Your Favorite Thing with Wells & Brandi - You can find me in the club... listening to Frozen

Episode Date: April 14, 2021

Trust our hosts, experts in everything from trending tech to television, to bring you the latest. Wells attempts to explain NFTs using Ready Player One, and Brandi questions if the docuseries about a conspiracy theory is actually a conspiracy theory itself. Spoiler alert: it’s not. Brandi recaps her recent weekend in Denver, which was full of great music and all around good times, minus one questionable decision from DJ Blake. Let us know if you’re into hearing Disney tracks in the club... we’re not here to judge. Wells dives into some of his favorite recent docs and also explains a theory about social media that he’s uncovered recently. Basically, some people reach a level where they are too cool to want followers, and unfortunately, we will never be those people. And, a few PSAs to keep in mind, YFTers: don’t go into debt to learn about The Bachelor, don’t eat whales, and don’t be a dude with a ‘tude. Til next time!  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  VIZZY – Go to vizzyhardseltzer.com/YFT to find out where you can purchase Vizzy. Must be 21+  THERAGUN – Go to Theragun.com/yft and get your Gen 4 Theragun today SKYN – Shop SKYN condoms on Amazon.com  Join our community at Patreon.com/YourFavoriteThing 

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Down, down, down, down, down, down. Life is super, so love the one you got Cause you might give an over or you might get shot Never stop, don't stand again, just give it all for a chance Never had to battle with my bulletproof vest Take a small example, take a little bit from me Take all of your money, give it all to charity Love is what I got, it's within my reach And the sub-lifestyle's still straight from my feet It all comes back to you, you're bound to get what you deserve

Try times that, you're bound to get served Love's what I got, don't start a riot You feel it when the dance gets hot Man. Pour it out for Bradley. That's what we all need a little bit more of right now. Fucking loving, dude. Oh, man. that's what we all need a little bit more of right now fucking loving dude oh man i was just starting the show with man it's early and then that happened and now i feel great what a wonderful way to start a show all right that's it see you later no you gotta call brandy let's see what she got let's see if she got loving hello let's have nothing oh you got the eye patches on oh yeah i do here let me i'll get some eye patches you've got eye patches nice okay so you wear eye patches the way that sarah weighs wears eye patches backwards yeah because i feel like you

should have the the thin part down close to your nose and the thick part where your crow's feet would be. Hear me out here. This is why I wear them backwards because it's not my, I don't have crow's feet,

thank you very much. Shout out Botox. But what I do have is very, very puffy under eye, constant, especially like right now my allergies are out of control so I'm so puffy. So I need the right now my allergies are out of control so i'm

so puffy so i need the the thicker part where my puffiness is which is directly under my eye and because my eyes are so massive sarah's eyes are also big i feel like it makes sense for me to wear them backwards she and i've had this debate for years now and i'm i guess i'm just a rule follower i'm like no that's not how it's supposed to be you're supposed to do it this way but I get it I constantly if I ever have them on like on an Instagram story or something people love to message me and be like you're wearing them wrong oh yeah that's not right it's right for me I don't know if you have this life hack but one of my favorite things is you put that little jar of eye patches in the refrigerator. I'm way ahead of you. Okay. I've got eye patches in the refrigerator.

I've got face spray, like a hydrating mist or two in the fridge. I've got eye cream in the fridge and I've also got a jade roller in the freezer. You haven't lived until you've put an ice cold jade roller on your face when you're hungover. I don't know if I think the jade rollers do anything.

Maybe there's moving blood around. Yeah, I mean, it de-puffs. If it's freezing, it definitely helps de-puff. I'll tell you that. Fair enough. I'm sad. Why? Because Sarah, I don't know how much I'm allowed to say,

but Sarah is off working, and I'm not going to see her for a very long time. Oh. I know. I want to put this out there because I know I'm not going to see her for a very long time. Oh, I know. I want to put this out there because I know I'm going to get like, are you and Sarah still together? Because she's just not going to be in my stories for a very long time. Just so you know. But nothing's wrong.

It's going back to work, which is nice. Right. Nice for her. Absolutely nice for her. Because I've been doing the one that's been working this entire time during, during the pandemic. And she hasn't because, but now that we're fully vaxxed,

I think that we feel she feels more comfortable doing that. So vaxxed and relaxed. No one's a dude with a toot here. Do you want to start the show? Should we start the show? What's going on? Yeah, let's start the show.

All right, let's do it. Is it you or is it me? I think it's you. Bros and hoes, you're listening to your favorite thing podcast with... Wells and Brandy. It's what you got. I said, remember that.

