Your Favorite Thing with Wells & Brandi - Will 2021 crush our dreams? TBD!

Episode Date: December 30, 2020

In the last episode of YFT (for 2020, don’t fret) your hosts swap Christmas stories and share what Santa brought them this year. I know you’re dying to know, so we’ll just tell you... yes, Wells got his ice maker. Your hosts have a brief disagreement about fried chicken places and share their favorite card games along with a long Christmas-break-worthy list of other fave things (notable mention: Bridgerton, Brand eye’s fave). Plus, your hosts are back with another interesting online review for stinky weighted blankets. Hope you enjoy and see you next year YFTers!! Here’s hoping it’s better than the last!! Thanks to our awesome sponsors for making this episode possible! Check out these deals just for you, YFTers: BETTERHELP – Go to betterhelp.com/favoritething to get 10% off your first month  GHOST TEQUILA – Go to ghosttequila.com to order a bottle and use code YFT for 20% off your order BOOZYBITES – Go to boozybites.com and enter the code Favorite to get 15% off your order  HEADSPACE – Go to headspace.com/yft for a free one-month trial today  

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Kind of chilly in here. What do you think Brandai is doing right about now what you think she's doing let's see if she's on skype yeah yeah yeah are you singing yeah i like to sing the you would know this you don't listen to our podcast back but oh contraire i've been listening to the beginning of a few and i have noticed you're singing yeah i like to sing the bing bong boom ticka ticka ticka dong ding dong i wonder if it annoys the way i have tears as much as it annoyed me when i heard it oh i don't know. Merry Christmas. Yeah.

Still waiting on your gift to show up. Haven't seen anything come on by. No, there's shipping delays with the holidays and COVID. It's like really backed up this year. Give it some time. Okay. Well, I can't wait to see what it is. Big shout out to the new YFT sponsor, BetterHelp. I love this company.

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Should we get into it or wait? Yeah, let's. What else? What else are we doing? Oh, I thought entering the show, but we can just go right ahead. Yeah, you can chit chat for a bit. So technically we did no gifts, but there was some gift exchanging happening, but just a little bit. It was nice. It was just like a couple of things here and there being passed

around but like mostly we just hung out with each other which was great but my top three gifts in no particular order were my sister cyrus miley sponsored a horse a wild mustang sanctuary it's like one of my favorites called return to freedom You can like sponsor horses that they've rescued and put on their sanctuary. So she rescued two. One for me, one for Rye. One named Arrow, which was mine. And then something moon. Dark moon maybe?

Was Rye's horse. So that was super cool. I love gifts like that. Like not physical. Like go sponsor something in my name. All about that. So I loved that gift. Also Brazen and Stella.

They were like, we bought gifts before we got the no gift text. So sorry. So glad they did because they got me this antique decanter set. It's like a decanter with four bourbon glasses and they have a portrait of Secretariat on them and they're like gold, like gold rim. They're so pretty. I put it on my story. That was one of my fave like physical gifts. And then the third one wasn't really for me, but somebody that works for Miley, like on her team, that's like super close. Like we talk to them every day, work with them every day. They got Rye a gift, which was so sweet. And they got him a telescope. And, you know, I'm totally going to like be able to like take advantage of that. So I'm throwing it in there as one of my favorite gifts, even though it wasn't technically for me. So you can watch the neighbors?

Yes, but also the sky. Okay, got it. Like the planets, like the Jupiter and Saturn convergence that we saw. Okay, well, the last time that happened was like in the 1600s, you said. So you better hope you live a long time. Yeah, but like Mars is out all the time and Venus. We're going to see some cool shit, okay? So did you look up at the sky and see some stuff is it still the box what's happening no it's out of the box assembled but uh it's been very cloudy here we were got we got excited about

seeing things tonight like the moon is really full and that would have been cool to look at but it's too cloudy soon though soon though. Well, our little astronomer, Brandi, can't wait. What'd you get? What did I get? It was the year of Pendleton for Wells. Love Pendleton. Got a lot of Pendleton. I'll give that a ding on my fancy bell.

Yeah. A lot of Pendleton stuff, which is great. I don't know. I know they're really nice, but I don't know the name of the brand. They're shoes that have red soles. What is that? It's like- Louboutins? Louboutins? No, Louboutins.

