't buy and having a private ceremony was just something that was worth doing. All right, quick PSA for those of you out there who rent, if you haven't heard of built, you're about to thank me. Earning points on rent is now a reality when you pay your rent through built. You don't even have to check with your landlord to start earning points that you can use towards flights, hotel stays, fitness classes, and even your next rent payment. All right, let me break it down for you.

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them i think the funniest thing about this whole thing was the the overwhelming response that i saw was wait they're not married already i thought i thought they were married oh yeah i know well they wear they've worn rings forever oh really now yeah even Liam. He's worn a band on his left hand for years that she gave him. And I just, you know, I don't know. They've just always worn them. And I thought it was funny that nobody called Noah out for wearing a sweatshirt. Everyone was calling out my mom for being in denim, but Noah had on a champion sweatshirt. Yeah, that's on brand though, I feel like. Oh, totally. Like, of course Noah's going to wear an oversized sweatshirt. So funny. That's another place I want to get to in my career where people are saying that my leisure wear is like fashion.

Fashion. I know. Noah's really made it. That's when you've made it. Her and Ariana Grande. I know. Oh my gosh, it's so true. Well, happy for your family. Super cute. And Miley looked beautiful, obviously, in the picture. I know. So pretty. I'm sure that your parents are ecstatic and everyone's happy. So good.

Yep, it was a good thing. So now the annoying question is like, so when do you have kids? The annoying questions never end, I feel like. They never end. I know. Now for me, it's like, so when are you have kids? The annoying questions never end, I feel like. They never end. I know. Now for me, it's like, so when are you getting married? And I'm like, don't hold your freaking breath. Yeah.

New year, same leaf, lady. Nothing's changing. Same leaf. I like my leaf, okay? I can't believe it's 2019, though. I can't either. And it's insane that next year's 2020. Like, we're in the future wells dude and like so much shit hasn't come to fruition you know i know there's no flying

cars but that's gonna happen so soon i don't know i mean have you not seen the uber thing the uber rollout where they're gonna do the flying cars no oh my god they basically like drones yes they're like there's no people don't drive them they just fly themselves i think yeah um but yeah there's like you can look it up with the like flying cars it says look this right here says uber's flying cars could arrive in la by 2020 they're so cool i just don't buy it i do do you yeah to look it up. Are you getting in an Uber drone? Like, I think so. I think I am.

Yeah. Yeah. If I like, if I don't have to sit in traffic, then yeah. God. Whoa. That changes everything in Los Angeles,

by the way. Doesn't it? I know. If, if you don't sit in traffic. Yeah. It's a game changer. I might move back.

Yeah. But then like, then the skies are going to be full of traffic. Yeah. It's a game changer. I might move back. Yeah, but then the skies are going to be full of traffic. Yeah, but it'll be more manageable because not just anybody can have one. Any old asshole can have a car. Exactly. So you got to be Uber premium. What is that going to even be called? They got like Uber pool, uber x uber black uber you're rich yeah i have no idea because they you know they have a uber copter or whatever like

sometimes like if during coachella i remember yeah that would be like uber a helicopter so i don't know what it's gonna be called but it looks sick i'll tell you that i don't know i'm still just disappointed with science and scientists in general oh my gosh like we were promised a hoverboard in 1985 with marty mcfly and uh and doc brown that hadn't happened all right closest thing we got is those stupid um i don't even know what they're called those things you stand on and and people just go in circles and fall down oh oh the things that you can't fly with because they catch on fire yes those things yeah yeah yeah what are those called hover hoverboard yeah but they're not hoverboards because they got freaking wheels

i don't know what they are the big thing right now is electric scooters every which i hate i hate those so many of them now they They got. There's so many. You haven't been out in LA. They've also got Uber ones. I think Uber's. They do? Yep. Uber's got one.

And then Razor came out with one. Oh, they're making a comeback. Yeah. Razor was like, shit, we really missed the boat on this one. Yeah, for real. Yeah. But I don't know. I'm just disappointed with scientists in general.

