Your Favorite Thing with Wells & Brandi - The Slap Seen ‘Round The World

Episode Date: March 30, 2022

Let’s just cut right to the chase you guys: THAT SLAP. We spend a serious amount of energy talking about the simulation we are living in wherein Will Smith can get up on stage and smack the life out of Chris Rock on live international television. Oh also, Brandi maybe almost died so she tells us all about that. Plus, she dishes on some man friends she may have made and we’re all very excited about that for her. Wells also divulges his million-dollar idea to combat parking drama in big cities (please don’t steal it). As always, we leave with some tips to living wells: don’t smack people while you’re working, and be good; and if you can’t be good, be good at it.  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:  Twin Flames — Follow Twin Flames on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, or you can listen early and ad-free by subscribing to Wondery Plus in Apple Podcasts or the Wondery App.   Dooney & Bourke — Go to Dooney.com/YFT and use the code YFT before April 30, 2022 for 20% off your first order  StoryWorth — Go to StoryWorth.com/yft to save $10 on your first purchase  Betterhelp — Go to betterhelp.com/favoritething for 10% off your first month   Faherty — Go to fahertybrand.com and use code YFT at checkout to snag 20% off ALL your new spring staples  Bachelor Happy Hour — Listen to Bachelor Happy Hour on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Spotify, or you can listen ad-free by subscribing to Wondery Plus in Apple Podcasts or the Wondery app.  Beam — Go to beamorganics.com/YFT and use code YFT at checkout for $20 off (35% off) 

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days later, but Will Smith just smacked the fuck out of Chris Rock. I mean, geez louise. Chris Rock kind of took it too. He fucking ate that slap. That Oscars was kind of proof it too. He fucking ate that slap. That Oscars was kind of proof positive that we're in a simulation

because there's no real world in which that should have happened. We got a lot to talk about. We got to talk Oscars because your boy was there. We got to talk Brandi almost dying from a lightning strike. That's terrifying.

Let's call her up. Bing bong ding. Hello? Yo. Can you hear me? Yeah, give me a couple checks. A check, check, check, check, check, check, check. You're a little low. I am. You're a little low. Give me more checks. Have you been watching

Bridgerton? Because that's what you sound like. No. Do I look like someone from Bridgerton? Because I feel like they're all handsome. No, you don't. But you sounded like honestly, that Oscar suit? Maybe. You like that, huh? Yeah, I did. I feel good about it. We're going to talk about it because

here's the bummer. Is that we're recording this the day after the Oscars. Oh. But it's coming out on Wednesday. Why is that a bummer? Because I feel like when this comes out, the whole Will Smith, Chris Rock thing is going to be like yesterday's news.

Yeah, I don't know. You're right. We have so much to talk about. One, you've been gone. Gone. Did an entire episode last week just by my lonesome i know i meant to listen to it i was like this is the one episode i'm gonna listen to because i'll listen to my own voice yeah yeah still still didn't listen well it's fine uh talk about we talked about everything

you know life love pursuit of happiness oh okay whether or not you should slap someone on live television. What else did we talk about? Oh, we also, I had the YFTers do like voice notes of Fave things. And that was really fun because a lot of people had some good suggestions. Really? Oh, great. Yeah. Here's what we've learned. We've learned that if Brandy goes away to South America and almost gets in a plane crash, that I can continue the show no matter what.

Wow. I beg to differ. I mean. We'll let you have it for this one week, okay? I mean, I was reading some of the reviews on the app. On the solo? People weren't hating on it, you know? I thought for sure people were going to be like, dude, it's so fucking boring.

Just listening to Wells the entire time. But, yeah. yeah anyways we have a lot to get through i mean we gotta talk about the oscars we gotta talk about your trip because it was death defying apparently well for us it was and for others it wasn't it was one hell of a fucking trip i assume that there was a latin lover at some point i need to find out about die. Oh, yeah, baby. See, I knew it. I knew it. Had to. Brandy can't leave the country and not fall in love with a foreigner.

It's impossible. Am I okay, honestly? I don't think you are. I don't think so, either. I don't know if any of us are okay. Let's start the show and then just get into it. You go first. Bros and hoes, you're listening to your favorite podcast with?

Okay, it's your favorite thing podcast. One week off. You're listening to your favorite thing podcast with? Wells and Brandy. Brandy is back. It also better be your favorite podcast though yeah not even the hand of zeus could take down the cyrus clan got close let me tell you so set the stage we're in a private jet flying over the beautiful vistas of uruguay when out of the blue paraguay paraguay that's pretty close all right so look here like where do i begin really let me just first start by saying like

this is glastonbury all over again where i told the story on the podcast and everybody like was like miley cyrus almost dies in play you know everyone i told that story about glastonbury yeah yeah only it was instagram i was like the minute I put this story up, it's just people are just going to take it and run with it. But it was scary. It was not to take away from the fact that we did, in fact, get struck by lightning. First of all, South America, holy shit, what an amazing continent.

Like, I got to go back, you know? I've never in my life seen fans that are so crazy in a in a good way and sometimes scary, but in such a cool way. Like it puts a new spin on the word fanatic. These the South Americans like they're they're so great. So, you know, first stop is Argentina and Argentina was phenomenal. I got to play the festival. My set was phenomenal. Miley's set was phenomenal, like great time. And then we hopped over to Santiago and the first couple of days just happened so quick. And, and Chile was phenomenal. The crowd was even better if you could believe it or not. Like it was just great. And then we have to fly all the way up to Bogota and Bogota. Like the fans in Argentina and Chile were fucking crazy. Bogota, it was not okay. The fans were out of complete

control. I mean, it was awesome. I don't know if you saw any of the footage of them surrounding the car. They were lining the street outside the hotel for Miley. They just swarmed the car, and for five blocks, we were just inching along trying to get to the hotel because there were so many fans. It was insane. Did you know that Bogota is like 8,000 feet above sea level or something crazy? No, I just know that I feel like there's a lot of cocaine there. Well, sure. But also, I had no idea that the elevation was so high. Apparently, it's like higher than Vail in Colorado.

