Your Favorite Thing with Wells & Brandi - Triscuits, Inbreeding & Other Delicacies

Episode Date: June 11, 2025

Brandi is down bad with a Vegas-induced illness (dry desert air: 1, Branzino: 0), but she’s still powering through to bring the vibes this week, dear YFT’ers. Meanwhile, Wells has big thoughts on family genetics, what car rental companies to avoid and best of all…what makes a GOOD charcuterie board. Basically, don’t ever tell him that Triscuits and blue cheese don't have a seat at the table, mmkay? Also up for debate: Is Owen Wilson just playing Owen Wilson in everything? Brand-eye thinks so. Check out the fave things list this week to decide on your own. Wells also shares a tragic tale of being snubbed at a fancy omakase restaurant despite open tables - can’t they just seat one person at their totally empty bar?? We’ll shout that for eternity…or until the new show next week. Ok byeeeee! Favorite Things Mentioned: Handmaid’s Tale Dept Q Stick Nine Perfect Strangers Tires S2 Predator: Killer of Killers 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. Happy Mammoth: For a limited time get 15% off on your entire first order at happymammoth.com and use the 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. Ancient Nutrition: Ancient Nutrition is offering 25% off your first order when you go to AncientNutrition.com/YFT. Skims: Shop SKIMS best intimates including the Fits Everybody Collection and more at SKIMS.com. 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.

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How you doing? I went kind of Bob Dylan on that, didn't I? How's everybody doing? Doing good. If you're watching this from social clips and stuff, you know, it's have a different background because I found out that there is a business center in the building of which we live here in New York City.

So I decided to come try this out mainly because I wouldn't have a dog that was barking at me constantly asking for treats while I was doing the show, which is always fun to edit out. Is this millennial gray? I think it is. It's fine. I'm fine with it. I just got finished watching the French Open Final. Sinner versus Alcares. Spaniard versus an Italian. But I tell you what, man, I was rooting for the Spaniard, not because I'm Portuguese, but because the Italian was redheaded. And let me tell you something. All right. Ginger Italians, I think not. All right. I like my Italians to be olive skin and

hairy, red hair. What are we talking about? Also, his last name is sinner. If you're an Italian and your name doesn't end with a vowel, don't trust you. Okay, so you're not a real Italian. You're Dolan Valor. No, it was a freaking amazing match. Great five setter. I think everyone's been worrying about like, what are we going to do? Now that kind of Djokovic is kind of ending the dolls done and Federer has been done for a little bit like who's going to be able to like take the torch

and go? Well, let me tell you something. These two motherfuckers are probably going to do it because they are young. They are good and they're fun to watch. And I love tennis and I don't really talk about, you know, ding ding ding. One of my favorite things. I don't really talk about tennis a lot, but I do love it. Anyways, let's talk about mom and dad are fighting the president and the guy who owns a rocket company.

That's cool. Other fun stuff. Let's just get right into it. Let's call the brand Zeno. Let's call the brand D. That ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding,

ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, Hello. Hello. Hi. Are you okay? I'm sick. Oh no. I've been sick for since Wednesday. No, you got the crud? Yeah, I do. Man, I'm sorry. It's terrible. Yeah, well, who gave it to you, you think? Who's the culprit? You know, I think it's Las Vegas. Yeah, that's a dirty place, full of ne'er-do-wells and rapscallions. I do this when I go to dry climates.

You get sick? I get this kind of sick, yeah. LA does it to me. Jackson Hole's done it to me before, even though it's my favorite place on earth. There's just something about the desert, the dryness that my body does not like. You need humidity. I know.

You know what Sarah has in our bedroom? I'm busy with it every single night, is a humidifier. Oh, I've got one right here. It's been bumping since I got here. Do you put distilled water in it? I do. That's good, because you don't want to get that crud in there, you know?

Yep. Well, I'm sorry that you're sick. Oh, it's really honestly been a huge bummer this week. I bet. Is it hard to do your shows sick? Or can you come up powerful? Yeah, it's not great, you know? Yeah.

You can't like call out, I assume, right? No, no. If I was puking or whatever was happening, I'd still be up there. The bright side here is it could be worse. I could be puking on stage. Thank God it's not that. By the end of my set, I like barely have a voice, you know?

Yeah. That's why we're at Wells. Well, I'm very sorry to hear that. Yeah, it's all right. It's life, you know? Do you like my new background? It's very nice. Is this millennial gray?

I don't know what that means, but I've heard it. No, it's not. It's got some like differentiation in it. Some texture, if you will. Yeah. So I realized that there is a conference center in the building of which we live. And so I was like, I'm going to go use that.

I don't think anyone ever uses this place. So this is my new studio. I love that for you. I'm just going to take over. Probably going to leave the ring light here. You know how it goes. Yeah. Looks like you're in a studio, honestly.

