Your Favorite Thing with Wells & Brandi - The F-Boy Bachelor Party of the Century

Episode Date: July 20, 2022

This week Wells tells us all about his Bachelor party in the F Boy Island house (casual) and how he barely made it to see another episode — (please drink responsibly, ya'll). Brandi’s back from her Alaskan adventure and arrived home to the Cyrus fam living in her basement; never a dull moment over yonder. She doesn’t have a plus one to all of Wells’ festivities, but you know who doesn’t have that problem: Rachel and Gabby, who are in way over their heads with men this season. Your hosts recap the first two episodes of The Bachelorette(s?), then discuss how everyone is micro-dosing mushrooms all the time!? (We repeat: please party responsibility, y’all.) Your hosts also come in strong with a solid list of fave things that are sure to take you right to next week’s episode. Enjoy!  Don’t forget to rate, review, and follow Your Favorite Podcast! Plus, keep up with us between episodes on our Instagram page, @yftpodcast.   Thanks to our awesome sponsors for making this episode possible! Check out these deals just for you, YFTers:  Faherty — Go to FAHERTYBRAND.com/yourfavoritething and use code yourfavoritething at checkout for 20% off   ShipStation — Go to ShipStation.com, click on the microphone at the top of the page, and type in YFT for a FREE 60-day trial   Bachelor Happy Hour — Listen to BACHELOR HAPPY HOUR on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Or you can listen ad-free by subscribing to Wondery Plus in Apple Podcasts or the Wondery app 

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Chicka, chicka, chicka, chicka, chicka, chicka, chicka, chicka, chick chicka chicka chicka chicka chicka chicka chicka chicka Got back from my bachelor party yesterday. Wow. You know I only have one. I have one wedding and one wife the rest of my life because like obviously I don't want to go through the pain and heartache of divorce but also

because if I do that means I might have to get married again and then I might have to go on another bachelor party, and that shit rips at least 15 years off your life. Easy, okay? Bachelor parties are not for the faint of heart. You are in the trenches. You are taking grenades, bullets whizzing by.

You are fighting for your life out there on a bachelor party. It's a bunch of dudes who walk right up to the line of alcohol poisoning. They dip their toe in and then they step back. It's no joke. I mean, I've been on bachelor parties, but I didn't feel the need to like go all the way overboard because it wasn't my bachelor party. But when you are the focal point of everyone's excitement and rage with tequila shots, oh boy, you are fighting for your life out there.

I wonder what Brandi's doing. She wasn't invited to my bachelor party. I don't think she could hang, if I'm being honest. Bing-a-ling-a-ling. Whoop-whoop. Hello. What's up? Oh, nothing.

How you doing? i'm great you know i um i came home from alaska to my darling sister noah staying in my basement and i guess my brother trace has decided to also come have a sleepover so i've just got the fam bam downstairs in my basement apartment i had to text everybody and say all right everyone off everyone off the Wi-Fi, okay? The Wi-Fi's shitty here, and I need it all to myself for an hour and a half. They're not pleased. Sorry, house guests, but my house, my rules.

Seriously. That's what I always say. Yeah. See, what I do is I just don't invite anybody to stay with me ever. Well, I didn't. I didn't invite them. I got a text from my mother that said,

hey, Noah is on a plane to Nashville. I think she's staying with you. And I was like, well, I'm not even there. So that's cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. Showed up. Here she was. She didn't have a place in Nashville? Nope.

Why didn't she stay with Miley? You know what? Miley's house is empty down there. Yeah. But for some reason, everybody likes to stay with me. I don't know. I guess I should feel good about that.

What about dear old dad? Nobody wants to stay with him. I don't know. I guess I should feel good about that. What about dear old dad? Nobody wants to stay with him. He lives out in the middle of nowhere. Yeah. All right. Well, glad you got everyone with you. That's fun. Oh, super fun.

Alaska was fun, huh? Oh, my gosh. It was a dream. I mean, listen, I knew it was going to be great, right? I knew it was going to be awesome. But it was really, really something. It kind of reminded me of a lot of different places very uh washington state but like a lot of washington state vibes like very pnw you know what i mean pacific northwest pacific northwest yeah like

if you've done any hiking on the east side of seattle at all in those mountains there that's a lot of alaska looked like that very beautiful And then there were parts of it once we started doing the glacier stuff that was very reminiscent of Iceland. So basically Alaska was just like a lot of my favorite places all wrapped up into one, you know? Yeah. Well, that's nice. Awesome. Yeah. I just got back from my bachelor party. My bachelor party. You're in Cabo, Cabo San Lucas? I was in Cabo San Lucas at the one and only Balmia. Ooh, it's really nice there. It is very nice there. I highly recommend.