How are things? Things are good. I was in Denver over the weekend. My friend Kirsten wanted to go for her birthday. We just kind of want to get out of Nashville. So we went to Denver for a couple of days and got to see DJ Blake round two. Wow, you went back for

seconds? Oh yeah, back for seconds. You know, baby boy Blake really improves every time I see him even though I've only seen him twice. I keep saying play more rap, more rap and he actually did this time. I was like yay, he took my advice what does he normally play is it like tracy chapman fast car like what's happening in the

in the club all the small things but like trap version and i'm like oh my god uh also the one that really gets me the one where i'm like okay i think it's time to go. He plays the Frozen theme song. Oh, whoa. And like Blake, he fucking loves the Frozen theme song. Like he gets the most into it during the Frozen song than any other song in his set. It's hilarious. Love him so much. Like Let It Go? Yes, he plays Let It Go.

And people are like in the club getting fucked up into this? You know what? I think the Frozen song they get a little concerned but everyone's usually so wasted by the time he plays it that they're like okay whatever we won't play and they don't care. This song he plays this song in the club. It's like a dance

version he's like let it go let it go, let it go. And it's a fast version of let it go. It's nice. Okay. Did you talk to Blake about Paradise? Is he going to Paradise?

He better not go. Why? I told him not to go last time, and look what happened. Bad news bears. I did not talk to him about it. I can't imagine he'll go, but I don't know. Why? He's got a reputation to fix

after the last go around. Does Paradise really fix anything? It generally makes villains good guys. Or? Or makes good guys villains, which is what happened to him. But now he's known as stagecoach guy so i feel like going back is the play to to look good again no i don't think that's

the play but you never know well i hope he goes because i enjoyed hanging out with him on the beach last time i just hope he's super fun time but i just don't know. I don't know. I'll tell you what, though. If he fucking comes in there with some let it go to close out a rose ceremony, I might lose it. If he gets to DJ in Paradise, I'm going to be very upset. He's not. He's not the first guy. Remember, Vinny's a really good DJ. He's been trying to do it forever. The problem is that all that music is licensed. So you can't go do it.

No, exactly. So Denver was good. Good times. Yeah, Denver. I love Denver. You know I love Denver. Denver's always a great time. Actually, had a YFT-er come up to me on Sunday.

I was at one of my favorite spots in Denver, Happy Camper. It's like this really cute, totally outdoor restaurant and bar that everyone goes to. There's all these cute little seating areas outside. The one we sat in was literally made out of old clawfoot bathtubs. They make into outdoor seating. It's so cute. Everyone just sits there and drinks, and they play great music all day. Anyway, if you haven't checked out Happy Camper in Denver, highly recommend.

Who? The cutest girl. She had bright pink hair. She came up to me and was like, I don't want to be Camper in Denver, highly recommend. Who? The cutest girl. She had like bright pink hair. She came up to me and was like, hey, I don't want to be a weirdo, but like I love your podcast. And I was like, girl, I love to hear it. So she was really sweet. And yeah, Denver, great food in Denver. You know, I don't get sushi here in Nashville, so I love going to Denver for some sushi.

Yeah, because they're so close to the ocean and everything. So close to the ocean. Also, Denver, like I don't know what it is. People that live in Denver have great taste in dogs. Like, I sat outside a coffee shop for 30 minutes, and I got to pet about 18 of the cutest freaking dogs I've ever seen in my whole life. They just really know what's up. I feel that because they got to have, like, cool dogs to go, like, hiking with and stuff. Yeah, there's a lot of doodles in Denver.

And then the cutest dog I saw by far, my favorite dog I saw sitting outside the coffee shop. Have you ever seen a Cavapoo? No. Oh my God. It was the cutest thing I've ever seen. It's pretty tiny and it has like a kind of a long back. Not quite as long as a wiener dog, but like definitely makes you, it's like a kind of a long back not quite as long as a wiener dog but like definitely makes you it's like similar and this cute ass dog was like trotting down the sidewalk and in like we

were literally sitting there and it was like in my head i heard the i'm a happy dog i'm just a happy happy song because he was just trotting along and his butt was just wiggling because his back was so long and he was the cutest thing i've ever seen i think i want one what's one more it's my life motto yeah that's fair enough i mean it's not like you don't take care of seven million dogs already so it's totally fine yeah what's one more he was so freaking cute so cute just a happy happy guy just a happy happy happy, happy, happy, happy guy. Just a happy, happy guy. It was cute. Yeah. Dogs are my favorite thing too. To be honest with you, thank God the dogs are here because I would be, I'd be kind of scared to be all alone while Sarah's gone lurking in this house if the dogs weren't here.

So just. Dogs are the best. You got some favorite things, bro? Or what, bro? Okay, so we had a Patreon last week. So if you weren't there, you missed out. You got some faith things, bro. Or what, bro? So we had a Patreon last week. So if you weren't there, you missed out. You missed out. Jenny and Georgia.

Have you watched any of that at all? No. People love it. People are lit for Jenny and Georgia. Now that I've come out and said that I've watched it, everyone's like, that's the best show. You're so late to the party. Like, well, I freaking love that show.