Like, we haven't gone to Mars yet. Yeah. I don't know. I'm just disappointed with scientists in general. Like we haven't gone to Mars yet. Yeah. I don't know. That's true. We were promised so much and we've gotten so little. Were we? Were we promised things? Yeah, we've promised shit.

All right. So do you have any New Year's resolutions? No, New Year's, same me. Remember? Yeah, I get it. So your resolution is to do nothing. Yeah, pretty much. All right.

I like it. I do like that. I just like, usually I do like try to have like some sort of like New Year mantra or something, but I don't know. Like I feel pretty good about where I'm at right now. And I just, I just want to keep cruising, I think. You are in the minority of people who are like happy with how things are going right yeah i know that i know i mean yeah it'd be great to lose five pounds but like that doesn't need to

be a new year's resolution i need to just like hit the gym and lose five pounds like this is this is an all-year thing i always want to lose five pounds it's like not a new year's resolution i never did the one that i want to do last year and i'm bummed out about it see now see what was last year i want to learn how to play the piano, I feel like you could pick that up pretty easy. I know. I got to find like a good app for it. If any of our listeners out there know of a good app, hit me up. Hit me up. I guess like if I had to pick one, I could say I want to get better at snowboarding. Did I tell you I tried that? Have we talked since then? Well, no, but I saw like you went with Blake and Colton. And Colton. Yeah. I saw Colton yesterday. Oh no, I saw that. How was blake and colton and colton yeah i saw colton yesterday

oh no i saw that how was that it was weird it was a meet and greet at the freaking mall you know yeah i mean yeah i don't know but it was i was glad that i showed up and colton was there i was like all right well if he's here then i at least my career isn't completely in the tank, you know? That's true. But anyway, yeah, we went snowboarding, and then I went again two weekends later with some other friends. Like, I'm not good yet by any means, but, like, I definitely made progress, and it's something I'd like to keep doing. So I guess I could say that this year I want to learn how to snowboard well. I guess the most important thing is do you have all the shit?

Do you have, like, cool pants and jackets? I do have cool pants and jackets, but I don't have to snowboard well i guess the most important thing is do you have all the shit do you have like cool pants and jackets i do have cool pants and jackets but i don't have a snowboard yeah and it's not that expensive to rent that stuff it's like 50 bucks but you know maybe i'll get some of it i don't know gotcha well i believe in you did you um well when we talked last i was like i'm a i'm a green, blue square kind of guy. And I just like to listen to my bluegrass music and just whoosh, whoosh. So did you just do green circles or did you get some blue squares? I just did the green circle. Ah, good for you. Yeah. I don't want to like bite off more than I can chew or die.

Yeah. I always hated those fucking asshole friends who were like, we're going down the devil's backbone. It's a double blacker. And you're like, no. See, that's what everybody did when I went with Colton and Blake and everybody. And Blake hadn't been on a snowboard since like high school. Yeah. And he was so scared, but he went down with everybody and somehow survived.

Yeah. Inching along slowly. Yeah. And sadly. Oh, I don't know if you if you no one really talked about it, which is hilarious, but I don't know why, but I guess because we hang out so much, but everyone thought Blake and I were dating

for a hot minute. And we took over Caitlin's podcast for her while she was sick, and we announced that we are not dating. I didn't know if you would be upset that I didn't save that for our podcast. I am very angry. Very angry.

But no one cared. So people only care like when they think you're dating and then when they find out you're not, they like they're like, oh, they don't even remember who you are. They're like, who? You're who? Yeah. But you guys did. But but correct me if I'm wrong. You guys did sleep together and it was beautiful.

No, we did not do that. You guys did do some some it was beautiful no we did not do that you guys did do some some touching of the groins no we did not do that yeah you licked you did mouth kissing no that was no that wasn't blake you ran your fingers through his beautiful hair and said it'll never happen oh my god no i God. No, I didn't even get, it didn't even get that far. What? All right, you guys went skiing.

