Your Favorite Thing with Wells & Brandi - This One's For You, Toronna!

Episode Date: August 27, 2025

We’re back YFT fam, straight from Toronto (or is it Toronno?). Brandi’s battling what might be the black plague/plane germs, while Wells is nursing a dog bite to the butt that sent him to the clinic for a tetanus shot and antibiotics.  WTF?  At least the food scene in Toronno is fire—thanks to YFTers for all the recs! So, who’s following Bachelor in Paradise this week ? Yes? Ok, Here’s the Ep9 tea in rapid fire: Wells finally makes the episode intro (yes!), Kat swears she’s not getting married, Jess cries (again), and Jesse sends everyone glamping 100 yards down the beach. Keith pours his heart out about family, but Kathy only sees dollar $igns, Spencer and Jess hit a rough patch, Andrew and Alex are maybe holding back, and Jeremy and Bailey’s drama is giving us serious whiplash. Whew. Who’s going to survive??  Oh and did we mention the bugs? Plus: Will ChaptGPT become our new co-host, Wells pitches a new consulting biz (because clearly Cracker Barrel needs him), and the biggest news—next week’s episode drops on Thursday, not Wednesday due to the holiday Monday. Ok Thanks, Byyyyeee! Thanks to our awesome sponsors for supporting this episode!  Mood: Get 20% off your first order at Mood.com/YFT with promo code YFT. Hungryroot: For a limited time get 40% off your first box PLUS get a free item in every box for life. Go to Hungryroot.com/yft and use code yft. Quince: Treat your closet to a little summer glow-up with Quince. Go to Quince.com/yft for free shipping on your order and 365 day returns. Function Health: The first 1000 people get a $100 credit toward their membership. Visit www.functionhealth.com/FAVORITETHING or use gift code FAVORITETHING at sign-up.. Balance of Nature: Use code YFT for 35% off your first order as a preferred customer, PLUS get a free bottle of Fiber and Spice. Don’t forget to rate, review, and follow Your Favorite Podcast! Plus, keep up with us between episodes on our Instagram pages, @yftpodcast @wellsadams and @brandicyrus and be sure to leave us a voicemail with your fave things at 858-630-1856!  This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation.

Just don't cry You can rely on me, honey You can combine anything you want I'll be around You will ride about the stars Everyone is a set in song A tall building smoke Left to the smoke

That in the song Tune to chords I'm down my team A bit of melody I'm turning your All bit around Eat your heart out Wilco

Jeff Tweedy If that's your real name Because I Should be the lead singer of that band And I think we all know that Still in Toronto So by the way I've been calling it Toronto

On the podcast And So many Canadians are angry I'm saying it The way that Americans say it All right, we don't live here. It would be weird if I were to call your city Toronto, Toronto, because that's how you guys say it, but I didn't grow up here.

I grew up in California, all right? And in California, we say Toronto, because that's the way it's spelled, everybody. But you guys say Toronto, and that's fine. Why would I know to say it that way? And it's like that viral TikTok that I made of the guy being like, is croissant? It's not croissant. Yeah, it's fucking weird. if an American is saying, hey, can I order a croissant?

Because then what the fuck, why do you change the last word, you know? That would be like if they were like, I would like to order a Big Mac at McDonald's, you know? Don't do it that way. That's annoying, okay? Just say it the way that you say it. We all get it. The only caveat to that is I'm annoyed that like we don't call countries what the countries call themselves. Germany is Deutscheland.

Why don't we just call it Deutscheland, right? Spain to people who live in Spain is Espania. I'm totally fine with calling it Espania. Anyway, so let's call the Brandeye. Bing bong, boom, diga diga diga ding ding ding ding ding ding dong. Oh. Oh, no. I have the black plague.

Oh, what happened? By the way, the black plague is back. Do you see that? Yeah, I'm fucking serious. You do not have the plague. I actually think I have COVID. Okay. I'm going to say.

I don't really even know what the symptoms are for the plague. Please enlighten me. I think I did see that it was happening in Denver. Are you in Denver recently? I was in Denver, yeah. Dude, you got the plague? Honestly, I might. Maybe you should go to the doctor.

That's all right. The plague happens from fleas. Oh, really? Yeah. I don't know. I'm very ill. Like, last night was rough, and it's feeling very COVID-y. Let me tell you.

Is it? Mm, but, like, my whole body hurts so fucking bad. Body aches. my head's been throbbing for three days but like the past 24 hours have been the worst um and i was just like my shirt was like wet all night from i'm like cold but i'm sweating through my shirt at night it's not good gross dude it's horrible i'm sorry to hear that yeah it's not great so um i tried my best to make it through the entire episode of paradise last night i will say that it felt like it was a longer episode than it needed to be like we got two

two rose ceremonies? I don't understand. Yeah, I was thinking the last few episodes haven't been that long. And last night, I looked at it and I was like, holy fuck, I'm only halfway through. And I got to sleep. I know we finished the last episode or finished the last rose ceremony. And I was like, okay, cool. Episode's over. And then I was like, nope, we're back and we're going to stab people in the back. And then we've got another row ceremony. What? No, no, no, no, no, no. I need this to be, it starts right after a rose ceremony and then it ends at a rose ceremony. That would make sense. I know. But I think I know what the issue is. What?

Well, I think that they only ordered 10 episodes and I think we have more than 10 episodes. I see. And I think the hope is that, okay, you ordered 10 episodes, but they'll extend it because we've got a lot of juicy stuff. But then I think you run into like, well, we've got other programming lined up for that so we can't do it. So I think that's where we're at. I see. So, I mean, still in Toronto. By the way, I was just telling the Y of Tiers, who has.

have given me some amazing places to eat. Can I just say, ding, ding, Toronto's food scene is fire. Really? Bro. This isn't hyperbole. I have yet to have a bad meal. That's not true. Crafty at the show that I'm working on, not great.

