Your Favorite Thing with Wells & Brandi - New Year's Resolution: Don't Change a Thing

Episode Date: January 7, 2026

Aaaand, we’re back! Happy 2026 YFT fam, we hope you had a good holiday break and we missed you like a cool Dr. Pepper on a hot Christmas morning. Big news in YFT-land, Brandi’s ring finger is a little heavier these days thanks to a shiny new ring that her big squeeze Matt provided! The proposal involved a motorcycle ride, surprise friends, and champagne at a coffee shop. So awesome. The engagement party was full of early arrivals (actually on-time, but who’s counting), chopstick lessons, and only one shirtless biker. Not bad! Moving on to fave things, Wells has some Broadway reccos, and a theory that every Christmas movie is just one long crisis, while also defending the Stranger Things finale and crowning Joe Keery as the king of all kings. 2026 is gonna be a year, so buckle up, enjoy and remember, we love ya!Thanks to our awesome sponsors for supporting this episode! Article: Visit ARTICLE.COM/YFT for $50 off your first purchase of $100 or more.Quince: Treat your closet to a little summer glow-up with Quince. Go to Quince.com/yft for free shipping on your order and 365 day returns.BetterHelp: BetterHelp makes it easy to get matched online with a qualified therapist. Sign up and get 10% off at BetterHelp.com/yftDon’t forget to rate, review, and follow Your Favorite Podcast! Plus, keep up with us between episodes on our Instagram pages, @yftpodcast @wellsadams and @brandicyrus and be sure to leave us a voicemail with your fave things at 858-630-1856! This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. Dr. Pepper, baby, tastes good and nice. What's up, everybody? We've taken a little break, a little sojourn, you know, over the holidays. Sorry, we missed you. But now we're back. And it's good to be back because I'm getting kind of bored. I'm getting a little bored, not talking to you guys.

So it's Wednesday, which means today I'll be flying to Phoenix, Arizona. That's right. I'm going to the Feistible because it's a party. My old Miss Rebels have made it to the, is it the final four? I don't know what we're calling it. Anyways, there's four teams left. We're one of them. And we're going up against Miami. Those convicts from Miami. And then if we win that game, then we go to Miami. Moons over Miami. Anyway, so just wish, I just need to all you guys to be putting out good vibes and heartfelt support behind the old Miss Rebels.

and our coach left us in the, like, right at the end of the season to go to LSU because he's like, that team can never win. Fuck you, man. And now look at us. Now we're in, we only got two games left and we've got a national championship. So we're America's team, even though our program is mired in, you know, just the history of Mississippi in general. But I will say, we're doing the work.

Okay. And now we're America's team because everyone feels bad for us because Lane Kifflin's an asshole. Anyways, I digress. I hope everyone had a great Christmas or a shot. Janica or Kwanza or, you know, winter solstice. Whatever you celebrate, I hope you had a great one, okay? And then I hope you didn't have a terrible New Year's Eve because New Year's Eve's are always terrible.

It's just a fact of life. Actually, Sarah and I was pretty good. We went to our favorite little French restaurant over there on 51st between 8th and 9th to Vá bien. We had a delicious dinner. And then we went home and we watched Andy Cohen get fucking absolutely blasted drunk, which was fun. And then we went to bed.

Happy New Year. You guys come up with some New Year's resolutions. Are you resolving to do better? Is 2026 to me the year that you cut the weight, that you quit the drinking, that you start making the money that you deserve? No, it's not. And not that I don't believe in you,

because I do believe in you, but nothing's going to change, okay? Because we're creatures of habit. So what I suggest is that you resolve to do things that you know you can do that seem realistic. I'm going to listen to more episodes of YFT.

Boom, do it. I'm going to resolve to call my parents left because they're annoying. I'm going to resolve eating the same exact amount of food I was eating before. I'm not going to change for you.

Not for you, not for anybody. Okay? What is this? A diet? Not going to happen. Am I going to go see Avatar? The way of fire? Guys, no, because no one's asking for these fucking movies.

I'm like, I, James Cameron, Jimbo, what are you doing? No one wants these freaking movies, all right? I'm going to go see less live music, okay? I'm going to work out less, all right? I'm just going to really just lean back on my metabolism, because in your 40s, that's when it really ramps up. Now I'll just go on a GLP1, like everyone else in the world. Go to invade Venezuela.

I'm going to do that. I'm going to steal some oil. under the altruistic banner of stopping fentanyl, which I do hope that happens, actually. I'm crossed with that whole Venezuela thing. You know what's going on. We can just take presidents out? We can just go and get them.

I mean, I know we can do anything because we're America. America. Fuck, yeah. But, I mean, I didn't know we can just go take presidents. It's probably a good thing. He's a terrible human being. And I do know some people who are Venezuelan who are very happy that this is happening.

But I do just, I admit it's a little bit concerned if this is just all. like a desert storm again it's like we're gonna do it we got a war because you got weapons of mass destruction but really would take it some oil so what i would suggest is investing into chevron and to exon because yeah you make some money um i also resolve to i'm gonna try to sleep better that's something i think i can do i'm gonna try to sleep better also take over a country let's do this let's let's light this candle let's start this bitch let's get things things under way.

It's time to call her up. It is time. 2026. What's that? Hi. How you doing? Happy new year. Happy 2026.

Happy new year. How do you feel about this year? Just, you know, well, it started off pretty good. My old miss rebels beat Georgia. And now we're in the final four. So we're basing the entire year off of. I'm just saying it started.

