Your Favorite Thing with Wells & Brandi - Workin' for a Merkin

Episode Date: December 4, 2019

This week on YFT, Brandi is laying by the pool and taking bush walks in South Africa while Wells is sick at home, both mentally and physically, which has given him tons of time to find some new fave things. Brandi isn’t too sad about missing Thanksgiving with the Cyrus fam because she has been having her morning coffee with elephants this week and visiting places even more beautiful than Malibu. Wells tells Brandi about a new and interesting word he’s learned recently, and how he spent his Thanksgiving giving back and his Friendsgiving getting absolutely wasted. The hosts talk about plenty of new favorite movies and books and some not-so-favorite restaurant things including limp dick onion rings and ruined coffee-to-milk ratios. Plus, Wells plays a sad yet amazing voicemail that is the thing poop nightmares are made of. Thanks to our awesome sponsors for making this episode possible! Check out these deals just for you, YFTers. BARK BOX – Get a free extra toy when you subscribe to a 6 or 12 month plan at BarkBox.com/YFT THIRDLOVE – Go to ThirdLove.com/YFT to find your perfect fitting bra and get 15% off your first purchase MEUNDIES – To get 15% off your first pair, free shipping, and a 100% Satisfaction Guarnatee, go to MeUndies.com/YFT  

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Dude, I'm sick. Can you hear it in my voice? I saw that on Twitter. God, it's the worst. What kind of sick are we talking? Mentally, there's something wrong with me. Let's be fair about that. But physically, you can't even say what it is. It's just this.

This. Oh, there's Reinhardt in the background. What up, dude? Can you hear him? I can hear him barely. Oh, here. Turn this around. in the background. What up, dude? Hi. How you doing? Can you hear him? I can hear him barely. Oh, here. Turn this around. Maybe you can.

Why? My mother FaceTimes at the worst times. She's trying to FaceTime me right now. No, mom. Bye. I saw that you missed the big Thanksgiving in Nashville. Miley had her new boyfriend over, I guess. A, it was in LA. Oh.

B, it wasn't that big well i wasn't invited it was in la i could have gone over there you could have totally gone why am i completely being ostracized from your family dynamics i don't understand it well now that we got rye rye in the picture wells is taking a back seat what is is that even? I'm wonderful to be around. You guys look like you're having just a grand old time out in South Africa. I see elephants and giraffes and bless bucks and spring bucks and water buffalo and oryxes.

The cool thing about all that is I've really only seen one of those animals you mentioned on this trip and it's the elephants. I was watching your Instagram story one day. You were like having your morning coffee, looking out upon everything the light touches, and two elephants walk by. Yeah, they were actually really close to me too, but I didn't start filming until they had walked away a bit. But so for the first couple days I flew in here, I went straight to where Rye works at in Addo.

I literally went to work with him. He had to work the first day I was here, at least the morning. And so I got up with him at like 630 in the morning and went down and kind of just like followed him around all day, which was fun. I sat outside while he did a couple of things in the back. And these out of like as soon as he walked away, these two elephants walked up. It was so cool. Are you scared at all at any point or is there a chance that the bull elephant will charge and kill you no you watch too much tv i mean i'm just saying like it's a thing it's happened before i know i actually so i wasn't scared then i'm never scared when i'm at

the lodge there because i just feel like i don know, like those elephants are just so used to people being around and stuff. I don't really feel scared. But what I did get to do for the first time ever this trip was go on a bushwalk. So it's like instead of being in a vehicle, you're literally just walking through the bush. And it's just, you know, nothing's protecting you. You're just out there. Except I had right right to protect me which was cool and we got to see a lion on foot right how close was the lion to us about 40 meters 40 meters 40 meters that's like 45 yards probably right about there yeah man isn't that cool a, huh? That's what guys used to call it when they'd go down on girls in the 70s.

It could be dangerous with that disco bush. But you know what? We're going down. Thank God we've moved past the disco bush. I think the disco bush is back, dude. No, it sounds itchy. Do you know what a merkin is, by the way? No.

Reinhardt, do you know what a merkin is? No idea. It sounds like Birkin, which is a really nice handbag. Well, no, this is not that at all. It's the complete opposite. So a merkin is a wig of pubic hair, I think mainly for women. Well, yeah, I would hope so. Can you imagine me, the guy be like, I didn't do Merkin.

If a guy needs help with his pubic hair, something is very wrong. Yeah. So I don't know. I think it's for like, I don't know, for like movies and stuff, but it was, it's a thing. You can get a Merkin. Huh? So there you go. Buy a InterSant, as we would say over here in South Africa.

