Your Favorite Thing with Wells & Brandi - Shout-out to America, food boners, pouches of sh*t, earplugs & Elon Musk

Episode Date: June 12, 2019

Today on YFT, Brandi is back on American soil after leaving her love back in South Africa. She recaps her favorite things about the trip, including riding horses and riding Michiel, and about her Bachelor-style airport greeting. Meanwhile, Wells recaps his fun trip where he killed a spider with a shoe, and the one thing he regrets not doing with JoJo on his season of The Bachelorette. After it becomes increasingly obvious who is winning at life right now, the hosts reminisce about family answering machines, spying on their siblings, and terrible life lessons from Disney movies. And, of course, we have lots of favorite things. Enjoy! Thank you to our awesome sponsors! By supporting our sponsors, you help keep us bringing this show to you every week. They are also super cool so check them out! MAPIFUL – Build a custom map of anywhere in the world, designed to fit your style, and get 15% off by going to mapiful.com/YFT and using promo code YFT. ARTICLE – If you need new furnishings for your house or yard, this is where you want to look! Get $50 off your first order of $100 or more by visiting Article.com/YFT SMILE DIRECT CLUB – Fix your broke-ass grill! Go to SmileDirectClub.com/podcast and use offer code YFT150 for $150 your order.

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And we're off. What up, dude? Are you in America or are you in Africa or I don't even know. Are there other countries you're going to with Michelle Huseman? No, I'm back in the States and I'm sad. Are you? Yeah. You miss Michelle Huseman? I do. It's so sad. A lot of people liked him a whole lot on the show. I know it sounded like it. We tried to listen back to the episode, but right after we recorded, we left to go to this place called Kakakama. And there's no cell reception. Which is Afrikaans for pleasure town. No.

Okay. But it's a cool nature reserve in the middle of freaking nowhere. And there's no cell reception. And the only internet is at like the main lodge where you go eat and then you stay in these little huts, but you had to go to the lodge to get the internet and you had to pay per 50 megabytes. I went through 50 megabytes like that.

Like I posted a story and went through 50 megabytes. You know what I mean? So I had to buy all this internet and it was hard to get stuff downloaded. So we didn't get a chance to listen to it together, but that's maybe for the best. He was nervous no he was great on it um did you think he was like being so quiet like talking so funny because he's nervous yeah yeah he was like what i like to walk in the bush but like hold on that's crazy that like internet's so expensive over there but shout out to elon Musk. One of my favorite things.

You know what he's doing right now? No, tell me. So he's sending up all these satellites, right? And he's making this grid around the world. And all these satellites are going to make it so internet is going to be available worldwide. And it's also genius because everyone's going to have Elon Musk internet.

Yeah, it is genius. But he's doing it like in... I'm doing good for the world because I'm bringing everyone together with cheap internet. Does he have an accent like that? No, I don't know. I don't know what kind of accent he's got. It's something like that. Interesting.

Well, that's tight. I mean, the fact that they even can get got. It's something like that. Interesting. Well, that's tight. I mean, the fact that they even can get internet out there is mind-blowing to me, so I'd felt bad complaining about it. What was your favorite thing about Africa besides Michelle Hilsman's rock-hard body? Oh, my gosh. I have a hard time talking about favorites with this trip because it was all so great. But we did ask each other on like the last day, like what were your top three moments from the trip, which was nice way to like to like reminisce about it. So my one of my top moments, obviously, and it wasn't really a moment.

It was three days was the three days we spent horseback riding because obviously like horses and Michelle Huseman is like my dream come true. So those three days were like probably my top and then i know give it a dang i got a bell this time um and then my second favorite moment i think was when i landed and saw him at the airport and we like hugged forever then we like kissed forever we were making a total scene at the airport like people i make fun of probably but i didn't care and like i threw my suitcases and jumped on his arms kind of like The Bachelor and it was cool. Yeah. You did the jump up wrap your legs around him?

I didn't do the leg wrap because I was like I can't it's too cheesy. I can't do it but I did jump up and do his arms. Like do they tell them

to do that? I don't know but like no one does that. One because like what if you fall then the person who jumped feels fat and the person that was supposed to catch feels like such a what if you fall? Then the person who jumped feels fat. And the person that was supposed to catch feels like such a wuss, you know?

There is literally no positives that could come out of that at all. No. And it is just odd that on the show, like they do it with everyone. Like every single date, she's jumping into his arms like that. You know what would have been funny is if I had done that because I'm so thin and slender as I ran up to JoJo and jumped up and she like

that would be pretty good I wonder if they would leave that in if that happened oh for sure anyway so seeing him at the airport and then riding horses and then riding him as well. Yeah. That wasn't my number three, but it could be, I guess. Yeah. Oh man. We learned a lot last episode, man. Like that you dropped, we didn't know,

