Your Favorite Thing with Wells & Brandi - Sorry if We Ruined Your Christmas

Episode Date: December 25, 2024

Merry Christmas, YFTers! Or whatever you celebrate! We start off the episode with a brand new button that’s going to change your listening experience, for better or worse. Also, in case you were curious, Wells and Brandi are using this episode to explain Jehovah’s Witnesses, where elves come from, and why jack jumper ants are the actual worst. They’re also discussing religion and what it all means – but more importantly, WTF is going on with the orbs? Your hosts reveal why Wells is the best son-in-law, how the Cyrus family might be the laziest fam on earth, and start a potential petition to get Matt (Brand-eye's mans) to co-host the show. And, of course, we give ya some fav things, including Wicked (both the book and movie), an old film to watch this holiday, and an upcoming Broadway production starring none other than Sarah Hyland.   Favorite things mentioned:  Independence Day (Hulu+)  Silo (Apple TV+)  Wicked (in theaters!)   Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West  People Watching by Sam Fender    Thanks to our awesome sponsors for supporting this episode!   Shipstation: Get a 60-day free trial at https://www.shipstation.com/yourfavoritething.  Calm: Calm is offering an exclusive offer of 40% off a Calm Premium Subscription at calm.com/YFT.  Bilt: Start earning points on rent you’re already paying by going to joinbilt.com/YFT.  Don’t forget to rate, review, and follow Your Favorite Podcast! Plus, keep up with us between episodes on our Instagram pages, @yftpodcast @wellsadams and @brandicyrus + our TikTok @yftpodcast & be sure to leave us a voicemail with your fave things at 858-630-1856!    This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation 

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the day it came out, Merry me the freaking Christmas. And also, if you're listening to this on the day that came out, you might not actually celebrate Christmas. You might be of a different religion, and that's why you aren't, like, with your family and friends opening gifts right now. So to that I say, happy holidays. I mean, I don't know, whatever you're into, do it or don't, I don't care.

My housekeeper told me recently that she is Jehovah's Witness. And I was like, oh, cool. Oh, so this is how I found it out. So I was like, it was after Thanksgiving, and I was like, oh, so did you have a nice Thanksgiving? And she was, oh, we don't celebrate Thanksgiving. And I was like, oh, maybe she's Native American,

and Thanksgiving is like bullshit, because you're like, we fed you idiots and then he took this holiday from it. You know, I was like, oh, I don't know, you know, but then I think she doesn't look Native American, you know, so I was like, oh, why don't you? Who doesn't you know, like, are you are you British? She's not British. Like you Canadian, I think Canadians, I think Canadians, you guys have a Thanksgiving, it's just a

different time. I don't know. You Canadians were fed by the indigenous people at a different time than I guess us down south were by the natives, you know, the indigenous. So you have a different date, everyone knows that, that's the history of that. So I was like, oh, okay, that's interesting. And she's like, yeah, I'm a Jehovah's Witness. And I was like, oh, so you,

because I don't think of like Thanksgiving as being like a religious thing. I think of it more as like, Yeah, I'm a job as witness. And I was like, Oh, so you because I don't think of like Thanksgiving as being like a religious thing. I think of it more as like it's a holiday to give thanks for like what we have, I guess. And then also a bullshit holiday to like really not worry about diabetes. So I really go hard in the paint on just early onset obesity. It's the most American holiday in the world. And it's like everyone's favorite too.

It's like, what do we love here? Well, we love eating a lot of food. We love a lot of butter. We love our turkey, but you know, we love more deep fried shits of deep fried turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, mac and cheese, jalapeno poppers, mushroom poppers, wine, beer, football. It's just America. There's no creed, there's no color. It just comes with being thankful. But anyways, I learned that they don't do that.

And then I also learned that she doesn't really celebrate Christmas, which that one, I was like, I don't know anything about Jehovah's Witnesses, but I assume, are you guys not into Jesus? What do Jehovah's Witnesses believe? Perfect, there it is. Jehovah is the one true God and the creator of all things, universal sovereign. They believe that all worship should be directed towards him

and that he is not part of the Trinity. Jesus Christ is Jehovah's firstborn Son, is inferior to God and was created by God. The Holy Spirit is not a person, rather God's active force. Salvation 144,000 faithful Christians will go to heaven to rule with Christ in the kingdom of God. Death. When a person dies, their existence completely stops. They do not believe in an immortal soul that survives and the body dies. Refusal of blood transfusions? Jehovah's Witnesses refuse blood transfusions? Well, what if you're fucking bleeding out, my guy? What if you're a knob, dude, and you get your

arm shot off and you've lost, you've lost a couple gallons of the blood. You gotta get that back in there. You know? I wonder why they don't. I wonder if it has to do with the blood of Christ's mouth. No, I don't know. Separation from nonbelievers. Jehovah's Witnesses believe they should remove themselves

from the worldly influences of nonbelievers. They adhere to the strict rules of modest dress and grooming, and they forbid gambling, drinking, drugs, and tobacco. Well, she should not be working for me because I'm a non-believer of this particular situation. I also enjoy gambling, drinking, drugs, and tobacco. Speaking of gambling, dude, I went to Vegas the other day. Ya boy had fun. I'll talk to Brandy about it. But ya boy had some fun.