Yeah. Well, buy a donkey. I like that. He taught me a new word. What is it? Merkin? Snocks. Snocks.

Hold on. Let me think of what I think snocks means. Snocks, yeah. Snocks. Maybe spell it for him. S-N-A-A-K-S. Yeah. Snarks. Yeah. Okay, so I think

snarks is when you say something snarky. Like, that's a snarks comment. It's not far. It's not far off, no. It means funny. Oh, okay. Say it in a sentence. Wells is by a snarks. He is. Oh, so it's Afrikaans. Yeah. Say it in a sentence. Wells is by a snacks. Yes.

Oh, so it's... Very funny. Oh, so it's Afrikaans. Yeah. Okay. So it's by a very... Yeah. Yes.

And I also learned ongholiflok. Ongholiflok. Yeah. Which is... Unbelievably. Unbelievably. Unbelievably. So a whole lot.

Oh, wow. I tell Rai, ongholiflok by a whole lot. Oh, wow. I tell Rye, ungelöflik, by Aletheia. Oh, that means I love your merkin very much. Yes. You kind of need to be ungelöflik, by Aletheia, for someone to like a merkin. I agree. It's unbelievable how much I love you? Or I love you unbelievably?

I love you unbelievably much. An unbelievable amount. Oh, how long are you there for? I go home tomorrow night. How sad is that? Oh, man. So what is the... So we were...

Just to give context to everybody, we were supposed to do this podcast yesterday. Brandy was like, I knew this was going to happen. Ryan surprised me with some trip. So where did you guys go? What happened? First of all, I knew this was going to happen. Ryan surprised me with some trip. So where did you guys go? What happened? First of all, I'm a control freak.

And I like to make the plans because I like to micromanage. And I like to know where we're going and what we're getting ourselves into. And I just, I like to be in control. And I'm the first to admit it. And so this is the first time that I've come over here that I haven't been the one to like make a bunch of plans, I guess. He was being very sweet and wanted to surprise me and take me somewhere that I hadn't been just for a night, like nowhere far or anything because my trip was short, but just somewhere

close by. But he didn't tell me where we were going or anything. Didn't even tell me what day we were going until literally like two days ago. I was like, well, that's the day I record my podcast. And he was like, oh, and I was like, yeah, you got to find out if they have Wi-Fi. It's like very important that they have great Wi-Fi. And so he apparently called and was like, don't worry, they have Wi-Fi and everything. But then like his mom was telling us about what the place was like because she's been before.

And she used the word rustic and remote. And I got nervous about the Wi-Fi. And I had a right to be nervous. So we got there and it was very beautiful. I posted about it on my story. It was, we stayed in a bedroom that was like at the top of this hill in a tiny, like an old wooden house. And the, it was just one room, the bedroom. And it was like, it had windows all on every wall and it faced the ocean was stunning. It was that room was like in a house and the different hotel rooms were in the same house so we were in a house basically with a bunch of strangers in different rooms and the only place

to use the wi-fi was in the common area downstairs and the wi-fi sucked it's like not only would we have had a bad connection people could have been walking in and out talking in whatever language saying whatever who knows what i mean i saw the story it looked freaking awesome it was really really beautiful the area we were in was called nordhuk yeah say it your way nordhuk like that and nordhuk say very american but i'm obsessed with it it is the coolest little town and the vibe reminded me a lot of malibu for some reason i I mean, the ocean and it's just very laid back. Everybody's walking around everywhere. Had a little farmer's market. It was just very, very cute.

I don't know, much nicer than Malibu. Like it was very green and had huge parks. People had their dogs off leash running through the grass. It was just like so picturesque and adorable. So that's where he took me. Wow. There are very few places in the world that are nicer than Malibu. And apparently Norfolk is one of them.

I feel like Malibu is like nice. Here's what I think about Malibu. I think it's nice because of all the rich people that live there. Yeah. But like, it's really not that great. Like the beach is kind of dirty. There's no grass. No one has very big properties.

I don't know. I'm not trying to hate on Malibu. It's fine. And it's really cool. But like, this is just Malibu it's fine and it's really cool but like this is just malibu is not that great there are much prettier places in the world yeah all right well and norfolk is one of them yeah like i feel like i can't believe you'd say that because i feel like where you're from is so much nicer than malibu yeah i would agree monterey did you take

reinhardt to where i'm from i I haven't yet. Can you hear still? Yeah. I had to turn the thing. I haven't yet. That's so when he comes over, my mom is like begging us to go do a West Coast road trip with her because she loves Big Sur and she loves Monterey. So that's kind of the next probably like big trip we'll do when he comes over to the States again is start in L.A. and drive up the whole. I'd love to do the whole coast.

