Your Favorite Thing with Wells & Brandi - Wells Has Big BIP News, BIG Phone Problems & BIGGER Texas Opinions

Episode Date: April 29, 2026

Bachelor in Paradise fans... Wells Adams has news! Plus a massive phone rant and some Texas opinions on this week's YFT.Brandi's still in the car driving back from Stagecoach so it's just your boy Wells today, and honestly? He's got plenty to say. Wells is in Austin filming a mysterious new show he absolutely cannot tell you about yet, but the hints are there.He recaps the Hulu party where nobody's face could move, reviews Outcome on Apple TV (Martin Scorsese out-acts everyone, somehow), passes hard on The Miniature Wife, and demands that Apple make phones smaller immediately. Plus he gets into YFTer DMs, a Stagecoach outfit rant, and what happened to Savannah Guthrie's mom?? Someone tell Wells.Love ya, fam!FAVORITE THINGS:(12:44) From on MGM+ (If you like scary stuff, go watch it!)(13:29) The Miniature Wife (not-so-fav)(15:17) Outcome (great cast! Wells has a hot take about Keanu Reeves)FAVORITE THINGS (From YFT DMs):(20:04) Trust Me: The False Prophet (21:08) Upload(22:41) Search Party  Thanks to our awesome sponsors for supporting this episode! BetterHelp: BetterHelp makes it easy to get matched online with a qualified therapist. Sign up and get 10% off at BetterHelp.com/yft. Hers: Ready to reach your goals? Visit forhers.com/yft to get personalized, affordable care. 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.  Don’t forget to rate, review, and share with a friend!  Keep up with us between episodes on our Instagram pages, @yftpodcast @wellsadams and @brandicyrus and be sure to leave us a voicemail with your fav things at 858-630-1856!  This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. What's the end? YFT. How we're doing? Me, doing great. All right. So here's the deal, bros and hose. I'm in Texas right now. Brandy is driving back from stage coach. She's not going to be able to make it because she's got like three more hours. And your boy can't wait any longer because I got to edit this show so it can come out on time. So it's going to be just us. Just us girls shooting the gab. Just squawking over here talking about our favorite things. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.

I'm in Texas because I'm filming a new show. I'm hosting, actually. I can't say what it is yet. It hasn't been announced. But I'm very excited about it. It's very fun. we had our first day of filming today. Very early call time, I got to say.

And I know that this is like champagne problems and you guys don't really care or can't really relate, but whatever, I'm going to tell you about my day because I'm going to know. Okay. 5 a.m. breakfast, 5.15, in the chair to do makeup. And you know what's messed up? Is that like, pros and hose? You boy, don't need any makeup.

Look at this skin. It's dewy soft. Yes, is it 41 years of age? Uh-huh. But we have taken good care of it. by using no sunscreen and a lot of alcohol. It's amazing. I don't look like Mickey Mantles Ketchersman.

Anyways, so I had to get some rouge put on the old cheekbones, you know. We had to contour the nose so it doesn't look like this is gross on camera. And we had to squeeze me into a nice little slim outfit for this thing. Anywho went out there, filmed it. So much fun. And I'm really excited for you guys to see it. I hope you guys all enjoy it because, I mean, we just filmed the first day and boy, was it freaking entertaining.

I was on the edge of my seat. I haven't had this much fun on a production in a very long time. Speaking of productions, I went to that Hulu party where they like announced all the shows that are coming out this year. I don't really know why I was invited because obviously the Bachelor is not coming back because Taylor, Frankie Paul. But anyways, they had my same. and like Joey Grazadee was there, but he really was more representing of dancing with the stars.

But Kelsey was there as well. And then like Jonathan and Andrew and Alex and Kat, like everyone from Paradise this last year was there. And I was like, dude, why are we all here? We're not doing Paradise this year. You're not even doing Bachelorette. But anyways, Rob Mills, who's the head of unscripted at ABC and Hulu and Disney, walked out with a snake around his neck. By the way, Bachelor in Paradise is coming back in 2027. So, boo-ya.