Louboutin. Louboutins. Louboutins. So just real quick. So there's a difference between Louboutins and Louboutins. Yes, big difference. Okay. Listen, I know they're both great brands, I know they're both great brands.

I know they're both great brands. One of you guys need to fucking change it because way too close. Okay. That's different. No, I know. Louis Vuitton is two words. Louis Vuitton is one word. It is?

Yeah. Well, anyways, I got some of those shoes. So one. That's sick. I know. But here's, okay. So I got. From Sarah?

Yeah. Who else in my fucking orbit could afford those shoes? I was thinking more who has that fabulous of taste but Sarah. But also true. So I got really nice like tuxedo shoes and she was like, for the wedding, all right, already picking out my outfit. You know what, just lean on into it i know and then she got me some really nice brown ones and then we had a christmas party with just kind of like our family came over and so i walked downstairs and i wasn't wearing the shoes and she was like you don't want

to wear the louboutins no and you know why and she was like because you don't want to fuck up the souls i was like exactly i don't want to wear those shoes until i'm in a place where people are going to see those see the bottoms of it not fucked up and be like, damn, he's got style. I'm not burning it on a fucking Christmas dinner with my dipshit family that don't give two shits about that I'm wearing Louis Vuittons. You know? So you got to wait. Got to wait. You're right.

And then do you remember the episode where I was like, we were at a buddy's house and they had an ice machine and I was like, ooh, I'll tell you what I want. I want an ice machine. She's like, oh, I'll tell you what I want. I want an ice machine. She's like, done, got it, great. So we went the entire day and finally like the last gift showed up and I opened it and it was like a small box. And I was like, I don't think you can fit an ice machine in here.

And she was like, I just didn't get you an ice machine. And I was like, kind of the one thing that I was asking for, but that's fine, whatever. She did the thing where I kind of was bummed that I didn't get an ice machine all day. And then I was wasty faced later in the night. And she goes, oh, I found another gift. And then, of course, it was the ice machine. So then I felt like an asshole.

No way. Yeah. So. That was smooth. Ice machine. Is the ice machine everything you dreamed it would be? Well, I don't even know. It's not installed yet.

You know, we've got to get it, and it's got to get installed, and yada, yada, yada. It's a whole thing. It's probably never going to happen, to be honest with you. But yeah, it was a nice Christmas, and now it's actually wintertime in Los Angeles. It's just been raining nonstop. Well, here we are. Here we are. Oh, I forgot to press

record you want to do this all over again seriously no you little turd is that a squirrel is a chicken no the chicken popeye sent me a christmas sweater i don't know why but i'm cold in here so i'm putting it on huh it's an interesting color for a Christmas sweater. Orange. Oh, that chicken from Popeye's. Wow. Hashtag ad. Hashtag SponCon. I will say this. Popeye's is the best of all the fried chicken establishments.

Really? Yeah. Way above Zaxby's. Zaxby's is way overpriced. KFC, they make up a lot of ground on their sides. I will give them that. That's what I was about to say. Yeah.

KFC kills it on the sides. But Popeye's, man, it's got that New Orleans, that like seasoning. I don't know. I'm a KFC gal. Well, that's because you're an idiot. Do you want to start the show or? Yes. Okay.

We should. Is it you? Is it me? What date does this come out? Well, this will be coming out on the 30th. Oh, right before New Jersey. Got it. Last show of 2020, baby.

Last one, baby. Here we go. All right, guys. A lot has changed over the last years. And if you're growing your e-commerce business, yeah, you can relate. Whether you're looking for better efficiency during the hectic holiday season or your business has outgrown your old shipping solutions, you need ShipStation to help you scale your business. ShipStation helps you achieve exceptional shipping efficiency

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Thank God. Honestly, though, I'm not getting too excited about 2021 because that's what they want you to think. Oh, I know. And then they're going to crush all of our dreams again. I don't know who they are, but I'm not getting too excited about 2021 yet. They suck. Yeah. I don't know who they are either, but it's just got to be better by march

13th for your wedding no because that's when it started i can't go over a year with this i can't oh well since you can't we'll just make sure that it's all back literally can't even listen i've been very patient i just wanted it all to go back to normal you know that's how i bought wow do you um do you make new year's resolutions or like no You know? That's all I want. Wow. Do you make New Year's resolutions? Or, like, no? I mean, no. But I should.