I gotta be honest. Tish the dish is the one that really got me to watch it. Cause she's obsessed with it. And at first I was like, I don't know. It seems kind of cheesy. Like it kind of reminds me a bit of a bit of Gilmore girls in the sense of it's like the cute, like mother daughter story, but the mother and daughter are more like friends than mother daughter. And like the mom's kind of a train wreck too, you know? Um, and the daughter's kind of a train wreck too you know um and the daughter's kind of the one that's got it together in a sense in some aspects so it's kind of like that type story um but it's like it's super cute like the mom is like super young like 30 and super hot

and the girl is in like middle school i guess and so everyone's like, that's your mom. Your mom's hot. And she's like trying to get with the town mayor. Who's, um, who's the guy from Friday night lights, uh, Jason street, Jason street and Friday night lights, the quarterback, he's the mayor in this town or whatever. So it's super cute. Also, also he was in heart of Dixie kind of reminds me of heart of Dixie in a way too, but way better. should give it a shot it's kind of kind of like risky like the like the middle schoolers are like talking about weed and vibrators and sex and all kinds of stuff jenny miller an angsty 15 year old often feels more mature than her 30 year old mother the irresistible and dynamic georgia miller it looks like the daughter is is like a person of color and the mom is very, very white.

Yes. Jenny is half black. Her dad is black, but they're obviously not together because they had her at 15. Yeah. It's like the whole thing. But then the mom, I think, had another kid with somebody else because her brother is like fully, fully white, like the nerdiest kid you've ever seen with, like, little brown Coke bottle glasses. He gets bullied at school. It's kind of sad.

But, yeah, they're just, like, this totally, like, mixed family. And, obviously, the mom's so young. So it's good. It's cute. It's a nice story. It's funny in bad parts, and it's cute. It's a nice story. It's funny in bad parts and it's cute. Like it is a lot about the mom and daughter, but then it's also just a lot about like Jenny's life in school and, you know, going through like adolescence and all the school drama and like whatever. It's cute. It's a feel good.

Yeah. But does it seem like something that like a manly man like myself would watch? I mean, probably not. No. I did love some Gilmore Girls, but I will say this. I will. But I will die on this hill. Gilmore Girls was great because the writing was fantastic.

It was. And Gilmore Girls was a lot more of a comedy than this, I feel. Yeah. It's not quite. I mean. I mean, there will never be another Gilmore Girls. Like, you can never compete, you know? Anyways, love me some Gilmore Girls.

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That's even more savings. That's Shipstation.com. Code your favorite thing. Do it. We talked about this on the Patreon too, but like I've really delved deeper into it. You need to watch Q into the storm because it is bonkers. Really? I need you to watch it because you were spouting a bunch of these conspiracy theories.

And so I need you to know where they came from. Do I really need to know? You absolutely do. You absolutely do. I love a conspiracy theory. Don't ruin that for me. No, no, no, no, no, no. Because you need to watch it to see how dangerous conspiracy theories can be.

What if that documentary is a conspiracy theory? That's what I— Fuck, dude! That's what every QAnon dipshit's going to say. And that's the problem, is that they'll never trust it. It's so fun to watch you get so upset about it. No, you need to watch it. You need to watch it.

Also, everyone in that documentary looks exactly like what I would think someone who believes in this bullshit would look like. You're so fucking stupid. And I'm sorry to all you. Listen, if we have YFDers out there that are like straight up Q people, sorry for saying this, but what is wrong with you? It's so bonkers. I'm sitting there watching you like, oh my God, people believe this. This is crazy, crazy talk. You need to watch it.

Okay, fine. You absolutely need to watch it. And like, who is Q? Is it Steve Bannon? Is it Roger Stone, who I'm pretty sure is the villain in some Batman movie that Michael Keaton was the Batman in? Is it Fred? Is it Ron? Is it Jim? Is it nobody?

Is it everybody? Oh, my God. My money. So I'm only like four episodes in. My money's on Ron, guys. I think Ron's the guy. How many episodes are there? I think right now there's five.

I don't know if it's done or not, but like, anyways. Q into the Storm is bonkers. I need you to watch it. All right, fine. I'll watch fucking Ginny and Ginny and Ginny and Ginny and Georgia. Georgia and Ginny. Okay. and Ginny and Georgia Georgia and Ginny okay wait we've watched another documentary and I am into it sorry to go documentary hunting it's okay I love a doc have you heard of this is a robbery I think I've scrolled past that this is a robbery the world's

greatest art heist it's on on Netflix, by the way. And by the way, Q into the Storm is on HBO Max. March 18th, 1990, 13 works of art were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Guards admitted two men posing as police officers responding to a disturbance call, and the thieves tied the guards up and looted the museum. I mean, like, we're talking Rembrandts and Picassos and, like, priceless pieces of art. These guys came in there and just cut from the frames. What?

Yeah, it's crazy. It seems like it's an inside job. And, like, we only watched a couple episodes, super fishy how the guards were like tied up in the basement. And it's fascinating. This is the robbery, the world's greatest art heist. I think you'll like. Dang, that sounds good. Yeah. Speaking of art, are you up on the whole NFT thing? Sarah and I were talking about this the other day. I think I understand it a little bit better than Sarah does because I watch something on TikTok. So that means I know.