Anyways, they don't do Christmas, which is crazy. Like even if you don't believe that Jesus Christ is God, but Jesus Christ is Jovovus firstborn son, but is inferior to God, you still want to celebrate his birthday. No? Anyways, they don't do that. And now you know.

Why did I get on this tangent? Oh, but it was funny though, because she usually comes on Wednesdays, and Wednesdays is Christmas, and I was like, so, she was like, do you want me to come on Wednesday? And I was like, well, it's Christmas. And she's like, yeah, but I was like, but you're Joe of the Witness, so you don't do that?

And she's like, I know, but I still want it off. And I was like, oh, I get it. You want the perks, but none of the consequences of accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. So I was like, yeah, that was fine. You don't have to come. You know, I don't really care. Also, I'm in the crystal spirit.

But I tell you what, I do like what she did there. I like that she was like, I don't celebrate this, but I want to celebrate it. I want to start doing that with all the religions. Let me get down on some Yon Kippur action. Like what happens there? I don't know. You know, what are some cool Mormon things that I don't know about that I could be doing, you know? And then just be telling like everyone to be like, hey guys, listen, can make a podcast today. I got to celebrate Wiki-Gleeky-Diggy-Doo-Day. It's not part of my religion, but I'd like to get it off.

That would be fun. So anyways, happy Wiki-Gleeky-Doo-Day. Doo-doo. to get it off. That would be fun. So anyways, happy week, leaky do day, do do. Dude, anybody else having their packages be delivered by like FedEx and UPS people that are like, like in their own cars, they're like showing up in like Priuses and stuff. And I'm like, where's the truck? Listen, I just hope that you guys are getting paid beaucoup dollars for that. Like they're paying for your insurance, they're paying for your gas, they're hooking it up. Anyways, you

want to call her? Let's call her hooking it up. Anyways, you wanna call her? Let's call her. Oh, by the way, you asked for it. Actually, I'm not even sure if you did, but we've got it. Here it is. Love me, fuck me, evil, you say. You bye bye me, yeah.

Love me, fuck me me. People you say. You bye bye me. God, it's so good. Dude, I was playing golf the other day. I could not get this out of my head and I was just singing, love me, fuck me. And everyone's like, what are you singing? I was playing with my buddy Evan, who was in the band Fun, and he's like, what the fuck are you singing? I was like, that's a fun song, and he was like,

no it's not, because I was in that band, and I was like, yeah, you're right, but it's pretty fun just in general. Love me, fuck me. Brandy's late, 15 minutes, well, now 20 minutes late. You know, and I got the in-laws in, I gotta do, you know, I gotta cook for everyone tonight. I've got to entertain everyone. I gotta do it.

Brandy's late. I'm not good, guys. I don't know. She says, we're heading back to the house. I'm gonna be like 15 minutes behind. Sorry, it's Matt's fault. So we had to leave at a certain time. We'll text you.

Dude, don't put this on him. You're a big girl. Should we call her up? Let's call her up. Love me, fuck me, people you say. You bye bye me. Let's call her up. Love me, fuck me.

Hello, sorry. What's up? Why are you late? It's Matt's fault. No, you have to... See? Tell him Matt. Totally my fault. See? You're a grown woman.

You can't put this on Matt. We got stuck behind a bunch of fucking slow asses coming back up the mountain and I was also talking shit with my mate down at down a boat as it's I apologies. It's hard to be mad at him with that accent isn't it? Yeah. I slang term, like a. Bogan? Yeah, like a, like a skanky Bogan. I remember skanky Bogan. Is that a real thing? He says he remembers skanky Bogan being a term. A skanky Bogan would be like a female redneck that's a little promiscuous. That's exactly, yes, perfect.

He said exactly. That's what you were doing down there with your buddy. You were being a skanky Bogan and you really slowed down the show. You did. Did you guys go to the bars and you were at the pubs that was happening? No, it's 11 in the morning.

Oh, so you guys went to breakfast? We went to breakfast. Matt is very social. He books us in for hangs every two hours here, two hours there, dinner here, lunch there. It's like, he's just got friends everywhere. Yeah, this is not Brandy's cup of tea right here. This is, no, you don't like this.

It's not, I told him, I said, please tomorrow, can we not see anyone? No, yeah, you don't, you hate people. Notoriously hate people. I hate people. This is true. Yeah. You do. Well. True. I'm sorry about that, that's too bad. But I do have good news. Oh, thank God. I got a new button.

You buy by me. Okay. I was telling the YFJ before I called you that that song's been stuck on my head since we did the show last week. Very catchy. It's played it for Matt yet. I need to do that. Oh my god. So good. This new song we found. You're gonna love it. Alright, so what's going on? What's happening down under with this kinky bowgun? Let me tell you, you know, you hear stories about the dangerous wildlife here, right? Yeah, spiders. Spiders. Yeah, yeah. Snakes that'll get you. You know what they don't tell you about?

The birds. No, but those are also terrifying. Yeah. They swoop at you, they're huge, they're very loud, the birds, they don't tell you about the ants that can kill you. They got deadly ants. Do you know about these?

I don't know about the ants. See, now they need to be educating us Americans that when you come over here, if you see an ant on your leg it's not just a like a harmless little insect that's out there you know foraging it's not that it's an ant that not only can jump from place to place so it jumps on you it does it sting or bite baby? They're the ones that are the same family, but you would have to be very honest with them. Dan and Tasmania, yes, you can go from them

if you get the involvement. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, we'll get to that. Can you ask them out a question? Are we talking bull ants here, or are we talking jack jumper ants? The jack jumper ants. Got it, okay, good to know. That's what got me anyway.