It's never good. It's never good. You know, because they're trying to make, the problem is that in a situation like that, they're trying to make a lot of people somewhat happy, you know? Which you can't do. What you can't do. You know, obviously I went on this podcast and I asked all my friends, all of my friends, all of my wife tears out there. If you are from Toronto, please send me your suggestions. And then

as I started posting about them, people started being like, dude, do you feel like if you like that, you got to go here. And then I also called Serena Pitt, you know, grocery store Joe's wife. And I was like, this is where you're from. Dude, where do I go? And then she gave me all these places in what's called. I think it's a little Portugal, which she must have like lived over there because all her stuff's over in this one little area. I have not had a bad meal here. And it's fantastic. Can I just give a couple quick shoutouts to where I've been? Please, we would love it. I do like Toronto. I do too. It's a lovely city and it's like really walkable and very safe. My only issue with it is and also public transportation is great.

A lot of trolleys everywhere. My only issue is their lights take forever to change for you to walk across the street. But first place I went to, it's called Bar-R-R-R-R-V-A-L, bar space, R-A-V-A-L. Oh, and it is a Mediterranean R-A? Yeah, I know. But I think it's pronounced. Someone told me it was Ravelle. Okay. Anyways, whatever.

It's a tapas place. Love tapas. Oh, dude. Don't I know? It's the best. So I went there. I had a couple dirty martinis, and then they had, topas are great because it's kind of all you want.

You want to try that. I want to try that. I want to try that. But I don't want to get full. You get a little bit of everything. Oh, my God. Dad, have you ever had tomato bread? I'm not a bit tomato girly.

But I love bread So what it is They take a tomato And they grate it Like on a cheese grater And then they kind of like Squeeze out all the water So it's just like the pulp of it

And they put that on top of Toasty bread And then they put olive oil And salt and pepper and garlic and stuff And it is Fucking fire dude So I had that And then they had

This is me gross to you It was amazing to me It was like a little toast With like on like It was like ricotta Or it was some kind of like mild cheese and with some anchovies on top and some olive oil my Portuguese heart was overwhelmed and then so then I was like to the waitress I was like bring me

the best shit give me the hits I need the hits and she's like okay I got you so I finished and she was like what you didn't like I was like I was like I love that I love that this one I didn't love which is on me it was chicken livers which is but I was like I don't know if I've ever had chicken livers let me try that you know and I didn't like it so then she was like I'm to get you something. That's not on the menu. Fuck, yes. That's the best. And then she brings me this other thing was like, it was like a roasted, it was a little on toast, like roasted pepper with olive oil and then some more like, I think it was sardines on top. Oh. Anyways, that place was amazing. And then it's sister restaurant. It's a place called Bar Isabel. So these are both

Spanish places. Went to Bar Isabel sat at the bar. Place is bump in, by the way. Same, same vibe. It's a lot of, like, little dishes and stuff. That place was freaking fire. And then where else did I go? Let me get my heat map. I have 37 places on my heat map. Geez. I know, dude, I'm telling you, I'm living in a life over here in Toronto.

Because the way that this show is filmed, like, I'm off, like, every other day. Oh, wow. I would hate that. Too much downtime. I'm like, we could have done this so quickly. Oh, and then I went to this little, like, French bistro called Alouette. Yum. Okay. So they had, I had a martini that was accompanied. You know, martinis usually either have like a lemon twist or an olive, you know. Yep. This one, this one came with a side of foister. Wow. That's phenomenal. Dude, and then it was, it was like a wedge salad, which was, you know, you can never go wrong with a wedge salad. And then I got octopus carpaccio. It's delicious.

And then what else did I have? Something else that was fire. Oh, like a little like some sort of crudeo. That place was fire. Okay. I told you guys about sunny's Chinese. That has a Michelin Star. Went to the St. Lawrence Market.

Loved it. Wasn't quite what I thought it was going to be. It wasn't quite like the Pike Place where I've thrown the fish. But there's a lot of cool shit over there. Oh, it's a graffiti alley. Beautiful. I don't need any more suggestions here in Toronto. Or sorry, Toronto.

This place fucking rocks. So the other thing I was talking to the way. why F2 years about. Okay, so everyone's given me shit for the way that I say the city of which I'm staying at right now. How do you say the name of this city? Toronto. Toronto. It's not apparently the Torontoians. They pronounce it Toronto. Oh yeah. I've heard one of my tour managers is from Toronto. Toronto. And that's how he says it. But I feel like a poser when I say it like that. It's like going to Italy and calling it copri. Like I just feel like it's one step too far because I'm not Italian. You know what I mean? Yeah, it's weird to change the way that you speak

right at the end, you know? I think Toronto is a good, a good middle ground because it's like I'm I'm not enunciating the T in the middle like Toronto. It's like you're, it's more of like a rolling Toronto, Longo, but I'm not being like a freaking local. Anyways, yeah, I'm not, I'm not Canadian. I know, well, I can't say Tarana. So anyways, this place rocks. Hey, y'all. I'm here in Toronto. No, it'd be crazy. That'd be weird. Yeah. You would sound like a crazy person.

I would. Dude, but you know what happened to me? And this breaks my heart because I'm a dog person. Oh, no. I love dogs. I'm scared. I was on a run. I went down, took Spadina down to the waterway, and then I was running on the waterway.