Yes. They got a lot of snow up there, huh? Cocaine joke. Keep going ah it's funny i went to this like lookout point earlier in the day where i didn't have to go up a ton of steps but like some stairs and i'm pretty fit you know and i was like going up like six steps and i'd be like i can't breathe oh my gosh and i was and i was my mom and i was like should we be worried about miley performing tonight and she was like i mean I don't know and I was like I was like I don't know I feel like we shouldn't tell her though because she'll get in her head about that stuff you know it's like if you it's almost like if you don't mention it like maybe she'd just be fine but if you if you tell

her about it then maybe she has anxiety so we just like didn't really know what to do so we just didn't say anything but we told production like have oxygen like you know like we would in Denver have it on the side of the stage but like surely, surely we'll be fine. You know, we were not fine. Two songs in, I could tell something was wrong with her. I was like standing up in, um, and like on like the balcony on the side of the stage, you know, and two songs and I could just tell she wasn't right. And I kept looking at my mom, waiting for my mom to say something. And then three songs in Miley says, you know, in the microphone, like guys, wow, like in the microphone like guys wow like I'm not feeling so great I'm not feeling so hot like I think the elevations get me and she pulls out a chair and

sits down and I looked at my mom and I was like are you freaking right now at all because for her to say something like that and like slow the show down means something's really wrong you know yeah and I looked at my mom I was like are you freaking out my mom was like no are you and I was like you know it's so unlike her and like, she sang one song sitting down, I we were both like, look at each other. And we were like, holy shit, like she really doesn't feel good. And my mom ran down there and stood on the side of the stage. And I don't know how much you've seen on social media or anything. But she basically sat down on a stool. After the singing three songs, she just skipped all the ballads that she could sit on a stool and sing

slow and not have to move around. And in she was just like guys like i could pass out at any moment like i could throw up at any moment and she's like i'm gonna stay out here as long as i can and sing for you guys but i just i need to let you know like it's not good you know and security her security was like so close to her you know standing in front of the stage and afterwards they were like she was so white and her hands were like doing weird things. Like someone does when they're about to have a seizure, like everybody was freaking out and she fucking stayed out there. And after singing all the ballads, she started to sing the climb, which is like the last song in the set before her, um, encore. And I was like, Oh, we're, we're cutting 45 minutes from

the set right now. Like she's going to sing the climb and leave. And so we all kind of go down there and get ready to bail. after the climb she gets the second wind and somehow goes back and sings all the like the you know the upbeat songs she skipped and finishes the whole fucking set wow like the rock star that she is like it was insane we were all so worried that she was just gonna fall over at any minute. And afterwards she said, you know, I just knew that if I walked back to take oxygen or to take a breather, I wouldn't go back. You know how that is. It's like, you know, I kind of understand that to an extent, like when I'm riding my horse, it's like when I'm like, when I feel like I need to walk and take a break, then I just feel like I have to keep doing it. Whereas if I just push through and don't ever

take a break, then I'm good, you know? And so I was like, man, I totally get that. And I just respect the hell out of it. So Bogota was crazy. It's like Chris Rock. The show must go on, you know? The show must go. I mean, yeah, it's live, baby. It's live.

Yeah. I might get smacked in the face. Gotta keep going. Gotta keep going. And so we just all got straight in the car, headed to the hotel, and she was very sick for like three days after. But anyway, so Bogota was such a train wreck.

We're like, okay, I can only go up from here, up from here right and wrong we get on the plane the next day it was supposed to be a six-hour flight to paraguay and to play this festival and we were in the air about six hours and they had told us like oh we're to start our descent until wherever. And Asuncion or whatever it is, Asuncion. I don't know. And we're taking like 40 minutes to land. Like it's just taking forever. It's very bumpy. It's very cloudy.

And we're all looking around at each other like, what's going on? Like why are we taking so long to land? And the turbulence is like bad but like, you know, kind of normal. And then all of a sudden the plane like drops to where your stomach just goes into your throat. And we're like, holy shit. And the flight attendants are like keeping their cool. And we're like, is everything okay? And it's starting to thunder and they're like, yeah, yeah, this is fine. This is nothing. And everyone's freaking out. Like my sister's freaking out. My mom's freaking out. I'm freaking out because I start seeing lightning and we're like in the most insane turbulence and they're not really telling us anything. And then after a while they're like, they come on and

they're like, okay, so we're in the middle of an electrical storm and we're going to have to reroute and land 250 miles away because we can't land here and we're going to run out of gas. So there, we have to like go through the storm to get to get to a place where we can go land. And it's just so bumpy and so crazy. Like I can't believe people weren't throwing up because it was really like, like dramatic drops, you know, so scary.

And then all of a sudden the whole fucking sky lights up and you hear this, the loudest crack I've ever heard in my whole life. And the side of the plane like kind of dips like that. And I, we all looked at each other like, what the fuck just happened? And somebody was like, I,

and somebody behind us over the wing was like, Oh my god, we literally just got struck by lightning. I saw it. And we were freaking out. But the flight attendants were so cool the whole time. We were like, is this okay? Are we about to die? And they're like, no, we're good. They were so calm about it.

It was insane. And so we finally get on the ground. But after that lightning strike, I think they were like, okay, we, we got to go down, took us down pretty fast. We land in the middle of nowhere and we get on the ground and they're like, yeah. So basically like the whole festival Miley was supposed to play, you know, it's a Saturday, Sunday thing or Friday, Saturday, whatever. And the day that we were flying in, they told us once we landed, like the whole festival

had been canceled because of flooding. Yes. And we didn't even like, we didn't even know. Um, and so Miley, uh, we landed on the ground. We're just trying to figure out what to do. And she's like, she's like, well, if the whole festival is canceled today, they're probably going to cancel it tomorrow. Like, should we even go?