Basketball? Basketball? What are we basing this on? Football, football. Football. It started for me pretty great. Oh, okay, great. What else? Anything else good to happen? No, the only other thing is that I've got a TV show on Golf Channel. It's going to be airing on Wednesday mornings 10 Eastern 7 a.m. Pacific. We did know that. I know, but that's, it starts next week. So. Very, very exciting.

We're bearing the lead here, Brandy. All right. Oh, are we? Yeah, because before the new year happened in 2025, I went to a little party. Oh, yes, you did. I went to a little party at Miles Cyrus's house, and we were celebrating something amazing, and we need to talk about it because I feel like it was released online, but not on the podcast. Well, I know, but I will, so I will say, why have tears, even though there's probably some overlap with sorry we're cyrus why if tears are getting the exclusive okay so truly because

sorry where cyrus comes out tomorrow and i talk about it there but you guys the white tears are going to hear about it first well so let's talk about it you and matt are there's the ring look at it tell us everything how did it go down what happened how did he do it so we've talked about this like it wasn't like it was a complete shock like we've been talking about getting engaged So I like knew it was going to come at some point, but I didn't know when. And like, I kind of thought he would do before the end of the year, but I just, we've had so much going on. And we were traveling so much in December.

And we came home for like a week. And I just, my brain was just all over the place. And we had like one day at home, like where we had a free afternoon. And Matt and I lately have just been really talking a lot about like being intentional with quality time and even when we're busy and doing jobs all the time, like finding time to just do something fun together. One of the easiest ways to do that is take a bike ride, like on the motorcycle because Matt loves that. If it's a nice day out, great.

So there was like this afternoon was supposed to be really sunny and beautiful, although fucking freezing, freezing outside. But because I love him so much, I agreed to go on a motorcycle ride. Yeah. So we go on the bike and he has this bike that is constantly broken. Like there's always something wrong with it. So we get on the motorcycle and the second we pull out onto the main road, he's like, fuck the bike. Like something was wrong. And I'm like, oh, here we fucking go, you know, typical.

And so we're going down the highway, like, towards town. And he was like, we'll just do like a loop, you know, just like it'll be, it should be fine. Like, we'll do a loop and come back or whatever and catch the sunset. And I was like, okay, sure, whatever. So we're going towards downtown and there's a, like, shop, like an auto shop or whatever that Matt frequently visits because things are always broken. And he, as we got closer, he kept like looking to. down at the bike, which is what he does when something's wrong with it. And we got closer and he was like, I have to stop into the shop and get a tool from the

boys to like fix this so we can get home. And I'm just like, oh, fuck. So I'm like, all right. So we pull in. So side note here, the coffee shop where we met is a cross from the auto shop. So we're pulling in. And instead of pulling right into the auto shop, he like rolls into the coffee shop parking lot, the bike dies, quote, quote, like I thought he was like, oh,

The bike, the bike, it just died on me. Simultaneously, as this is happening, in the parking lot of the coffee shop, I see my best friend Kirsten's car. And I was so excited because she works in Franklin, like, and we actually had plans to go to dinner later that night. So in my mind, I'm just like, oh, he's got off work early. She's here having a coffee. I'm so fucking pumped.

I can go hang with her instead of dealing with this broken bike. So I get off the bike and I'm like trying to high tail it to find. where's keys? And Matt, he was like, no, brand. I like, need, I need your help. And I was like, you're fine. You don't, I can't help with the bike. And so I started to go in. And he was like, no, he was like, come here. I need your help. And he was like, take your helmet off. That was the first time I thought something was weird. Like in my mind, I was like, that's weird. So I like, went to take off my helmet. And as I turned around, he was on one knee with like his tools rolled out. Like he was fixing the bike, but had the ring in the tool belt. And it was very

the sun was setting behind him and like i didn't realize it until after but there was like a photographer across the street taking photos you know the whole deal and you got down on the end said well you marry me and i said fuck yeah give me that ring yeah yeah and then what happened well then the photographer eventually like came closer and then i was kind of like putting pieces together and like the foger took some photos and then um we go inside the coffee shop which it was closed they closed like four and they agreed to stay open and let Matt do this. And so Kirsten and my other friend, Emily, were inside. And they had, like, decorated it all cute. There were white roses everywhere, candles everywhere, champagne inside. The girls had really set it up for us so nicely. And, like, we did a little

cheers with them. And then they left and let us, like, we had Hanks, Hanks at the coffee shop. We had it all to ourselves for, for like an hour. And we just kind of sat and had champagne and just enjoyed the moment. And it was very cute. I wish I had dressed better. But, you know, I didn't see it coming, so that's where we are. And then we went and had a nice dinner. How was the manicure? It was about two weeks in, but it wasn't terrible. Okay, okay.

I had a nice, like, metallic silver French manicure going on that was a little grown out, but it wasn't bad. Kirst didn't try to tell you like, hey, let's go get, let's go get manny some petties or something like that. So that's the thing that girls... No, and we're talking about the girl that parked her car in the front of the coffee shop for a surprise. Yeah. I know love her so much but you know she's not always thinking about the finder details yeah yeah yeah yeah it was furious he was like when I pulled it it's all her car I was like freaking out yeah but I actually it actually worked in his favor because it distracted me you know

was she like I didn't think you guys were going to get here so soon or what was yeah exactly yeah could we talk about the like the party that Miley threw for you yeah yeah we can um so we did a little like very close friends and family party in Malibu. We did it like right before Christmas. So we got engaged like in Nashville and then we went to L.A. for work. And then Miley had planned this whole like dinner party. Mostly just for like family and some L.A. friends and Matt did have a few like of his

West Coast friends come in for it too. But it was nice. It was low key. Like my whole thing is, you know, I, I don't need a wedding. I don't really. I just never really thought I would do a wedding. And I just like don't make like making a big deal out of things. I don't really like doing big events.