I would love to go all the way to Vancouver. I've never done that. I think it'd be so cool. Yeah. Get yourself a Chrysler Sebring where you can put the top down. Convertible. I think Tish the Dish has more of a, what's the RV company called that we talked about for Utah? Cruise America. Road trip. Cruise America. That's what Tish has in mind. When I went to South Africa, I went to Cape Town. America. That's what Tish has in mind. When I went to South Africa and went to Cape Town, Cape Town reminded me so much when I flew into Cape Town

so much of flying into Monterey and Carmel, just like mountains meeting the sea and like this drastic meeting between ocean and land that was like really, really beautiful. And then obviously there's like wine country and a lot of rich white people. You know, it's great. It is very West Coast-esque.

Yeah, for sure right right has anxiety about being on the pod no you've been great i haven't really been saying much all right buddy i'll let you go but thank you for stopping by it's good to see you man oh good to see you again enjoy he's very handsome isn't he yeah he's he's so funny he's so shy i know around i feel it's not you it's the fact that he knows other people are going to listen to this. It makes him so nervous. I know. I hate that my only interaction with him has been on the podcast because I feel like I'm not getting

the real Reinhardt. No, you're definitely not. Alright, well, do you want to start the pod? Oh yeah, we probably should, huh? Yeah. Go for it, baby. You've been gone for a while. Buckle up your seatbelts, bros and hoes. You're listening to your favorite thing podcast. Well, Sam, right? Buckle your seatbelts, bros and hoes. You're listening to your favorite thing podcast. Well, Sam Brad, hey!

Buckle your seatbelts, boys and girls. Real quick. We're going to give that one a try. I liked it. It looks like you're having a great time in Africa. It's always a great time here. I mean, if you come here and don't have a great time, something is very wrong with you.

Do you know? Yeah, it's a you problem if you're not having fun in South Africa. But it's winter here, or it's getting close to winter, so it's got to be warm there. Oh, I've been by the pool almost every single day. Reinhardt gets tan in like two seconds, which is so unfair. We've laid out for like two or three days, and I have a little bit of color. I think you got to figure it out, man.

If you guys get married, you can do endless summer, basically. My whole idea is like come here for like two and a half, three months when it's freezing at home. Yeah. And then, yeah, you forever live in the summer. Or you just live in California, then it's always nice. But yes, I like your idea too. Yeah. I mean, like, was it weird not doing Thanksgiving? Ironically, was here last year on Thanksgiving too. All right. It's weird. But it was, you know, obviously I didn't know him yet, but it was when I came over here with Miley. I wasn't here for that for last Thanksgiving either and the other cool thing about November for us is Miley's birthday is the 23rd so it's always right before Thanksgiving so before I left um Miley was in Nashville so those of us that were there got together and did a dinner

for her birthday and she actually couldn't talk. So it was a silent birthday dinner for her. But because we did that and we kind of went all out like it was a very Thanksgiving esque meal. It almost felt like I didn't really miss Thanksgiving. You didn't miss much. You know, what'd you do? So every year we go down to like the homeless shelter and the veterans shelter and hand out food for Thanksgiving. That's really cool. My cousin Daryl, she like sets it up for like all of West LA. It's crazy what she does. It's a really fun thing, but it's one of those things like serving the food for the homeless people. It's like a job that everyone wants to do. So it's like really quick shifts and they're fulfilling. But you know, once you do it for like an hour, someone wants to take your place

because it's like a thing. And so this year we went to like where they're fulfilling. But, you know, once you do it for like an hour, someone wants to take your place because it's like a thing. And so this year we went to like where they're getting all the food ready to take over. They just stocked me and my brother's SUVs up to the brim full of turkey dinner, blankets and hygiene kits. And they're like, hey, go to this church over there and set up a thing and then give it out.

So we get to the church and there's like 20 people in there and they all look like they're not, hey, go to this church over there and set up a thing and then give it out. So we get to the church. There's like 20 people in there and they all look like they're not homeless, right? Like they just they look like they'd be like, no, we've got our own dinner at home. We're good, you know? So we're like, you know what? Screw it. We're taking it to the streets.

And we jumped in our cars. Because if you live in L.A., you know where a lot of the homeless encampments are. And they're generally like under overpasses. So we just started going around to where we knew homeless encampments were and knocking on tents. Hey, do you guys want some food? Do you guys want blankets? Do you guys want hygiene kits? We just handed it out that way. And we drove all around LA and just gave away stuff.