Should you? Sarah and I are thinking of doing a dry January. That sounds terrible. I know. But got to tighten it up. That's what everybody does, though. No, everyone does. I'm going to join a gym.

And then they never go after the second week of January. I feel like everyone I know tries to not drink for the whole month of January. I know. I should do it, though. I have been working out like crazy for the past three or four days. I'm really trying to tighten it up. All right. I'm trying to lose seven pounds.

Trying to get back to fighting weight. Yep, seven pounds. That's all I need. And then I feel good about myself. Maybe you should be gaining some weight in the muscle department, no? I mean, yeah, you're right. I mean, I think that I want to gain some weight where I need to gain some weight and I need to tighten it up where I need to tighten it up, okay?

I will say this, though. My golf game has never been better, Brandy. Oh, really? I shot even par the other day. What the hell does that mean? That means I made a par on every hole. What's a par? It's what you're supposed to shoot in the hole.

Listen, don't worry about it. I did a good job, all right? It's like I went horse-shodening and I won. It's like that. Oh! Yeah, I got the blue ribbon. Love. Yeah, so there we go.

Love that. You got some fave things, bro? Bro, speaking of games, speakingave things, bro? Bro. Speaking of games, speaking of winning, speaking of drinking. Are we about to do Yahtzee again? I can't do another Yahtzee game. No, no, no. Got a new game for you guys. Okay.

I honestly, I feel like Rye should come and explain it because he was the one that taught it to me. But we started playing this on Christmas Eve. It was so freaking fun because we kind of wore Yahtzee out, I think. And then there's some people that just are really, really not game for the Yahtzee. I think they think they kind of wore Yahtzee out I think and then there's some people that just are really really not game for the Yahtzee I think they think they're better than Yahtzee and I'm just like nonetheless so we were like all right let's go about some cards let's play a card game and Reisman like raving about this game they play in South Africa that he absolutely loves and he's been dying for us to play so he finally taught us and got everybody

on board it's like simple but not you know it's like just mindless enough. But like, also you have to pay attention and it's super fun. I think it has two names. He calls it King and Scum. Okay. Or King and Asshole. I feel like it was something else in Asshole. Anyway, we've been going with King and Scum. Basically, you like deal the whole deck.

And then if there's more than five people, you use two decks. And then if you get like a huge group, you can add decks to make it harder and go longer. But you divide up all the cards. And the goal is to get rid of all of your cards the way you play it is whoever has the three of diamonds starts and you put down like whoever starts puts down three of diamonds and then whoever goes next has to put down a single card of that number or higher the trick is that two is the highest so whereas you think ace is the highest two actually trumps everything but then if you put down two threes, then the rest of the whole round, you have to put down doubles of something greater than whoever put down in front of you.

Let me just say, I've been king almost every single time we've played because I'm the best. It's super fun. For the whole Christmas Eve, Precious Trace was scum every single round, and I could tell he was getting so mad. Now he refuses to play, but it was so fun. Then right. Do you know what he did to me? I was winning every game.

I was loving it. I was King, King, King, King, King. And then in the middle of the round, he says,

you know, she wins. Right. And I looked at him and I was like, what's he, what's he going to do right now? And he was like, she holds onto her twos the whole game.

And I was like, Oh, he outed me mid game. Now Miley knows my secret. And now Miley's crushing me okay first of all it's so fun that's a game called asshole that we have in the united states oh never heard of it love it it's a drinking game too yeah he said that but you know i can't take a shot every time something happens or i'm blackout so from what i remember of asshole is if you throw down a three and then I throw down a three, then it

skips somebody. No, we don't do that. Oh, really? You described it exactly as what Asshole is. And then when you become president in obviously... So it's president and Asshole. Yeah, in America the game's called Asshole and then the best, not a king,

it's called you're the president. And then the president can ask for the two best cards from the Asshole, and then the best, not a king, it's called You're the President. And then the president can ask for the two best cards from the asshole. Yes, every round. If you're president three times in a row, you get to make a rule up. Oh, we haven't gotten that. You can make people drink when they do bad things to you. I think King and Scum has a nice ring to it. I don't want to be the president. I do want to be king.