Oh, I know. I feel like a lot's going on. Oh, OK. Tell me. You know how it goes. Yeah. Looks like you're in a studio, honestly. I know. I feel like a lot's going on. Oh, okay. Tell me. Mom and dad are fighting. Who's mom and dad? The president of the United States and the guy who has a rocket company. Right. I heard a little bit about this. It's amazing. So, Elon, I guess is no longer ahead of Doge and so he got like fired. He did, I guess. And then like, Donald Trump was like, I'm not going to give you subsidies for your electric cars anymore. So then

he like went to Twitter and he was like, by the way, the reason why the Epstein files haven't released is because Donald Trump's on them have a great night. And now they're in a feud. Huh? Well, what do we think? Do we think this is a good thing or a bad thing? I mean, it's probably not a great thing. You know, I heard someone say that Donald Trump and Elon Musk fighting is like Kendrick and Drake, except for Republicans. And I thought that was pretty

great. That is pretty funny. I'm sending you something that's in the news. Okay. It's my kind of news. Do you know about Ed the zebra? No, what's going on with Ed the Zebra? So, Ed the Zebra has been on the loose, escaped from a farm in Rutherford County, Tennessee. He's been on the loose for a week, seen running through neighborhoods, along the highways, nobody can catch him. Poor little guy, he's probably terrified, you know? Lo and behold, today, yesterday, recently,

whoever owns the little guy must be loaded because they had a team from Texas in a helicopter come and fucking swoop this guy up and airlift him back to the farm. I thought it was AI. It's not. First of all, why are there zebras in Tennessee in Rutherford County? I mean, well, listen, here's the thing. You guys know I had a couple of zebras once tried to rescue the rescue the, you had two zebras. I rescued them from a slaughter lot in Texas. Who's slaughtering zebras?

Are we eating zebra meat now? So what they're doing is in Texas, it is legal to trophy hunt. We've talked about this years ago when I had these zebras. And zebras sell to these farms for people to go and shoot them, which is so fucking dumb because these zebras are like, first of all, it's just dumb to shoot zebras. And second of all, they're not like feral. They're raised in captivity. So it's just they don't run from

you. So like, I don't understand the thrill of shooting an animal that doesn't run from you. But you know, that's just me. But my zebras died from something called botulism, which is a toxin that grows in the dirt in some places, mostly in humid climatesates and it makes sense that they're not super immune to that because they're desert animals They're not used to the whatever the humid climates are, you know, and all the toxins in the ground So anyway all that to say people do have zebras, but can you believe they fucking helicoptered him out of there? Well, I mean, I guess did you know I can't you see the videos. It's insane Yeah, I just put it in the thing so we could use it in the clip. Why didn't a cowboy go and wrangle him?

I don't know. That's what I was thinking. I mean, I guess that's kind of traumatic maybe. But I'm thinking if I was that zebra... You think that that's more traumatic than flying? That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying is like, could you imagine that poor little guy flying above the trees and what was going through his head? No! What's the zebra's name? Ed. Fucking Ed was flying. He was flying. The pictures are nuts. They like dropped a net and I'm confused about how they got the net around the zebra. How'd they lock him in, you know? Yeah. Because there were no people. It was like they dropped a net, it swooped him, but like how did they make

sure he wouldn't fall out of the net in the air? I'm just so confused by all of it. I don't know if I believe any of this. This sounds- It's everywhere. I don't know. This sounds like something out of Madagascar. It does. It's like, literally at first I was like,

this has to be AI. Cause people have been, they've been running jokes about this zebra all week long on social media, you know? And so I thought this was another joke and it's not- In Nashville. Yeah. Not like national news. I mean maybe I don't know

No, I have not heard about Ed the zebra flying. Well, it's all over my Facebook feed. That's what I know Facebook what are you? How old are you? I'm old wells. You're on Facebook Yeah, that's how I get the tea on like what's going on in my neighborhood. I'm part of the neighborhood Facebook group Oh my god, you are tabs on the neighborhood at all times What's the what's the hot goss that's happening in the neighborhood in the hood? This week? It's nothing crazy actually actually it is You know what the tea is this week. It's really sad actually might be too controversial for our podcast I'm not sure but ice is in Tennessee And they're in LA. apprehended a bunch of the landscaping guys

in our neighborhood that work for everybody in the neighborhood. And so everybody is making donations and trying to help the families of the guys that are big apprehended. It's that's the hot goss this week. I love it. And Tennessee is such a Republican place. But people are like, but hold on, but these Mexicans make my yard look good. So, and Lord knows my husband's not gonna go out there and fucking do it.

So, let's get a GoFundMe for Ricardo, please. My geraniums are looking kinda wilty. It's so funny. Everyone's politics change when it happens to you. Totally. Yeah. Yeah, so that's the hot goss. You know, I gotta stay, I gotta keep tabs.

I gotta know what's going on even when I'm not there. Also, that's where, you know, Facebook is where that group is called Are We Dating the Same Guy? And even though it doesn't involve me at all, it's just so entertaining. When Instagram and X aren't doing it for me, I hit the Are We Dating the Same Guy Facebook group and just read it and it's just so entertaining. When Instagram and X aren't doing it for me, I hit the, are we dating the same guy? Facebook group and just read it and it's just,

God, it makes me feel so much better about my life. Is anyone dating the same guy right now? Everyone's dating the same guy. Yeah, that's probably true. Well, like half the country's like incels, so that's left the other half of men who actually have any game to really do some damage out there, you know?

Mm-hmm. Yeah, it's tough, tough stuff. Anyway, we solved it all. Let's go ahead and get a GoFundMe for Ricardo. He's also dating two of your friends at the same time, which is great. Totally. All right, I know some of the YFTers have been eyeing the merch that I'm selling at the Sphere

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ancient nutrition.com slash y ft for 25% off your first order ancient nutrition.com slash y ft. Dude, do you ever watch tennis? No, but my mom is currently watching tennis and that was her excuse for more but well that was her excuse for not answering my FaceTime today. Well, it was the French Open final. Roland Garros, Carlos Alcares taking on a guy named Sinner.