Like, should we just go straight to Brazil? And then it was like this whole thing of like, well, can we get into Brazil? Like, you know, you have to do all this paperwork and COVID testing and all this stuff to go into each country. And so we were on the ground for like three hours trying to figure out what the heck to do. Meanwhile, they're looking at the wing of the plane to find out if it's damaged enough

that if we can even take off, you know what I mean? And then I did post the photo of it. So did Miley of like where the lightning strike hit. And it basically like carved a hole into the, the fender of the wing, like the part that goes up on the ends. There's like a hole in it. It was in, I've never seen anything like it the aileron yeah i'm a pilot

now so i know god so we did defy death it was very scary wait hold on i've got questions one when you got struck by lightning did everyone's like hair stand on end like no that didn't happen nothing happens when you get struck by lightning in the air i feel like lights on the outside of the plane like flickered or something but not the inside it was like the ones on the wing you know what i mean okay screamed bloody murder did you think you were gonna die at this moment i didn't until the lightning strike and then i was like holy fuck i didn't know planes got struck by lightning none of us did but honestly like you know what really helped was the flight attendants were so cool as a cucumber the whole time i couldn't believe it i thought for sure like i

was like why aren't you guys freaking out this can't be normal did the oxygen mask come from the ceiling no oh okay no and you know what else scared me this plane was brand new like it was so new they hadn't even put you know they have the TV screens on the top and they usually show the flight map and the very front of the plane and stuff and the monitors. It was so new. They hadn't even put that stuff in yet. Like, I don't even know if this plane had like done a trip yet. And so I'm thinking like, oh my God, has this plane even been put to the test?

Like, can it even withstand this? You know what I mean? Well, I'd rather be on a new plane than an old plane, I suppose. I mean, I guess. Wait. Okay. So so hold on so then you get struck by lightning it like takes a chunk out of the aileron on literally a chunk so was the plane airworthy yeah so when we landed in you know 250 miles from asuncion they had to like it's what took so long they had to do all this assessment of like how much it took, you know, how deep of a chunk it went. Cause if it had gone like a certain amount of depth into the wing, we couldn't have flown.

Yeah. They said that it had like just, you know, we had just made the cutoff of it, like not being deep enough to really be a thing to at least to get us to Brazil. And then once we got to Brazil, they had like six days to fix it, you know what I mean? Or figure it out. I don't know. So did you get a different plane in Brazil or did they fix it? They fixed it.

And that's the one I flew home on my own. I flew back to Nashville separately, but everybody else took that plane back to LA and they're all safe and sound. Flew back like on commercial? Yeah. So flummin' it. Jesus. Wow.

So no one was like, we're going down, baby. I just need to let you know that I've always loved you. Like there was not, no. My mom was praying. Oh yeah. Cause your mom already doesn't like to fly. No, no, she hates it. And it was, and it was so crazy because like literally minutes before the thunderstorm started, we were all looking out the windows because the sunset was so gorgeous. Like the clouds were like pink and purple. It was so beautiful. And my mom was actually tearing up because she sunsets like gorgeous. Like the clouds were like pink and purple. It was so beautiful. And my mom was actually tearing up because she sunsets like that, like always remind her of my mammy, her mom that passed away a couple of years ago. And she, my mom was like tearing up

at this sunset being like, Oh, this just reminds me of mammy. And then literally five minutes later, all of a sudden we were in electrical storm and she was like freaking out thinking like, Oh my gosh, I was just thinking of mom. Like, are we going to join her you know what i mean like my mom was like going dark yeah and um i think there were some other people on the team that had that later admitted that they were like sending texts to people like hey just in case like the money is hidden here yeah yeah um but yeah i mean people were scared and once we got on the ground the flight attendants did say like, we were a little rattled. We just didn't want to say it. You know what I mean?

They were definitely like, we've never experienced anything like that. It was a European flight crew. And they were like, there aren't storms as bad in Europe. Like South America has really bad storms, I think. Well, I'm glad you made it. Crazy. All right, quick PSA for those of you out there who rent if you haven't heard of built you're about to thank me earning points on rent is now a reality when you pay your rent

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Dude, I know. I was like peeing my pants up there. It was insane. But so awesome. Now I don't want to play anywhere else. I just like peeing my pants up there. It was insane. But so awesome. Now I don't want to play anywhere else. I just want to go back there because it's so great. How did it go being like you have to do your own hype man stuff? Oh, I was so nervous.

And I feel like it's one of those things where I probably sounded really dorky. Yeah. But I did it. Yeah. Everyone seemed to like it. So. Well, and you're speaking a different language. They're like, she might be saying something cool. We don't even know. They probably had no clue what I was saying. Yeah. Everyone seemed to like it. So. Well, and you're speaking a different language. They're like, she might be saying something cool.

We don't even know. They have no, they probably had no clue what I was saying. Yeah. Every time I talked, they were just so excited. Every time I got on the mic, they were so excited. It probably didn't matter what I said, but you just got to like scream the name, the city name or the country name, like Argentina. You know?