I guess I have a job next year. Anyways, it was a lot of fun. It was good to see all the folks there. Who was there? I saw Stasi and Bo, who are very cool, by the way. I got to hang out with them recently. I really liked them, actually. Bo is a really cool dude.

Shout out to that dude. And I don't watch their show, but she's got a new show, which is cool. Here's my thing. Okay, so they announced, like, they're coming back with, like, more of the secret Lives of Mormon Lives and then they're coming out with like a secret lives of Mormon wives like like Orange County or like New Port Beach or so I don't know whatever some like really rich white people area in California by the way found out none of them are freaking Mormon what are we doing here why are we pretending that we're

something that we're not why don't we just call it it's a bunch of hot blondes hanging out in the beach and then I also saw that like I think it was Courtney Kardashian's got a show called like girls and it's like her girls by the way I'm just sitting there, I'm sitting there thinking, she's not friends with any of these people. They can't. These, these are her friends straight out of central casting. And then Nader sisters were there, you know, I was sitting there. I was like, man, everyone looks the same, you know? They're all like perfect skin, like too much Botox spinning out. Like, no one can move any part of their face. Everyone's hair is like long and luscious and full of extensions, you know? I mean,

who am I to say? Oh, and then I met a bunch of people from Vanderpump Villa. I had this, the bartender from Vanderpump Villa, six eight, way too tall. Like off putting too tall. Anyways, my whole thing was I was sitting there. I was like, you know what? Everyone looks exactly the same on all these shows. And I say that in a good way. They're all the hottest people I've ever seen in my entire life. So I guess what I realized in that moment is that I am screwed because let's let's just call a spade a spade your boys on the wrong side of 40 all right it's not getting any better okay and i'm just not an explosive personality on reality tv and that seems like that's what sells these days crazy fights on real housewives and secret lives of woman wives

and banderbom brul those all these fight fighting and that's just not what i got so i got to hope that these hosting gigs keep on coming in. Because if they don't, your boy's going to be living off some modern family residual. No, I'll be fine. I'm excited to be able to tell you guys what this new show is. Some of you guys are going to like it. Some of you guys are going to be like bottle care. And some of your boyfriends are going to be like, I want to watch that show.

That's cool that that guy, that's on the podcast that you make me listen to, is hosting this show. That's a little hint for you there. What else is going on? I will say this. I'm in Austin, Texas. I like Austin, Texas. In comparison to the rest of the state. Can I say that?

We're in hill country, baby. There are hills. You go to Dallas? You go to Houston? Flat. Nothing. Nothing. You can see, like, water towers in all directions.

We've stepped up here in Austin. You got some hills. You got Joe Rogan. And then you got Sixth Street. You got Austin City Limits. You got South by Southwest. Anyways, I like this down a lot. One of my favorite places, I got to say, being someone who lived in Nashville for 12 years

who, like, considers Nashville a second home, we hated Austin, all right? It was a beef. It might have been a one-way beef. Austin might not have cared about Nashville, but Nashville cared about Austin. I'll tell you why. Because Nashville's slogan was Music City, and Austin's slogan was Live Music City. And that was annoying. Because I feel like that you're saying the same thing.

kind of distal our thing. Not for nothing, as much as there is great music on 6-3 and in Austin. I'm just not holding a candle in Nashville in terms of live music. What are we talking about here? You're taking crazy as it pills. I do have Austin and having a good time here. Hey, Instagram. Stop trying to suggest threads I would like, you know? Every time I open up notifications, I get duped, I get tricked. I'm thinking, oh, something interesting in, in this little suggestion pile, and then I click on it, and boom, it's taking me to threads? No, what's going to threads? Stop trying to make threads a thing, Instagram.

All right? It's not, okay? X or Twitter is barely a thing at this point. It's just for bots and Russian propagandist and like crazy red pill dudes. And I guess that's what threads are supposed to be the anti-of. It's supposed to be like on the other side of it, but it's not catching on, all right? No one's doing it. one's doing it. So stop trying to trick me into looking at threads. Every time I look, open up the

notification thing on Instagram. On Instagram, the notification, I want to see the notifications about me, all right? Did someone, did someone like one of my pictures? Did someone comment on one of my pictures? Did someone comment on one of my comments so that I can go troll them? No way or in that was I, hey, I wonder what this person of whom I don't really know posted on a social media platform of which no one is watching or looking at anyways. Feel like I'm taking crazy peltz. So Instagram, stop doing the freaking threads thing. I ain't. No one wants that.