Alcares is a Spaniard. Sinner is an Italian, which I don't believe. He's got red hair and his last name doesn't end with a vowel. So it all doesn't check out. Stolen valor. Anyways, it's a five setter. I was gonna win in three, then Alcárez like somehow comes back and then sinners up a break about to break for the win at love 40 and Alcárez comes back and then breaks back and then wins the tiebreaker goes in the fifth in the fifth there's another tiebreaker and Al

Correz wins Wow Spaniard so anyways it was pretty cool it's fun to watch okay cool my favorite things ding ding no bells no bells no are you I'm back in the Mormon bedroom oh you're in the Mormon bedroom yeah all right well you're so you're sick since you're sick are you watching stuff because you're in the Mormon bedroom. Yeah. All right, so you're sick. Since you're sick, are you watching stuff because you're bedridden? I have watched a couple things. What do you got for me, sis?

So like, here's what I've been doing. Wait, should we start the show? Did we do that? Oh yeah, let's start the show. Let's do that. I think it's you. Bros and hoes, you're listening to Your Favorite Thing podcast with.

Wells and Brandy. Real low energy. I'm going to have to level up. I'm really unwell. I'm really not well. It's not great. There's two ways I can do this. I can come down to your level and have this be a real chill show.

All right. It could be almost like an NPR episode. Yeah, uh-huh. Or I can really go, listen, like, I got this, I got energy, I can handle it, you just fuckin' sit there, co-pilot, chill, with your sunglasses on in your Mormon room. I think that's normal, that's what we normally do. Yeah, that's kind of the show. Are you always sick?

Kinda, yeah, always a little, you know? Yeah, yeah. Yes, yeah. All right. Well, show. Are you always sick? Kinda, yeah, always a little, you know? Yeah, yeah. Alright. Well, so what have you been doing? The good thing about being sick is it's a great excuse to send Matt on errands. Ah, yes. And it gives me time to watch the shows he won't let me watch.

Perfect. Great point. It's so perfect. I love this. I love this for all of us. Sent him on an errand yesterday and got to finally fucking watch the series finale of Handmaid's Tale. Oh, thank God. So spoiler alert, if you have not seen it and you do not want it to be ruined, maybe fast forward a minute here. I just have a couple of things to say. You know, Nick could have really done the right thing and we could have either been devastated about his death or they could have really done the right thing and we could have either been devastated about his death or they could have run off together

and lived happily ever after. And either scenario would have been really great for Nick. But unfortunately, like I mentioned before, Nick turned out to be fucking trash. Watching him die, I didn't shed a tear. There was nothing, I didn't feel bad for the guy. I didn't wish otherwise. I wasn't screaming at him to not get on the plane.

I was like, you know what, buddy? Go ahead, get on there. You're garbage. Loved that. Serena's ending, I just felt like it was a little loose. Everyone was like, but they sent her away, blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, yeah, but I wanted, I don't know. I needed more out of Serena's ending.

And call me crazy. I need you guys to message me and tell me, am I insane or was I the only one that felt sexual chemistry between Serena and the good guy FBI agent this whole entire series? Like this whole series, decently attractive, good guy FBI agent, I'm just telling you, Serena and him had a thing, they had a vibe.

And I was just hoping for some sort of redemption from her where she ended up doing the right thing, taking the good side and getting with the good guy FBI agent and that just never happened. And I'm just a little devastated by that. Serena, what's going on? I don't know, so I didn't love that. The ending was fine, it was fine.

I needed to see what happened to everybody instead of just being more abstract. You see the plane blow up and that's fine with all the commanders on it, they're all garbage. But I just kind of wanted to see where Serena ended up. But I kind of wanted to see where June and her husband who they don't really love each other ended up. What about fucking Hannah? I never got to see Hannah. I never got to see if they ever reunited. I never got to see what happened to her. I don't love that. I feel like there's more to the story.

Do you think that there's going to be another season? No, this was the finale. Well, that doesn't mean it's completely over. You know, you can only guess I mean, I would love a spinoff about Hannah. Hannah's maytail. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. Just a lot of loose ends for me. But great show. All right. Did you watch any of the things that I suggested last week that I thought you would like? I don't think so. You

didn't watch the better sister. I did not watch that. You got to watch a better sister. It's so good. Tell me to watch Department Q. Nope. Didn't watch that. Dude, you gotta watch the apartment Q. It's so good. Sarah and I are fucking dick deep into Department Q. It is fantastic. I got a couple things. Okay. New show on Apple Plus starring Owen Wilson. And I know what you're gonna say and I don't want to hear it. I watched the preview for that this morning. I don't want to hear it. I know what you're gonna say. It's a golf show. Of course you like it. First of all. Yeah, of course you fucking like it. It's comedy and golf.

Two of my least favorite things. Matt tried to get me to watch it this morning and I was like, I don't think that's for me. Okay, let me just tell you, it is so good. Really? But you know what, you're not gonna like it. It is so good, like Sarah loves it. I mean Sarah, like I- Here's my complaint. Okay. About Owen Wilson.

He plays the same fucking character in everything. So does a lot of people. His is just so specific. I'm like, bro. I can't believe you would say that. I've seen this show, I've seen this movie, like, I don't know. Over the Hill ex-golfer, fired from his job,

sees hope in coaching a troubled teen prodigy after his wife leaves him, staking his future on the youth's success stick. You know what it sounds like? What? Ted Lasso. That's why I was gonna say you're not gonna like it because it is very much like Ted Lasso.