I didn't know that you dropped bombs. That was a big thing, you know, been dropping a bomb. So like, so how did you guys like end it was it like or like end your time together yeah well it was very sad don't get me wrong um it was like different so last time when i visited he had to leave before i did to go back to like where he works and then my flight wasn't till later so his mom took me to the airport last time so we had this like long drawn out horrible goodbye the first trip this trip was different because he was able to take me to the airport. So he like came in with me and I checked my bags and then we had lunch at the airport. And then I didn't go through the security until like the last minute. And it was like, I was okay. And I was like, I'm not going to cry this time. I'm

not going to cry. And I was like, and then I'm like, we said our cute little goodbye. And then I started going through security and the line was kind of long. And every time I turned around, he was still there and he was still and then i like got to like the last point where i wouldn't be able to see him after and i turned around he was still there and i started bawling crying and i blew my pants oh my god so did he get like one of the things that you guys were like quasi fighting about was like the visa thing um did you guys did you get that like taken care of as much as we can so he is just at this point waiting for an appointment you have to go interview at the u.s embassy to get a visitor visa i guess so he applied for his appointment

he sent on all his documents so fingers crossed we'll see because his flight here is in like a little less than nine weeks it's pretty soon it's so crazy to me like do we not need to do that like if i want to go to africa i just fucking go to africa right yeah there are very few places if i mean i'm sure there are a few but there's a few places where we have to get visas to go is it because the perception is is that we don't want to stay in anyone else's country we want to come home and people want to come here and stay here is the idea wow so i told him when he goes for his interview like make sure and like tell him how much he is so excited to come back home after like got your flight home booked got a job to go back to got a car to keep paying for like you got to make it seem like you're very um like happy

where you like to come back home or whatever like if they think that you're gonna come over here and try to stay then they freak out got it well you know the answer to all of this is you just guys just get married and then yeah yeah yeah american citizen is that how it works yes yeah um i think you still have to like apply to be a citizen but yeah basically he gets a green card if we get married i guess all right you know val's the expert on this she's standing here she's trying to get her dual citizenship for Spain. Yeah. Yeah, it's a nightmare.

I hate it. Nightmare, she says. Does she have family in Spain? Dude. I know. I should try to do that with Portugal. Yeah, why don't you? I don't know.

I guess I could. I don't know. Apparently, it's paid on the ass. Yeah, all right. Well, I'm American. I can just go there whenever the fuck I want. Also, let's just give a bell to America. That's so unfair that we can just go anywhere we want.

And there are literally no repercussions. No one's like, can you imagine being like, I want to go to Fiji. And you're like, well, you got to go to the Fijian embassy for 45 days to figure it out. I'd be like, fuck you. Not to mention pay for the visa. He has to pay a few hundred dollars to even get a visa which sucks and like i um i looked at like for us to like you don't have the visa to go to south africa you can go there and stay a year without having to get any

type of visa that's pretty cool crazy yeah well i mean that makes me feel bad for everybody and also like i've been to south africa like if i wouldn't if i if i was from cape town i'd be like i don't want to i like living in cape town i like cape town i don't want to you know but i get it like there's a lot of countries the catch is that it's a third world country yeah it's weird though like yes i can see that but then like if you cape town is like a very like it's a big city and like i don't know you know it's like i don't know it's like when i went to buenos aires i was like this is a bigger city than like any one we've got in america you know it's like i don't know it's like when i went to buenos aires i was like this is a bigger city than like any one we've got in america you know i know the perception is argentina is kind of like not as like developed as us whatever you want to start the show oh yeah we probably should huh yeah near you bros and hoes you're listening to your favorite thing podcast with? Well, it was Anne Branday. Someone sent me like a video of,

it was like, the comment was like, apparently my son's been listening to your show. And he was like this little, like a toddler and Asian. And he was like, Rosenhout, Rosenhout. That is freaking amazing, dude.

Amazing. Oh man. Well, I'm happy that you're back in the States. All right. I got some favorite things, yo. Oh, you do? Oh, I do. I just want to start with, I don't know.

I feel like we just don't give enough shout outs, faves to food, you know? You're right. Have you ever had an It's It? I don't even know what that is. Oh my God. It's It is it. Okay. So it's like, okay.

Like I grew up on these things and then I was in the South for so long. They don't sell them in the South, but they're from San Francisco and they're an ice cream sandwich. So it's like, by the way, maybe now I know why we don't do this normally because this sounds like an ad.

This is not an ad. I just like It's It. So it's like. This is not an ad. I'm just like, it's a food. So it's like, it's an ice cream sandwich. They have different ones, but normally it's a granola cookie. Is that right? There are granola cookies, right? Oatmeal cookies? Oatmeal.

Oatmeal. Thank you. Oatmeal. That's what I meant to say. Oatmeal cookie, and then it's ice cream, obviously, and then oatmeal cookie, and then it's drizzled chocolate all over, and then that's what it is. They have different ones. They have different flavors and different cookies. If you ever go to Northern California, or I think they even sell them in LA, get yourself an It's It and fucking try not to get a boner. All right?