Great game. The Cyrus family has really taken to it. I don't want to be the president. I do want to be king. Great game. The Cyrus family has really taken to it, and that's been our nightly hang sesh. Just deny your heritage, right? You're American, and we have democracy here. We do not have a monarch here. This is not South Africa. Pretty sure they have a president, too, but. They have a parliament.

Anyways, that's cool. Anyway, that's what we've been doing with our free time. It's really fun. Dorks. We started playing a game. Our buddy Trevor and his wife alex taught us a game called 31 i'm not gonna go through all the rules but it's phenomenal and if you know about i feel like i've played that before yeah it's pretty great love a good card game you get dealt three cards you're trying to get all the same suit and you're trying to get 31. So you're trying to get like king of spades, ten of spades, and an ace of spades.

That gets you 31, right? I've definitely played this. And the moment that you get a pre, like let's say you have 29 right off the bat. You can knock and then everyone gets to take one from the deck to like make their best hand. And then everyone goes around then you lay them down. Whoever has the lowest loses their ante, right, basically. Sometimes someone will knock, and then someone will pick up a card, and it'll make their 31. And then you throw it down, and you get two from the person who knocked if you beat them.

Oh. Really, really fun. I will say this. I'm not done with it, but we are balls deep right now into The Flight Attendant. Oh, great. By the way, I called, like, episode one called that Rosie Perez was some kind of spy. Nailed that. I'm thinking that Buckley is kind of shady.

I don't know where he's coming from, but I'm a little shaded out by Bucksters. Anyways, it's good. It's really funny. It's a well-done show. So everyone. I loved it. I really loved it. Mikael Hiesman is so hot.

Yeah. I imagine we don't get any answers because you kind of alluded that they set it up for season two. You get some answers, but not all. Yeah. They definitely left it open-ended for a season two, which is genius because it was great. Have you seen the movie, not to be confused with my sister's single, the movie, The Midnight Sky? Watched it last night. Loved it.

Did you? Loved. Space. Kyle Chandler. Space. I loved it. Did you call the twist? Yes and no. That's a no. Let me explain, but I Space. I loved it. Did you call the twist? Yes and no.

That's a no. Let me explain, but I'm going to spoil it. So if you haven't seen The Midnight Sky. Well, hold on. Before you do that, let's just read what it is. Okay, okay. Read the synopsis. Yeah. The Midnight Sky, this post-apocalyptic tale, follows Augustine, a lonely scientist in the Arctic, as he races to stop Sully and her fellow astronauts from returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe, the

Midnight Sky. So basically what's happening is it looks like we've bombed the world to shit and everyone's dying. George Clooney lives in a bunker in the north pole basically and he's dying as well and in the bunker they have like a huge antenna it's like a scientific obviously research station and he's trying to contact the one spaceship that went to like one of jupiter's moons that were saturn's moons that we think that could support jup Saturn's moons that we think that could support Jupiter's moons that we think could support life. And he's trying to tell them, hey, motherfuckers, Earth's fucked.

Stay there. Don't come home. Yeah, that's basically it. It's so good. OK, so now if people want to get the stacked cast like Coach Taylor. Yes. Felicity Jones. Love her.

George Clooney. Obviously love like it was just so good. Yeah. OK, so now if you want to spoiler alert you haven't seen the skip ahead two minutes right sure now I definitely caught on to the fact that he was imagining the girl I felt like he was like manifesting that from being alone and going crazy but I did not make the connection that the girl was Felicity Jones as a kid yeah we were trying to figure it out in the beginning. And then the moment that we figured it out was when they were trying to make baby names for Felicity Jones as kid.

And Coach Taylor says like hibiscus or something or like some kind of like ridiculous flower. He's like, what's a flower? Then you're like, oh, they're obviously gravitating towards flower names. Her name's the little kid's name is Iris. Okay. Sarah called a little earlier. And then once I heard that, I was like, damn, you're right. You know, a lot of people are saying it's boring.