Uh-huh. But the creator and I think the main writer started the office, from the office and from I think maybe Ugly Betty. So yeah, you won't like it because it's because it's like Ted lasso. But everyone else in the country is gonna love it because it's like Ted lasso because Ted lasso is an absolutely amazing television

show. The cast is very good. Obviously, it's Wow, Owen Wilson. Oh, here we go. I do a terrible Wilson. And then Judy Greer is in it. Timothy Olafont is in it Mark Marin of whom I love very much is in it. And this kid, I say kid, he's playing a teenager, right? But we looked at a piece like 33 years old, but whatever, that's, that's fine. But here's the thing. As the resident golf dork and the guy who has a golf podcast, the one problem that all of us golfers have with golf movies is

no one ever has a swing that makes you believe that they're actually professional. Shia LaBeouf in like the greatest game ever played, I'm like, I don't think so. Even like Kevin Costner in Tin Cup, nope. Or like Matt Damon in Legend of Bagger Vance, you're like, that's not it. I haven't seen any of these movies.

Oh really? The only one that's like true to, that's actually like, it's not it. I haven't seen any of these movies. Oh really? The only one that's like true to, that's actually like, that could be good, is Happy Gilmore, which is the most ridiculous one, cause he takes the fricking running pro hop into it. That one I like. This kid has a swing where you're like, okay, okay, okay, okay, I believe you.

You could be very good at golf. Okay. For all the girlies out there that are saying, I don't wanna watch a fucking child's hell of a show about golf, I get you, but my wife loves it. I played the first one and I was like, I don't know, what do you think? And she was like, oh my God, I love it.

Can we keep going? And then she like ripped through like as many as she possibly could. So I'm just saying for the girlies out there, I think you're gonna like it. And then obviously for your boyfriends or your husbands or your partners, they're gonna love it because it's golf. Okay. Okay, so I brought this up on the golf course the other day

and I opened with, and I might cut this, but I opened with, this is gonna sound really weird, but these are the thoughts that go through my head. So you know how I recently was watching Game of Thrones? Yeah. So obviously incest is like a very large topic on the show. And I started thinking about incest. We have this like ingrained thing in our culture

that like it's bad, right? Like you can't do it. I think it's probably against religions. And so I don't even know. Like it's just like one of these things that like, it's like this no-no. But in our history, we've done it. all like the kings and queens of England were all inbred, right? Like they were trying to like preserve the

bloodlines and stuff. And my thought was, do you think the reason why inbreeding is considered wrong is because like there's something inside of us that tells us like that's wrong, or because when you see kids from incestual childbirth or whatever, they come out messed up. And then that's like your way of being like, we shouldn't be doing this. Similar to like Jewish people don't eat pork, because pork used to be like, like have like bacteria and they would get sick a lot. So like

they just wrote it in the Torah, like, don't eat pork. But like the reason why is because you're getting sick. Like, do you think that the reason why we don't do incest is because I Recognize how fucking weird this is but this is what was going through my head Okay, like you think the reason why is because someone was like, okay every time that happens Like the kids coming out with like three noses and like two toes We gotta be like we can't it's bad or whatever. Or do you think it's ingrained into us? This might be a weird question. Okay, because my question was very weird.

Does incest exist with animals? So funny on the golf course. That's what the guy said he's like, well, that doesn't happen in animals. And I was like, it doesn't. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know either. Like, I know that the reason why purebred dogs are an issue is because their bloodlines are intermixing, right? Right. But we domesticate them. Are we forcing incest on dogs?

I don't know what's happening. Like horses, are horses happening? Well, my question is in the wild. Yeah. Do they just have it, Do they innately know not to breed with their should I ask you? Yeah, ask chat. Dbd. I'm curious now. You know, I just want to say thank you for not judging me on

this topic. I got a little strange. You were thinking about this on the golf course. Yes. Is it? No, it wasn't a golf course. Oh, okay. Hold on. I'm just saying thank you for having some understanding here. Because on the golf course, these two guys were like, what the fuck is going through your brain? But this is what I was watching Game of Thrones. And I was like, at the root of this. Okay, hold on. Okay. Yes. incest does occur in wild animals, but its frequency and consequences very

widely depending on the species and environmental context. Key points, incest is possible and sometimes common in smaller isolated populations such as on islands or in fragmented habitats, animals may have no choice with the mate with relatives. Some species like naked mole rats, great name for an incest animal exhibit high levels of inbreeding as part of their normal social structure. Lions in certain prides often show inbreeding when new males take over and mate with related females. Many species have in

breeding avoidance mechanisms. Okay, here's what's in this is what's interesting to me. Animals have evolved strategies to avoid incest such as dispersal one sex, often males and mammals, females and birds leaves the natal group to reduce inbreeding. Okay, so that's so interesting. So what they're saying is, is that like, a family is created, like, you know, like, there's like six birds or whatever, and then they go off and then they never come back to like their original family, which is what happened

used to happen to humans. Yeah. And the reason why you had the teenager who like doesn't listen to his parents and like wants to be out of the house and wants to rebel is because of genetic coding to get you away from your tribe to go to another tribe to keep you away from inbreeding. So there you go. It is ingrained in us. I know it's fucking weird, but that's so interesting to me. Fascinating.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, aren't we all related a little bit? Gotta be, right? I think so. Yeah. I just don't know, to be honest. All right, wipe tears.

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hunger root.com slash yft and use code yft that's hunger root comm slash yft code yft to get 40% off your first box and a free item of your choice for life hungerroot.com slash yft code yft To go on a full pivot. You know what else I was thinking about what? Don't say what like you're terrified. Okay, this one's gonna be this one's gonna be normal Okay, I love a charcuterie board, all right? I love to eat a charcuterie board. I love to assemble a charcuterie board.