And it's just, you know, people's feelings get heard who came and who didn't and who blah, blah, blah. And I just, yeah. So it was good. Miley planned this one and it was very small and very nice. And I truly feel like I got to actually like hang out with everybody while we were there and talk to everyone. And I think that's what makes things like that special is like actually getting to spend

time with people. I got to sit next to you during this. And I felt very honored by the way, not to make this about me, but. Well, but a little bit. I mean, I was a little shocked. Thought maybe... Well, here's the thing. Yeah.

It's always interesting mixing people's friends, right? Yeah. None of Matt's friends knew any of mine at all. I barely know the guys. Like, they all live in Boise and they're Matt's closest friends, you know? And so they, I, like, there was like 10 of them. And so I was like, well, they all have to go at one table. Yeah.

You know, because, like, they all know each other. And then it was really, it was tough for, like, the rest of it was like, Well, some of these people don't know anyone. And like you and Dasha were kind of like my wildcard friends that didn't really know anyone else. So I was like, I'll just put them together and put them with us because everybody else knows each other essentially. So that's kind of how we did it. I became great friends with Dasha. And then I sat next to Kirsten, who also went to Ole Miss.

So she's very excited about what's happening with my Ole Miss Rebels. Can I tell you my favorite? A couple of things that were my favorite thing about this party that we went to. at Miley's place and then went over to do it this nice restaurant. Okay. I'm going to start with the party. Okay. So I get a part of full invite from Miley's assistant or something.

Yeah. And it says, okay, this is the address. It's down the coast. It starts at four o'clock. And I'm like, okay, great. I am never late to anything. Okay. This is a problem.

This is one of my main problems. But also it was far away. And so I was like, I don't know what traffic's going to be like. So I get there. at 4.05. So I'm like five minutes late, right? Get to this gate. This guy's like, hi, what's up? And I'm like, yeah, I'm here for, I'm here for Brandy's party. And the guy goes, Brandy, Brandy, who? And I was like, Cyrus. And he's like, oh, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hold on, hold on, hold on. And he starts freaking out. I'm like, what's going on? Also, do you think

that I'm like tricking you into like, and also, if I knew that Brandy was having a part, party. Don't you think that I would know that Brandy Cyrus was having a problem? I was very confused by this. So then that that's at that moment, Dasher rolls up. And I'm like, hey, I don't, you know, I didn't know where I was like, hey, I'm Wells. I think that we are too early for this party. And the guy is like, you guys are too early for this party. And I'm like, oh, shit. Okay. Well, I was like, well, I was sitting in the car. So I'm sitting outside. Finally, the guy's like, okay, you guys can go in, uh, but parking's an issue. Meanwhile, there's parking everywhere. are available. I'm just going to park on the street right here. And he's like, yeah, okay, whatever. So then we walk in, Dash and I walk inside. We are the only people at this party. We are, but by now it's 415. So we are way too early. So then I'm just like going into the refrigerator and getting my own beers and just like hanging out with. Yeah, it was great. Meanwhile, finally Miley comes out and she's like, hi, Wiles. And I'm like, hi, Cyrus Miley. And

she was like my fucking sister's not even here yet and I was like I know I didn't say this but I know she was like who the fuck shows up at a party on time this totally this guy does okay anyways I had a it was a lovely sunset but I did think is that beautiful oh my god I did think it was hilarious though that the guy was like brandy who and I'm like what are you talking about dude the only reason why we're here is because of brandy you should know by now that no one ever actually knows what's going on yeah I'm you know I decided to realize that. No one's ever on time. Like if I have a party at my house in Nashville, which I don't do anymore because people don't show up. If people show up, they are minimum 30 minutes late,

usually an hour. So if I want people somewhere at five, I got to tell them four. I didn't plan this one though. So that was on Miley. I do think she did the four o'clock start because she wanted people to get to see the sunset. It's kind of my whole point, right? Of like, totally. But for me, I'm like, this is my party. I shouldn't have to show up on time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's great. I should be given freedom to show up when I please because this is about me. Yeah. But that and I was getting like, and I was getting text from her.

And like, where are you, your friends are here? And I'm just like, whoa, this is exactly why I don't want to have a wedding. Exactly why. Because it's just, yeah, all that. But anyway, I did show up very late. In my defense, I had to book some last minute meetings in Hollywood that morning. And the traffic was insane coming up the PCH. Typical L.A.

but anyway once I got there and everybody was there and it was so nice and we took some photos and had some champagne and like you said the sunset was insane and then we moseyed on over to nobu okay what were the rest of your favorite part where we go to nobu which is you know kind of famously like this great sushi restaurant and Japanese restaurant I'm sitting there next to your best friend Kirsten who went to old miss which I didn't even really first of all I didn't make the seating chart I did I put like who should go at each table but I left it up to pat or whoever did put people's names in places. But how good did that work out? You and Keyes, I forgot that she went to Ole Miss and I forgot you guys would even have that in common. I felt like you guys hit it off great. Famously, we were two little rebels in a pod. We were talking about restaurants and bars and stuff

that don't exist in Oxford anymore. It was actually the perfect person this is next to. And then I sat across from Dasha and we had had, you know, a trauma bond showing up to a party too early. So we had that going on. So anyways, we're at Nobu and sushi is involved, obviously. at Nobu, and I look over and your mother has the training wheels on the chopsticks because she can't, she doesn't know how to use chopsticks. And then Miley is trying to teach her how to use

chopsticks. And I'm like, what the fuck, dude? You've been in Hollywood for so long now. How have you not learned chopsticks? Because I feel like in California, I mean, shit, she lives in Studio City. Did you know that Studio City has more sushi restaurants per capita than any other place except for Japan? Did you know that actually? I didn't, but it makes sense. There's so many. It's 100% true. And I'm looking over and I'm like, she doesn't on a fucking use chopsticks. She's got the little bumper thing, you know, with like the rubber band and that she's still having a problem with this. She's still having a hard time doing this. Here's the problem. My mother refused to even try sushi until about a year ago.