And I guess I can see where they're coming from in it. But Sarah and I both really enjoyed it. I mean, it's not a fast-paced thriller by any means. You know what I mean? It's more, I don't't know like it's more about the characters and the acting and like the beautiful like you know cgi of space i feel like the visual aspect of it more than anything but i loved it so much so here's my only gripe with the movie okay so coach taylor and the like the other russian astronaut they see a picture of the earth

and it looks like someone had taco farts like a giant had taco farts and completely engulfed the entire earth with just the green taco fart of death okay and they know that that shit's fucked up and they take the little rescue vehicle to go down to Earth where Felicity Jones and the husband go back to the one freaking planet that can support life. Now, here's my gripe with it. Coach Taylor and the other guy, you're the only two guys that aren't related to the little baby girl that's growing in her belly. If you're going to recreate human life, well, we're starting fucking with incest weirdos. West Virginia all over again. Well, you know, America turned out like sort of,

kind of not really okay, but kind of. No, if this year has taught us anything, is that America has not turned out okay. You're right. But I had the same thought at the end when it was just them two. I was like, I feel like they should have at least set this up a little better. Like somebody needed to die for sure.

But like, yeah, I don't know. Yes. I will say midnight sky. Great. Also, you know,

we were, we were talking about it. Clooney's doing Netflix movies, dude. Everyone's doing that. And by the way, that little girl is going to be a huge star. Oh,

for sure. She was great. That was our first gig, by the way. Really? Yeah, we looked it a huge star. Oh, for sure. She was great. That was her first gig, by the way. Really? Yeah, we looked it up. Damn. First gig with Clooney. Not bad.

We watched Wonder Woman. Oh, how was that? You know, I just thought it was kind of cheesy. And I didn't want to think that because I really love Gal Gadot. I really liked the first one. I really did. Yeah. And you know, Chris Pine's my favorite of the Chris's.

I do like Chris Pine. He's hilarious. By the way, Chris Pine, can we get another Star Trek? Was a big fan of Chris Pine's Star Trek. Same. Same to same. Anyways, so here's the problem, is that because it takes place in 1984, Chris Pine has to be dead because he's not Amazonian woman that lives forever. Right.

So they had to make some sort of weird shit to figure out a way to get him back in the movie. That right there is where you kind of lose me. It effectively is Aladdin with Wonder Woman, if that makes any sense. Huh. Huh. Yeah. The guy who plays the Mandalorian, Pedro Pascal, figures out a way to basically turn himself into Robin Williams from Aladdin. Becomes a genie.

And that's where you lost me. I'm with the Amazonian women who can, she can fly and she's got a whip that makes you tell the truth and she can use that whip to fucking Spider-Man all over the city and fly around but you lose me a genie so i don't know but i will say this it's on hbo max i have to go to the theater so pretty good okay you know yeah i'd see midnight sky before i see wonder woman yeah that's my thought you guys haven't seen it though huh no well speaking of space have you seen the challenger documentary no but i have been wanting to watch it was it good really good oh okay it's just also sad i know so it's called

challenger the final flight four-part docuseries in the 1986 challenger space shuttle disaster unpacking an indelible moment for a generation of Americans. For those of you that weren't old enough to like remember this, I was barely old enough to remember it. But like, I remember kind of like a couple of years afterwards with people talking about it. Back in the day, we had space shuttle flights and there was one where they put a teacher in the fucking rocket and they were like, this is the first time like it's a regular person goes up in this space and they chose a teacher because they were going to have the teacher like do lessons up in space and kids were going to watch it it was like this whole thing and then

it exploded as it went up in the air and it was like this whole thing like the entire nation was watching and so proud and they just watched seven people died it was just fucked up so it's all about that and it's about their lives and about the astronauts. And it's a celebration of those people, but it's also a condemnation of just the bureaucracy that is government space organizations, all the money and the pressures that were on these people to make decisions they shouldn't have been making.

And O-rings are fucking up in cold weather and yada, yada, yada. And it's just a bunch of like old white dudes made some very bad decisions for a lot of people and their families and what's crazy about it you gotta watch it what's crazy about it is that the people at the top that made these bad decisions where it's like very very obvious that they like fucking should have just delayed the flight a couple of days they double down and they will not admit.

I would make the same decision again. You're like, you would? Knowing what you know now, you would still make that decision? Really? I know. Craziness. But anyways, really well done.