So we're on this beautiful hike, you know, a little nature walk. Yeah. In the rainforest, the beautiful waterfall, it's supposed to be a great day. 10 minutes in, I get fucking bit by this little piece of shit ant. And when I tell you it burned,

like my ankle was gonna fall off of my body, I thought it was gonna have to be amputated. It felt the equivalent to being stung by six yellow jackets, which happened to me at a horse show a few years ago that I had a severe allergic reaction to. It was fucking terrible. And I was like, something bit me and he's like, you're fine. He just keeps walking and I'm like, no, I'm telling you,

I think it's in my sock. And he's like, you're good. He keeps walking and I'm like, no, something bit me. And then when I told him what it was, he was like, oh yeah, those things are bitches. The dogs limp when they get bit by those and I was like why wasn't I told so it bites you and then it stings you and the sting is what it feels like a sting it burns it burns so fucking bad my leg was on fire for like 10 whole minutes damn to the point where I'm like cut it off just cut it off my leg and

so ruined the hike and you know I just would have liked to have point where I'm like, cut it off, just cut it off. Like cut it off my leg and it's so ruined to the hike. And you know, I just would have liked to have been prepared. I would have liked to have been educated on the dangers of the nature walk, you know? Because then if I'd saw the ant on my leg, I would have flicked it off instead of just being like, oh, a little harmless ant. That's what we're here for.

So now we can educate the YFT-ers, right? I'm here to tell you guys, if you're in Australia and there's an ant on you, get rid of it fucking immediately because it is the worst pain I've felt since the Yellow Jacket incident. Are you looking them up? Oh, oh, and our friend who's a nature expert,

he's head of parks and parks and wildlife. He said, oh yeah, if like three or four of those are, I don't know if he said a number, if a bunch of those bite you at once or sting you at once, you can die from anaphylactic shock. And I was like, oh, cool, cool, cool. Glad someone, you know, told me about this. All right, so-

So that's what I've been dealing with. The jack jumper ant, they are perhaps the most primitive ants that survive. Although there is fossil evidence of a wider distribution in the past, the 89 species of my America are confined to natives of Australia and New Caledonia, New Caledonia. Where is that?

But they have some wild names of towns here. jumper ants and Bulldog ant sting rather than bite like bees wasps. JJ a do not bite but rather they grasp the victim in their jaws Then they bend around and sting them their sting is in the tail That's what it did to me and it even fucking got me through my sock It was on top of my sock and it hurt that bad Could you imagine if it was in my sock? No, I can't because I've never been to Australia and I'm not as ganky bogan. Avoid ants at all costs, that's all I know.

It was terrible. No, I'm sorry, are you gonna survive? Can we see it? Can you show it to us? What are we looking at here? I think it's gone now, but I'll tell you what's not gone. The mosquitoes here just really hate me. So you're having the best time in Australia.

This is what I'm hearing. I'm hearing you're having a great time. Yeah, you know. You're doing great kid. Insects aren't my jam, that's all I know. I'm sorry. Well, you know, today's Christmas by the way. What? Oh, this comes out on Christmas day?

Yeah, Wednesday. Oh wow. So Merry Christmas to everyone. Merry Christmas. Sorry, I started it out on a downer. I know, dude, you're on the fucking naughty list. What are your thoughts about Christmas? Really?

It's not my favorite. No, you don't love Christmas? No. Why don't you love Christmas? You don't like giving gifts to people. You don't like making people happy. Is that right? That's not true.

That's not true. That's what I heard about you. No, that is not true. I don't align with the idea that getting people gifts is what makes them happy. I don't align with the idea that getting people gifts is what makes them happy. I don't align with the fact that material things are the only way to make somebody happy. Yeah, the gift thing is for sure a reason.

Also, more often than not, nine times out of 10, I feel like when you ask somebody what they're doing for Christmas, their response is, oh, I have to go to so and so's house or do this and I don't want to. Like everyone's going to do something they don't want to do on Christmas. And to me, it seems like if we get a break, and a little holiday, we should

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Yeah. Because it's a sad story. Damn, we're really bringing the YF2 years down a notch on Christmas. So, Sarah's parents were coming into town, are here now, but they were coming into town. They were supposed to get in, like, midnight in a Burbank, right? And I was like, I'll go pick them up. Like we live. Yeah. So nice. Ten minutes from the Burbank airport. Not a big deal. I can stay up till midnight. No big deal. I'll go

play golf in the day and then I will wait around and go get them. And Sarah's like, great, I'm gonna go on a girls dinner. You go pick them up. Great. About midway through the day, I hear not flying into Burbank, they're flying into LAX. And I've already I'm already kind of pot committed to like, I'm gonna go get them, you know. And I'm like, I took I can do it, I can do it. Don't worry about it. I got it. Don't worry. So I'm like, you know, texting my mother-in-law, I'm being like, hey guys, don't worry. I'll come get you.

And she's like, okay, well, you know, we just could board the plane, da da da da da. And they proceed to be delayed. One hour turns to two, two hours turns to three, three hours goes by. They still haven't taken off. No. They land at 3.27 AM out of LAX.