And it was very fulfilling. It was very nice. And it was crazy. I thought that the food was going to be the most sought after thing. But it was very fulfilling and it was very nice. And it was crazy. I thought that the food was going to be the most sought after thing, but it had rained the night before. Everyone was like, dude, do you have any more blankets? Do you have any more blankets? And I felt horrible because living in LA, you're like, the one thing you don't really need is blankets, you know? Yeah. But anyway, so that was really nice and fun. And it was like one of

those things where I was like, I need to do more of that. I need to be better about being a better human. So that was really nice and fulfilling. And we're going to do it again on Christmas. And it was also one of those things where like we learned something of it's so much easier to serve people when you go find them than to like wait for them to come to you, you know? So. Oh, for sure.

Yeah. We're learning. And then we came back and we had Friendsgiving and we just got wasted. Just obliterated. So much so that the next day, and I'm such like a, I hate idle hands. Like I hate sitting around. The next day, Sarah and I literally sat on the couch and just watched movies for an entire day. Wow. So you should have a lot of good content to talk about today. So much tent. I got all of it.

But anyways, it was a wonderful Thanksgiving. And I'm thankful for a lot of things. You being one of those things. Oh, well. Yeah. That's awesome. Yeah. So there you go.

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Sounds like you've got a lot. I got a lot. Do you want me to go on a rampage? I do because funny, I've actually been sharing a lot of our favorite things with Rye this week. We started and already finished Another Life because I knew he would love that series, that Netflix series. Yeah, so we just finished it. But it's funny because we keep looking for things we've both not seen, but then we keep

coming across things that I'm like, oh, but you have to watch that. So we just keep watching stuff I've already seen. But it's kind of fun for him to see it the first time. So yes, please enlighten me. Maybe you can give me something new to watch on the plane ride home. Okay, I got a bunch. The first one I would suggest is a movie called Brightburn. Oh.

Have you heard about that? No. Brightburn. After a difficult struggle with fertility, Tori Breyer's dreams of motherhood come true with the arrival of a mysterious baby boy. Brandon appears to be everything Tori and her husband Kyle ever wanted. Bright, talented, and curious about the world.

But as Brandon nears puberty, powerful darkness manifests within him and tori becomes consumed by terrible doubts about her son once brandon begins to act on his twisted urges those closest to him find themselves in grave danger bright burn on netflix his voice is like borderline creepy i know actually I don't know if it's on Netflix. I think it's on. I think we bought it. It's basically the story of Superman. But what if Superman was evil? Huh?

Does that make sense? Yeah. This baby comes in a spaceship, lands actually in Kansas, just like Superman. They raise him. He's got some powers, but he might not be the greatest. Okay. You know who's in it? Elizabeth Banks is the mom.

Oh, wow. David Denman is the dad. And he was, you remember from The Office, Pam's first fiance? Yes. Yeah. And then the little boy is, I think his name is Jackson Dunn. He's phenomenal. Anyways, really good sci-fi.

Fantastic. Really? Yeah. And sci-fi. It's like, it's, oh, it's so good. Anyway, so yes. Okay. Check it out.

I think you'd like that. Okay, cool. The other one that I liked a lot was a movie called Loose. Have you heard about that? No. Loose, a liberal minded couple. Amy and Peter Edgar are forced to reconsider their image of their adopted son after they discover he has written an extremely disturbing essay

for his class at school okay so this one is it's a it's a white couple who have adopted a black son from i don't know if they ever say it but it sounds like he comes from like a war-torn area of Africa. And like, he is the story of America. Like you can come here and be anything and do anything, you know, manifest destiny. He's all that. And he's the valedictorian of the school. And he's giving speeches.

But he has this one teacher who's played by octavia spencer who does not like him very much for whatever reason it's like super hard on this kid it's like kind of putting him through it and this kid loose is like not all about it because everyone worships the ground he walks on because he is you know he's the rags to riches story that everyone loves. It's kind of all about him and Octavia Spencer kind of going at it. Who's smarter? Don't know. Cast is really good.

Naomi Watts is the mom. Tim Roth, who's been in like every Tarantino film, is the dad. I haven't seen this kid, Kevin Harrison Jr. before, but he is fantastic. He's young and I'm sure he's going to be in a lot of stuff. Anyways, that movie is so good. Wow.