No one asked for that. Please stop shoving it down our throats. Another thing about Austin and I love, a Shinerbach. Having one right now, it's delicious. If you haven't had a Shinerbach, let me just say this. It's like, I feel like it's Austin, North Texas is like beer. It's fantastic. It's amber.

It's got a nice brown amber hue to it. It's strong but not too strong. It's just the perfect beer. They figured it out here in Texas. They do everything bigger here. Springtime is here and you know what that means. It is time for your springtime closet, clean out. There is nothing I love more than getting rid of things I don't want anymore and buying new ones.

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shut the show? Yeah? Is it me or you? Oh, it's still me. It's me because I'm the only one doing this one. Bros and hoes. You're listening to your favorite thing podcast

with Wells. Anywho, you got some favorite things, bro? Yeah, my guy. Can I just say, does anyone else do this where you wake up, okay, I wake up early? You wake up at like 5.30 in the morning.

And then you see all the text that came in at like 9.30 to like midnight, you know, for people who are texting normal, normal times to text. No shade here. But of course, I didn't respond then because I wasn't in a mental state to respond. All right. I was tired. I was ready for bed. And I didn't want to get like a whole thing with you. So then when I wake up at 530, I am rip-rorn. I am ready to text you back. All right? And I know that you're still asleep at 530 when I'm hitting you back. Don't care. All right? Because you know what? If you know me, there's a good chance at 9.30 hours in bed.

All right? It's a tit for tat. Anyways, there's nothing I love more than the firing back the text message at 5.30 in the morning after someone's texted me at like 11 o'clock the night before. Your boy is offline starting at 7 o'clock. That's the rule. All right? Dinner, 6 o'clock. 6.30 to 7 o'clock watching a show. Okay? 7.30 to 8. mentally preparing myself to not think anymore, which seems counterintuitive. But you know what I'm saying. 9 o'clock, shower, be the tease, wash the face, put the retinae on, get in a nice clean bed, 930, turn on a little good show, ease on into the night, wake up at 5.30 in the morning, text by friends back, that they suck. Boom. It's the greatest play in the world. And this

This is the play that happens when you turn in your 40s, all right? Or you're like not a complete degenerate because we all have these friends who are like, you're like, you're still doing it, huh? You're still doing it. It's 11.30 at night. What are you doing? You're out of the bar? You want me to come?

It's Wednesday. Not happening. Not going to the bar. I'm not thinking about going to a restaurant or a bar until at least Friday morning. Those are the rules. Friday, I can do a dinner. Saturday, I could do a dinner. Sunday, we can do a brunch.

Other than that, no thank you. If your band is playing on Tuesday night, guys, what are we saying? If you're doing a Tuesday night show, it better start at 5.30 p.m. Because you've always got to be in bed by 9 o'clock, all right? I got to get my beauty sleep. The more I do this show, the more I realize that I'm just, I think I'm too old to be doing a podcast. Jesus Christ, it's depressing.

Hey, real quick, what happened to Savannah Guthrie's mom? I feel like we were talking a lot about Savannah Guthrie's mom for a long time. And then I feel like everyone just got bored with it. But like, is she alive? Do we still think that like the brother-in-law did it? Did we just stop caring? Is she passed away and no one told me? What happened to Savannah Guthrey?

Guthrie's mom. You can't just do that to us as a society. You can't make me care about this lady for weeks on end with endless news cycles about this person being abducted, not being able to find her, not having her meds, and then nothing, no conclusion. What's going on? Dave things, bro. I got some things like I didn't like. I got to be honest with you. By the way, From is back. I talked about it in the last episode, but From on MGM Plus, I know that you don't want to pay money for MGM Plus. I don't want to do it either. And I actually saw the charge come in yesterday because I re-uped it.