Oh my God. In LAX. Ya boy went to bed. I went to bed at midnight, woke up at 2.45, put on clothes, and drove to LAX to pick them up and then came back and then was like, can I go back to bed? I don't know.

Oh my God. I would have just paid for an Uber black for them. Oh, I would have loved to have done that. But why didn't you do that? Do I have to pay for that? Ugh. You don't have to. But for me, it's like, well, if I offered to come pick you up and then I decided I don't want to, I am obligated to pay for

your Uber Black. I know I should have done that. I don't want to do that to that driver. If I'm being honest with you. Well, the drivers are doing it anyway. All the while, my beautiful wife has gone to ladies night and is wasted, is passed out in the bed. And I'm like, here we go. You love that for her? I am the best. But yeah, you're not wrong about Christmas. Christmas is just a weird thing, right?

Like it's like really not when Jesus was born. If you like look at the stuff, you know? So like it's kind of, it's a rip off of some pagan religion that they you know they stole and all this kind of stuff and and it's it's whatever I I enjoy it I do like giving gifts I do like trying to be creative when it comes to gift-giving I am the worst rapper but I I'm pot committed to my rapping but I started going through it I started looking up into the wise men. The wise men is the thing that like always

interests me about Christmas. Really? Yeah, because it's a weird thing, right? Okay, when you think about it, like you have this story of this virgin, you know, right? This virgin who has to go to Bethlehem from, I guess, Nazareth to go have this child

for a bunch of reasons, has it in a manger, right? And then there's this star that's out there and these three, from what I always knew, it was like these three guys from the East. So I was like Asians, right? Like they're from the East or whatever. I don't know. And then they come over and I'm like, that's a weird, that's a weird side quest that I didn't know about. I don't know if I needed, I'm not sure if they helped me out understand any of Catholicism at all, but it's a thing in our thing, right? When you put the manger up, you have the three Magi in there, right? I looked it up.

The wise men in the Bible known as the Magi, they are mentioned in the Gospel of Matthew. So who were they? The Magi were a group of astrologers who came from modern day Iraq, Iran, or Saudi Arabia. They were among the first people to worship Jesus after birth. And this is my favorite part of this. Because every hippie dippy, my wife included, fucking astrologers,

like, oh my God, Saturn's rising and you know, Mercury's in retrograde and like, oh my God. That's what they were. The first people who were like, what are you a Gemini? I can't hang out with you. Those are the people that went and fucking hang out with fucking Jesus, you know that? Yeah, are you a Gemini?

No, I'm a Taurus motherfucker. I thought so, you're on the cusp. Yeah, I'm close. You're a Gemini, right? Close. I am. Yeah. Sarah's a Sagittarius. I know. I love the Sag. Yeah, whatever. It's all kind of bullshit. No, it's not.

Actually, here's the thing. I don't know. Because these guys are in the Bible. It's, you know? Nasty. So hold on. I know like my mom's like hardcore Catholic, right? My wife is very like, your sign and like, here's some rocks that'll help you, you know, here's some crystals.

And now I gotta be like, hey mom, fucking the first guys that were paying respect to JC were a bunch of these kooks. So what are we saying here? Okay, so then I was like, also interesting gift ideas, right, so I guess this is where the gift thing comes from. They got gold, frankincense, and myrrh, and I imagine Mary sitting there going,

motherfucker, you got some gold? Give it to me so I can not be in a manger right now. Let me get into an inn, let me get into a hostel at least, you know? Yeah. A motel, if you will. I don't need it to be five stars, but let's get out of this fucking hay and the donkeys are here and the llamas

and the sheep and the goats. Interesting gift ideas, right? So they symbolize shit. By the way, I don't know if I believe any of this stuff. Sorry, no offense. But like this, this all seems like the beginning of a very weird fantasy novel, if you ask me. It is pretty interesting. It's like she was, she never had sex and she's having to walk across the desert and the husband's got to be cool with it and she's on a donkey and they're running away from a king or I don't know for other reasons or taxes. I'm not really even sure. And then she has to has the baby. But there's this

fucking star following them. And these three guys from fucking Saudi Arabia who are bringing a bunch of gifts are coming. Like it's the beginning of some crazy story, right? Yeah. So here are what they symbolize. Gold symbolizes kingship and monarchy. Makes sense. He's the king of kings, right? Frankincense symbolizes the priesthood. Makes sense, right? He's, I guess, you know, effectively the head of the church or the church he's going to start, or people are going to start in his name. I don't really know. And then Myrrh comes around, and Myrr Mer symbolized

that there would be death in the near future. Oh shit. Dude, what a fucked up gift that is, you know? That's like coming to your Secret Santa gift and giving a bag of dog shit, you know? Yeah. Like your office Secret Santa party and it's like, okay, John gets money.

All right. Joan gets a promotion and Barry you're fired. This symbolizes death. Can you imagine Mary being like, dude, what the fuck is this one? You know, like, hey, Balthazar. Well, here's the thing. Hear me out. Isn't like everything, all the stories in the Bible are parables, right?

None of them are actually like verbatim true. Like it's all symbolic. I don't know. I don't know. I think that's the tea. You're the one who's got a cross tattoo on her hand. Yeah, no. I went to church for a long time too, but you know more than I do.