Uh-huh, I bet you do. You know, it's funny. So we stayed in an absolutely insane house. And like if you go on my Instagram at some point, you'll probably see it. So we're there and I'm talking to like the house guy. I was like, so what does the house get used for it was huge it slept 34 people oh wow which we did not need that much space but my brother went really overboard with uh planning this thing you know and listen I get it he's like yeah we we just

finished having the house be used for a tv show and And we're like, oh, what TV show was it used for? It's like a dating show on HBO. It's like F something. And I was like, fuck Boy Island? He's like, that's it. Stop it. He's like, yeah. So then we texted Elon and some of the other producers that I know,

Bill Dixon. And I was like, does this place look familiar? And Elan was like, I took a shit in that bathroom. Oh, my God. This is where you guys filmed. So I've been to F-Boy Island with a lot of F-Boys. This one. Yeah. There was no hot chicks, though, at this F-Boy Island.

It was just F-Boy. F-Boy. No girls. That doesn't sound as good. No, it was not as good. Man, I was just telling the wife tears before I called you. You've never been married. Have you been to a bachelorette party?

Unfortunately, yes. Yeah. I don't know if they're this. I've never been to a bachelorette party, but I've been to plenty of bachelor parties, and they are dangerous. But then I've never obviously been the bachelor on the bachelor party of where you're the focal point. Everyone's like like get him fucking wasted like make him do this and let me tell you you are in the trenches man you are taking grenades left and right and center everyone's giving you shots at tequila it takes it's got to take at

least 15 years off your life i don't know how i'm still alive but i'll tell you what there's nothing 15 years per bachelor party no like when you are the bachelor oh when you're the bachelor yeah because it's it's different than like when you're just on a bachelor party because you can be like i'm gonna go to bed guys like i'm over it but when you are the bachelor on the bachelor party everyone's like you can't go to bed yet like you're this is your party you gotta take more shots. And you're like, fuck, I'm going to die. And there is nothing sadder than the departure terminal at Cabo San Lucas on a Sunday. It is a sad, sad place filled with seasonal depression and regret. Everyone's just hungover as fuck.

No one will look at anybody else in the eye. They're like, I don't know what I did. I don't want anyone to see inside my soul right now. It was a dark, dark time here in the sunny vistas of Cabo San Lucas. Yeah, man. You're just in the trenches, bro. You are just... Bullets are whizzing by,

mortar shells are landing all around you, and you are just dipping and diving and ducking and weaving and just trying to stay alive. I'm proud to say that no one was taken to Mexican jail. The Federales were never called in. Oh, thank goodness. But boy, oh boy, did we have some fun. We rented a big old yacht yacht and we went on said yacht

and we got to look at other boats and say, our boat's better than yours. And that was pretty great. Played a lot of musics on the boats and played tons of golf. Remember I told you how I just want to beat everybody, you know? Yeah. So the first day we played this amazing course that I played before, but I was so hungover from the night before.

I couldn't keep the diarrhea in, let alone get balls in the hole, you know? So it was real rough. My buddy Matt came out swinging first day and was leading the tournament by a lot. I was in third place that day while I went home. And your boy snuck away and went to bed at a reasonable hour to be ready for round two. And did I come back and shoot one over on a course I've never seen? A Palmia golf course? I did. Did I win the entire thing? Yes.

Did they let me win? No. Because your boy shot one over and I had to play with Matt. And he was talking so much mad shit the night before. He was like, I'm going to kick your ass. And I was like, Matt, I'm going to beat the crap out of you. And what did I do? I did it.

So I won. That was great. So yeah, I was really good. I just don't ever want to get divorced because, you know, heartache. But also I don't ever think I could go on another bachelor party and be the bachelor. I just don't think I could do it. So that's incentive not to get divorced, everyone out there. Because there's potentially you have to go be a bachelor again at a bachelor party and that shit you're allotted one free pass two you might die that might be that might be the death

how's sarah feeling she's a little worse for the wear i think so i mean i don't know if you've been watching some of her stories and stuff. Oh, I sure have. Yeah, they tied it on. They had some good times. She was in the trenches too, man. You know? Looked like it, yeah. Vacation Sarah's a little more resilient than Vacation Wells.

Vacation Wells gets a little more bogged down by the tequila shots than Vacation Sarah. She's New York, man. Those fucking New Yorkers can handle anything. I'm a fragile young flower from Carmel California I can't do all this so the first night my brother and I went out early and we and stayed at Chilean Obey which is very nice by the way just went and played golf so the night beforehand we at Chilean Obey is like five star beautiful. So we went out and had this big old meal, you know, oysters and grilled octopus and caviar. And like we were like, we're going to start out right.