Okay. That sounds good. I want to watch that. Wells, I don't have my bell, but give me a ding real quick. There you go. Thank you very much. I got to talk about my fave thing, Third Love. I legitimately packed all of my favorite Third Love bras for this trip to South Africa because,

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Do it. We also watched, I have a lot of these. I'm sorry. I don't know if you want me to do this. No, it's great. This is a kind of a true story based on true events. It's called Official Secrets. Main character is Kira Knightley.

Love her. Also, Ralph Fiennes is in it. He played Voldemort and like every other thing in the world. Matt Smith is in it. He's in, what's the movie about the queen? Is it The Queen? It's called The Queen? I think The Queen.

It's got a lot of really good characters. And here is the synopsis. Official secrets. One day in 2003, in the lead-up to the Iraq War, British intelligence specialist Catherine Gunn receives a memo from the NSA with a shocking directive. help in collecting compromising information on UN Security Council members to blackmail them into voting in favor of an invasion of Iraq. Unable to stand by and watch the world be rushed into war, Gunn makes the gut-wrenching decision to defy her government and leak the memos to the press. Official secrets. Kind of feels like they gave a lot away in that synopsis. It's during like the Bush administration and like when we were trying to decide if we were going to invade Iraq.

And Bush was saying that there was weapons of mass destruction, that there was weapons of mass destruction. And there was ties to Al-Qaeda. And everyone's like, I don't know if that's true. And they were doing all that. She's an intelligence officer for the British. She releases a bunch of information, like whistleblows, like how it's kind of BS. And it's like all about if she's going gonna go to jail for basically doing the right thing it's crazy that you can go to jail for doing the right thing i know you know anyways official secrets is really good oh the other one that we watched was the king have you heard about that one

uh is it on netflix or something else yes it's on netflix the king's all about henry v the king young henry v encounters deceit war and treachery after becoming king of england in the 15th century in the aftermath of his brother's death the cast is so good dude it's timothy chalamet chalamet chalam. Which is weird because he plays the king and he's like fighting in wars and stuff. But he's like got to be a buck 25 dripping wet. And it's just like hard to believe that he's like able to like fight in armor. But I went and looked at what King Henry V looked like and he looked like a skinny dude. So it was cast well, I guess.

And then I will say this. I felt scene stealer was robert pattinson he plays the prince of france and he is so good at being like really pompous french prince huh he's so good and i gotta be honest with you a lot of people have been talking mad trash about him being batman i'm excited he's gonna be a good batman i've always liked robert pattinson and i also was a twilight fan but this is an unbiased opinion are you excited for him to be batman i am yes i've always loved him what was that movie he was in about the twin towers falling the nine it was a based on that line 11 it was called do you know what i'm talking about no i don't it was seriously one of my

favorite movies of all time it's so sad and he's so good in it. What is Robert Pattinson's fantastic in it. Lily Rose Depp, Johnny Depp's daughter is in it. She's pretty good. Oh, wow. What does she play? She plays the princess of France and she ends up, I don't want to ruin it, but she's. Don't ruin it. Don't ruin it. Joel Egerton. I would say that he's the best character in the whole thing. He's like King Henry's right-hand man and is awesome. He's also a producer and a writer in this story. And then that guy, Ben Mendelsohn, he's been in like everything. He was in like Bloodline and he's just in everything.

He's King Henry IV. He's so good. Anyways, that movie is fantastic. Okay. Okay. Now I want to watch this too. I know. Okay. So the movie that want to watch this too. I know. Okay, so the movie that Art Pattinson was in that I love is called Remember Me. Oh, yeah.

It's funny because it's not really about 9-11 at all, but the characters' lives definitely plays a part in the movie. So it's a great, great watch. And you know what else he was in that I loved was Water for Elephants. Oh, yeah. Yeah, he doesn't get enough cred. He doesn't. And then the last one I've got. Have you heard of The Game Changer? No. This is a documentary. I feel like there's a dietary documentary that comes out every, I don't know,

couple of months and makes everyone change how they want to eat and stuff. But I got to say, this one has made me do some thinking. So this is called The Game Changers. James Wilkes travels the world on a quest for the truth about meat, protein, and strength, showcasing elite athletes, special ops soldiers, and visionary scientists to change the way people eat and live. So basically, it's trying to debunk the myth that if you want to be strong and muscular, you need to eat meat, need protein. And if you want to be a strong man, you need to eat steak, smoke your cigarettes, you know, like that kind of thought process. And so he goes around and he meets all these like Olympic athletes and these just like peak performers and football players and all this stuff that are living like basically vegan diets.