I do. Anyways, I just think it's funny. Very interesting. You're like Balthazar, thank you so much for the gold. How amazing. Oh my God. Melchior, Thank you so much for the gold. How amazing. Oh my god. Melchior. Thank you so much for the frankincense. Where do you get these names? Gaspar. What the fuck, Gaspar? You come in here with some murk? What someone's going to die? Who's going to die? I looked it up. I have the internet in front of me. Wow. These are their actual names

you're saying? Yeah, those are their names. Oh. Balthazar, Melchior, and Gaspar or Caspar, depending on something. Anyways, dude, religion's crazy. You know what's really funny about Christmas is Christmas is celebrating the birth of a Jewish person who would not celebrate this religion because they would be celebrating Hanukkah. I know, I don't really get all that shit. If you're a Christian and you're annoyed that people aren't saying Merry Christmas and they've gone to Happy Holidays to be more inclusive,

the irony is that the person of whom you're celebrating wouldn't be celebrating Christmas. He would actually probably want you to say happy holidays and not Merry Christmas. This is true. Oh! You really got them, Wells. I did.

Yeah, sorry guys. Got them. Anywho, you want to start the show? Well, we've just really put a damper on Christmas, I think. No way, Christmas is the best though. I mean, you get to drink in the morning. Because of gifts. You get to drink in the morning.

Okay. You get stockings. Yeah. Okay, Pep Peeve, can we stop putting chocolate in stockings? Because I forget about it, and then the next year, I got this old moldy fucking chocolate in my stocking and I don't want that no more. Gross. Do you put chocolate in your stockings? We don't, I don't do stockings. Dude I feel like the Cyrus's are the laziest people in the world

when it comes to when it comes to celebrating anything like Thanksgiving Thanksgiving you're like you're going to Boston market cooking shit. Christmas you're like we don't even do the stockings thing. Come on let's be realistic. My mom has them on the mantle but there's nothing in them. Yeah yeah yeah. What did you get? We didn't even get a tree this year, Matt and I. You didn't even decorate a tree? We didn't even get a tree. Jesus bah humbug. I know. That's too bad. I guess there's no room for it in the house because there's a fucking motorcycle in the dining room.

There's no room in the inn. That's no trick. Just put some sparkly lights over the back thing. Over the bike? Oh, that's a sissy bar. Yeah, put some lights over the sissy bar. Bada bing, bada boom. It's not about me or you.

Yeah. All right, let's start the show. I was gonna say. We gotta start the show because we gotta end the show. Right, I think it's you. Bros and hoes, you're listening to a very merry episode of Your Favorite Thing podcast with

Wells and Brandy. Happy holidays. You know, over here and in other places, they say happy Christmas. Yeah, they say that in England too. All right, guys, a lot has changed over the last years. And if you're growing your e commerce business, yeah, you can relate whether you're looking for better efficiency during the hectic holiday season or your

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to shipstation.com and use code your favorite thing to sign up for your free 60 day trial. That's even more savings that shipstation.com code your favorite thing. Do it. Do you have some favorite things bro? Bro, has been making me watch old movies that I've never seen. I love it. Did you watch Stand By Me? We did turn that on.

I think I slept through it. Got it. Did you watch Stand By Me? Fuck yeah I did. See? You did, I fell asleep. Dude, petition to have Matt Bisbee the cohost this show. Wells would like you to cohost the show instead of me.

He says I suck. No, I fell asleep during that one, but Matt is on a UFO cake right now, classic, because of the drones. He's just obsessed. And so he wanted to watch an alien movie and I didn't really want to. And somehow we landed on Independence Day

because I had never seen it. Oh, you hadn't? No. Oh, it's a great movie. It was pretty good. Yeah. Yeah, it was pretty good. I didn't know that that was an alien movie. I just I don't know why. Yeah. Ask Matt this question. Has he listened to the Joe Rogan podcast with Bob Lazar in it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Have you listened to the Joe Rogan episode with Bob Lazar? Yeah, I'm sure he's listened to it 10 times. Let's talk about the orbs

because we've been talking about the drones a lot, but we haven't been talking about the orbs. He did show me this, was it this morning or last night you showed me? And there was one where a drone went up to the orb and then it just falls out of the sky. Yeah, it shoots the drone down dude. Yeah. And they're like, it's plasma balls or whatever.

You're like, all right, well, I don't know what that is. But dude. Me neither. What's going on? We got orbs, we've got drones, we've got UFOs, we've got UAPs. I'm confused why there's not anything in California. Yeah, I don't know.

But I also think it's funny that there's none in like the South, there's none in like Alabama, cause someone in Alabama would be like, man, I'm gonna shoot that fucker down. You know, let me get my AR. I'm gonna shoot that fucker. I'm not having that thing fly over my house. That's come with me. I said that I said, why don't we shoot these things? No shit like also. And also, because the the government's like, they don't

pose a threat. And we're like, but we don't trust you. Anyways, we're gonna take this into our hands. We're like, how do you know this is why we have the second amendment, okay? This is what could, to protect ourselves, we thought it was gonna be protecting ourselves from a tyrannical government, but nay, it might be protecting ourselves from fucking UFOs. Do you think they're UFOs?