But I got the first week for free, you know, what I'm saying? What I should have done was I should have waited for the season to be over, then got the first week for free and then canceled on the six day. That's how it would have gotten you MGM Plus. Anyways, that show is so fantastic. And you need to watch it. If you like scary stuff, please just go watch the first three seasons of from. No, the first two seasons of from, we're in season three.

It's so freaking good. Sarah and I watched a new show the other day, and I got to say, I was really holding out hope for this. I thought it looked really good. The cast is ridiculous. It's called The Miniature Wife. It's on Peacock. A technological accident serves as a catalyst for Lindy and less. a married couple to re-evaluate their relationship power dynamics, leading to a dynamic showdown

as they vie for control in their marriage, the miniature wife starring Elizabeth Banks, Matthew McFadden. So Elizabeth Banks is the girl that's in everything, and Matthew McFadden is, you know him from like Succession. He was Tom Wamsgam in Succession. Probably known him from, Pride and prejudice. That's where a lot of people get really excited about him. A lot of the ladies like that. Anyways, he plays the husband. Elizabeth Banks plays the wife.

She gets shrunk. It's like, honey, I shrunk the kids, but instead it's called Honey. It's a Honey, I Shrunk the Wife. It's not great. All right, guys, I just, I can't, I can't suggest it. I want to suggest it because I like the cast. But yeah, that's a solid pass from your boy.

The other thing that I watched, which I really liked, but like Keanu Reeves is really one-dimensional, which really bums me out. But I love Keanu Reeves. And like the only of the stories I've ever heard about him in Hollywood are like that he's just the most wonderful person. But guys, we have to like just come to terms with the fact that like he's got one speed and it's just like just playing this one part. And that's what it is. And that's okay. You know, who am I to say?

He's made a zillion dollars off being this guy. But there's a new movie out called Outcome on Apple TV. It's a fun premise. Hollywood star, Reef, is forced to confront his problems and tone for his past after being threatened by a bizarre video from his past. So it's Keanu Reeves, it's Cameron Diaz, it's Matt Bomber, it's Jonah Hill, and it's Ezra Woods. Like, the cast is insane. And then a bunch of good cameos, too. Van Jones is in it from like CNN. Martin Scorsese shows up, David Spades in it for some reason.

So basically, Keanu Reeves plays a movie star. He plays himself. He gets threatened with, I'm going to release this video of Keanu, or his name is Reef, of Reef, basically his sex tape. So he's trying to figure out who would do this to him. And they all come to the consensus that he's been such a kind of like a piece of garbage for so long in the movie industry. that he's got a lot of enemies, so he needs to go on an apology tour.

So it's basically just an entire movie of him going on an apology tour, which I think is like one of like the A steps where you have to like go and like apologize to like everyone you've wronged. Anyways, I don't know. I don't know yet. Probably soon. I'm not to learn that one. The cast is ridiculous.

The premise is very fun. The outcome, bing, bing, bing, bing of outcome is also very fun. But I'm going to say something crazy here. The best actor in this film that has Keanu Rees, Cameron Dias, Matt Bomber, Jonah Hill, Ezra Woods is, wait for it, Martin Scorsese, the director of Goodfellas and the Departed and other stuff. I don't know. Aviator, maybe. Anyways, he has this scene with Keanu.

I'm watching it being like, okay, I know that guy's a director. and I know that guy is an actor and I'm watching this director just act circles around the actor outcome. Go check it out. I think you'll like it. The cast is ridiculous. Camer Diaz is really funny and Matt Boomer is very, very good in it as well. How do they recommend? Go check it out, mom. I've done this bit before but I want to do it again because I was talking about it the other day.

I need phones to get smaller. I don't know why we thought it was okay to like continually make the phone bigger. My pocket space isn't changing, okay? But every time you come out with the new phone, Apple, it's bigger. It's wider. I don't need like an IMAX for a phone. I need my phone to be smaller. I'd actually like to be on my phone less.