You guys went snowboarding. Great. We're just friends. We're always, we've always just been buddies. I like Blake. He's a nice guy. I like Blake too. Did you at least like,

like pump our podcast on Caitlin's podcast? So like people- I think, I think so. Here's one thing I'd like to announce. This is my resolution for the new year you have a resolution this podcast needs to go weekly oh yeah this it's going weekly going weekly it's a great announcement it is happening if i had a bell i'd ring it that's for you no i did i did actually i i just like calling them resolutions, but I do have things that I want to get better at this year.

One of them is I want to – everybody always messages me and asks if there's a website or something that lists the stuff we talk about, like books and movies and music, because people hear it, but they're driving and can't write it down or whatever. And they just want somewhere where they can go and read lists. So I want to make a page on my website where I can list what we talk about every week for everybody. I like that. That's something I'm going to build this week. And hopefully by next week, I'll have it up and going. Because I think, I mean, got to give people what they want. And that's clearly what they want. You want to talk about some favorite things?

Sure. I got some stuff. I don't know if you got some stuff well i you know we have our little note thing and i was updating it today and i saw that we both we had we both put down on here that series called you yes i just put it into imdb so you know how i found out about that i don't even know who did it but someone i sometimes check my dms and someone was like you need to go watch this yeah and i was like okay so how many episodes in are you i finished it what i'm only on episode three so don't ruin anything for me oh okay so um let's just kind of set the table for everyone uh you is about a clever bookstore manager who relies on his savvy internet know-how to make the woman of his dreams fall in love with him it's based on a novel by caroline neps the main guy's penn bradley who was is he

lonely boy is he dan humphries in gossip girl yes aka lonely boy is his nickname yeah xoxo gossip girl basically he owns or he's like a manager of a bookstore. And this kind of like cute blonde girl comes in. He gets her name and then he just basically starts stalking her. Yeah, like major stalking. Not like, oh, let me just like dig through her Instagram and Facebook history. Like straight up standing outside of her apartment watching her stalking. Yeah, exactly. But what's creepy about it is that it goes through the ways in which

you can totally stalk somebody so easily i know it's so scary you know yeah it terrifies me but it's it's that weird thing where how many episodes are you in i've only seen two oh okay well i won't say too much but it's to me it's similar to Dexter. Did you ever watch that show? I never watched that. I mean, I wasn't obsessed with it, but the premise was is that he's a serial killer, but he only murders bad people. So you kind of root for him, you know?

And I'm not saying that's exactly what this is, but it's not not what this is. Like there are parts where you kind of are on his side a little bit yeah and you see that and you start wondering if the other characters in the show are even worse than him you know like they kind of do that to you but um really good it did you know that it's originally a lifetime series that now netflix has picked up for season two it's so funny you say that because when um we started watching it sarah was like this is a freaking this has got to be a lifetime

movie and i was like yeah why do you think that and they're like she was like one the way it's shot yep so then we looked it up and and two it's like about a stalker which is like lifetimes like bread and butter right up there oh totally right, totally. Right up there, Allie. So we looked it up and she was, of course, right. But so does that mean it's going to go back on Netflix? I mean, go back to Lifetime and then Netflix? No. Okay.

No. So Lifetime did not renew it for season two. So Netflix picked it up for season two. Got it. But it's interesting because it came out on Lifetime forever ago and no one talked about it. And now that it's on Netflix, everyone's talking about it. So it just goes to show you that cable TV is dead and it's all about streaming. A hundred percent.

Okay, so my second one. First of all, everyone goes, you was great on Netflix. My second one is Bird Box. Okay. Yeah. Did you like Bird Box? Okay, so I have a lot of thoughts on it. I liked it a lot. Sarah loved it. Did you like bird box okay so i have a lot of thoughts on it i liked it a lot uh sarah

loved it did you like it i loved it uh so i went to a screening before it came out in new orleans i don't know if you realize yeah i actually got paid to go uh it was super dope because i loved the movie i was like man i love getting paid to do stuff that i like this is awesome um but i i thought it was fantastic. I was like on the edge of my seat the whole time. I don't even know if we need to kind of like explain what this is, considering it was kind of like an internet sensation for a couple weeks. But was it an internet sensation because people were making fun of it

or because people liked it? I have a theory on this whole thing. Okay, let's hear it. I think that they went, the marketing team for Bird Box, and went to like every fat jewish fuck jerry like all those like huge guys gave them a picture and they were like make this a meme and it fucking exploded and then everyone was like well i gotta i just gotta watch this like i remember the meme was like me trying to figure out what this movie's about through the memes.