Oh, that's awesome. So you going back out in the road are we doing a world tour i heard i heard you're huge in japan i would like to go back and do my own tour in south america at some point i think i loved it i really loved it okay but so the missing piece of this like story though is like after this plane thing you know we go to brazil and the team is already like okay this trip's getting weird like it's time to wrap her up and go home you know like go to brazil and we're the team is already like okay this trip's getting weird like it's time to wrap her up and go home you know like it started out strong and then the bogota thing and then the plane thing and then um you know we get to brazil and we hear the news about

taylor hawkins taylor hawkins yeah and the foo fighters were on all these festivals that we did just on a different day you know like miley would headline one day and they would headline the other. And so they were in all the same cities. And for whatever reason, when we were on the plane in the lightning storm and landed, Miley texted him, uh, because he was in Paraguay at that festival already. I was texting him being like, Hey, what's going on there? We hear it's flooded. We hear the festival was canceled. And they were texting back and forth and he was like, yeah, it's so flooded here. Don't come here. He was like, the festival is not going to happen, you know? Um, and it's just so fucking crazy. It just felt so close to home because she had just been talking to him and we had been in all the

same places and been in the same hotel a couple of days before. Like it was just so crazy. And on top of all the craziness that had already happened we were just like what is this trip you know yeah oh it's just so sad so sad taylor hawkins was a badass and i just i feel for his family he's got you know a wife and kids but then dave grohl is just like constantly surrounded by tragedy in his bands it's just just, it's like a weird omen for Grohl. He must feel like he's just cursed. Yeah. It's really, really sad.

Like it definitely just put a very dark cloud over the whole rest of the trip, you know? Yeah. And Miley, she dedicated a song to him in Brazil, her song Angels. And she just sobbed during it. I saw it on Instagram somewhere. in Brazil, her song Angels, and she just sobbed during it. I saw it on Instagram somewhere, and yeah, it was very emotionally charged. Oh, man. But very cool of her to do that. So, yeah, I mean, you know, a trip full of highs and lows for sure.

Nonetheless, I very much enjoyed it. I love South America. I absolutely have to go back. Speaking of the highs, what's his name? All right, guys. Argentina specifically, I think. I think Argentina specifically. There are so many hotties. Yeah. Like, oh, my God, they're everywhere. We had all these, I guess like they were either cops or military or whatever. We had all these escorts. Like every time we would drive from hotel to venue or venue to airport, we had a, like a whole brigade of like cops on motorcycles

or military guys on motorcycles, like taking us, like we were the fricking president or something. It was insane. And they were all so hot. Like it was the most fun thing ever. We were just like looking out the window and I'm like, Oh my God, they're all so gorgeous. That's amazing. Yeah. So that's, that's another reason why I want to go back. Okay. So what was his name? No, there was not one specific. Oh, come on. No. Okay. So there was multiple dudes you went to pound town with. No pound town. Oh, come on. You went all the way to South. Heavy flirting. No pound town. Oh, come on.

You went all the way to South. Just heavy flirting. Heavy flirting. Oh, my God. So how many guys are you talking to right now on WhatsApp? How do you know it's on WhatsApp? Because you don't talk to anybody inside the country on WhatsApp. You only talk to people outside the country on WhatsApp. I know stuff.

All right? No dummy. I would say I'm texting like three guys. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yes. And none of it's ever going to amount to anything, but it's fun. Well, we thought that about your South African man.

I don't know. That one was different. Well, we'll see. No wonder you want to go back and play shows in quotations. Yeah. The fans are so great. Yeah. So good.

Man, I'm kind of here for it. I'm all for the empowered female rock star. Because it's so cliche that like, oh, he's got a girl in every port, you know, thing. And Brandi's like, fuck that. I'm going to do that. I got a guy in Bogota. I got two in fucking Buenos Aires. We're going to go on over to Uruguay.

Go down to Rio. Man. I'm trying to have just like one on every continent at least, you know? I think it's smart. I think it's the way to go. You gotta. Just don't give them any money. No, absolutely not.

Because I've seen way too many documentaries recently about women giving men money and it's just bonkers. No, no, i don't do that all right well i'm happy that you survived i'm happy you had a good time and yeah i mean i it's a bummer about taylor hawkins god it's such a bummer i mean i'm sure you've seen foo fighters in concert i have here's the thing for the non-music fan this is why taylor hawkins was so good dave grohl is considered one of the greatest drummers to have ever lived. Like, you know, there's some crazy story where he like turned down being like in Paul McCartney's band.

Wow. So good that he was like turning down being in these huge bands. And so can you imagine having to be so good that you could be the drummer for Dave Grohl's band? A different level of talent. I've heard interviews where even Dave's like, yeah, Taylor is a better drummer than I am. It's just sacks.

We've lost. Well, one of the greats, I suppose we really did. So, well, I'm happy for you. We need to now pivot over to the Oscars,

I think. Yeah, this is going to be your, your, your show. Cause I didn't, all I saw was all the fashion. Classic. And the clip of Will Smith.

Obvi. So I did the E! Oscar pre-party thing. And so they wanted me to do this whole mixology segment where I tied in these different drinks with Lucille Ball. So it, like, so it was

like a lot of old Hollywood content with like me mixing drinks. It was fine. It was fun, whatever. But that's why I was dressed the way I was dressed because we were like, I'm not wearing a tuxedo because I'm not like, I'm like walking the carpet and doing that kind of stuff. But I'm doing like this kind of like pre brunch thing. I felt pretty good in that suit. And I tell you what, we're going to be repurposing that suit for maybe engagement photos.

I don't know. Oh, I like that idea. Yeah. It was a good one. You look good. Yeah. And a lot of people thought I was wearing a t-shirt. I wasn't.

It was a cashmere sweater underneath, guys. Oh, in LA? It was like 70 degrees. I actually like balked at it to my stylist, who's actually just like an old friend from Nashville named Lisa. I was like, I'm going to be sweating like a crazy person. And she was like, we like looked up and she's like, it's going to be 70 degrees. You're going to be fine. And I was.

And the segment was a five minute song. Oh, okay. But I was there, guys. I was there. I ended up not going to the show. I left like kind of beforehand. And I went home and I was like, well, I'm just going to watch the golf and like whatever. I don't really care about any of this stuff because I think there's a part of me that's like this is all kind of bullshit.

But I will go work for you if you want. If I will work for you. I'll let you pay me. Yeah, but this is kind of BS, but whatever. But then I turned it on. I was like, you know what? Heck, I'm going to turn it on. I'm going to watch.