But we're like, we're going to go to bed early because obviously this weekend's be crazy. Everyone gets in tomorrow. We're going to play golf in the morning. So we ordered these oysters. And by golly, if I didn't wake up in the middle of the night thinking, yeah, oysters were a bad call. Oh, no. Shouldn't have done it. And so I had to fight it off for a little bit.

But you know what they got? So I was telling the guy, Javier, kind of like the main guy at the house, I was like, your boy's got the bubble guts from some bad oysters last night. You need to take charcoal pills. And I was like, charcoal pills? That's a thing? He's like, yeah, charcoal pills. Okay. And he's's like i'll have someone go get some yes stat let's get someone out immediately get some charcoal pills i don't know do we got charcoal pills in america because

let me tell you what charcoal pills work very well i feel like people take those when they drink to help with the hangover oh i don't know but they also help with when your body is fighting off bad oysters oh so anyways So anyways, charcoal pills. I mean, I'm out here eating Pepto-Bismol. What are we talking about? We got this charcoal thing over here no one's telling me about? Javier from Mexico had to tell me about this? Well, America wants you to buy the more expensive.

Yeah. Yeah, it's charcoals. Pharmaceutical. Charcoals, you can get it anywhere. Anywhere. Yeah. Anyways, we should probably start the show. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I should. Is it you orwhere? Yeah. Anyways, we should probably start the show. Oh, yeah.

We should. Is it you or me? I think it's you. All right. Bros and hoes, you're listening to Your Favorite Thing Podcast with... Wells and Brandy. Let's go. All right, quick PSA for those of you out there who rent.

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That's even more savings. That's ShipStation.com. Code YOURFAVORITETHING. Do it. Back from ourStation.com. Code your favorite thing. Do it. Back from our adventures. Yeah. It sucked because Sarah came back the day that I left. Oh. And then she went to New York the day that I came back.

Oh, wow. So I'll see her at the wedding, I hope. I don't know. We'll see. I'll see her at the wedding. Hopefully. Speaking of, I got my little RSVP I got to send off today. Oh, yeah. Do it. Yeah.

Don't be late. Don't be late. It's really, really tragic. Like, looking at the RSVP here, it's like, do you accept? Do you have a plus one? No. Do you have a plus one to the wedding? No.

Do you have a plus one to the brunch after? No. Just fucking me. have to know just fucking me well i'm sure someone will will pop up and you'll have a torrid love affair one that they write that colleen hoover and jennifer hillier write books about one can only hope so we didn't talk bachelor last week because we hadn't watched the episode so i guess we gotta kind of go back over two episodes. Do you want to start with batch? Yeah.

Let's start with batch. All right. I feel like there's never like a whole lot to say about episode one. Yeah. You know what I mean? And it's like, most of these dudes aren't even going to stick around for more than two episodes.

So like, what's the point of getting to know them kind of thing. True. I feel like the girls are really holding on hard to the hope that this is just gonna be so great and there's not gonna be any drama and like we're just gonna like different boys and this is gonna be fine and that is not gonna last for very long no even if it does last i feel like there's going to be some like deep-seated jealousy in them anyways you know yes yes and i noticed specifically i can't remember which dude it was because i don't know anyone's name yet but i'm glad that

the producers or whoever are kind of giving them the freedom to talk to each other like as much as they want right i mean they're they put them in the same house so they've got plenty of time to talk amongst themselves about the guys and who likes who and what's going on the best thing that they could do for themselves during this whole thing is to communicate communicate communicate with each other and just be as open and honest with each other about what's going on i think the second they start keeping secrets from each other and not telling each other what who they're talking to and what's going on with them is when shit's gonna hit the fan there was a moment where rachel says to gabby like i kissed so and so i

forget who it was and gabby had also kissed him but she didn't tell her she didn't tell her i also kissed him she was just kind of like oh okay okay and then decided to step back and let rachel have that one but i almost feel like that's gonna get her in trouble along the way i feel like gabby needs to be like oh i also did i just feel like Gabby needs to also be as transparent as possible. And I know what she's trying to do. I know she's trying to make sure like Rachel has guys too and isn't stepping on her toes. But I'm just like, man,

you guys got to fucking communicate with each other and be honest with each other. This is going to go south so fast. I agree. You know? I feel bad for the three dudes that got kicked off the show where everyone else got to stay.