That was the thing. And it made everyone be like, I guess I got to watch this, you know? Yeah, that's so true. And I just wonder if that was part of their marketing budget. I could believe that just solely based on the fact that they obviously were doing things outside the box. The bird box? based on the fact that they obviously were doing things outside the box. Like, I mean, I wasn't, I wasn't the,

I wasn't the only influencer that got paid to go do this. You know what I mean? Like they, they partnered with refinery to send influencers to watch this movie and post about it before it came out. So obviously they were doing things like that in that realm that, that are like out of the box marketing. So it wouldn't shock me if they were doing that,

which is I think really smart. To me though, it was, it's just a quiet place ripoff. I heard that before I saw it from a lot of people, but I never saw a quiet place. So I loved this movie. I thought it was great. Whoa, you should see the quiet place. That's a great movie.

Was it great? So good. Really, really good. Okay. My thought was it's a quiet place, but instead of you can't talk, you can't see. You know, it's like one of the senses is gone. And so I was like, I think I like A Quiet Place better. And Sarah was like, I like Bird Box better.

But we were talking about it. That's a movie, right? Bird Box is a movie. Yes. But it cannot win an Oscar for a movie. Because it's on Netflix? Yes. Yeah.

Which there has to be a change there. And I could be wrong about this. Maybe there's a category for streaming, best streaming movie. I don't know. But my thought is that's one of the best movies I've seen this year. Yeah. And it doesn't get to win

best picture. Interesting. Isn't that weird? Surely they're going to have to come up with a category either a category for streaming stuff like film platform films or they're gonna start including them and and all they have to this is the direction this is going absolutely just it's just a new distribution method but like we were talking about it last time where it was like all these are all movie stars they're just doing streaming shows right like that they're all like they're all like fuck this unless i'm captain america or thor yeah i can't make any money in the movie industry so they're all going to streaming

but like this cast set first of all standard bullock is like total a-list right oh yeah john malkovich you know like what's wrong with you john malkovich is like uh he's a bald older guy oh yeah yeah yeah sarah paulson who's in like everything love her huge fan i loved the the guy her her love interest oh yeah travante rhodes smoking hot machine gun kelly's in there for i know he gets the best role it's funny because i sar know. He gets the best roles. It's funny because Sarah knows him and she was like, he's so good. And I was like, that's so funny. I was like, I only know him as a rapper. I've seen him perform. And so I didn't even know really he acted much, but he gets really cool roles when he does. I mean, it's crazy. Yeah, he had a great

role. He was good in it. But I was like, wait wait machine gun kelly's like actor i know what he was in he was in one other thing oh bright i loved i loved bright it's another netflix one so they probably liked him uh bird box is is great like and it's i'm sorry it's a movie just because i didn't go pay 1775 and go to like the grove to watch it doesn't mean it's not a movie. And I find that interesting. Weird. Like we're in a weird spot. I know. Something's got to give though.

No movies to give Oscars to soon. Or like they're going to combine the Emmys and the Oscars together. Maybe. I don't think they'll do that. I think they'll make more categories. Have what? Okay. What about Bandersnatch?

Have you seen this yet? No. What is that? Is that a, is that a, you don't know about this bandersnatch is that like a like a like a sex move no no maybe but no it's uh netflix it's there i i keep hearing that it's a movie but i but then some people are saying they're different episodes so i don't i'm not really sure but it's a a black mirror movie apparently where there's like five different times in this movie or series or whatever it is where you get to like make a decision. And there's all these different. Oh, it's an interactive. Yes, it's like an interactive TV series or film or whatever it is.