I've seen some movies that I think I'm rooting for. And then the Will Smith, Chris Rock thing happens. And I immediately had to start drinking because I was like, this is insane. So you weren't watching it, but I was watching it in real time. So you weren't watching it, but I was watching it in real time. So he makes the joke about Jada having a bald head, being in G.I. Jane 2, which is a kind of a funny joke because in the original G.I. Jane, Demi Moore has a shaved head. So I get the joke. It's a fine joke. And you see Will Smith laugh at the joke.

And then you see Jada Pinkett Smith's face completely change. And then it cuts back to Chris. And then all of a sudden, the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is like stomping towards him. And Chris Rock, I think he's thinking this is a joke. What's happening? And then he rears back and he smacks the shit out of Chris Rock. I will say this. Chris Rock ate that slap like a champ, bro. He did. He fucking ate it and didn't

do anything. I've seen Chris Rock. He's a skinny guy. And you know, Will Smith is bulked up and stuff. You know, he ate that fucking smack and then kept going. And I was like, surely this is a bit. Surely this is a bit. And then they cut the sound. And I was like, oh, no, this isn't a bit. And then they cut over to Will Smith and you can see him yelling. Anyone who can read any kind of lips realizes he's what he's saying is keep my wife's name out of your fucking mouth. And then it was like, oh, this is not a joke at all. And then you realize it's really not a joke when Chris Rock is very, very confused

and like stumbling over his words. But you know what? What a pro. He fucking got through it. I can't believe. I was talking to Sarah. I was like, what would you do there? I was like, I probably would leave. I'd be like, fuck this. I am out. I just got smacked in the

face. I'm out of here. Commercial break. Yeah. But he fucking did it, which that was amazing. There was this one point that I thought was really interesting. I'm going to play the clip. Wow. Wow.

Will Smith just smacked the shit out of me. Okay, that's weird. That's so awkward. Will Smith just smacked the shit out of me. Okay, that's weird. That's so awkward. In front of all of those people to be yelling in a live show that. And then he says this again. Okay, so awkward lapita no one goes behind being like what the fuck is happening here jesus christ i love that he's like it was a gi jane joke bro so now there's been information to come out that like i guess jd pickensmith has alopecia which means she's got like she's losing her hair okay the biggest joke that you can make to men is you're short or you're bald like that there's the oldest jokes in the world and i realized and i totally understand that like

a woman's hair is much different than men's hair and it's a little more sensitive but bro overreact much i don't know so right there this is my favorite part. So this is all just happened. And Chris Rock says, I could. Oh, OK. I could. Oh, OK. I could. Oh, OK. You know, Chris Rock wants to say something, you know, so bad, so badly because Chris Rock is a fucking funny human being and his job is to rip on people. And, you you know he's got a million fucking jokes in his mind and i guarantee you he had 17 jokes about who was in the front row and i bet you i bet you all the money in the bank account that he had a lot meaner jokes to will smith and jada pinkett smith than the g.i.j joke for sure the whole story is that will smith's son's friend has been

having sex with jada Pinkett Smith. You know, like that was a whole. Oh, that's a thing? Yeah. And they did like a whole bread table talk thing about it, you know. And you know that Chris Rock wanted to say something, but he didn't. That was a greatest night in the history of television. You can tell that he's just like, I don't know what the fuck to do.

Like what just happened? And this is when I knew it was real. When Chris Rock, who's a man who is very, very good at talking in front of people, does this. So we are here to give a documentary out. Okay. Not there to give a documentary out, there to give out an Oscar for a documentary. So that's when I was like, oh shit, I think this is real. Oh my God, this is fucking real. So I have a lot of thoughts about this. And I think a lot of people will disagree with me. Okay.

And I realize it's a sensitive subject. Both Will Smith and Chris Rock are entertainers. They're both actors and entertainers. And there is an implied bit of safety when you come on set and let's be fair this is a live television show they were on set there is an implied bit of safety when it comes to that you can't hit somebody on set and when you do you get fired you get kicked out all the other stuff aside will smith knows better you can't be on set and go hit somebody because there's an implied sense of safety for everyone there. That's my whole thing. It's like someone who's like worked on set. You

can't hit somebody. My other thought is this. I don't know why any comedians will ever do the Oscars going forward. There's nothing in it for comedians. Like it makes no sense to go do this show, a show that they don't recognize best comedic movie, or they don't recognize, you know, best actor in a comedy. Right. And the truth of the matter is, is that the only reason why people watch this show is one, to look at beautiful people wearing ridiculous things, and then to have funny people bring those people down a peg. Because no one can relate to those beautiful people wearing those insane things. True.

They look great. They're fucking hot. It's true. No one in America can relate to that. Sorry, just the facts. So then they waltz in these funny people to do the thing that we're all doing at home, which is make fun of them. And if I'm a comedian, I'm like, fuck doing this show.

Because we're the ones that are hosting these shows. We're the ones that are making it entertaining. And every time we come up and do it, either we get fired or someone comes up and smacks me. The other thing is, is that Will Smith, yes, he's an actor, but he's also a fucking rapper. The other thing is, is that Will Smith, yes, he's an actor, but he's also a fucking rapper. And isn't the whole thing of rap diss tracks and making fun of other people and talking shit about other people's girlfriends and wives? Like, that's a big part of rap. I don't understand why you're so sensitive.

Like, that's what happens. I mean, these are all valid points. I think the hang up is that it's not just a haircut. I understand. It's a medical condition. I think that's the big a haircut. I understand. I think that's the big like. I understand that. The other thing is, is that there's a lot of people out there saying like, good for Will, he stood up for his woman. And to me, that's the most unfeminist thing in the world. Is that what's implied now? Is that a man needs to go and defend his woman? That's very like 1940s to me. I don't think hitting somebody

is ever going to be the answer, especially in a setting like that. Maybe at like a Walmart or something. But when you're at the Oscars, come on, guy. I'm not sure if something that happened like that, let's say that there's a world in which I'm at the Oscars with Sarah and someone makes fun of Sarah. I don't think that me going up and ruining both of our careers is very chivalrous. I think that they should be like, what are you fucking doing? You just ruined your career for sure.