Oh, well, TikTok, that's definitely where you should learn about things. Absolutely. This is, and maybe YFTers out there, correct me if I'm wrong, but this is how I understand it. So, you know, in like Ready Player One, in Ready Player One, player one pars of all is poor at the beginning remember he doesn't have anything he doesn't have any armor or whatever so he's like out there like killing pigs and stuff to try to like boost his score and then when he gets the first key the jade key or whatever he's awarded a bunch of money and armor and stuff and swords and weaponry and stuff. And what I understand NFTs are in like kind of the simplest form, he had to pay for that armor, right?

Mm-hmm. And it's obviously not a real thing because it's in this digital world. But in that world, it's very real. Like that armor has intrinsic value to his avatar and so i think what you can do is you can buy stuff like that and own it and then it has value if someone wants to buy it from you but why would you want to buy it i don't know people are buying like memes and stuff i know i don't get it but it. But it's a thing. It's going to be. It's like a big thing, supposedly.

I know. Because I do think it's something that like we should know about. Yeah. Maybe getting on the ground floor of, you know, buy some stuff. Yeah. Let's get rich. Yeah. Let's get rich, dude.

Something that I never thought would happen from me going on The Bachelorette or Bachelor in Paradise is starting to happen more and more, and I'm a bit concerned. Okay. I'm getting asked to come on Zoom calls for college-level courses of classes that are called The Examination of Bachelor Nation in Television Culture, 101.

What? That's a class? It's maybe like once or twice a week that I'll get like a request, see my DMs and being like, hey, so it'd be really cool if you could come on in our class. We're examining pop culture and the examination of Bachelor Nation. I'm like, wait, what? People are going into severe student debt to take a class on arguably what is wrong with this country.

No. Yeah. Take a like learning how to do your taxes 101 class, which I don't, you know what? I don't even think that's a fucking class, which that needs to be a class. That needs to be the first class you take all right when i was in college you could take like i took jogging that was a fucking class that was a class

that was a class and i'll tell you what it was tough and you know why it was at 8 30 in the fucking morning bro dude if you're gonna have jogging heaven in the afternoon, because in college I was hungover being like, why did I take this fucking class? But I'd also take classes, you know, like musical theory into the works of Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead. I can see like if I was, if I came up like in the late seventies and the eighties,

I'd be like, this is a fucking class, seriously. And now it's happening with like the Bachelor of Reality TV. And I guess I'm being like, seriously, but schools do better. First, we find out that you're letting people fake being rowers to get into school. And now this. Oh, I haven't gone on one of these Zoom calls. Maybe you should. Maybe I should just to be like, just to like chastise a teacher being like whose idea was this yeah was this your idea because shame on you and

then also bring in the dean because shame on them for like green lighting this this is so dumb go teach taxes right now go explain nfts to people why don't you do that seriously you know yeah someone explain bitcoin to me because I don't get it. Seriously. Teachers, deans, do better. Do better. Do better. I do think you should go, though, and then come back and report.

I know. I should. Yeah. I have a show that I'm absolutely obsessed with. Okay, great. Bummed because there's only one episode out right now and it's one of those.

It's HBO Max where they're like, we're going to continue just to drop one a week and make you fucking and you're like, dude, come on. We live in a different time now. Drop it all. I don't need to wait. Anyways, the show is called The Nevers. That sounds good. Oh my god, to wait. Anyways, the show is called The Nevers. That sounds good.

Oh, my God, Brandy. That's so good. An epic tale following a gang of Victorian women who find themselves with unusual abilities, relentless enemies, and a mission that might change the world. The Nevers. It takes place Shakespearean times, I feel like, in England. It's two women, Pen and Sedare and Amalia True. It seems that they kind of have this orphanage for special people.

I think they're called Touched. And they all have like powers. It's a little bit like Charles Xavier's, you know, school for the extremely gifted. X-Men. Amalia, first of all, she's the girl with great boobs in Outlander. So you know who I'm talking about

if you've watched Outlander. Great New York boobs. Do you remember that Chappelle's kid? You have great New York boobs. Her power is that she can see into the future. And then Penance Adair, her power is she can kind of like understand electricity, make it work in harmony. So she's kind of like the Elon Musk of this era. She's like inventing all this crazy cool shit. And it's dope. Making robots, electric cars and stuff when

everyone's still on horseback. It starts with, there's a girl her parents think is possessed. So they go over there and they find out she's not possessed, she's touched. And she has a kind of a special power. And when they're there kind of like assessing what's wrong with this girl, someone tries to kidnap her. Both Amalia and Penance like kind of stop them from that. And it's a crazy chase scene. It's really cool.