Like, I think I've been told it's a film, but I haven't watched it yet. So I just don't know. Bandersnatch. But it's like I might start it tonight. It's like the top of my list to start. Ooh, OK. Yeah, no, I heard about that. That does sound that does sound cool.

Dude, you know what I love? I'm sorry. I'm going to say it. And I wonder if like I'm not allowed to say this because I work for the Bachelor franchise. But oh, X on the Beach is just so good. It's like the worst, greatest. It is? I love that show.

I'm sorry. You're kidding me. I'm sorry. I love it. It's just so. I've never seen it. Really? Yeah.

When I told you about it last season, remember the Uncle Fucker episode? Oh, yeah. Where the girl comes up and he's like, she fucked my uncle. Uncle Fucker! Oh, my God. And then they made this poor girl get

into a uh they did like a lie detector test and it was like did you see with his uncle and she didn't that's insane okay wait don't a bunch of bachelor people go on that show yeah chad's on it crazy chad from from my season and he here's the thing. I'm watching it. And he's like, he's the rational one on this show. That just shows you how crazy everyone is that's doing this show. When Chad, who is like insane on my seasons, is like the voice of reason. That's nuts. I don't think I want to start watching this.

I think I'm just going to let you tell me what i need to know and stick with that i'm just like straight up like sarah and i are like is it is it time for a new sex and x on the beach oh my gosh oh my so okay my favorite my favorite is she was like not another she was a teen mom who like did a porn uh farrah abraham who's that she was like on a teen mom show and then she did a i think she did a porn i don't know anyways she's miserable and like everyone everyone is just ragging on her because she's like there's like this one episode where she's like there are not enough towels and she like needs like the executive producer like the executive producer has to come in and her to be like i don't care what's going on i see more fucking towels and everyone's like shut up and being like the only reason why you're irrelevant is because you had a kid

so mean and it is the funniest show god you gotta watch. I can't believe you're not on Excellent Beach, dude. No. But you know what? I did just finish. I'm so late to the party. I don't even know if you ever finished it because we talked about it not being very good. But the second season of Westworld. I stopped doing it.

I'm sorry. I know your brother-in-law's in it. Honestly, that's one of the reasons why I wanted to finish it. Because I was like,ke asked me if i've seen this i have to say yes like i can't lie when it came out i watched two episodes and just could not it couldn't hold my attention so i went back over the holidays and re-watched all of it um and it was still like hard it still was didn't really hold my attention the way i wanted it to um and honestly like by the end of it i have no idea what i freaking want like i like it was just like too complex like they were trying too hard to make it so complex i'm like i i have no idea what they're trying to do here yeah dumb it down guys it's yeah

they have to dumb it down a little bit like this was just way too much hey west world producers take a page out of the X on the Beach storyline. Yes, please. Stump it down, please, for us. Oh, did you see that they're coming out with a new season of True Detective? Yes, I did. I'm excited about it. I am, too, but I'm a little scared because the last season of True Detective was horrible.

And it was so sad because the cast was great, and it was terrible. Rachel McAdams was in it. I loved her. Do I know? And Vince Vaughn? I mean, it was— I know, and Taylor Kitsch. It was a great cast and it was terrible rachel mcadams was in it i loved her do i know and it's vaughn i mean it was i know and taylor kitt like it was a great cast and such a terrible show i know it just goes to show you it's all about writing man yeah it really is got some book stuff let's hear it first of all i finished um i don't know if we talked last time but i finished um girl in cabin

10 or whatever oh you loved it right great great. I liked the ending a lot, actually. I think they'll 1,000% make that a movie. Oh, yeah. It's on like Reese Witherspoon's book club thing, which means her production company's all over it. Oh, totally. I read a book and I absolutely loved it. No, this one's also on Reese Witherspoon's freaking thing. Dang it.

You love the Reese Witherspoon book club? I do. Hilarious. Oh, God. I love the Reese Witherspoon book club? I do. Hilarious. Oh, God. I'm the founding member. She's not even in the book club. Oh, God. These are just books that I think Reese would love.