And then he talks to doctors about what that does to your body. It's thought provoking. And it's just something I think everyone should just watch just in general. They do a study where they have collegiate athletes come in and one day they make them eat a burrito that's got meat in it. OK, and then they let them live that day. And then they take the blood at the end of the day. Then the next day they make them like a vegan burrito, like a vegetable burrito with like beans and avocado instead of meat. Then they let them

live that day and then they take their blood and then they put the blood into a centrifuge and they show them what your blood looks like, the difference between your blood from just one day of not eating meat compared to one day of eating meat and when you put blood into a centrifuge i mean i'm sure everyone knows this you know the white blood cells or whatever goes to the bottom the blood part goes to the bottom and then there's that plasma that goes on top which is lighter than blood the plasma from the day of eating meat is like you can tell it it's cloudy. There's a lot more fat in it. And then the day that you don't eat meat, so clear. I was like, whoa, really? I got it. And I thought this, you know, it was, you know, whatever. So that was really interesting. And then, and so

it's like all these like ultra marathoners and like crazy things. And those people were saying about not eating meat is that when you have a lot of fat like basically running through your body your veins and stuff contract more um and but when you're eating a plant-based diet they actually will expand so it makes it so blood flow can go up and down your body easier which makes it so you you have like crazy endurance and then they have like this one example of conor mcgregor which everyone knows like this amazing mma fighter who was going up against uh i think it was nate diaz and conor mcgregor is like is you know obviously like a man's man and and he's doing this press conference and he's making fun of nate diaz for being a vegetarian he's like i ate two steaks a day i'm not gonna lose who's gonna win a lion or a gazelle

like he's going after her being vegetarian. Nate Diaz beats the shit out of him. And afterwards, Joe Rogan's like, what do you think? He's like, I'm not fucking surprised. And then afterwards, Conor McGregor's, I didn't have as much energy and as much stamina as he did. I was eating two steaks a day and it killed me. It's just really interesting. It makes you change the way you look at food and all that kind of stuff.

So it has influenced me. I think I'm going to try. I want to do it for like a week and just see how I feel. Like your sister's a big vegan, right? I mean, shit, look at her body. That's annoying. So I really think it's different for everybody. Like my brother, Trace.

Yeah. He was vegan for so long. And recently, like within the past year or so, he started eating meat again. I think he looks so much healthier. Yeah. He was vegan for so long. And recently, like within the past year or so, he started eating meat again. I think he looks so much healthier. Yeah. Like before he was just really, really thin, no muscle tone, really. And even his skin, like he just like looked more pale and stuff. And now that he's eating meat again, like he's got like great muscle tone. He's definitely gained weight, looks healthier. His skin tone just looks brighter. I don't know. Like I really feel like for him, he looks better. Yeah. But I think it's tone just looks brighter i don't know like i really feel like for him he looks better yeah but i think it's different for everybody i don't know i don't eat a ton of meat i like fish yeah i eat a lot of fish um but i just don't eat much meat so i don't know like i said there's one of these you know i think a couple episodes back we did the one on like the paleo diet or the keto diet and how we were everyone's gonna do that and i don't know this is it also goes through like you know how they say that well the cavemen ate all meats and they're like yeah

it's not really true the only reason why you you think that is because you see like the spears and the arrows because those things don't go away but of course all the nuts and the berries they were eating biodegraded so you don't see it yeah and they you know my mom we should have her on to talk about this she's so passionate about it you ever heard of like the the blood type diets like what you should eat according to your blood type no she's so into this and she you can look up your whatever your blood type is it'll tell you like what you should eat like nutrition what you should do for exercise like and what is best for your blood type and she swears by it and she says that whatever blood type she is it says that you should be eating a lot of red meat and doing very low impact exercises like walking and stuff and that's what she does

and she looks great yeah well no kidding if everyone could if whatever tish has got figured out we all need to be doing that. I know. Do you know your blood type? I think I'm, I think I'm B positive. It makes me feel better that you're not sure. Cause I have no idea. It's not horrible.

I think I'm B positive though, which is funny. Cause I'm a very positive person, but I would like to go negative right now real quick. I have a negative review too. You want to go first? You want me to go? I think it's good. Mine's going to be a very unpopular opinion. Oh, then go for it.