Because it is so, so good. All right? Val, do you know what an It's It is? What? She doesn't know. Tell her it's an ice cream sandwich. It's an ice cream sandwich from Northern California

that apparently gives you boners. I don't know. I mean, I have one. I mean, that's it. Okay, we're good. Who doesn't want a food bon I mean that's who doesn't want a food boner he said he doesn't

want a food boner me no I disagree so yeah that's my first one I'm going with that alright

dude I ate some of the most incredible food I've ever had in my whole life on my South Africa trip what was your favorite thing so I love I don't eat a lot of red meat I don't eat any red meat really

yeah so I eat a lot of fish and. I don't eat any red meat, really. Yeah. So I eat a lot of fish. And every time you get fish there, it's so fresh because it's right by the ocean. My favorite thing I had the whole trip, we ate at this cute little tiny restaurant called Noop. I can't say the name of the town. Parle. Yeah, but that's not how you really say it. Yes, it is.

Parle. I can't. You have to roll the R, which I can't do. Can you do that? Pardal. No. It's not like Carl. But it translates to Pearl, I guess, is the name of the town.

Anyway, it's this tiny little cute town. And we had this restaurant, Noop. It was in-freaking-sane. Yeah. The best fish I've ever had in my whole life. Did you have biltong? No, I won't eat that. Oh, biltong is...

Oh, I mean, Michelle Huston eats it all the time. Oh, it's great. And then I won't kiss him after because it's gross. It's beef jerky. I hate beef jerky. I know, I'm just saying. All right. I like turkey jerky, which I don't have.

He was like, oh, then you'd like ostrich jerky. And I was like, no, I don't think I would. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ostrich. Okay, so hold on. Favorite thing. Have you heard of, no, I don't think I would. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Ostrich. Okay. So hold on. Favorite thing. Have you heard of this company? Mapiful? I sure have. I actually just ordered one as a gift for a special someone. Really? Yeah. Is his name Michel Hossman? It is, but like, what if he listens now it's going to be ruined, but it's fine. Okay. Whatever. Um,

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It says, like, the longitude and latitude. And then she had written on the bottom, my first love. And then I went and got one. So hers is, like, kind of, like, black and white, like, almost, like, subway style-y, which is super cool, like, very New York. And then I went and got one. So hers is like kind of like black and white, like almost like subway style-y, which is super cool, like very New York. And then I went and got the city of Monterey, which is where I grew up.

And same thing, like my first love or whatever. And then mine was more of like the nautical map because Monterey is such like a, it's like a fishing town. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, so they sent it to us and they're so dope. Like it's weird that like, just like a map can say so much about you, you know? Yeah. Well, my favorite thing about home decor is decorating your house with really personal things. Um, I think that's what makes your home feel like your home. And I love Scandinavian, I love Scandinavian design. Um,

and these maps have that like very simple, very clean aesthetic. Um, but they're so personalized because of everything you just talked about. So for me, I got, uh, Mikkel Huseman, uh, a poster of wilderness South Africa, which is where we went on my very first trip there, like that I went to go see him and we spent two days there. And, um, and it was just such a magical, like special place. So I got him a map of that. And then I'm going to give to him for his birthday. So if you're listening to this and you're friends with me, please do not tell him. Yeah. Um, but I love being able to get such a unique gift for somebody. Um, it's so quick, they ship quick, um, the great prices on it. Um, I really love it. And honestly,

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why i don't use snapchat anymore did we go over this last episode i don't know you're always hating on snapchat though okay if the people that fucking make Snapchat listen to this podcast. Don't think they do. Well, you should because I got some ideas for research and development. If you want people to use your app, maybe every time you turn that app on, if it doesn't go straight to a picture of your fat, ugly face, then I would use it more. Because I'm always opening up the thing like this. So it's just a shot of my double chin immediately. So every time I open up that app, I feel bad about myself.

All right? And that's why I don't use Snapchat. Yeah, that's not a good thing. I still get a lot of dick pics sent to me, and I don't know why. Guys, I'm in a relationship, all so straight. Not that there's anything lot of dick pics sent to me. I don't know why. Guys, I'm in a relationship. Also straight. Not that there's anything wrong with dick pics sending to other men, but you're barking up the wrong tree. So two things.

Snapchat. Filter them out. Okay? No double chin opening up. And let's get less dick pics sent to me. Wow. What a rant. Anyways, that's a least favorite thing that I've got right now.

Okay. Okay. You know, my least favorite thing is jet lag. Oh man. Is the connection. Okay. Yeah.

Tell me about jet lag. It sucks. I woke up at 5. AM, which is actually an improvement from the last time I came over here, came back over here. Um, and I just,

I woke up so early and I just feel nauseous and weird. And I don't like it. You know what? It's so dumb. Jet lag is so dumb. You know what Miley's favorite thing is? You complaining about your amazing trip to Africa right now. I'm not complaining about the trip. I'm complaining about the jet lag.

Which by the way would be a super dope name for a band. I feel like. It's a horrible feeling. I don't know if i would want to be called jet lag yeah or snapchat for that matter please don't name your band snapchat anyone so i was traveling recently and i was staying in a hotel room and i don't know if you saw my Instagram story, but like, so I had, I was like working all day. So when I got done, I like went back to my room and I like, I was like watching Netflix on my iPad

and then I kind of passed out. And then I woke up like an hour later and like the lights were still on, you know? Oh, I was watching, what's that movie? Bird Box. So it was like a scary movie that I fell asleep to. So I woke up and I was like kind of groggy and I was like, okay, I gotta go like turn off this light.