Anyways, check it out. I think you guys would like it. I think Rye would like it too because I imagine like foreigners don't really know about that part of our history, you know? It's interesting like watching a lot of these i mean not took reality but not reality like docu-series about things that happened like the unabomber and the olympic game bombing because i ride doesn't really know anything about it you know and like i tried to explain them waco and these are all things like we remember as kids or when we were young like

being such a big deal and like he had no clue because he doesn't live in this country so it's just like so interesting you know yeah to like see his take on it i have a new favorite twitter follow right now oh do you remember the band eve six how could i forget what that's inside out was that their big smash it was well done i don't know the words i'm pretty sure like when i sing along to it like i just make sounds i know the melody but i don't't know the words. I'm pretty sure like when I sing along to it, like I just make sounds. I know the melody, but I don't really know the lyrics. For all our Gen Xers out there, you might not remember this amazing nugget, but. Don't open the eyes. Put the lack thereof. When they lay on the inside. I would swallow my doubt. Turn it inside out.

Find nothing but faith in nothing. Water, a tender, a part in a blend of. Watch us spin around to a beautiful oblivion. Rendezvous and I'm through with you. So the lead singer of Eve 6, the guy who wrote that song, has Twitter now. And I must say say he is an absolute must follow okay okay all right one he's just dragging give us a nugget like give us an example of a great tweet this is december 18th 2020 i was literally a virgin when I wrote Heart in a Blender song. And then, at Kamala Harris.

Oh, no. Do you like the Heart in a Blender song? At Tool, do you like Heart in a Blender song? No. At Eric Trump, do you like Heart in a Blender song? Oh, my God. Hilary Duff, do you like Heart in a Blender song? Oh my god. Hilary Duff, do you like Heart in a Blender

song? No. This was my favorite. The Third Eye Blind guy had me fake arrested by a real cop in Alabama on tour because the night before I had taken a big jar of candy from the front desk and said I'm the singer of Third Eye Blind, I can do whatever I want

and they called his room at 3 a.m to give the candy back then he started going off on the get the guy from third eye blind i ever tell you about the time the guy from third eye blind told me he fucked my girlfriend oh my god oh so he goes off in the third eye blind guy and then he just starts responding to random people if they remember and like the song Heart in a Blender. And it is the best. So anyways, just go ahead and just look into it. The Twitter handle is at Eve6. Insane.

I mean, I loved the Heart in a Blender song. I did too. The fact that he calls it that's my favorite part. Yeah, for sure. Brandy, I got a new favorite thing. What's that? I mean, you know your boy likes to drink and you know your boy likes to make drinks in Mexico. So that means your boy likes to make drinks with tequila. Have you heard of ghost tequila? Oh my gosh, I have. Honestly, let's be real. Tequila is everyone's favorite liquor. Very, very true. Ghost tequila is perfectly balanced, spicy tequila that brings any cocktail to the next level. I'm talking 100% agave azul tequila, born in Boston, distilled in Mexico. The subtle spice intoxicates your senses. I'm telling you, this is one of the best tequilas

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full library of meditations for every situation. This is the best deal offered right now. Head to headspace.com slash YFT today. I'm so excited about my next favorite thing. What is it? It's a new Netflix series. It came out on Christmas Day, which is the 25th. And I started watching it that night, I think.

And I'm already, there's only i think and i'm already there's only eight episodes and i'm already on number seven like i've cruised through this what's it called it's called bridgerton oh sarah and i started watching this last night and i fell asleep immediately i am obsessed with it it's like gossip girl meets pride and prejudice yeah yeah yeah meets sort of the bachelor in a weird way yeah yeah yeah it is so fucking good it is my favorite thing i've seen in such a long time one more thing and guess who produced it good old old Shonda Rhimes of Grey's Anatomy. Oh, there you go. The genius behind Grey's

is producing this show. You guys, it is so good. So good. It's set in, it just doesn't say the year, but it says like, it's set in like the competitive world of Regency London

where like people, like it was all about like debutantes and like when they world of Regency London, um, where like people, like it was all about like Deb, um, uh, like debutantes and like at, when they become of age, they get presented to the society. And then like,

basically they have to get swooped up by a dude or they're like, they're like scum. You know what I mean? I don't know. It's like, that's like the kind of the like, uh, like bachelor aspect of it.