Okay, so it's also going to be a movie. Number one New York Times bestseller. It's called Where the Crawdads Sing. Oh. Have you heard about it? No. Oh, my God. It's so good. Here's the description. For years, rumors of the quote unquote Marsh Girl have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town in North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when a handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kaya Clark, the so-called Marsh girl. But Kaya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent.

She has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home. She is such a badass in this. This little girl. She has to grow up basically alone. There's this whole murder that surrounds her. She turns out to be like a freaking genius absolutely love this book where the crowd wow okay everyone needs to go check it out apparently become a movie but i would read it first it's also like i will admit that i like shitty books like i like quick

reads you know like i like to get yeah i do too but i do like when like beautiful there is beautiful writing and there's like a lot of like really beautiful writing because they're in this marsh which you could consider gross and like muddy and somehow the author like makes it really picturesque and beautiful really good book okay i'm gonna add that to my list. Yeah, do it. All right. I finished a book that I just absolutely loved. It's called A Life Intercepted, and it's written by Charles Martin. He is also the author of The Mountain Between Us, which was a movie, but the book was so much better. I need to read that one because you talked about that one. Oh, that book is phenomenal.

But anyway, this book was just as good. I loved it so much. I'll read the description for you. It says, 12 years agoutable evidence it seemed in an instant all was lost his reputation his career his freedom and most devastatingly the love of his life so basically it's about a football player who's like like they said like number one draft pick like massive college football star and then um on the night of the draft he's arrested and false i mean he he says you know this the whole book like that he didn't do this crime or whatever but he's in jail for it and it ruins his career it's such a cool story big fan what's it called it's called a life intercepted ah i get i get i get the title now that makes sense i uh i don't know if this is only an audiobook i listened to it and i loved. I think it's for kids. I think it's a kid's book.

But that's not to say that a kid's book can't be awesome. It's called Zero G by Dan Wells. Great last name, by the way. Wait, what is it called? Zero G. Zero G. Yeah. So basically it takes place in the future.

It's about this kid named Zero who's getting on this spaceship to go to another galaxy, basically, to go terraform like another planet, right? And he's on with his family, and he's kind of like a rambunctious little kid. And they go in their stasis pods to go to, like, hibernate for the hundred-year trip to this new planet. And his pod, like, malfunctions, and he wakes up with, like, a hundred go it's kind of sounds just like that movie the passenger totally or pat what is it the passenger yeah passengers passengers loved that yeah great movie with like and chris there's a chris in there one of those chris chris pine chris chris you go. So he wakes up, right? Come to find out that there are space pirates that are trying to take over the ship. And it's kind of like Home Alone, where he's got to like kind of fucking sabotage everybody to like not get taken by space pirates. It's a really easy, fun read.

And especially like if you have kids listening to this, like I would suggest this for your kids as well. Zero G. Two thumbs up. Really loved it. Tell me the name of the author again i'm writing it down dan wells dan wells very cute um i'm i'm not finished with this one yet but i'll i'll shout it out and let you guys know next week how it is but it's called still mine and it's by amy stewart it is about a girl who has an abusive husband so she like leaves in the middle of the night and takes on a new identity. She's kind of on the run from this like past life.

And she takes a job to invest, to like go into this town in the middle of nowhere and basically to like secretly investigate this, this missing person. Um, but she's, you know, she's trying to act like everybody's friend and trying to fit in so that she

can gain info on like this missing girl. Um, so that she can gain info on this missing girl. So that's all I know about it so far because I'm not even halfway through. But I like it so far. It's like your typical crime thriller. You love those. I love a crime thriller. I know. I love that you love those because I let you weed through the shitty ones.