Finishing up my run, I'm like running back to Spadina to then run up the street to my hotel. And I see a homeless gentleman with a dog smoking a blunt. Okay. Okay. So I see this man. This man sees me. So he's, he's kind of on the outside of the path. His dog's in the middle of the path. I'm on the other side. You know, I'm on the right, far right side of the path. And I'm going past this dog is old. And every time I see, and maybe I shouldn't feel this way, but I do. And I feel like a lot of people feel this way too. Every time you see a homeless person with a dog, you feel bad for the dog. I mean, I feel bad for the homeless person too. But I really, for some reason, I really have empathy for the dog. Because I'm like, I just hope that, like, I know it's hard for you. you to get food, you eat before your dog does. And that makes me very sad, you know? I know. To be fair, I do kind of feel like a dog is probably better off living with a homeless person than in a shelter. Yeah, probably true. Even though they get fed, it's like the conditions are not ideal to be like living in a box. I don't disagree with that. But anyways, that's always just my thought

when I see a dog with a homeless person, you know? So I look at this dog. This dog looks old and like kind of Just come trotting along, whatever. It's like, no, my fucking owner is just smoking a blunt right now with his shirt off for some reason. And just whatever, we're going down. So I'm just like, whatever. And so I'm walking, I'm running past them. So I'm like, we're going opposite directions, right? Get right past him.

And the dog freaks out, jumps, and bites me in the ass. No. Yeah. Do you want to see a picture of it? Yeah. Okay, hold on. What kind of dog? Everyone asked me that question.

I don't know. It's like a white dog that was probably like 70 pounds. 65 pounds. Wow. Oh, yeah. Holy shit. Ouch. So anyways, he bites me. And I'm listening to my book on tape, which, by the way, I finished the Tommy Knockers by Stephen King. And that's what I was listening to. So I couldn't really hear very well. So I turn around. I'm like, what the fuck? You know, I yell this to this guy. Like, dude, if you got a dog that you know might bite people, you can't be letting people walk close to the dog. You need to pull the leash. Then I know, okay, I need to move over because

this dog might bite me but he didn't do that so I'm like what the fuck and then he you know he's a crazy person and he starts yelling back at me and cart cussing at me like like I did the wrong thing here and then I was like scared I was like this guy could just let this dog off the leash and then I'm either going to get eaten alive or I'm at the beat the shit out of a dog right I don't want either of those things to happen so then I was like eff it I'm going to leave so I check my butt to make sure I wasn't like bleeding profusely and I wasn't so I was like totally ripped my pants I totally ripped my compression shorts, you know? Yeah.

So I get back to the hotel. I look at it. I don't have any, like, I have neosporin in my, in my bag, but I don't have, like, alcohol. So I crack open a bottle of vodka. I'm cracking it. You could have called the hotel concierge, and I'm sure they had a first-aid kit. I don't know, man. I'm just, I'm like a spy, you know.

Like, Reacher, Jack Ryan. They're in, like, foreign territory, and they got to use what they got. You know, and that's what I did. I found some vodka, and then I soaked up a towel, and then I rubbed it over my ass. And then when I removed the towel, I did infect. The dog did, in fact, break the skin. Oh, yeah. And then I'm like, shoot.

So I got to go to the Minute Clinic. Uh-huh. Are you going to get a rabies shot? So I go to the Minute Clinic. By the way, it's going to cost you $180 just to see the doctor. And I'm like, I thought you guys had fucking universal health care. Like, what's happening over here? Not for Americans.

And they're like, well, not for you. And I'm like, well, I have insurance. Can we use that? No, sorry, we don't take that. What the fuck's happening over here? So anyways, I have to pay $180 to have some guy look at my fucking ass. And he's like, hey, listen, that's pretty bad. You don't need stitches, which is good.

So I'll give you a tetan shot and I'll give you some antibiotics. But you might need to do a rabies shot. And I was like, no. And he's like, well, to be honest with you, we haven't had rabies in Canada in like 100 years. But if you do get a rabies shot, you have to go to the emergency room every single day for two weeks. And I was like, I'm going to roll the dice. Why do you have to do that? I don't know.

I don't know. That's weird. Hard pass on that one. Hard pass. I'm going to roll the dice. Even though if you do have rabies, like it's almost 100% you're going to die. Oh, for sure. So anyways, I got bit in the ass by a dog.

I've been eating great. I screwed my neck up somehow. I don't know how that happened. And here we are. Highs and lows. Yeah, and you've got the plague The frickin' plague Sorry about that

I mean, I do feel like one can only take so many flights Before getting sick, you know You wear a mask on all these flights? No Technically the sick people are the ones that should be wearing the mask I know, but you're the person who gets sick a lot Oh, I know, but only because there are sick people Not wearing masks

I know, but I guarantee you it came from a fucking kid That's where all the sickness comes from Children If you wore a mask, then it couldn't get into you. I know, but I shouldn't have to. In a perfect world, we shouldn't have to do a lot of things. I know, I'm just saying. It's really the sick people that should be wearing the masks to protect the healthy people.

I get it, but you think you need to go to the doctor, is what I'm saying. No, it's fine. We're going to take a test. I'm going to take some Ivermectin. I'm going to be gooch. Oh, my God. I mean, you have a bunch of that laying around because all the horses. Yeah, totally.

It's at the barn. Gross. They do. They do? They make human ivermectin, though. They do? Yeah, a little pill. Do you have that?

Matt's picking me up some. That's fucking ridiculous. I'm sorry, you're not feeling well. We can do this. We'll, it doesn't be a quick show. That's okay. I'm just, you know, I just, I'm fluctuating between, like, sweating and freezing. But other than that, it's like, I took a bunch of medicine this morning, so.

Nice. All right. Well, let's, anyone else to try the show? Yeah. Go for it. Bros and hoes. You're listening to your favorite thing podcast with. Bados and Brandy.

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Like, I feel like they fluctuate so much. And often I feel like my iron is so low. and, you know, a lot of people are like, well, I'll just go get an iron supplement from the store. But what's crazy is it's iron is really not the only level that you're supposed to check. When it comes to this, Faradon also plays a role in your iron storage. And so does copper. So if you're not checking all of these things, you really don't know your correct levels and what you need and what you don't when it comes to that. So I'm really excited.