So I went to go like turn off the, which by the way, hotels, why are the only lights in the room like the twisty lamp lights on the side of the beds? Why is the lighting in hotel rooms always just ball shitty? Yeah, it always is horrible.

I don't understand. Can I just have a light switch that turns on the lights in the room? Maybe they're trying to save electricity. No. Stop. Just, no. Then I gotta go, and then when you wanna go to bed, you gotta go, like, there's like 70 different things you gotta turn off. I don't understand.

So you want a master switch, is what you want. Yes! Like, in my house, where I turn off the lights and all of the lights in the room go off, you know? Uh-huh. Grow up, hotels. So I went to go turn off one of the seven lights that I had turned off in the room. And a giant, I'm not talking about like a big spider. I'm talking about like the size of a, not quite tarantula, but like, look here.

You can see me. This is, hold on on this size of this okay it's the size of a baseball gigantic so i don't know you know i was like okay so i grab a sandal and it's so it's right like above that lamp you know so it's like right to the right side of me on my bed you know and i was like oh no so i grabbed my sandal must have put fucking seven dents in the drywall of this hotel, just slamming the wall, trying to kill this spider. But he was a resilient fucker.

And he was just. You've got to use something heavier than a sandal. I just, no. I don't know. Like a big-ass book. Okay. Don't. Just grab where I could.

I was. A moment of crisis, Brandy. What are you going to do here? See, I always panic when I try to squish a bug because, number one, I need something that's going to kill it first try because I'm too scared to give it more than one try. And, number two, then I have this thing where I'm like, oh, I'm going to squish this bug

and its guts are going to be all over whatever I squish it with over my nice Balenciaga shoe or my book that I love so much and it's going to have spider guts on it. Yeah. It's not okay. Whatever. It's not okay. But you know what's less okay a giant freaking baseball-sized spider being

scurrying right around my face so anyways like for 10 minutes I tried to get this little guy but he had he had a spirit to live you know he was resilient as fuck and he scurried up into the curtains so then I was like oh man he's lost in the ether. I don't know what's going on. So I'm like hitting the curtains with my hand and hoping he's going to fall down, but also keeping my distance because I don't know what's going to happen. I don't know what kind of venom this guy's got. It could be a jumping spider. Oh, exactly. It could be a jumping venomous

spider. It could be like a whole new species I don't even know about. So he's gone. He's gone. And I don't know. He's hiding somewhere. And so try going to sleep knowing that in your room there is a baseball-sized spider. You can't do it, okay? So it's 1 o'clock. I had just watched Bird Box, so I'm just thinking, oh, okay.

Already scared. So scared. And then freaking now there's spiders in there. So this is now like 1.30, right? I'm able to fall asleep around 2 o'clock. I wake up at 5 o'clock being like, I know the spider is somewhere around. I know he's going to try to kill me. Like I know it's like 1.30, right? I'm able to fall asleep around 2 o'clock. I wake up at 5 o'clock being like, I know the spider is somewhere around. I know he's going to try to kill me. I know it's happening.

Kill you. I'm up. I've got three hours to bed. I'm up. I walk. You know how some hotel rooms, you have your bedroom and there's a little sitting area outside. I walk into the little sitting area and be like, I'm getting out of the freaking spider room

and I'm going into this room. Well, lo and behold, the little bitch is in the sitting room. All right, he's gone over. He's having his fucking morning coffee. He's enjoying himself now that he's there. So the next hour is me trying to, so he, so he,

I have my golf clubs with me. So I grab a golf club and I'm trying to kill it with the golf club. That was stupid. So he then scurries up underneath the table. So I'm kicking this table, trying to knock him down. Finally,

he falls down. Uh, I got, uh, I have a van shout out to van shoes. Finally, that's what got him. All right.

Off the wall. Literally killed, killed him. And, uh, so anyways, that was my least favorite story. I know it was a lot, man. It was him. So anyways, that was my least favorite story. I know.

It was a lot, man. It was fucking traumatizing. All right. What's your least favorite? No. One of my favorite things. Oh, what is it? New favorite things.

Ear plugs. Oh, for sleeping? Or just for people having to listen to people? Anything. It's the greatest thing. I've always been so against them. I'm just like, that can't be comfortable. Ear plugs in your ear have greatest thing. I've always been so against them. I'm just like, that can't be comfortable.

Like earplugs in your ear have to suck. I've just always had that mentality. And my mom has always begged me because I am such like a hard, I have a hard time sleeping without like white noise or something.