All right, I like to take the salami and make the rose thing out of the wine glass. You know that little trick? Uh-huh. Here's what I was thinking or wondering. What is the best part of a charcuterie board? Is it the salted meats? Is it the salted meats? Is it the cheeses?

Is it the dried fruits and vegetables? The prunes or the pears that have been dried? Is it the cordichons, the small pickles? Is it the jams, the honeys? Is it the ambiance of the whole thing? Or is it the cracker? Brandy, I ask you, what is the best part of the whole thing or is it the cracker brandy? I ask you what? Is the best part of the shark you report well?

I think it depends on the board right depends on what type of crackers it depends on what type of cheat all the things But I think it depends on the person for me personally It's all about the fucking cheese because I love cheese the honey is a close second because I love honey. Oh interesting I'm not a big meat girly, very particular about the meat part of that whole situation. The dried fruits, I could leave those. I don't look crazy about those. Oh, there's nuts on them too.

I like nuts. Okay. I do like the nuts. The crackers though, crackers can make or break a board because there are some really shitty crackers out there. Yeah. You know what I mean? Totally. Like you can't skimp on the crackers,

you gotta get the best fucking ones. Or you ruin the whole sugar-free board. Yep. That's my thoughts. It's like toilet paper, you know? Like you're paying for what you're getting, all right? True. You can't go wrong with like a seasoned trisket.

I don't like the seasoned ones because then it competes with the flavors of the cheese. What are the different types of crackers? You know I'm a sucker for just like a Ritz cracker. I know they're not good for you but I love them. I feel like water crackers are popular for trickery boards because there isn't really a taste to them so it doesn't overpower like the other flavors on it right? Like yeah I tell you what I don't love. I don't love a water biscuit. Because they've got no taste to them. They're kinda just chalky.

But that way when you're putting the meats and the cheeses and all the other flavors on the cracker, it's not overwhelming. If the cracker has a flavor, it's too many. Too much going on. Yeah. Sometimes, you know? I do like a saltine, but that's kind, I got to I do like a saltine but that's kind of

risk crackers though I'm telling you they're bomb, especially with like a chicken salad. Chef's kiss. Yum. Big Triscuit guy over here. One of my favorite things Triscuit's like and they they have the ones that are like flavored you can get like garlic, rosemary, rosemary, garlic or whatever or like sea salt and shit and you're, yes, fuck yes. Okay, so you said your answer was the cheese. Yeah. What is a cheese you have to have on your charcuterie board? Are you a hard cheese? Are you

soft cheese? Are you a lot of cheeses? I'm a big cheese gal. I mean, do you like to be like Brie? I do like Brie. I love Manchego. I love goat cheese. That's gonna beego. Mm-hmm, what about goat? I love goat cheese. Love a goat. That's gonna be my second choice. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Particularly, I really fucking love the ones that are like, that have like blackberries mixed in

or like, you know, the big, like the dessert cheeses are so good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The only cheese I really don't like is blue cheese. Oh, really? Don't like that. Grow up, Peter Pan. Yeah, no. Count Chocula, it's time to be an adult. Nope, it's the only one I don't like that grow up Peter Pan. Yeah, it's time to

be an adult. No, Jesus. God a blue cheese wedge salad. No. Oh, I can bend me over a barrel and teach me the 50 states. I love a blue cheese salad. That phrase is concerning. It's from horrible bosses. Well, what is your favorite? I think it's your career. Let me Let me tell you. The meat. I do like the meat. You know what I like?

It's bologna, but it's like fancy. It's like fancy that's got like shit in it. It's got like olives and stuff. What is that called? I don't know. Olive loaf. I love an olive loaf. That.

Love an olive loaf. I do like a salumi. I love a olive loaf. That. Love an olive loaf. I do like a salumi. I love a prosciutto. It's just so light and airy and a little bit fatty and salty. And it's just the best. What I like to do is like to get a triscuit and then I like a soft cheese, a brie, if you will, on there. Then a little dollop of prosciutto. Mm hmm. Bing bang boom. All right. Okay.

We need more boards full of awesome shit because someone was just like what's true all the best shit on this board. Yeah, someone was like, Fuck yeah, let's do that. And then the charcuterie board was created. I do believe charcuterie is Italian for this the best shit toward like shit that is the best. I don't know the exact translation. Okay. But we need more shit like that. We need more boards of awesome. I agree. Let's get on that America. Okay. Well, it's quite

the tangent. I have another favorite thing. Tell me. Have you started season two of nine perfect strangers? No, but Sarah has and she loves it. so. It's very good. Did you watch season one? Oh, is this the one where they go to like a wellness facility? Yes. Oh, I did like this show.

Yeah, it's very good. Nine stressed city dwellers visit a boutique health and wellness resort that promises healing and transformation. The resort's director is a woman on a mission to reinvigorate their tired minds and bodies. Nine perfect strangers. Is it the same cast?

No, only Nicole Kidman is the same. Here's what I like about season two. It's darker. It's got like the, where they shot it, it's like a darker vibe. The way it's colored is darker. The vibe is just darker. And I really like that darker vibe. The way it's colored is darker. The vibe is just darker. And I really like that about it. Okay.

All right. I'm gonna start watching them. All the actors in it. Like no one's like a huge, huge name, but it's all people that like I recognize from other places. You know who's in it that I love. I don't know his name,

but the guy from season one of the White Lotus that played like the hotel manager, he's also in the Last of Us season one. He's in this and he is already like one of my favorite characters. Anyway, it's very good. Okay, I'm gonna check it out. I think even Matt like, well, he scrolled on his phone the whole time, but he didn't call it trash. Yeah, you knew he didn't hate it.