I would buy more of your phones if I could be on those phones less than I am now. And now Apple wants to come out with this new phone where it's, going to fold into a bigger phone. It's a small phone that's going to fold into a bigger phone. Too much, guys, this is what I want. I want a tiny phone from Apple. All right? I want, do you remember the little MP3 players? Do you remember those? I want one of those to be a phone. Okay? I want to be just like a, just a, I'm going to go out for Aaron's phone. I don't need to have like the entire internet with me. I just need to have some things. Or this is my idea. And I feel like this is a very good idea. I already have that. It's called my Apple Watch, but sometimes I want to wear a nice watch. So I don't want to

wear my Apple Watch. What if my Apple Watch could fit into a little case that had the buttons of the old like Nokia phone? Do you know what I'm saying? So you just put the Apple Watch in the top and then maybe there's a little battery in there and it's got all the buttons, all the numbers, right? And then you can make phone calls, you can make texts, you can call Ubers, but you're not like uploading images to Facebook or Instagram. I don't need that every night of the week, especially nights where I'm like, I'm going to go out and have a good time. I'm going to be off my phone, but I want to have my phone just to be safe. Why is no one not made this? I would use this thing. My Apple Watch has already got cell service. It's already connected to like all of my Apple stuff.

Why can't we do this? As a society, it's really depressing. We've been. We've been. We've been, We've been going through the DMs of YFT recently, and I got to say, there are some fantastic, just fantastic DM sent to us that I want to go through. Got some show, Rex. Let's rip through them. Ashley, on, let's see, April 16th sent us, quote, have you watched, trust me, the false profit on Netflix, you need to, it's crazy. Ashley, no, I haven't, but you had me at It's Crazy.

A cult expert and her videographer husband embed themselves in a vulnerable FLDS community. I think that's Mormonism, where they discover disturbing evidence about Samuel Bateman, who claims to be the successor to an imprisoned prophet Warren Chefs. Oh my God. This sounds fantastic. How have I missed this? Ashley, you were right. I love a good cult.

I got to say, I know that they're bad. for society. There's a part of me that's like if you are, if you can get duped by a cult, maybe you should be hanging out with them. I'm just saying like maybe it's good that you have like a community, you know, but if you're a free thinker, you're going to be like, this is crazy. I have to wear what. I have to dress like what. I have to marry who? No, thank you. I have to kill myself to go get on a spaceship. But who am I to say? I love that one. Brianna on the 14th sent us one that says, uh, if you all like eternity, which I did. You will love the series called Upload on Prime. It has four seasons so far.

Such a great binge watch, a mix of eternity and The Good Place. Highly recommend. Ding, Ding, Brianna. My good Fred Robbie O'Mell is on this show. We've talked about this show before. It's been a while. After his premature death, a man's consciousness is uploaded into a virtual world as he gets comfortable with the surroundings, questions about his death arise upload complete on prime so yeah it takes place in the future robia mel's character dies but they can like upload his like essence into a computer system where he can kind of live on forever and then like his loved ones who are still alive can like kind of come visit you but there's like a whole monetary system so like if you have put in a bunch of money to like your death upload then you you you you you You know, it's like a VIP experience at a Sandals Resort.

And if not, then it's shitty service and it's not as fun. It's very, very funny. Robbie's great. The cast is fantastic. Allegra Edwards is really, really good. This guy Owen Daniels that plays the AI guy. So funny. Andy Allo plays like the love interest.

Chris Williams from Dodgeball is in it. So yeah, solid wreck, Brianna. Yeah, keep it coming. Let's see, Sarah reached out and said, I'm watching Search Party on Netflix, think it's something you guys would both like. It's a crime, it's crime-related, but also funny, millennial humor. It's a good 20-minute episodes to binge the five seasons. Search Party is a dark comedy about four self-absorbed 20-somethings who become entangled in an ominous mystery when a former college acquaintance suddenly disappears.