I don't think the drones are UFOs. I think the orbs are something interesting. I wonder if the orbs are tech from us getting a UFO like a real alien UFO, reverse engineering it and it's like us like messing around with that technology. Interesting. And it's like gotten loose. But I don't know. So have you watched any old movies that you liked? I liked Independence Day. Oh, yeah. Independence Day. Yeah. Yeah, I thought that was good. That was probably the only we

haven't really watched a ton of shit this week. How we met the projectors been broken. Well, not the projector, but the speaker. No, the sound I can't watch anything without your phone. Frustrating. I will say I've been keeping up with the ultimatum. And it's really really like it's just not as good this season. I'm kind of bummed about that. It's too bad. I know. I loved that show. Are you caught up on silo? Yes. I haven't watched the newest episode but is it getting any better? The

newest one was maybe what last night? I guess I didn't watch that one. I yes I'm liking I'm liking what's happening with silo. You are. Yeah, I love the Steve's on. Once I realized that solo was Steve's on, I loved it. Cause I love Steve's on. Steve's on is very, very funny, but also like you're feeling for him a little bit. I like the quest of like trying to figure out

how she's gonna get back and she's like having to go like. You do? Yeah, I think that's cool. I'm bored with it. Yeah, like the mayor is a dick and I like that. And the common is now the judge. Like it's going in the direction that I like it. It is, I guess.

It's just a little slow. I felt like there was way more action last season and I'm just sad about it. Yeah, well, you know. You know. Did you watch the Yellowstone finale? You weren't watching Yellowstone were you? No, I heard it was trash though.

Yeah, people were really shitting on the whole season to be honest. Yeah. I felt like the finale episode was just like a bit too predictable. I felt like they were very clearly trying to set up their other spin-off shows and tie loose ends with some character's stories that where everything was gonna end. But like, I don't know. set up their other spin-off shows and tie loose ends with other some characters

stories that where everything was gonna end but like I don't know like I had this feeling that Casey was gonna die which would have been terrible but also it probably would have made for a better episode of somebody we really loved had died unfairly right it would have been like a just a better like show and everything was just a little bit too like predictable and boring. Well, oh well. That was my only complaint. My girl Laney made a little cameo. That was fun. Nice. Laney Wilson? Yeah, she got to play like an entire song. She got a lot of screen time. Hell yeah. We love that for her. We do. But yeah, it was fine. It was long. The finale

episode was an hour and a half. I went I went and saw Wicked, by the way. And? Loved it. Really? Loved it. Fantastic movie. They've done a great job. I'm very, very happy. I would say that I don't know if I ever can remember a musical going to a musical in the theater and being like, wow, this is dope. Maybe it's because I'm older and I'm wiser and I'm more refined now.

I loved Chicago. Yeah. I liked it. The Greatest Showman. I never saw that. Anyways, I loved it. But one thing though, we went and we watched it at City Walk in at Universal and we were up.

So I don't know what they're like over in Nashville, but in LA, like movie theaters are different now. Like it's straight up. They're so different. It's a lounge chair. It's like a lazy boy. I talked about this not that long ago when I went to see it ends with us.

Dude, it's wild. You have a huge lazy boy that like reclines and shit. But also here's the thing, we were on the second level. Dude, I have bad hearing because I've done radio for fucking more than half of my life. It was so loud. I was like, turn it down. I was like that guy, but I was like, but I'm the deaf guy.

If you guys have normal hearing, what is happening inside of your brains right now? It was so loud. I literally was sitting there with my fingers in my ears when they were saying you're kidding so much. Anyways, anybody else feel that way? Sarah was like, Yeah, it's really loud. I have thoughts though. So beautiful. The cinematography. Absolutely gorgeous. The fucking dancing. Insane. Okay. And Ariana Grande is going to win a fucking Oscar

for this dude like really dude she is I like Cynthia Erivo and I and I'm like I'm aware of like how good she is and what what an amazing voice she has. No offense to Cynthia Erivo. Because the Galinda part has so much more meat in the bone. But Galinda part has so much more meat in the bone. But Ariana acts and sings circles around her. Wow. Like you need to go see it like just from like one, you know, like know it like being related to one pop star to like another like she is so funny. So good. I don't know if I don't like Alphaba or it's that Galinda is so much better than Alphaba. So that's my only complaint is that like someone who I know is like an amazing

actor and an amazing singer wasn't as good as the person that that was acting with and singing. Anyways, it's fantastic. Was this Ariana's acting debut? No, wasn't didn't she have a Disney Channel show? I don't think so, did she? Yeah. Which one?

Eye Party. I've never heard of that. Victorious. She's in 56 episodes of a show called Victorious. She was in this- Oh yeah, that was Nickelodeon, right? Okay, Nickelodeon, yeah, yeah, yeah. When I say Disney, I mean Nickelodeon or Disney.

Got it, okay. I know that they're very different. very different. But I'm not sure they both made fucked up kids, unfortunately. Okay, anyways, it's so good. I loved it. And you remember I told you I went to the Broadway show and I love the Broadway show. And then we went to the movie and I was like, I love this. I got teared up a little bit like I was laughing the entire time. I thought Ariana was so funny. It was like just I love this. I got teared up a little bit. Like I was laughing the entire time. I thought Ariana was so funny.

It was like just so well done. And afterwards I was like, I should read this book. I started reading the book. I fucking love the book, dude. I'm a 40 year old boy who loves this shit. It's so good. It's so good. That is hilarious.