She's always like, why don't you just try earplugs? And I'm like, no, I don't want to wear earplugs. I don't want to sleep with earplugs. I'm like such a brat about it. And then on one of my flights, the guy,

it's like British Airways has pods or pods for business class, but they like face each other. Like one person you're facing the other person and you're very close. It's very strange. And the guy in the pod next to me was snoring so loud. And I could not sleep on the freaking airplane. So they give you earplugs and a little, in a little pouch. And I was like, I'm gonna give it a try, put them in, pop those babies in. I had the best sleep of my life. And then I woke up and i was like you know what i'm gonna keep them in so i don't have to hear people coughing and hacking up nasty sickness and

babies crying and people asking for dumb shit i love your plugs i'm gonna start wearing them 24 7 yeah he's living my own little peaceful silent world yeah Huge fan. Life changed. Did it come in that little, you know, like there's like a little bag of like goodies. They give like socks and shit. Oh yeah. Toothbrush,

little tiny thing, toothpaste. They give you an eye mask, which I always take home because I always love them so much. They give you like a tiny lotion, a chapstick, a pen to fill out

your customs form. They give you all things. Nice. I do like that little pouch of shit that they give you. Big, big fan of that stuff. Big fan of the pouch of shit. Yeah do like that little pouch of shit that they give yeah big big fan of that stuff big fan of the pouch of shit yeah i like pouches of shit so thanks guys

you know what i miss a lot i was thinking about this the other day like obviously our phones are very nice and it's wonderful that like we're able to connect with everybody immediately but do you remember a time before cell phones when there was just the house phone? Oh, yeah. And you had an answering machine and you had to, when you called, when you called

and got the answering machine, you had to address the entire family that you were calling, you know? Yes. It would be like, brr, brr, brr. Sorry you missed the Johnson family. We're out right now. Leave a message and, you know, we'll get back to you. And then it's like, sorry, you missed the Johnson family. We're out right now. Leave a message and, uh, you know, we'll get back to you. And then it's like, Hey, Mr. And Mrs. Johnson, it's, uh, it's Wells from

down the street calling to talk to Todd. Um, wanted to go playing later also, hi to samantha and gary uh hope they're doing good in college and um yeah so give me a call back whenever all right later johnson family you know you'd have to like talk to everybody or how about like when you're on the phone like with your crush and you're talking for hours and hours and then your brother comes on the line and he's like brandy i need the phone and i'm like get off the phone leave me alone and you fight about for hours and hours and then your brother comes on the line and is like, Brandy, I need the phone. And I'm like, Trace, get off the phone. Leave me alone. And you fight about it while the other person's listening

to everything on the other line. Horrible, horrible times, I tell you. Do you remember how, and you could also like, you'd listen in to people's conversations all the time, right? Yeah. Like, and you could do it,

like you know that they'd be on the phone and you'd like lift up the receiver. Yeah, but you keep your finger on the, like the hang up button and then you lift the lift up the receiver yeah but you keep your finger on the like the hang up button and then you lift the phone up to your your ear yes and slowly lift the finger off the pro thing though is to put the head the handset this way so that the mouthpiece is up here so that you don't accidentally like say something or cough or make a noise yeah yeah yeah yeah then you'd listen to everyone's conversation and And then you'd listen for a whole, the whole time. And then finally you would say something and being like,

that's not true. I never did that. Specifically of, specifically if Trace was ever talking to a girl, I would so do that. I would listen to like the whole thing. And then at dinner later, like be like,

so how's Julia? Oh, I know. And then we're like, God, dude, it's so funny. I remember like three phone numbers and one of them is my ex-girlfriend's

room line you know yeah like because i just i called it so much and uh but do you remember like you'd be on a phone call like late with like your crush or your girl and and and then all of a sudden you'd hear like the phone pick up and it'd be like jennifer it's. It's time to go to bed. And Wells, maybe you should go to bed too. And it's like, caught. All right. Sorry, Dr. Cohen. Talk to you later. I'll leave a message on the answering machine tomorrow.

We sound really old right now, just so you know. Yeah, I know. But whatever. We straddled the fence in such a technical age, you know? Yeah. But we're doing pretty good. I mean, I did do a whole rant about how I hate Snapchats. It shows my fucking jowls, but I still have it.

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You got any favorite shows right now? Sure do. What do you got? Hit me with some shiz. My sister's episode of Black Mirror. Tell me you've watched it. I haven't watched it yet but i i have been like waiting for a moment to do it is it good it is it's really good and it was really interesting

after being there and seeing them film for a couple of days and being like behind the scenes of it to see what it came out as um but it's cool it's it's funny because it really almost is like a very dark version of Hannah Montana. Oh, really? Because she plays this like pop star who doesn't really like identify with the way they portray her and her brand, right? She's all like smiles and rainbows and you can do anything you want and be confident. And then like all she really wants to do is sing like edgy, dark rock music. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But it's dark because the woman that like manages her or whatever like doesn't pretty messed up shit to her you i don't want to ruin it for people so like you gotta watch it it's like pretty intense like after talking to her about it and like seeing it how many parallels does she have with like that black mirror episode in her real life i mean i think a ton from like the hannah montana era you know what i mean and it's funny because um she wrote a song god i can't remember the name of it now liberty walk maybe i think it's called she wrote a song like forever ago when she finally was done with hannah montana that was kind of similar and like the attitude of like you tried you tried to make me this but this this is who I really am. And it's time I can be who I truly want to be or whatever. And that's kind of what this episode is like in a way.

But again, I don't want to ruin it by telling you guys about the whole thing. But it's definitely like it's a good episode. It's like your typical like black mirror, like our future is fucked. Yeah. If we let technology take over kind of thing. I've been wanting to watch that. And it's very much the, I mean,

it makes sense because your sister is one of the biggest pop stars in the world, but it's very much like the, the big billboard of this season of black mirror, you know, like her episode. Yep. You,

you can win Emmys for black mirror episodes. Yeah. Yeah. Cause they won one last season. I think they've won one almost every season. Oh, wow. That guy, Kirsten, I think it was Kirsten Dunst, her husband was the one who won one last season.