So I told you guys that I read The Art of Racing in the Rain and loved the book so much. Watched the movie on the flight over. Guys, it is so not good compared to the book. Yeah. They changed the entire storyline and i feel i don't want to give anything away because i i would highly encourage you to read the book especially if you watched the movie and liked it like read the book because the story is just so much more complex and better i feel like they cut out a massive chunk of the plot and the conflict that like based the entire story because i feel like they were trying to make a movie that was like

not as edgy that was like rated g or something compared to like what the book could have been i guess i don't know i was just so disappointed i know it's an unpopular opinion people love this movie they love milo ventimiglia they love the golden retriever okay the dog in the book's not even a golden retriever he's like a terrier but he's a mutt that the guy gets from a farm he's not a golden retriever at all and i don't he's a mutt that the guy gets from a farm he's not a golden retriever at all and i don't know they just changed so much of it to like appease i don't know what people like i think that i just really frustrated me so i'm sorry guys i did not love the movie i highly encourage you to read the book so much better oh my god i'm sorry i'm putting a

golden retriever instead of the terrier mix is the most believe that that's like that's like when you when you heard that julia roberts was supposed to play harriet tubman yes exactly but like that's like i got frustrated by that because no it's like literally the whole thing in the book is that this dog is a mutt he doesn't know what he is he's like three breeds all mismatched nobody knows what he is everybody thinks he's something different and and it's like for him, it's like he's this mutt, but he gets to, you know, ride in race cars with his owner and do all this cool. I don't know. He's such a cool dog.

And for me, I'm like, if you guys had like kept that dog as a shelter dog or a mutt like that, like maybe that would encourage people to go adopt shelter dogs instead of going to get a frickin golden retriever from the breeder. I don't know. It just really frustrated me. Oh, that's so funny. So ridiculous. But anyway, they changed a lot more than that. But that retriever from the breeder. I don't know. It just really frustrated me. Oh, that's so funny. So ridiculous. But anyway, they changed a lot more than that.

But that was just like the big thing. I'm sure they just wanted to slap the golden retriever on the front of the movie poster, you know? Of course. Wait, hold on. I wanted to play this. This video on Instagram made me laugh so freaking hard. Have you heard this voicemail of the girl that accidentally clogged her boyfriend's toilet?

No. Okay. I accidentally clogged my boyfriend's toilet, so I took the poop out and put it in the cat litter box. Then he asked if I pooped in it. I said no, but he said his cat has been dead for a week. That is the saddest thing ever. Please come pick me up. How did she not notice the cat was dead for a week? I don't know.

I mean, obviously she's young because she's asking for her sister to come pick her up so she can't drive right that's insane also why was there still poop in a litter box if why was there even a litter box out if the cat's been dead a week i'm so confused i don't know but that one really tickled me here's some of my uh least favorite things okay let's just do let's just do a restaurant real quick just restaurant number one as a waiter this annoys me don't fill up my coffee when i have half a cup of coffee in the cup because you now you're fucking with the entire ratio of the perfection that i've created with sugar and milk and all the other things and now when you put that on top of it now it's all gone to whack all gone awry the ph balance is way off. And now I got to figure out, I got to fucking start doing chemistry experiments and try

to get my coffee back to what it was. It was perfect where it was. Fill it up when it's empty. Or when I say, hey, can I get more coffee? I didn't ask for more coffee. Okay? So don't come around and then just be pouring coffee willy nilly everywhere and ruining up my ratio.

Number one. Number two, stop putting onion rings on burgers, okay? It doesn't make the burger better. If I wanted onion rings, I'd get a side of onion rings, and then I'd put them on my burger, but no one does it. I'll tell you why. Because when you take a bite of a burger that's got an onion ring in it, inevitably what happens every single time is that your teeth grab on to the onion ring and then it pulls the onion out of the shell and then you have this limp dick onion ring hanging out of one bite and you've ruined the entire burger okay also it makes it too tall and you can't get you can't get a full bite you don't make burgers too tall because then you have to

do that weird thing you eat hey speak for yourself i can i can get a full bite. You don't make burgers too tall because then you have to do that weird thing. Hey, speak for yourself. I can get a full bite, okay? Oh. Anyways, I'm done with that. That's a nice rant. I literally had a burger yesterday with an onion ring on it, and I gave it to Ray because I did not want it. Stop doing it.

I don't know why people think that's good. It's not. It's never been good. Ever. You're right. It's never been good ever. You're right. It's definitely not. We've eaten out quite a bit here just because for the most part, because it's so freaking cheap compared to the United States. But I noticed the other day.