I don't understand that. Like I understand like sticking up for your woman to be like, yell out like, hey, Chris, she's got a medical issue. Not a fucking good joke, dude. Fucking move on to someone else. Make fun of Jake Gyllenhaal in the red scarf or something.

That's, I think, the way that you stick up for somebody. Hey, maybe you don't know all the fucking facts, but you're being an asshole. Now, Elon, if she does have cancer and she's dying and, like, Chris knows that and still makes a joke, okay. Sometimes you got to get smacked for being like that. The other thing is and so i'm not to make this about me but i'm gonna make it about me because it's the only way that i can feel it's how i'm feeling about things there is this implied people look and and i've very much felt this when i've gone to these things they look down on the reality tv people. You're a fucking reality TV person. I'm an actor. Okay. Fair. That's,

I guess that's fair. I'm a serious person. Well, we're all kind of doing the same thing. We're making something that's entertaining and people are watching, but okay, fine. You're right. You're better than me and you get paid more or whatever. That's fine. The thing that like kind of rode me the wrong way was I was watching it being like, oh my God, you guys are fucking reality TV stars now. You're not actors. Sorry. You're not. You're a reality TV star. You're a fucking meme from Desperate Housewives on TV, a reality show. You walked up and smacked somebody. And the only difference between what you do and what I do is that if that happened on Bachelor in Paradise, that person would be kicked off the show. But you get an Oscar 20

minutes later. It also just has not to be like the therapist in the room, but seems like there's a lot of other issues that we got to be dealing with to do that. And then his speech afterwards. Which was, I didn't hear that. Well, it was all over the place. And he apologizes to the Academy, apologizes to his fellow nominees. But he doesn't apologize to Chris, the guy who just smacked on live television in front of 30 million people and altered everyone's career that was involved. Then he started to equate it that he was like, love makes you do crazy things.

And I'm doing the thing that happened to Richard, Venus and Serena's dad, which everyone thought he was a crazy person for like protecting his kids. And like, it's like, it's funny how life imitates art. And now I'm the crazy dad who's trying to protect things. And then he says something that was interesting to me. He says, love makes you do crazy things.

And that was something that kind of rubbed me the wrong way because love doesn't make you do violent things. Love makes you be very understanding and caring and compassionate. What makes you do violent things are anger and resentment and being hurt. And I don't think that it's fair that you get to confuse love for what it really is,

which I think is a lot of built-up issues that you've got with you and your family. That's my thought on it. Therapist Wells is out here. He is out here. But then there's the world in which this whole thing is a bit that's kind of what i was thinking if it is who said like the ratings for the oscars have been down so bad and

now yeah for sure but like that could never happen again you know how it works is like the whoever won best actor gets to present for best actress next year there's no way that he can be invited back next year was it the oscars are live, right? Like it streams, it's live on television. Yeah. I'm sure it's live to tape, but yeah. Oh, it's to tape. My question was if it's live live, did they bleep when he said the F word or no? They cut the audio.

So it's like live to tape in the way that like radio is where I think they have like a 15 second delay. I see. When I was watching it, they cut the audio so you couldn't hear. And then of course, like the Japanese feed got started getting tweeted all over. That, they cut the audio so you couldn't hear. And then, of course, the Japanese feed started getting tweeted all over. That's why I just played where you can hear everything. Then he went and partied

and there's video of him doing just jiggy with it and there's like... Getting jiggy with it. Whatever. Getting jiggy with it. What do you think? I've done a big rant there. I mean, I didn't watch it. Like, I have no context.

All I've seen is the, like, 10 seconds on TikTok, you know? Yeah. I wasn't even sure if it was a bit or not. Like, I still don't really know. Yeah, I don't really know either. The only problem is if it is a bit, it just was such a badly executed one. That was his big night. He'd never won an Oscar.

Everyone thought he was probably going to win and then like and i don't know if like the pressure got to him or what but your big night and you think it's a good idea is to get up on stage and smack a comedian who's kind of just doing his job which is i gotta fucking make fun of everybody and then give out an award that's what he's there for i want to be like super sensitive to like Jada's thing, but we're in the public eye as well. And there's something that comes with that. And that is you have to be okay with public ridicule.

It's kind of part of the game. It's not, it's not a part that any of us like to have to deal with, but you kind of have to know that going in. I just wish that Chris Rock had fired back just some crazy retort. And then I'm sure then Will would have probably gotten back up and tried to hit him again. Oh my gosh. Yeah.

Anyways, crazy, crazy time. Probably best that didn't happen. Let me ask you this. You think this is the end of Will Smith's career? Probably not. Yeah, I don't think so either. I don't think he's going to be nominated for any more Oscars. I'll say that. That's possible. But I guess it doesn't matter. You got one. You only need one. You only need one. Yeah, that's true. And listen, if you disagree with me on any of that stuff, fair. I'm sorry. Listen, I'm not an an actor i'm not even a comedian but i am a host

and so i have done my fair share of like getting up on stage and doing things and i just can only can only think of it as someone who has done that and if i if someone was able to come up on stage and hit me i would be like that is so unacceptable you shouldn't ever feel unsafe going and doing a job like that the joke was maybe like in bad taste but it wasn't like the worst joke ever right whatever um you got some favorite things bro bro i haven't been doing a whole lot of uh of tv watching i gotta be honest with you but i'll tell you what i started bridgerton on the plane last night and I am already on episode six. Oh, yeah. Sarah's watching it, too.