I think Dom is the one that probably convinced her. Yeah. Miley is teaching her mother how to use chop sticks. And then I look over to my left, which is where Kirsten's sitting. And she's like, I need the bumpers too. So then she's, I was like, you don't know how to use chopsticks either? What is, were we a bunch of fucking savages here? Who does it not use chopsticks?

And I've got, I've got video footage of Kirsten trying to figure it out. We'll paste that into this clip. Oh my God. It was, I was, I started looked around and I was like, you know, the Us Weekly thing like the stars are just like us. No, the stars, the stars aren't just like us. The stars are worse than us. They don't know how to use chopsticks. It was chef's kiss so fucking I could could not stop laughing about how funny that was to me. It was very entertaining. It was great. And then Matt's friends stand up and start giving cheerses. Anyways, they're all these biker guys.

They're getting a free meal at Nobu and they are shots are flowing. And so they're getting up and and given speeches, just like half drunk, absolutely amazing. Then there's me who's like in like Gucci pants and like a prodig shirt. I was like, I'm going to try to be fashionable because I'm around Miley and Tish and Brandy. And then these guys are all in Leathers and they're like, this bitch. So then I start talking with them. And, you know, eventually then they were like, what do you do? And I was like, I work on a bad reality TV show.

And then of course they're like, oh, I love that show. And I was like, aha. Everyone watches Paradise. Anyways. Yeah, Matt was terrified about the boy's behavior because I think typically when they go out, like they take their shirts off and everyone's shirtless. And I think only one, we managed to keep it to just one shirtless man by the end of the night. I mean, we had a private room at Nobu.

We could have all gotten naked there. It wouldn't have mattered. This is true. Anyways, well, congratulations. So what are we calling that? Are we calling that an engagement party? Yeah. Okay.

So will there be a wedding? I really don't see myself wanting to do a ceremony. Yeah. No boo is enough for you. No boo is plenty. First of all, the speeches I thought were going to be crazier. They were pretty tame. I'm pretty sure no one had anything planned.

And then somehow my sister was like, Brandi, you give a speech. I'm like, this is my party. This is a one time where I don't have to give a speech. Yeah. But no, I don't see myself wanting to do it. a ceremony, I felt like that was plenty. But we do want to celebrate and we want to be able to celebrate with like Matt's family from Australia and, you know, friends from Australia and my friends from Nashville that weren't able to come and all that. So we'll do something.

Realistically, it's probably not going to be until next year's because it takes so much time to plan anything, first of all, and second of all, for people like coming from Australia to plan flights and taking off work and blah, blah, blah, all the things. So eventually we will do some sort of celebration for sure, but you ain't going to see your girl doing any type of traditional wedding. I'll tell you that right now. You're not going to be on the cover of People magazine with an exclusive to your wedding. It depends on how much people's paying. Yeah, let me tell you something. As someone who got married recently, not very much. No, I won't be doing that. Well, congratulations, Mazel, all that stuff. I'm happy for you guys. He's a lovely human who is way too

tall like bring it down a little bit Matt you're seven foot foot tall it's a lot it's too like I when I come in for like a hug I'm like nipple you know I don't need that and I'm crazy like I have a couple of friends that are pretty tall like six six yeah and we went to a Christmas party and one of my best friends is like six six and Matt makes him look short oh yeah like it is fucking crazy to me it's wild to see that you guys should have kids because I know you don't want to but you should have kids because like you know get some more tall are people out there, you know. That's true, I guess, but no.

No. Okay. Oh, and I got to meet Max. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I never met Max. A lovely guy. And the fun connective tissue that we had is that his dad used to work on the Bachelor.

Oh, yeah. That's right. And so he was like, I know who you are. And I was like, what is happening? How do these people know me? What's going on? I've only known Brandi for 12 years. I know.

That's true. Well, congratulations. We don't have to belabor this too much. You know you want to talk about it more on your other podcast. Oh, well, that we already recorded that. And yeah. Yeah. They might hear it twice, but that's okay.

That's fine. Should we show? Definitely. I'm going to let you do it since you are newly betrothed. Oh. Rose and Hoes. You're listening to your favorite thing podcast with. Bellas and Brandy.

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Here's what I love about the Pilates. It's a workout and it's muscle toning and all those things, but it's so good for flexibility. And as I'm nearing 40, you know, my hips are stiffer than they were and my back just isn't what it used to be. And I think Pilates would be really good for me in that sense. Yeah. Did you guys do anything fun for New Year's Eve? No. Okay, cool.

We went to dinner. Which sounds boring, but it was lovely. Nice. Yeah. What about you? Any resolutions? I don't know if I believe in resolutions anymore. I like the no liquor thing.