So your sister might win a freaking Emmy. That'd be tight. Has your sister won a Grammy? She's not won one, no. Wow, that's surprising. But nominated, but not won. All right, well. And then, you know, my buddy Mark Menchaca is also in the episode.

So it's cool to get to see Mark in it, too. Oh, yeah. Does he play a bad guy who dies from water? No, he actually plays a really normal role. Well, normal's relative, I guess. But compared to what he normally plays, it's like a very normal. But he plays a dad, you know what I mean? So it's kind of cool to see him in that role, too.

I've never seen him do that. Does he play Miley's dad? No, not Miley's dad. Got to watch it to see. All right, I mean? So it's kind of cool to see him in that role too. I've never seen him do that. Does he play Miley's dad? No, not Miley's dad. Gotta watch it to see. Alright, I'm gonna watch that. Yeah, Black Mirror. Give it a ding ding. Also, Handmaid's Tale Season 3. Why am I losing my voice? Handmaid's Tale Season

3. I watched the first episode last night. Might have fallen asleep due to jet lag during the second one, but that doesn't mean it wasn't good. Just means that my body thought it was nighttime. Low in review here. You should watch something I fell asleep in the middle of. I would not the first episode,

just the second one, because I'm jet lagged. But it is really good. Did you watch Handmaid's Tale? No, I read the book and I was like, ugh. Okay, so the end of season two, recap for everybody. They're providing her an escape, her and her newborn baby. They're getting her out of, what's the town called? The Ten Handmaid's Tale?

Hell. Gilead. They're getting her out of Gilead. Yeah. And her and Alexis Bledel's character, can't remember her name. And so she gets the baby, she finally gets out of the house, and then she gets to the van that's going to take her to safety. And at the last minute, she throws the baby in with Alexis

Bledel's character and she stays behind. She's staying behind. She's like, get my baby safe. I have to stay because her other daughter's there. And I'm like, you idiot! This is your only chance. You should have taken it. You should have gotten in the van. Why are you so stupid? Yeah, well, have you read the book? No, I haven't read the book. So don't

spoil anything. Well, this is how the book ends,, I haven't read the book, so don't spoil anything. Well, this is how the book ends, basically, is they get out. I can't remember. Okay. Season three is the last season, apparently. Yeah. And so the first episode is her, like, obviously it's right after her baby, like, she sent her baby off, and then she obviously gets trapped back there.

And I'm just like, oh, you idiot. You could have made it out. You could be out right now. Instead's trapped dude i watched have you heard of afterlife no okay so it's ricky gervais you know him the comedian actor he was on the original version of um the office okay so it's really dark but it makes me so here's here's the thing like there are shows that i watch that make me laugh that I just like to watch because they make me laugh. Then there are shows that make me

really sad, but it makes me feel something. I like... That's why I like sad music. Exactly. Me too. In this show Afterlife with Ricky Gervais, it basically opens with him watching a video of his wife on his computer, who's obviously like dying of cancer.

She's got like, you know, like no hair and kind of like giving him like advice on like things to do, like remember to clean up the kitchen and make sure you feed the dog. And like, I know you're going to be really depressed, but, you know, you got to, you know, you gotta move on and all that kind of stuff. And so he had just, he, it starts out with, you find out that he just lost his wife and he is so depressed. And it's like,

continually like, toying with the idea of suicide and like, going to his work and like, being so very honest with everyone about everything

because nothing matters to him anymore. You know? So there is there's comedy in it because he just has no filter anymore right um and he's just kind of rude and angry and sad and he he thinks there are no real consequences because he's just going to kill himself anyways but like it's like keeping him from killing himself is this dog that he's got and he like and it's like him him watching these videos like intermittently of

like his wife, like talking to him and like old videos. And it is so sad and like so painful and but also like very real. And it's also one of those things that it I feel like sometimes you need you need to be like shook to to remind you how good you got it. Sure, absolutely. And for me, especially every episode, I feel something. And then I immediately text Sarah to be like, I'm so thankful that you're in my life. I'm reminded how fleeting life is and everything. Not to be super sappy, but I think it's good to

have perception. What's the right word? Perspective. Perspective. Thank you. Anyways, if you want to fucking feel kind of sad. But it's also Ricky Gervais who's just intrinsically funny. He just is who he is.

Even talking about suicide, he's doing it in a funny way. It's on Netflix. Like, he just is who he is. Like, even, like, talking about suicide, he's doing it in a funny way, you know? So anyways, it's on Netflix. It's good. So yeah, Afterlife. Go check it out. Nice.

You know what I was thinking about the other day? What's that? For whatever reason, I was watching Beauty and the Beast. Reminiscing over Halloween? Yeah, exactly. Taco Bell. And I was thinking, I was like, I don't know if this is like a great, a great message we should be sending to young kids.