Yeah, because if he hates it, he says, what is this garbage? Like full dad mode, like this is garbage. Yeah. It's amazing. I had an amazing experience at a restaurant like two nights ago that like it blew me away. Okay. In a very bad way. So on the way to Sarah's theater, there is a restaurant and Omakase place. You know what Omakase is? Yes. So yeah, it's like, Sarah's theater, there is a restaurant and Omakase place. You know what Omakase is? Yes. So yeah, it's like, it's sushi, what they make like, you know, the chef just kind of does it for you right there at the table or at the bar. And so they've got this, they've only been open

for like a month maybe, and they've got this little placard up that says like, you know, $100 for 16 course Omakase, get your reservations on Rezzy, but walk-ins welcome. And it's just me, right? Like I'm one person. I'm not, I'm not like multiple people trying to come and fill up. So I walk in there at 715, right? So it's like the height of the dinner rush. And I get that like New Yorkers, they generally eat a little bit later, but like still 715. And so I walk in there. it's like a huge bar seating, right? So probably like 45 seats around the bar, I'd say. Yeah, I'd say at least 15 aside, right? And it's square. So I walk in there, and there's probably seven people there.

Okay. Okay. They're like, do you have a reservation? I said, I do not. The woman's like, hold on, I gotta talk to somebody. So then some other guy comes over and he has an iPad that has all the seats, right. And you can see like where the seats are white is where they are empty. And then like the red ones are where there are people sitting. And he looks looks at this thing and it's got 45 seats and seven of them are taken. And then everything else is open. And he goes, Listen,

I'm so sorry, but we're completely booked tonight. And I did the thing where I went, and that's why I looked around and I go, you're completely booked tonight? And he goes, yeah, completely booked. And I go, I said, I did another take looking around. Now I'm kind of hamming it up. He was like, yeah, we're completely booked.

And I said, with all due respect, what the fuck are you talking about? There's no one in here right now. And he's like, sorry, we're completely booked. And I said, with all due respect, what the fuck are you talking about? There's no one in here right now. And he's like, sorry, we're completely booked. And I was like, what? And he's like, you really need to get reservations on the website. And I went, the placard says Walk-Ins Welcome.

So anyways, I didn't eat there and I won't because Wow. Fuck that place. But don't say Walk-Ins Welcome if you don't accept Walk-Ins, especially at a time when no one's in there. All right? Yeah.

Give me a break. How long is this gonna take anyways? I'm also one person. I'm one person. You can put me off. Did you say like, then why are there so many empty tables or seats? My exact words were,

what the fuck are you talking about? Uh-huh. And me looking around being like. And he didn't respond to that? He was like, Yeah, I'm sorry, we're just completely booked. And I'm like, when when does this happen? It's 715. Like I understand if I'd come in there like six and they're like, we got a big rush at seven and an eight and a nine, you know, but I was like, we're in the middle

of it guy. And you're telling me you can't spare one seat for me pretty wild. So anyways, I'm never going there. Okay. I love just giving bad reviews. Oh, it hurts. Got a real bad review for me yesterday. Ooh.

Can you read some of these bad reviews? Well, I'll just tell you what happened and I can tell you what I wrote. You know, if you want to like leave the city, you have to rent a car. So I had to go down to basically Atlantic City yesterday to go play golf with Zach Clark, which was lovely, by the way. I rented a car from 8 a.m. to like 8 a.m. the next day.

Right. Yeah. Knowing full well that I was just going to drop it off when I got back to the city that night. But like whatever it took, get it for the day. I looked online and so I knew when the store closed, because I wanted to make sure that like I was able to drop it off even though it's a rental car place, you should be able to drop it off 24 hours. Yeah, that's what rental car places do. But

anyways, I wanted to know and it said 10 o'clock. So I'm like, okay, so I hustle back to the city I get back at 930. It takes me a little bit to like get to the Hertz place on 55th West, by the way, in case you guys are wondering, I get to the Hertz place on 55th West, by the way, in case you guys are wondering, I get to the entrance at 950 mind you so it's 10 minutes before closing and they have closed the garage door. So I'm not to go pay for parking right like I'm gonna have to go someplace and park it and wake up in the morning and then bring it back. So I'm like annoyed by it. When I'm ready

to the car I left a different exit. So then I was like, I'm gonna go find that that exit and see if I can get in that way. So I drive around, I go in and it's also a parking garage. I'm like, well, if this doesn't work, then I'll just park it here. And then I'll come get it in the morning. Lo and behold, I find the Hertz drop off place, no signage, by the way, to get into the back entrance of this Hertz thing. So I go and I pull in and I'm like,

hey, I'm dropping off the car. And they're like, yeah, right here. But it's gonna be $25. It's past business hours. What? He's like, yeah, sorry. It says it closes at 10. I was outside at 950. And you guys closed the garage. I don't know what you're talking about, sir. Who did it? And they're like, listen. So I started getting in. I was like, this is ridiculous. Like, I was like, I'm gonna pay you, but you have to know this is bullshit, my guy. Dude, I was here before it was closed and you closed the door.

And then I figured out a way to get into the SideX entrance. And now you're gonna charge me $25 because you decided to close it early. This is BS, my guy. So anyways, I wrote a very strongly worded letter to Hertz. Wow. You know, I did like the review thing severely dissatisfied because I know what you did at nine o'clock. You were like, no one's coming back here. Yep. I can I can close up

shop early. And that's fine. That's fine. But don't charge me $25 extra because you decided to you know, yep. So anyways, well, it's really annoying is that the Avis place is right next door. That was open. And I went to and I was like, yo, how do I get to the Hertz place? And he's like, Oh, you got to go around the other side. And I was like, just so I know, when do you guys close? We don't close. We're a rental car place.