That's an interesting one because it still allows you to drink, but you're just not drinking so much that, like, it really hurts the next day. Correct. All right. And you just drink the Shamps? I personally like the Shamps. Sometimes a white wine, but I'm just not really a big wine gal.

Yeah, I'm not doing anything. I'm not going to, I'm not going to change. I'm not going to change. No one, no, no one changes, all right? We all stay the same. I'm going to try to be healthier, I guess. But we all say that. And it's always a fight.

Yeah. What did you guys do on your Z? We went to our favorite little French restaurant, Tuva Bien on 51st, between 8th and 9th. And then we watched Anderson Cooper have to wrangle a absolutely wasted Andy Cohen. Oh. And that was it.

And then we went to sleep. And now I'm back in L.A. But yeah, I'm not going to do anything. I'm going to resolve to watch more TV shows for you guys, I guess. Okay. I got a few. I got some fave things I can talk about. Okay, great.

Oh, can we just real quick before we get into new fave things? Okay. I finished The Beast in Me. Did you like it? So fucking good. But how come this whole time you've been trying to can get me to say that he was a good guy? I knew from the fucking start that he was a psychopath. Okay, when I said I thought I liked him, it was in the first or second episode when he, I was like,

Oh, he might just be like misunderstood and be an asshole. But yeah, no, he's a terrible human being. Terrible. Terrible. But be snow. Yeah. Right. See, I did think she was going to end up being a bad guy.

Yeah. So that one did surprise me, but great show. Speaking of who don't it, have you seen wake up dead man, the Knives Out mystery? Oh, no. Here's the thing. The last, the glass onion one that was, is that the last one that came out? I didn't like it. Oh, really?

Yeah. Oh, with Edward Norton? Yeah, I didn't love it. And, like, I don't know. Matt and I talked about watching this one. He's never seen any of them. Oh, I have to, but. This one's fun.

I liked this one. Did you? I did. Detective Benoit Blanc teams up with an earnest young priest to investigate a perfectly impossible crime at a small town church with a dark history. Wake up dead man, knives, out on Netflix. So the cast is crazy. Like that's the thing. Like that's something that really kind of blew me away about it. So you have Daniel Craig, obviously, who's always plays

Benoit. And then do you know who Josh O'Connor is? The name sounds familiar. I think if you saw him, you'd be familiar with him. He's like the main young priest that comes to this new church that's led by Mon Senior Jefferson Wicks, played by Josh Brolin, who's great. You know, like the crazy church lady who works at the church is Glenn Close. Oh, love her. And then some of the parishioners, you have Jeremy Renner. You've got Andrew Scott, who's like, he was in Fleabag as the hot priest. You have Carrie Washington, Kaylee Spaney, who's been in a bunch of stuff.

You have Jeffrey Wright, who is in Westworld, who plays a priest. Thomas Hayden Church, who plays like the mechanic at the church. You've got Milakunis who plays the cop. The cast is absolutely insane. It's a fun who done it. It's like a locked door murder, right? And no one could have done it. The room was locked.

How did this happen? Josh Brolin's character is just so awesomely good and bad. And Glenn Close is fantastic. And Jeremy Renner is really funny. I'm always rooting for him. Anyways, I really liked it. I thought it was fun. I saw some things on Broadway that I'd like to talk about because I'm a cultured young man.

Number one, Sarah and I went to the battle. ballet on Christmas Eve. Let me just tell you something. Seeing the ballet in New York at Lincoln Center. Fucking awesome, dude. So good. Worth every penny. But you know what the one thing is, Brandy, that I was upset about? Tell me. People don't get dressed up for the theater anymore. They don't? No. So Sarah was in this beautiful gown and I was in a suit. I mean, I didn't do a tie because I was like, oh, I'll bring it down a little bit. But we were the best dressed people at the Lincoln Center on Christmas Eve of the Nutcracker. And it wasn't even close.

People were coming up to Sarah constantly. And Sarah gets a little nervous when a lot of people start coming up to her because she thinks that they're going to want to take pictures and like there's, you know, like the celebrity thing. No, everyone was just like, darling, your dress is amazing. Everyone was just like, you look fantastic. That's it. And then she's never felt better in her entire life.

I was like, that would be amazing. She was like, I'm making so many compliments. And I'm like, I know. Well, we look good because you know what. You got to get dressed up. There are so few events in our life at this point that we get to get dressed up. You know, you used to get dressed up to go on a plane. Now everyone just in sweats.

And I don't blame people for that. But, you know, you used to get dressed up and go to dinner. No one does that shit anymore. No. Go to the theater. You got to get dressed up, man. I was really disappointed by it, but I absolutely loved it. The other thing I saw, Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter in Waiting for Godot on Broadway.

I'd never seen Winnie for Goddough. Or in this show, they call it Goddough. Anyways, I'd never seen it. Didn't really know what it was about. Had no clue. I got invited last minute by my mother-in-law because my father-in-law was sick. And I got to say, very fun, fun show. Existential crisis effectively.

And you're like, where are they? And they're waiting for this guy named God. And I'm not sure if that's supposed to be God or some sort of like the universe coming to you and explaining to you. And you're not sure, like, are they in purgatory? And there's a lot of, like, religious references. But then there's like a lot of existential. crisis. That's basically happening between these two old guys. And I got to say like Keanu Reeves is just Keanu Reeves. He's good because he's Keanu Reeves and like you're kind of getting what you're

getting. But I tell you what, Alex Winner, fantastic job acting. I feel like from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, maybe the wrong guy was the one in the Matrix, you know? Like Alex was so good. Wow. Blowing away. I was like, oh my God, he's so good. Fantastic show. It's going to be ending soon. So if you're going to go, I would go sooner. Now the show that's going to be ending really soon, I really implore all the YFT years to go because I know that we mainly have a female audience. But as a male, I enjoyed this show. Our good friend Audrey is in a show called Liberation on Broadway. It's so great.