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You don't need it to go ding ding ding. Why don't you put it on your lap or something? Well, it's cold and heavy. It's that, you know, that fancy pants one. I'll put it on my spare skin. All right, BIP, episode nine. Only two episodes left, by the way. I know I'm not really in this episode a lot, but here's the thing.

You did make it to the intro, though. I know. Love that for you. What the fuck? It took me nine episodes for them to realize. Oh, yeah, Wells is on the show, too. Uh-huh. You know what it was? It was a couple episodes ago when I said, whatever I said. And then Batser Nation was like, thank you, Wells. We need more. Everyone got angry in the comments. Like, why isn't Wells on the show more? You know? And then they're like, fuck. Okay. Well, add him to the intro. Oh, he's going to remember this next time we renegotiate his contract.

Seriously. You're like, and I will. So yeah, that was nice that they put me back in there. But, um, so Hannah and I finally make the intro, great. Also, I love this new production company, but this is what I hate about it. What they chose, one, they were, they were never like, let's do some funny intro for you. And then let me think of something funny. That's just an outtake from when Jesse and I did the, I know what you did last summer thing. And it's an ugly shot, like a down, like an up shot up my fucking double chin.

I'm like, Jesus Christ, guys. Anyways, whatever. I guess the beggars can be choosers. Hannah is on the television show, apparently. This is amazing. I texted her the other day, and she was like, I don't think I'm on this show. They've cut so much of your stuff.

So anyway, she takes the girls for a girl chat. It's cute. Like, this was supposed to be her role on the show, and they never used it. It made no sense to me. Kat says she's not getting engaged, which I feel like is healthy. I do, too.

Jess starts crying about her relationship with Spencer. Red flag. But no, like, trying in like a good way, though. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. There are some red flags with them, I feel like. Major.

But we find that out a little bit later in the episode. What's happening with Alex and Andrew, they seem to be doing pretty well. I don't know. Alex is a weird one. I think she's authentically odd. Totally. Yeah. Yeah.

Absolutely, I think it's 100% her. She's just like an odd ball of a person. I wonder. So here's my question. And I like both of these people. But, like, in terms of dating, let's say you were, you could date someone like cat who's, like, neurotic and very vain, you know, and or you could date someone like Alex who is very weird and goofy and a little awkward. Yeah. Of the two, who would you choose?

I think Alex. I think so, too. Yeah. For, like, my personality, like. Because at least she seems, well, that's a bad way to say it, because cat doesn't seem dishonest. But Alex, just being that way is just very honest, you know, like, especially like with the kissing stuff we see this, this week, like, yes, it's weird and it's like a bit awkward, but it's also she's just really blunt and honest and direct, I feel like, and that's not necessarily a bad thing.

I think they're both extremely honest about the people that they all. Yeah, yeah. I think it's more like sensibilities of, like, what you could handle as a partner. Right. I thought it was an interesting question. Jesse tells everyone that they have a beach dinner set up, which seems nice, but it's not because there are a lot of flies there. Alex and Andrew seem to be doing very well, actually.

They feel like they're flirting as cute and nerdy and I just like it. I think it's very cute. And then cat gets attacked by flies. Do you think that in the animal kingdom, they all sense the weakness and then they go after that person? Probably. It's not bothering anybody else other than the person that it bothers. I know.

I also wonder, too, like, insects are attracted to, like, fragrance and certain things like that. I wonder, is she wearing a lot of perfume and no one else is or, like, and then where they're just, like, swarming to her. Yeah. It's funny. Jesse comes back in, tells them that they're all going glamping, which I'd be like, why. We have our own hotel rooms, you know? Yeah. And, by the way, like, it made it seem like it was far away.

It was, like, right there. Like, a hundred yards down the beach. Yeah. How far apart were each of them from each other? I don't know. I didn't go out there. I'm just curious about that. But I think that it was in a big horse grazing field.

Clearly. Clearly, yeah. So however big that needs to be. Okay. That's what it was. So we find out it's actually a relationship test and they've got some shrink watching in the control room, you know, kind of judging everyone. It's funny to see like what the shrink thinks of everyone's relationship. She doesn't get Alex and Andrew, which I don't know if I agree with.

Yeah. I mean, I agree with a little bit of it. I agree with her that it's tough to see any sexual chemistry between them. It just all seems really goofy. But I do think that's just like, especially Alex's personality. And I don't think that doesn't mean that they have feelings for each other. Got to find out that basically everything is sabotaged, like nothing works. And it's just like, how do you deal with adversity?

Which I think is actually a really interesting game. Totally. I wish I had had that opportunity because I am the biggest MacGyver when it comes to camping. All of the problems that they ran into, I was like, okay, just fucking, I know how to fix that, know how to fix that. It would have been like my own episode of a loan out there. But you would have been with Ashley I who would have been acting like cat probably, yeah? Yeah, and that would have been, that would be the one thing I wouldn't be able to handle.

I would break up with her. Go to a different, go to different tent. I can't handle you. Stop crying. Grow up, Peter Pan. Cat has a full meltdown. You know what's really funny about this? So, like, the next day, I always come, you know, I go to the bar and then they come and they, and they give me like this whole state of the union.

Like, what happened? She was like, well, she'd be so proud of me. There was all these bugs and I was totally fine. I totally handled it. And then I'm watching it back. I'm like, what the fuck are you talking about? If that's you fine. If that's you, like, really holding back, it's not good.

I feel like this is like Keith's episode, by the way. Yeah, because it's the last one. No, it's not. Oh, it's not. He stays. I see, I didn't get that far. Okay. Keith is talking to Kathy.