That was kind of funny. Those poor twins, man. They just. Yeah, they seem like nice enough guys and they seem as interesting or as douchey as anybody else there. I don't understand. That doesn't seem right. And the magician guy, if nothing else, keep him around for fucking entertainment amongst the men i know you know it'd be really funny though if she was like they were like hey magician guy like we're

not we're not into it and he was like that's fine and then he went through a smoke bomb and disappeared like oh dude what a good trick let's get him back. Seriously. My one complaint thus far is that they're kind of, they're kind of like sending people home slash writing people off. I think a little too quickly, maybe. Yeah. I mean, this is going to kind of bleed into this week's episode a little bit by,

by talking about this, but like, especially Rachel, first of all, Jordan V. He was like one of my top picks from night one. Races cars. He's just so precious. I feel like Rachel is a little bit looking for this overwhelming spark, right? And chemistry. But sometimes that takes time to grow. Like, yes,

sometimes like it's immediate, but sometimes it's not. I don't know, girl, like two seconds ago, you were worried about like not having any guys that are there for you or that like you and the one that's really fucking in that's cute as hell that you're having a great time with you're just gonna send home because you like don't really feel like this overwhelming spark i don't know i didn't love it didn't love the decision like i get that she's trying to be you know up front and you know not like be dishonest with these guys but i think she could have given him a little more time she loved what he did night one with like showing her the car and was like you know this you have your cockpit this is mine and all that stuff they went on a

really cool date like they got to do the zero g thing i would i would kill to go do that right same and they kissed floating i know i thought they were having good chemistry. I did too. Like it made no sense to me. Don't understand why she got rid of him, especially right off the bat too. And then it might backfire because she's like, at least she's like one of those people that's like, I know what I want and what I don't want.

And that's great. But it also has like a ripple effect to the guys back there because they still have to choose who they're going to kind of go for. And if they're like, wow, this Rachel is getting rid of guys left and right off of first one on ones, like maybe the safe bets to go with Gabby, you know, she might just keep me around a little bit longer. And that's what it looks like.

It seems like for all like the teasers going forward is that guys are, I'm here for Gabby, not for you, Rachel. And I wonder if that is a, you know, a you know product of her own making yeah it definitely could be because i was really floored at her decision to do that the beginning of the show they have like the talent show where it just like we just want to put black boxes over some cocks like let's just be fair that's i'm here for it i get it it's a meat market out there and you guys want to go top to the butcher guys do it to us so i'll turn the tables absolutely it's fine i think it's it's funny i would have leaned into something like that i would have done some weird shit my only thing was i don't know why jesse like stuck around for it i know it was so awkward yeah he was

sitting there watching it's kind of a funny bit but it should have resolved amongst itself of him being like i gotta get the fuck out of here. You know, like, what do you do? Why are you hanging around here? Is it reminding you of your old football days in the locker room? You know, you want to go snap a towel at one of these guys' asses? That's the only thing I was like, Jesse, get out of there. Skedaddle.

Scram. But I thought that was funny. And it was like, whatever. And then Brandy goes on the zero G day. And then the next thing that happens, I feel like is big is Chris talking about the fantasy suite. Oh, yeah. What an idiot. So dumb.

But there is a part of me that, well, one, I disagree with him. I wholeheartedly disagree with that. But that's an opinion that I think that is fair to have. I just don't agree with it. But there's a part of me that feels bad for him and just hear me out as to why I feel bad for him. Okay. On the show, they'll be like, hey, why don't you guys go sit down and start talking? And so like, you'll be like, yeah, okay, they'll come film it. And you know, you'll be talking about a lot of things. And a lot of times, and I'm not saying that this is what happened. But a lot of times,

the conversation goes away from Gabby and Rachel, or in my case would go away from Jojo you need to kind of rein it back in be like hey we don't need to talk about like how well the Ravens are gonna do this year we don't need to be talking about sports because we're never gonna use this let's get back to Gabby and Rachel or let's get back to Jojo keep people on track we're making a show about them we're not making a show about talking about sports and sometimes I'm not saying this is what happened but sometimes they'll be like i mean like do you guys have any any crazy thoughts about fantasy suites like that that question will be brought out and someone will be like yeah i got some thoughts and i don't know what really happened but that's a possibility i'm just kind of answering a question that was like thrown out i didn't like have this whole

idea of i gotta go tell everyone that like if she fucks anybody else i'm out of here yeah but he didn't kind of present it that way he wasn't like i was just answering a question i don't really you know whatever but the problem is is that he is him saying if i get to the fantasy suites and they've slept with somebody else i'm out what's wrong about that is that's passing judgment upon somebody for making life decisions that will affect the rest of their lives how dare you say that you can't go be intimate with someone that you might get engaged to i think that's crazy but it happened before with suzy and clayton and all that kind of stuff so i don't know here's what i'll say about yeah what's his name chris yeah chris chris was a red flag to me during the pageant date or whatever you want to call it. Yeah. Because he said some weird shit like these are the three things that are important to me. And it was like so confident. And it was it came off very weird and I didn't love it. And it was a red flag. So I was already like not feeling that guy. And then he went and did all that. And I was like, OK, bye bye.