I said, ding, ding, ding, thank you, sir. Wow. Well, now you'll rent from Amos. I know. Some hard lessons learned. I have a show for the boys. Okay. Shane Gillis' show on Netflix, Tires, season two.

Matt also tried to get me to watch this. Matt gets it. But like, I don't want to watch a show for the boys. You might like it. No, it's cause it's comedy. You're going to hate it. But you might like it because it is very irreverent and you are a little irreverent at times.

Anyways, we talked about this when he did the first season now he's on the second season. I will say this second season is so much better than the first. I feel like they've got their legs now, which is something that I said. I was like, he just needs to learn how to like write a TV show. It's just really, really funny. Shane Gillis, basically, he works at a tire oil change place.

And it's just them being, you know, just non PC. And it's fantastic. It's really funny. All right. I love it. If you're into reverent humor, or if you have a wiener. This one's for you. So not me. No, you don't have a wiener or a sense of humor. So you are. I watched a cartoon recently. Oh, a rated R cartoon. What? Yeah. Where do they air those at?

Hulu Predator Killer of killers. Three of the fiercest warriors in human history become prey to the ultimate killer of killers. The Predator on Hulu. You know, the movie Predator. You've seen that before probably or Predator versus Alien. So this one is a cartoon where basically the predator is like just trying to go find like the most badass humans and fuck them up a little bit. It's a cartoon. It's glorious shit, dude, like they were ripping spines out and cutting heads off and bloods

going everywhere. It's also really good. It's like I feel like I've seen a bunch of predators and predators versus aliens. And I feel like this is much better than those movies. So I probably won't watch that either. I don't think you would, but now I'm just telling you what I did. OK, do you want to talk about incest again or we're going that? Yeah, I found this thing that really made me laugh the other day on TikTok and it's master punchlines. Oh, while you queue

it up, I'm gonna go blow my nose really quick. Okay. Just hold on a second. I just don't understand like where all the snot comes from. Oh, so it comes from your body. How does it keep making so much though, like, I have blown so much snot out of my nose, that I just don't understand how there could be any more in there. Okay, so this is what I think snot is I think snot is the body's it's like wrapping, whatever the sickness is the

bacteria in this goo. And then it makes it easier for us to get get it out instead of like just like peeing it out or pooping it out. But let's ask chat GPT. It's so gnarly. I will say my snot is crystal clear. So I don't know what that means. But it's not also called mucus comes from the mucus membranes that line your nose, sinus, throat and airways. How it's made special cells in the mucus membranes called goblet cells and mucus glands produce mucus

constantly. mucus is mostly water mixed with proteins like mutians, which give it sticky texture enzymes that can destroy bacteria and viruses, salts, and immune cells. It's not as your body's natural defense system traps dust, pollen, bacteria and viruses, they don't get into your lungs keeps tissues moist, cells. Snot is your body's natural defense system traps, dust, pollen, bacteria and viruses so they don't get into your lungs keeps tissues moist, preventing dryness and irritation contains antibodies and enzymes that help fight infection. Why it changes clear snot equals normal white or yellow equals mild infection or congestion green immune cells often during the cold, bloody, dry or irritated nasal passages. In short, snot is

made by your body to protect your respiratory system and keep things running smoothly, even if it's a bit gross. Ding, ding, ding, ding. It ain't running smoothly. Let me tell you. All right. So these are master punch lines. This is from Chelsea explains it all on tik tok. My dad and I have always been obsessed with the concept of a master punchline. Okay, the most famous example of this would be

that's what she said. It's a punchline that you could use in different scenarios that is funny, over and over and over. Okay. And we collect them, we curate them, we have a giant collection of these master punchlines that we pull out all the time. Like I'll give you some examples. One is, and I've always said that, and that is funnier the more you've never said that thing. Or if someone else says something really strange you say, and I've always said that. Or one is, I think you know, and that is used when the other person would have no idea of knowing the answer to their question.

So for example, if you know, I don't know, I don't know why this example is coming to my head. But if I'm like staring at a hole and a stranger walks up and they look and they say like, what's in there? And I just say, oh, I think you know. But they don't know and I don't know. And that's why it's funny. Or another one is, this is more similar to that's what she said. It's kind of like a punny one. you say that that was my nickname in high school you'll know when to use that one and it can be very good if you do it correctly another one is I used to think that way you just say that after someone says the

most like normal thing ever if someone's like I think I'm gonna start with the soup you're like I used to think that way. That's funny or what else? Oh, you could just say doubt it when someone says something really normal. If they're like, I'm gonna go shower, you could be like, doubt it. So those are master punch lines. I've got like a billion more.

Those are just the ones that came to my head right now. But I'm curious if you have any master head punch lines that you use, let me know, okay? Do you got any master punchlines? I don't think so That's so funny. That girl's funny. Maybe that one true. Yeah, but that's not a punchline. No, it's not more of a true What do you got? This is so such a good idea Yeah, it is and I want to start doing it. That's so funny. What like I've always and I've always said that. That one's the good. Yeah, that one's the best one. That one. And I like to doubt it. Yeah, I think you know. Yeah.

My for this to work, you have to really commit to it. Oh, I know. Which is where I don't know. I'm not sure I could. Yeah, yeah. to it. Oh, I know. Which is where I don't know. I'm not sure I could. Yeah, yeah. But also you want to do it with you want to do it to someone that doesn't know what you're doing with someone that does know what you're doing, you know, right, right. Like it doesn't. It's not fun if like the person that you do it to just thinks you're a

fucking crazy person for saying that. Yeah. But it is funny if they think that you're a crazy person, but then your friends there being like, that was a good one. And I've always said that. And I've always said that. I think you know. That's funny. She's got more of them. Do you want to hear other ones?