They stop her from getting kidnapped and then they kind of go back to this orphanage and you get to see like there's all these kids and all these people who have like all these special powers. Like there's this doctor

who can straight up just heal people but like touching them, you know? What? Because Amalia can see the future, she can kind of see where she has to go and so they have to go to this they have to go to the opera they have to go watch faust during like this scene at the opera the bad guys who are like trying to like steal these like touch kids come on like this crazy stuff ensues and all of a sudden there's this one touched person who starts to sing and when she starts to sing you can see like all these like strands of light go out into the crowd and start touching people who are quote-unquote touched and then it goes into this

flashback of it looks like an alien craft that comes into the city kind of rains down this like beam of light to just a select few of people. Everyone's kind of like in awe and like just like staring at the spaceship. And this happens, then all of a sudden the spaceship leaves and everyone's like kind of like snaps out of it and just continues on with their day. Like they didn't even notice it. And so what it's seeming like is that like some sort of alien race came in, touched some people, made them have superpowers. And so there's like regular people and people with superpowers. And now there's this like group of people who are like trying to like kidnap all the people with superpowers, all taking place in Victorian

era London. I don't know if I did a very good job of explaining it. And it kind of seems outlandish when I explain it the way I did. But I was like, wait, this show, like right at the battles, like this show's dope. And then I was like, wait, I was like, this show's dope. And then I was like, wait, there's superpowers? That's dope. And then I was like, wait, there's bad guys? That's even dope. And then I was like, wait, there's aliens? Fuck yeah. Okay. You got me hooked. Into it. The Nevers on HBO Max. I got you to get out. Yeah.

That was a little all over the place, but also I'm in. I want to watch. It was all over the place because that's what it was. Enthralled by this. Enthralled. Wow. Have you been watching Made for Love? No. I know.

You would really like it. Listen, I'm going to have a bunch of time on my hands. I'm all by myself. So don't worry. I'm going to get on it. You know what I was thinking about the other day? What? People who are like ultra famous, really big names.

Like who? I don't know. Like Brie larson oh yeah on a day our must i feel like she's like on the rise right now like really big stars they don't have social media but you're not i know must be nice and right there's this if this is terrible but there's this social currency that we have in our country of the more followers you have equals like it's like a equation the more followers you have on social media media equals how famous you are right like the kardashians are the most famous they have the most followers or whatever bullshit and then there becomes a high watermark some sort of threshold above that you don't have any followers because you are so famous tom cruise i don't think

has social media you know and i just find that so fascinating everyone is trying to get the as many followers as possible because it like proves something to people that people like you or and then you get to a point in which you're so famous that you want no followers. If only I thought I could get there. Anyways, do you have anything else? I have a book. What do you got?

Oh, what do I got? It's called Bring Me Back. It's by B.A. Paris. Is that what she goes by? I think it's a female writer. Okay. So she wrote Behind Closed Doors, which I loved. She went missing.

He moved on. A whole world of secrets remained. Until now. Bring me back. I'm about two-thirds of the way through. I love this book. But now that I'm two-thirds of the way through, I was literally thinking today

about how to explain it to the YFTers. And it does remind me a little bit of Gone Girl, especially the way it's written because it's kind of written from both of their perspectives and it flips back and forth kind of the way Gone Girl did if you read the book. And I'm really fascinated by that.

I love when they do that. So you kind of get both sides of the story. So the main character's name is Finn and he just like falls head over heels for this girl, Layla love of his life type deal. And then, you know, in the beginning of the book,

Layla goes missing. They like, like they're like on a road trip or something and stop at, like, a rest stop. And he goes in to use the bathroom. And when he comes back, she's gone. Then, like, they kind of fast forward to, like, 12 years later. And she's still gone. And he ends up being with and wanting to marry her sister.

And so, yeah, so then he starts getting these letters that seem to be from Layla, but he's just like, there's no way. Like, it's been 12 years. There's no way she's alive. But then there's like, in the beginning, you kind of wonder, you're like, wait, was it, did he kill her?

Like, it starts out by, you know, like, oh, I went to the bathroom and she was missing. And then you get like halfway through and you're like, wait, is that the story? Or did he do some shit? Find out some things about his past. But then you find out some stuff about her past. And you're like, okay, which one's the psycho?

Somebody's got to be psycho here. I don't know who yet because I'm only two-thirds of the way through. But it's really, really, really good. I just, B.A. Paris slays. So if you haven't read Behind Closed Doors, that was one of my favorite books that came out that year. I just thought I'd play Layla while you're talking about Layla. Nice. Derek and the Dominoes.

All right. That sounds awesome. I loved Gone Girl. And I love that girl on a train and like all those books like that. So I'm into that. I think you'd really like it. And I do think this would make a really good like Netflix movie. Yeah.

It's probably already underway, dude. I know it probably is. We talked about this on Patreon, but for all of those that aren't on Patreon, Seaspiracy. Have you watched that? I can't bring myself to do it.

I know. I mean, first of all, like right off the bat i hate this movie because conspiracy was available and someone thought no let's do c-spiracy you're fired that's so dumb it was right there in front of you conspiracy anyways it's really sad i didn't even want to watch it and we were talking about this on Patreon, like who is eating whales? Like what is wrong with you?