I feel that way about a lot of the Disney movies. Yeah. Like, and especially like not a great message to be sending to young women. Cause my first thought was like, this is just a movie that proves that doesn't really matter what dudes look like. If they got a lot of money, they're pretty well off. You know, like the beast is, he's not even an ugly dude. He's got a lot of money, they're pretty well off. You know, like, the beast is, he's not even an ugly dude. He's

a fucking wildebeest man. Half man, half centaur. Like, terrifying. But he's a prince and he lives in a castle, so alright. Cheers. And I was telling this, I was giving this kind of spiel to someone, and they're like, no,

but he imprisoned Belle. And I was like, that's eveniel to someone, and they're like, no, but he imprisoned Belle. And I was like, that's even worse. It's like Stockholm Syndrome, plus he's got a bunch of money. Why is she? Oh, and it's like, yeah, but she was trying to break the spell for her father, and it's like, oh, my God. None of this sounds romantic. It just sounds like a fucked up story.

It's true. You're in prison. You've got to fuck this wildebeest character, monster centaur, but he's got a lot of money. Verdict is, don't let your kids watch Beauty and the Beast. It's good, I guess.

Is it though? Angela Lansbury is a fucking tea kettle, so there's that, I guess. When does The Lion King come out? I don't know I've been seeing some drama online about people being upset about the Puma why? I don't know I'm going to google it

Lion King can I just get something off my chest can we stop calling these things live action they're not live action it's just fucking CGI and shit who these things live action they're not live action it's just fucking cgi and shit you know like who calls them live action i don't know what do you mean where'd you hear that i just hear it like the live action version of lion king or live action version of aladdin no i can't find it i saw it on facebook so i don't know how true it is oh well it must be true i don't

know i just saw somebody was upset about about how the Puma was portrayed. I'm going to have to dig. I'm going to have to dig and come back to this next week, I think. Okay. Have you seen how everyone's getting all up in arms about what the Sonic the Hedgehog looks like for the movie Sonic the Hedgehog? No, I didn't even know there was a movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I guess.

I don't know. I saw a picture on i guess they made like one version of it and like people were upset so they changed it and it's still upset but like why the fuck are they making a sock bad joke movie yeah i don't know like that was a sega game from like the early 90s that like no one plays with you know another question why when you google Lion King movie, does the first thing that pop up is Google says, people also ask,

is Simba a boy or girl in Lion King? Oh. Why would anyone ask that? Well, Simba's a boy, right? Pretty sure that's clear cut. Right? Pretty sure that's a clear cut thing in the movie. If you see the movie,

why would you Google that? I don't know. That's very strange. Anyway, carry on. I do want to see that one, but I don't want to see Aladdin. I don't know why. Really? Yeah, I don't know.

I just don't like watching remakes. Nothing's ever as good as the OG. Yeah, exactly. Make some new shit. Yeah. Oh, you know what movie I'm excited about? I usually don't love animation. They're coming out with The Secret Life of Dogs 2.

Secret Life of Pets. Yes, yes, sorry. Yes, Secret Life of Pets 2. So pumped. Yeah, I did like that. That's a funny one. Loved. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That would be a good one. Eric Stone's treats in that.

Yeah. From Modern Family. You got any music stuff? I got some music stuff. Do you? You go first. I've been listening to just a lot of my sister, to be honest with you. Oh. Did you listen to her EP yet?

Yes, I enjoyed it. You had a whole week? Yes. What's your favorite song? I think my favorite song is the Mother's Daughter song, but that's... That's everyone's fan. What's that?

That seems to be the consensus out of everybody, which is great because it's the single. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The radio guy in me is Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like the radio guy in me is like, yeah, this seems good. But also just like being a Tish fan is I think also what's happening there. Right.

That makes sense. That makes a lot of sense. Sleeping At Last finally released the number nine song for their Enneagram album. Oh my God. I cannot wait to listen to that. I understood seven of those words that you said. Okay, you know the Enneagram that. Oh my God. I cannot wait to listen to that. I understood seven of those words that you said. Wow. Okay, do you know the Enneagram

that I'm so obsessed with? Yes. There's a rock band for it. So, do you know the band Sleeping At Last? No. Don't? No. They're like the most synced artists. They have songs in all kinds of commercials and TV shows and stuff. A ton of their stuff is in Grey's Anatomy. They're a great band though.

It's very ambient music. But anyway, the singer is obsessed with the Enneagram, and he did an entire album with a song for each Enneagram number so that each number has a song that they would relate to written from their perspective. And because I'm a freaking nine, I've had to wait until the very end to get my song. It's been years, and finally it's on the release radar this week.

I can't wait to listen to it. You're such a dork. So if you like the Enneagram, you should listen to the Sleeping At Last album. It's on their Atlas album, one through nine. Wait, what am I? Am I a six? I don't know.

Did you take it? Oh my God, Brandon. We've talked about this seven million times in the show that I've taken it. Did you take it seriously is the question? I don't know. I answer the questions like I would answer the questions. I just was honest.

And then I was the same thing as Caitlin, which is like a person who's like self-absorbed and like wants to be in the center of attention and whatever. I don't know. It was a six. Whatever Caitlin was, we were the same. Caitlin's a three. Three. That's it.