It's a true story about this women's liberation group in like the 70s in like Ohio or something. And they all meet, you know, at the basement of this gym and basically are trying to figure out ways to fight. for more rights for women. So anyways, obviously it's geared towards women and it's a little bit of like man bashing or whatnot, but I loved it. I thought it was really well done. It is really funny, but talking about tough subjects, right? And, you know, we went backstage afterwards and I was talking to the cast and I was like,

you know, it's amazing what comedy can do. It really can round out the sharp edges of things that you have to talk about, right? Like, is this one older lady who's fucking hilarious because you, She comes from this bygone era. She doesn't have a checkbook. You know, she's not allowed to get divorce in this time. And her husband's a fucking idiot. But she's so funny because she's like trying to like have this women's lib thing.

And then you have like this young girl who thought it was this was a sewing circle. And she's like totally trad wife. All of a sudden she's like, yeah, we're getting fucked. Talking about all these tough things. But with this sheen of like comedy that like makes it approachable. Anyways, I'm just, I was blown away by how good it was. It ends February 1st on Broadway. So if you're going, you know, this month, go see that show.

And then I think it's going to go probably to the West End. I'm not sure how many bands we've got in London. So good. I was like really, really blown away by how good it was. You would like it. Matt would hate it. Big Broadway guy. Big Broadway guy.

And you know who's sitting in front of us? It was so funny. This elegant, beautiful couple plops down in front of us. And who is it? But Nick Jonas and Priyanka Choprop. Yeah. Cute. That's my, my theater.

But anyways, you got some favorite things? Yeah, I got a couple things. I'm good with some things. There is a movie. I watched it on Prime, I believe. It's called Anniversary. Okay. Diane Lane, Kyle Chandler.

Stacked fucking cast. Like, so stacked. A provocative thriller about a very close-knit family that is torn apart as a new movement, the change envelops the country anniversary. So is it political? Cool. Okay. Can you read the cast? Because it's like huge. Diane Lane, Kyle Chandler. Phoebe, I can never pronounce her last name from Bridgeton.

Yeah. Denevoire. Denevoire. That girl. Madeline Brewer, Zoe Deutsch. McKenna Grace. What is this about? Okay. Fucking stacked cast, right? I mean, listen, I'll watch anything Kyle Chandler's in. And then Diane Lane, come on. Like, you know, all-star cast. We turned this on. Here's the thing, like, I didn't hate it. Matt did not like it. I didn't hate it, but I think I only didn't hate it because I just don't want to hate something that Diane Lane and Kyle Chandler did.

Yeah. I feel like it could have been so good. My problem with it is they never read, this whole The Change thing, like, yes, it's got this political angle of like, there's this movement happening called The Change and this then Phoebe's character. it is like the face of it and has started it and she marries into this family and so all these other actors are they're all in a family except Phoebe's character and she marries into it and

they all like the parents and everybody hate her because she is you know opposite political affiliation and has started all this shit here's the problem they never actually tell you what the change is they never explain it they never iron it out they don't like it's so vague And for the first half of the movie, you're like, I don't know what's going on. And you keep waiting for them to explain it because I feel like I would love to see more about what that is. And, you know, it was such a missed opportunity, in my opinion to have this, like, cool, like, political angle. But they just never explain anything the whole time, you're just not understanding what's going on. And then all of a sudden, not to spoil anything, but like, you get towards the end of the movie and their homes being invaded and they're being captured and taken away because they,

something with the flag that they weren't supposed to. Like, it's just crazy and nothing's explained, nothing. And it just ends so abruptly. It's fucking crazy. I don't know if I would say recommend to watch it or not because I don't, I still don't understand it. Like, the only thing I get is like, obviously there's been some sort of revolution politically and this family is against it, right? And that's, and that's it. Like, I don't know. But it's just crazy me that all these characters signed up for this movie. And the acting's great. Did you rent it or did you, is it free?

It's on prime. It's on prime. I feel like I did rent it. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So I don't know. All right.

Well, so maybe, maybe not. Yeah. I'm sure it sounds like there are some modern ties to this story. Yeah. I mean, I guess like if anything, it's like a little bit like futuristic, like what could happen in the future, right? If like some, like the whole thing is like this girl writes. this book called The Change, and it ignites this entire political revolution, I guess.

But you never get to see that. You never get to hear about it. It's just this vague, the change, the book. But like, well, what's in the book? What is the change? What is the political stand? No one ever tells you. Well, that it's up to the audience to decide.

Sounds a little bit like mine comf. I'm not sure. I don't know. Maybe you should watch it and tell me if I'm crazy. I'll check it out. Yeah. You know what I did watch that? Tell me.

I'd never watch before. It's a wonderful life. You've never seen that. No. Have you seen it? Yeah. Like when I was a kid, I feel like my mom or mammy or somebody forced me to watch it. What's his name, Jimmy Stewart?

Talks like this. Oh, hey, no way. Can we just talk about, so we watched a lot of Christmas movies, and especially a lot of older ones, and I realized something about Christmas movies, is that they are all the same story. It's always, no matter, it could be a Hallmark Christmas movie, It could be a Disney Christmas movie.