He misses his family. He doesn't really care about the 500 grand. I know. Kathy, on the other hand, does care about the 500 grand. She definitely cares. And she doesn't give two shits about Keith's family because she wants a half a million dollars, which is understandable, but also hilarious. She is right in the sense that, like, being on the show is, like, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. He's never going to do anything like this again, probably.

Like, you might as well, like, take it for all. You can, you know? Yeah, I agree. He's a romantic at heart, and he's like, I think that someone in a relationship should win this show, not two buddies. For sure. You know? Yeah. Who met on the Lido deck of a carnival cruise.

We play some sound in the jungle to freak everyone out, I guess. I'm not really sure. It's nothing. And Jesse's like, just kidding, you guys got alcohol. So everyone goes back to their house, which was 100 yards away, which they all could have done. I'm kind of surprised people weren't like. No one ran away. I think they started to realize it was a test.

And they all want immunity. For sure. My question was, for cat and these bugs. Yeah. I know being in the dark is not ideal. But if they had turned off the fucking string lights, that would have significantly decreased the bugs. Yes, but it would have significantly reduced the comedy of cat freaking the fuck out.

But if I were Dale, I would have been like, let's just unplug the lights, yo. Like, the bugs are going to leave. Yeah, I didn't think about like you going and doing it, not being like, hey, producer, can we turn these off? Yeah. That probably did happen. They're like, no, we can't. We need the light or whatever. Yeah, I would have just been like, I'm just going to plug the lights.

Yeah. So we find out that Dr. Laura's been watching. She has a kind of a state of the union with everybody. She's not buying Alex and Andrew. She sees some red flags with Jeremy and Bailey. She's a little concerned about Jess and Spencer. And she talks about how Dale was really calm, cool, and collected with cats. but that he might have a little bit of hero syndrome, which he responds with, yeah, I know that,

which I thought, I was like, I don't know if that's the answer, you should say there. You shouldn't tell everyone that you know that you're the hero. But that's very hero syndrome of him. But anyways, they win. That's all that really matters, right? Is that they win. So they have immunity. And you kind of find out that two couples are going home this week, which is a big cut.

Yeah, it is. Cut to Spencer and Jess talking about what they want in the future. This is where things get a little tough. I'm telling you, I saw red flags last week when they were talking about who's moving where. Yep. And they're talking about like, well, once your release is up in September, like, you got to come move in with me. And it's like, that's just not how this works. How old are each of them?

Do you know? I don't know. I think he's a little bit older than she is. She says she wants to have kids by 30. I think that she's probably... maybe 25? Yeah. And I think he's probably 27, 208.

He's like, I want to have kids the next two years. You can't tell a 25-year-old that. No, also, Spencer, no, you don't. Live your life. Yeah, you don't, Spencer. She's stupid. People are so insane. So dumb.

Never have kids. Like 30 is so young even. So young. It's just crazy. This is starting to freak out Jess. She like goes back and talks to the girls and the girls are like, shit, you know, okay, don't Don't freak out. Don't freak out.

And Spencer clocks it, too. He's like talking to Andrew and he's like, I don't want to freak her out. You know, he's like, tell her you love her. I don't know, man. But I don't understand why the conversation can't be like. I think that when our lease is up, we figure out like what city we want to live in. And we can go live in that city, but we can live in separate houses. Totally.

I get an apartment and you get apartment. It's kind of nice that way because then you have like an opportunity to escape. Totally. To me, that's like the answer is like. Like, yeah, I don't want to do long distance just so you know, but we don't have to move in together. If you want to save money, sure, we can, but we don't have to. Mm-hmm. Agree.

I mean, we find out that Alex and Andrew are holding back. First of all, everyone's so scared to say that they're starting to fall in love or I'm falling in love. All right. Say it with your chest. Say you love them. Well, call me crazy, but it seems like nobody's actually falling in love and that's why they're, quote, unquote, scared to say it. Maybe so. But so they, Alex and Andrew do this little dance of like who's going to say.

at first and blah la la la la anyways they're holding back but they are falling in love apparently or they're beginning to fall in love or they're getting the beginning parts of falling in love there's a sliver of hope that love is down the road i don't know i'm not really sure what they're saying all i know is that love was involved yeah and then that Alex gets up and it's like come let's go to the bar and he can't because he has a boner which was funny very funny boners are funny especially the fact that he wasn't wearing underwear i know like is that That, like, normal, like, you normally don't wear underwear or, like, you just ran out this week and... That's a good question.

I just, you know, I was curious. We should ask him. Yeah. Yeah, it's weird. There's a good chance you're going to be hooking up later. You should have some underwear on because you don't want to have smelly balls. Right. Just going to say it.

Mm-hmm. You know? Especially in that heat, humidity down there. That's what I'm saying. Gross. How place is smelly balls. All right, guys, shopping, planning, and cooking food really can be simple and super stress-free. Imagine having your weekly shopping cart.

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perfect gummies for whatever you're dealing with. And remember to use promo code YFT at checkout to save 20% on your first order. Seems like Keith wants to go home. Kathy doesn't, but no one wants Keith to go. I know. And I think that's really cute. All the girls there are like, you're like our girl dad and all the guys they are like love him, you know?

I thought that we did a bad job of showing how fun it was to have the Golden's there this season. And, I mean, we finally do kind of get it with how much everyone loves Keith. So we go to the Rose ceremony. This is the first time this has happened. We have a tie vote. And then, of course, it goes to Dale because Dale and Cat won a challenge. Dale gets it aside.

It's not a hard choice for old Dale. One, he gets out a couple that, like, probably could. win a bunch of these exercises just because of like their athleticism and like they know each other really well. And also Jonathan was trying to get on your girl. Totally. I don't really begrudge him for this decision. I think it's probably the right one.

I agree. Jonathan and Leah should have been gone weeks ago. Forever ago. To be honest with you, not for nothing. So should Keith and Kathy. I know. I think the show, the episode's over at this point. And it isn't.