that and i was like okay bye-bye i agree with you i'm playing devil's advocate on this take i actually sure and i think it was a great way to resolve itself one i feel like if you're ever gonna tell on somebody you got to do it in a group setting so like it can't just be one person being the tattletale which they did and then you know gabby and rachel like pow out together and they went and found him Rachel was like whatever and then Gabby like came in there like you should get the fuck out here guns blazing yeah and I was like all right that's pretty funny and then having him come back was great yeah great and we got to have like the guys be like oh man he's gonna be mad because I tattled on him and the girls come in and be like we fucking told you to leave bro it was really a good sacrificial lamb for the second episode

yeah it was i agree but i would have been annoyed if someone was like i didn't even bring it up we were talking about football and someone asked about fantasy suites and i just said like you know i don't know that's fair that could have happened for sure i have a prognostication. A what? I have a thought. Okay. I have a feeling you think that Nate is hot. Obsessed with Nate. Yeah, I knew it. Obsessed.

Like, what a freaking sweetheart. Are you kidding? He looks a lot like Michael B. Jordan. You think? Yeah. I don't know about that, but he's very hot. Well, Michael B. Jordan. You think? Yeah. I don't know about that, but he's very hot. Well, Michael B. Jordan is very attractive.

He is very attractive. Gabby also obviously thinks he's very attractive. Yeah. And I feel like they have a great chemistry. I was really disappointed in her a little bit that she had such a strong reaction to him having a kid. I don't know if I'm ready for that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. To me, I could see that it changed things for her a little bit, she had such a strong reaction to him having a kid i don't know if i'm ready for that yeah and to me i could see that it changed things for her a little bit and i hated that but i wonder i don't know i can't she hasn't really been very outspoken about whether she wants

kids or not so i can't tell if it's that she just doesn't want kids at all or what that was about but i was a little disappointed that that was her reaction because he seems phenomenal and i think it sounds great to be like a what is that a step parent like that sounds like a dream scenario for me i don't have to push it out i don't have to be pregnant for nine months like sounds great all right well nate if things don't work out with gabby brandis needs a wedding date so he is a cutie I'll he can be my date for sure holla I have a feeling that it's a gift from his daughter but I don't know that for a fact and my boy wears a pearl necklace and I'm just like you're just you're just opening yourself up to a room full of guys to make a bunch of pearl necklace jokes that's my only thought you know but i'm sure it's like i don't see it in this picture he did like the entire episode he's wearing

a pearl necklace and i'm just like you know i can't imagine all the pearl necklace jokes that this guy's got so many you know and then of course i'm sure that he's like my daughter gave it to me and then they're like oh fuck that now i feel you feel bad. Well, he has a great style. He does have good style. He's very cute. Got good hair. I like him. Big fan. Yeah. So Rachel gets the zero G in the airplane date.

And then Gabby gets the helicopter date. Are we just blowing our wad on the first couple episodes? Like, is the budget gone for cool dates? I feel like they saved so much money during the COVID era of seasons that they're being able to splurge a little bit this season. Let me tell you what. I'm not sure if

that's true with my contract for VIP. Well, they blew it on Bachelorette and didn't have squat to give you. I know. I felt bad for that country duo. Hey, so they left. Can you just play for nobody?

Yeah, whatever. I don't know. We've been hanging around for a while. Yeah. Any standouts for you? I feel like that's early on. You never really have much to say about anybody. Yeah, I don't. I think that I wrote down, it looks like Jacob's playing both sides.

So I don't know if that's good or bad. And so is Logan. Logan. Yep. I like. Logan needs to tread lightly. Yeah. Maybe that's who I meant.

I meant Logan. Jacob is the guy with long hair, the Tarzan guy, right? Yeah. He's Fabio. Yeah. Yeah. I like him. I like him too.

He's a vibe for sure. I don't know if he's getting married to anybody, but. Probably not. But he is a vibe. Like the whole, like, he put on the glasses and he was like, let me tell you about fixed year mortgages. I was like, oh, this guy's good. I loved it. Yeah, really good.

I liked that talent and that date. And I also loved the guy that did the worm. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which one was that? I can't remember. I don't know. I just know the guy who started singing a song. Oh, my God.

That was awful. It just reminded me of Elf when they have Will Ferrell sing. I'm singing. I'm in a store. I'm singing. Rachel and Gabby. I'm in a store and I'm singing. That's what it reminded me of. Totally.

Yeah. I just want the episode where it looks like everyone's like, no, Rachel, I'm here for Gabby. And then she's like, no, it's fine. It's totally fine. Then it's like cut away to her interview. Be like, it's not fine. I just want that episode to happen because there's something wrong with me, I think. Yeah, absolutely something wrong with you.