It could be a sad family stone Christmas movie. They're all the same. And let me tell you what the storyline is always the same thing. It's always a crisis that's happening at Christmas. Every single one. Home alone. It's about a kid who's fucking left all alone and he's getting robbed. Crisis.

It's a wonderful life. It's about this bank owner who fucks up and accidentally gives $8,000 to this guy and the bank's going to go under and he's, He's going to kill himself, crisis. Yeah. Miracle on 34th Street. It's about Santa Claus getting fucked and having to maybe go to jail. You know, like crisis.

Family Stone. Diane Keaton's got cancer. You know? It's always crisis. Elf. He finds out he's not fucking no real elf. He's got to go find his real dead. His dad's an asshole.

It's a crisis. It's all the same shit. All right. Oh, white Christmas. Oh, then we got to go save this one hotel. in fucking Vermont or it's going to go under. It's a crisis. It's always the same shit.

But anyways, it's a wonderful life is a wild film. I didn't know what it was about. And I'm sitting there being like, okay, hold on. So you're telling me that this is how much money has like inflated over the years. You're telling me that this bank in the 50s, the linchpin is $8,000. $8,000 was so much in 1950 that it could take down a fucking bank? Are you serious? He accidentally gives like the bad guy in the film the deposit of $8,000.

Like everyone in the town's money, I guess. And the old man uses that basically to try to send the bank under, right? The crisis is that he's so, he's like, I've screwed over so many people who have lost all this money. that I'm going to kill myself, okay? And then basically, then it turns into a Christmas, a Christmas carol, but instead of the ghosts of Christmas present going to the fucking asshole who's got the $8,000 who won't give it back, it goes to Tiny Tim who's going to kill himself. And it's like, look how wonderful the world is because you're in it,

which is a great, it's a great story. I like that. But at the end, how they fix it is that everyone is like, don't worry, we got you, will raise the money. Not. Not. Can we go, can we go fuck up this old cripple

that stole the $8,000? There's no comeuppance for him. There's no retribution, all right? The fucking bad guy needs to go to jail or someone needs to chop his arms off as well. Like we need

why, there is no retribution for the cripple who fucks over an entire town. What? You know? Yeah. The answer isn't that the fucking town fixes the problem. The answer is that fat fuck who's stuck in that wheelchair has all of your money.

Go get it from him, you know? Mm-hmm. Anyways, Christmas, all about crisis. Yeah. It's a crisis at Christmas. It's true. It is. Every Hallmark movie, oh my God, I lost my high.

tower job in the big city and I got to go back home and meet the fucking, you know, the gingerbread band maker. Yeah. It's a crisis. I want someone to make a fucking Christmas movie. That's just like, you know what? No crisis. All right.

Just happy. But then what would the plot be? True. You know. Only good shit happens. No one cares about that. It's a really wonderful life. Anyways, I do love Christmas movies actually.

And I'm getting, this is the sad thing. I'm getting to the point where I'm liking the old. older ones. And I'm like, oh, this is fun. This is cool. But $8,000 to cripple a bank is wild. Okay? It is.

Jeez, Louise, man. You're not wrong. I know. We can't start this year of YFT without talking about the end of Stranger Things. And I know that you're not caught up on it. I haven't finished it. Yeah. We did start it.

You did? You started like the series or like the last season? Oh, well, I've seen everything up until this season. So Matt's the only one that's not. not caught up. Um, but I'm like three episodes into this last season. Where are you in Hawkins? The little girl, the daughter, the younger daughter just got taken. Okay. Yeah. So I'm pretty early. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. Well, then I won't ruin it for you. I'll always say is like, you know, it's, it's really hard to end any cultural phenomenon in

entertainment. Everyone hated the end of lost. Everyone hated the end of Sopranos. Everyone hated the end of Seinfeld. Everyone is like, everybody hated. You can't win because the reason why if you really break it down, the reason why people hate it is because it's ending. It means you don't get more of it and that makes you sad. And then you're like, they should have done it this way. It would have been better because then you would have felt better about the fact that your favorite show is going. All that to be said. I think the Duffer brothers did a, I think they did a good job of wrapping it all up. I think they did a good job of making you wonder or hope for something that might have happened or might not have happened. Like, I do, I like the ending

of Sopranos because it made you be like, well, what do you think happened? Like, do you think they shot him or do you think he still lived? Like, what do you think happened? Like you, you finish the story for yourself. And the way that this one ends, it's like, yeah, you can choose to believe this one reality. But there's also this world in which this other thing happens. And then it's really happy. Anyways, I think that, I think they did a good job. You like that. You like that open I do. Because what I just said, right? Like the thing that people are upset about is not the actual ending.

It's the ending of the show of the thing that they like so much. And the only way to let it keep on living is to let you decide how the story keeps going, right? And so it allows you to be like, yeah, maybe 11 did this or like, yeah, you know, like this is what we'll end up doing or whatever. I will say, though, I'm a huge Wynonna writer fan. Oh, huge I feel like she's drunk The entire time in this Like I

It's like it's like crazy weird acting That's kind of the character though I guess But it's like I was like are you just drunk On this like on this like on set Like what's happening Like every

Like it got to the point where I was like I don't want her to talk anymore I can't I can't do it Yeah it's a lot It's a lot Yeah But those kids are great

You know I'm happy for him. I tell you what, there's one thing, here, you're in the music industry. Everyone in that fucking show is at a cool band.

I know. Joe Curie's band's fucking awesome. Yeah. The Finn Wolfhard kid was just, he just played like Fallon, you know? I think Vecna's in a band, that guy.