It's, it's everybody who's like just after like this one girl, uh, who's the lead who reminds me a lot of sansa stark um i don't know if it's her look or what it is but she reminds me so much of sansa but anyway it's so good it's like a period piece for sure but it just i don't know the way they filmed it it just does it feels new at the same time uh and there's just so much scandal so much sex. There's so much happening.

The costumes are great. I'm obsessed with it. I love it so much. Wealth, lust, and betrayal set in the backdrop of Regency-era England, seen through the eyes of the powerful Bridgerton family. I know, I'm kind of sad I fell asleep because I kind of want to watch it,

but then I kind of don't care. It's so good. Yeah. The lead's name is Daphne. And basically, like, her family, it's Daphne Bridgerton. Like, that's her family are the Bridgertons. And they're not, like, royalty, but they're also, like, not poor. Like, they're, like, a well-to-do family.

But, like, obviously they want their daughter to, like, marry into royalty. So she's, like, all about this duke. And sheke and she's like you know trying to be the duchess and then the prince comes along and he likes her too and now she's like do i want to be a princess or a duchess and it's like oh it's great yeah from what i understand the bridgertons all have really pretty girls in their family right like that's their thing yeah they're pretty and i think like their dad died and their oldest brother is like the lord of the house and so he's like trying to act like he's like head of the house but he's a dum-dum and then like one of their other brothers is like an artist it was fascinating i'm obsessed with it

all right bridgerton bridgerton i read a book recently you did or did you listen to a book and listen to a book that's the same thing got it whatever have you ever read any kurt vonnegut i don't think so he's like this american author like salinger or like kerouac like i feel like he's like this certain era of american literature that everyone knows but for whatever reason i had never read any of his stuff so i was like you know what i need to read some vonnegut and i read slaughterhouse five which is his big novel yeah it's good you know it's got kind of everything you want it's a war novel but it's anti-war there's aliens there's a lot of time travel there's a lot of killing yeah so it's everything that you kind of would want yeah i love all those things yeah so slaughterhouse five it's like this badass

science fiction novel that like no one kind of told me about actually i guess everyone kind of told me about because yeah it's kind of famous very well known author every time i brought it up like during the christmas parties everyone's like yeah i read that when i was a kid like in high school it's like like, oh, well, I didn't get to do that, I guess. Maybe I'm just stupid, but I'm working on it. Anyways, yeah, Slaughterhouse-Five. Good stuff. Go check it out.

You have anything else? I think the only other thing I've been watching, I mentioned it last week, is that ballet series. It's called Tiny Pretty Things, I think. Remember I told you it's kind of like pretty little liars except they all are in ballet school yeah i'm digging it it's actually grown on me more at first i was kind of like oh this is a show i'll watch while i'm doing something else but now i

actually pay attention and it's kind of cute um still don't know who killed the girl so that's cool love watching the ballet somebody tweeted at me and said that the dancers on this show probably not like the leads, maybe the leads, but I think like just more of like the background dancers on the ensemble are all actually part of the New York City Ballet or something like they're legit. So that's sickening. It's a good watch. I'm into it. I think it's called Pretty Little Things. I think it's called Tiny Something Things. Tiny Little Things? I think it's Tiny Pretty Things. Let me Google. Do a Googs. It's very confusing because it sounds like pretty little liars,

and it is a lot like pretty little liars. Yeah, tiny pretty things. Okay. I saw a YFTer sent me a review that I needed to read. Yeah, it seems like they've been missing the Amazon reviews. This is from Brittany Walters. I got it too. This is an Amazon review for a dark gray inner weighted layer blanket.

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Of course. This blanket will take you straight to the big leagues this holiday season. Buy it for you and your wife and make her regret every night sleeping with you forever. Also, it helps me sleep a bit better. That's good. It's true. But also, here's what I've learned about weighted blankets. I'm a big weighted blanket guy.

The problem is that you get too hot in them too quickly. Also, a weighted blanket isn't meant to be shared. What do you mean? Weighted blankets are just for one person. You can have your own weighted blanket, but I need my own weighted blanket. I can't be sharing weighted blankets. Is this a Wells thing or a weighted blanket thing? It's a me thing, I suppose.