The shitty ones, yeah. I just take your cream with the crop did you know do you know when i started reading no sorry listening to what is that game of thrones oh i need to do that dude and i i would suggest i've tried to sit down and read game of thrones and it is so thick it's a tome man but man. But the book on tape, I will say, is much easier to absorb because it has different voices. And it's interesting to me,

I'm only maybe a quarter of the way through the first book. It's pretty close to basically what happens in the show, at least from what I remember because this is season one basically i'm i'm reading right now i will say this though if you read the books you're tipped off that john snow is probably targaryen and tyrian lannister is probably targaryen like

in the first book gotcha yeah but really i mean this is not like new news, but yeah, Game of Thrones is dope. I kind of liked that they waited to reveal that Jon was Targaryen until later. Yeah. Because, I mean, definitely there's been like speculation about it, but it's still like when they reveal it, it's still like a big like, whoa, like punch. You know what I mean? Yeah. And I like that.

I feel like in the show show the direwolves are not that important but in the book the direwolves are fucking badass dang i love that i wish they i wish they had shown more of them in the series yeah i don't know really liked it too i have a new favorite vegetable okay this is this is a new one i had never heard of it maybe i'm insane and live under a rock but have you ever had romanesco excuse me what it's called romanesco is it romaine lettuce that's a bit askew no it's not will you will you google it because i want you to see what it looks like okay all right by the way, that joke. Oh, Romanesco. Romanesco.

Oh, okay. I spelled it wrong. Can we just for a second just pause how funny that joke was and you didn't laugh at all? It was fine. I mean, this looks like. It wasn't that funny. Romanesco. Romanesco. Romanesco.

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like a succulent. I don't know. It looks like something that might kill Superman. No. I think it's so pretty. I mean, it is is pretty it just looks like a booger just magnified oh my god well it's delicious let me tell you how is it prepared well i i mean i'm sure you can do it different ways but i so i was at the reason i had this is because i was at my favorite restaurant in nashville give me a ding barcel. Okay. I went four times in the two weeks I was home and I love it. So I go so much that like everybody know me, like the manager, the chef, they all

know me. So the chef who's awesome, she came out and was like, Hey, like, I'd love to make you something special. Is that okay? And I was like, sure, of course. Yeah. So she sends out this Romanesco and I don't know what she did to it, but it was the most incredible thing I've ever tasted in my entire life. Damn. Okay. And it does kind of look like broccoli, but it tastes so much better. Okay. This one you didn't do.

What was your favorite gift from Christmas? Oh, I didn't really get a ton of gifts, which I was really happy about, but we didn't really make that a big thing this year. Yeah. My sister got me a really cute backpack that I really love. That's probably my favorite one. Which sis? Miley got me a waterproof Fendi backpack that packs up really, really tiny into a keychain so that when I'm traveling, it'll fit into the keychain, and then you get there, and you have a whole backpack. That's pretty cool.

That is pretty dope. I like that. That's pretty cool. Yeah. How about you? Favorite gift? Dude, I went super privileged white boy christmas i like country clubbing it with like guys named chet christmas oh my god and brad i got a new tennis racket which oh because uh i've been playing tennis with courtney dauber who was on oh yeah

who by the way he's like one of my new favorite people in the world. I love him. I've only met him a couple of times, but he's actually friends with Liam. Those Aussies just must all know each other. Yeah, he like he like house sits for them. Yes, exactly. So when I met him, like, you know, he obviously told me that night. He was just so sweet.

Big fan. I've been playing with him and he's like six, four. These aussies are impossible to beat at tennis it's so annoying so sarah was like what do you need and i was like i need obviously a new racket like that's the problem it's not the bow it's the indian well whatever but uh so i got a new racket very excited about that i got some new uh golf clubs that i'm very excited about. So I actually didn't get to tell you my New Year's resolution. I grew up a very good golfer. I played in high school and I played

junior golf and everything. That's pretty cool. I played in tournaments as a kid and I just stopped playing when I went to Nashville just because, I don't know, it's fucking expensive. It is. But now that I'm in California and I have more money and my brother's here, I'm playing again. So my New Year's resolution is to get down to a zero handicap scratch golfer.