Sure. I kind of love this girl. Okay. Master punchlines part. She's got a lot of these. Hold on. I'm so thrilled that you all share my passion for master punchlines. Here's a couple more of my personal favorites.

This one is if anyone asks you if you like run or ski or kayak or something, you say, I hope the weather's nice, I try to do it once or twice a year. That always crushes. Another one is if a dog barks, you just say, I was just thinking that. Or you say, good point. Or you say, oh, that's controversial. Just respond to it like as if they said a real thing. Another one, super simple, something crazy happens you just say, if I had a nickel. If something minorly inconvenient happens and you're telling a story about it you say, anyways I'm suing. I got a bad manicure, anyways I'm suing.

If you're at someone else's house for dinner, this works well if it's like a dinner party with like six people. If there's a lull in the conversation, you turn to the hosts and you say anyways so do you guys come here often? If something annoying happens you say first of all rude, second of all rude. Last is just if someone's remarking on something is like unfair or it should work a different way or and they're being kind of serious about it you just say and yet here we are. And that's what I'll leave you with. Thank you so much for all of your comments. Keep leaving them. I am having a ball reading these.

I like her. I like her too. We should get her on. Yeah, let's do it. I don't know. Chelsea, DM me if you want to be in the show. Because I'd like to hear more of these master runs. Honestly, I liked this is what I'd like to have show. Because I'd like to hear more of these master puns. Honestly, I liked, this is what I'd like to have Chelsea do. I'd like to have Chelsea on the show and be like, okay, this is the girl that does the master punchlines thing. And then Chelsea, just do the show with us

and see how many she can do to us. You know? That would be funny. I wanna be punchlined. Yeah. The entire time. That could be good, let us know. Chelsea's got master punchlines.

I'm coming with like existential incest questions. So yeah, should I cut that? Or is that? No, I think leave it. You do? Yeah. I just worry that sometimes that like, the reason why I don't get some jobs that I go audition for is because of this show. Oh, really? Sometimes I think that way. I don't think people listen to our show enough to affect your job search. For my other, the podcast that I do, the golf one,

we have guests on. So I've been using ChatGPT to write intros for them. Oh. Do you want me to ask ChatGPT to write an intro for you and see what it says? Oh, I really, I actually don't, but. Okay, but we're gonna do it. We're gonna do it, we're gonna do it, hold on.

I love how polite ChatGPT is. It is. I wrote, I'm having Brandy Cyrus on my podcast, please write an introduction for her. And it came back with, that's a great guest. Here's a polished, engaging podcast introduction for Brandy Cyrus. Huh, okay, let's hear it.

All right, guys, today's guest is someone who truly does it all. She's a DJ, fashion influencer, television personality, podcast host, and creative force with an unstoppable style. You might recognize her from shows like Cyrus vs. Cyrus, Design and Conquer on Bravo. Yeah, you might have liked her from the show that's now canceled Cyrus versus Cyrus design and conquer on Bravo or caught her spinning at some of the biggest events around the country. She's also one half of the hit podcast your favorite thing with Wells Adams, where pop culture, humor and real talk collide. She's built a

name for herself on her own terms, blending music, fashion and media into a lifestyle brand that's unapologetically authentic. Oh, and yes, she's part of the one of the most famous families entertainment. But Brandy Cyrus has more than earned her spotlight. Please welcome the multi talented, always stylish and endlessly creative Brandy Cyrus to her own show. Your favorite thing podcast Brandy. How are you doing? I'm

sick as fuck. That was really nice. Actually, I know it does a good job. That's pretty good. Do you did you notice there was no mention of sorry, we're Cyrus. Yeah, because this podcast is doing all right. It was it was up there in the bio, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's using it. I gotta say, I know that the computers are going to take over, but I think I'm okay with it. Are you? I'm just I've like resigned to like, Yeah, go for it. I'm okay with it. I've seen The Matrix. I used to think that way. Should we get in the show there? C-minus.

I feel like that's a stupid answer. Yeah, I'm losing steam anyway. All right, all right. Go blow your nose. I'm going to go neti pot my nose. Go neti pot the nose. Did you know someone died recently from using a neti pot with tap water? Don't do that people. Do not do it. My right ear to this day, 10 years later is

still fucked up. I neti potted after I ran a hot chocolate run in Nashville, I got really, really sick. And my ears were completely clogged right before I went on the bachelor. And so I neti potted with tap water, and I got an infection in my in my nose and in my ear. And then I had to-potted with tap water, and I got an infection in my nose and in my ear, and then I had to get, was it when they released the pressure and they put tubes in?

Oh. And to this day, my ear constantly pops. It's very frustrating. I just don't know if the neti-pot's worth it, honestly. No, I don't do it. A lot of complications. Maybe I won't. Yeah, don't do it.

Just use the nasal spray. I use nasal spray every single day. Is that wrong? No, I don't know, actually't do it. Just use the nasal spray. I use nasal spray every single day. Is that wrong? No, I don't know actually probably but yeah Yeah, boys. I've always said that all right. What's going on? What do you got coming up? Oh, just more sphere shows, you know More sphere shows Wednesday Friday Saturday. I'll be there got two more weeks left. It's just flying by to be honest So that's me. Yeah, that's me All right. Well trying not to die in the desert.

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