Whatever. Makes sense. Most of my friends are threes or fours. All right. So I got to go listen to some freaking sleeping at last thing to find out what song that goes with my see if see if it um resonates with you i got a song that resonates with me right now let's hear it you know my buddy john wesley satterfield yes uh he just released a new song and i remember he he actually like wrote this a couple months no maybe like a half a year ago or a year ago, but he's been messing with it, and then it's my other

buddy, David Bourne, on the background vocals. Okay. And it's called Gunfight. It was just released a couple days ago. I'm going to play a a hole in you at all. Did it even hurt to watch me fall? Could I even harm you if I tried? Why'd I go and bring a heart to a gunfight?

Why'd I go and bring a heart to a gunfight? I gotta know. I gotta know. On my back, blinding sun, gunfire on my back blinding sun dust clears you're gone no one left to

blame you for the things you've done nobody blames a river for the way it runs did I put a hole in you did it even hurt to watch me fall I got a soul Did I put a hole in you? I got a soul Did it even hurt to watch me fall? Could I even harm you if I tried?

Why'd I go and bring a heart to a gunfight? Ah, it's really good writing. And the I Gotta Knows is David Bourne, who's also one of my good friends, and Brandy's as well, and you should listen to his shit too, but John Wesley Satterfield, Gunfight, is a good track, man, and here's

the thing, so obviously like Bourne and John Wesley Satterfield and all those guys, all my buddies are all kind of like Americana artists, but this song has got like a great 90s feel to it, like a Better Than Ezra or just like a 90s feel to it. Like a better than Ezra or just like a 90s feel to it.

Could you hear it? You couldn't hear it, could you? No, I can't. Okay, so go listen to it later. Which I think when I originally heard that, I was like, this sounds like a throwback.

And they're like, yeah, that's what we're going for. And I was like, that makes sense because 90s shit is coming back, right? Mm-hmm. Big time. So I was like, kind of genius, man shit is coming back, right? Mm-hmm. You know? Big time.

So I was like, kind of genius, man. Yeah. Love it. We should actually, all your friends that play music, we should introduce my brother to some of them. Yeah, for sure. I feel like he would really like that, actually. I saw that The Weeks put out a new track.

Did you hear that? Oh, no. I've been a little off the grid. I need to catch up. I'm looking at my release radar right now and there's like 10 songs I want to listen to. Alright, so this will just be a Wells song episode then.

That's fine. Unless you want to play Atlas 9 because I know I'm going to love it. Is that what your thing is? Yeah, I'm a 9. You're such a dork. It's always Michelle Huseman. Is he? Is that good or bad that you guys are the same? Probably a little bit of both, but it was one of the first things we bonded over.

So I'm going to say it's a good thing. Oh, my God. So nerdy. So The Weeks, those are some of my good buddies, too. They're from Mississippi, but now they live in Nashville. And they've got this, like, early Kings of Leon sound. Love Kings of Leon. I know.

And they're just such nice guys. And this is a song called Coming Down. Check it out. Let me show the money still in your pocket. What's that in your hand? I feel all right when I'm coming down. I feel alright when I'm coming down Still stuck inside this one horse town My feet have sunk into the ground

I feel alright when I'm coming I'm coming Dang, I'm running for the ride home Really hope we find some Drink until we fall out Baby, why's my face numb? I don't got enough to make it through this Swimming, shitting myself back home Don't know if I can make it through this

Mama, make it on my own I'll feel alright when I'm coming Alright, that's the weeks coming down. I like those guys. And I have one last one, okay? And then I'll be done, okay? Okie doke. Did you ever know the band Repeat Repeat?

No. Okay, so these are some... Cool name, though. Yeah, so they're some of my good buddies um it's kristen and jared croter they're they're they're married um and like a cute like just little nashville couple that started this three-piece like um they're like surf punk rock and it's like i it's just so cool like and also that the fact that like they weren't doing it long beach but they were doing it nashville like was cool um and then for this new record patrick carney the black keys produced it and i believe

he also played drums on it i could be wrong about that so if i am wrong about that sorry kristen and jared but whatever anyways then so now they're on tour they're opening up for the black keys which was which is just a huge thing for any band, you know? This is a song called Head On that is getting a bunch of love. It's you and I All have the courage To merge the words together To urge myself to sever All the ties that bind me down Put me completely Immediately in a package

I'm paying no attention to the people in this town. And now we're catching up. Catching up. Catching up. And we'll be turning heads. And we'll be turning heads. And we'll change the conversation. Face these hesitations.

I love those guys. It's like Weezer had a love child with the Pixies, You change the conversation You face these hesitations I love those guys. It's like Weezer had a love child with the Pixies, which the fucking dopest combo. Anyways, repeat, repeat. Go check them out. The record's called Glazed. I like it.

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I don't know why. Yeah, I don't know why either. But anyways, maybe we need to make that. And maybe we need to make Sadam a shirt, too. I don't know. Sadam. All right, well, make that. And maybe we need to make Sadam a shirt too. I don't know. Sadam.

All right. Well, I'm glad you're back in the States. Thank you. And I'm glad you got that deep dark. Hopefully my jet lag subsides by next week, so I'm going to have a bit more energy for everybody. Okay. Well, I love you.

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