Like I've never gone to the fucking restaurant and been like, yeah, I want some baby beluga. You know, like who's doing this? Who's like, give me some killer whale. I love some. Oh, it's delicious.

What the fuck is wrong with you people? Also, I've never been like, you know, nothing tastes better when you cook with blubber. What is happening? Like, who's needing this? Stop it. Why are you killing these majestic animals?

I hate you so much. I know. It sucks because I love shrimp so much. And the shrimp nets are catching dolphins and stuff. How do you not like shrimp? It just looks like an insect. It is. So is lobster.

Do you like lobster? I like like lobster in sushi when I can't really like tell that it's a lobster, but I would, I can't eat like actual lobster. Like I can't like pick it apart and like do it. Yeah, I know. It just freaks me. I know, they are bugs. And you know, we had the whole crawfish conversation already. Like, ew, I know. It just freaks me. I know. They are bugs. Like crab? We had the whole crawfish conversation already.

Like, ew. Could never. I love crawfish. What about crab? Crab, same thing. I can't do the crab leg thing where you're at a big fucking claw and you got to pick it out. I can't do that. But if it's in sushi, then it's good, obviously.

I like that. I mean, crabs are straight up just spiders in the ocean. Let's just be fair. I know. I know. They are. Whether you want to believe it or not anyways it was one of those movies where i was like well now i can't eat fish you know and then we watched like some like i don't know it was maybe a year ago and there was some documentary about meat and you're like well i can't eat meat you know and then i was watching this thing and you know there's a whole spectrum of color

that humans can't see. You know that? We only can see a very small portion of the color spectrum. And same with sound. There's a very small portion of sound at certain hertz that we can only hear. There are other lower frequencies

and higher frequencies that we can't hear that apparently animals can talk to each other using higher frequencies that we can't hear that apparently like animals can can talk to each other using said frequencies that we can't hear and apparently there's a lower high frequency that plants let off when we cut them down so they scream that is tragic so what the fuck do we eat now? Because we're hurting everything. So I'm just going to die. I'm just going to die a slow and sad death. Well, I won't be very slow. I'll die pretty quickly, I guess. But we can't eat anything.

I don't know what to eat now. I know. I don't either. That's why I know I need to watch it. But it's just going to make me so sad. Yeah. Also, everyone, you shouldn't eat whales. Don't eat whales.

They're very smart animals. And the only reason why they haven't evolved to be able to talk and stuff is because they're stuck in the ocean. You know? Yeah. Also, shark fin soup. Who really needs that? Yeah, exactly. You ever tried butternut squash soup?

It's great. Big soup guy over here. Big soup guy over here. Tomato bisque? Great. Doesn't't harm anyone it harms the tomatoes no yes it does apparently it's in the ground right tomatoes grow on the ground i don't know you don't know if tomatoes grow on the ground i can't say i ever had a garden have you i have actually i can't picture that where did you think tomatoes would grow picture stoned wells having a garden actually i did it when i was not smoking pot i don't really smoke pot no i had a garden in my nashville house and i saw some meme and it was like a picture of tomato plant it's like spent

42 and waited six months to save $3 at the grocery store. It was just so true. Like you get your tomato plants and then you have a bunch of tomatoes. And then, and then like you, you have way too many tomatoes at one point. And then you're like giving tomatoes to your friends being like, I grew these.

They're the best tomatoes ever. And your friends are all like, what the fuck am I going to do with this? Like, no, I'm going to go to a grocery store and get my, my tomatoes myself. I don't need your bullshit tomatoes but i did i definitely did that and then like bugs would get in them and like yeah exactly so it's i love the idea of

growing it but it was it wasn't sustainable for me at all i tell you what i do want though brand i at some point in my life i want some chickens chickens. Do you? Yeah, because I love eggs. I do feel like of all the things vegans are angry at, chickens are pretty low on their anger scale because first of all, they're going to lay the eggs no matter what, right? Right. I don't think it really hurts them. It's not like we're taking their, like bees, I don't think, you know, like bees kind of fucked up we we kind of steal the thing that like they're hoarding for themselves you know but i don't think chickens are like it's gonna be a long winter better eat some of these

eggs that i fucking saved up i don't think that's what's happening i could be wrong but yeah they lay their little chicken periods and then you and then you feed them some grains or whatever. I don't know what chickens eat. And they give you breakfast. I think that one actually is a harmless, I can just eat eggs then. As long as the chickens are free range and have room to run around and be chickens. Yeah, for sure. Have a big old backyard

or some side area for them because first of all, Carl would murder some chickens. Murder. Astra killed one once. Really? Yeah, at the neighbor's. I felt really bad. Did you have to buy him a new chick?

No, I think they thought a coyote got it. Oh, my God. But, like, I don't think she really meant to. I think she was trying to play with it. No. And, yeah, I think so. Because their necks snap really easy. And she, like, brought it to him. And yeah, I think so because they, their neck snap really easy. And she like brought it to,

she was like so pumped. She like brought it to me. Like it was like in her mouth. She was like trotting along. Like, look, look, look,

I made a chicken friend, but she didn't. She killed it. Yeah. No, she meant to kill it. And she was giving it to you as a gift. Cause dots with dogs and cats do.