So like here, it's not like to say it's like at home. They bring you a bill and then they take your credit card and go run it here. They bring the credit card machine to your table and like run your credit card or whatever. And so we were like finishing up our lunch, but we were like so excited to order a coffee at the end and we hadn't even finished our food and this chick brings the credit card machine over with the bill and is like you guys you know like oh you guys ready to pay but like we didn't even finish eating and we were like um no we went to order coffee after we eat and she like literally rolled her eyes she was so annoyed and walked away and i was like geez no we went to order coffee after we eat and she like literally rolled her

eyes she was so annoyed ed walked away and i was like geez you should say is there anything else you would like before you bring a bill over i feel like it's very rude to just bring a bill for sure but her shift was ending she wanted to get the fuck out of there yeah we actually were eating lunch like 4 p.m which is not right oh yeah dude you're in the wrong here. I was jet lagged. I got two books and then we can wrap it if you want. Okay. Number one, my buddy Steve Gorman, who I don't know if you've ever met. I think you met him back in the days when we did this show in Nashville at the studio.

Steve Gorman was the drummer for the Black Crows. And he also had a radio show on Fox Sports where he talked sports, which was awesome hearing a rock star talk sports. But he would also come do a bit on my radio show. He had a photographic memory. It was crazy. I could say October 27th, 1995. And he'd be like, oh yeah, the Black Crows, we were in Denmark doing our European tour. That was the night that so-and-so got kicked out of the bar because they started a bar fight. And he had that photograph of him. I remember exactly what would happen on exactly every single day. And it was crazy.

He has since written a book called Hard to Handle, The Life and Death of the Black Crows, a memoir. I just started reading this because I know Steve so well. Like, it's awesome because I was always so amazed how he was able to recall all this stuff. And now, like, I heard a lot of these stories, but now, like, reading about it is freaking amazing. And Steve is, like, just a really sweet, nice guy and a wonderful human. And what's weird is that the Black Crows have gotten back together and he's not drumming in the band. So ding, dang, doom for Steve Gorman's Hard to Handle,

Life and Death of Black Crows. Go check it out. That's cool. And then my other one's a kid's book. So weird because this is another person did radio with. This is from college, from Natatube, what?

The new sound of rebel radio. I used to do. Wow. Yeah, that was from college radio yeah did you really talk like that no i mean i don't know maybe god i feel like you did i might have i don't really remember anyways i did radio with this i'll dig it up yeah i actually have i have air checks from way back then for sure i did radio with this with this girl named woman named danielle wheeler she was so nice and so cute and just like a very positive force.

And we've lost touch because that's what happens. And she reached out to me recently. She said, hey, I wrote a children's book. And I was like, oh, cool. The children's book is called I've Got Spots, a story about vitiligo. And since knowing her in college, she got vitiligo. Do you know what that is? No. It's like when your skin loses pigment and so like you'll have like spots on your body there's that one famous model who has it um yeah winnie yeah i think the idea is like self-love and creating awareness about vitiligo and like for kids kind of dealing with it knowing that there's other people out there and you know to kind of embrace it and stuff it's really really cute and so yeah i just wanted to kind of give that a little bit of love.

It's called I've Got Spots, a story about vitiligo written by Danielle Wheeler. So those are my two books for the week. Cute. I started a book. It's a classic Brandy book. But so this is one of the it's it's I picked this one because Ruth Ware, who I've read a lot of her books, she wrote The Woman in Cabin 10, which I think you actually read. Yeah. She endorsed this book like her. her endorsements like on the top.

So I picked it up. It's by Mary Kubica. And I think this chick's like big hit book was called The Good Girl. And I never picked that one up, but I picked this one up. I'm just going to read the premise on the back. Clara Solberg's world shatters when her husband and their four-year-old daughter are in a car crash killing Nick while Macy is remarkably unharmed. Ooh. This is the cool part, told in the alternating perspectives

of Claire's investigation and Nick's last months leading up to the crash, master of suspense Mary Kubica weaves her most chilling thriller to date, one that explores the dark recesses of a mind plagued by grief and shows that some secrets might be better left buried. Ooh, I like that one.

Tell me, I want to know how that one ends because I'm going to need another book. I definitely will. Yeah. Yeah, I love a good murder mystery. Yeah. I love a good murder mystery. Me too. Love a good murder mystery. Okay.

Well, do you have anything else? I don't think so. Okay. Well, have so much fun over there. Thanks. This has been a short trip. It was only an eight-day trip because that's all. He could get off work.

But I head back tomorrow, so we are going to cook dinner tonight. And when I say we, I mean, he's going to cook dinner and I'm going to stand there with a spatula and pretend I'm helping. That's what I do. And maybe we're going to, I think we might watch one of the movies you just recommended.

Yeah, they're all good. Yeah. All right. Well, I miss you and I love you and have a safe flight back. You too. Thanks, Wells. Okay.

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