But that's also everyone else. I'm every man. All right. It's a hot take, I think, but... Yeah, absolutely something wrong with you. But that's also everyone else. I'm every man, all right? It's a hot take, I think, but I don't know that either one of the girls could pull off being Bachelorette alone. Maybe so. And I feel like it was either this way or pick someone totally different.

I don't know. I mean, we had Matt go in there. He was never even on the show. Well, he was horrible. Fair. No offense, Matt. I'm sure you're a lovely human being but you are not good on tv yeah i don't know i think gabby's pretty entertaining she cracks me up anytime someone is saying something like complimenting her giving her a compliment or something she goes yeah yeah yeah that's her response every time you're so pretty yeah yeah thank you well you look

gorgeous tonight yeah yeah it's insane but hilarious all right i think it's enough bad stuff agreed but i'm good with the season i'm liking it all right good so what matters you got any other favorite things bro bro uh you know what is really good that's i i talked about episode one but blackbird you started watching that on apple no it's really good i really like it okay yeah so highly recommend we don't really need to go into it i started watching a kind of crazy thing on netflix it's called girl in the picture and it's a documentary about this girl who died and you think it's like an open and shut case, but like, boy oh boy is it not.

Here's the tag. A young mother's mysterious death and her son's subsequent kidnapping blow open a decades-long mystery about the woman's true identity and the murderous federal fugitive at the center of it all. Girl in the picture. When I say that this story is fucked up, it is not an understatement in any way,

shape, or form. Like, what happens to this woman and subsequently her child is so fucking crazy and sad and bonkers and disgusting and all of these things oh it's so fucking creepy but anyways it's good it's i hate to say that but true crime you know it's it's it's just like dude back in the day like the wild west of the 60s and 70s people could just make up a new identity zero checks and balances when you have like you could have to make aliases up i don't even could you do that now i feel like you need to be a spy to be able to get like a passport to be like someone different yeah i mean i think there's a black market for that but i don't know yeah anyways i don't know from experience yeah i thought this

story was going one way and then boy oh boy did it go a different way and then it went when it went the different way i was like I don't know about this. This is a little too much. But if you are into true crime, Girl in the Picture, fucking good. Story? Is it a series or just a? It's just a movie. Okay.

But it's a documentary. And then I watched another documentary also on Netflix called How to Change Your Mind. And I really liked the first couple episodes that I watched. So it's based on a book of the same name. It's all about the study of psychedelics and the benefits it has for therapy. And I think that's super interesting. There are witch doctors from like, you know, the 1500s or whatever that were like using this stuff to like fix people. And then we kind of turned to all these things like schedule one drug made it so like people couldn't use them for benefit because everyone was scared of like hippies and shit. Here's the tag.

It showcases what psychedelic teaches people about consciousness, dying, addiction, depression, and transcendence. How to change your mind. Every episode's different. So the first one is about ergot. So ergot is a bacteria that grows on wheat. It's not stored correctly. And part of that strain is what LSD is. And there's a lot of thought, a lot of historians think that what happened with the Salem witch trials was a lot of women were eating bad wheat or using bad wheat and they were having like crazy like LSD trips and people thought that they were witches because of it. And really it was because they were not storing their wheat correctly, which is kind of an interesting sidebar. They don't talk about that, but I have read that before. So the first one's about ergot and LSD. The second one's about psilocybin. The third one's about MDMA. And it's crazy. It goes through the history of these things.

A lot of these things were developed in the fifties before the summer of love and stuff. There's a lot of precedent and a lot of studies, Harvard and Yale and John Hopkins, all these very prestigious places of higher learning and stuff were using this stuff and using it very successfully, which is very interesting. If you're into looking at alternative medicine sources, I highly recommend it. How to Change Your Mind, pretty cool.

Interesting. I don't want to say any names or out or out anybody but a lot of my friends these days friends and people i know are micro dosing mushrooms all the time yeah it's definitely very trendy right now it's definitely the thing it is the thing yeah have you ever done it i have and i'll I'll say like it doesn't really do a whole lot. It's not. That's what they say, yeah. It's kind of like a cup of coffee maybe. One of my friends was like it literally helps me focus.