I've always liked fantasy, but this is like, it's so fun because you already know the story. The world's already been built for you. So fun. Man, I'm only probably like a quarter of the way through the book. And I'm like, yes, this is amazing. So anyways, those are my two favorite things this week are

Wicked the movie and Wicked the book. Well, your other favorite thing should be, speaking of musicals, that your wife Oh, I know. landed a pretty sick one. Yeah, she's going to be Daisy Buchanan in Great Gatsby on Broadway starting, I think I can say it when it is,

February 10th is the first day that she'll be on. Yeah, I think I saw that somewhere that they already released today. I'm so fucking pumped. I'm booking a flight immediately. Oh, dude, you know what's so funny though? Is that, so one of my favorite things, like six episodes ago was me going to Grey Gatsby

and how much I loved the Grey Gatsby. But I was like, I went into this whole tirade of like, the fucking Daisy Buchanan's a fucking bitch, she always chooses wrong, you know? And we announced it and it's always why I have tears being like, I hope she didn't fucking listen to that episode. That's hilarious. But the truth of the matter is that that's why

that character is so compelling and so great. Oh, totally. Because she's infuriating. You want her, you can see that or read that story a million times and it won't change the fact that she will always choose the wrong decision but you still want her to make a different one. And it won't change the fact that she will always choose the wrong decision, but you still want her to make a different one. I know. And I think that is why the storytelling is so good. And that's why that character is so

fucking good because you you're rooting for someone who you know is gonna let you down. But you still are. I know. So yeah, I'm really pumped for her. And this is like much bigger Little Shop of Horrors was was, yeah, was a show. But like, this is a big show. Oh, yeah. So I'm really excited for her. I'm super proud of her. But awesome, because that means I'm going to be alone a lot again this year. But well, you'll be all right. Thanks, Brandi. Maybe you'll get

a job. Maybe they started releasing all this stuff for traders, though. You see all'll get a job. Maybe they started releasing all this stuff for traders though. Did you see all that stuff? Yeah. So anyways, yeah, traders comes out January 9th, three episodes come out. So make sure you watch on Peacock, please. Love it. Speaking of Peacock, yeah, Paris and Nicole are back.

Dude, I saw that today. So fucking pumped. Dude, it's so funny. I saw that ad come up and I go, what is it? 1995? What's happening here? I can't wait. I'm so fucking pumped. Dude, it's so funny. I saw that ad come up and I go, what is it? 1995? What's happening here? I can't wait. I'm so excited. I loved the simple life.

That's amazing. I can see you being friends with Paris. Are you friends with Paris? I've met her a few times. She and Miley are friends. Same, Nicole too. Nicole is, actually my mom's pretty close with Nicole. They're both lovely.

They're both so nice They're so nice. I know Sarah and Paris are good friends. I find that very interesting that like Paris Hilton is like texting my wife to be like, come to this party. And she's like, what is happening? What a world. I do have some fun stuff to look at. Okay.

This is called Gaslighting Your Husband. Oh, is this TikTok? No, I saw this on Instagram. I thought this is kind of funny. And this is something that like I feel like a lot of the wife tears because we have a lot of female listeners out there could probably utilize. And I kind of wish that like my wife was like smart enough to do this, but she doesn't cook for me. So it doesn't really matter. But anyways, here it is. This is from Reddit. And it's the subject line is a I gaslight my husband when we fight. I want to get this off my chest.

This isn't crazy or anything, just something funny that I want to tell people about, but can't risk getting caught. My husband 30 male and I 30 female have been together for eight years. For the past couple of years, I make him a peanut butter and jelly sandwich every day to take to work. That is so sweet. I use Welch's grape Concord jelly.

This is important for later. Every day he tells me that I make the best sandwiches and I just say I make them with love. However, when we're fighting, he always says he can taste the difference in his PB and J and I say it's because well, I made it with hate. But the truth is, he can taste the hate in a sandwich because when we fight, I use organic sugar-free grape jam. It's in the back of the fridge and he never sees it. So it's what I use to convince him

that he can't make me mad or angry because it makes his food taste different. I gaslight my husband. Amazing. I think that's so very funny. And I think that more people should do that. That's pretty good. I just think of him being like rifling through the refrigerator

and then being like discovering this bullshit jelly. And he's like, my wife, my whole life, my marriage is a sham. Anyways, you should do that to Matt. Yeah, I could try it. A lot of times I put stuff into my notes when I've been drinking and I think they're really funny and I don't know if they're gonna be good or not.

This is called baby shouldn't dictate programming. Let's give it a try. So HBO announced they're not renewing their deal to produce Sesame Street. What? Here's what I don't understand. Okay. Why are we making new baby shows? Yeah. I mean they're babies. They haven't seen the old shows. That's true. It's not like they've developed taste yet. They're brand new. Mm-hmm. I agree with this. Yeah. What are we doing here? I don't know. We made enough baby shit.

They don't know. Everything's new to them. There are no reruns for them. You know? That's very true. We don't need to keep making new shows for new people. We made the shows. And as they come into life, that's new to them.

What are we doing? Yeah, we should be putting effort into making shows for us. 100%. Yeah, you're right. We do not need to make new shit for new people. We need to make new shit for old people. And that's where we come in. That's you and me.

Yeah, that's us. Oh, back to Christmas. Let's end it with Christmas. This is gonna be a relatively short episode, because it's Christmas time. Okay. Do you think that the elves are Santa and Mrs. Claus' kids? No. What are they? Where do they come from? Helpers.