She loves it. You can't beat season one. Like, you just can't. You know what I mean? Because like in season two, I went into it feeling like I was going to be let down because the hot Duke's not in it. You know that going into it that he gone and he is everything in season one. God, he's hot. The accent really gets me uh and he's missing so

i uh i was going into season two like this is probably not gonna be good i gotta say i've been hooked since episode one i'm here for it i'm loving it it's just so good yeah it's real good so that's what i'm i'm down a deep dark bridgerton hole right now cool well um i did i did finish the monica lewinsky american crime story show that i thought was new and it's not and it's super good it's crazy that happened insane dude there's a big part of me i know this is insane but like there's a big part of me that thinks that we are living in a simulation after the will smith thing like this cannot be the real world what convinced you the pandemic this war that's about to break out will smith is winning oscars but smacking people before like all this is all crazy

i couldn't even write this shit speaking of the oscars because i had to do this whole like drink making bit that was all kind of predicated around being the ricardos. I watched being the Ricardos. And it's great. I don't think Nicole Kidman was the greatest Lucille Ball that I've ever seen. Really? Lucy's funny. And Nicole Kidman's not funny. You know? That's fair. Should have been Debra Messing, in my mind.

That's the redhead that should have played it. But I will say this. Javier Bardem just acts circles around everybody. Really? He's so good in this film as Desi Arnaz or Ricky Ricardo that like he just carries the weight. And the other person that is so good that shouldn't surprise you at all is J.K. Simmons, who plays Fred from Fred Neffle. Oh yeah, I love him.

He is so, so good. So Javier Bardem and J.K. Simmons are phenomenal. And then Tony Hale, who plays like the EP on the show, is so good. So these three guys in this film are phenomenal. And what bums me out about it is it's supposed to be this movie about this woman who changed Hollywood, and she's being overshadowed by, I think, better acting by these men. And I didn't like that.

And I was like, man, I just feel like that's why I didn't get that punch that I needed because I wanted the story to be the badassery that was Lucy, which it is, of course. But I just feel like it's really, really hard to probably out-act Javier Bardem and J.K. Simmons. I think that's just probably an impossibility. The other thing I didn't realize about it was that it's kind of all predicated around this one week in the series of

I Love Lucy where she gets accused of being a communist and she has to deal with the press thinking that she's a communist. I didn't even know that they thought that Lucy Ball was a communist. Like, this is crazy. And then she also gets pregnant. And it's also this crazy thing that like CBS won't like allow a pregnant woman to be on television because the 50s were an insane time in the world. And anyways, very good film for Javier Bardem and J.K. Simmons.

And I'm sorry, Nicole Kidman just didn't do it for me. So I did binge watch pieces of her on my flight to South America. I'm three episodes in. Love it. It is so fucking good. First of all, I love Toni Collette. Like she just gets the best roles. She kind of plays the same character or whatever, but she does such a good job.

I loved this show so much. It was one of my favorite new things that's come out in so long. The guy that plays the undercover cop that follows her daughter around, so hot. Thank you for the eye candy. But I loved it. It had me on the edge of my seat up until the very end, and I'm obsessed with it. When a Saturday afternoon trip to the mall with her mother suddenly explodes into violence, an adrift young woman's conception of her mother is forever changed.

So the first episode is so good. So Toni Collette plays the mother. Her and her daughter go to a diner and the daughter is a cop but like not a real not even she answers 9-1-1 calls yeah yeah but she's in like a cop's uniform sort of yeah they're in a diner this guy comes in with a gun shoots a woman shoots another person and then like is about to shoot the daughter because she's in a cop uniform and Tony Collette comes up tries to stop him he stabs her in the hand and the knife is sticking out of her hand like crazy please to shoot me don't shoot my daughter please shoot me don't shoot my daughter and all of a

sudden she does some fucking ninja move and slices his throat open with the knife that's stuck in her hand it is such a good scene you You're like, what the fuck? It's a great scene. What the fuck just happened? Like, obviously, Toni Collette is not who she claims to be. Mm-hmm. Yeah. It's all really, really good.

I didn't love the girl that played her daughter acting-wise. Like, there were times where I was kind of like, oh, I feel like maybe I've gotten a bit better when I was an actress. But overall, great show. I loved all the characters. Who's the guy that played Gil? Is it Gil Birmingham or Buckingham or something like that?

He plays like the FBI agent, but that puts them in witness protection. Yeah. Gil Birmingham. He's also in Yellowstone. He's phenomenal. It's just such a good show. And I kind of feel like I feel like they could technically have a season two. Does it say limited series? It's just such a good show. And I kind of feel like they could technically have a season two. Does it say limited series?

It says C. One season's all it says. We could get a season two. Yeah. Yeah. I hope so. That's good. It's good to know because I'm only a couple episodes in and I was like, this is either going to be lame or great. Not sure. Oh, it's amazing.

And then I know you've already talked about it, but I watched The Atom Project. Yeah. Oh, you liked it? Loved. Loved. Let me just add, Ryan Reynolds is always hot. Yeah. Like, he is always hot.

He is so hot with this beard, like all this facial hair. Like, oh my God. Smokeshow. Well, I'm glad you liked it. Loved it. Do you ever watch The Reels channel? Hmm. I can't say that I do. Okay, it. Loved it. Do you ever watch The Reels channel? Hmm. I can't say that I do.