Yeah. And I get more shit done. And I was like, wait, I need that. Yeah. It doesn't do a whole lot. I think everyone's terrified of, oh, I'm taking drugs and I'm going to lose my mind. It's more of, oh, I'm a little more creative today. I have a little more energy but anyways it's just a matter of time before they start legalizing all this stuff to be used like this and pharmacy companies will start figuring out how to make

money off of it just like they do and then you know here we are it'll be like weed all over again very true yeah anyways i um like that i watch a show called The Rehearsal and it's on HBO Max. Okay. I'm just saying this right off the bat. This is not a Brandeis show at all. Oh, okay. It's Nathan Fielder. He's famous for doing another show called Nathan For You. And his type of comedy is very, very awkward and dry. He's constantly constantly awkward but he's good at it this is the tag nathan fielder gives people a chance to rehearse for their own lives in a world where nothing ever works out as expected the rehearsal so the first episode is about Nathan going and meeting this guy. He's in a trivia game with a bunch of very smart people like every Wednesday and they play trivia every Wednesday. You learn

that he has a big regret because they all have elevated degrees. They all have master's degrees and PhDs. And when it was brought up, like, do you have a higher education degree? He lied and told them he did, but he really just has a bachelor's degree. And so this has been eating at him for a long time. And he wants to tell the group that he is a charlatan. He is a sham and he is just a lowly bachelor degree. And it's gotten so bad because one of the people in the group keeps on sending him job applications for things that he would need a master's for to be able to qualify for. The whole idea is that he wants to be able to rehearse all the different ways that this conversation can go down so you know how it's

going to go so it'll work out in your favor so he builds a set that looks exactly like the bar in which they play uh trivia at and they hire actors to be the friends to be able to talk to them and so he goes through all the things so he's got it all all like down pat and everything and it's so dumb and it's so stupid and it's very awkward and if you're into like that awkward comedy uh it's fantastic if you're not stay away but it's a pretty funny premise i will say that hbo hbo max yeah probably not for me but you're not into the comedy no especially not that kind of comedy, especially not that kind of comedy. No. Nah. Not that kind of comedy, dog.

Real quick, I just got to say. Yeah. Cruised the fuck through the Formula One stuff on Netflix. I'm already done with season four, and now I'm so depressed that it's over. Wow. Huge fan. Huge fan. You're a crazy person.

Am I? Maybe. I do have to say that I started Upgrade by Blake Crouch. Oh, I looked for it in the airport and couldn't find it. And I'm just so stubborn. I will not read it on a digital thing. I need the book. Yeah. Well, I need it physically in my hands. I don't want to speak to it because I'm only, I think, on the second chapter. Okay. But boy, oh boy, does it start out gangbusters. Really? Yeah, just, I love this guy's writing.

He's just right out the gates. You're like, whoa, we're in a fucking different world and this is crazy and I'm into it. So, and I finally finished A Darker Shade of Magic. And if you're into fantasy and, you know, you were into Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings and stuff, I think that this is pretty great. And it has to deal with the multiverse and stuff.

We talked about it a couple episodes ago, but I finished it and really, really enjoyed it. So yeah, Darker Shade of Magic. Go check it out. Cool, cool. I have a book rec, but it's one I haven't started, but it kind of came from a podcast I listen to. Do you ever listen to Dax Shepard's podcast, Armchair Expert? Every once in a while. Same. I'll pick and choose when he has guests on

that I'm really interested in because his podcast is very different episode to episode, I'll say. But he recently had Brene Brown on. We've talked about Brene Brown. You know who she is, right? Yeah. I'm sorry. She is so phenomenal. And I know that's a very popular opinion. I know this is like not new news, but if for some reason you aren't familiar with Brene Brown, highly, highly recommend either picking up her books. She's does a lot of podcast guests staying on different pods, highly recommend listening to some of her podcasts. But what I really like about listening to her on Dax's podcast is like, he's a comedian first. Right. And so you kind of get that like comedy aspect and lightheartedness alongside all the serious shit that she talks

about, which is a really fun, cool dynamic and a good intro to her. If you aren't familiar with her and her work, but she has a new book out called Atlas of the heart, which is what she was promoting on the podcast. Um, so I bought it to read. I am obsessed with her. I think especially especially as a woman, I think that she's so inspiring and she definitely promotes like women empowerment and stuff like that. But obviously, men, you know, can learn from her as well. Dax is a big fan of hers. And I think he's had her on a couple of times on his pod. But everything is just so fascinating to me. Like I don't ever leave from reading a book of hers or from listening to a podcast of hers without just feeling so much more like emotionally intelligent.

Um, and that's my favorite thing about her, I think. But again, I haven't read the book, but from what she talked about, it seems like a lot of it is focused on how as human beings, like we don't really recognize or we're not really familiar with all the different emotions we experience. We kind of lock them into like three different emotions, right? Like happiness, sadness, and anger or being pissed off. Like are kind of like the three, like you ask somebody how they feel about something that's either like happy, sad, or pissed off about whatever. But really we have, you know, I think it was like 80 something emotions that we feel things from. And if we could learn to like communicate with all these different emotions versus pegging them into just three, then our relationships would thrive more and we'd be