She's never done it again. Also you're perpetuating the bad PR for for coyotes out there okay you know you know what actually kills more chickens than coyotes foxes they're like the number one predator for chickens yeah because they're sly they take the eggs they kill the chickens yeah yeah, I think the number one predator for chickens is humans. Well, touche. Foxes are like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You guys are much worse than us.

Okay. We only take what we need. You've got these giant farms happening. And I'm sure like there's going to be so many wives here that are going to be like, fuck you. Having chickens is terrible. But whatever. I feel like it's the most other than having a garden, it's the most non-dickhead thing to do to animals.

I don't know. I get it. I don't know. I could be wrong. Educate me. Educate me. I have some musics. I wonder if I do. I saw that Of Monsters and Men have some new tunage. Oh. Do you remember Of Monsters and Men? Of course.

So I guess this is the title track to a new record called Destroyer. Okay. You better run, boy, run, or be afraid. Cry, boy, cry, don't play the game. Gravity holds me down And it's taking over Caught in the wind, oh, I cry out

You mind destroyer Call accurate Oh, cry out That band is so, you know it's them like immediately once you hear the girl jump in. Absolutely. You know, it's like that guy, that guy's voice is very iconic. And then her voice layered in.

You're like, oh, yeah, that's of Monsters Unmet. Aren't they? Where are they from? I feel like they're from like Switzerland. Hold on. Let me look. I feel like Iceland. Yeah, maybe.

It's like something like that. Something cool. You're right. They're from Reykjavik. Reykjavik. I feel like Iceland. Yeah, maybe. Is that wrong? It's something like that. Something cool. You're right. They're from Reykjavik. Reykjavik. I love Iceland. That is where Bjork is from. Bjork is from Iceland too.

This is how Bjork talks. Hello. Wow. It's not right. No, it is right. That's how Bjork talks. One of my faves, I always feel like I'm saying the name wrong, but Majid Jordan. Majid Jordan.

They're a duo, actually, not just a guy. They have a new song called Waves of Blue. I just freaking love them so much. So sweet. Wanna hear your song. Wanna dance to your heartbeat. Don't have to ask me twice. You really take me there. I wanna touch your light. I wanna breathe in your air. I'll be holding you tight.

When the night is through. We'll be riding the tide in the sky. I can dig. It's got like a little bit of a weekend vibe to it. Everybody says that when I play them. Oh, sorry. Everyone thinks it's the weekend. So funny.

I like the weekend. I think that's fine comparison. I don't know if he's as good a singer as the weekend, but the weekend has definitely a 80 80s aesthetic of you know like the music he chooses and that's what that sounded like to me yeah they do too yeah for sure like i don't know that he's put out music in a while but miguel you ever get into miguel no he's got a new song called so i lie that's a vibe I can barely breathe, drowning water Smile on my face while I'm turning blue

Nobody cares, just work harder I do what I can to avoid the truth I like that. I got one more for you. That's totally a Wells band, I feel. Give it to me. Do you like Kaleo? Yeah. They have a new song called Skinny. They're a super cool band. Well, you can't You got to stay on ground

For the pain They'll try to burn you all out They'll try to burn you all out Yeah Yeah Yeah Your face is rotten I interviewed JJ, the lead singer of that band, years ago. I need to go find that picture.

Oh, really? Yeah, he was a nice guy. I liked him a lot. That's pretty cool yeah well i am cool brandy at least i was i'm not anymore i'm old now i know this is a great prelude to your erotic grandpa shout out to you're about to do very true hey good news though i had my second my checkup at the cardiologist oh how's the blood pressure the bp is in a good area my guy my guy is pumped about what's happening uh we did like a sonogram it was really actually quite funny so like you know did

the sonogram thing and look at my heart and stuff and so i laid down and i was like level with me is it a boy or a girl and she was like you're having twins and she was so quick with the retort i was like i'm unoriginal aren't i and i was like how many people make that joke and she was like well you're the first today but you're also my first sonogram and i was like i feel so unoriginal i thought it was so funny and so clever. And then that happened. Anyways, the heart's looking good, Brandi.

Well, great. I got one valve that's leaking a little bit, but they're like, ah, don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. I was like, are you sure we're not worried

about the valve that's leaking blood? He's like, no, you're fine. You're fine. Don't worry about it. Oh my God. So can you stop traveling

with the blood pressure monitor or is that baby going to paradise no no no no yeah yeah that baby's going to paradise that baby's going everywhere before i had to take my blood pressure twice a day now i like to do it once a day which is nice oh got it something tells me it's gonna be sky high in paradise oh yeah i should do it like on set like while whilst filming while there's a fight happening in front of me i'm like excuse me guys how fucking old are you dude oh my god that's genius can't wait to see that uh all right let's uh let's close it out with some erotic grandpa shout outs oh yay um by the

way we asked the erotic grandpa patreoners out there to kind of like settle a score for us and when someone says it's all downhill from here what does it mean the majority of you guys says it will only get worse um where a lot of people says it only gets better so i i was right i think brandy was wrong but Brandy was wrong. But I also agree with Brandy that we do it wrong. Like I know what it means, but it's wrong, you know? Yeah. And then from Shannon, I did some research.