Mm-hmm. There's another relationship. It's called Sharp Opinions, basically just stabbing everyone in the back. Everyone is turning on everyone else. It gets kind of nasty. Which they said they would never do. I know. Okay, guys.

But Allot and Andrew win, and we find out two couples are going home. And that's kind of it. We leave, like, right before a rose ceremony starts. Okay. Yeah. But in the Supertees, we find out that the Parliament of Paradise is coming back. Oh, boy. Oh, boy.

And you see a little more of Sean. I like Sean. I do. I like Sean a lot. I mean, you know what Sean is? Sean is like who we used to have on this show. Yeah. It's like, fuck that.

I'll say it. Totally. And we need more of that, man. Yep. Maybe it's because Sean comes from like the time before when it was like, A. Yeah. Someone's got to say it. But you know, like, you know who was also like that?

Grocery Store Joe was like that. Really? Yeah, he was like, I'll fucking say it. This is bullshit, you know? Like, he didn't get the hell out of here. Grocerer Joe was always the enforcer of virtue in paradise. And I feel like we don't have that. That is true.

Like, you have me, the voice of reason. I'm saying the thing that the audience is thinking, but I can't be like you need to leave. You know? Yeah, yeah. You need someone in the cast who's loved. No, this isn't right. Yeah. I don't know if Sean's loved.

Yeah, I wouldn't say that But it's fun So I know what happens Obviously going into the last episode But I haven't seen it obviously Other than watching it in front of me So it'll be interesting to see how this all unfolds One more episode left

Programming note for the show Labor Day is on Monday So that means the show Will be airing on Tuesday instead of Monday So I think next week's episode Let's have it come out Thursday instead of Wednesday. Okay.

Just to give us some time. Sure. And also, I'm just going to say it. On the third, which is Wednesday, I'm hosting the reunion show. Ah. So we're not televising it on ABC. We are doing a, I'm doing a podcast with Iheart with the entire cast, and then it's also going to be on YouTube.

Will it be live? I don't know. I don't know that yet. We should find out. Yeah. Anyways, I'm not sure I'm supposed to say that, but I sign a. a contract so all right well i'd be sick if it was live i'd like to i'd like to edit it up you know i'm sure you would radio whales anyway so that's it that's the that's the that's the show okay

thoughts who do you think well you know who's winning who do i think it's gonna win it would be fucking nuts if dale and cat win they set up Alex and Andrew to start looking very strong going forward, right? Yeah. Which I think is a little disingenuous. I feel like they were a really strong couple before this, but now they're kind of pushing in them ahead. And I think it's just because we had a lot of like Jeremy business to get through.

Yeah. So like I wouldn't be surprised if those two make a strong run. I just feel like Jess is about to self-destruct. Yeah. So that's why I feel like her and Spencer like ain't going to make it. Because obviously they were like the shoe-in, you know, number one pick up until recently. So, yeah, I don't know. And Jeremy and Bailey, they've got fucking issues.

They do well in challenges to, like, maybe them could see it. I think at this point, especially if Keith and Kathy can't stick around, then you've got a bunch of people who are very good that any of them could win. Yeah. I feel like there's got to be some sort of twist. Kind of like how the relationship test with the camping, like having the therapist come in, like, obviously it seemed like, you know, Spencer and Jess did the best, but like the twist was like, well, you guys like had the least issues, but it was the way Cat and Dale handled the issues that made them the winner. And that was a nice twist on like that challenge. So I feel like there might be some sort of twist where like it may seem like Titus couple could win, but then there's like a twist of like a twist of like. like what actually makes the best couple. You know what I mean?

Totally. We'll see. We shall see. Yeah. Anyways, do you have some favorite things, bro? I finally just watched the finale of perfect match. I was shocked that Lucy and her man won, but I feel like I've heard like whispers of what's been happening since,

but we didn't really get any type of reunion show. And I feel like it's needed. Like I heard Rachel's with Karen. Is that true? You have no idea. I don't watch this show. Yeah, but you're on social media. It's not part of my algorithm. I need the wife tears. If you guys are watching perfect match, can you hit it in the DMs and let me know who's with who? Because I just am very curious. I feel like I've heard rumors. I did hear, I did see that AD and Ollie were pregnant, which I think is wild. But yeah, I'm hearing Rachel's with Carrington, which is cute. I actually always kind of liked them together.

But I'd love to know where Daniel and Lucy are now. I kind of was hearing that Lucy might be with one of the other cast members. I don't know. I just need some tea. Like, I'm not satisfied. What are you doing? I'm going to ask chat GPT. Okay, so what do you want me to ask? I feel like the chat GPT voice that you've selected says a lot about who you are as a person, just in general. Okay, so mine's a British man. Why is that say a lot about me? Well, what did, you know, when you pick the voice, it has like calm and reassuring or like it says, what did yours say? I don't know. I don't remember that. I just went with the one that the voice that I thought was appropriate to tell me. me facts, which to me

is like a British professor. Which voice did I pick? I literally care. I don't know. Let's see. Hey, chat. What's going on this morning? How about you, uh, anything exciting going on this morning or just those chill day so far? He just has a very calm, like, yeah, normal voice.

Totally. Okay, so what do you want to mean to ask Chat, GPT, about this fucking show? Ask who everybody is with now. However you want to ask that. What's the show called? Perfect match. The most recent season, a perfect match. Where are they now?

So it looks like there's been a mix of breakups and a happy engagement. Most of the couples from the earlier seasons have gone their separate ways, but Amber and Olly from the latest season are still going strong and have some exciting news. Let me know if you need more details on any of them.

Ask about Lucy and Rachel. So Lucy and Daniel have gone their separate ways and Lucy is currently dating someone new while Daniel is still single. And as for Rachel, she and Ray didn't keep their relationship going after the show wrapped up. If there's anything else you want to know, just let me know.