I think he is. Like everyone's in a band. Yeah. Yeah. But I got to say, Joe Keri, Steve, he is the best thing about that show

and it's like not even close. Yeah, I agree. And you know what's cool about that guy is that his band's great, right? Like, so good. Got a bunch of hits. He doesn't need acting anymore. Because his band's so good.

Yeah. It's got like your sister. Like your sister doesn't have to do this one thing. She can just go, I'm not going to do this. Yeah. It's the allowance of being like, I'm going to turn all that down because I can do this other thing. Totally. But I do pray that that guy keeps on acting because I love watching him on screen.

Yeah, he's good. So fucking funny. I actually hated the storyline between him and Dustin this last season. I'm like, Dustin, stop being a little bitch, dude. It's Steve. He's so good, he's been so good to you. But then you understand why, and then it's nice. Oh, don't ruin it.

Yeah. There was this video of this guy eating peanuts on an airplane somewhat close to a woman whose son who was not on the airplane or something was allergic to peanuts. And I just wanted to get your thoughts on it, okay? Uh-huh. I appreciate if you could put those peanuts. away as soon as possible let me I'm gonna get the stewardess right now

ma'am if if my peanuts across the aisle a crumb happens to get on you and you travel it all the way to visit your granddaughter and your granddaughter dies maybe just maybe your granddaughter's not meant to be alive oh my god oh my god I know no did you hear what he just said He just... He just insulted...

Insulted my granddaughter and said he wanted her to die. I wasn't insulting. I didn't say I wanted her to die. But the irony that your granddaughter is allergic to nuts when you're nuts. Oh my god. I need... I really need this man to be a sportive guy. She just laughed. She laughed. She smiled at that. Really? Why he didn't dress is like that, though, is my question.

I don't know if that's real A. And I think it's really old, maybe. Maybe if a crumb of my peanut gets on you and you travel it all the way to your granddaughter and then she dies from the peanut, maybe she should be dead. Okay, wrong thing to say. That is so fucking funny. But he's not wrong that in the sense of he should be able to eat peanuts. I agree.

Yeah. Like, dude, just wash your hands, I guess, you know? Or have an EpiPen. Be ready. Yeah. Oh my God. But I just don't believe anything I see on TikTok anymore. I think it's all AI.

I don't either. It's all fake. You see that guy in a chairlift when an owl lands on his shoulder? I don't think that's real. That can't be real. I can't be real. No. YFTier.

I met a YFTIR on the plane. Oh. Courtney, she was a flight attendant. She came up and she was like, hey, just so you know. By the way, it was like 6 a.m. in the morning, first flight out of JFK. Why'd you do that to yourself? I was going to change it, actually.

Okay, so I got the hack for you guys. I don't know if I should tell those people, pale, tell everyone, because then I might ruin it for me. But what I end up doing is I always buy the same airline, okay? So I have a little bit of status. And then I buy the best ticket that's not business class or first class. So it's usually the window seat exit row right before business class, right? which is a pretty good seat because you have a lot of leg room. Now the jet that doesn't go back, but you have a lot of leg room and you can like lean against the thing and you can sleep.

But if you're in that seat and you ask, you request for the upgrade, sometimes you get upgraded and I got upgraded. So then I had to lay flat. Once I had a lay flat, I can go at any time because you can sleep. What airline has a lay flat from New York to L.A.? American? I feel like all. Yeah. Oh, I thought just jet blue.

I don't know. Delta's got lay flats too. Oh, crazy. I didn't know that. Yeah. Anyways, her name was Courtney. She came over and she was like, just wanted to let you know I just finished YFT. I just got caught up on YFT and I was like, oh, thanks.

I was like, I'm actually flying back right now because we need to go record more episodes because we haven't recorded in weeks. And she was like, well, it's good. Gave me time to catch up. And I was like, oh, cool. So anyway, shout out to her. Love that. I love meeting you YFT years in the wild.

I meet so many of them and I'm like, how are we not being paid more for this show? I don't understand, you know? Yeah. It doesn't make any sense to me. We don't do it for the moment. money guys we do it because we love you no no no I do it for the money well 100% I do it for the money no oh yes you well come on half and half half for the money half because we love them I mean I like the people but yeah if no money was coming in I would not do this show I would just go to lunch with

you I just call you one of us loves you just call you like just call you like What's up? What do you got coming up? I'm actually home for a couple of weeks. Nice. Which is great. You know, trying to get back onto the Pilates train, you know?

I was so sick over Christmas. I know I talked to you guys right before, but finally starting to feel better. So just, you know, working on like health and wellness for a couple of weeks is what I'm doing. Very nice. I love it. I'm going to,

well, today when this comes out, I'm flying to Phoenix. to go watch my Ole Miss Rebels play Miami. So if there is a very good chance that this is the furthest my team will ever get in the college football playoffs. I need to be there. And if we win that game, then I'm going to Miami to watch the national championship. Wow. Okay.

Must be done. Listen, Rebel fan through and through. And then I come back and I got to film some stuff. And then I'm going to Orlando for the Hilton Grand. vacation tournament of champions where I'll be playing golf. So if you're in Orlando at the end of the month, come hang out with us. I'll be there with Colin Jost and Michael Pena and Joey Grazaday and Blake Griffin and Chandler Parsons. Anyways, a lot of famous people. I don't know why I get invited, but that'll be fun. That's about it. That's about it. Yeah. Okay. All right.

Well, happy New Year. Happy New Year. Can't believe I can't be you're getting married. Crazy. All right. Right. Bye. Bye.