The phrase, it's all downhill from here, first appeared in a story in Collier's National Weekend in 1922. The story talks about two people in a car stealthily approaching someone on the far side of a hill. Okay, creepy. The passenger in the car tells the driver to turn off the engine because it's all downhill from here, giving the phrase the positive connotation.

However, the term downhill was first documented in 1902 in a medical report from St. Vincent Hospital, St. Vincent, also a great singer, where a doctor reported that the patient went rapidly downhill, giving the word the negative meaning. It's all downhill. It was historically used in a positive way. And to say something that has gone downhill was negative. The research helped me avoid work for 17 minutes.

So thank you. Thank you, Shannon. I still don't. After all of that, I still don't know what's right, actually. I don't either, but I'm glad that you got to skip 17 minutes of work. Yeah, exactly. And then Beth Kay said about your fly running story. Remember I was telling you how I was running and I got a fly caught in my eye, the human shit in my eyeball. I would rather deal with pink eye than tasting that. All right, that's fine. Until you've had, so Beth Kay, have you ever had pink eye?

Because guess what? Tasting shit only lasts for about, I don't know, as long as it takes for you to go and rinse your mouth out. But guess what? Pink eye is for a couple days. At least.

Minimum, yeah. At least. Uh-huh. It's time now, Brandy, for erotic grandpa shoutouts. And you too could be an erotic grandpa member just by joining our Patreon. And to do that, you go to patreon.com slash your favorite thing. I think that's it.

I could be wrong. Anyways, figure it out. Shout out to Aya Y from Tokyo. Aya, I have seen you tweet to me and Sarah and Brandy a lot, and we are big fans of yours and big fans of Tokyo. And congratulations to Hideki Matsuyama, who recently won the Masters. That's all I have for you, Aya. Also, shout out to Angela S. from Vah. I assume you are from Virginia.

And, you know, Brandy, I dated an Angela back in the 30s. She was a seven-toed prostitute. She lost three toes due to a smelting accident. But she was beautiful. And I loved her. Shout out to Heather H. Lost three toes due to a smelting accident. But she was beautiful. And I loved her.

Shout out to Heather H. from my. I think that's Michigan, Mississippi, or Maine. Am I? Michigan? You don't know? Michigan. Michigan? Maine. Michigan.

Michigan. Michigan. A Michigander. Heather H. is a youper. It's exciting. Beautiful country up there. Jordan K. from Illinois. Also Alyssa S. from Illinois. They are lovers together. It's very beautiful. I also would like to join their love and make a love triangle. Shout out to Natasha C. from Michigan. Everyone is from the fucking middle of the country, apparently. Shout out to Nancy S. from South Carolina. I love South Carolina. Charleston is beautiful. Is Charleston South Carolina or North Carolina? Do you know?

I think South. I think South. I almost went to the College of Charleston. Did you know that? I did not know that. But then I found out the graduation rate was very poor and I was already a terrible student. So I thought maybe don't go there because you'll fail out very quickly. They also didn't believe that I was on the rowing team, which is interesting. Shout out to Catherine L from Texas. Everything's bigger in Texas, Catherine, except your waistline. You are very trim. Congratulations to Rachel R. from Illinois.

Another person from Illinois. Maybe, Rachel, you can join our love triangle and make it a love square with Jordan and Alyssa. That would be fun and everyone would be satisfied at the end. Jordan and Alyssa. That would be fun. Everyone would be satisfied at the end. Congratulations and shout out to Anna Mae B from Iowa. I-A is Iowa.

Yes. Yeah. You know who's also from Iowa? Who? Derek Peth. Oh, that's right. And Chris Souls. Also right. I wonder if Chris Soulsles will go to paradise this year.

I could see it happening. Shout out to Emily A. from Tennessee. Emily. We love Tennessee. That's where Brandy lives. That's where I used to live. I had many relations with beautiful women in Tennessee. Many of them named Emily.

So maybe you and I once bumped uglies. Who knows? And also Kaylin B. from Ohio. Kaylin? That's a cool name. I've never heard anyone spell it that way. Kayland B. I like it.

I like it too. Shout out to all of you guys out there. We love you very much. And thus concludes this episode of your favorite thing podcast. Alright, Brandi. Alrighty. See you next week?

Yeah, see you next week. Guess what I'm doing next week? What are you doing next week? Horse show in... Where? Here in Nashville actually. Get it, girl. Over at the steeplechase? No. Oh, okay.

Whatever. Nice guess, though. Well, good luck. Bring home the blue ribbon. Thanks, Wells. I'll try. All right, bye, guys. Bye, y'all.

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