What is that? So let me tell you guys something's going on. The Reels channel has some bangers. What is that? So I think it's kind of like, it's like stars or, you know, it's like one of those channels that like has movies, but it's not HBO and Showtime, you know, so it's like a couple down, you know, it's like one of those channels that like has movies but it's not hbo and showtime you know so it's like a couple down you know it's like amc or something okay but on the reels channel they do like a behind the scenes of movies that you love i'm obsessed so if you can go find

the back to the future behind closed doors on reels. Okay. You need, like if you love Back to the Future like I do, but I feel like everyone likes Back to the Future. But you need to go watch it

because it's insane. Did you know that that movie was turned down 45 times to be made? No, did not. It was almost an impossibility to make that. And then they started filming

and then they had to like fire a couple people. Marty McFly wasn't Michael J. Fox originally. It was some other guy. And then they fired him and had to bring in Michael J. Fox. They like redo all these scenes and stuff. And it was only supposed to be one movie, but it was so popular that the studio was like, you're making another one. And they were like, no, we're done. The movie's over. And they're like, no, no, no, you're making another one. So then they wrote a script that was like so incredibly long that they were like, they budgeted it out

as the most expensive movie ever made to the time. So then they were like, well, let's just make it into three, I guess. And so that's why there's three parts to it. That's crazy. And also what's crazy to me is that Back to the Future 2 was not critically acclaimed. It did okay in the box office, but not as good as 1.

And a lot of people thought this trilogy was going to die on the vine because of 2. What is happening? 2 is the best 1. They go to the future with the alternate universe and the crazy Biff and Lea Thompson with the big fake boobs. That's the best 1 for sure. Old Biff, young Biff. Michael J. Fox plays like every single character in his family i swear to god man people don't know what

the fuck's going on and then they have another one about jurassic park which is see that that i would watch see i'm telling you man you people are sleeping on reels bro i'm sleeping on it i love behind the scenes stuff when they did like the behind the scenes look like after every episode of game of thrones and stuff like i lived for that so yeah check that out you know i was thinking about the other day this is gonna be something that's very specific to people who live in big cities i think primarily los angeles but here's the thing and i know what they're doing they want to give out parking tickets the idea is they want to give you a parking ticket because they want to make money i understand that and so how they do that is that they post signs that are very very confusing and

conflicting there'll be like six different signs like no parking on tuesday except between the I understand that. And so how they do that is that they post signs that are very, very confusing and conflicting. There'll be like six different signs, like no parking on Tuesday, except between the hours of this and this. But then also like you have a permit here, but then this day is completely blocked out. And oh, we got street cleaning that's happening on Wednesdays. There's 17 signs. I don't fucking know what I'm looking at right now. This looks like Sanskrit. What they need to make.

And I realize that like the police just want to give you a parking ticket. I understand that. But what they need to make and i realize that like the police just want to give you a parking ticket i understand that but what needs someone needs to make and this might even exist but what someone needs to make is an app that you take that you use the camera and it looks at all the signs and it says yeah bro you can park here or like you know what you shouldn't say this on this podcast or someone's going to steal it. You should just do it. Whatever. You're right.

Someone is going to totally steal that. But, and then if you get a ticket, then the app has to pay for it because they gave you bad information or something like that. You know, like there are times in which you can park and it'll be posted that you, that you can't park there,

but you can still put money in the, in the machine. I know. And that's fucked up because you're like, well, the thing's flashing green, so surely I'm fine. And you're not fine. And that's confusing.

The machines would say, hey, listen, bro, you can't do this right now. They just want your money. I know, man. I know they do. That's my million dollar idea that I just gave away to everybody. Yep.

You got any music? No, but we definitely should play a Foo Fighters song. Okay. We'll go out in a Foo Fighters song. Okay. We'll go out in a Foo Fighters song, but I do have a song. Oh, you do. Oh, I do.

So I think that this has been out for a while and I'm just late to it, but I heard it on a show and I was like, oh, I love this. Have you ever heard of Daniel Blake before?

I don't think so. All right. This is a song called Anyway the Wind Blows, and it's just so good. But you never came down, no Nothing gonna hold you down You'll go Anywhere the wind blows I mean, I know it's very me, but...

Very well. But you liked it, though. I did. Very ethereal. Very. Oh, I have another favorite thing, speaking of music. I went to Pioneertown. You ever been to Pioneertown?

I have. Dude, I went to Pioneertown. Saw my buddies, the Wildfeathers, play over there at Pap and Harriet's. Oh, they did? Yeah. That's cool. We went there specifically for it. So for people who don't know, Pioneertown is, I think it was where they filmed a lot of old Wild West things back in the day.

I think so. And it's on the way to Joshua Tree and Palm Springs. It's like you're going towards the desert. And we got a little Airbnb, which was awesome. We walked over to Papappy and Harriet's. We saw the Wildfeathers play. It got Wastey Faced. Had an absolutely wonderful time.

So you're just fullback drinking is what you're saying. No, but I mean, I drank that night. Wastey Face there. Wastey Face after the Oscars. I mean, it was just so much stress last night at the Oscars. Well, I got to say, when the plane was last night at the Oscars. Well, I gotta say, when the plane was going down, the first thing I did was start drinking.

Oh, yeah. Absolutely. We were like, seatbelt time was on. I was like, can I get a bourbon? Yeah, for sure. Give me all the little airplane bottles, please, right now. We had the good stuff. Oh, I bet. We got good stuff in little bottles. Do you have a song that you want to go out on from the Foo Fighters?

Like a favorite one? Well, I mean, like, I don't know, like maybe My Hero or like Learn to Fly. I'm just trying to think of like ones that like make sense to pay homage. I do like Learn to Fly. All right. We'll go out on that one.

Yeah. We got to pour one out for Taylor Hawkins. Sucks, man. It's so sad so sad so sad alright well

we love you guys we do I'm so happy to be back I'm happy you're back too I really do miss the YFT years when I'm missing when I'm gone

yeah we missed you too thanks just a quick reminder. Argentina, a lot of hotties. A lot of hotties in Argentina. And don't smack people while you're working is what I would say. That's a good tip.

You know? Tip for living wells right there. Yeah, just don't. Not while you're working. If you're at a waffle house, smack whoever you want. But if you're at the Oscars and you're working, maybe don't smack anybody. Yeah. I don't know.

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