able to communicate better. And I just thought that was really fascinating. And, and also how like as humans, we kind of mislabel emotions sometimes. And two that she talked about on this podcast were jealousy and envy and how they're two completely different things. And a lot of times we mislabel one for the other and how when you're talking shit out with like a partner or a friend or whatever it is, like having a conversation and you start using these words, but you're not, you're mislabeling them. Like you're meaning something totally different. That's when communication starts to go bad and we stop understanding each other and how each other feels and what and where we're coming from. And it's just all really fascinating. So if you're into any sort of hate to call it

self-improvement, but just emotional growth, personality growth, I don't know, self-discovery, whatever you want to call it. She's just phenomenal. So I'm excited about this book. I hope you guys pick it up too. Dope. Yeah, she is dope. Do you have any music? I think you played some of it. I've been listening to the new camp record a lot. I went and saw them live in concert. I know. I'm so jealous. I went on this bachelor party and it's always great because you can kind of share the aux cord around and stuff. And so I learned some things. The aux cord. Yeah. I mean, really it's the Bluetooth cord, but whatever. Yeah. So my buddy Zach introduced all of us to a band called Watch the Duck. We were all just blown away. We were

like, what band is this? This band's awesome. So I'm gonna play a song for you. This is Watch the Duck. This is a song called Popping Off. Then it started popping off, popping off. I'll take. I'll take. Something piss me off. That's Watch the Duck popping off. That's a little different for you. I know. I mean, you can kind of tell the kind of parties that we were having.

We were going at it. But I have always been into like Dirty Southern Soul, which I feel like that's what lyrically it is. And then, yeah, it's obviously got a lot of like EDM stuff kind of like layered behind it, which I think is cool. And we haven't kind of heard that blend of those two before. And I really like it. Like hinted a little bit to a little dubstep there for a second.

Yeah, for sure. Wow. Yeah. And then the other one that I heard is when I found TikTok and I was just like, man, this is so freaking good. Have you heard of Elliot Greer? Sounds familiar. This is a song called All My Exes Are Doing Better Than Me. I like that. I'm a name All my exes are doing better than me Meanwhile I've got a closet full of secondhand dreams

Guessing, oh, this loser I lost a part of me She moves on, but I don't Moves on, but I don't Moves on, but I don't Maybe I'm wired differently I feel good, then I don't I think I've heard that on TikTok. Yeah. Did I play the Noah Kahn song for you?

This song, man, is just slaps. I don't know if you did. I remember the Mike Posner thing you played off TikTok. Oh, yeah. But anyways, okay, so this is Noah Kahn. This is a song called Stick Season. That's just, geez, always is good, man. Okay, okay.

Stuck between my anger and the blame that I can't face. Memories or something, even smoking weed is not replacing. I am terrified of weather because I see you when it rains. Doc told me to travel but there's COVID on the planes and I hover my penance to season of the sticks and I saw your mom she forgot that I existed and it's half my fault but I just like to play the victim I'll drink alcohol till my friends come home for Christmas

and I'll dream each night of some virginity that I might not have but I did not lose now your tired tracks in one pair of shoes and I'm splitting half but that'll have to do Didn't have that old half to do. Yep, that's some sad bastard shit that you know your boy likes. So good. Noah Kahn. I like that guy. Yeah, stick season, man.

Is Noah Kahn the one that like his bio says like Jewish Ed Sheeran? Oh, yeah, it is, I think. Yeah. God, chef's kiss on. Yeah. And I just, God, chef's kiss on a bio. That's just so good. That's all I got. I don't know if you got anything else. I think that's all I've got this week. That's all I got.

You got some big plans coming up or what? I'm going to Miami Wednesday for swim week, so the day this podcast comes out i'll be heading to miami cool um always a good time probably gonna get too drunk stay up too late then had to take a whole week to recover when i get home because that's what happens in miami get some charcoal pills up in that bitch honestly maybe i should track some down i am man um but other than miami coming up i don't know i feel like I feel like this is the lull of the

summer for me usually like into July into early August to get tends to be a little bit of a lull so kind of chilling I do have a show in Atlantic City in a couple weeks so I'll post some more about that as we get closer good old Atlantic City you know just the Vegas of the east coast yeah Atlantic City and I do have anotherami gig later uh in the summer but i'm chilling i'm coming out to la obviously for your wedding yeah i'll see you then coming out to la soon why i have tears we love you we love you well what happened to the voice there my voice is constantly doing shit yeah i'm amazed that my voice is even working after this last weekend honestly you sound pretty good yeah man I was able to get through it.

Yeah, well, props. Yeah. All right, well, you guys be good. See you later. Bye. Bye. Bye. go home for Christmas and I'll dream each night of some virgin to you that I might not have but I did not lose now your tire tracks in one pair of shoes and I'm split in half but that'll have to do

you Oh, they don't have to.