Ask if Rachel's with Carrington. This is funny. It looks like there's definitely some buzz and speculation among fans. But as of now, Rachel and Carrington haven't confirmed an official relationship. It'd be interesting to see how things develop. It will. Let me know if you're curious about anything else. Okay.

Thank you. Obviously, Daniel and Lucy weren't going to stay together. By the way, what just happened on this show is just a precursor of why they don't need us anymore. Totally. gave us more information than you ever given me about this television show in 15 seconds. I don't

know if that's true. It was a lot of, well, it doesn't appear that they're together, but I don't really know the real answer. Yeah. Should I do a podcast with just chat GPT? Honestly, if no one's done that yet, yes, you should, because it's genius. Yeah. Yeah. I actually did

pitch it to Podcast Nation once. What do you guys think about this? What they say? No. You're like, it's a good idea. It is a fucking good idea. It's a great idea. Especially if you could get it animated. So like there would be someone to look at, you know? Totally. Can we just really quickly talk about something that is near and dear to you and your family's heart? Maybe. The Cracker Barrel logo. Oh, I have been seeing a lot of stuff about this. But I've seen so much like people making their own logo. I don't know what's real and what's not. So there used to be like an old black guy in the logo sitting on a chair or something next to a cracker

barrel. Yeah. Or a barrel. Okay. I guess filled with crackers. I don't really understand. And so they've taken him away. And people are enraged.

I asked chat chat, GTP, about it. I was like, what is going on with this? So Cracker Barrel's recent makeover has struck a nerve. Balancing modernization with nostalgia isn't easy, especially for brands, with a deep emotional connection to their customers. The shift has pulled loyal diners into a culture war debate. triggering financial repercussions and fueled widespread criticism from all sides. The biggest mistake they made was that the new logo just isn't good.

It's just plain and ugly and just like not good. The culture war thing is like, this is woke, you know, you're taking, it's like, you know, Aunt Jemima off the thing because it's racist, it's just woke. I don't think that this is like, I don't think liberals were like, we got to get this fucking guy off this low, you know, like I don't think, I don't think that that's what it was. I think that that was the company being like, maybe to josh this up a little bit. And then it's turned into this culture war.

But the thing is, is that the people that go to Cracker Barrel a lot are the people that don't want the woke shit, you know? Well, my thing is, why are you fixing something that's not broken? Crackerel is doing great. Doing just fine. I don't understand it. I don't think it's a culture war thing.

I think it's a bunch of executives that are fucking bad at their job. Dude, if you ask me, hey, man, what do you think about taking away Uncle Cletus from the fucking logo? I'd be like, it's the dumbest thing in the world. First of all, all the people that go to those places are fucking Republican, which means they hate change. And if you hate change, do not change the fucking logo. Also, the thing that makes that place great is the nostalgia of it. Totally. It's this old fucking building with a bunch of knickknacks and shit you can buy and walk around and shop before you.

you sit down and eat 7,000 calories of chicken dumplings and fucking biscuits and gravy. Yum. Directly supplying the diabetes issue that's happening in the South and Southeast. But also, dude, I'm sorry. I've yet to come across a lot of executives that I think are smarter than me. All right? I've seen a lot of bad calls. Right?

Mm-hmm. Hey, here's one. Elon Musk. Dude, don't get fucking political. You know why? because you've got a bunch of liberals buying your fucking electric cars. And now they don't want to

because you're not what they think as one of them. Dumbest move in the entire world. He's very smart, obviously, sitting rockets to Mars and shit. But you're telling me that one guy wasn't like, hold on, question. If we do this, is this going to fuck up our bottom line? Same with these cracker barrel fucks.

True. I just think that people need to hit me up for a consultancy. in a consulting business. I think I should. I'd hire you. Just common sense. Call common sense. Yeah. LLC. Voice of reason consultant. Yeah. You're right. That's my thought. The other thing, I don't know if you saw this on my Instagram, but I was talking about this. This annoys me. The word detergent. Oh, I saw it. What's going on with the word detergent? What's wrong with turgent? Why are we trying to detergents? You know? My clothes get dirty. Do I have turgent on my clothes?

and I'm trying to de-the-turgent. Maybe. I mean, I understand, like, detoxify. We want to get rid of the toxins. I understand deodorant because we have odor, and we want to dee the odor. But what the fuck's turgent? So what would you call laundry detergent? Well, I call it detergent because that's what we've called it forever, but I just don't understand it.

I know, but if you were going to rename it, what would you call it? Clothing soap. Distained? Dysdirt? Distained. is great. Yes. Disdain.

It's genius. Okay, so you're going to have a consulting business and you're going to launch your own laundry soap called. No, I'm not going to launch it. I'm going to consult Tide and be like, guys, we got to change it. Let's just call it disdain. It is good. And what's great about it is it's a wordplay. Yeah.

Disdain because you have disdain for stains. Yep. You know? I do. Shit rights itself, man. I'm buying that immediately. That's hilarious. You got anything else?

I don't think so. I'm trying real hard to get through the hunting wives, but it's losing me. Is it? Yeah, everyone, and people like, you know, I mentioned a couple weeks ago, it's like one of those shows where I'm not sure I'm comfortable watching it on the airplane. And I've been seeing on TikTok people complaining, saying like, don't watch this show if you're sitting in the fucking aisle seat on. an airplane. There's like children. There's a lot of titties. And I do sit in the aisle seat on plane. So now I've been

a little self-conscious to watch it when I'm traveling. I'm continuing to watch the Institute, which is a phenomenal show based on a Stephen King novel. I've told you guys about it. Still in the middle of the season. We're getting to the nitty grade, the great part of it. The only problem with this show is that it's on MGM

Plus, which a lot of people don't have. I get it through Prime. I pay for it. But it's worth it. The Institute I love. The other thing. FX's Aliener. Earth. Have you seen this? Cannot say I have, but I do like FX. Yeah, they got some good shit. Yeah. What's crazy is that? You know what's starring?