But them's the rules. Okay. I made it up. Did you tell me you watched the new Christopher Nolan movie? Yeah. And you said you don't know what happened, but you loved it. Still don't have no idea about it. I can't understand it.

Need to smoke more weed or less weed or maybe take some acid. I don't know what I got to do, but it's tough to watch. But I loved watching it. Still confused about what the fuck's going on. And you haven't rewatched it, I assume. No, but I'm going to. Are you going to watch it? Yeah, I want to.

I've been waiting for the fam to want to watch it so I can take advantage of my sister's movie room. Yeah. That's what you need. Yeah. A theater room. A theater room. You can just go in the theater room without anyone else wanting to watch it, by the way. That's not fun.

Yeah. Mix yourself a drink. Tell Rye to come with you. Do it. I drank an entire bottle of rosé on my own on Christmas Eve. It was nuts. Were you like wasty faced? I was pretty drunk, yeah.

Yeah? But I was also winning every single game of King and Scum. So, you know? Asshole. Called Asshole. Whatever. Yeah. I like King and Scum because I like saying, you're a scum.

Yeah, but you can also say, you're the asshole. Yeah, but that's not as good as scum. Really? I don't know know i like scum you're scum what about coming up do you got anything coming up for us coming up there's still slew of movies i um want to watch on netflix i still haven't watched that ava movie i think that's next on my list i want to see that too i was gonna ask if you watched it oh yeah no i want to see that too it's like all of a sudden sudden Netflix is coming out with a bunch of films.

I'm here for it. I just started reading a new novel called The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. That sounds good. Yeah. I'm excited about it. It's in the vein of The Time Traveler's Wife. I don't know if you ever read that one. Loved The Time Traveler's Wife.

In a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a bargain to live forever and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world.

But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name. Sounds good. I know. I'm kind of excited about it. So there's that. Let me know if you love. I will let you know if I love.

Let me know if you love. I will let you know if I love. Let me know if you love. This comes out on the 30th, and then the next episode is going to be out on the 6th, which means we'll have gotten to watch the first episode of The Bachelor. Yes, we will. You pumped about it? I am, and I don't even know if I can say this, but I guess I can. I'm hosting some VIP virtual bachelor lead up to the season. I don't know where Chris is, but your boy's doing it. Actually, I know where Chris is.

That's sickening. I think he's going to be on vacation. The B squad's getting called in, yo. The B squad's getting called in. You know, I think you're the C squad. I think JoJo's the B squad. I don't know. That's exciting. Music? You know, I think you're the C squad. I think JoJo's the B squad. I don't know. That's exciting.

Music? You know what? I'm not seeing anything. Yeah, we're kind of in that in-between time where people are putting stuff out because why wouldn't you just wait until the new year? Yeah, that's what's happening, I think. Yeah. Coldplay has a new song called Flags, if we want to give that a listen.

I mean, does Coldplay need any more help from us? No. They don't. and have you listened to it no all right well why are we playing so we didn't listen to i don't know because we have anything else to play oh we got something else to play sister oh black bear and wiz khalifa have a song called cheers i'd take a listen to that nope find nothing I'd take a listen to that. Nope. And she has a song called Afterglow. We're out of here. I'm a baby and I'm through with you all. Why did everyone sing like this?

Everyone sang just like this. Literally everyone in the 90s. I know. God, let's go back. Let's get a time machine. Go back to the late 80s and just start singing like this and just take everyone's money. Okay. Jump into the pit.

Whoa. So good Dive into the pit Poo Yeah You just screamed that out Oh god Alright Brandi

You know it wasn't a great year But God. All right, Brandi. You know, it wasn't a great year, but at least we had this show to do. You know? Thank God. Thank God for the YFT years. Thank you for keeping us semi-sane. Yeah. Thank God.

During the 2020 craziness. And semi-employed. Yes, that too. That also helped. Not going to lie. Thank you for buying my horse food yeah medications um shelter that's what my money went towards mortgage for me but thanks guys all right i'm through with this show see you brandi bye show. See you, Brandi. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Rade fu that I'm through with you. That is how everyone sang back then. Literally creed.

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