They're helpers, okay. Where do they come from? The North Pole. You're telling me there's this whole race of little people living up there There's gotta be because there's also there's gotta be people to take care of the reindeer You know interesting You don't think that mrs. Claus birthed those children and no he's he's employing like his kids as slave labor I don't think so. I don't think Santa has kids of his own Yeah, what's going on? Right? I mean he only has to work one day

So like the rest 364 other days you can be fucking pounding ass and getting miss Claus You could have some sons that could be helping things out Or you could just be enjoying your life and doing sick shit the other 364 days. You don't need to make this about you. I feel like Santa's got a dial. They don't think he needs advice from you. Yeah, I guess. But also what is with this obsession, where we

enslave little people in a lot of our stories. Christmas, the elves are his helpers. Willy Wonka, the Oompa Loompas are their helpers. In Oz, the Munchkins, I feel like are their, you know, they're fucking farmers and they're a little help. Why are we, first of all, they're tiny. They can't lift and they can't do as much as a normal human, like a normal size person. That's true. You know, unless they're doing like work that needs for little hands.

I guess that's where the toy making comes in. Ah, okay, that makes sense. Anyways, yeah, it's fucked up. Why are we enslaving little people? Every story I watch, it's like, oh, fuck the, you know, like the dwarves in- Mm, Snow White. In Snow White, they're cutting down trees.

I think that's what they, I think they were foresters. Okay. By the way, I saw the trailer for that. That looks pretty good, I gotta say. Does it? I mean, I don't know. And then what about Harry Potter? The goblins are the, they work in the bank, I gotta say. Does it? I mean, I don't know. And then what about Harry Potter? The goblins, are they working the bank, I guess?

But they got a job. I don't think I got that far. That's a thing. I feel like probably Tolkien had some dwarfs. The hobbits, oh, the hobbits. Oh yeah. You're making the littlest people fucking do the most dangerous job, dude?

This is true. Gandalf, fucking get on Shadow Facts. You do the fucking work. Why are you making the little guy do the most dangerous job? That? This is true. Gandalf, fucking get on shadow facts. You do the fucking work. Why are you making the little guy do all the, little guy and his friend do all the work? Why are we doing this to little people? I'm not sure. Can I say any of this?

I don't know. Cause I wonder if little people are also like, yeah, he's right. This is fucked up. I feel like you can say it. I feel like it's not wrong. Yeah. I don't know.

I don't know either anymore. All right, let's get the fuck out of here. I don't know, I feel scared, I'm nervous. Sorry if we ruined your Christmas guys. I don't know if people are coming here and be like, I need to have Christmas made better. Well, according to nine out of 10 people, everyone's doing shit they hate on Christmas. And maybe they are.

So why not one more thing? Yeah, true. I got a song to go out on. Do you know Sam Fender is? Fender? Yeah. No, I know Sam felt. So this guy I love. So here's the thing. This is a song called People Watching. You guys have probably heard this. I feel like it's been on the radio a lot. It's... No one listens to the radio.

That's very true. That's why I got out of radio. So it sounds exactly like a cross between The Killers, Brandon Flowers, love The Killers. Obsessed. And War on Drugs. Oh, two great bands. Yeah. Okay. So do you just want to listen to some of this and just tell me?

Yeah, I don't I shouldn't have done it that way. I should have been like, who does this sound like to you? Because my brother did that. And I was like, I was like, this is the killers, right? He was like, No. Anyways, this song called people watching. Check it out. Okay. ["Glimmer of Hope"] Those who were worth dreaming of back in the gas works screaming the song Just the beauty of youth would quell my aching heart Oh I feel so dark, remember Oh my heart feels so good Doesn't it sound like the killers?

You know, I hear way more war on drugs. Do you? Like that melody, that vocal melody is very war on drugs. And that guitar is also very war on drugs. And the drums. The drums. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh huh. Anyways. But the voice is very like Brandon Plow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyways, I love it, man. I like this guy. Yeah, it's cool.

Yeah, let's check him out. Oh, by the way, I went to Vegas and I liked it. Really? Let me tell you what I did. What'd you do? Your boy won like 1200 bucks. Oh, that's not that much. Playing the slots.

I'm a slot baby. I love, I'm a slot, slot dude. Fucking 15% looser slots. That's me. All right. What'd you say? The win. Oh, the best. It was great. I'd you say? The win. Oh, the best.

It was great. I got to play the golf course. I saw the sphere. Amazing. Yep. So much fun. Anyways. Very cool.

All right, YFT years. We love you. Merry Christmas. I believe that we are- Merry Christmas. Happy Christmas. Happy Christmas. My friend called Brandy says,

Happy Christmas to all of you out there. I don't believe we're doing a New Year's Eve episode, correct? We're not, we're gonna take it off. Yeah, you guys, do you take a breather? We're gonna take a breather. All right. Yeah.

You know. I'll be working on New Year's Eve, but yeah. I'll be in Whistler. That'll be fun. Yeah, I'm excited. Anyways, I can't believe this year's over. It flew by. Me either. It really did. Too fast. I know. But we love you. This year, we did our first live show finally. Yeah. I know. I love that for us. It was a good one. Yeah. You can watch the whole thing on YouTube, by the way, if you want to. Sure can.

Go check it out. Yeah. All right, well, be careful of the ants. Oh my God, look out for the fucking ants. Watch out for the ants and the skanky bogans. That's right. All right, YFT years, we love you. Happy Christmas.

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