Who? Sidney Chandler. Do you know who Sidney Chandler is? No. Kyle Chandler's daughter. Oh. Yeah. Okay. So Alien Earth is part of the alien franchise, you know, like Sigourney Weaver, like that whole thing.

But I think it happens before all the movies do. So here's a tag. When a mysterious space vessel crash lands on Earth, a young woman, and a rag-tag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face to face with the planet's greatest threat. Alien Earth. In this story, we've gotten to a point where there's like kind of two ways that humans are evolving. You can become a cyborg. so effectively they can like put mechanical parts into your body and onto your body to like make you like kind of half robot half human okay or they can take like a straight up robot kind of like avatar style and take your soul and mind and essence and put it into the avatar the robot and so sydney chanler's character is one of those so it's all predicated around this like boy genius who started this company called prodigy and he is taking kids who are sick who have like terminal cancer and stuff and putting them into these different bodies. And when they do that, they become basically like superheroes, you know, they can run, jump and, you know, whatever, fight better than any human ever could.

The whole thing is kind of like this analogy of Peter Pan and the Lost Boys. And so all these kids are renamed as Lost Boys and the main girl, Sidney Chandler, is named Wendy. Cut to, there's a spacecraft with all these different alien species on it as for scientific research. And just like in every movie, an alien, like the aliens get out and they fucking run havoc on all the people on the ship. And the ship crash lands into Earth, into the building where this kid who's building this company called Prodigy are. And so he sends in his lost boys, all these kids who are in these like robot bodies to go in there and figure out what's going on. So it's like basically robots versus aliens, I guess.

That's kind of cool. It's fucking awesome. Wow. Okay. If you like that kind of stuff, the fighting scenes are fun. It's really gory because it's, you know, aliens like ripping people apart and stuff. It's shot really beautifully. The cast is great.

They've got Timothy Oliphantz in it. Oh. He's great. Alex Lothar, who's been in a lot of stuff. And Sidney Chandler's great. Is she? So, yeah. I heard she's hard to work with, though.

I'm not sure if that's true or not. It's on TikTok, it's probably not true. Interesting. Speaking of people hard to work with, have you heard about all the tea between Ryan Reynolds and Robert Downey Jr.? No. Apparently, they are doing a new Marvel movie where Robert Downey Jr. is no longer Iron Man. He's now playing Doctor Doom. Oh.

And Ryan Reynolds is playing Deadpool. And I guess there was a fight on set. Robert Downey Jr. was like, I'm not working with this fuck. Oh. The tea is piping And the producers are like Hold on We got to figure figure this out

And apparently they are filming the entire movie Separate Without the other person So someone's as a stand-in for like the two-shot That's some petty shit But I'm here for it I know I am too Also I don't even know what's going on

But I'm automatically on Robert Down in junior side Same Has there been a more steep fall In Hollywood than Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively Dude And no More so Ryan

Because like he was just so loved Dude Ryan Ryan all you had to do Is stay the fuck out of that business I know None of this would have come to light Yeah pretty fucking crazy This is how I take sides

It's like birds of a feather If I know a bunch of people That I think are good people Really like you Then I think you're probably a good person Yeah And it seems like the entire Marvel cast Loves Robert Danny Jr.

Yeah One person in particular is Tom Holland, who seems like the most lovely little guy in the world, right? And a fantastic actor. So good. And it seemed like Robert Downing Jr. really took him under his wing and, like, they're friends and they're cool. Mm-hmm. You know? Yep.

So in my mind, I'm like, fucking Robert Dian Jr. is probably a good guy, you know? Totally. He had some substance abuse issues. He went to jail. He made some mistakes, but he's come back. Totally. We love a redemption story. Yeah.

Who doesn't love it? Character arc. But Ryan Reynolds You're just like, I think you're fake nice Same You know We don't love that We don't love that

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best-selling author, A.R. Torre. Where did you hear about this one? TikTok. I see, like, a lot of stuff. If you like these books, then you'll love these books. So then I, like, I save those and I go back and check it out.

Okay. And this one's, I may be like a third of the way and do it. It's fucked up. Damn. It's fucked up. But that's great. Okay. That's all I got. All right.

All right. Did we do it? I think we did it. I'm starting to decline. All right. What do you got coming up? Oh, well. I'm hoping I can turn this shit around by Thursday

because I'm playing Vegas on Friday. Nice. And it's Labor Day weekend, this weekend. So big party weekend, and that means big work weekend for me. Friday, I'm really been looking forward to it. I'm opening for Sophie Tucker at Encore Beach Club. I love Sophie Tucker. I think they're one of the sickest DJs out there, DJ Duo.

They're just, they really have their own thing going. And Sophie plays instruments and sings and dances while Tucker DJs. It's just a very cool thing. So I hope and I feel better for that one. And then I fly to New York and I'm playing at Flins on Fire Island on Monday, which is Labor Day. I'm like closing out their summer season. So that's another like, it's not Jersey Shore, but it's like right south or south, north. I don't know.

My brain hurts. So it should be fun. So I'm just trying to get myself better before then. And then soon I'll be out in L.A. Nice. Yeah. How long are you in Toronto? I'm here through the month.

Well, the month's over. Well, it's the 26th today. I leave on the 31st. So I come back at the end of the month. And then I've got some business. Like I said, I'm doing that reunion show. I got a lot of stuff I've got to do in New York this year. Oh.

More information to follow. That's exciting. Yeah. You just keep finding yourself in New York. Yes. I blame my wife for this. Yep. Yeah.

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