Search Party on HBO Max. Cass is great. Alia Shockat, she was in Rest of Development. John Early, who was in eternity. John Reynolds, Meredith Hanger. Oh, Ron Livingston

from Band of Brothers and Office Space? Okay. I'm interested. Search party. HBO Max. Sarah thinks it's great. Shannon said, My daughter was five months old and just started daycare when I listened to the very first

episode of my ride home after dropping her off. I've listened to every episode since. What, Shannon? That's crazy. Some of my Snapchat's, fuck you very much's and calls, have made it on the show, and I have never been happier about such an accomplishment. Thank you for the diamond status content. Chef's Kiss. You better make it to 500 episodes because I don't have any other friends. Okay, Shannon for you. And if we don't, I'll just call you every Wednesday morning and just talk to you. for an hour. I forgot about diamond status content. Brandy used to say that all the time. All right, some Y of Tiers sent some videos. We got to, we got to check out. This is when you're a

Mormon but want a tattoo. I've seen a lot of these. Just people are shaking people trying to do the thing they would normally do. Let's watch this one. Yeah, that's, I mean, yeah. Just soaking in that tattoo. I like it. Lacey sent us A.I. screaming. What is this? Hey there, I'm here and ready to help with whatever you need. Let me know what's on your mind. Could you just do me a favor and like scream like you're in a horror movie and like sound really, really terrified? Of course. I'll do my best to make it genuinely terrified. Here we go. Ah!

I hope that captures... No, no, no, no, that's not. That's not what I was looking for. Can you give me like more authenticity, a little bit more terrifiedness? Like you're like you're gonna die in a horror movie. I understand I'll give it my all Here we go Ah I hope that's more along the lines

No No that's not what I want Could you Like louder It just sounds like you're like Like humming Louder I get it

I'll really ramp it up Here we go Ah I hope that That was softer than the ones prior Here ready We're gonna restart Can you just scream

Like you're in a horror movie About to die Like really terrified Absolutely, I'll give it mail this time. Here we go. Let's be honest. It was kind of sexual. I kind of liked it, though.

All right, last one. Don says, here's a new soundbite for YFT. Oh, wow, the range. Bitch, what the fuck? This is good. I believe we played that one before, but I do like it. Thanks for sending it. Anyways, we're checking our DMs more.

hit them up and tell us your favorite things. And I will read them, especially episodes where Brandy is on a car ride from Stage Coach, back to Los Angeles. I saw all the stagecoach pictures. And this is another reason why I'm like, I think I'm just getting old. We're like, I'm looking at all these people. Stagecoach and Coach and Coachella look like my nightmare. And I'll tell you why.

Because I used to go to Lollapaloo and Bonarue and Hangout Fest every year. But when I went there, especially Bonnaroo, it was so hot, it was short shorts, it was comfortable shoes, it was sleeping intense. And then when I look at stagecoach or Coachella, it's all those things, it's super hot, it's dusty. But everyone's wearing like leather chaps and like an indigenous headscarf that you shouldn't be wearing and feather earrings. And it just looks like a damn nightmare. All right? So when I look at it, I think I hate everyone there because it's not a thing to go see music. It's a thing to go be seen. I don't like that. It used to be the important thing about going to music festivals was experience the music. And now it's I want everyone to experience what I wore. And the other thing that really grinds my gears, remember that year that we had stage coach be like a main storyline of Paradise? We used to be a country, not anymore. Now everyone's just from Bachelor Nation is going to stagecoach willy-nilly, probably hooking up with each other. And there is no recourse.

There is no fallout in Paradise for me to absorb behind the bar being like, they did one. And that sucks, dude. The best part of stagecoach is hearing about all the people from Bachelor Nation and went to stagecoach right before we had filled Paradise. You know? It was like the whole thing. It was like that and like seeing Morgan Wall and say something inappropriate. Those are the two things that got me excited about stagecoach. But did I find a picture of me in a cowboy hat and pretend like I was at stagecoach?

Yes, I did. So I want to be included, everybody. I got to be included. All right. Listen, I know this was a short episode, but it was just your boy solo today. And I have a 5 o'clock call time tomorrow. And I have to edit this. And then I have to send it over to the people and might never sleep.

But I love you all very much. You're my favorite people. Ding ding Okay bye