I don't know what that means, but good for you. It means I got to really practice. So I got new golf clubs. I got a new bag, which i'm very excited about yeah you know there's nothing better than new sports gear it's like my favorite absolute favorite thing to get there you go there it is yeah you got any uh music i do and i want to figure out a way to do this so you can hear it so i want you to hear this song okay my friend justin hamill was the one who tipped me off to this okay i made ben higgins

because ben and i have a similar taste in music so i made him a playlist it's called here at higgins so if you follow me on spotify you can go listen to it i think i do actually anyways okay so this guy's name is ray von pettis i'd never heard of him before until hamill told me about him hamill is the guy that i used to do a show with on Lightning 100. We used to do a local show called The 615. He's like one of those fucking nerds that will forget more about music than you'll ever know. I love him. And he was like, you got to listen to this.

Because we both like sad bastard music. That's our thing. All right. That's why we're big Jason Isbell, Ryan Adams fans. I've been on the Ryan Adams kick lately. Dude, he's great. I listen to a lot of Ryan Adams. This guy named Rayvon Pettis.

This is a song called Lylee and Abdullah. And what I love about it, it's a love story that takes place in the Middle East. And I feel like a lot of America probably demonizes Middle Easterners at this point. What I love about this song is it's beautifully written. It's sad and happy in the same breath and it also makes you remember that they're fucking normal people too over there. And that's what I liked about it.

So I'm going to play a little bit of it for you right now. Cool. That's what I liked about it. So I'm going to play a little bit of it for you right now. Cool. Abdullah is a student at Balkh University, 40 miles south of the Uzbek line. Lost his heart to a girl named Lylee with posthumous eyes and a crooked little smile.

Late in the evening, they climb the scaffolding smoked cigarettes in the dying light as a raw man from the bamayon land who were you before tonight well they killed my mother and they raped my sister's father died in the civil war i hid in a well and when the bleeding stopped, I didn't want to be a soldier anymore. So I moved to the city to get an education, find a profession where no one died. I was trying to paint the big blue mosque in Mazar-e

when I saw your eyes. Anyways, it is an absolutely gorgeous song. You should go listen to it. It's called Lylee and Abdullah by Rayvon Pettis. What do you got? And it's the number, it's the top track on your Here at Higgins playlist. It is. It was the one I started with.

I was like, I want to hit them hard. Okay, cool. I saved it so I can listen to that whole playlist. Okay, cool. It's kind of, I discovered this a couple weeks ago, so people might already be on this tip, but a guy named Peter Mano has a song called In My Head that was on New Music Friday a couple weeks ago, and I really love it.

And it's the only song he has on Spotify. It's nuts. You want me to play it? Yes, please play it. Okay. He reminds me a lot of Kevin Garrett, who I'm a huge fan of. Of course. Hmm. Very pretty voice.

Why are British people... Is he British? I don't know. He's got one song out with 41 million listeners. Isn't that insane? Yeah, it's good stuff. I think our listeners will like that one. Yeah. I saw this is kind of like radio wells, but I thought it was interesting.

I thought we could talk about it for a second. New studies found that three-fourths of singles love getting a text after a good first date. You know, the rule is that you don't call them for three days, you know, like whatever, right? You go on a date and then you don't call for a couple of days, but I gotta be honest with you. I would say that every single girl that I've liked after the first date, I texted them and I said, like, I really like you. And I feel like that works. Yes. Right. I would agree. Yep. Why are we doing the like don't call for three days thing i feel like now like in in our day and age like instant gratification is such a thing right with like phones and the internet like we're just used to getting getting what we want right when we want

it and all that and back in the day it wasn't necessarily like that so i feel like maybe like the mentality of waiting a few days was okay but now if I don't hear from a guy for three days, I would think he doesn't like me. I don't know. I just thought that was kind of interesting. It is very interesting. Anyways, we had a lot of good stuff on this episode. A lot of favorite things. I know. And I'm going to literally, it's on my list to do today is build this page so I can start having a place to put it all. Then I took notes. So I'm going to start doing that. Yeah. All right. So the new year means new resolutions. We've got one you're working on twice a day. It's your oral health. And with a Quip electric toothbrush, sticking to good habits is

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